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ckret2 · 11 months

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bill doesnt really strike me as the type to be really into listening to music, but if he were, do you think there are any particular genres/artists he would enjoy/hate less?

You're in luck because I've put COPIOUS thought into this.

Here's all the canon and semi-canon info about Bill's musical tastes I can recall off the top of my head:

ONE. From the AMA, his favorite "song" is a rising Shepard tone.

*MY FAVORITE SONG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rzIiF7LpPU

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TWO. He is interested in the "good stuff" out of human pop culture, which includes the song "96 Tears" by Question Mark & The Mysterians.

Are you at all interested in human pop culture?

JUST THE GOOD STUFF! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7uC5m-IRns

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THREE. He knows the song "Stacy's Mom". This says nothing about whether he likes the song, but he's knowledgeable enough about recent human pop culture that he can casually drop a reference to it in a joke. It's probably safe to assume he's familiar with a broad variety of popular human music.

Hey Bill. What's up with Wendy's mom?

WENDY'S MOM HAS GOT IT GOING ON. SHE'S ALL I WANT AND I'VE WAITED FOR SO LONG.

FOUR. When he gives himself a super cool car its radio is playing a rap song. I wasn't able to find any identification for the song, but it sounds to me like it could potentially be by Lil Bigg Dawggg, the same in-universe artist behind "Straight Blanchin'"—so, extremely popular mainstream rap. (Song heard at 2:50).

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FIVE. He's got some kind of generic-sounding electronic dance music playing during his Fearamid party.

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SIX. The "We'll Meet Again" scene. He can play the piano. I suppose you could choose to believe that Mr. All-Seeing All-Knowing Eye can play any instrument and he just happens to pick the piano for effect—he might not even actually be playing, since the song keeps playing itself when he turns away—but I choose to believe he's playing it and at some point he actually made the choice to learn piano for fun just because he wanted to. As someone who took piano lessons for over a decade, assuming that is indeed his own playing, I'd rate him as competent and skilled (that's a pretty impressive run at the start), but no virtuoso. He'd be a hit at the family holiday party but not in a concert hall. The choice of "We'll Meet Again" might mean he's got a soft spot for WW2-era popular music but might just be a "he knows human popular music and will freely reference it for a joke" thing.

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SEVEN. "No! Synthesized music! It hurts!" Considering the circumstances, this may or may not actually apply to his musical tastes. Maybe only this particular synthesized music hurt him because Mabel had specifically decided that Xyler and Craz's music would injure Bill, maybe only extremely 80s-sounding synthesizers hurt him, etc. Most damning to the theory that he's got some kind of synthesized music allergy is the fact that almost all the music he's shown to voluntarily listen to and presumably enjoy (rising Shepard tones, the rap song, the party music) makes use of synthesized sounds. Still, it's worth mentioning that this is something he said at one point. (At 2:06.)

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If anyone else recalls anything I missed about Bill's musical listening habits, toss it at me.

So, that's what we've got canonically. On that basis, here's what I headcanon about his tastes:

ONE: favorite music

His absolute favorite "music" is stuff that doesn't sound like music to humans at all. So sounds that are created to follow certain patterns (not quite as random as, say, pure white noise); and on top of that, sounds that, subjectively, sound extra creepy to humans or make humans anxious (think how folks claim Shepard tones can drive people "insane"). So think nuclear alarm sirens, unnerving tornado sirens, War of the World tripod horns, Saturn, foghorns, The Backwards Music Station. If you want some actual music that sounds as close to these kinds of sounds as possible, thus far I've collected Curious Noises & Distant Voices, 20210310, Happy Happy Happy—and if you want to start drifting into more "musical" sounding genres, Tira Me a Las Aranas or Ledge.

I feel like noise as a genre ought to have a lot of music that fits the sound I'm looking for, but in practice a lot of what I've crossed paths with is really harsh/loud—sounds like breaking machines and blasting microphones—rather than the more swoopy tones I'm looking for. I think of all the noise subgenres I've sampled, death industrial noise is the closest subgenre to what I want, but it's not quite there either. I've had some success looking at hauntology artists, but that's a pretty big umbrella stylistically speaking. Does anybody know a genre that sits somewhere halfway between noise & ambient?

TWO: favorite human music

So that's that for Bill's alien musical tastes. As far as his human musical tastes, he cites Question Mark & The Mysterians specifically as "the good stuff"—so I imagine that's probably his idea of the best kind of music humanity's produced. So: extremely sixties. Hammond organs out the wazoo. Bands with occult-sounding names and lead singers who claim to be Martians that lived with dinosaurs and will be alive in the year 10,000. I tend to tilt him toward bands/songs that fall under the "psychedelic" umbrella, considering that the aesthetic tends to be kinda, well... just go google "psychedelic art."

Tell me this isn't what Earth would look like by Weirdmageddon day 30 when Bill starts to get bored. I mean come on. The only difference is Bill's version would have more fire and blood.

So start with some of your traditional psychedelic songs—Incense and Peppermints, White Rabbit, Breathe (In The Air), Time Of The Season, Purple Haze, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, etc.—and branch out from there. Slap on any decent psychedelic/hippie-themed playlist and you're good: try this hippie playlist, this psychedelic pop/rock playlist, or this dark psychedelic playlist.

Once you get past the more mainstream stuff, I go toward weird things that sound like they ought to be from a lost 1960s art house film that accidentally predicted the rise of UFO cults—things that vibe with Bill's occult + conspiracy theory + faux religious figure vibes. Think Bruce Haack, such as the album Electric Lucifer, particularly Electric to Me Turn, Cherubic Hymn, or War; Joe Meek's album I Hear a New World, particularly the title track or Orbit Around the Moon; or the particularly alien-sounding The Red Weed (Part 1) off Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds.

And after all that, I poke at modern psychedelic rock songs that lean more heavily into witchy & occult imagery—such as Astral Sabbat or Come a Little Closer—but by this point we're really on the fringe of the sound I'm looking for. There isn't nearly enough Hammond organ.

