#Montgomery Mecha

[imagine-darksiders]

Mecha-Monty?

Watched Pacific Rim for the umpteenth time the other day and got to thinking....

Sentient Glamrock mecha au...

I have all sorts of ideas as to how Y/n fits into this scenario. :)

#Fnaf #security breach #glamrock mecha #mecha au #pacific rim #jaeger #Montgomery Gator #Montgomery Mecha #Reader #size difference #my art #Wait has anyone done this already?

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Trek: Year Five Epilogue by Christopher Jones

#Star Trek #Star Trek: Year Five #IDW #Comic #Comics #Scotty #Montgomery Scott #Starfleet #Federation #USS Enterprise #Constitution Class #Constitution Class Refit #Sci-Fi #Mecha #Spaceship #Christopher Jones

[aberrant-winter]

WHITELIST

Current Hyperfixation: The Collector (Owl House)

[Will be changed many times]

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Characters:

Bold: Absolute favorites

Kaijus(Godzilla): Shin Godzilla,Heisei Burning Godzilla,Millenium Godzilla,Gigan, Kiryu, Mechagodzilla 2021, Destoroyah,Gorosaurus,Heisei King Ghidorah,Kaizer Ghidorah,Skull Crawler,Titanosaurus,Methuselah,

Mecha Ghidorah.

Kaijus(Gamera): Gamera,Zedus.

Jurassic World/Park: Spinosaurus, Indominus Rex, Indoraptor, Giganotosaurus, Echo.

Kirby: King Dedede,Kirby,Meta Knight,Galacta Knight,Morpho Knight,Magolor,Shadow Dedede,Landia,Grand Doomer,Sphere Doomer,Galboros,Kibble Blade,Dark Matter Swordsman.

Super Mario/Paper Mario: Bowser,Dry Bowser,Dark Bowser,Midbus,Dry Bones,King Bob-Omb,Chill Bully, King Boo(Luigi's Mansion),Meowser,Black Paint Bowser,Doppliss,Sir Grodus,Mimi,Count Bleck,Rookie & Popple,Bonechill,Boshi,Dino Piranha,Gobblegut,Megaleg,Ruined Dragon,Chain Chomp,Bouldergeist,Prince Bully,Hisstocrat,Polluted Piranha,Petey Piranha.

Metroid:Ridley, Mecha Ridley

Star Fox: Wolf O'Donnell,Falco Lombardi.

Fnaf: Withered Bonnie,Golden Freddy, Montgomery Gator,Nightmare Foxy, Nightmare Chica,Jack-o Chica,Jack-o Bonnie, Twisted Wolf,Ignited Bonnie,Ignited Foxy,Creation,Lefty,Ennard,Molten Freddy,Springtrap,Phantom Freddy,Phantom Foxy,Moondrop/Sundrop,Shadow Freddy.

Undertale/Deltarune:Sans, Frisk,Kris,Chara,Berdly,Burgerpants,Greater dog,Lesser dog,Doggo,Snowdrake,Endogeny,Undyne,Asgore Dreemurr,Grillby,Omega Flowey,Asriel Dreemurr,Chaos King,Jevil,Ralsei,Susie,W.D.Gaster.

Madness Combact: Hank.J.Wimbleton,Tricky,The Auditor,ATP Engineer,Mag Agent V2.

Undertale AUs:Error!Sans,Ganz!Sans,Fatal Error!Sans,Abyss!Sans,Underswap Sans,Underswap Papyrus,Underfell Sans, Underfell Papyrus,Nightmare!Sans,Dream!Sans,Outertale Sans,GenocideSwap!Sans,Aftertale!Sans,X Sans(Cross),X Gaster,X Chara,Quantumtale!Sans,Underfell Asgore,Hardtale Asgore,Hardtale Sans,Color!Sans, X Alphys,Storyshift Chara,Storyshift Asriel,Core!Frisk,Altertale Sans,Altertale Flowey,Storyshift Sans,Bird!Sans.

Tf2:Pyro,Merasmus,Soldier,Medic.

Tekken:Alex,Ancient Ogre,King, Armor King,Gigas, Yoshimitsu,Kuma.

Demon Slayer:Inosuke Hashibira,Tanjiro Kamado,Rengoku Kyojuro,,Obanai Iguro,Shinobu Kocho,Nezuko Kamado,Sabito.

Minecraft:Creeper,Enderman,Ender Dragon,Warden,Iron Golem,Ravager,Wither,Skeleton,Wither Skeleton,Stray.

Fnf:Hex,Whitty,Agoti,Tabi (i only like these, the game itself has a lot of explicit shit.. the fandom is even worse bruh)

Fairy tail:Natsu Dragneel,Lucy Heartfilia,Erza Scarlet,Happy,Gajeel Redfox,Panther Lily,Juvia Lockser,Mystogan,Lector,Erik,Capricorn,Guttman Kubrick,Simon,Kama,Irene Belserion,Igneel,Acnologia,Skiadrum ,Atlas Flame,Animus,Selene,Ignia,Deliora, Salberay,Bloodman,Skullion Raider,Tauros,Pyxis,

Black Clover:Asta,Mereoleona Vermillion,Salamander,Yami Sukehiro,Zora Ideale,Luck Voltia,Vetto,Liebe,

Ninjago:Pythor.P.Chumsworth,Zane,

Skales,Skalidor,Fangtom,Acidicus,

Clancee,Lord Garmadonn,Mr.E,The Crystal king, The Overlord,Vengestone Warriors,Boreal,The Great Devourer.

Lego Chima:Cragger,Crug,Eris,Foltrax, Rawzom,Scorn,Sir Fangar,Sykor,Vardy,VoomVoom.

Steven Universe:Steven,Lion,Garnet,Amethyst Alexandrite,Obsidian,The Cluster,Biggs[Corrupted],Cookie Cat,Peridot,Dogcopter,Jasper,Lapis Lazuli,Malachite,Centipeetle,Steven[Corrupted],Spinel.

Star Wars:Darth Vader,Stormtrooper, Captain Phasma,Death Trooper, Range Trooper,Kylo Ren,Boba Fett, General Grievous.

Mlp:Spike,Ember,Thorax,Gallus,

Smolder,Changeling(Original),Queen Chrysalis,King Sombra,Lord Tirek,Grogar,Discord,Iron Will, Shadow Pony,Timberwolves,

Miracolous:Dragonbug,Fang,Kagami Tsurugi/Ryuko,Longg,Mei Shi, Chat Noir,Chat Blanc,Viperion,Caprikid,Plagg,

Multimouse,Sass,Hawkmoth (his other costumes look like absolute crap),Mayura,Frightningale,Queen Wasp,Weredad,Silencer,Princess Justice,YanLuoShi,Truth,Qilin, Strike Back.

Marvel/DC: Venom,Carnage,Ghost Rider, Killer Croc, Lizard, Cat Woman, Dex-Starr, Krypto, Streaky, Ace, Larfleeze,Raven,Killer Moth, Slade Wilson, Trigon.

TMNT 2012:The Shredder, Splinter, Donatello,Donbot, Triceratons, Bebop & Rocksteady, Rahzar,Fishface, Leatherhead,Tokka, Slash, Mondo Gecko, April O'Neil,Kraang.

Pokémon:Feraligatr,Rayquaza,Aggron,

Mega Charizard X,Kyrem,Zekrom,Zygarde(100 and 60%),

Yveltal,Chandelure,Krookodile,

Haunter,Garchomp,Guzzlorr,Fuecoco,

Zamazenta,(Shiny)Tyrantrum,Magnezone,Houndoom,Arbok,Venonat,Articuno,Ho-oh,Onix, Chatot,Salamence,Regice,Druddigon, Silvally,Type: Null.

Noragami: Bishamonten, Yato, Yukine, Iki Hyori

Fire Force:Benimaru Shinmon, Joker, Maki Oze, Shinra Kusakabe,Takehisa Hinawa,Tamaki Kotatsu.

Edens Zero:Shiki Granbell, Elsie Crimson,Happy, Hermit Mio,Rebecca Bluegarden, Seth Anderson, Sister Ivry, Ziggy, Witch Regret.

Assassination Classroom: korosensei, Nagisa Shiota, Karma Akabane, Kayano Kaede, Itona

Mha: Principal Nezu,Thirteen,Hound dog, Ectoplasm,Power Loader, Tsuyu Asui, Mina Ashido,Ochaco Uraraka, Eijirou Kirishima,Koji Koda, Kyoka Jiro, Fumikage Tokoyami, Shoto Todoroki, Katsuki Bakugo, Izuku Midoriya,Itsuka Kendo, Jurota Shishida, Manga Fukidashi, Juzo Honenuki, Kojiro Bondo, Tamaki Amajiki, Nagamasa Mora, Tamashiro, Wash, Ryukyu, Gang Orca, Shishido, Fat Gum, Centipeder, Backdraft, Gunhead, Selkie, Elecplant, Godzillo,Takahiro, Death Arms, Gyges, Daigoro, Chimera, Leviathan, Kurogiri, U.s.j Nomu, Chomper, Twice, Spinner, Geten, Shin Nemoto, Kendo Rappa, Rikiya Katsukame

Hunter x Hunter: Kanzai,Kurapika, Leorio, Gon Freecss, Killua Zoldyck, Biscuit Krueger, Tsezguerra, Kite, Kiriko, Monta Yuras, Alluka Zoldyck, Gotoh, Mike, Gido, Shalnak, Nobunaga Hazama, Phinks Magcub, Blobster, Meruem, Neferpitou, Menthuthuyoupi, Welfin, Peggy, Leol, Ikalgo,

Dorohedoro: Kaiman, Shin, Aikawa, 13, Chidaruma, Jonson, Tanba

TOH: The Collector, Hunter, King Clawthorne, Eda Clawthorne, Luz Noceda, Belos/Philip, Papa Titan, Willow, Kikimora,

Adventure Time: Finn, Jake, The lich king, Gunter, Me-mow, Fern, Golb, Ice King, Cosmic Owl, Death, New Death,

(I might add more characters in the future)

Favorite Dinosaurs: Suchomimus Tenerensis,Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus, yutyrannus,Torvosaurus,Allosaurus Fragilis,Siats Meekerorum,Ichthyovenator Laosensis, Irritator Challengeri,Pyroraptor, Sinosauropteryx,Carnotaurus Sastrei, Baryonyx Walkeri,Dilophosaurus Wetherilli.

Non-Dinosaurus:Kaprosuchus, Sarcosuchus.

#Whitelist #long post

[princess-of-the-corner]

Crossover minecraft:

Danny in ghost form fades out of the ground with Monty (prime) in tow.

Monty: Thanks spooky guy. You're easily the coolest ghost I know.

Danny: considering I know you've only met five, that's not saying much.

Tucker: hey Danny! Jack's streaming a giant monster battle!

Jack, in an announcer voice: Iiiinn the Blue corner, weighing in at 10 tons, the towering tyrant lizard! The reptilian ragnarok! The HUMONGOUSAUR!!!

Ben: what the hell is going on, I said I'd test your fighting ring for weight, not combat!

Jack: (aside) applied weight and force on the ring, same deal. (Announcer) Aaand in the red corner, weighing in at approximately 99.23 Montys! The Terrifying team-up of the Kid from Caerbannog and The Galvanic Gator! They make a Mean, Green, Rockstar machine! The MONTGOMERY DEVAS-GATOR!

