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aleespace-art · 3 months ago

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I was forced to watch kids cartoon called Sheriff Labrador and I'm too embarrassed to admit that I kinda enjoyed it (⁠-⁠_⁠-⁠;⁠)

Long chatter below (it is long. I'm not joking)

So umm basically it's a Babybus YouTube cartoon and it is exactly the quality you expect from youtube kids show

It's not secretly good or something the whole family can enjoy like "Bluey". It's just okay and yet here I am dumping bunch of art about it, idk how this works ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

My sibling made me watch it and while I'm at it let me tell you about some things I actually enjoyed about this cartoon

Umm first of all if I watched this cartoon as a kid I just know I would've had a huge crush on this fucking cartoon Labrador, he's just the type I really liked (still do) — responsible, perfect, good at everything adult in kids show (the other character close to this is Sportacus from "Lazytown" which I did watch as a child and did have a crush on this sports dude so that checks out)

Second — the themes. This cartoon teaches kids safety so I expected some basic stuff like "Don't play with fire" or "Don't cross the road on red". And I was actually surprised when the first ever episode I saw was about food delivery and how you should always read reviews before ordering something online. Idk maybe I haven't watched modern kids show in a while but I think it's cool that they talk about that kind of stuff (and ! there was also an episode about AI face swapping! wow modern problems ig)

Also an episode that stuck with me was about a pool. I saw the video preview and thought "yeah pools.. don't run.. don't drown.. basic stuff" and while later I discovered that they have an episode about safety at pools, this specific episode was about something else. It taught children to never go with strangers anywhere and never let them touch your private parts. The episode literally showed a bad character grabbing the child and taking him away, then the child was rescued when police came in with the words "Don't touch the child, that's illegal!"

I'm writing this not because I "criticize" the show for it, I actually think it's important to show what actually can happen to you if you go with strangers, it was just a surreal experience when I watched two cartoon police dogs arresting a cartoon representation of an actual pedophile and then hearing this said character cry and say "I'm sorry, I won't do this again!" Like...wow... I fucking hope you won't because you're going to cartoon jail forever 💀

I also was really surprised when I discovered the show actually has small fandom on tiktok let's goo??

TL;DR This is a show for little kids and I accidentally got hooked because of my sibling

#should you watch it? um no.#i liked their designs so i drew them they're funny #sheriff Labrador

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sillylotrpolls · 2 months ago

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About Reblog Graphs

Have you ever clicked on the "reblog graph" button of a post? I think they're one of the... well, maybe not greatest features on tumblr ever (polls are probably better), but they're still pretty darn neat.

I want to show some cool patterns I noticed on some recent posts of mine, but first I'll explain how reblog graphs work so you can more easily follow along.

This is pretty long with a bunch of pictures, so click the cut to read more.

How reblog graphs work

If you've never done so before, I invite you to click the notes button on this or any other post and then the icon with four circles. You will then see a bunch of dots connected by lines.

For example, if you click the graph for the "blorbo in Elvish" post, you get something like this:

Now, let's zoom in a bit. You can do this by using the mouse wheel and clicking and dragging around the graph until it's showing what you want. (I don't know how it works on mobile, but presumably it's similar to using Google maps?)

This next screenshot is the bit in the lower right of the graph shown above. However, the graph may not always display in the same way because reblog graphs are re-generated each time you click the "reblog graph" button.

Here you can see that I'm viewing the root post, which is the original post made by me. It's indicated by a circle with a dot inside. You can also see that six people reblogged that post. Each reblog shows as a dot with a line connecting it to the post it was reblogged from.

Now here's a cool thing about reblog graphs: they're interactive! You can click on any dot and see the post it represents and the reblog chain that led to it.

For example, clicking this dot that has several lines emanating out from it shows that it is "2 reblogs deep" and was posted by @cycas.

Got it? Close enough? Cool, now let me show you some neat things I noticed. :D

The Swedish Chef poll and very popular bloggers

My polls tend to average between 500 and 2000 votes, depending on subject matter. The Swedish Chef poll, however, took off and eventually garnered over 22,000 votes. How did that happen? A very popular blog reblogged it about five days in.

