#Vs. Mid-Boss

[jolikmc-stuff]

Mega Man 8 - "Vs. Mid-Boss" (2A03 Arrangement, v2.01) by Jo Li KMC on SoundCloud

Huh.  I guess all we needed to do to make the song work was completely forget trying to make orchestral hits using the 2A03 sound chip.  Go figure~

[anthroparian]

sparkle on

[wrencatte]

...okay. Well, at this point, my question is HOW do I...convey this information. I’m not even worried about info dumping at this point. i just wanna get the info out

but also it’s 2am and I need to wake up by 515a at the absolute latest. So

doesn’t matter rn. off to bed

[birdy-babe]

Here is a collection of official helluva boss art I think everyone should see

Loo Loo Land

(by Birdget N)

Harvest Moon Festival

(Stolas was originally supposed to be at Millies house too?? hm)

(loot at stolas lmao)

(this one is just really cool)

(All By Al Pullen)

Ozzie's

Quote by artist: "(...)some discrepancies did come up due to working with an older copy of the script and of course, other choices being made because they fit the vision better for different purposes."

(Interesting??? Older copy of the script? I would do anything to know what was originally there)

(Super crazy interesting considering how early these were made and the designs of the characters.. the artist did say they struggled on the designs a bit... still cool!!)

(LOOK AT THEM FUCK)

(All by Al Pullen again)

Mammons Mid-Season Musical

(look how cute he is in his lil cow-print robe)

(THIS ONE IS CRAZYYY who is that in the background?? Blitzo is taking the photo with Fizz it looks like, crazy!)

(this one is just cool)

Full Moon

(lol)

(LOOK AT MOZZIE AND MILLIE LMAO)

(OH NO)

(HOLY SHIT I LOVE THIS HOLY SHIT LOOK AT BLITZO LOSING HIS MIND AFTER THE FIGHT WHY DIDN"T THIS STAY IN THE SHOW)

(all by our monarch, Al Pullen again)

Apology Tour

(LMAOOOO STOLAS)

(HELLO????? NOT DELIVERED?????? "dude just talk to me" HELOOOOOOOO)

(THIS NEXT ONE IS CRAZY)

(WHO IS THAT???? HAVENT WE SEEN HIM BEFORE? WHY IS BLITZO DESPERATELY RUNNING AWAY FROM HIM??? HELLO?)

(THEY ORIGINALLY TALKED ON THE BANISTAR???? CRAZYYYYY)

(verosika ur gorgeous i love u)

(thank you Al Pullen)

Okay thats all! These are all Beat Boards, which as I understand, are like the first little sketch of the main plots/scenes of the episodes based on the original scripts. After these are made is when things begin to get changed around, designed, etc. I love them! They tell a lot about where each episode started vs where they ended. If you wanna see more, you can check out Al Pullen's twitter (squiderdoodle) or the fandom wiki!

[evilkitten3]

#i think mdr also doesnt rlly care abt younger ppl's opinions sdffggfds#he's like. old man shakes his fist at a cloud#he is so OLD and i think he believes that its part of why he must be right#like ... he has all this experience. he has lived an extensive life#tried and failed to make 'teamwork' (cooperation) work#so for him it is. it seems naive probably of naruto to believe that this would work#(it is notable tho that he SEES that the shinobi villages are cooperating. he mentions this Twice actually the other time is#right after his edo tensei resurrection. its the very first thing he remarks upon being faced w the alliance#that theyre all wearing the same headbands but they seem to be coming from different villages#this kind of .. does blow his mind. but its too late for him to take on a new ideology Now ^_^#he has to go thru with it. he's so smart and so sexy after all <3 he has to be right. and they must be wrong#bc he has lived and seen that any alliance will just fall apart at the end and so thats why theyre 'pathetic' at the end of the day anyway)#it is very funny tho i think asfgdfdgd#bc obt is like out there screaming and arguing with everyone. and mdr is like ummm who the fuck cares. LMAO#lets beat the shit out of each other and whomstever wins. that one's the one that has rights. and IS right w their ideology#i also do think its notable that team 7's 'teamwork' doesnt actually manage to bring him down BUT#their teamwork does lead to the defeat of kaguya. so. i feel like at the end of the day#u can still say that the teamwork/cooperation ideology is the winner here#bc they get to have a future and konoha continues to exist. whereas mdr fucking explodes and then dies. lmao#so the narrative does. still prove him wrong albeit indirectly

