#the main cover image for the third movie

[lmelodie]

You can’t tell me it ISNT them 😤

#artists on tumblr #digital art #The Santa Clause #the santa clause 3 #jack frost #BlackIce #OC #me being somewhat timely with a trend :O #its more likely than you think! #barbie movie #tbh they would BOTH pull a face for mugshots #but the image just has TSC Cover vibes #where Jack is looking all stupid next to scott? #the main cover image for the third movie #it he

[housewifebuck]

hi everyone! I've gotten several requests to make a tutorial on how to make gifs for someone just starting out and I finally got around to slapping a tutorial together.

This tutorial will cover:

software recommendations

choosing what to gif

creating a gif step by step with probably a lot of unnecessary detail

some tips and tricks:)

(This particular tutorial will not cover how to find tv and movies to download and gif, or any specific instructions on coloring. only the basic gif making process.)

so for the purposes of this tutorial, we will be using Adobe Photoshop, which is the most common program for making gifs, and the one I recommend. the version you have doesn't make a major difference in terms of capabilities but the interface may be slightly different looking if you have an older version or a different type of device. you cannot make or edit gifs in any mobile version of the photoshop application. Optionally, we will also be using Adobe Premiere Rush/Pro or another video editing software of your choice. wherever you are downloading Photoshop, whether from Adobe or a third party, you should easily be able to acquire Premiere as well. I am aiming to be as detailed as possible in this tutorial, so it may sound more time consuming than it really is. once you get the hang of things, it goes fast. the most time consuming part by far is the editing and coloring. in my opinion, one thing that majorly saves time while giffing is knowing your keyboard shortcuts and using your mouse/trackpad as little as possible. I will be going over these in this tutorial as well.

before we begin, some general tips:

gifs of single shots that do not cut between angles or subjects generally will look the best, barring exceptions

for a single gif set, choosing scenes and shots with similar lighting will be easiest to get to look uniform when compiled together, since editing wildly different looking scenes to have similar coloring and lighting is hard and takes some practice!

avoid shots that will require you to majorly crop or zoom to properly frame the subject, as this will greatly diminish quality

speaking of quality, gifs will look best using 1080p video, but you can get away with 720p as well. I would not recommend giffing with anything lower resolution than that

Tumblr's upload capacity for image and gif files is 10mb. be sure when exporting your finished gif that it is under that size. if it is a bit over, you can try trimming a few frames off your gif in the video timeline.

if you get frustrated, don't give up! giffing is hard and complicated especially if you are new to photoshop. I tried to make this tutorial as detailed as possible so it's easy to understand (although im sure I still forgot some stuff)

ok onto the tutorial!!!

STEP ONE: choose what range of frames you want to gif, and how.

once you have decided what you want to gif, there are two main way to convert your episode into a range of frames to make into a gif. the first is by screencapping. this involves downloading a program like mplayer or vlc which can be used to convert video files into "stacks" of screencaps, which can then be separated into whatever range of frames you want and imported into photoshop. this is seemingly by far the most common method I have seen amongst gifmakers*, but personally I don't care for it and I think it's more confusing and time consuming overall, so I will be explaining the second method: importing video frames to layers.

now, normally what this would mean is opening the full episode in photoshop and using the pathetic little playheads on either end of the scrub bar to trim the file into a clip. this is where your video editing software comes into play.

open whatever episode or movie you want to gif in your program. if it is a large file like a long movie in 1080p, this may take a few seconds. like I said, I am using Premiere Rush. I will be using a random episode of 9-1-1 for my example gif.

in your media browser, hover over whichever episode you want (you can also just add the whole episode to your project and scrub through, but that can take longer unless you know what time stamp you're after). click the fullscreen button by the bottom righthand corner.

now you can scrub through and trim the episode before you even import it to premiere. this makes trimming your clip even easier.

use the trim bar (yellow outlines) to trim as close as you can around the scene you want to gif.

then click this plus, and then "add" below. this will add the clip to your project.

now, move the blue playhead up to the frame you want your gif to start on. then, use the scissors button off to the left to slice the clip. select the portion before the playhead, and delete it.

now move the playhead to where you want the gif to stop. a good length for most gifs is around 1.5-2 seconds in my opinion. some may be shorter depending on how long the shot is, or longer if you plan on making them smaller (remember, the uploading capacity on Tumblr is 10mb per file.) trim again, now delete the portion after the playhead. you can also use the left and right arrows beside the play button to move frame by frame, and you can adjust the side of the horizontal scroll bar below your clip to “zoom” in on it and make scrubbing easier.

once you have your clip, go up to where it says "share". your clip will be rendered, and then you can click export to save it.

repeat step one as many times as you want for each gif. I know this may sound complicated, but like I said above once you get in the rhythm this step takes only a few seconds.

STEP TWO: create your gif!

close premiere. open photoshop. head to the control bar at the top. select file > import > import video frames to layers.

navigate to whatever folder you exported your clip to. select it, and hit enter. a second popup will appear asking you to select your range of frames. since you have already trimmed your clip to your liking, simply hit enter a second time.

now your screen looks like this, and we are going to crop and resize our gif! (troubleshooting: if you do not see the timeline bar at the bottom, select window from the control bar, scroll down, and make sure timeline is selected as part of your workspace. Adjustments and layers should be there automatically but if not add them too).

Tumblr posts are 540px wide, so in order to make my gifs as small as possible while maintaining quality, I typically crop my gifs to be around 550-600px wide, with varying heights depending on what shape I want the gif to be. experiment with this a little and decide what works for you. just don't make the width lower than 540px. once you have the portion of the frame you want inside the cropping grid, hit enter again. sometimes you have to hit it twice.

here are the measurements I am using for this gif

now in your timeline, select frame 1. hold down the shift key and scroll to the end to select the very last frame, thereby highlighting them all. from here we will edit our frame delay rate. photoshop will automatically set it to .03s, which will make your finished gif awkwardly fast. I typically use .05s, or .06s if I want a gif to be subtly slower (this comes in handy if the shot you are trying to gif is very short). anything longer than .06s will look weird though. choose "other" from this menu and type in your delay rate. make sure not to miss the zero after the decimal.

once you've set your frame rate, go to the other end of your timeline and click here to convert your frames into a video timeline.

then press option + command + A (on Mac) or windows + alt + A (on PC) to select all layers. then right click (control + click with a trackpad) on any one of the highlighted layers in your layers tab off to the right. scroll down in the popup menu and select Convert to Smart Object.

THAT'S IT!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! WE HAVE GIF!!!

from here comes the fun part!! you will begin adding action filters like sharpening as well as adjustment layers to color and edit your gif. experiment with different adjustments and styles until you find something you like. too many adjustment layers will up the size of the finished gif though, so I tend to keep mine to 3-4 layers max unless its a really hard to color scene. if anyone is interested in a separate coloring tutorial, please let me know!

once you are finished editing your gif, click file > export > save for web (legacy) OR hit shift + option + command + S. play your gif in the export window to make sure it looks okay, and then hit save!

I hope you guys find this helpful and informative! please hit up my in box if you have any questions or if anything doesn't make sense. happy giffing!!!

*one reason people seem to prefer screencapping to this method, is saving all the individual clips as video files does take up a lot of space on your scratch drive, which in turn can cause your computer to work slowly or crash programs. this can be rectified by making sure to delete the clips from your computer once you are done making the gifs. another space hoarder to look out for is the proxy files of your episodes that will be automatically saved to your hard drive whenever you add an episode to your project in Premiere. Periodically, go through your storage and delete all the .proxy video files. this will not delete the original episode files, only the proxy files created by Premiere.

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#if this doesn’t make any sense yes it does. I’m very sleepy #tutorials #gif tutorials #🪐 #gif help

[smokingasters]

A detail about the Peacebreakers in Providence. (translated + spoilers)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Overseas Research Department Field Survey Team/Peace Breaker Official activity period: 2098/04~2113/04

A unit that obtains and manipulates information useful to Japan from other countries. Its main mission is to enter other countries, gather information, carry out sabotage operations, and provide weapons and operational support to anti-government organizations who support the Japanese government. Regarding anti-government support operations, operations were carried out through domestic third-party organizations

(Example 1). It has been confirmed that it was provided to and expanded to the government and rebel forces of the former Southeast Asian Union (commonly known as SEAUN) (see corresponding data 04231 for details). Through "monitoring"derived from [...] The members were selected from among the soldiers who belonged to the Special Forces of the National Defense Force, based on the Sibyl System's advanced decisions, and from among them, those who had a particularly strong sense of national pride were selected. Establishment: Wave After its establishment, the company did some original work. Main strategies and execution records. 2099_Conflict within the Union of Southeast Asia

2111_Rebellion in the Republic of South Asia 2112_Operation Footstamp 2113_Kona Island independence group reduced cropping Involved in etc. For details, see 67721 data

In June 2118, the decision was made to dismantle the unit, and in the same month, the whereabouts of the unit commander and training staff went missing.

In October 2118, independent activity was confirmed, and it was completely destroyed. To this day, it is said that its range has expanded to include Japan, Northern Russia, and the Russian Federation. Tonami is said to have been the general manager since the company's founding.

■ PB2098 type TUSIMA PS (Peacebreaker Armor) A powered suit that is standard equipment for the Peace Breaker Corps. It covers the head, upper body, and lower body, and is equipped with heavy armor and assist functions in each part. Increases the wearer's mobility by 1.25 times. Visibility is ensured by using cameras in front and behind the head to project images directly onto the eyes using internal scale projection sensors. It is also equipped with an infrared sensor and 3D prediction function MS2 as an option. It is possible to carry out operations without securing visibility even under conditions of poor visibility. Multi-type labeling function installed on the front of the waist

***

Sibyl itself is promoting conflicts to expand itself, and then denying asylum to the refugees which is why they're confined to Dejima/Kyushu. Sibyl lets MFA do the dirty work and it's obvious that Sibyl just turns a blind eye to this because it benefits their colonisation approach. I wonder what Kogami's thoughts will be when he comes to realise that his "democratisation" in Siam Reap (Psycho Pass Movie) was just a part of Sibyl's grand plan. Also Kona Island? Didn't Rutaganda and his mercenaries live on an island? The knowledge that Sibyl would let the world suffer, after having seen the true effects of it in his journey abroad and that probably every person he met or lost on his journey (including the people that Tenzing lost) was suffering due to Sibyl's duplicity. In Case 3 Novel, Frederica is investigating the Peacebreakers in Tibet-Himalaya and Garcia by extension. Honestly, Kogami Shinya seeing the horrors of war, trying to help people and then returning to become a cog in the System is a tragic enough ending for me. I guess this was the meaning of that painting in that room. (The Abyss, I assume?)

Anyhow, I'm on my fourth rewatch (first time with subs so thank god I can follow the dialogues), and Sibyl has a knack of grinding my gears (pun intended), I've come to despise the System as much as Kogami. I'll delve into a proper review later, for now just accept my ramblings. I have 10,000 thoughts on Akane too, who in this movie punched me right in the heart, honestly I don't know how Akane-chan is so strong. I admire her grit.

#psycho pass #psycho pass providence spoilers #kogami shinya #tsunemori akane

[muldxr]

@pscentral event 22: 2023 wrapped ↳ 12 films i watched this year

image description below the cut:

The main header is a gif banner. It has a black background with white ashes falling like snow. Extra bolded text reads "2023", with a light blue-grey gradient. Across its middle is a black banner cutout with a smaller, white, all-caps font reading "Wrapped".

Then, 12 main GIFs are divided into 4 groups of 3 rows/images. Each row is a clip from a movie. They all have light contrast and a de-saturated filter. Above each clip is a white banner background and black font naming the title of the movie clip.

