#brandi rambles

[brandileigh2003]

Anyone wanna print up these business cards I found for me 😂

[ivorydragoness44]

Finally getting myself back into reading, and... unexpectedly laughed. Did Thorn just pull a Dr. Ellie Sattler???

[brandileigh2003]

Ooh. Ok. I have thoughts/hc/things based on my experience. And not wanting to invalidate op at all, just adding on.

My hc is that he gets the "swoty" rep bc he did have to study so much to stay caught up. I've had him being jealous of Sirius and James in my fics bc they are brilliant, don't have to study, etc.

Any good grades are hard earned. Like boy prb struggled so. Much.

I think that he could have gotten close to Lily earlier on bc she's also smart but being muggleborn I think puts at disadvantage. (Plus I don't think that the other two would want to study with him, not necessarily out of malice, but they're close and I think they would want to focus on other fun things or higher academic debates, spells, etc) so they studied together and bonded.

I think that the Lycanthropy and grades can play out several ways and ofc all hc are valid. I see that remus would push himself so so hard, even to detriment of his health. Bc I think he would want to prove to his dad, teachers, and especially dumbles that he can do it, he's worthy of the chance. I think that boy would crave academic validation so so hard. And I've written him having mindset of he needs the best grades possible bc the employment field is already against him.

And I do like the study groups theory. Bc while yes, it would take more time-- I think that refresh of material and trying to teach it to others learning styles can bring other pov to stuff more advanced too.

I was sort of the same way as far as academic validation and effort. I had to work really hard and spent recovery doing school work. And I will say that ... There is only so much that you can push yourself. We know that remus lost jobs and such as he got older, but he was physically effected, but still could work other days of month, so we can infer that it was prb better in school and could study and learn material.

But disability and chronic illness can worsen over time. And they all effect people differently. Bc I spoke of schooling, but I'm older now, and things have progressed. I absolutely could not physically attend enough classes to pass, and my ability to learn is affected bc of brain fog and other things I don't go into much. So I think it's also reasonable to say that if there was another lycanthrope at Hogwarts, he might not manage to pass, or not to say that if Remus was to be able to age more, his ability to teach, work or learn wouldn't decline.

And I saw some talk in reblog etc about the prefect thing. I've struggled with the idea that he could do it bc it would be hours of his time and the time he couldn't do it could be noticable bc others would have to do extra coverage. So possible detection. Although I do think that if asked, he wouldn't have said no bc of how he revered Dumbledore and felt he owed him.

people who think rjl would have really good grades have never been chronically ill and had to miss school consistently because of it. I'm sure he was smart! I'm sure he did really well on tests! but there has never been a character I'm more sure struggled to achieve the academic success that he was capable of.

[ifwebefriends]

My thoughts during “The Sign” [SPOILERS!!!!!]

ID in ALT

More thoughts under the cut

So I think most of us can agree that this is the best episode of Bluey so far. It was so emotional and satisfying in ways that are kinda new for Bluey. It answered so many questions while giving us a few new ones. I’ve been waiting for this episode for months and it did not disappoint in any way.

This is just a Chekov’s firing squad of an episode. As in a lot of stuff that was set up in earlier episodes all pay off in this episode. I kinda understand why people love soap operas now lol. I will say that this episode was a tad overwhelming for me in the best way possible. As in I had to pause and rewind every 30 seconds or so so I could emotionally process what was happening before moving forward (but that’s a me thing). There was just so much going on and I’m happy about that.

Now onto individual thoughts about specific things:

The callback to Baby Race (“you took your first steps in that house!”) really got to me because Baby Race was the first episode of Bluey that I watched and it immediately made me fall in love with it so it just got to me.

When Chilli said “Frisky and I came up here as teenagers to…um…think,” my mind started racing immediately with “what the FUCK happened at the Lookout?” “Who hurt Frisky and/or Chilli?” And I’m just so curious about what made Chilli say that line like that but we’ll probably never know what happened.

