#Blake Hamilton

[dianalillian]

I spent the next 10 years being tossed between the two like dead weight. But for the next two months, I can be anybody.

FLOAT

I’ve been a manga fan ever since, and manhwas have overtaken my life lately. It’s been a looooong while since I’ve binged an OEL comic.

So I found this comic through a banner in LINE Webtoon saying that this comic got a live-action adaptation and got intrigued. I didn’t check out the movie since live action adaptations do have bad rep and I’m not a movie person myself. Usually, when a novel (yup, the original work is a novel, it seems) is adapted, the novel must be good, right? RIGHT?

Well, this comic was a pleasant surprise. The first few chapters were hard to get through but not in a bad way. The main character Waverly hits too close to home by saying the most unnecessary or inappropriate stuff out of nervousness. I needed to take cringe breaks every time she throws out social suicide bombs and brace myself for the reactions of her peers.

Nonetheless, the cringe is what I found endearing as well as how her newfound friends take her quirks in a stride and how she learns to express herself better.

There is one plotline where they brushed off cheating easily, but the latest chapters will seem to give spotlight to this character, so we might get a more nuanced take.

Nonetheless, it would be another Webtoon comic I’ll look forward to every week!

[orangethreads]

mota as textposts, part two mwuah

part 1

[sainz100]

assortment of little gifs I've made lately (part 1/?)

[disventurecamptakes]

I think the problem with the All Stars merge is that they don't really let any positive relationships, especially newer ones, linger for too long.

Grett and Gabby defeat Yul and become friends! Gabby is eliminated the next episode.

Jake and Aiden work out their differences and become friends! Aiden is eliminated two episodes later.

Connor and Alec make up and become friends again! Alec is eliminated THAT SAME EPISODE.

Meanwhile, the negative relationships (shoutout Jake and Ally, shoutout Connor and Riya) get milked and dragged out for all they are worth. No wonder the show feels so miserable nowadays.

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[alumi-san]

Motel episode let's go!

- Well, great. You ruined a great friendship and turned it into a toxic one. Well done ONC!

- Missed girlfriends and boyfriends!

- Still pissed that Huntessally isn't canon.

Um, when??

No, he's not!

I get that Miriam is older than Connor but it's still funny. Also TOM is in the background.

- The idea is very interesting! Instead of the finalists choosing who is going to help them, THEY choose who are they going to help!

- I liked Gabby Ellie and Grett as a trio!

- Welcome back old Ellie I missed you!

No! There's no way in hell you make me feel bad for this motherf*cker! First Riya now him?! Wtf???

- James stop empathizing with him! You're better than this!

WTF????!!!!! Nina is a demon?! The hell ONC?! Since when Disventure Camp is a mystic series?! Why did nobody reacted to it?!

- The "huh?" joke was funny.

- Help! Why did James pronounce Riya as Raya??

Was his mom brought up before? I don't remember.

- Wow Derek chose Trevor instead. Well, congrats you don't suk as much now.

Surprisingly no.

- Jake being terrified is gold

Bonus Alec and Fiore my beloveds

See you guys at the horrible finale!

[orangethreads]

realistic modern au mota headcanons :

- brady would post bible verses on his insta story

- bucky and curt would do zyn

- douglass would be an elf bar fiend

- bubbles would drive a janky toyota corolla and be the groups dd

- rosie would never be allowed aux unless they’re smoking 🍃

- buck is the one who gets them alc because adults trust them

- croz would fail the sats because he forgot to turn the page

- alex would yell at them to shut up during study hangouts and kick them out (except bubbles) once a week

- ham would be a “where’s my hug at” kinda guy

- jack is the one calling the cops on their parties because he wants to sleep goddammit

- ev would smoke cigs but smack them if he saw them smoking

[nerds-yearbook]

Julie Newmar was the first actress to protray Catwoman on the Adam West Batman TV show. She made her debute on March 16, 1966. It is said that she designed and made her own costume. ("The Purr-fect Crime", Batman, TV, Event).

[sarahowritesostucky]

Authors Who Can't Let Their Story End at the Right Time: A Rant

Lord, that's a big pet peeve of mine. It's something I've certainly fallen into with one of my fics, in particular, but I actively try to avoid it these days. HERE is what I have to say about the Anita Blake series, by Laurell K. Hamilton (if you know, you know).

The saga of the universe-that-would-not-conclude gets worse with each new Anita Blake Vampire Hunter book that comes out. Author Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter book series began (many, many, many, many, many moons ago) with a fresh, interesting, and unique setup; a great combination of themes and genres (supernatural, detective, horror, erotica), engaging plotlines, and an instantly relatable narrative style.

One complaint I hear from a lot of other current/former LKH readers, is that the sex and the powers and relationship entanglements just became stupid-complicated--unbelievably so (and that's saying a lot, in a universe based on the premise that preternatural creatures live among humans as known co-citizens). Still, even as the sex got more and more screentime with each installment, and the three-way became a four-way became a polyamorous web of 9, 12, 20, I still liked the stories LKH was telling (and felt that they were worth telling) well into the 5th-6th novel. She held true to the characters, for the most part, and came up with some cool new ideas to explore, new facets of this preternatural underworld AU that she could show us without becoming repetitive or devoid of purpose.

