#[degrassi invasion]

[totally-correct-shenanigans]

Brock: There is no god here! What have you done?!

Ash: You don't know my genius!

poker night as markiplier quotes

Ash: You wanna check it out?

Sam: Yesss... no. But yes.

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Claptrap: I'm in charge!

[Explosion]

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Ash: You'll never get me!

Ash: Oh, he's got me!

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Sam: Okay. Alright. Okay. Alright. Okay. Okay!

Ash: Alright? Okay.

Brock: Yeah?

Sam: Okay, alright.

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Claptrap: Can you guys let me win one just so I can know how it feels?

Brock: No.

Sam: Yeah!

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Ash: Oh my god, guys, I'm starving to death but with water.

Ash: What's that called?

Claptrap: Drowning but without—

Ash: I'm the opposite of drowning!

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Ash: Oh, mama. Oh mama. Hoh, mama!

Brock: I don't like what I'm hearing. I don't think this is good.

Max: He's just foopin' over there or something.

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Brock: Hey, Sam.

Sam: Wh- no. I don't like- my heart rate just spiked. I don't want any part of this.

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Claptrap: When Brock addresses me by name, it never ends well for me.

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Sam: Mini-horde??

Ash: Yeah, there's just like a small group of five—

Max: LEAD 'EM INTO MY HOLE!

Ash:

Ash: Against my better judgement, man...

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Brock: We're four hundred meters from home.

Ash: Centimeters.

Brock: You're right.

Claptrap: It's the metric system!

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Max: Babies are mostly soup. It's a bread bowl!

Tycho: Oh no.

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Max: But it still sounds circumstantial. Is it circumstantial, Sam? Am I using that term correctly?

Sam: No.

Max: See?

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Ash: Give me your money. Give me your money. Give me your money.

Brock: I don't have your money.

Ash: Give me your money. Give me your money.

Sam: I think Ash wants your money.

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Sam: Are we friendshipping right?

Brock: Couldn't tell you.

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Tycho: Gallantly streaming.

Max: Yeah, the gallant stream!

Strongbad: I'm gallantly streaming, I don't know what you guys are doing.

Tycho: Yeah, we're gallantly streaming!

Strongbad: I feel pretty gallant.

Tycho: That's everyone's vocab word of the day. Gallant. What's it mean, you might ask?

Tycho: Fuckin' Google it, you lazy shits.

Max: When you buy milk at the grocery store, that's a gallant of milk.

[supportingjatpcast]

Where to find the JATP Cast as of December 12, 2024

happy four years to this account! you know the drill. let's get silly with it and check up on where everyone is nowadays:

Madison Reyes- Julie Molina (@themadisonreyes on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

The Bad Seed Returns

All Kinds of Love (available on all music streaming platforms)

Allie Mitchell Must Win (in preproduction)

Charlie Gillespie- Luke Patterson (@charles_gillespie on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

The Class

Love You Anyway

Chevel Shepard: Good Boy (music video)

The Rest of Us

Madison Park: better w/o you (music video)

Conséquences (six episodes)

I Am the Night (pilot episode)

Speed Kills

Charmed 2018 (Pilot and Episode 2)

Naomi Sequeira: Pastries (music video)

2nd Generation (episodes 1-6)

The Next Step (season 5, episode 17)

Degrassi: Next Class (season 4, episodes 8 and 10)

The Outlaw League

Totally Killer

The Get Back Girl (postproduction)

Suze

Deltopia

Debbie Gibson: Love Don't Care (music video)

Shattered Ice (postproduction)

Soul's Road

Splitsville

Owen Patrick Joyner- Alex Mercer (@owenjoyner on Instagram and Twitter)

Julie and the Phantoms

Acapulco (season 2, episode 3)

Knight Squad

Henry Danger (season 5, episode 9)

Slime Cup (season 3, episodes 1-6)

The Thundermans (season 4, episode 15)

The Veil

It’s On

100 Things to Do Before High School

Nickelodeon’s Ho Ho Holiday Special

Something Here (postproduction)

Final Destination: Bloodlines (postproduction)

Jeremy Shada- Reggie Peters (@jeremyshada on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

Interrupting Chicken (season 1, episode 3)

Dragons: The Nine Realms

Multiversus

Adventure Time: Distant Lands

Cookie Run Kingdom (English version)

Scars

Denton’s Death Date

Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion

Voltron: Legendary Defender

Adventure Time

Mr. Student Body President

Spiderman 2018 (season 2, episode 1)

Cheerleader Nightmare

Blooms Adventure Time TD

When Jeff Tried to Save the World

DreamWorks Voltron VR Chronicles

Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series

Gloria Talks Funny

Cartoon Network Live

Surfs Up 2: WaveMania

Adventure Time: Finn & Jake Investigations

Lego Dimensions

Badly Drawn Animals

Adventure Time: All’s Well That Rats Swell

Code Name: S.T.E.A.M

Adventure Time: Game Wizard

Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom

Adventure Time: Card Wars

Aliens in the House

Adventure Time: Ski Safari

Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don’t Know!

See Dad Run (season 2, episode 8)

Incredible Crew (season 1, episodes 1-18)

Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?!!

Paranorman

Adventure Time: The Wand

F.3.A.R.

That’s What I Am

Batman: The Brave and the Bold (season 1, episode 18; season 2, episodes 6, 18, 19; season 3 episodes 1, 3)

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey

Parenthood (season 1, episodes 4-5)

Healing Hands

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Chowder (season 2, episode 24)

FusionFall

Cold Case (season 5, episode 1)

The Loop (season 2, episode 4)

Lost (season 2, episode 12; season 3, episode 21)

Ghost Whisperer (season 2, episodes 21-22)

Shark (season 1, episode 16)

Southern Comfort

Nip/Tuck (season 4, episode 13)

Bambi 2: The Great Prince of the Forest

No Rules

ER (season 11, episode 6)

The Incredibles: When Danger Calls

Team America: World Police

Miracle Run

Good Girls Don’t… (season 1, episode 4)

My Neighbors the Yamadas

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake (season 1 episodes 2,3,5,7,10)

Battle For A Free Video Game (Season 1, episode 6)

Cookie Run: Witch's Castle

Vintage (available on all music streaming platforms)

Ballerina (available on all music streaming platforms)

Mad Love (available on all music streaming platforms)

Midnight Promises (available on all music streaming platforms)

Jadah Marie- Flynn Taylor (@thejadahmarie on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

Family Reunion (season 4, episodes 4-5)

Home Invasion (season 1, episodes 1-6)

Sarah Jeffery and Jadah Marie: Audrey’s Christmas Rewind

Descendants 3

Descendants 3: Good to Be Bad (music video)

Ready Player One

Mann and Wife

Blue Bloods (season 7, episode 8)

9-1-1 (season 7, episode 2)

Sacha Carlson- Nick (@sacha_carlson on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

9-1-1 l: Lone Star (season 3, episode 14)

American Housewife (season 3, episodes 6-7)

A Christmas Story Live!

Everything I Ever Wanted

Sacha Carlson & The Light (check out his band!)

