#Ninja Re Bang Bang

[starlizlia]

HAPPY MAS Y MENOS THURSDAY YALLZ

[dee-does-arts]

no context

This was probably funnier in my head even with context

[giuseppe-yuki]

friendly neighborhood boyfriend

spiderman!esteban ocon x reader

w.c.: 4.3k

warnings: curse words, mentions of violence

summary: WHY were your boyfriend��s clothes always scuffed up, his body always bruised, and his hands so freaking sticky??

a/n: sorry to any hardcore marvel and spiderman fans if there are any huge inaccuracies... i know close to nothing about the to the mcu spiderman lore besides a few watches of tom holland's spiderman movies so errr yeah.

picture credits from pinterest :)

present

three whole hours of doing nothing but waiting on your boyfriend’s stupid bunk bed had to be a new record- you’re sure of it. if there was a contest for this niche topic, you would literally be the reigning world champion. your last personal best was an hour and a half, which seemed pretty long, but was definitely miniscule to this new groundbreaking achievement of three hours. 

you were heavily considering filing a missing person’s report before the telltale noise of his squeaky fire escape window opening and the soft “thump” of his shoes landing on the carpet sounds in your ears.

estaban slips in like a ninja of some sort, which makes you roll your eyes. he innocently re-adjusts his clothes and brushes off any offending pieces of dust that had landed on his school backpack as if he didn’t just climb through his freaking window, seven stories up. you finally speak up when he reaches his hand towards the window panel. 

“what is the excuse this time, huh? did you like, take a detour to save the entire city of new york in the three hours it took for you to travel from our high school to your own house?” 

esteban freezes half-way in the middle of closing his window, looking alarmed, before his face morphs into a guilty frown when he sees you with your arms crossed on his blue bedspread. 

“i’m so, so, sorry baby!” he exclaims, hurriedly sliding the window all the way shut with a bang. “something came up again- i swear! i- i can explain! please don’t be mad at me!” 

you just sigh and roll your eyes, watching as esteban, like always, stutters out an excuse for his lateness as he peels off his mangy jacket that, more often than not, was dirt-coated. it was after-school detention a few days ago, an unplanned stop at the grocery store last week, and heavy traffic the week before that.

”let me guess… you got stuck in an elevator? subway delays? or maybe traffic again?”

”yes…?” esteban responds, nervously wringing his hands under your harsh glare. 

when it is clear you are not going to let up, he quickly reaches into his backpack, a mangled and stained piece of cloth that looked like it was on its last life, and pulls out a rather flattened object wrapped with wax paper. 

he holds it out to you like an apologetic offering.

“i also stopped by delmar’s deli grocery on my way back and got you your favorite - ham, cheese, pickle on french bread with mustard, grilled and pressed real flat,“ he says quietly.

you suppose you can forgive him- this time.

“alright,” you huff, taking the sandwich from his hand. “i guess i forgive you.” 

esteban brightens up almost immediately, and quickly skirts around the half-built lego death star littered on his bedroom floor to jump into his bed next to you as you take a huge bite from the sandwich. 

besides the fact that it was a little cold from sitting in your boyfriend’s backpack for a little while, it tasted absolutely scrumptious. 

in the minutes it takes for your boyfriend to lay his lanky self horizontal on the bed and place his head in your lap so you can rake one of your hands through his short black hair, you scarf down the last of the sandwich.

“merde!” he notes from your lap, looking at the empty spot in your hand where he swore the sandwich was a second ago. “was it that good?” 

you laugh, patting the top of his head. 

“of course- mr. delmar always makes the best-“

almost immediately, you are distracted by the most ginormous hole in his shirt that you were surprised you hadn’t noticed before. it lies on the area where his shoulder meets his neck, probably hidden from his jacket when he came in, but visible from the angle from above his head. the edges of the hole look burnt.

what the fuck? 

esteban looks at you quizzically when you pause your sentence. 

“-best..?”

“sorry, i got distracted by the biggest hole you have in your shirt right now,” you giggle, jokingly poking at the soft skin visible from where the hole resides.“did you blow something up in chemistry and get acid on your shirt or something?”

instead of laughing though, he hisses and shrinks away from your touch almost immediately.

you snatch your hand back with a gasp, feeling terrible for hurting your boyfriend, even if you didn’t mean to. 

“i-i-i’m so sorry,” you stutter out. “i didn’t know…?” 

”no, no, no, it’s fine- i’m fine- it’s all okay,” he says reassuringly, yet he still sits up and adjusts his shoulder gingerly.

”did someone beat you up at school, este?” you ask slowly, searching his face for answers. 

this isn’t the first time he came home with bruises on his body. bullies were the only possible explanation, and it wasn’t out of the park, considering there were some pretentious assholes at school who you knew openly disliked your boyfriend for no reason whatsoever. 

reaching up and placing a hand comfortingly on your shoulder, he looks you in the eye. 

“baby, thank you for your concern, but i’m okay- i promise- i just ran really hard, um, backwards, into a shelf, and there was this whole big thing about somebody dropping some cigarette ashes onto a part of my shirt, so that explains the whole burnt hole scenario.”

you obviously don’t buy it, but you still, you nod, hesitantly.

esteban smiles at you and squeezes your shoulder once reassuringly, before starting to turn back around to sprawl himself back in your lap.

however, to your horror, when he lifts his hand off of your shirt, it sticks to his hand like it’s superglued there. 

???

in your state of confusion, your boyfriend’s eyes widen and he yanks his hand back from your shirt, almost propelling you off of the bed from the force he exerts. 

“what the fuck was that, este?” you screech, looking at the shoulder at your shirt to see if there were somehow remnants of whatever magic your boyfriend used to temporarily glue his hand to your shirt. 

there isn’t, really- just a small white stain of sticky, web-like fluid?

”i’m sorry, i’m sorry,” he repeats, hands held high in the air away from you.

at this point, you snap. 

“esteban ocon, you need to explain right now. i just went through, like, five different emotions in the last five minutes, and i don’t know what just happened, but as your girlfriend, i need you to tell me why you always show up with your clothes scuffed up, body bruised, and fingers all sticky???” 

“i don’t,” he defends desperately.

you sigh. 

”let’s take a trip down memory lane, huh? last saturday?” 

last saturday 

your little kitten heels clack against the pavement, shiny and sleek against the dirty grime-covered grey of new york’s sidewalks. you wore it on purpose, obviously, along with one of your favorite outfits that you knew would leave esteban drooling. the hazy sky orange sky bleeds into black behind you, but the always-on lights of new york light up your jewels, leaving a shiny hue around your neck. 

the restaurant that you had booked almost a month in advance loomed overhead, fairy lights around its exterior that you knew would perfectly set the mood for you and your boyfriend’s two-year anniversary dinner. 

“yeah, i’m almost there,” you parrot back to your boyfriend on the phone as you squeeze through a group of noisy tourists who were- quite rudely- taking up the entire sidewalk. “i’m at the corner, like, a minute away from the french restaurant-“ 

before you can finish your sentence, a shrill scream from among the crowd of people interrupts. 

