#I really miss 2010s dubs

[someoneintheshadow456]

I'm sorry we did all that work just to have Lisette sing some mid-ass violin tune that shouldn't really fit for a battle? Well at least gameplay-wise it's useful because it heals the entire party for 4 turns.

And that is a VERY suspiciously long amount of free time, plus they seem to be too confident that Hilda and Co. won't come back (spoiler alert: they will).

And if Alto is Elcrest, Klaus clearly has to be Xeno, which would explain why we can't raise his affinity anymore (we probably will be able to once he reveals this). And if he is Xeno, that should technically clear him from suspicion of working for the evil god, but they still have the angels hanging around with him so I don't know.

I also just found out that Klaus is Matthew Mercer, aka Chrom's voice actor. Well, that explains why I always blush slightly every time I hear his voice and why I seem to be particularly hung up on whether or not he's good or bad.

The 3DS modding scene made me discover a lot of titles which I would have never gotten my hands on or heard of otherwise - such as Stella Glow which I literally only started playing a week ago out of boredom because XC2's NG+ without Jinmalos is like watching paint dry.

It's definitely something my high school self would have loved ("conducting" and "tuning" being extremely WTF aside). For adult me it's pretty and fun for the moment.

Although my Desi ass has permanently associated it with Taal se Taal and now I can't unsee it as the song they're going to sing for the anthem program.

[sweetmariihs2]

Toy Story: Content Masterlist 🚀🌵🍒⊹₊ ⋆

Trying to compilate every possible movie, short film, animation test, animated commercial, behind the scenes video, DVD extras and more into one single post, in chronological order and where to watch. All of these were produced by Disney and Pixar (or used under license by other companies) but not all of them are considered canon. I'm not a specialist on the subject and I've been making this list by myself so I would be grateful if you had info or content to share with me that is missing or incorrect on this list. This masterlist will constantly be edited since I'll always be adding new links, so it's really important to reblog only the latest versions of this post, or else you might be missing stuff.

Names in bold have links in them, except for the titles. Names without, don't.

Tom Hanks and Tim Allen reacting to TS toys

Toy Story 4 Ever

Movies:

Toy Story (first movie): Disney+

Toy Story 2: Disney+

Toy Story 3: Disney+

Toy Story 4: Disney +

Short Films and extras:

Toy Story Toons:

Hawaiian Vacation: Disney+

Small fry: Disney+

Partysaurus Rex: Disney+

Television Specials:

Toy Story of Terror!: Disney+

Toy Story That Time Forgot: Disney+

Short Movies:

Lamp Life: Disney+

To Fitness and Beyond (Pixar Popcorn): Disney+

Spin Offs:

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: Not available to watch on any streaming service but there are episodes on YouTube. There is also an upload of all episodes in high quality on this archive.

Lightyear: Disney+

Beyond Infinity: Buzz And The Journey To Lightyear: Disney+

Forky Asks A Question: Disney+

Recovered scenes:

Buzz Lightyear Commercial

Woody's Roundup from Toy Story 2 in color, fullscreen and restored

Toy Story Treats:

Toy Story Treats "Full Compilation" (there are some missing)

Toy Story Treats - 4K Ultra HD (but there are some shorts missing)

Toy Story Treats - The Complete Collection (there's more than the last one but they're widescreen, which means that a big part of the screen was cut)

Toy Story Treats: The only 6 shorts that were dubbed in Brazillian Portuguese (it's great to have stuff in my language)

Made in Point Richmond: Television (2000 & 1997) (a huge mix of everything but with stuff missing... it's a mess, but the image quality is good)

ABC Toy Story 2 Bumpers (quite similar to the last ones you saw but different - newer ones)

Woody and Jessie on Ponkickies (the last short from the previous video but with Jessie instead of Buzz)

Buzz Lightyear: Mission Logs:

According to the Disney Fandom Wiki: "In 2008, two years before the theatrical release of Toy Story 3, a Buzz Lightyear toy went into space and returned to Earth in 2009. The special features on the 2010 Toy Story DVDs and Blu-rays say that Buzz Lightyear was Andy's Buzz. Each short shows him telling Rex and Hamm about his trip and how he got home in time for the events of Toy Story 3."

Buzz Aldrin coaches Buzz Lightyear for Shuttle Mission

Episode 1: Blast Off

Episode 2: International Space Station

Episode 3: The Science of Adventure

TV:

BBC Special featuring the Making of Toy Story 2

Oscars:

68th Academy Awards (Oscars) in 1996

72nd Academy Awards (Oscars) in 2000

Jessie Patsy Montana Entertained Award Acceptance Speech (Oscars) in 2000

Jessie Patsy Montana Entertained Award Recipient (Oscars) in 2000

88th Academy Awards (Oscars) in 2016

Character Interviews:

Toy Story: Character Interview

Toy Story: Character Interview (Version 2)

Toy Story 2: Character Interview

Toy Story 2: Character Interview (Version 2)

Commercials:

"Wall-E" Super Bowl AD with Woody and Buzz

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Toy Story 2 - Original 1999 Teaser

Toy Story 2: McDonalds Ads (2000) PLAYLIST

Toy Story 2: McDonalds Ad, rare (2000)

Toy Story 2: McDonalds Ad: Surveillance (2000)

Toy Story 2: McDonalds Ad: Periscope (2000)

Toy Story 2: McDonalds Ad: The Remote (2000)

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Toy Story 3: Meet Lots-O-Huggin' bear!

Toy Story 3: Movie Trailer Teaser

Toy Story 3: Dolby 3D Ad

Toy Story 3: 3D Double Feature

Toy Story 3: Silence Trailer

Toy Story 3: Visa Commercial

Toy Story 3: Toys Go To Target Ad

Toy Story 3: Priority Mail Ad

Toy Story 3: Peugeot 5008 Ad

Toy Story 3: Aflac Ad

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Toy Story Of Terror: Sky Ad

Toy Story That Time Forgot: Sky Ad

Toy Story That Time Forgot: Sky Ad (Radio) where Buzz and Rex struggle with the wifi

Toy Story EE Ad (Radio)

Buzz Lightyear Attacks Disneyland Resort (TV Commercial)

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Toy Story 4: Official Teaser Trailer

Toy Story 4: Make Joy Happen! Ad

Toy Story 4: Seiban Ad

Toy Story 4: Dance Party In The Chrysler Ad

Toy Story 4: Carnival Fun! Ad

Toy Story 4: Happy Meal Ad

Toy Story 4: Boost Juice Ad

Ballad Of The Lonesome Cowboy (song)

Disney Buzz Lightyear tiktok (getting stuck lmao)

Animation Tests:

ALL TOY STORY ANIMATION TESTS

Toy Story Pixar Internship Animation Reel

Riders In The Sky (Woody's Roundup):

Woody's Roundup (Riders In The Sky) music video

Woody's Roundup (Riders In The Sky) behind the scenes footage

Woody's Roundup (Riders In The Sky) music medley

Devon Dawson: How Does She Yodel? Jessie The Yodeling Cowgirl (WMA annual show and gathering, held in Tucson in 2000)

Dvd Menus and extra content:

The menus have extra content, like concept arts and new/extra character animations, like in the Toy Story 3 DVD. The DVD's contain exclusive extra content, like making offs, deleted scenes, storyboards, games and more. I'll separate them by each movie they belong.

Edit: I just noticed that the amount of extra content from the DVDs is HUGE. You can search about the extra content in Toy Story DVDs. A single DVD has, I don't know, around 20+ extra stuff? I won't add all of them here, just the ones that I found while searching for other stuff because they were already here.

Every Home Video of Toy Story ever - list

Uncategorized Extra Content:

Battlesaurs Opening (from That Time Forgot) (it's OFFICIAL)

Toy Story Of Terror: In-universe Toy Commercials (Combat Carl, OldTimer and Transiton, the only ones)

Toy Story:

Toy Story DVD Menu

Toy Story 10th Anniversary Edition 2005 DVD Menu Walkthrough Disc 1

Toy Story CAV Side 5 - Bonus Features

Full Design Gallery (Bonus feature)

Creating the toys from Toy Story (Brazil sub)

Toy Story: Behind The Scenes

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Toy Story 1 and 2 The Ultimate Toy Box USA Bonus DVD Walkthrough

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Toy Story 2:

Toy Story 2 - Menu Walkthrough's (Blu Ray + DVD)

Full Design Gallery

Which Toy Are You?

