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The Long Lost Princess Of The Wumpa Islands (Reupload)

Crash Bandicoot fanfic

Main plot: Long ago way before the events of Crash Bandicoot a human from the real world found a way to Crash's world she was actually the missing princess of the Wumpa Island's. Ashley a princess who is immortal to aging was sent to the real world by Aka Aka because his evil brother Uka Uka wanted her magic for himself, as time went on Tammy returned she found out her real name was princess.

This fanfic was from 2020

Chapter 1: The Faraway Past

Crash and Coco was causally sitting on NSanity beach just chilling out which is what they do after each time they defeat Cortex. ''My children I think it is time I told you the true story of the Wumpa Island's'' Aku Aku tells them and they look at him curiously.

''Awesome please tell us Aku'' Coco exclaims generally curious about the story, while Crash even if he cant speak actual words made a excited sound. They only heard legends of the elemental masks but never about anything else.

Aku Aku smiles ''Very well then, the legend is about a princess who was given the gift of staying young forever once she became 25 she stays that age, the princess wasn't like others she was adventurous but got in trouble for it. (I aged her up because is probably way older so yeah)

The Past

A young princess runs through the Wumpa Forest and jumps from tree to tree exactly, she saw her friend Roo who was a light tanned colour wallaby/Kangaroo ''Hey Roo!'' she says climbing down and he smiles at her with a worried expression ''What's wrong?'' she asks him concerned.

He looks at her ''You need to be more careful out here the Cortex family are around these parts and they are evil geniuses their son Neo Cortex has been causing a lot of trouble along with his evil school classmates, and so be careful'' he explains to her.

''Roo they just kids besides how much trouble can they be?'' she asks him laughing then heard said kids (They are kids in the past they were classmates in their backstories) and she looks to where they were one kid was human looking but with yellow skin, long black curly hair and had a N on his forehead which stood for Neo, while the second kid was the shortest, had short ginger hair, had a rocket lodged in his head and was half cyborg and has a high pitched robotic voice.

The last one had pale skin, no hair and had bolts in his head ''That's right it is I Neo Cortex the evilest of them all'' he boasts with a smirk and spoke up.

''Yeah so show him some respect!'' he demanded and Ashley scoffs, rolling her eyes these three kids all stared at her and realised she is the princess of Wumpa Islands but they didn't show respect instead laughs almost crazily and throws a potion her made in seconds at Roo causing him to yelp and run off, they all laughed.

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figuring-it-all-out · 4 years

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Header Breakdown

I’ve made a few posts explaining why I add new images to my header but I never explained the original images. So I thought I’d do that here. But since I’m nice I’m going to put it under a read more button. ;)

Loki, specifically from Marvel Comics “Loki: Agent of Asgard” which explicitly features a genderfluid Loki.

Anna Faris’ character from The House Bunny, which was the first chick flick I watched that made me feel truly feminine.

Ruby Rose, a genderfluid actress who uses she/her pronouns.

Pidge from “Voltron: Legendary Defender”, who while not explicitly stated as being nonbinary or genderfluid definitely gives off that vibe (at least to me).

Katy Perry. “Girly” pop music has always helped me feel feminine and Katy Perry is one of my favorite artists.

Asia Kate Dillon, a nonbinary actor with they/them pronouns.

Mulan, who I latch on to due to her tendency to present as a gender different from the one she was assigned at birth.

Demi Lovato. One of the female pop artists who helps me feel connected with my femininity.

Bex Taylor-Klaus, the actor who played Pidge in “Voltron” BUT they are also nonbinary so yay!

Amber Benson as Tara Maclay from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”. WAY before I knew I was LGBTQ I strongly related to this character and still do, which makes sense in hindsight but at the time I just knew I was drawn to her.

Hailee Steinfeld is one of the music artists who makes me feel in touch with my gender. ESPECIALLY her song “Most Girls”. That’s like my feminine anthem.

Laverne Cox, a trans actress and activist.

Taylor Swift, who is probably the queen of making music that makes me feel feminine. Also, she’s just one of my favorite artists of all time, period. I used to have a different image of her but then “You Need to Calm Down” was released and that’s hella queer so I used this image from that video.

Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor, the first Doctor who’s a woman and thus cementing the character’s status as genderfluid.

Hayley Kiyoko, aka Lesbian Jesus™. Need I say more?

Stephanie Beatriz as Rosa Diaz, a bi actress playing a bi character on TV which is representation I LIVE for.

Nicole Maines as Nial Nal from “Supergirl”, TV’s first trans superhero.

Brie Larson as Captain Marvel, Marvel’s first solo film superhero movie lead. Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel’s alterego) represents a lot of what I aspire to be as a woman with her strength and confidence.

Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods (Legally Blonde). Like The House Bunny, I just like that this movie makes me feel femme.

Jonathan Van Ness, a he/him nonbinary & genderqueer figure who appears on Netflix’s “Queer Eye”

Keanu Reeves as Neo from The Matrix, directed by the Wachowski Sisters & a film that makes me feel very nonbinary.

Kaitlyn Alexander as LaFontaine in “Carmilla”, a nonbinary actor playing a they/them nonbinary character.

Sam Smith, a nonbinary musician with they/them pronouns.

Liv Hewson, a nonbinary actor.

Double Trouble, a nonbinary (possibly genderfluid) character from “She-Ra & The Princesses of Power”.

Lachlan Watson, a nonbinary actor.

Jacob Tobia, a nonbinary actor, author & activist.

Violet Harper, a nonbinary (possibly genderqueer) character from “Young Justice”.

Charlie, a nonbinary & pansexual character from “Legends of Tomorrow”.

Harley Quinn from Birds of Prey where she’s a liberated, bisexual badass.

Mr. Susan Link from Missing Link, who I always thought was trans coded or at least queer coded.

Bridget Marquardt from “The Girls Next Door”. That show is my guilty pleasure, it makes me feel so feminine and girlish. Bridget has always been the girl I relate to the most on the show too.

Amanda Seyfried as Karen Smith from Mean Girls. Mean Girls was a movie that made me feel feminine LONG before I watched it & a few personality quizzes I took said out of the Plastics I was most like Karen, so here we are.

Ruby Rose as Kate Kane/Batwoman, a Jewish Lesbian superhero absolutely kicking ass.

Moana from Moana. “How Far I’ll Go”, a song from the film about appreciating what you have but longing for more, always resonated with me before I even knew I was genderfluid.

Simon from Love, Simon, a film that allowed me to fully embrace my gender identity.

Trace Lysette, a trans activist and actress.

Ashley Graham, a plus-sized model who make me feel better about being bigger.

The Angels from Charlie’s Angels (2019). That’s a film that makes me feel feminine in a deeper way than other films do, with its themes of sisterhood and the fact that its made by women.

Little Mix, another musical group that makes me feel in touch with my gender as a woman.

Ben Schnetzer and Joe Gilgun from the 2014 film about Pride, which is about U.K. gay activists who work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.

#Genderfluid #Nonbinary #Gender Fluid #Transgender #Gender Nonconforming #Header #GIF #Tumblr #Mine

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blewnotes · 7 years

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Trombone Shorty, Parking Lot Symphony

Geo’s Jazziversary Ramblings

Troy Andrews, aka Trombone Shorty released a new album earlier this year. His first on the classic Blue Note label. I finally picked it up and here’s my thoughts:

This starts out with a real New Orleans homage, a funeral style trumpet led dirge that leads us down through the dusty streets and gets you leaning over the balcony to catch the parade passing by, then there’s the moment when we get that full on soulful bank of horns. Still with that distinctive bayou flavour and incessant chattering guitar before fading to that snare and there’s Shorty, nonchalant, leaning against that balcony, sliding beautifully above the growling horns before the angels join in to “ahh-ahh-ahh” him onwards. Shorty’s music combines funk and neo-soul with a heavy dose of rock slung in for good measure. But throughout the whole thing is in distinctive that New Orleans twang.

