#also part 5 mid idk why everyone likes it so much

[616nightcrawler]

6, 7, 8

6. which ship fans are the most annoying?

jeanscottlogan fans acting like theyre canon during krakoa bc they did that weird fucking queerbait. like sorry guys but its not fucking happening. theyre not canon. those are two heterosexual men sharing jean grey bc she's housewifepilled and heterosexual right now. like come on

also cherik bc i know those two old men are fucking but i dont care that much and its not that deep. and i'm traumatized from people creaming their pants over james mcavoy hes not that hot and the reboot movies are genuinely just not good

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

billy kaplan. im sorry im sure hes a nice little gay boy but YA fans always acting like their boring dark hair/light hair gay couple invented the fucking wheel when it comes to comic book gays. im just so over it. and like everything i've read where he shows up was just not that interesting. YA was not that interesting. its just the kind of gay rep i yawn and turn away from i dont care about it one bit and people acting like its revolutionary when northstar was gay and interesting before billy was even a twinkle in wanda's eye is EXTRA infuriating. billyteddy just seems so disgustingly wholesome and the fact that they got married at 20 is offensive to my people (weird flighty gays in ill defined relationships). talk to me when you're so repressed you become a big evil ice monster and kill all your friends, loser

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

akihiro wouldnt stop badmouthing logan bc laura and gabby are in the room. like i get a lot of comments of this nature when i make my weekly akihiro ramble post like "ohhh he's just letting bygones be bygones for the sake of his sisters" like 1) he wouldnt do that he's bisexual and evil and loves drama and being petty and making his problems everyone else's 2) they dont give a fuck they know logan is a shitty old man. akihiro metas written by people who only got into him post-krakoa. you guys dont GET HIM talk to me when you're rereading dark avengers like a freak

i did all xmen for this one bc they're front of mind always forever but I'm gonna throw in some jojo substitutes bc i'm honestly a bigger hater when it comes to jojo:

6. bruabba its not that deep

7. fugo is not important to the plot at all and acting like he has some sort of relevance to giornos life is just lying to yourself bc you want to ship gio with someone more age-appropriate than mista. like i get it but he barely met giorno before dipping just write your au fic where he sticks around and dont pretend that they had some love connection and no i'm not reading that light novel or whatevs i dont care about this irrelevant boy

8. part 5 is not the best part. in fact its probably the weakest plot-wise with pretty one-note characters and plot twists you can see coming a mile away ESP coming off part 4 which has a solid plot. you guys just like the shippable twinks. AND THATS OKAY. but dont pretend. also jonathan isnt boring you guys are just mean and if you skip 1+2 you're weak

tldr part 5 mid

[shy-writer-999]

1k followers!! what the fuck ^0^

dropping some personal lore to celebrate the occasion. also, i’ll do some sort of event for this. most likely, it will be self-indulgent and not writing-centric, est. mid november!

for everyone who is new here, i’m z!

i’m 25, i use she/her/hers pronouns

i have a cat named jean-paul. he is ~4 years old and he has so much personality it's ABSURD. he is really sassy and loves me to chase him. yes, his namesake is sartre. maybe thats why he's a little freak?

my wardrobe is basically all black (i love it) (๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ

one piece genuinely saved my mental health this year. idk how i would have made it through july until now without it. binge watching is a much healthier coping mechanism in comparison to ones ive utilized in the past!

my bookshelf is my pride and joy, my books are truly the only material possessions i care about. (*ﾉωﾉ)

pic crews of me!! the first one even has the scar on my chin & freckles… for the other one, just move the scar down a bit and that fits...

i think my favorite part about writing smut is how freeing and liberating it feels to me (for multiple reasons) :3 it's a fun hobby that i look forward to every day

but the best part of tumblr is by far moots and friends 🩷🩷

my sexy anime man list is (ranked - top 5) as follows:

Zoro

Ace

Law

Gojo

Aki

i am so grateful (and am probably being very extra)! if u have ever read one of my fics, come here and let me curtsy to you and place a soft kiss on top of your hand. (✿˘ω˘)˘ε˘˶ )

[red-riot-unbreakable-heart]

Shoto's First Kiss Timeline? Idk let's plot it out together

Gif Caption: Me and Shoto sitting together on the train, vibing. 💕

Hi All!!

If you're a fan of the Shoto's First Kiss series, Chapter 5 dropped at like 3:30 am EST this morning because I am an absolute HEATHEN and decided to have a late night/early morning editing session for 3 hours before posting. This was fun because I decided to add the whole Lisa Frank phone background scene for kicks and add a little more build up to the smut scene (I love a slowish burn...what can I say!?).

@brie-is-cheesy had some great questions in the comments of Chapter 5, I'm going to post it below and answer the best I can! I don't have a full answer to everything and I'm taking some ✨creative liberties ✨ here and there but lets see if I can clear some things up for my lovely readers!

Hiiiii, totally loved it; I was wondering when this is set? Like the timeline, I just got confused I'll leave the list of confusing things about the timeline,, I wrote about how much I love this in my reblog cuz this is awesome!! -since bnha is set in the mid to late 2100s I was wondering if the older songs they're listening to will include songs that are relatively new for us as of now? -when does this occur? Like you mentioned they're in their first year, and its after they've moved into the dorms but it's nearing the summer of next year, so is it after the war arc, or after the events of bnha entirely? Just wanted to ask! Thank you for the update!!<3 - brie-is-cheesy

Okay these are FAB questions and honestly I can't give you a straight answer to all of them!

Here's the background: So this story started out as a one shot - this past year, Shoto hasn't been one of my main MHA favorites. When I started the Red Riot Unbreakable Heart blog, my goal was to focus on what I've been calling "My Big Three." This includes Kirishima (lol thus my username), Hakws, and Hitoshi Shinsou (I love me an emo man). I was sprinkling in smutty one shots here and there involving other characters (ex. BakuDeku Smut: Hooking Up At A Pro Hero Gala and Beneath the Bookshelves | BakuDeku ). Shoto was one of those random one offs that I was like, huh why not!? But then I published Shoto's First Kiss (Part One) this one shot about Reader x Shoto totally took off in a way I wasn't expecting. Shoto resonates a lot with you all and the more I started writing for him, the more I grew to love him. He's so complex and in need of love and care. He has so much capacity for love!! I wanted to explore that more and figure out how he would act in his first encounters with intimacy and relationships. So I kept posting chapters, and started plotting out this wild story!

Timeline: When I started writing the one shot, I wanted the story to ambiguously take place in the 2nd or 3rd year when the characters were a little older. I was kind of working it in an AU where the war had vaguely happened and was over but everyone is okay and no one was injured/died/had their quirk impacted by AFO. In the context of Shoto's First Kiss chapter one - the war doesn't matter (at least if you re-read it I hope you don't find any plot holes mentioning the war!?). Also I have tried to say "Class A" instead of "Class 1A" because as I wrote more chapters, I still hadn't figured out what year we are in here.

Now that we're world building and have a more fleshed out story, here's what I'm thinking. Bare with me, we are going to need to suspend some disbelief here and I might need to go back and make some tweaks to previous chapters to keep everything in line with this line of thinking. But let's say this:

Timeline: The timeline takes place in the character's 1st year. I just combed through this timeline of MHA that someone put together on Reddit. I'm thinking this likely takes place at the end of Term 1. Final exams are coming up, and the students have heard a little about the training camp. Most of the MHA events so far are probably cannon in my fic universe, unless otherwise mentioned. The great thing for me is - most of MHA is in the context of Izuku's experiences, so there's a lot of wiggle room in the timeline for what could be happening between Shoto x The Reader. I haven't decided if the current chapters take place before or after Shoto/Izuku/Ida's encounter with Stain, because I can see some interesting plot points coming from that. I'll think about it!! This may change, but for purposes of continuity I think this could work as I move forward with my plotting!

Age: All the characters are at least 16. Let's just roll with that and take some creative liberties here. I'm aging everyone up.

The Dorms: In this fic universe, I pictured the students moving into the dorms at the start of the year. Like the dorms are just part of the normal UA experience - for all intents and purposes it's a boarding school.

