#casing pipes

[balimaria]

I watched Phantom of the Opera the other day and had a grand epiphany about precisely who would do a cosplay of a disfigured theater nerd

Part 2 Part 3

[akakris10]

DAY 24: Chloé d'Apchier (Vanitas no Carte)

Speaking of Jun Mochizuki bangers. Vanitas no Carte. The main cast is the best hot mess I've ever seen and I think their situationship is really funny, BUT CHLOE. I Love Her. Toxic ass woman with a complex background, contradictory feelings and some of the most beautiful art ever. Those were all pluses to me btw I love this arc

Mochizuki always draws bangers but Chloe... is on another level. She's so beautiful it makes me feel faint. I want to frame that one cover art up on my wall and stare at it forever.

Vanitas has really interesting storytelling in how every arc's featured characters indirectly reflect something about Vanitas/Noe's relationship specifically... I'd love to talk about it some day. The characters are all delightfully messy in a way that gives me brain worms.

MANNNNNN CHLOE JEAN I LOVE YOU GUYSSSSS

Shes so pretty look at her...

[heartnosekid]

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[canon-gabriel-quotes]

i have a clip for this if you want it :3 i remember it was under a monday morning murder on qc stream

i love your blog please keep fueling my angel insanity

Is it this one :3

Transcript:

Hits you with a pipe. *metal_pipe_drop.mp3* Sorry!

Hits you with a pipe again. *metal_pipe_drop.mp3* Sergy-Accident!

*multiple very short metal_pipe_drop.mp3s*

Machine? *very short metal_pipe_drop.mp3* Why are you bleeding?

*multiple metal_pipe_drop.mp3s*

Audio source

[gmanmedias]

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Fairy Type Miku with trans-themed stims for anon!

[minweber]

I am going to count on GW being incredibly predictable in its design sensibilities and bank on the more "elegant" looking guardian spear being a sign of an official female sculpt.

[heartnosekid]

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[shih-coulda-had-it]

totally reasonable development to the American Dream plan, don't even sweat it

(and the 24+ sentences i owe to the pollers)

Toshinori bounces on his heels, feeling lighter than air with the anticipation of tonight’s activities buzzing along his nerves. He’s dressed in a dark hooded sweatshirt, denim jeans, and the sneakers Gran Torino had bought specifically for their high-quality rubber soles.

And speaking of, Gran Torino should be up on the roofs somewhere…

The front door to the Midoriya apartment opens, and Izuku slips out after a hasty farewell to his mother, which is paired with a lackluster promise to stay safe. Toshinori manages a single jaunty wave before Izuku shuts it, and then his attention is turned to give Izuku’s outfit a critical once-over.

“You don’t have any other shoes?” Toshinori asks, contemplating the red hue of his successor’s sneakers. The rest of the clothes are appropriately sturdy and dark in palette.

“No? Sorry…”

“Eh, it should be fine. There shouldn’t be a lot of traffic up top anyway. Come on, let’s move!”

They make their way to the stairs, but to Izuku’s obvious confusion, Toshinori leads them further up.

“Yagi-san, you said that this was going to be a special Basic Physical Fitness Training session,” the kid says. “Can I ask… who thought of it? You, or Gran Torino?”

“Oh, this is totally my idea,” says Toshinori breezily. “I know the beach clean-up is the ultimate goal, and it’ll stay as your focus before high school, but I realized today that there are some experiences that you just can’t replicate as a holder of One for All! Experiences that even our Quirkless bodies can manage!”

They head higher. Izuku gets more nervous, but gamely follows Toshinori up the fire safety ladder.

On the roof, Gran Torino greets them with a curt, “Boys. This is the stupidest thing I can imagine for you two to do, in the stupidest place possible.” He’s sitting on the ledge, and as Toshinori requested, two lengths of steel pipes are leaned up next to him.

“Musutafu’s perfectly safe,” Toshinori counters. “And with you here, Gran Torino, there’s minimal risk of, well...”

“Falling to your deaths?”

Izuku squeaks. He quivers beside Toshinori, and when Toshinori glances down, Izuku is staring at the pipes, aghast. “What are we doing, Yagi-san?”

