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Welcome to the geek repository of Mike Dent: Great Sage Equal of Heaven, Freelance Writer (mostly doing stuff for Otaku USA Magazine), Podcaster and maverick Sound Designer, insane filmmaker, and the greatest threat to pop culture since Battle of the Network Stars.

[machdent]

Guess what today is...

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To everyone on dear Earth,

In the sea of stars that dazzles the eye, there's a vast, deep, open jet black hole. A beautiful, yet heartrending enigmatic melody flows from the depths of the dark hole that fills the center of the galaxy. Is this music merely a natural development, or does intelligent life live on the other side of that dark hole? In order to confirm what's causing it, after wavering in the center of the galaxy, we -who boarded the Megaroad- have decided to start on a risky journey into unknown space. What really waits in the darkness of this dark hole? Nobody knows if we'll be able to return to this galaxy again.

However, as long as there is "something" there, I think I'll change songs of hope into light, and will willingly go.

July 7, 2016 AD (Thurs) With love, from the center of the galaxy Lynn Minmei minmei l (g) 1.ga.un/

The above is the supposed last message from Lynn Minmei before the Megaroad-01 disappeared. It was given as a mail-in gift card for the Macross DYRL PS1 video game. 

[Translation source]

[pepesalot]

Happy 30th Anniversary to one of my favorites of all time!!

[misterunagi]

Didn’t have a drawing ready for Voltron premiere on Netflix.. but here is my piece from the HCG Voltron art show! EVERYONE GO BINGE ON VOLTRON LEGENDARY DEFENDER NOW!!! 

[utomaru-works]

ORESAMA’s new music video featuring my artwork just got released! The title “銀河(Ginga)” means “Galaxy”. I made this with all my love and respect for those classic Sci-Fi movies and monsters. Enjoy!

ORESAMA『銀河』のMVでイラストレーションを担当しました。私のSF映画やモンスターへの愛を目一杯つめこんだ作品です。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAlKRvkTz9I&feature=youtu.be

[the-last-teabender]

‘Local Hero’ but instead of buying Ferness Mac and Danny are there to create a tokusatsu character for them.

[machdent]

This is my fault.

I started this train of thought.

And I don’t regret it. 

[superheropopblog]

HERE IT IS! FINALLY PRESENTING LILA CHENEY IN “I WILL STEAL YOUR HEART,” FEATURING DAZZLER AND THE NEW MUTANTS!

More info including photos and credits at http://www.superheropop.com

We’d love to hear what you thought so share and leave comments on social media, on YouTube, and especially on Tumblr!

[r5central]

Excerpt: “Small Print” (Or ‘Shimmering Expanse’)

Last year, we tried to get a zine released to celebrate R5 Central’s 10 year anniversary. Sadly, this plan ended up falling through due to a variety of factors, life troubles not withstanding. The zine would have been a combination of comics, artwork, and prose, with the ultimate intent of sharing the “true ending” to the audio drama storyline of the podcast.

In honor of today and the Monty Oum Project’s challenge to start something new, I figured I would share what could have been in the form of what would have been the small-print epilogue printed on the special thanks page. 

And rest assured, given how it ends, the fight is far from over. You’re going to freak.

-Mike | Feb 1st, 2016

Keep reading

[machdent]

And now to unveil something I've been cooking up as a birthday present for myself and to the rest of you guys.

For the past two months, I've been racking my brain trying to pin down the films in my life that not only were my absolute favorites, but were the ones stayed with me and had the most impact. And then I figured that the day of my birthday, I should do something fun with those favorites and share them with everybody.

Here for you now is the best possible reel of my favorite films at 30.

[ultra-7-deactivated20160228]

does anyone else post ultra on here

@maskedrideraccel @ohshitribbit and @neotaros have ultra sideblogs at @ultramannoa @choufineplay and @ozoradaichi.

  @astoundingbeyondbelief and @kenro199x also post ultra fairly frequently. @altman-ace @starcicle @aloha-baltan @kjeks and @dot-emcee are all mostly ultra.

if you like jojos @ultrafightvictory has mostly ultra and jjba. @gaiahenshin posts a decent amount of ultra. @revieloutionne and @diamond-is-sparkling post it occasionally. with crunchyroll more people are getting into it so you might want to follow @juuohshark or @jinmasato for liveblogs.

[kizunagatari]

sweats no one needs to know I draw shameful ultras

[ultra-7-deactivated20160228]

i love your shameful ultras……..

