#Luigi’s Dance Studio

[my-emily-gilmore-era]

Carole Bishop, aka Kelly Bishop at Luigi’s Dance Studio, NYC, circa mid 1960’s.

Yes, that’s THE Emily Gilmore.

#Kelly Bishop #Emily Gilmore #gilmore girls #dirty dancing #bunheads #a chorus line #mrs maisel #@my.emily.gilmore.era #Luigi’s Dance Studio #broadway #stars hollow #in omnia paratus

[creativesnek]

The Chat really loves Bowser

Luigi sat by his desk, getting his cameras and headphones ready for a live stream. The soft glow of the studio lights illuminated the room, creating an atmosphere of anticipation and excitement. His heart with a mix of nervousness and exhilaration as he prepared to connect with his audience.

As he adjusted the angle of his cameras, Luigi couldn't help but reflect on how far he had come. What started as a simple hobby had now transformed into a full-fledged career. His passion for gaming and technology had propelled him into the world of live streaming, where he could share his experiences and connect with like-minded individuals from all corners of the globe.

He still can’t believe he acquired such a huge fanbase.  A lot of people seemed to like his personality and actually liked his commentary; even his videos on mushroom foraging garnered thousands of views within the hour. It made Luigi very proud of himself; plus, his interactions with his fans have been nothing but enjoyable. 

The door to his room opened. He looked over his shoulder and smiled at Bowser. The red-haired Koopa stepped into his room, then kissed his forehead. “I’m going to go pick up Junior,” he said. 

“Okay, be safe!”

He reached up and scratched his chin, earning some happy chirps from him before he walked out again. Luigi smiled softly at his boyfriend’s retreating back before returning to his previous activities. As soon as he sat down, he switched into his streamer mode. The screens came to life and the cameras started recording. Luigi grinned, “Welcome back everybody! Tis I, WeegeBoard9000!” he said while laughing. The chat immediately started rolling with comments as people greeted him and made donations.

With a swift motion, Luigi's fingers danced across the keyboard, skillfully navigating through the game menus. As the game loaded, he took a moment to acknowledge some of the comments popping up on the screen.

"Hey WeegeBoard9000! Long time no see!" one viewer exclaimed.

"Luigi, you're my favorite streamer! Can't wait to see what you have in store for us today!" another chimed in.

*Peach_hime donated 30 bits! Hi, Weeg! Gimme ten minutes and I’ll hop on.*

“Ew, the gamer twink’s back.” said the very obvious account of Wario.

Luigi sneakily kicked him out before moving on with his stream. He delved into the game, he skillfully maneuvered through its challenges while simultaneously keeping an eye on the chat. He responded to questions, shared tips and tricks with fellow gamers, and engaged in lighthearted banter with his audience.

*King donated 2500 bits! Stay hydrated darling ;)*

Ohh~ his highness has made an appearance!

Man, i wish i had a stream daddy 😔

Where iz this mf getting so much coin??!

Comments of similar caliber followed. Luigi tried to hide his blush, recognizing his boyfriend’s account. Bowser always makes it a personal mission to donate something during his streams. Luigi couldn't help but feel a surge of warmth in his chest as he read the comments praising Bowser's generosity. It was moments like these that reminded him why he fell in love with Bowser in the first place. Despite his tough exterior, Bowser had a heart of gold.

*prince donated 100 bits! HiWEEGIE!”

OMG IT’S DA BOIIII

The lil man’s here too

Baby boi, protecc the bean

Luigi chuckled and thanked Junior for the donation; he probably asked his dad to donate for him too. With the chat taken care of for a bit, the streamer continued his game for several hours, tuning out the outside world.

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.

The stream was in full-swing now as Luigi and a few online friends were collecting items to fight a boss. Luigi was so engrossed with preparations that he didn’t hear the noise of the front door opening or the familiar pitter patter of feet on the wooden floor. The door opened a bit as Junior yelled a greeting before closing the door. The man glanced back at the noise, smiled, then proceeded with the game. 

Without him noticing, Bowser went into his room. At the sight of him, the chat went absolutely ballistic. 

HELLO???

Hunk alert, hello🥵

NO SHELL? FOR FREE??

Ayo, who dat 🫦

Luigi glanced at the last comment then swiveled his chair around; Bowser wrapped his bulky arms around him and kissed the top of his head. “Dinner’s gonna be ready in a few minutes, so don’t stay too long,” he whispered into his hair. Luigi’s face and ears reddened at the gesture, considering Bowser was, in fact, shell-less and basically pulled his face into his chest. He thinks he replied… Probably. The donations going off was what called his attention.

DILF 🥵

Muscle man and he cooks? Luigi, bag him.

dilfdilfdilf

Weeg has that unspoken rizz

Luigi looked up. “Whoa, whoa. Calm down everybody,”

His subscribers didn’t listen, sending many sporadic comments and blush-inducing questions. The donation bell kept blowing up.

*BooKing donated 500 bits! Luigi, u have all of dat to urself?!*

*BadBitchPrincess donated 1500 bits! L ultimate rizzlord😌*

Can he come back pls?

Bring back the dilf, ty.

Glory o glory, what a helluva way to die 🫡

🫡

Luigi nervously snorted and pulled his hat over his head, giving up on taking back control. Guess the chat really likes Bowser.

#bowuigi #bowser #luigi x bowser #luigi #super mario bros #oneshot #super mario #fanfic #streaming #gay #super luigi #gaming #humor

[lumpyrock]

Oh no...

(This is the only ballet I've seen live, so, yeah!)

It's time for the nutcracker casting decision, and everyone's gathered around the list.

Luigi's Clara (No surprise there.)

Peach is the... Nutcracker? Wait, what?

And Bowser's the Rat King?!?! Come on!

Bowser storms over to the director. Why? He has a son! What will his son think?

"Do you want to stay employed as the villain or out of a job?"

"Why the rat king, though?"

"Honestly? You were too big to play the nutcracker."

Alright, maybe Bowser had gotten used to being the prince.

But now he's the big scary villain.

Oh boy.

Meanwhile, Luigi is on the phone with his mom who is being supportive in the worst way possible.

"Oh, my little boy is gonna be famous just like his brother! You're gonna be like that man who dresses like a woman on the TV, oh, what's his name?"

(Holding his temples) "Rue Paul?"

"Yeah, Rue Paul! Soon you'll have your own TV show, just like him! You might even star in one of your brother's movies!"

"Mom, I'm just playing Clara, I'm not famous."

"But soon you will be! This will be the biggest thing you've ever been in!"

"Okay Mom, I love you."

"I love you too, sweetheart!"

He hangs up the phone and sighs.

Scenes regarding practice and stuff!

Bowser starts noticing that Luigi has been staying late.

He starts staying later as well.

He will try to start up conversation, but questions will be answered in one sentence.

"So, how's your family?"

"Good."

