#SORRY i infodumped everywhere

[agenderakali]

The LBGT rep in League of Legends seems interesting so far!

If you had any critiques on how the rep as a whole is being portrayed, which would they be?

Sorry if this seems like too much of a hassle, you just piqued my interest, is all 😆

Oh I have SO many things to say about the LGBT representation in League, I love to talk about it. So, league started out as a very cishetereo, misogynist IP and a lot of that unfortunately shows to this day. A lot of the old designs are crappy and misogynistic, the fanbase is toxic. But over time devs have been updating their designs, lore, stories, and characters and in doing so have introduced more LGBT characters into the universe.

This pretty much started with Caitlynn and Vi all the way back in 2012. They were originally billed as the "good cop bad cop" duo from Piltover. Vi's short hair and their close working relationship got a lot of people speculating on Vi being a lesbian and them being more than business partners. Devs hinted at characters being queer, and the (predominantly cishet man) fanbase made homophobic jokes and memes about queer coded characters. Jokes, speculation, and hints from developers was all there was when it came to LGBT rep. That changed when Varus got his lore update in 2017, when they decided to totally retcon his old lore and say he is not some guy, actually is a gay couple that gave up their mortal forms to exist in the body of a darkin (?? kinda weird and complicated lore) but shortly after that, Neeko was revealed. Who was League's first openly gay champion. She had voice lines flirting with women and showing no interest in men. Beyond her sexuality though, she's just got a very funny and adorable personality and her interest in women isnt sexualized for the mostly male audience. She was very well received despite some bigoted gamers bitching.

After that more and more champions were introduced as queer or confrimed that way. Rell was introduced as openly bisexual, K'sante was openly gay, Leona and Diana got a story where they kissed and were confirmed as lovers. Arcane confirmed Vi and Caitlynn being a couple. The amount of queer content is kind of sparing since their games arent rlly story focused and only offer characterization through brief voice lines. So... to be clear its kind of just representation crumbs. But I take them anyways dfkjgh. I think at least, one of the best things they did recently was confirm Graves as a gay man, his "work" partner Twisted Fate as bisexual, and wrote a story about their burgeoning romantic interest in eachother. Many of the queer characters league introduced were new, and some ended up neglected in the vast roster of characters. League has also avoided representation of gay male characters, probably to try to avoid displeasing their mostly straight male audience. Graves and Twisted Fate however, are very established & beloved characters in league, with a complicated history with eachother that started all the way back in 2011. For many years people joked about them "bickering like an old married couple" and in a pride event they officially confirmed it... I think it was very well done and meaningful to see and I really, really hope they further explore it in future cinematics/stories with these two. I really hope it doesn't end up being confined to this one story.

All of that said, though, League's major flaw in their representation is the lack of rep for trans people. The first attempt at a trans character in League was Taliyah. Her creator revealed that they intended for her storyline to involve her experience being a trans girl, but that part of her story was cut by higher ups. Taliyah is pretty much universally accepted as being trans by the community, but the studio did tell designers to keep it on the downlow, which is bullshit. She's been left out of league's pride events and I really hope they remedy that soon.

This post is getting way long I'm sorry but I CANT go without mentioning their other trans character from Legends of Runeterra, the card game they released based of league of legends. LoR actually has more queer representation than any league media, and builds out the world a LOT, through LoR we got confirmation about established character like Miss Fortune and Nami being queer themselves. And most notably, we have a surprisingly amazing representation of a trans character.

Tyari, the Traveler starts off going by he/him, and is starting a journey up the mountain of Targon. It's a treacherous climb but if you make it to the top, you could become an ascended being, basically. So throughout the game, cards of their friends and the people around them have lines support their journey and encouraging them.

When they reach the top, Tyari becomes the Traveler, a goddess-like being with a more feminine voice and appearance. You realize that the journey up the mountain is used as an allegory for her transition, and it throws those interactions with Taric in a whole new light. She is also voiced by trans voice actress Maddie Taylor.

I literally cannot listen to these lines between Tyari and her future self without tearing up. I don't know HOW a league of legends card game managed to put together a decent trans storyline but it guts me.

Tyari is a very beloved character from the card game, many fans want to see more of her in any future league media. (me included, oh my god)

SORRY that was a lot but uh. Tl;dr League representation is hit and miss, they really need to do better and give more representation towards trans people. the only representation outside of Arcane is like. Voice lines and short stories published on their website so I hope they'll creature more in depth queer storylines in future seasons of Arcane, future shows/movies, and their upcoming games around the League IP.

[federthenotsogreat]

Just thought I'd explain the system for soul names real quick! 👑

This won't be a huge infodump, just a small explanation for those curious! (if you want to, you can read up on souls right here!)

As you might have noticed, most souls in My Crown In Red have weirdly structured names such as Frostblood, Stormwing, Sunheart, Dreamsoul etc.

This is due to a very simple naming scheme that in the story's canon, Demonsoul came up with herself!

When coming up with a name, you choose a world you associate with the individual you want to name, and then add the word "heart", "wing", "blood", or "claw" at the end, which basically sorts them into a very cut down and dry version of a personality group.

Let me explain what each group basically means!

- Heart:

The heart people are very kind, emotional, and are always there to hand a helping hand. They may be very sensitive, but are also highly empathetic!

- Wing:

The wing guys like their freedom and the ability to express themselves. They are very creative, but can be a bit naive at times!

- Blood:

The edgelords! These guys may come off as a bit more self centered and mean. They sometimes think very highly of themselves and often leave a more insensitive impression.

- Claw:

The claw people tend to be well organized and focused. They have strong minds, and won't change their view on things easily. They can be very stubborn!

The names can also be interpreted as opposites to each other. Heart is the opposite of Blood, while Wing is opposite to Claw!

Wing people and Heart people also tend to be more similar to each other. The same goes for Claw and Blood individuals!

Should the soul transform however, the latter part of their name will be replaced by "soul".

Should the soul illuminate, this will then again be replaced by "light", for as long as the soul remains in their illuminated state.

Aand that's that basically! Just thought I should go over this real quick since I really didn't want to cover it in my post about souls!

As you might have guessed, sorting people into categories based off of their vibes isn't really the best idea, as it leads to a lot of stereotyping. Just because Frostblood is named Frostblood, doesn't mean that she's some coldhearted sociopath. But you go and tell that to Demonsoul!

It's also kinda nice because that way my characters don't have to have boring human names and can sound egdy hehehehe

[favcharacterpoll]

ROUND 6 MATCH 3: CECIL VS. C!WILBUR

Cecil Palmer from Welcome to Night Vale faces c!Wilbur from the dsmp. @10piecechickenmcnugget get over here sage

Cecil Propaganda:

"Cecil is not only the Tumblr sexyman, he is the first gay protagonist of a podcast that most of us have ever heard. From the very first episode he was unashamedly queer and no one has ever called him out or given him shit for being gay. He is a gay Jewish fashion disaster who is the mouthpiece for an incredibly bizarre town and plays the whole “this horrifying thing is completely normal”thing so well. If Cecil wasn’t there, I think a lot of people wouldn’t have felt so accepted for just being who they were. Cecil is an inspiration and the queer podcast rep we all deserved as we were growing."