So yeah that scene at the end when the music was playing and Bandit ripped the sign out of the ground and Chilli tackled him to the ground ABSOLUTELY CHANGED my brain chemistry y’all. I can’t articulate my feelings any more than that.

I know some people were upset that Brandy ended up getting pregnant but I thought it was great for her! I’m happy for her! And I think that even though she got what she wanted in the end doesn’t negate the feelings she had about her infertility earlier. But I think we’re all wondering who the father is and I don’t know if the show really needs to answer that.

The whole message of “we’ll see” in terms of if something is good or bad is such a mature message that I never really thought of like that so I will be taking that philosophy forward in life. Congratulations Bluey, you managed to teach a 22-year-old childless person something new and insightful about life that I don’t think I’ve learned from another show.

I want to know more about what Bob was going through and feeling and why he went to India, but again, we’ll probably never know.

I just love how the wedding photos were beautiful but imperfect. Like of course we’re not perfect and nothing will ever be perfect but it’s beautiful and worth remembering anyway.

So many little jokes and moments were so funny in a mature way (I.e. “are we allowed to do that?” And Nana thinking there was about to be a baby announcement) were just so funny and memorable.

I think some people would say it’s a cop-out to end up not selling the house after building it up for 2 episodes but I don’t know, I think it works. I think Bluey and Bingo learned a valuable lesson and Bandit (and Chilli kinda) learned it’s not always about making their kids lives “perfect” in their eyes. Also I’m just personally glad they didn’t end up selling the house and I also kinda like that it wasn’t entirely their choice to keep it.

On a more serious note I think this episode has some interesting commentary on like gender roles and gender relations in straight relationships. In this episode Chilli and Frisky (both women) have to deal with their male significant others pressuring them to move with them far away from what they know and love. In the end they don’t end up moving and the men didn’t seem to have like malicious or selfish intent with it, they were just kinda basing their choices off their jobs instead of what’s best emotionally for their loved ones. But I think it’s interesting to have this conflict where gender is kinda brought up in a way (“because your husband is making you”). It kinda plays into the traditional idea of like men are the breadwinners and the family has to move with them regardless of what they actually want. And this episode kinda like deconstructs that and says “no, it’s not always about the job or money, it’s also sometimes about connections and emotional attachment.” And I’m not saying that you should never move or whatever, but really weigh your options. I just thought that it was interesting that this episode kinda touched on that.

So yeah that’s kinda the main thoughts I had on this episode if you made it this far thank you for reading my rambles and have a good one!

[heckblade]

the one-two punch of “eat your young” and “damage gets done” is so fucking underrated btw. this really raunchy, visceral callout of war profiteering and the people in power who sold out future generations for the sake of capital, followed immediately by this soaring coming-of-age anthem about waking up into the harsh reality of the world we were handed, being expected to bear both the consequences AND the blame, the feeling of powerlessness and the deep, aching nostalgia for a time when we didn’t have to constantly reckon with such a bleak existence

[ivorydragoness44]

YEAH!! 🦖🦕🤩

@99tech99 There are some images too (over the past few months I think??)

I was wondering what was going to be posted first, an official trailer ...or me finally doing a post about how I've been creating a dinosaur coloring book 😆😅

Little teaser of Jurassic World Rebirth. Official trailer releasing on Wednesday! [x]

[ivorydragoness44]

Me earlier today:

I finally have him!! (Don't mind the images too much lol I'm a little tired and didn't feel like cropping the images)

[brandycranby]

oh it's new year's eve 🥺 is everyone doing ok?