First GIF: Emphasized blue and grey tones. 1. Spirited Away - Sen is riding Haku in dragon form away from the camera into the sky. There are big, soft, blue clouds, and a moon shines on the right hand side. 2. Us - The doppelganger family stand in a line outside on the Wilsons' driveway. Green pine trees surround them. A streetlight is behind them, shrouding them in darkness. Red claps, and the other three doppelgangers begin to move. 3. The X-Files: Fight the Future - A body is on a table with a sheet covering it. Scully is on the left hand side of the screen, looking at Mulder who is standing on the right hand side of the screen. Soft light comes in from the frosted window behind Mulder. Both of them are wearing black suit jackets.

Second GIF: All gifs are much paler, near grey. 4. Westworld - A white coat moves right to unveil the cowboy android, wearing a black hat and lying on a table (table not visible). The android's face is removed by a lab technician to show wires and computer chips inside. 5. Arsenic and Old Lace - The camera follows Martha Brewster as she places a large, elaborate wine decanter on the table. The liquid inside swirls around. (This is a B&W gif.) 6. Dial M for Murder - A medium rolling shot of Margot on the phone, in a dimly lit apartment. She has blonde hair and is wearing a nightdress.

Third GIF: Stronger tones of blue and red. 7. That Thing You Do! - The Wonders are waiting in the stage left wings for their performance. They are in red suits reminiscent of the 1960s, and the curtains around the stage are blue. Their manager, Mr. White, is talking to them. 8. Final Destination 3 - A wide shot of the roller coaster stuck at the top of the loop-de-loop. There are two people hanging from their seats. To the left is more of the coaster structure. 9. Miracle - A USA Olympic Hockey player (Johnson, #10) looks up at the clock as he skates across the ice with great effort. His uniform is white with red and blue accents. The scene cuts to the clock and the scoreboard, showing 1:01, then 1:00. The score is USA 4, URS 3.

Fourth GIF: A mix of desaturated hues. Most notable is the pink in the Barbie gif and some blue in the Rent gif. 10. Catfight - There are many people in an art gallery, looking on as Veronica angrily tears a large portrait from the wall. Veronica then runs away screaming, carrying the painting with her. 11. Barbie - In an outdoor cafeteria, Barbie looks at a group of girls and says, "I'm Barbie!" while throwing her arms out jazz-hands style. She is wearing a hot pink western outfit and a white hat. 12. Rent - A dark scene shows Mark on his bike, traveling through a wide alley. The camera pans to a pole with several 'eviction notice' papers on it. Other strangers linger in the background.

#edit #filmgifs #moviegifs #fyeahmovies #usertj #userairi #2023 wrapped #spirited away #us 2019 #fight the future #westworld 1973 #arsenic and old lace #dial m for murder #that thing you do! #final destination 3 #miracle 2004 #catfight 2016 #barbie 2023 #rent 2005 #the timing the coloring picking the scenes all of it was /difficult/ and tested my patience phewwww. but its done :')) #yes i had to look through my Letterboxd to remember what i watched

[sinnerandlover]

Things graphic designer should know. 1 pt.

a unprofessional graphic designer telling you some knowledge and information about graphic design.

for only wattpad users. :(

For a cover, we use "512x800", for the banners in the stories they are more diverse and depend on your preference, but the most used and basic is "1280x475", then we go to the profile design,

there an icon of "500x500" is used and a "1920x600" banner. Many more graphics are used, but these are the main ones. The icon size also works for Instagram. There are many more graphics, but for these, there are no stipulated measures, I'll talk about them later.

Multiples of these can also be used for higher quality. 

[photo]

fortunately, I found what is written in the second picture. Let me write it systematically.

The first says; 300x300 ( icon )

The second; is 500x500 ( story ad )

The third; is a 700x100 or 800x200 ( banner )

Fourth; 441x ---- ( thread )

The fifth; is 512x800 ( cover )

Sixth; 800x600 ( is like the banner but with more images, I think. )

The seventh; 1920x600 ( profile header )

The eighth; 1500x2100 ( Movie Poster )

the ninth; 600x2400 ( Bookmark )

I tried to get as clear as possible but if you have any sources that can be used for this then, please comment about it.

Now, let's talk about the type of covers;

I have taken several covers and I have grouped them by type, to explain myself better.

The type of cover varies depending on the preference of the writer, and what the story is about. Because of course, you can't use a pastel cover for a police and horror story, no.

The main covers are what we call minimalist -they should not be confused with typographic covers-, the simple and the manipulated ones. However, these three cover subtypes vary and I am here to tell you about every one of them.

It should be noted that not all of them are called the way I am going to say them, in some places

they are called different.

Let's start with the saturated style cover, also known as the collage or comic type.

In this style of covers, the saturation of colors is the center and the star, it has striking fonts and characters between and cut.

It is usually used for stories in the genre of comedy, drama, romantic drama, romantic comedy, and all its derivatives. However, he shines in comedy.

The light or neon style is a style where bright and striking colors are the center of attention, brightness, and contrasts that will make you freak out and leave you speechless, it is a style with great attention to detail.

The minimalist typographic style is nothing more than a photograph with a monochrome background where the contrasting color is the title. Simple.

2 pt., 3 pt., 4 pt.

#graphic design #kpop graphics #aesthetic #editingresources #kpop moodboard #kpopmanip #packpng #png #resources #kpop icons #wattpad books #cover wattpad #capa para wattpad #editorial design #capa de fanfic #design simples

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball Super Movie 1: Broly (3/3)

Sounds like there's been enough talk. It's time for the main event!

So I said that I was going to cover this movie in three parts, but this third part is actually half of the film, and it's almost non-stop fighting. DBS: Broly isn't a perfect movie, but it has a lot to offer. Strong character development, tight plotting, exploration of the series lore, and then we come to this absolutely indulgent fight scene that's longer than a lot of the classic DBZ films' entire runtimes. Does this fight need to go this hard? Maybe not. The basic narrative of the battle is pretty simple, and it could probably be accomplished in half the time, with fewer twists and less ambitious choreography. But the fight does go this hard, and it's a visual feast.

I can't do it a lot of justice with words and still images, so if you haven't seen this movie, do yourself a favor and check it out. But I'll still be here, describing this thing with words and still images.

Okay, so the basic narrative is pretty straightforward. Broly's got a ton of power, but this is the first real fight he's ever been in. He struggles at first, but keeps getting better and better as he goes, forcing Vegeta and Goku to raise their own game higher and higher in order to keep up.

We know Broly has the power to win this thing. Frieza could tell just by meeting the guy that he could take down Goku and Vegeta, which is why he offered to help Paragus with his revenge plot. King Vegeta III might be dead and gone, but Prince Vegeta IV is alive and well on Earth, so Broly can kill the son for the sins of his father. But as the fight goes on and Vegeta turns Super Saiyan, Paragus is completely surprised, since he never imagined such a think could happen. And yet, Broly manages to keep up anyway. Then Vegeta turns Super Saiyan God, and seems to shut Broly down.

When this happens, Paragus admits that Broly is outclassed, and Frieza decides to withdraw, but Paragus can't call Broly off, because he doesn't have his remote for the shock collar he uses to control Broly. Cheelai swiped it earlier in the movie.

Broly is so frustrated that he begins to lose control of his power, the way Paragus described before. Normally, this is where Paragus would use the shock collar to de-escalate, but instead Broly powers up with this minty green aura. The funny thing is, this allows Broly to stand up to Super Saiyan God Vegeta.

As they continue fighting, Paragus explains to Frieza that Broly has somehow internalized the power of the Great Ape form, without actually turning into a Great Ape, so he has the power-up without the bulky monkey body to hinder his movements. I'm a little unclear if Paragus is seeing this for the first time or not. I always interpreted this scene as Paragus witnessing some new depth of Broly's power, but on this viewing, it seems more like he's dealt with Wint-o-green Broly before, and this is just the first time he's seen this form play out, since he always cut it short with the shock collar in the past.

So then Goku tags in and fights Broly for a while. It's not that Vegeta was in trouble, exactly, but he wasn't steamrolling Broly like he had been and Goku wanted a turn. He fights for a bit in base form, then in vanilla Super Saiyan, then finally turns it up to Super Saiyan God. I question the wisdom of using the lower forms when they clearly didn't work for Vegeta, but that's just Goku's style. He lasts longer than you'd expect him too, but it's not because Goku's that much stronger than Vegeta. It's the difference in their tactics. Vegeta was toying with Broly at first, then he started powering up to try to overwhelm him. When Goku takes over, he fights defensively, coping with Broly's offense without getting many hits in of his own. It's all intended to probe Broly's power, and take his measure.

Goku finally gets serious and manages to immobilize Broly in his red God aura, but then Broly freaks out some more and cancels it with his green Maniac aura. So Goku's attempt to reason with the big guy end up falling on deaf ears. Broly's too upset to listen.

From Frieza's ship, Cheelai and Leemo watch the battle, and pity Broly. Sure, he's winning, but they're still disgusted with the way Paragus controls Broly and forces him to fight at his command. It doesn't matter if Broly wins or loses, because he's fighting Paragus' battles, not his own.

Goku takes a pounding and then Piccolo contacts him telepathically to ask what's going on down there. Goku tells him he'll teleport to Piccolo if they need support, then he turns it up to Super Saiyan Blue. I think this might be the first time we've seen Goku switch from God to Blue, and for some reason his aura goes green while he does it. Maybe this hints at what sort of power Broly is operating on. Like he's using divine ki but it's sort of a bastardized version of Super Saiyan God and Super Saiyan Blue. I dunno.

Then the fight turns into CG for a bit. I've written about this before, but it always irritated me how Battle of Gods, Res F, and this movie worked in some CG actions sequences, not because they look bad, but because they look really conspicuous when they're surrounded by traditional animation. The figures just look a little stiffer and dead-eyed, and I wouldn't mind watching an entire movie in this style, but switching back and forth is just really disruptive. And then they made Super Hero and finally got it right. I'll get into that later, but DBS: Broly's CG walked so DBS: Super Hero could run.

Goku Blue seems to have the upper hand, and Paragus concedes that there's nothing more Broly can do. But he still hasn't turned Super Saiyan, so Frieza things back to when Goku turned Super Saiyan and tries to see if he can make that happen again...

So he Death Beams Paragus and calls out to Broly to tell him that Paragus was killed by a stray ki blast. Oh, and the ground is lava because Broly wrecked the Earth's surface around this area. Paragus was beginning to wonder if maybe King Vegeta had been right all along about Broly being too dangerous, but what he really needed to be worried about was the same treachery he used on Beets forty-odd years ago.

So Broly flips out even more and turns Super Saiyan, which stacks on top of whatever Wint-o-green form he was using before. This is enough to make Vegeta nervous, so he turns Blue and tries to help Goku with a double-team, but it does no good. So instead they lead Broly on a merry chase...

... to Frieza, so Broly attacks him for a while as Goku and Vegeta teleport to safety.

Goku's plan is simple: He asks Piccolo to coach them on the Fusion Technique so that they can become powerful enough to defeat Broly before he kills Frieza and blows up the whole world. Vegeta despises this idea, but he can't offer a better one.

But this takes like.... an hour, and Broly keeps clobbering Frieza the entire time. Frieza turns into Golden Frieza to stand up to Broly, but he doesn't really get very far. Then again, it says a lot about how powerful Frieza's become since he last tussled with Goku and Vegeta in Resurrection F. In that movie, he ran out of gas before he could properly leverage his Golden form, but here, he's getting beaten up for a solid hour and he's really not that badly hurt.

Then Goku and Vegeta finally get it right and return to the battlefield as Gogeta. And from here on, Broly's power begins to level off.

