#Z/28

[nsdclassic]

Camaro Z/28

[captainfreelance1]

I drew this picture recently I call it 'Molly and the Camaro' after the two featured subjects. Professional Wrestler Molly Holly who has fondness classic muscle cars, as seen in the side by side compression below.

Molly Holly is best known for her time in the WWE were she wrestled during both the Attitude and Ruthless Aggression eras, she is a one time WWE Hardcore Champion and a two WWE Women's Champion. Molly retired in 2005 and induced into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021.

The Car behind her is a  1969 Z/28 Chevrolet Camaro, a true classic and legendry pony car that uses 302 Chevy Small Block an engine that made the car famous on both the SCCA Trans Am and NHRA Race Tracks.

[xr250r]

'69 RS Z/28

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

Chevrolet Camaro Z-28

[none-gender-left-man]

Thinking about zombies

Zombies as grief

Zombies as consumerism

Zombies as forced conformity

Zombies as loss of identity

Zombies as inevitable change

Zombies as post-humanity

The apocalypse bringing out the best in some, yielding kindness in the face of futility, showing that hope is always worth clinging to and that fighting on is hope in itself even if you fail, to enjoy the little things moment to moment

The apocalypse revealing the ways we can become the monster we fear in the context of a changed world that never belonged to us

Zombies as cold brutality, showing that malice and intent isn't a prerequisite to violence and cruelty

Zombies as a vessel to prove that selfishness and obsession with dominance and control lead to one's undoing

Zombies as a vessel to prove that cooperation and adaptation is our defining trait, that the way to survive in a seemingly hopeless situation is to depend on one another and to hold on to humanity

Zombies provoking mercy, self sacrifice and unshakable compassion with no reward

Thinking about what these things mean in the COVID era

I love the versatility of zombie stories, and I wish so many didn't shelve them as "all trashy and cheap" when they can hold so much narrative value, no matter how "ugly" or "trashy" they seem on the surface

[twenty-eighth-names]

Cały czas mówię--, ale ty nie słyszysz. Dlaczego utrudniasz mi dosłowne?

[the-hopeless-fanboy]

I've been watching a lot of zombie movies lately and I have my own thoughts

reblog for larger poll size plz

[wanderersrest]

G Gundam Prelude: The Real Robot vs Super Robot Debate

So before I begin talking about Mobile Fighter G Gundam, I'd like to take a minute to preface that conversation with a companion piece of sorts. This involves the nature of how the mecha "genre" of anime is divided into two subgenres, and how this subdivision (*synth and bass solo play at the same time*) is often used as a sort of dick-measuring contest by fans to argue that their preferred genre is better than the other.

Tetsujin 28-go, Mazinger Z, and the "Super Robot"

To understand the two sub-genres, we first need to understand the general history of the mecha. Technically speaking, our story really starts with Osamu Tezuka's Mighty Atom (Astro Boy in the west), but the giant robot style of mecha would not appear in earnest until Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Tetsujin 28-go (Gigantor in the west) and Go Nagai's Mazinger Z. Tetsujin and Mazinger would go on to codify a lot of the tropes common to a lot of these early robot series alone. If it wasn't either of those two, chances are likely Ken Ishikawa's Getter Robo will have you covered.

These so-called "Super Robots" were known for their superhero-like power sets. They were usually powered by either nuclear power or a fictional power source such as Photon Energy or Getter Rays. Almost every single robot in these stories were made with some sort of Super Alloy (or Chogokin), and each super robot had a whole arsenal of weapons, including but not limited to swords, axes, drills, lasers, and, of course, the rocket punch. These super robot series would dominate a lot of Japanese television for most of the 70's. But behind the scenes, one man would be forging his own path. And at the end of the decade, he would release a show that would turn the canon of mecha stories on its head.

Gundam, VOTOMs, and the "Real Robot"

In 1979, the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam would air on Japanese television for the first time. This is one of the many mecha series directed by anime legend Yoshiyuki Tomino, and follows a direct lineage from his other works such as Brave Raideen, Zambot 3, and Daitarn 3. Gundam, however, would herald a new style of mecha stories thanks in part to it ditching a lot of the more fantastical elements of its "super robot" forebears in favor of a more grounded war story. These would be the so-called "real robot" style of mecha stories, and would further be codified by Ryousuke Takahashi's first two series, Fang of the Sun Dougram and Armored Trooper VOTOMs.

The "real robots" were a hard departure from their super robot brethren in that they were grounded in reality. Gone were the super alloys and the fantastical weapons, which were now replaced with weapons similar to that of a modern military. More importantly, the stories were now about wars, not with aliens as the antagonist, but other people. Humans. These stories would dominate a lot of the 80's, though the more traditional robots of the 70's would still be around as well.

