The dynamic between Tang and Dys was one of my favorite parts of the game. I've been trying to pry myself from Baldur's Gate and get back to some of my other hobbies. My focus here was speed -- this took about 3 hours from start-to-finish
Photos of Maria Fujino & Momoko Notomi attending the Zombieland Saga x THE Chara SHOP held in Ikebukuro from March 1st to March 12th in 2019
Maria Fujino is a stage actress & the primary scripit supervisor of Zombieland Saga, ensuring the accuracy of Saga’s dialect in all official content, as well as the voice behind of the interviewer at the Gatalympics. While Momoko Notomi is the voice actress of Misa Higashitsuru
The two became close friends while working on the series and regularly attend events and visit Saga together.
June was a great month for many paleontological discoveries, there has been a lot of new species identified.
Here is a list of the newly identified Paleontological species:
PART 1 OF 2
1. A new Cretaceous bird from the Maastrichtian La Colonia Formation (Patagonia, Argentina)
2. A new theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Longjiang Formation of Inner Mongolia (China) - Migmanychion laiyang
3. Conservation implications of a new fossil species of hopping-mouse, Notomys magnus sp. nov. (Rodentia: Muridae), from the Broken River Region, northeastern Queensland - Notomys magnus
4. An early-diverging iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Rhabdodontomorpha) from the Late Cretaceous of North America - Iani smithi
5. A new lower Turonian mosasaurid from the Western Interior Seaway and the antiquity of the unique basicranial circulation pattern in Plioplatecarpinae - Sarabosaurus dahli
6. Osteohistology reveals the smallest adult Jurassic sauropodomorph - BP/1/4732
7. A new dolphin with tusk-like teeth from the late Oligocene of New Zealand indicates evolution of novel feeding strategies - Nihohae matakoi
8. Praecarbo strigoniensis, a new genus and species of Cormorants (Phalacrocoracinae) from the Late Oligocene of Hungary - Praecarbo strigoniensis
drawing by King Kosmoceratops on youtube.
9. Vectipelta barretti, a new ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, UK - Vectipelta barretti
10. Relict duck-billed dinosaurs survived into the last age of the dinosaurs in subantarctic Chile - Gonkoken nanoi
There is a part 2, a continuation of this post, where you can find more and with the scientific papers relating to their descriptions are linked.
Catterina Vizzani, known as Giovanni Bordoni (1719–1743), was an Italian person who became famous after death for living life as a man, despite being known as a woman early in life and after death.
Vizzani was born to a carpenter in Rome. At some point, Vizzani ran away from home to Viterbo, and adopted male clothing and the male identity of Giovanni Bordoni.
Giovanni Battista Bianchi, an Italian surgeon, examined Vizzani's remains to establish if there were any physical explanation of Vizzani’s sexual orientation. Vizzani's funeral was widely attended, as the public regarded the deceased as a woman who died for virginity.
Bianchi later published a biography of Vizzani titled Breve storia della vita di Catterina Vizzani romana che per ott'anni vesti abito da uomo in qualita di servidore, la quale dopo varj casi essendo in fine stata uccisa fu trovata pulcella nella sezzione del suo cadavero di Giovanni Bianchi professore di Notomi in Siena (Venezia: Occhi, Simone, 1744), making Vizzani famous. It was later translated to English as The True History and Adventures of Catharine Vizzani (1751).
An adorable drawing done by voice actress Momoko Notomi of hers & Maria Fujino’s characters in Zombieland Saga, Misa Higashitsuru & the interview girl from the Gatalympics posing together. The drawing was left in the exchange notebook at the 2019 Zombieland Saga Princess Cafe held in Ikebukuro that the pair attended together.
Maria Fujino is also the primary scripit supervisor of Zombieland Saga, ensuring the accuracy of Saga’s dialect in all official content. The two girls met & became close friends while working on the series and now regularly attend events and visit Saga together.
notomys replied to your post “I, who have been so not into Gen fic in the past, find myself just...”
