#his Japanese name doesn't fit him at all imo

[arainmorn-art]

Looking at your excitment because of Gumshoe's appearance I've decided to practice drawing him in Deciphering's style now.

There're going to be scenes with him in the chapter, but okay, I'll add him in the earlier pages on the background because we love huge himbo puppies here and miss this one x)

...I will forget about his pencil next time I'll draw him. I've already forgot it.

[talkingbl]

GMMTV's Gen 2 problem

I am not impressed that GMMTV just commenced representation of BounPrem. Why? Because their priorities recently have looked a lot like this:

Gen 2 (or maybe stylized Gen Z? still thinking of a name for them...)

Pillars & Pillar-adjacents

Personalities (think Godji, Nicky, Jennie)

LYKN

Girls & Basement dwellers

Rookies

And I hate it.

IMO, Gen 2 is far too overexposed for the sheer lack of talent in their group. I mean out of all of them they only have, who? Fourth? JimmySea on a good day? And honestly, Gen 3 is already starting to debut in roles but they don't seem to get content that'll be widely received. And a lot of the potentially interesting stories (that inevitably get ruined by poor direction/writing) are being funneled to Gen 2 instead of elsewhere, where they belong... I don't mind JimmySea (and to a lesser extent GemFourth) getting good stuff but stop just allowing PondPhuwin, ForceBook, and JoongDunk to do whatever tf they want and start giving Gen 3 & basement dwellers something to do!

Pillars and pillar-adjacents are doing everything I want them to do (OffGun never unemployed, TayNew remarried, KristSingto look to be on the horizon). I mean, we do need to have a serious conversation about letting OffGun take a very long break...but that's a conversation for another time. Plus, GMMTV has turned around and given EarthMix a Japanese remake when they know they've been having problems with Japanese distributors...seems dumb to me.

The personalities will always be employed and, honestly, I rarely watch their content unless my faves are guesting. I like Jennie in a lot of the stuff she's been in. Plus, I feel like their content doesn't require too many resources, so I don't think it's a huge concern to have the personalities continue to stay booked.

But where things get interesting to me is how GMMTV seems to be pouring a lot into making Project Alpha guys into actors... Like P'Tha if you don't let those boys be tpop idols and stop shoving every remotely soft looking boy into a ship!! Nothing is worse than an "actor" who really wants to be a singer istg!!

And this leads me to another issue I have and that is how only like 5 out of: Mook, View, June, Jan, Ciize, Tu, Neen, Namtan, Pod, Thor, AJ, JJ, Luke, Sing, Pluem, Joss, etc., can get work at a time. Like I know they do het and ensemble stuff at times but it really feels like they don't get the stuff with the juicy marketing budgets.

Then there's the poor rookies. And I'm not talking new to the company like Sky and Inn. I'm talking about the ones who've been signed for at least a year now and only have, at most, support roles under their belts. These are the Javas and Indys of the world. Sometimes I forget they're even represented by GMMTV the way they haven't had a chance to showcase any talent.

And then there's all the new male talent who rightfully got lead roles basically immediately. Sky's in a homoerotic het drama with Nani. Inn and Great are practically having sex onscreen by GMMTV standards. Perth was basically assigned to a ship before he even signed with GMMTV... I have a feeling these guys will continue to get more and more roles thrown at them based on the success of their previous dramas, their acting skills, and the hype for their current/future ones dramas.

All this makes me wonder where on earth former Wabi Sabi artists fit in? As for Santa, I don't think we'll have to worry about him because I have a feeling he'll either be a basement dweller, get mostly het roles, or be paired with a LYKN member so he can finally breathe the same air as a functioning idol. Same with Yacht--except he'll almost certainly be sent to the basement for not having the GMMTV vibe (I'll explain on another post). But if GMMTV wants to cast BounPrem together, I feel like they'd have to carve out a space for them that they'd usually give to FirstKhao and pillar-adjacents like EarthMix. Maybe GMMTV can do that but it just doesn't seem like their bandwidth his large enough, nor their story selection good enough to do right by BounPrem. I hope I'm wrong but that would require GMMTV to care more about all of their artists rather than just Gen 2.

