#{ the whole fireside fight is them!! }

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

my pitch for a phineas and ferb-themed ride at the disney parks (hire me disney you cowards)

the queue is an interior building with pnf-themed decorations. kinda like the figment ride in epcot, a lot of it is winding through a "museum" of pnf and/or doof inventions. most of those inventions disappeared of course, so they're models, parts in glass cases, etc. overhead are tv monitors that play a shuffled loop of phineas and ferb songs, but bc there are so many good songs they can use it hopefully won't get repetitive unless you're there for nine hours. the exception to this is one small part of the queue (small to avoid people being stuck there too long) where it exclusively plays the quirky worky song and you see the pnf gang building the ride you're about to go on, either as statues/figures or through a "screen" that shows looping animation

you get onto the coaster car from the first episode as phineas, baljeet or isabella reads the safety spiel over the loudspeaker. actually as i'm typing this it might be fun to loop each of the backyard gang doing their own version that'd be cute

the ride takes off and you hear the vamp from the "rollercoaster" song as you're loading in.

once inside, the ride is styled like epcot's guardians of the galaxy ride, where you're on a track looping through a mix of screens and sets. the first part plays more of the "rollercoaster" song as you run through the "coolest coaster ever" scenes.

miscellaneous room/scene ideas: fireside girl action segment, carpe diem room, obviously a space segment w/ meap and queen candace and the catu aliens, obligatory scary bit through the haunted house, rock concert w/ love handel, backyard beach/atlantis, owca headquarters, 2nd dimension bit (might be too confusing for new fans?), relatively normal area where candace is gesturing wildly to a linda animatronic that won't turn around and see the rollercoaster car, idk a hamster & gretel segment or smth

a little bit in, you hear a beep and a call for agent p. a small animatronic of perry rises from the front of the car as you enter a tunnel, where a screen of major monogram tells perry to get his ass to doofenshmirtz evil incorporated to fight doof. perry salutes and slides back down into the car, and the ride then takes a "wrong track" (kinda like when you run into a "broken track" on everest) to DEI.

we go inside and see animatronics of perry fighting doof as an inator sparks. it goes off, sending us down yet another "wrong track," which shoots through wilder parts of danville. at the climax, we start looping and the climax of the "rollercoaster" song starts playing ("we're rightside-up and upside-down...")

at the end of the ride, we see an animatronic/animation of doof hanging upside-down from rope as perry glares at him cross-armed, and doof intermittently yells "curse you, perry the platypus!" on a screen, monogram congratulates the riders for saving the tri-state area with agent p. perry makes platypus noise.

you go to another room, right before the exit. you see candace pointing to an empty backyard, saying stuff like "but it was right here! and it was huge!" as phineas and ferb sit under the tree and address the guests. if you're far enough away from the last room, perry can be sitting under them being cute.

the exit queue has posters for dwampyverse stuff, like "love handel reunion", "doctor zone: the movie", the og rollercoaster poster, etc.

you exit in a gift shop where you can buy perry the platypus inaction figure (he doesn't do anything!) and big sticks

lastly,

you know when rides break down or stop for a sec and you get in-character voiceovers telling you to stay seated or w/e? i think we should have three that loop: one of doof giving a basic spiel, one of milo murphy being like "yeah i went on the ride. sorry about that. it should start working soon lol" and one where literally the whole thing is candace yelling "NO MOM I SWEAR IT'S A WORKING ROLLERCOASTER AND PHINEAS AND FERB BUILT IT! MOM LISTEN–"

[asteria7fics]

It's funny you say that because I Never Should Have Gone Ziplining actually is my favorite episode of that season, and if I were to go and make some sort of "favorite episodes list" (which would be so hard to do) it would at least be in the top five. It takes so many things I enjoy (mockumentaries, blowing little things hilariously out of proportion, the jackin it in san diego song) and mixes them together.

The other day my coworker was telling me a story about something and he said "to make a long story short" at least four times and all I had to fight not to smile because it reminded me of Kyle.

Season 16 in general is such a good run of episodes. Sarcastaball, Raising The Bar (Cartman's mobility scooter just kills me), A Scause For Applause, Obama Wins, there's so much gold to pick from there. There's something hilarious in every episode. I just watched Cartman Finds Love again the other day and the part where he sings to Kyle in the stadium had me cackling.

I like that you posted a whole bunch of seasons, for such a long running show South Park has tons of really great episodes. Even season 1 still makes me laugh. On the dvds each season 1 episode starts with Matt and Trey having a fireside chat that was, to quote them, a real hoot and a holler to watch.

The most nostalgic season for me is season 8. My first episode ever was Butt Out (the part where the boys immediately start smoking to not be like those anti-smoking teens is what made me a fan of the show to begin with) and after that I would watch episodes as they came out On Demand.

You're very welcome! Glad to distract! If you ever wind up posting those episode lists one day I'll read them with gusto!

(I feel you about season 20. I watched it as it was coming out week to week and I was completely hooked. Loverboy Cartman was magic haha)

OKAY THANK YOU!!! It’s such an objectively good episode and people who don’t enjoy it honestly baffle me… but I am also a big fan of mockumentaries. I won’t lie though, it does make me kinda wanna go ziplining just to say that I did. (Also that anecdote made me actually laugh out loud I would have lost it ꉂ (≧ヮ≦) )

Season 16 seriously is so insanely packed with excellent episodes. Man, I really need to do a rewatch soon!

