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Only one person died. Only one singular person. In a superhero movie! The type that love to throw around casualty counts like it’s all a big game, waving off 70 people being killed in a handful of days like it’s no big deal, yet only ONE PERSON died.

And he was mourned. Superman cried for him—this stranger who gave him free falafel and, while facing death, told him that he still believed in him. Metamorpho, this cold-seeming man who is being actively blackmailed to do this, breaking down and taking the risk to believe in Superman, too, because seeing someone murdered right in front of him is devastating enough to take the risk. The newspapers run a front page article talking about how they’re going to memorialize him.

The stakes didn’t have to involve real actual loss of life. The threat of it was enough to convey the severity of the situation. Because human life is that important. All life is that important, at least to Superman who goes out of his way to save dogs and squirrels.

(Hawkgirl does kill SHEIN Netanyahu but genocidal dictators don’t count as human beings lol.)

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Headline: “Test Tube Baby Feels Guilt in the Shape of an Umbilical Cord.”

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cant explain it but this is rock howard to me

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oh!!!!!!!!!

spamming a ton of tags for awareness

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Speaking of Rock howard...have you noticed his similarities to Leo (tekken) and Eliot (DOA) :3c

I write a lot of draft scripts for video essays I hope to make one day. unfortunately, i also lose a lot of motivation for it and get a bit insecure with these scripts because after countless hours of writing, i end up feeling like im pulling things outta thin air or writing things no one else cares about.

one of these scripts was about Rock Howard’s influence on fg culture. while Jin Kazama came first (or debatably Kyo Kusanagi if you want to be technical), the idea of a what a fighting game nextgen character was shaped by Rock and his reception. Enough so that Jin himself references Rock multiple times in Tekken 8 for the conclusion of his story arc (the wings in his win pose as stated by director Murray himself). Rock lead to the creation of K’ in KOF 99, which lead to Adelheid Bernstein in KOF 2003, which lead to Sin Kiske in Guilty Gear, which then lead to Ed in Street Fighter V/6, which lead to Leo in Tekken, Elliot, the twin everyone hated in soul calibur 5, Kokonoe in blazblue, etc etc

these characters, for the most part, are bishounen men who come to a crossroads in their mature, adult lives by being hyper-focused on their tumultuous childhoods. Usually a dead/departed mother whom they value most of all, a despondent father they loathe and blame all their problems on but carry on their cursed blood/fighting choreography with, and a found family they create afterwards. These characters largely focus on identity and what to make of yourself from a lineage that burns in your past. they center on the antagonism with their lineage and what they can make of themselves from it. Very focused on the ‘future’ and commonly using bird iconography specifically as originating from Rock’s own theme “spread the wings” and the thesis of learning to spread your wings and make a new name for yourself.

there’s a lot more I have written down for it and maybe one day I’ll finish up that script to yap about it properly. It’s a topic I think is endlessly fascinating and has evolved so much over time. (enough so that Rock himself isn’t even the best example for the Rock Howard character archetype… lol)

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GAME IDEA REBLOG THIS AND TRY TYPING YOUR URL EYES CLOSED

VD&diydgbyt-buh

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hatred that morphs to obsession that morphs to devotion. is this anything

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This "music" thing is insane

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hadn't noticed it before but rock actually has thick natural eyelashes

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im not good at practicing combos bc my training sessions just turn into me taking 4 billion screenshots

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I miss your rock howard posting oomf...,sob

thanks oomf ;C;

tbf i do too. i really hope the support team gets back to me soon

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ctrl + x

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Trust your partner... And I do...

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- Terry Bogard during a cutscene, The King of Fighters Maximum Impact 2 (SNK-Playmore)

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i don't think i posted this here

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my twitter got suspended so ill be back to using my tumblr and bsky like the days of old

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s is for slug