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birbthebird · 2 years

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Yandere! Sun Wukong x Reader—

Oneshot

It’s been months after you’ve been kidnapped by the Great Sage himself, now being held hostage against your will inside a home that resides in Flower Fruit Mountain invested with small monkeys that could melt your heart at first glance.

A place so innocent and peaceful became your special place of hell.

As cute and open they were welcoming you as their Queen, they held a strong sense of loyalty to their Monkey King and made sure to keep you under strict surveillance to prevent any escapement from you while their King was away.

At least they kept you company and made sure you were well taken care of. Offering you fruits and affection whenever they saw you were down, allowing their kids play with you, hell— they even try to pick through your hair for any lice which may sound weird but it’s a way monkeys show affection (or from what Wukong told you).

But now’s your chance to leave, everyone is asleep and Wukong is out like a light in the bed you both share. Slowly, you slip out the bed and use a large pillow to take your place. With each slow step carefully moving throughout the small house, you reach the living room also being connected with the kitchen but just ahead of you was the front door.

Your golden ticket to freedom.

SNAP!

“OH SHIT..!”

You cursed to yourself quietly, as your anticipation got the best of you and made you stepped on an twig you weren’t able to see due to the lack of light.

You stand in place, shoulders hunched, hairs raised, your heart beating immensely than it was before and your senses becoming even sharper now as you look around the room as still as a statue and listened to any sound that would seem as if someone had woken up and was your cue to book it through the room.

After a good few moments, you slowly calm back down and saw that you were in the clear. Yet not even five steps made, you were stopped dead in your tracks yet again.

“Ooh..?”

“Ming Yu..!”

You whisper in surprise as you see the young infant in front of your widened eyes. Her dark large eyes stare at you with drowsiness and confusion as her tail holds onto the turned off ceiling light.

Ming Yu was born on flower fruit mountain not too long ago and with her sweet playful personality, she helped you forget about the reality your stuck. But now that she caught trying to escape, it’s most likely you’ll see the wrath of the Great Sage real soon— oh wait, you forgot—

SHE’S A BABY MONKEY!

Which is obvious— but this is good! Ming Yu is young and doesn’t have that strong sense of loyalty to Sun Wukong like her older companions. If you could convince her just a little to look the other way, then your chance of escaping is secured!

No matter what, you’ll do whatever it takes to escape, even if you have to bribe and trick an innocent baby monkey like Ming Yu.

“Heyy~ Ming Yu, how about a late night snack, hm?”

You ask in a sickly sweet tone to the young ape, she turns her head in question.

“Ooo…?”

“Don’t worry~ I won’t tell your mom, it’ll be a secret between us..!”

You exclaimed quietly, being on flower fruit mountain certainly helped you understand what monkeys said. Making the communication between you and Ming Yu easier.

“Woo!”

She cheers brightly as she jumps onto your shoulder.

“Great, but you have to go back to sleep afterwards, alright~?”

You lead the both of you towards the dark kitchen, only being lit by the moonlight in the dark sky. Taking a bowl of cherries from the counter and sharing it with the baby monkey, having no idea that the fruit contains high levels of melatonin.

Making it natures perfect sleep fruit.

Seeing how she was awoken so suddenly, you see the effects of cherries contents help lull her back to drowsiness and if you played your cards right, straight back to sleep.

“Alright, now’s my chance..!”

You quickly walked away from Ming Yu and made your way across the living room towards the front door. The door knob was within an arms reach and your eyes broaden is glee but not before a small weight landed on your back and pulled the back of your shirt away from the door.

“Ooh!”

You turn to see Ming Yu whine and pout at you, you try to grab her off of you but she moves and insisted on your stay with her.

“Ming Yu..! I can’t— play right now..! Go back to sleep..!”

Your struggle to reach her got the best of you as you finally grabbed her and dropped her on the couches soft pillows, now stomping towards the door in frustration but not before a loud cry erupted from behind you.

“Aw shit.”

You quickly return to her side and try to hold her as a way to comfort her and calm down which only lead to her crying more loudly as she turned away from your desperate hands.

Clearly mad at you for not playing with her but also hurt that you would raise your voice at her.

“Uh— it’s okay..! It’s okay! Please calm down!”

You softly spoke and tried your best to bargain with her to calm down as your mind went into panic mode.

“Peaches..? What are you doing up so late?”

A groggy and tired voice spoke from behind you as you freeze in terror.

“Ah fuck.”

“Ooo!”

The babe spoke happily at you through the open window you were currently sulking on after your failed escape attempt, looking at the sky to ignore Ming Yu.

“Not now, Ming Yu.”

You huffed at her and turned your head away from both the sky and her.

“Ooo…”

A small poke from your side caused your turn back to her as you see a bowl of cherries in her small hands as she looked at you with hopeful wide eyes.

You lower your head in defeat and a small smile cracked from your face.

“Sigh, you’re lucky you’re so cute.”

You take a cherry from the bowl eat it’s sweet flavor as Ming Yu brightens up in pure glee.

“Ooh..?”

Her coos seemed to make you laugh because you realize how you’ve fallen for her trap.

“Sure, let’s go play.”

“Ooo!”

Ming Yu cheers in victory and jumps on your shoulder joyfully as you lead the two of you outside the small house,

Who knew a small infant monkey would make your hellhole seem more bearable?

[Just something light and fun I wanted to post after I haven’t posted in a while :) ]

#lego monkie kid #reader insert #x reader #yandere sun wukong #oneshot #mmmm monkey #i’m tired

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misspjsuperior · 5 months

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The symbol of the essence of creation, often expressed in the simple form of the vesica piscis. According to Christian legend God incarnate himself, like each of us, was born to die. And not of some vapor, not descended from the heavens fully formed, but of the flesh and blood of a human body as a helpless baby, an animal among other animals, apes that we are. There is magic in the mundane. There is a sanctity beyond the golden halls of the great papacy that cannot be tainted by the water, swear, blood, and shit of impoverished birth in the mud and straw of the barn. That which is deemed filthy is where the holy persists the most gloriously.

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fabuloustrash05 · 2 months

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[During the Baby Arc in GT]

Goten: You have issues.

Trunks: Of course I have issues.

Trunks, gesturing to Baby Vegeta in his Golden Great Ape form terrorizing the planet: THAT’S MY FREAKING FATHER!!

#incorrect dragon ball quotes #incorrect dbz quotes #incorrect dbgt quotes #source: guardians of the galaxy vol 2 #dragon ball #dragon ball gt #dbgt #trunks briefs #son goten #dbgt baby #lord baby #dbz trunks #dbz vegeta #vegeta #baby vegeta #dbz goten #baby saga

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livefreeforfun · 1 year

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Saiyan Duality - A SSG and SS4 Comparison

I don’t think anyone would argue that one of the most recognizable aspects of the Dragon Ball franchise is the transformations the characters tend to undergo. From an old hermit bulking up to an absurd degree to the legendary Super Saiyan, the franchise has its fair share of power ups, but the users of many of these iconic forms usually fall under one category of people - the aforementioned Saiyans.

The Saiyans, across all forms of Dragon Ball media, have over a dozen different transformations, each one becoming more and more powerful than the last. From the simple Great Ape to the lengthily named Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Controlled Berserk (I wish I was making that up), the repertoire of Saiyan forms is immense, but I constantly see two of these forms being compared: Super Saiyan 4 and Super Saiyan God.

Both forms are very iconic, with Super Saiyan 4 being a GT trademark and Super Saiyan God being the first of many new transformations we see in Dragon Ball Super. I’ve seen a multitude of debates online trying to prove that one of these forms is better than the other, so I wanted to throw my hat into the ring and give my take: while I have a personal preference for God, both forms are absolutely incredible at what they attempt to portray in those who use the form, and I’m gonna go a little in depth as to why.

Starting the Super Saiyan 4 section with a little bit of background info, the older of the two forms made its debut in GT during the fight against Baby. To access the form, a Saiyan needs to both have a tail and already be able to transform into a Super Saiyan. They must transform into a Great Ape, turn Super Saiyan on top of that to become a Golden Great Ape, and then control that state to obtain Super Saiyan 4.

