#atla the game (2006)

[aero-sense]

Canon Sokka overstimulates, neurodivergent Sokka confirmed!

[typoraccoon]

Greetings!

uhh long overdue

Warning long text intro post 💥💥💥

Call me raccoon!

I am not a raccoon irl so I'm sorry raccoon hunters

I strive to make this post use all fonts

I am A minor🎶🎵

DNA: human

DNI: if you're gonna be a creep or excessively rude to me or other people I'll block so that's your call

DND: I haven't played it

Topics I'm showing and telling:

Tally hall

This is my favorite band. Formed in 2002-2003 in ann arbor Michigan, originally called 540 ; this is a musical group of 5 people + 2 bonus members [Bora karaca & Casey shea]. Consists of Joe hawley, Zubin sedghi, Rob cantor, Ross federman & Andrew horowitz

I LOVE time machine demos especially the one from 2006 (the one they performed at the blind pig)

Animal jam

This is a game created by Wildworks in collaboration with nat geo. Currently they broke up their partnership. This game is where I first got scammed and learned the harsh reality of the world (the stock market). One of the most realistic economic simulators and I love it.

Biology

Study of life and death. I don't post about it but it's an interesting topic! I'm particularly interested in the replication of dna. My favorite nitrogenous base is thymine. I feel bad for it when it gets replaced by uracil in RNA (top 10 saddest anime betrayals). My favorite bone is the Atlas!

Okay onto organization:

1. I am not organized

2. Here are the tags I may or may not use:

tally hall -added to ALL tally hall related things

drawing or art - drawing is more common for me to use

will wood

lemon demon

silly - tag added to posts i dont want lost in the sea (unreliable)

animal jam

wtth project - stuff relating to the welcome to tally hall reanimation project

id just like to say indigo does not exist in my rainbows

Additional information:

I use ibis paint x & krita (i like the krita preset brushes a lot) to draw if I haven't stated it in tags & use flipaclip to animate. Occasionally I draw in the animal jam drawing program and sometimes kidpix

I animate at these fps: 4, 8, 12, 24

Socials:

Discord - electricfield

Youtube - typoraccoon

Strawpage (I'm inactive)

Twitter - typoraccoon

Neocities - typoshark

We're back to say goodbye and Sing to you once MORE!!! hope that you enjoy part one we truly DO!!

there is no part two.

[mariacallous]

In July 2020, a 72-year-old attorney posing as a delivery person rang the doorbell at US district judge Esther Salas’ house in North Brunswick, New Jersey. When the door opened, the attorney fired a gun, wounding the judge’s husband—and killing her only child, 20-year-old Daniel Mark Anderl.

The murderer, Salas said, had found her address online and was outraged because she hadn’t handled a case of his client fast enough. In her despair, Salas publicly pleaded, “We can make it hard for those who target us to track us down … We can't just sit back and wait for another tragedy to strike.”

She wanted judges to be able to keep their home addresses private. New Jersey lawmakers delivered. Months after the murder, they unanimously enacted Daniel’s Law. Today, current and former judges, cops, prosecutors, and others working in criminal justice can have their household’s address and phone numbers withheld from government records in the state. They also can demand that the data be removed from any website, including popular tools for researching people such as Whitepages, Spokeo, Equifax, and RocketReach.

Companies that don’t comply within 10 business days have to pay a penalty of at least $1,000. This makes New Jersey’s law the only privacy statute in the US that guarantees people a court payout when requests to keep information private are ignored.

That provision is being put to a consequential test.

In a pile of lawsuits in New Jersey—drummed up by a 41-year-old serial entrepreneur named Matt Adkisson and five law firms, including two of the nation’s most prominent—about 20,000 workers, retirees, and their relatives are suing 150 companies and counting for allegedly failing to honor requests to have their personal information removed under Daniel’s Law.

These companies, which Adkisson estimates generate $150 billion annually in sales, may now be on the hook for $8 billion in penalties. But what’s more important to him is the hope that this narrow New Jersey law could act as a wedge to force data brokers to stop publishing sensitive data about people of all professions nationwide. He’s hoping that this multibillion-dollar pursuit, with its army of union cop households, may be a catalyst for better personal privacy for us all.

If he doesn’t win, the oft-derided data broker industry would have proved that it has a right under the First Amendment to publish people’s contact information. Websites could avoid further regulation, and no one in the US may ever be guaranteed by law to become less googleable. “I never thought we would have such a hard time, that it would turn into such a battle,” Adkisson says. “Just home address, phone number, remove it. One state. Twenty-thousand people.”

This is the first definitive account of how the fate of one of the country’s most intriguing privacy laws came to rest on the shoulders of Adkisson’s latest tech startup, Atlas.

Matt Adkisson is almost your prototypical lifelong entrepreneur. He quit high school at 16 to code video games and small-business websites. His parents insisted, though, that he audit classes across the street from their home, at the US Naval War College in Rhode Island. So he began learning about national security. One lesson he picked up: When judges live in fear and can’t rule impartially, democracies can wither.

But saving democracy wasn't his passion. Making money was. He headed off to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with designs on becoming a consultant or investment banker, but dropped out before senior year. Like so many other young people in the midst of the Web 2.0 frenzy, he had an entrepreneurial itch. Without telling them, Adkisson cashed out his parents’ tuition payment, and in 2006, he and a friend slept under office desks for a month before founding a company called FreeCause with Adkisson’s brother to develop marketing tools for Facebook games. Adkisson later bought shares of the nascent social media startup. Both bets paid millions. In 2009, FreeCause sold for about $30 million.

Adkisson upgraded to nights on a friend’s couch in San Francisco, where he used his wealth to invest in or start dozens of other software companies. As they sold, he became a comfortable multimillionaire. It was his last big deal, in 2018, that set him down the path of privacy crusader. He had sold Safer, which developed a Google Chrome competitor called Secure Browser, to antivirus maker Avast for about $10 million.