Broly seems to do reasonably okay, but then Gogeta turns Super Saiyan and the tide turns. Then for some reason, the entire background changes during the fight.

Like, where the hell are they? Is this supposed to be another dimension, or is it just an aesthetic choice? Anyway, during this part of the battle, Broly's Super Saiyan hair turns that "Legendary" shade of green-yellow, and Gogeta goes Super Saiyan Blue.

Things get back to normal, but by now it's clear that Broly isn't winning. He's still putting up a fight, but he can't do anything to stop Gogeta Blue.

And then the Dragon appears, because...

Cheelai has decided that the only way to save Broly is to use the Dragon Balls. And this is the part of the movie where it suddenly becomes clear that Gogeta really isn't having any trouble with Broly at all.

This is kind of what makes this fight so special, because it starts out with Broly powering through Goku and Vegeta's best stuff. They use all their transformations and special attacks and it does nothing. They double-team him, and it gets them nowhere. They even trick Frieza into helping them, and it doesn't seem to make a bit of difference. Then they fuse into Gogeta Blue, and while he's doing very well, it says a lot that Broly's been fighting Gogeta Blue for several minutes and he's still in this thing. Broly is a very dangerous threat, and this is a pretty standard formula for Dragon Ball villains.

And yet, by this point in the fight, it's clear that Gogeta has it won. He's just teeing off on Broly at this point, and there's not much he can do except scream and try to fight back. At first, it seemed like the suspense was over whether Broly could be defeated at all, but now it's clearly become a question of whether Broly can survive this. He took on Goku and Vegeta because Paragus forced him to, and now he's completely in over his head and no one can save him. No one, that is, except...

... Cheelai, who asks Shenron to take Broly back to Vampa. Shenron zaps him back home right before Gogeta's Kamehameha can finish him off.

Back on Earth, Leemo pulls up in his ship and picks up Cheelai so they can flee into space. Frieza had been planning to use the Dragon Balls himself, so he's all set to shoot down Cheelai and Leemo. This is one of my favorite shots from the movie. I just like the colors. It has nothing to do with the upskirt angle view of Golden Frieza's ass. That's just a happy coincidence.

But Gogeta spoils his shot and Frieza stands down and withdraws. Gogeta just lets him go because...................... Yeah, I still don't get this. I guess Frieza never actually hurt anybody this time. Well, he killed Paragus, but I'm not sure anyone knows he did it, and besides, Paragus was a jerk. Maybe Gogeta doesn't feel right about killing Frieza since he's not doing anything aggressive.

Bulla update: She's doing just fine with Uncle Beerus. Still don't understand why he was even in this movie, but Bulla's cute, so it's fine.

In space, Cheelai says she wants to meet up with Broly on Vampa, and Leemo decides to stick with them, since he'll be on the run from the Frieza Force no matter what he does. At least this way they'll all be together.

Three days later, Frieza's intelligence agents have confirmed that Cheelai and Leemo are with Broly on Vampa, and this suits him just fine. He believes that they'll help him learn to control his powers, and when that happens, he'll become the strongest fighter on the board. He hopes for this, because even though he's getting stronger, his foes are still Goku and Vegeta, and he'd like to have one other big shot in the game. I think the idea here is that Frieza thinks he can team up with Broly again some day, but this seems like a pipe dream. Oh well.

On Vampa, Cheelai and Leemo aren't exactly thrilled about the living conditions on Vampa, but then Goku suddenly shows up and gives them some extra supplies and provisions. None of them know anything about Goku, so they're confused about how he found them so quickly without a spaceship. They don't trust Goku, but he doesn't care, since all he wants to do is fight with Broly in the future, since he enjoyed their battle on Earth, and he admires a Saiyan opponent with so much power. He also wants to teach him some things to help him improve even further, and Broly seems to find this idea appealing.

Before he leaves, they ask him his name, and he says he's Son Goku, but also... Kakarot. I like this bit a lot, because it shows how much Goku has changed since he first learned he was a Saiyan at the beginning of DBZ. At first he despised his alien heritage, then he started to embrace it, calling himself a "Saiyan raised on Earth". In the 1993 Broly movie he angrily insisted that his name wasn't Kakarot, but here he is introducing himself by that name. By now, he's met a lot of other Saiyans, and he's learned that there's more to them than the despicable evil that Raditz described when he first came to Earth. Goku's embraced his Saiyan identity and expresses it on his own terms. He's always going to be Son Goku, but he doesn't mind Vegeta calling him "Kakarot" and now it seems like he wants Broly to call him that too. It's nice.

And that's the end of the movie. Again, it's good good stuff. Check it out if you haven't seen it, but that's about all I can think of to say. And with Broly out of the way, we just have one last story to cover, and we'll get into that very soon...

#dragon ball #dragon ball super #dragon ball super: broly #2023dbapocryphaliveblog #goku #vegeta #broly #cheelai #frieza #leemo #bulma #whis #beerus #bulla #gogeta #piccolo

[nickthetoony]

I've been in a prolonged Star Wars mood recently which has coincided with me getting deep into Gundam so I've been comparing and contrasting their different approaches to similar ideas a lot, and I thought I might as well lay it all out in writing to get it out of my head.

I'm specifically comparing Star Wars to UC Gundam, starting with the original Gundam which for context began airing in 1978, after A New Hope but before Empire Strikes Back. You can see a bit of A New Hope's visual influence in some aspects of Gundam.

Both series prominently feature a laser sword of some description. "Lightsabers" in SW and "Beam Sabers" in Gundam. Other than the obvious difference of Beam Sabers being in scale with 18 meter tall mechs, there's also the difference in that the lightsaber is made out to be an elegant weapon, harkening back to a nostalgic imagining of knights and samurai, before the invention of less honorable firearms with future stories ascribing a deep cultural significance of the lightsaber to the people that made them.

The Gundam Beam Saber is in comparison a very utilitarian tool in a Mobile Suit's arsenal, usually carried right alongside rifles and bazookas. It still invokes a little bit of that knightly image, but the fact that it's usually used as a last resort weapon of desperation hampers the idea of it being a weapon of elegance or honorable combat. In a way they're more like real swords in that they're sidearms you only pull out in a battlefield when all your other options are unavailable.

Another superficial similarity they share is their masked villains, I don't think it's a stretch to assume that Char Aznable was inspired a little bit by Darth Vader. Of course, since Gundam was pre-Empire, when so much of Vader hadn't been established yet and his most notable trait was having a cool costume, the two ended up diverging into wildly different characters.

Char is a pretty young man who uses a mask to cover his identity and Vader is old and scarred and needs the mask to breathe. Vader is the main character's father and Char is completely unrelated to his main character until they meet face to face late in the show. In a way Char is kind of more similar to Kylo Ren being masked pretty boys with daddy issues though again their arcs end up wildly diverging. Kylo and Vader both end up "redeemed" but Char isn't really the kind of character who can or should be redeemed.

Somewhat related to the above, both Gundam and Star Wars have enemy factions who are meant to invoke Nazi Germany. Star Wars' invocation of German fascism (at least in the movies) is a lot more nebulous than Gundam's, communicating this analogy through visual reference to Nazi iconography while leaving the actions of the Empire more broadly as just general cartoon bad guy stuff.

The way Gundam compares the Principality of Zeon and the Nazis is a lot more specific and a lot more direct. The way the Zeon arms race plays out in the original is a direct parallel to the real-life Nazi wunderwaffen projects, where the Third Reich's internal friction and investments in ludicrous super weapons ended up costing them more than they gained, contributing to their eventual defeat. Gundam also takes place in our future (or atleast a future envisioned in 1978) so the real Nazis existed in this world and Hitler is brought up as a direct comparison to the original show's big bad.

(Writing this out, I had the thought that you could draw the same comparison between the Death Star and the wunderwaffen program, but idk if Star Wars itself has ever drawn that comparison.)

Another point of comparison is that both series heavily feature mystical, psychic powers inspired by the spiritualist movements of the day. The Force for Star Wars and Newtypes for Gundam. The Force is cribbing a lot aesthetically from eastern spiritualism while Gundam takes a lot more from the visual ideas of psychedelia.

The Force is far more concrete and straightforward than Newtype-ism. A magic energy field that can be used to perform great feats of power, and which has birthed two established sects of thought that are both treated as ancient. Force users are also clearly demarcated into Good and Evil camps, with specific powers and abilities locked behind a character's individual morality.

Newtypes in Gundam are very different from Sith or Jedi though. Rather than representing an ancient struggle of good vs evil, Newtypes represent a supposed evolution of the human soul, when humanity can communicate to each other psychically in an era where miscommunication is impossible. Supposedly.

Because whereas in Star Wars, the conflict of the Force is one of primordial good and evil, the conflict of the Newtype is one of heightened spiritualist ideas butting up against the mundane reality of different people operating under different and conflicting motivations. There aren't dark or light side Newtypes in the way that Force users are categorized, all of them share the core ability to bridge physical limitations to understand each other on a deep intimate level, but does that matter when their material conditions are inherently at odds? What happens when two people understand each other perfectly and they still have to fight and kill each other?

My last point of comparison is between the two "heroes" of both series. Luke Skywalker and Amuro Ray.

In a way, they're very similar characters. Both start out as young boys living relatively comfortable-if boring lives who are Called To Adventure and eventually awaken to their special powers to become great soldiers of their respective wars. Both are defined by the legacy of their fathers. Both are coming of age stories.

Where I find the comparison between them very interesting is the comparison of Luke at the end of his character arc (in The Last Jedi) and Amuro at the end of his (in Char's Counterattack). Luke in TLJ is a sad disillusioned old man who has failed in his attempt to rebuild the order that had been entrusted to him and who has stagnated into a miserable grandpa. For many longtime fans of the character this was a shock, and apparently for a lot of people felt like a disappointing betrayal. Because Luke was the Hero of The Rebellion, the Return of The Jedi. He was brave, and true, and more than just a normal man. So to see him so impotent felt wrong for many people.

I find it interesting that Amuro (subtler than Luke) also ends up in a similar spot, but in a way that feels far more appropriate to his character and to the tone of the narrative.

Because Amuro was not a hero. He was a child forced to become a soldier far younger than he should've been. Pressured by the dire, apocalyptic world surrounding him and the societal pressures of masculinity that hound him. Luke's inheritance from his father was a Lightsaber. A weapon of a great shining order which eventually was mutated by the Disney movies into a sort of Excalibur wielded only by the worthy virtuous heroes. Amuro's inheritance was the Gundam, the Devil's Machine, the first in a long line of military weapons, the image of which would haunt him for the rest of his tragically short life.

Amuro had at one point been a war hero, then a rebel fighting against the corrupt and self-interested Federation that had eagerly turned him into a human weapon. But his childhood of violence eventually left him no choice but to be subsumed into the military hierarchy he had at one point attempted to break free of. In terms of combat skill, Amuro was the best of the best by the end of his arc, but he had failed in every other regard. His Newtype abilities, once seen as a gateway to a future without misunderstandings, were now honed for violence. His final words ones of dumb confusion as he failed to understand the feelings of his enemy.

Luke gets the benefit of a Rey. The ability to once again become heroic and good and brave, to inhabit the comforting role of a gallant knight. And this step in his characterization is still met with confused hostility by most viewers. Amuro does not receive a similar luxury. He dies young and suddenly, with only the suggestion that his actions will eventually make things better, but it feels right with his character even for how unsatisfying it is.