1000% true he only cares about opinions of the youth (hehe) when said youth can shatter his ribcage. and even then he's still more interested in getting kicked again

alternatively i think he might find it somewhat amusing that the way to get everyone to cooperate turned out to be. having them all be really really really about-to-shit-themselves scared of him (obito but that's that same thing as far as he's concerned). moreover, if the only time they can work together is when they have a common opponent, then as soon as that opponent is defeated (entirely hypothetical ofc bc he's perfect and about to become the second sage and can't be stopped ever) then they'll just. go back to fighting each other. which just proves his original point (it in fact does not, but since he never tells anyone anything there's no one who can point out the itty bitty teeny weeny gaping massive gloryhole flaws in his logic such as that. while they can't prove that that's not true. he also can't prove that it is.)

your logic concerning the narrative is technically correct but unfortunately madara operates on his own crazy caveman logic, and while team seven can do. basically jackshit to stop him, as soon as kaguya takes over, they manage to beat her, which i think madara could easily interpret as black zetsu sacrificing madara to bring back someone weaker than him (did kaguya survive maito gai? no. did she survive a living full-power hashirama? no (neither did madara but pointing that out will just make him hard again). as far as he cares, all kaguya did was show up, steal his body via black zetsu hax, and then get pummeled by three teenagers, some corpses, and obito's ex. all of whom tried and failed miserably to stop madara).

now, technically, madara is crazy so his own potential thoughts on All That should be irrelevant.... if that had been the final battle. but the final fight of the series is naruto vs sasuke, and whoever is stronger is the most correctest, ultimately just. proving madara's power-over-all stance to be the correct one (i guess you could argue that naruto worked with kurama? but. idk kurama still doesn't really have the ability to just. leave. so i would at the very least have an asterisk there, personally)

wait so, as the holders if the most and 2nd most insane naruto characters, what did madara and obito have to say about team 7 dynamics ??

As a past memeber of team 7 Obito's opinion doesn't count cause he thinks kakashi's gremlins are the only normal people in the world. I don't remember Madara saying anything on the dynamics of team 7 but I'm not an authority on the matter so I turn it over to my resident Madara Scholars @evilkitten3 and @narutoenjoyer5000

[dailyadventureprompts]

Not to dip my toe into a boiling ocean of argument but quite a lot of the "Martials VS. Casters" powerscaling debate really could be solved without much of a mechanical overhaul if casters just built up higher level spellslots throughout the adventure rather than starting each day with a full tank of fireballs.

This is to say nothing of how much of a boon it'd be for mid to high level encounter balance/adventure design as you wouldn't have to design around the party having access to their biggest room clearing/boss nerfing abilities from the get go.

In fact, you'd be able to reverse the whole "wear them down with mooks before the final confrontation" dynamic, putting players on the defensive as they desperately search for more ways to charge up before the big threat finally bears down on them.

I know Drawsteel and a few other games are doing something similar, and I might take a crack at this at some point as part of my larger overhaul of 5e rest and recovery mechanics 🤔

[found-family-tournament]

Found Family Tournament Round 2 Part 9 Group 42

Propaganda and further images under the cut

Wright Anything Agency (& Company): Phoenix & Trucy Wright, Apollo Justice, Maya Fey, Miles Edgeworth, Pearl Fey, Ema Skye, Kay Faraday & Sebastian Debeste

221B Fam: Ryunosuke Naruhodo, Susato Mikotoba, Herlock Sholmes, Iris Wilson, Wagahai (& Gina Lestrade, Yujin Mikotoba, Kazuma Asogi, Barok van Zieks)

Wright Anything Agency (& Company):

THEY MEAN THE WORLDDDDD TO MEEEEEE for some reason a lot of people in the fandom don't play Ace Attorney 5 which is fair since it's kind of messy BUT. BUT. IT INTRODUCES ATHENA AND DOES SOOOO MUCH FOR THE WRIGHT ANYTHING AGENCY. In AA4 we learn that Trucy Wright made the Wright Talent Agency into the Wright Anything Agency in order to bring Apollo in as a lawyer when before it was just her (a magician) and her adopted father Phoenix (a poker player). and AA5 is all about Athena joining and Apollo learning how to trust her, at least it is to ME. they're so gooddddd aaaaaaa like you've got Phoenix and Trucy who are weirdos who love to scheme and you've got Apollo their longsuffering guy who deals with it all, and Phoenix is the mentor... and then Athena comes in and she has a lot of light and determination and trauma (just like the rest of them lol) and she's SO determined and I like her a lot!! And Trucy is my favorite and Phoenix cares about her SO much but he also has his other found family in the Feys!!!!!! Mia dies in the first game but her ghost stays with Phoenix and her sister/cousin Maya and Pearl are SO IMPORTANT TO HIM he loves them so much that's his sisters to me ;-; he would do anything for them and Trucy and he's growing as a mentor to Apollo and Athena too as the game progress... They don't write them all perfectly but they sure do a lot of things I like :) also feel free to split this up into their Wright Anything Agency or Phoenix + the Feys or Phoenix + Trucy if you need to I won't mind I just love AA's found family a lot

