#I get such treasure planet vibes from this show. love it!

[lilithlounge]

What’s your thoughts on Jupiter in Scorpio 8th house I don’t really know much about it. And love your channel been following you for a while keep it up!! 🤍

Thank you so much for your kind words and for sticking around that means a lot 🖤.

Jupiter is the planet of growth and luck, and Scorpio + the 8th house is all about mysteries, transformation and taboo subjects like death, sex, shared money, that sort of thing. I’ve seen other astrologers describe people with this combo as having bewitching powers and a magnetic presence, which is true. In other words, you probably have a catchy vibe that people notice right away. This placement tends to push you toward all or nothing situations: one minute yo’’re warmly engaging everyone and the next you might get very Scorpiotense or guarded. The 8th house angle means big transformations are central to your life. For example, Jupiter here can bring sudden gains in wealth and a draw to secretive, mystical pursuits which also makes sense since the 8th house rules inheritances, joint finances and deep study. So you might find luck or growth through shared money or through exploring occult or psychological topics.

You likely love diving into life’s darker side in a good way! You probably find yourself fascinated by hidden knowledge things like psychology, the occult, spirituality or anything mysterious that others shy away from. In fact, people with Jupiter in Scorpio are often described as having a profound ability to dig deep and uncover hidden truths. This means you’re resourceful, determined and intuitive. You may have an uncanny knack for reading people or situations. You excel at research, detective work or any field where you’re digging below the surface.

When it comes to behavior, you tend to be all in. In relationships, for example, you give 100% and expect depth in return. You’re likely very loyal and protective of the people you care about. At the same time, Jupiter’s energy can make you quite open hearted that you might trust others easily at first, expecting everyone to be honest and direct but Scorpio’s influence means you also have a bit of a wary side. You might hold onto grudges or worries longer than others do or dig and dig to figure out someone’s true intentions. The challenge is learning when to let go and move on. On the bright side, that intensity also means you’re generous and passionate once you commit because you treasure trust and intimacy.

All of these traits show up in your general aura and appearance as well. Others probably describe you as mysterious and charismatic. You have a strong, attractive presence and you might notice that people are drawn to your gaze or the way you carry yourself. Maybe you have striking eyes or a deep, serious expression or maybe it’s more subtle the way you quietly command attention. Jupiter’s influence here can also add some big planet qualities to Scorpio’s look, it gives a sort of larger than life quality, like being surprisingly tall, broad shouldered or otherwise physically noticeable. At the very least, you probably feel big on the inside confident or optimistic about tackling life’s challenges. That confidence can show in posture or the way you speak even if you’re quiet.

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HEY DUDE!! IDK if you're doing requests or if this is rude or whatever, but reading about your Wildbane AU really got me interested in Hunter and Willow's dynamic, so.. could you maybe perhaps if you're feeling up to it... doodle them?? Or tell us more about them?? Sorry I just love them sm T-T.

Thank u for your wonderful art btw! Have a nice day

ITS NOT RUDE AT ALL!!! I LOVE BEING ASKED THIS KIND OF THING IT TURNS OUT!! okay so...

and as much as i would like to doodle them i havent quite nailed down what either of them look like in full? like i think ive said Wildbane is pretty much just my take on the lore with major influences from that one 'beta' art (among other things like GOW/GOW:R) so she about looks like this

their dynamic is a bit different than in the show, because Willow is much more.. burnt-out. has the whole 'gifted kid' thing going on. thats kind of the vibe i get from her in this art

here, their relationship forms over their shared feelings of emptiness. they understand each other, they understand the whole 'feeling blank' thing

with willow, it was initially the pursuit of the wrong magic track which disillusioned her from interest in academics and learning magic in general for a while until Luz came along

with hunter, it was losing the life he had as part of the Emperor's Coven and having nothing left after he had left that life

[ keep in mind that they're all a bit older in this au! willow is 16 and hunter is 17 by the time Luz arrives in the Demon Realm ]

their dynamic is like... a feedback loop of building each other up! they each teach the other how to rekindle sparks and become whole after their respective 'nothings' in life

willow might be talking to hunter, recommending him stuff to do that can make him feel better and he notes "Hey, why don't you do any of this self-help stuff you tell me about?"

and willow goes "damn ur right. thanks a bundle let me get right on that"

they quite literally are the types to finish each other's sentences! ...

and NOW for more little lore notes!

As a reference to that one pilot design of hunter, hunter's hair skews orange-red after Flapjack saves him!

similarly, his eyes used to be bright green!

also, his scars get SIGNIFICANTLY worse. you ever hear of Jeff from HL:A? yeah, that. below is an older outdated sketch showing the changes mentioned

Willow uses she/her and they/them pronouns

hunter gets a fucking gun (okay its more like the rayguns from Treasure Planet fueled by magic but whatever. basically guns)

hunter has a very VERY unsubtle witch hunter thing going on with his Golden Guard outfit, i imagine. very van helsing

Willow lives on the knee! as in, that one little town on the side of it

i imagine hunter sounds like Heimdall from GOW:R

Willow becomes a dual-track student, studying Plants and Healing magic with a focus on Plants!

[zennie-stream]

Cloudward Ho, Episode One (My thoughts n rambles)

I guess I’m doing this cuz I low-key feel like it. Spoilers below

-All fans of Treasure Planet rejoice! You have something new to adore. I do really like the vibe of the setting. The hardcore capitalism messaging already hammered in (no complaints Brennan) really makes the need for adventure pop. This first episode had a really nice balance of humor and exposition though I want it to be less jokey in the future. Mostly because Vana and Montgomery didn’t show up until the last half hour of the episode. I want time between characters to be a bit more evenly spaced but I have no control over that.

-I knew from the trailer the basic setup was a crew of old adventurers go to travel with a couple bright eyed kids. But this felt much more emotional than I really thought it would be. Seeing the crew full of energy at the beginning and seeing how they are now is honestly really heartbreaking. It gives the same feeling of seeing somebody that was popular in high school and they now work two jobs just to scrape by.

-Professor MacLeod is honestly very interesting to me. Not just because she’s part of the main hook, but she represents a feeling of abnormality. Something that goes against the grain of society. Everyone would view her as crazy or as a lunatic, but she’s one of the smartest and bravest people in the world. I am hoping she stays that way rather than being twisted by her time away from her companions.

-Maxwell Gotch is already one of my favorite Dimension 20 characters. The ‘rich kid who hates being a rich kid’ is a strange gimmick in most media but with him being somebody who was raised around adventure and these stories of grandeur, it’s not out of the question for him to be craving more for his life. The fact that we have another monk on the roster is also fantastic, I really love the class and I’m sad it’s just not loved by most that play D&D. The ‘rowdy boxer’ setup is also just incredibly fun. I cannot wait for the discombobulate memes. Wealwell is very Gilear coded and while that is very funny, I would be much happier if he wasn’t entirely a joke. Perhaps he’s a spy for Cadswitch or somebody who can contribute more for the sake of lore. But I’ll keep my ideas to myself until his status changes.

-Olethra MacLeod is a character I really enjoy. She is perfect for the role of ‘bright eyed fangirl’ that reigns the crew in when they’re overwhelmed or wanting to split apart (which I feel might happen during the course of this campaign). Her family is really funny but I won’t say much more because I don’t think they’ll do anything else from now on. I hope she grows to have her own identity besides her initial characterization very similar to how Liam turned out in Crown of Candy.

-Daisuke Bucklesby is already a really nice character in my mind. Very much so gives the Obi-Wan Kenobi vibes already (which I can tell was intentional). I feel like we’re getting Zack as the dad of the party like how I initially expected during Starstruck. His showing of his skill during the first combat was really nice. Yeah it was just dice rolls that made him look cool but I like the showing of a legend. Here’s to hoping that he lives through the entire season.

-Marya Junková is a very pleasant presence in my mind. She’s very eccentric and funny but her story of seeking revenge adds to the more serious elements of the story. I love the description she said of looking gaunt in the soul. I am really happy Emily Axford gets to play an arcane spellcaster but I know that it’s going to be literal hell for Brennan.

-Vanellope Chapman is a character that I find a bit boring thus far though that’s not an insult. Since Van and Montgomery didn’t show up until the last half hour, I felt like there wasn’t a lot of screen time for her. But what little moments we had were very good. She’s the only one that still believes in Zood and the one who brings Monty in the fold with only a few words: “She found it.” I’m really hoping Bert isn’t entirely a joke character and he does some work to bring the crew together in more ways than beautiful singing and his cooking.