Initially, the graph looked like this. (This is the first 200 reblogs.) There's nothing unusual here. You can see that the root post had several reblogs, and that there's another cluster developing around a post by @zagreus. There are also several reblog chains where just one person reblogs someone else's reblog. Some of these chains peter out, while others find their way onto the dash of more popular bloggers, creating clusters.

A quick note about "popularity"

Yes, yes, it's all about "popular." However, it's not just about having a bunch of followers. What's more important is that the "popular" person reblogging your post has followers who are specifically interested in your post.

For instance, if I, @sillylotrpolls, make a poll about LazyTown, it's probably not going to get very many reblogs because my followers aren't here for that. However, if @silly-lazytown-polls reblogs the poll, that reblog might then get quite a lot of reblogs itself. It's not that silly-lazytown-polls has more followers than sillylotrpolls, it's that it has more followers specifically interested in LazyTown content. Make sense?

Back to the Swedish Chef poll

The poll eventually got over 5,000 reblogs. Since you can only add 200 reblogs to the graph at a time, you can roughly see how a post spread over time.

With 600 reblogs loaded, a new cluster bursts onto the scene. This is @bunjywunjy, who reblogged the post from @beecreeper who reblogged it from @soggypotatoes who reblogged the original.

Bunjywunjy didn't add any tags or comments, so I didn't even notice at first because it didn't show in my activity feed. However, I did notice a sudden uptick in notes on the post, which caused me to investigate. It had been five days since I posted the poll, and usually polls that are going to take off do so sooner than that.

By continuing to click the "load more reblogs" button I can see how the post further spread, especially from bunjywunjy's post.

When the post reached @beggars-opera (whose icon I am somewhat proud to announce I identified on sight), they added a screenshot of @stylishanachronism 's tags which said:

# all of these are incorrect it's the 'meat's back on the menu boys!' scene

This would become the dominant version of the post as it further spread. Interestingly, this was the only reblog of stylishanachronism's reblog. Literally thousands of people loved their tags and agreed with them, but they quite plausibly never saw it unless they specifically went looking.

By 3,200 reblogs, you can see even bigger clusters developing. @thebibliosphere shows up 10 reblogs deep, and leads to yet another cluster via @teaboot (12 reblogs deep).

Eventually, with all 5,371 reblogs loaded, the reblog graph looks like this:

Like I said: neat. :D

Cool, but if you've seen one, you've seen them all - right?

So what prompted this (extremely long) post was actually the reblog graph for my poll on inspirational LotR quotes.

Here's the reblog graph with 200 reblogs loaded:

And here's the graph with all 1,890 reblogs loaded:

It's just one big cluster around the root post. I've never seen that before!! Almost everyone reblogging this post saw it either because they follow this blog, saw it in the #lotr tags, or because their non-influencer friend reblogged it. (Or maybe it was in some kind of algorithm/the explore feed, but I have nearly zero experience with those.)

And this wasn't just a small post. This poll got over 15,000 votes and more than 4,000 notes. That puts it in the top 10 polls for this blog.

What does it mean? I have no idea. I would really like to know! But really, I got nothing. If you have a theory for why this particular poll should result in a reblog graph like this, I would very much like to hear it.

Orphan clusters

To round things off, I'd like to show another interesting facet of reblog graphs: orphan clusters.

This blog's current undisputed poll champion is the fmk wheel poll. That's not really a surprise, as it combined sex with a fun game where you just had to tell everyone what you got, which meant either a reply or a reblog. So it spread pretty far.

However, if you look at the graph, there's something odd going on.

This is with just 200 reblogs loaded:

Notice how some of the dots don't connect to the root post? That's because somewhere along the chain, a reblog was deleted.

This cluster in the bottom left got pretty big! This screenshot is at 800 reblogs loaded. The missing link is from a blog called @gendertaliban that doesn't exist anymore, as near as I can tell. That makes it impossible to trace the full path of any of these reblogs.

