#anyways!!! i did have fun tho and i hit a record with 6 drawings this year instead of only 3 💀💀

[berribeat]

My artfight summary except i didnt get to do anything?!?!?!? My bad team college kept me busier than i thought it would 💀

tadaa :D

Credits in order of image:

1- Spacetime, belongs to @grief-chapter, their toyhouse is here, and this is their artfight!!

2- Himalia and Pandora, belongs to Quivv, they have a YouTube channel!!

3- Clara Dorothee, belongs to @solobodor, here's her artfight!!

4- Eight, belongs to eightpng, here's their Tiktok

5- Calypso, belongs to Expiredtoast, here's their site

6- Finn, belongs to @ki1ldeer, and here's their artfight!

[lokisasylum]

My darlings, let us converse...

Gather around, my children. Aunt Loki’s got some things to discuss with ya’ll.

And I need to get this off my chest ‘cause if I don’t I might hit somebody and that’s not a nice thing for a lady to do. Especially when today’s supposed to be a special day for our dear baby honey-bun, Jeon Jungkookie, but fam...

Why are ya’ll like this, hmm?

Why are ya’ll like this?

For years A.R.M.Y. has fought to protect and care for Bangtan like they came out (figuratively speaking) from our own wombs. Fought the greatest battles against other fandoms who, year after year, day after day, did the impossible to bring down both BTS and ARMY alike.

But each time we’ve shown that Teamwork does make the dream work. They’ve won Billboards, Topped the charts, Performed in important award shows, Broke Legendary records that no one since The Beatles had been able to break. They were even nominated for a Grammy, got invited with the honor of being presenters of an award. Sold out STADIUM tours.

The guys have worked tirelessly for the past… what? 6? 8 years if we count pre-debut without proper REST?

So when fighting the world wasn’t enough, we took it to “fighting” Bighit themselves, demanding that the boys get said proper rest. And it finally happened…

Seokjin, Yoongi, Hoseok, Namjoon, Jimin, Taehyung and Jungkook finally got the well deserved vacation we’ve been praying for. The boys would finally get to (for a short time) live a little as normal peps. It’s pretty much states by BigHit themselves.

And ARMYS were all about that “we’ll respect the boys and their privacy, nobody bother them or they will catch these hands” shit.

But then… what happens?

I wake up today to find 96% of the fandom gone TO SHIT… over shipping wars????

AGAIN?!!

All because a non-BTS-stan/prolly anti posted a video of Jimin hanging out in Paris “allegedly alone” (and I say allegedly, cause in most of the photos he’s shown in, the other people with him are blurred or badly cropped out to make it seem like he’s by himself. For all we know he could’ve been in Paris with his family or the same friends that went to see them during the stadium tour in Europe, but anyway). And instead of fighting to protect his privacy from people that may use this information to talk shit about him… ya’ll just blew this out bigger than it really was by drawing MORE attention to it.

And not only that!

The lot of ya’ll are using this situation for your shipping wars to prove that X or Y ship is real/not real. AND I JUST---

Repeat after me, darlings, “Shipping-is-for-fun”.

One more time now.

SHIPPING👏 IS 👏FOR👏 FUN!👏

IT AIN’T REAL, THE BOYS ARE REAL.

And until they VERBALLY tell us if or not they are in a relationship (with whoever they may be). None of the ships are real. NONE.

Not Taekook, Not Jikook, not Vmin, Namjin, Sope, YoonKook/SugaKookie, Minjoon, Jihope, Yoonmin, Taegi, Taejin, Hopekook, ect, ect, blahblahblah. Because for all we know they’re ALL straight.

And for fuck’s sake, leave Jimin alone already. He’s a grown man, he’s his own person.

I didn’t see none of ya’ll questioning or making a big deal when Jhope came back from the US, half naked with nail-art like he was channeling some reguettonero from his past life (I’m really sorry but I REALLY needed to get that one out lol). None of ya’ll were questioning where he had been, who he was with the day/night before and how “this will upset Yoongi, cause y’know SOPE4LIFE”.

