#//back when it was a simplier time...

[elpuppies]

coming back to watching football/following footballers after months of not paying much attention to it was wild to me because suddenly thomas partey is a rapist, paul pogba was held on a gunpoint, his family was threatened and apparently his brother was involved in it and then there is eric olhats news that is hard for me to even speak about because its so fucked up.

[fima11]

YOUR ART IS SO CUTE AUGH…….. love the way u draw scarabia it makes my heart go 💗💗💗💗💗💗

I am curious if you have any Scarabia HCs… mayhaps Jamikali HCs?

Thank you!!! <333333

tbh I don't have many headcanons for Scarabia, but imo that's the chillest dorm, even with all the parties. Like, have you seen their dormitory? I wouldn't act up if I lived in a comfy place like that too.

But jamikali. Uhhhh

this is my own sort of turkish palace tv drama. More under the cut. It's gonna be long.

I like to imagine their relationship developing after a nice piece of timeskip (despite most certainly having feelings for each other in college), when they finally learn how it is to live apart from each other, growing out of their destructive behaviors at least for a bit.

My main headcanon and maybe the most delusional one that Kalim would mature up with time, getting more independent when Jamil leaves, though without losing his canonic positivity - in fact just growing up.

While Jamil learns how is it to be simplier and less demanding towards other and himself, traveling alone, not setting down anywhrre for too long. Though the main thing is that they cannot in fact forget each other, and break the attachment despite getting used to each other's absence, and their feelings finally getting some particular shape - and it's impossible to fully let go, no matter how hard they (mostly Jamil) try ;)

I rarely think of a particular reasons that could bring Jamil back to Asim household, though I have one little au concerning this matter which includes long distance between them with no communication, and even some kids, so I may share it one day. so I just keep it on the level of flat concept - Jamil returns after traveling, to either serve again or for Viper family matters.

I love to imagine Jamil's confusion and shyness at the sight of even more confident Kalim after a period of being apart from each other, and Kalim being happy to finally make Jamil look at him differently, which he consciously or subconsciously has been keeping as a goal all the time.

For some reasons I feel like Kalim would take lead in their relationship because he seems bolder to me when it comes to making decisions - Kalim just knows what he wants :/

So it's a hard for Jamil to process all the non-casual compliments, gifts and obvious advances (but not rejecting them, still afraid of his own feelings), just like in this post. Under these circumstances I believe Kalim is the one who attached the most, just because I love crazy devotion and loyalty :P (and Jamil is too used to lie to himself to admit his attachment aloud.)

It's a strange concept, but mostly it's just a huge headcanon I always keep in my head when I draw them - an emotional bond that just won't break, no matter if there's distance, time or silence between them.

It's hard for me to imagine them trying each other out during college years - too many predicaments and prejudices, they are too used to each other, and for their relationahip to work out they both need time to emotionaly mature up and... just have a rest from each other.

Anyway loving them endlessly.

it would be easier to just list the goddamn headcanons but I always talk too much I am so sorry

[maria-ruta]

fav things about Stabby ship?

OH I'll start with Avery's qoute - "The two of them have such a dynamic, you know? Classic dog and cat situation." because it's very on point ahaha and I love it!

I also love how much of repressed gay Tabitha is, and the "doomed yuri" shit going on... like she still has pictures of Stella in her office, like the fact that she watches ALL Stella's videos??? 😭😭😭 (it was mentioned on blacktabbygames tumblr page, not in the game itself i think)

I like how despite of being soooo different, if you look closely, you will see that they actually have things in common, like dealing with trauma by pretending everything is fine. Each does it in her own way BUT STILL similar protective reaction

Also I like how design-wise Tabitha is all round and soft looking and Stella has more edges to her face, even tho Tabitha's temper is more edgy and rough

And I like to think about them coming back together after everything, i think its an interesting dynamic of - we were together when we were younger and happier and it were simplier times, and now we both are fucked up, hurt, traumatized, but maybe we can heal and stich our relationship back together... you know🥺🥺🥺

(spoilery addition)

IT'S YOU!

Despite everything, it's still you...

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

your honor, im emotional about themmmmm

[ohnogodpls]

i love how you draw genshin characters, especially the body/facial variety! i wish genshin did more of that

i especially love alhaitham and neuvillette in your style!!!

btw, what are your favourite male and female characters? i personally love kazuha, kaveh, and nahida and the shogun (puppet bc ei is a girlfailure and i like to think of the puppet's personhood)

Thank you for the kind words :3

About characters, hmmmm...

For male characters Zhongli and Childe are fighting for the #1 spot. I started the game for Zhongli because I knew he would be the kind of character I really like: ancient calm veteran of time who just wants to live a simplier life despite knowing that he will forever be connected to events and powers beyond human comprehension. Childe I actually never expected to like as much as I do, but he really grew on me with his personality, his past that can come back very soon to shed some light on some really important teyvat lore, and his double sided persona. The way he loves and cares for his family and can genuinely make friends while staying loyal to tsaritsa is amazing to me, I think he is very well written in that way actually.

Well, and now I think it shows quite well that Neuvillette is in my very high regard :D

For female characters I really like Eula, I like her past and present contrast, her stand on refusing to follow her predetermined path. Her design, her animations, her moveset are just so elegant and beautiful... I just wish she was a little more releavant, I wish she had some inpact on the story, even though I understand that she is a side character.

And Nahida. I really liked Sumeru's story and undertones. Genshin overall has a flowing narration of humanity getting away from the godly influence: Mondstadt is the land of freedom, freedom from their archon as well, Liyue shows us how humans can now handle matters on their own when in need to deal with even celestial matters, Inazuma is a display of human will that will continue developing even when put in a situation it was put in, it did not need archon's approval to grow and develop even when forced not to. And then Sumeru showed the cruelty of humanity towards their archons. People of Sumeru refused Nahida, showed how they want to be independent to an extent of creating a manmade god. I think in that environment the kindness, the naivity and the softheartedness of Nahida really got to me. She is calculating while also being empathic, I find it really interesting.

[thebabyprince]

Can u do little! Scott and caregiver! Wallace head canons pls, I honestly wish there was more agere content in the Scott pilgrim fandom

I sure can!!! Hope you enjoy them, and I completely agree with you, that's why i decided to write for it!!!! Hope you like em :]

Caregiver! Wallace and Little! Scott

Wallace, maybe, didn't know the term 'age regresion' but knew that something was up.

Sometimes there were situations, where Scott would act much more childish than usual, and when confronted about it afterwards, he would deny it and act very defensive about it.

For example, the other night Wallace woke up with Scott curled up against his chest, his thumb stuck in his mouth. Wallace gently petted him on the back, and he let out a soft cry, hugging Wallace tighter.

"What? That didn't happen. You're making it up". "It totally did happen, bro, deny it all you want". "You were just drunk and imagining things!"

And Scott leaves the house as fast as possible, face red from embarrasment.

Then it happens again the next night, Scott against his chest, sucking on his thumb.

Wallace got an idea. He ruffled Scott's hair and Scott, predictably, let out a cry.

"Hey, Scott. Scotty. Buddy, we gotta wake up"

"I don't wanna-a!" Wallace chuckled, noticing that he sounds a bit softer and high-pitched than usual.

"I bet you don't, but we can't just stay in bed forever, can we?" Wallace shifts his position into a sitting now, Scott now being on his lap, hanging on his neck, whining softly. "There we go... Hey, pal, can I ask you a question? Can you tell me how old you are? You can show me with your fingers if you're shy".

Scott goes quiet for a moment, and then hesitantly shows Wallace 3 fingers.

