#Robot Tod

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Here’s a page from the upcoming ROBOT TOD part 2 which should be available at your lcs by march from @floatingworldcomics . Support me, ROBOT TOD and read all the COMIC BOOK pages at patreon.com/fareldal

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Robot Tod #1

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Robot Tod #1 has beautiful art but the story's a mystery with some continuity you might need to know

Robot Tod #1 has beautiful art but the story's a mystery with some continuity you might need to know #comics #comicbooks

Robot Tod follows the adventures of the titular hero Tod, who is trying to regain memories and avoid capture by malicious wizards. This first issue introduces his companions: The kindly and shy Sept, her vitriolic and selectively invisible alter ego Ember, the inventive mouse person Furn Fells, and Gwyelder the enigmatic fox guide. This new and lushly watercolored, ongoing series is set in the…

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Robot Tod issue 3 page 00-watercolor comics.

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i had a vision around 2am, 2 hours and a half later while listening to komm susser tod in loup, here IT FUCKING IS

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Transformers ONE:

I have this idea in my head where B-127 (Bumblebee) and C-127 (Cliffjumper) were born a few years before the 13 Primes were betrayed by Sentinel, the Primes find them on the battlefield and just keep them and take care of them.

No one knew if the relationship they had was apprentice-master, younger brothers-older brothers or sons-parents, but they did know that the 13 Primes took great care of them, the High Guard even became babysitters.

None of that mattered when Sentinel betrayed them and killed the 13 Primes, grabbed the pair of twins, took their T-cogs and threw them to the sub-level-50 to die.

But they don't, they live and thanks to their survival systems, they remain young both mentally and physically until two robots enter sublevel-50 and take them out, C and B no longer have memory of before sublevel-50 but those who knew them do, Alpha Trion almost cries when he sees them after so long and notices his T-Cog faults and the obvious wear and tear on his paintings, the High Guard was no better, and when Optimus got the supreme spark and the spirits of the 13 Primes saw the twins for the first time after so many years and lasts about what happened to them and when they finally knew? Let's just say Optimus could only listen to them talk about how much they grew up and how they should avoid another war so that the twins would no longer be in danger.

Tod while C and B are in the background learning to reintegrate into society and to act according to their ages.

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I like this idea. I like this idea a lot

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Hamlet/Ophelia - Neues Theater, altes Stück

In Mangel eines Ersatzspielortes in Dortmund nächstes Jahr wird es mal Zeit die anderen Theater im Ruhrgebiet zu scouten. Ist ja nicht so das es hier keine Alternativen gibt. Also 30 Minuten mit dem Bestellprozess beefen und dann ab ins Grillo Theater in der Essener City und mal einen anderen Hamlet gucken. Danke an den Google News Algo dafür!

Aus dem Bahnhof raus, zwei-drei Minuten geradeaus, links abbiegen und in den Eingang fallen. Da steht es also. Das Grillo Theater. Sieht sogar nach Theater aus. Okay, jedes Theater außer meins sieht nach Theater aus. Anyways, ist es möglich meine Onlinekarte gegen ein Papierticket einzutauschen? Theoretisch ja, aber praktisch ist die Dame an der einzigen Kasse latent überfordert. Nun, dann pack ich halt tonnenweise kostenlose Flyer, Postkarten, Sticker und Jahresbücher ein. Das ist ja fantastisch! Wo gehts zur Bar/Saal? Ah, Treppe hoch. Logisch. Einen Grauburgunder jetzt, einen Spät zur Pause, danke. Mist Brezel vergessen. Naja. Hinein in den Saal.

Der Saal. Eng. Schmal. Hoch. Vollgestopft mit Lichttechnik, die bitte vernünftig festgeschraubt ist. Sitze des eher härteren Komfortgrads. Quietschen leicht beim Hinsetzen. Reihe Drei, zweiter Platz von rechts, keine Sitznachbarn.

Die Bühne. Eine bühnenfüllende schwarze Rampe, in der Mitte mit breiter Treppe, überzogen mit abgelaufenem Plüsch?, vorne ein verstecktes Wasserfeature. Eine separate erste Reihe.? Reihe Zwo hat Plastikpochos an?

