#moustache twirling villainy

[sixstringphonic]

Treegate Update: No Permit Was Pulled To Trim Ficus Trees Outside of Universal’s Gate 8, Says City Controller

(7/19/23, Deadline)

UPDATED: LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia revealed in a tweet Wednesday that no permit was pulled to trim the now-infamous Ficus trees outside of Universal’s Gate 8.

He added in a thread that “The City of LA’s Urban Forestry Division (UFD) will coordinate w/ StreetsLA’s Investigation & Enforcement Division (IED) to confirm if this case warrants the issuance of an administrative citation or hearing. If issued, the administrative citation fee starts at $250.”

Mejia had previously tweeted that the trees — which had provided shade for picketers during the ongoing strike before they were pruned over the weekend — are LA City managed street trees.

After members of the WGA discovered the thinned-out trees and made a stink via social media, the studio provided tents for additional shade.

PREVIOUSLY:  Treegate just became a thing.

City Controller Kenneth Mejia has vowed to look into the newly pruned ficus trees outside of Universal’s Gate 8, after picketers drew attention to their thinned branches while marching in 90-degree-plus heat. Pine trees on the opposite side of Barham weren’t touched, and neither were a row of pepper trees behind the Universal fence near the production gate.

In a series of Tweets Tuesday, Mejia said his office is investigating what happened to the Ficuses on Barham Boulevard, which he said are “LA City managed street trees.” WGA picketers drew attention to their thinned out ranks on Monday. Universal owned up to trimming them but said in a statement it was done for “safety reasons” though it “has created unintended challenges for demonstrators, that was not our intention.”

“Trees are essential to providing Angelenos with significant environmental and public health benefits, especially during a heatwave,” Mejia said in a tweet. “Public Works’ Bureau of Street Services (StreetsLA) is responsible for maintaining the City’s 700,000+ trees in the public right-of-way.”

He went on to say in a thread that “code enforcement for street trees (including the pruning or removal of trees without a permit) is the responsibility of the StreetsLA Investigation and Enforcement Division. Violations can result in code enforcement citations.”

Separately, the fight over the studio’s construction on Lankershim Boulevard and its impact on the ongoing strike just got even bigger: The WGA and SAG-AFTRA today filed complaints with the National Labor Relations Board over the lack of safe pathways available for union members to picket.

“Within the past six months, [NBCUniversal Media] has interfered with, coerced, and restrained employees in the exercise of their rights under Section 7 of the [National Labor Relations] Act,” the Writers Guild of America, West, said in its filing (read it here).

Said interference includes but is not limited to “interfering with lawful picketing activity by designating as picketing locations areas where the public sidewalks have been covered up with construction fencing, forcing picketers to patrol in busy streets with significant car traffic where two picketers have already been struck by a car and by refusing to provide K-rail barriers to establish pedestrian walkways for picketers to use after Los Angeles Police Department advised the employer weeks ago in the interest of public safety to do so.”

SAG-AFTRA’s complaint reads in part: “On or around Thursday, July 13, 2023, the employer, through its agents and managers, instructed SAG-AFTRA to send its members to picket at the unsafe crowded location, exacerbating the dire public safety situation to interfere with striking members’ right to engage in the protected, concerted activity of picketing and patrolling outside the employer’s premises during a lawful strike.” Read the full filing here.

In response, an NBCUniversal spokesperson released this statement today: “We are aware of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA complaints. We strongly believe that the company has fulfilled our legal obligations under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and we will cooperate with respect to any inquiries by the National Labor Relations Board on this issue. While we understand the timing of our multi-year construction project has created challenges for demonstrators, we continue to work with public agencies to increase access. We support the unions’ rights to demonstrate safely.”

The WGAW filing also cited “the egregious and flagrant nature of the employer’s illegal conduct and the irreparable harm, including the threat of bodily harm, caused by the above-mentioned violations of the Act.”

