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Saiyan headcanons
Saiyans love hot baths. The kind of temperatures they best enjoy would be boiling to most people but to them is a perfect sauna.
They often take very personal trophies from their victories, like heads, limbs, or skin.
When a Saiyan is banished/exiled, they have their tails cut off as a mark of shame.
Some traditional Saiyan dishes do include bugs.
Before the Cold Empire’s conquest, Saiyan architecture was similar to that of the Aztecs/Mayans and India. You can also see it in the style of their artwork.
They also didn’t use armor much as they didn’t consider it necessary, but when they did the armor they wore included leather, metals, and furs. Common Saiyan armor was styled like the Vikings, while the armor used by the elite were more like the Mongolians.
Like in a lot of species, female Saiyans are not only just as strong as their male counterparts but can even be more dangerous. Females are more agile, methodical, strategic, and better at stealth. Like lionesses, they are capable of both attacking and defending. While female Saiyans are the primary caretakers of children and homesteads, this is because they are seen as reliable and highly capable at leading and protecting. If an army tried to attack a Saiyan camp because it was only wives and mothers, it would be the worst mistake.
Most Saiyans do not know what a “husband/wife” or “boyfriend/girlfriend” is or even what marriage means. They have mates and while there is courting involved it still basically goes if two people like each other a certain way they hook up, move in, and, more often than not, produce children. That’s it. Plain and simple. There are no certain terms, ceremonies, or pageantry.
Surprisingly, Saiyans are normally very loyal partners. They are monogamous and they more often than not mate for life.
A lot of Saiyans actually care about their children and can be super protective of them. As in, think of a mama bear or papa lion on PCP. Don’t mess with their kids.
They also carry them on their bodies, mostly their backs, not much different from how regular monkeys and apes do with their babies.
And when they’re not carried, Saiyan children hold on to their parent’s tail, kind of like with elephants.
Traditional Saiyan music kind of sounds like rock music and their dancing is the same as mosh pitting.
Yes, they hiss like cats. Why wouldn’t they?
Their battle cries sound like gorilla grunts and monkey howls and they bang on their chests like them.
Saiyans are fairly casual about nudity. They have mixed bath-houses and don’t have much problem with walking around naked before or after a bath or being injured. They even consider fighting nude and act of bravery and strength.
Saiyans have a very high tolerance for narcotics and alcohol. It takes quite a bit to make them intoxicated. Which is why their alcohol is extremely strong to the point it could give a man alcohol poisoning in little to no time.
While they prefer meat, they’re omnivores above all. They can eat just about anything. I mean anything. They have super strong stomachs that can store/digest anything. Like sharks, they’ll eat the most unusual things from time to time. If you cut open a Saiyan’s belly, you wouldn’t believe some of the stuff you would find in there, like a lost and found.
A Saiyan’s way of showing affection to their SO or relatives normally includes sharing food, bringing them presents from their hunts and other adventures, and grooming (namely picking out debris or whatnot from their hair). With their mates, they tend to bite (think of like with cats).
Speaking of which, Saiyans are very fierce in the bedroom as they are in the battlefield. Because of this, along with their brute strength and expansive energy, physical intimacy with a Saiyan can be tantamount to wrestling a bear or lion. You will most likely die or at least be seriously injured.
Saiyans have matches that are a lot like flyting, or rap battles. Essentially, they roast each other in rhythmic style. In Saiyan matches, expect some mother/father jokes and unflattering references to Frieza or King Cold.
#ideas about saiyans that have been rattling around in my brain for a long time#headcanon#saiyans#dragon ball#dragon ball z#dragon ball super#dbs#dbz
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As much as I adore Lilo & Stitch: The Series and Kim Possible, I don't think my brain returns to any Saturday Cartoon Adventures more than:
Aladdin: The Series - Remember the one where the cat goddess is kidnapping children and turning them into monsters? Or the one where there's a prophecy that Aladdin will die? Or the one where Genie is being hunted by the last of a race of magic-vampires? Or the one where Aladdin is being possessed by the vanquished sorcerer Mozenrath's (what a name) spirit through his magic glove? Or the one where Aladdin literally crosses over with Hercules?
The Little Mermaid: The Series - I think about that episode where she gets sucked down into the trippy, surreal Wonderland trench and can't escape probably every week. Go to Disney Plus and find that episode, it's called "Charmed," it's worth it.
The Legend of Tarzan - Like every episode is burned in my brain forever. The Opar episodes where he'd rather die than choose anybody but Jane, even after he thinks she's dead. The one with the Mad Elephant where Tantor thinks he's contracted the same illness. The one with DINOSAURS. The one where the new radio tower makes every animal go insane and try to kill Tarzan and Jane. The one where a different ape challenges Tarzan for leadership and WINS. The one where Jane's friends come to the jungle to rescue her. The one where Tarzan gets locked in like a prison camp with Teddy Roosevelt?! The one with a magical healing albino gorilla?! The one with Kerchak's old rival Tublat coming to try and take over the gorilla family in a series of traps? ! The one with the giant snake?! The one where Tarzan gets bit by a spider and almost DIES?! The one where Clayton's sister comes and forces Tarzan to choose between saving himself from poison or saving all of his loved ones from several death traps in time?! The one where the African tribes from the Tarzan books help Tarzan find a cure for a deadly disease in special two-part episodes?! The one with a WWII spy coming and trying to steal Jane's affections while simultaneously looking for war information he left in a music box he sent to her?! WHY IS THIS NOT ON DISNEY+?!
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command - Skilled. Courageous. And ever-vigilant. Leaping into action, it's BUZZ LIGHTYEAR, of STAR! COMMAND! I'm tired of having to dig around the Internet to watch episodes like The Wirewolf where an old Space Ranger buddy gets turned into a machine-mauling cybernetic wolf monster by the light of a radioactive moon, or the one where an "energy vampire" named N0S4-A2 tries to eat Buzz's robot friend.
Come on. We got The Little Mermaid: The Series. That Tarzan & Jane movie isn't enough! WHERE ARE THE REST OF THEM, DISNEY
#The legend of Tarzan#Tarzan#Disney tv show#Disney cartoons#Disney satam#the little mermaid#the little mermaid the series#Aladdin the series#Aladdin show#Tarzan show#Buzz lightyear of star command#buzz lightyear
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Spider & déjà blue road trip headcannons
I already said I’m on a road trip so here you go 👀 might be heavily OOC bc I’m tired
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When Spider found out that he’s getting dragged on a road trip with his bio dad, uncles and aunt, he was not excited. First of all, because they’re likely a bunch of uncool, overly strict marines and second because they’re grown ups 🙄 but custody is custody, so he has no choice.
Mansk had a van, so they use it to travel during this trip.
The kid had no idea what he was getting into, but neither did the déjà blu.
Quaritch
Goes full mother hem mode, prepares for any contingency. Has two first-aid kits, all sorts of camping equipment and even some hidden firearms (Spider doesn’t know about the latter and it’s best it stays that way)
Packed lunches and snacks for Spider!.
Drives the car and talks about sports, fishing and hunting with Lye who’s one seat behind. He later moves to sit next to him when blondie becomes way too hyperactive for him to handle.
Spider will be back though, because Eywa knows this man is ancient and needs help working through Google maps so the squad actually gets somewhere this weekend.
Yells at passengers in the backseats when they get too loud.
Shares an earbud with Spider at one point, to drown out the snores and listens to indie with him ☺️ doesn’t want to admit it, but thinks his son’s playlist is low-key a bomb. They sing the lyrics quietly while the others sleep.
(Pssst, the song they’re vibing to:
Spider
Is restless. He needs movement and sitting in a car is the exact opposite of that. Needless to say, keeping him occupied is quite difficult.
First several hours, he’s content to listen to music while looking out the window, drawing in his sketchbook or watching YouTube, but he’s itching to do something and the backseat seems much more fun, with loudly Z-dog and Lopez are talking.
Getting teased and firing back at them busies him some more, but he has to eventually come back to the front seat to argue with Miles about what roads to take and how to work the gps on his phone.
“See??? It’s saying that the road is closed!”
“Where the hell is it written!?”
“THERE! There’s an icon of some guy digging, that means road work ahead!”
“Well I sure damn how it does!”
“OH MY— DAD I SWEAR TO EYWA—”
Buys silly keychains and charms on every stop to add to an ever growing collection on his locker key, that he can then use to jingle as to further annoy the adults or get their attention.
Lyle
Provides Miles witch a company while he’s stuck trying to entertain Spider.
Proceeds to bore Spider to sleep by talking about fishing.
Takes over driving when Quaritch is too tired and has an hour long back and forth with the kid, exchanging sarcasm and making him cringe with his puns (yes, he’s the dad pun uncle, you can’t change my mind)
Pays for Spider’s keychains.
Zdog
Shares her row in the van with Lopez because they’re both high energy menaces.
Stole some of Spider’s snacks.
“Hey, hey, Spidey”
“Ugh what?”
“Ok so who do you think would win, a silverback gorilla OR a grizzly bear??”
She’s on the side of the bear, and Spider bands with her, arguing with Lopez for hours about which of the animals would kick the other’s ass.
Braids Spider’s hair when she gets bored and the kid ends up rocking Viking braids for the rest of their trip.
Lopez
Is on the side of the gorilla and borderline disowned the two he shares his seat with after hours of arguing and trying to prove to them that the monke is superior because it has a bigger brain and hands ☝️
“What the fuck is the monkey going to do to a grizzly???”
“It can use tools! Make itself a badass battle axe, like in Godzilla vs king-Kong!!”
Takes Spider’s snacks from Zdog and munches her stolen goods right in front of her.
Mansk
Mansk provided the transport, so he’s content to rest in the back of the car with Ja, who, together with him is the calmest out of the squad.
Mostly just stares out the window, listens to music or sleeps.
However, will absolutely grill whatever fish Lyle catches during the trip. He hasn’t brought grilling equipment for nothing!
Offered to sit in the middle row so he could dampen the chaos of Lopez, Z and Spidey but they declined. He’ll have to get better earplugs next time.
Ja/Alexander
The second mother hen of the group. Asked everyone a billion times if they packed everything they needed, and brought a med-kit of his own.
Is the one to disinfect Spider’s knees when he scrapes them while climbing rocks near the parking lot. He’s not a big talker, but has a softer vibe than Mansk.
Pampers Spider just a bit. Gives him his snacks when Z-dog steals them, offers him water and so on. The more subtle details that Quaritch or Spider himself may miss.
