Paul Chapman

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Who are you people? Seriously, what is this place? (He/him)

A picture of me holding up the boxes for the Blu-ray and DVD releases of Final Fantasy: Advent Children, having found them buried on my bookshelves behind several box-sets of the Aniplex release of Kill la Kill.
Dressed as a cable repair man in an elaborate dream sequence, Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski (actor Jeff Bridges) strides forward with a maniacally euphoric expression on his face in a scene from The Big Lebowski (1998). The Dude has long brown hair that is fading to gray in places, and his beard and mustache also have a hint of gray that add to his "aging hippy" image.
A crazed killer dressed in the headlamp and gas mask of a miner stalks an abandoned mine with a pickax as a weapon in a scene from the 1981 Canadian slasher film, My Bloody Valentine.
A promotional image of actor Caleb Landry Jones dressed in a suit and rubber surgical gloves, flourishing an old-fashioned glass syringe with a sample of blood in it for the 2012 science fiction / body horror film, Antiviral.
Sephiroth, the villain of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, enjoys a frosty can of Mirai no Lemon Sour Original in a scene from a collaboration / promotional video with Asahi Beer.
An anatomical skeleton with a lit flashlight attached to its mandibles with manilla tape dangles from the ceiling of a spooky cavern complex in a scene from Mazes & Monsters (1982). "Beware the sacrilege!"
Sam Dalmas (actor Tony Musante) and Julia (actor Suzy Kendall) gaze upon a cluttered apartment with looks of concern on their faces in a scene from The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970).
A scene of a snowy village at the base of a looming mountain in the winter from episode 9 of Season 2 of the Frieren: Beyond Journey's End TV anime. The locale looks almost exactly like the village of Dawnstar from the 2011 video game, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Davey Osborne (actor Henry Thomas) speaks into a toy Walkie-Talkie in his bedroom in a scene from Cloak & Dagger (1984).
RoboCop (actor Peter Weller in costume) prepares to annihilate a paper shooting target with his massive machine pistol while a gaggle of scientists and corporate suits look on approvingly in a scene from the 1987 film, RoboCop, directed by Paul Verhoeven.
Artwork of historical general Guan Yu from Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors series. Guan Yu is an imposing man dressed green robes and leather armor, wielding a polearm. He has a stern face with thick eyebrows and a long, luscious black beard.
A close-up of the stop-motion animation T-rex from The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956). It is a rather derpy-looking design, with prominent canines and a long, lolling tongue.
An end-titles illustration by artist Berabou na Furaibou of Kamen Rider and Tojima Tanzaburo from Episode 18 of the Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider TV anime. The artwork uses a dark background and muted reds, greens and blues to illustrate Kamen Rider striking a heroic pose while Tojima, his cheap plastic carnival mask askew, prepares to unleash a devastating "Rider Punch".
Two images juxtaposed for comedic effect: An image of "Skaven in reality" depicting a horrifying humanoid rat monster - a Skaven Plague Monk - clad in ragged green robes and carrying a censor filled with radioactive green warpstone and surrounded by a cloud of pestilence from Warhammer Fantasy. The second image is a photograph of an adorable, fluffy white rat grasping a tiny teddy bear, labeled: "How we imagine Skaven every time we read them or listen to them talking in an audiobook"
Actors Samuel Le Bihan and Marc Dacascos get rained on in the French countryside in a scene from Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001). Each man is dressed in aristocratic European traveling clothes from the 18th century, and a vista of forested hills is visible behind them.
About to be on the receiving end of a furious Rider Kick, a grizzled brown bear with a scar over its left eye contemplates the absurdity of its situation in a scene from Episode 8 of the Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider TV anime. The subtitles read: "But my submission pose!"
Actors Don Knotts and Tim Conway are dressed as old-timey detectives in a scene from the comedy / murder mystery film, The Private Eyes (1980).
Burt, Frank and Freddy (actors Clu Gulager, James Karen and Thom Matthews) look exceptionally stressed and sweaty while pondering what to do about the chemical spill that is reanimating corpses in their medical warehouse workplace in a scene from The Return of the Living Dead (1985), directed by Dan O'Bannon.
Gray Trace (actor Logan Marshall-Green) - a bearded man in his late Twenties / early Thirties wearing casual clothing -writes instructions on his forearm with a marker while standing in a desolate industrial zone in a scene from Upgrade (2018), directed by Leigh Whannell.
Mild-mannered school teacher Yuriko Okada (age 24) assumes the identity of masked crime fighter Electronic Wave Humanoid Tackle II by donning a home-made costume in a scene from Episode 2 of the Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider TV anime.
A banner image for Square Enix's Final Fantasy IX RPG featuring portrait style artwork of Freya, Steiner, Dagger, Zidane, Vivi, Eiko, Quina and Amarant.
A trio of handsome young noble men - Ginoford Dandelion, Yomi Blacksarena, and Sol Nemophila - strike an elegant pose in a scene from the opening animation sequence of The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess TV anime.
Ordinary construction worker Tanzaburo Tojima dons a cheap, plastic carnival mask of his hero - the original Kamen Rider - and prepares to fight evil in a scene from Episode 1 of the Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider TV anime.
