#Kent Lin

[transformers-mosaic]

Transformers: Mosaic #227 - "The Gladiator"

Originally posted on August 15th, 2008

Story - Eli Navarro Art - Kent Lin Colours - Drew Eiden Letters - Sean Moore

deviantART | TFW2005 | BotTalk

wada sez: Commenters REALLY didn’t like that the writer of this strip gave precedence to the movie, which referred to the tank characters as “Devastator”—while basically every Hasbro source called it Brawl, a name classically associated with a green tank Decepticon. With a combining Devastator appearing in the sequel, Brawl evidently won out, but this strip predates that. It’s a cool strip! I’m unsure whether his Cybertronian mode is the same as that depicted in the Titan magazine, or whether it just draws common inspiration in its adaptation of the Earth-form design cues. See below for a Japanese translation by reader Barricade 643!

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Live-action film series #Eli Navarro #Kent Lin #Drew Eiden #Sean Moore #official creator #Brawl #Megatron #Starscream

[miguelswifey04]

fly high- clark kent (superman) x gn! reader

summary: just a short little fluff drabble with clark kent, as your boyfriend, and none other than superman himself

warnings: none just pure fluff!!

since day one clark kent has been always whipped for you. your spontaneous and bubbly aura attracted him and he loved the way you always encouraged him to be himself. you both bumped into each other at the daily planet, accidentally spilling coffee all over his white collared shirt. you gasped as you immediately went down to pick up the pile of newspapers you knocked out of clark’s hold.

“oh my god, i’m so so sorry!!” you said apologetically picking up the loose pieces of papers that scattered all over the floors. but to you surprised the man you bumped into, clark kent, was extremely kind and brushed off your apology, “oh—um! please! don’t apologize!! you did nothing wrong.” he bent down to help you gather the papers you’ve accidentally knocked from his hands. he was smiling ear to ear as stood up as he grabbed a couple napkins to soak up the coffee that stained his shirt. you were taken aback at how sweet he was.

“please! at least let me wash your shirt for you!!” but nonetheless, clark shook his head. it was no biggie to him after all it was a mere accident. you sighed a sigh of relief happy that you didn’t get an earful of scoldings from a man you just spilled coffee all over. clark brought out his hand towards you, “i’m clark kent! and you-you are?”

“i’m Y/N L/N, nice to meet you clark kent!” you both got acquainted with one another after that small incident. and every since then you both clicked, like two peas in a pod meant to be together all along. you didn’t know but clark kent had been pining for you all along, you just didn’t know it yet because clark always had a knack of hiding his feelings and never being straightforward about them. after all, he’s never dated anyone nor have had feelings for anyone.

🤍🤍🤍🤍

“clark! wait-“ you yelped as clark carried you in his arms as he soared through the sky. his cape bellowed along with the wind as you held onto clark for dear life. it’s been a couple months now that you’ve been dating him and well you’re one of the few people in his life who knows his true identity: superman. “yes? OH-sorry sorry!! i kinda forgot.” you giggled as you shook your head at his poor attempt to slow down a bit. he knew heights somewhat scared you but being in the arm’s of your boyfriend you felt rather protected. these was one of the ways you and him spent time together as you roamed throughout the city. he would bring you to a skyscraper where’d you both sat on the edge next to each other, as he wrapped a loving arm around you waist. you rested your head against his shoulder as you both enjoy the pretty sunset that shone through out the entire metropolitan city.

he knows all his secrets are safe with you and he could be his true self around you.

#clark kent #my adventures with superman #superman #clark kent x reader #clark kent x you #clark kent x y/n #clark kent fluff #🌱 lin writes #superman x reader #he’s so cute #he’s so perfect #he’s the sweetest #he’s so soft #he’s so silly #superman as a himbo supremacy

[the-lincyclopedia]

Okay, usually when I project my experiences onto Pimms, I cast myself as Jack. But I was once the teenage partner of a suicidal teenage boy who was lying to everyone, so tonight I'm coming at it from the other side.