“hey! give me back my bag!”  

a masked man whips past you, knocking straight into a pretty girl in gym workout clothes nearby.

the giant protein shake in her hand flies out of her hand, and it is almost like slow motion when its contents splash across your clothes. 

“fuck!” you yelp. 

the shake is cold as it drips down the entire side of your right side. it smells like cookies and crème. 

esteban’s voice sounds frantic on the other side. 

“what? what? baby, are you okay? i’m on the way, just hold on!”

with the rise of crooks and supervillains in new york lately, it was no wonder that he sounded worried. 

“i’m fine,“ you reassure him. “just- let me call you back- there’s a situation where i’m at,” you reply quickly, glaring at the backside of the masked man who continues to scamper down the road with a bright pink purse that obviously didn’t belong to him. 

you jam the red “end call” button on your phone just in time to see the girl offer you a semi-moist gym towel. a monogrammed “abbi” is stitched on the edge. 

”i’m so, so, sorry!” the girl- abbi- blurts out apologetically. “i just left the alpine gym a block away and that-“ she gestures over to the man, who was now leaping across lanes of new york traffic, “-absolute dick just pushed me! i can, like, pay for your dry cleaning, if you want?” 

you start to reassure her, using the towel to dab up some of the bigger chunks of protein shake and unmixed powder, when, in the corner of your eye you spot a flash of red, blue and black from the metal scaffolding of a nearby construction site.

abbi’s mouth drops in amazement. 

“is that-?”

you stop dabbing the towel and turn, only to find the great superhero of the new york- the one and only spider-man- swing down onto the concrete, barely missing the tips of your heads.  

well, great. thanks, spiderman, for conveniently showing up now, you think. 

“hey ladies, no worries, i got this!” spider-man shouts, throwing finger guns at you both before sprinting towards the crook. 

he propels himself like a freaking rocket across the street onto the masked man with the purse, sending the both of them into a dirty puddle on the gutter of the sidewalk. they scuffle for a bit before spider-man successfully knocks out and ties the crook, semi damp and scuffed up, onto a nearby pole. 

huffing with exertion, he stands back up before swinging with his webs over the heavy traffic and back towards you and abbi with the bag hoisted on his shoulder. 

landing with a soft thump, he stiffly extends the bag out towards the pair of you, arm straight at a 90 degree angle with his body. 

“um, is this yours?” spider-man asks, voice barely muffled through his mask.

it wasn’t every day that an average new yorker saw spider-man in real life. he seemed a little- taller than you expected. and a little more…awkward.

“no, no, it’s not,” abbi says quickly. she looks starstruck, hand limply holding the half-empty shake container and the other barely gripping the dirty monogrammed towel you gave back.

“yeah, it’s not ours,” you say in support. “i think it was some lady way behind us.” 

spider-man scratches his head. 

“oh,” he says. “um, well okay.”

there’s a slight pause before he continues. 

“did um, any of you guys, want me to escort you to wherever you are going next? with all this, like, crime and all, going on, you know?” 

wherever you're going...shit, the anniversary dinner!

“i’m fine, thank you,” you assert, hurridly turning to go. “i have an dinner to get to with my boyfriend.” 

abbi, however, just about explodes with giddiness. 

“you? spiderman? escort me? yes please!” 

after sprinting like you were usain bolt into the french restaurant and avoiding the weird looks regarding the giant stain on your outfit, you are seated in a comfortable spot underneath the twinkling fairy lights. a waiter comes by and lights a few candles as well, creating what would have been a real romantic atmosphere- if esteban was there. 

present

“even after being held up by spider-man, i waited for like, twenty minutes in that restaurant, este.” 

your boyfriend shifts awkwardly on the bed. 

“yeah, but-” he starts.

“no, i’m not done,” you snap. “not only that, your entire dress shirt was literally wet and had unidentified scuff marks on it. care to explain yourself?”

he stays silent. 

you sigh. 

“even if i forgive you for that, how about you explain the weird bruises you got at the school fair on wednesday?” 

last wednesday

as the reigning associated body president, you were in charge of one of the biggest fundraisers at midtown school of science and technology- the grand fair. it was a tradition, at this point, for every president to host a larger, bigger, fair than the last in an effort to outdo one another. it always raked in thousands of dollars from the community that single-handedly funded many of the school’s programs.

last year, gwen, the asb president then, had somehow gotten bumper-cars as an attraction, which you decided to one-up by adding an enormous ferris wheel and dunk tank, which would more than likely look even more impressive. 

the new york state fair had nothing on you by the time you had most of the stalls set up an hour and a half before the event started. the cotton candy and popcorn machine was up and running, making whiffs of spun sugar and melted butter float over the quickly darkening site. between a few student workers, milling about, the little game stalls flashed red and yellow, advertising bean bag throwing or ring tosses to earn giant stuffed prizes shaped like the school mascot. 

esteban, being the good boyfriend he was, had volunteered to come “help” you organize and sort all the booths at the fair site, but you knew it was a pitiful excuse that would probably end up with him taking advantage of open booths and nicking a shit ton of cotton candy and kettle corn popcorn. 

like you predicted, after rounding the final grassy corner from the balloon darts booth, you spot your boyfriend metres away, sitting still and looking pretty at a little decorated picnic table stuffing his mouth with cotton candy.

so much for helping set up the stalls.

when esteban spots you from the table, he beams and waves energetically, teeth and lips colored an artificial strawberry pink.

“hi baby!” he shouts, startling a few classmates setting up and a few poor birds in the trees. “the fair is looking really good- and so is the food!”

you roll your eyes, but nonetheless blow a kiss to him. 

reaching a hand up, your boyfriend exaggeratedly mimes snatching your kiss out of the air and sliding it into his pocket before patting it protectively. 

you giggle softly and turn back towards the front of the venue after he blows an air-kiss back with a more-than audible smooching sound. even if he was a little goofy sometimes, he more than made up for it with all the love and support he gave you. 

weaving through small groups of students that were just-arriving, you flip through your clipboard of papers to do some last minute checks.

it’s not until a few seconds later when you hear a thundering sound of propellers behind you.

huh, you don’t remember setting up anything that involved propellers. 

curiously, you turn around  and snap your head up, only to meet a glowing green hoverboard paired with a grinning, wild haired man that immediately strikes fear in your heart, freezing your feet from moving.

the green goblin. 