“We,” Toshinori says with great dignity, “are training in the great art of parkour. The pipes are insurance for safety, supposing we see real trouble that a pro-hero won’t get to in time.”

“Legally speaking, vigilantism,” Gran Torino interrupts.

“But we’re not going to get caught.”

“Which makes you juvenile delinquents.”

“Gran Torino,” Toshinori complains, feeling delightfully young and unburdened now that he’s gotten accustomed to Torino’s incredible, mellowed-out approach to training Izuku. What trauma? What spars? Toshinori at fifteen didn’t know anything about that, and Gran Torino at his current age looked nothing like the pro-hero who haunted the end of his high school career!

“I’m enabling you, aren’t I?” the old man shoots back. “Don’t I get to express my own opinions?”

“Is it really safe, though?” Izuku asks.

“Of course!” Toshinori picks up a pipe, hefts it, and tosses it over to Izuku, who catches it while wearing a thoroughly beleaguered expression. Then he grabs the other. “Listen, Midoriya-kun. If it’s really going to be a year until you get One for All, then the American Dream plan can afford to be a little flexible! You want to be a U.A. student, right?!”

“R-right!”

“Then we can’t just train your body!” he cries, lifting the pipe like a torch. “We’ve gotta train your willingness to get into a scrap!”

A little more wobbly, Izuku repeats, “R-right!” And because his successor is more polite, Izuku turns to Gran Torino and executes a little bow, adding, “Thank you for letting us do this, Gran Torino! And for keeping an eye on us!”

Torino sighs.

[cometblaster2070]

i was watching the my little pony episode where they parody murder on the orient express (MMMystery On the Friendship Express hooray) and in it they also parody sherlock holmes and watson using pinkie pie and twilight and it was honestly such a funny episode.

and then it got me thinking that yk what ever after high also deserved a silly little mystery solving episode/special whatever and they should've played it with the same watson and holmes dynamic using either maddie and raven or maddie and apple because I'm not sure which one would be funnier.

and it would be even better if throughout the entire investigation, it seems like maddie's talking complete nonsense and asking irrelevant questions and generally having no idea about what she's doing BUT at the end she pulls a scooby doo and casually solves the mystery and further elaborates on the seemingly inconsequential trail of ridiculous clues she's found that helped her solve the case.

bonus points if the clues are actually completely irrelevant to the actual crime or mystery but either by sheer coincidence or maddie's innate eldritch powers they somehow manage to line up perfectly with the case and become the perfect trail of breadcrumbs to find the culprit.

i think it's also funny if there were a running gag of the narrators trying their absolute hardest to not give any hints to maddie or to not slip up and accidentally spoil the mystery, and at the end after the big reveal, they're just as horrified and shocked as everyone else after maddie reveals her logic behind how she solved the mystery because that is definitely NOT what they expected would happen.

[gmanmedias]

Ramona Flowers ep. 5

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[demolding]

*:・ﾟ☆ source {don’t use without credit}

[or-echo]

So, Bucky's the Ultimate Universe's Grand Skull, right? Old news.

I'm not convinced- and in fact, I'm actually certain- that he's not who Camp is suggesting he is. He is, at the very least, NOT the original Bucky, and his identity is debatable too (be he a clone or imposter), but I'm pretty sure that the Grand Skull is actually the Ultimate Universe's Jack Monroe.

First- the Skull himself. Let's take a look at him.

In this particular image, he has two visible flesh arms. We don't know with certainty the way that new Ultimate James Barnes died- or nearly died- but given the similarity in Steve Rogers' origin, one can assume it was likely in the plane explosion (or via train, if Camp has decided to create synergy with the MCU). Assuming this is not an artistic error (it has happened before) or a backstory tweak, then the possibility of it being the original Bucky is discredited.

This leaves the possibility of a clone or LMD open- I don't buy into that theory, though. It's not impossible, but there's already a LMD Nick Fury & to do that with Bucky would just be retreading ground. On top of that, Grand Skull is estimated by Jim to be 73; maybe he'd just been running around as a clone for a while... but undeniably, it's more useful to have a younger, more spry guy running around as a propaganda face.

Not just that; Jim says that the role of Grand Skull has been held by at least five people, and they tend to die violently, so this is not a case of not replacing a successful player. *Why* put an elderly clone into this position when you can just make a new one? It reads as very unlikely to me.