#Spotify#atwow#atwow recoms#avatar recoms#avatar way of water#atwow headcanons#atwow spider#spider atwow#spider socorro#spider avatar#avatar spider#avatar#avatar 2#avatar quaritch#avatar headcanons#recom quaritch#miles quaritch#avatar lyle#lyle wainfleet#avatar zdog#recom zdog#avatar lopez#recom lopez#recom squad#recom ja#recom mansk
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PARTY // BAD BUNNY FEAT. RAUW ALEJANDRO
CON ALTURA // ROSALIA, J BALVIN FEAT. EL GUINCHO
EFECTO // BAD BUNNY
OUTSIDE // BRYSON TILLER
WAIT (THE WHISPER SONG) // THE YING YANG TWINS
TOXIC // YG
GOTTA MOVE ON (KINGS REMIX) // BRYSON TILLER FEAT. FABOLOUS, TORY LANEZ, AND DIDDY
4:22 // OZUNA FEAT. DANNY OCEAN
NO MAKEUP // BINO RIDEAUX FEAT. KING COMBS
SPECIAL DELIVERY // RJ FEAT. TYDOLLA$IGN
U DON’T HAVE TO CALL // USHER
GO DUMB // YG FEAT. H.E.R.
NIKKI BEACH // THE GAME FEAT. TORY LANEZ & FRENCH MONTANA
COMO ANTES // BAD BUNNY
I LIKE YOU (A HAPPIER SONG) // POST MALONE FEAT. DOJA CAT
BLUEBERRY FAYGO (INSTRUMENTAL) // LIL MOSEY
DO IT UP // BABYSTONE GORILLAS FEAT. WALLIE THE SENSEI
SUNSHINE // TYGA FEAT. JHENE AIKO & POP SMOKE
SUNSHINE // LIL FLIP FEAT. LEA
SOMOS IGUALES // OZUNA FEAT. TOKISCHA, LOUCHIE LOU, AND MICHIE ONE
PROVENZA // KAROL G
AGOSTO // BAD BUNNY
NOTHING EVEN MATTERS // SIR
SLIDE ABOUT U // DRAKE, 21 SAVAGE
MAJOR DISTRIBUTION // DRAKE, 21 SAVAGE
HOURS OF SILENCE // DRAKE, 21 SAVAGE
TOP OFF // GUNNA
BACKSTAGE PASSES // EST GEE FEAT. JACK HARLOW
LOST ME // GIVEON
TREACHEROUS TWINS // DRAKE, 21 SAVAGE
BACH 2 BACH // FABOLOUS FEAT. DAVE EAST
BULLSEYE // K. CAMP
FEELING YOURSELF // BINO RIDEAUX FEAT. KALAN .FRFR
X ULTIMA VEZ // DADDY YANKEE X BAD BUNNY
POSSESSIVE // CHRIS BROWN FEAT. BLEU & LIL WAYNE
WORTH IT // TRAEETWOTHREE FEAT. DDG
9/11/2022 EDIT: WASNT FEELING MY FIRST MIX CUT SO I MADE ANOTHER ONE AND REPLACED IT.. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! ALSO, I APPRECIATE THE MUSIC COMING OUT HAD TO DO A MIX! HOPE YOU VIBE TO THEM JUST LIKE I DID, MORE ON THE WAY!! THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO HIP HOP AND SMOOV VIBES
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ehmm. i know i dont do this a lot but. i just feel like talking about it
tw: vent about my problems with my dad and whatnot (racism, homophobia/transphobia, borderline child neglect, abuse, etc) also super long but i could literally write so much about this stuff
talked about this in one of my previous posts but i did get.. basically neglected by my dad. im not completely sure how long this has been going on but probably at least a few months. honestly its all just sinking in for me and im not sure how to feel about it.
so, where do i really start.. well sometimes he makes me feel like an idiot for wanting to do a specific thing or saying something. he'll mock whatever i say and its honestly so annoying. maybe thats a parent thing but oh well. hes said the n word multiple times (hes white) and even right in front of me on call with someone or whatever. made many racist and homophobic jokes and even said transphobic things right to me. not completely outed yet would never really do that but i think he gets the hint.
hes made many stupid jokes which just made me hate him more but some were, well, this year we went to florida for march break (busch gardens) and he told me that while we were at the zoo in the gorilla exhibit there were some black people. he told me he wanted to go up to them and say "look, your home!" i told him that was so racist and he hit me with the "oh come on, its just a joke." honestly he makes me want to throw up sometimes
another time he made fun of me for wanting to go to a rock camp for march break instead of a cruise. he mocked me about wanting to go there because apparently there were lgbtq people there. didnt end up going because of him ruining my mood and pressuring me to go with him instead, basically manipulating me into going with him because apparently if i didnt go on his trip i didnt love my dad. so i felt pressured to because he would just get mad at me if i didnt or id make him feel bad. makes me question why i cared
so many dumb things he said but anyway.. thursday night, my mom dropped me off at my dads place because the next day, friday at 4:30pm she would pick me up and drive me to a cottage for the weekend. i walked in to my dads house and immediately a rancid smell hit my nose, i could hear my mom ask my dad if it was smoke. when i saw my dad i could literally tell he was drunk from the way he was acting, and that there was music being blasted on the tv. he usually does that when hes drunk.
ok now heres the thing about this household, 1. its never clean ever. he doesnt do the dishes at all and theres stuff all over the floor in the house 2. hes always sitting on his couch watching tv and sometimes wakes up at fucking 6pm 3. my computer is right in the living room sitting right next to him but i spend all my time on the computer so i have no privacy and he refuses to move it to my room for some reason
so yea i know hes drunk because hes asking me weird questions and acting really weird. "wow you type really fast" i got really uncomfortable when he said that because he was staring right at me when i was talking to my friends i just want privacy. dont remember much else of what he said that night but i was super uncomfortable being there and i was only there for the computer. i never feel comfortable there ever its so dirty and i refuse to even shower til i get to my moms house again from how dirty it is everywhere even how unclean it feels in the shower.
so at around 8pm or something like that he tells me hes going to the store and asks me if i want mcdonalds or something. literally asked me that 3 times and i said no every time. "you sure?" he also asked me that an unnecessary amount of times too before he left. i didnt wanna eat because he always feeds me junk food like that and i felt really unhealthy by eating like that that much. so he left and i literally didnt see him for the next 2 hours.
i was on call with my friends playing a game while he was gone but he came back with his cousin/friend and then left again a few minutes later. literally didnt fucking come back til 9am. i went to bed at 1am with no blanket and my dad wasnt home so i couldnt find anything and i slept with a really small and uncomfortable blanket. i woke up the next morning at 8am and my dad wasnt home. (tell me why i wasnt surprised?) for the next hour i went on the computer again until my dad came back home at 9am. he seemed kind of sad and tried to hug me and said "im sorry" (im really uncomfy with hugging him specifically) i dont know why i should forgive him after hes done way more i could go on about.
he fell asleep around 30 minutes later. the whole night he was texting me and asking me if im ok and called me about 3 times last night when i was sleeping. talked to my mom about this later and she said he called her 7 times. but the whole morning i literally had nothing to eat due to the lack of clean dishes. my kitchen sink is full with dirty dishes that have literally been sitting there since christmas. every time i wake up there are usually maybe 3 clean spoons or less. this time there were none so i just starved the whole morning. i really didnt want to eat junk food but was basically forced to because i got so hungry and i ate chips that morning.
been like this for the past few weeks maybe. sometimes ill wake up and he'll be asleep, i dont want to wake him (no point in doing so bcs he'll just fall asleep again) so i just go hungry. never learned to do dishes properly but i do know how to do them, but literally im not touching the dishes in my sink. they are so dirty and sometimes i walk into the kitchen and it smells so bad, i dont want to touch the dishes at all. i just go hungry for the morning most of the time til my dad can wake up and make food. most of the time he feeds me microwave food, i try to avoid eating it anymore because it is just unhealthy but i dont have much else to eat.
talked to my mom and she wont let me go over there anymore thankfully, but i dont know how to get my dad out of my life. been trying not to talk to him but hes still kind of in my life.. he was the one who gave me lots of things and basically spoiled me which is why i stayed at his house. basically manipulated me because he was lonely and made me stay with him so i could have access to the computer, but im so uncomfortable being around him or in his house. he doesnt live too far so he could come see me anytime. im afraid of seeing him because he'll either yell at me or guilt trip me or something. whatever happens i know it wont go well but i just dont want to see him again. as a teenager it is pretty hard though.
maybe ill vent again if im not feeling well but thanks for at least reading this all nonetheless
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Guess what kids? It's time for more
✨Unsolicited Crackshit Headcanons (Agreste Family Edition)✨
- All three Agrestes are absolute drama queens in the best ways possible
- None of them are dramatic in the way Chloe is (except Gabriel), but they are all still extremely over the top
- Gabriel is the most "normal" but slowly began to put on more of a show because he's absolutely whipped for Emelie
- It has very little to do with their wealth and more to do with Emelies's eccentric personality beging passed down to her son/husband
- There is still the expected "How much can one banana cost? €5?"
- But then there's also the times Gabriel would break down fake crying and begging Emelie to stay when she had to leave for work in the mornings
- Or the time Emelie camped outside Gabriels office, complete with a tent and sleeping bag, because he "Hadn't come out in days" and she missed him
(He'd been on a conference call for half and hour before she decided all this was necessary)
- Now Adrien is absolutely over the top with just about everything from turning down the multitude of fans who confess to him, to eating lunch in the cafeteria
- He has fake fainted onto all of his friends at least 3 times for various different reasons
- Once when Nino was grounded, Adrien convinced Gorilla to drive him to Ninos house so he could blast sad music on a boom box infront of his window
- Adrien would've been a theatre kid if Gabriel had allowed it
- Dealing with the Agrestes for so long is one of the reasons Nathalie was so calm about joining Gabriel as Mayura
- She would've been more surprised if he hadn't turned to villainy after Emelies death
- But to be fair, Nathalie was just expecting it to be more of a batman or iron man kind of deal instead of a "I harnessed the magical powers of mini gods to terrorize my city" situation
- Chat Noir is a tamed down version of Adrien's theatrics because being a hero is Serious Business™
- There are still a lot of signs pointing to Gabriel being Hawkmoth and Adrien being Chat Noir, but neither of them realize it because they just assume that that's how most families are
- "My dad can't be the only dad with a secret lair in his office, you guys are just overreacting"
- "Of course I know about Adrien hoarding large amounts of camembert and having stashes of it hidden around the house, he's just being rebellious"
#ml crack post#ml shit post#ml shitpost#soups ml headcanons#miraculous ladybug#miraculous tales of ladybug and cat noir#miraculous: tales of ladybug and chat noir#ml#chat noir#cat noir#miracuous ladybug#hawkmoth#gabriel agreste#adrien agreste#emilie agreste#nathalie sancoeur#ml headcanon
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Random Kageyama Tobio HCS
Word Count: 1851
Warnings: just... me being in love with a m*n other than masumi 😔 also! these are my headcanons as in,,, what i personally i think he’d be like ‼️ also me projecting my ideal man into him (as if he wasn’t it already 😋)
A/N: i... i love tobio so much it’s literally unreal... i couldn’t wait for a request (i’m still working on the remaining 4 too lolol) so take me projecting my love for tobio >:(
— Kageyama normally wears loose fitting clothes or athletic-style clothing. His favorite go to outfits tends to be a loose tee, some loose pants with an obnoxious Nike logo he swears are super cool but look like two garbage bags sewed together, and running shoes. Throw a hoodie in there for colder weather, even then he still manages to look good.
