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b4rbi3l4nd · 1 year

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SOS — keep it on lowski

Okay real talk, this is my first tumblr fic and I like it..so far, so i might make this a series LMAO. But catch me on wattpad, i have a series on there that I plan on continuing

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐋

summary: you broke up with shuri a few years ago and left wakanda for good until namor. now that he's killed the queen and multiple wakandan civilians, he's seen as a great threat and as former second in command at shuri's lab and wakanda's loyal warrior it is your duty to return and fight for your country. but a certain somebody makes the mission way too hard to deal with.

genre: minor angst, slow, slow, slow burn

pairing: shuri x black fem reader

episode warnings: suggestive scenes

proofread?: no but if there are errors then it's grammarly's fault.

word count: girl idfk

inspirations: 'SOS' — SZA

song: 'Low' — SZA

send your thoughts and requests

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"Whatever you want, don't call me." you said as you threw your kimoyo beads and your engagement ring on the ground before stomping it and breaking it under your heels.

Blinking back tears, you pushed her off you as you turned around and left the lab, slamming the door behind you. Her cries echoed through the room as you picked up your suitcase as you left the palace and wakanda for good.

That was more than 4 years ago. To think you were happy. Marrying into the royal family, a strong bond with both T'Challa and Queen Ramonda but especially the love of your life, Shuri.

You guys have known each other for the longest time, being the daughter of the chief of the Border Tribe, you and Shuri have known each other since birth. Bonding over your love for tech. Not only did you have one of the highest IQ's, you were also one of the strongest warriors Wakanda had. Your mother is a Dora Milage so you trained everyday with them since you could crawl.

Everything was going great for the both of you until Shuri started getting engulfed in her tech work. She worked overtime to prove to the elders that she could also be useful but it angered you. Not because she was expanding her work but because she wasn't making time for you. She dismissed you, she didn't even let you enter the lab sometimes and that was where you worked. Eventually, you got sick of it, sick of everything and just left. For the better. Or was it?

"Miss Y/N, you have arrived." your driver says as you snap out of your thoughts. The car door opens for you as you steop out in white pumps and a black bodycon dress, your curls resting all around you as you straightened your gold chain.

The Dora Milage immediately bowed to you as you noticed your mother smiling at you but your face remained expressionless. You walked into the palace as you muttered under your breath. "i can't believe I'm back here again."

You walked through the palace corridors as you stopped in front of the lab, 2 Dora Milage warriors on either side of the door. You were contemplating entering when you heard 2 women's voices.

Turning around, you were met with Okoye and Nakia looking at you.

Nakia immediately embraced you as you hugged her back, realizing how much you missed your friends.

"Y/N...it pained us so much when you were not there for T'Challa's funeral." Nakia started as Okoye stood still and silent, not looking over to you.

"I was busy...I'm sorry. Send the queen my condolences-" you start but Okoye cut you off sharply.

"The queen is dead." She said, almost as if she was choking on her words as Nakia looked down.

A hand flew to your mouth as you felt your eyes watering. Queen Ramonda was like your mother figure, so caring and loving.

"That is why we asked you here. I'm guessing you didn't read the envelope?" Nakia asked as you tilted your head to the side.

"There was an envelope?"

"Typical." Okoye kissed her teeth as you turned to her to see her smiling.

"Okoye..."

"You know I can't be mad at you for long. Small small girl, come here." She held out your arms as you chuckled, hugging her tightly but when you pulled back, both Okoye and Nakia had serious expressions on their face.

"We need your help Y/N...help the country. Help Shuri." Nakia voiced out as your mood soured when she mentioned your ex's name but she gave you a look. "Please, put your petty beef to the side. She hasn't been herself lately, she's been engulfing herself in her work, you're the only one we know that can help her."

"Is this what you called me for?"

"Not all, we also need help defeating a treacherous villain. Namor. All the information has already been sent to your...iPhone." Okoye said the last part in disgust as you rolled your eyes playfully.

"Sorry ma'am, but it's how you keep up with stuff out of country nowadays."

"I still don't know why you didn't take your kimoyo beads with you. They're great advances."

"Yea but she built em didn't she."

"And it was your design."

"Look, let's not get into battle of the tech here alright?" Nakia said, as she looked between you and Okoye. "Just please help Shuri."

"And the country." Okoye added as you laughed slightly.

You took a sigh and nodded, dismissing them with your hands as you 'promised' to help Shuri. Bullshit, you couldn't give 2 shits about that woman. Your face turned expressionless once more as you entered the lab, startled when a voice started talking out of nowhere.

"My queen, an unknown woman has entered the lab."

"Thank you Griot." Shuri said sarcastically as she didn't even look up from her work.