I really wish I could be more decisive but I just love so many seasons too much to only pick one! And they’re all so good for different reasons, you know? Like some are just objectively hilarious, some I love more for their tight storytelling. I dunno man, say what you will about Those Bastards, but they know what they’re doing, and I think they’re only getting better with age.

You know, sometimes I wish I had watched the show growing up, though I’m sure my parents would have put a stop to it the first time an episode gave me a nightmare (I was a sensitive child lmao). Still, I remember a lot of the boys in my class really loving the show, so I got little snippets through cultural osmosis.

Thank YOU for sharing your thoughts with me! Ask literally anyone I know irl, talking about South Park is quite literally my favorite pastime! One of these days I will make that list, just for you… and anyone else that cares about my opinion ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧

(THANK YOU AAAH I’M NOT ALONE AFTER ALL ಥ‿ಥ )

[pftones3482]

Can I ask out of curiosity, what’s people’s issue with Mission Marvel? It’s not my favorite episode either, but people seem to really dislike it and I’m not really sure why?

I can't answer for everyone, but I think the biggest reason is because of just how out of character Phineas and Ferb are.

PnF have ALWAYS included Candace and Isabella in things. Always. From the very first episode, Isabella was always included in and often in charge of their big ideas. There's never a question to her competency or strength. And Candace, though she doesn't participate in their ideas (willingly) until much later on, is always encouraged by her brothers and invited along, and her intelligence is also never questioned by her brothers, even though it's canonically not on their level.

And then....they're both sidelined for the fight. Because they're girls. And that just....didn't sit right with a lot of the fans. Because Phineas and Ferb have NEVER excluded Isabella (or Candace) on basis of them being girls. They've never excluded ANYONE on basis of gender, so them doing it in this special was really out of the blue. Hell, the Fireside Girls have saved their lives more times than I can count.

And we know that when Phineas loses his temper, he snaps fast. But he always bounces back JUST as fast, and aside from his feelings towards Perry in ATSD, he has never held a grudge for as long as he did in MM. He was downright nasty to Candace, which just isn't in character for him, and Ferb just...let it slide, which isn't in character for him either (thinking again of ATSD, where even though Ferb was hurt too, he at least calmed Phineas down when he started getting too snappy. He didn't even try in MM).

Phineas and Ferb just felt so fucking mean the whole special, and that combined with the straight up misogyny just rubbed a lot of fans the wrong way.

It's still better than anything the MCU has ever done though.

[alexturner2005]

United Center, Chicago 8/27/23 Recap

excuse my rambling, this is mostly for my own sake five years from now when i can't remember any details 😅

they started handing out numbered wristbands at 9am and @arcticmonkeysaf and i got in line around 9:40 and were #873 and #874 😳 we found out later that the first person was actually like #550, so there were actually about 320 people ahead of us

amazingly we still ended up pretty close? i think we were around row 13ish! straight across from nick! 😍

fontaines dc were awesome and i had a lot of fun even tho no one else in our area seemed to know them 😅

sculptures as the opener was so incredible 😭 also alex pretended to play violin during it lol

brianstorm, teddy picker, the view, and dancefloor go so hard!! they're sooo fun!!

they played fireside 😭😭😭 freaked out when i saw alex pick up the acoustic haha

alex played the high piano interlude but didn't make up any words to it this time

during high alex held up 🤘 for a long time

he introduced arabella as "a song about a girl that i made up ages ago outta nowhere"

"four stars out of five, any which way you like, any which way you like, four stars out of five, even on a sunday night...so close!" (this was making jamie smile!)

POTION APPROACHING!!!!! our jaws literally dropped

fluorescent adolescent following potion??? insane

and then one point perspective!!! the solo 😩

mirrorball is so beautiful live!!! i was pleasantly surprised at how many people were singing along!! everyone was waving their phone flashlights and it was so pretty!!!

the mirrorball itself is indescribably beautiful!!! photos and videos don't do it justice AT ALL. the whole stage setup is sooo cool

BODY PAINT. GOD. so good. i think i smiled through the entire song 😂

alex pretended to shoot a basketball at the end of dancefloor

after r u mine they put down their instruments and acted like they were walking off stage, so i thought they weren't gonna do the last reprise, and then they came back and did it!! such teases.

the majority of the crowd in front of us was pretty dead :/ they didn’t sing or move much. i think we were having more fun than most of them combined lol. it was energetic in our row and behind us tho!

apparently fights were breaking out in the front on the other side and people were getting pulled from the crowd??

alex seemed a little tired, maybe bc it was their third show in a row. it didn’t detract from the show tho

only three songs from the car and zero from sias is a crime. happy with the setlist additions we did get tho!! overall it was so much fun!!!!

