#I didn't like rod

[masked-alien-lesbian]

see that plot sounds waaaayyy more interesting that the 1st book, and maybe whichever you choose as an LI, might be more centric. But idk, they also might do like the 1st book and have mc automatically in love with Logan anyway and Mona be pay walled all the hell and barely in the book

Ride or die 2 plot by andrew

[asexualdindjarin]

Well... that's like having a favorite kid.

Timothy Olyphant as Rod Reyes in Daisy Jones and the Six (2023)

[mamawasatesttube]

we have got to get kon impaled in 7 different places again. as enrichment

[queenofthursday6599-blog]

I am sad that Back to the Rock decided to just give Mokey rod-hands full time

In the original puppet show, Mokey had two sets of hand that would be used depending on what was needed for a scene.

A set of rod-hands like the rest of the main Fraggle characters, and a set of live-hands (which are like a pair of gloves that a puppeteer wears to act as the character's hands).

Something easily facilitated by her large billowing robe. Though there's various Muppets who do a similar thing even with tight clothing such as Ernie.

Anyways the live-hands is how it was so easy to do scenes of Mokey doing stuff like painting, writing, throwing things, and other stuff in the original series.

If there's an object that either can't be easily attached to a rod-hand, or that needs to be immediately thrown, there's a pretty good chance Mokey is going to be the one to pick it up.

Such as the "hideous round thing" that she picks up and throws to distract Sprocket in episode 1 of the original series. It's too large and smooth to easily (and realistically) have a rod-handed puppet hold, but a live-handed puppet could pick it up and throw it quiet easily.

It could just be because rod-hands have advanced since the original series, and the hands now have greater pose ability than the kind in the 80s, so live-handed puppets have become redundant when not necessary.

Like Mokey doesn't play the piano or anything super intricate that requires extreme finger dexterity that couldn't just be added in post or something.

Though I do think Mokey's live-hands gave her an expressiveness and groundedness in her movements that the rod-handed puppets didn't have in the original series.

Live-hands are more fluid, dynamic and nimble compared to rod-hands just by default.

When she did something, like paint, or touch something, or even touch her friends, with her live-hands it was always more grounded and believable than when any of the characters with rod-hands did something similar.

Like when Mokey pulls out a poem and is holding it, she's literally holding it with real hands, but if Gobo pulls out a postcard from Uncle Matt that same episode it can look kind of funny, because it just doesn't look as realistic. Sometimes they didn't manage to get the fingers on his rod-hand to close all the way, so the letter is just awkwardly stuck to his hand.

Same with the other rod-hand Fraggles whenever they hold a piece of paper.

Human hand in a glove will always be more 'realistic' (believable) feeling in movement and action compared to a fake hand being controlled by a stick.

And I think that is something missing from the new version of Mokey.

Original Mokey was always an artistic dreamer who could sometimes feel like she had her head in the clouds, but also had these moments of being very grounded and insightful, and was very down to earth in general.

Mokey was the most physically affectionate of her friends in the original, and I feel like that was due to, at least in part, her being a live-hand puppet a lot of the time.

Like there are just scenes where she'll just be holding one of her friends hands while she guides them along, or she'll cradle their heads when she hugs them, and there's just an extra layer of depth that comes with it being done by live-hand puppetry.

There were actions that Mokey as a live-handed puppet could do that the rest of the main cast couldn't do due to her status as a live-handed puppet, and the old show took advantage of that, and I feel like that's where at least a bit of her characterization came from.

Because for a lot of those scenes weren't of Mokey doing something complicated that made live-hands neccessary, no, in a lot of them she's just talking with her friends and gesturing with her hands, or being physically affectionate, and what she's doing with her hands aren't even the focus of what's going on in the scene.

In the episode where Wembley is looking for his job, when Mokey is walking him up to the Gorg's garden to get radishes. She's holding hands with him as she leads him up there, but that's barely in frame at all.

To the point that their hands are bobbing in and out of frame as they walk, and it only lasts a few seconds.

The hand holding was completely unnecessary, it barely makes it into the scene at all, but it was still something the puppeteers decided to do, because Mokey holding her friends hand while leading them somewhere was a Mokey kind of thing to do.