In conclusion

This concludes today's deep dive into a tumblr feature you probably never paid any attention to. Admittedly, there's not a huge use for it outside of determining which of your mutuals is an "influencer," and they get quite difficult to navigate after loading about 1000 reblogs, but I hope you enjoyed staring at dots and lines with me. :)

#data analysis #tumblr #reblog graphs #data visualization #not a poll #admin #yes I KNOW I keep saying I'm going to come up with a proper 'misc' tag #there will come a day when I properly categorize and tag my 'admin' posts #today is not that day

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talenlee · 11 days ago

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Game Pile: The Comprehensive Videogames History of Grammy-Award Winning 1999 Hit “Smooth” By Santana Feat. Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty

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You might have found this because you would Rather Be Listening to Grammy-Award Winning 1999 Hit “Smooth” By Santana Feat. Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty. This is because, inexplicably, the internet loves Rob Thomas, a walking meme of a man with whom I have a weirdly complicated relationship, not in any small part because for as long as I’ve been able to tell you what pop music is, he has been part of something in it that’s cool.

Not necessarily something that’s very cool.

But pretty cool.

At least, cooler than me, a guy who thinks Rob Thomas is cool.

Rob Thomas (of Matchbox 20) lives somewhere in the same space as All Star or Lazytown, a meme that is shallower than you think and yet better known and more well-liked than you’d expect. Meme fodder. That kind of memetic status is what led to the time, back in 2015, Nicholas Kula to design a T-shirt with the excessively specific and middlingly funny I’d Rather Be Listening to Grammy-Award Winning 1999 Hit “Smooth” By Santana Feat. Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty shirt slogan shirt. Kula put the shirt on Redbubble, it got a little bit of attention, and then it got copied and then it became a wildly successful meme raising upwards of hundreds of dollars, reblogged by Rob Thomas (of Matchbox Twenty), then shut down by the representatives of Rob Thomas (of Matchbox Twenty) for violating the copyright of amongst other people, Rob Thomas (of Matchbox Twenty). The design is back up, now, I suppose?

You might have seen this shirt, maybe on some streamer or the like, a really deliberately ironically un-funny funny thing that exists in that special place of meme magic that has no value but to remind you that hey.

Products exist.

It’s still a thing that put Rob Thomas, who hadn’t had a hit on the radio since, really, 1999 and also, what the hell is a radio, on the radar around that time, so that meant that after all this furore in 2016, it was a time ripe for the retrospect. Rolling Stone took the time to strike while the iron was gone, and three years later (around the song’s twentieth anniversary, I suppose), and it was thanks to a guy named Rob Wesley sharing an excerpt of the article that the conversation takes a turn for the gamer.

What Wesley shared in the thread is a section where the narration outlines the way that Rob Thomas was playing Silent Hill and how that was important to Santana’s relationship with him – that their friendship during the songwriting of the song Smooth was marked by long stretches of Rob Thomas playing Silent Hill games while Santana got stoned and told him what to do.

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This presents us with an interesting question: Was Carlos Santana playing a videogame?

Now there’s a way to discard this argument pretty conveniently; you can say ‘no,’ and that’s that. That’s fine, if you want to be boring about it, but that also shows an unwillingness to engage with the question, to work out what the question is asking and what kind of answers present ways to view the world.

What Carlos Santana was doing was passing instructions to another player, while probably chemically compromised, and that player – ostensibly enacted their will. How is Carlos not playing that game? If we assume that you need direct control over a game for it to count, then a lot of chess games in history were played by nobody. Fancy lads with fancy hats would send one another letters with chess moves in them, and then the recipient would put those moves in action on their chessboard and send a letter with their own moves in it, in response to the state they were both maintaining. Now in no case did either of these players have direct hand on the chess pieces on the other board, meaning that if directing a player to enact your intention doesn’t count, then these people were playing against literally nobody, and therefore, not playing chess, and therefore, probably didn’t exist.

