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sleepyconfusedpotato · 11 months

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⚔️ MWII (2022) Character Ages (as of 2022) ⚔️

I was on a character age brainrot back in January and now It's back because of @angelsarewatching so I'm gonna go ahead and post this on Tumblr. Tell me what you think tho and discussions are open!

🐑 Gen. Shepherd - Around late 50s, Pushing 64. I searched it up and apparently, the mandatory retirement age for all general officers is 62, in some cases 64. But if he got into the recommendation list after Brigadier General (O-7), it's allowed to be more than 62. He's a Lt. Gen, so that's O-9. Also, Glenn Morshower (Shepherd's actor) is 64 so let's go with that.

🧠 Laswell - 47-ish. At MOST 55. (Rya Khilstedt is 52. AMAZING BEAUTIFUL SHOW -STOPPING)

🚁 Nikolai - 45 as well. I would go with 48 though.

🪦 Graves - 40. He gives Texan cowboy energy. I just know he's an old dude and is actually older than the rest of the gang.

🛖 Alejandro and 🦂 Valeria - 37. Maybe 38. I don't know at what age someone could make the rank Colonel 'cause that's quite high up the ladder. (They might as well be older than Price. Shit, they might be 40.)

🚬 Price - 37 (Canon) c. 1985.

🐎Rudy - 36. He's been close with Alejandro for 20 years now. Assuming they're bestest of friends and knew each other even before military, Rudy would be around 36/37 as well.

💀 Ghost - 35 or lower. As far as I know, lieutenants are usually young, unless he enlists first before a few years later he went to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS). OR. His preference and efficiency of working alone are far better for use on the battlefield. The higher you are in the ranks, the more soldiers you are responsible for. So the higher-ups might purposefully don't promote him (and he prefers and agrees to it as well) so that he can continue working alone rather than leading a squad. He surely can lead a team, but he's better at doing shit alone. Crazy theory but hey, it's fiction.

🦿Alex - 35 (Alex was a Delta Force until 2013. Assuming he's around 26 when he finally goes to the CIA, that means he's around 32yo in 2019 and 35yo in 2022)'

🔭 Hadir - 33/34 (Canon) 1989/1990. I’m choosing 34 tho since in the ‘Hometown’ mission he was almost a teenager.

☀️ Farah - 30 (Canon) January 12th 1990.

🧢 Gaz - 26 (Canon). The bio says he enlisted in the British Army in 2014. Assuming Gaz finished high school first, he must’ve enlisted when he was 18yo. That means he was 23yo in MW19 and 26yo in MW22.

🧼 Soap - 26 (Canon). He’s canonically the youngest one in Task Force 141. The bio mentioned that his cousin is in SAS and he often time visits the base. Setting aside the fact that the cousin brought a fucking kid to a top-secret base, lil’ Johnny must’ve been like “I DON’T WANNA GO TO SCHOOL I WANT TO BE AN SAS SOLDIER” and he canonically LIED about his age. Apparently, he went in when he was 16 but got caught several times, until finally when he was 18 he got in.

That's it folks! Tell me what you think (｡･∀･)ﾉﾞ

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the-batgirl · 2 months

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Catwoman (2018) #62

“WAS IT ISIS WHO FLOODED THE NILE DELTA, OR WAS IT THE TIDES? SOME THINGS ARE BOTH, MY SISTER. BOTH ASPECTS MAKE THE MAGIC WHOLE. YOUR LOVER KNOWS THIS.

I HAD ONE OF MY OWN ONCE. CALLED PTAH, THE GOD OF JUSTICE. BUT IT IS GOOD FOR YOU TO SEE GODS NOW. HE CERTAINLY HAS.”

Catwoman (2018) #63

“I’m starting to think i’m squandering your gift. should I just… go home? Maybe spend one of these lives with someone who deserves it.”

“PTAH!”

“So that’s a no?”

“PTAH IS A LOVER OF BASTET. GOD OF JUSTICE. SWEET AS IT WOULD BE TO GO HOME NOW, TO HIS CITY- YOU WON'T GET THE CHANCE. THE HUNT HAS BEGUN. THE PREDATOR CAT IS NOW PREY.”

#batcat #selina kyle #catwoman #comic panels #dc comics #bruce wayne #batman #bruce x selina #my post

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usafphantom2 · 4 months

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XB-70 Valkyrie

XB-70 Valkyrie in Cruise Configuration

The No. 1 XB-70A (62-0001) is viewed from above in cruise configuration with the wing tips drooped for improved controllability.

The XB-70 Valkyrie, with a planned cruise speed of Mach 3 and operating altitude of 70,000 feet, was to be the ultimate high-altitude, high-speed manned strategic bomber. Events, however, would cause it to play a far different role in the history of aviation.

