#funny spyro moments

[roseofthenight4444]

In this Funny Spyro Moment, I nearly get taken out by a cannon ball! Thank God it was a near miss! I got him good for scaring me mid-speech...

[vimbry-moved]

the funny thing is about that sesame street clip is I remember growing up, how '90-'00s children's shows were commonly brushed as off as being too raucous, hyper, and loud by adults around me.

and there were definitely plenty of all-action shows, but there are many others where, after watching them back now I'm older, I'm struck by how slow-paced and quiet they actually were. there's a lot of scenes with no incidental music, the voice deliveries are very quiet and almost candid, and the sound design in general is subtle. even shows that are Known for their erratic tone (e.g. IZ) knew when to pull back and let a moment be, which makes the louder moments land all the better.

and maybe this is just me being old now lmaooo but I do occasionally catch little kid stuff and go, ok now this actually is just noise. this is good for no one. breathe a little.

[traveler-at-heart]

The Doctor's In - Part 3

Summary: Wanda gets a little jealous and you're in trooouublee.

Wanda Maximoff x F!R, Carol Danvers x F!R.

A/N: Part 1 & 2 are recent, so you can find them on my blog. Sorry I'm tired and lazy to link them. Will do that later lol.

Part 2

Coffee in an IV, that’s what you need. However, drinking it is the next best thing so you get one from the cafeteria and give the other cup to Darcy, who’s yawning in one of the stretchers that people leave in the hallway.

“Bless you”

You hum in acknowledgment, sitting next to her.

“Duty or booty?” she asks when your phone pings.

“Ha, good one. You should do stand up” you say, ignoring her.

“So, it is a booty call” Darcy insists when you begin typing, a smile on your face.

“It’s not. My neighbour was telling me something about her children. You remember them, the Maximoffs”

“The broken arm?” you nod, sipping from your cup. “Ok, so now you text her about her children? To get into her pants?”

“No! Not everything is about sex, Darcy”

“If you really think about it, it kinda is. And you still haven’t told me why she’s texting you”

“I took care of the twins the other day, when she went out on a blind date. With a man” you give her a pointed look. “And I showed them a videogame I loved when I was kid, and apparently helped to create a new obsession”

“Which one? Lara Croft?”

“Spyro”

“The purple dragon? You are such a dork” she says, scrunching up her face. You roll your eyes, ready to give her the middle finger when her pager goes off.

“Karma” you cough up and she glares.

“This conversation is not over!” she threatens, leaving you alone.

You look at the chat with Wanda.

Wanda: They both want to be Spyro for Halloween!

Y/N: Sounds cute! They could have a little Sparks floating around on their shoulder.

Wanda: It’s all they talk about every day, I swear I’m dreaming about dragons.

Y/N: Sorry?

Y/N: I do have a plan to make it up to you.

—

You’re done with the coffee, at least if you want to get some rest. Still, you pick up a latte and a scone for Wanda, and carry the new videogame as you knock on the woman’s door.

“Oh, hi!” she looks at you, confused.

“Hey. Sorry, I don’t know how you take your coffee. It’s a latte, dairy free” you hand over the cup and the scone. “And I have something for the twins”

“That’s so sweet, but they’re at school”

“Today’s not Saturday?” you say, confused. Wanda giggles at that, making you blush.

“Today is Tuesday. Come on in”

“I didn’t mean to interrupt, I’m sorry” you say, following her to the kitchen.

“I don’t have to be at work for another hour, so it’s fine” she assures you. “Plus you saved me a trip to the coffee shop”

“You know, I’ve never asked about what you do for a living” you say apologetically, only now realising that you’ve barely interacted with Wanda since you moved here.

“I’m an author and illustrator” she says.

“That’s so cool! Anything I’ve read?”

“Only if you like children’s books” the woman smiles.

“Can’t say that I have read any lately. But that’s awesome. I’m a little starstruck, I’ve never met a writer before”

Wanda laughs at that, and you blush a little.

“Oh, before I forget. Maybe this will distract them from dragons” you hand over the new videogame and Wanda arches an eyebrow.

“The solution to a videogame is another videogame?” she says with her mom voice.

“Uh… yes? It’s Crash. It’s really funny. Sorry, it was dumb, forget it” you begin to regret it, reaching for the box, but Wanda does the same thing, her hand landing on yours.

“I’m kidding. It’s very sweet of you, Y/N”

The way she says your name is almost hypnotic, and once again your eyes travel to her lips.

For the first time, you’re willing to admit that it wasn’t the alcohol that made you wanna kiss Wanda.

Still, your hands are touching and you want to lean forward.

Your phone interrupts the moment, and you apologize, thinking it might be from the hospital.

Carol: I’m outside your house :)

What?

“Work?” Wanda says when you frown.

“I’m not sure… I should get home. Sorry”

“I’ll walk you out. If you want to come by for dinner and show the boys the new game, you’re more than welcomed” she offers.

“Yeah, that sounds like fun. I’ll text you later” you promise, waving the woman goodbye.

Carol is leaning against her motorcycle, and she does a double take when you walk out of the house across the street.

“Did I get the wrong house?”

“No” you laugh. “I was at my neighbour’s, I got something for her kids”

“That’s very thoughtful” Carol holds your hand, and you try not to blush at the sudden contact.

“So, what’s up?”

“I was wondering if you’d like to come to my place tonight. I’ll cook something nice, we’ll have a lot of sex and you won’t have to hold back those pretty moans of yours”

“Such a romantic, Danvers” you roll your eyes, but smile nonetheless. “I’m in”

“Alright. See you tonight” Carol says, kissing you. That’s another thing that takes you by surprise, and you don’t know what’s gotten into her.

Walking inside your home, you open the fridge and it doesn’t hit you until you see Billy’s drawing.

You told Wanda you’d be there for dinner.

Crap.

It feels cheap to cancel over what is esentially a -very tempting- booty call, but you’re also aware that you might be thinking too much of yourself. The truth is, Wanda probably doesn’t give a crap about whether or not her workaholic neighbour comes to dinner.

A few hours later, when you’re still thinking of a way to politely reschedule, you get a text from Wanda.

Wanda: I forgot we had a thing with friends from school. Maybe some other time?

Y/N: Yeah, no worries!

You try to ignore the disappointment you feel over not seeing Wanda again, focusing on the night ahead.

Here were the facts:

Wanda dated men, obviously.

Darcy would kick your ass if she even suspected you had a crush on your straight neighbour.

And maybe, just maybe, that’s what is happening.

—

“I hope you like parmesan chicken” Carol says, as you look around her apartment. The decoration is very modern and you admire the collection of books she has. You’re more of an online article person, but right now you’re reconsidering your stance.

“Smells great” you comment, opening the bottle of white wine you brought. You hop on her kitchen counter, watching as she finishes the food.

“So, what did your neighbours say about that thing you got them?”

“I don’t know, they were at school, but maybe I’ll stop by tomorrow”

Or maybe not, considering you’re developing a crush on their beautiful mother.

“I didn’t know you liked kids so much” she comments and you shrug your shoulders.

“I mean, I’m ok with kids, but these two are really sweet and nice. One of them was at the hospital recently, he broke his arm”

“Really? And how come I didn’t hear of it?” Carol raises her eyebrows, always on top of everything that happens at her department.

“Relax, Ortho Goddess. I drove them there and took care of everything, your intern just helped with the cast” you take a sip of your wine. “I don’t even know if you were at the hospital”

“So, no dad?”

You shrug your shoulders, a bit impatient. You were hoping to push Wanda out of your mind, and Carol kept on bringing her up.

“I’m not sure what happened, if there’s a father in the picture or not… but enough about this. How’s the grant application?”

“It’s hell. But I’m glad Kamala is so committed, I’d go nuts without her”

“Must be nice, to have an intern like that” you say, thinking about the rotation of doctors you get. They’re helpful, but none of them stay long enough to understand the logistics of an ER.

“No more chat about work” Carol proclaims and you laugh.

“Oh, what else can we talk about?“

“You’re right. Maybe we shouldn’t talk at all”  she pretends to think about it, standing between your legs. Your laugh is cut off by her lips on yours, moving impatiently until you let her explore your mouth with her tongue.

“Food’s gonna get cold”

“We’ll heat it up” Carol says, pulling your legs around her waist and carrying you across the apartment. “Let me show you the bedroom”

“We’re skipping the rest of the tour?”

“No, we’re definitely having sex in the shower” Carol says, making you laugh.

As her kissing becomes frantic, and you lose yourself in the feeling of skin against skin, for a brief moment, you forget those green eyes and auburn hair.

—

The rest of the week goes by in a blur. An accident in the highway keeps you locked in the hospital for 48 hours straight, and all you can manage is sleep and shower between surgeries.

You get to be for eight hours at home before returning for a day and a half shift. The only thing in your mind as you finally get in the car is working out, because you’ve seen horrible situations for the past four days and need to be so exhausted that you’ll pass out as soon as your head hits the pillow.

You go out in a sports bra and shorts, hoping the exercise helps with all the stress. After a good thirty minutes, you return home, sweating and panting.

You turn to the garden hose to pour some water on your face and neck, when you hear someone cursing and something falling.

“You ok?” you run to Wanda, trying to get her garbage can back up.

“Yeah, thanks” she says, looking anywhere but you. “Busy lately?”

“God, you have no idea” you sigh, crossing your arms. “Heard about that crash in the highway? We had like twelve people come in”

“That’s horrible” Wanda says, finally looking at you.

“It’s the job I guess. How are you? And the twins? Did they like the game?”

“Oh, they actually haven’t had…”

You hear a motorcycle pulling up and have to stop yourself from rolling your eyes. What’s Carol’s game? The blonde eyes you, and you want to smack that smug grin off her face.

“Sorry, you were saying” you ignore her, turning back to Wanda.

“It’s not important, I have to get back and make dinner” she says, saying goodbye as fast as possible. You turn back home, feeling dejected.

“Was I interrupting?” Carol asks.

“Is that supposed to mean something?”

“I don’t think you notice the way she’s looking at you, Y/N” she insists as you both step inside your house.

“Wanda? Don’t be ridiculous, she’s just my neighbour”

Your perfect, funny, beautiful neighbour who has her life together and no time to entertain a workaholic like you.

“And last time I checked, we weren’t exclusive” you add.

“Why are you trying to pick a fight with me?” she smiles, cornering you against the wall.

“Because, I don’t know what’s up with you, having me over and then showing up out of the blue. It’s very… couple-y”

“Is that so?” she leans forward, her lips barely touching yours.