Savannah Lee May- Carrie Wilson (@savannahleemay on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

A Cowgirl’s Song

The Secret Lives of Cheerleaders

Knight Squad

Cousins for Life (season 1, episode 12)

Bizaardvark (season 2, episode 20)

School of Rock (season 3, episode 6)

Dance Rivals

Booboo Stewart- Willie (@booboostewart.art on Instagram)

(look, i adore booboo. i do. but this man has 114 acting credits on IMDB, and there is no way that i am typing all of them out and including exactly what episodes of shows he’s in. and that's not even mentioning things where he is credited as a stunt performer or listed on a soundtrack. love you all, but i do actually have a life outside of stanning the jatp cast, so im just linking his imdb page here. happy searching babes!)

Carlos Ponce- Ray Molina (@poncecarlos1 on Instagram)

(Carlos has 54 acting credits, and many are in Spanish, a language that i do not speak. check out his IMDb page here.)

Sonny Bustamante- Carlos Molina

Julie and the Phantoms

7th & Union

Law & Order True Crime (season 1, episodes 3-5)

New Shoes

Heaven’s Flume

That Girl Lay Lay (season 1, episode 1)

Cheyenne Jackson- Caleb Covington (@MrCheyenneJackson on Instagram)

(Cheyenne has 71 acting credits. I'm not typing all that out, because I doubt that you want to read all of that and also I have a full time job that isn't JATP related. Check him out here!)

[starry-mist]

Might as well wrap up s1.

At this point I wish I’d kept a tally of Degrassi alumni.

This is one of the first episodes that had me screaming “ARE THEY SERIOUS” when Charah flirted over the evidence.

They’ve repeated “capacitor” so many times that the word has lost all meaning for me. (Just kidding. I have actually no idea what a capacitor in the first place.)

I was wrong about them blowing their explosion budget in episode 8. Apparently they could afford one more.

First of many characters named Fiona throughout the series.

First of two episodes in which Annie Drury’s “Time to Grow” is used in the soundtrack. (Yeah I have a Hudson and Rex playlist on the go.)

"In the future, dogs might be our first line of defense against the inevitable alien invasion". Well, that's a thing... that was said... on this show.

I’ll blame my current X-Files rewatch for the fact that I didn’t even register that line as bizarre. 🤣

Hudson and Rex S01E13 - The Rex Files

This is one of their good title puns lol. And a good episode, although as it happens often on this show, not exactly season material. It's also crazy that we can't agree on which is the season finale for S1. Anyway, IMDb and my copies say this one.

Charlie just took that car crash case just because Rex's nose said so.

Charlie: Joe, this case, I like it. Can I have it, pretty please?

Oh, it will only get worse from here, Joe.

I bet Charlie is thinking, "I had to pick the weird one" right about now. And I don't mean Jesse.

If Charlie didn't get the dead judge case that Sarah has been assigned to on forensics, then which detective did it go to? We don't have a better detective in the SJPD, do we?

Stop flirting over the evidence for one second challenge.

I think this is a good time to mention that "supernatural" cases on crimes shows are awesome and there should be more of them.

Just one of the many times we almost got blown up. No biggie.

And then he tells Sarah he knows her lunch order.

That's one way to trigger Star Wars fans and Trekkies with one move. Charlie, you little shit.

Just some quality dog content.

Song intermission past the halfway mark. For no reason other than to show the city of St. John's lol

We already got to the point where Joe has to order Charlie to go home. Just think of poor Rex!

We were stuck on that shot for like a minute. Is it some kind of watch advertisement? Editing department, I'll never get you.

Charlie chastising Jesse for splitting with Tyler. I mean, he's right. If this was a horror movie, Tyler would be dead. Now, he's just kidnapped.

"In the future, dogs might be our first line of defense against the inevitable alien invasion". Well, that's a thing... that was said... on this show.

Charlie might have initially chastised Jesse but afterwards he is way more gentle as he sees that Jesse blames himself for Tyler's disappearance.

I'm sorry, what about three men poring over files is cool, Sarah?

Okay, I've seen way too many times that even when Charlie and Rex are chasing someone and they're pressed for time, Charlie would still open the car door for Rex and lose precious seconds. I don't think that ever happened in the original. And given that I've see that Diesel can clearly jump in and out of the car from the car window, I don't know why they keep doing this.

There was a lot of running in this episode.

Oh, girl, why would you let a man take credit for you work? And then murder him for it? And then confess all of that before asking for a lawyer?

Geek convention.

[missbaphomet]

Hey like I'm sorry bad things happened to you but these aren't all universal experiences. Girlhood is absolutely not about molestation and abuse. Girlhood isn't about anything other than growing from an infant into an adult, and I don't feel there needs to be any special significance attached. If you were hurt during that time, it's not because "that's what Girlhood is", it's because unfortunately you crossed paths with people willing to do you harm.

Many women, myself included, have never had an issue with being cat called. Even then, this isn't violence.

This is called puberty. I would go as far as saying bleeding through your pants is something every woman on the planet has experienced at least once. This is not violence— it's growing up.

Breast pain during development comes from the fact your breasts are developing. Are you really not familiar with the colloqialism "growing pains"? I promise a teenage boy who is also going through puberty and experiencing all the discomfort and pain that comes with it.is not sending brainwaves that make your boobs hurt.

Girls can and do assault boys in the hallway. A lot of my male friends have stories of being groped or touched inappropriately, as do many of my female friends. I also have friends that have been assaulted by their same sex. This is not a 'women's only' issue.

Also not a universal experience. I have never had a 'rape talk', nor has anyone I've known, even friends of mine that have actually been raped.

What does 'girlhood is invasive' even mean? Are you doing the encroaching, or are you being encroached upon? Is it the mere concept of being a child?

You are not obligated to use tampons, alternate methods exist (pads, period underwear, diva cups, etc). I'm assuming by 'fingers' you are leaning into being sexually assaulted (which again is not an inherent part of being a young girl)? People are going to make comments that make you uncomfortable or upset you, and not all of them are going to be sexual. Self advocate, enforce boundaries, and avoid people that make you uncomfortable.

This isn't part of 'girlhood', this is a symptom of trauma.

There really isn't an easy way to tackle this, because a situation like this has so many moving parts and missing context and there are a million and one different ways this could turn out with one or both parties being in the wrong. However proper sexual education and classes on things like birth control, consent, and self advocacy would solve so many of these cases.

Again, men can and have been also touched and groped inappropriately without their consent. Speculums and doctor's offices are part of being a healthy person. Your obgyn using a speculum during any number of procedures isn't for their own sick sense of pleasure, it's because it is a tool designed to make treatment easier.

This feels like demonizing medical care. I had extremely heavy cycles. It was almost guaranteed I was going to have an iron deficiency each month. I got cysts. Birth control was an option presented to me (that I originally denied, mind you) that I was allowed to choose or not choose. Ultimately birth control has been one of the best decisions I have ever made for my health. If it's not something you want, you don't have to take it. If it doesn't work for you, you don't have to keep taking it. You are not obligated to take any medicine or treatment you don't want to.

Girlhood is a period of time during which you grow up, nothing more.

Girlhood is a period of time during which you grow up, nothing more.

If trans women feel joy in expressing femininity and find happiness in feminine things, then by God I hope they find the spinniest skirt available and spin until they can't stand anymore. I hope they feel comfortable and safe as their most authentic selves.

Stop demonizing growing up. Stop pretending that being a little girl is inherently traumatic. Stop dramatizing being young. This is real life, not a season of Degrassi or Pretty Little Liars or whatever other youth drama.