To achieve Mach 3 performance, the XB-70 was designed to “ride” its own shock wave, much as a surfer rides an ocean wave. The resulting shape used a delta wing on a slab-sided fuselage that contained the six jet engines that powered the aircraft. The outer wing panels were hinged. During take off, landing, and subsonic flight, they remained in the horizontal position. This feature increased the amount of lift produced, improving the lift-to-drag ratio. Once the aircraft was supersonic, the wing panels would be hinged downward. Changing the position of the wing panels reduced the drag caused by the wingtips interacted with the inlet shock wave. The repositioned wingtips also reduced the area behind the airplane’s center of gravity, which reduced trim drag. The downturned outer panels also provided more vertical surface to improve directional stability at high Mach numbers. Attached to the delta was a long, thin forward fuselage. Behind the cockpit were two large canards, which acted as control surfaces.

XB-70: World's Largest Experimental Aircraft in the 1960s.

The figure standing on the ramp provides a size comparison with the XB-70A aircraft.

As impressive a technological feat as the XB-70 represented, the aircraft was under development at a time when the future of the manned bomber was uncertain. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, many believed that manned aircraft were obsolete, and the future belonged to missiles. As a result, the Kennedy Administration ended plans to deploy the B-70. Two experimental XB-70A prototypes were under construction at North American Aviation when the program was canceled.

At the same time there was growing interest in an American supersonic transport (SST). Jet airliners had cut flight times by more than half in comparison to propeller-powered aircraft. A Mach 2 or 3 SST would make a similar improvement over the new subsonic jet airliners. The Flight Research Center (FRC-now the Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.) had several SST studies underway during the early 1960s. NASA’s Douglas F5D-1 was used for landing studies, a North American F-100C was modified to simulate SST handling qualities, a North American A-5A was used to simulate an SST for tests of the air traffic control system, and a Lockheed JetStar was modified as an in-flight SST simulator.

On the Ramp: XB-70

The XB-70A is shown parked on a ramp at Edwards, California, in 1967.

The XB-70 Valkyrie seemed to be a perfect testbed for SST research. It was the same size as the projected SST designs, and used similar structural materials, such as brazed stainless steel honeycomb and titanium. Thus, the XB-70A’s role changed from a manned bomber prototype to one of the most remarkable research aircraft ever flown.

The XB-70A number 1 (62-001) made its first flight from Palmdale to Edwards Air Force Base, CA, on Sept. 21, 1964. Tests of the XB-70’s airworthiness occurred throughout 1964 and 1965 by North American and Air Force test pilots. The Flight Research Center prepared its instrument package. Although intended to cruise at Mach 3, the first XB-70 was found to have poor directional stability above Mach 2.5, and only made a single flight above Mach 3. Despite the problems, the early flights provided data on a number of issues facing SST designers. These included aircraft noise, operational problems, control system design, comparison of wind tunnel predictions with actual flight data, and high-altitude, clear-air turbulence.

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, wind-tunnel studies led engineers at North American Aviation in Downey, CA, to build the second XB-70A (62-207) with an added 5 degrees of dihedral on the wings. This aircraft made its first flight on July 17, 1965. The changes resulted in much better handling, and the second XB-70 achieved Mach 3 for the first time on Jan. 3, 1966. The aircraft made a total of nine Mach 3 flights by June.

At the same time, a joint agreement was signed between NASA and the Air Force to use the second XB-70A prototype for high-speed research flights in support of the SST program, selected due to its better aerodynamics, inlet controls, and a much superior instrument package, compared to the first aircraft. The NASA research flights were to begin in mid-June, once the North American Aviation Phase I tests of the vehicle’s airworthiness were completed. NASA research pilot Joe Walker was selected as the project pilot. The flights were to evaluate the aircraft on typical SST flight profiles, and to study the problems of sonic booms on overland flights.

These plans went awry on June 8, 1966, when the second XB-70 crashed following a midair collision with NASA’s F-104N chase plane. Joe Walker, F-104N pilot, died in the accident. North American test pilot Al White ejected from the XB-70 in his escape capsule, but received serious injuries in the process. Co-pilot Maj. Carl Cross, who was making his first flight in the XB-70, was unable to eject and died in the crash.

The deaths of Walker and Cross, and the destruction of the second XB-70 had major consequences for the research program. The second XB-70 had been selected for the Phase II tests, which were to be conducted jointly by NASA and the Air Force. With this aircraft now destroyed, only the first aircraft was available. Given the aircraft’s shortcomings, the Air Force began to doubt that it would be able to meet the Phase II test goals.

