#but i will ask once more just in case

[makiswirl]

can i just say. and this is probably a niche hill to die on. that i am so gobsmacked every time someone vaguely hints at the idea that jotaro doesn't care meaningfully for the other crusaders, usually particularly kakyoin and joseph, when those two actually tend to be the ones he reacts to being hurt the hardest

like he cares for his loved ones!!!! that literally plays into his character motives in every single part he shows up in!!! stop lying to me!!!!!!!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

More MDZS and Hollow Knight! The cool bugs I found in my backyard have started to unionize.

Part 1 - Part 3

[felassan]

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[front-facing-pokemon]

[turtleblogatlast]

Would you say raph has been parentfied? Because he’s the one who had to praise Leo when splinter didn’t. It’s the vibe I got as an older sibling myself I was doing most of the parenting my drunk ass parents couldn’t do.

[ cw: parentification / ]

Personally, and I know it goes against a big part of the fandom to say this, but I don’t really think so! There are certainly instances where Raph takes charge and displays parent-y behaviors but in my opinion it’s not enough for me to say he was parentified as much as the popular take says. More often he’s displayed as a protective older brother and acts as such, not so much a parentified sibling.

Not gonna say it’s wrong to see him as such though! It’s just not the vibes I personally gathered from watching him.

I’m sorry you had to go through that, though, no child should be forced to parent their sibling.

[ducktracy]

Does it ever feel pressuring (no pun intended) to work on a show with such a legacy and history as SpongeBob?

VERY much so, but in a good way, if such a thing exists! one of our mantras on our little storyboard plussing team is “pressure makes diamonds” and it is a very applicable saying

when i first started, i was TEEEEERRRIFIED! i really felt like i had no idea what i was doing, and there have been so many times where i’ve turned in a section and genuinely thought “oh my god they’re gonna fire me for this it’s so bad.” working in animation is frazzling enough! but not only are we working on a cultural mecca, with not only the kids of today to entertain, impress and inspire, but to maintain the integrity of the series and entertain/impress/inspire the kids like us who grew up with the show, we are also working with literal animation legends and animation veterans!! it’s pretty surreal to be working on the same show as someone like Bob Camp, who’s been in the industry for 40+ years… and even more surreal when he says he’s a big fan of your work ����‍💫‼️‼️‼️‼️

THANKFULLY, i’ve made a lot of strides in curbing some of my storyboarding stage fright. it used to be really bad when i started, like genuinely panic attack inducing! the constant patience and guidance and encouragement of my peers and consistent practice from these past three years have really allowed me to grow and blossom. now, when i feel a bit claustrophobic in remembering the pure scale of what we’re doing, i weaponize it for good!!

i think of how inspired and amazed and obsessed with SpongeBob i was as a kid. how it inspired me to draw, how i remember drawing along to episodes and commercial breaks. my brother and his wife are both elementary school teachers and routinely update me about how their kids are still crazy for SB (and they both brag about me to their kids heheh). i think of all the kids watching, all the kids realizing that getting to draw these characters and interact with them and live in their world is something you indeed can do, all the kids who religiously catch each new episode like i once did… it just fills me with so much confidence and hope and love, and that motivates me to deliver and do my best and try to do what i can to help make each episode be better and more fun than the last

SpongeBob is for everyone, obviously! that’s one of the great things i love about working on it: i get just as much enjoyment watching our finished episodes as our target audience. but i do bring up the kids particularly often because, at the end of the day, that is who we are doing it for and i also just can’t help but think back to how my SpongeBob obsessed self as a kid would have had her world rocked to know i’m doing what i’m doing. i want to give those kids, who i used to be and still essentially am, the same joy and spark and all consuming inspiration i felt and still do

there are definitely some days where the gravity of what we’re doing hits harder than others! some days are a lot more difficult than others. this is an absolute dream job, i’m not just saying that, i always fantasized about maybe one day being able to work my way up to working on SpongeBob and now it’s my first animation job—but it is very easy to get overwhelmed by just how big of a legacy we’re carrying on our shoulders! how many other mega talented people work on this show! there’s a lot to juggle. but we juggle it well. there is so much love and heart and care poured into this show. we do everything we can to maintain the integrity of the characters and the show’s core, and it just makes me love what i do all the more and makes me more determined to do it

TLDR: YES! but i’m much better off for it, because it reminds me of why we’re working so hard to begin with. we all want this show to be the best it can—to maintain its core 25 years later, but still have fun doing it. i mentioned this on Twitter, but when i met Bill Fagerbakke last month he was saying how cool it is that fans who grew up with the show are now able to work on it and i couldn’t agree more. it’s the greatest honor imaginable being able to carry such a monumental torch, and i hope i’m able to keep at it for a long, long time.

