#episode 728

[noraqrosa]

a newer Simpsons episode was playing on the TV where we're temporarily staying atm and holy FUCK this song cuts deep, this is some biting and upsetting satire

wasn't paying attention to the episode until this came on; i should rewatch it sometime

[mostlysignssomeportents]

An interoperability rule for your money

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"If you don't like it, why don't you take your business elsewhere?" It's the motto of the corporate apologist, someone so Hayek-pilled that they see every purchase as a ballot cast in the only election that matters – the one where you vote with your wallet.

Voting with your wallet is a pretty undignified way to go through life. For one thing, the people with the thickest wallets get the most votes, and for another, no matter who you vote for in that election, the Monopoly Party always wins, because that's the part of the thick-wallet set.

Contrary to the just-so fantasies of Milton-Friedman-poisoned bootlickers, there are plenty of reasons that one might stick with a business that one dislikes – even one that actively harms you.

The biggest reason for staying with a bad company is if they've figured out a way to punish you for leaving. Businesses are keenly attuned to ways to impose switching costs on disloyal customers. "Switching costs" are all the things you have to give up when you take your business elsewhere.

Businesses love high switching costs – think of your gym forcing you to pay to cancel your subscription or Apple turning off your groupchat checkmark when you switch to Android. The more it costs you to move to a rival vendor, the worse your existing vendor can treat you without worrying about losing your business.

Capitalists genuinely hate capitalism. As the FBI informant Peter Thiel says, "competition is for losers." The ideal 21st century "market" is something like Amazon, a platform that gets 45-51 cents out of every dollar earned by its sellers. Sure, those sellers all compete with one another, but no matter who wins, Amazon gets a cut:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/28/cloudalists/#cloud-capital

Think of how Facebook keeps users glued to its platform by making the price of leaving cutting of contact with your friends, family, communities and customers. Facebook tells its customers – advertisers – that people who hate the platform stick around because Facebook is so good at manipulating its users (this is a good sales pitch for a company that sells ads!). But there's a far simpler explanation for peoples' continued willingness to let Mark Zuckerberg spy on them: they hate Zuck, but they love their friends, so they stay:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs

One of the most important ways that regulators can help the public is by reducing switching costs. The easier it is for you to leave a company, the more likely it is they'll treat you well, and if they don't, you can walk away from them. That's just what the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau wants to do with its new Personal Financial Data Rights rule:

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-proposes-rule-to-jumpstart-competition-and-accelerate-shift-to-open-banking/

The new rule is aimed at banks, some of the rottenest businesses around. Remember when Wells Fargo ripped off millions of its customers by ordering its tellers to open fake accounts in their name, firing and blacklisting tellers who refused to break the law?

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/10/07/497084491/episode-728-the-wells-fargo-hustle

While there are alternatives to banks – local credit unions are great – a lot of us end up with a bank by default and then struggle to switch, even though the banks give us progressively worse service, collectively rip us off for billions in junk fees, and even defraud us. But because the banks keep our data locked up, it can be hard to shop for better alternatives. And if we do go elsewhere, we're stuck with hours of tedious clerical work to replicate all our account data, payees, digital wallets, etc.

That's where the new CFPB order comes in: the Bureau will force banks to "share data at the person’s direction with other companies offering better products." So if you tell your bank to give your data to a competitor – or a comparison shopping site – it will have to do so…or else.

Banks often claim that they block account migration and comparison shopping sites because they want to protect their customers from ripoff artists. There are certainly plenty of ripoff artists (notwithstanding that some of them run banks). But banks have an irreconcilable conflict of interest here: they might want to stop (other) con-artists from robbing you, but they also want to make leaving as painful as possible.

Instead of letting shareholder-accountable bank execs in back rooms decide what the people you share your financial data are allowed to do with it, the CFPB is shouldering that responsibility, shifting those deliberations to the public activities of a democratically accountable agency. Under the new rule, the businesses you connect to your account data will be "prohibited from misusing or wrongfully monetizing the sensitive personal financial data."