Again, I don't know if I really have a coherent point with this post. Apologies if you've read this far and felt like I have wasted your time. For now, I think my main conclusion is that it's interesting to see how two different kinds of science fiction (heroic science-fantasy VS military sci-fi) approach similar ideas. I think the reason Luke's arc in TLJ fails for many is that the story of the original trilogy was fundamentally unfit to handle it. It's tacking on an unsatisfying tragedy onto a conventional, simple Hero's Journey rather than building on the foundation of societal critique the way Gundam does with Amuro.

Anyway. Bye.

#star wars #gundam #luke skywalker #amuro ray #meta analysis #comparison #spoilers for both series #long post #sorry for barfing a bunch of words at you

[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

I made a post a year ago, I think, about how I enjoy that this site has a few blogs that are entirely dedicated to being obsessed with Tim Key, so everyone once in a while I’ll open Tumblr and be flooded with images of Tim Key, because the Tim Key blogs have decided to be active today, and I guess it’s Tim Key Monday.

Well, this time, for once, it’s been Tim Key Week in my comedy calendar, and it’s been a good time. Here are some things this week has covered:

- It started because Tim Key recently went on RHLSTP, and someone recommended it to me, so I listened to that latest episode. This was the first episode I’d ever heard of that podcast (aside from that YouTube video of the car crash with Stewart Lee) because I’m not a massive fan of Richard Herring, but I really enjoyed that one. So then I listened to the other three appearances that Tim Key has made on there, all within the last few years, because Tim Key has been very busy with writing books lately (just putting out his third book since the start of COVID) and keeps going on there to promote them. But then he ends up not promoting them, and just spending the whole time talking shit about Richard Herring.

God, he’s ridiculously quick. He just goes right into character and stays there the entire time, he can take anything Richard Herring says and spin it around in a split second and hit him back with it. Really sharp and can make absolutely anything funny. Literally anything. I re-watched that DVD extra interview he did with Simon Amstell last night, and that really highlighted how much he can make the most mundane thing in the world hilarious.

It's amazing style, I think. Be just a few steps outside of what is normal and reasonable to say, but say it with full confidence, and then ask other people what’s wrong with them when they don’t keep up. I’d previously seen him do it for five sets of No More Jockeys, and delighted in hearing he’s like that all the time.

- I enjoyed that, so got sent some more Tim Key things. His Radio 4 documentaries, of which I had heard one before, because it featured Kitson, and earlier this year I did my huge trek through every weird tiny thing where Daniel Kitson might have had even the most obscure role (I watched a terrible movie called Dog Eat Dog, the rabbit hole went deep, and the rabbit hole contained a Tim Key documentary about a Russian novelist). But I hadn’t heard some others, so I spent an evening listening to Tim Key talk about Russian poets and writers and how to start a novel, and that was lovely. I enjoyed that.

- But the main things I got were a couple of recordings of his old stand-up shows, and this album he recorded in 2010, called On a Boat With a String Quartet, where he reads poetry and talks shit to Tom Basden. I really, really enjoyed listening to Tim Key read poetry and talk shit to Tom Basden. I realized I have heard that before, as they were together on season 2 of Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better, and on Mark Watson’s Live Address to the Nation, and they did basically the same thing there. This album made me remember how much I enjoyed those radio shows, partly because of how much I enjoy listening to Tim Key read poetry and talk shit to Tom Basden. “Wow,” I thought. “I wish there were only some way of hearing more of Tim Key reading poetry while talking shit to Tom Basden.” Then I remembered he has a five-season radio show that I’ve somehow never heard before.

- So next on the list was the Late Night Poetry Programme, which I’d been vaguely meaning to listen to “at some point” for ages, and this was clearly that time. God, it was good. I’d heard Tim’s poems before in various contexts, but really enjoyed hearing so many of them at once. And the soundscape was nice. And of course it was fun when he talked shit to Tom Basden.

I think the first few seasons were pretty well perfect, just those two in a studio with little hints of their life outside it, dropped through a line or a word or two, throwaway jokes where the meaning hits you a little at a time as you realize what it implies about the life they live. It was cool at first, when they started opening it up and we actually saw that bigger world that they’d been teasing for a while. By season 5, I have to admit, I felt like it had gone too far. Which they acknowledged several times, Tom Basden making comments that they’d gotten too far away from season 1 and Tim Key doesn’t even read his poems anymore. But I did kind of think the character was right. The sitcom was still fun, I enjoyed every episode. But I think my favourties were when it was just two people in a studio reading poetry.

Katy Wix was good, though. And I did enjoy the guest stars throughout all five seasons. That turned into a game that I was able to play due to my abysmal lack of talent for identifying people based on the sound of their voice alone. Because I’m so bad at it, I avoided looking at the notes beforehand, and tried to guess who that episode’s guest voice actor was, and would then hear in the credits whether I was right. I was quite bad at it. I went through an entire episode with Sally Phillips, and two entire episodes with Mike Wozniak, convinced that they were played by people I’d never heard before, even though I know both those voices quite well.

I only guessed a few. By the end of Isy Suttie’s episode, I was about 80% sure it was Suttie, and then I turned out to be right. I got Bridget Christie’s voice right away, though that’s partly because I knew from a No More Jockey’s episode that she’d show up at some point, and she hadn’t been on it yet and this was the last episode, so it had to be her. The only voice where I was immediately, 100% sure who it was was when they had Liam Williams on. Absolutely no question there. That is an extremely distinctive voice, it was almost distracting because every time he spoke I just thought “Oh it’s Liam Williams” rather than believing it was a farmer or whatever.

- After that, I wanted even more Key & Basden, and I remembered how Stuart Goldsmith says that his best evidence for why TV isn’t a meritocracy is that Cowards never got more than three TV episodes. So I downloaded those TV episodes. But of course I have to do things in order, so first I downloaded the radio episodes. Did the radio show and then the TV show.

I really liked those, and I’m often not big on sketch comedy. These were fucking great, though. The TV show had quite a few sketches that I could see myself re-watching on YouTube one at a time. And that’s nice, because for years I’ve done that regularly with Mitchell and Webb, but these days I watch those and have trouble enjoying them as much because, you know, transphobia. I guess I should stop being shocked when it turns out that Footlights men from the early 00s may not be the most clued-up people in the world about trans issues (Webb, Ayoade). But if Tim Key or Tom Basden or those other two guys (sorry, I do vaguely know they both have quite good careers in their own right, but in my mind they are those other two guys) in Cowards have any views on trans people whatsoever, I’d like them to keep that to themselves so I can have some new sketches to re-watch on YouTube without feeling guilty. No more Footlights guys from the early 00s should be allowed to talk about trans people (except John Oliver, actually Mark Watson’s made some pro-trans rights statements too, they can stay).

Anyway, the point is that I really enjoyed the sketches. They all seemed so cohesive – the characters, and the plots, and the actors. A lot of sketches didn’t end on huge punchlines, which I always think is the sign of a good sketch, if it’s funny enough to get laughs throughout and not just for a twist at the end. Really good stuff. I see Stuart Goldsmith’s point.

- Then I still hadn’t had enough Key & Basden on Radio 4, so I downloaded the sitcom Party. That was pretty good. The jokes were consistent and funny, which is the main point. I have to admit the premise didn’t work quite as well today as it might have then, which is not Tom Basden’s fault, as you can’t have expected him to foresee the fall of Western civilization back in 2010. In 2010, I remember that the idea of naïve youths involved in politics was funny. Straw feminists and all that. Whereas these days, the situation is so dire that if I see a young person who’s politically engaged, I don’t want to make fun of them for being underinformed anymore. I just want to say “Thank you for doing anything besides making Tik-Tok videos and listening to Joe Rogan while Rome burns.”

Having said that, the point of this show was not exactly to be hard-hitting satire of student politics, it was to be a vehicle for jokes. And it did that very well. It was funny. The characters were good, too. Five different main characters it a lot for a sitcom that started with only four half-hour episodes, but by the end of the very first episode, I had a clear idea of who was who. I could tell their voices apart, which helps (Tim Key’s voice I know, Tom Basden’s voice sounds a bit too similar to Johnny Sweet’s but I could tell them apart if I tried hard enough, I can tell Katy Wix’s Welsh accent apart from Anna Crilly). And each character was sufficiently distinctive for me to see why they were there.

- Just today, I watched The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island, written by and starring Key & Basden. I enjoyed it. Short films, or films in general, aren’t hugely my thing. But I liked the pretty shots of English countryside. I liked the dismal shots of the ocean in bad weather and little rowboats and the old house. And it was a nice story starring a folk singer and an eccentric person, and what more could I want out of some characters?

I know Tim Key has done a bunch of short films before, some with Tom Basden. The only other one I’ve seen is Very Few Fish, which I watched entirely because of that bit at the end of a No More Jockeys episode, where Tim lists all the Taskmaster contestants he has or hasn’t touched, and says he’s kissed Aisling Bea, on screen. I found out that he’d kissed her in this weird short film written by Tom Basden, so I watched that out of curiosity.

And found… it was quite a good film, probably deserved to get more commissioned. But I didn’t like the bit where he made out with Aisling Bea. I’d just watched all this No More Jockeys, where he’s in his house and playing himself so I felt like I knew him. And I don’t want to see people I know graphically make out with other people. It’s like when your friend is doing PDA at a party. It’s even weirder than when a stranger does it, because you just think, I don’t want to see you that way. I know you, I like you, that side of you is meant to be kept behind closed doors please. That’s what Very Few Fish felt like. Like following a friend on a date and watching him make out with someone. It was weird.

That’s an interesting level of parasocial relationship, isn’t it? Watching No More Jockeys has parasoically made me feel like that guy is my friend, but the effect is not for me to try to hang out with him on social media or anything creepy like that, the only effect is I don’t want to watch him kiss anyone. That’s probably okay, as far as these things go.

- Last night, I tried the first episode of We Need Answers. I’d have absolutely loved to see the stage version of this, I have collected pictures and short videos of it from various corners of the internet (including those fucking unhinged promo videos on Alex Horne’s YouTube channel that introduce the contestants), they had all the best comedians and it seems like a great showcase of my peak area of interest, which is 00s Edinburgh comedy.

However, I’ve always avoided the TV show because the list of guests is awful. Almost no comedians, heavy on presenters and reality show people. It didn’t help that the first episode featured noted transphobe Germaine Greer (also, as I always feel the need to add when her name comes up, she wasn’t some perfect feminist who was ruined by going TERF, I always disliked some of the comments she’d made about cis women who didn’t fit the type of womanhood that she liked, and I hate the she’s held us as an example of great feminism). So I’m open to giving it another shot. Does anyone have opinions on whether it gets better in the future? The first episode was all right, but I didn’t enjoy it all that much.

So that is my Tim Key binge. Does anyone have recommendations for things I’ve missed? Especially short films, I know there are other good ones. Happy Tim Key Thursday, everyone!

[mydreambatfam]

Batfam Fancast Part 13: The Al Ghuls

Oh baby my first request! @callmekohaii asked and they shall recieve.

The eternal Al Ghuls. Ra's,Talia,Dusan,Nyssa and Damian. For centuries this family has affected the world in more ways then we will ever know. Integral to the League of Assassins this family are known to be pompous and pretentious aristocrats. So who will be these immortal individuals?

Before we go any further we do have a major conflict to resolve. That problem is the ethnicity of the family. When potrayed before they had rather problematic castings, however the very concept of these characters are problematic in of themselves. Being Middle Eastern aristocratic type people that create conflict based on personal extremist ideals. Similar to the Drake family I have to be careful with how I elaborate and edit on these characters stories and must be thoughtful with how I want to portray these characters without stepping on anyone's toes.

I also have to remember to cast people that aren't completely Americanized, unlike most of the Batfamily who are all east coast American besides Alfred. Actors who are of Middle Eastern or Asian descent seem to be my best bet and have some actors be mixed as well.

