#hightaling

[tumbling-through-deepspace]

Shenanigans with LADS men x Lyssa

Numero 17.

Mephisto will not be excluded

Others will be subjected to the madness

Xavier and Rafayel rushed out the room in frantic panic, a glass shattering against the wall.

They both looked at Zayne and Sylus before hightaling out of the building. Rafayel shouted, "She's all yours."

Sylus chuckled, "When will they learn that they need to offer tribute to appease the beast."

"They did, but it was not the ones that are required," said Zayne

Laughing, Sylus picked up a bag with different snacks. "All they needed was large packs of extra sour gummy worms, dark chocolate, pomegranate water, extra strength cramp medicine, and a heating pad."

Zayne shook his head. "They don't realize that she doesn't like sweet things during this time. It's like her taste buds do a complete 360. The more sour or bitter, the better."

"Let's go comfort our girl."

[missglaskin]

I saw the gremlin asks and I’m all for that ✨

I found this on TikTok https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFQ4STJM/

And it made me think of gremlin reader. Like say she has a habit of literally disappearing as soon as either someone blinks or they turn away from her for a SINGLE SECOND and when they turn back around, she’s gone~

In the red keep, it was said that there are secret passages and now the family is just terrified because they can just HEAR gremlin reader’s mischievous giggles and chuckles and the little pitter-patter of her feet cuz she’ll dump her shoes as to make less noise and they know that they are about a heart attack away from her just popping up behind them and saying something random or something along the lines of “so I found this albino cat-“

Viserys probably had his fair share of heart attacks

And Luke and Aegon are aware enough of gremlin reader doing this, so say during a feasting party, everyone turns away from reader for a second from her seat, even if she’s sitting RIGHT NEXT to Laena and Corlys who are VERY observant, POOF! She’s gone~

Cue everyone going silent and they wait with anxious breaths…. Then they hear it… the sound of pitter-pattering feet and little gremlin giggling….

Helaena is like “she’s in the walls….”

And Aegon and Luke are like “SHE’S IN THE GODDAMN WAAAALLLS-“ while trying to hightale it out of there cuz they don’t want to get spooked by her

Not the reader being the reason why the family discovers the secret passages. I am just imagining the thought of the family splitting up along with Criston to search the reader through those secret passages bumping into each other and never being able to find her. The only one who manages at times is Daemon. 

Also, the first time they heard her in the walls gave them all a heart attack. Alicent nearly screamed when hearing giggles echoing. Luke thought all this time it was a ‘ghost’ haunting him only to sigh in relief when realizing it was actually the reader. Also, Aegon panicked a few times, he denies the reader telling everyone he shrieked when he heard her greet him. 

It was Daemon's idea to keep her on a leash and everyone got angry at him (especially Viserys and Otto), saying that she’s not some dog to be pulled on. Only for Daemon to let the leash go and watch the chaos ensue. They usually leave her with Rhaenyra and Rhaenys as they are the only ones who manage to look out and catch the reader before slipping away. 

Rhaenys’ mistake was leaving her with Corlys, because the second she comes back. The reader is gone and everyone is panicking looking for her. Helaena tries telling them where she is, but no one is listening to her except for Aemond who moves away from everyone. 

But when Luke and Aegon can be heard screaming that she’s at the walls, it’s when they finally figure it out. Though when Criston goes, Aemond is there-out of breath with the reader under his grasp.

[real-total-drama-takes]

Wayne winning pisses me off not because he robbed Julia but because he genuinely did nothing all season,

Like, if raj was eliminated earlier and he had to grow on his own that'd be great!!

But also it would've been nice if Raj won to fulfill what he said to his boyfriend.

Either that or I'm hightalling off of like, the concept of an MK, Damien and Raj finale that'll never happen

[ixar-of-the-bargains]

That fight between Marrok and Ahsoka where Marrok chucks his lightsaber at Ahsoka and then immediately turns around and hightales it is one of the few times I've actually just fucking broken down laughing while watching Star Wars recently.

