#and i kinda hate the commercialization of blogs.

[scummy-writes]

No more rant posts for a while

[dxwnfxll]

Heyy!! How are you?<3

I just found your blog and I'm so happy I did! So I decided to leave a request for some hc's of the main 4 eddsworld boys finding out the reader is a stoner? Like they'll just get into the house and see the reader faded af and just being extra chill abt everything??

If you don't do multiple character hc's, then the same premise but only for Tord. Thank you lovely :))

Hiya !! I'm doing swell ! Hope ya are to :) !!

And awesome HC idea totally gonna write it out

Hope ya enjoy it ! (And sorry for the wait i've been busy busy !!)

The eddsworld boys with a stoner reader

(gender neutral reader)

Tord

- So Tord is DEF a stoner, you can't tell me other wise. So when he casually arrives home one day a lil earlier than the others and finds reader faded as hell he just fucking laughs.

- He def gets high with reader, he has a collection of funny lil bongs including a anime girl one he spent a shit ton of money on.

- Reader got munchies? He's got ya, he's got his own lil munchie stash in his room.

- Readers first time getting high? He'll call you stupid but help you through it, make sure you don't freak tf out

- You and him probably sit on the couch looking like idiots laughing at the dumbest shit (probably a dumb commercial Tord keeps rewinding back over and over)

Edd

- I don't see Edd as a stoner but he's okay with the 'lifestyle', though when he came back after a cola run and found Reader staring at the ceiling snickering here and there he's very concerned

- " Did Tord give you something from his stash? TORD !! "

- When he figures out YOU are ALSO a stoner he's like " oh "

- He's kinda curious about what it's like sometimes, especially since he's been casually watching you/Tord getting high randomly and looking like y'all are having the time of your lives.

- Careful if you actually let him get high with you, He's gonna freak tf out and get some bad munchies

- If he never gets high with you though he just kinda keeps an eye on you to make sure you're okay

Matt

- He's not a stoner, doesn't even know what a stoner is. So when he comes home and smells something 'bad' in the air he thinks it's a damn fire

- Idk why he thought it was a fire he just did, he sees smoke coming under your door and grabs a bucket and before you even know it he's thrown water in your room...on you.

- He killed your vibe

- He does apologize though at least

Tom

- He used to be a stoner, he kinda stopped after he got into Smirnoff and didn't wanna be juggling both y'know?

- When he comes home and sees you on the couch he just holds in a lil laugh and goes " i know that face, someones tripping balls"

- He MAKES you give him a hit on the blunt/bong/whatever (or an edible if you prefer edibles)

- He's a pro at this shit so he's chilling, and hopefully you are too. But a few mins in he'll get up and grab some snacks for you two.

- He isn't a very giggly high when y'all two are high but he's more 'idiotic', he'll find random photos and think they're the funniest shit known to man kind. He's also very hungry and thirsty when he gets high

- Tord is NOT allowed during y'alls high time

- He takes big breaks when getting high, so if you're a stoner that does it daily or day after day he's not gonna smoke with ya every day. He smokes like maybe once or twice a week? It really depends

Bonus:

Eduardo

- He judges you, but when he sees how chill you are when high he decides to take a hit. He gets mad when he doesn't get high from one hit

- Excuse him he's a lil dumb, you tell him it takes more than one hit and he just grumbles before taking another hit

- Once he's high with you he just sits there, you probably gotta check on him to make sure he's okay

- After that time he gets high with you whenever he can, dude probably needs it tbh

Jon

- He doesn't really understand but he's cool with it ! :D

Mark

- Mark prefers to not be around whenever you get high, it's not that he hates you being a stoner he just isn't into smoking and all that. He does warn you about the bad stuff with smoking though womp womp

Paul

- Dude doesn't care, he probably finds you high in the barracks at the red army base. He probably sits with you and smokes his own cigarettes just chilling with you

- " everybody needs a break every now and then, just don't be high while your work yeah ? "

- If you ask for anything to help get you down from your high so you can work he'll usually help (if he's in a good mood)

Patryck

- Judging

- He doesn't like that you're high during work, doesn't like the smell and doesn't like how you act while high

- gets a lil annoyed if he has to help you walk around or anything

- def never getting high with you, but he's def had a contact buzz before

Yippe ! Hope you enjoyed sorry if it seemed rushed at all

[homeofhousechickens]

On anon purely because this is a tad more personal than I'd like to speak publicly! This is otherwise just a big thank you message

I've only ever kept chickens as pets before but I've always personally held myself to the standard of "if I'm not okay with killing it, I shouldn't be eating it". I've started raising quail on the side with the intention of processing them, but emotionally I've been holding them at arms length. Unlike my chooks, who are first and foremost pets.

Recently my eldest hen's health declined and I knew it was time to make the call because her quality of life was only going down. She was a commercial layer, you know how it goes. Because of an ongoing health issue with another pet coinciding with this, my savings are stretched super thin and getting her put down at the vets was borderline cost-prohibitive + due to location and transport issues she might have had to wait an extra day and I didn't want her feeling any worse or for any longer.

Before I'd found your blog, I genuinely don't think I'd considered it possible to have chooks as pets AND still process them when the time came. Honestly super silly of me, lol.

Giving context is kinda getting away from me, but basically I wanted to thank you! The knowledge that other people keep their birds as pets and love them just as much as I do but still cull them when the time comes was what I needed to go "okay. This is in the best interest of everyone involved. I can do this". It went smoothly, humanely and was completely bloodless. She didn't even have to suffer through a car ride.

I know you get some wacky asks re: culling chickens and I just wanted to give you a thank you instead. You talking frankly and openly about it has genuinely been so helpful and reassuring in what would have otherwise been an extremely distressing situation.