Your fists balled up slightly. Wow, nothing changed even from when you guys were together. You sighed, maybe you should give her benefit of the doubt, her whole family is gone.

You squinted your eyes, looking around, not knowing where she was.

"What do you want?" her voice came from above and behind you.

You looked up before turning around to see her standing atop some stairs. Your breath hitches, she looks so different than before. She ditched the braids now, her hair shorter than usual. Fades at the sides with curls on the top. It fit her. You took in her white tracksuit and sneakers, tatted hands, and her body got a bit more muscular than last time. She had a ring on her fourth finger. Was she married? The ring looked nothing like your engagement ring and you felt a slight pang in your chest but you shook it off.

You look up to her face but she wasn't even looking at you, she was studying something on her kimoyo beads. Every bit of arousal just disappeared. What an ick, she's still more focused on her work than anything else.

"I was sent to help with defeating Namor."

"Riri?"

"Y/N."

As soon as you said your name, her head darted up as she looked in your direction. You stood still, your hands in front of you as you looked straight ahead, unbothered, which you were.

"Oh uhm.."

"Is Riri your wife?" You ask, motioning towards her ring on her fourth finger.

"Why do you care?" She raised an eyebrow, a stern expression fixated on her face as a frown appeared.

"I don't.." you trailed off as you took note of her face, images of her crying and begging on the lab floor the day you left rushing your mind as you abruptly stopped and shook your head.

"You can go to your quarters, you are not needed here today."

"No thanks, I'll stay. I am here to protect my country, no other intentions needed." You walk up the stairs and right past her as you walk over to your former office and stop, staring in disbelief.

It was decorated with red and yellow and the name "Riri" was spelled out on the wall with an ironman-looking suit standing in the corner of it.

"Of course." You nod your head slightly, of course your office wasn't going to stay the same. She's obviously moved on. You start towards a chair but stop as you hear her right behind you. She grabbed your arm slightly, making you turn around to face her. She still towered over you, even after all this time.

"I got it under control."

"Really? Because if so, Nakia and Okoye wouldn't be begging for me to help you."

Before she can respond, a young woman around our age comes into the lab and looks up at Shuri.

"My love." she said as she ran up to hug her and Shuri hugged her back lovingly, letting go of my arm.

I frowned at the sight and looked away. I shouldn't even be feeling like this, I broke up with her, I'm the asshole.

"Namor...he left a message."

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All 3 of us walked towards the throne room, Shuri in the middle and ahead of us, her hands locked in with the woman who I learned to be named Malia. She wasn't Wakandan but American, you can tell from her accent. I scoffed at this.

The whole time, I stole glances at her. She wasn't even that pretty. Her dress is too short, this is a work area. Is she trying to seduce the elders or what? What's up with those shoes? They're unprofessional. Straightened hair? Really? Americans have no value for their natural hair. "Stop it" i said to myself under my breath. why am i comparing myself to another woman? I don't even care for Shuri, she can suck my clit for all i care.

As we approached the throne room, Shuri took her seat on the throne and I watched Malia sit down in the seat next to her. My former seat. I stood next to the Dora Milage, specifically my mother as I watched the two with hooded eyes.

Okoye pulled out her kimoyo beads where it showed Namor at the border of Wakanda, promising to be back and rid the whole country.

The whole time I was more focused on Malia and Shuri. The way Shuri's hand moved up and down her thigh, the way she looked at her. How unprofessional. And in front of the guards too?

"What is she doing here?" An elder spoke out, causing me to snap out of my trance. Everyone was now looking at me and I put on my best poker face, looking up at them.

"She is still a Wakandan, whether you like it or not." My mother said, standing up for me as I eyed the elder down. I clicked my tongue slightly as he turned away.

After the brief meeting and discussion of what to do, I made my way out of the throne room, right behind Malia who offered to show me to my sleeping quarters.

As we entered my apartment in the palace, I turned to her and raised an eyebrow. "Are you and Shuri married? I need to know whether to address to you as my queen or not." I say, trying to hide the fact that I'm prying for information.

I can see the question catch her off guard as she smiles sweetly at me. "No, not yet. This is just a promise ring, she got it for our anniversary, a few weeks ago, pretty right? She made it specifically for us." She showed her hand as I looked at the ring. It was beautiful and it had the initials "S.M" carved into it.

"Crazy how..if you hadn't left, this would've been you." She said under her breath, her tone sounding less friendly than it was before.

I look up at her, her expression looking more stern as we held eye contact momentarily. It was ice cold and the tension in the room could cut blocks. But then she smiled, her sweet expression coming back to her face.

