#Wouldn't it be so fucking funny if a youtuber did this at some point-

[jazminrhode1]

Hey Google, Play 'Begin Again' Matt Sturniolo x Reader One Shot

Summary: You go on your first date with Matt after a bad breakup.

Word Count: 1648 words

You took a deep breath as you looked in the rearview mirror. It had been 6 months since you broke up with your ex and you still didn’t feel ready to get back into dating. Your best friend Taylor reminded you that Matt was a great guy and that you would have fun. You were doing this for her.

You parked around the corner from the cafe where you were going to meet and took your time as you walked over. Your ex was incapable of being anywhere on time and that was the standard that you held for all men. You wouldn't put it past Matt if he didn’t show up at all. Men sucked. You were certain of that.

As you walked past the window toward the door you could see Matt sitting inside, waiting. You had met a couple of times but, you never realized just how attractive he was. He was wearing a Let’s Trip t-shirt, some black cargo pants, and a backward cap. You sent Taylor a quick text before you went inside. “Here goes nothing...” was all it said.

Matt looked up when the bell chimed as you entered. He stood and waved - a charming grin on his face. For a Saturday afternoon, the cafe was pretty empty. Instead of a murmur of incoherent chatter, you could have listened to every conversation if you really wanted to.

As you walked over to him, he welcomed you with a hug and pulled out a chair for you to sit down. You could tell that he had no idea just how nice that was; how much you appreciated it.

“It’s so great to see you, y/n” he started as he sat opposite you. His small talk was endearing, his stories were funny and you felt guilty for having come prepared with 3 or 4 excuses in case you had to make a swift exit.

“I haven’t ordered. What can I get you?” he asked. You insisted on ordering for yourself. If this was going to go south like all the other first dates Taylor set you up on since the breakup, you didn’t want to give him anything to use against you.

As you stood in line and scanned the menu, you saw him reach into his pocket. You thought he was pulling his phone out to text a friend or scroll through Instagram but, he was only pulling his card out of his phone case. Another point for Matthew Sturniolo.

It was times like this that you realized how much your scumbag of an ex fucked you up. Matt was nice, anyone would have told you that but still, you assumed he had bad intentions.

As you stood in the line, he kept sneaking glimpses of you. You couldn't help yourself from blushing a little bit, he almost convinced you that he was happy to be there. “Taylor said your favorite drink was a pink drink,” he said. “I’m not that basic” you replied, kind of offended. He was still smiling as he nudged you playfully. “I’m not gonna lie, they’re pretty good,” he assured you.

He was right. They were pretty freaking good and it was your favorite drink but, to avoid looking like a basic bitch, you just ordered yourself an iced coffee.

When you both had your drinks, you headed back to the table and he pulled out your chair once again. You weren’t sure if this was all an act but, you wanted to believe this was just who he was.

He surprised you. You had seen a couple of his videos and spoken to him in passing from time to time but, you didn’t really know all that much about him. The guy in front of you wasn’t the shy, reserved triplet you saw on YouTube and all over your TikTok. He was charismatic, and his stories were funny and you were taken aback by how kind he was even when he made fun of his brothers.

He asked you about your job, your family, and the places you'd traveled to recently. He told you about his parents and what it was like growing up as a triplet. He seemed to have a laundry list of stories about shit he did as a kid and what they had been up to in LA. All of the stories that you had to share involved the boy who broke your heart 6 months ago and you didn’t think now was the time to bring him up.

He looked into your eyes and smiled, you didn't realize how blue they were. You could tell he was searching for something. Wondering why, perhaps, you were a little reserved. He didn't push it or hold it against you. You appreciated that.

“What do you do for fun?” he said, leaning forward to show his interest.

“Oh… Um… I read a bit,” you said. You knew enough about the triplets to know that they did not read and you were keen to change the conversation before he completely turned off of you.

To your surprise, he replied, “My Mom loves reading. Maybe you have a recommendation for her?”

You were floored. Your ex never showed interest in any of your hobbies let alone your book obsession. He never made an effort to remember your birthday let alone ask for a book recommendation for his mom. Though you weren’t quite ready to accept it, you thought that Matt might be different from the others.

You told him about the three books you had already read that month. He seemed interested and genuinely excited to hear more about them. He propped his elbow on the table, chin in his palm, and listened to you word vomit for almost half an hour.

“Shit,” you said as you looked at your phone. “What?” he asked, confused.

“I didn’t realize the time” you commented. He looked at the clock on the wall, “I guess we're just having a good time” he responded.

Not a waste of time. Not a boring time. He was having a ‘good’ time and so were you.

You figured it was time to let him talk so, you asked the question. “What do you do for fun?”

Excitement changed his whole demeanor. “Do you play Pokemon Go?” he asked. Something childlike and enchanting came over him.

You shook your head slowly and couldn't hold back a laugh. You weren’t laughing at him, you were amazed at how comfortable he was just being himself. That was something that you began to admire about him.

As you tried to stop laughing you let out a snort. Fuck. Your face turned bright red as you clapped your hand over your mouth and nose. He was laughing too. Not at you but, with you.

“I’m so embarrassed,” you said. You couldn’t hide it. “Don’t be,” he reassured you as he reached out and rubbed her arm comfortingly. You made some joke to cover up your humiliation and he threw his head back laughing. Your ex never thought you were funny.

As the cafe employee came over to clear the table you realized that you had been here nearly 5 hours. The time flew by and you didn’t even need to whip out one of your carefully curated excuses to leave. But, you did have to go. You had work in the morning and you lived all the way on the other side of LA.

Matt waved at the employees as he followed you out. “Thanks, guys, see you next time,” he said. Another thing that your ex would have never ever done. You knew that he had noticed you were a bit more reserved than usual and you contemplated explaining yourself. You didn’t know how much Taylor had told him and you didn’t want him to think you were rude. Especially since you had a great afternoon with him.

“Let me walk you to your car,” he said. Before you could explain or apologize, he started telling you about the series that he and his brothers were watching on Netflix. It was something with police or cars or a cartoon - you had no interest but, he was getting really into it.

When you got to your car, he looked disappointed. You were too. For the first time in 6 months, you had enjoyed someone’s company. You had barely thought about your ex and it was all thanks to him. Even if this didn't go anywhere, you were thankful to have spent this time with him.

“I had a really great time, y/n, I'm glad we got to link up,” Matt said. There it was again. No games, no bullshit. He said what he felt with such ease, that it caught you off guard.

“I had a great time too,” you replied.

You both stood there awkwardly for a second before he opened his arms and pulled you into a hug. “We should do it again sometime,” he said as he stepped back and buried his hands into his pockets, “you have my number. Let me know when we can hang out again.”

He smiled. For the first time since your breakup, maybe even longer, you felt butterflies swarm your stomach. You blushed as you turned to get in the car. He waited to wave goodbye as you pulled out of your spot. You could see him waving in your rearview mirror as you drove away.

On the drive home, you couldn’t help but think about Matt, not your ex but, Matt. For the last 6 months, you thought all relationships brought were pain and heartache and that all men were the same. But, Matt may have begun to change your mind.

As you pulled into your driveway, Taylor was blowing up your phone. A smile spread across your face. This was going to be the first time in a while that you’d be filling her in on a boy that you liked, a boy who treated you well and who was kind, and who was not the idiot that broke your heart.

[heartsoji]

suna rintaro here. my girlfriend, y/n, is being distant today and i don't know why. let me tell you about what happened.

we were supposed to have our separate zooms with her on my lap, but she left to a different room near the very beginning. she tried to play it off with "i have a pop quiz and i need to focus. can't have my grade drop just because i can't focus on your lap with your zoom in the background," but we all know that that is absolute bs. she could've focused on my lap just fine, and we all know that failing a 10-point pop quiz from chiahara-sensei happens to the best of us. and if you're wondering, i am the best of the best.

then, after we both finished our annoyingly long 1.5 hour lectures, (well she claimed hers was in fact a 40-point pop quiz/test but it def wasn't) she refused to cook together. she said something like, "rin, you burned yourself last time, remember? go sit down," but that, too, is bs. yes, i spilled hot water on my sweats last time i tried to make pasta, but it was on my knee, so it wasn't like it was a big deal anyways. i don't know why she kept making excuses.

then, after we finished eating the meal she cooked without me, she had the audacity to get on a zoom call when i didn't have one. and after that terrible offense, she refused to sit on my lap for it AGAIN. she said that inuzuka-sensei was always more strict about what we wore in zooms, and i wouldn't get away with no shirt on like soma-sensei let me. when i told her that her body would block mine, she said that my chest and shoulders would still be perfectly visible. then, she guilted me by saying that she didn't want other girls to see my "perfectly toned abs," as she called them. AND THEN she had the impudence to TEASE ME and LIE TO ME by telling me my cheeks and ears were getting red! couldn't believe her.

then, after all our classes were over, she refused to cuddle with me because APPARENTLY her friend's sister a block down rolled and sprained her ankle, and that it was getting pretty bruised and swollen. she also added that her friend didn't have any advil or experience in injuries, and apparently she was asked to bring some advil, a compression bandage, and a couple ice packs. when i told her that her friend could just buy some and that she could get her own ice pack, she tried to get out of it by telling me that her friend's sister was only 5, was bawling her eyes out, refused to be left alone but also screamed louder when she was picked up, and that we also had a lot to spare because we have a ton of supplies in the closet because of my constant volleyball injuries. again, absolute bs. her friend could just go grab everything herself. what did it matter that the kid was crying? fuck kids! do you know how funny those youtube videos of kids getting hurt and crying are? people enjoy them for a reason. it's because kids are annoying as hell and it's fun to watch them get injured. im subscribed to like 10 of those kinds of channels. her friend is literally getting free entertainment and y/n obviously just wants to watch the free entertainment WITHOUT ME because she'd rather be with her stupid friend than me.

all in all, please help. i don't know why she's so distant today. is she mad? please give me tips!