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Toy Story 3:

Toy Story 3 - Menu Walkthrough's (2-Disc Blu Ray + DVD)

Toy Story 3 Grab Bag (random footage of the Toy Story 3 DVDs)

Accidental Toymakers (Thinkway Toys)

The Making of Toy Story 3 (voice actors)

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Toy Story Special Edition (2010)

Toy Story Special Edition (2010) overview

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Toy Story 4:

Toy Story 4 USA Blu-Ray Walkthrough

TOY STORY 4 | All Released Bonus Features [Blu-Ray/DVD 2019]

Bo Rebooted (Bonus Feature)

To Infinity And Beyond (Bonus Feature)

Toy Story at 20: To Infinity And Beyond

Games:

I will not include playthroughs of the videogames due to the link limit per post (100 links), so you can watch them on YouTube or buy the games. Recently (december 2024) Buzz Lightyear is making a cameo in Brawl Stars, which is not included in the list.

Toy Story: Disney Animated Storybook Longplay (just because you can't find it everywhere)

Toy Story Activity Center Full Playthrough

List with every Toy Story game ever.

Cancelled media:

Princess Academy — a short film that would include all the female characters from Disney and Pixar, according to the fandom wiki, "interacting with each other, singing, dancing and enjoying each other's company in a royal boarding school". Jessie and Bo Peep were included in concept arts and the songs would be composed by Alan Menken. But the short film was cancelled due to Disney firing most of their 2D animators and closing it's 2D studio in march 2013. (I'm so pissed I would have LOVED to see this)

Toy Story Wonderbook — A cancelled Toy Story game from 2013. There are concept arts, the creators wanted to have the characters in a paper toy style like in a storybook and they would be in tons of different adventure scenarios. According to David Hamblin on the website Artstation, (an artist involved in the project): "Unfortunately with the coming of Playstation 4 and PSVR Wonderbook as a platform was no longer a priority".

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Should I include a park attraction topic? It's a quite huge list.

Link count: 89 links

[goldstarknight]

Today I want to talk about Duel Masters. Specifically: The Duel Masters anime from the early 2000s.

For those who don't know: Duel Masters is kind of the little brother of Magic: The Gathering. It was also made by Hasbro and there is a lot of fascinating history between the games. You can listen to Maro talk about it here.

The thing about the anime is that it is a parody dub that gets more unhinged as it goes on. Feels like watching an abridged series on YouTube.

For some reason the official localization team was allowed to do a parody dub instead of a faithful adaptation that takes itself way too seriously for its own good. As a result the official version of the English Duel Masters dub (which was shown on childrens' TV programs in the early 2000s!) is closer to Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged than Yu-Gi-Oh! (which would be the most obvious comparison).

I mean it: they didn't just go for some light dialogue changes. No, they cut tedious, tropey dialogue, inserted pop-culture references, added some 4th-wall breaking jokes about common tropes in shows like this and sometimes even heavily edited the footage for comedic effect. There is a scene where they put a bad disco filter over the video and make a character sing karaoke. Seriously, I can't convey how weird this gets at times. The only thing separating it from an abridged series you'd find on YouTube in the 2010s is probably the lack of swearwords. And that's not really the kind of thing you'd miss anyway.

It gets even more unhinged in the final season. I assume they knew the English version wouldn't be continued since the TCG failed to catch on in the west, so they just went all out. There is a scene pretty late into the series where two characters are dueling and one of them summons a creature, but the wrong summoning animation plays. The characters then complain about the editor they hired on Craigslist. Again: this was meant for children's television. Not the internet.

A lot of jokes went way over my head as a child and I took it super seriously, but rewatching it with a friend last year had me howling with laughter at times. Maybe it's not your sense of humor, but if you like silly anime parodies, I urge you to check it out.

Also, if you speak German, I recommend you watch that version. The localization team did a great job of adapting the jokes and the voice actors really leaned into it. Can't speak for other European versions, but maybe there is something there too. :D

Here is a random assortment of my favourite characters to pay tribute and hopefully whet your appetite:

First we have best girl Mimi, Kokujo, an edgelord and Matrix-aficionado and Jimmy Three-Horns from Iowa.

Yumama, who had her name changed from Yu Fua just so the dub could make "yo momma" jokes and EXTREME BUCKETMAN.

Knight, one of the most pathetic mentor figures I have seen in all of anime (I love him for it) and Dr. Root with his weird crow-mouth (peak or rather "beak" character design).

And finally Tom & Stu (might be the same guy, depending on the localization).

Alright, got that off my chest. Hope this was interesting to you. :)

I usually stick to posting (pixel) art, but I really wanted to share this with the world.

[reliablejoukido]

Don't mind me, just gonna ramble for a bit.

Starting around 2010, there were these forum threads on both With the Will and another site called Digital Evolution Forum, where people would go back and forth talking about where and how they could find the Digimon Adventure, 02, and Digimon: The Movie English dub background music. I lurked on these threads for as long as they were active, hungry for any crumb of a release. Some of their conversations were about contacting the composers and musicians who worked with Saban (I did this myself with zero luck), or finding out which other Saban dub BGM had been recycled for Digimon, or even forum users claiming they were sent the music privately (OP never delivers). A couple people even tried to produce their own covers of BGM tracks that were missing. I was lurking when they found "Optimistic", when Udi Harpaz released the Masked Rider soundtrack, when someone found a ton of unreleased Digimon: The Movie tracks, when Amotz Plessner released a couple more, and eventually when Udi Harpaz released all of the Digimon: The Movie tracks in 2020. (if you'd like the entire collection of this music, I compiled it all right here).

Anyway, sometimes I wonder if any of the people from those old forum threads would be interested in my current BGM project. I wonder if my edits would be good enough for people who spent over a decade searching for this music. I wonder if anyone still lurks on those old threads, waiting for updates like I did. I wonder if my project would be considered "updates" to the search. IDK, I guess I'm feeling wistful? Is that the right word? I think some of my weird feelings are coming from the inevitable "end" of my project. I'm basically only working on second and third versions of what I've already done. I suppose the tools I use to clean the tracks could get better in the next year or two. Who knows.

Well anyway... I'll probably be uploading more of those second and third versions in the coming days/weeks. The BGM project is kind of my comfort project. It keeps my attention and can be really rewarding. I have no idea how to find something to take the place of this project some day. I also don't know how to end this post lol.

[starburstfloat]

so i saw your tags on that reblogged post about hybe and removing the k from kpop, and i'm super interested in hearing your thoughts! and yeah i do agree that bts' music in recent years has lost a lot of what makes it unique :/

Oh I'd love to chat about it - thanks for giving me the opportunity to share more of my thoughts!

For those who don't know, we're referencing this opinion piece article that discusses, in an appropriately scathing tone, how bang pd/hybe executives are leading kpop to its demise by making poor creative choices for their artists (mostly BTS, but whoever comes after will evidently be affected by their creative decisions). Namely, releasing superficial bland pop music, in the attempt to remove the K from Kpop and make the genre more global and palatable for all audiences; essentially, taking away Kpop's core essence to appeal to the US music market.

Having been an avid kpop fan since 2010, and more of an observant media/pop culture enthusiast since 2016, the westernization of the genre doesn't come as a surprise to me. What does surprise me though are the masses of BTS army, whose demographic comprises the largest share of Hybe fans, who avidly support this trend. It's a reason I found myself getting distant to the fandom since the release of Butter, since the mere suggestion that BTS were losing their creative identity garnered hoards of angry responses of people retaliating with "well it's good they're getting the recognition they deserve!" and "it's catchy music for the radio, why would you be upset?"

I think what a lot of people who support Hybe's decision are missing here is that most of us don't really care if the lyrics are changed from Korean to English - if it's a good song, I don't care what language it's in. But that's not what bang pd means when he suggests removing the K from Kpop. He's removing the entire sound of kpop and, with most Korean artists not lyrically skilled enough to write their own verses in English, which will be the dominant language going forward for title tracks (at least for now; this may change as new waves of trainees and more stringently enforced English lessons hit the writing room), we're going to see most Kpop songs no longer written or produced by the members of the groups.

It's a bit ironic, since that's what kpop grew to embrace in third gen, especially with BTS's penmanship getting recognition from fans and non fans alike. BTS rose to fame for their authenticity, their songs crafted from personal experiences and imagination, and that's what attracted so many people to them, myself included. They had something meaningful to say. Then when they rose to popularity, the goal became to become as marketable as possible, and we witness a complete creative downfall at the start of the dynamite era, what the author of the article dubs the English Trilogy.

