ANIMATION RAMBLINGS

I am so hyped for animation right now. Please let me share with you my excitement (as well as some links)!

FIRST: Super happy for the writer's guild on their win this month. I'm always happy to see the entertainment peeps standing up for themselves. This is a huge deal. There's been some talk of anime production workers possibly taking action as well, but there hasn't been any concrete news on that.

SECOND: What's come recently? Well, Fiona and Cake was great! I very nearly cried at several points lol, it was a very satisfying ending. And Worthikids (click to see their Youtube!) recently finished off their second season of Bigtop Burger: A funny little series of short videos about clowns making burgers in a food truck. It's wonderful and there's been a fair bit of lore that's been revealed from this season. Can't wait for what's to come in season 3 (which has pretty much been confirmed at this point)!

THIRD: What's to come? The new Scott Pilgrim anime series is coming soon! Just a little over a month until it premiers!! The little bit of teasers we've gotten so far make it look promising, and considering a lot of OGs from previous Scott Pilgrim media came back to work on it, I think it's safe to assume we'll enjoy what we see (despite Netflix being Netflix). There's also the Among Us series in development with the creator of Infinity Train Owen Dennis! It will probably be another year or so before we get more information on that, but it's a fun thing to look forward to.

What I'm really looking forward to are several independent projects coming up. More people are realizing that they can still tell the stories they want without corporate overlords breathing over their necks 24/7. Of course, this doesn't come without its hardships. Their main sources of income are coming mostly from crowdfunding and selling merch, and production may be slower (honestly for the best, stop the crunch culture). But to many of them, it's worth doing.

First off, Lackadaisy- What's that, you ask? It's about mobster cats in the Prohobition Era. It's got both whimsy and grit, both light humor and darker, more somber themes. And the art is so fun! It started off as a comic- check out their site! They released an animated pilot earlier this year! And just recently they got their project completely crowdfunded- several times more than what they were aiming for! The whole first season is funded and they're getting to work on production!

Then there's this fun guide series by one of my favorite stop motion animators Cranbersher! His work is amazing, he's done plenty of stuff for Youtubers including Markiplier and Jacksepticeye, and he even got to animate in Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio!!! He's been working on his series "Cranbersher's Guide to Stop Motion" for many years now, and he has been working diligently on the finale. Seriously, I recommend giving Cranbersher's Guide a watch. And do NOT skip any episodes! I promise you it's worth it, you'll learn a lot about animation. :)

Third, Jellybox Studio!! A new independent studio formed by Gene Goldstein, the mind behind Planet Panic and frontman for punk-rock band Qbomb! His animation is amazing, and with a whole team behind him, they're planning a 40-episode miniseries called NOXP! Gene has already released a few episodes on their socials.

And last, at least for now, there's Monkey Wrench by Zeurel! Essentially it's about two space bounty hunters trying to start fresh and not to get killed. It's definitely more on the mature side but the first episode is a pretty fun adventure on its own! (Its been a while since I've seen it, oof) The second episode came out several months ago and the series is also still in development, I'm excited to see what's in store!

Honestly there's a lot going on with animation lately. Times are changing, and I kind of hope we see more animators and crews turn to other options to bring their stories to people. Get excited!

Bonus: There have been a dozen reanimation projects over the last few years. They really popped off after the Game Grumps, Kirby, and Dover Boys projects got more attention. One of them, Gravity Falls Reanimated (which seeks to reanimate the first episode of Gravity Falls with contributions from dozens of different animators) is nearly complete after several years! The final product will be released under Alchemy Paint Studios. It's been a long time coming, but it's almost here!

Fanart for the indie cartoon NOXP. Look it up on Youtube or Instagram, it's great.

the loudest, scrappiest punk you know is an animation director and storyboard artist who has worked with nickelodeon. the sickest, most twisted goth you know was a creator and lead writer of a cartoon on nickelodeon.

what the fuck is going on at nickelodeon.

oomfies Fanart for Gene Goldstein's webseries NOXP, go check it out

February 11th, 2024

The Worm (Caenorhabiditis elegans)

Distribution: Found in temperate regions worldwide.