“Y-yes”

“Maybe I just had a bad week, and I know for a fact you did too. So we can take a bath together, have some pizza and then fuck each other’s brains out”

This time, her lips do actually meet yours and inspite of everything, you give into the kiss.

“Unless you wanna invite your neighbour over to join us, which I’m definitely not against”

“Ugh, you’re such an ass” you break apart, rolling your eyes and going upstairs, laughing with Carol as she follows you eagerly.

—

They’ll have to move. That’s the only way to escape.

Wanda closes the door, leaning against it, hoping that the image of you, walking in those sinful clothes disappears from her mind.

Of course she had to make a fool of herself, dropping the garbage and attracting your attention.

If only she had gone out earlier, Wanda could have saved herself the trouble of witnessing that mysterious woman, who was very obviously your girlfriend, looking at you like you were an entire meal.

What if she moves in with you? What if Wanda has to see you everyday, kissing the blonde goodbye or hanging around or…?

“Mom” Tommy calls for her, and she has to pull herself together.

“Yes, sweetheart” she forces a smile, looking at her son.

“What are we having for dinner?”

“Well, I was thinking some mac and cheese”

And then, she’ll drown her sorrows in a bottle of cheap wine. Hopefully she’ll dream of you, sweaty and having your way with Wanda.

—

There’s an unfamiliar weight as you wake up, and as you turn, you look at Carol’s disheveled state.

“Blanket thief” you accuse.

“Shhh”

“Gotta pee”

“No, five more minutes” she pleads, nuzzling against your neck.

“What? Too tired after last night?” you taunt, remembering how she seemed to be insatiable and only stopped when you were too sensitive.

“Well, yeah. I rocked your world. Where’s my reward?”

“I can offer you coffee and scrambled eggs”

“Your fridge was empty, remember?”

“Oh. In that case, coffee and breakfast somewhere nice”

“Deal” she kisses your shoulder, moving to get her clothes.

“I can’t believe we have to be back in three hours” you complain, stretching. The sheet falls, leaving your entire body in full display.

“Maybe we can have something else for breakfast” Carol says, pulling you back down.

After another hour, you finally go down the stairs. You’re arguing over taking her motorcycle or your car when you hear voices outside.

Billy and Tommy are looking curiously at the motorcycle, touching the handle.

“Hey, kiddos” you greet, and they turn around, scared at being caught.

“Wanna get on it?” Carol offers and they nod excitedly.

Carol is busy showing them how it works when the front door opens, Wanda calling for the twins.

“You know you can’t leave the house like that. I am so sorry” she turns to you, but Carol is the one who answers.

“It’s no problem, really”

Wanda gives the blonde a tight smile.

“Come on, let’s get back inside”

“Oh, how long has he had the cast?” Carol says.

“Like a year” Billy says and you laugh, ruffling his hair.

“3 weeks?” you turn to Wanda.

“It’s actually 4. I meant to ask you when is he supposed to get it off”

“Come by the hospital and we’ll take a look. Children’s bones heal faster” Carol says, and it’s very obvious now that she’s inserting herself in the conversation so Wanda acknowledges she’s with you.

“Sure. I’ll text Y/N later”

“Great. I’ll make time to personally check Billy, did I get it right?” Carol turns to the kid and he nods.

“Well, Y/N has been his doctor, so I don’t think that’s necessary” Wanda pushes back, crossing her arms. All you do is look between them.

“Oh, we can both check it out if it makes you more comfortable, after all I am the head of Orthopedic Surgery”

“I thought you didn’t date other surgeons” Wanda turns, and you can finally get a glimpse of how scary she must be when one of the twins disobbeys her. She’s smiling, but her eyes tell a different story.

“I… well…” you mumble like an idiot.

“Time to go, or we won’t eat breakfast. Come on, I’m starving after last night” Carol takes your hand, pulling you away from Wanda.

You’d rather be doing an enema on a patient than witnessing this weird tug-a-war they have going on.

“Come on, boys” Wanda takes them back home, and Carol waves innocently at her.

“Seriously?” you say, ripping out the extra helmet from her hands.

“What? I was just messing with her. Come on, princess. Hold on tight”

Carol revs the engine loudly, leaving your driveway with a smile on her face.

She has the better sense to drop the subject during breakfast, picking out a small diner close to the hospital.

On the other hand, you are unable to stop thinking about everything that happened and, against your better judgement, do something that you’ll clearly regret.

You tell Darcy.

“Wait, wait, wait!” she says, holding her sides. “Your situationship and the MILF next door were fighting over you?”

“It’s not funny” you say, resisting the urge to choke her with her stethoscope.

“It so is. Girl, you gotta pick a struggle”

“You’re useless” you complain.

“No, ok, hear me out” she takes a deep breath, wiping away the tears and looking at you. “So, on one hand, you have a thing with Danvers. Do you really think she got over Rambeau already?”

“Of course not! Which is why I was fine with it being just sex. She’s the one who started doing other weird, couple stuff”

You weren’t an idiot; Carol and Maria had been together for years, and engaged until Maria left to work with Doctors Without Borders. Thought you didn’t know why they split up, it was fairly obvious that they were too proud to talk it out, but they still loved each other.

“Exactly. So, let’s say you start seeing Danvers more seriously, and then Maria comes back. You’re…”

“Fucked” you nod along, starting to understand Darcy’s point.

“On the other hand, you have the hot mom. According to you, she dates men. We have no clue if the father of her children is dead, missing, crazy… Maybe he'll come back eventually”

“And I’m fucked again” you rub your eyes, frustrated. “All I wanted was a way to destress. This is the exact opposite”

“I guess you’re very charming” Darcy shrugs her shoulders, and you’re about to thank her when she adds. “Or stupid”

In spite of everything, her words hold some truth. As you see patients and take care of the ER, you think of a way to fix everything.

Then, your phone pings and dread invades you.

Wanda: We’re in the foyer.

Fuck it, you’ll make sure you get to them before Carol and send them home before they get into another weird ass argument.

You run to find the Maximoffs, taking Billy to get an X-Ray.

“It’s urgent” you tell the technician.

But Carol is three steps ahead of you, because she asked to be informed of any patients that came to get X-Rays over cast removals.

So, by the time you and Billy come back, Wanda and Tommy are in the room, while Carol confirms Billy’s arm is completely healed.

“Hey, thank you for getting that X-Ray” Carol says with a smile and you curse to yourself.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

“Come on, kiddo, let’s get your arm back” you bring him to the bed, where Kamala prepares to do the removal. Carol forgets her little feud with Wanda for a moment, reminding her resident how to do the procedure.

“Is that a saw?” Wanda says, pale.

“Yes, I know it looks scary but it’s perfectly safe, I promise” you say, holding on to her arm. She looks at you, nodding and you smile, letting your hand drop to her back, rubbing slowly to calm her down. Wanda leans into the touch, her shoulders relaxing.

It’s so easy, to reach out for her.

Carol doesn’t miss the contact, but keeps on observing as Kamala cuts the cast.

Billy moves his arm tentatively.

“It might be weird at first. Try to take it easy the first few days” you say and Billy nods, keeping the cast with all stickers and drawings from his friends.

“That’s pretty much it” Carol says, removing her gloves. “If you have any questions…”

“I’ll call Y/N. Thank you” Wanda cuts off.

“Mom, we should celebrate!” Billy says. “Can Y/N come over?”

“That would be fun…” you begin to say.

“Oh, sweetheart. Y/N is very busy” Wanda speaks over you. She’s not even looking your way and you hate to admit it, it kinda hurts.

“No more running down the stairs, buddy” you say, opening the door for them. The three walk out, Tommy and Billy waving goodbye.

Carol goes after you the minute you leave the room.

“What the hell was that?”

“Excuse me?”

“The touching and the love eyes” she insists.

“You’re the one that made it weird to begin with, Carol” you say, feeling a headache approaching.

“Well, yeah. We have this thing going on and you act like you’re in love with someone else”

“Now hold on” you stop in the middle of the hallway, pointing a finger to her chest. “You and I agreed it was just sex. We don’t talk about the massive elephant in the room because frankly, it’s none of my business. But be honest. If Maria came back right now, would you not to want to be with her?”

Carol takes a step back. This is the first time you’ve seen her speechless.

“I don’t know. Maybe. If she came back, I… she would come first. But that’s just hypothetical”

“No, it isn’t. Because she is right there, Carol”

You point behind her, watching as Maria Rambeau, former head of Pediatric Surgery is talking to Chief Fury.

Carol turns her head so fast you’re shocked she didn’t snap something.

The look of adoration, longing and sorrow in her eyes tells you everything you need to know.

“Go” you smile, squeezing her arm. “You should always go after what you want, Danvers”

She nods, still too shocked to move.

You’ll let them have their reunion in private and will use the rest of your shift to mope about Wanda.

“Go home” Fury says when you stick around long after your shift. “Sorry about Danvers”

“Sir, you knew?”

“I know everything” he shrugs his shoulders and you can’t help but smile.

Of course, Carol drove you here so you take a cab home, which is fine. You’re too tired and distracted to drive anyway.

Truth is, you’re not sad about Carol. The only thing you can think about is Wanda and how she left without so much as a look in your direction.

“This the place?” the driver says and you snap out of it, handing him the money and some extra. “Sweet, thanks. Have a good night”

“You too, man”

After a shower, and eating pizza leftovers, you’re still thinking about Wanda. As you sip from your beer, and look at the tv without paying attention, someone knocks at the door.

“Who is it?”

“It’s Wanda”

You jump from the couch, spilling some of the beer on your pants.

“Sorry, if it’s a bad time I’ll come back later”

“No, wait” you run to the door, opening and looking ashamed. “I spilled beer on myself. I seem to do that a lot when you’re around”

“I should have texted, I’m sorry”

“No, you can come over whenever you want. Is everything ok, are you ok?”

“Well, no” she runs her hands through her hair, and starts ranting. “I came to apologize, I was so rude to you, and I have absolutely no right to be. You have been nothing but nice, helpful and kind and I… I was a total bitch”

“Hey, hey, stop it” you take her hand, pulling her inside. “Wanda, it’s fine, I get it. I’m not mad at you”

“You have every right to be” Wanda insists, and you can see she’s spiraling, so you pull her against you, hugging her.

“I’m here. Not going anywhere”, you say against her shoulder. You only let go when you feel Wanda’s breathing going back to normal. You take a step back, your hands dropping to her waist. “Want some pizza and beer?”

“Uh… that sounds good, yeah. Can we sit on your kitchen? That way I can look out the window, just in case the twins wake up”

“Yeah, come on” you take her hand, closing the door as she enters your place.