@.su.rin post made at 4:16pm

comments: @.y/n.l/n: HELP WHAT IS THIS @.y/n.l/n: for the record i got an a+ on that so it was worth it @.y/n.l/n: love u always rin <333 @.su.rin: reply to @.y/n./l/n- ik that u hate me its ok

[sepyana]

I know people don't like the Authority check at the church because the game constantly states it's not a bad thing to fail checks only to have you call Kim a slur. I don't think this check is badly done. Because DE's main thing is that failing checks doesn't make the story worse, sometimes it makes things even more interesting. It doesn't have to be all funny shit, the game doesn't promise you that.

The scene after failing that check tells you more things about him than most others. Him putting up with your bs, stupidity and indecency isn't for your sake, it's for the investigation. It seems obvious but a lot of people miss that. He has to stay professional because he doesn't have the luxuries you do, he doesn't get a chance to do mistakes like you because he is treated like he is subhuman in his own home.

Being used to racism doesn't make it hurt less. Despite this, in the best scenario, he tries to be emotionally open (which we know is difficult for him especially) AND forgives you. Which for the record, isn't something he owes you. He probably did it this way because people are a lot less willing to accept their fuck up if you are mad at them when you point it out. Even if your anger is obviously justified.

Things I mentiones above could be understood from other parts of the story but this bit is specific to this scene:

You only get this bit of info if you fail the check AND refuse to apologize. The narration and your skills refer to him as "Lieutenant" (with a few exceptions like the tribunal) but you yourself almost always refer to him as Kim. Maybe he puts up with it because of your brain damage? When you become racist he realizes it is because you don't respect him. Here is another mention of this from when the two of you are talking about pinball:

Unfortunately, Harry will refer to him as Kim no matter what. You'll have to go through the game ignoring this information basically.

I will say this, it is pretty weird that your first instinct is to call him a slur, right? This is your only option regardless of the opinions you chose in the game before. Maybe Harry used to be racist? This happens with a few check fails. Harry threatens to kill himself when he fails the hardie boys authority check because Harry used to be suicidal before he lost his memory. So this might be a similar situation. Much to think about.

Another thing is apologising to him doesn't feel that realistic to me. If Harry thought of Kim as Revacholian he wouldn't be saying racist stuff to begin with. People generally don't yell out slurs regardless of situation, unless they have been saying them already.

I can't speak on racism from personal experience but I know it's very rare for people to be genuinely sorry for this stuff. At most they'll stop saying it in front of you but continue it behind your back... That what I know from friends who do deal with racism and also my experience with xenophobia and such. But I get it. Forcing your character to be racist and not letting them genuinely apologize would be a pretty bad thing to do.

I knew failing this check would make you call the lieutenant a slur but not more than that. I had like 10+ authority so things went well. Funnily enough, this is one of the few scenes I experienced where Harry DID refer to Kim as "lieutenant". And Kim refered to you as Harry. A fun role switch...

So I watched a video of the scene on Youtube. I appreciate how people put clips of DE on there but the comments are annoying. Kim is not your "baby boy" he is 43. Put some respect in his name... like damn... I shouldn't get annoyed though, they are probably just kids.

[faksyan]

For that ask game thingy, 8 !

I reblogged two ask games today and they both have an 8 so I'm answering both >:)

8. WHY did you join the fandom???

I was Aware of metal gear existing for a long time but had no idea what it's about at all. Visually knew only The Boss (when I decided to get into mgs the first thing I asked my sibling was WHO IS THE PRETTY WOMAN WITH THE SCAR I NEED TO KNOW) and Ocelot, maybe Venom. I saw the Quiet rain cutscene with her model swapped to Ocelot a long time ago and then for years thought it was like that in the game. So yeah I knew that it was good (also gay and even though the cutscene wasn't real I was right) and that my sister likes it, so I expected to get into it at some point, just didn't know when.

And then youtube recommended me this huge compilation of mgs gay moments or something and I was like I'm sorry HOW long?? WHAT is going on there I need to know NOW. And that's what finally pushed me to get into mgs. I'm here for a good story first and foremost but it's objectively funny.

8. Is there a character you think would be aromantic due to trauma, neurodivergence, or mental illness?

I was thinking maybe Otacon because of all the shit that went down in his life. His understanding of love seems to boil down to "this person was nice to me and is a woman and therefore I'm in love" when he has known someone for like a day, which to me reads as a direct result of what happened when he was a teen. Maybe he wouldn't be opposed to being in a romantic relationship but I feel like he definitely processes it differently than most people. I reeeally don't like that they kept giving him love interests despite him showing zero interest in relationships. Made me really uncomfy. This is mainly about Naomi because instead of awkward or whatever it just felt like he was really fucking uncomfortable. but also the Emma thing even if very much one-sided was ENTIRELY unnecessary. I don't know how you ever move on from that shit.

[moongothic]

Remember my first crochet sweater from forever ago? The one that turned out like shit?

Frogged it and now it's a knit 😎

So to recap; I tried making a crochet sweater based on a YouTube tutorial like years ago, and although while making it I could tell it didn't seem... right... I just kept on telling myself to "trust the process" and that "it'd turn out okay in the end"

It did not

The sweater ended up being so square-ish and massive I could've fit three of myself inside of, going well beyond "comfy oversized sweater" straight into "clown clothes" territory. It was bad. On top of that, although I tried to get the same yarn to do the top of the sweater in a pastel purple, I ended up leaning about this thing called "dye lots" the hard way, as the yarn I had needed to finish the sweater ended up being a completely different shade from what I had used for most of the sweater.

So yeah. The sweater turned out like shit, and I wore it maybe once before putting it into my closet and refusing to even look at it for like IDK two years.

Now I have some nicer yarn that I'd like to make something with, something preferably knit because I like knit fabric more than crochet, but I don't want to practise knitting clothes with that nicer yarn. And so I figured, if I frogged this crochet sweater I could then practise knitting sweaters, reuse the old yarn (=don't have to buy jack shit), and maybe remake this failed sweater into something I'll actually wear

And so the sweater was frogged, this being all the usable yarn from the project. Pastel purple dyelot on the left while the more pinkish yarn (the stuff I had originally used while trying to convince myself it wasn't pink)

You can see the difference in the hue better here

So yeah. Now admitedly after frogging the sweater I did lowkey think about just trying to re-crochet the sweater and did kinda start on that, but I very soon realized that I probably wouldn't have enough yarn to remake the sweater the way I wanted to, and just trying to crochet with it made me double down on how much I just I don't like crochet fabric as clothes. It's just so bulky, man

So I got to knitting instead. And because I'm deranged I chose to... mostly wing it. I did look at a few YouTube tutorials for top-down raglan sweaters to get an idea of what I was supposed to be doing, but in the end, I do kinda learn the best by just winging it. But what I did make a big note of while remaking the sweater was just trying it on as often as possible, just to make sure I didn't make it as oversized this time.

I did want to make this process relatively simple though and because I didn't want to risk losing out of yarn at an inconvenient point I chose to skip the stripes of the original sweater and just make it a simple two-color sweater. This also had the added benefit where I was able to use up all of the purple yarn on the yolk and just go as far as I could go with it before switching to black.

But yeah, the end result?

It's decent!

Like let's be real, my raglan increases are an absolute fucking mess and the shaping on the yolk is a little funny, AND I did make the collar too big (I was so worried my giant head wouldn't fit through so I made it way bigger than it needed to be, but honestly it's better that way than it being way too small. It looks a little silly but it's not the end of the world), and the sleeves ended up being like maybe 4-5 centimeters too long they could've been a smidge shorter.

But aside from that?

I'm honestly really happy with it

Because the fabric is super soft and nice, it's not too bulky, and most importantly, it fits me. It's not obscenely massive on me, it's just the right size.

And really, that's all I wanted. A sweater I'd actually USE, and yeah, I'm gonna wear the hell out of this next fall/winter when the weather gets cold again. It's not perfect, but it's more than good enough for me. And most importantly, I now feel infinitely more confident in maybe using that nicer yarn sometime soon to knit something

Now what the fuck am I gonna do with the leftover yarn 'cause boy howdy do I have a ton left

[blubushie]

I HATE when they use ai to complete lost songs! I hate it!! They dont get why people like those songs!!! Its shallow and unappreciative!!!! The point is that nobody knows how it goes! Nobody knows what the creator wanted to convey! Someone made a song and released it digitally and yet theres no mark of it ever existing! Thats whats so beautiful about them! When you use ai its spitting in the face of the creator and everyone who actually likes the song! "Hurr durr i finished Everyone Knows That for you guys and now its a normal song again" KILL YOURSELF!!!!!!!!