-Montgomery LaMontgomery is ungodly interesting to me. A character built solely to care about the world and its nature in a steampunk setting is awesome. Even better in a capitalistic steampunk setting. Seeing how he sways rich people with his stories makes him much more charming than you’d expect. But what drew me in the most was the very first time we see him, in the newsreel. Seeing the brief interaction with Clive the moose and the ‘it will be done’ implies that Montgomery might be a bit more crazy than he outwardly seems. Perhaps he aims to destroy machinery in its entirety or make a huge change to how to world is set up. Now that’s a very big leap in logic for something that could be a one and done joke. But I like my theories and it would be cool to have a character on the crew betray everyone else. Only time will tell if I’m wrong.

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Skeleton Crew is such a fun show so far! I love that it’s accessible to both Star Wars fans and non-Star Wars fans! It’s a really pleasant deviation from what we’ve seen so far in the SW live action universe while still full heartedly remaining Star Wars. The 80’s nostalgia hits strong and makes it just that more enjoyable (and accessible in my opinion! :) ). I adore that’s it’s cute and fun and simple, but also has some deeper layers that people can delve into.

The Utopian-like society is very intriguing, but not too surprising! The concept of a planet completely cut off from the rest of the galaxy is not new to the wider Star Wars universe but it’s still super cool to explore. It’s got a bunch of markers that make it a society bent into the concept of Utopia (“we all have a place”; everyone’s path is chosen for them as a child; service droids for EVERYTHING including constant patrols??; the obvious Barrier; etc.) I’m assuming that At Attin has been cut off from the wider galaxy in order to create a kind of Utopia. At Attin, as far as we can tell, is untouched by war and conflict- and considering what’s happened to the galaxy even since the Clone Wars, it’s not surprising that at least one planet decided to pull away and hide themselves for the good of their people. I’m also assuming that though pirates consider At Attin to be a planet of unparalleled treasure, the real worth of the planet has been warped and misinterpreted over the years- and so At Attin’s treasure is NOT because of actual treasure, but because they are a supposed Utopia. (Though it’s obviously not! Who makes kids test into their career path at such a young age?? I get the sentiment behind it, but still!! And though At Attin’s population is not entirely human, they’re shocked by the aliens they see at the space port) It’ll be super cool to see where they take this not-quite-Utopian society. I especially want to know exactly how long it’s been since they’ve been cut off and WHERE exactly they are (Mid Rim? Outer Rim? Western Reaches? Unknown Regions??).

I was expecting Jude Law’s character (Captain Silvo/Jod Na Nawood/Crimson Jack (LOL) to be Force Sensitive but I somehow forgot until right before he did his little trick at the end of the second episode, haha! The question, of course, is if he actually used to be a Jedi or if he’s some other kind of Force Sensitive. Going with the 80’s/pirate nostalgia theme, it wouldn’t surprise me if he used to be a Padawan but left the Order before Order 66 (either willingly or bc he sucked at being a Jedi haha). But! If the character is supposed to be Jude Law’s age, that would make him a little older than Anakin. So another Order 66 survivor would be intriguing to explore! (I’m always a slut for Clone Wars references) Especially if he ends up caring for the kids and them relying on him/looking up to him reminds him of who he used to be. Either way, it’s very Treasure Planet/Treasure Island vibes!! Especially with SM-33 and his lil rat (my Beloved!).

I was expecting to enjoy Skeleton Crew and so far I’m enjoying more than I thought I would! I think it’s both fresh and nostalgic and I’m excited to see where it takes us :)

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Stolas Redesign🌒✨

Made my own take on Stolas for fun! I love seeing Stola’s fashion, especially when it gets more celestial ✨🌙🌌

Pushed the whole moon motif more with more sparkles, crescent shapes and a starry night sky effect for his coats inside!🌌🌙🌕🌖

Went for more deep, night blues, since he’s a royal blue blood and to fit with the moon/night theme more🌒🌌 he does still have some red, but in his eyes and facial markings. There’s also some subtle purples which is also a color associated with royalty, the night and magic. And to show a connection he has with blitz. Red+blue make purple❤️💙💜(there’s a couple of things I’d change with the whole thing).

Added more from his dad with his eyes and facial markings. I removed the second eyes, had nothing against them, just didn’t fit with how I was redesigning his eyes 👀 I also based more of his outfit on his dad’s as well with the waist wrap and decorations.

Wanted to push a more scholar/academic vibe, like a fancy university professor. In the stories, Stolas is someone who teaches others about celestial objects such as the stars, and even knowledgeable in other subjects such as plants, herbs and precious stones! Went for things such as a long jacket, vest with a cravat tie, ruffles, spats and even gave him some spectacles 👓 I wanted a more vintage academia look, like Delbert from Treasure Planet.

Removed the top hat and added more details on his crown to look like the details on his Grimoire👑🎩 wanted to give off closer vibes to the illustrations by Collin de Plancy’s “Dictionnaire Infernal” people often use when talking about him.

Gave him more of a “Dad bod” .

Made his tail shorter and have a gradual dark gradient rather than the OG’s black end line.

Made his beak more curved.

Made his feet white with black talons.

I’ve also made designs of I.M.P, Verosika and even his ex wife Stella who I gave a more solar motif☀️🌅 What do u think? I’d love to know💖

[crossovergeek2005]

Finished up a parody clip!

So I finished up a clip for a potential crossover parody I'll probably end up writing later on Ao3 or Wattpad or some place.

Essentially, it's a clip from a crossover parody of Frozen (not my favorite Disney animated film, but still worthy of parodies somehow), but more specifically, a parody of the sleigh ride scene.

The two characters involved in the clip are Denahi (Brother Bear) (Denahi's playing Anna in the parody) and John Silver (Treasure Planet) (Silver's playing Kristoff in the parody) (My top two favorite Disney Experimental Era "antagonists"! In a pairing! What do you know? Sounds whack, but hey, they fit the vibes here, so why the heck not?)

Here's the clip (hopefully, it shows up for y'all):

Haven't posted it on YT yet, as you can tell.

But if I do, here's the thumbnail I'll use (Titleless for now, but will add a title if I end up posting this to YT):

(Yes, I edited this on MS Paint. Don't ask XD)

Also, this will be an AU of Brother Bear as well! (And it'll take place several months after the events of Treasure Planet!)

Here's the cast so far:

Denahi (Brother Bear) as Anna

Kenai (Brother Bear) as Elsa

Either an OC or Atka (Brother Bear 2) as Hans

John Silver (Treasure Planet) as Kristoff

Morph (Treasure Planet) as Sven

I don't have anyone else yet, and also, I'm debating whether to put an actual character as Olaf, or whether to double cast Morph as both Sven and a sorta-Olaf. I'll figure it out as I go along with this, though!

Here's the idea for the parody:

-Denahi is 21 in the parody; Kenai remains the good ol' age of 16, though! (also, Sitka is 24 in the parody)

-Most of the events of Brother Bear leading up to Kenai's transformation remain the same

-The difference? Since Denahi met his love interest, he spends some time after Kenai's ceremony with that person, so he doesn't notice the basket wasn't tied up and got stolen until it's too late (so the bear doesn't get killed this time (and neither does Sitka, thank goodness!))

-Rather, Kenai and Denahi argue due to the fact that the latter got engaged to someone he just met, and Sitka tries to break up the argument, but to no avail (as in Kenai's ice powers go out of control before anything could cool down (no pun intended))

-Kenai doesn't just run away due to his powers going out of control; He also discovered the bear stole the basket, and decided to go after it

-Kenai DOES transform into a bear, but he can also shapeshift from bear to human if he wants (though he stays as a bear a bunch of the time, only turning into a human when needed (like in the scene where Denahi finally finds him)

-Because John Silver is involved, Denahi obviously doesn't go after Kenai alone, nor does he try and hunt his bear self down

-Speaking of Silver, he initially went to Alaska to hide from the Royal Navy, but he was quickly taken in by a group of...something (No idea who should be the Trolls yet) as a sort of refugee, and he's allowed to hide with them in case the Navy does go to the specific location

-How did Morph join Silver here? Let's just say he figured out where Silver went and somehow managed to join him on Earth (maybe Jim dropped him off or something and promised to come back for him later)

-Since this implies the events of BB happen in the far future instead of the past in this parody, it also implies a small part of humanity decided to go back to more prehistoric methods of living to avoid whatever caused most of humanity to evacuate Earth (in the parody)

I'll add more notes as I go about this!

Will I include the songs of Frozen in the parody? Probably not.