The giga Monty army has arranged themselves into a animatronic construct of a giant Monty. The patterns on the sheilds together make the combination look whole. Gregory is visible in the eyeslit, with the mecha being controlled via various limbs of nearby montys.

Ben: you have GOT to be kidding me!!!

Jack: leeeetss get ready to RRRRUMMMBLLLE!!!

Bell sounds

Monty(prime): aw come on! I'm missing out on this!?!

Sam: think of it this way, you can claim it was the clones idea.

( sorry this installment took so long, I got lost on the road of life.)

Monty: "You're the coolest Ghost I know!"

Michael: "Hey!!"

Elizabeth: "No that's fair."

#crossover minecraft #tw fnaf

[open-hearth-rpg]

Welcome to the weekly Open Hearth Gaming video roundup!

These recorded sessions represent only a portion of the games we play every week, and anyone is welcome to join the fun! If you'd like to play in games like these, join our Playabl community and click on the "Calendar" tab to sign up for upcoming games. To browse our entire library of session videos, please visit our YouTube Playlists page.

Discussions, Panels, and Seminars

Talking Forged in the Dark Lowell Francis A community event talking about the basics of FitD, challenges for play, best practices, interesting mechanics, and new games. Begins with a 30 minute overview, followed by a longer group discussion of folks' experience with and advice for playing Forged in the Dark Games. This is the actual, unedited audio from the discussion. You can see an event outline here. For a great look at FitD games, check out the +1 Forward podcast summer series on several of these games.

Open Hearth Gaming Calendar

Alien Dark: Distress Signal (Session 1 of 2) Alun R. runs for Brandon Brylawski, Paul Rivers, and Ronan The crew of the USCSS Omestra and their passenger are woken early to find themselves off their planned route home to Earth and in orbit around the planet Fiorina 161. 'Mother' has followed protocol and diverted them in response to a distress signal. The landing party divide up to examine the apparently abandoned USCSS Lake sitting on the landing pad of the former correctional facility and find the source of the distress signal. There's unconventional damage to the apparently abandoned Lake and a second ship where the distress signal originated. Then...strange noises; something that scuttles...and acid...always acid...

Alien Dark: Distress Signal (Session 2 of 2) Alun R. runs for Brandon Brylawski and Ronan With no contact from the Omestra's XO or the ship's passenger, the Captain (safely in orbit) tells Karsten and Benny Doyle to follow their personal data transmitter signals and bring them home ('cos the liability insurance claim could be frighteningly expensive). There's a body torn to shreds and the chance to run for it, a message from a familiar voice, and unwelcome guests. Then...Benny gets so frightened (and high) he turns 'brave' and Karsten finds a potential ally...but reaching orbit doesn't provide the expected relief...

Monster of the Week: The Rockies (Session 5) Blake Ryan runs for Brandon Ungar, David Montgomery, Dom, and Grey Seven Sins

Old-School Essentials: Rites of Weeping (Session 2 of 2) David S. runs for Aaron, Brandon Ungar, and Donogh After beginning their trek into the crypt-tomb of a forgotten god-thing, the adventurers face an undead pile of festering limbs before descending to an underground lake where even worse things lie in wait, worshiping their dark mistress amidst an unhallowed shrine.

The Mecha Hack: Q’ku Riposte (Session 3) Anya Reyes runs for Lowell Francis, Marc Majcher, Matthew Arcilla, and Sherri The pilots find the horrors that dwell beneath the planet and that The Collective activities may be responsible for. Searching for other people who might join them, they separate from their retainers who head to the Q’ku encampment.

The Mecha Hack: Q’ku Riposte (Session 4) Anya Reyes runs for Lowell Francis, Marc Majcher, Matthew Arcilla, and Sherri The strike team reaches the Q'ku camp and try to help as much as possible. There they find Jack Lassiter who tells them about the exploits of the Iron Maidens and reveals that Sgt Anders, the Collective commanding officer, should be detained. The pilots decide to move closer to Station R and do some recon, but just before they leave a group of local kids take the lead ahead of them, on foot, in a rainy day, in the Kaiju infested jungle...

Godbound: Sundered Cycles (Session 26) Lowell Francis runs for Dan Brown, Ethan Harvey, Patrick Knowles, Sherri, and Tyler Lominack The pantheon finally moves on the angelic destroyer threat at Neeharik. Using their newest member's talents, they make their way past the mundus wards protecting the city. But Tasos senses pain and throws himself into the middle of things, forcing a large-scale confrontation and deadly battle with a host of foes.

Star Wars Saturday

After\\Burner (Session 3 of 3) Rich Rogers runs for Alun R., Cody Eastlick, Kae, and Paul Rivers Ghost Squadron defends a shipment and then defends the base on Abafar from huge threats!

Silent Falls

Bump in the Dark (Session 3 of 4) Donogh runs for Elle, José Feito, Mark, and Puckett The Pact follow Enoch's vision into the woods, where they find rivulets of blood and a strange hooded figure at the stone circle...

Bump in the Dark (Session 4 of 4) Donogh runs for Elle, José Feito, Mark, and Puckett A mountain has always separated the Briarwood and Cross families, but only a jump into an abyss by one for the other will save the town from a mysterious phenomenon! (Don't worry, we'll return in May...)

Off-Calendar Highlights

Ironsworn: Vow of the Ring and Blade (Session 9) Madelancholy runs for Rob Fletcher Jurek offers a choice to the Iron Priest. Ves questions Jurek's doubts and regrets, while Ajla acknowledges his effort but wonders if she will ever be free. The characters continue their journey through the Ironlands!

#ttrpg #rpg #rpg actual play

[ariesgamesandminis]

Great news everyone! As many of you know, Alex at Steel Warrior Studios had to shut down unexpectedly (no that's not the great news), and as such it was a big blow for the overall community. He's still cycling out some of the remaining product he has, but overall...he's closed down. As of Mid-February, we struck a deal with Alex to purchase his personal designs he owned, and they will now be exclusively carried here at Aries Games & Miniatures.... Including the Digital STL files! There may still be lingering stock from Alex's initial runs of product with other retailers, but once those are gone...Aries will be the one and only home to those items. The items that have been purchased and ownership has been transferred over to Aries are as follows: Vehicles All Civilian Vehicle Packs (both hover and wheeled, hover now has the correct Hover Cab file!!!) Gopher Utility Vehicles (STL only at this time) Montgomery and Erwin Main Battle Tanks (STL only at this time) Scissor Lifts (STL only at this time) Terrain Urban Commerce Pack (both Hexed and Hexless) Urban Commerce Individual Buildings So come get yours today and keep your battle raging! Digital STL Files Are Available Here: https://ariesgamesandminis.com/index.php/shopping/category/448-digital-stl-downloads.html Physical Printed Miniatures Are Available Here: https://ariesgamesandminis.com/index.php/shopping/category/119-miniatures.html Physical Printed Terrain Is Available Here: https://ariesgamesandminis.com/index.php/shopping/category/435-terrain-print-on-demand.html #battletech #alphastrike #ironwindmetals #battletechalphastrike #miniatures #catalystgamelabs #battlemech #battletechminiatures #battletechpaintingandcustoms #mecha #tabletop #tabletopgames #tabletopgaming #wargaming #wargames #hobby #scifi #sciencefiction #miniaturepainting #mech #hovertank #6mmminis #6mmscifi #feldherr #dougram #gundam #robotech #armypainter #thearmypainter #chessex

[artesmarcialessblog]

Las 100 mujeres que cambiaron el mundo

En una combinación de opiniones expertas y votación del público, BBC History elaboró el listado

La encuesta anual de BBC History preguntó a expertos en 10 campos diferentes cuáles serían para ellos las 10 mujeres de mayor impacto en la historia mundial.

A continuación, presentó los nombres a los lectores, quienes votaron para organizar el listado.

Estas son las 100 mujeres que cambiaron el mundo, según la prestigiosa revista británica:

1. Marie Curie, 1867-1934

Esta pionera en el campo de la radiactividad —incluso acuñó el término— fue la primera mujer profesora en la Universidad de París y la primera persona que recibió dos premios Nobel, uno en Física y otro en Química. Sus descubrimientos abrieron el camino a los tratamientos del cáncer.

Marie Curie, científica polaco-francesa, descubridora del radio y el polonio, pionera de los tratamientos contra el cáncer (Museo de Ciencia y Tecnología de Suecia)

Nació en Varsovia, cuando Polonia era territorio del imperio ruso, y comenzó a estudiar allí, de manera clandestina, ciencias.

En Francia conoció, en la universidad, a su marido y colaborador, Pierre Curie, con quien identificaría dos nuevos elementos: el radio y el polonio. La manipulación de esos materiales radiactivos le causaría una anemia aplásica.

Tras la muerte de su esposo recolectó una pequeña fortuna en distintos países para continuar la investigación de tratamientos contra el cáncer y fundar laboratorios. Pronto estalló la Primera Guerra Mundial: ayudó entonces a equipar las ambulancias con rayos X, y en ocasiones las manejó personalmente hasta el frente de batalla.

Patricia Fara, presidenta de la Sociedad Británica para la Historia de la Ciencia —quien nominó a la física, originalmente llamada Maria Salomea Skłodowska— la describió como una mujer que nunca tuvo la suerte de su lado:

"En Polonia, su familia patriótica sufrió bajo el régimen ruso. En Francia la miraban con suspicacia por extranjera y, por supuesto, allí donde fuera, era discriminada por ser mujer".

2. Rosa Parks, 1913-2005

Esta hija de una maestra y de un carpintero creció en el corazón del sur racista de los Estados Unidos en plenos años de leyes y costumbres de segregación:

Alabama a comienzos del siglo XX. En 1950, ya militante del movimiento de derechos civiles, comenzó a trabajar en la National Association for the Advancement of Colored People de Montgomery.

La activista contra la segregación —las leyes Jim Crow— fue una leyenda en vida: Rosa Parks inspiró al movimiento por los derechos civiles. (Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

Entonces la separación de blancos y afroamericanos en el transporte público era regla, desde que la Corte Suprema había establecido, en el caso Plessy vs. Ferguson de 1896, que las instalaciones racialmente separadas no eran inconstitucionales si eran iguales.

Aunque otras personas habían protestado del mismo modo, el acto de Parks el 1 de diciembre de 1955 encendió la mecha que hizo estallar el movimiento de derechos civiles:

—¿Por qué se niega? —le preguntó la policía, cuando la arrestaba por no levantarse de un asiento de bus, tal como le indicó el conductor, para dejárselo a un pasajero blanco.

—¿Por qué andan todos ustedes empujándonos por todas partes? —ella preguntó a su vez.

En la década de 1960 distintas instancias cambiaron el panorama para terminar con la segregación que discriminaba a los afroamericanos.

3. Emmeline Pankhurst, 1858–1928

Emmeline Pankhurst, la famosa sufragista británica. (División de Impresiones y Fotografías de la Biblioteca del Congreso de los Estados Unidos)

Antes de que Meryl Streep encarnara su vida en Sufragistas, la luchadora por el derecho al voto femenino era tan popular que Disney le dedicó la canción "Sister Suffragette" en la película Mary Poppins.

En 1903 Emmeline Pankhust fundó la Unión Social y Política de Mujeres (WSPU) para abrir el voto parlamentario a las mujeres.

Miles la siguieron en un movimiento de demanda, que recurrió al incendio de comercios y el ataque a los domicilios de políticos conservadores, sin precedentes en la historia británica. Fue detenida 13 veces, algunas con sus hijas. Se describió a sí misma encarcelada"como "un ser humano en el proceso de ser transformado en una bestia salvaje" e hizo varias huelgas de hambre.