#treegate #TREE LAW #WGA strike 2023 #SAG-AFTRA strike 2023 #support the WGA #support SAG-AFTRA #support the unions #NBCUniversal #Universal Pictures #these fuckers #support labor #labor law #moustache twirling villainy #about as smart too

[bloobluebloo]

Whenever I see the argument (often from people who don't want to see Ganondorf beyond a one-dimensional moustache-twirling villain) that the Orientalist issues with Ganondorf would be fixed by allowing him to be reincarnated as a different race, or for Link to be reincarnated as a Gerudo, it feels like people are completely missing the point. The way Ganondorf is designed, from his looks to his heritage and his place in LoZ's lore, has been done in such a way where his motives and his villainy are tied to his heritage. Even in TotK, where his motives are hardly explored, he is still characterized as an "evil man from the desert". Apart from that, he wears his heritage so proudly, and it is difficult to imagine that he doesn't have pride in being Gerudo. In Twilight Princess, he went through the effort of crafting a Gerudo-patterned sheath for the Sword of the Seven Sages that he chose to wield in defiance of the gods. Even without going into the details of why being in the position he's in makes him more compelling as an antagonist, why would you want to take away the very thing (his heritage) that makes him such a striking character? In fact, there is a workaround for him if Nintendo doesn't want to portray him as a man; his beast form in Ganon which has been used successfully in multiple titles.

Also? Making Link reincarnate as a Gerudo wouldn't inherently fix all the issues the Gerudo do have. Making the protagonist "brown" isn't going to magically make all the weird orientalist stereotypes of the Gerudo suddenly go away but at least there's a subconscious acknowledgement that the Gerudo were designed to be an "othered" and "villain-coded" race, that allowing Link to be Gerudo in one iteration would shed a better light on the Gerudo, at least?

#ganonthots

[glasshalftrue]

i generally really liked the fifth season of fargo and thought it was a pretty good return to form after the disappointing fourth season, but it was definitely still weaker than the first three, and one of my biggest criticisms is how it handled the character of Lorraine (played by Jennifer Jason-Leigh). her performance is one of complete over-the-top moustache-twirling villainy - which is fine in and of itself, the show is certainly no stranger to cartoonishly larger-than-life characters. but it doesn't really square with the semi-redemption arc she eventually goes through. roy tillman is, rightfully, painted as a complete monster and gets the comeuppance he deserves, but Lorraine never suffers any consequences for her actions - and while it's totally fine for a villain to "get away with it", so to speak, i get the sense that the show doesn't quite see her fate (or lack thereof) as a miscarriage of justice so much as a perfectly fair conclusion for her now that she's "one of the good guys". but just because she's expanded her circle of empathy just enough to include Dot in it doesn't mean she's a good person, and it's shown that her debt collection business is extremely predatory and has ruined many, many lives. yet because she's less crude and more outwardly respectable than roy, her misdeeds cold and detached rather than and hot-blooded and personal, we're not expected to hate her in the same visceral way that we hate the wife-beating, gun-toting authoritarian nutjob. now, im not opposed to villains with shades of nuance; it makes total sense for Lorraine to be particularly incensed by misogyny, and a big theme of this season is toxic masculinity, and conversely, the plight of being a woman in a man's world. but for a season that is so nakedly contemporary and political, it seems odd to let the Billionaire off the hook, and i think it speaks to the the myopic liberal mindset that hawley's seething contempt for trump has, unfortunately, put him in. (on that same note: i'm uncomfortable with the show's use of prison rape as something we're supposed to cheer for at the end of the season. i can't say i'd shed many tears for someone like roy, but in general prison rape is treated like a punchline in society, even celebrated as a de-facto component of the penal system, so it's disappointing to see the show contribute to that retributive trend.)

#fargo #fargo fx #fargo spoilers #fargo season 5 #fargo s5 #lorraine lyon #roy tillman #noah hawley

[loving-n0t-heyting]

Fun thing about north by northwest and a lot of other media of the era is that it was really the heyday of making the villains so much more charismatic and intriguing than the heroes and also the climate of the time meant the easiest ways to establish moustache-twirling villainy were ambiguous homosexuality and being anti-American cold war subversives

The downside is the hays code stacked the deck against them in terms of in-world success

[kyluxtrashpit]

(Okay this is a twitter thread that I wrote in a haze of emotion and people seemed to really agree so I’m putting it here too. Half meta, half personal opinion, and not edited into tumblr format as much as I’d like cause editing on mobile sucks and it seems I’m always on mobile these days lmao so read it if you like, don’t if you don’t)

I think, all these years later, I’ve figured out what it was about post-tfa kylux vs every variation after that just. Irks me a little. And it’s something I’ve written myself, so like. I’m not coming at anyone except canon with this, because we worked with what we were given. It’s what canon *set up* and forced us into that I have a grievance with

And it’s this feeling of unbalancing. Of tipping the scales. It’s taking them from a position of mutual animosity to a point where Kylo has something to make up for

