#incorrect GO 383

[mimisempai]

Let yourself be hugged, Angel

Incorrect Good Omens Quotes Masterpost Part 1 : here

Incorrect Good Omens Quotes Masterpost Part 2 : here

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1970 Plymouth Superbird FAKE

1970 Plymouth Superbird FAKE

1970 Plymouth Superbird FAKE

1970 Plymouth Superbird FAKE

1970 Plymouth Superbird FAKE

1970 Plymouth Superbird Looks Like a Rare Aero Warrior, Don't Look Under the Hood

In 1969, Dodge took NASCAR ovals by storm with the Charger Daytona, a radical race car fitted with a nose cone and a massive rear wing. The following year, Plymouth unleashed the nearly identical Superbird. Both spawned the most wild-looking, road-legal muscle cars of the golden era.

The Charger Daytona is the rarest of the bunch, with only 503 units produced. Plymouth, on the other hand, had to sell nearly 2,000 examples to homologate the Superbird for NASCAR. The latter is a more common sight at local car shows and on the auction block. But that didn't stop enthusiasts from building replicas.

Putting together a Superbird tribute is easy, with so many companies producing accurate nose cones and wings. However, the Superbird is more than just a Road Runner with a pointy front fascia and a massive wing. It requires quite a few extras plus a proper powerplant (most Road Runners were fitted with the 383-cubic-inch V8, which wasn't available in the Superbird).

While some owners go through a laborious process to create an accurate close, others are happy with a Mopar that looks like a Superbird from afar. They simply slap a nose cone and a wing on a Satellite (the Belvedere was no longer available as a two-door hardtop in 1970), and there's nothing wrong with that.

While it may look like a true Superbird from a distance, this Limelight rig is, in fact, a lesser Mopar fitted with "aero warrior" goodies. Whoever built this car also added the correct upper fender scoops and the chrome A-pillars. However, they did not install the correct rear window.

The interior provides more hints that we're not looking at a real-deal Superbird. The dashboard is missing all the gauges, while the center console is entirely different. The steering wheel is incorrect, and everything else points toward a Satellite conversion.

But if you miss the signs inside the cabin, you'll know it's not an authentic Superbird once you look under the hood. This Mopar packs a 318-cubic-inch (5.2-liter) V8. The base V8 in the Satellite at the time, the mill came with 230 horsepower on tap.

As you may already know, the Superbird was not sold with a 318. It came standard with a 440-cubic-inch (7.2-liter) V8 rated at 375 horsepower. The options list included a 440 Six-Barrel (390 horses) and the mighty 426-cubic-inch (7.0-liter) HEMI (425 horsepower).

The engine bay also reveals this Mopar no longer features its factory color. Although painted in Lime Light, the fender tag shows color code FC7, which was used for In-Violet (or Plum Crazy on Dodge cars). The Superbird wasn't available in In-Violet but was offered in FJ5 Limelight, so the repaint makes sense.

Although it's not the most spectacular Superbird conversion out there, this winged Satellite could be an affordable alternative to the real deal. But we will find out more about that when it goes under the hammer on the first weekend of November 2024.

[glorioustidalwavedefendor]

However, according to the Radio Times, a Doctor Who spokesperson has cleared the air on rumors the show is going on hiatus, stating the series has not been cancelled. While the anonymous source says the decision on a third season with Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor will be made after the next one airs, the show has a 26-episode deal with Disney+. With more episodes still to come as part of the deal, it seems the show isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Check out what the spokesperson had to say below:

the show has a 26-episode deal with Disney+.

Let's do some math:

"The Star Beast"

"Wild Blue Yonder"

"The Giggle"

"The Church on Ruby Road" (christmas special/ Pilot)

8 episodes of season "1" ...

"Joy to the World"

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That's 13 episodes

-> The deal is half fullfilled

Now, alegedly there won't be a christmas special in 2025

leaving 8 episodes for season "2" and 5 episodes for the "The War Between the Land and the Sea" spinoff

SO, this fact

the show has a 26-episode deal with Disney+.

Is meaningless

We all know there is another season and a spinoff comming

seaon "2" is already shot

(It wrapped this month)

So they can fulfill their deal with Disney and still shelf it after the next season

-> dOcToR wHo sUrViveD 60 yEaRs WiThOuT dIsnEy

Yeah

And the BBC constantly wanted to get rid of it

Remeber Michael Grade?

Remember the 18 month hiatus?

Remeber Jonathan Powell?

Remeber over a decade without Doctor Who becasue they tried to clandestinely kill the show?

This would be a great moment to decide that Doctor Who is just no longer relatable and to shelf it until further notice

Instead of idk ... writting better episodes or something* ...

I mean

I'd be delighted to be wrong

But the BBC is pointing at that 26 episode deal again and again ... maybe so we don't notice the hiatus behind teh curtain? ...

*RANT INCOMING

Like sorry but why do we need a race swapped Isac Newton?

Inians fucking INVENTED fucking zero

Look:

The concept of zero as a written digit in the decimal place value notation was developed in India.[47] A symbol for zero, a large dot likely to be the precursor of the still-current hollow symbol, is used throughout the Bakhshali manuscript, a practical manual on arithmetic for merchants.[48] In 2017, researchers at the Bodleian Library reported radiocarbon dating results for three samples from the manuscript, indicating that they came from three different centuries: from AD 224–383, AD 680–779, and AD 885–993. It is not known how the birch bark fragments from different centuries forming the manuscript came to be packaged together. If the writing on the oldest birch bark fragments is as old as those fragments, it represents South Asia's oldest recorded use of a zero symbol. However, it is possible that the writing dates instead to the time period of the youngest fragments, AD 885–993. The latter dating has been argued to be more consistent with the sophisticated use of zero within the document, as portions of it appear to show zero being employed as a number in its own right, rather than only as a positional placeholder.[46][49][50]

And his is a TIME TRAVELL show

So how about idk ... we travell through time and space with our TARDIS (time and relative dimensions in space) and learn something about other cultures?

Nope, non white cultures have never ever ever done anything important and therfor the best non white people can hope for is the consolation price of casting history, race blind

Like

Suleiman the magnificant? Fuck him!

Sundiata Keita? Who cares!

Empress Wu Zetian?

Or hey, if that is to long ago

How about

Queen Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha?

David Unaipon?

No?

No ...

Here have a black Anne Boleyn and an episode about Rosa parks that is mostly about some white asshole trying to chage history instead of it just being a streight up history episode

And now shut up!

The writting uses windowdressing to pretend to be progressive

-> Or why the fuck is one of the few trans characters on the show a villain? What's so new and progressive about that? Villains have been queer vor a long time ... the Heys code already did that, how about they make the companion trans? No? Cowards!

So any critisism?

That's just racism ... that's just sexis ... that's just queerphobic

It's never that the writting is objectively bad ...

Like sorry, but Doctor Who already did "Her mom is important because her mom is important to HER"

And it was better, becasue it actualyl made sense

And O.K. like I know since "Wild Blue Yonder" the rules of teh universe are more fairytale based

So I am not saying you can't do what he did with Rubies mom

BUT

You can't do it like this

You have to emphasize more that the universe now runs on fairytale rules

Have some adventures that showcase exactly that AND THEN POINT IT OUT

Instead of just shrugging and telling people they will never know how the fuck "37 yards" worked

Have Ruby point out again and again that this is not how things work and have the doctor remind teh audience that yes it does becasue it's fairytale logic, it's dream logic

Like I can see the edges of a plan

babies in space has a monster that exists becasue the babies believe in it

O.K. good start

Devils cord has no music because overarcing story element and the vilain is defeated by the very thing we are trying to establish

Not good

Boom

Kind a half baked endorsement of religion (becasue ultimately we learn teh girl is happy becasue of her religion)

Theoreticalyl good idea

-> Stories help people

Execution BAD

73 yards

No explanation what so ever

BAD, this could have been a good "this universe runs now on story rules" episode

Dot and bubble

To focused on teh whole "Oh there are no black people" thing (while no one bringing up that there are no visibly disabled or disfigure people either ... but I guess diversity is just for certain people ... ) and thinking it is very clever and less on Stories are real enough to kill people -> racism is story telling, you tell the story of how people that aren't white aren't as good (or people who are disabled or people who are disfigured) and by telling these little stories you change the world and you kill

Rouge

Good oportunety to summ up the whole, reality bends now to story rules and expectation Becasue that is what LARP does Creating a reality that is how it SHOULD be, not how it is

But again, wasted ...

THEN the season final would have made sense

Becasue we as the audience have been fed all season teh idea that the uiverse is now willing to bend to your personal narrative if you believe enough in it

But that's not what they did

It's what they tried to do

But teh writting wasn't theer

It would have needed a lot more honing and refining and there clearly was no interest to do that ...

RANT OVER

[stillness-in-green]

Some targeted follow-up on 383, courtesy of a disgruntled Mina Stan

(Or, Why the chapter post for 384 is late.)

Ooo-kay, @randomvongenerico, I’ll dance this time because you’re just barely on the right side of “politely asking questions” for someone who, judging by their own page, is probably pretty new here.  But please know that I came very close to hitting the block button the moment I saw, “Why do you even care about heroes?  Aren’t you a villain stan?” at the very top of a notification chain of twenty-seven comments on my chapter post.  The next time you have as much to say about someone’s post, I strongly urge you to just reblog it and add your thoughts rather than indignantly spamming the comment section and then sending a bunch of the same stuff word-for-word via ask when you don’t get a reply in less than 48 hours.  Some of us do have lives and commitments outside of Tumblr.

That said, as with last time I got a detailed reply that seemed to genuinely want to hear my reasoning but also edged over into belligerent/condescending territory, I’ll have to ask you to forgive me for being somewhat blunt at times.  Digs like, “Or are we going to say Mina is being rude and impolite for having trauma now?” have not earned you the most patient reply I’ve ever put down in writing.

I’ll take your questions and points roughly in order you sent them, though I may omit points I have nothing much to say about, or rearrange them.  Anyone who wants to see rvg’s full set of replies in the original order and context is invited to check the comments here, at least until such time as I deem it less of a headache to hit that block button after all.

For everyone else, for the purposes of gauging your interest, this post contains discussion of the following topics:

Mina as she's affected by BNHA's tendency to shortchange the interiority and development of its women. I hit this one from a few different angles.

How the series treats physical damage and how that impacts what I call out as problematic or don't (e.g. why Shinsou's brainwashing got compared to a war crime but Mina's acid did not).