"he’s gay. he’s a dilf. he’s ageless. he has been since there’s was nothing and he’s still here after the world ended. he can summon music. his mother is a oracle his father is a tree. his cat is a man who got cursed and also has wings a stinger and poison??? he thinks a tutu and crocs is formal wear and has talked to god and she said ‘I love you. I’m sorry’. he’s definitely guilty of manslaughter from negligence"

"this is the website Night Vale built!"

c!Wilbur Propaganda:

"Accurate depiction of mental health and spiral, handled delicately and deliberately, every piece of his story was thought and planned and in the end he went home to Utah. Thank you lord."

"Please don’t let the name dream smp effect how you feel about this submission, this character is completely unrelated to dream and I’m pretty sure the person who played him has nothing to do with dream anymore. This man single handedly got me through a horrible patch filled with extreme paranoia by also being extremely paranoid. Genuinely really helped me feel seen and I coped a lot by getting invested in this character. I almost cried when he died :("

"He’s so fucking stupid. I could infodump for hours this man transed my gender. Everything has gone wrong in his life. He’s the definition of a bisexual disaster."

"I didn’t fail 10th grade math bc I was thinking about c!wilbur for him to lose round one"

"I mean look at him!! his Minecraft skin is adorable!!!"

"if you people vote for cwilbur i'll draw him in a bikini."

"A VOTE FOR C!WILBUR IS A VOTE FOR GIRLBOYS EVERYWHERE"

"i should not have underestimated minecraft fans they came together"

"Season 1 changed me. I didn’t know minecraft videos could have good acting, dramatic plots, etc. Wilbur was one of the best there. His plot was so interesting with the L’Manburg and the unfinished symphony arcs. He was funny, dramatic, sad… I fondly remember my dsmp days (though I only saw up to like part of Tommy’s exile)"

[ms--lobotomy]

So happy you all are liking my Mertarion fics! Here's your food for the day. [Previous] [Next]

Summary: You learn to care for the big funny mermaid in your pool.

Word Count: 1016

Content Warning: Mention of the United States, mentions of eating live fish, infodumping about a topic that i find very interesting,

Image Credit: @squishyowl

The supermarket was crowded this Sunday with a selection of well-dressed denizens of your city. It must be the after-church rush. You felt most underdressed for this trip to the store. The line for the checkout was long, and the man behind you sighed as he checked his phone. The music was blaring loud, and you could hear it through your headphones. The cashier raised an eyebrow at you as she slid the last tray of salmon across the scanner.

"Cookout," you said, taking one of your headphones off of your ear.

The cashier stuck out her lower lip and nodded, sticking the tray in the last of your reusable bags. "Have fun at your cookout," she said. You winced at the total in front of you as you put your card in the card reader. Groceries were expensive already without a giant merman in your pool. It chimed, and you took the card out.

"Have a nice day," said the cashier, and you exited the store and hurried to your car.

...

"You told me you like salmon?" you asked, your lower legs dangling in the cool water. "How do you even get salmon? There's no wild salmon in the state," you said, throwing a cut into the pool.

He took it, putting it in a death roll not unlike an alligator would its prey. His teeth were sharp, his pupils (from what you saw, at least) a straight line on his eye. He splashed saltwater everywhere. You squealed, throwing your forearms in front of your face through the worst of it.

"Mortarion, careful, your stitches..." you muttered before he soon stopped his activity.

"Force of habit..." he said after swallowing his first bite of salmon. He had the fillet in one hand and was grabbing at the deep blue tiles that lined your pool with the other. You noticed him running his fingers along them, and smiled slightly. He took another bite and swallowed. "I would much prefer live fish, but this will do."

You shuddered at the prospect of feeding a live fish to the merman in your pool. Where would you even get one? Typhus spent a lot of time at the beach and you would see him there when you went on your off days, but you weren't going to ask him anytime soon.

Meanwhile, Mortarion pulled himself out of the pool a little bit to look at you. "You do not eat live fish?" he asked, his eyebrows raised and his green eyes widened.

"Oh, absolutely not," you muttered, running a hand along your other forearm.

"Oh," he said, genuinely taken aback. "You are a strange one, for sure."

"It's my entire species, actually..." you trailed off. "Unless, you're kind of weird, I guess? I mean, there's weirdos online who eat raw meat but I doubt they'd eat--"

"None of you eat live fish?" he asks after swallowing another bite of fish.

"No... sorry."

He looked at you incredulously. He moved his hand along the side of the pool, towards your dangling leg. He brushed his finger against its side, and you felt your heart beating in your chest much more palpable than normal. As you inhaled sharply, he retracted his hand, looking away briefly. Blood rushed to your face and you looked towards your plants.

The two of you sat in awkward silence for a moment as he finished his salmon before you caught sight of two orange butterflies in your yard. They flew around each other, tumbling through the air before one of them stopped at the passion vine that adorned the trellis and the other flitted around it.

"Oh!" you shouted, eager to fill the void with light conversation. You pointed at the two little beings by the plant. "Look! Butterflies!"

Mortarion's eyes shot towards your little friends. "That's what they look like," he remarked. "I did not expect their wings to be so... extravagant."

"Oh, I think I forgot to mention that," you said, your face going warm again. "Well, that's a Gulf Fritillary. Some people call it the Passion Butterfly, but my mom always called it the first one. Oh, oh! Can you see the iridescent spots on them? They're a little far..."

He nodded. "They have little black borders around them."

"Oh, you can see those?" you asked, your eyes going wide. "I can only see them when they're really close." You let out a slight chuckle before looking down at him. He was awestruck, to say the least. His eyes were trained on the small bugs. His tail swished in the pool, and the rest of him was as still as a statue.

"I have never seen creatures such as these," he remarked after a little while.

"Well, there's plenty of them to see here, especially this time of year," I said. "You see that plant over there? That's a passion vine, it's a host plant for more than one species of butterfly. The Zebra Longwing actually competes with the Gulf Fritillary for this plant!" The butterflies had been moving along the plant, trailing lower and lower.

Mortarion's eyes were still trained on them. "What's the Zebra Longwing like?" he asked.

"Slightly smaller," you said, shifting slightly at the poolside. Your leg brushed against his hand again. Your eyes widened and you tensed up. He turned around to look at you, and you relaxed. He wasn't here to hurt you.

"Is... is that okay?" he asked, his voice low yet raspy.

You nodded, slowly at first before your movement became more vigorous. "It is," you said, lowering your hand to touch his. His eyes widened before he looked up at you.

"Care to join me in the pool?" he asked. He shut his eyes before opening them, looking around almost in terror.

You looked down at your outfit. Shorts that were neither too long nor too short, and a white tank top with a red design stenciled into it. You got up, and he retracted his hand, still staring at you.

"I would love to," you said. "Just let me get changed real quick."

Taglist: @bispecsual @justeverythingnothingelse @bleedingichorhearts @nekotaetae @historitor-bookshelf

[sentientsky]

So Everything Everywhere All at Once huh

[through a mouthful of my own blood] yeagh. i'm actually so normal about this movie [i trip and fall and a bunch of scenes fall out of my pockets]

additional thoughts and infodump below the cut lol!

No, but genuinely, this film is so fucking incredible!

