#hap answers asks

[canofhappy]

hap!! tumblr stopped hiding you from my notifications!! 🥳🎉🎉

(before it’d show a note, and when i checked it didn’t show anything, but if i scrolled through your blog you’d have reblogged from me; now you’re 100% visible)

P.S. what’s your favourite flower?

CONNIE :D I'm so glad I'm not a ghost anymore and everyone can see my silly comments on their posts now!!

My favourite flowers are peonies or hibiscus flowers, thanks for asking!

[rainbow-wolf120]

CW: Strong Language lol

Happy 7 years Ask The StoryBots!!

To celebrate, my brother and I did a silly little voice over.

Team 341-A and sound effects voiced by my brother

Hap and Team 341-B voiced by me

[floofeeeeee]

Dex dizziness for character bingo?🙏

I think he’s silly lil guy :)

he’s a pretty good character I feel like if he got more page time to develop I’d like him a lot more. I also think he works a bit better in a dynamic you know? He doesn’t really have a strong character by himself compared to someone like biana who works well in dynamics but can hold herself pretty well on her own

But otherwise love him 💖

[telemna-hyelle]

Which Link seems to be Sandwich’s favorite?

Also Warriors, how’re you uh... how you doing there with the ring that ended up on your finger?

-Sky Floor

Wind: it's Twilight, which he keeps using as an excuse to not share! It's really frustrating.

Hyrule: he's got this really calming aura with babies, he always has. it used to be funny and cute, but now we're invested

Legend: I'd kick him in the shins, but i can't do that while he's holding the baby. Just wait until he puts her down, though...

Warriors: Oh, y-you mean this ring? Uh, you, you know, it's going great. *High pitched noise of stress*

[feralferretxp]

Some storybot shenanigans I drew from Magma as of late

[stonerbang]

Who's ready for Season 1? 💚 💙 💛 💜 ❤️

[silentstaresfanficandfanart]

Hey, hi, good evening (day?)!

I just opened the docs of Halcyon to start the reading, yay! Story aside tho... you got me at "spinosaurus discourse".

I'm into it but why is it a warning..,? Is. Is it like. A violent discourse??? Is it a dangerous thing to speak of??? Does someone turn into a spinosaurus? Huh??

AAAAAAAAA yay hi hello good evening good day and good morrow to you as well! HELLO! pleasure to make your aquaintance! thakn you SO SO much for opening it up! and even more so for sending an ask :O Im so glad that lured you in honestly, it would have worked on me too, hehehe- spoilers of course but to answer your question...

Yes. the answer is Yes. Yes it is violent! yes, it is a dangerous thing to speak of!

YES someone DOES turn into a spinosaurus and in my humble opinion, its one of the most disturbing scenes in the book <3 please look forward to it!!! And please feel free to say hi and ask any more questions if you have any! thank you again for your message and be sure to keep me updated on what you think of it!

have a beauuutiful wonderful sunshine peace love and joy day uwu!

[anonymous-bastard]

Idiot.

- @kyle-the-artistic-one

Not you too.

[batsplat]

Kind of a weird question but I was wondering if you have ever watched the motogp documentary shows, I think there are two? I've never seen anyone talk about them before so I'm assuming they're not very good. I was just wondering what your thoughts are on them. Also, if you have watched them or if you haven't watched them I was wondering if there is a specific reason for that or just generally your thoughts on sports documentaries like these ones or the F1 one or the tennis one.

I really love reading all your posts on motogp and tennis, thank you so much for contributing so much to the community!