The Sludge Villain, why he shouldn't have been involved in the second war at all, and how his return fails to address the flaws in Hero Society he was originally used to establish.

The circumstances of Midnight's death and the impact of the narrative's ongoing refusal to allow people panel time to grieve for her.

Saving villains, who that maxim applies to, what it means for the heroes' responsibilities, and what it means when they fail to live up to said responsibilities. Specifically addresses Hose Face and Gigantomachia.

Replying to wild presumptions re: which characters I should or should not care about, as well what situations I ought or ought not overthink.

A fair number of intersections between the above topics and other less substantial diversions, including a retraction on my part for a mistake I made in the chapter post that rvg brought to my attention.

Hit the jump.

I think the “pure psychological scarring” thing is just referencing Mina’s trauma from her first encounter with Machia. It’s just there to remind the readers about Mina’s trauma, since it’s been a while since the last time it was brought up. Shonen does this sort of exposition all the time. I wouldn’t think too deeply on it.  Like, I mean, it’s technically not an incorrect statement. Mina was mentally and emotionally scarred by Gigantomachia. Or are we going to say Mina is being rude and impolite for having trauma now?

It’s true that the specific line about Machia embodying psychological scarring overlays Mina in a way that’s doubtlessly intended to remind the reader of her trauma.  However, if that’s the only function Horikoshi intended the line to serve, he’d have done much better to put it in a text box, delivered to the reader via omniscient narrator.  Instead, Mount Lady is the one delivering it, and she is explicitly thinking about Machia in relation to “ordinary people,” flashing back to the scene of carnage left in Machia’s wake, as countless civilians scream and cry for help.  She’s not even slightly thinking about Mina in that moment, for all that the same sentiment applies.

When I criticize Mount Lady’s mode of thinking, therefore, my point is not that people are wrong to have trauma,[1] but that it is wrong to dehumanize the source of that trauma.  Machia has feelings and thoughts just like any other human—treating him like a symbol of pain rather than a human being, something to be stamped out like a disease or a curse, is the same sentiment as Gran Torino blaming All Might’s pain and the smearing of Nana’s memory on Shigaraki’s very existence.  As with Shigaraki, there are reasons that Machia turned out the way he did, and talking like he’s some kind of free-roaming trauma elemental obfuscates the chain of failures and wrongdoings that produced him to begin with.

Incidentally, I wrote a twenty-thousand-word essay on the mass arrest of the Paranormal Liberation Front, so I promise you are not going to get anywhere with advising me not to overthink this manga.  If Horikoshi didn’t want his readers to take his societal issues seriously, he shouldn’t have presented them as the root cause of so many problems; if you didn’t want to read a detailed meta dive tackling the chapter’s philosophical shortcomings, you probably should have abandoned ship somewhere around the time I started waxing verbose about the ethics authors sign up to engage with when they make the decision to put their protagonists in skintight catsuits and call them Heroes.

On which note:

I have some questions about your logic about the morality of the methods and tactics here, if you don’t mind. So brainwashing and calling Machia mean things is crossing the line, but throwing acid at him is okay?  You criticize Shinso using his Quirk on Gigantomachia, yet you don’t take any issue with Mina melting his claws(…).  Why?  I guess brainwashing is just too much of a villain Quirk, so it just can’t be used heroically?

Judging by one of your later comments, you did some archive-diving to find out if I’d ever talked about Mina before the Chapter 283 post.  Judging by this question, that archive-diving did not include the Chapter 282 post.  Please see it for a lengthy explanation about what specifically I object to in Shinsou’s use of his quirk on Machia, and a much briefer aside about what kinds of uses I’d have been completely fine with.

As to the difference between hurling acid at someone and brainwashing them to attack their own allies, while it’s certainly true that doing the former would be a horrific crime in real life,[2] that’s down as one of the places where I’m spotting the series its premise.  To wit, physical attacks like Mina’s acid are only ever going to be as impactful as the plot needs them to be, and the plot has a history of being wildly erratic about that impact.[3]

You can call accuse me of having a double standard if you like—picking and choosing what I hold to realistic standards—but in essence, I view Mina melting Machia’s claws with acid as Shounen Battle Action Damage.  There’s definitely a point at which it would stop being that—if she’d used it on his face instead of the tips of claws he could potentially just retract and grow in fresh—but if I were inclined to complain about every hero who uses a power that would cause ghastly mutilation if used against criminals in real life (acid, fire, concussive blasts, etc), we’d be here all week.  Shinsou’s brainwashing doesn’t get that handwave because it’s fully and completely effective.

Btw, Kirishima hearing about Midoriya and the sludge Villain was already established. We have known this since we got Kirishima’s backstory in the Yakuza arc. So this didn’t come out of nowhere.

This is a 100% fair point.  I very clearly remembered Kirishima shaking his funk because he saw the clip of the interview with Crimson Riot; I’d completely forgotten that the Sludge Villain attack was one of the things contributing to his funk.  Having looked back over it, it still seems weird that Kirishima doesn’t show any sign of recognition in this chapter, but it’s certainly possible that that’s just a consequence of the breakneck storytelling.  Regardless, consider that complaint retracted, and thanks for the refresher.

What do you mean we don’t get anything of Mina against Machia and overcoming her fears and previous failure? That’s literally what the chapter is all about. She doesn’t freeze under fear this time and instead jumps into action to save her friends and come in clutch to guarantee the win for her team. She’s the actual MVP here. The actual problem here is that the whole thing gets sped up and abbreviated. What should’ve been 3 or 4 chapters of this battlefield, gets presented and resolved in one chapter.

One of my longstanding issues with BNHA is the difference between the levels of interiority that are permitted to the male characters as opposed to the female ones—how much they’re allowed to dictate their own internal narratives via having their thoughts shown on-panel, and how much room the story affords that exploration.  Following are some examples:

Mirko has no thoughts we’re permitted to access about her traumatic double limb loss.  While Endeavor’s story of wrestling with his sins and trying to better himself as a person is a prominent, recurring storyline, carried out in the foreground to such an extent that some people complain it’s actually sublimating Shouto’s arc, Mount Lady grows from a money-hungry fame-chaser to a responsible and determined hero completely off-screen.[4]  Tamaki and Mirio get dedicated multi-chapter solo battles peppered with emotive childhood flashbacks; Nejire gets a beauty pageant that takes up a grand total of four pages, exactly one (1) of which is dedicated to Nejire’s actual participation.

And so on and so forth.  The only two gals we’re really allowed to get into the heads of in a consistent, sustained way are Toga and Uraraka, with perhaps Jirou or Momo as distant runners-up, though Jirou's interiority is mostly concentrated in the Cultural Festival arc and Momo's is virtually all rooted in her bouts with paralytic self-doubt.  That's pretty pitiful compared to the number of dudes who get sustained attention paid to their internal landscape.

That issue is largely what I’m getting at when I kvetch about not being shown Mina overcoming her fears.  When Kirishima first gets overwhelmed by Rappa, the reason he gets back up is given a backstory flashback that takes up almost two full chapters.[5]  Those chapters are the one and only reason we have any context at all for Mina’s PTSD flashback against Machia in MVA.  She’s not allowed to “tell” that trauma to the audience herself; we know about it because we got it filtered through Kirishima.

Likewise, when she comes through against Machia in 383, she just—does it.  There’re no extended scenes of her wrestling with her fear, drawing on her experience to overcome it; we don’t get a flashback to her training with Bakugou or Shouto.[6]  She just tells us about it in a single sentence, then gets a third of a page dedicated to a collage of old scenes.  And then, again, she pulls through in a moment of crisis in such a way that her moment of awesome is in service of giving a dude an opening to solve the problem instead of doing it herself.

The coming-through-so-a-dude-can-pull-off-the-finisher pattern is a significant problem with the general power balance in the class: the girls do support while all the heavy-hitters are boys.  And doing support is fine!  There are a healthy share of boys doing support, too!  Kirishima’s own big moment in the Hassaikai arc is playing support so Fat Gum can get in the finishing blow, for example.  The problem is not girls having support roles at all; the problem is that while there are boy support students, there are no heavy-hitter, A-list offense-oriented girl students (at least not in Class A).  And actually, Mina has always been both interesting and frustrating for me in that regard because she feels like she should be a heavy hitter, but up until this exact chapter, she’s never really treated like one.

It’s never been clear to me why fire and explosions are so much more A-list material than acid, save that Mina doesn’t have Shouto or Bakugou’s intense determination to pull her up to their level from the beginning.  Acid is also the kind of thing that could so, so easily have been called a villain quirk, especially in combination with Mina’s mild heteromorphic appearance.  She doesn’t ever seem to attract that accusation, however, possibly because she’s so chipper—indeed, in a narrative that had more time for her, I wonder if we’d find that her chipperness is, at least in part, a defense mechanism she maintains for exactly that reason.  As it is, though, her personality keeps her as a fun presence in class without ever letting her seize a larger piece of the narrative for herself.  But I’ll always wonder what she would have looked like if she were hiding negativity for the same reasons Shouji hides his scars, or if she’d had Bakugou’s burning desire to be #1.

Instead, her most significant backstory moment gets relegated to a flashback intended to advance a male character, while her big moment in the story is freeing Shinsou and saving Mount Lady more or less on the backswing.  Admirable in its own right, certainly, but part of a larger pattern when it comes to the roles the Class 1-A girls play on the battlefield.

(I know Machia literally has a Quirk that makes him feel no pain, so that attack did nothing to him.  Which in retrospect, makes the poor handling of Mina’s spoltight worse, because it sorta makes it seem like the biggest feat and most powerful move she has ever performed in the series was inconsequential. Yes, I know she literally saves Mt. Lady by using it, but still). + The Sludge Villain being faced by a character that has had an encounter with him before like Midoriya or Bakugo would be too obvious and on the nose. Horikoshi can be pretty basic at times, but he’s not that basic. + Mina saving Shinso from the Sludge Villain isn’t the important part, the important part is her saving Kirishima from the Sludge Villain.

I’m unclear on why that would be more basic than e.g. Muscular showing back up for no reason save to get clowned on by Deku, or the incredibly twee return of the woman All Might saved at Kamino, but to each their own basic bar, I suppose.  On the matter of Mina’s biggest and most powerful move being arguably inconsequential, I agree completely.  As I said before, it’s entirely possible that Machia could just regrow the claws—he clearly doesn’t have them in his “base” form, so it’s entirely down to an arbitrary call on Horikoshi’s part whether the damage to them would stick if he retracted them entirely and then regrew them.  We haven’t gotten a good look at his right hand yet to see one way or the other, so the jury’s still out.

