#KLK reference

[thousandhandbrightskycannon]

>I lost my way

Yeah don't do that

[ghostie-dragons]

So there's this Cold Sexyman Tournament, and I need to throw my support in for @phantasmatoucan's with a propaganda sketch inbetween Tabletop Work.

[vagabondfromkanto]

PROFILE: MATOI RYUKO

Laid out her core abilities and some design details for the Life-Fiber Hunter post-canon.

Follow under the cut for some relevant canon references.

FIBER ABSORPTION

She and Senketsu used this ability to evolve. Now she does the same alone.

Still requires a finishing move to be performed first.

BLOOD POWER-UP

No canon reference, but stands to reason if she and Senketsu are "the same".

She would, however, gag and likely have a stomachache 'cause the human part of the body protests.

SENJIN BLADES

Made possible by absorbing the hardened Life-Fibers from the Rendering Scissors. Virtually hold the same characteristics, but are costly and painful to summon.

ENFORCING LEGS/HANDS BY BLOOD FOCUSING

Speed and jump height are self-explanatory. Vertical run is seen twice (both times out of sync) — at the election finals and in the 25th episode.

Obviously can't power up both hands and legs at the same time, 'cause. Blood.

HAIR REACTIVITY/CHANGING COLOR

As mentioned: strictly hereditary. And we've seen Ryuko's hair react to her emotions out of sync mode once already, so.

EYE STITCHES

This is just my personal fun explanation for why her eyes look that way, it doesn't do anything. Does not imply they were stitched by someone, it's just a fiber quirk.

REGENERATION

Nuff said. Very much possible even out of sync, as illustrated by Ryuko fighting without Senketsu in ep 24.

For the sake of not making her too invincible (now where's the fun in that) and to keep some differences from Ragyo (Ryuko has far more human left in her, just by percentage), I'm saying it slows down after too much damage and blood loss.

However the damage still must be. Considerable. She kept that up for quite some time even as teenager.

SHINRA-KOKETSU ABSORPTION AFTER-EFFECTS

A fun little tool that might help me later. I have my thoughts about it, but I do not intend to whip it out in a thread unless Ryuko ends up on a verge of death. And even then I'll likely discuss it with whomever I'm writing with.

[gaystheysanddinos]

kaeluc is literally just catradora in a different font im not wrong

[jealousmartini]

Guys if I were to introduce my persona "Keisha la Keisha", be honest would any of yall gaf

For reference this is what she looks like. Ik pretty cunty right

Also here are some Teeny tiny doodle of my persona Keisha la Keisha

KLK, you're gonna be famous one day...

[weirdozjunkary]

GUILDOW [MASTERPOST]

A masterpost of my OCXCannon ship of Guild and Shadow because I love these two goons.

References— Refs, RefsSATBK, RefsHuman,

Art— First Post, Mistletoe, Breakfast, Roomate, Redraws, Matching, Kissy Horror, Down Boy, Mixup, Cool Rock, Flowers, KLK, Children, Mad,

Doodle comps— Pt1, Pt2, Pt3, Pt4, Pt5, Pt6, Pt7,

Comics— Super, Horror Au, Silver, I Dont Get It,

Videos— Feel,

Shitposts— Boom, Mpreg Joke, Serious, Like-Like, Smooch,

Asks— liking, Guild’s Backstory, Water, Wagging,

Misc— Commission(Peebs),

[liauditore]

Can you draw Joel in a dress pretty please?

got busy before i could do these before the vote ended oopsies but I thought way too hard about this. klk reference yay yippee!!

[disasterbijupiter]

*insert bullshit here about how Kill La Kill basically references G Gundam*

I am not joking, I just am too inebriated to make a thoughtful/proper post rn because my friend and I did a KLK drinking game...