There's just one problem with the term "Real Robot." The realism doesn't come from the machines themselves.

The Realism of Really Real Robots (It's Not What You Think It Is)

(Wanderer Not Mention Patlabor Speed Run [IMPOSSIBLE])

One of the issues with the term "real robots" is the fact that the realism in most "real robot" shows does not necessarily come from the robots themselves. Take blog favorite Patlabor, for example. Part of what makes the Labors as realistic as they are is not necessarily due to the imagined mechanics behind these machines. It's how the existence of these giant machines changes the lives of the characters. It's little things like how having a special police division that's devoted to Labor crimes is a bit of a money pit, or how SV2 has constant insurance problems due to the fact that Division 2, even in their best moments, are just as destructive as the people they're supposed to stop.

Or take the original "real robot" series, Mobile Suit Gundam. The realism does not lie in the design of the RX-78-2 Gundam. The realism comes from the One Year War and how it affects all of the characters. We can see this in how badly it affects the Gundam's pilot, Amuro Ray, as the poor sod of a teenager basically develops PTSD throughout the original show's run. And it's not just Amuro that's under a lot of stress. The infamous Bright Slap happens not only because Amuro refuses to get back into the Gundam, but because White Base captain Bright Noa (who's 19, by the way) is also at his wit's end. Never mind the fact that the slap makes everything worse.

So What Does This Have To Do With G Gundam?

Everything. There's this idea that being a "real robot" series is what gives Gundam its bite and that G Gundam spits in the face of Gundam's original vision by being a hot-blooded "super robot" anime. There's just a couple of problems with that line of thinking. First, it's insulting to the series to say that it has nothing worthwhile to say. Y'know, G Gundam. The series that opens with the Gundam Fight (the Future Century replacement for traditional war) making its way to a ruined Rome, where the poor people who could not afford to leave for the space colonies are panicking as the Gundams literally crash onto their homes. The series where some of the last dialogue of the series is how, even after defeating the imminent threat that was the Devil Gundam, there is still work to be done when it comes to fixing the world, namely by finding a more sustainable replacement to the Gundam Fight. This doesn't even touch on the fact that all of the nations of the world join forces to face an threat that could wipe out all of mankind.

Second, and the part that I think is more insidious, is the idea that G Gundam is a lesser series because it went for more of a classic robot anime vibe as opposed to the serious war story that Gundam is known for. I say this is insidious because it not only ignores the fact that Gundam had just come off of the heels of the extremely depressing Victory Gundam and needed a bit of a palette cleanser, but it also implies that only so-called real robot stories can have serious storylines. God forbid something like Space Runaway Ideon exist, which is probably one of the most serious classic, pre-Dougram robot series out there, or Combat Mecha Xabungle, which is a really goofy but technically a "real robot" series.

This is also related to the idea that G Gundam is just "dumb fun." This line of thinking I can understand, because let's not kid ourselves here. While I wouldn't call this series dumb, G Gundam is kind of known for being insane (but in a good way). What makes this take just as grating is when a similar series can get away with a similar style of story just because it's not related to an existing franchise like Gundam. A series like, oh I don't know, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. And that's a series that's often treated as somehow being different from most other mecha shows because "it's about the characters." Gurren Lagann is one of those shows, and people often treat it like it's a literary masterpiece while G Gundam, which I'd argue is one of the former's progenitor series alongside Getter Robo and GaoGaiGar, is treated as B-movie schlock. It's not, and I hope you'll join me when I dive into the insane masterpiece that is Mobile Fighter G Gundam.

[chadscapture]

2014 Chevy Camaro Z/28

[metastablephysicist]

fuck you and your tin copper alloy. iron is the universe's favorite nucleus. according to physics.

(from wikipedia)

[yahoo201027]

June 28: Happy 59th Birthday to Voice Actor Sonny Strait, who provided the voice of the First Incarnation of TOM on Toonami from 1999-2000 and the English voices of Krillin in the Dragon Ball series (and also Bardock in DBZ Kai and Dragon Ball Super Broly), Usopp on One Piece, Ragnarok on Soul Eater, and Hasashi Yamada/Present Mic on My Hero Academia.

[nsdclassic]

Camaro Z/28

[everymangavegeta]

!!

[lordsmaf]

finally anime is real

[poniesart]

huevember day 28 - piccolo my beloved :’) almost done huevember!

[twenty-eighth-names]

Z każdym wzlotem twoich słów unikam wszystkiego. Aby tylko poznać osobowość jednego - pierwszego, Bo on dusi mnie ambiwalentnie; Jako pierwszy i ostatni jednocześnie.