As to the Sludge Villain and who gets to face him, two things:

1)  He didn’t have to come back at all.  I can’t help but feel like the only real reason he does is that Horikoshi’s enjoying throwing in callbacks to bit characters from early chapters, rather than because there was any real groundwork laid for their return: the Sludge Villain, the baby in the cloud-pattern onesie, the star-head guy Deku talked to in the first chapter, Jin’s boss from his MVA flashback, etc.  At least the returnees from USJ have a modicum of prior association with the League of Villains and thus, indirectly, AFO.  The Sludge Villain doesn’t have that, and, honestly?  Given his characterization in 383, I’m confused about why he joined up with AFO’s group at all.

It was a specific point of note that when AFO freed the prisoners from Tartarus, the only task he gave them was to rampage, to go wild.  When Muscular shows up to bust open the prison Gentle’s in, he tells them they’re free, to do with their lives as they will.  We even know from Kashi Kashiko (the guy in 334 who ShigAFO tries to unload New Order onto) that more than one person was freed and immediately headed to the boonies.  Given that all the Sludge Villain wants is to sneak away from this fight without getting hurt, why wasn’t he one of those?

It’s always possible AFO called in favors for the jailbreaks, of course—the Warp quirk makes him an enormous danger to anyone he wants to have in his presence when he decides to call in a chip—but there’s been no indication of it if that is the case, I assume because the story doesn’t care about its shallower convict characters.

2)  Another reason you might consider critiquing this as a meaningful victory for Mina is that her defeat of the Sludge Villain has literally nothing to do with who she is as a character and the work she’s done.  She defeats the Sludge Villain because she just so happens to have a liquid-based quirk that can effectively be used to harm him.  She only used the souped-up damage quotient to get through Machia; presumably, a much less corrosive version would have been perfectly sufficient against the liquid-based Sludge Villain.

And that’s particularly annoying because one of the key points the Sludge Villain was originally used to establish was the way that heroes just stood around not even trying to fight him because they didn’t have the right quirks, and why that was a failing of the current system.  So when he returns—at the climax of the series! Almost four hundred chapters later!—it would seem the perfect time to explore how the heroes have improved.  We should watch them determine that they have to fight him even though they don’t have the ideal quirks for it.  We should see them use ingenuity and their surroundings to come up with a work-around, assuming we don’t see them apply the Save Villains maxim to convince him to back off.

But we don’t get any of that.  Instead, Team Hero just so happens to have Mina on hand, who just so happens to have the right quirk.  It’s a damn waste, is what it is.  Not only does the Sludge Villain have no personal relevance to Mina whatsoever, only twice-displaced relevance via Kirishima, she doesn’t even get to defeat him via determination or wits, skill or training—she could have sneezed on him and won.  I can’t imagine finding that rewarding for a character you really like.

Finally, I disagree that the important part of this scene is Mina saving Kirishima from the Sludge Villain rather than her defeat of the Sludge Villain in and of itself. She doesn’t save Kirishima from the Sludge Villain; Kirishima is in no danger from the Sludge Villain.  He’s Class A’s premier defensive tank character!  The only way Sludgey could pose the slightest threat to him is by trying to hijack his body, but Sludgey already has a body he seems perfectly satisfied with and is trying to use to escape.  The worst he can do is smack Kirishima around a bit, which, again, is going to be wildly ineffective.  He could possibly also attempt using Shinsou’s quirk, but Kirishima is entirely aware of Brainwashing’s operating conditions—note that he doesn’t say a single word to Shinsou the moment he becomes aware Shinsou’s compromised.

Mina saves Shinsou from the Sludge Villain, not Kirishima.

On regards on her developing her new technique due to training with Bakugo and Todoroki, I don’t see the problem. All of the students learn from other adults and eachother, as well as inspire one another. The only problem I have with the Bakugo and Todoroki thing is that we never got to see those interactions. There’s so much stuff we should’ve gotten to see from class 1-A during the aftermath of the first war and we never got.

You are welcome to not see it as a problem.  I would probably see it as much less of one if the story cared enough about Mina to actually show us any scenes of her fretting about her strength, wanting to improve herself, and psyching herself up to whatever degree she might have needed to in order to approach Bakugou about private training.

Hell, it wouldn’t even need to be a full scene—BNHA gets plenty of mileage out of 1–4 panels of characters interacting in ways that aren’t immediately explained and then dropping the explanation thirty chapters later.  Shinsou’s training with Aizawa was like that, for example.  Why not make the time for Mina?  Other than, as you bring up, the unseemly abbreviation of the aftermath of the first war.  The story at that stage has zero time for any of the students other than Deku—Mina’s hardly the only character whose arc suffers because we don’t get to see her reactions to such a sea change in the society she’s lived in all her life, or the trauma of what she experienced the day of the raid.  I’m not going to refrain from critiquing the writing just because it’s not any given character’s fault that their arc is missing huge chunks that are being papered over with flashbacks and retroactive explanations for the scenes we didn’t get.

To be fair about the Midnight thing, no one really had any actual established connection to her.  With Momo, Midnight just was her hype woman like two times, and then she entrusted her with the plan to sedate Machia.  With Mineta it’s kinda hard to take it seriously because their one meaningful interaction is full of the usual pervy jokes that are synonym to Mineta.  I guess Horikoshi tied Mina to the plotline of Midnight’s murder because Mina is a more emotional character, so there’s more he can do with that (and then he barely did anything, but what little he did, did show some great shots from her).

All of the things you cite are things that give both Momo and Mineta more established connections to Midnight, which is exactly why I brought them up as people who should have been involved in the confrontation with her killer.  I also brought up that those connections are themselves fairly thin and that Midnight doesn’t really have any strong connections with any of the students.  This is in large part why I continue to believe that Midnight being the most emotionally significant hero death during the war[7] is pure cowardice on Horikoshi’s part.  Mina getting the final say on that death is just the latest way the story is writing off dealing with it.

Midnight gets no funeral.  Aizawa, one of her closest friends, immediately shuts down Mic when he tries to bring her up in the hospital, and neither of them ever bring her up again—for heaven’s sake, Mic doesn’t even think about her in Chapter 372 when bringing up what Aizawa has lost!  And when someone finally does want to actually talk openly about Midnight’s death, who is it?  Not Momo, who Midnight trusted and praised, or Mineta, an openly admitted fan of Midnight, one perv to another.  It’s—Mina, who liked her classes, who is emotional about the death because she’s a good person who’d be emotional about the death of anyone in her social circle, not because Midnight was in any way special to her.  For heaven’s sake, she registers her first opinion ever on Midnight the chapter after the deathblow is struck.

And then, to top it all off, there’s that tossed-off, perfunctory line about vengeance, which no one Mina is facing that chapter even brought up, and which she herself immediately shuts down.  So not only do I not feel any impact from Mina rejecting revenge because she’s never been shown struggling with a desire for it, but it just feels like another case of Midnight being brought up only to get immediately dropped again. To wit:

Aizawa, who won’t or can’t think about her, chooses instead to focus on his students.  Mic brings her up the once and then drops the subject at Aizawa’s request, apparently never to think about her again, despite being given an excellent opening to do so in his confrontation with Kurogiri.  And Mina makes three, bringing up how much she liked Midnight Midnight’s classes only in the context of how stewing on the desire for revenge is bad.

And so the narrative just moves on.  And it sucks, and Midnight deserved better, even if only in her memory.

…Also, just for the record, Mineta is an incredibly emotional character.  He cries as much Deku does!  He openly, habitually worries about classmates when he knows they’re in danger somewhere he can’t reach; he worries about Midnight during the war.  Yes, he’s a primarily a joke character (and the jokes are outmoded and sexist), but so what if his scene with Midnight is full of the pervy jokes that define him as a character?  Midnight is also a perv!  She was contributing a perfectly adequate amount of pervy jokes to that scene all on her own!  Indeed, that was part of the humor of it—Mineta the lech running afoul of Midnight’s theatrical sadism and being incredibly in love with it even as he runs around screaming about how he’s ever supposed to beat her.

Mineta has been a much-improved character from the war onward so I, for one, would not have any problems at all with taking him seriously if he were allowed to seriously mourn.

In regards to the Mina and vengeance part. Remember again that Mina is a very emotional character. Also remember that when she heard about Shoji’s backstory, she angrily stated that the kind of people who hurt Shoji “should be removed from existence” (I think you said Mina was 100% right in saying that, if I’m not mistaken).  So while yes, Mina is a very cheerful, kind and friendly girl, we know the war and her inability to help deeply affected her. The problem is that we never got to explore that or see her go through it. Her inner struggle got resolved off screen in the background before her shinning moment.

You know, I thought about bringing up the Shouji bit in the post.  I didn’t end up doing it because that moment doesn’t break the pattern I otherwise described: “Mina doesn’t hold onto anger; she doesn’t brood; she’s extremely well-adjusted in that she cries when she needs to, to get it out of her system, and then she bounces back.”

That all still applies!  Indeed, as I said in the post you reference, her comment in Koda’s flashback is clearly presented as hyperbole.  She says it in the heat of the moment and no one even blinks because they understand that she’s not seriously suggesting that e.g. all bigots should be murdered in their beds.  No one takes her aside afterward to have a gentle talk with her about appropriate levels of bloodthirst or tentatively ask her if there’s anything she needs to get off her chest.  After she says it, Shouji gently acknowledges that she might be right[8] and then moves the conversation along; within the next few exchanges, she’s joined the group encouraging Shouji about making new, happier memories for him going forward.

I’m sure the war and her inability to help did deeply affect her.  Those things affected everyone.  But we didn’t get to see it, so I’m simply not going to accept the story insisting on how noble she is for eschewing the vengeance she was never shown to be contemplating to begin with.[9]  You’re welcome to fill in those blanks yourself; god knows I have characters myself in this series for whom I’m willing to make those reaches.  But then, my blank-filled characters are mostly in prison right now rather than active in the plot and trying to do emotional heavy-lifting for which the author has woefully ill-equipped them.

Regarding Midnight’s killer. I just didn’t like that part in general.  Idk about you, but I don’t like that Horikoshi wrote Mina trying to find common ground with the guy who went out of his way to mercilessly kill a severely injured woman when she was on the ground, too weak to defend herself, and posed no active threat to him.  Like, couldn’t you have just let Mina kick his ass? Like, I know the story is setting up the kids reaching out a hand to “save” the villains. But seriously? If there’s one villain who should get his ass kicked, it’s that guy.

