#super grand king spectre

[world-of-advice]

[rei-murasaki-the-anime-lover]

favourite anime and anime characters part2

High School DxD- Rias Gremory, Issei Hyodo

High School Fleet-Mei Irizaki

High School Girls- Ayano Sato 

High School Of The Dead

High Score Girl- Akira Oono

Highspeed Etoile 

Higurashi-Rena Ryuugu

Hikaru no Go

Himawari- Himawari Hinata 

Hime-chan’s Ribbon 

Himesama Goyoujin-Himeko Tsubaki 

Himote House

Himouto Umaru-chan-Nana Ebina 

Hinako Note-Hinako Sakuragi

Hinamatsuri- Hina

Hinomaru Sumo- Chizuko Hori 

Hiiro No Kakera- Tamaki Kasuga 

Hisone and Masotan- Hisone Amakasu

Hitman Reborn- Chrome Dokuro

Hitohira-Mugi Asai

Hitori no Shita-Fuu Houhou

Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu-Bocchi Hitori 

Hitorigurashi no Shougakusei

Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable-Minami Fuyuki 

Honey And Clover 

Hoozuki's Coolheadedness 

Hortensia Saga-Nonnoria Folley

Horimiya-Kyouko Hori 

Horizon In The Middle Of Nowhere- Horizon Arladust/P-01s

Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi-Ui Nakatsugawa 

House Of Five Leaves

How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom-Tomoe Inui, Kaede Foxia

How Heavy Are The Dumbbells You Lift- Hibiki Sakura 

How Not To Summon a Demon Lord-Rem Galleu 

How To Keep a Mummy-Asa Motegi 

Hulaing Babies

Humanity Has Declined-Shujinko

Hundred-Claire Harvey

Hungry Heart Wild Striker-Miki Tsujiwaki 

HunterxHunter- Shizuku

Hyakka Ryouran- Jubei Yagyu

Hyakko-Ayumi Nonomura

Hybrid x Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia-Silvia Silkcut  

Hyouka- Eru Chitanda

Hyperdimension Neptunia The Animation-Neptune/Purple Heart 

Hynosis Mic- Iris

IChu 

ID0-Maya Mikuri

IDInvaded- Koharu Hondomachi

Idol Incidents

Idolish7-Tsumugi Takanashi 

Idoly Pride- Sakura Kawasaki

Ikenaikyo-Charlotte Evens

Inazuma Eleven 

InfiniT Force

Infinite Stratos- Houki Shinonono

Innocent Venus 

Interspecies Reviewers-Meidri

In/spectre-Kotoko Iwanaga 

Intrigue In The Bakumatsu

Inu X Boku Secret Service- Ririchiyo Shirakiin, Soushi Miketsukami

Inukami- Yoko 

Inuyasha- Kagome Higurashi, Moroha(Yashahime)

I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Max Out My Level-Azusa Aizawa

I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying- Kaoru

I Coundn't Become A Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided To Get A Job- Fino Bloodstone

I Don't Like You At All Big Brother-Nao Takanashi

I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World Too-Kaori Houjou 

I Parry Everything 

I Shall Survive Using Potions-Kaoru Nagase 

I Somehow Gotten Stronger When I Improved My Farm Related Skills-Helen Rean

I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability 

I’m Standing on a Million Lives- Kusue Hakosaki 

I’m Qutting Heroing-Lili 

I’m in Love with the Villainess- Rae Taylor,Clair Francois 

I’m the Villainess so I’m Taming the Final Boss-Aileen Lauren d’Autriche 

Idolmaster-Haruka Amami,Uzuki Shimamura[IMCG], Arisu Tachibana[IMCG U149], Momoka Sakurai[IMCG U149],Kaho Komiya(IMSC)

If Her Flag Breaks- Nanami Knight Bladefield

If My Favourite Pop Idol Made It to the Budoukan I Would Die-Maina Ichii

Ikebukuro West Gate Park

Ikemen Sengoku 

Iketeru Futari

Ikki Tousen- Hakufu Sonsaku 

Ikoku Meiro no Croisee-Yune

Immortal Grand Prix 

Immoral Guild-Hitamu Kyan

In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki-Tsubaki 

In the Land of Leadale-Cayna

Inari Konkon Koi Iroha- Inari Fushimi 

Infinite Dendrogram-Nemesis  

Initial D

Insomniacs After School-Isaki Magari

Interview With Monster Girls-Hikari Takanshi, Kyouko Machi, Yuki Kusakabe,Sakie Satou

In Another World With My Smartphone-Linze Silhoueska

Invaders Of The Rokujoma-Sanae Higashihongan

Invincible King Tri Zenon 

Incincible Robo Trider G7

Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san

Ingress

Inuyashiki

Ippatsu Kiki Musume

Ippon Again-Michi Sonoda 

Irina The Vampire Cosmonaut- Irina Luminesk 

Is It Wrong to Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon?-Hestia

Is The Order A Rabbit?- Cocoa Hoto

Is This A Zombie?- Eucliwood Hellscythe

Ishura

Island- Sara Garando

Isuca- Sakuya Shimazu 

Iron Man

Irozuku

Irregular At Magic High School- Miyuki Shiba,Tatsuya Shiba

Isekai Cheat Magician-Rin Azuma 

Isekai Izakaya Nobu- Shinobu Senke

Isekai Quartet 

Itazura na Kiss-Kotoko Aihara

Iwa Kakeru- Konomi Kasahara

Ixion Saga DT

Izzeta The Last Witch- Izetta

Japan Sinks 2020

Jellyfish Can’t Swim in The Night-Mahiru Kouzuki/Yoru Umitsuki 

Jikkenhin Kazoku-Ashisu

Jikuu Tantei Genshi-kun-Sora Yamato

Jingai-san no Yome

Jinsei-Fumi Kujou

Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa-Youko Shiragami

JK Meshi

Joker Game 

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure-Trish Una

Jormungand- Koko Hekmatyar, Jonah

Joshikausei

Joshiraku- Gankyou Kurubiyutei 

Jouran-Sawa Yukimura 

Juubei-chan-Jiyuu Nanohara

Jujutsu Kaisen-Nobara Kugisaki

Junji Ito Collection 

Junji Ito Maniac 

Just Because 

Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger

Juuni Taisen

Juusenshi Gulkeeva

Juushinki Pandora- Queenie Yoh 

K- Kuroh Yatogami, Neko 

K-On- Yui Hirasawa

Kabaneri of The Iron Fortress-Ayame Yomogawa

Kabukibu-Maruko Janome

Kabukichou Sherlock-Mary Morstan

Kado-Kanata Shinawa

Kage Kara Mamoru-Yamame Hattori 

Kageki Shoujo-Sarasa Watanabe

Kaguya-sama – Kaguya Shinomiya

Kakegurui-Yumeko Jabami 

Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi- Aoi Tsubaki 

Kamisama Kazoku-Tenko Kamiyama

Kashigoto- Hime Gotou 

Kaiji

Kaijuu No.8

Kaina of the Great Snow Sea-Ririha

Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel

Kanamemo-Kana Nakamachi

Kamen No Maid Guy-Naeka Fujiwara

Kamichama Karin

Kamierabi-Honoka Sawa

Kamigami No Asobi-,Yui Kusanagi 

Kamikatsu-Alural

Kamisama Dolls

Kamisama Kiss- Nanami Momozono

Kampfer- Akane Mishima 

Kandagawa Jet Girls-Rin Namiki 

Kannagi -Nagi/Kannagi

Kannazuki No Miko- Himeko Kurusugawa 

Kanon-Ayu Tsukimiya 

Kanokon- Chizuru Minamoto

Kantai Collection-Fubuki, Hibiki, Shigure

Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san-Takagi-san

Karakuri Circus- Shirogane Saiga/Eleonore

Kare Kano-Yukino Miyazawa

Karin: Chibi Vampire- Karin Maaka

Karneval- Gereki

Kashimashi-Hazumu Osaragi

Katanagatari- Togame  

Kawagoe Boys Sing 

Kawai Complex Guide To Manors And Hostel Behaviour-Ritsu Kawai 

Kaze No Stigma-Ayano Kannagi 

Keep Your Hands Off Eizoukan 

Keijo-Non Toyoguchi 

Kekkaishi

Kemono Friends-Serval

Kemono Jihen-Kon

Kemono Michi- Shigure 

Kemurikusa-RIn

Ken En Ken

Kengan Ashura

Kenka Bancho 

Kenichi: Mightiest Disciple- Miu Furinji

Key The Metal Idol 

Kiba-Roya

Kiddy GirlAND- Ascoeur

Kiddy Grade- Eclair, Lumiere

Kids On The Slope

Kimetsu no Yaiba- Nezuko Kamado 

King of Prism 

Kiitarou’s Youkai Picture Diary 

Kill La Kill

Kill Me Baby- Sonya

Killing Bites- Hitomi Uzaki 

Kimagure Orange Road-Manami Kasuga

Kimi Ga Aruji De Shitsuji Ga Ore De-Yume Kuonji 

Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien-Haruka Suzumiya

Kimi Ni Todoke-Sawako”Sadako”Kuronuma

Kimi To Boku

KimiKiss-Yuumi Hoshino

Kimizero-Runa Shirakawa

Kindaichi Case Files-Miyuki Nanase 

King’s Game

King’s Raid- Cleo

Kingdom 

Kin-Iro Mosaic-Shinobu Omiya 

Kinnikuman

Kino’s Journey 

Kirby: Right Back At Ya 

KissxSis- Miharu Mikuni

Kiss Him Not Me- Kae Serinuma

Kiyo In Kyoto-Kiyo

Kiznaiver-Nico Niiyama 

Kizuna no Allele-Chris

Knights and Magic- Adeltrud “”Addy” Olter

Knights Of Sindonia-Shizuka Hoshijiro 

Kobato-Kobato Hanato

Kochouki-Oichi

Kodomo no Jikan-Mimi Usa 

Kodomo no Omocha

Koi Kaze-Nanoka Kohinata

Koi wa Ameagari no You ni – Akira Tachibana 

Koikimo-Ichika Arima 

Koihime Muso- Kan'u Unchou/Aisha

Kokkoku- Juri Yukawa

Kokoro Connect

Kokoro Library-Kokoro

Komi Can’t Communicate-Shouko Kpmi

Komori-san Can't Decline

Kono Oto Tomare – Satowa Hasuki 

Konohana Kitan-Yuzu

KonoSuba-Megumin

Kotaro Lives Alone 

Kotoura-san- Yuriko Mifune

Koutetsu Sangokushi 

Kubo Let Me Be Invisible-Nagisa Kubo 

Kujibiki Unbalance 

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear- Yuna

Kumamiko-Machi Amayadori 

Kure-nai

Kurokami-Kuro

Kuroko's Basket-Satsuki Momoi

Kuromukuro-Yukina Shirahane

Kurozuka

Kyoran Kazoku Nikki-Kyoka Midarezaki 

Kyoto Teramachi Sanjou no Holmes-Aoi Mashiro

Kyou Kara Maou 

Kyou no Go no Ni-Megumi Hidaka

Kyousougiga-Koto

La Corda d'Oro-Azuma Yunoki,Kahoko Hino,Kanade Kohinata[LCD Blue Sky]

La Storia Della Arcana Famiglia-Felicita

Ladies Versus Butlers-Tomomi Saikyou 

Lagrange-Muginami

Laid Back Camp- Nadeshiko Kagamihara, Rin Shima 

Lamune-Nanami Konoe 

Lance N' Masques-Yufeng 

Land of the Lustrous

Lapis Re:Lights-Ashley 

Last Exile-Lavie Head, Fam Fan Fan(LEFtSW) 

Last Period- Choco

Laughing Under The Clouds-Botan 

Layton Mystery Tanteisha- Katrielle Layton

LBX Girls-Suzuno

Le Chevalier D'Eon 

Legend of the Galactic Heroes 

Legend of Legendary Heroes- Ferris Eris

Legend of Mana The Teardrop Cystal 

Les Mis��rables Shoujo Cosette 

Lets Make a Mug Too-Mika Kukuri

Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero-Zenia 

Level E

Levius-Natalia Garnet 

Liar Liar-Sarasa Saionji/Rina Akabane 

Lilpri-Ringo Yukimori

Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan-Utano Tadano

Life with an Ordinary Guy who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout- Hinata Tachibana 

Linebarrels Of Iron- Emi Kizaki

Listen To Me Girls, I Am Your Farther- Sora Takanashi 

Listeners-Mu

Little Busters-Rin Natsume 

Little Witch Academia- Atsuko “Akko” Kagari 

Log Horizon-Akatsuki, Shiroe

Locodol-Nanako Usami

Love All Play 

Love and Lies-Misaki Takasaki

Love Is Invisible by Twins

Long Riders-Ami Kurata 

Lord Marksman And Vanadis-Eleonora “Elen” Viltaria 

Lord of Vermillion- Tsubaki Manazuru

Lost Song-Rin  

Lost Universe 

Lost Village-Lion 

Love After World Domination-Desumi Magahara 

Love Com- Risa Koizumi

Love,Election And Chocolate-Nozomi Edagawa 

Love Flops-Amelia Irving 

Love Get Chu-Momoko Ichihara

Love,Chunibyo And Other Delusions- Rikka Takanashi 

Love Hina-Shinobu Maehara, Motoko Aoyama, Kaolla Su

Love of Kill-Chateau Dankworth 

Love Lab- Suzune Tanahashi 

Love Live- Honoka Kosaka, Ruby Kurosawa[Love Live Sunshine], Rina Tennoji(Love Live Nijigasaki),Kanon Shibuya(Love Live Superstar)

Love Love- Natsumi Yagami

Love Kome

Lovely Idol 

Loving Yamada at Lv999-Akane Kinoshita 

L/R-Noelle Ardelade 

Luck & Logic-Athena, Liones Yellstratova

Lucky Star- Konata Izumi

Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer-Samidare Asahina

Luna Legend Tsukihime

Lupin The Third-Fujiko Mine  

Lycoris Recoil- Chisato Nishikigi

M3 The Black Metal 

Maburaho-Yuna Miyama

Macademi Wasshoi-Suzuho Hasegawa 

Machiko And Hatchin

Macross-Freyja Wion[Macross Delta]

Made In Abyss-Riko

Madome-Nephelia

Madou Soshi 

Maesetsu-Fubuki Kitakaze

Magatsu Wahrheit-Irma

Magi- Alibaba Saluja, Morgiana

Magipoka-Liru

Magic Knight Reyearth 

Magic Kyun Renaissance-Kohana Aigasaki 

Magic Of Stella-Tamaki Honda 

Magical Canan

Magical Circle Guru Guru-Kukuri

Magical Destroyers-Anarchy/Kirara Akabane

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha-Nanoha Takamachi

Magical Girl Ore – Sakuyo Mikage 

Magical Girl Site- Aya Asagiri 

Magical Girl Spec Ops Asuka-Kurumi Mugen 

Magical Girl Raising Project-Ripple/Kano Sazanami  

Magical Senpai-Senpai  

Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi

Magical Somera-chan

Magical Warfare-Mui Aiba

Magikano-Ayumi Mamiya 

Mahoraba-Kozue Aoba

Mahoromatic-Mahoro Andou

Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara 

Mahou Shoujo Naria Girls

Mai Hime-Mai Tokiha

Mai Otome-Arika Yumemiya 

Maid-Sama- Misaki Ayazawa

Maison Ikkoku- Kyoko Otonashi 

Majestic Prince-Tamaki Irie 

Majikoi Oh! Samurai Girls- Miyako Shiina

Majimoji Rurumo-Rurumo 

Major-Kaoru Shimizu

Malevolent Spirit-Botan Nagatsuki 

Makai Ouji: Devils And Realist 

Maken-Ki- Inaho Kushihachi

Makeine-Anna Yanami

Mama wa Shougaku 4 Nensei 

Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo-Ayako Takasu

Management of a Novice Alchemist-Sarasa Feed

Manyuu Hikenchou- Kaede

Marchen Awakens Romance-Snow 

Marchen Madchen-Hazuki Kagimura 

Maria-sama ga Miteru-Yumi Fukuzawa

Maria Holic-Kanako Miyamae

Maria The Virgin Witch-Maria 

March Comes In Like A Lion-Hinata Kawamoto

Marginal#4

Marmalade Boy

Manaria Friends 

Mars Red-Aoi Shirase

Martian Successor Nadesico-Yurika Misumaru,Ruri Hoshino 

Master Keaton 

Marvel Disk Wars

Masamune-kun’s Revenge-Yoshino Koiwai

Mashle-Lemon Irvine 

Matoi The Sacred Slayer-Matoi Sumeragi 

Matchless RaijinOh

Maoyu- Maou 

Mawaru Penguindrum

Mayo Chiki- Kanade Suzutsuki

Mayoi Neko Overrun-Nozomi Kiriya 

Mayonaka Punch-Live

Mazica Party

Medabots 

Meiji Gekken-Senri Kuroki 

Meiji Tokyo Renka-Mei Ayaziki

Medaka Box- Medaka Kurokami 

Megalo Box 

Megaman NT Warrior

Meganebu

Megaton Musashi-Arshem 

Mekakucity Actors

Melody of Oblivion 

Merc Storia

Mermaid Forest 

Metallic Rouge-Naomi Ortmann

MF Ghost-Ren Saionji 

Miami Guns- Yao Sakurakouji

Midnight Occult Civil Servants 

Midori Days- Midori Kasugano

Migi & Dali

Mikagura School Suite-Eruna Ichinomiya 

Mikan Enikki 

Million Arthur- Thief Arthur 

Million Doll 

Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club-Hiromi Maiharu

Minamike-Kana Minami 

Mingling With a Priest 

Mierukochan-Miko Yotsuya

Miracle Girls

Miss Caretaker of Sunoharasou-Ayaka Sunohara

Miss Bernard Said 

Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid-Tohru

Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department-Touka Kuroitsu, Akashic. Wolf Bete