And I'm glad to see we're on the same page, 'cause I every time I watch this movie, I also spend the last 15-20 mins weeping uncontrollably lol

There are so many facets of it that make me feel as though my heart is clawing its way out of my chest: The enduring message of hope and resilience and compassion—that nothing matters on a cosmic scale, and that things are going to knock the air out of our lungs and leave us reeling with pain. But we create meaning. We are not alone and we are not fundamentally unloveable or worthless or wrong. And we are deserving of care and for people to try to understand and SEE us.

It also (imo) deals with depression and suicidality in such an evocative and important way. Jobu's apathy and exhaustion is so relatable. And the scene where Evelyn reaches into the bagel to pull her daughter back from the precipice of self-destruction? Instant tears. Sobbing uncontrollably.

I also really love the way it subverts the notion of masculinity as something that is emotionally closed-off and dismissive. Waymond is a hero by virtue of his compassion and gentleness (Pop Culture Detective has a really good video on the topic here)

And of course, the mommy issues. A woman traveling through all of time and space—ripping a hole in the side of the universe—just to get her mother to see and accept her? To have someone understand her? Painfully relatable. Send help.

I could go on, but it's pretty late here and my brain is starting to power down (also I don't want to clog up my mutuals' dashes lol). SORRY anyway thank u for this ask, i LOVED it ajskjfskdgds

[hammerbacks]

one of my favourite bits from this so far is how he sent number 10 into a panic one day because he was nowhere to be found and his car was still outside, but it turned out that he’d managed to sneak out on foot with someone from the cabinet office (and no police protection or anything) to get a mcdonalds

reading a book about john major’s first 18 months in office and despite being just shy of 50 pages into this, i’ve been smacked full force with both admiration for him and sadness that we don’t make prime ministers like him anymore

[your-resident-boat-person]

A BOAT PERSON YEEEEEES BOATS BOATS BOATS BOATS BOATS DO YOU HAVE A REASON FOR LOVING THEM? YOU HAVE A LIST OF FAVS AND THEY ARE GREAT ARE THERE ANY YOUD RECOMMEND PEOPLE LEARN ABOUT OR THAT YOU WANT TO INFODUMP ON SPECIFICALLY SORRY FOR THE CAPS I AM VERY VERY EXCITED

Okay, so, if I had to give a reason for liking ocean liners, the answer is probably that I'm a mega-autist. However, it started in the 5th grade. Like everyone else, Titanic was my gateway drug. That eventually expanded into other ocean liners.

If I had to recommend one to learn more about, it would easily be the SS America.

She had a long and storied 55-year-long career. I highly recommend the documentary by Oceanliner Designs on YouTube. However, I will give an abridged version of her story beneath the cut. It's a thrilling story, so if you're interested, don't read this; go watch his video. Its better:

Designed by the famous naval architect William Francis Gibbs, she was launched on August 31st, 1939. The day before World War II began. She was actually part of FDRs new deal program, meant to help the United States recover from the great depression. Her construction employed thousands of people, and nearly every state contributed to her in some way. She was built to a 3 compartment standard, meaning with 3 of her 14 watertight compartments flooded, shed stay afloat. This is actually better than most modern cruise ships, I might add. She was completed on April 16th, 1940, but given all the U-Boats everywhere, she couldn't exactly serve as a transatlantic liner. So the maiden voyage of this ocean liner was actually a Mediterranean cruise. United States Lines actually painted two giant American flags on each side of her hull, with the text “AMERICA UNITED STATES LINES” in big, bold letters, just in case they somehow did encounter a U-Boat.

America was a neutral country at the time, so that kind of thing was important to advertise. Eventually, the US got pulled into the war, and the SS America was requisitioned as a troopship and renamed the USS West Point. I don't know if this is confirmed, but I suspect that it's because if she were lost in the war, announcing that a ship bearing the name of our country had been lost to enemy action would be a huge blow to morale. When her running mate, the SS United States, was constructed, the US government tried to pressure William Francis Gibbs into giving her a different name for this exact reason. It didn't work. I love him. Anyway, here's a picture of her during her service.

The SS America carries the honor of being one of the few ships to never have a single death occur on board during the war. She might have actually been the only one. Anyway, in 1946, she was returned to United States Lines and renamed back to SS America. This time, when they repainted her back to her civilian colors, they ditched the name and flags on the sides of her hull. (Thank god.) Her career with USL was successful, if uneventful. In 1952, the SS United States was introduced. The Big U was about 267 feet longer, twice the size, and twice the speed. Given that the SS United States is still, to this day, the fastest passenger ship of all time, America had a little bit of trouble keeping up. America's passenger numbers fell after this, but she still had many loyal passengers who preferred her. The SS United States’ interior design was a tad lackluster compared to the SS America.

With rising operating costs and competition from air travel, she was deemed an unnecessary part of the USL fleet. In 1964, they put America up for sale. She was bought by Chandrice Line, which serviced the postwar emigrant run from Europe to Australia and New Zealand.

America was renamed Australis and served them until 1977, when, faced with ever-increasing fuel costs, could no longer compete with air travel. She is remembered to this day by many of the emigrants as being a very happy ship, but Chandrice didn't exactly maintain her very well. On one voyage, part of her hull opened up, and a compartment partially flooded. The crew was unable to fix it, and for the rest of the 3 week voyage, she had an awful list over to one side.

Now comes the most shameful part of her career. In 1978, she was bought by Venture Cruise Lines for 5 million dollars. Seeking to capitalize on nostalgia, they offered 5 day cruises to nowhere. To prepare her for this new role, they repainted her in what was definitely her second-ugliest configuration, and they gave her her old name back.

And then they kinda… stopped. They made no effort to modernize her (a ship constructed in the 1930s), and her interiors were, for lack of a better word, a dump. The swimming pool was full of garbage bags, toilets were overflowing, and there were rats and bugs everywhere. It was a nightmare. Truly, a predecessor to the poop cruise from hell. The passengers on her first cruise actually mutinied, and the ship barely made it past the Statue of Liberty before the captain turned her around. The health inspection board was called in, and they examined the ship. They gave her a score of 6.

Out of a possible 100.

Venture went bust, and America was put up for sale again.

Shockingly, the ones who bought her were Chandrice Line again, for 1 million dollars. Meaning they profited 4 million dollars while also getting their ship back in the process. She was renamed AGAIN to Italis, and her forward funnel was so corroded that it had to be cut off, giving her an extremely ugly and unbalanced profile. Even to the lay person, most can tell at this point that she looked very sad.

Her final years with Chandrice were short and uneventful, only lasting 2 years. Chandrice wanted to completely modernize her and have her serve as a modern cruise ship, but this never happened. She then bounced around from owner to owner. First, she was the Noga, intended to become a prison ship. Then she was the Alferdoss, but only the port bow was the Alferdoss, because they only put the name on one side of the hull. So the starboard bow and the stern were still the Noga. She was nearly sold for scrap, but after they scrapped the lifeboats, they defaulted on their payment and pulled out. Then, she was bought by a Thai investment firm, which intended to completely restore her and convert her into a 5-star hotel, much like the Queen Mary had in the 1970s. After a short period of drydocking, it was found that, despite the neglect, her hull was in remarkably good condition. The trip from New Zealand to Phuket, Thailand, was a long and dangerous one. Approximately 100 days. A Ukrainian tug won the contract, and in 1994, they set off…

only to immediately turn around due to the weather. They tried again, and again the weather turned against them. The tow line snapped, and they sent crew aboard to try to reattach it, but it was no use. They were airlifted off by helicopter, and the SS America, now named SS American Star, was set adrift. There was no one aboard, and the ship had no power. Seemingly tired of the years of neglect and mistreatment, the SS America decided to go out on her own terms. She went aground at Playa de Garcey, off the west coast of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. Within 48 hours, the pounding waves broke her in two.

