Holy Hell. I Loved Beyond The Black Rainbow, And I’ve Been Waiting For Years For Panos Cosmatos To

In my mind, this is the main theme for the late-’90s modern-fantasy real-time strategy game that depicts Kuvira’s campaign to unify the Earth Kingdom.

Legend of Korra - Kuvira theme song | cover by ForTiorI

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Jeremy Zuckerman forwarded me this badass, modern metal cover of his Kuvira theme by ForTiorl. I’m confident a certain badass, modern metalbending militaristic dictator would dig it too.

Barney #1: “Be quiet! This thing hears us!!!”

Barney #2: *stands inside the test chamber firing at the tentacles with his peashooter*

1-800-ARE-YOU-TAPPIN

So @wyattsalazar, I was listening to the first part of the first episode of Book Hell and I couldn’t help but notice you guys trying to remember the name of a book that had weird human-monkey people from the future in it. As it so happens, I know exactly what you were talking about.

The book you were looking for was called Man After Man, by the British paleontologist and author Dougal Dixon. As it so happens, Man After Man is the last of three books he wrote playing with the concept of “speculative evolution.” The first (below) was After Man: A Zoology of the Future. Published in 1981, it was an overview of life all around the world 50 million years from now, long after our extinction. If memory serves, there were a whole lot of rabbit-deer and rat-wolves running around.

The second was 1988′s The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution. The premise for that was that the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction of 65 million years ago never occurred, and the dinosaurs (and a whole bunch of other critters) were allowed to survive and evolve in peace to the present day. Personally, I think it’s the best book of the three, but then again I have a pro-dinosaur bias, so interpret that as you will.

Man After Man came out in 1990, and it’s something of the black sheep of the trilogy. According to Dixon, his original idea for the book was to write a sequel to After Man in which humans, using time travel to flee the dying Earth of the modern day, arrive in the new world of 50 million years hence, and proceed to rebuild civilization and muck the planet up all over again. For whatever reason the idea fell through (though it did get reused for a space-colonization story that was only ever published in Japan), and Dixon wrote Man After Man instead, despite having no real desire to do so. I don’t like the book myself, partially because I feel it it delves too deeply into stock sci-fi tropes, chief among them telepathy, for a “serious” work of biological extrapolation, but also because I find the idea of creatures who wear the faces of humans but have the minds of animals to be...deeply unsettling. Still, it did give us a few good memes.

The only one that really comes to mind is, well, Jim Kirk himself. He spent a fair chunk of his tenure as a cadet on the USS Republic instead of at the academy, and he managed to get field promotions to acting ensign and acting lieutenant. (The details of his academy days are kinda unclear and contradictory, since they changed things around between episodes, but this seems to be the generally accepted consensus according to Memory Alpha.) What all this means, of course, is that Jim Kirk surpassed Harry Kim before he even graduated.

About the cadets ask, I'm going through TNG rn and as far as I can tell, acting ensigns get credits for their practical experience in the field so it's probably like Work Study programs in college. But like the Ultimate Work Study program cause I cant think of anything cooler.

I always thought Wesley was just like a weird exception. I can’t think of any other acting ensigns, but I’m probably wrong?

I used to think that, but a few years ago an old opinion piece completely changed my mind on the subject. To summarize the piece’s argument (in case the site ever goes down), the key differences between superhero movies and westerns is that:

1. People go to see superhero movies because they like certain characters; people went to see westerns because they like westerns. To put it another way, if you want to see a western, the genre is broad enough that you can see all sorts of different movies. But if you want to see a superhero movie, you usually just want to watch Batman acting like Batman and doing Batman things, or Cap acting like Cap etc...

2. Westerns were small enough and cheap enough to make that directors and writers could experiment widely within the genre; modern superhero movies are so expensive that's there far more pressure to play it safe just so you’ll earn your money back.

3. Great characters usually only have a handful of truly interesting stories. A controversial point, but I think this gets at why superhero films tend to focus on either origin stories or constantly feel like retreads of the same ideas. 4. The actor is the draw of the western, while the character is the draw of the superhero film. With the western you can make different movies that emphasize different aspects of the actor’s persona or even have him play against type, while in a superhero movie the actor is something of an interchangeable widget that takes second place to the character. 5. At the end of the day, the audience doesn’t really want innovation or personal films all that much. This is only a crude summary of the piece’s arguments, so I really recommend reading the linked article above.

Superhero movies are the cowboy movies of our time.