And it's the tiny moments like that, that I think is missing from Mokey in Back to the Rock.

[beryllineart]

How2Draw Undyne

How2Draw-- Undyne

Undertale and its characters belong to Toby Fox

Yeah, so, I'm not 100% happy with how her face turned out in the colored version, but corner Undyne down there makes up for it. Also, that's a pot of spaghetti on her head. She got a little too passionate. At some point I'll do Undyne in her armor, but for now, enjoy a casual looking fish-lady.

[singingcicadas]

"Rodimus joining the Autobots in Autocracy and being supportive of Optimus makes no sense and is just an example of successful Autobot propaganda b/c he's been exposed to Autobot crimes his whole life and the Autobots forced him to bomb Nyon" will forever be a wild take to me cuz his complete reasoning process is pretty clearly spelled out in the comic? It's like, the main focal point of his entire screentime in Autocracy. For Rodimus there's never been any confusion about the perpetrator behind the "Autobot crimes". There’s Zeta’s crimes and there’s Orion. With a massive distinction between the two. With said distinction being extremely important, because one the first things he says to Orion is literally:

And why does he believe that Orion's different? Because of Orion's speech to the Senate.

Guess what was in that speech:

The origin of the Autobot name. Orion's idealized vision of the freedom and autonomy that the name was meant to represent. Rodimus knew what the true Autobot values were intended to be before the government took the name for their own purposes, and he identified with those values enough to straight up put his life into Orion's hands:

Not just his own life. Everyone in the Acropolex. Everyone in Nyon. Betting on nothing but Orion's conscience. Why would he do this if he didn't already believe Orion to be a good person worthy of a gamble on his trust? If he didn't believe that Orion still held true to his words in the Senate? He knows that Zeta's out for his blood, that Zeta cares nothing about his citizens except bleeding them dry. He's always known the true depths of government atrocities, he lived in the worst of it his whole life. It's why he wired the whole city with bombs as contingency, he always knew it would come down to something like this. But if he thought that Zeta and Orion were no different for their part in the "Autobot crimes", then why would he take Orion to the Acropolex, to see the most vulnerable suffering of their people, and expect him to care enough to side with them against his own government?

Even on the brink of being forced to destroy his own home he's still very aware of who's the real enemy here. After their meeting he's certain that Orion's Autobots are on his side, it was their diversion that bought them enough time to get himself and the few he could out of detonation range. Zeta wants to kill all of them; they're all victims here. Rodimus never blamed Nyon's destruction on anyone other than Zeta, least of all Orion's group.

Imo this... is a completely appropriate and empathetic response to Rodimus' grief? like he does make leadership sound all doom and gloom but it is an accurate reflection of Rodimus' feelings (as well as his own) and he's telling Rodimus that it's okay to feel that way b/c he feels like that too!

The "you faced an impossible situation" bit is just stating the plain truth. Orion isn't condoning or condemning Rodimus' decision, it's not his place to do so. He wasn't the one forced into making the choice, Rodimus was. Rodimus made his choice and now has to live with it. Orion could only offer understanding. like idk what else he could have said, it's not even his place to offer absolution, because even though Rodimus feels guilty he doesn't regret anything. When he defended himself to Bumblebee he used the exact same words Orion did: he did what he had to do.

If the trust he placed in Orion before in the Acropolex was a wild bid in the face of desperation, then the trust that he's placing in Orion now—admitting his guilt and grief, showing vulnerability—is purely of his own choice. To which Orion reciprocated by revealing the weight of his own burdens. This is the kind of interaction that friends share. Which means they're friends now. Is it so unreasonable for Rodimus to want to follow the leadership of a friend, someone whose speech against the Senate that he'd admired, someone who he believed to be different and proved himself as worthy of his trust, someone who he fought beside and saved each other's lives and shared his desire for peace?

