#r.i.p. ken

[sam-spills-alot]

[itracing]

The Incredible Story of Ken Block

Ken Block is an inspiration to all petrolheads, a guy that could do almost anything with a car - insane control, total bravery and unbelievable skill.

[thats-rough-buddy04]

A conversation I had with a friend about Kinnporsche

the gif is Vegas getting hit on the head (y'all know the scene)

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[merlinspussy]

It’s that time of year again…

R.I.P the world’s biggest drama queen and og baby cakes,,, you would’ve loved the Barbie film. (Not because of the film’s actual message, instead, he would relate to Ken and claim he had peak "kenergy.")

[liaarxse]

Ow!...oops

Headcanons

How would TR boys react to you hitting them after they scare you

Characters: Souya (Angry) Kawata, Nahoya (Smiley) Kawata, Manjiro (Mikey) Sano, Ryuguji (Draken) Ken

Warnings: Jumpscare you won't see, fluff, humor(?)

A/n: I accidentally scared myself and came up with this. Please give me ideas I don't have any🙏🙏

Souya Kawata

Baby boy

Literally didn't mean to scare you

Scared himself

He was just running to leave school since Toman had an urgent meeting, and you just HAD to walk the same corridor at the same time.

Screamed when he took a turn on the staircase and saw you

You screamed when he screamed

And punched him.

😟....

Say sorry rn.

I mean it.

Literally was about to cry.

"Why are you crying????"

"I'M SOWWY– (y'all remember that manga panel LMAO) I DIDN'T MEAN TO SCARE YO–"

"SOUYA CALM DOWN"

If his brother finds out

Lol

R.i.p

You will be missed

Just give him kisses, and he'll be fine

Also give him bonus cuddles

Just because he's Souya <3

Nahoya Kawata

Not baby boy

Mf did that on purpose

Made you watch a horror film

At his house

Late at night

With a storm happening

🤡

Asshole? Asshole.

Watched the movie 3 times to remember when the jumpscares happen

Probably pissed himself 5 times whilst doing so

When one was about to happen, he excused himself to go to the bathroom.

Bathroom my ass

After like a minute of being gone, he quietly creeped behind the couch so he could scare you EXACTLY when the jumpscare occurred

Managed to do it

You got so scared when he grabbed your shoulders that with all your strength, you grabbed him by the arms and flipped him over your head on the ground in front of you

Near broke the damn coffee table

He was like "😃....😧"

His smile dropped

"Y/n what the fuck."

WDYMMM

Then he got up and sat on the couch next to you

"...."

"...."

He started laughing

Kick him in the balls pls

Manjiro Sano

Now this

This is bullshit

Didn't even feel bad about it

Y'all we're just laying in his bed

Minding your own damn business

When he decided

"Your business? Nah, mine."

He screamed

Yep

Out of nowhere, he let out the most blood curling, teeth gritting, toe gripping scream you heard

You screamed too

Y'all were probably screaming for a solid 5 minutes before Shinichiro- Oh wait, he's dead - Emma came up to shut your mouths.

He had the worst smile plastered on his face

You punched his dick

Full on

With all your might

He screamed

Again

And you laughed

Who's the asshole now?

Ryuguji Ken

Man how do I start here

You don't even know why he did it

He doesn't know why he did it

"I wanted to have some fun."

Did you pull that excuse out your ass?

Probably

You were sleeping peacefully

An angel in his eyes

But he didn't give a fuck

Put on the cheapest, most fake ass clown mask he could find and stood in front of you

Leaned a little too far and lost balance

Fell on top of you

You woke up from the air being knocked out of your lungs

You looked at him

He looked at you

"Y/n—"

Bam boom

Punched him right in the nose and ran away

He removed the mask and ran after you

Jokes on him you were standing behind the door with a bat

BAM

Right in the head

"DRAKEN?!"

You're the reason he's dead.

[doyoulikethis-vocaloid-song]

🎼 FEATURED SONGS (40-?)

