#epic!bio part 2

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Just don't let him take your ship!

Leaving the academy was supposed to relieve stress, but, instead Mara just finds herself stuck in the middle of a high stakes competition between two friends. Lightsabers Are Always Loaded: Chapter 27

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ok u know what. *organics your robots*

spec bio wubbox concepts because why not! lore and rambling under the cut:

The Wubbox is an ancient species of monster dating back to the Dawn of Fire. Presumed to be extinct post-cataclysm, several caves full of dormant eggs have been found in the present day, and the species has once again become widespread in monster society. Loud, powerful, and somewhat territorial, they served as guardians of pre-contemporary monster tribes, and were regarded as gifts from the Celestials.

pic explanations

1. sketch of an adult wubbox, with different textures/components labeled. they are mostly covered in armor-like scales that are shed periodically; these can be replaced/upgraded by artificial parts, and are often repurposed into armor and instruments by other monsters.

2. sketch of a wubbox hatchling + notes:

- Baby teeth are sparse but very sharp, can and will eat almost anything (young wubboxes are notoriously ravenous, which lead to the myth that they eat other monsters)

- Protective cap over chest “speaker” (see image 4), falls off after a few weeks

- Long, fluffy fur for retaining warmth

- Simple armor plates that are shed several times while growing; initial set is made of eggshell parts that fuse onto the hatchling’s body

- Bioluminescent markings do not appear until adulthood

3. “blushing” wubbox; when flustered, their under-eye plates retract slightly, exposing patches of fur on their cheeks. these patches, like the rest of their fur, is bioluminescent, and is similar in texture to fiber optic lights

4. rough respiratory system diagram. they have very large lungs with a sort of dual output system; when speaking or “singing”, air passes through their larynx and into a hollow cavity in their chest covered by an eardrum-like membrane that functions like a speaker. this amplifies their voice and creates their signature booming roars.

5. side view of a wubbox’s head + skull concept. their mouths are full of large, flat teeth, with a diet consisting of vegetation and processed foods. 

6. earth epic concept. in this scenario, “epic” wubboxes are the result of eggs being stored in certain environments for prolonged periods of time and developing specific adaptations for said environments; for example, an earth epic would be created by keeping an egg buried in volcanic ash, in/near magma, or just in a high temperature environment.

an earth epic’s horns are hollow tubes developed from their eye plates, which grow out to cover their nostrils completely; these horns are the output of a built-in air purification function in its respiratory system that filters the ash and smoke it breathes in and ejects the contaminants in mist clouds.

7. air epic concept + notes

- Large eyes and angled under-eye plates

- Wingtips are notched like an eagle’s (air epics are very fast and agile fliers, being smaller and more lightweight than others of their species)

- “Nostrils”/air output valves on their wrists; purpose unknown (these are mainly used to emit train whistle-like shrieks for communication, but why they exist is a mystery)

- Body armor plates are replaced by smaller, feather-like scales

8. lol bald eagle

extra note bc i haven’t designed the rare versions yet: “rare” wubboxes are the result of experimentation on a common individual in an effort to “improve” the species for the modern age; all current rares are clones of the first successful specimen

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Introduction !!

Name: Pierce

Pronouns: He/Him

Gender: Trans Guy

Sexuality: On the AroAce spectrum & Achillean !!

Religion: LDS (Mormon)

Likes: Writing, Musicals, Art, Music, Reading, Ancient Rome/Greece, any book by Rick Riordan, EPIC the musical, TLT the musical, Hadestown, collecting random soda tabs, Indie pop/rock, Student Council, Speech and Debate, JVQ

Dislikes: Bugs & T.R.A.S.H (Transphobic, racist, ableist, sexist, homophobic)

What I do: I write, draw, and act !!

Art trades: Open

Fic Requests: Closed

Writing/Fic requests: Sure, but only if I'm in the fandom (IF it is a fanfic, an OG story is fine too!!) & the fic request is completely appropriate

Rules for my Art Trades/Fic Requests:

No sexual content requests

Blood is okay

For art trades, please send an example of your work before hand

I will draw non-humans

I won't draw kissing

I won't draw pro-shipping

For fics, I wont write more than 25 pages (I'm working on my own projects)

Fandoms I'm actively in: Percy Jackson/Riordanverse, EPIC: the musical, Hades (The Game), Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Craig of the Creek, Musicals (Hamilton, Lightning Thief, Hadestown, EPIC, etc), Dead Boy Detectives, Greek Mythology in general, AGGGTM, The Naturals, The Inheritance Games, Sleepy Hollow (2013), The Song of Achilles.

Other: I have POTS, EDS, Aphantasia, Speech Impaired, & AuDHD! I'm writing a musical abt the myth of Icarus (CAN NEVER have too many Greek Mythology inspired musicals in your life ygs </3), I am a published award winning author for an essay I wrote about teen stuttering, and I've been drawing since I was a kid, animating for 4-5 years ish !!

Books I'm writing:

Bloom of the Sun - The god of light, Apollo falls in love with a Spartan prince. Hyacinthus, a beautiful boy, and with an even more beautiful heart. He was the only thing on Apollo's mind, but Apollo's thoughts weren't the only minds Hyacinthus dwelled in. Thamyris and Zephyrus, one mortal, and one god fall in love with the young boy, offending Apollo in doing so. Thamyris boasts about his musical talent and claims to be the best musician in all the land, but when the god of music hears of his lie, one of his muses challenges his musical ability, in which Thamyris faces a fatal loss. Meanwhile, Zephyrus admires Hyacinthus from afar but never acts upon his feelings, unlike the outgoing Apollo who spends every waking hour with Hyacinthus. Apollo spends his time telling tales to Hyacinthus, making music and playing games. Apollo has never loved someone so much. Hyacinthus was the boy Apollo loved. Loved.

6 traumatized teens discover homophobia (Title is a WIP 💀) - Abt these 6 teenagers that are part of an experiment finally realizing they're apart of an experiment

Loving a Dead Boy - A revolutionary pill is created, in which most the population takes. Suddenly murderers have been popping up more than usual. The connection of that pill and the murders have became more prominent by the day. Jax took the pill and falls in love with the boy he is supposed to murder.

The Silent Strokes of Aldric Boyd - People who commit suicide don't go to heaven or hell. They go to 'white space'. A place between the 2 realms where you roam till you're ready for a 2nd chance of life, but even then you have a time limit of how long you can stay. An artist is re-living his life cut short.

Fly me to the sun - A musical based off of the myth of Icarus !! Exploring the difficult relationships between a son and his father, and the childlike wonder of thinking you are above the world.