"You excited to see them?"

"Mhm-hm."

"How about your brother?"

"He's coming."

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, now can we please just dance?"

It's getting closer to the preformence.

One day, as the studio's winding down, Luigi gets a phone call and leaves early.

He then arrives late the next day.

Everyone is asking if he's okay, but he just wants to get to dancing.

Yet again, he's the last to leave, except for Bowser, who is stays late as well to see if he's okay.

Luigi doesn't talk, he just runs through his parts.

It's dark by the time Luigi starts packing up, and Bowser's just sitting, waiting for him to finish.

Luigi sits down next to him and starts to take off his shoes.

"You know, whatever's going on, you can tell me."

Luigi shrugs. "It's a me problem."

"A you problem, eh?"

He nods.

"This is the latest you've stayed."

"No, I once slept here."

"This is the latest I've seen you stay."

"Yeah."

"What's up with you?"

He sighs. "My brother's not coming for Christmas."

"What's he like?"

They talk about Mario while Luigi gets dressed.

They walk out of the studio together before finally parting ways.

3 days before the show, Luigi has to pick up his parents from the airport.

Day of the actual show.

Luigi's parents have been there since 4.

At like, 5:30(?) A bunch of security guards show up with a very tired looking Pauline and a very hyper Junior.

The preformence goes well.

After the final bow, they go out to see their families.

Junior is not the least bit bothered by the fact his father was the villain. In fact, he thinks it's awesome as hell!

Meanwhile, Luigi's parents are drowning him in affection.

Anyway, I'm tired and didn't have a plan for this chapter really? Idk. Also I have answers for questions if you have any.

@fishtale88 @dragonwritersblog @digimonandpokemon um, let me know if you do or don't want me to tag you.

#ballet #bowuigi #bowser x luigi #luigi #mario movie #bowser #luigi x bowser #bowigi #bowluigi #bowser/luigi #the nutcracker #clara the nutcracker #the rat king

[coffeecat1983]

Mario Bros: Elemental AU The Opening pt 2

Gently placing him in Marianna's open arm, he was surprised when the newborns quieted down. "Well, well, looks like they share a bonded flame." Salvatore said with a smile. "That one's flame is weak." Gina commented, looking over Luigi. "But at least it's not the cursed color. We don't need another one of those in the family." Giovanni's younger brothers, Tony and Arthur, overheard this comment. They had come upstairs with the hopes to see their nephews. Arthur turned and looked at his twin. Tony pulled his hood tighter and stepped away. "Tell Marianna I said congratulations." he said. His blue flame faintly lit his face, reflecting off his glasses. Arthur took a step forward, reaching to take his hand. "C'mon bro," he urged, "just this once, come with me." Tony looked up, hopeful. Taking a deep breath, he nodded and let his younger brother lead him to the bedroom. Arthur let out a teary laugh when he saw the twins and he hurried to the bedside. "They're beautiful." he said. "Tony, look…" he reached out, expecting Tony to be right beside him, but his hand met empty air. His heart sank as glancing at the door, he saw him nervously retreating. Giovanni had turned away from the door, and Gina was glaring at where Tony had been standing. She scuttled off, muttering in Firish about 'having to bless the room'. Salvatore slipped past her, ignoring her mumblings. His cane tapped lightly on the stairs, his rich, red flame casting a warm glow on the walls. Once downstairs, he rapped on the door that led to the back room. "It's Papa," he called. The door creaked open, and Tony stood aside to allow his father to enter. Salvatore sat on one of the metal crates that was stored there and looked around. "This room, it will make a good studio." he observed. "I look forward to seeing what you make." He leaned on his cane as his middle son sat across from him, pulling his hood back. Blue flames danced faintly around his black curly hair, playfully lapping at the rims of his glasses. "Are the boys healthy?" he asked, not looking at Salvatore. "Luigi's flame is a bit low, but both are well. Come up tonight, once everyone is in bed. Come see them and merge with them, welcome them to the world." Tony recoiled, hands to his chest. "I'll come see them, but merging, what if Giovanni found out?" Salvatore shook his head and stood. "This must change someday, my son. This hold the old ways have on this family, it will snuff us out." He offered his hand. Tony went to reach for him but pulled away sharply as Gina's voice was heard calling for Salvatore. Salvatore's flame dimmed sadly as he lightly touched Tony's arm before leaving the room.

To be continued, and posted fully on Ao3 soon!

By "CC"

#fanfic #luigi #mario #mario movie #super mario bros #uncle tony #uncle arthur #mario fanfic #mario bros #pixar's elemental #elemental #alternate universe #part 2 #more to come

[puppyluver256]

[Image Description: Chickpea, a Beanish (plant people from the Mario and Luigi games) person with green skin, short brown hair, and square-shaped glasses. They have a leafy sprout coming from the top of their head and a wide smile spreading over their face as they appear to be either jumping for joy or dancing a silly dance. They are wearing a pink turtleneck sweater and orange and black striped tights. The background is a repeating pixelated gradient of blue and aqua green, with large beans in varying shades of green scattered about. End ID.]

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More Art Fight with Chickpea! I really do need to draw more Beanish peeps, they're fun and they usually have a pretty good range of designs from what I've seen hehe X3

🎨 Good luck to all my fellow Art Fight participants! And most importantly, have fun!! 🎨

Beanish people and other Mario and Luigi concepts © Nintendo Chickpea © @joojdraws Artwork © PuppyLuver Studios

#art fight #art fight 2023 #mario and luigi #mario oc #chickpea (mario oc) #joojdraws #jess drew the thing #sfw #image description

[desues-randomness]

Straight up self insert

meet Hannah, she’s a Hider artist, she’s a self insert character because of reasons.

Hannah is a kind and soft spoken girl who doesn’t do well in social environments, she’s usually just hiding out in the Studio room of the Gloomy Manor, though don’t try to rush her, she will get mad. She loves all things artistic ranging from painting to music, dance, modeling, woodworking and even just plain ‘ol regular drawing, she loves it all, she even sewed her shirt and smock from fabrics she found in Evershade.

Before the events of Dark Moon, she was only really known as just the one painter Hider in the Studio, not much is really known about her, she never even mentioned her name so no one even properly knew her.

When the Moon broke, she is one of the first few Hiders Luigi encounters, she’s seen painting the portrait of another Hider, though this Hider is rather impatient and gets on her nerves, so she painted a mustache on him out of annoyance, she then spent most of her time in the vault. {Like how I do whilst playing the game, like seriously I love the vault in LM DM}

After the moon is fixed, she realizes that maybe she should probably express herself more, since she now knows that living humans are also present in the Valley she calls home. She consults the only women she knows in the entirety of Evershade, The Three Sisters, only one was available to ask at the time though, Lucinda. Hannah basically got the idea of Accessorizing like how she did when alive from her, though since Hannah never wore any hair accessories, she had to compromise, so she searched for some medium cyan and Forest green fabrics and threads to make a tee-shirt and smock.

