#found this screenshot in the gallery for this episode on fandom

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Another day, another enemy bested.

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Remember Total Drama Action: Best Game Ever?

In case you don't, it was a flash game that came around when Total Drama Action was airing live. You play as an intern who got to interact with the cast on TDA. You could make alliances with contestants by performing tasks for them, and certain alliances would damage your relationships with others. You'd also perform tasks for Chris. You also had constant enemies that you could beat with weapons that you could upgraded the more tasks you did for Chris. A fact I'd COMPLETELY forgotten about until now. When it was live, you'd get new tasks each week, and you could save your progress by making an account on Cartoon Network.

When I was watching TDA and way, WAY before I was in the fandom, and before I even knew what fandoms WERE, I remember playing it. My favorite character actually used to be Leshawna. I barely even remembered Noah existed, sweet little naive child I was. As a result, I of course immediately made an alliance with her, and thus got Heather as an almost instant enemy. It was great, and I've got very fond memories of it.

Why do I bring this up?

Well, thanks to @wheredidalltheusersgo, I managed to find a working link of the game: https://www.numuki.com/game/tda-best-game-ever/

You can only play as a guest since the original server is long since gone. But as I've found through trial and error, the site actually DOES save your progress even if you close it.

So obviously I had to play it again. I was having so much fun I started taking screenshots because of how wild certain things were. I thought you guys might enjoy them as much as I did, so I figured I might as well post them here.

I'd also completely forgotten you could customize your character. Got to make sure she looks Fresh for FreshTV.

Perfect. We're serving off-Izzy vibes and are rocking a fedora. Time to get through this tutorial shit so I can talk with the besties.

Cue me doing a bunch of fetch quests for Chris. Most of them require going into little studios based on each of the episodes. I'm pretty sure when it was live each studio was closed until the corresponding episode aired, and then would open up once the episode released. In this version though, they're all open.

There's also a lot of beating critters up with a stick. Like for the alien studio they're guys in alien costumes, for the beach it's a bunch of crabs and sharks, etc. You can avoid most of them by running around them, though you only get money for beating them. Which you of course need to get newer outfits to look Even Fresher. So death to all who oppose me I guess.

Through me trial and erroring if this game did save, I accidentally screwed myself out of getting into an alliance immediately after I was done with the tutorial. Once you get started on one of Chris's tasks, you have to do them to completion, and they usually come in groups of threes. No big deal though. Just have to do the last one for this second wee-

Jesus CHRIST Heather, you seriously take no survivors.

Either way, tasks are done, now time to choose an ally. The options include all of the TDA contestants, plus Geoff and Bridgette. None of the peanut gallery for that season sadly.

I could just do Leshawna for old time's sake. Or I could have this be the start of my villain arc and go with Heather. Hmm, decisions decisions...

Well, I already look like off-Izzy, might as well pair up with actual Izzy!

Wow your pixels are so crunchy, Izzy. Especially compared to my character's.

Still, I knew I made the right choice with you, Izzy. Out for blood from the get go. Never change. Time to go ruin Heather's day.

Heather's are even CRUNCHIER.

Also, is that genuine gratitude? From Heather? Receiving what she thinks is just a regular gift box?

Guys, I just might be the monster here.

And after killing some crabs for Izzy, my rampage of terror shall continue! Somebody's really got it out for her ex.

I didn't take screenshots of it, but after completing each of the antagonizing tasks, both Heather and Justin came up to us swearing that we would pay. Which means now the top right of my screen has this on it:

At least here the pixels are a lot less cronchy. Still, Justin's angry face is Sending Me. I can't explain exactly why. Maybe it's because it highlights just how much of his face is CHIN.

Still, I have done what is required for my new bestie, time to reap the rewards.

Yeah this feels about right.

And that's all I did before I decided it was time to take a break before I got in too deep! (I already am, but shhhh don't tell me-)

If you guys are interested in seeing more of my shenanigans, let me know. I'm probably going to keep playing and taking screenshots as more wild things happen.

But for now, I need to actually go eat dinner. I seriously need food, the allure of nostalgia was just too strong.

[warriorprincesstramp]

16, 18, 25, and whatever other question you wanted to answer for whatever fandom feels right <3

hi again beth :) ur literally 2/3 of these asks and the only one I can count on ily...

