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negrowhat · 1 year

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Stuck is one my favorites for the music but also, they just look so good- I don't know I could have possibly forgotten about prince Hyungwon- he looked heavenly~ I love him blond- But I think this is where I have to mention pink Minnie- he also devasts me- shoot out was sooo good~ (and so was mx agent~)...

That's so reasonable! He does every era his own way and it's just so good~ And I do too hehe-

The current Shownu era is insane- I am simply devasted- Gambler was soooo good on Shownu- I know why we didn't get any promos with him- but seriously it would have been insane- (also here is where I realize I didn't mention Gambler era for Minnie as I type this up and I- I have to take this second to appreciate him in a suit & undone bowtie) I love All In era for him sm- but Shoot Out is top tier (in general for all of them too) . You're so right- their stylists know exactly what they're doing and always make MX look amazing~ I am vv thankful for them! They always slay- I absolutely agree- The closest we got was that reddish brown dye for Alligator- the way I wish he'd go blond cause of edits... But you're right he's prolly just like Jinyoung and goes 'no' haha!

Ohhh that's a rabbit hole and a half with Jooheon- I have too many- We'll start of strong with Follow that blue hair- it was everything I ever wanted- He always provides- (idk if you watch monmukgo but I saw a clip where it said he doesn't look good in black hair- and I absolutely will disagree for the rest of my life- he looks so soft and perfect in it- I just- don't agree with the color match person there). Beautiful Liar was amazing- I don't think there is a color that I don't love on him~ But the red? Love Killa, Rush Hour, Hero, Rush- yowch~

Wonho is also a rabbit hole for me- Rush and Hero- medium brown hair omg- I- woah- I love him blond- but I love him most with his blond and blue tips- it's just so perfect on him- Alligator was so good and I was so happy to see him kind of bring it back in Blue it was so cute- But him pink? I think the 93s just do pink hair so well- I- Yeah- insane- Shoot out again on him was just~ But I did love All In a lot too~

I'm a big ot7 stan~ I watch edits of him in the eras- I went thru the 7 stages of grief for a long time and went back to denial ebhhba- Like he would have been insane in Love Killa- You're an ot7 as well, right? Do you think there is an era he would have slayed if he was able?

And what about Jooheon and Wonho for you?

Oh, I completely forgot about their jpn cbs- so um- this is where I say X-phenomenon is one of my favorites on them it's just so insane- I am absolutely wrapped around their fingers every time I watch that video- Do you have a favorite era for their jpn cbs?

Shownu is like Jinyoung! Mans will never dye his hair lighter than brown! I agree that Wonho would EAT UP the Love Killa concept! Also Gambler seems right up his aesthetic alley and also Fantasia...Rush Hour too...I imagine Wonho in all their eras tbh lol.

My fave Jooheon era would def have to be Shoot Out and Alligator! He also looked really amazing during Dramarama era.

Wonho? Fave MX era would def have to be Beautiful Era and also Fighter because I agree that Blonde hair with the blue tips was FIRE! Solo Wonho? I think I'd have to choose, Open Mind. His solo debut era was so fucking spectacular! Like he really ate!

I think the only Japanese era I really was present for was Spotlight. I don't usually follow Japanese comebacks from any of my faves, mostly because I have a hard time accessing them so I just avoid them. I think the only group I was sort of following Japanese comebacks for was GOT7.

#monsta x #wonho

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hazardsoflove · 2 years

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desperate to hear your list of reasons why eddie is not dying i need it i fear

oh i’m about to sound SO delusional rn it’s not even funny. no one contradict ANYTHING i say bc i need to live in this little fantasy world and this all could mean NOTHING but it means everything to me. okay here goes

i feel like joe quinn is doing WAYYY too much press n such for a character who’s just going to get killed off. like he’s doing magazine interviews n promo stuff like on netflix geeked etc etc i feel like why do all that if he’s just gonna die. like i’ve seen next to nothing w the actor who played argyle so idk. IDK idr how it was w other new characters who died like sean astin but i just feel it in my bones this means something

yeah they kill off a new character every season BUT they also KEEP a new character each season. max (and b*lly ig) in s2 and robin in s3. i just cannot see argyle mixing with the rest of the main cast or leaving ca (bc i feel like after s4 the byers are moving back) and that russian guy is for SURE not going to be seen again. and no one likes jason so like. that leaves eddie and he’s obviously the logical choice bc he fits in so well w everyone in the main cast like he’s been there the whole time

this one’s a little iffy BUT i also noticed that all the characters they introduce that they keep get like. rly involved w the upside down. like lucas brought in max in s2 and she’s still here and then in s3 robin got dragged into it w steve dustin + the rest of them bc of the russians under the mall thing and then the mind flayer and she’s still here. and then bc of what eddie saw dustin filled eddie in on the upside down and they told him everything and now he’s like. actively trying to help them defeat vecna. like bob (fly high) he was never directly involved jsut involved by proxy and never actually told Anything and then alexei in s3 also was like that he was just a scientist trying to open a gate he wasn’t Doing anything. eddie is Doing things like max and robin were

i know the entire szn is already finished filming so they can’t change anything bare on reception BUT i think they had to have known eddie was going to be the fan favorite of s4. there’s NO way he wouldn’t have been hellfire merch from like. hot topic is on back order until like fucking september/october. no one’s gonna want jason or argyle (even if i like him) or the russian guy over eddie. everyone likes him too much the audience AND the hawkins gang i feel like it would be a bad move on the writers’ part. and even a character like bob who was played by fucking sean astin i feel like wasnt This level of popular when st2 came out even tho that’s fucking sean astin. i didn’t even like bob that much until like an ep before he died i did not trust him. but look into eddie’s big brown cow eyes and tell me he should die

i know ppl think he’s gonna sacrifice himself or whatever and be the hero and not run but sorry he already did that when he dove after nancy and robin to save steve from the upside down!!! he’s IN this shit now he’s not running anymore and if the guitar solo scene is a distraction like ppl are saying that doesn’t mean anything. literally nothing. dustin’s there he’s not gonna just sit and watch eddie DIE he went up against russians with jsut a 10 year old girl a deadly weapon and a dream to save steve and robin he is not going to leave eddie to die ESPECIALLY bc he looks up to him so much and i definitely don’t believe that the rest of them would either

i would jsut be SUCHHHH a let down ending for his character if he’s just here to die. like what’s the point why introduce this complex dynamic character who fits in with EVERY ONE of the main cast that’s in hawkins rn just for him to die. literally NOOO reason to i just can’t see it happening i think that’s bad writing to waste the potential of a character w that much chemistry w everyone else. i just can’t see it happening

i just rly genuinely do not see it happening i know i am just maybe setting myself up for disappointment and wanting to kms BUT i have to move like this or else i will go out of my mind waiting for v2 i’ve gotten too attached and i’m not letting go so easily he WILL see s5 he WILL graduate

#i might be missing stuff but. heres my delusions (truth)#i have a list of characters i would sacrifice over him #i personally think jonathan hopper nancy and max out of main cast arent safe. and then i think jason isnt seeing the end of this szn #but who knows. i could be completely wrong but i dont move like this i WILL go out of my mind #*if i dont #answered #anonymous

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marauderundercover · 3 years

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How We Fell: Ch. 1

Day 1: Fairytale/Grumpy Cat

AO3

Running into class, Marinette lets out a sigh of relief as the bell rings after she entered the room instead of before. She really didn’t want to be late today. Today was the first day of her last year of lycée. She could practically taste the freedom that the end of school would bring- well, that is, if she could defeat Hawkmoth before graduation. Otherwise, she’d be stuck in Paris with the rest of Team Miraculous. And yeah, Paris was her home, but she wanted more. She wanted to travel, go somewhere else. Be a normal college student.

“Nettie! There’s my favorite class rep.” Nino cheers as she takes the seat behind him. She snorts, rolling her eyes.

“I’m the only class rep. Have been for like, four years.” She points out, pulling out her school tablet and pencil. “Where’s Adrien and Alya?” She asks, frowning at their empty chairs. Nino nods towards the screen at the front of the room, and Marinette grins- noticing two of her best friends.

“Hello and welcome back for what’s sure to be a fantastic year. I’m Alya Césaire-”

“And I’m Adrien Agreste.”

“And this is Lycée Carnot News. Your hub for any and all information at Lycée Carnot.” Alya says with a grin. “The number of akuma attacks decreased drastically over the last week, but the akumas that were sent out were more dangerous. Reminder, stick to the breathing exercises taught in Wellness, and if you see an akuma, don’t engage.”

“Really Alya, don’t engage?” Adrien teases, before looking back at the camera. “Here’s your friendly reminder that if you haven’t installed the Ladyblog app that launched over the summer, you should do that as soon as possible. It’s the most convenient way to stay up to date with the heroes and villains of Paris.”

“Thanks for the promo, Agreste. And good luck students! Have a great new school year.” Alya grins before the screen goes dark. Marinette leans over her desk to grin down at Nino.

“How long do you think the morning news will last this year?” She asks. Nino snorts.

“Depends on if we can get Als to keep the conspiracy theories out this year.” He replies. Marinette just shakes her head and laughs. Every year since they’d started lycée, Alya and Adrien had attempted to do the morning news. It never lasted long, but who knows. Maybe this was the year that it would stick.

“I’ve seen our script for tomorrow. Chances of us lasting past the week are low.” Adrien jokes, dropping down into the seat next to her. Marinette laughs, shaking her head fondly.

“She does realize that she does this to herself, right?” Marinette asks.

“Of course I do. But I will not let my creativity and inspiration be stifled by a corrupt system such as this one.” Alya declares firmly. Marinette just rolls her eyes and sits back in her seat, frowning as she scans the classroom. Where was Mme. Blanchard? She was never late.

“Good morning class!” A familiar voice calls. Marinette’s eyes widen as the woman walks in and drops her bag on the table at the front of the room. “I’m not sure if you recognize me, but I’m Mme. Bustier and I will be your teacher again this year!” Marinette purses her lips together, resisting the urge to groan. What had happened to Mme. Blanchard? Sure, the woman rarely assigned challenging work, but she was still a lot better than Bustier. Marinette had been certain that when she moved on to lycée, she would never have to see that woman again. Apparently, fate liked laughing in Marinette’s face. Barely suppressing the urge to scream, Marinette lets out a short breath. It would be fine. It’s not like Lila’s back from her ‘exchange program’, right?