Miss Monochrome 

Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost-Yuurei-chan

Mission: Yozakura Family 

Mitsuboshi Colors-Kotoha

Mitsudomoe-Aiko Kuriyama

Mix- Haruka Ooyama

MM-Arashiko Yuuno

Mob Psycho 100

Mobkara-Sylphy

Mobile Suit Gundam- Tieira Erde[Gundam 00], Lacus Clyne[Gundam Seed/Seed Destiny], Kudelia Aina Bernstein[Gundam IBO],China Kousaka[GBF],Romary Stone/Asuno[Gundum AGE]Mirai Kamiki[GBFT], Aya Fujisawa/Ayame[GBD], Shakti Kareen[MSVG], Suletta Mercury[MSG TWFM]

Modern Magic Made Simple-Koyomi Morishita 

Moetan-Ink Nijihara 

Mokke

Momo Kyun Sword-Momoko

Momokuri-Yuki Kurihara

Mon Colle Knights 

Monochrome Factor 

Monogatari- Tsubasa Hanekawa 

Monster

Monster Girl Doctor-Saphentite Neikes

Monster Hunter Stories

Monster Musume-Miia

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun-Chiyo Sakura 

Moonlight Mile

More Than a Married Couple But Not Lovers-Akari Watanabe 

Moriarty the Patriot 

Moribito-Balsa

Morita-san Wa Mukuchi 

Mouryou No Hako

Mouse

Morose Mononokean-Zenko Fujiwara

Mother of the Goddess’s Dormitory-Sutea Koroya

Mr Love

Mr Villain’s Day Off

Ms.Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles-Koizumi 

Ms. Vampire Who Lives in My Neighborhood- Sophie Twilight  

Muhyo & Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural Investigation  

Mushi Uta-Shiika Anmoto

Mushibugyo-Kuroageha

Mushishi

Mushoku Tensei-Roxy Migurdia 

Mushrambo

Muteki Kanban Musume-Megumi Kannazuki 

Mutenking The Dancing Hero 

Muv-Luv-Yui Takamura[MuvLuv Alternative Total Eclipse], Katia Waldheim[Shswarzesmarken], Sumika Kagamu[MuvLuv Alternative]

My Bride Is A Mermaid- Sun Seto

My Clueless First Friend-Akane Nishimura 

My Daemon

My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S Ranked Adventurer-Miriam

My Deer Friend Nokotan- Torako Koshi

My Dress Up Darling-Marin Kitagawa 

My First Girlfriend Is a Gal-Nene Fujinoki

My Girlfriend Is Shobitch-Akiho Kousaka

My Happy Marriage-Miyo Saimori 

My Hero Academia-Ochako Uraraka 

My Home Hero-Reika Tosu 

My Isekai Life-Dryad 

My Instant Death Ability is So Over Powered-Tomochika Dannoura

My Little Monster-Asako Netsume 

My Life as Inukai-san’s Dog-Usagi Tsukishiro 

My Love Story-Rinko Yamato

My Master Has No Tail-Mameda

My Mental Choices Are Completly Interfering With My School Romance Comedy-Ouka Yuuouji 

My Neighbour Seki

My New Boss is Goofy

My One Hit Kill Sister-Maya Ikusaba

My Roommate is a Cat

My Senpai is Annoying-Futaba Igarashi 

My Sister My Writer 

My Stepmom’s Daughter is My Ex-Yume Irido 

My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU- Yui Yuigahama

My Tiny Senpai-Shiori Katase 

My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even at Level 1-Emily Brown 

My Wife Has No Emotion 

My Wife Is The Student Council President-Ui Wakana

Myriad Colors Phantom World-Reina Izumi  

Myself Yourself-Aoi Oribe

Mysterious Disappearance 

Mysterious Girlfriend X- Mikoto Urabe

Mysterious Joker- Diamond Queen 

Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok-Mayura Daidouji

Mystic Archives Of Dantalian-Dalian 

Nabari No Ou-Raimei Shimizu

Nadia

Nagasarete Airantou- Suzu 

Nagi-Asu-Manaka Mukaido 

Najica Blitz Tactics- Lila 

Nakaimo-Konoe Tsuruma

Nanbaka-Momoko Hyakushiki

Nana-Nana Osaki 

Nana Maru San Batsu-Mari Fukami

Nanaka6/17-Nanaka Kirisato

Nanana’s Buried Treasure-Nanana Ryuugajou 

Nanatsuiro Drops-Sumomo Akihime 

Namu Amida Butsu

Narenare 

Naruto-Hinata Hyuga, Sumire Kakei(Boruto)

Natsu No Arashi-Yayoi Fushimi

Natsuiro Kiseki –Yuka Hanaki

Natsume's Book Of Friends- Jun Sasada

NazeBoku 

Nazotokine

Needless- Adam Blade, Eve Neuschwanstein

Negima-Nodoka Miyazaki, Karin Yuuki[UQ Holder]

Nekogami Yaoyorozu-Mayu

Nekopara-Chocola

Neo Ranga

Neon Genesis Evengelion

Near Death!! Ekoda-chan 

Netsuzou Trap

Neuro: Supernatural Detective- Yako Katsuragi 

New Game-Aoba Suzukaze

Nier Automata Ver1.1a-2B 

Nichijou

Night Head 2041

Night Head Genesis 

Night Raid 1931-Yukina Sonogi 

Night Wizard 

Nijiiro Days 

Nil Admirari no Tenbin- Tsugumi Kuze

Ningen Fushin-Curran

Ninjala-Lucy

Ninja Kamui 

Ninja Girl And Samurai Master 

Ninja Nonsense- Shinobu,Miyabi

Ninja Scroll

Ninja Slayer From Animation 

Nisekoi- Kosaki Onodera

No Game No Life- Sora,Shiro

No Guns Life-Mary Steinberg

No Longer Allowed in Another World-Tama

Noblesse- Seira J. Loyard

Nobunagun- Shio Ogura 

Nobunaga Conserto 

Nobunaga-sensei no Osanazuma

Nobunaga The Fool- Jeanne Kaguya D'Arc/Ranmaru Mori

Nodame Cantabile-Megumi Noda

Noein

Nogizaka Haruka No Himitsu-Haruka Nogizaka 

Non Non Biyori-Komari Koshigaya

Nora, Princess and Stray Cat

Noragami-Hiyori Iki,Yato

Norn9-Koharu

Nourin-Ringo Kinoshita/Yuka Kusakabe 

Now and Then Here and There

Number24

Null Peta

Nura: Rise Of The Yokai Clan- Tsurara Oikawa/Yuki Onna

Nurse Angel Ririka SOS 

Nurse Witch Komugi-chan-Kokona Saionji[NWK R]

Nyaruko-Nyaruko

Nyan Koi-Kaede Mizuno 

Nyanko Days

O Maidens in Your Savage Season-HItoha Hongou 

Oblivion Battery 

Occult Academy-Maya Kumashiro 

Occult:Nine-Ryoka Narusawa 

Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga-Ichiko Oda 

Odd Taxi

Ojisan And Marshmallow 

Okami-san And Her Seven Companions- Ryoko Okami

Okami Kakushi-Nemuru Kushinda

Okoshiyasu Chitose-chan

Okusama Wa Joshikousei-Asami Onohara

Omae wa Mada Gunma wo Shiranai

Omamori Himari-Himari Noihara

Omiai Aite wa Oshiego Tsuyoki na Mondaiji

One Outs

One Punch Man 

One Piece-Carrot,Yamato

One Week Friends-Kaori Fujimiya 

Onee-Chan Wa Kita

Onihei

Ongaku Shoujo- Hanako Yamadaki 

Onmyouji 

Onsen Yousei Hakone-chan 

Oooku 

Ooya-san Wa Shishunki 

Oreimo- Ruri Goko/Kuroneko

Orenchi No Fueo Jijo

OreSuki- Aoi Hinata

Oreshura-Himeka Akishino

Orient-Tsugumo Hattori 

Oruchuban Ebichu

Otome Youkai Zakuro-Susukihotaru 

One Room

OniiAi-Akiko Himenokouji

Onimai-Mahiro Oyama

Onigiri

Opus Colors 

Orange-Naho Takamiya

Osake wa Fuufu ni Natte Kara

Osamake-Kuroha Shida

Oshi no Ko-Kana Arima

Osomatsu-kun-Totoko

Otaku Elf-Koito Koganei

Otherside Picnic-Sorao Kamikoshi 

Otogi Juushi Akazukin 

Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru 

Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World-Mismis Klass 

Ouran High School Host Club- Kyoya Otari

Outbreak Company-Myucel Foaran 

Outburst Dreamer Boy-Mizuki Hijiri 

Outlaw Star-Melfina 

Our Home's Fox Deity-Misaki Sakura

Over Drive

Overdrive Girl 1/6-Nona 

Overlord-Albedo

Overtake-Alice Mitsuzawa

Ozmafia

Pan De Peace

Pandora Hearts- Alice

Pandora In The Crimson Shell-Clarion 

Pani Poni Dash-Himeko Katagiri

Parallel World Pharmacy- Charlotte “Lotte” Soller 

Paradise Kiss-Yukari “Caroline” Hayasaka

Paranoia Agent 

PaRappa the Rapper

Pastel Memories  

Panty And Stocking, Panty, Stocking 

Paradox Live

Parasyte-Satomi Murano

Peacemaker Kurogane-Saya

Peach Boy Riverside-Sally/Saltherine Aldarake

Peeping Life TV

Penguin Musume- Sakura “Penguin” Nankyoku

Persona 4 The Animation- Yu Narukami

Persona 5 The Animation-Futaba Sakura 

Persona:Trinity Soul-Kanaru Morimoto

Pet 

Pet Girl Of Sakurasou- Mashiro Shiina 

Peter Grill and The Philosopher’s Time 

Phantasy Star Online 2 -Rina Izumi[PSO2 TA], Melrandia[PSO2 EO]

Phantom: Requiem For The Phantom- Zwei/ Reiji Azuma, Ein/Eren

Phantom of the Idol-Asahi Mogami 

[thekaijudude]

Who would you say the closest matchup to my version of Destoroyah is, in the canon of the Ultraman Series? Additionally, how would a battle between the two of them go?

Keep in mind that my Destoroyah is an absolute beast. For example:

—My Godzilla’s base form’s Nuclear Supernova Blast has a temperature range from 110 Trillion Degrees Celsius to 185 Trillion Degrees Celsius and is about 106 times more powerful than his default Atomic Breath in the same form, and my Destoroyah walked through the Nuclear Supernova Blast with no visible burns or other damage.

—My Destoroyah took on Ultraman Milave, Ultraman Vylcan, my Godzilla, my Gamera, my King Kong, my Gojirin, my Mothra, Marinojira, Finago, and Gomohlra all at once and was an equal to them collectively.

——That’s 8 Kaiju (5 of whom are around Ultra Brother level in strength and power, 1 who’s just below Super Taro level, 1 who’s as strong as an Ultra Brother but without any energy attacks, and 1 who is, in my AU, strong enough to fight an average New Gen Ultra, provided they stay in base form), Milave (who is on a level slightly above Super Taro), and Vylcan (who’s base form power is on par with Milave and possesses natural Energy Amplification abilities (which he can use on his own attacks or the attacks of others, including both physical and energy attacks (also, keep in mind that when Vylcan uses these abilities, he does not drain his time limit any more than if he does not use them)).

Btw, I’m letting you decide the opponent for a reason: I have no idea who could stand against my Destoroyah in canon without either curbstomp him or being defeated by him.

Anyway, as always, I’ve sent you my Destoroyah’s abilities as reference, as well as his stats and his forms (though, in this case, we’re focused on his Perfect form).

I mean based on what you've said, the highlight would be him going against 2x Super Taro ultras

Thus far in canon, we haven't even seen anyone being able to fight on par with even Super Taro itself so I have no idea

If u wanna insist on having a closest comparison, it'll have to be Gua Spectre, Grimude, U-Killersaurus Neo, Giga Chimera, Grand King, UDK, but the latter 2 got absolutely destroyed by Super Taro (the latter didn't even face off the "real" Super Taro in canon) and we don't exactly know how strong the former 4 are (We only know that theyre weaker but the degree of which is not known)

If u wanna go off by non-canon, it'll then be the pachinko version of UDK, especially in Season 2 with his other upgrade forms being Shadow, Might and Delta (see ultrawiki for more details)

If u wanna include theoretical beings, Super Grand King (Original, without Dark Spark's manipulation) and Super Grand King Spectre (If he didn't lose Juda Spectre's influence)

But if u want to have a cap on Yr OC, Belial and Ken (even pre Ultra Great War) would stomp him, much less the Legendary Ultras

Ye this is kind of a hard qn to answer specifically because as said before, its hard to appreciate the scaling of beings beyond New Gen/Ultra Brother level like the high tier fusions, Great War Era Ultras and the Legendary Ultras because they are in tiers extremely far apart from one another, such that they mostly stomp their opponents when they appear

Thanks for the question!

[sunaddicted]

Villainous Tunes

Item #6 of the Scavenger Hunt 2020: Pick five villains from the James Bond universe. What songs do they use for a dramatic entrance?

Dr. Julius No

No by Meghan Trainor

My name is no

My sign is no

My number is no

You need to let it go

You need to let it go

Need to let it go

Nah to the ah to the, no, no, no

As our esteemed colleague's name suggests, Dr No's favourite word is... no. From refusing to speak under torture (why would he go all the trouble to steal coin from the Tongs only to tell them where he has hidden it?) to getting rejected by superpowers who couldn't see his genius (US and Soviet Union, I'm looking at you), the only constant in his life has been that tiny, magic word that can either bring to life relief, despair, anger - all the emotions on the human emotive spectrum. This is a villain who wants to be left alone in peace to do his thing, winning himself the title of SPECTRE Most Reclusive Villain To Ever Do Villainy.

Le Chiffre

Bitch Better Have My Money by Rihanna

Bitch better have my money!

Y'all should know me well enough

Bitch better have my money!

Please don't call me on my bluff

Pay me what you owe me

Die Nummer, Mr Number, Herr Ziffer, The Number, The Numeral, The Figure, The Cipher, The Code... you get the gist! Le Chiffre is known for one thing and one thing only: he makes the coin go around in the villainous world and you better have the money you owe him because otherwise he will bust your balls (literally, ask a certain 007 for confirmation) for putting his ass on the line. Despite his villainous ties, Le Chiffre considers himself to be a stateless man with no real allegiance: he follows the money trail, gambling for his life here and there, in order to get to the grand prize - afterall, money might not make a man happy but cash sure does help a long way and have you seen his suits? This man is high maintenance.

Dominic Greene

Coup d'ètat by G-Dragon ft Baauer, Diplo

The revolution will not be televised

The revolution is in your mind

The revolution is here

This is my coup d'etat

Do you need a government overthrown? Everybody knows that Dominic Greene is the man for the job - suspended in a limbo made up of shadows and intrigue, this apparently unassuming guy who hides behind his eco-green company has all the necessary connections to seize a government and overthrow it in the blink of an eye. Sophistication is his second name, you won't see him doing anything as crass as exchanging information in a dumpster: you'll get an invitation to his yacht where you'll be plied with champagne, hors d'oeuvres, company that's already been paid for and if things go bad... well, the sharks will be happy for the free meal courtesy of Quantum.

Max Denbigh

Drones by MUSE

Your mind is just a program

And I'm the virus

I'm changing the station

I'll improve your thresholds

I'll turn you into a super drone (super drone)

And you will kill on my command

And I won't be responsible

A specialist at infiltration, C has reached the highest levels and gotten his ass sat on a nice, plush chair at the JIS - the Joint Intelligence Services which, in case you missed the villainous newsletter sent out bi-monthly by SPECTRE, he is the head of. Creator of Nine Eyes, Glorious Vanquisher of the Double-Oh Section and King of Insults (M stands for "moron", afterall ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), Max Denbigh has the world at his fingertips and he is not wary of using violence when needed to make some people change their silly opinions. All done very tastefully, of course: he tells SPECTRE what needs to be done and the agency puts agents on the target because C will not dirty his own hands - manicures are expensive, don't you all know that?

Raoul Silva

Mama by My Chemical Romance

Mama, we're all full of lies

Mama, we're meant for the flies

And right now they're building a coffin your size

Mama, we're all full of lies

Think on your sins. Raoul Silva is the embodiment of revenge, wrapped up in silk and sugary rum - the memento for anyone out there that the line between do-gooders and villains is a very thin one, easily broken by betrayal. Island lover, bursting with mommy issues(TM) and with a thing for men who could break a gun in a half with bare hands (or destroy a 9 million pounds worth car with a flick of his wrist), Raoul Silva terrorises the world with his hacking skills far superior to those of the Quartermaster (especially that of young, spotty ones who should know better than plugging an enemy's laptop to the mainframe) and his thirst for revenge which can only be sated by blood spilled beneath his fingers.

+ Bonus Villain: sunaddicted

Sunburn by MUSE

She burns like the sun, and I can't look away

She'll burn our horizons, make no mistake

This is simply because I'm a villain and I deserve my own villainous tune duh. Resident Villains Lover, Angst Provider and Token Italian of the Fandom, I'm here to make you tremble at the sight of my fanfictions tags *insert evil laugh here*

[vore-scientist]

Story Time

[SFW GT M/f platonic vore fluff]

A MINI TALE OF THE MYSTIC WOODS

A nice fluffy story with the half-giant wizard Yonah and Her Highness The Princess Sophia!