[james5-doe]

Episode Review: "100 Proof Highway"

In this admirably written and well-acted episode, scripters Chris Bunch and Allan Cole present a social message about the perils of alcoholism, particularly with regard to drunk driving.

Jedda takes a romantic interest in her schoolmate Eric, a charmer who's fallen in with the wrong crowd and developed a drinking problem. Naturally, Jedda's friends don't want her dating the guy, but she simply won't be deterred. It's at this point that the writers, to their credit, seamlessly weave a second social message into the tale — a note about the dangers of staying in an unhealthy relationship.

Though Jedda generally has a good head on her shoulders, she's by no means perfect — which means that she's willing to make excuses for her hot bad boy.

"Everybody drinks a little," she says in Eric's defense.

"Do you?" Rick wisely asks in response.

The answer is no, but Jedda brushes that off. She's prepared to endanger herself to satisfy her desire for Eric.

And that alerts us that it's not just Eric who's in need of help. Our heroine might require some as well.

For the duration of "100 Proof Highway," DoE stops being a show about flying lasers and alien invasions. Instead, what we have in this episode is the kind of subject matter that one might expect to find in a series like the original Degrassi, which I consider the greatest teen drama of all time. While the writing here isn't quite as mature, partly because the creators don't have the luxury of getting too dark on a kids' show, we still get some solid lines that transcend genre.

On that note, it's worth mentioning that most of the adult Defenders do not appear in this installment. The writers are ultimately presenting a look at the weaknesses and strengths of young people. This episode shows us that, yes, there are times when kids will fail without proper parental intervention (Eric's parents are not aware of his drinking), but children also have the ability to succeed on their own (Rick and LJ demonstrate great discipline throughout). It all comes down to the choices you make when your parents aren't present to guide you.

As the tale progresses, Jedda goes to a party thrown by Eric, but disapproves of all the drinking there. The creators do a great job of keeping her in character here. Even though she's gone someplace she probably shouldn't be, she remains level-headed. Eventually, Jedda realizes that someone has spiked her drink, and she knows that she needs to get home. A drunken Eric begins to drive her, but causes the vehicle to hit a barricade en route. Jedda then drives herself back, wakes up in the mansion hung over, and has a fairly touching scene with LJ and Rick, who were deeply concerned.

Unbelievably, she decides to give Eric a second chance. Jedda wants to think that she can help the guy, which is somewhat admirable, I suppose. But as Rick notes, via another solid line, "Nobody can help him until he wants some help."

Ultimately, she dates Eric once more, and he crashes while driving her around again. This time, Rick and LJ have to save the couple from the wreck. That incident brings Jedda to her senses, and, fortunately, brings Eric to his. He finally decides that he does want help, and pursues counseling. In keeping with the realistic tone, the episode doesn't end with him miraculously recovered. Instead, he notes that the therapy requires a lot of dedication, but it's worth it, because he wants to live.

Hats off to everyone involved for creating what is, overall, a nicely crafted episode.

[b--tchcraft]

「   ʰᵃᵛᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ˢᵉᵉⁿ 𝓶𝓪𝔂𝓪 𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓵𝓲𝓷 ʸᵉᵗ ᵗʰⁱˢ ˢᶜʰᵒᵒˡ ʸᵉᵃʳ ?? ᵐᵃʸᵇᵉ ⁱⁿ 𝓸𝓻𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓪, 𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓲𝓻, ᵒʳ 𝓭𝓻𝓪𝓶𝓪 𝓬𝓵𝓾𝓫 ?? ⁱ ʰᵉᵃʳᵈ ˢᵒᵐᵉ ʷⁱˡᵈ ʳᵘᵐᵒʳˢ ᵃᵇᵒᵘᵗ ᵗʰᵉ 𝓼𝓲𝔁𝓽𝓮𝓮𝓷 ʸᵉᵃʳ ᵒˡᵈ ˡᵃˢᵗ ˢᵉᵐᵉˢᵗᵉʳ, ᵇᵘᵗ ⁿᵒʷ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᵗʰᵉʸ’ʳᵉ ᵃ 𝓳𝓾𝓷𝓲𝓸𝓻 ⁱᵗ ᵐⁱᵍʰᵗ ᵇᵉ ᵃ ᵈⁱᶠᶠᵉʳᵉⁿᵗ ˢᵗᵒʳʸ. ᵃᶜᶜᵒʳᵈⁱⁿᵍ ᵗᵒ ᵗʰᵉⁱʳ ᶠʳⁱᵉⁿᵈˢ ᵗʰᵉʸ’ʳᵉ ᵖʳᵉᵗᵗʸ 𝓭𝓻𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓷, ᵇᵘᵗ ˢᵒᵐᵉᵗⁱᵐᵉˢ 𝓼𝓱𝓮 ᶜᵃⁿ ᵇᵉ 𝓶𝓮𝓭𝓭𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰. ʷʰᵒ ᵏⁿᵒʷˢ, ᵗʰⁱˢ ᵐⁱᵍʰᵗ ʲᵘˢᵗ ᵇᵉ 𝓱𝓮𝓻 ʸᵉᵃʳ !   」

LIGHTNING ROUND

full name: maya ruby matlin

date of birth: may 9, 2004 @ 11:50 AM (16y/o)

star signs: taurus sun, leo rising, capricorn moon

birth order: youngest

gender: cis female (she/her)

sexuality: bisexual

romanticism: biromantic

personality: ambivert, idealist, infp-t

moral alignment: neutral good

temperament: melancholy-choleric

hogwarts house: slytherin

spirituality: undecided, only vaguely spiritual

positive traits: tender, prodigious, visionary

negative traits: naive, intrusive, self-involved

faceclaim: kiernan shipka

AN OVERVIEW

tw: illness (multiple sclerosis), hospitals, overdose, addiction, eating disorder, mental illness, anxiety, depression

this interpretation of maya matlin is a little bit all over the place since i wanted to have her come in on a mostly fresh note (especially since so much is au around here so obviously a lot of her more formative plotlines didn't happen) but i wanted to keep what i consider to be some of her key character traits. so some liberties have been taken not that anyone ever cares xx

maya was interested in music from a very young age while simultaneously always having trouble with making friends. when she was in second grade and her parents noticed that she’d been invited to way less playdates and birthday parties than her older sister, katie matlin, did by her age, they figured getting her music lessons would be a good way to both enrich and socialize her. 

the cello was love at first sight for maya. her parents tried to talk her down to a violin since she was comically small compared to the larger instrument, but she couldn't be swayed. she was also a natural when she got her first lesson as a sort of trial run, and so maya x cello began.

growing up hearing things like gifted and talented, even child prodigy did make her ego grow with her, but it wasn’t without reason—even she could see how much she excelled in orchestra compared to her classmates, to the point where she took up other instruments along the way just to keep feeling challenged. but other than that, she didn’t have much going for her; her overall grades were pretty good, and she was generally nice to the other people at school (even the ones she had no problem telling her family she didn’t like) but no friendships ever stuck. music really was like her one thing. 