Su lema, "acciones, no palabras", resultó perdurable. La WSPU, cercana al Partido Laborista independiente, fue un factor determinante en la obtención del sufragio de las mujeres en el Reino Unido.

4. Ada Lovelace, 1815–1852

Aunque Silicon Valley se destaca por la fuerte impronta sexista de su cultura, la primera programadora fue mujer.

Augusta Ada King, nacida Byron —la única hija que el poeta Lord Byron tuvo dentro de su matrimonio con Anne Isabella Noel—, trabajó con Charles Babbage en la creación que el matemático llamó la Máquina Analítica; pero aunque él sólo consideraba que su creación servía para cálculos de números, la condesa de Lovelace estimó que podía ejecutar otras habilidades.

En sus Notas dejó el primer algoritmo que se escribió para que procesara una máquina; entre 1842 y 1843 tradujo un texto del ingeniero (y luego primer ministro de Italia) Luigi Menabrea, que enriqueció con sus interpretaciones.

Sin embargo, su trabajo no fue valorado sino de manera póstuma. Su máquina voladora a vapor no fue más que un sueño que se recordó a sí misma muchas veces; Babbage no la consideró nunca más que una asistente.

La máquina era, para ella, un objeto capaz de realizar diferentes procesos: "El Motor Analítico teje patrones algebraicos igual que el telar jacquard teje flores y hojas", escribió, y precisamente sugirió el uso extendido de las tarjetas perforadas. Su pensamiento científico era, en sus palabras, "ciencia poética".

A pesar de su fascinación por la matemática, Lovelace se casó con el hombre que eligió su madre. Murió a los 36 años, de cáncer.

5 Rosalind Franklin, 1920–1958

Rosalind Franklin MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology/Jenifer Glynn

Cuando se habla de estudios pioneros del ADN, se piensa en —por caso— James Dewey Watson. Pero menos reconocida, esta cristalógrafa británica no sólo contribuyó de manera importante a la comprensión de la estructura básica de la vida, sino que logró las primeras imágenes —mediante la difracción de rayos X— de la doble hélice.

La famosa foto 51, que muestra una cruz oscura de puntos, fue tomada en King's College, una institución destacada por su sexismo en el momento. Con sólo otra investigadora mujer, la química Rosalind Franklin sufrió un desprecio constante de sus pares varones. Sin su hallazgo sobre la fundación química de la herencia, no se conocerían el genoma humano ni la ingeniería genética. En vida fue reconocida por sus trabajos sobre la estructura de los virus y el carbón.

6. Margaret Thatcher, 1925–2013

La Dama de Hierro —como se la llamó— fue la primera mujer en ocupar la jefatura de gobierno del Reino Unido, en 1979. Inició una completa transformación del país: la privatización de empresas estatales, la limitación de los beneficios sociales, la desregularización del sector financiero y la flexibilización laboral son algunas de las marcas que dejó el thatcherismo, como se llamó, en su honor, la política conservadora que comenzó a desplegarse en los últimos años de la guerra fría.

Margaret Thatcher fue una pionera opositora a la oposición de que los británicos participaran en la Unión Europea; su completo alineamiento con los Estados Unidos—entonces, con Ronald Reagan en la presidencia— marcó su política exterior. En medio del descontento por el desempleo y el conflicto en Irlanda del Norte, la dictadura argentina le declaró la Guerra de Malvinas, y en 1982 la primera ministra recuperó su popularidad. Fue nombrada baronesa, lo cual le valió un lugar vitalicio entre los Tories.

7. Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1814–1906

La Reina Victoria la convirtió en la primera mujer a la que se le otorgó un título de nobleza suo jure, por sus méritos en la tarea filantrópica. La baronesa así nombrada no pudo trabajar en el Banco Coutts a pesar de que heredó las acciones y la fortuna de su abuelo, £1,8 millones (equivalentes a £150 millones en 2016, o USD 193 millones), y se dedicó a trabajar por los pobres.

Financió el desarrollo del Este de Londres, donde multiplicó los proyectos sociales. Trabajó con el escritor Charles Dickens, quien era cliente del banco familiar, en la cofundación del hogar Urania Cottage, para ofrecer una alternativa de vida a jóvenes prostitutas. También fundó escuelas y contribuyó con la Iglesia de Inglaterra.

8. Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759–1797

Escribió ficción, ensayos, un libro de viaje y otro para niños. Su obra Vindicación de los derechos de la mujer, de 1792, fue el emblema de generaciones de feministas: argumentó allí que las mujeres no son inferiores al hombre por naturaleza sino porque no reciben la misma educación. Muy influida por la Revolución Francesa, planteó un orden social igualitario, basado en el tratamiento de todas las personas como sujetos racionales.

Su vida no convencional —se le conocieron dos grandes romances antes de su matrimonio con el precursor del anarquismo William Godwin, con quien tuvo a su hija Mary Shelley, autora de Frankenstein, y murió poco después del parto— fue objeto de crítica y veneración. Hoy se la considera un pilar indiscutible del feminismo.

9. Florence Nightingale, 1820–1910

Florence luchó contra los prejuicios de su época y buscó su destino a fuerza de trabajo

Florence luchó contra los prejuicios de su época y buscó su destino a fuerza de trabajo

La primera mujer que recibió la Orden al Mérito del Reino Unido —entre otros honores—, la creadora de un modelo profesional de la enfermería fue también escritora y aplicó sus conocimientos de matemática a la estadística sobre epidemiología.

Florence Nightingale dirigió el primer equipo oficial de enfermeras militares en Turquía, durante la guerra de Crimea; observó entonces que más soldados morían por enfermedad que por el resultado directo de sus heridas. "La dama de la lámpara" —como la llamaron porque realizaba rondas nocturnas de control de los pacientes— se dedicó entonces a estudiar cómo reducir las muertes evitables en campaña. Creó la escuela de enfermería en el hospital Saint Thomas y su trabajo inspiró los comienzos de la Cruz Roja.

10. Marie Stopes, 1880–1958

Esta paleobotánica escocesa, polémica por sus concepciones sobre la eugenesia, fue una pionera del control de la natalidad y abrió la primera clínica para difundir los métodos anticonceptivos en un barrio de trabajadores al norte de Londres, en 1921, con su segundo marido, Humphrey Verdon Roe. Su libro Married Love causó gran polémica; lo mismo sucedió con el segundo, Wise Parenthood, que daba consejos explícitos sobre anticoncepción, al igual que su publicación Birth Control News.

11. Leonor de Aquitania , 1122–1204

Nacida en Poitiers, la duquesa de Aquitania y Guyena y condesa de Gascuña fue una de las mujeres más ricas de la Edad Media: a la muerte de su hermano Guillermo heredó el ducado cuya extensión superaba los dominios directos del rey de Francia. Su primer matrimonio, con Luis VII, la convirtió en reina consorte; tras su divorcio se volvió a casar, con el futuro Enrique II de Inglaterra. Ocupó así una posición singular, y de enorme importancia, en la historia medieval de ambos países.

12. Virgen María, Siglo I aC-Siglo I de la era moderna

Tanto cristianos como musulmanes veneran a quien fuera la madre de Jesús, probablemente la mujer más famosa de la historia. El Nuevo Testamento elucida detalles de su vida.

13. Jane Austen , 1775–1817

Acaso la más brillante e irónica exploradora de temas sociales como el estatus y el matrimonio, esta novelista se convirtió en una de las figuras más famosas de la historia inglesa. Sus obras nunca perdieron interés, y la cultura popular de los siglos XX y XXI la multiplicó en películas y series de televisión: Orgullo y prejuicio, Sensatez y sentimientos, Mansfield Park entre ellas.

14. Boudicca, alrededor de 30–61

La reina guerrera de los icenos durante la ocupación romana de Britania, fue la guía de varias tribus en una revuelta celta contra el mando del emperador Nerón. Llegó a estar a cargo de 100.000 hombres y expulsó a los romanos de Colchester (que era su capital en el territorio), Londres y Saint Albans. En un momento de la avanzada de Boudica, Nerón llegó a considerar la retirada. Pero en una última batalla el gobernador Cayo Suetonio Paulino la derrotó. Según Tácito, la mujer cuyo nombre significaba Victoria se suicidó; según Dion Casio, murió de enfermedad.

15. Diana, princesa de Gales, 1961–97

En 1981 Carlos, hijo de la reina Isabel, se casó con la joven Diana Spencer porque "quería hacer lo correcto para el país", según dijo a un amigo. El mundo entero —más de 700 millones de personas, se estima— miró su boda por televisión. El desdichado matrimonio terminó en divorcio en 1996, luego de años de construcción del primer ícono de la celebridad tal como se comprende hoy: a la vez confesional y jubilosa.

La prensa siguió cada paso de la vida de Lady Di: su lucha contra la bulimia, la felicidad que encontró con sus hijos, los príncipes William y Harry; las infidelidades de Carlos con su actual esposa, Camilla Parker-Bowles; la antipatía que sentía por ella la casa real; sus romances; su separación y, por fin, su muerte, en un accidente en París, mientras la perseguían los paparazzi. Su trabajo social —por el cual fue llamada "la princesa del pueblo"— se centró en los niños y los enfermos de cáncer, HIV y trastornos mentales.

16. Amelia Earhart, 1897-alrededor de 1937, aviadora.

17. Victoria, 1819-1901, reina de Inglaterra.

18. Josephine Butler, 1828-1906, feminista.

19. Mary Seacole, 1805-1881, enfermera.

20. Madre Teresa, 1910-97, monja católica.

21. Mary Shelley, 1797-1851, escritora.

22. Catalina la Grande, 1729-1796, emperatriz de Rusia.

23. Vera Atkins, 1908-2000, oficial de inteligencia británica.

24. Cleopatra, 69 aC-30 a C., reina de Egipto.

25. Elizabeth Fry, 1780-1845, activista social.

26. Mary Anning, 1799-1847, paleontóloga.

27. Juana de Arco, 1412-1431, militar y mártir.

28. Isabel, 1451-1504, reina de Castilla.

29. Catalina de Siena, 1347-1380, filósofa y teóloga, santa.

30. Wangari Maathai, 1940-2011, activista ecologista.

31. Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, escritora.

32. Simone de Beauvoir, 1908-1986, escritora y filósofa.

33. Grace Hopper, 1906-1992, informática.

34. Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954, artista.

35. Teodora, alrededor de 497-548, emperatriz bizantina.

36. Hipatia, alrededor de 355-415, filósofa de la Grecia antigua.

37. Eleanor Rathbone, 1872-1946, parlamentaria y benefactora.

38. Sacagawea, 1788-1812, exploradora e intérprete de la tribu Shoshone.

39. Nellie Bly, 1864-1922, periodista pionera.

40. Lise Meitner, 1878-1968, física.

41. Catalina de Medici, 1519-1589, reina de Francia.

42. Isabella Bird, 1831-1904, exploradora y escritora.

43. Bessie Coleman, 1892-1926, aviadora.

44. Aphra Behn, 1640-1689, dramaturga y poeta.

45. Coco Chanel, 1883-1971, diseñadora de moda.

46. Artemisia Gentileschi, 1593-1652, artista.

47. Zora Neale Hurston, 1891-1960, antropóloga y escritora afroamericana.

48. Katharine Graham, 1917-2001, editora de The Washington Post.

49. Indira Gandhi, 1917-1984, primera ministra de la India.

50. Gabriela Mistral, 1889-1957, poeta chilena, premio Nobel.

51. Clara Barton, 1821-1912, fundadora de la Cruz Roja.

52. Anna Akhmatova, 1889-1966, poeta rusa.

53. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 1916-2000, primera ministra de Sri Lanka.