She was declared a total loss and promptly abandoned. The waves quickly ate through the stern, causing it to deteriorate very quickly. The bow, however, remained standing, up until about 2008, when it began collapsing into the sea.

It's difficult to imagine that at one point, this was the grand old lady of the seas.

By 2013, nothing of her was left standing above the surface.

Along with her eye-achingly beautiful appearance, she had an extremely long and storied career. So that's why she's my favorite liner of all time. Most liners only last 25 to 35 years. Hell, the SS United States was only in service for 17 years. The SS America had a 55-year-long career. 74 if you count the time she spent wrecked, as she frequently got visitors. She was a truly outstanding ship, and I'm devastated that she couldn't be preserved. If it's any consolation, Phuket was struck by a major typhoon in 2004, so America was probably doomed regardless. If I could pick one liner from history to undo the fate of and magically preserve, it would EASILY be her.

[foodsies4me]

I really like your bolos series! Though, each chapter I wonder ‘is this when the trainees come in and hijack the story’ so that’s a new development. Never had that thought before when reading a fic😂

Anyway, I’m really enjoying the story so far and getting already attached to Alec’s new gaggle of children and your other OCs

Could you say something about the setting/worldbuilding? Is it the same as your Golden series? In terms of Alec’s standing with other institutes and the clave and how things are with the downworld and things like that (Don’t feel pressured to answer!)

I am delighted to hear that thought crosses your mind. No the trainees aren't at the hijacking the fic point quite yet, though the rookies sure are doing their best to pick up the slack, but they'll get there. And when they do, the poor inhabitants of the Spiral Labyrinth won't know what hit them.😂

I am sorry for the long ramble that's going to come your way, but talking about worldbuilding is something that puts me straight into infodump mode.

The worldbuilding is slightly different between Bolos/Bridges and the Golden series (that is getting another spinoff because of a particular someone who knows who they are). Alec is only an Acting Head at the moment though that's going to change because the Clave aren't the only ones that can be scheming in the background, whereas in the Golden series, he becomes the HOTI pretty early in the fic. Standing wise, Alec has earned himself a LOT of brownie points/respect in the eyes of those present during the meeting with Magnus. So, he's got a pretty good standing at the moment with several institute heads, which will help later in the story.

The Mumbai incident is still a thing that happened, though, so maybe not brownie points everywhere. Also, that means that the backstory for Arjun getting to the institute is still the same. Then again, the backstory for most trainees - not that any of it has really been given - is mostly the same between Bridges/Bolos and the Golden series. The only exception I can think of is Max, who didn't have his traumatic near-death experience after Maryse and Robert failed at being parents again.

The situation with the downworld is completely different from the Golden series. Without giving away too much, there is a reason Magnus is acting the way he is, and as you can guess the Clave/shadowhunters are mostly to blame for it. The dynamic with the Elders is also different given that a lot of downworlders live in the Spiral Labyrinth at the moment and the warlocks don't want to simply rule over the others, so to speak. Also, Magnus' dynamic with the rest of the downworld is very different for reasons already mentioned in passing but will be mentioned in more detail in later chapters. But yeah, Magnus is a far bigger deal in this fic than he is in the Golden series, even with him being one of the Elders in the Golden series.

Some of the worldbuilding when it comes to the cultural aspect is similar. The different names and forms of address still play a role (and one day I will get to writing down the Nephilim naming thing in a chapter without the muse deciding to throw it out in favor of something else). The greetings are different though! As are the marriage traditions, outside of the gold for shadowhunters and blue for warlocks. Also, the family oath that Alec used isn't a thing in the Golden series.

The dynamic at the institute is slightly different as well. Alec's shadowhunters still respect him, but he's not as close with some of his fellow shadowhunters as he is in the Golden series because the "let's ridicule the latest bigot, who decides to be awful"-punishment isn't a thing. And, nothing to build a good rapport with your shadowhunters than to have them watch as you kick an asshole's ass while you're wearing a ridiculous outfit.

I ended up rambling a bit more than anticipated, oops. But yeah, these are some of the differences/similarities between both verses.

[strxbree]

Day six : Favorite AU

First of all, sorry for not posting yesterday… I wasn’t feeling well yesterday, but I’m oki today :3 I’ll be posting two posts today🌸

now onto my coming story and infodump🌸✨

Meet Viney🌸 An experiment gone right “or wrong” at least that’s what Baron Draxum would say. During his creation, the caprid Yokai thought of making a vicious axolotl that’ll track down the turtles and bring them to him ‘without fail’. That- didn’t happen and the vicious axolotl that Baron thought he made… turned into something much more cuter. Small as a baby, the axolotl looked up to her creator to think he was her dad. Draxum didn’t like that, but! Eventually warmed up to the small one and took his own creation as his child. Huggin and Munnin however kept cooing and saying how cute the creation was. Pretty sure Draxum didn’t like the cute thing, but he was ok with it. One day, he decided to tell the axolotl her power, the ability to create vines with her mind. “Close your eyes and stay focused, imagine a vine and make sure. Don't” Baron said, only for Viney to be distracted by Huugin and Munnin playing ball. “This’ll take some time” the creator huffed. Days turned into weeks, turned into months, and eventually, turned into years. During those times, Baron decided on a name for the axolotl, Viney. As a 15 year old, Viney finally mastered her telepathic power and well, decided to play around with the gargoyles which seemed to be her ONLY friends at the time. When suddenly… it was her time. Baron put her on a mission to find the turtles : A red, blue, orange and purple. “But be careful, the outside world can be dangerous. I have my full trust on you little one” Viney nodded and hugged her creator, or well “dad” as she would put it, and swung out out of the Hidden City into the human world. Once she was in the sewers, Viney lifted the sewer lid to hear a honk, seeing light and an oncoming thing with four wheels, Viney immediately closed the lid back on to wait for it to be quiet, when it was quiet enough, Viney lifted up from the sewers and put the lid back on the road to notice the hustle and bustle of the city (mind that she didn’t know she had a brooch) being called out, yelled at and almost exposed to the internet for people to think she was a mascot or cosplaying as a cute Axolotl. “Aww, what a cute costume!!” A lady said while passing by Viney, which she stopped to hold out her phone to take a picture of the axolotl. Knowing the rectangle shape of the phone and the flash of it. It was everywhere and she couldn’t escape, only to use her telepathic powers and make herself a dome to protect herself to the screams of horror from the outside. Hours went by and the small axolotl was exhausted for her energy to go low and sleep. Until… A giant alligator turtle sees the small thing just laying there, he thought she was unconscious and since she was an axolotl yokai (he saw the brooch) it wasn’t safe for her axolotl form to just be running around in New York carelessly. Cradling the small thing, Viney wakes up to panic, thinking she was being kidnapped by a… friendly giant turtle with a red eye mask??? Raph, she met Raphael Hamato. Leading Viney to the hideout so she’ll be safe and not to be exposed by a crowd of humans again. There she meets Leo, Mikey and Donnie. Soon to meet April (which they went shopping for the axolotl to transform into a teenage girl with big brown eyes and short wavy brown hair before they went out). Thinking Viney already found the turtles and thought to bring them, Baron noticed the delay and was warned by Shredder if Viney doesn’t come back with the turtles, Draxum would have problems. Viney isn’t the Villian Baron thought she’d be. Instead, Viney ended up to be sweet and a bubbly smol axolotl🌸✨

Meanwhile with Viney and the turtles in the lair. Mikey was making a flower crown for Viney in which April comes in with Pizza. Confused, the turtles gasped on Viney’s lack of knowledge of pizza. So they brought her to the two pizza places she would probably like. After that, she was fond of pizza and whenever a new person would come in, she’d think of bringing them to the same pizza place’s in which the turtles brought her. She was now friends with the turtles. She knew Donnie likes science, but there was also a cool place to dress up in kimonos and eat, she thought Donnie also likes the fanciest things in life, but until she noticed he wasn’t ok with it and they decided to head back home and to teach Viney how to make her own drone, like Sheldon which Flora was born! And flora and Sheldon lived happily ever after, lol.