This is an approach that my EFF colleague Bennett Cyphers and I first laid our in our 2021 paper, "Privacy Without Monopoly," where we describe how and why we should shift determinations about who is and isn't allowed to get your data from giant, monopolistic tech companies to democratic institutions, based on privacy law, not corporate whim:

https://www.eff.org/wp/interoperability-and-privacy

The new CFPB rule is aimed squarely at reducing switching costs. As CFPB Director Rohit Chopra says, "Today, we are proposing a rule to give consumers the power to walk away from bad service and choose the financial institutions that offer the best products and prices."

The rule bans banks from charging their customers junk fees to access their data, and bans businesses you give that data to from "collecting, using, or retaining data to advance their own commercial interests through actions like targeted or behavioral advertising." It also guarantees you the unrestricted right to revoke access to your data.

The rule is intended to replace the current state-of-the-art for data sharing, which is giving your banking password to third parties who go and scrape that data on your behalf. This is a tactic that comparison sites and financial dashboards have used since 2006, when Mint pioneered it:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/mint-late-stage-adversarial-interoperability-demonstrates-what-we-had-and-what-we

A lot's happened since 2006. It's past time for American bank customers to have the right to access and share their data, so they can leave rotten banks and go to better ones.

The new rule is made possible by Section 1033 of the Consumer Financial Protection Act, which was passed in 2010. Chopra is one of the many Biden administrative appointees who have acquainted themselves with all the powers they already have, and then used those powers to help the American people:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/18/administrative-competence/#i-know-stuff

It's pretty wild that the first digital interoperability mandate is going to come from the CFPB, but it's also really cool. As Tim Wu demonstrated in 2021 when he wrote Biden's Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy, the administrative agencies have sweeping, grossly underutilized powers that can make a huge difference to everyday Americans' lives:

https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2021/08/party-its-1979-og-antitrust-back-baby

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/21/let-my-dollars-go/#personal-financial-data-rights

My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!

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[livmadart]

(Sequel to this)

The idea of people (especially the detective boys) thinking Subaru is a vampire is incredibly endearing to me

Case closed count: episode 728

[hawkeyejrhuntress]

Bishova Holiday Challenge 2024 - Rules and Prompt Ideas!

Background History:

On November 24 it will be three years since Marvel brought the Hawkeye series to the little screen. 6 episodes and 5 weeks of getting to know Kate Bishop with a hint of Yelena Belova. Despite having less than 45 minutes of screen time their chemistry was explosive. Since then, amazing fanfiction writers around the world have created amazing stories about these two. So, with the anniversary of the show coming up, I decided to bring back the Bishova Holiday Challenge.

Thank You:

After a month of voting the Bishova Community has spoken. Below you will find the 5 top themes/prompt ideas. We had 728 votes, which is crazy. I want to thank all the writers, and fans who voted. I want to thank Oh Alpha My alpha discord friends. Who voted and came up with some of the ideas. The remaining prompts that did not win will be reposted just as prompt ideas for the public.

Rules:

This year the challenge will be 6 weeks with the last week being the writers’ choice.

These prompts will have mini-ideas attached to them but you do not have to follow them to tea, just stick to the general theme.

The stories must be posted on A03. Use #BISHOVAHOLIDAYCHALLENGE2024 & Week # for which week was written for

Only can be 1-3 chapters long while the challenge is up. After the challenge if you want to continue them, please do.

You can prewrite your stories and co-write them with others. But they cannot be published before the challenge.

It is encouraged that you participate in all 6 weeks to be eligible for the prize but if you can’t it’s all good.

Also to be considered for the top Grand winners you can’t miss a week. So if you miss week 1, you can still participated and try to be a weekly winner but you will not be eligible for the Grand Prize over the whole challenge.

Challenge Weeks:

Week 1: Nov 10th – Nov 16th

Week 2: Nov 17th – Nov 23rd

Week 3: Nov 24th – Nov 30th  

Week 4: Dec 1st – Dec 7th

Week 5: Dec 8th – Dec 14th

Week 6: 16th – Dec 21st

Prizes:

There will be 6 weekly winners. After each week I will create a poll with the stories that qualified, and readers can pick the winner. The winners get bragging rights. 