But if I do write this parody, I'll let you guys know and I'll post the link here on Tumblr! :D

[claradrawsstuff]

get to know your moots

thank you @loubetcha

what’s the origin of your blog title? it's pretty self-explanatory, but some lore ig: my social tag used to be claretta.darksky (my name and my warriors cat oc) and i changed it mostly for professionalism. My personal account for non-art things was clarahitsstuff, so now my art handle is claradrawsstuff

otp(s) + shipname(s): maybe its the ace in me but i've never been a huge shipper (i love a good ship im just never thinking about them lol). If I had to pick one it'd probably be msr just because the canon leaves them open to so much interpretation (I love normal msr but am also a huge fan of qpr msr or ace interpretations). Those kind of -beyond-romantic-feelings ships are my fav (soulmates but not necessarily romantic in every universe ykyk)

favorite color: red, but like... spotlight red. alternatively, neon orange

favorite game: galaga but im not good at it. baldur's gate 3 is special to me bc it's really the first online game i've played. Scrabble if you start making up rules. Dnd counts too kind of

song stuck in your head: Seek and Destroy by I Fight Dragons is on my mind more often than not. Currently also I've got The Melancholy Architecture of Storms by Remy Le Boeuf and Armageddon by Wayne Shorter floating around up there, too.

weirdest habit/trait? i don't know that i'm conscience of all of them lol. I have to lock cars and doors 2 or 4 times (specifically not 3) or i worry about them. I'm fairly vocal stim-y. I blush really harder when I'm talking about media i really like.

hobbies: DND! If I could breathe it, I would. I like analyzing media and leaving long reviews. Art (duh), music! I love to write but I've gotten away from it (I rp more often now bc its easier with my time commitments)

if you work, what’s your profession? i work as a stagehand at my college's concert hall! We get to set up audio and visuals for school events but also help load in/out touring shows (this year we're doing dance teams, a circus, a few broadway shows, etc!)

if you could have any job you wish, what would it be? I'd love to have a hand in all sorts of things but currently I think my dream job would be to help organize music festivals/performance events, and then perform on the side!

something you’re good at: I'd like to think I'm a good writer, my teachers keep telling me I am. Art and music (i hope lol), pretty okay at academics when i'm feeling good

something you’re bad at: self care omg. Tell me why I can't seem to fix my sleep schedule for the life of me.

something you love: media analysis! Music (really all but my specialties are jazz and percussion), sci-fi/fantasy

something you could talk about for hours off the cuff: dnd. literally for days, probably. Any fixation show/book/media. Music theory is pretty up there. Gender studies and feminism and how sociology and group psychology affects those.

something you hate: there's not really a whole lot that irks me. if anything i guessed i'd be like... rich person arrogance vibes (although ironically I love writing characters like that soo)

something you collect: anything ant-man (its not even that i care that much anymore i just can't stop), washi tape, lighthouse calendars

something you forget: everything but its a toss up. There are some things I'm really good at remembering but they correlate at all and the same goes for what I forget.

what’s your love language? quality time!

favorite movie/show: Shows: TXF, Quantum Leap (specifically the 89 one, i haven't seen the new one), Resident Alien, Arcane, SPY x FAMILY, recently got into Dandadan, Supernatural is a new one for me too but it's good, Dungeon Meshi! Movies: Everything Everywhere All At Once. Any of the spiderverse movies are good, FernGully and Tangled and Treasure Planet were my childhood ones that i still watch, im sure there are others but my memory eludes me

favorite food: steaks up there. corn on the cob, like a good melt

favorite animal: BATS!!

what were you like as a child? really quiet socially but I opened up so much when I was comfy, nerdy, i did not gaf about people's opinions of me (unless it came to my hobbies, weirdly enough), awkward (i still am)

favorite subject at school? techincally i guess itd be music but that always felt like an exracurricular to me. My actually favorite class would've been calculus or maybe physics (the class wasn't that good but i love physics enough that it didn't matter), which is ironic bc i dont use either of those at all anymore

least favorite subject? history maybe, but it wasn't the subject i think it was just the class structure, i enjoy it more in college

what’s your best character trait? my optimism (i hope)! I like to think of myself as pretty upbeat.

what’s your worst character trait? horrible procrastinator. I also second guess myself a lot.

if you could change any detail of your day right now what would it be? it's been a horrific bedrot day for me so really anything. maybe that i had done my homework eariler instead of letting it loom over me.

if you could travel in time who would you like to meet? maybe like, Einstein. i think he'd be cool (unfortunately not an ideal time to be a time traveling woman)

recommend one of your favorite fanfics: im still trying to get more into fanfic. Here's a couple i've enjoyed so far. Queen of Swords by Labyrinth01 - character study-esque fic of Scully's recovery after her coma in s2. Stews in the reality of recovery, her relationship with Mulder is so in-character in the way that if this was in the show, i would believe it. the dusting of fall (the ridges of your bones) by the_raving_raven - one of my fav fics and i haven't even finished it. Super slow moving, so angsty, a big character study fic for dean winchester but it also delves into a really painful process of addiction recovery from sam and some of castiel's 'religious' trauma as well. Tomorrow is Long by SamQuixote - de-age supernatural fic but its the angsty kind instead of the shenanigans kind. an interesting study on dean's mentality and thought processes Cheer For Me? by darlingSuperstition - a lighter recommendation compared to the other three lol. this is a ranma1/2 fic but its like... secret identity mutual pining cheerleading au and for me not being a huge fluff person, i love it

tags if you feel so inclined! @loubetcha @substanc3 @kittynicoleart @alexmacc @nvclearwarheads @itscosmicnerd @nexusesvoid @kryptods @oddereyaa @starorbit-bliss

[random0815fangirl]

Maybe a tough question, but ... If you had to put the EC guys in a tier list, from one to six ... who do you like the most and who the least?

Woooaaah 🤯🤯 That's really a tough one! And I'll think about it, but just to make sure from the very beginning: even my tier-6-blorbo I love very dearly! So no hard feelings and no judgement please 🙈

1. Kevin

First up is Kevin. He is so fucking stupid and I love him for it. He's pure sunshine. He always seems to keep his surroundings in a good mood and he gives off such an incredible positive vibe. And while being goofy he's also so fucking educated on music ��� e.g. all those shows where contestants have to guess the song and he simply DESTROYS his opponents! And how he plays and improvises the piano! It's so impressive. And last but not least: Last time I got the chance to talk to him - he's such a ridiculously humble and down-to-earth guy. Nice, kind, positive... How can you not love this manchild?? ❤️❤️

1. Danskimo

My other first tier blorbo is Dan. Yes, nobody on this planet can force me to decide between Dan and Kevin. Not even you, anon. Deal with it. I love Danskimo just as much, he seems like such a nice guy but also mischievous and I love how on one hand he seems so quiet and serious and in the next moment he's absolute mayhem. Also he's an amazing musician and HAVE YOU LOOKED AT HIM?? God, he has the face of an angel and his tats are so fucking hot 🥵🥵 Dan is definitely the most attractive one in the band, no discussion. And we even share a birthday! Need I say more? ❤️❤️

3. David

As a fellow polak I can confirm that David is our national treasure. His radiating kurwa energy is sooooo contagious 😂 So it's my obligation to put him that high up on my list ^^

4. Nico

I guess I don't need to explain why I love Nico. The perfect mix between a cute, poor meow-meow and a rabid chihuahua that will rip your still beating heart right out of your fucking chest. There's such a fine line between cuddles and anger issues... And it makes him even more lovable 🥰 And then there's his voice ✨ He sings like a fucking angel 😍

5. Daniel

I really love Daniels nerdiness but I guess the only reason why he's so low in my list is because he's so quiet? 🤔 I mean nothing wrong with being quiet (quite the contrary!) but I guess I just don't pay as much attention to him... But still he seems like such a fun and nice guy, I would love to tuck him to bed with a hot chocolate and cuddle him to sleep 🥰 (sry if this is weird...)

6. Pascal

I know many fangirls will curse me for it because I know the majority of you out there love this ginger pumpkin pie to death, but I don't feel the vibes as much... Please don't get me wrong! I love Pasl and his creativity and especially the insane amount of tongue! I just don't feel the chemistry like many of you do 🙈

Edit: Afterwards I realized others replied way shorter to this question. So I want to say I'm very, very sorry for my wall of text 😅🙈

[wanderingchocolateeclair]

May I introduce my Space Rangers AU, just a teeny tiny bit?

At least- some initial doodles including some designs for it-

While there are a lot of other characters that have fun designs and backstories for this au, these four (+ Rusty) are the main focus for now-

They're space experiments, escapees from A.F.O (not the person), an organisation that experiments and tries to create perfect beings using solar and lunar energy extracted from suns and moons!

Brief character info:

PL:

Was stolen as a child from Earth and experimented on, ended up busting out and saving a bunch of the other kids.

Took them to Yuuei (a built up safe haven for all, home of the space rangers)

Ended up going on some adventures with Ecto, who was now his best friend that would tag along with anything.

Became a ranger captain and eventually built a crew with Ecto

They accept odd jobs and commissions, no matter the manner of them, and get money through them (+occasionally thieving things)

He ends up rescuing and breaking out more experiments from different A.F.O bases, and takes them to Yuuei for safety.

