#and im just. going fuckin nutso over here

[marc--chilton]

(mgv) sorry this movie is making me think about lawrence being SOOOO pathetic about wanting another pup to fawn over when he's in rut and rumbling happily, hands on adam's stomach, afterwards. already mumbling deliriously, "i'll take care of you, sweetheart, all of you, massage your swollen ankles, bring you food when you're too tired to walk, and" meanwhile adam is just sending every prayer he can think of to any gods who might be listening thank all of them for making lawrence and delivering them to one another

[tumblunni]

Man the manga makes it look so fun to be a Nobody!

I really marvel at how they captured the uncanny nature of the enemy Nobodies?? Cos seriously the whole point of them is that they look humanoid but move in really inhuman ways. And each individual enemy type has its own unique mannerisms for this, but in general its like..slugs? I'm pretty sure its slugs?? They stretch and squish and wiggle around and its like pretty much EXACTLY how medicinal leeches move, but thats a very underrated animal so its probably more likely it was slugs or worms. Like 'hey lets exaggerate slugs' but BELIEVE IT OR NOT THAT FATEFUL WIGGLIER SLUG DOES TRULY EXIST. And i love their cutie patoot lil faces. And the world needs to appreciate them more!

...ok im getting offtopic but you get the gist of what i mean. The basic Dusk enemies are vaguely humanoid things with their arms and legs tapering off into sticklike points, and they either wiggle them around like leech heads or hold their arms behind them naruto run style and use their entire body as a leech! Like its more likely that they pick up stuff by wrapping around it like a snake, rather than just using hands?? And also they can fly and stick to ceilings and just generally have loads of fun?? And look really pretty?? And some of the other more complex nobodies look even cooler doing their weird wiggle flying. Like the Assassin type have these weird big metal petal shapes on their arms that flutter like feathers and make them look like winged snakes crossed with.. Kites...? Kites made of kimonos? Being worn by a man with no face..?

SERIOUSLY WHO DESIGNED THESE FUNKY THINGS THEYRE SO UNIQUELY GENIUS

And aaa the Days manga has a REALLY good panel showing a big swarm of them in flight and it just looks SO MAGICAL AND SPOOKY! this is the exact kind of Aesthetically Nutso Ghost Monster Person i wish i could be! The manga is so cool at iimplying the same sense of inhuman motion by drawing them like motion tweens? Like theyre warped into wildly different body shapes in every panel and its just SO CREEPY and SO BADASS and SOMETIMES KINDA MAJESTIC AND ENDEARING EVEN! And this big flight scene has EVERY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL ONE drawn with its own different pose and mannerisms and like man every one of these weird squiggle flights looks like a world of fun to do!! God i love when superpowers actually look FUN, yo! It fuckin sucks that theyre just low level enemies and not ever playable. The only Nobodies that are playable or even get a big amount of screentime in cutscenes are the ones that ACTUALLY look humanoid and also move humanoid and BOOOO have zero traits of the monster theyre supposed to be. Like man just give me a whole game playing a lil bebby Nobody flying around! They remind me of the wanderers in Journey, they'd be so well suited to a chilled out exploration game like that.

And AAAAAA i get so sad thinking about how they're like bebbys!!! Noooo! Why do we not have more sympathy for them?? Like the particular way they write their 'bumbling weak enemy' scenes just comes off more like..well..sad thoughts about what happens when you lose your heart. Cos i mean the series really doesnt dwell much on the implications of the fact every single one of them used to be human! And whenever they're not being given orders by the higher ups in the organization, theyre just shown wiggling around flying in circles for fun, like a shoal of fish. They're so inhuman now, aside from vague resembelance in their appearances. They'd be seen as the cute wpodland critters in a disney princess musical number if they werent designated as monsters! Like they're not just 'dumb', they friggin dont remember how to talk anymore. And in their most memorable scene they dont understand the order "find this person" and can be easily tricked by photos of him. "Yes boss here is roxas he's a little more flatter than usual but here he is!" And they just keep gathering hundreds of the same person and never once cotton on to anything being wrong. Its so cute and also scary?? Cos seriously they are such eldritch monstrosities of fragmented soul that they move on to STEALING THE WORD PHOTOGRAPH. Just plucking it right out of the language! Failing so hard that you warp the laws of reality! I feel sorry for the poor lil guys, you definately cant say they didnt try as hard as possible!