I could even look past the superficiality of a track if it's able to become something noteworthy or iconic. Consider the success of GIDLE's Queencard - a title track that rocks lyrics like "I'm hot, my boob and bootie's hot, spotlight, I'm Star Star Star". It completely dominated Korea's music charts this year, and saw success internationally too. Why? Firstly, the title references a well established Korean slang word (calling someone a King or Queencard in correlation to their cool aura). Secondly, it doesn't take itself too seriously. GIDLE said, Here's a camp song for the girls and the gays and delivered, without slapping on some forced heartfelt deeper meaning. Thirdly, the music video, from the styling and choreography, draws artistic inspiration from early 2000s films like Mean Girls and White Chicks - a creative choice that enhances the comical and vibrant tone of the track. Lastly, Queencard is so undeniably kpop - from the song structure, the vocal blending, the bridge, the choreo - it's kpop perfection. Is it a basic pop track? Yes, absolutely. But it's also bigger than that, for all the reasons I just mentioned, so it's a shame that hybe, in its pursuit of monopolizing the industry, sees something like that and goes, how about we just strip kpop of all its fun parts and give audiences the blandest cardboard cereal blend they've ever tasted? Evidently Jungkook's solo album Golden was this very attempt to experiment with a solely western style, detract from the vibrancy or intensity of what kpop was before. Where's the artistic charm in that? It's disappeared.

I guess it all comes down to the fact that hybe, and at this point we can assume the bangtan members too (since I don't subscribe to the "bang pd evil, members get no say in decisions" narrative that some people suggest) aren't concerned with the meaning behind their craft anymore, just the money.

It's a bit infuriating because I, and assumedly thousands of others who have been part of the kpop wave long before BTS's rise to fame, would happily pay big money to see live music from acts currently releasing quality music. But I guess that requires more effort, and for hybe that's the least of their concern.

[likeadevils]

2012 Lover Diaries Transcripts

Feb 2012

Holy Ground Lyrics

Mar 2, 2012- Perth, Australia

So here we are in Perth. It’s a beach town on the Indian Ocean and it’s beautiful. It’s 85º and sunny and yesterday I went to Cottesloe Beach – I’ve never seen water that crystal blue before. And white sand. There was this art festival going on, so there were all these sculptures set up on the beach. We laid our towels out and got tans and frolicked in the water. After our beach afternoon, we went to this restaurant right on the beach called Indiana. It was built in 1910 and looked like an old fancy hotel. It’s one of the most beautiful places I’ve been, with old world arches and moldings, antique tables and big french doors opening out to views of azure blue ocean. We sat there for hours drinking strawberry mojitos and eating calamari until I was so tired, I went back to my fluffy hotel bed and slept. I’ve been thinking a lot about getting older and relevancy and how all my heroes have ended up alone. I wrote a song on the plane ride from Sydney to Perth on the appalachian dulcimer I bought the day of my flight. I bought it because Joni played on most of her blue record. I taught myself to play ‘A Case of You.’ Anyway, I wrote a song on it called “Nothin New” and it’s about being scared of aging and things changing and losing what you have. It says “I’m getting older and less sure of what you like about me anyway.” And in the chorus it says “How can a person know everything at 18, and nothing at 22? And will you still want me … when I’m nothing new.” It’s a really vulnerable song, but I think it’s important to say.

Jun 10, 2012- Los Angeles, CA

I’ve been in the studio non stop. This week I was in with Max Martin and Johan Shellback, the guys I wrote ‘Getting Back Together’ with. The first day, I had to do this corporate performance for an arena full of managers. I played Love Story and Mean, solo acoustic and Justin Timberlake was MCing so he introduced me. Hilarious sense of humor. He was making the whole arena laugh. When I finished there, I got on the plane and this idea came to me “I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 22.” I wrote the entire chorus on the plane ride to LA. When I landed, I went straight to the studio and played it for Max and Johan. They loved it. I was so excited. I wrote 22 about how much fun I’ve been having this summer and this year in general. It’s so carefree and sounds like a summer anthem. I was floating on a cloud after we wrote it. The next day I brought them a chorus called 'Trouble’ that’s about how I should’ve known what I was getting into. We came back to 'Trouble’ and it turned out to be absolutely amazing. It’s so edgy and unexpected. It’s almost dub step. My friends love that one the most. I love writing so much. It’s the only thing that makes total sense to me. If I missed a day in the studio, I’d be so mad at myself. God I’ve been having such a beautiful life lately. I can’t believe it. It’s like there’s magic in the air. Friday was my day off. I woke up and went hiking. Then went home and showered. painted my nails, daydreamed about our trip for 4th of July. Taylor

Oct 17, 2012- Los Angeles, CA

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[icekingofhope]

a small vent post but

I’m I the only one who gets annoyed when someone brings fake teasers or news about stuff like monkie kid season 5 or sonic 3 or those looping fun fact videos or like those annoying ads on YouTube nowadays

like it gets so annoying I can’t even trust anything news related about the said media it just sometimes makes me miss the simpler time in the 2000s and 2010s

yes fandoms and media were still toxic but aleast it didn’t have those annoying loops or fake news hell the ads back then were actually really enjoyable! It just frustrating seeing people just think they can post whatever they want in the internet

Like videos with very gorey situations or sexual undertones in fucking comic dubs (looking at you couger) and most of the comic dubbers are problematic

so are fans in any time of fandom who just hate criticism with a fury any word of said creator media or the fans they release a rage like the person just insulted their entire existence

And don’t get me started on those videos with scary shit like stop scrolling if your a bad person or more

Like can we all just get our heads out of our asses and chill like just relax everyone just watch sometimes nice maybe old gameplays or cat videos or simple as a person just talking about maybe cooking!

anything!

[duhragonball]

What are your opinions on the Funimation VO changes starting with Kai and into Super? I just can’t get used to Bulma

I missed a lot of these changes, since I didn't pay much attention to Kai, and I had to watch the subbed version of Super because it was all we had while it was coming out.

Bulma was the big change, since that happened around the time they released Curse of the Blood Rubies on DVD in 2011, and I think that was when it hit me that Monica Rial wasn't just a Kai-only deal. They weren't going to bring Tiffany Vollmer back for other stuff.

A lot of the voices changed in the Raging Blast games too. I think they had a whole other guy doing Cell, for example. So I thought Dameon Clarke left the cast for some reason, but then he was back in the Xenoverse games. I think sometimes it just comes down to who's available.

And sometimes there's just no choice. I'm not sure when Brice Armstrong stopped voice acting, but his last role on Wikipedia was from 2009, when he was about 73 years old, so I assume he just retired. Since then, he passed away in 2020, and then Chris Ayres in 2021, which means they'll need to cast a new voice for Frieza the next time he gets a speaking role.

I mean, there's a lot of other cast changes we could debate or speculate about. Vic Mignogna will probably never appear in another Funimation production ever again. Even if his scandals hadn't caught up to him, he made sure to burn his bridges when he sued Funi in that defamation lawsuit. I don't think Stephanie Nadolny or Linda Young had anything like that going against them. It may have just been a matter of going in a new direction with the roles they had been playing. And I'm pretty sure the reason Chris Sabat had so many roles in 1999 was because there wasn't a lot of talent available at the time, but now they can actually cast other people. There's a lot I don't know about their behind-the-scenes decisions, but ultimately, some changes are inevitable.

I get the frustration, because I really wanted a dub of Dragon Ball with consistent voice acting from start to finish, and it seemed like we almost got there around 2007 or so, when Funi re-dubbed the Saiyans and Namek arcs. Except... it really isn't consistent, because everybody started in the Frieza Saga, and then they did Buu and OG Dragon Ball around the same time, and then went back and did the Saiyans and Namek. Also, some VA's went back and dubbed over their old performances, so in the Frieza Saga Orange Brick DVD set, you have 2006 Sabat playing Vegeta alongside 1999 Sean Schemmel Goku.

That's the thing. Even when it's the same voice actors over time, their performances still change. Sabat's Vegeta started out as a facsimile of Brian Drummond's portrayal on the Ocean dub. Then he gradually got deeper and more gravelly as he went on, which finally hit its peak around 2008, I think, and then he settled into the version we have in Kai and Super.

Also, once DBS started up, it finally hit me that this thing probably isn't going to end anytime soon. It was one thing to hope for a consistent dub of Dragon Ball and DBZ in 2003. But now Funimation has been dubbing this franchise for a quarter century. They have to cast new voice actors. A lot of the old ones are going to quit or retire or die.