The first XB-70 was undergoing maintenance and modifications at the time of the accident to its sister ship. It did not fly again until Nov. 3, 1966. Col. Joe Cotton piloted it, while NASA research pilot Fitzhugh Fulton served as co-pilot. The flight reached a top speed of Mach 2.1. Between November 1966 and the end of January 1967, a total of 11 joint Air Force/NASA research flights occurred. Cotton, Fulton, and Van H. Shepard of North American Aviation were crewmen on these flights. A top speed of Mach 2.57 was the highest attained during the remainder of the XB-70 program.

These flights were made as part of the National Sonic Boom Program. The XB-70 flew at differing altitudes, Mach numbers, and weights over an instrumented test range at Edwards. The “boom carpet” area was determined and the overpressure measured on two specially constructed housing units. The tests showed that a large aircraft, such as the XB-70 or the projected SST, could generate overpressures high enough to cause damage. Moreover, when the XB-70 made a turn, its shock waves converged, and often doubled the overpressure on the ground.

Following these tests, the XB-70 was grounded for maintenance that lasted 2 1/2 months. The Air Force had concluded by that point that the XB-70 program should be turned over to NASA as soon as possible. FRC director Paul Bikle and Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) commander Maj. Gen. Hugh Manson created a joint FRC/AFFTC XB-70 operating committee on March 15, 1967. This was patterned on similar committees established for the X-15 and lifting bodies. The NASA XB-70 program continued to receive Air Force assistance, in terms of aircraft support and Air Force test pilots.

The first NASA XB-70 flight occurred on April 25, 1967, by Fulton and Cotton. By the end of March 1968, another 12 research flights had been completed. The pilots included Fulton, Cotton, and Shepard, as well as Lt. Col. Emil Sturmthal and NASA research pilot Don Mallick. The flights acquired data to correlate with an Ames ground-based SST simulator and the JetStar in-flight SST simulator at FRC. Other XB-70 research goals were to measure its structural response to turbulence; determine the aircraft’s handling qualities during landings; and investigate boundary layer noise, inlet performance, and structural dynamics, including fuselage bending and canard flight loads.

The XB-70 underwent modifications after a final flight on March 21, 1968. During research flights, the XB-70 pilots had frequently experienced trim changes and buffeting during high-speed, high-altitude flights. These resulted from clear-air turbulence and rapidly changing atmospheric temperatures. For a specialized research aircraft, these characteristics were little more than annoying; on a commercial SST, however, they would be uncomfortable for the passengers, increase the pilots’ workload, and shorten the structural fatigue life of the SST.

XB-70A Rolls Out After Landing

The XB-70A No. 1 is shown rolling out after landing, employing drag chutes to slow down.

The XB-70 was fitted with two small vanes for the Identically Located Acceleration and Force (ILAF) experiment. The vanes rotated 12 degrees at a rate of up to 8 cycles per second. This induced a structural vibration in the XB-70 at a known frequency and amplitude. The XB-70’s accelerometers detected the disturbances, then signaled the aircraft’s stability augmentation system to damp out the motion. When XB-70 research flights resumed on June 11, 1968, the ILAF proved its ability to reduce the effects of turbulence and atmospheric temperature changes.

Despite the accomplishments of the XB-70, time was running out for the research program. NASA had reached an agreement with the Air Force to fly research missions with a pair of YF-12As and a “YF-12C,” which was actually an SR-71. These represented a far more advanced technology than that of the XB-70. In all, the two XB-70s had logged 1 hour and 48 minutes of Mach 3 flight time. A YF-12 could log this much Mach 3 time in a single flight.

The final XB-70 research flight occurred on Feb. 4, 1969. Fulton and Sturmthal made a subsonic structural dynamics test and ferry flight. The XB-70 took off from Edwards and flew to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, where the aircraft was put on display at the Air Force Museum. The first XB-70 made 83 flights totaling 160 hours and 16 minutes, while the second XB-70 logged 46 flights in its brief life, totaling 92 hours and 22 minutes.

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theculturedmarxist · 6 months

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Folks,

Greetings from the Burgh, where I just wrapped up a three-day documentary film shot and wanted to bring you a quick update on the GM contract, which increasingly looks like it will be voted down.

GM Workers Poised to Vote Down UAW Contract

Last month, UAW President Shawn Fain was rebuked when 5,000 Mack Truck workers voted down a tentative agreement crafted by Fain. Now, it appears increasingly likely that GM workers are poised to vote down a tentative agreement once again.

With 17,000 GM workers out of 46,000 GM workers have voted so far, 51% of all GM production workers nationwide have voted against the deal, according to a tracker run by Automotive News. Increasingly, the “no vote” movement is gaining momentum within the UAW.

Last week, a majority of 4,460 at GM’s Flint plant voted against the contract. Today, it was announced that 62% of the 2,100 workers at GM’s Lansing Delta plant voted no. It was also announced today that 68% of the 3,900 workers at GM’s Spring Hill, Tennessee plant voted no.

While the UAW has publicly touted that their proposed GM contract includes a 25% wage increase, the contract cuts many popular bonuses.

