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911-on-abc · 9 months

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for the wip tag 7 and 8 👀

hi anon!! thank you for the ask

#7. abandoned Secret Service AU

ah the Secret Service AU, my white whale. I originally developed it for another fandom but it just never worked, so when I got into 9-1-1 I was like oh!! Eddie slots really well into this -- his canon backstory matched the backstory I created -- My plan was to have Eddie be the Governor of Texas, already widowed, and the rest of the 118 would make up his secret service detail during the last leg of the campaign. Buck would've saved Chris during a flash-flood in Austin, Texas à la tsunami. Eddie getting shot in the show folded in really well.

The only problem was that it was really out of character. I could never see Eddie as a politician, plus dude had a mental breakdown over Ana, he could not run a country!! I would also have to age him up and change all this other stuff. Basically, it would've be too difficult for me to suspend my disbelief to make this all work. C'est la vie.

#8. 9-1-1 What If (S7 spec script)

I'm sooo glad you asked about this one!!!! Ahh! I love reading scripts and I find writing them to be very natural bc I always focus on dialogue and blocking first and then build the scene & prose around it.

After S6 ended, I started thinking about what I wanted to see for S7 and wrote a couple scenes. Every season starts with a big event/disaster and I decided that season 7 would start with a cruise liner crash at the LA Port (Athena and Bobby were not on it!! although... hmm...)

There are some Buddie moments in the first episode to set up their relationship arc (couch shopping! couch shopping! couch shopping!), but my favorite scene so far is this madney scene:

INT. MADDIE AND CHIMNEY’S HOUSE - DAY MADDIE and CHIMNEY are sitting at their kitchen table, covered in wedding planning materials. CHIMNEY holds up swatches of fabric to show MADDIE.

CHIMNEY Okay, tell me which tablecloth you like better. MADDIE I don’t know, Howie, they all look the same to me. CHIMNEY No, they are clearly different. This one has a cooler tone and this one has a warmer tone.

MADDIE does not look impressed.

CHIMNEY. Come on Maddie this stuff is important. MADDIE You should just let my brother help you with this. He cares much more about this wedding stuff than me. CHIMNEY No way. I am not letting ‘Clipboard Buck’ anywhere near my wedding. MADDIE He can’t be that bad. CHIMNEY That man is a menace to society when he has a checklist. MADDIE Chimney, the color of the tablecloth or type of centerpieces don’t matter to me. All that matters is having you and Jee-Yun with me.

CHIMNEY looks at his fiancee with a besotted expression on his face. After a beat, he turns in the direction of the living room holding up the pair of swatches.

CHIMNEY Hen, which color do you like better? Snowy Fields or Vanilla Cream?

HEN is laying on the ground with her new foster child, [NAME], approx. [age]. JEE-YUN is with them, playing with toys.

HEN Nah, do not get me involved in this. My wife planned our wedding, both times. This is her area of expertise, not mine.

The door bursts open with KAREN holding bags filled to the brim with wedding supplies. She has a wild expression on her face.

(I'm going to cut it off here!! I hope you like!)

this is part of the wip tag game! if you like any of them, send me an ask!!

#Sarah writes #Buddie wip #911 fox #911 abc #911 wip #Buddie #tag games #madney #Madney wip #maddie buckley #chimney han #howard chimney han #howard han #hen wilson #henrietta hen wilson #if any 911 writers are on Tumblr contact me AFTER the strike lmao #let me join the writers room!!!#I will make Buddie canon #asdfghjkl

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open-hearth-rpg · 1 month

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Open Hearth Video Roundup - March 15, 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.

Discussions, Panels, and Seminars

Talking Hard Moves, Costs & Consequences Lowell Francis A community event talking about GMing and playing hard moves, managing costs, and balancing consequences for PbtA, Forged in the Dark, and other storygames.

Open Hearth Gaming Calendar

#Rich Kid Problem$ (Session 1 of 2) Donogh runs for Madelancholy, Sabine V., and Thomas Manuel Our kids show that they have 'more money than sense' by throwing around their influence, time and money like there’s no tomorrow. Alen, the offspring of powerful black marketeers works with Delilah, the scion of old money to float a new must-experience party boat. Leo, the mid-child of a Novae Rich family does his best to help them out while Zara, the fledgling of a military dynasty aims to sabotage!

#Rich Kid Problem$ (Session 2 of 2) Donogh runs for Madelancholy, Sabine V., and Thomas Manuel Our kids know that, when you hit rock bottom the best thing to do is get out the kanji-hammers and keep digging! Alen attempts to prise away their cousin Vladimir from Zara’s embrace, but this doesn't quite go to plan and there is serious blowback on the way! Leo and Delilah continue to grow closer but there’s a surprising fly in the ointment...

AKA: The Transponder (Session 2 of 2) Donogh runs for Anders and Jonathan With our agent Carter off the grid in Baikonur it falls upon the conspirator JC to push through the deal. But handler James finds him an altogether different prospect. Meanwhile the boss Robert wonders who he can trust (if anyone)...

Pulp Cthulhu: Dark Passage (Session 1) Lowell Francis runs for Horst Wurst, Paul Rivers, Puckett, and Will H We meet our heroes coming off of a job is Los Angeles which cost them dearly. They're called to San Francisco where they must board a cruise liner headed for Shanghai. Their task: locate the person who has taken possession of some stolen occult relics. But things turn nasty quickly with one person murdered and another vanished.