Claiming that Rodimus would be averse against joining the Autobots due to their past complicity in crimes under Zeta is vastly misunderstanding his character b/c he's not the type of person who thinks like that. Like for one thing he'd never let historical grudges get in the way of progressing towards a better future (think Lost Light and Megatron). It also completely misses the point of his scene with Orion in the Acropolex, which is about believing the best in people and making the right choices going forward when presented with past mistakes. Also Rodimus isn't stupid he's well aware that Zeta's Autobot cause and Orion's Autobot cause are two completely different things. The first thing Optimus did after becoming Prime was to renounce the old government. Being an Autobot under Optimus would be restoring honour and integrity to the name. if anything that should come off as extra appealing to him cuz he likes restoring stuff like Cyberutopia and the Golden Age.

"Rodimus should join the Decepticons" makes even less sense. Rodimus does come onscreen as an established Decepticon sympathizer but if you think about it his contact with Decepticons is limited to them providing him with weapon supplies. It's a vendor-patron relationship and their goal is to overthrow the government with propaganda keywords being "freedom" "equality" "emancipation" of course he would be a sympathizer. It's a noble cause if looked at from afar. But once the events of Nyon happens he's suddenly forced to get all up and close with Megatron and his higher-ups. and what does he see.

This is how Megatron fought Zeta:

This is what Megatron did to Orion:

This is how Decepticons treat their allies, right after announcing public amnesty:

This is Megatron's opinion of Zeta, after everything he did:

This is Megatron's idea of entertainment:

After seeing all that, isn't it perfectly natural for Rodimus to arrive at this conclusion regarding Megatron and the Decepticons:

Oh my god I can't believe I ever trusted these thugs.

Now that he's seen for himself that the Decepticons are the opposite of freedom, Orion trying to arrest Swindle at the beginning of the comic would have made sense to him. He now gets why they were fighting the Decepticons so hard.

That's basically the whole thought process for Rodimus joining the Autobots. The logic's pretty sound. There's no "Autobot propaganda" involved anywhere. Rodimus was the one who sought Orion out to make him choose his side. Rodimus was the one who rescued the Autobots from Megatron. Rodimus was the one who asked to join. The Autobots never tried to recruit him.

[maikhiwi00]

i love driftrod so much man. they really are everything to each other. like, i am a multishipper okay, so i do enjoy most ships/relationships/pairings etc whatever. i do like other ships involving drift and rod of course but there's something about driftrod that ugh. it gets me. they're best friends they're boyfriends they're fuck buddies they're idiots in love they're bros they're sugar daddy and baby they're partners in crime they're sparkmates (soulmates) they're girlfailures together they're married they're everything. seriously. they have the range. i bet they learnt between them how to kiss and probably how to interface. they trust and rely on each other so much. rod cares so much about drift's opinion and trusts his judgement. they want to impress each other so much. drift bought the lost light ship and gifted it to rod. the fucking ship man. i bet they keep count of their kills like a game and annoy each other when one had more kills than the other. drift spends so much time in rod's quarters. he took the blame for the overlord incident (either for rod or for the crew he still saved rod at the moment, and later rod took responsibility for it). i haven't finished mtmte/ll but i have printed on my brain that panel where rod says to drift 'i don't trust myself with words but you taught me there are many ways to speak to someone. read my aura, listen to my voice's timbre, look into my eyes. that way you'll understand how bad i feel and how badly i want things to be as they were.' man stop you're killing me. they seriously have everything. fluff smut angst etc. they love each other so much and they're beyond the romantic/platonic/etc planes. my brain chemistry has changed bc of them

[chaotictomtom]

guy who found a replacement to the counting sheep method to go to sleep when the big torments hit (lets his brain remember the entirety of the movie hot rod)

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

🎧

omgggg russ's voice in this one(and some other songs) gave me SO many chills when i first heard it. it still does that to me when i really listen to it. but i'm still so glad i decided to first listen to this album in the darkness of my bedroom with headphones on just laying there and listening. his voice is actually so pretty, help

also russ is singing this song to me because that's what he does to me(he didn't write it but he's singing it to me)

but also some parts are from me to him

okay anyway

[me leaving this post up not typing, just listening to the song on repeat while eating various fruits]

[like an hour later] okay the lyrics

[me getting sidetracked trying to clean up my browser tabs, ending up watching/saving entire russ videos and planning future gifs, somehow found the world's smallest and worst quality video ever and yet i still love it]

