He's so awesome. Right?

1// This is a real manga.

2// The guy with the open jumpsuit is Peter.

3// ho8f0p-3fjwgrgr.

EDiT: I should stress a couple things: first, this is one of those awful American mangas - a wannabe. (How come 'wannabe' doesn't set Firefox's spellcheck out of whack?) Second, while I believe the Ghostbusters are all sexy, they're sexy in a 'middle-aged, out-of-shape men' sort of way, not a 'hot twenty-something' sort of way.

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Ho baby, watch out! Epic journal coming through!

First, business as usual: it's wednesday, and wednesday means WWF update! This is the last chapter of Book 4, so there won't be an update next week. Book 5 will start on Wednesday, November 25th, giving Sio a much-needed chance to catch up on WWF covers. She's still being absolutely hammered by schoolwork, so show her support!

This chapter also marks the third installment of the "Spatula" storyline! This time it's Longshot's turn to narrate, in which he makes a few discoveries, many unpleasant, but there are a few gold nuggets hidden amongst them.

Second: A few weeks ago I drew everybody's attention to an art thief who had posted a picture of Smellerbee drawn by the ever-so-awesome Aaron Alexovich. Like I said then, I have a huge amount of respect for Aaron, and his self-defined "spookycute" art style is freaking awesome. Well, I recently commissioned Aaron for another picture, this one of my Freedom Fighter OCs, Spatula and Pestle.

Aaron is a swell guy and if you have money to burn I recommend commissioning him! He's trying to raise money for the next installment of his Serenity Rose comic (the second of which you can read on his website, linked above - beware of cussing and a few severed limbs!), so I figure it's a worthwhile cause. It's $50 for a single character, and then $30 for each additional one in the same picture (so Spatula and Pestle cost $80), but it is sooooo worth it. He also mails you the physical copy!

Third: As Sio announced on ~PFFbySIO, due to time constraints on her part due in turn to school, PFF2 has switched from a predominantly drawn, comic-styled format to a predominantly written format. SylvaCoer and I will be doing much of the story now, taking a more active role on the team (Sylva is even doing an entire 'chapter' of the story by herself!) and DoodleBuggy will contribute by drawing comic-styled pages to help ease Sio's burden. My first contribution to the new format has already gone up, Page/Scene 97, following Jet and Longshot as they arrive in the Fire Nation for the peace conference.

Fourth and last: I mentioned a couple weeks ago how I'm a huge nerd and like to assign themes to things I'm writing, and WWF is no exception; I've done a little hunting for appropriate songs (I've got no shortage to choose from out of my library), and after some technical difficulties, I finally got the next bunch of songs posted. I'll be updating further themes when appropriate (you actually won't find out what Smellerbee's is until way later on, for example).

The new themes are: Longshot (Swimming Pool by Freezepop), Sneers (Manic Depression by the Jimi Hendrix Experience), Skillet (Stand Up by Leahy), "Snillet" (I Should Tell You from RENT), WWF Book 1 (She's the Sun by Scooter), WWF Book 2 (Le Pain Perdu by Cibo Matto), WWF Book 3 (Ramalama (Bang Bang) by Roisin Murphy), and WWF Book 4 (Getting Better by The Beatles). While I have been trying to stick with obscure songs/artists for the set, sometimes a well-known song/artist just stands out as more than appropriate, in this case Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles. C'est la vie, right? I've also been trying to stick with actual songs rather than bumming bits and pieces off soundtracks...but again, sometimes soundtrack songs are more than fitting. There will only ever be two soundtrack songs used for these themes, the first of which being I Should Tell You from Jonathan Larson's awesome rock opera musical, RENT.

Also, I apologize for the terrible quality of I Should Tell You and Le Pain Perdu. I couldn't upload them to YouTube, so I had to use my LiveVideo account, and they absolutely mangled the audio >_< I'll try to get them fixed.

The Unofficial Official Where Words Fail Soundtrack!!
Theme of Where Words Fail: Foreword (VNV Nation)
Theme of the Freedom Fighters: Wavin' Flag (K'naan)
Theme of Longshot: Swimming Pool (Freezepop)
Theme of Sneers: Manic Depression (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Theme of Skillet: Stand Up (Leahy)
Theme of Jet: Wasted Years (Cold)
Theme of "Smellershot": Perfect Silence (Scapegoat Wax)
Theme of "Snillet": I Should Tell You (RENT)
Theme of "Book 1: A Fight for Survival": She's the Sun (Scooter)
Theme of "Book 2: Escaping Ba Sing Se": Le Pain Perdu (Cibo Matto)
Theme of "Book 3: A Test of Faith": Ramalama (Bang Bang) (Roisin Murphy)
Theme of "Book 4: Threshold Guardians": Getting Better (The Beatles)

And that's it! Happy reading and I hope you enjoyed wasting the last ten minutes of your life reading this crap

...which doesn't keep the dubbing companies from pulling in some serious acting talent every once in a while.