Habitat: Terrestrial; lives in humid soils with moderate oxygen contents and low-to-medium clay contents.

Diet: Microbivorous; feed on bacteria that lives in soil and on rotting vegetation, but can also feed on various species of yeast.

Description: C. elegans is aptly nicknamed "the worm" because it is a very common laboratory model; in fact, it's used as the model organism for all eukaryotic organisms! These worms are very easy to study due to the transparency of their body, as well as their limited number of cells, having only 131 cells in their entire bodies. They were the first multicellular organisms to have their entire genome sequenced (as they only have 6 chromosomes and approximately 20,000 genes). Common research on these worms include the processes of embryogenesis, development, disease and aging (especially in the form of programmed cell death). By understanding how their genes are involved in the aging process, we can hopefully have a better idea of the processes involved in human aging, too!

Most of these worms are self-fertilizing hermaphrodites, though males are also present (composing only about 1/1000 worms). Though their anatomy is quite simple, they do possess a simple brain and nervous system (one third of their cells are neurons). They're also capable of rudimentary learning, as well as using chemoreceptors to orient themselves, and respond minimally to light (living in dark environments, they don't have much need for good eyesight).

Image by K. Bradnam and gif by Bob Goldstein.

Michelle Yeoh is a mythological goddess in the new Disney+ series American Born Chinese. Based on the genre-hopping graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang, Disney unveiled a featurette of the new series during the D23 Expo.

“It’s a lot of fun, it’s a log of magic, it’s a lot of badass action,” Yeoh says in the clip which you can view in the video above. Yeoh adds later on, “It is a magical ride and that’s what Disney+ is all about.”

American Born Chinese tells the story of Jin Wang (Ben Wang), an average teenager juggling his high school social life with his home life. When he meets a new student on the first day of the school year, even more worlds collide as Jin is unwittingly entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods.

Joining Wang are Yeo Yann Yann as Christine Wang, Chin Han as Simon Wang, Ke Huy Quan as Freddy Wong, Jimmy Liu as Wei-Chen, Sydney Taylor as Amelia with Daniel Wu as Sun Wukong “The Monkey King” and Yeoh as Guanyin.

Kelvin Yu (Bob’s Burgers) serves as executive producer and showrunner. Destin Daniel Cretton (Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) is set to direct and serves as executive producer, alongside Melvin Mar and Jake Kasdan (Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.), Erin O’Malley (Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.), Asher Goldstein (Short Term 12) and Gene Luen Yang. The Disney Branded Television series is produced by 20th Television, part of Disney Television Studios.

Guest directors for the show include Peng Zhang (Episode 4) and Lucy Liu (Episode 6).

American Born Chinese is expected to be released on Disney+ in 2023.

(via Deadline)

Between "Alien" and "Aliens," 57 years passed, with Ellen Ripley in suspended animation. Between "Aliens" and "Alien3," she drifted through space in a lifeboat, before landing on a prison planet. In all three films she did battle with vile alien creatures constructed out of teeth, green sinew, and goo. In "Alien3" she told this life form: "I've known you so long I can't remember a time when you weren't in my life." I'm telling the aliens the same thing. This is a series whose inspiration has come, gone, and been forgotten. I'm aliened out. The fourth movie, depends on a frayed shoestring of a plot, barely enough to give them something to talk about between the action scenes. A "Boo Movie," Pauline Kael called the second one, because it all came down to aliens popping up and going "boo!" and being destroyed.

I found that second film dark and depressing, but skillfully directed by James Cameron ("Terminator II"). I lost interest with the third, when I realized that the aliens could at all times outrun and outleap the humans, so all the chase scenes were contrivances.