Super Saiyan 4 is remarkably different from the previous Super Saiyan forms, sporting no golden hair and instead keeping it back and having it grow far longer and having it cover the user’s shoulders, though it’s worth noting that Super Saiyan 3’s hairstyle is much longer. To make it more visually distinct, the user’s body is also covered in red fur save for parts of their chest, with their tail also turning red and gaining a red trim around their eyes. Curiously, Goku is also turned into an adult when he accesses this transformation, which is explained as a unique property of this form: any user of the transformation has their body reverted (or propelled into) its prime, meaning they will always appear as a young adult. Lastly, different users of SS4 have slightly different looking versions of the form. For instance, Goku’s version of the form has a shade of red fur that has a slight pink hue to it while Vegeta’s fur is crimson, and Goku has yellow eyes while Vegeta has blue eyes.

Now that the backstory and design of SS4 has been talked about, it’s time to talk a little bit about SSG. Super Saiyan God is a legend closely related to the legend of the Super Saiyan that Frieza feared. The legend involves the Saiyan Yamoshi and his five pure hearted allies battling against the evil hearted Saiyans. Yamoshi actually obtains Super Saiyan, but still loses the battle and his life, and now his spirit wanders through Universe 7 trying to find the Super Saiyan God.

There are only a couple ways for a Saiyan to obtain Super Saiyan God. The first method is a ritual, in which five other pure hearted Saiyans give their power to a sixth, transforming the sixth into the Super Saiyan God. As a side note, this ritual only works because of the wandering spirit of Yamoshi, making it a Universe 7 exclusive phenomenon. The other way for a Saiyan to obtain SSG is to train with god ki, which can typically only be done by training with someone who already possesses godly ki, such as Gods of Destruction.

Super Saiyan God, as a transformation, actually looks quite simple compared to other Super Saiyan forms. The user’s hair and eyes turn red, they become slimmer and even look a little younger, and their aura looks like fire. Super Saiyan God, similarly to SS4, also seems to give different users of the forms slightly different shades of red, though it’s not nearly as apparent as it is for SS4.

When putting the two forms next to each other, it can be hard to find similarities between them. Both feature some kind of red hair but outside of that, noticeable similarities are sparse, and I think that’s the point. Both forms have to portray entirely separate ideas: the wild nature of the Saiyans and the calmer demeanor of the Gods, and they portray these ideas incredibly well in my eyes. While I do have more of a preference for SSG like I said earlier, it’s not hard to see why so many fans of Dragon Ball are allured by the primal look of SS4.

Ultimately though, if you ask me, trying to compare the two to try and prove that one is objectively better is just a waste of time. It feels like God was designed to be the other side of the same coin as SS4, the heads to its tails. Both designs have their strengths and their weaknesses, so at the end of the day, whichever form is “superior” will always be up to viewer interpretation and nothing more.

#dragon ball #dragon ball super #dragon ball gt #db #dbs #dbgt #super saiyan 4 #super saiyan god #ss4 #ssj4

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bubonicrogainecake · 2 years

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Filmography to Love and Adore (1900 - 2022 AD)

1900:

-Joan of Arc

-The One-Man Band

1901:

-History Of A Crime

1902:

-The Coronation of Edward VII

1903:

-Life of An American Fireman

1904:

-The Impossible Voyage

1905:

-Esmerelda

1906:

-The Story of The Kelly Gang

1907:

-L'Enfant Prodigue

1908:

-Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

-Fantasmagorie

1909:

-Princess Nicotine/The Smoke Fairy

-The Golden Louis

1910:

-Frankenstein

1911:

-Little Nemo

1912:

-The Beautiful Leukanida

1913:

-The Adventures of Kathlyn

1914:

-The Squaw Man

1915:

-Are You A Mason?

-Carmen

-Barnaby Rudge

1916:

-Civilization

-The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

1917:

-Charlie Chaplin: The Cure

1918:

-The Tenth Symphony

1919:

-Intoxication

1920:

-The Saphead

1921:

-L'Atlantide

-Charlie Chaplin: The Kid

1922:

-The Toll of The Sea

1923:

-The Unknown Tomorrow

-The Man in The Iron Mask

1924:

-Dante's Inferno

1925:

-Alfred Hitchcock: The Pleasure Garden

-The Phantom of the Opera

1926:

-The Great Gatsby

-The Devil's Wheel

-The Devil's Circus

-The Golden Butterfly

1927:

-The Jazz Singer

-Alfred Hitchcock: The Lodger (The Story of the London Fog)

-Metropolis

1928:

-Noah's Ark

1929:

-Alfred Hitchcock: Blackmail

-The Broadway Melody

1930:

-Hell's Angels

-Young Man of Manhattan

1931:

-The Man Who Came Back

-Bad Girl

1932:

-Smilin' Through

-Tarzan The Ape Man

-Strange Interlude

1933:

-Little Women

-Gold Diggers of 1933

1934:

-The Lost Patrol

-Riptide

1935:

-Alfred Hitchcock: The 39 Steps

1936:

-Reefer Madness

1937:

-Walt Disney: Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs

-The Good Earth

1938:

-Jezebel

-Alfred Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes

1939:

-The Wizard of Oz

1940:

-Walt Disney: Pinocchio

-Alfred Hitchcock: Correspondent

-Walt Disney: Fantasia

-Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator

-Boom Town

1941:

-Alfred Hitchcock: Suspicion

-Orson Welles: Citizen Kane

1942:

-Casablanca

-Road To Morocco

1943:

-For Whom The Bell Tolls

-Alfred Hitchcock: Shadow of A Doubt

1944:

-Gaslight

-Double Indemnity

-Laura

-National Velvet

1945:

-Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound

1946:

-The Best Years of Our Lives

-Alfred Hitchcock: Notorious

1947:

-Forever Amber

-The Egg And I

1948:

-The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

-The Search

1949:

-I Married A Communist

-The Man From Colorado

-The Heiress

1950:

-Walt Disney: Cinderella

1951:

-Quo Vadis

-Awaara

-That's My Boy

-The Thirteenth Letter

1952:

-The Big Sky

1953:

-The Robe

-Walt Disney: Peter Pan

1954:

-Magnificent Obsession

-Godzilla

1955:

-Sissi

-The Man With The Golden Arm

1956:

-Francis In The Haunted House

-And God Created Woman

-Anastasia

-The Rainmaker

1957:

-The Bridge on the River Kwai

-Yellow Crow

1958:

-Gigi

-The Defiant Ones

-I Want To Live!

1959:

-Ben-Hur

-The 400 Blows

1960:

-Mughal-E-Azam

1961:

-The Misfits

1962:

-The Manchurian Candidate

-Sundays and Cybéle

-Francis Ford Coppola: The Bellboy & The Playgirls

1963:

-Nurse On Wheels

-Shock Corridor

1964:

-The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night

-Mary Poppins

-Becket

-My Fair Lady

-Seven Days in May

-The Time Travelers

1965:

-The Sound of Music

-The Beatles: Help!

-The Spy Who Came in From The Cold

-The Shop on Main Street

1966:

-A Man for All Seasons

-Roman Polanski: Cul-de-sac

-La Battaglia di Algeri

1967:

-The Graduate

-The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour

1968:

-Psych-Out!

-Stanley Kubrick: 2001 A Space Odyssey

-The Girl on A Motorcycle

-Roman Polanski: Rosemary's Baby

-Candy

-Wild In The Streets

1969:

-The Night of the Following Day

-Psychout for Murder

-Medium Cool

-The Arrangement

-Easy Rider

1970:

-Donkey Skin

-I Drink Your Blood

-Night Slaves

-Patton

1971:

-Harold and Maude

-Billy Jack

-Stanley Kubrick: A Clockwork Orange

-Frank Zappa: 200 Motels

-Dirty Harry

1972:

-Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather

-Slaughterhouse-Five

1973:

-The Hourglass Sanatorium

-The Crazies

-American Graffiti

1974:

-Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation

1975:

-Satanico Pandemonium

1976:

-Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver

1977:

-Rituals

-Blue Sunshine

1978:

-Deathsport

1979:

-Mad Max

-Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now

1980:

-Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back

-The Exterminator

-Stanley Kubrick: The Shining

-Altered States

-The Octagon

1981:

-Christiane F.

