#at least theres a new bg

[yourlocalabstraction]

I just spent 2 hours trying to add a new font for the web version of this blog and shit. Isnt working.

[ruairy]

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[ganondoodle]

Not to add more fuel to the fire (I do) but seeing all your TotK rants and agreeing with every single part of them, I just remembered that as soon as the first Sages appeared on screen I immediately noticed that even their voice actors were the same as the Champions from BoTW but a bit "deeper" sounding and when I looked up they ARE.

I don't mind when voice actors make a come back for specific roles tbh but this time with how disappointed I was starting to feel about the game's story it felt super odd?? Like it did feel so much like they were reusing stuff ;;

honestly if anyone wants to rant about totk in my inbox feel free to do so, i might not always respond but its really good to hear others be similarly disappointed and maybe you are even pointing out something i havent thought about

(also its fine to not agree with everythign i say, just dont be a dick about xD)

you see ... now that you say that i remember seeing the leaks before the game came out that some of the voice actors from botw said they returned for totk and that was a topic of discussion .... which went nowhere also bc i guess they were too lazy (sorry, that word is way overused when people talk about games but ... well) to find anyone new for the few lines they say

that said it doesnt exactly help the case of ancient ancestor (that looks exactly the same as the modern people!! i cant stand that!! its my character design taste that is more annoyed than the lore nerd but its stilll ... they didnt do that either to differentiate the past thats OVER TEN THOUSAND years ago aaaaaaargh) that all say the same line only with a few words changed around or rephrased like someone badly copying your homework but trying to hide it- without telling you any new information at all that all have no personality, not even a different clothing style (its aaalllll sonau style now woooheeee) and dont even get to have faces bc they are hidden under a SONAU MASK AT ALL TIMES even when NOT FIGHTING (why are they even in their temples after rauru seals ganondorf ... no seriosuly what are they doing there, just standing around waiting for zelda to come beg them to swear yet another oath to some guy in the far future, theres no one in the bg either like idk, they could have been praying or sth- wait .... why are they still wearing the stupid mask and outfit .... raurus gone and minerus getting eaten by miasma i dont think anyone would care (i know its bc they dont want to make another model ... though removing the helmet at the very least ... no?) and then dont even get their own voice ... lol

(i didnt notice bc i played with japanese voices bc the german voice actor for gan sounded like german daruk and that was too weird for me ... i still expected him to say more than a few lines and some yells at that point .. hah ... )

[carnagesaw]

is there anything major story wise in the v5 update (i.e. new additional story) or is it just updating the character skills and new enemies

yes!!! the major story wise changes only change before v4! v5 does actually add quite a bit to the previous stories! axez added in a few additional scenarios that introduced at least 4 new characters as well as new enemies. theres also more lore on pre existing bg characters to make the story slide together more, i assume axez is setting up something pretty big for the end.

to give you the basic scoop of it all; more story more character more skills more enemies new level system new puzzles new dialogue new minigames new portraits new voicelines and axez simplified some of the more difficult things that some players struggled with

everything pretty much got updated!! and it looks and plays really good too!

[kudzucataclysm]

🔋🏢🪖💵🧬🗺️😲0️⃣🙅 -> sci-fi asks for s!e gooooo

JESUS CHRIST REN 😭😭😭 i’ll do my best…as i havent written anything in forever so sorry if my answers suck-

🔋What’s the state of energy technology in your WIP? Is solar old news, or still being fought for?

solar is probably being explored but its not much up and running so to speak. energy technology relies primarily on hydropower and fossil fuels and also alien blood 🌞

🏢What’s the state of architectural technology in your WIP? Are there cities floating in the sky, or are houses still made of bricks and steel?