Summary: Some nice playful interaction ending with story time! I imagine it’s really nice to be read books while sitting in a stomach.

Warnings: uhhh very brief off-hand mention of se.x at the start of the story?? Unrelated to the vore, which is at the end of the story. Otherwise this is completely innocent and SUPER fluffy.

Enjoy! and if you like this story please give me feedback/reblog it to spread it around!

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The princess Sophia sat in her suspended bed in a massive golden cage, gently rocking to and frow. She had propped up her pillows and was reading a very good book. The 8th book in the Stars Without Number series: a science fiction epic. Living in a fantasy world tended to make one crave stories of grand technology and other worlds out in the great expanse of space.

It was a little annoying to have a half giant wizard sitting on his bedroom floor staring at you. He’d just got back from a trip to Myran, his beloved’s, witch hut. Since she hadn’t been taken along she’d assumed they were gonna get it on, but apparently all he did was borrow some special type of magic spoon that he needed for a potion.

Now he sat, looking like a hungry puppy except she was the one in a cage.

“I know what you’re thinking,” Sophia said, not even glancing at him, turning a page in the book.

“Oh?” Yonah said, his eyes literally sparkling.

She put the book to her side and turned to her friend.

“You’re thinking I’m the most adorable thing you’ve ever seen,” she smiled, “and you want to eat me.”

“Guilty as charged, princess,” he reached to open the cage door but Sophia chided him.

“I’m quite enjoying this book, Yonah. You can eat me after I finish this chapter.”

He still opened the door, and lay down to look through it as she picked up her book once more.

She was absolutely right. She was the most adorable human in existence. Well… Her younger sister Molly was also extremely adorable. Probably a smidge more. But Molly wasn’t here. And he couldn’t eat Molly.

He did not mind waiting. Just being with Sophia in silence was so pleasant he was in danger of falling asleep. But he did not, as he was also excited to eat her. She was in fact, his favorite snack, and wouldn’t dare let himself miss out.

Minutes passed. Ten minutes passed. Twenty. She was not that slow a reader. He rolled over to look at her better.

Sophia was still reading but as her eyes flicked to him briefly she was clearly holding back giggles. She flipped the page and he could see, even though it was miniscule for him, an obvious first page of a new chapter.

“You’re a brat!” he said, sitting up and snatching her out of the cage, she dropped the book.

“In my defense it’s a really good book!”

He hugged her to his face, drinking in her smell. A smell he could never ever tire of. However it was not time yet to eat her. Tasting came first. He kissed her, her stomach, her arms, her face; to get small bursts of flavor.

The princess, though sad to pause her reading, was delighted by the affection. She loved to be squished against his scruffy cheeks. His goatee, which was he kept in perfect evil fashion, was soft, comparably, as were his sideburns. It scratched a little, but that was ok. The effect was like she was being kissed by a large dog. 

Kissing turned to licking. At first he would flick out his tongue when he’d kiss a particularly ticklish spot. Her side and her neck being the prime spots. Soon the ratio flipped, and then there were barely any kisses, but Sophia was happy for a tongue bath. Yonah’s tongue was soft and warm, like a solid wave of tropical water.

Licking turned to nibbling. Very gently biting her side, just enough to make her laugh or squeak. With his tongue he would get an arm or leg in his mouth, hold it between his teeth, delicately almost grinding back and forth. An odd massage to be sure, and dangerous, but Yonah was practiced and Sophia would get his attention if need be.

At one point, when her left arm was trapped between molars, she reached out with her right and stroked one of his fangs. Yonah opened his mouth in a wide smile; releasing her arm, so she could admire his teeth properly. Slick with drool, but there was texture to the distinctly giant-folk canines; much longer and larger than a human’s. not that sharp, she couldn’t accidentally prick her finger on them. And even if she could, she wasn’t the king of princess with a “pricking the finger” curse.

For all his size, he looked so human, until he opened his mouth. Until he smiled. She did like his smile.

Finally the giant seemed satisfied and hungry. Only he didn’t get the vial of glass paste.

Holding the princess to his chest he reached back into the cage, in his fingers was the book. It was very small in his hands but he held it up to his face.

“What were you reading?” he asked, even though he could read the large print title.

“Stars Without Number Book 8: To Infinity and Beyond” Sophia said, leaning against her giant’s soft, warm body. She could hear his heart, feel it, strong and steady. /Soon/ she thought. /Soon I will be tucked away inside him just like his heart/

“Oh! I own that one in giant size!” he said, putting it back and standing up, still one hand on the princess. She smiled and had a good feeling about where this was going. “It’s barely noon, if you don’t want to nap I could read to you.”

“I would love that!” Sophia crawled up to Yonah’s shoulder as he headed to the living room.

The walls weren’t lined with bookshelves, though Sophia thought they should. Didn’t seem very  hermited wizard-esq to have so much empty wall space, or enchanted windows. Course, a lot of his books were smallfolk size. His collection of properly scaled books was extensive, and still could have filled up 5 or 6 shelves.

He had three. One for fiction. One for non-fiction. One for magazines. The book they wanted was fiction.

Currently the shelf displayed a bunch of alternate history books, on all four levels.

“I think… it was over here…” he put two fingers on the rightmost book of the 3rd shelf and swiped to the left. With a swish the books slid away, into the solid wood, but were followed by new books!

“No…” he swiped again.

“Oh wait, wrong level,” he repeated the motion on the fourth level.

“Got it!” he took it off the shelf, changed all the levels to display science fiction, and went to his armchair, placing the book on the coffee table.

“Now where were we?” he asked in a perfectly innocent tone, holding his hand out.

Sophia stepped into the waiting palm and sat down, facing Yonah. His eyes were bright and sparkling with anticipation. And deep affection. Such large brown eyes, very similar to her own, though hers had a little more green in them. She reached out a hand to stroke his nose with the back of her hand.

And he brought up his other hand, which held the vial of paste. A small drop, barely pea sized, was dabbed onto her forehead.

He kissed her middle one more time and whispered the spell, closing his eyes as she poofed into glass.

Then he opened his mouth and she crawled right in. The glass limbs were so much heavier than flesh and had a completely different texture.

Yonah used his tongue to help her to the back of his throat, at which point he tipped his head back. Before swallowing he took a deep breath, preparation for Sophia blocking his airways. Thankfully she was petit and gravity helped get her past his collar long before he would worry about suffocating. He held a hand to his throat to feel her slip down. Tracing her progress with his fingers, Sophia fell away. Becoming his.

The weight settled in his now full stomach, and he placed a hand over the spot.

“Mmmmmmmmmm” he sighed and closed his eyes, just focusing on Sophia as she got comfortable, pushing against his insides in the most pleasant manner.

As soon as her hands and face entered the chamber The princess cast a dim grey light. The darkness was just a bit to total and she wasn’t planning on sleeping. The beams danced across the curves of flesh that flexed and rolled.

Most folks tried to avoid ever seeing such a place. Or made it their mission in life to make sure no one else did, as it was technically a chamber that only promised a painful death unless the giant who owned it was merciful. Not that most folks eaten would have light with them. But to Sophia it was a welcome and familiar scene. Her personal hide-away.

And she placed her hands at the sides of the pharynx to push herself into the wizard’s stomach.

She mushed around like a cat for a while, longer than she needed to since she knew Yonah liked it. Before flopping down and stretching out, her joints making musical crinkle tinkles. The flesh embraced her and cuddled her, the pulse beneath almost talking to her, telling her to relax.

Yonah’s quiet voice rumbled down.

“What chapter were you on?” The chamber shifted as the giant reached for the book.

“Uhhhhh 8!” She said. It was 8 or 9 so she lowballed it.

Yonah wiggled, settling back into his chair in a similar manner to Sophia in his stomach. Just sitting up. And not in a stomach. His new position meant his gut was more squished, and Sophia was more squished! Little giggles came from his middle.

How delightful!  

“Ok,” he said, giving his stomach a nice rub and relishing the reciprocated action, “Chapter 8: Spectre of the Gun. The scene was typical. A desert planet. A small town. High noon. Two cyborg gunslingers. And our intrepid band of adventurers nowhere to be found, just a weird pillar of smoke several kilometres to the west…”

Ah. She had been on chapter 9. But she did not say anything, and just let the words wash over her.

What a perfect way to spend a lazy day.

[FIN]

[Thanks for reading! please reblog! for more mystic woods go to vore-scientist.tumblr.com/tagged/mystic+woods+story or search ‘mystic woods story’ on my blog! For thief stories only search “MW Thieves”]

[princesscatherinemiddleton]

Top 15 (and a half) best gowns worn by the Duchess of Cambrige

This is the big one, all you cool cats and kittens! Sit back and enjoy @claireofluxembourg @lizisbackbackagain @anna8910 @queensonjas​

15. Pale Blue Chiffon Jenny Packham Gown (2017) / Ice Blue Beaded Jenny Packham Gown (2017)

These are actually the same dress. Jk, they are clearly, like, 12% different. But they end up sharing a spot because my opinions towards them are the same. For the Spectre gown, I adore the back. I love it and it’s different for Kate. I love the jewelled belt and Kate should always wear chiffon skirts. Also, her hair choice is phenomenal. The bodice, however, is ugly af. As for the Paris dress, ths is what an Elsa moment should be, Kate, not that monstrosity you wore to the Royal Variety Performance. The more I look at it, the more it looks like an alien but I can accept that and so must you.

14. Black Velvet Alexander McQueen Dress (2019)

I do remember saying I hate velvet. It was a defining factor in many of my worst dressed looks. HOWEVER, this one... isn’t as bad. The black goes so well with the sash and the order (and makes such a good change from the white and off-white dresses the Queen and Camilla wear to fancy events). The neckline is unusual for Kate and help show off that necklace. The dress is interesting on it’s own and simple enough to let the jewels and orders shine through.

13. Patterned Alexander McQueen Gown (2017/2019)

I really love this dress. I know everyone hates it but I think it’s super cute and it suits Kate. It’s off the shoulder, which she doesn’t normally go for, and the tiered skirt is something only Kate could pull off. I definitely prefer it here to the adjusted version she wore to the 2019 Portrait Gala, where the sleeves lost some of the dress’s sparkle for me. With the big hair and big earrings, this is a winning look.

12. Beulah London Sarai Gown in Red (2011)

Kate has almost this exact gown and it’s on my worst dress list. Wild. This one is just better. Firetruck red is Kate’s colour and this was such a good look. The fact the dress is one block colour allows for the silhouette of the dress - which was lost on the version she wore in Bhutan - to shine through. Also, she doesn’t wear her hair down with gowns anywhere near enough any more.

11.  Barbara Casasola Tribal Dress (2016/2019)

You know I said she doesn’t wear off the shoulder gowns? I take it back. This is a wild card choice for Kate but it’s a good one. It’s fancy enough to wear to a gala event and also simple enough for a more low key engagement. I love the fact it’s a knit dress - the design wouldn’t work if it was a thinner fabric - and fluted silhouette in the skirt. (I also preferred the shoes she wore in 2016 to these but this is best gowns, not best shoes).

10. Marchesa Blush Pink Gown (2017)

One day, we’ll see this dress and HD and I’ll decide I hate it. Until then, it makes my top 10. It has the plungiest neckline Catherine Elizabeth is ever likely to wear. It looks like a bridal gown but in pink. The sleeves are weird but also old timey regal so I like them. I love the low back. It’s such a princess dress. This is a princess’s renaissance dress. If this was a movie, she’d ride away from palace raiders on a horse in this dress. Alas, it’s not.

9. Red Jenny Packham Sequinned Gown (2015/2016)

Sometimes I remember the fact we have good photos of Kate in this dress with the Lotus Flower tiara and I want to die of happiness. It’s such a simple dress but perfect for those occasions when she actually has to look like a princess. It’s got a chiffon skirt, a belted waistline, those super cute mini-sleeves... what’s not to love? Again, Kate should wear bright red more often.

8. Lilac Jenny Packham Gown (2011)

IT’S SO LOW. I was obsessed with this dress for years. When I imagined myself going to the BAFTAs, it was in this dress (or this dress but in yellow?). After her wedding, she wore so many ugly outfits and then turned up in LA, surrounded by the A List of A Listers, in this. It’s pastel, it’s chiffon, it’s perfect. I also think it would look better without the slightly dodgy tan Kate picked up.

7. Erdem Floral Gown (2015)

I LOVE THIS DRESS SO MUCH WHY DOES EVERYONE HATE IT? It has everything that Erdem normally does wrong. Print, ruffles, a tiered skirt. It’s big, it’s colourful. And yet, for once, it works. The colours complement each other and the tiered skirt starts at a reasonable place on the leg. The bottom ruffle isn’t too big or too small, and the whole effect gives the dress such a nice shape. Please wear this again.

6. Jenny Packham Cinderella Dress (2018)

Kate is at her best in pure princess style and this is a pure princess dress. It’s simple, it’s icy pale, there are sequins. The translucent netting sleeves are a lovely touch and elevate this dress from good to great. The overlay stands out from the fabric, despite being a similar shade. Her order looks good on it and the silhouette of the dress makes her look 8 feet tall.

5. Self-Portrait Crochet Gown (2017)

This was my favourite dress for a long time. I adore it. I love the crochet-style bodice. It makes a nice change from lace but it still in the same area. The skirt is flowing (my favourite type) and that leg slit actually killed me. Catherine Elizabeth has legs that go on for days and she needs to show them off more. Also, fight me, but I love the deep red accessories. They go well with the pure whiteness of the dress. If I ever get invited to a semi-formal event, watch me wear this dress.

4. Alexander McQueen Caped Gown (2018)

The fact this is only number 4 breaks my heart a bit. This dress is faultless. The sheer cape, the chiffon skirt, the embellishments around the neck... flawless. The arm candy that is King Harald V... cannot be improved. The fact she’s getting on for 7 months pregnant here... iconic. This was the look a goddess would wear when she came down from the heavens to survey the brutality of man. She straight up floated throughout Oslo wearing this dress. I will forever be bitter she’s not wearing a tiara.

3. Alexander McQueen Off-the-shoulder Gown (2017)

Does this even count as a gown? I don’t know and I don’t care because it’s possibly the best thing Kate’s ever worn. It’s off-the-shoulder (I guess she does wear off-the-shoulder gowns occasionally), there are ruffles (which, apparently, I do like), it’s red. Kate’s hair looks phenomenal here. I love that the dress cinches in at the waist. I love that the fabric looks so soft. I love that it’s ankle length and showing off those cute af shoes. The fact she wore this dress to Carole’s 60th means she loves it too and that makes me happy. I dream of this dress.

2. Jenny Packham Sequinned Blush Gown (2011/2016)

This dress is a sparkly masterpiece. It’s so delicate, it looks like it might break at the simplest touch. It makes Kate look like some kind of woodland elf. I loved in 2011 but I adored it in 2016. Her hair is a work of art and against the greenery of the grounds, she looks like an angel sent from heaven. I love the waist and how it gives the dress (which is essentially straight) a gentle, architectural silhouette. This is a Disney princess dress.

1. Alexander McQueen One-Shoulder Gown (2019)

I still can’t believe a genuine Grecian goddess turned up at the BAFTAs in 2019. Kate was an absolute vision. The one-shoulder thing is not normally a Kate style but maybe it should be? The flowers are big and dramatic compared to the simplicity of the gown, but also simple and delicate in the grand scheme of things. This kdress moved so well when Kate walked. I love the shape of the dress, I love the flow of the skirt, I love the way it billows out behind her. The lack of necklace allows the strength of the shoulder to shine. It’s simple. It’s pure. It’s perfection.

[peppersandcats]

Flash stuff, comics and TV

So, I am finally up-to-date on The Flash in both comics and TV format, and I have some thoughts. The comics ones are mostly in the “oh come on are we expected to buy this, clearly you are aiming for that” vein, and the TV show ones are very mild and possible super-obvious, but since both deal with what both what is happening and what I think is going to happen, both might be spoilers so I’m putting them under a cut.

To be clear: please do not tell me anything about these assumptions that does not come from existing text. So for example:

“but in issue 76 we saw X” or “in episode 6 of this season Y happened, so we might get Z fallout” is totally fine. Yay analysis! Would love to hear from you!

“in the comics X happens, so that might mean Y for the TV show” is also cool.

“the comics writer said he’s aiming for X” or “a casting decision has been made so we know Y is still showing up/is not on the show anymore after this point” is really not fine please do not tell me that. I do not want to hear it. Thank you.

Also: discusses possible upcoming character death. I know some people would rather not see that, so mentioning it now.

With that in mind, here are my “I am okay with being wrong about this, but I bet this’ll happen” thoughts:

Comics

Oh, comics. Len has apparently turned into a vicious blowhard, Lisa is picking a fight with him, evil King Cold rules over Central, all is lost, no-one is paying me enough to pick up extra titles from DC to find out what all space and time being broken means, dour, dour, grim.

With that in mind, I have a possibly-more-cheerful read on current Snart events than the one initially presented. I’m going to keep in mind Len’s mention of the Rogues going with Lisa’s plan (issue 78 “Without my sister, the whole plan is on hold.”; issue 79 “This isn’t Lex’s plan. It’s not even my plan. It’s your plan.”), and assume that that was true.

This means that I think (hope) that what they’re going for is a long con. That the Snarts are running with a plan where Len plays bad guy to Central City, Lisa tries to convince Barry to use mega-uncontrollable Speed Force power against Luthor by pitching it as "save my brother he's gone bad", and the end goal is that the world-breaking nonsense and Luthor both get taken down while the Rogues get to keep all the shiny new tech in a world that isn’t weirdly broken by evil.

The big thing that kept throwing me about the narrative presented to Barry is why is Len keeping Barry alive?