— He takes very good care of his hair, like freaky good care, because of Miwa. Once she enrolled in cosmetology school and she saw Kageyama use the same baby shampoo from when they were kids she freaked out (if she’d been any later he’d start using 3-in-1) and chewed his ear off about hair care. His hair is super shiny and there’s literally no freeze, he uses nice smelling shampoo and conditioner too. Ugh, I love him.
— He has a very sensitive nose but it gets clogged easily so he doesn’t notice much unless it miraculously unclogs itself and he’s complaining about everything.
— “Eh! Hinata, why’d you smell like a fucking axe bottle?!” “Why does no one say anything about Tsukishima smelling like strawberries?” “Yamaguchi smells like... milk.” “Hah?! Sugawara smells bad-?!”
— He says he’s a picky eater to appear cool but as long as you don’t say what’s in the food he’ll down it. He’ll say he doesn’t like carrots but if you give him a salad with carrots he might even say “it’s the best salad he’s ever had”.
— He’s a hot sleeper, and not in the “oh he’s sexy” type of way. I’m talking, he’ll sweat buckets if he sleeps with anything other than a flimsy white t-shirt and his underwear.
— Might be me projecting my love for bunny teeth but he has bunny teeth, his front teeth are a bit bigger than average (not to the point it’s super noticeable but it’s still something Miwa teased him about), his aunties probably squeezed his cheeks and called him “baby bunny” when he was younger.
— He doesn’t go to sleep later than 9PM, he thinks if he does it’ll ruin his schedule (which it will) and fuck up his body - he’s seen Miwa screw up hers after she pulled a bunch of all nighters in her third year in high school and has been afraid since.
— The type to forget people were coming over and come out of his room shirtless asking for his clean underwear.
— His sister forced him to let her cut and style his hair which led to many questionable hairstyles. Tsukishima is genuinely so grateful to Miwa, especially when she was first starting - he’s got some pictures of Tobio with the shortest most embarrassing bangs ever saved in his phone in a file for blackmail if the need for it ever presented itself.
— Likes pissing people off on purpose sometimes, during one of the training camps he probably walked into the bath with socks on and was made fun of but out of spite he just… never took them off. Said he’d done it on purpose and all too. Tanaka cried out of fear for like a hot minute when he saw him standing under the shower with Iron Man socks on.
— He’s so petty too, if you make fun of him for messing up he’ll remember until you embarrass yourself to make fun of you. And when I say he remembers, I mean it - he can’t for his life remember when to use make and do in english but he remembers when Hinata made fun of him for wearing different socks back on their first year and yes he will bring it up on their second year when he did the same thing what are you going to do about it?
— Probably got scouted for a modeling agency once and began running away because he thought they were trying to kidnap him.
— If he had Tiktok… he would’ve gone viral after posting a video of him practicing, he posted for a while for fun and to flex on people that he was hot but then he saw a comment saying they wanted to drink his milk under a video of him drinking milk and he deleted his account, he can’t buy from that brand for a while.
— He’s got a video of a gorilla walking in two legs saved on his phone for when he’s feeling down and watches it whenever he’s not going well. People think he’s texting his S/O but no, he’s just watching a gorilla walk like minecraft Steve.
— He can’t pose for pictures to save his life, his default pose is an NPC stance with his arms stiffly hanging down and his eyes wide in surprise, don’t ask him to smile or else he will look like a serial killer.
— He’s got a bit of baby fat on his cheeks that won’t disappear no matter what. It’s become a pre-game ritual to pinch his cheeks. He’s also got dimples you can really only see when he smiles naturally but he doesn’t know and he’d get shy if he knew and try covering his face so don’t tell him, that’s a fact he told me so himself.
— Cannot dance to save his life. He’s so long (?) his limb control is non-existent, it appears in game and vanishes when he steps out of the court. He really just bounces on his heels and moves his arms like a t-rex, don’t ask more of him.
— Buys his clothes one size bigger just in case and Miwa teases him saying he’ll need them when he gets old and fat.
— Gets asked out often but always rejects, then has the audacity to complain he’s never dated anyone like he hasn’t turned down half of the school's population.
— Can’t sing. He’s got a nice speaking voice but ask him to sing and he’s out of tone, out of sync, out of breath, and out of the room in 5 seconds.
— Sugawara joked about having him singing as his alarm clock and Kageyama actually believed him, probably sent him a new recording as a gift after he annoyed him during practice.
— Surprisingly funny when he wants to but most jokes fly over people’s heads since he seems so serious most of the time, it annoys him to no end. Yachi still struggles differentiating when he is and isn’t joking because his tone literally doesn’t change at all and she doesn’t want to offend him.
— When he was younger he liked to collect rocks, not even the pretty ones he’d pick the most average, raggedy rocks off the ground and clean them up and tuck them to bed because he saw Miwa play with her barbies like that. Still owns his first rock, he named it “Johnson” after Dwayne Johnson, aka the rock (he’s had to explain it so many times he’s exhausted).
— Accidentally drank expired milk once and didn’t notice until his stomach began hurting and he thought he became lactose intolerant and he was inconsolable for days until he realized it had expired like a month ago - he went on a milk shopping spree and the milk sales that week saw a 20% rise from the last few months.
— Tobio had bad handwriting until he was in Junior High because his teachers couldn’t understand him and had him practice calligraphy, his handwriting is now one of the prettiest ones in the team and he’s the official inker of the VBC posters (as designated by Goddess Yachi Hitoka herself).
— His biggest fear for a long time was getting eaten by piranhas because he saw it happen so often in cartoon shows he genuinely thought it was going to be a bigger deal than it turned out to be but for like a solid 6 years of his life he avoided suspicions puddles just in case.
— Kageyama has a habit of rolling and unrolling his sleeves when he’s deep in thought, it soon made way to a habit of checking his wrist watch (he absolutely has a wrist watch, you cannot change my mind on that) but not actually reading it.
— His nails are very pretty, like most setters, he takes very good care of them. They’re filed down to a perfect length and he puts oils and creams, his hands in general are so nice. He takes a lot of pride in them, you know his cuticles are pushed back and trimmed and he could absolutely be a hand model. Kags’ hands are calloused, he’s a volleyball player of course they are, but it’s not to the extent of Ushijima or Daichi’s hands.
— Talking about hands, it’s probably one of his favorite features on people. He loves holding hands with his S/O and tracing the wrinkles in their palm, being able to interlock fingers with them and feel the bumps in them.
— Mumbles to himself when in thought too! Very nonsensical if you’re not informed on what he’s thinking about, if he’s thinking about you he’ll mumble your name or something like “pretty eyes”.
— Has a very healthy diet, like extremely healthy and thought out. He won’t eat anything too sugary or that could throw off his body, but he does have cheat days (which are rare but exist). He also doesn’t drink much soda or alcohol (once he’s of age).
— Things like smoking are a big no, he takes so much care of his body he wouldn’t even touch a cigarette or be near a smoking area, lowkey paranoid of ingesting the smoke too.
— When he’s older I can see him having a dog and a cat, the dog would be a big dog; if they stood on two paws it’d be the same height as you, he’d name or something like Tobias and think he was super clever and funny, the cat would probably a small cat he’d name Milk (it probably would be a black cat too but he does not care).
— Probably tried baby formula because he heard it was a substitute for breast milk. No further comments on this.
— I feel like he doesn’t listen to music, but if he had to choose something he’d pick instrumental music - not orchestral music or anything like that - but more of a chill, no deep meaning just guitar and piano track. I could see him listening to Shego Sekito or Joe Hisashi on occasion, he might even listen to some 2000’s pop if he wants something to pump him up during training (he works out to Brittney Spears’ “Womanizer”).
— A cuddle-bug when he’s sleepy, he’ll throw himself across his S/O and not move at all, he just wants to stay there and not move ever again (or at least until he’s not feeling like passing out). He’ll like to wrap himself around them and cuddle their neck, he’ll attach himself to their arm like it’s a lifeline.
— In other words, Kageyama Tobio… b-boyfriend material.
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The complete list of films featured in 2021′s “31 Days of Oscar” marathon
What follows is the exhaustive list of all 403 short- and feature-length films featured on this blog over the last thirty-one days for the 31 Days of Oscar marathon. This number is up from last year’s count of 327 and is the second-highest number of films I have ever featured in this marathon (behind the 410 films from 2016). Despite the number, this remains only a fraction of the nearly 5,000 films that have been nominated for Academy Awards. This year’s marathon was harder to plan than usual due to the fact it was presented in alphabetical order - with the exception of any write-ups I did.
