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Do ya'll ever think about how every character in MDZS is living in a radically different genre of story?
Cause yeah, sure Wei Wuxian is living in a danmei fantasy novel with strong romantic comedy elements, but if you slide over a bit Lan Wangji is living a serious and heady drama about regret, loss, yearning, the passage of time, and ultimately atonement.
Scooch on over to Xichen and your in a straight up Greek tragedy, right down to the parable about hubris and trust. Jin Guangyao is living meanwhile in a political dark fantasy al'la Game of Thrones, Nie Huaisang is in a Gothic moody Monte Cristo-esque reflection on revenge and deception, and while Lan Sizhuhi and Jin Ling are living in two VERY different YA fantasy books ('magic boarding school/secret orphan of destiny' and 'Steven Universe style coming of age/discovering all your family are some flavor of evil and magic' respectively).
Everyone connected to Yi City is living inside a dark psychological thriller/horror flick, except for Xue Yang who is in a Found Family/Enemies to Lover fic right up until he isn't.
Jiang Cheng's entire life has been one long soap opera, and it is showing no signs of stopping anytime soon.
The Bad Batch Workout Split
I'm a bit of an intense gym-goer. Anime, live-action characters, and other animations have really inspired me to go above and beyond what I thought I could do. Clone Force 99 inspires me so much! They're all so fit, have different advantages, skills, and physical strengths. For fun, I created a workout split based on each of the modified clones. I hope you enjoy it! There’s a bit of a fanfic element to it as each Bad Batcher describes their favorite workout routine:)
Wrecker - Legs
Wrecker never skips leg day. Whether he's on a mission or with Gonky in the back of the ship, he's always training! Wrecker encourages you to train safely! He says to feel free to train until failure on machines, but to pick a weight you'll be safe with on the free weight work.
Leg Extension - 2 sets of 15
Hamstring Curl - 2 sets of 15
Deadlifts - 3 sets of 6-8
Leg Press - 3 sets of 10-12
Smith Machine Split Squats - 2 sets of 6-8
Gonk Carry (Sandbag Carry) - 3 reps; set a distance you’re comfortable with.
The Daily Bad Batch Burner Finisher (see below)
Crosshair - Push & Shoulders
Crosshair is built to carry his gear and Firepuncher 773 up mountains, towers, and more. His shoulders are strong to sustain his sniper work and throw enemies in close hand-to-hand combat. He suggests getting someone like Echo to spot you so you can work harder, but if you're going it alone, be smart and hang out with the Smith machine.
Incline Press - 3 sets of 10-12
Bench Press - 3 sets of 10-12
Shoulder Press - 3 sets of 10-12
Delt Raises - 3 sets of 10-12
Farmers Carry - 3 reps; set a distance you’re comfortable with
The Daily Bad Batch Burner Finisher (see below)
Hunter - Back & Abs
Hunter knows he has an amazing back to waist ratio and maintains a steady back routine to maintain it. To build out your back, he suggests warming up your abdominal muscles first, then heading straight into heavy rowing work.
Cable Crunch - 3 sets till failure
T-Bar Row - 3 sets of 6-8
Assisted Pull Ups - 3 sets of 10-12
Cable Lat Pulldown (Palms in) - 3 sets of 10-12
Cable Row (Narrow) - 3 sets of 10-12
The Daily Bad Batch Burner Finisher (see below)
Tech - Full Body + Cardio
Tech may be all brains, but you have to give credit where it's due: the guy is built. He'll climb up vertical surfaces with Echo on his back, overpower enemies with a broken femur, and perform fantastic movements to protect others. Tech suggests performing heavy compound movements to work multiple muscle groups at once and mastering your own body weight. At the end, listen to a podcast, music, or show; or if you can maintain focus and a higher heart rate, read a book.
Assisted Chin Ups - 3 sets of 10-12
Hexbar Deadlifts - 3 sets of 10-12
Barbell Squats - 3 sets of 10-12
Assisted Pull Ups - 2 sets of until failure
The Daily Bad Batch Burner Finisher (See Below)
Entertained cardio - 45 minutes
Omega - Arms & Accessories
She may be the little sister, but Omega is a straight up badass and her brothers know it. She's getting used to performing compound movements with her brothers, but enjoys working on accessory movements as it's time for her to focus on herself in the gym and get away from all the "bro" noise.
Calf Raises - 3 sets of 10-12
Preacher Bicep Curl - 3 sets of 10-12
Tricep Pushdown - 3 sets of 10-12
Hammer Curl - 3 sets of 10-12
Front Raises - 3 sets of 10-12
Shrugs - 3 sets of 10-12
The Daily Bad Batch Burner Finisher (see below)
The Daily Bad Batch Burner Finisher
Clone Force 99 has exceptional grip strength and endurance. Here's the burning finisher for the end of each workout. If you don't have access to battle ropes, any free weight arm movement can replace it.
Each exercise till failure x3
Battle Rope
Pushups
Static Hang
Clone Force 99 says good luck on your training. You'll need it.
Wei Wuxian, tipsy at the Jin Guangyao death party : I'm sorry. The old Wei Ying can't come to the Cloud Recesses right now. Why? Oh! Cuz he's dead!
Lan Xichen, covering Lan Zhan's ears in horror: Stop telling him you're dead!
Jiang Cheng, compulsive drinking: I pray he dies again. All. The. Time.