Picture this. You are a attorney in your mid 20s and somehow find yourself surrounded by weird little girls with every case you take on. You officially adopt one but really, all of them are either sisters or daughters to you. Especially your loud, burger-loving lesbian sister. Your childhood friend turned rival turned lover, who has a whip-wielding adoptive sister of his own, goes on a series of investigations while messing around with a furry for a couple of weeks and returns with two 17 year old children, a thieving lesbian and a child with a narcissistic murderer for a father who should've kept him back in school a few grades. Your lover has each of them under an arm, and they are appended to your stable of weird little girls but are very much hidden in the back. Then you find out that your daughter, the official one, has a 22yo trans half-brother with a musical diva mother and was half raised as a prince in Khura'in, so you divorce his boss (who is not your official lover, you just had a weird thing for a while when you were in your alcoholic phase, maybe while your actual lover was still messing around with the furry) very publicly while sending him to prison for murdering your daughter's father. Oh, but you have been disbarred, so you make your daughter's son send his own boss to prison, by planting false evidence on him. Of course the young man punches you in the face. Needless to say he works for you for a couple of years and never finds out that he's related to your daughter because that would require a straightforward conversation, now wouldn't it?

only one of them has never been arrested. only two of them arent lawyers. theyre all gay

Theyre very weird and misteruous and kinda fucked up a bit and they were through a lot but phoenix did his best and trucy well she's still just a kid but oh she's trying so fucking hard and always trying to wear a smile and it's breaking my heart the two of them. Also theyre weird i already said that but let me say it again they are WEIRD. and we love them<3 (the ace attorney fandom)

221B Fam:

I dont have much to say i am just constantly rotating them in my mind BUT i have to say the the last image i attached contains like MAJOR spoilers lol i just wanted the canon images in there

Ace Attorney has some wonderful found families, but this one's particularly special because of their circumstances. An exchange student and his unhinged weirdgirl assistant from Japan feeling so out of place in turn-of-the-century Great Britain, yet finding a completely batshit insane family during their time there...it's just so <3 <3 <3 Also Ryunosuke calls them "the greatest family in the world" and it makes my heart happy. Also they commit lots of crimes

[mlmshipbracket]

ROUND 4: POLL #1

ROUND 4 POLLS [HERE]

PROPAGANDA BELOW

Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu:

Murder husbands! You've got the ex-founder of the CIA and a mob boss and the two of them are far more obsessed with each other than the treasure hunt thing going on with everyone else. It's the world's most insufferable man and the man who has decided to suffer him. They're literally insane for each other. I think about them all the time. Wen Kexing identified Zhou Zishu by his shoulder blades alone

Siffrin/Isabeau:

I've put mid paragraph spoilers in || brackets || and paragraphs of spoilers make "spoilers ->"

I should mention that them having romantic feelings for each other is a partial spoiler?

What if. A silly little he/they guy. But! He's really messed up emotionally and mentally. Like. Constantly puts others first to his own detriment and calls himself manipulative kind of messed up. Also he's in a time loop. NOT a fun one. But! There's this jock in his party that he can joke with. And they looove making him smile! And! That jock is head over heels for our tiny hero. But! Neither of them can admit their feelings! ||Even if they know the feelings are mutual!!|| AND THE JOCK DOESN'T KNOW HE'S IN A TIME LOOP!!! AND LITTLE GUY WON'T TELL HIM! CAUSE THEY DON'T WANT HIM TO WORRY!!

I love them sooo much! They are my favorite he/they x ||trans masc|| couple <3

Siffrin is soooo insecure and I'm 100% sure Isa could fix him if he wanted to. They love telling each other just the worst puns and jokes imaginable.