So, why do I think he's specifically *Jack Monroe?*

Starting with some of the more minor elements, Jim's voice recognition came in at 90%. Enough to come up with a conclusive result, but if Camp wanted to concretely *tell* us it's James Barnes, it would be 100%.

The high percentage, assuming this is actually Jack Monroe, can be attributed to the fact that he has always resembled, and has been imitating James Barnes since he was 12-13 years old, at least in 616.

His behavior is another indicator to me. He's eager for the "Invaders reunion," but lacks any vestige of his previous attitude towards his former peers. This is most obviously shown with his flippant behavior towards Namor, whose approval he had desperately wanted while they were on a team together.

Jack was never a part of the Invaders; *maybe* he could have crossed paths with Jim & Namor at some point in time, but he didn't have the same personal attachment to them that James did.

But it's also in the fact that he only addresses *Steve* directly once defeated, even though Jim is also right there.

Knowing Steve by name may, at first, serve as a smoking gun suggesting that it's actually James as Camp suggests, but to reiterate Jack's backstory; HIS Captain America, William Burnside, underwent physical surgery to look the exact same as the original Steve Rogers, and legally took on his name. He knew his Captain America as Steve Rogers, and, like anyone else who was in-the-know of the legacy-mantle that Captain America & Bucky had become, thought that the original Steve Rogers was dead. So, the Skull recognizing Captain America as "Steve" does not necessarily mean that he is actually James Barnes. It does mean he's not Fred Davis, though!

On top of that, the idea that "...symbols don't die. They just come back different," is a near-perfect descriptor of what happened to the title of Captain America and Bucky from 45-55.

The time period in which Jack was Bucky though- and more importantly than that, the things and ways he was groomed to believe and behave respectively- aligns better with the beliefs and actions of the Grand Skull. He was McCarthyism Bucky. With the influence of the incomplete/faulty Super Soldier Serum, and a third party pushing him further into far right rhetoric, to turn him into a pawn (after all, the Red Skull gang has connections to H.A.N.D.), he would be in prime position to take on a role like this. At least, he's more likely to fall into a Neo-Nazi movement than the Bucky who grew up watching the Nazis rise to power and died fighting them.

With the Maker changing the world and eliminating heroes, Jack would never be pushed away from the path he was originally on. He'd become a useful, impressionable tool if deemed fit... and given that the Red Skull gang exists with H.A.N.D. connections, it seems that the Maker sees value in a group with that mindset. That could lend itself to why he'd let a non-rehabilitated Jack Monroe loose and not James Barnes.

(Notably, William Burnside has been written into similar stories; he has become both the leader of both a Neo-Nazi group and a far-right militia group respectively. The first of which happened under Dr. Faustus' brainwashing, who *could* be relevant when considering the hypnotic qualities of the Grand Skull's voice distortion, when vocal hypnotic suggestion is a staple of Faustus' abilities. However, that's *very* loose speculation, and he, to the best of my knowledge, has not even been alluded to in the new Ultimate Universe. Just a parallel!)

But it's the Maker's influence- how he started to change the universe in 1963- that makes the timeline make more sense. Jim's age estimate of 73 works far neater for Jack than it does James.

Starting with James, and I'll operate briefly under the impression that he IS the Grand Skull; in 616, he was born in 1925 and died in 1945 at the age of 20. When the KGB recovered and revived him, they almost immediately put him into stasis for nearly a decade. In the mid-50s, he became the Winter Soldier. I'm not sure how much has changed in 6160, and he clearly is not the Winter Soldier now, but unless the ongoing Ultimate Wolverine (which I am not caught up on) says otherwise, it's not impossible that he once *was.* Either way, he would have ended up in some sort of cryogenic stasis. He would have had to age ~53 years in the time since the Maker took over the world. Given that he is approximately 73 in 2025, that would place his presumed defrosting at 1972.

(Another odd thing about James; he had amnesia after being revived, remembering none of his life before. The history may have changed, but if it is him, I wonder what could have happened to restore his memory? It might explain the change in behavior and disposition, but I question what would have been the value in doing so if whoever acquired him & revived him once more had access to him as a pliable amnesiac agent?)

