#I’m probably going to be crucified for this post

[notanimposter]

I know ai art is overwhelmingly used for evil but as someone with aphantasia it’s actually so useful to be able to ask my computer what my ocs look like

[olenvasynyt]

I don’t listen to Taylor Swift but here’s my analysis of Guilty As Sin? being Elucien coded

I am not saying SJM posting this song on her story is a sign that Elucien is endgame or that Elain’s book is next, this is just my interpretation of a song and it is not based in fact!  I also don’t know TS lore or her dating history, I only know about the football guy, and Matty Healy because I’m ex-The 1975 fan

Drownin' in the Blue Nile He sent me "Downtown Lights" I hadn't heard it in a while

Downtown Lights by The Blue Nile is one of Matty Healy’s favorite songs and a verse from that song is this:

“Sometimes I walk away When all I really wanna do Is love and hold you right There is just one thing I can say Nobody loves you this way It’s alright”

If I were to relate this to ACOTAR, this is reminiscent of the stairs moment when Lucien is leaving to find Vassa and an army and we can see this longing and affection for Elain but he walks away.  Sometimes I walk away when all I really wanna do it love and hold you right.  I think we are going to see her POV of that moment and I feel like it is going to be very prevalent in Elain’s book because Elain takes a half-step.  What does that half step mean?

My boredom's bone-deep This cage was once just fine Am I allowed to cry? I dream of crackin' locks

This could be about how Elain is being kept in a box in the Night Court, about how she might have been trying to love it before but she wants to get out, it’s not the right place for her.  She does not fit in the Night Court, we see this when she wears black and it sucks the life out of her.

Crashin' into him tonight, he's a paradox I'm seeing visions Am I bad or mad or wise?

Elain sees visions.  And people also suspect that she could be seeing visions of Lucien.

What if he's written "Mine” on my upper thigh only in my mind?

Mine is a song by The 1975 and this song is about commitment and questioning what’s right and having this assurance that love is right.

Looking back on 2009 When people said that it was raining all the time I see sunshine 'cause I know that you are mine

“No, we saw rain, you guys weren’t right for each other, but he still sees sunshine, because I know that you are mine.”  This also reminds me of when Lucien says in his head “I am yours and you are mine”. 

I'm slippin', fallin' back into the hedge maze Oh, what a way to die

This could be about Elain struggling to navigate her thoughts and the visions she is probably still having but pushing down.  She might be better at controlling them but her control is slipping.

I keep recalling things we never did Messy top lip kiss, how I long for our trips Without ever touchin' his skin How can I be guilty as sin? I keep these longings locked in lowercase inside a vault

Again, as I and many people talked about before, Elain could be having feelings of attraction and affection towards Lucien, her mate, but she is shoving it down.  

We've already done it in my head, if it's make-believe Why does it feel like a vow we'll both uphold somehow?

People often headcanon that Elain is having sexual feelings and maybe even sexual visions of Lucien.

And the vow is the vow of accepting the mating bond and she feels guilty of that.

My bed sheets are ablaze I've screamed his name Buildin' up like waves crashin' over my grave Without ever touchin' his skin How can I be guilty as sin?

Again, we get this idea that Elain could be having attraction towards Lucien.  And we got fire imagery too!

What if I roll the stone away? They're gonna crucify me anyway What if the way you hold me is actually what's holy? If long-suffering propriety is what they want from me They don't know how you've haunted me so stunningly I choose you and me religiously

It’s people saying “you guys are wrong for each other.  You are wrong, you guys don’t fit together”.  We see this with Feyre questioning why her and Lucien are mates, Nesta yelling at Lucien, saying “we’ll decide what she needs”.  A lot of people don’t think Elucien are right for each other but Elain could be thinking “we are right” but she is too influenced by other people’s opinions that she doubts herself.  “But what if she chooses him?  What if she rolls the stone away, officially bringing to life the feelings she could have for Lucien?

They don’t know how you have been haunting me so stunningly I choose you and me religiously

Lucien has been haunting her, and Elain decides to choose him.

[ratticus-the-emperor]

re: 600 strike

— i can’t be the only epic fan bothered by six hundred strike right? but hold on, before i get crucified let me start this off by saying that vengeance saga was almost perfect. i really did love most of the songs and as someone who’s been anxiously waiting for them, ‘dangerous’ and ‘get in the water’ did not disappoint. my sole problem is with 600 strike alone and how the writing seems to take a sharp dip in quality.

don’t get me wrong, i think it’s a good song. i think ody was really cool in it and that it had some pretty cold lines, but how is it that ody needed moly to be on the same power level as circe but just… he can just stab poseidon with his own trident? poseidon? lord of the tides, earthshaker, father of horses, one of the ‘big three’? this goes beyond me being a nerd and just really liking homer and wanting it to stick with that happens in the original text, i understand that this is a retelling but … seriously? no matter how cool it is, poseidon is still one of the most powerful god in the pantheon and odysseus is still just a man(tm). are we to believe that poeseidon is below circe in power level? are we to believe that ody is above poseidon? jorge was right when he said this saga would be more anime, but i didn’t expect it to be ‘anime’ in the worst way possible, and this is coming from an anime fan. this whole song just feels like a power trip for ody and i feel like it just damages the writing in a way i can’t ignore. especially the way ody is going ‘how does it feel to be helpless?!’ while poseidon just screams in agony. it really really just feels like a power trip because realistically, this would not happen. i probably sound silly complaining but whatever, i have a right to speak on what bothers me.