And yes, Hux was very much going to shoot him while he was unconscious. If you look at the facts, this balances what Kylo did to Hux a few moments later - simple retaliation, actually milder than what Hux was about to do to him. But the fact that Kylo knew it happened is not shown explicitly in the movie, to the point where most people did not realize this and it’s only because of the novelization that we know it at all. And then the incident is never mentioned again, treated as a joke,  just dismissed as unimportant, while what Kylo did to Hux lives on as Hux’s driving motivation in tros too

And I don’t like it. Because I feel like Kylo very much is a person who feels that he has to make up for just existing. That he feels he himself is inherently an inferior being and that he is trying very hard to apologize for it, to be someone who doesn’t have to be made up for

And that’s what drives him. And it’s very sad and I think what is so relatable about the character. And yeah, he’s a villain, he does bad things, but that’s not the point. That’s not what he’s trying to make up for. He’s trying to make up for not being enough as he is, as if he has some defect since birth, a flaw present since conception so deep in his being that it cannot be excised, that he has to constantly compensate for

And that feeling of inferiority is something that very much needs to be solved, because I don’t believe he would’ve gone down the path he did if he didn’t feel that way, and that’s something that a romantic partner (in this case, Hux) could assist with. He could be shown he does have value, because being loved may not be a panacea, but it sure as fuck helps

And to take that driving emotion, to bury it under transgressions that do actually require some kind of making up (because, remember, Hux’s original transgression that caused Kylo to retaliate in such a way is so irrelevant it’s completely ignored by the narrative) just. It not only buries what makes him interesting under a smokescreen of comical moustache-twirling villainy, but also makes it so that the wound that drives him will never be healed. He can never feel like enough, that he is worthy of anything, because his issue of not feeling like enough is no longer relevant in the face of the real transgressions. His feelings are now irrelevant. The relationship can now never be balanced because of it 

And because of that, that wound that is found relatable by the audience can never heal. And that catharsis cannot be felt by the person who actually needs to feel it: the very real human experiencing the story. Because that catharsis can no longer be approached in the story

And this is all despite the fact that Hux actually transgressed first (and we know from the novel Kylo knew it, there is zero ambiguity there, you’d just never know it based on the films and post-tlj side media), because the narrative considers that unimportant. Even though Kylo’s actions make a thousand times more sense in the face of it, it doesn’t matter. Only Kylo’s transgressions do. And now that’s true in the ship as well, else it feels very much icky

And of course getting rid of a mutual enemy to unite against in Snoke didn’t help, but I really think that’s it. The character arc for Kylo that gave me the most catharsis is no longer accessible, or at least much, much more difficult to do. And once again, tlj is what stole it from me

#finished rereading an old favourite recently and it flooded me with emotion so here is uh this lmao #kylo ren #kylux #meta #text #my post

[bitterflames]

uhhh 5 8 9 and 13

5. who is your sinnamon roll fave who everyone loves to hate/hates to love

currently? weirdly fond of prince yu (nirvana in fire). yeah he's corrupt and greedy and just kind of a bitch but he's entertaining about it, which is the important thing. kind of guy who you just wanna see get his shit wrecked but also feel bad for when it happens, if you feel me.

8. what is the fic you want to write/read but can’t because it is too full of Sin

ngl i've been rolling a shan gudao/li lianhua (mysterious lotus casebook) smut scenario around in my brain for a lil while. messy post-shixiong/shidi-betrayal feelings processing while the former's got the latter held prisoner. (dubiously?) consensual but like nasty about it.

(any shame i feel about it is less because Oh No Dark/Sexual Content and more because sgd's writing is uhhhh not great. moustache-twirling villainy with the approximate depth of a paper bag. but also llh cries so prettily over him that i want it to be that deep.)

9. what is the most sinful fic you have ever read/written

ahaha oh god. i'm gonna withhold the fandom/pairing for this one but i did recently read a trashy omegaverse longfic in which the scumbag omega pursues and tries to win back the painfully devoted alpha who'd served him all their lives. just a completely toxic trainwreck that i couldn't look away from. "everyone sucks here, you're both enabling each other's bs and are perfect for each other, just never involve anyone else in what you've got going on" type situation.

(probably not the worst thing i've ever read, actually, but the first one that came to mind. i can't rank all the trash i've read in order of trashiness or we would truly be here all day.)

13. what is your heart-breakingest head canon

i think yue qingyuan (svsss) knows full well deep down shen qingqiu isn't his shen qingqiu anymore by the end of the novel but he's willfully deluding himself this isn't the case (and would continue to do so no matter how much evidence he's presented with). the alternative is just too awful for him.