This is another clue that you definitely haven’t poked around my backlog in any depth.  No.  Just no.  Trying to save the villains means trying to save all the villains.  No exceptions.  Anything less means the heroes are just picking and choosing based on personal bias.  That means this guy and the rest of the PLF.  It means the Tartarus escapees.  It even means All For One himself, if anyone can manage it.  The heroes are not arbiters of justice.  It is not their job to play favorites based on who they’ve seen crying and who they haven’t; it is their job—or so Deku and the general direction of the narrative would have us believe—to save people in crisis.

Should it be their jobs to do all the emotional labor and hand-holding that’s required to talk down someone whose crisis has led them to endanger others?  Maybe, maybe not, but the story has been exceptionally clear that they’re the only ones in a position to do it; God knows their justice system isn’t.  But given that the climax of the series is revolving around saving villains, if that isn’t the heroes’ responsibility, then whose responsibility is it, and why aren’t we reading the story about them?

I’m sure some people would point that, in-universe, saving people is only half of a hero's job description, and the other half is defeating villains.  That’s true enough in the world as it now stands.  However, Deku—in what’s clearly meant to be a big inspiring moment—tells the OFA tribunal in Chapter 305 that One For All is a power meant for saving, not killing, and that he learned this from All Might.  In 326, in a scene that I have some issues with but that is also obviously meant to be taken sincerely, Stain alludes to the influence of All Might on the next generation, to the embers he left behind being nurtured by the ones who don’t give up.

Thus, if All Might is meant to be the ideal because of his tireless efforts at saving people, and Class 1-A—key members of whom are moving towards saving villains—are being modelled as the collective successors of All Might, it only makes sense to assume that, yes, the series wants us to accept that villains are people who also need to be saved.  That means all of them, not just the ones who look easy.  What kind of successors will the kids be, if they can’t go even farther than All Might did?  If they just turn their backs on anyone who they don’t have the exact right quirk inspiring monologue to save, aren’t we basically just back where we started?

Incidentally, let’s talk about this characterization of Hose Face, which allegedly makes him a villain who doesn’t need to be saved, but just needs his ass kicked: he “went out of his way to mercilessly kill a severely injured woman when she was on the ground, too weak to defend herself, and posed no active threat(…).”

Twice was too weak to defend himself from Hawks when Hawks tried to put a feather sword through his forehead.  He posed no active threat to Hawks when Hawks stabbed him in the back.  Shigaraki floating in tube stasis posed no active threat to anyone, certainly not Mirko or Mic, both of whom did their level best to kill him by destroying the tube and all its systems that were keeping Shigaraki alive.  The PLF had their guard completely down the day of the raids, which certainly didn’t stop Cementoss from ripping the building in half with no warning—how many people do you think might have been in rooms five or six stories up when the floor ripped out from under them and sent them plummeting 50+ feet towards the shattered concrete and broken wood below?

They’re villains, sure.  They were going to hurt a lot of people, sure.  But aren’t heroes supposed to be better than villains?

Further, I have to contest your assertion that Midnight even was “severely wounded” or “posed no active threat.”  Yes, she’d taken a few hunks of concrete to the face and fallen through the canopy, which would severely injure any normally fragile human, but again, this is BNHA, where physical damage is only as severe as the plot demands.[10]  Midnight went from splayed on the ground to starting to push herself back up in a single panel, had gotten to her hands and knees two panels later, and was just getting a foot on the ground, preparing to push herself back upright, when Hose Face hit her from behind two pages later.

I can remember being unsure how that fight would go back when the chapter dropped, because, just as the scene cut away, Midnight managed to whip her head around and shoot that fierce glare at the oncoming enemy.  Midnight had an AOE attack that was extra effective against dudes, and all of the people coming at her that we could see were men.  It was entirely plausible to me at the time that she would win, that she just stopped answering her comm line because she had to focus on the fight.

All in all, she had recently immobilized dozens of people on Hose Face’s side and was clearly still a threat.  What would you expect him to do, detour the whole group the long way around just so no one would hurt her?  Let Machia get even farther ahead of them by standing back and waiting for her to finish getting up so they could have an honorable fight?  Come on; she was part of an army of heroes who'd just attacked their base.  Of course he didn’t stand back and hand her the opening to knock them all out with sleeping gas.  And no, he didn’t go out of his way to kill her—he and his group were following Machia and just happened to run across Midnight in the path Machia had taken.

Cripes, you make it sound like he spotted her unconscious on the ground eighty feet away in another clearing and decided to run over and cut her throat before rejoining the group.  No.  Remember, he’s a member of the MLA, the only group in the series that explicitly styles themselves as an army.  His attack on Midnight should be read as a soldier fighting an enemy soldier—it’s quick, it’s brutal, it’s merciless.  Because, as far as he’s concerned, he’s at war.  Both letting a hero go because she was injured (but not so injured that she wasn’t trying to get up again) or wasting time going out of his way to murder someone who’s already dealt with (because he gets his jollies from murder) would have been acting counter to the mission.

I’m not going to tell you he was morally correct—he’s a villain, a cultist, an unabashed quirk supremacist, someone who would have been on the front lines of any terrorist attacks the PLF were planning by virtue of the regiment he was associated with—but just in terms of tactics, he didn’t do anything the heroes haven’t done or sought to do repeatedly over the course of both war arcs.  If you feel it’s okay for them to cross those lines but not him because they’re heroes who want to help people while he’s a villain who wants to hurt people, then it’s his allegiance that’s the real problem, not his tactics. 

(And, just to be clear, the reason I’m okay with him killing Midnight but not Hawks killing Twice is because of their respective allegiances.  Hose Face is a villain.  I don’t hold him to a hero’s moral code because he never claimed it to begin with, so he’s not being a massive hypocrite by not adhering to it.)

Any comment on the Mina and Kirishima interaction? What are your thoughts on the “you’ve always been my hero” line?

If I had a comment on it, you can generally assume it would have been in my chapter post.  I don’t have much interest in the lens on Mina that, because it frames her as Kirishima’s hero, means we see her heroism almost entirely through his eyes.  Again: he gets the two chapter flashback lovingly detailing his personal history, doubts, and motivations; she gets to be a figure inside his flashback rather than ever being able to frame her own.  Ochaco may not ever get two chapters dedicated to her backstory, but at least what flashbacks she does get come to us filtered through her.  Though, I will say that I find Ochaco’s romance plot largely tiresome, so I do hugely appreciate about Mina and Kirishima that they legitimately are just friends and I don’t have to watch Mina’s arc get devoured by blushing and fumbling crush behavior.

Since you asked, I can think of a scenario in which Kirishima telling Mina that she’s always been his hero would have worked much better, at least for me.  It’d fit right into all the post-war material we didn’t get because the story was so laser-focused on Deku.

Start by showing the readers Mina approaching Shouto and Bakugou about training with them.  Don’t have them ask why (because Bakugou wouldn’t care why and Shouto would just take the request at face value, especially if she explained that they both have techniques she thinks she could benefit from learning; Shouto would understand that), but have Kirishima notice or otherwise find out about it, and have him bring it up to her later on.

Then, because Kirishima and Mina are friends and should be able to have these conversations with each other, especially in the particularly vulnerable states they’d be in after the war, have Mina actually confide in Kirishima that she’s feeling shitty about freezing up when facing Machia.

Have him remind her of the time he did the same, and expand on what she already knows. I checked back over his Hassaikai arc flashback, and I notice that, while he apologized to the other two girls that were there for freezing up and being unable to help, and while he tells Mina later that he’s saying goodbye to his old pathetic self, he never actually tells her that he admired her courage (unless it’s in some other scene of theirs I’m forgetting about, which is entirely possible; feel free to give me a cite if so).  The closest they get to openly acknowledging the way Mina inspired him is her observing that his new styled hair spikes resemble her horns.  Have him say it out loud to her after the war, then, when she’s in an emotionally raw place and needs to hear it.

Thus, when he calls her his hero again after the Sludge Villain encounter (if we must indeed keep the Sludge Villain encounter), it becomes a reiteration and callback to that bonding moment, and implicitly him congratulating her on overcoming her fear—like he always knew she would, because she’s his hero.

Why do you care about Mina, btw? You’re a villain stan, correct? So why do you care about Mina’s moment to shine being handled poorly and not receiving the proper care and attention it deserved, if you don’t mind me asking?

Good lord, rvg, just because I’m a villain stan doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to care about bad writing affecting the heroes.  If the heroes’ writing were better, it would improve everyone’s treatment, including the villains!  If the students’ writing were better, I might actually care about the kids more than I do!  If the girls’ writing were better, I would have infinitely less to complain about re: the disparity in how fleshed out they are compared to their male counterparts!

Anyway, I like plenty of heroes.  I have observably positive feelings for about a third of Class 1-A[11] and only particularly negative feelings about Deku and Kaminari.  I love Monoma and Tamaki.  On the pro side, I adore Nighteye, am a thoroughly unapologetic Best Jeanist appreciator, and want to watch way more of Rock Lock mouthing off at more people higher ranked than him.  I think Haimawari Koichi is everything Horikoshi desperately wants Deku to be and is failing to write him as being.  There are plenty of others I at least think are good company when they’re around (Fat Gum and the Wild Wild Pussycats, for example), and some I would be happy to embrace if the series could stop being so incredibly indecisive about how it wants us to read them (Hawks and All Might are big offenders here).

I realize this is a hyper-divided fandom—we might as well start asking all those manufacturers who made the team affiliation T-shirts for the Twilight or MCU fandoms to make us some Team Hero and Team Villain shirts—but I promise you it’s possible to like characters from both sides of the divide.  You don’t have to lock yourself into one position or another.

Frankly, I think most of these characters deserve a final arc better than the one they’re in.  I’m just louder about it for the villains because they’re the ones who are going to be left to suffer or be forgotten if the actual ending isn’t up to snuff, whereas I fully expect the heroes to get a lavish epilogue chapter that crams cameos and last second answers into every nook and cranny of the panel layout.

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All that said, rvg, I'm not sure you'll see this at all, as I don't seem able to tag you, which I'm unsure if means you blocked me at some point after spamming my comments and also my ask box or just that tumblr is being tumblr. If you do, feel free to respond if you like, though I'd prefer a reblog and less vibrating indignation if you do. I hope I've made it clear that I really and truly have nothing against your pink blorbo. Indeed, so far as I can tell, we both think her scene was pretty poorly handled; you're just more willing to do the mental legwork on fleshing out her characterization than I am.