THREE: favorite human party music

Now, compared to the last couple of sections, this section is gonna be something of a cop-out, because I've done less musical digging; but when it comes to what he'll slap on for a party—which I imagine makes up probably a good 75% of his casual music consumption—he's just gonna slap on any popular current music he thinks is good for a party.

Currently? That probably means a lot of hip hop and EDM. Okay. In the 80s he probably woulda put on disco. In the 21st century he'd put on Get Low, First of the Year, Shots, DotA, Intergalactic, and Dragostea Din Tei (hardstyle remix), in a row, without a second thought, and with no heed to the humans going "what the FUCK is this party mix." These are not the best examples of what he'd play; just the first, most cringe, and most discordant examples I could think of. The more easily a potential party song can be described as stylistically or lyrically "obnoxious," the more likely it is to make his playlist. Does it sound like it should be played extremely loud? Would it offend the neighbors? Does it have a bass line that sounds like it could crack concrete and break ribs? Would humans recognize it as part of a widely-known meme, but not know whether Bill (an alien) is oblivious or if Bill (a troll) added it for that reason? It's going on, he's hitting shuffle, and it's not coming off the party playlist until he gets bored of it and finds something newer and even more obnoxious to replace it with.

If anyone has any good recommendations for specific genres that would yield a reasonable pool of Party Songs That Would Get Noise Complaints Filed (And Also Don't Go Together At All), I'm willing to take them. My gut says crunk and dubstep, but my hip hop knowledge is lacking and my EDM knowledge is extremely eclectic.

(Anyway if you made it this far I'm rewarding you with a link to my Bill Cipher spotify playlist I listen to when writing fic. It's 50% songs that I think actually match the "music he'd like" categories, 50% songs that are about him but that he wouldn't necessarily like, 50% songs about his relationship issues, 10% songs that are NONE OF THE ABOVE but that need to be in there because I need them for fic-writing vibes, and one single solitary song that is not actually about Bill at all, but rather about Pacifica, but that i put on the playlist anyway because it's a REALLY GOOD Pacifica song and I don't have any other Gravity Falls themed playlists so here it is. "That adds up to 160%—" and what of it. The percentages aren't even accurate.)

#(Don't talk to me about characters' musical tastes i will Really Get Into It and you are not escaping. This post took me three days.)#bill cipher #headcanons #meta #music #gravity falls

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cartoon-buffoon · 1 month

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Random thought that's probably unoriginal but hay it's 4 AM and I've been thinking about this for awhile. Ever find it funny the comparison between Oswald's and Mickey's relationship with Walt Disney's and Ub Iwerks'? It's a funny parallel that doesn't get talked about much largely because people seem to forget Ub Iwerks (ironic). WARNING: RANT!

Wanna note this rant is by a person who hasn't properly played Epic Mickey 1, 2, and 2.5 (power of illusion) so sorry if I get some stuff wrong yet I know the premise and key story points. Anyways:

For those who don't know Ub Iwerks was longtime friend of Walt Disney and basically the man who would lead the Walt Disney Studios into being what it is today Ub's technical influence on the animations shouldn't be dismissed at all. The man is responsible for some of the most iconic stuff in Disney history like the colors of Dumbo's "Pink Elephants" musical number, a photography technique for the rain in Bambi, creation of a specialized Xerox machine allowing for drawings to go directly onto cels for 101 dalmatians, and he himself earned an Oscar for his efforts in bringing the mix of 2D and live action together in Mary Poppins. He even directed and worked on while going went uncredited for his creation of the wartime shorts that saved Disney Studios during WW2. From there Ub went back to working on SFX after the war and was responsible for a lot of technical magicry behind Disneyland. Oh he also was responsible for some technical stuff behind Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" where he won another Oscar. So ya know the man had clear innovative talent. Despite this work Ub was a humble man and the only real reason why we know of most of his influence and his history with Walt is because of his grand daughter's own creation of a documentary involving him. Arguably Ub is the real creator of Mickey Mouse although that debate isn't what I wanna talk about and I'm neutral on the subject regarding it. What I wanna talk about is how Ub was always there from the very beginning, he and Walt were together way before Disney was the thing it is today and to get it there they bankrupted 3 different companies before finally making it big. Despite this Ub is mostly forgotten, his input on the legacy of Disney Studios being treated as nothing more than a footnote despite his feats. Ub stayed in the background being the hard working man and animator while Walt was a director and charismatic face. Ub did win two Oscars yet now and days he's severely undercutted and even forgotten despite making most of the original cartoons (dude made Plane Crazy aka Mickey's first cartoon in garage on a nothing budget FFS) and being one of the major catalyst for animation as we know it today.

One person gets all the credit and is the face of a company while the other who helped create it is usually left forgotten and only really known by a certain group of people who are more invested in history. Sound familiar? Of course Oswald isn't as important to Disney as Ub was (sorry Ozzie) yet I still find the parallel really cool and thematically fitting. In Epic Mickey there is a statue that parodies the famous one of Mickey and Walt holding hands, yet Oswald made it about himself instead with him replacing Mickey. This no doubt shows bitterness and resentment and the plot of Epic Mickey features the two eventually making up after it all. Not after ya know after Oswald gets mad and releases the blot and all that after rightfully getting pissed knowing his world was put in danger and his wife was basically killed by Mickey. Everything works out in the end thankfully and in the second game the two are on much better terms of course, in the first game Oswald also does make an attempt to be nice to Mickey because it's what Ortensia would of wanted.

Despite them reconnecting and acting as brothers I still feel like Oswald would hold some sorta grudge. If not for the fame stealing thing at least for the whole "you ruined my world and turned my wife to stone" thing. Oswald is petty enough to make faces at Mickey behind his back, no way is the rabbit THAT mature to forgive Mickey 100% for everything. Still, I feel like the only real way Oswald could ever get over the fact that Mickey took his spot as the mascot and face of Disney is by learning about Ub and his input. This is a neat little head canon I have that Oswald would embrace Ub as his creator instead of Walt. There would be something so fitting if Oswald learned he had two dads and his creation was a joint effort and actively learning about Ub and his contributions to Disney. I feel like instead of yearning for the attention his brother has he'd take a page out of Ub's book, he'd sit in the background and let the fame and popularity go to another despite the fact that there would be no popularity without him.