Now here is "Alien Resurrection." Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is still the heroine, even though 200 years have passed since "Alien3." She has been cloned out of a drop of her own blood, and is being used as a brood mare: The movie opens with surgeons removing a baby alien from her womb. How the baby got in there is not fully explained, for which we should perhaps be grateful.

The birth takes place on a vast space ship. The interstellar human government hopes to breed more aliens, and use them for--oh, developing vaccines, medicines, a gene pool, stuff like that. The aliens have a remarkable body chemistry. Ripley's genes are all right, too: They allow her reconstituted form to retain all of her old memories, as if cookie dough could remember what a gingerbread man looked like.

Ripley is first on a giant government science ship, then on a tramp freighter run by a vagabond crew. The monsters are at first held inside glass cells, but of course they escape (their blood is a powerful solvent that can eat through the decks of the ship). The movie's a little vague about Ripley: Is she all human, or does she have a little alien mixed in? For awhile we wonder which side she's on. She laughs at mankind's hopes of exploiting the creatures: "She's a queen," she says of the new monster. "She'll breed. You'll die." When the tramp freighter comes into play, we get a fresh crew, including Call (Winona Ryder), who has been flown all the way from Earth to provide appeal for the younger members of the audience. Ryder is a wonderful actress, one of the most gifted of her generation, but wrong for this movie. She lacks the heft and presence to stand alongside Ripley and the grizzled old space dogs played by Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinon, Dan Hedeya and Brad Dourif. She seems uncertain of her purpose in the movie, her speeches lack conviction, and when her secret is revealed, it raises more questions than it answers. Ryder pales in comparison with Jenette Goldstein, the muscular Marine who was the female sidekick in "Aliens." Weaver, on the other hand, is splendid: Strong, weary, resourceful, grim. I would gladly see a fifth "Alien" movie if they created something for her to do, and dialog beyond the terse sound bites that play well in commercials. Ripley has some good scenes. She plays basketball with a crew man (Perlman) and slams him around. When she bleeds, her blood fizzes interestingly on the floor--as if it's not quite human. She can smell an alien presence. And be smelled: Her baby recognizes her mother and sticks out a tongue to lick her.

These aliens have a lot of stuff in their mouths; not only the tongue and their famous teeth, but another little head on a stalk, with smaller teeth. Still to be determined is whether the littler head has a still tinier head inside of it, and so on. Like the bugs in "Starship Troopers," these aliens are an example of specialization. They have evolved over the eons into creatures adapted for one purpose only: To star in horror movies.

Mankind wants them for their genes? I can think of a more valuable attribute: They're apparently able to generate bio-mass out of thin air. The baby born at the beginning of the film weighs maybe five pounds. In a few weeks the ship's cargo includes generous tons of aliens. What do they feed on? How do they fuel their growth and reproduction? It's no good saying they eat the ship's stores, because they thrive even on the second ship--and in previous movies have grown like crazy on desolate prison planets and in abandoned space stations. They're like perpetual motion machines; they don't need input.

The "Alien" movies always have expert production design. "Alien Resurrection" was directed by the French visionary Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("City of Lost Children"), who with his designers has placed it in what looks like a large, empty hangar filled with prefabricated steel warehouse parts. There is not a single shot in the movie to fill one with wonder--nothing like the abandoned planetary station in "Aliens." Even the standard shots of vast spaceships, moving against a backdrop of stars, are murky here, and perfunctory.

What impact will "Alien Resurrection" have on the careers of Weaver and Ryder? Financially, it will help: Weaver remains the only woman who can open an action picture. Artistically, the film will have no impact at all. It's a nine days' wonder, a geek show designed to win a weekend or two at the box office and then fade from memory. Try this test: It's been five months since "Jurassic Park: The Lost World" opened. How often do you think about it?

"Sexual mimicry occurs when one sex mimics the opposite sex in its behavior, appearance, or chemical signalling. It is more commonly seen within invertebrate species, although sexual mimicry is also seen among vertebrates such as spotted hyenas. Sexual mimicry is commonly used as a mating strategy to gain access to a mate, a defense mechanism to avoid more dominant individuals, or a survival strategy."