“Hello! I’ve missed you all so much. I am so, so happy that my exchange program is completed.” Lila cheers, walking into the room. Marinette drops her head down and lets it fall against the desk, the sound echoing throughout the otherwise silent classroom. This day just kept getting better and better. Marinette keeps her head on the desk, ignoring Adrien’s attempts to get her attention. She simply wasn’t in the mood now. Barely listening to Lila’s subtle takeover of the classroom, Marinette doesn’t bother to pay attention until Bustier clears her throat and announces a ‘big, big surprise’.

“Now, as you all know, every year one class is selected to be the ‘host’ for an exchange class. This year, for the first time ever, we’ve partnered with Wayne Industries and Gotham Academy in Gotham City, New Jersey!” Bustier declares. Everyone begins chattering excitedly, and even Marinette perks up. She’d been looking into both the design and business programs at Gotham University. Well, if she could ever beat Hawkmoth, that is. And then it clicks. Gotham. Batman. Detective. Marinette starts shaking her foot up and down, a million possible plans flooding her brain. She had to see if one of the Gotham Academy kids knew how to contact Batman. If she could get some outside help, an outside perspective, maybe she could finally end this whole nightmare. Everything could start going right for once.

“Oh I adore Gotham! You know, I have quite a few friends there. Richard, Timothy, and of course my lovely Damikins.” Lila gushes. Marinette puffs out her cheeks, repeating her mantra to herself. Do not engage, she’s not worth it. Do not engage, she’s not worth it.

“I know, I know, this is exciting! But there’s more. They’ll be arriving in the spring, but before then, we’ll be participating in a pen pal program with the class that was selected to come to Paris. That way, when they arrive, we’ll already know each other and they can settle in easier.” Mme. Bustier claps her hands, a wide smile on her face. Marinette nods, thoughtfully. This was definitely one of the better ideas from her former- well, no longer former- teacher. And who knows, maybe something great could come out of this.

---

Marinette just blinks at Mme. Bustier, willing herself to go back a week and transfer classes the second she saw Bustier walk in so she wouldn’t have to deal with any of this. When she’d walked into class, Bustier had given her the same look that had haunted her all throughout collège. The one that let Marinette know that something impossible was about to be asked of her. So she wasn’t surprised when she’d asked her to stay after class to talk. And though she’d gotten better about saying no and standing up for herself, she couldn’t condemn this mystery student to writing to Lila. Which was their other option, according to Bustier.

The teachers had, apparently, been coordinating to try and match students up. This particular student was labeled as “angry”, “trouble socializing”, and “rude” among other things. Marinette was 99 percent sure that her teacher wasn’t supposed to tell her about it, but Bustier had never been great about the whole ‘student privacy’ thing. Anyway, Bustier had confronted her and asked if she was ‘up to the task’ as class rep. Followed by her reassuring her that if she couldn’t handle it, Lila would be able to. Yeah right. Marinette already disliked that some random kid was going to be stuck with Lila. She wasn’t about to let someone who already didn’t like people be stuck with that liar. Besides, maybe it wouldn’t be as bad as the teachers thought.

“I’ll do it.” Marinette says, working hard to suppress a sigh. One week into school and she was already more tired than she had been last year, despite having no akuma attacks yet and no commissions. A big change compared to the start of school last year.

“Wonderful! Everyone will be receiving their final pairings after lunch. I trust that you’ll do your best to bring a little Paris sunshine to this grumpy Gotham student.” Bustier says cheerfully. Marinette smiles weakly before turning and walking out of the class, letting her shoulders slump. Glancing towards the cafeteria, she decides her best course of action is to just go home and grab lunch. The walk was slightly longer than when she’d been in collège, but she also didn’t feel like dealing with the drama that was inevitable every time Lila came back to school. The girl had left at the beginning of their last year of collège, and didn’t show up again until halfway through the first year of lycée. Marinette had assumed when she didn’t return last year, that that was the end of it. But apparently, her luck didn’t stretch outside of the suit. Walking in the back door of the bakery, Marinette takes the stairs two at a time and grabs a sandwich before going up to her room and dropping onto her chaise.

“This is so exciting!” Tikki chirps, flying out of her bag. Marinette raises an eyebrow.

“What is?” She asks.

“The pen pal program! Who knows who you’ll be paired with.” They say dreamily. Marinette snorts.

“Their file literally came with warning labels, Tikki. I seriously doubt it’s going to be as good as you’re thinking.” Marinette points out. Their face drops slightly, before they smile again.

“Just stay positive Marinette. I have a good feeling about this.” They say. Marinette just smiles at her friend.

“Okay, I’ll try.” She promises. Would she go into this with a positive attitude despite the warning labels on the file? Oh yeah. She knew that sometimes, things weren’t all that they seemed. But would she also hold onto the realistic expectation that this person was against the idea of the pen pal program? Also yes. Who knows, though. Maybe Tikki was right.

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Marinette stares at her blank laptop screen, the cursor’s blinking taunting her as she struggles to come up with anything to write. Bustier had at least been smart enough to not give out the students’ entire files, just their email address and (if provided) a name. Everyone else had a first and last name for their partner, and lots of them had immediately taken to social media to follow them so that they could connect outside of school emails. So that they could be friends. Marinette, however, just had a first name. Damian. And she didn’t blame them. She was some random girl halfway across the world. Stranger danger, and all that. But it definitely wasn’t making her first email come out any easier.

“I just don’t understand why Jon won’t accept my follow request.” Lila loudly exclaims. Marinette resists the urge to roll her eyes. Again, stranger danger. And also, smart move, Jon whoever you are. Better to not give Lila access to every little part of your life. It never ended well. Marinette lets out a breath, deciding to just start with the basics.

Bonjour!

My name is Marinette Dupain-Cheng and I use she/her pronouns. I’m excited for this project, and hope that it helps to bring my class and your class closer before you arrive in the spring. Here’s a little bit about me. As you may have guessed, I’m in my last year of lycée. I’ve been looking into several universities abroad to continue my education after graduation. My hope is to double major in either fashion or design, and business administration. If you have any questions about me, feel free to ask! I’m an open book.

Sincerely,

Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Marinette lets out a breath she didn’t know she was holding as she hits send. She sneaks a glance around the room to gauge the reactions of her classmates and friends. They all seemed pretty happy, except Lila who looked annoyed. Marinette made a mental note to shake Jon’s hand when she met him in the spring. A sudden ding on her computer makes her raise an eyebrow. That was fast. Glancing at the reply, she can’t help but frown.

Okay, so this isn’t going to be the fairytale that Tikki had expected. That’s fine. At least he wasn’t straight up hostile. More…. Cordial. Cordial, she could work with. Hostile, not so much.

Hello.

My name is Damian. I use he/him pronouns. I am not looking to make a friend, and will only be communicating when required by the teacher.

Regards,

Damian

“Nettie! Any reply yet?” Nino asks, looking back at her. She plasters on a smile and nods.

“Yup!” She says. Nino raises an eyebrow.

“No more info, dudette?” He asks. She shakes her head.

“Don’t really have any.” She admits. He grins apologetically.

“That’s rough. But if anyone can bring some grump out of their shell, it’s you.” He says happily. Marinette suppresses a laugh at the unintentional (she assumes) joke. Carapace had become basically a regular, at this point. His shield was the only thing that saved them some days. Not that Nino knew that she was his teammate. He couldn’t. Not yet anyway.

“Hey, who has Damian?” Alya asks, glancing around the room.

“Why?” Marinette asks, suddenly worried that someone from GA was about to try and start drama. She’d honestly expected Lila to be the one to do it. Not someone from the other school.

“My partner, Ashleigh, said to tell whoever has Damian ‘good luck’.” Alya laughs, and Marinette’s frown deepens. That was definitely not right. Damian deserved the students at Lycée Carnot to judge him based on his actions towards them. Not based on hearsay from his classmates. “No one gonna own up to it?” Alya adds, her voice was teasing, but the words rubbed Marinette the wrong way. Gritting her teeth in determination, Marinette makes a silent promise. She would get along with Damian, and they would at least become acquaintances by the end of this. If he didn’t want friends, that’s fine. But she was determined to prove the girl from his class wrong.

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shining-magically · 4 years

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so I’ve wondered this since the trailer came out years and years ago and Chloe defended the movie - was the red shoes teaser written by the same team that made the movie? were they forced to market it like that, was that based on an earlier draft, etc?? not sure if you know but you seem like the leading expert!

Sorry, this is gonna be an absolute novel because you know I’m an animation fan and the history and production of Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs is SO interesting and insane. Like, Tangled levels of insane. Thanks for calling me an expert, no one else was gonna do it so I just kind of took up the helm lol.

Here’s the low-down... The timeline of the movie’s production is an absolute mess and kind of an extremely wild ride. It was in production for ten years, went through a lot of different crew members, and went through at least two other major versions of the story before landing on the final version.

Since there’s not a ton of info on the movie’s production, a lot of this is pieced together from different interviews and context clues, and also a lot of what I’ve read and what I am quoting has been translated from Korean, sometimes pretty roughly. But yeah.

Here’s the story of why the Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs teasers and poster were so, so bad and fatshame-y and the actual movie was so, so good and body-positive. (With pictures and production artwork!)

(This is a beast of a post so I’m putting it under a cut.)

All right, so. After its conception originally as a short story by the South Korean studio Locus Creative in 2009-2010-ish, Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs was being worked on and was set to come out in Summer 2017, as evidenced by this poster at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, featuring a different logo and very different character designs for most of the dwarfs.

In early-mid 2016, the first teaser (in which we see Snow White undress and then two dwarfs recoil in horror at her fatness when she takes her magic shoes off) was released, after the film had kind of been slowly chugging along for 6 or so years. (I am having such trouble pinpointing when the second teaser was released (in which one of the dwarfs basically attacks Snow while she is sleeping to steal her shoes), but I believe it was around the same time.) The teasers didn’t get that much traction because this was a small film from a small indie studio in South Korea.