[supercalime]

Girl who’s too old for DCOMs talks about Descendants Rise of Red for way too long:

- Literally no joke, I’m a firm believer that this is the best descendants movie and I wish we could’ve followed this story since the beginning

- im so so happy that they had a much bigger budget! This franchise really needs big set pieces, a lot of CGI, costumes that look expensive and a cast that can actually act, so it paid off

- ok so I’m gonna highlight a few things, let’s go

- I was really shocked they killed Carlos off (for obvious reasons, my respects to Cameron), as this franchise is for younger kids and dumbs down a lot of things. China’s delivery and her tears made me very emotional. Which is no surprise as she carried the other 2 movies she was in on her back

- Red is a very likable protagonist but some choices made for her character were boring. She’s not really looking for approval from her mom and she clearly has a good head on her shoulders so I don’t see the reason of having the “fake outs” that she will actually sentence someone to death but again, kids movie

- we only got one and a half scene of Maddox but I already love him

- Rita Ora and Brandy ate and left no crumbs. They play queens because they are queens

- after the reveal that there was a prank that turned the QOH evil, I expected that Cinderella had something to do with it (more of that later)

- I did cringe a little on how much rapping/sing-talking there was. If you want that hire Lin Manuel Miranda

- I’ll forever be bitter that Disney flipped Kenny Ortega off and stabbed him in the back, but that being said, Jennifer Phang couldn’t have done it better. She knew how to work with the script and the budget. Although some of the photography and choreography felt a bit weird

- it was certainly a choice that young Bridget looks nothing like her older self. Specially um…skin tone wise. There’s some implications I won’t get into

- im very surprised on how little we saw of the supporting characters. I thought Aladdin, Jasmine and Fay were going to be more prominent. And poor zellie (btw stupid name, just use Rapunzel)! Who got cut out of the movie completely!

- Aladdin and Jasmine were absolutely adorable!

- uliana and the other villains were fun antagonists. They were what I expected so I don’t really have notes.

- it probably has something to do with the IP but I don’t see why not have Uli just be Ursula but whatever

- I do appreciate that this installment finally made clear of what the lore is. We finally got confirmation that this universe isn’t a sequel to the movies, which was very confusing in the first 3

- this is gonna sound horrible but. Im so glad they committed to killing Cinderella. I do wish they had done that before Chloe and Red time travelled to give Chloe more motivation. In fact I’m very happy that this movie was darker than the other. Disney animated movies always had a lot of death so this feels closer to them than the other 3 ever did

- Now onto me thinking Ella was in on the prank, this will be long: the movie has third act issues and it was very anti climatic, which even led me to believe there was going to be a twist until I saw there were like 5 mins left. Anyway, when Cinderella told the QOH “it was just a prank and that was so long ago” I was convinced she had been involved, so I was looking out for it. I was reading into every expression Ella’s actress had and thought I saw that she was pretending to be Bridget’s friend to get out of her abusive home. I thought that it would’ve been revealed that when the prank was done, she’d maybe just do nothing and leave Bridget helpless because she was afraid that if she did help, she’d never be like the other princesses or something. It would’ve been so cool to see Chloe’s view of her mom shatter, as she only knew her as this benevolent queen who’s only kind and perfect.

- obviously none of that happened and the climax felt really flat. We should’ve seen the dance in the beginning of the movie, not knowing who the characters were, then we go to the present, then once the time travel happens, we don’t spend as much time before the dance and we get the dance a little before the third act and see a few of the things play out. Like Ella and charming falling in love, or even Fay giving her the dress and shoes before, and a Carrie like scene of the prank almost happening that is stopped by Red and Chloe. Then back to the present and a BIG ENDING MUSICAL NUMBER!

- All that being said, I hope we get more sequels. I think it would be cool to see this as more of an anthology thing, following different protagonists so the stories don’t feel too stuck into a few characters. Also Disney, cmon. You’re a streaming site now, let’s get some cannon queer characters please

[ivorydragoness44]

Maul: Why...why did you put down your weapon?!

Me: *gathering art supplies* Sorry, you've unlocked Artist Mode. Don't. Move.

Maul: ???!??

Remake of my first ever Jedi Obimaul au minicomic!

The og comic is here!