"Very good. Thank you, Scott, you are being very helpful right now. I know it takes a lot of courage to admit things. You sure are a brave boy". Scott smiles so very gently. "Now, do you want to watch cartoons while i make us breakfast?"

And general headcanons:

Scott regresses either to 3 to 4 year old toddler or to a baby

They never established a parental title for Wallace, so toddler Scott just calls him by his name. However, baby Scott can't articulate words well, so he just pointed at Wallace one time and went "mama!!" Wallace accepted that.

Scott is a very talkative little, he likes to swing his legs while sitting at the table, telling Wallace everything about his day, all the cool bugs he saw and a level in the videogame he beat.

Wallace tends to take Scott play outside a lot, cause they both need that fresh air!!

Scott's the type of little to chew and suck on EVERYTHING. His thumb, his shirt, blankets, his toys, even crayons and markers. The first little gear Wallace ever bought him was a pacifier and two teethers, cause Scott just put anything in his mouth without thinking twice.

He also bought him a toy truck and an Eevie plush, which were also a hit.

Wallace lo-o-oves nicknames, sticking them in almost every sentence, but he tends to keep the overly sweet ones to himself. His usual go-to's are 'buddy', 'pal', 'kiddo' and 'champ'. He occasionally uses 'sweetheart' when Scott's being extra clingy and vulnerable.

He also calls him a tiny menace, as a cool title😎

Scott still really likes videogames when he's small, but he tends to stick to simplier ones, and sometimes he asks Wallace to help him beat them.

[teammateswap-au]

anywayss

dess holiday… TWO!!!

and now the explanation :

“honestly the “dess au verse” section of the “dess goes through the wringer for the shits and giggles” part of this au isn’t that important so i think i can talk about it without major spoilers….

the multiple dess (plural) aren’t really tangible and they aren’t really… real?? (kinda??) they’re usually shown on screens in gaster’s lab (the bunker). dess (main) goes through an existential crisis after finding out that there’s multiple universes…

multiple versions of her friends… family… and her sister. and some of them have better lives than the ones they both have now. And that’s when other dess (multiple) come in!

This specific dess is based on the average dess design (but like… bootlegged which is why she’s blue and not red). She’s a younger version who has a better relationship with her sister. This one is mainly meant to poke at dess’s nostalgia. For a better more simplier time…

A better time where she had her friends and family… and more importantly : noelle. Where everything was nice and peaceful…

(Man it always goes back to nostalgia i wasn’t even doing it on purpose this time… 😒)

anyways this is just the cherry on the crap sundae that dess gets handed in this au. It’s not as important as the “dess gets injected with bootlegged Determination Juice and it ruins her insides permanently” thing (aka the main thing…….) though 😋

That’s why she’s sweaty, drooling, has a glowing eye and why her markings are like that— allll because of fucked up juice!!”

[lady-dragon-rider]

Who are you, really? PT. 1

Aeron Bracken x Tyrell! Reader

When Aeron’s Fiancee gets injured during a peaceful horse ride, he takes it upon himself to nurse her to full health again.

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Reader wakes up in the ASoIaF universe following an accident in her world. (Out-of-control-truck-kun is at it again)

Contains: Aeron x Tyrell!Reader, blood/injury mention (nothing too detailed), some cannon divergence. Reader has a girlboss moment in true Tyrell fashion. Angst/some comfort.

Featuring: Some random old maester (i think thats everything??)

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“Uugghhh” your hoarse voice groans. Your head pounds as your eyes open to the scene of an unfamiliar room. Your entire body aches with dull throbbing as you slowly try to sit up, struggling to find strength within your limbs. You fight the urge to puke as the pain intensifies as your manage to upright yourself into a semi seated position vision swimming. “Where… am i?” You mumble to yourself, your brain foggy as you try desperately to stave off panic and recollect any lost memories.

The room itself is quite quaint, simple drapes and finery are arranged in an elegant but simple fashion. As you begin to feel the pain leave you, a memory resurfaces; you had been on your way home when a vehicle had swerved and hit you. The ambulance had arrived and you remember vaguely hearing them scurry around trying to keep you alive until they made it to the hospital.

Ah.

A loud clang of metal hitting the floor alerts you as you whip your head around to find a young girl, eyes wide in shock and… relief? The sudden movement causing a sharp pain in your head making you wince a little.

“Ow… um… hi? could you tell me-”

“Pardon me!” The girl shouts, promptly exiting the in such a hurry you worry she might trip and hurt herself.

“Well… that was helpful…”

You barely get time to ponder the strange behaviour or where you find yourself as the doors once again burst open startling you yet again.

“Can people PLEASE not slam my doors?! They are liable to break with such ferocity” you shout. This causes the young man, maybe a year or so older than you who had entered, to stop in his tracks momentarily. A similar expression dons his face as he takes in your form.

“Its true…” he whispers “I dared not believe the maid when she said you had woken. By the gods, my love i am so relieved!” He surges forward with renewed vigor, sitting gently beside you. Strong arms curl around your body as he begins pressing kisses on your temples and inhaling the scent of your hair. You feel comforted by his presence, but for the life of you cant recall where you had seen his face. Your push him delicately to create some space to examine his face. “My dear? What are you-?”

“Whats your name again?”

The question lingers in the air as the ladies in simplier clothing (you assume the ‘maids’ the young man had mentioned earlier) look at each other with concerned frowns. Unsure of what to do. His face drops, eyes wide as his breath seems to falter.

“Get the maester, and alert my father immediately”

--- 3rd person (Aeron's POV) --

Aeron paced outside his betrothed rooms, worriedly biting his lip and chewing his nails.

She didnt remember me.

“Itll be fine. The maesters will check her and make her well” he said to himself. Though the reassurance rang hollow in the empty hall.

The door opens to reveal an elderly man, slightly balding with weary, sunken eyes. He closes the door behind him and given a sullen sigh before looking at the young lord.

“How is she? Do you know what is wrong? How do we fix her?” Aerons questions come out in a rush, a wild panic in his eyes as dread clung to the worst of his thoughts.

“Settle my lord,” the man chided “Physically my lady has recovered well, and it would appear that the days she spent asleep have not hindered any movement. She should be up and about within the next days.”

“But what of her mind maester Burwood? She did not recognise nor remember me” he laments, thinking back to the confused look in her beautiful eyes. Burwood casts Aeron as solemn look as he rests a hand on his shoulder.

“Unfortunately, the wound that was inflicted can behave unpredictably. All we can do is give her time and moniter her, and try to keep her from experiencing too much stress” he cautioned.

Aeron nods fervently, taking heed of the his words, taking it upon himself to nurse his lpve back to her old self.

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The days blend together as you get your barings. You werent allowed to do much physically and you were almost always accompanied by either a guard or Aeron.

I still cant believe i got put here tho, it still doesnt feel real… this is probably the worst universe to be dropped into, just my luck. you ponder as you wander the gardens again. It was the one thing Aeron allowed you to do 'alone’, though you could still feel the eyes of a guard lingering not to far away. Sighing quietlt to yourself you make your way over to a little bench under a tree and lay down. Feeling the sun on your face did feel nice and it you could almost forget the constant surveillance.

Almost.

Semi hurried footfalls approach your sunny spot, a shadow falls over your face and you didnt even need to open your eyes to know who it was.

“Love? Are you alright? Do you need me to take you to your chambers?”