Rescued Rusty, who was in the animal space trade, and now looks after him and treasures him.

Hes about 70% space rock and metal and random alien blood at this point-

Loves to visit earth to get the snacks there.

Ecto:

Was a royal from a planet with constantly shifting gravity, so his body allows him to just kinda switch his own sense of gravity around if that makes sense-

(he can just vibe on the ceiling whenever he wants lol)

Also has this shadowy bone demon that lives within him/as part of him.

Got stolen and his planet kinda got wiped out, and off he went to go get experimented on.

He was supposed to be 'scrapped' but survived bc of Higari.

They made friends with each other when still young, Higari saved Ecto from being killed and he helped him break out.

Ever since then, he stuck with him and became a ranger with him (also ended up falling for him and becoming a huge mess about it)

He really likes the sweets that Higari gets him from Earth.

Tsunagu:

From an ancient civilisation that is now long gone, his entire kind was wiped out after him and a other kids got stolen by A.F.O.

Was part of the original experiments carried out by the actual AFO(person) before Tsunagu kinda went rogue, killed him, destroyed the original base and fled.

He is OLD as fuck.

He would qualify as a "royal" but wouldn't use that title, as within his civilisation they were all perceived as noble beings.

He can shapeshift, never shows his natural form due to insecurities with how he was experimented on, and trust issues.

The experiment on him went VERY wrong, and he was accidentally injected with the Solar energy of an ancient Celestial Solar Being :]

It inhabits his being and goes rogue sometimes. It is searching for its "Home", which happens to be its other half - an ancient lunar being <3

He is dangerous and grouchy as hell, but has a sense of humour deep down.

Also met Higari and his crew by being broken out of jail by him and now constantly relies on him to break him out of jail. Very often.

He's a captain of his own ship and crew.

Shinya:

Was stolen from earth quite a long time ago as a baby and not only experimented on, but raised by the scientists.

He was brainwashed and all that jazz to become one of their "higher functioning mercenaries".

He aided in their schemes and killing for quite the long time until he was sent on a mission out to earth.

This didn't go well, and he ended up losing all of his memory to do with A.F.O and space and only knew the information he was given to fit in: "Shinya Kamihara, age 33, scientist and medic for space exploration"

He came back out to space on an expedition and it went wrong, he got stranded with important dangerous stuff, and eventually gets helped by Higari and his crew and meets Tsunagu.

The rest is all a very long plot. He has to find out who he was and is.

He has hidden markings from his experiment mercenary days, and only certain circumstances/equipment/technology can reveal it.

He also, mirroring Tsunagu's predicament, is the host for the Celestial Lunar Being that is searching for it's home.

:)

Rusty:

The Bestest Boy

Is a Space Travelling Dinosaur

He is small, very huggable, and likes to eat seeds and nuts and occasionally anything else thats handed to him.

Rescued by Higari from being traded in the space trade.

He can blow lil sparkly galaxy bubbles from his nose-beak-thing, and step on them if he wants to.

He is The Best Space Ranger.

[risingrah]

Wish-ing for more

So, I recently saw "Wish", the 62nd animated movie from Disney, with my cousin. Funnily enough, we both had different backgrounds to the movie: For my cousin, she knew that the movie wasn't the biggest hit, but she had no idea it wasn't well received. For me, I knew that the movie wasn't well reviewed, but I was willing to give it a chance. After all, Treasure Planet was one of my favorite Disney movies.

Ultimately, we both had the same takeaway: there should have been more. It wasn't terrible, but ironically, it wasn't full of Disney magic. This was especially a shame given that it was essentially supposed to be a love letter to Disney movies.

Now, I think it's important to not just say I didn't love something, especially when I can articulate where I felt things were lacking. SPOILERS AHEAD. If you see ~~text~~, that reflects my own personal thoughts rather than the story.

Wish starts off with our protagonist Asha, explaining the background of the kingdom where she lives, Rosas. Rosas is a Mediterranean island ruled by the magical king Magnifico and his non-magical queen Amaya. Rosas is special because on the 18th birthday of a citizen, or when anybody becomes a new citizen, they offer up their wish--essentially their dream for their life--to Magnifico. They end up forgetting their wish in the process, which makes them stop pursuing it, but it also allows them to never have to deal with the pain of it never happening. The ultimate trade off to this though is that King Magnifico occasionally holds a "Wish Granting" ceremony, where he choses one or two wishes to grant, returning the wish to its owner but also giving them the ability to attain it.

Asha, a few months shy of her own 18th birthday, hopes to become the newest King's apprentice and prepares for her interview. She is then brought to the King's study by Queen Amaya, who tells her that she is aware how much Asha loves the kingdom and wishes her luck.

~~And this is where things get...well, rushed. Also, was it weird for Amaya to bring Asha to the King? Shouldn't that have been a knight or another servant or something??~~

While waiting for the King in his study, Asha is drawn to a book of forbidden magic, which Magnifico quickly appears and tries to deters her from, but not before she triggers the protective charm around it.

~~The vibe around this plot point is reminiscent of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" scene from Fantasia, where Mickey was the big-dreaming apprentice to another magician, which is a nice parallel~~

Asha clumsily makes her way through the interview, and after she and Magnifico connect over having lost family in their childhoods, Magnifico is drawn to show Asha where he stores all the wishes of Rosas. They then have a duet expressing how they desire to protect the wishes "at all costs".

~~To me this was...weird? Aren't they supposed to be kept safe and hidden? Why show this to a person who hasn't taken the job yet? Also, I felt a song here really should have been more about the wishes themselves rather than the desire to protect them. "At All Costs" reads more like a love song, even a little between Magnifico and Asha without the badly needed context, rather than be centered around the wishes. Instead, it should have been around all the wishes that Magnifico has granted, and the joy its brought to others and Rosas. It would set up the "reveal" a bit better, and "show, but not tell" people how precious the wishes are.~~

During the song, Asha discovers her grandfather's wish. Her grandfather is 100 years old today, and she quickly ~~too quicky!!~~ asks Magnifico if she would grant her grandfather's wish during the day's wish ceremony. Magnifico considers it, but ultimately refuses. He explains that her grandfather's wish to "inspire others" is too vague, and it could potentially be a danger to Rosas. Asha tries to argue that her grandfather is a good person and would never wish harm, but Magnifico flares in a sharp rage. He insists that only he knows best for Rosas and he will not grant the wish. Before Asha can go off, he insists that she join Queen Amaya on the main stage to watch him receive the wishes of new citizens while also granting a wish.

~~So, this was weird to me? Sure, there were promos that exposed the fact that King Magnifico was the villain, but it didn't need to be confirmed so quickly. But in addition, I felt it would have been more key for Magnifico to hold it together for at least a little longer, to make the audience better understand why Magnifico was regarded as such a beloved king. For him to slip so quickly so sudden felt...amateurish. He should have gotten lessons from Hans. But on the note of his refusal to grant Sabino's wish. I couldn't say he was wrong, really. A lot of problems around people having wishes is that they're vague. Like, if someone wished to be "happy", there wouldn't be a real way to know what would make them happy. A loving family? Wealth? Cocaine? World Domination? When Sabino wants to inspire others...well how? To do what? This is what makes the wish "dangerous" to Magnifico.

Now, it would have been nice if Magnifico was clear that the more specific and grounded the wish was, the more likely it would be granted. Or even that the reason he only grants one wish at a time could be because his magic is limited so he has to think in the terms of which wish has the most good. It would have allowed him to keep his "good" image to Asha while still making her consider people whose wishes were "rejected" should just have them returned.

That said, this was a fun shout out to the fact that Sabino, like Disney, is 100 years old. His wish to inspire the next generation is a sweet touchpoint to the way Disney has inspired others in its century.~~

After the wish ceremony, Asha is at her grandfather's birthday dinner along with her mother, all at different levels of disappointment at Sabino not being chosen. Eventually, Asha tells him his wish will never be granted because Magnifico has deemed it "dangerous." She wants to tell her grandfather what it is, but Sabino refuses. He adamantly tells her that he doesn't want to know what such a dangerous wish would be, even though Asha tries to tell him it wasn't to her. Asha leaves the dinner in tears.

Asha then sings about how she wants more for Rosas, that people who will never get their wishes granted should just be allowed to try to pursue them, even if they fail or get disappointed, than to just live without them. She wishes on a star, and...well, the star shows up.

The star can't talk, but it is clearly magic and can grant speech to other things, including not just the forest animals, but Asha's goat Valentino.