[shirefantasies]

hey hi hello!! i saw that these were open and i wanted to take part in them. new follower by the way (^_^) and happy 300 followers!!

im an introvert, usually very quiet and calm and rather hard to provoke at times. i'm easily irritated and lack patience with people who don't really think things through (though i grow warm over time as i grow tolerant in SOME cases). im very loyal and reliable as told by my friends and act similarly to a nagging aunt of sorts?? i'm rational and rather stubborn in the things i do but i relent depending on the severity of things. im also quite petty in certain cases.

i've been told it's easy to be around myself as a person, and people are really comfortable to be themselves in my presence. generally, i'm very blunt since i don't know how to phrase my words any better and some people (& even friends) at times, take the things that i say the wrong way without meaning to. i tend to get along with most people as long as they deal with the same mutual respect back.

i'm rather sarcastic and tend to tease a lot out of the fun of it. it's really easy to get me flustered, especially with flirts because the first thing i'd do is laugh and try to get out of there as soon as possible 😭 i think use both my words and actions equally since i (usually) follow up with what i say. i have tendencies to be a people watcher and observe people going about their day..

i wouldn't really consider myself the most passionate or enthusiastic person either but i really enjoy listening to those who have one. really makes me happy to see people enjoy the things they do. in a sense, i like when people have the things that i lack (energy, passion etc) i just love seeing it A TON. at times, i also have trouble in wording the things that i want to say so it ends up falling flat at times. so i wouldnt say im the most persuasive person either.

appearance wise, i'm about 5'4 and on the chubbier side of things. i have brown skin, really dark brown eyes and 4B black hair. i have small hands and lots of moles on my body but specifically i have 1 on each cheek. as for interests im really into anything that interests me since i get bored easily. most things that catch my attention are typology, videogames, music and gardening. im also learning to play the bass guitar as well. id prefer male interests from the hobbit, thank you!! hope that you have a good night/day!!

Thank you for joining the following! Hope it’s been a pleasant stay 💚 Hopefully I’ve found the right man dwarf for you when I say…

Fili!

One of your first conversations involves you rolling your eyes about having to show one of the older dwarves how to use something; Fili overhears and adds some sass and the rest is history. You’re quiet, he grants, but you provide the best commentary he’s heard beyond all the jokes with his little brother and it’s relaxing to sit by your side as you practice your instrument. Soon he begins making more normal conversation, asking things like what you want to do when this whole journey is over. You aren’t sure, you admit; you went on this quest because you were tired of simply watching life go by. “Then why not stay in the Lonely Mountain?” Fili asks. “Won’t be so lonely when we’re done with it, after all.” “What will your uncle think?” You arch a brow. “Don’t worry about him,” the golden-haired dwarf waves a hand, “I can handle him. Convince him denying outsiders is a bit elven of him, you know.” You can’t help giggling at that.

Soon you two are at each other’s sides more often, backing each other up in fights and moving in great sync. Your strikes build off his and vice versa, and he once convinces you to essentially let him toss you into the fray. You, him, and Kili are quite the menaces together! They always save you a seat between them at fireside, quips flying between you three. Kili holds you there so Fili can flirt with you, having learned you're quite a runner when you get flustered. Nice try, Fili thinks you're too cute like that!

Sometimes you get frustrated with each other, and interestingly enough it is over a shared trait- both of you are very self-sacrificing. Loyalty dominates, leading both of you to block thoughts of self out to save others and put yourselves in compromising situations and danger. The other confronts and sometimes things snap or blow up, but these are the moments when you realize how much you care about each other. Fili takes you in his arms and tells you he loves how stubborn and caring you are, but it would kill him if anything were to happen to you. It is during one of these arguments that you admit your feelings for each other, biting them out in the heat of the moment and effectively halting the argument in favor of battle by your lips instead.

He loves to cut off flustered words with a kiss to each cheek or a quick peck on your lips. Your small hands fit perfectly in his; he loves holding one between his or both to keep them warm! One of his favorite forms of affection with you, that as well as walking arm-in-arm. Fili absolutely adores your hair, too. Gorgeous curls he would be happy to learn how you care for and of course braid if you let him! At least once, so he can show the world you're his king/queen and no one else. "That's right," he adds the proud remark every time he says those words.

Your enjoyment of gardening intrigues the dwarf, who grew up with the pride of mining, jewelry-making, and chemistry in his people. Loving growing things is quite charming, bringing the prince to investigate what plants can stay underground as you move with him into your lovely mountain nook. He helps you dig up the freshest soil and buys you the most beautiful stoneware pots for your plants. Also insists on naming them, so have fun with that! It's just one of his habits, like the little jigs he does when you get playing your music. He's stubborn and silly and selfless and that is why you love him.

[deada55]

Kloktober 2024 day 22: too much booze or too much candy

Pickles was the pukey kid in school. Revised section of When the River Meets the Sea.

As true-blue autumn sucked the light from the sky, the bulk of the comforting he was given revolved around the fact that he’d been in the hospital before, but that was in Wausau, in the emergency room, two years ago, and he didn’t spend a second of it alone. Milwaukee was too far out for them to drive to and from home, and he knew they had the annual gathering at his aunt’s house to attend instead of sitting around waiting for his eyes to stop being full of shit. His hospital stay loomed like a piano falling from above, and it got harder not to look up every day.

In a first aid book from the school library, he read that alcohol was an antiseptic, and since Scope was an antiseptic mouthwash, it must have alcohol! The ingredients list confirmed it— just as he thought! From that point on, instead of spitting it out every morning, he swallowed it. If it was good for your teeth, it must be safe to drink, right? Because of the alcohol! Between morning mouthwash, cough syrup or flat beer in a thermos for lunch, and imitation vanilla extract flavoring after school, the days went gently by.

Now, after saving up to buy his own bottle, toting it to school, and taking fiery, minty gulps out of a toy canteen in the bathroom every time he excused himself left him so dizzy by 10:30 that he could barely sit upright. Mrs. Wallace turned around and stopped scribbling on the blackboard to ask him what he thought he was doing before his head slumped down to the desk, but he couldn’t stomach an answer. In fact, he couldn’t stomach anything at all, and puked in one fancy arc from his mouth to the floor to the right of his desk. That green asbestos tile was the same color as the mouthwash, but that didn’t mean the puke blended in, no, not at all. Then, he puked again. The classroom was quiet and the splatter was loud and watery.