After all, 6 weeks are done the writers who participated in all 6 weeks and followed the rules will be entered on a poll to qualify as the top 3 winners of the WHOLE CHALLENGE, voted on by the fans.

It is not completely finalized, and it can still fall through but right now I am working on getting art pieces for the top three winners. 

Prompts/Ideas:

Week 1: Nov 10th – Nov 16th - Grinchmas (Idea Credit – Chi_Raven) (Suggested Rating – G) Yelena gets a part time gig as a mall Grinch. She does it too well and ends up on Kate Bishop’s Naughty list daughter of Santa Clause or Yelena dresses up as the Grinch and runs around scaring kids.

Week 2: Nov 17th – Nov 23rd – Fake Dating Winter Love – (Idea Credit MidnightJuilet) (Suggested Rating G-E) Yelena created a fake girlfriend to attend her ex’s winter wedding. Enter Kate Bishop!

Week 3: Nov 24th – Nov 30th -Eggnog Love – (Idea Credit MidnightJuilet) (Suggested Rating E) The villain of the week spikes the eggnog at the Holiday Party with liquid sex pollen. Freakiness ensues!

Week 4: Dec 1st – Dec 7th- Lumberjack Christmas - (Idea Credit MidnightJuilet) (Suggested Rating G - E) Kate goes to the mountains to get away and meets her mountain woman!

Week 5: Dec 8th – Dec 14th -Winter Blaze Saved by the Sexy firefighter (Idea Credit CelticKitten25 & DYL) (Suggested Rating G - E) Yelena wakes up to her apartment on fire out of nowhere a short buff fire fighter comes in with her one-eyed dog to rescue her and her akita. And she is only wearing a nightie.

Week 6: 16th – Dec 21st – Writer’s Choice

Above are the 5 prompt ideas and remember the 6th week is writers’ choice. The ratings are suggestions, and the little excerpts attached are just meant to be guides to help facilitate story writing if you get stuck. Please when posting your story please give credit for me (MidnightJuilet) for hosting this challenge and to the specific fan which is also listed above who came up with the prompt idea.

[rikeijo]

Today’s translation #728

Animestyle 2017/05, Staff's round-table discussion

Part 29.

Ito: Skating scenes always make me cry.

Shishido: Yuuri's free skating really does makes me cry. The music is so good, and his monologue every time is so good.

Ito: And his step sequences are so beautiful, too.

Hiramatsu: In the music, the moment when it smoothly becomes just a piano solo is extremely good. How that scene is divided into cuts is very neat, too.

Shishido: It was drawn by Tatenaka-san, I think? In Yuuri's FS in episode 12., when he is skating the last step sequence, the camera focuses on Yuuri's arm, as he extends it. It's the very end of his program and it's so beautiful and so cool.

Tatenaka: Thank you.

All: (laugh)

Tatenaka: When I'm watching an episode's rush check or when it's on TV, I mainly only check if the scenes that I did look good. I've said the same thing on Twitter before - I think that one cut of Minami-kun's turned out very good. Normally, Minami-kun's movements are quite soft, right? So, only for the last movement of his left hand, I didn't use the follow through technique, but made that movement look more stiff. I managed to do it nicely to the rhythm of the music, so I was like 'yeah, I did it!'

Hiramatsu: You don't mean the last triumphant pose, right?

Tatenaka: No. I mean after the step sequence starts.

Hiramatsu: Ah, that one? Yeah, it was cute.

Tatenaka: Consciously doing something different than what I usually do brought very good results. That's also a cut, in which I used the largest number of different techniques.

Hiramatsu: I also Iike the last triumphant pose, how even while staying faithful to Miyamoto-sensei's reference footage, it still looks so anime-like.

[toppamplemousse]

timestamp on this text is JANUARY SECOND 2024. i watched the monaco 2018 episode of DTS and I HAD A VISION.