BREAKDOWN BY DECADE
1927-1929: 7
1930s: 44
1940s: 63
1950s: 63
1960s: 46
1970s: 25
1980s: 29
1990s: 28
2000s: 25
2010s: 43
2020s: 30
Year with most representation (2020 excluded): 1940 (ten films)
Median year: 1964
And now, the list. Best Picture winners and the one (and only) winner for Unique and Artistic Production are in bold. Asterisked (*) films are films I haven’t seen in their entirety as of the publishing of this post.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Adam’s Rib (1949)*
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
After the Thin Man (1936)*
Airport (1970)*
Aladdin (1992)
Albert Nobbs (2011)
Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Almost Famous (2000)
An American in Paris (1951)
Anastasia (1956)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Annie (1982)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Arrival (2016)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987, France)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Babe (1995)
Baby Doll (1956)*
Ballad of a Soldier (1959, Soviet Union)*
The Band Wagon (1953)
Bao (2018 short)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Berkeley Square (1933)
The Best Man (1964)
Better Days (2019, Hong Kong)*
The Big Chill (1983)*
The Birds (1963)
Birds Anonymous (1957 short)
Black Orpheus (1959, Brazil)
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)*
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020)*
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Brotherhood (2018 short, Tunisia/Canada/Qatar/Sweden)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Calamity Jane (1953)
Carol (2015)*
Casablanca (1942)
Casino (1995)*
Charade (1963)
The Circus (1928)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City of God (2002, Brazil)*
Claudine (1974)*
Closely Watched Trains (1966, Czechoslovakia)
Coraline (2009)*
Da 5 Bloods (2020)*
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Death in Venice (1971)*
Destination Moon (1950)*
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Down Argentine Way (1940)
Dunkirk (2017)
Easter Parade (1948)
The Edge of Democracy (2019, Brazil)*
Educated Fish (1937 short)*
El Cid (1961)*
Elmer Gantry (1960)
The End of the Affair (1999)*
Ernest & Celestine (2012, France/Belgium)
Face to Face (1976, Sweden)*
The Fallen Idol (1948)
Fantasia (1940)
A Fantastic Woman (2017, Chile)*
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)*
A Farewell to Arms (1932)*
A Few Good Men (1992)*
Five Easy Pieces (1970)*
The Five Pennies (1959)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
Flower Drum Song (1961)
Flowers and Trees (1932 short)
Flying Down to Rio (1933)*
For All Mankind (1989)
For Sama (2019)*
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Forrest Gump (1994)
42nd Street (1933)
Four Days in November (1964)*
The Four Feathers (1939)
The 400 Blows (1959, France)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)*
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Funny Face (1957)
Funny Girl (1968)
Fury (1936)*
Gandhi (1982)
The Garden of Allah (1936)
Garden Party (2017 short, France)
Gaslight (1944)
Giant (1956)
Gigi (1958)
Gladiator (2000)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Gorillas in the Mist (1988)*
Gosford Park (2001)
Grand Hotel (1932)
Grand Prix (1966)*
The Great Beauty (2013, Italy)
The Great Race (1965)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Green Book (2018)
Green Dolphin Street (1947)*
The Green Mile (1999)*
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Gunga Din (1939)
Hair Love (2019 short)
Hallelujah (1929)*
Hamlet (1948)
Hamlet (1990)
Hamlet (1996)
Hangmen Also Die! (1943)*
The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
The Harvey Girls (1946)
Heartbreak Ridge (1986)*
The Heiress (1949)
Hell’s Angels (1930)*
Henry V (1989)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Hero (2002, China)*
Hidden Figures (2016)
The High and the Mighty (1954)*
High Noon (1952)
High Society (1956)
Himalaya (1999, France/Switzerland/United Kingdom/Nepal)*
Home Alone (1990)
Honeysuckle Rose (1980)*
Hoosiers (1986)
The House on 92nd Street (1945)*
How the West Was Won (1962)
How to Survive a Plague (2012)*
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
I Married a Witch (1942)*
I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
I Vitelloni (1953, Italy)*
I Wanted Wings (1941)*
I, Tonya (2017)*
Ida (2013, Poland)
Imitation of Life (1959)
In Cold Blood (1967)
In the Absence (2018 short, South Korea)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)*
Inside Moves (1980)*
It Happened One Night (1934)
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)*
It Should Happen to You (1954)*
It’s Always Fair Weather (1955)
Jackie Brown (1997)*
Jammin’ the Blues (1944 short)*
Jaws (1975)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Jerry’s Cousin (1951 short)
Jesus Camp (2006)*
Jezebel (1938)
Jim: The James Foley Story (2016)*
Joe’s Violin (2016 short)
The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
Joyeux Noel (2005, France)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Julia (1977)*
Juliet of the Spirits (1965, Italy)
Kagemusha (1980, Japan)
The Karate Kid (1984)
The Killers (1946)*
The King and I (1956)
The King’s Speech (2010)
The Kite Runner (2007)
Knights of the Round Table (1953)*
Knives Out (2019)
Kundun (1997)*
La Ronde (1950, France)*
La Strada (1954, Italy)
La Traviata (1982, Italy)*
Lady Be Good (1941)*
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Ladykillers (1955)*
The Last Emperor (1987)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
The Life Ahead (2020, Italy)*
Life is Beautiful (1997, Italy)
Life with Feathers (1945 short)
Lili (1953)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
The Lion in Winter (1968)*
Little Caesar (1931)
A Little Romance (1979)
Little Women (2019)
Logan (2017)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Lost Horizon (1937)
Love Affair (1939)*
Love Story (1970)*
Loving Vincent (2017)
The Magic Flute (1975, Sweden)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Malcolm X (1992)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Maria Full of Grace (2004, Colombia)*
Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)*
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Mighty Joe Young (1949)*
Milk (2008)
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)*
The Miracle Worker (1962)*
Mon Oncle (1958, France)
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953, France)*
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
My Fair Lady (1964)
My Favorite Wife (1940)
My Favorite Year (1982)
My Night at Maud’s (1969)*
The Narrow Margin (1952)
The Natural (1984)
Nebraska (2013)
Network (1976)
Night Must Fall (1937)*
Nightcrawler (2014)*
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Ninotchka (1939)
Nowhere in Africa (2001, Germany)*
Odd Man Out (1947)*
The Official Story (1985, Argentina)*
Oklahoma! (1955)*
Oliver! (1968)
On Golden Pond (1981)*
On the Riviera (1951)*
On the Waterfront (1954)
One Day in September (1999)*
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
One Foot in Heaven (1941)
One Hour with You (1932)
One Potato, Two Potato (1964)*
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)*
Our Town (1940)
Paisan (1946, Italy)
Pal Joey (1957)*
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006, Mexico)
Paper Moon (1973)*
Parasite (2019, South Korea)
The Parent Trap (1961)
A Passage to India (1984)*
Patton (1970)
Pelle the Conqueror (1987, Denmark)*
Period. End of Sentence. (2018 short)
Persepolis (2007, France)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Pigs in a Polka (1943 short)*
Pillow Talk (1959)*
Pinocchio (1940)
Places in the Heart (1984)*
Poltergeist (1982)
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Precious (2009)*
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)*
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)*
The Producers (1967)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Purple Rain (1984)
Puss Gets the Boot (1940 short)
Pygmalion (1938)
Quiet Please! (1945 short)
Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020, Bosnia-Herzegovina)*
Rachel, Rachel (1968)*
Ran (1985, Japan)
Random Harvest (1942)
Rashômon (1950, Japan)
Rasputin and the Empress (1932)*
Rear Window (1954)
Rebecca (1940)
Red River (1948)
The Red Shoes (1948)
A River Runs Through It (1992)
Road to Perdition (2002)
Roma (2018, Mexico)
Saludos Amigos (1942)
Same Time, Next Year (1978)*
The Secret of Kells (2009)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)*
Sergeant York (1941)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Seven Samurai (1954, Japan)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
The Shape of Water (2017)
Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)*
She Done Him Wrong (1933)*
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
The Shootist (1976)
The Shop on Main Street (1965, Czechoslovakia)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Silverado (1985)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
The Snake Pit (1948)*
Song of the Sea (2014)
Sounder (1972)
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Spanish Main (1945)*
Speedy (1928)
Speedy Gonzales (1955 short)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Spirited Away (2001, Japan)
Stagecoach (1939)
A Star is Born (1937)
A Star is Born (1954)
A Star is Born (1976)*
A Star is Born (2018)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Star Wars (1977)
Starship Troopers (1997)
The Sting (1973)
A Stolen Life (1946)*
The Story of Three Loves (1953)*
The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003, Mongolia)*
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)*
The Stranger (1946)*
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Strings (1991 short)*
The Sundowners (1960)*
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Superman (1978)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Swing Time (1936)
T-Men (1947)*
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013, Japan)
Tangerines (2013, Estonia)*
Tenet (2020)
Them! (1954)
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)*
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)*
This is Cinerama (1952)*
The Three Musketeers (1948)
Three Orphan Kittens (1935 short)
Time (2020)*
Timecode (2016 short, Spain)
Tom Jones (1963)
Toni Erdmann (2016, Germany)*
Top Hat (1935)
The Triplets of Belleville (2003, France)*
The Truman Show (1998)*
12 Angry Men (1957)
Twilight of Honor (1963)*
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)*
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Umberto D. (1952, Italy)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, France)
Unforgiven (1992)
Up (2009)
Vertigo (1958)
Victor/Victoria (1982)
WALL-E (2008)
Watch on the Rhine (1943)*
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Weary River (1929)*
West Side Story (1961)
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968 short)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Wolfwalkers (2020)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
You Can’t Take It with You (1938)
Zorba the Greek (1964)*
The 15 nominated short films for the 93rd Academy Awards
The 8 nominees for Best Picture at the 93rd Academy Awards, including the winner, Nomadland
Until next year’s ceremony, folks - February will be here before we know it!
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Fire Force Men CANON Facts
Thank @michikoismadandhorny for help!
This are CANON facts about our fiery men. In this round we have: Joker, Obi Akitaru, Hinawa and Vulcan.
Part of: Nothing
Abilities: 3rd generation
Role: none
Height: 183cm
Weight: 85kg
Age: 28 years old
Birthday: June 14th
Zodiac sign: Gemini
Blood type: A
Nickname: Joker
Calls himself: Smoker
Favorite food: Chicken
Food he hates: the moldy food of the Nether
Favorite music: Blues
Favorite animal: crow
Favorite color: black
Type of woman: a woman with a nice ass
Respects: No one
Hates: Powerful guys
Fears: nothing
Hobbies: Gambling
He usually: looks for fools to gamble with
His dream: Finding out the truth of the world
Foot size: 29cm
Eyesight: Not good
Favorite subject: He never had education
Hated subject: the excuses people give when they lose when gambling
Part of: Company 8
Abilities: Non powered
Role: Captain
Height: 189 cm
Weight: 108 kg
Age: 31 years old
Birthday: March 27
Zodiac sign: Aries
Blood type: B
Nickname: Bodybuilding Gorilla
Calls himself: Non-powered
Favorite food: Chicken ramen
Food he hates: Protein
Favorite music: Rock music
Favorite animal: Dog
Favorite color: Beige
Type of woman: Someone with a strong sense of justice
Respects: The Chief of the Fire Defense Agency, his parents
Hates: Princess Hibana
Fears: Lieutenant Hinawa
Hobbies: Collecting records, Basketball, DIY Home Improvement (not good at it)
He usually: Bodybuilding
His dream: To eradicate spontaneous human combustion from the world
Foot size: 29cm
Eyesight: Good
Favorite subject: Industrial arts (got bad grades), history
Hated subject: None
Part of: Company 8
Abilities: Second generation pyrokinetic
Role: Lieutenant
Height: 180 cm
Weight: 74 kg
Age: 28 years old
Birthday: September 23
Zodiac sign: Libra
Blood type: 0
Nickname: The lieutenant with the with hats and scary eyes
Calls himself: A man of little importance
Favorite food: Sushi
Food he hates: Anything eaten with someone who has bad manners
Favorite music: Jazz
Favorite animal: Dog
Favorite color: Earth tones, like green
Type of woman: Calm woman
Respects: Captain Obi,Tojo
Hates: Captain Princess Hibana
Fears: No one
Hobbies: Hiking,Camping
He usually: Firearms maintenance, being talked into buying overstocked clothing items by store employees
His dream: To achieve Company 8′s objective
Foot size: 27.5cm
Eyesight: Not good
Favorite subject: Loves all academic subjects, specially good at math
Hated subject: None
Part of: Company 8
Abilities: Non powered
Role: Engineer
Height: 178 cm
Weight: 72 kg
Age: 18 years old
Birthday: April 18
Zodiac sign: Aries
Blood type: B
Nickname: Fire Soldier Loather, Haijama Hater
Calls himself: Turdface
Favorite food: Lisa’s cooking, fries, soda
Food he hates: None
Favorite music: Punk, with a lot of distortion
Favorite animal: All of them
Favorite color: Metallic
Type of woman: A girl who plays along and eats a lot
Respects: His dad and grandpa, his ancestors who made Amaterasu
Hates: Dr. Giovanni
Fears: No one
Hobbies: Drums
He usually: Animal watching, Machine maintenance, catch with Yu,remodeling company 8,cleaning up after Iris
His dream: To revive the world
Foot size: 28.5cm
Eyesight: Good
Favorite subject: Technology, Biology
Hated subject: The annoying ones
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Initiators Headcanons
Because you guys asked for and I'm happy to give you guys the juice...