"That's all, I hope you have a nice stay in Wakanda." She smiled even wider before turning around and leaving the apartment, leaving me to feel unsafe that she knew where I slept.

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That night as I pulled my dress down, I heard a knock on my door. I didn't open it, still occupied with my dress. After a few moments, the door opened.

"I thought I locked that door.."

I turned around to be met face to face with Shuri. My dress fell down, and pooled at my legs. The only thing stopping her from seeing my naked body was a white savage x fenty lingerie set which was even more teasing if I'm being honest.

She was silent for a few moments, looking at me up and down before she gulped and then looked back at my face.

"I didn't know you were in here."

She went silent for a few moments before I looked at her puzzled.

"Not even a sorry?"

"For?"

"Practically barging in my room and then staring me down."

"You're in your head."

"Really? We're gonna pretend the Queen of Wakanda isn't in my bedroom, talking to me as I'm half naked."

"It's nothing I haven't seen before." she blurted out as I stand still, stunned at her words and she too also seems stunned at what she just said.

"I.." she starts but I shake my head, turning around.

"I need you to get the fuck out my space." I say and she doesn't respond until I hear the door opening again.

"I'll need to see you again in the morning and discuss some things about the whole Namor situation. Meet me in my lab at 10 AM sharp, don't be late." She says sternly before I hear the door slam shut.

"Shit, 4 years of sexual frustration does something to you." I say, sighing deeply as I pick up my dress, throwing it on my bed before going to my suitcase to grab my pajamas.

I'm going to hate it here, for sure.

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gemini-sensei · 1 year

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So now I can't stop thinking about poly Daniel and Amanda with a older first time mom! Reader who shows up to the dealership trying to find a new car for her and the baby.

She wants to trade in her old car because she needs to upgrade, and plus she can't fit in the front seat because her baby bump has gotten so big and the car is too small for her. She's super nervous about the whole thing because not only is she pregnant but she's never gone to an actual dealership to buy a car before.

And Amanda and Daniel notice her right away👀

I can't stop thinking about it now!!!😭🙏

- Sensei-Venus💕✨

@sensei-venus (unedited, unfiltered thoughts)

Your mind- 🥰

😓 my mind, I got a migrain between working on this one so it's not my best work

She walks around the dealership so confused. There's so much more there than she was anticipating and she doesn't know what to do. She's not hard to miss with her big, swelling belly and pretty face. Amanda and Daniel decide they're going to work with her, walking up with big smiles on their faces. They introduce themselves and shake her hand, which makes Reader giggle. She tells them she recognizes Daniel from his commercials and immediately puts her hand back on her belly.

When they ask her what she's doing there, she explains the situation. She tells them she needs a new car because her belly is too big and her car is too small. It's also not a good car for a baby. They catch on to the fact that she doesn't have a partner, she doesn't so much as mention one. Amanda laments about how it must be hard to get too and from work so big and pregnant, and Reader laugh again and explains she's working from home. It's the appointments and the store that she struggles to get to.

"It's so hard getting all the baby's things. I mean, I don't even have a crib because I can't fit it in my tiny car. That's why I was hoping to trade it in? It's practically brand new, I've only had it a few years, and the milage is still good," she tells them, hoping to sell it to them. She doesn't realize she doesn't have to, she doesn't see the way that they look at her or the looks they give each other when she looks down. "I've never wrecked it, never had a problem with it. I think the resell value would be pretty good."

"Oh, you don't worry about that," Amanda says, gently touching her arm. It's a comforting gesture because she shouldn't have to worry about stuff like that, especially heavily pregnant. She offers Reader her arm. "Let's walk outside and take a look at your car."

So they take a walk outside and Daniel takes a look at Reader's car, but him and Amanda already know they're going to take the car. How can they not? She's in obvious need of a new car, she can't drive herself and a baby in this small thing. So while Daniel is checking it out, Amanda is telling her about how things are going to work when she trades it in.

They take her inside to do some paperwork and let her rest her feet. Instead of taking her around to look at cars, they show her some on the computer. Amanda is sitting a little close, her voice nice and low and tender. Daniel is sitting on her other side, explaining all the great thing about each car and how good they'll be for baby car seats and what not. They're so sweet to her and she has no idea that they typically don't help customers this much. They sell cars all the time, sure, but it's never this up close and personal.

She takes to it very nicely, though. She's so appreciative of their help and she can't thank them enough. She looks so cute to them, they tell her that she doesn't have to the k them at all. They're just doing their jobs after all, but she insists that she should thank them in some way, since they've been so patient with her...