#luigi's mansion #luigi’s mansion dark moon #lm oc #oc #hider #self insert #ghostsona #so about the vault thing I mentioned earlier. Yeah I love the vault of Dark Moon because you can look at the ghosts in all their glory #Like you can see their full 3D models and stuff it’s amazing #I hate that they got rid of that in 3 because I want to see the entirety of a ghost’s design #I like drawing ghosts but when ya can’t see the full turn around you can’t get all the details #I also like the little icons too they are so cool and I am basically writing a love letter about Dark Moon’s vault #I love that vault so much and yes I do spend most of the game in there #And in hating motion controls for the fucking balancing shit fuck it #I can talk about Dark Moon for hours that’s how much I love it #Though it is also my first Luigi’s Mansion game so I guess it makes sense #I should stop talking in these tags now huh

[siciliatv]

Sabato scorso lo spettacolo "Ma che te ridi?!" di Valentina Persia ha divertito il pubblico di Agrigento

Sabato scorso, 27 gennaio, al Palacongressi di Agrigento, si è tenuto lo spettacolo di cabaret "Ma che te ridi?!" organizzato da Antonella Airò con FIORO’ EVENTI, e sotto il patrocinio del Parco Valle dei Templi Agrigento. La serata, diretta artisticamente da Giovanna Crapanzano, è stata un successo, regalando al pubblico momenti di ilarità e riflessione. L'evento è iniziato con due coinvolgenti coreografie della ADS “Crazy Dance Studio” di Marzia Di Maria, seguite da un saluto di Gaetano Aronica. La parte musicale è stata arricchita dal talento di artisti locali, tra cui Denise Lombardo con la sua esecuzione di "Stand Up" di Cynthia Erivo, Gino Sorce con una barzelletta, e Miriana Collura con "Can't take my eyes off you" di Gloria Gaynor. Valentina Persia, celebre icona del sorriso, ha poi preso il palco, offrendo al pubblico un coinvolgente mix di imitazioni, barzellette, canzoni e momenti d'intimità. Il Villaggio Mosè è diventato il palcoscenico di un affascinante viaggio attraverso la carriera dell'artista, con emozioni e abilità scenica che hanno conquistato il pubblico. La Persia ha concluso il suo show intonando "Vitti Na Crozza". Dopo un omaggio floreale da parte dell'organizzatrice Antonella Airò, una sorpresa ha atteso Valentina Persia. Con l'accompagnamento musicale di "Nicuzza" di Luigi Finestrella eseguita da Denise Lombardo e suonata dal Maestro Giuseppe Cirlincione al pianoforte, Gino Sorce ha dipinto il viso dell'artista su una tela bianca, regalandole un momento unico e indimenticabile. La serata è stata presentata da Angelo Palermo. Qui di seguito alcune dirette Facebook della serata. Read the full article

[tempi-dispari]

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Vanadium, la potenza della coerenza

I Vanadium sono una band di lunghissimo corso che ha fatto da apripista per molti gruppi. Soprattutto una band che è riuscita ad arrivare a 150mila dischi venduti. Una cifra davvero imponente, un risultato difficilmente eguagliabile in terra italica. Soprattutto per un gruppo metal. Questo piccolo e breve scritto vuole rendere omaggio alla carriera e all’ideale che i Vanadium hanno rappresentato e ancora rappresentano.

Contesto storico

E’ un anno caratterizzato da una maggiore distensione a livello politico e sociale. Si assiste ad un graduale ritorno a quei valori e a quegli affetti che sono stati accantonati negli ultimi anni a causa dei venti rivoluzionari e progressisti che hanno soffiato a lungo nel nostro Paese.

Anche i ragazzi della contestazione finalmente abbandonano i loro propositi bellicosi. Ora vogliono solo ballare e divertirsi: sono stanchi di tirare sassi. Nasce una nuova scienza destinata ad un grande futuro: l’ecologia, che sensibilizza l’opinione pubblica sullo studio e la salvaguardia dell’ambiente.

Per il settore economico il 1979 è un anno contraddittorio. Se da una parte si ha un notevole incremento della borsa, dall’altra l’inflazione cresce in maniera smisurata.

Al cinema escono due grandi film: “Il cacciatore” di Michael Cimino e “Apocalipse now” di Francis Ford Coppola, entrambi sul tema della guerra in Vietnam. Tra gli italiani da segnalare “L’ingorgo” di Luigi Comencini, con il grande Alberto Sordi.

E’ di quest’anno una straordinaria novità per l’ascolto della musica: viene commercializzato il walkman, che permette di sentire le cassette camminando.

Un grande atleta italiano, Pietro Mennea, stabilisce a Città del Messico un record ineguagliabile nei duecento metri piani fermando il cronometro a 19″72. Resterà imbattuto per ben 18 anni.

In televisione iniziano le trasmissioni di Raitre. L’indimenticabile Massimo Troisi, con Lello Arena ed Enzo De Caro, danno vita alla “Smorfia”, storico gruppo di cabaret che trionfa nello spettacolo di Pippo Baudo “Luna Park”, che segna anche il debutto televisivo di Hether Parisi. Dall’America arriva la fortunata serie televisiva “Charlie’s angels”.

Fa scalpore il rapimento di Fabrizio De Andre’ e Dori Grezzi che vengono sequestrati in Sardegna. Saranno rilasciati solo dopo qualche mese dietro pagamento di un riscatto di alcune centinaia di milioni.

Tra le curiosità dell’anno da segnalare il boom del Monopoli, il famoso gioco da tavolo. La Nasa lo destina addirittura agli astronauti che dovranno partire per Marte e che dovranno fare a meno del sesso per tre anni, giustificando la cosa con il presupposto che, il gioco, rappresenti una valida alternativa all’attività sessuale per la serrata atmosfera di competizione da esso creata.

Si verifica quest’anno un fatto inedito dal punto di vista musicale: l’apertura alla musica occidentale nell’URSS di allora. Elton John è la prima pop star ad esibirsi laggiù davanti ad una folla impazzita.

Lucio Battisti ci regala un altro dei suoi grandi successi: “Una donna per amico”. Lucio Dalla e Francesco De Gregari girano l’Italia con “Banana Republic”, un concerto memorabile dal quale viene tratto anche un album di successo.

Il popolo delle discoteche impazzisce per “Le freak” degli Chic, “I will survive” di Gloria Gaynor e la mitica “Born to be alive” di Patrick Hernandez, dischi che rappresentano ancora oggi dei riferimenti assoluti della straordinaria ondata musicale dance della fine degli anni ’70. (fonte Favolosianni.it).

In questo contesto nascono i Vanadium.