Adkisson and a cofounder recall that during a meeting over lakeside beers near offices in Friedrichshafen, Germany, after the deal closed, an Avast executive demanded they feed search activity from Secure Browser’s millions of users to Jumpshot, a sibling unit that was selling antivirus users’ browsing history to companies wanting to study consumer trends.

Adkisson stood to make millions of dollars in bonuses from the proposed integration. He refused. It was too intrusive to share that intimate data, he says, and a violation of trust. (Avast declined to comment on the episode. It shuttered Jumpshot, and this year agreed to pay $16.5 million to settle US government charges over the service’s allegedly deceptive data usage.)

Adkisson left Avast in December 2020 thinking he would keep adding to his portfolio of over 300 startup investments or pursue something in AI, like automating brushstrokes to create on-demand oil paintings. But he couldn’t shake the Friedrichshafen incident. For his web browsing, he started to use VPNs and the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo. He tried to get websites to remove his new East Coast home address. Those efforts mostly failed; companies had no obligation to comply.

These websites that sell addresses or phone numbers typically get that data by buying voter or property records from governments, and user account details from companies willing to deal. The easy access to data enabled by the aggregators can be vital to services like identity verification or targeted advertising. But the customers also can include people who are looking for an old friend. Or investigating a crime. Or someone with a grudge against, say, a judge.

As Adkisson dug into the data broker industry in 2021, he read about how a law that went into effect the year before had given Californians a right to demand companies delete their personal information. So Adkisson and two cofounders launched a service they called RoundRobin, to help Californians do just that for a fee. Services like DeleteMe and Optery were already selling deletion assistance, but Adkisson felt they were more marketing spin than serious tech.

RoundRobin joined the well-known startup accelerator Y Combinator in April 2021 and began developing software to simplify making requests. But the startup had no way to enforce the takedowns it wanted to charge customers for; only California’s attorney general could sue for violations of the nascent law. Data websites ignored RoundRobin.

Given Adkisson’s pedigree, investors held out hope. California privacy activist Tom Kemp, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and others invested about $2 million in RoundRobin that August. But the struggle continued. The cofounders renamed the company to the more serious-sounding Atlas Data Privacy in January 2022. It didn’t help. But then, a break. Just as Adkisson was considering giving up and his initial cofounders were pulling out, a relative of his in California who had worked in law enforcement mentioned Daniel Anderl’s murder—and the law it inspired in New Jersey. “Fate delivered the Garden State,” Adkisson says.

He soon reached out to law enforcement experts, including a former Boston police commissioner and a retired Navy rear admiral. The two told Adkisson stories about cops who were attacked in their homes. They urged him to press on.

The first organization to return Adkisson’s cold calls was the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association, the state’s largest police union. They said a few of the organization’s 31,000 members needed help containing some inadvertently leaked contact information. Adkisson and a cofounder, J.P. Carlucci, took a stab. Despite limited success, union members were excited by Adkisson’s moxy. In July 2022, a union leadership group voted unanimously to offer Atlas’ service as a benefit to members with the intention of using Daniel’s Law to demand websites remove phone numbers and addresses. The cost, spread across all members paying for the union’s legal protection plan, was hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, Adkisson says.

In August 2022, with the deal signed and thousands of members soon enrolled, Atlas established headquarters in Jersey City, New Jersey, and set out to prove it could deliver better results than back in California. For that, it needed litigation power.

The first six law firms Adkisson called refused to take up the New Jersey cases. They worried about their financial return and the likelihood of success. Judges had discretion over the $1,000 payouts, plaintiffs had to prove physical harm, and to even bring a case, attorneys had to mobilize each plaintiff individually. It wasn’t a good equation.

Over seafood in San Francisco on the waterfront, one attorney sketched out for Adkisson revisions to Daniel’s Law that could make Atlas’ job easier. Adkisson took those suggestions back to the police union, which in turn used its weight in Trenton to push lawmakers to enact the changes. By December 2022, legislators introduced amendments requiring judges to impose financial penalties on websites that failed to honor removal requests, allowing those covered by the law to sue more liberally, and enabling attorneys to more easily bring big cases. In July 2023, just after the third anniversary of Daniel’s murder, the governor signed these amendments into law.

Atlas stayed focused on recruiting more users, from the police union and beyond. Newly hired staff—the company grew to a total of eight people—learned the lingo, like don’t refer to state troopers as “officers.” Adkisson let clients call him directly 24/7 for technical support. He drove his Jeep Cherokee more than 50,000 miles to every corner of the state. The Atlas team spent 18 hours on back-to-back days at a correctional facility to catch every shift, plying union guards with Crumbl Cookies and Shake Shack. “Word started to spread, like, ‘Who the hell are these people?’” Adkisson says. “That brought us credibility.”

Days before last Christmas, Atlas finished the software for users to select the companies to which they wanted to send emailed data removal requests. The tired team gathered over Zoom watching a tally rise as the emails landed in data brokers’ inboxes. Altogether, Atlas would deliver 40 million emails to 1,000 websites on behalf of roughly 20,000 people over the next five months.

Helping users with only the easy targets—the ad-supported websites that tend to pop up when googling someone’s name—“would have been a band-aid on a wound that needed much deeper treatment,” Adkisson says. To provide what it viewed as comprehensive support and more than what competitors offer, Atlas also was facilitating takedown requests to mainstream services such as Zillow and Twilio. They tend to supply data through fee-supported advanced tools that don't pop up on a standard Google query.

Twilio denies that it provides data subject to Daniel’s Law. Zillow didn’t respond to WIRED’s requests for comment. Atlas, Adkisson says, spent about $1.3 million in labor and fees to verify websites it targeted were actually providing home addresses and phone numbers.

