#The Underdog Project

[captainhancock727]

The Underdog Project - Summer Jam (Hyper Rave)

[sleepyminty]

Why is it that fandoms with their games made by the same company hate each other so much whereas this is the opposite?

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Gantober #6 - Eyeful

I have SO many frames that are just. Ganondorf's insane eyeliner game.

(It's the "drawing eyes in the corner of my highschool notebook" part of me rearing its ugly head I suppose u_u tho actually it's not just for that there's a thematic reason, but also his eyes are insanely fun to draw and drawing eyes mean not drawing anything else so that's a win win in my book babeyyy!!!)

[lollytea]

How do I say, without coming across as a jaded miserable little bitch who likes raining on everybody's parade, that the PJO Disney plus adaption is nostalgia bait, in the same way that their live action remakes are

[undercover-underdog]

So I've been teaching myself to tattoo since nobody else will..

This is my progress over 6ish months.

[isogenderskitty]

the trail to oregon & ani are the lion king & pocahontas of starkid. i can explain

[once-upon-an-idiom]

So, the short story is done (yay!) but I’m not sure what I’m gonna do with that so it’s just kinda chilling.

Until then, I have a new project that I’m really excited about that I cannot wait to share with you!! It is a VERY different vibe, more of an action/comedy, but I can’t wait to see where it goes! The working title is…..

UNDERDOGS UNDERCOVER

(re: underdogs undercover)

It’s based off of a game I used to play during elementary school recess and friends I’ve made thought the year, so this project is really special to me. Can’t wait to share more! Please reblog or comment any questions or comments and I will be happy to answer what I can!!!

See you on the flip-side!~ O.U.A.I.

(Edit): currently working of finishing my final essays but I graduate(!!!) on December 14th, and plan to spend a good chunk of the winter break writing before I go back to start my masters(!!!!)

Stay tuned!!

[bookwyrminspiration]

Im so so curious who do you plan on voting tommorow in the sexyman polls, Brant or Fintan?

I was torn over this but I think I'm going to commit to the bit. I've argued for Brant so relentlessly, it feels cheap to turn my back on him and just hand Fintan the win so far in. I know he's still very very likely to win (and I understand why), but I want to at least try and give him a fight.

Brant came back from the dead, and I'll be by his side when he returns to the grave

[ridiasfangirlings]

au where idol k is a reality competition show and the popularity pool result is the final round up (which means yata and fushimi get to debut in the same group, yay?) (also, idk if you are familiar with korean reality shows like produce 101 or boys planet, but they usually arrange the seats in a way that the #1 seat is at the top and its usually a big deal where the trainees choose to sit on the first day. They can also kick other idols out of their seats in whichever way both trainees choose to compete for the seat, but this is usually done for the #1 seat)

Can you imagine that group, not just Yata and Fushimi debuting together but also Mikoto and Munakata too, the rest of the group would be trying just to keep those four from killing each other or destroying the set. Yata and Fushimi would probably be early frontrunners even from the start, like Yata's energy and Fushimi's mysterious aura of gloom make them very popular amongst the audience. Initially they take seats on opposite sides but maybe after the first round of voting Yata ends up first and in the middle seat, he's all proud of himself and gloating to Fushimi, who immediately decides to challenge him. From that point on the two of them are constantly swinging between who's in first and who's second, complaining that 'who would want to debut with you' even when it's more than clear that they're both going to end up in the final group together.

Meanwhile the rest of the group are all doing their best to be noticed with those two causing all the chaos. Munakata is the smooth polished idol who commands attention from the moment he steps on the stage while Mikoto's very lackadaisical about the whole thing, imagine Munakata always having to lecture him about trying his hardest for the fans and Mikoto just yawns in his face. Despite their differences the two are only below Yata and Fushimi, maybe something happens halfway through that nearly gets Mikoto disqualified and there's a whole storyline about how Munakata reacts (by appearing disapproving but really he's irritated that Mikoto could have blown his whole career). The whole issue also involves Mikoto's fellow trainees Kusanagi and Totsuka, say Totsuka has to leave for a while after being shot by a crazed fan and Munakata thinks Kusanagi has been encouraging Mikoto's poor behavior in the aftermath. This causes Mikoto's popularity to momentarily dip, but once the whole thing is resolved and Totsuka returns Mikoto jumps back up to just one spot below Munakata. Mikoto would prefer to take a seat as far from Munakata as possible but you know wherever he ends up sitting Munakata just so happens to show up next to him.