Le origini

Il gruppo fu fondato a Milano nel 1979 dai chitarristi Giorgio Occhipinti e Adriano Nava, ai quali si aggiunsero, dopo alcune ricerche, il bassista Gianfranco Ghislotti, il batterista Franco Avella e il cantante Rino Squillace.

Il nome della band fu scelto da Pepe Nicola nel marzo del 1979 che in quel momento suonava le tastiere nel gruppo due punti con Giorgio Occhipinti e Rino Squillace dato che lavorava in un’azienda metalmeccanica e sulle chiavi inglesi erano marcate cromo vanadium. Dopo alcune prove, Nava fu allontanato dalla band che iniziò le ricerche per un nuovo chitarrista.

Ben presto, il quartetto si imbatté nel giovane Stefano Tessarin, ex membro dei Kaos Rock, il quale era appena tornato da un tour con Alberto Camerini, e decise di ingaggiarlo. La band iniziò a suonare in piccoli concerti locali, arrivando anche a suonare al 1º Festival Rock Italiano tenutosi a Roma nel 1980 e nello stesso anno al PalaLido Rock, un festival patrocinato dal Comune di Milano che li vedeva in compagnia di band come Kaos Rock, Gaznevada e Kandeggina Gang, per poi registrare una demo con pezzi in italiano.

Nel periodo successivo a questa primissima fase, sia Occhipinti che Ghislotti partirono per il servizio di leva, abbandonarono il gruppo e formarono più tardi gli Athena.

Al loro posto entrarono nei Vanadium rispettivamente da Giovanni Jimpel e Fortunato Saccà, provenienti da una band di cover southern rock. Nella primavera del 1980 i Vanadium aprirono poi il concerto di Joe Jackson al Palalido di Milano in un evento che diede molta risonanza al gruppo.

Dopo poco tempo, alcuni avvicendamenti portarono all’uscita dal gruppo di Squillace, Avella e Jimpel. i due componenti rimasti ricrearono velocemente una nuova formazione reclutando il cantante Antonio Lutri ed il batterista Renzo “Tommy” Minazzi, proveniente dai Decibel.

Con questa formazione, i Vanadium si esibirono ad un concerto che li vedeva assieme ad altre band tra cui i Pulsar, band in cui militavano il cantante Pino Scotto e il tastierista Ruggero Zanolini che qualche anno prima avevano pubblicato un 7″ con la Phonosound Dischi intitolato A Man On The Road/Dream. Tessarin, impressionato dalle capacità di Zanolini, gli chiese di entrare a far parte dei Vanadium, e il tastierista accettò.

Nel frattempo, Lutri aveva abbandonato il gruppo, cosicché Zanolini portò con sé dai Pulsar anche Pino Scotto, cantante noto per il suo gran carisma e la sua voce graffiante. Poco dopo il gruppo reclutò il nuovo batterista Americo Costantino. La band fu allora notata da Vincenzo Reitano, fratello del cantante Mino, che decise di prendere il gruppo sotto contratto dalla sua etichetta, la Mister Records. La band iniziò quindi a registrare un primo 45 giri, che prese il titolo di We Want Live with Rock ‘n’ Roll, pubblicato nel 1981 con la formazione composta da Steve Tessarin, Pino Scotto, Ruggero Zanolini, Fortunato Saccà e Americo Costantino.

Nello stesso anno Tessarin fu però costretto ad abbandonare il gruppo a causa del servizio militare obbligatorio, venendo sostituito da Claudio Asquini; poco dopo, anche Saccà e Costantino decisero di andarsene.

Nel frattempo, Pino si recò ad un concerto di un gruppo chiamato New Age. Propose quindi a Domenico “Mimmo” Prantera e a Emilio Vettor, rispettivamente bassista e chitarrista della band, di unirsi ai Vanadium. Come nuovo batterista subentrò quindi il giovane Lio Mascheroni.

La rinnovata band, ottenuto un contratto con la Durium, iniziò a registrare il suo primo album, che fu intitolato Metal Rock e pubblicato nel 1982. L’album, che vendette 8000 copie, presentava un sound fortemente ispirato all’hard rock degli anni ’70 con sonorità decisamente più “heavy” ed ispirate al NWOBHM.

All’album, che si apriva con il brano We Want Live with Rock ‘n’ Roll già presentato nel 7″ precedente, seguì poi un tour con Alvin Lee, durante il quale Asquini abbandonò la band per essere sostituito dal chitarrista dei New Age Luigi D’Ermes e la partecipazione al programma televisivo Fresco fresco in cui eseguirono proprio il brano apripista dell’album.

Nel 1982, finito il servizio militare, Tessarin riprese il suo posto nel gruppo, e così Vettor e D’Ermes se ne andarono. I Vanadium, che a questo punto vedevano la band composta da Domenico Prantera, Lio Mascheroni, Pino Scotto, Ruggero Zanolini e Stefano Tessarin, rimasero da qui in poi piuttosto compatti, con una formazione che non vide modifiche per molti anni.

I Vanadium registrarono e pubblicarono su Durium A Race with the Devil nel 1983, che fu pubblicato anche su Music-Box per la Grecia e Mausoleum Records per il Belgio.

L’album, che continuando nella linea del precedente riproponeva in modo personalissimo strutture tipiche dell’hard rock anni ’70 in salsa “hard & heavy”, portò la band fuori dall’underground con apparizioni in alcuni show della Rai dell’epoca, consacrandone i successi anche all’estero, tanto che Tony Jasper dedicò loro una voce ricca di elogi nella sua The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock & Heavy Metal del 1985.

Nell’ambito televisivo, un loro brano ripreso da concerto fu inserito nel “Processo all’HM”, una puntata tematica di Mister Fantasy di Raiuno incentrata proprio sull’heavy metal e che vedeva Beppe Riva, giornalista della rivista Rockerilla con la sua rubrica Hard & Heavy, nel ruolo della difesa.

Nel 1984 venne pubblicato il terzo album della band, Game Over, che vendette 54 000 copie solo in Italia. Il disco vedeva sonorità più mature, con inserimenti di melodie più diversificate che si inserivano nella loro tipica struttura hard rock.

Il disco divenne poi il manifesto di apertura della trasmissione Heavy con Kleever prodotta dal canale televisivo musicale italiano videomusic, che consacrò così la band al suo apice di popolarità. Il tour che ne seguì li vide come gruppo di punta nel festival metal Italian Massacre di Mantova e nella data del Rolling Stone di Milano la band fece il tutto esaurito.

Fu in questo momento di grande popolarità della band che arrivò anche il tour che li vide di spalla ai Motörhead e Twisted Sister, prima di pubblicare l’album dal vivo, On Streets of Danger (Durium, 1985), un documento che ancora oggi ne testimonia la grande energia concertistica e performativa. L’album conteneva poi l’inedito You Can’t Stop the Music, del quale fu girato un video musicale.