Its the same as it ever was tbh? except in the NEC where some basic building foundations are made of an alien metal that can rebuild itself when it’s destroyed, at least for the first few times. after that it gets a bit unstable and Freaky Shit Happens

ig the NEC is the only sort of case in the world where a city is BUILT like a mountain of sorts?? i imagine everywhere else on earth fuckin. rolls their eyes at the sheer stupidity and weirdness wnv the city appears in the news (all the time) cuz like wtf. that CANNOT be structurally sound-

🪖What’s the state of military technology in your WIP? Are armored giant robots fighting wars, or still regular people with guns?

ngl this has me brainstorming…theres def weird shit going on military wise- but it also makes me ask myself if there ARE any “militaries” on earth after mars took over…ig closest thing to a military force is the police then…IM GONNA RESEARCH THIS ACTUALLY IM GETTING IDEAS-

and yeah they carry regular guns and not-regular guns; they also carry anti-chimera technology cuz u cant really apprehend half alien suicide bombers with regular stuff 😭 there is a substance that’s poisonous to chimera and martians tho, the best i can describe it rn is basically their kryptonite? its extremely hard to come by and manufacture tho (as you need the fossilized organs of dead martians and on earth that is basically an impossibility) so what police tend to have is like…factory made, bootleg imitations of it. it doesnt outright kill chimera but its like a bit of an effective tranquilizer of sorts. in the form of bullets, ow

actually i just remembered! ig what can be considered the closest thing to military technology is that One Guy on one of the moons and a sort of “living satellite” who is Another Guy whos orbiting earth constantly. groundbreaking asteroid defense systems those two, i wonder if theyre friends. the Moon Guy is sipping on pina coladas as we speak and trying to watch the elections on a shitty barely functioning RCA tv

💵Is currency different in your WIP? Is it all digital, or does physical money still play a role?

physical money is still a thing in se, its just that the US dollar is the most unstable currency in the world now lol. the NEC has its own currency actually but some businesses also take yuans and us dollars. it just depends on whoever 🎣

i’ll have to think more on this tho. i dont think atm machines and debit cards exist hmm 🤔

🧬How different are the aliens, biologically, from humans in your WIP? Are they bonding over shared mammalian traits or unable to comprehend each other?

there is next to no bonding over shared biological traits between martians and humans lol. they KIND of have a shared ancestor/creator of sorts but in different ways ⛹🏽 humans are meat, and martians are not…? some scientists on earth theorize that theyre actually a type of fungus, others even say theyre “rocks” of some kind.

i will ig say that martians (not as a whole) can find the inner workings of the human body absolutely fascinating if they have the time/intelligence to care or learn abt it! its so complex, something that theyre (in comparison) very much not and i have a couple of martian bg characters who dedicate their whole existences to studying the human body. humans meanwhile find martian biology very ANNOYING and DUMB and “HOW DO THESE THINGS EVEN EXIST” kind of thing. humans biologists and physicists i suppose have been forced to question EVERYTHING abt EXISTENCE becuz of martians and its a field of study that people on earth r sort of desperate for but like. u have to understand people have driven themselves genuinely insane and to suicide trying to figure out wtf exactly martians are lol

🗺️Do the aliens have settlements on other planets? How many?

nah, just earth. martians dont really…have an understanding of how their spaceships work, i’ll just say that *side-eyes*. they also cant detect other lifeforms in or around the solar system (that they can see at least) and earth is basically their neighbor so. yay!!! why bother trying to find anything else or go anywhere else

😲Are there any human customs that the aliens find strange, offensive, gross, or confusing? Which ones?

martians r pretty straightforward in their thinking, the way humans process and experience emotions is extremely confusing to them. they basically have EXTREMELY SIMPLISTIC TUNNEL VISION when it comes to a lot of things…also the practice of burying our dead they find wasteful at worst, kind of disrespectful at best.

0️⃣Has the human population been devastated to almost nothing? What happened?

earth had a global nuclear/antimatter war, then got hit by asteroids(?), the asteroids knocked earth’s magnetic field out of whack, the ring of fire exploded which made the yellowstone supervolcano explode, which caused a massive global cooling event and its in a new ice age now

during all this is like a very shadowy, very secret (accidental) alien invasion going on and wildlife is dying off from this and famines and the outbreak of psionics and superpowers and a whole bunch of other bullshit tbh-

ANYWAY YEAH global human population is LowTM but its being Managed. martians r trying to get the population back up and running yippeee thx guyz 🏌🏽‍♂️ what would we do without them

🙅Were there people completely untouched by the apocalypse? How?

uuuuuuuhhhhhmmmmm *looks up at the previous answer and scratches chin* man i dunno lol 🌞

[pasharuu]

THIS IS THE FIRST PART.

idk why but i wanna show tumblr my aranara quests themed custom tarot deck lmao. i finished it in february but since i created this acc just recently, i gotta put it here now. im just really proud of this project and the fact that i actually finished it.

unfortunately tumblr will only allow me to add 10 pics per post, while there are 23 cards, so that kinda sucks. will have to separate em it seems. i'll also explain a little about my choices on these. so here we go, first ten.