“No dear, i was just enjoying the sun on my face. Feel free to join me” you murmur cooly, careful to not let exasperation creep into your tone. You knew you couldnt blame him for fussing and fretting, according to your maids after you woke up (and the little drama Aeron stirred when you tried to leave proclaiming you were to “stay in your chambers until the maesters give permission to leave”) you had been asleep for 5 whole days, 3 of which were with a fever so hot they thought you wouldnt make it through the night until it broke. All of this caused by a bump you aquired on a horse ride with Aeron a week and a half before. But at some point you had to imagine he would calm down enough to let you have a little more agency.

“If that is what my lady wishes.”

You sit up just enough for him to wiggle into place before placing you head on his lap. After a tense pause you feel gentle fingers comb through your hair. You finally open your eyes to see Aeron from your new angle. The light filtering through the trees gave him a kind of ethereal look, not that needed it as he already gave you those pretty boy vibes when you first saw him. He wasnt currently looking at you, but at something in the far distance.

“You are stressed.” You state plainly “what is on your mind?”

“Nothing dearest. All is well”

“Your a bad liar Aeron. Do not try and play me for a fool” as the words fall from your mouth his hand freezes. Before he rests it on the back of your head, where a scar now resided from the incident.

“Even when you do not remember me you still know me so well.” He mutters quietly, a joyless laugh pushing past his lips. “War is on the horizon… and there is nothing that can stop it.”

Thats right…. the dance. Where the Bracken claim for Aegon, this isnt going to end well. Fucking brilliant…

“Whats going to happen to us? We are still to be married yes?” Ignoring Aeron’s hand as it reaches for you you sit up fully and face him. “Has your father told you what his plans are?”

“No. He has been frighteningly quiet about it all.” He confesses, standing as begins to pace.

“Then you must speak with him.”

The young lord whips around to face you, face shocked and eyes wild. “You shouldnt stress yourself too much love, in your condition-”

“My 'condition’ is fine” you counter, hands on hips as you square your shoulders “you however are not. You are heir apparent to this house, your father should be telling you his plans and teach you how to lead if he is to pass this family off to you one day especially if there is a war that could risk the houses succession. Now lets go” your tone leaves no room fo argument as you grip his hand and haul him off to the meeting room.

As you get to the door the weight of what you know is about to happen begins to lay on your shoulders. I could try to convince them… like that would change anything…. if the threat of burning their house wasnt enough to deter them i doubt losing a marriage alliance will sway them much- the hand you forgot you were holding squeezes yours reassuringly. You didnt realise yours was shaking.

“It is ok my dear, you have made your point. You dont have to be here with me while i do this.” Aeron’s calm voice soothes.

“But i do. I know what is at stake… more than you think i do… but more than that, a wife supports their husband” you shake your head of any doubts and push the doors open.

All talking ceases and a tense silence falls at your entrance.

“Aeron? My lady? What are you doing here? Shouldnt you be resting-”

“I am well rested my lords, and forgive my impudence but what is happening in regards to the rumors circulating kings landing?” You cut off Aerons father as you stride into the room, ignoring the stares as best as you could.

“This isnt the the place for a lady, Lady Tyrell” another lord speaks

“I am here in support of my future lord husband, if i am the be the lady of this house i must know how the lords of this family dicuss matters. Or is it part of plan to keep your heir apparant in the dark?” The sharpness of your tone startles the men present, including Aeron. What had happened in the past days of rest to the sweet, quiet and happy girl he had known like the back of his palm less than several weeks ago?

Who WAS this girl? Had he ever really known her at all?

All he could do is watch as you, his love, muscle the information that he had struggled for days to obtain from his father.

“And if my family pledges differently? What then? You do realise that the true heir is the princess Rheanyra right, the late king declared so even on this deathbed.”

“The dowager queen has said-”

“That the king 'changed his mind in his last moments’ i am aware of what the rumors say.” You snap “With next to no other witnesses present might i add. May i remind you of the widowers law? That which means the Princess Rheanyra cannot be disinherited from the throne in favour of Ageon. The dowager queen forgets herself”

This is getting nowhere… im gonna have to up the stakes.

“If my lords still wish to side with Aegon the Usurper even in light of these reasons… then i must send word to my father to call off my engagement”

“You cant!” Aeron yelps, panicked, gripping your hand so tight it almost began to hurt “you cant…”

“I dont see what alternative there is, unless you wish to change your stance My lord?”

The silence of the war room is deafening. It the all the answer you need.

It was worth a shot…. however long it was….

You rip your hand from Aeron’s and just as quickly and speed tour way out of the room, the voice of your soon to be former betrothed following swiftly after.

“(NAME)! Wait please!” His voice breaks. You stop in your tracks, it was the first time you had heard your name without the sweetness he used to use. It broke your heart a little because despite everything he was indeed a sweet man. But you didnt wish to be here when the fire and blood came. “You cant mean this! Please just tell me what to do to make you stay and ill do it please you promised me your wouldnt leave” he begs

“Make your father see sense. However you can…. if you cant… then there is nothing. I do care for you Aeron, but i did not sign up for fire and blood when we agreed to wed each other.” You take you hands out of his again but he drops to his knees and clings to your waist instead. You stroke his hair in a gesture to try and soothe the pair of you. “I dont wish to see you burn my love… please find a safe place to shelter from this war. And then when it is over and if we are still both alive at the end. Maybe we can rebuild.” You begin to take your leave again when a harsh voice comes from behind you.

“Who are you? It seems that from the moment you woke up you have been drifting from me. Saying things and acting in ways that you never use to.” He was shaking. From anger or from crying you couldnt tell, his next words freeze your blood as his hand rests on the hilt of his sword. “Who are you, really? and what have you done to the girl i love?”

You wearily sigh and open the door to your chambers.

“I dont know what you are talking about, i am as i always was. I am tired my lord, i wish you pleasant dreams”

The door closes, leaving nothing but an empty hallyway and a shellshocked Aeron.

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[popculturebuffet]

Thomas the Tank Engine Retrospective: Shining Time Station 4-Pack: All Hail Schemer (Commission for Lachey V)

Hello all you happy schemer's and welcome back to my seemingly bottomless Thomas the Tank Engine Retrospective. This month my mounting workload means we're doubling up as we approach the season finale of sorts for this retrospective, Thomas's first and so far only theatrical film, Thomas and the Magic Railroad.

Before we can do that though, I needed a crash course on a bit of Thomas lore I hadn't touched. So it's my utmost pleasure to introduce, reintroduce or just plane fling at you Shining Time Station. Shining Time Station was the Britt Alcroft companie's way of putting Thomas The Tank Engine in the US at first. While the show was a great kids show and merchandise machine, it had one problem: each ep was 5 minutes at most and while this wasn't a remote problem for the booming home video market, putting it on tv was tricky. While UK tv stations were more than happy to either make 15 minute block of a few episodes or air it between shows, US stations at the time really didn't like carving up their air time like that. Simplier times.

Hence shining time station, a whole ass live action show featuring puppets, live action music videos, and wraparounds. Shining Time follows a bunch of interchangable kids: White BLonde Kid, future Sapphire Erica Luttrel, and other one as they mill around a train station learning life lesssons. Around the station are Stacey(Didi Cohn) , the station's manager, Billy Two-Feathers (Tom Jackson) , who runs the workshop, and Mr. Conductor, the tiny man who lives inside the station. If that sounds jarring it absolutely is as I assumed when I heard about the character he was a regular conductor who simply had magical powers. Still a little weird but like... not as jarring as when you see a Tiny George Carlin. For the record, and I missed this on first watch, the other two adults are aware of him to the point it feels like Mr. C is watching the kids half the time so the other adults can do their jobs. And i'm okay with this as there are so many kids shows where they hide the magic and I assumed this is one. I prefer it that the adults just know, smile along with it and let the tiny magic man help pick up the slack. Mr Conductor was played by Ringo Starr in the first season but since we were only doing a small selction of episodes, Lachey decided

For constancy since a chunk of the cast changes between seasons 1 and 2, and because Season 1 apparently has an ongoing story. So instead George Carlin is our tiny magic man for this special.