I've never heard an incomplete song* and have no idea what you're talking about. I'm referring to the AI-written & composed songs on YouTube that are called "lost songs" because they were never real songs and it's an in-joke to act like they're Goncharov'd songs. Ex "PICKIN' AXE — LOST SONG FROM THE 60S" uploaded by some channel called "Radio AI" or something of that nature. The song never existed, it's entirely AI written, they either think the Goncharoving is funny or they hope the people who don't like AI will buy the "lost song" shit and not notice the channel name. (I'm convinced it's the former since the song being AI is very obvious, and if they were really trying to keep the AI usage secret they wouldn't have it in their channel name.) They're all over YouTube now and while a few are funny it doesn't outweigh how they should get fucked.

*There is incomplete art I've seen completed by AI including that one artist that died of AIDS who did a painting intentionally left incomplete to signify the lives lost due to AIDS... Which I think the completion of via AI is fucking horrendous and the person who did it deserves to be tarred and feathered.

[solarnomoon]

love is an art form — 11

design 11,,, the dinner

heeseung leans over to the boy next to him, whispering so no-one else could hear him, "i thought it was gonna just be me and you and the other two?"

yn laughs at his words, pulling away from him, saying in a soft voice, "the other two?"

"you know what i mean ynie."

yn rolls his eyes but with no malice within his sight, replying to him, "yeah but they all wanted to go too and i wasnt gonna stop them."

at this point, jay drapes his arm around heeseungs shoulder, mocking him with a pout on his face, "awe, did wittle heeseung want a wittle double date?"

the only thing he gets back in response is a flick to his forehead. "well ow. why do your fingers hurt like hell?" jay rubs his forehead, pulling his arm off of heeseung.

"i play piano. my fingers might be my strongest feat."

niki just side-eyes heeseung across the table, then directs his attention toward yn. "mm, i bet you'd know yn, wouldn't you?"

sunoo and jungwon look at jay with their mouths open, while sunghoon and jake just bust out laughing. yn gets embarrassed but not more than heeseung, who physically turns his head away from the rest of the group.

"in shock, in tears, ive got to go." yn speaks, shaking his head. although, he just laughs right after, patting heeseung on the back. "aye, you thought it was funny too right?"

"haha, yes i did, whatever," heeseung responds, lifting some of the brisket into his mouth.

right after he finishes though, he goes back to the ear of an unsuspecting yn, who's conversing with sunghoon and jake across the table, before saying, "if you wanna try though yn, i can show you~" and making yn push heeseung playfully.

...

"so is it true that enhypen is coming back with a full group video after 2 months?" yn asks jungwon, niki, and sunoo, as the other four are conversing among themselves.

jungwon nods, "yeah, we recorded a cooking one together, which should be coming out soon... like a week or so?"

"ah i'm so excited! it's so crazy to me that i'm at kbbq with my favorite youtube guys ever."

sunoo raises his eyebrow, "but weren't you friends with sunghoon and jay before enhypen even existed? was it crazy then?"

"to be honest, yeah just a little. i didn't expect them to become so popular so quick, but i guess it makes sense considering you guys are just fucking cool and genuinely relatable." yn takes a bite of his food before continuing, "plus, every single video i've watched of you guys has just been so funny like..." and he continues, not noticing the girl that stops nearby their table.

"heeseung, is that you?!" a shrill voice pierces the air, and the group turns to look toward the source of said voice. "oh my god, how i've missed you!" and with that, the girl with the voice runs over to him and basically pushes jay to the side to sit in the guy's lap, before giving him a peck on his cheek.

yn turns to sunghoon, then to sunoo across the table, mouthing "who is that?"

jay then proceeds to say out loud, without a thought in his mind because of the corn he's munching, "oh, it's heeseung's girlfriend."

yn proceeds to turn his head toward heeseung.

"girlfriend?"

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an,,, this one has writing (566 words)! and to clarify: they have a yt channel still called enhypen, just think of them like one of those friend group channels that do random shit LOL (i have been binging their enlogs & therefore felt inspired :o)

taglist (open!): @hyuniiehoney @roulette010 @lovelypitasworld @blehhhidk @curly-fr13s @to-toad @buttersmama @sunshinefox35 @lonewolfjinji

[spilledmilkfkdies]

duman vs kalshare

This one goes out to the people who weren't there during the great YouTube comment battle, allow me to set the stage for you:

All the way back in December of 2021 I was just existing on YT, looking at a couple videos, whatever- When suddenly, in a random comment section I came across the question that started it all. If Duman and Kalshara were to fight, who would win? And because I was about as normal as I am now, very extremely normal, I just. Jumped in there. Which I actually don't do, usually. Commenting stresses me out and ''arguments'' even more so.

I said Duman would win ofc. No surprises there. Now I will admit I literally just went "Duman." and dipped, I was satisfied with that at the time. I think a couple of people did the same thing, actually? Just a short chain of "Duman", it was kinda funny. Then the person started their defense, something along the lines of: "Kalshare has fairy magic and wild magic, that's more than Duman." And I'm not 100% proud of this response, but basically I just went "nuh uh"?? Like yeah it's more in the sense that. Those are two things. But is it more in terms of strength? 2021 me didn't think so. And lowkey I still don't.

Is it my bias against season 7? Maybe.

But did Kalshara still have her fairy powers when she went full wild magic? Idk!! If she did, she'd still wouldn't have finished/graduated fairy school?? I'd argue still being part fairy would put her at more of a disadvantage tbh, because y'know. Trained fairy hunter who is immune to fairy magic. Which is a point that was brought up to the commenter, Duman can't be hurt by 'lesser fairy magic', as mean as that might sound. The Winx themselves needed a specific transformation to start doing damage to the Black Circle, ignoring how some people feel about that, it was a thing. We told them that. Kalshara isn't a Believix fairy so her being a fairy would not help.

Besties. When I tell you their response will be engraved into my mind forever. "We never saw her transform so we don't know if she is." SORRY lemme just-

I don't even feel like explaining why that's a deranged take, so I'm not gonna. I'll just move on to my next point.

This might be because I don't really respect wild magic as a whole, but what it looks like is just. Transforming into animals and creatures. Which? Slay ig. But it seems that's where the limit is. Animals and creatures. Duman is shown to also be able to transform into people and fucking WATER on top of animal and creatures. It's his preference rather than his limit. We don't really know where his actual limit is and S4 didn't bother giving a clear answer. Just kinda killed him off. That whole thing also vague in the show.

Anyway, we went back and forth for a bit, didn't come to an agreement or anything whatever. I ended up finding this person in other comment sections after this as well! Asking the same question. One comment section being. My own. Under my Duman VA video. I think the original comment section was blocked because the video got marked as for kids, but I may have some screenshots laying around that I'll add in a reblog if I find them. I do have this response to one of her comments that I decided not to interact with:

Because spoken like an individual that doesn't value their two turtles.

Remember besties, one of these villains had to be DESTROYED, the other fell down a hole, was declared dead and never seen again. Things to think about. I know I think about it. Sometimes. Because I'm normal.

[digital-chance]

steve rogers - a brief (nonsensical) character study/analysis

so i rewatched all the mcu movies with steve roger in them using this lovely youtube video. spoilers for the entire things! consider this your warning.

here's my takeaways in no particular order:

he still wears the same clothing style he wore pre-ice. often button ups, work boots, plain denim jeans, sometimes a leather jacket (often brown). later on in the mcu he started wearing plaid flannels which is funny to me because he does not give a SHIT about modern fashion. give him his old man clothes please and ty. adorable.

marvel did not give the man much character development. they said he's going to go through war and hell and death and fuckery of emotions. sure he's going to learn how to move on but that's off screen and don't really expect much change fuckers. this fucking pisses me off if you can't tell. he's such a long-time character with so many areas where he could be developed and marvel just said fuck that he's an "old man and a soldier with some funny moments" and that's all you're getting.

also he had 5 minutes MAX of screentime in infinity wars :(((( fucking hate that give my man justice

he's so funny????? and so fucking sassy???? like how did I not know this???? love the guy

he broods a ton when he's sad and cracks jokes to cheer others up when they're sad. very sweet but I feel like that marvel could have expanded on this in some way.

he's also very acrobatic which is somehow surprising to me but also at the same time it makes sense??? idk man but you do your flips bbg

also love the way they planned his fights. they really use his full body. reminds me of old greek and roman statues with the flexing muscles. (those are my favorites statues if you can't tell) it's satisfying to watch and I want to draw it or make a statue of him now tyvm.

in endgame tony started talking about his ass which sparked an entertaining side tangent. like you really didn't need to???? but I'll take it. i forgot that steve called HIS OWN ass the "ass of America." I was in and still am in shock from this whole situation.

when he met his other self (or smth I don't remember) in endgame one of the last things he said to other steve was "bucky is alive" (see points below). interesting how seeing the compass with peggy didn't phase other steve much.... also that fight is fucking ridiculous 1000/10

he says so much romantic/gay shit about bucky??? like "even when I had nothing I had bucky." very angsty and homoerotic I love it

the ending with peggy and him being old is plotted so shittily. literal garbage. i wouldn't have minded him being with peggy at all (love her sm btw don't mistake this for me hating her) if they had done it right and given cap a plausible reason and justification for him staying. sure, he misses her. sure, visiting her. but wouldn't staying with her fuck up everything??? literally everything????? like the avengers wouldn't exist everything????????? FUCK that ending.

not exactly fully cap/steve but chris evan's shoulder to waist ratio is absolutely delectable. love that they highlight that with the suits designs.

also what the fuck was infinity wars when he had a fucking beard and longer hair??? loved it but it kind of came out of left field. plus he looked a little silly fighting with the long hair bc it kept getting in his face. you would've thought that he would wear a helmet during that fight but Not Today ig...

last point I promise. but the romance with sharon carter (i forgot her name but i think that's it) was GROSS. whats her face is peggy's GRANDDAUGHTER. so now that he's too old for peggy he had to go for her granddaughter?????? YUCK. especially so because he went to peggy ANYWAYS in the mcu. to the comic writers and marvel: stop. that's fucking gross and quite honestly unneeded.

kind of a serious man with some unexpected twists, like the humor. and that was just the MOVIES. fucking hate some parts of the comics. (why are there so many universes ughhhhh) love steve though what an interesting fellow. might add on more thoughts later if i remember/want to.