so, her parents did what they could to nourish it—including enrolling her in a middle school for the performing arts, which she loved. but in a few years when katie started high school at degrassi and was more well-rounded than ever—having friends, clubs, soccer, taekwondo, etc.—it really did highlight how little maya did outside of her little musical world. mr. & mrs. matlin started to worry that, in allowing and encouraging this, they were only enabling maya to alienate herself from other people and opportunities in the world. so, much to her dismay, the next year she, too, was enrolled at degrassi. 

with lots of cliques and friend groups carrying over from previous schools, maya felt like a new kid in the worst way. luckily for her, one kendra mason noticed how much she looked like a lost puppy and took her under her wing, already knowing her way around despite being in the same grade since she had an older brother in katie’s grade and already knew most of their peers. to say that maya latched onto bonding with kendra would be a massive understatement, and the two have been best friends ever since.

although maya’s made no secret of her disdain for how undemanding degrassi’s music curriculum is, with kendra’s friendship (and the way she has no problem telling maya when she’s being a little brat) she finally started branching out more, joining a few clubs, making some more friends, getting crushes (lots of crushes) and just enjoying being a teenager for the first time, like, ever. so, imagine her heartbreak when she found out kendra was gonna be going away to boarding school the following year. 

despite how much more involved she was now, maya started sophomore year feeling lost all over again. however, she at least knew that kendra’s ex, toby isaacs, would be missing kendra just as much as she did, especially since it wasn’t like they had broken up on bad terms. so the two gravitated towards each other—well, no, it was more like: maya gravitated towards him, which got them to hang out more and actually become closer friends, and that was nice for both of them...but maya also totally developed a big crush on toby in the process that was not only unrequited but unspoken about so that no one would ever know (except maybe katie, who could always read maya like a book). it really wasn’t even that she had any intention of dating him, he had just kind of become her closest friend at degrassi without kendra there and they both bonded over missing her and it was nice, and i mean, it’s toby, he’s nice, and funny, and adorable, and oh my god did maya not want to be feeling any kind of way about her best friend’s ex and had a whole lot of feelings about the whole thing and wrote a whole lot of songs about it that she never wants to see the light of day. but she never did get rid of the journal she wrote them in.

eventually she got over it, at first because the weirdness of it all turned her off from the whole idea of liking him, but then especially when she found out kendra was coming back. whether that had more to do with guilt about ever having crushed on toby in the first place or just the sheer excitement of getting her bestie again remains unclear. she just tries not to think about it too much. 

A RUNDOWN

maya’s trademark savior complex is still very present, having started with her mom; with her dad usually working and katie always busy, maya grew up spending a lot of time alone with her mother, who suffers from multiple sclerosis. while, fortunately, margaret matlin maintained a lot of her independence, some days were worse than others as with any chronic illness, and maya was always checking in on her and seeing if there was anything she could do to help. her compulsion to “save” her loved ones later grew when katie wound up hospitalized from an overdose, and maya learned (from general talk among the parents and medical staff) that not only did her sister have a pill addiction but had struggled with disordered eating as well. 

although none of it had anything to do with her, maya couldn’t help but feel like things might not have gotten so bad had she monitored katie more closely like she did their mother, but she didn’t want to make it about herself, so she just kept quiet about these thought patterns, only internalizing it more. at the fault of no one in particular, this developed into a sort of anxiety, which makes her worry a little too much about her friends and family—often to the point of nosiness or straight-up invasion of privacy in the pursuit of a maya matlin wellness check.  the fact that she goes to degrassi, of course, doesn’t make this any better, by the way, with all of the shit that goes down there all the time.

this habit of catastrophizing has also led to a currently undiagnosed mild depression, which often even seems totally latent in her behavior but does circle back to worsening her anxiety. she tends to fixate on stressors (usually personal, but sometimes as big as world events) and will have racing/spiraling thoughts. her lower points tend to be worsened based on circumstance, so she’s more likely to “look” or “seem” depressed in times of higher personal distress, contrasting the heightened nerves and paranoia that will often come beforehand (and serves as a good warning sign). basically, the girl needs therapy, we’ll get there eventually.

ANYTHING ELSE?

i definitely played up the amount she was affected by her mom and katie (even tho i will argue that those were starting points in her mental health journey) but since we’re in a super au and i was trying to serve fresh maya realness alongside later!maya personality/mentality traits, i kinda had to chopshop her backstory a little. that’s also why this turned out so long, i knew i had some differences that needed some explaining.

(also pls note if we do get a katie who doesn’t want to keep the aforementioned plots OR wants to change it up some, i’m obviously open to that!)

i also figure that maya’s relationship with katie would be figured out more when/if we get a katie, but by default, i like to imagine they’re very close with a pretty clear “wiser big sister looking out for her baby sister who thinks she knows everything” dynamic, like best friends but katie puts on the big sister hat when she needs to.

i’m also trying to be very mindful of her mental health because i don’t want her to be quite the extent she ever reaches in next class, but i did also appreciate and apparently relate to a lot of the nuances in how her mental illness really surfaced and inevitably spiraled. so she’s going to be a little mix of happy lil early day maya and the nervous wreck she became later one, with just a splash of next class’s touches like “disaster porn” and having days where stays home from school because she just feels too down. basically, it fluctuates.

maya kind of always knew that she was bi, but like, quietly, since it’s never really been a big deal to her but she also didn’t want to seem like she was looking for attention (not for that, anyway). she definitely acts more outwardly boy-crazy though.

she is also a serial crusher and goes through them faster than even she can keep up with. other than toby, some highlights of the crushes she’s had include: adam torres, alena montanez, alex nunez, amy peters-hoffman, ashley kerwin (like, right when she started her cool goth look), danny van zandt, dave turner, imogen moreno, reggie dever, sean cameron, spinner mason, yael baron, and obviously zig novak. she’s totally got a thing for cam saunders at the moment, and she thinks that craig is, like, the coolest, but not even in a dating kinda way just in a wow-you’re-so-cool-and-talented-i-wanna-open-up-for-you-on-tour-one-day-pls-notice-me-senpai kinda way. and she’s almost definitely felt some type of way about kendra that’s more than friends, more than once, at some point, but even she hasn’t realized that.

despite the fact that she’s got a song written for almost half the school, maya has never dated anyone or even had her first kiss! obviously nothing wrong with that, but a fun trivia bit.

the basement of the matlin house is practically dedicated to being maya’s studio. it’s like half practice room, half hangout, filled with just about every instrument maya took an interest in over the years (mostly string instruments, some miscellaneous, she’s currently trying to build up a drumset that she’s convinced she’s gonna teach herself, and her next fantasy/goal is to get a theremin) as well as an iMac with a composition and production softwares, a sound system, and then just like a couch and a tv and stuff. it’s a pretty impressive amount of musical equipment that looks like a lot (and it is) but again, it’s really like her one thing and her parents want her to be happy. most of it comes from various holidays and occasions since she only ever really asks for additions to her collection as gifts, so between that and random bits and pieces she saved up to buy herself (and a few her parents just felt like treating her to) it’s built up over the years. 

yeah i literally always play maya with this basement, it’s basically become a staple of my maya matlins, i’ve designed it a couple of times but i’ll probably redo it once more for this verse because it’s her favorite place to hang out.

aaand i’m gonna make myself end there because i’ll just keep going and this is already far too long but yeah welcome to the world my latest edition in maya matlins~ 

[waitingtoexhale]

Queer Media One Tragic at a Time Has Reprogrammed My Brain

I find myself continually lowering my standards for the type of media I consume. Queer character? Check. Limited tragedy? Check. At least once instance of happiness? Check. Alright, that’s good enough for me. I LOVE THIS *insert media type here* SHOW, MOVIE, SONG! But, along with the good comes the bad and the ugly. Along with the brief instances of happy, complex, characters come the violence, the stereotypes, the woe. At this point, simply having a queer character that doesn’t die is the best I can hope for and that truly stresses me out. On a regular basis.