I made this rant because I was too lazy to draw this but: the idea of Oswald making a statue featuring him holding Ub Iwerks' hand as opposed to Walt's is such a cool and cute idea to me. It would not only show Oswald's acceptance of not being in the spotlight yet it would also honor the legacy of another who was "forgotten".

Anyways rant over, I'm excited for Epic Mickey rebrushed and can't wait to experience it and I probably need to sleep for classes i got later.

#rant #walt disney #ub iwerks #oswald the lucky rabbit #mickey mouse #epic mickey #headcanon #this was started at 4 AM #i'm gonna sleep now

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missmayhemvr · 8 months

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You know, baulders gate 3 is really a great example of how white leftist is, everything I'm about to say if coming from a bi black trans woman in a poly. It is a game that prioritized the lgbt peoples wants within role-playing spaces, and didn't for a second think of the largest most glaring long term issue of the space of role play and fantasy.

It's rabid racism. Euro fantasy has been entrench in racism atleast since Tolkien put pen to paper to write "the lord of the rings" and potentially longer than that, Tolkien himself stated the dwarves were meant to be his stand in for Jewish people, the orcs meant to be "the mongoloid hordes" (a term that comes start out of eugenics and race science) the humans are meant to be Britain I believe, and if it isn't clear who the elves are idk to tell you considering when the book was written. And when you understand the book in the context and what it was saying you realize some stuff. The unfortunate problem is in the like 100 years since that book it's hardly moved from ww2 era racism, hp the goblins are Jewish caricatures, blood libel the game came out and people twisted themselves into making that supposedly moral to play that game. Dnd was made by a bioesentialist who was super Christian who would in the end import much of the ideas from Tolkien, the idea of evil races, racism and a hard and fast good and evil chart that was influenced by the race of your character, and so much of that and the lack of realizing that they were addressing a real as fuck world event that happened and doing so without ever being like "oh maybe we should allow the player to address the issue oh their party and random npcs being racist as shit to each other, especially in regards to the terror attack that happened"

For those not knowing baulders gate has a story beat where the city with a lot teiflings gets teleported to the hells and teiflings as a whole are blamed for this and are all kicked out. If you know anything about world events a terror attack on a large multicultural city happens and all of one particular group is condemned as a result, is gonna sound a lot like 2001 and the results of 9/11.

Me as a queer person could likely have made it through bg3 easy, me as a black person playing a teifling, who understands that teiflings are very much what the creator of dnd thought of black folks, the references to the one drop rule, who btw presents as a teifling in vrchat because of this. Cannot get through this game that starts you off with just endless hate crimes, against teifling refugees. Especially considering you really can't say or do much in regards to it unless you just wanna fight all the druids. Especially considering that when I picked teifling in the character creator the default character literally just looked like me.

And having this game that these people went out of their way to make sure lgbt people felt seen but had nothing for the poc just feels so much like white leftist. Entirely unwilling to challenge or address racism of the status quo or even within their own spaces that are supposedly friendly to me and an ally to me. And yet when my foot touches the door step all I'm met by is hostility.

#baulders gate 3 #racism #anti blackness

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scienceoftheidiot · 5 months

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hello! thank you for that really informative post on the uniforms! I definitely have a better understanding of them now (not sure if that means I'll learn to like drawing them though lol) If you don't mind me asking, what got you into historical costuming (or the era you're into)? It's a really interesting subject and I'd love to know more ☺️

Oh well thank you ^^" I was just indulging in something I find interesting, as well as keeping my brain busy, I'm glad you found it interesting too !

I would say I don't know if I'm into historical clothes or the specific era. Probably the era itself, but as we're reenacting using uniforms, I am especially versed into the clothes and objects of WW1. I am not especially interested in the battles themselves, more in the life in and out of the trenches, on and off the front (I of course have a WW1 AU for Royai that I've been writing for months lol, but I'll get back to it once I'm done with my current long fic).

It's mostly random circusmtances that got me into it, I grew up with history buff parents who loved late 19th-early 20th century stuff (they still do lol and they always have had a lot of objects around), and then met my now husband who's really into reenactment. He used to do so only for WW2, but his focus has shifted now and he's way more interested in the same period than my parents, including WW1.

My husband is from the Chemin des Dames, which is to the French the same thing as the Somme for the British. So he actually grew up surrounded by this history, and yes, even almost (then) a century later, you still see the traces of these everywhere - in monuments and cemeteries of course but also in the land itself, the way it's shaped, and we find things every time we go pick mushrooms in the woods there. Including unexploded bombs. So it's something kinda vivid still, and we now want to keep the history living by doing reenactment.

So, FMA happening in a nondescript European country in the 1910s? Can't help. It's there. I need to make the link XD

Feel free to ask questions if you have them ! thank you so much for showing an interest in this and asking me :)

#replies

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angrygonk · 16 days

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SURPRISE get ask game’d

Tell us 3 random facts about yourself, then ask some of the blogs on your notifs or mutuals (if you wanna)

Aight, ere we go: 1. I fucking love lil trinckets and antiques, curios, artifacts. My fucked up collection includes: russian tsar-era kopyeyki (lower denomination than the ruble), a pin for the 30 year celebration of a factory in the caucas or a fucking ww2 german tank wrench from a panther. I also have a shit ton of dice and even fictional coins.

2. I have recently started making submarines for barotrauma, but i haven't gotten around to posting them yet. My perfect creations include:

3. One of the most influential posts that has affected my life is probably the "I've traded my imposter syndrome for brilliant conman syndrome" one and it has really helped me with not getting burnt out and simply doing stuff.