Of course there's one other regular in the station who deserved his own section, a man above men. A god above god. A schemer above schemers. The Robbie Rotten of the 90's I present to you HORACE MOTHERFUCKING SCHEMER.

Scheme is a schyster who runs a small Penny arcade over in the corner. WHy he's running an old timey style arcade in the 1980s I don't know but his real passion is various scams of the week, sometimes recurting the kids and eating every inch of scenery while making every minute he's on screen a joy. He's played by Brian O Conner, is somehow not in the movie, and is the best thing that's ever existed. All hail our new god.

Anyways since Shining Time Station is important to the film, we're taking a look at 4 episodes of Lachey's Choice from seasons 2 and 3: Win Loose or Draw, Sweet and Sour, Do I hear and Billy's Party. So join me for train station antics, drawing contests, talking pianos, child explotation, elvis, crooked auctions, and thanksgiving under the cut.

Win Lose or Draw

My first episode.. and going in pretty much blind aside from "this show is a vehicle for Thomas the tank engine". So the werid shit in this series.. caught me off guard as the episode starts with a pretty simple kids show teaching a lesson predicament: the local wise old man from the general store, who I assumed would be more important but is only in one of these 4 episodes, drops off art suplies for a contest and other girl is bummed that Erica Luttrel is better than her at art. We also meet Schemer whose mad the kids are getting paper everywhere and not spending money on his old timey arcade. Is.. is Schemer a time lord? Is he our time lord and savior? This series apparently takes place in the present, but has a penny arcade. Maybe shining times' just really old. Maybe i'm just really old and this series is old even for me, it's only.. four years older than me.

Okay moving past the exestial dread, point is Schemer is great and even off to the side for this one he's a lot of fun.

So Other Girl gets a visit from the Conductor.. who as a refresher is super tiny. Yeah I meant what I said about it being jarring: I had NO idea the Conductor was tiny sized in our world. Once you get used to it it's not that weird: he can travel to other dimensions his size and thus is the size of one of the people in thomas' world, hence how he can tell their stories. Makes sense. But suddenly being ambushed with a tiny george left me asking

Now I get he's just a tiny magic man who lives in the station and watches over these kids alongside the other two main adults and who said adults know exists and are cool with it. And honestly i'd be cool with having George Carlin hang around and despense advice to children too. Who wouldn't. It's like Thomas, it's weird at first but then you just embrace how weird this is and move on.

I do like HOW mr conductor is used. Carlin is clearly having a ball and is a shockingly fantastic children's entertainer, not just good at narrating the thomas segments but at interacting with the child actors and feeling truly like some otherworldly pixie train conductor man. He's really good at this and it's fun to watch.

As for the Thomas segments .. I won't be covering MOST of them again. I didn't skip them as Lachey made the valid point that while I had seen these eps, I hadn't seen them with the george carlin narration. George is really good at the job, easily equiling Michael over in the UK.

It's just.. i've covered these stories. WIth the exception of the one for our final episode today, there's no big diffrence story wise and performance wise Carlin also does the "everyone but Gordon gets about the same voice" thing the other narrators pre baldwin did. Harold also gets an upper class rich person voice

It is nice to get confrmation that Carlin was really good at both jobs, and it was a neat treat.. but there's just nothing really new to add here. The shorts featured are good. There's only one exception, a really weird one, and we're saving that for last. So good shorts as they were before, simply don't have anything new to add for the Carlin Cuts.

So Other Girl asks George Carlin to use his magical powers to help her win the art contest.

What I like though is that the lesson isn't the usual "Oh you shouldn't cheat in competition" aseop. it's a valid one but most kids shows across demographics have done it. Fairly Odd Parents even has it as one of Da Rules.

The real lesson is "it's more fufilling to work hard at something and get better yourself instead of comparing yourself to other people and how good they are". It's a lesson kids really need.. a lesson I honestly needed and maybe I would've kept drawing. You may never be as good as some but doing it is still fun. Just do your art and improvment for you and don't take easy shortcuts. The latter.. is super relevant given the rise of AI and people using it as a shortcut instead of a tool to help them create better work. It becomes about replacing other artists instead of helping artists grow.

Other girl isn't the only one to learn this lesson as one of the jukebox performers learned it. Oh did I mention there' sa jukebox full of magical puppets straight out of pee wee's playhouse who play a song once an episode? Because Lachey sure didn't

So yeah another jarring bit but one I like. I fucking love pee wee's playhouse, so seeing this old style of puppetry again warms my heart. The story is clever too: As a boy the puppet's band leader practiced piano but didn't feel good at it. Turned out the piano didn't and was also alive and thus played the songs for him. Eventually though the boy missed trying himself and the piano concided he was getting better. It's a heartwarming story about not letting sentient insturments play for you that's once again an accidental metaphor for AI somehow.

So she submits her picture instead and unsuprisingly this is what George Carlin hoped would happen. Erica Luttrel wins but they liked something about other girls so she wins a prize.

But enough about children what's SCHEMER been up to: Well he wanted to win, and Billy said his new ink was like magic so he just casually stole it.. only to accidently send a blank picture. We also get a great bit of schemer using a mirror to take a self portrait since no one wanted to draw his face less they summon another schemer into the world. such is the price of such one of a king beauty. Billy chases him and presumibly pummels him, episode over.

Sweet and Sour

So stop me if you've heard this one: a corrupt older man approaches a kid (or kids) with a lemonade stand, offers to be their partner, then finds ways to ruin the place while screwing their new partner over.

Yeah my thoughts exactly.. to my shock the Boondocks episdoe "The Block is Hot"... is a clear remake of the Shining Time Station Episode "Sweet and Sour". Or at least conceptually. After the partnership part both take diffrent paths: Ed Wuncler overworks poor jasmine and cons her parents, while Schemer brings in his nephew Schemee, whose just as hammy at half the size , such a great child actor I swear the two have perfect chemistry and he gets Brian O'Connor's manerisims down perfectly, who cuts production costs, lowers quality and generally ruins the place.

Yet weirdly despite the gaps in when they were made, medium and one being aimed at adults and the other at the childrenest of children, they BOTH have valid advice abotu the economy. For the Block Is Hot, it's how Corporations take advantage of people or buisnesses and will work people to death no matter the age to get as much profit as possible while convincing you their not. It's an episode I don't go back to often for a reason as , while incredibly good at this lesson it's VERY hard to watch, especailly since, resliastically, ed gets away with all of it.

In contrast, the kids learn the equally valuable lesson of not putting profits over quality: how people WILL suck up with bad quality stuff in a pinch once.. but will eventually choose something better.. if it's the same price but hey i'm not expecting a show amed at younger kids to be fully honest about how fucked economics are. I'm just impressed an episode from the early 90's packed that in.

BOth have the lesson of "don't quickly make a deal with someone for the wrong reasons'. For Jasmne she simply trusted the wrong person, something hard not to do and that the episode dosen't blame her for. For the kids.. they KNOW Schemer is bad and when he offers a partnership after seeing them sell cookies to a high class lady, their first reaction is

But they take the deal because he offers a lot of money.. and for once Schemer isn't lying: Schemee's methods do improve things. I also love these two together; Schemer is super supportive of his nephew, is proud when Schemee sells cookie sso bad hteir returned so they can sell them again (Sadly a tactic i'm sure has actually been used), and shows the kid genuine pride and affection I wasn't sure he was capable of showing anyone or anything that wasn't acitvely making him money. I mean he's happy to see him BEFORE he starts cutting corners like a shady man in a gloriously tacky suit.

