#old projector

[introvertedx10]

[formosusiniquis]

In a turn of events surprising exactly no one among the group, it's Dustin's who starts the whole thing. He calls a formal party meeting, and an hour after the message goes out over the walkie Steve has a living room full of anxious freshman and Eddie Munson -- and him and Robin who are mostly there because the meeting had to be held at Steve's house for some reason.

Dustin's sense of dramatics have come to rival Eddie's, and he waits until they're all seated before he even bothers coming out from where he hid himself with a manilla folder under one arm and the only white sheet in Steve's house, that had definitely come from off of his parent's bed, under the other. He doesn't say a word as he throws the sheet over the entertainment center and comes back again wheeling in an overhead projector. Steve can still faintly make out O'Donnell written on the side. "I'm sure you're wondering why I've gathered you all here today," Dustin punctuated his sentence with the heavy click of the projector being switched on.

The fan doesn't drown out the screaming from the crowd.

"You made it sound like an emergency."

"How did you get that here?"

"How did you get it at all?"

"Please," Dustin interrupts, "save all questions for the end." From his manilla folder he slaps a pre-written laminate down on the light table. Projecting, enlarged for everyone to see, 'Why Lucien is secretly the big bad of the whole campaign: a presentation by Dustin Henderson."

"This is the lamest reason for petty theft ever." Eddie gripes. Clearly more upset than Henderson had actually figured the plot twist out, Steve remembers how proud of himself he'd been when he talked himself through it weeks ago.

"Did you help him do this?" Steve asks, afraid of the answer. 

"Obviously not, why would I spoil my own-"

"The projector, Eddie."

"I mean barely, I was more of a getaway driver. Really, if she wanted to keep her projector she shouldn't have moved it out into the hallway so they could wax the floors. I didn't know he was going to use it for evil."

Henderson clears his throat, a disgusting phlegmy hem-hem, "If you're going to talk through the presentation, you'll be asked to leave."

The attitude on the kid, really.

It becomes a thing after that. Steve already has the projector, it's not like he can bring it back to the highschool. What would he even say, 'Sorry about the confusion, my overhead projector looks just like this one.' When there's nothing good at Family Video to rent or it's raining too hard to use the pool, they'll all go to different corners of the house with a stack of ten laminate sheets, a wet erase marker, and a vague theme. Then they come back and share what they've come up with.

The group is incapable of not instigating some kind of competition, at the end of the night they'd fight and argue over whose presentation was best. Steve participated half the time, but more often than not let himself be talked into playing referee to make sure no one's feelings got too hurt. On those nights he'd add onto Robin's. His favorite: why star trek is better than star wars (with footnotes from Steve)

It's at least twice as gay, kirk and spock are basically alien married and uhura definitely had a thing for spock's wife. All star wars has is the robots and they're barely main characters.

Steve note: Spock's half-vulcan status can be looked at the same as being bi or genderqueer, not feeling like you belong right in either half of your identity cause you aren't enough of one or the other -- Luke is just a twink with a nice wardrobe.

The Party could argue about anything, but Steve wasn't exactly surprised when the young adults got in on the fun too. The projector didn't usually come out until they were all drunk or stoned enough to admit that they had been waiting all night to make their presentations. Unlike the kids who mostly treat the games like debate team: who's the most powerful fictional character, what's the best PC class, what character from star wars would survive the Upside Down (he thought Erica's presentation: why the my little ponies could take down tiamat but wouldn't because they're too civilized, was especially inspired). The older teens treated it more like an amped up game of truth or dare, making up things that someone else in the group should have to do and encouraging the rest of the group to join in too.

They started the night off with Argyle's "Why Steve should give me his secret brownie recipe" which turned out to be mostly about how good they would taste as weed brownies and Eddie and Jon were quick to join his side.

They go around like that advocating for bad decisions like consequences don't exist, like they could be kids again. Robin thinks they should get tattoos, Steve is easily swayed. Jon proposes a road trip back to California. Nancy says they should all move to Boston with her. Eddie thinks the core four should start a band. Steve waits for his turn.

Steve has had his pages written and waiting for days. He knows exactly how long it takes his friends every time they meet to get wasted enough to give in to the temptation to wheel out his contraband projector. Once Robin is finished shouting at Eddie about how they're the only ones with any musical gifts he takes his turn.

"Why Eddie Munson should go out with me: a presentation by Steve Harrington."

[zeb-z]

Pixlriffs’ litematica ability to project and see the builds of the past to try and rebuild those bits of architecture in his attempt to preserve that history, except it’s not a watch or some sort of magic ability - it’s an old opaque projector, like a vitascope. almost ancient with just a little bit of magic from the land embedded in its lenses, able to project the history of the landscape. he’s got it up and running and it’s a little flicker-y but it works well enough, he’s taking notes of the grainy after images of empires from long before his time, building on the blueprint of historical importance

do you see my vision

[kalmeria]

we got to see a little bit of pa's insecurity in her thinking ink wouldn't love her in different circumstances (the high school sequence makes a bit less sense with the actual context of ink being her brother's friend imo but it does work emotionally) and her dumbassery (which as we know runs in the family) in her repeatedly banging her head in a wall and also that scene where she's trying to catch ink's attention. overall, this was cute and enjoyable. (don't mind me glaring at that projector haha)

[cosmicrhetoric]

so i like the going postal tv movie i think it's cute and i love the set design to excess but the whole "adora only started smoking because of her father's death/giving up a vice as character development" thing is incredible. she makes like three people (including ponder stibbons) practically cry in making money cause she won't stop smoking in highly flammable public areas

[plut00nline]

Why is it so fucking hard for celebrities to just not s*xually a**ault people??? What the fuck is going on?

