#// this is one of my FAVORITE characters bc he only got like 5 minutes screentime and it was FULL of easter eggs and secrets

[stagekiller]

   Y’all can I... just make a point over here real quick?

   So, in S4 ep 16 we meet this guy, Uncle Zach; a charming cook in a dirty apron running his own diner ( very creatively named ‘Zach’s diner’ ) - where soups seem to be the house specialty. He lays out three soups for his beloved nephew, none other than your problematic fave, Jerome. Now, on first glance he probably has us thinking “ Man, this poor guy, his nephew is a renounced criminal, what a burden to bare. ”

  But then he makes this face :

   Aaaaand we start to notice some things that are... a liiiittle bit off about him.

   Number one is probably the fact he dunked his underage nephew’s hand in a boiling pot of chicken broth. Now that’s a rather severe form of punishment for what Jerome claims was his crime ( stealing a cookie from his food truck ) But, apart from an extreme corporal punishment that could potentially have lasting effects ( i.e. Jerome could be permanently scarred ) it’s... also rather creative. Like, Zachary didn’t just go for ‘the belt’ or a wooden paddle or something. You can see there is a measure of unbridled cruelty in the act.    It wasn’t just a punishment. He got out of his way to get creative with it and inflict as much pain as possible.

   Conclusion one: Uncle Zachary used to be sadistic.

 Putting that into perspective, clownman also mentions that him and Jeremiah used to dare each other into stealing a cookie. Okay, we know that Jerome is an unreliable narrator, but he does seem to reminisce when he mentions that and Zachary doesn’t give much of a reaction that would suggest otherwise. So, a dare is a call to demonstrate wit & bravery. A dare needs an obstacle, something that is big/scary or at least intimidating.

   Conclusion two: Uncle Zachary used to be an intimidating grown-up figure for the twins.

   When the cops first walk into the diner in that episode, Uncle Zach is on the booth with Jerome lurking under the table. Jerome has a gun. But there’s two officers. Furthermore, Jerome won’t be able to see whether he makes an expression. He could have signaled or gestured to the officers that Jerome was there and, because there were two of them, and armed, chances are they could have helped him. Yes, it was a risky move, but definitely not as risky as letting Jerome hang around. And yet... he didn’t.    At first one might think this was sourced in sentimentality; they are related, after all and Zachary did use to live with him growing up ( it was mentioned that he had a chuckwagon in the circus ) But, it soon becomes apparent that Zachary had his very own plans for what to do to Jerome; plans that he was not shy to reveal to the cops too!

 “ That monster killed my sister! If I see him again, his screams are what you’ll be hearing! ”

 The irony is brilliant! Jerome is right there! Zachary already has a plan ( the three soups set out, Lunkhead being in the diner etc etc ) and he is so smug about it that he straight up tells the cops, knowing he would get away with it! ... Does... does this behavior remind you of anyone else?

  Conclusion three: Uncle Zachary used to have inflated ego and be vengeful and insidious.

   Going off the information we are given on his very limited screentime, so far he doesn’t come across as the ideal Uncle to have. But hey, surely he must have at least been good to his sister, right? He even expresses some concern over her and mentions that he had advised her to dump Jerome in the river. But Lila went against his advice and kept him...Uncle Zachary was also the one in charge of placing Miah in St. Ignatius. He probably used his connections to do so, given that a scholarship and an adoptive family aren’t exactly easy to acquire. So, we are given to understand that his involvement with Lila’s kids was significant. He also seems bitter that she didn’t abide by his advice and get rid of Jerome, without showing any empathy towards the fact she was a mother and probably fostered some parental affection for her sons.

 Conclusion four: Uncle Zachary was deeply involved in Lila’s life and perhaps even controlling towards his sister.

    He also didn’t do anything to help her financially, or help her out of her predicament. He was perfectly okay with Lila’s ‘profession’, even though it could be argued that she wasn’t living a comfortable life. Uncle Zachary wanted to have a word on what she does with her kids, but apparently he didn’t care to help her raise them and abused them on top of that.

 Conclusion five: Uncle Zachary was never really willing to go out of his way in order to actually help his sister. He was selfish.

   Uncle Zachary is one of the most important parental figures in Jerome’s life. He is essentially, his father figure. In many of the traits I have highlighted, you will see that Jerome took after him. Not only do they smile and laugh in a similar fashion, but their mannerisms align at some points as well!

  Consider this an introductory post for more headcanons, because it got way too long as per usual and I don’t wanna mix up things that are canon with things that are headcanons of my own.

[loregoddess]

hmmm. bc i watched star trek do spock. also do whoever ur icon is bc i wanna know whomst the fuck ur icon is

I love that my choices for icon characters baffle you. Anyhow...

Spock:

First impression: I grew up being compared to Spock. When I finally saw some episodes I was like, okay, yeah, I get it now.

Impression now: He's one of my favorite characters from the series and I love him a lot, despite being compared to him growing up.

Favorite moment: Hmm, there's a lot of good ones, but in one of the movies the cast has to go back in time to when whales were still on earth, and obviously you can't have a dude with pointy ears walking around like, 80s era San Francisco or whenever it was, so he pretends to be a hippie but in a "I have a vague idea of what this is and none of my friends have a better idea" way, and it's comedy gold.

Idea for a story: I don't...I don't actually have Star Trek fic ideas in my head...

Unpopular opinion: This goes for most of the Vulcan characters, but I don't feel like the writers handled the "repressed emotion" thing well most of the time. Like, it's probably because I grew up being compared to a not-quite-human character who's lack of outward emotion was tied to what made them "not human" and I don't know how to express why that doesn't work for me but it doesn't.

Favorite relationship: I mean, we all love the dynamics between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.

Favorite headcanon: *vaguely gestures at Voyager* whatever the writers had going on with the Vulcans and emotion here is what I want the entire canon of Vulcans, Spock included, to feel like. So like, Spock is allowed to have emotions, even if they aren't acted upon or expressed, because that's far more realistic than "no emotion, logic only".

Quiet Robe, from Metorid Dread, my beloved: (spoilers for Metorid Dread)

First impression: A CHOZO A LIVING CHOZO HOLY SHIT A CHOZO

Impression now: One of my favorite character types is "*gets violently shoved in a locker by the writers*" so it's not surprising that Quiet Robe showed up, gave a 5 minute exposition dump, got killed, and immediately became my favorite character (aside from Samus) from the game. Like, that's it that's the sum of their character in the game (unless you count becoming a parasitized space zombie as characterization, in which case, that was certainly a thing that happened as well). Anyhow, I love Quiet Robe and the maybe 7 minutes of screentime they get.