They then learn the hard way they screwed up as not only ar ebilly and didi not impressed with their new lemonade and cookies, but when they try to complain Schmeer outright steals the buisness. Granted most buisnesses can't be stolen with a "no butts" clause, but Scheemer is dealing with small children not the ftc... this time.

My only beef with this episode is that while the lesson is good.. the adults blame the kids fo rbeing conned by schemer. They did screw up a bit as they knew he was trouble when he walked in, but did the deal anyway.. but loosing their buisness.. was him outright conning them. I get them learning a lesson but you still have to remember these are children IN your care you let be around scheemer unsupervised. And all George Carlin did was vaugely advise them the deal was bad and let them vent later. I get George Carlin can't talk to Scheemer as he dosen't know he exists, Lachey clarified that for me, and if he did he'd of course be constantly harassing the poor miniture george carlin or try to capture him to get his pot of gold. And look I know he's not a leprechaun, you know that, but it's fair to assume Schemer dosen't know his ass from his elbow let alone that george carlin isn't a leprechaun.. mostly because WE don't know that George Carlin, in this series, isn't a leprechaun. I checked the series wiki it just says he's 18 inches tall. He could be a leprechaun, a beyonder, a bit sized timelord, we really DON'T know.

Point is they fucked up too, but they do make up for it as they point out the kids still have a fuckton of lemons they got in the buisness divorce and the kids have a creative solution: ther'es so many things they can make with lemons with Stacy's help they make everything but lemonade.. and quickly gain buisness when Schemer is ineveitbly bit in the ass by karma, i.e the ladies lunchone he was catering boycotting him till he closes up and gladly taking the kids buisness. Happy end for all. A really fun episode with a shockingly timeless moral. Good stuff.

Do I hear

Do I Hear is a decent episode, with a far less clear lesson. it doe shave a random ass music video about some kids little brother destroying anything

I did find out from this shining time ocasionally does music videos with stock footage but like everything else int his series it's a lot to take out of context.

Anyways this one has Elvis show up as a jukebox repair man.

Yeah so backing up the Station is closed for the day but the kids decide to stay behind while Mr Conductor apparently can't do more than just.. tell the kids Billy and Stacy probably had a reason to shut it down.

Naturally Schemer is still here and finds a fake nickle in one of his machines and is pissed.. till he realizes he can use it to get his revenge. So it turns out Schemer has a rivarly with the magical jukebox, which is the least suprising thign in these four episodes. Wha'ts hilarous is that in any other series this would just be a fun rivarly with an inanimate object, like Luke Cage and his coffe machine, or Mr. Parker and his boiler.

Here? The puppets in the jukebox hate schemer.. and given what we've seen of him and how he talks shit about their home and them by comparison regularly, you side with the magic jukebox. So when he tries to use the nickel on them.. they fake being broken.

What intrests me is I thought i knew where the episode was going... after Schemer dicks around on top of a jukebox because Brian O Conner is the best. HE calls a repair man , and I assumed the puppets were either going to be outed, the kids or conductor would have to protect them something. But no the kids don't know and the jukebox repairman.. is elvis.

Yeah they got an actor who honestly looks a lot like the king in his younger days, acts like him and is implied to be him. Either Elivs regenerated into a younger body, cloned himself or simply is reborn every time he dies kenny mcormick styles and rapidly ages. All possible possibly all at once. The lore of his series is rife for fan theory. Send me your own Schemer, Mr Conductor and Reborn Elvis fan theories people!

So turns out Elvis knows the magical puppets exist and tells them to play cool. He then gives Schemer a bill for 11 dollars, who naturally reacts like a mature responsible adult paying for something be broke

So he goes with plan B: have an auction. Naturally this being schemer he auctions anything and everything in the place, and the kids realize "shit we acccidently encouraged him" and try to stop this. Thankfully, while they can't reach Billy, Elvis comes back to save the day. At this point i'm at a loss for jokes.

Schemer even accidently blocks Mr Conductors way into his house.. because he lives here now I guess. Like I said you can write your own lore, mine is that it's the exact layout of snoopy's dog house pre fire. Anyways Billy and Stacy put a stop to this nonsense and instead of arresting schemer just.. scare him off. Though hilarously, and predictably his method of hiding is just.. crouching in front of the banister, which has a railing so they can see him and hoping they forget it. THey also lay into the kids.. again.. even though this time all they did was stay behind. The Schemer shit was ENTIRELY him they just accidently gave him an idea.

The puppets play elvis a song, Mr conductor talks to billy and this episode.. was fine. Not great, but it had some godo schemer acting here and there, the moral is just all kinds of confused.. but it's also hard to hate an episode that has a magical elvis and schemer hanging onto a jukebox for dear life so still good stuff.

Billy's Party

Our final episode for this batch, Billy's Party is a thanksgiving episode, as you can tell by PIlgrim Schemer showing his penis size up there. It's not a terrible idea for the setting either: A train station is giong to be super busy and the episode focuses on railroad tradition in thanksgiving instead of The Pilgrims and the various native tribes

Don't get me wrong, i'd ENTIRELY be up for an episode about Billy's heritage, and the fact the show had a native american main character but did nothign steroptical with him is magical. But I did not remotely trust a 90's tv show to do the story of thanksgiving in a way that wasn't either whitewashing it like I got as a kid, or just plain insulting.

So instead they sidestep it, going into what modern thanksgiving means. And who better to tell us about thanksgiving than thomas the tank engine? Now if you read through my sometimes breif sometimes downright insane thomas reviews, you'll know seasons 1-5.. didn't HAVE a thanksgiving episode. That's not really a thing in the UK, so it's not a thing that exists in a british show about trains.

So rather than just.. find an episode that fit the themes of togetherness.. theyt urned one of the christmas episodes into a thanksgiving episode. Which itself isn't a TERRIBLE idea; both are holidays with lots of travel, and the only real crack is there's tons of mail as that's more a christmas thing.. but then the ending has a fucking christmas tree and i'm just like.. guys. I know you couldn't edit it out but why did you pick one specifically with a christmas tree. Christmas isn't after thanksgiving. Don't start that shit with me Thomas the Tnak Engine.

While the thomas part is sloppy.. the rest... is incredibly well handled: the puppets have thanksgiving and invite a turkey over and in a nice subversion of the "oh you brought a turkey don't kill it" type of stories we get a lot, even Brooklyn 99 good as it was wasn't immune to doing one of these and also lampshading how stupid Charles was for bringing a bird to live kill on thanksgiving day to someone elses house so it worked, their just serving veggies. The turkey is a guest and a rad dude.

As for hte main part the kids wonder why they should give a shit, and Billy is trying to get to his party with , and i'm just quoting it "the yardees and the hobos". I will refer to them as the train workers and homless persons, this was 1993 after all, but it is fun to see them use the terrible h word so casually.

Turns out Billy has nowhere to go unlike the rest of the cast, but was picked to join the rest of the train people. The origin of said meal is also neat: a long time ago they were nemies, the train people not liking hitching passnegers and the homless persons not liking being kicked off their only transportation and sometimes home. But one day a signal didn't get put up in time to switch tracks so the homless persons in the area all rallied to make sure the train didn't crash, and the two sides made peace, having thanksgiving together every year as their the only two groups whose schedules synch up.