Die Kostüme. Schwarz. Von Anzug über Emoboy zu Rave zu flauschig und breit. Bissl viel Spitze. Alles furchbar hübsch. Would wear like 60% of Hamlets Outfits.

Das Stück. Hab ich gesagt ich hab Hamlet immer noch nicht gelesen und kenn nur zweimal Friedel!Hamlet? Nun, lasst mich mal alles nacherzählen.

Hamlet ist Tod. Also König Hamlet senior, nicht Prinz Hamlet junior. Und neuer König ist natürlich sein Onkel Claudius. Lieber den Onkel dazwischen schieben als den rechtmäßigen Thronfolger ebenfalls in einer Schlacht an Fortinbras zu verlieren. "Je mehr verwandt, je weniger befreundet". Hamlet gefällt das in seinem End 2000er Emo Vibe natürlich nicht. Aber der neue König trägt einen angegrauten Vollbart. Da ist das Kräfteverhältnis zum Babyface natürlich geklärt. "Schmölz doch das Fleisch." 10/10 Emoaussage, wenn Onkel mich demütigt UND meine Mutter (Gertrud) heiratet.

Jedenfalls hat Polonius nur noch Zeit für ein Kind bei sich und schiebt Laertes nach England ab. Die haben da auch gute Schulen und du siehst was von der Welt. "Mein Segen.. da da bla blub mhm mmhm da di dum... So reicht. Bye." Mein Sohn ist weg, Zeit meine Tochter zu fragen was diese riesgen Trichterärmel sollen. Hamlet hat sich ihr nämlich mit Büchern, Gedichten und Treue versprochen. Mit Liebe bestürzt in seiner feinen Art. Das gefällt Polonius nicht. "Empfindet? Ach du Scheiße."

Hamlet findet derweil seinen Freund Horatio. "Was machst du denn hier?" - "Ehh Trauerfeier." - "... ..." - Den Schmaus gab es zur Hochzeit nochmal in Kalt." - Ein Blick der eindeutig FUCK YOU! sagt und geht ab. Währenddessen tanzen König, Königin und Polonius im Hintergrund den Roboter. Ophelia vermutet Horatio gegenüber es sein ein Mord an Hamlet (ehemals König) verübt worden. "Etwas ist Faul im Staate Dänemark." vermutet Horatio und geht hinten an der Rampe ab.

Ophelia hat gemerkt ihre Romanze mit Hamlet gefällt ihrem Dad nicht. Zeit einen sexuellen Übergriff zu fingieren? (War zumindest der Vibe bei mir und deckt sich mit späterer Interpretation meinerseits.) "So yeah, Hamlet did the naked confused man, Dad. I had to sleep with him so he wouldnt hurt me. Verstehst du??" - "Die Raserei der Liebe die mit Wut getränkt.. Ab sofort siehst, hörst und denkst du nicht mehr an ihn. Das ist ein Befehl."

Rosenstern und Güldenkranz treten nun (ohne Uwe...) auf und machen scheiße. Wer rennt schneller die Rampe hoch? Wer gewinnt Schnickschnackschnuck? Stuff halt. Irgendwer, entweder die beiden oder Claudius beleidigt Hamlet. "Tag und Nacht wär nicht als Tag und Nacht vergangen. Euer Sohn ist IRRE!" Ich tippe auf Claudius. Der bekommt von Polonius den "Liebesbrief" von Hamlet an Ophelia. Auch dieser klingt sehr fingiert. Mitschreiben lohnt sich nicht, weil Polonius seine Lines in bester Gangsterrap Manier nur so rausspittet. Was ne Leistung und Kontrast zum restlichen langsam gesprochenen Stück. Der Brief wird von Gertrud währenddessen in ein Schiff gefaltet und im Wasserfeature auf Schwimmfähigkeit getestet. Funktioniert. Hurra!