Favorite moment: Uhhh...so, that entire exposition dump I was talking about is all spoken in Chozo, which the dev team went the extra mile to make an actual fictional language, which was neat.

Idea for a story: Dude, I dunno, I was given crumbs, there's so little concrete info on the Chozo that I wouldn't even feel confident trying to write like a basic "this is Quiet Robe's life" type story.

Unpopular opinion: Quiet Robe's not popular enough to get lots of fanart or anything, which like, makes sense, but I love Quiet Robe and I want there to be more art so guess what I'm doing when I'm done with the crimas art projects.

Favorite relationship: He seemed to have a good, professional relationship with Samus for the like, five minutes the two talked.

Favorite headcanon: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Listen, I just want more Chozo lore. Maybe Quiet Robe knew Old Bird and Gray Voice, maybe that's how Quiet Robe knew about Samus (aside from the fact that she was the only human raised by Chozo), and felt she could be trusted to stop Raven Beak.

[chell-min]

What are your favorite Danganronpa and Genshin Impact characters? Love your work~✨🌟

awww tysm!!! and for faves uuu i have so many... be prepared for a LIST. i’m probably gonna write more for genshin bc. brainrot.

danganronpa: (way too many faves, but i’ll try to pick a few)

- rantaro!! my man who only had 5 minutes of screentime... i simp very hard for him, i am in LOVE with his colour scheme, his clothes and his whole mystery survivor vibe. its so edgy. kodaka you wanted to give him more screentime so pls give more dr season 52 😩

- peko is my favourite girl. sword goth gf... yes please?? she’s so cool... so pretty... and the fact that she love fluffy animals and tries to soften her face when with others hhh Gently Holds 💖 💖

- kirumi... i’m sensing a theme here. i think i’m into calm goth girls. but yeah kirumi is just so elegant and her spiderweb design is so graceful... she’s just overall an incredibly comforting character to me i would wanna spend time w her

- ishimaru!! my fave when i first got into danganronpa. he’s adorable and was really trying very hard to lead and get along w the others. plus the whole keeping nothing but school uniforms in his closet and ironing them daily... he is a jock nerd dork

(other faves: celestia, leon, sayaka, hajime, tenko, maybe nagito?)

genshin impact:

- kaeya. everyone can see this coming from a mile away. the colour scheme. the stupidly impractical fur cape. the knee high boots. the 6th grader edgy wrist glove spikes. the eye patch. this man is so overdesigned and dramatic its sexy. also king bc i love his swordwork and the cryo element. and he’s probably gonna die

- xingqiu, bastard number 2. just... everything abt his personality and backstory. yea he’s super polite heroic chivalrous but also a little shitgoblin who likes to prank his friends. he’s a prodigy rich kid who’s just good at everything he tries. he’s like... what. 15? and he wrote a bestselling book in inazuma and revived a whole martial arts clan just for kicks. immaculate.

- razor BABY. this boy was the first non-starter character to come home to me on my first day and has been carrying the team ever since. all the good weapons artifacts level up materials just go straight to him. he probably smells bad but i would like to brush his hair. and his relationship with klee?? his sweet voicelines??? THE HASHBROWNS???? DUDE. he is the softest most valid boy on earth.

- zhongli. first 5 star i actively tried to roll for and i’m ashamed to say i considered whaling 4 him. he is a refined himbo... wearing a fancy suit and being so cultured but at the same time a broke dumbass. and oh the ANGST in this man... his lore is my favourite out of all the characters i really like having my heart ripped out of my chest. also eyeliner.

- keqing a whole QUEEN. i’ll be honest i didn’t like her at first bc of her design and the super repetitive purple colour scheme but her personality and backstory is amazing. the fact that she’s born into a noble family but worked blue collar jobs to better understand how to improve worker’s rights?? how she can go venturing into the forest for days with only her sword and a single hairpin bc she’s just that badass??? i want to draw her in a suit

- maybe weird but i also really like lumine. i play on jp voiceover, but i am smitten with her english voice! her va did a phenomenal job imo - and i also love her cute expressions! i just think her design is really ethereal and angelic and pretty... also FEMALE PROTAG POWER she is a princess and she deserves the world. and i am LIVING for how the fandom just collectively decided that aether is the nice twin and she’s the feral one

(other faves: hu tao, albedo, scaramouche, venti, amber)

yeah i am thinking abt them too much thank u 4 letting me vent abt them anon i can’t shut up

[opalgelance]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT BATTLE OF HEART AND MIND WAS A LITERAL MIND FUCK

- WHITE DECOLORING GEMS

- THE DIAMOND FAMILY WAS REALLY FUCKED UP

- WHITE FUCKING BROKE STEVEN AND PINK LOST HER FUCKING MIND

- ROSE CAN NEVER COME BACK

- EVERY CRYSTAL GEM HAS A NEW OUTFIT I HAVE NO FAVORITE BECAUSE I LOVED THEM ALL

- EVERY CG + STEVEN FUSION WAS STUFFED IN HERE AS WELL AS MY TIED FOR FAVORITE WITH OPAL FUSION, OBSIDIAN

- FUCKING LAVA FUSION I LOVE HER SO MUCH THE CRACKS IN HER HAIR AND HER MAGMA SPIT THAT BECAME A FUCKING SWORD KILLED ME

- RAINBOW FEELS VERY FAMILIAR WHO VOICES THEM???

