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Diamond Dave or Sammy Hagar??
#80s nostalgia#retro aesthetic#70s#van halen#eddie van halen#sammy hagar#david lee roth#best of the 80s#80s#80s music#80s rock#rock#battle of the 80s
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Brian David Gilbert on Sad Boyz
feels fandom relevant.
[ID: A series of screen captures of Brian David Gilbert speaking on a podcast: "The thing that you invest your time in can feel so important to your identity that occasionally you feel, like, you need to close it off from other people in order to keep it safe. And I think that's where a lot of nerd culture, all that gatekeeping stuff, all of the toxicity stems from that thing where it's like, "In high school I didn't have a lot of friends or connect with a lot of people, but I did have this comic book, and now this comic book is super popular, but these people don't like me. That must be because they're not real fans."" End ID]
#feels very appropriate recently#oh you didn't read those comics? or these ones? or any? you're not doing it right#oh you're not including my favorite character? you're not doing it right#your fic/headcanons/meta annoys me? you're not doing it right#like come on these comics are 80 years old#obviously fanon vs canon is a battle that exists in almost every fandom but it's been esp prevalent in this fandom i've noticed#let's be real guys the comics are sometimes really bad and sometimes fanon is really good#anyway i watched this and it felt applicable#so that's my two cents#gatekeeping#fandom#etc
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Maybe it's a 'study finds water is wet' type of thought, but
considering it's an action movie whose overall plot is "immortal warriors Fuck Shit Up™️", I think it's significant that in The Old Guard the thing that makes Copley pull red strings through his Murder Conspiracy Board and say "[Merrick] doesn't care what [Andy]'s done with [her immortality]" is the people they save, not the ones they kill
Most of the Conspiracy Board is him circling random newspaper headlines and faces on old photographs to (more or less realistically) follow the immortals' treck through the world and big historical events. Which is, in-canon, not much different than putting portraits from different centuries next to a picture of Keanu Reeves and saying "they look the same, clearly Reeves is an immortal!"
But then there are the connections. A little girl holding Joe's hand in WW1 becoming the youngest (and first) woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Medicine (suck it, Kozak). Or the grandchild of a family that Andy saved from [something] helping people escape from the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia.
They are warriors. They have fought and been in the midst of countless wars, major or minor, throughout history. They must have killed as many people as they saved... and yet.
It's not them taking out a random warlord or dictator or rabidly hateful politician that has tangible repercussions in history. It's the children and families they get out of war zones, save from accidents, protect from natural disasters. People to whom they give a second chance at life, and grow to change the world (or even just their own world), like a mysterious stranger once changed theirs just by holding out a hand or patching a wound.
I don't know I just think it's particularly neat
#my ponderings#the old guard#I know we all love to play the 'if you could go back in time and kill One Person who would it be' game#but I think a movie that makes it EXTREMELY SATISFYING to see the Bad Guys die -#- having 'actually the best and greatest changes happen when people help each other' as its underlying message...#it means something#I also think it connects to Andy feeling like nothing she does changes anything at the start of the movie#for 80% of her life you could Solve A Problem by Taking Out The Guy Causing The Problem#especially in battle! you kill the general and you win. if you win the Problem Is Solved#but then everything becomes More Complex. the Problems™️ are globalized and/or systemic.#and Winning a Battle means just killing people. it doesn't Stop The Problem (nor really end a war)#so it feels useless#and even when they save people... they can’t stay in people's lives for long because immortality#which means they can never know what happens to the people they save#they don't (and can't) have the full picture
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EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY
#talking heads#Devo#david byrne#mark mothersbaugh#devo band#devo fanart#talking heads fanart#EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY#ADHD#VS#AUTISM#BEGIN!#the fact they kinda had beef in the 80s was funny#the infamous mark mothersbaugh david byrne hate poetry#shitpost#I'll disappear from tumblr for 2 months and post this then proceed to disappear once again#These are the two wolves inside me#Mark is winning btw he has the power of adhd and autism on his side#Sorry
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Thomas Blackshear, ‘Elfspire’, “Epic Illustrated”, Vol. 1, #1, 1980
#Thomas Blackshear#Elfspire#Epic Illustrated#1980#80's#80s#art#dragon#epic#battle#rpg#rpg aesthetic#r.p.g. aesthetic#artwork#Illustration#vintage
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I've got a half-formed idea I can't quite squish into shape where Corroded Coffin finally has an opportunity to play where someone with useful influence - a talent scout, a music journalist - will hear them. Maybe it's a Battle of the Bands or something like that. They're keen as mustard but very, very nervous. Steve has come along to help them move their equipment and set up on stage and Eddie takes him to one side.
"Stevie," he says, pressing his hands together prayer-like, "I'm going to ask you to do something a little bit unethical."
"What, like sabotage the other bands' equipment?"
"God no. I said a little bit. You see that chick with the red hair in the white leather jacket talking to the organiser? Her opinion matters. Like, a lot. So what I want you to do is, when we're playing, you get close to her and turn on the charm."
"Am I trying to distract her?" Steve asks, looking puzzled.
"No! No, you're just going to be this big cute guy who gives her some flattering attention. That way, she remembers while Coffin was playing, she was having a good time. It's subtle, see? Psychological. You get it, right?"
"Obviously I get it," Steve says, "but what if she really wants to hear you and I'm just annoying?"
"Why would she think you're annoying?" Eddie asks, honestly baffled. "What girl would not be excited to have you paying attention to her?"
"A lesbian," Steve says immediately.
"Okay, but -"
"A happily taken one."
"Sure, but -"
"A professional who wants to concentrate on the performance and form an unbiased opinion."
"You're killing me, Stevie."
