#proto y2k

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David Lynch & Trent Reznor for Rolling Stone magazine promoting the film Lost Highway and its soundtrack photos by Dan Winters 1997

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機動警察パトレイバー2 the Movie || Mobile Police Patlabor 2: The Movie

(1993)

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fruits (2000)

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So cool to see all these Johto previews again--wish I still had the magazine (Pojo's, maybe? Just rediscovered them here.) At the time I had pulled out these few initial favorites to doodle, from the often very different (and hilarious) depictions. Clearly the designs were not yet finalized…and Umbreon's Japanese name was still Yanyan. Wonder what I was doing with 'em, considering I wrote my name + age (12) + middle school on the back. (And took a photo with the Pikachu/Diglett camera that printed bigass Pokemon frames around the pics…) The other two Suicune (including the decapitated one) were copied from its other early appearances, possibly in another issue or magazine; believe I've still got those pages torn out and saved in amongst my millions of papers from school years. Which are loaded with poke-related shit on like, every other sheet. Jolteon, Flareon, & Ninetales were just 'cause they were early Kanto faves. x-3 Then obviously the second set of colored Johto ones was drawn after English names were revealed, but I thought Hoppip was Hoppit. Must've misheard I guess.

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When I'm not wearing lolita... I'll wear proto lolita

I'm obsessed with this MILK dress from the 2000s I bought for only $20... it fits perfectly!

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Listening to "Awake And Alive" by Skillet for the first time and experiencing a new form of emotion. and destiel. a lot of destiel

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Proto-Y2K/GXSC album cover

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Even more shitpost draw the squads with my ocs

Again, og templates by @draw-the-squad-like-this

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Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion’s “everywoman.com”

Joan Didion: one thinks of the Stingray, the mohair throw and the typewriter, bloodshed in Laurel Canyon, the decaying Summer of Love. It’s always a surprise to remember that the neurasthenic empress of American nonfiction once turned the terrifying gimlet of her attention to Y2K-era fan blogs and Kmart cake toppers for a defense of Martha Stewart. The peculiar liminal timing of the piece, which appeared in this magazine under the headline “everywoman.com,” is part of what makes it a singular artifact: it was published in 2000, three years before Stewart’s conviction for conspiracy and obstruction of justice and four years before Didion sat down to write “The Year of Magical Thinking,” a time when the Internet was new enough that Didion described one Web site’s “seductively logical links.” But the pairing—more accurately, a doubling—is unrepeatable: one mononymous perfectionist analyzing another, one carapace reflecting another’s gleam. Didion’s Stewart exegesis, in which most glosses of the subject could also apply to the author, is an ur-text on contemporary feminine ambition disguised only partially by style—on the will and the discipline, the persistence of misinterpretation, the unmentioned polestar of whiteness, the victory and the price.

The peg for Didion’s piece was the I.P.O. for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, which turned Stewart into a paper billionaire. At this point, Stewart’s empire included a syndicated newspaper column, a radio show, catalogues (eleven annual editions, fifteen million copies each!), two magazines, and enough home-and-party décor to carpet the tristate area. But the “only real product,” Didion wrote, was Stewart herself, idolized and mimicked by girls and women nationwide. A Web site called Gothic Martha Stewart advised goth teen-agers to learn from Stewart’s D.I.Y. resourcefulness. Online fan communities luxuriated in minute personal details: Stewart’s Suburban (chauffeured), her Jaguar (which she drove herself), her six cats, her four hours of sleep per night.

Presciently, Didion zeroed in on, and tacitly objected to, what we now call the parasocial. There is Stewart the real woman, with her ex-husband and daughter; on the fan sites, there are instead the “relative cases of ‘Martha’ and of ‘Andy’ and even of ‘Alexis.’ ” Although Didion had published that packing list in 1979, she was still some years away from her twenty-first-century transformation into “Joan,” a symbolic center of mainstream female identity and aspiration. By 2015, Didion had become consumer shorthand, her face appearing in a Celine ad and on the back of a twelve-hundred-dollar leather jacket. That same year, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia sold for a fraction of its I.P.O. price. In “everywoman.com,” Didion had noted the “perils of totally identifying a brand with a single living and therefore vulnerable human being.” But what tanked M.S.L.O.’s stock price was not Stewart’s criminal conviction or her stint in prison as much as it was the rise of the Internet, which razed large swaths of traditional media and allowed innumerable proto-Marthas to become products themselves.