The startup got its first response on December 26. Red Violet, whose Forewarn data dossiers help real estate agents vet potential clients, was demanding Atlas cease and desist, erroneously claiming that Daniel’s Law applied only to government agencies and not private companies. Adkisson had expected the legal teeth of the updated Daniel's Law to inspire widespread compliance. This was a rough start. “Demoralizing,” Adkisson says.

Other companies responded with demands to see ID cards of Atlas clients, apparently suspicious that the startup was making up its customers or people demanding takedowns were pretending to work in law enforcement just to be covered by the law. Adkisson told one company they could call requestors to authenticate demands. After all, it had their numbers. Another company suggested that if Atlas clients wanted anonymity, they should have used an LLC to buy property instead of their own names.

Akisson says the most retaliatory response came from LexisNexis, which lets police and businesses search for people's contact information and life history, typically for investigations and background checks. He alleges that instead of removing Atlas clients’ phone numbers and addresses from view, LexisNexis needlessly froze their entire files in its system, impeding credit checks some were undergoing for loan applications.

LexisNexis spokesperson Paul Eckloff disputes that freezing was an overreach. The company deemed that step as necessary to honor the requests submitted by Atlas users to not disclose their data. “This company couldn’t be more dedicated to supporting law enforcement,” he says. “We would support common sense protections.” But he described Daniel’s Law as overly punitive.

To Adkisson, the people being punished were the cops, judges, and other government workers he had met on his Jeep excursions through New Jersey. Among them were police officers Justyna Maloney, 38, and her husband, Sergeant Scott Maloney, 46, who work in Rahway, a tiny city along the border with New York City.

In April 2023, Justyna was filmed by a YouTuber who runs the channel Long Island Audit, which has over 842,000 subscribers. He often films himself trying to goad police into misbehavior, and Justyna asking him to leave a government office became his newest viral hit. Followers inundated the Rahway Police’s Facebook page with about 6,500 comments, including death threats, slurs, and links to the Maloneys’ address and phone numbers on SearchPeopleFREE.com and Whitepages. Scott says Facebook wouldn’t remove the comments linking to the contact information. Neither would the police department, citing First Amendment concerns. Tensions boiled.

In August 2023, Scott received texts demanding $3,000 or “your family will be responsible for paying me in blood.” The texts listed his sister’s name and address. An hour later, the same number sent a video of two ski-masked individuals bearing guns inside an unknown location. Atlas wasn’t up and running yet, so Scott, determined to delete all his family’s contact data online, sat on his lagoonside deck every evening for weeks, crushing Michelob Ultras to stay calm as he navigated takedown forms. He put in so many requests to Whitepages for his family that it barred him from making more.

The Facebook comments linking to the Maloneys’ address only came down after they sued their bosses last November for violating Daniel’s Law. This past January, a state judge ruled that the risk to the couple “far outweighs” potential harm to the police department from censorship complaints.

As Adkisson looked to sue noncompliant data websites, he had no trouble signing up the Maloneys as plaintiffs. And because Daniel’s law now made it possible, thanks to Atlas and the police union’s lobbying, to collect guaranteed penalties from data websites, Adkisson had been able to secure five law firms, including prominent national firms Boies Schiller Flexner and Morgan & Morgan, and some attorneys who personally knew the Daniel of “Daniel’s Law.”

On February 6, Atlas and the legal team began filing lawsuits, naming the Maloneys and about 20,000 other clients as plaintiffs. In state court, 110 cases remain unresolved across five different counties. Thirty-six lawsuits are being contested in federal court before Judge Harvey Bartle III, who is based in Philadelphia but commutes across the Delaware River to Camden, New Jersey, because judges based in the state were conflicted out by virtue of being eligible for Daniel’s Law protections.

Eight defendants quickly filed motions to dismiss in state court, but they were all denied. At the federal level, most companies are arguing together that the New Jersey statute violates their First Amendment right to freedom of speech. It’s an argument that’s allowed personal information to stay online before. Federal courts have given leeway to publication of lawmakers’ contact information and actors’ birthdates, leaving doubts over whether cops and judges and their homes and phones would fare any better.

Defendants have told Bartle to consider a US Supreme Court decision in 2011 that found a law in Vermont that protected doctors’ privacy unreasonably singled out data use by drugmakers. Atlas’ foes view Daniel’s Law as similarly arbitrary because it holds New Jersey agencies to different standards than their companies when it comes to keeping data private. They also say it’s unfair that they must remove numbers that cops still list on personal websites.

Some companies fighting the lawsuits note that the $1,000 penalty that the law guarantees may lead to companies acting out of fear and removing more data than needed, or honoring requests that are actually invalid. What’s more, these defendants say that Atlas’ true motivation is money. They claim that instead of trying to quickly protect those already signed up when last year’s amendments passed, Atlas sought out more users to run up the potential monetary judgment and duped them into paying for protections they could exercise for free themselves.

Adkisson disputes the accusations. He says Atlas needed time to finish its platform and ensure it was able to properly log usage, so that judges wouldn’t dismiss cases based on technicalities like takedown requests ending up in spam folders. The startup also won’t be profiting from the lawsuit, he says. Two-thirds of any proceeds will go to the users represented; anything he and Atlas are left with after covering the costs of bringing the lawsuits would be donated to law enforcement charities and privacy advocacy groups through Atlas’ nonprofit arm, Coalition for Data Privacy and Security. Privacy is “a very real, tactical, and visceral need,” Adkisson says.

He was reminded of that this past May when he took WIRED in his Jeep to meet with Peter Andreyev, a cop in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, and president of the statewide Policemen's Benevolent Association. Around dusk that day, Adkisson handed Andreyev a search result for his name on DataTree.com, a website that sells property records. Andreyev slipped on his black-rimmed glasses and brought his linebacker figure toward a conference table to review the page. It took him just two seconds to tense up. “Oh shit,” he said.

He stared at a street-view image of his home, and a birds-eye shot with his address overlaid. The square footage was in there too, for good measure. His head visibly rattling and legs restless, Andreyev pounded the table. “I—I’m pretty infuriated by this.”

