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northoftheroad · 4 years ago

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Recommeded reading for Dick Grayson / Robin and Nightwing

This is an updated repeat of a couple of lists with reading recommendations with Dick as Robin and Nightwing (Pre-Flashpoint) that I've made earlier. But since I wrote them as answers to asks, the posts don't have a headline, and I find that they can be easy to miss (for me, when I want to look something up...) So I thought I might as well make a new, single post of them.

The stories are in what I imagine would be an in-universe chronology. They are from all periods, ignoring that the Golden age stories and Silver/Bronze/modern age stories have at times been considered two different universes. Most of them are stories that, at the time of their publishing, were canon and in continuity. None is explicitly Elseworld, so you can certainly imagine that they have happened ;-)

To be honest, not all of these comics are examples of great storytelling. Older superhero comics, for instance, are definitely something else compared to modern comics, for better and for worse. I've picked some because they are "the first time" or significant in some way (e.g. the first time Dick was almost killed, when Bruce has to fight to keep custody, an infamous fight between Dick and Bruce, the most well-known different origin stories, panels that are often quoted); others because they have a cute or fun moment. I have also included some books that I don't like myself but are well-known.

Storytelling has changed a lot since Dick was Robin. Back in the Golden and Silver age, with very few exceptions, comics were stand-alone short stories. In later decades, it's usually arcs that span at least a couple of issues and some stories have consequences for years.

Dick has been an active team member since the 1960s, and he has arguably been at his best in some team titles, but I still don't have a lot of team books here. I find it difficult to, off the top of my head, recall any "special Dick issues".

Obviously, these are very personal preferences, and the list is based on what I've read and remembered best.

Robin the Boy Wonder. Detective Comics # 38 (The original origin story. There has been maaany more since then – I've made a list just with origin stories....) (1940).

Batman: Year Three. Batman # 436-439. (An origin story where Dick spent some time at a nice orphanage before he came to Bruce.) (1989)

Robin Annual vol 2 # 4. (Another origin story, where the Gotham authorities remove Dick him from the circus, and he is put in the Gotham City's Youth Center. Not my preferred but it's well known.) (1995)

The Gauntlet. The Batman Chronicles #1. (The test before Batman let Dick start out as Robin.) (1997)

Grimm. Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #149-153. (A story set when Dick is new as Robin and still uncertain about his place. For a while, he wants to leave Batman and stay in a children's underground paradise.) (2002)

Robin: Year One. (Traumatic events during Dick's first year as Robin. He was nearly beat to death by Two-Face. When Bruce said he was not permitted to continue as Robin, Dick ran away because he didn't think there was a place for him at the Manor any more.) (2001)

The case of the honest crook. Batman #5. (1941)

The Batman plays a lone hand. Batman #13. (The first time Bruce ended the Batman and Robin partnership and left Dick to take care of himself.) (1942)

Robin studies his lessons. Batman #18. (1943)

Bruce Wayne loses the guardianship of Dick Grayson. Batman #20. (1944)

Clay. Batman Black and White #6. (2014)

Don't know where, don't know when. Batman Black and White #1. (2013)

Dick Grayson, author. Batman #35. (1946)

The Clocks of Doom. Star Spangled Comics #70.

The man Batman refused to help! Star Spangled Comics #88.

A birthday for Batman. Star Spangled Comics #91.

Robin, the Boy Failure. DC #145. (Dick gets amnesia, and Bruce tries to get him to remember that he’s Robin, without telling him outright.) (1949).

The killer-dog of Gotham city. Star Spangled Comics #100. (1950)

The trial of Bruce Wayne. Batman #57. (1950)

Race of the century. DC #157. (1950)

Dick Grayson, detective. Star Spangled Comics #111. (1950)

The strange costumes of Batman. DC #165. (Dick’s first time as Batman.) (1950)

The robberies in the Batcave. DC #177. (1951)

Partner for Batman. Batman #65. (1951)

Batman II and Robin, junior. Batman #66. (1951)

The plainclothes Robin. Star Spangled Comics #112. (Batman forbids Dick from going out at as Robin; he finds creative ways to use it in other ways.) (1951)

Operation Escape. Star Spangled Comics #124. (1952)

The new team of Superman and Robin. World's Finest Comics #75. (With Batman out of commission, Robin teams up with Superman. Batman is a bit apprehensive about Dick’s joy.) (1955)

Batman, jr. DC #231. (1956)

The grown-up Boy Wonder. Batman #107. (1957)

The last days of Batman. Batman #125. (1959)

Robin's new boss. Batman #137. (Dick wants to leave Bruce and get into a new partnership. Bruce is very distraught indeed.) (1961)

Robin Dies at Dawn. Batman #156. (Batman gets PTSD after participating in an experiment and he has to hang up the cowl becuase he is endangering Robin. Doctor Simon Hurt, who became a main villain when Grant Morrison wrote Batman, is the nameless doctor in charge of the experiment.) (1963)

The Olsen-Robin team versus the Superman-Batman team. World's Finest Comics #141. (1964)

The thousand-and-one dooms of Mr Twister. The Brave and the Bold #54. (The first team-up of Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad – the first step towards the formation of the Teen Titans.) (1964)

Teen Titans: Year One. (A retelling of the origin of the Teen Titans. The original version was told in Teen Titans vol 1 #53 from 1978, the last issue of the Silver/Bronze age comic book.) (2008)

Midnight raid of the Robin gang. DC #342. (1965)

The Round-Robin death threats. DC #366-367. (1967)

Batgirl breaks up the dynamic duo. DC #369. (1967)

The Nemesis from Batman's boyhood. DC #370. (1967)

Batman! Drop dead… twice. DC #378-379. (1968)

Geometry. Superman #700. (Dick goes out as Robin on his own, against Bruce's order. Superman has to fish him up out the harbour...) (2010)

Menace of the Motorcycle Marauders. Batman #202. (1968)

Operation blindfold. Batman #204-205. (1968)

Angel… or devil. Batman #216. (1969)

Prisoners of the Immortal world. World’s Finest Comics #200. (Dick had moved to Hudson University by now. Together with Superman and a pair of brothers, he's transported to a different world.) (1971)

Daughter of the Demon. Batman #232. (First appearance of Ra's al Ghul, who kidnaps Robin from Hudson as a test to see if Batman is worthy of Talia.) (1971)

Vengeance for a cop. Batman #234-236. (1971)

Night of the Reaper. Batman #237. (1971)

Earth - the monster maker. Justice League of America #91-92. (A story with characters from both Earth-One and Earth-Two, including the adult Robin from Earth-Two who is a member of the Justice Society of America.) (1971)

How many times can a Robin die? Batman #246. (A criminal sets out to revenge himself on Batman by setting up murders of lifelike Robin dummies; since he has kidnapped the real Robin, Batman can't know if the killings are the real thing.) (1972)

The return of the Flying Grayson. Batman #250. (1973)

Color me deadly. Batman #316. (1979)

The Iron solution. DC #487. (1980)

The Man in Black wears Green. DC #493. (1980)

The Lazarus Affair (plus). Batman #331-335. (Another story with Talia and Ra's al Ghul, but also about generation gaps and slum buildings. Robin is angrily opposed to Bruce being with Talia because he doesn't trust her; he seeks out Catwoman to help.) (1981)

Yesterday's heroes. Batman #339. (1981)

To kill a legend. Detective Comics #500. (The Phantom Stranger transports Batman and Robin to a parallel Earth where they have the chance to stop that world's Joe Chill from murdering the Waynes.) (1981)

Who is Donna Troy? New Teen Titans #38. (Dick helps Donna Troy, Wonder girl, to find out where she came from. A great detective story.) (1984)

The Judas contract (when Dick becomes Nightwing). The New Teen Titans # 39-40, Tales of the Teen Titans #41-44, Annual #3. (1984)

Nightwing Year One. Nightwing vol 2 # 101-106. (I honestly don't care much for this story, but it's good to know that it's one of several retellings of how Dick became Nightwing.) (2005)

A Little Nudge, in the Robin 80th Anniversary Special. (An alternate take on Dick leaving Robin to become Nightwing, where Bruce and Dick don’t split on hostile terms – Dick is just a bit annoyed. It is very unclear in what timeline, if any, this is supposed to fit, but I like it a lot better than the Post-Crisis/Pre-Flashpoint versions.) (2020)

Trivial Pursuits. New Teen Titans vol 2 # 32. (A nice breather, when the Titans try just to relax together. It goes as well as can be expected.) (1987)

Wrath Child. (A story from when Dick was fairly new as Nightwing.) Batman Confidential # 13-16. (2008)

Batman # 416. (First post-Crisis meeting with Jason Todd) (1988)

The Cheshire Contract. Action Comics Weekly # 613-618 (Dick helps Roy find his daughter.) (1988)

The New Titans # 55. (Dick learns about Jason's death when the Titans return to Earth after a long period in space. He goes to Bruce to talk and what follows is the infamous scene when Bruce hits Dick, says he should never have had a partner and tells Dick to leave and leave the keys with Alfred.) (1989)

Batman: Year Three. Batman # 436–439. (Flashbacks with a retelling of Dick's origin, during Bruce's third year as Batman. In the "now", Dick tries to reach out to Bruce and Dick's parents' murderer is about to be set free.) (1989)

A Lonely Place of Dying. Batman # 440-442, New Titans # 60-61. (1990)

The New Titans # 65. (Tim turns up at Dick's place to learn what it is to be Batman's partner.) (1990)

Total Chaos. (In issues of Deathstroke the Terminator, New Titans and Team Titans.) (Mirage, a woman from an alternate future and who has illusion casting powers, takes the form of Starfire and sleeps with Dick, who is shamed by his team members for being unfaithful to Kory, even though this is rape. So, an important fact to know but not something I would recommend to read.) (1992)

Knightfall Prodigal (Dick's first longer stint as Batman. And he takes care of Tim and the Manor on his own!) In Batman #512-514 and three other titles. (1994-1995)

Nightwing Alfred's Return (Kind of fun, when Dick seeks out Alfred, who left Bruce's service because Bruce wasn't taking care of himself, in London.) (1995)

Nightwing vol 1 # 1-4. (I don't love this, but it is a milestone in that it's the first Nightwing solo series, Dick momentarily decides to leave the hero business, and gets his by now classic fingerstripe suit.) (1995)

Like Riding a Bike. (Donna checks up on Dick.) The Batman Chronicles # 7. (1996)

(Nightwing vol 2 began in 1996.)

Nightwing vol 2 # 6. (Tim and Dick talk and fight crooks.) (1997)

Nightwing vol 2 # 12-16. (Batman pays a visit and Dick makes his custom made car.) (1997)

The Flash plus Nightwing. (Dick and Wally on vacation.) (1997)

Then & Now. Teen Titans vol 2 #12-15. (The original four Titan boys find themselves fighting their past selves.) (1997)

Nightwing vol 2 # 25. (Tim and Dick talk and ride on train roofs. Dick has decided to become a cop.) (1998)

Detective Comics # 725 (A heart-to-heart between Bruce and Dick.) (1998)

The Technis Imperative. JLA/Titans #1-3. (1998-1999)

The Titans (1999) # 2. (The start of a new Titans team, Dick tells Superman to give them some room.) (1999)

Nightwing vol 2 # 32–34. (Dick at the Police Academy.) (1999)

Nightwing vol 2 # 35–39. (On a mission from Batman: To take control of Blackgate Prison. Afterwards, he recuperates at Barbara's when her place is attacked.) (1999-2000)

The Titans (1999) #15–16. (The original five Titans try to work out some difficulties.) 2000.

Transference. Batman: Gotham Knights #8-11. (2000)

Nightwing vol 2 # 45-46. (The Hunt for Oracle.) (2000)

Action Comics # 771. (Nightwing and Superman hang out and work together – what's not to like!) 2000

Gods of Gotham. Wonder Woman # 164-167. (2001)

Nightwing vol 2 # 52. (Yet another example of sexual assault when Catwoman kisses Nightwing, in an effort to make Batman jealous.) (2001)

Nightwing vol 2 # 54-58. (Blockbuster, Nightwing's main adversary in Blüdhaven, hires an old enemy of Dick's to deal with the vigilante: Shrike. A character from Robin Year One.) (2001)

Matatoa. Batman: Gotham Knights # 16-17. (Bruce adopts Dick.) (2001)

Who Is Troia? The Titans (1999) # 23-25. (A visit from the Titan's children from the Kingdom Come universe.). (2001)

Retribution. Batman: Gotham Knights # 20-21. (2001)

Nightwing vol 2 # 64. (Nightwing as Santa's elf.) (2001)

Bruce Wayne: Murderer and Bruce Wayne: Fugitive (in several titles). (Dick refuses to believe that Bruce can be a murderer and it causes friction with for instance Tim. Also, a big fight between Dick and Bruce when the latter says he is going to abandon his Bruce identity.) (2002)

Nightwing vol 2 # 75. (Flashback's to Dick's early years with Bruce. Plus the first appearance of Tarantula (Catalina Flores; a controversial figure in Dick's history, she straddled the line between vigilante and villain.)) (2002)

Hush. Batman # 608–619. (# 615 for Dick, but it might be confusing only to read one issue.) (2002-2003)

The Obsidian Age. JLA vol 1 # 68-75. (The Justice League members disappear, Dick leads a new team for a few issues. In # 73, Bruce is quoted: "The only time I ever feel pride is when I look at Nightwing. Sometimes I think he's the only thing I ever did right."). (2002-2003)

Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day # 1-3 (Donna is killed. Dick is devastated and declares that the Titans are finished.) (2003)

Nightwing vol 2 # 80-83. (Deathstroke is in Blüdhaven to kill someone close to Dick. Bruce asks when he will quit the force, Dick wants to stay as a cop, but when he saves Amy Rohrbach, she recognizes that Dick is Nightwing and fires him.) (2003)

Nightwing vol 2 # 86. (Dick, forced to rest after being injured, solves crimes on America's Most Wanted and drives Barbara up the wall.) (2003)

The Outsiders vol 3 # 1 (Roy talks Dick, who dissolved the Titans after Donna's death, into leading a new team, promising they will not be a family.) (2003)

Nightwing vol 2 # 87-100. (Definitely one of the darkest periods points in Dick's life pre-Flashpoint. Tarantula breaks up him and Barbara. Blockbuster destroys his circus, his home and kills people just for talking to Dick. Tarantula kills Blockbuster and Nightwing is too exhausted to prevent it, and afterwards, he has a panic attack and she rapes him (# 93). Not necessarily something I would recommend to read, but fans discuss it a lot.) (2003-2004)

The Outsiders vol 3 # 11 (Roy is angsting about going back to the hero business after narrowly surviving being shot to death, sparring and heart-to-heart with Dick follows.) (2004)

Under the Hood. Batman # 635-641, 645-650, Annual # 25. (2004-2006)

Supergirl (2005) # 3 (Supergirl has a huuuge crush on Nightwing... ) (2005)

Silent partner. The Outsiders vol 3 # 21-23. (Dick goes ballistic when he realizes Batman has been funding the Outsiders, Roy admits Batman has been feeding him information. Only it wasn't Batman – it was Deathstroke in disguise.) (2005)

DC Special: The Return of Donna Troy # 1-4. (2005)

Nightwing vol 2 # 107–117. (Dick leaves Nightwing, starts working for the mob and trains Deathstroke's daughter. I think the author has some kind of resolution to the crisis Dick had gone through the last years in mind, but Infinite Crisis got in the way. Blüdhaven is destroyed in a nuclear explosion.) (2005-2006)

Infinite Crisis. (DC had planned to let Dick die, he is central to the story even if he's not very visible.) (2005-2006)

Targets. Nightwing vol 2 # 125-128. (Dick hunts for a day job in New York and gets buried alive, which leads to some retrospection on his behalf. There's also fights with a guy with a weaponized armour.) (2007)

The Brave and the Bold # 15. Nightwing and Hawkman. (Deadman, inside Hawkman, says that Dick Grayson is the one guy that every crimefighter trusts.) (2007)

Outsiders: Five of a Kind – Nightwing/Boomerang. (It ends with Batman telling Dick: "Go back to the good fight, Dick. Leave the bad fight to us.") (2007)

Freefall. Nightwing vol 2 # 140–146. (Dick starts freefalling as a new hobby; Bruce is not pleased. And he gets a new daytime job, as a museum curator. Oh, and there's Talia al Ghul, too.) (2008)

Robin # 175. (Some fun panels with flashbacks with Dick and Tim.) (2008)

Superman/Batman # 55. (Batman has got Superman’s powers while Superman loses his. When Batman starts to get out of control, Nightwing tries to stop him.) (2009)

The Great Leap. Nightwing vol 2 # 147–151. (Two-Face wants Nightwing to save a life.) (2008-2009)

Titans (2008) # 10. (Dick leaves the Titans because he needs to go back to Gotham and "take care of my other family." (2009)

Nightwing vol 2 # 152-153. (That time when Ra's al Ghul called Dick detective. And Dick packed up and left New York to move back to Gotham.) (2009)

Batman # 682. (Just for the line about how Dick made colour come into their monochrome lives ;-) ) (2009)

Detective Comics # 85, Batman # 684 (Dick mourning Bruce) (2009)

The Secret Six # 9. (Some of the members of the Secret Six feel they should be the new Batman.) (2009)

Battle for the Cowl # 1-3. (2009)

If you don't mind reading comics that are not in the main comic universe, there are also a lot of fun reading in comic books that are tie-ins to Batman The Animated Series, and in Batman '66 which builds on the tv show from 1966. There is also Dark Victory from 1999–2000 – and tiny Dick is adorable in Batman/Scarecrow: Year One from 2005. Dick has about two panels in Darwyn Cooke’s DC: The New Frontier from 2004, but I think it’s kind of worth reading just for those.