Now, Jack on the other hand, was born in 1941. He was put into cryogenic stasis by the US government in 1955, making him 14 years old. He would have had to age ~59 years, placing his presumed defrosting in 1966, far closer to 1963.

In that specific case, we'd need to know more about the timeline & the Maker's meddling to really know which makes more sense. Given how much closer to 1963 Jack WOULD have been defrosted though, as it stands I think it stands as reasonable evidence. Besides, given the Maker's subjugation of the Soviet Union in the present day, I assume he would likely have killed James far sooner than 1972 if he were at any point the Winter Soldier.

Maybe 1972 would work better if whoever the Grand Skull *is* was defrosted exclusively for the sake of leading the Red Skull gang (given they are inspired by Frank Castle of the 70s), but the previous four to five leaders make that unlikely, too. In the end though, there's just not enough information to make a concrete claim for this case. We don't know the history.

That's all speculation. All it shows is that he is *able* or even *likely* to be Jack Monroe. However, what was the smoking gun for me, what made me think that it was *actually* Jack Monroe rather than James Barnes, rather than just a case of likely speculation, is a case of Chekhov's Gun;

Jack Monroe is not only mentioned on the Maker's list, he is, in fact, quite high up on it. And he is listed as *inactive*, where James Barnes is listed as *deceased*. Jack is inactive, meaning that he is not working under his hero identity, Nomad.

More importantly, from a meta perspective, *WHY* put Jack Monroe on the first page of the list if you don't intend to use him somewhere in the story?

It's not a case of completionism; of listing characters by time period. Other characters who pre-date him in the timeline are not listed; there is no Toro, there is no Jacqueline Falsworth, there is no Jeff Mace, there is no William Nasland, there is no Fred Davis, there isn't even a William Burnside; NONE of them are on this page of the list. But Jack Monroe IS. Jack Monroe, who unfortunately has been dead in the main 616 continuity since 2005 and has not shown up since around 2010.

Jack Monroe has a place in this story. If he, specifically, is there on the list while so many others aren't, there's a reason behind it. Deniz Camp wants to do something with him, and I think the most likely possibility for him in the story is for him to be the Grand Skull.

Part of me even outright hopes it's him because that means he'll get some spotlight in the present day, when he's been absent in 616 for nearly two decades. Of course, that's the same part that hopes he'll face similar rehabilitation against the effects of the Super Soldier serum- mirroring his 616 story- and partner with the Ultimates. But *that* is a whole different can of worms. Still, I'd love if Marvel told a story with him again.

[cheezekennith]

Back from being fucking dead after not posting art bc due to fucking artblock anyways smth special to post bc of this

Have this goofy ahh looking ahh henry elsner cosplay i took a pic in a cosplay con from last month ig help and also yes thats my face but half of it is censored and half of his bangs are almost bald btw😭

[heartnosekid]

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Vintage Style Phonecase by cheror.official

[immabebaby]

Cassettes in Prime

So I was brainstorming with my brother earlier on how to input Soundwave's other cassettes into the pre-existing story/world and we came up with some pretty cool ideas, because it's too sad to think they all simply died (long post ahead)

First up, Ravage:

So MECH wants to re-create cybertronians right? What if they followed one around to see how they can make it, and that so happens to be Soundwave? Obviously he's fully aware of them and their plans, which is why he lets them. They create the " Robotic Assault Vehicle and Automated Ground Enforcer" with behaviors and patterns picked up from him. Once they're done, and it works, Soundwave can just swoop in and take it for himself probably blowing up MECH operations (whatever base they were using at the time). Megatron just let him keep it, bc if there's one bot he lets do whatever they want, it's Soundwave, just asks for a name, to which Soundwave plays back a clip of the scientists, "but for short, we call it R.A.V.A.G.E." "Well then, make sure you take Ravage to Knockout so he can give them a check-up,"

Cool, cassette count to 2, now for Rumble and Frenzy (it's a bit longer) :

What if, to better acclimate to Earth or something, the cons were trying to make cybertronians to fit in better with humans, maybe a decoy, infiltration, work as a spy, whatever. Point is, they're making smaller bots, two to start, to see how it goes. To test them out in battle, Soundwave takes them on a trial run against the bots. It probably goes well for the minis, since he would keep taking them out for 'testing' bc he's clearly not attached to them, no sir.