In Queer Youth Cultures, Karen said it perfectly, “I think there's a lack of homosexual characters who are presented in a positive and uplifting, or not even positive and uplifting but just represented on the screen or in the media in general. I guess it's a desire to have a voice. I know this sounds like pure shit, but it's a desire to have a voice, to feel that l'm being spoken for or even just represented. But that there's a voice up there that's representing, or at least trying to represent my own experience. I want to have a say in what's going on and I'm not willing to just accept the images that are represented in front of me as being the only possibility. I take it maybe beyond its limitations of what's there. I try to expand, try to just open it up to possible choices that exist for me that might not exist for the creators for that particular film or TV show. But I will be heard” (2008, p.175-176).

Shameless acceptance of the toxic gay dynamic:

While sexuality is particular to each individual, the social constructions of heterosexuality and homosexuality are cultural categories humans use to make sense of their sexuality (Queer Analysis, 2010, p.198). Shameless, an American comedy-drama television series based on a British show of the same name, stars Cameron Monaghan as Ian, a closeted teenage boy who realizes he is gay and navigates the complexities of his queerness as a social identity and Noel Fisher as Mickey, a closeted homophobic thug who upon realizing he is gay engages in a sexual relationship with the one other queer person he knows who also happens to be the kid he violently bullied. Ian and Mickey start as a toxic portrayal of settling and acceptability in its truest form. Ian is in a predatory relationship with an adult and still possess a great deal of internalized homophobia when he is essentially propositioned by Mickey and their turbulent relationship begins. Mickey is struggling between his desires as a closeted gay teen and his need to match the criminal ideals expected of his father and family name. They are an explosive pair that seem to cause each other physical pain and mental anguish, yet the fans are wholly supportive. Even when healthy potential partners are introduced, the toxic couple of Ian and Mickey are reunited time and time again because media has established a trope where queer characters are only allowed complicated togetherness. Queer characters are punished for choosing their queerness and therefore not allowed true love and happiness. Despite having this knowledge and nothing in common personally with these characters, I love this couple and I love this pairing, so I am part of the problem. I am a product of this generation of idolizing toxic behaviors between characters because unfortunately those are the only “happy” queer characters I have seen continually produced. I have settled into a pattern of accepting negative stereotypes as simply good enough. I have traded the simple fact that the queer character doesn’t die for the harsh reality of their lives.

Another sad queer lacking Glee:

When queer characters are introduced, there are a set number of personality types and lived experiences they are allowed to have. Take Dave Kurofsky from Glee who serves as the closeted homophobic bully who after being outed in the “On My Way” episode attempts suicide and is comforted by the out-and-proud effeminate Kurt, a previous victim of Kurofsky’s wrath. We get to observe the pointed shift in Kurofsky’s personality from homophobic bully to repentant closeted queer, but the lack of character development unfortunately makes it difficult to feel sorry for him as a character. Instead, as an audience, we are forced to revel in “media representations of queer culture as essentialist, marking out the dichotomies between male and female, heterosexual versus homosexual (Queer Youth Cultures, 2008, p.175). Kurofsky is unable to learn what it means to be a queer man and grow from his internalized homophobia because he is coming his existence and framing his life experiences through that of Kurt; this is apparent when Kurofsky is unable to dance with Kurt at prom because of the perception of gayness. We accept Kurofsky’s story as powerful and real and heartbreaking because it is, but at what point do content creators have an obligation to tell the story a different way, in a positive uplifting light?

Degrassi: The Next Generation of bury your gays tropes:

Degrassi: The Next Generation, a Canadian teen drama television series, made history for tackling the tough social issues affecting teens, but frequently not talked about. They embraced diversity in their casting and range of topics covered while spearheading a progressive movement of introducing characters traditionally absent from popular media. Adam, a trans male character played by a cis female actress is a well-rounded first introduction to many into the lives of trans youth. The audience is familiarized with concepts such as passing and outing as well as the complexities involved in sexuality vs gender. Adam, besides being inaccurately portrayed by a cis woman, which is damaging to the idea that trans folks are the gender they have identified with rather than their gender assigned at birth, provides a much needed avenue of representation for queer youth in popular media. Continuing with our previously identified tropes, as a result of Adam being happy, relatively healthy, and well-liked he has to die. Queer characters are not afforded regular happiness in media they are given a taste then sacrificed as tools of writing via violence, sacrifice, or martyrdom. Adam is not gay bashed or driven to suicide as other queer characters are, but instead tragically killed as a texting while driving PSA. This death is particularly hard felt because Adam was truly shaping out to be a normal high school kid facing the complexities of life and surviving, but the creators, once again, took a queer character as the source for a lesson in some predetermined idea that queer happiness is short lived and tragic regardless of circumstance. There is a need for punishment of their queerness.

Queer punishment, a Supernatural concept:

What do shipping, fandoms, and heteronormative dominant culture have in common? Queerbaiting. Queerbaiting, “a term employed by media fans to criticize homoerotic suggestiveness in contemporary television when this suggestiveness is not actualized in the program narrative” (Brennan, 2016, p.1). A concept typically negatively connoted is a primary tool of heteronormative culture ensuring queer culture remains as a subculture rather than its own, established independent source of media. Audiences, particularly queer individuals, are forced to imagine scenarios and worlds where their identities are represented and dominant. “By creating a fantasy space, queer youth have an environment where they are free to explore many possibilities” (Queer Youth Culture, 2008, p.174). From these creative worlds come the likes of couples like Dean and Castiel (#Destiel) from Supernatural. The creators introduce intimacy and connectedness; the couple is ideal and non-stereotypical or superficial. Unfortunately, our trend of no happy endings for queer media continues because despite the fan observations and urging this couple is never acknowledged or confirmed as such. They instead give several seasons of romantic teasing culminating in a teary subversive confession immediately preceded by death and not just any death, a death where Castiel, an angel character is drug to hell. The sub context is overwhelming in deciding queerness is so offensive that any acknowledgement to the sort should result in punishment akin to biblical reckoning.

Lingua Franca, the road to universal language and communication:

Even as queer media continually evolves becoming evermore accurate and inclusive the conditioning I have been subjected to, as a consumer of queer media, completely reprogram my brain. While watching something as relevant and present as Lingua Franca I am unable to completely enjoy the film as I am waiting for the proverbial other shoe to drop. Lingua Franca is a progressive film about a trans Filipina woman seeking a path to legal immigration in Trump’s America. The film is written, directed, and stars Isabel Sandoval an actual trans woman of color and therefore the portrayal is very real. As a film about a trans woman, the pace is melodic and light while the subject matter is focused on the life of Olivia rather than her transition or identity as a trans woman. While watching the film, I found it beyond refreshing that there were no invasive surgery questions or blatant misgendering by supposed loved ones. That being said, as a first watch through, it was anxiety inducing; the lack of discussion regarding Olivia’s trans identity led me to worry for her safety in a cis-heteropatriarchal world. When Olivia is engaging in her relationship with Alex I see the natural connections, simplicity, sensuality, and beauty, but I also worry about the potential for the violence I have come to expect when viewing true queer happiness. The scene where Olivia is outed by Alex’s friend shifted the entire tone of the film for me as I watched Alex spiral and truly cringed at the thought of watching another film showing an act of physical violence against a trans woman of color. While that thankfully did not happen, the fact that I remained restless throughout the entirety of the film waiting for it alludes to this reprogramming of sorts that has occurred. Creators show queer characters as poor unfortunate souls brought down by their queer identities therefore, I have come to expect and root for in some regards, a victim. There are limited instances when I can truly enjoy a queer film without a sinking feeling in my stomach waiting for the catch, waiting to exhale and simply experience queer joy.