Which is fine, but maybe ratchet back on lashing out at people who don't make it a priority to read depth the author is not providing onto characters that aren't their blorbos. Cheers!

------------------ FOOTNOTES ------------------

[1] And way to be, like, super unnecessarily confrontational with those words you put in my mouth, by the way. 

[2] And, yes, also a war crime—even more of one, actually.  Forcing captured enemy soldiers to fight their own is only officially a war crime in international conflicts, but Japan is a signatory to an amendment to the Rome Statute that classifies the use of chemical agents in armed conflicts as a war crime in internal disputes as well as international ones.  Give or take whether the clashes between heroes and villains meet the criteria of “protracted armed conflict between governmental authorities and organized armed groups or between such groups” anyway.

          I’m inclined to say the use of licensed and regulated abilities like quirks makes the combatants “armed,” but as much research as I’m willing to give this footnote doesn’t immediately clarify how long hostilities need to drag out to count as “protracted.”  Certainly the presence of the PLF makes the villain side an “organized armed group,” though.

[3] Dabi’s blue fire is my go-to example: it reduces back-alley thugs to twisted blackened husks but barely even singes Hawks’s forearms; it melts carbon fiber cables but leaves his outfit completely unscathed.  Given that Horikoshi can’t even keep Dabi’s damage output consistent with itself across all of his appearances, I damn sure don’t expect consistent damage output between characters.

[4] Sure, Endeavor’s connected to one of the lead students while Mount Lady is not, but that’s all on the writing.  There’s no reason that Mount Lady couldn’t have been connected to a student via a meaningful internship or a past acquaintanceship save that Horikoshi chose not to write her such a connection.

[5] That come, I might note, after he already has gotten back up.  Perhaps Horikoshi had been doing this “spoiling the outcome before we see the process” thing for longer than I thought…

[6] Recall that the story managed to make time for a flashback of Deku getting training from Ochaco, Tsuyu and Sero as a lead-in to the conversation between Bakugou and All Might about the latter hiding something.

[7] Or, more cynically, the only one, given how tertiary the characters start becoming immediately after her.

[8] And for what it’s worth, when I said that she was right, I was saying that the world would, in fact, be a better place without bigotry.  Obviously the answer is not, “Kill all bigots in their beds,” but I wish the group had talked more about what Mina said because it would have been a more frank, more honest discussion about how to fight bigotry than the provided answer of, “Put a bag over your head and hope it goes away on its own if you and everyone like you just act with inhuman levels of patience and calm at all times for the next hundred years.”

[9] Give or take her dramatically shaded angry face in Chapter 338—a face she is making along with the entire rest of her class sans Aoyama, so, again, really not impressing upon me that Mina particularly is a character struggling to avoid losing herself to revenge.

[10] So, you know, all those people who fell from upper floors of the Villa were probably also fine.  But it’s one or the other, isn’t it?  Either that kind of fall is enough to severely injure people so Cementoss knowingly enacted  an opening gambit that stood a high chance of maiming or killing an unknown number of people, or people in BNHA would walk it off with nothing worse than a few abrasions, in which case Midnight was in no significant danger.

[11] In seating order, I like: Aoyama, Tsuyu, Iida, Uraraka, Ojiro, Tokoyami, and, from the war arc on, Mineta.

[minilpark]

incorrect topgun: maverick quotes pt. 383

coyote: which way did rooster go? bob: well, based on the direction of the wind, the broken sticks in the corner, and the slight disturbance in the dirt, i'd guess they went left. coyote: you could really figure it out from that? bob: no, you idiot, rooster sent me a text. see?

[ashbur]

baptizedinmyspit sideblog tour

everyone blame @theghostthathauntsurlocalmansion for enabling this. some urls have been redacted because i don’t want them linked to this blog, but every single one of the exactly 50 sideblogs i have will be at least referenced. yeah i have cringe ass fandom blogs yes im an mcyt stan yes im an age regressor nyah nah nah nah nahh unfollow me about it if ur mad lol. 

okay here we go

@wilburapologist - set up, currently active - 181 followers - my general mcyt/dsmp blog. mostly reblogs. 

@mcytagere - set up, on hiatus - 636 followers - my blog for mcyt/dsmp fandom agere content. mostly original content and asks with some reblogs. 

@[redacted] - set up, formerly active - 383 followers - my general 5 Seconds Of Summer blog. mostly reblogs. 

@anotherwilbur - set up, currently active - 7 followers (lol get fucked Wil) - one of my headmates’ blogs idk what he gets up to over there ask him

@undeadscenecore - set up, currently active - 3,559 followers - my scenecore aesthetic blog. mostly reblogs and some original photography.

@polydysautonomic - set up, currently active - 22 followers - my physical disability advocacy/awareness blog. mostly reblogs.

@[redacted] - set up, currently active - 0 followers - my vent blog. mostly original vent posts. 

@tech-za - set up, currently active - 17 followers - my blog centered around Ph1lza and Technoblade’s friendship (NOT a ship blog). mostly reblogs. 

@sapnap-kinnie - set up, formerly active - 1 follower - my feral crew (Dream, Georgenotfound, Sapnap, Karl Jacobs, Quackity) blog. all reblogs. mostly abandoned and content that would have gone there is now redirected to wilburapologist . moderate potential to reactivate at some point. 

@george-notfound - set up, formerly active - 18 followers - my Georgenotfound-centric blog. mostly reblogs. same activity situation as sapnap-kinnie. 

@toblr - set up, currently active - 8 followers - our blog for my headmate Toby, posted on by multiple people in my system. only interact with this blog if all of your interactions would be 100% sfw, Toby is a child. mostly reblogs. 

@polymorphic-punishments - set up, currently active - 0 followers - another one of my headmates’ blogs, same deal as anotherwilbur. 

@pogchamppogpack - set up, not really active - 3 followers - blog that i made for my /p /hj ABO pack with two of my friends. i’m the alpha in case you were wondering. mostly reblogs. potential for occasional activity. 

@whumpwrite - set up, currently active - 3 followers - my writing blog, mostly fic writing, decent bit of pro-ao3 posting. mostly reblogs. 

@turbohell-castiel - set up, not really active - 4 followers - my supernatural blog. i mostly just spn post on main now. mostly reblogs. low potential for reactivation. 

@empoweredmenominee - set up, currently active - 18 followers - my blog centered around indigenous cultures and issues we face. mostly reblogs with some original posts.

@pop-punk-agere - set up, formerly active - 65 followers - my general age regression blog with a theme of pop punk music. i used to post there a lot but a lot of the things i posted there started going to mcytagere when my mcyt fixation set in. mostly reblogs and original littleposting. high potential for reactivation. 

@[redacted] - set up, currently active - 247 followers - my kink/nsft blog. mostly original posts with some reblogs.

@stillinthemerlinfandom - set up, formerly active - 14 followers - my BBC merlin blog. i’m still a fan of merlin but the fandom is just So Dead that i don’t bother with it (said with respect to the people who are still active). mostly original posts. low potential to reactivation. 

@unsolved-wheeze-sigh - set up, formerly active - 15 followers - my buzzfeed unsolved/watcher entertainment blog. mostly reblogs. low potential for reactivation. 

@[redacted] - set up, formerly active - 220 followers - my [redacted fandom] incorrect quotes blog (redacted because it’d be easy to find if you knew what fandom it was for). mostly original posts. low potential for reactivation. 

@polygon-unraveled - set up, very occasionally active - 32 followers - my polygon gaming/BDG blog. mostly reblogs. low potential for full reactivation. 

@biconjaskier - set up, formerly active - 1 follower - my blog for netflix’s The Witcher. mostly reblogs. low potential for reactivation. 

@actualstutter - partially set up, waiting to activate - 0 followers - the blog that i intend to make for advocacy and awareness for people who have the speech impediment of chronic stuttering. will activate at some point in the future. 

@diagnosedbpd - partially set up, waiting to activate - 0 followers - currently private until setup is complete - the blog that i intend to make for borderline personality disorder issues and awareness. will activate at some point in the future. 

@[redacted] - set up, formerly active - 38 followers - fandom-specific nsfw blog. mostly original posts. low potential for reactivation. 

@devynndavynnandemotionaldylynn - set up, formerly active - 9 followers - my blog for some random alt bands, mostly waterparks and palaye royale. mostly reblogs. low potential for reactivation. 

AND THAT IS ALL OF THE ONES THAT ARE COMPLETELY/PARTIALLY SET UP. here’s a quick list of all the other urls that i have for some reason or another. @dbtofficial @wedancethedanceofitaly @dsmpagere @benchtrioapologist @antarcticduo @ranbooprotectionsquad @transranboo @biranboo @ph1lzakinnie @wilbursoot-kinnie @jackmanifoldhotel @fundyenjoyer @syndicateenjoyer @catboy-omega @dsmpgender @dragthelakeandbringmehomeagain @taylor404 @wilbursootanti @makeupisfuckinggreatforaguy @[redacted] @[redacted] @weed-cat 

thank you for coming to my TED talk. 

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#5

from the left: curufin, maedhros, amrod, celegorm, caranthir, amras, maglor

bought a new tablet nd decided to post some scribbles ;)

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#4

annatar, holding a gun to celebrimbor's head: i'm gonna take you out...

celebrimbor: great! It's a date!

annatar, blushing: it was a threat!

celebrimbor, already leaving: see you at six.

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#3

fingon: i’m kind of crushing on someone, but i’m worried about telling you who it is, because you’re not going to like it

fingolfin: just rip the bandage off, son.

fingon: It’s cousin maitimo

fingolfin: i'm not dealing with this. put the bandage back on.

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#2

luke, impersonating as a luke skywalker impersonator : hi yes im a luke skywalker cosplayer

this man : aren't you too short for a luke skywalker?

luke :

luke, whining : ...yeah i get that a lot

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#1

celebrimbor: my bloodline ends with me.

annatar: that’s the fanciest way i’ve ever heard someone say “i’m gay”.

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Spirited Time Travel

Just a little note, I know next to nothing about Ghostbusters. But since I've been hearing the song recently I couldn't help thinking of something while I listened to it...

Hope you enjoy this little crossover ficlet and Happy Halloween! 🎃>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>

Now, what in the world was going on?

That'd be a good question for anyone in this scene, but it might not be the right time to ask it, because everyone is confused.