The Songs: Okay this is a really interesting idea! I am literally just putting in playlists of music I like right now, I didn't think much about modern music flowing into the story. Lol would Honenuki listen to BRAT!? Maybe. I love him and think of him as a sweet chill cinnamon roll of a dude, though. I think he would be scandalized by Guess Featuring Billie Eilish. Or maybe he'd love it. He'd def love Chappell Roan, though. Dude is a sloot for Red Wine Super Nova and I just know it!

The Vibe: @ all of my beloved readers - I realize that this story means a lot to people, and I love that!! Even though we explore complex and serious subject matter at times, this is still a goofy silly story that I write for fun! Please don't hold me to these ideas that I'm throwing out in a semi-public brainstorm. I am but a simple fanfic writer who churns out most of the Shoto pages at midnight after I work two jobs. Shoto's First Kiss is a project that I write purely for fun and to build community with other adult MHA fans. I'm not like going to publish this as a book or put it on Patr*on behind a paywall or something. So let's keep it light! That being said, I love interacting with everyone so if there are fun questions that you think would be interesting for me to answer in this story, let me know! I'm very open to hearing thoughts and considering new ideas here :)

Update!!! *2/2/25* | Hitoshi Shinsou is in Class A. He was transferred in earlier in the year. Don't question it...just go with it. We love Hitoshi. Hitoshi belongs in Class A. Class A also currently has 22 students because I've decided the war hasn't happened yet in my AU timeline. So students #21 and #22 are Y/N and Hitoshi, respectively.

Okay okay SORRY FOR SO MUCH INFO! Thanks again @brie-is-cheesy for being so thoughtful in your reading and for asking these great questions! This is def going to help me guide the next few chapters of the story as I plot things out and as we get a satisfying next chapter in The Party arc. I'm going to post this reply on my Master List so we can all keep track of it and come back to it easily if needed.

As always, thanks for reading!! Sending good vibes to all ☺️

XOXO,

Red Riot Unbreakable Heart ❤️

Shoto's First Kiss Series:

Part 1: Shoto Todoroki x Reader | First Kiss ❄️🔥💋

Part 2: Shoto Todoroki x Reader | First Kiss ❄️🔥💋 PART 2

Part 3: Shoto Todoroki x Reader | First Kiss ❄️🔥💋 PART 3

Part 4: Shoto Todoroki x Reader | First Kiss ❄️🔥💋 PART 4

Part 5: Shoto Todoroki x Reader | First Kiss ❄️🔥💋 PART 5

My Master List

Red's Recos: If you're looking for more fun smutty stories from my writing desk, I'll share 3 of my all time favorites from my Master List. These are all fairly long and have a lot of sexual tension/build up with some satisfying smut scenes:

How to Suck Your Best Friend’s D*ck 🍆💋

BakuDeku Smut: Hooking Up At A Pro Hero Gala

A Long, *Hard* Night with Eijiro Kirishima

[loafbud]

Hrmm..... misophonia ramble 🔇

Just heard one of my triggers and I felt like venting!

The thing that sucks about my triggers is that one is common thing that everyone normally does and the other thing is also very common thing everyone normally does. It's not something I can simply avoid or minimize my exposure of: literally the only way I could avoid it is by isolating myself socially and physically, which... sucks ass. I don't want to tune out whenever someone's trying to talk to me while I'm wearing headphones.

Reclusive as I may be, a part of me does want to have at least some social experience in my life. But misophonia is like a roadblock to me for having that so, yay

I hate that my triggers is daily sounds. Especially when the chances of me hearing my more severe one is being mid-speech or if someone has a sore throat. I always gotta take hits at least five times a day, and it's physically and mentally hurts. 🫠

And it's not like I can tell people "hey the very normal human sounds you do make me feel suicidal!" That's like..... telling them "hey when you're around me, hold your fucking breath and don't breathe until I leave the room!" I'm afraid that they'll think that they've been hurting me all these years, but i'm like NOOOO PLEASE don't blame yourself for doing something normal and natural!!! You're NOT actively trying to hurt me, it's just MY BRAIN that translates the sound into knives in my hears..... idk WHY but it DOES, and i HATE my brain for that

I've never told my family about my suffering from misophonia: I've kept it to myself & have been masking it ever since fucking middle school, and I'm in my mid-20s rn

So I'm like... stuck. 🤨

Even when I have noise blasting and splatoon music blasting, I always have the hear the "shapes" of my misophonia triggers. (Like, still hear them but not at crystal clear volume)

I've already admitted... "defeat" in a way? Like, "Loaf, just suck it up and deal with it, this isn't something you can't run and hide from." So I just have to deal with it.

I have to mask everyday when I hear it: I try to hide it, but hearing any of my misophonia triggers gives me this knee-jerk reaction: I scowl, I shake my head like a wet dog, might even suppress a growl.

Like one day right before a family member left, they had a minor sore throat recovering from a common cold so they cleared it... and right after they closed the door behind them, I punched my fucking chest and had that shit sore for like... three days? "Why did I do that? Why did I do that?" I just paced around the house then cried in my room to just get the feelings out of the way. Admittedly, I almost panicked because I thought that shit was gonna evolve into something, but then goodness the ache had went away about a week ago. Again, it was only sore for a few days (my body was probably like "what the FUCK was that")

I don't want misophonia to be the reason I have missed out on life and waste my early adulthood rotting in my room, man. Its the reason I missed out on so much social and outdoor experiences already.

Suffering from this is also the reason why Vinyl exists as my fursona. Vinyl's the personification of my anger, that fire that swells within me. They're a representation for my more "darker" emotions.

So, ever since June 2019, I've been taking whatever aggression and depression I feel after I get misophonically triggered and just transmute that shit into art. I've been doing that a lot more, instead of threatening myself to put that pent-up energy into hurting myself again.

And even if these triggers do make me feel like doing something irreversible... I'll never bring myself to actually do it. I just try to sit and listen to my thoughts, just to hear them and listen, as uncomfortable and suffocating they get. I still have these, but again what I've been doing is (if i have any energy) I just put the feelings out into art. Most of the time I just sleep it off though, LOL.

Over the past 5 years, I've been drawing vent art to get my feelings out. I draw vent art for a variety of reasons, but my misophonia is one of them. I have like.... three or four that I never plan to post online cuz the imagery involves self-harm and suicidal ideations.

Hmmm...... but yeah. Normally this is where I'd say "i apologize for the ramble/vent" but...... this is tumblr: it's a blog site, Loafbud LOL

Mentally, I'm feeling fine. A tad bit better ever since writing this. Still a little shaken up from being triggered, but I hear it every day either way. I'm hoping that with time I eventually just hear it and then become numb and unphased to it.

But other than that...... just gotta ride it out. Me and my fucking ✨bestie✨, Misophonia. Who knows how long we'll be together?

No matter..... I REFUSE TO LET IT DEFINE ME. I WILL LIVE.

Love yall 🫶🏿

[dungeons-and-dictions]

It’s Analysis Friday about precisely why Hazbin Hotel is such a stand out.

But first - this is probably my last Hazbin Hotel-related analysis until the next season; give me asks during this long dry spell!

Why on this specific topic? Because I’m tired.

Y’all.

Listen.

I’m all for subjectivity. People can just like or dislike things regardless of quality. Heck, I know Helluva Boss is part of the Hazbin world, but it gives me too much cringe and vicarious embarrassment to handle.

(Yeah, I’m weird. I know)

But I keep hearing people say Hazbin Hotel is mid or just relying on hype.

Those are fighting words!

We are getting quality on par with Disney movies for a tv series!

That’s crazy! Let’s break it down.

Musical numbers

Talented singers play the main crew. Stephanie Beatrix plays Mirabel Madrigal, Kimiko plays Izzy, etc.

There were 2 songs per episode! And because it is truly perfect for a musical, we even get thematic reprises and callbacks!

Does anyone recall when similar things have happened in animation? MLP:FiM had a glorious episode that was ALL musical with a reprise. That’s all I have at this scale outside of Disney.

Characters

I’ve always known Vivzie to put thought into her work, and this shines through so well in Hazbin.

Lucifer’s depression is similar to my own

Angel’s gradual changes and struggles are realistic

Charlie’s breed of passion is the same as mine in my career

Alastor’s extremely manipulative yet we all love him

Velvette had one of the best formal character intros I’ve seen in a long time

Hazbin Hotel works really hard to get away from stereotypes, and dives in past superficial traits.