[someone-you-do-not-know]

Howdy 📯 You got a minute to talk about nonsense with me? (it's fun, I promise :D)

For some reason, I got a feeling that you've already been asked this, but I shall ask you nonetheless

/You can imagine us both on a talk show, if you want/

Birds

Do you have a favorite birb? (Or any favorite animal for the matter?)

What inspired you ✨ to create Birdbrains? Specifically, Gilbert's au character. Because I know that that guy has always been associated with birds, but in the same time he only has Gilbird in canon. And you need to do a lot of research for every chapter to be able to portray a believable ornithologist. You captured his persona perfectly ✨ 👌, I had a friend who liked ornithology and they're always spraying people with random bird facts, it's so funny 😂

Speaking of which, is it hard to do research? There's so many details you put into these, it's so impressive

Was there any moment when you for a reason decided to just come up with your own fact? Were there many? 😈 or not?

Your bits are hilarious, how much time does it take to come up with a joke?

And lastly, what is your favorite bird fact? 🐦

Thank you for answering, here's some sweets 🍭🍬🍫 :)

I think you're severely overestimating my popularity, no one's asked me these questions before.

I do have a favourite bird! And a favourite animal too! My favourite bird is a raven! And my favourite animal is a bat – not any specific kind of bat, but the very concept of them! I also really like snakes. I am perfectly aware those are all... edgier animals, but when I was in third grade, we had to do a project on our favourite animal, and I didn't want to do a cat or a dog (or a horse), so I settled on a bat. Maybe I was always a little edgy?

Look at the pretty raven, it's so clever and pretty.

Just as I wrote in the tags for the first part of Birdbrains, I really did look at a duck for a little too long. Then I thought about the Bad Friends Trio and how they're always portrayed as these cool guys who everyone likes... And Gilbird... And then it clicked. I was struck by the insane thought "wouldn't it be funny if the BFT were bird watchers?" Then I of course had to have spamano, and I always liked prucan – how to make them connected? platonic romerica and North American bros, of course. Why they would meet? Well, hunting and birdwatching take place in the same areas... And in some odd 20 minutes after looking at a duck, the outline for Anatinae was formed in my brain. The Gilbird – Gilbert connection is what carries this entirely, that and the fact that Gilbert is actually not awesome, he's a losernerd who's not afraid to show it, and that makes him awesome. I'm SO glad you say I captured the ornithology spirit, because I don't actually know any bird watchers or ornithologists. 🥲

The research is part of why I haven't managed to write the next part (fruk being idiots who are hard to write is the other reason). For every single main part of birdbrains, I read through the wikipedia page for the chosen bird, spend time to figure out the subfamily for the bird, research symbolism and actual bird behaviour of the bird in question... It's a lot. For most, I've had 4-5 dedicated pages open for research purposes. While writing Cyanocoracinae, Youtube even began recommending me videos of blue jays, because I had watched a few videos to learn what their calls sounded like. It's a stupidly large amount of research – and bald eagles have no excuse for how hard it was to find their subfamily. Subfamilies are apparently a little bit of a strange label in the first place, but at this point all main parts has to end with -nae, because I think it has a nice ring to it.

So far, I don't think I've come up with my own facts. Misunderstood things, grossly simplified the difference between ravens and crows, and taken symbolism, jokes, and metaphors way too seriously – sure. Pheasant bashing is purely based on how fucking dumb all the pheasants I've ever seen are. Those birds want to die. But I try to stay true to reality, in case there's an ornithologist Hetalian out there. I don't want them to get mad at me for not knowing my stuff. XD

The jokes though. I'm glad you think they're funny! The jokes aren't that hard to come up with. Most are puns, after all, and some of them I think of while researching. Generally, I just go with whatever would be sillier. I live off of the silly.

My favourite bird fact is a bit hard, because there's so many in my head at this point. But last year when I went to Jungfraujoch in Switzerland, I learned about the alpine chough (there's just something about black corvids), and how it nests at a higher altitude than any other bird. Their eggs have adapted to this low oxygen atmosphere, and has a smaller loss of water too. Not to sound like Gilbert, but they're really cool.

Thank you for the candy! <3

[numetaljackdog]

what i'm listening to 4/5/2023 (song notes under cut!)

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Laura Les - Haunted: haunted. by laura les.

100 gecs - Dumbest Girl Alive: yeah there's gonna be a fair few new gecs tracks in here. dumbest girl alive is my favorite from 10k, i can't even express how much it just hits every time. i love the riff, i love the lyrics, i love the music video, i love the production, love it love it love it. i also included a minecraft parody i found when searching the video on youtube, you're welcome

Black Flag - Revenge: i've been trying to rediscover my love for some of my favorite hardcore genres, so i took it all the way back to the early days and reconnected with one of my favorite bands. i encountered this song in high school when trying to find clean black flag songs that i could put in a piece i was writing about the history of metal (which the band is not, but hardcore is significant in the history of the genre anyway). it's a great thrash-and-basher and apparently has not been in my playlist until now, which i was unaware of lol

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever: once again i must admit to listening to the beetles.... alas. look it's a really good song, the lead-in to the chorus is fucking amazing, the instrumentation is really interesting and unique, it just washes over you like waves of sound. plus it's goofy as hell

Jaga Jazzist - I Could Have Killed Him In The Sauna: from the INSTANT i heard the intro of this track i was like ohhh that's going in the next WILT. i don't have a ton to say about it, just listen. it's good sounds to chew on. shoutout io

100 gecs - Billy Knows Jamie: i freaked the fuck out when i heard this track, no joke. which is funny, because i'm pretty certain they played this when i saw them last fall, but i didn't have any frame of reference at the time for whether it would sound the same on the record. i just kept thinking "they did this for ME. SPECIFICALLY" because like hello??? i'm the nu metal gecs fan!!! that's like my whole thing!!!! and this literally sounds like limp bizkit half the time!!!!! i honestly kind of wouldn't mind if the breakdown at the end had been a little more restrained, just to preserve the feeling that it's 1999 all over again, but whatever. it cums. it's also about violence and killing, so i even get a little bit of like juggalo vibes almost

Fiona Apple - To Your Love: this song sounds so sexyyyy like maybe this is out of pocket but when this came on shuffle on a singer-songwriter playlist i was browsing i literally stopped what i was doing and was just like 😳😳😳 it's insane. and like when her voice gets all growly at one point later in the track... anyway haha

Marnie Stern - Prime: found via that coolass video i reblogged a while back oh god let's see if i can find that. holy shit i can't believe that worked. i don't know anything about marnie stern but i should listen to more because prime knocked the wind out of me it's good

100 gecs - The Most Wanted Person In The United States: last gecs track... and it's more rap rock!!! kind of. did you guys catch that cypress hill sample? i sure did!!!! love itttt. plus there's more killing it's so awesome. i've already said most of this stuff to violet (hi violet) but for real i think "got anthony kiedis suckin on my penis" is one of the all-time greatest bars and i'm not joking

DJ Lycox - BILLIE JEAN (DIOR): a lot of music from people on here this month! one of my mutuals (who probably won't read this but if you do. hi :3) posted this track and i really love the original pop smoke song so i was like right what's all this then. it's good. that's what it is then

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run: i was reading this article about bruce springsteen being a sort of icon for butch womanhood and that had me like wow i am feeling emotions right now. and so i went and listened to some springsteen and you know what he rocks. there's something so desperate and heartbreaking about his songwriting, it hits me in a real way. and i've never even been to new jersey

Ada Rook - 920LONDON: new rook album ooh yeah babey. not my fav record she's ever done but still really fucking good. this song kind of reminds me of everlong, which like. girl who's only ever listened to everlong by the foo fighters listening to her second song: getting a lot of everlong by the foo fighters vibes from this. but still it's about holding each other close and making the most of what we have in our rapidly passing time, plus the riffs are kind of similar in ways that i don't feel like fudging musical terminology to try and describe

Sarah Vaughan - Lullaby Of Birdland: cool jazz can be kind of whatever but y'know i'm a vocals girlie and sarah vaughan honestly probably deserves to be listed up there with the greats. her vocal control is insane, and the way she just drifts from her higher register to the lower and back again is hypnotic. good fucking song plus shows props to charlie parker

May Leitz - gODKILLER: another from tumblr, thanks to user bigbaywindow for directing me towards may leitz ^_^ i have been rocking with several of her songs but this was the first one i listened to and it's really good, the lyrics hit me in a certain way as well that some of you might guess. also while putting together the youtube playlist i discovered that may makes youtube videos including one that i've seen floating around my recommended page a couple of times?? so i guess i'll have to see what's goin on over there