You stay silent as you warm a slice of pizza and get another beer for you, offering her a bottle.

“I don’t think I’ve drank beer since college” she says, smiling.

“Only fancy wine?” you joke, taking a seat next to her.

“Not even that these days. Listen… I really am sorry and though it may not seem like it, I’m happy for you and Doctor Danvers”

“Oh, that’s not a thing” you interrupt her.

“Was it something I did?” she says, looking mortified.

“No, it was just… uh, never serious. I think she might be fixing things with her ex so that’s the end” you explain, removing the label of your bottle.

“Are you ok?” Wanda reaches for your hand and you blush.

Yeah, I’m ok because you’re here now.

“I am, it wasn’t serious. Honestly, it was just sex”

“Oh” Wanda blushes, and removes her hand from yours, taking a large gulp of her beer.

“I mean, we all have needs, wouldn’t you agree?” you tease, leaning forward as if you’re telling her a secret.

“I suppose so, yeah” Wanda gets lost in your eyes, hoping you close the distance.

And you want to, you really do, but Wanda gave you a hard time and you might make her sweat a little before giving in.

So, you lean back on your chair, smiling mischeviously at the other woman.

“How’s Billy? Happy to be cast free?”

“Yeah, he’s excited about getting to play that dragon game you gave them from the start”

“I guess Crash wasn’t good enough to replace Spyro” you say, understanding the twins. You always had a soft spot for the latter.

“Actually… I didn’t give them the other game” Wanda admits, chewing her lip nervously.

“Why?”

“To be honest, I wanted you to give it to them so I could… I don’t know, have an excuse to see you again”

As Wanda admits her reasoning, red invades her cheeks. Your heart skips a beat at the sweet admission, and you stand up, walking to where she’s sitting.

“You don’t ever need an excuse to talk to me”

“No?” she says, fidgeting wih her bottle.

“You can text me, call me, fax me, page me. I’ll give you my email so you have that option as well” you say, making Wanda laugh.

“I just don’t know what to talk about sometimes, I get nervous”

“Well, we could talk about the weather, how inflation is crazy high… you could tell me about the Scarlet Witch”

“You looked up one of my books?” Wanda says, blushing.

“Yeah, I have it, ready to get an autograph from the author herself”

Wanda blushes even more at that, chewing on her bottom lip. You take another teeny, tiny step towards her, eyes going to her lips.

“Or, we could not talk. There’s plenty one can do without verbal communication. Like bird watching”

“Crossword puzzles” Wanda jokes, following along.

“Kissing” you say, leaning forward until you’re inches apart. You let her decide if she wants to close the distance, and Wanda does, her lips tentatively moving against yours.

She tastes like vanilla and you sigh against her mouth, pulling her close to you.

It’s everything you imagined and more, her pretty sighs spurring you on until your hands go down her sides, and to her waist.

At the movement, Wanda breaks the kiss, making you whine.

“Is this… do you want this to be just sex?”

“You deserve more than that”

Yes, the thought of Wanda naked, moaning your name make you weak in the knees, but you also want to bring her coffee and have lunch together.

“So, does that mean…?”

“Go out on a date with me” you blurt out, trying to catch your breath.

“Yes” she nods, pulling you in for another kiss. This time, you’re not so sure you’ll be able to resist the urge of worshipping her body right in the middle of your kitchen, for all the nighbourhood to watch. “I should go”

“You only just got here” you complain, kissing down her neck.

“And if I stay, you won’t get your beauty sleep”

“Sleep is overrated” you mumble, biting down her neck playfully.

“Ok!” she holds back a moan, jumping as if your touch burns her.

“Did I hurt you?” you say, worried.

“No, it wasn’t pain that I felt” Wanda admits, turning red.

“I’ll behave” you raise your hands and Wanda steps back, not sure that she believes you. “How about next Thursday?”

“That can work, yeah. Let me just check with the nanny”

She walks to the door, lips slightly swollen.

“Sounds good. I’ll see you before that, though”

“Right, because I live across the street”

“And I might need to borrow some sugar” you joke, leaning forward to open the door, trapping Wanda’s body. “Or other stuff”

“I should go”

“You sure?”

“Yes” the woman nods, biting down her lip. Still, she pecks your lips one last time, and takes advantage of how flustered you get to walk out the door.

“Text me when you’re home” you joke, making her giggle. Still, you don’t get inside until she opens her own door, waving at you one last time.

You take your phone, reading a lenghty text from Carol saying she was really sorry about everything. And then another one comes in.

Wanda: I’m home.

Y/N: Come back.

Wanda: I wish.

Wanda: Night, Y/N

Y/N: Night, Wands.

Part 4

[crusherthedoctor]

Nick here. To throw my hat into this non existent ring, I vastly prefer Sonic Adventure 1 to SA2Battle to the point that 2's Chao Garden is the only reason I keep SA2B installed on my computer. Like SA1 (especially SADX and its various ports) has issues of its own ("IwonderwhathappenedtoSonic?" anyone?) but overall, I find it to be the better game story and gameplay wise.

SA1 is one of my favourite games in the series, and tied with Generations as my favourite of the 3D games, despite my thoughts on the deliberate nature of the Classic to Modern transition being unwise in hindsight due to the divide it created compared to a more seamless transition.

SA2... is not. When comparing the two, I feel that for every step forward SA2 makes, it takes two steps backwards as well. One example being that the six playstyles have been narrowed down to three... but the execution means there's also a lot less Sonic-style gameplay.

A lot of it comes down to preference. I prefer SA1's story despite its own share of flaws, and not just because Eggman is actually the man with the plan until the end as opposed to being strung along throughout the game by someone else's scheme, and although not perfectly executed, its attempt at the Rashomon style of narrative is probably the most balanced out of all the 3D games that attempted it. Chaos is best monster. I don't mind most of the gameplay styles in this one, though I'd probably make Amy a little faster: Big's fishing is the main exception, but even his story can at least be done very quickly if you know what you're doing. Sonic's levels are more uniquely designed in SA1 on the whole than those of SA2. Soundtrack is S-tier. So many little secrets and other points of interest that you're not even required to find. Gamma says a funny with "MODE CHANGE".

And as petty as this may be... it's no secret that I love a good aesthetic, and SA1 is filled with them, complete with those amazing Spyro-tier skyboxes.

They're like the Dude's rug: it completes the room.

To be fair, SA2 does have its own eye-pleasing levels, like Cannon's Core, the outside A.R.K. levels like Final Rush and Meteor Herd, the pyramid levels... but the amount of grey hallways and the like make it a less consistent package in that field compared to SA1.

One more thing: SA1 has the Egg Viper explosion scene. I love that moment, music stopping come the last hit and everything.

[selfkaiharness]

Something funny that happens in the past No.1

Okay real talk about my past. Several years ago, i remember what happened with my OG PS2 copy of Kingdom Hearts that is kinda scratched to hell and back. From what i remember, its right up that part where during the cutscene where (it was at right at the beginning of the really hard final boss fight) Sora encounters heartless Ansem, right?

Well for some reason i thought little me was frustrated years ago when Sora straights up said "That's not true!" and then silence afterwards just this air ambience from the game and that's it. The game's cutscene somehow it just ceases to function at that moment.

For little me at ten years old (I'm 25 years old now), i thought when it happens i'm resetting the game again. I got so frustrated of me having to witness the cutscene again (Back then the OG game didn't have a skip scene option) and again just to see if i can bypass the cutscene problem.

Well little me found ways to bypass it, but it's random. Sometimes the cutscene plays normally as usual and sometimes it doesn't. Now years later while remembering it from back in 2008/2010, i found myself laughing and reminding myself to not scratch game discs ever again. At the time, there's no game corrupting software back then. All you had was scratched game discs that results in funny/horrifying moments when you tried to play them.

In fact, i have a scratched disc of Spyro: Year of the Dragon for the PS1 and what i remember is that it made it into the title screen but the music is gone. Just dead silent and at least the SFX plays alright. I tried to press start but even with my controller is connected it won't take me to the load screen. The game disc is fucked up on my end, oh fucking well i can just buy another copy of the game nowadays and just play it on a PS1 emulator.

Yeah, just something i like to share about after reminding myself about that hilarious moment i had with the game. I wish i've recorded it but i don't have a camcorder at the time years ago and even if i had recorded it, the quality of that video would be shit anyways.

All in all, what we had in game corruption years ago is fucked up, scratched to hell game discs and that's it. Nowadays, we have Real-Time-Corrupter, Vinesauce Game Corrupter and a few others as well. Scratched game discs are a thing of the past, now we use RTC for funny shit.

[solarpaintdragon]

Hi I’m Solar!

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Interests n stuff under the cut:

I’m interested in and post about a lot of different things, in no particular order:

Kirby (If I stop posting about Kirby, assume I am dead)

Pokémon (Gens 1-5, mainly gens 3 & 4. + the ranger series & mystery dungeon)

Sonic the Hedgehog (Adventure era, Sonic X, Archie comics, including Sonic 06)

The Legend of Spyro

Star Wars (Original Trilogy + Clone Wars eras)

Art and Animation (2D AND 3D) in general. I am an artist, I love art. I love the art of art.

Broadway Musicals (Wicked, Phantom… too many to list)

Portal 2

Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian

Ships (like Ocean Liners. Boats. I’m talking about boats. Though I have some couple ships from various franchises)

Misc interests include: Avatar the Last Airbender, Over the Garden Wall, Gravity Falls, Arcane, Blue Eye Samurai, Red Dead Redemption, Fossil Fighters, Animal Crossing & Steven Universe.

Indie interests of mine that you should check out-

The Amazing Digital Circus - animated series by Glitch Productions

Murder Drones - animated series by Glitch Productions

Lackadaisy - animated series by Tracy Butler (Comic)

Golden Shrike - Comic by Doeprince

Soul to Call - Comic by Rommierin

The Property of Hate - Comic by ModMad

What Happens Next - Comic by Maximumgraves (heed the content warnings at the start of each chapter)

Ava's Demon - Comic by Michelle Fus

Destiny Intertwined - TLOSpyro Fancomic by DragonofIceandFire

Mare Internum - Comic by Der-Shing Helmer (warnings for attempted suicide, suicidal ideation, sexual assault of minor, and a bit if body horror. Its still very good check it out if you can handle it.)