Spattered with the blood of a horde of venal bozos that she just thrashed with her bare hands, young noble lady Scarlet El Vandimion positively beams at the prospect of the violence that she has inflicted in a scene from Episode 1 of the May I Ask for One Final Thing? TV anime.
A screen-capture from Final Fantasy IX: Dawntrail featuring my character - the Lalafell Ninja Sandy Doomsparkles - dressed as a tonberry and posing atop a barrel in the spooky, possibly haunted smithy belonging to Melith Mellifleur.
A banner image for Square Enix's Final Fantasy IX RPG featuring portrait-style artwork of Freya, Steiner, Garnet, Zidane, Vivi, Eiko, Quina, and Amarant.
A screen-cap from Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail featuring my character - the Lalafell Dark Knight Sandy Doomsparkles - posing with her zweihander sword in the plaza of Limsa Lominsa. Sandy is wearing dark sunglasses, a black tank top, black leather pants, and black boots. She has face-paint in the shape of a skull on her face. She is cosplaying as Gideon the Ninth from the Locked Tomb trilogy by Tamsyn Muir.
A banner image for Square Enix's Final Fantasy IX RPG, featuring portrait style artwork of Freya, Steiner, Dagger, Zidane, Vivi, Eiko, Quina and Amarant.
A black-and-white numbered list of the following 31 films: 1. Alien (1979) 2. Bats (1999) 3. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 4. Burning, The (1981) 5. Call of Cthulhu, The (2005) 6. Crawl (2019) 7. Dawn of the Dead (1978) 8. Dracula's Daughter (1936) 9. Encounters of the Spooky King (1980) 10. Ernest Scared Stupid (1991) 11. Funhouse, The (1981) 12. Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) 13. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) 14. High Tension (2003) 15. Haunting, The (1963) 16. House on Haunted Hill (1959) 17. Hunger, The (1983) 18. Kwaidan (1964) 19. Link (1986) 20. Manitou, The (1978) 21. Poltergeist (1982) 22. Prince of Darkness (1987) 23. Renfield (2023) 24. Salem's Lot (1979) 25. SavageLand (2015) 26. Sleepaway Camp (1983) 27. Tales from the Crypt (1972) 28. Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010) 29. Wicker Man, The (1973) 30. Wolfman, The (1941) 31. Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
A banner image for Square Enix's Final Fantasy IX RPG featuring portrait-style artwork of Freya, Steiner, Garnet, Zidane, Vivi, Eiko, Quina and Amarant.
A banner image for Square Enix's Final Fantasy IX featuring portrait-style artwork of Freya, Steiner, Garnet, Zidane, Vivi, Eiko, Quina, and Amarant.
A banner image for Square Enix's Final Fantasy IX video game featuring portrait-style artwork of Freya, Steiner, Garnet, Zidane, Vivi, Eiko, Quina, and Amarant.
Dressed in gray prison clothes, super-criminal Gabriel Yulaw (actor Jet Li) is man-handled by a trio of police goons in riot armor as they escort him to the execution chamber in a scene from the sci-fi / martial arts movie, The One (2001).
NieR Automata's "Battle-type" android 2B is surrounded by approximately 24 tiny, gnome-like humanoids in a washed out environment made of concrete blocks. This is the results of a "Lalafell-exclusive" Alliance raid, in which only players with Lalafell characters participate. We are all making goofy faces and hand gestured with the "surprised" emote. It is a truly chaotic scene, appropriate for Lalafell players.
A banner image for Square Enix's Final Fantasy IX video game featuring character portraits of Freya, Steiner, Garnet, Zidane, Vivi, Eiko, Quina, and Amarant.
A banner image for Square Enix's 2000 RPG, Final Fantasy IX, featuring portraits of Freya, Steiner, Garnet, Zidane, Vivi, Eiko, Quina and Amarant.
A futuristic spaceship sails towards the planet Jupiter in a scene from Sayonara, Jupiter (1984).
The VHS / DVD cover to Backlash: Oblivion (1996), directed by Sam Irvin. The cover features Lash (actor Musetta Vander), a dominatrix wielding a whip, facing off against a half-glimpsed cowboy in the foreground that is reaching for their holstered pistol with an obviously mechanical, robotic arm. A space-ship flies overhead in an orange sky with three moons, and it spotlights lash in a tractor beam-like cone of illumination. The setting is a Wild West town on an alien planet with alien pyramids looming in the background.
A promotional image of Captain Titus of the Ultramarines in his full power armor from Episode 5 of Season 1 of the Secret Level anthology series on Amazon Prime. His helmet is decorated with the laurels of victory, and the eyes of his face plate glow red.
An in-game sprite of the goobbue, a bidepal, humanoid monster from Final Fantasy XIV. The goobbue has stony skin, long arms, stumpy legs, a wide torso, and a round head with a frog-like mouth and wide-set, beady yellow eyes. The goobbue's skin has moss growing on it, and small plants sprout from its head and back. It has no neck and generally projects an aura of ponderous, clumsy girth.