i get that jay’s probably tired, i mean— slaving away on a musical for four years would tire out anyone, but i guess part of the reason it bothers me is that a sizable amount of epic’s fanbase isn’t that educated on greek myths and it just kind of hurts to see. i still have faith in the musical but this song, no matter how good it is, just kind of feels like a blight on an otherwise perfect saga with great writing. like i said, i like all the other songs. the friend i’m discussing this with says that to her epic isn't really meant to be a "serious" or "grounded" musical. jay literally makes it a point to memeify the entire thing (wheezer saga, literally almost ever vid he has posted). yeah 600 strike was stupid and silly, and so is jay. plus epic is an adaptation, not a recreation in musical form, it's his own story and he can do whatever he wants with it. and i respect that and like epic for what it is, silliness included. plus, it's a concept album. this is essentially a draft for a real musical album, it's not final, he's testing stuff out so i know i might be a little harsh. but since this is a draft, i just worry for the direction he’s taking it in. there’s many ways i which the final confrontation and escape with poseidon could’ve been handled and i can’t help but feel like this direction is bit out of character for either of them, especially since i feel like ody stabbing poseidon with his own trident was unnecessary. to me, odysseus’ victory over poseidon shouldn’t come in the form of literally defeating him, but in making it home to be with penelope despite everything the sea god does to stop him. it would be odysseus’s victory over everything and everyone’s that’s tried to stop him, really.

i take issue with how odysseus managed to stab poseidon with his own trident as well. are we to believe that poseidon, earthshaker, father of horses, he who rules the seas and controls the tides, one of the most powerful gods in the pantheon, can’t keep that firm of a grip on his incredibly powerful weapon? i assume ruling the seas, a very expansive and fickle domain, takes a great deal of focus and concentration. can he not extend the same focus when holding his trident? more importantly, why did he seem to be powerless without it? was he not the son of kronos and rhea before being given his trident? he has power beyond it, you know. the same friend i’m discussing it with poses a theory that i will quote verbatim, that being that ‘Poseidon dropped the trident on purpose, maybe it was some sort of sick pride seeing that he turned this once great guy into a monster. Like obv the events of 600 strike could never happen, bc Gods ARE stronger than mortals, so he probably didn't see him as a threat at all. Cause if odysseus didn’t stop, it’s not like they’d be going at it forever. He’s mortal and eventually will pass out from exhaustion. Then poseidon is completely free to do whatever he wants. So in that context, it’s a win win situation for him. Either his opponent leaves scarred for life or becomes completely at the god’s mercy.’

yet still, i can’t help but feel like that would be out of character for poseidon. he’s not the kind of god to be arrogant in that manner. that’s an ares thing. an apollo thing, etc. but not poseidon. the seas are either calm or unforgiving. the seas don’t clear one safe path in the middle of a storm to taunt the ship before swallowing it whole. the seas either wreck it or do nothing at all. the ship can try and navigate its way through the storm but by because the sea lets it. it does that by sheer force of will of the captain. the captain won’t insist on fighting it because that’d be stupid and the main priority is getting to safety. home. the nearest port. especially not a captain like odysseus who we’ve seen sacrifice many and suffered through so much just to get home. he’s not the kind of man to waste time by doing something he doesn’t need to be doing. it feels like when an author you likes makes a questionable story decision that harms the story, but they keep their excellent writing style. it’s upsetting.

that being said, i still really like this musical and can’t wait to see where this goes. like i said, i still have faith in jorge and his writing. this is just something i felt the need to get off my chest. it’s a shame that my first epic post would be a complaint… it’s silly, but don’t worry. i’m aware that i’m coming off like i’m stomping my foot, yelling ‘this isn’t how it’s supposed to be!!’ because this is driven by many ‘i feel’s and ‘i think’s.

[dottores]

okay well, i logged back in, obviously, because there are clearly some things that need to be addressed and have been taken out of context. just because i’m leaving doesn’t mean i should sit here and let my name be smeared. 

to preface this, anantaru and i had a discussion where we came to a congenial understanding of what happened, there's been an acknowledgment on both sides of misunderstanding and believing distorted rumors and people that we probably should not have, but i’m still going to give a full explanation as to the background of everything so you all can understand and come to your own opinions. plus, if there's going to be a call-out post directed majorly at me made, i want an official address of it.

please do NOT send any hate their way, we have ended this discussion on good terms and have worked out what exactly was stirring this discourse between us. (spoiler alert: there was a third-party shit-stirrer that we both considered a decent friend at the time!)

i don’t really need a reason to block someone, and i shouldn’t have to explain it, but i did and i will again but more explicitly this time: @/anantaru made a post that i did not like. it’s as simple as that. it was a post about genshin characters and sex icks and one of the lines were “venti: too drunk.” i’m not anti-dc, but there are topics that i am sensitive about because i was sa’d in my freshman year of college—that is something i have talked about on this blog before, many of you who've been around since my tr era are aware of it. i acknowledged, and tee acknowledged, that this was probably a joke and was not meant to be taken the way i took it, but the aloof/casual way it was mentioned without any TW of implied dubcon, and without acknowledging that it was at least dubcon and could border on noncon in certain interpretations made me uncomfortable. i don’t mind seeing it as long as i’m warned. if it was tagged properly, i would have moved on without much care, but it wasn’t, so i was scrolling through the post snorting and was hit with that and i was made uncomfortable because i didn't like how it was just being passed off as an ick, and i blocked. there was no reason for it to go beyond what it did, yet we are here. anantaru mentioned that if you frequent their blog, you would know that they often write about venti and reader being drunk—i don’t frequent their blog, in fact this was my first encounter with them being reblogged onto my dash by shared mutuals, so it rubbed me wrong. thats the end of it. 