The title track is a beauty. A funky harmonic groove that is destined to be classic neo-soul tune replete with driving handclaps, syncopated chorus and a downplayed ‘bone solo form the leader. The arrangement has an amazing downward flowing glissando vocal break that leads us out to the bar beside the parking lot, where there’s one of those classic white shirted pianists playing the chord intro to the next track. You can practically smell the Dirty Water.

Toussaint’s Here Come the Girls is a real foot stomper. Andrews' arrangements are never far from the dust and heat of New Orleans. It’s all over this album. You feel like you gotta blow it before you hit play. Trust me this is one dirty joint! You can feel those girls coming right on down the street. You just now they are heading for that Bar just off the parking lot.

Then it gets funky. I mean proper fatback style funky. Like how they used to do. Now we’re grooving. I haven’t heard horns this sharp and beats this heavy for a full thirty years! Tripped Out Slim is replete with twanging guitar covering the bar over four on the floor, hit the one bass and drums powering this over the line.

Familiar is another nod towards the Neo-Soul school, yet it’s got this menacing Tarantino horn arrangement hanging over it like something bad is surely going to happen any second. This song has some kind of menace woven through it. Shorty’s soulful joints are just that, truly soulful, but there’s a poignancy to his lyrics. Dude, nobody mightn’t learn nothing from No Good Times, but boy they surely will enjoy them. Especially when they orchestrated as soulfully as this.

You know you have got to come to a musician like Trombone Shorty open and ready to hear. I didn’t get his stuff at first. I thought he was this jazz musician and expected a standard type of trombone jazz album. My bad. Yeah, he’s a jazz musician, but he’s also a lot more. He’s an innovator, a chef of sound, with a love of his hometown. He stews neo-soul beats with Orleans horns and throws in some bare bones backbeats while he uses blue jazz chords to flavour the pot. We are so fortunate to have so many musicians willing to go somewhere new and to take us along for the ride. See Andrews has got something here that may leave the jazz purists scratching their heads, but once you get it, this is irresistible stuff. Grooves that go in a new direction leaving a dust trail behind that points firmly to their roots. With Shorty, you’re riding along in a fat Cadillac driving out of New Orleans and heading someplace new on his sonic adventure.

Check out the chattering guitar driven highway glide of Fanfare. If this was back in the day, you’d have been moving those platformed shoes, flares flying, shaking your butt, soul-training, but sadly we far too cool for this kind of raw deal. Shorty doubles on trumpet on this and the solo’s short and sweet before we back to gut wrenching funk and then the horns and drums tweet us out.

That highway vibe is continued as the slow-mo low-down police wail style horn arrangement introduces Like a Dog. Like Familiar this piece has an undeclared threat in its tone. It’s like when you see the cop’s lights in your rear-view kind of tension.

You know if I wanted to carry on this metaphor thing I could say that Laveau Dirge Finale has that clang of cuffs in its opening before it devolves to a beautiful little horn and vocal duet, but there’s still that chain-gang beat pounding behind it all. Shorty is an artist. I don’t know what he was going for with this album but I love it. That trombone choir duet thing evolves into a beautiful churchified chorus. You know you are standing at the side of that grave. The one the parade was going to at the start of the album, that had you looking over the balcony. We got there. This was an incredible little journey.

New, New Orleans from start to finish. If you haven’t got it and you looking for something to pick up, this one’s a doozy.

Personnel: Troy Andrews: trombone, trumpet, tuba, vocals, guitar, piano, Rhodes, Wurtlizer, Hammond B-3, drums, percussion, snare, tom-toms, glockenspiel, vibraphone; Dan Oestereicher: baritone saxophone; BK Jackson: tenor saxophone; Pete Murano: electric guitar; Tony Hall: bass; Joey Peebles: drums; Chris Seefried: glockenspiel, mellotron, sitar; Leo Nocentelli: acoustic guitar; Ramon Islas: conga, tambourine; viola, violin; Ivan Neville: piano; Juan Covarraubias: synthesizer; Wurlitzer; Tracci Lee, Ashley Doucett, Sabrina Hayes, India Favorite, Faith Mack, Chrishira Perrier, Remonda Davis, Raion Ramsey, Ashley Watson, Lonel Simmons: choir.

#trombone shorty #blue note #parking lot symphony

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