Takashi Kental- Warden of Compassion

Follower of many fandoms. Anime and Manga, Star Wars, Firefly, Marvel and DC, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy in general. Dragon Age and Mass Effect among my favorites! I mainly blog about things I like, and that I enjoy. I also love talking to people, so ask me things. Or ask to be asked things. Or however people go about that. 18 year old named Tristan.

[captaincolossal]

Whenever I try to explain Repo! The Genetic Opera to someone, I’m just like “it’s a really pointed commentary on capitalism and medicine as a for-profit industry, with about 50,000 gallons of fake blood and, um, also it’s a musical? made by the producers of Saw?” like just watch this movie, I can not describe it, but it is an Experience and also Paris Hilton is in it and her face falls off, please this is one of my favorite movies.

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Made by the DIRECTOR of Saw II, no less! And Paul Sorvino is in it! The lead is the girl from Spy Kids! Anthony Stewart Head, singing, constantly!

[captainlordauditor]

There’s a scene where one of main characters runs through his house surrounded by holographic ghosts of his dead wife singing about how he’s trying his best. There’s an entire song that seems to be dedicated to finding things to rhyme with “anatomy”. Paris Hilton is the only one who’s not always dressed in full goth get up, and most of her costumes are just clothes she already owned. The basic premise of the movie is that if you’re in debt, companies can claim repossession of your organs. I cannot describe this movie please just watch Repo Genetic Opera

[bendingsignpost]

I think my absolute favorite part of Repo! The Genetic Opera is how nothing has anything to do with genetics.

[ruffboi-mags]

#…okay that last part is not entirely true #shilo has been led to believe she has an inherited disease #there’s a whole song that explicitly points this out #so there’s… that… #but it’s not so prominent a theme I would STICK IT IN THE TITLE #just… y'know if it were up to me… (via @taibhsearachd)

[bywandandsword]

iirc, a lot of the ensemble cast were dressed in clothes from Hilton’s own closet and is especially apparent during ‘Zydrate Anatomy’ cause that’s how shoe string the budget on this movie was and she offered. Also the Best Character is just called the Grave Robber, which is, just, the fucking best

[xxvi0lent-vahlkampfiidaexx]

AND THE MUSIC FUCKS

[padeliciouss]

cousins⚡️🌊🔥

[my-critical-rolemance]

these are all three very distinct flavors of bisexual

[probablyfunrpgideas]

Play a warlock character who calls himself Vithimorex or something like that. Always mention how grateful you are to your patron, Frank, for the wondrous powers he gives you.

Slowly reveal that the powers you get from Frank are things like “sense of smell” and “verbal communication”. As it turns out, Vithimorex is an extradimensional Thing possessing the person formerly known as Frank. All the eldritch blasts and shadow conjurations are boring powers according to Vithimorex. He can’t wait for the level 14 ability to understand and appreciate music.

[probablyfunrpgideas]

Also, I realized something about the name I made up, so here’s a song:

When the moon splits in two and your nightmares come true, Vithimorex...

When the world seems to bleed since the dead god was freed, Vithimorex...

[dgcakes]

I see somebody hit level 14

[probablyfunrpgideas]

This is the best response I’ve ever seen

[daydreamodyssey]

There was something bothering me about zombie/post-apocalyptic stuff that I couldn’t explain until this and last year

That borderline (if not blatant) social darwinism of you have to be incredibly fit and ruthless to survive

When really a lot of it is communicative teamwork, resourcefulness, and not succumbing to fear/paranoia. Fitness obviously helps, but it being the most important thing glances over so many others needed for human survival.

[alarajrogers]

I feel like we need to see a lot more fiction exploring this. Because I think when people just hear it, it doesn’t fit with the image that fiction’s been building in their heads. “How are you gonna work together when supplies are short and everyone wants to kill you?” “How do you work together when you don’t know who might be turning into a zombie?”

But show how it works, show people working together to survive, and it feels intuitively right. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Each of my neighbors has different supplies and tools and knowledge, so if we work together we will survive better.

I recommend Cory Doctorow’s “The Masque of the Red Death” (yes, title deliberately borrowed from Poe) as a great example of the opposite of this. Rich yuppies think they’re going to ride out the apocalypse in a bunker. They refuse to share supplies with anyone else or cooperate with anyone outside. The end result is simultaneously depressing and satisfying. Like… you saw it coming but you kinda hoped the characters would get their heads out of their asses in time.