Workers will no longer receive an annual $1,500 performance and quality bonuses. More significantly, when GM workers struck in 2019, they received an $11,000 signing bonus and full-back pay for their time on strike. Now, workers will receive only a $5,000 signing bonus plus back pay when they return to work.

Many UAW members are also upset that GM workers who moved away from Lordstown, Ohio, to take jobs elsewhere will not be guaranteed their jobs if they decide to return to Lordstown. Only GM workers who did not leave Lordstown will be guaranteed the right to return to GM’s electric car battery plant.

Furthermore, UAW President Shawn Fain initially promised they would win the right to work only four days a week for the same pay. However, the proposed contract does not even contain provisions against forced overtime.

Insiders say that UAW President Shawn Fain has mishandled the ratification process by ordering UAW members to return to work before the ratification vote process is finished.

Previously, the UAW allowed members time to study the contract before voting on it and deciding to return to work, creating a situation where members increasingly feel betrayed by their union leadership and are voting no.

“If you overpromise and under deliver, it’s always gonna come back to haunt you,” one senior UAW official told Payday Report. “Where you have social media, you can reach a lot of people in a hurry, and that’s been a huge game changer.”

While it remains unclear whether or not the tentative agreement will pass at GM, 81% of Stellantis members have so far voted for their agreement, and 66% of Ford workers have voted for their agreement.

Payday will have more updates tomorrow.

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#uaw strike #united auto workers #labor unions #class war #payday report #shawn fain

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y2klostandfound · 11 months

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Olmypus "Eye Trek" on Sega Saturn Magazine vol.15 (22/05/1998)

Translation in English:

Now is the time to see the display through the ultra-compact glasses type display

Olympus will release the eyeglass-type new sensation display "Eye-Trek" on June 20th. With a slim body of 110 grams, it can be worn even with eyeglasses on, and sharp images and a large screen equivalent to 62 inches are approaching. The camera is also designed to turn off automatically after two hours of use. The price is 65,000 yen excluding tax. This display, which enables a virtual experience both indoors and outdoors, will make gaming even more fun!

180,000 pixel delta array TFT liquid crystal panel x2. 170X50X55mm (width , height , depth) when the frame is folded. Equipped with inner headphones.

#olympus

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lonestarflight · 1 year

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Cancelled Spacecraft: TRW Janus, Manned Orbital Spacecraft with Stage Re-Entry, aka landing with extra steps

"American manned spaceplane. Study 1965. This TRW design of 1965 used a unique concept - a lifting body main stage, that provided both ascent propulsion and re-entry protection.

TRW'S STAGED REENTRY SPACECRAFT VIEWED FROM ABOVE AND AFT. A = JET AIRPLANE COCKPIT CANOPY; B = PANEL COVERING JET AIRPLANE NOSE; C = TOP SURFACE OF JET AIRPLANE FUSELAGE AND WINGS; D = FLAT LIFTING BODY TOP SURFACE; E = JET AIRPLANE HORIZONTAL FLAP (1 OF 2); F = TUBBY LIFTING BODY BELLY; G = EJECTABLE ABORT ROCKET MOTORS (1 OF 2); H = DEORBIT/ABORT ROCKET MOTOR; I = PARACHUTE/LANDING AIDS COMPARTMENT COVER; J = MOVABLE CONTROL FLAP WITH ACTUATOR (1 OF 4); K = FLAT AFT BULKHEAD; L = AIRLOCK OUTER HATCH

"CUTAWAY DRAWING SHOWING JET PLANE (BLUE) NESTED IN UPPER HALF OF LIFTING BODY "POD." NOTE THE JET'S DOWN-TURNED VERTICAL STABILIZERS, ONE OF WHICH IS VISIBLE IN THIS SIDE VIEW."

Status: Study 1965. Gross mass: 7,300 kg (16,000 lb). Height: 8.17 m (26.80 ft). Span: 4.88 m (16.01 ft).

RIDING THE RAILS: TRW'S METHOD FOR MOVING ASTRONAUTS BETWEEN THE LIFTING BODY POD AND THE JET AIRPLANE COCKPIT.

THE JET PLANE SEPARATES FROM THE LIFTING BODY POD. A = EMPTY ABORT ROCKET COMPARTMENT (1 OF 2); B = LIFTING BODY PAYLOAD; C = JET AIRPLANE SEPARATION MECHANISM (1 OF 3); D = PANEL COVERING SUBSYSTEMS (FOR EXAMPLE, LIFE SUPPORT); E = JET ENGINE; F = VERTICAL STABILIZER (1 OF 2); G = VERTICAL CONTROL SURFACE (1 OF 2); H = LANDING SKID (1 OF 2).