Es kommt eine meiner Lieblingsszenen. Diese große Treppenrampe lässt links und rechts der Bühne so ungefähr je 60cm platz. Und durch diese Lücke kommt Hamlet wieder rein. Aber nicht normal. Nope, die Neurodivergenz kickt und es geht im schlechten Moonwalk auf die Bühne. Inklusive kleinem TOCK, weil er an nem Kabel? hängen geblieben ist. Fantastisch! "Erkennt ihr mich mein Prinz?" fragt Ophelia Polonius und öffnet seinen Mantel. Hamlet ist verwirrt. Oben stehen Thymian und Estragon. "Worauf wartet ihr? Wie gehts meinen Freunden?" - "Die Welt ist ein ehrlicher geworden." - "Der jüngste Tag also. Und ich bin hier. Wie ein Gefangener. ... ... ... DÄNEMARK IST EIN GEFÄNGNIS!" - "Die ganze Welt ist ein Gefängnis mein Prinz." - "Aber Dänemark hat den schlechtesten Service!!!" Hamlet betritt die Stuhllehne der ersten Reihe. "Ein Mensch sein, oder nicht sein. Das ist hier die Frage."

Hamlet trifft nun auf Ophelia. Sie will ihn umarmen. Fest. Platziert seine Arme um ihre Hüfte. Hamlet macht aber nicht mit und lässt immer wieder locker. "Du bist voll Unschuld und doch so schön. Unschuld. Und Schön? Merkst du wie das nicht zusammenpasst?" Hamlet ist außer sich. "Die Liebe. Meine Liebe. An dich. Die war nur gespielt. Verscher dich ins Kloster. Ab. Los. Hopp." Da hat grade wer gemerkt Aromantik ist ein reales Ding und das Weltbild bricht zusammen. "Liebe? Liebe. Was ist das?. Heiraten? Warum? Alle bekloppt hier. Keiner Heiratet mehr. Wers schon getan der darfs bleiben. I dont care. Aber du Ophelia. Und der Rest. ALLE. INS. KLOSTER. Ihr könnt das nicht Ernst meinen!?"

GOTT ICH LIEBE DIESE INTERPRETATION SO SEHR. EGAL OB DAS SO GEPLANT IST. ABER HALLO EIN AROMANTISCHER MENSCH IN EINEM HUNDERTEJAHRE ALTEN STÜCK? VON SHAKESPEARE!?

Zusammenreißen Hamlet. Wir müssen einen Mord aufklären. "Das schwldge Gschpfe. Warte nochmal von vorn. Das schuldige Geschöpfe" Güldi und Rosi haben ein passendes Stück lernen müssen. Du Horatio guckst dir ganz genau den Mann meiner Mutter an. Er wird darauf reagieren. Verstehts du? AUGEN. AUF. SEIN. GESICHT!

Der Hofstaat tritt ein und setzt sich in die erste Reihe. "Hamlet?" - "Ja?" - "Wie heißt das Stück denn?" Manchmal muss man als StiefOnkelVater auch nett sein. "Ehh.. Also.. Nun... Joar..." - "Die Mausefalle!?" - "Richtig Horatio. Die Mausefalle." An der Bühnenseite sitzt Ophelia, Hamlet hat seinen Rant von grad verdrängt. "Ich leg meinen Kopf auf deinen Schoß." - "Das will ich doch hoffen" neckt sie und spreizt ihre Beine. Ruhe, das Stück geht los.

Also die Katastrophe vom Sternenkranz. Beide sagen alle Sätze auf. Wissen nicht wer wen spielt oder überhaut wann dran ist. Sie einigen sich dann doch auf König und Königin. "Erster lies mein Herz zerbersten, Zweiten umarmt man am Mord am Ersten." tragt Güldi von oben auf der Treppe vor und stimmt Killing me softly an. Rosenkranz stolpert nun sterbend mit einem großen PLATSCH! ins Wasserfeature der Bühne. "AUFHÖREN! ABBRUCH! WAS SOLL DAS!?" lässt Claudius von sich geben und verlässt mit allen wutendbrannt den Saal. Dafür also die Regenponchos. Ich glaub ich muss beim nächsten mal in Reihe 2. "Hast dus gesehen?" - "Voll und ganz!" Unter Applaus wird Rosenkranz ein Bademantel zum abtrocknen gereicht. PAUSE!