- SUNSHINE IS LEGIT A LOVE YOURSELF COMMERCIAL FROM THE 90S IN A CORPOREAL FORM

- FUCKING PINK STEVEN STILL SCARES THE EVER LOVING SHIT OUT OF ME HOLY FUCK

- WHITE HAS A WHOLE CHARACTER ARC IN 5 MINUTES

- SO DO BLUE AND YELLOW

- JASPER NEVER FUCKING TALKS BUT

- WE SEE A WHOLE FUCK TON OF GEM DESIGNS INCLUDING JASPER, BIGGS, CENTIPEEDLE, THE BEETLES, THE PUFFERFISH, AND A LOT MORE

- IM STILL NOT OVER THE PINK STEVEN THING IT WILL LEGITAMaTELY HAUNT ME FOREVER

- EDIT: I forgot to add how mindblowing the animation is in the Pink Steven scene?!?! I was just so stunned by the scene itself that I didn’t mention that the lines are SO clean and crisp, and the animation literally looks 3D, and that seems to be because the legendary James Baxter did it, and from what I saw from his work on the Adventure Time episode, he’s an absolute master in the art of animation, and I feel like I���ve been blessed seeing that animation with my own damn eyes

Ok, now that I’ve calmed down a bit, I have to say it felt really REALLY rushed but I still enjoyed it a lot! I do have a few gripes with it though:

- I wish we could have seen Sunstone, Rainbow 2.0, and Obsidian before this, or at the very least seen Sun and Rainbow before, with Obsidian being this big stressful event because as we’ve seen 4+ Gem fusions like Alexandrite can be very hard to keep stable, and they had one chance to fuse and keep it together

- Steven said one sentence to Pink Pearl, and White didn’t recognize CG Pearl, which is really weird. Pink didn’t even react to Steven, or realize that he had Pink’s Gem. We don’t learn what happened to Pink Pearl either. Steven seems to already have connected that White’s Pearl was once Pink’s, and when talking to White, it seems like he is understanding what his Pink dreams really meant, which is weird bc it seemed like he didn’t understand that they were memories before.

- I felt like with the exception of the Pink Steven scene, the Diamond fight at the very beginning and the confrontation between all 4 Diamonds, it didn’t really feel like the characters were reacting as much as they should have? Like, it takes a second for Pearl to figure out that she and Steven fused, and her reaction is kind of cut off, but Garnet doesn’t really react to fusing with Steven? I also feel like Obsidian should have been a bigger deal to everyone, but it felt like Garnet was like “ok, lets form obsidian then” like they’ve done it a thousand times?? Yeah, they’ve fused with Rose before, but Steven? And Alexandrite has always been a big deal, since she’s so unstable, while on multiple occasions in season 1 the Gems were pretty clear that fusion was for emergencies only. Obsidian is literally a White Diamond only level emergency, but while it was a big deal for the audience, the CGs (including Connie, Bismuth, Lapis, and Peridot)  weren’t as shocked by this as I would have thought? Peridot says “they’re huge!” or smth like that, but not much else. For me it was really frustrating when Blue and Yellow, and ESPECIALLY Amethyst, Garnet, and Pearl, were drained of their color, it felt like it SHOULD have been a Keeping It Together level of horror, but it wasn’t on the characters’ faces, which was disappointing. It took me out of the action on my first viewing because it looked like the CGs weren’t that bothered by it. WHITE IS LITERALLY MIND CONTROLLING THE DIAMONDS AND YOUR FAMILY STEVEN WHAT THE FUCK I have to say that the Pink Steven scene was legitimately disturbing, and I applaud the storyboarders for that, I just wish it could’ve continued throughout all of the horrifying scenes.

- Steven didn’t tell anyone about his Gem being ripped out, possibly because there wasn’t any time left in the episode, and that was really weird to me. Like, you got HALF OF YOUR SOUL RIPPED OUT STEVEN. Like, White and Connie HAD to have said something, right? Was it just not shown?

- That brings me to how ridiculously rushed the ending was, because here’s what happens in the last 5 or so minutes (seriously, I’m looking at the time the ending starts)

      - Steven gets home while Sadie’s having a concert on the beach

     - WITH THE FUCKING DIAMONDS

    - Lars also gets home with the Off Colors

    - Sadie and Lars say hi for an awkward amount of screentime

    - THE DIAMONDS HEAL THE CORRUPTED GEMS INCLUDING JASPER, CENTIPEEDLE AND A LOT OF THE GEMS WE’VE SEEN OVER THE SERIES AND THERES NO DIALOGUE BC STEVEN IS SINGING A SONG OVER THIS WHOLE PART

     - The Diamonds leave, seriously, after less than a minute of screentime on Earth

    - The CGs are on the beach, with NO recently cured corrupted Gems to be seen, and it’s kind of like the theme song, with Greg grilling hot dogs, and the CGs sit on the beach with Steven (just Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl now) and Steven sings a song. The End.

It just felt really rushed? So were the Diamonds’ “redemptions”, but this was insane. Every plot line in the whole series is supposed to be solved in 5 minutes? I mean, there’s a lot left unanswered, but it felt like they were trying to tie everything up with a nice bow, and it was rushed. Also, you know how everyone said that the Gem designs at the ball were lazy and that we only saw a few new Gem types because the crew didn’t have time to design new Gems? (I personally really liked the cog Gems bc I love gear designs but I know a lot of people didn’t like them and that’s valid) BULLSHIT LOOK AT ALL OF THE UNCORRUPTED GEM DESIGNS THEY LOOK AWESOME. But why could they not have done that before? They designed at least 10 new Gems for a minute or two long scene. Yeah, they were based on the already done corrupted Gem designs, but that’s fine! We could have easily seen Ocean and Biggs Jaspers at the ball, or even at the Zoo, in a flashback (like We’re Only Falling Apart, the war scene in Single Pale Rose, Your Mother and Mine), the ending of Legs From Here to Homeworld, but we didn’t, and I can’t understand why. Now it’s strange that we didn’t see any uncorrupted counterparts on Homeworld. What, is every single corrupted Gem part of a super rare Gem type? Yes, we’ve SEEN Jaspers before, and we HEARD about Nephrites, but even at the start of this episode we had some cool silhouettes of Gems, just like in The Answer, and they were never fleshed out into actual Gems. It’s just kind of strange that they had all of these templates but never used them. Plenty of fans have used the silhouettes and corrupted Gem designs to make Gemsonas, but the crew couldn’t? Just paste the color palette of Biggs or Ocean onto a Jasper base and you’re good! That’s essentially what happened this episode but I STILL LOVE THEM SO MUCH I will protect Ocean, the Beetle, the Centipeedles and the waterbear Gem with my life, BUT they could have appeared MUCH sooner as background Homeworld Gems

- EDIT: Since I’m always criticizing the animation and character models, I feel like I have to note how impressed I am with a majority of the animation in this episode. I felt like during the Blue vs. Yellow scene in particular though, Yellow’s expressions felt... odd. LET ME EXPLAIN FIRST PLEASE. See, for me, while I don’t like exaggerated facial expressions most of the time, I can get past them as long as it’s for comedy relief or to express raw emotion. The problem for me was that Yellow’s expressions were drawn as if she was supposed to be in a comedic scene instead of a heartwrenching, emotional outbreak uncharacteristic of Yellow, where you are supposed to feel with her, to feel her pain. But for me, it felt like she was pulling faces like she was trying to make a crying baby laugh, and I felt like Patti Lupone’s expressive, heart-wrenching voice acting didn’t match up with what I was seeing on the screen. 