Give me a Kent Parson who saw the overdose coming a mile away but didn't tell anyone because he was sure all that would accomplish would be that he'd lose Jack’s trust and then Jack would just have nobody.

Give me a Kent Parson who once left a cryptic message on the answering machine of Jack’s billet family, a message that basically boiled down to "keep an eye on Jack tonight; I'm worried about him," and never knew if anyone ever heard the message, let alone acted on it.

Give me a Kent Parson who finds Jack on the floor of the bathroom and, yes, starts freaking out on some level, but on another level goes, "Oh, so he decided on pills."

Give me a Kent Parson who's so eerily calm at the hospital that Bob and Alicia think he doesn't really care about Jack, when in reality he's just so prepared for this, and also so relieved, on some level, that he can stop wondering about if or when, and instead just be in the moment for the first time in ages, even if the moment itself is deeply terrifying.

Give me a Kent Parson who learns physical affection as someone else's medication and takes years to figure out what he actually likes.

Give me a Kent Parson whose entire mode of operation revolves around secrets, and who doesn't know how to change that.

Give me a Kent Parson who spends a long time feeling really nostalgic for the good times with Jack, the way they connected, the way it felt being on the ice together, the way their shared, closeted queerness made them understand each other better than anyone else.

Give me a Kent Parson who enters adulthood deeply, deeply fucked up.

And then give me a Kent Parson who heals.

#check please #omgcp #omgcheckplease #a lin original #jack zimmermann #kent parson #pimms #overdose #tw suicide #him and me

[reineyday]

the hannah waddingham christmas special was such a delight 🥺🥺

#rei rambles #hannah waddingham #brett goldstein sounds so nice and friendly when he #isnt being all mean low-voice grumbly roy kent 🥲💖 #also phil dunster! being a tenor! and the way his accent came through on the last solo lin he had awh #nick mohammed was so funny!!! he really carried the humour in the first half #and hannah looked stunNINGGGGG in all the dress holy shit 💗💖💕💞💘💓💖💗 #and ofc leslie odom jr having the smoothest voice ever 💕 bless #the ted lasso boys playing backup dancers were so cute too haha i loved that so much #truly a v delightful special all around

[sleepyminden]

Top 5 of childhood heroes

Is any of these characters your hero, too?

#superman #clark kent #kal el #monkey king #sun wukong #fleischer superman #digital art #journey to the west #legends of the monkey king #hero 108 #lin chung #wordgirl #becky botsford #ash ketchum #pokemon

[vitaliskravtsov]

36 for Spotify Wrapped (and I'd love a fix thought, thanks!)

36) best I'll ever sing by maisie peters!!!!

okay, well, this is me, so I'm going to have Kent Thoughts, but also some lyrics to this song are: (THIS IS THE CHORUS THIS IS THE NARRATIVE LIKE. THE NARRATIVE CENTER LIKE. AAAAH.)

Maybe we brought out the worst in each other A million full stops on our skin But baby the songs that I wrote as your other Are the best I'll ever sing

LIKE. TELL ME THAT'S NOT PIMMS.

anywhosie. kent as a pop star au? but thoughts. coherent ones. okay, here goes.

The tiger tattoo comes after Montreal, but before Vegas. Kent's not really sure what it means, all things considered. Maybe it symbolizes the fact that he knows how to rip and shred and leave something behind at the end of it all, but maybe it's just a frickin watercolor tiger tattoo he got at eighteen.

Maybe it symbolizes the fact that eighteen year old shouldn't be allowed to get tattoos unsupervised.

God, he hopes nobody asks him to do one of those GQ tattoo things. His are way too fucking personal.

It's not the tiger he's most scared to answer questions about, anyway.

On Kent's left wrist is a quarter rest, and on his right collarbone are two thirty-second notes. Most people know about the collarbone tattoos because half of his image rests on the basic assumption of a propensity for being partially naked at all times, but the quarter rest is... something else.