None of the final actors had been cast yet. At this point in the production, the story was different, one of the many versions that the movie went through. As in the final movie, the dwarfs were actually cursed knights/princes and Snow White switched back and forth between two body types due to her magic shoes, but in this version, the dwarfs needed to steal the shoes from her in order to break their curse (rather than needing “a kiss from the most beautiful woman in the world” like in the final movie).

The weird thing is, I believe they had JUST changed the movie’s story when the teaser came out. I’m almost positive it was released more as a proof of concept than as an actual trailer for the movie. They had just recently combined two separate characters (seen above), a typical pretty, skinny princess character (Snow White) and a cute chubby girl character (’Bonnie’), into one single character that switches back and forth between the two appearances when she wears the magic shoes (also they had just dropped literally half of the movie taking place in the real world, with a magic mirror portal, it was a whole thing).

They didn’t have the details of this aspect of the new story hammered out yet, and the first pass at presenting Snow’s magically changing body type, was, yeah, not good and super offensive. This was a really inexperienced indie studio making their first film on a low budget, so even the animation and voice acting wasn’t great. I think they just wanted to get SOMETHING out there because it had been 6 years and they wanted to have something to show for it.

But here’s the thing. Despite how the teasers make it seem, this was always supposed to be a movie about body positivity, letting go of appearance-based prejudices, and loving yourself and others for who you are and for who they are, which we see in the final film.

I like to think of our film as a kindhearted one. Our intentions are nice.

- Director Sung-ho Hong

It’s important to keep in mind that this movie was made in South Korea by a 99% Korean crew, and, as I understand it anyway, in Korean culture, ‘fatshaming’ is not really a thing that is seen as overtly offensive. Also, children’s media there seems to have more adult things in it than in the US, which probably accounts for the more risque parts of the teasers. That said, I really believe that at this point in the timeline, the movie was on-track to be bad (or at least not very good) when it was released, and it would have ended up bad IF a few key players hadn’t signed on (which I’ll get to in a moment).

Interestingly, the movie’s producer, Sujin Hwang, said in a 2017 interview:

“[Both teasers] were solely produced to induce curiosity. They’re completely irrelevant to the actual story.”

- Producer Sujin Hwang

I think what she was trying to convey was that neither one is a scene in the actual movie, because while the teasers didn’t reflect the revamped story as it existed in summer 2017 (the time of the interview), they DID reflect the earlier version of the story where the dwarfs wanted her shoes, which is what the story was at the time they were made.

Now that we’re in post-teaser 2016, HERE’S where things start to turn around. After the teasers were released, my guy Disney veteran and native Korean Jin Kim joined the project. He and Red Shoes director Sung-ho Hong had been buddies for about eight years and Sung-ho had been trying to get Jin to come to Seoul and work with him at Locus for a long time, and he finally succeeded.

Jin and his twenty years of Disney experience as an animator and senior designer on films like Tangled, Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, and Moana, had a HUGE HUGE HUGE influence on the movie. He redesigned almost all the characters, oversaw all the visual development from the moment he signed on, and heavily (HEAVILY) supervised the animation, literally going frame-by-frame through preliminary animations and drawing over them, teaching the inexperienced animators at Locus everything he knew. (Literally almost everyone except him either only had TV experience or had no professional experience because they just gotten out of school.)

From an outsider’s perspective, it really seems as though Jin joining the project (and his gargantuan effort) made the quality SKYROCKET. Not just in character design and animation, but also in things like effects animation, story, etc. After he joined, Locus really started pushing HARD to make a good, high-quality movie, and his influence and experience from being a prominent figure at Disney was absolutely key. The studio also began to really study Disney films and other well-made animated films from other studios to really try and pinpoint what the DNA of a good animated movie really is.

I don’t have any solid evidence, but I’m pretty sure that Tony Bancroft (an animator and the co-director of Mulan) then joined the project because he’s good friends with Jin Kim. He is only credited as the voice director (the movie was recorded in English and the characters were animated to the English dialogue), but I am SURE that he probably also had a pretty big influence on the movie, because like... How could he not? I really really think there was more to his role than his title would have you believe, even though there’s almost no info out there about it.

So now the movie goes through a gigantic metamorphosis. Character designs, visual development, and animation quality are all rapidly improving, the story is tightening, and the themes of the movie (which, again, were always the same and intended to be positive) are being presented in a more sincere way. The movie is becoming the sweet, self-love-encouraging and body-positive movie that was eventually released.

I’m putting a gif from the credits of the final movie here. As we move into 2017, when the giant eruption of backlash occurred, please keep in mind that the story was finalized at this point and that THIS was the movie people were so mad about:

Chloe Grace Moretz accepted the role of Snow White immediately after she read the script and she recorded her lines (I think) in early-ish 2017. Her co-star Sam Claflin also immediately accepted the role of the romantic interest, Merlin, after reading the script and recorded his lines in (I believe) July 2017.

In the summer of 2017, the story and script were more or less the same as in the final movie. Promotional images from that time show that most of dwarfs had been completely redesigned by this point and didn’t have their teaser designs anymore.

They also released a few screenshots that look exactly like the final film. The movie was advertised as coming out in ‘2018′ at this point. Here’s a promo image from 2017 that is MUCH more tactfully worded than the infamous Cannes poster:

So now we’re in summer 2017. The Cannes Film Festival. The movie’s script and story have been basically nailed down, animation is underway, and the Korean film company Finecut is beginning to market and sell the movie to worldwide audiences. They are planning on showing some footage to potential buyers at the festival, and they make a poster to advertise the film there.

Unfortunately, it’s THIS POSTER:

Now here’s where there are some unknowns. By this point, the movie is basically in its final form, which is an adorable, body-positive story about loving people for who they are, loving yourself for who YOU are, and that provides commentary on society’s standards of beauty and how they affect how people are treated/viewed. So why this poster??? All I can really tell is that someone (I think Finecut) really, REALLY messed up and either horribly mistranslated the tagline, or didn’t do enough research to know that this kind of thing is REALLY NOT OKAY in western culture.

The above picture is shared and the internet backlash begins, fueled by tweets from prominent body-positivity activists like Tess Holliday. Even Chloe Grace Moretz speaks out against it, because she of all people KNOWS that that’s not what the movie is about. The internet then finds the old teasers from before the movie was revamped and it makes things worse. Producer Sujin Hwang profusely apologizes and says that that is NOT the message of the movie. Locus pulls the advertising campaign, and takes down the two old teasers.

“Our film, a family comedy, carries a message designed to challenge social prejudices related to standards of physical beauty in society by emphasizing the importance of inner beauty.”

- Producer Sujin Hwang

Voice director Tony Bancroft also tried to explain the situation:

“The truth is the film has a body-positive message as its core theme–it’s the opposite of what reports are saying. The problem is one poorly translated movie poster that has been taken dramatically out of context.”

- Voice Director Tony Bancroft

And then... There was nothing for a while. The movie didn’t come out in 2018 and was delayed. From what I can tell, I DON’T believe this delay was related to the Cannes backlash. I think it was mostly due to Locus’s limited budget and resources, because as we know, animation is difficult, time-consuming, expensive, and easy to do badly but hard to do well. Also, probably with Jin Kim and Tony Bancroft’s influence, they REALLY wanted to make sure to do a good job with the animation because they now had a great story and they really wanted the movie to be a quality, worldwide hit that would kind of put South Korean feature animation on the map. Just take a look at how nice the final animation was:

The movie was released in South Korea on July 25th, 2019. Unfortunately, the damage was done in the English-speaking markets and it was not released to an English-speaking audience until June 22, 2020, when it was released digitally in the UK. At the time of this post, there is no set US release date, but the distribution rights were recently bought by Lionsgate and the MPAA gave the film an official PG rating.

So who’s to blame? There’s no good answer. You could blame Locus for making those old teasers. You could blame Finecut for the competely tonedeaf Cannes poster. You could even blame cancel culture for raging against the movie based on one poster and two old teaser trailers without researching what the movie was actually about.

All I know is, it’s a damn shame.

#mooncactus #red shoes and the seven dwarfs #red shoes and the 7 dwarfs #animation #animation production #animation history #red shoes movie #redshoes #jin kim #tony bancroft

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Catwalker…Mysterious New Superhero!

So…less than ten days now until Kuro Neko is scheduled to premiere. Miraculous community, how we feeling? We’ve gotten some promos for this episode but everything that has been given to us is mostly out-of-context.

From what we have, we can gather that Cat Noir misses a crucial battle, requiring Ladybug to rely again on several temporary heroes. (As an aside, I feel it is worth a reminder of the parallel here—in the beginning of the season, it was LADYBUG not showing up and leaving Cat alone. I know it’s a little different being an akuma battle vs patrol, but it definitely seems now like there was some foreshadowing going on!) When he finally does show up, Cat Noir finds the akuma already taken care of and Ladybug is furious with him for not being there to help. Everything that Cat Noir has been feeling, combined with this, force Adrien to give up his Miraculous. Ladybug finds the ring and takes it back to her room.

These plot points we know for certain. From here, the story becomes a little less clear. How does the ring get to Catwalker and who even is he? Who is akumatized in this episode? This is information that the trailer doesn’t tell us (but that’s not a bad thing—definitely gives us things to discuss!)

In this post, I present my theory about who Catwalker is and how he gets the ring.

Starting with when Ladybug finds Adrien’s Miraculous on the rooftop, she takes it back to her bedroom and has a chat with Plagg. Obviously, Plagg will probably be pretty upset at this point, so my belief is that he will try to tell Ladybug about how Cat Noir has been feeling lately. Then, Ladybug will jump to the conclusion that this is all because of Cat Noir’s feelings, so she decides to find a Cat Noir who isn’t in love with her. Bet you can guess where the search will lead…

Yep! Adrien! Marinette’s only ever heard Adrien call her “just a friend” so, by now, she’s probably convinced herself that he will only ever see her this way. Well, I’ll bet you can guess what happens when Ladybug goes to give Adrien the ring. Denied! No way he would want to take it back after he’d just given it up (even though she doesn’t know that). Props to the show if they decide to tie Aspik back in (“You remember what happened last time? Now you want to give me the ring of destruction!? Yeah…no!”)

This response would probably crush Ladybug, leaving her overwhelmingly sad…and still partnerless. While she despairs about this latest rejection, Plagg slips away with the ring and goes back to Adrien. (Okay, maybe I just love the Adrien and Plagg heart-to-heart chats!) Plagg somehow convinces Adrien to take back to ring, but, of course, he can’t be Cat Noir or his identity will be revealed to Ladybug, so enter Catwalker.