Ra's Al Ghul

The leader of the League of Assassins, the Demon's Head, Grandpappy Stabby Stab. The figurehead of the family, Ra's Al Ghul is a legendary DC character, a well-known Batman villain that can keep up with the likes of Batman. Obsessed with destroying the world to remake in his own image he will do anything and everything for his goals, but still hold himself to degree of honor. However he is hypocritical holding onto old ideals that won't have him accept more liberal ideas. He still respects people of similar status though. Even seeing the like Bruce Wayne and Tim Drake as potential successors. Yet still forgoes someone like his Son or Daughters as successors no matter their enthusiasm for it.

There is only one actor that can covers all the things needed for this character and has been with him for over a decade. Oded Fehr has been voicing Ra's Al Ghul for Young Justice since 2011. He is 52 years old, has experience with action thanks to the Mummy movies and is Israeli. He is by far the best choice for this mastermind.

Nyssa Raatko

Nyssa Raatko also known as Nyssa al Ghul is the oldest known daughter of Ra's and half-sister to Talia. She was born early 18th and disassociates herself from her father sometime in the early 20th century. She has lived through WW2, her family she had were victims of the Nazis concentration camps. Even when she begged for help her father did nothing leaving her there. This left her spiteful and out for revenge.

Unlike canon a major change I'm going to make is the WW2 backstory, instead of a Nazi Concentration Camp, It's a Japanese prison in the Philippines. They tried to escape to the Philippines till the war spread there, her husband and sons dying after the "Bataan Death March" and Nyssa becoming one of the many women who are victims of the Japanese, becoming a Comfort Woman. Her evolution post WW2 however is to have her path of vengeance though violence changed into kindness... with violence. Using the generations of wealth she had acquired she becomes an icon of peace to the public, helping third world countries develop, using her sect of League Assassins to kill whoever stops her development, no matter their morals or even compassionate actions. She accidently becomes the very thing she wished to not associate with.

For Nyssa I need an actress who is most likely more mixed compared to Ra's, living in Southeast Asia. She doesn't have to be white and has to be active enough to do some to little fighting.

Elodie Yung is the only actress I thought of. She's the only half asian actress with martial arts training and enough experience in both action and acting. You might remember her as Elektra in Daredevil and as the main character in The Cleaning Lady.

Dusan Al Ghul

The tragic Dusan Al Ghul son of Ra's Al Ghul. A disappointment to his father's eyes he would do anything for his respect, even rising through the ranks under the guise of the White Ghost. He also albino for some reason. I think instead of him being Albino I want to emphasize him being an unintended child. Using those old ideals the Al Ghul's follow he is a bastard in his eyes, it's not just Ra's Al Ghul but the whole family that shuns him.Think Jon Snow or Gendry from Game of Thrones. Decades of longing lead to Dusan's obsessive drive for his family's love.

Joe Taslim has been nothing but delight finding international stardom thanks to The Raid:Redemption and later the HBO/Cinemax show Warrior. Staring in one of the best contemporary action films and martial arts drama, he is perfect to play this bastard son.

Talia Al Ghul

Daughter of the Demon and Mother to Damian, she is a main stay when it come to the Al Ghuls, a master manipulator like her father she later commanded the organization known as Leviathan. From villain to ally, then back to villain it's hard to say where her true loyalty will stand. She sees her methods as absolute and only the most stubborn of personalities could ever change her mind. Not even her own son persuade her, even willing to kill her own son for her own ambitions.

Many of the castings are rather difficult, yet this was a rather easy character to make. Known for her work in the show The Boys and as the character Farah Karim in Call of Duty Claudia Doumit is a Austrailian actress of Lebenese descent. Her prolific filmography has shown she is more than capable of playing this popular anti villain.

Damian Wayne

The newest Robin and biological son of Batman Damian Wayne is DC current wannabe shonen protaganist. He's a great character when writers remember that League of Assassin training means nothing when you fight beside the people who beat them constantly.

Brutal, short-tempered, and looking to be accepted, his assassin upbringing has left many holes in his ability to socialize in modern society. Unable to relate to anybody besides the more upscale aristocratic part of the world. He wishes to grow up so fast only to forget that growing up is part of the process. A major change I want to address is his upbringing, I want to emphasize the brutally conservative nature of the League of Assassins and the cycle of abuse his family continues to use. By embracing his father's side of the family he learns to forge his own identity and unlike many writers right now, learns that he does not want to be Batman and luckily has Brothers willing to carry that weight for him.

Another major character dynamic I want to switch is between Tim Drake and Dick Grayson. I want the antagonistic nature between him and Tim to go from rivals to family, with Tim filling in as the Big Brother role. Dick being the oldest needs to fill the mentor role, especially since he is the Batman to his Robin. By Dick having the more begrudging frenemy nature allows for them to grow as master and student. Think of Damian as Ahsoka Tano with Tim and Dick as Anakin and Obi-Wan during the Clone Wars. Damian grows on you as a character while the other two are more established and likable.You can even fit Drake and Josh on here with Damian as Megan.

Boy have I seen some terrible fancast for this boi. Like I hate all of them, why you casting 20 something you heathens? IMDB, Google, the damn Disney Channel. Can you not find 1 non white child actor? Gordon Cormier is a 13 year old Filipino Canadian actor who is going to play Aang in the Avatar The Last Airbender live action adaption. He is the only actor who can fit all the criteria that I have put for this character. I have scoured the globe and no one in his age bracket will work besides him. If this young man can play Aang, he can play Damian Wayne.

#batman #batfamily #batfam #fancast #dceu #bruce wayne #talia al ghul #ras al ghul #damian wayne #league of assassins #al ghul family #nyssa al ghul #dusan al ghul #tim drake #dick grayson #nightwing #robin #red robin #dc comics #dc characters #detective comics #oded fehr #elodie yung #joe taslim #claudia doumit #gordon cormier

[rivalsforlife]

I heard something about Edgeworth having a woman love interest and you said something once about that what's the context behind that?

I got so excited when I saw this ask. yes!!!!!! here is one of my little niches in the fandom that is often overlooked and for good reason!!!!!!

Essentially: Edgeworth's Woman Love Interest comes from the Takarazuka Revue adaptations of Ace Attorney. "Adaptations" being a very loose word here. Takarazuka Revue is an all-female theater troupe in Japan that's been around for about a hundred years, and as a result of being all-female has women playing both the male and female roles. It's interesting, if you dig around on youtube you can find some of the other plays they put on, all the actresses are very talented, and the whole structure of the troupe is pretty interesting though I'm not going to get into that in detail here. It's something I recommend looking into on your own if you're interested.

Anyways, to showcase the talent of their actresses playing the male and female roles, lots of their shows end up being romances. So when they adapted Ace Attorney, they... decided to add in romances. And made the romances the focus. And in doing so had to like radically rewrite the entirety of ace attorney in order to add in female love interests. (Which I would prefer to them pairing up canonical characters, personally, so, dodged a bullet there.)

I am not a fan of these adaptations! I have pretty bad canon purist tendencies. And I am of the belief that an adaptation at the very least should stick to the main feel of the original, even if it can't (and shouldn't) get in every detail. (The LOTR movies are a good example, despite all the content they cut out and changed around from the books, that still maintains the feeling of the original.) Changing ace attorney's focus from "murder mysteries with close platonic bonds" to "technically a murder mystery... but ROMANCE" is like looking at a completely different thing. I covered the first musical in depth (with lots of criticisms) in this post and the second one in this post, which is still, unfortunately, probably the best thing I've ever written.

The first two musicals focus on Phoenix and his entire story-changing love interest who shares an eerie amount of similarities with Edgeworth. (She's like a Lana and Edgeworth hybrid, basically.) The third musical, however, focuses on Edgeworth... time-travelling into the past when his father was still alive and getting involved in one of his cases since Gregory is corrupt now. Like, probably loosely based on Inherited Turnabout, but an absolute insult to that case.

And that's where his assigned female love interest comes in.

Doesn't she look exactly like what you'd expect for a love interest for Edgeworth? He just loves her so much I guess.

The woman (Alison Teresa), like Phoenix's love interest, is a completely original character. Unlike Phoenix's love interest, I don't think she's really based on anyone? But she sure is There. I have more images of Heterosexual Edgeworth's Greatest Hits in this post. But this musical doesn't have a publicly available subtitled version (yet) unlike the other two, so. Their sordid romance shall remain a mystery.

I do want to take a moment to clarify that these are non-canonical. They really can't mesh with canon because they actively contradict it. Using this musical to make an argument that Edgeworth is into women is about as valid as using the musical to make the argument that Phoenix is blond.

Anyways I hope that answers your question (and you don't regret asking.)

#asks #I get to talk about the musicals again!! yay!!

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Another one

I KNOW this chart is for OCs but I had to make one for Belial.

There is severe scarcity of Belial content on Tumblr.

Elaborating on my choices below 👇

⚠️Huge wall of text incoming!!⚠️

For aesthetics, I chose a picture of someone's back with those black hand markings. I interpret it as the taking of Belial's wings (I headcanon he originally had angel wings 🪽 but were ripped off by Lucilius🤬) and I also interpret it as sexual abuse. Just think about it bro. Like almost every aspect of a primal beast is chosen by its creator, at least the prominent aspects.

Belial was made to be a seductress, which is a charming part of himself imo but the bad part about it is that during the beginning of his existence, it was also his job to be one, for who? I'm thinking for the Astrals.

My impression of the astrals so far is that they're all psychopathic dipshits, which was even confirmed in Heart of the Sun ( GBF anniversary event), that they don't see primal beasts as anything other than tools (according to Raziel). Belial had a purpose that couldn't be shared with anybody else, which was to incite a rebellion. To cover up for it, he had to have another purpose. Which was 1) being Lucifer's adjunctant, and 2) being the Astrals' sex toy.

Belial was an exquisite creation, like a demo of Lucifer (cause they both are similar regarding power). And of course, a primal beast needs to be approved by the council of astrals before usage. Lucilius could've proposed both the functions of being Lucifer's adjunctant and tracking machine, and to make it more appealing, a toy with endless stamina that won't break after being used 😂👎👎 (I imagine the astrals like Greek gods who plucked humans and 'used' them, given their sadistic nature). So Belial, both visually appealing and with an alluring personality, would be the perfect unbreakable toy. A tool and a toy, 2 in 1! Approved!! Awful. A toy who won't fight back, a toy who can't say no, a toy who won't break... ughhh. Primal beasts are obviously sentient, despite their inability to reach human complexity. He was literally built to be unable to connect with others, to be sincere, or to just live a normal life like the other archangels have adapted to. That's cruel 😭

So yeah, I don't care if Belial was made to enjoy what they do to him no matter what, I still consider it sexual abuse because Belial is sentient.

Lmao ok that was for aesthetic picture #1 ☠️ Let's proceed with the rest. For the second aesthetic picture, I selected a white snake wrapped around an arm. The snake represents Belial, the serpent. And the arm represents Lucilius. If you're familiar with WMTSB, you are well aware of how tightly Belial is wrapped around Lucilius' finger, and only hangs on tighter and tighter to the man who named him "worthless" lol. (One of the meanings of "Belial" is worthless).

And the third aesthetic picture I've chosen is that of a snake in applussy. The image represents temptation and lust. Pretty much it. You know the drill, Belial serpent, and the apple of temptation.

Now, we have the favorites. By favorites, it means: favorite color, favorite movie/show, and favorite animal.

For his favorite color, I just went with purple cause that's one of his main colors. It's just a headcanon. He changed his white, gold, and red uniform for a black and purple one. He must like purple🤷‍♀️

Next, favorite movie, I didn't know honestly. But he strikes me as someone who'd like the absurdity of 1980s horror films. So I chose the Shining. Maybe he'd like it.