#Dick Grayson #Robin #Nightwing #Batman #Richard Grayson

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ibspositiveasican · 4 years ago

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I wrote this after I was sent to the ER 12/2/2020;

I never in a million years thought this is where my life would be.  I knew from the time I was a kid that food wasn’t something I enjoyed.  I would avoid things food related or get anxious about dinners or meals not at my own home. The last 9 months food has got worse and my mom knew she couldn’t even say “what do you want to eat for...” each meal was a struggle my brain just didn’t want it. We thought it was my depression becuase of my medication changes we thought it would go back to normal but enstead after the levels started to normalize I stopped drinking because my brain wouldn’t let me even drink water, then the next day I stopped eating entirely. I may be admitted for an eating disorder. It’s called ARFID. Not many people know about it even doctors don’t know much about it. It has nothing to do with body image or weight it’s just the problems and relationships with food which isn’t healthy. I let so many people down. we kept just saying that i was just extremely picky but my food group of 10 went to 5 then to 1 and then my comfort food that I eat and know is my comfort it was no longer my comfort. My parents are in so much pain. I have caused them so much pain. I let everyone down, I got through everything and I know I will get through this. I just need help and it’s not the help my parents can provide for me anymore. It’s out of their control. The ball is in know ones court... my mom blamed herself and I said there is no point in trying to point fingers becuase we can’t change the past we need to move forward and push and get stronger from this. I have an eating disorder called ARFID...

#actually arfid #arfid #arfid recovery #chronic illness #chronic pain #ed recovery #food #ibs #invisible illness #mental health

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popculturebuffet · 4 years ago

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Tom and Jerry 2021 Review: It’s Almost Adequate!

Hello you happy people, and welcome to a surprise review! While this was on my schedule, I moved it out to make room for my new Patreon Sponsored review. Yes at the 5 dollar tier you too can get a review a month.. but enough shilling. Point is I had some thoughts on the film, and felt I could squeeze a review of it into the schedule since my review for yesterday, the 90′s Tom and Jerry movie, got canceled as I both had to finish up my tex avery birthday review and hadn’t noticed it wasn’t on HBO Max like I thought. I could’ve sworn it was once but not anymore. Gee it’s almost like they removed their overtly awful Tom and Jerry movie from the service so people woudln’t be reminded of it when they watched the mediocre new one. Or it was never on there because HBO wants to bury that mistake in a hole. You make the call.

Point is I had some room in my schedule, so if I can’t cover the 1990 movie this weekend, though I FULLY intend to still do that at some point as it still fascinates me, might as well cover the one everyone’s actually watching. So join me under the cut with spoilers to go into why this film is .. ehhhh. under the cut

Tom and Jerry follows, as you’d expect, our working boys up to their ass in shit, what is this buisness. In this case Tom literally rides in on a rail with his keyboard wanting to be a big musician one day, while Jerry is shopping around for a home but can’t find any in his bracket. The two end up fighting, as you’d expect, when Tom performs as a blind cat in a park, a great gag, and Jerry first steals his customers by dancing to his music, but then when Tom tries to stop him, not only exposes his scam, but gets Tom’s beloved Keyboard broken.

In the process of Tom trying to get Jerry back for runing his day, Tom ruins the day of Kayla, a cynical young lady played by Chole Grace Moretz who like Robin in the last theatrical film, is a blonde girl who takes up way more screen time than our heroes for some reason. Tom accidently destroys the clothes she was sent to deliver, and she gets fired from her Task Rabbit esque job... despite the fact that TaskRabbit is app based, entirely built around how you do jobs for hire as needed, and that at most she’d get a bad review and that the app dosen’t actually hire people. I know this both because i’ve seen the apps and parodies of it show up on tv shows I watch, most recently Close Enough, and because I took the 2 minutes it took to google it , read some of the Wikipedia article and do the bare minimum that me, a paid only by commissions and patreons reviewer, did to prove a point, and that the writers of this film, who likely got paid at least 10000 for a rewrite, and more for whoever wrote the treatment, which is about 30,000 at lowest as told to me by this article on what screenwriters get paid I looked up solely to prove a point. So they got paid tens of thousands of dollars, probably more than standard... to not spend 5 minutes looking up what task rabbit is, becuase they wanted to give her a “hip” job instead of just having her work for a dry cleaner. Then again they got thousands upon thousands to half ass it and i’m getting paid nothing to go on a rant about how they half assed it, so maybe i’m the dumbass, I dunno, but at least I take pride in my work. And i’ve had trouble spellchecking at times so take that as you will.

But so far the film is not bad: the slapstick is blended really well, the action is pitch perfect and our heroes are given good motivations: Kayla’s to find a job, Tom to play piano professionally and Jerry to find a proper home. You ready for some letdown?!

All three of our heroes converge at the Royal Gate Hotel, a prestigious hotel that’s been host to popes, dignitaries and Drake. Jerry sneaks inside, and soon finds himself at home and making himself home, Tom TRIES to and ends up getting on the wrong side of Butch, the black cat from the shorts played in this film by reggaton performer Nicky Jam. Why they choose him over a comedian or anyone who could actually act, especially since Butch dosen’t have a musical number or anything, is a riddle for the ages. My best guest, as it always is, is that Tim Story owes him a Wookie-Style life debt. Not only that but even more bafflingly Butch’s gang, who to the films credit like him are all his gang of cats from the classic shorts, are played by Kevin Hart’s Improve Troop, The Plastic Cup Boyz. I got a preview for what passing a kidney stone’s going to feel like just typing that name. I thought I had no explanation for this, not even a wookie life debt can explain how Kevin Hart’s posse, because he has one for some reason but at least unlike Adam Sandler he’s helping his smaller named friends get big instead of just promoting guys who really shouldn’t have a career or dragging poor guys like Shaq or Terry Crews into your bullcrap because they like you., can explain how this happened. But I forgot I looked up Tim Story’s filmography when I first found out he was director here, more on him later, and found out he directed both Ride Along films, both think like a man films, and one of Kevin Hart’s specials, so the two presumably are friends or at least have a solid working relationship, and given how successful the first Ride Along was for both men, I doubt Tim would turn down a favor from him and vice versa.

And while I find the Plastic Cup Boyz inclusion in this film bizzare and wish it was fellow comedy troupe and starkid adjacent wonderkinds the Tin Can Bros so I could get Joey Richter voicing an animated cat, they at least try their best, their just not given much to do and I don’t get casting them in these side rolls or not giving the butch role to one of them as Nicky Jam just sucks in the role. And I get Butch isn’t the most solid or complex character, but it still isn’t THAT hard, with the 80 drumloads of great comedians out there, to find SOMEONE better, and it’s weird Kevin Hart himself isn’t in the roll. If it wasn’t a wookie life debt i’m betting Hart was going to play Butch, had to back out due to scheduling conflicts or whatever, and Tim found the first guy he could who’d take almost nothing instead of an actual actor.

Kayla meanwhile somehow takes herself from sympathetic to wholly unlikeable in the span of the scene by maniuplating and terrifying a poor woman into not taking the job, outright STEALING HER RESUME, meaning if she screwed up this might go on the poor woman’s record, and lying her way into the job. And if the woman had been you know a classist dick or something, i’d understand but this is a perfectly nice lady who worked really hard, and who looses out on a job because some little bitch talked her out of it and then stole her identity. This one act really just makes me not care: It’s one thing to do what you gotta to get a job, I myself have never lied on an application but I get new york’s insanely expensive. Even if she presumibly lives in a hole that’s cramped, has roaches or rats, who given this unvierse probably have tiny tv’s that are still way too loud and binge watch way too much Jersey Shore at 2 in the morning, and is probably haunted, probably by Droopy wearing a bedsheet going boo but still, and yes he’s also alive here but he has identical cousins. Not the point. Point is even if she has sympathetic motives.. what she did is not okay and when she get flashes of guilt throughtout hte film it’s never long enough to feel like it’s not her simply feeling bad she didn’t get this herself and not that she STOLE IT FROM ANOTHER PERSON. Again if she’d FAKED her resume, this would’ve been fine, simply set up some websites, and it would’ve worked so why they went with this elaborate setup that takes her into outright crimes is beyond me.

Point is she gets hired by the manager/owner, Mr. Dubrois, played by Rob Delany, but since his name isn’t used enough i’m just going to call him Mustache Manager. Her direct superior whose against her being hired is Terrance, the Gate’s Event Manager played by a way too good for this film Micheal Pena, who sadly is given nothing to work with. Terrance.. is supposed to be the bad guy because he distrusts kayla. And while one of those reasons is stupid, she makes a joke about the goldfish being an aquatics manger and he takes it dead seriously, he’s rightfully supscious she’s not who she says she is, since one of the places on her resume is a place he knows people from. The only way the film manages to make him the bad guy is he is COMICALLY out of touch: he dosen’t get sarcasm, as seen before, dosen’t want people posting jerry to “snapgram or instaface”, and seems to have trouble relating to his guests. What makes this not work is that he’s manger at a ludicrously expensive hotel. As such a good chunk of his events would be for Celebrties, since New York’s a big hub for them, having tons living there and visiting for films, apperances on late night talk shows, SNL and what have you and being a prime spot for events and it’s clear part of his job is talking to the guests as the two the film focuses on, more on that in a minute, know him and have met him before. He also mentions Drake having stayed there... he would NOT have kept this job.

You’d need to do through research on these kinds of celebrates and social media is the easiest way to do that, to get what they like, what they don’t, what they don’t want to talk about, what scandals or gos might be going on to keep paparazzi out. I don’t even know how this business works nor did I google it.. and I didn’t to prove a point.. that even with no real idea how this works.. I still get what you’d probably need to know to make events for rich famous people. I’m not convinced Terrance knows how an internet works. And given writer Kevin Costello wrote the well received and weird film I still want to see Brigbsby Bear, I get the sense a lot of this nonsense was added in rewrites demanded by executives and credit him more for what works in the film. More on that in a moment.

Kayla is hired on because the Royal Gate has it’s biggest event ever, the wedding of Ben, played by Colin Jost, and Preeta, played by Pallavi Sharda. Why is it big? What do they do exactly? Are they trust fund babies? Did Ben invent an app? Did Preeta cure global warming? Did they both help defeat Galactus DEVOURER OF WORLDS?!... I dont’ know. If the film told me at all why their big names, even if it’s just because their famous for being famous which would be fine, why this is bigger than a fucking pope visiting, I missed it and I actually went back to their first scene and the scene where Mustache Manager brings up the wedding in the first place to Kayla, and found nothing. We just know their rich, their getting married, Ben doesn’t listen to Preeta and is insufferable, and that they own two classic Tom and Jerry characters: Ben owns spike whose played by Bobby Canavale who isn’t bad but dosen’t try to sound like spike at all and that annoys me given unlike Tom and Jerry, the former of whom’s signature noises from the cartoon were used archivally and otherwise dosen’t talk and only sings on occasion or does that wonderfully weird “don’t you belivie it” thing., has a distinct voice they could’ve got someone to imitate. The other is Preeya’s cat toodles, that white cat Tom is always trying to bang, who got a neat less anthro redesign.

Toots, Toodles whatever you call her the redesign works, making her more of a cat, and only speaking in meows for some reason, and combinging the two female cats tom’s liked, but while still being just funny animal enough that him wanting some pussy, so to speak, isn’t too creepy.

And this is where the film undergoes a bit of a shift. While the 20 or so minutes are rightfully focused on our boys with a bit of focus on Kayla, from here on out she’s our defacto lead. Given the last film did the same damn thing of making Tom and Jerry not the main leads in their own movie, you can see the problem. I will say to the film’s credit it is still LEAGUES better in a lot of other ways than the 90′s film in that the plot is actually centered around them: Jerry, when stealing some cheese, and runs afoul of the tempermental Chef Jackie played by Kim Jeong. Though i’m 100% not convinced Ben Chang didn’t just lie on his resume at some place and has now somehow become a michline star canditate. He finds Jerry, and Kayla volunteers to catch him to help her own career and validly points out her doing this discreetly with only the staff knowing about the mouse will keep it from becoming a social media nightmare.

The 90′s film could work without them, replacing them with any animal sidekick for Robin, since nit’s so far removed from Tom and Jerry their really an afterthought. Here the film DOES feel like a tom and jerry plot at it’s core, Jerry’s somewhere he shoudln’t be, Tom wants to chase him either due to personal greivance or his job depending on it, in this case both. The small side cast are all involved, and given decent if thin justifications for being there: Butch is an ally cat and Spike and Tootles are the pets of the happy couple.

And honestly the slapstick portions, the portions that are tom and jerry focused or use the humans well, are BRILLIANT. No really, it’s good stuff once in a while using a bit from the classics but mostly coming up with new gags and the animation is gorgeous. I won’t lie and say it’s always perfect, sometimes the models are a bit off and look unfinished and that’s not forgivable when you delay your film two months, and thus have extra time to work on that. But that’s a few shots here and there versus the majority of hte film where the various animals all blend perfectly. Unlike most Live Action adaptations of an old cartoon, this one actually seemed to have good reason, as they’ve taken the basic roger rabbit tech of decades ago and expanded on it well. Just like that classic you often wonder how the hell they pulled this off, and outside of one egregrous sequence where tom sets up an elaborate trap we spend far too much time on, when they do use CG for any props, you can’t tell. This is best highlighted by what I consdier to be the film’s best sequence and what brings Tom into the plot proper after lurking on the fringes for a good 15 minutes: Tom, miserable in the rain, finds jerry living it up in an empty room, and after some fun shenanigans trying to get in, finally succeds leading to a good 2-3 minute sequence of the two chasing after each other in the room. There are no actors, no one else and the room is empty, but perfectly gimmicked to time with thier movments. Wether they used cg and I couldn’t tell or just simply timed things great, it’s utterly fantastic and shows why this film is live action: while i’td be fine animated they cleary ahd the tech and ideas to do it live and thus did it this way. Naturally Kayla meets Tom again, and after finding out the room was trashed by both him and Jerry gets Mustache Manager to hire him.

But this is the problem: While there are great set pieces like this, or a REALLY damn impressive one later where Terrance gets dragged into a ball of violence while walking Spike for Ben and we see INSIDE IT, with Terrance not moving as fast but that being okay. And I love the movie’s commitment that ALL animals are animated. So it has it’s charms and gets a LOT right.

It’s clear to me from this strong core that the script was messed with, either by director Tim Story or the execs. Some misguided and stupid bits I get even if it was a bad idea: Tom does do the piano at one point, after he thinks he’s gotten rid of Jerry thanks to again an unwieldy overly long bit of CGI that’s a down spot on the usually good just tom and jerry stuff. And he STARTS singing a 40′s jazz song, and I thought “Okay they really got this and are doing something like is you is or is you ain’t my baby this will be fun”. Then T-Pain started using autotune, because of course, and Tom’s shoulder devil started scratching next to him...

By the way Tom’s Shoulder Devil and Angel are played very well by Lil Rel Howrey , aka Rod from Get Out. So good on you man, one bit of non miscasting. There’s one or two cringe inducing moment of trying to be hip here or there though for a film like this it isn’t nearly as bad as you’d expect. Still bad but i’ve seen so much worse at this point i’m not going to bother getting mad or upset over it. I’m used to this kind of thing from kids movies.