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boxwinebaddie · 4 months

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hey unkle neen! ik it was just their name frm the show, but your fix have so much meaning in them, i was wondering if there was a reason that the name crimson dawn was chosen? ^^

AAAAAAAA!!!! okay, i will answer your ( very iconique ) question in a second, but before i do i just want to say that the way you set it up and lightly interlaced ur ask with letting me know that you notice and appreciate me taking small concepts from the show and giving them larger meaning/context within my fanfictions was so sweet n really, Really means A LOT to me!!!! like i am cheesing so hard rn!!! :') <3

i.g. plots coming full circle, extended metaphors, mirroring, flashbacks and flashforwards...i really like being thorough, going into microscopically specific detail abt everything...but more than that:

i want the Nice things i write...

to Mean stuff to my readers.

& for the stuff i write to mean something, it can't mean nothing.

this is specifically true in the area of names, which seems kind of insane, but even like something as minute as stan's maternal grandfather's name being joaquin and shortened to 'walk' by william phillips, stan's abuelos secret sbf lover in ww2, and stan's middle-name-sake who walk called run, is important because will-phil's war-torn, heirloom leather jacket which was given to stan's gpa seconds before run did what all white men should do ( go die in a war ) had now become Stan's Signature Leather Jacket, which was a huge ( like literally its gigantic ) part of his identity as a young transman but in a meptahorical sense, that red string of fate that tipsy!gpa!walk hand embroidered into the tag of his lover's jacket which stan wore with pride ( also literally ) is a physical testament to two men's true blue love for each other, represents revolution/rebirth & also says R-U-N.

...which is Exactly what stan does.

also i could talk for literal days about stan's chosen name being stan or even just stan's stage name being raven and all the variations of that and cuervo specifically from chapter four ( i was so fucking excited when we got to that chapter i was like ;)) It's GO Time, Boys! )

but that could fit in an entire other ask meme and i am trying not to let my oddly intense and sudden influx/rush of random RM Rockstar Ravenstan hyperfixation burn everything down around me like...

~The You Know What.~

which! was what i was trying 2 get at when talkin abt names and stuff because while in a deeper, under the surface sense, crimson dawn represents what the sky looked like the day stan died -- blood red.

it was a Crimson Dawn when all hell broke lose that day.

( which i can't talk about in too much detail juust yet... )

***[ tw for blood, fluids and general gender dysphoria ]

but what i can do is tell you why the name crimson dawn was chosen, which, is ironic ( emphasis iron ) bc has that ~sharp, smarmy, sultry, smoldery, shadowy, Superstar smokeshow~ energy to it and sounds like it's stands for something all deep and dark and brooding...

but rlly is just from an inside joke about the first song stan ever wrote

Blood Moon™

which he wrote on his period. ;)

hsdlkahlksahd ( i luv u soooo much, ravenstan )

so tldr they won their lil battle of the bands competition/got scouted for bm but OG CD did not have a name/whatever name they had was one of the 74093279423 ones they were trying out, so management needed one and they took stan and co.'s crude out of context inside joke abt it always being darkest before crimson dawn aka PMS as...

Cool, Dark, Edgy!

AND LITERALLY MADE IT THEIR BAND NAME!!!!! WHEN I TELL YOU THEY WERE ALL LIKE YOU DID NOT JUST NAME US AFTER OUR INSANE INSIDE JOKE ABT OUR TRANS ROOMATE WHO NOT ONLY IS NOT OUT ( DW! THEY HARD SHOVED HIM BACK INTO THE CLOSET! SO KIND OF THEM! ) BUT UR GONNA MAKE HIM DANCE AND PUT HIM IN THE ROCKSTAR VERSION OF A STRAIGHT JACKET AKA THE TINY SLUTTY VEGAN LEATHER STRAPPY PANTS??? OUR WEIRD LITTLE GUY??? ARE U KIDDING??

they...were *jersey kyle vc* Naught Kidden, btw.

and stan really did...have to learn how to dance.

...Absolutely Criminal.

but even more so, from that day forward, nevermore were our warped tour four fave broke boy shitiots bound by together by their shared rent/utilities & the butterfly tramp stamp lower back tattoo of friendship/brotherhood, because our zeroes had become heroes, now legally bound by a crooked contract that turned their dinky little no-name garage band and into chart topping punk rock super band

Crimson Dawn™

where blood moon was number one and trending for like...Weeks.

which meant they had to do interviews and stuff where stan was not very good at being raven yet ( obviously ) and drank a lot to cope, so when like, idk, fucking some big fancy talk show or whatever asked stan what blood moon was about, he was like...leans in...dead serious:

"OKAY, so you know...when you're on your Period, man? and not a light day either. i'm talking suuper heavy flow, dude. but you totally forgot your cycle was starting, so your favorite pair of sweatpants are stained like five seconds after you spent like fifteen whole quarters washing them? but its whatever. its late o-clock and no ones gonna see your fucked up chonies, bro. s'anyways, you're walking to the store because you ran out of pads and pain medication and FUCKS and like your stomach feels like you're being stabbed to death but you're still hungry? like, bro everything just sucks and on top of that, the grocery store just sold out of those dank ben & jerrys ice creams with the brownie in the center, or like, brooo, only has the those tiny whack containers that cost seven dollars?! oh, in the worst flavors too! like fuckin' cherry garcia or eugh, that awful Mint one that tastes like toothpaste if it were made out of miErDA and the full moon is out and you just want to start ripping off your clothes and tearing off your face and start fkn screaming at the top of your lungs? Yeah :). That."

aND ITS DEAD SILENT FOR A SECOND BUT THEN EVERYONE STARTS DYING LAUGHING AND IS LIKE WOW A SINGER AND A STAND UP COMEDIAN!!! LOOK AT THAT FOLKS! APOLOGIES TO OUR YOUNGER VIEWERS FOR LANGUAGE, WE'LL EDIT THAT OUT AFTER THIS, BUT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ONE THING YOU CAN'T CENSOR OUR FAV SUPER STARS BLOOD MOON RISING!