~~Note that Valentino has been in the movie the whole time to this point, but for the animal mascot didn't provide much value to me~~

When Asha asks how this is possible, the animals and plants of the forest sing a song, credited as "sung by Cast", that tells her that "We are all Stars". Afterwards, Asha tells Star what has been happening, and that because of her her mother's nor her grandfather's wishes would be granted. Star is shocked by this, and immediately suggests that the best solution to this problem is crime. Specifically, stealing the two wishes back from the king. Asha...agrees.

~~This is the plot point that I felt that the Disney Magic wasn't there. For starters, a lot of the time in Disney movies, people aren't just "wishing"--they do. They try everything they can themselves, and only when they're at the despair horizon does a macguffin come. Cinderella is a great example--she and her animal friends do all they can to finish the chores and get her dress ready, and it was only after her stepfamily tore the dress, and therefore Cinderella's "wish" to shreds, does she get magical help. Another example is Tiana, who worked and hustled her way to save up for her own restaurant, only for it to be tore to shreds by the racism/sexism machine, and was then granted help by her fate twisting with Prince Naveen. Or when seven-year-old Lilo wishes on a star, but only after the plot makes it clear that the friendless Lilo will be separated from her sister so soon after the deaths of their parents. I could go on.

I couldn't help but feel that Asha could have come up with "crime" by herself, we could have seen a "heist gone wrong" scene, and then Star would show up and give Asha the power/courage to try again. Especially since we see that Star's magic has mostly been just for 'fun' at this point, and offered no real ability beyond what Asha had herself. Asha asked her friend for a shortcut to the King's Study. Asha asked her friends to distract Magnifico so he wouldn't come back too soon. And ultimately, they could only save just one of the wishes--Sabino's--which Asha was also capable of doing.~~

As Asha is getting Sabino's wish back, Magnifico has been advised by Amaya to talk to the citizen's about the light that was seen last night--Star's light. Despite the citizens believing the light was from him, due to its warmth and radiance, Magnifico is convinced that it was from a potential threat. Magnifico informs the populace of this event, calling the light both a "threat" but also "from an amateur", and tells them to let him know any information. Asha's friend Dahlia questions him to stall for time for Asha, asking him how he knows that information and what would he consider information (evidence vs hunch)? Her questions motivate others to join in, and ultimately someone asks what could incentive people to provide it? Magnifico agrees that in exchange for information, he will perform another wish granting ceremony.

Magnifico returns to the castle, alone and enraged that his citizens are ungrateful. He laments that this is the "thanks he gets" for providing for them.

~~ The song had some odd lyrics, but this should have been the "mask off" scene. With the request to his people for information, we see just enough of the veneer's dark underbelly--"our enemy is both weak and strong"--and now in his private moment we can see how he really thinks and feels. Having the mask come off during Asha's interview was much too soon and made the citizens look more foolish than they should have been shown to be.~~

As Asha manages to barely leave the study in time, Magnifico decides to utilize the forbidden magic book to help track down the light. Asha returns home and gives Sabino back his wish, showing him that it wasn't dangerous at all. Sabino embraces it, and it returns back to him. However, this moment is cut off by Magnifico, who tracks them down. An informant ratted Asha out, and now, armed with new dark magic, he intends to punish Asha by destroying her mother's, Sakina's, wish. Sakina feels an intense feeling of grief as Magnifico absorbs the wish and found that it has increased his powers.

The five of them--Asha, Sabino, Sakina, Star, and Valentino--manage to escape, especially once Valentino convinces the knights' horses to let them go "as one domesticated animal to another". They managed to get in a boat and Asha rows them to safety until Star helps out with magic. As Asha laments that this is now putting all of Rosas at risk, she realizes that she has to go back and make things right.

Meanwhile, Magnifico is practically high off his new discovery. He proceeds to use the forbidden magic book to make a dark magic wand, using more wishes as ingredients. Amaya learns about this and is shocked to find how far her husband has fallen, and rebuffs his claim that Asha is a threat to the kingdom. Magnifico turns his staff on her to test her loyalty, and Amaya assures him that there is nothing more important to her than Rosas.

Magnifico then performs his wish granting ceremony, identifying his informant as Asha's friend Simon. Simon, who was the first of the friend group to turn 18, had already given his wish to Magnifico and his friends observed he seemed more "tired" and "boring" since. Magnifico grants Simon's wish to be the best knight in Rosas, but by infusing Simon with his dark magic making Simon a malevolent puppet for Magnifico.

~~ So, I did like the theme about how adulthood discourages wishing. While in childhood, potential can seem endless, but in adulthood, real life gets in more and more. You end up too tired, too busy, to remember your wishes and dreams, and this ultimately makes you a boring, uninspired person. I could sympathize with Simon, who barely an adult, longed to be the person who he was barely a few months ago--to have his dream back to make him a whole person rather than spend his life empty and unfilled, with hopes like Sabino to live to 100, but never have to granted. But the fact that he gained his wish at the cost of betraying his friends is what makes it become corrupted. It's a good lesson in that your wish is a part of you, but so is your character and your relationships, and trading one for another will never make you whole.~~

Asha, who has now donned a blue cloak to sneak back to Rosas, learns of the betrayal along with her friends at the ceremony. Asha also sends a talking mouse to relay a message to Amaya, assuring her of her loyalty and her desire to fix things.

Asha then reunites with her remaining friends, who go to "introvert's sanctuary" of one of their friends to regroup and decide what to do next. Here, they have another song where Asha explains that while this wasn't her intention for Rosas, she doesn't regret letting the truth about the wishes and their king's true character be known. Her friends, who have varying degrees of willingness to go along with things, eventually all agree to come to her aid. In addition. they're discovered by Amaya in the latter half of the song, who gives her allegiance to these children against her husband.

~~ Here, I honestly would have preferred to hear an Amaya song over the children's. I felt Amaya had a lot to work through, as it is clear that while she deeply loved her husband, she also loved Rosas and its people. I would have loved to hear her being torn between the love for the man she thought she married and the love for the citizens that are how his victims. To have her find the strength inside her to reclaim herself as not Magnifico's Queen, but the Queen of Rosas. ~~

The plan is for Amaya to tell Magnifico that Asha has been spotted in the nearby woods, and for Asha to distract him while he is there. Meanwhile, everyone else will be helping free all the wishes. While waiting, Star gives Asha a stick infused with magic before they return to Asha's friends to help out. Star however, doesn't give much in the way of an instruction manual. When Magnifico returns, Amaya finds that the magic-infused stick is capable to doing things from making things bigger, to making things move, to probably everything in between.

~~I felt this scene was sort of cute because between the blue cloak and the stick, it gave Asha the look of the Fairy Godmother. However, the movie later explicitly hits its it on the nose, so it's not much of an easter egg~~

Eventually, it's revealed that the Magnifico that Asha is facing is actually a glamoured Simon, and that the real Magnifico is still at the castle. Asha leaves him to his fate to fight a bear, following by a hoard of what I assume are "killer-but-not-really-for-Disney-purposes" rabbits.

Sure enough, Asha's friends and Star are struggling to free the wishes, but they eventually manage to do so through teamwork. As they run outside to bask in their hard work while Star swims amongst the wishes, Magnifico uses his dark magic to imprison them once again, including Star. He then turns all the wish orbs to stone and brings Asha up to him to further taunt her as he absorbs Star in his staff. At this point, Asha tries to take the staff back but fails. Magnifico then takes things up a notch and summons clouds to cover the sky to prevent further "wishing on a star" shenanigans, and ties down the people of Rosas.

At the despair horizon, Asha remembers that "we are all stars". Dahlia joins Asha in song, having the other citizens join in turn "to make this wish to have something more", a reprise of Asha's "I want" song that summoned Star in the first place. The people glow with their internal stars, which frees the wishes and restores them, as well as frees Star. The staff, having what I assume is a "1 occupant minimum" clause, draws Magnifico into it, imprisoning him in the mirror-line stone.

~~This moment, adding into a few other of his lines, makes me think of The Magic Mirror from Snow White. I would think that was more funny, except The Magic Mirror is a huge jerk of a boss in Kingdom Hearts 2.8 and I don't want to think about that anymore.~~

All the wishes return to their owners and Simon returns to normal. Simon apologizes to his friends and they forgive him.

In a new dawn, Asha is now helping Queen Amaya in helping everyone get their wish granted, even connecting people with similar wishes so they can help each other out.

As a goodbye present, Star restores the magic-infused stick Asha had broke earlier into a proper magic wand. Asha initially refuses, but someone points out her destiny is like a fairy godmother and she accepts.

~~Also, the movie does a final on the nose point that Asha's friends, that there are so many of, are the seven dwarfs~~ The end of the credits, we see Sabino playing music to the tune "When you wish upon a star", finishing up the narrative and encouraging everyone to keep wishing.