40. Hydrangea by LonePi 41. Twilight Light by toa 42. キミノ…/SAKURA by AVTechNo 43. Dear by Pepoyo 44. SWALLOWTAIL ON THE SPIDER'z NET by LIQ 45. Beautiful knight errant by PoKeR 46. Crescent Moon by WhiteFlame 47. p.h. by SEVENTHLINKS 48. Color & Electricity by muship 49. Weenywalker by youまん 50. Lucky Me by Mcki Robyns-P 51. Absolutenote by Lemm 52. To The Land of Eternity by hinayukki@sigotositeP 53. It Should've Been Me by R.I.P 54. Witch by Suzuki-p 55. Rabbit Hole by deco*27 56. The Wings of Phoenix by Senjougahara Yousei 57. Pulse of the Meteor by *Luna 58. RONDON SLAG PATHY HI by MASA WORKS DESIGN 59. Ideal Picture by NanoritaP 60. Magical Girl Eudaemonics by tohma 61. DROWN by Bloopy 62. Filament Fever by Van de Shop 63. Kurayami no Parade by Yucha-P 64. WAVE by niki 65. dogdog by abu-se-ken 66. Astro Troopers by Satsuki ga Tenkomori 67. Self Proclaimed Angel by KAT 68. El Tango Egotista by nyanyannya 69. I'll DO My Best to ☆ Contribute to Society!! by nunununununununununununununununu 70. Let's Go to Paradise by picado

And a Youtube Playlist so you can listen to them all! I'll continue to update this as the polls finish up! 💚

[elsipe]

Ken Block 1967-2023 R.I.P

[jbird5by5]

Saddened to learn of the passing of Actress Phyllis Coates (1927-2023)

Phyllis Coates, the first Lois Lane television ever saw, has died.

She was 96.

The actress died on Oct. 11 of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills

The actress first appeared in the first full-length feature film to star the DC hero, 1951's dark Sci-fi movie Superman and the Mole Men, the success of which soon led to a syndicated television series, Adventures of Superman. Coates portrayed the journalist for 26 episodes before departing the series at the conclusion of the first season.

She was replaced by Noel Neill, who had played the character in previous Superman Columbia serials, and the show lasted another five seasons.

Born January 15,1927 in Wichita Falls, Texas, Phyllis Coates moved to Hollywood as a teenager with intentions of enrolling at UCLA. A chance encounter with Ken Murray in a Hollywood & Vine restaurant landed her in the comedian's vaudeville show. She started out as a chorus girl and worked her way up to doing skits before moving on to work for veteran showman Earl Carroll and later touring with the USO. Coates got some of her first motion picture experience in comedy short subjects at Warner Brothers and then graduated to roles in early '50s films. After a one-season stint with the Man of Steel (George Reeves on Adventures of Superman (1952)), she began to divide her time among TV, B-movie assignments and serials at Republic.

Throughout her career, she'd be seen in series like The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke, and Leave It to Beaver, and in 1994 appeared as Lois Lane’s mother in an episode of ABC’s Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. She also appeared in several classic films, like I Was a Teenage Frankenstein and Girls in Prison, The Incredible Petrified World and Panther Girl of the Kongo. She also appeared in the film Invasion U.S.A. (1952) with future Lois Lane Actress Noel Neill.

My Condolences to Family and Friends.

#R.I.P. 😔🙏🥀

[greaseandmoonshine]

R.I.P Ken Block #kenblock43 #ridefastdrivesmooth #greaseandmoonshine https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm80di1Biwo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hugoeccles]

R.I.P. Ken Block #rip #kenblock #hoonigan #hoon @kblock43 #toosoon (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm8K_sirvan/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nightsidewrestling]

D.U.D.E Bios: Laurence Winter

Geia's Second Eldest Step-Son Laurence Winter (2020)

The second son of Byron and step-son of Pelageya, Laurence, a gun rights advocate on a slippery slope in his life due to multiple arrests for many different charges, he still lives with his dad because Byron doesn't trust Laurence on his own.