He hadn't really chosen it, was the thing.

It was Jack's choice, Jack's little musical idiosyncrasy in all his brilliant fucking composing, the little quarter note he liked to hide wherever he could.

Only ever one, usually kept in the L.H. part.

Kent uses stage makeup, for that one.

The tiger is distracting enough nobody usually notices, anyway, and the fact that Kent's music sometimes forgets to sound like pop and edges towards holding the Doctrine of Affections is brushed off as a cute quirk, when you consider his background.

You can brush off a lot as a cute quirk, if you market it right, like a mandatory set of thirty-second notes in every song.

Or a quarter rest in what would be the left hand.

Kent avoids those pretty well, now, he thinks.

(Most days, he's not sure that he shouldn't just burn everything he's written post-tiger.)

#ask #ask answered #lin tag #the-lincyclopedia #THIS WAS FUN THANK U #omgcp #kent parson #*mine

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: The Warring States Period (2019)

Gifs of Intro of cdrama “The Warring States Period”

【风云战国之列国】 第1集 燕国篇：燕过无痕 | The Warring States Period | 腾讯视频 - 纪录片

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVGSoqqi1o

#The Warring States Period #风云战国之列国 #Feng Yun Zhan Guo Zhi Lie Guo #2019 #Tencent Video #WeTV #Tencent #cdrama #chinese drama #youtube #episode 1 #1st episode #Hai Yi Tian #Yu Rong Guang #Kent Cheng #Cheng Jak Si #Lin Yong Jian #Wang Jin Song #Li Chun Lee #Yu En Tai

[fated-mates]

Our final interstitial of Season 4 and we’re talking Antiheroines! If she’s a criminal, a grifter, a villain or a generally bad dude, we’re here for her, we support her, and we’re rooting for her to fall in love! Today we’re talking about the way antiheroines play in romance, about how we hold them to different standards than antiheroes (it’s the patriarchy, that’s why!), and about why they seem to be more prevalent in historicals and paranormals than they are in contemporaries. Please tell us about all the bad b*tches in books you love so we can love them, too!

🔉 S04.47: Antiheroines in Romance Interstitial

#kati wilde #pam godwin #victoria helen stone #beverly jenkins #jeannie lin #claire kent

[editorialstaff2020]

Milano Design Week: dalla Cina i nuovi trend del design

Presso lo spazio Art Lab di Via Tortona 4 durante la Milano Design Week si è inaugurata la mostra Door to Door, promossa dall’azienda 3D Unpainted Door, curata dal designer cinese Kent Wong e dal direttore creativo Rain Lin, insieme a un team curatoriale internazionale.

 Door to Door si ispira al concetto di “una porta, un mondo” è mette in luce le nuove tendenze nella società cinese e come i valori tradizionali su cui si basa la sua cultura millenaria sono stati rivisitati e reinventati in chiave moderna per soddisfare nuovi bisogni. Door to door ci fa fare un salto nella Cina di oggi e ci aiuta a comprendere come il design internazionale può contribuire a questo processo di cambiamento.

 Le nuove generazioni di cinesi esplorano nuovi modi di pensare e di desiderare guardando sempre più ai trend del design internazionale: nascono così richieste e bisogni che non vogliono solo assimilarsi ai canoni del design occidentale ma preferiscono inoltrarsi e reinterpretare il ricco e secolare patrimonio della tradizione cinese. Nuovi consumatori, nuove esigenze hanno inevitabilmente influenzato l’interior design in Cina: la percezione dell’abitazione è radicalmente cambiata negli ultimi anni e le nuove generazioni approcciano la casa in maniera differente.

 L’installazione

 L’installazione mette in mostra una sequenza di porte accompagnate da un percorso interattivo che permette al visitatore di scoprire i nuovi riferimenti culturali e progettuali. Un viaggio espositivo tra immagini e riferimenti tratti dalla cultura cinese che creano un ponte culturale con il design europeo ed occidentale.