~~Like I said, this isn't a terrible movie. There are a lot of notes on its love letter to Walt Disney and Disney movies, and it's fun to catch them. That said, if the best I can say is that "this isn't a terrible movie", that's not super glowing praise. The expectations should have been higher and there was definitely more potential here than what they ended up with.~~

[tarisilmarwen]

Ahsoka: "Master and Apprentice" & "Toil and Trouble" Liveblog

Let's GOOOOOOOOOOOO! :D

We've added Marrok and Hyuang and one of the mercenaries and Chopper and Sabine to the opening character swivels, nice.

Digging this drum cue.

And we get an opening crawl! Nice.

Hilariously this bridge sequence feels more Star Trek than Star Wars.

Good for this captain he's very suspicious.

Hi Baylan! Hi Shin!

Aaaaaaaand they all dead.

All right, well thus far I can say I definitely like Baylan's heavy forceful presence and Shin's near feral nimbleness and speed.

Also digging the general Black Knight feel of Baylan, when he calls her "Lady Morgan" here.

Definitely feeling Zeffo vibes off this temple here.

Aligning the pedestals to light up each of the map icons definitely feels like it'd be a perfect JFO minigame lol.

That... is a Treasure Planet map.

Love how these droids move.

Welp, they blew up quite a bit of the ruins.

HEEEEERRAAAAAAAAAA! :D

Oh and she does have the lekku markings, nice.

I'm sorry, lol, the height difference is gonna bug me, Ahsoka with her large montrals was like... one of the tallest characters on the show and LA!Hera's got inches on her here it's unintentionally hilarious.

Makes LA!Ahsoka look like a shrimp.

This is a call to improve the alien makeup Disney, I'm sorry I will never not be disappointed in it.

My heart. :(((( Hera came to believe that Thrawn (and most likely Ezra too) died in the Liberation of Lothal. The quiet fearful hope on her face as she's holding this map.

"If Thrawn survived, does that mean Ezra--?"

FRICK I WAS NOT PREPARED.

And Lothal looks beautiful. *sniffles*

Hi Ryder!

And Jai Kell got to be Lothal's senator! SWEET.

BEAAAAAAAAN!

The camera shot that introduces her. *chef kiss*

Sabine being A MESS because she misses Ezra so much and she can't stand being at the dedication ceremony honoring him. :((((

There she goes to the tower.

KITTY!

SKRUNKLES MY LOVE!

We don't ever learn its name do we? Then I'm calling it Skrunkles.

OHHHHH I heard Sabine's theme! With the pan down to her stored armor.

The cat is really too cute, they did a fantastic job on it.

Ezra's theme playing too aaaaaaaand frick I'm dead.

"Hey Sabine! Sorry for disappearing on you." YOU HAD BETTER BE SORRY YOU LITTLE SHIT.

Ha ha now I understand all the weird Sabezra related asks I got over the weekend, y'all were trying to warn me.

Like I've said before, canon validation isn't my be all end all, I love these two and that's not gonna stop.

SORRY DAVE, I'VE BEEN ON THE HELL TRAIN TOO LONG, YOU CAN'T GET ME OFF NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO.

Also? Eman is nailing this.

And there's the Nightsister reveal.

I'm slightly confused as to how and why Baylan knows that Ahsoka had Sabine as her apprentice.

Like, where to find Sabine, that's easy, obviously she's on Lothal, she's the local hero and protector.

But why does he know about Ahsoka's connection to her?

Anyway, Lothal still looks beautiful.

Bury me in Sabine having maybe prophetic nightmares and waking up gasping Ezra's name.

*weeps*

"Everyone was there." "Not everyone."

OW PAIN STABBING.

Natasha is killing it with this look like she's trying to hold back from crying.

They cut out the "It's been a while." line, huh. Interesting choice.

Oooooooo Sabine has doodles in one of the bunks on Ahsoka's ship!

This dialogue seems a bit redundant to the Hera-Ahsoka scene. Like, isn't this the same conversation she had with Hera?

I can't get over it, lol, it's literally a Treasure Planet map. Love it.

"The map stays here." You're going to turn around and Sabine's is gonna be GONE honey.

See, told ya. Lol.

Callbacks to Maul scenes from Phantom Menace, nice.

Skrunkles is adorable. I love him.

Ohhhhhh we are definitely exploring Ahsoka's lingering guilt over leaving the Order, leaving Anakin, before his Fall.

That design looks a bit like a Celtic knot. Maybe tying into the whole Authurian legend theme with some of the names and aesthetics?

WOAH OKAY HA HA EZRA GOT THRAWN WAAAAAAAAY MORE LOST THAN WE'D THOUGHT.

Sabine are you seriously planning to go off looking for Ezra by yourself?

You've got it baaaaaad girl.

Okay, glad they finally explained where the turbolift was in this thing lol.

Youuuuuuuu didn't need to lurk, Shin? Literally could have just taken the map and left?

Ho ho Shin grabbing the lightsaber in order to throw Sabine around.

Ooof that's gonna scar.

Soooooo was Shin just being Extra and wanting to fight another Jedi?

Bet that was it.

"For our friend, Ray" RIP good man. :(

Star charts credits nice!

These are gorgeous and I wanna study them so much more closely. I think there's a chimera? Some kind of worm thing.

PURRGIL!

The score is also excellent and I love Sabine's theme and Ezra's theme throughout.

Bet Sabine had to spend quite a while in a bacta tank. Good thing she got medical attention right away.

Corvus?

Seatos! Okay. And a "reflex point"? Color me intrigued.

Loth-kittes aww.

Ahsoka's looooong sigh when she sees that Sabine's been rewatching Ezra's holo, lol.

IS THAT A USB CORD? LOLOL.

A lovely little moment between Hera and SAbine here.

Nightsister ichor!

I am loving the star map.

"Thrawn calls to me... across time and space." Okay lady sure take a cold shower before your crush gets too hot okay.

So there are a LOOOOOT of plot McGuffins in this story thus far lol.

I'm sorry, Shin's actress is so dead I need her to emote more in her quiet scenes, simply being vicious and feral in fights isn't working.

The Phantom II looks so beautiful.

CHOPPER! HELLO MUDERBOT I MISSED YOU.

Oh wow we're actually exploring the fact that rebuilding the New Republic is messy and complicated and you can't just fire and/or jail a bunch of low level civilian machiners just because they worked on Imperial ships.

And we're ALSO getting some hard-handed slapping Ahsoka in the face with the fact that she's a mess and needs to deal with her mess.

"I see you still have your lightsaber." "Ezra's lightsaber."

AW FRICK THE WAY THAT CORRECTION GOT ME.

Filoni I love the messy prickly falling out between Ahsoka and Sabine but I would really like... ONE paragraph of exposition about why Sabine went to Ahsoka and asked to be trained, or however that happened.

I mean I know I can inference that she was desperate to feel closer to Kanan and Ezra and mourning them and trying to be the hero Lothal needed and worked up in her feelings about, "If Ezra's not here to be Lothal's Jedi I have to be." but the general audience might need some help.

OH GOSH THAT LITTLE SWALLOW AS SHE TAKES HER SABER AGAIN AND LOOKS AT IT.

So I'm confused is it that the New Republic was lazy and/or too trusting/too willing to give ex-Imperials another chance just to keep some kind of order and peace and infrastructure in place or are they just that bad at uncovering spies?

Because there is a good point that not everyone who worked for the machine of the Empire has to be rooted out and displaced from their jobs and livelihoods, that just builds resentment, makes it easier for the Imperial Remnant to gain support.

At the same time though I feel like this is tying into the general New Canon "The New Republic is incompetent." trend that I'm not a fan of.

Next setpiece yay!

Love Ahsoka using the droid as a body shield.

LOL CHOPPER.

Oh, have we remembered we need to clear atmosphere BEFORE jumping? Thanks that's great. SW been slacking on that.

Oh what? Oh this is new, hang on the bulleted lists have a character limit.

Where were we?

The new Chopper model is so much more expressive than the one they build before, it looks great. Very much like the cartoon.

SKRUNKLES I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.

And cue the Kanan parallel scene with Sabine.

OH FRICK THE SCENE AT THE MEMORIAL I'M NOT READY FOR THIS.

Gimme a minute.

Right so even if you don't ship them, their bond is hugely undeniable, they are in fact the Most Important People to each other, she misses him so much and she's been drowning in her grief about him.

Ngl the finger touch is still getting me.

"It's more me." Frick, how she's been hiding away from her true self, essentially cosplaying as Ezra because she thought that was what Lothal needed, and now she's struggling to understand who she is now.

MY GIRLS ARE MESSY AND EMOTIONALLY CONSTIPATED AND SO SO FLAWED AND I LOVE IT.

Oh what?

Are they building a hyperspace ring? A special one???

Oh OHHHHHH ARE THEY BUILDING A SUPER STARGATE EQUIVALENT?