For Reference, when I say Gen 2, Pillars, Gen 3, Rookies, Basement Dwellers, these are the folks I'm talking about -

Pillars & Pillar-Adjacents:

TayNew OffGun KristSingto EarthMix Win

Gen 2 is anyone with a lightstick that participated in LOL that's not a pillar:

PondPhuwin JoongDunk GeminiFourth ForceBook JimmySea PerthChimon FirstKhao Ohm Pawat Nanon

Gen 3 is still forming but I'm including everyone who has appeared in multiple BLs but not in an established ship and joined the company within the last 3 years; everyone who just got their first ship and lead role; and everyone who recently joined the company who looks as if they're being prepared to star in a bl. NOTE: I'm not including Inn because I feel like he's more pillar-adjacent due to his age, his talent, and the fact that I don't think GreatInn will go on beyond Wandee Goodday.

Mark Pakin Ohm Thipakorn AouBoom SeaKeen WinnySatang LYKN (particularly Lego & William) Java Ryu Chokun Fluke Aungpao

Basement Dwellers include folks who have been at the company for 3+ years who have either been apart of several BL ships or who have mentioned wanting to star in a BL or who get fancasted in lead roles but never get the work:

Pod Guy Gawin* Joss* Luke Drake AJ JJ

[mshexley]

Question this is going back to the whole Giselle debate on bleach.

But how do you think how Kubo handles his lgbtq and trans coded character? Are they good or they could be be improved. I have been seeing mix reactions saying Kubo is anti lgbtq and transphobic because his characters. But to me I think he handle them pretty well. I can see how people can say why since how he handle Giselle and Charlotte but then you have characters like Soi fon, Chizuru, and Yumichika yes they don't get much spotlight authentic rest of the cast but in some ways they all have good personality

Personally, I feel like it usually depends on a person's experience. I also like to add the disclaimer that I'm not trans or Japanese, so take my stance with a grain of salt. I also want to make it clear that I'm not making excuses for him.

TLDR: He wants to clearly add more queer characters to his work but he doesn't seem to know anything about queer culture even in Japan which is where you would assume he gets most of his inspiration but he seems to take his knowledge from a very pop-culture view of queer people.

I don't think it's out of malice but he can definitely improve by putting in the research work especially if there's going to be another Bleach arc and especially for any added arcs of Burn The Witch and he wants to add more queer characters.

(The longer version is under the cut)

But in general, I feel Kubo has the same approach to writing queer characters in the way that early Togashi (HxH, Yu Yu Hakusho) did. In that way where he's trying but it's....just not good. It just reads that way to me.

And it very much paints the picture that Kubo wants to add queer characters to his stories because they tend to fit the themes of his works but he is not around a lot of queer folks and doesn't know much about the culture and what he does know is formed from a sort of pop-culture understanding of Japanese LGBT+ culture and when mixed with Japan's own queerphobia, it just doesn't mix well.

And its funny to bring up Soi Fon and Chizuru because I think they're a clear example of this as both fall into the "predatory lesbian" trope. Chizuru with Orihime and Soi Fon with Yoruichi. When Kubo writes well, he writes WELL but when he flops, HE FLOPS and he tends to drop the ball with a lot of characters. The only thing we know about Chizuru is that inappropriately touches Orihime a lot and the only thing we know about Soi Fon is that she's hardheaded and has been obsessed with Yoruichi since she was a child. And I can.....sort of give it a pass cause it was the early 2000s and...dear god those years were the worst.

In the cases of Yumichika and Charlotte, it feels like they can be read as deep but the whether it's intentional or not is up for debate just because of Kubo's track record. Like Yumichika and Charlotte are the best queer characters he's written because of how they both can be read. And again, there's no telling if that's intentional or not and that's what holds him back.

I already touched on Yumichika as a closeted gay man who lashes out on other queer people and I think the biggest issue is that there isn't a much clearer emphasis on Yumichika being the one in the wrong because Kubo has no issue with named characters getting told off for being wrong, especially when they're being backwards and narrow-minded. IMO, I think a small clapback of Giselle saying "you smell semen often" would've been way more relatable in terms of queer insulting and I feel like it would've put them on even ground somewhat but again, Kubo wouldn't know that because he doesn't know much about the cultures of queer people.

Charlotte gives strong drag queen vibes for me. Like compared to the drag queens I watch, Charlotte feels very much like them and everything about her personality is a campy bit right down to her super long attack names.