This also runs into the problem of Dungeon Masters or Gamemasters or whatever – after all, in all those games, you have to give your game actions to another player, and then they enact your intentions. This capacity of confusing intention and outcome is a thing I refer to as enrolment, where you become enmeshed in the behaviour of the game. One of those things that games just do is that when you partake in playing in the game, you are committing actions whose outcome is uncertain; not impossible or unknowable, but just that when a game becomes inevitable, it loses something, and players tangibly react to the nature of a game being decided. You know what it means when you’re entering endgame. Players often can predict the outcome of the end of the game when it becomes inevitable and either fold or scrap for their last points.

That means there is some clear element of game playing that is the way that the control mechanism, while maybe feeling good, is not necessarily capable of delivering perfect outcomes. You don’t need your control scheme to be reliable for you to to be playing the game. After all, one-handed play or players for whom an interface is incompatible aren’t not playing a game just because the controller wasn’t designed for them, they’re just dealing with an interface problem.

Now to look at the alternate side of things, how about some people in a similar situation, trying to influence a game, badly, with a control mechanism that doesn’t reliably work, by talking to someone else? Ie, what about people watching a stream?

Stream audiences clearly try to have impact on the game they’re watch. In popular channels, it’s not uncommon for them to cheer, to try and remember or suggest strategies, to try and ask the streamer to take a more explicit or clear route through their thinking process. They will try and influence the conversation happening around the game, where they will invite the streamer to speak on a topic, and that has an impact on how the game is played. There is a stimulus, a response, an uncertain outcome, and a control scheme. They are engaged with the stream, and the streamer is affected by that engagement.

Okay, what about the chat where the player is wholly unaffected?

What about streams where the players are isolated? What about streams without chat, or without the audience necessarily speaking to the streamer? Are they going to have an impact on the game, as it is played? Are they playing the game through their presence? Is their observation an engagement with the game of the stream? Streamers will often explain that the presence of an audience transforms the experience of playing a game – that when you have to be aware of an audience, it changes one’s focuses and reactions. Even if that audience is elsewhere, even if that audience does not interact with the streamer through conventional interface, is the fact of being observed a thing that can be done as the engagement surface of a game?

Well, they’re doing something, right? If the audience, if the crowd, wasn’t a factor in a game, well, the most obvious example of spectators in a game, sports, wouldn’t have a meaningful idea of ‘home team’ advantage. We know that spectators in a sport influence the game that’s being played, after all — if nothing else, there are a lot of times in Baseball’s history in particular where a game was concluded, thanks to the actions of the spectators. Bless you battery hucking weirdoes. Now, hang on, you might argue that that’s not playing the game, and yeah, maybe it’s not. It’s concluding the game, with a different set of priorities. But the knowledge that fans can do that kind of thing, concerns that the reactions of the fans could curtail the game certainly play into the game’s players’ functions. They are an influence on the playing of the game, so we can definitely not say that they are separate from it.

But let’s say that that’s a material concern; that the game is agnostic of the spectator behaviour, and that the game is only defined by the rules that they experience. This is a great big discussion, something you can delve into at length through The Philosophy Of Sport, but that mighty tome is built on the work of Bernard Suits, the author of that book Grasshopper, Life Games And Utopia. From this book I draw my definition of games, where he defines games as the voluntary overcoming of unnecessary obstacles. Under that definition, there are definitely some things to squint at. It’s a very broad definition, after all, and you may feel it includes some things that don’t count. It means that you can’t be coerced into playing a game, and that can ask questions about whether people who are playing a game as a job are still playing a game, if their continued livelihood is contingent on it. It is a definition you use for what it lets you do.

What it lets me do, is talk about games in a way that includes lots of different types of game.