16 - you can't understand why so many people like this thing

edit realising I literally left this one blank that's so embarrassing... anyway I'm about to go to bed so cop out answer jj outer banks....

18 - it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on

vaughn from community he's my favourite side character. I know he's terrible. and I enjoy it. we should be talking about him all the time. I think him swinging his guitar cord around is one of the funniest bits of the show that man was ACTING!

25 - common fandom complaint you're sick of hearing

ON THE SUBJECT OF COMMUNITY. stop fucking complaining about pierce!! we know! the show knows! the show is about bad people! and like he's explicitly the fucking antagonist half the time (dnd episode, bequeathing ep, paintball s2 part one, etc) because a story NEEDS an antagonist to cause conflict and obstacles for our characters to overcome. 'community would be so much better without pierce' NO IT WOULDN'T BE! who would present the haunting mirror of who jeff could one day become if he stays selfish and cynical? who would be proof that even the worst of us have humanity and it's always about choosing to be good? who would deliver the line I don't know why gay is an insult these people are alright!!! like yes he sucks but stop acting like that's a flaw of the show and not deliberate for his character. I was madder about this than I thought I would be. it's literally so annoying though like sir this is the finding the humanity in terrible people show...

anything u like- SO GLAD U SAID THIS BECAUSE I JUST REMEMBERED THIS INSANE BUGHEAD GIF I SCREENSHOTTED... so fucking number 3 worst take I've seen on tumblr (not the worst by FAR just one I haven't already posted on here)

it's soooooo funny.... imagine ur take away from the jughead 50s heterosexuality NIGHTMARE being omg they're so in love 😍 babe this is a gif we can SEE his face... his ass is not experiencing wonder....

and while on my gallery I also found this I never posted. I hate this stupid fucking take that the best thing is for MORE kids to work in the industry, Actually. shut up!!!

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MLB Season 4 Character Analysis: "Psycomedian"

Introduction

Hey everyone, I'm back with another character analysis. In this series, I try my best to go in depth about the emotions, motivations and thought processes of the characters of MLB in every individual episode of season 4 to help clear the misunderstandings the fandom has about the characters and today we're onto episode 5.

This episode was the first filler episode of the season and ever since the English dub of "Mr. Pigeon 72", I've been waiting for the episode to come out in English dub so that I can watch the rest of the season and I didn't care whether or not it was filler because I really wanted to stick to the sequence this season and when the episode came out, it was pretty good and I enjoyed it a lot. Despite it being filler, it does have some character moments for both Marinette and Adrien I want to cover. I apologize if the images for this episode are of bad quality because the gallery for this episode on the wiki didn't have screenshots from the whole episode so I had to get my own from YouTube.

Character POVs

Marinette/Ladybug

"It was a total disaster, the worst day of my life! Adrien didn't laugh once, he must've thought I was so lame!"

Starting off with Marinette, we see her trying to find out a way to get Adrien to notice her as she believes that she has to be perfect for Adrien to like her and when he saw Adrien laughing at what seemed to be a video of Harry the Clown she thought that she would have to be funny to impress him and takes tip from Harry himself who happened to be at her parents' bakery and after Harry taught her some of his tricks, she went to try and act funny in front of Adrien, guided by Harry but the attempt backfired and instead made things really awkward between which caused her to run away in embarrassment.

When Harry got akumatized into Psycomedian, she put her feelings aside as usual to stop him. After his defeat, Marinette decided to go and settle things with Adrien after being encouraged to be herself by Tikki. When she found out that it was actually her Adrien was laughing at and not Harry, she was both flattered and glad.

2. Harry

"But I'm not doing this for the money! When I was a kid, I dreamed of being a superhero..."

Moving on to the akumatized villain of this episode: Harry the Clown, a man who wants to be able to speak to his audience in a way other than comedy. Sure, his ideas sounded comedic but deep down, he desperately wanted to tell a story about drama and action rather than comedy and when the heartless producer, Bob Roth turned them down it hurt him badly which caused him to become vulnerable to Shadow Moth and become Psycomedian, a supervillain with the ability to make anyone who looks at his face feel the emotion his face is showing as long as he honks his nose.