  - As I said above, James Baxter’s Pink Steven animation slayed me, I’m still dying haaa

   - OBSIDIAN WAS THE BOMB/COM THO her hair is so amazingly detailed, it had to be hard to animate that.

  - Most of the lines were crisp. One of my main criticisms is how starting in season 3, while the animation and art quality went down, both were hindered further by the blurry lines, which I KNOW is because they resized the art. When I’m resizing an arm, or the head when it’s out of proportion, the resized lines become blurry whether you’re shrinking or expanding a section of a piece. But in this episode the lines were pretty crisp for probably 80% percent of the episode? And I’m counting all 44 minutes, and considering how bad it usually is, I’m very pleased.

tl;dr I LOVE THESE EPISODES TO HOMEWORLD AND BACK but there are a few issues I just can’t see past and some of these issues just threw me out of a great episode to ask myself why??? But also I’ve rekindled my love for Steven Universe and FOR ONCE I can see past some of the bad character models and animation because this episode was just so good!!! 

[ayankun]

Pseudo-liveblogged reactions to Amazon's Cinderella

I'm not super savvy on modern music, so it took me into the second song to realize that this is a pop opera rather than an original musical.

There are pros and cons to pasting pre-existing songs into your narrative and we will unfortunately not be able to get into the pros today.

My newly acquired "5 min rule" would like to have the protagonist's internal conflict presented to the audience within the first five minutes of runtime. Couple that with Howard Ashman's "I Want" song and you'd kind of expect your protagonist to sing a lil something about what their story is up front. The only character so far to express anything of the sort is Idina Menzel's character.

If this wasn't a well-known fairy tale, I'd have to assume, after the first five minutes, that the evil stepmother is the main protagonist.

They didn't source a song that gives Cinderella a clear objective! They gave her one that describes her ... outlook on life. But we don't know the context for that outlook (I mean, we do, but this movie chose not to tell us, we already happened to know)

We meet her in her basement workshop, which she leaves immediately and starts doing kitchen things, so it's like, we Do Not Know her relationship to the workshop vice her relationship to the kitchen; no effort was made to show one as a joy and one as a burden. Maybe she loves both. Maybe she hates both, and that's why she's singing about having a good attitude (still no answer why love saving the day is relevant in the slightest)

Okay this new character showed up and she asked about his cane and I literally had not seen the cane on screen. It's a visual medium, you gotta show us the important stuff oh my god.

Ok, 8 min in, best I can tell, the conflict is that Cinderella needs to find financial stability because stepmom wants her gone and also her only viable options are getting married off. So stepmom's goal is to marry her off -- I'm wildly confused bc of the conflict I KNOW this story is about; why wouldn't she be invited to the ball if stepmom could get rid of her that way?? I have to guess that she wants the princey income going to one of her own daughters, in which case, her conflict is NOT that she wants to marry Cinderella off!!!!!

Geez, okay, I Do Not Know if these are original songs or not. Cinderella just sang about being famous, and the visuals implied that she wants to do sewing good.

OKAY????? The prince is just an obnoxious frat boy. Guessing that Cinderella either "I can fix him"s or else just absolutely just becomes a fashion designer and doesn't end up with the prince because Feminism.

Okay so Cinderella is super expected to go to the thing, no issues. The ISSUE IS OMG LOLOLOL THAT THE STEPMOM DOESN'T WANT CINDERELLA PARTICIPATING IN THE BLASPHEMY OF FEMALE BUSINESS OWNERSHIP?!?!?!?! (She needs to go to the thing, but she can't wear her self-designed dress for the hype ok sure)

Ok the Queen is my jam

He said "you can't control me" but I heard "you can't troll me"

Oh-hohoho so there's a suddenly Prince's Sister who is competent and will ultimately win the throne bc her brother's useless. So now I'm guessing that the prince is a super red herring who's just wasting screentime.

He's now singing Queen, which is slightly hilarious

(He wants to marry for love, I think. He doesn't want a political marriage. He still doesn't seem suitable for Cinderella, bit she did sing about love earlier so. Maybe they go into business together.)

It's trying to be campy but I'm not feeling it. The camp isn't baked-in.

Also this wasn't the ball. It's still to come. Prince is now leaning into the ball idea as a means of getting to meet specifically Cinderella. Bro she got other priorities.

Ok now prince is pulling a princess jasmine to walk amongst the commoners -- sorry hold on, they hecked up the eyelines SO BAD in this scene. Camera needs to stay on the same side of the two characters OMG textbook basics

So one of the stepsisters has now also expressed an interest in marrying for love. Oh PLEASE can she end up with the prince??? The narrator called her "cray," though, and the prince just had a poorly-blocked conversation about how he isn't into someone with too many bats in the belfry.

OOF the blocking is so bad. First time director?

Sidenote: there IS original music, and it's pretty good. They shoulda gone all out and avoided the misstep of weirdly forced musical numbers.

Ok, act 2 is about getting ready for the ball. How are they gonna pad this? Midpoint is she has her dreams dashed and has to do fairy godmother plan B? Or is that low point and the ball is in Act 3?

Montage of all kind of characters singing about where they are going into Act 2 but it's incomprehensible bc they're just using some pop song that doesn't say anything!!!!!!!!!

Oh. Hm. Mr. McCane is the conflict. That's tidy enough. Cinderella can't go to ball bc she's suddenly been match-maked. (And her fancy dress was ruined for good measure). So this is the midpoint lololol and getting ready for the ball was just the one montage rather than an entire act.

Lol so the fairy godmother is just a caterpillar/butterfly that she saved and there's ZERO reason why he's also magic.

We're on our third musical number in like 10 minutes, they're really pumping em in

I just shouted NO about the bad blocking. 180-degree rule!!!! It's non-negotiable!!!!!!!!!!

Have to say it, there is probably DEFINITELY an audience for this tho

So the second half of act 2 is the ball. Low point will be the midnight time limit on the magic?

