NSR Halloween DLC ideas, just in time for Spooky Night!
The soundtrack for the Halloween DLC would feature instruments associated with the holiday being incorporated into the songs, such as pipe organ and theremin.
The Bosses
DJ Subatomic Supernova
DJSS is a scarecrow, wearing a straw hat, flannel shirt, and denim overalls (cut-off, of course!).
For the battlefield, the background of the Planetarium is a deep orange. The planets he uses to attack are replaced with pumpkins, and the asteroids are replaced by a swarm of crows.
Sayu
Sayu is a cute ghost girl. (I felt it would be fitting since she’s a floaty character.) She's slightly translucent and sports a ghostly wisp-like tail rather than her regular mermaid tail. Her colour palette features off-whites and faded pastels, making her look more etherial.
Sayu wears a tattered white Victorian/Lolita-style dress, lacy cuffs around her wrists and a little bow on her head.
For Phase 2, her dress becomes poofier and more elaborate as small ribbons resembling tentacles appear around her waist. Her trident is completely white.
Phase 3 has her go full-on ghost bride. Her dress has a huge multi-tiered skirt, her hair is adorned with a long veil, and her tentacle ribbons have grown to full length. Her deep-sea mode has her face turn glowing green with solid black eyes, making her resemble a spookfish, while her “tentacles” feature flickering lights similar to a bioluminescent jellyfish.
Her final form is basically your stereotypical bedsheet ghost shape with her legs sticking out the bottom.
Sayu’s team are dressed in dark wizard-like robes, and each of them are wearing masks like the ones worn by Lock, Shock, and Barrel from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
For the battlefield, the “landscape” is dotted with jack-o-lanterns, tombstones, and dead trees. The background is changed to a seafoam green color, with wispy little ghosts flying about.
Yinu and Mother
Yinu is dressed as a cute little witch. Her hair is in pigtails similar to her Christmas skin, and her witch hat is adorned with fall leaves and little jack-o-lanterns.
Mother, meanwhile, is a spooky Halloween tree with spiders. Her dress is a dark wood colour with translucent, ragged-edged sleeves, and she wears a thorny hairband and spiderweb earrings.
The ends of her “hair” have been dyed the same colour as her dress, and she wears both black lipstick and black nail polish.
When she grows bigger, her branches begin to sprout large thorns, which end up making her cage form look more like a spiderweb. (There are even little fake spiders sitting on top of it!)
For the battlefield, the stage is decorated to evoke a bountiful harvest, with pumpkins, hay bales, bundles of wheat, stalks of corn, apple trees, cornucopias, and garlands of leaves.
Both the gate and the giant piano hammers are adorned with thorny branches and autumn leaves.
1010
1010 are pirate ghosts. (As a fun gag, Blue could wear two eyepatches instead of his sunglasses!)
Meanwhile, Neon J is their ghostly captain, complete with a captain’s hat, a sword at his belt, a fake parrot on his shoulder, and – once again – a fake beard attached to his screen head.
For the battlefield, the flying limousine is decked out to look like a pirate ship, with a mast, a crow’s nest, and a tattered sail.
(I felt 1010 as pirates would be fitting since they're a navy-themed boyband and Neon J was a captain in the navy.)
Eve
Eve is dressed as Medusa.
Her dark green dress has a scaly pattern, and she accessories with a lot of gold, including spiralling gold sandals and a golden diadem crown.
Her hair has been dyed, shaped, and styled to look like several little writhing serpents.
Her backpiece is composed of even more snakes in gold and teal which wrap around her upper torso and spread out behind her like a peacock’s tail.
Eve’s pupils even become snake-like starting at Phase 2!
For the battlefield, Eve’s gallery has been transformed into an Ancient Greek temple, but with a postmodern/vapourwave twist. Stylized Greco-Roman columns with snakes wrapped around them line the walls, and an ancient looking gold chandelier hangs from the ceiling. The left side would be eggplant purple while the right side would be cerulean blue.
If the player gets hit by the eye lasers from Eve’s giant statue, they’ll actually turn to stone and be frozen in place for a short time.
For Phase 2, on Mayday’s side, the snakes wrapped around the columns have grown larger and are now looming over Mayday, their faces twisted into angry snarls (representing Eve’s derisiveness and hostility towards May).
Meanwhile, Zuke’s side features floating fragments of ruined columns (representing how lost and incomplete Eve felt after Zuke left her).
Phase 3 is where it really starts to get trippy. Both rooms feature ruined columns and floating shards, along with giant brightly colored snakes slithering all over the background.
The shards in Zuke’s side reflect images of faces screaming in anguish, while the shards on Mayday’s side have limbs protruding from them- one shard has three legs protruding from them in reference to a trinacia. (Look up what a trinacia is to understand the reference!)
Tatiana
Tatiana is a vampire.
She wears black and red robes with bat wing-edged sleeves and a wide collar. Her earrings are coffin shaped, and she has small, pointed fangs that can be seen when she opens her mouth.
At the beginning of her battle, she starts throwing flaming bats.
For the battlefield, Tatiana's office/battle arena is made to feel like a vampire’s castle tower.
The whole room is lit with a deep red glow, and the tall windows that feature the NSR murals are topped with pointed arches, giving them a Gothic look.
You can even see some glass bottles filled with (ahem) red liquid on Tatiana’s desk.
Meanwhile, the Goolings' stage outside is decorated with jack-o-lanterns and hanging skeletons.
DK West
DK West is dressed as Frankenstein FrankenWest!
His look consists of neck bolts, stitch markings, and a dark ragged recolour of his original outfit.
His bull shadow puppet has matching neck bolts, which even emit shadowy electricity when it appears during the battle.