Nel 1986, ormai raggiunta una fama enorme, la band si recò in Inghilterra, a Londra, dove, sotto la supervisione del noto produttore Lou Astin (che aveva già lavorato con gruppi del calibro di Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy e Queen), registrò e pubblicò Born to Fight (Durium, 1986).

Nel 1987 il gruppo pubblicò Corruption of Innocence, prodotto da Jim Faraci, dove il sound si spostò molto di più su sonorità simili al pop metal di stampo americano di quel periodo. L’album comunque ebbe un buon successo e vendette numerose copie anche all’estero. Sempre nel 1987 seguì la storica compilazione di metal italiano prodotta dalla Durium ed intitolata Metalmaniac, che li vedeva con il brano Run Too Fast al fianco di band come Gow, Halloween, Angelkillers, Sabotage, Skanners, Danger Zone, Strana Officina e Nuclear Simphony.

Poco dopo, tuttavia, la Durium, storica etichetta della band, fu costretta a chiudere. La band perse allora il proprio punto di riferimento e firmò un contratto con un’etichetta minore, la Green Line. Nel 1989 la band pubblicò il nuovo album Seventheaven, dal suono fortemente commerciale, prodotto da Guy Bidmead.

Il gruppo, per evitare di commercializzarsi eccessivamente o di cadere nella ripetitività, decise allora di sciogliersi.

Nel 1995 Scotto e Tessarin decisero di riformare i Vanadium con la formazione storica, e la band incise un nuovo album, Nel Cuore del Caos, connotato da un sound fortemente hard rock cantato in italiano (con testi di Norman Zoia). La band allora si esibì in un piccolo tour d’addio fino all’anno successivo, il 1996, quando i membri decisero all’unanimità di sciogliere definitivamente il gruppo dopo un ultimo concerto. Dopo lo scioglimento, Pino Scotto e Lio Mascheroni fondarono i Fire Trails, mentre i restanti membri crearono un nuovo gruppo chiamato Diumvana.

Diumvana

Dalle ceneri dei Vanadium nascono i Diumvana (anagramma di Vanadium), formati da due terzi del gruppo precedente: Stefano Tessarin, Ruggero Zanolini e Domenico Prantera, con l’aggiunta di Andrea dal Santo (Mitzi) alla voce e Fabrizio Uccellini alla batteria. Nel settembre 2003 Marcello Suzzani subentra a Domenico Prantera. I cinque si esibiscono in vari locali e club del Nord Italia riscuotendo molto successo da parte del pubblico. Il gruppo però si scioglie il 26 gennaio 2008.

Dal collaudato gruppo nascono in seguito diverse band: Bobby Trap, formati da Andrea dal Santo, Fabrizio Uccellini, Marcello Suzzani, che propongono un ampio repertorio di cover sulle orme (e non solo) dei Diumvana, i Rock School, formati da Andrea dal Santo, Fabrizio Uccellini, Marcello Suzzani, che ispirandosi al noto film “School of Rock” con Jack Black.

Questi ripercorrono la storia del rock attraverso uno spettacolo originale e di grande effetto, i Noize Machine, band con progetto originale che vede (Andrea Dal Santo) alla voce solista, Gli Wheels of Fire, band con progetto originale che vede Fabrizio Uccellini alla batteria e Marcello Suzzani al basso e back voice, ed i Rustless, che è un progetto originale di Stefano Tessarin, Ruggero Zanolini e Lio Mascheroni.

Il libro

L’11 maggio 2014 esce il libro Vanadium – la biografia ufficiale (Crac Edizioni) scritto dal giornalista Luca Fassina (Hard!, Classic Rock, Metal Maniac, Rolling Stones Online): in 242 pagine la storia raccontata di ottanta persone intervistate, dai Vanadium ai molti musicisti, amici e addetti ai lavori che hanno gravitato attorno a loro. Completano la biografia oltre 300 fotografie storiche, la discografia completa, un albero genealogico di tutte le band coinvolte e oltre tre ore di contenuti multimediali grazie ai codici QR.

Formazione Pino Scotto – voce (1981-1990 e 1995-1996) Stefano Tessarin – chitarra (1981-1990 e 1995-1996) Mimmo Prantera – basso (1981-1990 e 1995-1996) Lio Mascheroni – batteria (1981-1990 e 1995-1996) Ruggero Zanolini – tastiere (1981-1990 e 1995-1996) La formazione dei Vanadium non ha subito alcuna variazione dopo l’esordio discografico.

#Pino Scotto #Vanadium

[micro961]

Giulio Cesare - Rolling Stones

L’esordio discografico del poeta e visual artist Giulio Marchetti

Un pop elettronico dal sapore retro che, nel videoclip, ha come protagonista Anastasia Kuzmina di Ballando con le stelle

“Rolling Stones” è un brano con tutte le velleità del primo singolo, già a partire dal titolo rock e graffiante, ma ancor prima dal nome del nuovo progetto musicale che cita un personaggio storico imponente come Giulio Cesare. «È un’affermazione di identità e di intenti, in un certo senso» Giulio Cesare.

Dopo aver incontrato, da poeta, Riccardo Sinigallia (sua la nota del libro Specchi ciechi) ed aver collaborato, come visual artist, anche con Achille Lauro (Sanremo ed Eurovision 2022), nasce il primo tiratissimo singolo “Rolling Stones”, prodotto da Leo Pari, uno dei massimi esponenti della scena indie in Italia.

Per quanto concerne l’aspetto sonoro, si tratta di un pop elettronico dalle vibes retro, un sapore anni ‘80, con un testo ricercato e personale che deriva, quasi per osmosi, dall’esperienza poetica ultradecennale di Giulio Cesare, autore di sette raccolte pubblicate.

«È stato proprio conversando con Leo Pari, un giorno in studio di registrazione, che uscì una definizione “quasi dance” per questo singolo. Si voleva cioè intendere che “Rolling Stones” fosse anche un pezzo ballabile. A quel punto non restava che ingaggiare la migliore ballerina su piazza. La protagonista del videoclip, infatti, arriva direttamente dalla prima serata di Rai 1; è Anastasia Kuzmina di Ballando con le stelle, storico programma del sabato sera» Giulio Cesare.