Also, we get things like Valentino sounding like he’s squeaking because moths squeak. We don’t need these things!

Animation

You know what else we don’t need?

Airplane arms!

Complicated dance moves!

Cute leg swishies with cuter sound effects?

Every second you see is 10+ frames traditionally. (Idk the studio’s technical details). That’s wild to add in these complicated extra details! And they flow so nicely! This level of quality for 2D (and honestly 3D too most of the time) is unheard of in the West nowadays.

And on that, western adult animated shows typically are so poorly made, especially in the art. Even the few I have seen that have okay stories to tell absolutely stink in terms of visuals and movement.

Story

Yeah, this is the biggest weakness Hazbin Hotel has, no doubt. The story is actually an incredible premise, and truly done pretty well within the awful time constraints. I think everyone is valid in saying it was far too fast! Hopefully we get more (or longer) episodes in upcoming seasons.

But at the same time, this is also the nature of musicals. If you think this is fast, don’t watch the Les Miserables musical where everyone only sings. Idk why, but singing the entire time makes everything seem like you’re in a race car on autopilot.

Don’t forget; the symbolism just drips out of the screen in this show. The fact that I could still do more analyses even now is a testament to that with all the content I have done since it aired. Vivienne goes hard on the details.

But put yourself in Vivzie’s shoes. You do the impossible, shot for the moon while hoping for maybe the top of a 5-story building, and you were offered the stars. Your project has been a part of who you are before you even went to university, and a major company gives you a way to bring it to life? Why wouldn’t you settle for this good of a deal?

Innovation

People do not bring up often enough that Vivienne broke a glass ceiling separate from that of gender. She showed that YouTube animations can be taken seriously, and even be aired.

In this age, the Saturday morning cartoon blocks I grew up with no longer exist. There were tons of great shows, and I could talk with other kids about it. Nestled within these weekends were shows that ran short pilot episodes for potential series. The last time I saw one was Adventure Time’s pilot.

It’s been a whiiiiiiile.

So having a cutesy little indie pilot animation amongst thousands on YouTube be such high quality and get a mainstream platform? Spindlehorse made history!

Moreso, Helluva Boss is also demonstrating the capacity of indie studios like never before - and what may pave the way for the future of animation too.

Out of all the animated series running on YouTube, Glitch is the only creator who does 3D that I am aware of. Even Glitch’s work has only started within the past few years, ie after Vivienne managed the impossible.

So please, stop complaining about subjective parts so much. Hazbin Hotel objectively has some of the highest craftsmanship in western animation.

We are blessed that Vivienne’s dream has come true in such a glorious manner. When I discovered her back in 2012, I couldn’t have guessed the pilot would be so successful, nor that it would change what was possible for animation!

[teriwrites]

Below (Rewrite): Part 2

My Live Reactions to Reading Through My 2012 Novel

'The next morning I was the first person to wake up. My cheeks were flushed red from a dream I had just had, but tossed it from my mind. As I had said before, there was no time for tragic love stories in an underground slave camp.' the closest i ever came to writing spice lol

'One day, we had to pull stones across a cave for no reason.' awww a throwback to draft one, where that was one of your primary tasks!

Kristen apparently completely blind as two boys vying for her attention in front of her nearly get into a fight. Classic love triangle trope. Which I love. So much. Obviously. ...

'They obviously hated each other's guts, and I rolled my eyes at them so much I was afraid they'd roll out of my head.' Kristen is Not here for their ridiculous posturing, and I'm right there with her

'Then I realized that there must have been a whole string of slave camps, each holding several thousand mutants.' okay firstly i don't love that i keep calling them 'slave camps' idk i just feel like there's other words we could be using, but also WHAT!! i genuinely wasn't expecting that

Apparently Kristen, who is from Miami (another place I'd never been in my life) speaks with a southern drawl

Kristen watches Trinity break out from the compound, decides to just go back to bed

'The rest of the time I was trying to sleep, I could practically hear the gears churning in [my roommate's] brain.' technically, Kristen, with your mind reading, you Could do that

"He's not a very nice guy, is he? Surely he has a heart, right? Every human has a heart, but this guy seems to be missing the kindness from it." go off, Lea, that scientist is a POS

RAEVIN TIME

"You know what you're doing, I suppose?" he asked the girl as he approached the tree. The girl looked down, "Of course I know what I'm doing. I wasn't trained half my life for nothing." (pfft okay edgelord)

Raevin is so much sassier in this draft!

'This girl wasn't even sure if there were animals about. She smirked. She could change that.' lmaooo you sure can

Institute spy has officially upgraded from a walkie talkie to a phone

'It was as if he had teleported to that spot.' (is this implying that the Institute is hiring mutants as well as imprisoning them?)

'All it took was one bullet to the head, and she'd be a goner. She wasn't quite like Mr. J.' okaaaay more heavy hinting, that's fun

Raevin's an orphan, R.I.P. to Mr. and Mrs. ... whatever her last name is lol none of these characters have last names

'And to stop him, she was willing to kill him.' oooooooo okay Raevin, this kind of darkness is more what I remembered from her character, kill that assassin!

Once again mistaking the population of a real life place with a real life census that I could've very easily looked up at the time

We're really not playing around with the idea of this being like a refugee-camp-town, these people are essentially Mr. J's hostages

Also I really have to point out that Mr. J continues to be a very silly name for a man as evil as this lol

Confirmed unnatural-natural blue highlights in her black hair lmaoooo okay Ebony Dark'ness Dementia 'Raevin' Way

14-year-old fired from her 9-5! 9AM-5AM, to be clear

Why would I name one of these cronies Benny when one of my main characters' names is Ben???

Is she 'not like other girls' or is she just coded for neurodivergency? The world may never know

Awww Benny's kind of a sweetheart. He's also a cop, though, and ACAB still applies.

omfg they're all babies. everyone's a baby. Bill is somewhere in his mid-20s. Benny is 22.

Martha's supposed to be middle-aged. She's 'almost thirty'.

I'm gonna go count my gray hairs real quick, brb

Raevin stop abusing the trees. Go find a real target for your throwing knives

Also I think this counts as the first recorded proof that I was always gonna veer towards playing rogues in D&D

"There's nothing to do," Raevin realized.' idk maybe you could GO TO SCHOOL??

"You can't honestly believe that the girl has just disappeared, can you?" Scott asked. Scientist Martinez was glaring at him like he had just stolen Christmas.' and we're back to these chucklefucks

Once again I use Coffee as the obvious choice for a universally hated scent

Also once again hating on the name Shawna

gdi I'd been doing So Well not comparing skin colors to food... hopefully that's a one-time thing ugh

'Once I reached Max, his face lit up with anticipation. "I've got the graphite, do you have the paper?" He snorted and pulled a couple sheets from his sleeve. How he had managed to hide them in short sleeves, I didn't ask.' okay firstly, the formatting of all of these is atrociously confusing half the time, but also pfft

It's been like two scenes, and I'm SO over Ben and Max's beef

In a spin on draft 1, the above-ground 'Institute' is an abandoned building situation, so it's actually a very easy escape once you manage to get there. Apparently. I'm sure that's going to stay consistent.

'Then I had an epiphany. The answer to all our problems could have walked up and slapped me in the face.' idk why framing it that way is so silly to me

Literally why does this 16-year-old dude have so much beef with a 9-year-old??

'I found out that I was one of the unlucky people that couldn't go into her dorm room. It was blocked by a huge boulder.' presumably from the explosions Trinity caused while escaping?? which happened last night?? where was this boulder hiding when you got up this morning???

No more clone!Lea in this draft, she's just genuinely feeling left out because Kristen keeps dipping to go plot out her escape and whether or not Lea will be joining them seems to change every scene

'I couldn't help thinking what Lea had said, but neither of them was my boyfriend, and neither of them would ever become my boyfriend.' see, if i wrote lines like that nowadays, i'd probably mean them lol

Kristen just closed herself into a room with no door handle on the inside, and my skin is Crawling just thinking about it

"What's wrong?" Max grabbed my chin and lifted it so that I was forced to look at him.' JK THAT'S WORSE omg the biggest ick of my LIFE

Kristen seems so concerned about Lea dying if she comes with them to break out of the Institute, yet literally earlier in the book was Shocked to see someone over the age of 30 in this compound bc life expectancy here is, like, mid-20s

"She's nine and she can make her own decisions now." let's roll back the first part of that sentence: SHE'S NINE.