( which, blood moon and blood moon rising was also stan parodying the creedence clearwater revival song Bad Moon Rising about big cryptic apocalyptic feelings does Also play into this whole thing... )

anyways, management got REALLY MAD at stan about that but everyone thought it was a joke so it was Fine. but yeah their biggest single and their band is built on being on your period and being unhinged and wanting to smash shit and fight the government. <3

-uncle nina...who thinks waaaay Too Much about her weird lore

#sorry tw blood and gender dysphoria and body fluids and stuff like that ik thats kind of a weird hc but it was Important to me #transman stan u will always be famous #literally #like he is a disaster but he is the peoples punk rock prince #hes also so pretty and his voice is so pretty #everyone is hypnotized #speaking of stan on his period NOT THE TABLOIDS CATCHING HIM COMING OUT OF LIKE TARGET W PADS AND HIS GD ICE CREAM #and being like!!!! Lead Singer Raven of Crimson Dawn Buys Heartfelt Gift For Secret Romance. Whos The Lucky Lady?#AND HIM AND KENNY AND JIMMY ARE LIKE THIS CANNOT BE REAL LIKE DSKHDLKHDLDS LIKE THEY ARE JUST BUSTING UP LAUGHING HELP #but anyways yeah i'm sorry this is so insane i could talk about rm and pep and crazy weird symbolism i wrote in #for so so so soooo long #i have mental problems #i love ravenstan so much like he is my BABY!!! i love him like he just wanted to be a rockstar n write his music and have fun #and he is not having very much fun im afriad #and doesnt get to write his music either #that little stan monologue was so funny to me hes so cute my man said no one cares abt ur chonies bitch!! pull ur pants up!!!#legend and icon raven of crimson dawn everyone #whenever the tabloids misconstrue one of ravens transboy thangs as him just being a womanzing ladies man its so funny to all of cd #because like Whos Man Is That? not ours watching attack on titan on the couch trying to open a bottle of wine w a power drill

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j-ellyfish · 6 months

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Diff anon, but idk how much the publishers are worried about controversy considering Hetalia is famous for being WW2 parody and I assume having Taiwan as a country made the Chinese censors throw a fit.

My personal theory is that I think they wanted him to try to pad things with more dialogue and arcs. It feels like older Hetalia was a lot more snappy and quick to the punchline almost like a 4-koma while modern ones feel like they drag on for some pages.

Idk what would you consider the biggest differences between Hetalia then vs now?

Same, I think it's more about Shonen Jump's guidelines than it is about fear of getting cancelled. I mean, you already took your decision on the stance of possibly getting cancelled by hiring Hima 😅 Plus this is not really as much of an issue in Japan as it is in the West, afaik.

You're absolutely right, I didn't really think about it but it makes a huge difference! Hetalia used to have a quick, snappy humor that definitely benefits from the yonkoma format and doesn't really translate well in 'typical' manga page format. Surely, there were manga-like arcs during the Gentosha times too (The War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Weeks' War for instance), but they still weren't as verbose as HWS and I feel like they were a lot more character-driven.

Thinking about it, I believe another difference is that HWS is getting overly focused on trivia itself at the expenses of real character exploration and depth. Early HWS was still on a middle ground, but now? How long has it been since something like Davie, the Jeanne D'Arc story or Though I May Depart, You Shall Remain? Or, on a lighter note, something like the Buon San Valentino strips or the April Fool's Event (the one where they dress silly)? All these stories have a very important thing in common: they explore the characters' depth and/or lore in a way that is specific to Hetalia characters' experience and not the mere visualization of trivia and informations. A big thing Hetalia has in it, which is in my opinion perhaps the aspect that plays the biggest role in its success, is that the characters aren't mere embodiments of a geopolitical, cultural and historical concept, they are also people of their own. A Hetalia character can and will act in a way that seems occasionally counter-intuitive if we treat them as simply mere stereotypes, because they aren't just that, they also have a human side of their own. This makes the character three-dimensional and deep, even despite the snappy, quick comedy and generally light-hearted tone of the work. Their reaction to things is not necessarily a 1:1 of what happened irl, because their personality is also personal and not a mere addition of historically accurate facts.

Something like those Brexit parts where the characters act out as a visual representation of the results of an irl poll, feels a bit off ... Because it lowkey feels like that irl poll took precedence over the characters' personality and lore, or at least over their genuine reaction. Now, I'm not saying that Brexit arc was 100% garbage, it wasn't and some reactions were definitely fitting, but overall the way it was played out is telling of HWS's verbose and overly trivia-oriented nature. Other strips like the recent one where several characters come to Romano's place for a work meeting feel like an attempt at something more character-oriented, but it still didn't get enough time to be fleshed out properly, imo ... It's hard to make it work when you: 1. Aren't allowed 4-koma format, where you shine; 2. Aren't allowed raw, random and occasionally sexual humor; 3. Aren't (I suspect) allowed to expand on a story for how many chapters as you please. Perhaps HWS strips tend to convey an overly planned out vibe, they often lose the genuine and random feel most older ones have.

Things like that, big reunions set in current days where the characters just do random stuff, was usually the format of Hima's blog events, like for instance the HetaWeen 2011 Event (the one that was turned into the 15-minures OVA) ... But in that case he got to decide pretty much anything about them, since it was his personal blog. How long he pleased, how many characters he pleased, anything. I highly doubt he is granted as much freedom by his editor, and as a consequence those strips come off as trying to do something but ending up being extinguished before time and watered down by overly safe and padded dynamics and circumstances.

I don't want to come off as if I hate HWS, there are also strips I like that belong to it, but overall it has a direction I am not happy with and sometimes reading through all the notes and trivia feels like a chore. I never felt like that pre-HWS and no, it's not that I am getting tired of Hetalia because I still drink up the trivia stuff on older strips like iced tea on a thirsty Summer afternoon.