The main stage was 8.17 m long, had a 4.88 m wingspan, and could accommodate a payload of 24.4 cubic meter volume. The 7300 kg gross weight included a separable manned aircraft of 6.4 m length, which had a delta wing of 62 degrees sweep and a span of 4.05 m. The vertical stabilizers turned down from each wingtip. After the mother ship had re-entered the atmosphere, the manned aircraft would separate at Mach 0.6 and 9150 m altitude. Equipped with a single turbojet, a nose wheel, and aft landing skids, it would proceed to a landing at a conventional airfield. The main stage would descend to earth under a parachute and be recovered for re-use. The whole concept was strikingly similar to Chelomei's Kosmoplan, which was being cancelled in the Soviet Union just as the TRW study was completed."

-Information from astronautix.com: link

"The pod descends on parachutes and the crew flies to it's preselected landing site."

Photos from April 1965 edition of Space World

Posted on Flickr: link, link, link, link

Photos from Wired.com: link

Photos from SecretProjects.co.uk: link

#TRW Janus #Janus #Stage Re-Entry #lifting body #NASA #concept art #1960s #my post

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magnoliafalls · 3 months

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— welcome to magnolia falls...

Nestled on the banks of the Atchafalaya River in southeast Louisiana, Magnolia Falls is less of a town than it is a loose collection of inhabitants who've occupied its land for generations. Their history lies buried deep beneath the bayou, strangled by the roots of skeletal bald cypresses that have lived and breathed and held their secrets for centuries.

Weathered clapboard buildings constitute the town's main street, but they're little more than a strip of hot asphalt forked off of Route 90. When the local folk speak about the real Magnolia Falls, they're referring to the shotgun houses with their doors misaligned to confuse wandering spirits, and the river delta that plays host to a variety of opportunities not available through official town commerce. They speak of the local cemetery haunted by moonshine-drinking teenagers; of the cicadas that sing at dusk from the tops of mossy oak trees; of the swamp water that tastes like cherry wine when the moon is full and is rumored to let you live forever with just a few brave gulps.

Magnolia Falls is many things. Some say it's smack in the middle of everywhere—66 miles southeast of Lafayette, 62 miles south of Baton Rouge, and 88 miles west of New Orleans—even if there are more angel oaks around these parts than there are human beings. Others claim it to be a labyrinth; unrelenting in its hold on every resident who's tried to leave, only to end up back in town limits sometime in the decades that followed. Of course, what most people don't realize is that, more than anything, Magnolia Falls is a beacon home to beacons—playing host to the very witches who greedily soak up the magic inlaid deep within its roots, and the beastly creatures who derive from that magic.

a 21+ discord supernatural rp

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#discord rp #supernatural rp #rp #roleplay #oc rp

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crownedinmarigolds · 7 months

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8, 10, 51 and 68 for Khloe? 😁🖤

thesixthplaneteer asked:

"Asking for Khloe! 7. there’s a magic item (or technological innovation, or special resource) made just for them—what is it? 18. what dish brings back the best memories for them? 62. do they believe in good and evil?" Hurray for the girl! Thank you both for asking!

7. there’s a magic item (or technological innovation, or special resource) made just for them—what is it? At this point it probably is some sort of decanter of "blood tastes like whatever food you want it to." Get some mocha latte with a extra shot of type O negative, you know? Khloe can still eat and drink regular food without it tasting like ash, but it makes her queasy and she has to throw it all up later anyway because her vampiric body just cannot process it properly anymore! 8. what songs remind you of them? if there are specific lyrics or movements, list ‘em! I have plenty of songs to match with Khloe and her coterie! A whole playlist even, but to match them to specifically her: Gun in My Hand, by Dorothy: Why did love, why did love put a gun in my hand? I Will Never Die, by Delta Rae: Old heat of a raging fire/Come and light my eyes/Summer's kiss thru electric wire/But I'll never die All for Us, by Labrinth: Guilty or innocent/My love is infinite, I'm giving it/ No need for prisoners A lot of songs of martyrdom, becoming violent and wiling to go beyond too far because you're safeguarding true love and comradery. 10. what inspired this character’s creation? A fun exercise I like to do is think about a character or traits or ways I never often play, then I make the character to emulate these things! In Vampire the Masquerade, I never play a genuinely kind person, nor do I play someone very religious or intrinsically tied to a large group of people. I made Khloe to be a vampire with a heart of gold, with so much love to give, a classic Southern Christian respect for God, and working intensively to serve her coterie! It puts her I think in the most danger for the most hurt out of most of my characters, which is very exciting and daunting! She's also basically my self insert, which I try not to play often either, haha! 18. what dish brings back the best memories for them? Khloe personally loves a good macaroni and cheese, it reminds her of being a kid and then being a college student. Another meal would be a Waffle House waffle, bacon, grits, eggs, the works. She's even made it into an alchemy potion as a wake-up juice for her day-drinker coterie member, Christian! 51. what element of their backstory are you proudest of? Honestly her backstory isn't impressive at all, considering she's meant to be a very average joe. I think Khloe's mother being an avid haunted house tourist was pretty fun as a background element, because it's allowed me to succeed on a few random information rolls that made her look kind of dorky-cool in the moment! 62. do they believe in good and evil? Khloe knows the world is full of nuance, but she basically has to force-feed herself good and evil in her current circumstances. She has to protect her coterie and her fellow Thinbloods, and she can't afford to look at the gray sometimes. 68. where’s their home? Her physical address is in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. But her home is safe in the space shared with her coterie.

