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grandhotelabyss · 4 months
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Any thoughts on Byatt, on the occasion of her passing?
I read Possession one summer when I was in college and thought it was extraordinary. (Intimidatingly so, which may be why I never read another of her novels, though Possession is generally said to be her best.) I need to read it again. I can't believe it never came back into fashion with the dark academia trend. Maybe it's too brainy, or maybe it's that the (mostly) heterosexual romance lacks yaoi potential à la Dorian Gray, Maurice, and Brideshead Revisited. For anyone unfamiliar, Possession is about two late-20th-century British academics investigating the lives of two fictional Victorian poets (one loosely based on Robert Browning, the other on Christina Rossetti), and both pairs' possible love affairs with one another. Byatt narrates in a sprightly comic style with no little lyric potential, derived, I now see, from her great models George Eliot and Iris Murdoch, but she also parodies every other kind of relevant style with Joycean or Nabokovian aplomb, giving us jargony feminist essays, image-jeweled Victorian fairy tales, fulsome 19th-century correspondence, jagged Browningesque dramatic monologues, dreamy Pre-Raphaelite ballads, and more. The climatic vindication of writing and reading as almost prophetic activities, this against the reductively ideological approach of the Theory era Byatt was writing within and against, should be carved above the lintel of whatever English departments remain:
There are readings—of the same text—that are dutiful, readings that map and dissect, readings that hear a rustling of unheard sounds, that count grey little pronouns for pleasure or instruction and for a time do not hear golden or apples. There are personal readings, which snatch for personal meanings, I am full of love, or disgust, or fear, I scan for love, or disgust, or fear. There are—believe it—impersonal readings—where the mind's eye sees the lines move onwards and the mind's ear hears them sing and sing.
Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when every word burns and shines hard and clear and infinite and exact, like stones of fire, like points of stars in the dark—readings when the knowledge that we shall know the writing differently or better or satisfactorily, runs ahead of any capacity to say what we know, or how. In these readings, a sense that the text has appeared to be wholly new, never before seen, is followed, almost immediately, by the sense that it was always there, that we the readers, knew it was always there, and have always known it was as it was, though we have now for the first time recognised, become fully cognisant of, our knowledge.
I was pleased to see a long story by Byatt, "The Thing in the Forest," in the Norton Introduction to Literature, which I used the one time I taught the class of that name, in the ill-fated spring semester of 2020. If you've never read Byatt, this story or novelette is a good place to start. It does a lot of what Possession does in miniature, synthesizing witty metafiction, aestheticized fantasy, and moving historical reality into a work of the latter-day Romantic imagination.
I also want to recommend Imagining Characters, an under-discussed book of conversations between Byatt and the Brazilian psychoanalyst Ignês Sodré about six novels: Mansfield Park, Villette, Daniel Deronda, The Professor's House, An Unofficial Rose, and Beloved. (I've still never read that Murdoch, I confess.) This book is probably why I think of Mansfield Park, Villette, and Daniel Deronda as forming a loose trilogy of 19th-century "problem novels" (like Shakespeare's "problem plays") that challenge any cheap 20th-century talk about the complacency, sentimentalism, meliorism, or all-around naiveté of "bourgeois realism." Plus Sodré and Byatt are superb readers, and it's a pleasure to "listen" to them in conversation.
The Paris Review unpaywalled their interview with Byatt today. I'd never read it before. She says much of interest; she even criticizes Kazuo Ishiguro in the same terms as I have, for writing international literature by subtracting specificity, though she later praises The Unconsoled for its insight into the psychology of the artist. She seems ambivalent about realism, constantly invoking fairy tales, even saying this about Murdoch—
I think Iris learned a great deal from the French surrealists, and then somehow went and sat in Oxford and became a slightly less interesting novelist than she would have been if she had stayed in contact with the world of Beckett and Queneau—she would never have gone into Sarraute-like writings. I think she developed a theory about the virtues of Jane Austen that wasn’t all that good for her.
—and this about herself:
If you asked me what I wish I’d written, I would say Borges’s “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote.” That is a completely pointless postmodernist structure of total beauty that nevertheless has a profound point.
The interviewer notes her nonconformist heritage, what links her to George Eliot as well as to Lawrence and to Leavis. She acknowledges it, but notes as well another way, even within the deep English Protestant imagination:
There’s a Spenserian aspect of Milton that I love. It’s the exotic. It’s the extraordinary metaphors. It’s the luscious sensuousness of him. It isn’t the stern puritan. I think I made something of Spenser that was the presence of stories about unreal things in a serious, real world.
"The Last Spenserian." There are worse epitaphs. Now I just need to read more of her novels.
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emilyondemand · 2 years
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Antis: Elriels are insulting Nesta by saying Elain had to dim her beauty, that’s fanon.
Meanwhile, canon:
“She’d [Elain] always been the most beautiful of us”
“Infinitely beautiful”
“Even wasted away by grief. . . Elain’s beauty was remarkable. Hers was a face that could bring kings to their knees.”
“Devastatingly beautiful”
“Easily prettiest of the three”
The only one of the sisters who’s beauty has been acknowledged by every single member of the IC (Rhys and Amren included)
The only one who’s beauty was commented on by the villain of the og trilogy
The one who, even at her worst, was described as the most beautiful female, mate or not, that a centuries old well traveled high lord’s son had ever seen.
The one who the cauldron found “so lovely”
The one who even at 11 years old, Mama Archeron was planning to use her beauty to make an advantageous match.
The one whose beauty as a preteen intimidated a woman of marrying age.
The one whose beauty was a topic of conversation at the high lord’s meeting by none other than Eris Vanserra himself.
And then there’s that time that Feyre did actually dim Elain’s beauty when she went to the human lands:
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Sounds a whole lot like what Cas described at the CoN.
Then there’s the obvious contrast between Elain and Nesta in their wardrobe choices.
Nesta: tiara of black stone and sapphire
Elain: combs of pearl
Nesta: skintight velvet bodice, barely there straps, neckline plunged to her navel with another sapphire
Elain: long sleeved and modest
Nesta: red lips and kohl lined eyes
Elain: no makeup mentioned
This seems rather significant after this comment made by Mor:
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And after the CoN, Nesta describes Elain’s dress as “ill suited” which is synonymous with unflattering or unbecoming. It gives a bit of a different take than how Cas describes Elain, and puts the onus on the dress.
Another element of contrast we see between Nes and Elain is how they responded to Eris. When Elain tells the story of Nesta seducing the duke she says:
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And isn’t it interesting how Nesta uses the same tactics on Eris while Elain does the opposite:
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Admitting to what the text tells us over and over is not “insulting Nesta.” Canonically, all of the Archeron sisters are beautiful; however, Elain’s beauty outshines her sisters. These facts can and do co exist. Accusing real life people interpreting the text, provided for us, as being insulting to a fictional characters’ beauty feels a little bit like projection since it sounds like ya’ll want to downplay Elain’s.
And saying it’s “fanon” to logically assume that Elain purposefully wore something unflattering, per the obvious juxtaposition in the text between the two sisters is really rich coming from the side that believes Elain is snuggling at night with Luc/en’s jacket from ACOMAF.
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comics-n-stuff · 11 months
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Everyone who has ever, even slightly, been Robin
*In official, DC-endorsed media 
Total: 97 (i think)
FYI:
my definition of a ‘Robin’ is extremely vague. For example, I’m counting Lois Lane because she went to a costume party as Robin, and I’m also counting ‘Boy’ from Batman: the Return of Bruce Wayne because he had the domino mask paint and was clearly a stand-in for Robin. Et cetera.
They’re organized chronologically by their first appearance as Robin
Also this is heavily dependent on DC Fandom Wiki, so please let me know if I missed anyone or if anything is inaccurate
KEY
Red = actually Robin for a significant portion of time (more than a few in-universe days & more than one issue/episode/movie/etc)
Italics = was never Robin in main continuity (i.e. Earth Two [before Earth One existed], Earth One, New Earth, and Prime Earth)
Bold = I actually acknowledge them as Robin in my heart
Dick Grayson (Apr 1940)
Julie Madison (Mar 1941)
Ricky (Dec 1944) [possible future]
Mary Wills (Apr 1950) [Earth-Two]
Bruce Wayne (Dec 1955)
Vanderveer Wayne (Jun 1962)
Alfred E. Neuman (Sep 1966) [Mad Magazine]
Jimmy Olsen (May 1970)
Jason Todd (Mar 1982)
Boyd, the Robin Wonder (Apr 1983) [Earth-C-Minus]
Carrie Kelly (Jun 1986) [Dark Knight Returns]
Tim Drake (Oct 1989)
Robert Chang (Apr 1990) [Digital Justice]
Redbird (Jan 1993) [The Blue, the Gray, and the Bat]
Thomas Wayne (Jan 1993) [Robin 3000]
Bane (Apr 1993) [rejected elseworlds]
Robin Redblade (Jun 1994) [Earth-494]
Tengu (Sep 1994) [Narrow Path]
Alfred Pennyworth (Feb 1996) [Batman: Dark Alligiances]
Jubilation Lee (Apr 1996) [Amalgam Universe]
Tris Plover (Jun 1996) [Legends of the Dead Earth]
Darkbird (Jul 1996)
Bruce Wayne Jr. (Feb 1997) [Earth-3839]
Lois Lane (Oct 1997)
Rodney the chimpanzee (Nov 1997) [Batman: Dark Knight Dynasty]
Marya (1998) [I, Joker]
Barbara Gordon (Feb 1998) [Earth-37]
Robin the Toy Wonder (Nov 1998) [DC One Million]
Rochelle Wayne (Feb 1999) [Reign of Terror]
Kon-El (Mar 1999) [Hypertension]
Clark Wayne (Mar 1999) [Earth-3839]
Squid Wonder (Aug 1999)
The Robin (Mar 2000) [Earth-40]
Robin Drake (Feb 2002) [Riddle of the Beast]
Stephanie Brown (May 2004)
Koriand’r (Jan 2005) [Teen Titans (2003 show)]
Garfield Logan (Jan 2005) [Teen Titans (2003 show)]
Rachel Roth (Jan 2005) [Teen Titans (2003 show)]
Victor Stone (Jan 2005) [Teen Titans (2003 show)]
Robbie the Robin (Jun 2005) [Krypto the Superdog]
Control Freak (Oct 2005) [Teen Titans (2003 show)]
Damian Wayne (Nov 2006)
Robin Olsen (Oct 2007) [Earth-8]
Bizzaro Robin (Nov 2007)
Unnamed penguin (Jun 2010) [Tiny Titans]
Boy (Jul 2010)
Robin Robin (Jul 2010) [Tiny Titans]
M’gann M’orzz (Nov 2010) [Young Justice (2010 show)]
Jericho (Dec 2010) [Tiny Titans]
Kid Devil (Dec 2010) [Tiny Titans]
Wildebeest (Dec 2010) [Tiny Titans]
Kroc (Dec 2010) [Tiny Titans]
The Joker (Jan 2011)
Lance Heart (Feb 2011)
Fransisco Ramirez (Feb 2011)
Christopher Ward (Feb 2011)
Robin John Blake (Jul 2012) [Dark Knight Trilogy]
Helena Wayne (July 2012) [Earth 2]
Robin’s Egg (Jan 2013) [Farm League]
Super Robin (Jul 2013) [Teen Titans Go!]