Ponyo had Liam Neeson who is sort of like a white, British Morgan Freeman: everything he's in is automatically better (though Episode I was mostly a lost cause). To be fair, the Ponyo dub was better than most other Miyazaki dubs, which really scored it brownie points. But I just watched Castle in the Sky for the first time; I gave the dub a shot, but Pazu and Sheeta's actors really put me off, so I wound up going with the subbed version for the rest of the movie. So, movie was awesome, credits roll...and I notice, under voice talent, that Mark motherfucking Hamill played the voice of the main antagonist.

Mark Hamill is one of my absolute favorite voice actors. He's played The Joker in pretty much every animated Batman series since 1993 (except for The Batman and Batman: Brave & the Bold), and reprized the role in Batman: Arkham Asylum, and he was also Fire Lord Ozai from Avatar: The Last Airbender (YES KIDS, LUKE SKYWALKER WAS IN AVATAR). He's been in a smattering of other roles across the years (he was apparently also in Nausicaa, another Miyazaki film - one I haven't seen yet), the whole list of which can be seen here.

Maybe it's a sign that whichever companies dub Miyazaki films need to pick up former Star Wars actors for the future? But from the original trilogy, plz, though I'd take Ewan McGregor.

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Saw this meme, wanted to do it:

~ Rules:
~ If you don’t have at least 8 OCs I wouldn’t recommend this meme
~ Add on questions to this meme! It will make it bigger! (bold your questions too)
~ TAG PPL PLZ
~ Enjoyyyyyyyy!


1) First list all your OC’s by first name so we can see your list of all your wonderful OC’s:

Rather than list ALLLLL of my OCs, I'm just gonna show off the guys you know about:

La Team Boheme:
1// Joe Delgado
2// Allie Rosenthal
3// Dr. Tobias Cohen
4// Cy Jones
5// Raph Verducci
6// Router
The Radical Gadgets:
7// Slots
8// Broadcast
9// Gigawatt
10// V2
11// Fuzz
12// Graffitiman
13// Mellow 714
Freedom Fighters:
14// Spatula
15// Pestle

2) Who is your favorite OC?

It's hard to pick just one, because I've been in love with all of them at some point or another. For the moment, I'd say Broadcast. He's very charismatic and I love his design!

Broadcast: You like me! You really like me!

Pestle: Laugh it up while you can, prick.

3) Who is your least favorite?

Ah, um...sorry, Cy. I really only keep you around to compliment Joe and Tobias.

Cy: But...but...

4) Who is your most developed?

Spatula and Pestle both. They're the only characters I've included in an actual story. At least, one that I've written in the past few years. I have to thank Sio for a lot of that, because we make excellent brain-babies together and we've applied more than a few to those two characters.

Pestle: That's right. Who's number one now, Cane Boy?

Broadcast:

Spatula: Come on, Pest, no need to rub it in...

(By the same token, Cy is also my least developed. All I have for her is "she's an Amazonian health nut who is friends with Tobias and Joe." I may have to cut her loose in order to keep my OC list clean...)

5) Which OC would you want to date if they magically came to life?

Sorry, I don't really make my OCs for that. While I won't deny a lot of them are downright sexy, that's about as far as I'm willing to take it.

6) How many female OCs do you have? Male OCs? Genderless OCs?

I had to re-word the question, because the juvenile phrasing bothered me.

Ah, let's see. Of the fifteen above: Allie, Cy, Raph, Slots, Fuzz and Pestle are ladytypes, Joe, Tobias, Broadcast, Gigawatt, V2, Spatula and Mellow are guys. Graffitiman and Router are robots and therefore technically genderless, but they still have gender-oriented personalities, male and female respectively.

7) If you were stuck in a burning building what do you think the third OC on your list (Dr. Tobias Cohen) would do?

Of La Team Boheme, Tobias is probably the most level-headed next to Router, and I'm fairly certain we'd emerge from that building alive.

Tobias: Only fairly certain?

(Yeah, I'd say about 85%.)

Tobias: Oh come on, don't you have just a little more faith in me?