Eeeeeee I love it!:D

I've got another sketch idea for you: Kuvira as Captain Kirk, and Bataar as Spock! (It's a bit of an in-joke; Todd Haberkorn, Bataar's VA, also played Spock in the online fan series "Star Trek Continues".)

Daily Kuvira #30 - NEEEEEEEERRRRRDs

You can tell this was Baatar’s idea.

Also bonus from my fav podcast:

I’m barely social on this social website, but I saw @coppermarigolds do this and I figured why not.

Rules: Tag 9 people you want to know better or just because you feel like it.

Relationship status: Single. Deeply, deeply, deeply single.

Favorite color: I generally like cooler colors, so depending on my mood I switch between forest green and navy blue, but I won’t turn my nose up at a nice burgundy or black.

Lipstick or chapstick: Neither. Lipstick ain’t my scene, and I have skin issues that make chapstick worth the hassle.

Last song I listened to: Gonna make it a twofer with “Gibraltar Bridge” and “Derailed,” two unreleased songs from the Wolfenstein: The New Order soundtrack that were put on Youtube by a fan.

Last movie I watched: Our Man in Havana, a delightful farce from 1960 that stars Alec Guinness as a hapless vacuum cleaner salesman in prerevolutionary Havana that is mistakenly recruited as a spy and starts sending in reports full of made-up stuff just to earn a paycheck. Imagine a version of Burn After Reading that still has faith in mankind.

Top 3 TV Shows: I’m not much of a TV guy anymore, but if I had to name three...Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1 of True Detective, and The Legend of Korra.

Top 3 Characters: Kuvira, Richard III, Jean-Luc Picard.

Top 3 Bands: Because I am essentially a moody teenage girl, I’m going to go with mind.in.a.box, VNV Nation, and whatever Trent Reznor’s up to.

Books I’m reading: I’m between books at the moment, but I’m going to be picking up L. E. Modesitt’s Of Tangible Ghosts this weekend. It’s the first book of an alternate history trilogy set in a world where North America was primarily colonized by the Dutch and ghosts are real.

Those two facts may not be connected. 

I will forgo the tagging because I’m not sure that I actually know nine people in real life. :p

If your ever feeling embarrassed or frustrated with your voice just remember S.H.O.D.A.N from System Shock got to remake herself in her ideal of beauty and decided to have a stutter and inconsistent tone.

Changing Direction

Okay, I’ve been on this site for a year, I’ve vaguely figured out the basics, so let’s start using it! This is going to become my personal fandom tumblr, mainly to sort through all the various pictures and posts I’ve liked over the past year.

Thanks for the answers!

Kudos and questions!

Hello there! I’m yet another person who found out about your series through Night Mind, and I have to say that I’ve really enjoyed all of what I’ve seen. You picked a great concept, and you’ve organized things such that you can keep the narrative going with little risk of it ballooning beyond your ability to handle, something that tends to happen a lot in Slenderman-based series. I also think you’ve done a great job with all your monsters; all of them are threatening and off-putting in some unique way, and they all seem to be thematically for your story.

All that said, I do have a few silly questions for you:

1. Are the same forces keeping the house filled with food and water also taking away Mary’s garbage, or will an upcoming episode reveal that the dining room is packed to the roof with trash bags? ;)

2. Are all of the humanoid monsters female? For that matter, is the amorphous shadow female?

3. In “goodnight?” there were a couple instances of the shadow’s left hand disappearing and reappearing in other parts of the frame. Was that intentional?

4. This is more of a comment, but I found it interesting that “DO NOT TOUCH” seems to be the first time Mary tries to confront the monsters. From what I’ve seen of the series, it appears to me that Mary has been placed into a situation where she is made miserable, but both the house and the monsters are making an effort to avoid killing or physically incapacitating her. However, rather than trying to put her captors and tormentors on the defensive by putting her own life in danger or making a concerted effort to escape the house, Mary has instead curled back into herself and “chosen” to endure their tortures. I know part of the reason for this is that your parents aren’t terribly keen on you starting fires or digging a hole through their basement wall, but would I also be right in assuming there are thematic reasons Mary has taken her particular course of action?

( First off, thank you! I’m glad you’re appreciating the story!

1. So far, trash is treated the same way that food and water is. Everything just clears, restocks, and resets

2. The veiled monster yes, mirror monster yes, and the other two are up to interpretation!

3. The left hand disappearing was a real rookie editing mistake that I didn’t notice until I uploaded… and proceeded to feel bad about for a week lol. The other hands appearing places were intentional.

4. Big thematic reasons. Very big, thematic reasons. And yeah also I can’t blow up my house hahaha. )