#text post tag #ty for the asks! 💖 #wow these q's really do go a bit hard on the ~ooo sinful~ stuff eh lmao. bit silly but as you can see [gestures] im in No position to judge #if i've ever led you to believe i am a person with taste i deeply apologize 🙇

[bthump]

Chapter 371 is out: readseinen*com/berserk-chapter-371/

Oh lol this snuck up on me, totally forgot. Thanks for the heads-up!

My thoughts on the chapter and another anon about it under the cut:

I'm sorry but Guts' breakdown is hilarious to me lol, it's so fucking overwrought, I'm dying. Full on losing his shit and sobbing while remembering all the good times he's had with his fucking sword. Like yeah, thematically it makes sense, Guts is all about his sword, this is the knockdown to the set up of him waxing poetic about it all the way back in chapter 48, etc. But come tf on lol. I wonder if Miura would've been able to pull it off better and make it feel more emotionally fitting honestly.

Also nelsonlaugh.wav at everyone who insisted his sword was a symbolic stand in for Casca and he was really having a breakdown over her kidnapping. Still not a thought spared for her. You love to see it.

Anonymous asked:

I loved the new chapters but I'm super concerned with how they have NeoGriffith smirking all the time. It makes him look super villainy like Black Swordsman Femto and it makes me anxious that they're gonna play him up as a mustache twirling pure evil type like how the general fandom sees him as

Yeah it def seems a little ooc to me. Miura always drew him with a neutral to blandly positive expression as far as I can remember, with some interesting subtle emotional shades imo, and I don't think there's a single instance of evily smirking NGriff in his art. But to be fair Miura was fucking incredible at nailing expressions. Like this is Miura's smug NGriff:

I can imagine this is someone aiming for the same vibe and just not being able to pull off the sense of subtlty:

But it's definitely a shame lol, the moustache twirling smiles are so much less interesting than

#ask #anonymous #berserk spoilers #chapter 371 #b

[llycaons]

controversial perhaps but on a purely meta level, redeeming xy is a waste. if he's not an unhinged serial mass murderer metaphorically twirling his moustache and maniacally planning revenge over offenses that happened decades ago in your fanworks then you simply don't respect the value of his character. the leopard print robe. the convoluted manipuation of the people who trusted him the most. murdering children and destryoing the souls of people who only tried to help him. gleefully beheading people in cold blood. I don't actually want to see him watered down or altered. he's too strong of a character as he is and it feels like a disservice to deny him his villainy when he clearly loves it so much

#this is the one case I will say yes he actually does have some depth but I care less about that and more about him being just the worst #wang haoxuan did not give such an unforgettable performance for his character to become nice or one of the good guys #and on a very base level. hate him but he's so entertaining. if he's in a fan work he'd better deliver #cql txp

[socially-anxious-wizard]

I want a DC Au where the whole Batfamily are Villains but it's not Angsty or anything, they are just a functional family Unit that gets up to Moustache Twirling Villainy. Bruce and Barbara hack into the Justice League Watchtower and corrupt all their Data but Bruce let's Tim and Stephanie hack into the Speakers and blast "Never Gonna Give You Up~" When the League try and log in. 

Bruce and Selina steal 41 Cakes as a fuck you to Lex Luthor. 

Cass, Duke, Dick and Tim play rooftop Tag but destroy a Walmart in the process. Jason replaces Green Arrow's Arrows with cinnamon sticks and glitter bombs. Batman breaks into Hal Jordans house and reveals he's Bruce Wayne only because no one will ever believe Hal that it happened.

Kate shoots one of the Flashes in the Knee because it was funny. 

#DC Comics #batfamily #shitpost #batman #kate kane

[outbreaksurvived]

i'm thinking that Hunk might be in semi- retirement by RE7 and RE8, a senior BSAA advisor. maybe him being the "corruption" inside of BSAA that Chris will be fighting in RE9. Hunk does deserve top villain status at long last *twirls evil moustache*

although he might altogether give up semi-villainy entirely, after wesker tried to spread virus all over the globe.

#out of ammo #who knows what will really happen in RE9

[tabby-shieldmaiden]

Status: Mostly trying to articulate out thoughts. May not be doing it particularly well. Am open to discussion. My phrasing may not be ideal. This is kind of a stream of consciousness.

I like writing female characters. I like writing women’s stories. But I often find myself in a bind when I write female villainy, because I often have difficulty expressing my full views on all the matters at hand.