(Also I'm sorry I'm inadvertently the person going "my pet died" on the pet blog, in my bid to combat anon-hate I've kinda become anon-bittersweet lol)

I'm glad my blog was helpful to you. I want my blog to be a safe place to learn about chickens and raising them. I'm sorry about your hen the production layers leave us so soon 😞

[mauesartetc]

I've seen it stated in a comment on reddit that Blitzo "deserved what happened to him at Ozzie’s. He forced himself on M&M’s date and then went out of his way to draw attention to himself KNOWING fizz was there. The entire event was a result of his own actions. Hell, Stolas treated it as an actual date and at least tried to make an effort to be sweet."

They also said:

""I’d like an acknowledgment of Blitz being the one who was in the wrong and admitting it himself. Stolas may be an out of touch rich aristocrat yes, but Blitz was neglecting him and taking advantage from the start. Stolas arguably had no reason to suspect that objectifying blitz was a problem considering he never seemed bothered by it until Ozzy’s. I’d like to think the hospital scene is what is starting the process of Stolas finally realizing blitz can’t be helped until he helps up himself and deals with his issues."

And I'm like: wtf? Are you seriously making Stolas into the injured party despite all the cr*p he has done? Hes the one who has apologizing to do; for objectifying and fetishizing Blitzo all while looking down on imps.

The last part stinks of not wanting white/privileged people to take accountability for microaggressions based on the excuse of them being "innocent".

Sorry, I know this is wildly beside the point, but:

cr*p

Dude, this is Tumblr, not TikTok. You don't have to censor yourself here. You don't have to make every word you write commercially viable. It's okay. Be free, little bird! Spew expletives left and right if you feel so moved!

I want everyone to feel free to speak their minds on this blog, and if that includes a few naughty words, so be it. Besides, I'm pretty sure no one's getting in trouble at work for reading a post that contained the word "crap".

Anyway, to the more pressing issue at hand: It's important to recognize at all times that these are fictional characters, not real people. They are puppets whose actions are dictated by writers. Yes, giving characters the illusion of agency when writing stories is a great way to engage your audience, but when analyzing stories, you have to focus on why the people who wrote them made the choices they did. Debating which character was in the wrong, or which character was more wrong, or which one should apologize, yadda yadda yadda, is a futile fucking exercise if you don't include the writers' intent in that conversation.

Let's look at Blitzo. He pretty objectively caused most of what went down at Ozzie's. He followed Moxxie and Millie, he invited Stolas, he drew attention to himself when he knew people who hated him were present. Now that last one seems pretty stupid, like the kind of mistake no one of sound mind in the real world would ever reasonably make. We could spend all day speculating what about his personality would lead him to do this, whether it's zero sense of self-preservation, a subconscious desire for self-sabotage, or simple inability to keep his damn mouth shut, but here's the thing: Other Helluva Boss characters have the same problem. To reiterate what I said here:

"Why did Octavia fully forgive her dad, no questions asked, even when he couldn't explain why he cheated on her mom? If Loona hates being around Blitzo so much, why didn't she just stay with the succubi on the beach? [...] Why did Moxxie make a huge romantic gesture in an environment where such gestures are frowned upon? [...] Why did Stolas bring an imp to a couples-only club despite knowing it'd ruin his reputation?"

The answer to all these questions is "because the plot demanded it." The writers wanted a certain outcome and wrote themselves into a corner before they could reach it organically. Instead of putting themselves into the characters' shoes or retracing their steps to make the endpoint feel like a logical conclusion, they just said "fuck it" and brute-forced the easiest solution, causing the result to make no goddamn sense.

Given the level this writing is on, it feels kinda pointless to argue with internet strangers over which character was in the right and which one wasn't. Subsequent episodes haven't addressed the events of "Ozzie's" (at least not in a way that means anything), leading me to believe the writers never cared enough about them to spark any sort of in-depth conversation. So why should we?

Honestly, this person just sounds like a Stolas simp. It's kind of a leap to assume they don't want real people of a certain race and class to bear responsibility for their actions. It's not that deep. None of this is that deep.

[office-hours-affection-if]

I’m really excited for this IF. It kinda reminds me of those webcomics where the main character gets isekaid as a side character in an otome game who desperately tries to dodge the story, only to end up on one (or more) routes. Meanwhile, the comment section is readers desperately wishing she would just end up with the original game’s protagonist who she has way more chemistry with. This is why I’ll be romancing Isla. Sorry if this is weirdly specific.

Wow, I know about isekais and transmigration but I never thought of it that way for this IF and what an interesting way to look at, thanks for sharing ginkgo! Don’t be sorry, I love it so much 🫶 i hope you’ll enjoy romancing Isla along the way 💘

…and although you never asked, I’ll be sharing Isla Madison facts for you and other Isla romancers (I will soon be sharing other ROs’ facts too dw ^^)

Born on September 7 (Virgo).

5’5 (165 cm) in height.

An only child to a patriarchal family and she secretly hates it.

Great at Rubik’s cube, she used to join competitions in Diamond City, a city where she lives back in middle school.

Used to do ballet at some point before she joined a theatre guild in high school.

Had one commercial endorsing a shampoo on her last year of high school but decided she hated the growing limelight, much to her parents’ disapproval.

Had a huge argument with her father when he learned that she wanted to be a nurse. It’s why she strived to get a scholarship and work part time job to get what she wants.

She runs a secret blog where she reviews books and movies during her free time.

Had 3 ex-boyfriends.

Currently obsessed with cottagecore aesthetics.

[maria-eve-falcon]

Finally found a blog that can sympathize with Joe. Love Taylor and sure they are both going through some terrible heartache. But I think this impact Joe the most. We are in no place to speak on someone else’s mental health but at least we know he has anxiety. And rumors of him withdrawing from her leading up to tour, the noticeable weight gain and baggy eyes in movie premieres, I think there’s more than we know.