OKAY HERE WE GO:

YOOOOOUUuUuUuUu made me feeeeeeeeEeEeEeEeL (this whole part from here onward is from me to russ)

like i NEEEEEEEEeEeEeEeEver could feeeeeeEeEeEeEel

to the DEEEEEeEeEeEePTHS of my souuuuuUuUuUul

NOOOOoOoOoOoW for the fiiiiiiiIiIiIiIirst time

i'm LIIIIIIIiIiIiIiIiving for reEeEeEeEeEeEeAaAaaal (<- this part especially)

and i FEEEEEEeEeEeEeEeEeEL i'm made whoOoOoOooole

and i WIIIIIIiIiIiIiIiIiILL sacriFICE

to bring you joooOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoy (this whole part from here onward is what russ does to me)

yes i WIIIIIIiIiIiIiIiIiILL spend my LiiiiIIIIIIFE to bring you joooooooOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoy

BRING YOU JOOOOOOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOY

LIKE YOU'VE NeVER KNoOWN BEFOOOOORE

BRING YOU JOOOOOOOOOOoooooOOOoyyyyyyyy

make you scream and shout for more

take this BOOOOOOOoOoOoOoOoOoOY

AND FROM MISERY YOU'LL SOAR

INTO JOOOOoooooOOOooyyyyyyyy THAT YOU'LL FEEL FOR evERMOOOORE

and i'll make you feel so happy you could cryyyyyYYYyyyYYYYYY

yes i'll make you feel so happy you will diiiiiiiiiiiiIiIiIiIiIiIiIiIie

sing and SHOOOOOOOoOoUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUUUT

thrOW YOUR FEELINGS TO THE SKIES

SING AAND SHOOOOoooooouuuuuuut

let the jOY WITHIN you RISE

shout iT OOOOOOOOOoOoOoUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUUUT

thAT YOU WANT TO LAUGH AND CRYYYYY

WANT TO SHooooooooOOOOoouuuuUUUuuuuut

want to SPREAD your wings and FLY

and i'll make you feel so happy you could cryyyyyYYYYyyyyyYYYY

and i'll make you feel so happy you will diiiiiiiiiiiiIiIiIiIiIiIiIiIiIIiIiIiIiIie

YOUUUUUuUuUu made me feeeeeeeEeEeEel (me to russ again)

like i NEEEeEeEeEeEver could feeeEeEeEeEeEeEel

to the DEEEeEeEeEeEePTHS of my souuuuuUuUuUul

NOOOOoOoOoOoW for the fiiiiiiiiIiIiIiIiIirst time

i'm LIIIIIIIiIiIiIiIiIving for reeeeeEeEeEaAaAaAaaaal

and i FEEEEeEeEeEeEeEeEeL i'm made whoooOoOoOoOole

and i WIIIIIIIIIIIiIiIiIiIiIiIiIiIiILL sacriFICE to bring you jooooOOOOoyyyyYYYYYYYYY

yes i WIIIIiIiIiIiIiIiILL spend my LiiiiiIIIIIIFE to bring yoooooooOUuUuUuUu

JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoOOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOyYyYyyYyYyYyYyyYyYyYyYyyYyYyYYyYyYyyYyYyYYyYyYyYYyyYyYyYyyYyYyYyYYyYyYyYYyYyYYyYyYyYYyYyYyyYyYYyYyYYyYyyYyYYyYyyYyYyyYyYYyYyYYyYyYYyYyYYyyYyYYyYyYyyYyYyYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

i love everything about this song

[irisbaggins]

The novelisation of the Phantom Menace has made me so incredibly sad, where little Anakin sees an injured Tusken and decides to disobey Watto to sit by the Raider until he wakes up. Anakin has such a deep, loving heart that he was willing to suffer the consequences of disobedience to make sure a Tusken Raider would be safe, a being he was taught all his life were brutal and cruel. And in this chapter, Anakin admits that the only thing that truly scares him, is of losing his mother. That juxtaposition, that note of I will care for this creature to I fear losing my mother, put so much more weight onto AOTC, and of Anakin's rage. He broke, and he lost himself to his rage. When faced with what he did, he rages against the world and his actions, before breaking down into further sobs at the loss of his mother and the actions he made. His worst fear was realised, and he became the monster that everyone claimed the Tuskens to be.