54. Maryam Mirzakhani, 1977-2017, matemática iraní.

55. Marie Van Brittan Brown, 1922-1999, creadora del circuito cerrado de televisión.

56. Laura Bassi, 1711-1778, física y académica.

57. Junko Tabei, 1939-2016, montañista japonesa.

58. Gertrude Ederle, 1906-2003, campeona de natación.

59. Ethel Smyth, 1858-1944, compositora y sufragista.

60. Emily Hobhouse, 1860-1926, activista social.

61. Suzanne Lenglen, 1899-1938, tenista.

62. Sarah Breedlove, 1867-1919, emprendedora y activista.

63. Rachael Heyhoe Flint, 1939-2017, jugadora de cricket y benefactora.

64. Débora, alrededor del siglo XII aC, profeta bíblica del Libro de los Jueces.

65. Mary Somerville, 1780-1872, matemática y astrónoma autodidacta.

66. Martina Bergman-Österberg, 1849-1915, pionera del deporte femenino.

67. Marie Marvingt, 1875-1963, atleta y aviadora.

68. Maria Merian, 1647-1717, naturalist, exploradora, entomóloga, artista.

69. Lottie Dod, 1871-1960, deportista.

70. Joan Robinson, 1903-1983, economista.

71. George Eliot, 1819-1880, novelista y poeta.

72. Cixí, 1835-1908, emperatriz de China durante 47 años.

73. Andrea Dworkin, 1946-2005, feminista y escritora.

74. Alice Milliat, 1884-1957, atleta.

75. Wilma Rudolph, 1940-1994, campeona olímpica en carrera de 100 metros, 200 metros y relevo 4 por 100 metros.

76. Sonja Henie, 1912-1969, campeona olímpica de patinaje sobre hielo y actriz.

77. Sarojini Naidu, 1879-1949, activista política y poeta.

78. Ruth Handler, 1916-2002, empresaria e inventora.

79. Murasaki Shikibu, alrededor de 978-1016, escritora, autora de la primera novela japonesa, Genji Monogatari.

80. Maria Bochkareva, 1889-1920, militar rusa.

81. Lily Parr, 1905-1978, futbolista profesional.

82. Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, 1879-1967, comandante de la Royal Air Force.

83. Gwen John, 1876-1939, artista.

84. Fanny Burney, 1752-1840, novelista y dramaturga.

85. Fanny Blankers-Koen, 1918-2004, atleta.

86. Estée Lauder, 1908-2004, empresaria de cosméticos.

87. Elinor Ostrom, 1933-2012, economista política.

88. Clara Schumann, 1819-1896, compositora e intérprete.

89. Beulah Louise Henry, 1887-1973, inventora.

90. Anna Jacobson Schwartz, 1915-2012, economista.

91. Aisha, alrededor de 613-678, tercera esposa de Mohamed, la "madre de los creyentes" para los musulmanes sunitas.

92. Yeshe Tsogyal, 757-817, madre del budismo tibetano.

93. Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, escritora, ensayista, filósofa, cineasta.

94. Sophie Blanchard, 1778-1819, primera aeronauta profesional.

95. Katia Krafft, 1942-1991, vulcanóloga.

96. Fanny Mendelssohn, 1805-1847, compositora y pianista.

97. Emilie du Châtelet, 1706-1749, física, matemática y traductora de Newton al francés

98. Buchi Emecheta, 1944-2017, narradora.

99. Annette Kellerman, 1887-1975, nadadora profesional.

100. Amrita Priam, 1919-2005, escritora y poeta.

https://www.infobae.com/america/historia-america/2018/08/10/las-100-mujeres-que-cambiaron-el-mundo/

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Preview: Ben 10: Mecha Madness OGN Vol. 3 SC

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Acabo de terminar de ver fnaf security Breach y OH DIOS MIO TENGO TANTAS DUDAS Y TEORÍAS, aunque diré lo más rescatable porque muchas cosas también no me gustaron mucho

SPOILERS DE FNAF SECURITY BREACH

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-En primer lugar podemos ver a Molten Freddy el cual ahora veo le es llamado como "blop" ya que se puede apreciar que ahora es una combinación de partes de animatrónicos como Bonnie , chica e incluso puppet.

-Tambien y lo más impactante , el regreso de William el cual regreso con una nueva apariencia diferente de springtrap y scraptrap , este hombre neta no se muere con nada a la mecha

-Me encantaron de igual forma los diseños de personajes , me encariñe mucho con glamrock Freddy y Montgomery de igual forma ellos fueron mis favoritos de todo 💕💖😔

Ahora sí que no me gustó , me disgusto mucho que el juego tuviera tantos buggeos que provocaron el que diera mucho problema la jugabilidad haciendo que no se pudiera disfrutar , también muchas veces ví que a incluso muchos se les llegó en puntos a reiniciar la partida. (Aunque esto puedo entenderlo ya que el juego al parecer se sacó antes de tiempo)

Y algo que realmente me pareció molesto , tanto les costaba poner al menos un punto de guardado dónde debías decidir el final? ,mi problema con esto es que para conseguir un final necesitas todo un proceso y cosas que necesitan tiempo y duras como 2 horas haciendo todo , pero que pasa? Ahora resulta que con que te maten una vez todo se pierde , se que el juego debe tener nuevas mecánicas desafiantes pero esto ya me pareció algo molesto y que hace que no se disfrute el juego.

Igual ya independiente de esos errores la historia me gustó y me pareció chido el que se siguiera una clase de continuación a los sucesos ocurridos en help wanted , ojalá en un futuro logren continuar esta saga y aprenda de los fallos cometidos en este en cuanto a la programación del juego.

Finalmente aquí tengo mis teorías

-Tengo la teoría de que hay dos vanessas en security Breach , siendo una la Vanessa de este mismo y la Vanessa mencionada en help wanted.

1. me parece extraño que se siga usando la máscara de conejo con manchas cafés que se vio en help wanted , yo pensé que el traje completamente cubierto color blanco de Vanny sería un rediseño de este mismo , pero volvió a salir en el juego de la princesa dorada como un objeto que en una parte del juego debía obtenerse lo cual me pareció extraño.

2.En help wanted al hablarse en las cintas sobre Vanessa se dice que ella es una chica con cabello castaño y cabello de arcoiris , lo cual me hace pensar es una persona distinta a la guardia Vanessa de security Breach

3.Uno de los finales vemos que Vanny está muerta al caer del edificio junto a glamrock Freddy , pero es entonces que en estos créditos se ve a Vanessa viendo esto desde lo alto , lo cual podría darse a entender que efectivamente hay 2 vanessas

Segunda teoría

-Glamrock Freddy tiene el alma de Michael afton dentro de él y es por ello que vanny no logra controlarlo.

Creo esto por la forma en la que se comporta con gregory siendo casi como un hermano mayor , protegiéndolo y tomándole cariño mientras más pasa el juego

Michael de igual forma como sabemos tenía remanente en todo su cuerpo tal como William por lo que siento no llego a morir en el incendio de pizzería simulator , esto tendría sentido ya que si Molten y springtrap lograron sobrevivir , porque Michael no podría también?

En la parte final del juego el da a entender que "ella" lo llevo allí pudiéndose referir que lo llevo junto a William y the blop , además de la frase que dice siendo usada en el fnaf 1 pero al revés.

SOY YO = NO SOY YO

Teniendo una contraria a lo que es la frase distintiva con la que Golden Freddy o Cassidy se aparece en el primer juego siendo una clase de contrario.

Puede que Michael no haya muerto ya que su pendiente es con William ,como su padre volvió el también debía volver para detener a su padre para así concluir su pendiente y poder descansar en paz junto a las demás almas.

Igual puede ser que yo sea muy rebuscada y todo lo que acabo de decir no tiene sentido y está mal jajaja e igual todo es posible refiriéndonos a fnaf, veamos que nos trae próximamente esta increíble saga ✨🍷

#fnaf #fnaf vanny #fnaf sb #fnaf glamrock freddy #fnaf security breach #fnaf vanessa #five nights at freddy's security breach #michael afton #william afton #fnaf theory #fnaf sb theory #fnaf hw #fnaf help wanted #fnaf help wanted vanny #vanny #glamrock freddy #fnaf fandom #hear me out

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karasuno headcanons

yachi and yamaguchi listen to CORPSE

tsukishima listens to Ricky Montgomery and Conan Gray

i’ve said it before, and i’ll say it again, kageyama’s favorite color is pink, and when he gets a smartphone, he gets a pink case

the 2nd years are by far the closest group of the team, all of them spending the weekends together either watching anime and playing video games, or getting high behind coach ukai’s store

ennoshita has the best plug

One of daichi’s younger brothers has a crush on one of kinnoshita’s sisters

asahi has thought about cutting his hair, but someone always stops him before he goes through with it

sugawara has a tattoo of a crow on his lower back, curtsy of terushima

another repeated headcanon, kiyoko loves mecha anime, and the first time the team ever saw her overjoyed was when they saw a poster for an upcoming mecha movie; they all ended up watching it together and kiyoko was bouncing in her seat the entire time

all the 1st years can sing - yachi and hinata have the higher voices while kageyama is a total baritone

after realizing he needs another hobby, hinata tries his hand at theater again and finds he absolutely adores it; yamaguchi and yachi eventually join him as techies

tsukishima’s mother is a florist so he sometimes comes into practice with random flower petals in his hair or on his clothes

narita once got into a fist fight - he won, and kinnoshita had a very strong sexual awakening at the sight of his best friend bleeding with a triumphant smile

one time, when tsukishima was being a bitch to hinata, he said, “what’re you gonna do? punch me?” hinata promptly socked him right in the stomach and the beanpole fell to his knees, coughing; the team has never looked at their number 10 the same since

hinata and kageyama were out together when they ran into iwaizumi and oikawa - it was like kageyama was introducing his boyfriend to his parents, it was a disaster

daichi bought tanaka a leash and uses it, much to tanaka’s embarrassment

yachi doesn’t swear, but if she stubs her toe she might as well be a sailor

hinata is really bad at mario kart, but he dominates at super smash bros

when ennoshita discovered how shitty tsukishima’s headphones were, he gave him his old ones that look exactly the same - tsukishima will never tell anyone this happened

sugawara can do the heavy metal voice, the one that’s super loud and raspy, and it takes one year of asahi’s life every time he does it

nishinoya couldn’t tell you what’s 67 x 8, but he can tell you the exact timestamp of every sarcastic comment by Chandler from FRIENDS

hinata hates tangerine gifts because - as I’ve headcanoned before - he’s allergic to citrus, but if the gift came from natsu, he’ll keep it happily

the team once performed bohemian rhapsody without any flaws, to this day, it is one of their proudest achievements

#haikyuu!! #haikyuu headcanons #karasuno #karasuno headcanons #yachi hitoka #tsukishima kei #yamaguchi tadashi #kageyama tobio #hinata shoyo #tanaka ryuunosuke #nishinoya yuu #ennoshita chikara #kinnoshita hisashi #narita kazuhito #daichi sawamura #sugawara koshi #asahi azumane

[imagine-darksiders]

More mecha Monty for the soul :)

Fnaf mecha au

Y/n is also a janitor in this au, and is generally tasked with cleaning the exterior of the mechs.

