#Echoing Shells

[sparksofcalliope]

#poems #poetry #poetrylovers #SparksofCalliope

[go-go-devil]

The entire 3-minute city ambiance scene from Ghost in the Shell (1995) is already one of the best moments in all of cinema imo, but I NEED to talk about my absolute favorite part from it:

That brief moment when Major Kusanagi and a stranger with her exact same body model catch a glance at one another. How quickly the initial curiosity of seeing the doppelgänger turns into a feeling of unease as the boat carries her away.

She will never meet this stranger. She'll never know anything about her other than the simple reminder that every piece of her cybernetic body is not unique to her. There is no part of her other than her brain and all its memories that she has any true ownership of, and even that isn't immune to being hacked and potentially erased by outside forces. Despite being a part of a bustling city, all she can do is reflect on how utterly isolated she feels as a living being.

How can she possibly define her humanity when she herself is confined in the form of what is essentially a highly modified weapon? How can she relate to others when she has more in common with the mannequins on display in a shopping mall than with the any of the people walking the streets?

All of this inner turmoil at one’s own existence conveyed without a SINGLE word of dialogue spoken. Now that's the power of cinema if I've ever seen it!

[cavernclaw]

Sutekh and his ugly babies.

[re-pray]

Yuzuru Hanyu in 'Echoes of Life' behind the scenes

[warriorsproject]

[marmosetpaw]

[artaintfartwarriors]

Thunderstar/Violet Dawn bebitos

[skyscratch-wcdesigns]

Snail Shell - ThunderClan Warrior

"I was brave, though, wasn't I? As brave as Lightning Tail and Thunderstar were when they saved Owl Eyes from the Twolegplace! I helped Violet Dawn and Owl Eyes protect Clover." - Snail Shell, Thunderstar's Echo

[myjunkisyuzuruhanyu]

Yuzu is from a different galaxy 🌌

"Ghost in the shell"

Program slaps with this costume 😍

Watch here

[xiii-e]

XIII▸ [ Go to sleep. See them again. Wonder- ] XIII▸ [ Is it still a haunting when it's their body to begin with? ]

[swtechspecs]

C-3PO (Modified Cybot Galactica 3PO-Series Protocol Droid)

Source: Star Wars Technical Journal (Del Rey, 1995)

[the-commonplace-book]

Natlan is gorgeous but miHoYo babygirl where tf are the chests and open world challenges what happened to every nook and cranny being rewarding to explore what happened to things not being big just for the sake of being big actually really bummed about this

[ageless-aislynn]

From @mrtobenamedlater for the Halo ask game

💕🌌📷

💞 - favourite moment in a game?

From a story-telling, cinematic p.o.v., definitely this one in Halo 4:

Just the bittersweetness of her finally being able to touch him, his confusion, the first time I'd ever heard him stumble over his words, the realization that she wasn't coming back with him, had sacrificed herself to save him... All of it, man. Just right in the heart, oof!

From a gameplay p.o.v., saving 3 Echo 57 on the mission ONI: Sword Base from Halo: Reach. The troop transport Warthog is supposed to explode before you can get to it but there's a way to zoooooooom over there (Acrophobia skull works best) and stun it with a charged-up plasma pistol so it doesn't cross the invisible line where it'll blow up.

Me: This is for your own good, marines. Trust me, you don't want to keep driving that way! *ZZZZZZZAP*

You make the driver get out so you can quickly but carefully drive it out of there, avoiding a few other invisible lines that will ALSO make it blow up. Then you can bring it back, fill it with marines, and take it through almost all of the rest of the mission! I always save my 3 Echo 57 marines if I'm not doing a speedrun or something else that keeps me from doing so! 🤗

(Yeah, it always looks like it's on fire but it's just cosmetic. It has the same health as any other Warthog as far as I can tell. 😎👍 Also, please pardon the ABSOLUTE POTATO QUALITY. I chopped it out of an existing GIF and that did it no favors, eek!)

🌌 - what made you interested in halo?

I've always had an interest in video games but no way to play them, so when Youtube walkthroughs/Let's plays/etc became a thing, I watched a LOT of them. One of them was Halo 4 (where I imprinted on that version of Cortana, lol). Fast-forward many years later to the first commercial I saw for the tv series, thought it sounded interesting, and watched it when it came out. As soon as I did, I seriously WANTED to play at least one of the games. Found the MCC on a rad sale at Steam and decided to see if my old man (previous computer) could play it. He could and the rest, as they say, is history!

📷 - 'aesthetic' photo you associate a halo character with

Hee, thanks so much! 😎👍💖

[marmosetpaw]

[skyscratch-wcdesigns]

Sleek Fur, Feather Ear, Lightning Stripe, and Shell Claw — ThunderClan Kits

[dearth-in-serendipity]

Shells hold the echoes of the sea like memories, just as we do. Even after being washed onto the shores and pulled back in by those monstrous waves, they hold strong to the sand, satisfying themselves that they will never return to that hell again.

ds.