i’m not sure the exact timing, but i believe it was two(?) weeks after this, when i reblogged an unpopular opinion’s post with an opinion that i thought was fairly harmless. sure, looking back on it i could have phrased it better, i’m not going to deny that, but pinpointing my one opinion out of the hundreds of others that were objectively far more controversial than mine and crucifying me for it is uncalled for. you guys know very well that i do not have the time or energy to sift through random people’s blogs to look for minors. every once in a while i glance at the notes of shit posts that happen to be on my dash and i’d be a bit startled at finding a minor in them because i still do think you should at least try to catch minors who interact with shit posts because that’s the easiest way to find them. but i was working at a medium sized firm for a year and a half at the time of the post and i am currently in law school, i do not have the time to be psychotic about people’s likes and interaction, and even if i did have the time?? i’ve always gotten incredible interaction from y’all lmfao, imposing the idea that i’m jealous is entirely inane. i do still stand by the fact that my words were twisted, i was made out, more than once and by more than one person after the next bullet point's events, to have been some psycho that stalks peoples’ posts for excuses as to why they get interaction when that is simply not the case. 

regardless, after this incident, anantaru made a vague post that was almost directly quoting my tags from the reblog and was thus sent to me because many shared mutuals put together that it was about my tags. this was upsetting for multiple reasons 1) i had blocked anantaru by this point so i felt a bit violated that i was being vagued for something by someone that i blocked. 2) i started getting hate anons en masse after it, some of which were very unnecessarily explicit. needless to say, i was very upset and made a subpost on my main account after noticing i’ve been blocked on ao3 because 1) i was already upset and i didn’t even know why anantaru seemed to have it out for me much less go to the point of blocking on ao3 which leads into my next point and 2) i thought it was a bit ridiculous because the only thing blocking on ao3 stops is people from commenting on posts and i clearly was not going to comment on a post of someone who i was not on good terms with. reasoning aside, anantaru can block who they want and i was out of line for making comments about that in particular. i’ll admit that, and apologize for it. 

a screenshot was taken from my personal—not a good moment for me, obviously, but anantaru claimed in their post that it was about them with no evidence. i dmed them about this in particular because i was genuinely confused, we spoke about it, i offered them proof that it was not them because i had a discussion about this post with a close friend at the time of posting it and they believed me. i will attach screenshots below (cropped because there's no reason to attach the whole conversation) because i feel as if this accusation was rather extreme and i wish it would’ve been removed because it was obviously not my best moment. an explanation for the post itself, i was upset over plagiarism accusations regarding something i put my heart and soul into and then seeing the same person that made them consistently on my dash just straight up triggered me, for lack of a better word lol, so i made a vent on my personal. how it got misconstrued as to be anything about anantaru is baffling to me but i suppose that's a question for the subject of our next bullet point. i don’t want to go into detail about the accusations in themselves because i don’t want people to send the actual person who it’s about hate. regardless, that post was not about anantaru, i have never called them a cunt nor have i ever called them a gatekeepy cunt, though i’m beginning to think i should probably remove the word from my vocabulary atp, i use it far too flippantly. anyway, i do not know them well enough to formulate any sort of opinion like that. aside from that, in our discussion we came to an understanding over it and i wish that would have been cleared on their blog as wel. so i'll attach here (i crossed some out because i don't want to breach any boundaries regarding what anantaru might be comfortable sharing but i do think it's fair for me to want this particular point fully cleared as it was a bold accusation remaining up):

5. in our discussion, we came to realize that we have/had a shared mutual who was fostering discourse between the two of us. many of you will recognize her as audri aka alucrds, who has supposedly left tumblr by this point—i suspected this and anantaru has confirmed it while we were talking. audri was sending anantaru my posts claiming that they were about anantaru, but i will stress that the only actual discussions i ever had with anyone about anantaru was with tee and eris about that initial joke because it had upset me at the time, it never extended beyond that and it certainly was never with audri. my only conversation with audri that mentioned anantaru at all was probably around a week or so after i made the post in point 3, when audri asked me about ao3 blocking in casual conversation and i offhandedly mentioned that anantaru had blocked me on there—audri was a close friend at that point and iirc, she had actually told me right after that that anantaru had her blocked on tumblr, i had no idea that they'd been mutuals at all but either way, it was an offhanded comment that led to nowhere (or so i thought LOL). looking back on it, it was clearly her baiting me into giving her information about the post i made a week or so prior because after talking with anantaru, they explained that they got an anonymous message claiming that i was shit talking them for blocking them on ao3 and the only person that could have put together that the vent post from point 3 was about anantaru was audri herself. audri continued to evidently cherry-pick random vent posts of mine to show anantaru and claim that they were about them. why? i wish i could tell you. i considered audri a decent enough friend, and though she had her fair share of issues with mutuals and other friends of mine, i never really thought she’d stoop to this with me. but i guess there’s really no explaining people who thrive in discourse.

6. my comment in my most recent post about being harassed on ao3 and in comments and in asks was not about them at all. i thought it was very clearly about heliotropes (my dottore series) and pressure to update from certain readers, but i'm clarifying that now.

7. i never intended on directly addressing this, which is why i did not directly name anantaru in my post, if i’d known at the time that tee was going to end up addressing all of this, i would’ve just been straight up with all of it.

anyway, i think that’s all, hopefully this will be the last post for real as i am tired mentally and now i am also physically sleep deprived. i've been up since three so forgive me for typos and grammar errors. this all has gone on for over a year. sorry for all the discourse on y'all's dash, wish i could have left with a bit more grace than this. rumors have been blown out of proportions and blindly believed, things have been taken out of context, such is life. i made my fair share of mistakes on my personal blog with my vents, others have admitted and owned up to their own mistakes, some will never admit to their mistakes. such is life. it moves on, always does. i know all of y'all are smart enough to come to your own opinions.

over and out, sorry again, and logged out (hopefully for real this time),

cat

[tategaminu]

I haven’t watched hazbin Hotel but it looks so bad, and I’m sick of seeing it on my dash (even with the tag blocked). So I’m always happy to see your posts about how bad it is

It just doesn’t look bad, IT IS BAD. I’m also kinda sick of watching it everywhere, of course people can enjoy and post whatever they want and I don’t blame them for it, it’s more a me problem but, it’s frustrating me how most recent series with good writting and animation like Blue Eye Samurai are being ignored while this thing is being treated as the masterpiece of the 21st century.