But like HOLY SHIT dude that's the first time I started rewatching KLK since getting back into G and... omg 😂😂

Might delete later, or might post an actual Ted Talk argument tomorrow when I'm sober xD

[drstonetrivia]

Chapter 213 Trivia (Part 2)

(Previous part)

The medusa part! What a delightfully spooky thing to happen in the story this month! I'll simply list what I believe to be the facts for this section so everyone can come up with theories this time.

The medusa sits on a fabric bed with a glass dome on top (Beauty and the Beast anyone?), attached to a vacuum pump that we see removing the air from inside. This will probably need to be periodically turned on to keep the vacuum state, since the seal isn't perfect.

It's then placed on a flat surface and locked in a safe, similar to the one in Corn City (where it also went off while it was locked…)

This safe is smaller, with a dial on the front rather than keys. The vacuum pump's tube has been disconnected, which we can just barely see.

"In space, no one can hear you scream" is something many people have heard said before, as sound waves can't travel in a vacuum. This should apply here too, which means that no matter how loud anyone could yell, it still wouldn't reach the device.

Most people seem to have left the room, leaving Yo to guard with Gen. At this point, the medusa has probably been in the vacuum for several minutes, meaning the device did not immediately activate in the presence of a vacuum.

With the presence of a bulkhead door, this safe may be on the Perseus rather than in a vault on land, but either are possible.

The first noises are rattling of some sort, "kata" in Japanese. We know the medusa has at least one moving part, but this sound effect is different.

(This is a guess because I can't find a source for the sound effect usage, but it might be the sound of the glass cracking more and more rather than a "rattling" sound? The final sound effect is also a "SNAP!" rather than another rattle…)

Yo puts his hands on the door handle, forgetting to unlock it first. At this moment the medusa activates, the known moving part making a "klk" sound.

Note that for Gen to hear this, either there's no longer a vacuum, or the click is loud enough to travel through the solids.

They both rush away while the device activates, first emitting an unfamiliar type of beam but still using the signature "fwoom" sound. A moment later, the usual beam has appeared and Gen and Yo have been petrified.

We can see from Gen's hair that a strong blast of something was emitted, however Yo's statue has shattered, possibly midair from how his head is flying compared to his body. Oddly, Gen and Yo are both posed exactly the same and yet only one of them shattered.

The petrification stone is supposedly harder (stronger?) on delicate parts, which makes it increasingly odd that Yo's hair spikes and cheek have broken off, since they should be protected against this sort of thing.

We know the medusa can be activated under water and probably with an unclear command since I can't imagine Ibara can speak clearly while his mouth is closed. I wonder if this has anything to do with what's happened now…

I've also seen a lot of people say that the medusa exploded, but we see no proof of that. The safe door is almost definitely still sealed since we don't see any fragments of metal exploding outward, and we don't have any non-medusa sound effects shown that would hint towards it.

The topic of AI being brought up, surpassing human intellect, and the HAL 9000 reference really makes me wonder if this is a teaser for future chapters…

[vindicta-reliquiae]

//it occured to me that everytime i reply it's automatically as post-canon Ryuko, i haven't been doing canon Ryuko in forever ;;;; i know i can just go back to rewatching KLK for reference sake but,,,, it hasn't been a good headspace for me lately

[mango-jpeg]

some fantastic notes

started writing this end of June '22 + into July/August but stalled out so i put it away to write birthday fics instead

(i think i stalled out in part bc i had a complete outline - since i was following the movie i knew all the scenes of the fic before i wrote it - and that makes writing very boring. i like knowing the ending, at least vaguely, but the fun comes from discovering the scenes as i write..)

picked it back up in June '23 for.. literally no reason. i think it was like 9pm and i suddenly HAD to write more. then put it away to write my exams lol