Pulp Cthulhu: Dark Passage (Session 2) Lowell Francis runs for Horst Wurst, Paul Rivers, Puckett, and Will H Further investigations aboard the Coolidge point to an occult murder-- but the truth may be more complicated than they first thought. What's the connection behind the artifact smuggling person they seek and the shape-changing sorcerous killer. And what is this music?

Monster of the Week: The Rockies (Session 7) Blake Ryan runs for Brandon Ungar, David Montgomery, Dom, and Grey Dodgy Deals Delivery

Monster of the Week: The Rockies (Session 8) Blake Ryan runs for Brandon Ungar, David Montgomery, Dom, and Grey Fickle Fey Fortune

Eotenweard: Tarham (Session 1) Alun R. runs for Dom, Dominik, and Pawel S. Cola the Hunter, Izold the Storyteller & Gwylog the Revenant arrive at the village of Tarham to find a settlement recovering from a recent attack. There's a disloyal warrior, a cowardly herder, a loyal outcast and an aging Lord. Then...carrion crows return along with the stench of death, shadows take on a life of their own, and there's 'something' out there in the dark...and bagpipes...

Godbound: Sundered Cycles (Session 30) Lowell Francis runs for Dan Brown, Ethan Harvey, Patrick Knowles, Sherri, and Tyler Lominack The first half of a journey into the mythic plane-- the crossing of the threshold, a journey across the ocean of souls, and a challenge atop a mammoth lotus flower.

Trail of Cthulhu: Fearful Symmetries: Arc Two (Session 4) Lowell Francis runs for Alun R., Paul Rivers, Sherri, and Will H Having made their made into the Bradbury estate-- the circle realizes the threat is both more dire and more immediate than they thought. After wrestling with various plans and consciences, they split up-- with Isabel and Richard trying to find Flora and the grove while Wilford and the Doctor try to see what they can do with Mrs. Bradbury and her impending delivery. Things do not go well. They go messily. Very messily.

Orbital (Session 1 of 3) Donogh runs for Mark and Puckett Discover our orbital, a strange place of crystals, fractal architecture & psychic warnings - the perils it faces: hunted star-crossed lovers from the War, a damaged warship seeking assistance, and something ancient stirring in the depths... Meet the orbital's residents: Cash Only - the Source of exactly what you're looking for, Rye - the Heart of a bar that epitomises the genuine warmth of the station, & Hemlock Pangolin - a Shadow on a secret mission to ensure the Orbital remains neutral ground a stoic hydroponics engineer who minds their own business.

Star Wars Saturday

Fellowship (Session 4) Rich Rogers runs for Greg G., Kae, Steven Watkins, and Tyler Lominack The fellowship dances and fights until they uncover an ancient artifact that will rock an entire world.

Fellowship (Session 5) Rich Rogers runs for Cody Eastlick, Greg G., Kae, and Steven Watkins The fellowship makes a difficult choice about the holocron of stillness and escapes Vuarlock for Dathomir.

Stars in the Dark: Stars in the Dark II (Session 2) Anders runs for Marc Majcher, Mark (they/them), Rich Rogers, and Steven Watkins Strange Smugglers and Gamorrean Grapplers - Our stalwart spies follow their target(s?) and discover that not everything is as it seems. Also: Gamorrean wrestling! Hotwired speeder bikes! A traffic stop!

Stars in the Dark: Stars in the Dark II (Session 3) Anders runs for Marc Majcher, Mark (they/them), Rich Rogers, and Steven Watkins Industrial Automaton Entanglements

Off-Calendar Highlights

The Between: Stars and Suns, Season Two (Session 5) Madelancholy runs for Jack, Sarah W., and Steph "A Tale of Two Parties" - New opening credits! 🎉 A little bit of chaos ensues when the Explorer and the Undeniable throw separate parties at Hargrave House. A sinister royal personage drops by. Come day, a demonic presence is reported at Kilborn Abbey, Ernest experiences time distortion, Dame Georgie talks to Mr. Figg, and Liat pressures the abbot for some answers.

The Between: Stars and Suns, Season Two (Session 6) Madelancholy runs for Jack, Mike, and Steph "For All Good Intent" - Sir Atticus returns from the Void with the help of a familiar friend, and returns to Hargrave House with Ragg in tow. Dame Georgie comes to an uneasy truce because of his new state, and Liat invites her fellow hunters to tea and oh-so-innocuous conversation.

#ttrpg #rpg #rpg actual play #rpg ap #ttrpg ap

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two-hands-toward-the-sun · 3 months

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for the (other) new year fic writer asks: 🛳 💥 🪩 which admittedly does look like the death star attacking a random cruise liner. so i'll add 🛏 just to maximize the confusingness of this story arc.

cruise liner go boofffffff but! twas all a dream! it's safe and sound :)

hi hi swan!!! thanks for your patience in waiting for this reply, my brain has been SO uncooperative lately. here's to a better february. anyway!

🛳 Are there any new ships you want to write for? (Platonic, romantic, or anything in between.)

I want to write more relationships involving Unity Kincaid!! I adore her, and there are tragically few fics of her to speak of. Specifically, I’d like to write about her relationships with Gault and Lucienne. Also, I might try my hand at that Calliope and Daniel!Dream story we touched on!! It really is an absolutely delicious concept. But that’ll be further down the line, I’m afraid.