I’m not joking when I tell you I almost cried three different times at the watchparty, I was trying so hard to hold myself together. I had to use my phone in episode 7 because I was so so bored and annoyed at the whole thing. It’s been a week and I’m still emotionally wrecked over this like it’s the kind of series that affect you not because it’s impactful but because it’s painful to watch.

The series is a tumblr sexy man jumpscare when a lot of things happen but at the same time nothing happens at all, I was going to write a review but I’m already emotinally unstable after watching it I don’t think I have the strenght to think about the series anymore. I feel like I will be dreaming with twinks the whole year, if the bible was written today Jesus wouldn’t be crucified, he would be foreced to watch Hazbin Hotel over and over.

Thank you for telling me this, I'm very glad it makes you happy because I’m not fond of posting about stuff I don’t like, I would rather stick with series I like. If I love a series I want to stay in the positive and I’m not super picky, but I also enjoy storytelling and animation so my critical mind may surface sometimes with stuff that goes too far in the bad level. I just don’t like sounding like a prick because maybe people that follow me like the series but the thing is, if the creator and fandom weren’t so bad I would probably not mind much and ignore them but I can’t stand how she acts and how her fandom works, it’s genuinely depressing.

[janayuga]

Thoughts on what will happen in the next update? Also whats ur opinion on Shadow Milk? Do you think we should cut down the tree and let him free?

Also also are the Fallen Ancients/Beasts in ur Modern AU?

I absolutely NEED all ancients to finally reunite.

They excluded the other 3 long enough, so that is a must going forward. I hope it really focuses on their friendship dynamic in combination with the new threat.

Probably gonna get crucified for this next part…-💀

About Shadow Milk. I think he is overrated. He is so stereotypically written as the ‘evil quirky antagonist’.l

He is like: what if a watered-down version of Bill Cipher was designed by Vivzie Pop, that’s the vibe he gives me. (Major Tumblr-Sexyman vibes, so obviously he’s gonna be popular lmao)

No hate to anyone that likes him but he was like- the least interesting thing about the first two Beast-Yeast chapters to me.

I’m more so hyped for the other Beast Cookies and their group dynamic as a whole ngl

About his/Beast Cookies inclusion in my AU, check the previous post I made on that uwu⬇️

[a-menagerie]

Wait oml what if like, reader has known Ashton for longer and so when all three of them get together both Dorian and ash get those insecurities? But Ash thinks reader is better off with Dorian since he would be good and stable for them, whilst Dorian thinks they’d be better off just staying with Ashton since reader has known them longer and they are both a literal and metaphorical rock for them. But reader likes them for both for their own unique personalities that keep the relationship feeling full and keeps them their toes!

ok ok but wait (I hope you don’t mind if I just steal your ask as a post lol)

Dorian and Ashton obviously get on really well, even if they go a bit heaving on the sarcasm and playful nagging

But they’re both like ?? when reader approaches both of them bc like to them? The other is “better” for you

Yeah you’ve known Ashton longer, sure, but they argue that Dorian has so much more that he can offer; Dorian is _whole_ first of all

Plus a fancy lineage and fancy home and you would probably never want for anything with Dorian. What does Ashton have for you? A hovel in the Core Spire and barely any gold to their name

Of course in Dorian’s eyes, why would you look at anyone other than Ashton? They’re cool and hot and they’ve been by your side for years. Why would you give that up or risk it for someone like Dorian?

Dorian’s just a pretender, a showman, why choose him when Ashton is real

They both need a smack upside the head tbh

It takes a bit of…not arguing, per se, but a lot of heavy discussions, both one on one and all three of you together, to get them to quit crucifying themselves in favor of the other

The gods have blessed you if you enjoy tummies as there’s two good ones on display

I think you and Ashton would end up joining the Dorian, Fearne, and Orym cuddle puddle pretty often (though you’re not above asking Dorian for a more private sleeping situation)

(Also I’m not saying Dorian deserves to be in a Reader and Ashton sandwich but I’m kind of saying it okay)

[takemetoyourl3ader]

I can’t tell if my mom likes metal or not because I asked her once and she was like “you shouldn’t listen to that” but I showed her some heavy metal songs and she was like “yeah I like them” but she was ready to crucify me when I showed her master of puppets even and she’s already gotten pretty mad at me before for listening to certain music so Im scared to tell her what bands I like and I have to make up some bullshit lie every time she asks me and I don’t want to tell her about my interests in general because I’m constantly afraid that she’s going to get mad at me for something

Anyways once I get the motivation to draw I might post it but probably not cuz I know it’s gonna be shit ☠️

[digyoman]

I will listen to any and all Lloyd headcannons!!

What's something you always wanted to get out there? Something interesting you think gets overlooked? Something that deserves clarification? Or anything really! AUs, ideas, random thoughts that hang in your brain.... Please go off!!