This is nothing new for the Japanese cast, since they started back in the 1980's. Daisuke Gori played Mr. Satan until his death in 2010. They cast Unsho Ishizuka to replace him... until his death in 2018. Currently, Mr. Satan is voiced by Masashi Ebara, age 69. So if they're still doing Dragon Ball stuff in twenty years, I think it's likely that they'll have to recast the role again.

I don't mean to sound morbid about this sort of thing, but that's how it is with a long-running franchise like this. Dragon Ball is 38 years old. Things are going to change, people are going to leave, and maybe come back, and then leave again. That's just how it is.

To put it into perspective, when Superman first started in the late 1930's, radio was a big deal, and by 1940, Superman had his own radio series starring Bud Collyer. Collyer was the voice of Superman until the radio show ended around 1951. Then he and some of the other VA's reprised their roles in a cartoon series that ran from 1966 to 1970. Collyer died in 1969, so I guess they must have had some episodes already recorded before the show got cancelled.

Now, I'm a Superman fan, so I'm familiar with Collyer's performance, but the version I grew up with was the Superman who appeared on Superfriends from 1973-1986, played by Danny Dark. Dark was in diapers when Bud Collyer first played the character, and he died in 2004, around the time George Newbern was voicing Superman in Justice League Unlimited.

So when you look at it that way, the voice changes in Dragon Ball aren't so unusual. It's pretty cool how Masako Nozawa and Sean Schemmel have played Goku for so long, but I don't think they'll be the last VA's to handle it in their respective countries. Goku's already a multi-generational character, and I have a feeling he'll be appearing in cartoons for a long time to come.

[bryng]

Do u like music:00

If so what kind of musiccc

music is like. my favorite thing of all time. you have given me an excuse to talk about music so i am going to TALK about MUSIC!!!!

i think my music taste is wide and varied, and that is displayed best by my favorite band of all time, WEEN!!!!!

Ween are a band from the late 80s (first studio album releasing in 1990) who have so much range they have at least one song for everyone. Ween are mostly known for making the song at the end of the 2004 Spongebob movie (ocean man, not s&pctpwoe). Ween are made up primarily of Dean Ween (real name Mickey Melchiondo) and Gene Ween (Aaron Freeman). They were active from 1984 to 2010 before breaking up for a short while. They got back together in 2016 and have been touring ever since! Here are some of my favorite Ween songs / albums:

● Favorite Album: Pure Guava (1992), Pure Guava was Ween's first record on a large label (Elektra) and despite this it has some of the goofiest and loudest songs. Favorite tracks from Pure Guava are Springtheme, Tender Situation, and Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)

● Second Favorite Album: Quebec (2003), Quebec is Ween's most serious work, it still contains a bit of the goofiness found on The Mollusk, but has much darker and sadder themes. Favorite tracks include Chocolate Town, Transdermal Celebration, and If You Could Save Yourself (You'd Save Us All).

● Favorite Song: It's a hard choice since they are all so good, but I think it has to be Transitions from Shinola, it has such a cool laidback atmosphere and some of the best instrumentation I've ever heard.

OKAY NEXT BAND!!!

Mr. Bungle is an outlier in my tastes, I've never really been into metal at all, but Mr. Bungle does it so differently that I can't not enjoy it. Mr. Bungle is the brain child of a high school aged Mike Patton. The music of Mr. Bungle changes WILDLY from album to album, from goofy carnival metal on their self-titled album (1991) to almost avant garde noise metal on Disco Volante (1995) to margarita metal on California (1999). Mr. Bungle is often crude and vulgar (especially on their first album) but the love and attention they put into their albums really shows. My favorite Mr. Bungle album is Disco Volante, it's loud and intense in a very comforting way, like a weighted blanket.

Favorite songs include Quote Unquote, Pink Cigarette, The Bends, and Stubb - A Dub.

Lastly, for a touch of more normal stuff, see LEMON DEMON

Possibly the tamest of my favorite musicians, Lemon Demon is the title that internet guy Neil Cicierega releases most of his music under. He started releasing music under Lemon Demon in 2003, continuing up until this day! Lemon Demon's most popular release is Spirit Phone, an album about ghosts and ghouls and governmental coverups and ronald reagan. My personal favorite Lemon Demon release is the 5 track long I Am Become Christmas EP. As the name suggests IABC is a christmas EP, but the sounds on it are too good to be relegated to just christmas time. It's like a dialed back Spirit Phone, without as many loud songs and overall very peaceful while still containing a spooky vibe. Some of my favorite Lemon Demon songs include Nothing Worth Loving Isn't Askew, Spring-Heeled Jack, and Telekinesis. I own most of the Lemon Demon discography on vinyl, only missing Damn Skippy and IABC.

Thanks for giving me an excuse to talk about my favorite artists bread <3

[eldritchmochi]

you mentioned playlists in your pinned post so now I am here to haunt you! what kind of playlists do you think you'd enjoy? what're some of your favorite music artists and/or genres? :0

oh man i listen to SO MUCH music just all sorts......... except........... what i have dubbed "white girl pop" lmao, which ends up being a lot of the more popular music across tumblr with generally white generally femmes in the age bracket just below mine (i'm so sorry younger sibling who is a really big swiftie i Do Not understand and i also dont care to)

for context, the music i got into on my own back in the day in highschool (circa 2003-2009) was primarily west coast punk or pop punk, but i also listened to a LOT of non english music (i think at the height of it i had music in over 20 different languages that would just pop up on playlists willy nilly)

shortly after that, i spent several years as a raver listening to a lot of edm, specifically happy hardcore, though i also had a soft spot for euro dance (i am OBSESSED with planet of the bass). d&b and dubstep were... fine but i didn't really seek them out with the exception of some specific tracks that had overlap with hardcore (seattle was BIG on hardcore/happy hardcore in the years around 2010 when i was a raver)

currently, my spotify has a real big habit of reccing me Black punk or indie punk artists, which i am definitely not mad about even if i'm also vaguely baffled at how i've gotten here. last show i went to WAS Black indie punk tho (meet me @ the altar; SO GOOD i lov them). we WERE suppose to go see bloodywood (indian metal) for my wifes bday but... shenanigans ensued with the bus. before mm@a, last show wasssss i think FOB and greenday's hella mega tour (baller, and free lmao), and then before that i saw caravan palace, and before that was mystery skulls. if i can get my surgery scheduled soon enough i REALLY wanna try and see ashinekko in october cos im mad that im missed out on poppy this month (it was the 18th ;n;)

basically all of those bands are wildly different genres lmao

as for bands, a non exhaustive list would be: mcr, p@td, offspring, muse, nicki minaj, hozier, rise against, pansy division, system of a down, skatune network, mother mother, I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME, marina, mothica, lil nas x, subwoolfer, FEMM, and many more

a short selection of Top Songs

that is so many songs dang. most of them come from my ashton playlist because that is what i have been listening to most recently and that playlist is ten hours long so

but ye i lov music i am chill with about any rec, especially if you can paint a picture as to why i should like it (fandom related???? good story vibes???? actually singable for a baritone?????)

key things i tend to look for is: a lot of bass (not specifically always *driving* bass, just a lot of it), vocals that go up and down scales (especially if theyre "bouncy" and scale well to deeper voices), and fun lyrics (especially horny or murder). the MOST important thing is that bass element, which is the big reason why i dont like a lot of "white girl pop"

rec away!!

[evilpopcornkaylen]

I missed something important, and now I’m wondering if you may have missed it too. If you did not— then I salute you in your knowingness of all that is fabulous.

Kiki: noun, etymology French

“A kiki is a party for calming all your nerves

We’re spilling tea and dishing just desserts one may deserve”

Let me first explain why this feels appropriate in n my heart at this moment in time; I have moved recently into

Chez K

>>here’s looking at you, Melissa 🩷

I am on this magical endeavor to live alone in a beautifully renovated 1990 Prowler camper anchored as a tiny house on the property of my new found landlords. Does this include tripping over all of my shit almost all of the time and thinking to myself at least ten times per day I really ought to “pare down?” Yes. Does this mean I have abruptly learned what the fuck a composting toilet is and I have discussed human potty waste in far greater detail than I can recall in my life to date? Yes. Does this mean I am a fiercely strong and independent creature? Hell to the yes. My guest list to date is minimal, but here’s the thing— my environment, my oasis, my chez.. MY safe space, is something I will gladly extend to worthy humans looking to share space. I’m good at that. I have a deep longing to connect with people, and I have an innate skill to hold space for others. In my life experience this has frequently brought individuals to me that are less than worthy humans— it’s a long and complicated set of stories. But, no matter, because this drive will not be conquered, and I dub Chez K, here and now, drinking a glass of bubbly 🥂 the quintessential kiki spot. Dare you to take me up on that.