Thoughts?

Trans people and sexual mimicry

The concept of sexual mimicry is an attempt by some evolutionary biologist to explain gender variance in the animal kingdom.

I know of many female dogs who will gladly hump a woman's leg in order to get attention or whatever it is female dogs try to achieve by this kind of behavior. According to the sexual mimicry approach they are copying stereotypical male behavior in order to.... eh, something.

The feminine looking morphs of flycatcher birds look like females because they try to trick females into having sex with them, under the radar of the watchful "real males" who look like males. Or so the theory goes.

I find these explanations lacking. They are clearly based on a strict binary of sexual behavior in animals. So deviations from that strict pattern has to be explained as variations that helps these individuals get offspring.

I doubt the female flycatchers are so stupid that they do not recognize a "feminine" male. And even if they do not, they would have to be classified as lesbian or bisexual birds, which does not give them much of an evolutionary advantage, either.

I think it makes much more sense to see all animals, males and females, morphs and binaries, as the end result of a mix of a lot of sex and gender traits, traits which encompass both looks and behaviors.

Sure, the humping of a female dog will have the same origin as the one of a male dog, and that behavior does help male dogs impregnate bitches. But that does not mean that a similar behavior may not have a different, although related, function in female dogs. Maybe it is a sign signifying a specific desire, sexual or otherwise? Or maybe humping has become a sexually associated behavior in all dogs?

As for human beings, being a "top" or "bottom" is a relevant issue for members of both sexes. In other words: Being "passive" or "active" are scripts found in both men and women, since we come from the same genetic basis. We share the same genetic code. Which behaviors are triggered in real life is based on everything from hormones in the womb to cultural imprints.

You write:

Sexual mimicry is commonly used as a mating strategy to gain access to a mate, a defense mechanism to avoid more dominant individuals, or a survival strategy."

This made me think about the lives of transfeminine people and trans women. Being seen as a man and dressing up as a woman is not a good mating strategy in conservative communities, at least. You will be provoking more "dominant individuals" which may actually cost you your life.

If this was merely a story about "survival of the fittest", there would be no trans people. Yet there is a lot of sexual diversity and gender variance, both among animals and among humans.

So I think we have to turn the whole "survival of the fittest" idea upside down. You do not have to be "the fittest" to have offspring. All you have to do is to survive long enough to find someone who wants to have sex with you. And given that there is so much variance, there is someone for everyone, somewhere.

Keep also in mind that traits are most often caused by a combination of a lot of genes, some of which come from the male and some from the female. This endless remix of life will throw up a lot of queer individuals, and that is a good thing, because the survival of our species requires us to have different people who can address different challenges.

Sexual variation and gender variance makes our species stronger, not weaker.

Photo: Paul Goldstein/Cover Images/Newscom

El rechazo.

En las relaciones sociales hay pocas cosas que duelan tanto como sentirse excluido, menospreciado o despreciado por los demás. A casi todos nos ha pasado alguna vez descubrir, con pesar, que no somos correspondidos en el amor; que no fuimos incluidos en un plan de amigos o familia o que rechacen nuestras ideas en el trabajo. La prueba del dolor que producen esas situaciones es que muchas de ellas quedan grabadas a fuego en la mente.

El rechazo produce un dolor anímico porque rasga el amor propio y señala que no despertamos interés en el otro. Está relacionado con el narcisismo, con el amor y el reconocimiento.  el ser rechazados generalmente provoca angustia, “el otro ‘no me quiso’, ‘no me aceptó’, esto genera sentimientos de depresión y culpa, porque uno supone que tiene más defectos de los que veía o el otro detectó ciertos defectos que no advertiríamos, entonces esto produce una tristeza muy fuerte. Hay distintos tipos de rechazo. Goldstein describió primero el dolor de amar y no tener reciprocidad. “Es un dolor profundo que remite a las raíces infantiles del amor parental y de los seres queridos de tiempos muy tempranos de la vida”. Pero afirmó que hay otros rechazos que tienen relación con aspectos ideológicos, racismo y discriminación. “Son rechazos al otro como la alteridad, lo diferente de mí o de mi grupo. Son muy dolorosos y comprometen la ética y el reconocimiento.