I also see some folks not want to claim Giselle which is their prerogative but it sets the precedent that queer people have to fit a certain mold in order to be queer and I feel like it's unfair to Giselle as a character because she's the not the only character that is morally bad. Mayuri exists and he shows no remorse for constantly abusing Nemu and takes pride in his experiments on other species like Uryu's grandfather and the Arrancar, Szayelaporro exists and he was so bad he went to Hell, there's also Nnoitora who actively attacks Nel because she was a woman ranked higher than him. Even among the Quincies, there's Quilge Opie who takes pleasure in ruthlessly murdering Arrancar prisoners and PePe who's power is to literally force people to "love" him, even using it on other Quincies.

I would understand if Giselle was isolated in that type of personality but the reason people "aren't talking about it" is because it comes with the food at this point. The Sternritters are literally modeled after Nazis (the guy that leads them literally built his power by killing the "mixed blooded Quincy), most of them are gonna have personalities that people may find deplorable.

In general, if Kubo wants to commit to it, he should put in the work and learn more about Queer culture because there are different implications when you write queer characters a certain way. Because I feel like with his style of writing, he can make it work.

[sepyana]

Jjba Diamond is Unbreakable Ep. 8-16 Thoughts

Ep. 8-9

Yukako has so many issues god bless

I've taken a liking to her design. Her color scheme goes together well, her hair has a lot of character and I do like the rose emblem on her outfit.

Her stand, Love Deluxe, plays the prehensile hair trope straight, other than her ability to control her hair even when it is not attached to her scalp. I like the name but I find this type of stand boring to be honest.

I'm not really interested in Yukako as a character, unless she gets something more later on. The funniest thing they can do is pair her and Koichi together. "Me and my girl don't argue, she tells me to shup up and I do" and such.

Josuke and Okuyasu were nice this episode. We learn that Crazy Diamond can't bring back anything The Hand deletes. Just goes to show how opposite their powers are.

Koichi is not really my cup of tea. I appreciate him being part of the group but solo episodes with him don't really interest me. Plus his voice is incredibly grating in both sub and dub. It's interesting that he set up that rock so that Yukako wouldn't die, you gotta be really confident that you'll win if you are worrying about the safety of your opponent.

Hey, Koichi with the new hair kinda looks like... No I shan't say it.

Let's talk about Echoes. My boy. My lil man. Look at his lil smile :) My favourite stand from part 4 so far. It seems to emote on its own sometimes, like Star Platinum who smiles every time it gets a chance to beat someone up. I like it when stands emote on their own. The fanworks do this a lot but jjba itself rarely does it. Which is a shame.

Ep. 10

This is just 20 minutes of Okuyasu having nice things happen to him and I think that's just great. If I had so say my one gripe (and be a killjoy), it would be that it doesn't tell us much about Okuyasu and Josuke that we don't already know. The best thing about filler is that it gives us characterization and I don't think this episode has enough of that.

Okuyasu and Josuke fighting reminded me of the Death 13 episode except Polnareff was infinitely more stubborn

Also this is a great time to just give the VAs the biggest shout out cuz wow I love them. Especially Okuyasu I love the way he says Josuke. It brings me joy. They are perfect fits for the characters they are playing. I can hear Tonio's accent but I know fuck all about Japanese so It might be horrible, not my problem tho.

Ep 11 - 12

I think Tomoko is one of my favourite female Jojo characters so far. The bar is on the ground, but, you know. Take what you can get.

I don't get why they added that scene with Josuke at the start. It doesn't really add anything.

I think the funniest thing in episode 11 is Koichi and Okuyasu just going through it and the Jojos not giving a shit. I hate the Joestars so much it's unreal. It did struck me as a bit weird. It's not at all weird for Jotaro (Have you seen the stardust crusaders? They told Polnareff they lied about Avdol's death to him and then they had the audacity to go "I didn't think you'd be this hurt"), It does feel a bit off for Josuke though.

Jotaro smiling as he says Jospeh could die is amazing. Of course he would.

I didn't think about what Red Hor Chili Pepper's stand user would look like but I am definitely not dissapointed in Akira. Personality wise he is insanely boring but I do like his design.

Okuyasu looking at his own hand as he thanks Koichi was a nice touch.

I like how they handled Joseph. Obviously Josuke is not gonna be amazed to see him but It wouldn't go with his personality if he was antagonistic either.

Ep 13

I don't like how different the japanese VA of Joseph sounds when he is yelling. English VA doesn't have this issue but it's also was the weakest of the sdc cast imo. No winning with this one.