As Catwalker, Adrien reinvents his identity as the Black Cat Miraculous holder, molding himself into the partner that he feels Ladybug wants. Face it, Adrien is 14–the crush he has on Ladybug is not just going to disappear because he’s mad at her.

So, they fight alongside each other and through it, they both realize how important Cat Noir is to the team. Thus, leading Ladybug to ask for the ring back from Catwalker and have Plagg deliver it back to Cat Noir. I don’t believe, however, that this will fully resolve the tension between Ladybug and Cat Noir. There are still things she isn’t telling him…like Alya’s new role and of course…

It is a start, though. Cat Noir feels validated, receiving confirmation that he is an important and vital part of their joint role as the protectors of Paris. Yet, it still sets up for a bombshell of a finale…because we know some of the plot details for that already!

So, what do you think? Who is Catwalker and how did he get the Black Cat Miraculous? I’d love to hear your theories!

#ml spoilers #miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug spoilers #kuro neko #catwalker #ml theory #miraculous ladybug theories

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BnHA Chapter 292: You Say Jeans

Previously on BnHA: Horikoshi was all “well anyway here’s that Touya reveal I foreshadowed like a million years ago, viva la 2020.” Dabi was all “hello world, I’ve killed 30 people and today I’m going to explain to you all why” before he proceeded to explain ABSOLUTELY NOTHING but everyone was so distracted by his tale of child abuse and hero conspiracies that they didn’t much seem to notice. Can’t Ya See-Kun’s Shark Friend was all “IS THIS THE END OF HERO SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT”, and Horikoshi was all “STAY TUNED”, and then Dabi set himself on fire and leaped off of Machia’s back like the chaotic evil, I-just-bleached-all-my-brain-cells weird little fire man he is, ready to burn everyone to crispy bits before they could even react properly to his whole big revenge speech. Fortunately he did not succeed on account of THE RETURN OF THE JING, THE JOAT, BEST FUCKING JEANIST, back from the dead by popular demand in what critics are calling “the best fucking comeback since Jesus himself.”

Today on BnHA: Best Jeanist snatches up Machia and the rest of the League with his fiber steel cables before you can say “more like BEAST JEANIST amirite.” Dabi gets all worked up and lights Hadou on fire which is a real JERK MOVE, and is all “THIS RIGHT HERE IS ALSO ENDEAVOR’S FAULT”, which, NOT SUPER CONVINCED ON THAT, BUT OKAY. Anyway so then he burns up all the cables holding him which is crazeballs btw, and then he and Shouto start fighting, and so basically the whole thing is a literal hot mess and we’ll see how that goes. Meanwhile Tomura wakes up and summons some Noumus, and poor Jeanist has to deal with those on top of the still-attempting-to-rampage Gigantomachia, and everyone else is all “we can’t help you on account of we’re all half dead”, and so it’s looking really bad. And then -- and I can’t stress enough how much I don’t even have the faintest idea how to segue into this next part -- the chapter ends with Mirio!?! just sort of POPPING UP OUT OF THE GROUND all, “SURPRISE, BITCH”, and it literally was so surprising that I am still just kind of speechless. WELL-PLAYED, I GUESS, lol wtf.

lol okay so the first page in the RHA scan is just the “three musketeers” movie promo image that we all already saw a few days ago. but it does confirm that (a) it is indeed a movie, and (b) that it’s set for a summer 2021 release! how exciting

okay so now back to our special Dabi edition of Making a Murderer

“ray of hope” oh hell yes. SAVE US MR. JEANIST

I guess he had a TV in his private hero jet or something?

gotta say, “dammit Dabi” does not even remotely sound like Authentic Best Jeanist Dialogue to me though. gonna need Caleb to see to this. well but what do you guys think? does Best Jeanist curse?? I personally feel like he’s one of those guys who NEVER EVER swears no matter what, except under the most hilariously trifling circumstances. like he’s eating an avocado one day and he accidentally stains the cuffs of his beloved jostume green and he’s all “FUCK”

btw how fucking rich is Best Jeanist though that he has his own fucking plane? the thought just suddenly occurred to me, you know? like even Endeavor, whose agency has its own on-site luxury apartment suites for all of his interns, still drives around in a dinky little car that Bakugou has declared to be too small. which, I guess we know why he felt that way now, seeing as the guy he previously interned with apparently gets around in Jeans Force One

anyway so back to the part where Jeanist shows up to save the day!! YEAH JEANIST WOOOOO

ILU JEANIST YOU REALLY ARE THE BEST!! HUGS AND KISSES!!!

lmao we just saw Gigantomachia take out like a hundred guys not ten chapters ago. and Best Jeanist shows up and takes him down in like two seconds. HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES LEAGUE OF VILLAINS. BET YOU’RE WISHING YOU’D TAKEN HIS QUIRK NOW, AFO. GET FUCKED YOU OLD SPUD

KACCHAN IS SO HAPPY TO SEE HIM AWW

SIDE NOTE, IIDA, YOU AND I ARE GONNA HAVE WORDS LATER ABOUT YOU ACTUALLY AGREEING TO PUT HIM BACK DOWN. YOU DO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS CHILD IS STILL DRIPPING BLOOD ALL OVER THE PLACE FROM HIS MULTIPLE STAB WOUNDS, RIGHT? WAY TO ASSERT YOUR AUTHORITY THERE. I THOUGHT YOU WERE THE CLASS PRESIDENT NOT THE CLASS CLOWN, COME ON NOW

LMAO DABI IS FRANTICALLY TRYING TO DO THE PLOT MATH

SHOULDA CHECKED MORE CLOSELY MY GOOD MARK. LOOKS LIKE YOU MISSED THE “MADE IN CHINA” STICKER ON THE BOTTOM. YOU HAVE BEEN BAMBOOZLED. OR ACTUALLY, I GUESS THE MORE ACCURATE WORD HERE IS JAMBOOZLED, AHAHAHAHA. JEANS

HOLY SHIT DABI

I legit almost thought that was Tomura for a second. you two look so alike now with the white hair and the crazy eyes

meanwhile, Shouto is still crying and it’s a lot to take, you guys. lotta feels

ffff come on Jeanist you better do something awesome again here, the mood of the chapter is starting to slip now

YES, GOOD, THAT’LL WORK

WELL YOU TELL ME, SPINNER. I GUESS THAT MEANS BEST JEANIST IS OFFICIALLY THE STRONGEST CHARACTER IN THE SERIES NOW. SORRY I DON’T MAKE THE RULES

ffff now Spinner is trying to wake Tomura back up. nah, how’s about we not do that

OH MY GOD HADOU YESSSS

MY GIRL OUT HERE WITH THE “NO THANK YOU” BOUT TO CURBSTOMP THE BIG BAD WITH HER QUIRK KSFHLKLK WHO HERE HAD “HADOU SAVES THE DAY” ON YOUR WAR ARC BINGO CARDS, YOU LOVE TO SEE IT!!

HEY!!!!

fucking son of a... fffkfkff... someone please reassure me that fire isn’t Hadou’s weakness. someone. anyone. also could someone please dial an ambulance and send them to Horikoshi’s house. but not just yet. first I’m gonna need you to wait about fifteen minutes or so while I take care of some things

well all right then, Dabi. so you wanna go on then and explain to us all how this, too, is somehow Endeavor’s fault?

oh I see, you’ve decided that since he’s responsible for “creating” you, everyone you hurt and kill is in truth really being hurt and killed by him! well now, that sure is convenient as fuck I guess

(ETA: that’s a nice effect with the panel sides getting all warped by Dabi’s quirk though, just noticed that.)

amazing how quickly you used up that sympathy card my guy. Shouto please kick his ass, I’m fucking done lol, you can all sort out the rest in therapy later

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE DIAL BACK DEKU’S EMPATHY STATS JUST A LITTLE BIT, HOLY --

“TODOROKI-KUN IS HURT THE MOST”, HE SAYS, WITH HIS ARM BONES SHATTERED INTO LITTLE TOOTHPICK-SIZED PIECES. I MEAN, HE’S PROBABLY TALKING MORE ABOUT MENTAL ANGUISH GIVEN THE CONTEXT HERE, BUT STILL. THAT’S ENOUGH HEROICS FROM YOU ALREADY FOR ONE DAY

NOOO JEANIST

LOTS OF SMOKE IN THE AIR RIGHT ABOUT NOW AND MY BOY’S STILL DOWN A LUNG. GOD DAMMIT

“if the number one suffers a total loss here, this country will fall to pieces” well okay, real talk though, I think the “country falling to pieces” part is pretty much unavoidable at this juncture. you all are just gonna have to try your best to pick up those pieces after the fact and see what you can do with them. if I were you I’d be less worried about the number one’s reputation and more concerned with the half-dozen child soldier interns who are still on the field and very much at risk of being burned to death should you suffer that “total loss.” please try to keep it together here for them

OH FOR FUCK’S

I really thought RockLockRock was gonna come into play here. USE YOUR QUIRK TO LOCK THE ROPES IN PLACE YOU DIP!! if he seriously just sits there and does nothing when his quirk could be the deciding factor I am cancelling his useless ass cute kid or no cute kid shfkjdls

(ETA: is he even there?? did he and Manual just hightail it out of there?? “well good luck, children.”)

also, we’ll put this aside for now to perhaps speculate about later, but what’s with Tomura remembering his dad’s house yet again in that far right panel?? and being itchy again?? I still have yet to fully work out the psychological mechanisms at work as far as his itchiness goes, so I’ll admit this is intriguing to me. it seemed like it was connected to his decay quirk, but then why is it acting up again now. what is this lol

yuh oh

forgot about these guys. looks like these heroes aren’t having such a fun time

oh fucksticks

excuse me ma’am but I don’t like this. you do know that my kids are all there, right. all burnt and impaled and broken-boned and the like. well except for Iida. he’s fine still. BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN I FEEL LIKE WATCHING HIM GET TORN APART BY FOUR HIGH ENDS, WTF