(Nicht nur im Stück sondern auch beim schreiben dieses Posts. 2h für den Teil bis jetzt waren genug am Sonntagabend, und erst jetzt am Dienstagabend hab ich wieder Lust.)

Soo, wo waren wir? Ah ja, ein Mord muss aufgeklärt werden! Zumindest gerächt. Vorher muss AroHamlet aber noch mit Ophelia flirten: "Leg deine Finger auf die Flöte und atme mit deinem Mund." Aber schau nur dort! Die Wolken. Siehst du da auch einen Riesen Pe...

Claudius ist wieder da und wächst sich rituell seine Hände im Wasserfeature. Da ist übrigens Dreckwasser drin. Also schwarzes Wasser. Bissl ekelhaft. Fast so sehr wie den König im schlaf zu ermorden. Jedenfalls ist Hamlet zurecht pissig auf seine Mutter und versucht Sie jetzt im Wasser zu ertränken. Zu einer der Szenen gehört was mit "Bist du Freu(n)de Bande ... Loch(er) meiner Mutter." Schnell und leserlich auf meinem Bein im Dunkel bei gleichzeitigem Zuhören muss ich wirklich noch üben.

Hamlet bringt "den König" also Polonius durch einen simplen Handabdruck um und ist danach horny auf seine Mutter!? I dont know... Es kommt ein "Versuch zu Fliegen und brich dir den Hals." - Ich stelle den Gedanken in das Nebenzimmer" hinterher. Die Beleidigung sollte ich mir merken. Hamlet und Polonius verlassen die Bühne anschlie��end Hand in Hand.

Güldenstern ist wieder da! "Buenovissomo." - "Bueno was?" - "issimo!" - "Ah ja.." ABER WO IST POLONUIS!? "Ehh nun.. ... im Himmel?" Irgendwie steht der König vor Hamlet. Der König. Der eigentlich Tod sein sollte. "Schickt einen Boten. Wenn er in einem Monat nicht da ist, kannst du ihn zur Not riechen." Hamlet versucht seinen Fehler zu vertuschen. Ophelia kommt mit riesig schwarzer Fluffschleppe auf die Treppe. "Der Tod muss so fröhlich sein, aber ich will nicht sterben" berühmte Letzte Worte.

Auf dem Friedhof werfen Güldencranz ehh die Totengräber ganz viele Hans-Christian Schädel die Treppe hinab. Zwei Platschen ins Wasser, einer rechts vorbei vor die Füße von Reihe 2. (Vllt hätte ich den bei passender Tasche eingesteckt.) "Wessen Werke überlieben alle Mieter? Die des Galgenbauers." Richtiger Galgenhumor, den auch Hamlet ablehnt. Es werden ein paar englische Zeilen gedroppt, womöglich die Originalen, bis plötzlich Laertes wieder auftaucht! Und wie muss dieser Kampf um seiner Familie letzter Ehre enden? RICHITG! IM WASSERGRABEN! Zeit Reihe 2, rechts etwas Spritzwasser zu geben!

Bleibt bloß die Frage wie das ganze jetzt beendet wird? Ich hab ja fast die Fassung verloren und mich dopaminüberfordert scheckig gelacht. Hamlet steigt aus dem Wasser und hält den Kampf und Tode als Monolog. If I had a fucking nickel for everytime Hamlet does the last szene as a Monologue, Id had two nickels. Which is weird, cause it happened twice. Sagte ich schon das Christopher Heisler und Christian Friedel eine ähnlich gleiche Stimmlage haben?

"Gute Nacht mein Prinz. Der Rest ist schweigen."

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Otacon x Reader

Warning

Highly cursed at the halfway point. Spoilers for End of Evangelion and I wouldn't recommend that sane people watch it just to try to understand what the hell is going on. Yes there are parts where people turn into orange liquid followed by screams and upbeat happy music about suicide. Also do not look up the hospital scene for this movie (which it is infamous for). You have been warned.

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Otacon

Your smash main is Snake, you're a weeb or you fall in love easily and are used to being hurt by others.

First Date:

None. This man is busy raising a child with Snake.