And for his favorite animal, I think he'd like cats. They probably remind him of Cilius. Same gaze, same personalities, meow. And it's just cute to imagine him with cats. 🐈‍⬛

Character inspirations. LMAO. So the first one is that dude Lucifel from El Shaddai. Let's face it, Belial is that guy but with a huge feather boa and huge tits chest and meaty thighs. Massive upgrade tbh

Next up is obviously, Belial the demon. I just put that cuz yk, the name. No need for more explanation.

Then there's the snake of Eden. Belial is the serpent luring others to take a bite out of the apple 🍎 we know this.

The songs are more like what I think of him rather than what I believe applies to him. But at the same time most of those apply to him imo. I don't needa explain just check out the songs yourself, you might like some😁 And that's it.

And finally, there's Lucifer. I know Satan was the snake as well but I'm separating them for the sake of interpretation. By that I mean, Belial is both the serpent and the fallen angel. If you know what I'm saying.

💕Thanks to everyone who read this wall of text💕

#belial gbf #belial granblue fantasy #granblue fantasy

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Here it is! My final comic from my Comics & Sequential Art class last semester! It's heavily inspired by slasher movies and 2000s era horror, especially House of Wax.

You can either read the whole thing through this post or you can check it out on tapas!

Image 1 ID: The first page of a greyscale comic. The first row has one panel with a grey SUV in the center, driving down a dark tree lined road. On the left side, a speech bubble comes from the back of the car that reads, “Hey! Drive carefully? You’re making my Discman skip!”. There is another speech bubble on the right side of the panel, coming from the front of the car that reads, “Maybe you should just listen to the radio with the rest of us, freak!”. The second row has two panels: one square on the left and one long rectangle on the right. The first panel shows a tire on the car dramatically going flat, looking almost like it splattered. There is text above it that reads “Pop!”. The second panel shows the inside of the car with five teenagers inside. Tiffany, a white girl wearing pigtails is sitting in the drivers seat. In the passenger seat next to her is Zach, a boy with a darker skin tone, short curly hair, and a ringer tee. Behind Zach is Zoe, a darker skinned girl with long hair, wearing a button up shirt and large sweater. Next to Zoe is Griffin, a white boy with dark hair that covers one of his eyes. He’s wearing large over the ear headphones, a dark grey t-shirt and a black hoodie. Next to Griffin is Theodore, a white boy with short, curly, midtone hair, freckles, and glasses. He’s wearing a plaid short sleeve button up open over a white t-shirt. In the bottom center of the panel there is a speech bubble with tails directed towards each of the five as they all say, “Shit.”. The third row has one panel. It shows the car from the outside again, this time with the trunk open and all 5 teenagers outside. From left to right, Tiffany is standing by the open trunk, her arms gesturing towards the trunk. She is saying, “See, I told you. I don’t have a spare”. Zach is standing beside her, a hand to his head in frustration. Zoe is standing by Zach, both her hands up by her chest, looking at Tiffany and Zach with concern. Theodore is standing near the passenger side window, a hand to his chin in thought. Griffin is leaning against the front of the car, smoking a cigarette. The fourth row has four portrait oriented panels. The first panel shows Theodore’s upper half. He is on the left side of the panel and his speech bubble takes up most of the right side. He is saying, “We’re not too far from nearby towns… What if we just walked a bit and tried to find a phone?” The second panel shows Tiffany standing next to Theodore with her arms on her hips. She says, “And abandon my car?”. Theodore responds with, “Do you want to stay with it?”. The third panel shows the car much smaller and all of the teenagers as small silhouettes around it. It is zoomed out to show the moon in the sky, the lateness of night, and the emptiness around them. The fourth panel show’s Tiffany’s upper half. She has her arms crossed and looks annoyed. She is saying, “No. Whatever. There’s nothing else to do, I guess. Let’s go.”

Image 2 ID: Second page of a greyscale comic. The first row has one long panel. It shows the 5 main characters in silhouette walking down along the edge of an empty road. It is clear that Zach is in the lead with Tiffany holding his hand. Zoe is behind them, Theodore is close behind her. Griffin is the last, a few steps behind everyone. The second row has one long thin panel. It depicts a two story motel. There is a sign outside that reads “Motel” and the same is written on the front door. The characters are in silhouette standing outside of it, with Zach gesturing at it with two hands. The third row has two panels, the first being square and the second a rectangle. In the first panel, the main characters are shown opening the front door and entering the motel. Zach is in the front, holding the door open. Everyone else stands behind him, with Griffin being the furthest back and cut off by the door frame. There are bells on the top of the door and text that reads “Ring!” showing that when they move they make a sound. The second panel shows an older white woman with her hair in a bun standing behind the motel’s front desk. She is wearing a floral print dress. On the wall behind her there is a key cubby shelf full of keys. She is saying, “Well, hello there! What can I do for you all tonight?”. The walls of the motel are made of wood with a lot of grain. The fourth row has two panels, both rectangular. The first panel shows the teenagers from the chest up, standing together in the motel with Zach in the front. Zach says, “Sorry to bother you, ma’am but our car broke down just up the road a bit. Would we be able to use your phone?”. His speech bubble cover’s Griffin’s head. The second panel shows the woman behind the desk. She has a hand up as she speaks, saying, “Unfortunately, the phone here hasn’t been working all day. A repairman should be coming tomorrow.”. The fifth row has two panels, the first rectangular and the second more square. In the first panel, the teenagers are shown from the chest up, all looking sad and dejected. The second panel shows the woman behind the desk, hand still up, looking concerned for the teenagers. She says, “You know what, though? Why don’t you all take a couple of rooms for the night? On the house! No one else is here. In the morning, when the phone is fixed, we can call.”

Image 3 ID: The third page of the greyscale comic. The first row has one long panel. It is a view inside a motel room with two beds. Seated cross-legged on the bed closest to the viewer is Zoe, who is shown from behind in silhouette. Tiffany is sitting on the other bed, her legs hanging off the edge. There is a window with slatted blinds behind Tiffany and a closed door on the same wall. Next to both beds are bags. There is a textbox in the upper left corner that reads, “The Girls’ Room”. Tiffany has a speech bubble that reads, “God, this sucks!”. The second row has two even rectangular panels. The first shows Tiffany from the knees up. She has her arms up and an expression of exasperation on her face. She is saying, “Everything is so, like, musty and gross!”. The second panel shows Zoe with one hand behind her on the bed and one raised as she speaks. She says, “At least we have our own room. No gross boys…”. The third row has one panel. It shows a motel room with two beds and a side table between them. The three boys, Zach, Theodore, and Griffin, are standing in front of the beds. They are all shown from behind from the waist up in silhouette. There is a speech bubble coming from Griffin that says, “So…”. The fourth row has three panels, two portrait oriented rectangles on either end of the row and a landscape oriented one in the middle. The first panel shows Theodore from the chest up, eyes looking down towards where the beds are. He is saying, “Well, two of us are going to have to share…”. The middle panel shows all three boys. Griffin is on the left side looking up at Zach with his hands in the pockets of his hoodie. Zach is on the right side, looking down at Griffin with one arm reaching over to hold the other. Theodore stands in the middle, still looking at the two beds. The third panel shows Griffin from the waist up with a hand up as he speaks. He says, “I’m sleeping alone”.

Image 4 ID: The fourth page of the greyscale comic. The first row has two panels, one rectangular and one square. The first panel shows Griffin sitting on the left side bed. Zach is standing beside the right side bed, putting a backpack on top of it. Theodore is shown from behind in silhouette. Between the two beds is a beside table with one lamp for each side and a phone in the middle. The second panel shows Theodore from the chest up. His eyebrows are raised and there is an exclamation point beside his head. He says, “Oh, look!”. The second row has two panels. The first panel shows Theodore between the two beds, bending down a bit and pointing at the phone. The second panel shows Griffin sitting in bed up against the headboard with his legs outstretched. He is looking to the right, where Theodore would be, and says, “She already said they didn’t work, dude”. The third row has three even square panels. The first shows Theodore from behind in silhouette reaching towards the back of the phone. The second panel shows the phone’s wire in Theodore’s outstretched hands. It is frayed at one end. The third panel shows Theodore holding the frayed wire up to show his friends. He says, “It’s cut”. The fourth row has three panels. In the first, Griffin and Zach can both be seen sitting on either bed. Theodore is standing in the middle, looking down at the wire. Griffin says, “Okay? It doesn’t work. We know that.” Zach is saying, “Maybe she’s getting new wire tomorrow. Let’s just get some sleep.”. The second panel shows Theodore from the chest up, still looking down at the frayed wire. He says, “Hmmm…”. The third panel shows Theodore from the chest up, taking off his backpack. He says “Yeah, you guys head to bed. I’ll be right back.”

Image 5 ID: The fifth page of the greyscale comic. The first row is made of two panels. The first panel shows Theodore from behind in silhouette looking down the hall of the motel. There are three white doors on either side of him and one at the far end of the hall. The second door on the left has a label on it but the words are unclear. The second panel shows Theodore from behind in silhouette standing in front of the labeled door. The word is visible now and it says “Maintenance”. Theodore has a hand on the door handle, but he can’t open it. He says “Locked…”. The second row has two panels. The first shows Theodore, fully rendered this time, standing beside the door he just tried to open. On the other side of the hallway, he sees another door that has light coming out from behind it. Beside his head is an exclamation point. The second panel shows Theodore from behind in silhouette. He is pushing open the door that has the light behind it and stepping into the room. The third row has three square panels on it. The first panel shows Theodore from the chest up, standing in front of the door he just walked through. He has one hand raised up towards his face. He is saying, “Hello? Is there anyone there?”. The second panel shows Theodore’s full body. There is a shadow of a person cast over him and he is taking a step back, looking at the source of the shadow. He is saying, “Uhm, hi… I was just…”. The third panel shows Theodore backed up towards the door, his hands up. The shadow of a person is now a shadow of a person holding a knife. Theodore is saying, “No!”. The fourth and final row is one panel. The panel shows Theodore’s dead body, laying on the floor. He has multiple stab wounds in his chest that are drawn in red. There is red blood pooling under his body as well. His legs are up and he is being dragged by the feet by two gloved hands that are also covered in blood. Theodore’s glasses are cracked.

Image 6 ID: The sixth page of the greyscale comic. The first page has one panel. In the upper left hand corner of the panel there is a textbox that reads “The Next Day”. The panel shows the boys’ motel room. Griffin is asleep on the left bed, tucked under the covers with one arm out, facing left. Zach is sitting on the right bed, with his legs hanging off the left side. He is facing Griffin and has one arm propping himself up and one raised. He is saying, “Griff… Griff!”. The second row has 4 small panels. The first is closer on Griffin, showing him waking up and turning towards Zach. He is saying, “Wha-?”. The second panel shows Zach from the torso up, in profile. He is saying, “Theodore isn’t here. I don’t think he ever came back…” The third panel shows Griffin with his eyes closed again, turning back to the left, clearly wanting to go back to sleep. He is saying, “Maybe he went to another room or something…”. The fourth panel shows Zach from the knees up. He is standing now and has his hands on his hips, determined. He is saying, “Maybe… I’m gonna go find him.”. The third row has one panel. It shows the front desk of the motel again, with the same older woman standing behind the counter. On the left side of the panel, Zach is shown from the back in silhouette. He says, “Sorry to bother you, ma’am, but have you seen our friend? Curly hair, big glasses?” Zach’s speech bubble is split into two parts, making room for the older woman’s response, which is, “Oh, he went for a walk earlier.” The second part of Zach’s speech bubble reads, “Did he say where he was going?”. The fourth row has two panels. The first panel shows the older woman behind the counter and Zach from behind in silhouette. The woman is pointing to the left with one of her hands and saying, “He didn’t, but I saw him make a left turn…”. Zach responds with, “Thank you, ma’am”. The second panel shows just the woman standing behind the counter. In the upper left corner there is text reading “Ring!”, indicating that Zach has left through the front door. The woman has her hands facing each other in a scheming position and a large, devious smile on her face. She says, “No problem…”. The fifth row has four panels. The first panel shows the exterior of the left side of the motel. It is day time now and there are trees visible behind the motel. Zach is shown in silhouette walking to the left. He says, “Theodore?”. The second panel shows the left corner of the motel as Zach walks around to the back of it. Zach is shown in full body and fully rendered. He has one arm up. He is saying, “Theodore! Are you out here, dude?”. The third panel shows Zach in full body standing behind the motel. To the left is a dumpster. Zach has a hand up to his face and is saying, “Theodore, c’mon man!”. There is the shadow of another person cast on the ground. There is a speech bubble coming from the right side of the panel that says, “Your friend isn’t here.”. The fourth panel shows Zach in full body but now in profile. He has his hands up and is taking a step back, looking scared. He is saying, “No way…”. The shadow is now a shadow of a person holding a knife.