#this is just how I feel that's all 🙈#hetalia #ask #ary spoke #I may be wrong or I may be right but regardless I'm not judging anyone's opinion or tastes #like I'm not trying to infere people shouldn't like hws or anything it's just how I feel

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aemiron-main · 9 months

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Also, people talking in the mike tag/vaguing my mike and the supernatural post and talking about about “not wanting mike to be related to the creels or connected to the supernatural by nature/having any sort of powers” is funny to me because it’s like. In the kindest way possible, what you want doesn’t matter. What you want won’t change the outcome of the show and doesn’t change the evidence that’s there. The same goes for what I want! Because it’s not about me wanting Mike to be connected to the Creels, it’s that I think he is, based on evidence. No skin off my back if the duffers came out tomorrow and explained all of that evidence & how it ties to something completely different. It wouldn’t bother me because my analysis isn’t focused on what i Want, it’s focused on trying to figure out what’s Going On.

Like. The fact that you’re analyzing based on what you want is where we differ in our approach. I don’t care about what I want when it comes to analysis, it’s about what I think is actually happening in the show & what’s supported by evidence.

If I analyzed based on what I wanted, i would have 15263747 posts about how S5 is definitely going to be creelarke and creel content with scott and henry kissing on the mouth repeatedly for 99% of the runtime and then an extra 500 hours of content of creelarke domestic life and victor creel pre-hawkins/ww2 backstory.

And this all also goes back to the post I made the other day about how some people analyze solely based on their own views on what they think the narrative is/what they think the narrative should be, and ignore any hard evidence about what’s going on in the show in favour of focusing on their opinion on the narrative as if it’s fact.

Also the idea that mike has always chosen to be involved with the supernatural is odd to me because it’s like. no?? What choice does he have?? Where else would he go??? Like yeah he chooses to jump into action and do as much as he can, but his involvement with the supernatural is… definitely not just out of choice. Was it a choice for the demogorgon to jump out of the wall in s1??? What choice did mike make to be there?? He went the same way as dustin and lucas??? He was also trying to not get killed by the lab Or by the Demogorgon?? What choice was there?? And again, YES, mike does actively pursue it sometimes (see: sticking beside will in the hospital in s2), but to act like he ALWAYS chooses it and that any supernatural involvement that isnt by choice is off the table is just. Inaccurate based on what we actually see happen in the show, which again goes back to my point about people ignoring scenes in the show in favour of their own biased views on the narrative.

Like, if we want to talk about being involved with the supernatural by choice, I actually think we should look at Dustin. Dustin’s the one who cares for a random alien creature he could’ve ignored. Dustin’s the one who gets fixated on the Vecna stuff in s4 and on pointing out the weird supernatural stuff to max re: chrissy’s death.

#stranger things #mike wheeler

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macbeth-n-cheese · 1 year

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Something I've been thinking about

As the end-of-semester stress amounts, the student focuses on whatever random crap she thinks of instead of studying

I was looking at this exact gif on a post I've made a while ago, and the picture of "Mr. Mustache" caught my attention. Not the picture itself, but the nuances of it, its very existence in this specific shot.

First you have Mustache, looking to the side with an elegant getup, neck straight, symbolising the Empire and all it stands for. When you see him, it's easy to picture lines of marching soldiers in perfect sync, the violent punishment of whoever fell outside their boundaries, and the narrow-mindedness of men who had too much power in their hands. He is strict, "correct" (in his own perspective), stiff and final.

And in front of him you have Klaus Jäger, a decorated Standartenführer from the most elite organisation in the Empire, the absolute crème de la crème... and he has his tunic unbuttoned, his undershirt showing through, that little smirk and laid-back posture with a glass of booze in his hand as he tries to socialise with a captured enemy. Klaus in this scene is the perfect antithesis of Mustache: carefree, relaxed, accessible, open-minded and approachable. His own man.

Speaking from a military perspective, you don't go around with your uniform like that if you aren't in the locker room. Klaus was on duty, with a picture of his boss looking over his shoulder, and yet he chose to be this informal. He chose to appear careless and rebellious, just like he chose Nikolai for his task.

Now, this divides into two main ideas in my mind:

Jäger knows exactly what he does, and isn't afraid to cross some lines in order to achieve his goals. He picked a friendly, almost rebellious approach to get Nikolai's guard down, and make him see the German as an ally of sorts, someone that disregards the rules of the group he belongs to and can be trusted. He asks for Nikolai's name —asks how his friends call him iirc— and offers his own, putting them in equal terms and reinforcing it by the extremely cute and baby equivalence he makes with their names. He purposefully wants to put Nikolai at ease and get him to cooperate, setting himself as and playing the part of an outlier. To him, Nikolai is an asset and a target for revenge, and Jäger is the cold and calculating villain.

Or he genuinely is like that.

(the way he goes "omg, same name bros!" ;--;)

Klaus is intelligent, stubborn and proud, and he knows how to navigate his circles and balance his doubtful loyalty to the cause with good behaviour and excellent performance. He honestly and genuinely is his own man and works according to his own goals and his sense of duty (he's a soldier, not a partisan). His interest in Nikolai is personal, as a rival and someone on par with his own abilities, and someone he has a personal score to settle. In this approach, his friendliness would be genuine, and so would the contrast between him and the photo. I like this, if only because it shows a simplicity we don't see much in an antagonist.

(A German officer in WW2 that isn't one of those is also a rare treat, that I appreciate with all of my heart lol. Yes, he had a big bold "windmill of death" flag on his tank, but that was literally the symbol of the country.)

In the end, though, I think Klaus has elements of both versions, and that's what makes him such a good character to me. He has some dimension, some subjectiveness that I really enjoy. Jäger is both the "scary German enemy" and "cool friendly guy whose hand shaked like gelatine when he had to threaten an innocent woman because he just isn't like that (and that's why I think he's both a bad and a great liar depending on the subject matter. If he feels any guilt/remorse/thinks it's unjustified, the farce is done)."

Idk man I just think he's neat :")

#t 34 #klaus jager #my weird rambling #character study #me simping for another 40yo #random ww2 stuff i make

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dailybrandonrogers · 1 year

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I wonder if the BRYCE series is going to address the plotline where Bryce kidnapped Donna's baby. I know that plotline was pre-BtH and and since the post-BtH timeline we haven't gotten any continuity of Sam & Donna raising "The Original" baby Elmer, but I personally believe it's still canon. Here are some disjointed ramblings where I prepare my theories and questions to be squandered in the second episode of BRYCE.