Selina Kyle (Mar 2014)
Damien Wayne (Jun 2014) [Infinite Crisis Video Game]
John Thomas Grayson (Dec 2014) [Earth 2]
Nibor (Jan 2015) [Teen Titans Go!]
Daxton Chill (May 2015)
Dre Cipriani (May 2015)
Riko Sheridan (May 2015)
Duke Thomas (Jul 2015)
Troy Walker (Jul 2015)
Kat-R-ina (Aug 2015)
Isabella Ortiz (Aug 2015)
BlackDomino (Oct 2015)
Darkestdawn (Oct 2015)
SideKicker (Oct 2015)
Yellowcape (Oct 2015)
Shug-R (May 2016)
Robinbot (May 2017)
Dinesh Babar (May 2017)
Rabid Robins (Oct 2017) [Earth -22]
Cult Member Robins (Apr 2018)
Rosie (Apr 2018)
Matt McGinnis (May 2018) [Futures End]
Harley Quinn (Apr 2019)
Jarro (Oct 2019)
Billy Batson (Oct 2019)
Six of Hearts
Maps Mizoguchi (Dec 2020)
Talia Kane (Feb 2021) [Earth 11]
LeBron James (Jul 2021) [Space Jam: A New Legacy]
Drake Winston (Oct 2021) [Batman ‘89]
Anita Jean (Oct 2021)
Kiki (Nov 2021)
Son of Don Mitchell Jr. (Mar 2022) [The Batman (2022 movie)]
Gan (Mar 2022)
Jon Kent (Jul 2022)
Amish Boy Wonder (Nov 2022) [The Last Harley Story]
Darcy Thomas (Nov 2022)
@help-i-need-a-cool-username
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astrognossienne · 1 year
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scandalous icon: david bowie - an analysis
“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.” - David Bowie
Spoken like a person with such power-hungry and ambitious signs such as a Capricorn sun and Leo moon. He was the self-described “tasteful thief” who appropriated from and influenced glam rock, soul, disco, new wave, punk rock and haute couture, and whose edgy alter egos invited fans to explore their own dark places. He was a person of relentless movement. He was an innovative, visionary, restless artist. His theatrical flare, creativity, sexual ambiguity, and incredible music kept the public endlessly interested. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Rolling Stone ranked him among the greatest artists in history. As of 2022, he was the best-selling vinyl artist of the 21st century. With his sylphlike body, chalk-white skin, jagged teeth and eyes that appeared to be two different colors, Mr. Bowie combined sexual energy with fluid dance moves and a theatrical charisma that mesmerized male and female admirers alike. He was complex, an explorer of human impulses that could not be quantified. He was the infinitely changeable, fiercely forward-looking songwriter who taught generations of musicians about the power of reinvention. Throughout his career, he reinvented not just his sound but his persona over and over again; his best known persona was the flamboyant, androgynous, orange-haired glam rock alien alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
Beginning life as a dissident folk-rock spaceman, his ascent was measured rather than rapid, but once his album Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars got their claws into the British rock scene, he soared like a supernova, going on to sell over 150 million albums, receive countless accolades, and become a beacon of light for those embracing their sexuality (not least of all those in the LGBT community). He went on to embrace other personas after the demise of the band: a well-dressed, blue-eyed soul singer, a Nazi and fascist-influenced European (the Thin White Duke), a drug-loving art rocker (the Berlin trilogy), a new-wave hit-maker, a hard rocker, a techno enthusiast and a jazz impressionist. His ever-changing, outrageous personae served to mask the painful shyness and insecurity of his younger years. His flair for theatricality won him a legion of fans. His fickleness cost him relationships, friendships and professional partnerships, could be jarring. Members of the Spiders From Mars, his band during his glitter-rock Ziggy Stardust years, learned that they were being fired when he announced it onstage at the end of a 1973 tour. Through it all, David Bowie has definitely always been his own special creation. And it all began for him so long ago when he was just a kid in South London, where he began the journey that, by dint of his genius, his persistence, and his sheer hard work, would transform him into a global icon whose name, image, music, and artistry would endure forever.
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David Bowie, according to astrotheme, was a Capricorn sun and Leo moon. He was born David Robert Jones in South London, Brixton, England. His father, Haywood Stenton Jones, belonged to a well-off family who were partners in the Public Benefit Boot Company; his mother, Margaret Mary "Peggy" Jones worked as a waitress at a cinema. The mother of three illegitimate children (including David) at a time when a girl could have been ostracized by society for having even one, Peggy was never afraid to dance to a different drummer. The only child his parents had together, David was born left-handed, which in 1950s England was considered a disgrace, an aberration that had to be corrected at all costs. His schoolmates yelled that he was “the devil,” simply because he wrote with his left hand. Worse still, “the teacher used to smack my hand to try and make me right-handed,” he said. He showed an interest in music from an early age and began playing the saxophone at age 13. He was greatly influenced by his half-brother Terry, who was nine years older and exposed the young Jones to the worlds of rock music and beat literature. Terry was diagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized when David was a young man. David suffered another blow, this one quite literal, in a teenage brawl over a girl that caused his left pupil to be permanently dilated.
He attended a high school that would prepare him for a career as a commercial artist. After a few lessons on a plastic saxophone purchased on a payment plan, he began playing in local bands, finding that he liked singing and the female adulation that came with it. To avoid confusion with Davy Jones of the Monkees, he renamed himself after 19th-century American frontiersman Jim Bowie and the hunting knife associated with him. Fascinated by musical theater, David joined a mime troupe led by the dancer (and, briefly, his lover) Lindsay Kemp. By 20, he had spent time at a Buddhist monastery in Scotland and dabbled in theatrical troupes. Bowie met Angela Barnett in April 1969. They married within a year. Her impact on him was immediate, and her involvement in his career far-reaching. With 1969’s Space Oddity, whose dramatic title track told the story of ill-fated astronaut Major Tom, he had a hit. On the following year’s The Man Who Sold the World, he experimented with psychedelia, and in 1971, he fused pop-rock with art pretense and experimentalism with Hunky Dory, his first significant album. Angela and David had a son born during the recording of Hunky Dory, Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones.
After a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. The character was spearheaded by the success of Bowie's single "Starman" and album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which won him widespread popularity. In 1975, Bowie's style shifted towards a sound he characterized as "plastic soul", initially alienating many of his UK fans but garnering him his first major US crossover success with the number-one single "Fame" and the album Young Americans. Extensive cocaine use made him jittery and paranoid, even as it enabled him to be creatively prolific. In 1976, Bowie starred in the cult film The Man Who Fell to Earth and released Station to Station. Seeking calm and anonymity, Bowie spent much of the late 1970s in West Berlin, where he again changed direction with the electronic-inflected album Low, the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno that came to be known as the "Berlin Trilogy". "Heroes" (1977) and Lodger (1979) followed; each album reached the UK top five and received lasting critical praise. These experimentations with ambient sound presaged the synthesizer-heavy music of the 1980s.
After nine years of marriage, Angie and David Bowie separated, and they divorced on February 8, 1980 in Switzerland. In the divorce settlement, she received £500,000, paid in installments, and a 10-year gagging clause. Not wanting to fight over custody, she left their son with David. Returning to live in New York City, Bowie began expanding his range as an actor. He played the lead in a stage production of "The Elephant Man", for which he received critical praise. Bowie regularly released albums through the 1980s and 1990s, although none approached the success of his previous output. He fell in love with Somalian supermodel Iman Abdulmajid, whom he married in 1992 and with whom he had a daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones, in 2000. After suffering a heart attack backstage during a tour in 2004, he stopped producing albums or touring for nearly a decade, devoting himself to family life. In 2013, Bowie returned from a decade-long recording hiatus with The Next Day. He remained musically active until his death from liver cancer at his home in New York City. He died two days after both his 69th birthday and the release of his final album, Blackstar (2016).
This is a special birthday analysis for David Bowie. Happy birthday, you Capricorn god.
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Stats
birthdate: January 8, 1947
major planets:
Sun: Capricorn
Moon: Leo
Rising: Aquarius
Mercury: Capricorn
Venus: Sagittarius
Mars: Capricorn
Midheaven: Sagittarius
Jupiter: Scorpio
Saturn: Leo
Uranus: Gemini
Neptune: Libra
Pluto: Leo
Overall personality snapshot: Deeply serious yet poetically playful, he may have been torn between the self-imposed responsibilities of his career and social ambitions, and his desire to make a splash and have fun. Both proud and humble, at times he couldn’t decide whether he was the greatest or the most inadequate person he knew. When he got his industrious and playful elements working together, however, the world had better watch out, for in his own steady yet compelling way he could be the embodiment of purposeful ambition. No matter what his job was, he was a born professional. With expertly designed flair, he wanted to shine for himself and to achieve for the world. His reputation mattered a lot to him, and when he knows he has earned his praise he savours it like nobody else. He didn’t really mean to be a snob, but he had a way of nonchalantly lording it over people. This is because his belief in herself and in what he felt he must do was so intense. As a man born with this combination he found his way to the top of his chosen mountain. His was a pairing of sunny high-summer and serious mid-winter, an adventurous, gutsy mix of tough-willed, dedicated service carried out with zest and pizzazz.