Oh shoot I forgot about leaving the glass shoe behind and that whole search shenanigans. That's probably act 3 eh

Ohhhhh geez okay okay now she's met a queen and has to go meet her tomorrow so she can live her fashion designing dreams. But now she has to choose between prince and dreams? She takes prince with her on queen journey, leaving prince sister behind to rule? That'd be fine

Oh I forgot about Mr. McCane conflict. I don't know what she wants so I don't know what existing conflicts matter. She can't get locked in a closet and not be able to try on glass shoe, because she only has until 4PM tomorrow to go on queen journey; Mr. McCane thinks he's going to marry her; the magic ends at midnight but the prince already knows what she looks like and who she really is; the stepmom might find out that she's gone to the ball after all, but she's the prince's favorite so what can stepmom really do??????????

It's very messy

These over the shoulder shots are so awkward, the subject is always smack-dab in the middle of the frame, slightly obscured by the other party and the other half of the frame just totally empty I hate it a lot

Gonna guess this is 1.19:1 aspect ratio, which is ultra wide. Whyyy waste all that lateral real estate???

You can tell this was made for theaters rather than home viewing, though; after watching Zombies 2 a couple more times, I've noticed how the made-for-tv up-close framing isn't really the right way to use that ratio; the faces are way close and we don't get a lot of body shots. Not a problem here, though.

Ok it's midnight and she's fleeing, but other than the fairy godmother saying "RUN," there isn't really a good narrative reason for why she had to flee. Yeah she's unglamored and herself again, but SO WHAT.

Pierce Brosnan and Minnie Driver are killing it tho

Ok so her choice IS still between prince marriage and queen journey. McCane proposal red herring?????

There are NO STAKES to the stepmom doing anything villainous at this point? She wouldn't and she won't? And now she gets a tragic backstory? Idk idk idk bro

GOD the blocking is SO OFFENSIVE TO MY SENSIBILITIES

ohh hmm! Stepmom wants her to do the prince marriage, out of an honest desire for Cinderella to live the best life available to her (and to support the stepfamily)

So Cinderella has chosen queen journey and stepmom is like okay I'm selling you to Mr. McCane. But is Cinderella locked in the basement? She can't just ... go on queen journey?

WHAT ABOUT SHOEVENTURE PLOT?????

LOL STEPMOM ANGRY PIANO SOLO KILL IT IDINA

Please stop framing every face in the center of the shot. Please. I'm f*cking begging you

Ok shoeventure is about to start; it's a narrative piece belonging to the KING'S REDEMPTION ARC AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CINDERELLA'S STORY LOLOL

I MEAN THO. THE SHOE IS SOOOO UNIMPORTANT???? HE LITERALLY KNOWS HER FACE, IT DOES NOT FREAKING MATTER WHO SPECIFICALLY CURRENTLY POSSESSES THE OTHER SHOE

LOL ALSO I FORGOT-- LITERALLY FORGOT-- THAT HER NAME IS ELLA NOT CINDERELLA

So they're not going to tackle the whole thing where the queen journey queen doesn't care that Ella's has a different fave today from yesterday?

Ok and the queen is leaving on her journey an hour after she was to meet with Ella, so Ella's going to go with her but first she's going to the castle and be present at a whole royal event, and probably a musical number and then make it back to the docks in time? Sure ok.

Ye here's the number. Has 0% relevance to either the current events or any thing that's happened in this movie

Oh I have no comment on the dances, I haven't been compelled enough to really pay attention to any

Nice that she gets a lil moment of connection w/ stepmom. Don't know if it was earned, but it was sweet

Love will save the day reprise :| I mean ... I guess if he weren't out looking for her, she would have missed her appointment probably ... otherwise.........

Ok, it was fine/ not for me, peace out lololololol

EDIT: I quoted the aspect ratio as 1.19:1 but since I'm not good with numbers that's totally wrong. (I think that's the almost-square ratio that The Lighthouse used.) I just checked and both Cinderella and ZOMBIES 2 are 2.39:1, so at least I was correct in identifying that they were the same.

Also, looked up Kay Cannon and was unfortunately also correct in assuming she was a new director. Thinking on it now, it feels like maybe it wasn't storyboarding and/or shooting each scene was a process of "Let's just get coverage so we have options in post." There's just a real lack of not just intent behind shot composition and reason for cutting and the specific shot cut to, but mostly coherence; scenes are stitched together like Frankenstein's monster, I felt a visceral uncanny valley discomfort while watching.

I feel bad, no one felt they could point this out to her, either in pre-production or on set?? Unless she was surrounded by equally green staff, or yes-men who didn't really care about the end product that was going to have their names attached to it.

[akiradanna]

READY! PLAYER! ONE! MASSIVE SPOILERS (FOR THE BOOK AND MOVIE BC I HAD TO)!

I barely post on Tumblr, but holy shit do I need to make a post on this one (while it’s still a hot topic lmao). Been waiting for this movie since 2016. If not for the endless references to a time I didn’t even live in, the book’s actually got a quite decent character development, world-building, and action scenes. By the way, this is the first time I’ve seen a movie of a book I know so well, which I read before watching.

Basically, the movie’s about 80s obsessed teenager Wade Watts, who literally lives in stacked caravans yet people can afford a VR headset and gloves (great priorities). The real world’s gone so bad, people escape to a massive VR game called OASIS where you can be whatever you want to be and do whatever you want to do.

Now let’s get straight to the point. Seeing as I’ve read and reread the book multiple times, I remember even the most random things that happened there. If you’ve read the book, don’t expect a copy of it. Probably about 70-80% of the movie is totally changed from the book. I’d say it’s both a good and bad thing.

The good thing is that I can enjoy some fresh content and I wouldn’t be able to guess where things are going. I liked how no one in the main 5 died (someone died in the book). And I understand why some bits were cut out - it would be boring for a movie (more later). The bad thing is...see, the problem with a movie is that it can only show so much from a book. Especially if the book is a super dense 300 plus-page novel the size of B5 paper. I’m gonna be comparing a lot with the book which some of you guys might hate and say, “you should judge the movie by purely what the movie shows!” Well you can’t 100% do that when you’ve read the book can you?

My favorite part was the second key. I thought they’d take the idea from the book, but boy was I wrong. It was a pleasant surprise. Also, the graphics were amazing. So is the playlist. The 80s were a high time for rock, my favorite music genre. Another change I like was the whole IOI scheme in the middle and final act. 