It fucking sucks that so many of the celebrities I went to as a place of comfort are turning out to be the fucking worst of the bunch.

But what's even worse is that roc had the audacity to get on a stage for 20,000 people and cry tears that belonged to the girl he fucking assaulted. To make people feel so much for him when he only deserves the worst.

[filmbrainbmb]

New Projector review! Nicolas Cage rides out into the West to get revenge in The Old Way, but isn't nearly as wild as that implies, in this film that tries to be all parts from other, better westerns.

[vee-makes]

Day 32 of 2023

What're you watching?

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Inspiration thanks to @bunnygirlskull !!!!

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Vee - February 1st of 2023

[radiomuseum]

Mirroscope postcard projector, made by the Buckeye Steroptican Co. of Cleveland, Ohio. Made in 1910

[singing-with-psychos]

Oh my god, he's alive

Anyway, I'm very sorry for posting once and then disappearing, but in my defense my computer is currently giving me the black sceen of death and that's what I normally draw on :')

To apologize for being gone, here's some Norman drawings! I just recently finalized my design/lore for him, and I'm pretty proud! Norman's definitely one of my favorite characters from BATIM.

[CW/TW for mild g0re (not really), shirtless man (injury chart), and my awful handwriting]

Sorry for the awful quality, like I said my computer broke so it's back to the ol' drawing tablet for me. If people genuinely want to know what happened to him, I might make a little thing about his lore!

[phoenixcinema]

Phoenix interior, 1970s

[maschotch]

[blueberryblowfly]

gonna see a ✨musical play✨ today

[shuttleman]

Just drew a silly guy.... might make em my sona...

[duckapus]

Isabelleven

So as you can probably guess from her being in Kevin’s role things aren’t exactly gonna go well for the Candace 10 version of Isabella.

At first they just think she has electricity powers, since that seems to be how Osmosian powers manifest when they first activate. She gets a cool costume Phineas and Ferb make for her and calls herself Shock Absorber since all the good electric superhero names are taken(and as previously stated I’m bad at naming things). This goes on for a while, and then she accidentally absorbs some energy from one of Candace’s forms and they find out she can turn into cool-but-freaky hybrids too. They all have some fun with that, and while they keep Shock Absorber as her public hero name they start calling her “Isabelleven” within the team since she can have all ten of Candace’s power sets on top of her own.

But that’s where things start to go wrong. Over time, she starts to become more reliant on her hybrid forms, even when her basic electric powers would probably be more useful. She also gets a lot worse at keeping her short temper under wraps like she usually does, even snapping at Phineas on occasion. This comes to a head a few days after the first fight with Vilgax, when during a fight with a low-tier villain(probably the Bugg Brothers) she accidentally manages to merge with two of Candace’s aliens at once and the conflicting set of instincts make her go berserk, traumatizing the villains and nearly hurting Buford in the process.

After coming back to her senses she’s absolutely horrified by what she just did and decides to stop using the hybrid forms altogether, which isn’t easy since outside of the loss of control all that extra Omnitrix energy felt Really Good, and there’s an itch in the back of her mind that wants More, needs More. She manages to ignore said itch for a while, but then the team’s in a particularly tough fight and Candace is timead out and knocked down the Omnitrix is right there, and Isabella’s grabbing the dial before she can think about her actions.

The result is a horrifying, feral, Frankenstein’s Monster-style chimera of Candace’s eleven currently unlocked aliens. Brick Brawl’s torso, Mudslide and Overflow’s arms, Nodestool’s root-leg-tendril things in place of Overflow’s hand, XLR8′s legs, Inkydink’s long prehensile tail, Ball Weevil’s head, Outa’ Sprite’s ears, Prick’s mane of quills, a left eye made out of Proxi’s hologram projector, Big Chill’s cloak-like wings, and tubes from both Overflow and Proxi criss-crossing all over. She makes short work of the villain, but then starts attacking anything else that moves, including her friends. She manages to come to her senses just as it seems like she’s about to eat Ferb, at which point she flies off into the night so she can’t hurt anyone else, with everyone beaten down and in no condition to pursue her.

After that she occasionally crosses paths with the others, either feral and causing problems, sane and hiding, or fading in and out between the two, until Vilgax and Rodney(by the way, Vilgax joined/took over LOVEMUFFIN after he lost to Inkydink and his ship got destroyed) manage to capture and find a way to control her, and the three of them attack the Flynn-Fletchers while they’re visiting Niagara Falls, leading to an adaptation of Back With a Vengeance, complete with Master Control getting temporarily unlocked, the fight ending up in the Null Void, and Candace losing the Omnitrix for a couple minutes. Isabella manages to break free of the evil duo’s control and regain her senses fully, then drags them down into the NV’s depths to give Candace and Ferb a chance to escape.

After that she gets her own side story detailing her attempts to fix her mutation, understand and properly control her powers, escape the Null Void, and later figure out how to get home when she does escape but ends up on the opposite end of the galaxy from Earth in the process.

[knightofleo]

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