[SPOILERS] -> Isa was a big nerd before he decided he wanted to be a huge jock and now he wants to design clothes now that he saved his county (along side his other friends)

Siff is just a little guy (literally)(he is short) who loves the stars abs doesn't remember a lot about his past. He constantly worries if he's being enough for the rest of his companions and always tries his best to make sure they're happy. He has soooo much trouble seeing value in himself and prioritizing his own needs and it makes me soooo sad :( he deserves to have someone like Isa.

[SPOILERS] -> Siff knows that Isa wants to confess after thier battle w the bbeg, but siff can't get Ida to say it no matter what they try :(

[einsatzzz]

Oniyanagi 1st Generation Bosses

OCtober Day 4: Under-appreciated OC

Sorry this took a while @social-muffin! Also thank you for your interest in Kana and Kurumi's great-great-great grannies hahaha The questions below are based from Muffin's KHR OC ask post over here 🥰✨

I thought answering the questions for this prompt would work as a way to talk about them, since I barely get to draw/talk abt them vs their 10th gen counterparts. But do not be fooled, they also live in my head rent-free. Whenever I remember them, I start screaming, crying and throwing up. Thank you KHR for having a 1st gen in ur story, its another excuse for us to make another set of twin OCs.

What's your OCs name, pronouns and gender?

(Left, Older Twin) Name: Rinko Ninomiya Pronouns: She/Her Gender/Sex: Female (Gigachad, Alpha Female)

(Right, Younger Twin) Name: Ryuuka Ninomiya Pronouns: Any (People mostly use She/Her due to their clothing) Gender/Sex: Male (Doesn't bother correcting people who see them as Female, like with Kana, I'll mostly use she/her for consistency)

What's their current age and what age do/did they get involved with the khr Canon?

I guess if we were to make a sidestory for them, we'd make the "current" timeline for the story when their age is around 23-24. But the first time they kind of got involved with KHR canon should be around mid-teens, when they met Asari! Then around age 19-20, Rinko should've met Giotto by then.

For comparison, the twins are more or less one year older than Giotto.

What do they look like? Height, weight, unique physical features? (Drawings, Picrews, descriptions, all are welcome! Except AI art lmao)

From this post. Rinko's design here is kinda outdated since we changed her hairstyle to have a ponytail now hehe

Anyway, they both have the exact same height (168cm) and weight (49kg). For any unique physical features, I guess that would be for Ryuuka? She always tries to make it so that she's the same height/weight as her older twin. Even the choice of feminine clothing is because she wants to be perceived to have a feminine appearance like her.

What's your OCs relation to KHR? Are they someone's guardian, friend, subordinate, love interest? Or are they a family member of a canon character? If so, how are they related to that character?

They're both Giotto's close friends! This is the root of where the current Vongola and Oniyanagi's partnership agreement came from in the 10th Gen period. Rinko met Giotto first in a formal social gathering at Italy, through Asari. Rinko had a crush on Giotto at first sight, so naturally(to her), she immediately tried to befriend him like the gigachad that she is.

(fucksdjfhjsdf now I'm remembering that one tik/tok jojo sent me with the "itulak mo ako!"/"push me!", except it's Rinko and she asked Asari to push her to Giotto's direction => so Giotto can catch her lmao hahahaha)

Ryuuka wasn't there at that time since she was in Japan managing family affairs while Rinko was away, but she did eventually get to meet Giotto some time after that. Rinko looked very happy when she came home after all and told her all about the new friends/allies/business partners that she made while in Italy.

In the 1st Gen Vongola Guardians line-up, Ryuuka is also close friends with Asari. While they do spar together, since they're both experts with swords. More often, she also just goes to hang out and listen to him play the flute.

Rinko is also friends with Knuckle, the problem is that she's trying to get him to retire as priest and go back to boxing. So they can be gym junkies together 😭 (please imagine someone trying to convince their who swore off drinking to start drinking again)

What's your OCs flame/flames? If they have multiple, which flame is their strongest?

Both of them have Sky flames!

How does your OC use their flame? Strictly for combat, or more recreationally? Is flame use something instinctive to them, or do they have to direct their flame consciously?

From what me and Sou have right now, they currently just use it during combat. Though even then, they only use it when needed (usually it's not). The use of flames is also instinctive to them too.

Does your OC have a mafia family they are a part of? If so, what's their position in that Familia?