Something that book describes is that just because people are all playing a game together that doesn’t mean they’re playing the same game. Suits describes the way that a player might be cheating, which immediately means they’re playing a different game, since you can’t both play a game and violate its rules. There’s also players playing for reasons to impede the game, the spoilsports, who are following the rules but playing in a way that reduces the play or the fun of the other players. Similarly, what if I’m playing a game with a little kid, and I know the game much better than they do, but I’m deliberately trying to impose rules on my self to ensure that kid isn’t blown out? We might both be playing Rhino Hero but I’ve set myself an extra, additional limitation – I’m trying to beat the game, I’m trying to win, but I’m trying to do so in a way that keeps the game close, while also making sure this other player doesn’t feel like they’re being humoured, and trying to make it fun for myself. This may involve imposing new, other rules on myself. I’m playing the game, but I’m also playing another, nested game on top of it.

If you accept it of game experiences as maximally inclusive, you have a tool for when you can sit at these odd intersections and ask the question: Are the audience playing a game? And if you’re trying to be maximally inclusive, and you want to include the idea that engaging with the game, trying things, hoping, cheering, hypothesising strategies and seeing how your strategies relate to the enacted ones, then you are playing a game, it’s just a game with an entire other game as one of its components. A lottery is a game, and that’s a game where you’re trying to correctly guess a number with exactly one attempt, and the result of that is a stunningly engaging game if the incentives are lined up right.

What about an audience who are completely disconnected? What if we took the audience completely out of the sport, let’s put them in a remote location, where they can’t say or do anything to the players, like the esports community of South Korea’s Starcraft channels. For lower-tier matches, outside of code A (at least ten years ago when I was paying a lot more attention), players weren’t getting a live audience, but their games were being broadcast to satisfy a bottomless demand… and we know in that case, that nerves, choking, all are factors that the audience’s existence can impose on the players.

Okay, so what if we remove the ability of the audience to influence the players. What if the players are somehow, emotionally, unaffectable by the attention of an audience? What if they were cold, efficient, and entirely automated in their play experience in a way that could be equalised and fair? And in order to make sure they’re not too complex, let’s make these game players as simple as possible such that they can’t fail or break or be otherwise impacted, meaning the game can operate in the purest possible way, without any psychological influence of the audience.

Are those spectators playing a game, with these ideas of enrolment and maximally inclusive game definition?

Yes.

In that simplest possible definition, there is a goal, and the spectator is trying to achieve the goal, with a consensually-chosen unnecessary obstacle: Specifically, the goal is to get their chosen simplified actor into a victory position, with a control mechanism that is completely deprived of all functional agency. The spectator wants a player to win, they want to succeed, but the only means they have to influence the game are by cheering and by wanting. They negotiate, they pray, they plan, they strategise, they try to find a way to see their chosen player win, or get better results, or wind up where they want them to be, all through no means at all, through the least effective means possible. They are in many cases, trying to construct visions of the future for what can happen if it does happen, to get the outcome they want, which is itself, a prediction game that can be satisfied or not.

I forward then that the audience are playing a game when they map out expectations, when they cheer, when they connect with one another. They are playing a game just as Carlos Santana was playing a game when he, stoned as hell, gave instructions to Rob Thomas; he wasn’t necessarily playing the same game as Rob Thomas.

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The story about Rob Thomas and Santana is completely false, by the way. When I first wrote about this was when I learned, because it took me four years to get around to checking the source material.

I mean…

It doesn’t matter if it’s false.

But it is a pretty funny example.

And chances are, you might have thought that Carlos Santana was a Silent Hill fan for some reason.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

#Game Pile #Games

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theythatsayohmystars · 1 month ago

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nobody talks about how crazy and random getting back into/getting new hyperfixations can be

like i got into wordgirl by seeing an animatic on youtube and now it’s my favorite show of all time!!

how i got into dogman, i saw detey fanart and started reading the books, 2 weeks later they came out with the movie trailer and i was obsessed

and for lazytown, i listened to “cooking by the book” and saw some really cool fanart/content, now i’m watching the show all the time 😭❤️

#wordgirl #dogman #lazytown

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rinirinisbestu · 26 days ago

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once upon a time…

Goldie and Rini if they got into a "once upon a time" episode! Because they wouldn't have enough roles, and Robbie needs helpers, he disguises them as goats! Let's say in the fairy tale about the seven goats, he stole two for himself!