But while the film dosen’t really lack Tom and Jerry, it sidelines them way too often> There’s just too many scenes just about Kayla, whose not only not a great character despite Chole trying her absolute hardest god bless her. Her hitting it off with the bartender, her arguing with Terrance whose even more insufferable and her bonding with Preeta and Ben being annoying, we’ll get to him.. WE’LL GET TO HIM. But they aren’t funny or interesting, there’s nothing THERE to really get me interested, nothing new or fresh that we haven’t seen done better before. There’s just nothing, it feels like large parts of blank space. And to illustrate this my Niece, who I watched the film with and really loves Tom and Jerry after I showed it to her... played with other stuff during most of those scenes. And she’s young, her attention span is not great.. but noticably during the actual scenes of slapstick she was glued to the tv, just like she was when I showed her the classic shorts. It’s not just old farts like me who remember tom and jerry from their youth.. it’s the kids your TRYING to appeal to that don’t want this. If you can’t get kids, who in general and speaking from my own personal experience will watch just about anything, to pay attention YOU. HAVE. FAILED.

Okay took a second to compose myself, let’s move on to the rest of the movie. So after T-Pain stabbed music in the throat, we get to the worst section of the film as Kayla brokers peace between the two to get Preeta’s ring back after the three end up in the aformnetioned violence ball with Terrance, who she ducks his claims that she didn’t catch the mouse.. which she did not but for once she’s sympathetic as Terrance is much more likeable either, though gaslighting him and getting him put on leave is a bit extreme. Bafflingly, Kayla gets his job as event cordinator for now, and thus has to broker peace between the two warring factions.. and does so in the strangest way possible: by booking a day for them in new york to hang out and be BUDDIES!. This isn’t bad as the last film as it dosen’t last, but it is just.. surreal seeing the two having a hanging out montage around new york. Like the film just took a really weird turn with this, the montage itself isn’t weird, it’s standard shenanigans minus the fighting but still good stuff. Unlike the 90′s movie instead of singing about being palls or helping a small child, they just get into cartoony shenanigans together. More proof the film could’ve been so much better just with them.

Speaking of proof the film would’ve been better without them , Ben fucks around with a drone for the wedding, after Preeta confided in Kayla the wedding’s getting to be a bit much. So let’s talk about Ben shall we? While Preeta is just nice, friendly and down to earth, Ben... is a dumbass, a jackass and just an ass. His whole schtick is that he keeps escalting the wedding despite her wishing he’d stop, and i’ts just.. not funny. A guy ignoring his partner’s wishes, constnatly doing big gestures in large part to try and win over her dad who RIGHTFULLY hates, and in general just sucks. I do not blame this on Colin Jost: He’s perfectly charming on SNL, and Weekend Update is usually damn fun under him and Micheal Che. But like with Pena and Mortez, he’s given NOTHING to work with, and furthe rmore can’t improvise.. aka the skill most SNL cast and almnus walk away with. So it’s no suprise he instead comes off like an anoying plank of wood you want to see fall down a manhole and never return so Preeta can marry someone else. I dunno the Doorman’s a pretty cool guy, and if he’s taken or something there’s always Droopy. Droopy’s the smoothest motherfucker and we all know. And if HE’S taken there’s mustache man. The point is we have a Dating Game’s worth of elligble bachelors and the film tries to sell a plank of wood who clearly wants to bang Preeta’s dad more than he wants a genuine equal relationship with Preeta.

So that dosen’t help the final act.. which is started with something REALLY weird to round off tom and jerry’s day as Tom catches a ball, interupts a play and get.s. thrown in the pound for it?

I don’t know how tha’ts a crime, I don’t get it either, point is the animal control guy is a creep who shows them off as they pass some angry dogs.. and..

MY BOY. There was an earlier joke with him taking the place of The Joker, and I thought that was it sadly but nope there he is! While, given they don’t really have much to do with each other, it is a tad weird he’s been grafted onto the tom and jerry legacy.. I really don’t care because it means Droopy gets to show up every so often in other stuff like this.. And hopefully the spinoff series coming in the summer. I”ve talked before about how much I love this dog so having him show up here was a HUGE delight and easily the higlihgt of the film and the gag is perfect. WHy is he in prison? I don’t know. But given who we’re dealing with I also assume he just disappeared later and showed up at the Wolf’s place again to get the evidence to clear his name and to help a young brodway hopeful played by Peyton R LIst get to her audition in time. And yes I just imagined another live action film with a classic character.. but admit it you’d rather be watching that one. They also run into butch who tries to force him to eat Jerry or they’ll kill him.

Terence saw the arrest on the tv though, so he bails the two out, pits them against each other, and sets them loose at the wedding. This goes how you’d expect. the two cause chaos and thanks to Weekend UpDumbass there’s pecocks, tigers and elephants, and Jerry naturally spooks the elephants, Spike, who has it in for tom as usual, goes after tom the tiger goes after him and the wedding is destroyed. Preeta breaks up with Ben and leaves, and Kayla is fired.

Less good is that Tom gets thrown out because Terrance backed out on his deal because he’s a fucking asshole. So while Kayla gripes to her sorta loveintrest bartender man, and wishes she could fix things, T and J show up, both realizing it’s their fault and both with a plan to fix things leading to our climax. Kayla goes back to the hotel, and while Terrance tries to boject she rightfully blackmails him. Sadly neither get their commupance and while Mustache Manager puts two and two together, he’s all for ending this PR Nightmare and helping with Kayla’s plan to get ben to stage a wedding in central park that Preeta actually wants while our two actual heroes go to stop her and do some light kidnapping of toodles to get Preeta to stop.

So it ends how you’d expect: Preeta makes a huge mistake, seriously Droopy go to their honemoon I guarantee Ben will wonder off into the ocean because he thought it looked sick bro, Kayla gets her job back and in a move that makes her almost tolerable hires the woman she stole from who Terrance clearly wants to bang, and Tom actually catches Toot’s eye, but then Jerry mucks it up because cockblocking tom has been his job since the 40′s, they fight, Kayla tells them to cut it out, they put an the end thing over it. Roll credits.

As you could tell I had issues with this film and had more the more I thought about it. So it’s not very good.. but I still recommend watching it if you have Max right now. Yes really. While the human parts are pretty awful as you could tell, you can have some fun mocking them, and it’s worth suffering through them for the bits with our boys, as those bits are geneuinely energetic, fun and what you came for. If you like tom and Jerry, you probably won’t like this movie.. but you’ll enjoy those bits. Hopefully if there’s a sequel, and this film was a suprise hit so their probably will be, they’ll learn their lesson from this one and focus less on the humans and more on the hyjinks but overall this is just a medicore waste of some really great technology and slapstick. This is just one huge ball of dispaointment instead of cartoon violence and i’m sorry it ended this way. If you liked this review, you can follow me on my patreon at patreon.com/popculturebuffet. Even 1 dollar a month helps and my next stretch goal nets a Darkwing Duck episode a month, so if that excites you, please sign up. And if you can’t afford to that’s fine and feel free to stick around anyway. Times are hard and I get that. And I will see you at the next rainbow.

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hockeysweetheart · 4 years ago

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Discribe a movie Badly See if anyone gets it...

How it works there are 10 movies I wont give anything In the hashtags. 1-10 Movies I discribed badly. Number them 1 to 10 of what you think the movie I am talking about is ... Some might be a series so I’ll take the name of it. Just comment below

1.Two Canadians meet He lives in the Country The she is from the city. They met at the fair. They fall in love. She moves away. He builds a house. She falls in love with someone who was in the war they get engaged. She goes back to the country after she sees him. They fall in love again. Also the narator is telling his story to his wife with dementa. So she remembers.

2.Women who’s been nominated for many oscars has three possible baby daddies For her daughter . Now her daughter is due to get married and did some sneaking around invited all three so she can find out who her real father is to give her out. They randomally break out into songs and have 2 supporting Aunts who don’t know their friend slept with all these men. But are supportive even fall in love with the 2 when its windled down... This girl and her fiance sing a song on the beach and it’s a whole musical number... Its until the evening before the wedding she doesn’t know who the father is. All she wants is her father to give her away... Its greek to me...

3.Boy wants to be king. The only problem is his skechy evil Uncle wants to be king as well. But the Boys father is the king. So they both Hatch a plan to kill the father. The boy is like no know what did I do runs away. Is raised by 2 men with prob a few mental issues. The girl of his dreams comes and finds him doesn’t know its him at first they sing a love song ... then tells him that the kindom and the lands in charge of is fu**** up with the uncle in charge so the only way is if he retains his title because hes next in line.

4.Girl lives in a poor town. She is mocked about it. Becuase shes the Prettier Smarter then the others and Lives with an inventer who is strange. Oh the town are anti readers too. This guy who thinks he can move her to his side hit on her and wants to marry her. She is like ha not a chance. He father goes off to the invention fair and she is on her own which is normal. He runs into wolves his horse throws him under the bus He trespasses into this big house. Which is owned by someone who really needs to shave Who can only do so if he falls in love if he can’t find love by a certain point he will look this way forever . kidnaps him away She knows something is not right the horse takes her to the big house.. sees her father in a jail cell. The man who owns this place says if you take his place I’ll let him go but you stay. Okay because her father is old she takes the deal. But then he gives her an actual room in the house instead of the prision cell. Because shes pretty lets make her feel like home. Then she meets her maid, her dresser, the house keeper The mans of the house chief steward. and basically the entertainer. And a the house keepers child and the pet dog. And together they all come and show her this hairy man is not evil as he may seem they fall in love on their own however. He lefts her go be with her father who is sick. Still hairy man but he let her go because he loves her. And she goes back home realizes the man who wants to marry her has locked her ill father in a cell... throws her in too because she refuses to marry him. Goes and kill this hairy man with the whole freaking town. She gets out goes to the hairy man. But the dumb ass man who wants to marry her shot him. Hairy man almost dies but is saved when she kisses him...

5.They lived in a poor town. Once a year they get a chance for a few of them to become Royal. They have a team of Drunky, Perky , Stylish, who guide them to their guide to be royal. ...For a bit Until the day the evil dictator locks them in an escape room but says the only way you will live if you murder people you just met. And only one shell live and go home. Its a trap... Until this girl falls in love with this boy and evenually both of them are allowed to live because it would be slap in the face if no one came out alive. which they were gonna do because they love each other that much. Now the only problem is back home this guy loves the girl. So she must choose who to pick one shes been to hell and back with and a pretty boy who suddenly wants her... Oh and the evil Dictator hates her because she broke the rules... Forces her into marrage of this boy and expects them to have children to so he can be like pay back is bitch and throw the ones who surived the escape room for the first time ever two of them their child into the room. And be like the biggest you have zero control over this ever. But then he gets the idea to send them back into the escape room with other people who already escaped the room before hoping they would die this time only there is a plan to pick the lock and half get captured half are free... And these two lovers are seprated due to this. And she is a hot mess. And unknownly the plan to over take this evil dictator. So she agrees to do it because duh. But then when she gets her man back he trys to kill her and she trys to write him off but all she can think about is him and says I will kill this evil dictator if its the last thing I do. The man who wants her heart kills this girls sister and she is like easy choice learns to love the guy who tried to kill her again and they live happly ever after...

6. He was the trouble maker. She was a goody goody christian girl. Whos daddy was the pastor. One day they meet becuase she is volunteering and he is doing community serivce... as part of it he has to do this school play and he realizes he is crushing on her and he crushing on him. They fall in love. She changed his life to take a better path. Then he founds out she is sick doesn’t have very long to live. Goes to his father hes not talking to. Asks him for help because hes a doctor. And she gets treatment at home because his father agreed to help out. Anyways they kill two birds with one stone get Engaged and Married pretty fast. A few months later she died of her illness.

7. She has been home schooled her whole life. Moves to a new area and the parents decided to put her in high school. And she goes in and to be in this high school you can’t be a sad loner because there is no lunch room table for that your eating in the bathroom stall. So she becomes friends someone who has it out for the popular girls.. And uses the new girl to befriend the popular girls to get revenge on them.. One of them is Canadian... But she is after one guy who is an ex to the popular girl... they get back together and she is Jealous of them. Tells the boyfriend that shes cheating on him... and They have this boolk talking about everyone... And this girl wants this the ex but he doesn’t want her. she has this house party where the friends who put her up to this come by tell her off pretty much. then the popular girl walks in on the girl and boy talking.. also this girl becoming a part of the popular one she is sabotaging the popular girls in doing that she is making the popular one who wants to loose weight become fat girls new boyfriend tells her what she is eating makes her fat. and she is pissed when she finds this out and goes home angry puts her self in this book and tells the pricipal about it the next day Pin it on her friends and the new girl. Then she breaks into the copy room throws the copies shes made all over the school. While the girls are being talked to and everyone who is in this book sees what is written on them... Then they have this meeting in the gym and they say their feelings and the girl who put up the new girl to do everything tells everyone and then the popular girl gets hit by a bus and is okay but then the new girl says she wrote everything in that book and got in trouble for it and has to do some math thing for it gets grounded by her parents and her dad lets her go out she wins prom queen and bam shes liked again

8. A talking donkey finds a new owner in the middle of no where because he is to be sold. He befriends his new owner. Who doesn’t want him. and Then the king thought the donkey needed a friend and sent everyone who was un normal to this green dudes house to be firends with the donkey. Then Green dude is like one pet is enough. Goes to the king says give them to a reserve but he and the donkey have to save a princess in a tower and bring her back to the king to be married. This king has a sweet tooth because he took the legs off a ginger bread man... Anyways This donkey and green dude go on this adventure to save this princess. But shortly the green dude and princess fall in love. And are just over how annoying this Donkey is and this princess at sunset she turns green to and the donkey finds out they talk green dude gets mad then gets the king to get her princess. they are to married before sunset. Becuase she keeps her being green quiet... But then the donkey and green dude crash the wedding. Green dude admits to being in love with her and she feels the same and they get married. and once they are Married both are green...

9. This dude whos got beef with anyone better then him has more power. Wears all black his minons dressed in white. He is pissed his wife left him years ago after he learned she gave birth to twins one girl one boy. And it’s a world you don’t know your parents. Because they agree to fight because a robot and grown teddy bear and some alian guy help them realize they have more power then this guy... okay so its 1 girl 2 dudes after this girl and one of the dudes is a sibiling to this girl. She gets kidnaped by this dude whos got beef gets saved. Finds out that she is sibilings with this one of the dudes. The dude finds out this dude whos got beef also done so much evil is his father and he’s like I kissed my sister nooooooooooo... And they have a sibiling realtionship after that. Oh and dad wants the son to join the dark side....

10. This rich dude who owns a factory. Shut the doors until one day he is like I want to retire soon lets give it to a kid whos about 10. But before that happened he had an easter egg hunt and people who find the golden ones got a chance to tour his factory which has been closed for the longest time. Then this poor boy finds one. and Is meet in a creepy ally but this creepy dude saying he wants to know the secerts inside. The boy runs off. Home tells his family who cannot afford 4 beds. That they could go to the factory. He picks his grandfather who was bedridden can suddnely walk... And they are in there with a spoiled brat, A Kid who eats everything. A girl who chews gum. A kids obessed with tv. and Him a poor boy. And one by one they get taken off and these orange men sing a creepy ass song each one who gets “ lost”. And each area they are tested until one comes out. Tho this boy broke the rules he kept the secert that the owner of the joint said to keep to themselves. and Gives the favtory to him

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daydreamindollie · 5 years ago

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If you could explain the plot please that would be great sorry for the inconvenience

No no! It’s no inconvenience at all! I understand that there can be a lot to misunderstandings because I didn’t really start this on a stable enough foundation as I was still an amateur back then, especially when it came to planning a decent plot.

❥ Jungkook is the prince and sole heir to the Seoul Kingdom

❥ His mother was assassinated when he was still fairly young (at first I wrote that it was when he was around 2 but I’m changing that to 5 years old...bc my plan has changed)

❥ the reason why she was assassinated was because she was the princess of the Incheon Kingdom who was, at the time, at war with Seoul.

❥ Essentially, the marriage between Jungkook’s mother and father was to form a bond and make peace between the two warring kingdoms.

❥ Some stupid rebels didn’t like this and so assassinated the queen! As a result, Jungkook despises commoners as those were the people that planned and executed his mother’s assassination.

❥ He grew up despising them, treating them unfairly and that mistreatment translated to everyone that was below him in status. By that point, it didn’t matter if they were commoners or not anymore, if they were below him then they were below him - so he was even acted cold and harsh towards the palace staff.

❥ his rotten attitude couldn’t be tamed!

❥ But as he neared the age of succeeding the throne, his father was also falling more and more ill. So his father announced that Jungkook will be succeeding the throne the following year, which would be an earlier coronation than planned.