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opinion on the porcelain Graves skin???? I don’t hate it but I’m mad it’ll take another year or more until we get another one and porcelain is such a boring theme. Stick him in an interesting skin line for once riot.

Sincerely? I tried to like this skin, I really tried, but.. :/

Well, on twitter I compared Porcelain Graves with the WR exclusive skin Dragon Lantern Graves (not the special edition) I'll transcribe it here.

Let's start with splasharts. Wild Rift's Splash arts are generally criticized, many times I don't agree, some of them are of even higher quality than those of League, which is the case of Dragon Lantern Graves. Even though it's not Graves' best splash, or the best skinline splash, it's pretty and pleasant, my only criticism is that it's a little too static, there's not much movement

the Graves porcelain splash has some problems, at first glance it is.. pretty, but whenever you look at it, there seems to be something wrong, it really is a strange splash, and it's not the fault of the artist who made it.

Porcelain Graves Splash Concepts by Santiago Parra

in the end, they(riot) decided to increase the proportions and add a lot of texture, to achieve this result, so... yeah, it's not the best splash. but it's pretty

Dragon Lantern: 1

Porcelain: 0

About the VFX, let's be honest, they tend to do something very mediocre with Graves when it comes to visual effects, apart from his legendary skin (which it would be stupid of them to do something too simple) Graves' recent epic skins haven't received as much love.

Even though the Dragon Lantern skin has basically the same sounds as the base skin (i guess) the quality of the VFX is absurdly good (better than his legendary if you allow me to say). The Porcelain one.. is... mediocre.. ofc they couldn't put something cool like Lux and Lissandra's skins, right?

I can't post more than one video in a post, so here are the links so you can see the difference between the VFX of Dragon Lantern Graves and Porcelain Graves.

Dragon Lantern: 2

Porcelain: 0

Ok, let's get to the part that irritated me the most. The narrative..

Yes, we agree that Graves is not a big "important" character in Runeterra, he is not there to be a protagonist. That doesn't mean he can't cause real chaos, and set Bilgewater on fire just in an attempt to get revenge on his current partner. Why did I bring this up? because it is absurd to portray Graves as a pathetic and irrelevant character.

With that in mind, read Porcelain Graves' bio:

Not long after gunpowder was invented, the Zodiac searched for a new protector of the Dragon Relic. Though ancient and wise, the gods struggled to find someone worthy, so they settled for Malcolm Graves. Eventually his expertise in firepower was pointed in the right direction (away from all the breakable vases)

It's ridiculous, don't you think?

They are so fond of abusing the fact that Graves is, in some ways, a comic relief, that they make him the real joke, to the exclusion of everything else about him, and making him "unworthy". It's like they're saying "ugh, should this guy really be here? Who called him?". Whoever wrote the narrative of porcelain skinline seems to hate him, for real..

Now let's go to Dragon Lantern Graves' bio:

Graves, a free-spirited mercenary from a foreign land, can hardly wait to join in the fun at the gala. For this burly maverick, harmless ol' lanterns are no more than impractical ornaments—he much prefers filling up massive dragonflame cannons and setting the night sky ablaze with 'em booming explosions and dazzling lights!

1000% better, right? It's almost a delight. It's fun, brings out a little of who he is, and doesn't degrade his image :D

Dragon Lantern: 3

Porcelain: 0

AND WE HAVE A WINNER

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(Part 1) Underrated Recommendations for Film & TV

1. Wolfwalkers (Film, 2020)

Wolfwalkers follows the story of Robyn Goodfellowe, a young apprentice hunter who arrives in Ireland with her father during a time of superstition and magic to wipe out the last wolf pack. While exploring the forbidden lands outside the city walls, Robyn befriends a free-spirited girl, Mebh, a member of a mysterious tribe rumored to have the ability to turn into wolves by night. As they search for Mebh's missing mother, Robyn uncovers a secret that draws her further into the enchanted world of the Wolfwalkers and risks turning into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.

2. Reservation Dogs (TV, 2021)

Reservation Dogs follows the exploits of four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma who steal, rob, and save in order to get to the exotic, mysterious, and faraway land of California. To succeed, they will have to save enough money, outmaneuver the methheads at the junkyard on the edge of town, and survive a turf war against a much tougher rival gang.

3. The Breadwinner (Film, 2017)

Parvana is an 11-year-old girl who lives under Taliban rule in Afghanistan in 2001. After the wrongful arrest of her father, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy to support her family. Working alongside a friend, she soon discovers a new world of freedom and danger. Drawing strength from the fantastical stories she invents, Parvana embarks on an epic quest to find her father and reunite her family.

4. Carol & the End of the World (TV, 2023)

With a mysterious planet hurtling towards Earth, extinction is imminent for the people of the world. While most feel liberated to pursue their wildest dreams, one quiet and awkward woman, Carol, stands alone—lost among the hedonistic masses.

5. Infinity Train (TV, 2019)

The series is set on a gigantic, mysterious and seemingly endless train traveling through a barren landscape, whose cars contain a variety of bizarre, fantastical, and impossible environments. Passengers on the train proceed from car to car by completing challenges which help them resolve their psychological trauma and emotional issues. Every season of Infinity Train (referred to as a "Book", each with its own separate subtitle) follows its own storyline and set of characters, although some characters appear across multiple seasons.

6. Moral Orel (TV, 2005)

The series follows the titular Orel Puppington, a young, happy-go-lucky and naïve Protestant who showcases his commitment to God, while dealing with the cynicism of his abusive and alcoholic father, his lethargic mother, and the devoutly Protestant town of Moralton in which he resides.

7. Bee and PuppyCat (TV, 2013)

The series revolves around Bee, an unemployed woman in her early twenties, who encounters a mysterious creature named PuppyCat. She adopts this apparent cat-dog hybrid, and together, they go on a series of temporary jobs to pay off her monthly rent. These bizarre jobs take the duo across strange worlds out in space.

8. Tuca & Bertie (TV, 2019)

This animated comedy series explores the friendship between two 30-year-old bird women who live in the same apartment building. The buddy comedy features cocky, carefree toucan Tuca and anxious, daydreaming songbird Bertie as they live their lives in the metropolis of Bird Town.

9. Wander Over Yonder (TV, 2013)

The series follows Wander, a nomadic, helpful, and overly-optimistic intergalactic traveler and his best friend and steed, Sylvia the Zbornak, as they travel from planet to planet helping people to have fun, play, and live free, despite the continuing encroachment of Lord Hater, one of the most powerful villains in the galaxy, and his army of Watchdogs.