Now time to complain!

First thing, character development. I understand with so many characters and so few minutes it’s hard to pack some kind of development. I’ll take an example from the book - at the start, Wade was obese. He had zero money because he was stuck in a no-monster zone (which, like the movie, is how one gets money) and couldn’t afford to pay for coins for real money. However, Halliday, the founder of the game, was considerate enough to give EVERYONE a chance to get the egg, you just have to be clever enough (bit of a spoiler there). Like the movie, Wade was the first to get the Copper Key, and that made him mega-famous. He got rich, and with that money, moved to a better place (after the old one’s bombed), got better gear, and got himself a training program, which doesn’t allow him to play if he hasn’t done it for his morning routine. That’s character development right there! I guess the movie didn’t have enough time to stick that all in. 

The romance was a bit rushed for me (I guess I’m like the 10000th person saying this). In the book, it was pretty steady. They exchanged messages for months. This and Samatha’s reluctance to show herself led up to that awesome finale in the very last pages of the book, about not wanting to go to the OASIS. I swear, that’s the best part.

For the same reason, I thought the meetup of the characters was a bit rushed too. I quite liked the anticipation throughout the whole book about what Wade’s friends look like in person (though he didn’t get to meet Daito and Sho(to). Also what’s with the name change? I liked the whole pretending-to-be-brothers thing by having themed names (I’m pretty sure it means big and small respectively)).

What do I think of the references? Huge step up from the book IMO (it gets pretty annoying in the book especially the first chapter and somewhere in the middle), as the movie makes use of graphics it can sneakily fit like 100 characters in a scene, while some music plays in the background. Some parts did get a bit “get this?” like the book, but it’s not as annoying. 

In conclusion, nonstop action, a great interweaving of reality and the virtual world (I like how there’s conflict in both), awesome CGI and music, plot and characterization could’ve been better instead of spending screentime on the Big War. Oh yeah, I can agree that “it’s FUCKING CHUCKY!” is the best line in the entire movie.

7.5/10.

[empty-dream]

Me Watching Fate/Apocrypha ep 7

Uncle Kairi rams a girl with a car and shoots human fingers at her. Don’t do it at home okay, kids?

Surprise motherfucker! -Caules, 2017

Subtle foreshadowing that Caules is better on critical decision making than his genius sis

And subtle reference that nobody remembers Caules. WHY.

Kairi: “Fight fairly!” Caules: “No thanks fuck you!”

Haha let’s just hope Caules will never turn out to be Kiritsugu 2.0

And here u see a healthy sibling team fighting together this stuff is 5 fucking star rarity man

C’mon Type Moon is full choke of fucked up sibling relationships, even decent Kokutous got incest on it. Forvedge is just normal and that deserves longstanding applause

Wow Mordred’s got ‘pissed’ and ‘bloodthirsty’ plastered on her face.

Gotta admit, Fiore and Chiron also have great teamwork. He honestly says his condition and she understands him. Now if only all teams work like this.

I just realize Fiore is actually changing her hairstyle into ponytail for practicality in battle great job for incorporating realistic element

Mordred u are late the hit them when they gloat episode was like weeks ago

Not that Chiron ever gloat but u get what I mean

Mordred: “Bitch u bail out?!!” Chiron: “It’s called being wise”

Caules be like this is not how I imagine how I would walk away from this fight

I wonder if Higashide actually makes Kairi smoke that brand just so it could be a shoutout to Touko Aozaki and Natalia Kaminski?

Mordred’s pissed off face looks cute

Kairi guessing her thought right is yet another exhibit of how good of a dad master he is to Mordred

Mordred: “Yo don’t get caught by the police” Kairi: “No biggie we can mojo’em”

Caules: “But nee-san I don’t wanna get bridal carry from you! And get dropped harshly in the end!”

Fiore: “U know Grandpa and Yddgmillenia’s glory is at stake in this war, right?” Caules: “But I don’t give a shit about this war I was gonna just walk away from this mage stuff and, I don’t know, be an anime illustrator or something but the goddamned holy grail just butts in- [insert 30 minutes bitching rant here]”

Well kid got a point tho, he does only wish to save Fiore and protects her from dying so...

But seriously, their siblinghood is nice to read/watch. Believe me or not, she’s trying hard to be professional magus on top of being a proud big sis.

In the novel, Fran is pissed that Caules always meekly listens to Fiore’s lectures and it’s hilarious and also sweet at the same time

Jack eating is cute if we just forget that she’s EATING A GODDAMN HEART

In case you don’t think Reika’s nuts, she nonchalantly stabs a heart with a fork and feeds it to her child/servant. BRR.

Hi this is Jeanne welcome to episode 121 on Don’t Tell My Mother I’m in Sighisoara 

Ah and for just a moment, I forgot Sieg is the actual main character here my bad

Serge must be great at reading expression and body language bc I can’t guess what’s Sieg thinking based on his face??

Sieg: “What’s freedom?” Serge: “Here son listen to this” *hands Jiyuu no Tsubasa cd* 100% accurate scene

Wow wow wow who comes up with tying Jeanne with chains u get some fetish bro?

Jeanne: “He’s got evil smirk that’s so suspicious I must find him”

Whoa that’s actually more fucked up than ufotable’s Fuyuki fire

I hope they bring out Shirou’s monologue on that scene in later episode because it’s just epic and chilling

WHOW NICE GARDEN I WANT THAT and oh another OTP screentime!

It’s just hilarious that Semiramis tries to charm Shirou but he appears to be unaware and she gets pissed but simultaneously more attracted and it’s like the ouroboros snake but cute.

The name Shirou to daftness is the name Rin to tsundere.

Is it just me, or Semiramis smirking looks like Satsuki Kiryuin?

Vlad u sure u don’t wanna sleep? Those bags are horrible. It might be the last sleep you could get........

Karna’s steps are as heavy as my feeling for him

WAHAHA great they animate Rider laying around

Holy shit the throne is just, glorious

Shakespeare is literally drama trash

Semiramis: “You won’t fight?” Shakespeare: “Well u know I suck balls at fighting. I can just, u know, watch?” Shirou: “Good thing Semiramis is assassin-caster type”

Remember when I said I love Astolfo ditchin job? Scrap that I love Shakespeare ditchin job even more

I JUST LOVE HOW ACHILLES AND ATALANTA JUST LOOK AT EACH OTHER IN CONFUSION LIKE THIS IS OTP MAN

Jeanne did u-DID U JUST DO THE NARUTO RUN???