Like many law enforcement officers, the 51-year-old rarely goes a day without nightmares about some known thug or detractor attacking him and his family. The DataTree printout reinforced for him that it would take just a few clicks for anyone to target him in the vulnerability of his own home. WIRED pulled up Andreyev’s report from DataTree with just a free trial.

As Andreyev continued to study the page, Adkisson pointed out something he viewed as particularly galling. In February, Atlas had sued First American, the $6 billion title insurance company that operates DataTree, for allegedly not complying with removal requests. Andreyev had been listed as one of the lead plaintiffs, alongside the Maloneys. In the following weeks, DataTree removed Andreyev’s address from one section of the search result for his name but left it up on the map that Andreyev was now staring at. “That’s no way compliant,” Andreyev said. “Fuck, it pisses me off.” First American declined to comment. As the legal battle plays out, Andreyev says he's left to continue looking over his shoulder—even at home.

The antidote of making officers more difficult to find could require greater creativity from those investigating or advertising to them, says Neil Richards, a Washington University School of Law professor and author of Why Privacy Matters. But it doesn’t make the work impossible. Richards, who isn’t involved in the Atlas litigation, says courts need to recognize that “privacy protections are a fundamental First Amendment concern, and one that's even more important than a company's ability to make money trafficking in phone numbers and home addresses.”

In the coming months, Judge Bartle will decide whether cops and judges living in fear imperils public safety. If so, he’ll have to settle whether Daniel’s Law is the least onerous solution. A loss for Atlas and its clients would effectively be treating “anything done with information” as free expression, Richards says, and stymie further attempts to regulate the digital world.

On the other hand, a victory for Atlas could be a boon for its business. Adkisson says tens of thousands of people across the country have joined the company’s waiting list: prison nurses, paramedics, teachers. All of them, he adds, anticipating someday gaining the same removal power as New Jerseyans. Since the beginning of 2023, at least seven states have passed similar measures to Daniel’s Law. None of those, however, include the monetary penalty that gets lawyers interested in pursuing enforcement. “Step one is, win here,” Adkisson says, referring to New Jersey.

After the dispiriting start, he thinks momentum is swinging in Atlas’ favor. In August, the startup raised its first funding since 2021, about $8.5 million in litigation financing and equity investment.

Adkisson says compliance with more recent removal requests is increasing, and a few defendants are settling. In September, a state judge approved the first deal, in which NJParcels.com owner Areaplot admitted to 28,230 violations of Daniel’s Law and accepted five years of oversight. PogoData, a revenue-less website that had made property owners’ names searchable, settled this month. Bill Wetzel, its 79-year-old hobbyist owner, would owe $20 million for breaching the deal but he says he supports removing names of officers in harm’s way.

Then again, against the better-funded defendants with more at stake and unpredictable courts, Adkisson recognizes that a broader victory for privacy and Atlas is uncertain. In telling his story, he wants to ensure there’s opportunity for people to learn from any missteps if Atlas fails. But his advisers, including former boss Steve Avalone, don’t expect Adkisson to give up easy. They describe him as the ultimate gadfly—unorthodox, tenacious, and wealthy. “There’s few people with that horsepower and that charisma,” Avalone says.

For his part, Adkisson says he’s driven by a sad truth. The tragedies, fueled in part by contact information online, that judge Salas wanted to bring an end to after her son’s murder haven’t stopped. Last October, a man allegedly shot to death Andrew Wilkinson, a Maryland state judge, who hours earlier had denied the man custody of his child. The National Center for State Courts said it was the third targeted shooting of a state judge in as many years.

Maryland investigators say they believe the now-deceased assailant found Wilkinson’s address online, though they never recovered definitive evidence beyond a search query for the judge’s name. When he heard about the murder the day it happened, Adkisson immediately googled Wilkinson. His address was right there.

[i-love-a-lot-of-things-a-bunch]

Some of my favorite characters in television transferred into 2000s video games!🕹

1.) Gon Freecss🌱- Hunter X Hunter: Ryumyaku no Saidan 2001

2.) Sasuke Uchiha🔥- Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2006

3.) Tony Stark🔩- Iron Man PS2 2008

4.) Catwoman🐈‍⬛- Catwoman PS2 2004

5.) King Kong🦍- Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie 2005

6.) Starscream✈️- Transformers: The Game 2007

7.) Vegeta🥙- Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai 2006

8.) Raphael🐢- TMNT PS2 2007

9.) Aang🌫- ATLA DS 2006

10.) Ghost Rider💀- Ghost Rider PS2 2007

[unhonest-iago]

Created as part of @mcyt-summer-of-yuri exchange for @bumblee27; webweave around Guinevere! Lizzie x Knight! Cleo

[Ao3 link] cross-posting here

Sources:

Ann Madden, silk on woolen canvas; England, 1823

Avalon High (2010)

To the Moon veil - Rue De Seine

Casino Royale (2006)

Christ on the Cross with Angels (1483)

The Last Day of Pompeii, Karl Bryullov

St. Michael and the serpent, St. Peter’s Chailey, James Powell and sons, 1915

Atlas Coelestis of John Flamsteed (1729)

Claire DeCoste

Gris (Video Game)

Shake It Out - Florence + the Machine

[kurtwagnerisnumber1fan]

Hi I'm Kirby or Kir! I go by all pronouns, I'm Pan, Demi and Genderfluid! Beware that i do use mature language (aka swear words) and talk about/write about mature themes but my blog is not strictly 18+, I am not responsible for the content you willingly consume :> My favorite actors are Paul Dano(Obviously) and Mads Mikkelson! I made all of the banners myself!