Ep 14 - 15

The first episode is just set up. It does that job pretty well though. Really makes Rohan seem insane. I mean, he *is*.

Rohan relating everything to art and writing isn't even that off from how most artists think tbh. Writers will see a documentary about the most disturbing shit they have ever seen and they will go "That will make my writing about this part more accurate".

And Rohan'a advice is actually pretty good. Like, draw with references. Draw from reality. Base your characters on people who you know, instead of like, just taking from your favourite artisans. Anyways,

Rohan's stand is called the Heaven's Door. Firstly, It's a really cute stand. Secondly, this thing is busted. It'd be one thing if looking at a draft was the only way for it to work but touching you with his stand also works. And he can knock someone unconcious when unfurling them. Add on that the insane speed he has for no reason and honestly we should just be glad this guy isn't a villain. He is just weird and offputting.

I fucking love episode 15. The pay off is amazing. I love that Okuyasu and Josuke notice something small like a cut on his hand and immediately help him. I love that Rohan opens Josuke's eyes by insulting his hair. And then he just. keeps. going.

Josuke being literary so blinded by rage that he doesn't see the draft? Amazing. He absolutely destroyed that place. And threw a fucking chair at Okuyasu and Koichi. This show is pretty funny when it wants to be.

The story of his hair was really sweet. The guy helping them seems to be a student like the current day Josuke too.

Ep 16

The art style for this episode looks different from normal and I have no idea why. The style is ussually pretty consistent. You can see the gums in their teeth it's strange.

Jotaro gets a slight outfit change. I like the colors and the tilted belts. I'm not sure on the new jacket. I liked that they used the collar of his shirt to give the same vibe as his part 3 outfit insead of just giving him a jacket exactly like his old one. His new jacket is a bit dissapointing. I like dolphins. I'm not sure what they were trying to do with the triangle and the sun. Overall, I like the older one just a bit more. I would love it if he kept changing outfits like this tho.

It's something that Jotaro can't seem to seperate Star Platinum's time stop ability from Dio. Like, that's Star Platinum's power.

As funny as seeing Jotaro get his ass beat by a Twitch looking ass rat is, It's also shows what I like about stands. I know Jotaro is holding back here, but that doesn't change the fact that this is a bad machup for him. So you don't need to nerf him in ordert to create conflict. Stands are good against combatting power creep, is what I'm saying.

Love Crazy Diamond popping up out of nowhere just to look sad. Don't look at me with them big ol' eyes.

Ep. 17

I think one thing part 4 is good at is the character dynamics. Rohan and Koichi was fun to watch. Rohan grinning at Koichi getting flustered was great. Reimi being really friendly with Rohan cuz she knew him when he was a kid is a nice bit of writing.

I made a joke post about where Kak went after death, a few people mentioned how ghosts were real and he could be like Reimi. Now I know what they are talking about.

Reimi has a nice design. Especially the choker with the hands holding on it. Speaking of hands

I know I shouldn't be laughing at the guy whose only trait so far is that he kills young girls to date their hands to satisfy his stupid fetish or something but

what even is that music. Why did they make it like that.

To close this off, I am currently on vacation with little internet access. It's a rural area so there isn't much to do. I've been spending my time writing these, slowly. Gonna take a hot minute to finish this part.

I've been also wondering if I should watch Stone Ocean before Golden Wind and get the Jotaro story over with. I'll decide that later, I dunno.

[spokelseskladden]

Hullo, dropping by to my norwegian mutual bcus I'm in need of some expertise; I'm planning on changing one of my characters from japanese to norwegian once I get to his revamp (tryna lessen the excessive manga inspiration with my characters lol) and I am in need for suggestions for good male norwegian names for him. I gathered up some options, but wanted to ask you for ideas too :D

He's a countryside himbo who loves to cook, fish, likes penguins and would love to see them in nature someday, and carves wooden animals and paints them. Also his bf is a japanese witchboy from alternate world (Konjou, tho he goes by Clover now due to story reasons. Idk if you remember my Thorn Boy, im talking about his BF Jinchou lol)

He's basically the 'Just Some Guy' of this story, where majority of others are some mythical beings. I always felt that was his true calling over the overdramatic stuff his old story has lol

So yeah, any suggestions would be helpful if you got any!