'[Learning about an inaccessible office with necessary information] perked me up even more because now not only would I figure out who was bugging me, I could do it illegally!' okay edgelord lol

'Honestly, I was pretty sure that the scientist's cared more about their jobs than they did their lives. As long as they got paid, they'd be content.' *COUGH COUGH* capitalism

'Okay, so Scott may have been everyone's favorite scientist, but he was still a scientist.' *cough cough*

Okay, as much as having The Boys fighting over Kristen has been a nuisance, I do appreciate that Kristen isn't like constantly hating on Ben this go round. They're currently breaking into a database together, how fun!

Ending Thoughts:

I feel like everything that I mentioned anticipating for Below's first draft was actually just being lifted from memories of the second draft lol Like, the YA tropes - including this really fun, not-at-all exhausting love triangle - the edginess of the characters, Kristen being a little less angry and a little more level-headed (though she's still got her moments dw!), Trinity's breaking out. Still don't know what her powers are, btw, but maybe those will actually be revealed at some point. Anyways, some maturation in writing style doesn't mean it's not without plenty of awkward phrasing, grammar mistakes, and incomprehensible contradictions every other page!

[wjehfshs]

Some head-canons for cod characters while I work on a request and I’m at a family birthday party

Kinda suggestive on Keegans part, mentions of alcohol and smoking

Gaz

Held his mums hand in public until he was 17

Mamas boy

Had the type of father son relationship where they would play catch outside

Hot chocolate >> coffee

Absolutely terrified of kids but kids are all over him when he’s out in public or anywhere with kids

Whenever he got face paint as a kid at birthday party’s or something he always either got a tiger or Spider-Man

Gaming nerd

Constantly worried for Price because Price smokes

Most in tune with pop culture and social media

Has a tik tok account with 40K followers

He just posts training videos and self defence and people eat it up (people meaning me)

Pretty average childhood

First job was at a hotdog stand when he was 16

Ghost

Goes mute on rare occasions

Complete opposite of Gaz, loves kids but they’re terrified of him

Was a hot wheels kids but considering his childhood he would always just play with his friends hot wheels

Autistic

Secretly really attached to Price in a father son way but would rather die than admit it

Body is a HEATER. Literally never cold always complaining about how it’s hot

Insomniac (probably a trauma response but we don’t talk about that)

Joined the military to feel stronger than his father but stayed because he actually enjoyed it and made friends

On the rare occasion he does sleep he’s out like a light for at least 10+ hours

Type of kid in high-school to have no friends but didn’t care

Price

Favourite food is a scone

Scotch drinker

Trying to quit smoking for Gaz but struggles, needs a stress reliever from time to time

Body is also a heater but not as bad as Ghost

Was a sports kid in high-school

Kids are all over him and constantly think he’s like 97, he doesn’t mind tho he’s like a father

Typa dad to play catch with his kid

Recovering alcoholic

Very much popular nice kid in high-school. Everyone loved him and he got good grades

Sneezes like an explosion went off

Probably needs glasses to read

Soap

Basically deaf, “Huh? Huh? Huh?”

Kids hate him and he hates kids he likes it that way

Ate straight up mud and worms as a kid

Eats cereal RELIGIOUSLY

Body feels cold but he’s always saying how hot it is

Typa guy to walk an old woman across the street

Has a god awful amount of hair gel that he doesn’t even use because his hair defies gravity

Plays the bagpipes but not very well

Wakes up first. Without fail.

Ate dog food as a kid

No one touches the Mohawk (except Ghost)

Has a tik tok but like 72 followers and he gets so excited when he gets over 10 likes, he shows Gaz and Gaz doesn’t wanna break his heart by telling him that’s really not a lot

Loses his train of thought mid sentence

König

Also goes mute sometimes

When he gets too anxious and someone tries to talk to him and he’s not mute he’s speaking German and German only

Cold, all the time

Bounces his leg when he sits

Cant sleep properly for shit

Cuts his own hair because he hates having to communicate to people

His first birthday present was a fake crown from his parents

Kind of kid to hide behind his parents legs when he was little

Doesn’t drink or smoke or anything because it makes him sick

Likes soup idk why he just likes soup

Animal person but he’s so scared of hurting them especially really small animals like kittens

Gets sunburnt really easy

Sleeps with 5 thick blankets + 1 weighted blanket

Like soft fluffy things

Has to sometimes make his own clothes or blankets considering his size

Had a childhood cat that he considered his best friend

Keegan

Calls everyone who’s younger than him “kid” even if they’re just an hour younger or smth

Swears he’s a good driver (he’s canonically not)

Bit of a perv honestly (by bit I mean very much). He’s not creepy or anything just dirty minded

Was a Lego kid

Avoids children like the plague

Drinks beer but ever rarely

Also chronically cold

Was always the cooler older cousin

Like his steak burnt to a crisp

Spicy food enjoyer

Also good with pop culture and social media

Has a Twitter with 60K followers

Posts stuff in tactical gear

Knows what he’s doing if you know what I mean

Listens to metal

Also likes playing games

Really really nice hands

Ok that’s it for now. Can you tell I like Gaz and Keegan the most? Yeah. I want them

It’s so cold outside rn wtf

[thatkdpoh]

Introduction i think?

Ok so I’ve been like really excited to do this I don’t know why but this is I think controversy? I don’t know how controversy works but this is how it happened.

I am 12 yrs old, My height is 5,1 and holy shit wanna kms but I am 130 pounds. This will flucate and idk how to spell it but it’s like a line with a dot in the front or end and it goes left to right so I flucate to 130 to 140 I hate that.

How I know about ED/Backstory/rant (cringy ik sorry :c :

I was always a fat kid and I’ve hated it, I understand that I didn’t care about my weight but when I was like what 8 to 9 whenever my dad would say cow to me in taqvaylit I don’t know how to write it but I know something’s like amcic or tizizwith or afkroune which is cat, bee and turtle in that order. I would feel self conscious and sometimes cry to because I’m very sensitive which is like cringy i know lol. My heaviest had to been this year like 140 pounds but I think it was water weight and shit. Anyways my mom tried to get me to fast and she would force me or smth maybe not force but like tried to get me to lose weight. She’d say it directly and it would always make me feel bad but like I understand being 130 for like 8 yrs or 9 to 12 is very heavy and embarrassing considering I always saw kids would be more skinner than me I’d feel very bad. Until recently like last year in 6th grade I was reading fanfics of a human au of TMNT i didnt know what ED’s were so when it showed up the word bulimia I thought it meant bullshit but it didn’t sound right so I searched it up and saw the symptoms that’s when I also learned about anorexia and pica etc. When I saw the symptoms I started copying them now this is the part that I think is controversy I copied the symptoms which I know was bad but I was fucking lazy and still am couldn’t do a workout for the life of me or restrict food, I was used to eating a lot and when I saw the symptoms I copied them and they worked!! I loved it and then the minute I knew how to starve myself, I actually don’t know how to continue with that but I didn’t know how much of a deeper hole I got into but I really loved it and still do EMBARRASING. I did do exercise I did like 100 sit ups a day which did nothing but it did make my body ache and stopped, 5th grade was the worst out of all my grades for now but 6th might be second but it wasn’t that bad just a lot of crying and seeing how fat I am made me cry that’s it. Now if I don’t starve at all or try too I would feel like shit. In 6th grade I also saw that purging was a symptom so I made myself throw up but only if I ate way to fucking much and I’m so bloated it hurts and I can’t take the pressure so I throw up just to take off a little pressure and go back but then I’d feel sick which sucked :C. When Ramandan came though I was A BEAST not an actual beast but like it was my oppertuinity to fast without anyone questioning because I live in a studio apartment with 5 other people that are my family >_<. Obviously with my blabber mouth which I hate told everything to my mom but I think she thinks that I’m ok now :D. Any way I’d only eat 5 tablespoons of soup every night and I was very tired and I lost 6 pounds!! Which isn’t a lot but I made it to 124 pounds!! But then I gained it all back in summer break, cried, tried to fast for 3 days but fainted on the 36 hour?? I’m not sure because when I stopped the fast because my mom told me to eat and spoiler alert I cried cause I have little bitchitas if u know Kubz scouts u know. I paused at the 38 hour so like 36 is my highest to fast which is embarrassing again. ANYWAY NOW IM IN 7TH GRADE STUGGLIJG EITH THIS THINGY :]] I sound like those I guess I deserve it heh thing but like no I’m not seriously I just wanted to be silly. Anyway I’m gonna try that ABC diet which I think seems kind of mid to hard but I think fitnesspal would help me with it <33

BYE EVERYONE HAVE A GREAT DAY OR NIGHT HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING SND MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! :33

[holographicbegonia]

Bro I am so confused.