Some of the fandoms I am included:

Arcane

Life is strange (first and second games)

The last of Us part one and two

Gravity falls

Despicable Me/minions

The walking Dead

The Lost boys 1987

Red Dead redemption one and two

Bully 2006

GTA 5

Shameless (Us and UK)

Metalocalypse

Grease(Grease 2 and rise of the Pink Ladies)

The Outsiders

Cobra Kai

Sweet tooth

F is for family

X men

Yuurivoice

Texas chainsaw massacre

House of Wax

The boy 2015

Scream

Beetlejuice

Challengers

What's eating Gilbert grape

Red white and royal blue

Ghost(both BBC and ABC)

Aqua teen hunger force

Skins UK(All 3 gens)

X Men/Marvel

Stardew Valley

Atsv/Itsv

Atla

Avatar

Eltingville Club

And more!

Yap sess #1

Yap sess #2

Yap sess #3

Yap sess #4

Yap sess #5

Yap sess #6

Yap sess #7

Yap sess #8

Yap sess #9

Yap sess #10

X-Men Chibi Art

Pete Mangione

Josh/w his hair down

MY SHAYLA

Josh hamster

Tony dinunzo

Need her

Gravity Falls Masterlist(TBA)

RDR2/RDR1 Masterlist (TBA)

SDV Masterlist

Sweet Tooth Masterlist (TBA)

Eltingville Club Masterlist (TBA)

Ghosts ABC/BBC Masterlist (TBA)

[heavenangelblog]

as promised, according to the past post, movie list:

my favorite action movies:

Straż nocna and Straż dzienna

Skyscraper

Die hard

two old Hellboys

Ice road

Monster hunter

Priest

Unleashed

The darkest hour

Maze runner

Kick ass (only the first one actually and it's my guilty pleasure, don't judge me)

Valerian

Duel 1971

Watchmen and bunch of Marvel movies

Rollerball

Hunger games

Returner

Independence day (sentiment)

Ghostbusters

Tim Burton's Batman

Demolition man

Red

Wild wild west

Tank girl

old Twister (new one is a disgrace)

Free guy

Charlie's angels

Operation dumbo drop

Arsene Lupin

The silent hour

Jurassic park/world

Uncharted

Indiana Jones

The rocketeer

Robin Hood 2018 (it's a secret why)

Salt

Mad Max

Speed

Blue thunder

old Judge Dredd

Equilibrium

The fugitive

The purge?

Atomic blonde

Ambulance 2022

biography or document:

Napoleon (even tho it was disturbing, it's worth watching for few scenes)

Extremely wicked, shockingly evil and vile

Iris

Frida

Marina Abramovic

Sayat nova

Grey gardens

Dangerous minds

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

Purple rain

Girl interrupted

The Ron Clark story

Advanced style

Queen: days of our lives

Królik po berlińsku

Cleveland abduction

comedies:

Addams Family

Elvira

What we do in the shadows

Buster Keaton movies

3 men and a baby/little lady

My big fat greek wedding (last one wasn't the best tbh)

Les nouvelles aventures d'Aladin

The first wives club

Freaky friday

Mean girls

Maverick

Galaxy quest

Ciacho (sorry not sorry)

Sydney White

Sahara

*wondering what it all means about me, probably nothing good but paints a pretty good picture of my humor

dramas:

The last legion

Marrowbone

Alice, darling

Klass

Shutter island

Judex 1963

Secretary

Cloud Atlas

A patch of blue

Truman show

Times square

The monuments men

The fall 2006

Robinson Crusoe 2003 (the french version)

Renaissance man

Race the sun

Frantic

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

Breakfast club

Hello my name is Doris

Little miss sunshine

En Duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron

The beniker gang (if someone has a link where I can watch it - I beg you)

Click

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar

Under the Tuscan sun

Flight of the phoenix

Wes Anderson's movies

Dead poet's society

Christmas movies:

Santa and Pete

It's a wonderful life

Grinch

Elf

fantasy movies:

Hobbit and LOTR (including animated one)

Krull

The watchers

Red riding hood 2011

Dungeons and dragons

Gods of Egypt

Kate & Leopold

Paradise Hills

The princess bride

Warcraft

Fire and ice

The scorpion king and all Mummies

League of extraordinary gentlemen

The shadow 1994

Night at the museum

The 10th kingdom

surreal movies:

Blood tea and red strings

Meshes of the afternoon

Paprika

Destiny to order (also looking for a link)

This is me... now

The cell

Twin peaks: firewalk with me

romantic movies:

Red white and royal blue

Penelope

On - drakon

Stranger than fiction

A lot like love

Ode to joy

My policeman (but it's complicated)

Byoo-tee In-sai-deu

Five feet apart

Me before you

My monster

The notebook

The family Stone

Emma 1996

horrors and thrillers:

A quiet place

Bird box

Priest

Van Helsing

Last night in Soho

The lost boys

The village 2004

Zombie express

No exit 2022

The silent hour

Blink twice

sci fi:

Star wars

John Carter

Atlas

Mortal engines

Cloverfield 2008, The cloverfield paradox 2018 or Cloverfield lane 10

Alien Romulus

The invasion

favorite shows:

High potential

From

Grotesquerie

Fallout

Heartstopper

Gen V

The crowded room

Into the night

Czterej pancerni i pies

Don Matteo

Call the midwife

first series of Stranger things and Orphan black

Buffy

My mad fat diary

Poirot

OITNB (but not to the very end)

TBBT

The Simpsons

United states of Tara

AHS Freak show

few episodes of Black mirror

The last of us

LOTR (mixed feelings about it)

[easternmind]

A compendium of references to Portugal in Japanese video games

The beginning of the historical relations between Portugal and Japan dates to the year 1541, when a Portuguese ship washed ashore at Jingujiura. Nearly sixty Japanese words are of Portuguese origin. A variety of Japanese traditions and culinary delights were introduced by Portuguese traders, sailors and missionaries. But in what way has this cultural exchange extended to the more recent phenomenon of Japanese digital games? As a portuguese devotee of Japanese culture, the topic seemed relevant enough to merit some additional exploration.

