#i do have ideas but like... not enough motivation ? or i just plainly dont know how to draw em

[s7arcr0sser]

i might be... in the mood for... art trade or something... i dunno

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[drink-n-watch]

Welcome back one and all. I think there are still a few people watching this series. It’s one of those tricky shows where it keeps looking like i might be going somewhere interesting so you never know if you should drop it. Perfect solution for you guys, you can just let Shania and I do the watching for you! Genius isn’t it? You’re welcome.

Yup, genius indeed. That way yall dont have to worry about losing brain cells through boredom!

but I love my brain cells

You know, I realized when the episode started that I had pretty much forgotten everything about last week’s BoogiePop. There were some um..people and they did um stuff??? I seems reliable glasses girl realized that the brain controlled emotionally scarred cousin was acting loopy so she went to talk to creepy art teacher about it – AKA The Imaginator!

This seen was basically just two people monologuing at each other while trying to expo dump enough info for the plot to make sense. It didn’t really work for me – how about you Shania? Learn anything new?

Uhh…I wish I could say I did Irina, but the most I got out of that scene was Glasses girl has only a stem in her, and the Imaginator is more psychotic than I initially thought. I mean sacrificing a girl for his spine goals? Yeesh.

yes? what was it? tell me!

The second part of the episode brought back who I assume is fan favorite Nagi as well as her brother. Actually, the brother is initially being targeted by the *Organization* in what I assume is a ploy to lure out the real BoogiePop. The plan seems to be to murder him then display the body claiming the death of BoogiePop and confront the real one when they come to investigate.

Unfortunately for the would be killers, it seems both siblings are some sort of super ninjas because reasons! I did enjoy those fighting scenes though. What did you think of the animation?

In all honesty I loved the fight scene. Sad to say that was probably the only interesting thing I’ve seen in the whole anime thus far.

those hands are funny

In the meantime, the Imaginator has taken matters into his own hands and gone to confront Spooky E directly. We finally get so substantial exposition here as character motivation is shared with the audience for the first time. Are you enjoying this more direct approach?

Definitely. Especially after my turn last week, I got a very enlightening comment from a reader @fred who told me about who the Towa Organization was back in the original Boogiepop series. It made everything that happened in this episode actually make sense!

really?

Glad to hear it. Personally, the odd narrative structure was interesting and original so I’ll miss it. Although it might make a return, it’s hard to tell with this show.

One of the aspects that always bothered me about the show is how shaky or non existent everyone’s motivations are. Half the time I have no idea why people are acting this way. I clearer reveal of the Imaginators powers and this idea that he wishes to remake the world in order to allow people to connect on a much deeper level, thereby alleviating a lot of loneliness and pain, really helped bring the story together in my mind. Am I the only one?

Nah you’re not alone with that. It helped a bit on my end as well.

the details are still pretty shaky

Of course it’s far from perfect.  Still have no clue why the boy was risking his life playing vigilante in BoogiePop cosplay, beyond the fact that a girl he knew for a week asked him to. The Organization remains just as stale as always although the death of Spooky E may prompt a more interesting representative.  Oh, I meant to say: SPOILERS. And 90% of the characters are still single trait plot devices but hey…at least there’s an idea of a story behind it all.

I was excusing a lot of these failings on the very unusual narrative structure but unless I’m mistaken, then plot has been plainly linear for a few episodes now, right?

It really has. Which even though is nice from when it first started, it feels like it’s kinda lacking something.

a character with a personality?

I hope this means they are going to dedicate themselves to bringing the plot threads together.

What are our thoughts for the future of the series?

My last thoughts are: I really hope this Imaginator arc has a purpose. Because else wise, we were better off with the manticore and Echoes. And thats saying something.

Shania wants purpose! I’ll settle for conclusion. Low expectations have always served me well!

Although we have doubts about the substance of BoogiePop, it can be visually intriguing. Here are some caps to make my point.

Boogiepop and Shania and Irina ep 8 – Well look at that: “plot” Welcome back one and all. I think there are still a few people watching this series. It’s one of those tricky shows where it keeps looking like i might be going somewhere interesting so you never know if you should drop it.

[ethelbertpaul444-blog]

Condom snorting? Eating Tide Pods? Dont believe the viral hype around teen trends.