(You're a surgeon, not a fire fighter.)

Tobias: ...point...

8) Name one thing you regret about one of your OCs.

Contemporarily? I don't regret anything because I set out to fix the stuff I do. Which is why Cy is pretty much on the chopping block, and all I need to do is bring the knife down.

9) Which of your OCs do you think would make the best parent out of all your OCs and why??

Tobias and Spatula both come away with this one; Tobias is a very responsible person and - being a doctor - would have the patience to deal with a kid. Spatula on the other hand is a very fun guy - the kind of dad who would go out and play catch with their kid, and then go play Mario Kart with them when they were done.

That doesn't mean there aren't others in my group who would fit the bill, though! Graffitiman sort of already is a parent - he's considered a Street Guru, and teaches the Radical Gadgets the difference between graffiti as art and graffiti as vandalism. Slots would make a pretty good mom; she's the leader of the Radical Gadgets and has a lot of experience wrangling in rowdy kids (especially when Mellow and Graffitiman go at it).

10) Which of your OCs do you think will most likely be put in jail?

Oh. Um. Well, the entire Radical Gadgets are street punks, so vandalism is part of their trade, which means they're pretty open to be arrested. But if Pestle were in a contemporary setting, though, I think she'd do a lot worse than vandalism....

Pestle: Ah, but when it comes to actually arresting me, they wouldn't stand a chance.

11) The eighth of your OCs (Broadcast) was put into the future! What will their job be?!?

Broadcast: What's a job?

Allie: Amen, brother!

Tobias: Slackers.

Broadcast: Cheer up, chum! We Gadgets make house and home in an abandoned warehouse - the rent-free variety! We only mooch off the gym and various fast-food places.

Tobias: ...That doesn't negate my point!

12) Name the first OCs catch phrase! (if they don’t have one just make one up)

Joe: Does various irritated-sounding grunts and groans count? 'Cause that's all I gots.

13) Do all your OCs live together or are they separated?

Sort of. Joe, Allie, Tobias, Cy, Raph and Router (La Team Boheme) all share a house that is primarily funded by Tobias, with Joe and Raph providing a modicum of support. Allie and Cy are unemployed, and Router works for Raph, sooo...

Tobias: The perks of working in the medical field, I guess. -_-;

Raph: Hey, you're not the only one contractually tied to the government! I just, you know, happen to not work a lotta get.

Joe: We're both freelancers. We can only get jobs when people have a need for us. Now, robot design? That gets you noticed. But all I do is local journalism.

Allie: Hey, I pull in some money!

Joe: Five bucks a day from busking doesn't help much.

(...anyway. Then there's the Radical Gadgets (Slots, Broadcast, Gigawatt, Fuzz, V2, Mellow 714 and Graffitiman. They all shack up in an abandoned warehouse, which Broadcast mentioned above.)

Gigawatt: I'm just a few days away from making a working shower stall! This way we don't have to sneak into the local gym and wash up there, hoping we don't get caught.

Raph: Dude, I could whip up something like that in five minutes.

Gigawatt: Well, I'm sorry, but not all of us were raised with electric-based technology.

(And then there's Spatula and Pestle. They live in treehouses in a forest where the trees are red all year round. )

Spatula: It's a beautiful place!

Pestle: I built the treehouses.

14) Are there any pairings that are in your OC list? (they can’t be with someone else's)

ROLL CALL!

Slots & Broadcast: Ohhh yeah.

Spatula & Pestle: Ohohoho~

Joe & Allie: Wut?

Raph & Gigawatt: NEVER.

15) Your seventh OC (Slots) switched bodies with you for a day! How will they react at the end of the day?

What, like, how will they react when they come back to their body? Well, she'd certainly be much more thoroughly cleaned, that's for sure.

Slots: Hey, come talk to me about personal hygiene when you have acute hydrophobia.

16) Your last OC just became a fifteen year old. What do they do?

Pestle: You just thrust me two years backwards, asshole. I wanted to be done with all of this rampaging-hormones/mixed-emotions shit! I was almost out!

17) Now randomly select a person on your OC list. Who was it?

Hang on, gonna get my dice out for this...okay. #3 (Tobias).

18) That OC you just chose? Yeah they think they are superman (even if they are a girl) and are on the roof about to jump off.

Allie: WOOO YEAH! GO FOR IT, DUDE! Fuckin' metal!

Raph: *too busy making giant robots to notice*

Joe: I'll go get a ladder and a trampoline, and then a mop and a bucket.