[shokuto]

So we'll probably have to agree to disagree on a Gwiles ship (for a number of reasons, but in no dimension or version do I think Gwen should be Miles' main or only option for a romantic interest or relationship) :). But I appreciate your insights, and loved your response to the question "what makes Miles compelling as Spider-Man?" from a few weeks ago. I am kinda trying to figure out what Marvel is doing exactly? Between using just Miles' name instead of Spider-Man for the upcoming Strange Academy release, and Ziglar basically minimizing Miles in his own comic during this latest run in order to feature characters Ziglar seems to be enamored with, all while having characters constantly call Miles "boy" (see Mr. Morales who apparently has entered a black exploitation film), "kid" (practically every character being forced into the run is calling Miles this right now, which is funny given ATSV's take rightfully pushing back on that), "newbie" (Stark in the latest issue…meanwhile Civil War was a thing), basically everything but his name or Spider-Man…it's frustrating. Like, is Miles getting too popular for them or something? No offense to Ziglar, but I'm currently just sticking to reading and buying Bendis and Ahmed's comics going forward. Ziglar just doesn't seem to know how to write for Miles and his supporting cast, which is fine. They should put him back on Spider Punk since he said that he's wrote for that comic based on his time in a punk band. On top of that he hasn't done anything original so far? He's acknowledged Rabble is basically a reskin of Tinkerer from the Playstation game, he's obviously a fan of the Flash tv show given the electric sword (the idea of Miles' venom powers continuing to evolve in more novel and powerful ways is great though), plus the new character Hightale who = the Flash. And Misty Knight was just going over super basic things Aaron already taught his nephew. Also, Miles as any kind of detective was setup better by Bendis when he was toying with the idea of turning him into an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D (and that kinda came out of no where). If they extend Ziglar's time, it sounds like his plan is to constantly keep doing crossovers of other characters as "mentors", and given how he's handled that so far, I would not be to happy buying this run. :( Do you have a writer or writers in mind that you would like to see on Miles' comic? To be honest, I don't think there needs to be a ton of angst, I like that he has a great group of people in his life who know about him and have his and each others back against all odds (you can't tell me that comic Ganke wouldn't have tried to fight Miguel in ATSV even though he would lose, and Tiana would have 100% tried to pick Miguel up and drop him from the train if she saw him treating and talking to Miles like he did XD), it's one of the things that adds to Miles' uniqueness. But your analysis of Miles gets things about his character that the current run/Ziglar seems to be missing. On the plus side, the artwork is pretty good! And maybe the run will get better?

Eesh. I checked out of Ziglar’s run a while back, seems my criticisms with him minimizing Miles as Spider-Man in his own run hasn’t gotten any better, I probably made the right choice. Makes me sad though. I dislike Ahmed’s run a lot, but he at least had Miles on equal footing with the more seasoned guest stars like Captain America.

The disconnect is that Ziglar thinks Miles’ appeal lies in his youth. He thinks he’s a rookie, far out of his depth and in desperate need of guidance (from people he’s accomplished more than and with basic things he’s been doing since 2015 at minimum). I appreciate the callback to his origin from 2011, but it’s like he stopped reading that samw. Whoever I’d pick to write him moving forward would obviously be more up to speed on his history and the things that actually make him unique, but I honestly don’t trust that from anyone besides Phil Lord/Chris Miller, or Bendis. I always get the impression that everyone else either sees him as a blank slate, someone they need to reinvent or “fix”, if they simply don’t get it at all.

But besides that, if I could, I’d have his stories once again set in the Ultimate universe. Pulling him out erased one of his most prominent conflicts as someone bearing a legacy that makes him a target, that jeopardizes his future, and altered his relationship with his parents, which is why his comics were immediately made more lightheartedly and silly when he crossed over even with Bendis at the pen, because not only was Peter Parker alive and well, Miles was now one of four Spider-Men.

We’ll also have to agree to disagree on there not needing to be a ton of angst, I enjoy that Miles can inspire hope as much as the next guy, and I wish they’d let him do stupid fun teen shit without having to learn some sort of lesson at the end, but in the same vein that light without shadow is blinding, hope without tragedy is hollow. And as someone who’s been reading since Spider-Man cost him his uncle and [redacted until a mutual finishes the second volume], his stories have felt hollow to me for a very long time.

The artwork is good, but I don’t have faith that the writing’ll get better. I already held out hope that his comics would suddenly recapture that spark for eight years now.

[alwritey-aphrodite]

🌹 :)

Flustered beyond belief and overwhelmed, Steven makes a beeline for the front door, making a mental note of the sign above the door as he hightales it to his flat.