“hiya there sweetie,” he says, peering down at you in a sickenly sweet voice. “do you know where your-“ 

before he can finish his sentence, a flash of blue-red flashes across the sky and sends the green goblin flying, narrowly missing the game stalls.

for the second time in a freaking week, you were graced with the presence of spider-man. but now, he was fighting green goblin. over your just-built fair. 

in all of new york, of all the times, green goblin decided to pick now to start a petty fight? 

almost immediately, screams from your classmates start up, blending weirdly with the jolly carnival music surrounding the atmosphere as the green goblin’s pumpkin bombs rain down from the sky. they sprint past you, pushing and shoving to get away from the potentially-deadly scene.

the first thought in your head is: esteban.

you force your legs to start moving to find your boyfriend in the now burning fair-site as the pair in the air above you crash straight into your house of mirrors, sending glass shards everywhere. 

even when you straight-up almost die after one of the bombs land a little too close to your feet, you continue searching through many of the booths and stalls for your boyfriend. there was no way you were going to let him die to something as stupid as one of spiderman’s city-demolishing fights. 

your search is largely unfruitful, even though you do find a few trapped classmates under a destroyed balloon-making stand as spider-man and green goblin grapple each other and do irreversible damage to your fair. 

by the time you find the picnic table your boyfriend was sitting at a few frightening minutes later, it didn’t even matter that spider-man had won the fight by propelling green goblin’s unresponsive body straight into the dunk-tank that you spent a wild amount of asb money on, because the table was entirely crushed, with your boyfriend nowhere in sight. 

an existential feeling of dread fills your chest. 

no. no. 

you wipe a few stray tears from your eyes. 

you refuse to accept this. esteban had to be around here somewhere. 

before you set off to look someplace else, a red-and-blue clad body blocks your path.

spider-man.

“are you okay?” he asks, patting your shoulder. 

you could almost throttle him.

”no!” you screech, on the verge of bursting into tears. “you fucking destroyed my entire fair, and now i can’t find my boyfriend!! why couldn’t you fight green goblin somewhere else?” 

spider-man recoils, snatching his hand back.

 “i-i-i’m sure he’s fine,” he stutters out. “he’s probably, you know-“ he gestures around the burning debris next to him- “around..here.” 

you’re not satisfied with spider-man’s flippant answer. what if esteban was buried under a bunch of heavy wood planks? what if he was trapped underneath a fiery inferno? 

although you were pissed at the so called “hero” in front of you, you couldn’t help but admit that he would probably be the best chance in finding your boyfriend. 

trying your best to hold yourself together, you snap, “look, spider-man, can you just please find my boyfriend? he’s kind of tall, has straight short black hair.. i just can’t bear losing him right now, okay?” 

he nods once, tersely, before swinging off into the flames. 

it doesn’t even take five minutes before your esteban steps out behind a wrecked hot dog stall. even if he looks absolutely disheveled, with countless bruises littering his arms and a half-ripped shirt, you can’t help but to run straight into his arms, feeling his body against yours. 

your boyfriend tucks you into him, making sure to pat head comfortingly. 

“hi baby, you okay?” he asks a little too nonchalantly, as if you both weren’t standing in the midst of what looked like to be the aftermath of a meteor shower. 

“no!” you shoot back, leaning backwards to look up at his face. your face must be streaked with tears, but you didn’t care at this point. “i genuinely thought you died, esteban.” 

“ah,” he replies. “well i, um, didn’t, so that’s good. i just, you know, went to the bathroom.” 

present

“don’t get me wrong, esteban, i was super glad you were fine that i didn’t really question you, but now i realize- what the hell were you doing in the bathroom that got you bruises that bad?”

your boyfriend wrings his hands. 

“i, like, ran into the bathroom door really hard after i heard those banging sounds from outside the restroom.” 

hmm. 

you roll your eyes.

”okay, how about yesterday when you got literally everything in my room sticky during our physics study session?” 

esteban raises and eyebrow before snorting, seemingly taking your words a different way.

you huff. boys and their dirty minds.

“no! i’m being serious!” 

yesterday

although your boyfriend could somehow ace physical education class, no problem, and run a mile in, like, under six minutes, he struggled sometimes with other subjects. thirty one sit-ups? sure. thirty one algebra or physics questions? eh, not so much.  

good thing though, he had a top-of-the-class, straight a student as a girlfriend. 

by hosting impromptu study sessions (that honestly usually ended with you both making out on your bed since esteban got distracted pretty easily), you were able to boost his average grade up to a moderately acceptable level.

currently, your room looked like an absolute mess, with esteban’s physics papers scattered everywhere on the floor, eraser shavings all throughout the area, and your heavy textbook flipped open halfway.

“alright, next problem!" you exclaim. "what is the net force of a race car on a 30 degree-angled bank- are you even listening?” 

while you read out the next question on his homework, it is clear that your boyfriend’s attention has drifted elsewhere, specifically the tv mounted on the corner of your room. 

you knew you should have turned it off before you started tutoring him.

when you glance over to what has caught your boyfriend’s attention, the screen blares an all-too-common scene of a bank robbery that was taking place a few blocks away. from the helicopter live-footage through the side of the bank's glass window pane, a masked man greedily stuffs green bills into his camo bag. 

it doesn’t cause you that much concern though. you knew spider-man, the sometimes good/sometimes bad friendly neighborhood hero would show up soon or later to patch up the situation, so you reach over the papers to tap esteban gently on the shoulder. 

“okay baby, focus! you’re literally almost done with the worksheet!”

instead of snapping his attention back to the work though, he scoots back rather hurriedly and announces that he was going to get something to eat. 

you let him rush out of the room, knowing that he was probably going to be stuffing his face with the fresh pain au chocolat that your mother had freshly made a few hours ago.

meanwhile, you scribble shapeless blobs on the corner of your history homework. 

the news network on your tv moves on from the robbery (like anticipated, spider-man came in, swinging on his webs, and slingshotted the robber against the bank wall) to some car race in australia by the time your boyfriend skips back into your room, slamming the door behind him with a flourish. 

you pat the seat next to you, gesturing for him to sit down. 

he peers at your tv for a quick second before settling down next to you. 

“welcome back, este!” you say enthusiastically. “don’t worry- you didn’t miss much from the tv- just spider-man saving a bank or whatever.” 

“oh,” your boyfriend murmurs, fiddling with a pencil. “was- was he cool?”

”huh?” you blurt out, puzzled.

he waves you off quickly, setting the pencil down and scooting closer to your desk.

”no, nothing, just joking. so um, where were we on the physics homework?” 

you send him a weird look before shuffling his papers back to how it was before. 

“ok, back to the problem- what is the net force of a race car on a 30-degree angled bank…”

when you finish re-reading the problem, you reach over to grab the pencil that esteban put down to draw out a diagram to clarify the problem, when surprisingly, it doesn’t budge. 

even when you pull as hard as you could, the pencil stays stubbornly stuck to the desk.

what the..? 

present

“okay,” esteban says, waving his hands in the air as if it was clarifying things. “i went to your kitchen to eat those éclairs your mom made, remember? i got the crème filling on my hands, and it got on the pencil and everything, so that’s why it got stuck to the table...” 

you were so done with this guy. 