When Mrs. Wallace came forward to shoo him out of the room, she almost slipped in it.

Miss Sandra Owens (just Miss Owens, but her signature was picture-perfect), the school nurse, sighed at him while she dialed his mother’s number. The nurses’ office was a musty, windowless white cinderblock room decorated with trash bins. The easter-yellow tiled shower room attached to it had a flickering fireside glow from the overhead lights. Her voice had a soft lilt and a slow pace. The blue of her eyeshadow shone through the gorgeous curtaining of her hair and made her look like a bottle blonde angel. “Did you drink something you weren’t supposed to?”

“Nope.” He laid out on his back and tried not to fight the way that little room spun.

“Pickles… What did you drink?”

“Scope.”

“Oh, Pickles! Dammit!” She dropped the phone and dug around in her cabinets before sitting him up from under his legs. “Listen, don’t you dare do this again. It’s not the same as beer⸺ there’s different kinds of—! I’ll tell you later, now,” Out of her pocket, she produced a bottle of ipecac and a dosing spoon, and knocked his teeth shoving it into his mouth. “Drink up.”

After forcing a 4 oz dixie cup of water into his hand, she relaxed. “Alright… Did you bring the whole bottle?”

“Yeah.” The ipecac left a thickness on his tongue.

“Where is it?”

“My bag.”

“How full was it when you got here?” She put a plastic waste bin full of tissues and dosing cups in his lap.

“New.”

“Pickles, you’ve done a lot, but Scope isn’t the same. It’s got other stuff in it- you could go blind.”

He chuckled. “Ha…”

Her stomach dropped. “Oh no, Pickles, no…” How long had he been sippin’ mouthwash? He didn’t mean it like that, and looked over at the wall when her voice got soft.

“You stay right there and throw the rest up. Don’t fight it. We have to make sure nothing’s left. You let it happen and you’ll feel better soon. Just like that.”

She spent the phone call to the poison control center watching him heave, and the vice principal came around the corner to shut the nurse’s office door. He put some power behind it; the sound was traveling.

On the car ride home, his mother was so disgusted that she blew through two stop signs and hit a speedbump hard enough to make the top of her hairdo tap the scratchy velvet car ceiling. The back of her neck was bright red. Pickles held tight to a cardboard box lined with a plastic bag in hopes that the dizzy feeling and his dry lips would disappear if he could hold himself together.

“I can’t believe you. You’re lucky they didn’t call an ambulance! They’re not free, you know— you coulda ruined Christmas for all of us, your stupid surgery included! If you’re angry, be angry and screw us all over! Go right ahead, Pickles!”

She’d have to pay Miss Owens a phone call or a batch of meringues to thank her for the common sense that saved them at least a couple hundred dollars, even for a doctor in town. Maybe Miss Owens was used to it by now: Pickles pulled a stunt like this a couple times a year. Last time, he ran out of his classroom puking up a concoction of fermented juice, cooking wine, and a not-insignificant amount of mold, because “he wanted to see what would happen” when he drank it.

[arthseid]

Recap And Update On The Overseers

There are a total of 15 gods (so far)

The first 2 are The Monarchs, Oziraepan (The King) and Mizaiya (The Queen)

These two are the ones that created The Three Realms (Celeseid, Arthseid, and Abyseid)

They also created The 12 Overseers (+1 That I'll get to in a moment)

The Overseers are basically the gods of Fireside, each given a specific purpose and job to fulfill

There are 2 Overseers of Tithseid (Now Celeseid)

There are 4 Overseers of Arthseid

And there are 6 Overseers of Ruthseid (Now Abyseid)

Now, about that +1 I mentioned earlier:

Narlethrawr is the newest addition and newest Overseer to Fireside (But they've been in my head since the beginning)

They're going to be the main villain of Fireside, and have a direct connection to the pyrekins' origin as a species (Which I'll talk more about in the future/another post)

Narlethrawr was the previous Overseer of The Land in Arthseid, they wanted to be a tyrant, wanted to abuse their power, and essentially enslave everyone in their domain, but Saelcor (Overseer of the Waters), Aeradir (Overseer of the Sky), and Artherris (Overseer of Arthseid as a whole) stopped them before they could do any extreme amount of damage, fighting them to the death, three to one, and finally...

Killing them.

And being replaced by a new Overseer to take their place as Overseer of The Land! Guarden!

"But how can they be the main villain if they're killed before the story even starts?"

Guess you'll have to wait until the next post to find out! :)

I'll be explaining about the origins of the pyrekins and how they connect to Narlethrawr, as well as More about Narlethrawr individually ^^

[princess-of-the-corner]

Crossover minecraft: civil war

Ladybug: okay... let's go over this, one more time. The one week we're busy with end of term exams, war breaks out...

Guy: Yup. See, the Pines kids took over the justice system...

Rena: I knew it! Twins are always trouble.

*vipereon coughs*

Rena: you hush, you and tigresse make trouble for villains all the time.

Guy: and of course with Mabel as judge, she wound up giving a whole bunch of obtuse penalties for the weirdest of offenses. Now this got the mad scientist duo on her side, cause they got guinea pigs for their devious machines and -inators, and got the bad girl coven and the Fazgang against them. Not sure how the lyoko warriors and the phantom theives wound up on justice Mabels side but they did.