Second Try:

The two of you meet on a fan board and quickly exchange numbers. Soon he invites you over to his house for a date. You asked where he lived but he said he would prefer to pick you up. You wait outside until you feel what seems to be an earthquake. You go to run but then you look into the sky. "IS THAT A GIANT ROBOT!" The "vehicle" pulls up and sure enough, Otacon is waiting for you. "Good evening. You look wonderful..." He then handed you a bouquet of flowers and you came inside.

Man, he really was an otaku. His home consisted of a bedroom that was really more like a storage space, a bathroom and a kitchen. "Make yourself comfortable, I'm going to bring some refreshments." You looked around for a spot to sit down, his room being like that one photo of Yoshihiro Togashi but notably much cleaner. The walls were stacked from the floor to the ceiling. You would have to tell your date that piracy was also an option. Most of it was just anime so you knew better than to touch it.

There was a small CRT and just about every console you could think of. Even the bad ones.At the far end of the room was a computer. You didn't really understand how that stuff worked but you figured his setup must be very expensive since all you had was Windows 95. You saw a purple creature on the desktop. "What's a bonzi buddy?

"You then noticed that Hal had come back. "I brought you a bento and some pocky. Only the best for my little waifu." He then blushed and turned the television off. "Sorry. I forgot that I was playing Policenauts on my Saturn earlier.."He then asked Alexa to play his spotify playlist which consisted of nothing but Hatsune Miku.

After you were finished eating, he took you by the hand. "Allow you to show you my prized collection." He brought you to his glass stand filled with various figures. It had a little bit of everything. Transformers, all the Gundams, some Code Geass. Even this weird one he called Zone of the Enders? "Yeah, I'm a huge fan!" He then looked around to see if the almighty Mr. Kojima was watching."

But this... This is my favorite." It was a giant build of EVA 01. "I never knew you liked Evangelion..." He then pulled out a copy of End of Evangelion. "Would you like to watch it with me? I have the renewal edition..." You gazed into his eyes and kissed him. "Wow..." He then turned on his hello kitty DVD player and inserted the disc.

The two of you started frenching during the komm susser tod sequence. You began to stroke him while the lyrics "It all returns to nothing" played. "Looks like someone's snake is solid..." He then thought to himself while the screams of those being turned into orange juice could be heard. "It's just like one of my Japanese amines!" You gave one final pull, yelling "It all CUMS TUMBLING DOWN, TUMBLING DOWN, TUMBLING DOWN"

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Having finished, Hal shut off his VR machine. Ever since David had left him to go on a date with a woman, he hadn't felt the same. He thought back to when he asked him if love could bloom on the battlefield and then started to sob into his arm. "WHY DOES EVERYONE I LOVE LEAVE ME!?" Little did Snake know but Otacon had created a program where he could be with him in a dating sim. He would later sell it on steam and become as rich as Snake did from the fortnite cameo, bringing him into the spotlight. They would later get back together and become the ultimate power couple.

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Tod was once an Inter-city delivery robot, for fast transfer of goods in bustling and difficult locations to reach by vehicle. 

Having extendable and long limbs, Tod can travel with large strides at a rapid rate. Their thin form allows them to move between and above obstacles. Unfortunately for Tod, when his parent company merged, he was forgotten among the mass of inventory. Without his task he was left to wander, and left the city

Despite being designed for urban delivery, Tod has taken a likening to gardenwork. Cementing himself in a smaller community far from the city, now doing messenger work for those of the little town. Delivery networks are far rarer outside of the city limits. However most of Tod's time is still spent inside the communities gardens and greenhouses, enjoyed to take part in the growing of goods rather than just handing them off

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oubgh Tagged Game

I was kindly tagged by the eminent @femboty2k, thank you so much for tagging me!

This one is about introducing yourself with the following:

- One tv show

- One movie

- One album

- One game

However, she went the extra mile and did two each, so I'll do that as well!

TV Shows: Whatever Happened to Robot Jones and Making Fiends

I'm not entirely sure what it says about me that both of my picks here were ill-fated and obscure cartoons cancelled before their time, but I certainly hope it's nothing premonitory about the trajectory of my life!