💥Is there a chapter, scene, or WIP you're most excited to write? Share a snippet or tell us about it!

MY PICNIC FIC. GODDAMN I LOVE THIS STORY!!! I’m pretty sure I’ve shared this snippet before, but damn if I won’t do it again!

“Unity,” Lucienne began as they paced down the passageway behind Gault. “Forgive me for asking, but I am curious: why did you decide to stay in the Dreaming? Not that we aren’t delighted to have you,” she hastened to add, “but I would have imagined that you might be rather sick of dreams.” Unity laughed a little. “I asked myself the same thing, you know. I suppose I wasn’t ready for…whatever has passed for my life to be over. For my consciousness to end, even if it’s not—well, I know you Dreamfolk don’t like to call waking life ‘real life.’” She smiled, but it was bittersweet. “This time when I’m dreaming, I know it’s the truth,” Unity finished softly. Lucienne touched her shoulder in silent empathy. None of this had been easy for Unity, she knew. Not waking to find herself utterly and terrifyingly alone in the world; not discovering that the person she loved in dreams had been using her as an instrument of destruction; not dying just as she’d thought she would be able to live again. “As true as anything ever is,” Lucienne said gently.

🪩 Do you have any "good" writing habits you want to cultivate?

Hmm, I don’t think so? What even are my writing habits. Couldn’t tell ya.

🛏 Is there a new trope you'd like to write this year?

…Porn? Does smut count? If so, yeah that. Lmao.

#asks #fic writer asks #stellerssong #<333

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black-butler-confessions · 11 months

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I want Sebastian to get hurt even worse than in the Cruise Liner arc, hurt so badly that he's incapacitated. Not because I'm into that (not kink shaming those that are), but because of how it would leave Ciel vulnerable, and because I want to see how Ciel would react and if he'd be able to still get stuff done.

#ooo interesting point anon #i think thatd be interesting too..#sebastian michaelis #ciel phantomhive #o!ciel #our ciel #black butler #kuroshitsuji #black butler confession

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charlottefinn · 1 year

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It’s the third Monday in May.

Superman sat on top of the mountain that he had built, in a temporary high-backed chair that he dug out of the ice. He leaned back his head, closed his eyes and listened. He listened for everything. He turned on his full super-hearing, not simply the directed senses that he had trained himself to use in homing in on random conversations or on the noise of a distant underground rumble before the Earth moved somewhere. He turned on the whole thing, and in a moment he realized that he had never done this before.

From his perch at the top of the world Superman heard the clatter of trains making their ways among the towns of central Europe, the hissing of a cobra in the basket of a Pakistani fakir, the tuning sounds of the Boston Pops Orchestra and the orchestra of a high school in La Paz as respectively they rehearsed “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” and the Second Brandenburg Concerto. A geyser bubbled below the surface of Colorado. A company of humpback whales howled an ecstatic, intricate symphony whose orchestration stretched for half the width of the Indian Ocean. Quintillions of snails dragged quintillions of jellied tails over the surface of quintillions of leaves.

The slap-slapping of a runner’s feet against the outskirts of Kampala made a perfect syncopated rhythm with the singing of a thrush in Singapore. When the thrush stopped for a moment, the runner would stop for a gulp of water from his wineskin. When the runner stepped up his pace, the thrush soared into a new rhythm, as though the man in Africa and the bird in Asia were following signals from the same conductor.

The wind-songs ripping through the Andes made a counterpoint for the wagging tails of the dogs in the Bide-A-Wee Animal Shelter on the south shore of Long Island.

An ant’s breath, as it struggled to press a cake crumb up a centimeter and a half high hill in Bali, traced the precise pattern of the whirring of a machine mixing cavity filling in the office of a dentist in Tel Aviv.

The hums of all the beehives and all the Xerox copiers in all the world together created an eerily beautiful collection of sound that clearly constituted a fugue.

An angry golfer in Palm Beach, when he smashed his putter against a tree, compensated for the drummer in the Sussex disco band who missed a beat.

Then something even more remarkable happened. There was a flutter of flying fish in the Caribbean west of Bermuda whipping past the cruise ship Raffaelo. Together, in a pattern whose precision Superman could now begin to notice, they flashed out of the water and splashed back in, soared up, fluttered, tumbled back, broke the water again. And as they arced through the sky two of the fish hit the hull of the Raffaelo and broke their part of the pattern. A line of people who applauded as they watched the fish performance from the liner’s rail did not even notice the falling out of the two members of the school. And as Superman heard, from his icy throne, the sound of the pair of flying fish splashing clumsily into the sea, a few chunks of ice chipped off the rest under his heavy arm and scattered down the hill, making a noise comparable in quality to the noise of a flying fish duet fluttering on the wind and splashing into the Caribbean.

Superman was part of the song.

He had an instrument in the orchestra of this Earth.

He was not, in the overall scheme of things, an outsider.

He listened to the world, sitting in one of its most desolate spots, and he began to put together the pieces. He heard the howls of wolves, the roiling of cyclones, the bouncing of children’s balls, the sounds of his own digestive system, the clicking of the mandibles of ticks attaching themselves to the skins of dogs’ ears: everything, working together to create an ineffable symphony.