La mostra è organizzata all’interno di uno spazio espositivo nel quale convivono leggere strutture posizionate al centro con altre sulle pareti. Attraverso sei porte speciali esposte nella mostra, i visitatori possono sperimentare sei elementi iconici che appartengono alla creatività e cultura cinese: “Opera cinese”, “Tiglio della carta”, “Porcellana Guangcai”, “Cultura del tè cinese”, “Creazioni culturali dal Museo Nazionale”, e “Musica Nanguan”.

 Questa esposizione è l’occasione per l’azienda promotrice 3D Unpainted Door non solo per presentarsi al mercato italiano, ma soprattutto per stringere rapporti di collaborazione con architetti e designer del nostro paese. Il colosso cinese intende infatti potenziare la proposta sostenibile e la qualità dei propri prodotti attraverso il taglio creativo del made in Italy. Durante tutta la settimana del fuorisalone, sarà possibile fissare appuntamenti con la proprietà, direttamente in location, per scoprire le interessanti opportunità lavorative che l’azienda cinese è in grado di offrire. Per prenotare un incontro inviare una mail a: [email protected]

 L’azienda cinese è pioniera nella produzione di porte ecosostenibili, con un focus sulla tecnologia non verniciata e una produzione prodotti in legno per interni sani e sicuri. Con due grandi siti produttivi all’avanguardia situati a Guangzhou e Shenyang, in Cina e con oltre 2.200 negozi specializzati di marca, 3D Unpainted Wooden Door esporta i suoi prodotti in oltre 60 paesi in Europa e America, rappresentando la scelta finale per oltre 4,5 milioni di famiglie in tutto il mondo.

 Curatore della mostra

 In qualità di imprenditore del design, Kent Wong si concentra sulla pianificazione del sistema di design commerciale, costruendo strategie di marchio attraverso connessioni visive, di prodotto e spaziali e promuovendo i valori del design attraverso la pianificazione di varie mostre ed eventi principalmente nella Cina continentale. Da molti anni è coinvolto nello sviluppo del design dell’industria degli infissi e dell’arredamento e ha stabilito una stretta collaborazione con le aziende attraverso la ricerca professionale e la creazione del DRD Design Institute, nonché utilizzando la gestione del design per generare efficienza aziendale.

 http://www.lbddd.com/

#door to door #Kent Wong #Rain Lin

[chicinsilk]

Chanel Haute Couture Collection Spring/Summer 1969. Two visonia sets from Staron, one in white linen with a longer jacket, low patch pockets; the other jacket, very long like a shiny black tunic, almost Chinese. Chanel jewelry.

Chanel Collection Haute Couture Printemps/Été 1969. Deux ensembles en visonia de Staron, l'un en lin blanc avec une veste plus longue, des poches plaquées basses ; l'autre veste très longue comme une tunique d'un noir brillant, presque chinoise. Bijoux Chanel.

Photo Tony Kent.

#haute couture #chanel #fashion 60s #1969 #spring/summer #printemps/été #tony kent #staron #vintage fashion

[undatablebracket]

OUTDATED POST

Last updated 8/18/23, please check the bracket posts for the most up-to-date competitor list.

Sorted alphabetically by game for easy searching.

These are (almost) all of the bracket participants! There are a few who are still up in the air. Please do not get upset with me if your blorbo did not qualify; I did my best to research each game I was unfamiliar with. The most common reason for a character to be disqualified was being from a game without any romance at all.

Note that some of these may be removed, as my attempts at research may not have been sufficient.