HORIKOSHI YOU MOTHERFUCKER I SWEAR TO GOD

god fucking... okay look. Horikoshi. you win, okay!? congratulations, you win, this is your show and we’re all just sitting here at your mercy. fine. go ahead and just kill off everyone ever, then!! what am I even gonna do about it. stop reading?? fuck

this whole thing really went from zero to fucked before I could even blink huh. I really thought this was gonna be a turning point chapter for the heroes. shows what I know I guess??

meanwhile this motherfucker is just SCREAMING

ngl, if I wasn’t currently terrified on account of things suddenly taking such a drastic turn for the worse, this would be the coolest fucking thing I’ve ever seen. Jeanist my man, I hype you up like it’s my job because you are the greatest fucking meme character in the history of time, but make no mistake, you are also highkey WORTH ALL THE HYPE AND THEN SOME

seriously, though. don’t fucking mind him you guys, he’s just standing here in the coolest pose of all time taking on Gigantomachia all alone with one fucking lung because the substance pumping through his veins is COLD-BLOODED LIQUID DENIM, and DENIM FEELS NO FEAR

Best Jeanist really needs to get his own theme song. -- oh my god I just finally thought of a title for this post. lmao and it’s the dumbest thing. omg

MEANWHILE THE TODOROKI BROS ARE OFF IN THEIR OWN DRAMATIC LITTLE FIRE WORLD

which one do you think is the Mario and which is the Luigi. well, but I mean, Dabi clearly thinks that he’s the Luigi though and that’s why he’s so mad. nobody wants to be Luigi. what a life

THAT’S IT, SHOUTO!! POINT OUT ALL OF HIS HYPOCRITICAL BULLSHIT, I WANT ANSWERS

JUST TO CLARIFY, IT’S THAT NATSU, NOT SOME OTHER NATSU!! SO WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF!!

OH, WELL IN THAT CASE

BUT OF COURSE. THAT WOULD MAKE IT ALL WORTHWHILE, holy shit. okay I’m just gonna go ahead and say it, Dabi is a piece of work. I really thought this arc would make him more sympathetic at long last, but it seems like it’s doing just the opposite?? this is like an anti-redemption arc. I don’t relish the thought of venturing into the fandom tags once I finish reading this lol

(ETA: well folks, I’ve done it. and actually it was pretty interesting because there are apparently like ten different things that people are mad about, and so it’s like. each post is a new adventure lmao.)

so Shouto is all “BRUH HAVE YOU COMPLETELY LOST IT” and Dabi is all “YES”, basically? like, he says he’s completely lost his feeling for anything. omg. but you were so sweet. how does that even happen

“finally I can kill you” okay for real what the heck is your damage bro?? can we not. I like Shouto just the way he is, un-killed

oh shit and now the Noumus are here

cue Bakugou diving in to save his mentor, STAB WOUNDS BE DAMNED!! actually it would make more sense for it to be Iida, but if Kacchan is really fixin’ to go full Shounen Dumbass here then he might as well go all out, y’know

-- unless of course, Deku decides to activate another quirk??

“last I checked, the main character of this series was still me” OH? WELL I SUPPOSE THAT IS TRUE, SO PRAY TELL, WHAT HAVE YOU GOT LEFT UP YOUR SLEEVE YOU SUICIDAL BRUSSELS SPROUT

fucking love how he’s all “HAHAHA WITH MY NEW QUIRKS I CAN STILL DO STUPID SHIT EVEN WITH MY ARMS AND LEGS GROUND TO A FINE POWDER” btw. what can I say. Deku gonna Deku

FMMFHDKUHK W H A T

HOLY SHIT. HOLY FUCKING SHIT. WHAT THE WHAT. QUE THE FUCK

(ETA: okay look, all the love in the world to the brave scanlators who take time out of their lives to translate the leaks every week just so we can read the chapter a couple of days early like the addicts we are. that said, translating Mirio’s signature “POWER!!” -- which was already written in English in the original scan -- to “POG-CHAMP” is just a whole new level of wtfuckery from them lmao. is the Lida person back at it again?? amazing.)

MIRIO!?!?! SHOWS UP TO SAVE THE DAY?!?! POGS HIMSELF UP OUT THE GROUND TO BEAT THE NOUMUS LIKE IT AIN’T NO THING. JUST LIKE WE ALL PREDICTED!? I’M SORRY, DID YOU NOT SEE THAT COMING?? YOU MEAN TO TELL ME YOUR DAILY HOROSCOPE FROM ASTROLOGY DOT COM DIDN’T HAVE THAT ONE IN THE CARDS?? WAS IT NOT OBVIOUS?? TODOROKIS PLUS BEST JEANIST EQUALS MIRIO??

hot damn. Tintin really saw the writing on the wall with the impending Dabi Discourse and was all “NOT SO FAST” lmao. “HERE’S A BRAND NEW THING FOR YOU ALL TO DISCOURSE ABOUT” MIRIO YOU WILD CHILD. YOU GLORIOUS THUG

MEANWHILE LET’S NOT FORGET WHAT MIRIO HAVING HIS POWERS BACK ACTUALLY IMPLIES. HOLY SHIT. SUDDENLY WE CUT BACK TO ALL MIGHT’S OFFICE, ALL THE WAY BACK AT UA. ERI BRANDISHES HER TOKOYAMI-GIFTED BUSTER SWORD, A DETERMINED GLEAM IN HER EYE. “I HEARD YOU WERE TRYING TO HAVE A GIRL POWER ARC WITHOUT ME.” OH. MY. GOD

#bnha 292 #best jeanist #todoroki touya #dabi #todoroki shouto #midoriya izuku #hadou nejire #toogata mirio #bnha #boku no hero academia #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #bnha manga spoilers #makeste reads bnha

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My hero (Sasha Banks X woman!Reader)

Anon: could you do a Sasha Banks x female reader :) where sashas gets attacked 2 on 1 and the reader debuts to the main roster to help

Gifs are not mine. Imagine is!

Also it is shorter because I have a lot of things on my plate thanks to my college degree that I am finishing right now. Also I still live with my family so it is annoying and I don't have too much time because of it.

MASTERLIST Send your request!

Reader's point of view

I am so nervous right now. Tonight is a really important and big night for me and my career. For the first time I will be performing for WWE. And not only that. I am now finally with the same brand as my girlfriend. Not many people know about us. And to be honest it's for the best. Not only for the reason fans don't get to talk shit about us but also the company sometimes has issues with it. Which I get in a way. They want performers in storylines which is hard if people are dating openly in the company.

I am in the WWE arena right now. I am supposed to have a big moment with Alexa.We got a promo to do tonight. I love that girl. We have been friends since we met in NXT. I never had a problem with her. And I know her for years now. She helped me with my decision to move to another company.

“How are you feeling?” I hear a voice behind me. I know that voice since I already live with this person.

“I am well surprisingly.” I am honest with the blue haired girl since she could read me really well.

“You got this. I trust you and not just because I love you. I know what you are capable of. You will be great.” she smiles at me with her million dollar smile.

“Well, thank you but don't say that at loud. Someone could hear you.”

I get a better look at her to see she is in her gear ready to perform. I know she has a promo to do. She told me something about having a feud with Dana Brooke. I don't remember exactly what it is about but she has a match with her tonight. I am too nervous to really follow what she told me before.

“You look good.” I compliment her since it's true. “I like you in the blue hair more.”

“I know you do.” she smiles at me while she takes my hand in hers. “I just want to make sure you are not nervous. You will perform great. And what do we know, maybe we will even get to do a storyline together some time from now.”

“I would love that.” I smile just imagining it.

“I will have to go in a moment. Do you want me to introduce you to anyone?” she asks me.

“I already had a chance to get to know some people so I guess I will just follow you to the entrance.” I tell her about my day here.

“You see, I knew you will get along with others here.'' She is laughing while we go to the entrance.

“Yeah. People are great here. I just don't want to get in the middle of some drama. I also don't want to be part of some diva moment. I am a female performer not a diva.” I am honest with her again.

On our way to entrance we meet up with Alexa. She told us hello. We had a little chit chat. She told me she is excited about our moment we are going to have in an hour and went her way. We got to where we were going in a few moments.

“Well, I am going to go now. I will meet you before we get to do your thing. So I will wish you good luck.” I got a hug and let her go to do her thing. I found myself a TV to watch her match.

Match started well. She got in the ring and did her thing. Dana was doing her thing as well. But what I didn't like was the fact that Dana was not alone. She had Mandy with her by the side of the ring. I am not sure if Sasha told me about this or not but I just didn't like it. It was not an important match like for titles or anything but still. It will get bad really quickly. I and it did. In ten minutes it became two on one. I went back to the entrance.

“Is this planted?” I asked one of the producers. After a minute he was thinking he looked at me as if checking if I was in my gear.

“Go in. Improvise.” I got the green light from the technician that sent my music into the reproductors and I went in. I run down the ramp like chitta. I was in the ring without realizing what I was doing.

Sasha's point of view

My match got messy really quickly. Girls started improvising when the crowd got bored. It worked but on my name. Right when I was starting to lose my breath I heard my girlfriend theme music. My face was on the mat but I heard yelling around me. Crowd loved it so I used that time to catch my breath a little.

“I got you.” I heard above me and fell a hand on my back for a moment. That's when I get myself up and rest my arms on the ropes. I have a chance to look around. I love what I see that I have to admit. Y/N was making the ring her new home. She had great timing on her hits. Her technicality was on point. Crowd knew it too and appreciated it as well.

“Come on.” she helped me up when she basically made Mandy and Dana run out to the rump.

I am so proud right now I can't even talk. “Hey anouc it.” she yelled at the referee. He was so confused. “They run out. Sasha win. Now!” I looked at him and he really just signaled it! I am so happy I can't even.

“And here is your winner by submission - Sasha Banks!” I hear and the crowd goes crazy.

Referee puts my hand up while Y/N is in the ring by my side looking at people's faces. We enjoy the moment before we leave the ring side. When we get back backstage people are running around. The order of matches has been changed so Y/N can catch a breath.

“Tha was great!” I hear Mandy as she comes towards us. “What an introduction.”

“Thanks.” Y/N smiles at them as we walk by.

“Let's get you some watter.” I lead Y/N to the empty room. “You okay doing your promo?” I ask. I know how hard it can be to be on aer two times in one night. Especially when it is your first night.