#poly daniel and amanda #pregnacy #pregnant reader #daniel larusso x chubby reader #daniel larusso #amanda larusso x reader #amanda larusso #cobra kai x reader #cobra kai x chubby reader #cobra kai x plus size reader #chubby reader #plus size reader #cobra kai #gemini sensei

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elvenbeard · 9 months

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2072

"You're the son of Kousuke Ezaki, right?"

"Hm. Got a feelin' he'd be disagreein' with ya on this..."

After Vince returned to Night City in 2071, Jackie introduced him to another of his many "friend-of-a-friend"s - the owner of a Valentino-adjacent (but not officially affiliated) car repair shop in Heywood. The guy had been desperately looking for a tech-savvy helper, and Jackie figured it might be something Vince could be good at with his knowledge, skills and an interest in cars.

Vince did not exactly jump at the opportunity, but he did not have too many other choices at the time, if he wanted to keep a roof above his head. There were better jobs, but also much worse, and so he agreed to give it a try.

Turned out, he had a knack for cars, and after some initial reluctance from both sides, "V" became an important asset to the small repair shop in no time. He learned to enjoy all aspects of the work, from fine-tuning ECUs to fixing electrical damages, all the while improvising with the often limited resources at hand. Still though, not a Heywood-native, Vince always remained the odd-one-out among his coworkers, as with their love for cars their common interests ended. Vince learned to prefer it this way, as it gave him the freedoms to set his own priorities, work on side-projects while the others were out for lunch for example. Also, he would not get too attached to a workplace and coworkers he knew he did not want to stay around forever.

The repair shop's clientele largely consisted of locals, gangers and "normal" citizens alike (even if the lines tended to get blurry occasionally). But there was also a handful of regulars of a bigger, much better-paying caliber, that Vince initially wasn't even allowed to look at, let alone touch their cars.

Word-of-mouth recommendations had led a certain Arthur Jenkins to Heywood one fateful day, his request so simple that Vince was allowed to tackle it. The first time he was trusted with a "special" customer on his own. The task: "correct" the milage of the suit's car, easy as pie. Vince had mastered similar feats as a teenager already.

What should have been a quick-and-easy job though uncovered something Jenkins did not like at all - a well-hidden tracker following his every move, and had it not been for Vince's experience with these things, it would have remained undiscovered most likely. Jenkins left the shop satisfied but also curious... How come a low-life street-punk like that knew so much about Militech tracker signatures?

A few days later Vince was intercepted by Jenkins on his way home. Initially not too impressed by the corpo throwing around random facts about Vince's not-so-secret past that anyone with too much time on their hands could have uncovered, Jenkins had an ace in the hole. Vince was confronted not only with a part of his past not even he himself was aware of at this point... but also an offer too intriguing to pass up...

Vince through the years (4/9)

Fun fact: I'm fully abusing this little project to showcase all the hairstyles I almost gave Vince when I first made him in CC XD This wasn't my second or third choice, but I considered it! It's just so funky-looking with the two colors, super bold, and it does really fit him during that time in his life where he doesn't give a fuck about anything at all anymore. He goes a bit more wild with his appearance, dares to experiement more and grows into his own person... only for Jenkins to show up just in time to ruin everything, the bastard (affectionate).

I don't want to spoil too much about what exactly it is that Jenkins knows about Vince's past that made him eventually follow him into Arasaka's loving embrace, cause I still wanna write this scene out in detail in my background fic for Vince :3 It isn't just one detail or one thing either, it's a multitude of factors, promises, secrets, opportunities, combined with Vince's hunger for more than being a little part-time mechanic in a sleazy auto shop, more than a roadie or retail worker, just more... because he knows he has the potential for it, and Jenkins is holding all the keys to unlock it in that moment.

And yes, this is all one hell of a fateful coincidence, but it's those that make a good story. As for the task Vince was given with resetting the car's mileage: he had done similar things to his mother's car as a teen, when he "borrowed" it late at night to go on joyrides with his "friends" at the time and she was not supposed to notice. His mother also had connections and friends at Militech that supplied her with little tracking devices to keep her unruly child in check, and once Vince noticed that he learned to spot and disable them as well.

Also, tiny detour to/ easter egg for "Love is Stored in the Olive Jar", if you've been keeping up with that!

The car in the background of the upper pic and more prominently in the second with Jackie is Vince's first car, a pale blue Archer Quartz. The (almost) same model Mr. B provided as a getaway vehicle in chapter one of my post-ending fic, that Vince has to abandon at an auto repair shop :3c Oh, how could Mr. B have known these details of Vince's past...