10. The Midnight Gospel (TV, 2020)

The Midnight Gospel revolves around a spacecaster named Clancy Gilroy, who lives on the Chromatic Ribbon, a membranous, tape-like planet situated in the middle of a colorful void where simulation farmers use powerful bio-organic computers to simulate a variety of universes from which they harvest natural resources and new technology. Each episode revolves around Clancy's travels through planets within the simulator, with the beings inhabiting these worlds as the guests he interviews for his spacecast. These interviews are based on actual interviews, with real audio sampled from Trussell's podcast, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour.

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Sup gamer

Saw ur bio, tell me about ur interests NOW

Oh god fuck I wasn't prepared for this

Pathologic 2 takes place in a small town on the steppe only referred to as the Town on the Gorkhon River, or simply "the town." The culture of the town is a fusion of 20th century technology and architecture with ancient steppe culture and traditions, which bring about customs that greatly affect the course of events in the town. Though the exact location and date are never mentioned, it is very heavily implied by character dialogue and environment clues that the game is set during the Russian Civil War.[6][7]

The world of Pathologic 2 leans heavily into the surreal, meta-commentary and symbolism, frequently making discerning what is fiction and what is "reality" difficult. The events in the town are framed as a play in the style of Bertolt Brecht's "epic theatre," where the player is an "actor" "playing the part" of the player character. The player's "reality" often comes into contact with this framing, with theater-like elements such as spotlights, "scene changes" between day and night and a disembodied stagehand-like voice appearing intermittently throughout the game. At certain points, such as during plays performed in the town's theater or after the player's death, the player encounters the mysterious and supernatural theater director Mark Immortell, who is often critical of the player's "acting" and frequently breaks the fourth wall, referring to the game's development, referencing the mechanics and inner workings of the game's systems and referencing events or aspects from the original Pathologic, both contextually and literally.[8]

The protagonist of the game is a surgeon named Artemy Burakh, also known as the Haruspex. The game begins at the end of a previous, seemingly failed run, on 'day 12' of the first Pathologic. The town is nearly empty, filled with bodies and the sounds of screaming. Artemy speaks to various characters and makes his way to the Cathedral, where he is able to speak to the mysterious theatre manager, Mark Immortell, and requests a 'second attempt'. This is granted, and time resets to the prologue of Artemy on a train, travelling to the Town. The player controls Artemy through a series of strange dreams and visions. Through dialogue with a character known as the 'Fellow Traveller', it is revealed that Artemy was born and raised in the town but has not been back in many years. His father, Isidor Burakh, is the local physician and a leading member of the Kin, the native inhabitants of the steppe. He sent Artemy to the capital as a teenager to gain an education in medicine, but has now requested that he return, stating that 'great difficulties' are coming.

Upon arriving in the town, Artemy is greeted by three locals who try to kill him. In a cutscene, he kills the attackers. Nearby strangers in plague doctor suits tell him that the locals suspect him of killing an important resident of the town and that the attack on him was an act of revenge. It is soon revealed that, in fact, two people have seemingly been murdered. The first is Simon Kain, a prominent leader of the town who had previously been assumed to be immortal; the second is Isidor.

Artemy is suspected of patricide and attacked by many of the townspeople, who have been driven to unusual violence. Young women are targeted in particular due to old steppe legends of a 'Shabnak-adyr', a creature with clay legs who brings death. A local gang of children known as the 'Soul-And-A-Halves' request Artemy's assistance with finding a boy who poisoned their dogs, while an old friend of his known as Bad Grief requests assistance with an injured local man. The leader of the town's economy and industry, a powerful man known as 'Fat Vlad', vouches for Artemy, and his innocence is restored.

At his father's funeral, Artemy discovers that his father died of a strange stab wound. He is urged to accept his father's legacy as a menkhu, a special caste of Kin folk with the right to cut open bodies. In doing so, he is given a list containing the names of seven local children, plus a strange steppe sigil that he is told means 'udurgh'. He learns that these are the children his father felt would be most important in 'rebuilding the town', and must be kept safe at all costs. Signs of an outbreak appear in the village, including a strange rot on the sides of buildings and a black cloud in his father's old bedroom. A plague known as 'Sand Pest' strikes the town, killing people within a day of infection and leaving the districts abandoned and rife with looters.

Artemy is required to perform daily tasks at the hospital in exchange for food and money, as food prices rise rapidly once the outbreak hits. It is revealed that the Sand Pest has hit the town once before, and Isidor managed to curb the outbreak by boarding up the infected district and leaving all those within to die. He encounters a young Herb Bride - a caste of Kin women who dance barefoot to encourage the growth of sacred herbs such as twyre - who seems to know him, and eventually tells him he is destined to kill her. Artemy is able to use his father's old equipment to create tinctures that increase immunity, and later use organs or blood to produce antibiotics and painkillers. He collects sacred blood from a crack in the ground in an ancient steppe village, and finds that this produces a panacea that cures Sand Pest; however, there is only enough blood for two doses.

An Inquisitor, Aglaya Lilich, arrives in the city. She has been sent to save the town at any cost, and Artemy is warned by others that Inquisitors are inherently manipulative and dangerous. He continues to search for larger amounts of sacred blood, eventually learning that the only way to get enough to stop the plague is to destroy a tower known as the Polyhedron. The mysterious 'udurgh' refers to the Earth itself, which is leaking out the sacred blood due to being repeatedly harmed and nearly killed by the Town's presence. Destroying the Polyhedron will produce enough of this blood to cure everyone, but kill the Earth in the process, causing many of the 'miracles' of the world - including many aspects of the Kin - to fade and die. It is up to the player which option they choose: either the tower is destroyed and the town is saved, or the tower remains in place and the Kin retake the Town.

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what is it about cruise ships that you find ugly? like are there any specific ones you hate or is it just all of them?

okay so ive been puzzling over to how to answer this for A While™ because:

theres so many ugly cruise ships i would love to roast, and theres a part of me that wants to make a sideblog about it a la @mcmansionhell but for cruise ships

i am autistic and this is my special interest and i also want to infodump about ship design conventions

theres also really pretty oceanliners like the ss france that got converted into cruise ships where the magical girl transformation sequence malfunctioned badly.

its not always just like the exterior thats badly designed, theres both Awful design inside the ship like the disney wish, and Awful business plans and conduct like the epirotiki lines

...but, thats a lot.

so instead, ive settled on four exterior design issues that i think you can see in a lot of cruise ships even if you dont know shit about ships.

this is by no means an exhaustive list but just some common observations that you will see in 97% of cruise ships.

im also gonna include an example ship for each and also further examples when needed.

so without further ado:

1. your ship looks like a bus and a ferry had an unholy love affair that ended with a baby neither wanted.

as an example of this anchor-christ, may i introduce you to the celebrity edge

something about the stern (back) just reminds me of diamond busses here in the uk while the bow (front) has a distinctly ferry-like look.