In his crummy, run-down kitchen, Mogura Momoyuki - a modern-day ascetic - drinks tea from a chipped mug while explaining his supernatural situation to his off-screen guests in a scene from Episode 1 of Denkin no Mogura: The Earthbound Mole. The room is cluttered with various junk, and Mogura wears an old-fashioned kimono. His head is crudely bandaged from a scalp wound he received earlier.
Hisoka, a murderous martial artist / Pierrot clown, thrusts his hips forward in a suggestive manner while brilliant energy seems to blossom from his groin in a scene from Episode 35 of the 2012 Hunter x Hunter TV anime. The SFX reads "Schwing" while the captions read "I'm getting turned on."
Rudo, a young man with two-toned white hair and red eyes, scowls in vague discontent while listening to his adoptive father's advice in a scene from Episode 1 of the Gachiakuta TV anime.
Sludge Atou, an albino dark elf hero unit from the fictional Eternal Civilizations video game, expresses joy at finding herself isekai-ed into a different world alongside her favorite player in a scene from Episode 1 of the Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin TV anime.
As she points at the camera and glowers, Heroine Yuu Yuutani tries to explain away her stalker-like behavior toward her crush in a scene from Episode 1 of the BAD GIRL TV anime. The subtitles read: "I'm just watching over her! To make sure no suspicious people are following her around."
The alleged "abandoned dog" (quite clearly a tanuki) enjoys a refreshing Japanese-style bath in a scene from Episode 1 of the With You and the Rain TV anime.
Monica Everett - an unassuming girl with brown eyes and messy, mousy brown hair - looks on the verge of tears as she entertains company in her quaint woodland cottage in a scene from Episode 01 of the Secrets of the Silent Witch TV anime.
A random Hunter Exam applicant is swallowed whole by a Noggin Luggin Turtle - a huged, shelled dinosaur-like monster with spines resembling over-sized strawberries on stems protruding from its back - in a scene from Episode 05 of the 2011 Hunter x Hunter TV anime.
A cropped piece of artwork from the Sonic the Hedgehog comic books featuring a humanoid robot with a single, glaring Cyclopean eye in its faceplate hammering a wooden sign into the ground with its metal fist. The side reads "NO FUN ALLOWED" in big block letters of red and black. Behind the robot, a polluted and dirty futuristic cityscape is visible.
A screen shot from Lord of Illusions (1995) featuring actors Scott Bakula and Famke Janssen as Harry D'Amour and Dorathea Swann exploring a spooky catacombs with distressed expressions on their faces.
Actor Christopher Lee in full costume and makeup as Count Dracula, from the 1958 Hammer horror film, Horror of Dracula. Lee's eyes are bloodshot and filled with an evil gleam of reflected light. His mouth is agape in a hiss, exposing long fangs on his canines, and his mouth and chin are smeared with the blood of his victims. The setting is a dark night in front of a vaulted stone cathedral.
A cropped screenshot from Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail, depicting my character - the Lalafell Paladin Sandy Doomsparkles - dressed in full plate armor reminiscent of Steiner's armor from Final Fantasy IX. She's standing in front of the large yellow doors at the entrance to her house, Fortress Doomsparkles.
Replicant Leon Kowalski (actor Brion James) begins to suffer a low-grade freak out when subjected to a barrage of emotionally-taxing questions as part of the Voight-Kampff test in a scene from the beginning of the movie Blade Runner (1981).
An image of the Showa Era giant movie monster, Mothra, in her fully grown adult moth form. Mothra has big blue, multifaceted eyes, large wings and a furry, segmented body in bright colors of orange, yellow, white, and black.
Cartoony fan-art for Warhammer 40K featuring a pair of Blood Ravens Space Marines running off with relics belonging to Chapter Master Marneus Calgar of the Ultramarines while Calgar pouts in the background. As the Blood Ravens skedaddle, they shout: "for safe keeping!"
A scene from Episode 2 of Season Two of the Aharen-san wa Hakarenai TV anime, featuring a mash-up parody of both Animal Crossing and Yakuza: Like a Dragon. On the deck of a luxurious yacht, a cartoon tanuki named Tom Grainook has been assassinated. As he bleeds out in his companion's arms - a parody of Kiryu Kazuma - the surviving Kazuma lookalike shouts to the heavens. The captions read: "Tom Grainook!"
Actors John Ritter and James Belushi crouch beside a public phone booth in a scene from Real Men (1987). Ritter points his right hand like a pistol, while Belushi flinches away.
A crude, cartoony illustration of a pug's face, drawn by me. The drawing only has about a dozen curvy lines, creating the outline of a droopy-faced dog with a lolling tongue, a short snout and bulging eyes.
A photograph of Tom Pandich, dressed in an orange polo shirt and shorts, riding on the back of a bronze statue of a silverback lowland gorilla at Busch Gardens in 2015. The gorilla seems indifferent to Tom's presence. Tom is raising both hands to the heavens and shouting joyfully.
Rakuro Hizutome, aka Sunraku, smiles broadly and declares out loud a promise he clearly intends to break while loading into his VR game set-up in a scene from Episode 48 of the Shangri-La Frontier TV anime. The captions read: "I'll only play for an hour!"