0 the fool - "where the journey begins". i think its already a tradition to put some main figure on the fool card and so did i. glad i used his correct design for the card-

basically theres nothing to explain except for the monarch butterfly symbolism, which usually is a sign of a chosen. not like Arama is any "chosen" in a common sense, but i felt like adding this anyway. 6/10 nice Arama card.

I the magican - creation and manipulation. Aranimba got here for his exclusive sense of beauty and the will to create the beauty. he is an artist after all.

the story of the bg is kinda wonky. it was at release of 3.4 and due to my disappointment i made a pic where Aranimba points at that shiny cave northwest the mt. damavand with excitement. well, now its a boss enterance, but back then i had no clue, i made it literally at the release day lol. but it worked well on the bg of this card. i think you wouldnt guess it was that cave if i didnt tell, and that was done on purpose as well. 8/10 for backstory, and im proud of this card overall.

II the high priestess - waiting for the impulse from outside, confidence. first of all, the high priestess to me was always associated with some whimsy loud woman, and if you ask me, this is where Arapacati fits. however here she is depressively hugging a viparyas cuz she kicked her brothers a decade ago and now shes sad. what did i tell u about whimsy woman? 6/10, solid.

III the empress - the mother, fertility, the birth of a new. THIS IS WHERE WE STARTED, THE MAMA. no need to explain why i put Rukkhadevata here? 6/10, i struggled with this card cuz i hate drawing people, but it came out solid imo.

IV the emperor - the father, discipline, responsibility. to remind you, Araja is basically the one who runs the Vanarana dream realm, the tree of dreams. he is also here for a very simple reason because of being a big boss here, and looking like one as well. 7/10, nice mustache.

V the hierophant - attention to visible and invisible, search of the essence. if you ask me why i put Arapandu here, theres my answer - because he was the only major character who didnt have a card in the process of planning. i have some really vague explaination why exactly on hierophant, its mostly because of Varunastra actually, not Arapandu. i honestly dont have any emotional connection to Arapandu, he's kinda boring. 4/10.

VI the lovers - chosen by heart, determination and aspiration. ONLY BECAUSE OF SUCH INTERPRETATION. im against shipping aranara x anyone.

i think i wouldnt even make any better choice for this card whatsoever. they are here because they share dreams and aspirations and i really love their duet. 9/10 i teared.

VII the chariot - knowledge of the world, searching for the new. these goofy guys are here mostly because of "searching for the new", even though their methods were unsafe and archon knows what would happen to these dummies without any sense of self-preservation if we werent around. fact: they've been wondering for at least 4 years, but i love to say a decade. nay, theyre just very lucky. 5/10.

VIII justice - "play nice, and others will play nice with you". this is a card for Nara Varuna specifically and i decided to make both Lumine and Aether so that everyone will be satisfied. since Nara Varuna did nice in the past, all the aranara praise their name in the present.

the bg is again kinda symbolic. these are runes on Varuna contraption: "the water", when the rain pours, for Lumine, and "the sky", when its sunny, for Aether. i only hate how i made them so vague that theyre barely recognizable eh. but overall good cards, 6/10.

THATS ALL FOLKS.

for now. i bumped into images limit. gotta complete it in the next two posts!!!

[meruz]

maybe a weird question, but does the show that your backgrounds appear in ever make you feel differently about your work? like as an artist im sure youre pretty much always proud of the finished product but if the show that uses them is one you dont like does it ever.. make you feel weird?? or is it still just like "hey, i did that!"

nah..Not any weirder than posting art in general feels LOL. the thing is, liking a tv show as entertainment is different from liking it as a workplace which is also different from liking it as idk… an art object to put in my portfolio. I’m not going to pretend there isn’t overlap there like if I had to kind of draw it out (in more ways than one haha)...