"This, dear father, is a powerful negotiation tool."

Name

Full Legal Name: Laurence Kendrick Winter

First Name: Laurence

Meaning: From the Roman cognomen 'Laurentius', which meant 'From Laurentum'.

Pronunciation: LAWR-ens

Origin: English

Middle Name: Kendrick

Meaning: From a surname that has several different origins.

Pronunciation: KEHN-drik

Origin: English

Surname: Winter

Meaning: From Old English 'Winter' or Old High German 'Wintar' meaning 'Winter'.

Pronunciation: WIN-tar

Origin: English, German, Swedish

Alias: None

Reason: N/A

Nicknames: Ken, Larry, Laurie, Laz, Loren, Ren, Rick

Titles: Mr

Characteristics

Age: 33

Gender: Male. He/Him Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: American

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: May 25th 1993

Symbols: None

Sexuality: Sraight

Religion: Christian

Native Language: English

Spoken Languages: English, Spanish, Russian

Relationship Status: Dating

Astrological Sign: Leo

Theme Song (Ringtone on Geia’s Phone): 'Pompeii' - Bastille

Voice Actor: Owen Wilson

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Spokane, Washington, USA

Current Location: Spokane, Washington, USA

Hometown: Spokane, Washington, USA

Appearance

Height: 6'0" / 182 cm

Weight: 180 lbs / 81 kg

Eye Colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Brown

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: Sparse

Facial Hair: Clean-Shaven

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) None

Piercings: None

Scars: None

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Smoker, Social Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: None

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: N/A

Enemies: N/A

Friends: Sullivan Lum, Quirino Marino

Colleagues: N/A

Rivals: None

Closest Confidant: Margaret Akers

Mentor: Byron Winter

Significant Other: Margaret Akers (28, Girlfriend)

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Byron Winter (53, Father), Caprice Winter (R.I.P, Mother, Née Thorne), Pelageya Winter (33, Step-Mother, Née Volkov)

Parents-In-Law: None

Siblings: Nathan WInter (33, Brother), Zinnia Turner (30, Sister, Née Winter), Xanthia Winter (24, Sister), Joseph Winter (21, Brother), Venetia Winter (18, Sister), Isaiah Winter (15, Brother), Uliana Winter (12, Half-Sister), Emil Winter (9, Half-Brother)

Siblings-In-Law: Genesis Winter (34, Nathan's Wife, Née Rivers), Patrick Turner (31, Zinnia's Husband)

Nieces & Nephews: Quincy Winter (13, Nephew), Hadley Winter (10, Niece), Bethany Turner (10, Niece)

Children: None

Children-In-Law: None

Grandkids: None

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: N/A

Trainer: N/A

Managers: N/A

Wrestlers Managed: N/A

Debut: N/A

Debut Match: N/A

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: N/A

Stables: N/A

Teams: N/A

Regular Moves: N/A

Finishers: N/A

Refers To Fans As: N/A

Extras

Trivia: Noting of Note

[otakween]

Digimon Adventure 02 (Blind Watch) - Episode 21

Ooh, this was a juicy one. The end of an arc and the defeat of the Digimon Kaiser comes as a big relief. His schtick was getting tired and I wanted to see the "real" Ken. This is the exciting part is the series where the evil has been ~supposedly~ defeated and you don't know what/who the next big bad will be. Maybe it will be that evil voice Ken was hearing somehow? Who knows!

Notes:

-So Magnamon evolves via a digi-egg of miracles (are digi-eggs and digimentals the same thing?) The heck is that supposed to mean? It's hard not to find that a little too convenient and deus ex machina-y. And of course the MC's digimon gets it lol.

-So uh...they really went with the attack name "Extreme Jihad" huh...okay. (I don't really have enough cultural knowledge to criticize this, but it certainly feels off).