On the one hand, I believe most views on evil/villainy do tend to lean overly simplistic. Ultimately, people are the products of their environments. I don’t think people do ‘evil’ for the sake of evil. It’s all... complicated systems and mental blocks which lead to the terrors one may face. Moustache-twirling isn’t a real thing or a particularly interesting thing to me, and I don’t have a particular interest in answering ‘people get their just desserts’ in narratives about right and wrong and justice. It’s just... it’s not particularly interesting or nuanced to me. I don’t like it too much.

On the other hand, I think the difficulty with writing about female villainy is because historically there has been a narrative of women being symbols of goodness and softness. The ‘wicked’, the ‘whores’, the ‘disgusting’, the ‘impure’ did not count among being ‘real women’. There’s also the narrative of the woman who is only ‘corrupted’ because of the pain she had undergone. How tragic. Sullying a beautiful little thing like that. If only she were treated with a little more gentleness, such as a woman deserves, she too could rise again from the corruption that haft dragged her down and tainted her.

What’s I’m saying is that it’s kind of condescending. And this pedestalisation of (certain types of) women tends to 1) ignore multiple complicated systems going on (gender is not the only system of oppression going on in the world), 2) gets used to put down women who do not fit this mold no matter what, and 3) most importantly, takes away agency and complexity from more or less everyone involved.

And a part of me worries that there is a real risk of leaning into this narrative while writing female villainy from my above view of evil often stemming from complex systems in the world. I’ve written about how there’s an air of defensiveness among ‘dislikable’ female character fans, and I think the reason why it kind of bothers me, stems a little bit from this. There’s a real need to attribute the ways in which she falls short of being ‘nice and kind’ to things like trauma or particular pain that they have experienced in their lives. Which is... I have complicated views on it.

On the one hand, historically ‘bad victims’ haven’t been granted a lot of mercy for being ‘bad victims’, and it’s important to talk about ‘bad victims’ with a little more kindness. But on the other hand, I still do feel like certain discussions edge into a flattening of complexity. In the sense that... a lot of views on this whole ‘Madonna/whore’ thing aren’t so much being deconstructed. Rather, at times I feels as if people are trying to argue as to why their favourite whore actually deserves Madonnahood*. Past experiences affect how people act, but people aren’t beholden to them. At our core, we still have free will and these things do not have to be ones identity. I like discussion about how trauma and the society one lives in affects how a person thinks and believes, and what may be preventing them from believing or viewing things a certain way. But I worry about edging into saying that people are beholden to their traumas and their past. Which is, well, like I said in the past: damsel logic. I feel there is a nuance between the former and the latter (I hope? I hope I’m not just seeing things.), and well, yeah. And I can’t help but feel this... damsel logic thing happens more often with female characters than male ones, partially because of this thing going on.

I think I may want more narratives where villainous women are empowered to become better. (Maybe not even necessarily ‘villainous’ women. Traumatised women, bitchy women, whatever.)** Or at least, more narratives that deconstruct the Madonna/whore dichotomy more completely. I think... maybe my boredom for certain narratives may be because of a lack of other narratives. And perhaps what is needed is, once again, more stories.

I worry I may not be in a stage in my life where I can deconstruct this Madonna/whore thing going on. But well, I guess that’s why I have to keep writing and reading and experiencing life. I really hope that I can write such a story someday though.

*something something opposite of blackarachnia_even_when_im_good_im_still_bad.mp4.

** anthy_leaving_ohtori_academy.gif , although again, I believe the whole point of Anthy is that she can’t be slotted easily into ‘princess’ or ‘witch’. Which is another reason why Utena has irrevocably molded my sensibilities in terms of female character writing. Truly doing what a lot of people don’t.

#tabby says something #writing adventures #female characters

[calamity-bean]

Am experiencing HotD only through gifsets so far, but I love Aemond's bitchy eyepatch vibes. I don't care who is or isn't morally reprehensible, they're Targaryens and it's Westeros, morality is NOT what I ask from such characters; I ask for ENTERTAINMENT, I ask for dramatic, moustache-twirling villainy, and that one-eyed little weirdo looks like he delivers big time

#i also love what i've seen of rhaenyra and alicent and several other characters fwiw #but he just looks especially hilariously over-the-top cliche Bad Boy and i respect the camp of it all #op

[ykoriana-imperatrix]

SDC Month - June 2022 - Sunday #2

Once more, if unpopular opinions (and several links to TVTropes pages, in this particular case) are not your cup of tea, best to steer clear of this post.