No, you guys just laughed it off after thirsting over him (his body more like it ¬¬) and his exposed chest, stomach and underwear and how hot he looked and wanting him to punch you all in the face so you could thank him.

I didn’t see none of ya’ll making a big deal of Tae spending time with his Hyung-Friends or making stupid drama about how “this guy is a bad influence for him, ew” or “zomg wait till JK finds out” or “Jiminie will be SOOOO pissed cause you know they’re soulmates and Jimin gets jealous when Tae hangs out with them.”

Huh??? What’s that you say?? OH!

That’s right… they’re on vacation and they have the right to spend it with whoever they want and its none of our business who they spend it with.

“Okay but today’s Kookie’s birthday tho!!! Jimin should have been a good friend/BF and spend it with him.”

No, doves, see this is where ya’ll need another reality check.

Yes, today is Jungkook’s birthday, but JK is most likely spending it WITH HIS REAL FAMILY. With whom he hasn’t been able to spend a single birthday with since he became a trainee.

Let that sink in for a minute there.

 And the same way that he is spending time with his friends and family, the other guys are too and we should respect that instead of expecting something like what we wrote/read in yesterday’s smut fic on AO3/Wattpad.

But most importantly: You’re stanning a Korean Artist not a Western one and ya’ll NEED to accept the fact that Korean culture is different from ours and at the end of the day we don’t know them personally. We’re not their friends, we’re just fans.

So can we PLEASE cut this ignorant shit out already? Because Armys like to flex on other fandoms alot, but... OUR fandom hasn’t grown in maturity for the past 6 years at all. If anything its gotten WORSE and I worry alot for the boys and how our actions affect them now that the world has their eyes on us.

On THEM.

So please THINK before you speak, before you write on social media, before posting anything. Learn to work together to protect them, ALL SEVEN OF THEM not just your bias or your ship. Bangtan as a whole, the same way that the guys protect ARMYs during interviews where they try to make the whole fandom look like a circus act consisting of overly dramatic/emotional/crazy teenage girls who only care about the boys for their looks and nothing more.

Kay, fam?

 [/rant over and out]

[photolover82]

The Masked Singer Season 3 Episode 14: The Quarter Finals (Commentary & Guesses)

Hello fellow Masked Singer fans! It’s that time of the week aka Ana’s Masked Singer recap time, with your typing host Ana, because nobody else will do it for me haha. We are truly getting down to the wire with only 5 masked contestants left (well 4 after we are done here with this recap lol). So, again, we will be honoring the judges with some trophy emojis because they are getting there and I am kind of shook, but this time I am also gonna give the judge with the worst guess ever a poop emoji because it was a horrible guess. Yes, I am having too much fun with this, let me enjoy my moment. I think I am gonna call the segment “Panel Spotlight.” Ok, so having said that, let’s get started! (Disclaimer: Spoilers ahead, proceed with caution.. don’t say I didn’t warn you)

Alright, so let’s start with the elimination/mask coming in 5th place was:

*DRUMROLL PLEASE*

THE KITTY 

Ok, so this one was also pretty upsetting, but at this point I knew this was going to happen even though I was hoping Rhino would go home instead. The only person I am like really routing for is Turtle at this point (I also really miss Astronaut so I am still sad over that elimination) so whatever I guess. However, I don’t think she should’ve gone home. Her performance of Back to Black by Amy Winehouse was really great, even though it wasn’t her best performance. Anyways, I did know who she was ever since the Super 9 and I was sure... 

Having said that, Kitty was revealed to be...

JACKIE EVANCHO

Alright so yay the Internet convinced me and I got it because of them, thank you Internet! I kinda love you... sometimes. Anyways, if you don’t know who Jackie is, she was on America’s Got Talent when she was 10 as an opera singer and became one of the most successful & youngest platinum musicians ever. Now, she’s almost 20 which is insane and 10 years later full circle moment with Nick Cannon. Anyways, she really killed it as the Kitty, singing not just opera but all types of genres and killing it. Wow, yup, her voice is insane, we are the same age and she is so freaking talented, I can't even. I am so excited to see what the future holds for her. Anyways, here are the new clues that made sense for it to be her:

Clue package, traveling through St.Petersburg, Japan, the Vatican, etc. = all places Jackie has performed 

Somewhere over the rainbow= performed it on Oprah’s TV special in 2011

After Performance clue this time was a “borrowed package.” Hers contained a Bow & Arrow= she is a talented archer as well as singer (this is news to me but I looked it up)

Now time for the PANEL SPOTLIGHT: 

Nobody got the 🏆 because the judges were so clueless.