@lucillexe Goldie doesn't seem to like being a goat… I think she wanted to be a wolf too, but her uncle said that only he can be a wolf! I really like to think about what Rini and Goldie would do in different episodes hee hee

My favorite hobby is to draw characters to existing animation frames and try to make it as realistic as possible, here it didn't work out very well, but to be honest I like how it turned out Besides, trying out the cartoon style of LazyTown was a lot of fun! Thank god I didn't have to draw furry Robbie for this… my friends didn't really like these works and I'm a little upset because I kind of like these arts :( Well, who cares! I love you very much, have a nice day!

#lazy town oc

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cairavende · 1 year ago

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Worm Arc 6 thoughts:

Holy shit what an arc.

ABB is brought down, Lung is in the Birdcage. I'm sure the Birdcage will keep it's escape proof status forever and he will never be a problem again.

Some great Chatterbug moments. I'm still team Wolfspider if I had to pick one, but I don't see a reason I have to pick one.

LazyTown call out. The second "pink wig" and "pirate" were said I was pulling up the YouTube video.

Nothing like spending time putting IKEA furniture together with a cute boy. IKEA, the true furniture of romance.

Brian's sister is fun. I expect we'll get to see a lot more of her. Hope she gets a cool power.

The fucking attack on the gala OH MY GOD! Just coming in through the fucking roof, taking out most of the opposition in seconds. Christ they went all in.

I hope Emma got stung a lot. I'm pretty sure Sophia is Shadow Stalker (though not positive) so I hope she got stung too.

Taylor fucking figuring out how to get them all out of there? How to beat Polearm Man? Fucking jumping under the halberd to prevent the bug zapper from happening? Goading him? Ok so tossing the halberd off the roof didn't end up being as useful as she hoped, but still! THAT'S MY FUCKING GIRL!

I did enjoy watching Metalstick McGee get the absolute shit kicked out of him in the parking garage. (Can you tell I never liked the guy?)

Dauntless could empower literally anything. Fucking ANYTHING. And he just went for a standard spartan getup. So boring OMG. Get a whip or a super-soaker or fucking anything interesting god damn.

Did not expect Coil to be the secret boss, caught me off guard. His powerset is pretty interesting. I hope he isn't too horrible of a person.

Holy fuck the scene with Taylor's dad. Fucking locking her in the room to force a confrontation. God damn. He clearly does care about her but man does he not do the right thing to show it. My man fucked the hell up. Lisa to the rescue though, all the more reason for her to be one of my favorites.

Taylor finally lets herself just be a supervillain! YAAAAAYYYY! Go get em champ, make mommy proud!

Interlude thoughts - Well it sure fucking sucks to be Paige don't it.

#Worm #Worm Web Serial #Parahumans #Cairavende reads Worm #Taylor Hebert #I would read an entire arc that was nothing but “Batman if Bruce Wane was scared of polearms instead of bats” getting fucking destroyed #My daughter is a god damn supervillain and now she KNOWS IT!#Lisa messed with Taylor's while calling her an angel. Chatterbug confirmed (Smugbug if you prefer).#Chatterbug #Smugbug

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sunnytoonsproductions · 4 months ago

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Ever since I've saw a drawing here in which Li'l D and the other six represent deadly sins...

Here's my explanations on why they represent those deadly sins:

Li'l D as envy - Li'l D represents envy because in the original show (but even now in the 'back to the SING!' reboot), he's always seen as if he wants to be just like hero and idol (adopted father in the reboot) Sunny, to be as amazing as him.

Madison as lust - Madison represents lust because she constantly in the original show (even in the 'back to the SING!' reboot), she seemingly just loves everyone no matter what, even if they're the antagonists, she still loves them all.

Philly Phil as gluttony - Philly Phil represents gluttony because in the original show (yet again, even in the 'back to the SING!' reboot), he's often seen eating any kind of food, ESPECIALLY chocolate. But as one example of the other food part, in the episode "the devil and li'l D", he just eats the kinda awful looking popcorn, and in that same episode, he eats half of Sunny's cake without asking.