[choufineplay]

hey i’m famous

[machdent]

*points to @vintagehenshin*

[machdent]

The team assembled! Awesome new shots of my HGUC Gerberta Tetra and Johnny Ridden and Shin Matsunaga Zaku-IIs! 

[isthistakenalready-deactivated2]

psa: artists: please do not do not do not DO NOT submit pitches to Tokyopop or apply for their POP comics app. 

They’re at it again and hilariously bought a shillpiece from Vice, which is filled with the funniest revisionist history lies (claiming to have been the first to introduce the AKIRA comic to America is my favorite, because fuck Epic/Kodansha/Dark Horse amirite)

Might be a good time to re-read and pass around this article as well. 

And for fuck’s sake, anime cons, stop inviting these parasites. They’re dangerous. And stupid.

[machdent]

The following exchange happened today after watching Star Wars

*sees guy and his SO looking for something beneath seats*

ME: What are you looking for?

GUY: A brown hat.

*proceeds to help him look for it, having just had a close call losing my scarf but can't see it*

ME: Don't see it anywhere...it should turn up though, there's hope!

GUY: Right, a New Hope.

ME: .....oh god

GUY: And if I don't find it, no worries. At home, there is another.

ME: *FACEPALMING HARD* Oh my god I walked right into this...

GUY: It was a trap-

ME: Just go!

[thebirdroads]

Guys did I ever tell you about the time I completely accidentally ruined a professionally made campaign for Dungeons and Dragons thanks to a single roll

[calibrate]

Please explain

[thebirdroads]

Ok so we had to fight our way to the bottom of a castle to stop a group of cultists from summoning an Orc god to the world and we got there and the ritual was already going so I ran up to the god, who had already begun to manifest, and cast Finger of Death, which kills any target I touch if they fail a Fortitude roll. Since he was a god, he had a good constitution and would have certainly survived

Except the DM rolled a 1

and the god exploded

[thefluffyreindeer]

[jordangibson]

You’re so cool, Kung Fu.

[machdent]

Best girl is best.

[the-last-teabender]

If you’re ever in a bad mood because your fandom is complaining:

Create something inspired by your fandom

Reflect on the fact that you’ve spent the same amount of energy creating something that brings happiness as they have spreading negativity

Enjoy knowing that their output will be forgotten long before yours

Repeat as necessary

[femservice]

Here is the secret to fandom:

Give zero fucks about what anyone else is doing.

Seriously.  I mean it.  Because inevitably you will love something that no one else loves.  Or you will love something that everyone loves and people will shit all over it because it’s “so trite and unimaginative and done.” Or you will love something that no one else has ever heard of.  Or you will love something dark and edgy and or obscure and people will roll their eyes and say, “What, do you want people to think you’re dark and edgy and obscure?”

Alternatively, you will not love the thing that everyone else loves, and you will wonder what precisely is wrong with you that the sight of that thing is aggravating the shit out of you now when the whole world sings its praises as one.

People will irritate you.  They’ll irritate you with headcanons that make no sense and misinterpretations of canon.  They will make the same jokes 500 times.  They will overwhelm your corner of fandom with something you either are tired of hearing about or don’t care about.  They will post art that isn’t theirs.  You will meet people who think you are the greatest person ever and bombard you with messages  only to wander off when they find someone new or shinier; you will meet people whom you admire and who do not really seem to notice you exist. 

So give zero fucks about it.  Seriously.  Like what you like, blacklist what you need to blacklist, and ignore everything else.  Be friends, play nice, enjoy it.  And in the meantime, just do you.  Like what you like, love what you love, and to hell with all the rest of it. 

[machdent]

Shots from Part 1 of my #TeamDreamAce project, my straight-build of the HGUC 1/144 Gerbera Tetra from Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory. 

I could write a whole article about Cima Garahau and how she’s probably one of the best women of the Gundam franchise. Betrayed and turned into a scapegoat by Zeon to save face, she takes the best life route possible by becoming a goddamn space pirate with her men and getting payback. In that sense, the Tetra is an amazing fit for her as unit: a half-complete discarded Gundam prototype which gets repurposed for Zeon which she uses to tear up the place.  

The Tetra was probably one of the quickest builds I’ve ever done. While the model itself has some posing issues, it still looks great, and it’ll look better alongside Johnny and Shin when they’re done. 

TEAM DREAM ACE PROJECT

Part 2: HGUC Johnny Ridden Zaku-II Part 3: HGUC Shin Matsunaga Zaku-II [FORTHCOMING]