(i'm pretty sure i wrote meeting the gang + razor pov + first chase + 1/2 lunch break scenes + dainsleif scene (+ assorted bits) in '22)

when i picked it back up i watched Twister to write basically scene-by-scene, which made it very easy to fill in bits where i was like 'aaaand now they all say things about tornados ¯\_(ツ)_/¯'

chiscara and the sumeru characters weren't in the original draft, and i added the eyepatch stuff, but the basic shape of the story didn't change bc it's just the plot of Twister but they have magic powers lol

it seemed unavoidable that i'd have to do multiple povs to mimic the movie. originally kaeya wasn't gonna get a pov at all but last minute i thought,, as a treat,,, he could close it out

have i mentioned lately how much i enjoy coming up with bg relationships and backstories that are never fully explained in the fic. bc i think it's my favourite thing. btw rosie & dain are having just thee worst sex

after a lot of very stupid googling i decided to just swap to the usa dictionary on gdocs and call that a believable portrait of 90s america

i know margaritaville as a brand/restaurant experience didn't really exist in the 90s but i liked that reference and didn't want to pull it. also didn't want to bother finding a 90s equivalent sry

now i can confidently point to oklahoma on a map（´∀`）

had a lot of difficulty coming up with a title (as usual), but settled on the BNL song ((if i had to justify this pick beyond 'words sound good together' it's 90s music for divorcees))

reading:

most of the Murderbot series, while writing

most of the elemental logic series, while editing

listening:

deliberately uncivil, the klk megamix ever

forcefield by TPC

bnl are me

[righteousdelusions]

So interesting that the first time I watched klk I didn't know jojos. Now I have a jojos tattoo, and I know a Jojo reference when I see one. The fact the best character, Mako (she's tied with Satsuki), got a Jotaro inspired Goku uniform is so cool

[ao3feed-kaeluc-luckae]

Diluc of the Dead

https://ift.tt/xtzuPnO by Pas_Cal For the KLK Gacha4Gaza event! Prompt Zombie apocalypse in Mondstadt's regular ole world please. I think it'll be awesome. Idc if you just do NSFW mentions and focus on the zombies or whatever you can think of, I just think it'll be interesting seeing the fluffiness with our favorite sillies in a stressful situation. Fluffy NSFW please, explicit consent. Alternate Titles: -Zombieworld -1460 Days Later -The Winery in the Woods -No More Room in the Abyss -and so on... Words: 11271, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Diluc (Genshin Impact), Kaeya (Genshin Impact), Diona (Genshin Impact) Relationships: Diluc/Kaeya (Genshin Impact) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Zombie Apocalypse, but it's not as dark as you think, Mild Gore, only NPC death, Fluff and Humor, Light Angst, amputation mention, What Would Genshin Look Like in a Zombie Apocolypse, Diona and Kaeya adopt Diona, Pop Culture References, apocolyptic world building, Not Beta Read, Diluc has a grape juice crisis

[hypers-of-music]

"KLK": Arca x Rosalia

Despite having built an impressive catalog of music as both a producer and singer, Arca has few collaborations on her own albums with other artists. Although she’s produced for Frank Ocean, Björk, FKA twigs, The Weeknd, and recently having DJ’d for Beyonce’s Renaissance Tour she’s only been known to collaborate as a singer with a select few artists. Her album with the most collaborations is KICK i with twelve total tracks, four of which are featuring other artists. 

The most popular track on KICK i is “KLK” which also happens to be one of the four collaboration tracks on this album. “KLK” was completed in partnership with Rosalía, and released on KICK i on 26 June 2020. On Spotify “KLK” has 18,325,276 streams, while the second most popular track (“Time”) has 7,907,280 streams as of 2 December 2023–an almost threefold difference.   

Although by 2019 and 2020, Rosalia had been in the music industry for a few years, this time was really when her fame and attention began to skyrocket. Despite being a Spain-born artist, these were also the years where she began to collaborate with prominent Latin American artists, including J.Balvin (“Altura”), Ozuna (“Yo x Ti, Tu x Mi”), and of course Arca. These three collaborations are not her only ones with Latin American artists, but they are signifying her shift into the music genre of reggaeton, however each of these three artists represent different subsections of the same genre. 