The International Sweethearts Of Rhythm - Vi Vigor: am i like. crazy. i would have SWORN that i put this in a previous WILT but i can find no evidence of that being true. in any case this is a cool kinda bebop-inspired jazz piece by an all-woman jazz ensemble who i wanna listen to more of. there's some really great sax work on here especially, so if you're into that def check this one out

Girls Rituals - Hole/The Used: okay funny story on this one. this was the first song i ever heard from any of devi's projects, it was before i even really knew who black dresses was. this song appeared in my release radar and i was like "who the fuck is this" and i'm convinced it only happened because the title is the names of two bands which i WAS already listening to at the time. and i listened to the song and said "this is really bad, and i don't understand why anyone would listen to this." and then i mostly forgor about it. skip forward to recently - i am obviously a big fan of devi's work and plenty of other projects adjacent to this. i get a big new batch of songs in my playlist (hello again to violet shoutout violet) and this song is in here. i listen to it. it's good :) take that, me from two years ago

The Buggles - The Plastic Age: the mandatory Todd Find™ for this month. i was watching the one hit wonderland episode on these guys and honestly didn't pay attention too closely bc i was busy but this song stuck. you guys know i'm all about that campy futurey cyberpunk-adjacent shit. it would be a stretch to say this fully gets there but it's still a fun song either way

Cage The Elephant - Cigarette Daydreams: lame song honestly but the chorus is super catchy plus there's a story. when i was working my old job there was a supervisor i liked a lot who played a wide range of tunes on shift. sometimes it was chill instrumental stuff, sometimes it was metalcore, and sometimes it was like this sort of radio alternative shit. this song specifically would play a lot, as you can imagine, and at the time it annoyed me, especially because of how catchy it is, it would make me think of work. but now both that supervisor and i have left, and so now it just reminds me of vibing with them and making the most of being on the clock. a cigarette daydream indeed

Jason Segel & Walter - Man Or Muppet: i don't know, man. i've had this song stuck in my head since i was eight years old and one day i randomly thought "i wonder if that's on streaming" and it is

[grigori77]

Critical Role, Campaign 3 Episode 49

Full five hour episode? Whoooo ... that's not, like, foreboding or anything ...

Is Sam ragging on Tiltok now? Hmmm ... SOACE THUMBS!!! XD Ad genres? Oh ... Australian Batman ... oof ... Ray Ray? Okay ... that was ... BAD ...

Marisha: "Aw shit, YouTube, FUCK!!! We're gonna get demonetized!"

Yay Micaaaaaah! Love a good shout-out, especially for such an awesome lady! :3

Okay ... so what's that weird shit in the sky? Are we in trouble ALREADY?!!

The edge? The edge of what? Oh ... SAM!!! COME ON!!! EXANDRIA IS NOT FLAT!!!

Right, so is this like some kind of tropical Northern Lights kind of thing?

Matt: "Make an Arcana Check." Laura: "Oh yeah, I got really good Arcana." (Rolls) "3." XD

Spark up? Laura: "Yeah! Explode the ship!"

Wait ... did Ashton just open up a tiny Black Hole over his own head?

So what DOES Apogee mean? Laura: "We're so smart. We're all just so smart."

Laudna: "It's like a big fatty Solstice."

Oh yes, allies ... good point. Who's left?

Laudna still has Justi's big bag of drugs. Hmmm ... whoa, Ira? Really? You're sure about that?

Laudna and Fearne blanking on Percy and Vex's full names and titles are so funny to me ... XD

DORIAN!!! YES!!! GET DORIAN!!!

FCG just really wants to Mad Max this shit, doesn't he? It's kind of adorable.

The Nobodys. Hmmm ...

Sam: "Keep in mind, Matt has to change voices for each Sending." Matt: "Oh, I'm prepared."

Fearne: "You're gonna die anyway, so wouldn't you prefer dying doing the right thing?"

Chetney: "I think we should be making a list, and, y'know, checking it twice ..." Ashton: "Yeah, that was NOT OKAY."

FCG offers himself up as a suicide bomber. "MAYBE there's some way we could sort of ... reconstruct me? After the fact?" Yeah NO.

Can they get in contact with Imogen's mum? Is that a play?

Imogen tries to SENSE if there's anything out there right now ... it's a BUZZ? Static and white noise? Intriguing ...

Okay, contact Ira first then ... ho boy ...

Marisha and her REAMS of notes ... if ANYBODY can remember what Ira's all about it's HER.

Laudna (about Imogen's message to Ira): "That was so hot." XD

Okay. Sounds like Ira's not just on board but actually RARING TO GO ... okay ...

SIX DAYS?!!! OOF ...

Chetney's stank ... hmmmm ...

Inviting Ira on board the Silver Sun ... all righty then ...

Matt: "I can make a meteor storm any time, Liam. Mysterious cataracts suddenly coming on ..." Yeah, still no patience for the Flat Earth jokes ...

Capture a monster baby? Really?

Laudna: "Imogen, you're basically suggesting we fly in a baby and use I like an Etch-A-Sketch?"

Arcane cores as makeshift bombs? Hmmm ...

Chetney: "I think I might have an idea that doesn't involve anybody ... exploding." Marisha collapses into giggles.

Travis switches back to Chetney voice: "Every once in a while I just get my youth back."

FCG's really cryptic request for a bomb to Joe is PERFECT. XD Oh yeah! That's perfect, send the Calloways to pick the bomb up.

FEARNE tries to sense if they're being followed ... while Marisha just inexplicably has an inadvertent outburst! XD

Can Milo get the Nobodys together? We shall see ... depends if they can make it to Bassuras in 6 days. And Milo just thinks FCG is clowning.

Okay, this plan is devolving into chaos ... and Ashley's mad jumbled notes are a hilarity all their own. XD

Contacting Ebenold Kai ... Imogen checks in yo see zbout the Shadowfell job and tells him about Ryn being petrified ...

Oh shit ... they're STUCK IN RYN'S FIRE PLANE HIDEOUT NOW?!!! FUCK!!! We never even THOUGHT about that ...

Chetney suggests just CRASHING THE SKYSHIP INTO THE KEY ... oh boy ... like that flaming zeppelin bit at the end of Atlantis: the Lost Empire? REALLY?!!!

Oh wow ... they're putting actual serious THOUGHT into this plan ... ye gods ...

"Ryn and Imogen" becoming some kind of fast high pitched tongue twister ... XD

But yeah, that's right, they SERIOUSLY need to get Ryn out of there ...

CAN Imogen's mother be TRUSTED right now? Is she an actual ALLY? This really needs to be addressed ...

They're trying to work out who to message for the final slot ... and Matt asks them to roll a D20 for their first day if travel! AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! Travis saves the day ...

Orym messages Dorian ... "Opal's getting a little dark." WHAT?!!!

Matt: "There are NOT enough chairs at this table, Ashley!" Are you SURE about that Matthew? REALLY sure? Hmmm?

Imogen decides to try contacting her mother while she's dreaming, hoping maybe it'll work better. Hmmmm ...

FCG wants to bring Fearne and Orym along "because they haven't been yet". Oh, so that's like an actual QUALIFICATION right now, Sam?

Orym (to Imogen): "Hey, if I had a daughter like you some day, I'd be real proud." Awwwwww ...

AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! IT'S ALL RED AGAIN!!! THIS LIGHTING'S ALWAYS SO SCARY!!!

Whoa! There she is! It worked!

Wait ... so ... what ... is she actually ON BOARD with this potential nightmare? SERIOUSLY?!!! What the fuck?

Holy fuck ... is she trying to brainwash her own daughter right now?

No, no ... no, Imogen PLEASE don't start thinking about going down THAT path right now. That is NOT the way!

"All the burdens being pulled away ..." Hmmm ...

Imogen: "That thing up there's just a God Eater, it just wants to EAT. That's all." Yeah ...

FCG starts to worry about the coin flipping as they start questioning if their god is actually on the level ...

As usual Ashton and Orym are the two making the most sense right now.

Oh ... so the colours in the sky are PULSES along the lay lines leading to the Solstice? Wow ... that is SO AWESOME ...

Laudna gets sozzled with Ashton. :3 "Who are you, Ashton?" "I am ... a blank slate." "I was aline in the woids for 30 years. I made a dead rat my best friend so I wouldn't go fucking mad." Wow ... this conversation is getting unusually intense ... Laudna's right, our boy needs to lighten up ...

Oof ... Ashton backstory is HARROWING ... Taliesin really does love playing poor broken boys, doesn't he? To be honest I wouldn't really have it any other way ...

Oh gods ... "Sam's gas cam" ... sweet fuck ...

Ashton: "I need to stop FCG from ..." Laudna: "Exploding themselves?" Ashton: "Not just themselves, exploding EVERYBODY."

Fearne and Orym discussing what if Imogen goes to the Dark Side ... ouch ... Fearne: "We just gotta watch our girl." Yeah ... what IS "the Thing"? Orym: "The good news is that Imogen's only 5% of our problems right now." Yeesh ...

Bedtime then ... Matt: "And that's where we're gonna take our break!"

I'm sorry, Sam's ringtone still makes me pee myself laughing every time I hear it ... XD

Matt: "And welcome back." No chaos this time ... what happened, guys?

