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Fanfic Writer’s “Achievement” list:

1. As Per My Last Email: Get a comment from the same reader on every chapter of a fic with at least 20 chapters.

2. Oh they LOVE me over There!: Get your fic translated into another language.

3. I’ve Looked At This For Five Hours: Have fan art inspired by your fic.

4. Odds And Ends: Complete an entire prompts list.

5. Read Me A Bedtime Story!: Have someone make a podfic of any of your works.

6. A Cliché Is A Cliché For A Reason: Make a Coffee Shop, University, or High School AU.

7. Strongly Worded Letter: Make a fic that directly contradicts a canon event within a week of it transpiring. 

8. Pass It On: Someone made a fic of your fic. Oh, how meta!

9. Alive In Our Hearts: Write an Everybody Lives AU.

10. They’ll Be Back. Aaaany time now: Don’t update a fic for over a year.

11. High Praise: Receive a comment that’s either in all caps, screaming, or screaming in all caps. 

12. Art Inspires Art: Make a fic based on piece of fan art

13: Art Inspires Art 2: Art Harder: The artist that you made a fic based on one of their works makes another piece based on your fic that you based on their work, make another fic based on that one.

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My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency

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Iirc Slayer magically looking younger after his super was originally gonna be a mechanic in Xrd that got scrapped and as weird as it is to see him like that it's sorta neat they ended up bringing the idea back!

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Oh thank fuck he's still Scottish

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Waaaaugh nobody told me there was gonna be a trailer drop!! I'm so mad but also so delighted to wake up to a heap of new info and other people screaming in excitement

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We have a peach tree in our side yard, it doesn't bloom every year but when it does, it's quite a sight! I went out several times just to admire it and to watch the three or four different kinds of bees hovering around the flowers. We're trying to get better at pruning the tree come fruit time so if we're lucky we might be able to get some actually edible ones this year!

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There are ten trillion pictures of flowering trees to the point where they sometimes seem trite and overdone. But then you see a tree in full flower and go holy shit this rules and I've gotta show this to everyone so they can experience the same magic and wonder and there are ten trillion and one pictures of flowering trees

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I hope this isn't rude, but I wanted to get your opinion; what do you think Amane/Bang would look like if it were yuri?

NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR YURI

Hmm, hard call. On one hand I like treating genderswaps as 'it fundamentally changes nothing about the characters aside from their gender' so they would be the same just as women, an incredibly feminine dancer and an incredibly masculine ninja. Unfortunately despite myself my immediate mental response to the thought of Bang as a butch woman is rabid monkey screeching bc lady abs.

On the other hand, it could also be interesting to reinterpret it through that lens. Having Amane be a female performer who presents very masculinely as part of the artform and takes pride in the aesthetic and having Bang be a feminine kunoichi who bemoans her less ladylike traits in terms of bombastic combat and dramatic, hammy personality would be cool to see too! However, the idea of bifauxnen Amane also makes lesbian brain monkey screech so either way I'm not keeping much dignity here

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In going to the pound looking for a new pet to zap I accidentally had the lucky find of a faerie ogrin! Was debating whether or not to keep them but I've started getting a bit attached

I just got the lab scientist as a battledome opponent literally today so I think I'm going to trans their gender and then either have them be a goth or a jester, leaning towards the latter

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So after rewatching with the director's commentary (yeah, technically I watched the movie twice in two days, but the second time I mostly had it in the background while doing other stuff) and having some more time to collect my thoughts, I think I'm just deciding to do a list of all the things I thought the movie did really well, expected or otherwise. Like, everyone knows about the bizarreness and the so-bad-it's-good memery but I want to highlight some stuff I thought was genuinely admirable

-In watching the director's commentary, it seemed that he had a pretty realistic and relatively grounded and familiar understanding of the source material, which is inherently more than the live action Mario movie did. Even if it didn't pan out like expected, it's cool to see that passion went into it and he had a sense of respect for the games instead of writing them off as childish and trying to 'improve' it

-Likewise appreciate the director sharing petty grievances with the film, it humanizes things quite a bit. In fairness I also want those swizzle sticks and Bison dollars and would've been bummed if I was the only one who didn't get any.

-100% will always respect practical effects and physical set design. There were a few areas where CGI was used but for the most part it's all tangible

-Also!! Practical fighting!! Yes it's easy to make jokes about Van Damme's accent when playing someone so cartoonishly American but in a movie like this that relies so heavily on fight scenes he's exactly the sort of person you'd want to cast.

-(Perhaps an odd aside but upon reflection and trying to see other peoples' opinions on the film I think @ninewheels makes a very solid point in that having an immigrant Guile subtly works in the narrative's favor while also downplaying the plot's 'white savior' element to a degree)

-Again, discarding the canon divergences, Honda and Balrog had some terrific moments as a comedic duo, and for as little screentime was they had they managed to make their characters compelling. It's made completely understandable that given all three having their lives ruined by Bison in some form that they and Chun-Li would gravitate towards and work together. Unironically would watch a whole side series just about the three of them they bounce off of each other in a strangely natural way

-Likewise, Dhalsim!! Was not expecting to find him so compelling. I know it's a steep deviation from canon but at the very least they gave him his own little character arc, and the desire to use his skills for the betterment of humanity does sound a lot like canon Dhalsim behavior so I'm fine with it.