Etichetta: Matilde Dischi - MAIONESE project Radio date: 7 aprile 2023

Giulio Marchetti è nato a Roma nel 1982. Ha esordito in poesia con “Il sogno della vita” (Novi Ligure, 2008), finalista al “Premio Carver” e segnalato con menzione speciale della giuria al Premio “Laurentum”. Nel 2010 ha pubblicato, con prefazione di Paolo Ruffilli, “Energia del vuoto” (puntoacapo), seguita nel 2012 da “La notte oscura” (ibidem). Con “Cieli immensi”, tratta da quella raccolta, ha vinto il Premio “Laurentum” 2011, sezione sms.   “La notte oscura” ha ottenuto il 3° posto al Premio Nazionale di Arti Letterarie “Città di Torino” e al Premio Internazionale “Tulliola” ed è stato finalista al Premio “Città di Sassari”. Nel 2014 ha riunito le precedenti pubblicazioni e la sezione inedita Disastri nella raccolta Apologia del sublime (puntoacapo), segnalata al Premio “Città di Sassari”. Nel 2015 ha pubblicato “Ghiaccio nero” (Ladolfi), premiato con menzione speciale di merito e medaglia d’onore al Premio Internazionale di poesia “Don Luigi Di Liegro”. Con la poesia “A metà”, è stato inoltre selezionato per “Il fiore della poesia italiana” (tomo II – i contemporanei), un grande progetto antologico che raccoglie il meglio della poesia italiana (puntoacapo, 2016). Nel 2020 ha pubblicato “Specchi ciechi” (puntoacapo), 1° posto al Premio “Città di Sassari” ed al Premio “Nabokov”, 3° posto al Premio “Tra Secchia e Panaro” e segnalato ai premi “Di Liegro”, “Lorenzo Montano” e Arti Letterarie “Città di Torino”. Nel 2023 è prevista inoltre la pubblicazione della settima raccolta di poesie, “Varco cielo” (puntoacapo). Tra i suoi prefatori, figurano: Maria Grazia Calandrone e Dante Maffia. Della sua poesia si è occupato, altresì, il Prof. Gabriele La Porta, storico conduttore e direttore Rai.

Per quanto concerne l’arte visuale, la sua variegata produzione rivela un’ispirazione comune che, sospesa tra ironia e critica, denuncia le contraddizioni e i paradossi del nostro tempo. Ha fondato il “Gruppo Mira”, selezionato per la mostra “Paesaggi inimmaginabili. Cartoline dal nostro pianeta” promossa da BienNolo e ArtCityLab. Il 23 dicembre 2020 è uscita su la Repubblica la sua opera “Dramazon”, di cui l’autore ha avuto modo di parlare all’interno di un’intervista rilasciata alla redazione del noto quotidiano, proprio nello stesso giorno. Le sue opere sono state pubblicate dalle maggiori riviste di settore tra cui Artribune ed Exibart. Tra le collaborazioni artistiche, si segnala la partnership con il cantante e performer Achille Lauro (Sanremo ed Eurovision 2022). Nell’autunno 2022 lancia la sua prima mostra nel Metaverso TIME e partecipa alla mostra collettiva Retina (galleria InQuadro), in occasione della RAW Art Night promossa dalla Rome Art Week. Il felice incontro con il critico Gianluca Marziani, curatore in Italia di Banksy (tra i maggiori artisti viventi), mette in cantiere ulteriori autorevoli iniziative, tra cui Logos Infinito (progetto di arte diffusa sulla parola – nuovo spazio d’arte contemporanea Recanati) e la mostra personale “Giulio Marchetti. Arcipelago esistenziale”, a cui peraltro collabora anche Davide Gavioli, già Social Media Manager per Arte Fiera.

Per il 7 aprile 2023, con il singolo Rolling Stones, è previsto il lancio del suo nuovo progetto musicale Giulio Cesare, il risultato della sua consapevolezza artistica  pluriennale e multidisciplinare, nonché il frutto di lunghe amicizie con cantautori e produttori speciali, tra cui Riccardo Sinigallia e Leo Pari. SOCIAL

WWW: https://www.giuliomarchettiart.it/ Instagram: @giuliomarchetti_artist

[nickiemoot]

random thoughts about luigi's mansion 3 now that i've finished it:

helen gravely, jesus fucking christ girl. he's not that into you. you were living the (un)life, had a huuuge richly decorated penthouse all for yourself, in a relatively beautiful (for a haunted place) luxury hotel, which included a movie studio, a stage, a dance club, a museum, several floors dedicated to a massive garden, etc. literally you could have had it all (KEPT it all since you apparently already had it) if you had not decided to simp for king boo. who clearly didn't even like you back and was just using you. like, girl.

speaking of that huge haunted hotel, it's kinda interesting that it was so full of ghosts. did they all die in there at the same time, like was there some tragic accident? or was the place just exceedingly accident prone and a lot of people died there for some reason? even if you take headcanons where only the human-looking ghosts are actually fully dead humans, that's still like. fifteen ghosts. wtf happened in this hotel that between fifteen and ???-hundred people died there...

complete subject change. i made a wonderful discovery while failing the king boo fight over and over lmfao. he's too strong to be affected by the flashlight, but he still doesn't like it. if you flash the strobe at him, he flails his lil nubby arms. doesn't stop attacking. just kinda flaps his arms like "nuuuh"

#nickie plays luigi's mansion

[cvpidarrow]

Detention Crew Sleepover Hc's !

[ This is about the main 4 character from S2 of Dungeons and Daddies so if you havent listened to it yet and want to avoid character spoilers i suggest you dont click the keep reading]

They do it at D.A.D.D.I.E.S. hq,, obvi && They all brought movies

Link :

✎ I feel like he'd have one of those pj shirts that have some kinda quote on them.  ✎ His pants && shirt dont match theyre from different pj sets

✎ Def that dude who has a special pillow or blanket he brings along

✎ "Come one guys keep it down"

✎ The movies he brought are either sport related or have a really sad ending

Normal :

✎ My boy is so excited u dont even understand

✎ He's probably the one who planned it in the first place

✎ I feel like his pjs could def just pass as normal clothes ✎ A hoodie/shirt w/ some kind of school on it. Could be Saint Dimas,, could be one his parents, uncle or sister went to ✎ Either sweat pants or plaid pj pants- but not the red ones.  ✎ Brings one of his plushies bcus he cant sleep w/out them (and im not saying its a plushy of Teenie the teen but also im not saying its not a plushy of Teenie the teen)

✎ Normal was originally going to offer to bring the snacks then he realized his grandma would probably give him vegan snacks so he passed the responsibility off to Taylor

✎ Just brought a bunch of Disney channel classic movies

ȯ Out of all the ones he brought he'd probably offer either Teen Beach Movie or a High School Musical movie to watch

Scary :

✎ A black rich widow robe w/ a satin sleep mask  ✎ She's also probably just wearing a sports bra and shorts under that- like she could go to the gym w/out the robe and ppl would be like "oh yeah shes just here to work out" ✎ Has a "creepy" lookin stuffy. Like,, floppy head,, patches all over,, eye falling off,, its probably purple && a bunny

✎ Brought some good ass movies- she probably has the best taste

Taylor :

✎ Wears a tshirt && boxers that def have a design of some anime. Or Rick and Morty

✎ Brought a bunch of consoles and multiplayer games

✎ Also brought a bunch of Japanese snacks

✎ For the movies he brought he exclusively brought Studio Ghilbi && Barbie movies