So theres a lot of push and pull between factors. Its VERY common for artists to have shows they enjoyed working on that they wouldn’t personally enjoy watching and vice versa. And for me personally? I’m a glass half full kind of guy so even amongst mixed feelings I tend to focus on the good parts and I've liked almost every show I've worked on, come out feeling pretty good about my work almost all the time. 

I’m lucky though. I’ve never had to stay at a job with truly heinous working conditions. I’ve always had the privilege of enough resources (savings, parents house to fall back on, etc) to quit and find something new which is something not all people have. 

And I guess I would feel weird/bad about my work if it turned out to be used for like… a horrendous hate crime or something? Like if god forbid I ended up somehow…presumably accidentally?? working on the 21st century’s version of Birth of a Nation???? But (knock on wood) I like to think the chances of that in animation are pretty slim LOL or at the very least I'd be able to see the red flags ahead of time and get out of there…. one of the good/lame things about mass media is that it’s supremely moderate like it can’t be transgressive or radical (on either end of the political spectrum) or else it risks losing profit. And on top of that, animation is one of the least spontaneous storytelling mediums. just by nature of how much coordination and planning that has to be done ahead of time for something as simple as moving a character across the screen. Backgrounds in particular are relatively middle-late in the animation pipeline. every show runs a little differently but normally by the time we're working on bgs the story, boards, and characters are like... 70-90% locked in? So it’s pretty rare to be working on a show only to later be surprised by whats on screen when it airs.

I do know that south park turns on a dime and makes episodes slapdash in like one week but uh I like to think they're the exception not the rule LOL. most western animation will take about a year per ep from outline to final export.

anyways thanks for sending a thoughtful ask as opposed to something patronizing or obnoxiously leading like "im so sorry you had to work on such a shitty show" which ive been getting a bit of lately.

[ickmick]

Inktober days 11-15!!

I PROMISE I DIDNT FORGET TO POST THIS, I HAD IT WRITTEN AND EVERYTHING BUT YET TUMBLR DIDNT POST IT??? So erm.... I scheduled it for 'today' at like... 2 pm i think? my time, that is... LOL (turned out the queue didnt work! so its 6pm!)

so anyways, I'll upload yet again on sunday (tomorrow!) since I also need to post on Halloween!! oh boy!! so theres my uploads for the rest of the month, if you want to check back :D

I've actually gotten further than I thought I would! very proud of myself! and you should be too, even if you've only done a few days!

heres week one and week twos posts!

this one actually has the doc drawing >:3c

plus some other fun ones! its all under the cut, enjoy!

heres the key as always, referring to my prompt lists!!

wh = welcome home

hc = hermitcraft (I have 2!)

ink = official inktober

gore = goretober

(actual gore will be triggerwarned! so far none has any blood or violence!)

Day 11

wh: butterfly

hc: mischief

ink: wander

life: lava

oh noooo... our local pesky bird!! he fellll... (attempted a new perspective!! a lil wonky but I tried lol)

and can I just say I LOVE how peaceful grian is in the last drawing? hes so pretty and soft looking!! i surprised myself!!

Day 12

life: soulmate

I got that major life series brainrot... if you cant tell, haha... and dont even get me started on secret life!! more on that in the final notes >:D

also I didnt finish bigb im sorry BFMSVSSB

Day 13

hc: fashion

life: safety

GRIAN IN CUTE CLOTHES !! feat mumbo in the corner to make up for the last few times of neglect rip

also, was low on spoons and unfortunately did not finish the potentially adorable moment between the buttercups in grians wings... smth... xD

Day 14

hc: hermit with a background

gore: parasite

ay more like parasyte, am I right? *ba dum tiss*... ... yeah ok sorry LOL that was def more of a meme drawing ngl

AND THE FABLED DOC DRAWING!!! I posted it on its own already because im unbelievably proud of it!! listen... i know it meant to draw a bg... like a forest or smth... BUT!! i thought it was kinda funny... and I swear i was going to actually di the prompt right! but I ran out of spoons XD

Day 15

ink: dagger

life: spyglass

gore: fungi

another low spoon day, alas! but hey, at least we have some AHAA shenanigans (simply grian giggling) and a not so scar safe object!! (a dagger!! who gave him that?? /silly)

whew, there we go!! i think this weeks set was pretty good! (not that I actually drew any THIS WEEK, but thats not the point XD)

also, thank you for all the love so far!! you guys are very sweet :D

Im especially blown away from this post of tango, because it was rushed!! but im appreciative still because the post is sort of funny!! <3