Hay personas que parecen ir por la vida sin sentirse afectadas por nada, mientras que otras son más susceptibles, en especial, al rechazo. Martínez dijo que se trata de aquellas personas que tienen baja autoestima, sienten mucho temor a hacer el papelón o a que se burlen de ellas. Lamentablemente, este tipo de personalidades que coinciden con los síntomas del llamado trastorno por ansiedad social, tienen un concepto de sí mismas muy pequeño y básico. Son personas sumamente autoexigentes, autocríticas y esto las hace más susceptibles.

Hay personalidades muy sensibles al rechazo, que están pendientes de cada signo que puedan interpretar como esto. Son sensibles por su naturaleza y sienten un dolor muy profundo. Otras, transfiguran ese dolor en odio o resentimiento, a veces interminable. Hay personas que pueden elaborar con más recursos el dolor del rechazo y pensar, hablar, creando otra cosa a partir de ese sentimiento. En distintos niveles el rechazo es percibido, pero cada quien tiene respuestas diferentes. El rechazo hace responder al cerebro del mismo modo que al dolor físico. Estudios de resonancia magnética han demostrado que ante el desprecio se activan las mismas áreas del cerebro que ante un dolor físico. Por eso duele tanto el rechazo, hablando neurológicamente. En nuestro pasado como cazadores/recolectores, ser excluidos de nuestras tribus era prácticamente una sentencia de muerte, ya que teníamos pocas probabilidades de sobrevivir por mucho tiempo solos. Como resultado, desarrollamos un mecanismo de alerta temprana para advertir cuando estábamos en peligro de ser ‘expulsados de la isla’ por nuestros compañeros de tribu, y eso era rechazo. Las personas que experimentaron el rechazo como algo más doloroso tenían más probabilidades de cambiar su comportamiento, permanecer en la tribu y transmitir sus genes.

Desafortunadamente, el mayor daño que causa el rechazo suele ser autoinfligido. De hecho, nuestra respuesta natural a ser abandonado por un compañero de citas o ser elegido último para un equipo no es solo lamerse las heridas, sino volverse intensamente autocríticos. Nos insultamos, lamentamos nuestras deficiencias y nos sentimos disgustados con nosotros mismos. En otras palabras, justo cuando más duele nuestra autoestima, vamos y la dañamos aún más. Hacerlo es emocionalmente insalubre y psicológicamente autodestructivo, pero cada uno de nosotros lo ha hecho en un momento u otro”, describió el psicólogo.

Cómo afrontarlo

La buena noticia es que es posible tratar el dolor emocional y que existen formas más saludables de responder al rechazo, aliviar nuestras heridas y reconstruir nuestra autoestima.

¿Cómo superarlo? En realidad es algo que sí o sí tiene que procesarse a medida que pasa el tiempo, por supuesto que va a haber personas que nos van a rechazar y otras que nos van a aceptar. Entonces, la cuestión es: ¿por qué todos me tienen que aceptar? De todas formas, es una persona o son dos las que pueden habernos rechazado, pero no todo el mundo, no hay que generalizar. Y también, por supuesto, el paso del tiempo hace que procesemos mejor los rechazos.

es importante recordar lo que uno tiene para ofrecer (en lugar de enumerar sus defectos). La mejor manera de aumentar los sentimientos de autoestima después de un rechazo es reafirmar los aspectos de nosotros mismos que sabemos que son valiosos”

También como animales sociales, afirmó que necesitamos sentirnos queridos y valorados por los diversos grupos sociales a los que estamos afiliados. por eso, aumentar nuestros encuentros sociales nos hará sentir mejor.

