Few Movie Remakes/adaptations Have Made Me Want To Scream "WHO ASKED FOR THIS?!" Quite Like This Like

Honestly, a strong contender for Most Improved Character when getting adapted from the campaign to the animated show. The only real competition is Pike imho.

Anna fucking Ripley

Death Battle Matchup: Sasha Waybright (Amphibia) vs Severa (Fire Emblem)

Connections: Both characters are fantasy swordswomen who are part of a trio that get send to another universe and are tasked with saving it from an ancient evil (Anankos/ the Core). They care deeply about their loved ones, enough that they will sacrifice their lives for them, but early on in their stories they express this in very toxic ways (Severa has an inferiority complex which causes her to lash out at her friends and family, and Sasha acts controlling and manipulative towards her friends). Their character arc revolves around them learning to grow past their toxic behavior and into mature adults who help support the younger generation (Severa as a mother, Sasha as a child psychologist). They also both have designs which heavily focus on the color red (Sasha’s armor is red, and Severa’s most canonical hair color is red to connect her to her mother).

Animation potential: pretty good IMO, on the surface it seems like a standard sword fight, but both characters have some flashy fighting styles that would make for good choreography. And Sasha’s calamity powers and Severa’s Skill abilities/ alternate class options would both make for good power-ups midway through the fight.

Dialogue: both characters would probably be able to banter back and forth in a snarky way, with Severa probably being a bit more aggressive while Sasha might try to taunt Severa and get inside her head more.

Fight dynamic: I have two options of how this could start. One, the battle has a cold open with the two in a duel similar to Guts vs Dmitri, only this duel would be surrounded by a full-on army battle between Wartwood and Nohr. Alternatively, Severa could be sent on a mission through the Deeprealms which accidentally lands her In Amphibia, upon which Sasha would probably be suspicious of Severa in a similar manner to Obi-Wan vs Kakashi.

The fight would probably start small scale, with both characters locked in a duel and going back and forth taunting and insulting the other. Sasha would probably be more easily able to get under Severa’s skin, causing her to get mad and escalate things by using her skills and generally being more aggressive. The collateral damage threatening Wartwood/Amphibia would then prompt Sasha to get mad and go all out in a similar way, probably with some version of her “I’ll never give up, not now, not ever!” speech.

Eventually, the battle would take to the skies with Sasha in her calamity form vs Severa atop her pegasus. Sev would be able to use Luna, Sol, etc. to break through Sasha’s defenses and maintain stamina through healing, but Sasha would be able to maintain the clear power advantage. Eventually, Sasha would likely be able to destroy Severa with a powerful enough energy blast, but might still lose an eye and/or arm in a manner reminiscent to Captain Grime.

Potential track name: Crimson Moon (both characters feature the color red as a prominent feature in their designs, Severa’s alias Selena is themed after the moon, and the red moon is a significant feature in Amphibia)

watching atla for the first time

WELCOME TO STOAT SATURDAY

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Anxiety by Doechii

Rockstar by N.E.R.D.

Squabble Up by Kendrick Lamar

the Driftveil City theme

Run it Up by Hanumankind

Songs that currently have me in a chokehold

Da Mystery Of Chessboxin' - Wu-Tang Clan

wacced out murals - Kendrick Lamar

I've Got Some Falling To Do - Lemon Demon (specifically the 2011 remastered version on The FuMP Vol. 27, NOT the original 2004 version found on Hip To The Javabean)

IFHY - Tyler, The Creator

RAH TAH TAH - Tyler, The Creator

NISSAN ALTIMA - Doechii

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Elon Musk Is a Paid Subscriber to Shockingly Racist Pro-Apartheid South African X Account

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, is a paid subscriber to a virulently racist X account.

isaac Schorr at Mediaite:

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, is a paid subscriber to a virulently racist X account. Musk not only follows an account called “Boer” (@twatterbaas) but is one of two accounts to pay it for “bonus content and extra perks.” Boer charges $5/month for said perks and content. In one of the account’s most recent tweets, Boer submitted that “Atrica [sic] has 54 countries, 1.487 billion people. On the Southern tip lays South Africa, with the largest Economy and best infrastructure. Guess what makes South Africa different from the rest of Africa? 4.6 million white people.”

In other instances, the account has touted rape rates in “Black ruled” countries, used pictures to suggest that the country was better off under racial apartheid, asked “why do blacks like to destroy and break what white man made?” and urged “these racist blacks of #SouthAfrica to stop being selfish and transfer the strategical jobs and planning to us whites of this country.”

Elon Musk loves far-right racists.

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

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