Ladybug: what about Ben's group? Or the Danville group? Or the Amity park guys?

Guy: okay, Danny is neutral here, he's with Doc in Koboldia, but apparently Dipper bribed sam with some cryptid info, and Tucker is just rolling with it. Ben, Gwen, and Kevin threw their lot in with rebellion, but Lilo is staying out of it. Don't know where Stitch is, he went off the radar a while ago. The entire Danville group is just selling supplies, traps and weapons to both sides, enterprising huh? Minus the fireside girl who's also in the rebellion.

Ladybug: okay... any ideas? No roi, we are not joining justice mabel solely on the argument of you wanting to fight Gregory.

Skull, Distantly: run for your life!

Gregory, distantly: Ramming Speed!

Ladybug: okay, no polymouse, we aren't going to join the rebellion just on the principal of NOT having to fight Gregory...

Pigella: Rock band solidarity?

Tigresse: and sticking it to the lawman?

Mutters of approval

Chat: okay majority rules! Rioting Paris style?

Roi Singe: Riot!

1.5 days later

Phineas, recapping for his viewers: so once the miraculous heros chose their side, they showed how quickly a government will fold to parisian discontent. Despite the government being complete malarkey. In other news, the server is expecting a new player soon-

/technically/ Luka and Juleka aren't twins in my AU but that still tracks.

Also like. If the French are known for anything, it's a fucking revolution!

[scham-wcan]

I will literally cry if V10 has a scene where Winter and Cinder are fighting but Cinder flinches when Winter shoots lightning at her and Winter notices and changes her fighting style because she wants a fair fight(and she doesnt like the look in Cinders eye)

I'm delusional clearly

I will scream and punch the air

Get them seeing one another as the damaged and vulnerable people they actually are beneath all of their bravado. It can include a rampant Cinder doing her whole barbaric fighting style and just inching her own strength away while Winter is watching her once formidable opponent whittle herself away under some fervent panic

Then add in a drained Cinder getting captured by Winter and the pair needing to spend a night together out in the dunes of Vacuo fireside, because they and we have earned it

[rindemption]

This is the OC fairy 🌼🧚‍♀️ When you get this in your ask box, please tell us three facts or trivia about one of your OCs, then pass it on to someone else 🩷 Let's learn about each other's OCs! 💛💐

Alright you know what, since I'm getting back into Dragon Age I'll talk about one of them real quick. Might as well start with Matthias, since he was the first

After a few too many close calls and generally feeling a little too unprotected, Matthias asks Alistair to teach him how to use a sword. That starts him down the path of learning to be an arcane warrior, which becomes absolutely fundamental to his fighting and magic style. (Read: he was my first attempt playing a mage and I sucked, trading off some magic for a sword helped)

Being cooped up in a tower his whole life, he loves watching the sky at night. He'll take first watch just to see the stars come out, and weather permitting he'll sleep by the fireside, at least until he has someone he wants to share a tent with.

While Zevran is his lover, and Alistair his best friend, of all the traveling companions Wynne is secretly his favorite. He looks up to her and respects her, and after hearing of her downfall at the White Spire, takes precious time from his personal quest to visit her final resting place.

[hiccanna-tidbits]

Jackunzel February Special Week 4 - Winter Winter in the City

Sure, a festive sleigh ride through sprawling fields, rolling hills, and quiet, snowy forest might not be an option, but Jack and Rapunzel can still find ways to enjoy a very urban winter.

It turns out flirty and needlessly-intense snowball brawls are just as much fun at the bus stop or in the city park as they are in a frozen-over meadow. As pleasant as braving woodland trail with a thermos full of hot chocolate might sound for some, it’s equally as delightful to stroll along snow-adorned neighborhood streets, house never too far in case you need cocoa refills.

And that’s to say nothing of the decorations and festivals and cheer. Shop-lined streets could very well be wild countryside, for how many Christmas trees, holly boughs, and pine wreaths line everything in sight. In all honesty, nothing feels more lively than the darkest, coldest days of the year, with the city air filled with singing and laughing and bells and the smell of gingerbread and peppermint and wassail. There are few places better for a wintry adventure than a line of cheery gift shops with snow-covered awnings--and no place where you should keep a close eye on your bank account, for that matter.

But one year, Jack and Rapunzel’s urban winter is different. There’s snowball fights and hot chocolate and fireside storytelling and tacky Christmas gifts that break the next day, of course, but this time, something seems to have shifted by the time spring rolls around.

It probably has something to do with the fact Jack and Rapunzel have fallen back into the hand-holding habits they had as kids, insisting it’s only for warmth because “this winter is especially frigid.” Or maybe the fact they dozed off on top of each other mid-holiday-movie marathon one too many times. Or perhaps something related to them both separately paying a visit to the city’s biggest candy store and purchasing a heart-shaped box of chocolates for the other “as a joke.”

Either way, it turns into a spring of kissing under blooming trees. And they have a feeling they’ll still be doing it when next winter rolls around.

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YOOOOO, last Jackunzel February Special submission!!! Alas, all good things must come to an end :( But there seems to be a Jackunzel revival as of late, so rest assured that the shameless Jackunzelposting will not be stopping anytime soon :P

Anyhoo, I have all these winter city pics that I’ve been saving basically like. As long as I’ve been making Jackunzel moodboards. And I have so many saved up I do what I always do and am like “what if I made a themed moodboard about it???”