Success like Stewart’s—like Didion’s—always provokes outrage: the question of who this woman actually is versus who she’s pretending to be. The fuss around Stewart, Didion argued, was driven by the “misconception that she has somehow tricked her admirers into not noticing the ambition that brought her to their attention.” In Didion’s eyes, Stewart had “branded herself not as Superwoman but as Everywoman.” Stewart’s innovation was the idea that an Everywoman could in fact become Superwoman—and that, once she did, she should still pretend to be Everywoman, more or less. Around the time of the Didion Celine ad, we developed a name for this type of figure: the girlboss. And, soon enough, the Internet was overrun with Everywomen attempting to become Superwomen, then pretending, if they reached that echelon, to have been Everywomen all along.

Nearly all of the women who have tried to turn themselves into “Joan” or “Martha” have foregrounded an aura of effortlessness. Perhaps the dishonesty inherent in that project is why Stewart and Didion still reign symbolically supreme. Beneath the patrician breeze blowing through their self-generated iconography, neither Didion nor Stewart ever tried to hide the work, the clench of it, the teleological inclination toward the steely pristine. Didion ceded the best line in her piece to an anonymous Internet user, who wrote, about Stewart, in a summation that could be applied to both: “She seems perfect, but she’s not. She’s obsessed. She’s frantic. She’s a control freak beyond my wildest dreams. And that shows me two things: A) no one is perfect and B) there’s a price for everything.”

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Sony PS-F9 "Flamingo" record player 1983 (x)

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this summer...

everyone's favorite gamer...

is coming to the big screen

cuts to Wilfrid played by Keanu Reeves What a bummer!

Ke$ha starts playing WAKE UP IN THE MORNING FEELING LIKE IM P DIDDY

Alex wakes up giddy for the morning as Sammy is carried away in the distance, his alarm is still going off and he can't hear her, scrolls through some messages, looks up as he's about to read the "missing person" email and remember to wake up Michael, who's alarm is the local radio

"in other news, Sammy Pak has been-"

Michael, played by Topher Grace "It's a me! Your friend, Michael! We need to get an early start on our day if we're going to get anything done!"

Rory, played by Alex Wolff, "just go on without me, man"

Alex: "but together we are Alex Yiik and Friends!

Without you l'm just... Regular Alex Yiik."

A group of friends will find themselves

Vella: "what?! Sammy is missing?"

Claudio: "really?"

and maybe Sammy

Chondra: "and the soul survivors took her?"

Michael: "wow REALLY?"

but first they have to find THE ESSENTIA

Krow: "I know what girls like!"

Krow presents a gift to Allison

background music goes silent

Allison: "uhh, a gift?"

camera angle changes to side shot of both the handsome krow and allison

The present shoots flames in krow’s face for 1.5 seconds then dies for another second of silence

cue audience laughter

Who might need to be saved from Proto-Alex

Asuka: "I haven’t gotten to my character yet. All I know is my costume has wings!”

this summer is going to be

montage of slap stick

Jack Black as Xenanu twerking

Michael Cera voicing the cgi sheep person enemy: "aaawkward"

this summer is going to be...

montage that's pretty much the inevitable dance party ending

panda doing a head spin

"LIIIIIIIIT"

this summer is going to be!

montage of every time they say "Y2K" in the movie

YIIK

YIIK: A Post Modern MOVIE,..

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warframe reveals theory time

1999: the new enemy faction we saw are proto grineer. i have no proof of this its just a gut feeling.

INFESTED LICHES: heres my crackpot theory that actually treads water. on-lyne the boy band are actually entirely digital ala hatsune miku but because its warframe they are actually a sentient computer virus. they were going to play a concert before whatever terrible disaster occurred on y2k happened, but the stadium was somehow blasted into space along with the technocyte strain of the infestation (which can merge with technology and computers.) it then festered there merging with on-lyne until eventually when your warframe discovers it it births the unholy on-lyne infested (the liches).

this post is a lot less in depth than my jade shadows one but my brain and vocal chords are fried from screeching with excitement during tennocon this is the best ive got

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fruits (2000)

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Your mind ,,, she would!! rogita would rock the whole y2k big furry coats jeans and dresses look but also because roger loves the same black tshirt and black trousers i feel like she would be goth adjacent or proto 60s/70s goth esc looks

sorry for slow response

but yess i think she would rock any types of fashion trend, specially goth.

ive thought ab drawing her w some of siouxsie's iconic outfits too (like the black leather jacket she wore on the mag ((i didnt rmb which one..??)) would suits rogita around her 1980 phase)

btw i have some doodles below, maybe ill try to draw her w goth looks later 🫠🫠 (the polka dot one was inspired by strawberry switchblade 🫣)