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"congratulations specifically to brett goldstein for getting his singin in the rain adjacent ending"

Holy SHIT your fucking MIND. he really did that for us and for himself. is Jamie. Is Jamie Debbie Reynolds.

....... MY EYES HAVE OPENED

initially i had thought about it in the traditional layout - that roy was gene and jamie was donald and keeley was debbie ...

but now that i think about it, roy's 4am and other times training plans definitely aren't ... not like gene kelley style professional sadism, and there is the initial tension, and keeley does have more of the energy of being into performing as a way to cheer herself and others up ... and there could be a line between the lina/kathy situation and jamie and zava (or even jamie and rupert in the finale) ... i think you might be right, here, actually. it also means i get to imagine roy and keeley doing a version of moses supposes which has me in stitches so personally i'll take it!!!!!

Hey YOU. Yeah, YOU. Do YOU like indie animation? Are you looking for new stuff to watch and/or support? Have I got two suggestions for you!!

1: NOXP! Fun series with short episodes about a group of isekai'd heroes who get stuck in the isekai world and have to live normal lives :D The animation is fun, the characters are fun, the voice acting is FANTASTIC. It's being developed by a new studio called Jellybox, founded by the incredible Gene Goldstein! LINKS!:

Gene's tumblr!

Jellybox's instagram!

Support their kickstarter! (ONLY 9 DAYS TIL THEIR KICKSTARTER ENDS, HELP THEM REACH THEIR GOAL)

2: The Amazing Digital Circus! The pilot is a full length episode with fun shenanigans with whacky characters! It definitely doesn't hold any kind of secrets! :D Created by Goosworx and developed with many talented animators as well as with Glitch Productions. LINKS!:

The pilot episode!

Support them by shopping at their store!

Please please please check these out!

Researchers discover new clues to how tardigrades can survive intense radiation

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill news release:

Sixty years ago, researchers discovered that tardigrades could survive radiation about 1,000 times more intense than humans are known to survive. Courtney Clark-Hachtel, a former postdoctoral scholar in the lab, joined the group to examine how tardigrades can survive intense radiation. She found that a species of tardigrade is not immune to DNA damage—irradiation does damage their DNA—but the tardigrades can repair extensive damage.

Clark-Hachtel and Goldstein were surprised to find that tardigrades can increase the volume of production from DNA repair genes. Unlike humans, tardigrades can ramp up the level of DNA repair genes' products to such an extreme extent that they become some of the most abundant gene products in animals.