✎ Gets involved in some drama on Discord half way through the sleepover

General sleepover hc's

✎ Normal && Taylor are a Just Dance duo and they fuckin kill it every time

✎ Speaking of Just Dance: Normals the only one who can do that one part in the Rasputin dance

✎ Back when Normal,, Taylor && Link were younger & friends they had these sleepover traditions and now they're trying to wrap Scary into them

✎ One of the games Taylor brings is Mario Cart so-

╚» Link - Luigi / Rosalina ( When Normal wants to do a princess trio ) ,, Scary - Dry bones / Peach ( when Normal convinces her so they can be the trio w/ the princesses ) ,, Normal - Daisy / Lakitu ( the dude who had the wrong way sign),, Taylor - Wario / Miku  ✎ When the three play as the princesses they all gang up on Taylor and he gets so mad

✎ Taylor knows cheats for the game and still loses

✎ Order of closest to 1st - closest to 12th : Scary,, Normal,, Taylor - Link ( they always tie and it pisses Taylor off bcus Link has never played while Taylor has played it a bunch of times )

✎ Scary dared Taylor to lock pick one of the doors and he ended up getting cursed again

✎ Normal comments on Scarys pjs and says smth along the lines of "You look like you'd be wandering the halls of a victorian mansion" and she considers that one of the best compliments she's ever received

✎ At some point May accidentally walks into D.A.D.D.I.E.S. during their sleepover for whatever reason and Normal offers to let her stay and join the sleepover

ȯ He texted her an invite when he first thought of the sleepover but May probably has Normal on silent

#dungeon and daddies #dndads #dndaddies #dndads season 2 #dndads s2 #normal oak #dungeons and daddies season 2 #dndads taylor swift #lincoln li wilson #scary marlow #scary marlowe #may hales #headcanons #fandom

[my-emily-gilmore-era]

Kelly Bishop, Luigi’s Dance Studio, NYC, circa mid 1960’s.

#kelly bishop #a chorus line #bunheads #dirty dancing #emily gilmore #gilmore girls #the watchful eye #mrs maisel #@my.emily.gilmore.era #stars hollow

[operafantomet]

So... this photoset started as a brilliant idea, but finding photos turned out to be near impossible... Therefore, here’s a mediocre photoset on a theme that interest me a lot (hahaha): British performers starring both in Which Witch (left) and in Phantom of the Opera (right).

Maria Kesselman: She was the alternate Maria Vittoria Farnese (the lead female role) in Which Witch in 1992. She was also the original Christine understudy in POTO in 1986-1988. A rare combo of a pointe-dancing coloratura soprano with acting skills, she remains one of my favourites in both roles to this day.

Graham Bickley: He starred as Bishop Daniel, the lead male role in Which Witch in 1992. He was also the one featured in the cast album and DVD. Although he never *technically* starred in POTO, one of the first things he did after WW was to record the studio cast album of POTO with Claire Moore as Christine. Many of you have thus heard him as the Phantom, but not seen him. In lack of POTO photos I share a second one from WW, with Maria Kesselman.

Tim Morgan: He starred as “Archdeacon” in Which Witch in 1992, as well as understudying the lead Cardinal Gonzaga and the supporting role of The Pope. I *think* this photo shows him, but frankly finding any cast photos from WW is hard. He joined POTO sometime in the 2000s, and has been there (on and off) since. He is also in the current revival. In the past he’s understudied the Phantom and Firmin, and played Don Attilio. He’s currently Lefèvre and u/s Firmin.

John Ayldon: He starred as Pope Paul III Farnese in Which Witch in 1992. Prior to that he had been in the ensemble in POTO, where he had understudied Firmin. I could not find any photos of the latter, so I went for John Ayldon in a role resembling Firmin the most...

Leo Andrew: He starred as Pier Luigi Farnese in Which Witch in 1992. As the lead role Maria Vittoria leaves Rome and her family early in the first act, Leo Andrew appeared as the jailor for the rest of the show. In November 1997 he was cast as Monsieur André in POTO, a role he played until early 1999. The photo of André doesn’t really look like Leo Andrew, but it comes from the November 1997 brochure where the rest of the cast appears to be correct. So I might be wrong...

#which witch #phantom of the opera #maria kesselman #graham bickley #tim morgan #john ayldon #leo andrew

[lumpyrock]

Now I have a tag list!

(Yes, that is a scar on Luigi's chest)

"Truly, the best part of the show was Odile's and the Prince's duet. A wonderful blend of acting and dance, a wonderful use of the art form. Odile was truly the ideal dancer, wonderful figure and beautiful form, except for the glaring issue of the mustache."

Everyone is gathered around the paper two days after the first show. An amazing review from a famously uptight reviewer, and the thing he's complementing most is the stand in!

That secures Luigi as the title character of the studio's next production, sleeping beauty.

(Yes, I actually watched the whole ballet this time)

Peach gets cast as the Lilac Fairy, and since Bowser did such a good job as the prince last time, he gets cast as Prince Désiré.

Bowser is like, hell no! He knows how act 2 ends, and he's not kissing Luigi!

Director says that since Bowser's so big, he can just get slightly close and the audience will believe it all the same.

Bowser decides to be dramatic and not practice.

This kinda hurts Luigi, cause, dang, is he just that terrible to dance with?

Director sees this and will not put up with it.

"You either keep being a baby and I get Peach to play the prince, or you play him. Your choice."

Bowser reluctantly agrees to cooperate.

Luigi can tell that Bowser is only doing this to stay employed.

Whenever they practice the kiss scene, Bowser doesn't even get remotely close.

As the preformence is getting closer, it's time for trying on costumes.

Luigi's costume reveals his chest.

Luigi thinks it looks awesome on him and is showing it to the studio.

He eventually shows it to Bowser, who notices the scar.

Bowser can feel it in his gut how he got the scar, but he asks anyway.

"Oh, when you accidentally scratched me."

Great. Now the world can see where he injured his partner!

Now they're practicing in costumes, and once they get to the vision, oh boy does Bowser notice it.

The guilt!

Anyway, first real preformence.

Luigi's doing great, and so is Peach.

Vision sequence, Bowser is extra careful.

Blah blah, ballet.

Kiss scene...

Bowser does the thing he usually does what he usually does, but quickly decides f*** it, and actually kisses him.

Luigi is blushing for the rest of the second act (and a little bit of the third).

It means nothing, they agree, they're just business associates... right?

@fishtale88 @dragonwritersblog @digimonandpokemon um, let me know if you do or don't want me to tag you? I've never done this before.

#bowuigi #bowser x luigi #luigi #mario movie #bowser #luigi x bowser #bowigi #bowluigi #bowser/luigi #ballet #sleeping beauty

[year2000electronics]

RANDOM HEADCANONS GO

HERE WE GOOOO

mario (origami king)

- is fiercely protective of olivia thanks to her being a little sister with a rogue big brother and his own big bro instincts kicking in

- at first, when he stepped on a magic circle and his thousand fold arms appeared, he thought he had found another curse like in ttyd

- he’s a great hugger! many of the toads he rescued get overwhelmed with joy and just give him a hug and he ALWAYS delivers.