[unfriendedhqs]

“I hide hurt behind a fake smile. I wear it all the time. Everyone says how I always look so cheerful. Shows what they know, I guess.” 

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No one can know what's going on inside someone's head. That much was made very clear  one unwitting morning in August, as the body of Campbell Saunders was discovered.

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Classmate and NHL draftee Campbell Saunders has died. His body was discovered by another student early one morning, his injuries appearing to be self-inflicted. As the news spreads, students are dealing with the loss in different ways, but when Alli Bhandari goes missing on the morning of the memorial, rumors begin to circulate that perhaps she hasn’t run off to escape the tragedy, but instead might be the next.

UNFRIENDEDHQS is a literate and active Skeleton roleplay, based on Canon and AU events from Degrassi and Degrassi: Next Class. Days after Campbell’s suicide, the student body starts receiving ominous texts, videos and threats over social media. The source hasn’t been able to be tracked, and the messages are getting more invasive, leaving everyone to wonder what’s in store.

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[jennortegas]

Tagged by @valeskahaha

nickname: lex 

gender: female

star sign: pisces

height: 5′4

time: 2:27pm

birthday: March 8th

nationality: mexican american

favorite band: Fleetwood Mac

favorite solo artist: Cyndi Lauper

favorite food: mcdonalds (specifically chicken nuggets and fries)

favorite color: oooh shit its tied between periwinkle and blush

what are you wearing?: a shirt I got from a high school baskesball game and pajama shorts from the disney animators collection

last thing you googled: “screaming pepe” dont ask

last show you watched: degrassi

last movie you watched: terrorvision

lucky number: 24

when did you create your blog?: i believe in April 2014

what do you normally post?: gotham,descendants, memes

do you have another blog?: no but i have like 5 other urls saved

do you get asks?: yes but i would honestly want more!!! I lowkey feel like people are afraid or nervous to send asks but im nice I swear!! as long as its not super invasive or just creepy then we good i should do an about me page tbh

why did you choose your url?: i love evie and I love thomas doherty ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

blogs you follow: omfg i follow 732 blogs but the mains are @valeskahaha @heburnedthebrightest @softvaleska @whitewolf-dianaprince @icannotwaituntilspringbabe (im missing a ton more, i swear i love yall)

average amount of sleep: like 6 hours ????

dream trip: london trip, but realistically, a full week trip to disneyland

instruments: none

blankets you sleep with: 1, at most, 3

i tag @avengcer @viva-la-leia-organa @bi-steve-harringt0n and whoever else wants to do it!

[seasonallydefective]

I watched The Faculty recently, a 1998 “invasion of the body snatchers” type horror flick. One of the characters is “lesbian coded” for lack of a better word, and is bullied because of it. At the end, she starts dating a guy, and the takeaway seems to be that you shouldn’t bully people for being lesbians, because they might not be!!

I grew up around messages like that, but I also grew up in a world with Degrassi and South of Nowhere and The L Word and Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” (you’ll laugh but that was our anthem in late middle school). I grew up thinking I might actually live to see equal marriage rights codified in law, and now the weirdest thing about that was thinking I “might”.

The world moves fast. I think we can take a little solace in how quickly society at large in many places has changed in our favor.

Thus is the defining characteristic of gay millennials: we straddle the pre-Glee and post-Glee worlds. We went to high school when faggot wasn't even considered an F-word, when being a lesbian meant boys just didn't want you, when being nonbinary wasn't even a remote option. We grew up without queer characters in our cartoons or Nickelodeon or Disney or TGIF sitcoms. We were raised in homophobia, came of age as the world changed around us, and are raising children in an age where it's never been easier to be same-sex parents. We're both lucky and jealous. As the state of gay evolved culturally and politically, we were old enough to see it and process it and not take it for granted--old enough to know what the world was like without it. Despite the success of Drag Race, the existence of lesbian Christmas rom-coms, and openly transgender Oscar nominees, we haven't moved on from the trauma of growing up in a culture that hates us. We don't move on from trauma, really. We can't really leave it in the past. It becomes a part of us, and we move forward with it.

For LGBTQ+ milennials, our pride is couched in painful memories of a culture repulsed and frightened by queerness. That makes us skittish. It makes us loud. It makes us fear that all this progress, all this tolerance [...] can vanish as quickly as it all appeared.

The 2000s Made Me Gay, Grace Perry

[supportingjatpcast]

Where to find the JATP Cast as of December 12, 2023

happy three years to this account! Time to do my thing and update yall on where you can find the cast now! this will be under a read more for those of you who want to scroll past! Have a good one!

Madison Reyes- Julie Molina (@themadisonreyes on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

The Bad Seed Returns

All Kinds of Love (available on all music streaming platforms)

Allie Mitchell Must Win (in preproduction)

Charlie Gillespie- Luke Patterson (@charles_gillespie on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

The Class

Love You Anyway

Chevel Shepard: Good Boy (music video)

The Rest of Us

Madison Park: better w/o you (music video)

Conséquences (six episodes)

I Am the Night (pilot episode)

Speed Kills

Charmed 2018 (Pilot and Episode 2)

Naomi Sequeira: Pastries (music video)

2nd Generation (episodes 1-6)

The Next Step (season 5, episode 17)

Degrassi: Next Class (season 4, episodes 8 and 10)

The Outlaw League

Totally Killer

The Get Back Girl (postproduction)

Suze

Deltopia

Debbie Gibson: Love Don't Care (music video)

Owen Patrick Joyner- Alex Mercer (@owenjoyner on Instagram and Twitter)

Julie and the Phantoms

Acapulco (season 2, episode 3)

Knight Squad

Henry Danger (season 5, episode 9)

Slime Cup (season 3, episodes 1-6)

The Thundermans (season 4, episode 15)

The Veil

It’s On

100 Things to Do Before High School

Nickelodeon’s Ho Ho Holiday Special

Something Here (postproduction)

Jeremy Shada- Reggie Peters (@jeremyshada on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

Interrupting Chicken (season 1, episode 3)

Dragons: The Nine Realms

Multiversus

Adventure Time: Distant Lands

Cookie Run Kingdom (English version)

Scars

Denton’s Death Date

Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion

Voltron: Legendary Defender

Adventure Time

Mr. Student Body President

Spiderman 2018 (season 2, episode 1)

Cheerleader Nightmare

Blooms Adventure Time TD

When Jeff Tried to Save the World

DreamWorks Voltron VR Chronicles

Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series

Gloria Talks Funny

Cartoon Network Live

Surfs Up 2: WaveMania

Adventure Time: Finn & Jake Investigations

Lego Dimensions

Badly Drawn Animals

Adventure Time: All’s Well That Rats Swell

Code Name: S.T.E.A.M

Adventure Time: Game Wizard

Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom

Adventure Time: Card Wars

Aliens in the House

Adventure Time: Ski Safari

Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don’t Know!