No North - Comic by Skailla

Incomplete but still worth checking out:

The Meek (incomplete, on Indefinite Hiatus) - Comic by Der-Shing Helmer

Cucumber Quest (incomplete, on Indefinite Hiatus) - Comic by GGDG

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon - Victory Fire (incomplete, on Indefinite Hiatus) - PMD fancomic by Sulfurbunny

[gemwing1988]

Katie Gemwing TV Tropes

A/N: Warning, this fanmade tropes will have some spoilers for certain parts of stories of The Dreamstones series for those who have yet to read them. And some tropes will be renamed due my “No swearing” policy. Read at your own risk but also please enjoy.

The Ace: All three members of the Dreamstones are skilled and powerful in their rights, but Katie has her awesome moments.

She is skilled at archery three years straight.

As a Crystal Dragon, she can master multiple elements similar to TLoS Spyro and Cynder.

Action Girl: Big time!

Actually Pretty Funny:

In Chapter 1: Pulled Into a Book, she smirked in amusement when Lexie joking pulls out her Bible to marry a laughing Natty to a slice of pizza when Natty jokingly asked if she could marry pizza.

In Chapter 19: Take to the Skies, she actually giggles along with her friends when they were amused by her calling the Devil “Luci”.

Adult Fear: As the oldest in the group, Katie often fears of the constant dangers her friends face up, whether it’s Lexie and Natty’s unwanted lovers or the kids getting bullied or threatened.

Next to Lexie, Katie is most horrified and guilt-stricken when King Dice stole Mugman’s soul during their confrontation in Misterie’s shop.

Matt, Liam’s kid brother is often in some potential danger ranging from several kidnappings and being surrounded by the Devil’s minions.

Kaichi the Sprigon also counts on being targeted due to his small size.

And the fact that TCS Cuphead owing the Devil his soul can do a real number on her Paranoia Fuel.

Adventure Couple: With Validor since the third season of The Cuphead Show: Dreamstones Edition.

Affectionate Nickname:

Her friends and most of her family calls her Kate.

Both versions of Mugman often refer to her as Miss Katie. Henchman also does the same as well as Clank from the Ratchet & Clank franchise.

TCS Ms. Chalice often calls her either “Sparkles”, “Glitter Wings” and “Blue Eyes”.

Starlight is one from her sister.

Hilda Berg from the book nicknames her Moonbeam.

Validor affectionately refers to her as “Oceanfire” due to some comparing her eyes to the ocean as she has a fiery spirit in her depths.

Afraid of Needles: Much like Lexie, Katie is terrified of injection needles for obvious reasons and hates every time she has to go to a doctor’s appointment that involves needles.

All of the Other Reindeer: Being born with autism, Katie had difficulties with some things and she was badly bullied at school, mainly as a teenager.

All-Loving Heroine:

All Your Powers Combined: Unlike Spyro and Cynder, Katie is able to combine two per elements together to form into a much more effective Fury attack blast. Her prime example is defeat her fight with the Devil from the book by combining her Ice and Electricity Fury blasts into an electrical snowstorm.

Alone Among the Couples: Throughout Heart, Soul & Mind, it’s sequel, Playing with Loaded Dice and the first and second season of The Cuphead Show: Dreamstones Edition, Katie is the only one among the main trio who doesn’t have a Love Interest. Her boyfriend, Validor is later introduced in season 3.

Amnesia Danger: She briefly has amnesia which the Devil takes advantage of her memory loss by manipulating her into believing she is his fiancée and that her friends are the bad guys. Luckily, his plan didn’t work.

And Now, You Must Marry Me: Of all people, both versions of Cuphead’s Devil wants to her to be his queen, going as far as kidnapping, blackmailing and even trying to trick her into becoming his bride.

Animal Motifs:

Dragons. The dragon is her Chinese Zodiac sign and she has several dragon themed ornaments and plushies in her collection as well as a Spyro the Dragon themed purse-wallet and a Spyro the Dragon game controller holder in her bedroom. She also has fondness for shiny things such as gems, which is a trait among dragons.

Swans. According to both versions of the Devil, Katie is often compared to a swan from being beautiful and graceful to fierce and aggressive when provoked, especially when her friends are in danger.

She often associates with dragonflies as Lexie does with butterflies while Natty goes with fireflies.

Potentially foxes given she wore a blue jewelled fox brooch on her jacket in Heart, Soul & Mind, and Kaichi’s character design is heavily inspired by foxes.

Battle Couple: With Validor.

Beautiful Singing Voice:

Be Careful What You Wish For: Having it the hardest in the Real World where she often feels like she’s unappreciated and unwanted, Katie wishes to live out her childhood dream to live among toons and go on adventures like in her favourite movies. After she had found the Cuphead book with the gemstones, her wish coming true was a lot more than she had bargained when the Devil is involved.

Berserk Button: Although she rarely loses her cool, Katie still has a number of buttons best not to be pushed.

King Dice and Anubis are always on the receiving end of her wrath whenever they come onto Lexie and Natty.

For some reason, she hates being called “sweetcheeks” TCS Sal Spudder learned that the hard way when she, Lexie and Natty scared him, Chauncey Chutney and Ollie Bulb off before they could attempt to soak up the nutrients out of Elder Kettle’s vegetable garden to spite the Cup Bros.

She hates the worst people pulling a Karma Houdini, especially when they’ve pulled some heinous acts out of spite and for the sake of being cruel.

She also can’t stand tyrannical and controlling parents who abuse their own children and force things onto them such as who they should be friends.

Don’t take advantage of either her or her friends’ kindness and trust, most especially Lexie’s. Dice had certainty learned that the hard way.

Animal and child abuse is a sure way to set her off.

She has ZERO tolerance towards bullies.

For personal reasons, mentions of her fights with her stepfather counts as one.

Never, under any circumstances, insult or badmouth about her boyfriend.

Do NOT ever come in between true love. Katie questions how many times she had to teach Dice Anubis that lesson.

Similar to Sonic the Hedgehog not liking being called a rat in some of his games, Katie hates it whenever someone calls her a gecko.

Also, do not play with her emotions, betray her or break her heart in the worst way possible.

Beware the Nice Ones: Next to Lexie and Natty, Katie is one of the sweetest and nicest people you could ever meet. However, when it concerns her friends either being bullied or harassed by unwanted lovers, she can also be the most fiercest when one of her buttons are pushed.

Big Eater: While thankfully nowhere near the extent of Goku from the Dragon Ball franchise, Katie still enjoys some tasty food and can be extremely excited about dinner and going out for ice cream with her friends.

Big “NEVER!”: Similar to mentioned below. Big “NO!”: Katie is often prone to scream this one out whenever something bad is about to happen or when either versions of the Devil from the Cuphead is coming onto her.

Big Sister Instincts: She has a sisterly friendship with Lexie and Natty, and to the extension, Matt, Liam, the Cup Brothers and even Ms. Chalice. Whenever either of them are in trouble, she will not hesitate to dive in to the rescue.

Blow You Away: Wind is one of her multiple elements. Its attacks allow her to literally blow her enemies away. They also allow her to buffet enemies and throw them about, and foes struck by them are left hanging in the air and vulnerable to attack.

Blue is Heroic: She dresses in plenty of blue, her dragon form is crystal blue and she is one of the heroes.

Breath Weapon: As a dragon, she obviously has that. Much like Spyro and Cynder from The Legend of Spyro Trilogy, she has multiple distinct elements - fire, ice, electricity, earth and wind. She also has the ability to master the Light Aether element in certain occasions.

Break the Cutie: In Heart, Soul & Mind, the Devil had attempted to break all three girls’ spirit by taking the souls of the former debtors. Katie is hit the hardest when she suffered a nightmare about being blamed due to have finding the “Cuphead: Don’t Deal with the Devil” book to begin with. However, in the rest of the story, she gets better.

Bully Hunter:

Calling Parents By Their Name: Or in her case, calling stepparents by their name. Whenever he upsets, Katie bitterly calls her stepdad by his name behind his back. She only does by in private, although this habit is often mentioned in her P.O.V once in a while. In her defence, her relationship with him is… strained.

Celestial Body: Her feathery wings occasionally glimmer with starry sparkles and they glow with bright blue and purple Auroras whenever she’s about to unleash a Light Aether Fury or breath attack.

Crush Blush: She occasionally blushes when Validor compliments her or when he states his fondness of her traits.

Cute Clumsy Girl: She has her moments of being mildly accident prone.

Damsel In Distress: Subverted. Despite being armed with a Keyblade, a summon charm to summon allies from various franchises and is able to turn into a dragon, whenever she’s either disarmed or if something blocks out her magic, she is prone to be captured and taken hostage against her. She will often have her friends helping her out of scrapes that she can’t handle alone.

Damsel Out of Distress: When push comes to shove, Katie is capable of being her own hero from time to time and will resort to her resourcefulness and cunning to get her out of trouble. Defiant Captive:

Delightful Dragon:

Determinator:

Disappeared Dad: When she and her older sister were very young, her biological father had divorced with her mother and moved away. And when she was somewhere in her late 20’s, he passed away from over alcohol poison due to over drinking.

Does Not Like Spam: Katie has a handful of certain foods she does not like or hate with a passion.

She really hates mushrooms. She most especially hates the smell of any being cooked.

She doesn’t like extra mature cheese due to the strong smell and texture.

She doesn’t like lamb and she despises the idea of eating kidneys and livers.

She’s not a fan of black liquorice.

And for personal reasons, she refuses to drink any types of alcoholic drinks.

Ironically, she also doesn’t drink coffee. She doesn’t like the taste.

Embarrassing Nickname: Subverted. TCS Porkrind tends to often call her “blueberry” due to the amount of blue in her clothing, much her awkward confusion. She decides to just roll with it later on.

Even Loving Heroes Have Hated Ones: As sweet and compassionate as she is, Katie still has a number of people she despises due to their lack of redeeming qualities.

She gets overly irritated with both versions of King coming onto Lexie.

She has a heated rivalry with Anubis since he had been lusting for Natty and he has some ways of getting under her skin. And the fact of his career as a bounty hunter and resorting to kidnapping Cuphead certainly didn’t do him any much favours to elude her wrath.

With his snobby attitude and his tendency to steal other people’s musical works to pass them up as his own to take all the credit, Ludwig has the displeasure of being added onto Katie’s list.

She could never bring herself to forgive her bullies after how they had treated her at school. Her reasons are justified since they had never apologised.

Everyone Has Standards:

Played for laughs, she hates pineapple on pizza.

She also doesn’t like raisins in cookies.

She really doesn’t like bathroom humour because she finds it gross.

While it’s true she can agree that most children should be disciplined whenever they misbehave but she is against Corporal Punishment because she believes physical punishment is basically child abuse. She even finds spanking to be too harsh.

While she finds most slapstick humour to be funny off from TV, she doesn’t like the idea of her cartoon friends getting badly hurt or worse in the situation is much more serious.