the super-structure that you see peaking above the spaceship-bridge on the bow is giving me double-decker bus energy.

the orange viewing box elevator thingy gives construction site energy, but also gives me public transport vibes? like i can just see something similar being added on buses with no explanation and we'd all just be like i guess buses are getting the budget silicon valley treatment.

further, celebrity edge has relatively sharp angles at the stern and bow. if you look at a lot of ocean liners, youll see shallower sweeping angles curving down, while a lot of cruise ships will have these sharper angles (though by angles, i mean curves still) or just will stop at the stern:

[Image ID: collage with five ships. In the top left corner, there are two images with the profiles of the SS France and the SS Andrea Doria. In the top right, there is the stern of the MSC Meraviglia. Bottom left: the stern of the Costa Deliziosa. Bottom right: stern of the Norwegian Epic]

though not pictured above, the rms queen mary actually earned her title at the miss pacific ocean competition where a cruise ship will never win because theyre just too ugly.

but my point is that the abrupt ending of superstructure and ship at the stern looks like a bus. it just does.

there is also like "this is just a block of flats" energy with the costa deliziosa, but thats getting into the next point:

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2. oh no gang, billy bear misplaced his msc seaside hotel and now its floating out to sea on a barge! can you help him?

yes this is a butlins reference, what are you gonna do about it? call a red coat on me?

the msc seaside is one of many cruise ships where it looks like someone put a hotel on a barge... which is what a cruise ship actually is.

like, they are barely ships. anyone who says theyre going on a cruise to explore the ocean is trying to buff out their tinder bio. while cruise ships technically can sail across oceans, they dont. their journeys are incredibly short they sail very close to land, avoid any rough weather and its mandatory for all of their captains to have a north american blue grouse fursona.

and thats all because a cruise ship is hotel complex on a barge. its purpose is not to sail far because its just a hotel. there are multiple swimming pools and restaurants and night clubs and fucking rollercoasters on some of them. you can buy souvenirs, you can go do yoga, you can get a massage and as long as your surname doesnt end with a double n, you can put your kid into the available childcare.

forget sending the british army to pontins during covid, lets send them to pontoons!

hotels on barges are the most common version youll see, but there are other variations which include:

chopping mall 2: carnivore cruises

the 2006 remake of the anchor-christ: abargements/if youre renting in a block of flats on a barge, do you pay rent to a waterlord or is your landlord firmly stood on ground?

the happiest place on earth: disneywater!

the entire shenanigans going on with the freedom ship which i do not have time or energy to get into right now, so lets all just calm and down and take a breath and...

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...3. close your eyes, imagine, feel it. youre on a cruise ship, the ovation of the seas; its an early august night and petrichor deluges the air. the skies above you glisten, a whirlpool of colour illuminated by hundreds of tiny flecks of light. youre alone on the deck, standing at the stern with your arms precariously balanced on the barrier as you turn your attention to the ocean below. its dark, the gentle waves nearly imperceptible yet bar the bone-white crests against the hull. you watch, captivated, listening to the ocean sing its terrible song. yet then somewhere behind you, the mellow thud of hoofs on the wooden deck weaves between the waves and the melody. you look up, lock eyes, feel a hurricane surround you as he stares back, do you remember to count his fingers?

so, you might have noticed that a lot of modern cruise ships, especially the bigger ones, look like some check-mark tech-bro on the bird app used an ai to steal the work of naval architects, photographers, artists, etc. to generate "their own design" for a cruise ship.

the example i chose for this was the ovation of the seas:

the super-structure has copy and paste vibes. the ship also looks like its lurching forward to attack me but thats beside the point.

one of the issues the designers for these ships - i would say naval architects but cruise lines sometimes choose someone for head of design who is not a naval architect and has never been on a ship before for shits, giggles and profits- run into is that its really difficult to make a long blank wall look good.

if youve ever made a house in the sims, youve probably ran into this yourself. youre happily building your house and it looks really good at the front and the back, but the side of it is just a wall and adding windows is giving copy and paste vibes.

my trick for this is either fake chimney, add an extra small popout, vines everywhere or hide it with trees, but these are not viable options for a cruise ship.

trust me, i checked:

hence, we end up with very long ships where its just ctrl c ctrl v for 300+ metres.

so how do you fix this?

well, idk maybe you could take notes from any of the longer ocean liners built in recent history.

you know, like the ss united states or the rms queen mary 2 or the ss michelangelo or the ss normandie or the mv kungsholm or the ss principe perfeito:

now im not saying all of these liners are the most beautiful boats ever; theyre not. as much as i adore her, queen mary 2 is a little ugly. most of them even have an element of copy and paste.

but none of them feel ai-generated. and a lot of them look really really pretty. you can tell that they were designed by human beings.

because the naval architects and naval designers who knew what they were doing. weve got clever use of colours, gorgeous use of curves and sweeping lines that balance out all the design elements. the sameness is broken up when possible, and the ship has focal points designed within to catch your eye.

and all of them have beautiful bows. most ocean liners had/have noticeable bows due to functionality; they needed sharp bows to cut through waves because they were crossing the ocean every week. and so extra care would be taken to both make the bow work for its function and also, look really fucking cool.

the ss normandie specifically has a unique bow shape and structure designed by vladimir yourkevitch, a russian naval architect who had emigrated to france after the russian revolution.

the bow is slanted and looks almost clipper-like. theres this clear bulbous bulb (thats the wrong term but the bit at the bottom) beneath the waterline. this design is matched with a slim hull designed to be hydrodynamic, which made her a very fast ship.

she and the rms queen mary fought over the blue ribband for several years before ww2 broke out. [x][x]

its a little wibbly-wobbly-looking but it gives her a very distinct profile and she just looks really cool. you dont notice the repeating pattern of windows on the super structure because of how striking her entire design is.

and well, there has been attempts to capture this with cruise ships.

they run into problems with it though because their bows are not designed the way ocean liners' bows were because a cruise ship does not need to cut through waves. itd be really weird if you were in a fancy restaurant and you were giving a steak knife for your caesar salad.

so what else can you do to make your bow look so beautiful her kissing booth would be sold out all weekend?

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4. your bow art is ugly. it is ugly. it is really ugly. please stop putting art on your bow. it is all ugly.

yeah.

take a moment .

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its okay.

i promise

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shes not real.

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you can breathe.

take another breath.

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youre okay.