Robot Jones was a full-on obsession for me when I was young. It's about a robot child having to attend junior high in the 1980s so he can understand humans better, and all the awkwardness that goes along with that. Something about it struck such a chord with me – probably the fact that the protagonist was a sheltered misfit who couldn't understand his peers. I was homeschooled until college, and all of my interactions with other kids were painfully awkward along those lines, so I guess I just felt seen?

It's a weird show, and the tone is pretty bleak. He's mercilessly bullied by both peers and authority figures alike, and episodes rarely ever end with anything working out for him. Maybe I felt seen by that too. It's kind of fucked up, and I'm 70% certain bits of it didn't age well, but for what it's worth, people still really enjoy the one episode where RJ comes to the conclusion that he's nonbinary. It's also lost media at this point, so there's an inherent rewarding feeling that comes with being able to find it at all.

Making Fiends is also pretty bleak, but in a very silly and fun way. It's about a town that lives in mortal terror of Vendetta, this extremely cruel grade-schooler who is able to make monsters (fiends) that can serve her every whim. However, her nasty little gangster baby life is turned upside down when a very dense friendly girl named Charlotte comes to town, and Vendetta finds herself terrorized for a change.

I was obsessed with this one too and was a young stan of its creator. I love that it's about two girls just being dumb as all hell and having weird and fucked up things happen to them. Nobody's boy-crazy, either – both of these little gremlins just get to be people. Neither of them are particularly deep in terms of characterization, but they're so much fun to have a romp with, and they get to fill that slapstick-heavy role that's usually only reserved for male characters. Also, the humor is super fucked up and morbid, but the way everything is delivered will just keep you hooting. It's definitely less emotionally exhausting than Robot Jones.

Movies: Chicken Run and The End of Evangelion

Weird pair, I know!

Chicken Run is another of my childhood obsessions that persists to this very day. It's a fun and surprisingly poignant tale of an insurrection on a farmyard and the brave hens (and one mostly useless rooster) who make it happen. Aardman just knocks it right out of the park with the quirky designs of their ensemble cast and just how rooted it feels in its 1950s setting. The villains are fun, the heroes are fun, somehow Mel Gibson doesn't completely ruin it, and I dunno, it's just very cozy. I could rewatch it over and over again. Also, Mac is best girl.

End of Evangelion is not cozy at all! It's the fucked up and horrifying ending to a fucked up and horrifying anime, and it pissed a lot of people off at how mean-spirited it felt, but like... it's a fucking masterpiece, like it goes incredibly hard. Every element of it – the music, the voice acting, the visuals – it's all stunning, like all the way through. Yes it's sad and upsetting and very strange, but that's just how the anime went. None of it feels out of place, either. I can go back and watch Episode 1 again and not feel like EoE mismatches tonally. I still think about it on the regular, and I still bop to Komm sußer Tod.

Albums: Spirit Phone and Act II: The Father of Death

I've picked these two because these are both albums I always feel the need to listen to as a whole rather than piecemeal. There's some other amazing albums that I feel dirty not including here, but these two are just the ones that hit me the hardest as albums, and I have to be fully honest with myself about that.

Spirit Phone came into my life when I desperately needed it. I had just lost my youngest brother and was trying to find my first apartment after years of being my parents' adult subject. It was such a heady and wonderful thing for me, all these skrunkly-ass songs about the occult and the inherently fucked up nature of American culture. I played it on repeat for almost a solid month, and it gave me the strength and optimism I needed to muscle through the most terrifying time of my life. It's still such a cozy and wonderful thing for me, and I thank Neil Cicirega from the bottom of my heart for putting it together.

The Protomen: Act II wasn't something that got me through a crisis, but it was a fucking crazy-ass bop and a solid goddamn chaser to their first album, which I also love listening to as a whole. The story of Thomas Light's descent into living as a pariah in his own city after his own friend turns on him is masterfully told by this band, and every track hits like a truck. The whole subplot with Joe was incredible, too, and that guy who sings as Wily is so fucking good, and Panther is ridiculously versatile... I still get goosebumps thinking about Breaking Out. Gorgeous album through and through.