Although she has every right to hate and resent her past bullies for mistreating her back in school, Katie would never bring herself to stoop down to their level when the Devil (game) had offered her the power to get revenge on them once she agrees to be his queen.

Everyone Hates Mathematics: Her worst and most frustratingly hated subject at school.

Fan of the Past: She is greatly fond of cartoons from the late 90s such as the original 1991 Rugrats series and Disney Afternoon cartoons like Darkwing Duck and Looney Tunes. She often laments how much she misses such shows since there is hardly anything good on television anymore, aside from The Cuphead Show on Netflix.

Katie: Hey, can’t go wrong with the classics, am I right?

Fear of Thunder:

Feathered Dragons:

Friendless Background: Before Lexie and Natty, Katie didn’t had any much friends at school due to being bullied. Friendless Background: Before Lexie and Natty, Katie didn’t had any much friends at school due to being bullied.

Friend to All Children: If her interaction with Matt and the Cups are of any indications.

Friend to All Living Things:

Gamer Girl: Dating back to playing Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage (Gateway to Glimmer back in the UK) on the PlayStation 1, Katie enjoys playing video games and is a veteran Pokemon gamer dating back to having Pokemon Yellow: Pikachu Special Edition on the GameBoy Colour.

A Girl and Her X: In some case, a woman and her Sprigon companion.

Girls Are Really Scared of Horror Movies: Katie’s not really a fan of horror movies because she can’t stand extreme blood and gory scenes. And she doesn’t like any horror themed video games due to the overly graphic death cutscenes if the player loses. Not to mention the Jump Scare scenarios don’t sit well with her either.

Girls Love Chocolate: No arguments that chocolate is her Trademark Favourite Food.

Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She has a collection of stuffed toys and plushies back home.

Good is Not Soft: She is one of the sweetest, nicest and compassionate of the Dreamstones girl, but when villains, bullies or creeps threaten her friends and love, that’s when the gloves are off.

Graceful Ladies Like Purple: It is one of her favourite colours. Her belt bag is purple as well as the scarf-like ribbons at the bottom of her necklace in her dragon form. She also wears purple clothing such as her pyjamas, swimsuit and some dresses everyone now and then.

Growing Up Sucks: Sadly, she feels like it does given how she is often at odds with her stepfather and her struggles with her autism.

Hardcore Bookworm: She enjoys reading and is a very powerful dragon half-blood.

Hardocore Adorable:

Has a Type: Her ideal man is sweet, kind, honest, caring and very accepting of how she is. She also likes a man who is a proper gentleman with a sense of chivalry, puts others before himself, is good with kids, a Friend to All Living things and is a Cool Big Bro.

Hates Dresses: Subverted. She’s okay with wearing dresses on special and formal occasions such as a date at a fancy restaurant or an invitation to a gala. The only times she hates being a dress if she’s a victim of Go-Go Enslavement. She also finds wearing a dress limits her mobility when she needs to get around and would very likely trip over the hem of the skirts.

The Heart: According to Misterie, Katie, as the Binder, is the Heart of the Dreamstones and she often tries to keep everyone together.

Heroic Dog Lover: She’s a huge dog lover and she has two dogs back in the Real World - a Samoyed and a Pomeranian.

Hidden Depths:

She enjoys doing some cross-stitching and is excellent at embroidery. Her specialities are making Bookmarks in the theme of PokeBalls and flowery hearts.

Bowling is actually her most favourite ball game and enjoys playing it.

Hope Bringer:

Iconic Item: Her silver book locket, her Keyblade in the form of a bracelet made from woven blue cords with pearl white beads and a crocus purple one in the middle, and the silver bracelet Vale gave her.

Iconic Outfit:

I Did What I Had to Do:

I Don’t Want to Ruin Our Friendship: When “Tom Chrystolite” proposes to her on their first date in the Gilded Rose’s garden, Katie lightly turns him down as she’s against marrying someone she just met and isn’t ready for that commitment. She also wanted them to be just friends for now until Lexie and Natty reveal who Tom really is thanks to the Bible.

I Just Want to Be Special: One of her wishes was to be someone who could make the world a better place and is respected, appreciated and loved as a hero. She had often wondered if people would be nicer to her if she was someone who matters.

I Just Want to Have Friends:

Innocent Blue Eyes:

In-Series Nickname: She is affectionately called Kate by her friends throughout their adventures.

Irony: Yep, even Katie has a list of a few things.

She’s half-dragon and she can breathe fire but she doesn’t like spicy food of any sort.

She likes ketchup and Heinz tomato soup, but for some reason, she hates actual tomatoes. Probably because she doesn’t like what the insides look like with the seeds and juice.

She ironically doesn’t like actual oranges due to the texture but she’s okay with drinking fresh orange juice (as long as it’s purely smooth and doesn’t have bits in it).

Despite her British origin, she doesn’t drink tea, much to TCS Devil’s surprise and the confusion of some toons who stereotype her.

Lexie and Natty often compare the Cuphead Devils as the King Bowesr Koopa to Katie’s Princess Peach although she has yet to play any of the Super Mario games.

Despite being old enough to drink, Katie hates alcoholic beverages of any type due to personal reasons.

She’s also old enough to drink coffee but she hates the taste of how bitter it is.

It’s All My Fault: She took full responsibility of her friends when she was the one who had found the book and gemstones and is quick to blame herself.

Kiddie Kid:

Despite being in her thirties, Katie is a child at heart due to her autism given her Fangirl obsession with cartoons and video games but she can still be mature when she needs to be.

She also doesn’t drink coffee or any alcoholic beverages, preferring mostly soda and frappes.

Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Although she leans more to being a dog person, Katie still like cats as she gushes over Aya and squees over the cuteness of a curious kitten bounding up to her for a pet.

Let’s Get Dangerous!:

Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone: Whenever Liam and Lexie or Natty and Andrew are having a romantic moment, Katie is prone to catch on that the lovers need a little alone time with being in each other’s company and ushers the others away while leaving herself.

Magic Pants: Whenever she turns back into a human, her clothes are still intact.

Magical Accessory:

Hey Keyblade transforms into the blue bracelet with the white and purple beads she wears.

In her dragon form, she wears a necklace that magical summons special armour for protection or to enhance her abilities on certain occasions.

Mama Bear:

The eldest out of the Dreamstones girls and is overly protective of her friends. She also seems to have some motherly instincts towards Matt, Kaichi and the Cups.

As a mother, she can be at her fiercest whenever Eira is in danger.

Marry For Love: While she’s not ready for that commitment, she is still a firm believer in this.

Meaningful Name:

Katie means “pure” in Greek, fitting for her sweet and curious nature.

In the Ancient Language of the Dragons, her middle name, Estelaria means “Daughter of the Stars” since the egg her ancestral namesake was said to be brought down from the stars.

Her surname, Gemwing has some meanings as well since her wings often have star-like glimmers and glints like a gemstone. Turns out there’s a rare gem in the Dragon Realms called the Midnight Opal, which is a dark blue gem that has a starry luster.

Meet Cute:

My God, What Have I done?!:

My Greatest Failure: She struggles to emotionally connect with her stepdad.

Neat Freak: She tries to keep things tidy as possible and she has the tendency to keep certain things in the order she likes. She admits that she does get mildly freaked out and annoyed whenever someone doesn’t out things back the way she likes it when they were in her room.

Nice Girl: A sweet, bubbly and well-meaning woman.

Not Above It All:

Despite her zig-zagged fear of the Devil, she’s not above giving him terms of insults whether it’s behind his back or right up to his face, going far as to call him “Luci”.

She has her moments with making up some puns, much to the amusement of her friends and expanse of the bad guys.

She’s not above expressing her inner child when she gets excited about somethings like Christmas and enjoying chocolate and ice cream.

Oh, Crud!: Phrase Catcher: Cuphead does a mild modification to his best known Catchphrase for Katie and the girls with this quote: “Eh, don’t be too worried about it”.

Playing Hard to Get: Both versions of the Devil from the Cuphead universe believed her to be doing this whenever she refuses his advances.

Please, I Will Do Anything!:

Running Away to Cry: Whenever she’s upset and wants to be alone, Katie runs off in tears. This trait is what kicks off the first adventure in Heart, Soul & Mind where she finds the Cuphead book with the three gemstones planted in the bookshop at her local town by the Devil.

Running Gag: She sometimes will zap TCS Devil with her electric breath in the same fashion like in the Sweater episodes or occasionally like in The Devil’s pitchfork whenever she’s defending herself or when she wanted to deliver some payback.

Say My name:

Katie is prone to scream out for her friends’ names whenever they’re in trouble with their unwanted lovers or when either versions of the Devil is about to take her away.

She often says or cries out Cuphead’s name either to scold him when he does or says something irresponsible or if he’s in danger (mainly with the Devil).

She Cleans Up Nicely: Normally wears gender-neutral clothes and is always seen in her Iconic Outfit, she can still dresses up in elegant gowns and cute dresses on certain occasions. And is just as pretty in a dress as Lexie and Natty.

Single Woman Seek Good Man: She made it clear to both versions of the Devil her reasons why she would never marry him. Since Validor arrived, she is head over heels for his kind-hearted nature.

So Beautiful, It’s a Curse: In the eyes of both versions of the Devil from the Cuphead franchise, Katie is deemed the most beautiful as well as very powerful for her powers. And it certainly doesn’t help that she often attracts unwanted attention from more some other darker admirers such as the dreaded pirate overlord, Levithaus.

Stepford Smiler: While she does a bubbly personality, there are times that Katie can be emotionally troubled when it concerns her with her rocky relationship with her stepdad and struggles to put up a brave face and a cheerful facade to mask her anxiety and woes.

Squee: She’s a die-hard fan of certain franchises and will fangirl extremely hard over the latest Pokémon game, anime or even the possibility of a new Spyro the Dragon follow up game to the Reignited Trilogy.

Sweet Tooth: She has a great love for sweets, mainly chocolate, cake and ice cream.

Tears of Fear: Not very often but she will sometimes shed some of these when most terrified.

Tears of Remorse: She is often prone to express her guilt and remorse over honest mistakes or if she feels at fault through crying.

Tender Tears: Potentially the most emotional of the Dreamstones girls. Being autistic, she is sometimes most prone to be driven to tears of pain, sadness, frustration and when she feels emotionally helpless. This happened a lot at school as well her fights with her stepdad.

Term of Endangerment:

Both versions of the Devil often refer to her as “my dear”, “my sweet”, “my darling”, “my little one” “sweetheart”, and “my little dragonfly”.