Let’s Have a Kiki was released on September 11, 2012 in the US. The track was written by Jason Sellards, Scott Hoffman, and Ana Lynch, and it was produced and performed by Scissor Sisters under the Polydor label. The spectacular instructional music video was released July 27, 2012; directed by Vern Moen and choreographed by Brad Landers.

It is true that Billboard included the music video in the Top 100 Greatest Music Videos of the 2010s, it came in at number 79. This is nowhere near sufficient when I put on my Queen of the world hat for a moment, and I won’t tell you my purpose here is to tell you that you all are doing the internet wrong, but…

Present day— September 2024:

Scissor Sisters have an estimated 3.3million monthly listeners on Spotify. Let’s Have a Kiki is not a track listed in the “Popular” five listed tracks. And, the YouTube video is 12 years old, and has accrued 20 million views.

Paltry. What are you all doing?

A brief Google survey says you all are doing Baby Shark Dance with 13 billion views.

Ridiculous.

My girl, Ana, hails from Portland 🌲 so I’m here for an assist, if I may. Watch this:

https://youtu.be/eGCD4xb-Tr8?si=iZakJDYS_b-bZUbL

—I defy you to not find excellence everywhere.

She said, “so then I get to the club looking like a drowned, harassed rat,” and so now I need to give a shout out to one of my very favorite profs who has said a multitude of things that have stuck with me, but here I am thinking of a film course where she shared a fervent irritation with women in shower scenes.

The problem is this— when we take a shower IRL, long hair is not glamorous and voluminous and miraculously UNfrizzy— no, we look like drowned rats, and that is the absolute truth and whole truth so help me baby Jesus. I suspect that it is a common occurrence to sense a palpable disappointment from a new partner the first time y’all shower together. Prof said it and I’m like 🤯 omg, right? And I felt so f🦆ing seen and worthy— isn’t that wild? So shout out to a one, Dr. Carol Siegel who is one of the coolest people I can think of always, and gave me what I needed to finally see Shakespeare (story for another time)

And now behold some of the 🔥 YouTube comments:

Re: Will&Grace— you best believe. The universe in which that does happen is bittersweet tho because while Grace and Jack are adaptable as BFFs, Will and Karen can’t even.

Re: where she messes up choreo— I did not see this on my own, and I doubt I would have without this comment so please accept my sincerest thanks for posting that because to me, this is a magic moment. There are a couple reasons I say this—

1) I don’t know how well you know this complete fact of life, but choreography is F🦆ING HARD. I don’t care who you are and I don’t care if you’re brilliant at choreography, it is always an extraordinarily difficult feat that some humans are blessed with the capacity to make it look like it was as easy as whatever is the easiest thing you can think of rn. These dancers are nothing short of hecking talented, okay? They are quite obviously performing their hearts out, every one of them here, and they are skilled at the craft. I, for one, am comforted by the fact that occasionally Ana shows up as a human being alongside showing up as a multitalented goddess queen, and that she can in fact err. It brings my soul peace to know that even she can do a misstep, and then to know that a huge percentage of folks may never even know or realize she ever did despite video evidence. I won’t let my inner critic rip myself a new one as hard (hopefully) when I feel stupid because I can’t get choreography or make my body move the way I so clearly can envision it to.

2) Here is an important message and life lesson to take from her cute little damnit flicker of a mistake— KEEP GOING. One mistake, hell, one hundred mistakes, is not viably enough to “make you” quit, don’t you let it. Mistakes are required and a lot of important information.

*footnote 1

3) I’m overjoyed to report that the drummer in solidarity, made a mistake too. Just kidding, it was not, to my knowledge in solidarity, but that made me laugh so I wrote it anyway.

He had one job!

So, if you’re still reading, tell someone you love today, “let’s have a kiki,” and mean it. Then, tell ten people you happen to come into direct contact with that there exists a song far catchier, far more fire than Baby Shark, goddamnit, and if you haven’t heard it and seen it, then you’re wrong.

🎤🎙️drop

kthanxbye 💕

****

You looked for the footnote 🧐

*Part of the reason I write is to convince my own self. Do not mistake the conviction in my written words for true enlightenment— as in, I have accomplished all and see all, know all with my third eye AND I’m better than you, or complete self-confidence— as in, I’m right, you’re wrong, I have everything completely figured out and you should just be reasonable and do it my way.

…..

Be gentle with tortured artist souls (as mine) instead of being a poop, how about?

[matt3470srandomthoughts]

Nostalgia

One of the things I've been feeling a lot recently is nostalgia, I have a love-hate relationship with the feeling. On one hand you smile remembering good times but on the other you get sad you can never re-experience that ever again. That's why I try to enjoy so many things in the moment now. But anyway, it's been on my mind a lot. I recently watched a video about a design language called "Frutiger Aero" (video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL7kTMtvebQ) and this is what I grew up with. Skeuomorphism was rampant during these years, which is considered to be a key part of the design language. This design langauge in operating systems such as Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. These are my personal favorites not just because of nostalgia, but I feel these systems were really refined and looked really clean. It also just felt like you were in a different world, especially with some of those wallpapers. I remember as a kid I would just go through the wallpapers on Windows 7 and imagine the kind of worlds they were in. Truly a magical time. Also around this time, I was first exposed to the iPhone, namely the 4. I was too young to care about "antenna gate" and I thought a touchscreen phone was just so incredible. iOS 4 through 6 were definitely the most nostalgic for me. I remember iOS 5 on my sister's iPod Touch 4, another super nostalgic piece of tech for me. She really liked Owl City, and I would then come to listen to a lot of their stuff too. My favorites were Fireflies and then Peppermint Winter, a song I've been listening to a lot recently, with it being Christmas and all.

Enough about tech, another thing I'm super nostalgic for is TV channels back in the early 2010s. You see back then cable was actually worth watching I feel like, and definitely peaked then until Netflix took over in the mid 2010s. I also miss old Netflix from 2011. It was reasonably priced, no ads and had a good library. As far as TV networks go, I would mainly watch Cartoon Network, Nick and PBS Kids. CN was going through a huge renaissance, with tons of new shows, that are super nostalgic to me now, something I like to dub the "Check It Renaissance" referring to CN's branding at the time. A kind of weird interest of mine is channel idents or bumpers that air between programming and commercials. Check it 1.0 from CN (2010-2013) is by far the most nostalgic for me, with cool flipnote like bumpers, catchy music, and skeuomorphism galore. But PBS Kids' bumpers from around the time (and PBS Kids Go's) are also super nostalgic for me. Nickelodeon's branding was already bland af and hasn't really improved since. But I loved spongebob, drake and josh, and icarly as a kid so I would watch it frequently. I think it was just such a good time for me simply because I was a young kid. I wasn't quite aware of what happened in the world, I just enjoyed life, played with friends, and quite a few family members who are unfortunately deceased now were alive and doing very well then. I think people weren't quite as addicted to the internet back then as a lot of us are now, obviously the internet has done a lot of good over the years, getting us through a pandemic and all, but it definitely has its downsides. I just feel like back then people would only pull their phone out if they had a call, or to show it to friends/family because it was such a novelty then. I miss when technology was advancing so fast, everything new was so cool. Each new iphone was a huge improvement over the previous, while now it feels like the only thing that really improves is the battery. The iPad was first introduced in 2010, quad core processors became standard back then too in desktops and high end laptops... and desktops nowadays are STILL shipping with quad cores. I'm not saying there's been no improvements to tech- that is incredibly untrue. VR has matured a ton since the clunky Oculus DK1 from 2013, 100 core processors are now a thing apparently, Apple's M1 and M2 processors have been able to accomplish things unimaginable back in 2010, and tons of discoveries with technology has been discovered to help the medical field and such. I guess I'm just not a young kid who thinks every new piece of technology is the coolest thing ever haha.

In conclusion, I love the late 2000s/early 2010s, it was just a truly special and incredible couple of years for me. Hopefully one day things like the design language from then will make a comeback or something. Anyway, hope you all have a wonderful Christmas Eve. Happy Holidays :)

[qqueenofhades]

Re: the post you reblogged about Bush. I'm 21 and tbh feel like I can only vote for Bernie, can you explain if/why I shouldn't? Thanks and sorry if this is dumb or anything.