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are you scrolled far down enough that you cant see her anymore?

yeah so that was the aidanova. probably the worst bow art i have ever encountered but im yet to encounter any bow art that isnt awful.

pride of america is terrible; caribbean princess' is just completely out of place; norwegian prima is the epitome of "what the fuck?"; majestic princess' makes the ship look naked somehow.

now i will concede that a lot of bow art is probably aimed at children because family cruises are a thing, but i wont concede that it changes anything.

the bow art is still ugly and i struggle to see how it would be appealing to a child. like engaging children is more than just throwing some bright colours and patterns on a canvas? children are smarter than that and even in my joking post making fun of cruise ships, im not gonna stand for the way we invalidate the personhood of children. theyre not things to be distracted with simple solutions.

weirdly the aidanovas is the one id be less harsh about in terms of engaging children because there is more to dig into like a boat version of thomas the tank engine or like how do boat body work? the art isnt surface level.

but its still just ugly. the shape of the bow does not compliment the face and the change in colour in the eyes is very distracting.

tbh, if youre gonna do bow art, youve got two options that arent awful:

actually aim it at kids in a way thats not just surface level look at bright colour braxter. have focus groups with kids, gets their feedback, have kids contribute. respect the intelligence and personhood of kids.

just go all out. balls to the fucking wall, just break every damn rule in the book and apply every technique your art teacher hated. the ship is gonna be ugly anyway, make it fun ugly. camp is in. pantomime it up in this bitch!

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and anyway, that concludes my "brief" answer to this question 👍

btw if you would follow a blog that just trashes cruise ships because of how ugly they are, please tell me because like, if enough people would enjoy it to make the effort worth it, i Will do it.

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KW: The Seven Warring States (RAW)

(They can be called 7 Great Warlords of the Warring States which sounds a bit more epic haha)

Oh boy, these guys have alot of content that is worth archiving meaning that I have worked so hard to get all of those stories and bios as I can :^)

Anyway, the list will provide the following content these guys have: Bios, Special Stories which you unlock by completing challenges, and Story Cutscenes

(When I meant cutscenes well...what I did may be a bit strange for everyone BUT hey. I have a pretty old device with KW installed sooo it may not be capable of recording stuff, so y'know what that means: classic screenshot time! :^>) then again this is all i could do for this amazin game

Before I forget, I managed to find 3 or 5 recorded videos of them including the intro(s)!! That really saves me time!!! (sooo thx <3)

Introductions & Prologue

(best intro bc that one scene is only thing they made another official art poses, also i'm mad that the two dragos are not there for some reason despite making their 1st appearances???)

Bai Qi

(Rank Sho)

Story Cutscenes (Video ver.)

Special Stories

Qu Yuan

(Rank Sho)

Story Cutscenes (Video ver.)

this one is unique! In certain parts, there are 2 unique arts that feature Qu Yuan and the Koma brothers. Oddly enough how they only did Qu Yuan and not the others (bc that would be extra interesting and maybe fun lol if they keep doing mor of these type of stuffs)

Special Stories

Lord Mengchang

(Rank Sho)

Story Cutscenes (Video ver.)

Special Stories

Quwo

(Rank Sho)

Story Cutscenes (Video ver.)

Special Stories

Han Fei

(Rank Sho)

Story Cutscenes

Special Stories

i hope y'all prepared for this one bc the 1st time I saw his story = this spood boi deserves a hug ;v;

Lian Po & Lin Xiangru (BEST DRAGOS)

(Rank Sho)

Story Cutscenes

another thing that is still the best is that we get the generals (Tsuchi & Ogama) interaction askaslasfd

Special Stories

Yue Yi

(Rank Sho)

Story Cutscenes

Special Stories

Epilogue

Before anyone asked, what happens if you managed to get all 7 of these fellows? As a KW player who got all 7: You unlock the Epilogue...and then that's it

Yeah

That. is literally. it.

All you get was those prette and epic fellows just standing in their respective countries of ancient china :)

I...REALLY wish that completing/getting all 7 warlords will awarded you a very special illustration bc those daily challenges including the permanent ones will take...almost a month or alot of weeks to get those special stories unlocked???

I am not kidding. I don't RPG/JRPG that much but y'know those type of quests or something where it's better to do this earlier rather than waiting until post-game? YEAH IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS FOR THE WARLORDS

(In my playthrough KW experience, I think I spent a month on completing those challenges. Either they introduce Han Fei or Quwo and I just completed Bai Qi :^>)

anyhoo, i think this post should be on my top fav list bc i put alot of work hardship & dedications to this haha. Really appreciated if this post got some translations coming from you guys! ^^

[ch0colate-cake]

so I had an idea

I personally enjoy the new cookie run update. During the first part I had an idea; the second update merely fueled my interest. So what if, in an alternate universe, good ol' xylitol nova cookie absorbed the black hole? Let's say he was going back to save Xyl-Q. He already knew what a competent leader astronaut cookie was, so he believed that in sacrificing himself he would have a good follow up to continue leading the cookies in their quest to defend the cookieverse from the black hole. By building the ship as a plan-B-temporary-safe-house, he would ensure the continuation of his people. Blah blah, Xyl-Q dies, and with this devastating loss xylitol nova cookie raises his staff and (i onno how) he takes in the black hole. I don't know where I'm going with this there are several plot holes I can name off the top of my head 😦

At first this was just a fantasy, i didn't even know what the black hole looked like up close . By the second update i had enough reference pictures and information to draw it and make a below decent introduction. I don't have a good drawing app and I know my current computer/tablet is just a generally shoddy piece of tech; therefore I drew on paper

this is what I would think of the costume to look like.

Just a sketch, a doodle if you will. I turned his staff into a halberd/pole axe because a staff was not imposing enough and weapons are menacing😦

I tried to keep the staff gem but I don't think it's recognizable. Also I made it cracked because he is in his flop era. 💔

the wings were another problem that I had trouble with, mainly because this is my first time drawing and coloring crystals of any sort

the little robot things were a little confusing, and even worse to fit into the design (I forgot about them😨)

the creatures ended up being a little crushed in there. A sharp teleport is only what I could describe as people drawing lines for where an object used to be, before drawing the object in a different place. Also I turned them into critters because the black hole itself is a critter.

on the left is my first drawing of this costume. I decided to keep the shattered mask, and make only one eye visible (so I cannot draw the other😀).

am I aware that this would be a nightmare to make sprites of/animate/draw? Yea. Which is why I will keep this au in my mind where it belongs.

will I be drawing again? No probably not this so don't look forward to it. Maybe something else but don't get too hyped up (and yes it will be on paper)

will I be annoyed if this doesn't get above 2 notes? Yeah maybe. Probably. I don't know myself that well

Costume info Super epic costume, mainly because it would fit in with the epic costumes. Bio? I'm too lazy :4 sorry.😟

Name? Idk something like xylitol nova cookie's reign of terror or xylitol nova cookie's black hole-ly ness or xylitol nova cookie's refrigerator running or xylitol nova cookie's kys or xylitol nova cookie's shoulda stayed in drafts

No there is no name😔 not yet anyways

[the-epic-magnus]

Another updated introduction

A very warm "Hallo!" from Germany!

