#do i even rant about the imagine or imagines again

[jeonscatalyst]

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But the way #their confidence was on cloud nine after ep 3 of AYS? May you won't believe or maybe you would as I'm assuming you have seen all those essays pitying Jikookers saying that "It's not jkkrs fault that the company led them to believe something which is not true, which isn't there. I don't fault the jikookers, they just got manipulated by the company" like the same Tkkrs who do daily coke rants About jkk and jkkrs and how much they hate them were pitying jkkrs after ep3. Like boy I'm never forgetting that confidence 😂 the way they were soo sure jimin was going to third wheel. Mind you they said that if jungkook couldn't keep taehyung off of his mind in NYC imagine what he'd do if taehyung is in the show (they said this after nyc as well as after ep 3).

No but the only thing jm didn't do way participate in water gun 🔫 game because he had motion sickness and even in that game jungkook's focus was more on jimin because he wanted jimin to join so he was just spraying water on jm. But the way their coke rants came back as soon as ep4 was aired LMAOOO like i remember ppl posting those 14 freakin pages of why the show is scripted and how taekook are being oppressed by the company lol. #They wanted jimin to third wheel soo bad as if he's not known for having the best RS with every single member of BTS.

Remind me again what was the outrage for behind the scenes? As far as i remember the armys were saying the company is portraying taehyung as a villain because they added "why are you coming" as subtitles for jk even tho he didn't say anything but that was their humour. And did we find out jm having sleepover at jk's during behind the scenes? Anything more we find out during behind the scenes?

Loooool anon!

You just reminded me of all the chaos that unfolded after the first few episodes of AYS. I remember everything they said, especially after Episode 3. The same tkkrs who initially hated the idea of the show claiming it was scripted and that Jungkook had been forced into it, suddenly changed their tune, saying they actually enjoyed it and looked forward to new episodes.

The truth is, even some Jikookers had mixed feelings about the first few episodes. When Jimin and Jungkook mentioned that they hadn’t kept in touch much, and then in Episode 3, when Jimin was still sick and couldn’t be as active as Taekook, some Jikookers were uncertain about how things were playing out. Tkkrs noticed this hesitation and used it to mock Jikookers, calling them gullible for believing in “fanservice” while they declared themselves victorious based on a single part of the first day in Jeju. They celebrated too early, forgetting that it’s not over until it’s over.

By Episode 4, their narrative shifted again. The joy they felt in Episode 3, watching Jungkook and Taehyung jump around together while Jimin, who was sick, couldn’t join…was short-lived. Suddenly, Tae was the one looking like the third wheel, a role they desperately wanted Jimin to fill. After laughing at Jimin in Episode 3, claiming Jungkook didn’t even care to invite him to the pool (conveniently ignoring Jungkook spraying Jimin with water, trying to get him to play), they had to watch Jungkook not ask Taehyung to join other activities with him and Jimin. They mocked Jimin for having motion sickness and claimed that Jungkook didn’t care that he was sick, only to watch Jungkook not even lift his head from his food he was eating while Tae painfully complained about his neck hurting at the sushi restaurant…so much so that Jimin was the one who turned to give him a neck massage. Jungkook? He stayed focused on his food. (This ofcourse doesn’t mean Jungkook didn’t care about Tae. People with brains understand this but tkkrs, no they twist everything and wouldn’t mind potraying jk as an asshole if it means proving Jikook isn’t real)

Episode 4 felt like sweet Jikook karma. It was as if the universe saw all the mocking and insults aimed at Jimin and turned the tables. Everything tkkrs wanted Jungkook to do to Jimin ended up being Tae’s reality. On top of that, Tae spent most of his time with his head buried in his phone. At first, tkkrs claimed his presence made the show more interesting, but we all saw him spend the rest of Jeju either on his phone, going to bed early, staying by himself, or leaving to meet other people…basically not really adding much to the show tbh while Jimin and Jungkook did everything together.