Oh boy. Okay, I’ll do my best here. Note that a) this will get long, and b) I’m old, Tired, and I‘m pretty sure my brain tried to kill me last night. Since by nature I am sure I will say something Controversial ™, if anyone reads this and feels a deep urge to inform me that I am Wrong, just… mark it down as me being Wrong and move on with your life. But also, really, you should read this and hopefully think about it. Because while I’m glad you asked this question, it feels like there’s a lot in your cohort who won’t, and that worries me. A lot.

First, not to sound utterly old-woman-in-a-rocking-chair ancient, people who came of age/are only old enough to have Obama be the first president that they really remember have no idea how good they had it. The world was falling the fuck apart in 2008 (not coincidentally, after 8 years of Bush). We came within a flicker of the permanent collapse of the global economy. The War on Terror was in full roar, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were at their height, we had Dick Cheney as the cartoon supervillain before we had any of Trump’s cohort, and this was before Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden had exposed the extent of NSA/CIA intelligence-gathering/American excesses or there was any kind of public debate around the fact that we were all surveilled all the time. And the fact that a brown guy named Barack Hussein Obama was elected in this climate seems, and still seems tbh, kind of amazing. And Obama was certainly not a Perfect President ™. He had to scale back a lot of planned initiatives, he is notorious for expanding the drone strike/extrajudicial assassination program, he still subscribed to the overall principles of neoliberalism and American exceptionalism, etc etc. There is valid criticism to be made as to how the hopey-changey optimistic rhetoric stacked up against the hard realities of political office. And yet…. at this point, given what we’re seeing from the White House on a daily basis, the depth of the parallel universe/double standards is absurd.

Because here’s the thing. Obama, his entire family, and his entire administration had to be personally/ethically flawless the whole time (and they managed that – not one scandal or arrest in eight years, against the legions of Trumpistas now being convicted) because of the absolute frothing depths of Republican hatred, racial conspiracy theories, and obstruction against him. (Remember Merrick Garland and how Mitch McConnell got away with that, and now we have Gorsuch and Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court? Because I remember that). If Obama had pulled one-tenth of the shit, one-twentieth of the shit that the Trump administration does every day, he would be gone. It also meant that people who only remember Obama think he was typical for an American president, and he wasn’t. Since about… Jimmy Carter, and definitely since Ronald Reagan, the American people have gone for the Trump model a lot more than the Obama model. Whatever your opinion on his politics or character, Obama was a constitutional law professor, a community activist, a neighborhood organizer and brilliant Ivy League intellectual who used to randomly lie awake at night thinking about income inequality. Americans don’t value intellectualism in their politicians; they just don’t. They don’t like thinking that “the elites” are smarter than them. They like the folksy populist who seems fun to have a beer with, and Reagan/Bush Senior/Clinton/Bush Junior sold this persona as hard as they possibly could. As noted in said post, Bush Junior (or Shrub as the late, great Molly Ivins memorably dubbed him) was Trump Lite but from a long-established political family who could operate like an outwardly civilized human.

The point is: when you think Obama was relatively normal (which, again, he wasn’t, for any number of reasons) and not the outlier in a much larger pattern of catastrophic damage that has been accelerated since, again, the 1980s (oh Ronnie Raygun, how you lastingly fucked us!), you miss the overall context in which this, and which Trump, happened. Like most left-wingers, I don’t agree with Obama’s recent and baffling decision to insert himself into the 2020 race and warn the Democratic candidates against being too progressive or whatever he was on about. I think he was giving into the same fear that appears to be motivating the remaining chunk of Joe Biden’s support: that middle/working-class white America won’t go for anything too wild or that might sniff of Socialism, and that Uncle Joe, recalled fondly as said folksy populist and the internet’s favorite meme grandfather from his time as VP, could pick up the votes that went to Trump last time. And that by nature, no one else can.

The underlying belief is that these white voters just can’t support anything too “un-American,” and that by pushing too hard left, Democratic candidates risk handing Trump a second term. Again: I don’t agree and I think he was mistaken in saying it. But I also can’t say that Obama of all people doesn’t know exactly the strength of the political machine operating against the Democratic Party and the progressive agenda as a whole, because he ran headfirst into it for eight years. The fact that he managed to pass any of his legislative agenda, usually before the Tea Party became a thing in 2010, is because Democrats controlled the House and Senate for the first two years of his first term. He was not perfect, but it was clear that he really did care (just look up the pictures of him with kids). He installed smart, efficient, and scandal-free people to do jobs they were qualified for. He gave us Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor to join RBG on the Supreme Court. All of this seems… like a dream.

That said: here we are in a place where Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren are the front-runners for the Democratic nomination (and apparently Pete Buttigieg is getting some airplay as a dark horse candidate, which… whatever). The appeal of Biden is discussed above, and he sure as hell is not my favored candidate (frankly, I wish he’d just quit). But Sanders and Warren are 85% - 95% similar in their policy platforms. The fact that Michael “50 Billion Dollar Fortune” Bloomberg started rattling his chains about running for president is because either a Sanders or Warren presidency terrifies the outrageously exploitative billionaire capitalist oligarchy that runs this country and has been allowed to proceed essentially however the fuck they like since… you guessed it, the 1980s, the era of voodoo economics, deregulation, and the free market above all. Warren just happens to be ten years younger than Sanders and female, and Sanders’ age is not insignificant. He’s 80 years old and just had a heart attack, and there’s still a year to go to the election. It’s also more than a little eye-rolling to describe him as the only progressive candidate in the race, when he’s an old white man (however much we like and approve of his policy positions). And here’s the thing, which I think is a big part of the reason why this polarized ideological purity internet leftist culture mistrusts Warren:

She may have changed her mind on things in the past.

Scary, right? I sound like I’m being facetious, but I’m not. An argument I had to read with my own two eyes on this godforsaken hellsite was that since Warren became a Democrat around the time Clinton signed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, she sekritly hated gay people and might still be a corporate sellout, so on and etcetera. (And don’t even get me STARTED on the fact that DADT, coming a few years after the height of the AIDS crisis which was considered God’s Judgment of the Icky Gays, was the best Clinton could realistically hope to achieve, but this smacks of White Gay Syndrome anyway and that is a whole other kettle of fish.) Bernie has always demonstrably been a democratic socialist, and: good for him. I’m serious. But because there’s the chance that Warren might not have thought exactly as she does now at any point in her life, the hysterical and paranoid left-wing elements don’t trust that she might not still secretly do so. (Zomgz!) It’s the same element that’s feeding cancel culture and “wokeness.” Nobody can be allowed to have shifted or grown in their opinions or, like a functional, thoughtful, non-insane adult, changed their beliefs when presented with compelling evidence to the contrary. To the ideological hordes, any hint of uncertainty or past failure to completely toe the line is tantamount to heresy. Any evidence of any other belief except The Correct One means that this person is functionally as bad as Trump. And frankly, it’s only the Sanders supporters who, just as in 2016, are threatening to withhold their vote in the general election if their preferred candidate doesn’t win the primary, and indeed seem weirdly proud about it.

OK, boomer Bernie or Buster.

Here’s the thing, the thing, the thing: there is never going to be an American president free of the deeply toxic elements of American ideology. There just won’t be. This country has been built how it has for 250 years, and it’s not gonna change. You are never going to have, at least not in the current system, some dream candidate who gets up there and parrots the left-wing talking points and attacks American imperialism, exceptionalism, ravaging global capitalism, military and oil addiction, etc. They want to be elected as leader of a country that has deeply internalized and taken these things to heart for its entire existence, and most of them believe it to some degree themselves. So this groupthink white liberal mentality where the only acceptable candidate is this Perfect Non-Problematic robot who has only ever had one belief their entire lives and has never ever wavered in their devotion to doctrine has really gotten bad. The Democratic Party would be considered… maybe center/mild left in most other developed countries. It’s not even really left-wing by general standards, and Sanders and Warren are the only two candidates for the nomination who are even willing to go there and explicitly put out policy proposals that challenge the systematic structure of power, oppression, and exploitation of the late-stage capitalist 21st century. Warren has the billionaires fussed, and instead of backing down, she’s doubling down. That’s part of why they’re so scared of her. (And also misogyny, because the world is depressing like that.) She is going head-on after picking a fight with some of the worst people on the planet, who are actively killing the rest of us, and I don’t know about you, but I like that.