They're both the boss of the Oniyanagi yakuza family! Though the one seen more in public is Rinko, since she's the one mostly in the frontline of both battles and networking opportunities. On the other hand, Ryuuka is often locked up in her lab and handles various matters behind the scenes.

If your OC was a civillain what would their job be? Would they be happy with that job? Would they be good at it?

I'm thinking of modern times jobs right now so it's more fun hehe

Rinko would be a gym instructor that also runs a travel vlog channel! She love working out so much (it's insane) and has a wander lust as well. She'd be very good at both and would be very popular for it. She's also a great cook, the only catch is that she adds protein in almost all of her dishes.

Ryuuka is already a scientist herself. But she'd very much be a full time scientist as a civilian, particularly in the field of Biotechnology. She'd be a renowned expert in her industry, just don't let Umbre//lla Corp hire her (yes, this is a RE reference). She'd also be one of Geppetto Lorenzini's biggest fans in a gatekeeping type of way.

Do you have a voice actor picked out for your OC? If yes, why did you pick this voice actor? (If someone talked with your oc, what would they notice about their voice?)

Rinko's voice claim is Ami Koshimizu, while Ryuuka's voice claim is Kana Hanazawa!

Sou and I had twin OCs in Hai//kyuu before with these voice claims, so we just thought to reuse them. We listened to some of their roles and confirmed that these would still fit!

Last question! What's your OCs current fashion style? And what's their dream style? Are they close?

Rinko used to wear kimono or yukata, but ever since she started travelling to more western countries, she started to have a preference for western style clothing as well, so she wears suits and dresses in those styles.

Mostly when at work, Ryuuka just wears a white lab coat with a black turtleneck dress underneath. Though when just chilling at home or on rest days, she wears a black yukata and a white haori. She doesn't really have a dream style, since fashion isn't on her priority list.

That's all for now, hope you enjoyed reading about them! 🥰💖✨

[vgtrackbracket]

Video Game Track Bracket Round 3

CΘld StΘrage from Splatoon 3: Side Order

vs.

Fear Not This Night (Instrumental) from Guild Wars 2

Propaganda under the cut. If you want your propaganda reblogged and added to future polls, please tag it as propaganda or otherwise indicate this!

CΘld StΘrage:

honest-to-god breakcore. in a nintendo game. that's the big selling point here but i'm also gonna paste an (edited and trimmed down) infodump i made about how well it fits the boss it's made for, Pinging Marciale. Pinging Marciale is a giant ball-shaped clamlike thing with three distinct shell layers that mark its three phases, but the main relevant thing to how it relates to this track is in how it moves. the song has a few sections where it sounds like the beat is bouncing around back and forth and that kind of motion is sorta reflected in the background beat throughout the track, which parallels the boss that frequently bounces around the arena due to the bumpers in it. in general it gives off a stronger vibe of constant movement than either of the other mid-run boss themes, which ties into the fact that the boss gets knocked back every time it takes damage, forcing you to actively chase it down whenever you're making a push to lower its health. the melody that starts at 0:43 really highlights that kind of active chase to me, which i think is very cool.

Fear Not This Night (Instrumental):

This plays near the end of the questline for the base game & really enhances an already beautiful scene, chills when the music swells.

[dross-the-fish]

Read your lore olympus post and I find it interesting that you look at it as someone in hade's shoes vs persephone's.

I'll admit I'm not the target audience for Lore Olympus so take my criticisms with a grain of salt. I've only read whatever has been shown to me by friends and yeah, I'm a masc person in their mid 30's. Of course I'm not going to relate to the 19 year old girl I'm going to wind up looking at it from the perspective of the guy who has to put up with the burden of being the other half of a relationship with a 19 year old girl. At my current age and life phase I cannot FATHOM that there is a single desirable quality to this character. She's completely helpless, has the personality of wet toast, no real ambitions or prospects of her own and no knowledge of how the adult world works. She ends up being "the other woman" in a love triangle of sorts and doesn't seem to have a single clue of the gravity of that or any concern for what that says about Hades, that he's more or less cheating, or thinking of cheating, on is current partner with her. I feel like we're supposed to think she's just innocent or sweet but the reality is that she's not cute, she's just insipid.

Until she tries to be a girl boss then she's just grating. Like...no, honey, you barely know what taxes are. Daddy had to get you a job at his company, stop acting like you're suddenly a badass. This kid needs a parent, not a partner. I can't picture any kind of relationship with an individual like that where the other half doesn't end up feeling like they're raising a child. This isn't wife material, it's a pink infant with huge tits.