1982:

-Silent Rage

1983:

-Star Wars VI: Return of The Jedi

1984:

-This is Spinal Tap

-Dune

-The Killing Fields

-Red Dawn

1985:

-The Emerald Forest

-Invasion U.S.A.

1986:

-Gus Van Sant: Mala Noche

-What Every Frenchwoman Wants

-Platoon

1987:

-The Girl

1988:

-Zombi 3

-Brain Damage

1989:

-Drugstore Cowboy

1990:

-Hardware

-Jacob's Ladder

-Les 1001 Nuits

1991:

-Oliver Stone: The Doors

-Richard Linklater: Slacker

1992:

-Batman Returns

1993:

-In The Name of The Father

-12:01

1994:

-The Stand

-The Crow

-Leon The Professional

-Pulp Fiction

1995:

-Before Sunrise

-The Basketball Diaries

-Billy Madison

1996:

-Mike Judge: Beavis And Butthead Do America

-Wes Anderson: Bottle Rocket

-Beautiful Girls

-Mission Impossible

1997:

-Conspiracy Theory

-Harmony Korine: Gummo

-Lost Highway

1998:

-The Truman Show

-Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

-The Big Lebowski

-Wes Anderson: Rushmore

-Vincent Gallo: Buffalo 66

1999:

-Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut

-Fight Club

-The Matrix

-American Beauty

-The Blair Witch Project

2000:

-American Psycho

-Mission Impossible II

-Scary Movie

2001:

-Studio Ghibli: Spirited Away

-Wes Anderson: The Royal Tenenbaums

2002:

-Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones

-Damon Packard: Reflections of Evil

-Demonlover

-Equilibrium

-Panic Room

-Spun

2003:

-The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

-Oldboy

-Just Married

-Vincent Gallo: The Brown Bunny

-Party Monster

-Gus Van Sant: Elephant

2004:

-Before Sunset

-Fahrenheit 9/11

-The Day After Tomorrow

2005:

-Gus Van Sant: Last Days

2006:

-Jet Li: Fearless

-Candy

-Children of Men

-Little Miss Sunshine

-The Science of Sleep

2007:

-Hot Rod

2008:

-Tropic Thunder

-Batman: The Dark Knight

-Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II

-The Love Guru

-Be Kind Rewind

-Gonzo: The Life And Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

2009:

-The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

-Harmony Korine: Trash Humpers

-Enter The Void

-Zombieland

-District 9

-We Live In Public

2010:

-My Joy

2011:

-The Sitter

-Drive

2012:

-Dredd

-Crystal Fairy & The Magic Cactus

-Jim Gaffigan: Mr Universe Standup Comedy

-Artificial Paradises

-Cloud Atlas

-Batman: The Dark Knight Rises

2013:

-A Field In England

-3096 Days

2014:

-Saint Laurent

2015:

-The Road

2016:

-The Love Witch

-Dernieres Nouvelles Du Cosmos (Latest News From The Cosmos)

2017:

-Low Life

2018:

-Mandy

-Waco

-Climax

2019:

-Joker

-1917

-Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

2020:

-Borealis

2021:

-Fear And Loathing in Aspen

-The Beatles/Peter Jackson: Get Back

-Juice WRLD: Into The Abyss

2022:

-Everything Everywhere All At Once

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duhragonball · 1 year

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Dragon Ball GT 34

✨ GT Stands For Gorilla Time✨

Hey, what’s good? Goku’s a Golden Oozaru! I gotta say, this is pretty neat. He’s just a-rompin and a-strompin’ all over this stupid planet, and nobody can stop him and he doesn’t give a shit, because Goku never learned to control himself in the Oozaru form.

✨Positivity Page✨

This is very satisfying, because he’s attacking friend and foe alike. Everyone was picking on him this whole series, but who’s bad now? Oh, you want to yell at Goku for getting turned into a kid, Chi-Chi? Well up yours! Oh, what’s wrong now, Pan? You want to blame Goku for your stupid laxative plan not working? Go stow away another spaceship! It seems like that’s all you’re good for. Bulla? Does Goku even know who that is? Well, I’m sure she got on his case at some point, so “Roar”, I guess.

“Oh, no! If only we’d been nice to Goku and admitted how cool and good he is, instead of going on Twitter and calling him a bad dad.” Well it’s too late now, dummies.

“Rarrr! Rawrr! Look at this big rock I found! Graaahhhh!”

Baby starts having flashbacks to the Saiyan-Tuffle War, when the Saiyans would use the full moon to launch devastating attacks on Tuffle cities.

Could history be repeating itself? No, Baby thinks. He’s got the strongest body in the universe. He can defeat this threat to his new homeland.

Bullshit he can. Goku’s not one of those dime-a-dozen giant apes from the War, he’s a Super Saiyan Great Ape. So Baby can do exactly two things about this situation:

1) Nothin’

2) Like it.

Arrrghhhh! Look at this mountain, it’s huge and Goku broke it with his mighty strength! Roar!

Now that I think about it, this is like when Piccolo went to Namek and fused with Nail, and he was all overcome with emotions when he realized he was on his home planet. This is basically the Goku version of that, but with more chest-pounding.

BURN! BURN IT TO THE GROUND! BURN! AIEEE!

Look at this enormous bastard just doing whatever he wants, he’s great!

Okay, enough fooling around. Suffice to say, this was not what the Elder Kai had in mind. As we saw in the last episode, he seemed to have no idea how Goku’s tail would help him fight, only that it would help in some vague way. I’m not sure he expected this transformation, or that Goku would lose all control of himself and become a mindless animal.

Kibitoshin stands ready to cut off Goku’s tail to change him back to normal, but the Old Kai says they can’t risk that becuase Baby’s still at large, and if they cut off Goku’s tail now, then they lose all the power Goku’s gained so far. They’d just have to bring him back here and grow the tail back again, and nobody’s got time for that bullshit. I didn’t want to see it the first time.

No, the only hope they have now is that Goku will somehow gain control of himself and come to his senses, but he has no idea how to help him do that. Seriously, what was the Old Kai’s plan, exactly? Did he write “TAIL” on a cocktail napkin, and nothing else?

Eventually, Goku notices the Earth and he starts climbing to get closer to it, and then he starts reaching up for it like a confused toddler. This might be my favorite shot in the series, because Goku is literally caught between his two worlds, and he just wants to go home to his loved ones and return to the way things were. Also, he really wants a banana, and they don’t have any on the Tuffle Planet.

Pan tries to reason with him, which is pretty cool because they’re finally using Pan in a way that makes her important, even within the narrow constraints of Kozo Morishita’s “heroine” doctrine. She can’t defeat Baby or Goku in battle, but she can remind Goku of who is, and what he means to her. She shows him the dogi she wore at the 28th Budokai, where she defeated Wild Tiger. Pan’s held onto it ever since, and I guess it says a lot that she brought it along even on this mission to the Tuffle Planet. But Goku doesn’t care and he swats her away.

Then a photograph falls out of Pan’s backpack and Goku improbably catches it in his giant ape paw. Well, he is a Super Saiyan Oozaru. And that seems to get his attention.

It’s a shot of the whole gang at the beach, probably not long before or after the finale of Dragon Ball Z. Check out Buu’s dog, Bee, sleeping under Mr. Satan’s chair. This is a classic example of how the best things in GT are just callbacks and flashbacks from DBZ. I’ve never cared for Goten’s mullet, but after seeing his Tuffle perma-smirk and his stupid GT haircut, it’s like I’m looking at an old friend.

Hot damn, Chi-Chi looked amazing in this flashback. Anyway, Goku remembers Pan running out into the ocean, only to get a mouthful of seawater for her trouble, and when she complains about it being salty, Goku makes a joke about how it’s salty because everyone pees in there.