“este- my mom didn’t make éclairs- she made pain au chocolat!” 

caught up in his lie, there was nothing your boyfriend could do but to scratch his head awkwardly and pretend not to make eye contact with you. 

scoffing, you shake your head. honestly, you didn’t understand why your boyfriend had to lie all the time. what did he even have to hide? 

pushing off the bed, you take off your piece of clothing with the weird stain that had came from esteban’s hands in one smooth motion. it was probably best to get the stain out immediately before it ruined your shirt. besides, it would give him a chance to reflect. maybe then he’d tell you. 

before walking out to throw your laundry in the wash, you sternly tell off your boyfriend.

”este, i suggest you tell me whatever it is you’re hiding after i come back from starting up the laundry, because, as your girlfriend, i think i deserve to know, no?”

chucking your piece of clothing into the washing machine, you decide to wash a few articles of esteban’s clothes as well, cause hey, it saves water, right?

you throw in a few mismatched socks, a scuffed up hoodie, and a worn shirt before you spot a flash of red-spandex like material at the bottom of his basket. 

brushing aside a rolled-up pair of jeans, your eyes widen almost comically when you spot what it really is. tucked haphazardly at the bottom of your boyfriend’s laundry basket is a wrinkled spider-man mask.

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[salami-dono]

Day 15: Primary

This was inspired by Kyary's song, Ninja Re Bang Bang. You'll have to go down the rabbit hole to figure out what that song has to do with Shadow the Hedgehog and this rainy scene. Will I even remember in a few months?

[gaddaboutgriffon]

Master post

My own Posts.

Super Ghostly Farming DCxDP Superwoman AU

Super Phantom DCxDP

Future Son?! DCxDP

Super X-man

DND Young Justice

DPxDC A Tale of Two Jacks

Age Reversal

Teenage Mutant Ninja Wizard

Alien PETA

Young Justice Spider

The Year of the Dragon

Baby bat, Phantom, and the X-men

Superwoman Kara

Spleen Surprise DCxDP

Benders in DC (ATLA x justice league)

Random OC Villain Character not connected to any existing media

Revival Brothers DPxDC part 1 part 2 part 3

X Phantom

Omega Spider

Not mine but I am invested in.

Time Winder. Connected to Time Travel Teen Parents also inspired Time Travel AU

Re-alive ray superson

Pack less misunderstandings

Thermon aka Ghost Pokémon

Red Arrow’s Ghost

Halfa universal clone donor

Snookums the kryptonian guard dog!

Home alone with Deathstroke looney tunes style.

Niche unheard of crossover ideas. (Some not even a one shot on ao3🥲

Wild Kratts x How to Train Your Dragon

Batclan in Redwall

Series and media I like or liked and enjoy fan discussion and fics on (may include Cartoons, Books, Movies or Games.)1 How to train your dragon2 Transformers Prime (cartoons, NOT the movies)3 Avatar the last air-bender. (Not including Korra)4 Teenage mutant ninja turtles (cartoon series)5 Spectacular Spider-man (cartoon Series)6 Redwall (cartoon and book series)7 Pokemon (cartoon and game)8 Sonic the hedgehog (cartoons, and comics.)9 Justice league (the 1990 animated series. NOT the live action movies) And batman animated. 10 My Little pony FIM (G4 cartoon) 11 Marvel Cinematic Universe (before Disney bought it)12 Wings of Fire (books)13 Ben 10 (cartoon)14 Star wars (past liked not present)15 Star trek original series (past liked not present)16 Neo-pets ( Toys. great concept but not the best executed game)17 Kungfu Panda (cartoons)18 Teen titans (original Cartoon, not go)19 Rangers apprentice (books)20 Kim possible (cartoon)21 Lilo and stitch (cartoon)22 American Dragon (Cartoon)23 Big Hero 6 (cartoon) 24 Guardians of Ga’Hoole (books. don’t bother with the movie)25 Epic (animated movie by Blue Sky studios)26 Atlantis the lost Empire (Disney cartoon)27 Big bang theory (TV)28 Lord of the Rings (movies and books.)29 Dragon Quest (games)30 Wild Krats (cartoon)31 The Fluppy Dogs (cartoon)32 Zootopia (cartoon)33 Nelvana Care bears (cartoon specifically the 1985 to 1988 series)34 Last man standing (what can I say he reminds me of my dad)35 Bones (TV)36 Warrior cats. (books only read up until power of three arc)37 Flash (TV)38 Home improvement (TV)39 Steven Universe (cartoon. concept was good but poorly executed story)40 Phineas and Ferb (cartoons)41 Milo Murphy’s law (cartoon)42 Amphibia (cartoon)43 Emperors new groove. (cartoon)44 Harry Potter (books)45 Chronicles of Narnia (books)46 Dinotopia (TV movie, and books)47 Encanto (cartoon)48 Jane and the dragon. (cartoon)49 Gravity falls (cartoon)50 Swat Kats (cartoon)51 Chip and Dale rescue rangers (cartoon) 52 Ducktales (cartoon) 53 Prince of Egypt. (Animated movie) 54 Danny Phantom. (Cartoon) 55 Puss in Boots (dreamworks movies)56 Young Justice (cartoon have not read the comics) 57 Batman Wayne family adventures (web comic. 58 Tower dungeon farmer (web comic)

[leoquesito]

I HERD U LIEK JDWII COACHES.

Okay, do you have any hcs for any of the JDWii coaches? Cause I really like them.

YESS!! i love jd wii coaches!! i just been getting into jd wii games so im still forming headcanons but i have a few (mainly for the Kyary Pamyu Pamyu coaches)

So first of all i know the spin offs (is jdwii saga a spin off? probably) probably don't stick to the in universe rules of the main games BUT i love to see dances and think wich danceverse they would belong

So... the Kyary Pamyu Pamyu coaches i think they would fit perfectly in WackyGroove, they BELONG there

As well as the Wanko Ni Mero Mero coaches i like to see them as sisters. PonPonPon being the older, Tsukematsukeru the middle and Ninja Re Bang Bang the youngest. Idk they just gave me that vibe

And i think they would be friend with the Wanko Ni Mero Mero coaches or at least know eachother

But these two in particular... i've been thinking alot about them, them... i see them being friends more than the other coaches

I saw them as besties as first, the Sayonara coach being the more moody and generally not as friendly with people as opposite of the Ninja Re Bang Bang coach that is more easy going and i wouldn't say she's an extrovert but she is more positive and friendly than Sayonara.

and after reading the (translated) lyrics of the Ninja Re Bang Bang i been starting to ship them tbh. it being such a cheesy love song dedicated to a ninja i can't help but think about Sayonara feeling like that about NRBB. i just really love an opposites attract dynamic. Sayonara having a soft spot for NRBB but denying it... all really cliché but i love it a lot i would love to draw them being cute together

It's a lot about so little coaches but i just think a lot about them... (i also have some headcanons about the UFO coach from jdwii1 with other alien coaches but i don't want this post to be so long...)