[jolikmc-stuff]

Mega Man 8 - "Vs. Mid-Boss" (PS1 Remix) by Jo Li KMC on YouTube

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

Wow, that is an amazing summery of the pregnancy to Megxit timeline. Thank you so much. 💓 

As always, I'm interested in the media around each event and as you laid it out, my mind remembered what was being reported, true or untrue or speculation vs manifesting.

And thinking of the sheer volume of media running throughout that timeline, I'm less surprised the UK media ( and some USA media) want the Sussexes back. Their need for drama, played out in public, plus Sunshine sachs astroturfing the media with their bazillion articles everyday kept the media paid and busy.

During this period, I remember personally feeling as besieged as my first year working after I left university. My first job that year was an internship in a PR firm and my job was to collect and read all the daily newspapers and watch morning news until 9.30am when the feelgood morning shows took over. I only watched the morning shows if we had a client / newsstory / rivals were on. 

I had to prepare a mid-morning briefing for my boss and create a press file of our clients' media.

What I came to notice was just how much royal media was pumped out everyday, but that the Diana media was a tsunami and I began to see that most of it was generated by her and felt like a combo of stunt Queen drama she created which the media loved. A year of this and I felt Diana poisoned. 

Fast forward to the Sussexes and the year you've described and I felt the same way about it. I'm no longer in PR, but I've kept that habit of keeping up with all the daily news and that Sussex year was a tsunami just like Diana.

It was a relief when they Megxited - they had a final year of tsunami media until Sunshine sachs ditched them, but it wasn't as intense as the year you've described. 

I imagine the strain the family must have been under because they were in the direct path of hurricane Sussex. They must have felt so besieged the entire time if a stranger like me felt the strain while being just as observer with ability to turn it off if I chose. 

No wonder they all look much more relaxed since the Sussexes megxited. And we should all thank our stars that the Sussexes can no longer afford Sunshine Sachs because it's stopped the tsunami of daily media ( a Sunshine Sachs MO).

Ps: if you doubt how Sunshine Sachs operates, ask yourself why JLO has been in the media everyday for the past 20yrs when she's not producing hit records, films or brand sponsorships. Most celebrities hire them for a limited period usually when selling something, but JLO hired them to keep her front and centre at all times. And Markle followed suit until she couldn't afford them anymore. 

[s3r3n44]

Every fandom I've ever been in

Creepy pasta (in)

Poppe the preformer (out)

Undertale (out)

Obey me (OUT)

Fanf (out)

Sailor Moon (out)

Danganronpa (out)

Cookie run kingdom (out)

Yandere simulator (out)

Aggresuko (out)

Sanrio (out)

Milky Way and the galaxy girls (out)

Hazbin hotel (OUT)

Hellva boss (DEF OUT)

Jammer lammy (out)

Bridge kids (in)

Postal dude (somewhat in)

Rocker horror picture show (out)

Doki doki literature club (out)

The eltingville club (in)

Mid 90s (out)

Clone high (out)

Deathlok (out)

TCC (in)

Wendell and wild (out)

Camp camp (out)

Super smash bros (out)

South Park (in)

FNF (out)

Mario (out)

Batim (out)

Little misfortune (out)

Sally face (out

Kakeguri (That lesbian gambling anime) (out)

GTA 5 (somewhat in)

Beavis and butthead (out)

Scott Pilgrim vs the world (out)

ICP (out)

Panty and stocking (not really into)

Kmfdm (in)

Siouxsie and the banshees (in)

Radiohead (in)

X ray spex (in)

Melanie Martinez (Don't like her anymore shes weird af 🙏)

Jack stauber (out)

Kittie (out)

Mindless self indulgence (out)

Sublime (out)

Vocaloid (out)

Type of negative (out)

Hole (out)

Daria (out)

Downtown (out)

Nightmare before Christmas (out)

Smile for me (out)

Cuphead (out)

Idk if that's all :(

Ima add favorite characters from each fandom soon lmao

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

I saw you pointing out how Vivienne has not changed since the Zoophobia comic back then and after thinking about that, I can only agree.

She is still introducing way too many characters as if she really needed them all. More than half end up not even being relevant because she only wants to focus on her favorites. She only wants to show off her OCs.