You could ask the two men in the altered DeLorean who were bewildered as heck.

Or maybe you could ask the people in the suped up 1959 Cadillac in pursuit of said DeLorean, who couldn't understand the impossible this one time. They had gotten a call about paranormal, supernatural, some sort of weird happenings going down on a relatively quiet street close to New York's city limits. The call reported that with a flash and a bang, what seemed to be a DeLorean materialized from nowhere, racing down the street.

The very idea was strange, how had a car just appeared out of nowhere? If the Ghostbusters weren't professional, well, ghost-busters, they probably wouldn't believe such a crazy idea. But they dealt with the crazy often enough to know there were things out there that didn't always have logical explanations. What they were facing now? Something that could only be described as being from another time.

A practically illegible license plate that said it was from 2015, a little contraption called Mr. Fusion that was dubbed an energy converter, and the most bizarre additions to a car they had ever seen, including their own, put this car out of place. The Ghostbusters hadn't gotten a good look at the drivers to figure out what was going on but they knew whatever it was, it was out of the ordinary.

This was something strange that happened in someone's neighborhood alright, but hey, it was what the Ghostbusters were there for.

<>

"Doc, Doc what the hell is going on?" the DeLorean's passenger, Marty McFly, yelled in confusion.

The driver, Doctor Emmett Brown, steered the car haphazardly, trying to lose the vehicle tailing them. He addressed his younger companion, "I don't know Marty, it appears our arrival here has alerted some kind of law enforcement, one unknown to me."

"Are you sure we had to come here to 1984? Why couldn't we just come to New York in '85?" the teen questioned.

"Because what we're here for is outlawed by 1985, completely unattainable, except through the endeavor of traveling back to before it was banned," Doc explained.

"Well we have to lose these guys chasing us, how about we fire up that hover conversion you had installed? Lose these bastards by going over the buildings."

"We can't even if we wanted to," the scientist banished the idea, "In order to do that, the DeLorean could not be in motion like it is now. Even if we stop, who knows what will happen concerning the vehicle behind us. And don't even think about traveling back to 1985 to try again. Our one exploit with the space-time continuum brought unnecessary attention to us that most likely induced some kind of panic. A second jump now could potentially cause hysteria. Even so, in 1985 I calculated what streets had the least amount of traffic in 1984 to minimize the possibility of an encounter with someone on the road. At this point, if my calculations are correct, we are entering streets with higher traffic levels."

"What if instead of time travel, we just leave the time circuits off and try to outrun them?"

"Marty, they're in a 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor Futura, we're in a DeLorean. Their top speed is approximately 20 mph faster than ours."

"Then how do we get away?" Marty asked, his exasperation evident. "Just try to shake them somehow?"

"Precisely- Great Scott!" Doc exclaimed, as what could only be described as a ghostly light begin to emanate in the street a hundred feet or so in front of them. The light began to take form, not as an amorphous cloud of glowing smoke any longer, but of a form that was most surely a ghost.

The spirit flew before them, summoned to the scene by the chaos only time travel could bring. It's essence brimming with chaotic energy that the scene just did not need.

"This is heavy..." Marty murmured.

5 notes • Posted 2021-10-31 19:34:46 GMT

#4

See You Some Other Time - Chapter 1

For all of those who thought this OC insert story was Marty x OC/Reader, you are sadly mistaken! This only has the OC inserted into the story, sorry not sorry :)

Second multichapter BTTF fic is underway and happy November 5th everyone! If Doc Brown hadn't invented time travel on this day, we wouldn't have this wonderful fandom! 😊

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It was a conspiracy! An error in time travel! How could she possibly have gotten to be here, sometime in the past? Casey hadn't even been in the time machine for goodness sake! Now here she was, shakily getting to her feet from where she had landed on the other side of a billboard from that time traveling DeLorean. Maybe it was all a dream? No, she had already pinched and slapped herself too hard and too many times for it to be a dream.

Slowly, Casey peeked out from around the billboard the car had been hidden behind, the one that had prevented the two men in the car from seeing her. When they had gotten out and walked onto the road, she had dived behind the advertisement, not quite sure if they should know she was here. But now curiosity had gotten ahold of her and she had to know what was happening, everything seemed too familiar, like she had been here before...

The two guys were walking back and forth along the road, having some conversation that Casey could only hear bits of. When their backs were turned, she creeped out onto the road to see if she could hear more.

"Your other self?"

"Yes! There are now 2 of me here... and there are 2 of you here. The other me, is the Dr. Emmett Brown from 1955, the younger me... that helps the younger you get back to 1985!"

"1955?!" Casey all but mumbled.

Both men turned around, the one, Doc he was called, seemed older and had crazy silver hair. The other one was Marty, he seemed to be only a year or two older than herself, and looked strangely familiar...

"Great Scott!" Doc seemed to whisper, to far beyond surprise to express his thoughts vocally. Marty, on the other hand, was just the opposite.

"Who the hell are you?!" he yelled, so very confused, "Better question, When the hell are you from?!"

"...2021?" Casey nervously whispered, sticking her fists into her legging pockets, one hand curling around her phone.

"20-2021?!" Marty stuttered in shock, turning to his friend, "Doc is that even possible?! How the hell did she get here?!"

"The space time continuum is in turmoil..." the man mumbled, then his voice suddenly increased in volume, "Because there are events in the past that counteract those in the future, ones that would cease to exist without those future events, there's an imbalance in the space time continuum. It's causing sporadic fluctuations in certain elements corresponding to this imbalance in future and past events. The DeLorean is one of them. Remember what happened when were about to travel here from the alternate 1985? The DeLorean shuddered before we hit 88 mph, the time circuits flickered off and then came back on with that date in 2021, causing us to travel there before we could come here. That was one of those fluctuations, interfering with the functionality of the time circuits. What must have happened was there was another fluctuation as we were about to leave 2021, subsequently bringing this girl with us as we traveled here to 1955."

"So you're saying," Marty slowly concluded, "Our existence is temporarily wavering, and that there could be fluctuations to us?"

"In theory yes, however it's highly unlikely we'd notice, one could have happened already and we're none the wiser. Such as a fleeting moment of absence of thought, that we wouldn't think of as out of the ordinary. The only fluctuation we can be certain of based by repeated evidence, is a disruption to the functionality of the time machine whenever it jumps between times."

While Doc and Marty were having their conversation, Casey pulled her phone out of her pocket. So this was the past, huh? At the moment everything seemed so crazy that it could possibly be fake, it felt like a classic movie series she had seen. There was only one way to test the reality of this... She turned on the device, expecting to see some bars but instead getting 'No Service' where they should be.

"Ah there's no cell service!" Casey shouted, "For a second there I thought that maybe I hadn't gone back in time, I was just on the movie set for that classic movie series Back to the Future! Which really isn't that unbelievable since it's exactly like this in the movie... Flying, time traveling DeLorean... 1985 teen guy who's best friends with an eccentric scientist... Huh, I'm starting to think that the series wasn't fictional and was based on rumors like some people were saying-"

Casey yelped in surprise when she turned to find Doc about a foot away, staring at her intently. "There's a movie series in your time that is almost exactly as what has been happening?" he asked, concern on his face.

"Well, yes," the 2021 girl replied nervously, "Only without the part about some girl coming from a year in the distant future."

"Fascinating, when does this movie come out?" Doc inquired.

"Well the first in the trilogy came out in 1989-"

"1989?!" Marty, who had been listening in, cried out in shock. "That's only 4 years after the time we're trying to get back to!"

"Should I briefly explain what happens in them?" Casey apprehensively smiled.

"It'd probably be for the best. If they happen to be highly reminiscent of what Marty and I have faced, you could very well be in possession of insight on our futures."

In 5 minutes Casey explained what happened in the movies, with each scene she told, Doc and Marty's facial expressions became harder for her to decipher. When she reached the part about the DeLorean returning to 1955, Doc made motions for her to stop.

"Do you know what inspired this film collection perchance?"

"I think I heard it was based on rumors," the brown haired girl recollected, "There was also something going around that a guy and a girl made suggestions to the writers claiming the ideas were based on a "true story"."

"This is both disconcerning and beneficial," the scientist stated, he turned to his teenage friend, "I have reason to believe that what this girl says is all true, somehow in the future our exploits are told to the word. However, as being marketed a "fictional piece" most people seem to be oblivious to the fact that they actually happened. But now, this girl here, knows what happens in our futures because of those films."

"Just calling her "this girl" isn't going to work forever, Doc," Marty turned from his friend to the girl that stood beside them. "What's your name?"

"Kent," she replied, "Casey Kent. And I think I can help you guys get that Almanac. After all, three heads are better than two. Especially when one of them has some knowledge of the future."

<>

"Now that we have that sorted out, Marty, remember the lightning bolt at the clock tower?" Doc asked.

"Yeah?"

"That event doesn't happen until tonight, so you must be very careful to not run into your other self. Let me give the two of you some money." Doc pulled out a case and opened it, revealing different bills from all sorts of years. "Have to be prepared for all monetary possibilities. Get yourselves some 50's clothes."

"Check Doc," Marty replied, taking the bills Doc gave him and springing up into a run along the road to town, Casey a little bit behind him.

"Something inconspicuous!" Doc called after them.

<>

"Y'know that outfit isn't very inconspicuous," Marty could recognize Casey's voice as someone stopped beside him.

"Yeah, well I'd like to see you do better with what we had..." he turned to address her and got a nasty surprise. The girl from 2021 wore a pale yellow sweater over a white round-collared shirt, a sky blue mid-shin length poofy skirt, and some black and white saddle shoes. She even had a canvas tote bag that most likely contained her previous outfit.

Marty was in shock, how had she managed to put that together with the money they had? Casey seemed to understand that as she smirked at him, "Money goes farther when you know what you're doing." She prodded at his jacket sleeve, "And when you don't buy a leather jacket."

He shook off her words and pulled the walkie talkie Doc had given him from an inside pocket of his jacket. "Doc, come in Doc, this is Marty-"

"And Casey!" said girl piped up.

"-over," Marty finished.

"Roger Marty and Casey, this is Doc. Are you there?" the scientist's voice came through the small device.

The boy pulled binoculars out of his coat, peering through them at the house across the street, laden with "No Trespassing" signs of all kinds. Casey rolled her eyes at Marty, he was being a little dramatic with his "inconspicuous" 1950s character. "Yeah Doc, we're at the address. It's the only Tannen in the book... but I don't think its Biff's house. It looks like some old lady lives here."