Okay, Miraculous Season 5 Finale, uhhhhh

SPOILERS AHEAD

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Mega confusion and discussion spoilers under the cut

I thought it was going really well! There was a lot happening in a little time, but it all seemed to be explained at least a little bit. I literally just finished it so here’s my thought process:

I love me a good ol’ crossover in film and animation when they bring in all the past characters from movies, old episodes, etc. And I thought it was really cool! Bringing the United Heros, Fei, Alice, hehehehehe and

*spongebob voice* hiii lukaa

Luka, Jagged, and Penny become part of the Order of the Guardians? Okay yeah whatever I’m not gonna question it. No I am: LIKE I UNDERSTAND LUKA BUT WHY IS JAGGED DOING MIRAKUNG FU-

it was a cool fight scene. Seeing everyone use their powers and working together was fun!

On the other side of the episode-/ we all got thrown for a LOOP man

Does anyone else think it feels really weird how, Prior to the end of the episode, Adrian had like- two scenes? While, yes, he can’t do much without his miraculous, it was weird not getting an update on him and kagami while they’re in confinement. Also while we’re here, lately all we’ve been talking about is how they’re finally revealing the whole sentimonster thing, and why Adrian responds to every command of his father, YET EVERYTHING HE DOES IN THE BEGINNING HES DIRECTLY DISOBEYING GABRIELS ORDERS?? I’m confused

And the big thing, the miraculous’.

I’m a little surprised you’re even able to unify tikki and plagg considering using them together for a wish summons REALITY BITCH OVER HERE/

Marinette immediately gets her cover blown to Gabriel, same with him. So now, it’s personal. Marinette had a pretty calm reaction to EMILIES BODY (dead? Comatosed? Idk anymore) and caught on pretty quick to what Gabriel wanted- and I thought it was going so well! Marinette talked him down, the boomerang trick was cool, the butterfly miraculous, one of the only og miraculous left, so we should keep it safe, GETS FLUNG INTO WATER// which also, Lyla walks in the Agreste Manor mid-fight, but unless I missed it, isn’t seen until the end with the miraculous. You’re telling me she swam through that green ass basement water and got the miraculous?

I genuinely though Gabriel was gonna fold. After seeing the video on Natalie’s phone. Knock some sense into him that, this isn’t what she wanted. I mean, SURLY they’re not gonna let him do the Big Bang thing this entire show over the course of 8 years has stopped him from doing. Yknow since it’s been explained multiple times over 8. Years. Surly with the amount of destruction it does, and we have new seasons coming, they won’t let him do the thing.

He DOEs THE THING.

Also, side note: the kwamis real form look really really cool but I NEED to see Pollens real form cause ik it’s BEAUTIFUL.

So, Yknow how Sass explained in pretty EASY TERMS to Luka how the wishing works?

Red Pen, Blue Pen.

This entire time we’ve been under the impression that in exchange for bringing back Emilie, everything would change. The people, the earth, everything currently in the world. A completely alternate universe where everything is different, except that Emilie is alive. The whole reason we’ve been rooting for Cat Noir and Ladybug to win, is because Gabriel winning was, morally, wrong. Romantic and sad, yes, but his entire mission was to destroy everything and everyone in his way to get his wife back. People DIED (kinda) Families ruined, worlds changed, and this was all before he made the wish. The whole conflict of the show so far was that yes, we’re rooting for our superheroes, but we also feel bad for Adrian and Gabriel losing Emilie: so we understand where his anger comes from.

This IS THROWN OUT THE DAMN WINDOW. bro idk if I blinked and missed something, if I did, lemme know, but/ everything was fine???? Are you kidding me??? i THINK what they were trying to get past, is that the person making the wish, would also choose what happens? I’m still trying to figure out so heres the possibilities in my brain.

Gabriel wished, and realized he was dying, so he gave his life in return for Emilie. (Unrealistic? Emilie (or her sister) is shown in the end, but if that were true and for some reason everyone remembers the past before the wish, Adrian would be freaking out a bit.)

Gabriel wished, knew he was dying, had his reunion, and gave his life for Natalie. This is why they didn’t have him outright say the wish, and instead have Gimmi read his soul. (While this is a little more realistic, after he saw the video, it leaves a lot of plotholes and issue to figure out.)

Gabriel wished for Emilie, and by pure chance, he was the trade. (Also unrealistic?)

It really depends, Natalie is seen at the end, much more healthy than previously, sitting next to either Emilie or Amelie. If it’s Emilie then there’s a whole issue, because the characters shown still had a memory of the world before? People would notice she’s there, while in comparison, a lot of people didn’t know Natalie was sick.

The end just, ticked me off. Five seasons, the emotional heartache we went thru believing that Gabriel would ruin the whole world, just for something so…anticlimactic? I know they’ve been building up Lyla as a villain much more recently, but completely killing off Gabriel takes out so much conflict out of the still-ongoing show. It’s an event we never thought would actually happen. We were built up to believe everyone and everything in the show would be gone, and that’s why it couldn’t happen. That yes, Gabriel knew the wish would destroy the world, but that he would give the entire universe for his Love, and his son to have his mom again. That’s what made it SAD and ROMANTIC and THEY THREW IT OUT???? Instead we get the same world, where everything kept going on. The destruction from the battle was fixed, Ms. Bustier won the election and changed a lot around Paris. The kids are all hanging out summer-style, Luka gets to stay in Paris (yes!) Adrian and Marinette get their kiss, and everything is good. I believed it was explained to Paris that, Ladybug and Gabriel Agreste worked together to defeat Monarch, and Gabriel died in battle? And yet in this last scene there’s little to no mourning or confused feelings from Adrian. He has the ring scene, but besides that: his father whom he recently has come to hate, because he started to see just how selfish he was to his mission in Paris, was actually cool and killed supervillain so it’s okay. LIKE- YOU CANT JUST DO THAT.

Marinette still remembers what happened, everyone remembers the day before the present. Everyone remembers their Kwamis and their powers. Lyla still had the butterfly miraculous. Ladybug and Cat Noir are…still needed? For something at the end? Is this the bad alternate reality where they defeated Monarch, so they went into retirement and had the ugliest children known to man? ITS JUST CONFUSING.

If we knew that Gabriel’s wish would just sacrifice one thing, we would have been fine with him wishing long ago because we didn’t have empathy for him yet. However, our explanation was Red pen, Blue pen. Not Red beans in exchange for Green Strawberries. Gabriels now death leaves too many open holes.

Is Alliance not a thing now? Is Tsurugi-San off the hook? Does she know what happened? Marinette knows Adrian is a sentimonster now, and in turn, SHOULD HE EVEN BE ALIVE RN? There’s a lot of rules for sentimonsters, but with what’s all happened I’m suprised Adrian still exists? Is Lyla just going to take over as Hawkmoth-Lyla? Is she going to have some big ol wish now, because we as the fandom had too much empathy for Gabriel?

It’s confusing, it’s also 8 am. So I’m going to eat and reread everything I just wrote to try and process. Have a good day everyone and PLEASE Use this to have a discussion on the episodes cause I’d like everything to be a little clearer. Thank you!