One of the funniest parts to me, a part I still laugh about everytime I think about it is, tkkrs saying that Jungkook didn’t care to ask Jimin to eat when they first arrived in Jeju, making a big deal about how he ate with Tae instead. They even edited screenshots to make it seem like Jungkook was seated closer to Tae than Jimin. But then, in the behind the scenes, we found out that Jungkook did ask Jimin why he wasn’t eating (a part that was conveniently cut from the official footage). And the reason Jimin wasn’t eating? He had spent the night with Jungkook before Jeju, and Jungkook had cooked maguksu for them which Jimin had three servings of.

So, anon, you ask what the outrage was about after the behind-the-scenes footage? Imagine being a tkkr who spent weeks twisting every scene to fit a false narrative only to later discover that while you were busy making edits about Jungkook “not caring” about Jimin, the reality was that Jungkook and Jimin spent the night together not Jungkook and Taehyung. Imagine thinking that your beliefs about Taekook being a couple had been validated because of seating positions while your arch enemies (jokers) had been put to shame on their own ship’s show, only to learn that Taehyung only found out about Jungkook’s (who is supposedly his boyfriend) trip from a group chat and insisted on joining. Or believing that Jungkook didn’t care if Jimin ate…only to find out that not only did he ask, but he had also spent the night with him after flying back from the U.S, while Tae was nowhere near him. Wouldn’t you be mad too anon?😂💀

The behind-the-scenes footage shattered their illusions. It revealed details they hadn’t expected. Jimin and Jungkook barely paying attention to Tae at certain points, Tae looking over it and ready to go home, and every Jikook moment playing out exactly the way we’ve always known their dynamic to be. Tkkrs had convinced themselves that Jungkook only pays attention to Taehyung in a room, yet they watched Jimin and Jungkook create inside joke after inside joke, leaving Taehyung visibly lost. That was a hard pill to swallow.

They claim the company and Jimin tried to portray Taehyung as a guest (wasn’t he a guest?). Notice how they conveniently ignore the fact that Jungkook also called Taehyung a guest multiple times and even laughed when Jimin joked about it. They won’t mention that because admitting it would mean acknowledging that Jungkook was in on it too which will make him a bad boyfriend in their books and they ofcourse don’t want anything but the perfect most caring and attentive boyfriend for Tae else the ship doesn’t hit as much. Jungkook can only be an asshole to Jimin as that will prove to them that Jikook isn’t real. This is a logic they don’t want to apply to their own ship so they skip mentioning Jk’s contribution in the said “portrayal” not because they care about jk and don’t want him to come off mean but because they don’t want to shatter their own fantasies.

Today, tkkrs claim AYS “debunked” Jikook, yet they still haven’t stopped crying about it. They desperately deny everything we saw with our own eyes. They deny that Taehyung was disconnected from Jikook and half the time looked like he didn’t want to be there, they deny that he was a indeed guest (this isn’t an insult. Don’t know why they think calling him a guest, which he was..is) who only learned about the trip through a group chat, and that AYS showed the stark difference in dynamics between Taekook and Jikook. Not that this was ever a competition…because Taekook has never held a candle to Jikook in my books…but the contrast was undeniable.

At the end of the day, AYS only validated what we’ve always known and not because it “proved” Jikook is real but because everything about it confirmed our understanding of their bond. We got to see what we had only heard about for years. We saw their natural dynamic unfold in real-time. And that’s what infuriates tkkrs the most. That’s why they call the show scripted. That’s why they call Jungkook a liar when he says those were the best trips he’s ever had.

They’re not mad because AYS disproved Jikook. If they really believed it did they would love the show. They’re mad because it proved them wrong.

[slymanner]

Look all I'm saying is if that a shadow game can work THAT well and be so well designed story wise and gameplay wise

HE can work

[total-drama-brainrot]

TD World Tour AU, where Noah doesn't tell Owen that Alejandro is an eel in London... In Area 51, Noah is accidentally splashed with an alien truth potion (which wears off after a few days) and he talks to Owen... Owen asks Noah what he truly thinks about Alejandro, and Truth-Potion Affected Noah says this: "I have mixed feelings for Alejandro. He's a brilliant, interesting guy and I like him, but I don't trust him. He's like a slippery eel dipped in grease, swimming in motor oil. Basically, Heather with social skills. Wait a minute, why am I telling you this?!"... What if Alejandro secretly heard Noah call him all those conflicting things + Alejandro also learns that Noah is affected with an alien truth potion? 👽

Alright, you got me. I'm an absolute sucker for truth potion plots, especially when the character(s) effected by them are usually either pathological liars or incredibly secretive- of which Noah absolutely falls into the second category, given he shares so little personal information.