For the rest of the group, I imagine Kuroh and Shiro trying to be low key in the background, Kuroh working hard quietly and trying to avoid drama while Shiro sits next to him a lot and they become friends. Kuroh does have some issues when his adoptive brother Yukari ends up joining the show too and becomes popular, Yukari's true passion is beauty but he believes that can be found in singing as well. Kuroh had thought that Yukari gave up on performing when he left their training with idol producer Ichigen Miwa, Yukari however met up with young up and coming idol trainee Hisui and now they're a team, this probably somehow turns into Kuroh and Shiro versus Yukari and Hisui and Shiro's like I thought we were avoiding drama. Meanwhile actually avoiding drama are dark horse underdogs Doumyouji and Akiyama, who no one even noticed were constantly polling highly until they make the final group.

[dyke-ified]

anyone else feeling so much joy even though something terrible just happened in the narrative

[heroesofcrash]

10/26/24 - Halloween 2024

TheHeroesOfCRASH.com

I wish everyone a happy and safe Halloween... and that everyone VOTE AGAINST TRUMP FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD ON THIS EARTH!!!

[batsplat]

can we have a conversation about how much ktm is in shambles? cause i’m hearing they’re having so many problems financially and apparently even technically. it seems like they got stuck from the start of the season and they are just not progressing. i get that the last few circuits weren’t stop and go circuits that ktm prefers but the performances were really worrying. now, no offense to binder but he clearly has no backbone, but pedro already scolded them this weekend because they are not working the way they should, is there a chance they finally decide to take a risk and develop a project around him? because i feel like that’s what they need to do, a bit like yamaha or honda did for vale and marc. also i’ve thought about the fact that a lot of ktm engineers are leaving ktm for honda, if honda is actually working on a good project for 2027, is there a chance that perhaps a rider like pedro could get them out of the hole they got stuck into? cause i think that would be very interesting to see. of course only if he decides to leave ktm which i hope he doesn’t cause i’d like to see him become the first motogp wdc winner with a ktm. also i can’t really see where else he could go if one day he decides he’s unsatisfied with ktm

love asks that clearly come from the heart. I've been holding off on being too mean about ktm because in a way I do want to save it for after the NEXT race. we're in austria now!! ktm's home race! which they've actually been remarkably successful at, given they're the only non-ducati manufacturer to ever win in the modern iteration of this race in the premier class - first in that quirky last corner shoot-out courtesy of oliveira in 2020 and then in that bizarre slicks in the wet performance by binder in 2021. which, okay, unusual races and all that, but it's a track they should be doing well at!! binder got two second places here last year. if they flop here, then the alarm bells will really be ringing

I guess we can get into an argument about what 'flopping' would even look like. it's entirely plausible that, hm, the first 4-5 slots at minimum are locked out by ducati again - honestly, at the minute another ducati podium lock out feels like the expected scenario. I have heard there's a decent possibility of rain on sunday, but by this point of the year I've been promised rain quite a few times so I'll believe it when I see it. if it rains, sure, anything's possible. a positive result for ktm right now would probably be... a podium, right, which in itself is pretty damning - how are ktm still this bad at actually winning races? last year, binder got a podium at silverstone, which isn't a massively ktm-friendly track. this year, they didn't get even remotely close to that. the ktm defence argument goes 'well, look at what everyone else is doing'. silverstone is a very aprilia-friendly track and they had a pretty disastrous weekend themselves this year. the less said about the japanese manufacturers, the better. but... well, ktm was kinda supposed to take it to ducati this year. they finished last year on a very promising note, with what really should have been a 1-2 at valencia. (the fact that they didn't convert on that maybe should've gotten some alarm bells ringing about the ultimate potential of that rider line-up, but let's not get into that.) after binder's performance at qatar, ktm surely should have been determined to be in the title hunt. they are extremely not in the title hunt

the thing is, anon, ktm does know that pedro is their title winner. the idea of 'developing a project' around him is tricky - because to the extent that ktm is capable of that, they will do it!! they're not going to develop the bike in a direction that suits binder over him, for instance, or completely disregard his feedback or any of that. manufacturers can struggle with being reactive enough to rider concerns... my sense is that ktm likes to throw a lot of stuff at problems, it likes to flex its muscles and use a lot of data and come up with big update packages and all of that - and for all the progress they've made in their bike development, clearly all is not yet well on the in-season development front. (cf the whole chattering thing that ducati has gotten a handle on and ktm hasn't.) manufacturers do sometimes have a tendency to believe they know best and not listen enough to their riders, especially when there's a disconnect between the riders and 'the factory' that's actually designing the bikes. yamaha is an interesting example of that at the minute, where a lot of their current problems are so long-running that you can find their roots in stuff jorge and valentino were complaining about YEARS and years back. they've become a lot more reactive in recent years and did do a lot to tackle fabio's complaints about the bike's top speed... but by that point, they were in such a hole that just 'fixing the top speed' really wasn't enough to actually make a competitive bike. still, part of the reason why fabio's decided to stick with that project is he feels like yamaha is finally listening to him - and if they'd lost him, they'd really be fucked, so that has to count as at least a little bit of a W

