V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
now youre probably wondering: how did this lil clown demon eat this whole thing? the answer is that professional dance burns a lot of calories
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now youre probably wondering: how did this lil clown demon eat this whole thing? the answer is that professional dance burns a lot of calories
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
and the rest are LEGALLY DISTINCT NORDIC FOREST CREATURES NOTHING TO SEE HERE MOVE ALONG
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
i dont have an unhealthy obsession with the rankin-bass adaptation of life and times of santa claus. you have absolutely no proof of such a thing
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
today in minor background details no one gives a shit about but im going to talk about anyway: this phreak bears similarity to utsuro-bune. there's no weird lady inside this one tho, just good ol fashioned organs. it only speaks japanese hence "いいえ!(No!)"
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social) reply parent
you live in lizard country tho. all the crows here do is sit only on OUR LAWN and wage war with the squirrels and chipmunks
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
was this an excuse to put thorne in stupid clothes? yes do i have any idea what im doing with azahars look at any moment in time? no #webcomic #traditionalart #blackartists #Phreakscomic #PhreaksU #Phreaks
Scott Frerichs (@kaiserneko.bsky.social) reposted
people in 1997 playing Resident Evil: who the fuck would build a mansion like this rich weirdos:
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If you follow me, but somehow aren't following Helen McCarthy, what are you doing???
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
i remember seeing the tv ad making this game look way cooler than it was, especially controlwise
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Hahah guezz what?!
✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Is Outside Looking at Stars” ✪ (@jongraywb.bsky.social) reposted
*takes a candid pic of Willow licking herself, gets way too deep into my own headspace again, and lets out a deep negro spiritual style grandpa sigh* Willow: “I heard that. You good?” Me: “I’m okay, sweetheart. You can nap.” Willow: “Good enough for me. Tell me when youre ready to walk again.”
SomecallmeJohnny (@somecallmejohnny.com) reposted
Trying to chase subscriber goals is part of what led to my nervous breakdown in late 2023. Never again. I'll take what I can get, but my community as is supports me enough. My look into Persona will happen regardless.
Hourly Yeen (@hourlyyeen.bsky.social) reposted
#hourly #yeen https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/Yeens/14824813462_0f55b294a8_c.jpg
Consumer Time Capsule (@consumertc.bsky.social) reposted
The Garfield Happy Meal toys were some of the best ever made. Most of us had the four with rotating wheels, but there were also two "under 3" toys - a rollerskating and alternate skateboarding version. (1989)
pussyfullawasps 🗡️ (they/she) (@pussyfullawasps.bsky.social) reposted
outraged at this senseless removal of rainbows from florida crosswalks. how am i supposed to know which streets are gay
Nash (@radiodeadair.com) reposted
We bring back so much stuff, why not Art Deco? I've wanted an art deco PC case for decades. Is it really so much to ask? Come on.
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V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
im so used to seeing birds eating fries, bagels, bird feed, and other random human garbage that i was weirded out when i saw a sparrow with a legit worm in its beak
Just Dave (@davidj867.bsky.social) reposted
This killdeer was feasting on worms along the third base line at a local park. #birds #wildlife #photography #naturephotography
Dan Johnson Art (@danjohnsonart.bsky.social) reposted
Thanks, Rob, for choosing the #Magpie for today's #BirdOfTheDay - here's a couple from the garden, and one from the easel! 🪶 #birds #photography #ukbirding #oilpainting #ArtYear #smArtist #BirdArt #EastCoastKin
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social) reply parent
the winners write history which is why the survivors must still tell their stories. my elementary school books praised columbus until my mother, a west indian and descendant of his victims, told me the reality. it wasnt the first time my parents needed the record set straight
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
chapter one: the girl quickly learns that hr is a waste of everyone's time
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
cant wait for the sequel, "ok, old world boomer"
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New #ebook at Project Gutenberg: The sociable ghost by Olive Harper https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76737
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
tfw you wanna have a whimsical victorian era adventure but dont have enough money to do it quickly:
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I'd like Swords to have 150k readers by the time Episode 1000 rolls around, help me out here: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/sw...