He had the charisma of a star yet he worked dutifully behind the scenes, laying the foundations and preparing the party. Then on the day, he made the perfect host or hostess, carrying out his duties with total self-possession and real style. An air of authority and immense professionalism surrounded all his endeavours. He would do whatever was necessary, no matter how hard, to produce a polished performance and a superb result. With a strong social conscience, a real sense of noblesse oblige and a desire to make the world a better place, he was drawn to politics or fund-raising; good works and charities flourished on his enthusiasm and dedication. Whatever he did, he was likely to end up being put in charge, which was just as well, for subordinate positions were not really his scene. At times when the sun was shining he may have protested at having work piled upon him, yet let anyone deprive him of his load and he would feel not only hurt but somehow lost and guilty. Not all his work was totally altruistic. There could be something of the gold-digger in him, constantly alert for opportunities, yet he didn’t expect any free lunches, even if he did enjoy getting the best for the least. He was someone who, to quote her fellow Capricorn/Leo, Jack London, ‘will settle for good pay, good grub and hard work rather than poor pay, poor grub and easy work’. He had pride and confidence in his own achievements and, yes, he thought he could try harder, but in the end, he didn't do so badly, really, did he?
He was tall and slim with good bone structure and clear, open and refined features. His eyes were extraordinary, helping to give him an electric or magnetic aura. His distinguishing feature was his hair, which was always chicly styled, whether long or short. His thought processes were methodical and on the conservative side. He was ambitious and shrewd, serious, practical and prudent, although he could also be narrow-minded, lacking in humour and too concerned with material status. His mind was rational, cool and calculating, and his memory and logic were very good. The Sagittarian qualities that he brought to his career were those of vision, energy, enthusiasm and an ability to organize others. He needed recognition, room to maneuver and a fair degree of authority. He sought meaning and fulfillment in his life through career status and recognition. When dealing with colleagues, he could place strong demands on them. He had boundless enthusiasm and big ideas coupled with high expectations of succeeding. He was also self-sufficient and broad-minded. His genuine pioneering spirit, positive outlook and large-scale personal ambitions led him right to the top. When dealing with colleagues, he could place strong demands on them. He could be an intensely emotional person with extremely strong physical desires. He tended to see himself as a desirable person to the opposite sex. He needed to be loved, but he could also be extremely suspicious of other people and their motives. He acted very cautiously until he was sure of situations and how other people felt. His perseverance was strong, but he needed to learn moderation and not to over-rate his abilities or capacity for doing things. He was interested in foreign names and places, and by anything mysterious.He was a reliable and loyal person. His will and sense of honour were strong and he was a great organizer. On the downside, his self-assuredness could become dogmatism and imperiousness. Conservatism may have affected his creativity, artistic values and love affairs. This expressed itself as self-imposed restrictions or as selfishness. He often felt inadequate, which created an insidious form of oppression over all his forms of expression. He could also take herself so seriously, that people think that he was older than his years.
He was part of a generation that was strongly interested in humanitarian ideals, new avenues of communication and progress in mechanical skills. As a member of this generation, he was able to bring original ideas to both his career and spare-time interests. Crises in thought and ideology arose because he looked beyond tradition and old attitudes towards new original and inventive ways of looking at things, such as music and sexuality. His active mind tended to need constant stimulation and his tastes could be quite fickle and difficult to satisfy. He belonged to a time of peace-loving idealism when the family unit and the way relationships were managed underwent great changes. He could be too idealistic and a little unrealistic when it came to matters of love, sex and romance. As a member of this generation, he needed to be motivated to make the most of his potential, because the line of least resistance appeared very attractive, especially when it involved pleasure-seeking. He embodied the Libra Neptune generation in the sense that he was a huge part of a time when beauty reappeared in fashion. He was part of a generation which was highlighted by the clash between authoritarianism and individualism. As a member of the Leo Plutonian generation, he wanted freedom in his relationships and demanded the loyalty of his friends as a right. As a member of this generation, he wanted power over his own life and was prepared to challenge established structures. He didn’t feel comfortable being dictated to, unless he in some way agreed to it beforehand. He was a part of excesses of the sixties and seventies. He was part of a generation that brought about a revolution in forms of entertainment, recreational activities and leisure time, as well as attitudes towards children. David’s sexual adventures—some partly cocaine-fueled, all ignited by his unbridled appetites and his propensity to cast a wide net, coupled with his unlimited opportunities—typified his generation’s newfound ability to live out their wildness.
Love/sex life: He was the most impulsive lover of this type and the one most likely to forget practicality and follow his instincts. This spontaneity, when combined with his strong physical drives, made him a tremendously exciting, adventurous and unpredictable sex partner. It also got him into more than his share of trouble. But acting in haste and repenting in leisure was not a problem for him. Like all Mars in Capricorn lovers, he rather liked repenting. What was lacking in his sexual nature was subtlety. He pursued his desire with such directness and determination that he could appear inconsiderate and crude and he didn’t control his relationships as much as he bullied people into seeing things his way. The good new is that he was so affectionate and generous a lover that he was easily forgiven his sins. The bad news is that this quick forgiveness only made him more likely to commit the same offense again and again (more on this in my David Bowie sexuality post on my members-only website).
minor asteroids and points:
North Node: Gemini
Lilith: Capricorn
Vertex: Virgo
Fortune: Leo
East Point: Aquarius
His North Node in Gemini dictated that he needed to prevent his idealism from influencing his thoughts to such a high degree. He needed to consciously develop a more clear-minded and analytical approach involving his thought processes. His Lilith in Capricorn ensured that he was dangerously attracted to women who had a scrappy plucky attitude hot-wired into their psyche. He liked a woman who needed to be in control and to be mistress of her own destiny, because her life was in the control of not-so-well-meaning others as a child. Her Vertex in Virgo, 7th house dictated that he wanted a union which would take one to ultimate salvation or spiritual initiation, based on a shared ideal of dedication and service. There was a fantasy of joining with someone who had unique psychic and/or healing powers and the focus is on the practical work which will make everything all right. He was always in a partnership of one kind or another (if only in his head), desperately seeking one, or decided that it wasn’t worth the risk since his expectations would never be met. There was a sense that he wasn’t really complete unless he was intimately involved with someone. On some levels there was an irrational fear of ending up alone. The dark side was that he could get highly self-righteous about acceptable modes of behaviour in interacting with others and thereby alienate the very people he longed for. His parental role model was less than secure in his subconscious perceptions, though it may have seemed fine on an external level.
His Part of Fortune in Leo and Part of Spirit in Aquarius dictated that his destiny led him to a prominent position in life as a leader of some sort. Fame and prestige brought him success and material rewards. Success came to him when he stepped forward into the spotlight. His soul’s purpose asked him to embrace unique and unconventional life experiences. He felt spiritual connections and the spark of the divine when there was a humanitarian benefit to his efforts. East Point in Aquarius dictated that he was more likely to identify with his uniqueness, his individuality and his feelings for justice and fair play. He may have enjoyed shocking others occasionally with unconventional behaviour, designed to prove that all rules can be broken. He may have been very unique and inventive or simply eccentric and strange. He may have been rebellious in a number of areas. He was likely to identify with his mind; he may have been a great rationalizer—able to intellectualize everything.
elemental dominance:
fire
earth
He was dynamic and passionate, with strong leadership ability. He generated enormous warmth and vibrancy. He was exciting to be around, because he was genuinely enthusiastic and usually friendly. However, he could either be harnessed into helpful energy or flame up and cause destruction. Confident and opinionated, he was fond of declarative statements such as “I will do this” or “It’s this way.” When out of control—usually because he was bored, or hadn’t been acknowledged—he was bossy, demanding, and even tyrannical. But at his best, his confidence and vision inspired others to conquer new territory in the world, in society, and in themselves. He was a practical, reliable man and could provide structure and protection. He was oriented toward practical experience and thought in terms of doing rather than thinking, feeling, or imagining. Could be materialistic, unimaginative, and resistant to change. But at his best, he provided the practical resources, analysis, and leadership to make dreams come true.
modality dominance:
fixed
He liked the challenge of managing existing routines with ever more efficiency, rather than starting new enterprises or finding new ways of doing things. He likely had trouble delegating duties and had a very hard time seeing other points of view; he tried to implement the human need to create stability and order in the wake of change.          
house dominants:
7th
12th
10th
His attitude towards partnerships with other people was emphasized in hid life, whether on a personal or on a business level. It also revealed his marriage partner. It indicated how he dealt with other people and how his relationships with others affected him. Also had the propensity to attract enemies, and the effect that they had on his life was an issue. He had great interest in the unconscious, and indulged in a lot of hidden and secret affairs. His life was defined by seclusion and escapism. He had a certain mysticism and hidden sensitivity, as well as an intense need for privacy. His ambition in relation to the outside world, the identity he wished to achieve in regard to the community at large, and his career aspirations were all themes that were emphasized throughout his life. All matters outside the home, his public image and reputation were very important to his. His attitude to people in authority, and how he viewed the outside world, as well as the influence of his mother and his own attitude to her was highlighted.
planet dominants:
Venus
Moon
Sun
He was romantic, attractive and valued beauty, had an artistic instinct, and was sociable. He had an easy ability to create close personal relationships, for better or worse, and to form business partnerships. He was defined by his inner world; by his emotional reactions to situations, how emotions flowed through him, motivating and compelling him—or limiting him and holding him back. He held great capacity to become a part of the whole rather than attempting to master the parts. He wanted to become whatever it is that he sought. He had vitality and creativity, as well as a strong ego and was authoritarian and powerful. He likely had strong leadership qualities, he definitely knew who he was, and he had tremendous will. He met challenges and believed in expanding his life.
sign dominants:
Leo
Capricorn
Sagittarius
He loved being the center of attention and often surrounded herself with admirers. He had an innate dramatic sense, and life was definitely his stage. His flamboyance and personal magnetism extended to every facet of her life. He wanted to succeed and make an impact in every situation. As a Leo dominant, he was, at his best, optimistic, honorable, loyal, and ambitious. He was a serious-minded person who often seemed aloof and tightly in control of his emotions and his personal domain. Even as a youngster, there was a mature air about him, as if he was born with a profound core that few outsiders ever see. He was easily impressed by outward signs of success, but was interested less in money than in the power that money represents. He was a true worker—industrious, efficient, and disciplined. His innate common sense gave his the ability to plan ahead and to work out practical ways of approaching goals. More often than not, he succeeded at whatever he set out to do. He possessed a quiet dignity that was unmistakable. He sought the truth, expressed it as he saw it—and didn’t care if anyone else agreed with him. He saw the large picture of any issue and couldn’t be bothered with the mundane details. He was always outspoken and likely couldn’t understand why other people weren’t as candid. After all, what was there to hide?
Read more about him under the cut.