145 days since then, and 728 days since monaco 2022, and HE FUCKING DID IT!!!

daghe charles, grande charles, forza charles ❤️🤍 SEMPRE

[tenthousandyearsx]

Ji Eunyu once said, "Writer, your sentences are very neat. There is no unnecessary information." When I first heard that, I didn’t think it was a compliment. "I just don’t have confidence in the sentences I wrote." I am a writer who neither knows how to craft elegant descriptions nor compose complex sentences. Nevertheless, Ji Eunyu praised my half-baked sentences for my eloquence. "No, that’s not true. It's really difficult to choose and use only the words you need. There are times when you can improve a sentence by simply leaving out a few unnecessary words, but it’s harder than you think." Ji Eunyu said: Take it out. Even if you think you need it, take it out. Think about it and then take it out. Look again and take it out. In any case, take it out. Good sentences are built on such solid boundaries. Those are really wise words.

ORV Side Story – Chapter 728: Episode 28 - House (6)

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #728

Some of the Screaming No-Nos were made using wind-up toys.

Source:

The Jim Henson Hour. Episode 112: "Food." Unaired in US.

[fuckmeyer]

"disturbed, depressed, inadequate": Edward Cullen & George Costanza, cringefail twinsies

as we all know, Twilight and Seinfeld are canonically set in the same universe. we see blatant clues scattered throughout both series. (e.g., Stephenie Meyer prefacing New Moon with the entirety of Jerry Seinfeld's opening stand-up from season 4's "The Outing;" Jerry making a Twilight reference in "The Soup" episode of Seinfeld, etc.) most notably, we see Edward Cullen & George Costanza's personalities mirror each other in a way that extends far beyond "pure" "coincidence." upon closer examination, they are the same person in parallel universes.

the two are, canonically, absolute losers seemingly broken beyond repair, self-saboteurs who waffle between moments of self-aggrandizement and self-loathing. their negative self-image, insecurities, & belief that they do not deserve love are recurring themes in their respective series.

among other things, George describes himself as "disturbed, depressed, inadequate," ("The Visa," S04) "completely insecure, paranoid, [and] neurotic" ("The Beard," S06). he is the self-proclaimed "Lord of the Idiots" ("The Apartment," S02) who is sure of only one thing: "There is no bigger loser than me" ("The Strike," S09).

in the Twilight Saga, Edward repeatedly calls himself "selfish" & a "monster." in Midnight Sun, he's a "coward" (37), "evil" (374) & an "obsessed stalker" (94). clearly depressed in the way he describes his "long melancholy" (138) as "an unending, unchanging midnight" (136), he quickly pinpoints the feelings behind his hatred for Bella: "What I really hated was myself" (26). his distaste for Mike Newton & jealousy of Jacob Black stem from his insecurity, while his paranoia has him assuming, among other things, that a meteor will crash down & bonk Bella out of existence (131). Edward's telepathy has him always on the alert for intruders, resulting in baseless conclusions. "Idiot," Rose calls him (97, 129, 145, 202, 314). idiot, indeed.

Edward & George's low self-esteem compel them to lie, unable to live up to the perceived expectations of others. after Edward saves Bella from a car accident, he lies to her to keep her away. "I had a show to put on now. I knew the role I would play—I had the character down: I would be the villain. I would lie and ridicule and be cruel" (MS, 90). beyond shielding her from his true nature, he is shielding her from a deeper truth: "I didn't deserve any link, any claim to her at all" (728). that is, Edward does not consider himself worthy of Bella's love. he even point-blank admits it to her at prom: "I'm not worth it." (782)

George, too, struggles to live up to assumed perceptions: “You see, this is what I do with women. I start out too strong, now I have to become real. That's when it all falls apart. What good is real?" ("The Visa," S04) like Edward, he engages in deceptive tactics throughout the series to keep his partners at arm's length, from creating falsehoods about himself to preventing his fiancée from fraternizing with his friends & entering his world. ("The Pool Guy," S07) Edward, more succinct, sends Bella the same message in New Moon: "My world is not for you." (37)

in fact, one of the few traits George & Edward possess that is not negatively regarded is their ability to lie. Edward's declaration that "I was not an incompetent liar" (MS, 77) seems an understatement when, not 10 pages later, he says, "Perhaps I was too good a liar if I could fool Carlisle" (85). he claims to feel guilty; then again, Bella often notes him lying outright or by omission in the series.