(This drawing was drew last year, that’s why it’s on paper and pencil)

On other days, Viney would squeeze in a day to make Mikey a flower crown too🌸✨

(On the left, Viney is without her flower crown and is wearing a grey plain dress that her creator gave her, that was Viney before she met the turtles. On the right, Viney is making a flower crown for Mikey and… wait a minute, where’s her brooch in both of the drawings??? I might have forgotten to draw in her brooch, it’s a pink diamond shape with circles for the tips of the diamond which are white. I drew these while I wasn’t feeling well yesterday)

This next drawing wasn’t colored, but it’s Raph dressed up in a peach dress and Viney and Mikey are reacting to it🌸

(This drawing was also drawn last year :33)

I haven’t drawn her with Leo since I have no clue what she would do with Leo, maybe dress up in Kimonos to?? Probably celebrate pride with him? Or go on a double date with Usagi and Gentry (Viney and Gentry is the ship that my friend @ye-it-is-skeet made, hehe). But then again, I’m still unsure on what Viney and Leo would do to hang out. Let’s just find out and I’ll post a drawing of Viney and Leo doing something together :333

thank you for reading my infodump and story about my OC Viney🌸

[ten-chocolate-sundaes]

I know nothing about Star Trek. I am intrigued by what I’ve seen on your blog. Please infodump on me /nf

honestly it’s just as bonkers as it sounds.

the plot for most series is just “antics on spaceship that’s here to make friends,” minus deep space nine (our captain has become space Jesus and now we need to save bajor from fascism) and voyager (oh shit we’re lost)

so all the crews are part of starfleet, the federation of planets’ military if the military was nice and did science and didn’t shoot people for fun. point is they try to make contact with other countries planets and help those who need it et cetera. and sometimes they meet Abraham Lincoln. it’s just like that my dude.

anyway the fandom became a thing in the 60s because the writers and actors somehow made spock and kirk really subtextually (honestly textually) gay for each other and people everywhere went “oh my god.” and it just kept getting more gay with more characters over the years and the rest is fandom history.

on a more serious note there’s some great social commentary sprinkled throughout all the questionable and funny episodes. like the jadzia/lenara kiss or the episode about police brutality that takes place in..2024. yeah. sometimes it’s like that and sometimes janeway gets turned into a lizard and has lizard children with tom fucking paris. I love that show.

if you ever want to dive into this wacky world I’d recommend starting with tos or tng, they start off a little slow sometimes but trust me it’ll get good. it always does.

anyway, in conclusion, I’m so sorry you have to see me trekpost. live long and prosper

[neonmetro]

*coughs awkwardly* I love the apocalypse horsemen so much. . . thank you for the crumbs neon. . .

I am currently half asleep while writing this but I couldn't wait to write this so anyways

I LOVE THE HORSEMEN SO MUCH???? THEY ARE SO INTERESTING??? SO CUTE???? JUST. . .EVERYTHING !!! IF THAT MAKES SENSE, THEY INTRIGUE ME IN WAYS I CANNOT DESCRIBE, LIKE I SAID THEY ARE JUST SO INTERESTING AND SO MUCH THOUGHT WENT INTO THEM, SO LIKE I'M HERE TO BEG FOR MORE CRUMBS /SILLY

EXCUSE ME CHAT. . .IK I ASK FOR CRUMBS SO CHARACTERS A LOT SO SORRY MAN

Like for real if there is anything you are willing to share about them then I am willing to listen because HOLY. . .

Just them. . .they are just THEM. . . so silly

Curse you neon and your silly blorbos !!!! /J /LH

Honestly I'm blaming Paris anon for all of this, this is their fault and I stan by that. . .thank you Paris anon ig. . . /hj

Have a good day / night neon :)))) take care of yourself you are so important *Points at you* your reminder to treat yourself to something nice

-Ulysses loving anon

THANK YOU.... RAGHGHHH 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 IT MEANS SO MUCH YOU GUYS LIKE MY GUYS SO MUCHH........ 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 its alright if you ask for em (i suffer through terminal please ask me question infodumps so its greatly appreciated lmao...)

they're just really fucked by the narrative lmfao... none of them really have agency, even if they want to (and um. their fate is pretty bad in pink overkill lmfao........ since they're the main antagonists in that one)

war and famine are so embedded into the systems they're in that everything they do is intentionally or unintentionally for the system (for war that's being a magical girl, for famine that's being chronically ill) war doesn't really mind it, they're a people pleaser, but famine is very bothered by it but is told they have to be a martyr for others.

conquest and death try their best to go against the system (conquest outwardly speaks out and tries to not get too into the magical girl systems of being marketable but ultimately still finds himself needing to, death just believes working harder and more will eventually get them out of this situation and thinks she's only playing into over-consumption for the short term when it's really just a snippet of the rest of their lives)

+ after making a contract to be officially magical girls working for the capital they're separated for most of the year, aside from collaborations and forced celebrity sightings together (so they try their best to squeeze as much time together in these times, but more often than not it doesn't really pan out well)

SOME SLIGHTLY MORE LIGHT HEARTED FACTS ABOUT HOW MUCH PEOPLE ADORE THEM, they're literally everywhere, everyone luoves them, and they have 500000000 merch and collabs all the time. literally evangelion merch levels of consumerism

like look at these highly marketable bunnies. don't you want to buy them. i know you do

some individual stuff about the horsemen:

war is very insecure, they really do need external validation from people and their attachment to a certain person shifts and they live in perpetual hell

conquest is so tired of being alone, but he doesn't know how to talk to others and not be alone so he just isolates and watches from a distance (war usually still drags him into things and his happiest moments are from then)

famine is so selfless, willing to self harm if it means others will be happier. they're overtly aware of how privileged they are to be alive bc of their wealth... it's a heavy guilt they hold

death is, in all reality, very selfish. she only really cares about a few people (the horsemen) and disregards everyone else, she may act cordial and passionate about helping others, but that's just

SDFJHNVFCVHBJHNK THE FAULT LIES WITH PARIS ANON!!!!!!!! /JJJ bringing the silliest blorbos to town........

thank you! i will treat myself to some snacks :D

[plasmaheatshipping]

for the ask game: the one about flowers, fancy restaurant order, and the aquarium date! because I know the question is not if you'd go on one together, but how it'd go hehe

ehehehe i'm being enabled >:3

also this is SO LATE and i am SO SORRY.