(Cut for content and potential spoilers.)

Today's unpopular opinion is sort of the opposite of last week's in tone.

Presenting: Vennel is honestly not that bad.

No, I'm completely serious. When compared to other Chosen characters (and particularly his travelling companions Aurum and Jaspar), what does Vennel ever do that is especially heinous? He… acts somewhat unpleasantly towards the others. Oh, the shock, the horror. Yes, there is his complicity in Ykoriana's plans… but frankly, I tend to believe he was being truthful when he said he had no idea the actual plot involved assassination. Honestly, does this man strike you more as someone focused on his own self-preservation or as a devious mastermind? So to me at least, that still doesn't rate particularly high in the moustache-twirling villainy scale.

Now, this is just speculation (and its own sub-unpopular opinion), because as stated in the introduction to this Sunday project, my knowledge of other fans' opinions is very limited... but I have the strong feeling readers' views of Vennel will tend to be almost exclusively shaped by that of Carnelian as the main POV. Carnelian dislikes Vennel from the start (partly due to the influence of Sardian's own dislike, and in all fairness, they do have their reasons for it), and that's not insignificant, considering Vennel only appears/is mentioned through the filter of Carnelian and Ykoriana's POVs (and it's not like her opinion of him is very favourable either). (It's actually something rather fascinating from a "how POVs can influence character perception" perspective.) Additionally, when compared to other antagonistic characters, it seems plausible enough said comparison will be unfavourable to Vennel due to the ever-present trope of Evil is Cool (while at the same time, the POV factor is enough to prevent him from being seen as a Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain). Vennel really isn't all that bad, but he's not the type of villain that tends to be most popular with fanbases either — he's disliked by other characters in-universe (and it's not even something like deep, personal hatred, but a more vague, annoyed dislike), he never does anything incredibly memorable, he is not particularly effective as a villain. (And yes, I'm mostly out to defend him in this post, but that last one is objectively true: he had the proverbial one job and failed at it.)

I'll close out the post with this last concept: Vennel as the everyman. He does fit very well in this sense among the Chosen characters who are developed to at least a small degree. Yes, he's a Ruling Lord, but he doesn't have the blood purity, significant connections or important role most of the others do. And let's all be honest here — if we were all transported to the SDC world as Chosen characters (an oddly specific scenario, yes, but bear with me), do you think it's more likely we'd end up as Carnelians, Sardians, Aurums, Jaspars, Osidians, Molochites, Ykorianas… or Vennels?

I rest my case.

#stone dance of the chameleon #the stone dance of the chameleon #sdc month 1 2022 #sdc unpopular opinions #sdc june 2022 sundays

[castle-dominion]

s7 3xk audio

michael mosley rob bowman andrew marlowe nathan fillion

He has done s3, 5, 6, & 7 episodes, in fact s7 had two.

Go as deep as possible as fast as possible without lingering anywhere.

How far will a person go for someone they love?

Mosler has done it before too! & he brings it up again lol. "Even your charming innocence is creepy"

It's great for caste to throw ppl around & get thrown around.

"unless it's michael molsley, we don't care about him"

Joques Goudreau lol

People come up to him on the street & say he's creepy XD "I've found something I'm good at"

Cars pulling up does not feel like a metaphor for me but ok.

It SHOULD feel like what castle is going through. Willingness to go to the other side this patience & impatience, the darkness, also frustration.

The two month thing

3xk made this VERY personal

How do you expose a character who is not present? 3xk's manipulation.

NF: always exciting to kill off a powerful, popular character.

"he really was mike boudreau" "when the zombie apocalypse comes Tyson will be the first to rise"

the cars have gotten better on set apparently

Do they not call it a toque anywhere else...?

RB: my credit right over castle's butt

RB: what was it like to handle this (fight) scene? MM: There's a bruise

Hm, this moment was not? scripted?

How much mike & how much 3xk?

It's all backwards

Gates & Castle <3 she is resetting him, use your head.

Tracking shot of fillion & everyone following along... wow this IS bowman magic...

Everyone: right HERE!

One shot there going in & finding his girls.

colour correction

They never solve the homicide of who THIS girl is

Getting caught watching

Ah the blood was digitally added in! It is not beckett but he killed someone else half to torture him (the other half just for fun)

The slow quiet is greattttt.

we cannot see anything except from her eyes

relatively irrelevant XD

Build it & recontextualize.

Yay welcome back gen kill reunion ig!