But after those first 6 books or so--let's say 8, to be generous (there are 29 😑), she started to lose originality. She repeated the same thing over and over and over again in new packaging, leant too heavily on embarrassingly typical Mary-Sue/pick-me heroine tropes, and became unproductively addicted to overly-dense, never-ending, flowery prose for even the most mundane of things. It made the books more and more tiresome to get through.

To be completely honest, I loved Anita's character (and many of the others!) and felt that LKH did a good job in creating her, fleshing her out, exploring her world, developing her, and showing her personal evolution through the first books of the series. It was really great!

But then ... she just. kept. writing. She has continued to pump out unneeded and increasingly lackluster Anita Blake installments, long after the story should have ended (I suspect for the dependable paycheck that a well and long-known series can continue to bring in from the die-hard segments of a fan base).

LKH is definitely an author who just does not know when to let go of her baby and bring the story to an end--for the sake of the story itself! She does all of her once-inspired and unique ideas, plots, and characters a massive and almost ruinous disservice by not recognizing that she should have written a series ending and moved on from this particular universe--or at the very least, from this main female character--long ago.

This refusal to progress or improve, combined with LKH's many online demonstrations of her personal immaturity and deep insecurities (that's a whole 'nother post), makes me respect her a heck of a lot less as both an author and as a person in general. It has definitely driven me onwards, off to seek out better authors in the genre who are more willing to evolve, grow, explore, and graciously engage with fans.

There comes a point where some authors begin to rely on their past successes more than the quality of the actual work they're presently putting out, and LKH has been there for the better part of a decade, at least.

THAT SAID: I recently picked up the first book of the series out of nostalgia (I began reading them in middle school, when they were the only "porn" I knew how to get my hands on. I'm beginning to re-read the books I did like in the series, and you may see me post about them from time to time. I highly, highly recommend the first handful of books of the series, if you're a fan of preternatural romance that has a lot of non-romantic substance to the plot. The first books are very entertaining vampire-erotica-crime-thriller books.

And remember folks: if your story is truly worth telling, there is an ending meant for it. One of your jobs as an author is to figure out what (and when) that ending is.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

💖Sarah

[disventurecamptakes]

DCAS is like. the worst season of DSVC ever and not only that but it’s so much worse than even TDAS. which, like, the bar is in HELL so it should be impossible to not make a better show than that but somehow ONC managed to make it THE WORST.

three love triangles, almost zero real development, almost no good plotlines. if you didn’t bring back half this cast and just ended their stories with their respective seasons, not only would nothing have been changed, but they’d have been BETTER.

likd, the only people who actually got something good out of DCAS were alec & fiore because they made up. say you don’t bring back tom & jake - they get a hopeful ending. don’t bring back gabby & ellie - okay, they’re happy anyways. don’t bring back miriam - she won! who cares! don’t bring back james & aiden - they’re together, they’re happy. don’t bring back grett - she gets a hopeful ending. don’t bring back ashley - who the FUCK cares about ASHLEY she did NOTHING for the story. don’t bring back huntessally - who cares they’re all mid-tier characters at best. don’t bring back connor - everybody forgot he existed anyways. don’t bring back yul - please GOD do NOT bring back yul.

like. name me one character besides alec and fiore whose story was significantly changed by being in DCAS. gabellie? they had a mild disagreement then went back to being okay. tomjake? they literally returned to that hopeful ending they got in season 1. jaiden? james was kicked out first and aiden was just stuck in between tomjake the entire season.

and also, oh my god i could’ve lived happily without ever having to deal with trevek again. man FUCK trevek they have zero chemistry from day one. they piss me off sm they’re like tomjake but a bit older and so so so much stupider and meaner on dereks part.

all ONC did with DCAS was show us they genuinely 1) do not care about their characters whatsoever, unless it directly benefits them and 2) cannot. fucking. write.

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[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[shark-watermelon]

About two months ago (damn lazy-), @eurovisionfan12 wrote to me to make a drawing, to draw Tom, Jake and Connor with special outfits and here they are

(Anyone can call me Da Vinci now btw, I'm on my way to taking a long time on the drawings)

[damedianariggalbumphoto]

[nerds-yearbook]

King Tut made his first appearance in the Batman episode that aired on April 13, 1966. King Tut was the first villian completely created for the show. While Zelda the Great was technically a new character, her story completely mirrored a comic starring a different villian. ("The Curse of Tut", Batman, TV event)

[alumi-san]

There's a new tier list

[lecoindecachou]

The werehyenas from the Anita Blake series are metal as fuck and putting all of your wolfboys to shame fyi

[goldenamaranthe-blog]

Blake: What have you done?!

Weiss: What?! What did I do?!

Blake: You introduced your mom to Hamilton!

Weiss: What? It's good musical with great songs.

Blake: Not when Willow shows it to my mom and they start doing parody cosplays as the Schuylar Sisters and start serenading my dad!

-"Take a Break" starts playing downstairs-

Blake & Weiss: (run down the stairs and pause on the steps)

Blake: Dammit! They're at it again!

Kali & Willow: (alternating between dancing with each other and sitting on either side of Ghira on the chair's arms) Take a break and get away! Run away with us for the summer. Let's go upstate! Where we can all go stay with our daughters!

Ghira: (smiling with a blush as he tries to read through White Fang policies)

Weiss: Huh... I'm surprised how quickly they got the choreography figured out. How is it that your mom can sing and you can't hold a tune in a bucket?

Blake: Shut up!