🥀 - has your f/o ever given you a bouquet of flowers? what kinds of flowers do they include?

this one is PERFECT because i've actually been researching flower symbolism so i could draw us with matching flower tattoos anywayyyy n loves to get me flowers hehe. when going for something simple, it's just baby's breath and red roses, they complement each other nicely. but when going all in for a special occasion, the bouquet would have baby's breath, white carnations, forget-me-nots, morning glories, red roses, and red salvia. i don't even know if that would look good lol

🍝 - you guys go to a nice fancy restaurant together! what does your f/o order? what do you order? do you guys order a dessert? perhaps, to share?

ooh, i'll be totally honest, i'm not super familiar with the kind of food you can get at fancy restaurants lol. but i will do my best! n would order something vegetarian, maybe a pasta? and my taste is pretty eclectic when it comes to food, so whatever catches my eye, with a preference for lamb or steak if the restaurant has it. we'd also get a bottle of wine to split. and of course we'd get a dessert, and definitely would share!! sharing a dessert is so romantic hehehe

🦑 - would you two ever go on an aquarium date together? who's idea was it, and which fish is their/your favorite to look at?

aquarium dates are our FAVORITE!!! i drag n everywhere to look at everything and am constantly infodumping it is amazing. and he also infodumps because he loves animals/pokemon toooo it's so good. and every time we go we end up with a new plushie to add to the collection. obviouslyyyy i love seeing the cephalopods, and n doesn't really have a favorite? he really likes the touch pools though :) especially if the people there can tell him how the animals are cared for.

[starvrat]

I know i’m probably so late to tell you but the art specifically is from artist Félix González-Torres, PLEASE look up his other works especially about his partner it’s all so beautiful and so devastating. I didn’t know much about the AIDS crisis when I saw his work for the first time at 13 and it prompted more research and just. God. He loved that man so much and the emotions evoked from his absolute adoration and grief gives me more feelings than I’ve had in years. I have to take deep breaths between each piece from how deeply I feel them. The one circulating right now is Untitled: (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) and every time I see that pile of candy I want to cry.

Sorry if this message is weird I am a bit drunk and very gay and I love all the queer art from that time while simultaneously hating the loss of *so much more* they all could have done. The sheer devastation to our community was hard to comprehend until I looked at the art and now I see it everywhere and it’s beautiful and haunting and the most indescribably loving art I have ever seen.

I had more to say but I’ll cut my infodump short, I just love the artist and all the art that carries our history. I don’t even follow you just saw your post. You’re an incredible person, and I hope if you look it up that it will open parts of your heart and your mind and your identity that you never knew were there, and it will be beautiful. I know this is a heavy ask, sorry about getting emotional. You are loved, cared for, and thought of every day. You are cherished and remembered constantly, even by people you may not remember. Even after you’re gone, after everyone is gone, there will still be love. There will still be art. I look back, as I hope decades or centuries in the future, and see so much love and hope in their art when everything was falling down. Our art, community art, is and will continue to build on the grief, on the fear, but it will build strongest on our love. We’ve never met, but I tell everyone I talk to - I love you. I hope you get a cool, clear night one day where you can see all the stars shining and remember how their light awes us and have shaped our lives for centuries, even though they’re gone by the time the light reaches us.

Have a good night, and a good morning, and a beautiful life!

thank you for this ask

im gonna be honest, i was familiar with portrait of ross before, but i didnt know of the artists other work

thank you for telling me about him, for without you i wouldnt have known about all of his other equally devastating, heartbreaking artwork.

your ask made me tear up. it also opened my eyes

so, whoever you are, thank you. i love you

[sk3l3t0n444]

Oh liberty lee they could never make me hate you with this mean and abilist wiki description

"obsessed, strange, 'unique'" wonderful way to describe pretty much the only nearly cannon autistic character in the Sims series guys.

Speaking of which she has a special interest of snakes and look at all her lil dialogue

She loves snakes so muchhhhh. And she has the most adorable crush on (unfortunately the crypto bro) Travis but he ends up dating the popular cheerleader (her best friend) instead in the official gameplay stuff so she is just sad and I'm going evil about that.

Look at her. Who wouldn't want to date her?

She loves snakes so so so much her house literally has snake stuff everywhere.

Then they recreated her in ts4 and she's living in her own personal hell. Not only did they white wash her, but they also took away the ability for her to have snakes and there isn't even snakeskin (faux of course. She would never do that to a snake) in any packs but lovestruck. She can't have snakes! And she's living with her crush and the cheerleader and it's like destiny that the two get together and she's always lonely 😞.

^they whitewashed her so bad. They also got rid of her buckteeth and gave her freckles for no reason.

I'm begging for Sims 4 my first snake stuff pack so I can give her the life she deserves. When my Sims comes out for switch you best believe she'll be in my town as well. liberty needs liberty from this hell.

Grr grr evil evil evil

ok ok ok just think about it: theyre a polycule but like queerplatonically like travis and summer (thats her name right?) are dating and all lovey dovey and liberty just cuddles with them and they hold hands queerplatonically and liberty infodumps about snakes while travis and summer listen and they get over their fear of snakes for her and stuff like just imagine

hold on i need to make a little thing

i made your relationships queerplatonic sorry not sorry lmao

[corrie-zodori]

1, 13, 15, 18 for the ask game (IDK if you do super in-depth story lore so sorry if not all of these you have answers for)

ohohoh I'm so down for this! This'll be a bit long (ty for letting me infodump a bit heheheh) so putting this one alllll under the cut.

1 - Who was your first ever OC? Do you still “use” them? How have they evolved over time? My first OC TECHNICALLY was this green mouse I just called "super mouse" and I made him when I was roughly 7 or 8? I dont use him anymore but he was based on a green plastic mouse toy from the old board game "mouse trap". I took the little figure everywhere, turned him into a lil superhero and I even have a little notebook to this day of little saturday morning cartoon-like adventures I drew and wrote him in. 13 - Which story has the most lore? CURRENTLY it's definitely Spark of the Eye, or "SOTE" as I've been calling it. By technicality if we're speaking worldbuilding/world lore based, it'd probably be any story in my Zodior settings (zodior being a world I made up when I was about 9 years old and have been developing gradually ever since.) SOTE is not related to Zodior in any way, but I've definitely been putting a LOT of thought and planning into it since it's initial concepting. 15 - How many projects do you have going on right now? Are there any that you doubt you’ll ever finish? I have many in limbo/progress but currently I'm focusing almost all of my energy on SOTE. I tend to bounce between story to story in bouts of fixation, but this is one of those stories that's really captivated me and has kept its grip on me for a long time, and I'm more drawn to it than I've ever been to any story I've worked on so far, solo. There's maybe one or two that I'm a little wishy washy on, and I've definitely been known to scrap ideas and entire stories before, but if I ever do that I keep scraps of it and use it for other stories. Nothing is ever truly wasted to me! The time I spent on them was still fun for me and I still got to make some cool character designs or fun concepts to use elsewhere, even if nothing ever sees the light of day from those old projects. 18 - Describe the setting of one or more of your wips I feel like I could mention the setting of SOTE, but currently the majority of the setting takes place mostly in space. We see different planets and societies though, including the Ikartan (Izarri's race) planet + ringworld society surrounding them! The surface of their planet, even if we dont see much of it, is very stormy almost to a cataclysmic level. Living down there is hellish but they do have structures and technology built to withstand these harsh conditions. This is actually something we wont see a TON of ironically. Most of their resources went into building the ringworld, a massive artificial structure that is a literal man-made ring around the planet. It's got a ton of space but it's still limited; most of ikartan society resides on this ringworld. This species is very passive and even skittish with branching out to other worlds, and they dont make connections with other alien species very often. Most of their society isn't willing to colonize other planets that belong to other species, or planets that have intelligent life already living on that planet. They tend to stick to the shadows and stay low cosmically speaking, scavenging for resources and space, even if it means their society remains (mostly) isolated to their own star system. (Aaaand maybe a few rough-shape planets.)