Billy ends up not being able to come as disasters keep popping up: they need a train fixed to meet demand, one of the various guests can't reach her apointment so Billy drives her, and Schemer ends up stuck on a train as part of his scam to make the holiday about giving him stuff. If that sounds underwhleming it is. I expect better and stupider from you scheemer. What a disapointing end.

bIlly is left alone.. only for the natural conculsion of everyone coming back to celebrate, including Schemer whose greatful. It's a genuinely heartwarming ending. Why the kidsa re here I don't know, I assume their parents don't exist. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY.

This episode wasn't as fun without schedmer at full blast but it's still a REALLY good thanksgiving episode with some intresting ideas, and a fantastic finale.

overally I REALLY loved Shining Time Station, continuting the tradition of any thomas spinoff being better than the source thus far. It's fun, has great performances and I will be coming back here somedya on my own or if lachey wants. or if any of you want feel free to comission it .

Next Time: THE MOVIE THAT ENDED AN EMPIRE.

[yanderefairyangel]

What would I do to improve Engage

I said I would redo the post where I go into what I think in Engage is flawed, so here we go.

But rather then listing the flaws, I'd make it about what could make Engage even better

1- The story is too fast paced for the characters

I said the story rushed the character too much and I do stand by that. Having support was always the solution but after 3H, I do think creating characters paralogue would help not only giving more screentime to the characters and could also serve for more lore and worldbuilding info. Also I love exploring Engage's world so that would give more area to investigate as well.

2- the models

I already explained countless time my problem with models and hate love relationship I have with them. Well, first, have the in game model look like the cutscenes one. And then, have them MOVE. It hurts so much the pacing. And it would also require a lot of rework regarding the animation mistakes

3- Chapter 10/11 escape

Following the main idea, if you recall when in chapter 10/11 we have to escape, there is a fade to black and it makes the pacing so wonky. So instead of this, I'r rather place another map. Yeah, 3 maps in a row. In this map, you can't control Alear, they are a green unit and your goal is to reach them before they try to fight Veyle and the Hounds and then to escape the cathedral. And then we end up with the map of chapter 11.

4- More cutscenes

Thinking about it, and while it IS indeed ambitious, I'd like to have some cutcenes unlocked depending on your choices. For example, in chapter 10 if you choose to kill King Morion with Diamant or Alcryst, it unlocks a scene where they bid him farewell (it can't hurt to much the pacing cause after all right after there is the scene with Hyacinth getting killed)

Same with Ivy and Hortensia if they kill Corrupted Hyacinth in chapter 17

5- Bond support

I only think they should be longer

6- More dialogue and activities in the Somniel

The title explain itself. An example of an activity that could be added would be a mini-game that consist in Vander testing Alear's knowledge about the world of Elyos under the form of a quiz

7-Let us pet the animals we adopt

8- Some scenes can be weak

I think we should let Alear cry more. For example, in the scene of chapter 5, when it fades to black, have Alear cry to make it hit right where it hurts. Same for chapter 20.

Instead of what happened, when Sigurd tells Alear the truth, they run away and trip, and then they stay crying thinking they are an impostor. But their friends arrive and tell them their birth don't matter they are still who they are. Alear tell them they are useless because without a real Divine dragon, they can't save the world. Sigurd then tell them about Lumera's sacrifice and the dialogue folllows as what happened in game. Also, because people don't check the cutscenes title, I'd have Alear mentionned the dream of the prologue and say "I made a dream where we were all fighting together to save the world : let's make this dream come true!"

9- Chapter 24

I would change the compass of time travel where instead of the army travelling back in time, it's the scenery that travel back in time to bring back the Shard, however it results in Past Alear who was guarding it to appear. Like in the canon game, you defeat them and create a time loop when the spell cease to work and that they go back to the past.

10- Yunaka and Alear's C support

In their C support, Alear ask Yunaka if she is a mercenary which contradicts a bond they have with Byleth. I would keep this line but simply have Alear ask "so what do mercenaries do ?" and Yunaka answer "oh my Divine one ? Do you not know what a mercenary is ?" Alear : " Yeah, I have never meet any and I can't remember much". Yunaka briefly explains and when Alear thanks her for explaining her job, Yunaka ends up feeling guilty and confessed she lied.

That or the simplier way "were you what people call a mercenary ?" implying Alear doesn't know which workd with their character

11- Make either Vander, Lindon, Mauvier and Saphir appear younger to fit their age or be older to fit their design

and that's all I have to add for now

[littlesliceofimmortality]

hiiii!! :DD

long time no see!!

i want to come here and ask if u have any marla headcanon(s) in mind?

marla is awesome, and i would like to know how u interpret her character n’ stuff

thank u!!

have a lovely day/night

(p.s. i absolutely love ur milton headcanons!! they’re so neat!! ^ ^

and ur art is so fabulous!!)

HOWDY HEY!! big appreciation for the love :-] im always SO So delighted to serve up more headcanons & lucky for u ive been cooking marla headcanons in my notes app for a hot second

ITS ALOT SO UNDER THE CUT:

marla michelle velázquez crown

• puerto rican immigrant - didnt have a middle mame when her family moved to the states

• when she married callum & took his surname, she moved her last name to her middle mame to "americanize" herself while also respecting her culture

• was often shortened to just michelle by non-family members tho

• bilingual, grew up speaking spanish. practices with callum (multilingual) some to help him sound more like a native speaker

• military father, moved around alot before settling down in dialtown, wisconsin 

• first met callum when she interviewed him for the towns paper after he became a door to door salesman, also having viewed him as a town oddity but was allured by his freakish nature

• was a really good journalist and knew how to extract information, naturally charming, a bit flirty even

• callum was just as charismatic and returned the playful banter, only agreeing to an interview if he could ask questions in return

• got along really well and always had a bit of tension, ramping up their relationship subtly and knowing just how to make the other flustered

 • (although it was mostly callum the one being flustered by her)

• become seriously engaged when crown started running for president and he wanted her to be his first lady

• had a big, show-y wedding with tons of people ranging from marlas extended family to some of callums & milts peers

• had a more genuine and smaller wedding after with a handful of people later:-)

• pre-typewriter head she adored dolling herself up and using makeup and perfecting her hairdo

• obv cant do that now but she still keeps around an antique box full of makeup/product. maybe as a memoir to when times were simplier, to put it

• LOVED loved loved the aesthetic of the early 30s/40s and kept up the same fashion choices as the decades passed

• very iconic neck scarf..resembles mingus' alot

• not vain, but certainly concious of appearance. aware of how she has to look her best in the public eye at all times

• pampers mingus (cat) a comical amount and makes homemeals for her 

• fav office snacks are her banana chips & boiled plantains

• everyone is a big marla fan shes such a pleasant lady! however people that underwstimate her Quickly learn not to

• does alot of listening and studying...sits quietly and absorbs information like a spongue before firing back a question thatll catch the other person off guard. very intense person

• overhears alot more than youd think. if she wrote a book about political gossip itd be longer than the bible

[coffeestripes]

A novakid, a floran, a nightar, an avian, a yautja, a khenixeross and a captan avali aboard the same ship as a tripulation of mercenaries

Absolute mayhem.