Maybe Superman, today, was the first one ever to hear the music that Earth made in totality. Maybe, on the other hand, every human who ever composed a concerto, wrote a song, whistled a tune, or listened intently to the heartbeat of a woman carrying a child had heard the song of the Earth in his or her own peculiar set of perceptions. Maybe Pythagoras, Mozart and McCartney had heard the song, had spent their lives trying in their primitive ways to imitate it. Maybe every whippoorwill and meadowlark Superman heard today was imitating the Earth as well. Maybe that was what Superman had been doing – bouncing to the rhythm of this planet that teemed with life and melody, ever since the day he first arrived on Earth.

- from Miracle Monday by Eliot S! Maggin

I know that in part, my fondness for the Bronze Age era of Superman is due to my age; I came up on Blue Ribbon digests full of stories from that whole stretch of pre-Crisis continuity from the 60s on to the mid-1980s. They imprinted on me as surely as your favorite interpretation imprinted on you.

But I don’t understand how anyone could love this character and not find something to contemplate in this lovely passage from Miracle Monday, where Superman takes a breath to mourn the loss of his other self Clark Kent, to listen to the symphony of life on Earth, and to prepare to rise and stare down the Devil for the most precious thing in all of creation: a single innocent life.

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such-a-downer · 9 months

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They're already far but still far.

Majority of the posts I'm seeing about the new chapter is always about Loid's love for Yor. It's sweet and nice, I know. I'm just as happy. I respect everyone's cheer for our beloved ship. But, I simply don't see it the exact same way as many others do.

Of course I'm not pretending like I've forgotten that Loid spared Yuri or that he dodged Fiona's further questioning. It's just that Loid could have simply done that because Loid feels like he owes Yor something. Also, because Loid doesn't take Yor for granted, who is supposed to be someone to be used for mission's sake. Loid respects Yor, that's obvious. And perhaps he thinks it wouldn't be fair if he killed Yor's only family.

I'm not saying that it can't be love. My point is that it can be anything else other than love. It can be "trust" or "reliance", both of which can be applied on the situation. Wheeler said not to trust anyone but Loid trusts Yor when it comes to Anya. And this chapter, Loid had just put some reliance on Yor by asking for a favor. Their interaction in this chapter is definitely a big milestone but at the same time, still ways to go. I know that everything of this will lead them to love but not yet.

What I'm waiting is, for Loid and Yor to have some sort of intersecting point that will eventually lead things towards the romantic path.

Am I pertaining about jealousy? Not necessarily. Mutual hardship? Maybe. Lol it could be even Anya, since she is their matchmaker. Just any plot mechanism that will pull them both towards each other.

And since I'm already on LoiYor/TwiYor love game I'll just be putting my bet on who does first–

The first one to fall in love is Loid.

The first one to realize their feelings first is Yor.

The first one to confess... maybe Yor.

Loid have dealt with many women but Yor is nothing like them. Yor herself said that she's "abnormal" and Loid himself admitted that Yor throws him off balance. And even more than that, Yor brings out many sides of Loid and gently peeling her way to his heart. Loid will keep on thinking about her words and action and unconsciously will fall for her. Loid will probably have a hard time accepting but well... he can take care of himself with that anyway.

Yor is simple minded and quite slow at times. She is simple-minded most likely due to the fact that her assassin job makes her work in a simple manner. Of course she has to analyze the target but there's only one goal, that is, to kill. That comes with exceptions like during the Cruise liner arc but still, Yor doesn't deal with lots of mind games as Loid do. So when Yor finally falls in love too, it will be like a clear sound echoing within her heart. And Yor is a very honest person so eventually she'll try to talk it with Loid or more likely do a drunk confession.

That's all I have to share. My thoughts have been bothering me nonstop while I was taking a bath. Thanks for reading

#spy x family #spy x family spoilers #spy x family manga #spy x family analysis #spy x family rant #loid #yor #loiyor #twiyor #maybe now i can do my inventory #or maybe my wip fic #I'm not sure #mission 86

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turtlethon · 1 year

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“Tower of Power”

Season 7, Episode 1 First US Airdate: September 18, 1993

Shredder and Krang plot to use the Eiffel Tower as a magnet to bring the Technodrome back to Earth.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles season seven opens with “Tower of Power”. This episode aired in the US on CBS in a double-bill with “Rust Never Sleeps”. Michael Edens is credited as the writer of this adventure.

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We kick off today with the return of the original TMNT title sequence, last seen on the two season five episodes that aired in syndication (“The Turtles and the Hare” and “Once Upon a Time Machine”). Its revival here signifies not a re-run, but the first in a series of what are sometimes referred to as the “lost” episodes of the show, the Vacation in Europe side-season. Also back are the classic title cards, which were abandoned when the show made the jump to Saturday mornings.

Let’s hop back to September 1990 and “Plan Six from Outer Space”, the opener for the syndicated portion of season four. That story contained a sub-plot about Raphael proposing to Splinter that the team take a vacation and go sight-seeing across Europe. At the conclusion of the adventure, Michaelangelo announced that he had received a letter from Vacations R Us, informing him that the team had won an all-expenses-paid vacation to Europe, courtesy of Greasy Eddie’s European Pizza. At the time, nothing would come of this, the Turtles continuing with their normal self-contained adventures in New York “The City”.