Because, look. Right now everyone thinks the Flash is dead (seriously, those guards in the throne room were absolutely thinking “jeez, boss, we’ve heard how the Flash died in your arms three times already this week”), and yeah, that’s good to keep Central hopeless. And Len is coming across as mean as hell. But then why hasn’t he really killed Barry? He’s not angling for the “I will build my reputation with a grand execution!”, because then he wouldn’t be talking up how he’d already killed the Flash. He might be keeping Barry alive just to torment him, but then there’d be no benefit to lying about how he’d killed him. Dude’s stuck in Ice Heights, not even the Trickster* can make a dent in that, it’s not like someone is going to mount a successful rescue.

*Please insert usual where-the-hell-does-he-get-those-wonderful-toys rant here, I’m sure you’ve heard it from me by now.

And if Len was building part of his power on the “I will crush Central City’s spirit by letting them know I have taken down the Flash!” foundation, then Lisa’s “oh no, we can’t let people know you’re alive” seems a bit odd.

So if I take a step back, what I see isn’t “Lisa has a heart of gold and is begging for the Flash’s help.” It’s not even “Lisa is vamping Barry and feeding him a sob story about how her brother has gone bad.”

What I see is “the Snarts have a secret plan that involves no-one knowing that the Flash is still alive, so it doesn’t get back to Lex Luthor. Right now the genius supervillain has a massive blind spot about the existence of a terrifying Speed Force bomb, and Lisa is collecting pieces of Mirror Master’s tech. Those are totally the kind of things you could combine to break Luthor’s secret reality-busting stronghold, which would enable you to get rid of him but still keep your super-cool empowering tech.”

And if Len and Lisa are in cahoots on this, the bombast makes a lot more sense. “My sister has been in hiding ever since I took over Central City... and she reveals herself by stealing from me?" is a performance for the benefit of the two-high level mooks who were following Len and could probably hear him through the open doorway. Giant ice-wolves aren’t anything to do with Lisa being scared of dogs when she was a kid (which didn’t really come across in her reaction to them anyway), they’re just really cool and the speech is Len hamming it up for whoever in his citadel is spying for Luthor.

(I mean. It’s Luthor. You’re working with Lex Luthor, you gotta assume.)

So, yeah. I’m still hoping we’ve got the Snarts running a very sensible long con, which combines the best aspects of “we are crooks who want cool stuff” and “we’re not evil, evil is dumb.” Fingers crossed.

TV

Okay, minor stuff, but I think I’ve finally decoded the symbols on the Monitor’s door!

I was assuming, pretty much, that these referenced the Justice League. The Flash in particular has been throwing in asides to the Justice League since its inception (everyone’s seen the mural at CCPD headquarters, right?), the last crossover involved a building that has people who don’t watch the show assuring me that it’s meant to evoke the Hall of Justice, one of the trailers mentioned seven heroes, here we have seven symbols, etc.

Left to right, I think these represent

Black Lightning - it’s not a logo, but the shape evokes the lightning streaks on the torso of his costume. This one was one I kept getting stuck on - I kept thinking “Trident! ...but it makes no sense for them to bring in Aquaman.” Then I went to catch up on Black Lightning a little and it clicked.

Canary - I honestly was thinking White Canary because I really want to see LOT involved, but Sara doesn’t wear a face mask. Therefore, probably need to go with Black Canary (who is a founding member in at least one version of continuity, lord knows which one, I have trouble keeping track)

Flash - that is, to me, obviously his cowl. Little bit coming down in the middle, little chin covering pointing up, wing-y bits on the ears, we’re good.

Martian Manhunter - this one I’m the least sure of, but given the options available, I think it has to be him. He’s totally a Justice League guy, and the hex with straps pointing up and down to the sides, echoes his costume torso.

Supergirl - again, I was staring at this for a while, completely lost, but now it looks to me like a really stylized ‘S’. If it was narrower on the bottom than on the top, it would look a lot like the family logo.

Batwoman - this is both a scarier-looking mask than the second image, and can be read as a figure spreading their wings to either side. (Huh, I suppose it might be Hawkgirl? But I’m betting on Batwoman. If I’m wrong, that’s okay! I have been wrong before)

Arrow. I mean, really, just Arrow. It’s an arrow-head. Arrow.

And I mean, I don’t necessarily think everyone’s going to survive through this. Oliver Queen in particular I think is going to die. Whether that means Roy or Mia steps up to try and become the Arrow, or whether they leave a seat empty at the table to honour Ollie’s sacrifice, I don’t know. But: Arrow in the JLA of the CW.

But.

Arrow is TV, but in a lot of ways it’s still comics. You know how it happens when people die in comics.

I think we might get to see Ollie as the Spectre.

It fits with the well-meaning darkness and the grim drive. It fits with the judgement of "you have failed this city". It fits with the green hood. The recent “hey, vigilantes working with the police” feel like it gives Ollie a sort of cop-if-you-look-at-him-sideways aura that makes him line up better with Jim Corrigan and Crispus Allen--hell, even Hal Jordan functionally comes across as a space-cop. Even Corrigan’s death thematically echoes Ollie’s first (presumed) death by drowning on the Queen’s Gambit.

I would like that. I have long loved the Spectre, and I would not be where I am as a DC TV fan--hell, as a DC fan--if Arrow hadn’t clicked with me.

I would like it if Oliver Queen, that grumpy control-freak secret-keeping self-righteous ass, could still be there on some level. He means a lot to me.

[mobius-prime]

154. Sonic Super Special #14

Law of the Land

Writer: Evan Skolnick and Jim Spivey Pencils: Suzanne Paddock and Harvo! Colors: Josh and Aimee Ray

This is more of a silly story, which, while the timeline isn't specified, I estimate to take place sometime before Eggman's return at the beginning of the era. This is due to the fact that it begins with Sonic and Sally strolling peacefully through the forest while discussing how nothing has been going on lately, a statement which is hugely at odds with what has been going on lately. Suddenly, a zone portal opens up in front of them, and two echidnas in riot gear burst through, slap Sally knocking her out, and grab Sonic while telling him he's under arrest for "extreme mental anguish and permanent emotional scarring," which if you ask me just sounds like an average day on Tumblr. They drag him through the portal into the city of Litigopolis, and take him to the castle, where the J.U.D.G.E. - the Judgmental Unrelenting Digitized Governmental Enforcer, which of course looks exactly like original Robotnik - is to sentence him for his apparent crimes. He's greeted by Johnny Snively, the prosecutor, but luckily for him his lawyer is Sally McAcorn, there to act as his defense. It takes them ten hours in court, but McAcorn eventually manages to get him out on bail, and explains how the law became so strict in the city.

Eventually, the amount of lawsuits and crimes became so high that the king hired Robotnik Enterprises to build the J.U.D.G.E., a supercomputer which was supposed to help manage the city's legal system. It of course quickly took over, sentenced the king to life in prison for "ruler malpractice," created a bunch of new, unreasonably strict laws to keep the populace fearful and complacent, and hired a bunch of echidnas as his security force. McAcorn tells Sonic that no one has tried to shut off the J.U.D.G.E. because of their fear of said security force, which is of course Sonic's cue to race away hoping to pull off just such a scheme. However, as expected, the moment he enters the J.U.D.G.E.'s HQ…

He runs for his life, deciding to abandon his attempt for now and racing back to safety at McAcorn's residence. She's irritated at his rash decision, thinking he's only made the case for his innocence worse, even though they now have video proof from amateur videographers on the streets that the original crime he was arrested for wasn't even committed by him.

Of course it would have been Evil Sonic, zone-hopper extraordinaire. McAcorn cautions Sonic against committing any more crimes, thinking it best to lay low as committing even one more crime might cause the J.U.D.G.E. to have a massive meltdown. And thus, Sonic gets his second crazy idea of the day.

The plan works, and the J.U.D.G.E. blows up, sending Snively flying out of the building. When Lieutenant Knuckles of the police force tries to show up to arrest Sonic once more, McAcorn simply whacks him with her suitcase. Sonic worries about how he'll get home, since the technology used to create the zone portals was destroyed in the explosion, but you know who always ends up showing up when zone-hopping takes place - Zonic, of course! He cheekily sends Sonic back off to his home zone before he can get a grateful kiss from McAcorn, which is probably a good thing even though Sonic's mad about it, because… well, c'mon buddy, that may be a Sally, but that's not your Sally!

Best of Times Worst of Times

Writer: Ken Penders Pencils: Steven Butler Colors: Josh and Aimee Ray

So Knuckles' whole story has kind of been put on hold lately, due both to the cancellation of his own series, and the Sonic Adventure adaption that had been taking up all the screentime until recently. But Penders has finally found a solution to this: from now on, until the end of the fourth era (with only a few exceptions here and there between issues), Knuckles and his race get the backup story all to themselves. Karl handles most of the main stories of each issue, which all deal with Sonic and Knothole and, you know, the main thing most people are probably coming to the comic to see, while Penders gets to handle everything past each halfway mark. I would say this is mostly a good thing, as there's quite a few loose ends that need to be wrapped up from KtE, and y'all already know I quite liked that series. However, now that all of Knuckles and the other echidnas' ventures have been reduced to backup stories within the main comic, the quality of said stories begins to suffer drastically. This story is of the same quality of the original KtE, probably because it gets to be a normal story length thanks to the double length of Super Specials, but it also marks the beginning point of a pretty infamous arc within the comic, simply dubbed the Green Knuckles Saga by many fans. Wondering what the hell the Green Knuckles Saga might be? Well, we only have a few issues left before we find out - so for now, let's press on!

This story hilariously opens with an honest-to-god *record scratch* "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation" moment. A confused Knuckles finds himself running for his life from a massive, expanding orange blast of energy, which chases him all the way to the edge of his island. Having no other choice, he leaps for his life over the edge, into the ocean far below.

Well, that's probably not good. But how, indeed, did Knuckles *record scratch* get into this situation? It all began at his mother's wedding that morning. She and Wynmacher have finally gotten married, and while Knuckles is still a little torn about how to feel, ultimately he's happy for his mom, recognizing that Wynmacher really is a genuinely good guy.

Romance is in the air on this day, and Vector, predictably, has a bit of a sour attitude about it, flippantly dismissing the mood while Julie-Su happily hangs onto Knuckles' arm. They find Constable Remington in the crowd with his pretty companion Komi-Ko, but they don't get long to chat before he gets a call from the precinct, calling him back to deal with a brewing situation. While he leaves, telling Knuckles he'll call if he needs backup, we head over to Haven, where we find a very, very unexpected guest visiting.

Man, just when you thought Kenders had introduced enough grandfathers, we get one more! This guy is the father of Hawking, who if you'll remember is still lying in the medbay on life support in a coma. If you're wondering why we haven't heard of him before, it's because he apparently transcended his physical form a while ago so he could spend the rest of his "life" in quiet meditation in another zone, you know, as one does. However, just a little while ago he felt a disturbance in the Force, and realizing that Dimitri was amassing his forces for yet another attempt to take over the island and echidna civilization as a whole, Mathias just plopped himself back into the physical realm somehow so he could lead his many, many descendants into battle against the Dark Legion. I really just can't get over how this guy, never once mentioned or even hinted at before, has suddenly appeared out of goddamn nowhere to introduce the next plot hook. While this is going on, Knuckles, Julie-Su, and the rest of the Chaotix (still minus Charmy - he's really been missing for a long time now, hasn't he?) all saddle up on some streaking pashas and gallop out of the city to let off some steam. Really, now that the whole Chaos situation has been resolved, life seems positively idyllic on the Floating Island, doesn't it? After dropping Komi-Ko back off at her apartment, Remington hails a cab which just so happens to contain our old friend Harry, who is not at all happy to see him.

He tells Remington that apparently, General von Stryker has decided to organize a massive protest - meaning, since we're talking about the dingoes here, more like a riot - as apparently, conditions for the dingoes in the city still haven't improved, even despite Remington taking a personal interest. Remington is worried that with the High Council due to make a decision on the matter soon, things will quickly spiral out of control if the protest goes forward, and Harry apparently agrees, as he doesn't even demand payment for the cab ride, just telling Remington to forget he ever saw him there as Remington meets up with his men nearby. Meanwhile, we learn that Knuckles apparently didn't take everyone along on the pasha ride purely for leisure - he's in fact led them straight to the Grand Conservatory, the very place he first met Archimedes and fought Enerjak.

Well well, nice to see Julie-Su actually acknowledge the meeting she had with her adoptive father a while ago! Though it's certainly suspicious that he apparently just "disappeared" shortly thereafter… Now get ready for some rapid skipping around between characters! Knuckles isn't the only one who's come to the Grand Conservatory - Mathias has led the entire Brotherhood there, as it's apparently where the Dark Legion has holed up for now. Spectre rushes especially aggressively into the battle, with the others noting that this seems personal for him, and the entire Brotherhood teams up to begin the assault on the Legion's new makeshift base, causing them to begin an evacuation. Far away from here, Wynmacher and Lara-Le land in their personal aircraft on a landing pad at the "Albion Chalet," which despite its name is just a luxury destination on the Floating Island itself, for their honeymoon. At the same time, von Stryker leads his soldiers into their riot, firing their guns wildly into the air with the safeties off, shouting about how the echidnas aren't treating them nicely enough. Gee, I wonder why, General? Remington and his men arrive at the scene, and Remington orders everyone to hold fire, still hoping that he can convince the general to see reason. On Knuckles' side of the Conservatory, Legion members begin pouring into the room, and before Knuckles can react a group of soldiers grab Julie-Su and drag her off into one of their flying saucer vehicles, which flies away leaving the others unable to help her as they're attacked by more soldiers. And finally, back at Haven…

Man, I genuinely feel bad for Hawking - he was literally kept on life support this entire time, with obviously no hope of recovery, and he had to wait until everyone was out of the place to even be allowed to properly die. Remember, it's been nearly a year by now of him just lying on this table, with Locke even expending his own energies to keep Hawking alive at one point when he started to flatline. Julie-Su is taken to a large battleship flying just off the edge of the Floating Island, where Lien-Da gloats about capturing her and mockingly reminds her of how she's her half-sister, clearly still not over their father having remarried in the past. Geez, what a petty bitch, right?

Oh man, we finally get to see Simon again, as well as seeing Floren-Ca for the first time! Back on the bridge, Dimitri defends having had Julie-Su abducted to Moritori Rex, who has by now gotten rid of his visor to reveal perfectly normal-looking organic eyes (something which seems a little at odds with his previous backstory), saying that Julie-Su is still a part of his family whether Moritori likes it or not. Huh, didn't take you for the sentimental type, Dimitri. He then orders Moritori to fire the Quantum Beam, and it bursts out of the ship's cannons in an explosion of light, consuming every part of the Floating Island, interrupting every scene, happy and unhappy, over the entire island.

Goddamn. Honestly, this kind of reminds me of the scene from Sonic '06 where Solaris begins consuming all of time and space. Dimitri expresses regret that he had to pull the trigger with Knuckles still on the island, but ultimately recognizes that Knuckles only ever stood to get in their way, and claims that they can finally reclaim what is rightfully theirs. The ship flies off toward the island, which has begin to fade from existence as if into another dimension. No one is aware of Knuckles' survival, a lone figure floating unconscious on debris left in the waters far below…

[volixia669]

Y’know, the Environment art of The Lochs gives me HUGE, “A lot of content from the end was cut” vibes.

Well, technically Stormblood in general has huge, “We gave the team writing the Doman section priority over the Ala Mhigan team” because uh...The main cuts from the Doman section seem to have more to do with Yotsuyu’s plotline than anything else. The last battle is a bit rushed, but the whole Deus ex Destroy the Palace thing aids in making the assault more realistic.

As for Ala Mhigo...You finally get to Castrum Abania and we’re still trying to tie up the whole rescue Krile thing, while also going almost immediately to an All OUt Assault that should lead to the final battle against Zenos.

Except.

Ala Mhigo is a fucking FORTRESS. A fortress with two main weak points. A small wooden door on the side, and a small metal door on the side.

Additionally, the lochs have the Lochwatch and the Sothwatch, two watchtowers of strategic importance yet there’s not a single Imperial there.

In fact there’s NO imperials on the bridge which is...odd?

There’s also that area with Spectres and the tomb of a King which may have importance in a patch but seems...Forgotten.

As is the Royal Hunting Grounds, which I could have SWORN Zenos invited you to, and yet all we do is nab pheasant feathers?

It leads me to suspect that in the dev of Stormblood, a few things happened:

-The original plan was to explore more points within the Lochs and have a longer more drawn out siege/battle.

-Another Zenos fight scene? Some fucked up commentary on what he uses the hunting grounds for? Something?

-The original plan was for the Ala Mhigan campaign to show more horrors of war, and how brutal occupations are similar to Doma, and how the story starts. (Remember the guy who had to pay tribute to the Skulls? THe guy with the chocobo? Remember him?)

-These notes on what would be needed were sent to the environmental level designers who begun blocking out the areas with placeholder assets while the narrative was still being finalized

-The original narrative was deemed too long, the Doman narrative prefered, but between Ilberd’s narrative arc, and Yugiri’s narrative arc, they couldn’t just nix one or the other. So things got cut.

-Communication breakdown between Narrative and Environmental teams (it happens) occurs, and, well, by the time the super duper final version of the story is approved, well, between asset reuse, the fact most of it is just rocks, and other factors, the environment is mostly done.

-Also I think the UI team got the map and points in fairly early.

-So then Level Design just ends up making adjustments on where enemies are, etc, based on finalized narrative, and thus this odd feeling of “there should be more here”

This is of course just me guessing based on what I know of dev process. But yeah. It’s off. There’s stuff missing. Game dev be like that. Of course there’s things I forget from pre-my most recent hiatus and there’s still five patches I need to get through after this grand battle. So maybe more gets used! But its odd more doesn’t get used earlier.