To my knowledge, the first significant reference to Portugal in Japanese video game is found in Koei's The Age of Discovery from 1990, a game published in the west under the title Uncharted Waters. The main character is a disgraced Portuguese nobleman named Leon Ferrero who resorts to maritime exploration, trade and naval warfare to restore his family's good name and prestige.

Its 1993 sequel, known in the west as New Horizons, diversifies the base game structure of the original by including multiple characters to select from, each with their own story and mission. Among them is the tale of João Franco, the son of the original episode's protagonist Leon, who sets out to discover the mysterious location of the fabled Atlantis, no less.

As the Daikoukai Jidai series progressed, developers seemed less concerned with historical authenticity. More than any of the previous episodes, Porto Estado seems to get some basic historic facts wrong for it is set to take place during the Tokugawa Era (1603-1868) while referring to Oda Nobunaga as the emperor of Japan and portraying events that lead to the birth of the Iberian Union under King Philip II that is recorded to have happened much earlier in 1580. As with the previous episodes, the player can choose from a list of characters, among which the young, affable Portuguese noble Rafael Castor. Both this name and the game's title, which literally translates to Port State, are written in perfectly correct Portuguese. As is the name of the 2006 PSP/DS release, Rota Nova, meaning New Route.

Another meaningful reference can be found a year later in ArtDink's 1991 strategy game The Atlas, in which the player takes on the role of a 15th century explorer with a five year contract with the King of Portugal to discover and chart lands around the Iberian Peninsula.

In 1998, ArtDink recreated the game for contemporary systems and published as Neo Atlas. The protagonist is a Portuguese trading company owner seeking business expansion opportunities in remote territories, as well as discover and chart hitherto unknown parts of the globe. A similar premise is found in a later sequel, Neo Atlas III.

Apart from nautical strategy games, a few other titles exist where mentions to the Portuguese territory, language and culture can be traced.

Galvanized by the success of Cyan's world-renowned point and click adventure CD-ROMs, Sony Computer Entertainment helped to publish The Book of Watermarks, a game designed by a miniscule Tokyo-based studio named Watermarks that is brimming with interesting first and second-hand references to Shakespeare's The Tempest. The objective of this visually impressive pre-rendered journey is to aid in the recovery of a series of ancient tomes, each including the nuclear bases of knowledge for mankind.

The very first lost volume is named the Book of Navigators, said to be owned by the historical Infante Dom Henrique from the 15th century, condensing information on shipbuilding, oceanography, geography and astronomy. While a purely fictitious book, the reference to Prince Henry is historically accurate, him being a pivotal figure in the early age of Portuguese maritime discoveries, the governor of the Order of Christ who at once built and ruined his reputation through his various campaigns in the African continent.

Atlus' futuristic vision of Earth in Maken X includes a most unexpected tour of Europe, with a mandatory stop in Lisbon. Inexplicably, the developers got its geographic location wrong and moved to all the way to the northern Spanish region of Léon. The level, itself, boasts a reasonably accurate depiction of one of the city's oldest quarters, Alfama, and the architectural styles found therein.

Although I could not discern any actual references in the game itself, the Grandia II soundtrack by the veteran composer Noriyuki Iwadare contains two themes whose lyrics are written in Portuguese: A Deus, a double-entendre that can be translated to both farewell and to God; and Canção do Povo, meaning People's Song. Also, the name of the official soundtrack is named Melodia, which translates to Melody as you'd expect. Both themes were performed by guest singer Kaori Kawasumi, who took on the composer's challenge to sing them despite her not knowing the language.

She was coached and assisted by José Álvarez and Motoi Sato from the Portuguese Arts and Culture Center in Japan, whom she thanks in the acknowledgement section. The Grandia II Special Package edition booklet contains a page with two photos of Portugal, one for the Jéronimos Monastery in Lisbon and the other, seemingly, for the Moorish Castle in the nearby town of Sintra.

The last Pomping World (a.ka. Buster Bros/Pang) that Mitchell Corporation ever produced before shutting down was the 2010 DS European exclusive Magical Michael. It includes two levels set in Portugal, one in Lisbon by the Belém tower, a nautical landmark, and the other in the Sintra National Palace. Their representation is at once pleasingly stylized and true to life.

This final reference is found in Spike Chunsoft's third installment of their successful visual novel series, Nyūdanganronpa V3 Minna No Koroshiai Shin Gakki. Among the dozens of MonoMono machine items that can be acquired, one is a weathercock styled after a traditional Portuguese folktale hero, the Galo de Barcelos, meaning the rooster of Barcelos, a town in Northern Portugal.

As per the description, this animal became famous through an age-old tale involving a man wrongly sentenced to death who seconds before his execution remarked he was as certain to be innocent as it was certain that a nearby rooster would sing. Because the bird did crow, much to everyone's amazement, he was exonerated. Thus, the black rooster became a symbol for truth.

I would like to thank @diogojira and @DanielOlimac for their assistance in making this article possible.

[claude-frollo-archives]

Anglaigus collectibles!

Collection of assorted Anglaigus related merchandise items.

Disclaimer: these pictures are not mine, they were found via Google image search, the pictures belong to their respective owners, only posted them here for informative purposes.

The pictured items -in date order- are copyright of:

Asterix and related characters © René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo.

- Card from Leaf, la bataille de Asterix "Le Roi de Bubble Gum" (1972).

- Figure by Plastoy Atlas (2002).

- Chess game figure N°12 by Plastoy (2006).

- Pin by Editions Atlas (2008).

- Asterix Collection Hachette " La Grande Collection des Personnages" N°18 (2012), included the figure and a book.

- Figure from les Archives Asterix Figurines Métal N°19 by Atlas (2013).

- Porcelain figurine by Les Editions Albert René and Studio M6 from La Collection de Fèves du Film (2014).