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• Basically the gryffindor common room.
• The floor of the initiators is very cheerful and has an enviable bar, which on weekends provides excellent drinking games.
• Skye and Breach are always challenging each other and playing something, Sova is always called to be the judge or to decide the game.
• Breach snores very loudly. When he is in his room, it's not that much of a trouble, but his naps on the living room when he almost passes out on the couch, can interfere with the concentration of his colleagues.
• The floor of the initiators is the lowest because they love to be closer to nature.
• Sova is the calmest of them all, his room has a very comfy blue palette. He has a bookcase that other agents borrow when they need to read something that it isn't scientific or technical.
• Breach has already lost half of his sweatshirts to Skye in fist fightings.
• The three watch bad movies together, but it has to be lousy and stupid so that they can judge like film critics.
• Initiators are like siblings : they fight but they love each other.
• They are competitive, but unlike the controllers they commit certain acts of stupidity because of that. Like the unofficial contest of who can take more pepper, spoiler alert: Skye won after almost choking to death eating a pepper sandwich with pepper sauce, seasoned with pepper powder.
• Contrary to what you may think, they are very observant and can read situations much better than any other class of the protocol.
• Initiators are sensitive and empathetic, they know exactly when you're not well.
• Breach collects things he finds on missions, from a teapot to a piece of a gameboy he found in Tokyo once.
• Sunday is the day to watch old cartoons. A habit that Breach had and ended up passing on to the other two agents.
• When Sova is stressed he listens to loud music in his room. On a visit, Raze ended up listening to the "tunts tunts tunts" from the owl's room. She talks about it later in one her voice lines.
• Skye plays ukulele, Sova guitar and Breach the eletric guitar. They shared some scores and called themselves the String Trio for a long time. It didn't catch it .
• The three go out camping every now and then.
• Brim praised the evolution of Skye's search power, but what the captain doesn't know is that she improved her powers after discovering that Sova and Breach made night snacks with her food.
• They are very supportive of their friends' relationships, always shipping and never judging.
• Skye carves things out of wood, she made an owl for Sova and a gorilla for Breach. The two keep these objects with great affection on their shelves.
• Sova's babushka sends occasional gifts to his colleagues, it cheers them up and makes them argue about who is the "favorite grandkid".
#initiators#valorant sova#valorant skye#valorant breach#valorant headcanons#valorant#i still don't know about the duelists but here we have my babes#honestly they must have so much fun
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Kid Congo Powers Interview
Kid Congo Powers was a founding member of the Gun Club. He also played with The Cramps and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Powers currently fronts Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds and recently completed a memoir, Some New Kind of Kick.
The following interview focuses on Some New Kind of Kick. In the book Powers recounts growing up in La Puente—a working-class, largely Latino city in Los Angeles County—in the 1960s, as well as his familial, professional and personal relationships. He describes the LA glam-rock scene (Powers was a frequenter of Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco), the interim period between glam and punk embodied by the Capitol Records swap meet, as well as LA’s first-wave, late-1970s punk scene.
Well written, edited and awash with amazing photos, Some New Kind of Kick will appeal to fans of underground music as well as those interested in 1960-1980s Los Angeles (think Claude Bessy and Mike Davis). The book will be available from In the Red Records, their first venture into book publishing, soon.
Interview by Ryan Leach
Kid Congo with the Pink Monkey Birds.
Ryan: Some New Kind of Kick reminded me of the New York Night Train oral histories you had compiled about 15 years ago. Was that the genesis of your book?
Kid: That was the genesis. You pinpointed it. Those pieces were done with Jonathan Toubin. It was a very early podcast. Jonathan wanted to do an audio version of my story for his website, New York Night Train. We did that back in the early 2000s. After we had completed those I left New York and moved to Washington D.C. I thought, “I have the outline for a book here.” Jonathan had created a discography and a timeline. I figured, “It’ll be great and really easy. We’ll just fill in some of the blanks and it’ll be done.” Here we are 15 years later.
Ryan: It was well worth it. It reads well. And I love the photographs. The photo of you as a kid with Frankenstein is amazing.
Kid: I’m glad you liked it. You’re the first person not involved in it that I’ve spoken with.
Ryan: As someone from Los Angeles I enjoyed reading about your father’s life and work as a union welder in the 1960s. My grandfather was a union truck driver and my father is a cabinetmaker. My dad’s cousins worked at the General Motors Van Nuys Assembly plant. In a way you captured an old industrial blue-collar working class that’s nowhere near as robust as it once was in Los Angeles. It reminded of Mike Davis’ writings on the subject.
Kid: I haven’t lived in LA for so long that I didn’t realize it doesn’t exist anymore. I felt the times. It was a reflection on my experiences and my family’s experiences. It was very working class. My dad was proud to be a union member. It served him very well. He and my mother were set up for the rest of their lives. I grew up with a sense that he earned an honest living. My parents always told me not to be embarrassed by what you did for work. People would ask me, “What’s your book about? What’s the thrust of it?” As I was writing it, I was like, “I don’t know. I’ll find out when it’s done.” What you mentioned was an aspect of that.
When I started the book and all throughout the writing I had gone to different writers’ workshops. We’d review each other’s work. It was a bunch of people who didn’t know me, didn’t know about music—at least the music I make. I just wanted to see if there was a story there. People were relating to what I was writing, which gave me the confidence to keep going.
Ryan: Some New Kind of Kick is different from Jeffrey Lee Pierce’s autobiography, Go Tell the Mountain. Nevertheless, I couldn’t help but think of Pierce’s work as I read yours. Was Go Tell the Mountain on your mind as you were writing?
Kid: When I was writing about Jeffrey—it was my version of the story. It was about my relationship with him. I wasn’t thinking about his autobiography much at all. His autobiography is very different than mine. Nevertheless, there are some similarities. But his book flew off into flights of prose and fantasy. I tried to stay away from the stories that were already out there. The thing that’s interesting about Jeffrey is that everyone has a completely different story to tell about him. Everyone’s relationship with him was different.
Ryan: It’s a spectrum that’s completely filled in.
Kid: Exactly. One of the most significant relationships I’ve had in my life was with Jeffrey. Meeting him changed my life. It was an enduring relationship. It was important for me to tell my story of Jeffrey.
Ryan: The early part of your book covers growing up in La Puente and having older sisters who caught the El Monte Legion Stadium scene—groups like Thee Midniters. You told me years ago that you and Jeffrey were thinking about those days during the writing and recording of Mother Juno (1987).
Kid: That’s definitely true. Growing up in that area is another thing Jeffrey and I bonded over. We were music hounds at a young age. We talked a lot about La Puente, El Monte and San Gabriel Valley’s culture. We were able to pinpoint sounds we heard growing up there—music playing out of cars and oldies mixed in with Jimi Hendrix and Santana. That was the sound of San Gabriel Valley. It wasn’t all lowrider music. We were drawn to that mix of things. I remember “Yellow Eyes” off Mother Juno was our tribute to the San Gabriel Valley sound.
Ryan: You describe the Capitol Records Swap Meet in Some New Kind of Kick. In the pre-punk/Back Door Man days that was an important meet-up spot whose significance remains underappreciated.
Kid: The Capitol Records Swap Meet was a once-a-month event and hangout. It was a congregation of record collectors and music fans. You’d see the same people there over and over again. It was a community. Somehow everyone who was a diehard music fan knew about it. You could find bootlegs there. It went from glam to more of a Back Door Man-influenced vibe which was the harder-edged Detroit stuff—The Stooges and the MC5. You went there looking for oddities and rare records. I was barely a record collector back then. It’s where I discovered a lot of music. You had to be a pretty dedicated music fan to get up at 6 AM to go there, especially if you were a teenager.
Ryan: I enjoyed reading about your experiences as a young gay man in the 1970s. You’d frequent Rodney’s English Disco; I didn’t know you were so close to The Screamers. While not downplaying the prejudices gay men faced in the 1970s, it seemed fortuitous that these places and people existed for you in that post-Stonewall period.
Kid: Yeah. I was obviously drawn to The Screamers for a variety of reasons. It was a funny time. People didn’t really discuss being gay. People knew we were gay. I knew you were gay; you knew I was gay. But the fact that we never openly discussed it was very strange. Part of that was protection. It also had to do with the punk ethos of labels being taboo. I don’t think that The Screamers were very politicized back then and neither was I. We were just going wild. I was super young and still discovering things. I had that glam-rock door to go through. It was much more of a fantasy world than anything based in reality. But it allowed queerness. It struck a chord with me and it was a tribe. However, I did discover later on that glam rock was more of a pose than a sexual revolution.
With some people in the punk scene like The Screamers and Gorilla Rose—they came from a background in drag and cabaret. I didn’t even know that when I met them. I found it out later on. They were already very experienced. They had an amazing camp aesthetic. I learned a lot about films and music through them. They were so advanced. It was all very serendipitous. I think my whole life has been serendipitous, floating from one thing to another.
Ryan: You were in West Berlin when the Berlin Wall was breached in November 1989. “Here’s another historical event. I’m sure Kid Congo is on the scene.”
Kid: I know! The FBI must have a dossier on me. I was in New York on 9/11 too.
Ryan: A person who appears frequently in your book is your cousin Theresa who was tragically murdered. I take it her death remains a cold case.
Kid: Cold case. Her death changed my entire life. It was all very innocent before she died. That stopped everything. It was a real source of trauma. All progress up until that point went on hold until I got jolted out of it. I eventually decided to experience everything I could because life is short. That trauma fueled a lot of bad things, a lot of self-destructive impulses. It was my main demon that chased me throughout my early adult life. It was good to write about it. It’s still there and that’s probably because her murder remains unsolved. I have no resolution with it. I was hoping the book would give me some closure. We’ll see if it does.
Ryan: Theresa was an important person in your life that you wanted people to know about. You champion her.
Kid: I wanted to pay tribute to her. She changed my life. I had her confidence. I was at a crossroads at that point in my life, dealing with my sexuality. I wanted people to know about Theresa beyond my family. My editor Chris Campion really pulled that one out of me. It was a story that I told, but he said, “There’s so much more to this.” I replied, “No! Don’t make me do it.” I had a lot of stories, but it was great having Chris there to pull them together to create one big story. My original concept for the book was a coming-of-age story. Although it still is, I was originally going to stop before I even joined the Gun Club (in 1979). It was probably because I didn’t want to look at some of the things that happened afterwards. It was very good for my music. Every time I got uncomfortable, I’d go, “Oh, I’ve got to make a record and go on tour for a year and not think about this.” A lot of it was too scary to even think about. But the more I did it, the less scary it became and the more a story emerged. I had a very different book in mind than the one I completed. I’m glad I was pushed in that direction and that I was willing to be pushed. I wanted to tell these stories, but it was difficult.
Ryan: Of course, there are lighter parts in your book. There are wonderful, infamous characters like Bradly Field who make appearances.