[atari-generation-blog]

Top 10: Referencias en Futurama

Si hay algo que en Generación Atari amamos son las referencias culturales. Y Futurama está llena de ellas. Muchas referencias son a la ciencia ficción clásica, pero hay otras que son un poco más sutiles. Aquí te contamos cuáles son, según el Legendario Star Lord, las mejores de la serie.

10. Los títulos de los capítulos

No todos, pero sí muchos, títulos de capítulos son una referencia cultural. The Problem with Popplers, por ejemplo, es una referencia al episodio The Trouble with Tribbles de la archiconocida serie Star Trek, mientras que Brannigan, Begin Again (personalmente, mi capítulo favorito) es un referencia a Finnegans Wake, de James Joyce. Y no son los únicos: la película Bender’s Big Score es una referencia a Shaft; Bender’s Game homenajea a Orson Scott Card y Fry and the Slurm Factory es un guiño a la novela de Raold Dahl llevada al cine, primero por Mel Stuart y luego por Tim Burton.

9. El Planeta Robot

En el capítulo Fear of a Bot Planet, de la primera temporada (conocido en Latinoamérica como Temor a un Planeta Robot) la tripulación de la nave Planet Express llega a Chapek 9, un planeta habitado enteramente por robots que odian a los humanos. La referencia está en el nombre del planeta, basado en Karel Čapek (pronunciado Chapek), escritor de ciencia ficción quien fue el primero en usar el término robot.

8. El Holofónoro

Una especie de flauta que, al ser tocado, produce una serie de imágenes holográficas que van en armonía con la música. Está basado en el visisonor, instrumento que, en las novelas de la serie de Fundación, de Isaac Asimov, producía un efecto similar, pero a diferencia del aparecido en la serie creada por Matt Groening, el original produce la muerte a quien sea dirigido por su usuario, El Mulo, un villano que buscaba dominar a la Fundación.

7. Simon y Garfunkel

En el capítulo Bendin’ in the Wind, conocido por los latinos como Doblando en el Viento, Bender pierde la movilidad de sus extremidades y, estando en el hospital, conoce a Beck, quien lo lleva a una gira donde se presentan Cylon y Garfunkel, un dúo formado por un androide cylon (una referencia a Battlestar Galactica) y un descendiente de Garfunkel, del dúo original Simon & Garfunkel.

6. New Justice Team

El grupo de superhéroes formado por Captain Yesterday (Fry), Clobberella (Leela) y Super King, el mejor de todos (Bender) tiene un logotipo bastante similar al usado por la Justice League, de DC Comics.

5. Héroe de Ciencia Ficción

En el capítulo de la primera temporada When the Aliens Attack, Fry hace referencia a que será un héroe de ciencia ficción, como la teniente Uhura, la capitán Janeway o Xena. Las dos primeras corresponden al universo de Star Trek, interpretadas por Nichelle Nichols y Kate Mulgrew respectivamente, y la segunda es el personaje interpretado por Lucy Lawless en la clásica serie Xena, The Princess Warrior. En la traducción latina hay un error, ya que “la” capitán Janeway es llamada “el capitán Janeway”, pero cualquier fan de Star Trek Voyager no necesita que le expliquen la referencia.

4. Los personajes

Fry, Leela, Zapp Brannigan y Kif Kroker son las referencias a personajes del cine y la tv más claros. Fry se viste como James Dean, el protagonista de Rebel without a Cause; Leela aparece con una vestimenta similar a Jennifer Connelly en Career Opportunities, mientras que Zapp y Kif referencian a William Shatner y Leonard Nimoy, en sus papeles de Kirk y Spock, respectivamente.

3. Matar a un Ruiseñor

En el episodio A Taste of Freedom, el Dr. Zoidberg debe enfrentar un juicio por un crimen de odio, y es defendido por un abogado de una manera muy similar a la de los protagonistas de la novela de Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird.

Además, el nombre del capítulo es una referencia a A Taste of Armaggedon, capítulo de la serie original de Star Trek.

2. Democratic Order of Planets

En el capítulo Brannigan, Begin Again, el profesor Farnsworth explica que el DOOP (en español Orden Democrático de Planetas) es un símil de las Naciones Unidas de la época de Fry, el cual no entiende a qué se refiere hasta que Hermes Conrad, burócrata grado 36, le explica que es similar a la Federación Unida de Planetas, de Star Trek. Y obviamente, Fry entiende la referencia.

1. Donde Ningún Fan ha Ido Antes

Era casi obvio que, siendo una serie cuya mayor cantidad de referencias es a la ciencia ficción, el capítulo donde el elenco original de Star Trek (excepto James Dohan, quien odiaba el show, y DeForrest Kelley, ya fallecido) se presenta. Una religión fue creada en torno a la serie original, donde vimos que había una Christine Chapel (la Capilla Crístina) y Alemania cambió su nombre a “La Tierra del Planeta del Episodio del Planeta Nazi” (es decir Ekos, del episodio Patterns of ForceI). La religión fue prohibida y cerca del 2700, los integrantes del elenco original se exiliaron fuera del planeta Tierra, mientras que los 79 episodios y seis películas de una de las franquicias más grandes de la televisión estadounidense se abandonaron en el planeta Omega. Hasta aquí llegan Fry, Leela y Bender, donde se encuentran con una gran cantidad de decorados de la serie (capítulos The Gameters of Triskelion, The Spectre of the Gun, A Piece of the Action, Plato’s Stepchildren y The City on the Edge of Forever). Pero no se acaba ahí, porque se habla de Khan, del beso interracial, de batallas a muerte vistas es varios capítulos y de Melllvar, quien se llama a sí mismo el máximo fanático y recuerda mucho a Trelane, del capítulo The Squire of Gothos.

¿Cuáles son tus referencias favoritas? ¡Cuéntanos!

[gurdian-cocytus]

Overlord: Enri Enmott’s Bizzare Adventure

(This is NOT written by me. The original author is “Demiurge”. Although it is originally posted on Baidu, it has been moved to another site. The link is here. Now sit back and enjoy the tale of Enri going around the world kicking ass and taking names, all in the name of Ainz Ooal Gown!)

Chapter 1: Occupation

Enri Enmott. Once she was a simple village girl in Carne Village. Then one day, warriors from the Slane Theocracy disguised under the Empire’s banner massacred her village, all part of an assassination attempt on Gazef Stronaff, the kingdom’s famed warrior .

 Yet instead of the spectre of death, Enri encountered the one who will change the fate of the world, her village, and herself——Ainz Ooal Gown!

 Ainz healed her wounds, and gifted upon her the invaluable item “Horn of the Goblin General”. With it, Enri is able to summon a squad of 19 goblin warriors. As the village is short on manpower, the goblins provided much needed security and manpower.

 When the village was in need of defense, Ainz once again helped them, providing stone golems that are strong and incapable of exhaustion. With their help, the village built up walls and watchtowers, which became crucial in later events.

 As time goes, the goblins integrated and became an inseparable part of the village. Enri’s importance rises quickly, and she became the mayor. This event may be insignificant on a wordly scale, but Enri this is a momentous shift in her life.

 After taking in goblins and ogres from the forest and reinforcing their defenses, the village successfully repelled an attack from the forst monsters. Carne Village has become more than just a village, but a bastion where different races lived in harmony.

 When war broke out between the Kingdom and the Empire, Re-Etize’s first prince attacked Carne village. This proved to be a foolish endeavour. Enri’s goblin army wiped out the 5000-strong troop, while Lupusregina and the red hats killed whoever remained, including the first prince himself. Soon, rumours of “Enri the Bloody” spread all across E-Rantel.

 As the goblin army has grown to in the thousands, Carne Village is no longer able to support that many goblins. So Ainz, whose Sorcerous Kingdom has taken over E-Rantel, arranged for the goblin army to enter E-Rantel. This serves two purposes: to promote inter-racial harmony; and the food and resources the kingdom prepared for the war can be a nice reward to Enri, whose loyalty the the sorcerer king never wavered. What an act of supreme benevolence!

Today, the streets of E-Rantel is filled with people. Indeed, it seems most residents of the city has came out. For what reason you ask? Today is the day the city’s administrator——the Dark Hero Momon came to greet the goblin army from the sorcerous kingdom into the city.

Right now, Momon is standing in the middle of the main road, with his assistant Nabe the Beauty at his side. The reason why the event has such a big turnout is due to Momon’s words:”I heard this army of five thousand is commanded by a human, so perhaps we can coexist peacefully.” Therefore, almost all of E-Rantel has turned out for the event.

“If the commander is a human, surely she’ll be on Sir Momon’s side. Maybe the undead soldiers will leave.”

“Hard to say. Goblins aren’t that much better than undead...”

“I don’t care. As long as the undead are gone, I’ll take even an army of slimes!”

“Shush! Here they come!”

A goblin rider is galloping forward toward the city square. Even looking from a distance, one can tell this goblin is much stronger then your average goblins. It’s armour shimmered in the sun, obviously made of good materials.

Even though the army of five thousand has not arrived, this one knight is enough to impress the city’s residents, as well as the spies from various nations mixed in the crowd——Ainz Ooal Gown commands not only powerful undead and monsters, but also powerful creatures from all races!

“Sir Momon. I, captain Alvis of the riders’ corp, represents General Enri. General Enri is on her way here, per his majesty’s orders. As planned earlier, I will be introducing the regiments entering the city. If there is any changes to schedule, please tell me now. If not, then the entry ceremony will commence at once.”

Alvis did not came down from his winged wolf, and spoke to Momon still mounted. The crowd became unruly at this sight.

“How dare a goblin treat Sir Momon so rudely!”

“Hmmph, of course lowly races would know nothing of manners. Typical!”

Momon gestures everyone to be quiet, and the murmurs die down. Right now, Momon is almost divine in the hearts of E-Rantel’s citizens: a strong and gentle man who saved the city at its worst crisis.

“E-Rantel welcomes you, Sir Alvis. I hope his majesty’s army will treat his subjects amicably.”

“Our army is indeed commanded by General Enri of the sorcerous kingdom. Of course we will protect his majesty’s subjects with our lives, so you can be at ease, Sir Momon. Now, I shall signal the main army.

Alvis took out a small horn and blew into it. Soon, loud drumbeats can be heard outside the city.

While this is happening, Yuri Alpha and Lupusregina Beta are observing the proceedings from a hidden spot. Lupusregina is here because Ainz has awarded her with a day free after completing her mission protecting Carne village. Yuri is here at her sister’s request.

“Good things are better when shared.” is what Lupusregina said.

The two had disguised themselves, so they fit right in the crowd.

“As expected of Lord Ainz. He must’ve thought of this when he encountered the girlie. Even if he never directly said it, the fact that he gave the item to her should be clear enough.”

The two conversed quietly as the event begins. Having only observed the goblin army from afar once, Yuri is filled with curiosity.

The drum rolls come closer and closer, and from the horizon the leading regiment comes into sight. Gigantic boars carried great drums and drummers——they are the one thumping on the drums. Tribal tattoos covering the drummers’ bared upper bodies. With every move, the drummers’ muscles shakes and pulsates, showing off a wild, primal force of nature that puts everyone present in awe.

“First in the line is the goblin war band, under general Enri’s command. They may be few in number, but they are responsible for coordination on the battlefield.”

After the dozen members of the war band entered the city, a death knight led them away to their camping grounds. As the drum beats fade away, they were replaced by steady footsteps and clangs of armour. The sound is, to the surprise of many present, uniform and disciplined, further impressing the crowd.

“Now entering the city is out most populous regiment: the goblin armored corp. They can easily disperse the enemy army.”

Looking over the goblin army, one onlooker was reminded of his own war-torn motherland.

(If only our army has such strengths, we could’ve easily hold off our enemies. Maybe even take back lost territories...)

(...Maybe. It’s not like we didn’t spent a fortune on arming our forces each year, and yet...)

Following the armored corp came the cavalry. A rider riding a huge white wolf lead the troop, bathed in silvery holy light. Behind him are a group of riders similar to Alvis, alongside a group that looks similar to the paladin leader, albeit riding smaller wolf mounts. Following them are the regular cavalry.

“The cavalry consists of both holy light paladins and regular cavalry corp, which I belong. The paladins are few in numbers, but their strength is formidable.”

From the mayoral manor, Ainz is watching closely at the streets. Even with a long distance between him and the procession, his super-vision allows him to see clearly.

(I was wondering why Pandora is awfully excited after I ordered him to arrange Enri’s entry. I certainly didn’t ask for a military parade!)

Ainz felt his none-existent stomach aching again.

“Albedo, what are your thoughts on...this?”

“Even though goblins are lowly races, from the perspectives of humans I must say——this is a wonderful performance. Lord Ainz must’ve already foresaw the human girl’s talent from the beginning, so wise...I was indeed a fool back then. I am so very grateful to serve you.”

“Uh...no need to be hard on yourself, Albedo. I’m simply glad you can understand my plan.”

(Already foresaw my ass! I did everything but ‘foresaw’ this! I must say, that trash item actually spawned an army of goblins. Whoever made this is a sneaky one!)

he archers came after the cavalry. They wear red cloaks and carried huge bows that seem too heavy for a human to use. Their leader’s bow is especially huge, and even a physically fit human probably can’t lift it up.

“These are the goblin long bowmen. No one they set their eyes on has ever escaped. They can take lives from even hundreds of feet away.”

The goblins behind them wore long hooded robes and carries long staffs, clearly the look of magic casters.

“I-impossible!Their magic has reached level four?!”

“Are you seeing it right, man?”

“Hell, I wish I am!”

Someone from the magician’s guild is able to appraise the goblin casters’ magic level, and caused the ruckus. Level three magic is considered strong among magic casters, since most humans cannot use magic. Those able to use high-level magic are seen as rarities. Even a grand master like Fluder can only use magic up to level six. Even these goblin casters can cast level four magic, they would be an unstoppable force in battle.

“As seen here, these are our magic casters——magic blasters and magic enhancers. They will be our enemies’ worst nightmare!”

For the citizens of E-Rantel, this is indeed a nightmare. Initially hoping this general Enri is a normal human, now they are beginning to think this Enri must be a terrifying monster like Ainz Ooal Gown——only a monster can command other monsters.

“There she is! Boy, what an outfit!”

“Of course. This outfit is the brainchild of us and all other 41 maids. It fits every requirement Lord Pandora asked for.”

Lupusregina has already caught Enri walking forward with her superior vision. Under Pandora’s plan, Enri is slotted to appear last. Sebas was put in charge of giving her an impressionable appearance. Thinking a female touch is needed, he brought in the Pleiades for help, and eventually all 41 homunculus maids pitched in to create this outfit.

The five goblins appearing from the gates steps forward in a triangular formation. The soldiers clad in red hats, iron shoes and holding war scythes are cold-blooded killers——the most elite troops in the goblin army, the Red Hats. The only reason they appeared today is to protect their mistress, general Enri.

Today, Enri ditched the village maiden dress she wore for all her life, and put on the special outfit gifted by Lupusregina——her upper body is glad in white leather armour, with the emblem of Ainz Ooal Gown sewn on the chest. A coat loosely hang over her shoulder, with the sorcerous kingdom’s emblem on its back. White trousers and brown long boots complete the whole getup.

Ainz was immediately hit with a sense of deja vu when he first saw the outfit. When he asked about it, he received this answer: “Since Lord Pandora’s outfit is designed by Lord Ainz based on military uniforms, and general Enri needs to show her might as a general of the sorcerous kingdom, we based her outfit on that of Lord Pandora’s, with a few feminine touch of course.” Ainz could only grit his teeth as his nonexistent stomach ached. It sure sucks when your dark history comes back to bite you!

“Alvis of the cavalry corp, reporting to general Enri, mam!”

“You did well, Alvis. Now you may return to your position.”

Enri got off her horse and walks toward Momon. She took off her glove, showing off her rough hands you can find on either a farmer or a seasoned warrior.

In order to make sure she put out a strong first impression, Enri has been rehearsing and practising for the event. For everyone in the army, it is a sacred duty to aid their master. But for Enri, whose status and responsibilities escalated so rapidly, it was an exhausting and stressful affair. When Ainz heard Lupusregina’s report, he found himself emphasizing with Enri.

“Welcome, General Enri.”

“Sir Momon. Apologies for having you wait this long.”

Momon removes his gauntlet and reveals his large hand. Since Momon never takes any of his armor off in public, this gesture is rare. The onlookers seem to interpret this as Momon taking extra caution around this seemingly ordinary girl, having resorted to such strict manners.

For Enri, this is the first time she is under the gaze of so many people. She isn’t feeling a single shred of pride and joy as her goblin adviser explained. The rising nervousness in her keeps repeating what she learned during the rehearsal, so she can act them out naturally.

(This is way too many people! Why did I agree to this?)

“Even if it’s a gift from Lord Ainz, I’m grateful you did so much to provide camping grounds for us.”

This is the only thing Enri spoke today with genuine feelings. Since it’s still winter, the village alone won’t be able to support 5000 people. And hunting in the forest in large scale will devastate the land and deplete precious natural resources. To Enri, being able to have a camping ground and abundant food for her army is a gift from heaven.

“Then, Nabe will handle settling your army in. Since we have a few things to discuss, could you send someone to help Nabe with the arrangement?”

“I see. Adviser, you may go with her.”

“Of course, madam. I will assist lady Nabe with whatever she requires.” the goblin adviser bowed.

“Then please follow me. Everyone is waiting for you.”