Now, as to their names? Well, y'know how the kids tend to tag along to fights? Miko saw them, and asked about the two new minis since they haven't showed up before, but the Autobots can't name them bc they didn't exist before Earth, (not that any of them knew that) so she just has to figure out their names, ("Calling them 'Thing 1 and Thing 2' is boring Jack" "So is calling them Aka and Ao!"). She tosses so many names back and forth with the other bots, even mid-battle ("What about Throwdown and Kickass?" "Not appropiate Miko") They started keeping a list to rank the best names, everyone expected to give at least one suggestion ("Raf you haven't said any names yet, c'mon just one?" "Jose y Maria?" "nevermind") Funniest thing is that once Miko finds the perfect names, ("Fisticuff and Hysteria are so cool, I have no idea what you guys are talking about") it turns out our minicons also chose. ("Hey, Rumble's a cool name!" "Yeah, Frenzy sounds awesome!")

Obviously, just like Ravage, Soundwave keeps these two for himself, and totally didn't help them pick names by replaying Miko's chatter among other internet searches. "Another one Soundwave? You're collecting extra bots like humans collect cassettes,"

For funzies, it's even better if Starscream had done one of his disappearing acts before Soundwave gets the twins, so when he comes back there's a mini hoard. "I swear when I left you only had two mini drone-" "Cassettes" "Right... Make sure your cassetticons are ready for the next mission,"

And that makes 4! Time for Buzzsaw :) :

Right, so typically Buzzsaw is counterpart to Laserbeak just like Rumble and Frenzy are to each other right? So what if Soundwave already had Buzzsaw, just how he already had Laserbeak, but during a mission they split up? Before they crashed on Earth, Soundwave had sent Buzzsaw on a scouting mission or something and wasn't able to get back to him before they left. So this whole time, he's been trying to find his way back to Soundwave, when he comes across, say, a Decepticon emergency shuttle that no bot was piloting and decides to take advantage of it, ignoring what looks like a bot in stasis. He pilots it to Earth, and when it crashed he flew out immediately, flying straight into the Nemesis, which he knows where it is bc if he can track Soundwave from lightyears away, he obviously can track him when they're on the same planet.

When he makes in on, he probably runs into everyone but Soundwave first, ("Oh... you're back," "Wow you really do look like Laserbeak" "It's good to have you back in our ranks,") Before he finally reunited with Soundwave, "Buzzsaw- you're back- Welcome"

Bringing it up to 5, let's move on with Ratbat! :

So when Shockwave's recreating the predacons, he doesn't go big or go home, it's only logical to start with a smaller creature to hammer out every detail before he makes the full scale ones. Soundwave is checking in on him for reasons when he sees the small prototype, and considering habit of collecting small bots it shouldn't come as a surprise when he pointed at the creature and asked "Oh shiny~ It's mine now, right?" in Knockout's voice. Shockwave just waved him off with a "It's merely a prototype that has outlived it's usefulness. If you deem it logical to keep, do with it what you will"

When he introduced it to the others, there was a it of mixed reactions, ("Wow, that looks just like that earth creature, a-" "Bat" "Rat" ... "Bat!" "Rat!" "Well I think it's small" "That's because you're huge Rav," "It has wings, that means it can fly right? Does that mean less shifts for me?") "Prototype- designation... 'Rat' 'Bat'? - is our new- cassettes" "You really just named it Ratbat? That's so uncreative, boss"

And then there were 6, as a little bonus, Wingthing! :

Y'all remember when they used a bit of Laserbeak to track down the Nemesis? Yeah so what if the bots designed a proper drone, building around the wing or whatever it was, making it as close to a real bot as they could to encourage it to return to Soundwave.

("We gotta name it!" "Miko no," "But why not, the last time I didn't get to name a bot so I wanna actually do it now! Let's see... it's a thing with wings...")

Obviously it made it's way to Laserbeak and Soundwave, who welcomed in the weird new drone bot. ("Does- creature has a- designation?") "Cassettes- welcome- Wingthing"