❥ Naturally, people didn’t want Jungkook to be king because of his attitude but Jungkook wasn’t happy either and confronted his father but that didn’t change the King’s mind.

❥ ANYWAY...

❥ Since the king was really ill on the day that he would usually patrol the nearby cities and towns, Jungkook went in his place.

❥ When he was out on patrol, during a break from being on horseback, he ended up in an alley and met an old haggard beggar woman asking for money. Since he didn’t help her, she cursed him because she didn’t like his personality and felt as though his beautiful face and disgusting attitude didn’t match.

❥ You later find out that the ‘witch’ is actually an enchantress who is IN FACT Jungkook’s deceased mother.

❥ The curse turned Jungkook into the complete opposite of who he was and what he looked like so that his appearance finally fitted his rotten attitude.

❥ In order to break the curse, he needed to learn to be Considerate, Caring, Capable, Charismatic and Compatible, his deadline was his coronation day.

❥ (I’m changing the date of that from the 3rd day of spring to...a year after his curse befell him - just ‘cause I forgot and started writing about spring in chapter 11 and out Gukkie still needs a jewel one last jewel to return to his old self)

❥ alongside this Jungkook was given a pendant with five dull jewels decorating it. He cannot take it off and it somewhat symbolises the chains of his curse.

❥ the way it works is that each time he learns to be one of the five ‘C’s, a jewel will turn a vibrant colour as a symbol of his achievement and a quote will be engraved at the back of the pendant to remind him of what he had achieved.

❥ These engravings will disappear and will be replaced by a new one when he learns a new ‘C’ trait.

❥ it’s like a little tracker for his progress. (it also helps me a lot when writing but lets keep that between us)

❥ With each of the five ‘C’s he gains, consequently with every new glow achieved on a different jewel, Jungkook regains something of his old self back.

❥ E.g the yellow jewel (consideration) gave him back his strength whilst the blue jewel (caring) gave him back his clear skin etc etc

❥ the characteristics of his old self that he gains back also helps him achieve the other ‘C’s. For example, without his strength (from consideration - yellow) he couldn’t help you/reader/MC around the flower shop so he wouldn’t have been able to achieve the blue jewel for capable.

❥ (the colors and traits are from the top of my head so don’t quote me on this)

❥ MOVING ON!

❥ Jungkook was dubbed the village maniac/lunatic etc because he started throwing a tantrum when people wouldn’t believe he was the missing crown prince

❥ he was an outcast

❥ Fortunately, YOU (the reader), pick him up and allow him to stay at your place with your little brother Taehyung until he can stand on his own two feet again

❥ you’re just sweet and kind like that - much like your parents, they taught you well

❥ also, you end up calling him ‘Jeong’ bc he had a really raspy voice and hated it when he first met you (this is because of the curse) so when you asked for his name, he stopped in between and now his new alias is Jeong!

❥ anyway! with your help, Jungkook gradually starts meeting his goals and becomes a better person and helps you with your shop and looks after taehyung like a little brother!

❥ Oh! And he also falls in love with you ;)

❥ And, would you look at that! You fall for him too! In spite of his hideous appearance, isn’t that just the sweetest thing you ever-?!...(AHEM! lets continue...)

❥ But you’re both whimps so neither of you say anything and there’s a lot of lovey dovey tension between you. Also, Taehyung is the cutest little cockblock you’ve ever seen :3

❥ along the way, Jungkook meets Seokjin, the village Baker, Jimin who becomes Taehyung’s best friend and Jimin’s dad the lumberjack!

❥ At first, Jungkook was jealous of Jin because of how close the two of you were to each other but it was like a brother and sisterly love, hence why Taehyung calls Jin ‘uncle/samchon’

❥ eventually, Jungkook lets his jealousy for Jin go becuase he’s not that bad and it really is just like a brother and sister relationship between you two!

❥ When you meet Jimin for the first time, he falls in love with you because you acted like a mother to him and he’s lived most of his life without a mother so he thought you’d make the perfect wife! (isn’t that just adorbs?!)

❥ Of course, Jungkook and Jimin become love rivals however stupid that sounds. Jimin is more serious about it than Jungkook is though.

❥ Over time, Jimin lets Jungkook have you as his future wife once he proves himself worthy by helping with his father’s lumbering business when his dad is sick. BUT Jimin’s withdrawl from the love rivalary doesn’t happen without him threatening to run at Jungkook with his father’s axe if he didn’t treat you well

❥ At first Jungkook didn’t want to leave you and return to his old life as prince Jungkook but he gradually admits that he needs to return

❥ His resolve only strengthens when the ceasefire treaty between Seongnam is breached in chpt.11 and now he’s more than eager to return to his old self so he can win the war and protect you and Taehyung.

❥ That’s it so far!

I hope I answered your questions, if you have any more, feel free to ask me once again! I’ll happily dispel your confusion/misunderstandings x

#.diary entry #PWTUH misunderstandings need some clearing up #sorry for any confusion until now #i was really an amateur at planning stories when i started this so...#i did still try back then though!

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yaboylevi · 4 years ago

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KS [1] Thanks for the swift reply! I'd like to go private but I don't have a tumblr account, honestly don't feel like doing one if you don't mind. If you don't feel like talking about snk anymore, I understand! If it only causes you bitterness, why bother? I still do it just because it doesn't and it's going to end soon anyway. Regarding your reply, yeah I too meant that the bird was Eren's conscience or connection to nature and not him literally, I just didn't have enough space XD [...]

Hiii...it’s been almost 3 weeks I am so sorry. But between real life being absolute torture, and finding respite in stuff different from snk, I completely forgot to come back to this. I really do not enjoy talking about snk, so I was really overwhelmed by your messages (that I didn’t even receive in full, and that’s one of the reasons why I’d prefer to move the conversation elsewhere - but I don't really wanna have conversations about snk atm anyway. ‘cause you see, I agree 100% with you, it sounds like I wrote these messages myself, but at the end of the day they just remind me of how much I’ve come to dislike the series...so, not really productive, or healthy for my mindset right now (i repeat, real life is just...trying to kill me apparently)).

Anyway, so I’ll just reply quickly to your messages, because you spent a lot of time typing them up, but yeah...this is not the best place or moment to have such long discussions about snk, I believe.

[2] I was wondering more on the implications to that, because thinking about it, I remembered many scenes in the anime's past seasons with birds flying, and it got me thinking if it really was all decided from the start? Maybe by some superior entity? I hope like you that little Ymir isn't just a plot device and has a role to play together with Zeke. I hope this isn't the last we see from Eren pov as well becuase those shots of little him saying 'this scenery' really worried me. [...]

I was thinking birds, besides a white one possibly meaning hope and a black one usually connected to death, are part of nature, just like all things connected through paths. Titans are connected to nature, there has been a lot of discussion about this in fandom for years, so yeah. Also, hope = freedom & life, death = despair. It all plays on the dichotomy that is Eren: he doesn’t want to kill but he doesn’t want to die either. I wonder if one of the morals of the story will be that death is just part of a natural cycle, hence you can be free in death too (but I hate this, because it’s really negative if applied to SnK).

Re-reading some stuff also made me hopeful about this not being the last of Eren’s pov, as far as explanations go. Like, there is clearly more (Liberio, for example, the WHT, etc). As for child!Eren, I think he is totally disconnected from reality, hence he doesn’t see what’s happening, and if he is, he’s also trying to convince himself that, like 19!Eren said in chapter 121, as a child he would take freedom away from people who tried to take his freedom away with little to no remorse - of course, it isn’t the case for adult!Eren, as we saw multiple times.

[3] I just hope we get to see more from him, like War Hammer titan and King Fritz memories, and there's more with Historia as well. I don't really care about shipping so I don't mind if we get EH or if Eren is the father, at least it would make sense for the pregnancy thing to be this dragged out. I just found the Armin/Annie conversation really baffling? What with the timing and the tone of the chapter? What was the point of that? To make us feel sad for Armin if Annie dies? [...]

I feel a couple, in particular a couple with Eren, would be too out of the blue and ruin Eren’s character (and the other party of the pair). Besides, romance has never been part of Eren’s character arc. If it’s just to follow the shonen manga’s trend of the protagonist ending up with [insert female character], then this will finally put snk in the trash bin for me.

I was watching a japanese youtuber’s analysis about the latest chapter and he said something very interesting about the Annie/Armin scene: just like we have child!Eren being happy vs adult!Eren despairing, their little talk repeated the same 2 povs: childhood vs adulthood. Armin’s ““declaration of love”” felt really childish and, as Annie rightfully pointed out, was that really the time for it? People are getting crushed and Armin thinks about such innocents stuff? You could say it’s the same dichotomy of hope - despair, beautiful - cruel, innocence - what Armin later admits: he is not innocent, he also killed people and children in cold blood, ever since the beginning of the story.

I personally don’t think either of them will die, but as the youtuber pointed out, usually these romantic overtones bring one of the pair to their death (I was pleased he brought up as an example yumihisu ahah), so I get why you might speculate as such.

[4] And Eren's pov got me really confused. I kind of understand what the author was going for and I agree with your analysys about his inner conflict and desperation but to me it came out of nowhere? Like you said, it doesn't really make sense for his character. This is what we get by having his thoughts hidden for so long though. At the start of the manga we got those moments where we could see he was somewhat twisted but then he grew out of it and was pretty normal, and now all of a sudden[..]

I think the inner conflict has been there, always throughout the story and in Eren as well, but for me, the problem lies elsewhere, in the sense that there is still no connection (or good enough transition) between “i don’t want to kill people but since i don't wanna die i guess i’ll kill them”. We’re talking about Eren, who wanted to die because people died because of him...who got so angry about being unjustly threatened with death, who stood up against bullies, against all sorts of injustice because he strongly believes in the intrinsic right of being free (WHICH IS THE RIGHT TO BE ALIVE). I get it that the other side wants them dead, but it still feels stupid that he would convince himself to kill the innocent majority, suddenly refusing half of what he has always believed in. If Isayama is going for “hey look, isn’t this tragic? What despair pushes people to do?” like UGH it’s just so annoying, because WE KNOW, snk is ALL about that, but what bothers me in this case, in particular, is, if Eren gets no redemption at all, then fuck off @ this story. See, I’m getting angry.

[5] he has like regressed to his childhood self? If he really hates doing all this, why does he do it? And I think you're right about Eren being demonized by the narrative: the writer made possible only 2 options and forced Eren to choose the rumbling and to him to be the psycho final villain, what with all those exaggerated expressions and shadows to draw him. If he was going with that from the start he should have done it constantly throughout the manga. And I won't even talk about [...]

And yes, the point is Eren changed throughout the story!!! For god’s sake!! Then all that progression was just so that Eren had a more nuanced view of the world so that he could suffer for this choice in particular? Wow, I didn’t know I was reading Tokyo Ghoul...... /s

[6] the predetermination stuff. Did Eren really surrender to the future he saw? Is he really just there in his titan sleeping and wallowing? LOL If Armin turns out to be the hero who can change the future... bleargh. I probably dislike the alliance as much as I do because the narrative is so biased in favour of them. I put my hope in Zeke for that! Please! Let him be the key if Eren is defeated! On the other hand I think it's not so obvious that he will lose as well. on that point, [...]

This is the last one I got, I’m sorry. Anyway, idk if it’s predetermined, or just like, the moment you think of something, the future changes. That would explain how Eren blames himself for this future: only because he dared think of this, then it happened. In any case, I doubt Armin ends up being the hero, I think it’ll be a group effort...remember Isayama was impressed by GotG’s ending....

Finally, Zeke, my lovely bitch, where are you??!?!?!?

He’s late to the party like a true queen.

#here you can see my descent into bitterness looooll so sorry #KS anon #snk spoilers #shingeki asks #Anonymous

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The speculation that the tinhats have been tossing around the last couple of days (Darren ghost-writing music for big pop artists) is exactly how their new “facts” get added to their list. They spend a few days making up some BS and then later they will refer back to it as if it’s a proven fact.

Anonymous said: What is this new nonsense about Darren ghostwriting for Mariah Carey and others? What did I miss? Are they high?

Anonymous said: Oh Abby, when will the lies stop? You're making up bullshit about Darren ghostwriting songs now? Where did this come up from? Must have been from the drinks you and your friend had the other night. A drunken conversation of 'What if's and How about's' that will keep your little coven hanging on to your every word for weeks. You're a liar, Abby. You have mental issues. You need help. At least this is fairly harmless, I mean, you're not saying anything Anti-Mia, but still you're lying. Ugh.

Anonymous said: Did the tinhats seriously imply that maybe Darren wrote Taylor Swift’s “Out of the Woods” song? And then when someone pointed out that Taylor writes her own songs (including that one) they decided that Darren used the phrase “out of the woods” because he relates to that song. Sometimes I think they have reached the pinnacle of insanity and then they make these absurd reaches out of nowhere. They truly do believe that the entire world revolves around Darren.

Anonymous said: "I have always wondered how D got out of his record contract and this just might be an explanation." Ok I can't make sense of what the heck she's even trying to say in the rest of this post but Naya, Kevin and Amber were all dropped by their label (I think it was Columbia) because execs didn't expect their albums to make enough money. I suspect the same happened to Darren. I really doubt that there's anything more to it than that.

1. This IS EXACTLY HOW batshitcrazy cc lies get turned into facts. Roughedreconteur is nuts- their posts are always insane with tangents that nobody else would ever imagine. Abby used to disagree with them as they don’t seem to actually like Darren but lately, they are coming in with things that don’t offend her and she plays along, pretending that Rouged’s nutjob ideas are valid- it’s the US media pretending that when Trump makes a statement that is an outright lie it’s ok to repeat it likes it true or makes sense instead of calling him out. This time Abby really got swept up in the idea that Darren said on his Text message that he was almost “out of the woods”. Those of us who live in reality know that “out of the woods” is a commonly used saying that many people use to contact they are almost done with the worst of it- whether that is an illness “Dr, is he out of the woods yet?” or work-related projects like Darren did or just like what Trump thinks is happening now that McConnell already said he was “lock-step with Trump” because he doesn’t understand that he has already been impeached and that won’t go away, ever or literally you are coming home from a hike and you almost “out of the woods"ba-dum-pa. It wasn’t a reference to Taylor Swift’s song. Taylor does actually write her music, she started out as a writer when she was 15. Ironically, one of the tinhatters mentioned that Darren went to a Taylor Swift concert and her mom hugged him- that may have happened but I know for sure he went to a T.Swift concert and Taylor was walking down the aisle from her outer stage back to mainstage and she saw him and hugged him and I know this becuase I was there. This is the sum total of the evidence they going on to arrive at “Darren wrote ‘Out Of The Woods” and was referencing it.

2. One only needs to spend 4 min with Wikipedia to realize that Taylor and Jack Antanoff wrote the damn song- not Darren Criss.

3 Taylor’s Label was Big Machine Record, not Columbia

4. I am also pretty sure that Columbia dropped Darren’s album because they believed it wasn’t commercially viable. Record labels don’t care if the singers like their albums. Lots of people have had music they didn’t like released anyway. Record labels are out to make money and they will do whatever they can to recoup expenses they spent on making the album but putting out a nonviable album is even more expensive and sometimes they cut their loses. Darren certainly didn’t have the power to shelf his own album or to cut some drug deal with the company to ghostwrite to what? Pay them back for the expense or to Ghostwrite until he’s paid off some arbitrary debt? But as you pointed out- the Taylor and Mariah weren’t on Columbia when Darren was (Mariah was at some point)

5. As for how they got to Mariah Carey- Darren sang Mariah Carey on Lip Sync Battle and “he has no known connection to her” and according to Abby and Rouged, people always sing songs connected to them (I don’t watch it much but I’m pretty sure that isn’t true). It looks to me like Darren was slotted into a show that was clearly just a Mariah tribute. I suspect it had to do with timing and nothing more. Lots of people battle someone they are connected to but that isn’t a requirement. Rouged claimed the star he battled was LA Reid (It was Jermaine Dupri). Jermaine co-wrote and produced many of Mariah's biggest hits although Heartbreaker written by Mariah and Jay-Z and produced by DJ Clue. Rouged argued that LA Reid is connected to Mariah Carey (he was- he was her label head for many years). When someone pointed out that it was Jermaine, not LA Reid, Rouged’s excuse was she can’t tell the difference between LA Reid (who is 63 years old), Jermaine Dupri (who is quite short and 47 years old), and P Diddy (who is 50). Dude, those 3 men look nothing alike.