MNT-3, or 'Monty,' has a bully for a pilot, and the mech really doesn't like him.

I'm thinking Monty ends up rejecting the pilot and the company spends days trying to hire a new pilot, all of whom are ejected from Monty's cockpit, until eventually, he puts in a request that has management reeling.

The only pilot MNT-3 wants as his partner is none other than the nobody cleaner who has no piloting experience whatsoever.

#fnaf #security breach #montgomery gator #reader #mecha monty #pacific rim au #giant robot #size difference #fluff #kaiju #sketch #my art #doodles

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I wouldn't be surprised if one of the writers in VLD season 8 was the one who wrote the end of Evangelion (you'll probably have to look it up to see what I mean)

Hi, anon! Thanks for the note! Yeahh I know what you’re talking about with Evangelion, and how nihilistic its ending was...tbh, a lot of mecha shows I know are rated higher than TV-Y7-FV just by virtue of the content and social issues involved in mecha genre...Some of them make VLD look pretty tame, lol. I certainly agree that the larger mecha genre likely influenced the production team for VLD. Its EPs, for example, were huge Macross and Robotech fans:

“Macross/Robotech was probably my biggest influence. Beyond the amazing visuals it was the first animated show that I watched that had an ongoing/serialized story and characters that grew with the series. The stakes and drama seemed so real because when characters died they stayed dead and there was this whole emotional/social journey that was going on beyond all the explosions and mecha fighting. The bad guys of the series were not played as your typical bad guys. There was a whole grey area and moral ambiguity to their motivations. It was groundbreaking in so many ways. As a kid the show felt so gritty and real.”

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2016/06/04/voltron-legendary-defender-showrunner-joaquim-dos-santos-on-staying-true-to-the-source-material/#4679915b7c2d

And they even admitted in another interview just how heavily season 7 was informed by Macross: https://screenrant.com/voltron-season-7-magic-influences-interview/amp/?__twitter_impression=

And then, of course, the production team admits to taking a lot of cues from GoLion, the original 1982 Japanese base to Voltron, especially in regards to drama and its thematic tensions:

“Once you knew, okay, we’re doing Voltron, what was the first thing that you did? Did you watch all of the episodes? Did you brainstorm? How did the process start?

Montgomery: I know the first thing I did but I can’t say it because it’ll be a spoiler. Beyond that we remembered what we loved, we definitely felt like we had to go back and rewatch the source material because we remember what we love about the show but very few of us remember the legit story points.

What we found was that there was a lot of story missing in the original and it wasn’t quite the show that we thought we remembered it being. So what we ended up doing was we went back and watched the very original, GoLion which is the Japanese version and that one has a much more figured out story because they obviously weren’t trying to cobble something together from footage from another series, they were just making a story.

Problem is? That story was a lot darker than anything we could really do here in America.

Dos Santos: Especially in the ’80s when animation was a whole lot more safe and there were a bunch more regulations than now. Honestly I don’t know if audiences were as sophisticated then as they are now. Those themes from GoLion are something we were able to infuse in terms of their more sophisticated nature into our show. They definitely wouldn’t have gotten across in the ’80s.”

Source: https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/voltron-legendary-defender-producers-talk-creative-process/

But GoLion was rated, like several other mechas, TV-14. For reasons, lol.

Ultimately, I think Voltron as a franchise is just having a major identity crisis because it was brought to America in the 80s on an identity crisis of how to “sanitize” dark show content like GoLion to sell toys to children.

Maybe it’ll figure itself out one day? But someone will have to sit down and really think about what makes the Voltron franchise unique compared to all of these competing mecha franchises. VLD tried to get there I think by openly acknowledging its fantasy aspects and more Arthurian legend vibes...Joaquim Dos Santos himself identified the genre of Voltron as “a sci-fi space opera vs a fantasy period piece” in the Forbes article linked above. And that seemed like a pretty accurate take for the 1984 show, even down to how he positions the two genres as in conflict with each other. VLD definitely takes this forward with its greater attention to magic, ancient legends, etc. But VLD seems to have tripped by trying to force Voltron to be more like non-Voltron shows.

(Probably a moral lesson in here about the importance of staying true to yourself)

So whoever can further define how to make Voltron genuinely special as a franchise will hold the keys to the kingdom for the next reboot. Maybe that’s a more appropriate question, at the end of the day:

How do you make Voltron stand out against other mechas? What kind of content does that involve? What is the true heart and purpose for this franchise that makes it so special compared to Evangelion, or GoLion, or Macross, or Robotech? And how can that heart and purpose be carried through each and every episode? 

Hm...

#Voltron #VLD #Mechas #Evangelion #Macross #Robotech #mechas mechas everywhere #most of them rated higher than Y7 #thanks for the note anon! #sorry I rambled #idk how to ....not ramble? #a;dsfjlasj I am a disaster #I'm also procrastinating today from some very serious irl work I need to do #so yayyy

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VLD8x01 – “Launch Date”

8x01 – “Launch Date”

First episode of the last season. This is probably the most romance-centered episode this show has ever done. And, this is the only episode solely written by Lauren Montgomery. The episode is clearly intended to be funny, but I didn’t laugh at much.

There are a lot of issues that can be discussed about this episode, about its own contents, especially the Allura-Lance romance, and about the episode’s relationship to the rest of the series. There’s a lot in this episode that bothers me.

The episode begins with some kind of meta commentary from this show about the original Voltron. I can understand VLD doing something like this as an homage to the original, but I, having not watched much of the original, don’t know if this particular homage works or not. Pidge is watching a cartoon that is, in-story, a production that has been made in wake of humanity learning about the existence of and being saved by Voltron last season. The show Pidge is watching is a short clip from the original Voltron animation.

In a medical bay, faceless medical personnel (I thought their faceless visual design last season was creepy then too) are tending to the Altean found in the wreckage of the mecha from the end of last season. Allura is watching from outside the room, and Romelle steps up to her, saying, “You know, back on the Colony, Luca and I didn’t always get along.” So, Romelle knows who this Altean is. Romelle gives us an expositional assessment of what Luca’s supposed qualities were, “inner strength,” “a desire to be a part of something greater than herself.”

The show presented the culture of the Colony to be very much a cult, but the show hasn’t really followed up with that and examined Romelle from that perspective. She’s just now become another regular Altean without really having to do anything to change. Even if she was the least cultish of the Colony Alteans, she still would most likely have to wrestle with the effects of growing up in a cult. This show has never demonstrated itself to be capable of dealing with big, heavy topics like that, so I don’t know why I would expect them to do so.

Allura responds to Romelle, “If she was so desperate for something to believe in, it may have made her susceptible to being manipulated.” The show has never given us any conversation between Allura and Romelle for the two of them to discuss what the Colony was like. Does Allura even realize that the Colony was a cult? Romelle’s characterization of Luca almost has a propagandistic quality to it. That description very much can apply to someone who has always been a zealot, then and now.

Hunk and his parents (and Sal from Vrepit Sal’s in the background) are in what looks like a mess hall. It’s a short, overly saccharine moment. “Your father and I are just so proud of you, saving the universe and all,” his mother says. That line feels so unnatural.

Hunk sits down with Lance, who’s clearly mentally elsewhere. Hunk expositions that the following day is the titular launch date. Launch Date also serves as a pun referencing the date that Lance and Allura go on in this episode. It’s more thought than most of this show’s episode titles get, and I kind of like it. At first, I thought Hunk could tell Lance was upset and was trying to distract him. Hunk riffs on the difference between the characters in VLD and the characters in the in-story TV show that Pidge was watching. But then when Hunk talks about the TV show hinting a romance between Keith and Allura, Lance reacts with instant, angry jealousy. Is Hunk really that oblivious and unable (or unwilling) to recognize his supposed friend Lance’s emotional state?

Hunk eventually realizes that Lance is talking about something real, “Oh, that’s right, you said you were going to ask Allura on a date. You asked her, didn’t you? Oh, and she said, no. And here I am rubbing your face in it.” Lance says she didn’t say no because he never asked her. Is this supposed to be demonstrating character growth for Lance? The guy who literally flirted with Allura the first time he ever spoke to her is too unwilling to ask her out now? It feels out of character for him. He’s been super open and publicly demonstrative of his interest in Allura before now.

Shiro is leading a “final briefing” before the launch tomorrow. At the end of the meeting, Shiro says, “It’s our last night on Earth, and we’ve got a lot of hard work ahead of us. We may not be back home for years, so I’m ordering you to take some time for yourselves. Be with the ones you love. You’ve earned it.” Of course, what he says makes sense. What bothers me is that this show wrote him to say it, but we don’t get to see him doing it. The only person Shiro has that could count as a loved one is Keith with their previously depicted but now ignored friendship. And it’s not like Keith was busy with someone else this night because the show eventually reveals he’s just sitting alone on top of the Black Lion with Cosmo. Why in the world did Shiro and Keith not hang out together? It makes it feel like the EPs and writers of this show, because they revealed Shiro to be gay, became too afraid to have Shiro have any friendships, including ones that had already been established.

Lance goes to ask Allura out, and he’s uncharacteristically shy and dorky around her. If this had been how Lance behaved for most of the show, his interest in Allura throughout the show might not have been so obnoxious. But because he so specifically was overbearing in his flirtation and aggressive in his jealousy, the way he’s behaving now does not feel consistent with how he’s been written before. Lance is so casual that Allura says she has to get back to what she’s busy with, and Lance lets it be until Hunk literally kicks him into Allura. Lance then finally, with a tremendous amount of hesitancy, asks her out. He asks her to come have dinner with his family. Allura says she can’t, but Romelle pushes her to do it. The instant that Romelle starts to talk Allura into it, Lance seems to return to his regular overly aggressive self. What happened to him so fast?

Especially with this season added to the show, it really feels like the creative team never really could settle on how they wanted to depict Lance. They had the one-characteristic bullet-point that they’ve used to describe him in-show before and do so again here: “Loverboy.” They knew they wanted him to fit under that label, but they couldn’t elaborate on what that would mean for him specifically, so he’s written inconsistently throughout the show because of the creative team’s inability to unify behind any detailed description of who he is. It’s disappointing because Lance could have been such an amazing character. There were definitely times where he could have been used to examine some big issues, particularly if the show had ever had him grow out of his insecurities to a place of confidence. But aside from this episode and once with Keith in 3x06 “Tailing a Comet,” Lance hasn’t really made his insecurities public. And in having him get with Allura, the show kind of feels like it’s discarding his insecurities entirely. That sends a dangerous message: that it’s a woman’s responsibility to make a man feel secure in himself.

That’s one of the biggest issues with the show writing Lance and Allura ending up together. Throughout the show Lance has expressed interest in Allura, while she has repeatedly demonstrated no interest in him. There has been a little bit of movement on Allura’s part toward interest in Lance: 6x01 “Omega Shield” when Allura left her Lion to go to Lance’s and use her magic to heal him (though some viewers think so, I am not of the opinion that Lance died in that episode), and then in 7x10 “Heart of the Lion” when Allura initiates a brief conversation with Lance before going on a mission. There hasn’t been any movement on Lance’s part to consciously recognize his prior overbearing behavior to have been inappropriate and him changing the way he behaves toward Allura as a result. Because of this, the show effectively gave validity to the argument behind the Nice Guy trope. That all guys have to do to receive the attention of a girl they’re interested in is keep at her until eventually she realizes he is what she’s wanted all along. This show never criticizes Lance for this behavior, and instead rewards him for it. It’s a dangerous message for this show to send its younger male audience because it teaches them to not respect when a girl/woman tells them no. I’m not against the premise of an Allura-Lance relationship, but it really needed to address Lance’s overbearing flirtatiousness and jealousy (or better yet, not have written Lance to have been so jealous in the first place).