However, the worst guess aka the 💩 was the guest judge, comedian Jeff Dye, who said “one of those Olsen twins.” I gave it to him because he couldn’t even distinguish which one & the Olsen twins don’t make sense with all of these clues. 

Alright, now we have our top 4 contestants, woo hoo! These are our semi-finalists, my guesses, and commentary, let’s do this: 

1. The Frog 

Performance: Yeah, I’m sorry, I just am not a big fan of Frog. He switched up last week and it was better than his normal stuff, but he just reverted to the same thing again and it’s getting annoying. This time, he performed Bust a Move by Young MC. 

Guess: Bow Wow 

Clue package, calling his “little frog” = he has a 9 year old daughter 

French Bread on the ground = he has a song named Long Bread

Falcon Figure= Atlanta Falcons (where he lives & he is a fan of them) 

Borrowed Package= Model Airplane= The Bow Wow Challenge from 2017 when he faked going on a private jet & was caught in a normal airplane and a challenge was born on the Internet about this

Now time for the PANEL SPOTLIGHT:

Yay! Robin Thicke caught on! He gets the 🏆 for guessing Bow Wow. 

On the other hand, the worst guess aka the 💩 was of course Mr. Ken Jeong, who guessed Derek Hough?! What?! His logic for that guess was way off and Derek Hough cannot rap like that (but it would be cool for Derek to be on the show tho) 

2. The Rhino 

Performance: Ok, so he sang “You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling” by the Righteous Bros and it was impressive. This is another one of his best performances. It was a very romantic version of this song and he played into the romance. Also, you could hear some rasp to his voice that shows some versatility, I really really enjoyed this one wow. I think I might have been underestimating Rhino’s performance ability. 

Guess: Barry Zito 

In the package, he said that he had struggles before meeting his wife= he was a bad boy in baseball & his wife straightened him out to be a man of faith. 

3 little elephants’ picture= reference to his 3 kids 

Turkey hand drawing= has his own Red Turkey baseball card

Borrowed Package= Navy Hat= he was in a 2003 episode of JAG playing a Navy officer & him/his wife have a charity to donate to the military

Now time for the PANEL SPOTLIGHT:

Ok so this one is gonna be surprising because nobody said it but somebody was close. Surprisingly, Ken was close so I am going to give him the 🏆 for mentioning JAG when seeing the Navy hat clue, so let’s give him some kudos there.

Tbh, none of the guesses were absolute 💩 so we are going to skip this one for the Rhino. 

3. Night Angel 

Performance: Ok, so not a fan of the Night Angel either (she is way too inconsistent for my liking), but this was probably one of her best performances so far, if not her best performance. She sang “Last Dance” by Donna Summer and the song choice was perfect for her voice. I really liked this performance too, wow this episode is actually pretty good performance wise (except for Frog, but whatever) 

Guess: Kandi Burruss 

Lipstick = has a makeup line & final studio album of Xscape was called Traces of my Lipstick

"Say Baby I Love You”= hint to her writing for Destiny’s Child

Columbia on a map= her first studio album was recorded in Columbia Records 

Borrowed Package= Ski Gear= reference to her Bravo special Kandi’s Ski Trip 

Now time for the PANEL SPOTLIGHT:

Nobody caught on this episode so nobody gets the 🏆.

On the other hand, I also can’t give a 💩 to anyone because the guesses were pretty tame & okay. They didn’t hit the mark, but they weren’t overly horrible. 

4. Turtle 

Performance: Best for last, baby! The show allowed him to perform Fix You by Coldplay for last, because he is the best & nobody could tell me otherwise. Ok so now that I have professed my love for the Turtle, I just wanna say dude this was one of his best performances (I still think his best one was his first one when he sang “Kiss from a Rose”). The song gave me chills, it was so good. It was raw & emotional, you could really feel all the words he was singing. Best performance of the night 1000%!!