[ratatatastic]

The TNT broadcast won me over a bit with the post-show Bobby interview 😭 I was so charmed by Bobby when he brought up Hank beating him in his last Winter Classic appearance.

Goalies ways of complimenting each other is always so fun to watch. Such strange little creatures.

Not sure exactly who said “What a stud!” At the end of the interview but whoever said it should understand now why the cats will attempt murder on anyone who gets too close to Bob. How could you not honestly.

i was honestly surprised they got bobby to do a postgame interview with them! i thought they were gonna ask maffhew again considering how much they were going on about his shenanigans the entire time im like theyre absolutely gunning for him for the postgame huh? so imagine my suprise when little ole bobby is sat politely on the bench with his headset on... damn near scared my neighbours from the yell i let out...

but so correct of them they started kitty warmies talking about the winter classic and goalies (lu and hank) they should end it talking to goalies yes!

once again increasingly very obvious when hes answering a normal question (🥺) and when hes answering a question about a goalie (😁) like ohhhhh hes smiling so hard bringing up the 2012 winter classic against hank

That was Army who said, "What a stud!" because of course it was lmao who else on the panel would it have been but mr armdog... it tracks extensively

[roaringroa]

they should make a life where you don't have appointments, work, school and scheduled events every single day for months on end

[fraudulent-cheese]

hi, total drama fan. describe a female character without mentioning their dynamic with a male character, calling them “girlboss” or “mom friend”, or saying they’re annoying. you have 1 minute or the saw trap goes off.

(this is the anon from the total feminist takes blog. would love to hear abt ur blorbos)

OH BOY WOULD I??? (Ok i'll do characters who i belive i have an actual understanding of their personality)

Izzy, at a first glance, is an embodiment of chaos; she's a fun-loving, rule-ignoring, impulsive teenage girl who's favorite hobbies seem to include making shit up and doing her own thing. She's also incredibly talented as well, with her acrobatics, ability to pull shit out of apparent thin air and especially her acting; Izzy is also very intelligent, and experiences the world differently from others. There is a method to the madness, she's just the only one aware of it.

Ella is naive, but passionate. She's kind to a fault, even to those who won't return it; she also has trouble handling others disliking her and is willing to bend over backwards to try and appeal to them. She's also incredibly fixated on fairytale stories and has an interest in singing, to the point she breaks out in song regularly and likes to compare events in her own life to that of the tales she adores.

Courtney is alot of things. She can be arrogant, in a similar way to Pearl from Steven Universe; confident in her own perspective and her own ways, to the point she'd reject different opinions and considers herself to be the best leader her teams could have. She's also very talented, both academically and athletically, definitely a hard worker who seeks structure out as a default. This contrasts heavily with her impulsiveness and temper, especially when she perceives someone else not respecting her abilities (she is a CIT after all!) and doesn't seem to be great at reading people and - god, god she's so autistic i swear i had to stop myself earlier on from just saying she was autistic but SHE SO IS I SWEAR-

Gwen's personality has changed over time, to the point i'd say it's tragic; she started off as an anti-social, judgemental non-conforming girl, a sort of "not like the other girls" type that turns out to simply be an artsy, loner teen with an interest in the macabre and humor that incorporates alot of sarcasm. But overtime, due to other people's judgements and remarks and critisms and (im extrapolating but im sure it's happened) insults has worn her down. By the time we get to 2 years after Island, she's been blamed so often for her relationships falling appart, she starts trying to act more docile and agreable, but due to being an insecure teen, makes alot of mistakes; especially regarding her own feelings. it gets to the point she starts conforming to expectations she's never even considered to be worth her time; this is what i'd use to explain the "double condition" line from All Stars. She's been worn down.