6. Nobody even mentioned Rouged’s nonsense about how Ryan Murphy wanted to get song rights quickly so he had the cast themselves work their magic to obtain those rights WTAF? I am quite sure that the process for obtaining rights was something the legal department did and it wasn’t like Ryan called up the singer and asked- it would have been something official done through their representatives. Clearly, Chris Martin said “no” so we know they had input but it still wasn’t Ryan called Chris and Chris said “no” but later he said “yes” and that was that- no legal papers were signed.

7. Abby claims there us a “Mia figure’ in Royalties, not sure what the hell that means

8. Abby and Flowers are trying to make Mariah’s butterfly thing and Chris’s Butterfly IGs into something so Abby claimed Chris posted a pic of himself in front of the butterfly mural “before the battle”. Well, yes he did...it’s dated August 2018 which is before Darren’s Jan 24, 2019, Lip Syn Battle...on that, she isn’t wrong LOL.

This is honestly one of the most harebrained theories I’ve read to date as it relies entirely on multiple things that aren’t even real

The actual posts under a cut because they are looong

rougedraconteur asked: Whenever something really strange happens like the “cough hacking “cough” of an ENTIRE site to the point of shutting it down, that has had only minimal action from a questionable enterprise that has failed in most ways and has had at least one party sending desperate signals and the other acting like they had cut them off already, that means something, but probably not exactly what it looks like on its face. I think D’s response, saying HE, not WE, is “almost out of the woods,” is telling.

ajw720 answered: Look at that song again. Look how specific some of it is. Lying on your couch. The feel of your necklace around my neck. You put on the brakes too soon, 20 stitches in a hospital room. All the wolves, the ice and snow of being frozen out, attacked by the enchanted forest itself and caught by vines just when you had almost made it to the ocean. You get there, and find…yourself. Or just someone like you? The mirror image, what that journey made you into, or something else, more real?

So, I think it is possible that “Royalties” may spoof some very famous “songwriters.” That IS the premise, and D has set him and an M type “just ugh” up as a “songwriting team.” One that is, in THAT clip, not so great, and in fact terrible. But, D is in deep with the professional songwriters guild. THAT, is fact. But why, exactly? Is he “ghostwriting” for someone famous for writing ALL their own songs? Mariah just got into their Hall of Fame, gossip is she wrote nothing much, all ghosted.

So, Royalties? Will it make fun of that type power pop star? Will they be credited, or “ghosted” so the star gets all or most of the credit? Mariah is not the only power pop star D has been associated with, in strange but oddly significant ways. It is very telling that most celebs on Lip Sync Battle compete against a former co-star, “significant other,” or old pal. Not D, and that meant something. L.A. Reid has a long connection with Mariah. To the public, D has no connection with either.

So, when you do a Mariah tribute on a show as kitschy popular with superfans of celebs as Lip Synch Battle, you would OF COURSE pick L.A. Reid, who is a power producer of more than a little questionable reputation and no real entertainer on his own, really, but well connected as her long-time producer/rumored former lover/long time cheerleader and friend. And D. Who is WHAT to them both, exactly? That whole thing NEVER made sense, except that D BECAME Mariah, and stole that show. Hmmmm…

Who else does D know that is a huge star that writes their own songs? In fact, is known for that, even critically praised, well above her singing abilities? Tay/lor. He was at one of her concerts, and was greeted in the crowd by her mom. He has been behind her in another venue, they have crossed paths. At this point, she has certainly been managed, or managed herself, much better than Bieber, her male counterpart. IF she has ghostwriters, they would be well-hidden and tightly secured.

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Hello @rougedraconteur. Cough, cough, hack indeed. I will never believe some random person went and deleted posts and blocked people from a band’s SM that most people have never heard of. In my opinion, inside job, meant to send a direct message, which to us is unclear, but the recipient received it, of that i have no question (I have wondered if D has tried to withhold the new EP, nothing else much makes sense especially in light of his brother seemingly struggling to pay the bills).

Really interesting on the song reference in the tweet “once I’m out of the woods”, I have never heard that song, but wow, how close is this to what i perceive as reality? This could BE D and now that i understand the reference, just like i think he wrote the tweets from NYE when he said “and here we are now, I made it, we made it. I’ve been looking forward to to this for a long time…the Soaring Twenties…seeing clearly in 2020”, I am starting to lean he wrote these tweets that indicated he was “tending to some other obligations” (which include a fake wedding, endless promotion for Swiller, Fashion Shows, Family Honeymoon in the Philippines, TB commercials and other endless adds, and promoting SK). Far too smart for the Jumping Jackass or PBB. And well, in combination, an interesting series of tweets.

For those other who don’t know the song:

Looking at it now It all seems so simple We were lying on your couch I remember You took a Polaroid of us Then discovered (then discovered) The rest of the world was black and white But we were in screaming color And I remember thinking

Are we out of the woods yet? Are we out of the woods yet? Are we out of the woods yet? Are we out of the woods? Are we in the clear yet? Are we in the clear yet? Are we in the clear yet? In the clear yet, good

Are we out of the woods

Looking at it now Last December (last December) We were built to fall apart Then fall back together (back together) Ooh your necklace hanging from my neck The night we couldn’t quite forget When we decided (we decided) to move the furniture so we could dance Baby, like we stood a chance Two paper airplanes flying, flying, flying And I remember thinking

Are we out of the woods?

Remember when you hit the brakes too soon Twenty stitches in a hospital room When you started crying baby, I did too But when the sun came up I was looking at you Remember when we couldn’t take the heat I walked out, I said, I’m setting you free But the monsters turned out to be just trees When the sun came up you were looking at me

You were looking at me

Oh! You were looking at me

Are we out of the woods yet? Are we out of the woods yet? Are we out of the woods yet? Are we out of the woods? (I remember) Are we in the clear yet? Are we in the clear yet? Are we in the clear yet? Are we in the clear yet? (Oh, I remember)Are we out of the woods yet? Are we out of the woods yet? Are we out of the woods yet? Are we out of the woods? Are we in the clear yet? Are we in the clear yet? Are we in the clear yet? In the clear yet, good

Dare I hope that perhaps D is really optimistic about the year ahead? Because add in the HW stuff (on 2 most anticipated queer shows of 2020 lists, the reference to SB being leaked, what we know about the other characters, what we don’t know about Raymond, and the otherwise silence about the show), things are, shall we say, interesting.

On R/oyalties, a/k/a the show that is used to pay out every user/leach in his life (SK, RR, PBB, Algorithm Winners, etc), my understanding, and it is limited, is that they are in fact writing songs for popular, mainstream artists. Unclear if they are named songwriters or if they will be “ghosting” for people and based on the fact that the first artist is played by CT, I would venture to guess that they talent isn’t that amazing, so yes in many ways, making fun of the talent and pointing out that behind most of these mainstream acts are writers we never know or see.

On D himself ghosting, quite possible right? It could explain a lot. Including, if he bought it, being pushed to buy a $3 million home for his beard (which could possible be an agreed upon pay out). I have always wondered how D got out of his record contract and this just might be an explanation. Perhaps he agreed that instead of releasing his own music that was not authentically him, he agreed to write music for other artists that may or may not include the above reference individuals? No question, his spot on Lip Sync Battle was odd if there is no association to MC and yes, she has a clear and obvious connection to to L.A. This is no question, something to think about and ponder. He is an incredibly talented songwriter who, to date, has not released, that we are aware of, a ton of material. It would make sense if he is writing for others and I would guess ghosting would pay well. You definitely made me think.

mmack062. 1Just a quick correction, it was Jermaine Dupri (Janet Jackson’s former fiance) not LA Reid on LSB with D.

ajw720 Thanks @mmack0621!

flowersintheattic254 Only 2 things spring to mind here. 1. Was the run of butterfly posts from C prior to and after D’s lipsynch performance so maybe he has ghost written for MK and 2. Once ‘he’s out of the woods’. It may be a reference to a TS song, but considering the location for the sham was in the woods I would like to hope he’s near to escaping and out of the woods soon 😉.

ajw720 @flowersintheattic254 perhaps a double meaning then?

C posted this before the battle.

rougedraconteur. I like this, and I like Tay/lor, although that is a recent development, on my part, but I think she is coming more into her own with more near total control over HER mammoth “overnight” breakout career than she ever had before. Remind you of somebody? Getting there, anyway. And yeah, some folks have to write under another name, for various reasons.

Butterfly IS a Mari/ah Car/ey Trademark, but it is for Tay, too. She posted a giant butterfly on a wall in Nashville with her most recent album. Not saying we are right, in either case or with the connections, but I believe you should look at everything and how it might connect, as a possible piece of this puzzle. Mar/iah was recently inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame, as a recent piece of gossip I saw stated, though she was unqualified for it. Ghostwriters who CAN’T be revealed because the celeb and management won’t allow it, as detremental to the Big Star who is a MoneyMaker.

Can anyone verify that D’s old roomie Je/ff Jerni/gan, who went with D to Ka/tyPer/ry’s western bday party, around 2012 or 2013 maybe, during THOSE years, was with ASCAP in some “official” capacity, and that his sister worked in a big-sounding job with F/ox At that time? Connections. I know JJ has moved on now, but D has always been involved with ASCAP and recognized as a SONGWRITER, even by Gl/ee and RIB, and hung around with other songwriters and big pop stars kind of above his pay grade at the time, if you get my drift.

Think of the swiftie songs both D AND C have sung or lipsynced to in their online posts. They connect to at least some of her stuff in SOME way. And that’s a fact.

ajw720 Just adding a few significant facts. The Human EP was released on my birthday in 2010 (July 20) a few months prior to rocketing to stardom, seemingly giving him an even bigger platform to have his music heard. Since that time, D has released very few original songs (almost 10 years) even though we know he was signed to a record deal with Columbia for several years and he has told us that he wrote and recorded many songs for an eventual album that was never released. He even spent an entire summer in the UK writing songs with people like B/runo M/ars. And Columbia funded a summer tour to test his songs and popularity. A tour that sold out. So what has D released?

1 Solo EP with 4 original songs, one of which he claimed was written many years ago when he 1st performed it (untrue written during LU) and 1 of which he has given his brother credit for writing the chorus.

1 EP with his brother with 4 original songs, which he claims were mainly written by his brother

1 SK show back in 2011

2 original songs performed on G/lee

And 4 or 5 songs for the LU tour, none of which were released (I don’t count IDM as that wasn’t specifically written for the tour and only performed once). And ONE of those songs was “ghostwritten” by wa/tsky (either Pheromones or PPG)

The songs he wrote for R/oyalties yet to be released

In 10 years, he has released FOUR solo tunes, FOUR, despite being signed to a huge contract. FOUR, on an indy label. And I believe he only released them because he was forced by contract as he owed it to the Jumping Jackass (hence the name H/omework, a chore that has to be done). And a total of, not including R/oyalties, maybe 30 including a musical for his theater group that was performed 9 years ago. Where has all his music gone? Now, I am certain he is holding back on solo tunes because he does not want them associated with PBB. But still, it is a least worth questioning.

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hayleesettee · 5 years ago

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Meal Prep Tips for Beginners!

I am still a beginner at the whole health and fitness world. During my journey I have tried things that work and things that didn't and things that really didn't! Here are my top tips for meal prep that were taught to me by a friend who is a dietitian. I have been using these tips for the last few months and they have really helped!

1) ALWAYS EAT BREAKFAST.

This one was hard for me becuase I never did. Now I don't feel good without it. Some yummy things to meal prep for breakfast are:

-berries • pre wash and cut up if needed and keep in a sealed container.

-granola and yogurt• make home made granola and add it to some Greek yogurt. If you want to be fancy you can top it with some berries or banana!

-oatmeal• a batch of oatmeal and keep it in the fridge. You can reheat it with a little bit of milk or eat it cold. Top it with fruit. It's a good source of carbs and soo yummy.

-Hard Boiled eggs• these little protine packed babies are good for so many things. But really good for a morning on the go. Grab 1 or 2 and munch on them on the way to work. Hard boiled eggs are a super awesome thing to eat after the gym. But really good for breakfast!

-smoothies• we have all seen it. But making smoothie packs and putting them in the freezer until needed the best way to do it.

Those are a couple that I do!

2) Try and get containers that have sections.

I use a plastic and glass free bento box. They are made from rice husk. I have a video about them down on my blog and YouTube channel (hayleesettee). They have 3 sections a major section (2.6cups) then 2 smaller sections which are less then half a cup.

3) Write it out.

I draw a container at the top of my rough drafted meal plan. I make a meal plan that is 4 weeks long. Using that to start my eating healthy and eating healthy foods I know I enjoy currently.

I look at the large section first and think what could I put in there. I brainstorm some ideas

-chicken wraps

- lettuce wraps

-soup

- salads all different kinds

- quinoa, chicken breast

- sausages, sweet potatoe and veggies

So many options! Then I move down into the 2 smaller sections. What would I put in those.

-nuts

-fruit

-Veggies

- dinner roll

- hummus or salad dressing

The list goes on.

4) Plug into a week or month calander.

I used a peice of paper and I wrote Monday to Friday breakfast, lunch and supper a snack. Then filled it in. Making sure all my meals fit into that weekly grocery shop. Example

Monday:

B: Oatmeal with fruit and cinnamon

L: chicken wrap, orange slices, nuts

S: sweet potatoe, broccoli and chicken breast

SN: Protine shake (am) Apple (pm)

Then I would do that for all 5 to 7 days that need to be on the meal plan.

5) Make a weekly or bi weekly shopping list using your meal plan as a guide.

I go shopping weekly. When I am done making my meal plan on the back of the sheet I write everything I would need to make these meals. Example

Using the meal plan form the previous example I know I would need

Wraps, chicken, broccoli, sweet potatoes, oatmeal, salad stuff (cucumber, pepper, lettuce,etc) and then whatever I need for the rest of the days.

Making your week go with 2 or 3 staple meals helps. For example I know the smallest amount of wraps I can get from my store is 6. So I buy 6 wraps becuase Monday I need a chicken wrap. Well what do I do with the other 5? Well I would put them in my weekly meal plan somewhere else. Lunch or suppers. I will attach a picture of my meal plan so you can see how I do it. Hopefully it will make more sense.

6) MAKE A LIST AND STICK TO IT.

7) MAKE A BUDGET

I hope these tips will help you start your journey. They have helped me so much with mine. I wish you the best of luck.

Remeber Stay as Beautiful as you are!

Thanks for following my blog!

💕Haylee Settee

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fleabad-blog · 6 years ago

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RULES : TAG FOLLOWERS YOU WANT TO KNOW BETTER !

TAGGED BY: @chromoluminous 💕 TAGGING: whomstever WANTS TO

NAME: bobby STAR SIGN: taurus...i dont know any more than that HEIGHT: idk but short like maybe 5′5?? WHAT’S YOUR MIDDLE NAME? u must be a level 10 friend to unlock my 2 middle names PUT YOUR SPOTIFY ON SHUFFLE. WHAT ARE THE FIRST 6 SONGS THAT POPPED UP?

the wire, haim

don’t talk (put your head on my shoulder), the beach boys

are you here?, the presets

breakfast in america, supertramp

le perv, carpenter brut

pistol grip pump, rage against the machine

EVER HAD A POEM OR SONG WRITTEN ABOUT YOU? not as far as i know but someone did burn an mp3 of muse’s cover of can’t take my eyes off you and give it to me as a valentimes present so WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU PLAYED AIR GUITAR? i honestly dont think i have ever done this WHO IS YOUR CELEBRITY CRUSH? right now embarrassingly its scoot mcnairy, still going strong! the man WELDS WHAT’S A SOUND YOU HATE; SOUND YOU LOVE? anything to do with polystyrene or any of that shit..i do not cotton to that! sounds i LOVE .. i shall be gay and lame and say when its raining outside and ur warm in ur room that specific sound..... DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? no but i get scared by them anyway which is the worst of both worlds HOW ABOUT ALIENS? absolutely! DO YOU DRIVE? no and i will learn but just NOT RIGHT NOW IF SO, HAVE YOU EVER CRASHED? no but i have been hit by a car as a pedestrian! it sucked! WHAT WAS THE LAST BOOK YOU READ? this is so embarrassing because i’m currently doing a masters in creative writing but like...i dont fucking know...the last thing i read on my kindle was the original fleabag script but that was like LAST YEAR, i think the last book i actually read all the way through was a german book from the 1600s for my BA called (short title) Courasche which was about this lady who got revenge on this jackass for being mean to her and told her raunchy and debauched life story, courasche is my hero and i will die for her, there’s a great english translation avail on amazon! i wrote an essay on it about the presentation of femininity DO YOU LIKE THE SMELL OF GASOLINE? no it makes me want to vom WHAT WAS THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW? oh god. oh my god. it was fifty shades freed. i watched all 3 of them in the last day and i dont know what to say i feel terrible about it they were terrible movies and i wish i could take it all back but i just wanted to watch a jenny nicholson video about them and understand better WHAT’S THE WORST INJURY YOU’VE EVER HAD? i broke my ankle last summer which SUCKED and was the most painful thing ive ever experienced! i also broke my wrist in austria and had to deal with all of that but In German which is where i discovered they dont have a different word for fracture vs break in german! funnily enough neither of these breakages occurred when i was hit by a car where i actually did more damage to the car than it did to me DO YOU HAVE ANY OBSESSIONS RIGHT NOW? obsessed with the 2018 shitshow of a movie Rideshare, the worst film i have ever seen, i cannot stop thinking about it DO YOU TEND TO HOLD GRUDGES AGAINST PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE YOU WRONG?yes and it will take effort i dont have to wipe those grudges out so they are staying IN A RELATIONSHIP? im in a relationship with when cary elwes from the movie saw 3d says “i dont think so” and throws the saw from the movie saw at the camera and it goes 3d becuase this was the one that was in 3d. im in a relationship with that

#out.#im sorry htis is very long and i am OVERSHARING but thats what we do at 3:14am!