I honestly would have liked if the show had done that - they sometimes love their tropes a little too much. Personally, I've never liked "redemption leads to death" - if you're dead, how can you put the lessons you learned to use?
Yep. And what some folks in fandom miss is that the existence of abuse + redemption as a combo in fanfic, highly niche erotica/emotional porn romance, does not = good representation or a lot of representation for abuse recovery arcs in media that include redemption/ugly behaviors and symptoms. Nor is it itself intended to be a grounded or realistic depiction: it serves a different, highly stylized emotional porn purpose, which is valid. But it’s a separate thing.
And in media itself largely there’s the idea that people who are damaged enough to lose themselves need to just die instead of changing, which is harmful. In fact, overall, as much as people pretend they’re just being woke, there’s a strong strain in fandom of Good Victim vs. Bad Victim.
Good victims have no ugly symptoms or issues, they’re just soft and smol and, if angry and violent, exclusively at the bad guys and with no fallout in the rest of their lives. And mostly, media being what it is, female victims are written like that - but the moment a female survivor becomes difficult you can see the knives come out in fandom too.
Over in B//omb Girls fandom people got so angry at this one character, Kate, that a lifetime of abuse actually left real, not easy and pleasant damage. That she wasn’t just the perfect soft weepy uke girlfriend for Betty to heal with her topping after a few single perfect tears and some artful whimpering.
And W//yonna Earp fandom bayed for Willa’s blood and victim blamed her to the point that it was disgusting to even look at the stuff they were coming up with. And then, ofc, that show killed her...
It is a repeated and very mainstream thing to promote the idea that people who go to an ugly damage place and lose themselves just have to die. Even if they’re so young they’re still legally minors or just barely not legally children anymore. When people engage in that and pretend they’re being woke (because the existence of a certain genre of niche erotica offends them so much!) because they want these people to die without a moment of grace/redemption...
That is taking the bog standard mainstream media position and arguing it should be more regressive and restrictive, not pushing some kind of progress.
And, yeah, it is true that overall survivors in media with ugly symptoms are white male characters. But there’s more than one thing going on here. Especially when some survivors say: I see some of the broken, ugly side of my healing process in this character and want desperately for them to live and do the hard work of getting better.
In the book Max has some unpleasant symptoms and that gives me hope, but so far on screen the way they’ve ignored the deeper issues... well, it makes sense that she has high walls and is trying to be there for El.
But they need to let her be well rounded and have that ugly side to her situation (as El was allowed to have in S2, which people hated and blamed on Kali because they couldn’t accept that a girl they’d categorized as a meek, smol, innocent obedient “good victim” could have rage and violence issues and need to lash out and push boundaries to heal.)
You can’t just choose to give two characters a background of extreme abuse and then kill the one off whose symptoms are ugly and have the other one have barely any evidence of that damage in the main canon without there being an issue there.
But, again, they let El go to a place people who wanted her to be the eternal soft good victim didn’t want to see, and overall they keep offending viewers by letting characters show real evidence of their trauma in real, unpleasant/unpretty ways, so I am hopeful.
I mean, they approved of the book, so... clearly they were okay with the content? I’m confused about how canon it’s meant to be though. /shrug/ But something like that needs to be there. And El + Max’s friendship needs to be as deep as the boys friendships have become as time passes, which will include that part of their lives. I think they get that; Max can’t just be there to be support, they need to move into mutual support and understanding. Fingers crossed they do right by the only survivor of the awful family they wrote who actually has survived it literally.
notomys replied to your photo “Escape pod contains Ash! YAY! But. What if it's Control again?”
I don't know if you've seen the trailer for next week, but that would make the next episode unexpectedly hilarious.
Yah, I just saw it! I mean, after seeing it, I am 51% sure he is himself... unless Control jsut got better at faking human nuances in that 10 minute period. LOL
My son don’t need anymore identity crises!!! He’s had enough for a lifetime!!!
Gifts: Shirley has some sort of clairvoyant dreams, though she doesn't seem to remember them, and while she sometimes says the relevant part out loud - "Nellie's in the Red Room!" she sometimes doesn't ("It's the pipes!")