It'll be interesting to read the AOTC novelisation, to see if this scene is ever called back to. I just find it interesting, and further showcases the depths of Anakin's feelings and compassion, as well as the pitfalls that such strong emotions come with. For if you feel compassion and love as deeply as Anakin does, so will you feel the destructive nature of all of your rage. And that, that is Anakin's biggest weakness; he feels too strongly to ever truly control it.

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #22: 1971

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As the decade starts to solidify, we're starting to see more soft rock reaching the peak of the charts, along with an increase in country crossovers. Bubblegum pop, which we've discussed previously, will also reach one of its peaks this year.

1971 also marks the year Soul Train was moved to syndication, which was instrumental in introducing Black artists, dancers, and icons to living rooms across the country. Soul music itself will continue to grow in popularity, especially the lush sound of Philly soul -- which will soon morph into another genre that will come to define the decade (we'll get to that).

In current (at the time) events, the anti-war movement in the United States will see a greater increase in support, with 60% of Americans opposing the Vietnam War according to a Harris Poll conducted in May. The following month, The New York Times will publish the Pentagon Papers. I'm sure this is the last time we'll see a political scandal take place this decade.

[theheadlessgroom]

@beatingheart-bride

"Uh, lass? Halloween isn't for a good few more months-it's a little early for practical jokes like that!"

"It's not a joke, Pa," Randall sighed heavily-he should've anticipated this, in a way; that if they didn't immediately become alarmed over this revelation, that they wouldn't believe them, and instead think this was some sort of big joke. But that wasn't it-far from it, and he tried to hammer this in as he insisted, "Emily is telling the truth!"

"Randall..." June asked, tone wary and expression full of concern-it wasn't like her son to try and pull their leg like this, but surely, that had to be what it was, right? Surely he didn't really think they'd believe him when he said his girlfriend was a vampire?

And surely...he didn't really believe that himself, did he?

Sighing heavily, Randall looked around for a way to prove it, before gesturing to the mirror hanging on the wall by the front door; a little something for the Pace's to look into, make sure they looked nice before they headed off to work. Pointing it out, he sighed heavily, "Look, if you want proof...look into the mirror. You'll see me on the couch, but...you won't see her."

His parents exchanged concerned looks at this, and Randall sighed again, saying, "I know it sounds crazy, but please...we don't want to keep this a secret from you-Emily was very honest about it with me last night, and we decided earlier today that we'd be honest with you. Please, just...trust us. And trust us when we saw that Emily doesn't mean me any harm. I love her, and she loves me."

[hilsonisthecure]

when wilson asked cameron if she slept with house and she said, "i couldn't have lived with myself" and wilson said "you'd be surprised what you can live with"

[shenaniganeryfromtheabyss]

AU for Starborn where he and Rodimus never had that night together, Roddy went for Megs instead

Starry and Rainbow were last minute additions, never apart of the original plan (not that Rodimus actually had a plan but by the time Starry asked to join, they had started preparing)

everyone had already met everyone else and had started talking, getting to know each other and find their roles on the ship

of course, everyone knew of Starborn, prince of New CTN and Unicron's son, but that was really it

Megatron knew him more personally and, with their sorted past far behind them, he offered to ward the prince and help protect him (much to Starry's secret dismay)

and Starry isn't stupid and far from not bein self-aware, he knows he's different and doesn't really belong

it still hurts when everyone else seems to fit together so well, and he feels human* again

[ceiling-karasu]

Tried to go to bed, but kind of figured out a backstory to the weasel kingdoms and the war with Flower Hill. It fits in fairly well with real life history as well.

[miharuhebinata]

a lot was covered in this new trailer but i think we can all agree that the most important was that

YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR OUTFIT. YOU LITERALLY GET TO PLAY DRESS UP WITH ZELDA OH MY GOD ALL MY DREAMS ARE COMING TRUE THANK YOU GOD AND ALSO JESUS AMEN 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