“KLK” features the singing voices of both artists, however Arca’s presence and influence on this track overwhelms Rosalia’s, and it becomes apparent that Rosalia contributed little to the actual production of the song. It immediately begins with literal bang and only further dives into the electronic style that is distinctly Arca’s while also being distinctly Venezuelan as made apparent through the use of the Venezuelan Furruco percussion instrument. 

Interestingly though, this track falls slightly more into the genre of reggaeton than most of Arca’s other work. While her other tracks are slightly more electronic-reggaeton fusion heavy, there seems to be a slight separation between the two genres in this song–likely speaking to Rosalía’s desire to fall into reggaeton specifically.  

Besides the beats and production of the song, the rest of “KLK” contains a little less of Arca than expected. The title “KLK” itself is a reference to the common Dominican saying “qué lo que” which is a casual sort’ve “what’s up” often said to friends, and in the 3:47 of the song it offers little lyrical depth past this. The main line of the chorus is, “'Toy, 'toy, 'toy viviendo la vida/Ay, como yo quería [I am, I am, I am living life/Oh, the way I wanted]” which describes living life how you want, and the rest of the song really only goes on to repeat this line and the word “Bendecido [Blessed]”. There are a few adlibs in the song, “Ro-rom-po-po-pom,” and then it ends by repeating the same lyrics about living life how you want. Meanwhile, both artists are white presenting Latin and Spanish individuals. And without giving credit to the communities this saying is from, they appropriate it as their own. I think this is especially odd for Arca because of how often she relies on Venezuelan slang and instrumentation, whereas Rosalía is sort’ve known for her reliance on Latin culture and sound in her music. 

It was like there was a tradeoff in the song, where Arca was able to control the sound but not necessarily integrate many of her usual themes of self-acceptance and gender identity/discovery–essentially losing her theme of alternative narrative expression. She took a backseat in this regard, and yet had the most reward with it on this particular album, possibly explaining why on both KICK ii and iii there were zero songs done in collaboration with other artists–having preferred the ability to direct both lyrics and sound over streams. This way she could integrate the themes and narratives she is the most comfortable with–this being the alternative and the queer, that are most easily understood in her post-human.  

[temperedknight]

One of the things about KLK is that it is definitely Like That, and it's *both* exactly what it seems like and very meaningful commentary on what nudity and sexualized clothing are and represent.

Like yeah, Ryuko's whole ass is out there, but - unlike most anime - the lack of clothing is tackled head on. She doesn't *want* to be dressed like that, and her shame restricts her power in a serious way. KLK is very concerned with fascism and authoritarian restriction, and importantly the *tools of fascist control in KLK's universe are pieces of clothing.* Authority demands that people be ashamed of going unclothed, and then the way that characters physically take power is by going *unclothed.* The show even makes explicit reference to "the first sin in Eden was clothing."

But it's hard to approach the show with this level of analysis because, again. Ryuko's whole ass is out there.

Ok as much as I loved Kill La Kill. Why did they make it Like That? Is there some sort of... cultural significance to being clothed/unclothed I'm missing? Or just fanservice?

😎

😐🕶

I have no idea LOL

I'm not well-versed in Japanese culture or relationships with clothing tbh, but it's super interesting to think about.

I do know that KLK is based on the history of Japanese school uniforms, how their designs were derived from military garment. It's a way of saying "your role in society is pre-destined, your fate is to be loyal to the nation," something like that, and KLK takes that idea and injects it with anime steroids.

And I guess that fanservice is used so prevalently in anime that the creators wanted to subvert expectations and to actually use fanservice to talk about an interesting and introspective topic?---but also to have its cake and eat it too? I think it's largely successful in its commentary, but uh, it definitely has a very different approach to heavier topics than, say, Utena.

It's really weird that this show ended up as one of my top 5 fave shows ever, it would've been such a hard sell for me. Fanservice is everywhere in the show, and yet I consistently just. Forget about it because I'm invested in the plot... but like for real please believe me :'U

looking for wholesome fanart for KLK is a nightmare tho

[hatsampixie]

Dexzilla and Johnny about to have a faceoff.