AND SERIOUSLY THATS ALSO A COMMON TRAIT IN THE MANGA

I'm just so happy that they gave a bit more sympathy to the low level enemies because seriously WHO GIVES SUCH A GOOD DESIGN TO A LOW LEVEL ENEMY AND THEN BARELY EVER USES THEM FOR ANY SCENES

They actually give some sorts of pseudo dialogue to them?? Like during the kh2 prologue they show roxas being able to psychically perceive their thoughts while theyre trying to kidnap him. And its just so sympathetic and sad in retrospect?? They did a great job amplifying everything about this sequence because they made the Nobodies look so much scarier, made Roxas's life with his friends look even more heartwarming, and made it all super tense so you overlook all these little hints and just cheer for roxas in defeating these guys. But they left so many things that actually foreshadow that Roxas is a Nobody too, so reading this a second time is so sadddddd. I almost wish this was the first time i experienced the story, i think it does basically everything better than the original game version. Like seriously THAT ONE LINE OF WHAT THE WEAK ENEMIES ARE THINKING! "We've found you, my leige". THEY WERE JUST TRYING TO SAVE THEIR BOSS AND DIDNT KNOW WHY HE DIDNT RECOGNISE THEM. AND THEN HE ATTACKS THEM AND THEY DONT KNOW WHY!! aaa theyre just BABIES god theyre just ghost demon thingies that are like the larval stage compared to the main character versions. They dont remember who they were as humans, they just know they love their boss!! and he's apparantly been kidnapped by scary humans!! THEY WERE TRYING SO HARD TO SAVE HIM!! they got so damn close to taking over the town and they were swarming everywhere searching for him and Axel was trying so hard too and Diz just kept interrupting him before he cpuld explain or lying to roxas to manipulate them against each other! And axel even brought cake and icecream with him!! He was just trying to rescue his lil bro!!! Auuuugh seriously it was such a good twist that the Scary Monster Dudes were objectively in the right throughout this entire intro, and they just wanted to save Roxas's goddamn life. And he didnt even get to remember his peaceful days as a family with his fellow monster boyos until like five seconds before dying :(

Did anyone else just.. Not want to play kingdom hearts 2 after the prologue?

Like i couldnt stand the mood whiplash of going back to happy go lucky disney worlds with sora and having no more deep sad intriguing plot points for like ten hours of gameplay. And i could never take Organization 13 seriously as villains when the entire damn prologue was them being SUPER FUCKING SYMPATHETIC and the 'good guy' trying to murder a child in order to bring sora back. Like why am i supposed to be happy that he succeeded when i know sora himself would say no if he was told what sacrifice had to happen to bring him back? I would have been way more interested in this sequel having me play as roxas and try and take on the legacy of sora as the next hero and try and find a way to bring sora back without anyone having to die. Like the whole story could be people being all 'blah blah youre worthless youre not human your only purpose is to die for the sacrifice' and we explore all different sorts of 'heroes' doing horrible acts and justifying it to themselves because some people are just 'born evil' and its okay to do whatever you want to them. And Roxas is always struggling with almost believing that shit about himself, but in the end he does succeed to find a happy ending for everyone without a need for 'sacrifices'. And he learns to have self confidence and form his own identity and have more friendship scenes with Axel and co and also redeem all the other Nobodies please and also hug the tiny enemy childrens ones. I just did not feel much for the plot of kh2 at all except for the Nobodies!! Its just not sympathetic to have your 'heroes' arguing that 'oh they dont have hearts theyre not human they dont feel anything so theyre all evil and its all fine'. The game acts like this is true despite giving sympathetic backstories to half of them and the other half all die crying that they want to live!! What the fuck!! Like the only consolation is that they clearly cottoned on to the Org being RIDICULOUSLY POPULAR and later games literally bring all the most fan-loved ones back from the dead and add EVEN MORE sympathetic backstories and also here have a bigger villain who was really responsible and also he lied to them and theyre NOT really empty hearted and incapable of love. THEY ARE CONSTANTLY SHOWN HAVING THAT, EVEN THE WEAK LIL ENEMY DUDES HAVE ALL THAT LOYALTY TO ROXAS AAAAGH THEY DIED IN DROVES TRYING IN VAIN TO SAVE HIMMMMM

And god theyre so cute and so well designed and so sad and im sorry but AGGHHHH

I Forgot I Had So Many Emotions For The Emotionless Bebs :(

...also i really wish i cpuld get this pic of thos one panel to upload cos it looks real cool. I didnt think anything could make me love them more!!! Theyte just innocent weird snake bird worm person mannequin origami things. They just want to flutter around like messed up butterflies! And adorably poke at things they're curious about, and hold brooms awkwardly with their squiggle hands! The manga shows them doing lil chores around the house!! I LOVE THEMMMMMMM

[survivor-themyscira-blog]

Haven't talked much here lately. Hello!