Call me Magnus, lvl 30+ senior nerd and fanboy from a town called Erfurt, seated in the german county of Thuringia.

I'm in fandoms since 1997; Star Wars was my first love and it will be my last. :'D

I'm not an artist or writer; I don't create much content (besides my TF2 cosplay blog, link in bio), but I like a good conversation and interacting with other fans the normal or the feels way. x) I love meeting new people for fanboying/girling. xD I reblog a lot and I enjoy your creations, especially fanfics, headcanons or fanart.

btw: Star Wars cosplays are planned for the end of 2023 and 2024!

My current main hype: STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH (huge Tech simp with another small obsession to Echo qq)

More fandoms wich catch my whole attention:

+ Star Wars in general (Andor & RO, Mando & Book of Boba Fett, OT and PT, TCW)

+ Team Fortress 2 (check out my already named cosplay blog)

+ Star Trek (old series and movies until Kelvin timeline)

+ Mad Max (Ride eternal, shiny and chrome)

+ Firefly (more shiny!)

+ Futurama (waiting for new episodes so badly)

+ Transformers (G1, Armada, Animated, Prime, Movie '07, IDW)

+ Pacific Rim (but Part 2 sucks imho)

+ Brave Poilce J-Decker (so smol and nearly dead, the fandom ;_;)

+ Guardians of the Galaxy

I'm also a musician and I play piano and organ.

My favorite music genres: Metal, Epic Cinematic/Filmmusic and Hardstyle

You can find me on Twitter and Instagram, too. LInks in bio.

I'm looking forward for new people for simping, talking, laughing and crying about our favorite characters and fandoms. I live in constant denial, currently now. x)

Don't mind my bad english skills, it's not my native language. ^^;

Cheers and have a great day! ~Magnus~

[jedidryad]

It seemed that in the years since my schooling at the Palace, I had become a terrible student.

Mara has her first official lesson with Jedi Master Luke Skywalker. It goes about as well as one might expect... Lightsabers Are Always Loaded: Chapter 19

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Movies I watched this Week # 149 (Year 3/Week 45):

Between 'Mean Streets' and 'Alice doesn't live here anymore', Martin Scorsese made the documentary ItalianAmerican, which is basically a home movie. It features his parents bicker and talk at their apartment, remembering the old days of their families.

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2 with teenager Scarlett Johansson:

🍿 Re-watch: Sofia Coppola's Lost in translation, while waiting for her latest 'Priscilla'. "Sleepless in Shinjuko". Sad and vulnerable 17-year-old Scarlett Johansson, a 'stranger in a strange land' is having a 'Brief Encounter' moment, with less-asshole-than-usual Bill Murray. (Photos Above).

Another melancholic exploration of a lonely young woman, who finds herself captured in a privileged gilded cage. An exceptional, subtle masterpiece. 10/10.

🍿 The horse whisperer starred 14-year-old Johansson as a horse-lover who becomes emotionally stunted after a riding accident that caused her to lose part of her leg (all in the first 10 minutes of the film). It's a sloooow, traditional 3-hour-long story about healing, told mostly in beautifully-cinematic Montana. But it worked for me, in spite of the well-shot sentimentality. 7/10.

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My first 2 by German auteur Christian Petzold, both with Paula Beer:

🍿 Afire - a tremendous, complex drama about a vain, immature writer on a working vacation. The little summer cottage close to the Baltic sea, is soon encroached by a forest fire, as does his self-centered world view of himself and his art. It starts at one emotional point, and skillfully moves to a completely different, tense level. 9/10.

🍿 Petzold wanted to make a series of films about the 4 elements. Undine refers to the myth of 'water nymphs', so rivers, industrial diving, large aquariums, and drowning in a pool are all part of the story. It's a lovely, simple romance, which eventually turns into a dark fantasy. My 5th film with Franz Rogowski. 4/10.

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3 More of Claude Chabrol’s Hitchcockian thrillers:

🍿 “… You like meat?…”

Le Boucher, a low-key, atmospheric thriller about a single woman who befriends a village butcher, who's also a serial killer. Fantastic snapshot of the people at 'the country' (Dordogne) at this time. 9/10.

🍿 The ceremony (La Cérémonie) is a similar dark story, set in a solid bourgeoisie family. Isabelle Huppert & Sandrine Bonnaire becomes friends and eventually decide kill them all. Like 'Stanley & Iris' from last week, the protagonist is illiterate. 6/10.

🍿 The Unfaithful Wife, another terrific, low-key, civilized study of a French bourgeois household. A loving husband discovers that his loving wife is having an affair, and ends up killing her lover. I liked it so much, and thought it would be a very good candidate for a modern remake. Then I remembered Adrian Lyne's 'Unfaithful' with the luminous Diane Lane in the Stéphane Audran role. Maybe I should watch it again! 8/10.

I discovered Chabrol late, and have only seen about 10% of his 74 movies. Now I have to see them all!

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Milf, another film with Virginie Ledoyen, a soft-core sex comedy. Three older women looking to hook up with boys 20 years younger. A similar concept to the Naomi Watts film 'Adoration'. I only watched it because it is directed by a woman and had 13 on the Tomato score. Better than Zalman King.

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Wow! After 4 months of anticipation, the venerable bio-pic Oppenheimer finally hit my free streamers. I watched all 3 hours of it but left completely underwhelmed. This is the seventh of Christopher Nolen's praised big-budget epic films that I saw, and so far none of them had floated my boat. Okay, so I'm not a big blockbusters fan.

It's not very hip to rail against McCarthyism in 2023. Twenty-twenty revisionist vision, mambo-jumbo pseudoscience, overwrought endless, loud soundtrack, and basically the usual biography of a "Great man", which is always a boring subject for a movie. 4/10.

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3 by regular Fincher screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker:

🍿 On the other hand, David Fincher’s new thriller The killer was a thrill ride that was a joy to watch. A cold blooded professional assassin, laconic and super-human, flies around the world ruthlessly killing people. Mesmerizing (but predictable) suspense with an effective Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross score. I could do without the inner monologue that replaced conversations in the story. Also, a great comic book knock-out fight after an hour and a half of deliberate, slow go. 7/10.

🍿 In 2001, BMW produced 8 short films by famous directors as "Branded Content", i.e. advertisements. Called 'The hire' they all featured Clive Owen driving Beamers around the world. AKW wrote two of them:

The Follow was directed by Wong Kar-wai, and was about an aborted diamond heist.