Speaking of Vince's past and the quote I put at the very top of the post! Vince isn't hiding the fact that he's trans, it's a part of his story and he's proud of his identity. So, when Jenkins wonders if he's Kousuke Ezaki's son, Vince reacts the way he does because for one, by the time his father had died he hadn't realized himself yet that he was trans. And secondly, even if he had, he knew his father well enough to know he would never have accepted him the way he is, for a variety of reasons.

In this moment he learns an important thing about Jenkins: that he's a manipulative bastard trying to tug on his heartstrings, but he only has outdated, surface-level information - or is at least willing to reveal only that for starters.

#cyberpunk 2077 #cp2077 #cyberpunk vp #cyberpunk 2077 vp #cyberpunk v #male v cyberpunk #corpo v #arthur jenkins #vincent ezaki #my vp #adskdf I was really looking forward to this one #I hate Jenkins as a person but love him so fucking much as a character #vince through the years

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a-certain-elf · 8 months

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PLS PLS PLS FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING CHECK YOUR OIL IN YOUR CARE EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE

(Unusual ramblings from me so ignore if you want. Not Janaya or TDP related at all)

It happend again today that a customer brought in their car today because the turbo made some weird noises. Turn out it is broken be the costumer "forgot" to do their oil change at the requiered interval. They missed it by about 12000km (about 7500 miles for you freedom cheese eaters). WHICH YOU SHOULD NEVER EVER DO. Not with Gasoline and especially with Diesel powered cars.

Why does that damage the turbo you might ask? Well the turbo also needs lubrication just like the rest of the engine does so when the lubrication gets worse theres bound to be metal grinding with each other. Causing play in bearing which shouldn`t have any or very little. These small metal fragments will travel through the ENTIRE lubrication system and they will cause damage. There is only so much the oil filter can, well filter before its full.

It`s usually either by milage or by time but they drive ALOT so it was because of the milage in this case and they reset their oil change in the cars infotainment system themselves because I guess they found it annoying that it was blinking. They did however have an service note in their engine bay from their last oil change so. And I was able to check it in the Engine Control Module.

They werent mad or anything about it as far as I can tell but they just got themselves a rather big, unnecessary repair bill that was easily avoidable. So pls pls pls check your oil (and all other fluids for that matter) every once in a while and fill it up with the correct oil if its low and dont forget regular oil changes every year or every 20 000km/12 000miles as a general rule of thumb.

You can find all if that explained in the service manual as well!

JUST GOTTA READ IT!!!!!

#car mechanic #car #cars #maintenance #car maintenance tips

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slow-button-off · 2 years

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Ferrari news!

Carlos is apparently taking a new engine on Saturday. Which makes sense because Paul Ricard usually isn't bad for overtaking.

And they are definitely running their engines extra low during practice. Up to 20hp lower apparently. To me in Austria that was super noticeable on the straights. But yeah they are doing it because they are trying to help their reliability with reducing milage as a short term fix. So especially Friday practice times can't be used definitively when judging Ferrari. Everyone turns their engine down but they are doing it the most apparently.

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#charles leclerc #scuderia ferrari #f1 #carlos sainz jr

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arttrampbelle · 1 year

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there are a few things that i wanna talk about shang tsung in the mk legends animated film series.

The pros:

At first i didn't care for artt butlers shang tsung. As i am firmly convinced that no one can ever top cary hiroyuki tagawa. (Sorry not sorry that man IS SHANG TSUNG,thru n thru. Time and time again he shows up as shang i will drop everything. Fr! ) but for a VA,and comparison to shang's other voices. His isn't bad. It need to be a bit more...low and suave. But he has that "hiss" to his voice. That villain charm. Its not the best. Buuuuut its the closest we've got to an alternative for shang's voice.

His old man design is PEAK! omfg i can't gush enough how badass it looks. Young shang is ok. I never was a fan of "racoon death metal look" for shang tsung. But that's a personal preference. But his character design in the first 2 animated films is amazing.

His sass and swag is still good.

The first half of him fighting liu kang was good. The rest....well. I'll talk more about that in the cons.

His fight with Stryker was epic. Sorry stryker fans. I enjoyed his ass getting fatality'd too much. That fatality is a Klassic ok? Besides that the only time we really see shang fight fight. Ugh which is a pro and a con.