Image 7 ID: The seventh page of the greyscale comic. The first row has one panel. It shows the inside of the girls’ motel room. On the right side of the panel, Tiffany is standing in the bathroom with the door open, brushing her teeth. In the upper left corner, there is text that reads, “Knock!”. Zoe is facing towards the direction of the knock, walking with one hand up away from a bed with an open duffel bag on it. She is saying, “I’ll get it”. The second row has two panels. The first panel shows Zoe from behind in silhouette, opening the door. Griffin is standing on the other side of the door. He says, “Is Zach here? Or Theodore?”. The second panel shows the three teenagers inside of the motel room. Griffin is in the foreground from the chest up, from behind in silhouette. Zoe is standing near the bed with the duffel bag, her hands up to her chest, looking anxious. Tiffany stands near the bathroom door which is now closed, her hands on her hips. She looks angry. She is saying, “Okay, so nerd boy and my boyfriend are just missing?!”. Griffin is saying, “I mean… yeah…”. The third row has four panels. The first shows Tiffany from the chest up. She has one hand to her face, looking distressed, and she’s saying, “No, no, no. We’ll find them! We can just go find them!”. The second panel shows Griffin from the chest up. He has one hand raised towards his chest and looks concerned. He says, “I think there’s something weird going on here. We should try to find a gas station or somewhere with a phone.”. The third panel shows Tiffany from the chest up again. She has both of her arms up in exasperation and she looks angry. She says, “And just leave them?! What if they’re hurt?!”. The fourth panel shows Zoe coming up behind Tiffany. Tiffany has her arms crossed and looks angry. Zoe looks concerned and has a hand on Tiffany’s shoulder. Zoe says, “Tiff…”. The fourth row has three panels. The first panel shows Zoe and Tiffany in full body. Tiffany has shaken Zoe’s hand off her shoulder and is stomping forward. Zoe has the hand raised that was once on Tiffany’s shoulder. Tiffany is saying, “Don’t ‘Tiff’ me!”. Griffin is shown in the foreground from behind in silhouette. The second panel shows the front door of the motel room closed. There is text reading “Slam!” and lines around the door indicating that it has been slammed shut by Tiffany leaving the room. The third panel shows Griffin and Zoe from the torso up. Griffin is leaning towards Zoe and saying, “What do we-”. The fifth row only has one panel, but that panel is all the way to the right of the page. On the left side, there is just a large speech bubble that reads, “Aaaaah No!”. The panel next to it shows Griffin and Zoe in full body, both running out of the motel room. Zoe is saying, “Tiffany!”.

Image 8 ID: The eighth page of the greyscale comic. The first row has one panel. It shows the motel hallway. In the foreground, Zoe and Griffin are shown from behind in silhouette. In the center of the panel is the older woman from the front desk. She is wearing a floral dress that is stained on the front with blood that has been drawn in red ink. She is wearing gloves that have also been stained with blood and holding a bloody knife. At her feet is Tiffany, laying on the ground with her eyes closed and multiple bloody stab wounds. The woman is smiling and says, “I knew she’d be a screamer”. The second row has three panels. The first shows just Zoe, in position to run at the woman.. The entire background of the panel is black, save for just around Zoe which is white with some black lines, putting emphasis on her. She is saying, “You bitch!”. The second panel shows Zoe and the woman in full body. They are around the same height. Zoe has her hands around the woman’s throat. The woman looks surprised, and has dropped her knife onto the ground. The third panel shows Zoe and the woman locked in a fight on the left side of the panel. Now, the woman’s hands have also come up to fight against Zoe. She no longer looks surprised, now both look angry. On the right side of the panel, Griffin is crouched on the ground, reaching for the knife. The third row is made up of three panels. The first panel shows the woman pushing Zoe to the floor. Her arms are outstretched in a pushing motion and Zoe is collapsed against a wall. On the right side of the panel there is a speech bubble that calls out, “Zoe!”. The second panel depicts Griffin with one arm up, ready to throw the knife in Zoe’s direction. The woman is also in the panel, turning towards Griffin, ready to attack him as well. The third panel shows Zoe on the ground, reaching for the knife that Griffin threw in her direction. On the right side of the panel, the woman has her hands around Griffin’s neck. She is taller than him. The fourth row has three panels. The first shows Zoe from the chest up, holding the knife. She looks steely-faced and determined. The second panel shows Griffin from behind in silhouette. The woman is facing him, her hands around his throat. She looks disheveled and is grinning evilly. The third panel shows the woman looking surprised. She has let go of Griffin’s throat, her arms up. There is a shadow behind her.

Image 9 ID: The ninth and final page of the greyscale comic. On the far left side of the page there is one tall panel that takes up the height of the entire page. This panel shows Zoe, in full body, with blood staining her sweater, her hands, and her neck. She has her hands up and is looking down at them. The first row has one panel. It shows Zoe and Griffin in full body. Zoe is looking down at her bloody hands. At their feet, the older woman lies face down with a knife in her back. Griffin has a hand on Zoe’s shoulder, leaning towards her. He says, “Zoe…”. The second row has two panels. The first shows Zoe from the shoulders up. She’s looking down. She says, “I… I killed her…”. The second panel shows Zoe and Griffin from the chest up. Zoe is looking down, distressed. Griffin is smiling at her, his hands up. He says, “Yeah, dude, you saved my life!”. The third row has one panel. It shows Griffin and Zoe in full body. Griffin has taken a hold of one of Zoe’s hands. The woman is still dead on the ground. Griffin says, “Now, we have to go…”. The fourth row has two panels. The first panel shows Griffin and Zoe from the chest up. Zoe is looking at Griffin, Griffin is looking at Zoe. Zoe says, “Go where?”. The second panel shows the two teenagers in full body again. They are both looking down, distressed. Griffin says, “I don’t know…”. In the lower right of the panel there is text that reads “End.”.

#comic #comics #sequential art #horror comic #horror #slasher #2000s #y2k #traditional comic

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top 5 pirates

Aha! The vagueness of what pirates you meant automatically means I can wriggle out of how my knowledge of historical pirates has significantly diminished since my POTC-induced pirates phase in high school and skip straight to fictional pirates, which I will do so immediately!

First: Ed "Blackbeard" Teach, Our Flag Means Death

Invented not only having eyes, but making an entrance, wearing definitely historically accurate leather, and falling head over heels for a man covered in his own blood and looking like an unfortunate wet noodle accident. Searingly clever, beautifully complex, an ADHD King we can all get behind. I drool enough about him and his character on the daily but truly, is there ever such a thing as too much appreciation for a man who's good at the ugly bits of piracy but longs for softer things? And is played by a multi-talented actor who goaded an incredibly skilled stunt double into pulling off the most impressive whip maneuver to make it look like he'd gotten his balls whipped? (And, of course, honorable big mentions to the rest of the cast, you're all doing great jobs sweeties.)

Second: Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean franchise

If you were a kid in the aughts, this guy was life-changing. Quippy, expressive, an unconventional strategist, and got to have fights in the coolest places (the water wheel three-way duel in the second film lives in my brain as a top cinematic fight). Did he influence my desire to own tall boots and layered jewelry long before they were fashionable in my teenage years? Yes. Yes he did. And his fluid morality was equally interesting to watch. Not sure if he ever crossed into antihero territory, but it was certainly entertaining to see the guy you were rooting for double-cross the other heroes you were also rooting for and wonder how he was going to talk his way out of this one.

Third: Westley, The Dread Pirate Roberts, Princess Bride

Now this guy, this guy was the original quipmaster supreme of clever plots. Perhaps only a pirate in the loosest definition, since he abandons piracy pretty much immediately the second he sees Buttercup again and we never see him on a ship, but those skills don't leave--and his sword fight with Inigo is another banger of a fight scene. Dashing, romantic, sarcastic, and determined, delivering a scathing bluff the likes of which I haven't seen before or since, Westley is a sly rogue I personally wouldn't like to be in the way of.

Fourth: Silver, Treasure Planet

You want to talk about pirates with grey morality but hearts of gold, plus excellent character design and voice acting, it doesn't get much better than Mr. Silver the Cyborg here. In a richly-animated movie stuffed full with more atmosphere and unique character design than you can shake a stick at, for Silver to stand out as not just a main support character, but a fully-realized one with a complicated past and a truly frightening dark side along with genuine emotional depth is quite a feat. I haven't read "Treasure Island", so I don't know how far the script changed for this film, but he's a standout for Disney pirates--and fictional pirates in general, tbh.

Fifth: Captain Shakespeare, Stardust (movie)

What can be said about this magnificent man that hasn't already been said? The performance was stellar, and done in such a way that Captain Shakespeare's cross dressing, while humorous because of how flirty and over-the-top he acts here in front of his mirror despite danger right behind him, doesn't feel like the butt of a cruel joke. He's still a capable captain and leader, and he gets to embrace the soft side of himself while still maintaining a good relationship with his crew and a tough reputation. If piracy as a genre is about freedom, I think this guy might have been one of the first to start challenging the hyper-violent, hyper-masculine image of a pirate on the fictional screen.

So many pirates to love (or hate), so little room!

#quilly top five #like how it took me a day to get to these LOL #sorry but vacation is ending so i finally caught some time #now to go get actual work done #might reblog the post again to see what other nibbles i get bc this was fun

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Toku Tuesday 55: Daniels

Hello my friends! It’s a Tuesday, so that means we’re going to watch some films.

Tonight the theme is director duo Daniel Kwan (關家永) and Daniel Scheinert, who got a lot of buzz recently for their multiverse-blending scifi film Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. Is it worthy of that buzz? Idk, let’s find out, I’ll probably write about it later.

They’ve been making short films together since 2009, and hopped into the feature film side of things in 2016 with Swiss Army Man, featuring a third Daniel, Daniel Radcliffe, as a farting corpse who washes up on a beach and soon turns out to have a bunch of strange powers. Here’s a trailer for that movie:

Hopefully the music in this trailer is deceiving and it won’t try too hard to be Inspirational. The premise does sound inventive and funny, and it is amusing to see Radcliffe still going for the most grossout hardcore roles he can find to shake off the association of, well, you know.

Six years on from that, the Daniels are back. Everything, Everywhere centres on martial arts star Michelle Yeoh who got her start in Hong Kong ‘heroic bloodshed’/‘girls with guns’ films (c.f. TT#32) such as Yes Madam, and later became internationally famous through the wuxia film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - definitely something we need to cover on one of these nights.