Router: fh904pjg05hathatr You humans are terrible for my blood pressure! And I'm a robot!

Tobias: wheeeeeeee~

19) Are any of your OCs bored of this meme?

Some are, some aren't.

20) Would your second OC (Allie) prefer the beach or the mountains?

Allie: What? I mean, neither are really my scene - I prefer urban sprawl, smoky bar rooms, cramped, overheating stages, some random corner near a StarBucks (they're the really popular busking spots), etc. Natury stuff just isn't my thing.

21) Would your tenth OC (V2) battle a shark?

V2: Oh, so you leave me alone during this entire thing, only to throw a shark at me? That figures. And unless that shark was going to eat one of my friends, then no - and it's not like I'd stand much of a chance! And whoever got us into that mess *pointed glare at Broadcast and Gigawatt* would be absolutely nuts.

Broadcast: *whistle*

Gigawatt: Huhwha? Sorry, working on the shower.

22) Which OCs hate each other?

Graffitiman: Well, hate is a pretty strong word, but -

Mellow:

Graffitiman: - Mellow and I have trouble seeing eye-to-eye on the sanctity of street art.

Mellow: , .

Graffitiman: Quit being juvenile.

Mellow:

Graffitiman: *sigh*

23) Which OC did you create first? And last?

Of this lot, Joe is the oldest - I think he's like eleven years old, if you count all of the various forms he's had over the years. If you take into account that the Radical Gadgets' initial creation was as a Jet Set Radio/Brave Little Toaster mash-up fan art, then that makes Pestle the youngest. I don't even think she's two years old at this point!

25) And if those two were fighting, who would win?

Joe: I know, like, a handful of nature-element spells, and I'm out of shape.

Pestle: I'm an awesome Earthbender and I swing twin battle hammers around when I go into battle. I'm a complete badass.

Joe: In short...no contest.

26) Are your OCs fat or skinny?

I have to admit: I'm a shallow person. I don't make fat OCs. >_<;

27) What are your first 2 OC's favorite foods?

Joe: Salad, I guess?

Allie: Insta-make Ramen. When you pull five dollars on an average day's work and twenty dollars for a gig, that shit is luxury.

28) If your listed OCs were in a fight to the death, who would emerge victorious?

Fuzz.

Fuzz: Why me?

(Because you're an adorable little girl, and even though there's at least two OCs I've listed that wouldn't hesitate to take a swing at you, you're the underdog and it's only natural that you'd be the last one standing.)

Fuzz: But I dun wanna be the last one standing! I want everyone to live!

(Uh, uh, uh, V2 - ?)

V2: You're making her cry, buddy...once I get her to calm down, you and I are gonna have a nice, long chat out back.

(Eeep...)

29) There's a zombie attack and your OCs are stranded. Who do they elect to be their leader?

Allie: Oooh! Oooh! Pick me!!

Slots: You're practically a hobo and you don't have any of your priorities straight! And that's coming from me! I'm taking charge of this operation.

Allie: You're just jealous. I got wings and I can play music and I can swim.

Slots: I could play the guitar better with all of my fingers broken.

Allie: Oh, them's fightin' words, bitch! Bring it on!

Pestle: ENOUGH! Spirits, you two are freaking impossible. Look, zombies are no big deal. I'll Earthbend a perimeter around us for the time being so we can take our time and think of a way out of this. Joe, you're in charge of growing vegetables and Mellow will be our primary hunter. Spatula, you'll be on cooking detail. Graffitiman, Router - you'll be our look-outs, since you're immune to being zombified. Raph and Gigawatt, start building a way out of this mess for us. Make big assed guns for those of us who have no other means to fight back. Tobias, keep on the ready in case one of us gets injured - I dunno how much you know about stopping turning into a zombie, but I'm counting on you to do your best. Slots, Allie, Broadcast, V2 and I will get working on a more long-term plan that'll get us out of here alive. The rest of you, start building tents and fire pits and shit, in case we're here longer than we figure.

Everyone else: ... Wow.

Spatula: That's my girl.

Pestle:

30) During said zombie attack, who's the first to die?

Cy, because nobody loves her, least of all me.

31) Which one of these OCs do you think would have the most fangirls/boys?

Spatula: Well, I've already got quite a few. One person reading PFF2 even suggested pairing me with Jet -

Pestle: WHAT?!

Spatula: AAAaaaAAAA!!!! Itwasn'tmyfaultIswearitpleasedon'tkillmeeeeeee!

32) Tag three or more people!

Oh, you know me. Do it if you want.