“Yeah. I just need to catch my breath.” She tells me when she takes the watter bottle out of my hand. She drinks a little and sits down. “Are you okay?” she asks after that.

“I am. Thanks to you. My hero.” I smile at her. I am so happy I can't stop myself. I bend down to give her a small kiss. She breaks it close after.

“Someone can walk in.” She looks at me with her big Y/E/C eyes.

“Okay.” I put my hands up in defence. “I will leave it for the hotel.” I smile at her and she does the same when she catches what I mean.

I hope you like it! I know it's short but I am just happy I found myself a moment to work on this. I will try to be more active. I have reguests in but you can always send more it will just take some time before I get throuw them.

I love you guys. Stay safe!

#WWE #wwe x reader #wwe imagine #sasha banks #sasha banks imagine #sasha banks x reader

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fluffvember day 3 — blushing

character : kirishima eijirou

“you’re really red. no pun intended.”

legend : [Y/N = your name, L/N = last name] reader uses they/them pronouns

notes : yeah so.. when i said i’d do 3 or 5 days, i didn’t say i’d line them all up lol, anyway! the promo pics!! my heart stopped

thank you for 200 followers 🤍✨ (MAN I HAVENT EVEN FINISHED THE 100 FOLLOWER SPECIAL but.. a bakugou fic 👀)

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KIRISHIMA EIJIROU is practically one of the nicest people in class 2-A, heck.. he’s even friendly with mineta.

he’s a ray of sunshine, walking positivity— and the epitome of treating people the best they deserve (even when.. they don’t deserve it.)

so, when he shuts down as soon as you come near him within a 4 feet radius, you’re curious as to why he shys away. heck, he even excuses himself when the option is available.

are you.. that bad of a person? to the point that kirishima hates you?

no. that’s impossible, he wasn’t anyways like this! so maybe you did something wrong?

you can’t put your finger on it, but it does feel like you’ve done something wrong, that you’ve wronged him in some degree.

that’s how the conclusion came to be. you wait for the moment to be correct, so you can maybe strike up a conversation. so that you can get answers as to why he’s suddenly like this. you want to know, because you want to fix it.

however— if it’s unfixable.. then there’s really nothing you can do.

now kirishima sits along the training grounds alone (or so he thinks.) you’re clearly oblivious to his pining, even though his actions are as clear as day.

bakugou gives him pardon every single time, saying that he’s a ‘hypocrite’ and that what he’s doing isn’t the definition of manly.

he can’t blame his best friend. he did say that practically ages ago, and to not go on his word would make him kind of untrustworthy.

he can’t help it! everytime he looks at your face, it’s almost like his cheeks set ablaze— practically matching his dyed red hair.

and would he have an explanation? no. not really, since kirishima eijirou isn’t really someone you’d describe as skittish.

he sighs, reaching for his water bottle. but his finger tips manage to tip his water bottle down onto the ground, his ears cringing at the sound it makes when the bottle makes contact with the ground.

he goes to pick his bottle up, but a hand reaches for it first— and he recognizes it, and it’s definitely your hand.

he blinks, and he almost yelps a little too loud, nearly falling back. but— you manage to grab his arm with fast reflexes.

“oh, L-L/N.” he’d slap himself for stuttering, but.. he’s staring at your features. almost holding his breath— as if like if he would exhale, his cheeks would fall red.

“hey, kiri!” you smile warmly at him, and you let go of his hand. “you’re still training? it’s getting late, is it not?”

your concern makes his heart flutter, and he doesn’t say a thing. well, if he does say a word— he feels like his voice would come out shakier than usual.

but, he doesn’t want to ignore you. so he nods, and you sit on the ground with him— “i admire that, kiri. i can see your effort, i mean! not that our class isn’t making effort. that’s not what i mean.”

he still chooses to remain silent, and now you just feel awkward. maybe— he just doesn’t like you? you can get passed that eventually, but you’d prefer a proper answer right now.

you sigh, and that’s when he finally speaks— finally taking big deep breaths of air.

“I.!” he speaks, and his face warms up— and if you could describe it, he would be as red as his hair. the starting lines between his hairline and face is hard to distinguish to the naked eye.

“i’m sorry, Y/N- i’m just really.. shy.” he admits, his hand resting at the back of his head.

“oh?” you heart flutters, maybe.. just maybe—

“i.. like you a lot, Y/N. i’m really dumb for avoiding you for the longest time possible, just because of my blush— but it feels like i’ll just embarass myself!”

oh, so it is that.

you’re glad, it’s not like he hated you or anything— and you didn’t offend him at all. he was just embarassed of blushing infront of you.

“i’m glad, i thought you hated me!” you pat his shoulder, and it seems like he turns even redder. “oh.. sorry.” you mumble, feeling flustered yourself

it’s kind of stupid, and you’re glad no one else is around— but when you suddenly press your lips against his warm cheek, at least it makes him smile big.

“can i take you out on a date sometime soon? anywhere you want, Y/N!” he’s still red, but— at least his confidence is back. the kirishima you know is coming back, and that’s good.

“sure thing, kiri.” you smile. you pat him on the shoulder before standing up abruptedly, “gotta go!” you grin— before dashing away.

he blinks, then blinks again.

and then he basically collapses. he’s glad no one’s there to tease him, and he’s glad you feel the same way as him.

the only thing left, is to wash up— and then show you the best version of yourself on your date!

but.. he’ll have the hardest time explaining why his face is all red.

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#kirishima eijirou x reader #kirishima x reader #kirishima imagines #fluffvember #bnha imagines #bnha x reader #mha x reader #mha imagines #bnha x y/n #bnha x you #bnha fluff #bnha fanfiction

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finduilasclln · 3 years

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Hi I have watched 2 and a half seasons of 911 since Saturday and it is your fault 👀 you mentioned a buddie playlist in the tags of a post, is there a link or a track list I wanna listen!! ❤

Aslksjflksdjfs, I will gladly take the blame for this! Isn’t it AWESOME???? OMG You’re in season 3 then? SEASON 3 IS MY FAVORITE!! It’s got such good angst and such good Buddie scenes. :)

Okay, so, I made a 911 playlist on my iPhone. I don’t know if I can actually link to it because I don’t use Spotify or anything. (I’m a complete disaster when it comes to this kind of stuff) But I can definitely give you a list of the songs I put on there, and why. I mean, it’s just my own personal playlist, there’s nothing official about this or anything. LOL.

So here goes...

These are songs that were in the show itself, and so they ended up on my playlist:

Rise Up - Andra Day

Sanctuary - Welshly Arms (MY FAVE!)

Heavenfaced - The National

Make You Feel My Love - Barbara Straathof

Sucker - Jonas Brothers

By Christmas Eve - John Legend

Blue Skies - Noah & The Whale

So Far (feat. Arnor Dan) - Ólafur Arnalds

Shake It Out - Florence + the Machine

I Found - Amber Run

Come and Get Your Love - Redbone

Photograph - Ed Sheeran

Carry You (feat. Fleurie) - Ruelle

Under Pressure - David Bowie & Queen

Heroes - David Bowie

These are two songs that Oliver Stark said he listened to when he was shooting Buck Begins to get in a good headspace.

Keeping Me Alive (Acoustic) - Jonathan Roy (SO GOOD OMG. ANOTHER FAVE)

Leave a Light On (Acoustic) - Tom Walker

This is a song that reminds me of Buck, so I put it on there.

Until the Levee - Joy Williams

And these are songs that remind me of Buddie, mostly because the lyrics are PERFECT.

Breathless - Corinne Bailey Rae (Seriously, you have to check out the lyrics. It’s like it’s written for Buddie! - “There’s a chemistry, energy, a synchronisity when we’re all alone.” - I mean... And I could just copy-paste the entire song here. It’s all perfect.)

En Jij Voor Mij - Cleymans & Van Geel (This is a Flemish song, so I don’t expect anyone that doesn’t understand Dutch to check it out or see the connection to Buddie, but it’s just... two guys singing about their friendship and how much they mean to each other but honestly, it reads like a love confession)

Brother - Kodaline (There are parts of these lyrics that just scream Buddie to me. - “If I was dying on my knees, you would be the one to rescue me. And if you would drown at sea, I’d give you my lungs so you could breathe. I’ve got you, brother. Oh brother, we go deeper than the ink beneath the skin of our tattoos.” - With added glee over the fact that Ryan calls them “brothers” in that promo. Yeah, yeah, right... Exactly how brothers look at each other. XD

Friends Don’t - Maddie & Tae (Again, just look at the lyrics. The entire song is just Eddie and Buck, period.)

So yeah, that is my 911 (and Buddie) Playlist. It gives me a lot of feels. :)

Hope you continue to enjoy the show! And the that you enjoy the playlist as well.

#911 Playlist #Buddie Playlist #leslienorpe #Buddie #asks #replies #911 on Fox

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jalebi-weds-bluetooth · 3 years

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Hello AJ. Shy anon here. I recently started watching MJHT and I recall you've watched the show too. I haven't gone too far ahead but I just noticed that Nupur has a lot of similarities with Khushi. (Which is funny because Sanaya is in it as Gunjan who's like such a contrast to Khushi and Nupur). The very first similarity I actually noticed was the clothing, specifically the bangles. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the show. Just any thoughts. I really enjoy when you deep dive and dissect shows and storylines. I hope you're doing well. Bye 🥰

Hello Shy Anon!!!!

Oh I love that show and its cheesiness to every bit! It had the perfect everything - romance, comedy, drama and an excellent way to show a parallel lead that rarely happens now cause the whole focus goes to literally one character...

DAMN THOSE DAYS!!!

Oh Nupur? Haye!

(long exploration of Khushi, Nupur, Mayank, Samrat under cut)

Yes, Nupur and Khushi have a LOT of similarities because:

1) They represent the classic Indian television female lead; manic pixie, colorful, quirky, witty, middle class, wears tons of jewelry such as bangles and earrings and a Bollywood loving dream girl. This is ITV’s basic template for every heroine. Nupur and Khushi are just the far better and memorable ones.

2) They’re also written by the same writer!

However in my opinion Nupur is a slightly more fleshed out and stronger character because:

- She never compromises with her self respect.

- Balances tradition and progressive thinking very well.

- Keeps grudges and demands apologies when she’s been hurt.

- Knows how to communicate.