(I'm always here for more Stand time!!)

mouse!! thank you for the ask, you are my greatest enabler and i love you for it. <3

honestly this SO hard to answer because i have so much to say. probably too much. i looked through some of my old notes in preparation for this post and all i can say is. jesus christ. there is a lot to unpack and i can’t fit it all into one post so i’m just going to stick with the basics!

so, here are digyoman’s lloyd headcanons 101 (based on the book and mostly vegas-centric!):

he doesn’t like to be alone. super brilliant observation, i know! 👍 he can be left on his own, it’s not that big of a deal, but generally i think he tends to feel cornered when he’s isolated for too long. so, he ends up lurking around the casino a lot, just to be near other people. and sometimes he falls asleep there. if you catch him snoozing at a crap table leave him ALONE it’s none of your business!

he has extremely questionably probably disordered eating habits. i don’t think this needs much explanation. he eats a lot, refuses to “waste” food, and occasionally hoards shit in case of an emergency. it gets better after a while, but never fully goes away.

he probably has some form of ocd. yes this means compulsive showering. it also means he has weird thought loops and tends to draw connections where there are none. he doesn’t think of himself as superstitious, but he’s also out here assuming that he can survive almost any situation by thinking “i don’t want to die,” over and over and that is not a normal train of thought. it is, however, the only way he can make sense of how he’s survived this long, and it gives him an illusion of control in situations where he really doesn’t have any say over his own life.

he dissociates during the executions. anyone who says “pretend like you don’t know him,” while trying to kill someone is not checked into reality you can’t fool me. he disconnects from himself throughout the whole show and probably for a while after, so he has little to no memory of actually crucifying anyone, but he sure knows it happened! it gets a lot worse when the crucifixions happen more often—the frequent dissociation combined with his intense stress over trying to keep vegas from falling apart builds towards a total break from reality near the end. i think glen’s death is a tipping point for him, and even if the bomb hadn’t gone off shortly after that, he would not have survived much longer.

when he first arrived in vegas, he got a kick out of dressing in sharp clothes and strutting around the casinos like a big shot. but after a while of this, he realized they weren’t really genuinely him, so he defaults back to casual clothes. but he still has those outfits and he will break them out again if he ever wants to make an impression!

[davenportia]

another opinions post because aster has inspired me

TW MY OPINION

i strongly believe that in like at least 90% of every disney show, the show just goes downhill after season 3

for example, liv and maddie: cali style. one of my friends on instagram who has a liv and maddie account doesn’t post about season 4 because she hates it. she even has a pinned post of a small set of reasons why she hates it so much (and understandably so.) i mean, the dad left the show, diggie and maddie are together, they’re not in stevens point, wisconsin anymore? i like dina and ruby, don’t get me wrong, but like, cali style was so so bad

another example, someone’s going to crucify me for this one, is austin and ally. growing up, i had a HUGE crush on ross/austin, and for a bit, i hated the ship auslly. a few years later, i made a whole fanpage for auslly. now, i still like ross and A&A, but as for the ship, i’m neutral. anyway, in season 4, sonic boom changed to A&A music factory, austin’s hair was long?? EW? and it just wasn’t as enjoyable as seasons 1-3. also jace and trish didn’t end up together, excuse me? idk man i just never really liked season 4 of A&A

jessie is probably the only exception to this. all 4 seasons of jessie i loved.

good luck charlie i feel like is debatable. it was an interesting and fun 4 seasons, BUT, spencer and teddy should have NEVER gotten back together. i rest my case

hannah montana is also debatable. again with the ex’s, jake was in the picture (thank the GODS she and him didn’t end up together, i would have thrown hands). i like them being in a different place, i like lily living with them, but i do miss the old house they used to live in, and especially rico’s little shop (or whatever it’s called.)

did suite life on deck make it to 4 seasons? i don’t even remember

wizards of waverly place i think had a good season 4, especially the finale. i like the fact that mason and alex ended up together, juliet and justin ended up together, and both justin and alex got to keep their powers. i feel like max deserved more than the sub station but he did seem ecstatic about that i won’t complain

this one’s gonna hurt me like hell, but, lab rats. you guys know i love this show. it’s my favorite, it’s my comfort show, but i’m not gonna lie, i try to avoid bionic island when i’m watching it. it’s just not as fun as the other seasons. like, tasha isn’t really there, sometimes douglas is there more than donald, sebastian is there (yes this is a sebastian and sebase slander page), they started to make chase more annoying, and they’re not in mission creek anymore. i just think that season 4 of lab rats is my least favorite. i even like elite force better, and we all know how badly they wrote elite force

ravens home, bunk’d (even after season 2), those shows need to just stop. please.

[wc-confessions]

Hi, I don’t usually come to confessions blogs for like mental health reasons but I’m the author of Follow Your Heart and i was told it was being discussed on here so I wanted to come talk about it myself.

I started writing the comic when I was in highschool, so I was a child myself. (I don’t remember my exact age, just that I remember drawing concept art while hanging out in my school’s library) That’s why the original “drama” thing was there between Mouseclaw and Sootpaw. Spottedleafs Heart came out and it was so bad that it made me re-examine that part of the story. Warriors romantizes relationships with age gaps like Soot and Mouse all the time, hence why I probably didn’t think anything of it back then. (See: Dustfern, Bramblesquirrel)

Yes, there are scenes where it’s implied the characters have had sex. There is absolutely nothing explicit however, and I have some bad news for the original anon about how babies were made if they’re that upset about it, because literally every child born in the series implies the characters had sex lol. Its even implied Daisy and Spiderleg had a one night stand! (He specifically says their kits were an accident!)

I also don’t appreciate the implications of what they were saying as someone who was traumatized by actual zooporn w real animals as a young child. That kind of thing is exactly the reason I don’t post or advertise my comic on twitter or tumblr, I knew I’d get accused of that shit. Idk if the original anon is reading this but please think about what you say before you say it :/

I’m a human being and I’m not perfect. But I like to think I’m doing okay, since multiple CSA survivors have shared their stories in my comments and thanked me for making the comic (im not trying to toot my own horn, im simply stating facts- i dont want to pat my own ass or anything) and I also had a CSA survivor as a beta reader of the comic.

I don’t think Spottedleaf experienced actual sexual abuse if that’s what the other anon was implying, I just think that the story was a VERY bad example of grooming and it was what inspired me to do better.