[amelia-mariee]

“what’s on your mind?” nothing, i just can’t stop thinking about how integral music and the past are to the guardians of the galaxy movies, and it’ll not just that music is played throughout but it’s all OLD music because, yanno, the past and how all three movies start with just that: music and the past; the first movie opens with quill’s sad backstory and 1975’s ‘i’m not in love’ by 10cc, and the second movie opens with young happy meredith (who’s about to be very sad and sick) and 1972’s ‘brandy’ by looking glass and the third movie opens with rocket’s sad backstory and 1992’s ‘creep’ by radiohead, and the further we journey with them in the trilogy the more recently the music has been released until we’ve kinda reached our time, so it’s like the past has caught up with them, and that’s when everyone finally stops running from their past and they have to, get this, “face the music” and quill gives up his zune and gives it to rocket and goes back to earth to reconnect with the grandpa, the one part of his past that he’s ignored for like 40 years

[ivorydragoness44]

🤣 Showed this to my sister and had to explain the context. (I'm laughing that it rhymes)

And so I was asked about Krennic: not a cookies and cream?

Me: No, he's not off-brand.

Sister: Or a vanilla oreo?... The Hershey's cookies and cream chocolate bar because of that cape. All his subordinates have a cape.

i was trying to type orson and my phone autocorrected to “oreo”

maul is my slutty little (half) strawberry and thrawn is my slutty little blueberry

krennic can be my slutty little oreo. totes works with his uniform too!

this is like the second best thing that happened to me today and i needed to share🤣

@empresskrennic @ivorydragoness44 @the-chains-are-the-easy-part @thedirtiwalkoniswet @starlady66 @starwh0ers @baskervilka

[elden-hicks]

when you play ts1 premades, do you have brandi be born in-game or do you imagine that she's older and left already? (the lore doesn't exactly line up with the later games since ts1 was the first and they weren't expecting there to be lore)

hey! i think that brandi should be a bit older than cas by a couple of years in the lore, which makes sense cause she already has dustin, a teenager, at the start of ts2. and cassandra is the youngest ts1 kid to me. i personally headcanon that brandi used to study at the boarding school at some point in her life, since CPS was breathing down on the newbies' necks due to their shitty financial situation, so they temporarily put her there, while they were improving their living conditions, which explains her absence in ts1.

as for the game itself, i just straight up go with the flow and make the newbies birth her at some point, it's not like the ts1 premades can grow old anyway.

[paldean-ranger-brandy]

How do you handle a spicy yena?

All yenas are "spicy". They are a wild, non-domesticated species. They have extremely high and specific enrichment and social needs, and tbh the vast majority of people who raise them aren't meeting those needs. Which is why they have a reputation for being difficult.

Your yena isn't gonna be satisfied doing one on one battles. They're pack hunters, and will need to have an outlet to pack hunt. People will often say that you can pair them with other dark type dogmons for them to get the necessary socialization/play but that's also not true. They look similar, but yenas aren't dogs. They are their own unique category, and use different cues for communication than other dog mons.

They also are always gonna bite. It's part of their nature. You can't train that out of them any more than you can train a charmander to douse their flame tails. It's how they communicate a lot of things. What you can do is teach them where your specific boundary is for how hard they can bite you, but tbh even the sweetest yena is gonna push past that boundary every now and again, just to see what'll happen.

Yenas are not easy pokemon to raise, and the vast majority of the ones that are in trainer care are not having their needs properly met. Despite the visual similarities, they are not dogmons and you can't use the same toolkit for raising them as you would for a houndour. And even if you are meeting all of their needs perfectly, quite frankly they are still gonna be little assholes because that's just what they're like.

[brandileigh2003]

Sick again and a little afraid I might be sent to the hospital again.

And wondering truly how close I was to dying last time bc sepsis.

And I know that it's probably just anxiety. That I don't think it's went on long enough for it to be that severe again. But anxiety doesn't care about logic.

[ivorydragoness44]

Part 2 to Ahkmenrah x Reader: Sarcophagus is being written~

Hah, I was going to post this earlier...but I forgot because I was busy writing for Ahk 😅

On the brightside, I'm writing the last half/near ending ✨