I bet I could ramp up my level of DNA repair genes if I tried hard enough

From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his brothers and Doc Holliday, Earp wages war on the dreaded Clanton and McLaury gangs.  Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Wyatt Earp: Kevin Costner Doc Holliday: Dennis Quaid Nicholas Earp: Gene Hackman James Earp: David Andrews Morgan Earp: Linden Ashby Ike Clanton: Jeff Fahey Josie Marcus: Joanna Going Sheriff Johnny Behan: Mark Harmon Virgil Earp: Michael Madsen Allie Earp: Catherine O’Hara Ed Masterson: Bill Pullman Big Nose Kate: Isabella Rossellini Bat Masterson: Tom Sizemore Bessie Earp: JoBeth Williams Mattie Blaylock: Mare Winningham Mr. Sutherland: James Gammon Frank McLaury: Rex Linn John Clum: Randle Mell Tom McLaury: Adam Baldwin Urilla Sutherland: Annabeth Gish Curly Bill Brocius: Lewis Smith Young Wyatt: Ian Bohen Virginia Earp: Betty Buckley Lou Earp: Alison Elliott Sherm McMasters: Todd Allen Francis O’Rourke: Mackenzie Astin Warren Earp: Jim Caviezel Mrs. Sutherland: Karen Grassle Frank Stillwell: John Dennis Johnston Sally: Téa Leoni Ed Ross: Martin Kove Bob Hatch: Jack Kehler Pete Spence: Kirk Fox Johnny Ringo: Norman Howell Marshal Fred White: Boots Southerland Indian Charlie: James ‘Scotty’ Augare Billy Clanton: Gabriel Folse Billy Claiborne: Kris Kamm Judge Spicer: John Lawlor John Shanssey: Michael McGrady Dr. Seger: Ben Zeller Stable Hand: Rockne Tarkington Mayor Wilson: David Doty Gyp Clements: Matt O’Toole Saddle Tramp: Brett Cullen Danny: Owen Roizman Gambler: Lawrence Kasdan McGee: Matt Beck Film Crew: Costume Design: Colleen Atwood Original Music Composer: James Newton Howard Producer: Kevin Costner Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik Production Design: Ida Random Producer: Lawrence Kasdan Executive Producer: Charles Okun Director of Photography: Owen Roizman Producer: Jim Wilson Casting: Jennifer Shull Editor: Carol Littleton Art Direction: Gary Wissner Set Designer: Charlie Daboub Key Costumer: Barry Francis Delaney Set Designer: Barry Chusid Music Editor: Jim Weidman Supervising Sound Editor: Stu Bernstein Camera Operator: Ian Fox Executive Producer: Michael Grillo Hair Supervisor: Marlene D. Williams Assistant Art Director: Gershon Ginsburg Executive Producer: Dan Gordon Camera Operator: Bill Roe Foley: John Murray Script Supervisor: Anne Rapp Second Unit Director of Photography: Richard Bowen Set Designer: Tom Reta Dialogue Editor: Lewis Goldstein Executive Producer: Jon Slan Makeup Artist: Francisco X. Pérez Stunts: Gary McLarty Visual Effects Producer: Robert Stadd Chief Lighting Technician: Ian Kincaid Still Photographer: Ben Glass Dialogue Editor: James Matheny Costume Supervisor: Cha Blevins Foley: Dan O’Connell Property Master: William A. Petrotta Supervising Sound Editor: Robert Grieve Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Rick Kline Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Kevin O’Connell Construction Coordinator: Greg John Callas Boom Operator: Joel Shryack ADR Supervisor: Jessica Gallavan Hairstylist: Elle Elliott Dialogue Editor: Alison Fisher Key Makeup Artist: Gerald Quist Makeup Supervisor: Michael Mills ADR Editor: Joe Dorn Supervising Dialogue Editor: Bobby Mackston Key Costumer: Ruby K. Manis Key Grip: Tim Ryan Location Manager: Paul Hargrave Key Hair Stylist: Dorothy D. Fox Steadicam Operator: Rusty Geller ADR Editor: Stephen Janisz Rigging Gaffer: Kim Kono Dolly Grip: David L. Merrill Costume Supervisor: Le Dawson Key Costumer: James M. George Casting Associate: Phil Poulos Casting Associate: Elizabeth Shull Movie Reviews: GenerationofSwine: Tombstone was a different beast, and that sort of overshadows this, given that one tries to be more accurate and the other goes for entertainment. Take Wyatt Earp as a biopic and it is a superb and fair film. Compare it to Tombstone which was more of a Western and it’s lacking the flair. However, it ends abruptly, and it is miscast. Cosner (and i am a fan) doesn’t really make a good Earp. Dennis Quaid who I am also a fan of, doesn’t make a good Doc. This was 1994, in the 80s I might have a dif...