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aloy97 · 6 years ago

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Castiel X miky “ you love her”

* first of all i wanted to tell you guys that ENGLISH is not my language, second ths is the second time i wrote this, becuase MY FUUUUUCKING PHONE HAS DECIDE TO DELETE ALL THE DIALOGUES I’VE WROTE, AND NO I HAVEN’T SAVE the story ..I wanna cry so bad.Third this is the first time i wrote something “ canon” i’d love to read so bad.So be patient with me and don’t hit me if what i wrote is not properly correct..It means a lot to me yet be capable to comunicate with the american community*

let’s staaaaart ( for the GOD DAMNT SECOND TIME)

four days are passed after the party, so close to tell him something but so far to do it.God hasen’t allow me to speak in that occasion and now i regret it.She has now what from the beginning wanted and nobodye can change this. Not me, not my friends, nobodye else.

And now i am sit here staring my room’s wall, while yeelen is with sibylle, i dont’ neither contact alexy or chani,since ME and rosalya doesn’t spoke plus or less about 2 months... She has fuckt up our friendship with her silly costrictions and now she has to raise her child, with his fucking perfect life..Alexy hasen’t time to lose with me, he has to think at his relationship, not mine. My relationship is end almost 4 years, and it will never begin again.Chani has to study history now and she’s not definitely interested in my business. I HAVE nobody , but i deserve this, i don’t even search someone for vent me.While i was lost in my thoughts someone knocked 3 times at my door.I’ve had just the time to turn around and see priya, she was angry, perhaps with me.*

P: so are you alive uh?* she says staring me badly, with a hand resting on the side * you know, i don’t like who avoids me without any motivation but what i hate the most is when someone choose to put his friends aside..Have you ever think that maybe someone could remain hurted if you act in that way?.What’s wrong with you?* sighed a little putting her hands on my sholders*

M: * i stared at her with a worried and hurted face, while my heart starts to beat to fast, like i was ranning and fall instantly* i... he... i .. i mean... i just wanted... * hot tears from my eyes starts to fall and crossing my cheeks, while my hands are shaking i can’t event spoke with miss ninja, it hurts so bad*

P:* she observs me arching an eyebrow for few minutes, until i find myself near to her chest and her arms around my body..One of her hands starts to cuddle my head so gently that after 10 minutes of intensively crying i calm* slow down little girl,tell me everything this i not for sure stress..You have argue with castiel right?... don’t try to lie i know for sure you’re crying for that...

M: fine is for that... we have argue with nathaniel at the cosy bear cafe’s kitchen for something i am still trying to figure out...But everything is usless now, nothing can change the situation, amber, has lied to me 4 months ago told me she has lost interest at him.

P: you were crying for that so...I think you have misunderstood what amber feels for him... Don’t you think si better to clarify this whole mess instead of crying and yelling things you didn’t even know for sure?...I mean, you know castiel, he’s definitely not the type who make things and don’t think 100 times before to do other...Unless you don’t want that i made i a little conversation with him...* she stands up and went near the door to open it...I don’t know neither why, my feets started to walk by them selfs and i block firmly the door with a hand*

M: don’t you dare priya!!, please this whole situation brings nothing!!!* i yelled at her, while a few steps from the principal corridor getting closed more and more, until someone doesn’t try to open the door*

P: sorry but i have to do it,is for your own good* prya pushes me and opens the door*

C: hi girls...* he look at me for a few seconds before prya goes out* i am assuming i have to talk to you mimi... * mimi was my fist nickname he give’s me when we were a couple*

M: m-mimi??* i repeat while castiel close the door and sits on my bed*

C: uhm are you deaf Mimi?, is what i’ve said ...So.. tell me.. why are you crying and why you have a face smilar to a sad dog...

M:* as if it is easy says” i am jealous dick head” * what can change if i tell you the exact reason...

C: it depens , but i am pretty sure why you’re crying and i think if i am correct that i’ve to delete what i’ve promess my self...

M: w-what you have promess your self ?

C: don’t make me lose time, you know perfectly what i was taliking about..* he stands up and starts to getting closer to me* and i am sure is even what you wanted...

M: WHY you don’t do the same with amber!!!!!!!!* i scram to his face while my tears starts to fall again* why you have to do this after 4 days!!!!, why you don’t do this before?

C: let me think, first of all you were hiding at last 4 days and i was convinced you were mad at me, second we have argued, third i would came here even without your consens..

M: and fourth you are a fucking dick head!

C: yes and 5 * he grabps my waist and force me to getting close to him..His lips bites mine before to kiss me passionately... *

M: d-double dick head!* i blush intensively before of putting my head near his chest*

* make sure guys to read this thing not using a pc or computer, because idk why there are a lot of emoticon that replace what i’ve wrote*

#MCL #castiel's girlfriend #castiel #mcl rants #personalstuff #2k19

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dianabluebonnet · 4 years ago

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1. Favorite place to write.

My room. I have the best chair to curl up in and write. But I also love my bed. So depends on how I feel that day.

2. Favorite part of writing.

Putting the jumble of thoughts and one liners down into a cohesive work

3. Least favorite part of writing

The actual writing so it makes sense!

4. Do you have writing habits or rituals?

I need silence.

5. Books or authors that influenced your style the most.

Anything by Richelle Meed or JR Ward. Their story telling and world building is amazing!

6. Favorite character you ever created.

I really love my Rose from By Any Other Name. She had a sense of herself that I really admire.

7. Favorite author.

Rochelle Meed, JR Ward, Jennifer L Armontrout

8. Favorite trope to write.

Tbh I love all troupe really. But I think I really love love love the enemies to lovers as well as the love at first sight. I have so many. Oh! I love a fake relationship!!!!

9. Least favorite trope to write. Love at first sight/turns into slow burn

10. Pick a writer to co-write a book with and tell us what you’d write about.

Not sure how to answer this bc I love the authors I love bc I can’t do what they do!

11. Describe your writing process from scratch to finish.

Depends on why I’m working on. Sometimes I get the idea from a simple prompt and go with it. But others, like By Any Other Name or Rogue Four or the one I’m working in now takes planning and plot notes. Sometimes those notes are lines I come up with, emotions I think the characters are feeling or even movements they make within the text. I wrote very visually so I have to be able to see them do these things before I write it down.

12. How do you deal with self-doubts?

I recently watched the Frozen 2 making of doc on Disney+ and the easy the react to failure or things that just don’t work was really helpful to me I how to not just stop but use what you have and make it make sense.

13. How do you deal with writers block? I allow it to happen. I had been in a block for one of my most popular stories for months. I didn’t push it. I didn’t mess with it. I knew the ending of the story so it was just me figuring out how to get there. I don’t want to post something that is shit. I want to give the readers I know like this story the best I can.

14. What’s the most research you ever put into a book?

I’m a historian by trade, that’s what I do. So in Rogue four there is a lot of historical backstory for Hux that unneeded to know about in order to be able to write properly. Oh darn I get to read journals on the IRA! I actually get lost on the articles!

15. Where does your inspiration come from?

Everywhere. Pictures, movies, songs, random tv show plots!

16. Where do you take your motivation from? My own push. I’m trying to get myself to finish things and this has really helped.

17. On avarage, how much writing do you get done in a day?

Some days it’s all day. Some weeks it’s nothing! Depends on what I’m wanting to get down.

18. What’s your revision or rewriting process like?

Some things get sent to a Beta. But others get read and reread at least three times before I post.

19. First line of a WIP you’re working on.

“Well, if I knew where she MIGHT be, I wouldn’t be here, would I, officer?”

20. Post a snippet of a WIP you’re working on.

We lost him because I trusted someone, allowing my team to be vulnerable and that misplaced judgment is something I take with me every moment of every day. Giving up control, not being there to check and double check that things go exactly as planned is very difficult for me, Dr. Tico as I’m sure you can relate.”

21. Post the last sentence you wrote in one of your WIP’s.

“Hux is in your quarters.”

22. How many drafts do you need until you’re satisfied and a project is ultimately done for you?

Really depends on how I feel about the draft before me.

23. Single or multi POV, and why?

Multiple. I love to know what others are thinking.

24. Poetry or prose, and why?

Prose. Becuase that’s what I like???????

25. Linear or non-linear, and why?

Not sure

26. Standalone or series, and why?

Some have started out as a one shot then I have 7 chapters!

27. Do you share rough drafts or do you wait until it’s all polished? 28. And who do you share them with?

Only with my Beta

29. Who do you write for?

Myself.

30. Favorite line you’ve ever written.

“Credits doesn’t buy class.”

31. Hardest character to write.

Original!

32. Easiest character to write.

Rose!!!!!

33. Do you listen to music when you’re writing?

Nope!!!!!!!!!!!

34. Handwritten notes or typed notes?

I have a huge bulletin board with notes

35. Tell some backstory details about one of your characters in your story ________.

Some of my stuff is so detailed I’m not sure I can do this.

36. A spoiler for story _________.

It’s Kaydel not Finn

37. Most inspirational quote you’ve ever read or heard that’s still important to you.

Keep moving forward!

38. Have you shared your outline of your story ________ with someone? If so, what did they think of it?

I be shared blurbs. Not really an outline bc only I can understand that mess!

39. Do you base your characters of real people or not? If so, tell us about one.

No.

40. Original Fiction or Fanfiction, and why?

Fan fiction. I love taking characters that have set characteristics and it them in different scenarios.

41. How many stories do you work on at one time? I’m working on three right now.

42. How do you figure out your characters looks, personality, etc.

Sometimes it’s a picture I see of the actors who play them.

43. Are you an avid reader?

Yes!

44. Best piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten.

I took a long time to update something and got a comment on ao3 saying she went back just to make sure she hadn’t missed an update!

45. Worst piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten.

Someone fixed my spelling.

46. What would your story _______ look like as a tv show or movie?

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!

48. Favorite genre to write in.

Modern supernatural

49. What do you find the hardest to write in a story, the beginning, the middle or the end?

The beginning. I always know what’s going to happen in the chapter. But always have issues with show to start.

50. Weirdest story idea you’ve ever had.

All my stories are weird

51. Describe the aesthetic of your story _______ in 5 sentences or words.

In August Moon it’s a parallel reality: normal reality running along side with the supernatural.

52. How did writing change you?

It made me more confident to say what was on my mind. I had always had these plot bunnies running through my brain no matter what it was I had ideas. But I had never voiced them. But now I feel the confidence to do so. And have acted on a lot of them.

53. What does writing mean to you?

It means an escape. I have the ability to explore my own imagination and push the boundaries of what I think I can do.

54. Any writing advice you want to share?

Write it! Whatever you want to write, do it! it doesn’t matter what others think. You are expressing yourself and it should t and doesn’t matter what others think. It’s about allowing your own imagination and creativity out for the world to see. That is all that matters!

New ask game for writers

1. Favorite place to write. 2. Favorite part of writing. 3. Least favorite part of writing. 4. Do you have writing habits or rituals? 5. Books or authors that influenced your style the most. 6. Favorite character you ever created. 7. Favorite author. 8. Favorite trope to write. 9. Least favorite trope to write. 10. Pick a writer to co-write a book with and tell us what you’d write about. 11. Describe your writing process from scratch to finish. 12. How do you deal with self-doubts? 13. How do you deal with writers block? 14. What’s the most research you ever put into a book? 15. Where does your inspiration come from? 16. Where do you take your motivation from? 17. On avarage, how much writing do you get done in a day? 18. What’s your revision or rewriting process like? 19. First line of a WIP you’re working on. 20. Post a snippet of a WIP you’re working on. 21. Post the last sentence you wrote in one of your WIP’s. 22. How many drafts do you need until you’re satisfied and a project is ultimately done for you? 23. Single or multi POV, and why? 24. Poetry or prose, and why? 25. Linear or non-linear, and why? 26. Standalone or series, and why? 27. Do you share rough drafts or do you wait until it’s all polished? 28. And who do you share them with? 29. Who do you write for? 30. Favorite line you’ve ever written. 31. Hardest character to write. 32. Easiest character to write. 33. Do you listen to music when you’re writing? 34. Handwritten notes or typed notes? 35. Tell some backstory details about one of your characters in your story ________. 36. A spoiler for story _________. 37. Most inspirational quote you’ve ever read or heard that’s still important to you. 38. Have you shared your outline of your story ________ with someone? If so, what did they think of it? 39. Do you base your characters of real people or not? If so, tell us about one. 40. Original Fiction or Fanfiction, and why? 41. How many stories do you work on at one time? 42. How do you figure out your characters looks, personality, etc. 43. Are you an avid reader? 44. Best piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten. 45. Worst piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten. 46. What would your story _______ look like as a tv show or movie? 47. Do you start with characters or plot when working on a new story? 48. Favorite genre to write in. 49. What do you find the hardest to write in a story, the beginning, the middle or the end? 50. Weirdest story idea you’ve ever had. 51. Describe the aesthetic of your story _______ in 5 sentences or words. 52. How did writing change you? 53. What does writing mean to you? 54. Any writing advice you want to share?

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asryakino · 4 years ago

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Okay

Okay yeah

I’m under a LOT more stress than normal right now. And my stupid little brain is compartmentalizing it into trauma size and worry which is a nice thing for it to do. But it results in me feeling like I’m super stressed and not expressing it enough becuase the Emergency Shutoff valve for Emotion (tm) has been hit and I’m just... numb now.

Just fucking numb. Started off with coming home between shifts (as usual) to discover the battery in my laptop had decided to bulge and the registration I did four years ago never fucking took. It was out of warrenty by now anyway but still. Panic. Called company, got battery part number - had to call while in front of mom because THAT was when they picked up - immediately set off one of mom’s triggers about how shitty her laptop is because she chose to go back to the one she hates over learning to use the tablet computer. Stepped out to the mailbox only to discover that we’ve been reported for having (gasp* BOXES on our screened-in front porch. I had to call city ordienence and hope this was a misunderstanding about my ugly ass container garden made of upcycled kitty litter containers. The woman who wrote the violation? Not answering the phone. So I get to stress about this because the LAST violation WARNING please note this is a WARNING that’s IT a notification of the rule being broken. My mom HOUNDED about it for TEN FUCKING YEARS. And I only JUST got her to shut the fuck up about it. I could not, for the sake of my sanity, allow her to find out we’d been reported by some scumbag in the neighbourhood. Left a message, stressed more about what to say/do/how to deal with this situation.

okay... dealt with that. Then went to work for second shift - stressed and on edge because my driver’s been getting onto me about every little thing because her sister has been visiting, and she’s been unconsciously bringing THAT stress onto the bus and affecting her work. I’ve been respectfully silent on the matter while she’s chewed me out over every little thing. I was battling a migraine by this point and covered my eyes to fend off as much stimulation as possible while I try to conserve enough fucking energy to pretend to be a functioning adult while the kids are on. Stress more about whether our trouble kid will be riding because I do not have the brainpower to deal with them.

Trouble doesn’t ride, other kids are as alright as can be expected. Driver is still being distant. City Code woman calls mid shift, and I have to tell her I have to talk to her when I’m NOT at work. But OH she won’t be in her office again until WEDNESDAY. Which puts the posted time limit on the fucking violation SHE WROTE at fucking HALF before I even find out what I have to do to correct for this shit in the first place.

YAY more stress. yippie.