According to FCG, the coin flips didn't work because he was asking about the Changebringer herself. "Gods are mysterious!" Yes Letters. OF COURSE that's it ...

"Was she? Was she? She was." Um ... yes?

FCG sends to Pike ... here we go ... "Robo-buddy?" XD Yeah ... Matt: "You get the sense she's ... PROCESSING ..."

Chetney wants Laudna to Spiderclimb under the ship to paint the keel WHITE ... interesting ... then Matt asks how much paint they actually HAVE. Ah ... yeah ... not that much, actually ... nuts ...

Imogen Sends to Hexum ... "Drop my name on Yunis." Um ... okay?

Bomb. Arcane bomb. "Barcane?"

Chetney: "Everybody's got stacks! I've just got MORE! Don't be jelly!" Laudna: "He's overcompensating."

Ashton tries to wTch Xandis so he can learn how to drive the ship. Matt: "Roll perception." Taliesin: "Oh lord." Instead Xandis just decides to teach them how to pilot since it is technically THEIR ship ...

Imogen messages Morri ... oof ... so she's HURT after that fight? Okay ... so maybe, maybe not. Hmmm ... but she MIGHT be able to help cure Run after ...

FCG messages Dancer, just tells her to get somewhere safe on the Solstice. Awwww ...

Now he reaches out to D, even though they wouldn't technically know WHO this actually is ... Worth it to fjnd out more about himself and if there are more like him ... whoa, he gets AN ANSWER BSCK ... and THERE ARE more like hom out there? REALLY?!!! Awesome ...

Travis: "is your meat tongue rigid?" Sam: "It's engorged." Oh boy .. cue Matt's exasperation and additional smutty humour. Liam: "Hi 20 year-old Ronin!" XD

Oh shit ... a crap roll for the new day! And now there's A FUCKING DUST STORM HEADING RIGHT FOR THEM!!! HOLD ONTO SOMETHING!!!

Xzndis tries to fight the wind to keep from losing folk and one of the masts starts to go! SHIT!!! Ashton saves the day by just ANCHORING the masts with hid Genasi rockiness, while Laudna tries to repair it ... and then it's GONE!!! Nuts!

2 hours later and the storm is gone ... but they've lost a day! Shit!

Ashton is WAY too contrite in his sobriety ... and Laudna sees RIGHT THROUGH HIM. She calls him a softy. :3

Wow, the night sky is now GORGEOUS. Really.

Yes, still need to contact the Calloways.

Orym messages Dorian again. Things are TENSE back there ... oof ... the Opal sitch is just getting WORSE ...

The Calloways are getting ready. At least THAT'S working out all right ...

Oh thank the gods ... much better roll this time ...

Aha! Bassuras! Imogen: "Were we chased out of town last time?" NOW you ask?

Whoa ... and now they're being SHOT AT!!! Run to the Calloway Hideaway, then ...

No, the Hideaway's still there!

Xandis drops them off close by and flies off so they don't give it away. Okay, here we go ...

Yay! Hello again Birdie! Hi there Ollie!

And Hondir! I missed him! :3

Oooh ... weird ass blue arcane core bomb ...

AAAAAAND here comes the Nightmare King again ... eep!

I have missed Matt's extra weird creepy Ira faces ... that twisted grin goes a long way ...

Ira: "I want to destroy what they've built. I want to show them that I'm the superior designer." Ho boy ...

Imogen tells him they destroyed the Feywild key. Oh, this is interesting ...

Ah yes. Ashton's lens smashiness comes back to haunt us. Travis (incredulously amused): "Motherfucker."

FCG gets a long distance look at the site ...

Ah, so they're NOT Aeormatons. THAT'S interesting ...

Sam: "As I was looking, I was describing what I saw to the group in Mercer-ian detail ... but more eloquently than you did."

Ira: "You tell your friend, right?" Ashton: "I'm more comfortable with 'colleague' at this point."

Fearne tells Ira her Nana says hi ... oh boy ... Imogen (sarcastic): "Ah, young love. Nothing like it."

Stuff to do. Time to SPLIT THE PARTY!!! Even though you know you should NEVER do that ...

Wow ... Laudna is like TOTALLY flirting with Ira right now do she can butter him up. XD I love it.

Ira doesn't know what Predathos is? Ashley makes an insight check, rolls STUPID high ... WHISPERS!!! YAY!!!

YAY! I love the crawlers ... :3 And so does Ashton.

Group deception check ... with advantage ... hmmm ...

Yunis' shop ... oh, I love a good old fashioned D&D in-game shopping trip. And Ashton drops Hexum's name ... oh, that's interesting. Instant change! Fascinating!

Nice! Proper contraband stuff now! Cool ...

Healing Potions, always handy!

Yunis: "These are interesting. They're not cheap, but they're interesting." Ooh! Enchanted healing jewellery! Always fun!

Whoa ... that Circlet is some badass shit!

Belt of Momentum ... oh, now THAT is fucking SWEET!!!

Holy shit this is some EXPENSIVE GEAR!!! Whoa ... Chetney's throwing in? It really IS the end of the world! And then STILL don't have enough? Oof ...

Haggling! Laura Bailey your Vex is showing! :3

Yesssssssss! It worked ... Nice! And now they're broke! XD

Yeah, they do stand out a bit ... so, back to the Hideaway.

Hondir asks after the rest of the Verity ... yeah, I think it's safe to say they're definitely SCATTERED right now. It's a bit of a mess ...

Going against Vasselheim without proof is all very he-said-she-said, really ...

Painting the ship with the signs of the Cerberus Assembly ... smart! And they're off again!

Xandis is suitably TERRIFIED of Ira. Yeah ... "creepy tall man" (snort!) ... yup ... and he just hands the Nightmare King off on Khalil.

Oh gods ... that Bloody Apron again ... Chetney likes that WAY too much ...

Yes, give the amulet to Laudna. She gets fucked up WAY too often ... meanwhile Chetney throws the Butcher's Bib at Imogen and she get SPLATTERED ... yeah, no, give it to Fearne, she's PERFECT for that thing.

Orym messages Dorian again, tells them to just HIDE ... "It's a little hairy on this end too." Oof!

Another day ... Liam rolls BALLS!!! GAH!!!

Whoa ... freakish arcane storm? That's REALLY BAD!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!

Oh gods, so this is gonna be like a total magical pot luck? Oh fuck ...

FCG gives Xandis some SERIOUS Guidance. Nice! Oh ... and now he's a total arcane lightning rod? SHIT!!! Now everybody's getting FRIED!!! Oof!

TWO failures? NOOOOOOO!!!

Chetney werewolfs his way up the sails to keep an eye out for breakage ... eek!

Orym turns Seedling into a makeshift lightning rod to try and protect the ship ... it doesn't quite work all that well ... ouch! FUCK!!! THE BOW OF THE SHIP JUST BLEW THE FUCK UP!!! And now they're DOWN ... great ...

No. The crawler WOULD NOT fit on the ship. Except that Sam just ROLLED IT into working after all ... fucking hell ...

They LOSE ANOTHER DAY getting the ship back up in the sky again! Bloody hell!

Imogen: "You'd think the damn gods would be more interested in helping out right now!"

FOUR DAYS LEFT!!!

Taliesin rolls a NAT FUCKING 1!!! OH MY GODS!!!

ANOTHER dust storm! Just a regular one this time but STILL!!! Oh wait, there's something IN THE FUCKING STORM!!! Wait ... IS THAT A FUCKING PHOENIX?!!!

Jesus Laura! What is WITH all these ABYSMAL rolls?

Imogen attempts to Command the Bird ... oh NICE!!! Thank fuck for that!

Whoo ... they BOUNCED!!!

Sinkholes? Hmmm ... oh, a ravine! Head for that!

Yeah, they're about to get ROASTED!!! Imogen tries to get it with a Lightning Bolt ... WHOO!!! 29 points of lightning damage! Oof! Doesn't do that much, mind ...

HOLY SHIT ... Fearne tries to Polymorph the Phoenix into a goldfish ... and now it's just GONE in the wind! Holy fuck that was AWESOME!!!

Thank you Travis, FINALLY a decent roll for the day ... smooth sailing again ...

There is a VIBRATING SEED in Orym's pack ... what the fuck?

Now they're trying to find a way to PLANT IT without any soil. Hmmmm ... FCG has Graveyard Dirt! Oh boy ...

A Message Bloom? That is so cool!

IT'S KEYLETH!!! AWESOME!!!

Vureeo ... a sect of Ashari betrayers? WHAT?!!!

Imogen messages Keyleth so she knows where to meet them ... Marisha sneezes LOUDLY right when she starts and Laura just cracks up. XD

Imogen: "We've got powerful friends." Orym: "Yeah. Be nice to meet up with them." Yes. It really will. :3

Nightfall ... okay ...

TWO ... DAYS ... TO GO ...

Marisha rolls GOOOOOOD!!! Phew ...

This shit is making the weather CRAZY!!! Thank fuck that was a good roll ...

Oooh ... Imogen and Orym heart-to-heart ... whooo ... I can't with this heavy shit ...

Imogen: "You telling the truth there?" Orym: "I always tell the truth, Imogen." :(

Laudna and Imogen cuteness to finish the evening out, then? Yes please ... or even just some serious soul searching? So long as they're there for each other I'm all for it.

Yeah, I can totally picture these two adorable lesbians raising horses in the country together ... :3 That's a lovely happy ending that would be so nice ...