Bunk Bed Junction
Mayday
Mayday is dressed as an imp, wearing a bright red dress with black sleeves and waistcoat, black wings, red horns, and a red tail.
Her guitar is deep purple and splattered with glowing orange paint. It emits a wolf howl when she powers it up for the Showstopper.
Zuke
Zuke is a werewolf. Ragged clothes with fake fur poking out, extra fur attached to his forearms (don’t ask how got it on there), pointed ears, a bushy tail, pointed fangs, his nose has been painted. Pretty simple.
His drumsticks are splattered with glowing green paint and tipped with tiny light-up pumpkins.
The Other NPCs
Ellie has little bat wings attached to her back and wears a springy bat antenna headband.
And last but not least,
Kliff . . . is just wearing a pair of Groucho Marx glasses. Yup. That's it.
Let me know what you all think. I’d love to hear some feedback. Thanks for reading! Happy Halloween!
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4, 7, 19 and 20 for the movie asks :)
4. Favorite director(s)
I have to admit that choosing favorite directors is always challenging for me since I always feel like I've never seen enough of their filmography to make a confident judgement. I feel that filmmaking is sometimes so collaborative it is hard to claim one single person's value in a project. I could really like a director, for instance, but not his screenwriting and instead prefer it when a specific writer is tied to one of their projects. It is really subjective to me.
For the sake of answering the question I'll say Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Brad Bird, Hayao Miyazaki, D.A. Pennebaker, Don Bluth, Mamoru Hosoda, Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock... Those are all I can think of at the moment in regards to amount of work of theirs I enjoy.
7. Favorite era(s) of film
The 60's and 70's "New Hollywood" era definitely. In my opinion, the quality of storytelling in the US film industry has never been quite that level of phenomenal as it was back then.
Shoutout to certain "Golden Hollywood" era films as well, and the science fiction films of the late 70's and 80s.
19. Director(s) you hate
Uuuum...this is kind of hard cause while there are films I don't like, I don't know if I hold any particular grudges against directors. Or if I don't enjoy their work I wouldn't use the word "hate".
I guess I'll say Yorgos Lanthimos, not because I don't think his films have value, I just didn't enjoy the films of his I have seen that much. His stuff isn't for me, unfortunately.
20. Your pet peeve(s) in movies
Oooh ok! Let me list a few:
- Makeover sequences in films, especially with "nerdy" or "unattractive" girls.
- Racially, sexually, and ableism insensitive writing that have been normalized in films so much that they end up turning into "tropes" rather than critically analyzed or abandoned entirely.
- Reliance on jump scares in horror films.
- Overuse of CGI instead of practical effects.
- "Remakes" of nostalgic, usually cartoon, media that don't have any of the original soul of the og material and are obviously just cash-grabs.
- Science fiction and fantasy films being written in a style that obviously tries to hard to appeal to "fandom subcultures" rather than writing an actually interesting, mature, and cohesive story.
- Modern films (especially in the science fiction and fantasy genre) always feeling like they obviously want a series or series spin-off rather than simply telling a single story that tracks for the whole film. Generally it is just the whole expectation that sequels should be a part of the genre. I don't think that expectation should be there.
- "Multiverses".
- Historical fiction films that exaggerate the time period they take place in so much that it ends up just feeling like a caricature, but not in the fun camp way, in the super uninspired corporate way (particularly in films that take place in the 50s-80s. I can't speak too much about the representations of other time periods but 20th century misrepresentations or simplifications annoy me).
- On that note, nostalgic "rose-tinted glasses" type films. PARTICULARLY films are about 80s nostalgia. I'm so done with those.
- Writing that insults the intelligence of their viewers, not in a "stupid funny" way. Those films are fine and fun, it is when certain films writing is just plain horrible and makes you feel like you are being walked through it by your hand. It is hard to explain.
There are many more but these are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
Granted, a lot of these pet-peeves CAN be done well, it just really depends on the approach of the creators. Hence why I tried to not put stuff like common tropes since I feel a lot of those depend on the story and the approach.
(This can't be said for the racist, sexist, or ableist stuff that should all just go).
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Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?
I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?
In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".
Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.
This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.
Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.
The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.
[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]
There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.
This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.
[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]
As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.
But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?
Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.
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SAR STOP IT U WERE WAITING FOR ME?? IM SENDING U FLOWERS RN HOLD ON 💐🧸💌 BUT WDYM THE CROWD WAS MEAN WHAT HAPPENED!!
these past 2 weeks have been okay i started my last yr of college recently :( but! no plants have died so thats a record :D
(also i literally just tried to send this but idk if it ever did bc it just kept loading + if it didnt send the first time and what im saying makes no sense this is so embarrassing and this never happened) -dead plant
EGAGSV I GOT UR FIRST ASK DW ! AND YES OFC… i will graciously accept ur flowers and put them in the prettiest vase and protect them forever ⭐️
and omfg ok… like i was standing next to this girl and she was talking to her bf and was like “there are so many kpop stans here, its so annoying” like 🧍🏽?? are u shocked??? the group is literally korean 😭 then she started talking shit abt bts and i had to turn around bc i literally couldnt take it anymore,,, (i eavesdropped and found out she’ll be at the same concert im going to next week and i hope i dont see her bc i’ll get violent)
and then i saw a vid on tiktok abt girls getting bullied and called slurs at my show i was at ?!;!/)/??? like WHAT? it was just so crazy, i will never understand people… i genuinely hate going to concerts bc i hate being perceived and everyone feels so judgy?? (except my second txt concert and my svt concert, everyone was so nice to me)
AND IM SO PROUD OF U!!! eeeek i didnt know we were graduating at the same time ☺️ (kinda… im graduating a semester early in december 🫡)
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