thank you, that's very kind!! and yeah, we've had one season of 'motogp unlimited' and two seasons of 'there can only be one'. (every single time I try and remember the name for the second one, my brain goes 'and then there were none' before remembering what the actual title is. very different vibe.) I have watched them, for which the main reason is... uh. curiosity, ig? I'm interested in how the sport presents itself, interested in what they're doing for fan engagement, even when I'm not necessarily the target audience. I actually got into f1 in a slightly dumb way because they'd announced a tennis version of drive to survive and I was curious what that'd look like, so me and my flatmate decided to watch drive to survive. then some of the actual races, and it just sort of spiralled from there

which is probably the only new fan of anything that tennis show created - don't bother checking it out. absolute drivel. I know about the issues with dts and I am obviously more aware of the inaccuracies by now, but the main sin of the tennis version is that they never figured out how to make the sport remotely compelling. they made a show called 'break point' without explaining what a break of serve is. the central narrative tension of a tennis match and they just squander it. dts obviously doesn't engage all that much with the sporting side of f1 - but it does very early on provide you with the concept of a pit stop, this moment of direct interaction between the team and the driver, how suddenly the fate of the driver is completely dependent on the team etc etc. it's such a simple thing but it's immediately engaging... I get that it's a fine balance to strike between focusing on the characters and giving information about the actual sport, but I cannot emphasise enough how easy the drama of the serve/return dynamic should be to get across. I had a similar rant about this with the challengers film earlier this year actually... and again, I am fully aware I'm not the target audience here, I just think that when the actual sport hands you such neatly packaged drama, just... take advantage of what's already there? idk. call me crazy

ignore the bits about the tennis threesome and it's basically the same issue. like I watched most of the matches featured in that series and they didn't even try to capture the stories of these matches!! this feels so basic come on I am begging someone to do this right. 'break point' basically tells me a player lost a set 2-6 and then won a set 6-4 because they tried really hard and believed in themselves. I promise promise promise you can make the actual SPORT more compelling than that. the rhythms of a tennis match are so well-defined and clearly laid out... it should not be so hard to tap into this

compared to that baseline, the motogp shows are... hm... well, they're better than the tennis one for sure. just more watchable. it has admittedly been ages and ages since I've watched motogp unlimited, and I do remember liking some bits. just in terms of like... behind the scenes drama we didn't see at the time. I enjoyed the vinales/yamaha drama, I've obviously professed my love for marc's psycho look at mir, I thought the marc sachsenring segment was pretty well done. I can't... actually massively remember anything else, which is probably an issue in itself. from memory, I feel like a lot of my issues with 'give people a reason to care about the sport' still hold with this one. which tbh really shouldn't be that hard to do with motogp, like they're racing motorcycles, it's inherently conceptually a cool thing to be doing. I'm not a massive fan of 'hitting the apex' - but even though I feel it's a bit too style-over-substance-y, that's exactly what unlimited could have used a bit more of. the opening few minutes of that film where it cuts between the little kid and the motorcycle racers figuring out how to take the fastest line around the circuit... not massively a fan of pitt's narration throughout the film but it works here, I also think the music is doing a lot of good work. the whole thing does just do the job

like it just makes you feel the sport. I feel there's sometimes a bit too much of a wariness of making these sport shows feature too much of the sport... but if you're trying to make the sport compelling, you will actually have to figure out how to show the sports bit in a compelling way. you're so terrified of losing the casual viewer you're losing sight of what you're making a documentary of - when the whole appeal of a good documentary is to lose yourself in a world you might only be passingly familiar with. HAP leans into this emotional element from the start because it's also just some guys wanking off to the concept of motorcycles going fast, but you do need a little bit of that! the final product is a bit too sentimental and self-congratulatory for my tastes, but again. you need that core of genuine affinity for the sport

I do actually agree with the documentary that the process of taking a corner is what I'd lead with when introducing the sport to the new viewer. the lean angle of the rider and motorcycle is the most immediately striking visual angle - it looks quite jarring if you're unfamiliar with the sport, like the physics shouldn't quite check out. motogp really likes its corners, you've got plenty of specific ones associated with specific historically specific moves - your assen final chicanes, last corner jerez and catalunya, laguna corkscrew, etc etc. the instinctive terror of braking into some of them... mugello's main straight and turn one are infamous for a reason. these are things that easily tap into the character of the sport, but are also easy enough to sprinkle in for the casual viewer. the corner is where most of the overtakes happen, it's moments of direct engagement between riders - which, again, is probably what you want to be focusing on out of the gates. how this has evolved over the years - the contrast between the sport two decades ago and now is so easy to spot even for the layperson, and in large part that's because of how much more excessively they lean now. again, this is just very basic stuff... but as a starting point, surely you've got to try and tap into some of this shit. this is what your first-time viewer will be thinking about anyway when they're watching bikes go around track, so tap into that and explain why it's even more exciting than they think. sometimes motogp also leans in a bit too much for my liking into the whole 'they're gladiators who have broken every bone of their bodies!!' angle... yes, it's an unavoidable reality of the sport, but it makes the whole thing feel quite grim and morose. it's not what I'd lead with, let's but it that way