Games: Sonic & Knuckles Collection and Cave Story

It might be cheating to include the whole collection as one game, but I don't give a phuck!!!!

I was like 7 or 8 when I got the Sonic & Knuckles collection on CD-ROM, and holy fuck, y'all. I knew I loved The Adventure of Sonic the Hedgehog on TV, but getting my hands on that game about spoiled me rotten. It just felt so perfect in every way. Having gone back and played earlier entries in the Sonic series really gives me an appreciation for how well they perfected the formula here, it's just so smooth and refined. Going back through each stage playing as Sonic, Tails or Knuckles is so good, too, like you really get a feel for how much there is to explore with their different styles of movement. I just love it so much, it's so cozy and so jammed to the brim with pure fun.

Cave Story was something I encountered later in life, and was pleasantly surprised to find as a free download. I was not adequately prepared for what a ride this humble-looking little platformer would be. God, it was such a wonderful challenge, sometimes frustrating, but always so compelling as to keep me coming back. And what a beautiful story, too, and what a gorgeous setting. I full-on cried at many points. Pixel just put his whole heart and soul into this game, and it's so sickening and unfair that he got fucked over by that shitty licensing deal. If you haven't already, please show this man's work some love. It went hard enough that when Undertale was first announced, I assumed it was going to be a Cave Story fangame. 😝

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wat was the OG morbid question from a friend

" Consider vampires, if they're essentially dead, do you think bruises would take much longer to fade on them?" is what it asked me lol

this was my responses to its questions;

hmm

if they're dead, and cold, then they prolly wouldn't bruise at all. post mortem bruising, or lever mortis, happens when gravity pools the blood in specific patterns. This is helpful in estimating a TOD, because if the blood is still pliable when you press, the corpse hasn't cooled enough. Usually, cadavers cool by 1.5 degrees F an hour, until it's about 4 degrees shy of room temp where cooling significantly slows. This is useful, because if the corpse *has* cooled enough, the surrounding fat has hardened and it's no longer possible to squeeze blood into surrounding areas and cause post mortem bruising in different areas than where its already settled.

- Fantastic. And cutting or stabbing them?

i mean i they're ice cold, as vampires are often portrayed, it'd be like... cutting a cake or a very cold piece of meat. blood wont spill but it might leave a trace on the knife

- Does the blood like dry up or does it become a thick gloop? Inside the body.

depends on a couple factors. it doesn't like dry up but it does thicken until like, it's decayed. if the person had been poisoned by cyanide though their blood wont turn dark or purple, it'll consistently stay cherry red. if the person has been embalmed, their blood has been squeezed out, and embalmment fluid has been massaged into the capillaries. very old blood is like... thick and gloopy. similar to menstrual blood (which makes sense, that's dead tissues)

- So uh, let's say not decaying, just stuck in few hours dead stasis

depending on the person then it could take up to 6 hours for rigor mortis to have set in, some itd take 3. it starts in the face and neck, and travels downwards. the length and onset of it depends on like, temp-pre death, and how large or small the dead person is. the smaller you are, the quicker it comes and goes and vice versa

- So they might move around almost robotically due to rigor mortis limiting their range of movement?

id base it on like, when they regained consciouness. say its like. a giant beefy dude like jason. hes been dead for 6 hours. his neck and face would be incredibly stiff and he'd move weirdly, his lips pulled back and stiff jaw

if it was like. small like cassandra, and she'd been dead for 6 hours, her upper limbs and arms would've been affected and stiff, often times dead peoples arms get stuck in like... hands on their chest with their fingers curled like theyre fighting if that makes sense?

my fave like intepretation of vampires is like, their true form is blood

like, someone is fed on by a vampire and theres a 50% that the amount of vampire bacteria or cells infect the person being fed on and so after they die the vampire infection will swim around and take over all of the blood cells like a virus and use the circulatory system but the persons heart isnt beating, and so their post mortem symptoms slowly start to recede as vampirism takes over

- What if any wounds they get stay open until they drink some fresh blood that actually gives enough... idk, restorative cells to see the skin back together?

that'd make sense, like they need fresh blood cells to infect and use to heal themselves and thats why they need to drink blood, or else they decay