......or maybe I'll.....just steal your name 👀

Omg I'm so passionate about names you have no idea, this is so exciting! When it comes to Norwegian guy names a safe bet will always be a biblical name (think David, Simon, Thomas, Jonas, Daniel, Isaac, Jacob etc.), It's a guarantee that it'll be a believable "just some guy" name, but it also doesn't stand out that much as specifically Norwegian lol.

When it comes to the actual norse names (and norwegian forms of latin or greek names for that matter) there's a fine line between grandpa, 18th century priest, and what a normal dude in his 20s would be called. I think the line differs a bit from person to person, but usually the modern forms of the mythological names work well! Like Odin, Brage, Brede, Sindre, Trym, Sigmund and Sigurd are names of the top of my head stand out a bit, but would also fit a "just some guy" type as well haha. Tor is an old guy name in my head tho, not that it wouldn't work but I'd like to point out how weird it is that Odin isn't an old guy name? I know like three people my age named Odin (one of them had a friend named Ravn of all things). Loke is a horse name. Don't pick Loke.

Other than that we have Håvard, Øyvind/Eivind, and Espen (Espen Askeladd is the main character in pretty much every Norwegian fairytale btw, he's the guy who's not really special or anything but he comes out on top due to his wits and smarts so that's a pretty good one imo). I could obviously just continue with every name ever from here, but honestly I think it'll work no matter what you land on in the end!

I'm a bit patriotic rn cause yknow, 17. May and all lol, but I think the ones I've listed are pretty good, I'd especially say the more norse ones fit very well if the character's an outdoorsy type. That being said, Emil is a great name! The perfect "just some guy" name, I'd totally understand if you choose it cause it's a really great one that only the smartest and coolest people pick😌

[demonsfate]

me: wikia you don't write kuai anymore and this isn't his blog don't -

me: ANYWAY HERE'S SOME SPOILERS-

LIKE. It's not that I'm particularly disappointed in his depiction in this. He was still fine in the story (haven't seen his character ending, though) and I'm all for changing up the story to not be repetitive - especially if it's in a reboot. But... there are just some things in the story which didn't make sense for me. Why does Kuai even have fire powers? Is this explained in his towers? Since the reason Bi-Han has ice powers is because he's a certain race of Edenia, "cryomancer." Therefore, he has the power of ice simply because he's inhuman. Kuai being Bi-Han's brother, is also an Edenian cryomancer. So, why would they possess two different abilities? It's true Liu gave Raiden a medallion to use lightning abilities... it could be possible he did the same for Kuai with a fire one. Buuut... that wasn't explained nor showed.

Also Kuai being the one to create the Shirai Ryu just feels off. 1) Kuai, even in this game, highly respects what the Lin Kuei was, or could be. He always wanted to honor their code, and (if has to) fix their corrupted image. Even in this game... it feels weird for him to create a completely new clan rather than challenging his brother for the Grandmaster title. 2)... Kuai's also Chinese. The person who created the Shirai Ryu may have been a part of the Lin Kuei originally, but he was still Japanese. (He may have been the previous Scorpion, Hanzo Hasashi's relative but it's been a while so I don't remember that detail) Hence, why the Shirai Ryu was based in Japan, and well... has a Japanese name. Kuai just coming up with this out of the blue also feels very random, and doesn't make much sense for him imo.

Also finally... him using fire powers just doesn't match Kuai much imo. You see, Bi-Han having ice powers despite being a more aggressive person still made sense, because you could say it represents his cold heart and how merciless he is. Kuai having ice powers matches his "cool exterior" and how he's usually a levelheaded man. Hanzo was more of a hothead (LOL) with a bad temper, hence why his fire powers fit his character (and also makes him contrast Kuai well) It's just really weird hearing Kuai go "GET OVER HERE" in that loud voice. Like in cutscenes, he feels like Kuai... but when fighting, he still feels more like Hanzo.

Also. Where is Hanzo, anyway? It's weird that Liu made a place for all the Worst Baddies, but Hanzo is absent. Maybe he's living a mundane life with his wife and kid? But maybe that will be figured out once I complete more towers, or in the next game.

Anyway, again. I don't mind differences for the sake of being new. But making Kuai Scorpion just... felt like something they did for the sake of being "surprising" and "different" without putting much actual thought into it. Just to have Scorpion and Sub-Zero be brothers.

edit: okay they did explain it in the kharacter ending but it's because he met with harumi. and then they fell in love and got married. and it's just. ugh. that's just hanzo's story. don't give him harumi as a wiiiife. stop that. stop thaaaaaaat. they are both very different characters. stop it netherrealm. bad netherrealm.