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A Southern Resident Superpod. Read the full story here: buff.ly/cuQYZdo Photo by Gary This is an encounter from 2015 #WhaleTales #KillerWhale #SRKW
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Whoa, look at how beautiful these nudibranchs are! @schmidtocean.bsky.social 834 #uruguaysub200 #MarineLife
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Holms' hermit, on the job. When a barnacle dies, hermits quickly clean it out, removing the interior plates, scrubbing the walls, leaving the place ready for occupancy by other critters. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit #Invertefest
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Polycera quadrilineata Zeelandbrug, dijk & 1e pijler Adrie Harink, 6/9/2019 website: https://www.blauwtipje.nl find our Blauwtipje app on android and ios #blauwtipje #nudibranch #polycera #MarineLife
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Moss is on the week’s agenda. #mossyswamp #naturesky #gremlincore #woodthrush 🪶
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Harvested the chicken of the woods yesterday and some more oysters. Happy Labour Day Weekend! #photography #forest #fungifriends
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
my brain at 2am: ms frizzle, mary poppins, and amelia bedelia are all part of the same species me: what does that mean brain: me: brain. WTF DOES THAT MEAN
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social) reply parent
also means the history books cant use that feeble excuse of "well, you see communicationwas slower back then" or "no one knew what was going on or where those trains went despite thr many, many immigrants talking about it and the blatant documentation"
SporadicErratic (@sporadicerratic.bsky.social) reposted
The difference between now and previous eras in which fascist regimes rose to power is that people are connected in ways they never were before, so in real time you can see just how badly how many people all over the globe fucking hate what's happening
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
yknow it just occured to me that theyre called the god*hand* not the god*head*, the idea of evil is a pulsing heart/organ, the od is long and tangling like veins/nervous system its as if all the powerful entities in berserk are just parts of a bigger entity >:?
Trav Guy (@thattravguy.bsky.social) reposted
My girlfriend is playing System Shock for the first time and she keeps taking screenshots every time Shodan beltless her e.g. calls her an insect.
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V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
whyd i see this and assume itd be an eva unit whistling the whole time
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social) reply parent
for which generation pleasesaywhichgeneration
Nash (@radiodeadair.com) reposted
Doesn't seem like much but I would really like to have those extra four years.
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
tfw you put the assets on the wrong layer
Hourly Yeen (@hourlyyeen.bsky.social) reposted
#hourly #yeen https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/Yeens/14975976583_6ae1a9f99f_c.jpg
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social) reply parent
a term like "prisoner" loses all meaning in a society that exploits the imprisoned for labor and then continues to extort them after they have supposedly done their time. then we gate off all opportunities so they have no choice but to repeat the cycle
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social) reply parent
thebthing that unsettles me the most is that this has been done for so long in such a bland ritualistic manner that everyone tied to it no longer sees it as unordinary. its like the old tradition of the scapegoat or chivari
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
damn. must be nice to just fire a person for gross incompetence and be done with it.
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social) reply parent
"hostage" implies the people holding them believe they have value and recquire care until the exchange of goods and services what we have here is a concentration camp dolled up as a roadside circus funded by our tax dollars theyre victims. sacrifices for a hideous agenda
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social) reply parent
ok so its not just me seeing googles last two braincells are actively dying
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
i cant not associate that discman with my digimon the movie soundtrack. i can faintly hear the ska now... ill either try to finish some games and comics in my backlog this weekend. rn i need to figure out if dinner should be defrosted or ordered out rn
Dates in Movies (@datesinmovies.bsky.social) reposted
Aug 29th 1997 - Skynet become self aware. 📽️📅 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
is it me or haa google gone especially stupid today? before i could type "what is ms" and id get multiple scoliosis right away now im grtting morning shows, stuff about manuscripts, the most random crap. what happened? they take out its last braincells?
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
okay, two members of the poster party left: cyborg wizard and valkyrie(?) oy, this is gonna take a bit. i cant even remember a winged horse in anything ghibli adjacent off the top of my head...
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
but of course general kay never gets crowned cause WHABAM! asimov comes in to help save the day! and zandra uses her wind magic to help too! so instead of getting smacked by gorgons at the end, a robot saves princess zandra *dont worry about that dude there well fix it in post or take him out
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
milo: by the winds, its you! the colonel! general kay: ha ha its general now. thanks to your sister the queen gave me a promotion! zandra: you fiend! dont you know what your actions will do?! the winds shall punish you! gk: out of my way you stupid children! ive a crown to accept! ha ha ha
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
*i mean princess zandra, whos definitely still in this story. this is just part of prince milo's action packed flashbacks** **we'll also use the lupin footage to show more tech of the evil queen silenas empire*** ***its just called queen silenas empire/silena empire/the empire
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
so im thinking that prince milo's unnamed sister was stolen at the order of queen silena since she also has wind magic and silena needs wind magic to give power to the fire beasts. and now shes after nausicaa!!