I'm aware this ask was not asking me to give my thoughts on how I personally would make a motogp documentary series lol. but yeah, idk, motogp unlimited as I remember it was 'reasonably fine but also a bit dull'. if you're already a fan of the sport, it swings between interesting tidbits I'm glad we got to see and telling you a whole lot of things you already knew, without particularly engaging framing and trappings. if you're a newcomer of the sport... I'm not convinced this show sells you on why you should actually care. and, idk if this is a controversial opinion or not, but I personally prefer... ffs what was it called. there can only be one. well first off, change the title - this one's a mouthful and just feels quite generic and half-arsed, which I suppose is appropriate. idk if they're doing it again this year... I thought the second season was a clear step-up from the first so I kind of hope they do. I don't actually think this is 'good' in that I wouldn't really give this to a new viewer and I'm not entirely sure who the target audience was - but it was basically fine for what it was. a glorified highlights package with a few extra behind the scenes tidbits to get you hyped for the new season. I liked the process of whittling down and introducing new title contenders and then the thing of turning off the light when they leave the chair once they're out of contention. it just feels like something that's quite nice to have as a bit of a summary of the season. it's a bit more like what they used to do in the 2010s, where they often made a documentary of the title winner and just a bunch of interviews with them and their team chucked in. the best one of these imo is the very first one they did for jorge in 2010, which includes some lovely childhood jorge footage and that segment where him and his team made it obvious how pissed off they were at valentino's catalunya 2009 celebrations lol, stuff like that. just some nice little details for the narrative!! those provide a bit more insight than the quite surface-level show we have now but... y'know, I don't hate it. fine to accompany you washing the dishes

anyway, yeah. that's my thoughts on both of those. I'm not massively enamoured with any motogp documentaries, though I do appreciate how at least there are a fair few. from the ones that exist, my favourite one is probably marc's all in thingy - had plenty of issues with it, but of its subject at least the issues were sometimes revealing in and of themselves. mostly I do just think the best way to understand the sport is to... go and watch a lot of races. older ones too. which I get is more time-consuming, but quite frankly it does feel like a more rewarding process. sometimes you have to piece together the narratives yourself

[dark-twist-fairytales]

*tumbles in and falls face first onto the ground before getting up and dabs with cake* HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHKIE! BLESS YA SOULS, BLESS THE GUYS, MAY YOU BE BLESSED WITH GOOD HEALTH AND FORTUNE IN THE FUTURE! *gives cake and backflips in the void, making a Tom and Jerry noise*

HI HI THANK YOU DEAR ABYSS!! I hope today has treated you well as well!

[canofhappy]

hap darling what’s your favourite song?

THIS IS SUCH A HARD QUESTION MY DARLING CONNIE

can I just list out a bunch that i've been loving recently? yeah I’m gonna :P

Mood Swings by Little Simz

PRESSURE BOMB 3?!?! by Jhariah

superdeadfriends by Yungblud

S-Class by Stray Kids

[serve-at-the-cuntseum]

should i draw hap signing the adoption papers next :33333

[listenupcupcakes]

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YAY!

[telemna-hyelle]

can I hold Sandwhich? please 🥺

i have a knitted baby blanket and everything!

Awww, a blanket!! Time definitely appreciates the donation--they have a lot of shopping to do, and that's one less item that they'll need to pick up.

As to holding Sandwich... well, I'm afraid you'll have to win a game of Uno first ;)

[ironwoman359]

Hey happy birthday!! We’re birthday twins :D

Birt twins! Hap birt!

[starrysharks]

good night my disciples, i actually have to finish and start comms tomorrow instead of fucking about 💔