Pre-BtH Timeline

In Stuff & Sam we know Bryce needed the original baby to clone Elmers for their hearts, but we don't know why she specifically kidnapped Donna's child. Like, why didn't Bryce kidnap Cathy's baby? Or someone else's? Did she need Donna's baby for the fact that it was Donna's alone? Or was it just a completely random choice to kidnap any random baby?

Post-BtH Timeline

In Normal British Series it's revealed that in this timeline, Bryce gets her hearts from Queen Elizabeth II in an almost hilarious wholesale method. This implies she never kidnapped Elmer as a baby, nor implemented the cloning/harvesting system. Yet, in NBS, Brandon went out of his way to show that there are still multiple clones of Elmer in this timeline too. Off the top of my head there was the Bartender Elmer, Uber Driver Elmer, and British Tourist Guide Elmer. This indicates that Elmer was still somehow cloned, with or without Bryce's involvement this time.

A commonly accepted theory surrounding Elmer is that Blame (in his "George/Grandpa" era) is his father, as in BtH it's demonstrated Donna and George were in some kind of relationship during the apocalypse (as well as in ADATB) after meeting during WW2. Elmer's very existence in the post-BtH timeline isn't enough to confirm if he was kidnapped or not, as we know irregardless that George and Donna still, ahem, copulated.

Anyway, the promos for the second episode show Bryce akin to how she was without a heart in S&S. So cutting out her heart for Bobby in this timeline is now starting to catch up with her, and I'm really interested to see if they make any mention of Elmer at all, or if they go straight into Bryce's relationship with Queen Elizabeth II.

#brandon rogers #bryce tankthrust #brandon rogers bryce tankthrust #brcu #normal british series #bryce series #blame the hero #brandon rogers blame #brandon rogers elmer #stuff & sam #timeline ramble

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apersonwholikeslotus · 1 year

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Stuff About Nyo!Ame Bc Yeah

This is super random and also Ella is not to be confused with Abigail (who is in The Bookseller & The Florist and belongs to @rosethreeart) but is my own interpretation. Some of this is mushy, some of this is serious, some of it is just random preference rambles.

Her name is Charlotte-Ann Elizabeth, when she was little she commonly went by Lottie-Ann; but now usually goes but Ella, a shortening of her middle name.

England still calls her Lottie-Ann and when they're in stupid arguments Lottie-Ann Beth.

(stupid as in like,,, best way to make a pb&j)

Ngl I love the idea of her getting so sick and tired of condescending nicknames/dirty jokes made towards her she just started doing it back.

Speaking of; though I do like thinking about many nations being women instead of men, if I write America as a woman, England, France, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden all have to stay men. It's required.

At some point during WW2 got up on a table and just straight up walked across it to get everyone to pay attention to her.

She's generally a Lot More Done(TM) than Alfred

Didn't fight in either of the world wars BUT did somehow shoot Ludwig twice, I will not elaborate.

pulled the disguising herself as a man getup for the first few years of the revolution until Gilbert accidentally outed her and all of Congress went "There you are!!!" and made her stop fighting.

François once made a "are you on your period?" joke and promptly almost got himself kicked out of NATO

Matthieu accepts that he won't be able to stop Alfred and hangs back until he gets a call from Al asking for help.

Matthieu accepts that he won't be able to stop Ella and goes running after her anyways bc he knows she won't call him for help.

Is slightly more Work Smarter Not Harder than Al

But will also throw all her brute strength at something without a second thought bc fuck it

Generally more involved with government over military, though again don't think she can't fight. She can and will fight you and win.

#aph america #hws america #nyo!america #hetalia #nyotallia #my hc #hetalia hc

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askmalal · 11 months

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Favorite Historical Miniatures Armies:

The Chaos Gods and the Primarchs

(The Emperor, of course, always plays with an Alexandrian Macedonian Army. In every period. And he always wins….)

Hashut:

Ancients - Assyrians, of course.

Khorne:

Colonials - Bavarian Nuns, Wahehe War, German East Africa.

Malal:

I mean, I’ll happily play with any army known as an unreliable ally…

Nuffle:

Does not fully grasp the concept. Routinely brings a “Magnetic Action Football” set. Given he’s the god of random chance, however… he often wins.

Nurgle:

Quite happy to play any army at the height of the Black Plague

Tzeentch:

Ancients - Early Maya. Soooo many feathers!

Lion El’Johnson:

Medievals - Crusader Militant Orders

Fulgrim:

Ancients - Purple, Hellenism, Fancy. Hence, Seleucids

Perturabo:

Ancients - Gee… I wonder. But also, heavy siege tanks. So, Ferdinands, Brummbars, Sturmtigers make him positively turgid.

Khan:

Medievals - Really? You really don’t know?

Leman Russ:

WW2 - Norwegians. Danes from time to time. He despises Nazis, and ordinary Vikings are… boring.

Rogal Dorn:

Ancients - Pretty much anything Roman will do.

Konrad Curze:

Renaissance - Prefers Later Hungarians. Will grimace and accept playing with a Wallachian Army if he must.

Sanguinius:

Ancients - Early Hebrews. Also loves running German Triplanes in WW1 games. Richtofen’s Flying Circus, of course.

Ferrus Manus:

Anything with lots of slow moving disgustingly armored stuff. WW1 tank forces, for instance.

Angron:

WW1 - Portuguese Expeditionary Force. A glutton for punishment.

Roboute Guilliman:

ALSO anything Roman. But there must be shiny eagles involved.

Mortarion:

Not much fun. Always insists on bringing the bio-chem warfare units. Every period.

Magnus:

Not really a fan of Egyptian Armies as such. Surprisingly, likes himself a good group of doughty British colonials, circa 1879. Eh wot?

Horus:

Enjoys selecting the worst possible Army or force for the period in question, and proving that he can beat you with it.