This got. Sad, so i'll try describing Leshawna now

If i had to compare her to anyone or anything, it would be the Grudger from The Evolution of Trust; she's nice to most people she meets, but doesn't trust many, and will stand up for herself and her friends if she sees an injustice. She's unapologetically herself, and doesn't put much stake in what others think of her either. She's also a great team player and has pretty good social skills to boot, and also tends to rely on her gut feeling; hence why first impressions are important with her.

[sysig]

Sick threads where’d you get ‘em (Patreon)

[chaikachi]

oopsies! i accidentally deleted the last anon while trying to answer it but it was something along the lines of

stop co-opting songs from the canon couple, it's weird

I assume you're talking about this post, and to that I say I can't 'co-opt' from canon couples because RG is a canon couple, you silly goose!! Just like BB and Renora who were the other two ships focused on in that scene!

We start with the sister reunion:

Then we get friends/teammates reunion:

Then big focus on the bumbleby reunion:

Then the tease to renora:

and then big focus on rosegarden!

Which, if you remember, is a direct parallel to one of their earlier scenes back in v5, just reversed!

Also, I did some googling and can't find crwby anywhere mentioning that Treasure is only about one specific pairing. So until they come forward and clarify, it is up to interpretation! Hope you have a good day and are looking forward to the RG reunion hug as much as I am!! 🤗💕

[cant-get-no-worse]

Your writing is always great, I need you to write something to either making us optimistic about the future of the club or to make us realize how much in deep shit we actually are please 😭

Babe, just browse through my La Liga 2022/2023 tag and mourn with me. 💕

[mariyekos]

Imagining a scenario where at some point Dante and Lady get married purely for practical purposes (like if she gets hospitalized so Dante can visit/make some decisions) but Lady ends up dating Trish so Dante's like

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Return of movie

[minorfamilysupremacy]

remember the whole "we are about to reveal a real couple" bullshit pond/boc pulled and then dropped some couple-vlog series with pong and tong? suspiciously right after mewtul came out and got a lot of positive attention? there have been rumours from the beginning about pong having a gf the entire time and how this is once again just a cashgrab and desperate try to gain attention and fans. and then that didn't work and oh look, what's this? just as thai fans (bl fans, not boc fans) found actual evidence that this shit is all fake. well. twitter.com/BLUPDATE2022/status/1875098864623161814 when i say i hate boc and all of these people that's an understatement. none of them have decency or moral. just exploting queer people all in the hopes to make money and get famous, it's sickening.

pong is a lying asshole? POND is a lying asshole? say it ain't so. charlene, fetch my smelling salts.

i know a lot of people are taking tong's side in this, which makes sense as the cheated-on party. i'm not really inclined to give him as much of the benefit of the doubt -- we knew pong was trash ages ago, and if, as the signs all seem to suggest, this was just a publicity-stunt outing, then tong's trash for agreeing to go along with it. this whole thing has reeked since day one and everyone involves smells just as shitty. wonder how much tong got paid to sell his soul. whatever he got, it sure wasn't enough.

[marc--chilton]

still losing my mind at the way houses relationship with john would have fucked up the way he sees being an omega. just,,, teen house, young and confused, experiencing these absoloutely brutal heats. not understanding why they are so bad and hard when theyre supposed to be a time where an omega feels good. already feeling broken and wrong, and then having to face john's anger and disappointment over him being an omega

like i can only imagine how it would affect him in heat, a time where he would be less able to think coherently. and constantly remembering how traumatic and horrible his heats as a teen were, the memory making him feel bad and in turn making him feel physically worse. just like,,, a constant feedback loop of remembering and feeling bad -> feeling physically worse in turn -> reminding himself even more of his childhood and feeling worse

i feel like after having to deal with his first few heats without a strong family net to acclimate to the changes, once house is outta there and doing his own thing he tries to never deal with his heats alone. he marks his cycle religiously, makes deals with alphas in med school to help him through them, or even finds street suppressants if he's especially desperate.

man. you just know john has put him outside for some of his heats, too. nothing to nest with, no scent blocking patches, just left him in the yard like a sacrificial lamb. it goes without saying how dangerous that is.

hell, once he's employed i wouldn't be surprised if he stole something from the hospital to bring home in case a heat comes up that he can't deal with, something that'll knock him out for the worst of it.