(Reference, on the show Stargate SG-1 the plot revolves around a network of alien wormhole transportation devices called stargates, that connect to each other across the galaxy. But to connect to OTHER galaxies you either needed a plot device energy source called a ZPM or YOU HAD TO BUILD A REALLY REALLY BIG HUGE HONKING STARGATE.)

Ohhhhhhhhhhh they are MAKING A SHIP CAPABLE OF EXITING THE GALAXY I WAS RIGHT.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THAT WAS A RUSH.

I am very nicely happy with how things are unfolding, aside from a few nitpicks here and there about the worldbuilding and backstory that's been kept from us. (Ahsoka and Sabine's whole... everything.)

But it does not look like Sabine is Force Sensitive, which I'm glad about. I've seen a couple people salty about her being a Jedi and honestly between the two options of "Make her Sensitive and retcon large parts of Rebels" or "It's a new era, there are No More Rules, we can't be picky about who we take on as Jedi so sure let's have a non-Sensitive, Ahsoka maybe thought it was safer that way anyway", I know which one I'm picking.

The whole plot with the celestial navigation is fascinating. I need to study screencaps of the starmap and the end credits for clues because WOAH BOY DID I NOT EXPECT EXPANDING BEYOND THE GFFA.

Ezra baby come hoooooooooome. :(((( Your girl misses you.

Wew lad, I hope there are plenty of gifsets, 'cause Imma reblog 'em all.

[crypticcupid]

S/I Masterpost

Just so everyone else and I can keep track. To be updated...

Aqua - Transformers/HoSt/HiSw/Helltaker >Aqua (TF:Prime) is just some homeless dude that ended up discovering the Cybertronians. Depending on the affiliation depends on how secretive they are kept and different dynamics. However on the Autobot’s side they live on the base as they have nowhere else to be. She can be seen as acting as a voice of reason to the kids, and generally tries their hardest to help when possible. >Aqua (TF: Animated/R.I.D/G1) is just a chill guy minding their business. Turns out randomly discovering alien robots can be pretty fun if not possibly stressful as Hell. >Aqua (TF: Bayverse) has firmly been an Autobot supporter since the beginning and revels in getting to know these cool bots. His moral compass is more grey and just wants to pick fights with the government at any opportunity. >Aqua(HoSt/HiSw) takes place in those AUs from the old DeviantArt days where the trolls come to Earth are just vibing and adjusting to society. >Aqua (Helltaker) is a thrill seeker that likes to ghost hunt and just so happens to come across a portal to Hell. Upon falling in he meets The Helltaker and they team up for a demon girl ‘harem’. Let’s be real, it becomes a found family dynamic too quickly.

Azura - Kekkai Sensen >A bartender who works rather close to the agency and keeps an ear and eyes out for the agency for any info or leads. Their blood technique allows them to create crystalline structures, sharpened weapons, and if an enemy is distracted can even crystallize them for a short term. He’s an endless source of advice and loves to help those that come through the bar.

Blaze - Pokémon >Blaze is a simple trainer who constantly is getting put in situations by forces outside his control. He has a passion for battles and a fondness for competitions when the occasion arises. He’ll never miss a chance for a battle as he loves to show off his Pokémon's skills in battle.

Dusk - Friday Night Funkin' >Dusk is a close friend of GF(Roxanne) who eventually was adopted by the Dearest family as their odd-ball son. He can frequently be found tagging along with GF and BF when they aren’t on dates. Shockingly he can’t really sing, but instead claims to tag along for other’s battles as “Morale Support”. Has a 9 - 5, but his passion lies in art which they do pursue in their spare time. All the money he makes is easily more spent on his friends than himself, but that’s fine when your adoptive parents give you a monthly allowance that is basically your rent.

Myst - Splatoon >A friendly veteran squid by the name of Myst with the catch-all pronouns of He/They/She. From a nondescript town somewhere south of Inkopolis, but has seen most of Inkadia in his travels. Works at a local venue in Splatsville where they meet the latest musical talents. (Credit to @sleepyship for this excerpt)

Nova - Madness Combat >Nova awoke with very little memories of his life prior to the Madness over taking Nevada, but still he gets along in life as best he can. At first they spent many days just trying to get by until being come across by Sanford and Deimos. Once the two men decided he wasn’t a threat, and seemed more than competent to help, they let him tag along.

Rill - Pikmin >Rill works at the same company as Olimar and Louie, focusing more in the actual office/factory area. However, he also gets some jobs to transport from time to time. Especially with larger orders. Upon a trip to PNF-404 to assist Olimar and Louie on an odd job for more treasures and surveying. Rill enjoys the planet so much. Despite being mostly lonely when on the planet, they take great comfort with the Pikmin nearby.

"Spooks" - Horror Sona >-

Swift - No Straight Roads >Your average NSR worker busting their ass to make ends meet while pursuing their passion in the spare time they have. No one is quite sure what they are, and they seemingly refuse to elaborate upon being asked because they always seemingly get distracted. While they don’t agree with all of NSR’s protocols or general vibes, he can’t argue with the pay.

- - - ||Dividers by @/cafekitsune||

[kairithemang0]

tell me your thoughts on something (anything) (talk for as long or as short as you want)

:)

ok i've been looking for a reason to talk about this for a while and im just gonna go off the rails here

i recently started watching Colin LooksBack's disney villain retrospectives and I'm so damn obsessed with them. I've mentioned this before, I'm a disney fan through and through. No matter how much I painfully despise so many of their recent movies, nostalgia and the hope of finding something as good as their classics keeps me coming back, as disappointed as I am with their recent features from all sides of the company

I'm especially a disney history fan, I love learning about the first few decades of this company for some reason, their movies from that time aren't even my favorites but just all the old concept art and ideas from the imagineers is so cool to me. Mary Blair's work specifically, her art for Cinderella is stunning.

Disney villains specifically have just always been amazing to me. I was obsessed with Ursula as a kid, I thought she was the coolest freaking character. I love her design, her voice is amazing, I adored her then and I still do.

If we're talking about disney content creators though? Avelo (formerly known as Dreamsounds) has my heart and soul. Her videos are everything to me, they got me through covid. I was so sad when she left when she was getting her bottom surgery, worried she'd never return. I audibly gasped when I saw her return video show up on my recommended because I love her videos that much, and still do, even if it's not as disney focused.

I dunno, I think my disney obsession and Kingdom Hearts obsession go hand in hand (hah, that's a kingdom hearts song). I mean KH and disney are tied together by nature, but I got into KH for the disney. I found my moms old kh1 copy a while ago and I wished I could have the chance to play it on the ps2 (which we sadly don't have anymore). I haven't ever finished kh1, the controls are too clunky and I hate that stupid fucking camera. Even still, it's a game that matters to me a lot. KH2 does more for me in the end though, I reset the game so often just to play through Roxas's section in twilight town. it's nostalgic, not even just for playing kh but it's the type of fun me and my friends would have during our summer vacation. seeing roxas's life fall apart is scary because in some way i relate, the friendship he had with hayner, pence, and olette in the data twilight town wasnt real, and neither were my friendships with those people.

back to more regular disney, i fucking love the disney parks. honestly im so nostalgic for fastpass, i miss needing to go up to those little stands and put it on some card. i hate genie+ and lightning lane because it feels much less personal, so do the disney parks in general for me now. maybe it's because i'm getting older, i wouldnt be surprised if that was the case. even still, i love going. i mean cinderellas castle is my damn wallpaper (godddd i love that wallpaper so much....) and there are multiple of these "disney parks music" videos that i will actively use to fall asleep because idk nostalgia is a bitch. the boardwalk one is a personal favorite of mine, something about it just hits for me. me and my family went right after covid started to slow down, the boardwalk was having a soft opening and we got in for cheap. we got this amazing room overlooking the boardwalk itself, and for lack of a better word the vibes were incredible. like... WOW. we drove down, it sucked because it was exhausting and i cant be in small spaces like that for too long, but in the end it could've been worse. i had given myself this challenge to watch all the disney movies before going, i finished encanto on that drive. it's what got me back into so many of them, treasure planet specifically. it feels like every year ill just find myself obsessing over one specific disney movie around this time, last year it was tp and the tinkerbell movies. this year id say it's alice in wonderland, which ive had an obsession with for years. it's just a plotless fun movie with memorable characters that mean something to me. i dunno, im a sucker for anything nostalgic, twisted is my favorite starkid show for a reason, and i don't just love kh for it's crazy plot and characters (although that's most of it)

sorry this is REALLYYY long.....

[fountainpenguin]

Is there significance to the time key headcanon? In other words, what inspired that and how do time keys work?