Pidge is working with Beezer in a hydroponics room. Allura and Romelle come in to ask for help preparing for Allura’s date with Lance. Romelle specifically asks about clothes. Pidge reacts, “A date? With Lance? Weird.” What’s weird is that line. Why would Pidge think it was weird? The show never actually explains Pidge’s reaction here. Allura asks Pidge to help her get a date outfit, and that’s when Pidge’s mother speaks to mock Pidge’s clothing. Pidge suggests the mall, but she says she can’t go because she’s grounded.

Colleen says, “She’s grounded because apparently my daughter thinks that running away from home and galivanting off into space without her mother’s permission is an acceptable activity for a 15-year-old.” The show thinks Colleen’s statement is funny. It’s not funny at all. One, who is Colleen to speak, considering that she should be in prison along with Sam for breaking the law in 7x07 “The Last Stand Part 1.” Two, how are we viewers supposed to think Colleen has any credibility when she says Pidge has been “galivanting off into space?” Does Colleen not remember Earth being invaded and occupied by aliens for three years? Does she not realize the danger her daughter has been in while trying to fight this war against the Galra? Does she not realize that without Pidge’s actions, Matt and Sam wouldn’t have ever come home? “Galivanting off into space,” why in the world did they think it was okay to write Colleen like this? I think this demonstrates a big part of what has been wrong with the writing for most of this show: This show has been more interested in writing particular moments without any concern with how those moments clash and conflict with previous writing. There is no way that a mother would react upon learning their child had been fighting a war by acting like that child was running around having fun the way Colleen does here.

Pidge rants and screams at her mom. There is a justification to Pidge’s reaction, but the scene plays her anger for humor. And then the scene, again, thinking it’s funny, has Colleen’s eyes and voice affected evilly as she says, “Not on your life, young lady.” Colleen scares Beezer in the process. It’s disturbing that the creative team for this show thought this was funny.

Allura asks Colleen to please let Pidge help her, and Colleen instantly switches, saying, “Alright, but only because I know how much Katie hates shopping for clothing.” Ugh.

The show could have had a really good moment, had they chosen to do so, in having Colleen and Pidge talk about Pidge’s experience and Colleen’s worry over her whole family being missing. There is emotionally significant content to what this family has gone through. But the show never had the skill to deal with any content like that. Instead, they have a weird, jarring “humor” scene like this instead. It just does not work.

Sam is told that Luca is conscious. And it’s a really short scene.

In addition to Pidge, Allura and Romelle have the female MFE pilots join them shopping too. I can’t help but feel that this episode is totally reinforcing stereotypical female behavior. The girls are going shopping for clothes for a date. This episode is a severe reinforcement of traditionalized gender norms, and it feels like the show wanted to write and depict the stereotype, like they thought actively including the stereotype was somehow interesting. It’s not. It’s actually kind of cliché.

Rizavi says that she “loves shopping.” This is the closest thing to being a characteristic that this show has given Rizavi so far. Leifsdottir replies, “It’s a primal urge from when collecting and gathering was a means of survival.” Well, that’s a hypothesis, but it is still gender reductive.

Pidge sees a video game some street vender has on display. Rizavi is also interested. The vender wants to barter, and Pidge and Rizavi are seemingly baffled by the idea. Did they not come prepared to shop? Is it specifically that this guy wants to barter? No one offers him money though, so it’s like they have no way to shop at all. Rizavi tries to guilt the guy into giving it to Pidge because of Pidge being a Paladin. I didn’t realize abusing a position of power like Rizavi is trying to do here, was a heroic way to behave. The vender only knows of the Paladins through the TV show. It was only a few months ago that Voltron helped liberate Earth, and the Paladins’ involvement was very publicly referenced, so his only thinking of the Paladins as a TV show is unrealistic. The vender offers her the game because his daughter loves the TV show and he’d like an autograph. Pidge then starts affecting her voice like the character in the TV show. It’s so weird. Rather than actually sign an autograph, Pidge draws her face. She then continues to use this method to acquire things throughout their shopping. She’s using people thinking of her as the actor on the show rather than as herself, so this is all fraud. Is the entire Holt family made up of criminals?

The show clearly thinks this is all funny. I’m not even slightly laughing. It’s just weird.

Meanwhile, Lance goes to talk to Coran. Lance tells Coran that he’s going on a date with Allura, and Coran is instantly aggressive, dismissing Lance for not being royalty nor Altean. Who knew Coran was both classist and racist. Lance says that he doesn’t think Allura thinks like that, and Coran responds, “It’s not just about Allura. Did you even acquire permission from her primary guardian?” Ugh! This episode really is putting a lot of effort into not just reinforcing traditionalized gender norms but into those norms being fundamentally patriarchal. The idea that a boy has to ask an older male who controls a young woman if he’s okay with the boy dating the girl is absolutely patriarchal. And this episode was written by Lauren Montgomery. The show can’t even hide behind saying it was some ignorant straight, white guy who wrote this. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that Lauren Montgomery has said that killing Allura was a feminist act of writing if this episode is what she wrote in her one, solo writing credit for the show.

The only thing that’s even slightly interesting to me about this scene is that Coran redressed his room to include a giant portrait of himself and Alfor above the mantle. During the time before season seven when I would let myself dream about the idea that this show might include a character who wasn’t straight, I actually thought they might could do so by having Coran having been attracted to Alfor but never acting on it. It would be a way for this show, like other shows have done, to claim inclusion without actually having to do any real inclusion by depicting any non-straight character interaction. It would have been cheap and the bare minimum of inclusion, but I’ve lived in a homophobic world so long that it’s about as much as I expect from straight writers who pretend they care about inclusion. But then Shiro was revealed as gay, as poorly as that whole element of the show was handled, and the show proved that there are other ways to claim inclusion without really actually depicting it.

But now this leaves me questioning. Is this portrait supposed to be some subtle way the show was trying to hint at Coran being gay? Or is it just supposed to be funny without an actual thought about what it actually means? It’s like the portrait is saying that Alfor and Coran were Allura’s fathers. As much as I would have loved for Allura to canonically have had two fathers, not just one biological father and one close friend of the family who serves as a surrogate father after the real one dies, this does emphasize how this show has totally neglected to include Allura’s mother in her life. We’re in the eighth season of this show, and it’s almost like she didn’t have a mother. I know there’s a bit of illusory dream sequence in a later episode, but Allura has never spoken about her mother, so it’s like they didn’t have much of a relationship. But if they didn’t have a relationship, I still would want that detailed. As for this portrait, it feels like the show is using queer identity here as a joke gimmick. If this portrait was revealed to have a bigger, more respectful meaning, I would like it more. I like the portrait but only because of what potential I can see in how it could have been used in the show. How it actually is used, though, seems to be nothing but as a joke.

Coran makes Lance argue his qualification to be allowed to date Allura. Reinforcing the patriarchy is so much fun. Sigh.

The girls meanwhile have gotten a lot of stuff in their shopping. The clothing options they try for Allura are supposed to be funny, but it just seems like a cliché trying-on-clothing scene to me. The shopkeeper seems to be the Unilu that Coran dealt with in both 2x07 “Space Mall” and 4x04 “The Voltron Show!” Pidge tries her autograph fraud, but the guy says no. Allura says she could give him a “royal decree of service from the crowned princess of Altea,” but then seems instantly dejected, like she doesn’t see herself as the Princess of Altea anymore. There is something meta interesting about how this show has let Allura’s status of being a princess no longer have any meaning.

The Unilu sees Pidge’s game and offers the outfit for the game. Pidge gives it up for the outfit, and Allura hugs her and thanks her. I love Allura’s reaction. I don’t understand why Pidge did it though. Yeah, yeah, friendship and all that, but the episode doesn’t do anything to show this plot as being Pidge and Allura bonding with each other. Maybe if it had just been the two of them shopping, it might read like that, but with the whole group it doesn’t. It’s clear that Pidge feels she’s giving up something, but the episode fails to explain why she’s willing to do it.

Sam asks Coran if Romelle could help speak to Luca. Coran says, “I’ll see if I can find her.” This is not Coran’s voice actor speaking. I don’t have the best ear to spot moments like this when a character’s voice does not match their normal voice actor, but I know that some within the fandom have suggested there are quite a few moments like this in season eight. This is definitely one such moment. This line is not Rhys Darby’s voice. (Anyone reading this, please feel free to point out other instances this season where the voice of a character doesn’t sound like their voice actor.)

Cut to a sunset scene. The music for this sunset scene is the same as the music from 7x01 “A Little Adventure” during the flashback with Keith and Shiro watching the sunset. This is another part of why it offends me that this show didn’t have Shiro and Keith hanging out together. Shiro had told everyone to spend time with people they cared about. Here Keith is by himself when he could have been hanging out with Shiro. They’re supposed to be super close, after all. And the show has the audacity to use the music of a scene that was part of the exploration of why and how Shiro and Keith were so close, and instead now have Keith alone and joined by Lance. Maybe the reuse of the music is just more evidence of how badly produced this season was that they didn’t bother getting new music, that they didn’t think through reusing old music, ignoring how repeating themes has an explicit effect on the interpretation of a scene? I mean, after watching this show enough, analyzing what I have, reading the analysis others have written, I can’t help but to question the competence of the executive producers and their creative team. Maybe they really were ignorant of the use of music in film and video series. Or maybe in reusing this music, they were making a statement about no longer caring about the relationship between Shiro and Keith. We know that the EPs always had a preference for Keith and only ever saw Shiro as a something to have Keith narratively step on in his ascendance to the position of main character of the show. Maybe to them, this music is only Keith’s music, and they don’t recognize the music as an expression of Shiro and Keith’s relationship. Maybe using the music again here, unassociated with Shiro, was a homophobic action on part of the EPs and their creative team in trying to distance Keith from Shiro now that they had written Shiro as gay. Or maybe they just didn’t put much thought into the implications of using this music in this scene. They haven’t demonstrated themselves to be all that willing (or capable) of thinking through the implications of their creative decisions, after all.

In short, I really, really do not like this scene.

Lance is wearing pots and pans all over his body. He says Coran is making him wear it for his date with Allura. It’s supposed to be funny, but it’s not. Keith reacts, “A date? With Allura? Well done, Lance.” I’m sorry, what? The show seems to consider a guy getting a girl to say yes to him is an achievement on the guy’s part. He’s done something well by finally getting her to say yes. “Well done.” Ugh. Allura is a person, not an achievement.

Keith tries to reassure Lance that if Allura’s dating him that it’s because she likes him. This development between Lance and Allura just does not feel natural to me. It could have, but the show was too lazy to do the work to deal with the baggage that comes with having spent so long writing Lance to be hyper flirtatious and instantaneously jealous.

Keith says, “That’s why we’ve got to end this war. And we’re going to do it with the Lance who’s the Paladin of the Red Lion, the Lance that’s always got my back, and the Lance who knows exactly who he is and what he’s got to offer.” There really hasn’t been anything to explain a change in Lance no longer having a problem with Keith. It’s like once 7x06 “The Journey Within” was done, the show decided to pretend that that plot solved whatever contention there was between Lance and Keith. Part of the problem is that the show never actually explained where that contention came from. They were supposedly rivals, but why? I think their being rivals was more bullet-point characterization. The creative team never bothered to develop an explanation for themselves, so there was never anything to include in the show to explain it. Their rivalry extended no further than just saying that they were rivals. Keith says that Lance now “knows exactly who he is and what he’s got to offer,” and this sounds like they intend this to reference Lance’s insecurities, but the show has not actually resolved those insecurities. It’s just more of this show having important character stuff all occur off-screen.

