#coming back from the hiatus to say

[sgt-paul]

toughest 4 minutes 36 seconds i've ever had to sit through

[birrdify]

oh smg4 fixation how far ive fallen for you ............ hhi smg4 fandom waving nervously

[cozylittleartblog]

bug doodles so i can say i drew something

[yooniesim]

The fact that these greedy hacks are profiting by stealing from many always free creators specifically now... disgusting. No wonder the number of free creators is dwindling so much in this degraded shithole of a community. Simsulani you are a royal cunt!

[noirandchocolate]

Been getting an influx of obvious spam/porn bots and also blank blogs in my follows the past couple weeks so I guess this is a good time to state my policy on the latter again:

I don’t block blank blogs that follow me on sight if they have usernames that look like a person might’ve chosen them (ie not a random mash of letters and numbers). This is because it’s possible these blogs might be real users brand new to tumblr (or newly remaking etc).

However, I do go back and check and if after 1-2 weeks (whenever I remember to check) the blog still has not been customized with an icon etc and still has zero content, even likes? Blocked. If it has likes or other content but those seem…sus to me in very specific ways I won’t get into? Blocked. This is because I have decided that either the blog is a bot, is not intending to truly use tumblr anytime soon, or may be something more annoying or outright harmful specifically to me.

So if you’re new to tumblr and just followed me, hi! Please start using tumblr by reblogging and liking posts! I hope you’ll enjoy your time here. But…I’ll block you if you don’t actually use your blog. Sorry!

[coollyinterferes]

The unmistakable sound of footsteps approaching begins to fill the air. Whoever is coming seems to have brought some company along…

They are getting closer… and closer… and closer…

…and closer…

……until..................

"Goooooood evenin'!!" Comes the loud greeting from a certain blond man. A big smile on his face and all.

"We beg your pardon for our prolonged absence. It was completely beyond our control..." Then adds the gentleman standing by his side, apologizing on behalf of both, offering a genuine smile along with the apology.

"...BUT! We're back!" And hopefully for good this time…

[rangersoup]

I’ve decided. Turn and Burn (the Carlos horse girl fic) is gonna get a rewrite/revamp once I’m done with The Lone Ranger. It’s gonna be the second installment of my Rangers spinoff fic. It will be both a direct continuation of the Lone Ranger and set up for some other stuff on down the line.

[leahthedreamer]

Why are people acting like Yuma had a Kevin Aymoz crash out at the Asian Games

[girlpetrarca]

gang I'm not sure I have the courage to come out to my boxing coach

[lovecolibri]

SaL anon here friend and, well, that happened 😐. I can't even really say I'm mad or disappointed or anything like that because this?? Is exactly what I expected. And its so, so sad that after what was supposed to be Bobby's final farewell I'm just numb and disinterested. Even Angela's incredible performance couldn't drag a tear out of me, it was too late and I was past caring. Honestly what is this show doing anymore?? How did they start out 8b so, so strong and turn into this?? I gotta be honest friend I'm finishing out the season of course but I don't know if I'll be around for season 9 if this is now the show. Emergency after emergency after emergency, with guest star after guest star after guest star, and no sign of the family I loved in sight. It sounds like hell and I want no part of it if it happens. Where are you at the afternoon?

Hello my friend! I was going to shoot off a quick response when I saw this, but I do actually have some thoughts and then I was out of town, so I'm typing this up before bed and setting it to post in the morning. Warning for typical salt gremlin behavior from me.

First off, I have to apologize once again for dragging you into this show with me only for us to end up back in the same RNM "god what is all this wasted potential" boat again 😬 I was banking on Eddie's absence and the longing it would inspire given how we saw Buck crashing out would at least get us a chance to do West, and with this Bobby nonsense, I was planning for us to do Sorrow at the very least, and maybe Saturn as well. And yet, here we are with basically nothing, because Bobby's death ("death"?), and Eddie's return ("return"?) gave us...nothing to work with!

Okay, so first major gripe is obviously Eddie, and the fact that basically none of his stuff has been happening on screen. The ONLY good thing to come out of this mess is the very, VERY loud blowback from every corner I've seen, or seen screenshots of, asking why the show is suddenly ignoring a main character. I hope Ryan sees how much he and Eddie are loved and missed by the audience, and regardless of shipping, the Buck/Eddie dynamic has ALWAYS been a favorite and not seeing them grieving together and not seeing their first meeting after the huge deal made about Eddie leaving clearly hit the vast majority of the audience the wrong way. It just disrespectful. And don't get me started on the show trying to do damage control by praising the actors as if people have not been going out of their way to point out the actors were never the issue and the writing is what people are mad at, and as if this whole series of episodes hasn't been DEEPLY disrespectful to several of the characters/actors already. 😒

Alright, now for the actual problem with this episode, because I have seen a couple comments of like "the writing isn't bad, you're just sad" and like, NO, I'm NOT sad, and that is the fucking PROBLEM. If Bobby is in fact dead, that was THEE lamest "reflection and remembrance" episode for a main character I have ever seen. Zero flashbacks to key moments with the 118, or Athena and the kids, zero moments of the firefam gathered together telling stories the audience hasn't heard about Bobby and how he helped them, in fact most of the episode wasn't even ABOUT Bobby! They didn't even have a good song playing over the funeral montage on the "we picked the perfect song to make everyone cry at this scene" show! It just felt SO empty and soulless. And we know this show can pack a punch with the emotions because I have seen SO many comments about that scene putting down the horse in season 2, and so many one-off emergencies that had people in tears. I was dreading this episode because I thought I was going to sob the whole way through and I don't think I even teared up. For fucks sake, we didn't even get Harry helping carry the casket! THEY BURIED BOBBY ACROSS THE COUNTRY FROM HIS FAMILY HE JUST SAID HE WANTED TO STAY WITH ALWAYS AND WHERE THEY CAN'T EASILY VISIT TO "TALK" WITH HIM! (I did see a lot of people saying at least there was that good moment and it fills me with fury because it's not sweet or touching for the suicidal character's story to end exactly where he thought it would 8 seasons ago, when all of his arcs have been about putting the past to rest and moving forward with the family he made in LA, with the firefam and Athena and the kids.) (but also if he's alive then I will accept it as symbolically laying that part of his life to rest but still. There's no way that man and Athena haven't picked out their plots side by side already, please be so for real, Tim.)