#heywizards #thesixthplaneteer #ask game #oc ask game #long post #answered ask #khloe #khloe osborne #vtm #vtm oc #vampire the masquerade #thinblood #duskborn #thank you!!!!!!

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queerasfact · 2 years

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Hello! I know you're still uploading your bibliographies, but do you have anything for the Golden Orchids episode yet? This is something I'm interested in researching myself, but a lot of the names are difficult to sound out and spell in a way that won't get the search engine confused. Even just like. A list of some of the romanizations, or a book title or two to get me started. No rush, but it doesn't hurt to ask, I thought. Thank you for the work and research you do

Hello! THank you for asking - we are still slowly working through our backlog of source posts - so this one isn’t up on our website yet but here’s the list. Hope that helps!

Siu, Helen F. "Where Were the Women?: Rethinking Marriage Resistance and Regional Culture in South China." Late Imperial China 11, no. 2 (1990): 32-62

Helen F. Siu. 2010. 3 - “What Alternative Do You Have, Sixth Aunt?’’ — Women and Marriage in Cantonese Ballads.” Hong Kong University Press, HKU

Jaschok, Maria HA. "On the lives of women unwed by choice in pre-Communist China: research in progress." Republican China 10, no. 1 (1984): 42-55

Tan, Pamela Huan Ni. "Defiance and independence: remembering the Majie of Singapore." PhD diss., 2017

Ziling Ye. 2008. “Dutiful Daughters of the Guangdong Delta.” Intersections: Gender & Sexuality in Asia & the Pacific, no. 17 (July): 10. https://discovery.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=74c56d39-4321-3181-a3c2-bffa6f9a44be

Topley, Marjorie. 2011. “Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung: (1978).” Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money, January. doi:10.5790/hongkong/9789888028146.003.0017

Hill, Ann Maxwell (1994) Women and marriage in China: “Resistance,”

dowry, and inheritance re‐examined, Reviews in Anthropology, 22:4, 297-304, DOI:

10.1080/00988157.1994.9978073

Lin, Tong (Hilary), "Ji Sor (1997): Self-Realization of Women in Cinema and in History" (2017). CMC Senior Theses. 1671.

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1671

Judd, E. (1989). Niangjia: Chinese Women and Their Natal Families. The Journal of Asian Studies, 48(3), 525-544. doi:10.2307/2058638

Branigan, Tanya “No regrets, say the Chinese women who chose independence over marriage”, The Guardian 14/7/2014 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/03/survivors-ancient-chinese-custom-self-combed-women

Sang, Tze-lan D. 2003. The Emerging Lesbian : Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China / Tze-Lan D. Sang. University of Chicago Press

Lee, Wenshu. 2003. “Kuaering Queer Theory: My Autocritography and a Race-Conscious, Womanist, Transnational Turn.” Journal of Homosexuality 45 (2–4): 147–70. doi:10.1300/J082v45n02-07

#golden orchid societies

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kylesvariouslistsandstuff · 1 year

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STRANGE WORLD's Unlikely 2nd Life

The Walt Disney Company feels that there are 61, soon to be 62 animated features in their "Animated Classics Canon"...

At least 20 films in the "canon" had flopped at the box office on their initial releases.

And many of those films found successful second lives afterwards... A theatrical run is short, but the movie's existence is forever after that...

The earliest Disney animated films lived on through theatrical re-issues...

Example: PINOCCHIO (1940) and BAMBI (1942) were initially impacted by World War II, whether it was audiences at home not taking to those stories the same way they did to SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS just a few years earlier, or almost the entire European market being cut off. When the war was over, and these films began playing in territories where they initially were banned from, and when they came back to American theaters every 5-10 years, they began to make their money back... and they all eventually became the crown jewels of Disney's animated library. Would you believe for a second that PINOCCHIO, where Disney's whole damn anthem comes from... And BAMBI, one of the great Disney tearjerkers... Were initially viewed as disappointments upon their release? And even lost money?