Ambush was directed by John Frankenheimer, and was about a woman being followed by her husband.

The other shorts were by John Woo, Tony Scott, Ang Lee, etc.

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5 more Danish films, 3 with Henning Moritzen (The patriarch from ‘Celebration’) and 2 with Mads Mikkelsen:

🍿 Tænk på et tal (Think of a number), a 1969 old-fashion, enjoyable Danish 'Krimi' with an enduring theme song. A meek bank teller finds a discarded note from a bank robber, and gets involved in a lethal game.

This story was later remade into the Elliott Gould caper 'The silent partner'. I love such slow and delightful dramas, and I love Bibi Andersson.

it’s funny how movies that used to be throwaway entertainment products 60 years ago, gain completely different meaning today. I should start exploring the many Danish Noir from the 40's and 50's. 7/10.

🍿 50 years later, In the Oscar-nominated short The pig, Moritzen is old and fat, and is being hospitalised for some tests. There he lays and finds comfort in a simple picture of a pig jumping over a fence. Delightful!

🍿 On the other hand, Now is another Danish short (from 2003) starring Mads Mikkelsen. But it's an artsy-fartsy, humor-less, word-less "Art film", shot in black & white, with a constant baby crying. Like 'An Andalusian Dog' but without the charm and the magic… 1/10.

🍿 I was surprised to realize just now that my favorite Danish screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen directed only 5 features and 3 shorts. (but he wrote 59 scripts!). Wolfgang is an early short of his, and not his best. Now I've seen all the movies that he directed.

I can't wait for his upcoming 'Monster of Florence' with Antonio Banderas and 'Back to reality'. Yeah!

🍿 So I took in one more viewing of his sentimental After the wedding, maybe for the 10th time. So full of emotional twists, old-fashioned melodrama, Sigur Rós score and peak Sidse Babett Knudsen.

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Budapest Noir, a Hungarian murder mystery, set up in anti-semitic 1936. A hard boiled crime reporter investigates a murder of a beautiful prostitute, like a Jake Gittes named Zsigmond. Very strong 'Chinatown' vibes, including a smokey jazz score that tries to recreate its haunting atmosphere, and even the final line of dialogue "This is Budapest". 5/10.

[This is the 115th woman-directed film I've seen so far this year!].

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Dumb money, the first enjoyable Reddit movie, about the 2021 GameStop short squeeze. Compelling Class War rhetoric with Seth Rogen as the billionaire 'heavy'. Up-to-the-minute updated drama of the 1% Vs. the unwashed masses. I think it will endure as another worthy addition to the sub-genre of 'highly entertaining explanation to boring real-life financial story', just like 'The big short' and 'Margin call'.

However, it used an Artificial Intelligent editing model that color-corrected the whole movie into a weird, fake, washed up look. 8/10.

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First watch: Kurosawa's bleak Drunken Angel, an early post-war Yakuza film, and the first of the 16 collaborations between him and Toshiro Mifume. An alcoholic doctor befriends a young hoodlum suffering from tuberculosis. Located around an open sewer in a seedy neighborhood, still suffering under the American occupation.

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Ikarie XB 1 (Or 'Voyage to the End of the Universe' as it was called in American), an influential and ambitious 1963 Czechoslovakian science-fiction saga, based on a Stanisław Lem novel. "Futuristic" space decor and story, very much in the Star Trek style. Cultish 1960's popcorn philosophy, but nonsensical and not a serious world building. Not for me - 1/10.

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Thank Dog that the third season of Tim Robinson’s 'I think you should leave' was so short. The first season was outrageously different. The second season was a 'repeat on a theme'. This one was just cringey irrelevant. Absurd, awkward, confusing situations, exploding rage at small mistakes. No!

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My first (and last) stand-up by comedian Nate Bergatze, The greatest average American. Average stories of 'relatable' everyday nitty gritty were hardly worth a chuckle.

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(My complete movie list is here)

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Stories (Mobile friendly)

Canon (Timeline order)

How i Met Jeff

Born of Science: Jane the Killer

Jeff The Killer (2011)

Jane The Killer: The Real Story

Homicidal Liu (Spanish Edition)

Kyle The Killer

Fredrick Bio vs Jeff The Killer

Jeff returns

Jeff the killer… thing

Survivor: A Jeff the killer short story

Jeff can’t be caught

Tailor Bio vs Jeff The Killer

Jeff The Killer: Children Tears

Jeff The Killer part one: The Shadows

Nina the Killer (2013)

Sleeping So Gently

Jeffs Return

Jeffrey’s Revenge part 1

CLOCKWORK: YOUR TIME IS UP

Ticci Toby

How Jeff Killer Christmas

Jeff the killer and Bedlam

Jeff The Killer: Grave Killer

Birth of a Hellraiser

Jeff the killer versus

Jeff The Killer: The Phantom Detective

Rain Fall

John the killer

Le rose x the epic jeff the killer

Jeff The Killer untitled story

Go To Sleep: Renegade’s Story

Jeff the killer versus Slenderman

Deadly encounter in a dark forest

Jeff vs Jane vs Slenderman

Mors Est In Aeternum

Jeff the Killer vs Homicidal Liu: Confrontation

Jeff the killer vs Jeff the killer

Charlie The Killer

Forever Smiling

Have a nice rest

Killer Workship

Jeff The Killer: Hunting Jeff

James the Killer

Ssh

Oh My Darling

Departure

Jeff The Killer: True Hatered

Jane’s letter

My findings about jeff the killer

Jeff the Killer II

A Sister for Jeff

Jeff the killer vs The Rake (1997 Edition)

I Beat Jeff

Jeff the killer vs

Jeff the killer vs

Ghost sideplot

Smile.jeff

Jeff.wmv

Jeff is Back

Jeff… The Killer

Let’s Play

Jeff’s Vengeance (SAS Version)

Will you go to sleep tonight?

James the Survivor

Jeff the killer vs Eyeless Jack

Jeffrey: A Jeff the killer story

Crooked

Jeff vs Jane (Origins Version)

Jeff The Killer: Jeff’s return

Jeff the killer vs The Rake

Jeff: A first encounter

Jeff the killer vs Tailypo

Jeff the killer vs Laughing Jack

Daddy’s girl

Non-canon

Jeff the killer vs Jane the killer (MCP Version) Voicebox: A Ticci Tobi Love Story (Chapters 1-12) Jeff The Killer: Return of the Living Nightmare Jane The Killer: Victim’s tears Killer Instinct Jeff’s Demise Rose’s encounter Underminding Insanity White the Killer Jeff the Killer: Rewritten Jeff’s ending Jeff’s demise Sam My Liu Homicidal Liu: The Survivor of Jeff the Killer Jeff The Killer: Liu’s POV (Liu The Revenger)

Not Catalogued yet

Jeff the killer vs Siren head Jeff goes to Burger King part 2 Jeff’s Vengeance (Episodic Version) Mia Killer

[elephant-in-the-pride-parade]

1 for the fic writers questions meme!