Laudna: "We transcend words, our relationship." Oh my heart! Imogen: "You're my tether, Laudna."

"The better halves make a better whole" ... oh gods, yes ... that's these two in a nutshell! I love it!

And a very drunk Ashton has a massive argument with nobody ... yup ... while Chetney falls asleep with thd Bib ... Fearne plays her dulcimer ... nd FCG makes profiteroles. "Critical profiteroles."

An unusually chill end to the episode, this one ... intriguing. Is it the calm before the storm, perhaps?

[kliunkii]

specific memories

part 2 - goanimate

prepare your assets cuz im about to write a whole ass book about this subject.

i could not tell you the exact date when i started using goanimate, but it's in the 2013-2014 bracket. my first videos were kinda shit and not very interesting and they dont even exist in my mind anymore. ( i was like 10 years old at the time ). but i made so so so so soooooooooo many videos... it was a weird form of self-expression for myself, i could make jokes and characters that only i would find funny. i was very much autistic and i saw what sort of content other goanimators made at the time and i was impacted by that type of humour + youtube poop's were also still popular + mlg videos were at it's prime + loud=funny type of comedy was funny. so plenty of my videos were just incoherent randomxd humour with very loud noises and visuals.

buy at some point between 2014-2016(?) i started showing the videos i made to my cousin and he found them funny. i was so motivated to create more funny videos just to impress him and make him/us laugh. i mainly used the "chibi" and "stickman" animation style to make episodes about me and him partaking in slice-of-life/sitcom scenarios or even adventures. i used the polish text-to-speech function and had to write down subtitles for each line because the tts was so hard to understand xddd the characters spoke in lithuanian and it resulted in a very funny "accent".

i swear to god i made so many episodes with so many different inside jokes and plots that i can barely remember anything. at some point, later on in 2015/2016 ( istg i cant even remember anymore ) i found out that goanimate had the option to upload your own images to the video editor and that made me go crazyyyyyyy. i started making PNG's of real life pictures of me and my cousin + other people i knew irl. i also started recording actual voice lines with my shitty speaker/microphone aparatus and it made everything so much more authentic. i remember not knowing how to download and upload mp4's at the time, so i would turn on the recorder and put my microphone up to the speaker and play music/meme soundclips on youtube xddddd

not gonna lie i got so good at editing on that site... i knew so many different animation techniques and did so many layers of stuff xD it was honestly such a joy, everyday i would make an episode or two and would write my cousin ( who lived in the same apartment as me, but on the first floor ) to come over to my house and we would watch the video i just made scooched together by the desktop. its such a sweet memory for me because this is something that i experienced exclusively with my cousin and noone else ( and i was kind of terrified of anyone finding out about these videos because i was lowkey making fun of REAL LIFE PEOPLE i knew in REAL LIFE and used REAL LIFE PNG IMAGES OF THEM in the videos which is very stupid but i was a literal stupid child so i didn't know any better xddddd ). this is a very nostalgic topic for me because i've kind of lost contact with my cousin since 2018 and we basically dont even talk anymore, but im not sad or bitter about it, because we have grown up into adults and have moved on, but he was my very best friend and i'll always love him for that /p

the thing that i AM bitter about is the fact that every single one of those videos that i made are now lost media. gone forever. untracable. because at some point in 2017/2018 my account just fucking died.

you see, i kinda somehow broke the subscribtion system? as far as i know, goanimate had a "free trial" whenever you made a new account, for 14 days i think. and i don't know how i managed this, but i made an account in 2013(?) and my account just bugged and let me make videos forever xDDDDD just one big problem... due to the bug i was allowed to only make 2 minute videos, if it went over 2 minutes, then the videos wouldn't save. so i had so make very fast-paced episodes with continuations :ddddd

there was always a big red wall of text above my videos saying something along the lines of "this account will be shut down in __ days, so buy a membership", but it never happened so i just thought that i got lucky and my account got bugged xd

but TOO BAD, at some point in 2017? my account just got shut down. the whole thing. gone. forever. no way to retrieve it. along with every single one of my videos. i remember having like 20 pages of videos :)))))

and then, as we all know, goanimate as a whole shut down in 2019. but even if the website is archived on the wayback machine or whatever, there is no chance to ever see my videos again, because i remember privating account near the end of my account's deletion.

there are no reuploads anywhere, but i do remember recording 1 episode with my phone and sending it to a friend on messenger in 2017/2018? but yeah good luck finding that, especially since THAT messenger account has been deleted as well xD

i remember the moment i realised that everything was gone and i was so sad. i made new accounts to use the free trials for, but it just wasn't the same, i was starting to become a teenager and it felt embarrassing to do any of that silly shit anymore. and the videos would just disappear later on anyways.

bro the things i would do to watch my entire collection of videos for one last time..... i would pay big money.... ( no i wouldnt but i would... maybe i would maybe........ )

it's such a staple of how my humor evolved with time and just such a big part of my childhood.

now the next thing i want to talk about is the current/modern goanimate community, which, FIRST OF ALL, confuses me very much - how the fuck are yall using goanimate??? isnt the site?? fuckin dead??? how are yall making videos on it??? is there like a downloadable rewritten version somewhere online???? i doubt ill get an answer so let's just say that im questioning the powers above.

theres a lot of jokes and a whole ass community of people who ironically enjoy watching those "grounded" videos ( me included ). Deadwingdork and his community would refer to this phenomenon as "u s e r s" and im rlly fascinated by it. And theres always the question of "wtf is wrong with these people and why do they keep making the exact same video all the time just with slightly different characters", and the answer to that is kinda boring and expected, but it's just autism xD

i would even say that i was a part of that community back when i started making goanimate videos, i was intrigued by the "repetition" of it all, the comforting way i could foresee what will happen in the videos is a thing that alot of autists can relate to. and now, as a 21 year old, it is so surreal seeing children still making goanimate videos to this day, like i used to, and seeing how much people laugh at them or find them ironically entertaining ( again, i am one of those people ). and it makes me think of how the internet would've reacted to my goanimate videos if they were ever publicized xddd. i genuinely find these videos cute, its just autistic people finding comfort in repetition. ofc its weird when the videos turn into PUNISHMENT COMPILATIONS where Caillou gets his peenur cut off, but thats just part of what makes it so bizzare and hilarious.

i love seeing and only now realising why goanimate/vyond/whatever tf its called now is so popular between neurodivergent people, because i was interested in this media before i ever even considered being one of them.

[dianight]

This is why you shouldn't write plot summaries analysis if you refuse to read the story.

Sorry but I refuse to engage with this shit directly. You literally could not be more wrong about what the story was building Aqua to be. You have imagined or perhaps hallucinated what the story was saying and the weight of reality has made you upset because your head was in the clouds the entire time but you humans do not deserve the skies.

2 out of 10 for correctly identifying "the shortcomings of the Japanese (sic) idol industry" as a theme, which is generous because the story also delves into the anime/manga/movie industries (among others) so it'd be more correct to call it (as I do) the entertainment industry.

Out of nowhere is so funny. He literally planned it, pushing away those close to him so the consequences wouldn't spiral out of control. Which was ambitious sure, but it was premeditated and the reply previously mentions "how far the main character was willing to go to remove "problems"" so it's not like this user is oblivious to Aqua's unhinged methods. One character (Akane) who was shown to be extremely smart and understand Aqua really well was able to piece it together Edogawa Conan style, mentioning how she was ready to be his accomplice if he wanted to murder someone and the story shows yet again how he intentionally pushed her away so her life would not be ruined.

"None of the aforementioned problems get resolved" because this is a tragedy about how dark the entertainment industry is, which is a surface level theme that the Ulysses reading ogre would point out immediately and you have failed to do so with whatever imagined version of Oshi no Ko you think you read. "Everyone reverts to being idols" only Ruby and Memcho (on top of being a famous youtuber) keep being idols, Kana is sidelined, Akane probably still an actress (the last chapter shows her getting pranked, maybe for some tv show?), Miyako still works with the man who abandoned her, presumably making series/movies; and hold that thought, literally only Ruby and Memcho out of all named characters work as idols even. This is what happens when you don't engage with what the story is saying and instead look at pages and just make up your own.

Ruby is in a sad situation indeed, but as oppossed to Ai she's still got people who truly care about her. I'd give points for correctly pointing out the parallels but it's so "in your face" that I better not. It is literally the message of the story that so many refuse to look at: the entertainment industry (not just idols) is fucked up and being a light for everyone means sacrificing a lot along the way. At no point was it about "tearing the industry apart and building it anew" you must have been reading a different manga because you can't be that fucking stupid to make such a claim about Oshi no Ko.

"Ordinary life" you are so dumb actually. Aka has an interview (that I've linked before) where he talks about his plans for the ending. If you refuse to take his word but then you show us how out of touch you are regarding the actual contents of the manga your opinion is worthless. Losing someone is not easy, but everyone does move on with their lifes and achieves/tries to achieve their dreams.

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It's easy to post the "this shit is so ass" panel and type a couple paragraphs of how the manga was bad because it was different that whatever fanfiction you made up in your head. It takes effort to engage with the themes of a story beyond skimming the pages and looking at Mengo's gorgeous art.

Funny thing is that I don't even consider Oshi no Ko that good of a series. It shows what it wants to show (Aka confirmed this) but I'm not particularly interested in that industry, it was more interest on whatever Aka did after Kaguya-sama and once again Mengo's gorgeous art.