Kid: Bradly Field was also a queer punker. He was the partner of Kristian Hoffman of The Mumps. I met Kristian in Los Angeles. We all knew Lance Loud of The Mumps because he had starred in An American Life (1973) which was the first reality TV show. It aired on PBS. I was a fan of The Mumps. Bradly came out to LA with Kristian for an elongated stay during a Mumps recording session. Of course, Bradly and I hit it off when we met. Bradly was a drummer—he played a single drum and a cracked symbol—in Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. Bradly was a real character. He was kind of a Peter Lorre, misanthropic miscreant. Bradly was charming while abrasively horrible at the same time. We were friends and I always remained on Bradly’s good side so there was never a problem.
Bradly had invited me and some punkers to New York. He said that if we ever made it out there that we could stay with him. He probably had no idea we’d show up a month later. Bradly Field was an important person for me to know—an unashamedly gay, crazy person. He was a madman. I had very little interest in living a typical life. That includes a typical gay life. Bradly was just a great gay artist I met in New York when I was super young. He was also the tour manager of The Cramps at one point. You can imagine what that was like. Out of Lux and Ivy’s perverse nature they unleashed him on people.
Ryan: He was the right guy to have in your corner if the club didn’t pay you.
Kid: Exactly. Who was going to say “no” to Bradly?
Ryan: You mention an early Gun Club track called “Body and Soul” that I’m unfamiliar with. I know you have a rehearsal tape of the original Creeping Ritual/Gun Club lineup (Kid Congo Powers, Don Snowden, Brad Dunning and Jeffrey Lee Pierce). Are any of these unreleased tracks on that tape?
Kid: No. Although I do have tapes, there’s no Creeping Ritual material on them. I spoke with Brad (Dunning) and he has tapes too. We both agreed that they’re unlistenable. They’re so terrible. Nevertheless, I’m going to have them digitized and I’ll take another listen to them. “Body and Soul” is an early Creeping Ritual song. At the time we thought, “Oh, this sounds like a Mink DeVille song.” At least in our minds it did. To the best of my ability I did record an approximation of “Body and Soul” on the Congo Norvell record Abnormals Anonymous (1997). I sort of reimagined it. That song was the beginning of things for me with Jeffrey. It wasn’t a clear path when we started The Gun Club. We didn’t say, “Oh, we’re going to be a blues-mixed-with-punk band.” It was a lot of toying around. It had to do with finding a style. Jeffrey had a lot of ideas. We also had musical limitations to consider. We were trying to turn it into something cohesive. There was a lot of reggae influence at the beginning. Jeffrey was a visionary who wanted to make the Gun Club work. Of course, to us he was a really advanced musician. We thought (bassist) Don Snowden was the greatest too. What’s funny is that I saw Don in Valencia, Spain, where he lives now. He came to one of our (Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds) shows a few years ago. He said, “Oh, I didn’t know how to play!”
Ryan: “I knew scales.”
Kid: Exactly. It was all perception. But we were ambitious and tenacious. We were certain we could make something really good out of what we had. That was it. We knew we had good taste in music. That was enough for us to continue on.
Ryan: I knew about The Cramps’ struggles with IRS Records and Miles Copeland. However, it took on a new meaning reading your book. Joining The Cramps started with a real high for you, recording Psychedelic Jungle (1981), and then stagnation occurred due to contractual conflicts.
Kid: There was excitement, success and activity for about a year or two. And then absolutely nothing. As I discuss in my book—and you can ask anyone who was in The Cramps—communication was not a big priority for Lux and Ivy. I was left to my own devices for a while. We were building, building, building and then it stopped. I wasn’t privy to what was going on. I knew they were depressed about it. The mood shifted. It was great recording Psychedelic Jungle and touring the world. The crowds were great everywhere we went. It was at that point that I started getting heavy into drugs. The time off left me with a lot of time to get into trouble. It was my first taste of any kind of success or notoriety. I’m not embarrassed to say that I fell into that trip: “Oh, you know who I am and I have all these musician friends now.” It was the gilded ‘80s. Things were quite decadent then. There was a lot of hard drug use. It wasn’t highly frowned upon to abuse those types of drugs in our circle. What was the reputation of The Gun Club? The drunkest, drug-addled band around. So there was a lot of support to go in that direction. Who knew it was going to go so downhill? We weren’t paying attention to consequences. Consequences be damned. So the drugs sapped a lot of energy out of it too.
I recorded the one studio album (Psychedelic Jungle) with The Cramps and a live album (Smell of Female). The live record was good and fun, but it was a means to an end. It was recorded to get out of a contract. The Cramps were always going to do it their way. Lux and Ivy weren’t going to follow anyone’s rules. I don’t know why people expected them to. To this day, I wonder why people want more. I mean, they gave you everything. People ask me, “When is Ivy going to play again?” I tell them, “She’s done enough. She paid her dues. The music was great.”
Ryan: I think after 30-something years of touring, she’s earned her union card.
Kid: Exactly. She’s done her union work.
Ryan: In your book you discuss West Berlin in the late 1980s. That was a strange period of extreme highs and lows. During that time you were playing with the Bad Seeds, working with people like Wim Wenders (in Wings of Desire) and witnessed the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the GDR. Nevertheless, it was a very dark period marred by substance abuse. Luckily, you came out of it unscathed. As you recount, some people didn’t.
Kid: It was a period of extremes. In my mind, for years, I rewrote that scene. I would say, “Berlin was great”—and it was, that part was true—and then I’d read interviews with Nick Cave and Mick Harvey and they’d say, “Oh, the Tender Prey (1988) period was just the worst. It’s hard to even talk about it.” And I was like, “It was great! What are you talking about?” Then when I started writing about it, I was like, “Oh, fuck! It really wasn’t the best time.” I had been so focused on the good things and not the bad things. Prior to writing my book, I really hadn’t thought about how incredibly dark it was. That was a good thing for me to work out. Some very bad things happened to people around me. But while that was happening, it was a real peak for me as a musician. Some of the greatest work I was involved with was being done then. And yet I still chose to self-destruct. It was a case of right place, right time. But it was not necessarily what I thought it was.
Ryan: Digressing back a bit, when we would chat years back I would ask you where you were at with this project. You seemed to be warming up to it as time went on. And I finally found a copy of the group’s album in Sydney, Australia, a year ago. I’m talking about Fur Bible (1985).
Kid: Oh, you got it?
Ryan: I did.
Kid: In Australia?
Ryan: Yes. It was part of my carry-on luggage.
Kid: I’m sure I can pinpoint the person who sold it to you.
Ryan: Are you coming around to that material now? I like the record.
Kid: Oh, yeah. I hated it for so long. People would say to me, “Oh, the Fur Bible record is great.” I’d respond, “No. It can’t possibly be great. I’m not going to listen to it again, so don’t even try me.” Eventually, I did listen to it and I thought, “Oh, this is pretty good.” I came around to it. I like it.
Ryan: You’ve made the transition!
Kid: I feel warmly about it. I like all of the people involved with it. That was kind of a bad time too. It was that post-Gun Club period. I felt like I had tried something unsuccessful with Fur Bible. I had a little bit of shame about that. Everything else I had been involved with had been successful, in my eyes. People liked everything else and people didn’t really like Fur Bible. It was a sleeper.
Ryan: It is.
Kid: There’s nothing wrong with it. It was the first time I had put my voice on a record and it just irritated the hell out of me. It was a first step for me.
Ryan: You close your book with a heartfelt tribute to Jeffrey Lee Pierce. You wonder how your life would’ve turned out had you not met Jeffrey outside of that Pere Ubu show in 1979. Excluding family, I don’t know if I’ve ever met anyone who’s had that sort of impact on my life.
Kid: As I was getting near the end of the book I was trying to figure out what it was about. A lot of it was about Jeffrey. Everything that moved me into becoming a musician and the life I lived after that was because of him. It was all because he said, “Here’s a guitar. You’re going to learn how to play it.” He had that confidence that I could do it. It was a mentorship. He would say, “You’re going to do this and you’re going to be great at it.” I was like, “Okay.” Jeffrey was the closest thing I had to a brother. We could have our arguments and disagreements, but in the end it didn’t matter. What mattered was our bond. Writing it down made it all clearer to me. His death sent me into a tailspin. I was entering the unknown. Jeffrey was like a cord that I had been hanging onto for so long and it was gone. I was more interested in writing about my relationship with him than about the music of the Gun Club. A lot of people loved Jeffrey. But there were others who said they loved him with disclaimers. I wanted to write something about Jeffrey without the disclaimers. That seemed like an important task—to honor him in a truthful manner.
Ryan: I’m glad that you did that. Jeffrey has his detractors, but they all seem to say something along the lines of “the guy still had the most indefatigable spirit and drive of any person I’ve ever known.”
Kid: That’s what drove everyone crazy!
Ryan: This book took you 15 years to finish. Completing it has to feel cathartic.
Kid: I don’t know. Maybe it will when I see the printed book. When I was living in New York there was no time for reflection. I started it after I left New York, but it was at such a slow pace. It was done piecemeal. I wanted to give up at times. I had a lot of self-doubt. And like I said, I’d just go on tour for a year and take a long break. The pandemic made me finally put it to bed. I couldn’t jump up and go away on tour anymore. It feels great to have it done. When I read it through after the final edit I was actually shocked. I was moved by it. It was a feeling of accomplishment. It’s a different feeling than what you get with music. Looking at it as one story has been an eye-opener for me. I thought to myself, “How did I do all of that?”
I see the book as the story of a music fan. I think most musicians start out as fans. Why would you do it otherwise? I never stopped being a fan. All of the opportunities that came my way were because I was a fan.
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From anarchists and adultery to milk baths and massacres, Matthew Turner shares five of the weirdest and wildest highlights of Hollywood’s pre-Code era, as #PreCodeApril comes to a close.
Pre-Code April was directly inspired by Noirvember, a month-long celebration of noir cinema instigated by Marya Gates (Oldfilmsflicker). I did Noirvember for the first time in November 2019, really enjoyed it, and thought it would be great to do the same thing for pre-Code movies. Although I’ve watched most of the classic 1930s films, I realised there were a huge number of pre-Code films I’d never seen (of my Letterboxd list of over 900 Pre-Code films, I have only seen 200).
As a sucker for a bit of wordplay, no matter how tenuous, I picked April partly because it’s six months away from Noirvember and partly because of the shared “pr” sound in April and Pre-Code. I’ve been absolutely delighted by the response—the #PreCodeApril hashtag on Twitter is a daily treasure trove of pre-Code-related joy, but I was genuinely thrilled to see the response on Letterboxd (here is my watchlist for the month). It’s been a real pleasure to see pre-Code movies constantly popping up in my ‘new from friends’ feed. My hope is that it’ll be even bigger next year—and that maybe TCM will want to get involved, the way they do with Noirvember.