[localsimpissleepy]

Part 4 of my Just Dance ships

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Julia x Urban

I started shipping them as soon as that brat short with Julia came out, idk why but I think they look great together

I like to think they met through Cherry Delish, Cherry introduced Urban to her twin sister, Julia, and Urban instantly fell for her lol, he thought she was really pretty and cool

He tried to impress her for a long, although Julia thought Urban was kind an annoying and an uninteresting guy for the longest time

That is until Cherry kept inviting Urban whenever she and Julia hanged out, and after some time, Julia's feeling towards Urban changed

Julia later caught feelings for Urban and the two confessed and later started dating

Headcanons:

- Urban tried to teach Julia how to play DDR, but she was just horribly bad at it lol

- Julia would throw hands if anyone dares to mess or insult with Urban lol (malewife & girlboss)

- Despite already dating, Urban still gets shy and flustered around Julia whenever she does anything romantic

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Clover x Tonio

Idk how I started shipping them, but I think they'll be cute together

I like to think they met when Tonio tagged along with Ricardo & Miguel to go to Sun Horizon for a vacation. As they were walking around, they soon met Clover, Cappuccine. and Valencia

Clover instantly thought Tonio was cute when she first met him and started hanging out around him (like complimenting him alot), Tonio was confused on how someone like Clover was talking to him, let alone hang out with him, but he didn't complain

Later, the two fell in love and later started dating

Headcanons:

- The first few days of them dating were kinda awkard, mainly for Tonio since he's never dated anyone before, but Clover was understanding and gave Tonio some time to adjust to the relationship

- I have this hc that Tonio is mute, so Clover learned sign language just for him

- Clover sometimes does Tonio's hair, Tonio tried to do the same for Clover, but her hair was way to long to tame lol

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Sara x So

I already mentioned this ship before, but I wanted to talk a bit more about it

I thought of this ship when I suddenly remembered that So appears for a bit in the background during If You Wanna Party, and idk, I just started shipping them

I like to think they saw each other during If You Wanna Party, but they couldn't reañly start a conversation since Sara had to leave to go back to Earth, but they got to talking in another party hosted by Wanderlust

They talked and started hanging out with each other, after some time, the two caught feelings and soon started dating

Headcanons:

- Sara tried to take So on a date around Earth, but since coaches need Flow in them, I hc that coaches run out Flow in their bodies when on Earth, causing them to get really weak and having to go back into the game. Sara was dissapointed and sadden by this fact, but So assured Sara that it's okay and that they could just have their dates at Sara's house

- So takes Sara on a lot of dates to Wasterra, and Sara is getting used to the fashion and lifestyle there (although it can still be a bit dangerous for her still)

- Brezziana was Sara's wingwoman while So's was Bong lol, before Sara & So started dating, the two would plan together to get Sara & So to confess

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Nova x Karaoke Forever

I know this is a weird ship but hear me out guys pls

I hc that Karaoke Forever rarely went outside of the Melosia Realms (he was a bit scared since he didn't know much about the other Danceverses)

But his twin sister (Ninja Re Bang Bang) somehow managed to convince him to go out and explore atleast one of the Danceverse, Dancity

Where he happened to met Nova during one of their shows

Karaoke Forever instantly fell for Nova and with the help of his sister, he managed to start a conversation with them and the two started hanging out and laters started dating

Headcanons:

- Nova wrote a song for Karaoke Forever and performed it during one of their shows, Karaoke Forever saw and was very emotional (he asked Nova to play the song again once in a while after that)

- Nova started teaching Karaoke Forever how to play the electric guitar after he asked to learn (although he's kinda bad at it, Nova doesn't tell him that and appreciates that he's willing to learn and get better)

- Karaoke Forever once tried to cook dinner for Nova, but since he's never been in a modern kitchen so it ended in disaster (Nova was more amused than mad though)

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Ashen x Miss Understood

They just remind me alot of Mei & Meg from Fnafhs (probably no one knows those characters or show) so I started shipping them

I like to think their childhood friends, Miss Understood was a lonely kid and refused to let anyone close to her, until she met Ashen

Ashen was very interested in Miss Understood and wanted to get to know her more, Miss Understood tried to avoid Ashen and kept telling her to leave her alone

But after many of Ashens attempts to befriend her, Miss Understood soon realized that Ashen was genuinely being nice to her and had no bad intentions, so she opened up to Ashen amd the two became friends

The two continued hanging out and soon, Miss Understood caught feelings for Ashen

But she didn't want to ruin her and Ashen's friendship, so she kept her feelings a secret until adulthood, why until adulthood? Because one day, Ashen suddenly confessed to her lol

The two later started dating then

Headcanons:

- Ashen invites Miss Understood to all her & Nova's concerts, and Miss Understood attends all of them (she's not letting anything get in the way to go support her girlfriend lol)

- Because of the background of Miss Understood, I hc that Miss Understood secretly likes to garden (she finds ot relaxing) and she tried to teach Ashen how to garden, but Ashen was somehow terrible at it lol

- Their dates are just them staying at home and relaxing together

[vocaloid-tunes]

Ninja Re Bang Bang (cover) | sat1080 feat. GUMI V3 Sweet // Original by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

[digi-tama-in-your-pocket]

I've been on a real comic book kick lately. I'm mostly fixated on Batman at the moment ( his partner would totally be Cyberdramon btw, maybe tukaimon as the rookie stage ) but it got me thinking about how id love to see more collaboration between the western comics scene and the japanese manga scene, we've got a Naruto meets Ninja Turtles crossover coming soon, DC and Marvel already dabbled in manga and anime versions of their stuff, and we have various netflix adaptations of anime, and a few movies. Admittedly, I wish when it came to the western side of things, we'd stop doing so much live action and start doing animation and comics.

I'm getting rambling a little off topic here. It led me to think back, and I swear I have a memory of manga releasing as single floppy issues on american comic book racks. I distinctly remember Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Pokemon Adventures, and The Electric Tale of Pikachu all releasing each chapter as a single stand alone comic book. I just can't seem to find any evidence of this... but tell you what I do remember though...

These western adaptations of the Digimon Anime, mostly just a 1:1 recration, hand drawn, rather than, whatchacallem, those "Cinemangas" that used to take up space on the shelf at Borders.

Look at these fucking covers.

I love them so much. The composition of each one really has the attention grabbing energy that so many comics on store shelves had to have at the time. Although only 12 issues were published in the west, it looks like other territories got the whole she-bang, and even Adventure 02, Frontier, and Tamers got comics.

I'd love to see these all re-released in glorious full color, even if it's only digitally... however, we all know that's never going to happen. I'm sure these comics are wrapped in all kinds of legal red tape and Bandai probabl doesn't even know they exist.

That being said...

it would be so cool to see a brand new ongoing comic book in the west set in the world of Digimon. I know the western comic book scene has it's issues but one thing they do very well is explore an established canon from all sorts of different angles. And the best part is, purists who don't want this, don't have to read it.