As Goku recalls this, Pan starts crying, and he reaches out and catches a tear on his big monkey fingertip, then he tastes it, and I guess the flavor reminds him of the seawater, and Pan crying that day at the beach, and his sexy wife, and the bananas they had for lunch that day, and it all comes together...

GRAAAHHHH THE POWERR OF MEMORY!

And then Goku starts changing again, shrinking to human size, but nothing remotely like he was before. This frightens Pan, which is a nice touch. The audience knows what this is all about, but no one told her to expect this. She might have heard stories about the Oozaru, but no one could have prepared her for this.

Meanwhile, Baby is heading back to base. He can’t defeat Golden Oozaru Goku at his current power level, but he figures that if Goku can do this, then so can he, since he’s using Vegeta’s body. But Goku may have just gotten a second step ahead of him...

✨ “Good” “Ideas”, Poorly Executed✨

So, a Golden Oozaru? Now why does that seem so familiar? Oh yeah, right.

I have no objections to Toei bringing back this concept. Let me be clear about that. The point of this segment is not to complain about Toei using old ideas in GT. The point is to refute the argument that GT had “good ideas”. It didn’t. GT had old ideas borrowed from Toriyama, and it had bad ideas that were original but stupid, like the whole bit with the pliers. Whenever GT got anything right, it was just re-doing something we had already seen before. Look, GT even had lava in this episode.

And I can assure you that Goku’s 40xgreat granny Luffa is very touched by this homage to her batshit rampage in the distant past, but it’s not an original idea. If anything, this is just another delay to put off the real main event of this arc. No one was tuning into GT to see Golden Oozaru Goku.

“RARRRHH! I’M HONORED, KAKAROT, BUT GET THE HELL ON WITH IT!”

It’s not even a secret at this point. The Old Kai even says the words “Super Saiyan 4″ while he talks about Goku needing to regain control of his mind. I think the idea here is that if Goku had already mastered the Oozaru form, the way Vegeta had done in DBZ, then he might have automatically reached SSJ4. but Goku never learned how, and maybe the Old Kai never considered that possibility.

What I still don’t understand is how the Old Kai knew about this recipe for Super Saiyan 4 in the first place. He seemed to have no idea how the Oozaru form worked, so how could he have known about this? But we’ll discuss that later.

The point is that viewers were tuning in to see Goku get good and kick Baby’s ass, and for five weeks in a row, they kept getting ripped off. Sugoroku Space. The Coffee Grinder. The Pliers. The Rematch at Super Saiyan 3. Now this. And just as Goku finally, finally turns into a Super Saiyan 4...

The episode ends before we get to see him use it!

And don’t tell me the audience in Japan wasn’t frustrated, because I was watching this every week in 2004, hoping to check out Super Saiyan 4 for myself. These last five episodes pissed me off something fierce, and it still kind of makes me sore, even when I’m watching two or three at a time on Crunchyroll.

✨ Is this episode worse than “The Roaming Lake”✨

I know I had a lot of fun posting screencaps of Goku on a rampage, but that’s just me being a good blogger. This episode is dumb, because so much of it is Goku wandering around Tuffle City or whatever, with no plan or agenda. No one can stop him, and you know that whatever Pan does won’t work until the very end, because they have to make the whole episode about this one thing.

It’s one of the better GT episodes, to be sure, but that isn’t saying much. At least Goku could talk in “The Roaming Lake.”

“GRAAHH! I LOOK AWESOME BUT MY APPEARANCE IN THIS SHOW IS ULTIMATELY HOLLOW AND POINTLESS. WHERE ARE THE BANANAS?!”

Also, a lot of my enjoyment of this episode is derived from the way Goku is terrorizing all the other characters, which GT has driven me to resent. That’s not exactly a sign of high quality.

✨The Blade Braxton Memorial Haiku* ✨

Goku’s transforming!

Verrrrrrrrrrrrrry slowwwwwwly. Soon, he’ll bore

Me in all new ways.

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I have a headcanon for Super Saiyan 4.

So, to achieve Super Saiyan 4, the Saiyan needs to be able to become a Super Saiyan and be able to transform into a great ape and regain their consciousness while in their Oozaro form, like how Goku and Vegata did.

But my headcanon is that Super Saiyan 4 is the TRUE Super Saiyan form.

While not a major factor during the series, a Saiyan's tail can be both their greatest strength but also their Achilles heel and losing their tail is basically unthinkable and shameful, such as when Raditz got upset about Goku losing his tail.

The tail helps the Saiyan's stamina, as evidenced by kid Goku being able to hold his Super Saiyan 3 form once he regrew his tail, before he couldn't hold it because of his younger child body.

When Vegeta talked about the legendary transformation in the namek saga, you could see a golden ape as the Super Saiyan form, which is what Goku transformed into when he fought baby in GT

Also the design of Super Saiyan 4, it seems to go more into the idea of the Oozaro form, such as the fur. The hair also remains the user's original hair colour (Black for Goku and dark brown for Vegeta (Vegeta does have dark brown hair, passed on from his father, you can see it rarely and with Vegito, I think its just easier for the artists to do it black))

It's also the case of why Super Saiyan 4 is so radically different in design compared to the other forms. (I know one could say Toriama wanted to make something fresh).

I mainly think this because you need to be able to transform into a Super Saiyan and a great ape in order to achieve this form, having Super Saiyan 2 and 3 isn't a necessity. (The only Saiyan who skipped a transformation level was Gotenks, not having a Super Saiyan 2 form, only 1 and 3)

So having a great ape and Super Saiyan are key elements to achieving the TRUE Super Saiyan form.

I dont know, maybe I'm reading into it too much but I personally like the idea of Super Saiyan 4 being Super Saiyan in its truest form.

What do you think?

Well that's an interesting idea, but I don't think it holds up. For one, the idea of having to be in control, and the sort-of calm Goku seems to exhibit when in that form, seems to run the exact opposite of how Super Saiyan was described before. It was born from rage, the user risking becoming lost in it to the point of possibly destroying themselves.The idea of this being a "true" Super Saiyan form that somehow no one ever knew about just seems off to me as well. That also changed how tails were supposed to work, as their only real purpose was actually holding the glands that provided the bodily chemical that triggered the Oozaru transformation. Having it suddenly be a stamina manager would kind of be a bit random? And given the things Toriyama's said himself about Saiyan tails, I don't know if that holds up. Also, Super Saiyan 4 was actually designed by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, a character designer at Toei. Toriyama did famously do a drawing of it, but it was actually meant as a gift to the production team wishing them luck/success than anything else. it's a pretty non-Toriyama-esque design though, imo, so I'm not too surprised. But hey, that's just me. If you want to headcanon that, you absolutely can.