[hightaled]

NEW URL ^_^ junkcardigan -> hightaled

[teenlolita]

i hate both of my parents :) 

[hijustanotherfangirl]

Let me just :

aftg hc of the day (oh how i missed typing that): it's a big joke between the monsters that neil drives like a grandma. he just drives like a normal person, but compared to nicky and andrew it doesn't seem that way. after basically being a get away driver for so long, he enjoys the simplicity of driving the others around. until one night neil is driving them to columbia, taking some weird ass backroads with lots of scenery because they had a hard game and he knows it helps andrew relax. they're all a bit pensive and tension is high because it was the first loss of the season. they're just ready to get drinks and forget about it, but neil is driving like a fucking grandma. which aaron is quick to point out when kevin starts getting restless and sticks his elbows into him and nicky. neil ignores him until the fifth complaint where he huffs and looks over at andrew. andrew just shrugs and finally neil starts going faster. but he doesn't stop. he doesn't stop until he's pushing 100 and cutting corners and hitting bumps so fast they fly out of their seats. aaron is regretting ever life decision he's made, mentally writing his will. kevin is cussing neil out, only pausing in attempts not to throw up. nicky is holding onto every handle and grip he can find, also on the brink of vomiting. andrew is calm as ever other than his hand gripping onto the door for dear life. and neil. neil is fucking smiling like an absolute maniac. not his father's smile, his smile. he's having fun. because fucking with aaron is always fun. but instead of worrying about getting a tire shot, all he has to avoid is kevin throwing up on the center console. neil gets there twenty minutes before normal (despite that the route would've added up to an extra 45 minutes), and very casually hops out of his seat to watch aaron over the door as he stumbles out onto the sidewalk. he asks aaron if he still drives like a grandma and doesn't get a response, but none of them ever criticize his driving again

[erkanxarslan]

#kocapınar #yolculuk #kış #kar #soğuk #yol #yürüyüş #adam #yüksek #uzunince #passenger #winter #snow #cold #road #hiking #man #hightall #erkanarslan https://www.instagram.com/p/B8oHHqap7vC/?igshid=1sgr1e7xd70bp

[popculturebuffet]

Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain Review!

Happy Birthday Uncle Scrooge! Yes it was 73 years ago that everyone’s favorite stingy adventurous billionaire entered this world. And I only NARROWLY missed it as I only found out this was coming up when looking up various character birthdays during the writing of my review of “The Three Cablleros”. I now have a word document with all the various important duck characters birthdays so this doesn’t happen again, but i’m glad I did my homework as I can celebrate one of my faviorite character’s birthdays.  And Scrooge is one of my favorites. While I relate to donald’s everyman slacker spendthrift was a tad more, I still love this old bastard. He’s badass, quick witted, and earned every bit of his fortune square outside of one moment of weakness. But he has his flaws: He’s horribly cheap, quick to anger, and very dismissive and distrustful of people for good reasons and bad. He’s a complicated, interesting character and one that still works today in the reboot.. if with some slight tweaks to make him less of a greedy monster by modern standards. He’s one of my favorite comic book characters, and one of Disney’s finest, so it only felt right to honor him by going back to his roots with his very first appearance and a story that like him is 73 years old today. It’s also one I had never read until today’s review. So does this storied tale still hold up? How diffrent was Scrooge? and are there any actual bears in the story? Well come along with me as we take a trip up to Bear Mountain and find out.  This story, if you didn’t know, is by Disney Legend and Scrooge Creator Carl Barks, easily the most influential and well known duck artist.. felt like it was worth mentioning since without Carl none of this would be possible and as usual his art is gorgeous and unique to him. On with the show. 

We open with Donald and the Boys depressed, as Christmas looks to be pretty drab. While the boys are sad they don’t have a winter Cabin like everyone else...

Donald is even more bummed he can’t afford dinner or presents as he mentions this to the boys, being flat broke. It’s also a nice character beat that Donald, despite his usual hedonism.. would be just fine, with his depression coming from the fact he can’t even give his boys a proper Christmas let alone presents. It’s a stark adult fear and something that really hits as I find the money to buy Christmas presents for all my friends and family during my current unemployment, though commissions, have been helping. 

But yes i’m doing my first Christmas review before thanksgiving’s even come in. But given the serendipity of Scrooge’s birthday and the fact I wanted to read it at some point before covering the last chapter of life and times anyway, since said story takes place DURING this one. I’ll explain how in a moment. Plus frankly with me already having to do my christmas shopping while I have money, I still feel the spirit of the holiday, so I honestly figure why not. 

But all that aside, the Nephews muse things might be better if their rich Uncle Scrooge would remember them, but probably not. We’ll meet scrooge, if you care to continue, after the cut. 