...and so I did XD

I do love the idea of Jack and Rapunzel living in a big city, though. They seem like they’d live for the energy and liveliness of it all, and would have a great time just walking up and down a busy street and people-watching. They’d also be the kinds of people to live in a city their whole lives and still try to hit every tourist trap in it, just to have the experience XD

Continuously enamored with the idea of them at some kind of holiday market and going on a shopping spree for nothing but festive knickknacks and wintry snacks while sipping hot cocoa, and then going home and redecorating their rooms with the most maximalist winter decorations known to man <3 <3 <3

Pic credits available upon request!

[greatrunner]

"You've given them the semblance of a choice. That's enough".

Count on Lan to be honest about the lack of honesty, lmao

Alright so, I reached the end of the Wheel of Time last night, and it's honestly making me wonder why this series was eight episodes instead, I dunno, 13 or 22?

Looking back, if this was a mere miniseries, I could understand the truncated, "let's get to Point A to Point B" number of episodes. I mean, eight (as I remember) was the hardline definition of a miniseries if it wasn't six, five, four, three, or two.

The show spends a lot of time introducing new ideas, flashbacks, and whatnot. Some of it gets paid off alright, but the rest feels more like a "please renew us" ploy than anything beneficial to the story. I like the idea that this isn't just a basic generic fantasy world. That, at some point, the world reached a "Society If [Blank] Happened" type of reality, then I guess, did a whole walk backward into the Renaissance Fair. That's cool, I wanna see more of that idea explored in the story.

But, what was the point of that false dragon narrative outside of setting up the dynamics of the white tower (specifically, giving a lot of face time to the one Team Red character who's apparently supposed to represent Misandry (????), until Moraine threatens to snitch about her male side piece, which made me cackle)?

That's not a bad thing, but with the way the character got a whole intro, I would've assumed he would've got a lot more than "Mini-Boss demoted to Jobber".

They really dragged out the whole "Who is the Dragon Reborn" nonsense until the second to last episode, then revealed it with what feels like the intention to do a speedrun of a Souls Boss Battle, right down to the "Big Fight Separates the Group" bit.

I'm not really understanding the whole Nynaeve/Lan subplot. One character says, "She likes you", and there's almost zero interaction between these characters outside of homegirl's contempt and mistrust of him and Moraine. Maybe some fireside time with the other Warders. I viewed the latter as Nynaeave becoming a little less distrustful of people, but not a foundation for a romance.

I had half a suspicion they were gonna try to pair her off with Stephin (the white guy who lost his Channeler) before I even considered Lan was a potential love interest?

But now the last couple of episodes are like, "Welp, let's run with this" and on top of the doldrums that is Moraine's #1 Stan and Angry Ginger's drama (plus the guy who gutted his wife), I'm just not here for this nonsense. (Understandably, I know that moment was just friends slinging mud at each other, but they really went Felicity with the whole thing.)

Like, when the hell in the last six episodes before that comment was the audience supposed to pick on "Tsundre Nynaeve Has a Crush on Stoic Bodyguard and Edward Cullen Stalks Him Everywhere"?

(Makes no damn sense. It displeases me.)

On the other end of things, I kinda like how Moraine's story arc ended (as far as season one goes). Like, I didn't want her to lose her connection to the one power, but it also kinda felt like a consequence of every choice she's made in the show (so far). And, ironic (I guess????). Rosamund Pike really sold the loss, and Danie Henney made it worse with the "Can you unmute me, please?" And she's all ;_;

Throughout the show, she's had great chemistry with the five Ronin Warriors she picked up. The show certainly squandered the dynamic between Moraine and Angry Ginger (I wanna call him Josh, but that's the actor's name). That whole "Last Stand" against the Dark One would've been way more compelling if, again, the show's first season chose length over expediency.

(The Dark One could be an interesting character since Ginger didn't kill him but released him. But I get the feeling he's just gonna be a pretentious version of HEROES's Sylar, who was already up-his-own-ass to begin with if you get me.)

The show tries to incorporate that into the story. Moraine's general lack of interest in anyone except that one woman who trusts her immediately after learning about the One Power. How that sends her up Shit Creek when she realizes the Dragon is that one dude she ignored. To some degree, it works, but it also just feels like them covering their asses.

Ultimately, the end of the season felt, not like the end of a story chapter, but very television-y. Moraine saying, "This wasn't the last battle. This was just the beginning", threw me into a Dragon Ball Z flashback. Specifically, the one where Gohan hits SS2 and Dale Kelly (the OG DBZ narrator) is selling the "tune in next time!" moment.

I'll probably wait until the second season's done airing to watch all of it. Overall, Wheel of Time is a decent show. Not at all like Game of Thrones outside of how the writing seems to be taking visual cues from explicitly not white cultures and framing them in questionably malicious ways in contrast to the Eurocentric White Tower girlies.