By now my jaw is hurting, my head is throbbing, my knees and ankles are killing me and my elbows have popped due to fidgeting flex and tension dislocating my fucking joints again.

Drop kids off, try to finish paperwork as necessary, think I have everything done, make escape to have a cry in the car and try to relax just a LITTLE bit to deal with this shit.

Go home- mom is still in bad mood, no relaxing happening tonight. Get a text from driver where she announces that she’s going to have to get a new aide who can do all the paperwork properly (I missed one part of one section) and that ��won’t eat, sleep and play games instead of doing work. [I] have NEVER had an aide act like this!”

Note - I don’t sleep on the bus. I put my head down to counter the overstimulation of afternoon sun, passing traffic, and scenery.

I don’t “play games” on my phone. I READ. And since we’re allowed books, there should be no problem allowing electronic books. But when she complained I stopped even doing THAT because it upset my driver.

So I don’t put my head down to keep out overstimulation, and I can’t read to provide my own stimulation. So instead? I’ve been staring and zoning out at the back of the seat ahead of me instead. This she has interperted as me sleeping apparently.

Eating - she eats every day, and I eat most days because I don’t do well on the whole -eating- thing so I MAKE myself eat small snacks to keep from passing out.

She has an obsessive need to have a floor on a schoolbus you can apparently eat off of. And compulsively cleans the bus 2-5 times a DAY, with SPECIAL attention around MY seat because either consciously or unconsciously she considers ME a mess. She ALSO considers the children messes, and has yelled at them and insisted I enforce a stupid ass level of cleanliness that most NICU don’t enforce. Example - the kids are not allowed to TOUCH the windows or it upsets her. They are all visibly upset and scared of being yelled at by her for touching the windows.

her text just set me off the deep end and I shut down immediately to respond that I was sorry for my failings and she has made it extremely clear that I am not fit for this work and job and that if she wants a new aide I will set aside so she can have one that better fits her. My mind is already made up, I’m requesting another assignment for next year - literally any other assignment at this point because she has made it EXTREMELY clear thorugh her words and actions that I am not welcome in her space and she doesn’t feel I am able to perform my work at all.

When I had to write up a kid, I wrote out the exact details and times of what happened. She took it upon herself to rewrite the write up and put her own version of events. Which was esclated as to what really happened and caused issues when trying to explain the situation.

So I came home to all that bullshit, then drove an hour to do a grooming job that helped somewhat with the stress. But the stress immediately returned when my mind was no longer on the topic of grooming cats.

Coming home I stopped for pizza as a way to placate mother - and noticed my engine was making a bad knocking sound. The sound worsened until saturday morning when it sounded as if I was going to blow a piston out of the engine block. Oil was bone dry, transmission was dry, added each and additive to help... sound still there and steadily getting worse. Go to mechanic on the way to my dad’s. NOW having to deal with a panicked mother who is panic stressing about the engine noise that we can literally do nothing about. Go to mechanic, who says it’s a piston or arm and the engine is fucked and on a timer to self destruction - I just dropped 2k in repairs on it about two months ago.

MORE STRESS

Fan fucking tastic.

go to store to get dinner, go to dad’s...

dinner and movie is good, tablet is chugging and won’t play games. Eh.. is fine.

Put mom to bed, watch final movie with dad, go to bed.

Discover 8d music - some stress removed.

Mom starts having a massive seizure- shaking, foaming at the mouth, non responsive, eyes rolled back grand maal seizure. Get dad, call 911, have to direct them how to get to her bedroom, direct them how to get her out of the house and to the ambulance because my dad’s house is weird...

follow to hospital

sit in ER for nearly 14 hours for them to determine they have no idea what happened, but that she def had a seizure in front of them (an absent one) and what I describe is a grand maal, and that they just don’t know what happened.

truck still sounds like shit

dad finds replacement truck in my city for 2500$

cool cool

dad already dealing with dropped house insurance, busted ass roof, and possibility of being kicked out of his house because of tax prices and bullshit because he can’t hold a job because of shit that happened 30 years ago.

yay more fucking stress.

so yeah

I just really fucking feel like dying right now mkay?

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dinodina · 7 years ago

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Tagged by @cozsheep

Rules: Always post the rules. Answer the 11 random questions posted for you. Create 11 new ones and tag 11 people. Let the person who tagged you know that you answered. What’s your favourite Torchwood episode from the TV series and why?

1. What’s your favourite Torchwood episode from the TV series and why? Probaby To The Last Man. It’s the one I rewatch most often, anyway (also Meat, Something Borrowed, Adam, and From Out of the Rain). I’m going with TTLM for this one, though, because it has so much awesome stuff: Tosh saving the world, Owen being nice, and - of course - Jack and Ianto’s epic kiss. I think it’s a super fun episode to watch: it’s interesting, optimistic, and Tommy (even though he’s a minor character in the great scheme of things) is brilliant!

2. What’s your favourite Torchwood audio (BBC or Big Finish) and why? I... haven’t listened to any. I want to - but I always forget to buy them when I have the opportunity to. I want to listen to a ton of them, though, ever since I asked for recommendations, and I hope to get to them soon! So I guess none at the moment, but I’m super excited for Believe and The Last Beacon... both of which I will listen to.

3. What’s your favourite Torchwood novel and why? Once again... haven’t read any of them. It’s harder to find one that I’d like to read, though, than it is with the audios. Maybe someday?

4. Who is your favourite Torchwood main character and why? Ianto. No question about it. He’s such an interesting character and there’s always so much to find out about him. Also his evolution - as we got to know him - from a background character to such a capable, valuable, and lovable character. It’s everything about him, really!!! :D

5. Who is your favourite Torchwood secondary character and why? Rhys or Andy. I can’t pick one!! I love Rhys because he was so loyal and understanding (even when he shouldn’t necessarily have been), and because he was also pretty badass in the end. And I love Andy because... well, he’s just lovable.

6. What is your favourite line of dialogue from all of Torchwood (TV, audio, etc.)? Oh, there’s a few! Jack and Ianto’s kiss scene from TTLM; Jack asking Ianto out in KKBB; or... my favorite moment from CoE: Jack and Ianto standing up to the 456, which is, until it fails, such a powerful scene! Also Owen and Tosh’s last dialogue (as sad as it is), becuase it’s so emotional and absolutley heartbreaking. Or Owen’s “Ready to see the dead man dance?” to Tosh in Something Borrowed.

7. Who is your least favourite main character and why? Gwen. It’s not that I dislike her, which I don’t... I actually like her a lot of the time (most of the time). What I don’t like - and what makes her my least favorite - is that she’s inconsistant in her flaws and abilities, and that she never has to face the consequences of her actions, like every other character does; it’s the fact that she’s made out to be a perfect character, but still has flaws - and those flaws and shortcomings never get addressed so she can’t learn from her mistakes.

8. Who is your least favourite secondary character and why? Is it cheating if I say “Gray”? I feel like it is, a bit, because he’s not exactly a secondary character even if he is a main villain. He’s my least favorite because his actions got Tosh and Owen killed.

9. What is your least favourite Torchwood episode/story (TV, audio or novel) and why? Oh, this one’s hard... I don’t watch the episodes I don’t like, which I mostly don’t like (like CoE or EW) because of what happens to characters. So I’m not sure if it’s my least favorite, but I’m going to go with Captain Jack Harkness. At any other moment, I think that this episode would be good - touching and heartbreaking. And I LOVE Ianto taking charge (and, yes, shooting Owen). But the storyline with the Real Jack rubs me the wrong way because I think it’s so unfair to him, to Jack, and to Ianto. Ianto gets basically cheated on (if you want to believe that he and Jack are in a relationship at this point - my thoughts on that vary) while he shoots Owen to try to stay loyal to Jack. Jack gets his past brought up and, while being potentially manipulated, is caught in Bilis’s plot. And the Real Jack gets the courage to dance with Jack, to break such a big taboo and finally be himself - only for Jack to kiss him in the crowded hall and LEAVE. And he dies the next day! I think it’s unfair to him to be in that situation, and to be potentially put into a dangerous situation if the people in the hall have a problem with his sexuality.

10. If you could go back and change one line/scene/event of Torchwood (that isn’t a character’s death), what would it be and why? Probably the fact that we never saw Gwen being reprimanded for her actions in Meat. While I think that Rhys shouldn’t have been Retconned, she was out of line to attack the team like that, to imply that they didn’t care about people, and to hurt them by implying that they didn’t have anyone. I think that either Jack should have called her out on it then and there - telling her that her teammates are human and deserve her compassion, and to tell her that disobeying orders by giving herself up was wrong - or that he should have done that in an ending scene, or in a later episode.

11. What are the five best Torchwood fanfics or fanfic authors that you would recommend? I’ve been dreading this question! There are so many amazing authors and stories out there, so off the top of my head: authors: gmariam, Milady Dragon, badly-knitted, Earendil Eldar, Waldo, soera, m_findlow, AVAantares, riftintime, tamaar, black.k.kat... I know I’m forgetting a ton of people, but that’s a vague collection of a few from ffn, AO3, and LJ.

(I’ve also been dreading this part, I never know who to tag or what to ask, so I just wrote down the first questions that came to mind, feel free to ignore.) I tag: @jantotrash, @aliciaizzicole, @janto-owns-my-soul, @trashmel, @iantojonesss, @iant0jones, @demisexual-ianto-jones, @bazwillendinflames, @jbharrisauthor, @young-bek, @ijustreallylikeclass, And finally, my questions:

1. What is the last book you’ve read, and did you enjoy it? 2. What is the last movie/TV show you’ve seen, and would you recommend it? 3. Is there a song currently stuck in your head, and if so, what is it? 4. What are you looking forward to? 5. What is your favorite flower? 6. If you could have any superpower, what would it be? 7. Do you use notebooks? If yes, do you prefer large or small notebooks? 8. Do you have any hobbies? 9. Have you ever built a snowman? 10. Do you currently have a paper calendar hanging up? If yes, what’s on it? 11. Do you like novelty socks and/or mugs?

#torchwood #tagged

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futurewriter2000 · 7 years ago

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Tell me I'm doing the right thing...

When I was in 9th grade I decided to go one of the hardest school in the city. The famous grammar school, everybody thought as one of the hardest in the country. I was an ambitious idiot to think I could actually make it.

But did I know that my first test is going to be a 1 (which is the worst grade in our grading system)? I didn't know that I would be crying over exams coming next week. I also didn't know that I was actually that stupid.

In 1st year I was only fucking around because I made wrong friends, who failed that year, but I didn't. I made it.

2nd year I was crying before even starting the term. I didn't want to go through the second year because all my friends failed and were not there anymore and my classmates didnt like me only because I was their friend. I tried to transfer into another class because I had more friends there than in my own. And it wasn't only becuase of friends, it was because I was mentally exhausted from my family life and my last year. Because of my fucking around in third year my whe summer was over.

That was the year I found out what depression feels like. It took me a lot of months to actually figure it out but I did. I thought of suicide more than once that year but music helped to get me through. Yeah sometimes its lame but I listen to music every day, every night before I got to sleep because it helped. I didn't start smoking like my sister or drink like my dad and cousin. I listened to music.

I don't remember 2nd year that much but I remember my summer when I had to spend it behind my desk, studying German and Chemistry because I failed those classes. I remember nights crying in my room because I simply wanted to give up already.

3rd year I started studying hard. Like really hard because those grades count for college. I got mostly 3's and I thought I was actually smarter. Succeeding finaly in all three years. Until I started studying other subjects harder and more but continued to get some sort of block during tests and fail them. It was horrible. The block kept being there.

Music stopped helping and know that I never cry. Ever. I never cry during movies or when something sad happens. To be honest I can't cry anymore and its horrible. Its like holding this big bubble of sadness inside of yourself and you can't get it out. I tried to force myself to cry but I couldn't. But when I failed German test again, the bubble popped and I started crying because I couldn't go through that awful summer one more time. It's stupid I know, to cry because of school or tests but I spent 5 days in bed, not eating nor sleeping because of it.

And then there was writing. I started writing since I was eleven. First in my native language and then later in English. It helped. Writing helped and you guys made days more tolerable.

But I can't hide behind my writing anymore. Combatants was written because of my German test and those days I was "sick". And the last George imagine was written this morning after my meltdown. I have many imagines written based on how I feel but they are not finished because I don't have a happy ending for them.

So here I am. Failing every subject and even though I always say a piece of paper won't define me, I feel like the dumbest person here. I try and I fail. I hate giving up and I hate asking for help but I am just so fucking exhausted. My brain is drained. I can't remember normal things anymore like birthdays or how to make my favorite cake. I got confused so much I sometimes forget what a person told me 2 seconds ago. I keep waking up during sleep just to make sure I still remember what I studied for. I dream about failing subjects and its terrible.

Its stupid. It really is stupid what I stress out and cry about. But I can't help it. I had 5's and 4's in middle school. (The best two in our grading system) Do you know how much I miss the feeling of actually studying and getting a good grade at it. Like what I would do to get that feeling back.

So this morning I told my dad I can't do it anymore. I told my mom I want to drop out. Now my family life isn't perfect. Its complicated and horrible but I thought they would at least suport me at this.

They didnt.

My mom said that she would rather see me get through 100 meltdowns than let me give up on school.

It hurt she said that because she never went through what I did. She was basically home schooled. My dad ... I don't know what he thinks because for the last few months he wasn't speaking to us that much.

My thoughts went back to thinking is it really worth being here anymore. My family ain't perfect, nor my grades, life... Who would care if I just take a palm of pills and fall asleep? I just want to stop feeling this exhausted.

And then I think...

But did my idol give up on life that easy. How many times he thought of killing himself but wrote it all in songs, that help other people with the worse problems than me. What if somehow by any miracle everything turns good?

And now I think is it better to drop out of school and start another year back up in Austria with my friend or should I just try and get throught the meltdowns to finish this year. What if its worth it going through them in the end?

So here I am, laying in bed, writing this because somehow I thought it would help and solve my problem. I guess I was wrong.

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drewxmay · 7 years ago

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Contestshipping Review - Part Eighteen - Spontaneous Cumbusken

Index

-The Title-

For this episode I actually finally figured out how to correctly spell “Cumbusken” and for a little fun fact about this episode, when it was originally released the people who made the episode title also accidentally misspelled it at “Cumbuskin” This was later corrected, though the error remained on the DVD version, foreign language dubs and when it re-aired several other times.

-Episode Link-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhohlPGa0Mg

-The Review-

0:00

The episode starts out with the narrator explain how everybody has finally arrived on Chrysanthemum island.

0:14

And Ceptile still can’t use any attacks due to last episode.

Ash: Hey c’mon you can do those moves, you just have to try harder! Get that stuff out of your mind and do it!

Drew: You’re just making it worse y’know.

Everybody: Huh?? :turns over to see Drew:

Drew: You’re not thinking about it from Ceptile’s point of view.

22 seconds in and he’s already here to scold somebody on their training ability.

0:33

and now the theme song was immediately finished when that happened.

Huh.

0:43

So now it’s back to that scene like the theme song never happened.

So Drew

Drew: Telling your Pokemon to try hard just gives them more stress, and you don’t need that.

Like if you just listen to the tone of voice he is saying this is he isn’t acting rude or anything he’s just giving advice and overall acting nice. Granted, that might be the new voice actor not knowing what he was supposed to do although I highly doubt it becuase of the music playing in the background.

0:50

May: Uh, hey Drew, :hold up letter: did you send this to me?

Drew: Huh?

May: See, I’d love to be in the contest with you... but mark me words! I’m gonna beat you!

Drew: Except I didn’t send that.

May: Huh?

Drew: Come on May. :flicks hair: You should at least know that that isn’t my style.

Everybody: We should, huh?

I don’t get the joke what does the Japanese version say

1:10

Drew: Truthfully I’m not even going to be in this Contest.

May: Huh? You’re not?

Drew: I’ve been in so many Contests lately my Pokemon have been wipes, so we came to Chrysanthemum island for a little RNR.

He’s been in more than five contest lately I wonder who he lost to them.

May: RNR? Go figure... :looks back down at her letter: But if you didn’t send me this... I wonder who did.

1:30

Now for the Team Rocket scene. skip to 1:59 if you don’t want to hear it.

So Jessie wants to enter herself and Mime.JR into the contest.

Also, James:

James: Jessie the point of a Pokemon contest is to show of your Pokemon not how you look in an evening gown.

and

James: If you’re going to be a fool must it involve the children?

1:59

So May is using Cumbusken and Munchlax to win the contest, so before she is trying to train. When Munchlax tries to use focus punch on Cumbusken, he jumps into the air and how of the way, but Munchlax keeps going forward with the focus punch, already being in the air and all, and:

2:16

I think it was intended that she ducked but it looked like Munchlax was just a little off to the side.