Lorgar:

Lorgar constantly attempts to design his own house rules for armies and periods only he wants to play. Once spent a summer running the other Primarchs through the Great Toledo War.

Vulkan:

Appreciates the entertainment of war games, but prefers the abstracts. Problematically, however, he -can-defeat your elite armored division using just the red side from a set of checkers.

Corvus Corax:

WW2 - Big fan of paratroopers. Refuses on principle to play the bad guys.

Alpharius:

Once defeated a modern British Armored Division equipped with Challenger 2s…

Omegon:

…using a group of English Civil War clubmen and a Japanese Type 97 “Chi Ha” with a broken timing chain.

#malice #askmalal #malal #horus heresy #chaos gods #warhammer40k #ask me questions #the warp

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moral-terpitude · 3 months

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Google searches that make sense when you can only half remember something 8 hours later:

“Hobo military guy that did tank stuff”

To continue with my random thread of people that would be interesting to include in a WW2 era Peaky story: Percy “Hobo” Hobart.

Keep reading if you’d like a brain dump:

Hobart was the one that actually developed the blitzkreig technique that the Germans ended up implementing when they invaded France.

He was the commander of the 79th armoured division and, long story short, because of being involved in an affair that listed him as a co-respondent on divorce papers that the woman’s husband filed, he was effectively kicked out of the military because of it.

But! The guy was super smart. He developed a bunch of adaptations for tanks that helped with D-Day, but because of the higher ranking guys not liking him, they kind of laughed at his inventions.

So, after he was kicked out of the military, Winston Churchill wrote a letter reinstating him and basically telling everyone to get bent.

How their paths cross? I don’t know. He did serve in France during WWI, however it was the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the Second Battle of Artois, and the Battle of Loos, before being sent to the Battle of Kut in what is now Iraq.

I do think Tommy would be the one to convince Churchill to reinstate him though. Hobart received the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross for his actions in WWI.

I’m not sure how they’re awarded, because I don’t imagine Tommy would have attended any kind of ceremony of his own free will to receive them (which is what I’m trying to track down the information for at the moment) but if that is the case, it’s possible they may have crossed paths at something of that sort.

#Tommy Shelby #peaky blinders #WW2

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a-casual-egg · 3 months

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So since I view Tristan as queer, I made up a boyfriend for him in my head called Oliver Rose. [: (click images for better quality)

About him under the cut

Oliver is a gay, ace, and trans asian-american man. He grew up hopping from one orphanage to the other. He also attempted to run away from them and grew up stealing. He's a fast runner and running away from orphanages is partly why. Oliver is quick-witted and will sometimes just blurt out a comeback before even thinking of if he should or not. He's normally pretty sarcastic but is also a sweetheart/big softie, especially when you get to know him.

After WW2, he is part of a transfer student-like thing for rich people's gardeners. Oliver is sent to work for Mrs.Pumphrey while Mrs.Pumphrey's gardener is sent to work for Oliver's boss for a while as both bosses are part of an international gardening society. Oliver experiences culture shock in Darrowby before ending up liking it. During his stay, Mrs.Pumphrey and him form a mother and son type dynamic. He's not as overly-polite as the British folks, so he says the more impolite things that Mrs.Pumphrey and the others can not bring themselves to say even though it needs to be said. In addition to that and his gardening, he also picks up small jobs around Pumphrey Manor and expands his skillset/has struggles with all the new things.

He first meets James and Tristan when they're on a vet visit to Pumphrey Manor, and Mrs.Pumphrey introduces them. James and Oliver have a nice conversation while Tristan, who only recently realized he's attracted to men, finds Oliver very handsome and just stands there staring at Oliver while he and James talk. Then Tristan struggles a bit to introduce himself and be all charismatic while James just looks at him very confused. (Mrs. Pumphrey, who I choose to believe, is an extreme queer ally, knows what's happening, and just smiles to herself). Oliver is nice to Tristan about it, though, and internally finds it quite charming.

The ride back to Skeldale House is silent, with Tristan staring out the window and James wondering how to broach the topic of what just happened. Tristan is embarrassed and later confides in Maggie or Florence, and they kinda just pat him on the back and tell him he's got it bad already. Over time, Tristan and Oliver become friends while Tristan fights down his crush on this man.

Siegfried is not a fan of Oliver for a while. He's concerned that Oliver is a bad influence on his little brother. His worries calm down when he sees Oliver's softer/gentler side. He brings in an injured stray cat and is close to crying about it. Siegfried takes the cat while Mrs. Hall takes Oliver into the kitchen for some tea.

The cat ends up fine and when Siegfried goes to the kitchen to inform Oliver of such, he sees that the younger man's eyes are puffy and that he was crying over a random stray cat (much like he or Tristan might do). Some stuff clicks in Siegfried's head, and then Oliver asks how the cat is. Siegfried explains that the cat needs rest, but she should make a full recovery. That makes Oliver cry more, but he's happy. Then Siegfried sees Oliver gently cradle the cat in his arms and talk to it very softly/sweetly, and Siegfried smiles to himself while coming to the conclusion that maybe Tristan's friend is good, actually.

Later, Tristan and Oliver actually end up dating, and Tristan continues to have it bad. He's does heart eyes at Oliver, especially when he does cool things. Oliver is gentle with Tristan while also playfully teasing him. Tristan gets hurt, and Oliver is like one of the first people to be by his side. He would gently clean his boyfriend's wounds while also making comments in the form of light jabs his way. Tristan would make light jabs back.

Oliver could wake up early and get out of bed and later, (at a time when they would share a bed), Tristan would get out of bed to find Oliver and be upset that Oliver left the bed and left him. He's not seriously upset, and Oliver knows that. He affectionately calls Tristan clingy, and Tristan sleepily mumbles that he is not into Oliver's shoulder. Then Oliver would give Tristan a small kiss.

They're very silly to me (affectionate). I hope you enjoyed learning about Oliver Rose [:

#acgas #acgas 2020 #all creatures great and small #all creatures great and small 2020 #oliver rose #mrs. pumphrey #tristan farnon #egg's art

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