-Like I mentioned before, I was quite shocked at how well done Vega's presence was in the film, being rather spot on visually and personality-wise. As I found out while looking up more info, apparently his actor was still learning English at the time, so it's understandable why he only had a few short lines. However, just about everything else makes up for it. The costume design was near-perfect, and even without dialogue his body language did a terrific job of having him come across as condescendingly smug and dismissive. I see a lot of (absolutely deserved) praise for Mr. Julia but Jay Tavare did a fantastic job and absolutely deserves more credit

-On that note in general a recurring sentiment I kept having was that the silent/gesture comedy in this was really, really sharp. Some of the funniest parts in this movie were ones with no dialogue whatsoever

-This movie was funny on purpose!! I've seen some people describe the memetic moments in this and make it sound as though the whole thing is a straightforward action flick, but there were a whole lot of actually intentionally comedic elements and most of them landed perfectly well!

-Zangief is another underratedly terrific performance. Even if he's much duller than he is canonically it's played with so much gusto and enthusiasm that it's so enjoyable to watch him in action.

-Raul Julia. No explanation needed.

-Ming-Na Wen. Slight explanation needed bc WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME SHE WAS SO GOOD IN THIS. Woman did her own stunts and gave the movie a dose of colder realism that worked excellently with the somewhat unsteady tone

-Bazooka Cammy. Also as iffy as I was initially at having a pop star acting in this Kylie turned in a pretty solid performance.

-Gun Ken. I don't have much elaboration for this one it was just funny. Super magical spirit karate from living in backwoods Japan for like a decade with some old guy and you just decide to use a gun. We brought back Neck Snap Cammy from the II OVA for 6 so we can totally bring back Gun Ken for SF6 too right?? Please?? Don't even have to do anything too fancy just take regular Ken and give him Gun.

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you did it! you finally performed the most holy act of street fighter fandom, watching the really weird and pretty bad live action movie. It's bad in the best ways possible honestly and I'm glad you agree Julia was the best part. Also thank you for giving Ming-Na Wen her dues, people tend to overlook her performance because she too gave this trainwreck more effort then it deserved

Like yes, it's easy to say that the movie is bad, but it's bad in such a myriad of such puzzling ways that calling it 'bad' almost feels like a disservice, weird as that sounds. I think that's why it's so easy to advocate watching it despite knowing how questionable it is, there's so much going on that's hard to describe that it's best to witness it firsthand and experience the chaos

I'm probably gonna make a longer post later once I have a little more time to analyze and organize my thoughts, but I think I can say with relative certainty that the cast in general was one of the highlights. Like, yes, very few of them resemble their canon counterparts, but I felt very few of them gave a half-assed performance. A couple of characters like T Hawk, Cammy and Blanka didn't get to do much, but for the most part I feel like everyone either gave a decent effort or had a few good moments that stood out and I can respect.

I really appreciate Chun-Li being a major character since at the time she had one of the more major ties to Bison, and while I was a little annoyed at the beginning how it seemed she was just gonna be a reporter with a vendetta while Honda and Balrog did the heavy lifting, MASSIVE respect for that literally being part of the narrative, with her playing the part of an overconfident damsel specifically to get Bison's guard down, only to try and beat the shit out of him. Actually I think she's like one of three characters that actually got to physically fight him hand-to-hand? Tbh wish there was a bit more direct interaction between them bc Julia's dramatic hamminess vs Ming-Na Wen's colder, more serious and bitter performance was a really compelling contrast that gave this mostly campy movie a bit more depth and some grounding, bc despite Bison being a power-mad dictator the silliness makes him a little unthreatening before the final sections, so it did really well for his character and the movie's tone to emphasize that this man has directly murdered people and left long-lasting mental scars on their families. Legitimately solid stuff

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omg were you watching the terrible incredible live action street fighter movie? i just caught the end of your liveblog but holy shit i remember watching that movie before knowing any of the sf lore and looking back on it i think that was the ideal way to go into it tbh

I thank the library for not making me have to spend actual money to see it bc some things are priceless in the worst way

Like, I thought people were exaggerating, but it is just one of the most baffling things I've ever seen. It paints a really interesting view of how people generally perceived video games during the time, I think that particular portrayal is very specific to the era of being stuck between 'this is a niche thing for nerds' and 'this has untapped mass market appeal' without a clear bridge. There's some stuff I thought was legitimately good and even some actual connections to the game's canon, and I'm glad I watched it, even if my opinion of 'this is a campy shitshow' is did not change at any point.

And it is true. The memes aren't exaggerating. Raul Julia put far too much effort into this movie and they really did not deserve him

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Yknow if you divorce it entirely from canon it's a perfectly decent action flick, I think a lot of its major flaws just come from it being a really confused adaptation

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Despite the overall messiness of this movie at least based on the cast interviews it seemed like the actors mostly had a good time and for some it feels like they had some idea of how silly this was. I think the worst thing a movie can be is bad on both sides of the screen. Even if a film itself isn't 'good' I at least want the actors to have had some fun and gotten some enjoyment out of it instead of it being a really strenuous and unpleasant experience that they hated doing and having that dislike show through the performance.

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Ohhh god this movie was the director's debut? I feel kinda bad for him