I’ve been through a withdrawal period before because I was feeling like I was a failure. Lots of restless nights, weight gain, self isolation and feeling worthless. I took a break from everyone to heal and learn to love myself again. So I can kinda relate to him why he wanted a break. Everyone cope differently and we cannot fault them for how they chose to do it. We all have our own demons to fight.

We do not know what goes behind closed doors. But based on facts given, I am comfortable to say he is a gentle, sweet, caring soul, does not read into tabloids, brought up loyal and kind by his mother(according AOTGYLB). Never used her name to gain fame and is a very private person. How can people say he intentionally leaked this out? The breakup is the last thing he would ever want to go public.

If he cared about the imbalance in their fame status, he would be going for commercial movies instead, not indie type films. I just don’t like how he is being portrayed as a person through these news outlet. It’s very dehumanizing to do.

Ikr! thanks for all this. I remember his quote about wanting to be seen as a human.

You are right. His newest pics are really bad. Like his hair is weird, he has defs gained weight campared to his physic just some months ago.

Tbh, the biggest thing is Tay has her fans, her songs, her friends and family with her.

Joe is somewhere else far away from home as speculated and maybe before the breakup, means he's been alone when it happened and is rn . He has to change his musical taste, even his fav band might be hurting him . His friends and family are away. All he has is some co workers he doesn't know very well. Idk if that's good, or bad. Cause how much you'd want nothing to remind you of the absence of your loved one, you just kinda need someone who knew your relationship with them.

Also about the GOD DAMN ARTICLES. It's impossible trust me. And why would they do that? Likeeeeee his team should be outta questions imo cause well, his team is too lowkey to do that. like the possibility is just 0.001%

Moreover, we should support them both. The breakup is the wort thing that could happen to them and it is done.

So instead of blaming and hating, we just need to support them. Imo. This is that type of a break up you can't blame anyone.

All we can do is love and pray and be positive and wish for the best.

[juni-ravenhall]

i rly think that ppl who feel a strong need to go "us versus them" in the sso criticism discourse need to just, take a deep breath and look within. there is so much black and white mindset always going on here, and so much bad ppl vs good ppl. its always been lacking in nuance and individuality and its frustrating.

there *are* ppl in the fandom who say really dumb shit, like fatphobic shit, sexist or racist shit, ableist shit.... but not everyone who criticises sso fairly and positively does any of that. not everyone who criticises sso annoyedly does any of that. not everyone who absolutely fucking hates sso does any of that.

there are equally ppl who genuinely are defending the most dumb shit from sse/sso just to be a defender and supporter without reason..... but not everyone who says something positive about the game does that. not everyone who loves the game does that. etc.

its not good and not okay to take out frustrations on people who dont actually do anything wrong or harmful (giving regular criticism, expressing personal opinions, giving fair praise - vs attacking staff, attacking other users for their opinion, posting harmful things, etc).

when you do that, you're blaming an innocent person for a perceived wrong from a "group" (like "haters" or "whiners" or "ppl who ruin my fun") that you have defined, that you associate "anyone who criticises things i disagree with" or whatever instead of "ppl who genuinely and provenly did something harmful". anyone who *seems* like they might be in that group annoys you, even if they arent.

consider why you think its okay to label people as invalid or unfair or unreasonable in their opinions if they have a different opinion than you but arent hurting anyone. (if you feel hurt by commercial media criticism, especially when its not even *your* product/work, there is a problem on your end that you should address.)

consider why you think its okay to say words like "ungrateful" about people who are simply voicing fair criticism or fair opinions about a videogame. i could call ppl ungrateful for not liking all my posts that i put so much work into making, but that would be really rude and ridiculous. its not kind and not nice to say things like that about ppl when they havent actually done anything wrong (criticising a videogame doesnt make someone "ungrateful", and posting harmless opinions on your own blog is not a problem).

the "us vs them" group system in sso fandom is usually along these lines: haters vs non-haters, haters vs defenders/whiteknights, or "any other critics" vs "those who see themselves as the only Good and Fair and Nice critics"... all of these are more or less the same groups just slight variation in the person's point of view. and all of them are bad, because these groups are not actually rigid and applicable in reality. people are individual and people are nuanced.

some of you guys post what i consider kinda unfair comments on sso sometimes. it could be good or bad comments, that i personally consider a bit too subjective or unfair or unrealistic or whatever. but i dont post rude, disrespectful or mean things about that on my blog, and i try to not act as if you belong to some group that youve never claimed to belong to (encouraging the "us vs them" mentality in the community).

if i *am* going to say "sso defenders" or "sso haters", i would be making sure to actually be talking to/about ppl who evidently belong to that label. ppl who defend sse even when it makes no sense, not just ppl who praise good things about the game. ppl who actually *hate* on the game, not just ppl who say something critical about it.

and you end up in those boring repetitive healthy-community-ruining social patterns when you give in to "us vs them" and to black-and-white, polarised, mindsets, when you dont actively see things as nuanced and varied and individual.

i really wish that ppl would step back and think, "this opinion / this criticism about sso made me feel annoyed/upset. why is that? what about it made me feel bad? am i taking something personally that isnt? did this person actually say anything harmful or wrong, or is it fair personal opinion? did they *actually* shove it in my face, or am i visiting a public space that is not curated only for me? am i painting this person as something they might not be in my mind? am i trying to sort them into a group, and if so, why?"

someone from the bullies will have a field day with this post and be like "omg juni is saying that ppl who disagree with him are mentally ill again!" (twisting words is helpful when you really want to make things black-and-white and "us vs them") but i do genuinely want to say that if you feel really hurt and upset by ppl having harmless disagreements or harmless criticisms about a videogame, there is a problem. it might have to do with your emotional boundaries ("criticism feels bad even when its not about me"), it might have to do with your self-worth ("you say sso is bad so you think im bad for liking it"), or various other things, and its not healthy. however, its also okay to feel unfair emotional reactions if you cant help them, but the problem is, you CAN help how you act, how you judge, and how you treat other people.