[tumblasha]

vacation review: taiwan

overall rating: ★★★★/5

cities visited (chronologically): taipei, taichung, kaohsiung, taitung

the good parts

i got to see Moomf (micosu oomf)

i got over the "i can't visit a country if i don't know the language" feeling

nature everywhere

night markets were so fun!

at least half of the population wears a mask at all times (even outside of taipei where the air quality is nicer!)

every train station + tourist spot had a stamp area so now i have a lil booklet filled with taiwanese stamps :,)

food! especially boba and soups :DD -so much liquid.

traveling on the back of a scooter is so mind-numbing, i love being a passenger princess

the bad parts

taipei's air pollution is a lil sad but def not the worst

getting over the jetlag and post-vacation sadness T_T

they killed that duck that i saw in that one tumblr post

overall summary

i think that taiwan is an excellent place for people of all places to visit! especially if you know english, everyone is really nice to english-speakers and makes an effort to gesture-speak or google translate through every conversation

this may be insensitive, but i think that the "made in taipei" brand (country pride of having many ~cultural influences) really works for tourism. previously, i saw friends and co-workers take their japan trip and do all the kawaii things (sanrio store, snoopy cafe, studio ghibli museum, etc), and got sad. taichung really embraces manga, anime, and other kawaii-adjacent things, and it satisfied my desire to go to japan. i've been having a hard time with co-existing with appreciating the good side of japan (mostly art and media) and learning abt the bad sides (colonial history), so it was nice being able to get a positive experience with low "double-think"

on post-vacation sadness

idk why but this was the first time that i came back from a vacation and i was Sad. like, maybe it's bc i got my period mid-trip and it was some weird post-period hormonal thing?? but i doubt it

looking back, i think that i have never truly been Alone until this trip? when i solo traveled in sp+pt, i was able to talk to the people in the hostel and go out with them. i wasn't able to talk to anybody bc a majority of the tourists spoke either mandarin or japanese, and idk either of those languages. i think that i was alone with my thoughts for too long -> leading to being on my phone too much -> leading to random bursts of crying (?) that lasted through a week after coming back to the US. it was bad enough that i took off all my jewelry and almost cut my hair X|

also any instagram posts that mentions taiwan / east asia kinda ruins my whole day. i wanna go backkkkkk

lessons learned

it's okay to be lost emotionally and physically! being alone is a constant battle of self-love and The Void

i need more international friends bc visiting them in their free time + their country of residence in their work time is so fun

i need to take more pictures of myself! i think somewhere in this trip i convinced myself to download dating apps again and i have no good pics. i also can't post a "taiwan photodump" on insta :(

tl;dr: go to taiwan! but go with friends!!

[jaynecygan]

mid-january updates [wips]

so, it's already mid january. but the problem is that i have lot of shit to do: study for an exam for this month, prepare for my internship, do an assignment that's due next month. i might not be able to write my planned fics that much because of my school and work sched.

however, i'm very committed already to some ideas, which means that i've begun cobbling some stuff together in notion beyond writing 1-2 synopsis lines, BUT ALSO!! ideas and outlines!! this applies mainly for the kny fics, but now i'm mulling over some jjba fic ideas as well? my gf and i finished part 4 and we're onto part 5 now, which i'm like. Whoa. all of the cunts in just one part???? giorno???? bruno???? HELLO???? need to write.

anyway,

a finalized list of wips i'm pretty enthralled by and their writing statuses:

The Voice of Thy Brother's Blood [kny]: tragic michikatsu-centric fic where he views his relationship with yoriichi as they join the demon slayer corps, and slowly develop forbidden feelings. largest progress so far because i've jotted down ideas, and actually referenced the story progression for Tragedy (from The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories) to adapt for michikatsu. i just need to slowly fill in and organize the ideas to slot them into each stage of the story progression. thinking abt this fic does make me regret some stuff about the yoriichi ot3 fic. i should've included more of yoriichi thinking about michikatsu in that fic. i also wrote down michikatsu's dialogues from the manga + made a spotify playlist, so it's quite joever for me, as in i'm definitely writing this fic whether i like or not! good apollo has willed it so!

post-canon sanegiyuu [kny]: i've jotted down a lot of ideas, but especially what will drive and finalize the relationship progression of sanegiyuu (through, guess what? ding ding ding: processing sanemi's grief yippee). this is such a kum brand fic LMAO

jotaro/rohan in part 4 [jjba]: idk i thought aroace* rohan experiencing attraction/feelings/fondness for jotaro and this idea grabbed me by the balls very thoroughly! i'm semi-contemplating if i should include kakyoin in here too, but i think part 4 jotaro/(aroace)rohan/kakyoin deserves its own fic. plus, it would be interesting to see how part 4 would be if kakyoin is thrown into the fray (definitely not thinking about long-haired kakyoin nope).

josuke/okuyasu [jjba]: i love okuyasu and i love josuyasu and i love thinking about okuyasu wanting a girlfriend but not realizing that he has josuke and "close your eyes bro" "ok bro" "what do you see bro" "nothing bro" "that's my world without you bro" "bro...". they're silly punk bros who love each other very much...

i think that should be it? i need to reread kny for more references, and maybe watch that rohan in louvre ova just to get more rohan refs, but given my workload i just have my fingers crossed that i will get through this.

anyway, hope everyone is having a good mid-january. i'm excited about the ceasefire, but this means we cannot forget to spread/donate to the palestinian gofundmes. i would also encourage everyone to donate to crisps for esims for gaza or to gaza soup kitchen!

[abcdosaka]

Watched oshi no ko and hells paradise both mid. Kinda makes me mad bc hells paradise was giving soul eater a little bit plus the op is catchy as fuck but I’m a little annoyed like I just don’t think I have it in me to tolerate mid female characters anymore. I really wanted to like it too bc the first ep was really good but then the second was like umm ok this dude is a bit much but he’s cool still. Then the third ep I was like “so why tf is the girl even travelling with him if everyone knows he could easily overpower her at any time”. And the forth ep gabimaru had to save her and she collapsed bc she got overwhelmed ? Like it’s so embarrassing for her I can’t go on. I realize her arc is about facing her fears or something actually no I don’t really know what the author was going for but anyway my point is theres a way to do that without making her a cringe damsel in distress. Maybe I’m just jumping to conclusions bc it really does look good but like it’s not a great look so far

as for oshi no ko I was hoping it would be about like balancing motherhood and being a star or something obviously I expected too much. I actually kinda enjoyed the movie pilot but I dislike that:

1 it’s isekai

2 the mom fucking dies and the kid/guy is on some revenge fantasy bs. Like I said I thought this would be some cute show where a guy doctor falls in love with a pregnant woman who’s actually an idol hiding her identity and the issues that would arise from that. (Btw I did not know she was 16 going into this show. Another thing I dislike)

3 I feel like the isekai part is just accepted and will never come up again. Like idk bc I wouldn’t mind if it was actually incorporated into the story as like the main thing but it’s not really. like I want sarina/rubys backstory to be more important, the connnection between her wanting to be an idol and her not being able to move around in her previous life could be expanded on, idk anything abt the guys goals from before but I would like to see that instead

4 I hate the Mc he’s fucking BORINGGGGG and he’s obsessed w his sister and mom. (Side note When are we gonna get an anime where the Mc just despises his sister like there’s no other feeling other than hate.) What happened to the fun guy who used to be a doctor. Like trauma obvs but his whole personality became unbearable. you could say that he was obsessed with Ai even when he was alive but honestly, bro had a job and lived in the countryside, there is no way he didn’t have other things going on in his life

5 both these kids have no personality other than being obsessed with their mom like SHUT UP PLS

6 it’s literally just a girl in the mcs life suffers due to being an idol and he jumps in to save her by doing something maybe a little innovative and weird but ultimately good. Like I kept watching bc I wanted to see how him trying new things could expand his perspective or something like trying acting again or being on the dating show but no it’s just him saving chicks from other ppl

7 I feel like all of those points just show the plot is trying to be more than what it is. Like it’s just another isekai where an older guy takes care of underage women in return for their dedication. Ok to be fair it actually does have a lot of the inside life of idol culture which is interesting but also don’t advertise it like ai is a main character when she FUCKING DIES :(

I actually kinda dislike gabimaru too like both these mfs are gloomy, overly perfect, emo, and have saviour complexes and it’s rly not my vibe. Like idk they’re Gary stus. Ebony darkness dementia raven way but as a guy. Like please just suck at something you’re boring me

I think that’s what I get for trying to watch Shonen but ugh. I like action I like the power of friendship I even like a lil romance if it’s not like annoying and very specifically aimed toward the male gaze.

[thusspokeurmom]

Where did you first learn about Lupin III?