Just after Marty finished, the door to the house slammed opened and a teen guy that was probably their age - he looked older though, or at least bigger - came out. A cranky voice called out to him from inside the house, "Biff!"

The guy called back, "Yeah?"

"Where're you going Biff?"

"I'm going to get my car Grandma!"

"When are you coming back? My feet hurt and I want you to rub my toes some more!" Biff's Grandmother yelled.

"Shut up you old bag," he mumbled to himself, walking down the sidewalk. Marty and Casey followed him sneakily, watching as Biff took a ball from a group of kids outside playing.

"Give us our ball back!" the kids cried.

"What ball?" Biff asked, clearly messing with them as he held their ball in his hand.

"That ball!"

"What ball are you talking about?"

"Give us our ball back!" the kids shouted, angrily and most insistently this time.

"Oh, is this your ball?" Biff replied sarcastically, pointing to the ball he held.

"Yeah!"

"Is this your you ball, you want it back?"

"Yeah!" the kids yelled again.

Biff took the ball and threw it, right into the gutter of a random house. "Well, go get it!" he cruelly sneered in their faces, laughing as he turned and continued down the sidewalk.

"Doc, it's Biff's house, we're on him. Over."

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Casey and Marty followed Biff as he made his way down the street, stopping at a place near the courthouse square. While Marty paused behind a car parked near what she assumed was Biff's. Casey wandered farther down the street, catching a glimpse of the courthouse, before she came back. Leaning against a tree close to where Marty was hiding, Casey pulled a Nov. 12th, 1955 newspaper from her canvas bag and opened it. The paper covered the lower half of her face and it appeared as if she was just a normal 50s girl.

"What are you doing?" the 1985 teen boy asked her in a whisper, quickly glancing to Biff who had pushed through another group of kids playing with a ball. Ignoring the children's cries of indignation, the bully walked over to where his car was.

"Being inconspicuous Calvin," she muttered

"How d'you-"

"I asked Doc some questions about the last time you came to 1955, just to have all the facts. Now zip it or Biff will know you're there."

"Looking good Terry," Biff said, complimenting the mechanic who had fixed his car.

"Hey Biff, she's all fixed up just like you wanted, but I couldn't get it started! You got some kind of kill switch on this thing?" Terry replied.

Out of the corner of her eye, Casey spotted an elderly man hiding behind the next tree on the treelawn to her right. The man was watching the scene between Biff and Terry just like she and Marty were, and the man looked strangely familiar. When realization hit her that this was future Biff coming to give the past version of himself the Almanac, she made to bring Marty's attention to this. However, Casey was faced with the problem that whatever she did to get Marty's attention, she'd also draw the attention of both Biffs.

"No, you just got to have the right touch," 1955 Biff bragged to Terry, "Nobody can start this car but me."

"The bill comes to $302 and 57 cents," Terry commented, not that impressed with Biff.

"300 bucks? 300 bucks for a couple of dents?" was what the bully angrily shot back, "No, hey, that's bullshit Terry!"

"No Biff, it was horseshit, the whole car was full of it," the mechanic retorted. "I had to pay Old Man Jones 80 bucks to haul it away."

"Old Man Jones? He probably resold it too! I ought to get something for that!" Biff complained.

"Wanna get something for it? Well, go inside, you can call Old Man Jones and if you want us to give you a refund-" Terry suggested.

"It's 300 bucks Terry! If I catch the guy who caused this, I'll break his neck!" Biff declared.

While Biff and Terry had their backs turned as they went into the Western Auto Stores building, Marty hopped into the back of Biff's car, covering himself with a sheet. Casey was about to move to tell Marty to get out of there, but remembered old Biff just in time. However, it seemed like the old man was caught up in his own thoughts as he muttered, "The manure! I remember that!"

Not much later, Biff and Terry came out of the auto shop, Terry carrying 4 large cans.

"...4 cans of Valvoline," the mechanic finished.

"4 cans for a $300 job?" Biff complained to him.

"I can't even have lunch..."

"I should be getting a case or more out of you for a 300 buck job," he argued with Terry.

Casey winced as Biff threw the cans of Valvoline into the back and right on top of Marty, but there was nothing she could do.

"It's the last time I ever do you a favor! Last time!" Terry warned Biff before the mechanic drove off, but soon Biff's attention were on a pair of girls who had come out of a dress place next to the auto shop.

"It's perfect Lorraine," one girl gushed as the other pulled a pink dress from its box and held it up.

"Oh, look how good it is, it looks so good!" Lorraine commented happily.

Biff walked over to them, Casey peeking a bit more over her newspaper at him as he called, "Well lookie what we got here. Nice dress Lorraine. Although, you'd look better wearing nothing at all."

Casey bit her lip to keep an angry outburst under control as Biff attempted to lift Lorraine's skirt. From what Doc had told her, that jerk over there was harassing Marty's mother, but it made her blood boil that anyone should get treated with so little respect. While the 2021 teen could be described as a "hothead" when she was angry, she did nothing as Lorraine defended herself from Biff. Casey just couldn't risk getting on Biff's bad side until she and Marty retrieved the Almanac, unless it was really necessary.

"Biff, why don't you take a long walk off a short pier," Lorraine shot at him.

"Hey, listen Lorraine. There's that dance at school tonight. Right now, my car's all fixed. I'd figured that I'd cut you a break and give you the honour of going with the best looking guy in school."

"Well, I'm busy tonight Biff."

"Doing what?"

"Washing my hair," Lorraine lied, hoping Biff would get the message to go jump off a cliff.

"That's as funny as a screen door on a battleship," Biff commented.

"It's "screen door on a submarine", you dork," Marty corrected under his breath with a muffled chuckle. Casey could hear him, the same thought had been going through her head, and she let a snicker slip.

"Look Biff, somebody already asked me to the dance," the Baines girl abandoned all subtlery to put Biff into his place.

"Who? That bug George McFly?" the Tannen sneered.

"I'm going with Calvin Klein, okay?"

The eyebrows of the Kent girl shot up as she struggled to pretend to read her newspaper once again. She had known that Marty probably had gone to the dance with his mom based on her Back to the Future knowledge, but it was still a shock to hear it.

"Calvin Klein?" Biff grabbed Lorraine's shoulders, "No, that's not okay. You're going with me, understand?"

"Get your cooties off of me!" Lorraine snapped.

"When are you going to get it through that thick skull of yours Lorraine, you're my girl!"

"Biff Tannen, I wouldn't be your girl even if you had a million dollars!" she cried, kicking Biff in the leg and hitting him over the head with her dress box.

Shortly blindsided by pain, Lorraine and her friend managed to escape Biff, who angrily yelled after them while almost getting hit by a car, "Yes you will, Lorraine! It's you and me, Lorraine! It's meant to be! Someday you'll marry me! Someday you'll be my wife!"

Biff turned to his car, finding the older Biff sitting in it but not recognizing him as his future self.

"You always had your way with women, Biff," the old Biff commented.

"Get the hell out of my car, old man!" the young Biff yelled.

2015 Biff ignored this, "Do you want to marry that girl, Biff? I can help make it happen."

"Oh yeah. And who are you? Miss Lonely Hearts?"

The older man had forgotten how intolerable he had once been, exasperation evident in his voice, "Just get in the car, butthead."

Obviously 1955 Biff didn't take kindly to that. "Who are you calling butthead, butthead?" he retorted.

Once again his older self ignored him, starting the car while his younger version watched in shock.

"How did you know how to do that? Nobody could start this car but me."

"Just get into the car, Tannen. Today's your lucky day."

Casey watched as Biff's car drove away and just about disappeared from her sight with both Biffs and Marty inside. That may be a problem, unless... With a smirk, the 2021 teen took off running, she knew what was going to happen.

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Casey arrived on the scene of Biff's house, panting heavily after running the whole way. She saw the Biffs leaving the garage, the one from 1955 fastening the doors shut while the one from 2015 rambled on about something to the other. Hiding behind a parked car, she watched them, the young Biff going into the house while the old Biff went meandering back down the street.

Once both of them were gone, she hurried over to the garage, fingering the padlock on it. Maybe it was going to be a problem...

6 notes • Posted 2021-11-05 21:30:51 GMT

#3

For the ask game: 4, 9 and 13 👀

Thank you very much for your ask Dary! <3

First one on this blog XD

4. You can put 2 characters from the trilogy in a wrestling cage for a no-rules fight, who are you picking and who’s winning?

That's an interesting one... I'd probably have Marlene McFly (2015) and Biff (1955) and Marlene's winning. I just headcanon her as being a total girlboss and will defend her twin brother Marty Jr. at the drop of a hat.

9. Did you wanna see Clara come to the present or do you think Doc was fine staying with her?

I'm pretty ambivalent with this one, though I'm leaning more towards Clara coming to the present. I think she'd love it and adjust to it fairly quickly (with some help from Doc and Marty) and while it's cool Doc came back with the time train, I really think he should have stayed in 1985. Poor Marty just went through all that time travel drama and while Jennifer kind of gets it, Doc being around if he ever wants to talk would definitely be a good thing.

13. You and another character have to stop the Titanic, tell me your whole plan: who’s coming with you, how are you gonna sneak on, what are you gonna do ITS ABOUT TO HIT THE ICEBERG HURRY

Found a loophole, will exploit it. Marlene and I use the DeLorean and go back in time by a few hours to where the Titanic is still quite a distance away and we melt the iceberg it's about to hit so it doesn't even exist. :)

Send me an ask from this ask game!

7 notes • Posted 2021-11-15 23:12:57 GMT

#2

You'll never guess who saw footage of Eric Stoltz as the original Marty Mcfly...

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#1

Thought the BTTF fandom could use some more memes

And so I made more :)

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LUCY IN A TUX!!!

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#3

when victor said he was too gay for the locker room, but too straight for benji’s friends,

i felt that

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im sorry for not updating any of my fics (specifically my lv one). i have no motivation lol.

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In the emo subculture, huge or studded belts, horn-rimmed glasses, messenger bags, wristbands, fingerless gloves, as well as striped socks are all prominent devices. Emo youngsters frequently put on flats that resemble "punk" footwear as a result of its origins in underground songs. Canvas footwear, desert boot, and sneakers are all preferred selections for emo footwear. Goth style has a reciprocatory connection with the style world.

What is considered emo?

The yarns are exclusively made in Italy with a fully traceable supply chain. Gucci was also the first luxury brand to use ECONYL ® regenerated nylon in ready-to-wear pieces, a 100% recycled nylon fibre derived from fishnets, textile waste and a thick pile fabric used for carpets and upholstery called moquette.