Enri follows Momon towards the Adventurer’s Guild. The thirteen red hats that are guarding Enri also began to follow them.

“It’s okay everyone. I trust sir Momon will protect me. You may head to the camping grounds as well.”

Enri made her order with a smile. She still isn’t too used to her role. After all, everyone is expecting her to act like a seasoned general; no easy task for someone who’s been a farmer girl all her life. Fortunately she had gained some experience from taking in Abu and the other exiled goblins and ogres. With a little bit of practice, she thought she put up a decent performance.

“But general。。。”

Enri shook her head before the red hat can finish, her eyes determined and forceful.

“As you wish.”

“I leave the rest to you, adviser.”

“I will not let you down, general. The army will remain mobilized.”

The goblin adviser and the thirteen red hats bowed and place their hand above their hearts, a gesture of fealty towards Enri.

“All right, now just turn around and leave...”

Enri mutters to herself as she turns to Momon. Her adviser and the red hats head off toward the camp. Meanwhile...

“Even though she looks young, it looks like all the goblins really respect her.”

“As expected of Enri the Bloody. Remember back when we first met her? I bet had Sir Momon not intervened, she would start a massacre right on the spot!”

“Indeed! Sir Momon must have realized her strengths, and therefore told us to let her through.”

“Right...I remember Miss Nabe left on her own afterwards. She must have went to investigate Enri’s powers and motives!”

“Yup, yup!”

A group of former city guards are heatedly discussing what happened that day. Lupusregina, who was nearby, also joins them. Since she is in disguise, she isn’t worried about being recognized.

“I heard from a friend from Carne Village that Enri can punch through goblins and tear ogres apart with her bare hands!”

Yuri facepalmed at Lupusregina’s words, but the other all ate it up fully.

“A strong-armed general...”

And so, history repeats itself.

[uneminuteparseconde]

Des concerts à Paris et autour

Septembre 12. No More + Plomb – Le Klub 12. Cabaret contemporain – Mona Bismarck American Center (gratuit) 13. Maulwürfe – Centre Barbara-FGO 13. Housewives + Les Hôpitaux + La Bordelle – La Mécanique ondulatoire 13/14. LCD Soundsystem – Olympia 14. Arnaud Rebotini + The Hacker + David Carretta – Rosa Bonheur (gratuit) 14. Nursery + Brandt + Fumo Nero + Rape & Revenge – La Pointe Lafayette 14. K-X-P + Acid Baby Jesus – La Station 14. Siege + Break Out + Pendrak + Cyclicweetos – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 15. Ko Shin Moon + Maud Octallinn – église Saint-Bernard de La Chapelle (gratuit) 15. Cocaine Piss + MSS FRNCE + Bracco – Espace B 15. Frustration + Dick Voodoo – La Station 15. Api Uiz + Darfour + We use Cookies – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 16. Helen Money + Mums + Irk + Fleuves noirs – Olympic café 16. Mykki Bianco + Cakes Da Killa + Gnučči – Trabendo 16. Iggy Pop + Cheveu & Groupe Doueh (Fête de l'humanité) – Parc Georges-Valbon (La Courneuve) 16. Aleksi Perälä + Acronym + Iori + Blndr – La Machine 16. H880 + Manni Dee + Murd + Scalamerya + Subjected – Docks Eiffel (Aubervilliers) 17. La Cabine : cinéconcert sur "Mimesis" + Hélas – La Station 17. Les Hôpitaux + Lingua Nada + Bitpart – Espace B 18. Bleib Modern + IV Horsemen – La Mécanique ondulatoire 19. Julien Desprez & Arnaud Rivière + Thomas Bonvalet & Jean-Luc Guionnet (fest. Maad in 93) – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 20. Widt + Diposition Matrix + Ghost Milkers + Blason – Treize 20. Spiral Stairs – Petit Bain 21. Ennio Morricone – Bercy Arena 21. Claire Bergerault + Mark Fell & Will Gurthrie (fest. Crak) – Eglise Saint-Merry 21. Rubin Steiner & Daniel Larrieu – Centre des Arts (Enghien-les-Bains) (gratuit) 22. Tomoko Sauvage + Onceim & Jon Tilbury + Hanna Hartman (fest. Crak) – Eglise Saint-Merry 21. Sylvain Courtoux + Joachim Montessuis + Lucien Suel – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 22. She Past Away + [Qual : ANNULÉ] + Ash Code – Petit Bain 22. First Hate – Supersonic 22. Elen Huynh + Matthias Puech & Antoine Madet + Design Default – Le Génie d'Alex 22. Lydia Lunch + Joachim Montessuis + Eric Andersen, Ramuntcho Matta, Michele Gazich & Inge Bakkenes + Frank Rynne  – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 22. Ron Morelli + Svengalisghost + Antenes + Behzad & Amarou + Rag Dabons + Ohes... – Concrete 22. UVB 76 + Dr Rubinstein + Théo Muller – La Machine 23. Jon Gibson's Ensemble + Eddie Prevost & John Tilbury + F Pierce Warnecke (fest. Crak) – Eglise Saint-Merry 23. Sheik Anorak + Spook – La Pointe Lafayette 23. Stephen O'Malley + France & Richard Francés – La Maroquinerie 23. [Martial Canterel : ANNULÉ] + Holygram & Adam Usi + Bootblacks – Le Klub 23. Stéphane Marin & Pali Meursault – Le Cube (Issy-lès-Moulineaux) 24. Jessica Moss + Besoin Dead + Gneiss Rock – Espace B 24. Jeroen Search + Regal + 14anger + Hemka + Öspiel + Kairos + Scry + Fred Hush – plage de Glazart 27. Sigur Ros – Grand Rex ||COMPLET|| 28. J. G. Thirlwell : "Cholera Nocebo" – Fondation des Etats-Unis (gratuit) 28/29. Sigur Ros – Grand Rex 29. Tim Hecker + Gas + Midori Takada + Prurient + Pan Daijing (Red Bull fest.) – Palais de Tokyo 29. The Black Angels + A Place to Bury Strangers – La Cigale 29. Scaffolder + None + Sathönay – Espace B 29. Rebeka Warrior + Front de crypte + Da-Sein + Godzilla Overkill – La Station 29. I-F + Zadig : "Kern Space Adventures" + Kassem Mosse + John Heckle + Hanna Haleta – Concrete 30. Ujjaya – librairie Publico 30. Lene Lovich – Gibus 30. Ufomammut + Usnea – La Boule noire 30. Zombie Zombie + Marie Davidson + Not Waving + Soft War (December b2b AZF) + Simon Cell b2b The Pilotwings + Voisky présente "Disconnections, music for Clouds" (Red Bull fest.) – La Marbrerie (Montreuil) 30. Nova Materia & Latetitia Sadier : "Du point de vue des pierres", d'après Tristan Garcia (Red Bull fest.) – Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil 30. Function + Dasha Rush + Marcelus + Gëinst – Concrete

Octobre 01. Spectres + Pura Mania + Youth Avoiders + Pierre & Bastien – La Mécanique ondulatoire 01. Sparks – Gaîté lyrique 03. Kiku, Blixa Bargeld & Black Cracker – Centre culturel suisse 03. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Zénith ||COMPLET|| 04. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Zénith 04. Ben Frost + Julien Desprez + Walter Dean + Parquet (Biennale Nemo) – Le Trianon (gratuit sur résa) 04. Whispering Sons – Espace B 04. Melt Banana – Batofar 05. Jozef Van Wissem – Espace B 05. Marietta + En attendant Ana – Petit Bain 05. Anna Meredith + ToutEstBeau (Biennale Nemo) – théâtre de Vanves 06. Black Zone Myth Chant + Tomoko Sauvage + Felicia Atkinson + Carval Tarek – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 06. Rebekah + Endlec – La Machine 07. Charlemagne Palestine (Nuit blanche) – musée d'Art et d'Histoire du judaïsme (gratuit) 07. Beth Ditto – Bataclan 08. Arto Lindsay – La Bellevilloise 09. Project Pitchfork – Petit Bain 10. Futuroscope : cinéconcert sur des films du Bauhaus (fest. des cinémas différents) – Grand Action 10. Carbon Sink + Belmont Witch + Gauchoir + Sissifioul – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) (gratuit) 12. Peter Kernel & Their Wicked Orchestra + Tiny Feet + Adam H. – Petit Bain 12. Mlacoler Culkin + Rouge Gorge + Passenger of Shit + Tabatra$h (Serendip Lab fest.) – Les Nautes 13. Zëro + Heliogabale – Batofar 13. Part Chimp – La Mécanique ondulatoire 13. Shifted + Artefakt + Giorgio Gigli – Concrete 14. Forest Swords (Biennale Nemo) – Badaboum 14. Wardruna – La Cigale 14. Elsiane + Jad Wio – La Java 14. The Pilotwings + Goto80 + Constance Chlore + Bill Vortex + Tryphème + Franck Gérard + Sauk from Mélodies souterraines (Serendip Lab fest.) – Les caves Lechapelais 14. Bas Mooy + Clouds + Verset Zéro + Yan Kaylen + Paulie Jan + Terdjman – La Machine 14. Eloïse Descazes & Eric Chenaux + Le Fruit vert – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 14. Totorro + Faire + Julien Gasc – théâtre Antoine-Vitez (Ivry/Seine) 17. Unsane – Petit Bain 18. Soft Kill + Minab + Dead – Supersonic (gratuit) 18. Richard Francès & Konpyuta + Cycloptik + Sneakhead (Serendip Lab fest.) – La gare XP 19. Nosfell – Café de la danse 19. Robin Fox & Sean Baxter + Thomas Ankersmit (Biennale Nemo) – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 20. Gary Numan – Trabendo 20. Mattias Aguayo & The Desdemonas + La Mverte + Casse Gueule – La Maroquinerie 20. Otto Von Schirach + Distorsion tropicale + DJ Diamond 999 (Serendip Lab fest.) – Petit Bain 20. Bogdan Raczynski – Batofar 21. Jarboe + Father Murphy – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 21. Hypnobeat + Josh Cheon + LAAM + CIA débutante (Serendip Lab fest.) – L'Esplanade 23. Mogwai – Grand Rex 24. The Dream Syndicate – Centre Barbara FGO 25. Rinji Fukuoka & Michel Henritzi + Trou aux rats + Yves Botz & Bruno Fernandes + William Nurdin – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 26. N.M.O. + Aufgang (Biennale Nemo) – Hasard ludique 26. King Dude + The Ruins of Beverast + (D O L C H) – Petit Bain 26. Cent ans de solitude + The Dead Goldfish Ensemble + Club Dilletante (Serendip Lab fest.) – Gare XP 26. Sete Star Sept + Maria Bertel & Mariachi – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 27. The Breeders – Gaîté lyrique 27. MoE + Dead + Chafouin – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 27. Don Vito + La Confraternita del Purgatorio + Bob Cooper – La Comedia Michelet (Montreuil) 27. SNTS + W.LV.S (The Driver vs Electric Rescue) + Minimum Syndicat + Hemka – La Machine 27. Paula Temple + Blawan + Len Farki + Thurman b2b Julian M. + Avalon Emerson + SHDW & Obscure Shape + Madben + Maxime Dangles + Mark Höffen + Präri (Big Bang fest.) – Les Docks de Paris (Saint-Denis) 28. Peter Hook & The Light – Le Trianon 28. Jerusalem in my Heart + Oiseaux-Tempête, Mondkopf & G.W. Sok – Centre Barbara-FGO 28. Big Brave – Gare XP 28. Delacave + Ventre de Biche + Le Prince Harry – Gibus 28. BlackNox + Cocoon + Paradis Noir + Super Stoned (Biennale Nemo : Optical Sound) – Le Générateur (Gentilly) 28. Spacelex + Waterproof + Botine + Musique chienne (Serendip Lab fest.) – Wonder/Liebert (Bagnolet) 29. Omar Di Bongo + Raymond IV + Sacré numéro + Couloir Gang + OKO dj + Opaque (Serendip Lab fest.) – Wonder/Liebert (Bagnolet) 30. Boss Hog – La Maroquinerie

Novembre 02. The National + Ride + Chassol + This is the Kit + Moses Sumney + Mina Tindle + Ethan Lipton & his Orchestra + Kevin Morby (Pitchfork fest.) – Grande Halle de La Villette 03. Jungle + Kamasi Washington + Polo & Pan + Isaac Delusion + Sylvan Esso + Cigarettes after Sex + Andy Shauf + HMLTD + Rejjie Snow + Tommy Genesis (Pitchfork fest.) – Grande Halle de La Villette 03. The Residents : In Between Dreams – Centre Pompidou 03. Amelie Lens + Anetha + Präri – Rex Club 04. Run The Jewels +  Talaboman + Badbadnotgood + The Blaze + Bicep + Sigrid + Princess Nokia + Jacques + Loyle Carner + Tom Misch + The Black Madonna + Sônge (Pitchfork fest.) – Grande Halle de La Villette 06. John Maus – La Maroquinerie ||COMPLET|| 07. Godspeed you! Black Emperor – Elysée Montmartre 07. Max Cooper – Gaîté lyrique 08. Zola Jesus – Point FMR 08. The Wedding Present plays "George Best" – Petit Bain 08. The Horrors – Trabendo 09. Annabelle Playe (Biennale Nemo) – Le Cube (Issy-lès-Moulineaux) 10. Red Zebra + Pour X raison – Supersonic (gratuit) 13. Liars – La Maroquinerie 14. Shannon Wright – Gaîté lyrique 14. BJ Nilsen + Thomas Tilly + Les acharnistes – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 15. Igorrr – La Maroquinerie 16. NSDOS + Watchin' with Milesdavisquintet ! (Biennale Nemo) – La Dynamo (Pantin) 16/17. Kristoff K.Roll : A l'ombre des ondes (fest. d'Automne) – La Pop 17. Trisomie 21 + The Saint-Cyr + Rendez-Vous – La Machine 17. Dälek – Batofar 17. Transglobal Underground feat. Natacha Atlas + Asgaya – Le Tamanoir (Gennevilliers) 18. Essaie pas + Nova Materia + Colombey – La Maroquinerie 18. Kristoff K.Roll : A l'ombre des ondes (fest. d'Automne) – La Pop 19. Ulver – La Machine 19. Agnostic Front + Bishops Green – Gibus 21. Sun Kil Moon – Gaîté lyrique 21. Metz + Decibelles + Drahla – Trabendo 21>24. Pierre-Yves Macé & Joris Lacoste (festival d'Automne) – Espace Pierre-Cardin 22>25. Carl Michael Von Hausswolf + Ensemble Ire + ErikM + Benjamin De la Fuente + Robert Piotrowicz + Annabelle Playe + Julien Ottavi + Jean Philippe Gross + Lancelot Hamelin + Alexis Forestier + Hugo Darcier + David Leon + Sylvain Levey + Remi Checchetto + Mariette Navarro le Werktank... (fest. Bruits blans) – Anis Gras (Arcueil) 23. Clan of Xymox + My Great Blue Cadillac – Bus Palladium 23. Modeselektor (dj) + Tijana T + Simo Cell – Rex Club 24. Emma Ruth Rundle – Espace B 24. Laibach – Trabendo 24. Arnold Dreyblatt + Prescott + Borja Flames (BBMix fest.) – Carré Bellefeuille (Boulogne-Billancourt) 24. Zombie Zombie + Aufgang – Le Tamanoir (Gennevilliers) 25. Stranglers – La Cigale 25. Mount Kimbie – Trianon 25. Mark Lanegan – Café de la danse 25. Protomartyr – La Maroquinerie 25. Etienne Jaumet, Peter Kember & Céline Wadier : La Monte Young Tribute + Colleen + Accident du travail (BBMix fest.) – Carré Bellefeuille (Boulogne-Billancourt) 25. Dynatron + Christine + Mlada Fronta – La Clef (Saint-Germain-en-Laye) 26. Quator Tana joue "Mishima" de Philip Glass – Collège des Bernardins 26. Ropoporose + Die!Die!Die! – Batofar 26. James Holden & The Animal Spirits + Groupshow (Andrew Pekler, Jan Jelinek & Hanno Leichtmann) + Paalma (BBMix fest.) – Carré Bellefeuille (Boulogne-Billancourt) 27. Marilyn Manson – Bercy|Arena 28. Chapelier fou – Le 104 28. John Zorn & Abraxas + Autoryno + Garth Knox – New Morning 30. Simon Fisher Turner : The Picture from Darkness (Biennale Nemo : Optical Sound) – Le Cube (Issy-lès-Moulineaux) (gratuit)

Décembre 02. Frustration + Komplikations + Plomb – La Clef (Saint-Germain-en-Laye) 03. Depeche Mode – Bercy|Arena 15/16. Éléonore Auzou-Connes, Emma Liégeois & Romain Pageard jouent "Musiques de table" de Thierry De Mey – La Pop 08. Punish Yourself – La Maroquinerie 12. Zayk + Hyperculte – Centre culturel suisse 12. Snap + Martin Meissier : Field (Biennale Nemo : Optical Sound) – La Dynamo (Pantin) 15. Jessica93 – La Maroquinerie

2018

Janvier 30/31. Pierre-Yves Macé & Joris Lacoste (festival d'Automne) – L'Apostrophe (Cergy-Pontoise)

Février 03. Nils Frahms – Yoyo|Palais de Tokyo ||COMPLET|| 15. Franck Vigroux & Laurent Gaudé : "Le Chant des ombres" – L'Ecam (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre)

Mars 07/08. Ryuchi Sakamoto & Shiro Takatani (Dumb Type) : "Dis.Play" – Maison de la Culture du Japon 23. Pierre Henry + Anabelle Playe + John Chantler + Bill Orcutt + Anthony Child (Présences électronique) (Présences électronique) – Maison de la radio|Studio 104 24. Else Marie Pade + :such: + Bellows + Phonophani + The Caretaker (Présences électronique) – Maison de la radio|Studio 104 25. Jacques Lejeune + Chris Corsano + Ben Vida & Marina Rosenfeld + Mads Emil Nielsen + Gravetemple (Présences électronique) – Maison de la radio|Studio 104

en gras : les derniers ajouts / in bold: the last news

[thekaijudude]

Another vs qn, this time between anyone from canon Ken to canon King and another of my 30+ OCs: Ultraman Constelas.