Castle of Cagliostro on netflix

2. What is your favorite character?

Goemon😋

5. What’s your favorite Lupin Anime series?

part 1 & 4 !!💚💙

6. What's your top 3 favorite episodes from it?

Part 1: 4, 5, 14

Part 4: 4, 8, 17

9. What's your favorite movie? And why?

Castle of Cagliostro. I have a LOT of reasons that are too long to type here. Second is mystery of mamo bc it's trippy & i love the art style so much very vibes

10. What was the first movie you watched?

Castle of Cagliostro lol

11. What's your favorite Lupin design?

Part 2 & 4, koike, dead or alive, Babylon

12. What's your favorite Jigen design?

koike, dead or alive, part 1, manga

13. What's your favorite Goemon design?

koike(i love this art style sorry), part 1, manga, the first

14. What's your favorite Fujiko design?

koike, part 1 & 4, fuma conspiracy

15. What's your favorite Zenigata design?

part 1, cagliostro (yeah i do not vibe with koike zeni)

16. What's your favorite thing about the franchise?

it's very fun. the gang is awesome even if it's a boring tv special seeing the gang makes up for it...also the music oh my god

17. What's your least favorite thing about the franchise?

sa of women..also those npc girls in every movie like im crying you can make a movie without having some girl in there😭 and how most of lupin is just mid(in my opinion)

19. What's your favorite Lupin III music track?

ive got sooo many but the way to the oasis and sphynx is so good omfg

20. Do you have any Lupin III merch? If so, what's your favorite out of the collection?

yes but not a lot..my fav would be my lupin part 1 fig & that coin from 50 years of lupin book

21. If you could contribute/change the franchise in any way, what would you do?

id make a movie although idk what it would be about but ill make sure to not include a single npc girl in there lol

23. A moment in the Lupin franchise you'll always remember?

idk but i do remember everyone going crazy over jigen in lupin iii: the first

30. What’s something you hope TMS would do in the future for the Lupin III franchise?

Make a movie similar to Mystery of mamo, or do some detective noir type zenigata film, or a goemon spinoff show :p

i was sad i couldnt find something like this anywhere so i made one!!!

This is gonna be fun to see people's response :) Here's the plaintext version:

Where did you first learn about Lupin III?

What is your favorite character?

Following up on that question, what’s the best thing about them?

What's a Lupin character you relate to the most?

What’s your favorite Lupin Anime series?

What's your top 3 favorite episodes from it?

What's your favorite Lupin manga series?

What's your top 3 favorite chapters from it?

What's your favorite movie? And why?

What was the first movie you watched?

What's your favorite Lupin design?

What's your favorite Jigen design?

What's your favorite Goemon design?

What's your favorite Fujiko design?

What's your favorite Zenigata design?

What's your favorite thing about the franchise?

What's your least favorite thing about the franchise?

What's your least favorite character? And why?

What's your favorite Lupin III music track?

Do you have any Lupin III merch? If so, what's your favorite out of the collection?

If you could contribute/change the franchise in any way, what would you do?

What’s something about Lupin III that you wished people knew more about?

A moment in the Lupin franchise you'll always remember?

What’s your favorite Lupin III quote?

Give one Lupin headcanon that you have!

What's the most random fact about Lupin III that you know?

Any hot takes?

Do you create things in the fandom? What’s by far the thing you made that you’re most proud of?

If you could be in the Lupin III universe for one day, what would you do?

What’s something you hope TMS would do in the future for the Lupin III franchise?

[pebblysand]

Hi!!! Happy travels! (is that thing in French or English?) soooo, I see you're going to read Evelyn Hugo, and this is my official request that when you finish it you come back here and give your opinions on it! I have A LOT of feelings/opinions about it, but I'd like to hear from you! Have a nice day!

hey anon! thank you! i don't think "happy travels" is a saying per se, but the french is "good travels", so i get what you mean <3.

okay so i'd actually started evelyn hugo this summer, and finished the rest on the plane yesterday, so i'm happy to report back! spoilers below the cut.

i gave it a 4/5 in my own little book rating system, and overall, i really, really liked it.

what i loved:

i loved how queer it was (which i wasn't expecting), but also how realistic it was in terms of queer stigma - not only with its time, but also with the film industry in general. i loved the conversation where one of them is like "elton john's been out for years" and the other one is like "yeah, elton john isn't living off his straight sex appeal though." it's kind of true. say a male-gaze beauty icon like megan fox was to come out as gay, i'm not sure she'd be as marketable, etc. so, in sum, i loved that aspect of the book. i loved the struggle everyone experiences with the sexuality, and how hard being in the closet also is, lying to everyone all the time. i thought this was great.

i also loved the way the book deals with the passage of time, and the phenomenon of getting old, especially in the public eye. i love how it blurs over whole sections of evelyn's life, in a "life just happened" sort of way, because that's also the truth, isn't it? years just pass sometimes.

i also very much loved (i think this might actually be my favourite thing about the book) how much value it puts on friendship, and chosen families, rather than biological families. i thought this was very unusual and refreshing, in adult literature. children's literature often puts a lot of value on friendship, then it all becomes about romance, and what the fuck do these people do with their friends, you know? and i felt like the relationship between harry and evelyn in this book was every bit as important as her relationship with celia, and treated with the same level of care and respect, which i very much appreciated. the fact that the happiest time in evelyn's life seems to be when they were all living in manhattan together felt so very precious. i frankly started bawling (in public, on the plane lmao) when harry died, and didn't stop until connor died. that's also perhaps something i wasn't expecting about this book. it is sad.

what i loved... less:

the reason why this book is a 4 ⭐️ and not a 5 ⭐️ is two-fold.

first, whilst it was well-written (and, if i ever manage to write an original work of fiction to this level, i will be very happy), the style didn't make me go "wow". the prose was great, it was lively and definitely enjoyable, but it didn't have the jaw-dropping factor i sometimes find in novels like incendiary or normal people. those are my five-stars, and this just wasn't to that level.

second, and most importantly, i just didn't like the end. i felt like the final reveal fell... flat? at least, for me. if the story of monique's father was going to be the front and centre of her relationship with evelyn, i would have wanted more... context? on her life, on her parents? i feel like if that was going to be The Story, then why spent all that time on her failing marriage? when the reveal happened, i was like "wait, who is james grant?" 😆. i just wasn't as shocked as i feel i should have been. i feel like this part of the story was unnecessary, didn't really answer anything, and if the gayness of her own father was going to be the question, then this reveal should have occurred maybe mid-book, and given monique more time to react to it/sort it out? idk. i just felt like the evelyn story was so beautiful and intense, it could have stood on its own, without that final reveal.

additionally, i'm a bit annoyed that nothing was said about the way that monique seemed to think moving the body in the car was Perfectly Okay until she found out the dead guy was her father, at which point she freaked? i would have loved for her to have a conversation with evelyn (or at leats it be addressed somehow) about how morally reprehensible actions against people you don't know, often feel a lot more justifiable than morally reprehensible actions against people you do know. this was totally not addressed, and it frankly pissed me off.

so yeah, overall, i really liked the book, but it had its flaws. but i'm curious, what are your thoughts? ❤️

[munohlow]

Ok real quick gonna propose an idea for that powerpuff girls reboot:

Don’t

But it if they really must (they shouldn’t!), there’s some better ways I think they could go about it, as well as what I’ve seen floating around (like don’t).

Pretty much all of these are assuming they’ll go the gritty reboot route because that’s pretty popular atm. A dark gritty take on anything is getting a bit tired, I think people are more open to weird and sincere stories, whether they’re adaptations or original. But recently a lot of comics (good comics!) 10+ years old are getting faithful adaptations (good adaptations!) and reviving that early/mid 2000’s taste for “what if Superman, but bastard?”

Aright one route they could go would be like that of Samurai Jack season 5 on Adult Swim. Written and animated by the original team and keeping to its truest nature while maturing it a bit along with the original fan base and maybe have an overarching plotline. The difference being that keeping it like the original ppg would create a stronger contrast with more mature and brutal violence, similar to Invincible’s friendly neighborhood Spider-man vibes and use of graphic violence.

This would be the second best way to adapt besides not doing it at all..... but that would also take more money and might not last beyond a season, ending with a solid conclusion like Samurai Jack did. Plus I’m semi doubtful the original team would be on board to drag out the girls’ story, especially like this.

