23, he/him, lgbtq+ ally, Dungeon master of 6 years, Recovering Destiny 2 player. Now Tron is my hyperfixation.
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Alright you know what if I'm gonna be present on this platform I should probably introduce myself to the niche fandoms I plan to at least lurk in.
Hi! call me Ec, or Jon. Your local mail carrier storyteller. I write and run D&D on the weekends. That not good enough for you? Alright here's some current hyper fixations.
Media --- TRON (1982), TRON LEGACY, TRON ARES.
Games --- ULTRAKILL, Half-Life (honestly most valve games), Tabletop RPGs, Minecraft, Deltarune (to a limit), Destiny 2 (Love the game and lore, but on break)
I don't post my original works places very often but when I do I'll update this post. Find me elsewhere. I used to have other side blogs but I don't anymore. I mostly just repost artists I like.
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Note: In case anyone actually finds this blog that knows me, everything I state here is my own opinion and not representative of my employer. I just really really like my job.
murderbot and arts first meeting is literally so funny. like imagine you meet a biblically accurate angel and instead of being all 'be not afraid' it says actually you SHOULD be afraid. and then when you are in fact afraid it goes oh shit oh fuck. not THAT afraid, sorry. wanna watch tv? and then you watch tv with it and it keeps telling you to pause it when its favourite characters are in danger so it can calm down. and then it asks to do surgery on your bones. Asshole Research Transport character of all time
Fant4stic Review: Reviewing Every Marvel Movie #35/76:
Genuinely one of the worst movies I've ever watched. It's worse as a Fantastic Four adaptation than it is as a movie, but only barely. As an FF adaptation, it just completely flattens all of the characters into empty shells and misses the entire point of the team. As a movie, it has completely flat characters that barely change and a plot that skips over all the interesting bits in favor of establishing several status quos in a row before blowing them all up because the movie needed a supervillain fight scene.
Spoilers Below:
At its core, the movie feels like a horror film. Everything is set up to emphasize the tragedy of a government experiment turning bright young scientists into body horror monsters. The government only recruits genius Reed instead of his best friend and helper Ben, so when Reed decides to go to the other dimension on his own instead of letting the government steal the glory, of course he invites Ben along. The only reason the head scientist’s son Johnny is there is because he has to pay off a debt for trashing his car, and the scientist’s daughter Sue that wants to be there is adopted. The only two who are “supposed” to be there are Reed and Victor, and Victor is an asshole who shouldn’t be there at all. So of course Victor is stranded in the other dimension and Reed escapes, leaving the three biggest casualties to be used by the government as weapons. The whole thing feels artificial and convoluted, which really rips away any tension and impact everyone getting powers should have.
Then of course the government decides to go back into the other dimension to create more superhumans, and this gets them all killed by Victor, who has become the embodiment of the other dimension. You’d think this would mean that Victor wins as the embodiment of humanity’s hubris is trying to control something they can’t and roping innocent people into it, but no the plucky young superhuman scientists beat them with the power of teamwork because this is supposed to be a superhero movie actually. It just doesn’t work. It's a classic tale of "just because they could, doesn't mean they should", except literally the only person who dies that we care about at all is the lead scientist, so it reads like a happy ending when the movie is not set up for it. Or maybe I just want everyone to die because I hate this movie.
Part of the problem is just how overpowered Victor is. He explodes people’s heads with a flick of his wrist, and yet never bothers to explode our protagonists’ heads because then they would lose and we can’t have that in our superhero movie. It’s not even like head exploding is an escalation of Victor’s powers: it’s literally the first thing he does after returning from the other dimension after not being mentioned for the entire middle hour of the film.
Honestly, our protagonists aren't much better. They barely feel like friends, and don't get a chance to interact after they get their powers because they're kept as government lab rats. The only one who really wants to be there is Johnny, but this literally goes nowhere because the finale is about Victor coming back to destroy the Earth. Ben is the one who wants to be there the least, but he and Johnny never interact for this to be a problem. Ben and Reed have like 1 fight about Reed kinda being responsible for turning Ben into The Thing, but then it also goes nowhere because the finale is about Victor coming back to destroy the Earth. Sue seems ambivalent about the whole thing to be honest. Reed is at least trying to cure everyone, but we literally don’t see any of his progress because it all happens during the 1-year time skip. Oh yeah, there’s a 1-year time skip after everyone gets their powers, so they’ve all adjusted to being superhuman government lab rats already. The time during that skip is potentially the most interesting part of the movie and the part with the most horror potential, but instead it’s glossed over entirely to show us the status quo and then advance to the next plot point, which in this case is Victor coming back to destroy the Earth.
FF as a horror movie is an interesting idea, but not as a big screen adaptation, and also not when it’s done really badly. The team's origin is stupid convoluted, making it so Sue doesn't even go on the mission and Ben just tags along because he's Reed's best friend as opposed to actually being part of the group. Victor von Doom is literally just some guy, and then he turns into the living embodiment of a hostile alien dimension. Everyone gets their powers because the elements just glomp onto them when they do the interdimensional travel, which is more complicated than it needs to be because it’s normally just random. Why does Ben become a rock man? Nobody cares except this movie, when they decide it’s because he gets covered in alien rocks while jumping between dimensions. Sue doesn’t even get her powers from the other dimension, she’s just hit with the teleportation energy. It's certainly not a film about superheroes, and it's barely a film about the characters. It's about a science experiment gone wrong that gets co-opted by the American government to use as weapons, which is not the Fantastic Four at all.