Guess: Jesse McCartney 

Wanted poster with $1999 on it as a reward= he joined Dream Street in 1999

Wedding Cake Topper= the man’s engaged to his girlfriend of 6 years, Katie Peterson  

Green Mop= Known for his “mop top” haircut in the 2000s 

Poker Chips= Voiced Theodore in Alvin & the Chipmunks 

Borrowed Package= Zombie= appeared in the Walking Dead as a zombie

Now time for the PANEL SPOTLIGHT:

Yay! Nicole finally caught on! She gets the 🏆 for guessing spot on Jesse McCartney even though her reasoning was a bit off & kinda weird.

On the other hand, the worst guess aka the 💩 was again our guest judge with the ever so terrible guess of Norman Reydus. This is so far off, it’s almost laughable. 

Anyways, we are done! As always, let me know what you guys think... do you agree? Disagree? I wanna know your guesses too ofc. Did I convince you? Alright, so that’s it! I will see you guys next week for the semi-finals wow! BYE! 

[invisiblemelonmoose]

Unpopular Poképinions Ahead

As Gen 4 approaches it’s remake and Gen 5 will hit it’s inevitable “Gen 5 remakes confirmed” stage, etc. etc., I would like to state for the record that

1. I have always loved Gen 5 and 6.

There was a lot of bullshit passed around and people hating it, but 5th gen literally got me to not only play Pokémon again but also beat the full game after Crystal (I had no GBA nor have I ever actually finished HGSS, which is main reason I actually cared about 4th gen in the first place until I got older lol) I’ve noticed a lot of people jumping the “5th gen was always good” bandwagon, but those people are liars who gave it shit because of the “unoriginal designs” and “dumb, unnecessary story”. 6th gen, though a little lacking, was still amazing, and idegaf about megas. We could sit on benches and take photos, and dress up as ourselves for the first time. I’ve been seeing people memeing how there are no 6th gen fans and that’s only because enough time hasn’t passed for people to be hipstely, retroactively loving it yet. My only criticism is fuck France Kalos.

2. I will never actually admit to liking 8th gen.

When the wheel once again inevitably returns to Galar, I will stand by my past (present) self and stand firm in the belief that this was one of my least fave gens of all time. I haven’t even finished any of my 3rd or 4th gen runs and I can say that with absolute certainty that 8th gen was not worth the money it cost (it was gifted to me, so I can’t say the money I paid lol, but I still feel guilty that money was paid for it). Even somehow ignoring the glaring controversies, Galar felt so incredibly small and lackluster for our first big Switch entry. There will probably never be a generation that gives us absolutely nothing, but there’s so little for me to say I actually liked. There’s nothing for me to miss when this gen leaves us for the next. Cooking is fun, but I won’t bat an eye when it leaves because it wasn’t even the first game we had a “cooking” minigame.

Like, if I do a comparison between 3rd +4th gen and 8th gen, even though I haven’t technically finished any of them yet (barely past the first couple gyms in the former, don’t feel the motivation to finally beat Leon in the latter) there’s more much more from my previously held “least fave” gens that I enjoy.

3rd Gen/Hoenn

Contests - kinda cool and something other to do than battling

PokéBlocks - the beginnings of the cooking mini-games

Secret bases - expanded on your customizble room from 2nd Gen which, like, probably 10 of you remember

Team Aqua vs. Magma - I love these pair of failure of 9th grade earth science distasters. Archie and Maxie and garbage himbo otp

Abilities - natures drive me insane, but abilities are so useful and make so much sense and I don’t know where battling even in-game would be without them

Coherent box system - it was a logical jump, but still

Braille - Ngl, I was super butthurt when, as a child, I learned that the unnown weren’t used in this game like before, but as an adult that can appreciate things, props to Gamefreak for using a real written language that’s actually only read by minority of people and encouraging people to learn it just ‘cause

4th Gen/Sinnoh

Super Contests (again) - look, my first experience with 4th gen was my brother’s best friend letting me play contests on his DS because my brother and I did not own one (a different friend accidentally broke my GBA my brother was borrowing before we had the chance to own RSE). I’ve always seen my trainer-sona as a professor/researcher, but you can peel contests out of my cold, dead hands.