Years later – in 1992 for viewers actually in Europe, and 1993 in the US – we now kick off a series of episodes that pick up on what actually happened to the Turtles during their time overseas, jumping back into the timeline in the moments immediately following the conclusion of “Plan Six”. That wasn’t a stellar-looking episode in its own right, but right from the opening frame of this one it’s clear that it’s going to be its own special brand of weird, opening with Raphael staring at the “STOP” sign on the wall of the Lair for some reason; perhaps he’s trying to warn us of what’s to come. For reasons we’ll circle back to, no-one's dialogue lines up with their mouth movements, and the quality of the animation here could be considered rudimentary at best. It’s particularly glaring immediately after watching the more polished season six.

For the most part the story details line up with those at the conclusion of “Plan Six”, with one notable exception: there, Splinter was present when the Turtles learned of winning the vacation prize. Here, the team break the news to him after the event. The group’s sensei opens and closes his mouth crudely as he slowly comes around to the idea of accompanying them on the proposed journey, culminating in one of the most disturbing sights I’ve ever seen in the series as he briefly looks as if he’s having a stroke for no apparent reason. During this scene, we’re also introduced to one of the other hallmarks of this strange arc: missing voice actors. Rob Paulsen won’t be appearing as Raphael for the duration of this side-season, with Hal Rayle taking on the role instead.

The Turtles and Splinter arrive at the harbour and are excited at the prospect of travelling aboard “Paradiso”, a luxury cruise liner. The bad news is that there’s the ship the Turtles want to go by, and then there’s “Maude”, the dinky, run-down boat actually assigned to them as part of the contest. Despite their objections, the team have no choice but to get right on Maude. Disguised as sailors, the Turtles raise the eyebrows of the crew, as does the appearance of Splinter, who wears a hooded beige robe over his normal attire. The journey is a rough one for the Turtles, who find themselves seasick and ready to heave over the side of the ship, an issue exacerbated by Splinter as he cycles through the unusual European dishes that await them.

We hop over to the Technodrome next, which in keeping with its status during season four is currently stuck on an asteroid in Dimension X. From there, Krang lays into Shredder (voiced during this episode by Jim Cummings), who along with Rocksteady and Bebop just happens to be stationed today in Paris. A Neutronic Generator has been sent to Shreds to use as a magnet that will pull the Technodrome through a portal to Earth, but it’ll need to be connected to a large metal structure, namely the Eiffel Tower.

The Turtles and Splinter establish a home away from home in the sewers of Paris, with the Turtle Van apparently having been transported over off-screen. Splinter stresses to his students the importance of maintaining their ninja skills while on vacation, easily defeating them in a training exercise.

Shredder surveys the situation from his perch on the Eiffel Tower, noting that Channel 6 are also on the scene, preparing an outside broadcast. Improbably, the usual crew of April, Vernon and Irma just happen to have been shipped overseas to the very same location as both Shredder and the Turtles. Burne appears via transmission on a monitor in the news van to inform April that she won’t be anchoring the station’s Bastille Day coverage: that duty will instead fall to Vernon, who today is sporting a brown suit jacket over his usual clothes. After April complains that she’s left with nothing to do except stuff her face, Irma consoles her friend by pointing out “you may have lost the assignment, but you’ll probably gain lots of weight!” (I’m not sure what that was about, way to put the boot in, Irma.)

Vernon sweats and babbles profusely as the station’s coverage of the Bastille Day ceremony begins, with Irma working the camera. In the tower, Shredder activates Krang’s device, causing a group of men playing horns to lose their instruments followed by the buttons on their uniforms: subsequently they endure the greatest humiliation that can befall any man in the TMNT universe as their trousers fall down, revealing their boxer shorts to the world. Further metal items begin floating up into the air, including Irma’s camera and the news van, as the panicked crowd flees the scene. Vernon’s microphone is also pulled upwards, wedging itself onto the side of the Eiffel Tower, with both the cowardly journalist and Irma precariously dangling from the attached cable.

The Turtles are still carrying out their training exercise when their weapons – aside from Donnie’s wooden bo - float away from them. (These include Michaelangelo’s nunchucks, which at the time these episodes were produced hadn’t been phased out yet.) Heading up to the surface, our heroes watch as assorted metal objects such as street lights and cars float through the sky, all heading in the direction of the Eiffel Tower. The team hear April’s cries for help from a nearby restaurant and, without ever stopping the question the likelihood of their human friend who lives halfway around the world actually being in Paris somehow, barge in to provide assistance. After the green teens rescue April from waves of flying utensils and avoid a runaway fridge, the group rush to the tower to check on Vernon and Irma.

As the Turtles arrive on the scene, Shredder encounters an additional complication: his metallic armour is also prone to being attracted by the magnet, causing him to wind up stuck to the tower. Bebop finds himself in the same position, presumably due to the chains on his wrist and belt. Krang explains that Shredder needs to redirect his device’s ion flow if it’s to actually pull the Technodrome through the portal instead of random metal objects present in the city. Rocksteady is ordered to shut down the machine, which has the side effect of causing Vernon and Irma to begin plummeting. Fortunately, the Turtles are on the scene, with Michaelangelo commandeering a truck containing a giant Bastille Day cake created as part of the celebrations, the squishy topping breaking their fall.

After Donatello dismisses this as a freak incident, the Turtles return to the sewers, intent on enjoying their vacation time. April remains convinced there’s to this story, and heads off on her own to investigate. Later, the team visit the Cathedral of Notre Dame, where a shocked guard mistakes them for gargoyles that have come to life. Meanwhile, April’s investigations lead to her discovering Shredder’s activities, but ultimately getting found out. Like everyone else, Shreds seems entirely unfazed by the fact that he went all the way to Paris and April O’Neil of all people just happens to be there. He concludes the second act by informing Rocksteady and Bebop that this will be “her final story”.