[explosionshark]

Uh, genuine question, but what should non vegans and/or non vegetarians do to be respectful of vegans and/or vegetarians?

And also, a second more specific question, i get that unless the person has actually said something, irl wise it’s generally kinda dumb weird and probably a bit rude to go out of your way to avoid any mention of meat as food in front of a vegan/vegetarian, but online, where the rules are obviously different,

would it be good practice to tag posts that are about or mention meat or other animal products being used as food? Because i imagine even if you don’t care it just might get a bit grating? Like when you keep having to hear a bout a fandom you’re apathetic about

Again, promise this isn’t mocking or anything, these are genuine questions, 🙏 i just believe that similar to religious beliefs, veganism/vegetarianism shouldn’t be mocked and instead respected

None of this is dumb or weird! I think it's nice that you're trying to be mindful.

Personally, I don't think tagging for meat or animal products or stuff like that is necessary. I feel like 99% of the fast food ads I see on billboards or commercials is more obnoxious than like someone posting a pic of their dinner and talking about how good it was.

Tbh the only content I actually see on Tumblr that bothers me In A Vegan Way falls into one of two categories.

Exploitative Animal Images: idk to me this ranges from like mildly annoying to hellish. I feel like a lot of images of animals clearly in distress or in unsafe circumstances get passed around as memes a lot here and it's genuinely kinda disturbing. I mean obviously pictures of living animals captioned with something obnoxious about the kind of food you want to turn them into is one example.

Other stuff would be like videos of wild animals in domestic settings where they don't belong (I hope I never see another pet sugar glider video in my entire fucking life tbh) or like otherwise in captivity under CLEARLY shady circumstances (those tiger farms for example). Otherwise stuff like videos of people scaring their pets bc they make funny faces or silly noises about it. A lot of this stuff is pervasive in Internet humor or like cute animal pages and it can be easy to overlook but I think it's worth being critical of thinking about the circumstances animal content is produced under. Tbh I think this is a good internet rule in general - esp when it comes to meme images of violence and stuff like that.

The other category is probably more obvious and the thing I most frequently block/unfollow people over - please don't reblog weird anti-vegan propaganda. I feel like I don't really have to worry about this from you, anon, since you're clearly approaching from a respectful place but there's been what feels like a significant uptick in anti-vegan content couched in progressive language on this site recently.

From blatant misrepresentations of what veganism means to holding vegans solely accountable for stuff everyone does and/or corporate marketing, to weirdly hateful and defensive screeds - there's a LOT of really popular bad takes going around. And some of it is truly wild and really shows how little people read a post before reblogging it - a couple years ago I saw several majorly popular blogs on Tumblr reblogging an anti-vegan post that had lines about the "occult implications" of veganism buried somewhere in the text and it nearly drove me insane. More mundane examples would be the recent rise of 'vegans love to pollute with fake leather bc they're ignorant babies' type posts. A lot of these don't even have to be outright hostile to be annoying, but they all fundamentally fail to understand what veganism is about. It's not a health movement or an environmental movement or a 'lifestyle' movement - the #1 concern of veganism is animal rights.

Not saying there aren't overlapping concerns like environmentalism that can be used in the messaging, but at the end of the day whether something is good for your health or for the planet is a secondary consideration to 'does this system harm a living being unnecessarily.'

Anyway I hope that was a helpful answer!

Thanks for reaching out! Have a good one!

[bim-mba]

15 Questions 15 Mutuals

I’ve been tagged... all my hardwork keeping all aspects of my identity secret has gone out the window now lol

@incoherentbabblings​  tagged me :)

Are you named after anyone?

I am pretty sure I am not. My parents just were kinda basic and chose a super trendy name! lol

When was the last time you cried?

the 7th, funeral, not fun. I cry easily for dumb shit and have a harder time crying for real things tho. There is this life insurance commercial that always gets me..

Do you have kids? 

oooff, no, never, not me, I am more than happy being an aunt

Do you use sarcasm a lot? 

I am pretty sure I am unable to speak without sarcasm lol. It is a problem, specially online

What sports do you play/have played?

I am not very sporty. I did tae kwon do for a while... didn’t love it, but it was far from the worst! I did crossfit for a while. I am not sure why lmao, I suffered A LOT

What's the first thing you notice about someone?

I guess height?

What's your eye color?

Brown. Same as my parents & my sibilings

Scary movies or happy endings?

Happy Endings! I don’t mind scary movies but I hate gore

Any special talents?

...I can clap with one hand! That’s a talent!

Where were you born?

“La perla Tapatia” Guadalajara Mexico, pa’ servirles.

What are your hobbies?

I read a lot? And I’ve been trying to go back to repusse (google says that is the word in english) since I have a lot of tools and tin

Do you have pets?

I have two cats, I am fostering 4 cats (mom and kitties) and I just inherited a dog (that can’t move in until the cats find their forever home)

How tall are you?

....163. I was supposed to be tall I swear

Favorite subject in school? 

...........

.......

school was so long ago, what did I liked? I know it was not anything science-y tho...

Dream job?

Recently I’ve been joking that Marie Kondo stole my dream career.... and it is not that far from the truth tbh. I love organizing, specially clothes/closets (I guess that is a hobby too)

So... I don’t have 15 mutuals, so all my mutuals going in (I am pretty sure some of those blogs are kinda dead tho lmao)

@zulwolf @wonderstrevors @deaddennis @ohmytheon @gafurtle @red-smiley-face @naveich @oqueequesentes-borboletas @ultimate-vegx

[neogandw]

Bit of a question since I kinda need information.