Writing this scene was fun but seeing it come together is better

rob duncan <3

I like how they can all laugh at this Ah less lighting bc we are not seeing as much of the castle we know anymore

Yay Roe & Daryn "we only did what you would have done" "if he's listening" "how likely is it that these guys watch the commentaries?"

Yeah they shoot all the stuff "here" first & "there" all at once, so it WOULD be hard, at least for me

RB: I used to speak three paragraphs to nathan & he'd sum it up with "so faster?"

topanga canyon

the anxiety is not just camera work but also the audio "the director was anxious so the camera was anxious"

the no-dialogue scenes, such a Thing you know?

Villainy really can be overplayed but you can avoid twirling the moustache & petting the cat.

it LOOKS like bubble wrap so I am not shocked

THIS IS ALL TAKE ONE? you did it all one take, two cameras?

This room is so weird tho bc how did they get that light through the bottom of the door?

Watching it a second time "she's not here" he said out loud

WAIT PAUL SCOTT LET HIMSELF GET SHOT WITH A TAZER?

Yeah of COURSE she is not going to literally remove her face lol

I love a good monologue. Honest for this non-sane character w/o cliche

He always thinks he is in control bad guy mea culpa lol reason & thinking

Yeah it was a little bit... too much. Tilting the scene to castle

This is the journey gates sent castle on

"I'm dead I might as well tell him what I think of him" or power to him lol

Ew ew ew all the way in I hate it

No no this draining life force thing was gooood except dang what if he DID manage to shoot castle? I think that it could have been something interesting for sure. like the fic I read with the burning building

Esposito & Ryan!

the music IS GOOD but I don't much like it you don't see who killed whom castle bought her the time to rescue herself, they needed each other

that is not a lot of time, like 6 months working full-time. that is a hell of a long time I take it back

Everyone is group hugging & it is intimate & touching but then apparently huertas kept ruining it.

"oh yeah I shot you then too"

Too bad we didn't have more moke mosley commentary.

Rly fun! "letting me play in your sandbox" oh it was his first audio commentary! Good for him!

[jksimmonscompletist]

Veronica Mars: Season Four (2019)

Format: A single season of a live-action TV show.

Director: Michael Lehmann, Michael Fields, Joaquin Sedillo, Rachel Goldberg, Scott Winant, Tessa Blake, and Amanda Marsalis.

Writers: Rob Thomas, Diane Ruggiero-Wright, Heather V. Regnier, David Walpert, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Raymond Obstfeld.

Is J.K. Simmons in this? In every episode, yes.

Who does he portray? Clyde Pickett, an ex-convict and sort of personal assistant to one of the town's rich scumbags.

What does he do? A bunch of things that look extremely shady and probably illegal. Interestingly enough, although there are cruel and violent people on the show, I'd argue that nothing he does would push him into outright moustache-twirling villainy. It's more of a subtle menace.

How bald is he? His head is extraordinarily hairless. Not that it matters much, as for the majority of his time onscreen he wears a dorky little pork-pie hat.

Is anybody else in this? Yes, and it's a good thing. This character needs other people to be skeevy with.

Is it worth seeing if I’m not a J.K. Simmons completist? The whole series is, I'd say. It does a good job of balancing mystery of the week plots with overarching stories. My big issue is that I don't always agree with the show's take on an issue, and I wish it made more overt attempts to challenge the worldview of its protagonist.

As to this season specifically, it does draw on characters and relationships from the previous season, but I don't think it's inhospitable to people who want to watch it first.

#la queue d'écureuil #JK Simmons #J.K. Simmons #JKSimmons #J K Simmons #J. K. Simmons #veronica mars #clyde pickett

[worldweaverofmediocrity]

Overlord vs the Ravagers

Overlord v the Ravagers (Overlord/EDF4.1)

To Ravage a Tomb

Bone Daddy is Displeased

Sebas Tian was an odd existence, at least to one who had no context. Sebas was an NPC (a Non-Player Character) of The Great Tomb of Nazarick, Owned and Ruled by the Guild of Monster-bodied people known as Ainz Ooal Gown. ‘Gown was made up of various people who were all functional members of society and unleashed the frustrations of their daily lives upon the DRMMO called Yggdrasil. Sebas sole purpose was to Defend (Entertain) the Great Tomb of Nazarick (Ainz Ooal Gown).