Particularly Constelas Beyond, which is easily the most powerful power-up form of any Ultra in my entire fan continuity. Btw, Constelas as a whole represents the light of all Ultras in my continuity’s Showa universe, and is as such extremely powerful.

Constelas Beyond’s powers (as well as base Constelas’s and another OC’s) are in DM.

Hi!

So Shyuldir seems to essentially be at least on the level of the Ultra Brothers since iirc Ultraman's and Seven's durability and power was around a nuke level which if u consider the bombs detonated in Japan, was around 15-25 Kilotons as a lowball. But if u consider the largest bomb detonated, the Tsar Bomba, was around 50 Megatons as a highball. Of course this means a 1000x difference.

Assuming the lowball case and doing some calculations suggests that Shyuldir is equivalent to a M78 red ultra that is +30 000 years of age, which we haven't seen before in canon. Which Constelas is scaled above.

So I guess essentially anything that can potentially beat or contend the Ultra Brothers could beat base Constelas? Like Absolutians, Reiblood, Grimude, Guar Siblings, Guar himself, Grand King, Super Grand King Spectre, U-Killersaurus, U-Killersaurus NEO, UDK, Toregia, Belial etc

For Beyond tho, since u say his finisher is 200x stronger than his base's finisher, which in turn is 50x stronger than his standard beam (which I presume is enough to one shot a Tier 2 kaiju), you're essentially saying that Beyond is at least 10 000x stronger than an average New Gen

Which actually works out to being 10x stronger than an Ultra Brother level of power, which isnt actually consistent with his feat of being able to shatter a 750 mile barrier, which is 10x the feat of Ken shattering a 100Km asteroid

Yeah so your scaling here is kind of weird because of the specific multipliers u decided to attach onto each forms.

Cause this basically means that base Constelas is essentially a glass cannon with Beyond being way too underpowered with his beam but being buffed up tremendously physically

Such a huge discrepancy makes it kinda weird to place him in the power scale cause simply anyone with zoning abilities/hax or that is intangible could contend with him, but these beings range from Bullton all the way to beings like Greeza or Grimude

But there's an even bigger contradiction with how u wrote your OC

I mean since u said that your OC is essentially the light of all Ultras in your Showa Universe (which I presume u specifically mean your headcanon LoL), which in canon contains about 18 Billion Ultras, 1 Million of which are members of the IGDF . Tbh everything else in the list is already kind of irrelevant.

So, even lowballing, basically you're asking if anything can go against 1 Million Ultras fused into 1.

But said feats u have mentioned are waaaaay too underpowered for that to be true (Gruebe can be estimated to be around 100x stronger than Ruebe already, and thats just moving from a duo to a trio fusion)

Unless if say I ignore your dm'ed info and just go by whoever can take on a million ultra fusion, you'll essentially just have an obvious answer of any Legendary Tiered Ultras or equivalent beings like Reiblood and maybe the Absolutian Lord with hax abilities like Legend with his time travelling etc

Thanks for the question!

[lupiot]

Mais !! Je suis encore en retard ! J’en suis troublée, cela ne m’arrive jamais dans la vraie vie.

L’excuse du mois :

Durant le mois de Novembre, je participe au NaNoWriMo, un défi d’écriture frappadingue dont je vous reparle tout en bas, et qui épuise bien 50% de mes capacités littéraires. Sachant que les 50% restants sont consacrés à l’exercice d’un métier lui aussi littéraire, c’est donc avec 0% de mon cerveau, mais beaucoup d’émotion, que j’entame aujourd’hui la rédaction de cet article.

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Dixième édition de ce nouveau rendez-vous mensuel, qui rime avec « C’est lundi, que lisez-vous ? », et peut se voir comme un complément ou un petit frère dérangé, comme il vous plaira. Je vous invite à l’adopter, il ne mord pas.

Le principe ? Quatre trucs à balancer !

Le Top & Flop de ce que j’ai lu le mois dernier

Au moins 1 chronique d’ailleurs lue le mois dernier

Au moins 1 lien qui m’a fait « Wahou » le mois dernier (hors chronique littéraire)

Et enfin : ce que j’ai fait de mieux le mois dernier

Ce mois-ci, en tout, j’ai lu 20 livres, dont : 10 romans graphiques…

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…7 romans, 2 essais (pluzoumoin) et 1 recueil de nouvelles : (Je les réunis car leur addition donne 10 , ce qui me permet d’avoir 2 rangées égales, et j’aime quand c’est tout bien aligné.)

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  1) TOP & FLOP

Alerte : entre les nombreux Top et les nombreux Meh, ce mois-ci, la catégorie « Top & Flop » est un peu longue. Aussi, TOI là, qui ne liras pas tout, voici mon Top 4 absolu, toutes catégories confondues. Ne les rate pas :

TOP 4

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Vas-y tu peux sauter tout le reste et retourner hiberner, petit ourson mal léché. Car ceci is the best of the best, top of the hip, king of the pop. Oh yeah.

C’est parti pour les catégories :

Catégorie 2e étoile à droite et tout droit jusqu’au matin (Aussi connue sous le nom Quand je suis partie pour le Pays Imaginaire, je pensais pas que je m’amuserais autant, ni que le voyage serait si beau.)

Le vainqueur incontesté

Le challenger

Le Livre de la poussière, de Philip Pullman (Gallimard Jeunesse, 2017)

*hurle*

C’EST TROP BIEN !!

J’avais commencé une critique ici-même mais elle prenait des allures de soliloque cocaïné (ce qui n’est pas un problème) et commençait à grandir de façon indépendante et dévorer mon article de l’intérieur tel un ver solitaire (ce qui, en revanche, est un problème), aussi j’ai amputé la bête pour en faire un article complet plus construit, qui paraîtra dimanche.

Néanmoins, je ne peux pas vous laisser en plan ainsi. Que dire de La Belle Sauvage ? Tout est parfait.

Le style est à la fois élégant, exigeant… et limpide.

L’entrée dans l’univers, qu’on en soit familier ou non, est aussi naturelle qu’excitante ; le monde du Livre de la Poussière s’étend de scène en scène jusqu’à être rapidement très vaste, sans jamais nous perdre pour autant, et tout en gardant toujours notre curiosité et fascination éveillée.

Nous avons un nouveau petit héros, Malcolm. Moi qui craignais un Syndrome Enfant Maudit (à la sauce “on s’englue éternellement dans de vieilles peaux moisies”), je suis ravie ravie ravie.

C’est de l’aventure. De la pure et belle aventure, à croquer comme un fruit volé au sommet d’un arbre secret, rien qu’à toi.

C’est si joliii… certains écarts, petits nids dans le récit, m’ont fait penser à du Timothée de Fombelle, à ce que j’aime tant chez lui : ce goût trop mim’s pour les scènes de nature et de famille et tous ces petits riens chaleureux.

C’est dingue et ambitieux, ça joue avec les légendes féériques anglaises autant qu’avec les peurs ancestrales, d’une façon qui m’a rappelé Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

C’est. Trop. Bien.

Le collège noir t. 1, d’Ulysse Malassagne (Milan, 2016)

Le collège noir est une série qui te colle de délicieux frissons dans le dos, tandis que tu te rappelles tes fantasmes horrifiques de gamin(e) en colo : et si, là, à minuit, un monstre surgissait de sous le lit, et si on était forcés de s’enfuir à toute berzingue avec les copains, et si on vivait d’épouvantables aventures super dangereuses mais géniales ?

Une série de BD fantastique qui a le goût des vacances interdites.

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Catégorie J’ai soupiré par le cœur, ça faisait un peu mal (Aussi connue sous le nom Joli et badant, mais plus joli que badant)

Le lauréat :

Le challenger :

Jane, le renard et moi, d’Isabelle Arsenault et Fanny Britt (La Pastèque, 2013)

Avertissement : livre de très grande qualité. Si si. Regardez, j’ai fait un macaron :

Jane, le renard et moi est une bande-dessinée par le même duo d’incroyables autrice & illustratrice que l’on doit blâmer pour le très beau Louis parmi les spectres.

Lorsque j’ai refermé ce roman graphique, j’ai cherché l’air à grande goulée puis soupiré doucement.

– C’était pas bien ? m’a demandé l’amie assise à côté de moi. – C’était TROP bien… – C’est que… t’as l’air triste ? – Chuis un peu triste.

Je fais partie de cette race désespérée et envahissante de gens qui adorent qu’on les fasse pleurer (je crois sérieusement qu’on a un problème). Livre ou film, si tu m’arraches une larme, si tu me serres le cœur à l’étouffer, si tu me tortures bien lentement, délicatement, sans avoir l’air d’y toucher ->> JE T’AIME.

Retenez-moi.

Donc bref, Jane, ça parle de ce drame mésestimé qu’on a tous connu enfant (ou plus particulièrement, adolescent) : être SEUL car SANS AMIS, ne pas trouver sa place dans un groupe, voire, en subir les moqueries. Bienvenue en enfer.

La petite narratrice est devenue le souffre-douleur de ses anciennes copines de classe ; elle marche désormais seule du collège à l’arrêt de bus, s’assoit seule dans ledit bus, et pour s’occuper, fait semblant de lire Jane Eyre pendant qu’un petit groupe de vipères persifle trois sièges derrière.

Je ne vous spoile pas l’histoire, mais tout ce que vous avez besoin de savoir c’est que s’il est instantanément évident que le dessin est fin et beau et touchant, le texte, lui, va vous surprendre par son style d’une grande justesse, d’une fine drôlerie, et son ton plein d’un douloureux et délicieux second-degré.

Qu’est-ce qui arrive ?, de Mehdi Melkhi (Tanibis, 2015)

Une BD très courte, en petit format de poche, sur le thème du deuil.

C’est un petit monsieur chauve qui va rendre visite à sa mère et la trouve transformée, monstrueuse. « Qu’est-ce qui est arrivé ? » lui demande-t-il. Elle lui raconte alors que chaque fois qu’elle pense à son défunt mari, les larmes, au lieu de couler à l’extérieur, se figent sur elle, tirent sa peau, qui glisse, pend, enfle. À chaque instant de détresse, elle devient un peu plus difforme. Je vous raconte la moitié d’une BD très courte, je suis désolée, voilà, mais elle est trop belle et à l’occasion, lisez-la.

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Catégorie Prends-toi ça dans les dents

Le lauréat

Le presque challenger :

J’ai failli mettre Tortues à l’infini de John Green… qui, à un cheveu près, se retrouve dans la diabolique catégorie « Meh », un peu plus bas (#oups)

Tropique de la violence, de Natacha Appanah (Gallimard, 2016)

Tropique de la violence conte l’histoire de Moïse, un garçon des Comores adoptés par une femme blanche en mal d’enfant installée à Mayotte, département français oublié des médias et des politiques où la petite bourgeoisie des continentaux côtoie des bidonvilles miséreux et ultraviolents. Dans un entre-deux, comme dans un rêve, à la recherche de ses origines et de lui-même, Moïse essaie de trouver sa place. Puis un jour, il bascule du mauvais côté, et malheureusement pour lui, c’est une pente qui ne fait que descendre.

Ce roman, qui entremêle les voix âpres et vraies de personnages aux horizons différents, nous peint un pays trahi par lui-même et le drame de ses habitants. Rien de sociologique dans ce roman sous tension, qui flirte avec le réalisme magique et le thriller psychologique : que de la sueur, de la bile et des rêves.

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Catégorie 27e intersidérale du lol

Le lauréat :

Les challengers :

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  Le jour le plus long du futur, de Lucas Varela (Delcourt, 2015)

Le jour le plus long du futur est une BD sans texte, fantaisiste et hilarante, aux dessins ronds et doux façons chewing-gum, cruels et dingues façon Happy Tree Friends, et à l’humour caustique et absurde. Zaim bocou ça.

De rien, de Geoffroy Monde (Delcourt, 2016)

Voici un héritier direct de Bastien Vivès et Fabcaro, et si vous avez aimé Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï, lisez-le sans hésiter !

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Comtesse, d’Aude Picault (BD Cul, 2010) (mention #Ouh les coquins)

Tiens, une BD sans texte encore, et drôle et absurde aussi, mais surtout, une BD de fesse — ne venez pas jouer les #ChoquésDéçus si vous rougissez comme des communiantes en l’ouvrant. Moi qui n’ai pas aimé le platounet Idéal Standard de la même autrice, je me suis régalée de la finesse du trait et de l’imagerie convoquée dans ce volume libertin.

J’ai choisi une image très très soft non pour protéger vos âmes sensibles, mais pour me prémunir contre un sentiment de culpabilité, un lecteur inaverti dût-il poser ses yeux mignons ici. (#Angoisse & lâcheté)

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MEH

Plusieurs lectures ce mois-ci m’ont fait claquer ma langue de gosse impatiente, ou soupiré lourdement comme la lectrice gâtée que je suis. Ce ne sont pas des FLOP mais des « Meh », la plupart dus au fait que je me les étais salement hypés, et les ai ouverts en frétillant du derrière.

De gauche à droite, mes « Meh » du plus petit au plus gros :

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  Pourquoi ces « Meh » ?

Tortues à l’infini, de John Green (Gallimard Jeunesse, 2017)

Tortues à l’infini est plutôt un bon roman car John Green est de toute façon un bon écrivain et ne parvient pas à rater un roman même quand il essaie fort fort. Celui-ci est donc tout de même cool, mais il s’agit à mes yeux…

de son moins romanesque (il ne se passe rien, dans ce roman),

d’un roman pas super bien construit,

de son moins bon, pas de discussion.

Malgré cela, Tortues est écrit avec une verve moderne, jeune, vive, cultivée, légèrement décalée, cette verve propre à John Green si souvent imitée et jamais égalée. Si je le place parmi les « Meh », in fine (j’ai pas mal hésité), c’est qu’il m’a PESÉ de ouf, d’une façon qui n’était ni voulue (?) ni nécessaire me semble-t-il. Il parle de maladie mentale et, sans doute parce que c’est un sujet deeply personal à l’auteur, il en parle de façon un peu insistante pour être sûr qu’on comprenne bien ; or, sorry, je suis venue là pour lire un roman, pas un fil Tumblr culpabilisant.

Histoire de vérifier que je n’avais pas tout simplement grandi depuis le dernier John Green (paru il y a six ans !), et que mon souvenir des prés radieux de Nos étoiles contraires n’était pas une arnaque intellectuelle que me jouait mon cerveau, je viens de me replonger dedans. Verdict : j’adore, c’est brillant, fin, superbement construit, il se passe des choses — bref, c’est bien Tortues qui m’a trahie, pas ma mémoire…

Pour les curieux ; on pourrait dire que ce roman est parent de :

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  Le fils de l’ombre et de l’oiseau, d’Alex Cousseau (Le Rouergue, 2016)

Ce roman sur trois générations, presque quatre, mêle réalisme magique, quête mystique, et aventure de cow-boys.

Très curieux, ce « Meh » : je ne vois pas où l’auteur veut en venir au bout de 200 pages (il y en a 400). C’est plutôt joli mais je n’ai pas réussi à rentrer dans l’aventure, sans doute parce que les constants bonds dans le temps forcent le lecteur à abandonner le protagoniste toutes les quarante pages. J’avais ressenti cela à la lecture de Fondation, d’Asimov, par exemple : c’est bien vu, ça m’intéresse (intellectuellement), mais le livre a selon ma conception subjective, un handicap émotionnel structurel.

Qu’on me tue mes héros dans un grand tremblement cathartique à la Game of Thrones, je comprends, mais qu’on me laisse sans nouvelles, pour les retrouver (morts ou vifs, d’ailleurs) des années plus tard et me faire le résumé de leur vie, wallah, c’est abusé. J’étais là, moi !! Sagement assise au premier rang ! Qu’est-ce que c’est que ce machin mal branlé où tout se passe dans les couloirs et les coulisses ?

À vrai dire, ce “handicap”, que j’appellerai le “Constant callback” correspond à une attente littéraire que tout le monde ne partage pas — et que j’ai un peu de mal à formuler mais, au fond, je suis sûre d’avoir raison, hello insupportable Miss Je-Sais-Tout —

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I KNOW, ok — mais quand même, laissez-moi t’expliquer le constant callback.

Dans la vie, on a ces amis qu’on ne voit pas assez souvent ni assez longtemps pour dépasser le stade de la longue “récap depuis la dernière fois”, et avec qui la relation, de fait, n’évolue pas. On tourne en rond dans le bouillon de nos anciennes aventures sans réussir à arriver au stade ou l’on crée de nouveaux souvenirs. C’est un cocon doux mais un peu triste et, au fil des années, le lien se délite. Or, il arrive, comme ici, qu’il se passe un phénomène similaire en littérature : le personnage nous échappe pendant des ellipses, et la narration peine à sortir du “résumé des événements”, à nous faire vivre de nouvelles aventures… On se retrouve à sans cesse redémarrer de zéro avec le perso, comme on se rappellerait après une longue absence. Constant callback.