Addressing the leaked script, a common comparison made was to the Netflix adaptation of The Umbrella Academy. Both are loose adaptations about child superhero siblings coming together after years of being apart, dealing with childhood trauma and their parent’s wrecklessness as adults.

And talking monkey.

Where Umbrella Academy made changes for the sake of depth and character development amidst the sci-fi madness, the CW Powerpuff Girls script attempted to be edgy and gross for the sake of being edgy and gross. They just want to be mature and topical while ignoring everything enjoyable about the original. It also just straight up sucks. I’m no writer but it seems like a lot of people who are writers are pretty pissed about paid professionals pushing this to the point of post-production. Well not post production, it was being filmed, but I enjoy alliteration. That’s also pretty far into development for something this bad, while it was rejected and is being reworked, it still got approved by enough people to shoot a pilot. If the leaked script itself isn’t a marketing ploy, I imagine that’s the real reason it was shut down. CW probably would’ve went through with it, otherwise. Maybe just keep it cancelled, yeah? Yeah.

This idea isn’t mine either but instead of the child star allegory, it could be more interesting to sort of see it carry on from where it left off, as the continued adventures of the powerpuff girls. Similar to the The Venture Bros. (a show I have not watched but know vaguely about, again this is someone else’s thought, I just think it sounds good) the girls can be grown up but start to realize they want to explore their lives and goals as individuals outside of heroism.

This at least appeals to me because you can keep the show’s status quo, keep the characters together, and have them grow into better more interesting characters as opposed to starting with a dour world where everyone is dead or just worse insufferable people. Instead, begin where audiences are comfortable and open to a new interpretation then let the characters realize there’s more to life and explore what kind of people they can become. (Or just don’t do it.)

Also just hear me out, but maybe, possibly? perhaps the professor was a good dad in the original cartoon? And let’s keep that? Let him remain a wholesome father figure? Is that okay? Don’t make this reboot? But if they do, keep him a nice loving parent?

Since this is the CW/ Warner bros who own DC comics, the best case scenario (cancelled) would be to make it more like the MANY SUPERHERO SHOWS THEY ALREADY MAKE. The good ones, anyway. I’m pretty sure the girls have crossed over with some DC characters in the cartoon already, why not make them canon DC characters? Maybe not. Could be cool! Better not, though. But they could still model the show after some of their better shows. Flash, Arrow, Supergirl are all not bad depending who you ask. I just finished Gotham, that was neat. Superman and Lois sounds like it’s pretty good so far. Powerpuff girls would better suit an earnest, straightforward, lighthearted take. Keep the humor, idk maybe up the violence to keep it dark and cool if that’s what people want (we don’t) and have it contrast with family drama like Invincible. All that to say that a darker, comical, well-written, DC-ish superhero thing they should look to for reference should be Doom Patrol.

This show fuckin litty. It’s like the better parts of Legends of Tommorow and Titans put together, as in it’s super weird and dumb but in a way that’s fun and moving. I recently rewatched season one as refresher before getting into season two and dammit if it didn’t get me in my feels amidst the quarantine. It’s about broken people working through their issues and pulling themselves together to help one another. Admittedly, it doesn’t have the best representation of those with disassociative identity disorder, as one character sometimes referred to as “Crazy” Jane has a different superpower with each of her alters. The character is very much a product of the 80’s but the writers of the show do their best to show that Jane respects the alters and their free will. But it also deals with topics of abuse, self-image, trauma, disabilities, homophobia, discrimination, and more in a way that gave me some catharsis while watching after all that’s been going on the past couple of years. Aside from all the comedy and action, it all flows together naturally, which is what you want in any series, not just your gritty superhero show. Doom Patrol is also batshit weird, every episode feels almost self contained/ freak-of-the-week while still following the main overarching plot, and Powerpuff Girls is very much like that, without the bigger plot or mature themes (as it should remain, let it be). Many will find it vaguely similar to The Umbrella Academy because GERARD WAY WAS INSPIRED BY DOOM PATROL TO WRITE THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY. The og comics, not the show, but still.

Also let’s address this

The hell was this about?

Anyway Idk maybe I sound like “Old Man Yells at Cloud,” but this really isn’t the way to go. Don’t do it, CW. Leave it alone, CW. Just don’t do it. We don’t need more sequels and reboot cash grabs, there’s plenty of up and coming writers with good original ideas waiting for their shot. And even with all those new edgy shows and movies, some of which are actually not bad, not everything needs to be so grim. Like sure Teen Titans Go! is a goofy reboot but it’s still just a fun dumb cartoon, it’s not bad, I bet that other ppg show was also just fine. Maybe YOU are “Old Man Yells at Cloud.” But what do I know?

And all THAT to say you should go watch all those other things I mentioned and some old ppg episodes back to back, instead. Don’t fuckin do it, CW

[twig-gy]

i’ll review every area bc i am bored:

ring 1: the classics! you can’t beat them. …well you can, but-

tos gave me my first grinding lite experience, tots tormented me for multiple months, tok was the first kinda creative tower i played, also why is tos challenging now. anyway. your first experiences. basically none of these are really good, aside from cols cols is SO GOOD, but they aren’t the bane of my experience & they are straight up nostalgic.

tor hot take: only like 2-4 & 10 obv is bad, the rest of the floors are okay to good. ngl kinda overhated.

toie cold take: TOIE GOOD!!!!!! very cool. just a good tower, not very special. though The Nostalgia…. also f9 was a bad idea for a big part of it ngl

also i’ve only played tt a little bit (no scs, not an eo, sorry)

ring 2: it’s ring 2. what do you want me to say. anyway a good portion of these towers were actively painful. though TODD DESERVES MORE LOVE!! FEELS LIKE A CITADEL, IS AS CREATIVE AS ONE, THIS MAY BE HINDSIGHT BUT IT IS COOL !!!!! tobh is good obv. tops :)

i haven’t beaten tosd tho i’ve gotten to floor 10 and am well aware of it’s “”””creative”””” gameplay

i’ve played totf kinda but not much, haven’t played toes besides only a bit, have not done cows or todc.

i hated: tot, tooh (GOD THAT WAS MY ARCH ENEMY I FR BEAT IT AT 75 TOWERS), tofaf but in hindsight it doesn’t seem so bad for no logical reason, still hate tosd

toch is mid but everyone knows that

ring 3: nothing here is good besides COHAD I LOVE COHAD COHAD DESERVES SO MUCH MORE IT’S THE BEST CITADEL also towh was good it’s underrated

i’ve only played toc the very slightest and i’m confident grinding it could actually make you act out the original mind electric in real life. GOD THAT TOWER IS SO BAD…. IT NEAR NO……..

what was i saying oh right. towh has more kbs than told for NO REASON, told was just the devs wanting haha funni meme music and slapping together whatever tower probably, tod SUCKS AND I HATE IT AND YOU SHOULD HAVE A LIMIT ON KBS BC WHAT THE FUCK, ALSO THE GAMEPLAY IS COPY AND PASTED AND EVERYTHING, everything else is forgettable ngl

ring 4: i don’t play it much ngl it’s fine. no strong opinions. mi pilin ala.

uhhh i’ve failed toll way too much for no reason but it’s like okay, whoever made tol should not be allowed to make any more towers, there was a monthly challenge to do tol and i did it and hated replaying it, ughhh, anyway there’s haha funni garfield tower. also haven’t completed tohf but it seems mid to good. idk what the rems, citadel, or too are like

ring 5: toth based and good

what else…. ngl i forgor

ring 6: what is this ring OH RIGHT EVERYONE’S WORST RING

ring 6 isn’t too bad, haven’t played todr much but already hate it, my pb on ton is f4 and cosr like f5 or something, hate tofj a little (that spinner section was a spike), tower of haha it isn’t actually descending seems cool so far, idk i forgot

ring 7: all i remember is toned and toda and nothing else (and i haven’t beaten either)

ring 8: haha funni snake/cccc reference citadel i’m still working on. also basketball tower. i think that’s it

ring 9: I’M NOT AN EO WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME. toqt is gonna be my first tower for this ring (pb: 10)

subrealms and zones coming in like a second ig

i need to play cols:se ngl