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Pet weight limit bdo

View all Weight Limit Increase recipes in Black Desert Online Database Increase Weight Limit by Leveling your CharacterĮvery time you gain a combat level, you are awarded some extra weight limit (between +2LT – +4LT per level) in order to compensate for the increasing weight of your gear. These work great for Semi-AFK Processing, since you can passively boost your character’s Health level as well. Obviously, there are food items that can help you raise your weight limit as well, although temporarily. Splendid Alchemy Stone of Life – +105LT.Resplendent Alchemy Stone of Life – +90LT.Imperfect Alchemy Stone of Life – +15LT.You will notice that all the Green grade and above stones include the weight limit buff, so that makes it a bit easier if it’s the only thing you’re after. The ones we are looking after, are the alchemy stones of life (the green ones), and it will be quite hard to get a good level / grade one on your hands. Alchemy Stones of LifeĬoncluding the gear section, we have a quite rare and expensive item, alchemy stones! The other cheaper solutions, work great for a quick gain as well. The hard-to-get WON / BON / JIN crystals can give you an immense weight limit increase, as well as many more helpful combat stats. If you’re going the “armor / grindy” way, then magic crystals can greatly help you raise your max weight limit. Magic Crystals that Increase Weight Limit This baby starts at +100LT, and can reach an impressive +600LT at PEN enhancement level (though that will COST). Last but not least, the king of weight limit in BDO, Manos Golden Coral Belt. It’s what you want to know though, as these are the top choices regarding weight limit.Īsula’s is the best choice for starting out, since you can farm it (you can’t buy it on the marketplace) and it provides you with +100LT.Īnother viable choice if you’re in a hurry, is Rhutum Elite Belt, since it’s very cheap and easy to find on the marketplace, providing you with +60LT. Most belts in BDO provide a weight limit increase, and the table below is by no means extensive. You can also buy all of the items from the Armor Vendor in Calpheon. You want to stay away from the belt, as you will see below most belts in BDO provide weight limit, and it is quite high. It’s a viable option, and the AP it provides is not bad if you’re still a low-level. This is an easy to farm PvE set (meaning you can’t buy it on the marketplace), that will award you with +100LT for the 5-Set Effect. Accessories that Increase Weight LimitĪccessories provide a cheap way to increase your weight, and they can be quite helpful with your alt characters that need a boost. This is quite good actually, since you will be able to grind at the same time, and in order to top the limit with Trader’s Clothes, you need TET, which is quite hard to get (around 5 tries with 50 failstacks). So what you can do, is combine the Zereth Armor along with 3 items from the Hercules’ Might set (helmet, gloves & shoes), for a total of +250LT. If you are going for pure Weight Limit, and you don’t care about the grinding, then the Trader’s clothes are by far a better option than an armor set with weight limit. Your best bet will be to invest a few million, and buy enough from the market, in order to create a +2 at least. There are various lifeskill clothes for different purposes, and they are created through a Costume Mill, by processed fabrics, and rare traces from monsters. We will start with the most complex part, all the armor, accessories and clothes you can wear in order to advance your weight limit. Let’s break down all the different methods below: Increase Weight Limit with Gear There are various methods to increase your character’s weight limit, some need time, grind, or even real money to acquire.Īlso, depending on the reasons you need more weight, you will have to adjust your choices (for example if you are looking to grind mobs longer, it doesn’t make sense to use inferior gear that’s mostly focused on increasing your weight). 6 Increase Weight Limit with Loyalty Points.5 Increase Weight Limit by Leveling Strength.4 Increase Weight Limit by Leveling your Character.2.4 Magic Crystals that Increase Weight Limit.2.3.1 Treant Spirit’s Whisper Accessory Set.2.3 Accessories that Increase Weight Limit.2.1 Silver Embroidered Trader’s Clothes.

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I love him

#i hope to God that the golden great ape bit means he's playing pretend or smth #not like. pretending hes lost it. bc i love the fact that hes in fact just a kid (for the most part. unfortunate.)#💛baby #also hes earned the right to fucking Hate the saiyans i think. you know. since they killed his people on a horrid rampage?!

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Sugar and Spice [Maxwell Lord x Reader] - Chapter 5

Summary: When you are evicted from your apartment by your toxic ex boyfriend and have no place to go, who do you turn to? Alone in the city as the countdown to Christmas begins, you find yourself applying for a job as the assistant of the world’s biggest entrepreneur; Maxwell Lord. Little do you know, he has other intentions for you. No doubt about it, this Christmas will truly be like no other.

Word count: 2k

Warnings: Smut, mentions of a previous verbally abusive relationship, typical 80s misogyny (but very little of it), mentions of food and drink, alcohol consumption. This is a sugardaddy x sugarbaby fic soooo… a daddy k!nk too oops.

But in this chapter - Maxwell's mother is ~annoying~, general fluffiness and feelings.

Author’s note: OOOOH, it's starting to get interesting guys! More of Maxwell's mother… let me know what you think please! I hope you enjoy!

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PREVIOUS - CHAPTER FIVE - NEXT

You weren't sure what time it was when you woke up, but the beams of golden sunlight were already seeping through the curtains and, although quiet, you could hear some kind of commotion going on downstairs. The bed was amazing. It was so soft and warm, and enormous, so you were able to stretch your arms and legs out like a starfish. You couldn't help but smile when you remembered the night before; the restaurant, the signing of the contract and the amazing sex. You pursed your lips together and closed your eyes, hoping to get a few more hours of uninterrupted sleep.

Just then, you heard a crash and a yell and your eyes shot open. "Get out!" You heard Maxwell cry and you rubbed your eyes, feeling a confused but tired look wash over your face.

Another voice followed his; feminine but just as angered. It was incoherent to you, probably because it was mazed in between the many walls and rooms of his penthouse. You yawned and stumbled out of bed, still in your little black dress from the night before. You padded over to the mirror and checked your appearance. You hadn't been washed so your makeup was smudged and your hair was knotty. You didn't know who was downstairs but you didn't want to meet them in that dress. You walked into your en suite bathroom and splashed warm water over your face, taking some soap and begging to get washed. You considered getting a shower but you weren't exactly sure what the protocol right now was.

If he was your boyfriend, sure. You'd happily take a shower in his home. But then again, you'd also be sharing a bed with him. You found it difficult to understand why he didn't want to sleep with you after sex but you managed to brush of the feeling. It was your first time and maybe he wasn't used to the company. Nevertheless, it hurt. You wished it didn't hurt. You were his sugar baby and there was essentially no string attached; at least not ones of value and importance like of what a relationship might have.

You looked at yourself in the mirror, sighing at the way the dress slouched over your tired body in the morning. You ached to change into a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. Nevertheless Maxwell Lord was a bachelor and it would be incredibly unlikely to find any clothes of your size just lying about in his penthouse.

You quietly left the guest bedroom, walking down the hallway. You remembered that he had told you his own bedroom was just two doors down. You stood before the closed door and knocked on it gently, but there was no answer. You slowly and carefully opened it, without making a sound, and tiptoed in. It was empty, his bed was unmade, his clothes were scattered untididly on the floor. Okay… so he wasn't in his bedroom. You went to leave but something stopped you. When would you ever find yourself in Maxwell Lord's bedroom? Instead, you took a further step inside, your feet sinking into the plush carpet, a shut the door behind you.

His bedroom was magnificent— twice the size of the guest bedroom you had stayed in. You didn't know how it was possible but his bed was even bigger than yours. He had his own balcony, and other doors leading elsewhere into the penthouse. There were dressers and bookshelves embellished in gold and mirrors that fit the whole wall, although you were beginning to expect nothing less than extravagant from Maxwell Lord.

Nosily, you walked through his room, opening the two doors that were opposite you. One led into an en suite bathroom, and the other led into a walk in closet. You were quick to shut the bathroom door, not really having any interest in scoping out a rich man's bathroom, but you found yourself completely stunned when you pondered into the walk in closet. You smiled, sure you'd be able to find something in here to change into. By the looks of it, he had thousands of items of clothes. You took a closer look and noticed they had all been ordered by the name of the designer. You chuckled, shaking your head, thinking it was typical of a man like Max. You were almost certain you could find some kind of comfortable outfit to change into. You two had slept together— you doubted that he would care that you had stolen some of his clothes. You wondered how many other women had worse his clothes and your stomach churned at the thought.

You spent a long ten minutes raking through his closet. It couldn't be possible. Did this man seriously own no casual clothes? At this point, you just wanted to see Maxwell Lord in some sweats and a hoodie. You wanted to laugh, imagining the CEO dressed in such a way. He mustn't have known what comfort is. You pulled out an inconspicuous white shirt, which he had thousands of, and held it against your body in the mirror. Sliding off your dress, you put on his shirt, realising you were completely naked underneath. You grimaced, remembering that your panties were probably still in the conference room, absolutely ruined from your arousal. Luckily, the shirt hung down to just above your knees. Still, you felt uncomfortable meeting whoever was with Maxwell wearing no underwear. What were you going to do?

You decided to find out if Maxwell was more of a boxers or briefs type guy. You went through his drawers and picked out a pair of soft Calvin's, pulling them up your legs. You couldn't help but laugh when you saw yourself in the mirror. Talk about overstepping. Nevertheless you shook your head and with a walk of confidence, you padded into the kitchen.