- he takes his coffee with a bit of mushrooms that he always brings from home

- he still has his royalty pass to shogun studios and wants to take luigi and the princess there one day (he also thinks jr might like it)

luigi (origami king):

- is doing SO WELL for himself

- for some reason i imagine him constantly accidentally running into the legion of stationery before mario and they just. have a nice civil conversation bc he isn’t directly in their way

olivia:

- kinda wants to get to know the legion of stationery... they were made by her brother, after all

- mario is a father figure for her (and luigi is her cool uncle)

- sometimes falls asleep in marios pocket bc it’s so comfy in there

- was planning to go back home with the origami craftsman once olly was defeated

olly:

- when he first began making his own origami, it was very sloppy

- he practiced for about a week, trying to get every fold perfect just for olivia

- he misses her deeply and it makes him very sad, but his ego gets in his way of realizing that

- he says he has no favourite members of the legion of stationery, but he has a soft spot for stapler

- he really adores colored pencils’ artwork

colored pencils:

- from overlook tower, he has a view of the other streamers and when he saw how ‘basic’ his streamer area was he was FUMING

- he actually tried to physically move his streamer to somewhere more exciting but it would break if he continued so he let it be

- wants to dabble in paint

rubber band:

- those blue rubber bands were specifically chosen by him to match the streamer

- she never forced birdo to be in the show, they just happened to cross paths on the way to the park and hit it off quite well

- bit more of a pride headcanon but rubber band is bigender and uses he/she!

- rubber band’s paper machos have way more personality than any other paper machos- she trained them herself (and yes, they do autographs!)

- the true plot of the plays that rubber band was so mad about is that mario was supposed to be defeated only for rubber band, the REAL hero, to swoop in gracefully (it was all very elaborate. there was a zipline involved)

hole punch:

- loves company! unfortunately he’s a legion of stationery member so when toads don’t want to dance with a giant scary hole punch, guess what? they do now

- actually not that rude about music opinions! he’ll trash a lot of things but he’ll never trash you for liking them

- tried to hole punch a snifit or two on his way down to the temple of shrooms but he found they have absolutely zero sense of rhythm

- his demeanour is a mix between a disco lover and a b list horror movie monster and he’s well aware of this

tape:

- actually went out of his way to go talk to the other members of the legion of stationery! he’s the one who views them the most as a group

- him and scissors get along thanks to tricks that are usually taboo and wanting to keep things clean (plus their streamers are by far the closest, so tape sometimes sneaks off to see scissors)

- this is why tapes involvement in the chapter is very little, because he’s off chatting with the other members most of the time

- is that slacking off? no! course not! don’t be stupid!

scissors and scissors’ creations:

- like stapler is olly’s dog, handaconda is scissors’ pet!

- handaconda has a tendency to go scissors when it plays rock paper scissors because its thinking about its owner

- scissors thinks that the cutout warriors and handaconda are SOOOO CUTE and everyone is super weirded out by them

- i imagine her as like, somewhat of a chuunibyou? or at least, a very overexaggerated caricature of a dark anime swordsman

- her ‘i will sheath my blade so we may become equals’ and sheer excitement of cutting things up often clash, because she wants to seem serious but the thought of getting to unleash her blades gets her literally bouncing

- is not a dog person

- likes ollys idea for an origami world bc origami is so much more exciting to slice in two than paper

stapler:

- likes scratches in just the right spot. nobody except olly knows where this spot is

- constantly mistakes colored pencils’ missiles for chew toys

#mothra answers

[everygame]

Developed/Published by: Nintendo EAD Tokyo / Nintendo Released: 13/07/2018 Completed: 17/01/2022 Completion: Finished all episodes and the bonus chapter, 185 diamonds. Trophies / Achievements: n/a

I haven’t much paid attention to Nintendo’s Game Trial system for Nintendo Switch Online, but the recent trial of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker caught my eye as one of those games I know is (generally) well liked and seemed completely easy to play through in less than a week (because I’d stuck on a free trial of Nintendo Switch Online and not even noticed this trial until about three days into it.)

It’s an odd one to pick for this reason–Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker turns out to be short and easy enough that a dedicated player could probably 100% it in about six hours or something (Nintendo’s stupid activity tracker isn’t telling me how long I played this for, but it probably wasn’t much longer than that, though I didn’t 100% it) meaning that for most bargain-minded players this isn’t merely a trial. I mean, outside of grabbing the last few diamonds, there really wasn’t any more content for me to explore unless I wanted to download the DLC (which I didn’t, I was good) so unlike a trial of a huge RPG or an online game, this doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that’s going to drive more sales.

Captain Toad, sadly, doesn’t alleviate my ennui with Nintendo’s highly polished, charming output in the Mario and Mario-adjacent franchise. I remember saying in my review of Mario Tennis Aces “I’m swearing off ‘Mario doing things that aren’t being in a platformer’” and to be honest, while Mario isn’t even in this… and it’s a bit like a platformer (you just can’t jump) it similarly feels just so… unnecessary?

The closest thing I can compare this kind of thing to is those big-budget kiddy CGI films. And not, like, the Pixar ones where they manage to be really charming and have themes and that. I’m talking about something like The Secret Life of Pets, or Trolls or something. Really glossy, well made, but it’s for weans, and it’s not actually going to enrich your life in any meaningful way. When you get down to it, I think the current era of Mario even looks like these movies. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker offers these beautiful little puzzle-boxes which are cleverly designed, neat to look around (who doesn’t love floating water?) and Toad and Toadette are cute, but it’s empty calories. I felt nothing.

I’m not saying here that I need, like, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker to explore capital T Themes or something, but it’s not unironic that Illumination are the studio working with Nintendo on the upcoming Mario movie. Hell, they might do something interesting with it, but I assume it’s going to be, like Mario jumps on a Goomba, Luigi says “well that just happened” and does [current popular dance] to [current popular song].

Anyway, enough moaning. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is fine, a bland way to pass a snowy afternoon when you’re too sleepy to do much else (which I did.) I’m not even sure what I want from Nintendo nor if I think they have any ability to provide it, but the Splatoon series does prove that they’re able to create something with a unique style and solid play, so I guess I’ll know it when I see it.

Will I ever play it again? At the time of writing I still have time to get those last diamonds or do the extra challenges (I 100%ed chapter one) but I don’t have any hunger for it. So no.

Final Thought: Interested now to discover if I’m just totally off Mario forever or if Super Mario 3D World (whenever I pick that up) brings me back into the fold. 3D Land was cool but boring for ages until it got actually challenging, and Treasure Tracker has the edges sanded off so completely that I suspect that won’t be any different.

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