The scene clearly was meant to be interpreted as emotional and demonstrating friendship between Keith and Lance, but there are too many holes in the scene for it to actually feel like that to me.

Allura arrives at Lance’s family’s house. I actually really do like the clothes Lance is wearing for this date. Allura is reduced to her appearance by both Lance’s mother and Lance himself by how energetically they comment on her appearance as she walks through the door. Their reactions to Allura are just too forceful.

Lance has on-screen identified himself as being from Cuba. I found it odd that back in 7x05 “The Ruins,” Lance calls his grandmother “meemaw” instead of abuela or abuelita. Here, he calls his grandfather “Pop Pop,” which does not seem like what a Cuban boy would call his grandfather. Veronica also calls their grandfather “Pop Pop.” I don’t know Cuban culture well at all, but even still it seems off to me. It makes it feel like Lance has only ever been Cuban in name only.

During dinner, Lance’s family spends a lot of time mocking him. This could very much be an origin for most of Lance’s insecurities. He’s clearly upset as they laugh at him. We’re told by one of Lance’s relatives that the only reason Lance is being allowed to sit at “the adult table” during this meal is because Lance invited Allura. It really doesn’t feel like Lance’s family values him. This scene is supposed to be showing to us the big love Lance felt was missing all the times throughout earlier seasons he expressed sadness over being so far apart from his family. But this doesn’t feel like a loving family to me, and Lance is not reacting in any way right now like he’s okay with how they’re behaving. His arms are crossed, and he’s scowling. They’re clearly making him feel bad. And I get the impression that we’re to interpret this as how they normally treat him. So then, if his family picks on him so much, why would he miss them so badly earlier in the show. It does not feel consistently written whatsoever.

Veronica hints to Lance that she’s interested in Keith, and Lance very loudly and animatedly objects to the idea, and it’s really weird. Did the show not just immediately prior to dinner give us a scene in which we’re supposed to interpret the rift between Lance and Keith as resolved? Where is this spastic reversal coming from?

As an aside, Lance’s mother tells Allura, “Lance never brings girls home. You must really mean something to him.” Allura says, “That’s strange. He always gave off the impression of being rather popular with women.” His mother replies, “He gets that from his father. It’s all talk. But if you can get past that, you’ll find a good boy with a big heart.” Wow. So, Lance’s father is hyper flirtatious and aggressively jealous too? That is not a healthy mentality for this show to be normalizing like it is. And to have Lance’s mother excuse that behavior like it’s okay for a man to behave that way is appalling. The line, “if you can get past that, you’ll find a good boy with a big heart,” is the show saying that it’s a woman’s responsibility to make herself not have a problem with a guy who flirts with nearly every woman he sees and gets aggressively jealous over her. This is just so wrong. And that this was written by a female writer makes it even more disturbing.

Veronica leads a toast “to family,” and even Lance, despite having been picked on, is happy about the toast. Allura, however, is saddened by it, and Lance notices.

Meanwhile, Romelle talks to Luca. This is the one scene of Romelle’s in the entire series that I actually really like. This scene hints to me at what Romelle could have been to this show had she been written well. The scene first reestablishes that Romelle knows Luca personally as she starts the conversation. Romelle says, “I’m so glad to see you’re alright Luca. We can help. What happened to you, where’s the Colony?” Luca rejects Romelle, saying, “So you can betray them yet again? You abandoned us, Romelle. And for the Paladins of Voltron! The very ones who killed our savior, Lotor!” Romelle is shocked at Luca’s reaction. Luca continues, “You’ve sided with the Great Destroyers! She told us of their lies! She’s going to fix it all! She’ll reunite us with Lotor! With Altea! You don’t stand a chance against Honerva!”

And then Luca gasps, there’s a flash, an outlined shot of Honerva’s face, and Luca falls over dead. Seems like Honerva killed Luca from a distance with her space magic to keep her from talking anymore. There’s a shot of Honerva, like so much of this show, still weirdly standing in the middle of an empty room. So now, the episode has confirmed where Luca came from, that her attack on Earth at the end of last season had at least something to do with Honerva, thereby setting Honerva up as the final big villain of the show. I have never really found Honerva/Haggar interesting. But, I guess, at least the final main villain being Honerva does sort of stage the conflict as Honerva versus Allura, space witch versus space witch. Honerva as a foil for Allura is a good structure for the show. I don’t think the show does well exploring that foil parallel though because none of what Honerva does is related to any of Allura’s character motivations. The best villains in stories are ones who are directly connected to the protagonist’s goals. This show doesn’t give Allura any goals other than stop the Galra though. The protagonist-antagonist contention for this season, and really most of the show as a whole, is barely existent. The story would have been far stronger if the protagonists had had clear goals.

Lance and Allura go for a walk to a park. They look at leafless trees. Lance says, “This place used to be so beautiful,” and Allura responds, “It’s my fault the Galra did this to your home.” We’re not told where in the world they are nor what time of year it is. Given this bit of dialog, I think we’re supposed to interpret these trees as dead. But my first thought was that it was autumn, and the trees had lost their leaves. Lance tries to reassure Allura that it’s not her fault and that he’s glad to have met her. Allura touches the tree and does a hand-glowing thing. The tree glows, grows, and all the plants around the park gain leaves. So, again, we were supposed to interpret the trees of this park as having somehow died, right? And she just brought them back to life? Or did she just make them gain leaves in the middle or depth of autumn?

Allura says that while Team Voltron was out in the universe fighting the Galra, “I somehow felt like we were a family.” Of course, the show never really depicted them as being a loving family. Most of the characters always were angrily yelling at each other. “Each of us was alone, but we were alone together,” she says. Clearly, the writer thinks this is a poignant line, but, while it does have a certain truth to it, it’s not a flattering one. Being “alone, but […] alone together,” isn’t being a family. It isn’t being friends. It isn’t a close bond. It’s a statement that though they had to work together, they never actually were close to each other.

“But now, here on Earth, I see that everyone already has a family.” Well, Shiro doesn’t. Not that this show cared about addressing that because that would require the EPs and the writers to care about Shiro. It’s also really weird to have Allura talking like she doesn’t have a family, when the show very explicitly visually juxtaposed Allura being visited by Coran and Romelle in the hospital at the end of 7x13 “Lions’ Pride Part 2” with Hunk and his family, Pidge and her family, Lance and his family, and even Keith with Krolia and Kolivan. Why is this show suddenly having Allura discard Coran as part of her sense of family? This very episode had Coran acting as if he were Allura’s father. Having Allura act this way now is so out of place.

She continues that they have “a home to return to once the war is over. Everyone except me.” I can totally understand her being sad over Altea being gone. That is totally reasonable to bring up. It has an unfortunate dimension given what happens at the end of this season though. The season opens with Allura lamenting not having a family and a home to return to after the war is over, and then ends the show by having her give up her life, rebooting all existence, restoring Altea to existence, but she doesn’t get to benefit from her work. She doesn’t get to go home.

Allura’s story this entire season is hugely depressing, and I remember the first time I watched this season feeling that Allura herself was deeply depressed the whole time. That’s not a good message for the show to send either: If you’re depressed, then the only way out is dying.

“It’s silly,” she continues, “but I used to think that the team relied on me.” It once did, back in seasons one and two. But then the EPs wanted Keith as Black Paladin more than anything, and that put Allura in the Blue Lion, and ever since, her position of leadership has been eliminated. She just follows orders from Keith now. It makes me mourn for what Allura could have been if she been written with respect and a desire to show a strong female character in a position of leadership instead of reduced to a magical person of color who has to give up her life to magically fix everyone’s problems. In past commentaries, I have referred to Allura’s previous position of leadership on the Castle of Lions as being like she was an admiral overseeing the fleet. Imagine what it would be like if she was in command of the Atlas, not as Captain, but as an Admiral. Imagine how she could have been written such that Sanda was another foil to Allura, and with Sanda gone, Allura filling that void in fleet leadership.

Allura says that she gains strength from the Paladins. I mean, sure, that should be blatantly true by this point in a story with a found family theme, and it should be true for everyone about everyone in that found family. I don’t think that it is anywhere near fully realized though.

Lance tries to assure her, telling her that she’s not alone. “I don’t care that this is only our first date, Allura, I love you.” Really? This show went there, having Lance say “I love you” on the first date, and the creative team of this show didn’t think there was anything wrong with that? It’s at least notably immature of him to have done so. That the solution to a woman having complex emotions and thoughts about something is to just tell her “I love you” and everything is solved?

In response to Allura’s asking, “You truly feel that way,” Lance takes Allura’s hand and makes her touch his chest and says, “With all my heart.” It’s a little cliché, but it’s still way too soon. Against a glowing background, Lance and Allura, in silhouette, kiss. I wonder if this kiss was added late into the production because the animation is stiff and a little jerky and feels really different to most of the show’s animation.

So yeah, their first date and Lance has said “I love you” and they’ve kissed. On the first date. Now, I know this show doesn’t have the patience to build up a story over time, the show has taken so many narrative short-cuts, but this is just too damn fast. It just feels like there’s something missing to get to this point.

Beezer arrives for some reason. He takes a picture and gives it to them. Why is Beezer in the park? There definitely feels like there’s something missing.

Allura arrives at her room, and Coran and Romelle are waiting for her. Cut to the meeting room, where the three of them are talking to Shiro. Allura says, “If Honerva sent that beast, then our mission must change.” Shiro says, “No, we have a plan and we need to stick to it. If Honerva is behind this, then I’m sure we’ll find her along the way.” Allura follows up, “Or she’ll find us.” It is interesting that Allura’s instincts were very much right here. I wonder how much difficulty they could have spared the universe (and other realities) if they had altered their mission to actively looking for Honerva.

The time has come for the team to leave, Voltron and the Atlas. I like getting another shot of the scale of the Lions next to the Atlas for comparison. I do very much like the design of the Atlas ship. A huge crowd is there to see them off.

I’ve seen people point out this animation error before, and I want to point it out again because it’s odd. In the first shot behind the Paladins and crew on the stage, from center stage outward, the Paladins are standing Keith, Lance, Allura, Pidge, and Hunk. Then in the next shot, a reverse shot, from center stage outward, it’s Keith, Allura, Lance, Pidge, and Hunk. It’s odd that Lance and Allura are flipped from one shot to the next.

Sam starts a speech, and then Keith takes over. Allura then takes over from Keith. There’s a montage of Hunk hugging his family and Lance hugging his. One of Lance’s family hugs Allura such that he lifts her off the ground.

Then Shiro takes over from Allura. “Each of you have given something to this fight. Many have been lost, but not in vain because through their sacrifice, many more will live on.” The memorial wall of the dead of the Garrison is shown, and then a close up of Sanda’s placard. Why in the freaking world would they chose to juxtapose Shiro’s statement with Sanda’s picture instead of Adam’s? That’s really offensive and shows how little this creative team actually cared about Shiro and Adam and the inclusion of a queer relationship on the show.

The Atlas launches. I have to agree with others who’ve pointed it out, the way Shiro is standing in the shot of the camera looking over Team Voltron from behind on the bridge of the Atlas does not look like Shiro’s posture, it looks very much like how we’ve seen Allura stand many times before.