 I’m doing this specifically because if there is the BAREST fucking chance I can educate a kid and keep them out if this situation, I want to take it. I feel incredibly strongly about this topic and that’s why I wanted to do something about it. I said this in a page description, but I was provided very little education on this in school, in fact I can only concretely remember one video and I have a vague idea that there was one other thing I was shown to educate about CSA- compared to the abstinence-only sex education that was drilled in my head from like, 6th to 9th grade. I’m just a blip in the sea of warcats comics on dA, but I can at least try my best to help where I can.

I have a warning page up that talks about the subject matter which is what I’m sure you saw, but I go a little more in depth in the description of chapter 5’s cover.

I don’t know you and you don’t know me, but I genuinely deeply appreciate you not immediately trying to crucify me when that anon came to your inbox. Like I said, there’s a reason I don’t advertise on tumblr. I really really appreciate you taking a neutral stance until you knew more. Thank you, it means a lot. :) sorry for the very long ask, haha.

thank you for your response and its no problem. in these sorts of situations its always best to pretty much get your own info so i took it very seriously. im very sorry about all that and dont hesitate to lmk if youd rather not be spoken about on here i'd completely understand.

[precuredaily]

Precure Day 233

Episode: Yes! Precure 5 Go Go! 35 - “Bunbee’s Shocking Proposal!” Date watched: 12 March 2023 Original air date: 12 October 2008 Screenshots Precure Metamorphose Gallery | Sky Rose Translate Gallery Project info and master list of posts

And when I’m leader, there will be changes. That day, all female officers will be required to wear TINY MINISKIRTS!

wait...

As fall kicks into gear, the girls are spending a bit less time together, and Nozomi laments this. At the same time, Bunbee is really starting to consider if he has a future at Eternal,a nd happens to catch wind of Precure’s predicament. An idea forms in his head. What kind of idea? Well, you can probably tell from the title and the above screenshot, but let’s just dive in.

The Plot

Nozomi feels lonely at Natts House with nobody but the fairies around. Coco, Nuts, Syrup, and Kurumi remind her that everyone is working towards their own dreams (including her), and they're grateful to her for helping find the Palmins.

Over at Eternal HQ, Mucardia sucks up to Anacondy, upstaging Bunbee and making him feel left out by the radically different treatment. Bunbee notices his last report in the trash, unread, and is speechless.

A little later, he takes a stroll and sits on a bench, failing to notice that Nozomi is sitting on the other side. They each murmur to themselves about their situations and play off each other for a moment before Bunbee recognizes Nozomi and hides.

Bunbee goes around to spy on the other girls and realizes the team is under stress, both from their individual goals and from the separation.

Everyone who's off doing their own things admits they haven't been to Natts House in a while and they decide to visit.

Rin and Urara meet up on a bridge as Rin catches a Palmin

Komachi and Urara are at a bookstore buying books

Kurumi is food shopping with Syrup to replenish Natts House, because everyone eats them out of house and home, definitely not because she enjoys the company.

Bunbee appears at Natts House and teases Nozomi about her quandary, then everyone else shows up and accuses him of being up to no good. (a reasonable and ultimately correct assumption.) He protests but says he has an important announcement, after these messages. Cue CM. Yay fourth wall breaks.

After the commercial, Bunbee declares himself Precure's new leader. Everyone is confused and they naturally don't trust him. When they refuse to hand over the Rose Pact he turns his book into a Hoshiina.

The book Hoshiina shoots pages at them. Rose kicks it aside and everyone else attacks Bunbee directly, so he retaliates with his machine gun spray. Dream throws hands but he is able to ward her off. He's stronger than normal, and they notice. He crucifies them in book pages (seriously) and tries to lecture them on how he'll lead them to the Cure Rose Garden.

Dream objects that they don't need a leader (I know what you’re thinking, more on that later), they don't need someone telling them what to do, they'll go to the Cure Rose Garden because they want to, not because someone told them to. They break free of their imprisonment. Bunbee tries to bring up their worries but they brush him off.

Nuts helps Rose perform Milky Rose Metal Blizzard on the Hoshiina, destroying it. Bunbee is upset and tries to shoot the team but Coco jumps in and helps the Cures perform Rainbow Rose Explosion. Bunbee teleports out of the way at the last minute, but tells the Cures to look him up if they change their minds.

Afterwards, everyone hangs out at Natts House. Urara admits she's having trouble getting auditions and Komachi encourages her by saying she'd like to see her perform. This turns into everyone talking about their accomplishments and offering to help each other out. Nuts tells Rin that the bracelet she designed for the store is already sold out.

Kurumi brings in a huge plate of cream puffs, mame daifuku, and pancakes for the group. She acts a little indignant when everyone digs in but then smiles.

Nozomi looks at the atmosphere and brings it full circle by confirming with Coco that it's "Harmonious" (wakiaiai), a word she was struggling to understand at the start of the episode.

The episode closes on Syrup protesting about everyone eating all the pancakes, while Coco looks warmly at Nozomi.

The Analysis

What I Liked 

It’s corny but the throughline of all the girls working on their dreams is really, really nice. And the remarks that they miss each other pay off well when they sit down together at the end and bounce off each other so well. They come alive when they’re together.

Nozomi in particular is at her best this episode. You can see her commitment to learning, and this is the girl who was getting terrible grades at the start of last season. She wants to learn, and she wants to pass on that passion for learning. We saw her practice her teaching skills in an earlier episode, but this is the first time I think we’ve really seen the other side of it. She’s studying grammar and vocabulary, and gets to a word she doesn’t know, and tries to figure out how to apply it. It’s small but it’s big because of who Nozomi is.

Also on the subject of Nozomi, I like her speech during the climax. Bunbee is going on and on about how he’s their leader and he knows what’s best and they should listen to him, and she’s just like “We don’t NEED a leader because we decided TOGETHER to do this” (never mind the fact that she was voted leader in the last season)

somewhere between 6 months and 2 years ago...