[toxic-ship-tournament]

OK AT LAST THE PROMISED ESMERALICE RANT

OK SO... THEY BOTH ENDED UP DRUGGING EACH OTHER MULTIPLE TIMES, AS WELL AS KNOCKING EACH OTHER UNCONSCIOUS AND WHILE WHEN POOFENPLOTZ WAS DOING IT(PREBREAKUP) SHE MOSTLY DID IT AS A WAY TO CONVINCE ALICE SHE WAS ENJOYING THE PARTIES AND GROUP STUFF POOFENPLOTZ WAS BRINGING HER TO("I MEAN, DENY HOW YOU GOT SHITFACED DRUNK ALL YOU LIKE, I HAD TO CARRY YOU TO MY HOUSE."(SOMETHING WHICH IS ALSO SPECIFICALLY MEANT TO TICK OFF ALICE BASED ON HOW YOUNG ALICE INTERPRETS PERFECTION)) WHEREAS. ALICE(BOTH BACK THEN AND NOW) MOSTLY DID IT TO KIDNAP OR TAUNT HER. IN ADDITION, ALICE(CURRENT ASSUME ALL OF THIS STUFF IS CURRENT) MIND CONTROLS OR READS HER MIND DESPITE POOFENPLOTZ DOING EVERYTHING IN HER POWER TO BOTH TELL HER TO AND MAKE HER STOP THAT, AND USES THAT CONTROL AND INFORMATION TO BASICALLY BE REALLY PETTY AND DIG AT POOFENPLOTZ, ALTHOUGH SHE ALSO USES IT TO LIKE. TRY AND KILL THE CLOSEST THING SHE HAS TO AN ACCEPTING FAMILY BUT WE'LL GET INTO THAT LATER. ALSO OBLIGATORY "NONE OF THE DRUGGING OR MIND CONTROL GOES IN A NON/DUB-CON DIRECTION. POOFENPLOTZ WOULDN'T WANT TO DO SEX USUALLY ANYWAYS BUT ITS A DEFINITE NO WHEN SHE JUST DRUGGED HER PARTNER, AND ALICE HAS VERY SPECIFIC "RULES" ABOUT MAKING SURE PEOPLE AGREE TO WHAT SHE WANTS IN THEIR "RIGHT MIND" (INCREDIBLY VAGUE USUALLY BUT FOR POOFENPLOTZ IT BASICALLY MEANS "NOT DRUGGED DRUNK OR MIND CONTROLLED") SO"

ALSO ALICE AND POOFENPLOTZ BOTH GAVE EACH OTHER EATING DISORDERS. THAT'S ONLY KIND OF A SIMPLIFIED WAY OF PUTTING IT. ALICE MADE SURE POOFENPLOTZ HAD TO "KEEP UP APPEARANCES" AND POOFENPLOTZ MOCKED HER ABOUT IT ENOUGH THAT THEY BOTH KINDA ENDED UP SPIRALING. IRONICALLY, THIS IS THE ONE SITUATION WHERE ALICE RECOVERED BETTER THEN POOFENPLOTZ. MOSTLY BY PROCEEDING TO GO "ACTUALLY I DONT CARE ABOUT MY EX AT ALL" AND DENIALED SO HARD SHE MANIFESTED NOT CARING ABOUT THAT STUFF EITHER ANYMORE. SHE DID THEN USE POOFENPLOTZS TECHNIQUES WITH A HEALTHY DOSE OF ATTEMPTED CULT LEADER WISDOM TO GIVE OTHER PEOPLE EATING DISORDERS TO INCREASE HER CONTROL OVER THEM. SO.... YUP. ALICE ABSOLUTELY SNAPS AT POOFENPLOTZ ABOUT THE HORRIFIC DOUBLE STANDARD, BUT ITS WELL AFTER IT WOULD HAVE APPLIED AND WHEN ITS IN A SITUATION WHERE ALICE GOT TO HEAL AND POOFENPLOTZ STILL STRUGGLES WITH IT CONSTANTLY? OOF. (ALSO IM SORRY FOR THE JOKING TONE ON THIS I PROMISE I DO TAKE EATING DISORDERS AS SERIOUSLY AS POSSIBLE THEYRE JUST HARD FOR ME TO TALK ABOUT OTHERWISE BC. WELL I DONT NEED TO GIVE OUT PERSONAL INFORMATION LIKE THIS BUT I THINK IF YOU READ THIS BIT ITS OBVIOUS.)

THERES THE USUAL "MURDER FOR EACH OTHER, DEATH THREATS, SUICIDE THREATS, KIDNAPPING, COERCION, ETC" BETWEEN THEM BUT THOSE ARE MOSTLY BASIC STUFF AND IM RUNNING ON ZERO BRAINPOWER AND A LOTTA EXHAUSTION SO ILL SKIP ABOUT SEVEN MORE PARAGRAPHS RN AND GO TO THE FAMILY THING I PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED.