"I lie every second of my life," George brags in season 2's "The Apartment." "My whole life is a sham." other characters acknowledge & praise this ability. in the episode "The Beard" (S06), Jerry begs George to help him beat a polygraph test, calling his ability "a gift." just as Edward dramatizes his lying to "putting on a show," George likens his talent to singing opera: "It's like saying to Pavarotti, 'Teach me to sing like you.'" the advice he gives Jerry aptly sums up George's philosophy: "It's not a lie if you believe it." how fitting that this is the mindset Edward employs to stay in Bella's life a little longer.

George & Edward's relationships not only showcase their ability to lie but follow similar paths. George faces Edward's exact dilemma: the choice to deny his nature (to the point of becoming vegetarian!) for an attractive woman in "The Secretary" episode of season 6. "You're luscious," he says to a beautiful applicant for an open secretary position. "You're ravishing. I would give up red meat just to get a glimpse of you in a bra." George chooses not to hire the attractive secretary... but ends up sleeping with his 'unattractive' secretary anyway. Edward, meanwhile, does the opposite: he chooses vegetarianism and to date the object of his affection, albeit with personal turmoil. where Edward chooses to be the man, George chooses to be the monster.

unsurprisingly, however, their low self-esteem is a frequent barrier to their romantic pursuits. these insecurities even lead them to preemptively decide to break up with their significant other. in George's case, the breakup in season 3's "The Pez Dispenser" is a means for him to protect himself & regain control:

“A preemptive breakup. This is an incredible idea. I got nothing to lose. We either break up, which she would do anyway, but at least I go out with some dignity.”

Edward seemingly breaks up with Bella to protect her. he knows he will leave her by page 368 of Midnight Sun. by page 746, he admits he's lying when he swears he won't leave her. "[T]he time would come, I was sure now, when I would have to convince her [I didn't want her]" (747). best-case scenario, he thinks, she will outgrow him (781), though it's clear she intends on forever. despite the evidence from Alice that Bella will be a catatonic mess, he leaves...several months later, after a near-fatal brush with Jasper. one might argue Edward's fear of love & intimacy leads him to break up with her as a means to protect himself from the harsh reality that she will die.

ultimately, George & Edward's failures in physical & emotional intimacy are rooted, at least in part, in an aversion to sex.

for both, the desire to feed presents a barrier to their lovemaking. Edward is unable to prolong his kisses with Bella, citing his thirst. he compares himself to "an alcoholic" & Bella to "a glass of hundred-year-old brandy, the rarest, finest cognac..." (Twilight, 13). similarly, in season 9's "The Blood," George finds he is always hungry around his partner & can't make love to her without eating. his attempt to introduce strawberries, chocolate sauce, & pastrami on rye into the bedroom snowballs into him sneaking sandwiches into bed. though George, unlike Edward, can satiate himself without murdering his girlfriend, his desire to feed still leads to his demise.

this aversion to sex extends beyond a conflict with their baser selves, however. we see George & Edward's insecurities & low self-esteem take a central role in their inability to engage in intimate relations.

“I don't like when a woman says, ‘Make love to me,’" says George in season 3's "The Stranded." "It's intimidating. The last time a woman said that to me, I wound up apologizing to her.”

this quote perfectly encapsulates Edward & Bella's wedding night. despite being intimidated by Bella's demand for sex, Edward acquiesces. upon discovering he bruised Bella, Edward confirms his worst fears, calls himself a monster, and says: "I'm...so sorry, Bella. [...] I am more sorry than I can tell you" (Breaking Dawn, 61). he then promises, "I will not make love with you until you've been changed. I will never hurt you again." (66)

oddly enough, the bleak outlook Edward takes on his sex life (i.e., not possible (Twilight, 147) & unrealistic (Eclipse, 299)) mirrors George's feelings re: sexual intimacy in "The Pony Remark" (S02):

“You know, I've been thinking. I cannot envision any circumstances in which I'll ever have the opportunity to have sex again. How's it gonna happen? I just don't see how it could occur.”

is this aversion to intimacy with women a product of George & Edward being queer-coded characters? even if Edward didn't worship the ground on which Carlisle "the soul of [the] family" (MS, 96) walked to the point where he hopes his face resembles Carlisle's "perfect" one (24, 387), he constantly thinks of his creator & tries to live up to Carlisle's perception of him (28, 347, 383, 387). this seems innocuous enough until we consider the fact that the vampire genre itself has queer roots. vampires have always served as a symbol for social outcasts; homosexual depictions, from the 1872 novel Carmilla to the 2020s reboot of Interview with a Vampire, are a common feature of the genre. through this lens, the virginal Edward Cullen pushing away his heterosexual partner while he envisions Carlisle's face takes on different connotations.