in terms of the valentino and marc comparisons, they are just about different enough that it'll only take you so far. with valentino, the simple truth is that nobody today could do what he did for the yamaha project in 2004. he couldn't do that nowadays; it just isn't possible for a rider and his team to make that sort of instant impact anymore. motogp is so different now, with all the aero and devices and all the other stuff casey hates. the balance of power, if you will, has shifted pretty decisively from riders to engineers. also, valentino by that point was a fair bit more experienced and a lot of the credit has to go to his even more experienced team for what they were able to do with yamaha's carte blanche. a rookie, however gifted, just won't be able to provide quite the same level of direction. with marc... well, the honda was fantastic when he showed up! best bike on the grid! it's not exactly an analogous situation to pedro in that what honda needed to do was 'keep being good'. they did listen to marc's feedback and it did bag them enough titles to make it worth their while, but it also did not send their bike down a particularly happy development route for anyone else riding that thing - which ultimately as a manufacturer is not a situation you should want. honda was already losing the development arms race to ducati in the late 2010s, but giving marc a fast if capricious bike and relying on his natural talent to ride around the issues managed to disguise the problems for a while... or at least make them hurt less. all in all, I'm not really convinced 2010s honda is a model anyone should be particularly interested in copying

what ktm should do is listen to pedro, obviously. I assume they're already treating him as their championship contender elect, but if they're not then, yes, they'd be idiots. and given how long it took for them to actually confirm his place in motogp last year, I am open to the possibility that ktm are being idiots here. whether there's a workable system in place to actually make use of that feedback and continue to progress is more open for debate, and that's kinda what pedro went to the factory to check in on. pedro today was talking up a "big, big step" in the coming few races, in part due to the impact of their two test riders and the more ktm-friendly circuits to come, so it'll be interesting to see if it lives up to that. beyond that, who knows? ktm does have money and resources and a track record of success outside of motogp to give it faith, but of course this year has been a disappointment. (quick note: I have seen the stuff about ktm being in trouble financially and obviously that would massively change all of this, but at this stage it's quite hard to judge how seriously to take that - so the rest of this ask will assume that ktm will continue having a lot of money at its disposal. if they don't, my analysis is that they're probably fucked.) the first bit of the season made everyone doubt whether the bike was actually better than thought and the riders were simply not taking advantage of it - which a few signs last year like 'surely dani shouldn't be this competitive' and the whole valencia thing already pointed to. now, it's definitely less competitive than last year and even their superstar rookie can't do all that much with it, so that's not great. they do have a little time to play with here, but not that much. pedro's signed for 2025-26, but if ktm doesn't start next season more competitive, it won't take long for him to start looking around. and even though you can't do valentino 2004 things in quite the same way anymore, this is clearly going to be a project that needs an alien-level talent to actually get it over the line. they've kinda managed to fail upwards into a very strong set of riders next year and they should be able to extract a lot of them for bike development purposes, but also their rider management has traditionally been godawful so it remains to be seen how that'll work out

that being said, pedro will be fine! I mean, idk if he'll be ktm's first premier class world champion. if I had to put money on it, I'd say it's pretty likely, yeah? but the 'where would he go' thing isn't really a big concern. all the big names have kinda hunkered down (as have the teams who signed them) with two year contracts that take us very neatly to the next rule cycle kicking in, which everyone expects will majorly shake things up. while this whole japanese manufacturer situation is massively annoying, I would be shocked if at least one of them aren't regular race winners again in 2027, and hopefully will already be so before that. most manufacturers except maybe honda have at least one star rider they're intending to be a title contender in 2027, and ducati has two. they probably won't all stay in the same place (even if they all remain reasonably healthy in that time) and there's bound to be at least one manufacturer hunting for a big name. pecco will be in his late prime and possibly grey-haired, god knows what state marc will be in *taps wood*, we have no idea how the whole jorge aprilia situation will work out. maybe yamaha will be so competitive again that they actually decide they want TWO riders fighting it out for a championship and we get a proper throwback in blue to the good old garage cold war days - which is where my imagination sadly fails me because I can't picture fabio putting up a wall or yamaha not sucking. maybe, like you say, pedro is just what honda needs to... well, honestly I don't think he could get them out of this hole - but perhaps in a couple years time when honda is looking healthier again, he's the kind of rider that could make it a title winner again. it'll be a new world! if pedro is as good as we all think he is, then obviously any manufacturer would be thrilled to get their hands on him, not least to deprive the competition of having him. how old will he be in 2026? about nine years old, I think? if I had to guess, I do kinda see him being a title contender around 2026-ish, because I just can't quite picture ktm making the necessary leap by next year so 2026 feels like a good way of hedging my bets and trusting his sickening levels of natural talent to make up the bike difference. one of my big remaining doubts is... well, it's actually been quite a while since a new manufacturer has won a rider's title. the last time was ducati way back in 2007 when they nailed the new regulations cycle and also kinda lucked into signing the casey stoner, but ducati had already been regular race winners for quite a few years before that. capirossi was third in the championship in 2006. I suppose aprilia got vaguely close in 2022, but that was a chaos season we don't have much reason to expect to see a repeat of any time soon, and in the end they also didn't get that close. ktm really needs to be getting into race winning form soon if they want to be thinking about titles. it's ridiculous that it's been over three years since their last win in the dry, and nearly two since their last win full stop. if I were them, I would maybe consider winning some races, instead of continuing to lose them idk. let's see how they do on sunday, eh