Of course: none of this will mean squat if she (or the eventual Democratic winner, who I will vote for regardless of who it is, but as you can probably tell, she’s my ride or die) don’t a) win the White House and then do as they promised on the campaign trail, and b) don’t have a Democratic House and Senate willing to have a backbone and pass the laws. Even Nancy Pelosi, much as she’s otherwise a badass, held off on opening a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump for months out of fear it would benefit him, until the Ukraine thing fell into everyone’s laps. The Democrats are really horrible at sticking together and voting the party line the way Republicans do consistently, because Democrats are big-tent people who like to think of themselves as accepting and tolerant of other views and unwilling to force their members’ hands. The Republicans have no such qualms (and indeed, judging by their enabling of Trump, have no qualms at all). 

The modern American Republican party has become a vehicle for no-holds-barred power for rich white men at the expense of absolutely everything and everyone else, and if your rationale is that you can’t vote for the person opposing Donald Goddamn Trump is that you’re just not vibing with them on the language of that one policy proposal… well, I’m glad that you, White Middle Class Liberal, feel relatively safe that the consequences of that decision won’t affect you personally. Even if we’re due to be out of the Paris Climate Accords one day after the 2020 election, and the issue of climate change now has the most visibility it’s ever had after years of big-business, Republican-led efforts to deny and discredit the science, hey, Secret Corporate Shill, am I right? Can’t trust ‘er. Let’s go have a craft beer.

As has been said before: vote as far left as you want in the primary. Vote your ideology, vote whatever candidate you want, because the only way to make actual, real-world change is to do that. The huge, embedded, all-consuming and horrible system in which we operate is not just going to suddenly be run by fairy dust and happy thoughts overnight. Select candidates that reflect your values exactly, be as picky and ideologically militant as you want. That’s the time to do that! Then when it comes to the general election:

America is a two-party system. It sucks, but that’s the case. Third-party votes, or refraining from voting because “it doesn’t matter” are functionally useless at best and actively harmful at worst.

Either the Democratic candidate or Donald Trump will win the 2020 election.

There is absolutely no length that the Republican/GOP machine, and its malevolent allies elsewhere, will not go to in order to secure a Trump victory. None.

Any talk whatsoever about “progressive values” or any kind of liberal activism, coupled with a course of action that increases the possibility of a Trump victory, is hypocritical at best and actively malicious at worst.

This is why I found the Democratic response to Obama’s “don’t go too wild” comments interesting. Bernie doubled down on the fact that his plans have widespread public support, and he’s right. (Frankly, the fact that Sanders and Warren are polling at the top, and the fact that they’re politicians and would not be crafting these campaign messages if they didn’t know that they were being positively received, says plenty on its own). Warren cleverly highlighted and praised Obama’s accomplishments in office (i.e. the Affordable Care Act) and didn’t say squat about whether she agreed or disagreed with him, then went right back to campaigning about why billionaires suck. And some guy named Julian Castro basically blew Obama off and claimed that “any Democrat” could beat Trump in 2020, just by nature of existing and being non-insane.

This is very dangerous! Do not be Julian Castro!

As I said in my tags on the Bush post: everyone assumed that sensible people would vote for Kerry in 2004. Guess what happened? Yeah, he got Swift Boated. The race between Obama and McCain in 2008, even after those said nightmare years of Bush, was very close until the global crash broke it open in Obama’s favor, and Sarah Palin was an actual disqualifier for a politician being brazenly incompetent and unprepared. (Then again, she was a woman from a remote backwater state, not a billionaire businessman.) In 2012, we thought Corporate MormonBot Mitt Fuggin’ Romney was somehow the worst and most dangerous candidate the Republicans could offer. In 2016, up until Election Day itself, everyone assumed that HRC was a badly flawed candidate but would win anyway. And… we saw how that worked out. Complacency is literally deadly.

I was born when Reagan was still president. I’m just old enough to remember the efforts to impeach Clinton over forcing an intern to give him a BJ in the Oval Office (This led by the same Republicans making Donald Trump into a darling of the evangelical Christian right wing.) I’m definitely old enough to remember 9/11 and how America lost its mind after that, and I remember the Bush years. And, obviously, the contrast with Obama, the swing back toward Trump, and everything that has happened since. We can’t afford to do this again. We’re hanging by a thread as it is, and not just America, but the entire planet.

So yes. By all means, vote for Sanders in the primary. Then when November 3, 2020 rolls around, if you care about literally any of this at all, hold your nose if necessary and vote straight-ticket Democrat, from the president, to the House and Senate, to the state and local offices. I cannot put it more strongly than that.

[star-scrambled]

how do i go about getting into octonauts?

Again, old asf ask here, so this might not be helpful to this person anymore!! But hopefully it helps the rest of you!! I’ll be addressing the shows accessibility for the most part, along with general information that could let you know if this is your thing or not!! :)

ACCESSIBILITY:

- All animated Octonauts content can be found on Netflix! This most likely doesn’t apply to every country, but I’m at least aware this is the case for the US, Canada, and the UK! You’ll find all 4 seasons, 3 movie/specials, and the Above & Beyond spin-off series!

- Unfortunately, I can’t share much from the top of my head in terms of other legal options. You can check on-demand services, what channel you may find the show airing on in your country, listings for DVDs, episodes that can be bought somewhere like iTunes, or other streaming platforms to see if anything comes up, though it won’t be as likely that you’ll find all content in the same place, especially for the Netflix exclusives (the specials and the spinoff).

- For easy/baby’s-first-pirating, Youtube is your place! The official Octonauts youtube channel frequently uploads clip compilations, and occasionally whole episodes! They even post clips from Above & Beyond! If you’re the kind of person who likes to watch things in bite-sized clips more than binging the entire thing first, this may be your preferred option! Aside from that, you will most likely find playlists and uploads of every episode in Seasons 1 to 4 anyways. The quality varies, but it’s very convenient and won’t get taken down anytime soon! Usually older cartoons eventually can have all their episodes on YouTube easy peasy, this is one of those cases.

- Now you CAN try pirating from actual pirate websites, but I don’t SUPER recommend it? Youtube uploads are just easier due to the lack of pop-ups and such, but on more popular websites like WCO and Kimcartoon, dozens of episodes are missing and can’t be found there. Some episodes, such as the Amazon Adventure, are also in REALLY terrible quality. HOWEVER: I will recommend said websites if you want to watch the Netflix specials. WCO doesn’t have Ring of Fire, but Kim might? Try it out! (If you want my take, WCO is better. The pop-ups are more tame and less invasive, and the layout is pretty user friendly.)

Other Things to Note:

- The show is CGI, and a CGI show that began in 2010 at that. While the animation in the later seasons and specials looks MILES better than the first season, even its earliest episodes are far from unbearably primitive. However, if 3D-animated cartoons REALLY aren’t your thing, you might have trouble sitting through this one. If you’re open enough, I’d give it a shot! The cute designs and vibrant, clean environments really make up for it, and in later content the character animation gets WILDLY impressive, along with the immersion of the show overall.

- DUBS! THE DUBS ARE IMPORTANT TO KNOW ABOUT! So basically, there are two different English dubs of Octonauts, the UK dub and the US dub. Most differences occur in the first season, but by this point they’re just here for the sake of familiarity with the audience. Peso (Penguin) in the UK dub is british, and gets a more latino-take on his character in the US dub. Dashi (Dog) in the UK dub is australian, and is replaced with an american accent in the US dub. Similar changes occur with their siblings, Pinto and Koshi. In the US and Canada, Netflix will automatically set you with the US dub, and I can only assume vice versa happens in the UK. If you’ve never grown up with the show, this won’t really concern you, but if you’re coming back to it and are confused why Peso and Dashi sound different, ESPECIALLY if you were a US dub-watcher, you’ll be annoyed to know that it’s hard to find the US dub outside of Netflix. Most YouTube uploads ive watched contain the UK dub, but I’m pretty sure there are US dub uploads out there, albeit in imperfect quality. Rest assured for the movies, it seems their piratable state contains the US dub! Might be sad for UK enjoyers though. I guess we all can’t win.