[curlicuecal]

So there’s a reason that popular zombie franchises like the walking dead tend to peter out (in both the games and tv) and that’s that the writers just will not let communities grow. They’re so committed to the post-apocalyptic dystopia vibe they shoot themselves in the foot by forcing society to remain impausibly splintered and nonadaptive.

Which I think is really sad, because it means there are whole genres of zombie lit that never get explored. If you live long enough, zombies are an inherently manageable problem, but they’re gonna change how you run a society, and that’s interesting. And the collapse and regrowth of society is also gonna change a lot of stuff and *that’s even MORE interesting.*

Like, hey, instead of a 6 years in everything is exactly the same, what about scattered, fortified communities that cooperate and exchange resources. You can still do suspenseful zombie action based around them having to run supplies through zombie-infested territory, and what happens if the armored trucks break down midway and the urgent medical delivery still needs made. Now you’ve got Balto, but zombies.

(Wait, I wasn’t implying you’d capture and harness a bunch of dangerous zombies to pull your sled of medical supplies, but NOW I am.)

Or, hey– what would a serial killer murder mystery story look like in a world where also zombies happen. The bodies would get up and walk away! And maybe also kill people! Your crime scene would be a MESS. How are you going to detective that, hm?

[roach-works]

you guys want Mira Grant’s Newsflesh series, which deals with the way society rebuilt itself around the enormous ongoing trauma of a fullscale zombie uprising and an ongoing situation of, people and any large mammal still do turn into zombies. safety checks, constant blood scans, paranoiac cleanliness and airlocks and no windows on the ground floor and daredevil livestreamers who go out into unsecured territory and poke the zombies with a stick on camera for fun.

it’s a very good series, if you like thoughtful horror and are sick to (un)death of manly man macho boy zombie stories that are all about the fighting and nothing to do with rebuilding.

[seananmcguire]

It makes me so happy that people still recommend Newsflesh.  Thank you!

[hollowboobtheory]

good gray morality: you’re offered a range of solutions, none of which are perfect. if there is a perfect solution, it’s difficult to attain and even then, there’s oftentimes an arguable downside. You have to weigh your options, and decide what you personally think is better. every option has downsides, even straightforwardly good ones. Characters are forced to do the best they can with the options they have. 

bad gray morality: This is an activist group fighting for civil rights for an oppressed minority. but they went TOO FAR. yeah this person is a fucking monster but they feel sad about it sometimes so maybe they’re ok? 

[queermachmir]

“What is it that the child has to teach?

The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not.

And the child is right.”

— Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

[spaceraptor]

“Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’ What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’” –Barbara Alice Mann

[mixelation]

“we were lovers in a past life” trope but the current incarnations are enemy-to-lovers trope. when. 

[mixelation]

To be clear. I don’t want “our past love ended in betrayal and anger and now we hate each other.” I want “we died in love and in each other’s arms” but the current incarnations do NOT remember and they ARE trying their best to End the other one and these new sudden flashbacks to lovingly holding each other’s hands is EXTREMELY UPSETTING

[jujutsukaisen0]

wake up mash fans

[equalstrashflavoredtrash]

Pov: you're a half hour late to feeding the boys and they are voicing their complaints

[intheheatherbright]

Costume. Chitons.

[intheheatherbright]

Marjorie & C. H. B.Quennell, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931).

[killerchickadee]

Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?

[treewizarded]

that genuinely is it

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body

[sourcefieldmix-deactivated20161]

lets bring back sheetwares

[hostagesandsnacks]

also chlamys:

and exomis:

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trust the ancients to make a fashion statement out of straight cloth and nothing but pins

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Wrap Yourself In Blankets, Call It a Day

[awhiffofcavendish]

Wear blanket. Conquer world.

[goys2men]

That last one looks dope

[noknightinarmor]

the chlamys is more of a dick-almost-out look

[naughtypiggy]

@petermorwood

[petermorwood]

Socks with sandals? Yup, completely accurate; archaeologists found evidence of it being done in Northern Britannia (shreds of fabric mixed up with the leatherwork of discarded caligae (military sandals). In addition, one of the Vindolanda Tablets (”postcards” written on thin wood) mentions that a care package sent by his family to a soldier serving on the Wall included socks, sandals and underpants.