David Bowie was one of the most influential and prolific writers and performers of popular music, but he was much more than that; he was also an accomplished actor, a mime and an intellectual, as well as an art lover whose appreciation and knowledge of it had led to him amassing one of the biggest collections of 20th century art.
Born David Jones, he changed his name to Bowie in the 1960s, to avoid confusion with the then well-known Davy Jones (lead singer of The Monkees). The 1960s were not a happy period for Bowie, who remained a struggling artist, awaiting his breakthrough. He dabbled in many different styles of music (without commercial success), and other art forms such as acting, mime, painting, and play-writing. He finally achieved his commercial breakthrough in 1969 with the song "Space Oddity", which was released at the time of the moon landing. Despite the fact that the literal meaning of the lyrics relates to an astronaut who is lost in space, this song was used by the BBC in their coverage of the moon landing, and this helped it become such a success. The album, which followed "Space Oddity", and the two, which followed (one of which included the song "The Man Who Sold The World", covered by Lulu and Nirvana) failed to produce another hit single, and Bowie's career appeared to be in decline.
However, he made the first of many successful "comebacks" in 1972 with "Ziggy Stardust", a concept album about a space-age rock star. This album was followed by others in a similar vein, rock albums built around a central character and concerned with futuristic themes of Armageddon, gender dysfunction/confusion, as well as more contemporary themes such as the destructiveness of success and fame, and the dangers inherent in star worship. In the mid-1970s, Bowie was a heavy cocaine abuser and sometime heroin user.
In 1975, he changed tack. Musically, he released "Young Americans", a soul (or plastic soul as he later referred to it) album. This produced his first number one hit in the US, "Fame". He also appeared in his first major film, The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). With a permanently-dilated pupil and skeletal frame, he certainly looked the part of an alien. The following year, he released "Station to Station," containing some of the material he had written for the soundtrack to this film (which was not used). As his drug problem heightened, his behavior became more erratic. Reports of his insanity started to appear, and he continued to waste away physically. He fled back to Europe, finally settling in Berlin, where he changed musical direction again and recorded three of the most influential albums of all time, an electronic trilogy with Brian Eno "Low, Heroes and Lodger". Towards the end of the 1970s, he finally kicked his drug habit, and recorded the album many of his fans consider his best, the Japanese-influenced "Scary Monsters". Around this time, he appeared in the title role of the Broadway drama The Elephant Man, and to considerable acclaim.
The next few years saw something of a drop-off in his musical output as his acting career flourished, culminating in his acclaimed performance in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983). In 1983, he released "Let's Dance," an album which proved an unexpected massive commercial success, and produced his second #1 hit single in the United States. According to producer Nile Rodgers, the album was made in just 17 days and was "the easiest album" he'd ever made in his life. The tour which followed, "Serious Moonlight", was his most successful ever. Faced with this success on a massive scale, Bowie apparently attempted to "repeat the formula" in the next two albums, with less success (and to critical scorn). Finally, in the late 1980s, he turned his back on commercial success and his solo career, forming the hard rock band, Tin Machine, who had a deliberate limited appeal. By now, his acting career was in decline. After the comparative failure of Labyrinth (1986), the movie industry appears to have decided that Bowie was not a sufficient name to be a lead actor in a major movie, and since that date, most of his roles have been cameos or glorified cameos. Tin Machine toured extensively and released two albums, with little critical or commercial success.
In 1992, Bowie again changed direction and re-launched his solo career with "Black Tie White Noise", a wedding album inspired by his recent marriage to Iman. He released three albums to considerable critical acclaim and reasonable commercial success. In 1995, he renewed his working relationship with Brian Eno to record "Outside." After an initial hostile reaction from the critics, this album has now taken its place with his classic albums. In 2003, Bowie released an album entitled 'Reality.' The Reality Tour began in November 2003 and, after great commercial success, was extended into July 2004. In June 2004, Bowie suffered a heart attack and the tour did not finish its scheduled run.
After recovering, Bowie gave what turned out to be his final live performance in a three-song set with Alicia Keys at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York in November 2006. He also returned to acting. He played Tesla in The Prestige (2006) and had a small cameo in the comedy Extras: David Bowie (2006) for fan Ricky Gervais. In 2007, he did a cartoon voice in SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) playing Lord Royal Highness. He had a brief cameo in the movie ''Bandslam'' released in 2009; after a ten year hiatus from recording, he released a new album called 'The Next Day', featuring a homage cover to his earlier work ''Heroes''. The music video of ''Stars are Out Tonight'' premiered on 25 February 2013. It consists of other songs like ''Where Are We Now?", "Valentine's Day", "Love is Lost", "The Next Day", etc.
In 2014, Bowie won British Male Solo Artist at the 2014 Brit Awards, 30 years since last winning it, and became the oldest ever Brit winner. Bowie wrote and recorded the opening title song to the television miniseries The Last Panthers (2015), which aired in November 2015. The theme used for The Last Panthers (2015) was also the title track for his January 2016 release, ''Blackstar" (released on 8 January 2016, Bowie's 69th birthday) was met with critical acclaim. Following Bowie's death two days later, on 10 January 2016, producer Tony Visconti revealed Bowie had planned the album to be his swan song, and a "parting gift" for his fans before his death. An EP, No Plan, was released on 8 January 2017, which would have been Bowie's 70th birthday. The day following his death, online viewing of Bowie's music skyrocketed, breaking the record for Vevo's most viewed artist in a single day.
On 15 January, "Blackstar" debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart; nineteen of his albums were in the UK Top 100 Albums Chart, and thirteen singles were in the UK Top 100 Singles Chart. The song also debuted at #1 on album charts around the world, including Australia, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the US Billboard 200. At the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, Bowie won all five nominated awards: Best Rock Performance; Best Alternative Music Album; Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical; Best Recording Package; and Best Rock Song. The wins marked Bowie's first ever in musical categories. David Bowie influenced the course of popular music several times and had an effect on several generations of musicians. (x)
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BOWSER VS FRIEZA (Super Mario Bros VS Dragon Ball) Fan Made Death Battle
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Now I know, before you say anything let me explain. First of all to me this is a decent matchup but I'll admit both have better opponents, Bowser obviosly has Dr.Eggman whitch is my most wanted matchup, while Frieza has Pyron(Darkstalkers) and Unicron Trilogy Megatron. As for why I'm doing this? Well it's because I really like both characters and this marchup is one of those where more it meets the eye, basiclly means both a lot more in common and it's also debatable, so let's do this.
Connections:
-Both are tyrannical rulers
-There egotistical and evil
-Both hate there arch rival how's a optimistic hero how wears blue as a secondery colour (Goku and Mario respecticaly)
-They want to conquere (Frieza wants to conquere the universe/ and Bowser wants to conquere the mushroom kingdom)
-Both have multiple forms with one giving them a black colouration (Frieza has his seprest, forms and golden, while Bowser has his giant forms, Meowser, Dreamy Bowser and finally theres Fury Bowser and Black Frieza)
Now that we got the connections out of the way, let's talk about how would win by going each category.
Strenght: Frieza
Now yea Bowser is pretty strong, but Frieza matches or even surpasses Goku's strenght how in the beggining shucked the entire universe whitch in cludes the afterlife and the kaioshin realm, and the Dragon Ball universe is over 1.505 bigger than our universe
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And that's from the begging Goku got leags stronger and with Frieza matching that kind of strenght and surpassing it, yeah sorry but Frieza takes it.
Speed: Frieza
Yeah it's not even close Frieza is easily faster due to being MFTL+.
Durability: Frieza
Even though Bowser survived to the point he can still fight as a skeleton and survived a supernova Frieza's more durable due to surviving the hakai and being cut in half and also taiking a planet exploding.
Intelligence: Frieza
Yeah I don't even have to explain why Frieza is smarter.
Experince: Bowser
Even though Frieza is older he didn't fight until Namek and after his revival and T.O.P. and after that whitch even thoguh it was impressive, but Bowser fought longer and had multiple adventures foghting the Mario Bros and other villains like Fawful.
Abilities and Hax: Bowser
Even though Frieza's attacks are powerful, deadly and some of them are useful like telephaty and ki barriers, Bowser a lot more and there also pretty useful, for example he can teleport, transmutation, etc.
Weapons: Bowser
Bowser has a lot of gadgets and weapons, like his shell, the koopa clown car, etc.
Now we reached the final category Power:
Now let's go over there most powerful forms Dreamy Bowser and Black Frieza.
Now at first glance it seems like Dreamy Bowser wins because he can wish for anything, but he only used his wish powers to summon enemies and heal him self and more importantly his level of power, you see while you can make the case Dreamy Bowser is multiversal due to absorbing the dream stone.
However Frieza fought characters how are multiversal and surpassed them, being Goku and Vegeta how he one shoted and offcorse Jiren how was able to shacke the world of void whitch is space of infinite nothingless, because of those reasons Frieza takes it.
With all that sead the winner is Frieza. Now this fight could go eather way and it was somewhat of a close match, but in the end with Frieza's superior strenght, speed, durability, power and being smarter ultimatle gave him the win.
Trivia:
The fight would be 2D with hand drawn seagments, while 3D could work, 2D is better.
The track would a rock track referencing there themes and would have lyrics talking about there power and that no one should mess with them, and the track would be called Emperors Fury (referencing Frieza's title as EMPEROR and Bowser form called FURY Bowser)
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doshmanziari · 2 years
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Elden Ring Ruminations
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Having devoted a little over forty hours to Elden Ring, I think that I’m a bit qualified, or ready, to give word to some thoughts I’ve been having about it, with full awareness that these thoughts are initial impressions, and may (and likely will) change over the months and years, perhaps dramatically.
At the moment, Elden Ring feels like a sort of grab-bag. I don't mind this! -- but it’s not expressing a very strong identity to me. Nearly every part seems to ask for a comparison to something else, internal or external to FromSoftware’s catalogue. It is strange, somehow, to see things dragged straight out of Dark Souls 3 and tweaked just a bit, like the giant crabs, skeletons, dogs, imps, or Stray Demon (here taking the form of the Erdtree Avatar). For me, this goes past the level of certain games sharing a sound effect for enemy executions, or certain ambient audio. Environmentally, too, there are a number of carryovers; and, as someone who’s worked on a project documenting the architectural attributes of these games, I can say that this was a super rare occurrence among the stuff preceding Elden Ring.