"The president thinks you're going to be there, Maxwell. Are you crazy? You are not going to stand-up the president of our great country. It would embarrass me, but most of all it would embarrass your father. He'd be turning in his grave if he knew you planned on making a fool out of his business like that." A woman with tight blonde curls and a ruby red frown shouted. You froze at the door frame when you overheard the conversation.

Maxwell and the older lady turned to face you in unison. The lady looked horrified when she saw you, her hand clutching her heart dramatically. Maxwell opened and closed his mouth like a goldfish, his brown eyes wide as he took in your appearance. He thought you looked amazing, despite your tired eyes and messy hair. The way you looked in his shirt made him want to ravish you in that very moment. His heart was doing loopdaloops, racing wildly. He was softening for you.

"Oh-" you stammered out, raising both of your hands defensively. "I'm sorry, am I overstepping?" you asked, biting your lip.

"Overstepping into my son's closet, it looks like." Snarled the lady who you now identified as Maxwell's mother. You knew you recognised her from somewhere. It must've been from the painting in his office when you had first met him. "Maxwell, who on God's great planet is this whore you've picked up?" she spat, disgusted.

You knotted your eyebrows together and folded your arms across your chest. "What did you just call me?" you gritted out furiously.

When Maxwell sensed your anger he panicked and stood up. He knew better not to fight with his mother over her ingrained misogyny, but you didn't. "Ladies please." he said, trying to remain as calm as possible. He shot you an apologetic look. "Come sit with me, join me for breakfast." Maxwell pulled out the seat next to him and ushered you over. You sighed in defeat and sat next to him.

"Well?" Maxwell's mother found her hand on her hip as she stared you out.

"Well what?" Maxwell sighed, taking a sip of his black coffee and closing his newspaper.

"Who is she?" yelled his mother.

"Remember when you told me to stop fucking my assistants? Because they'd give me a lawsuit or whatever? Well, I hired someone. We went through a legal contract last night so she's not going to sue me, and then I let her stay the night."

Maxwell Lord's mother looked at you like you had grown a second head. "What's going on exactly?" you leaned into Maxwell and whispered in his ear.

"Will talk about it later." he promised you.

Just then, Maxwell Lord's mother screamed. You stiffened up and turned to Maxwell, who looked like he was used to it. How could he be used to that screaming crazy bitch standing in his penthouse talking to him like that? You wanted to knock the pearl earrings out of her lobes. But hitting your boss’s mother might cost you your job.

"Don't get any foolish ideas Maxwell, she's not going to the Christmas gala!" his mother reprimanded with a warning tone. "Reagan's daughter, Margaret, has agreed to have drinks with you! Think about what a relationship with her could do for your company."

Maxwell scowled. "I have no interest in Margaret."

"Do you have interest in that little slut? Who steals your clothes and helps herself to your waffles?" You froze up, slowly removing your fingers from Maxwell's breakfast plate.

"I don't care if she eats my waffles! Please mother, just leave us alone. See yourself out." Maxwell sighed and you tried to stifle a laugh. You popped a blueberry in your mouth and she raised an eyebrow when she screamed again, stomping her heels and storming out of the apartment, slamming the door behind her.

You burst out into laughter. You couldn't hold it back anymore. Maxwell's head snapped in your direction and he shot you a confused glance. You pulled his plate and took his knife and fork before eating his waffles.

"Hey that's my breakfast!" he pointed his finger and you laughed harder. He couldn't help but smile. A genuine smile that was so rarely seen on Maxwell Lord.

"I thought you said you didn't mind if I ate your waffles," you said in between breaths of laughter. He rolled his eyes as you centred the plate, and both of you began to eat from it. "Your mother is batshit crazy." you told the businessman, licking the syrup from your lips.

"Yeah, I know," Maxwell ran a hand through his hair. "This is why I never invite girls to stay the night. She'll come over in the morning and scare them away."

"Well, it takes a lot to scare me." you smiled and his own smile only grew when he saw the way your eyes sparkled like diamonds.

In the silence, Maxwell wanted to tell you how beautiful you looked. He thought you couldn't look any more beautiful than you did last night in the black dress, but there was something so angelic about seeing you with no makeup on and wearing one of his shirts. He cleared his throat, opting against the gesture. There was no need for him to play up an unnecessary romance in this arrangement. He shook away his feelings and took another sip of his coffee.

"We're going shopping today." he told you matter of factly.

"We are?" you asked. "What for?"

"The gala." he flicked to the next page of his newspaper.

"Your mother made it quite clear I wasn't invited." you sighed.

Maxwell turned to you and placed a hand on your thigh. "Darling," he said, and your heart done an excited flip. "It's my gala. I want you by my side." he rubbed comforting circles into your skin before sliding his hand further up. He knotted his eyebrows together when his hands came up to his boxer shorts. He lifted the hem up of your shirt and saw you were wearing his Calvin's. His eyes widened.

"Oh- I can explain-" you chuckled awkwardly.

Maxwell shook his head and said your name, his voice stern. "It's fine, but I'm going to have to ask that you don't go into my bedroom without my permission."

You paused, feeling your cheeks heat up with embarrassment. It felt like he was hiding something from you. You sighed. Even if he was, it shouldn't matter to you. You were just an arrangement to him. The words stung as you recalled what he had said to you last night. A business deal.

"Okay." you replied, pushing the plate of breakfast away and standing up.

"Good girl." Maxwell smirked and you felt that familiar fire set alight in your stomach.

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Paul Weller in conversation with Mary McCartney: ‘We used to pinch a lot of Beatles songs’

For this Woking-born son of the 1970s, there were four father figures who underpinned everything, from his first guitar to an inspirational career that continues to expand and explore more than 50 years later. On the release of his latest solo record, his third in three years, we asked Paul Weller to pick through the past with an artist who knows better than any how The Beatles shaped the generation that followed. By Dylan Jones; 4 June 2021 from British GQ Magazine

(edited for Mary McCartney content only)

For Weller’s latest GQ appearance, we thought it would be good to put him together with an old friend, the photographer Mary McCartney. Which is what we did...

Mary McCartney: So, Paul, when did you become a Beatles fan? When you were 12?

Paul Weller: When I was five years old. I had some of the singles, because my mother bought them, but the first time I saw them was the Royal Variety Performance in 1963, when I was five. From the time I saw The Beatles I loved music and then when I was around age 12 I started trying to learn to play guitar. Me and my mate had a few lessons for a bit and got a few weeks in, but the guy was trying to teach us how to read music, so we got bored with that. And as soon as we learnt enough chords we stopped the lessons and we just start doing it ourselves.

MM: When did you actually start writing songs?

PW: As soon as we – me and my mate Steve Brookes – learnt the three or four chords. I’m still mates with him now. We started a band and we just learned together and we just kept swapping whatever we’d learned in the week, swapping back and forth. It was just me and him and then we just gathered up people as we could find them. There was never any doubt in my mind that’s what I would do and, even at around 12, I thought that was definitely what I was going to do for a living. Well, I didn’t know it could be a career, I just knew I was going to do music. So by the age of 14 we were playing pubs, working men’s clubs and social clubs with The Jam. But your dad’s band was the catalyst for all of it.

MM: You know, I’m directing a documentary about the history of Abbey Road Studios at the moment, so I’ve been taken back to those times. There is a photograph of me aged three months on one of the sofas in the studio, so I was there before I can remember being there. Whenever I walk in through the doors I still get a funny feeling. But I’m learning a lot about The Beatles’ recording process, though. What was your writing process in the early days?

PW: When we started to write songs we just used to pinch a lot of The Beatles songs. They were very basic, just us taking our first steps as songwriters. I was actually very passionate at the time, but I didn’t have the skills to articulate that passion. That kind of developed. Our first songs would have been nonsense songs, just “My Baby Love Me” stuff... But, like every other fledgling songwriter, I just started off by aping other people, like The Beatles did, like Dylan did. Everyone starts out copying other people.