Ceci mis à part, à qui recommandé-je ce roman ? (Car il est plutôt bon je crois, et c’est aussi moi l’handicapée, ici.) À ceux qui aimeraient lire un récit à la rencontre de :

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  Naissance des cœurs de pierre, d’Antoine Dole (Actes Sud Junior, 2017)

Le pitch d’un ennui délétère ne me bottait pas des masses (dystopie où tu entres dans le « Programme » à l’adolescence, Programme où les sentiments sont interdits ; je pense que j’ai lu ce résumé plus de quarante fois en deux ans), mais le nom d’Antoine Dole, oui, et sa sélection pour le Prix Vendredi, encore plus.

Mon ressenti ? Je me suis ennuyée, mais pas pour la raison escomptée, car le roman est plutôt futé dans sa façon de prendre nos attentes à revers. Non, mon ennui est plutôt dû à des choix narratifs : on a un ressenti à fleur de peau centré sur les divers miasmes intérieurs et extérieurs des personnages, très peu de vraies scènes, et une queue de poisson finale assez frustrante : on nous relate de façon indirecte des tas d’événements qu’on aurait vraiment préféré vivre.

Si mon ressenti pourtant négatif vous donne malgré lui envie de lire ce livre, c’est normal je crois, et tant mieux : la narration très intimiste, émotive et charnelle, littéraire mais peu scénique, est un domaine dans lequel l’auteur excelle, et je crois que je n’avais tout simplement pas envie de ça à ce moment-là.

On pourrait dire que ce roman est au croisement de :

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  Monsieur Mardi-Gras Descendres, d’Éric Liberge (Zone Créative, 1998-2000)

On m’avait recommandé ce roman graphique en raison de 1) mon coup de cœur pour Blast, de Larcenet et 2) mon goût du macabre et de l’humour noir.

Monsieur « Mardi-Gras des Cendres » s’appelle ainsi car il est mort entre le Mardi-Gras et le Mercredi des Cendres, et dans le curieux enfer désertique où a atterri sa squelettique personne après son trépas, c’est ainsi que l’on recense la populace. Une quête de sens commence pour lui, dans ce monde insensé et cruel. Tous les ingrédients sont réunis pour que je passe un bon moment, mais MALHEUR : le protagoniste, incrédule et tapageur, m’agace autant que s’il tapait un scandale injustifié dans la file devant moi au supermarché.

J’avais tout le temps envie de l’estourbir.

J’ai avalé un arc-en-ciel, d’Erwan Ji (Nathan, 2017)

C’est mon ami Tom de La Voix du Livre qui m’avait chaudement recommandé cette lecture, et il y a en effet un allant, une vivacité dans la narration adolescente, à demi loufoque, à demi sociologique, qui m’ont plu, et je vois ce qui l’a embarqué. On se laisse porter, c’est frais et drôle, souvent. Mais deux problèmes centraux m’ont finalement fait lâcher le livre vers la moitié :

Ça n’en finit plus de démarrer, et

Mondieu la mentalité.

Parfois, y a pas, c’est vraiment pour des raisons éthiques qu’on ne peut pas poursuivre un livre. Ce roman passe son temps à nous faire approuver en sous-texte : le slut-shaming, un sexisme innocent et ravageur, du mépris social, des blagues sur le viol…

On a aussi une ribambelle d’incohérences dans l’incarnation des personnages. Donc, dommage car le début me plaisait, mais à la longue, ça me crispait.

Je vous invite à lire l’avis de Tom sur La Voix du Livre pour découvrir une critique positive de ce roman. De mon côté, je dirais qu’il est l’enfant mal élevé de :

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  …Et Lupiot a enfin fini la partie Top & Flop de ce mois-ci ! Bravooooo. On l’applaudit avec des sourires crispés en retirant discrètement le scotch de nos paupières.

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DING-DONG à tous ceux qui s’étaient endormis !

2) CHRONIQUES D’AILLEURS

Davantage que des chroniques, j’aimerais partager trois adresses de blogs jeunesse que j’ai découverts et feuillète régulièrement (oui, comme des magazines), et comme c’est le jeu, je vous propose l’une de leurs chroniques en lien, mais sachez que c’est plus pour l’ensemble de leurs publications que je les aime que pour cette chronique-là précisément.

Les Lectures du Monstre, tenu par un “Charmant Petit Monstre”. On y trouve de la littérature, du cinéma, et d’autres bouts de culture et de vie. Les plus :

Du lol à revendre

Un optimiste qui vous prend la grisaille à rebrousse-poil, j’ai toujours le smile en sortant de ma lecture

Des articles rythmés, illustrés, généreux et critiques

La meilleure critique des Petites Reines, so far ? I JUST LOVE IT OKAY

Plumes de lune, tenu par les jumelles Kin et Kara. On y trouve essentiellement des articles critiques de livres de SF, fantastique et fantasy. Les plus :

Un ton fun et franc, parfois corrosif

Un esprit critique piquant

Je sais toujours, à lire l’article, si je vais aimer le bouquin ou pas, signe selon moi qu’il s’agit d’une bonne chronique. (Que je sois “raccord” ou pas, d’ailleurs.)

Cf. la seule critique de Phobos nuancée qui m’ait enfin éclairée vraiment sur ce phénomène de la blogo.

Le blog de L’Ourse bibliophile. Elle y parle beaucoup de livres et notamment de livres jeunesse, mais pas que : de cinéma, mais aussi de questions de société, de féminisme et d’intersecitonnalité par exemple, et je ne sais pas pourquoi tous les blogs que je suis parlent de ça, c’est bizarre didonc. Les plus :

La densité impresionnante de ses articles

Son excellent goût en littérature jeunesse (#very partiale je suis)

Ses “Parenthèses 7ème art” géniales où elle nous critique tous les films intéressants du mois non sérieusement

Cette chronique de Moonrise, de Sarah Crossan qui me donne très envie.

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3) AILLEURS SUR LE WEB

Ok c’est le moment d’être des intellectuels : je vous propose de découvrir les billets de Clémentine Beauvais sur L’écriture créative.

Toujours là pour t’aider à procrastiner.

Il s’agit des comptes-rendus hebdomadaires des cours qu’elle donne à la fac à des angliches qui ont vachement de la chance de l’avoir comme prof. L’avantage incomparable c’est que tu peux t’asseoir devant ton écran et regarder, le temps d’un article, des gens (elle et ses élèves) réfléchir pour toi au sujet de la littérature jeunesse, et en ressortir plus cultivé(e) et plus curieux(se).

Les premiers billets sont là :

Cours d’écriture créative pour enfants à l’université

Écriture créative, session 1 — Intro

Écriture créative, session 2 — Personnages et caractérisation

Écriture créative, session 3 — La “Voix”

Écriture créative, session 4 — Style I. Oralité et sonorités

C’est tellement bon tout ça.

Ce blog n’encourage pas à la consommation de drogue.

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4) HAPPY NOMBRIL

Les choses qui me rendent heureuse ce mois-ci :

Je me marie. PAS CE MOIS-CI. En août 2018. On a trouvé notre lieu de réception, notre photographe, dressé notre liste d’invités, réfléchi au buff— oh mon dieu c’est horriblement lourdingue à raconter. Mais ça me rend heureuse. Une anecdote à raconter : plusieurs ami(e)s m’ont demandé si nous ferions un mariage thématique Harry Potter. Je ne vois pas pourquoi ils demandent ça,

#moi

mais la réponse est non. Lorsque j’ai émis, comme ça, l’idée de glisser dans notre décoration de mariage des petits clins d’œil Harry Potter (genre, pour les noms de tables), mon promis m’a regardé d’un regard très regardant, yeux écarquillés, et a lentement pointé du doigt l’étagère Harry Potter que j’ai percée et montée et décorée sur le mur du salon au-dessus de la télé, avant d’articuler silencieusement : “Non”. Et j’ai lu dans ses yeux “ENOUGH”.

Je participe au National Novel Writing Month, connu par les aficionados comme le NaNoWriMo ! (Ou Nano.) C’est un défi d’écriture un peu barré auquel je participe depuis 11 ans et dont j’ai parlé dans cet article l’an dernier. Ça m’amuse toujours autant d’y participer, mais je constate avec consternation que, d’année en année, j’écris de plus en plus len-te-ment. Armée de mes 45 pages de notes et 35 minutes de réflexion sous la douche, j’ouvre mon document et —

Pitin je galère.

Aannnd, CUT. L’article est fini, avec 6 jours de retard. Fml.

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À dimanche pour une critique du Livre de la Poussière, et à la semaine prochaine pour deux articles cuisinés aux petits oignons par mes minions.

D’ici là bonnes lectures ! T’as vu comme je te mets la pression avec mes s.

Lupiot

Tu peux ajouter ton article “C’est le 1er” à la liste en cliquant sur la grenouille bleue (je le reporterai manuellement ci-dessous !) :

Les fantastiches C’est le 1er, je balance tout de novembre 2017 :

Les Causeries de Chichi

Chaussettes et chocolat

Les Cheesecakes de Dolorès

Des Livres et les mots

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[thekaijudude]

Ok, I’ve been debating if I want to do this for about half an hour now, as I’m writing this sentence, and I’ve decided that I do.

Who would win in a fight between base form Ultraman Kejadian (my fan-made, magic-wielding Ultra who’s on par with Ultraman Adam (basically the version of the OG Ultraman from a world where the average Ultra Brother is only ten times as powerful as the average New Gen)) and canon Ultraman Ginga?

Btw, I’ll be sending you a list of Kejadian’s base form’s abilities after I send this.

Ey np, u can just send whatever questions u have to my inbox. Or u can just dm me questions, there's no hard rules here as seen from my blog, followers just do whatever.

So what this eventually boils down to is essentially how strong is Ginga compared to the average New Gen, specifically is he 10x as strong?

But first we have to be clear on what are u asking actually by "canon Ginga"

Because like Nexus and Tiga etc, there's two "Ginga" in canon. One being the original that's literally himself, and the one we saw the most often that is Hikaru using Ginga's body, aka Ginga (Hikaru)

And we know just how huge the power gap can be between the two from UGF3, Nexus in his series in Anphans was around the average Heisei/New Gen Level. But Nexus in his original body was able to fight (and would've probably defeated) Titan, whom is likely around Ultra Brother level alr, also in Anphans.

We also know that Ginga and Lugiel were once a single entity. And the only other instance of this specific example was essentially Legend. In addition, if you recall, the clash of the 2 spark holders at the end of the Dark Spark War resulted in even Ken becoming a Spark Doll. So the Dark Spark War essentially resulted in a draw between Dark Lugiel and the Original Ginga. These highly implies that whoever this being is (which I coined "Ultraman Lugiel"), was likely also a Legendary Tiered Ultra

iirc, Taro even mentioned that the Ginga Spark was also considered a Legendary item back in the LoL

Assuming Lugiel split into 2 equally powered ultras, and although we saw how average New Gen Ultras performed against Dark Lugiel (Xanadium + Wrecking Burst just knocked back a weakened, revived Dark Lugiel in UGF1). I don't think there's enough information for us to tell who would win here, tho u can kinda argue that Original Ginga is at least more than 10x stronger than the average New Gen if his clash with Dark Lugiel was able to turn Ken into a doll. But this is a hax ability so debating kinda gets really iffy when u talk about hax abilities.

Unless u wanna outright assume that since Nexus and Original Ginga are in somewhat the same situation, then they are also relative in power. Then Original Ginga gets wanked up to Ultra Brother level, which is automatically still at least 100x stronger than your proposed 10x New Gen Ultra OC (Flawed logic btw cause this would also allow me to say that Original Tiga would also be Ultra Brother level which would not be consistent with the power level of the Dark Giants)

(Technically speaking, unlike Tiga and Victory, we know that the Original Ginga is still within the Ginga Spark, but due to marketing purposes as well as contract with Hikaru's actor, they haven't brought him back unfortunately)

As for Ginga (Hikaru), we know that he was able to defeat Dark Zagi, Super Grand King (twice nerfed). And we do know that his base form was able to still hold his own compared to Super forms like Victory Knight and Exceed X in the fight against Mold Spectre. But still lost horribly to Dark Lugiel.

Even in their rematch in UGF1, we can clearly see that Ginga (Hikaru) is still not a match for Dark Lugiel (nerfed) as he literally tore through Ginga Thunderbolt like it was absolutely nothing (which is also the reason why Ginga (Hikaru) only won against Dark Lugiel in his series because of Taro's amp btw)

In this case its easier to argue that Ginga is not 10x as strong as an average New Gen because a Super form is usually <2x stronger than their base form, and i really dont think his perfomance thus far shows that he is solidly 10x stronger than your average New Gen so your OC would most probably defeat Ginga (Hikaru) here

However if we assume that Ginga can also do what Dark Lugiel can do, specifically the hax of turning beings into Spark Dolls, it all boils down to whether your OC has a counter to it. If not, then Ginga (Hikaru) wins unless your OC can defeat him before he uses this hax ability as well

Thanks for the question!

[thekaijudude]

Tyrant vs Grand King, who would win? I ask this because they’re both extremely powerful being Chimera Kaiju and the fact that they held their own against the likes of the Ultra Brothers. So again I’m curious on who would win in a straight up brawl between those two. Also could you factor in the other forms of the two of them as well please, thanks

Hi!

Ok so first off when talking about their base forms I assume you're specifically referring to their first incarnations which obviously goes to Grand King here cause not even Taro could faze him along with the complete 6 Ultra Brothers roster whereas Tyrant still fell to Taro

Thus, Grand King easily takes this

So I'll just be roughly summarizing their individual forms so it'll make it easier to compare

And so, moving on to talk about the Tyrant 'evolution line' (yes I'm only gonna be talking about the EXs cause the rest are even more vague to properly get into) But a disclaimer here first before we get to it, that anything beyond the original Tyrant isn't canon so we have absolutely no idea just how much stronger he got and all we know for sure is that subsequent evolutions are stronger so we can only based their capabilities off of this and whatever abilities they displayed in FER

So first off with EX Tyrant, the only somewhat quantifiable upgrade we are able to tell here is his Despotic Hammer which he's basically strong enough to be able to pull a meteorite down (which I estimate to be around at least 300m in diameter)

Next with EX Tyrant 2 or Deathborn, we're not exactly sure just how powerful he is when compared to EX Tyrant but we know that this is basically Tyrant's hax form as he can't truly be killed unless he dies when there's sunlight

Not to mention his Ghostly Dead Attack which spawns souls from his body to disintegrate opponents

Next for Grand King which everything else aren't exactly his forms per se but seem to just be different variants

But here is where it gets rather difficult to judge as I talked about this before

We just don't know how strong Super Grand King is compared to regular Grand King as all we know is that he was only defeated after he was nerfed twice by an unquantifiable amount

Why do I know he was nerfed twice?

1. After he was initially summoned, he was able to be easily knockbacked by Jean Nine so it is a clue that Dark Lived beings are inherently nerfed

2. After Misuzu came to her senses, Super Grand King was further weakened then he was when he was piloted by both Misuzu and Alien Nackle

So like EX Tyrant, all we know that a true Super Grand King is stronger than Grand King, but we just know exactly by how much

And this is why I will not be including Super in any matchups cause we don't know just how strong he really is

Next is Super Grand King Spectre, whom I rated many times as one of the top 10 strongest kaiju as he was essentially invincible before he was actually nerfed by the Knight Timbre which was hinted to have been created by Hikari as instructed by King to specifically take on Juda Spectre and his Vanguard

Before he was nerfed, he was basically unfazed by any attacks being thrown at him, be it physical or ranged and did I mention that all the Ultras involved in taking him down were all at least L6 Ultras? Not to mention 5 of them all at once?

Not to mention he also managed to split a pure fusion of 2 L6 Ultras, something totally unheard of until then (Ruebe not counted cause he's just L3 and Gruebe seems to be the original Ultra instead)

So yeah, Spectre is understandably broken as Juda made him specifically to defeat the Ultra Brothers and then to be able to destroy everything else after them

Next off, Maga Grand King, which honestly for the context of this matchup, his Maga Perforation can't even cut through an Ultra's Armor but is able to cut through his own so that's an indication of its potency. But besides that, everything else is basically ineffective stalling tactics with his sinkhole ability cause Tyrant can fly lol

Lastly with Megalo which seems to have the lowest durability (Dude got knockbacked by a TV Slugger Blu strike bruh) but also seems to have the most special abilities to aid him in battle which are his spike projections

With that being said, let's do a rough matchup

So imo I'm kind of unsure about the winner with Tyrant were to go up against Maga cause Tyrant doesn't seem to have any piercing attacks to get through Maga but neither Maga has any attacks which is potent enough to damage Tyrant

But maybe Tyrant could get past that by freezing Maga with his freezing gas and then defeat him from there

And against Megalo, since he has such a low durability and Tyrant on the other hand is such an absolute tank, Megalo's special abilities aren't gonna prevent the inevitable

Ok now onto Grand King vs EX Tyrant. Honestly I have no idea who will take this considering that we have no idea how much more durable EX Tyrant is compared to Tyrant and how does it compare with Grand King's own immense durability

And thus we have no idea with Despotic Hammer can even pierce through Grand King's armor when even the combined effort of the Ultra Brothers couldn't

And no freezing gas is gonna work here as Grand King's energy shield was even strong enough to ward off 5 L6 Ultra at once

On the other hand, Grand King was able to physically overpower all the 6 Ultra Brothers and even his ranged attacks can even damage them

So it's looking more in Grand King's favor here

(Fun Fact: Grand King is actually taller than EX Tyrant)

And for Deathborn, it's kind of the same situation but in addition, we don't know just how the Ghostly Dead Attack works and can Grand King's energy shield ward off attacks of the supernatural nature etc

So yeah Grand King alone can debatably already take on all forms of Tyrant, much less Super Grand King and even less Spectre

Thanks for the question!