Coruscant & King's Landing

Negative, Ghost Rider. The pattern is full.

[ajediofthe7kingdoms]

Is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure the perfect anime?

Hear me out.

It's got great fights, distinctive style and art, a diverse and flamboyant cast of muscly badasses.

It's as fun as Dragon Ball without the filler, as steeped in its own lore as Fullmetal Alchemist, and has more to explore than One Piece (there's over 120 volumes of the manga and still more to come).

Shifting the main character and setting every story arc makes it so that it isn't tied down to a single story. There's a mountain of pop culture references if you're into that. It knows exactly how silly it is.

It's just radical and delightful.

[weirdlandtv]

Planet/location concepts by Ralph McQuarrie for the original Star Wars trilogy (that were reused later).

Coruscant started out as Had Abaddon, capital of the empire, and was going to be featured in RETURN OF THE JEDI. It was very very close, but eventually Lucas decided to go with a second Death Star.

Alderaan. I used to wonder why McQuarrie had bothered designing Alderaan as it would only be seen from space anyway. But Alderaan wasn’t always Alderaan: in one draft, the planet was a giant gas planet, and the capital of the New Galactic Empire.

Sicemon, originally the site of Jabba’s palace in RETURN OF THE JEDI. It was then re-purposed as the home of the rebels, then abandoned.

An abandoned “ice castle” on Hoth where the rebels would have their base of operations (you can spot a tiny Han and Chewie).

These images show Vader’s castle, which I’ve featured before. (In fact I’ve featured several of these images before, but I just wanted to do this overview and didn’t want to exclude the more significant concepts.)

The sinkhole planet that would become Utapau. This one dates back to 1976 I believe.

Bonus: This one, by Doug Chiang, is a concept painting for Jakku, which was conceived as a junk planet. Should have used it! I mean THAT is a planet you’d want to escape from. Plus we had already seen a sand planet.

[ajediofthe7kingdoms]

*Movie trailer bass line*

*panning shot of a forest at sunset*

*cut to black*

"Be vewy, vewy quiet."

*mist swirling though a strand of trees*

*cut to black*

*quick cut of a grey furred creature darting through the trees*

"it's Wabbit season, and I'm hunting wabbits."

*Fade in on a tight shot of boots crunching through fallen leaves, panning shot up the body*

*Shot finishes the pan to settle on the hunter's face*

*repeatedly hard-struck Piano key single note*

*hunter's eyes are unfocused, shifty*

*Hunter blinks, spits a mouthful of chew onto the leaves, cocks shotgun*

*cut to black*

*music drops out*

"What's up... Doc?"

*high pitch, screeching violin*

*titles fade in slowly*

THIS OCTOBER BE VEWY, VEWY QUIET

'FUDD'

[mlmanakin]

STAR WARS: CLONE WARS (2003-2005)

dir. Genndy Tartakovsky

[ajediofthe7kingdoms]

The CollegeHumor Lay Offs and Why They Matter to Me:

I have always been a fan of comedy. I believe most people are in some way or another. I love Judd Apatow movies and Simon Pegg and weird Twitter and stand up comedy and satire and sitcoms and cultural commentary and everything in between. But until I really started engaging with the content from CollegeHumor, Dorkly, Drawfee, and Dropout comedy was something people older than me made, industry types or people who were soon to be industry types. The beauty of CollegeHumor to me was that it was made by people my age who really cared and who liked the things I like and who felt the things I feel. CollegeHumor was different than any other home for comedy online. They knew their audience. They knew their craft and you can tell they worked every day to improve and make the funniest shit they possibly could.

Comedy, when done with love and skill, is something that makes the world better and I believe they made the world better.

[ajediofthe7kingdoms]

[ajediofthe7kingdoms]

More no context Dragon Ball.

[ajediofthe7kingdoms]

No context Dragon Ball.

[ajediofthe7kingdoms]

Fun fact: when an octopus is attacked, it ditches its wounded arm and just swims away.

Its better to let things go before they drag you under.

-'Jessica Jones' S2E5

[ajediofthe7kingdoms]

Let the past die. Kill it if you have to.

[ajediofthe7kingdoms]

I commissioned a potrait of my D&D character recently. This is Yoscorin, the Deep Gnome Fighter. He is a good, strong boy who is very good at swords.

[nexya]

every bioware animation

back of the head scratch

a character shaking their head in disbelief or disgust with hand on their forehead, looking down

that kiss animation used since origins and in every mass effect game where they very slowly go in, hesitate, bop their heads around, and really go in for the kiss 

when a character, usually female, talks and puts their two hands in front of them like a robot and shakes them to illustrate their point

a character leans back on one leg with their arms loose

the exit-stage-right an NPC does after a conversation ends

angry limp wrist pointing

neck/collar bone scratch 

a slow crossing of the arms in times of suspicion

that punch animation 

drinking alcohol and violently shaking head

a character gives a half smile with an eyebrow raised

pointing behind with thumb, body turns very slightly

[nexya]

[sals-things]

I can never watch a conversation again without this post following me around

[niiix-archive]

I’ll just leave this here…

[omgsolas]

DONT FORGET THE HUNCHED OVER STOMPING WALK THAT THEY DO IN LIKE EVERY CUT SCENE WHERE THEY WALK UP TO SOMETHING

[severalowls]

Bioware did one hour-long mocap session for knights of the old republic in 2003 on a budget of $3.25 and never again since.

[ajediofthe7kingdoms]

SERIES FOUR OF DOCTOR WHO IS COMPRISED OF CLUB BANGERS EXCLUSIVELY.

[ajediofthe7kingdoms]

I am deeply upset that when he discovered the clone of Martha Jones in 'The Poison Sky' the Doctor didn't call her "Martha Clones".

[ajediofthe7kingdoms]

Reading a history of the Roman Empire and imagining everyone as Turians because I'm the worst.

[ajediofthe7kingdoms]

Doctor Who: 'Shada' by Douglas Adams and Gareth Roberts

[tohealofendgame]

This. Is. EVERYTHING.