-Once the glow fades, Magnamon looks kinda silly. He's got a similar crop top to Flamedramon and I can't help but picture what he'd look like without the armor (a big weird furry dude with human-like anatomy).

-So we get the twist that Wormmon knew Ken before he was corrupted and that explains so much. We ALSO learn that Ken's brother (?) died in a car crash (I think?) so he's obviously acting out because of that trauma. I'm sure we'll get more of his IRL backstory, but I hope we also get some flashbacks to Ken and Wormmon being friends ;w; I want to see those happy times

-So Wormmon somehow transmits his power to Magnamon which I guess is a thing. That kinda happened in season 1 but it was with the kids and the digimon, right? I couldn't tell if that hurt Wormmon or if he got hurt when he was slapped by Chimeramon (maybe both I guess).

-R.I.P. Wormmon :'( at least he got to see the beginning of Ken's redemption and Ken got to hug him goodbye. Their expressions during that hug...

-The dub completely changed the vibe of Wormmon's speech! They made it seem like Ken was evil from the start which totally messes up that part of the story...ugh. This is why I decided to stick with the sub as my primary.

-Lol @ the crest of kindness just randomly chilling in the sand. Also, weird to see a crest at this point, but I guess Ken is from the season 1 era so it makes sense. Now I want to see him hang out with the OG kids!

-Ken's tantrum at the end there was a little hard to take seriously. Glad the kids treated him with care though.

-When Ken goes back to normal he's in a school uniform. Guessing he'll get more of a fantasy outfit eventually when he joins the gang.

-Loved seeing everyone sleeping in the van at the end. Finally they get to breathe a little :')

[aggold15hi01]

⚠️ Disclaimer: The original post isn't mine. Plus the image of Logan Sargeant inserted below the page break isn't mine.

📷 📝 Credits of the original post goes to Athletes Unlimited via Twitter/X and Twitter/ X for the original post of Allisha Gray becoming the new champion of AU Hoops.

📷 Credits of image goes to *Formula 1, YouTube and Logan Sargeant for the image of Logan with the sign 'I have' from the 'Never have I ever' video you can find it on YouTube just for free to watch in general.

Yay! Congrats to Allisha for winning the AU Pro Hoops of this season alone. 🤩

ℹ️ 👩🏽‍💻 💁🏽‍♀️ Also for all personal thoughts from the author herself as well as a cute picture of Logan with the 'I have' sign from the 'Never have I ever' video from both Formula 1 and YouTube; it is below the page break she had inserted herself. 😊 🤙 💁🏽‍♀️ ⬇️

(*Author's note: Oh come on; can you please do better next time? Especially with what had happened recently at the Australian Grand Prix. Like safety is way more critically important than entertainment plus these drivers are human beings NOT Ken dolls or the My Scene guy dolls which people can play with them and make up their own story. Like come on now, F1; do better at the Japanese Grand Prix at Japan. Foolish mistakes they made worse than how Britney is trapped in a conservatorship by her own father and his team of people who are truly responsible for the conservatorship with Britney and also the way D**** had a**** Cassie and everybody else who used to work with him. Also, R.I.P to those people who lost their precious lives to his (D****'s) pair of slimy and bloody hands based on how he took their precious lives--plus prayers to everyone out there who had been affected greatly by those ppl as well as free Palestine on another serious yet an irrelevant note BTW.

Also; Free Britney, Free Palestine and sending unconditional prayers for Britney, Cassie: Logan; George and everyone else in general on a serious yet an irrelevant note as well. 🙏 )

In my own opinion; this does feels like an obvious and a clear sighting of a rainbow appears in the islands of Hawaii after a long plus a sad additionally a dark and even a miserable heavy rain to pretty much wash away the pain where it does truly rains in Oahu as perhaps it had heard the news of Logan getting snubbed by James by having to put the weight of blame and shame on Logan when he didn't do anything wrong thus . . . by the time when Allisha won the Athletes Unlimited Hoops Championship in their 3rd Season then this is where I knew she wanted to dedicated it to her Floridan-Hawaii transplant merman on her win.