And I'd kind of like a Tamagotchi comic too, that's kind of what I thought that "time travel" shell was at first, but alas. And I think that's even less likely than a Digimon Dark Horse reprint, because.. well I don't think a tamagotchi comic would sell even a little. We can't even get the anime subbed and fans aren't interested. No chance a comic book could happen.

[terribleninjagoaus]

All the nerds get together in the dojo (for the sake of comedy this is Zane with his emotion switch turned off for Sheldon). Jay is Leonard, Cole is Howard, PIXAL is Amy, Nya is Bernadette. It's literally just a pre existing episode of the big bang theory but completely re done with the ninja and they will not break character at all.

The laugh track is just Wu and Misaki randomly laughing at random points throughout the episode

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[maruvilhcsa]

˗ˏˋ ♡ ˎˊ˗ ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤnow playing : ninja re bang bang by kyary pamyu pamyu

olha só quem está chegando, é AGATSUMA KAZUYUKI. ele é filho de MARUYAMA KOHAKU, que morou no haneul em 2023. olha só como já está grande, acho que tem VINTE E SEIS anos agora, acho que ainda trabalha como ENGENHEIRO DE SOFTWARE. olhando daqui parece um pouco com YAMAZAKI KENTO, não acha?

HEADCANONS;;

Depois do falecimento do pai Kohaku ficou devastada e perdeu seu rumo, o seu brilho. A sensação de estar sozinha foi muito grande. Essa foi a motivação para a mudança para o Japão. Juntou todas as economias que eram para seu salão de beleza e voltou para sua Terra Natal com a esperança que preenchesse o vazio no peito. Não deu certo como ela esperou, mas a experiência foi marcante. A vida foi conturbada no começo e ela achou que cometeu um grande erro, mas fez amigos que ajudaram a se reencontrar. Entre eles Agatsuma Soubi, que era um garçom com sonhos de vencer na vida na base de sua arte, a sua música.

Kohaku foi a musa de Soubi por algum tempo e um romance floresceu daquela boa amizade. Um casamento simples e uma vida tranquila em um apartamento pequeno, que era o que podiam pagar. No meio disso, nasceu Kazuyuki, o primeiro é único filho do casal.

Os pais de Yuki se divorciaram pouco depois de seu nascimento. Soubi encontrou uma nova musa. Kohaku criou o filho sozinha, com o seu esforço nas profissões que sabia, cabeleireira e manicure, mas não em seu próprio salão. Ela nunca conseguiu abrir o seu próprio. Mas Yuki sempre viveu bem com o que tinha, era o bastante. O menino cresceu bem e saudável. Tímido e muito grudado na mãe que é sua única família. Mas muito bem.

Kohaku decidiu mudar sua vida toda de novo e quis voltar para a Coreia quando Yuki terminou a escola. Ele não tinha como não ir. Aprender coreano foi difícil, mas Yuki era inteligente. O bastante para conseguir passar em um vestibular e cursar engenharia de software em uma boa faculdade em Seul. Ele trabalha em dois empregos, um presencial e um home office para poder arcar com a dívida estudantil que ficou e ajudar a mãe a pagar a casa que ela comprou em Busan.

É a primeira vez que Yuki e a mãe participam da reunião de ex-moradores. Ele só está indo porque ela pediu por companhia.

[ofhedgehogsandpumpkins]

Just dm @saintofanything lmao i promise you've known me longer than you probably remember, unless you still recognize my avatar. Tbh im pretty sure we're still friends on discord!

Last song: Uhhh...hm. Probably smth Crane Wives. Unless we count movies in which case the last one I recognized was Ninja Re Bang Bang which is inexplicably in John Wick 3

Currently watching: The John Wick movies! Just have #4 left.

Three ships: We dooon't really ship. Artificer/Hunter (Rain World) is fun tho. They could make each other worse

Fav color: Hmm. Uhhh. Purple, usually. All flavors. Collectively pretty good on purple, I like it a lot.

Currently consuming: Ramen, soon!

First ship: Oh probably Homestuck. Dave/Jade I think.

Birthplace: NJ, USA

Current location: Ramen :)

Relationship status: A lot! We're getting married this year, I have 2 other girlfriends and a FWB, Ace has two partners, Orchid is...Orchid but strictly speaking only dating three other people. The others don't date much as of now. You might be like "Quinn, that's a lot of people!" but like three of those people are doubled up. Also they and we aren't always around, so like. We put care into each one, tho

Last movie: John Wick 3. Fun movies!

Currently working on: Nothing 😅 Supposed to be working on a Monster Hunter themed TF story though.

Uhhh i dooont really have anyone to tag who'd do it? Im not a tumblr social butterfly, haaaa

[authorangelita]

NINE PEOPLE I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW BETTER

I was tagged by @disappearinginq – thank you!! 

LAST SONG?  Spotify says it's Snow (Hey Oh) by Red Hot Chili Peppers.  The song that's been stuck in my brain all day is Chlorine by twenty one pilots.

FAVORITE COLOR?  Deep purple or forest green

CURRENTLY WATCHING?  Ghosts, Fire Country, and The Rookie are the shows I watch  that are currently airing.  And I'm watching some older shows like CSI and Castle and Big Bang Theory.  I'm also super into vintage Jeopardy on Pluto TV. 

LAST MOVIE?  Alien (45th anniversary re-release on the big screen!)

SWEET/SPICY/SAVORY?  Sweet is my jam (pun intended).  I also love savory.  I'm learning to like spicy.   

RELATIONSHIP STATUS?  Single

CURRENT OBSESSIONS? Work is crushing my soul, so I don't really have any current obsessions.  I'm actively avoiding new shows that I think I'll get obsessed with because I have so many MacGyver fics that I want to finish, and I know how my brain works.  If I get obsessed with something new, I'll never finish those. 

LAST THING YOU GOOGLED? American Ninja Warrior Season 16 premiere date.  It popped up on the app I use to track my TV watching, so I wanted to verify.  It's June 3rd!  Before that it was the MID function in Excel because I was trying to help my brother sort a report for his job, lol

Umm, I usually don't tag people because I get anxious about it, but I'm going to give it a go this time. Like disappearinginq, I'm going to choose people from my mutuals list (if you're already been tagged/already done it, you can ignore me): @loves-2-read, @bloodfromthethorn, @januarydivide, @erinsworld, @commanderbunnbunn, @fesweetpea, @rosieblogstuff, @impossiblepluto, @appalachianapologies

[lordnot]

It is important to acknowledge the necessary role that gaming piracy plays when it comes to preserving gaming history

but I think we may overlook the role it also plays when it comes to pressuring gaming publishers to polish their own retro gaming re-releases and give us more bang for our buck.

It seems apparent that more and more companies are moving away from the $5-10 a pop model for selling emulated games on newer consoles in favor of larger collections. The Konami Collections. The Ninja Turtle Cowabunga Collection. Atari's most recent anniversary collection. Collections where they include different display options, regional variants, artwork, development materials, interviews, save states and rewind features, etc. And I have to imagine that many of these improvements are in response to the recognition that most people can Google pretty much any 20+ year old game, download the ROM for free, and run it on most of their major electronics.