See Dad Run (season 2, episode 8)

Incredible Crew (season 1, episodes 1-18)

Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?!!

Paranorman

Adventure Time: The Wand

F.3.A.R.

That’s What I Am

Batman: The Brave and the Bold (season 1, episode 18; season 2, episodes 6, 18, 19; season 3 episodes 1, 3)

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey

Parenthood (season 1, episodes 4-5)

Healing Hands

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Chowder (season 2, episode 24)

FusionFall

Cold Case (season 5, episode 1)

The Loop (season 2, episode 4)

Lost (season 2, episode 12; season 3, episode 21)

Ghost Whisperer (season 2, episodes 21-22)

Shark (season 1, episode 16)

Southern Comfort

Nip/Tuck (season 4, episode 13)

Bambi 2: The Great Prince of the Forest

No Rules

ER (season 11, episode 6)

The Incredibles: When Danger Calls

Team America: World Police

Miracle Run

Good Girls Don’t… (season 1, episode 4)

My Neighbors the Yamadas

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake (season 1 episodes 2,3,5,7,10)

Vintage (available on all music streaming platforms)

Ballerina (available on all music streaming platforms)

Mad Love (available on all music streaming platforms)

Midnight Promises (available on all music streaming platforms)

Jadah Marie- Flynn Taylor (@thejadahmarie on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

Family Reunion (season 4, episodes 4-5)

Home Invasion (season 1, episodes 1-6)

Sarah Jeffery and Jadah Marie: Audrey’s Christmas Rewind

Descendants 3

Descendants 3: Good to Be Bad (music video)

Ready Player One

Mann and Wife

Blue Bloods (season 7, episode 8)

No Safe Place (preproduction)

Sacha Carlson- Nick (@sacha_carlson on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

9-1-1 l: Lone Star (season 3, episode 14)

American Housewife (season 3, episodes 6-7)

A Christmas Story Live!

Sacha Carlson & The Light (check out his band!)

Savannah Lee May- Carrie Wilson (@savannahleemay on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

A Cowgirl’s Song

The Secret Lives of Cheerleaders

Knight Squad

Cousins for Life (season 1, episode 12)

Bizaardvark (season 2, episode 20)

School of Rock (season 3, episode 6)

Keep Moving (postproduction)

Booboo Stewart- Willie (@booboostewart.art on Instagram)

(look, i adore booboo. i do. but this man has 113 acting credits on IMDB, and there is no way that i am typing all of them out and including exactly what episodes of shows he’s in. love you all, but i do actually have a life outside of stanning the jatp cast, so im just linking his imdb page here. happy searching babes!)

Carlos Ponce- Ray Molina (@poncecarlos1 on Instagram)

(Carlos has 52 acting credits, and many are in Spanish, a language that i do not speak. check out his IMDb page here.)

Sonny Bustamante- Carlos Molina

Julie and the Phantoms

7th & Union

Law & Order True Crime (season 1, episodes 3-5)

New Shoes

Heaven’s Flume

Cheyenne Jackson- Caleb Covington (@MrCheyenneJackson on Instagram)

(Cheyenne has 66 acting credits. I'm not typing all that out, because I doubt that you want to read all of that. Check him out here!)

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More informations about To The Extinction

Development of the To The Extinction began in February 2016, while Square Enix and WB Games teamed up together to adapt the 2015 novel To The Extinction...And Beyond!!! by Tom Hoffman, immediately three months after its release and during the release of the eponymous BOOM! Studios graphic novel by Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen. By January 2017, during the third phase of its development, the newly established video game division of Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures, Annapurna Interactive, reportedly stealing over $500,000 from Square Enix and WB Games. As the result, Annapurna Interactive had jointly developed together with WB Games. The combined inflation during the development of TTEAB is about $75 million, making one of the most expensive video games ever developed since then. On June 10, 2017, the game is finally revealed as To The Extinction during the E3 conference at the Square Enix's panel of E3 2017, and the first full gameplay trailer released seven hours later.

On 14 January 2016, just three days after spending his 10th birthday in London, Daniel Turok talks to BBC Radio 2 in negotiations to play the role of Miles Keller in To The Extinction. His role described by Tom Hoffman as a deliberate young boy who hates many outsiders and alien invasion. "I was came out gay with my little brother Nate Turok", Daniel Turok explained his gay relationship.

In February 2016, 10-year old Daniel Turok was choosen to play Miles Keller in Square Enix's To The Extinction. He was the one of the new faces of Dazed's February 2016 issue. Of mixed Hungarian Jewish and Polish-British background, Daniel Turok's career in the UK began in 2012 with the long-running BBC medical drama series Casualty, and eventually his film debut in the UK was proved to be Attack on the Block, in which features the Star Wars newbie John Boyega and legendary British comedian Nick Frost. Before playing the role of Miles Keller, Daniel Turok gives his letter to his current talent agency named Curtis Brown, whom he signed by November 2010 (just four months before he had acquired a British citizenship), albeit his acting career began in 2009 with Degrassi: The Next Generation. His brother Nate Turok also plays the younger Miles Keller, but his acting debut was came back in the 2015 with The Goldbergs, after he briefly appeared as a toddler in the 11th season of Degrassi: The Next Generation. In 2016, Nate Turok launched career in the UK with the long running BBC drama series Hollyoaks, and his eventual film debut was proved to be Edge of Seventeen and Noel Clarke's Brotherhood (which also starring Daniel Turok). In April 2016, Daniel Turok prepared his motion capture sessions with his instructor David McMahon (known for Rise of the Tomb Raider, another video game from Square Enix). In the following days, Joseph Mederos (Degrassi: The Next Generation) and Elisabeth Ragan (Hollyoaks) joined the motion capture sessions.

The film adaptation of To The Extinction was followed its production by September 2016 in Toronto, and eventually moving to New York and London. Some sources said it was filmed in more locations like Ireland, Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Italy. The filming was eventually ended in June 2017, while the production ended in Switzerland.

In his interview with BBC in July 2017, Daniel Turok said his role as Miles Keller in To The Extinction was influenced by a CIA agent who fight against the KGB in the Cold War-era Germany. He had already read the book that already adapted both a video game and a film itself, while he purchased a book from Barnes & Noble store in his hometown of Boston. In May 2017, Daniel Turok had enjoyed his adventure around the city of Belgrade, the capital city of the Europe last remaining authoritarian country (Serbia). "I was in Belgrade for the one of the last remaining months of filming", Daniel Turok explains. In early June 2017, Daniel Turok and his other co-stars of To The Extinction were in the Swiss city of Zurich for the last days of filming. Two weeks later, Daniel Turok returned to his residence in London because he was take a rest until he started his own YouTube account on June 30 by that year.

Music and soundtrack

By May 2017, Clint Mansell composed the game's theme song, but Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor composed the game's entire music. It combines the retro-styled 1980s and early 1990s electronic music. The soundtrack features more than 100 songs performed by David Bowie, Elton John, Depeche Mode, Bob Dylan, Duran Duran, and many more.