Madoka Aoyagi from Aokana Four Rhythms Across the Blue

Reiko Satou from Aokana Four Rhythms Across the Blue

Nahara from The Arcana

Nazali from The Arcana

Nasmira from The Arcana

Natiqa from The Arcana

Brasidas from Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

Soma Jarlskona from Assassin's Creed: Valhalla

Alfira from Baldur's Gate 3

Volo from Baldur's Gate 3

Mallory from Black Closet

oniontheif from Blooming Panic: Full Bloom Edition

Mossie from Cattails

Guinevere from Code: Realize

Kotoho Sakuragawa from collar x malice

Antonio from Coral Island

Helene Leventis from Crown and the Flame - Choices (mobile app)

Owen Herriot from Cupid Parasite

Viktor Vector from Cyberpunk 2077

Johnny Silverhand from Cyberpunk 2077

Goro Takemura from Cyberpunk 2077

Mayor Mingus from Dialtown

Jerry from Dialtown

Pierre from Dialtown

Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club

The Arishok from Dragon Age 2

Varric Tethras from Dragon Age 2

Avaline Vallen from Dragon Age 2

Vivienne de Fer from Dragon Age Inquisition

Cole from Dragon Age Inquisiton

Scout Lace Harding from Dragon Age: Inquisition

Cremisius "Krem" Aclassi from Dragon Age: Inquisition

Sten from Dragon Age: Origins

Quizzmaster Quinn from Dream Daddy

Morgott the Grace-Given from Elden Ring

Matthew Gursky from Emily is Away

Magnolia from Fallout 4

Nick Valentine from Fallout 4

Phila from Fire Emblem Awakening

The Gatekeeper from Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Hypnos from Hades

Orpheus and Eurydice from Hades

Chaos from Hades

Charon from Hades

Sisyphus from Hades

Alecto from Hades

Azami Koshiba from Hatoful Boyfriend

Blanc Lapin from Ikemen Revolution

Lyla Park from Life is Strange 2

Kyousuke Natsume from Little Busters!

Javik from Mass Effect

Urdnot Wrex from Mass Effect

Zaeed Massani from Mass Effect

Mordin Solus from Mass Effect 2 & 3

The Illusive Man from Mass Effect 2 + 3

Samara from Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3

Evfra de Tershaav from Mass Effect Andromeda

Zevin Raeka from Mass Effect Andromeda

Jeff "Joker" Moreau from Mass Effect trilogy

Moss Mann from Monster camp

Gerard from Monster Camp and Monster Roadtrip

Tate from Monster Prom

Sadie from Monster Prom 3: Road Trip and Monster Prom 2: Camp

Jerry the Murderer from Monster Prom series

Mali from My Time at Portia

Jaehee Kang from Mystic Messenger

Vanderwood from Mystic Messenger

Shinbi from Nameless (the one thing you must recall)

Soi from Nameless (the one thing you must recall)

Thirteen from Obey Me! One Master to Rule Them All

Aurora Emery from Open Heart - Choices

Jeremy King from Our Life: Beginning & Always

Miranda from Our Life: Beginnings & Always

Terry from Our Life: Beginnings & Always

Rio Iwasaki from Persona 3 Portable

Junpei Iori from Persona 3 Portable

Yosuke Hanamura from Persona 4

Kanji Tatsumi from Persona 4

Goro Akechi from Persona 5

Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5

Ryūji Sakamoto from Persona 5

Eothas from Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

Grim from Romancelvania

Gaius from Rune Factory 3

Illuminata from Rune Factory 4

Porcoline Tulle De Saint-Coquille from rune factory 4

Ventuswill from Rune Factory 4

Lin Fa from Rune Factory 4

Volkanon from Rune Factory 4

Terry from Rune Factory 5

Malix from Seduce Me the Otome

Halek Prince from Shepherds of Haven

Bao-Dur from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

Clint from Stardew ValleyGus from Stardew Valley

Jodi from Stardew Valley

Kent from Stardew Valley

Krobus from Stardew Valley

Linus from Stardew Valley

Marnie from Stardew Valley

Mayor Lewis from Stardew Valley

Sandy from Stardew Valley

Robin from Stardew Valley

The Wizard (aka. M. Rasmodius) from Stardew Valley

Clemens from Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town

Jacopo from Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town

Karina from Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town

Flora from Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life

Lars from Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town

Brynjolf from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Cicero from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Erandur from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Faendal from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Hadvar from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