[itsdappleagain]

WOOHOO! Let's kick off #csweekly!

I think I'll dump all of my thoughts onto one post as we go along...and I have a lot of thoughts so sorry this is gonna be LONG

Firstly, before I start the episode, AAA I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS!!! I haven't actually truly rewatched CS in sooo long

Okay, let's go. Why don't we ever talk about the intros? Like the grabbing of the hat and then later that as part of the black and white/red intro sequence? MWAH.

Chase's headlights illuminate spots on the screen when they turn towards the "camera!"

I love this introduction to the entire show. It really makes us feel like we're part of this mystery, investigating this thief with Chase and Julia (until...well...everything gets directly told to us via flashbacks 8 minutes in..). It tells us everything we basically need to know about how Carmen operates in like 30 seconds.

Let's take a moment to appreciate the art style of this show....oh my gosh. The lighting the texturing the lineless agh its so good

I guess I haven't thought about it for a little while, but I guess Chase slamming on the breaks is supposed to fake us out thinking that he has seen Carmen's shadow. It sets up how idiotic of a detective he is, while Julia is observant and actually makes connections. I really like this early (VERY early) setup to how their relationship is going to work. However, at the same time, the show is really gunning for us to root for Julia when she starts infodumping. Chase is clearly the asshole. I can't help but wondering, though, if the show undercuts the importance of Julia's research by IMMEDIATELY cutting away to something "more interesting" (Carmen) as soon as she starts talking. What do you think?

I like how Carmen just shoots out of the alleyway and looks at them for a solid minute. She's just like 👁️👁️ i mean we KNOW it doesn't take her that long to use her grappling hook. She was just watching them

LA FEMME ROGUE

Chase's damage of cars starts at not even 2 minutes into the entire show <3

anyway

CARMEN'S DRAMATIC CHARACTER INTRO MY BELOVED <3

ALSO another shoutout to the SCORE OH MY GOD RELEASE AN OST CS TEAM

when you think about it does player's character intro ever seem a little clumsy to you? ooh yeah its player glad to hear he's on board girl you've known him for years girl. girl. he's always on board.

i love player's robots and machines everywhere <3

YEAH SORRY. SCORE AND ANIMATION AGAIN WHEN SHE'S RUNNING ACROSS THE ROOFTOPS. FRAMED BY THE MOON? OUGH

she's so unnecessary <3 you did not have to swing that grappling hook around like a whip but im so glad you did girlie

i adore how her usb is disguised like a lipstick as if subtlety was ever her thing ever. like when on earth would someone catch her in the full red coat and fedora and then be like "oh ok well there's nothing suspicious here other than the grappling hook, hang glider, and taser so I'll let you go ok

PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR LIKE YOU REALLY DONT CARE ABOUT THIS RANDOM OTHER SIGNAL THAT COULD GET YOU KILLED

OUGH THE LIGHTING WHEN SHE'S DROPPING DOWN FROM THE CEILING

just. just move. you could have just moved out of the way

her hat bending upwards when she's listening against the fake atrium <3

i love carmen's jokes about player being a little internet cave troll do we ever get more of those?? i feel like we don't and I wish we did. their dynamic is so fun when its just the two of them, which is like. never again

sorry. gina's vocal fry when she says "job." that is all

the elevator gag is actually so funny

imagine not taking the stairs 5-9 at a time. chase doesn't skip leg day smh

i love the feeling of suspense this safe cracking gives us paired with chase running up to arrest her. its fun because she gets to show off and have a lot of fun with him. but at the same time, we rarely get this feeling of suspense again when it comes to confrontations- only big boss battles like Coach Brunt, Shadow-san, and cold weather

chase used his whole entire face to ram through that door

the bag tightening is so iconic i can only be grateful that she does it again later on in the show

chase: ive never had one run AT me before

does anyone ever hear the sound that chase's hair makes when it gets slicked back? because it is a SQUISH. his hair is. so saturated with gel that his hair SQUISHES

i like how it takes chase a sec when she's reading his name from the badge I like to think he thinks he's just THAT well known of an agent that she knows him

i also like that he just stands there for a sec after she grapples through the ceiling like shit now what

free him

carmen is funny i will give her that. she can also FLY apparently because she' jumping like 25 feet no problem

the grabbing of her hat as she jumps off backwards and the backwards smirk and the oh my god im so gay ok

also julia. and the horror on chase's face dhfas

dark carmen let carmen be mean, hot, and speak other languages more and that is why i want her to come back please

chase what in the goddamn fuck

ever think about how chase landing on this car right now eventually led to julia joining acme because i do

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO (TITLE CARD) (THEME MUSIC). YES BARK BARK OUGSHDFH BARK

see chase can be smart but like that one tumblr post he can be blindingly intelligent for a minute a day and he does not get to choose when that is

CARMEN CHANGING AS THE TRAIN GOES BY INTO HER CIVILIAN OUTFIT IS SOOO ICONIC

chase continuing to ruin the car as he drives along and keeps failing is the funniest fucking thing. the comedic timing of the airbag.

THE DOUBT ON JULIA'S FACE WHEN CHASE CALLS HER "JULIA" AND COMPLIMENTS HER KILLS ME EVERY TIME

driving aggressively, of course

chase is responsible for 85% of carmen's stupid nicknames on the wiki and i love him for that

i think its half funny and half sad that carmen doesn't do anything to defend herself when gray aims the crackle rod at her. its a trend with people she thinks she can trust: she still sees him as her brother, not someone who would kill her, stun her, etc.

i love the dramatic dropping of the bag just because gray esentially gave her the equivalent electric shock of rubbing a balloon against your hair

something i dislike about carmen's character is that whenever it matters carmen is ALWAYS one step ahead of whoever doing whatever. they couldn't have had us start off by seeing her as flawed but competent, cocky but still human by having gray track her here. it would have immediately set VILE up as a real threat. but instead its just the girlboss badass gray is an idiot moment. idk

i like how they had to do the match cut but they also had to make black sheep excited so they just had blacksheep go >:) and then as soon as coach brunt used her vocal cords she went :D !!!!

why is the program only one year is my question

where does coach get all of the phones to dramatically smash

black sheep, at this time knowing full ass well that she has a contraband phone when brunt smashes one: U👄U

she said SNATCH

gray laughs with all of his teeth out

they gave black sheep insecurities about her past with gray solely so they could show us black sheep having those insecurities about her past with gray to gray by black sheep

google says it takes roughly two hours to go from poitiers to paris by train. just a fun fact

hang on why was carmen going to paris by train? they didn't even have indonesia scheduled until she got there. why didn't she take zack and ivy to poitiers?? why was their rendezvous two hours away?? why didn't ivy have ANY TIME AT ALL TO GET ZACK A SNACK?? WHY DIDN'T ZACK HAVE TIME TO GET A SNACK

the biggest nesting doll has some weird inconsistency with the burn design- sometimes its there, sometimes it isn't. i wonder why carmen never ever brings it up though?

