Music Video Countdown to Bruce Dickinson's The Mandrake Project:
Shoot All the Clowns — August 1994
dir. Howard Greenhalgh
"Never work with children or animals; donkeys! I gotta tell you! I nearly broke my back on these bloody things. We were on the Mudchute Farm in East London, doing a lot of the shots with these donkeys, which is where we got the donkeys from. I used to work on the Mudchute, when I was a student, so going back to this city farm was kind of funny, really, it was quite amusing. And I didn't realize that in order to get a donkey to go anywhere, you need another donkey; somewhere, in the distance. This was a mother and daughter pair, and so you need one donkey to move, then the other one would move, but nothing, no power on earth will make this donkey go unless the other one goes. And suddenly it'll go and you're off the back, "Ahh!" Whack!
So we did all that, then we moved the donkeys to the city of London. So I'm clip-clopping around the city of London dressed as a mad aviator with a carrot on a stick in front of a donkey, in front of the Lloyd's building, and it's dropping turds everywhere with a policeman going, "Excuse me, you going to clean that up?"
We did not in fact, to be fair, take a donkey onto the trading floor of Lloyd's. We pretended we did, but it was actually me [galloping] in front of the camera, Monty Python style, you know, "Sir Robin ran away! Clip-clop-clip-clop-clip," etc."
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I think the interaction between Kaiser and Isagi at the end of chapter 203 is very important and foreshadows how Isagi and Kaiser's (and Ness') relationships will change soon. Especially since Kaiser had to admit that Isagi outplayed him at the end of the BM v MSC game, and Ness' following freakout.
Look at this panel of Kaiser holding ness by his hair, essentially making him bow down:
We've seen Kaiser do this on multiple occasions.
When Isagi loses consciousness, there is this (in my opinion) very significant panel of Kaiser simultaneously releasing Ness and grabbing Isagi's hair in the same exact way.
I see it as a sort of crude metaphor for exchange that makes believe think Kaiser will try to replace Ness with Isagi, who has now proven more interesting to Kaiser. Not just to entertain himself or act on any other sort of personal feelings he has towards Isagi, but, most importantly, to put him in his place (the same way Kaiser has Ness under his thumb).
This is idea is further established simply by how the last panel is framed:
Isagi, no matter the circumstance and how you put it, is on his knees in front of Kaiser.
Remember this?
He finally really has.
While it happened probably not how Kaiser had envisioned, he still has Isagi kneeling in front of him, proving his superiority as the player who endured.
But Kaiser did have to admit his (small, but nevertheless) defeat, and knowing how prideful he is, that must have been a blow. That makes be believe that he will be working very hard to somehow get Isagi on his side and crush him into submission the same way he has with Ness.
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I know there are as many religious good guys as there are religious bad guys in IDW, but I think I pinned down the reason why it feels like the most prominent religious figures are all bad guys and it's pretty much due to the worldbuilding.
Maybe my memory of the comics is just really bad, but the religious worldbuilding in IDW is....kind of trash honestly. I'm not sure there's a single religion or religious custom that doesn't exist solely to further the plot along. Like, it's one thing for the Camiens to worship the Primes and that causes a lot of stuff in exRID/OP, but what does that worship actually look like? What are their holidays, customs, religious texts? What about "spectralism" which basically the only thing we know about is the Festival of the Lost Light and some hippie color coding and aura shit? Like sure, there are characters who are religious and their beliefs come into play sometimes, but it honestly feels (especially in MTMTE) more like their religiousness only exists when it's relevant to the plot and it's just kinda. Disappointing eh. Lacking in worldbuilding. Plus the more religious a character is the more it's written as their entire personality and the driving force making them evil so it just kinda made me cringe to read honestly.
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CPN : The number 16.
It’s me with another useless fact laced with CPN 😂 I love stuff like this so yeah. ~ This is more of Yibo’s relationship with this number and then a little appearance in relation to BoXiao.
• Yibo debuted as a member of UNIQ at the age of 16.
• He joined TTXS in 2016.
• He has a custom VANS shoe with the number painted on it.
• An unconfirmed repo is that Web was in the Top 16 of the dance competition he entered when he was 13.
• In an episode of Extreme Youth, he was asked to choose a number between 1-30 which corresponded to a skateboard trick they had to do. He said 16 and when asked why, he said it’s a favorite in his heart. He later changed it to 26 because the trick assigned to 26 was too hard.
• In his KOD game, his name was YIBO16
• 8/17/2020 he wore a shirt with a 16 on it.
• Coincidence that their “first meeting” or the start of filming CQL was 4.16.2018
• Bobo’s timestamp for his bday message to GG was 16.
• They both posted at timestamp of 16 on douyin a day apart. Probably connected to the 24 hour rule.
• This photo was posted by GG on 1/16/2020. There was no recording of Our Song and his work that day was 1/15 @ the afternoon. Then he went back to Beijing and waited early in the morning 1:47 AM to post this? Did he really want it to be posted the 16th? CPN was that Web sent this. 🤍
That’s all. This was just interesting to me cause the obvious numbers we associate with Bobo are 8, 85, 97, 3 and 23 and I think that 16 gets overlooked. Tho he gravitates towards the obvious favorites, I wanna shed a light on his other favorite number. 🤍
src: https://m.weibo.cn/status/4763236271130230
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I think I need to just go back to unfollowing anyone who posts obnoxious niche discourse. for my mental health
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