- Porcelain figure by Arguydal and Les Editions Albert René for a "Le Domaine des Dieux le film" collection (2015).

- From inside the box of the Asterix: Le Domaine des Dieux Edition Prestige Combo Blu-ray (2015), it contains a picture of certain mosaic as if it were preserved and found during our modern times.

- Card from the collection Le Village en fête chez U by Système U (2017).

- Card by La Mie Câline, Cartamundi (2019).

- Last but not least, a French Happy Meal McDonald’s figure (2019).

- New figure found, a possible reissue of the Asterix Collection Hachette " La Grande Collection des Personnages" N°18 (2012), this time is "Asterix, la Galerie des Personnages" by Hachette Collections SNC (2023).

[syn4k]

digital media i watched this year that i really really enjoyed: a (non-exhaustive, non-ranked) list

hi everyone! ray keys here. i'm writing this on Dec 21st because I know I'll forget to post this on time if I don't schedule it beforehand.

i don't watch things on streaming services because i don't have any of the apps downloaded on my phone and most shows just aren't my thing anyways (ATLA has been the only exception) so all of the links here go to YouTube or other (free) sites

here we go!

Misc. Series and Standalone Videos

17776

17776 is a multimedia webnovel (?) about American football in the year of, you guessed it, 17776, written in 2017 by Jon Bois. It's told through the communications of three space probes made by humans and it's genuinely comforting as someone who's generally terrified by the concepts of eternity and immortality. Trigger warning for unreality at the start.

17776

20020 (the sequel, written in 2020 by the same author)

Code MENT

Code MENT is a YouTube series made by PurpleEyesWTF, of which the first episode was released in 2010. It's a fan-made abridgMENT of the anime Code Geass, voiced entirely by one guy (or at least i think so), and some parts of it have become legendary (see: Soup Store). Trigger warning for murder, infrequent use of the R slur, and depictions of blood and gore.

Code MENT playlist

Star Wars The Third Gathers: Backstroke of the West

Star Wars the Third Gathers: Backstroke of the West, uploaded to YouTube by GratefulDeadpool in 2017, is a video where somebody put the entire script of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith in Google Translate, translated it to Chinese then back to English, and dubbed over it. Yes, it's the entire movie. No, it somehow hasn't been taken down yet.

Star Wars the Third Gathers: Backstroke of the West

Mianite (S1)

At least some of you should be familiar with Mianite, seeing as how it has taken over my entire blog over the past month or so. The World of Mianite is a vanilla Minecraft SMP launched in 2014. It was streamed live, but the recordings of those livestreams were later uploaded to YouTube. The main members of the serverlist are CaptainSparklez, II_JERIICHO_II, SynHD, and OmgItsFirefoxx. Mianite has had three seasons so far, but I've only watched the first from one perspective so that's what you guys are going to get.

CaptainSparklez' Mianite S1 Playlist

MAMASb0y's Mianite Animations Playlist

Mianite Purge Highlights Playlist

Alan Becker (and his Team)'s Work

Hi! This channel gets a special section all to itself because I just finished the Animation vs Minecraft series and I'm pretty sure my life has been irreversibly changed forever.

Animator Vs Animation

Animator Vs Animation (shortened: AVA or AvA) is an animated YouTube series by Alan Becker. The first episode was originally posted in 2006 and was later reuploaded to the platform in 2018. I recently binged the entire thing and was NOT expecting it to be as fucking incredible as it was. This is the de facto best place to start if you want to jump into Alan's other works featuring these characters, which I highly recommend because all of them are fantastic!

Animator Vs Animation Series Playlist

Animation Vs Minecraft

The stick men play the block game. Do not read the comments of any of the episodes until you have finished the entire series. Do not go in with any prior knowledge if you're able to. Set yourself up with a bowl of popcorn and a big ol' glass of ice water, sit back, look really closely for continuity because it is there and it is GLORIOUS, and enjoy.

Animator Vs Minecraft Series Playlist

[aero-sense]

Haru and Katara holding hands? Harutara moment??

Ah no... They're just fangirling over Aang again...

[sarcasticlilshitt]

Hello, you wonderful people, and welcome to my blog. I think its about time i made a little introduction !

Again, hello my name is Zeniea, i also go by Esmé. English is not my first language!

I was born on August 29, 2006

My blog is an 18+ only blog that contains nsfw content. It's mostly not suitable for users under the age of 18 and minors, so it'd be very helpful to have an age somewhere in your bio or in a pinned post before interacting or following!

I am open to chatting to mutuals and followers on a personal. Please do not send unsolicited nsfw messages to me. I'm generally not interested in those things,

I'm pansexual, this is a lgbtqia+ safe space!

I play the violin, keyboard and currently learning how to play the guitar! [Any tips would be very appreciated]

I love anything cute!

Have a hoard of plushies and little figures

I'm in many fandoms and am open to join new ones.

Current fandoms i am in are ;

House of the dragon [HOTD]

Game of thrones [GOT]

Voltron

Jurassic park [JP / JW / JWCC / CT]

Avatar the way of water

Avatar [ATLA / TLOK]

The owl house [ TOH]

Hilda

Marvel [basically anything marvel]

Etc,,

My favorite movies are : jennifer's body, lion king, strange magic, descendants [all of them!], beverly hills chihuahua [all of them], bambi, fox and the hound, cruella [2021], 101 dalmations, pocahontas, maleficent, etc..!

Feel free to send any ask! I'm open to anything new.

If any typing or grammer mistakes are made, please let me know!<3

— ; Will be updated as time passes !