Act three opens with April engaging in some bizarre shimmying after being restrained by Rocksteady and Bebop. Again, the animation in this episode leaves much to be desired. Elsewhere, the Turtles visit an art museum – ostensibly the Louvre, though it’s never explicitly referred to as such. Quick-fire gags follow of the team engaging with various works of art, including Raphael and Michaelangelo joking about the Mona Lisa being painted by “a dude named Leonardo”. This feels like a weird implementation of the joke, you’d think we’d actually get to see Leo interact with his namesake’s work, but alas. (UPDATE: This will be revisited in the next episode.)

Michaelangelo powers on a TV that’s part of an art exhibit, and I guess it just happens to be hooked up to a power outlet and ready to receive a transmission. A tied-up April is able to activate her camera and the footage goes out live on-air, viewed on-screen by the Turtles. Am I being needlessly picky by pointing out that the inference here is that Channel 6 goes out over the air in Paris? Anyway, Shredder picks up on this and makes a point of destroying the camera. He locks the reporter in an elevator, informing her that she’ll be placed directly in the path of the Technodrome as it returns from Dimension X.

At ground level, Michaelangelo and Donatello quickly defeat Rocksteady and Bebop by washing them away with a fire hydrant. Higher up the tower, Raphael and Leonardo battle Shredder, who despite the interruption is able to activate the magnet. After being knocked back to the ground, the Turtles watch as the tower begins floating into the air. Shreds slides down the side onto the roof of a nearby building, making his escape; with April still trapped higher up, the Turtles are forced to give up on pursuing their enemy in order to rescue her. Donatello works to override the elevator’s controls, placing Krang’s magnetic device underneath and crushing it as April is lowered to the ground. The Eiffel Tower is seen dropping back down into its original position.

Later, the Turtles and Splinter watch a firework display held as part of the Bastille Day celebrations. The team admit to their teacher that while they’ve been enjoying their time away from home, they’re keen to return to the sewers: as Raphael puts it, “there’s nothing more exhausting than a vacation”.

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The history behind this stretch of the show’s run is interesting, even if it we have to do a lot of filling-in-the-blanks. The name Bruno-René Huchez appears prominently on the unique end credit sequence for this side season, with few other clues as to who was actually responsible for animating it. His company, IDDH (International Droits et Drivers Holding) was established in 1981 and specialised in the localisation of television series, in particular anime, for the French market. Their involvement with Turtles extends far beyond this set of thirteen episodes as they were responsible for the French dub of the series, Tortues Ninja, with Huchez’s name and the company logo appearing prominently in the localised title sequence. Beyond that, IDDH appeared alongside Murakami Wolf Swenson and Group W in the copyright information for the early Turtles toys sold by Bandai even outside of France, suggesting they had a hand in the financing and distribution involved in bringing TMNT to Europe.

Part of this arrangement seems to have involved the production of this arc, with “Plan Six from Outer Space” serving as a dropping-off point; presumably this agreement would have been signed off on in early 1990, around the time that episode would have been in production and during the period in which the rollout of TMNT as a property began in Europe. The resulting episodes differ from the rest of the series in that the animation side of things seems to have been handled entirely by a French team with that market primarily in-mind, likely to meet with certain regulations so that it qualifies as a bona-fide local production. The end result is something that kinda looks like Turtles, but with the US voice actors doing anime-style dubbing instead. Jim Cummings is something of a TMNT veteran in his own right, having appeared throughout the show’s run as guest characters such as Leatherhead, and can pull off a decent substitute Shredder; Hal Rayle’s Raphael, on the other hand, takes some getting used to. Surprisingly, James Avery will actually be back as Shreds for the next episode.

Outside of the visuals – and the contrivances of having the entire main cast all show up in Paris at the same time as if it’s no big thing – the first episode of this arc isn’t nearly as bad as I feared. There’s some novelty here in rewinding the clock back to just after the classic era of the show had reached its apex, with elements like the original opening, Michaelangelo’s nunchucks and even the early pieces of background music returning for an encore performance, things that had all to some degree faded away by season six. We’ll re-join the Turtles in Paris next time as their holiday adventures continue in “Rust Never Sleeps”.

#Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #TMNT #TMNT 1987 #Vacation in Europe #1992 #1993 #Ninja Turtles #Turtlethon #Tower of Power

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Death on Deck by Verity Bright (A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery #13)

When Lady Swift embarks upon her first luxury cruise she imagines a gilded ballroom, afternoons on deck taking tea and all the delectable food she can eat. But she can’t seem to escape from murder…

Lady Eleanor Swift is all set to spend her birthday with her beau, dashing Detective Hugh Seldon, until he calls to cancel on her again at the last minute. What’s a girl to do? Pack up her staff and her faithful old bulldog, Gladstone, and head off on a cruise to New York, that’s what! On the stunningly opulent ocean liner Celestiana, Eleanor tries to forget her worries and make the most of her trip. That is, until she sees a man being shot and falling overboard. On closer inspection of the scene, Eleanor literally stumbles over the likely murder weapon. And the nick in the barrel is unmistakeable: this gun belongs to Detective Seldon… With some discreet digging, Clifford discovers Detective Seldon is aboard the ship on an undercover mission. Eleanor doesn’t want to make waves but she’s sure that something fishy is going on and he’s being framed. To get Seldon off the hook, Eleanor casts her net wide and searches for the real murderer among a sea of suspects including European nobility, Italian opera stars and American nouveau riche. But does the victim’s expensive gold ring point to a lavish lifestyle or is it a red herring? When another passenger is found dead in his first-class cabin, a poisoned whisky glass clutched in his hand, Eleanor realises they are really in hot water. Will the killer be Eleanor’s catch of the day, or will she spend her birthday at the bottom of the sea?