J'zargo from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Miraak from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Seranna from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Teldryn Sero from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Ondolemar from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Olivia Vanderwall Nevrakis from The Royal Romance - Choices

Iorveth from The Witcher 2

Vernon Roche from The Witcher 2

Julian Alfred Pankratz (Dandelion/Jaskier) from The Witcher 3

Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy from The Witcher 3

Karen Hanatsubaki from Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 3

Arihiko Inui from Tsukihime

Yumizuka Satsuki from Tsukihime

Alicia Rosales from XOXO Droplets

#undatable bracket #unromancable bracket #wrangler.txt #bracket info

[transformers-mosaic]

Transformers: War Journal - The Covers

Originally posted on December 30th, 2007

Story, Colours, Edits - John-Paul Bove Letters - Bernie Lee Covers A, D - Tom Parrish Cover B - Josh Burcham Cover C - Kent Lin Cover E - Andrew Wildman

deviantART | Seibertron | TFW2005 | BotTalk

wada sez: Today, I’m re-serialising the entirety of Transformers: War Journal. Click through to the blog to read the whole thing! War Journal was a full 22-page one-shot spin-off from Mosaic (with each individually-titled page approximating the usual format) masterminded by John-Paul Bove and Josh van Reyk, set in a random corner of IDW continuity—in effect, an entire mock IDW issue, complete with variant covers! It featured the Autobot combiner teams as its principal cast, as at the time they hadn’t appeared in the continuity, which treated combiners with a bit more pomp than previous stories had; in Spotlight: Optimus Prime, Monstructor was shown to be the first and only gestalt. However, Silverbolt, the Combaticons, and Hot Spot would all appear officially in a matter of months, in Spotlight issues for Blaster, Arcee, and Wheelie respectively, immediately throwing this fan-project out of continuity; it’s likely the depiction of Superion was conceived before Monstructor was introduced. One imagines that Bove hoped this would lead to official work from IDW, and sure enough he got his first big job colouring Regeneration One a few years later. Cover A here is an homage to Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, an iconic WWII-era photograph. Of particular note here is Andrew Wildman’s sketch cover, branded with the logo of his charity, Draw The World Together. This was referred to as “Cover E” on deviantART, but as “Cover RI A” in the “cover checklist”, the latter implying it’d be a “retailer incentive” cover (sent free to comic stores that order a certain number of issues) if this was actually a real print issue. Released just over a month in advance, a preview image featuring Cover A in silhouette initially teased the project’s release date as 2007/12/31, but so far as I can tell it actually came out on the 30th; perhaps it’s a time-zone thing. That initial preview was followed by four more, revealing the four characters on the cover in turn, associating each with a particular trait—of these, only the first was posted to the main Mosaic account. One of the previews quoted Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s famous poem “The Charge of the Light Bridgade”, which the final pages’ title riffs on, as you can see on the credits page here. I’ve put all the previews, the cover checklist, and the available clean art below the break.

“Every war has its casualties.”

“FEAR.”

“Comes before a fall...”

“Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell...”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

#transformers #transformers mosaic #maccadam #IDW Transformers #Hot Spot #Silverbolt #Slingshot #First Aid #Minerva #Superion #John-Paul Bove #Bernie Lee #Tom Parrish #Josh Burcham #Kent Lin #Andrew Wildman #Transformers War Journal #official creator

[vintagegeekculture]

RIP John Jakes, Pulp and Fantasy Author

A man who’s career began in pulp scifi, then was one of the greatest group of fantasy fans turned authors, and who finally ended it as one of the most commercially successful “men’s adventure” paperback novels of the 1970s, John Jakes died at 90 last week. What a life! He started his career in scifi pulp of the 1950s, switching to sword and sorcery action in the 60s, and finally, ending the 70s as one of the top selling authors of the decade. In one guy’s life, you can see the ebb and flow of trends in men’s adventure fiction over the decades.