[dhampiravidi]

tag people you'd like to know better!

favorite color(s): black, silver, indigo, pink-ish sunsets.

favorite flavor(s): dark chocolate, custard, coconut sweets, cinnamon pastries, meat seasoned w/rosemary or BBQ sauce, basic cheese (provolone & 4-cheese mix).

favorite music: most Bring Me the Horizon stuff, Fall Out Boy, Selena Gomez, Shakira, 00s pop not including Taylor Swift (sorry!).

favorite movie(s): it's hard because the more I rewatch, the less I like them...but the worlds & performances of:

Seven Psychopaths

City of Bones

Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3

John Wick 1 & 2

The Covenant (2006)

Love, Actually

are all awesome! Gimme some dark-ish comedy, violence, healthy romance & magic any day.

favorite series: The Night Manager was well-paced & Tom Hiddleston gave a great performance. ATLA ofc. Shadow & Bone and Blood of Zeus had amazing visuals (also I binged them).

favorite book(s): probably The Mortal Instruments because that's the fandom world I most want to live in. Also, the dialogue is funny!

last song: Girls & Boys - Good Charlotte

last series: almost finished Suits but it's not all on Netflix.

last movie: I fell asleep on Netflix's Sixty Minutes.

currently reading: nothing but short fics (oops)

currently watching: The Rookie. The Floor (game show).

currently working on: trying to not be sad/non-productive/snacking while I'm in That Time of the Month.

—🌓—

tagged by:// stolen from @valkxrie

tagging:// you

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[toph-bi-fong]

Thanks for the tag!

Fan card: Avatar the Last Airbender

Fan since: 2006? It was when they introduced Toph to the show I started getting into it. (I’m old enough to remember the ATLA message boards and flash games on Nick.com)

Favorite Character: Toph Bei Fong, no contest. Aang and Zuko are tied for second.

Least Favorite Character: Ozai, Sozin.

Favorite Season: Book 2: Earth

Favorite Episode: Bitter Work

Favorite Ship: I will defend Kataang till my last breath. (Toko is also my favorite guilty pleasure ship)

saw this on twitter so i decided to start a version on tumblr 💗

fan card - avatar the last airbender

fan since: 2010 (but officially had persistent brainrot since 2021 after the renaissance)

favourite character: katara!!!

least favourite character: ozai

favourite season: book 2

favourite episode: the waterbending master

favourite ship: kataang 💖

tagging others if they’d like to do their own version:

@chiefesskatara @survivalove @atypicality @flameohotwife @coyotelemon @akiizayoi4869 @transboyzuko @transaangg @autistic-katara @my-cabbages-gorl @ididgettomeetyou @yangvik @dukeofdelirium @leantailean @galacticmountains @khrystyav @northerngoshawk @toph-bi-fong @vibee2001 @coconutsaiyan @arcmagecallum and anyone else who would like to do it <3

[thatrando13]

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To add on to the previous point; we will only ship catradora (and write fanfics or anything of the sort) if it's a fanon form of the ship where the two have a healthy way of getting to the relationship and they both become their own people and overcome their own experiences with abuse and where they do not have the same adoptive parent(s).

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[spicycreativity]

hello friend!

for your writing thing - moceit (or loceit i’ll let you choose), with numbers 16, 5 and 236

no idea what i’m asking for but have fun LOL

Hello friend!

Loceit + ghosts in love AU [236]

December 2006. College student Logan Winter has a brain aneurysm on the third floor of the Lake Hawes Library. A book on astronomy lays open on the floor in front of him. The book stays on the floor for three days.

June 2010. An out-of-control vehicle crashes into the first floor of the Lake Hawes City Library, shattering one window and striking recent graduate Janus L'Ecole. Paramedics will declare him dead on the scene. He is buried with the library's copy of The Idiot.

The Lake Hawes City Library remains open.

–

Atlas of the Heavens lay open on the rough gray carpeting. Every now and then, pages turned with a sharp flick as though struck by a short-lived but severe breeze. A faint shape flickered in the breeze from the air conditioner, humanoid, lying on his belly. Logan pushed up his glasses and turned another page.

He grunted at a weight on his lower back, air leaving his lungs in a rush. He had long since given up trying to make sense of his current state (no he hadn't), unable to reconcile reality with understanding. He was dead. He was breathing. Life went on.

Well, he wasn't breathing at the moment. Mostly due to the influence of Janus' weight on his diaphragm. 

"You know," Janus drawled, spreading himself over Logan's back, "Rochester has been married the whole time."

Logan rolled his hips a little. "Can I help you with something, starshine?"

"I've heard the most shocking rumor." Janus rolled over, landing on the floor without a sound. He dipped through it for a moment before finding his orientation beside Logan.

Logan sighed and shut his book. "And what might that be?"

"You'll never believe it." Janus' spectral face was lit up in a grin; his brown eyes sparkled in the sunlight from the windows.

Logan had had plenty of time to practice keeping a straight face. He gave away nothing, the way they always played their little games. "Try me."

"Babe." Janus dropped his voice to a dramatic whisper. "They're saying the library is haunted."

Few things were enough to draw a smile out of Logan, let alone a laugh. But the corner of his mouth twitched, a fond light coming into his eyes. "If my calculations are correct, that rumor has been around since early 2007."

"Oh, yes," Janus said, as though Logan had confirmed a point he'd been making. "The kids downstairs said they saw the ghost of a young, devilishly handsome young man."

"Janus—"

"Oh, and some random nerd, too."

"A library full of books and you still feel the need to make up stories."

Janus flopped over onto his back, grin never abating. "Many have said I had a promising career as a writer in my day."

Logan adjusted his glasses again. "I thought you said you wanted to be a lawyer."

Janus sat up and stole a kiss, so quickly that Logan barely registered the fainted brush of lips on the tip of his nose. "Yes, but I could have been a writer. You know, sultry, sordid romances, dead husbands and sanguine ex-wives, that sort of thing."

"I don't doubt it." Logan raised an eyebrow. "Although I do have to ask: 'sanguine' as in 'hopeful' or 'sanguine' as in 'bloody?"

"Oh, pick your poison."

Logan turned back to his book to hide his smile. "You know, I think I have."