By Leviathius, she is “my dear”, “my sweet”, “my love”, “my treasure”, “my shining pearl”, “my little mermaid”, and “my siren”.

Tomboy With a Girly Streak: Although she’s a tomboy, Katie isn’t above keeping in touch with her feminine side as she sometimes wears a dress in special occasions and dabs on some perfume. She also likes shiny things, the colour pink and adorable cute things.

Trademark Favourite Food:

Chocolate in any form in all of its glory. Milk chocolate is the best.

Red velvet cake is one of her favourites.

She also enjoys ice cream. Most especially chocolate, vanilla, coconut and cookies & crème.

For savoury, her favourite is pizza, especially if it has southern fried chicken with extra cheese and a barbecue sauce base.

She really loves fried chicken.

Being British, she enjoys a Sunday roast with either chicken or turkey, mashed potatoes, carrots, roast potatoes, onion and sage stuffing Yorkshire puddings covered in plenty of gravy in that following order.

Well, more of a favourite drink than food, really but she loves fizzy drinks between Coke Zero and Pepsi Max in either normal, cherry or vanilla flavour.

Trapped in a World: Twice in fact alongside Lexie, Natty, Liam and Matt. Once in the game version the Cuphead universes via a book. And the second time was in the TCS version.

Trying Not to Cry: She often tries to keep her emotions in check but once the water works start building, she can’t seem to stop until she has a moment to herself to calm down.

What Beautiful Eyes!: Her blue eyes are said to be very beautiful indeed. A rare Crystal Dragon trait is that her eyes sometime literally sparkle. According to both versions of the Devil, her eyes are like the ocean, deep and mysteries and sparkle when the sunlight glistens over the water.

Why Did It Had to be Snakes?:

She has a crippling phobia of wasps due to being stung by one in her palm as a child when she accidentally trapped it between her head and hand.

She also hates scorpions due to how deadly their stingers are. So, it’s understandable that she is scared at the thought of getting stung by one.

As mentioned above concerning needles, she always dreads going to the doctor’s for an injection. No matter how small it is.

Both versions of the Devils still count in a way since he tries to force her to marry him. TCS Devil, taking on a Let’s Get Dangerous turn can actually be terrifying when he wants to be.

Your Favourite: The Devil had been doing a LOT of research on Katie when he often serves her favourite dishes when inviting dinner. Even going as far as buying her certain chocolates she likes and giving her a bouquet of her favourite flowers.

[sungam-supo]

Chia, chamomile, palm tree, papyrus (figured sending this there instead of your main)

Answered one of these already but:

chia ⇢ what’s an inside joke you have with someone else?

I got a fresh one that just happened tonight. Presenting: MYAAAGH Hard to explain full context, but its sort of like a frustration sound but for some reason we find it so funny. My sense of humor is busted.

palm tree ⇢ do you have a fictional villain you shouldn’t like but love regardless?

None that are too problematic from what I recall? I'm having a memory broke moment right now, but closest one I can think of is probably Ripto from the Spyro games. I know he's like, cartoon villain levels of bad, but still. papyrus ⇢ if you put your ‘on repeat’ playlist on shuffle, what’s the first song that comes up? what do you like about it / associate it with?

Jhariah - DEBT COLLECTOR is what cropped up. A good one from a very underrated guy. I mainly associate it with characters that are known for their greed or/and are corrupt merchants. Spamton is an obvious example.

[radellama]

q v w

Q: Any Guilty Pleasure Games?

I'm just gonna saw power washing simulator. I don't feel guilty about playing, I just need to stop cause I'll lose entire days to it!! I've finished playing it and am just replaying levels over and over, I don't need to I wanna move on to other games!! But I keep coming back!!!

V: First game you remember playing?

Yoshi's Island on the SNES. I was 2 years old, parents thought it'd be a funny photo opportunity to have me holding the controller, and then I started to figure out I was playing. I don't remember the exact first moment of playing, but I do remember playing around ages 2-4 because we accidentally plugged our SNES in wrong so the colours were extra vibrant, I remember the reds in particular being INCREDIBLY RED. Other games I played around that time were Mario All-Stars, Link to the Past and Super Mario Kart, so all of my pre-kindy and kindy>primary school memories have those games in the background hehe

W: Any games you regret getting rid of?

These days I don't get rid of games, I'm a hoarder collector. I think the only ones I might regret is when I sold a few ds games I rarely played as a young teen to trade in for a different ds game I wanted, but I ended up buying those second hand a few years ago anyway just to have them again.

I've had other people get rid of games tho, that's probably why I'm extra sensitive to hold onto everything LMAO. Dad misremembered some stuff and sold our PS1 and all the games, even tho I'd bought half of them and a couple were gifts to me and my sister. BEYOND UPSET when I couldn't find Spyro 1&2!!! Luckily I'd safely hidden the childhood PS2 by that point, and thank fuck I took the PS1 memory card, don't remember why I took it out the PS1 but I'm glad I did, and I still have my beautiful PS2 to this day!!

AND WHEN MY SISTER SOLD THE WII U. THAT WAS BOUGHT AS A FAMILY CONSOLE AND I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF MY WIND WAKER PLAYTHROUGH WHEN SHE ASKED TO HAVE IT BACK AT HER PLACE AND THEN SOLD IT. DO YOU KNOW HOW EXPENSIVE IT IS TO BUY THOSE KINDA WII U GAMES THESE DAYS!? Thankfully, Dad gifted me the Wii U he had cause he barely played and was gonna sell it anyway, and I have it in a box on my desk right now >:) I just... Don't have any games for it lmao

Send some gaming asks from here

[misqnon]

u gotta try harder /j

I WASNT ON TUMBLR MUCH TIL LIKE.. A YEAR AGO... SO I HAD NO IDEA .... that is extremely funny. thank u

theyre in a 3 way qpr with luffy as the center

THAT ZORO IMAGE IS SO FUNYN AHFHSJD

"i like to imagine he speaks with the emojis like you typed them. (“how are you saying that out loud-”)" NAHDIAHE hes magic thats how

i have a big crush on ace too but TRACE HEATFIST.... something abt him.... idk he just hits the spot for me. i love big brother characters n characters that r good with kids.. ace fills that spot.. and then u add his silly smoothness in the 4kids dub and its like wow. u are Perfect.

STEAL THEM!! i have . a pinterest board of . meme image. silly meme image. (is pinterest something ppl still use... i only started using it a few years ago)

NO A CUP MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE... I think u were rightm.

THATS SO FUNNY... see i never thought dragons were real but i DID believe . that unicorns were real for quite a while (i never liked to admit it). honestly i didnt consume much dragon content but i did like to just. think abt them . i had this mobile game i liked playing that was just a choose ur own adventure type story . but ur a dragon. never played spyro (and didnt even know about it til i was like... 12) but it seems rly fun and i would love to play the remaster,, purple dragon ily. i cant believe ur the kind of kid who could beat games... i was so stupid as a kid i didnt even know how to play animal crossing city folk correctly .... YOU ALSO??? FLIGHT RISING???? i joined in uhh 2019? i think? i found out abt it in like 2016 but forgot and then tried to join in 2018 but it wasnt accepting new users.. and then yeah. 2019. so ive been on and off a lot but i LOVE flight rising. i love my dragons. even tho theyre mostly un-gened 1st generation dragons..

sanji is . arguably the most human of all the straw hats.. which is interesting bc he is also the only one who was supposed to be inhuman. ofc i think theyre all very human but sanji has the most moments where i can relate to him. the sanuso fic i was reading yesterday... he was so full of shame... and they wrote him hiding behind his hair.. and i felt so intensely SEEN by that. like oh my god he is ME i do all these things.. i find that my comfort characters are usually... ones who suffer a lot. i love suffering. in media.

SHREK SCREENSHOT..

"I WANT TO PUT THE SANJI FEEDING MICE AND THE CREW IS CONFUSED SCENE IN A FIC SO BAD BUT I HAVE WRITERS BLOCK ATM 😭" i will write it for u

"sanji vs. minnie mouse his hardest battle yet" oh my god........ ur mind...... wow...... genius...... crackship time (have u seen . oh wait ur not into jjk.. ok have u seen frollo x goofy... its insane...)

BEING MAD ABOUT SIMPING FOR SANJI IS SO REAL.. please dont be attractive please stop please... please . IVE SEEN THAT OUTFIT and every time i get ANGRY (not for real but y'know.) because he looks SO GOOD and i dont like to admit that.. i hate to admit that. UR RIGHT that outfit is extremely gay like wtf is going on with that tie???? or whatever it is? around his neck??? this is like gay men wearing scarves

"have u seen that post where its drawings of each of the strawhat “rescue teams” of arlong park, enies lobby, and whole cake?" I SAW THAT A FEW HOURS AGO AHDHSH

"law 1: edgy. flipping u off. deranged. a bit evil looking. kinda hot" i see u...

i love law so much he is so antagonizing and then . the contrast.. when he is stupid or cute. its wonderful.

"HE ALSO LOOKS SO SO PATHETIC 😭 SOPPING WET CAT OF A MAN" i LOVE how pathetic he looks. i like pathetic people so much.. like why are u like that.. making me pity u.. only in media tho never in real life 🙏🙏

ZORO LOOKS LIKE A DOG AHEJDHA WHAT IS THAT

USOPP?? USOPP?????? HES THE MEME IMAGE ...