"Not to mention, you're asking me to focus on someone else when you're playing? Be realistic. I have my work cut out not to throw my underwear on the stage," Steve says, smiling.
(Here my idea kind of fizzles out. I don't know whether Eddie's encouraged by this or just exasperated that his boyfriend is no good as a henchman.)
#steddie#all my ideas about battles of the bands in the 80s are heavily filtered through Jem and the Holograms#the Misfits would absolutely sabotage the other bands' equipment#remember the time they stole the Holograms' instruments and drove off with them in their van#and then when the Holograms chased them in a car threw the instruments out the back of the van at them?#I absolutely love how much theft assault and general mayhem the Misfits perpetrate WITH TOTAL IMPUNITY#occasionally Stormer will have an attack of conscience#or Eric will realise someone's actually going to get maimed or killed and react with Utter Horror#as if the bomb wasn't planted on his orders!
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It's Lance Week 2023 baby! Let's kick things off with a double battle!
You're hiking around northern Johto and are challenged by an... aging biker and his strange young protégé? Why is boss music playing???
Also in HD without GBA crunch pretensions!
Why is the aesthetic a strange mix of Gen 3 and 4? Because I like what I like, dunworryboutit! You should worry about the amount of Dragonite that are probably going to be in this fight!
#ABC Work#Lance Week 23#ChampionLanceWeek2023#Champion Lance#Pokemon Lance#Pokemon Silver#HGSS#Gen 3#Gen 4#double battle#GBA#had so much fun with these future redesigns#featuring Old Man [tm] Lance and his bum knee#And E4 Silver looking more 80s than intended#because I don't know a thing about modern punk/emo etc#oopsie! Lance has shades of Iron Maiden!Adrian with the scarf#shoutout to the HGSS pokedex certificate I ripped off for this BG#What can I say it was very fitting!
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currently working on babys first patch/battle/goth/whatever jacket !!! gimmie tips, hand em over! please and thank you
#punk style#punk tips#punk jacket#battle jacket#punk diy#goth diy#80s goth#goth punk#horror punk#patchwork#patch jacket#gothic#goth jacket#goth clothing
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Mutilations | 1986
#Mutilations#Larry Thomas#stop motion animation#80s horror#regional horror#horror movies#practical effects#stop motion#monster#hammersmith horror#epic battle#horror#science fiction#monster movie
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Some of my favorite pics of Paul in honor of his birthday 😁💕
#Mid 70s and mid 80s have always battled for favorite era of mine lol#he's so beautiful 🥰🥰#paul mccartney#james paul mccartney#the beatles#beatles#wings#paul mccartney and wings
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The thing is all these added and improved details making Choso visually much more powerful than he already is. That blood convergence animation similar to Gojo's Red
The way he's drawn
And the way they made him thrash Yuuji's body around with a single grab of his hand
#gimme a break#80 kg of sukuna's vessel suddenly looks like he weighs nothing on choso's one hand 😢#choso#itadori yuuji#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#ep 37#also who has the idea of giving this scene the neon lights background like never before in the previous battles you're a genius
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BATTLE SANTAS trading cards were all the rage of Christmas 1988, hyping kids up for a toy line and film franchise that never came to be after Christian protesters halted production.
The cards, produced before the first film was finished, tell the story of a multiverse of cosmic Santas who arrive from across time on an array of Battle Sleighs to help Earth’s Santa save Christmas future from the forces of Hell. On Santa’s lunar battlestation workshop (where he relocated after the North Pole was ravaged in The Santa Wars), his elves built armed vehicles from old toy parts and the re-animated corpses of reindemons, the hellbeasts of the demon army unleashed on Earth after a portal to hell was opened in the North Pole when oil companies drilled near Santa's Earth Workshop (thanks to Reagan’s deregulation of protected lands).
The early release of the trading cards was meant to generate buzz for the film’s funding and toy licensing, but the plan backfired, as the cards revealed a controversial plot point: Mecha-Jesus, the Cybersavior, a towering robotic kaiju Jesus built by the Battle Santas as their last stand against Satan. Mecha-Jesus is piloted by the real Jesus, who the Battle Santas summon back to mortal form. When Christian groups heard about children trading cards that depicted Jesus eviscerating enemies with Nazareth Napalm missiles and shooting Light of the Lord laser beams from his robo-eyes while shouting “The Power of Christ compels you to DIE!” over heavy metal music, a firestorm of protests made the entire BATTLE SANTAS property toxic to investors, leaving the trading cards the only glimpse of a Christmas epic that never came to be.
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#christmas#80s movies#christmas movies#alternate history#80s sci fi#santa claus#rob sheridan#nightmAIres#battle santas#fake movies#synthography#ai sci-fi
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#80s music tourney#a-ha#take on me#dead or alive#you spin me round#polls#80s#THE BATTLE OF THE ONE HIT WONDERS.#Youtube
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looking into reading the final reflection because it's cited as a big influence on the depiction of klingons in star trek from tng onward for looking past the warrior stereotype and fleshes them out really well and look at this.
#diary#YEAHHH im reading that.#the book also talks about a game that klingons play called klin zha and it sounds interesting- the background i think is that there's a lot#of battle-related games in klingon culture#and in klin zha theres two players (sort of chess-adjacent) taking turns paying with the same set of pieces.#of course this was written in the 80s so now klingons crying is canon cause of that one myth about kahless crying a whole ocean <- slay#but isnt that good isnt that so cool. <- nerd
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80s is so cool and for what . . .
#pvz fanart#pvz bfn#80s action hero#battle for neighborville#garden warfare#zombie#plants vs zombies#plants vs zombie garden warfare 2#fanart
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