Future discussions about Elden Ring might have to contend with what here is idiomatic, exactly, and how that’s serving the material, the underlying myth (there is, of course, also a practical dimension here; recycling assets can be a time-effective strategy), beyond its own reinforcement. It was easier to understand resemblances between the Dark Souls series, given its tripartite nature; and it came to be understood that a small set of things -- Patches, the Moonlight Greatsword -- had a more or less permanent place within the bigger picture. Here, these commonalities have rather the quality of a movie whose director has reassembled actors from all of their prior movies for a last hurrah, or sentimental recapitulation (I am reminded of Tim Rogers’ defense of Akira Toriyama’s character designs, specifically for the Dragon Quest series, by referring to them as the same actors in different outfits), if this or that archetypal formality can be characterized as an “actor.” Even names resurface with an explicitness exceeding the bisyllabic Lo-prefixed words (Lordran, Londo, Loran, Lothric) of before: the Church of Irith (as in Irithyll), for example, or Gael Tunnel (as in Slave Knight Gael).
At first blush, upon my exiting of the introductory catacomb area, what Elden Ring reminded me of was, unexpectedly, Evergrace. It was, I think, due to that mixture of a greenish sky and autumnal trees. As I continued to play, this raw impression was replaced by another more sustaining one: that this was -- irrespective of all those things linking it to Demon’s Souls, the Dark Souls trilogy, Bloodborne, or Sekiro -- like a merging of Dragon’s Dogma and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (cited as one of Miyazaki’s favorite videogames). I understand that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild may be the most common point for comparison, given its comparatively recent release date; but the spirit of Dragon’s Dogma¹ and Oblivion could not be plainer to me when I am, respectively, exploring a goblin-infested seaside cave with a group of helpers, or plucking glowingly colorful plants while atop my horse during a tree-buffeting rainstorm. These may sound like at once vague and over-particular citations, yet they do stretch out to encompass a long-term resemblance which escapes a mechanical explanation, and is more along the lines of an ambiently experienced “game feel” that includes details like the dun-gold coloration of stone from your lantern and the sight of masses of swaying foliage.
At some moments, the game has suddenly impressed on me this sense that it is, somehow, the return of what Dark Souls 2 was "originally", before it became what we know -- an odd impression, since this original form of Dark Souls 2 is largely an imaginary construct (that modders have chased, tantalized by its fragrant traces and infinite distance, for years). Stormveil Castle, for example, comes across as a bigger and fleshed out Forest of the Fallen Giants; and the design of a gauntlet like the Fringefolk Hero’s Grave, where a giant mobile mechanism chases you down a recessed route, has that hard-to-name videogame-y vibe that’s cold, bizarre, and vaguely comical. But then there are all of the other obvious cross-intrusions, like the (Oblivion-inflected) reinterpretation of what Bloodborne’s chalice dungeons could be, or the desire to continue certain environmental thematic combinations: academies and crystals, roots and swamps, storms and mausoleums, etc.
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Present, maybe more than ever before, is that manner of disposition which I described in an article from 2016 with reference to the genre of “world landscape” painting: “...the scope is enormous, yet we can cleanly segregate this scope because each landmark or scene is given its own delineated space.” Indeed, Elden Ring’s scope is enormous, beyond any previous FromSoftware title. Rather than give its world a “naturalistic” bent, this scope frequently appears uncanny. Between the various qualities of daylight and the way everything is dedicatedly laid out, there is the impression of a diorama. What also comes to mind are select pieces of unrealized concept art from Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, and Dark Souls 3, the landscapes of which are visibly fractured, extensive, and loosely organized -- “apocalyptic”, to use a word inaccurately, but still, I think, understandably. Each of these visions remained strictly conceptual, until Elden Ring granted their kind life.
Elden Ring’s pedigree is an obvious reason to play it. That alone can’t support what seems like it’ll be a 100+-hours playtime, though. What has appeared to be engaging my main interest is wanting to determine the landscape’s vastness, to see how much there is (in this respect, I can’t help but bring a measure of skepticism to the extremely high scores the game has been getting and wonder if that’s not partially because it’s satisfying a demand for Maximum Content). Although this is fun, my absorption of environments’ constitutions is less concentrated, or attention-directed. It is impressive to is go to a place like Stormveil Castle or the Academy of Raya Lucaria, exploring, exiting, viewing the complex from afar, and seeing how all of its enormity is still but a fraction of the land. This dynamic contains the subjunctive element which I’ve written on before, with the added novelty that the sheer horizontal scale now explodes the sensibility very broadly . . . and maybe makes it a little less particularly interesting. Perhaps this was unavoidable. The majority of Elden Ring’s geography is “open world.” If it were all as tightly designed as the strongholds or dungeons, the game would just be fatiguingly overwhelming (and I don’t think any developmental team could realistically be up to the task of designing such a quantity of level design anyway). So, the overworld partly acts as a stretched-out breather, a pacing device; yet I’m not sure how often I’ll be returning to a game that’s as gigantic as this.
As far as the unavoidable matter of challenge goes, I’m sort of stuck, a little deflatedly, on the same place as I was upon the release of Dark Souls 3′s DLC where I could appreciate the intensifying behavioral complexity and dangerousness of mid-range and major opponents while also seeing how they were all pushing the limits for what had already been done with ambiguous mix-ups, the number of sequential strikes, and wide-range attacks. Sekiro I deeply enjoyed failing at for hours and rigorously learning -- and I had to learn it, because there was no co-op! Elden Ring, on the other hand (which I am playing offline), kinda feels strange, because I recognize the mechanics -- a mixture between Dark Souls 3 and Sekiro, without the latter’s central deflection system -- and general boss typology, but I don’t have the motivation to deeply commit these opponents’ patterns to memory for precisely the former reason.² So, I’ve been summoning in-game helpers when they’ve been available, after maybe a few attempts by my lonesome, and making liberal use of the Spirit Ash summons. This feels okay to me! -- even if it means that I’ll probably ultimately be not as qualified to write about these aspects later on.
Another curious, although predictable, thing: when I fought Margit, a major boss, he was maybe the second boss I’d fought up to that point; yet the pre-Elden Ring boss whose patterns most closely resemble Margit’s is a very late-stage boss from Dark Souls 3, the Dragonslayer Armor! Elden Ring’s design has to simultaneously account for everyone who’s mastered, or at least completed, around six other comparable games, while sticking to the knife’s edge of feasibility with regard to mechanics that aren’t fundamentally too different from Demon’s Souls’, wherein timing one’s dodges (and then punishing the enemy within a smaller and smaller window) takes precedence over, say, one’s positioning. This predicament of sequential design has been pretty obvious when comparing the earliest bosses of Dark Souls to Bloodborne’s, but I think that Elden Ring sets the bar higher than ever before. It’s kind of a funny situation, given that this is FromSoftware’s highest selling title thus far, by a couple- or several-million, and one of the fastest selling “open world” games of all time. That’s going to be a lot of disappointed people!
Well, then. Those are some thoughts.
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¹ Dragon’s Dogma came to be one of my very favorite games of the past decade. I still highly recommend it! Elden Ring hardly renders it secondary.
² Maybe that’s not the entire reason. It could be also that my relative and current detachment from Elden Ring’s narrative is creating a detachment to committing to its bosses for as long as they require, mano a mano, too.
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spock-smokes-weed · 9 months
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I’m just gonna vent my feelings about Star Wars for a bit cus I’ve been overwhelmed by them and I don’t want them to bleed over when talking about the franchise with other fans. ie. get really in my feelings mid conversation and just rant at them. Cus that can be awkward
I find myself overwhelmed at the saturation of Star Wars media that we have rn. Overwhelmed to the point where it hurts my brain and I find myself souring on the originals. There’s just so much. So much where every corner of the universe is being expanded upon and explained and I can’t help but feel like it’s unnecessary. I watched the originals first and there was this certain kind of magic to the fact there was a lot you didn’t know. You were plopped into this world with no explanation and the story just happened. The need to pick at every detail in Star Wars like a scab, to create a whole new thing about of it really takes away from that.
I try so hard not to sound like one of those shitty fucking fanboy who’s like “new Star Wars is RUINING the ORIGINALS” because those people suck, and I don’t want to make other fans feel put down for liking the new things. Or put the original up on a pedestal. It’s not that new = bad. Or what you saw in those movies getting expanded upon is bad. It’s just the capitalism of it all I guess. Disney is going to wring all the blood they can from these stones and I feel like I’m just kinda drowning in blood. Disney being the one who is now dictating what is an isn’t “canon” is always going to be upsetting to me on some level.
The great thing about the legends comics in novels is that it was passionate people who were coming up with ideas one what they personally thought would come next. It was all disjointed and uncohesive by design. There was also the clone wars which was a passion project paid for by Lucas’ own dime. It felt like an infinite possibilities that you could take the universe. But now this Disney, they fully control the narrative on the universe and idk that bothers me. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve loved a lot of these projects. The animation of The Bad Batch gets to be as stunning as it is because of Disney’s money. But I think about the recent season on Mando, and the new Ahsoka show, and all the new movies that have gotten announced, and I just get a fucking headache.
I like when stories have endings, and if I’m being fully honest with myself, Star Wars did end in 2005 with revenge of the Sith. I’m never going to want to think past what happens in return of the Jedi because I don’t need to know. If I want to know I’ll make something up myself. And I guess that’s the whole rub here. I feel completely overwhelmed and paralyzed by the sheer volume of this story that refuses to end, that it’s hard for me to be creative with it. It’s hard for me to care about the main six movies because like, in the shadow of all the new stuff they don’t matter anymore.
I know that’s making me sound like a shitty fanboy again, but I guess what I’m trying to get at is like. It can be hard to carve out your own creative vision for the world of Star Wars when the biggest company in the world is making that creative choice for you. It’s hard for me to get the same kind of creative excitement the first few times I watched the originals, because now when I see Luke I think of CGI mark hamill or bitter old man Luke.
The oversaturation of Star Wars and Disney milking every corner or it makes me feel kinda bad while watching the main six because like. What’s even the point now. If you’re going to make Luke a deadbeat and even end the fucking story, when what’s the point of story the two trilogies were trying to tell in the first place? That’s my most bitter and cynical part talking. But it is something I grapple with
This is a stream of consciousness style ramble, just me getting some of my feelings untangled about the pew pew space movies. I think the things I always come back to is that anything disney makes is not considered “canon” to me. As in the sense I don’t consider it part of main story George Lucas was trying to tell. I don’t say this to mean I hate these things, I love a lot of these shows, but I’m going to take what I like and not consider anything from them set in stone. I don’t want to make it look like I’m sucking Lucas off either, I have my problems with him, but he told a complete story with a beginning and an end. You had the clone wars too, but that’s still supplemental material. I can only view the main six movies as fully canon because they tell a full story that’s really good and is the only thing I really care about. I’m sorry if I suck for that but this is to keep me sane.