Tamika as wrath - Tamika represents wrath because in the original show (and the 'back to the SING!' reboot), she has extreme anger and will literally get mad at everyone, for example: in the episode "tamika and the beast", she got very mad at the people in the shop when she was kinda lovey-dovey with Beast.

Eddie as greed - Eddie represents greed because in the original show (and in the 'back to the SING!' reboot), he is often seen being greedy because of how rich he is.

Kim as sloth - I... Honestly don't know how is Kim representing sloth... But if y'all have explanations, tell me in the replies, but mostly reblogs!

Kam as pride - Kam represents pride because in the original show (and the 'back to the SING!' reboot), he is often seen bragging about how he's the most mature and smartest in the group and the show.

And those are my explanations! And I even honestly wanna see Jessii Vee making a video about class of 3000... Even lazytown and happy appy! 0.0

#emin rambles #class of 3000 #co3k #class of 3000 fandom #class of 3000: back to the sing!#co3k:btts!#co3k:btts! stuff #co3k li'l d #co3k madison #co3k philly phil #co3k tamika #co3k eddie #co3k kim #co3k kam #seven deadly sins

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drawings-and-sketches · 8 days ago

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(ID: Fanart of Sportacus (white, male, brown hair (or what's visible of it under the hat), blue eyes) and Robbie Rotten (white, male, black hair, brown eyes) from Lazytown. Sportacus is in the first image, his hands on his hips as he looks off to the right, smiling. Behind him is the yellow wall with a light gray-tan top, and blue sky. He is being looked at through a periscope by Robbie in his lair. Robbie looks frustrated as he looks through it, and is talking to himself in all three images. Image text: How is he so fucking hot?! And respectful?! There must be something wrong with him! End ID).

This is based on this video, in that it was supposed to be that exact phrasing, but then I got the line wrong and liked my version better

#lazytown #lazytown drawing #robbie rotten #robbie rotten lazytown #Sportacus #sportacus lazytown #sportarobbie #tw swearing #swearing #fanart

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pioneereen356 · 1 month ago

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The Fae Bride

Chapter 1

Evening was falling over LazyTown and in the home of Mayor Meanswell, his niece Stephanie invited her friends over for a sleepover. Ziggy, Pixel, Stingy, Trixie and Stephanie were all having a blast, dancing and playing video games. Soon enough sleep was compelling them to their sleeping bags, however they found themselves still too riled to fall asleep.

“How about a bedtime story to help us fall asleep faster?” suggested Ziggy.

“That’s a great idea, Ziggy.” Stephanie agreed;”Only what kind of story do we all want?”

“Fairy Tales”

“Action”

“Romance”

“Treasure”

All the friends were soon back and forth on what story they all wanted to hear, however their bickering must have been too loud when they heard a voice announce itself from the doorway.

“Oh my children, what's with all the commotion?”

“Sorry Uncle Milford, we just can’t decide on a story to help us fall asleep.”

“Oh. Well what were you all looking for in a story?”

As the kids all voiced what they wanted Mayor Meanswell was getting overwhelmed. Now normally the Mayor would have called for Sportacus’ help, but a look at the clock indicated that the hero of Lazytown was surely asleep by now.

Mayor Meanswell racked his brain and suddenly he remembered something that might just do the trick.

“One moment children, I’ll be right back.”

Exiting the room and rummaging through the hallway closet the children were puzzled about what the Mayor could be retrieving. After a few minutes, Mayor Meanswell returned with an old, dusty hardcover book which he proceeded to dust off.

“Ah yes, this story should definitely do the trick. You know my grandparents used to read me this story a long time ago to help me sleep, so I’m sure you’ll enjoy it as well.”

“What’s the title of the story, Uncle Milford?”

“The Fae Bride, my dear. A story about love, action, revenge and fantasy.”

Mayor Meanswell moved over to his comfy armchair where he settled on and opened the book to begin the story.