[xenosagaepisodeone]

the main reason why I'm invested in conversations about ai art despite not being interested in the technology itself is that I'm worried about what the ever-growing sentiment that "protecting artists" means "protecting intellectual property" or "protecting copyrighted material" will do to the future of piracy (I mean, information sharing at large but also My Files). god help us if corporations learn that people will sympathize with the most depraved of financial pursuits if they can prop some artist up front and center as the underdog face of the movement. in 2023 people were applauding prosecraft being taken down (which wasn't even a corporate endeavor or anything! it was just one guy's passion project) because authors could weaponize "our work is being stolen and used by some soulless machine!" despite people giving chuck wendig a verbal beating for trying the same thing against internet archive only a few years prior.

[poppy-in-the-woods]

So this last project I am writing (Project Underdog) it's getting hard.

Because I am basing the story and the protagonists (both female and male leads) in my own experiences and/os people I know, it's bringing back so many memories.

I don't know if Mel's likeable or not (I don't think I wasn't very likeable back then), but I am not worried about that right now. I feel for her, because she's so lonely and she's being so mistreated, like I was, and every time I have to write from James's perspective and call her desperate and pathetic, it's like I'm giving credit to that voice in my head that still, after all these years, calls me those things. I try not to listen, but boy is it loud sometimes.

And I just realised James is a bit like Ben Connor's¹ evil twin. I've used the exact same two people as inspiration to create them both, just picking different parts this time. Don't know if Jack will ever read it, even if I publish it, but if he does and he recognises himself... I just hope he comes to realise that what he did, no matter knowingly or not, was wrong. It was not nice of him to manipulate me like that, to take advantage of me being in love with him, with all the fire of my teenage heart. No, he didn't rape me or anything. Sometimes I kinda wish he hurt me physically, so I could hate him easier.

I'm crying and I don't know anymore if I am crying for my poor protagonist or for my teenage self. Maybe for both.

¹ From Born to Die, my first book.

[yakamozarda]

Honestly people simping over new tumblr features bc uwu so chaotic anmoys the shit out of me. Im pretty sure tumblr is trying to brand itself as an uwu chaotic place and the blaze feature, you know, in the website famous for its callouts and cancer, comes out around the time it is rebranding?

Oh also, they are getting their advertisement shit straight. After getting the same swedish viagra ad for months, now im getting proper ads! And ofc we knew tumblr also had trackers before that too. Etc

Im just begging yall to remember that we are at web3 or whatever the fuck rn and no website, even with its cringe friendly facade, will be your friend. The only way you can get a social media that doesnt market YOU would be making our own ao3 but for social media. Till then, im begging you to not drop your cynical perspective

[once-upon-an-idiom]

UNDERDOGS UNDERCOVER

As an Autistic woman, Nicole Newman is used to pretending to be something she’s not. However, when she decides to take her masking talents to P.O.R.T.A.L., one of the top private security agencies in the world, bias and discrimination keep her and other coworkers trapped in entry level positions for years as their neurotypical counterparts fly through the ranks.

But when a ripped trash bag spills secrets of company-wide corruption, suddenly the fate of a world that always treated them like garbage suddenly lies in their underpaid hands. Luckily for the citizens of earth, Nicole is a “strong sense of morals”autistic, otherwise they’d be so screwed. Going up against the top spies in the world, this scrappy team has at least one thing going for them; no one is going to see them coming!