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zhonglicious · 1 year
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𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐞!
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╰─▸ hi! i'm rayechka. you can call me raye if you want!
╰─▸ she/they, but i dont really mind being called other pronouns
╰─▸ bisexual and polyamorous! currently in a closed relationship
╰─▸ 18! aug 25, 2005
╰─▸ infp! virgo sun, taurus moon, virgo rising! if it matters to you :DD
╰─▸ i don't use tone indicators unless it's something i believe that needs to be clarified, but you can tell me to clarify if you didn't understand the tone of my post/message!
╰─▸ multi-fandom blog! my main ones rn are blue lock, orv, tokyo rev, haikyuu, jjk and genshin, but i'm looking for more fandoms to invade >:) there's a list of the fandoms i'm in (or the content i just generally enjoy) below this!
╰─▸ i will also probably sometimes post non-fandom related content. just like simple literature pieces that come to mind. im treating this blog like a word vomit dump LMFAO
╰─▸ the list is probably lacking bc i have a very bad memory of the things i've watched and read LMAO
╰─▸ i curse a lot and have a somewhat vulgar sense of humor though so if you wanna follow me and interact please be wary of that LFMAO
╰─▸do not be fooled by my pretty themes. i am an absolute goblin of a man.
╰─▸ id say im a pretty decent person? im very awkward with strangers though but i do want to get along with everyone!
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𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐬!
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animanga
╰─▸ tokyo revengers - haikyuu - blue lock - jujutsu kaisen - kny - sk8 - bnha - dr. stone - mieruko-chan - black clover - jigokuraku - kaiju no.8 - ttigraas - spy x family - yuri on ice - skate-leading stars - tba...
books
╰─▸ acotar series - the folk of air trilogy - the red queen trilogy from blood and ash - sea witch - multiple standalone novels - tba...
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╰─▸ genshin impact tokyo revengers pazuribe - honkai star rail - identity v - psekai - mlbb - pubg - danganronpa - ddlc - choice of games - corpse party - undertale - deltarune - tba...
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╰─▸ omniscient reader's viewpoint - the novel's extra - hero has returned - dr. player - infinite mage - the s-classes that i raised - solo leveling - revolution of the 8th class magician - i reincarnated for nothing - jungle juice - from a knight to a lady - suitor armor - ava's demon - under the queen's umbrella - tba...
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noloveforned · 2 years
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how is it august already? tune into wlur at 8pm for a new show. fingers crossed that last week's show is setup to reair at 10pm! if it doesn't you can always stream it below!
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infintasmal · 6 months
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ALIAS / NAME: Chai / KC BIRTHDAY: July 10 ZODIAC: Cancer/Dog HEIGHT: 5'4" HOBBIES: Video games, reading, animals, this FAV. COLOR: Pink! FAV. BOOK: MaddAddam trilogy by Margret Atwood / Stone Gods by Jennette Winterson / The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir LAST SONG: Eat your young - Hozier LAST MOVIE / SHOW: One Piece (I'm trying ya'll) RECENT READ: Just finished The Burning God by RF Kuang INSPIRATION: Reading and research?? Pretty pictures STORY BEHIND URL: Uuh weird amalgamation of the words Infinity and Phantasmal. I like the idea of being 'infinitely haunted' by muses FUN FACT: Hyenas have one of the most efficient digestive systems in the animal kingdom and are able to digest and gain nutrients from nearly any organic matter except for hair and hooves. They're also a matriarchy!
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jefferyryanlong · 2 years
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Infinite Pau Hana - September 14, 2022
“the berlin trilogy & adjacent textures”
Hour 1
A New Career in a New Town* - David Bowie Estavanico - Donald Byrd The Suspension Bridge at Iguazu Falls - Tortoise 2,000 Light Years From Home - The Rolling Stones  The Big Ship - Brian Eno The Model - Snakefinger Always Crashing in the Same Car* - David Bowie Instrumentals Volume 1 (1) - Arthur Russell Warszawa* - David Bowie
Hour 2
Us - Spoon Heroes** - David Bowie Modigliani (Lost in Your Eyes) - Book of Love Twin Peaks Theme - Angelo Badalamenti 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson China Girl - Iggy Pop Beauty and the Beast** - David Bowie Good Life (Random Rough) - Neu! Transformer Man - Neil Young Lo Boob Oscillator - Stereolab V-2 Schneider** - David Bowie Peaches En Regalia - Frank Zappa 
Hour 3
Fantastic Voyage*** - David Bowie Mushroom - Can I Zimbra - Talking Heads Mali Sadio - Toumani Diabate Haaveilijia - Islaja D.J.*** - David Bowie Biological Speculation - Funkadelic Plantasy - Resavoir Repetition*** - David Bowie Ashes to Ashes - David Bowie Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy - Brian Eno You’ve Got to Learn to Let It Go - Sam  Waymon
* - from the album Low ** - from the album “Heroes” *** - from the album Lodger
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shreddedparchment · 4 years
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Ok so this is really random but I saw a post giving Steve crap for talking about Peggy in that support group in Endgame because he lost Bucky and the Avengers instead of Peggy. My guess is that either he talked about the avengers previously OR because he doesn’t open up much, he never really dealt with him waking up in a different century Peggy’s death and now he is talking about that and not talking about the Avengers because it’s still too fresh and painful.
This all falls into the need for more than one movie for the finale. There isn't enough time in Endgame to deal with everything. Plain and simple. There are so many characters we want to see and hear but they couldn't have done them justice in just one movie.
Steve is given a lot of crap about Peggy in general and I'm tired of seeing it. What irritates me the most is that most of the time (not all of the time) is that the criticism comes from a place of people being salty about Stucky not being canon.
They never were canon, despite what people read into their relationship. Even Sebastian says something akin to people making more of their relationship than was intended and people getting pissy that they didn't get to see what they wanted. That's not an exact quote or anything, but he said it in an interview about the reaction to Endgame.
Lol It's one of the main reasons I am so aggravated about same sex people not being able to have a deep and meaningful relationship with love and affection without it becoming romantic. Platonic love is valid and it irks me when every relationship is made romantic.
Same thing goes for opposite sex relationships.
But I am right there with you. Steve would probably be brooding about the Avengers that fell internally, maybe talking only to Nat about it when they had a quiet moment after Wakanda. It's not something he would tell a bunch of strangers, despite it being therapy and a safe space to talk about it.
Talking about a first love, a true love lost is accesible to those that he's conversing with. Everyone lost someone in the Snap but for Steve it would be even worse because there would also be a sense of failure attached to that loss.
They didn't just lose their teammates and friends. They lost the fight. Not once, but twice. The Snap and then once again when they went to find Thanos and found that their only chance was gone again. He would barely be willing to talk about it to those Avengers that survived (look at how Thor dealt with it) much less a room of civilians grieving their own losses. Talking about Peggy was probably easier. She's always been a sort of sanctuary for him.
During the war he turned to her for comfort (there's a reason it was her picture in his compass) and I think after the Snap he retreated to thoughts of Peggy to find solace in some way too.
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adaodinson · 3 years
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I didn´t call you babe, I was asking what it meant
It’s been a while since I posted a story, I apologize, I´ve been like crazy cause I’m starting college this year and well, I haven´t had time.
I finally watched Bill and Ted´s trilogy and of course I now adore them and have the biggest crush on Ted. I thought of this while rewatching the first movie today so here it is. In this story Lizzie and Joanna are saved by Rufus like in the movie, but they don´t stay with Bill an Ted (they can still be a part of the band though).
Summary: When the guys go to London in the XV century, they encounter someone else who needs a hand.
Relationship: Ted x femreader, Bill x platonic!femreader
Warnings: none.
Oh you did it this time, you certainly did it. There was no way you would get away from this execution. You were being dragged by the guards, not that you would try to fight them at this point, you knew it was hopeless, but you weren´t going to make it easy for them either.
The wooden door opened with a loud creak as the light from the outside blinded you. You could feel the change in the floor, from cold stone to dirt. You weren´t precisely scared, you were hoping you would get out of this just like the past times but now they took you by surprise, and unlike the others, you didn´t have an escape plan now.
You felt dozens of eyes on you, looking in disgust. Everyone here knew you at this point: the young girl with the weird accent that had no family and only knew how to steal. It was partially true, but of course there was more to you. You didn´t bother trying to change their minds about you anymore, though.
-Aha! I encounter you again- yelled the king from his seat. You rolled your eyes at him and at the look of victory in his eyes. You really didn´t want to give him the satisfaction of killing you, and you didn´t want to die either.
As the guards settled you in place, you realized they were dragging two weird looking guys and tying them up next to you. They had clothes you had never seen before, and they looked funnily scared. The blonde one had a kind aura, he seemed sweet, and the dark haired one, as foolish as he looked, you had to admit was rather handsome. Well, you were clearly lying to yourself, he was beautiful.
-First time here, boys?- You asked with a giggle, still refusing to believe you were going to die.
-You’ve been in this situation before? Are you a ghost?- they asked at the same time.
-I’ve indeed been in this situation before, but I can guarantee I´m not a ghost- you stated.
-Well, how did you get out? We could use some help ya know, babe- The dark haired said with a cute and confused look in his eyes. You flinched at the nickname, you certainly hadn´t heard that before and didn´t know what to think about it.
-Babe?- you asked.
-Yeah?- The same guy asked, waiting for you to say something else. His expression suddenly changed as if he had realized something- Wait, did you just call ME babe?- You swore he was blushing.
-No, I was asking you what it meant…ARGH- you were interrupted by the burning sensation of rope around your neck. They were putting you all in position for the execution.
Behind you, you heard a man screaming nonsense “They fell from the sky!!” “This devilish red box!!”. He was being carried by a cart and was hugging the weirdest thing you had ever seen.
-This is it. Lord, I can´t believe this- You were getting ready to face your destiny when you noticed there where only two executioners. Before you could even realize what was happening, the executioners cut the ropes that were holding you.
-Billy! Socrates!- The guys yelled while hugging the men. You then felt a hand on your shoulder and quickly turned, ready to punch who you thought was a guard.
-DON´T- The cute boy said while covering his face.