“Robin, a tall black haired man with stormy grey eyes, lived with his grandfather on a secluded farm in the land of Akreyri. Robin enjoyed the solitude of his grandfather’s farm where he enjoyed inventing and riding his horse, but Robin’s favorite pastime was tormenting the blond, muscular blue eyed farm boy Alexander.

“Farm boy.” Robin called.

“Please see to it that my saddle is polished, I wish to see my reflection on it.”

“As you wish.”

The reply irked Robin because no matter what order he gave Alexander he never got riled up. With a muffled ‘thank you’ Robin stomped away completely missing the small smile forming on Alexander’s face.

As time passed Robin continued to give Alexander orders and his reply would still be the same. It soon dawned on Robin that when Alexander responded with “As you wish” what he really meant was “I love you.” Robin soon found himself becoming attracted to the muscular Alexander and soon found himself falling in love with him.

One day as Robin was working in the makeshift kitchen. Alexander entered with wood for the fireplace, however before his foot stepped over the threshold of the door, Robin heralded; “Farm Boy”

Alexander turned to face Robin, a stotic look upon his face. Robin looked around for anything for Alexander to do until his eyes landed on what he was looking for.

“Can you hand me that pitcher up there?”

Alexander slowly strode forward and reached to remove the pitcher from the hook above Robin, then handing it delicately to Robin, he gently replied;

“As you wish.”

Robin lightly blushed, giving a small smile to Alexander to which he returned.

It was after that moment that Alexander and Robin grew closer together and thus shared a part of themselves that the other trusted to keep secret.

Alexander had revealed himself to be an elf, who traveled far seeking his brother, who he hadn’t seen in years. His search halted when he found work on Robin’s grandfather's farm and had fallen in love with Robin. Robin in turn revealed himself as a fae who was placed in his grandfather’s care by a cousin, who supposedly was his only surviving relative, but he too had also faded into obscurity.

“I swear to you, Robin. Together we will make our family whole again.”

Alexander vowed while gently taking hold of Robin’s hands. Hearing this proposal and staring into Alexander’s blue eyes, Robin clearly saw the truth and devotion of his words and without a second thought displayed his wings to him. Alexander stood in shock and awe for he knew that in fae customs displaying of the wings meant Robin chose him as his life partner.

Robin blushed while showing a sincere smile, while Alexander did the same and as he put his hand on Robin’s cheek guiding Robin’s head toward him to share their first kiss….

“EWWWWW”

Mayor Meanswell paused in his storytelling, surprised by the children’s sound of disgust.

“Oh children, is there a problem with the story?”

“No Uncle Milford, it’s just you said this story would have action and stuff.”

“Oh, well it does..”

“Yet we’re just hearing about them kissing” injected Stingy; “Is this going to be a kissing book?”

Before the children could protest, Mayor Meanswell reassured them with a wave of his hand; “ Now children, be patient this story is at the beginning. It will get better, believe me. Now where did I leave off?” Mayor Meanswell then turned to the next page and continued…

Alexander had no money for marriage and with his brother still out there he came to the decision to strike out on his own to find work and hopefully along his travels reunite with his brother. For Robin, this would be the toughest farewell after the loss of his grandfather. As the two shared a last loving embrace, Robin couldn’t help but to ask;

“I fear I’ll never see you again.”

“You will, I promise.”

“How can you be so positive?” Robin frustratedly said, eyes wavering with tears.

Alexander placed his hand upon Robin’s cheek guiding him down to stare at his blue eyes, so calm and reassuring.

“Hear this now, I will always come back for you.”

“How can you be so sure?”

“This is true love. Do you think this happens everyday?”

Alexander and Robin shared one last embrace and a chaste kiss before Alexander departed. Unfortunately Alexander never made it to his destination. His ship was attacked by the Dread Pirate Robert, who left no prisoner alive.

When Robin heard news of Alexander’s demise. He became a recluse, shutting himself in his room for days with neither food nor drink. As Robin stared at the roaring fire from his chair, he silently vowed;

“I will never love nor display my wings again.”

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