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A little master-post of shitposts relating to Gene Goldstein's NOXP, I really love this little webseries, go check it out, it's hilarious :^)

Helene's Gang members join dates:

⚠️⚠️SPOILERS AHEAD ⚠️⚠️

From 2021

Helene Riley and Leeon - May 19th (Helene as de facto leader while Leeon is co-leader)

Alan Augusta de Silva/Fake N. Brio Da Zuera, BubbleYT Zero, Sheryl "Kayla" Rey/TheWarGirl666 and 335 The WordGirl Fan - May 21th (as co-leaders)

Haruna Chisaka/Sadistic Mean-spirited666 - May 22th (as co-leader)

Ronald (Nature Cat) and Virgo (MWGG fanmade character) - May 23th (as co-leaders)

Caillou - May 24th (as co-leader)

Priscilla Jones/Aunt Grandma, Mike The Purple Cat and Bully Chan - May 26th (Priscilla as co-leader, Bully Chan and Mike as members)

Klara, KittyKai, Molly Garcia, Georgia Caruso, Renan Nogueira, Lila Rossi and CYSDN - between May 27th - 28th (as members; Georgia and Renan left in July 17th, Kai and Molly left in 2023)

Jane The Best Gachatuber Ever, Junko Enoshima, Betty Bailey, Jacob Scout, Ashley Andrews and Dean Cuizeen - May 30th (Jane, Jacob, Ashley and Dean as members, Junko and Betty as co-leaders; Jane left in July, Jacob and Ashley left in the beginning of 2022)

FWS_Carp - May 31th (as a member; he left in June 20th)

Molly Peterson - June 1st (as a temporarily member; she left in March 2022)

June Bailey - June 2nd (as co-leader)

Coconut Fred and Miao Le Xing/Kiki - June 3rd (as members)

Perfect Peter and Bendy (Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends) - June 4th (as members)

Eris (The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy), Jamie Russo and Darla Dimple - June 5th (as members)

JacobV Enterprises - June 6th (as a member; he left in mid-2022)

Jeffy (SuperMarioLogan), Jessica and Ashley Andrews - June 7th (Both Jessica and Ashley left in 2023)

Anpanman - June 10th (as a member; he left in Feburary 2022)

Disco Cool WerBopBop, Big Tex, Gene Meh and Norm (Norm of the North) - June 12th (Disco Cool and Big Tex as members, Gene and Norm as co-leaders)

Miss Marmalady, Lollo and Amy Diop - June 13th (as members)

Albert Fish - June 17th (as a co-leader)

Wade Robson and James Safechuck - June 25th

Soraya Cínico - August 6th (as bodyguard)

John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and Amber Heard - August 23th (as members)

Andrew Davenport - September 1st (as a member)

Rainboy107 and Lori Viezerik - September 11th (Rainboy as a member and Lori as a bodyguard; Rainboy left in 2022)

Zona - September 29 (as a member)

Music Gamble and Darla Dimple - October 2 (as members)

Lisa Gaming ROBLOX - October 6 (as a member)

The Dazzlings and Harmony (HHPAY) - October 15 (as members)

Tina Blisslyn - Somehow in November (as a member; she left in 2022)

Oliver Jacques and Petros - December 20 (as a member and Petros as a bodyguard)

DJ Headmaster and the Demon President - December 22 (Demon President as the gang's President)

From 2022 to present

Lila and Tessa - January 2st 2022 (Lila as co-leader and Tessa as member)

Female Pillager (future)

Member allies (sub-group is named Rings of Madness Terror)

Molly Lucinda - January 2th (as a leader)

Gray Stephanie Gavin, Rosemary (High Guardian Spice), Pico (Boku no Pico), Trina Riffin, Kevin Goldstein (aka Entitled Commentator) and Granny - at least 11:40 pm on January 2nd

Mike Martin (aka DaddyOFive), Killer Man (Baby Basher), Baby Hazel, Zafiro Shy, The Dancing Zombie, Farfour (Tomorrow's Pioneers) and Horace (The Problem Solvers) - around 12:26 pm on the same date.

This Indie series recently got funded called NOXP. It’s about a team of JRPG heroes who having  vanquished a great evil now live mundane lives. Or at least they try to fit in. It’s made by Gene Goldstein who made Nickelodeon’s Planet Panic pilot and did work on show’s like Adventure Time Distant lands & Aqua Teen. There’s about 20 shorts on his YouTube channel & I’m eagerly awaiting to see this fully fleshed out.