For anyone who doesn't know what this means, in my fanfics, Fairies can physically remove memories from their heads and store them inside magical boxes for later. Fairies do this a lot, which was my way of playing with that one line from "Let Sleeper Dogs Lie" about how Fairies are notoriously forgetful.

I don't consider that episode canon since it contradicts a crucial / memorable episode ["The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker"] and it pushes against the world lore itself, but every now and then I like to make fun of the "forgetful Fairies" joke.

Also, Anti-Fairies as a culture are extremely against removing their memories this way. You'll often see Anti-Cosmo bragging in my writing about how Anti-Fairies have infallible memories.

I THINK this idea of mine can be traced back to the Giant French Doors of Time: the original method of travel to the Hocus Poconos before the Fairy Elder redecorated in "Timmy's Secret Wish." Since they were called "doors of time" and Father Time himself appeared in this episode, I think I put that together to imply you can walk through those doors to time travel and you need a certain type of key to have a certain level of clearance. A wooden key lets you view the past without altering it, a silver key lets you do a bit more, a gold key a bit more, etc. Hence, "time keys" (plus an explanation of different in-universe time travel rules).

I think that's where it comes from, but I may have taken inspiration from a few other points over the years. For example:

~ Writing fanfics and needing to show photos from time periods where cameras didn't exist. Like, during Cosmo and Wanda's high school years (for their yearbooks) or when they were godparents to Erg 50k years pre-series.

I have a certain technology level I like Fairy World to develop at (and they usually develop tech by stealing ideas from godkids on various planets), so I played around with the idea that Fairies could generate a physical copy of a scene in front of them as a "photo." It's usually described in my works as a "frozen moment from the timestream" or as a "memory" in some way.

~ The opening of Timmy's Secret Wish depicts Timmy and Cosmo using keys to open a treasure chest. Nothing else to say; it just fits the vibe.

~ "77 Secrets of the Fairly OddParents Revealed" claims that Cosmo's greatest secret is that he's an "author of distinction." It even specifically says Cosmo wrote Astrophysics for Morons: a book that appeared in the "Shelf Life" episode.

Apparently this is a huge secret and he doesn't like talking about it... which I LOVE playing with because of the fact that the Fairies claim in "Wishology" that stars are actually fairies with wands. This implies that it's Very Not Okay for Cosmo to be pro-astrophysics instead of pro-fairy, but that's another can of worms.

I love playing with the idea that Cosmo struggles a lot with his past, his Not Okay beliefs, and his memories. We'll see more of that in Frayed Knots and/or the 130 Prompts and other stories at a later time.

In my one-shot "Repeat," Jorgen confronted Cosmo and told him to come with him to a safe place so he wouldn't be hunted down, and Cosmo accused Jorgen of preparing to blast his memories out the moment his back was turned. Cosmo held his wand to his head and threatened to erase his own memories so Jorgen wouldn't get the satisfaction (due to a crap ton of unresolved issues he has with Jorgen because of baby ban conflicts). While I didn't show what happened next, this is just a big moment of Cosmo backstory in my 'verse that I really like.

Present-day Cosmo in my verse is still dealing with a LOAD of issues, especially regarding his memories because his brain's pretty scrambled and he deals with a lot of trauma, guilt, postpartum depression, and stuff like that, but it all comes back to this idea of Fairies removing memories from their heads.

~ Also, I like playing with wacky Fairy anatomy. I already made things like Wanda's radar, H.P.'s laser canon, and even Cosmo's empty head shell - all of which are kept in their forehead domes - totally canon parts of Fairy anatomy by saying that Fairies don't have hearts in my Classic 'verse. Instead they have "cores," which develop into physical objects that represent them.

If you can develop enamel in your forehead that allows your body to form an object that represents your personality, it's definitely not out of the question for you to physically remove memories from your head.

It's kind of a weird piece of worldbuilding and lore but there you go, that's the story behind why it's there. Mostly for things like photo albums, ha ha.

[arttrampbelle]

Disney ask game:

💖 Favorite movie?: honestly it's hard for me. But i love all the classics. But hunchback of Notre dame,beauty and the beast,sleeping beauty,snow white,mulan,and i know it's unpopular opinion but i loved pocahontas for two reasons. One i had zero to nothing for representation growing up knowing and having native background (now i might have better rep but again this was younger me) and two i just liked it face value. And that's ok. I know the real history,and i can like AND give valid criticism for a piece of media. Oh and i love treasure planet,and princess and the frog. Underrated af movies.

💕 Favorite underrated movie/show?: like i said treasure planet and princess and the frog.

💀 Least favorite movie?: i don't know. Im not really a fan of "modern" disney films. It's not that they aren't fun or good. It's just they dont have the same charm ya know? Plus older disney movies weren't afraid to get raw and real. Like bro,we aint never getting another hunchback of Notre dame.

🖌 2D animation or 3D animation?: i prefer 2d but some 3d is fine.

🌄 What movie has the prettiest animation?: honestly i can't say. There's too many i love.

🎶 Which movie has the best music?: hunchback,the lion king,mulan,beauty and the beast,honestly there's too many. I'd say hunchback has the best overall ost. Because holy shit. Im not religious by any means,not heavily at least(i do believe but not by the book but by my heart) but church choir and those chants and deep bells give me goosebumps every time.

📣 Which remake is the best?: honestly not many remakes and sequels of disney work. Some are ok but poorly executed.

🤡 Which remake is the worst?: ok as for sequels. Hunchback because of it felt like a pity movie for quasi and i hated it. As for live action remakes i dont like any of em. But beauty and the beast because i just do not like emma watson. I dont hate her,i just dont like her vibe. *shrug*

🪄 If you could change 3 things about any movies/shows, what would you change?: honestly lemme get really real for a sec. There is several movies id change but i wanna change that quasi and esmie get together in the end. Thats all i ask. And i want gaston punted into the sun. Im very simple to please.

🎥 If you could create/star in a remake, what would you do?: honestly i dunno. I'd kill it as belle I'd think but eh. I just wanna write my own movie.

🎞 If you could create an original movie, what would it be about?: any movie where the girl doesn't get with the guy. She doesn't need a sidekick. She's just doing her thing. And honestly we can learn a thing or teo from mulan. But if i could. I'd love to make a proper and honest to god movie about samurai. But tastefully done. Tome gozen movie anyone? Or a simple movie about friendship. And the importance of it. And platonic relationships being just as important as Romantic ones.

🎨 Have you ever made fanart? (Share if you’re comfortable and it’s sfw!): yes. But not much. As of yet. I'll share when i get something i feel is worth to share.

🦜 Favorite animal sidekick?: honestly i dunno. Iago is adorkable. R.i.p Gilbert godfrey. I miss you. There's too many i like and think is adorable and fun but i dont really pay attention to that when i watch a disney movie. I pay attention to vibes. You feel with disney my dudes.

💃 Favorite character?: too many to list. Fr. I just have too many i think is just neat and deserve a seat at the table. ♡ my fave villains however are judge claude frollo,falicifer,hades,cruella(the real one not the prequel weird one they made),Ursula(my beautiful sea queen!),jafar,and scar. Sorry im a villains kinda gal more than a princess gal.

[fantasiallamarcia]

tagged by @whamss and didn't see it until just now, sorry bud.

Last song: i've had land of eikons on loop periodically throughout the past week and today's one of those days. fucking love ff16. can they please put the rest of the soundtrack on spotify so i can add it to my ff songs that fuck playlist. i also have wanderlust on more often than not lately bc ff15. yeah. you feel me. also yoko shimomura is just that bitch of video game soundtracks imo.

Favourite colour: pastel blue or that specific shade of glowing purple they always use for nightmare/orpheus in idv.

Last movie/show: watched treasure planet with my sisters a week-ish ago and surprisingly liked it? wish they hadn't made jim into a disney prince at the end. killed the vibe for me. show was the confession killer on netflix, mom and i have been getting into watching weird true crime documentaries ever since we watched love has won (highly recommend, though be warned bc they won't tell you this but there are graphic depictions of a corpse and it does get very, very disturbing so be advised if you can't handle that kind of thing)

Sweet/spicy/savoury: spicy. i'm a spicy guy. i love spicy. i put jalapeños on my italian hoagies from wawa just to feel something.

Relationship status: single and not even entertaining anything remotely romantic. happy valentine's day.

Last thing I googled: not sure if i can legally say what i searched but let's just say i was looking for a ridiculous valentine's day read and i found it :)

Current obsession: literally every square enix game i've been able to get my grubby little hands on. kingdom hearts is still at the top of the list but ff16 is a close second, that i hope to be tied with ff15 the further me and my sisters get into it. the world ends with you fucks too i just need to sit down and play more. shout out to square enix for excelling at toxic yaoi, though. nobody's doing it like them.

don't have anyone specific to tag so if anyone sees this and wants to do it, be my guest