Produced between 1929 and 1934, pre-Code cinema refers to films made in a brief period between the silent era, and Hollywood beginning to enforce the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines (mandatory enforcement came in from July 1934). The “Code” in question was popularly known as the Hays Code, after then MPPDA president Will H. Hays. As the depression set in and box office declined, theater owners needed fare that would drive cinema-goers to the movies. It was a wild time to be a scriptwriter; they threw everything at the page, designers added even more, and actors played out the kinds of scenes, from the suggestive to the overt, that would otherwise be banned for decades to come.
The following five films demonstrate some of Hollywood’s craziest pre-Code excesses. They’re still jaw-dropping, even by today’s standards, and notably give female characters an agency that would be later denied as the Christian morals of the Code overruled writers’ kinks.
Madam Satan (1930)
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, written by Elsie Janis, Jeanie Macpherson and Gladys Unger
A critical and commercial flop in 1930, Cecil B. DeMille’s utterly insane musical comedy stars Kay Johnson as a straight-laced wife who plots to win back her unfaithful husband (Reginald Denny) by seducing him at a costume party, disguised as a mysterious devil woman. The location of this party? Oh, nothing too fancy, just on board a giant zeppelin. (“Madam Satan or: How the Film gets Fucking Crazy on the Blimp,” as Ryan reviewed it.)
Madam Satan is not by any stretch of the imagination a good movie (the editing alone is laughably bad), but as a piece of pre-Code craziness, it really has to be seen to be believed. Co-written by a trio of women and set in just three locations, it goes from racy bedroom farce to avant-garde musical to full-on disaster movie after a bolt of lightning hits the blimp.
The film is justly celebrated (in camp classic circles, at least) for the wildly over-the-top costumes paraded in the masquerade ball sequence, but there’s weird outfit joy everywhere you look. Keep an eye out for an enterprising extra who’s come dressed as a set of triplets.
Call Her Savage (1932)
Directed by John Francis Dillon, written by Tiffany Thayer and Edwin J. Burke
Adapted from a salacious novel by Tiffany Thayer, Call Her Savage was former silent star Clara Bow’s second-to-last film before her retirement at the age of 28. She plays Texas gal Nasa Springer, who’s always had a “savage” temper she can’t explain. In the space of 88 minutes she goes from wild teenager to jilted newlywed to young mother to prostitute to wealthy society girl to alcoholic before finally (it’s implied) settling down with her Native-American friend after discovering that she’s half-Native-American, something the audience has known all along.
Bow’s performance is frankly astonishing, to the point where you simply can’t believe what you’re seeing from one moment to the next. Sample scenes see her savagely whipping both a snake and her Indian friend, smashing a guitar over a musician’s head and violently wrestling her Great Dane… and that’s all in the first five minutes. She’s also frequently in a state of near undress throughout—one funny scene has her maids chasing her with a dressing gown because they’re afraid she’ll run down the street in her négligée.
The rest of the film includes alcohol, adultery, strong violence, attempted rape, murder, syphilis (not named, but heavily implied) and baby death. It’s a veritable smorgasbord of outrageous content and Bow is pure dynamite throughout. The film is also noted for being one of the first on-screen portrayals of homosexuality, when Nasa visits a gay bar in the Village frequented by “wild poets and anarchists”.
Smarty (1934)
Directed by Robert Florey, written by Carl Erickson and F. Hugh Herbert
This deeply problematic sex comedy features pre-Code stars Joan Blondell and Warren William (often nicknamed ‘The King of Pre-Code’) at their absolute filthiest. Blondell plays Vicki, a capricious, happily married wife who gets an obvious kick out of taunting her husband, Tony (William). When he cracks and slaps her at a party, she divorces him and marries her lawyer, Vernon (Edward Everett Horton), whom she also goads into slapping her in a deliberate ploy to win back Tony.
Essentially, Smarty hinges on Vicki liking rough sex and it’s completely blatant about it, ending with her sighing “Hit me again” (the film’s UK title!) as they sink into a clinch on a couch, a rapturous expression on her face. It’s a controversial film because on the surface it looks like it’s condoning domestic violence, but it’s very clearly about Vicki’s openly expressed sexual desires—she wants to be punished and dominated, she just has a rather dodgy way of getting what she wants.
It might be unsophisticated, but in some ways Smarty is remarkably ahead of its time and ripe for rediscovery. To that end, it would make a fascinating double bill with Stephen Shainberg’s Secretary (2002). Oh, and it’s also chock-full of lingerie scenes (like most pre-Code films), if you like that sort of thing.
Massacre (1934)
Directed by Alan Crosland, written by Sheridan Gibney, Ralph Block and Robert Gessner
Several pre-Code films (notably those made by Warner Bros) took a no-punches-pulled approach to their depiction of social issues, and star Richard Barthelmess actively sought out such projects. Here he plays Joe Thunderhorse, a Native American who’s become famous on the rodeo circuit. When he returns to his tribe to bury his father, he ends up fighting for their rights, taking on corrupt government officials and religious authorities.
Massacre is fascinating because on the one hand it’s wildly insensitive—Barthelmess and co-star Ann Dvorak are both cast as Native Americans—but on the other, it burns with a righteous fury and does more than any other Hollywood film (before or since) to champion the rights and highlight the injustices dealt out to Native Americans. That fury is encapsulated in a horrifying and rightly upsetting rape scene (it happens off-screen, but the cuts leave you in no doubt) that the film handles with surprising sensitivity.
In addition to being a passionate fight against racism and social injustice, the film also has some genuinely shocking sexual content. Most notably, Joe is seen making love to a rich white woman (Claire Dodd, who’s also in Smarty) who has an obvious sexual fetish, flaunting him in front of her friends and making a shrine in her room with Native-American paraphernalia.
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, written by Waldemar Young and Sidney Buchman
Yes, this is Cecil B. DeMille again, but no list of weird and wild pre-Code films would be complete without the jaw-dropping ancient Rome epic, The Sign of the Cross. Adapted from an 1895 play by Wilson Barrett, it stars Frederic March as Marcus Superbus (stop sniggering at the back there), who’s torn between his loyalty to Emperor Nero (Charles Laughton) and his love for a Christian woman (Elissa Landi), while also fending off the advances of the Emperor’s wife, Poppaea (Claudette Colbert).
The film is racy enough in its sexual content alone: highlights include the famous scene of Claudette Colbert taking a nude milk bath and an erotic “lesbian” dance sequence, where Joyzelle Joyner’s “most wicked and talented woman in Rome” does ‘The Dance of the Naked Moon’ at Frederic March’s orgy, trying to tempt Landi’s virtuous Christian, to the obvious arousal of the gathered guests.
However, it’s the climactic gladiatorial-arena sequence that will leave your jaw on the floor. Lasting around twelve minutes, it includes: someone getting eaten by a tiger, a tied-up, naked women being approached by hungry crocodiles, pygmies getting chopped up by female barbarians, elephants stomping on heads, a gorilla approaching a naked woman tied to a stake, a man getting gored by a bull, and gladiators fighting to the death, complete with blood and gory injury detail.
The whole thing is genuinely horrifying, even for 2021. Best of all, DeMille pointedly critiques the audience (ourselves included), by showing a series of reaction shots ranging from intense enjoyment to abject seen-it-all-before boredom.
Matthew Turner (FilmFan1971) is a critic, author, podcaster and lifelong film fanatic. His favorite film is ‘Vertigo’. The films in this article are also listed here: Five of the Pre-Code Era’s Most Outrageous Films.
#preCodeApril#pre code april#precode april#hays code#mppa code#cecil b demille#clara bow#matthew turner#letterboxd#1930s films#1920s films#depression films
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Characters: Rise! Leonardo, Gender-neutral! Reader
Contents + Warnings: Platonic, Cursing, Hurt/Comfort, Mentions of insomnia, Set before the movie, 3270 words.
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Tonight was the night where the guys, including April, came over to your place to hang out. The entire afternoon was filled with snacks, Jupiter Jim marathons, small arguments here and there, the occasional times where Raph would dare himself to fit something in his mouth and you all had to beg him to stop, and even more snacks.
Despite you going on and on to your uncle about how you could take care of the apartment yourself for one night, the thought of the turtles leaving your company unsettled you. So as the day drew nearer to an end you insisted that they should stay for the night; it's not like they had anything else to do for the rest of the evening.
Happily giving into your begging request, the boys instantly made way to help you prepare a pillow den in the living room for you all camp out in. The process didn't take long with the help of a gorilla-sized turtle that was able to carry a bunch more plush items than any of the rest of you could together.
You managed to fish out some comfortable clothing to lend to April seeing as she couldn't strip down and relax in just her shorts like the guys. Although, Leo wouldn't quit begging for something warm of yours to borrow.
The excuses ranging from: "Sleeping in your living room is like locking myself in a meat freezer!" To, "Trust me, if I had nipples right now, they'd totally be erect." Let's just say he walked out of your room a happy turtle, draped in a black hoody that surpassed his thighs. He was lucky that you bought all your clothing 2x your size.
Only a couple of moments passed by the time you guys got yourself settled, nestling together in a huddle on the now cushioned floor, apart from April who lounged on the sofa. Mikey took the responsibility of setting up a movie that you'd all soon drift off to. He laid on his plastron with his chin in his hands, gawking directly at the TV after hitting start at the play menu.
The kid fell asleep 10 minutes into the movie. As did the others, one by one, leaving you tossing and turning as you struggled to join in with their slumber.
You would take a peek every now and then at everybody that was sleeping in the heap of quilts, clearly that no matter how many times you checked, they were all still asleep. Even Donnie, which was surprising to the eye of anyone that knew the turtle well enough, as he was classified as the "Nocturnal" one of the brothers. Keeping himself fuelled with caffeine to have the opportunity to work in peace as the others slept was his nightly routine. Maybe today he didn't have his regular dosage.
Your next attempt at trying to doze off was also a complete bust, leaving you to roll onto your back with a quiet huff. Although your shuffling was stifled by the soft echo of snores and churrs filling the room. Your gaze remained fixed on the ceiling, noting every minuscule crack you could find. The street lights of New York dimly gleaming through your windows aiding you.
Your body had already flung itself up and into action at the sudden grumble that erupted from your belly. It's not like you were going to nod off anytime soon, so a little leftover ice cream wouldn't hurt, right?
With slow movements, you cautiously tiptoed passed where Mikey lay, stretching across to put the TV on standby. You were gonna go insane if you had to listen to the same repetitive music from the now finished movie once more. Changing course, you made way to the kitchen, careful not to trip over any green feet along the way.
The kitchen wasn't far from where the turtles slept, the doorway only a few steps away. You could make out the hill of body that was Raph - curled into himself with a pillow clutched comfortingly close to his chest - in front of the sofa. April was sprawled out with her arm draped over the big guy and her hair messily caught on her face. Seeing her without her glasses on is something you'll never get used to.
Leon settled on his carapace, his arms folded beneath his head with the hoodie sleeves rolled up to his elbows. For someone who was "so cold", he sure as hell didn't mind having his legs out in the open.
Donnie had acquainted himself beside Mikey, leant on his side with his hands tucked between his cheek and the pillow. Seeing Donnie so content was just...so not Donnie. Although his red and blue goggles still remained on his crown which wasn't really a shocker.