Make of it what you will

Bunbee is hilarious in this episode, for the right and wrong reasons. His character has pretty much been a joke since Scorp died, and it’s really driven home here. It’s a half step forward on his redemption arc, but  I truly can’t tell if he actually buys what he’s selling. I have an easier time believing he saw an opportunity to take the Rose Pact back to Eternal and redeem himself there, as he brags about working his way up the ranks. Either way the idea that he can suddenly become Precure’s leader is so absurd it’s great, and he seems completely oblivious to the reason anyone would be suspicious of him as he tries to mansplain his way into authority. Also, dang dude you couldn’t get a promotion at your company so you tried to take charge of a group of teenagers? Not exactly moving up in the world.

What I Didn’t Like

Everyone talking about how they haven't been to Natts House in a while is ironic after what we saw two episodes ago, where they were all there except Urara and were so sad she was busy.

I know Karen is very studious but the way she stresses over her career path, you’d think she’s graduating medical school tomorrow when she’s at least three years away from even enrolling in university. Yet here she is with a book on pharmaceutical law.

typical middle school reading

If she started college immediately she’d still be 7-8 years away from earning her doctorate at minimum. I don’t claim to know much about Japan’s medical system, but I feel confident enough to say the girl is putting the cart well before the horse. I am not trying to say education and the pursuit of knowledge as a passion isn’t important, but she’s stressing way too much over this at the age of 15.

Miscellaneous

Mucardia starts to tell Anacondy about his plans for his next move, but we don't hear them. This is a teaser for the upcoming two-parter.

Bunbee is looking for job listings in a book called "WORKS". Very on the nose. The font and style of the cover is very childish. Karen’s book about pharmaceuticals is similar. They’ve drawn realistic book covers before so I have to assume this is either an artist who isn’t as stringent about that, or it’s an intentional effort to play to the show’s audience of young children (with books way out of their reading range, go figure)

Bunbee breaks the fourth wall by announcing the commercial break.

THIS IS NOT EDITED.

The preview for this episode implied that the bit where Nozomi and Bunbee talk to each other would last longer. That’s what I get for trusting the preview.

The transformations are a bit sped up compared to usual I think.

Milk does not appear in her fairy form in this episode.

Both Milky Rose Metal Blizzard and Rainbow Rose Explosion are used in this episode, a first. It’s also the first time Metal Blizzard has been used since its debut in episode 31.

Conclusion

It’s a really solid episode with a fun and kind of stupid gimmick as Bunbee tries his hand at leadership but does so in all the wrong ways. He’s trying to follow the tactics of Sun Tzu: “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity” but he misreads the chaos and doesn’t really act any differently from normal. The cures are all the better for it, and we get to see them rebuke his idea and come together as a team, while also seeing how they’re progressing on their individual dreams. We’re nearing the last quarter of the series now so it is time to start tying up those loose ends.

Next time, the first half of a two-part episode that isn’t the mid-season or finale as Mucardia makes his move and traps the team in a sinister game show. Look forward to it!

Pink Precure Catchphrase Count: 0 kettei!

P.S. Yes, I heard about the Go Go sequel for adults. I’m as amazed as you all probably are.

[daily-tf2-medic]

Jester please tell me what song Lumi was referencing in that one post

I’m going to be completely honest with you, its in German and I can’t remember the name.

That, and Lumi likes to gatekeep music, so I’d probably be crucified if I told.

-🃏

[cleverthylacine]

Thoughts non-Christian Transformers fans might be having this time of year...

You are allowed to write whatever self-indulgent bullshit you want, because that is what fanfic is for, but if you want to make your “Transformers doing Christmas” fics 5000% less annoying to grumpy non-Christians, here are some thoughts on how they would be less annoying to me, personally.

1. Transformers are aliens.  They have their own religions.  It would be very, very odd for Transformers to care about Jesus. It’s fine if OP puts tinsel in his windows because all the other trucks are doing it, lol, but I’m talking about TFs actually celebrating Christmas in any serious kind of way.

2. If the Autobots who are living on Earth pick up human customs as an excuse to have a party, let them be hilariously ignorant about it. Despite being the Designated Good Guys in all non-Shattered Glass continuities (except possibly Earthspark), they are just as prone to being colonialist and ethnocentric as the Decepticons. Let them be embarrassing and offensive as well as cute. I’m thinking about the level of cringe involved in Christian attempts to throw Passover Seders with no actual Jews involved, or the Japanese department store that crucified Santa in a shop window.

3. In continuities like TFA, TFP and IDW, Decepticons are have experienced the way religion is and can be used to support and spread systems of oppression, because the Primacy has used it against them that way. If they bother to pay attention to human holidays, they’re going to recognise Christianity as a religion that is frequently used this way.

4. Decepticons are not out to destroy all organic life in every continuity, but they are usually ethnocentric and frequently colonialist. Their opinions of humans vary from “unimpressed” to “annoying Autobot allies” to “gross but it’s funny when they pop” to “organics always create mechanoid life and oppress it, and we have to stop them before they get there” and you even get the occasional “If form and function don’t matter, why should we care whether people are organic or not” Decepticon, but those last ones are a minority and they know it. They’re unlikely to adopt human holidays.

5. I do love IDW Starscream’s appropriation of Christmas customs because a) he made it all about himself because he’s Starscream and b) in his post-Decepticon life as Emperor of Cybertron he IS trying to find ways to subvert the mess that is Cybertronian culture in order to consolidate power. That is one example of Doing It Right (tm).

6. Consider characterisation.

6a.  Ratchet is often a militant atheist.

6b.  Soundwave is usually a militant atheist. In IDW he’s also a master of inciting and manipulating class warfare and he would recognise what evangelicals are doing in American culture from a distance meaasurable in parsecs.

6b1. There is no canonical evidence that Soundwave’s deployers are pets or children except one IDW panel where Starscream makes a sarcastic comment, despite it being IDW canon that Ravage saved Soundwave’s life and helped him learn to manage his disabilities. There is no evidence that they are anything other than adult Cybertronians. Ravage has been with him so long that some people (like me) ship them.