Art suggests that the Ancient Greeks were less concerned about underpants, but then they weren’t standing guard on the damp and chilly edge of Empire. The “almost-out” part of wearing a chlamys didn’t seem a great cause for concern, and though art is probably more idealised than reality, Greek culture certainly considered that If the gods gave someone a good body there was nothing wrong about showing it off. What WAS wrong was to dishonour the gift by letting it go to seed and gave extra emphasis to “religiously hitting the gym”.

Since gym(nasium) comes from gymnos - γυμνός, “naked” - and working-out was done in the buff, there was no hiding a lack of reps under baggy sweats.

To evade the stupid porn-not-art bots, I’m not posting full-frontal examples of what happened to a chlamys when the wearer moved - there are plenty if you Google, and this would be typical if complete…

…but the ones I’ve included give a good idea of how much it covered or didn’t.

Figures wearing a chlamys often also wear boots and a broad-brimmed hat called a petasos, sometimes pushed back to give a halo effect. This seems to be visual shorthand for someone on a journey; Odysseus certainly qualifies.

Behind him on the right is Hermes; a hat, chlamys, short chiton (tunic), trademark winged heels / boots and caduceus snake-staff or herald’’s wand are his typical attributes-in-art. (Side note: the double-snake staff isn’t medical, despite appearing on US badges; an Asklepios medical rod has just one snake.)

Sometimes his Roman representations are a bit more, uh, cheeky.

The chlamys looks like something developed by a culture which wore towels at the shoulder rather than round the waist, then decided “bodies are nothing to be ashamed of and we have a hot climate, so why not outdoors as well…”

Oddly enough the Aztecs had a cape or mantle called a tilmàtli which was secured at one shoulder in almost exactly the same way…

…but that’s another post…

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i feel like. he would do this

[funnytwittertweets]

[sapphiconoclast]

wikipedia has a page that I think everybody should read called “List of Common Misconceptions” and it is, frankly? a fascinating read

[madeofwhitebone]

👁

[wizard0rb]

how did she put the make up on her eye

[wizard0rb]

i may be stupid

[creature-phases]

Compilation of Tatsu and Miku being the dumbest but purest couple alive

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[curlicuecal]

Whenever someone posits that people are ‘lazy’ I’m reminded of the fact that if you leave humans in a room with some blocks and no instructions they will literally make up their own tasks to carry out because humans just fuckin love having stuff to do and objectives to work towards

[seraphimalune]

In one of my psych courses we learned about a study where a person was left in a room with nothing but a box that would SHOCK THEM painfully if they touched it. After awhile, everyone touched the box and got shocked to hell and back. Now, this isn’t that abnormal. What’s abnormal is that everyone then sat there for a few minutes and then TOUCHED THE BOX AGAIN. And got shocked AGAIN! Moral of the story: People fucking hate being bored. They would rather be in IMMENSE PAIN than be bored.

[royalhandmaidens]

Three scrapped scenes + official art for Revenge of the Sith that detail Padmé’s newfound force sensitivity:

Padmé’s waking visions of Mustafar:

Padmé’s sleepwalking manifestations of the Force:

Padmé’s agony as her body reacts against the midi-chlorians:

"Padme had the Force flowing through her. She had more midi-chlorians than any person ever had because she was pregnant with the Skywalker twins.

There are radical transformations in a woman during normal pregnancy: how much more intense would it be if her twin embryos were also filled with Force-laden midi-chlorians?” -Iain McCaig

Source for art and commentary: The Art of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

[radical-eve]

[kasaron]

Guessing it uses ultrasound?

[officialmacgyver2-deactivated20]

Ultrasonic background noise, yes.

[kasaron]

Ye, that’s what I’d use.

[jooshthepunished-deactivated202]

The real question is whether they’re gonna hold the patent close to their chest so they can sell it, or if they’ll open the patent so homegamers can take a crack at building their own.

[boomalope-pope]

They’ve already put the code and 3D printing models up on github!

[jooshthepunished-deactivated202]

God bless ‘em

[vaporwavevocap]

Heroes.