His banter with raiden is funny

Him besting quan chi at snek shit i live for. But i hate how quan chi is there too early in the story and upfrontly at that. Never liked that type of storytelling. Look quan chi is a cool villain,dont get me wrong. But i hate how people put him above shang or below him. When they both are two bad bitches and just go about the "sorcery" differently. Quan chi is a demon. He is gonna demon. And shang well he's just a curse mortal. But shang has more knowledge in soul magic,and can get more milage out of it than quan chi. Quan chi while a very powerful necromancer,is limited to the bounds of the netherrealm. And can be easily beaten if he isn't careful. However i hate it when NRS tries to replace him and do this back and forth shit. Like shang tsung is THE OG. quan chi was a Saturday morning cartoon replacement. FR LOOK IT UP! his debut was that old defenders of the realm mk cartoon. Which btw is a guilty pleasure of mine. But like i wont sugarcoat it,quan chi sucks in anything that isn't exposition character,or a character that is more for a stepping stone for a bigger threat. He does better in behind the scenes. Story wise and character wise. Look he's cool he just will never be as cool as shang tsung. Never will have that swag. He is the copycat of the "copycat"... see what i did there....cuz....shang tsung....shapeshifts....ok I'll stop now

Ok now for the cons...oh boy:

Shang tsung ok,look i love him. But he is WEEEEEEAK in the animated film series. Like good lord. We only get one or two fights in the whole two ass first films. I dont count the snowblind because face it....it sucks beyond them putting two hardly used characters. Which also in turn sucks because these unused characters we haven't seen in a bit. Are cool af. And it sucks they have to be in a film which in all honesty is unnecessary af.

The pacing is too sloppy and fast.

Shang tsung is for some unholy reason a simp for shao kahn?! Hello do the writers even know who shang tsung is?! Shang tsung would sell shao kahn out for one cornchip. FR! Like shang tsung isnt some lapdog. He may pretend. But he aint. We never saw him one bit be sneaky towards shao kahn. It's just disappointing af that these people are one step forward two steps back with characters.

Hardly any time for fatalities. Like get rid of that x ray shit. That is only good for games. Putting it in animated movies distracts us from the actual action and fighting and dialogue and storytelling. Which is probably why it sucks. Because they used it as filler for a sloppy script.

I wanted to see shang tsung soul suck. Fr. Like i mean actually take an opponent and succ souls. We didn't get that hardly. For a guy known for that. He hardly is shown doing it when it calls for it.

We again don't see a good fight. As i mentioned above,liu kangs fight was disappointing af! Not just for shang tsung,but for liu kang as well! It was so anime gokufied its not even funny. Piss poor dbz lvl of writing. Wattpad has better fight scenes written. Ao3 has better writing. Hell some fans do a better job at putting some people at the edge of their seats. How come "professional" film writers can't even make one fight scene good? Makes it make sense.

On top of that shit,liu kang only used his bicycle kick once. Wtaf. Thats a signature move and he uses it quite often. (At least players do. Lol) and shang tsung should have gotten at least one bootkick. I love shang tsung,but damn nothing?! Ugh

That fight was good in the first half. But it ended as quickly as it started and was honestly lukewarm. And is an absolute disrespect to both characters capabilities. Shang should have gave liu a bit more of a challenge. And liu should have came out swinging last minute. But barely makes it out alive. Just to show the audience....HOW FUCKED THINGS ARE IN MORTAL KOMBAT!

Therefore....when liu fights shao kahn.....ITS SERIOUS! dun dun dun. Lol. But fr tho. Actually show the stakes are high. Dont let your protag win easy. Make it actually fucking hard. And make it bittersweet af when they "win". Because this is mortal fucking kombat baby. Not some cutesy fucking bland ass cheesy overrated boring popcorn flick comicbook movies *cough*. There is no happiness here,only bittersweet Victories.

I kinda hate how cramped the films feel. Like i said too fast paced. Like they are trying to cram 30+ years of games in 2 or 3 movies and that isn't feasible because there is too much lore. Confusing af lore. So in order to make it better. It would have been better as a series instead of films or movies. Like an animated series. Even a mini series would work better. More time to actually flesh things out.

Unless you like scorpion,raiden and maybe shang tsung,you wont like scorpions revenge. And if you like raiden battle of the realms will rip out your heart like a one eyed aussie. Speaking of which If your a kenshi fan,sure snowblind is cool. But if you like me and dont give a damn about kenshi,like i dont hate the guy i just dont find him interesting enough to have his own damn movie. When there is so many other characters that deserve their own movie. And shang tsung they fo so dirty in that movie its criminal. Like it legit should be illegal to nerf your OG big bad. Like that was trash. And Kano shouldn't be more important than he needs to be. Like i love the man but no. He is better as a steet level villain with some braincells enough to lead a mercenary faction of cutthroats. Like the guy rules the underground,that's how it should stay. Nothing bigger,nothing less. Like kano isn't supposed to be a wish brand shao kahn. Ok?! Kano is kano. And is supposed to be that bastard who stays in the streets,ya know.

Ok im done venting for now. But yeah. The animated films are decent. But they still are lackluster and are a far cry from what we mk fans,and especially OG fans. Deserve.