1. What fic of mine would I recommend to someone who had never read any of my work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?

Hmmmm let's see. I've written for a few fandoms but I'll pick the two with the most stories.

Sailor Moon

So I have a very long epic series here. The first stories happen pre-Silver Millenium and then a few oneshot series from during the series, leading up to the post canon trilogy (in progress). The best place to my Sailor Moon works is Age of Aquarius I. It is the first in a long three part post-canon trilogy (I am about half way through part 2 and part 3 planned in detail). Aquarius 1 ends on a pretty happy note, no major cliffhanger and I think its a fun adventure and a good intro to my take on the characters personalities and the lore.

Harry Potter fans may also want to start with the Sailor Moon / HP crossover. Sailor Moon H: Order of the Phoenix is a crossover re-write of book 5. It started as a crack fic / dare and got really fun and really long really quickly. I made so many characters queer that I was accused of "making everybody gay" (only about 50% of them are queer but thats still the best compliment I've ever gotten from a flame reviewer). The Half-Blood Prince rewrite was finished in 2021 and I'm gearing up to start the final rewrite (Deathly Hallows) this winter.

Star Trek: Voyager

Eden's Deception is probably the best in terms of getting a sense of how I typically treat the characters and the JC relationship. It's a Resolutions rewrite with a lot of flavors. There's romance. Theres angst. There's mystery. There's drama (plus some beta-approved technobabble scifi-science and a dash of bio terrorism!) It's made so that right now, you can plug it back into the canon without much trouble, and it will eventually be a companion to the other planned episode rewrites I have in the works.

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Sonny Rollins and his Jazz Ensemble - East River Park Amphitheatre, New York City, August 7, 1962

I'm about halfway through Aidan Levy's Saxophone Colossus: The Life And Music Of Sonny Rollins and I can't recommend it highly enough. Levy has done an astonishing amount of research, piecing together what is now a truly epic saga.

Sonny is a tough one to sum up, even in a 700-page bio — and not just because he's lived well into his 90s. Unlike Miles Davis or John Coltrane, he doesn't have a singular classic LP, era or band to focus in on. What becomes apparent as you read is that Newk is an enigmatic guy — an oddball, really — who doesn't fall prey to the usual cliches. Unknowable, maybe, but in a good way ("If you can't be free, be a mystery," right?). But Levy wisely doesn't do a lot of psychoanalyzing of his subject or drift into florid prose; instead, he lets the amazing events of Rollins' life speak for themselves, as Sonny moves through the decades in search of elusive perfection.

Naturally, the book has sent me on a Rollins bender. There's just endless music to get into. Levy mentions this show in passing and I had to hear it just for the opener: Sonny Rollins and Don Cherry duetting on "The Star-Spangled Banner" in East River Park?! Yes, please. It's funny, I had been a little iffy on Our Man In Jazz, the sole official representation of this band, but the semi-official release of the complete run of those shows in the past decade turned me around completely. Amazing stuff that sounds new every time you play it, Sonny borrowing some ideas from Ornette but resulting in a new conception altogether. This outdoor gig (at least the 17 minutes we've got of it) isn't quite as adventurous as those recordings, but it's great nonetheless, with the highlight being a stretched out "Oleo," Rollins and Cherry trading beautiful, playful lines back and forth.

Levy's book has some interesting notes about how this band worked out their "Logical Music." I don't understand them, but that's how it should be.

An excerpt:

All begin together

Throughout composition 2 instruments play together. e.g. Sonny + Bob play together after start. Then Sonny + Bob are joined for a dissonance by Donald which then leads to the Donald Sonny duet which incidentally should suggest a different timbre than the dissonant 'carry over' 3 part section!

(Billy bears a strong resemblance to Bud Powell.) After duet of S+D., B. joins in for a TRIO which should have a HARMONIC sound rather than a dissonance sound.

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Sims Scrapbook Specter

Specter house, Aunt Olive Specter, orphaned ward/niece Ophelia

Bio: After the untimely drowning of her parents, Ophelia came to live with her aunt Olive Specter in the funeral home she runs in Willow Creek. Will death always be a part of this young teen’s life? Who knows, they say the family might be cursed. Olive certainly seems familiar with death herself, losing not only family and friends, but an odd number of deliverymen. But she seems to have a different view on such matters, seeming almost welcoming of Death’s embrace. Very welcoming.

Olive Specter had a keen interest in learning to make pufferfish herself, and so tried some out at one of the fanciest sushi restaurants in Del Sol Vally, The Red Snapper. She now knows how to make it, and surely will do great things with this knowledge.

Olive met a cute waiter there, Tai Lum. She invited him over for drinks after his shift… drinks and pufferfish. He ate two servings, but was fine. Olive was so angry she cussed him out and insulted him until she could declare him an enemy, something else she’s apparently always wanted according to her wants. So she at least has that in her life now.

*I want her to try to meet death at least four times in her old age before she croaks.

Olive has managed her first kill! She ordered some take out, and managed to trap the delivery sim in the bathroom with some pufferfish nigiri. He died from the poor quality, and when Grim appeared Olive did her best to flirt with him. She wants high romance by the time he comes for her. Colt Raymond’s grave now sits in Olive’s private cemetery – all while Ophelia slept!

Soooooo while Olive was figuring out her next victim, Ophelia woke to start making herself breakfast… bacon and eggs. She caught on fire, did nothing to save herself. Olive ran outside. The fire department was called. They showed up just in time to freak out over Ophelia’s death! Not planned but… that’s gonna count as #2. She’s going in the private graveyard. That does, however, mean the only heir apparent is Olive’s mystery child that she gave up long ago. She did also get an adoring sentiment towards Grim.

This twist was so unexpected… Lol, maybe I should change the manor to a haunted house if she makes her goal of two more deaths before the end of her life.

Score #3 body, Jay Matson the random delivery man #2, also died of pufferfish poisoning following a zoomies delivery. Olivia loves this service that supplies her with fresh victims for no more than the cost of a BLT. She managed to speak with Grim again just enough to get the start of a romance with him, and form a sentiment of him giving good advice. He gained a sentiment about her too, finding himself “Epically inspired” by her and her life story.

She’ll have about a week left to live give or take, so I’ll circle back around later to try to get that last death and finish her days.