I'll gloss over why Noah declined to shit-talk Alejandro in London (though there's so many ways this change in behaviour could be justified) since the focal point of this hypothetical centred around their time in Nevada, so let's start from the beginning of the Area 51 challenge.

Area 51:

Before we start, it'll have to be established that no one was eliminated in London. Let's say that the majority vote went towards Duncan (team CIRRRRH voted him out immediately because they found his re-admission to the competition unfair, I guess. I imagine he'd also vote himself, if not as a plan to escape the competition he'd been actively skiving from, then just as an act of spite) but Chris instead claimed it was a rewards challenge- much like he does in Greece- because he doesn't want to let Duncan slip away again so soon.

I see no reason to alter the first part of the challenge- the sneaking into Area 51 portion- since team CIRRRRH's course of entry is fairly straightforward. Noah's presence doesn't make much of a difference to how it would play out; the majority of them throw their rocks and run, Owen gets lasered over the fence and Owen-napped, ect ect.

When both teams have managed to make their way into the Black Box Warehouse, Noah immediately suggests they should prioritise rescuing Owen. Tyler's quick to agree, since he's a firm believer in the "no man left behind" mentality (and he probably makes a not-so-subtle jab towards Noah for his chance of tune compared to London, where both he and Owen did leave Tyler behind) leaving Duncan and Alejandro to split from the group- Duncan in search of Gwen, and Alejandro just takes the opportunity to finally be free from his 'incompetent teammates' and prioritises finding an artifact.

Noah and Tyler come across the contraption Owen's trapped in, Tyler punches it in a futile effort to break it open, and the face hugger cube drops into Noah's hands. This is where the point of divergence comes into play; Tyler has his E.T. moment with one of the face huggers, but Noah- who's a tad bit more observant than Alejandro, and used to dodging surprise attacks from his various older siblings (and Izzy)- anticipates his own face hugger attack and promptly starts a game of cat-and-mouse with a taser alien hot on his heels.

The commotion of which attracts the rest of his team. Alejandro and Duncan arrive on the scene to see Tyler being electrocuted by an alien and Noah running in circles evading another.

Duncan attempts to rip the face hugger from Tyler's face, finding success at the cost of sending Tyler trampling into Owen's captive contraption (essentially taking Alejandro's canonical place in this scene) and inadvertently freeing Owen.

Meanwhile, Alejandro swipes up the nearest box he can find and snags the alien chasing Noah, who's still very loudly panicking as he flees, and succeeds! The alien is swiftly captured into the box, netting team CIRRRRH their artifact, and Noah promptly goes careening into the nearest tower of junk in his face hugger-fuelled hysteria. This causes another box to topple from the peak of the tower, landing directly on Noah's head and spilling its contents onto the bookworm- glass vials filled with a mysterious, luminescent cobalt blue liquid shatter into pieces drenching Noah in whatever they contained. (i.e. truth potion.)

Owen has his false-amnesia moment, characterised by his Joker makeover, and Alejandro enacts his revenge post-hypnotic suggestion after being addressed as "Al" one too many times.

Noah, understandably, swiftly objects to Owen's treatment and demands that Alejandro snap him out of it. Alejandro concedes, and Owen's brought back to himself. At least, for a moment, before the fatigue of having his mind messed with sends Owen into near-catatonia (the same as canon), meaning he has to be ferried through the Warehouse and back to the Jet by Alejandro and Duncan.

Things carry on canonically from there; Noah's just sort of there for the most part, though there'd be a minor hint to his newfound proclivity for honesty. Something along the lines of him giving an uncharacteristically honest answer to Owen as to who he's voting- Tyler, of course, since he was the one who ultimately threw the challenge for them... and also because Tyler still holds some resentment towards Noah for what happened in London, and Noah feels guilty about it every time he looks at the jock. Wait, why did he say that?