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I am experiencing shrimp emotions at the thought of not changing tires but rather intentionally letting them go flat to.. give you more surface area?????????? aaaAAAAA???!!?!?!!

Yeah Montana is a plains area state. Most of our roads are relatively flat and decently plowed on the "high traffic" roads. Top that with experience driving in snow for a 3rd of the year, and chains just become more hassle then help. Better to just let your tires go a little low. About 26-32 psi is the range I usually hear from people that do this. I just keep mine aired up enough so my car doesn't beep at me in winter. In late spring I'll air them up high for better milage. No idea if it actually helps the milage though that's just what I heard.

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carsthatnevermadeitetc · 5 months

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Datsun 280ZXR, 1979. One of 1001 280ZX homologation specials is to be offered at auction. What makes this car extra special is that it has travelled only 15miles since it was new 44 years ago. It was delivered new to St. Yves Motor Sales in Berkley, Massachusetts where it become part of their collection. The ZXR models came with a rear spoiler to homologate the special rear wing on its race cars. It will be offered at Mecum Auction's Kissimmee sale in January

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Mint 'chip' ice cream

Picked some mint from the wild patch by the pond last night, made some ice cream. Minor snafu in that I've apparently eaten all of the dark chocolate so fit the "chip" pretty I made do by melting some good "semi" sweet chocolate chips and added cocoa powder plus a bit extra fat.

The "chip" in this recipe is actually a low-melting-point chocolate drizzle added to the ice cream right near the end of the churn; unlike actual dark chocolate chips or chunks which usually don't melt in your ice cream-frozen mouth (not a fan), this does so readily and IMO really makes the combination good. The only thing better I think is shaved chocolate in mint ice cream, because then you get a hint of texture until the chocolate melts.

Approximate recipe follows, I'm a somewhat free-form cook so your milage may vary (as might the butterfat content of your milk and size of your eggs!):

Procure 1c mint leaves, rinsed, without stems

Combine ½c sugar, 3 eggs yolks; Set aside

Combine 1½c cream (heavy whipping, no thickeners), 1½c milk in saucepan

Heat to 175°F, Add mint, Remove from heat, Let sit 30m-1hr

Mix it all together

Use immersion blender until there are some small mint specs visible but don't overdo it

Fitter with medium sieve, allowing some mint specs but removing most leaves

Optionally add a few drops of peppermint-spearmint flavor if your mint is weak

Heat to 175°F slowly and carefully on low heat (no flames wrapping pot!), stirring often with silicone spatula

Place saucepan in ice water bath, occasionally stir, wait until mixture is at most 70°F, possibly colder

Either refrigerate mixture for later churning (may be necessary to chill to fridge temperature for some machines) or immediately churn if desired (Lello Musso doesn't care much one way or another)

Melt 2-4oz dark chocolate (not unsweetened) over very low flame. Mix ½t oil (sunflower or something else light and mostly tasteless unlike that horrible canola stuff) for each ounce of chocolate. If all you have is too sweet of chocolate, add some baking chocolate (unsweetened) or cocoa powder (plus a bit more oil to pretend it was chocolate) to reduce sweetness

Near the end of the churning, drizzle as much chocolate as you want into the ice cream. Mop up remaining chocolate with strawberries, bananas or fingers.

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Wolfen (1981)

Based on this interaction, prompted by my review of Predator, I decided to seek out this movie I had never heard of before. It is available to rent for $4 on several streaming sites. But it is ALSO available via the Internet Archive to accidentally download the entire thing for free to my phone immediately, so I did that, and watched it.

And it fucking rules.

I have to spoil this shit to talk about it. It is a mystery story, so if you want to see it first without me having ruined it for you, go accidentally download it and watch it yourself.

Or DON'T, because that is stealing. And you shouldn't do that, even if Google makes it easy and simple to accidentally do that.

Ostensibly a werewolf movie, what Wolfen actually is is a slow-boil, hard-R police procedural set in the filthy ruins of 1980 NYC, where the murderer just happens to be a pack of immortal god-like wolves.

While that premise could immediately be B-movie territory, that isn't what happens here. This is more in the vein of The Exorcist or John Carpenter's The Thing, where average, messy people in the average, messy world get stuck dealing with some inexplicable nonsense they are utterly not prepared to deal with, but by gum, they have to anyway. Confusion and chaos ensue, and everyone who survives it comes out the other side physically scarred and mentally broken.

It's fantastic.