Let’s start the John Jakes story at the end, and then work our way back. Does this book series above look familiar to you at all? 

If you have grandparents and they live in America, I 100% guarantee the Kent Family Chronicles (also called the Bicentennial Series) are in your Mee Maw and Pep Pep’s house right now. You probably handled them while visiting their house and went through their bookshelves as a child, right next to their Reader’s Digest condensed books, Tai-Pan and Shogun by James Clavell, copies of the endless sequels to Lonesome Dove, and old TV Guides they still have for some reason next to the backgammon set. If your grandparents are no longer with us, you probably found this series when selling their possessions after death. That’s because these things sold in the millions, back when the surest way to make money in writing was to write melodramatic, intergenerational family sagas of grandiose sweep set around historical events. Weighty family sagas, ones critics call bloated and self important instead of “epic,” were a major part of 70s fiction as they were four quadrant hits: men liked them for war, action, and history (every guy at some point must choose between being a civil war guy, or World War II guy) and ladies loved them for their romance and melodramatic love triangles (after all, the Ur-example of this kind of book is Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind). This was the kind of thing turned into TV event miniseries, and ably lampooned in the hilarious “Spoils of Babylon” series with Kristen Wiig and Toby McGwire, which, decades after the fact, did to this genre what Airplane! did for the formerly prolific airport disaster movie: it torpedoed it forever by making it impossible to take seriously.

This genre eventually went away because men stopped being reliable book buyers and book readers in the 1990s (or at least, were no longer marketed to as an audience), Lonesome Dove’s insane popularity was the last gasp of this audience. I’ve said this before, but men and boys no longer reading is the single most under remarked on social problem we have. “YA books” now basically mean “Girl Books.” 

John Jakes did not suddenly come out of nowhere to write smash hit bestsellers set around a family during the American Revolution. He came from one of the weirdest places imaginable: a crony of L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter in fantasy and weird tales fanzines like Amra, he was one of the original “Gang of Eight,” people drawn from fantasy and horror fandom to become pro-writers now that fantasy fiction had a home at Ballantine Publishing, just before the rise of Lord of the Rings and the paperback pulp boom, which is an incredible case of being in the right place at the right time. There, John Jakes, a fanzine contributor and ERB fan, wrote “Brak the Barbarian,” which is amazing as L. Sprague de Camp and Ballantine hadn’t even reprinted the Conan stories yet and Conan was as well known as Jirel of Joiry or Jules de Grandin. Only superfans of pulp knew who that guy was at all, there was no audience for it. He wrote Brak the Barbarian as a superfan, and was lucky the paperback market found him. 

The tireless work John Jakes, Lin Carter, L. Sprague de Camp, and the Gang of Eight did in preserving fantasy novelists of the pulp age into the 50s-60s is one of the great historic feats of preservation and keeping fandom flames alive. It’s no exaggeration to say that you know who Conan the Barbarian and HP Lovecraft are right now because of them, fans who kept the flame alive tirelessly and thanklessly in the ultra-rational 50s that had no place for dark horrific fantasy. 

Like his friend in fantasy and pulp fandom, L. Sprague de Camp, John Jakes started as a scifi guy in the endless scifi pulp magazines of the 1950s. Unlike his friend de Camp or Hugh B. Cave, who were full of humor, characterization, and satire, Jakes was often pessimistic, dour, and downbeat, and he disliked to laugh.  

It’s shocking to lose someone with a connection to, in one lifetime, the first great group of fantasy fandom, 50s scifi pulp, and 70s men’s adventure. John Jakes’ life spanned all of them. 

[the-lincyclopedia]

I want to know what Bob and Alicia thought of Kent. What was their first impression of him? What did they think after he and Jack got close? How did that change after Jack's overdose? What about when Jack came back for winter break in Year 2, right after that disastrous Epikegster? What about years later, after Jack and Kent had both been in the NHL for a while? I'm so curious.