Poffins - more cooking mini-games, A++

Looker - I love him, go away

Pokétch - As a second gen fan that is absolutely biased and will give extra points to all things Johto, the pokétch was the best tech device, fight me

Mining - same as super contests because I love any mini-games with attention to detail

Sex differences - I love how Gamefreak remembered that these are animals and may have sexual dimorphism, some done better than others, but still

Day/Night - I was very angry at 3rd gen for getting rid of this and pleased at it’s return in 4th gen

8th Gen/Galar

Curry - because as mentioned before, I’m a slut for cooking games

Marnie - little (titty) goth GF

Visible wild pokémon - which tbf were already showing up in other games, but I’ll give them credit for keeping them in these main series games

Regional mons - I’ve been a sucker for these guys since the previous gen and they kept going with those sick designs

I’m genuinely having trouble thinking of things I genuinely liked from these games that I remember more things I enjoyed from the other two gens

Honestly, 3rd and 4th gen had my least fave designs while there aren’t really any I dislike from 8th (tho those fossils make me angry), but that doesn’t really “fix” my lack of interest or draw to the games as a whole. Camping was a downgrade because even if I can see everyone together, I’m not allowed to pet my babies.

Anyways, my original point was, Gen 8 sucks and you won’t see me acting like those liars or reddit acting like it wasn’t an unpopular opinion to hate on it once time has passed. I’ll stand my ground and feel free to call me out on this should the moment arise (it won’t).

[moonlight-at-dawn]

Looking for opinions on how to handle a bully’s family

One of my neighbor’s has a kid (C) who is the same age as my own (K). They’ve been ‘friends’ since a few months after we moved into the neighborhood. I use quotations because C has been something of a bully since the beginning, when they were 5 years old.

It started out simple enough, and we tried making gentle corrections when C was here. He would be forceful, refusing to compromise, would use friendship as a bargaining chip (”If you won’t play MY way, then I’m not your friend!”). His idea of fun has never changed from making fun of what the other person likes.

It feels very much like he’s not interested in having FRIENDS but in having MINIONS. Once my kid started putting his foot down and not letting C treat him like this, C started not only distancing himself, but turning the other kids against him. I have heard and had to intervene on multiple occasions when C has told another kid to do something wrong. He likes to make someone else do something bad so he can laugh but not get into trouble.

C also lies about other kids to divert trouble away from him. One of the times I asked him to compromise (”He said he would play this pretend game, he just wants to play as this character, you should let him. It’s more fun to mix these things anyway :)”) he didn’t even respond to what I said or about the situation at all. He lied to me, saying “I’ve seen K’s light on in the middle of the night when he should be asleep!” (”How do you know that, were you up when you shouldn’t be?” “UHHHHHHH” -I knew it was a lie bc my kid was still sleeping in my room at that time, but I didn’t tell C this)

During all this Covid stuff, my kid has been the only one wearing a face mask, and C has made fun of him for it, ripped his mask off his face, and has overall increased his aggression since then. This escalated to him lying to the other kids in the neighborhood, saying that his father told him he couldn’t play with K, even with other kids involved, and so they would have to choose between them. He then also lied to the kids to make them choose him over my kid.

We attempted to speak with his parents so we could resolve this conflict. C went inside for a few minutes, then came out and said “My dad’s asleep and my mom doesn’t want to come out, but I can play with K again.” which is why we feel confident that this “rule” had been a lie all along.

On Wednesday, things escalated to the point that we called the police. We heard a knock at the door. A child left a note that said something like “Do you want a war” and “Take this gun” with a drawing of a sad face kid and a gun pointed their direction. C claims that another kid had left the note for him with a NERF gun, and that they meant for it to be ‘funny.’ However, even if that’s true, with that context removed, it was a threat, not funny at all. C also had done his classic move of being like “Wouldn’t it be funny if YOU did this?” and asked one of the younger kids to actually place the note. Then tried claiming an older kid wrote the note, that none of them could write. He’s 8. Next year is 3rd grade for C and K. He can write, but he told the POLICE OFFICER that he couldn’t. Not sure why he’d claim he can’t write AND that it was a note left by a younger kid without both of those being lies, sooooo......