I'm a gaming music collector on the side, my main subject is collecting as much as I can from the entire smash series.

And I mean the entirety of it, from bizarre one-off commercials, obscure arranged CDs, to games of divisive quality, I always make an effort to grab as much as I can and recommend the hidden gems I find.

I may do that on this blog later, I was doing that for the twitter account in something called bi-daily doodle.

I go out of my way to collect stuff since I don't trust youtube to keep things online (EarthBound's music wipe, anyone? Thanks Sony) nor do I believe services like spotify to have everything (sure, they may have Sonic Frontiers and the like, but good luck finding things like Sonic Gems Collection, Lego Dimensions or Sonic X-Treme in there), so I made it my mission to go out of my way to salvage as much as I can for every IP in smash and then some.

Boy I hated going full collector mode for Final Fantasy, screw FFXV's bloated soundtrack!

Anyway, my question, since I often put importance to context and official track names, we still don't have the official track names for Bayonetta 3, Splatoon 3 or Xenoblade 3, right? And to a lesser extent, has Sonic Frontiers released ALL of its songs yet?

Xeno 3 and Bayo 3 I am still playing through those games so I haven't looked all that deeply into them, but Splatoon 3 I haven't seen ANYTHING for.

Rather recently Nintendo has given us the track names and in-universe artists that play during multiplayer rounds, but that's just it, it only accounts for MULTIPLAYER. Content pertaining to Alterna, the unique Lobby songs (10 of them total) and a few odd track here and there remain unnamed.

Normally, we would know the track names of all the soundtrack thanks to in-game sound tests (how we knew the official names for Persona 5 Royal and Kirby Forgotten Land right away), but Splatoon 3 lacks a squid beatz, so there's no way to check for official track names.

So all I currently have are guesses, such as calling the single player stages after the stages (since Alterna Stage 1/Stage 2/Stage 3 is so non-descriptive, I had to check that on my own) or quite simply "The Song that goes Bang Bang Bing".

Normally this wouldn't be much of a problem since I can just name them after where they play or as a general name.

But some series like having track names to their names, so I want to keep track of those the best I can. It bothers me that we've yet to have information on these new releases.

(and for that matter, I've yet to find ANY information for Metroid Prime Federation Force, last time I checked it was just Track 1, Track 2, Track 3... it didn't help me at all).

[ward-leon]

ok! they're not my ocs lol, the fandom is just. really small (~5 people on a good day, but usually i see 2 other ppl who i won't mention here twaposting)

im gonna try to go through the characters involved in that post from the side blog and i'll probably make this short

(ramen, if you see this and feel like i left something important out please put it in the replies. thank you!)

so, first of all...

1. dark lord (left is the og design, right is the s3 redesign)

he's the first one to do jp's ad reads (oh yeah i forgot to mention the entire series he comes from is. well. Terrible Writing Advice: Sponsorship Wars), and while he usually tries to acquire the sponsor through peaceful means, he's not afraid to resort to violence (killed a member of the conspiracy that poisoned everyone else there, tried to fight greed). fun fact: likes mlp. this is canon. :)

2. conspiracy guy!!!!! (left is the og design, right is the s3 redesign)

thats the!!! thats the them!!! my blorbo my beloved <3 spinning in my mind as if it were a microwave since october

appearing in the next episode after dl, they underbid him and took over for one (1) episode before being betrayed (poisoned) and getting better (his actual explanation). might be immortal (or that's just a continuity error), might be 264 (or so chainsaw claims), got the sponsor 5 times and still lost it, backstabbed a guy who got written out (re: The Incident), complimented the ancient conspiracy while disguised a few times, and won the space federation election by an impossible percentage despite not even participating. i can't really say why i love him bc i think i'll just sound like a serial killer lmao

3. megacorp ceo

i have no thoughts about him. i care not for him. i mean, he's joined greed? that's the most notable thing he did. moving on

4. evil ai

same as with megacorp ceo but they also scammed the evil emperor along with dl and the rebels.

5. cult leader

leader of the chtulhu cult (their goal is to summon chtulhu so he'll end the world). will try to recruit others through pamphlets and donuts (always unsuccessfully). actually a tentacle monster taking the form of a human. kinda silly (affectionate) ngl :3

6. general chainsaw

i do not respect this man but i still consider him a part of the ""main cast"". loves war, commited war crimes against blue space alien cat people, wants a battle (but only the one where he'll win). pretty insecure (painting himself as this spitting image of masculinity and conspiracy guy as a weak girly man in one of the sponsorship segments). got devoured (not in that way lmao) and spit out by cult leader after challenging them to a battle. his election policy for the space federation elections was just "war good, pick me" iirc. got put into space federation prison and now has to work for greed

7. the adblock force/knights of artistic integrity

in order from left to right:

sir adblock - kind of a mentor figure for knight commander, the holder of the braincell

pop-up crusher - tries to mediate arguments, as seen when knight commander accuses sir adblock of being the traitor

knight commander - hates ads with a passion. attempts to use peaceful methods of resolving conflict even when the conflict is "holy shit we're being attacked by eldritch hand monsters!!!"

sir newguy - totally not conspiracy guy trust me (/jk)

sir adnnihilator - literally why is he there

sir commercial breaker - a participant of The Incident (got backstabbed by conspiracy guy and disappeared from the plot)

8. the rebels

claim to be rebelling against the evil empire, but they're usually seen arguing over branding. wanted to join greed but dropped out when he said that they'll have to change the branding to make it more profitable

anyway i ran out of images. will continue soon

good morning!! i forgot to ask you this before but how much can i spoil in the explanation? are minor spoilers fine?