Yeoh plays Evelyn Wang, who makes a meagre living running a laundromat, but abruptly discovers, while on the hook at the tax office, that she can connect to thousands of alternate possible versions of herself from different branches of an Everettian modal realist multiverse - and that there’s some kind of major multiversal threat which she has to call on these powers to face. Ultimately it’s basically about existentialism.

Here’s your trailer!

Multiverse films have been pretty popular lately, and much like Into the Spiderverse a few years ago, it sounds like this film uses the alternate branches as a collection of genre pastiches:

The film has been described as a "swirl of genre anarchy",[4] featuring elements of martial arts films, science fiction, fantasy, action, and animation.[5]

The film was apparently ideated for some decades, inspired by reading about modal realism, and has no connection to Spiderverse etc. Regardless, it’s a fruitful set of ideas to go into - undetermination, the factors that are common to every ‘iteration’ of a person, creating meaning and purpose out of nothing. (’Home stuck’ you say? Uh. Haha. Never heard of it.)

In the interests of securing more hours for drawing and painting, I’m not going to be giving a detailed writeup this time. However, I did recently read an interview about how they structured Everything, Everywhere around the famous kishoutenketsu structure that’s nigh-universal in Japanese storytelling (ironically, while their inspiration Miyazaki increasingly found it constricting and pushed away from it in his later films, says AniObsessive who made me aware of it). They say the usual things: that kishoutenketsu is about change rather than conflict, which I still find a bit dubious, but you know...

As a consciously ‘Asian-American’ film, in Daniel Kwan’s own words, the directors relate that much of the writing process involved 'leaning in’ to the large pile of stereotypes about Asian characters in American films; the goal being to take these stock characters and add more dimension to them, and expand the image of their core actors beyond the types of martial arts films they’re broadly known for. Kwan says:

“Early on,” Kwan explains, “Someone asked me, ‘Why are you making an Asian American film about kung fu? Why do you have the main characters live and work above a laundromat? Shouldn’t we be moving beyond that?” He takes a deep breath.

“And it struck me in a funny way. Because, yes [we should], but also this is my life! Am I going to allow a stereotype that has boxed me in my whole life—to force me off my own story? To decenter myself from this story? This is a film rooted in how I grew up, and the stories I grew up on,” he continued. “That almost became a call to action, a clarifying moment. After that, I decided to lean in even harder.”

The interviewer, Linda Codega, heaps praise on the film for the way it ‘expertly, lovingly deconstructs’ such concepts. I admit a certain wariness any and all discussion of ‘deconstructing tropes’; at best it’s often oblique to what’s actually interesting in a story, at worst self-congratulatory. Nevertheless, it does sound like this process pushed them to put a lot of consideration into the character writing, and the nigh universal acclaim sounds like they nailed it lol.

What of the actual action in this action film? (To pretend that there is something resembling tokusatsu in Toku Tuesday anymore.) This is pretty interesting actually: the film has a lot of pretty impressive VFX shots, but this was achieved with a tiny team of just five people on a pretty thin budget. That video really skims over the details, but their tricks included things like speeding up footage of walking around New York, LED screens to help match lighting, small-scale greenscreen compositing, pushing the actors around in a wheelbarrow while they act in slow motion, as well as a lot of tight editing and jump cuts.

As for the martial arts choreography, that comes from a pair of Youtube stars: Andy and Brian Le of the channel MartialClub, as related in this article. They consciously made homage to the Hong Kong martial arts film lineage which Yeoh was used to; the scenes apparently involve unlikely props like butt plugs, and there’s some cute production stories like Ke Huy Quan only landing a certain move on the second take.

This all seems like a very 2020s sort of film, in short: canny digital production techniques using After Effects and practical effects to create something that looks very ‘expensive’ on a small budget, self-aware reappropriation of films past, the invitation of filmmakers who got big making free content on Youtube. (The same trends you see in mediums like animation with ‘webgen’ animators increasingly filling anime credits, bands like Mili who made their name on the web performing OPs, independent animators like Vewn being given their own shows, not to mention all the adaptations of web novels and webcomics.)

So, that’s the plan tonight: at the very least Swiss Army Man and Everything, Everywhere, and if possible I will also try to track down some of the Daniels’ short films. We’ll start around 8pm UK time at twitch.tv/canmom (when have I ever made 7pm? Best to stop pretending, I think.)

In the meantime, canmom theatres are going to be playing Elden RIng for a bit and then working on this nsfw animation commission for a couple hours, if you fancy joining this afternoon~

#toku tuesday

[kineko-fab]

gimme a FOB color rundown for the uninitiated (me)

HGHGHH YES WILL DO Note: I am only going to do the main studio albums because I know those best also its long i am sorry

FOB1: Take This to Your Grave

This is their first album and is also the first blue album! If you know any song off this album, it's probably Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy FOB2: From Under The Cork Tree

Their second album has some of the classic major hits of Fall Out Boy, such as Dance, Dance and Sugar, We're Goin' Down, and is their first red album! FOB3: Infinity On High

At this point, you can: 1, start to see the pattern forming and 2, notice you can sort of generally tell red or blue album by the color. This is their second blue album and has more classics like This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race and Thnks fr th Mmrs FOB4: Folie à Deux

Their second red album, continuing the pattern, and with another classic, I Don't Care! This one (much like a later album) is either loved or hated, so while I Don't Care got popular, not much else did I think??? FOB5: Save Rock And Roll

"Hey wait a second," you might go. "This breaks the pattern! This is another red!" Well, yes. This album is their third red. HOWEVER! Between Folie and Save Rock And Roll, there was a hiatus. And IN that hiatus, they released Believers Never Die, a compilation of their greatest hits

WHICH IS THE THIRD BLUE! Anyways, on Save Rock and Roll, we get some of their more "recent" popular songs (it came out in 2013 it feels wrong to say its a classic but its also not. exactly recent) such as The Phoenix, My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'Em Up), and Young Volcanoes! FOB6: American Beauty/American Psycho

ABAP is their fourth blue and has the hits Centuries and Immortals, one of which was featured in a movie! FOB7: M A N I A

"Well hey now. That's not blue or red. thats purple!" EXACTLY! Fall Out Boy (as far as i am aware) is aware of the red/blue pattern and went on record to say that this album didnt FEEL red OR blue. it felt PURPLE to them, which makes sense because they went out of their normal style for this album, which made it a hot topic of debate as to weather it was good or not. I have not listened to the radio since this came out so I. Think??? Church would be the most popular one off of this album! FOB8: So Much (For) Stardust

Their newest song (Love From The Other Side) came out today and they announced their new album's release date. Just from this cover (which idk if its the permanent album cover or not, this is just all my speculation off of this image) this, like MANIA, is ALSO not a red or blue album. However, the albums tend to have. Moods? Tones? I'm not sure, but they have a vibe color to them, in my opinion, which is why I said this song felt Blue to me. A lot of people are comparing it to Folie, which makes sense musically-wise. They went back to their roots for it and it sounds very Folie-era. However to me the tone feels. Blue. I don't know how to properly put it into words without peer review and like. a whole dissertation on the tonality and themes and whatnot of FOB music.

But if you only know their most popular songs and want a gauge of what era is what and why people refer to albums as red or blue, this is why! They accidentally/on purpose did a pattern for their album covers for a very long time! also yes, currently the count is 4 blue (TTTYG, IOH, BND, ABAP) and 3 red (FUTCT, FAD, SRAR) but after mania, they did release volume 2 of believers never die which was red! so they have 4 blue albums and 4 red albums!

#fall out boy #fob #feel free to correct me!!! #i can be totally wrong on some things! #im just writing what i know #and have heard #thank you vees i love this band i love talking about them :3

[araminakilla]

Day 72: THE OFFICIAL BOOKS!

Yesterday I found out that in some web pages where they sell books online to deliver them for home, they already posted not one, not two... but four covers of different books from the Tadeo Jones 3 movie. Their descriptions are short and vague: Tad messed up, he has limited time to break the curse and save his friends and is going to travel to different places. Nothing new really, but I will give my quick opinion of the covers.

1. A book for first readers

Exactly what says on the tittle. Guess the official tittle is "The Emerald Tablet" after all. Love the Mexico setting so far. I like the use of soft and natural colors and both Tad & Belzoni look so detailed.

2. The book of the Movie

This is the book that generally has more pages and information in it. (Especially little bits of information like how certain characters felt in a scene or how many time passed between scenes) and the one who is more close to the movie adaptation. We have in the cover a worried/scared Tad and a concerned Sara. My guess is that Tad is reacting either to Mummy's shenanigans or transformation and those letters on Sara's map look like egyptian hieroglyphics, so her map is definetly from ancient Egypt.

But what are those mountains?

3. The novel

This is by far the book I'm more curious about. As far as I'm concerned the second movie didn't have a novel (a golden book yes, but that's another thing) and if they have a book for the movie already... then what is this book for? Does it have POVs? Extra scenes? Something interesting not found in the other books? Like I said, I'm really curious about this book, especially as it has a worried (anxious?) Mummy in the center of the cover while there is a strange sphinx in the background, most likely Ramona's hometomb on the inside.

Am I imagining things or those books (the ones who have more information and events of the movie) are isolating Mummy from Tad and Sara on purpose? Like he's all alone in Egypt (well, he maybe has Ramona, but she isn't a close friend like the rest of the cast) figuring things out like how to remove the curse, how to deal with his friendship with Tad or how to not succumb to the evil spell.

Also the three look worried here. I find this very interesting because like I said before... important books, so putting our protagonists like that on the main covers instead of a happy Tad tipping his hat or Mummy hugging that rubber chicken has to mean something.

It is like the books are trying to tell us "Things just got out of hand" Doctor Strange reference, sorry... couldn't help myself and characters will be tested, as if all those interviews where the crew said the plot is going to be more adult and complex are true.

This IS a matter of life or death after all, not just for Mummy & the pets, but for the whole world too. Thanks Tadeo.

And finally...

4. The Curse of the Mummy

Btw, that's the best quality of that cover I could find for the moment

So they DID kept that name! For this book at least. Better than nothing, because that name sounds awesome (better than The Emerald Tablet in my opinion)

About what it is about... I don't know. I'm lost in this one but looking at the cover it maybe has to be about the relationship of Tad and Mummy. That's all I have for the possible plot. Maybe POVs of those two or little details that couldn't get into the movie.

The background is a beautiful, well rendered city of Paris at night (Miraculous Ladybug flashbacks) and our two protagonists at the center. Here we have an ectastic Mummy holding something of gold while Tad looks embarrased of his partner's reaction.

So basically, their whole dynamic on a cover. This is them in a nutshell guys.

At least for the moment. Let's see if the status quo is finally broken in the third act as well as the ancient curse.

About the prices and when can they be adquired, here's an image for reference:

Honestly I don't know how buying books online works. Some sources said the books are going to be avariable in July 13th, more than a month before the movie coming to cinemas.

As much as I want to buy the last 3 books, my parents won't be happy with me buying these kind of books (it's... complicated, let's leave it like that) so I hope some of you guys that read this post can buy them if you can or are interested. I heard they ship books to your country of origin, so who knows.

Bonus detail from the logo. Look closer at the number 3 and you will see some glowing hieroglyphics!

Honestly, details like these are really neat and show the level of care and dedication of this movie.

#hopefully that means the second trailer of the movie is coming soon #fingers crossed is in June! #because it can be in July and I can't wait that longer #tadeo jones #tadeo jones 3 #tad the lost explorer #tad the lost explorer 3 #tad stones #sara lavroff #mummy (tadeo jones) #ramona (tadeo jones) #tadeo jones jeff #tadeo jones belzoni #tadeo jones meta #tadeo jones book #tad 3 countdown