-Come on, babe! Come with us, we can get you out of here- You didn’t even stop to think about it, you just jumped to the cart and screamed your way through the town. You were speeding up more and more, and you were not feeling ready to die again, so as you passed a bridge, you managed to grab a rope that was tight to a wooden structure and pulled so it would block your persecutor´s way.
-WOW That was excellent! - both boys said at the same time and then did a strange movement with their hands in the air while shacking their heads happily. They were definitely the weirdest people you had ever met, but you liked that.
As you reached the woods, the guys hurried all of you to get into the red rectangle. You saw the blonde guy going through a book and pressing some metallic thingies.
-Oh I´m Ted by the way, and that is Bill, Socrates and Billy- Ted said while pointing at each of them. You blushed at his attention.
-I´m Y/N- you said with a worried smile since the guards were getting closer.
-Y/N- Ted repeated proudly- Beautiful name for a beautiful lady- That made you blush even more, especially since you were pretty close to him because of the small space inside the red rectangle.
Suddenly all your surrounding changed and you could only see what seemed like infinite. You closed your eyes while screaming and hang on to the shirt of whoever was next to you. Spoiler alert, it was Ted. He didn’t even scream through the time tunnels since he was too busy looking at you.
The red thing finally stopped and Bill asked you to stay inside. You didn´t see much of what happened out there, you just heard Bill and Ted say: “Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes!”. You didn´t know what that meant, but they said it with such conviction you assumed they were wise words.
After the guys returned, you made more travels to who knows where and then finally arrived to what Bill and Ted called home. You saw Ted´s house and your head was now hurting with questions, but you understood Ted and Bill needed your help so you would ask everything after that.
They took you to a place called The Mall. It was huge and filled with people. You were looked at weirdly, but to you, the weird ones were all of them. Bill explained what The Mall was and Ted never left your side, he was at the end of the line, guarding all your new friends, but always made sure you were feeling safe.
They gave you a Slursy? Slusfy? Oh whatever, it was the most delicious thing you had ever tried, and Ted smiled so widely just by seeing how happy you were with it. He mentioned they would have to go get another historical figure that they had brought before, and you didn´t want to be without them so you asked if you could go with them. They agreed happily.
You then met Deacon, Ted´s little brother, and before you knew you were at a place called a water park? You didn´t understand so Ted took you to take a look and explain while Bill went looking for Napoleon. You got lost in Ted´s explanation by looking into his eyes, and he realized you weren´t paying attention. He thought you were making fun of him in your head or that you thought he was an idiot. But what you blurted out (according to you, you said it in your head, apparently you didn´t) made him see that wasn´t at all what you were thinking.
-How can you be so cute and pretty?- The question was out before you could even think. You turned a bright red and looked at the floor, but Ted softly grabbed your chin and made you look at him.
-You really think that, Y/N?- His eyes were filled with so much joy, hope and a beautiful spark that you couldn’t bring yourself to lie to him.
-Well, yes, of course I do. I mean, you literally saved me and…- You weren´t allowed to finish, a pair of soft lips in yours interrupted you midsentence, but of course you didn´t care. You tasted and enjoyed every bit of it, just like Ted did.
-Okay guys, I found him… WOAH- Bill was carrying a man covered in a towel and was smirking at you both.
-DUDE- Ted said looking happier than you had ever seen him (and that was a lot to say).
-Awesome!- They both said and did what you now knew was an air guitar movement.
You headed back to the Mall and soon realized your historical friends had been taken to prison by Ted’s father. You didn’t really understand what was going on, everything was new for you and Bill had to drag you as you stood astonished looking at a bicycle (not to mention how many questions you asked about the car). The guys decided it would be best if you stayed with Missy and Napoleon in the car, Ted specified he didn’t want you to get hurt.
Missy asked you tons of questions and answered yours. She was really nice, and even though Napoleon was weird, he was really funny (because he didn’t understand anything).
Finally Bill and Ted returned with the others and you headed back to the Mall.
You weren’t a historical figure, so you got to watch the guy’s complete presentation from behind the stage and to clap like crazy when they finished. Ted had gotten you some clothes when you returned to the Mall, and you were the most comfortable you had ever been.
You decided to stay with them, but you did accompany the guys to leave the historical figures at their times, they ended up being your friends after all.
When you returned, Ted wanted to offer you to stay in his house, but he knew his dad wouldn´t allow it, so you stayed with Bill instead. You saw Ted all the time though, and when they discovered that you could sing they immediately asked you to join their band and be the lead singer. You couldn´t say no to Ted´s beautiful face, so you agreed, and of course their love for music was contagious and you were loving every new song they showed you. Rufus then confirmed you were a part of the band in the future, and so, that´s how your life in a different time began, and you couldn´t love it more.
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theroseandthebeast · 2 years
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Yuletide 2021 - Fic Recs Batch One
13 fic recs for 10 Things I Hate About You, The Addams Family, Archive 81, Boy Meets World, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Critical Role - Exandria Unlimited, Darkangel Trilogy, Dracula, and Dune
(next year it’ll be clear) this was only leading me to that, Kat Stratford/Patrick Verona
Or, five times Kat calls Patrick, and one time Patrick calls Kat. Post-movie.
And I Have Seen Evil, Gen, Wednesday Addams
Wednesday Addams discovers her college's Horror Club.
Static Motion, Static Man/Nicholas Waters 
"So, uh, how do we do this?"
A Good Decision, Jack Hunter/Eric Matthews
“Why now?” Eric asked. “Why are you here? To get my vote? For your evil company?”
“What? No—No!” Panic surged in Jack’s chest at the idea of Eric thinking he would do that. “This, you and me, us—” Jack’s fingers twitched with the urge to reach for Eric’s hand, “—has nothing to do with any of that. I swear, I’m not—I’m not here for that.”
Eric stared at him for a moment. “Then what are you here for?
“You.”
For Want of a Horse, Harry Longabaugh | Sundance Kid/Robert Parker | Butch Cassidy
One day you're pulling a wagon and a little boy is yanking at your mane; the next you're a no-name horse whose new owner never shuts up.
just turn off the lights when you leave, gen, Orym + Company
“Okay, you have to go. That's fine. We’re all going with you.”
The Crown Keepers make a different decision about which of them will accompany Orym on his trip home.
The Gift of Terrain, gen, Aeriel & Eoduin 
Eoduin should be certain that she’d be chosen as Harvest Maiden. Who but the syndic’s daughter should be the one to mount the stone step with her new kirtle swirling around her ankles and hold her giftfruit high for all to see?
But the syndic didn’t choose the Harvest Maiden. Terrain did.
By My Own Hand, Mina Harker/Lucy Westenra
Something is very, very wrong with Lucy.
The Body Swerves in Service, Paul Atreides/Duncan Idaho
Despite everything, Duncan touches Paul with infinite care: fingers careful as they undo the clasps of his jacket, hands gentle as they draw Paul’s limbs out of the fabric. As if there were no Sardaukar and no attack, as if everyone they love isn’t dead or dying, and Paul and Duncan both a hairsbreadth from joining them. As if Duncan wanted to do this.
Or: the Sardaukar capture Paul and Duncan during the taking of Arrakeen, and decide to have a bit of fun.
It's Not a Sin if it Don't Make Me Cry, Paul Atreides/Duncan Idaho
“Tell me,” Paul whispers, and there’s a hint of the Voice in the command, sibilants hissing through clenched teeth. “Tell me if you want me to stop."
Or: it's Paul's eighteenth birthday, and he knows what he wants.
the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn, Leto Atreides I/Jessica
Duke Leto Atreides lays his burdens down.
What Desire Will Make Foolish People Do, Paul Atreides/Duncan Idaho
Duncan comes back from a mission and Paul is ready to take their training to a next level. Duncan isn't sure he's ready and has some ideas about 'training' of his own.
The Inflexibility of Fate, Leto Atreides I/Jessica
Before the deserts and spice, there was the smell of rain, secluded beaches, and the blooms of trust.
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jakobitheprophet · 2 years
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Marvel Thor The Dark World Phase 2 Pros and Cons
Pros
1. I know their are fans of the Thor comics and fans of marvel in general that would say Thor the Dark World is the worst Thor movie in the trilogy and worst marvel movie of all times, then again I’m a fan of marvel so rewatch the second Thor film over again and listening other views on films what could have been done to make this movie better, like i said in my last breakdown of the first Thor I’m a big fan of Mythology and after rewatching The Dark World to my, I think were people miss one of the best aspect of Dark World is that its more fantasy driven and mythology heavy, that is one of the aspect that this film were at their strongest.
2. The Introduction of the third Infinity Stone, the Reality Stone I really like the opening scene were Odin is giving a backstory about the Reality Stone in that time it was being called the Aether, also i like how the Aether has a sentience’s to its nature basically a living entity of totally destruction.
3. I feel like the Dark Elf were more of a threat to the Asgardians more so then the frost giants from the first movie, I’m not interlay sure if the Dark Elf really come from Norse Mythology or if they were just created for the movie but then again i like them because they prove that they were the biggest threat, like look how they easily invaded Asgard, sent a powerful doomsday like monster to destroy their shield barriers, had access to technology more advanced then the Asgardians.
4. Malekith Ruler of the Dark Elf race also known as Malekith The Accursed, i know he’s not one the best marvel villain but i like him because of the power upgrade he got during the movie i mean went up to god-level status after absorbing the Aether. I think people forget how big off threat that Malekith was because this is a powerful individual that is capable harnessing an infinite stone and he was so close to bring totally annihilation to the universe.
5. Frigga Also known as Freyja in actual Norse Legends, Freyja is a Vanir Goddess and the wife of Odin. She is the Queen of the Gods and the Goddess of Marriage, Frigga in the MCU is almost the same as her Earth-616 counterpart but still vastly different she uses magic like Loki and Odin and we see her fight Malekith like he’s nothing to her. What I really like about Frigga for her purpose of this movie is the sacrifice that happen to her because of her death we can see absolute character change from both Thor and Loki.
Cons
1. Now their still a lot of creative problems with Thor The Dark World in terms of storytelling and character arcs. The first being Male-kith, Male-kith could have been easily one of the best marvel villains, he needs a character arc so that everyone would feel some type of connection to him, like Thanos for an example, Thanos character arc was all about trying to save the universe form itself by snapping away half of the population from across the universe. Male-kith needs something like that an arc about him trying to save his race from extinction by using the Aether the Reality Stone to revert the entire universe back to eternal darkness so that he’s people could thrive once again but by doing so it would caused a mass extinction level event across multiple galaxies, if they would have chosen this storyline that character arc for Male-kith this film would have been golden.