Flop is a loaded word in movie-dom, and often a misused word... A film losing lots of money has long been something of a curse to a movie or even its filmmakers, something so stigmatized... And during Walt's years among the living, a lot of what's considered the cream of the crop... PINOCCHIO, FANTASIA, BAMBI, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, and SLEEPING BEAUTY... All lost money at the box office on their respective initial releases... And they were saved by re-issues over time... Films that even had mixed or outright negative reviews upon release, long considered iconic afterwards... It just had to take a few years.

Other films had second lives via home video. Home video as we know it today came about in 1975, in the form of Betamax, in Japan. VHS followed there in 1976. The winning VHS format then came to America in 1977, and slowly grew from there, becoming much more commonplace in American homes by the end of the 1980s... Walt Disney, of course, didn't live to see this video age, but it proved to be a deus ex machina to flop animated movies, more so than a theatrical re-issue could be. THE BLACK CAULDRON was originally released in theaters in 1985, and could've easily come to video the year after, but the film wouldn't debut on video until 1998. Thirteen years later... And it more than made back what it lost. THE RESCUERS DOWN UNDER was the sole box office loss during the Disney Renaissance of the late 1980s/early 1990s, but on videocassette and LaserDisc, it covered all of its losses within a year. THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE, ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE, TREASURE PLANET, and BROTHER BEAR all thrived on DVD/VHS... So on, so forth.

Now we're in the streaming era. ENCANTO. Great example. Did so-so in theaters during the Delta and Omicron variants, collected about $250m worldwide... While SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME made that kind of money on its first weekend in North America *alone*... But lo and behold, ENCANTO *explode* on Disney+ and is one of the most streamed films of all-time. Disney regularly racked up world records in home video sales (SNOW WHITE, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ALADDIN, and THE LION KING broke all the records), and they also dominate streaming: ENCANTO, along with the two FROZENs and MOANA, regularly are in the Top 10 most-streamed movies...

Then there's the latest Walt Disney Animation Studios film, STRANGE WORLD, a sci-fi adventure movie that came out in theaters merely less than a year ago. A film they left to die in theaters during the Thanksgiving stretch, with a truly ineffective marketing campaign behind it. For whatever reason, it tested poorly before release, Disney had no faith in it, and audiences didn't seem to like it much. But on Disney+, it did quite well in its first couple of weeks, so maybe there was a small sliver of hope for this one...

Now, it has made a resurgence... But for reasons a lot of us expected, but maybe not in the way we thought it would play out...

And just a warning, I'm going to get very political... So, yeah, just a heads up...

STRANGE WORLD was shown in an elementary school in the dictatorship known as... the state of Florida. Because Florida's draconian frumpy toad of a governor kisses up to his ghastly constituents - the very weirdos in this country who hate queer people and are also very politically active, showing STRANGE WORLD - a PG-rated Disney movie for the entire family - to a class of schoolchildren is a criminal act of the highest order. The poor 5th grade teacher, Ms. Jenna Barbee, is being *investigated* for this! Per the governor's orders! You would've thought she had shown CALIGULA (1979) to the class or something! And it was all spurred by some angry Karen-looking woman who had actually signed a waiver that *allowed* Barbee to show her child and the other students PG-RATED MOVIES.

Oh, but not THAT one apparently...

Just another day in America, it seems... And just another day in a state as completely-f*cked as Florida.

The very state where The Walt Disney Company operates a little theme park that... I dunno... Happens to drive A LOT of the state's tourism???

So... Theatrical re-releases, home video, streaming... and government-mandated investigation...

This is not the first time a Disney animated movie spurred some kind of controversy, but this... This is a whole other level... Because right now, in certain states in this country, the right-wing is working overtime to rip the LGBTQIA+ community of their rights, criminalize them, demonize them, and erase them. Especially in the schools, all age groups, whether you're a kindergartner or a high school senior, even. All under the guise of "protecting children"...

To these awful awful people, a straight couple existing and even expressing love for one another is totally OKAY... But if an LGBTQIA+ couple even so much as *thinks* of smiling at each other, it's CORRUPTING our youth! Monsters like this particular governor are doing this because their lowlife constituents want it. Millions of asshole Americans who hate everyone and everything, that's who this stupid elephant party answers exclusively to. And they do it, with pleasure. Anything to power themselves, no matter how many people it hurts and even kills. They'll make up all the worst lies about us queers in order to render our pleas for just wanting to be left alone insignificant. They use trojanhorse concerns like "schools are trying to s*xualize kids", something schools legally CAN'T do, to make the masses think that us queers are in a conspiracy with "liberals", "leftists", "marxists", "communists", "socialists", and George Soros to harm children.

This is what we're up against, and STRANGE WORLD is now part of this ludicrous, hateful war... Something this party would rather invest in than actually, ya know, running a country with *actual* policy???

Truly normal people watched the movie and just said "Ok, whatever."

These demented goblins see the most menacing sinister thing preying on the vulnerable youth in our country.