I have no idea what you're even spoiling and also thought it was an oc because of how little I knew and how much you post these characters

anyways so spoil as much as you like

[bitter-sweet-coffee]

y'know this might be a weird thing to randomly post about on my sonic the hedgehog tumblr blog but fuck it, i gotta say some stuff about animals (mainly dogs because i have too many thoughts for one redundant post i should narrow in on a species)

i don't see this behaviour online but can people irl stop being gross about pet genitalia, especially dogs and stuff? like, do you think vets are pervs for touching your dog's genitals? no? okay so you can also touch them if it's for good reasons (not something sexual)

do you know how many weird looks i've gotten from people when i say i do all of george's grooming maintenance besides his full appointments? yeah, that includes touching gross stuff like his scabs, fecal residue, urine residue, paws, mouth, etc... because "wait you touch his butt? you touch where his balls used to be? that's kinda sus" DUDE HE'S MY DOG I GOTTA CLEAN HIM WTF??? like i'm not having a good time either trust me, he hates baths, but i'm going to ensure he's clean and healthy by checking his whole body for oddities especially as he gets older. this isn't weird, maybe i'm a bit extra because most people barely think about this stuff, but vet training and my love for animals means i'm gonna be extra (also he sleeps on my bed and frequently lays on my face or licks it when i'm unconscious: i can't prevent it these days but at least i can brush his teeth so i'm not THAT grossed out)

also, some animals (like aggressive large dog breeds) need desensitization training as they grow up. a black russian terrier i puppysat needed this treatment where you'd have to just touch him everywhere and if he's snappy with something like his paw or tail or genitals just desensitize him. no, not abuse and purposely torment an animal don't try to twist this into something negative, i mean condition these types of dogs when they're small so when they're 200+ pounds and have extremely dangerous biting power, they won't bite a kid's face off if they poke his butt or something. it doesn't matter if the kid's parents were neglectful or if the kid was in the wrong because if this turns into a legal battle, we all know the dog is gonna lose. sometimes this shit is a necessary precaution and when done correctly it can be so important for a dog's welfare

boots on dogs aren't just to be quirky. george wears rubber ballon-like boots not only to prevent matting/contamination when it's wet or snowy/icy outside but also for temperature reasons and salt especially. it's a fucking lifesaver, not animal abuse. same with his jackets because it's hard enough to walk him during a snowstorm: he won't shit if he's uncomfortable and that's not something either of us want to deal with. yes he has a few sweaters and a pajama but they're for short term special occasion use (and he really likes them lmao)

i think people should give their dogs vegetables more. safe ones, but it's good for them. george has allergies which means he's on a raw food diet (he gets raw duck twice a day) and in addition to his meals he likes snacks! yogurt treats, sliced veggies, some blueberries, etc etc and his dietary issues literally vanished. all those stupid kibble commercials about how "dogs crave real meat, give them that with these processed nuggets" piss me off like ITS CHEAPER (for where i live) TO JUST GET FROZEN PACKS OF MEAT??? i don't expect every dog (or cat) owner to invest time in this kind of diet for their pet but maybe they'd bite their paws and lick themselves less if they had some real food lol just sayin' and it can even limit your food waste to share some of this stuff with your pet! just make sure it's safe first

also, i sorta mentioned this before but check your damn pets. maybe not 500 times a day like i do (george has skin tags that burst sometimes it's not just my obsessive tendencies) but like how do you not see something is wrong??? if you see a lump or a cut or a bite or a bug or an irritated area or a knot DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT??? AT LEAST KEEP AN EYE ON IT??? idk it just seems weird to me when people are oblivious to their pet's health issues until it's serious

LAST THING BECAUSE I GOT BORED HALFWAY THROUGH WRITING THIS SINCE MY MEDS WORE OFF: brush your dog's fucking teeth. I DONT CARE IF THEY HATE IT BECAUSE IT'S GONNA PREVENT SO MANY POTENTIAL HEALTH THREATS AND ALSO SMALL DOGS LOSE THEIR TEETH FAST BUT IF YOU BRUSH YOU CAN DELAY THAT!!! george is 11 and has every single tooth because i brush them every week (i'd do it every day but look i don't want to die) and it does wonders. also his breath doesn't make me want to kill myself but this is also probably thanks to the cucumbers

ok that's all rant over sorry this wasn't organized i just kept saying shit lmao

[aworldofimportance]

**Falcon and the winter soldier spoilers/live-blogging**

- OOF that commercial promising peace followed immediately by an armed GRC van WITH the Walmart cap was *chefs kiss*

- “Do you know who I am?” “Yes I do and I don’t care” WE STAN and we also hate mr entitled like sir u are “captain America” but you are in Germany why would anyone give a shit

- IM WHEEZING BUCKY just thought “Ah yes I shall break out this war criminal”

- “oh no but Sam would disapprove” he’s embodying “it’s better to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission”

- that purple thanks looking mask is sus

- STOP NONONO IM GONNA CRY BUCKY’S BOOK WAS STEVE’S BOOK?

- no 🥺 is he gonna make Bucky act like the winter soldier? On the bright side, MAKEOVERS?

- I know that Bucky having to be the winter soldier is probably damaging in some way BUT, I forgot how much the winter soldier music/score slaps, also Bucky being badass is cool

- “didn’t take much for him to fall back into form” ZEMO STOP IT! BAD! DONT! MANIPULATE! SAM!