Rumble and Frenzy act like kids in fanon, but in canon they act like gross army boys (affectionate) who like to blow things up and pull pranks for fun and are no more children than Tailgate is.  The beastformers are not animals except in Cyberverse, where Laserbeak and Buzzsaw are trained sentient but probably not fully sapient trained birds and “cat” and “wolf” are just alt modes some mechs happen to have instead of “car” and “aeroplane”.

6b2. Soundwave playing Santa to his deployers as if they were children and/or pets personally makes me nauseous.

[mokkamicci]

Kataang vs Zutara: a small chat

So most of you who follow my blog on here will know that much of the content that I reblog and post are Miraculous-related. But I also post ATLA and Zutara content occasionally. I am a massive Zutara fan and I’m here to talk about something that I’ve noticed within the ship wars between Zutara and Kataang.

So starting off, while Zutara fans criticise the Kataang ship wiith facts and logic, sometimes I feel like some of these people go a little too far with their criticism, claiming that Kataang is misogynistc, makes Katara out to be some kind of trophy for Aang and is just all around nothing more than an unbalanced relationship. Obviously they’re not wrong, but sometimes they forget that Aang is just a kid, just like Katara is. Relationships at that age aren’t gonna be the healthiest because they’re going through a developmental phase at that time (aka puberty). You could argue the same thing could happen if Zutara became canon instead, because they’re both teenagers. Not to mention Zuko and Katara can both be hot headed at times. Combine that with hormones and growing into young adulthood... yeah it’s not exactly a fun time.

I also think that Zutarans often end up mischaracterising Aang completely in order to justify their arguments to the point where it’s barely recognisable from the canon Aang. Like the way some people talk about him, it’s almost as if they make him out to be like some kind of incel. Y’all are really jumping through a lot of hoops to make that kind of conclusion. This is almost like the time Adrien/Chat Noir salters in the Miraculous fandom called Chat Noir a sexual harasser. It’s really funny the way they think.

Another toxic trait they apply to Aang is him being an evil abuser who stifles Katara’s freedom and who also has his feelings coddled by her. The fact that he is selfish and puts his own comfort and feelings over her own has somehow become fuel to harshly criticise Aang. Like he is 12! Of course he’s gonna be a little selfish and immature! I don’t think his not-so-likable character traits justify belittling his relationship with Katara.

I don’t think it necessarily helps when Zutara fans stoop to the level of Kataang fans. I understand Zutara fans’ frustrations, because many Zutara blogs have expressed that they’ve been mocked and belittled the most, by both Kataang fans and even the show’s creators themselves. It only seems fair that Zutara fans get a little payback to treat Kataang fans the way the former have been treated. But I also think by doing this, it’s created an even bigger divide between the two. What happened to “ship and let ship”?

DISCLAIMER: I’m not trying to discredit Zutara, I LOVE Zutara with my whole being. I just think that when it comes to ship wars, people should be a bit nicer to each other rather than making them feel bad about the couple they choose to ship in the show. I’m also not very fond of Kataang either, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to absolutely crucify someone just because they happen to prefer that ship over Zutara. I honestly don’t think Kataang deserves the amount of hate it’s gotten recently. In fact, before I fully got into the ATLA fandom, I used to prefer Kataang over Zutara myself. I thought it was a nice wholesome ship. While my opinion on this ship has changed, I still think there are some parts of it that are cute based on canon moments in the show.

I’m probably gonna get some hate for this, and you know what, I’ll accept it. I’ll listen to what everyone has to say.

[toournextadventure]

So I just finished reading part 18 and it was amazing!! It was fun to see that I was nearly 100% correct with my guesses and how certain things were. Anyway, onto this week’s analysis brought to you by your favorite enthusiastic Autistic follower! (Obviously me and I know I’m probably not your favorite XD)

Ok so this weeks chapter is obviously gonna be angsty as all hell. Nearly every picture screams ‘pain’ the only one that doesn’t is the carnival one.

The first picture I took a look at wasn’t one of the top ones, it was actually the one with the girl curled up by the bathtub. I’m almost 100% sure that the girl is supposed to be Birb having some sort of panic attack that ties into the another picture, specifically the one of the man yelling at the girl, towering over her. I’m assuming that the man is Marcus, who has come up a few times in different asks but I couldn’t find a post that said exactly what his role was, though we can guess. Especially from the conversation Birb had about cutting Nicky off. So those two pictures are most likely connected

Though a second theory I had was that the picture was connected to the one depicting a headache or migraine. That one could be with Birb, and something to do with her trauma, or it could be Wednesday and the headache pic could be symbolizing her having a vision (without giving too much away). She has a panic attack over it, hiding in the bathroom. A third theory for those pictures could be that the headache pic is Wednesday having a vision and the bathroom one is Birb having a panic attack. (My mind WENT places with this one could you tell?)

The carnival one is throwing me through a loop. But I’m pretty sure that that picture is the set of the Wednesday show when they did the festival thing. It could be a little date for Birbday or it could be like the Scooby Gang knows Birb has been going through it and has decided to bring Birb here to take her mind off of it. It’s such a basic picture that it could be many things.

For theories on man yelling is most likely Marcus yelling at Birb whether it’s a flashback or something that happens in the bow, is up to debate.

Anyway, that’s what I got this week. I can’t wait to see this weeks update!!

I don't pick favourites because I love all my children equally (my momma raised me right), but I can't tell you how much I enjoy seeing you in my notifs 😌

Okay, here we go. You are very very close, bestie, this one is going to be a hard one. These pictures don't even cover a fraction of what's going on, but you're super close with what you've got

Yall cannot crucify me for this chapter though, I'm hurting yall out of love 😬