My Review: It’s been a couple of hectic days and a Lady Eleanor mystery was the right book to help me to relax and have some fun. After reviewing 13 novels it’s a bit hard to find something original to write: this is a series that improves with each new story and it’s also addictive as once you start reading you cannot stop and you want another story ASAP. All these blah blahs can be summarized in: This is the best story so far I love Eleanor, Clifford, the lady and Gladstone It’s tightly knitted, fast paced, and solid mystery that kept me guessing. You can read it as a stand alone but if you read the rest of the series be ready to have a lot of fun. Highly recommended. Many thanks to the Bookouture for this arc, all opinions are mine

The Author: Verity Bright is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing partnership that has spanned a quarter of a century. Starting out writing high-end travel articles and books, they published everything from self-improvement to humour, before embarking on their first historical mystery. They are the authors of the fabulous Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery series, set in the 1920s.

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Con Air (1997, dir. Simon West) - review by Rookie-Critic

What an absolutely wild time the late '90s must have been that this was a big blockbuster production. 1997 alone was absolutely wild, with this, Event Horizon, Contact, Face/Off, and so many others dropping all within the same cycle around the sun. Studios were really just throwing absolutely anything at the wall to see what stuck, and sometimes it really paid off (Strarship Troopers), and other times it didn't (Speed 2: Cruise Control), and sometimes I think it landed right in the middle, somewhere between good and awful, where it's really riding that line, but is just self-aware enough to be incredibly entertaining, and that's where Con Air lives. You have Nic Cage there to bring the zaniness, to give us brilliant moments like the classic "put the bunny back in the box" scene, and the absolutely asinine premise completely backs him up and gives him as much room to play around in this bananas space as he wants. There are some side characters that also help the zaniness move itself right along (I'm lookin' at you, Danny Trejo and Dave Chappelle). The one-liners range from eye-roll inducing to exceedingly clever, and the action set pieces are big and bombastic and generally just a crazy, explosive good time. All of this is fun. It doesn't hold together in the slightest, but it is fun. However, you then have Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, and John Malkovich delivering absolutely great performances that aren't Cage's brand of "good by humorous proxy," they're actually just really good. I found myself slack-jawed from the whiplash between bonkers scenes of Cage using the body of a dead con to send a message to ground level (something that I really don't think would have actually worked, which is indicative of a lot of the stuff in this film), and these amazing scenes where Malkovich or Buscemi just get to interact with their environment or even just give a line read that is way above and beyond the quality of the line itself. I know that Malkovich, at this point in his career, has almost become a bit of a meme (possibly in part due to the general goofiness of his name, probably in part due to the 1999 cult classic film Being John Malkovich, which I don't think he ever really was able to reclaim himself from fully), but damn, he's just an amazing actor, and this is someone saying this in reference to his performance in Con Air, of all things!

I don't want to just rant my bias for goofy self-aware action films on this one, though. For one, I already did that recently with Plane (which Con Air is vastly more ridiculous than), and two, there are quite a few problematic things in this film [TW AHEAD: mentions of rape]. I think firstly is Danny Trejo's character in general, who is a con doing time for raping 23 women, possibly more. His entire arc as a character is that there is one female guard that is a hostage onboard the plane, and Trejo wants nothing more than to... well, you get the idea. Granted, everyone else in the film, even the other criminally insane convicts, try to prevent him from accomplishing this, and the film is not so depraved as to ever actually let him get away with it, but it was something that was massively uncomfortable anytime it was given attention, and something that was, at the time, probably seen as "edgy" or "envelope pushing," but really was just incredibly problematic. The film is also just kind of vaguely racist any time a white character is referring to a nonwhite character, especially at the beginning. There's also a character, referred to in the end credits of the film as "Sally-Can't-Dance," (I have looked it up and the character's name is actually Ramon Martinez, which I think they're maybe only referred to as once in passing) that is a... problematic(?) portrayal of a character that is trans (again, while watching the film I wasn't entirely sure they were being presented as trans, but every article and piece of writing I've looked at refers to them as trans, so I'm going with that). I put a question mark next to problematic in the last sentence because, while Ramon never does or says anything that is inherently problematic or questionable, the way that everything surrounding them presents is like the butt of a joke, like we as the audience are meant to be laughing at "how ridiculous this character is." Maybe that's an incorrect read, but regardless it didn't sit right with me. It also has that classic, cheesy as all get out opening and closing with an incredibly sappy song that has no business being in a movie that is even remotely like Con Air. In this case, the song is the Dianne Warren-penned, Trisha Yearwood-performed "How Do I Live," which I had no idea was actually written for the film and was even nominated for an Oscar at that years' Academy Awards, where Con Air was also nominated for Best Sound. Granted, those are two fitting categories I guess, but the fact that this film was nominated for not one, but two Oscars is absolutely baffling. Getting back on track, it follows in the steps of songs like Top Gun's "Take My Breath Away" and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' "Everything I Do (I Do It for You)" as songs that clash in every possible way with the films they were written for, and it's an aspect of action films from that era that I am so, so happy has not carried over to the present. Despite all of these many faults, I can't lie and say that I didn't have a lot of fun with Con Air. I'm not sure I can recommend it in good faith, but if you're a fan of dumb, bananas action movies like I am, then Con Air basically fits the bill.