Albert Finney plays a "damn good" NYC police detective, forcibly retired due to an unexplored emotional breakdown, who is forced back into service because he is "the only one" who can hope to solve a brutal but inexplicable triple-homicide at Battery Park. He teams up with Diane Venora (Juliet's weird mother from the Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet), who works for the international private security company who was hired to protect the rich and well-connected murder victims, but failed to do so. As more brutal slayings start to pile up, they are further assisted by Gregory Hines as a forensic scientist, and Tom Noonan as a likeable but eccentric wolf-obsessed zoologist. The cast is as good as it could get in 1981, and that is very damn good indeed. The screenplay also employs them well, creating well-rounded human characters with engaging, fun interactions, at least until half of them are mauled to death by turbo ghost-wolves.

Edward James Olmos plays an ex-con Native American construction worker who knows exactly what is going on but won't admit to it until it after it doesn't matter, charismatically toying with Finney the entire time.

He has luxurious John Travolta hair, and gets naked and wet at one point. If you don't need to see that, I don't know how to talk to you.

He is part of another interesting (if ham-fisted and dated) aspect of this, a low-level commentary on race and class, including but not limited to how the US has treated and continues to treat Native Americans. It is done as well as a movie from 1981 made by white people was going to do that, and it does effectively tweak the emotional sympathies of the audience. Your personally milage will vary on how problematic you might think that is, but I thought it was at least a valiant effort, that sets the movie apart from standard fare.

Technically speaking, this is kind of a low-level masterpiece. It was shot on location in NYC, and everyone who worked on it was/is a filmmaker, so despite being mostly filmed in the drug-addled wasteland that was The Bronx at the time, it is beautiful and well-paced and scary when it needs to be and funny when it needs to be and even the saggy middle of the movie is not allowed to get boring. The James Horner score is mostly incidental, but hits hard when it needs to, just exactly suited to what this is and how it should work. This little movie is a masterclass in great filmmaking. Watch it solely for that, if nothing else.

No movie is perfect, and this is not. At nearly 2 hours, it is exactly a half-hour too long, with plenty of things that should have been cut as totally unnecessary. The production was troubled and the director was fired and replaced, specifically because he wanted it to be longer than the studio did. While it pains me to say it, the studio was absolutely right. Adapted from a novel or not, this is "exactly 90 minutes" material, and in no way benefits from another half-hour of visually impressive but plot-irrelevant guff.

The movie was recommended to me on the basis of it having way too many distorted "Monster Vision" POV shots. And it absolutely does. Now, compared to Predator, I think they are done better here, and actually serve something of a purpose, some of the time - we immediately notice the perspective means we're seeing things from a dog's view, it is playing a precise and gleeful hunting game with its victims, we see its presence impacting the behavior of other animals it comes across. All fine, but there is still twice as much of that as we need. Like, we get it. This is cheaper than showing the monster. Good job. Now stop.

There is also a continuous call-back to the security company's local base of operations, where they use magical NCIS computers to fill plot holes the screenwriter was clearly afraid we'd notice. I appreciate the effort, but I also hate this stupid magical-realism tech crap, essentially because it is always written by someone who has no idea how actual technology of the time works. I understand that in the early 80s, most people still thought of computers as mystical boxes that would just do everything in the next ten years. But they weren't, and they aren't, and tossing this nonsense in just raises distracting questions and overcomplicates everything in a rock-stupid way.

The plot-holes this is supposed to fill in could have been dealt with in better ways, or simply ignored, honestly. It was just an added expense that ended up being nearly entirely pointless.

The last problem may not necessarily be a problem, depending on who you are. The "monsters" here are magical wolves. But they are portrayed by...actual wolves. They're cool wolves and pretty wolves and good wolf actors, but if after an hour and 20 minutes you are expecting to see a gnarly werewolf puppet or guy in a costume or a stop-motion beast, you're shit out of luck. They're just wolves. I didn't mind because I'm a World of Darkness and wolf fan, but it does feel like they knew this was kind of a cop-out, so they waited until they absolutely had to to show them.

But if they're just wolves (physically), why not just show them earlier? All this build up for...kind of nothing. Certainly could feel a bit like "...That's it? Really?"

I mean they still snarl and there are all-black ones and an all-white one, and they still fly around and maul people, so it's okay. But it also is utterly that.

For a movie this good, which was also well-reviewed then and now, it being kind of lost is a real shame. I'm a huge fan of werewolves and werewolf movies, and I'd never even heard of it before. It apparently came out between The Howling and An American Werewolf in London, two movies that aren't as good but are certainly a lot more fun. That's a shame, because there should be room for all of them.

Solid A-. Go watch it. Just don't expect a shlocky action-horror movie. This one is trying to class up the joint, in its dark and grimy way.

#wolfen #1980s #werewolf #horror movie #movie review

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