Interviewer: Did you heard Allisha Gray won this year's Athletes Unlimited Hoops Championship in Dallas, Logan?

Logan: (*Shows 'I have' sign*) I couldn't watch the championship unfortunately as I do have to travel and it is a deep pain under the deep waves of Haleiwa (Or more accurately 'A deep pain in the ****/ ***') for the international viewers including the people of Hawaii and also for all of the people who are watching this out there as I know there couldn't truly afford to either get the WNBA League Pass; VPN or either both which is worse . . . so . . . when I heard the news from Twitter/ X; I just . . . felt happy. It's like seeing a bright and joyful rainbow after a long, heavy; tough and miserable rain we do have to truly experienced it every day in the islands of Oahu, Hawaii.

[buzzdixonwriter]

Michael Reaves R.I.P.

Of the many, many memorable moments I shared with Michael Reaves, few better sum up the man than participating with him as he battled Fred Silverman and Hideo Takayashiki for the integrity of The Mighty Orbots.

You could well cite this as a quixotic quest, attempting to bring as much skill and intelligence to a Japanese / U.S. co-production that never gained the traction it should, a one season wonder that faded from the memory of all except the most dedicated animation fans.

Michael would certainly have been forgiven for not fighting to the last bloody inch to make the show as good as he possibly could, especially in the face of a Japanese co-story editor who felt dishonored at having to share duties with an American and then having to face off against Silverman, a network executive best described as the Donald Trump of television.

Takayashiki could speak English and Michael knew this, but it was a point of honor to him not to communicate directly with any American writers.

We had a trio of female Japanese interpreters working for TMS at the time, and one of them drew the unpleasant short straw of having to translate the story sessions between Michael and Takayashiki.

The sessions, which took place in the TMS conference room with the Japanese and Americans sitting on opposite sides of a long executive table only slightly shorter than the flight deck of the IJN Hiryū, would typically start with Takayashiki wanting some change to bring the story being discussed more in line with Japanese sensibilities. 

The poor lady translator would relay this in a soft, conciliatory tone.

Michael, knowing the series’ success hinged on it being a hit in the U.S., would resist, testily citing why the suggested change didn’t fit with the way Americans liked their cartoons. 

The poor lady translator would relay his response in a soft, conciliatory tone, even though Takayashiki understood what Michael said.

Takayashiki would regretfully (or so the translator said) disagree with Michael.  Michael -- who like myself was a disciple of the Harlan Ellison school of fight long, fight loud, fight hard for your story – would respond somewhat…ah…forcefully.

The poor lady translator would relay this in a soft, conciliatory tone.

Takayashiki would reply in a tone somewhat akin to Toshiro Mifune wading into a yakuza gang.

…and the poor lady translator would relay this in a soft, conciliatory tone.

(Little wonder this translator quit mid-season to serve as a translator for an international commission attempting to hammer out a fishing treaty between the U.S., Russia, and Japan; that must have seemed awfully relaxing after dealing with Orbots story sessions!)

And if you thought that was fun, hoo-boy!  Stick around for the second part of our doubleheader, a story session with Fred Silverman.

Silverman was a bullshit artist who catered to the lowest common denominator but for the first part of his career possessed enough savvy to find talented creators and not interfere too much.

He frequently repeated his catchphrase to anyone within earshot:  “Sell the sizzle, not the steak.”

He didn’t like it when I pointed out that selling the sizzle was fine -- but you still needed to deliver a steak.

Silverman’s star was not merely setting at the time of The Mighty Orbots, it had collapsed into a black hole.  Despite being the only person to head all three networks, after his success at CBS and ABC, he made a gawdawful mess of NBC and left the peacock to “go into independent production.”*

None of Silverman’s indie-prods ever caught fire (though a few of them should and their cast and crews would have willing supplied the matches).  The Mighty Orbots was Silverman’s attempt to prove he was still the kid-vid genius who okayed Scooby-doo, Where Are You? and launched Joe Ruby and Ken Spears studio.