George, deeply in denial of his sexuality, upholds odd "rules" to avoid being seen as gay, from refusing to sit "boy-boy-girl" in a car ("The Ex-Girlfriend," S02), to reminding Jerry of his "unblemished record of staunch heterosexuality" before declaring Jerry's new jacket "fabulous." (his singing show tunes throughout "The Jacket" (S02)  still earns him the title of gay by another character, however.) he frequently goes into a gay panic: from being called out on his attraction to Jerry ("The Cartoon," S09), to being accused of falling in love with his friend Tony ("The Stall," S05), to being explicitly labeled as Jerry's romantic partner in season 4's "The Outing," he responds to challenges to his heterosexuality with anger, anxiety, dismay, & denial. he even shouts "IT [his penis] MOVED!" in response to being touched by an attractive male masseuse ("The Masseuse," S05). regardless of whether George may be gay or bisexual, George's record of "staunch heterosexuality" seems not as "unblemished" as he would like us to believe.

given all the similarities, one might think the biggest difference is their species: Edward is a mindreading vampire and George is a human. but George does note having an advanced sense of perception akin to Edward's telepathy: "I was personable, I was bright. [...] I was perceptive. I always know when someone's uncomfortable at a party" ("The Opposite," S05). additionally, while George may not be a literal vampire, he does have a parasitic nature. cheap & selfish, he frequently mooches off his friends & leaves them footing the bill. he also lies & manipulates for his own gain, including but not limited to faking a disability to have access to his own private bathroom at work ("The Butter Shave," S09), setting up a fake charity to avoid buying Christmas presents for his coworkers ("The Strike," S09), & falsifying statements to extend his unemployment benefits ("The Boyfriend, Part 1," S03). leeching off of others & the community is a hallmark of vampirism.

ultimately, the uncanny parallels between these two characters are impossible to ignore. George & Edward seem indeed the same person mirrored into different universes. so, what does this say about their creator(s)? this "coincidence" naturally begs the question: Are Jerry Seinfeld and Stephenie Meyer the same person? in Part 2 of this essay, we expl—

[wadbot]

NMARE2.WAD: DOOM NIGHTMARES II E1M6 (-608, -728, 0) Author: JERRY LEHR, JR Date: 1996-06-03 Description: ALL NEW LEVELS WITH NONE OF THE SAME FORMAT. A LOT OF TIME WAS SPENT ON EACH LEVEL ON EPISODES 2 & 3. SOME LEVELS ON EPISODE 1 ALSO TOOK A LITTLE EXTRA TIME THAN I EXPECTED. MORE WORK WENT INTO THIS PWAD THAT ANY ONE YET. EVEN BETTER THAN CHAMBERS OF DEATH III THIS IS THE MOST DIFFICULT PWAD I MADE YET. THERE ARE STILL SOME MISTAKES ON EPISODE 2 LIKE SOME DOORS AND STUFF. WELL, HERE IT IS! THE AWAITED SEQUAL TO THE EVER-SO-SUCKY NIGHTMARES GAME. WELL, THIS ONE IS NOT SO SUCKY. IT IS NOT REAL COMPLEX, BUT IT IS HARDER AND BETTER. MOST OF THE LEVELS ON EPISODES 2 & 3 ACTUALLY HAVE doors! The Story Continues... ====================== You come home from your victory with the SpiderDemon clone and decided to take a little nap. BIG MISTAKE! the spiderdemon is done with his levels and has prepared the ultimate Nightmare!!! Prepare for the Return of the SpiderDemon. His cloning machine has created so much evil and so many deaths. The demons and imps he keeps multiplying are becoming very annoying. More humans are being possessed to kill you. Pretty soon, the SpiderDemon will run out of dead bodies to possess, so he will turn to LIVE people. Save your Species! The Spiderdemon has his own little Hell set up for you. HAVE FUN