After he is defeated, he tells Ladybug and Cat Noir of how much he wants to write a story that touched peoples' hearts instead of making them laugh and Ladybug makes him feel better by saying that joy is a great emotion to make people feel and it is also the hardest emotion to create.

He is also shown to be a kind and understanding person through helping Marinette to make her crush laugh by showing her his tips and tricks.

3. Adrien/Cat Noir

"No, I don't think anyone can make me laugh more than Marinette Dupain-Cheng."

While Adrien didn't have any real character moments this episode he did say something that will be important to his story moving forward: that is that no one can make him laugh more than Marinette. So far we've already seen Adrien's relationship with Kagami crumble in "Lies" and more of his relationships will crumble in future episodes but the one relationship that will remain stable is his relationship with Marinette.

Conclusion

So that's the end of my character analysis for this episode, I hoped you enjoyed reading it. As always, let me know if I missed something for this analysis.

[jackklineyay]

I found this out last night. It's amazing and you have to try it, trust me.

Okay, so get the Fandom app, go to your favorite tv show, pick an episode, them scroll down to gallery. You can download or screenshot the promotional photos. (I could only screenshot them but the quality's still awesome.)

I have so many more, but alas, Tumblr only allowed me 10.

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What is going on with your website, Distant Horizon? I see it hasn't been updated in a few years. I found it recently and was really intrigued by it. Do you think you will ever start updating it again? Maybe because of new avatar content from Avatar Studios? If not id still like to know more about it and what happened/ how you made it. :)

Hi there! Yeah, My old beloved fansite Distant Horizon is more-or-less on permanent hiatus. (Although now that I'm looking at it, I realize I didn't announce that anywhere?? Oops.)

But yeah! I had a lot of fun working on the various pages, especially the easter egg/omg dude! page, the annual pumpkin carving contest, all the character sprites, and the seasonal layouts. Especially when the show was originally airing and there was so much fun energy in the fandom. But it eventually became too much work for me and my interest in ATLA and website maintenance in general just declined over the years. (I know I should update it with the Avatar Studios news but... I don't want to 😭)

I do still love atla though and I'm curious to see what Netflix and Avatar Studios will be doing with the series. But I'm also observing from a distance. I'm not sure if I'll ever update my site again, but we'll see. It feels kind of unnecessary with the other fast-updating atla news sites and the very comprehensive fandom wiki. And tbh just the thought of doing website stuff is exhausting to me. I'm out of the game and aren't interested in getting back in.

But when ATLA first aired in 2005, I loved that first two-part episode so much that I made my fansite in one week. Back then it was just the layout and pages with character bios and lists of the creatures and items and whatever official info and art I could find from promo sites and Nick.com. God I used to take screenshots of the show by pausing my vcr and taking a photo of the tv. 😂 But it was a lot of fun seeing the Avatar world expand with every new episode and rushing to add that new info to the site. And DH continued to expand with the forum, the wallpapers and fanart that fans sent in, the tcg scans and calligraphy translations, all the other info pages, and info/official art from the international Nickelodeon sites. Fandom was really collaborative and even though the shipwars were terrible, everything else was really nice.

There were a lot of other atla fansites too, small and big, and that community was probably my favorite aspect of the fandom. So many people set up their own sites and dedicated it to the latest atla news or their favorite characters, or their fanart, layout graphics or sprite adoptables, or snarky takes on badly written fanfics, and etc. A lot of it is completely gone now, which is... really sad to me, and is why I still keep Distant Horizon up even though I'm pretty much done with it. I don't like seeing fandom stuff disappear as if it never existed.

Anyway this got really long, sorry! 😅 But to answer your last question, I was just a nerd who learned how to code html on Neopets, loved it, and wanted to make a website for my own art and stuff. If I didn't know how to do something, like make a mysql database to make my wallpapers & tcg gallery searchable by characters, I looked it up and learned how to code it. (I make that sound easy but know it involved a lot tears.) I made a couple of fansites before DH, so by then I knew what I was doing and what kind of site I wanted to make. Although that still didn't prepare me for just how big it got. At one point my webhost had to contact me because of how much traffic the site was getting, and they couldn't understand why so many people were visiting if there wasn't pirated content or p*rn involved 😂

But experienced or not, if there's something you want to do, then do it. It may be difficult and involve a lot of crying or complaining, but if it's something you want, keep going for it. 👍