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
so this is my idea for our new robot pal, whos name is going to be Asimov. nothings more american Isaac Asimov! unlike those other evil fire demons/beasts/monsters, asimov is a Good One who was changed by queen silena's evil magic and tech
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
alright, castle in the sky! thanks for coming in clutch pazu cause now youre getting spliced into nau--i mean, WARRIORS OF THE WIND as PRINCE MILO* *in certain scenes don't worry about it
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
hmmm...how interesting. a proto-nausicaa in an episode of an anime of similar quality we can use you say? i think we can (kinda?) work this
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
this is a bit if a puzzle. theres not many humanoid robots in ghibli or non hostile ones. tbh the guy om the cover looks most like, uh, Robot who was both in Lupin and Castle in the Sky. and hey squirrel cats! continuity (sorta)
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
so we got prince milo our action hero, princess zandra our love interest/jedi style wizard?)...but whos this dude? he looks like a tiny god warrior but hes got a lightsaber? tf you come from dude? you lost?? you look like you should be in a one off episode of star blazers
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
(Due to unfortunate incidents involving smacking children in the face and being painted in "slightly more toxic than acceptable" paint, the Royal Windrider was withdrawn before the movie's release. There was a lawsuit about the lack of refunds)
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
of course theres wind magic. thats how zandra flies. how else does she fly? ALL PRINCESSES DO MAGIC. its like, A Rule. only she may use the Royal Windrider. Order your own Royal Windrider from KBToys for two easy payments of $19.99!
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
zandra: old man why are you here this is no place for someone without wind magic! axel: call me axel. i bring grave news: the gorgons are becoming fire demons zandra: the gorgons are becoming fire beasts? may the winds help us all! milo: fire monsters? whatre are those?
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
side note: these are the real dub names from warriors of the wind edit. i forgot they picked gorgon and fire demon. i thought "demon" was forbidden cause religious connotation and they use "beast" or "monster" for authenticity, it will be inconsistent ala "silver imperium crystal" iykyk
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
in order to have MANDATORY HAPPY ENDING, yupa will now be zandra's father in disguise who totally survived and has been hiding in plain sight. long live king yupa, father of princess zandra! (mom was dead after zandra was born tho. thats just A Rule)
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
(of course we cant use words like kill, die/death, god, or even THINK about moral ambiguity and enviromentalism. so for now princess zandra is on a quest to reunite with her offscreen family whom we'll see in various chopped up flashbacks. prince milo is also rescuing his unnamed sister princess)
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
zandra: and so my family was taken and so now i must travel to stop the ohm from changing into the great warriors milo: its sad someone so beautiful had to go through so much zandra: war is terrible milo: yeah it certainly is. whats it good for anyway?* *please read like the og resident evil dub
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
iirc asbel doesnt show uo until the midpoint of nausicaa. so obvious this starts off with action as asbel (called milo in the dub??) escapes the fortress. he encounters nausicaa (princess zandea) and theres mandatory cis love at first sight also hed be a prince too
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
so i legit had to look up who this was and it was *asbel*, who i 110% forgot was even IN the movie or that he used the gun. the reasoning for this was because the producers thought the movie wouldnt sell with a girl lead. asbels looking way older and blonde but ok then, wotw. you do you
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
tho i need to point out something: wotw has FIVE characters, two of which dont necessarily have an equivalent in nausicaa. it also looks like a dude (with GUN!) is thr mc and nausicaa is...a love interest? side character??
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
90s anime narrator: "nausicca, worry not, im here to help you!" said the ohm. but the aight of the ohm had never been great and so they nearly trampled their dear friend!* *please read in standard 90s anime saban english dub voice
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
tho i cant see a 90s western studio willing to edit the ohm into villainly fiven how there's little work with. i could see them making the ohmn "talk" telepathically/narrate like they did in the studio edit of thief and cobbler
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
maybe in the ghiblitech WotW there is more than one god warrior or this isnt a fail state but what its supposed to look like. maybe its a The Blob situation and thus making it a real threat? or the final stage/corruption of the ohm? (no way they wouldnt be villainized in this edit)
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
so initially i thought this was supposed to be the ohmn but its actually failed god warrior. i mean its not *wrong* to assume its an enemy but this makes it seem like a bigger threat rather than Humans Are Their Own Worse Enemy
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
you ever think about how wild the warriors of the wind poster looks and how that story wouldve gone had they gone the full robotech with ALL the ghibli and tms stuff available at that time?
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
garfield and odie got the same look i did when i googled the name it an anime without knowing what the word "erotic" meant to see if hollywood video had it (they did not)
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
can he start with those resident evil looking rabbits at least?
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
other tombstone idea: biblically accurate angel but it has one hand offering a high five and the othe hand is offering a thumbs up
V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
i want my tombstone to be a chair specifically for witches and big tiddy goth gfs and theres also a hand giving the thumbs up hidden somewhere in the graveyard......oR IS IT??
The Scamperbeasts (@scamperbeasts.bsky.social) reposted
Step One of Smudge's master plan to eat all the treats was accomplished: He had infiltrated the pantry. However, Step Two - grow opposable thumbs - was taking longer than anticipated.
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V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
*slaps hat on knee* dagnabbit. when you got me, you got me
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V. Martin (@vmartinwrites.bsky.social)
blobfish's expression while trapedn inside the clam is just like "yeah...this may as well happen..."
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