However, if Bobby is alive? Then this episode....serves no purpose. You could, upon rewatching the show, skip directly from 8x15 into 8x17 without missing a thing. If you really wanted, you could watch the trailer for 8x16 since it had the two important Athena and Chim scenes in it and about as much funeral montage as we saw in the show. It ultimately serves NO purpose! The lady with the baby was wrong and her child was dead, WHO CARES. No call from Bobby at the end of the episode so no cliffhanger to pull you into the next episode, and most importantly NO GRIEVING from the firefam! Skipping ahead to miss all the initial aftermath was a HUGE misstep. Not seeing the firefam hugging and talking to each other was a HUGE MISSTEP. Eddie not showing up for WEEKS until the funeral date was set? And possibly leaving Chris with his parents again flying in the face of what DID get accomplished (FINALLY) in 8x13? Like, what are we even doing here?! Fucking racist, sexist, GERRARD got to give the "Bobby was a great man" speech to the 118?!?! The man who was FIRED from the 118 for being so terrible to Hen as reported by Chim who knew exactly how awful that man was to him too? HE gets to talk more about Bobby and who he was and what he meant to people than BUCK? Than fucking HEN?! Like Jesus H Roosevelt motherfucking Christ! How do you miss hitting emotional beats THAT BIG?! Isn't that the point of killing off characters? It's a lazy way to force emotion from the audience without actually putting in a lot of work. But they managed to not even do that much!

Because the thing is, if Bobby is alive or not, we should be FEELING his death. We should be mourning along with the characters. If he is dead, this allows the audience to grieve with their other faves, and pay respects to the character and actor. If he's alive, it still allows the audience to sit in that pain with the characters, and on re-watching the show to relish in the pain they know is soon going to be lifted! But since literally NONE of that happened in this episode, dead or alive, this episode is so much of a nothing burger it could entirely be skipped without really losing anything. And THAT, folks, is down to bad writing.

Also, someone else said, if Bobby is truly dead, there should not have been any question about it, and I agree. But also, if he was alive? There also should, at this point, be no question about it, for the audience! The audience should be in the know by now! Because everyone is just MAD, especially the ones who said they were watching the funeral just to say farewell to Bobby before quitting the show and then got screwed out of even getting that much respect for their fave in 8x16. At this point, no matter which way it goes, it feels like a cruel joke being played on the audience, poking fun at them, instead of a crazy journey for the characters that the audience gets to be "in the know" on. Because if the audience is in the know, we are in on the joke, but if the audience is on the outside, we ARE the joke. And no one likes being the butt of the joke. And to do that to an audience that has been faithful for this many seasons because they fully bought into the tone, theme, and foundation of the show which is HOPE and second chances?! To an audience that stuck through shortened covid seasons, an unexpected cancellation giving half-assed tied up storylines that then had to be undone because they were terrible? To an audience that stuck through a network switch, and a shortened season due to strikes?

It just seems mean spirited, and it's truly sad to watch a show that was successfully working towards getting it's groove back, crash and burn SO HARD, SO FAST. And loosing the trust of a good audience like that is going to be hard to overcome.

[clownboymcchucklefuck]

I still cant wrap my head around how people can understand that dance is a sport but winter/color guard isn't

[nebuladreamz]

Mom come pick me up the voices are loud again (the image of the poster children of Creepypasta in. Slender's Mansion again. All as one big fuck ass family. Fucked up one with issues abroad. But also one of mutual understanding and what if I want them to heal and grow as people. Forever changed by the events or even what they are fundamentally but still being able to live in this world as who they are now with a support group of beings similar yet so distant from themselves. They can never go back or completely change who they are without damaging themselves or there's nothing else to go back to anymore, so all they can do is move forward. And kill people, that's always a bonus)

[cyphyra]

so this is prolly exposing Cy's Gacha Brainrot but i really fucking wish Brave Frontier was still around and the devs didnt devolve into NFTs and AI bullshit

it was genuinely one of the best mobile games at the time especially above other gachas cause it was one of the more no-pressure ones on the market and it was pretty f2p-friendly imo

the unit drop rate was also pretty generous, especially the longer the game went on and the more powerful units came out, free players could clear most content after like 3 10-pulls, which you got the resources for either by mail or just playing the main story where u got one for every sub-area clear

it also didnt have a huge reliance on the multiplayer aspects of the game; pvp, raids, and guilds were all entirely optional and the first 2 had rewards that were pretty easy to get for collection's sake, and that's what i really liked about it

on top of that, it had the best rpg combat of any mobile game i know of-- no game has been able to scratch the same itch that BF did-- not even FFBE, which was essentially "BF, but Final Fantasy" like it was essentially the same, but i feel it added TOO much to the combat and made it feel a lot slower as a result

[taeyungie]

😺

[arolesbianism]

Some stuff I've drawn semi recently

[dapperrokyuu]

What I thought was gonna be a Noe flashback arc is turning out to be a Dham arc. Which is a win either way, so yay!