- It is sad to get rid of the sexy desperate hunger, but death is rarely so beautiful

oh, fun fact about that

so like in older depictions of vampires, they're often portrayed as monstrous and scary.

this changed however around the same time that american funeral industries changes and started displaying their embalmed cadavers. vampires changed to being these perfect, almost doll and inhuman creatures that were beautiful and dangerous - because that's what embalmed cadavers tended to look like. overly fake and inhuman because of mortuary make up, because of the flushed artery system with artificial dye making someone paler or more pinker or just *different* - and that was frightening, it was *unnatural* to people, these embalmed cadavers. and thats why vampires shifted to look so unnaturally beautiful

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Sci-Fi Saturday: Dr. Cyclops

Week 20:

Film(s): Dr. Cyclops (Dir. Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1940, USA)

Viewing Format: Blu Ray

Date Watched: 2021-10-29

Rationale for Inclusion:

In looking over a list of science fiction films of the 1940s, most of the feature films were more horror than sci-fi: sequels to Universal Horror movies, dipped more into fantasy than science fiction, and/or re-hashes of the core story of Frankenstein. Narratives where science fiction didn't come conjoined with horror were mostly found in serials, like the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon serials discussed last week. Across all formats, the mad scientist remained the mainstay of the genre.

Representative of this decade sci-fi cinema is this week's film, Dr. Cyclops (Dir. Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1940, USA). Mad scientist? Check. Horror paired with science fiction? Check.

On a technical level, however, Dr. Cyclops is a standout. It was the first science fiction film ever shot in 3-strip "glorious" Technicolor and one of the first sci-fi films to be nominated for a Best Special Effects Academy Award. These characteristics made it stand out and secure a spot on this survey. 

Reactions:

On a technical level, Dr. Cyclops did not disappoint. The Technicolor was vivid without being over the top, and my partner and I were both surprised by the quality of the visual effects. It was the first time on the survey where we found ourselves going "Oh, the effects are good" with no caveats, including but not limited to "for the era." Black and white cinematography can cover up a lot of sins when it comes to visual effects work, so the fact that we had this reaction to a color film was all the more notable to us.

An aspect of the film that took us by surprise, but in retrospect really should have been more obvious was how much of the film was based on the cyclops episode from Homer's Odyssey. The name "Dr. Cyclops" should have been a dead giveaway, but cyclopses are mythological creatures that existed prior to Homer's epic poem chronicling Odysseus's fraught trip home from the Trojan war, and their name has been applied to various works, characters, and vehicles without invoking the story of Polyphemus. Nevertheless, it wasn't until the bespectacled Dr. Thorkel (Albert Dekker) uses his experimental shrink ray on a group of unsuspecting scientists, and traps them in his lab, did the allusion sink in. Like Odysseus and his crew, despite their disadvantage in size, the scientists must use their cunning to blind their poorly visioned captor and escape. 

I was also amused to note that since Dr. Thorkel's shrink ray is powered by radium it means that, like The Invisible Ray (Dir. Lambert Hillyer, 1936, USA), Dr. Cyclops is a pre-Atomic Age atomic sci-fi film. Labeling a film as being "atomic sci-fi" will rapidly lose its novelty once we get to movies made during the Cold War, which is why I find examples of atomic energy figuring in science fiction narratives made prior to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 fascinating.

It also had not occurred to me until later that Dr. Cyclops would be the first film of this survey to deal with characters being miniaturized or shrinking. Using the survey as an excuse to watch The Incredible Shrinking Man (Dir. Jack Arnold, 1957, USA) and Fantastic Voyage (Dir. Richard Fleischer, 1966, USA) had occurred to me, but had I been thinking about shrinking people as a recurring sci-fi narrative, as I did killer brains, robots, and devolution, I would have included The Devil-Doll (Dir. Tod Browning, 1936, USA) in the survey too.

Oh well. I keep being reminded that when this project started it was meant as a representative survey and not a mission to watch every available science fiction film ever made. Still, I wish that I had given titles from the silent era through the 1940s the same attention I would later give films of the 1950s and 1960s.