[bunny-hoodlum]

I haven’t checked your starfairy ffnet account in awhile, I don’t quite remember if that was the name either. anyway I vaguely remember two fics of yours that weren’t on ao3… one was like…mmm … Hinata and Naruto talk at his apartment about her confession…? Something like that. And the second one was a modern au incomplete multi-chapter where Naruto and co. go to a hotel together, but Naruto is still in love with Sakura, and Hinata’s a melancholy baby in love with Naruto, and Sakura is SO irritated with Naruto, kinda like no one likes him and Hinata’s the only one who can stand him.

You were saying that only 1 fic isn’t on your ao3?

Ohhh I forgot about those. 😅 That second one used to be on my Ao3 but I didn't want to keep it up. (Actually sounds like maybe you mashed two diff fics together haha). I now do recall the College AU where the girls road tripped to visit the boys at their shared apartment. I could still pick that up again in the future. The 'fake dating except Hinata doesn't know it's fake' plot is still interesting to me. As for the first one, I'm not wild about it, either. 😅 That's why I never crossposted it. Not to imply that anything has changed, but I swear back in 2012 I was told that Ao3 was for high quality fics only, but that must've just been an acquired reputation or something. 🤔

The 'Naruto still likes Sakura, Hinata is a melancholic baby in love and there's a hotel', that's the Modern AU longfic that shall not be named but has 39 chapters that kept getting increasingly longer and angstier.

I still hold some fondness and curiosity about the latest arc that I didn't get to complete, just cuz it's also the furthest away from all the parts that are awful imo. So that's why I looked at it again, or tried to. But just when I thought Chapters 16 or 18 were safe from cringe, they weren't. 😱

My 16yo attempts at drip-feeding Japanese culture (not just pop culture at the time) and social commentary like youth suicides, 'Exam Hell', etc into the plot were just awfully executed. Okay, not even awfully executed. Like, fundamentally it's just bad. There's a chapter I named 'filial piety sucks!' and I'm just like ???????. I get that the Coming-of-Age theme I was going with was Modernity vs Tradition but omigod does it reek of Westernization or... smthn to that affect. I'm unsure if there's an exact term that better fits, but you get the idea? So that's my greatest shame. 🫥 The voice of the early parts is plain awful and not worth preserving. (Idc that this was 2006-2008 and I only had so much information to work with, it cannot be forgiven).

The latter parts are like... I would cherry-pick them if I could, but I'm too scared. 😩 I know exactly which parts but ughhhh!! I have to skim so much cringe. And even then, I'd prolly just repurpose them individually into other things. Or reboot the whole ass thing with no Harajuku, no Goth-loli... 😮‍💨 Yeah. 😅 But tbh, Idk what the ending was supposed to be. 'Earn Your Happy Ending', yes, but... It feels like the story was just a progression of muses, it had no real point to it. 🫣

[pervertedkitty]

Rid 2001 review

just plowed through it while working on something a little tedious

overall impression is it's better then Armada (as far as i can tell as i haven't finished it yet) , it doesn't have plot holes big enough to fit metroplex several times over through for one but that may be because they didn't try too hard to explain all the details and such, the plot is pretty simple as far as it's presented but considering the target audience it's fine, at least it's not an insultingly dumb mess.

I will say the robots in disguise name makes 0 seance since their car modes (almost) never help them hide form the cons and they are not hiding form the human population (the Japanese name makes way more seance even if it's not very exiting) so what the hell is the disguise part for???

Overall the quality seems a bit better animation wise the Armada and the characters are actually at least amusing if not likeable. The kid character(s) don't feel forced in for absolutely no reason and when they do get involved it usually has plot relevance ?!?!? what sorcery! and if not it's juts a little cut away. The autobots actually try to keep Koji out of danger instead of just tossing im' in because why not? I can't say i liked koji but i didn't hate him!