So, you know. Respect your local pirate.

[jesteriajunovix]

Hi, I wanna talk about music stuff while procrastinating over school work.

I was lost thinking about old music I used to listen to or that happened to be around me growing up.

To kind of chart out the time line of taste I think it went:

2009-2013 R&B, Pop, Pop Rock, [Miscellaneous 2000s shit], J-PoP, Jrock, Visual Kei, Rap

Starting at 2009, because Its when I was first actually interpreting music with my toddler brain. The dates aren't exactly for the music that came out at these times. Its more so for like what I was listening to around then.

R&B,

because family and also Mary J, Jamie Fox, Usher, Ne-Yo along with a bunch of other R&B singers were popping up with that "Slick"/"Smooth" suit and lazer aesthetic and those Amorous, or Party or "pick yourself up" kind of songs you'd hear at a black family reunion.

Mariah Carey - We Belong Together

Jamie Fox - Blame it

*Tugs on Collar*

Some songs age better than others.

Usher - There Goes My Baby

And of course, all the R&B that came before because that shit ain't poof out of existence...

And that stinky ass nigga Justin Timberlake

Pop

of course. 2009-2013 had good popular songs and the songs from prior years were of course still being bumped.

Honestly my favorite shit goin on around then was probably when the black eye peas were fighting dancing robots and shit.

"I'mma be a bank I be loanin Out Semen" - Socrates

Also

 La Roux - Bullet Proof

still fuckin owns.

Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven

pretty good. Pre-Funk Bruno. A form I don't typically acknowledge much on the day-to-day.

Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape ft. Akon

Clean Bandit - Rather Be

Pop Rock

my sister was big into Coldplay, Fall Out Boy, One Direction, and a bunch of other boy bands I can't remember. I also personally liked maroon 5 a bit.

Maroon 5 - This Love

(2003 I know. Still was being bumped.)

Fall Out Boy - She's My Winona

Stuck In the Sound - Let's Go

The music video for this one scared the fuck out of me. You know when as a kid people tell you one day the sun will explode and you just are kinda left to sit with that fact like...

Kid Me: "Holy shit the sun is going to explode TOMORROW."

and you just kind of had to shake yourself out of those thoughts over time. Well that's what this music video did for me.

Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend

You have no idea how fucking IN this song was for me. This is like for 5 people, but if you remember there were these powerpuff girl AMV's where there were like evil powerpuff girls and a mirror or something and I thought that was the DEEPEST SHIT EVER for some reason in my Child brain. Like oh my fucking god. I bring this up, because I think that literally might of been how I found the song. Through those AMV's...God....Moving on.

Smash Mouth - All Star

Completely unironically. I didn't know what MLG was and "Deep Fried memes"...Eugh...Weren't a thing yet.

Miscellaneous 2000s-2010s shit

-Miku (And Rin and Len) [With Luka Night Fever on the side]

-Euro Beat. Specifically starting with "Running in the 90s"

-Cascade -Bad Boy

-Literal Trailers.........*Cough*.....not good peoples.

-Just the Nyan Cat song on Repeat. (Do ya'll remember the game?)

-Peanut Butter Jelly time which to me is just like...Good dance music.

-Video Game OST stuff (Especially the OG Touhou hitters)

And probably some other dumb stuff I can't remember right now.

J-pop

One of my sisters literally got me addicted to Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's music like crack. I was ANNOYING with how much I listened to her.

FASHION MONSTER, FURISODATION, TSUKEMATSUKERU, NINJA RE BANG BANG, PONPONPON, I LITERALLY LEARNED THE DANCE FOR CANDY CANDY TO THE T!!!

I was a legit fan girl and in the gumbo of like parts that make up my trans identity that were there before I even realized I was trans she legit filled a kind of hole for me emotionally in accepting my feminity through the expression of dance and aesthetic...Put simply her music means quite a bit to me.

Outside of her though,

PORNOGRAFFITTI - Melissa

My sis showed me the 1st full metal alchemist anime. Good Intro. Good Song.

Kohmi Hirose - Promise

Learned about it of course through the old meme.

honestly 2009-2013 I wasn't especially on game with Jpop, but I was for sure searching for gate ways to get deeper into it. Thats when I start picking up some flavors in 2014.

J-rock

Fujifabric - Ginga

This song honestly really got my brain going with its guitar. It still ranks pretty high for me even with all the other Jrock I have under my belt at this point.

I KNOW there were others songs and bands, but at some point, I lost my MP3 and because all the titles were in kanji there was legit no way for me to look for those songs afterwards. I asked my sister about a few maybe, but she was kind of growing out of her J-Rock phase and didn't remember any of the bands or titles either.

Doomed to time some of those songs.

Visual-Kei

(This entire chunk of text coming up is an aside for some gender stuff)

my sister was the plug for a lot of the music I heard from Japan. If I wanted to download a song to my Mp3 I'd have to go to her to help. She also happened to be super into Malice Mizer and like unintentionally probably led me to some of my androgynous T goals I've had even before being comfortable being trans.

Like I didn't even know what a transgender was so when I saw Mana-Sama I was just like

"What if I was like....a cool totally not gay dude who just kind of wore fem shit like that? Wouldn't that be swimming in a totally not-gay way? [Derogatory]"

🐸"Hey its me the Future Ghost of Jordon Peterson! "Transwomen" are hysterical and should be comfortable just being feminine men! Thinking themselves to be women is delusional and a futile attempt to gain attention while ignoring our biological reality for illogical Neo-Modernist Marxist ideological fallacies!"

"Wow, thank you Future Ghost of Jordon Peterson. I'll be sure to internalize that quietly until suddenly my egg cracks and I turn into a confused genderfluid person typing onto tumblr a rather odd and strangely personal scene I completely pulled out of nowhere on this post about music."

🐸"clean your roooooooom~"

*Fades Away*

(back to musicvvvvvvvvvv)

Golden Bomber - Memeshikute

I thought they were all very cool looking (and pretty) and the music they made was hype as shit as much as they are like a parody visual-kei group.

Boku-Quest is also a fuckin banger. I think I heard of them before malice mizer? so they might be the first Visual-Kei band I was introduced to.

Gackt - Vanilla

STAYED on repeat. God bless Gackt for serving cunt while dressed like a humanized version of Ryuk from Death note.

No crumbs.

Malice Mizer - Au Revoir

I was devastated when I first heard Kami passed. Rest in peace to bro. What an Icon.

Malice Mizer was the first thing I ever saw that was so unapologetically Gothic and Aesthetically driven. Like, nothing at the time was louder to my eyes in any media or band than Malice Mizer I don't think. Like I didn't even know wtf was going on, but I was like whatever this is right here I'm going to get deeply obsessed with it.