We then cut to Scrooge’s mansion. Two things to note. The first is that he has a mansion here. Now for us Ducktales fans, it’s not unusual, he lives in one in both series. But being even MORE frugal in the comics meant after this he mostly lived in the money bin to save .. well money. So he dosen’t have the mansion after this and Don Rosa explained it, as he did really most aspects of scrooge’s life, in life and times, having him decide to sell the place after also deciding to reopen the bin. Just a neat fun fact. The other fun fact is that his angry pose and expersion here were later homage in “Last Crash of the Sunchaser!”, in one of Ducktales 2017′s easily most heart pulling moments: the ending of the episode showing Scrooge truly alone once again. It’s also a nice refrence to Life and Times as at this point scrooge was just as miserable and alone according to Rosa’s masterwork, with the boys and Donald coming into his life being the thing that revitalized him. So let’s get on that shall we?  Scrooge is wallowing in his misery, having never had any fun according to himself and thinking maybe giving a present could be fun.. and decides on his Nephew as the one to give it to. But in typical Scrooge fashion instead of just giving his Grandson a gift, he’s going to have to earn it. He sends a letter to the Boys and Donald offering up his cabin, fully stocked with goodies and presents. A bit pricey for who Scrooge would become, and a bit odd to see him not complain.. but it still sets up his character as someone who wants people to WORK for what they get, but can genuinely get behind someone who shows good character, in this case he’s hoping, but Doubting, Donald will end up showing himself to be brave. And it’s STILL more plausible he’d buy luxury items to prove a point to himself, than it was in that one Ducktales comic I reviewed where he spent presumably millions to teach a ten year old a lesson about getting everything you want. Which yes really happened. 

Still not over that one, what the actual hell, let’s move on. Basically if Donald passes the test, he’ll get a real true present and if he doesn’t, well Scrooge will have fun anyway. It is easy to see the difference in character here: While parts that would later become bedrock, his code of honor and his wanting people to EARN things instead of just having them handed to them, as well as him sometimes being a huge dick about that are there, he comes off more as a golden age villain cackling in his lair than the awesome but flawed adventurer we’d all come to know and love. I mean while he’d be no less kind to the Boys and Donald about their poverty later, this time he’s especailly bad tempting them with a nice christmas they couldn’t afford and planning to scare the bejeezus out of them. But I do like seeeing where Scrooge came from, STARTING as a decrepit old bastard and transitioning into the adventurous old bastard we all know and love. I have come to realize I do have a soft spot for characters earlier appearances, seeing what changed, what was there all along, and what was tweaked. It can be a mixed bag: with Marvel for instance sometimes you get Spider-Man, who was starkly anti-social and on the verge of understandably lashing out at the world a LOT in the first few issues, and prone to issues you wouldn’t see in a superhero comic back then. Hulk started out much smarter, greyer and meaner, eventually leading to the Joe Fixit persona being created as a result of this decades later. 

On the other hand some examples are less enjoyable like Sue and Reed Richards, who back at the start were a sexist “panicky female” stereotype and a sexist mentally distant jackass, while Hank Pym and Wasp were again, a sexist mentally distant jackass, and another stereotype this time thinking almost entirely about fashion and boys. All four would go on to be MUCH better characters with age, with the occasional slip up. I bring this up because Scrooge... is still a good character even here. While he’d become even BETTER, he’s not bad at all here, just a bit different is all. 

Back at the plot Scrooge reveals his plan by scaring the shit out of his butler: To dress up as a bear, head up the mountain and scare his nephews to see if any of them have any bravery. While Donald whimpers over the thought of bears and we get an okay gag of him thinking a squireel was one, Scrooge is forced to turn around due to the weather and gives a villain monologue about never having given anyone nothing in his entire life. I swear to god he’s basically Mr. Burns in this one. 

Then again I would also FULLY expect Scrooge to do this to Donald in the barks stories, just maybe not have it be lethal. MAYBE. 

While Scrooge harumphs over his bad luck the boys and Donald enjoy a wonderful sleep. Despite Donald’s fear of bears, which the boys insist are hibernating, accurate, the boys force him to go out and get a Christmas tree by the age old tradition of whining until he does so. After going out back to find a tree to chop down Donald finds dead, ugly looking tree that’s weirdly heavy. To no one’s suprise, and to Donald’s natural luck, there’s a baby bear inside and as Donald gets a nice Christmas eve dinner ready for the boys, though after hearing some rustling he assumes a bear is present.. which it is. A baby bear. Awww. The little guy toddles around, and we get af ew pages of antics, with the boys chasing the bear, donald being a coward, and the bear getting into things and ending up on a rollerskate, which is referenced in life and times. However while the boys eventually find the baby.. it’s MOTHER, angry it’s cub is missing finds them and once Donald finds her, the four naturally hightale it out of there. The bears then eat all their food.. though the boys assume “there goes our presents”. Uh guys.. the presents aren’t gone you just don’t have them right this second. They aren’t showed destroying them or anything just leaning on them slightly. I mean the well stocked pantry and any candy in the presents are toast but there’s still a pretty sweet saxaphone there. Take a look. 