MM: I assume you recorded your new album during lockdown?

PW: I did. I had about four or five tracks left over from [last year’s] On Sunset and they were just lying around, unused. So I started working away, chipping away, trying to put together a new batch of songs. As ever, I recorded them all in the studio down in Surrey, just me and a guitar singing along to a click track. If I couldn’t record with the band, I’d send the recordings to them and they’d play their parts and then send them back. It was a very odd process, but it worked. However, when we could finally all record again together, it was like the first day of school after the summer holidays. It was great. The writing process was actually the same as it always is, but because I knew I didn’t have any live work for the foreseeable future, we just created all this space. I think the lockdown was actually hugely influential in a way, as all the quiet made me appreciate nature in a way I hadn’t done for quite some time, maybe ever. I could really feel and hear and see nature again, it started to take over. I loved hearing the birds sing and not seeing any aeroplanes in the sky. It helped me think about things I would never normally think about in any situation. I felt more in tune with nature. I had a thought that if we weren’t here, if we all disappeared, which I’m sure we will do one day, the earth would just reclaim itself and that it will always be here and we won’t.

MM: It was such a nice feeling, actually stopping and looking and appreciating, not rushing around. I was lying in bed one night in the middle of London. It was 2am and it was so quiet it felt like we had gone back 100, 200 years. I couldn’t hear the rumble of the underground and it was almost as though cars hadn’t been invented.

PW: How was your lockdown, Mary?

MM: Mine was good, but we’re not here to talk about me. I’m grilling you today. But mine was good. Well, I say it was good, but it was unnerving. I think, on a global scale, it was just unnerving because it was like living in a science fiction movie. I think the main thing a lot of us benefitted from was having to slow down and not being able to just go and do things. So, in that sense, it wasn’t a bad thing. I was obviously worried about people’s health and the economy, but, like you, I really got in touch with nature. I did a lot more photographic work outside. And, of course, I started to prep for the Abbey Road doc. What’s the perfect recording scenario for you?

PW: Well, I love my studio and, to be honest, I’d be quite happy to never come out of the place. I could quite happily stay there forever. I bought the building in 1999, but it’s only really been the past 15 years or so that we’ve really got it together, with the sound and the vibe and the equipment. I’m continually making little acoustic adjustments to the room. We’ve got a drum kit set up all the time, as well as a mic’d piano, so it’s always ready to roll. I can play guitar, obviously, as well as bass and piano, but I’ve never really enjoyed playing the drums, because I can’t sing and drum with any conviction. It’s a different art altogether, playing drums. I like drummers who play the song, who can play the tune and who aren’t trying to do their own thing. That requires a certain amount of discipline, a different discipline: not playing too much but playing the right thing. Your dad is a good drummer.

MM: Yeah, he is. Mum introduced me to a song he played drums on years ago, called “My Dark Hour”, by the Steve Miller Band. He’s credited as “Paul Ramon” and he does backing vocals, guitar, bass and drums. It was recorded in Olympic Studios in London towards the end of 1969, after an argument Dad had had with the others over Allen Klein becoming their manager. The others had gone off and he said Steve Miller walked in and asked if he wanted to play the drums on this track he was recording. I think the drumming on it is so good, but you can tell he’s letting out a lot of tension.

PW: I love that first solo album of your dad’s, the one with you as a baby on the back. That’s probably one of my favourite records. It was lo-fi before lo-fi was even talked about.

MM: I love the rawness of it, as it’s just so personal. I still listen to McCartney and Ram a lot. They shot the album cover up in Scotland. They were horse riding and he zipped me up in his jacket. He put me in the jacket so I was safe, as he was going riding. I love that picture from a photographic point of view as well, as it’s very real. It’s taken at the end of the day, during the golden hour. It’s so natural.

PW: Now, what was it like growing up, then, as a daughter of a Beatle?

MM: Well, it was more like growing up as a daughter of Paul and Linda, because they were such a great couple. But,

also, they were such adventurous people. So, we were kind of following them around and going on lots of adventures. We went on tour with them and we really only stopped when we needed to go to school. So I have lots of memories of travelling as a girl. I even remember going on the double-decker that they used as a tour bus in 1972. The seats on the upper deck were replaced by mattresses and bean bags.

PW: I assume it was your mother’s inspiration that made you want to be a photographer...

MM: I think so, as I think I just always saw her taking pictures. She had such a casual style too. She didn’t do a lot of setting up and neither do I. It’s just so much nicer when you connect with your sitter and when you just casually take pictures. I much prefer that and I certainly know that you don’t like to have your picture taken in a very set-up kind of situation. What really got me into becoming a photographer was looking at Mum’s pictures from the 1960s. They were about her being with someone and taking pictures and very much not “This is Jimi Hendrix”. Again, casual. When I became a photographer, I took Mum’s talent for granted. She would take pictures out the car window and then they became these books or a print on the wall. When I started doing it myself I’d put the camera up and I’d be like, “Dad, can you turn the car around so I can take this picture?” And he’d be like, “No.” She would take pictures so effortlessly and I didn’t realise there was a knack to it. Mum and Dad would treat everyone equally; I do remember that. We were always surrounded by people, so I suppose that’s why I think I am a bit of a people person. I like meeting people and I like connecting with people, but I still find I’m quite shy about it. I find it stressful, but I like it. But I could never in a million years get up on a stage, ever. Even thinking about it makes me feel like fainting. When did you first walk out in front of a big crowd? How does that feel? Is it just feeling that adulation and love and appreciation and then giving that back? Does that feel really healthy? I always think when it works perfectly, it just must be such a healthy feeling.

PW: It’s almost a weird thing, because just prior to going on stage, especially in the hour before, I’m in bits. I’m so nervous and so don’t want to be there and want to go home, and then within minutes of actually being on stage, as soon as that first tune strikes up, I automatically feel as though this is completely where I’m supposed to be. It feels like the most natural, most comfortable, Zen-like place you could possibly be, it’s so weird. I’ve always felt nervous before going on stage. That’s never changed. I mean, it’s got a little bit better as I’ve got older, but not much. I think I need to have that feeling. It was weird, because there was a time when I tried to stop drinking – before I stopped completely – and when I stopped I suddenly wasn’t nervous before going on stage. And I didn’t like it. It felt really odd.

MM: Isn’t there something superstitious about this?

PW: No, I don’t think so. I just think it gives you an edge. Those nerves can make you edgy and I think that’s important for me.

MM: And then did the nerves come back?

PW: When I started drinking again they did.

MM: But now you’re not?

PW: When I finally stopped drinking it took me at least two years to get used to that feeling of going on stage totally sober and straight. And now I love it. But it took a good two years to get comfortable, as it was really odd at first. I’d be on stage and I’d notice so much, like there’s a guy in the front row who’s wearing a green shirt or something, and now I don’t feel that at all. Now it feels natural and I have a greater appreciation of it. That’s the other thing as well, getting more from it and being more conscious of what we’re doing.

MM: Growing up, watching Mum and Dad on stage just felt natural. But I’ve seen you play a few times and it makes me realise how much I couldn’t do it myself. There is such great energy and it’s really entertaining and you look completely natural, but I wouldn’t be able to feel comfortable in that position. Also, to me, it feels like your music has to be played live. I went to a concert before lockdown and the person was so vacant and not connected to the audience and, because of that, it made me nervous. You could tell they were going through the motions, that it was an act. They had no connection at all. Whereas when I look at Dad on stage he’s all about connection. I think I had taken it for granted before that, but when you see someone who doesn’t connect, you realise how important it is.

PW: I know some people who turn up just before they go on stage and as soon as they finish they get in the car and they’re off. I don’t understand that either. It’s a far bigger thing than that for me, because I’m looking for that connection. As much as the audience might be, I am as well, and my band too, because I’ve seen it happen with my own eyes and there are some nights where you get so connected together by an audience that this thing just grows and grows. It transcends the moment.

MM: It’s like magic.