I even rather enjoyed the running gag with Kelly (never named in the show, i had to resort to the TF wiki for her name) i think she could have had a slightly bigger role in the show since apparently she drives x-brawn (???) while still keeping the gag intact like maybe she doesn't want to get involved but it happens anyway.

side burns obsession with red cars is unhealthy (as the predacons correctly pointed out that he's a pathetic looser when they managed to catfish him when megarton took on a red sports car alt (?!??!) an experience side burn didn't learn anything from ) and i found him kind of annoying at first but he makes a good foil for prowl who otherwise would have been pretty boring and other characters acknowledge that his behavior is annoying and irresponsible so i think it goes a long way in making him more palatable

Optimus being a fire engine was nice and so was the addition of Ultra magnus as (spoiler)

also got to learn who the legendary rail-spike is lmao i actually liked his old timer charm! and the train bots in general were fun even if strictly speaking their alt mode seems pretty limited...

Sky-byte definitely steals the show he is like the 'evil' riptide, i would even say the two share a single brain cell but one of them traded it for a corn chip and they haven't seen it since

overall if you want epic plot, thorough character studies and deep lore this is not the place but if you want something mildly amusing in the background while you work on something definitely worth a watch imo

[icharchivist]

The Paa-san Paa-shi discourse is similar to how Lucio calls Sandalphon San-chan, but Belial calls him Sandy, but both are the same in English, even though, like with Percy, one just annoys him while the other one would probably make him throttle you if you called him that

Yeah pretty much the exact same issue.

I know they can't really go around that as long as they decide to translate the nicknames, but those two in particulars are unnerving.

Paasan and Paashi annoys me a lot as a Paa fan, mostly because by having both nickname translated Percy it really loses how personal Paashi is and that Percival isn't like, just giving a pass to his family (though he is) but also just that the nicknames are very different. Like, when Vane first calls him Paasan Percival blows up bc "what sort of stupid thing did you do to my name" which doesn't really track if it was the same nickname as the name his family lovingly give him (though he would still be mad at Vane calling him that, he just wouldn't be this offended by it) but yeah ultimately to me it's when Belial started to use it that i got upset the difference didn't exist in English, because there's miles between calling someone a nickname everyone call shim as, and specifically crossing bondaries that only belongs to his family yaknow? esp since in the fight, the line he calls him Paashi in is "The perfect kingdom? Don't make me laugh. You should be thankful, Percy. I've saved you from heartbreak, and a long search with no happy ending.". Which is especially making fun of Percival on the promise he made his mother, so rubbing it with the nickname his mother used on him is another level of vile yaknow?

Sandalphon's situation is similar, though it has less of a double reading of "it's because one nickname is okay for people who matters to him", he hates both nickname, but both do serve a different purpose yeah. Sanchan is much more affectionate, which makes the fact it's Lucio doing that to be just very annoying for Sandalphon, and Sandy is just shortening his name*. But it does kinda stop at it being two equally as annoying nicknames. I do think it would have been better to make them different though, if only so no one would think Lucio reminds Sandalphon of Belial or vice versa. Letting Lucio being hated on for his own merits yaknow?

* (though i have an overreading for this one, over the fact that all the angels have a name ending in "Eru" (or "aru" for Belial), including Lucifer (bc his name is an alternative pronontiation on Lucifer, Lucilius's name is the official pronountiation of Lucifer, as rushifaa), and "eru" being the Japanese pronontiation of the suffix "el", which, in Hebrew, is originally the suffix to say "of God". All of the "eru" angels are angels who answers directly to Lucilius, so they're "of their own God". Meanwhile the two angels who don't fit this patern, Sandalphon and Metatron, are two angels defined by their loyalty to Lucifer and being outsiders to the rest of the angels Lucilius originally planned to use. So an argument could be made that the suffix "on" there is representing a distance from Lucilius and their loyalty to Lucifer in a sense. With that overreading in mind you can read Belial's nickname as a way of stripping Sandalphon from Lucifer's connection. Albeit, he calls every angels a shortened version that cuts the "el" too, so something something Belial removing them from belonging to Lucilius as well so he can be Lucilius' one and only and/or to "give them back their own freedom". This was the overreading corner which was probably not intended by canon but it's not like anything disproves it so, like, have fun with this one?)

so yeah this is kind of a shame how some of the nicknames really lose their nuances due to the translations. I'll never forgive the Paashi one but i'm a Paa fucker, i overthink everything, so. well.

but yeah it's the type of things you might miss unless you catch it by ear, which can be a bit sad imo. alas...