*vauge talk of first secret life episodes!!*

PLUGS OVER LISTEN.... SECRET LIFE? THE SYMBOL? JIMMY POINTING IT OUT? AHHHHH!?!? /VPOS

its so good already omg... ive watched quite a few of the povs lol... i wont say anything specfic because I havent properly spoiler warned! so I will leave you simply with the wise words 'the fanfic writes itself' /silly (and oh my god scar giving grian the dang blocks ACK /pos /pos /pos)

heres week fours, 5.1s and the last post (5.2)!!

okay!! have a good week!! and remember to be easier on yourself!! I hope to see you next sunday for the next week of drawings!! 💜

[astro-break]

Thoughts on the 2nd ep of Hypmic Rhyme Anima+. Spoilers beware

The add busses that run irl in asian countries always embarrass me ngl they're kinda cringy imo TBH is kinda lame for a group name but i mean its not any better than some of the stage team names either MTC MTC MTC I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUU my biases haven't changed fromed last season as you can all tell lmaooo I still absolutely love MTC and their silly antics oh this is hilarious actually lmfaoooo did they just steal everythinggg I love how the yakuza got overwhelmed by women and children love the little detail that Samatoki never actually bought any new cigs ever since he ran out in the first ep Yes, go samatoki, use your brain for once i love youuuuuu the musicccc theres some nice at least some callbacks to older yakuza films HIS RINGTONE IS THE SAME AS THE BG FOR THAT YAKUZA MAN LMAOOOOO i like how they're bringing back old faces from the first season of the anime, its nice nostalgia ah so they're using the mics to incite violence i see LETS GO ME PREDICTING EVENTS i'm way too into this fandom lol wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww THATS HILARIOUSSSSS this man is just another con with a love for karaoke. YO RIO that is such a diss holy shittttttt I love crazy samatoki ngl he kinda cute Rio you silly weirdgirl, hes so weird and I love him for it he has everything figured out and is so chill about it too Samatoki is just another weirdgirl, MTC is just two weirdgirls and a hidden weirdgirl trying to be normal Go baby girl go fight the wind OH MY GODS ITS AN INTRODUCTION AS HIS RAP HES SO SILLY LMAOOOOO I forgot how silly Hypmic actually is, they're just hilarious HAH they recreated the Great Wave paitingsadkjfhlaskjdf I still love their anime gorl transformations they're so cheesy and recycled but such a delight Damnnn this song is really nice, I love the very old school beat that permeates that song, its quite a throwback to old rap styles the lyrics themselves are also a homage to the old introductions of Yakuza, if you follow the spoken intro and MTC's version you can see the parallels The white horse is a Samatoki staple askdfhkjlasdghfj NICOTINE WITHDRAWLLLLLLL oh i love how silly he really is HAH LOOK AT ME CALLING OUT ALL THE PLOT TWISTS BEFORE THEY"RE REVEALEDDDDDDDDDDDDD my ego is unstoppableeeeee the disgn of the white haired dude is nice ngl, that mask and circle sunglasses is a good one. reminds me of murakumo kagetsu MTC ENDING LETS GOOOOOO hes just so stylish i love samatoki's outfit a lot

[penguin--person]

i want to ask abt milgram but i dont have any knowledge so

what are three to five things youd change abt it if you could

hee thank ou dude!!! love u dude thank you dude

well, first is the obvious !! prisoner number nine, mikoto .. his whole character just. sucks. for reasons that have already been said many times, and i dont think i could bring anything new or meaningful to that table. but. his character is just harmful n sucks !! n, ofc, i dont have did but its clear it sucks . begone, prisoner number nine

other than that,, all the other icky things about it could be like . explained that theyre that way to keep the audience on their toes or something like that. like, they could all be explained with symbolism - like prisoner number two, yuno's murder(s) being abortions. which, theyre heavily considered murders by lots of people, so its like. could just be the. the. man my heads empty rn. but, milgram has a lot of 'your comments affect the characters a lot your words can affect them' stuff, yea? so, it could just be that because its considered murders . like, sure, its a bit icky, but it cn be explained with symbolism. i do think yuno is cool tho i like her:3 has bg vibes sorry to say. and, also, mahiru and kazui consider their 'murders' murders, even tho i'd dare to argue neither of them actually killed anyone. mahiru was in a codependent relationship and just couldnt save her bf. thats nothing to blame her for.