- Allows people to depend on her as much as she depends on them.

- Is always a sister first, lover second.

- Has ambitions, career, education but ALSO loves romance, marriage, etc.

- GROWS as a character. She starts from being too eager to fit in, naive, unaware, to mature, proud of her roots, intimidating :)

- Knows when to apologize, works on her ego.

- Is fiercely independent post marriage and loves being ‘Nupur Bhushan’ as much as ‘Mrs. Mayank Sharma’.

Nupur would never work with ASR. She’d kill him. No doubt. And sue his dead body.

Also I think given she was a Star One heroine, the writer/s had more room to develop her as an independent woman as opposed to the perfect ‘bahu’ which is what star plus literally demands from all of its heroines.

Nupur never had to fit in Mayank’s household nor meet the ‘Sharma’s’ expectations unlike Khushi who is inborn with what they expect from a Raizada bahu. There’s no standard at the Sharma household. Their ‘ideal’ bahu is one who’s independent and has her own persona. Like Mayank’s mum and Nupur.

I feel Khushi would’ve been more like Nupur if IPK was made as a Star One show. She’d be a slightly calmer, more orthodox and more childlike than Nupur but yeah, actually be treated as an independent character.

Lol, I realised what a brilliant actor Sanaya was when I saw her interviews!

Also, let’s just say that Gunjan was path breaking as an ITV lead.

She’s everything you’d expect in a ‘male lead’ and so different from what they catered.

- She’s extremely intelligent, anti social, a scholar, fiercely loyal to her family, mature, pragmatic, practical and is acutely aware of her surroundings. She’s proud of who she is - even though she is intimidated of new spaces and people. A classic introvert who’s very new to Mumbai. You’ll notice later in the show that she’s a no bullshit woman and her hurt, grief lasts for years.

Unlike other female characters who go over their emotions in a flip and their hurt is never addressed, Gunjan has difficulty moving on from her pain and takes a lot of time to come to terms with her emotions. Also, she’s incredibly sorted and slightly naive about the matters of heart.

She’s so guarded that she ends up hurting the person she loves.

Now I feel ASR and Gunjan would be excellent friends if they met in college. Their personalities and pride on education and intelligence is at par - they’re equals if you ask me.

AND COMING TO MY FAVORITE BOIS - MAYANK AND SAMRAT.

SAMRAT IS MY ETERNAL LOVE. THEIR BROMANCE IS EVERYTHING AND SAMRAT IS THE SWEETEST PUP WITH THE MOST EPIC CHARACTER GROWTH. YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHY. HE IS THE BEST MALE HERO ON TELEVISION. BOY IS JUST... SO FREAKING NICE. BEING HOT DOES NOT MEAN YOU’RE A DICK. HE’S HOT AND SWEET AND EVERYTHING!!!!

Mayank, I love him. Again, I feel he’s a very mellowed version of ASR. Quick to judge, “once good opinion lost, then lost forever” types (*cough* Darcy), attached to his mum, does not take being lied to very well, is very single focused, slightly self absorbed, refuses feelings for like a billion years, likes being ‘self made’ and is proud of who he is. Also, secretly loves challenges *lol*

In my eyes MJHT, despite being kitschy, cheesy, very 2000s with a barely passable wardrobe, remains as a much superior show than IPK just in terms of writing and characters. Yeah, they do have shit plots in between and you go WTF but in general they never really compromise on the female nor male leads. I mean I wish they went a hundred episodes less but still...

They really focus on fostering a healthy relationship between all the important characters and not just love, but also - most importantly - friendship. In that way, it was incredibly mature writing. I will defend this show with my last breath! AND CAN I SAY THIS SHOW HAD AN ENDING? LIKE A PROPER ENDING?

THEIR ENDING WAS THE EXACT REVERSE OF THE FIRST PROMO MJHT EVER RELEASED AND I CRIED. *spoiler no spoiler but if you can ever search for the “love bole toh...” promo then you’ll know what I mean when you’re done with the show*

I’ll tell you where IPK surpasses MJHT - production value, subtlety, background scoring, direction and chemistry. Like Samrat/Gunjan, Mayank/Nupur will give you all the feelz for sure (and I was so damn excited when I learned that Mohit and Sanaya are a real life couple) but there’s something different with Arnav and Khushi. You can’t tear your eyes away from them and I think it’s because Sanaya and Barun are... brilliant actors.

Barun, especially, is a rare gem.

But apart from that, enjoy MJHT and keep me posted! Also you should write to @leila1 - she’s another MJHT lover like us!!!

THANK YOU FOR THROWING ME BACK INTO MY BACHPAN FEELZ

#ask #shy anon #mjht #jalebi's fav show #MY FEELZ DURING MJHT #MY FAV 2000s SHOW #the perfect cheesiness

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popculturebuffet · 4 years

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Final Space: And Into The Fire Review or Now with 110% More Homoerotic Telepathy

Welcome new and old to my first Final Space review! If you’ve never seen the blog before, and given this is the first “new” series i’ve covered as it come out in some time that’s probably quite a few of you, welcome. I’m Jake, I do recaps and reviews of various animated shows and comics, mostly just stuff I want to do, often on comission (5 dollars an episode if theres any episode of the first two seasons of this show or any episode of any other show you’d like tos ee me cover), or for my patreon patreon.com/popculturebuffet. And it is my utmost honor to add this show to my rotating roster of shows I cover as they come out.

I friggin love Final Space. I was intrigued by it back when TBS released the animatics alongside Close Enough (Wth the two shows ironically finally together on HBO max as of earlier this month), for their doomed block. I heard a lot of good things about season 1.. and let it get away from me, not watching it till Season 2. But both seasons had more than enough to pull me in with intriguging characters, even greater jokes and a truly unique idea for a premise involving giant monsters, an edltrich god and lots of cookies.

So while it took an extra year given Covid, I’m super friggin pumped to get into season 3 at long last after the hell of a cliffhanger, especially since ironically last night I saw Steven Yeun’s oscar nominated performance in “Minari”. Now i get to watch him play a cat teenager again too.. and in a few days Mark friggin Grayson. It’s a good week to be a fan of his is what i’m saying and a good week in general.

Previously on Final Space Yo!: Since it’s been a year and while the series provides a recap , I’m going to be doing these anyway so:

Our heroes finally got all 5 dimensional keys and freed Bolo, and in the process also freed Avacato from Invictus, the horrifying entity controlling final space. Meanwhile Tribore got Sheryl to stop being a selfish prick and she joined the team trying to be a better mother from now on. But freeing Bolo came at a high cost as Nightfall sacrified herself as the sixth key (KVN was natrually both Gary and Bolo’s first choice, but was inllegible. ) So we ended the season with our heroes entering Final Space and Gary reuniting with Quinn.... while Invictus loomed. So over a year later we finally get some answers so join me under the cut for spoilers, recaps, and homoerotic text ahoy.

Something i’m doing since both the roster keeps changing.. and as I correctly guessed from the trailer, and the general tone of the promos for this season, that everyone won’t be all together all season.. or even in one piece.. i’ll be doing a silver age style roll call to let us know who all we have on the Team Squad for the episode Roll Call: Gary, Quinn, Avacato, Little Cato, Ash, Fox, KVN, HUE, AVA, Sheryl, Bolo, and Tribore

So we pick up right where we left off, Gary tearfully reuniting with Quinn, with Quinn wishing he hadn’t come for her, and Gary being Gary naturally having ignored that, and actually been more determined since that made it forbidden which made it extra tempting and him want to extra do it. God I missed this glorious idiot let me tell you.

So things are quickly interrupted by invictus, who turns out to be a giant flaming head.. thing... and chases them and the crimson light, which has to start speeding with our heroes tethered to the outside, Quinn holding onto Gary.

So we get one hell of a thrilling chase as the Crimson Light outspeeds the demon head and runs into two titans, but Bolo shows up to take out one, with Mooncake trying his dimension shattering blast thingy on Invictus.. and naturlaly g ven this is the big bad we need to show off how horrying they are, and it does NOTHING. But Gary catches his little buddy so we’re alright.

Sheryl also shows off her badass bonafieds by LIGHTFOLDING THROUGH A TITAN... granted she still has some parenting skills to learn as “lightfolding while your son is hanging out the back through an edltrich god” really isn’t a motherly thing to do.. but neither is trying to murder your child several times or blaming him for how shitty your life turned out so ANYTHING is a step up for her.

But.. it’s not enough. While she does manage to kill ONE the Crimson Light is too badly damaged to go on and we get two tragic deaths in one go... The Team Squad is forced to abandon the Crimson Light.. and AVA is too damaged to Upload into HUE. “I’m Sad” “For who?” “For you.. and for us. “ God damn Tom Kenny is amazing. You don’t need me telling you that, but sometimes you need a reminder.

So our heroes end up on a desolate mystery world, stranded in final space with no ship, no suplies and no hope. The only thing to do now is survivie and hope they can continue the mission at some point.

ONE MONTH LATER

Things have not gotten any better, as naturally , our heroes have only found weird cartoon eyed worms that regrow their heads when you bite them off. So while this means unlimited food, it’s also disgusting and Garry hates it. “This may be a head but it tastes like a butt”. Quinn and Tribore are with him and Quinn hasn’t been ready to talk about her experiences trapped in this hellscape and still isn’t but being a good dude, Gary dosen’t push her on it. Though the weird red veiny thing on her arm tells me maybe one of you should speed that up before she explodes or gets cronnenburgy. Just saying. I’ll also say i’m not huge on the one month time skip, as while I feel they probably have a reason for being that specific i’ts a bit TOO long and I question why have that long a period of a jump, not the longest but still long enough for things to happen with nothing changingin that time? Still it’s a minor nitpick in an otherwise fantastic episode so I can let it go, I just don’t get it.

What we do get is some Gary Corpses dropping and Invictius puppeting them... i’m with gary that is bowel openingly scary. I also do like how despite the FAR more dire circumstances, they still get in the requisite shenanigans this series requires. I’ts not to the network mandated subplot levels where it distracts, but it’s enough to help ease the terror of the situation and isn’t around for situations like the opening where it really SHOULDN’T be. As the series always has when something big happens, the bollocks goes away. Once we’re in between we can get back to literal pissing contests, KVN leading a crowd to their deaths and HUE in a pimp hat like god intended.