CHOOPA MY GUY.. he looks so silly as a full deer i wish he did that more often

this is blue period but im running out of funny images i have saved ...

dw abt taking a bit to reply!! i am patient /gen

IM TRYING MY BEST 

sharing my veteran knowledge

3 WAY QPR IS PERFECT 

trace heatfist the magic man. skeazy magician and fuckboy

ace is VERY likeable idk a single person who doesnt like him. even my non one piece friend likes him but i think shes weak to his freckles

i trade memes like pokemon cards. i look forward to this symbiotic relationship

arent unicorns the national animal of scotland…(or ireland maybe…) THAT WOULD MAKE ME THINK THEYRE REAL

I COULD ONLY BEAT SOME GAMES a lot i didnt but usually bc i got out of the rhythm of playing them and left them unfinished. when i was younger i made my older brother play the hard parts for me a lot LMAO. ALSO DO YOU WANT MY FLIGHT RISING DRAGONS. IDK WHAT TO DO WITH THEM ALL MAN I DONT PLAY ANYMORE

i love that sanji is arguably the most emotional of the group (aside from franky or chopper, but for them its just played for laughs) and that overemotional/low self esteem part is exactly what makes him so relatable. i actually really appreciate that oda gave that trait to a male character. sanji cries a lot and is overemotional and kind of hysteric sometimes jdvbvfjdk so im glad they didnt make it like nami or robin who was like that stereotype. GOD I REALLY CONVERTED U TO SANJI TOWN DIDNT I. SORRY WE’RE ALL HERE BECAUSE WE HAVE LOW SELF ESTEEM AND PROJECT ONTO THE WEIRDO

*FROLLO X GOOFY????* 

I HATE ADMITTING THAT I THINK HE’S HOT BC HE DOESNT DESERVE IT. BUT I DO. I THINK SANJI IS HOT. I DO. UNFORTUNATELY. in that maroon wano suit…ODA WHO TOLD YOU TO DO THAT!!!!!!!

and yes law too…listen. i have a big heart, ready to love, [possessed by sanji]

the little scarf/ascot is the gayest part 

“"HE ALSO LOOKS SO SO PATHETIC 😭 SOPPING WET CAT OF A MAN" i LOVE how pathetic he looks. i like pathetic people so much.. like why are u like that.. making me pity u.. only in media tho never in real life 🙏🙏” exactly…PATHETIC FICTIONAL MEN GO HARD

I LOVE THE DOG ZORO SCREENSHOT HE LOOKS LIKE HES GONNA BITE SOMEBODY

AND USOPP KDSJNKJ I USE THAT ONE SO MUCH

i agree i like almost all of chopper’s other forms better than when hes a little baby 😭

IS THAT MAKIMA NSCKJAS???

also u are free to keep sending me e-letters but if you want to just message on discord that is also fine. as i said. message me whenever 🫡

lets see what we have for 2day...

[chimkennuggit]

introduction

hi! i'm dot, and welcome to my page! my page is peridot themed, but my posts don't have a solid theme. i mostly repost things i find interesting, or post my disorganized thoughts and poetry with the occasional scenic picture (i.e. trees, sunsets, fields, etc.)

as i said before, my interests are what can be expected to be shared on my page, including but not limited to these topics/images below:

shows i enjoy - memes and discussion about shows i'm interested in or enjoy watching, examples include but not limited to steven universe, adventure time, bee and puppycat, orange is the new black, stranger things, helluva boss, rwby, fruits basket, the chilling adventures of sabrina, friends, hazbin hotel, the boondocks, aqua teen hunger force, and sometimes bluey.

elder scrolls series - mostly about elder scrolls v: skyrim and the developments of elder scrolls vi, the beyond skyrim mods, skyblivion, and skywind, however there are a few oblivion posts sprinkled into the category.

retro video games - mostly original playstation and playstation two games since i grew up playing those as a kid. examples include but not limited to spyro: year of the dragon, pac-man world, pac-man world two, darkstone, pokmeon crystal, and others.

pokemon - mostly a fan of the johto region, but have played many of the other games. top two favorite games are most definitely pokemon soulsilver and pokemon crystal.

2000's nostalgia - anything that 2000's babies grew up with or experienced as a whole.

music - i like most kinds of music with a few exceptions, such a screamo. i don't know every genre of music, but a decent bit of them, so this list may expand. my favorites are probably classic rock, grunge, alternative, indie, rap, and metal.

parenting - i have a 3-year-old so there will be some funny moments i post about on here and sometimes the struggles of my journey as a parent. no, i will not be posting pictures of my child.

pets - i have a dog (husky & pit mix), a black cat, and 2 birds, so they might pop up every now and then.

liminal spaces/the backrooms - anything that falls in the category of feeling like the backrooms or a liminal space, places that give off a sense of unease but also calm, i suppose.

analog horror - my favorite type of horror genre, i may talk about upcoming games of this type or games that i've found of it.

poetry and literature - i tend to repost quotes or poems i find to be interesting or endearing. i'm also working on a book series from the point of view of an altmer-bosmer woman in the elder scrolls universe named willow titled "lost faith", so i may ask questions relating to it or post about it's developments.

pride - as a member of the lgbtq+ community who identifies as genderfluid, pansexual, and demisexual, i sometimes post the struggles about accepting and finding my own identity.

the struggles of adult adhd - i was diagnosed as a child, and still struggle with it today so some jokes and/or genuine posts about it.

nature - rarely, i post nice pictures i take of plants or scenic views and i find more rural areas to be a lot more comforting, so i talk about that sometimes.

i don't have many rules on this page other than to not be prejudice towards other people.

possible triggers when browsing this blog can be found below

note: if i missed any, please let me know. i'm very new to this and not very good at it.

TW:

swearing, a lot of it

talks of mental health struggles

talks of violence in video games

posts and reposts with literature that can be disheartening or sad

resposts of surreal and liminal photography

[monstroso]

top ten of my favorite speedrunners don't @ me im objectively right. check out their archives/marathon runs if you're looking for something to chill out to.

10. TMR - not ranked higher because i didn't watch a lot of his streams casually but holy goddamn did he have the best reactions. mandatory viewing: Cuphead AGDQ2019.

9. saboom/SSBMstuff suuuuuuper underrated runner, retired almost 10 years now. loved how chill and relaxed his streams were and he was always super nice and thoughtful/considerate. i think it takes great dedication to run at a top level while stoned out of your gourd. the 10 is for 10/10. his signature move was sitting on the floor to run even when there was a couch right there. fav archived run: Spyro 3 100 egg race AGDQ2014

8. shenanigans_ - very funny very smarmy very sassy, reminds me of all my out gay friends in high school. i love how he can switch between relentlessly meme'ing to talking technically about the game without missing a beat and i enjoy when he flirts with his friends on stream. fav run: Pokemon Glitch Showcase AGDQ2016. check out any pokemon run where he's on the mic though, he's great.

7. Jhobz - would be higher but i rarely caught any of his streams before twitch put the bullet in adblock. always seemed very articulate and humble, always quick to credit other runners where it was due, seemed to have great chemistry with anybody. his KH races at GDQ were (are?) always a highlight, I loved when he was on the mic. great sense for when to contribute and when to just shut up and play, a skill many showcase runners lack. fav run: not him actually running, but his couch commentary on Bl00dyBizkitz's KHII Final Mix run for AGDQ2017 is an old favorite of mine.

6. kz_frew - man came out of nowhere with the best run of AGDQ 2019, and just absolutely killed it out the gate. funniest runner on this list by far, his deadpan delivery and ability to roll with the punches without breaking character are incredible. i remember his politics being good too, which is nice. mandatory viewing: GTA Vice City AGDQ2019. this was so fun to watch live, holy shit.

5. gymnast86 - when it comes to runners, Gym definitely falls on the more technical side, but i tend to like that personally. it helps that he's never overwhelming with the info and makes it easy to understand without every feeling like he's dumbing it down. all his gdq runs are good but I particularly like his OOOT3D Mst run from GDQx2018.

4. spikevegeta - BIG personality, ranked highly because he's just a big bundle of charisma and energy. a lot of people know him on the mic at GDQ events but he's also a top runner in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. Which I will go ahead and link for the riveting Picross gameplay.

3. dukebligewater - DUKE. we miss you so much duke. i hope wherever he is now he's having fun. pure nostalgia factor here. check out both his Hotline Miami 1 and 2 runs at AGDQ 2014 and 2015 respectively. the ur niche speedrunner.

2. pjdecaesar - i got through this list and realized PJ was going to be second from the top and i was like "huh!" but it makes sense. jack of all trades and master of all as well, PJ is the perfect split between charisma, technical ability, and humor. i don't think he does events anymore, but if you recognize the name it's because he was an early GDQ staple. all his runs are fun, funny, engaging, technically explained, and eminently watchable. I like his Lagoon run from AGDQ2016 but honestly pick any PJ run or anything off his youtube channel and it'll hold your attention. Mohawk and Headphone Jack is beyond description.

werster - the man the myth the legend the one the only the irritable aus himself. being serious for a moment, werster was one of the first speedrunners I ever discovered because he ran my favorite game in the world, Pokemon Gold and he was posting strats before speedrunning was even a thing with a name on SDA. i've watched this man grow and change and become the best version of himself and i along with him. he and i both will be playing retro pokemon until the earth falls into the sun. go ahead and check out my favorite recent one of his Heart Gold Any% Manipless from ASM 2022, but his speedrun of Soul Silver from AGDQ 2014 is also timeless. I like comparing them both.

that comic where the guy remembers 2011 and starts crying but it's me remembering 2015 and all my favorite speedrunners were in their late teens/early 20s at the top of their game and streaming all the time and twitch worked with adblock and im weeping openly

[roseofthenight4444]

In the 5th clip of Funny Spyro Moments, the bulls refused to be bested! I don't know if this was truly a glitch but... it's absolutely disappointing. And somewhat irritating. Anyone else experience this?

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Psycho Analysis: Denzel Crocker

(WARNING! This analysis contains SPOILERS!)

Nickelodeon has produced some of the most iconic animated villains you could ever hope to find. Plankton, Vlad Masters, Zim, Princess Azula, Queen Vexus… The channel had way more hits than misses. But one of the most famous and iconic villains to come out of the channel was the fairy-obsessed teacher from Hell, Denzel Crocker.

The chief antagonist on The Fairly OddParents aside from the babysitter Vicky, Crocker was a cartoonish caricature of the sort of horrible figures a kid would need fairies to deal with in their life, making him something of the male counterpart to the aforementioned Vicky. Obsessed with slinging out Fs and capturing Timmy’s fairies to harness their powers, Crocker was a fun and hilarious enemy who brought the show all sorts of hilarious scenarios…

...Until he didn’t. Crocker is unique among Nickelodeon villains in that he underwent some of the most severe character decay you could ever see from a villain in a long-running franchise. But does it detract from his iconic status and make him a worse villain, or is it just a particularly ugly footnote on a truly fun antagonist?

Motivation/Goals: Mr. Crocker has one single mission in life, and that mission is to once and for all show everyone he isn’t a delusional madman by proving the existence of

His main target right from his first appearance is Timmy Turner, which leads to some really interesting situations. Crocker knows Timmy has fairies, but he can’t exactly prove it definitively, and so we get no end of zany schemes as he tries to prove fairies are real. And as weird and insane as he is, he actually comes fairly close quite a few times.

He also really loves to fail his students. Aside from the fairy obsession, this is his main character trait. Essentially, he is the worst teacher imaginable.

Performance: Crocker is performed by Carlos Alazraqui, one of the MVPS of voice acting; my man was Rocko (whose Modern Life you may be familiar with), the titular Lazlo of Camp Lazlo, Spyro in the original PS1 game, and even the Taco Bell chihuahua. His Crocker voice is honestly similar to his Rocko voice, albeit a lot more nerdy and conniving, and it certainly suits the put-upon scheming teacher. He really is one lucky son of a bitch, getting to voice two of the most iconic characters in Nickelodeon history… and also Winslow on CatDog.