You rubbed at the corners of your eyes, the light that emitted from the now open fridge making your sight hazy, struggling to keep focus. You swiped at the ice cream tub as soon as you caught a glimpse of it.
However, you undermined your level of strength (or how much ice cream you had already eaten prior) and thus ended up dropping the almost empty tub on the tiled floor from your sudden movement. The clatter made you jolt simultaneously and mutter a quick "shit!", which came out more like a quiet yelp.
You scurried to the ground to retrieve the ice cream, all while your head swivelled from left to right, on high alert in case the noise had woken any of your friends. Seeming as though the coast was clear by the continued snoring heard from the other room, you heaved yourself back to your feet with a relieved sigh and turned to close the fridge door.
The flick of a light switch seemed to have scared you more than anything.
"Hey there, stranger." The boy in blue stood at the kitchen's entrance, his hand still rested on the light switch. Under the blinding light, you could make out the loose smirk he held as he stared at you with a half-lidded gaze.
You kept your mouth agape momentarily as you collected yourself from the scare. Leo was always one for dramatics. "Jesus, man. Could've given me a better warning."
"Like you were any more subtle." The turtle raised his brows at you before moving to sit on the countertop nearest to where you stood. His husky voice was laced with a hint of sarcasm.
You quietly groaned, leaning back on the frosty refrigerator. "I didn't wake you did I?"
"Nah, I haven't had a wink," Leo reassured then gestured to the item you were cradling. "You mind if I have some?"
"Knock yourself out."
He fetched out a couple of spoons from the cutlery draw that happened to be in arms reach. Leo had become accustomed to your kitchen as well as the rest of your house after the number of nights he's spent at your place. Felt almost like a second home to him at this point.
You popped off the plastic lid while also being handed a spoon for yourself, offering Leo the first scoop before diving in.
"So, what's your deal? Can't sleep or do you hang out in your kitchen at 4 in the morning as a pass time?" Somehow, even with his gob full, he was still able to poke fun at you in some way.
You rolled your eyes before preparing yourself for another scoop. "Can't. Like, I am tired but my body's just like 'ha, think again'. Now here I am, eating morning ice cream with you."
Leo gave you a once-over. "That sucks."
"Well, I wouldn't say it's too bad. I prefer your company over my own." A small 'pfft' was heard in response. "What, you don't think I like hanging out with you? I don't just share my leftovers with anyone."
You gave a lop-sided grin before grasping the fact that you weren't amusing him. In fact, he didn't even seem fazed. His regard was fixed on the spoon he was twiddling with.
"So, uh... When did your insomnia start acting up again?" You made sure to tread lightly, placing your spoon in the tub.
Leo gave a low grumble that even you could feel in your own chest. "Mmn, around Tuesday." It was Friday.
"Have you told the others?"
"Didn't wanna bother them...Didn't wanna bother you." His shoulders were slumped forward enough to lean his elbows on his thighs, suddenly interested in some dirt embedded in his nail.
Nibbling on your lower lip, you peered over at your friend, worry rising in the pit of your stomach. You were struggling with how to go about this without making him feel like he has to tell you what's up. It's not like you're not aware he's not okay, but maybe this is one of those times he isn't up for addressing it.
As softly as you could, you took a hold of his chilly hand and gently ushered for him to get off of the counter. His eyes shifted to yours quickly in question before coming to the realisation you were leading him to your room. He let his arm fall loose as you pulled him along.
You let Leo get himself settled on your bed before closing the door behind you. He seated himself relatively close to the centre of your bed, with his legs tightly crossed and the sleeves of your hoody now pulled down and bunched in his fists. His gaze was downcast, mulling over what to say and how to say it. Leo was great at reading other's emotions, but when it came to his own, he was left for nought.
Leo peered over at where you stood, awkwardly leaning on the closed door. He felt bad for putting this on you tonight when you were already struggling to sleep as well as him, even though he hadn't said anything yet. You just always knew there was something up with him when he wasn't even sure himself.
"Come sit down. I don't bite, man." The turtle offered but was internally begging. He was so desperate for the mood to not get too serious. Please joke back, please.
A smirk slid its way to your features, "What an honour. Leonardo, inviting me to sit on my own bed? I couldn't thank you enough, honestly."
Leo patted the soft mattress lightly with a twitch of a grin. "Best seat in the house."
You scooched your way over to him, the sight is not so graceful, but he didn't care. You soon stopped, sat comfortably in front of Leo as you mirrored his posture. You were hesitant to hold his gaze, as he kept faltering. Though you decided to play with the hem of your hoodie, picking at any loose threads. This way you at least had his attention in some sense.
"Do you, um..." Leo focused on his wording as you twiddled with the material wrapped around his hand. "Y-you sure you like being around me? Like, seriously?"
Anxiety bubbled in his belly, awaiting your reaction.
"Leo..." He scanned the details in your face, recognition dawning over you and it was clear. He didn't want you to know he wasn't 'all there', but he needed you to. He needed someone to. "I'm here to listen to whatever you have to say. You can trust me with anything. Look, I won't even talk, I'll just let you ramble on for days. As long as it helps you in some way."
Cute.
Sadness clouded his features, his jaw clenched as he struggled to string together any words without an audible sob releasing. His eyes stung so bad.
Are you seriously going to cry in front of Y/N?
"I-I just feel like I'm good for nothing, y'know?" Leo's voice came out more brittle than anything, as sorrow clung to his breath like the cold.
His eyes never met yours. Instead, he was picking out every crack and scar that was engraved into your hand as it laid in his lap. His train of thought was ramming its way through and there was no way to stop the flood gates from opening.
"It's like the only thing I know to do is fuck up. I fuck everything up. And the one time I don't, they don't even notice. Like they don't expect anything else from me other than being a total screw up."
He was struggling to keep his voice lowered. It was still 4:30 in the morning. But with every word he's ever had to confess bouncing right off of his tongue, it was hard to deny the temptations of just screaming until his throat would rip.
"For fuck's sake- I just wanna be noticed. Like Mikey! H-he has his art, right? They love his art so much and so do I. They have something to be proud of him for because he's able to actually do something. Donnie is the smartest fucking guy around, they can count on him for anything! Raph's our older brother and he's probably the softest guy on earth, and he's our leader. People appreciate what he does because we depend on him! Why can't I have any of that?" His last sentence came out as a squeak as he choked back a sob, but ended up coming out as more of a splutter of words. "Creativity? Intelligence? Strength? The only thing I can do is make people think I'm a useless piece of shit."
You watched as his body crumbled in front of you. He lost the grip on his sleeves as his chest began to heave, choked cries erupting from his throat. His eyes were clamped shut with hot tears spilling from their corners, trailing along the blazing red marks that graced his cheeks.
"Nobody trusts me with anything!" Leo took in a big sniff as his nasal ways began to clog. Everything was coming out now and he couldn't stop it. "Why? Why does nobody need me?"
He pressed the palms of his rough hands to his eyes, rubbing harsh and deep, to the point where his vision swirled with stars. His lip quivered with every exhausted breath.
"I just wanna be needed."
The only sounds that filled the air were Leo's attempts to fight back the rest of the tears that threatened to fall. His sniffs and coughs from how raw his throat had gotten echoed throughout your bedroom.
Though the act was sudden, Leo was too dissociated to retaliate. He felt his hands being carefully pulled away from his face, now surrounded by the warmth of your own. You brushed over his knuckles a couple of times with the pad of your thumbs. Circling around each one with repetitive strokes.
Although with his vision blurred, he was able to make out how your eyes were fixed on him. He felt you staring at everything except for his own eyes. Like you were picking out of all of his insecurities at once. Leo shifted under your gaze, feeling more pathetic than anything.
The boy shivered as your hands snaked around his shoulders and to the back of his head. His brows furrowed sceptically before he felt his mask unfasten and fall from its regular position around his eyes. The tear-soaked material was now in your hand, while your other came up to caress the red under his eyes.
Your palm cupped his cheek and he couldn't hold back the sigh as he nestled into your touch. You were always so warm, it was almost irresistible to not seek comfort in your heat.
"Y'know, you never cease to amaze me."
Leo's sore eyes enlarged at the delicate words that poured from your mouth so easily. He remained speechless as you examined every part of him. From his head to his cheeks, snout, mouth and jaw. Your expression as soft as the hand that held his face.
"You've always been there for every one of your brothers. When Raph's scared and struggling to keep the team from falling apart, you help him pull through with the best motivational speeches of all time. Seriously, I don't know how you come up with those so easily. You must've rehearsed or something in your spare time."
You smiled sweetly as a low chuckle came from the boy in blue, the funniest of grins pulling at his lips as he lowered his head.
With a gentle pull, you brought Leo with you to the head of your bed, sat up against the pillows. Leo took your open arms as an invitation to slide himself close beside you, wrapping an arm around your middle with his head tucked beneath your chin. With both of your legs sprawled out, he had a leg overlapping yours, absentmindedly giving your foot a stroke with his own.
"Donnie can always count on you to be supportive of his work." You continued, "No matter what, he always appreciates your input, whether he'll actually take into consideration or not. You're his twin brother, if anything, he feels he can trust your opinion the most."
You cradled the boys head to your chest, leaning down to press your cheek to his scaly crown. Making sure your mouth was close enough so that your words were only loud enough for only him to hear.
"No matter what, you always try your best to keep a smile on Mikey's face. Whenever he isn't the one being a ball of sunshine, you always manage to bring that smile right back to him. It's the sweetest thing. I'm pretty sure that's your talent."
Leo spoke into your shirt, his words being barely audible. "What, never leaving people alone?"
"Never giving up on the ones you love. You have so much love to give, Leo. You're always there to pick us up when we're down, and you constantly have a way of making us feel like we can just be. As if it's enough." You breathed in deeply, trying to keep your own composure. "We appreciate you so much. We wouldn't be anywhere without you and that's a fact."
You could feel your shirt slowly begin to soak as your friend burrowed further into your embrace, indicating they were Leo's tears. That was enough to get you going, sucking in your quivering lip. Though that didn't stop the ball lodging itself deeper in your throat as you spoke.
"Leo, you are so loved and you are so needed. There is never a moment where we don't need you, and there never will be. Your brothers, your dad, April, and me. We'll always need you, and we'll always love you for who you are. Please don't ever forget that. Please..."
Leo hadn't even acknowledged that you were crying until he felt you raise a hand to roughly rub at your face. He hooked his hand around your shoulder in an attempt to pull you closer, despite the weight he already had on top of you.
"Why you cryin', loser." There he is.
With a roll of your eyes, you let out a sorry excuse for a laugh. "Pfft, you wish."
...
You both had spent a good five minutes calming yourselves down, with constant fidgeting to wipe at your faces and sniffling galore. Neither of you seemed to have any energy left to do just about anything, so neither of you moved from your position on the bed.
Before Leo had appeared to be asleep, you let out a shaky sigh. "I love you so much, man. We all do."
"I love you too, Y/N."
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