It's surreal to see this reaction where everyone is complaining about some series titled Oshi no Ko that has nothing to do with what I've read. Then again, anglospeakers. What can you expect.

[gigifluidcat]

There is so many things wrong with these "sOuRcEs" that it's fucking mind boggling how these can be considered credible if you don't have the mental stability of a TikTok Toddler.

I didn't say shit about beliefs. All I did was ask for proof.

Bc all in the notes you were saying all these wacky accusations without viable proof, and this Reblog here just proves it.

Here's the corrections here:

1. "He is a massive racist and misogynist."

So yeah... About that proof that I asked? Where is it?

2. "His co-host Dan Avidan is also a Groomer and a Zionist."

This is based off of allegations which has been proven false. Everything that happened with Dan was consensual (As they were both grown adults), and even then the evidence wasn't that credible in the first place.

As for the zionism? Again, proof? (There's also a possibility that Rubberross doesn't know shit about the Zionism in the first place)

3. The source for Joel supporting the creator of FNF is barely credible, bc all it leads is to a Tumblr ask, with info that is also not really credible bc it just shows a screenshot that barely shows anything. It just shows Joel showing disdain for "cancel culture" which was a popular discussion at the time, with a couple threads here and there. For all one could know, the image might not be about the FNF creator at all.

4. Kekeflipnote's animation was from 10 years ago, in an era of the internet where this kind of offensive humor was rampant and many people were uneducated about what people found offensive. (Aside from the N word/F word). Much like with many internet celebs that have been called out, Keke might've not even known that "Ladyboy" was a slur.

(Also, where's the Pedophilia? It just shows a critter chasing a butterfly and some drag)

5.

Where's the racism?! All I get is a tweet from 6 years ago about Sr Pelo likely being uneducated about the word "Transexual". (Which is a word that is still DEBATED to be offensive or not by the trans community.)

Yes, he was ignorant about it considering him saying that "this was created this year" and "why being aggressive to a drawing?", but like with Keke, straight up assuming he's a full on bigot bc he was uneducated about a word is ignorant.

6. "Psychicpebbles defending Shadman"

From 9 YEARS ago.

I couldn't find when specifically Shadman was first outed, but from the difference between the newer comments and the older comments on this episode I'm assuming that this was before the knowledge of his atrocious art became mainstream.

If you can find a more RECENT thing about Psychic defending Shadman, then maybe this point can still stand.

7. For the third time in this reblog, I ask you of this:

Proof?

(Also just bc an artist is a pos doesn't mean the show is a pos)

Speaking of asking for it, now that everything is addressed, Imma just call out the fact that like most of this is just yapping about random bullshit with little to no reliable sources, if ANY at all.

The funny thing is that you wouldn't be involved here if you were literate enough to READ TAGS!

So even IF they were all true, it won't matter anyway. Bc in the first place this isn't about morality but more about listing good projects (Since Anon was saying Tracy, Glitch, and Vivziepop were like "corporate empires" in Indie animation and are "exploiting people".)

Like, why would you even bother anyway?!

I hope you know that literally nobody is going to be able to live up to the standard you, V*v, and Glitch have set and your arrogance and exploitation of your fanbase and connections has screwed millions of creatives out of their dreams because Hollywood is a joke that isn't worth telling and wealthy e-celebs like yourself have claimed the indie scene all to yourselves and moved the goalposts into the stratosphere.

Nope. This isn't a zero sum game. There is not some limited, prescribed number of indie trophy slots that a few studios greedily filled up, blocking everyone else out. That is not how it works. Nothing any other creator is doing - short of personally sending hired goons to your doorstep or stealing your credit cards - is taking anything away from you or preventing your success. In fact if an indie creator can manage to demonstrate that they've got something viable going, it may help to map out a pathway for others.

I think I'm not going to bother trying to address whether or not cartoons in return for support from fans - an entirely voluntary exchange - constitutes exploitation. And I'm living in the Midwest driving a 2007 economy car with 200k+ miles on it, but let's just skip past the assumptions that I'm wealthy and connected too.

Instead, let's get to the weirdly myopic notion that the indie scene is held captive by three studios. Maybe YouTube algorithms or Twitter bubbles are somewhat to blame, but in actuality there are so, so many individual people, friend groups, and small production houses out there making independent animation, I cannot possibly name them all.

Here are some anyway:

Far-Fetched Worthikids Satina | Scumhouse Noodle and Bun Punch Punch Forever Ramshackle Noodle Papajoolia | Pipi Angel Hare | The East Patch Jonni Peppers Salad Fingers Monkey Wrench Studio Heartbreak Felix Colgrave JelloApocalypse Odd1sout (started indie, got picked up by Netflix) Allie Mehner JaidenAnimations Lumi and the Great Big Galaxy Cloudrise | The Worlds Divide Telepurte RubberRoss James Lee ENA Godspeed | Olan Rogers Ollie and Scoops Meat Canyon Port by the Sea Kekeflipnote Boxtown Kevin Temmer Weebl Joel Haver CircleToons Long Gone Gulch Atlas and the Stars Animist Skibidi Toilet A Fox in Space Alex Henderson Talon Toniko Pantoja Sr. Pelo Hullabaloo Kane Pixels (started indie, picked up by A24) Homestar Runner Fennah Gods' School Alan Becker Dungeon Flippers JazLyte Psychicpebbles (started indie, Smiling Friends picked up by AS) Piemations vewn Metal Family Dead Sound chluaid Jacknjellify Betsy Lee | No Evil My Pride Cranbersher GeoExe | Gwain Saga Horatio the Vampire

By no means a full list. That's just YouTube, and mostly just English language stuff, and I didn't even get to the multitudes of Warrior Cats animation collabs.

The point is, the indie landscape is vast and populated by creators new and old, making all kinds of animated media from skits, to shows, to ARGs, to films. Audience sizes vary as much as the content, stylistic approaches, subject matter, and budgets do. There are no compliance standards, no gateways to entry, no goalposts. There's not even any preset definition of success except what you decide for yourself.

Anyway, instead of nurturing your resentments, consider making something. I assure you, it's a far more rewarding use of your time and energy, and pretty much no one can stop you. ------------- EDIT- Made some additions to the list based on comments. Thanks!

[wcvensouls]

a much awaited and totally unexpected confession, for @lonehearts .

click. as the camera turned on, the first thing to show up was an empty chair in the distance and someone close to it as they adjusted the focus. a few seconds after, bright red hair comes into frame as dex takes his seat with a deep breath to collect himself. after a moment, he seemed to go into automatic mode, doing his usual greeting whenever he was starting a new video. noticing it, dex stopped himself and frowned, almost grumbling to himself as he spoke. " shit, this, uh. this isn't an youtube video. " he paused, looking up at the camera again and seeming a lot more awkward than two seconds ago — it was turn for the real dex to show up on the lens, not the version of himself that he put up for other recordings. it was very late into the night, but he knew this was the only time he'd be able to record this without a certain someone interrupting — and he hadn't been able to sleep anyways.

" hi? hi. uh... " he shifted on his seat, fingers fidgeting with the hem of his sleeve. since this was meant for only one set of eyes, dex hadn't bothered to dress up, simply wearing one of his most comfortable and favorite sweaters — one he'd seen someone use before too. " so this is a thing. that i'm doing. i wanted to say some stuff, but whenever i'm looking at you, i can't really word anything well. " for a moment, dex showed a small smile on his lips as he thought about the person in question, pausing once more without even realizing. " you're very... distracting, i guess. for me, at least. so i thought why not make a video? i seem to be a bit better at those, at least. although i'm pretty sure i wouldn't have gotten anywhere near as far as i have without you, because you really are the star of the show. the star of my life, really. " another pause came, followed by a brief chuckle as dex shook his head. " shit, that was gay. well, i'm gay, so i suppose that's fine. emory, uh... i have been thinking about something a lot these days. i'm sure you're wondering what the fuck this is all about because i can't get to the fucking point, apparently, so... sorry if i'm catching you off guard. but. yeah. i like you. like a lot. romantically. like i want to kiss you and hold your hand. or whatever other things people do when dating." dex had never been the best at expressing his feelings like this, so he thought being specific was probably the best, even if it lacked any flare to it.

now that things had gotten to this point, dex felt himself getting a little more nervous, pulling on his sleeves more and trying his best to keep his gaze on the lens. " know i've done that a few times before, but it feels very different with you, so i'm not sure what i'm doing, really. i just know that you make me better and that i want to be good for you. i know i'm not always the easiest person, but i promise i'll try my best. for you. did i say i like you already? i can't remember. well, i guess it doesn't hurt to say it again. i do. i guess you can think of my life as b.e and a.e. before emory and after emory. i like a.e a lot better. you're so cute and attractive and cool and funny and hot and sweet and… probably way out of my league, but i'm trying here. i just had to say that, and this was the way i've found to do it. "

for a few seconds longer, dex remained seated on his chair without saying a word, as if thinking about whether or not he had more to say. tapping on his knees awkwardly, trying to go over everything he had planned on saying before the video started, he finally seemed satisfied once a minute passed. awkwardly, he stooed back up, approaching the camera to turn it off. however, before pressing the button, he spoke a few more words right by it. " i'm in love with you. yeah, that's it. " click.