2. Not seeing the other nine-realms of the Norse Mythology, look the Thor Trilogy we got to see some interesting places like Asgard, Midgard, Nidavellir even though that wasn’t a realms more like another planet, Muspelheim , Svartalfheim and Vanahiem. We didn’t get to see Alfheim home to the Light Elf’s in the comics or Nifflehiem realm of the dead again miss opportunity that MCU overlooked.
3. The Warriors Three, The so called greatest warriors in Asgard dimension still serve no purpose in the movie why are they here, again nothing compared to their comic book characters. They still look weak and their costume almost look cheap in my opinion, i wish they could have done more with these characters because i like comic books characters.
4. Lady Sif again why is she called The Goddesses of War, she still hasn’t shown me anything reason on why she holds this title.
5. Heimdall the sentry of Asgard poor Edris the really did wasted his character in first two Thor movie
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thesevenseraphs · 4 years
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Building a Viable Future in Destiny 2
TL;DR
Destiny 2 is too large to efficiently update and maintain.
The size and complexity of the game are also contributing to more bugs and less innovation.
Instead of building a Destiny 3 and leaving D2 behind, each year, we are going to cycle older, less actively played content out of the live game and into what we’re calling the Destiny Content Vault (DCV).
This will allow us to add to and support D2 for years, including the three new annual expansions we announced today, starting with Beyond Light this fall.
The DCV will include all content from Destiny 1 and anything that cycles out from Destiny 2.
We will bring back (or “unvault”) activity and destination content from the DCV each year.
Unvaulting starts in D2 Year 4, with the Cosmodrome coming back, as well as its three strikes and the return of the Vault of Glass raid.
The primary D2 content leaving the game and going into the DCV this fall are the destinations – Mars, Io, Titan, Mercury and Leviathan – and their supported activities.
There will be new ways to earn the Exotics originally linked to content that has entered the DCV.
When Beyond Light ships, the Director will have the following destinations:
Europa (new)
Cosmodrome (unvaulted) 
Moon 
Tangled Shore 
Dreaming City 
European Dead Zone 
Nessus
This approach allows us respond to player feedback more rapidly, enable more innovation, and will keep Destiny 2 and your characters thriving for years to come
.More details to come soon and throughout the year.
Building a Viable Future in Destiny 2
Earlier today, we laid out a vision for Destiny's future, built right inside of Destiny 2. A future where we maintain your characters, accounts, and continuity with our game systems and build on each of them for years. This fall ushers in a new era in Destiny's journey, launching off a trilogy of expansions where your Guardians will explore the true nature of Light and Dark:
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Put plainly, we are investing in Destiny 2 for years to come. But to continue your Guardian’s journey and deliver on this roadmap, we need to make some changes to our ever-growing world so it can flourish.  
THE LIMITS OF GROWTH
Over the past couple months, we’ve mentioned the problems that come with maintaining a game the size of Destiny 2; and we’ve said that it cannot grow infinitely. After three years of non-stop growth, the scope and complexity of Destiny 2 has ballooned to unprecedented scale.
As of this writing, Destiny 2 features nine destinations, 40 story missions, 54 adventures, 42 Lost Sectors, 17 strikes, 31 PvP maps, 12 one-off special activities (like Menagerie or Zero Hour), seven raids, six Gambit arenas, three dungeons, many, many quests, patrols, public events, and of course, thousands of associated rewards. All of that, plus hundreds of game systems which layer on top of that content.
This unrelenting growth has resulted in a game that requires players to download up to 115GB to play, as well as huge patches tied to frequent updates. And those numbers are rising rapidly, as we’ve been adding approximately 25GB of content each year to Destiny 2 since launch. Those sizes not only stress hard drive capacity but also push the limits of patching capability. It also makes the time to generate a stable update for the game after all content is finalized, tested, and ready to go balloon to literal days instead of hours.
Worse still, that 115GB includes a lot of content that isn't relevant anymore – and can't remain relevant – as we evolve the world and introduce new experiences that will take center stage instead. For example: Warmind’s campaign represents only 0.3% of all time played in Season of the Worthy and yet the Warmind Expansion accounts for 5% of our total install size. This dramatic imbalance between player engagement and overall cost to maintain is found in a lot of our legacy content.
IMPACT ON THE LIVE GAME
Maintaining that much content in perpetuity slows down our ability to update the game with fresh experiences, reduces our ability to innovate, and delays our reaction to community feedback. The test surface alone is massive, to say nothing about how it impacts our designers, artists, and engineers trying to make cool new stuff every day under the weight of the crushing complexity of our scale.
Unfortunately it also means that we sometimes ship content that doesn’t meet the quality bar we’ve set for ourselves and that our players have come to expect. Recent examples are the issues with Felwinter’s Lie quest or when we had to perform our first-ever rollback of player progress due to a bug.
Our ambition is for Destiny 2 to be the best Action MMO in the world and that means being far more agile and nimble than we are today. But the simple fact is that our game's size and complexity prevents us from improving Destiny as fast as we – and you – would like.
THE “DESTINY CONTENT VAULT”
With Destiny 1, we solved the “ever expanding, exponential complexity” problem by making a sequel in Destiny 2. We left behind all of Destiny 1’s content and many of the features players grew to love. We believe now that it was a mistake to create a situation that fractured the community, reset player progress, and set the player experience back in ways that took us a full year to recover from and repair. It’s a mistake we don’t want to repeat by making a Destiny 3. We don't believe a sequel is the right direction for the game and for the past two years we have been investing all of our development effort into new content, gameplay, and new engine features that directly support a single evolving world in Destiny 2.
To create a sustainable ecosystem where the world can continue to evolve in exciting ways, and where we can update the game more quickly, we're going to adopt a new content model that we're calling the
Destiny Content Vault (DCV)
. Each year, usually at the expansion boundaries, we will cycle some destination and activity content out of the game (and into the DCV) to make room for new experiences.
The first cycle of Destiny 2 content going into the DCV begins this fall, with the appearance of the Pyramid ships in Season of Arrivals and the Beyond Light expansion, which we revealed today. Those events will usher in dramatic changes to the Destiny universe, affecting characters, destinations, and Guardians for years to come.
To set a new maintainable foundation for the game this fall and to create room for Beyond Light and the future roadmap, the first Destiny 2 deposit into the DCV will be larger than those to come in the future.
CURATING THE VAULT
Content that goes into the Destiny Content Vault may return in the future, altered (if necessary) to fit the new state of the universe. Furthermore, we consider all Destiny 1 and 2 destinations and activities part of the new DCV and we’re going to be pulling from that archive – revisiting some of the most interesting places in Destiny’s history – from now onwards. It’s why the original Destiny 1 Raid – the Vault of Glass – will be returning to Destiny 2 in Year 4.
Going forward, our explicit goal will be to try to keep the scope and scale of Destiny 2 at a relatively consistent size in order to increase our agility and to be able to properly support and maintain the game. Over the course of each year, the game’s content scope will grow as we add new destinations and activities in our expansions and Seasons. As we approach the next expansion, another cycle of content will go into the DCV to make way for a new influx of destinations and activities.
We will always do our best to give early notice of what's being cycled into the DCV, to help you and your friends plan around how you want to complete your collections and build up your account before the new Destiny year starts. The vast majority of content we choose to vault will also be from destinations and activities that have been free for all players for several months prior to their departure. For example: the Curse of Osiris campaign, which has been free since Shadowkeep launched in October 2019, and part of the Destiny 2 experience since December 2017, will go in the DCV later this year.
YEAR 4 DESTINY CONTENT VAULT PREVIEW
Here is an early preview of some of what’s going into the Destiny Content Vault (DCV) and what’s returning in Year 4.
RETURNING FROM THE DCV
On September 22, 2020:
Cosmodrome as a selectable, explorable destination (but not yet at full Destiny 1 parity on 9/22).
Note: We’re looking to leverage Cosmodrome’s initial return to expand the new Guardian origin story to the world of Destiny. Veteran players will be able to experience that story as well.
Cosmodrome’s Will of Crota strike will also be added to the strikes playlist for all players.
During Season 13:
Cosmodrome will be fleshed out to roughly Destiny 1 Year 1 parity.
Cosmodrome’s The Devil’s Lair and Fallen S.A.B.E.R. strikes return.
During Year 4:
Destiny 1’s first raid, Vault of Glass, returns.
HEADING TO THE DCV
On September 22, 2020:
Io, Titan, Mercury, Mars, and Leviathan will be cycled out and no longer be accessible.
This includes all PvE activities (including campaigns) on those destinations.
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OTHER KEY YEAR 4 DETAILS:  
There will be three raids playable this fall, including a new one set in the Deep Stone Crypt on Europa as part of the Beyond Light expansion.
There will be new ways to earn Exotics originally tied to destinations and activity content that have entered the Destiny Content Vault.
Available strikes will be based on a pool of possible strikes from active destinations. When a destination goes into the DCV, so too will its strikes.
The PvP Map playlist will remain a curated ‘best of’ mixture of maps from Destiny 1 and 2.
Gambit and Gambit Prime are being merged into a single mode, with their original armor visuals available to earn from the Drifter.
To be clear, the DCV does not apply to any weapons and armor in a player's inventory or vault. The DCV is about activities and destinations. We know you will have a lot of questions about how this will work. We will share more updates about our content plans throughout the summer. This includes a detailed overview of everything changing via patch notes, extensive DPS articles that will help break down what’s changing and when, as well as lots of opportunities for you to ask us questions along the way.
A NEW BEGINNING
This fall, we will begin delivering on the future of Destiny by making way for new adventures, locales, and stories dreamed up by our creative team, and forging the truly evolving world that it was always meant to be. These changes allow us the freedom to finally weave an overall experience for the Destiny universe that can truly live, starting with Beyond Light. We can now fit puzzle pieces we haven’t been able to pick up since the beginning of the original Destiny – including the true nature of the Darkness and Light and how such power will change you as a Guardian. We can now bring some of the greatest experiences in Destiny to the forefront of the current game alongside new ones to come.
The past six years, we’ve seen the Destiny universe grow and our community along with it. We want our quality of service to grow in kind, to be able to react to community feedback quicker, to innovate more often, and to continue to tell new stories with your characters. We’re excited to continue that journey with you.
– Destiny 2 Dev Team
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