#check please #omgcp #omgcheckplease #a lin original #kent parson #jack zimmermann #bad bob zimmermann #bob zimmermann #alicia zimmermann

[most-datable-datable-bracket]

Most Datable Datable Character round 1 match-ups

Mammon from Obey Me VS Mat Sella from Dream Daddy

Elliott from Stardew Valley VS Colonel Sanders from I Love You, Colonel Sanders!

Sebastian from Stardew Valley VS Brad from Coming Out On Top

Kent from Amnesia VS Zen from Mystic Messenger

707 from Mystic Messenger VS Dimitri Kotov from Tailor Tales

Tamarack Baumann from Our Life: Now and Forever VS Saffron from Potionomics

Roxanne from Potionomics VS Shuu Iwamine from Hatoful Boyfriend

Leano from Potion Permit VS Lucas from Rune Factory 5

V from Mystic Messenger VS Joyce from //TODO: today

Timo Salminen from Love Tangle+ VS Jinguji Ren from Uta no Prince-Sama

Valerie Oberlin from Monster Camp VS Louis from The Walking Dead: The Final Season

Emily from Stardew Valley VS Aiji Yanagi from Collar x Malice

Chrom from Fire Emblem: Awakening VS Corsac from Potionomics

Isabela from Dragon Age VS Ivy Attwood from Love Tangle+

Leah from Stardew Valley VS Nadia Satrinava from The Arcana

Edelgard von Hresvelg from Fire Embelm: Three Houses VS Oliver Cowell from Love Tangle+

Shane from Stardew Valley VS Gregor from Fire Emblem: Awakening

Steph Gingrich from Life is Strange: True Colors VS Fenris from Dragon Age 2

Stu from Monster Roadtrip VS Cove Holden from Our Life: Beginnings and Always

Vishnal from Rune Factory 4 VS Artem Wing from Tears of Themis

Yoosung Kim from Mystic Messenger VS Cliff from Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town

Ashe from Fire Emblem: Three Houses VS Susumu Yamazaki from Hakuoki

Asmodeus from Obey Me VS Dylas from Rune Factory 4

Luna from Potionomics VS Qiu Lin from Our Life: Now and Forever

Garrus Vakarian from Mass Effect VS Baxter Ward from Our Life: Beginnings and Always

Abigail from Stardew Valley VS Lysithea von Ordelia from Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Julian von Garibaldi from Black Wolves Saga VS Mercedes von Bartels from Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Saint-Germain from Code:Realize VS Laito Sakamaki from Diabolik Lovers

Ayame from Andromeda Six VS Linhardt von Hevring from Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Saeran Choi from Mystic Messenger VS Liara T'soni from Mass Effect

Kei Okazaki from Collar x Malice VS Mint from Potionomics

Finn McNamara from Life is Strange 2 VS Scott Howl from Monster Prom

#It's time to fear for my faves #If Mammon or Cove falls I'm immediately stopping the tournament /j #Not a poll #most datable datable character #Round 1

[figureskatingfanblog]

Canadian 4CC & Junior World Teams

Four Continents

Men - Wesley Chiu, Conrad Orzel, Roman Sadovsky

Women - Madeline Schizas, Sara-Maude Dupuis, Justine Miclette

Pairs - Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps; Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud; Kelly Ann Laurin / Loucas Ethier

Ice Dance - Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier; Laurence Fornier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sorenson; Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha

Junior Worlds

Men - Anthony Paradis, Aleksa Rakic

Women - Lulu Lin, Kaiya Ruiter

Pairs - Ava Kemp / Yohnatan Elizarov; Martina Ariano Kent / Charly Laliberté-Laurent  

Ice Dance - Alisa Korneva / Kieran MacDonald, Chloe Nguyen / Brendan Giang; Layla Veillon / Alexander Brandys

#figure skating #2024 4cc #2024 four continents #2024 jwc #2024 junior worlds #four continents championships #world juniors