See the most their doing is likely wrinkling some clothes, at worst flattening that skateboard.. or whatever that  Mama Bear is sitting on. I mean I get in the larger sense they can’t get them because bears, but still. Once they pass out the boys send in Donald to get ripped apart by a bear.. er to tie up Mama Bear so they can get the house back, rightly pointing out that they’ll freeze to death anyways.. even though they you know have a car and could just leave. Then again knowing Donald’s luck i’td probably jsut lead to this. 

The boys aren’t slacking though and are going after the cub while Donald passes out in fear next to the bear. Scrooge arrives, but is spooked by the cub and is proud to see his young nephews valiantly chase the bebe, and is impressed by Donald’s seeming bravery, decides, after fleeing in terror which is funny. Not in line with what he’d become but STILL really funny. But anyways he decides to throw them a proper christmas as a reward.  So the next day and, thanks to Don Rosa one part of life and times later, we end on Christmas Day as for the first time in decades, Scrooge basks in the warm glow of family, and is happy probably for the first time in years. He gifts Donald a bear skin, he faints, haw haw haw the end. 

FINAL THOUGHTS: This story holds up extrodinarly well. While some aspects like Scrooge being generous or cowardly don’t jibe with his later character, it’s forgivable since, again, first appearance, and it’s an entertaining story. Granted his plan hasn’t aged well, but it’s still a fun Christmas set story with some good gags and an entertaining villian. While not Scrooge or Donald or Barks finest hour, it’s still a good bit of hollday fun that gave us one of the best characters of all time. And for that, ill be forever greatful.  If you liked this review, you can comission one of your own via my ask box, direct message or discord (technicolormuk#6550), if your more comfortable not doing buisness on here. UPCOMING REVIEWS TO KEEP AN EYE ON THIS SPACE FOR Loud House Coverage: Band Together/ The Other One Ducktales: The First Adventure! Ride of the Three Cablleros: The Three Cablleros Ride Again! 

Until then you can check my backlog on my various pages and remember, there’s always another rainbow. 

[bardapologist]

Do you play D&D? It seems like you do but I don’t want to assume. Do you always play a bard? How has that pressure played upon your nerves? Your drinking song is so beautiful and inspiring but do you ever have to play the somber soul?

I do play dnd! honestly, in the last few years, I’ve ended up DMing more often than not. but as a player, I like to play a wide variety of characters with a wide array of dispositions!

for example, Ted Carmichael, CPA - a stuttering elf that worked five decades in the public sector as a senior auditor for the coalition of governors before tendering a sudden resignation and joining the order of Kelemvor, exacting vengeance on perversions of the damned. his accolades include maintaining the fragile sanctity of life and death and also he graduated summa cum laude from Fantasy Northwestern with a BS in economics. the elven equivalent of a piece of paper fresh out of the printer. warm, will somehow stain your hands, there’s probably a spreadsheet on it

or there’s Cath - a bookish wizard with her library-toting donkey familiar. a terrible liar, no showmanship to speak of, inflexible opinions of morality, prone to arguments if she can’t see the logic in taking a risk - but a fiercely loyal, invaluable innovator. also we’re pretty sure the donkey is immortal

or if you want a modern verse, there’s Elan Rosengarten, a prolific criminal necromancer hiding from the local authorities by taking up residence as a camp counselor. is he always looking over his shoulder, waiting for the fbi to emerge from the woods and take him down? sure. is he penning letters to his rabbi during craft time to ask, karmically speaking, how much tzedakah it would take to offset a few minor incidents of involuntary manslaughter? its possible.  hobbies include practicing conditional immortality, canoeing, and encouraging infighting between cabin 6b and cabin 6c.

and then of course, my one true bard - Merric Hightale, here to look pretty and talk a big game, famous for his Weird Al-style parodies, somehow managing to work a gratuitous harmonica solo into every song, and reminding you he has a boyfriend. 

[iamanoldtrash]

So I drew Sans and Papyrus from Hightale! And some nightmares form FNAFHS!

[valtoiddd]

drew Diana from Hightale!

[httptom-boy]

Samuel~❀

[xlankaart-blog]

Ridan (Napstablook): He is so cute. <3

Character by: (c) Dariadubs

Art by: (c) Me.