May: I’m so sorry! Are you okay?

Briana: Ya! But I’m not too sure about your Munchlax.

“Naw I’m fine"

2:28

May: “chuckles” Me and that Munchlax. I guess we’re a little overly hyped!

Briana: That’s becuase you lost in the Wisteria Contest and Munchlax wants to make up for it, right?

May: Now, how did you know about the Wisteria contest?

May you seem to forget that there are thousands of people watching contests live and probably even more on re-runs.

Briana: Yup! I was there, I really wanted to meet you becuase I thought you might’ve been feeling bad after the contest, but I couldn’t find you and I left the rose and card instead!

May: :Hold up card: So this card from from you?

Briana: Yup! and now I get to meet you face-to-face in person! Oh ya! I’m Briana here’s a ro-

May: Munchlax how rude!

Hopefully they don’t do this to all of May’s roses. The roses are flowers that butterflies eat and the rose was meant for Beautifly.

It was totally meant for Beautifly.

Briana: Well at least we know that Munchlax likes roses too!

May: About the card, the confusion started becuase you forgot to put your name on it.

Briana: Huh??? :takes card: Oh! that’s awful! I’m sorry!

You know what I’d also like to point out that she only wrote one sentence on the letter put nvm that...

May: That’s okay! I thought it was from a friend of mine named Drew and I just asked him about it.

You know what it was only back in “Hi Ho Silver Wind” that he was Rival zoned now he is Friend zoned.

But seriously she considers Drew as a friend now.

Briana: you did???

Briana: You mean Mr.Drew’s here right now???

3:23

You know what May is being so nice to Briana she wanted to meet Drew :)

Also look at how anti-nipple this show is. Like he doesn’t need a towl shouldn’t he be swimming?

My brother: Why is nobody in the pool?

The water is completely still wtf.

May: See there he is!

Briana: You were right! I’m actually breathing the same air he is!

Not from that distance you aren’t, unless you mean you’re breathing oxygen.

May: I could introduce you.

Briana: That’d be awesome!

May: :Both May and Briana start running over to him: Dreeeew!

Drew: Huh? :Looks over and sees May then sits up: May what’s up?

May: I’ve got a new friend! Her name’s Briana, and she’s a big fan of yours who became a coordinator after watching you preform!

Drew: :stands up: Wow you did?

Drew: Hey thank you!

You know what everybody keeps saying Drew is a douche and although he said some “rude” stuff to May that I’ve explained multiple times before to anybody else (That isn’t taking advantage of May like Harley) he is actually an extremely nice boy and he just seems to be trying to be nice to people, like for example Briana right here. He knows that he is a fan and probably has a lot of anxiety from meeting him so he’s just trying to be nice and all that.

3:50

Briana: It-it’s nice to meet you...

May: And it was Briana who sent me that card!

Briana: I didn’t sign my name and I feel like such a total fool!!!

Drew: You didn’t do anything wrong. May just made another silly mistake.

Back to the contestshipping I know and love. Just Drew poking fun of May.

May: Well there’s only one person like that that i know would send me something like that Mr.Rose!

Drew: Mr. Rose??? :blushes:

Rosellia: :Starts laughing:

Drew: Rosellia!

Rosellia: Throws arms up into the air: Rosellia!

I think Rosellia likes seeing her trainer in flustering situations

Did you see that blush?

I don’t even have to explain it DID YOU SEE THAT BLUSH WHEN MAY CALLED HIM MR. ROSE.

4:15 May: :turns to Briana: Y’know, If you’d like to shake Drew’s hand I’m sure he’d love to!

Briana: Ya! Really...?

Drew: I’d be happy to.

Briana: It’s so awesome to meet you...

4:24

“You’ve done this before right?”

“And you talk too much.”

This is the most popular Contestshipping gif becuase of how out of context it can be taken.

Drew: Starts walking off: Bye! Good luck at the contest!

4:36

Max: :watching from a distance with and Ash Brock: Drew is such a weenie.

Those of you who read these and have never watched any of these episode will not believe how popular that line is.

4:40

Briana: Wow... he’s cute!

Briana: :turns over to May with angry face and tone of voice: So! It’s you and me!

May: Huh?!?!

Briana: I’m aiming for you in this contest and I’m gonna win!

May: But why me???

Briana: Look. I’ve seen every contest that you and Drew have entered and I know for a fact that you’re the only female coordinator he has respect for!

He also has respect for Robert who is a guy so

Also what about Solidad?

Actually know Briana doesn’t know who she is

And nor did the writers at this point I bet she was just a really ruched in character.

May: I didn’t know that!

Briana: Duh! I may be inexperienced and haven't won a single ribbon yet but one day I’m going to be a top class coordinator and Mr.Drew will respect me! And I figured that the quickest way to get his respect is to beat you in a contest!I’ve been training for this moment like crazy and I’m ready to go! So get ready for a fight!

You know Briana, you might’ve seen every contest that they’ve went to but you haven’t seen their conversations backstage or the exact reason why Drew respects May so much. Last time he fought he she was extremely inexperienced, the reason she respects her isn’t just becuase of how her capabilities have grown but actually talking to her and figuring out her personality outside of battles, and backstage conversations are also an important thing here too.

5:21

Max: Wow, someones after May again.

Like in order to undertand this you need to watch it just listen to max.

“Someones after May again...”

“This happens every episode...”

5:31

Yay! The contest has started!

5:52

Drew is sitting next to May’s friends for the contest.

I find this notable you can figure out why.

5:59

And now for Jessie’s appeal round.

So it starts out with Jessie running onto the stage with some Hawaiian outfit or whatever. She announces herself as “Jessiebella”

James: Now there’s a stretch Jessiebella.

Okay I feel like I need to explain this joke becuase most people reading this don’t get it.

Every time Jessie enters a Pokemon contest she changes her name slightly, we all know this. “Jessiebella” doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch, but actually let me explain.

As everybody knows James comes from an extremely wealthy home, but what confuses people is “Well if that’s true then how come those three are always broke and how comes James is a team rocket member in the first place if he could just live with his wealthy and loving family?” and there is actually a very realistic answer to this.

So when James was around ten years old he has a Growlith. This will be important later. He met a girl named “Jessiebella”and being ten he got a playful crush on her. At one point he was playfully chatting with her and he playfully asked her to marry him as ten year old do.

Somehow they actually got engaged and would marry once James becomes Eighteen (He is Seventeen if you need my indefinite proof on that I’ll tell you if you ask), but Jessiebella is actually a bitch and at one point she tries to make him get red of his beloved Growlith. After that James was able to realize what a bitch she actually is and isn’t able to call off the marriage so he ran way from home and if he tries to go home he’ll have to marry the bitch.

Also, this is how she looks:

The only difference between her and Jessie is what she wears, her name, her personality, and she has green eyes not blue like Jessie.

BACK TO THE FUCKING REVIEW

6:10

So then Jessie releases Mime.Jr and it comes out spinning on their head. Hopefully Jessie got some cuteness points from that. After that Jessie and Mine.Jr do the tango and we get this funny scene:

James: Groove Mime Jr. !!!

6:49

Now for May’s appeal!

May sends out Munchlax and immediately tells him to use Solar Beam. Because the sun is visible he is able to pull it off immediately. Brock explains this, and Drew says “It would’ve been a god attack for a resort like this.”

I wonder if there was any way for May to know that the sun would be out.

May calls out for Metrenome.

Max: Oh why is she calling for that attack at a time like this!

Ash: It’s a chance!

Drew: It’s a chance, but I think it’s worth it. If she pulls it off it’s a showcase. It puts your Pokemon in a great position.

Once the attack finally pulls off it becomes rest. Munchlax falls asleep. May doesn’t seem to worry too long when she pulls out her Pokeblock it immediately wakes up Munchlax and he jumps into the air to catch it, and in order to have a soft landing he uses focus punch right above the ground. Her rounds ends.

8:44

And now for Briana’s appeal.

Briana sends out a Sirskit who uses Ice beam on the ground and turns it completely to ice. Sirskit uses Agility to glide across the ice, until it jumps into the air and starts spinning like a top. this gives it a soft landing on the ice and once it does get on the ice it continues spinning like a top. it suddenly stops and poses signifying that the turn has ended.

9:34

May and Briana backstage.

May: Briana! That was awesome!

Briana: Thanks! After I remembered Mr.Drew was watching, I got so scared. I bet I’ll never made it to the second rounds after that!

Well based off of your preformence you seemed to have complete control over your nervousness and that must’ve what made your amazing preformence.

May: You’ve got to be kidding! You had the audience in the palm of your hand! You’re going to the second round for sure!

10:00

and now for the scores!

How did May and Jessie get a higher score than Briana?

I’m seriously judging the judges becuase of this choice,

10:30

Max: Drew, how do you think May’s going today? (preformence wise)

Drew: Is she using Munchlax is round two?

Brock: I think she said that she’d be using Cumbusken.

Drew: Aww give me a break! Doesn't’ she remember that Munchlax’ Solar Beam Recharges quicker in the sun? Well that’s too bad. It would’ve given her a huge advantage. Sorry guys, it seem that May messed up again.

Brock (In mocking voice): Gee Drew why don’t you tell us how you really feel?

I swear my soul Brock HAS to be talking about Contestshipping.

10:55

May: Watch closely Drew, you’re going to see a win you’ll never forget!

Briana: We’ll see...

May: I’m finally going to be able to show Drew I’m a winner!

Briana: Come on May!

May: huh?

Briana: It seems to me your feelings for Drew go way beyond Contests and battling!

May (voice a bit shaky): Huh? Me and Drew? He’s just a rival!

Briana: Oh ya??? Well I wanna know if you like Drew!

May: Like him? To be honestly... I haven't given it much thought...

Briana: Well after I win this contest I’m going to tell him that I love him!

May: That’s fine with me aside from the “When I win this” part!

Okay so this is the scene I’ve been waiting to review, waiting to talk about, waiting to explain what I’ve been saying sense the 12th review.

In the final scene of “Rhapsody in Drew”, May and Drew were talking. Drew said that he hoped to see her in the next grand festival, and told how how he and many other coordinators deal with loss. As he walked off May just stood there staring, and was extremely startled when Ash offered her the Ice Cream.

That is what Started what I’ve been calling “The unknowing crush”. She likes him, but hadn’t realized it. Little things like the letter. May was exited from the next contest, and that note made her even more exited becuase she’d finally have a chance to gain the respect from Drew, that in the back of her mind already knew she had, she just wanted to impress him, and didn’t really know why, or even realize it. That letter made her way more exited.

She gets exited to see Drew again, and feels as if she needs to impress him, even if she doesn’t know why, or even realize why. She knows she already has his respect, but her mind tried to make up a reason for why she was even more edited to go to the next contest. It never hit her that she liked him, until Briana had to point it out.

I could go on with this for much longer, but I’ll stop here. I think I’ve gotten my point through.

Jessie: All spare in love and war, but don’t you think you should save it for the battle?

Jessie: Ah young love. I’d pay to see a battle between you two!

May: This should be good, you’re be second round opponent y’know.

11:53

And now for Jessie and May’s fight.

May sends out Cumbusken and Jessie sends out Mime Jr. May starts it out by using Fire spin. When the fire spin starts going towards Mime.Jr, they dodge and uses Mimic. Mime Jr.’s Fire Spin hits and May looses points. Cumbisken uses quick attack and it’s a direct hit to Mime. Jr. Mime Jr. counters by jumping onto Cumbusken’s back and tickling him. May lost an extremely huge amount of her points by that. Mime Jr. uses Fire Spin again. When it hits Cumbusken it actually heals him, becuase he is a fire type. Cumbusken then uses Sky Uppercut on Mime Jr. and wins the battle at 13:35.

13:52

Small scene of Briana beating her opponent with Vibrava.

Food for thought: Sirskit evolves into Masqurain and Vibrava evolves into Flygon.

She might have a Budew as well but you are only supposed to use two Pokemon in this Contest.

13:57

Small scene where May defeats somebody by using quick attack.

14:02

Small scene where Briana’s Vibrava defeats somebody by using Dragon Breath.

14:08

And finally time for May and Briana’s battle!

The battle starts off with May releasing Cumbusken and Briana releasing Vibrava. May starts off by using Quick attack, but it is quickly stopped when Vibrava uses Screech. In order, to make the Vibrava stop, Cumbusken uses Fire Spin. This land a direct hit, and Vibrava then slowly pushes the Fire back with Dragon Breath before it dissapeares. When it does dissapear, Vibrava uses sand Tomb, which completely covers Cumbusken's entire lower body in sand, making him unable to move. May begs for her Pokemon to get out, and suddenly, Cumbusken's top feathers and the sand starts glowing blue, and then Cumbusken jumps out of the sand with his feet also glowing.

*Cumbusken learned Mega Kick!

Vibrava uses Dragon breath which gets a direct hit on Cumbusken. Cumbusken then tries using Sky Uppercut on Vibrava, but misses. Vibrava attempts to completely cover Cumbusken in Sand Tomb, but Cumbusken uses Mega Kick which makes all of the sand go away, and while Cumbusken is falling back to the ground he plants his foot on Vibrava and slams the ground/dragon type Pokemon into the ground, knocking them out.

May wins the battle at 17:25.

18:08

You know what sometimes you just need to appreciate the backgrounds in Pokemon they are so beautiful but sadly don’t get much attention.

Briana: You were great, really great! I can see why Mr.Drew has total respect for your talent!

May: Thanks, that really means a lot to me Briana.

Briana: Tell you what, when I get my first ribbon then I’ll tell him how I feel!

18:25

Max: Hey you guys!

Brock: I had a feeling we’d find you two over here.

Briana: Oh no May it’s Mr.Drew! :hides behind May:

Ash: You two sure know how to have a great battle!

Max: That was a great win too May!

Brock: That makes three [ribbons] right May?

May: :nods: Hey Drew I was wondering you you thought of my battle skills sense you last saw me!

Drew: To tell you the truth, I think you got lucky with that Mega kick, so if I were you :flicks hair: I’d be really grateful.

May: Thanks.

Drew: Briana, that’s your name right?

Briana: Uh- yes sir!

Drew: You were good. Very good. It’s obvious you’ve trained your Vibrava well. It’s hard work making it all the way to Flygon, but I’m sure you’ll make it.

Briana: Gee thanks! I’ll work extra hard! :faints:

Max: He sure knows how to make an impression.

Brock: Like fingernails on a blackboard.

That made me burst out laughing but where did this sudden hatred Brock has for Drew come from?

19:12

Drew: Hey May.

May: Huh?

Drew: Just two more ribbons.

May: Just... curious... how many do you have?

Drew: What counts? I just figured in your case you might need somebody to remind you! :walks off:

-Conclusion-

“I’m hoping to see you back here next year to May.” - Rhapsody in Drew

“Hey, May, just two more ribbons.” - Spontaneous Combusken

May never forgot what Drew said after the Grand Festival. She never forgot how kindly he had said that to her. Now, she is blushing like “Oh my god I’m falling in love” blushing. After Drew has reminded her about those two ribbons, she was also reminded of what Briana had said and what he had said all the way back then. What Briana had said earlier made her finally start considering the fact that she has feelings for Drew. If I had to say anything about this episode, I’d say that this is the scene where May finally realizes her feelings for Drew.

Drew didn’t forget what happened after the Grand Festival either. He actually reminded her that she needed two more ribbons before the next Grand Festival he was hoping he’d meet her at. Their first serious romantic moment was on the beach after the Grand Festival, and now their here again with a whole new revelation on May’s part. Instead of being mystified at Drew’s sudden kind words she is standing there acting like a schoolgirl in love with her crush who is standing right in from of her. Just look and compare this scene to the scene after the Grand Festival, there has been character development, and there will be so much more.

To be completely honest no other ship in the entire Pokemon anime has come this close to being canon. Not Pokeshipping, not Penguinshipping, and not even Armorshipping, where they actually kissed. Pokeshipping came close, but it was more of a joke to the writers. Sure they had their moments, but it was mainly a joke. Penguinshipping felt forced in, like it came in during the episodes where Dawn was about to leave the show, and Dawn even rejected him in the end. Armorshipping is a similure story, Serena is about to leave the show and she kisses Ash right before she leaves. It felt like her crush came from almost nowhere, and it also felt like to most standered love story for a kids show. “This girl has a crush on this boy and as she is about to go she kisses him”. It isn’t even confirmed is Ash likes her back.

I honestly have no idea what to add onto this. Consider this the ending of the conclusion. :)

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