[rockmiyabideusexmachina]

Megaman Production Art Scan of the Day #728:

Yuuichirou and Haruka Hikari Sketch From Rockman.EXE Season 1

Notations include: - Airport ceiling

From Episode 26, Bizarre! Mystery of the Ghost Ship!, to be exact:

Full Resolution Scan: https://imgbox.com/rdf2Gqei

[hoshingi]

tagged by @woozification and @goblinvern, thank you for tagging me!

rules: link your favorite and/or most popular post from each month this year (totally fine to skip months) and tag some CCs you love!

january most popular + favourite: jihyo in the perfect world music video (177 notes) - only made one set that month...

february most popular: hoshi recommending solo to a forever alone carat (987 notes) favourite: soonhoon in best friends - my first ever svt set and my beloveds, really enjoyed making this and have rewatched this countless times since :')

march most popular: jimin performing set me free pt.2 (1.5k notes) favourites: set me free pt.2 + hoshi's hurt road cover - really enjoyed colouring both, one had shitty lighting and the other had a shitty filter so it was really satisfying to see the end result

april most popular: seventeen in the super mv teaser (589 notes) favourite: spider mv layout set - it was my first time trying this out and i think it was quite decent, though it could have been better. i did really like the coloring though! - had quite a few favourites this month but had to choose this because of how much time i spent on it

may most popular: sparkly jeonghan performing all my love (1k+ notes) favourite: woozi picking hoshi in the love fanmeeting - i loved the moment and even if i don't like the colouring, i love the moment and i'm glad i have it in gif form somewhere in the world

june most popular + favourite: hoshi birthday set (811 notes) - i love him and i loved making this, so many of my favourite hoshi moments gathered in one place :')

july most popular: hao in idubily (2.4k notes) favourites: soonhoon sharing one braincell + soonhoon bickering - this episode is so dear to me and no one wants to know how many times i rewatched this episode to make these sets

august most popular: woozi weverse post (695 notes) favourite: sleepy genius woozi in boomily outing #4 - he's so CUTE i'll eat him whole

september most popular: woozi weverse live (ft. wonwoo) (728 notes) favourite: vernon and dino left and right dance break - my beloved dance break and i'm so grateful for the quality of the video

october most popular: cheol in the god of music mv (707 notes) favourite: hoshi performing tiger on the black box on earth - hello pinned post, the caption says everything i need to say about the set

november most popular: chan taking photos with a sleeping hoshi (537 notes) favourite: woozi birthday set - though it didn't turn out the way i imagined, i still liked the concept of the set. maybe i'll do it again but better :(

december most popular: performance unit idubily (615 (!!!) notes) favourites: cutie woozi + jeonghan for dicon - once again i love the moment even if i'm not the biggest fan of the coloring and i loved fixing the filters in the jeonghan video :')

tagging @shuacoustic who's the only active cc i know on here ily bestie 😭

[surajpraksh]

#MustListenSatsang

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यजुर्वेद अध्याय 8 मन्त्र 13 में कहा गया है कि परमात्मा पाप नष्ट कर सकता है। संत रामपाल जी महाराज जी से उपदेश लेने व मर्यादा में रहने वाले भक्त के पाप नष्ट हो जाते हैं।

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I posted 777 times in 2022

That's 728 more posts than 2021!

4 posts created (1%)

773 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@owlgirl18

@lagomort

@douwatahima

@spasticarkayl

@atreefullofstars

I tagged 333 of my posts in 2022

#toh - 12 posts

#toh spoilers - 9 posts

#buy me this - 5 posts

#australia - 5 posts

#feh - 5 posts

#ref - 4 posts

#lmfao - 4 posts

#cry rule - 3 posts

#the owl house - 3 posts

#;; <3 - 2 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#how i kinda need to pee and know i should eat but don't super feel like it but i'm going out with a friend in an hour and definitely should

My Top Posts in 2022:

#4

holy shit man the new ToH special.... loved it. non-plot-specific spoilery thoughts under the cut

Luz has such a great mum oh my gosh.... <3 <3 <3

enby character with flag nails and pronouns aaaaaaaaaa hi I love you immediately.