All because the character Ethan Clade has a crush on a boy named Diazo... There's one scene of them hanging out together, and it's so brief and harmless... Throughout the movie, Ethan mentions his love of this boy. The two are seen together helping out in Avalonia's insides at the very end of the movie, and that's it really... It's a significant cut above the nearly non-existent "representation" seen in previous Disney-released movies... Like the utter joke that was THE RISE OF SKYWALKER's "representation", or the blink-and-you'll-miss-it nonsense seen in films like the live-action BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and even some of those were protested by wackiest of right-wing wackos.

This is really what we're dealing with in America, folks... Some harmless Disney movie that flopped at the box office and no one really paid attention to is CRIME OF THE CENTURY to a very loud and powerful block of the country, and is now part of a state governor and his cronies' cruel war on an entire community's existence. And part of this gremlin's war is also Walt Disney World itself, as it is based in Florida, and he's trying to dictate them and their district that they operate out of...

Currently, Disney is fighting this demon in other ways, one of the few good things this corporation is actually doing. Which feels kind of wrong to say, but between Iger and this utter fascist? Oh I'll side with Iger on this one, easily, even if Disney gave a lot of support to this guy and his bullshit in the first place.

I wonder if this will drive views on Disney+ for STRANGE WORLD, a movie that otherwise would've just... Existed on there... I wonder if many will stream it out of curiosity. Just *how* inappropriate is this flop sci-fi Disney movie? Is it really all that controversial? They'll pop it on, realize that it's just some harmless 100min movie, and call it a day... Making that governor and those who wholeheartedly support his crusade look even stupider and wackier than they already do...

I believe STRANGE WORLD does have a second life ahead of it, in that it's a family movie with pretty solid queer representation. It's nice to see two characters actually showing affection, and not it being some line you can easily miss, or something hidden far in the background of a crowded shot. This movie probably already has uplifted many a queer kid, preteen, or teenager already. Just seeing themselves, not as a joke, and not much attention is called to it, either. Avalonia is not Earth, and their society is all-accepting and seemingly unmarred by colonialism and capitalism. Mixed race families, queer people, disabled people, they all just harmoniously exist there. When Ethan tells his grandpa Jaegar Clade about his crush back home, you - the Earth-dwelling audience - would expect the old man to object... But he doesn't! It's a relief, in a way. Instead, he's like "what's he like? Here's how you impress him!" In Avalonia, it's as normal as anything else. Very "Disney" of this movie to create a fantasy world where you can be queer and not have to worry about millions of people wanting you erased from existence.

While I don't find STRANGE WORLD to be a masterpiece, or anything close to it, I think that's very important nonetheless. A lot of younger folk will have this movie, and it'll be a favorite of theirs. Much in the same way a lot of kids ate up EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE, ATLANTIS, TREASURE PLANET, and BROTHER BEAR on video, and took those movies with them into the adult age. Nowadays those movies are more positively spoken about. Not like in, say, 2008 where most people said "oh, those flops."

It would simply have that in its favor, but... It's now part of a government investigation. It's now in 'Louie, Louie' territory, as a harmless piece of media that's in big trouble... At the hands of people who just need to f*cking chill for five seconds already.

('Louie, Louie' is in reference to a rock song by The Kingsmen, which came out in 1963, and was investigated by the F-B-freakin'-I for supposedly "obscene" lyrics that weren't there... But the hilarious thing is, one of the musicians yelling the f-word in the background during the session was in the released recording... The FBI didn't notice that whatsoever. Funny how the things you are often looking for are right in front of you!)

Moving on... STRANGE WORLD is now in a truly strange situation, one that did not need to happen, and I'm sure little will be done about this by Disney themselves... as this is something that the people need to revolt against or work their damnedest to vote out. Hey, Jacksonville elected a Democrat the other day, so it's not all lost! Disney can only deal with the things the governor is dishing to them, not a teacher somewhere in the state who showed a movie to her class. Though it would be nice if ol' Iger made some sort of statement at least, something about standing by the movie and its representation, which won't do anything other than... Ya know, piss the right people off? Disneyland on the West Coast is already having a big queer celebration in the coming months, so might as well piss these people off some more. It'll at least be funny!

It'd be even more hilarious if WISH had some queerness in it, ditto any other upcoming PG-rated movies of theirs. Like, they could hide STRANGE WORLD because it was a somewhat-weird sci-fi adventure movie, but something more mainstream-looking like WISH or ELEMENTAL or any of those movies? It'd be cool if they kept it up. I know that I, a queer person who loves the animated works and theme park entertainments that comes out of the Disney enterprise, would be a very happy camper about that, too...

Like, in simple terms... Teacher gets targeted by a queer-loathing state governor for showing a Disney movie in class... And that Disney movie happens to be... STRANGE WORLD...

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