[obsessing-over-fictionn]

pt. four(and final) of things i gathered from reading nora's extra content :

parts one, two, three

[tws: guns, shooting]

- if kevin were ever to make out with any of the foxes, it would be allison because a) she's gorgeous and b) there would be no strings attached

- "(I was super proud of myself for making Kevin like pineapples because I am not a fan of them and I was like YES NORA THINK OUTSIDE THE COMFORT ZONE)" - nora about kevin liking pineapples

- kevin's best memory that isn't exy related is finding kayleigh's letter and discovering who his father is

- seth could sing! he was a tenor

- seth doesn't hit woman unless it's on the court

- aaron has the second-best grades on the team after kevin

- nicky never reconciles with his family after drake

- and rightfully so luther can die

- neil was matt's best man at his wedding :')

- thea and kevin got married and had a child who got along well with 'grandpa wymack'

- as cute as that is, ew bc imo kev and thea are not it

- but anyway

- jean and renee attempted long distance dating but it didn't work out

- definitely because jean and jeremy are meant to be(this is my opinion tho so)

- renee is the only one of the foxes to marry without the other foxes in attendance, but only because she met someone who worked with her and they couldn't take enough time off of their job to have a wedding and the place that they were didn't take well to visitors

- jean was originally going to commit suicide to alert and bring attention to the abuse faced in the nest but it was changed in the last draft

- neil only ever places one bet the entirety of his time at palmetto state

- aaron proposes to katelyn before starting his fifth year, and they marry soon after graduation

- after graduation allison becomes a fashion designer

- allison had two kids, one son and one trans daughter ! she was fiercely supportive and god i love her

- allison's son develops a crush on kevin's kid💀

- matt proposed to dan on the morning of his graduation ceremony

- later on in the pros, andrew would punch their coach after they let an injured neil onto the court for a sub

- between andrew and neil, andrew is better with babies

- the only reason why robin cross, the freshman goalie that is recruited andrew's senior year, was approached was because andrew specifically asked for her

- if you want to know more about robin(her story is actually pretty messed up), here's the link

- when robin is incepted into the cousin's family, she moves into their dorm

- but because there are only four beds, andrew gives her his and shares with neil

- andrew gives robin his and renee's knives when he graduates

- originally, kevin and riko were dating but they broke up because riko cheated on him with jean, though riko and jean went by different names

- in that draft jean actually broke kevin's hand instead

- riko had capital i Issues

- like we already knew that but still

- "Did you know that from day 1 of All for the Game, when it was a shoddy little comic taking place in a Japanese high school, up until the second-to-last draft, they were lovers? The main drama in the first comic was that Riko had cheated on Kevin with Jean, and Kevin stormed off in a heartbroken fit, and Riko was trying to win him back before Kevin & Neil fell in love together." - nora about kevin and riko

- riko broke kevin's hand by stomping on it

- there was a draft where riko shot both neil and kevin, though neil was the only one to survive

- after jean moves to the trojans, kevin tells jeremy that jean can't go anywhere alone due to being so used too the raven's way of living and functioning

- i take this as confirmation that jeremy and jean get really close and they bond and fall in love and-

- when kayleigh and wymack were a thing, they were in an open relationship because kayleigh didn't have time for monogamy

- it's also helped to disguise kevin's parentage

- "Wymack was definitely sweeter on her than she was on him, and it killed him a little that he couldn’t win her over, but he respected her wishes and never pushed her for more than what she wanted to give him. He did a lot of drinking on the nights she was out with her other lovers, though. His head understood why it was better this way–she had dreams, and he had dreams, and they would spend most of their lives apart because of the paths they needed to walk even if they were each other’s one & only–but it took his heart a couple years to catch on." - nora about wymack and kayleigh's relationship

- half of the canon drafts of tfc ended with kevin dying

- nora says that kevin's straight but no he isn't

- nora's aro-ace !!

- say kandreil(kev, neil, and andrew) had still been a thing. if kevin had died, andrew and neil would have had a massive falling out and the resulting events would result in neil leaving abruptly, taking his money and contacts with him and leaving without warning

- the loss of both neil and kevin so close together sent andrew further into a spiral of self-destruction. he was on the edge when neil finally returned, but it took a long, long time for their relationship to be eveb halfway mended

- nora sakavic is actually a pseudonym !

- tfc was born from the most epic of thoughts: 'i want to write a comic about gay athletes'

- abby and wymack never get married but they do move in together during neil's fifth year

- they grow old and are eventually buried together