Nie Huaisang, obviously the one with all the brain cells: We're already at the Cloud Recesses.
rip in peace
not going to lie i am kind of obsessed with annabeth at 12 years old watching one of those "is megalodon still out there?" bullshit ass documentaries and she wholeheartedly buys into it because she's 12 and still thinks that if it airs on animal planet or the history channel it must be accurate, so she tells percy all about the totally real facts and figures and percy's like "that's bullshit. if we had giant sharks we'd know. that's such bullshit" and there's like..... you know how they canonically email each other when they're not at camp? there's like half the email dedicated to "here's what i did this week" and then 15 paragraphs about their megalodon argument. neither of them do any research about it because annabeth thinks she's done the research by watching the documentary, and percy is a) dyslexic, and as much as he wants to stick it to annabeth he will not be reading anything he does not have to, and b) why would he READ he can just ASK THE FUCKING SHARKS. but he's stuck in NYC so he can't ask any sharks until the summer, and the fact that percy is disagreeing with her means that annabeth is digging her heels into this argument and refusing to budge, so it's a completely inane back and forth argument because both these 12 year olds are just making up their own arguments to try and own the other, and eventually percy defaults to going i am a SON of POSEIDON i think i KNOW A THING OR TWO ABOUT SHARKS i am BASICALLY KIND OF RELATED TO ALL SHARKS EVERYWHERE BECAUSE MY DAD MADE ALL OF THEM TOO SO SUCK IT. and then he hits send on that particular email and has an existential crisis because, if his dad is the ocean, and made all the things in the ocean, and also horses, are they all his siblings? or were the first ones of each species his siblings, and now it's kind of questionable? how many genetic steps away is he from a fucking manta ray? he can't ponder for long because sally reads his email to annabeth over his shoulder and grounds him for telling annabeth to suck it, and makes him write an apology email.
and then they get to camp and naturally the megalodon argument falls to the wayside because of the fact that percy and annabeth's lives are a mcdonald's playplace for gods and titans to do what they want. but i'd like to think during the downtime in sea of monsters, annabeth resurrects the argument and percy's like I'M ASKING THE FUCKING SHARKS and marches to the bay and patiently waits for a shark to answer his I'm The Son Of Poseidon And I Have A Question call, and it does happen to be a traveling great white that answers. percy's like "i've gotta win this argument please tell me megalodon is extinct" and after crossing the language barrier, the shark explains that yes, megalodon is extinct. they don't call their ancestor sharks megalodon, sharks have their own words for their ancestor sharks, and because percy as tiny lord of the ocean is technically partially their god he gets to understand special shark language. but nobody else does, so when percy is explaining this interaction to annabeth and tries to repeat the shark-word for megalodon, he opens his mouth and makes a rumbling-clicking-bad-ear sound, and annabeth calls him a liar and swears he's making up this entire shark interaction and he can't prove anything. percy is so mad. he goes back to the ocean and talks to another shark because he's like I'M RIGHT AND SHE WON'T LISTEN and this shark, a bull shark, helpfully suggests that cannibalism might be the answer, because he's a shark. the conversation kind of devolved into percy nervously asking if all ocean life everywhere is technically related to him, and the bull shark is like no, no, no, that's not how it works, son of poseidon. you're not related to US. you're related to the WATER. and the bull shark sounds so happy that he could help that percy just beams at him and goes "thanks!" even though internally he's more confused than ever, and he has to sit at the bottom of the ocean having an existential crisis
cut to many years and near-death situations later, after percy's gap..... years, in which he just did not care for the prospect of college, and annabeth kicking her own ass during undergrad and now moving on to graduate school (shhh the chases can afford it), percy's wandered into a marine biology track. the megalodon argument has been buried by less fun arguments, like percy arguing that annabeth should help do his laundry because she pretty much only wears his clothes anyway. percy has made College Friends, and he's really excited to introduce his beautiful, wonderful, best friend-girlfriend to his College Friends. annabeth starts the conversation by going "i think megalodon is still out there" and percy's Marine Biology College Friends all turn to stare at percy while percy chokes on his own spit and tries (read: fails) to breathe
rex, to the bad batch: can you be serious for five minutes?
hunter, as wrecker and crosshair have a cartwheel competition in the background while tech takes notes: our record is three
I love how Cassandra heard the story of Hawke and her first thought was "yes, this leader of the most chaotic group of bisexual criminals the world has ever seen who would not hesitate to murder anybody to help one of their found family is the best person to run a massive scale religious military group"
Meanwhile, I'm convinced that Leliana knew where Hawke was hiding the whole time and just lied to Cassandra about it because she didn't want to deal with the absolute chaos Hawke would cause as inquisitor
I made the worst thing
Another tpom video hehehhe They're just so fun to make and there's so much audio potential for these goobers anyways Kowalski talking about his relationship problems to skipper, much to skipper's dismay
im fucking crying
Natlan is cool and all
but what if
It’s pretty much canon that England would leave America for long stretches of time during his childhood (like in that Davie strip), but I’d like to imagine that he hired teachers and caretakers or nannies to actually raise America while he was gone most of the time.
Of course, because America ages a lot slower than a human, those nannies would get old and retire or die, and then England would have to replace them like goldfish.
Eventually America would get old enough to understand the concept of death, and England would start to get a bit careless about it, like:
England: America, where is that nanny I hired? I haven’t seen her since I’ve arrived.
America(physically around 13y/o): …England, she died like 2 years ago. You forgot to hire a new one.
England: ah.
Girls will be doing anything except their classwork (I’m girls)
Good evening. This is TRUE and CANON and entirely exempt from ANY debate whatsoever.