Before calling the police, 3 of us adults standing in the foyer with the door half open, reading this note, being furious, I snapped a little. I stomped outside with the note. The group of kids was standing in front of C’s house across the street, and I stayed on my side and screamed at them. I’m not proud, but I also don’t regret it, if that makes sense? They even tried saying “We don’t know who did it!” when A) There was no one else who could have, and B) An older and completely uninvolved kid riding his bike around confirmed who had done it. I raised my voice “AND YES, I’M GOING TO SCREAM SO THAT ALL THE NEIGHBORHOOD KNOWS THAT YOU’RE THREATENING SOMEONE WITH GUN VIOLENCE WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?!?!?!?”

C put his face in his hands and made a wailing sound, and this is where I’m not proud but also not regretful. I pointed at him at said “No! No you don’t! I don’t believe that for a SECOND. You have lied to me every chance you get, you are a bully, you are cruel, and you are manipulative!” and while I was shouting this, he dropped his hands and looked me dead in the eye with a completely clean face and annoyed expression, showing he hadn’t been crying at all, and that’s why I don’t regret it. If he’d been actually crying, I’d probably regret it.

After I went in, we hemmed and hawed over calling the police, and decided to do so because we want a file on record. My husband was stalked with racially charged death threats, his dorm rooms broken into, vandalized, things broken, for 6 months. He has been suffering severe physical PTSD responses since this incident on Wednesday. My mother is a domestic abuse survivor, my roommate Mika has had a gun shoved in her face during a bank robbery, and I’ve fought people who intended to rape me (which I’ve never even said this much about my experiences as a teen until this event, bc I don’t want to think or talk about it, but now I can’t NOT). We CANNOT take this lightly, as this violence has come into our lives before, and we intimately know where it leads.

To make matters more complicated, the parents are shit people too, which makes having a reconciliatory conversation difficult. C has quoted bigotry at me (C: ”It’s illegal for boys to marry boys” Me: “No it’s not” C: “Yes it is” M: “No. It’s not. It was made legal several years ago, thankfully.” C: “..........I think it’s weird.” M: “Well, no one is saying you have to do it, it’s for those who want to.” C: “But it’s weird!” M: “You can’t tell someone not to live their life because you don’t like it!!!” C: “....................”)

C’s parents clearly need counseling, and his mom needs some serious therapy. The noise and lights of their middle of the night arguments and the mom trying to drive away, the dad standing behind the car to stop her, has woken up my parents in their street-facing room on more than one occasion. There’s a huge dent in their garage where C’s mom has crashed the car. C’s mom also hit Mika’s parked car, then proceeded to blame Mika for her car being there like “It’s so inconvenient when you park on the road!” ....C’s family has 2 cars parked on the street pretty much at all times. Mika parks on the road only when we need to be able to get out, but she’s usually in the driveway.

The fact that C’s parents are like this makes it very difficult to consider how to go about trying to have a conversation with them. I wrote a short DEAR MAN guided script about the incident on Wednesday, but I’m hesitant to go over there when I feel very strongly that they’ll just go on an unrelated tangent and try to flip the blame around. C’s father has shot us glares from across the street, but has made no attempt to come speak to us about us calling the police on their kid.

The parents of the other involved kids have come spoken to us, were mortified by what had happened, their kids also mortified by what had happened, and were receptive when we explained that C was behind it and what his history of manipulation and making others do his dirty work is like. We were careful about wording, just talking about the situations and trying not to make it a huge judgmental thing, just a “this is what we know” thing.

My current feeling is that I should write a letter and mail it to them (even tho they live across the street), because I feel strongly that I need to take SOME kind of action, as they won’t. But I just don’t know. Should I try speaking in person, even though I feel like they will be aggressive and/or dismissive? Should I write a letter even though I feel like they would read it with bad faith? Have I done enough, is the onus now on them?