little black sheep is so cute

actually though these are some of my least favorite parts- the big long flashbacks. in my opinion, it would have been interesting to find out about carmen's past as we went along...maybe through ivy or something, or just little tidbits. like we'd get some basic information- that she used to be with VILE- but we would uncover the details with the detectives and her team. idk. little me when i first watched this show was SO confused by the flashbacks but then again my comprehension for shit is SO BAD. i literally had no clue what was going on

that nanny just standing by as carmen smears an entire tube of lipstick on the walls

LITTLE CARMEN IS SO CUTE

its very interesting how they wash out black sheep's hair when she's in VILE spaces to fit with the color schemes that are such a prominent part of this show.

little carmen was also an asshole wheeze

THEY ARE D I V I N G OUT OF THE WAY guess they learned from notyourpants guy

girl i dont think your legs are supposed to do that

why is the captain just putting claws up like what were you going to do maul her

the poor captain got the short end of the stick every single time

carmen stole someone's wedding ring so true

the crop top with the overalls is my FAVORITE outfit of black sheep's omg

carmen, like every single other teenager, drew giant eyeballs on her papers

absolutely incredible that carmen who has at this point pressed a few buttons on a phone once knows how to text and call no problem

player, calling random places: what is your full name and address please. well i know your address but what is your full name

ALSO player's room accumulating all that stuff in the years that go by is so cute

can you imagine. player just usually gives out his real name and the only reason he didn't this time was because carmen had a weird ass name

"thats a thing" HOW DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT A HACKER IS

also how does she know what right and wrong is

lets imagine for a second player called some faculty phone line or something and professor maelstrom got this ten year old asking to aid the biggest crime network in the world just because he could and also knew nothing at all

kinda cool that they put in the weird...sewer grate or whatever that carmen later escapes out of in the shot where she's on the beach

maelstrom changes hand positions from when he asks black sheep why she requested an audience (hands clasped with thumbs up and touching) to when he says to enroll (villain steepled fingers) and then he goes back to the first on the wide shot

i admire how organically they introduce the names of all the faculty in this scene

appreciation for "the gurl is fehhahhral"

AND THEN HE GOES BACK TO STEEPLE FINGERS

i enjoy how harsh the lighting is in the faculty room. its just white on the characters

i LOVE rewatching these episodes with the lens of shadowsan's REAL motivations mmmm

i also like how black sheep really thinks about shadowsan's words

MAEL WENT BACK TO THUMBS UP CLASPED HANDS ITS ok whatever

why don't the music notes line up with the faculty raising their hands after two or three sob

where does shadowsan even walk off to. is there a door over there or does he just awkwardly scoot off and through the big doors

what the hell are even in front of black sheep's dorms a tennis court??

also i thought those dorms were where her room was where is she moving from

she tied her whole globe up with rope to walk 100 feet

mime bomb being in the background for all of this <3

i like all of the VILE Class's introductions. EL Topo is kind, Le Chevre is a bit dismissive but courteous, and Tigress is...well she's happy until she says her name and then she's a bitch about everything forever and ever

"but were you seeing things from my point of view" actually what other perspective are you giving him here

get rekt aussie boy

so upset they changed this design. the eyeliner, the fluffy hair, the red hair clip. they're so good. she's so cute. all of the young designs are cute actually

they didn't have to animate sheena's ass swaying like that

he's from australia??? really????

i like how gray was just working the soundboards one day and his pay was so bad that he was like "fuck. yeah man I'm breaking every single law. ever."

where the hell did the black on that sheep origami come from. the paper was white on both sides??

shadowsan has the best damn view on the island look at that

cleo's dress. cleo's voice. cleo's

why do they market as an import/export company if they immediately begin training as thieves. why does "villains international league of evil" matter at all

shadowsan has the only class that uses other students. the rest of the classes are main character only. so sad

my favorite part of carmen sandiego is the way they one moment don't allow the characters to say the word kill but in maelstrom's classroom he has human bones and a whole ass brain on display and then they shoot a man dead

no idea how maelstrom dropped his briefcase so that it landed on the other side of tigress's

also i love how they set up some of the two most used concepts in the entire show here: bait and switch and always protect the face

gray is blind we love him for that. she is holding a phone and gas earbuds in.

where did she get earbuds from

point and laugh

so true of le chevre to kick off the stilts the show should have let him win that one, not bs

the poor captain has gone entirely white-haired from this yearly encounter with a child

rita moreno bee cosplay

el topo's laugh is so genuine <3

what was their detention anyway? sit and talk? come up with codenames? seems more like a reward to me

imagine if gray named himself power failure and everyone called him failure

gray is a giraffe

i love the dig at old witwics with the puns for names jkdsghdsa

le chevre is very comfortable on that pole

mime bomb. that is all

class of vile, after a year of sharing a dorm with mime bomb: who the fuck are you

he's iconic

all of the different teacher rooms are sooo cool i love their designs. and once agains color theory coming through with shadowsan's red room!!!

i also like that students get to take exams with their operative gear, as it plays into how effective they will be in the field. however, what happens if someone doesn't graduate?? what happens to all their specialized gear??

she sacrificed a leg for ass. sad :(

i like how tigress acts like a cat

GET SLAPPED TIGRESS

that scrap of fabric flew SO FAR

that little wink tigress does <3

i like how shadowsan has another coat ready and waiting. who's hurt him in the past. he learned

black sheep no don't walk into the camera wait blacwfhghgfh

gray after black sheep failed so hard that she blew the entire year's worth of schooling: damn girl you're so good. best ever actually

i like how they all have to trace their names over to see if they passed like what are you getting lost on the way also getting these grades is exactly like seeing who got cast for the school musical

rip to the random background ops who failed

gray's face is actually just D:

the dutch angle dolly zoom is SOOO GOOD

tigress is still a high school mean girl. elementary school, even. the big kid's table. no children allowed

"looks like someone needs to turn in their stealth suit" black sheep she/they confirmed and sheena respects pronouns

"COME ON LET'S GO PLOT A CAPER" that is so funny to me because vile operatives as we see later NEVER, EVER PLOT THEIR OWN CAPERS

why is carmen's nose so tiny

anyway

seeing black sheep look so short next to shadowsan is so sweet considering she's almost as tall as him later <3

"are you accusing a criminal, thievery, and breaking the law teacher of cheating"

mime bomb for goodness sake. i love the animation of his face emerging from the shadows though

HOW DID SHE SNEAK ONTO THAT HELICOPTER I WILL NEVER KNOW

does anyone know whether CS uses 3d elements for some of their bigger objects like cars, helicopters, the vault door etc.

i like how vile school is completely entirely out in the open not disguised at all

gray: bye bye black sheep black sheep, from the shadows: HAVE YOU ANY WOOL

THE CREDIT MUSIC <3

OKAY so that was my post on the first episode. will they all be this long? who knows. probably. maybe. i'm so excited for this