Also, sonically Klaha & Gackt hit a lot of notes in this very angelic timbre that was very form-fitting for the rest of their music in a way I didn't really see a lot of other male singers use. I suppose the best way I can describe it is Opera-esque.

but ya. I loved Malice Mizer, and joined young enough to not be immediately aware they disbanded in like 2001, so I was SUPER into it without any thoughts of disappointment at that idea, because I legit didn't know they were inactive until later when I was listening to other stuff already.

Rap

While my household family wasn't the worst about it, it was a kinda "don't let me CATCH you listening to it" sorta deal. Quickly switch to the next song when I hear someone coming in type shit. It was weird.

Chris Brown - Look At Me Now

Young me thought Busta Rhymes like, peaked the rap game, because he rapped really fast in a very entertaining way. I ain't hear half the shit these niggas said on this track I'm gonna be real, but I loved it nonetheless.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop

Listen.............................I was no more than 7. Let me live on this one.

Lil Wayne - Mrs. Officer

Funny thing, I remember really loving the WEE OO WEE OO WEE part of the song and not much else. Like I tuned out the rest of this entire song somehow. I guess this is more passable for R&B...but fuck it.

DMX - X Gon Give It To Ya

It was just one of those hype ones you wouldn't think I'd have on my Mp3....I remember playing it a lot while on tekken 6 or just roaming around in Assassins Creed killing niggas.

Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools

I remember it being hard to escape this song for a bit.

Rap like....I wasn't super into it really because as a dancer it was like....I can't dance to this nigga singing like this so I'm not interested. It's easier to just pull out some R&B, Usher, Michael Jackson or some other Funk.

I was a BIG funk kid.

Funk and Groove

Funkadelic - (Not Just) Knee Deep

Michael Jackson - Off the Wall

Koolandthegang - Get Down On It

Boney M. - Rasputin (oddly)

Earth Wind and Fire - Lets Groove Tonight

Michael Jackson - Workin' Day and Night

Rick James - Super Freak 

Carl Carlton - She's A Bad Mama Jama

and so on.....

hm............It seems I've wrote half the day away. I'll come back to this later

[gamerbot-22]

Buckle Up, Shit's About to Get Weird Again--

Only five ficlets for this week's postmortem! On account of me taking Monday and Tuesday off (and what a vacation that was. It was really nice getting to just chill for a little while, although I'm really happy to be back properly!)

Last week’s postmortem is here, and the tierlist is here!

Things Have Moved, and I Have An Admission - So I shifted some stuff around from last week, as is customary at this point, and I the longer this goes on the more I am. Certain that I will do a Grand Re-Ranking maybe a week after I finish all the characters I have lined up or at most, right before I start the Post 3.0/Amphoreus leg of this race. I think my grading criteria has been a bit too nebulous and has only gotten more so as I continue (originally it was subjective quality, then it was how much I wanted to go back and read it, now it's kind of just Vibes), but that's not a huge deal, considering that this is all for fun and the ranking is more an excuse for me to do some self-critique and share some of my writing process with the people who wanna read that--

Dazzling Ninja and Silvergun Shura in: Crash Bang Boom! Flashy New Hairstyle!, A Tier - I think this one was really fun and a nice snapshot of Rappa and Boothill's dynamic but I think my slight bias towards Boots and the relative newness of Rappa's character to me combined to make her take something of a backseat in her own fic. It was something I definitely noticed by the time I finished writing it, but I was cutting it pretty close to the wire/I was getting a little tired so I figured I'd leave it as is because Rappa does absolutely get the punchline of this entire scenario. I don't know how well it read, but I really wanted the first half of the ficlet to read as like. Old Dragon Ball/Shonen Anime narration (probably read in Rappa's voice inside her head) until there was that break of Momentary But Absolutely Real Danger when Rappa got shot at. Also wow, I really just. Breezed over the fact that Boothill shot a guy and killed him, didn't I? Kinda feels like this bit from Avatar--

Teaching a Good Dog New Tricks, S Tier - Pfft. This one was really silly. I typed up the title first--I usually do this as a point of reference for the fic's tone, and then change it if needed as I write--and just kind of ran with it from there. This is definitely one of those ficlets that got me in the ever elusive "Groove" really fast, and I absolutely attribute it both to the way I wrote Sampo and Gepard's dynamic and the fact that, as mentioned in Feixiao's Ficlet's A/N, I love taking capable characters out of their comfort zones. Gepard is canonically a tank, so it felt only right that he's not all that graceful, especially on the ice (which like. Same. I have tried ice skating multiple times and biffed it every single time.) Honestly the one thing I think holding this ficlet back/something that I'd change is I would want the scene to go longer. Like actually have Sampo teach Gepard how to skate with no strings attached (outside of forcing the stuffy captain into some quality time that isn't just grilling him down at the station.) Thankfully, sequels exist <3

False Start, S Tier - This one was. A nightmare to sort out. But once I had the idea figured I got it going really well. My probably ADHD was kicking my ass in regards to actually getting this done but again, fucking. Nailed it in terms of honoring Qingque's character. The cameo thing was born of wanting to make her delays feel actually fun instead of annoying (from the reader's perspective at least) and the guessing game that came with it was. Fully just me having fun. In hindsight, I absolutely should have had Bailu in the scene, and honestly she would have been easy to write in, but alas, my 11:00PM brain was not cooperating lol.

Not related to the fic, but I'm really happy that the running gag of Boothill lying about being other PCs made it into the actual guessing game that was so fun to riff off of.

The Importance of Proper Form, A Tier - Down in A Tier instead of S Tier because I think I wrote Feixiao a bit too out of character, even if I said I was intending for the piece to be pre-canon. Wiggle room aside, I don't think I did enough in the story itself to express how annoyed/embarrassed I wanted her to be for missing shots. That being said, Jiaoqiu and Moze felt pretty solid for me. I love the idea of the brain cell kind of just. Bouncing between the three of them when they're not in an Active Crisis and they all have to lock the fuck in. Again, I would also like to think my friend, Val, who teaches archery IRL for giving me a laundry list of beginner archery mistakes to slap onto Feixiao, it was a 10/10 infodump <3

Laid Up, S Tier - Lukaaa my beloved. I have a friend who doesn't play HSR but has been following my updates make a joke about how I might be "holding up parts of the fandom single-handedly" and while I have definitely felt it in the response to a couple fics (mainly someone getting really excited about Yunli content after her release,) I think Luka, by virtue of being a relatively early release and despite him being the MC of the actual Wardance Event, could benefit from some bolstering. I love him, he's fun, I am absolutely getting something signed by his VA when he comes to a local con in the Summer and... yeah. It was fun writing him being a bit of a pain for Natasha with his self-sacrificial/dedicated instinct.

What's Up Next? - I have some more travel plans coming up and in the spirit of being a Good House Guest, there will be a pause in ficlets again, starting from This Friday (March 14) to the following Tuesday (March 18.) I'll do another mini postmortem on the after I finish the next 4 ficlets, and when I'm back, another mini postmortem on the following Sunday! It's weird but once it's done it'll all make sense, lol--