Perhaps it would have been better if we used translators in our Silverman meetings; speaking the same language certainly seemed futile.

The epitome of this was an epic battle Michael and I had with Silverman over how to get rid of a magnetic monster in one episode.

“I wanna throw it in a glacier,” Silverman said.

That wouldn’t work, Michael and I pointed out.  Intense cold strengthens a magnetic field, intense heat destroys it.  “Throw it in a volcano instead,” Michael said.

“No, I want to throw it in a glacier,” Silverman said.

Now some of you may wonder why fight over this minor point. 

I mean, it’s only a dumb children’s show, right?

Wrong.

There’s a saying in the music biz that if you don’t play every gig as if it were a sold out gig, you’ll never play a sold out gig.

Michael (and myself, and Steve Gerber, and Marty Pasko, and Flint Dille, and many of the other animation writers of our generation) would never short change our audience no matter how young they might be.

We fought long and hard to make our scripts as good as they could possibly be, pushing the format bit by bit, inch by inch, edit by edit a little further along the path.

We may have been the despair of the producers and studios who hired us, but with no false modesty our efforts paid off in shows that people remember fondly to this day, shows that made groundbreaking shows of the 1990s and 2000s easier to fight for.

Those screaming arguments Michael fought with Silverman and others to keep the integrity of his scripts paid off, if not for him then certainly for the shows he wrote for.

Case in point:  Dungeons & Dragons.

Michael wrote several of the best episodes of the show, which by Saturday morning standards of that era was a big hit, enjoying three seasons.

But when it was cancelled without wrapping up the main quest (i.e., the kid heroes finding their way back into the real world), Michael took it upon himself to write “Requiem”, a finale episode he made available to anyone who wanted to read it (eventually it was recorded by fans as an audio drama and that recording turned into a fan-imation by using scenes from other episodes).

Michael fought for writers’ rights and was instrumental in a couple of attempts to break animation writers away from the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists and into either the Writers’ Guild or, when that failed, to start an Animation Writers Guild.  He wrote / co-wrote / edited nearly 30 books, dozens of short stories, three feature films, plus more animation than IMDb gives him credit for.

I tried to recruit him for G.I. Joe but he refused, saying his action-adventure cred he couldn’t bring himself to write a show that glorified military force.

We respected him for that, and got him to write for Transformers, Jem, and My Little Pony.

He was a prickly sort, no denying that, but he was also the kind of guy you could trust to have your back in a story conference or a bar fight.  He was married for several years to Brynne Chandler, a talented writer and editor on her own, and for a while they were happy.  Among the children they had is Mallory Reaves, who continues the family tradition of writing and editing.

The end of their marriage and Michael’s subsequent diagnosis with Parkinson’s did a lot to simmer him down.

As Harlan himself demonstrated, you can’t roar through life full tilt 24 / 7 without burning out eventually.   Michael’s personal situation and health issues didn’t daunt his creative endeavors, but they sure took a lot of piss and vinegar out of him.

We stayed in touch as he went through a prolonged period of couch surfing.  He remained creative as long as he could operate a keyboard, but the Parkinson’s deprived him of speech.

The last time I saw him was at the Motion Picture home where a producer staged a table read for a new screenplay Michael had written.  He could barely raise his voice above a whisper at that point.

He remained online for a few years after that, but the last thing he wrote on Facebook was a brief mention of our mutual friend Marty Pasko’s death.  After that he put up a few links, but apparently even that become too much effort.

There are a few people in the industry that I’ve felt a special kinship with, and Michael was one of them.

It hurts to realize he’s gone.

  © Buzz Dixon

  *  If Daily Variety reports you’re going into independent production, it means you’re fired.  If they report you’re going to write a book, it means you’re really fired.