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2019 Nissan-Datsun Altima Diagnostic and Repair Information # 09-136 Date: 091201

2019 Nissan-Datsun Altima Diagnostic and Repair Information # 09-136 Date: 091201

Engine Controls - ECM VIN Registration Procedure

Classification: EC09-028

Reference: NTB09-136

Date: December 1, 2009

2005 AND LATER; ECM VIN REGISTRATION

APPLIED VEHICLES: All Nissan 2005 and later

SERVICE INFORMATION

The Applied Vehicles must have the correct Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) registered in the Engine Control Module (ECM). The VIN

registration process must be performed under the following conditions.

^ When installing a new ECM

^ If, during vehicle service, the VIN registration inside the ECM is found to be missing or incorrect.

When needed, use the Service Procedure in this bulletin to perform ECM VIN registration.

CLAIMS INFORMATION

Refer to the current Nissan Warranty Flat Rate Manual and use the appropriate claims coding for any repairs being performed.

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SERVICE PROCEDURE

1. Connect C-III to the vehicle and perform the initial selections:

NOTE:

If C-III is already connected, go to Step 2.

a. Start C-III and Wait for the "Detecting VI/MI in progress" message to clear.

b. Select the detected VI from the list.

c. Wait for the "Checking the firmware version" message to clear.

d. Select Model and Year.

e. Confirm the correct model and year were selected.

f. Select Repair.

2. Select Direct Diagnostic Mode icon

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3. Select System Diagnosis

4. Select Engine

5. Select OK

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6. Select Work Support

7. Select VIN Registration

8. Select Next

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9. Make sure the ignition is ON with engine OFF.

10. Select Start

11. Enter the VIN into C-III two times (see Figure 7).

^ Touch the C-III screen in the "VIN box" before typing.

^ Make sure to use all CAPITAL LETTERS.

^ Use the VIN from the vehicle you are working on.

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12. Select Start

13. Turn the ignition OFF, and wait 10 seconds.

14. After waiting 10 seconds, turn the ignition ON.

15. Select OK

VIN registration is complete

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How do dragons hear...

As it turns out, the dragons of the Temeraire-verse have external ears. Of course, you probably wouldn't know that as a fact if you were just doing a general readthrough of the series; this is a fact mentioned a total of three times in the series, as somewhat throwaway lines. Each mention is roughly one sentence, and the mentions are one in book seven, once in book eight, and once in book nine, and are not overly descriptive (Edit correction: there are two mentions of Temeraire’s ears pricking in chapter 10 of Black Powder War, but I expect we didn’t notice the previous times we read it due to ‘pricking ears’ being used with people as a term for listening closely/attentively). What these mentions tell us, though, is that it is every dragon; book seven is a South American dragon (once we came into possession of books 3-8 in 2016 we re-read the whole series. Upon reaching the relevant sentence in book seven, I think we spent a good ten minutes staring and re-reading it going "what. What?? Am I reading this right? Am I interpreting it right? ??????"), book eight, Temeraire (a Chinese dragon), and book nine (which we managed to borrow from a library) was that grey Scottish feral whose name I cannot find on the internet. (I'd find the exact lines, but all my Anatomy page markers in our copies of 7/8 are tissue paper because we ran out of the type of stickytab we used, which makes it. A lot harder to pick out each page that’s been marked. Also, opening the pages eternally runs the risk of the tissue piece escaping. Someday we'll be reading through those books again and replace that tissue paper with stickytabs)

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The top left corner of this page is predominantly us thinking about fleur-de-nuits, who have "narrow curving horns flaring out from [their] forehead, just above the eyes" (pages 126/127, Throne of Jade, paperback edition) pointy-faced thing in the bottom-right of THEM is a Jade dragon think (heads described as "... with a broad curving forehead and a long arrow-shaped muzzle..." (page 348, Throne of Jade, paperback edition), later also described as 'foxlike', if I remember rightly) (also, a random dragon next to the sheep-horn-style fleur) Bottom left is Celestial, and quite frankly, bugger their ruff for a joke, what even (like. I don’t even know. We’re currently rereading Throne of Jade and took note that at various times the ‘horns’ that support the ruff are described as ‘curving’ at some point, ‘flexible’, and Qian’s (page 383, ToJ, pb) as “a great standing ruff of translucent black stretched among ribbed horns of vermillion” (which admittedly always throws us off, because why are they red?). mid-bottom is a kazilik. Feathery looking ones are obviously South American dragons. Some longwings with their ‘bone spurs’ aka. modified teeth because that is a logical conclusion to draw (although gosh darn, anatomy can do some pretty bizarre things.) A bunch of Regal Copper thinks in the bottom right quarter of the page (with our usual sort of head design for them, although we were poking at the anatomy a bit for the head-on views)(we just like drawing their horns like that) along with a chequered nettle, parnassian, and Kulingile (many people, it should be noted, draw his parent breeds with horns; this is incorrect, as it is noted when Kulingile's grow that nobody knows where they came from because said parent breeds do not have them.) (I should go and find the exact quote to write here at some point) Also a whole bunch of random dragon heads.

In other news, us discovering this leaves some internal part of us screaming because it means an inaccuracy on all our previous fanarts of this series.

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Blog #5

Photojournalism is a huge part of how journalists are able to communicate visually with people. I think that in order for people to get a better idea of what is going on they have to be able to see it. The thing is that not all photographs are a clear and accurate depiction of what is going on at that particular moment. There are ways in which photographs can be manipulated and fixed so that it gives off a different image rather than the original copy. Photoshop is a prime example of how photos are edited so that they can soothe and convince viewers but are a visual misrepresentation. Seeing is no longer believing anymore because of all the different software that is out now. I think that in order to really know if a photo is worth sharing there should be guidelines that are followed. One is to check for a caption that offers attribution and context to a photo. Another is to properly analyze the photo to see if the lighting direction is consistent. 

There are photos that I have taken in the past that I have edited a bit. Filters are a prime example of the software that is easily accessible for people to use in order to play around with their photos. I think that in terms of journalism it goes against the rules that are set into place, the one thing that a journalist should do is to be fair and accurate. To change the context of a photo is basically saying that the original didn’t give enough detail so let’s change it up and make it look eye-catching. The images that are in example 5-1 and 5-2 shine light into what photos can depict and whether or not they are real or fixed. 

I think that there are so many different things that can be fixed. In this generation, there are so many memes that are created by photoshopping different pictures and making jokes from it. I think if it is to have fun and make jokes then it is okay but in a serious setting than it needs to done correctly. I, for instance, have made memes but they were to send as friends but never to pass off as an original piece of work. This is where people need to understand the difference and know what is morally correct and incorrect at all times.

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Have You Seen a Diesel Engine "Shot"? See How and Why a Diesel Engine Shoots

You might have heard of some diesel truck or pickup truck whose engine "ran" and only stopped once the diesel was gone. It's no exaggeration, no mechanic story (the gearhead version of fisherman's story, you already know ...). That sort of issue occurs. The engine commences to accelerate abruptly and does not stop anymore. Once a Detroit Diesel engine currently being turned on following thirty many years stopped.

Scary, isn't it? It is actually as though it were a monster that awakens furiously from its sleep, ready to destroy those that dared to bother him.

The gasoline engine uses a throttle managed throttle valve to control the volume of air and therefore the volume of fuel to control the engine pace. In diesel engines the principle is relatively distinct: there is no butterfly valve, as well as the engine pace is managed by the variation of fuel injected into the cylinders. The diesel engine accelerator acts on an injection pump that regulates the volume of diesel to become sent towards the engine. Diesel will not use spark plugs for combustion - its ignition is by injecting the fuel to the compressed air and heating the cylinders. Thus, in case the diesel commences to be injected in to the cylinders devoid of stress or volume regulation, the engine can accelerate uncontrollably. This involuntary and uncontrolled acceleration is called "diesel runaway", also known as "engine fired" in Brazil. But how does this occur? In many other ways, as we shall see below. For much more data stop by https://superandobarreiraspeloempreendedorismo.joomla.com/534-did-you-know-that-a-diesel-engine-can-shoot-383

In the very first case, in much more worn engines, the place there is certainly clearance involving the pistons as well as cylinder walls, the combustion gases can pass as a result of the sides of your pistons and into the crankcase and carry oil mist to the inlet. Since the lubricating oil has combustion properties similar to that of diesel, the engine accelerates with this further fuel injection. The greater the engine pace, the higher the volume of oil mist forced by way of the crankcase breather, causing an engine energy cycle which will result in the complete consumption on the lubricating oil and consequent breakage - commonly an explosion like this:

This cyclic lubricating oil feed may also come about in case you put also considerably lubricating oil within the engine - that's why the manuals are emphatic: by no means add more oil than advised. It is because as opposed to steam or mist of oil, who can climb by way of the breather could be the lubricating oil itself, that will lead to precisely the same "firing" with the engine.

Essentially the most popular condition, nonetheless, is what we see while in the video above: a failure or misadjustment with the injection pump or even the accelerator. While in the video situation, the guy was apparently adjusting the injection pump point when one thing went incorrect as well as fuel movement was no longer controlled through the aspect, feeding the engine as though the throttle was completely depressed. Increasing the engine velocity causes the oil to start to rise by the vents, maintaining the engine working as in other circumstances. For much more information check out https://superandobarreiraspeloempreendedorismo.joomla.com/534-did-you-know-that-a-diesel-engine-can-shoot-383

When realizing that his Detroit Diesel fired, the man requires a brave as harmful perspective. He picks up a piece of rubber or tarp and tries to regulate the sole issue that is definitely inside reach: the consumption of engine air, triggering the machine to drown. In the process he could have lost his fingers, but luckily he just broke the blades of your turbine.

If you are wondering why he did not get into the cockpit and turned off the engine, that is why diesel engines, as we have stated just before, have no spark to ignite. The engine is shut down from the fuel shut-off. As the component responsible for cutting the fuel had broken in his hand, the sole resolution was to drown the engine. Even so the process is unsafe: the engine can basically explode based to the pace and amount of fuel, so you don't have to work with your imagination to learn what transpires when an engine filled with oil and scorching iron explodes. Today, with electronically controlled diesel engines this can be tougher to come by, specially given that modern day engines have safety systems for closing the consumption, which causes engine drowning. This also demonstrates the importance of performing the right upkeep procedures and checking the situation on the parts prior to trying to commission them.

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