There’s an exchange which I read as a dig at she who will not be named? “for the greater good” “no get fucked” kinda thing. loved that.

Vee, darling, you’re doing amazing.

0 notes - Posted October 17, 2022

#3

Vaskaiya > TentitiveEventuality

0 notes - Posted October 15, 2022

#2

YOU 🤝 ME

EMOTIONAL DAMAGE FROM THE NEW TOH EPISODE I WANTED TO SCREAM BUT I COULDNT BECAUSE I'D WAKE SOMEONE UP HENDMSKG

WAHHHH YES OMFG SO MUCH HAPPENED?!?!?! there is a kitty sleeping like. 30cm from my face I am trying so hard to be chill but oh my OH MY SLKDFJSDK we’ll have to do our screaming virtually....

nobody I know is keeping up with it and im here like (vibrating with feelings) hnnnngghghghgs

thank you for reaching out omg bless happy to talk about it whenever owo

1 note - Posted October 17, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

3 notes - Posted November 2, 2022

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I posted 265 times in 2022

That's 265 more posts than 2021!

9 posts created (3%)

256 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@iamskyereads

@imtryingmybeskar

@skyshipper

@fangirlingcentral

@fuckyeahdindjarin

I tagged 263 of my posts in 2022

Only 1% of my posts had no tags

#pedro pascal - 53 posts

#ficrec - 37 posts

#javier peña - 34 posts

#javier peña x reader - 25 posts

#javier peña x fem reader - 23 posts

#bless the gifmaker - 23 posts

#ezra prospect - 23 posts

#bless the gifs - 22 posts

#beautiful man - 18 posts

#javier peña x you - 15 posts

Longest Tag: 91 characters

#just bone and give each other all the praise you desperately want and need you silly gooses

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Sleuthing Ricky Hauk's Gas Station 😌

So I was watching baby Pedro Pascal in his Touched by an Angel TV episode that aired in 2000, where he plays shy budding-poet-trapped-as-a-mechanic Ricky Hauk, and I was like...WHY does this yellow gas/service station look familiar? I feel like I have seen it before.

And THEN I remembered...OH MY STARS, Touched by an Angel was filmed in Utah! I've (unfortunately) lived in Utah for 20 years now, and even before I moved here the circles I ran in at the time loved that cheesy show and held it as a point of pride that the series was filmed here. 🙄

Because I'm RIDICULOUS, I then went on a mission to FIND that damn gas station. The show reveals the building number (390) as Pedro exits the front door in one shot, and since Salt Lake City is on a grid system I figured I could find it, but only if it was even filmed here and not some other city or town...here's footage of me scouring google maps/street view 😆:

See the full post

40 notes - Posted March 25, 2022

#4

Oh to hug Pedro Pascal in an endless loop...

I still haven't recovered from The Hug to End All Hugs between Pedro Pascal and Diego Luna at the D23 Expo 2022 last weekend, their body language is SO genuine and sincere and joyful and tender it makes my heart want to burst into a million fluffy pieces.

Wanted to isolate and slow down this moment of preciousness...we are all Diego, imbibing the goodness that radiates from this human bean yah? 🥰🥰.

86 notes - Posted September 18, 2022

#3

So I picked up some popcorn at the grocery store this week that had this llama on it...

117 notes - Posted August 1, 2022

#2

Having LOST MY MIND along with the rest of y'all today, I wanted to gaze at that Vanity Fair smolder and wind-blown hair moment slowed down as much as possible...the flashing reflective lights made it uber jittery and the slow motion janky, but I wrestled with Adobe Premiere waaaaay too long tonight (and was so proud at removing the photographer's hand that was in the shot with awful motion tracking 😆) to keep this shitty gif all to mahself...enjoy! 😎

287 notes - Posted May 17, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Someone give him a hug.

Pedro Pascal as Javi Gutierrez in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022).

728 notes - Posted June 12, 2022

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