- AWW SAM WORRYING ABOUT BUCKY “you okay?” IM SOFT

- “I CANT RUN IN THESE HEELS” AHAHA

- YAY SHARON WOOO

- OMG SHES A FENCE? I’m living for this white collar shit

- omg she has a barbie level wardrobe me want

- “Don’t get me started!” Don’t get ME started

- Ok but I kinda like Karli that funky little ginger, and now knowing she stole the serum like yes good for her

- Meanwhile Sharon is taking on a whole ass army of bounty hunters

- Sam and Bucky bickering while being attached with Sharon trying to shoos them is a mood

- I knew the mask was sus

- Oh nvm he came back

- 🥺🥺🥺“ Ur not gonna move your seat up are you?” “No”

- ok nvm Karli’s going crazy like yes I understand kill the fake organisation BUTT maybe don’t murder? They seem to have the right reasons though

- aww Sam checking up on Bucky

- is...that...bead..wakandan?

- IT IS IT IS IT IS IT IS. YAYAYAYAYAY

[forks-in-a-drawer]

Sixth and final commercial break! Sorry that this took longer to compile; as usual the last few minutes drops a bombshell that sends me into overthinking.

-Jeanette’s brother’s crush is Kate’s step sister?? What in the Romeo and Juliette is going on

-Yikes watch Jeanette regret telling her bro to go for it

-Speaking of, I don’t even know her brother’s name lol. He and Jaime and Jamie’s friend (whose name I don’t remember either) all look alike and I’m struggling to keep track of who’s who

-Ok Kate’s stepsister being in the chat room is both good and bad. Good because it shows she cares about Kate and it means Kate will get the chance to vent and feel supported in the way she needs/feels comfortable with BUT what if her stepsister turns against her? What if it’s used as evidence to disprove her? I hope Kate isn’t too trusting of who she thinks is another survivor because she already got burned from trusting Harris

-Oh no and her stepsister told Jeanette’s brother about her username (maybe not directly but what if he connects the dots?)

-Did I see boxes of tampons when Kate woke up in the basement? Harris gives me conflicting feelings as to whether he’s stupid or not. Like he didn’t expect Kate to fight back and looked incapable of winning a physical fight against her but at the same time he knew how to poison food and manipulate her psychologically from the start? And back to the tampons, did he panic and buy everything because he’s never held a girl captive before or was he very extensive in his planning? Sorry if this makes no sense lol. Kinda like how Joe Goldberg in You was both so bad at being bad but also so good at being bad?

-Couldn’t someone see into the basement through the windows? I suppose it would be weird for people to creep onto private property and peer into basement windows though without a reason

-I really hope the tapes aren’t destroyed. Kate doesn’t need another thing to go wrong

-Also I hope the tapes don’t contradict Kate.

-Also also the tapes reminded me of 13 Reasons Why and at first I was like oh nooo not this again but then it’s said that it’s her therapy tapes and I was like ohhhh ok so it’s legit and it’s not an unhealthy coping mechanism or an aesthetic choice that glamourises suicide notes like in 13RW

-WAIT ANNABELLE IS REAL? I mean was I wondering why she picked that name for her ghost story? Yes. Was I still shocked? Also yes.

-OH NO WAIT WAIT I HOPE IM WRONG EVEN THOUGH I LOVE BEING RIGHT BECAUSE THIS WOULD BE TOO TRAGIC. Is Annabelle another grooming victim? Is Annabelle the name of a gun that Harris was going to use to kill Kate and himself to avoid consequences a la murder suicide? Did Kate give birth during her drugged induced time being held captive?? Did she need all those tampons? If they even were tampons, I need to go back and pause. Was she so malnourished and/or stressed that her period stopped? Or did that bastard rape her and get her pregnant?! But then what happened to the baby? I may be totally off, but then again Kate’s family and the town are acting way too causal about what happened so anything is possible especially with this show

-Wait if Harris’s story about his dad was true then it means he also died via gunshot, albeit it wasn’t self inflicted in his case. Is it bad that I hope his story about his dad is true so that it means Harris died of the very thing that scarred him? Because that would be ironic poetic justice.

-GUYS IM SO SORRY MY MIND IS MAKING TOO MANY CONNECTIONS. What if Harris killed his dad? And that’s why he didn’t want to participate in the shooting because he didn’t want people to know he could handle a gun and be capable of using it for violence? I want to know his backstory just for the sole purpose of then having even more reasons to hate him. And don’t worry, this blog will stay a Martin Harris hate blog. He can NEVER be redeemed.

[adultswim2021]

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law #18: “Gone Efficien...t” | June 13, 2004 - 11:30 PM | S02E09

Birdman has yet to cinch the hat trick. We had two “actually, kinda okay” episodes in a row and now this third one which is just stuff happening. Birdman’s firm hires an efficiency expert and it somehow leads to Birdman having his office replaced by a greek diner that he also works at. Birdman throws himself into the wacky whims of his brainless boss for no good reason other than to make comedy happen. Lines have the cadence of jokes, like “that’s not hummus, is it?” a joke that seems to imply bathroom stuff that wasn’t really set up to begin with.

The case in this one is basically an afterthought, with Yakky Doodle’s name change. Why is that even being tried in a court of law? Maybe there was a line that explains it, but I was already busy trying to come up with new ways to say Birdman sucks in this write-up (it’s not going well). The ending reveal with his new name I actually did laugh out loud at, so I’ll keep that a nice surprise. By all means, watch this 12 minute bad cartoon to enjoy it.

(deleted paragraph at the end where all I do is brag about understanding the Raymond Burr reference)

MAIL BAG

I have a very vivid memory of the image of Shake's presumably dead corpse with an eyeball popped out giving me insomnia because I sometimes get insomnia from things like that instead of going to sleep and getting nightmares instead. For example just last week when I saw a freshly dead cat that had seemingly been placed on a piece of cardboard at a street corner. More like number none in the hood, g

YIKES! Please stop remembering stuff like this! I’m getting a big scare! OUCH!

Top 10 Home Improvement episodes?