The music during the launch is nice.

So, that’s the first episode of the final season. It’s very much a different kind of story than most episodes of the show. There is a lot of focus on relationships of various kinds. The Allura-Lance romance is most prominent, and it’s really uncomfortable. It just amazes me that a story that so strongly reinforces traditional gender norms, patriarchal family structures, and rewards a male character with success through the nice guy trope was written by a female writer.

#voltron legendary defender #voltron #vld #voltron criticism #vld criticism #voltron critical #vld critical #vld season 8 #vld 8x01 #commentary

[dargeereads]

What a year for books! I mean, I surpassed my Goodreads challenge, even though I knew I was being a little stingy, but I also knew life sometimes throws curves at you, so better safe than sorry. Looking back over the list of books I read this year, I realize the year didn’t rush by, it was well paced and gave me great book memories

Speaking of memories, this years’ favourite is exactly that, In Moonlight and Memories trilogy by Julie Ann Walker. This book, divided into three parts, each part focusing on the story from one of the three characters, had it all, and it executed it all perfectly and beautifully. It still grabs me and brings me back to the story at random times, my subconscious won’t let it go, and I’m perfectly okay with that. Not a standard romance, not even a love triangle really, it is a story of three friends who love each other unconditionally. It’s their story, of their lives, and how they got to where they are now, and where they are going next. https://dargeereads.tumblr.com/post/1... https://dargeereads.tumblr.com/post/1... https://dargeereads.tumblr.com/post/1...

My second favourite book this year is a straight up romance, with single parents, and unbelievable emotion. Down Too Deep by J. Daniels left me with warm fuzzies, and tearful fits, for days after finishing it. Nate is the book boyfriend everybody wants and needs. Jenna is the woman we all cheer for and want to see succeed. It is packed with love, caring, confusion, loss, steaminess, and tear spilling joy and pain. It also resonated with me, and completely caught me off guard, but it stuck with me in ways few “regular” romance books do https://dargeereads.tumblr.com/post/1...

Molly O’Keefe somehow figured out how to make you feel good with a book with death in the title. A Day in the Death of Walter Zawislak isn’t a romance, but is a story of love. Oh, it covers a whole lot of emotions, but this little book, in the end, reminds you of the power of love. I couldn’t cover my top reads of 2019 without this book, because it certainly had an impact https://dargeereads.tumblr.com/post/1...

So, what else happened in 2019? Candace Blevins ended her Only Human Urban Fantasy series, and yes, we find out what Isaac is, while we see how Kirsten’s world changes. I also caught up on Candace’s RTMC series backlog. More Honey Badger awesomeness from Shelley Laurenston, and a new series under her G.A. Aiken name, The Blacksmith Queen. More bears, polar bears to be exact, from Vivian Arend. I got to meet NJ Walters at Romancing the Capital, and gush about her Drakon’s and Tapestry series’. Speaking of RTC, Eve Langlais had me hooked with her UF series, The Forsaken Chronicles, and her Mecha Origins series, oh and her Chimera series, seriously, this woman can keep you reading for weeks! Annika Martin gave us a cute little quickie with Hot Ghost that was perfect for Hallowe’en. Zoe York gave us a Vikings Need and made my October! She also had an Ainsley Booth release that was deliciously wonderful 😉

I started the year with Lorelei James’ wound tight, and finally dug into her Mastered Series. I was once all caught up on her books, and am almost there again. Michele Zurlo added to and re-released her Letting Go series. Pam Godwin gave us two new installments in her Deliver series. Lexi Blake gave us more Sophie Oak releases in Bliss and Siren series, and the complete Faery story series, as well as some Lost Boys. Cora Reilly was back with force, bringing us more mafia bad boys than we could ever dream of! Roxie Rivera popped up and sprung Kostya on us, making that one of the high points of the year!

Cherise Sinclair started a new series, and still gave us some from our favourite from her. Bianca Sommerland released the long awaited Off Beat, and started her new co-written The Asylum Fight Club series. Carrie Ann Ryan poked at our emotions in her Fracture Connections series, and started a new family branch in her Montgomery Ink world. Melissa Schroeder gave us cupcake making, tattooed, ex-military men

I caught up with Jennifer Ashley’s cowboys, and then binged her MacKenzie’s and McBride’s series I hadn’t yet read on audio. Helena Hunting gave us a Meet Cute to be remembered, and more in the shacking up world, before switching us back to her new hockey series. Elle Kennedy gave us more collegiate hockey, and then her and Sarina Bowen dazzled us with their Top Secret offering. Kitty Thomas released her Persephone in audio, and then took us back to the training house. Sierra Cartwright gave us some alpha-liscious males to swoon over. Skye Warren brushed the taboo in her ever-amazing way.

I tried new authours, and found a few new favourites. I found myself drowning in books to read, and learned to balance new releases and those on my TBR. I embraced and enjoyed reading, not just as an escape, though it is that sometimes, but as my thing I enjoy to do out of all the things I enjoy to do!

#Year in Books #year in review #am reading #reader #romance #book love #book blogger #bookworm #bookaholic #book obsessed #book buzz #book world #romance books

[hvrrietgen-archive]

Uma vez que o choque passara, Gen lembrou-se que não deixava as coisas baratas. Poderia não poder fazer nada em relação ao pai, mas definitivamente não iria deixar mais um de seus amigos idiotas com ideias erradas sobre si. Fora confrontar Gary no Golden Wynn, — não demorou a lembrar-se que era ali onde o cliente do patriarca trabalhava — um encontro que terminou terrivelmente mal, porém pelos motivos que ela jamais teria imaginado. Gary estava puto, isso ficara claro. “ — You told me to go fuck myself, didn’t you? Garota idiota. Sei coisas sobre o seu pai que te deixaria de cabelos em pé. Inclusive sobre o motivo de trabalhar para nós, aqui no Golden Wynn. We deal with shadier stuff than the princess could ever understand. É melhor fugir dessa carreira mesmo, Genevieve, não é pra você.” Se as palavras do homem não tivessem sido o suficiente para alarmá-la, seu tom de voz e o visível arrependimento no rosto alheio o fizeram. Gary olhou sobre o ombro, quase assustado com a possibilidade de alguém o ouvir, e afastou-se dela.

Com o pai longe demais, em sua viagem, sabia que não havia a possibilidade de perguntas sobre aquilo. Mas Genevieve ainda conhecia duas pessoas relacionadas ao cassino da cidade: Christopher Montgomery, e Joel. Ela não era burra nem próxima o suficiente do primeiro para questioná-lo sobre qualquer coisa do tipo, mas ainda poderia avisar Joel. Harriet olhou para o céu, contrariada, ao sentir gotas pesadas da chuva que vinha se formando a tarde toda e que decidira cair no minuto em que pisara os pés no jardim dos Ward. Desabou por completo, o suficiente para quase encharcá-la mesmo na curta caminhada até a porta da frente. Gen bateu, ansiosa, torcendo para que não fosse nenhum dos outros familiares que a atendesse. Ela tirou uma mecha molhada do rosto quando a porta se abriu. “ — Hey! We need to talk! I need you to promise something.” Disse rapidamente, sem preocupar-se com o quão estranha ou afobada estaria soando. Poderia esperar até que estivesse do lado de dentro? Talvez. Mas a ansiedade da Hudson discordou. “ — Preciso que você me prometa que não vai voltar a trabalhar no Golden Wynn.”

@jxeward

#ficou enorme mas pq tive que colocar a parte do gary ali skskk #e nem coloquei gif pq sei que vamos acabar tirando mas se quiser pode por #jxeward #☆ . ❪ interaction. lips made for talking and something else. ❫

[open-hearth-rpg]

Open Hearth Video Roundup - January 19, 2024

Welcome to the weekly Open Hearth Gaming video roundup!

These recorded sessions represent only a portion of the games we play every week, and anyone is welcome to join the fun! If you'd like to play in games like these, join our Playabl community and click on the "Calendar" tab to sign up for upcoming games. To browse our entire library of session videos, please visit our YouTube Playlists page.

Open Hearth Gaming Calendar

Alien Dark: Fiorina 161 (Session 2 of 2) Alun R. runs for Brandon Brylawski, Casey T, and Puckett Following the horrific conclusion to session 1 the crew of the USCSS Lake gather to say farewell to their lost crewmate. Thorn suppresses their rage at the situation; Frank mulls over what he heard the EDI Rep, Hohmann, report back to Weyland-Yutani; and Patsy, the Chief Engineer, mourns the loss of the closest thing to a friend she had onboard. Captain Mason, meanwhile, seems most concerned about a generous offer Hohmann has made, and Tethis the Science Officer is excited by what they've 'discovered'. There's a clear accusation; a decision on what to do; a motion detector and ducts. Then...a xenomorph cornered, a working pulse rifle, and acid...so much acid...

Monster of the Week: The Rockies (Session 4) Blake Ryan runs for Brandon Ungar, David Montgomery, Dom, and Grey Bozeman Beware!

Old-School Essentials: Rites of Weeping (Session 1 of 2) David S. runs for Aaron, Brandon Ungar, and Donogh Along a cold and isolated riverside, deep in the primeval forest, a small team of adventurers makes an emergency landing at a rotting and waterlogged village to repair their leaking boat. Little do they know that, deep within a nearby temple-tomb, a wretched, forgotten god-thing from centuries long past seeks to make its return amidst rituals of plague and suffering. Will our trapped adventurers defeat the god-thing once and for all, or will they too be stolen away to perform the Rites of Weeping?

Godbound: Sundered Cycles (Session 25) Lowell Francis runs for Dan Brown, Ethan Harvey, Patrick Knowles, Sherri, and Tyler Lominack The pantheon digs deeper into the plans of the angels, discovering these weapons from the last war using time magics to accelerate the development of hundreds of sorcerers bound to their angelic host and possessing no ethical or moral training.

The Mecha Hack: Q'ku Riposte (Session 2) Anya Reyes runs for Lowell Francis, Marc Majcher, Matthew Arcilla, and Sherri The pilots make it to the surface by the skin of their teeth, and start gathering information about the region where they’ll be landing. They decide to go to a nearby ruin where they expect to recover some Verilian, but somebody else was just here...

Star Wars Saturday

After\\Burner Rich Rogers runs for Alun R., Cody Eastlick, Kae, and Paul Rivers Ghost Squadron patrol the skies of Abafar.

Off-Calendar Highlights

Trophy Dark: Roommates Wanted (Session 1 of 2) Madelancholy runs for Blake Ryan, Kae, Kevin M, and Mona [Content warnings: rats, tenants/landlord, body horror, PC betrayal, mention of casual sex and drug use] "Elderly recluse seeing roommates for shared costs and company..." is how the ad began. Four strangers take up a rich man's offer to try out fully-furnished rooms in his large estate - "stay for 5 days and if you don't like it, I will pay YOU $10,000 for your time" - discovering that there's a bit not to like, but finding out it's difficult to leave...

Trophy Dark: Roommates Wanted (Session 2 of 2) Madelancholy runs for Blake Ryan, Kae, and Kevin M [Content warnings: rats, tenants/landlord, body horror, PC betrayal, mention of casual sex and drug use] Just 3 more days to deal with the strangeness, the amenities...and the rats here in Mr. Maxim's house. The tenancy contract fine print hints at an even bigger payoff if there's only one left staying...only one roommate wanted...

#ttrpg #rpg #rpg actual play