this isnt about milgram itself but id change the fandom to think about what it says sometimes!!! "oh if mahiru was a guy shed be voted guilty" my guy she literally was. thats a pretty significant thing that happened. she got voted guilty. and, no, if she was a guy, people would defend him for being hot and stuff!!! like they do with kazui!!! 'ohh she made her bf end his own life' yea well what did kazui do. mhm? care to tell me what His murder is? huh??? same as mahiru, but he wasnt mentally ill or anything about it, . his murder is pretty vague, but, from what i can tell, he just. i dont know he spent time with other women that werent his wife without actually cheating on her but also wasnt close with his wife at all. i dont know. and im not saying hes a murderer either, theres not enough info for me to even think about that, but luckily once his t2 song comes out it'll clear up some stuff. but, like. man. 'ohh if she was a guy people would be voting her guilty' shut up you know thats not correct. anyway i'd give the fandom the ability to think before they speak. this goes for me too btw i wanna get some better thinking skills

now let me be a hater for a second. i dont like shidou i think they should haev made him weirder!!! the guy harvested organs from many many people while they were still alive and killed so many people!! has the highest killcount out of the whole milgram group i think, or , is in the top 3 at least !! like. .like. hes just like, sad about it, and even then, hes not even THAT sad!!! hes jstli like. its just like. he killed so many people and its just FINE because hes SAD about it??? since when does that .fucking. mahiru is sad about her love dying!!! and she was voted guilty, and she didnt even intend to kill him - shidou knew very well what he was doing and still did it! he knew so well that those people would die, and i think that he even knew that his family wouldn't make it! that they'd still die even if he did it! hes a fucking surgeon for fucks sake, he had to have known, and he STILL did it!!! and hes not even weird about it!!!! hes not even fucking weird about it!!! hes just calm and proper and silent ad fukcigngg i think he should be sobbing wailing and screaming the whole time wailing at es begging so loud for the death penalty that mu and mahiru heard him from their cells!!! he should have been, fucking, weird about it!!!!

i think milgram should get weirder overall, actually. i think the characters should get weirder. like, i think many of them should be inconsolable, at least in the first trial,. i think they should get weirder... or Something... i think es should get weirder, too..

[youngshiney]

i didnt look into it too much bc it seems very overwhelming but the new sm 3.0 plan seems to be going in the weirdest direction imo

point one: multiple sub labels. i find it odd because isnt the whole point of smtown is that they are all united under one label/brand? how can there be cohesion and a family identity if everyone is separated? it feels like a weird mixture of jyp's divisions (which never felt like a good idea) and hybe's labels

point two: 41 projected albums. i have almost zero hopes for quality at this level of production. if we were getting rushed/messy teasers, disconnected photoshoots, lower quality title tracks, and full cgi/green screen mvs with only 20ish albums per year, what is double that going to look like? also how will people who like multiple artists pay for that many albums, especially with as many versions as sm puts out per era now. AND what does that mean for the groups themselves? will it be roughly divided up between every artist/group so its about even for everyone, or will only certain groups get multiple cbs per year while others get maybe one or two total? with how sm has given cbs in the past, i wouldnt be surprised if its heavily skewed towards certain artists.

point three: debuting new groups/sub units. counting every active or potentially active group, sm has around 8 bgs (counting each nct unit as a separate group), 3 ggs, around 3 sub units, and about 25 soloists (give or take 5). and they want to add at least three new nct units, a new separate bg, and a new gg?? like theres already management problems, how is anyone going to get anything if theres that much competition??

additional thought: the multiple sub labels is something i keep coming back to. ive had this thought over the years that some, if not most, groups should be able to transfer their group brand/songs to their own company and completely sever the oversight and relationship to the original company. i have many reasons for it but mostly for creative and monetary reasons. (i can elaborate in a separate post or a rb if anyone is curious). but anyway, this specific idea feels sort of like a slap in the face considering the history of lawsuits and pain. i cant imagine how differently things would have been if this level of independence had been implemented from the beginning.