Sometime between this and the elimination scene, Noah wipes the truth-goop off of himself, but not before the effects have already started.

Tyler's voted out, yada yada yada.

The Jet:

Thus begins the start of "Picnic at Hanging Dork". Team CIRRRRH, consisting of just Alejandro, Duncan, Owen and Noah, are slumming it up in the Economy Cabin. Alejandro tries to rally his team by asking how to break apart Courtney and Heather's tentative co-operation. Owen suggests having Alejandro seduce Heather, since it worked for both Bridgette and Leshawna. Duncan makes his "Babe Olympics" comment. Noah pipes up that playing with someone's feelings is pretty scummy, even for someone competing for a million dollars.

Alejandro takes Noah's reluctance towards his methodology poorly; he hadn't spoken up before, when Alejandro had utilized the same strategy against other girls- and even Owen noticed that, so surely Noah did too- so why was he to outwardly against him using the same tricks? Duncan agrees, and offers ''his'' idea of having Alejandro flirt with Courtney to throw both her and Heather off their games (since Heather has an obvious crush on Alejandro), and things follow canon.

Then, the scene between Alejandro and Courtney happens. Noah scoffs at the display from the side lines, prompting Owen to ask him why he's so against Alejandro's plan.

"I mean, you never said anything before, when he flirted with Bridgette and Leshawna." Owen comments, light-hearted in nature but with an underlying questioning tone.

Noah's eyes flicker with a cobalt glow, easily mistaken for a trick of the light, and he speaks without even thinking.

"Yeah, because I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. Bridgette was happenstance, and Leshawna's whole deal could've been a coincidence, or some massive misunderstanding. But this?" Noah extends an accusing hand out towards a smug looking Alejandro, then pans it over to a flattered Courtney, "He's outright toying with Courtney's feelings after she was cheated on in front of an international audience. It's scummy."

Owen nods in understanding, momentary contemplation evident in the pouted curve of his lips, and he chimes in.

"Does that mean you don't like Al?"

"I never said that."

"Well, how do you feel about him, then?"

Again, a flash of blue light against the hickory backdrop of Noah's eyes, and he responds thoughtlessly.

"I guess I have mixed feelings about him. On the one hand, he's slippery, like an eel dipped in grease, swimming in motor oil. He's like if you took all of the worst aspects of Heather, wrapped them up in a pretty package, and gave them social skills..." He holds his hands out before him in a scale-like manner, with the left tipped downwards and tie right raised by his chin. Then, the two hands swap positions.

"And on the other hand, he's brilliant. I've never met anyone as talented as Alejandro; he's smart, he's athletic, he's funny. It's almost unfair just how perfect everything about him is- even his face is perfect. It's ridiculous! Infuriating, even. It's so hard to dislike him, even when I know he's bad news, but that doesn't mean I trust him."

Owen stands slack jawed beside his best friend, both impressed and stunned at the raw honesty of Noah's tirade. Noah, now a little more aware of himself, realises that he's said more than he intended to- more than he thinks he's ever spoken in one go throughout the entirety of Total Drama. He's not usually one for speeches, after all, let alone honest ones.

He's always been the type to play his cards close to his chest, so why...?

"I, uh, didn't mean to go off like that."

And he also didn't mean to admit it, either. What was going on?

The look Owen gives him is, in a word, vivid. The blonde has a shit-eating grin stretching across his face, a sort of elated smugness practically glowing from his features.

"Sounds like someone has a cruuuush!~"

What? No? No! Not at all, where would Owen even get that idea?!

Noah splutters to correct Owen's assumption (to disastrous results, because he does sort-of has a crush on Alejandro, so the truth potion doesn't allow him to outright deny it), and in his preoccupied state he misses how a calculating pair of sage green eyes never seems to stray from him.

Alejandro has a lot to think about in regards to a certain cynic, it seems.

[afro-elf]

you can ignore this!

[theswedishpajas]

Love the art!!! Do you ship Beetlejuice and Lydia by any chance??