HOLY MOLY THE HANGING GARDEN OF BABYLON IS MAJESTIC AS FUCK

Love the AKA team just go straight to the balcony and marvel over the fortress together like true friends

I wish they will animate Achilles and Atalanta arguing over who opens fire first and Shakespeare offering to write love story about them

Sieg having that ‘2 AM and thinking about philosophical existential shit’ moment

Somebody still mentions Siegfried I’m so moved

IT’S RAINING TEETH

I love they get Caules and Fran being at the same height as canon has it

I also love how Fran just runs to the balcony and growls angrily

Caules be a mom to Fran once again and Fran meekly nods is my new favorite thing

I’m just, you know, glad he looks at Fran one more time before retreating.

Astolfo u actually have a point there but Vlad loves his golem horse what can we do

New favorite motto: “This is this. That is that.” -Astolfo

Vlad: “Berserker? Smash!”

Uncle commander is here! His spear and his speech are fantastic!

Sieg: “After thinking at 2 AM I decide to go into battle” Serge: “I’ll quote HIMYM and say that the decisions you make at 2 AM are wrong, but hey, do what you gotta do. Here, have a nice sword belt.” Sieg: “Sweet”

There are funny faces in this episode but hey, the soundtracks are great!

Beside the main battle theme, I like the one from Shakespeare scene and the Hanging Garden taking off scene. The piano play is also nice too.

NEXT: Black vs Red: I think I’ll need some tissues next week

[actualbird]

hey!! if u dont mind me asking, what are ur top 5 bmc fics of all time and why? (including the ones you've already recced!!) anyway i hope ur doing great ily

THIS IS SO DIFFICULT WTF but i did it anyway. pls take note that these r my personal faves and curating this list was HARD bc i love so many fics and there r so many good ones out there hhhhhh!! but i did it!! god!!!! i tried to keep my paragraphs of praise (relatively) short-ish and spoiler free.

(!!!make sure to check the tags and the ratings of these fics!!! my previous bmc rec lists can be found here, here, and here.)

without further ado here is, in no particular order, 4 fics id take a bullet for (I KNO U ASKED FOR 5 but there are only really 4 that struck me to the point that i go on and on about them embarrassingly)

no such mirrors by Kalopsia

Jeremy didn’t know of any other superhero that had to commute.

Sometimes he was alone when he got the text, and it was easy to slide open the window and sling on over to whatever disaster was striking the City That Could Never Catch a Break. Other times it was during things like his parent’s divorce hearings, in Hackensack, and he’d have to spend his bar mitzvah money on a cab ride to the bridge and change into his spandex in the bathroom of a Dunkin’ Donuts. Even at home, he’d have to spend fifteen minutes slinging webs across highways and toll booths and the George Washington Bridge before he even saw what he was up against.

At least Christine could fly.

(or, the AU nobody asked for in which Jeremy is Spiderman and the rest of the crew has superpowers, except Michael, who has No Idea About Anything except for the fact he’s Spiderman’s #1 fan)

ive recced this before and i love it and! just!! GODDD!!!!! so i think this was one of the first fics i read upon falling into bmc and ive followed it even before i started writing any fic for the fandom myself. reading it was definitely a turning point which maybe cemented my stay in this weird corner of the internet because 1) it was the first Full bmc au fic i had read and 2) it’s so good.

exciting! hilarious! an incredible balance between jeremy’s normal life and jeremy’s spiderman life!! im usually very picky with fight scenes (ive been in several spy movie fandoms) but the ones here are so good fast paced and!! the movement!!!! it feels like watching a movie. of course, when the action dies down, this fic goes fucking hard with the emotions. the last few chapters have had me clutching my chest basically the entire time because god. damn. damn. send help. not just to me but like, to various characters in this goddamn fic, jesus. anyway overall this fic, when not hurting me, is so much fun to read.

your song’s got me feeling like by DivineProjectZero

“Actually,” the DJ says, “I watched you dance for a while.”

God, he just wants to have this man for one night.

this fic was literally just posted yesterday but it’s so good it’s my top 4 already. like okay ive been in love with DPZ’s fics since two years ago in the kingsman fandom (which u should also read if ur interested bc they are 👌👌👌) and when i saw she started writing for bmc i did the mental equivalent of vaulting over a 40ft hedge to yell at the world.

GOD THIS FIC!! heads up, this is porn. and it’s damn good at that. the gang are now functional adults and poor jeremy just meets the most gorgeous dj ever. like. okay all the characters here each get a little bit of their own screentime and it’s SO GOOD! the buildup? FANTASTIC. the chemistry? A++++++. the bit after? added 10 years to my lifespan and also made me believe in love. jeremy’s pov here is sooooooo good because it’s the self esteem mess we all know and love but translated into an older (though not exactly surer) version which is just a joy to read. well written and well paced and fantastically characterized and also the smut is incredible. i need to lie down for a bit.

Like Mother, Like Son by hurricanesunny

“Jeremy gets a text from his mom after a year of her being gone without contacting him.”

i have also recced this fic before and the first time i bingeread it i cried twice over the course of six chapters. i mightve cried more had i not paced myself. who knows!!! all i know is that this fic maybe probably totally owns my ass.

this fic is hands down my favorite post-canon fic for like. so many reasons. all the characters in this piece are glorious messes. like, no joke, they mess up and make mistakes and there are consequences everywhere, be it from the events occurring in the fic or events that had happened prior. theres so much . and. then. this fic confronts each and every one of those consequences. the structure of this piece reads like a one by one revenge arc, but instead of revenge, it’s jeremy making amends. AND IT’S THE BEST THING EVER. each chapter is a special kind of catharsis boosted forward by incredible characterization and a pov internal monolog to die for. the writing is phenomenal. the development is like. beyond words and i wanna scream. or maybe cry for the third time. anyway just. it’s good okay. im beginning to lose my coherency.

you give me miles and miles of mountains (and i’ll ask for the sea) by left_uncovered

It scares Jeremy sometimes, the things Michael does for him.