anyway tldr, i just feel like this is not the way to move forward and is going to be detrimental to every group

[dognightmare4]

The new Vex concept art, taken from https://youtu.be/Kr1DXHsvbvc

[lesbiancarat]

oh yeah btw new hybe report came out a few days ago and the new pledis group is now projected to debut some time in the first half of 2022, for those keeping track the only new info is what half of 2022 the group is expected to debut

[ryderdire]

Lemme just

*info dumps in the tags*

[fresh-outta-earthbread]

so how different is the line up of cod now? Does dark cacao get a special new name? (And do dark enchantress/Dark cacao have a good relationship with red velvet?)

1- The lineup isnt that different actually! theres a few additions and excluded cookies but it is.... lowkey the same at least. (also put an isolated version of the bg cause i rlly like how it came out BWHAHAHA)

2- Dark Cacao becomes Somber Warrior Cookie (hence the au name!) and, using the fact that you mentioned dark enchantress im using this chance to also mention that White Lily is now Calla Cookie Night Rider Cookie (as of 2024)! In a similar fashion to PV in canon, White Lily begins losing her light bit by bit and takes on another name and appearance.

3- Somber Warrior is actually attached to Red Velvet despite being really consistent about not making attachments. He did train him like he once trained his son after all. A little more strictly if anything but still.

[enderspawn]

fuck it: incredibly underrated* YouTubers I love. also some might be inactive at the moment soz but also idc jdfsklj

*channels i never hear ppl talk abt and/or have below like 1m subs

absolblogspokemon (147k) - pokemon channel: literally just. so fucking passionate abt pokemon? like. idk how to word it but seeing this grown guy just doing what he loves and putting in all this effort and love and crafting his silly little movies and storylines and drinking mountain dew is healing for the soul. 10/10 would recommend.

crossknights (16.2k) - lets play channel: i cant even remember how i found his channel. i wanna say evil genius? just a Guy who plays through various games and has been at it for over a decade. its just... like at that point you Know he does it bc he enjoys it and not just "clout" or shit which i can appreciate. also great if you wanna find playthroughs of more like.. obscure shit? i'd recommend his evil genius, rebuild, and ghost master series' bc they're my favorite

hoodohoodlumsrevenge (304k) - creepypasta channel: i cant usually do horror, but theres something Special abt like. shitty horror? esp internet creepypasta, which is kinda the focus of the channel. but what i specifically like is that hoodohoodlum doesnt just shit on the authors themselves and makes a clear line in trying to encourage new authors to improve-- it doesnt just feel like bullying, which makes consuming the content not feel like im being an asshole

kilian experience (790k) - mixed gaming channel: literally the funniest motherfucker holy shit? his garbage guide series and just general videos all have this fantastic storyline to follow and in-jokes but like. just generally engaging. listen just watch the Cinematic Kilian Experience Pokemon Universe in order and try to prove me wrong.

krimsonrogue (202k) - book review channel: if you enjoy having background noise from like podcasts or those long form analysis videos this Is the channel for you. you Will watch krimsonrogue. while reviewing actual Good Books and comparing book and film releases, the most milage ive gotten is from the reviews of absolute shit books-- if you know him, its likely from his onision book series, but the others are just as good. goes in deep and rips them to shreds, feels like hanging out w a friend.

notslaya49 (2.18k) - lets play/general gaming channel: if you ever consumed online spore content, especially around 2010-2012? you know this guy. or maybe his old channel-- slaya49. and while his spore content is still something i enjoy, its not the only! i also recommend his pokemon, amazing island, and bunni:how we first met playlists. has this kind of absurdist tired sarcastic/ironic humor?? which i enjoy at least.

weedletwineedle (162k) - pokemon channel: while absol focuses more on shiny hunting, weedle is all abt the competitive battling. i dont even Do competitive myself but i love weedle's content. the showdown content has fantastic editing, both for humor and general improvements, which makes it hard to go to other channels. the live commentaries are good for bgs and also help explain for ppl who know pokemon a lil worse. also! nonbinary and uses them/them! which is a lovely change of pace for youtube pokemon content