So yeah our heroes have to outrun the horrible horde of Gary’s, though Little Cato catches on something’s wrong as Tribore makes gary cary him as foreshadowing for later and Sends mooncake down to asssit. Our heroes escape.. but a cave in happens.

After the break, Gary wakes up confused with the party now split in two: Gary, Quinn, KVN, Tribore and HUE on one side and Avacato, Ash, Fox, Little Cato and Sheryl on the other. So Gary does the logical thing... and take his shirt off telling Avacato to feel him.

I mean I didn’t even ship them before this scene but... Gary claims because of their bond he can telepahtically connect with Avacato. That’s normal Gary shenanigans.. except not only does he shrug off his girlfriend asking why they can’t do that.. but it WORKS. We have a scene of the two telepahtically talking in a wheatfield that is so homerotic I guarantee there only wasn’t the Careless Whisper sax because they couldn’t afford it.. or their saving it for later this season. Look sometimes you don’t ship a ship because you just.. dont’ care that strongly one way or another and sometimes you just need an incredibly gay scene to see the light. Same thing happened with Weblena same thing here.

Fox also says “that was glorious to watch” same man. That was freaking art. So our heroes split up into three plots. As usual for me

Team Gary: So yeah... Triobore’s pregnant. No way to really softball into that. He’s been pregnant this whole time. So we get a stupid and mildly horrifying gross out sequence with Gary having to look Triobore in teh eyes and Quinn having to “uncork him”. Which is code for ... you know what i’m not going to say it. If you’ve seen the episode you know and if not your better off not visualizing it trust me. Point is this whole sequence is dumb and the worst part of the episode by far. And the series CAN do good gross out. While Olan Rodgers regrets it, the pissing contest was one of the funniest scenes of season 2, and managed to make a gross idea on paper actually pretty damn funny. This.. this is just “Haha males giving birth and tribore’s an asshole”. There’s no joke here just a .. plug. .. gah.. the vomit is rising let me tell you.

We do get something good out of this nightmare, Tribore’s son who hatches as the army of gary’s dig their way in, Quanstranstro, who rapidly ages into a stylsih spanish speaking adult badass. He is fucking awesome and a great addition to the team and the sheer.. oddity of his birth is wonderful even if the actual birthing was not. Then the climax happens so before that.

Team Avacato:

Avacato and Co come across a sleeping giant robot cyborg .. thingy. Naturally Fox wakes him up. Little Cato remains not suprised. It occelates between panicking over it’s legs being gone and amenisa and is pretty damn funny. It’s voiced by John Dimagio. But it gets serious as we find out nothing has ever made it out of final space, and things.. change the longer there there. And Quinn’s been there several months if not a year. Whuh oh. This part is much better both due to better jokes and plot advancment.. though again Quanstrano is still fucking amazing.

Team Bolo: Bolo meanwhile returns and fights a titan, and has mooncake help him rather htan join the others, but looses, hitting the planet with his body.. I mean he might not get back up.. but the impact shatters the caverns and causes an explosion. Everyone but Gary, Quinn, KVN and HUE are MIA, as our remaining party find earth floating overhead.

TO BE CONTINUED>

Final Thoughts: A decent start to the season. Like I said the whole birthing sequence can die in a fire and reminds me of the terrible comedy subplots adult swim wanted grafted onto two episodes.. but otherwise it’s a tense stark opener that sets up the bleak tone while still keeping the series rediciulous shenanigans in tact. It’s the perfect welcome back after so long. I mean the gay telepathy alone would make it a winner.

Next Time on This Blog: We dive into a little history with HIsteria. See you at the next rainbow.

#final space #gary goodspeed #avacato #little cato #quinn airgon #ash grayven #fox #KVN #HUE #AVA #invictus #bollo #sheryl goodspeed #tribore menendez

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socialdisease609 · 3 years

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My immediate brief review of Fear Street 1994:

(Spoilers)

The exposition, to include intro credits, was SUBLIME. SO WELL PACED. It was everything I didn't know I was craving. It was hitting all the spots.

Once the action started to pick up, I feel we kinda cannonballed down a slope. Not saying it WAS rushed, but the tempo did change significantly. I kinda wish each installment was actually two parts each. Like if the exposition pacing lasted for the whole story, I think I would have been 100% satisfied. As it stands, I give it a B lol like 80% maybe 85%.

I would say, for a rated R project, many moments felt pretty PG13. Like it was enjoying the freedom of curse words and gore, but when it came to sexual themes, it was like they were afraid to go past PG13.

Not saying it needed a graphic sex scene or anything, they're kids (but summer camp for 1970s has a pounding scene in the promo, so who knows what's going on here). But yeah, not that it WAS needed to be seen, but it did feel like they were afraid to even imply sex was happening. I mean, Simon did joke "did you all go to pound town?", but while I'm sure he jerked off, I don't think what we saw with the other couples actually implied they had sex. Even Kate said "it was barely first base," and DxS were ABOUT TO. Like I said, not a necessity, but it felt like the writers/producers were afraid of at least the gay sex.

Kate and Simon meet their fate in the first installment, and while I wasn't emotionally attached to Simon (I called his death before it happened), but Kate's demise after fighting so well hit me. As supporting characters, they carried their role well and were impactful along the journey. I like when stories can make you care about more than the main characters.

While Deena doesn't die, and Sam is technically undead at the end of the first installment, it probably doesn't count as BYG. After all, a good story requires something to be at risk and saved, in this case, not just Sam's life, but her love with Deena. So, I wouldn't say "the gays die in the end" yet, because it could just be the obstacle for our heroes to overcome.

There was a moment though when I was strangely okay with Deena dying- at the end. Like, I don't want any LGBTQ+ characters to die, obvs, but I wasn't 100% sure if this cast was gonna be in the other installments at all, and I was like "... the evil always prevails hook... guess it works if it ends here for this cast," but then it took a different turn.

I'm interested to see where this goes. It did get borderline "cheesy horror film" by the end, but I'm still on board lol

#fear street

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howtosingit · 3 years

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OMG, I am such an idiot!! 😅 I kept reading "finds himself immersed in the search for a serial arsonist" as if Owen goes a manhunt himself. But it actually means that he is at the wrong place, at the wrong time (going on a late night strawl bc why not 🤷‍♀️). Helps the dude (who's probably the actual arsonist), and THEN becomes the prime suspect. At least, that's what's suddenly crossed my mind. 🧐

Anyway, gotta go catch a train. Tell me what you think! ✌️

Love,

— Thel.

Yeah, that does seem possible... but knowing Lone Star and how they like to write Owen Strand, I think even if it starts as a coincidence, Owen will probably still try to play the hero.

And why does he keep walking around Austin in a dark grey jacket with the hood up?? Owen, just because you’re recovering from surgery doesn’t mean you can’t dress like normal, you weirdo. You look suspicious.

But I like this theory, Thel! I do think the promo mentioned that he heard the police scanner or something while he was in line at the coffee shop though, right? And then he decided to investigate? Though they could’ve edited that to be misleading... Honestly, all theories are currently valid, so I give kudos to this one!

#ls spoilers #ls speculation #odi-et-amo85 #asks

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To get to write for a major network show that is super popular right now and this is what they come up with? It’s not always bad of course I’m not saying that. But I just mean the constant Owen in our face. And I’m also not saying he’s a bad writer or he doesn’t deserve his job as a writer for lone star I’m saying it seems like he feels like he HAS to write like this because his dad is a major actor on the show and has influence behind the scenes and so maybe he’s like oh I have to write about his character so much. Dude I’m sorry but that’s just downright not good. And I know he has potential to write other good storylines because Marjan’s storyline was rly good. Owen has not once progressed as a character so how good are you even writing him? Yeah he has his nice moments but they’re always overshadowed by him being an asshole or ignoring TK or trying to be a hero over anything else, including sitting down with TK and formally meeting Carlos’ parents for dinner. To purposely choose not to develop other characters and write for them with less energy as you write for Owen is downright just wrong. I know it’s not all his doing of course but he’s one of the writers for the show so he has an input into this. It’s just not right. I want to be a tv show writer and eventually showrun and create my own tv shows one day so to see someone who just has the job whether it’s because of their last name or because they worked for it just choose to write like this for this show is kind of frustrating to me. Because I see moments in some episodes of how good the show could be. If they just unclenched and stop acting like we care about Owen when we don’t. What are the causal viewers seeing that we aren’t because Owen isn’t even likable. Sorry not sorry. If you’re gonna make it the Owen Strand show at least make him likable. This isn’t even meant to be mean it’s just an observation from someone who wishes they had the job that his son currently has and seeing what we see every week with each new episode. It’s so frustrating. Just my opinions though

i have a loooot of problems with the writing. i can't remember if it bothered me this much during s1, maybe i just didn't pay attention to it or maybe it's the fact that even though owen was on screen a lot at least he wasn't insufferable idk... but apart from ep8 and a few scenes in other eps the entire first half of the season was torture for me and that's entirely because of owen

i think you could be right about john lowe feeling like he should focus on his dad's character but that goes for other writers as well. even when you look at the difference between the social media management of 911 and 911ls it's so obvious that r* b lowe is taking advantage of his influence as executive producer. i've never seen angela bassett act so selfishly, hogging the screen time and being the main focus of every promo. and i've said this before, angela is not only more talented but definitely has more star power than r*b lowe. maybe it just comes down to the fact that r*b seems like the type of guy who constantly needs his ego stroked idk. he kinda has minear and murphy in his pocket so i wouldn't be surprised if the writers were pressured to give him a certain amount of screen time every week

when it comes to owen the problem is that he has an actual decent multiep character arc about survivor's guilt and depression and that could make for a very interesting story but for some reason the writers responsible for individual eps are not executing the steps of that arc very well and the whole thing just falls apart. that's why it feels like we're just going in circles instead of seeing actual character progression. and after making the first half of the season so hard to get through they honestly can't expect the fandom to have much patience left for owen lmao

i just hope they learn from this and listen to fandom feedback because at this point almost everybody is getting tired of them constantly using their diverse characters for woke points while still favouring the white cishet man over them

#911 lone star #answered #anonymous #also wishing you the best anon!#you have very ambitious dreams so hold onto that passion and enthusiasm!!

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