So, not much has really been going on. I forget if I voiced my satisfaction in the swap that got us all (me, Jordan, Jack) on the same tribe, but whether I did or not, I'm still loving that. We're total challenge beasts over here (even if I do have to sit out and may end up not giving too much effort because of being busy), and we should be set to win this round's immunity challenge. And hopefully we do, because despite having a 3/5 majority on our tribe between me, Jordan, and Jack, I don't want to end up voting out Nicholas or Rhone.

I love Charlotte, LA, and JD. I don’t have any tea but this is an update

Argh So close to winning the reward. Oh well it's the immunity that matters. I still love our tribe everyone is friendly and we are get on really well together that I don't want us to lose. It was the best tribe I could have ended up on considering I should have gone home ages ago!

Hello friendos, I'm flying to Gdansk, Poland today! Wooo!

My awesome tribe let me sit out the Neopets challenge, thank you <3

I hope we don't get in a situation where we have to go to tribal council, but hey: if it happens, it happens. I still feel very safe, but hey: if I get voted out, I get voted out.

I shared a potential Idol location with Em. If she keeps playing like she does, she'll be a bigger target than me.

I was lucky at the Infection game, but Madeline from OG Hippos won, and I wonder what she ended up receiving as a reward...

We'll see! I just hope that Jack isn't mad at me ;)

I don’t know how long I gotta be immune to break the record for longest time immune but um. I’m going to beat it that’s my goal this season.

Oh also... I don’t know if I addressed this already but I did not find the idol and I was escorted away by the guards #it is lit lol

Hi, my name is Emily, I'm seventeen, and I never fuckin learned how to read.

I swear! Give me a non-flash game and I can do #that but A FLASH GAME? I'm so helpless. I hate this so much and I really feel like I'm bringing my tribe down! I'm sorry men lips please don't hate me I'm trying my absolute hardest

Jaiden got his boot because he was a sneaky snakey snek. I talked about keeping the tribe strong on multiple occasions, he took it as I wanted to remove Toph because of a low score. False, Jaiden was a detriment for this whole tribe, moving forward in the game if we were all to make it to the individual portion of this game, Jaiden would be a detriment to not only me, but Madeline, Toph and Billy. Jaiden was playing an individual game from the beginning, homie, premerge portion of the game your tribe is your team. "Big moves" mean nothing to jurors if they are done premerge. Jurors don't care about premerge because everyone on the jury made it past premerge. No need to be an over the top villain early on.

Me submitting that score: well... I hope that the hippos sucks a little more than I do.

*Sharpay and Ryan Evans voice* Flop to the top!!!

The mood at camp is decent. Voting out Raymond was unfortunately the right choice (I still really like the guy, personally). I think the only person I just don't gel with is Jack and frankly, I want him out if we end up going to tribal before the merge. He's unbelievably good at challenges and neither of us have really tried to connect with each other on anything personal. The thing is Jordan feels like we can use Jack and I'm just kind of rolling my eyes because of course however Jordan feels is what we're gonna do...I knew I would feel this way if I ended up working with Jordan and I'm not surprised. Luckily, I think if/when the time comes after the merge I'll be able to gather up some troops to flip on Jordan. I wouldn't ask Lily bc I know she's super tight with Jordan, but I feel like Emily would go against him (they have history from Normandy) and I imagine others would too. Since Menalippe hasn't gone to tribal I have a feeling there will be cracks in their group which I can exploit, so that could be fun.

Overall I really do like this tribe though and I'm having more fun out here than I have in other Survivor games I've played. It's the power of feminism, y'all.

I'm continually really glad I have Ian in this game because I'M TIRED OF BEING LET DOWN. Toph, I just...... you can't pull something like that when WE'RE STRUGGLING. If you really send in nothing there's no way I can not vote for you.

I really wish Jaiden hadn't gone behind the back of the alliance. It put us in between a rock and a hard place but voting him out had to happen so Ian and I would stay safe. Now we're just dealing with the aftermath of an unenthused team now. CAN IT BE MERGE ALREADY?

So much for trying to get that longest immune record

hi im so dunrk im so dad

okay so y'all saw all my strategy talk last night so thats that

now I'm on a tribe of 3 menalippe and 4 others. I already have a nice connection with Madeline, too.

Immediately, I'm worried about my connection with Rhone, solely bc they know how nutso I can get in games, and they know that I do have the capability to get to the end. But. We've worked together before, and I can show them that my game has changed. We will see.

Nicholas... we'll see. I know he's good at comps, so that's something, but he can tend to be... gone?

Lastly is Toph. He's made finals before, and he improved his game immensely from his previous times, and that makes him dangerous. However, we are friends. However however, I know he's worked with Nicholas before. Red flag.

https://youtu.be/fA7Ljk5Ztwk

DELETED SCENES: MADELINE VS THE CAVE