Best Episodes: Crocker’s proudest moment is undoubtedly Abra-Catastrophe, where for a little while he actually manages to conquer the Earth after harnessing the power of Cosmo and Wanda. His epic duel with Timmy across time and space is about as cool as a villain could possibly get on this show.

Another contender is definitely “The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker,” which features Timmy going back in time and witnessing the events that molded his teacher into the man he is today. It turns out the reason he’s such a weirdo is because Timmy fucked everything up and caused him to lose his fairies, which just so happened to be Cosmo and Wanda. Not only is this a pretty great and hilarious example of a character creating their own enemy, it also somehow predicted a major plot point in Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox six years early. I’m not kidding, the book involves time travel and Artemis ends up having to mind wipe his younger self, and said mind wipe leaves a lingering trace of an idea to kidnap fairies. Eoin Colfer, you’ve got some explaining to do.

Best Quote: You’re really going to ask that? Seriously? It’s obviously

There is at least one other notable Crocker quote, one that became a meme because Mr. Crocker sounds like he’s saying something he… uh… doesn’t really have a pass to say:

Final Thoughts & Score: Mr. Crocker presents to me an interesting problem. You see, if we are going by the earlier seasons, Mr. Crocker is probably one of the best villains on Nickelodeon. He’s funny, he’s zany, he can be a threat when it’s called for, and he has one of the best episodes of the series as his focus as well as an awesome movie where he gets to be the big bad. By all accounts, he should get to sit up with some of the truly great villains in animation history!

But Crocker is also the subject of some of the most intense flanderization imaginable. TVTropes defines flanderization as “The act of taking a single (often minor) action or trait of a character within a work and exaggerating it more and more over time until it completely consumes the character. Most always, the trait/action becomes completely outlandish and it becomes their defining characteristic, turning them into a caricature of their former selves.” It’s pretty undeniable Crocker got hit with this hard compared to a lot of the other characters, which is saying something because everyone on the show ended up flanderizaed. The big issue is in the later seasons Crocker ended up overexposed and put in ridiculous situations that didn’t play well to his strengths as a character. What was once a beloved villain became a character that half the fans can’t stand and the other half love, and both answers are honestly valid considering what we’re presented with.

For comparison, Vlad Masters is another Butch Hartman villain who underwent flanderization, mainly because Hartman is incapable of not running character traits into the ground for the sake of “humor.” The difference there, and why I’d still say Vlad is a great villain while Crocker is something of a fallen titan is because of consistency. It’s hard to deny Crocker peaked pretty early in the show’s run with Abra-Catastrophe and “The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker,” while Vlad managed to stay consistently a threat up until “Phantom Planet” despite suffering from Butch Hartman’s trademark bad character decisions. You don’t ever really feel like Vlad’s fucking around, but Crocker? This dude became nothing but fucking around in the twilight years of the show. It also helps that Danny Phantom is a more serialized show with stronger continuity than The Fairly OddParents, which means Vlad developing in any direction is a lot more palatable than in a show where the episodes tend to be pretty standalone and negative continuity is used when needed.

I think the villain I’d most compare Crocker to is Sideshow Bob of The Simpsons. Both are great, iconic villains with fun vocal performances and all sorts of crazy schemes… But both also underwent serious flanderization that led to them being stretched pretty thin and their roles in their respective shows starting to make less and less sense as they appeared more and more. But while Bob is still one of TV’s greatest villains despite his motives decaying thanks to plenty of strong episodes and the sheer power of Kelsey Grammer, The Simpsons knows to use him sparingly, unlike poor Mr. Crocker.

All of this being said… does it really hold him back from greatness? Does how bad he became reflect on how great and fun he was originally? This was actually really hard, and I went back and forth for a long time. I considered having him as low as a six for his poor later appearances and as high as a nine for his early ones, but I think we need to meet in the middle somewhere. So for the first time ever, I’m giving out a fractional score, awarding Mr. Crocker a 7.5/10, leaning a little closer to an 8. The later years of the show certainly handled him badly, but they handled everyone badly, so it’s hard to single him out as the biggest problem. It definitely doesn’t help him score higher, but nothing can take Abra-Catastrophe away from him.

Oh, and I suppose should mention the live action Crocker played by David James Lewis in those dumb Drake Bell TV specials. To keep it brief, he is legitimately one of the best parts of those specials, nails Crocker’s mannerisms, and he can share that score up there.

[vintage-rejects]

Personal highlights from Dennis’ stream today in no particular order, based on memory!! Lots of these are from the chat!!:

Everyone in chat deadass quoted the entirety of “Meet the Spy.” Like— ALL OF IT IM

Dennis’ website is down, so people were begging him to renew it or something. My favorite lines; “Godaddy for Stabdaddy” and “Please renew your GoDaddy subscription Mr. Bateman, I wanna see the funny website.”

“Heavy is a submissive power bottom” WITH NO CONTEXT

Everyone asking if Spy listens to Mitski

Spy brand Butterfly Knives!!

The petition to get Dennis his own Spy figure

EVERYONE KEPT MAKING “SEDUCE ME” JOKES AND A LOT OF “I AM A WOMAN!!”

Question: do you ever do spy’s voice randomly?? Dennis: Ah, whenever I do a French accent Spy sorta comes out— Comment: I’m so proud of Spy for coming out!

Spy Pen ASMR

“POV: you are on a date with Mr. Bateman but he is too busy writing his novel”

“Do any of y’all remember Tentaspy?”

German Spy is very cursed, as is Italian Spy

Dennis showing off his trip to Spain memorabilia, comments: Spy went to Spain!!

“Omg Dennis you could do the spy crab pose”

Dennis showed us a very cool light he has from his grandmother!! Comments: Grandma Spy moment, Grandma’s got taste!!

“Spy mains reunite!!” “Let’s begin the French Revolution right now!!”

Respecting Medic mains

People randomly complimenting Dennis’ house and saying “hello!!” Or “how are you?”

There was a trend of people putting where they’re from!! Tf2 fans were from all over!!

Shork popped in to say hi :)

“All medic mains are masochists”

People asking Dennis to say the most random things as Spy (someone asked for him to say “cheese”)

“Spy just lives in Dennis’ laugh”

People just saying Medic is hot I’m

“Hi from the moon”

“Tf2 altered my brain chemistry to find older men hot ngl”

“The whole planet is here dude”

People are just adding each other on steam I’m

Spy gaming, pyro gaming, scouts mom gaming—

Dennis accidentally writing “Spy” on a Pyro poster, so he wrote “Spyro” (Immediately after he said, “that’s gonna be a collectors item now—“)

Dennis puts a heart by Spy’s “name” on some of the posters 🥺🥺🥺

A bot actually joined the chat and everyone spammed f1 LMFAOOOO LIKE

“Just tf2 things 💅”

Everyone saying how much they love Pyro

People were just very sweet to Dennis, very nice!!

“Spy is love, Spy is life”

Someone made up a new Spy knife!! I don’t remember all the details, but it was a quill I believe! Every kill was called an “autograph!” Very neat!!

You can watch it on Streamily’s Channel!! It’s very relaxed and chilled out! Most of the chaos come from the chat! It was a lovely time :)

[otakween]

Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 - Disc 8

Another mysterious appearance by a main character looking dude on the inner flap of this volume. He kinda looks like that Ryo guy from the Adventure 02 Ken flashbacks. Guess I'll find out...

Side note: apparently Arkadimon won 3rd place in the Japanese popularity poll? How!? He's literally the most boring digimon ever!

Ch. 46

-How are we on the final battle already if there's a whole other volume after this one? Either this isn't the final battle and they'll pull some "secret final boss" nonsense (it is the Digimon way) OR vol. 9 will just be like epilogue stuff. I'd prefer the latter

-In the scanlation I'm reading Taichi says "attacks won't work on Arkadimon, let's try direct attacks!" I kinda got what they were going for, but it's a bad translation, so I looked at the original Japanese. They use 必殺技 (hissatsuwaza) and 直接 (chokusetsu). So, special attacks don't work, but direct attacks do. Kinda like when you can't use magic on some enemies in games.

Ch. 47

-You see, ripping up Zero's wings and stabbing him through the chest has kind of lost all impact at this point. Not only is this a kid's manga so I know he'll be okay, but also we've already seen him recover from those specific injuries before.

-Gabo and Rei are cute together, I could see them as protagonist/partner in an alternate version of this story.

Ch. 48

-Wow, they're really going hard with this "rock bottom" moment. I know things will turn out okay, but if I was a dumb 8 year old who's never read anything like this before, I might be kinda shook

-Neo continues to be a flat character. You would think adding his sister to the story as a good guy would cause him to have some kind of inner conflict, but he's just evil for the sake of evil and his sister being around has had zero impact. Boooo

Ch. 49

-Not much happened in this chapter, they just explained how the Dot Matrix attack works and prepared to fight Neo's army. Zero is in the ICU and Taichi's basically catatonic. I feel like the level of despair being conveyed by Taichi is a little more than we ever saw in the anime. Manga always tends to be an edgier medium.

Ch. 50

-This whole time I've been calling him "Leomon," but he was actually Panyamon (the white reskin). Also, Dominimon is new...not as badass looking as Seraphimon

-The "all digimon give Zero strength" scene was a good opportunity to bring back some one-off background characters. Cute to see that some of them have digivolved too.

Ch. 51

-Okay, I'm not crazy for thinking it was Leomon because they literally call him "Leo" lol

-Kinda don't like how Zero and Taichi are the "chosen ones" and no one else can even scratch Arkadimon. It would be more interesting if they worked as real team where everyone balances each other out. I guess why they don't do solo MCs in the anime...

Omake - Hot Blooded!

-So I was right, we get a crossover with Ryo due to a Wonderswan promotion. It's nice to see a different MC design for once! He kind of reminds me of Lloyd Irving

-This was shorter and had a sillier tone than the other crossovers. It was kind of stupid that they defeated Demon's henchman via "hot bloodedness," but it was funny how equally matched Taichi and Ryo were in personality.

-I wish we could have seen more of -checks wiki- Monodramon. I really like his design. Very Spyro the Dragon.

I can't believe there's only one more volume left! I feel like I zoomed through this. As far as I can tell, Digimon really isn't known for its manga, so it's been interesting to see some of the neglected bits of the franchise. It's definitely a kids and super fans only kinda situation because neither the plot or characters are that deep or unique. I guess that makes a nice brain-off read though.