- I know I’ve accidentally mislead my friends into believing this show is more nuanced and driven than it is because of my analyzations of the characters, so don’t go into this expecting a cool, overarching plot!! The world building definitely gains some cool continuity eventually, especially with the spinoff, but besides that I believe this show is truly best experienced when you want to relax and have fun with it! It’s cute, funny, and really clever for a preschool show. It’s quality is, quite literally, above and beyond :)

[marshmallowgoop]

Magic Kaito vs. Magic Kaito 1412

I’m not sure if I ever finished all twelve episodes, but I first watched at least a handful of the original Magic Kaito specials about a decade ago, and I remember really enjoying them. Superhero stories are among my favorites, and while both Magic Kaito and its sister series Detective Conan overlap with the genre in various ways—after all, Conan’s glasses were literally inspired by Clark Kent—Kaito’s flashy costume alone pushes his adventures more in that direction. So, maybe it’s no wonder that, back in the day, I kind of considered Magic Kaito my preferred series of the two.

Recently, I’ve got a reignited interest in the DCMK world (evidently). And it’s not a bad time to have a reignited interest, because English-language accessibility for this universe is much better now than it was ten years ago. Conan’s getting new movie dubs, and Kaito’s newer, expanded TV series, Magic Kaito 1412, is freely available on Crunchyroll. Obviously, I had to give it a shot.

I wasn’t impressed. Far from it. I chalked up my old fondness to nostalgia goggles. Kid the Phantom Thief is simply more enjoyable in Detective Conan than in his own thing, I figured.

But a few weeks ago, those old specials went up on Crunchyroll Germany. And it took me a while, but I finally decided to figure out the truth, once and for all. Have my tastes totally changed, or has Magic Kaito anime not always been Like That?

I was impressed. I watched all of one episode, and I enjoyed it so much more than 1412.

Which surprised me! Just examining the first episodes of both series, they’re honestly practically identical. They cover the same story beats almost exactly. Kaito’s introduction is even consistently him being disgusting to Aoko—behavior that, nauseatingly, convinced me that Mineta of the My Hero Academia series would actually be adored if he were conventionally attractive.

But as it turns out, that’s relevant to why the original Magic Kaito strikes me as far more palatable. Kaito’s actions towards Aoko are still indefensible in the old special, but he doesn’t repeat them on his teacher, and there are repercussions. Unlike in 1412, Kaito doesn’t get away with his harassment because his teacher finds him charming; in fact, Aoko even later notes that he “should be thankful [he] [wasn’t] expelled,” implying that he was indeed punished harshly for what he did. While Aoko assures Kaito’s mother that he didn’t get in trouble in 1412, in the original special, it’s clear that being cute isn’t enough to give him a free pass for disrupting class and being gross.

Further, in a more general sense, the tone of both series is of course goofy overall, but the characters in the old Magic Kaito feel much more like human beings than the cartoonish caricatures portrayed in 1412. A scene especially missing from the new show is a quiet one where Kaito and Aoko walk together after school. With the sun hanging low in the sky and a sparkling river flowing beside them, Kaito expresses his disappointment in how his magic trick didn’t exactly end as planned. “I guess I need to work on my finale,” he bemoans, but Aoko is more concerned with why he feels the need to pull these ridiculous stunts in the first place.

She quickly gets her answer. One of the exuberant little kids who had run by them earlier falls over and cries, and Kaito doesn’t hesitate to cheer him up with magic. And Aoko watches. She sees the way the little boy’s face lights up. She sees how he runs off again with renewed energy. And she smiles. She doesn’t say it, but the audience gets the message.

Oh. That’s why Kaito’s a magician. That’s why Aoko walks by his side.

I won’t claim to fully comprehend Kaito’s character. I haven’t read the manga, it’s been years since I’ve seen more than the first episode of these old specials, I’ve only watched about 20% of 1412, and for as much as I’ve been posting about Detective Conan lately, I’m (maybe humorously) about the farthest thing from current and would only be able to tell you about Kid’s first appearance in that show. But when Kaito returns to his empty home in the original series, and when he announces that he’s there to nobody at all, and when he welcomes himself back, all with a smile and a cheerfulness to his tone, I deeply feel his loneliness. I feel the weight of his lost father. I feel that, even if some of his tricks are inappropriate and inexcusable, he does them because he wants to make people laugh. He doesn’t want anyone to feel as sad and alone as he’s felt.

Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t get any of that from Magic Kaito 1412.

And they’re small things, they really are. But they make a world of difference. Even Jii, who really only becomes more than just a mysterious figure in the episode’s closing minutes, feels more like a tangible person in the special. He loudly gasps for breath after performing the magical, fantastical feats of his old friend, and it’s such a tiny, minuscule detail, but when watching, I feel it so strongly. I literally understand the strain of Toichi’s loss on Jii, too.

Beyond narrative decisions—and there are others that I much prefer in the old series, such as how Kaito links his failed magic trick to his father’s “poker face” philosophy, and how Kaito uses a successful variation of his earlier trick to escape the police as Kid the Phantom Thief—I also just simply prefer the original art style. Magic Kaito 1412 is slick and shiny and modern, but in being so, it strikes me as much more generic than the older-styled 2010 special. Shot compositions also feel more powerful in the first anime; just consider how differently the two series handle what is arguably the emotional height of the entire episode:

[Image descriptions: A series of four comparison images examining how the 2010 Magic Kaito series and the 2014 Magic Kaito 1412 portray the same sequence of events. In both, Kaito asks Jii, “Dad was murdered?! Was my dad... a thief? Was he Kid the Phantom Thief?” Kaito then says, “I see...” End image descriptions.]

While the dialogue is essentially unchanged, the old show’s use of close-ups expresses the tension of the scene spectacularly. You can see the terror in Kaito’s eyes. You can see how the thought of his father being a thief is so distressing that merely asking the question is painful and heartwrenching. You can see the sweat on Kaito’s face. You can see in great detail how much he struggles to grapple with this new truth.

Magic Kaito 1412 is significantly more distanced. And there’s power in that decision, too. The revelation is overwhelming. It’s hard to take. Kaito may want to get away from it, but he can’t.

However, I resonate more with how the original series handles the moment. Seeing how everything affects Kaito way up close speaks much more to me—and there are still some fantastic long shots, too:

[Image descriptions: Two screenshots from the original Magic Kaito series. Both are distanced long shots. In the first image, Kaito and Jii kneel on the ground. Kaito’s hands are on Jii’s shoulders. In the second image, Kaito stands, facing away from Jii, while Jii remains on the ground in shame. They wear identical outfits in both images, and their capes blow in the wind. End image descriptions.]

Gotta love those capes.

Overall, my feelings on Magic Kaito as a whole could probably be best described as somewhat mixed. And I’m kind of new here, and I don’t even know when it’s appropriate to use the #dcmk tag, so I of course don’t have the slightest clue about how popular or unpopular my opinion that the 2010 Magic Kaito series ranks above 2014′s Magic Kaito 1412 is. 

But skipping down memory lane and revisiting the old show was pleasantly surprising. Maybe my affection for Magic Kaito will never reach the highs it once had all those years ago, but it was almost comforting to find that my tastes haven’t changed all that much—rather, it’s Magic Kaito itself that’s changed.

[deafchild2000]

Teen Wolf & Teen Witch

I dub Jade, Wendy, and Diego "The 80s Trio" because there's just a bad joke in here somewhere because despite taking place in the late 2010s/2020s, we have a teenage vampire who aspired to be an EMT, a teen witch and a teen wolf (Wolfman Edition).

But I really wanna focus on the last two because:

(Sorry for the quality)

And all I'm just reminded of is this:

Teen Wolf (1985) and Teen Witch (1989), the 80s cult classics which always brought me delight and a ravenous appetite to wonder what happened next in the main leads' lives.

Comparing these movies to the TVD Universe got me thinking and realized: We never had a proper witch/werewolf romance for Legacies! (And I mean a lasting one that's not a fling, ends in death, or Stockholm Syndrome!)

So why am I reminded of this with Wendy, a pyromantic witch, and Diego, a werewolf with a wolfman form? Because this was a SORELY missed out opportunity! I get the Wendy x Jade ship, but it's also canon that Wendy liked Diego and she did try to stop him that night of the Freak Party. So....

1. You can't tell me that in those 10 years, Wendy and Diego didn't fuck!

2. You can't tell me there wasn't at least a good romance going on while Jade was doing whatever with Kai.

3. Or maybe I wish we could get the iconic scene where Diego shows his Wolfman face to Wendy and instead of running away, she just...touches him and finds it fascinating!

4. Or we could see just what happens in 10 years of their relationship! Like are they the married couple of the group, on-and-off again couple, or friends with (some) benefits?

I could go on and on, but at the end of the day, I have one thing to say:

Julia Plec, you had ONE job!

Is it that hard to write a lasting witch/werewolf romance that off-screen had 10 years in the making!?