PW: It’s something special. The last time I played at the Fillmore in San Francisco, a couple of years ago, it was like that, and it wasn’t because of gear. It was almost like we took off, like the whole room just lifted up.

MM: Have you got a ritual for after the show?

PW: No, not really. No.

MM: My dad has this sandwich and a Margarita, because he doesn’t eat before he goes on. He waits until after.

PW: I have a cup of tea these days. In the past, I would have got off my nut, but I don’t any more. But if you have a gig like that and that becomes your benchmark, you’re always looking to get back to that moment, which is not always possible. But that becomes the thing you’re always searching for, to find that connection. We’re always striving for the spectacular. It’s the same with record companies. Sometimes you have to compromise, but what you really want to do is pursue your own passions. It was more difficult when we first started, because the record company tried to step in more and tried to guide us to do this or that. In the early days of The Jam they even suggested we cover a 10cc song. We said, “No fucking way is that going to happen.” You’ve got to stick to your guns. You’ve got to pursue what you set out to achieve.

MM: Fashion and clothes feel important to what you do, maybe because they make you feel a certain way to be able to perform?

PW: Yeah. But although I was too young to be really involved in the 1960s, I still lived through that time and that whole thing has never gone away for me. I love that period and it informs a lot of what I do, including how I dress. The whole look and sound of that time is just really formative. I don’t feel I’m stuck in that time, but it will always be the cornerstone of everything I do. I just thought it was such a brilliant time for music and fashion and art and all that stuff.

MM: What do you think it is about it? Is it experimentation?

PW: I think so. It was those postwar years, coming out of all that austerity, that bleak black and white, grey world – large parts of the country were still like that in the early 1960s. There were still bombsites. There was still slum housing. So it took a long time for Britain to become modern, but when it did, it was explosive.

MM: Dad describes it as it all suddenly going technicolour.

PW: Yeah, I think that’s true and you just see the clothes and music expanding. Men stopped wearing demob suits and started wearing all these bright-coloured clothes.

MM: And the pill came about and made life a lot easier.

PW: Then the other pills came a little bit later and helped expand everyone’s horizons. These people were pioneers. And also look at the art world – Peter Blake, David Hockney, Bridget Riley. It felt as though everything was becoming more modern and opening up and becoming different and colourful. I was only a very tender age, but, nevertheless, that influence was of great importance and value and always has been. Punk was probably the first time I experienced that freedom. We missed out on the 1960s, had a lift with Bowie, but after that it was largely a cultural wasteland. I was always looking for when I thought it was going to be our term. The 1970s were still very much in the shadow of the 1960s until punk. And then it all blossomed. Then it all started to make sense.

Fat Pop (Volume 1) by Paul Weller is out now.

Producer: Grace Guppy. First assistant: Pedro Faria. Digital technician: Alexander Brunacci. Make-up: Jane Bradley. Retouching: The Hand Of God

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Video Game Universe: Season 1 Episode 9

Video Game Universe: Parachute (G&W)

Hey everyone welcome back to VGU and today were doing Parachute for the Game & Watch

Parachute (G&W)

In typical Video Game Universe fasion. Let’s look at the manual

The Manual

“Skydivers come parachuting down over shark-infested waters lifeboat tries to catch” - The Manual.

Pretty bare bones like typical Game & Watch Games so on to the events of the game. Trust me reader we are a long way till the PS2 era when story was required in order for your game to be good. So on to the events of the game.

The Events

Our man Mr. Game and Watch (Mr.ゲーム＆ウォッチ) is out in the middle of a war saving people from falling into the ocean and getting eaten by sharks. Typical Game and Watch game.

See gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrDFHMfdS8&t=18s

My Intrepreation

So what other games did we cover that take place in a jungle, & during a war. Mario’s Bombs Away from the same console. So along side Mario (マリオ), Mr. Game & Watch (Mr.ゲーム＆ウォッチ) were responsible for Donkey Kong Sr./Cranky Kong (クランキーコング) being transported in the city in Donkey Kong (Arcade) and the rampage. So we now know more about the war and how it lead into The Great Ape War that was mentioned in the DKC Super Nintendo trilogy. So on to the world building

World Building

So we now know that Mr. Game and Watch (Mr.ゲーム＆ウォッチ) is a war veteran and saw people die. Damn this is dark by kids game standards. This was the same war Mario (マリオ) fought in and both after serving in the war went to the city featured in the odd jobs era games.

We also see sharks in the game. Sharks are an enemy in Donkey Kong Country (Super Nintendo) and Donkey Kong Land (Game Boy) so this war happened at Kong Isle featured in the DKC Super Nintendo Trilogy. Wow I am on a roll so on to the timeline placement

Timeline Placement

Right at the beginning of The Odd Jobs Era of the Timeline between the events of Yoshi’s Story (Super Nintendo) & Mario’s Bombs Away (G&W)

The Baby Mario Era

1. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island (Super Nintendo)

2. Modern Vermin (GBC)

3. Yoshi’s Story (Nintendo 64)

The Odd Jobs Era

4. Parachute (G&W)

5. Mario’s Bombs Away (G&W)

6. Lion (G&W)

7. Mario’s Cement Factory (G&W)

8. Wrecking Crew (NES)

9. Vermin (G&W)

10. Green House (G&W)

11. Helmet (G&W)

Donkey Kong Sr.’s Rampage

12. Donkey Kong Circus (G&W)

13. Donkey Kong Hockey (G&W)

14. Donkey Kong 3 (Arcade)

15. Fire (G&W)

16. Manhole (G&W)

17. Donkey Kong (Arcade)

18. Donkey Kong Jr. (Arcade)

19. Donkey Kong Jr. Math (NES)

20 Donkey Kong ‘94 (Game Boy)

Donkey Kong Sr-Koopa War Interlude

21. Mario Bros. (G&W)

22. Mario Bros. (Arcade)

The Koopa War

23. Super Mario Bros. (NES)

24. Super Mario Bros. (G&W)

25. Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)

26. Super Mario World (Super Nintendo)

27. Wrecking Crew ‘98 (Super Nintendo)

28. Yoshi (Game Boy)

29. Yoshi’s Cookie (NES)

30. Yoshi’s Safari (Super Nintendo)

31. Modern Oil Panic (Game Boy)

32. Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64)

33. Mario Clash (Virtual Boy)

34. Modern Parachute (Game Boy)

35. Modern Helmet (Game Boy)

36. Super Mario RPG (Super Nintendo)

The Koopa War (Alt.)

23a. Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels (NES)

The Post Koopa War Era

37. Modern Donkey Kong (GBC)

38. Modern Octopus (Game Boy)

39. Ball (G&W)

40. Mario the Juggler (G&W)

41. Flagman (G&W)

42. Judge (G&W)

The Pre-Banana War Era

43. Modern Manhole (Game Boy)

44. Super Mario Kart (Super Nintendo)

45. Famicom Grand Prix (NES)

46. Famicom Grand Prix II (NES)

The Banana War

47. Donkey Kong Country (Super Nintendo)

48. Donkey Kong Land (Game Boy)

49. Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong-Quest (Super Nintendo)

50. Donkey Kong Land 2 (Game Boy)

51. Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie’s Double Trouble (Super Nintendo)

52. Donkey Kong Land 3 (GBC)

The Post-Banana War Era

53. Modern Chef (Game Boy)

54. Super Mario Bros. 2 USA (NES)

55. Super Mario Bros. 3 (Stage Play)

56. Super Mario 64 (Movie)

57. Super Mario Land (Game Boy)

58. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (Game Boy)

59. Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 (Game Boy)

60. Wario Land II (GBC)

61. Mario & Wario (Super Nintendo)

62. Wario’s Woods (NES)

63. Virtual Boy Wario Land (Virtual Boy)

64. Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo 64)

65. Modern Ball (GBC)

66. Dr. Mario (NES)

67. Pac-Man (Arcade)

Next Time

in the next episode of Video Game Universe it will be our mid-season finale, Octopus (G&W). But first some non canon games. Stay tuned for the mid season finale. Boy we have covered a lot of Game and Watch titles. As usual stay tuned and game on!

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