Thank you!! But no, sorry. I don't mind the beetlebabes at all, what others ship isn't my business, but it's definitely not my cup of tea 😔

[emotinalsupportturtle]

Sorry but not my mom praising the education system being so much more advanced now because 5 year olds know cartoons are not real. Apparently she met these kids who were trying to watch a cartoon but instead they were going “oh that’s so stupid. That could never happen” the whole time. Like no no it is important to know you can’t survive jumping off a building because you’re wearing a cape but if you can’t watch a cartoon for fun at the age of 5 what’s the point. Also I did not watch the powerpuff girls or Tom and Jerry thinking any of that could happen. Actually if I ever believed any of it I wouldn’t have watched it. I did not think I could jump into pictures like in blues clues. But I could imagine I could and that’s what made it fun. Like if you find cartoons stupid at the age of 5 where’s the fun?

[please-picturemeintheweeds]

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[thebigqueer]

maybe the reason im so upset about it isnt cuz she broke up wme but because all that waiting over the summer just feels so worthelss now. like i know we couldnt talk as much or be around each other as much but i was waitingall summer like when we get back all we'll do is be together!!!! all of the 'new relationship syndrome especially now that its long distance' stuff will be fixed when we get back!! but were over and theres no chanec of fixing it because were over and its just like what if we waited what if we just figured it out for another few weeksand see where it went form there

[cappucosmico]

since god's worst weed adventure my brain just feels Worse at processing things. which is unfortunate, bc my brain has notoriously already been bad at processing things

[gnaga37]

minecraft exp that drops if you die being capped at 7 levels is so stupid i hate it so much. what do you mean that from my 600+ levels I only get 7 back? I should at least get to lvl 30 minimum

[essektheylyss]

Because it's the first song on my afternoon daylist, sometimes I just idly remember how Castle put its eponymous character intro to "Everybody Loves Me" by OneRepublic, and honestly, what an utterly correct choice.

[youngpettyqueen]

Henry or Potter?

man as much as I do love Potter, gotta go with Henry here

I like Potter a lot but I do think my interpretation of him is. definitely not what the show intended him to be read as. and for all I love him, he does bring in this softening of the anti-military stance of the show in general which im not a huge fan of. he's a great character, but narratively speaking not always handled the best, and I gotta dock points from him for that. he's funny as hell, he's got some real interesting nuance, but I wish he'd been handled better overall when it comes to how the narrative treats him

Henry is also funny as hell, he's got some really fucking cool nuances to his character, and his spin on the anti-military attitude is really neat imo. I think the fandom has a tendency to dumb him down a lot because he's fairly indecisive- Henry's incompetency is sometimes plain old incompetency, yes, because he was never the sort of person who should've been put in charge, but there was also a decent amount that I think was deliberate incompetency. Henry didnt want to be in charge, and he showed that where he could. but he also stepped up whenever he needed to, I could list examples for hours, but one of my favourites has always been when he had to choose which patient to save- one who would take an hour, or one who would take several hours and more than one surgeon. underrated moment imo

[ikyw-t]

y'know I think about this tweet often. I don't think truer words have ever been spoken....

[britneyshakespeare]

i dont know where to scream about this but i honestly feel some sort of weird relief that r//nbow high is declining. i knoooow i know it's popular and they've been such high quality dolls and collectors have loved them and some(?) people like the web series (or do they? ive heard mixed things but ive never had any interest in watching it) but oh god. i just. sometimes it takes me awhile to appreciate modern doll lines and their aesthetics but i just could not get past their weird fish faces and in general i do not like monochrome styling themes. i realize their designers did so much with their concepts, i realize a lot of heart and effort went into them, and i completely understand why so many people were floored with the quality of the dolls and the rate at which they were being put out. even though the prices kept rising for them, you could at least see where your money was going, like they were always so well-constructed and doing new things. but like. at the end of the day. on a very basic level they were just never all that aesthetically pleasing to me and it was kind of maddening to see all that potential going towards a line of dolls that had just... like... facial proportions i could not get past lol.

[adore-gregor]

I feel so lucky

[somethingscosmic1251]

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