For some context + Species info:

Novakid / Nova - He has a strage flame, usually the Novakids are simplier and lighter colors, but Nova has a intense deep blue like "fire". Loves weapons, has lots of them and even Blitzen is confused how he gets more and more everyday

Nightar / Dredavus - "Everyone is too loud, except Nova… But he's too… Too bright" The only reason to them being on that ship is because loves working there as the ship technician. Usually stays back when the things get heavy, but they are always trying to help at least as a light support. Ironically Nova and them are close friends

Avian / Teicach - "Fuck Kluex idc about religion" He spend lots of time studying other races around the universe, so yes he's a efficient med. Maybe a little bit too cocky but no one in the ship is going to be smugger than Ze'Tier, so she usually keeps the chiken on the ground. Blitzen is grateful about that

Floran / Tassavage - He's also a strange being among his species. Two cat-like ears and a leafy tail, claws sharper than usual and a more primitive behaviour. However, keeps himself under control. Challenges a lot Ze'Tier, always loses, never gives up. Always facing the danger with Nova and Ze'Tier. They love fighting and are hard to beat up, so Blitzen lets them be

Yautja (this is avp acc duh, but still here is something)/ Ze'Tier - "Why ooman so strange... No ooman scent- Earthy- Not even ooman? Wait that's a plant?!" Big bulky yautja lady. Considered a bad blood due her clan, Blitzen took the risk to allow her on his ship. At that time the avali was only starting to make a tripulation, and why not? A yautja may be a dangerous option, even more a female one but it was a good opportunity to have someone strong there. Spends lots of time training with Tassavage, even if the little flowy-smelling shit gets too intense time to time. As someone who almost never left the planet it was amazing to be around those curious "h'ulij-bpe s'yuit-de" (affectionate). She Also helps to move the big containers and knit things to have a little sustain besides her work there

Khenixeross / Khornerite (Name attached to changes) - Old Blitzen's friend. No one in the ship is very happy to have him around. The Khenixeross are vastly know to play with biotechnology, however, they reach some brutal extremes, creating something completly different almost twisted from the living being they where originally using. Khornerite doesn't like this, so when he was banished decided to go with Blitzen. Usually manages the new missions and helps Teicach in the nursey. Something the bird is not fully comfortable, but at least Khornerite is… Friendly.

Avali / Blitzen - Hates the stereotype of "awwhh cute floffy raptors" NO. Dare to say that to him and congratulations here is your plasma shot that slowly burns the flesh around your well gained hole. Polite, but kinda temperamental. He always loved the idea of exploring the universe. And that's what he did. Has many space stations filled with curious things and even creatures he found around his long, long trips. However, sometimes was quite lonely

But. With this new crew, they where more than readdy to "conquer the universe"

Image references of the characters. Sadly there are no yautjas at starbound (and the ones who exist are uhhh no thx,,,,) and the Khenixeross are a original species of crystal bugs made by me so no pics of them

[prideandpurrgil]

Generation Loss 1 Musings and Disordered Theories

Spoilers for all three episodes of Gen Loss 1 under the readmore. Just some thoughts about the Puzzler, theories about topics of a potential prequel, and also something about gl! Ranboo in future Generations I can't stop thinking about

Generation Zero/Rumored Prequel

I'm very very interested in the prospect of a prequel, and learning exactly why everything is happening the way it is. I think if we do get one, our Hero will be one of the characters that's been around longest (I can't shake the idea of gl!Jerma and gl!Slime being two of the oldest cast members, something about them being hosts for the shows makes me think they've been around much much longer than everyone else) I really wanna say Slime could potentially be our Hero, and maybe we'd get to see when Sneeg appeared in the cabin?

Or, potentially Hetch.

Seeing Hetch's origins would be incredibly fun, especially if we got to see him as the Hero, before getting asked by Showfall to run the shows himself. I do think he was potentially a Hero, just like Ranboo, and maybe was part of the cast for awhile before Showfall promoted him to gamemaster? Show director? Head scientist? Idk

Ranboo moving forward

I know Ranboo's said they'll take a step back from acting and focus more on writing, but I think we could potentially see him in later generations, atleast as a side character. I also wonder if the box will stay on? Follow me on this, but what if in later generations, Ranboo appears as a quirky side character, with some sort of old TV in place of a head? And maybe (like the Puzzler or the Slime Demon) everyone's going along with it because it's just their little character costume, haha!

But we would know.

I feel like Showfall would have a tough time keeping them alive AND removing the box, so leaving it on would be a simplier option. And they can just mind control everyone to see it as anything they want, right? Like the slime.

It wouldn't have to be a TV per say, especially because the Security ALSO has a TV head so idk if they could do it twice BUT wouldn't that be just horrifying?

The Puzzler

I know I'm reaching and grasping with this section. But hear me out. You know the end part of episode two where Ranboo listens to the recording and gets that key from the Puzzler, and he tells Ranboo about getting out and finding the truth, and that "the truth will set you free"? And then immediately afterwards Hetch appears and completely derails everything, and Ranboo forgets about the key?

I really did see that as the Puzzler breaking character and gl!Jerma trying to get Ranboo out. He said during his show that he'd been doing this for 30 years. Maybe that wasn't as crazy as an exaggeration as we all thought? And so many other people have pointed out: when the rats and the Puzzler were trying to join in on the fashion show, they were fully willing and ready to stop the death games, but it was the players who kept them going. And the Puzzler completely breaks character as well, and you can hear him plainly ask the players if they "really don't want to hang out with them". Once they press him to continue, Jerma resumes his Puzzler persona. I think Jerma is one of the oldest cast members, and I think he's been brainwashed and memory programmed and reprogrammed so many times that Showfall's methods are starting to not work on him. Another moment I thought was strange is when Sneeg is reprogrammed and brought back to the carousel, you can see the Puzzler completely frozen with a horrified expression on his face, but once he's unfrozen by Showfall he goes right back to whatever he was doing. I think Jerma knows, atleast on some level, that things are not as they seem, but he also realizes he's completely powerless in this situation. So he keeps playing his little gameshow persona, and tried to take advantage of the players derailing to stop the death games, and once there were no more options he tries to atleast leave some sort of escape plan for Ranboo, so maybe they can, just maybe, make it out of here. Only for Hetch to ruin it and drag Ranboo off on a series of red harrings.

I sincerly hope we get more of gl!Jerma and I would be estatic with more Puzzler. I just think there's more to his character than we're led to believe but maybe I'm just seeing things. Who knows. Definitely not me lmao

But yeah! I've only watched Gen Loss once so I might be off on these, and maybe on a rewatch I'll get more ideas or theories going.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read!

[early-sxnsets]

Hi! This is re: your post on AO3 wrapped, and making a spreadsheet on it.. I actually did this during 2023! It was really fun. Today I used that data to make charts of my reading habits through the year based on the different items that I tracked, and it was really cool to see authors/titles that kept popping up all year, which fandoms i read the most - and how they trended month to month, and tracking the re-reads, and watching the word count go up, etc. I also included a lil blurb of what each fic was about so i could go back and find it if i was having trouble locating it through AO3. I tracked it all alongside the books I read and re-read this year too to get an idea of the rough wordcount that I read in a year. Anyway, I fully recommend making a spreadsheet for it! (but also I'm a bit of a data nerd so, ya know)

ooo interesting!!! i was also contemplating writing a little sentence blurb about the plot of the fics! im a little odd when it comes to reading fics, because most of the time when im reading i'll read a lot of a certain fandom at once, or have a main fandom i read at least 80% of the time.

i've been a bit behind on real book reading (oops haha) but i had a weird nostalgia kick and started rereading the Warrior Cats books (look... it was a simplier time....), so i may track my book reading as well, if i do read some.

i'm curious to see what my reading patterns become! i do enjoy a good data gathering and analysis, so this should be fun!

[lexa-griffins]

Do farm clexa do anything special or fun with their kids when they're all on spring break?