Her character designs are still all over the place and do not make sense nor are they elaborated. Why is Angel a spider? No one knows. Why does Moxxie have those legs but no other imp does? When was there ever a connection between Lucifer and ducks in the Bible? Bible Lucifer was supposed to be the most beautiful angel in heaven before he was cast out. Is she saying ducks are the height of beauty?

She still can't commit to finishing anything. She never finished Zoophobia. Look at what happened with the empty promise that way Allison. Her shows feel so half-assed because she just doesn't fully commit to them and instead always wants to move on what SHE likes and the parts SHE wants to show. What's in between doesn't matter nor if the plots remain unresolved or even makes sense.

The fact that she already wants to make a spin-off for the Vs + has made Helluva Boss before Hazbin Hotel was actually out shows that she still cannot commit to anything. She doesn't want to commit to characters. She doesn't want to commit to her own stories. She doesn't want to commit to her own shows, no matter how "passionate" she is about them. Maybe she is passionate about the concept of them, about the concept of Hazbin Hotel. But absolutely not about the actual show.

I genuinely am baffled that YouTube Essay people who cover her hardly ever seem to focus on these really big issues. Her own issues as a person aside - sometimes it seems as if no one notices why her shows, specifically Hazbin, are so mid and or below that.

Hazbin Hotel is just another empty promise of her's. She promised rich characters and yet she needs to canonize the headcanons of her fans and comes up with things on the spot, even though she's had some of them for so long. She promised a mature cartoon for adults. But her idea of mature is the same as that of edgy teens and Jojo Siwa. She promised a story that critizes Christianity but the story itself doesn't seem to know what Christianity is half the time.

This. She really keeps on giving great promises and not following through. She seems she will go farther than she did with Zoophobia but in exchange flop hard in execution because she doesn't properly build anything up or focuses on her favorites at the detriment of other characters. Also again she can't commit to a premise to save her life and it devolves into madness. Also old criticisms of Vivziepop's work are always so familiar and her fans have been always so crappy.

[aces-to-apples]

Extremely random question that you can ignore! So as a cook, when you work somewhere does that place like, give you specific recipes to follow? Because I always figured that they'd want their food standardized, but also it made SUCH a difference when the cook at my favorite breakfast place left, but if they were following the same recipes shouldn't it have been the same?? Or is there just a massive level of skill difference that can happen there?

Most places have a certain level of standardization with regards to recipes and ingredients, yes, but also how you cook something, and for how long, and what else you may add can make a massive difference. Cooking something on the flat top vs. a grill vs. the oven vs. the fryer vs. a steamer can all massively change how something comes out, and yeah it's sometimes a skill thing too. Some people don't put oil down, or drench everything in it even when that's a crazy thing to do; some people don't season, or massively over-season; some people (especially older cooks) kind of go by vibes and don't, for instance, actually temp the fucking meats they're cooking; some people never even look at the fucking recipes and just vibe their way through everything based on previous training, making all of their food taste different than everyone elses'.

Adding to that, there's also the matter of who's doing the prep: depending on the place, some (a lot, really) line cooks are also part-time prep cooks and that'll have an effect as well. If your favorite cook all did all the prep work for the specials, or made sure everything was flipped and stocked on the line, or had a special recipe for sauces and marinades that wasn't written down, or was the person responsible for proper rotation, or always timed and temped their cooking properly, etc. etc., then them leaving likely had ripple effects and left holes in the system that nobody had thought to fill yet.

And on top of that, yeah, skill and experience make a big difference too. New cooks for instance often learn everything on the line and piecemeal across different jobs, which will affect their cooking each time they go somewhere new. My very first job was at a fucking Subway, but since it was all fresh ingredients and no actual cooking, the main thing I was taught to focus on was proper rotation (FIFO: First In, First Out), accurate labeling (contents, date made, use-by, initials), and keeping everything stocked, which is literally always the first thing that new bosses compliment because of how, uhhhhh, lax a lot of line cooks can be about all that; on the flip side, I've been a line cook for several years and just learned at this latest place to check the internal temp of steaks to determine how cooked they are (rare: 120ish, mid-rare: 130ish, medium: 140, mid-well: 150, well done: +155) simply because I never worked anywhere that did a lot of steak work.

So yeah it's sort of a grab bag in kitchens of where the disconnect may be lol, very much an art rather than a science, especially in kitchens that aren't terribly fussed about having everything exactly the same every time. Plus, not gonna lie, some "official" recipes are absolutely wack and everyone in the kitchen just tacitly agrees that We Are Not Doing That and does their own thing.