what will you become tomorrow?

Happy 30th Anniversary Chrono Trigger!

If you’re unfamiliar with Chrono Trigger, the basic plot is that our plucky heroes accidentally get pulled back in time after a science experiment goes wrong. On their quest to get back to their own time, they accidentally end up in the distant future, and discover that the world is destroyed in the year 1999 (of course,) and the future they find is a desolate wasteland where the few surviving humans are on the brink of starvation. It’s terrible!

But here’s the thing: our heroes are from the year 1000. The apocalypse is 999 years away from their time. Once they find the way back to their own time, they could have just forgotten about the future. It wouldn’t have affected them! They would be long dead before any of that ever happened! The only character who would have been impacted was the robot they met in the future, but they could have brought him back to their time too and called it a day. There was no consequence for them to walk away.

But they don’t, of course. They make it their mission to figure out what caused the apocalypse and how to prevent it by jumping back and forth through time. They do all that, risking their lives, for a future that they wouldn’t live long enough to actually experience. They don’t do it for themselves. They do it for the world.

closeups 🌿⤵️

a digital, coloured, full body illustration of the characters qifrey, tetia, coco, richeh and agott from the manga witch hat atelier. qifrey is shown standing in the centre with his white tunic flowing softly to the side. he's facing the viewer but looking to his right where Tetia and Coco are sitting on his upper arm and shoulder respectively. tetia is hanging on with both arms, swinging slightly back with her eyes closed and a smile on her face. coco is looking at qifrey with a wide smile. on his other shoulder is agott, her back turned to the viewer and hunched over. she is shown in profile, working on a spell in her palm quire. just below, hanging in qifrey's left arm is richeh, her long blue hair falling all around her.

closeup of the same drawing zoomed in on everyone's faces.

closeup of the same drawing zoomed in on tetia, coco and qifrey.

closeup of the same drawing, zoomed in on agott and richeh

Toni Braxton - I'm Still Breathing 2000

Toni Michele Braxton is an American R&B singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. She has sold over 70 million records worldwide and is one of the best-selling female artists in history. Braxton has won seven Grammy Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards, seven American Music Awards, and numerous other accolades. In 2011, Braxton was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. In 2017 she was honored with the Legend Award at the Soul Train Music Awards.

The Heat is her third studio album, released on April 25, 2000. The album marked Braxton's departure from her ballads in favor of a more urban sound. Most of the songs (including the nearly instrumental "The Art of Love") were written and produced by Braxton and her husband Keri Lewis (a former member of Mint Condition); two ballads were penned by Diane Warren, and collaborations featured rappers Dr. Dre and Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes. The Heat opened at number two on the Billboard 200 with 199,000 copies sold in its first week. It was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on October 13, 2000, with sales of over two million copies in the US. Additionally, the album was nominated for Best R&B Album at the 2001 Grammy Awards, while lead single "He Wasn't Man Enough" won Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and was nominated for Best R&B Song. "I'm Still Breathing" was written by Diane Warren, who also wrote Braxton's 1996 mega-hit "Un-Break My Heart".

"I'm Still Breathing" recieved a total of 48,9% yes votes. Previous Toni Braxton polls: #155 "You're Makin' Me High".