Omg yes!!!! With the kids being older is much easier to do stuff outside than when they were smaller it was nearly impossible. But with every single one of them at school age things are simplier sometimes.

They camp outside a LOT. The kids love it, usually either Lexa or Clarke spends the night there with them (theres usually a mini fight about it. "I carried all of those kids my back is killing me" "well you got breaks in between i gotta carry my heavy tits everywhere!"), although its almost certain Saige and Aden will wake up in the middle of the night and go back inside to cuddle with whatever mom is nicely tucked in her bed. They tell stories - Madi and the twins love scary one, Lexa isnt much of a fan but Clarke likes to scare the kids a little and there were only tears one time - roast marshmallows while wrapped in blankets because the night air is still crisp although no impossibly so.

There's also a lot more of getting a picnic ready and going with the kids for a walk through the properties around them until theu reach this big lake. The kids are old enough to go ahead for a bit and Lexa and Clarke dont have to be scared one of them is going to fall badly or take off running like they used to do as toddlers. It also means Lexa and Clarke can enjoy the walk too, hold hands and steal kisses that will get them a groan from whatever kid was close by and caught the affectionate gesture.

Spring break and spring are beautiful on the farm itself, and although the kids still have chores, they are allowed more free time on their spring break and because those kids are all farm raised they will spend their spring break days outside doing activities that may be a little weird for their classmates, but they only have one computer and as of right now Madi is the only one with a phone so they have a lot of fun playing with the animals, reading and drawing outside in the sun and spring breeze. And on those rainy april shower days, they'll all have turns on the pc, while the rest plays pretend or, in Saige's case, stare longing outside, asking for her moms to tell her again the story of that rainy spring day when they were forced to run inside the old falling apart cottage to avoid getting wet when they were just about her age and how now its their forever home 🥹

[marcillfll]

Soooo~

Hello to you if you come to read, dear~

At first i want to warn, that all i write here is only my thoughts and i could be wrong, so feel free to suggest yours too, if you want~ One more warning: my native language isn't English, so i apologize for any mistakes, hope that won't be too bad 🥲

I will divide it to two parts, this is the first c:

Let's start with something simple. And i want to start with new trailer .D

At first i wanna talk about references in it. I think a lot of you have already seen that screenshots with the similar scenes in previous mvs... and of course there are a lot of frames that looks alike.

But i think each member represents not only one or even several mvs, but much more they represents their previous albums😬

So the first one we see is I.N 🍞

I saw an opinion, that this scene reminds Chill mv from Maxident. It is, bc it is also museum. But for me it more looks like museum from Back door. The colors, in my view, are more similar to that mv. In new trailer there are more white, but if we remember, in back door were a lot of people in white clothes (District 9 residents). And now, when skz are more popular and have more Stays, the white color has enlarged.

Here screenshots of Chill and Back door. You can see, that Chill is more blue, but Back door has more red and yellow colors~

And now i can assume that I.N represents album IN生 (In Life) 👨‍🍳

Second one is Changbin 🐷🐰

With his identity all is much simplier. Though there are some references to Maxident with this dance with umbrella, his character looks like he is from Noeasy era. Really, he has similar bat, and also about romantic bgm... (my dear you finally got it!!!!♡) Do you remember how he was outraged of Hyunjin's bgm in Noeasy trailer and also the same scene in Christmas EveL~~

Thats why i think that Changbin represents Noeasy ⚡️

Third one is Hyunjin 🦦

Here almost all agree that this scene is looks similar to Maxident's Give me yor TMI. And i think so too. There are much more to say about this numbers 644 and the jacket. But we will speak about it next time~

So here one mo reference to Maxident is his brushstroke. He did the same back then (you don't even imagine how hard I've tried to make this only screenshot 😆)

Now let's assume Jinnie stands for Maxident 💌

Fourth one is Han 🐿

I wanna scream, why all that I see about his scene is remotely dissimilar scene from B Me, where guys have been watching the movie about themselves. Really, it was a big screen, but here is just a stand. My first thoughts were about All In and after some consideration i still think so. Also it's important, that this was Japanese album (i will tell about it also the next time).

Whats more about precisely All In. For me Han is a center of this mv. He opens and closes this video. He's a center at the beginning and also center in last dance break.

Thats the reasons why I think Han represents All In 💰

Second part

[sleidog]

Questions for you!! Do any of your OCs have unique / special weapons that they always use, and if so what’s the backstory behind them? Also, is there any OC you’re especially proud of / happy with? ( — @astralarias )

yes! quite a few of them do, sometimes it's tied in to plot [Tai] other times it's tied into it being gifted or taken as a 'trophy' i'll go through the simplier ones first; Slei uses the warden's weapons [sylvari cultural tier 3] specifically a longbow and greatsword, though you'll rarely see me use them in combat since his in game self is specced to use a shortbow and axe/torch, which aren't pecific to him at all! he also can be seen with pact weapons sometimes and he has a bow gifted to him by De [bright inquisitors longbow] that he has mostly as a 'for show' weapon that he hasn't fired much Teo's weapons are all stolen or reclaimed/repurposed! in game he has the untamed hammer, but in my head it's literally just a chunk of metal that he's grown branches and vines over and turned into a weapon. that's the only weapon that he always has De's weapons are all gifts from clients, his favorite being a ritualists staff! he also has the endless ocean sword and dagger Aereus has a zodiac rifle that she LOVES but unfortunately a particularly grumpy crab grabbed the barrel and bent it during an excursion into Orr, now she hates shellfish lol Tai under the cut because it's a DOOZY

Tai's weapon/s have plot! he starts out with a simple staff, much like the common skins you see in tyria, a crystal on a stick basically! but when exploring Orr after Zhaitan's death, he comes across a dragon bone staff, it was incomplete, lacking the source of the glow in the eyes, but he thought it interesting enough to add to his growing collection of curios. during further excursions into Orr, the staff starts to rattle and shake in his hands as it it sensed something nearby. On further exploration, it found the body of a fallen dragon champion, reacting to something within it. Tai isn't shy about getting elbow deep in a corpse, and lost his sense of smell around the same time he was lich-ified, so eventually he unearths a rough gem stone that seems to be practically magnetized to the staff, it immediately wants to sit in one of the skull's eye sockets. intrigued, Tai lets it, and alter researches into the staff and it's possibly origins. he can't find anything remotely similar, and instead starts to research the presense of stones of power being formed inside immensely powerful creatures. finding nothing quite as remarkable with tyria's usual threats [besides some promising subjects from shatterer and the claw of jormag] he eventually shelves the project and intends to come back to it later. when he does, it's during the seige on Mordremoth's domain, and tai finds a second stone in the corpse of Adryn, fitting that they were the stavemaster! again, the gem magnetizes with the staff, and Tai goes on to work out what this means for him. years of research later, leads him to find that the two stones are related to the dragons that the champions came from. one stone for death, the other for mind. this results in tai having a staff that can, effectively, control weakminded undead [awakened are uneffected, unchained risen, however, are] and also the ability to steal the soul from a living or undead subject at the point of death. the souls held inside the staff can never outweight Tai's own power or the staff starts to get a will of it's own and turns on him! this ended up being his undoing when he went on a bit of selfish rampage in cantha, resulting in him abandoning his staff to the ocean and instead leaning towards the approach of a harbinger with a pistol to take out his intended target. later, my ex mortician character, Rui, comes across the staff during a fishing trip with his husband, rescognising it as Tai's old staff. Rui then makes it a personal mission to release and 'rehome' all of the spirits still trapped in the staff