I will shout out the two things I like about this movie. There’s one scene where the team gets the interdimensional teleporter working, and Johnny tries to give Reed a fist bump, but Reed gives him a high five and it’s really awkward. It’s very funny. Also the reveal of Reed’s powers where his foot is stuck under some rubble and then he crawls towards Ben only to realize that his foot is still stuck and his legs are stretched is good. The special effects are also decent.
Everything feels hollow, like none of the movie's ideas are coalescing into anything greater, or really anything at all. There are vibes of a horror flick, but the movie never commits, especially in the ending. All of the acting, directing, and writing feel empty and unenthused, and none of the characters feel real. Also the movie spawned the "say that again" meme, which is a pretty good one. That scene really is the capstone to the whole movie, though: refusing to meaningfully engage with the source material while only gesturing at grounded character writing.
*young wolf voice* If I had a lame ass Ghost i would hype him up so much i would make him wait out side so i could go in first and be like get ready here comes the most specialest boy ever if you dont cheer and clap for him ill fucking blow this whole Tower up
Say what you will about Ares and the possible plot but it is being made by people with a lot of love put into it, who are big fans of the Tron franchise. I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to get to see some of the production and meet people on it (as well as working with some of them in the past myself) and I can say without a doubt that the people making it are wonderful and extremely passionate about Tron.
I get the hesitancy and pessimism (especially regarding a certain cast member) but please do give it a chance, if not for Tron, then for the people who put blood sweat and tears into making it.
I don't yet know what to expect from the upcoming movie-- I admit I'm very apprehensive, and I admit I always delight in imaginative fanworks and brainstorming AU scenarios for any canon that is or will be out there-- but people working on the canon still deserve respect for it.
(And knowing that Sheep has some personal knowledge of this project, and is a very devoted Tron fan who vouches for it, does give me some hope.)
I'm trying to stay optimistic about Tron: Ares. At first, I wasn't sure about Leto being (presumably) the main character or villain. I haven't seen a lot of his work besides him being the Joker in Suicide Squad and Justice League. After watching Morbius, his performance relieved me a little and made me think he should be able to act well in a Tron film.
Having NIN do the soundtrack is a win for me. I've liked their music for decades. It's going to be different and have an edge to it, but sonically, it should still be amazing.
I have no idea about the plot of the film. I usually don't watch trailers to avoid spoilers and go into movies completely fresh. But I've seen some of the comments here after the D23 trailer and they've made me nervous about Ares again.
I have to say that I'm disappointed that Bruce Boxleitner has said that he won't appear in the film. A Tron film without Tron is going to be weird for me. At least Jeff Bridges will make an appearance. I'm starting to wonder why they didn't call the film Ares: The Grid War or Ares: Flynn Lives or something.
The story may end up surprising me. At the very least, this will be a high budget Tron side-story for me. I'm trying to stay open to see what the writers and director's vision will be and what story they want to explore.
If it ends up not being my thing (if it doesn't tie up very well with the previous movies, series or games), then that's okay too. That's why I do fan art to provide some closure (at least to myself) to some of the unanswered questions.
Ares may end up creating a whole new generation of Tron fans, who will go back through the films and appreciate them as much as we do. That can only be a good thing.
The dark knight’s gauntlets creak on the grips of his swords, and he turns away from the window, wondering again why he’d come here.
At least it’s quiet, the monks of the abbey having fled when he rode near. It almost makes up for the reflection he sees, blurry but still there, on the polished floor. Perhaps it’s the gods’ punishment, after he’d failed yet again to die as planned and ended up out of their direct reach. Or perhaps it was meant to be this way all along, himself unable to outrun himself, always confronting reminders of how far he’d fallen.
Samuel will be a good king, but he’s an idiot if he thinks that the knight’s long enchantment at the hands of Clu really makes an ounce of difference.
“Rinzler!”
The knight starts, swords clattering to the ground just in time to catch the blur that hurls itself at him, and even through the visor on his helmet he can detect the smell of a mage’s herbs, feel the faint crackle in the air that follows those steeped in magic. It’s on closer inspection that he sees her limp, the bandages around around her wrist and arm, the way her eyes look a little bruised even as she smiles at him.
“I’m glad you came! I was going crazy stuck here,” she says, snaring one arm in both of hers, leaving his weapons unheeded for the moment as she drags him bodily away from the window.
“You said there was a basilisk,” he rasps, swallowing the whimper that wants to follow it at the extra reminder of how much he has broken since his youth. When Quorra used one of her precious clockwork birds to send a message, he had feared the worst, but…
“I’m going to need your help cleaning out the mama’s nest, yeah. But we have some time yet— we’re a couple weeks from the first good frost, and the abbot said it’s been unseasonably warm on top of it,” Quorra chirps. “I need a rescue.”
He sighs. Trust the sidhe to be so frivolous. After a moment, he pointedly moves his captured arm toward his weapons, but instead of letting him free, Quorra laughs and pulls him further away.
"Nobody’s going to touch them, and I bet you rushed straight here, yes? Tell me all the gossip over lunch. How’s Sam doing? Is he ready to quit and go back to being a bandit? Should we try to scandalize his court before or after the solstice ball? The monks here make beer. You should try it.”
Her words pull him along, the visor of his helmet at least good for concealing his bemused smile.
His blades rest, safe at the feet of his reflection.
…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.
I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.
the only thing AI checker does is harm genuine artists and people in general too.
i was making a clip about how my tron ares dvd is slightly pitch shifted up and how prominent and annoying it was for my friend when i found out the pitch tone shifter essentially worked as a ytp creator