Score: 6/10

Currently unavailable to stream unless you have the Live TV add-on on Hulu. It is available to rent/purchase on digital (iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, etc.) and on Blu-ray & DVD through Disney/Buena Vista.

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Mission Debrief: Chapter Forty-Seven

...Right through the goddamn door!

Annnnnnddddd turns out it was option 2 behind the door. Endo went the cliche route and had the ol’ “bad guy disguised as room server” schitck, but considering we got a wicked assassination from Yor out of it I’m definitely not complaining (guess it was a good thing it wasn’t Loid and Anya!) This was probably the most action packed chapter since Loid took on Edgar’s men way back in the first chapter, and I am living for it. So let’s talk about it!

(Also just a quick shout out to @tare-chan and @musiciati for their awesome analyses. Check them out if you haven’t already!)

Okay, like I said already, the room service guy. It’s cliche. It’s obvious. It’s overdone- but I think that was kind of the point. The moment we saw this guy we already knew what was gonna happen, and yet it was still exciting seeing everyone pop off and Yor impaling the guy with her dagger (with a little help from McMahon and his darts, of course.) It quickly becomes apparent that plot isn’t the main focus of this chapter- rather it’s the action. We’ve had exposition. We’ve had buildup. The last three chapters were mostly talking, and now we’re getting into the actual fun part of this arc.

Endo has been building Yor up this whole time, and now we’re finally seeing everything come to a head as if the manga were this big, blockbuster summer movie about an army of assassins out for blood on a cruise liner. We’ve got all the tropes; an evil man-behind-the-chair, the eclectic group of cutthroat criminals, and a well-composed leader to reign them all in...

...For the most part.

The kill count is climbing fast, which I suppose is to be expected when you’re in Yor’s line of work. Still, it’s interesting- and a little bit concerning- how readily these guys are willing to turn on each other. We see that more as the chapter progresses and things devolve into essentially chaos. Everyone knows that Olka and Yor know they’re being targeted, so it becomes a rat race to see who can kill the former first.

Queue the masquerade scene (which funnily enough a lot of people were hoping would happen at some point, though not quite in this way). Yor is perfection in this whole sequence. Her assassin instincts are on full display, able to recognize the subtle feeling of killing intent even among an entire ballroom full of people. She has her eyes on everyone in there, including her charges, and despite her being nervous she invariably has everything under control.

First taking out a hitman with a button from across the room, and then leading a man twice her size out on the dance floor. I just have to reiterate that everything about this was so slick and smooth. Yor’s killer accuracy. The ease she takes this man with her insane strength. That little bit at the end where she reveals she’s married and tells him “it isn’t right”- god, move over Twilight. Your wife is the real smooth one in the family xD

Speaking of, it was only a matter of time before Anya got involved. It was kind of obvious that she’d be the first one to be clued in on Yor’s work, since she already knew the set-up for everything anyway. Now Anya knows the true extent of the trouble she’s in, even more so since we as the reader now know how much money is actually on the line here. Pulling out the math we did to figure out the cost of Handler’s coat, we know that Dalc= 3.16 to the U.S dollar. That means the combined bounty for both Olka and her son comes out to $2,528,000- an amount sizeable enough to make a boat full of eager assassins do anything to obtain.

Luckily- as expected- Loid is no slouch in keeping tabs on the boat-goers. Of course he’s not privy to the potential slaughter happening on in the background, but he does immediately recognize all the wires and bugs hidden everywhere on the ship. I’m glad Endo pointed this out because a) I knew Loid would sniff them out eventually and b) It gives Loid the excuse as to why he won’t draw attention to himself through out all this. Evil-franky (the intelligence guy) is listening to everything going on in the ship. If he hears any little detail that might point him to Yor and Olka, he’ll seize it...though good luck getting anything out of Loid when he’s on his best behavior. He won’t accidentally let anything slip out now that he knows people are listening, allowing him and Anya (and by extension Yor) some degree of anonymity-

-Assuming Loid can figure his daughter out. Poor guy just can’t catch a break, especially when Anya has no idea how to help her mama out. I know people were feeling bad that Anya has this recurring fear of Loid leaving her and Yor (frog hater), but honestly I was too busy laughing to care. Also I just have to appreciate Loid trying to be a good dad (FoR dA mISsuN.) Let him worry about that while his wife takes on an army. Y’know, typical Forger stuff.

It’s gonna be a whole month before the next chapter, but that doesn’t mean a lack of SxF! Endo’s been leaking out panels from his new novel and it’s looking fantastic. Also we’ve been seeing a lot more fan artists and writers popping up lately, so kudos to them for keeping us sated until chapter 48 drops! Ya’ll are the best!

Also, BONUS

BEBE BIRB

#spy x family #loid forger #yor forger #anya forger

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