Sebas Tian’s personal creator was a Player named Touch Me. Little is known about the Insectoid Silver Paladin, but what is known is Touch Me’s Morality. Instead of going the moustache-twirling Cartoon Villainy that so many of his Guildmates leapt on like Sex Demons on Virgins, Touch Me went the opposite route: He did his best Superman Impression… the Boy Scout versions not the Tyrant Dictators of Justice Lords or Injustice, The Superman that is More Human than most Humans and The Symbol of Hope. This (among other things) was passed down to Sebas, conflicting with the other Denizens of Nazarick which Yggdrasil itself classified as Extreme/Pure Evil.

This (and other factors like Real Life) lead to the Great Guild known as Ainz Ooal Gown (who at their height ranked 9th of every single guild of every single server of Yggdrasil) virtually disbanding, members signing on one final time to give all their hard earned Items to the Guild Leader known as Momonga. Before a few of them deleted their Yggdrasil Accounts, until only Momonga walked amongst the Hallowed Halls of Nazarick.

So too Momonga logged on one final time, but not of his free will. For you see Yggdrasil was shutting down for good that night and thus Satoru wanted to put Momonga to Rest (plead with whomever would log on to stay with him). But when Midnight Struck Momonga wasn’t deleted from existence and Satoru forcibly returned to the Cyberpunk Dystopia of a Destroyed Earth that he called home, no what happened was the NPCs grew minds and/or souls of their own. Moving under their own will, completely uncontrollable.

So Satoru sent Sebas who was in the Throne Room where everything became alive to scout outside the Great Tomb of Nazarick. Instinctively knowing Nazarick isn’t where the Tomb is supposed to be (Because Satoru wasn’t an Undead Skeleton-like creature in his home dimension). So Sebas was an odd existence, his comrades were the exact kind of people Sebas despises and yet Sebas doesn’t even try to kill them.

But Sebas was an NPC of The Great Tomb of Nazarick, if the Last and Greatest Supreme One even hinted at wanting something the Entire Tomb would make the Great Crusades of Abrahamic Faiths look like a playful arm wrestle. 

So Sebas was torn between his Positive Karma (and the various times Sebas overheard his Creator Touch Me speak about morality) and the Orders that the Last Supreme One Gave him when Sebas exited the Great Tomb of Nazarick and saw giant insects (Ants the size of Carriages (tanks), Jumping Spiders slightly larger than said ants.) slaughtering Human Civilians while a military force desperately tried to counterattack.

There is definitely A story where the Great Tomb of Nazarick fights not only The Ravagers/Giant Insects and The Earth Defense Force, but that is not the story I want to tell. For you see if the Great Tomb of Nazarick wasn’t on this Earth, humanity would again drop down to anywhere between 10% and 1% of its total population if the EDF won. For The Ravagers and their Minions the Giant Insects have returned to finish the job they started eight years ago.

Thus Sebas Tian and his subordinate Narberal Gamma witnessed the Cannon Armed Metal Giants turn and marched towards The Great Tomb of Nazarick. The insanely fragile looking fliers soared ahead of their Gigantic Brethren and unleash their laser weaponry upon the Great Tomb. Leaving Scorch Marks on the Surface Level’s Museum but before the Drones could fly away for another attack run Sebas (with the help of Narberal’s flight magic) destroyed them and flung their corpses at the Marching Giants.

“Inferior Lifeform Weaponry dare to mark the Great Tomb?” Narberal snarled before unleashing a blast that eradicated the Marching Giants that weren’t bowled over by Sebas.

With a whine that echoed across the cityscape of a battlefield, a floating Dropship opened its doors depositing replacement Giants. Sebas and Narberal saw some of the Military desperately shooting at the opened hatch before redirecting their firepower when it closed. There were two problems, Problem A was that the Dropship had no space for even a Single Metal Giant let alone a full replacement batch. Thus the only logical explanation was that the Dropship was a Gate Network Anchor and therefore could summon infinite reinforcements (if the other end had those numbers of course). Problem B, was that Narberal Gamma’s top 5 strongest spells did zero damage to the Dropship.

While Narberal Gamma was not the Strongest Spellcaster in Nazarick, that Honor belonged to the Supreme One Momonga who had mastered 715 spells (unknown to the NPCs breaking Yggdrasil’s 300 spell/ability limit. Sure there was a Microtransaction to raise the spell cap but the new max was a mere 400 hundred.) with Mare the Max Level Druid coming in a distant second place, Narberal still had access to Tier 7+ spells.

The Kind of Spells which Can Not be Ignored (save by the Supreme Ones).

#overlord #earth defense force #story prototype #is being rewritten #scheduled #my writing