ESSENTIALLY(AT THIS POINT IN THE STORY) POOFENPLOTZS ENDED UP FINDING SOME SORT OF SOLIDARITY AND FAMILY WITHIN MILLIE AND PINKY, ALONG WITH A LITTLE BIT OF SUPPORT AND COMMUNITY W THE OTHER FIRESIDE GIRLS SO FAR. NOW, ALICE HAS A WHOLE THING OF REACHING PERFECTION THAT POOFENPLOTZ EGGED HER ON ABOUT, AND HER CURRENT STEP ON THAT ROAD REQUIRES HER TO BASICALLY KIDNAP MILLIE AND PINKY(PINKY ISNT NECESSARY SO MUCH AS SHE JUST WANTS TO EXPIRAMENT A BIT BUT THATS THE SAME AS NEEDING HIM TO HER), SO HAVING HER HALF EX HALF CURRENT GIRLFRIEND WHOS BEEN ROASTING HER ALIVE FOR ALL THE SHORTCOMINGS AND THINGS SHE CANT STAND ABOUT HERSELF, STANDING IN THE WAY OF THE TWO PEOPLE SHE NEEDS TO TAKE? POOFENPLOTZ IS GOOD AT FIGHTING BUT SHES NOT GONNA SURVIVE ALICE WITHOUT ANY WEAPONS. ALICE BASICALLY USES ALL OF POOFENPLOTZ'S INSECURITIES AND ISSUES RIGHT BACK AT HER, USING WHAT INFORMATION SHE GAINED BY NOT GIVING TWO SHITS ABOUT POOFENPLOTZS BOUNDARIES OR ANYTHING TO BASICALLY KILL HER *JAZZ HANDS*. ALSO KIDNAPPING THE TWO PEOPLE SHE ACTUALLY HAD WHILE SHE BLEEDS OUT ON THE FLOOR. IT ALL ENDS UP FINE NECROMANCY/HJ BUT LIKW. YEAH.

I PROMISE THIS IS A COHERENT NOT GRIMDARK EVERYONE ENDS UP HAPPY IN CHARACTER PHINEAS AND FERB AU. AM VERY EXHAUSTED SORRY IF THIS DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. THEY'RE BASICALLY THE DEFINITION OF THIS POST

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[elodieunderglass]

That’s the unreliable narrators answer! I’m personally quite fond of it. We note that Bilbo wrote The Hobbit, and had started work on the first part of the Fellowship when the delegates convene. He then passes the torch on to Frodo, noting that his (Bilbo’s) own story is going to have a happy ending. From there, Frodo wrote the rest - his journey, picked up and written after encountering Bilbo in Rivendell - in his own tone. Bilbo’s experiences, writing style, narrative voice/character sense/self-awareness, translation priorities, sense of humour, and deep appreciation for the absurd - all mean that his works are characterised by a narrative lightheartedness - Bilbo is clearly more of a children’s book author. Scenes that would have an average writer biting their pencil in half are breezily dismissed in a comfortably bloodless fashion, all while making fun of himself, and you can imagine him narrating them to the children at the fireside, with lots of rhyming passages (a mark of an oral storyteller or someone experienced with children! All you have to do is get to the repetitive rhyming part and it’s like hitting a save point for your memory! You can tell whole chapters of story seamlessly, out loud, all night this way.) Bilbo is in the business of happy endings; writing, poetry and storytelling were his calling, and his pride. He enjoyed them.

Frodo’s work is diligent and serious. He also fights trolls and intelligent spiders, but he didn’t really want to. When he writes about enemies, it’s with horror and discomfort. He never particularly dreamed of being an author. He just chalks down a historical record - mostly, it seems, because Bilbo wanted it.

Thus, There and Back Again and the first part of The Red Book of the Westmarch are Bilbo’s memoirs, and Ringwraiths come across as just spooky in his writing. The later parts of the Red Book are Frodo writing his own nightmares with a thousand-yard stare about the terrors that permanently disabled him - and the Ringwraiths appear to change but are simply described in a tonal shift.

It’s a good theory! You should vote for it

(Context, credit, and source below poll.)

Today's poll is based on this thread with notable principles @penny-anna, @elodieunderglass, @elanorpam, and @earhartsease. All of the options above are paraphrased from their original answers.

The full original question:

Can I please ask for your top five theories on why the Ringwraiths become so much more powerful over the course of the LotR trilogy? By the end of the books a single Ringwraith holds an army of 6000 men in paralysing dread from a height of a mile, they're dismaying hosts of men, etc. And in the beginning, they're easily defeated by "jumping behind a tree," "pretending to be in a different room," "getting on a little boat," "man with a stick on fire," etc.

[tcthinecwnself-a]

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“yes.”

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“YES!!!”

[arthseid]

The Origin of Pyrekins and More on Narlethawr part 2

How did Narlethawr survive?

In fireside, the soul isn't fully connected to the body, only part of it is, when someone dies, this part of their soul dissolves into pure magic, severing the soul from the body, allowing it to be taken to Abyseid (basically the afterlife)

Narlethawr is a unique case, however.

Because they're an Overseer (a god) they can only be killed by other, more powerful, Overseers, hence why (if you check the previous post) Artherris was the one to fight them, being The Overseer of Arthseid as a whole, whereas Narlethawr was only The Overseer of The Land.

When they were defeated, it was their physical body that died, but their drive to finish what they started allowed them to cling onto the tiniest piece of his body.

They were extremely weakened, and most of their power was spent clinging onto this piece of themselves, as the part of their soul that tied them to their body had already dissolved and become the pyrekins.

Not only this, but his angels (12 total) left them, taking the opportunity to escape their tyranny, having been mistreated by Narlethawr throughout his reign.

Luckily for Narlethawr, their archangel (who does not yet have a name) remains loyal, helping them to build a following in the shadows, a cult of lies and deceit, full of manipulation. For Narlethawr, they can already see Arthseid, and maybe even all of The Three realms being theirs to rule. But for the archangel? They don't know the truth. And the truth is that the archangel had it so much worse compared to Narleth's other angels.

The archangel believes that Narlethawr is doing all of this for the greater good, they genuinely believe that there's a silver lining to their tyranny, they completely believe the lies, that their pain is worth it in the long run. That they'll finally be free from their abuse if they just help them achieve their goal, if they just see it through to the end.