No fucking way am I doing this but I guess the one where JTT gets cancer is good, and the one where German syndicators watch a disastrous taping of TOOL TIME and think it’s intentional slapstick comedy and pick up the show. Genuinely good ep. Also the one where a producer on Tool Time wants to fire Al and the commercial break transition is a very somber image of Al’s face coming out of a cup of coffee and getting blown away into nothingness.

I feel like you are a kind of a hipster for not putting Mortgages and Marbles on your top 10 home movies list. You need a hot take to generate some buzz, I respect it, but it's so cool and it's maybe the only time Brendo Smalls metal music made me laugh (sorry Nathan and the Dethklok crew, but it's simply true).

LOL “not putting”, IDIOT, I DID PUT IT YOU MORON. HAHAHA YOU LOOK SO FUCKING WRONG RIGHT NOW FUCK YOU

Kon writes:

I myself watched through Birdman 10 years ago (while you were doing the message board incarnation of the blog) and kinda had the same reaction of "damn, I don't really hate this anymore." I think the show did improve a lot when they started doing full seasons. And also, I'm not as mad at that type of humor as I used to be. Like I feel silly being mad about them "trying too hard to be funny" when you compare it to what say, Sealab was trying too hard to be at this time.

Yes we should have been way more furious at Sealab for defrauding the network we were all rooting for. I love rooting for networks, by the way. What a cool way to be

You could because those girls are wacko. Also any of them that have Antifa in their bios. Complete bird brains who shouldn't bear children. God willing, if you can't keep it in your pants, Marx Zuckerberg.

I assume this is in response to the DSA pussy joke I wish I deleted from my last post (because I thought I’d get in trouble). I’m sorry for starting this conversation. Please don’t make it a running joke.

[jamboreeofsurprises]

idk how to say this in a way that wont come across as whiny and dumb and make it even more apparent how autistic i am but whatever, its my personal blog, it’s meant to be a judge-free zone anyway. its not like im not putting out this thought to change how anyone feels about anything im just ranting.

pixar has been an important special interest of mine for decades (!) as their movies were literally some of the only movies i looked forward to seeing as a kid. i hated going to the theater because of the sensory nightmare of it all but braved it for pixar movies because they tickled my imagination so much. nearly every year had a new pixar movie which was a big event in my life for that year. i think they have struggled a lot since the 2010s especially as an over-focus on sequels happened (largely as a result of corporate disney grip) so don’t assume by any means i’m uncritical of them. as with anything else i like, i’m not about to pretend like it’s golden all the time just because i’m a fan

but i feel like most of my mutuals now immediately want to assume negatively of pixar because theyre mainstream and un-vogue and pretend like the incredibly stagnant, unchanged western animation landscape they were born of didn’t exist and how crucial their defiance towards it was for moving the medium forward. when it came to western animated movies we had disney movies and disney-imitation movies, that is to say, Fairy Tale Musicals and Other Fairy Tale Musicals. which, don’t get me wrong, i love a good fairy tale musical, but pixar were special and not just for beautifully introducing & advancing 3d cg feature animation, but because their angle was telling completely new stories that challenged this whole format. it was absolutely a breath of fresh air. and the movies could be pretty genuinely touching too for both older and younger members of the audience, usually without even having to have melodramatic character deaths or anything. monsters inc. is pure character-motivated drama and the ending made me cry buckets as a kid and still does because the characters are lovable and relatable. you don’t have to throw in a dead parents backstory or whatever for me to sincerely feel that emotion for them.

as we ushered into the 00s and walt disney animation, dreamworks, etc got a load of the critical and commercial success of pixar, their response was to copy the technology but very little of the creativity/heart. dreamworks i have come to realize at least with Shrek were still doing something pretty subversive albeit in a different direction that i think was forward-thinking but by and large, attempts to hop on the wagon of what made Pixar capture the world’s attention were pretty misguided. i think as the 00s progressed more unique animated movies started coming out as things picked up real good around 2009 (you need only glance at the academy nominations that year to realize just how varied and good every entry was) so pixar kinda got left in the dust a bit in the 2010s, and the change of direction didnt help but my god, that doesnt override their significance in the whole pantheon of animation. but i feel like everyone is forgetting that and it makes me feel like im losing my mind that im the only person remembering just how crummy most other american animated movies of the 00s were.��dont get me wrong im not saying that anyone who dislikes pixar or is critical of a movie of theirs is doing it to be some Mean Hater™, but i feel that the level of negativity is strangely disproportionate to that of other animation studios which is like ??? is it just because people like them and have for years so now we have to turn that around arbitrarily?

idk i just feel like because other studios have stepped up their game some people discredit pixar entirely and that hurts. the thing that has sucked the most about it is how i don’t even feel allowed to eagerly anticipate anything pixar is going to put out even when i want to because it has to immediately be couched in such harsh judgment and discourse, which /*AGAIN*/ is not me saying they’re infallible and should never be criticized. anything and everything is open to criticism, i have my own apprehensions about some of their movies too. i just feel like the aura of negativity online surrounding each pixar release now leaves me an anxious mess while anticipating/watching the movie instead of going into it with the childlike wonder i want to go in with and could go in with because i feel like ppl are going to think i’m basic or just flat out stupid for liking the thing, no matter how sincerely.

which like, i’m not friggin basic. kanashimi no belladonna is one of my favorite animated movies lol. and so is up (the movie that made me interested in animation & storytelling as artforms), ratatouille, etc ... its almost like some mainstream things are good and popular for a reason?

this rant isnt even telling you anything, i know ive historically been overly sensitive to people being critical/negative about things that mean a lot to me and i need to get the hell over it, i just feel frustrated by everyone’s relentless negativity these days and feel like at this point so much of it’s not even coming from good faith