On 25 May 2017, the Cornwall-based British singer-songwriter John Buckley recorded the Depeche Mode cover song to promote the forthcoming To The Extinction, called "Shake The Disease" alongside the Canadian newcomer Tyler Lorette, but the primary music were perfomed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. NME called the song as "the darker and emotional tribute to the 1980s and the 1990s electronic music". The song was performed at the SXSW 2018, while To The Extinction was nominated for the best game by the SXSW Game Awards.

Release and marketing

To The Extinction was released worldwide to all platforms on January 16, 2018. Two months ahead of its release, Funko released their Pop Vinyls and Mystery Minis based on the characters of To The Extinction, these are including Peter Hayes, Alice Brennan (or with flame-thrower), Miles Keller (or with his eyeglasses), David Bernard, Sam Joyce, Phillip Joyce, Lucy Keller, Megan Perez, Hannah Hughes, Hoyt, Chris Hughes and Ray Hughes.

Sales and reception

Metacritic: 86%

IGN: 7.5/10

Eurogamer: 8/10

Famitsu: 31/40

GameSpot: 7.6/10

Metro: 7.4/10

To The Extinction sold over 300,000 copies on the first day of its release, making the highest selling video game of the week in the United States and Canada during January 2018, and 220,000 copies in the United Kingdom. A few months later, To The Extinction sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide, making one of the highest selling video games by Square Enix (alongside 2013's Tomb Raider).

To The Extinction met with overwhelmingly positive reviews upon its release, with an average score of 86% on Metacritic. While giving an average rating of 7.5/10, IGN's Brandin Tyrrel hails To The Extinction as "the most historically inaccurate video game ever made". Eurogamer gave the game an 8/10, praising its intense action, dialogue mechanics, vehicle and aircraft controls, cover based systems, and recreation of the late-Cold War science fiction action adventure. David Jenkins from Metro gave the game 7.4/10, calling it a game with a blend of Just Cause, Watch Dogs, Fallout and The Last of Us, claiming over its intense and over-satisfying combat mechanics, dialogue system, stealth and cover systems, vehicle controls, unexpected storytelling and significant storyline of its main characters (such as Peter Hayes, Alice Brennan, Sam Joyce and Miles Keller).

Controversies

To The Extinction was noted being "one of the most controversial video games ever made" since 2010, as with depictions of the horrifying acts of torture, grizzly executions, cannibalism, animal cruelty, and more human sacrifices in Ireland, Angola, Congo, Ethiopia and the Romani tribes in the Balkans. The game was extensively banned in Russia and the former Soviet Union with portraying Russians negatively, and also banned in former Yugoslavia for the portrayal of its people negatively.

In Ireland and the Northern Ireland, the portrayal of the Irish people and the IRA were both negative, both decided to ban before its release. By June 2018, following the abortion referendum in Ireland, many supporters of Sinn Fein and Fianna Fail decided to lift the ban on To The Extinction, aside of its controversy over the IRA and the negative views of Ireland. In the same month, Square Enix gives the release date of To The Extinction in Ireland by the end of June, with an exception of the scenes depicting over the IRA and its nationwide armed conflict in Ireland. As the result, the British video game retailers Game Digital plc and CeX decided to not release To The Extinction all over the Northern Ireland, but GameStop decided not to release To The Extinction all over Ireland until the ban was lifted in June 2018, with an exception of the IRA. The ban described as a glorification of the IRA, as the story depicted from that book itself.

Before its release, South Africa decided to ban To The Extinction of portraying much of apartheid-era stereotypes and references. In a March 2018 interview, South African arts and culture minister Nathi Mthethwa said To The Extinction had portraying a false societies toward the black Africans and retrospecting its views over the apartheid-era South Africa to its video game.

The game was intended to be an adults only video game, but it was released to PEGI 18 rating to avoid many strong sexual content and high impact violence.

While portraying Miles Keller, actor Daniel Turok had acquired the British citizenship in 2011. His role was described by Square Enix, as a legitimate and more mixed "Jewish, American and British stereotypes", because he was one of the main protagonists of the story (alongside Peter Hayes, Alice Brennan and Sam Joyce). Daniel Turok is best known of his voice at the end of LLeju Entertainment logo, it is known for The Baytown Outlaws.

Sources courtesy of; ign.com, gamespot.com, rte.ie, theirishtimes.com, bbc.co.uk/news, news24.com, rt.com, france24.com, gameinformer.com, destructoid.com, kotaku.com, polygon.com, metro.co.uk, cnn.com, belfasttelegraph.co.uk, en.wikipedia.org.

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Julie and the Phantoms

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The Rest of Us

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Speed Kills

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Thomas Kerner Hoffman said the adaptation of To The Extinction will be filmed in the one of the Europe's last remaining authoritarian countries.

Roberto Cano and Elise Grayson will board on Mandeville Films’s To The Extinction, and it will be filmed in UK, Canada, France, Italy, Croatia and Serbia. It will be based on the 2016 graphic novel “To The Extinction!” writted by Thomas Kerner Hoffman and illustrated by Sam Curry and Jamie McKelvie, set during the end of the communist era from 1989 through 1993, in which alien invaders ravaged around the world. It will be starred alongside Madeleine Hill (Hollyoaks), Max Ragan (Holby City), Tom Birdsey (Hollyoaks), Sam Jackson-Arnesen (Happy Valley, Casualty), Thomas Fredrik Johansson (The Dumping Ground), Wade Joubert (Degrassi, Downton Abbey), Jacob Bartosz (Downton Abbey) and Miles Somerville (Luke Cage). The film would be held its premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Festival on 11 November 2017. Filming began in October 2016 in Toronto, Canada, and moving to the various places including UK, France, Italy, Serbia and Croatia, but the filming concluded in June 2017. A tie in video game “To The Extinction!”, will be available in December 2017 in iOS and Android devices, followed by Playstation 4, Xbox One, PC, PSVita, Nintendo Switch and 3DS in January 2018, but WB Games won the rights for “To The Extinction!”. The game is the episodic sci-fi action adventure based on the eponymous graphic novel and the film adaptation itself, but the players can choose to take control of many primary characters, including Peter (the main protagonist), Alice, Chris, Phil, David, Miles and Ray.

In January 2017, during the filming of To The Extinction, Hoffman said the filming was added to the location in Serbia, one of Europe’s last remaining authoritarian countries. The filming sparked controversy, because of the false portrayals of the FR Yugoslav Armed Forces as the plot based on the graphic novel itself. Oz filmmaker Ben Young, who made his breakthrough in Hounds of Love, said Serbia was a lot of hell-holes and poor guys whom were cast as the extras in the film. If didn’t see 2008’s action movie Rambo, To The Extinction maybe a typical science fiction action adventure set after the fall of communism in the Europe.

The plot

Set between 1989 and 1993, it follows Peter, a young man who has a dreams about losing his friends and siblings during the crucial alien invasion during his childhood. In his first step, he travels to SFR Yugoslavia to rescue his missing friends kidnapped by the army led by the unknown commander known as “The General”. The final step is take place in Bosnia, in which rebel forces defended Sarajevo from the invading Yugoslav Army, accompanied by the alien invaders known as the “Legions”.