(Michael is in love with Jeremy. Jeremy just wishes loving and being in love were the same thing.)

havent recced this before but here i am now and. you have to read this. well, okay, you have to read this if youre fine with your heart being ripped out gently by an incredible fic that is a mosaic of pining and pain and how unfair things are sometimes. if ur alright with that, PLEASE READ THIS. IT’S SO GOOD.

left_uncovered, resident pain lord, is startlingly bad at actually getting Michael and Jeremy together in her fics but she’s so ridiculously good at constructing a story that is so real it cuts you to the bone and makes you hurt. it’s not the Over The Top kind of hurt, but the hurt that’s even worse because against all odds and optimism and hopes, you understand why it’s happening. sometimes things dont match up, and it’s a little bit of a tragedy for everybody involved. that’s life. this fic is just so gentle and so good at telling you that with short scenes and a stunning writing style that, at times, can only be described as brutal. in one word: ouch. in many words: ouch but holy god, this was fantastic.

so yeah!! there it is!! i highly recommend all these fics and the other fics these authors have written too. make sure to leave kudos on fics u like!! make sure to comment nice things!! show love!!

[kim-jongin-s]

프로듀스 101 Questions

found this in the tumblr tags and copied it from this post.

Who was your first favourite trainee(s)?

i chose them from their one-minute profiles: yoo jinwon, kwon hyunbin, yoo hoeseung, ha minho (can you imagine how heartbroken i was when i found out........ bc he was my #1 until then), yoon jaechan, joo haknyeon, kim seongri, lee gunmin, im youngmin, lai guanlin.

Who is your favourite trainee(s)?

my favorites ended up being: kim seongri, im youngmin, kang daniel, lai guanlin, yoon jaechan, all the boys from rbw and all the boys from brand new music + probably the rest of top20...

What are your top 3 performances?

if it’s from all the performances, i’d say get ugly, open up and never. if it’s from just performances of original songs, then open up, never and showtime.

Who is your favourite bromance / friendship?

ongniel!!! also nu’est with their kids. and seonho with everyone? and daehwi with everyone? and jaehwan with sewoon? i cannot choose lmao. they’re all so precious. T.T

Who deserved more screentime?

insoo!!! kim seongri!!!!!!!!!! im youngmin!!!!!!!!!! lee gunmin!!!!!!!!!!!! rbw !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 + all of the other super talented people whose faces we didn’t get to see for much longer than a few minutes (if lucky) in those 2 hour episodes. :(

Who would you want as your best friend?

jisung!!!

Who do you think is an underrated trainee?

kim seongri. i can’t believe how tiny of an amount of recognition he got, despite having one of the best vocals in the whole show. :(

Favourite vocal position evaluation performance?

if it is you-- or amazing kiss. 

Favourite dance position evaluation performance?

get ugly. i still rewatch it and cri evrytiem™.

Favourite rap position evaluation performance?

i’m not the person you used to know. i still wish there was a video of the full performance.. that performance left me with the deepest impression and even if minho did what is said he had done, he’s an amazing rapper. :(

What was your favourite concept evaluation song?

i’m torn between open up and never, but i have to say open up in the end.

Who is your favourite singer?

seongri. from wanna one, jaehwan. 

Who is your favourite rapper?

park woojin. but there were so many great rappers, a lot of whom where my biases, but i have to choose only one...

Who is your favourite dancer?

this is the hardest question. T.T i literally can’t choose,  i loved the guys from get ugly team but there were also people like jonghyun? OH AND DONGHAN, OMG--

Top pick(s) for meme?

jisung. also ong.

Who has the best visuals?

i’ll just choose from wanna one: kang daniel, ong seongwoo, lai guanlin, hwang minhyun and bae jinyoung. if i had to choose from p101, i could spend the whole day typing names.

Which segment did you like the best - ghost prank, arm wrestle, punch king, sports day?

sports day because i was cry-laughing while watching it.

Favourite introduction video.

it might actually be insoo’s because i love how he kept on laughing. :’D but i don’t remember much anymore.

Meringue time or hidden box? Top picks?

hidden box. i don’t even remember which ones were my favorite, but the ones that were screaming the most were the most hilarious. XD like the one with kim taemin? i don’t remember who he was up against though.

Most heart-touching moment.

when they watched the videos from the parents, and then daehwi’s mom and guanlin’s dad and sister came and everyone was just crying uncontrollably.

Most heart-breaking moment.

when the boys got eliminated and cried.. or when they realized they are about to get eliminated, like when they shaked their heads and said things like “no, i know i’m out already”. :(

Choose your squad members.

jisung, daniel, ong, woojin? idk i love the extra ones.

Who is your Wanna One bias?

.... daniel.

Who is your Wanna One bias wrecker?

too many. jisung’s the most dangerous one.

Who do you think would be a good leader for Wanna One?

jisung! he’s the oldest and he really took care of his teammates when he was leading the team of downpour. 

What concepts do you want to see Wanna One do?

i really hope it won’t be anything cute. XD jisung’s 26 c’mon save him from that.  i usually really love mature / sexy concepts, but idk how much of that we can expect when 5/11 of them are underage. something strong or funky would also be nice!

If you could add one member into Wanna One, who would it be?

kim jonghyun. no more words needed.

Super hot or Hands on me?

the performance of super hot but the actual song of hands on me.

Kang Daniel - pink hair or brown hair?

brown hair.

Park Jihoon - wink or jeojjang aegyo?

jeojjang aegyo! :D

Lee Daehwi - on stage or off stage character?

off stage! i love how much of a diva he is. :’D

Kim Jaehwan - laugh or vocals?

his laugh is amazing but i have to say vocals. i immediately noticed him because of that. i’m so glad such a talent won’t dissapear from our eyes.

Ong Seongwoo - baegopa or slate ?

슬레이트 치겠습니다! 1, 2, 3, 👏!

Lai Guanlin - swaggy rapper or maknae?

maknae.

Yoon Jisung - meme or hyung?

meme? but idk, i just love every single thing about him.

Hwang Minhyun - seonho or jaehwan?

seonho.

Bae Jinyoung - shy or confident?

confident. i loved watching him  gain self confidence. :’) 

Ha Sungwoon - vocals or dance?

vocals.

Unpopular opinion.

this season, despite all the scandals and other similar problems, was better quality than the first one, for example, all of the concept evaluation songs were super good. while the ones in season 1 weren’t that impressive. also, i think all of the boys’ overall relationship with each other was closer than the one of the girls in season 1.. i remember the girls had some tension (?) between them for a long time in the show, even in the later episodes, but for guys it disappeared very quickly. also this season was funnier bc of all the memes.