As the parent of two teens, a recent headline caught my look: “The strong >‘ condom snorting invite ’ is every parent ’ s worst nightmare.” Oh, good gracious , em> I supposed. What fresh stupidity are teenages into now ? em> I perused the article( just one of many ), which items a “viral craze” on social media in which teenages share videos of themselves sucking an unwrapped condom up through their nose and attracting it out of their cavity. Yes, it’s laughable. Yes, it’s dangerous. But no, it’s not the large-scale new thought teenages are doing across the country. According to Snopes , most of the videos being shown in media reports on the “craze” are from years ago, when snorting condoms was various kinds of a fad — one that never certainly became widespread and petered out pretty quickly. This video from ThinkTank discussed the challenge in 2013 TAGEND So apparently, my “worst nightmare” as a parent was sort of a act for a short while a assortment of years ago and has now somehow gained new life through the media. Mmkay. News outlets and social media like to run “ look at this ridiculous teen infatuation ” narratives, but such narrations don’t accurately constitute the majority of teenagers. Earlier this year, the Tide Pod Challenge was all over the word. The floor was that teens were taking to social media with videos of themselves deeming a Tide detergent pod in their cavities. Cue the gagging, puking, poison — and in some cases — hospitalization. Yay, progression ! em> Stories of current challenges moved widely, eliciting Tide to release a request not to feed their detergent cod and Youtube and Facebook to boycott videos of parties engaging in current challenges. What should Tide PODs be used for? DOING LAUNDRY. Nothing else. Eating a Tide POD is a BAD IDEA, and we questioned our friend @robgronkowski to help explain. pic.twitter.com/ 0JnFdhnsWZ — Tide (@ ebb) January 12, 2018 The narratives likewise resulted in The People of the Internet manufacturing Tide Pod jokes on every legend about young person and dismissing anything teenages said about anything. Sigh . em> Yes, some teens certainly were chewing Tide Pods. Yes, it’s reckless and dangerous. But no, the vast majority of teens weren’t — and aren’t — that foolish. When you do the math, it’s clear that these so-called cults are typically simply a small number of babies enlarged on the internet. According to the Association for Poison Control, there were 86 incidents of intentional ingestion of laundry cleanser pods by teenages in the first three weeks of 2018. That’s a sharp increase from the year before, but still scarcely an epidemic. Let’s do some speedy math. There are more than 42 million youngstersin the United States. If 86 out of 42 million purposely “ate” a Tide pod, that intends nearly 0.0002% of American adolescents did it. Even if 10 days that many actually tried it and didn’t come poisoned enough to stimulate government officials register, that they are able to still merely be 0.002% — that’s two thousandths of a percent . em> While assimilating laundry cleanser is clearly a bad thought, this does not appear to me to be a universal wont among teens — or even a moderately common one. The contrast in the way teenages are evoked in the news in 2018 is striking. The teenages who’ve experienced artillery violence and are channeling their powers into communal activity have gotten a lot of press. And they should. What they’re doing is superb, even if you disagree with their word. They’ve planned thousands, galvanized a movement , and effected real legislative change. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Images. Those teenages do not believe that this is gobbling Tide pods and snorting condoms through their noses in their free time. And those young people bring a much closer similarity to most of the teenagers I know and are all aware of than the handful of teens I’ve seen in these “viral” challenge videos. I feel teens are breathtaking. The ones I know are smart and principled. They know how to have fun and be silly without being risky or ludicrous. They care deeply about societal issues and are motivated to start the world a better place. The teens in “peoples lives” aren’t excellent, but they’re likewise not assimilating soap or pulling contraceptives through their nasal holes. Photo by Michael Paul/ Flickr. Viral “ crazes ” compile immense headlines, but they don’t represent teenages overall. And it’s abusive to young people to imply that they do. My two teenages wheel their eyes every time one of these “fads” stirs the headlines. They don’t know anyone who has done this type of challenges. That’s not to say that no one does them — clearly , person em> does or there wouldn’t has become a tale there. But some people do reckless acts all the time in the adult world, more. That doesn’t mean we can ascribe that behavior to most( or even countless) adults. Everyone needs to only calm down a little bit. The girls are all right. In fact, teens are doing pretty great. According to the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, today’s teens inhaled less, suck less, get pregnant less( perhaps because they’re having less fornication ), get into fights less, and generally make less difficulty than my generation did. Yes, they have issues that we didn’t have due to social media, and they sometimes move controversial options, like all teenages have forever, but they’re not a bunch of sheep. My teenages are exceptional in my eyes, but I don’t believe they’re certain exceptions. Let’s deter celebrating young people who are doing amazing things — and let’s stop considering the current generation like they don’t be better than to snack laundry soap or jostle rubber up their noses. Because that’s plainly not the case for the great majority of them. Read more: http :// www.upworthy.com/ condom-snorting-eating-tide-pods-don-t-believe-the-viral-hype-around-teen-trends http://dailybuzznetwork.com/index.php/2018/06/14/condom-snorting-eating-tide-pods-dont-believe-the-viral-hype-around-teen-trends/

[ethelbertpaul444-blog]

Condom snorting? Eating Tide Pods? Dont believe the viral hype around teen trends.

As the parent of two teens, a recent headline caught my look: “The strong >‘ condom snorting invite ’ is every parent ’ s worst nightmare.”

Oh, good gracious , em> I supposed. What fresh stupidity are teenages into now ? em>

I perused the article( just one of many ), which items a “viral craze” on social media in which teenages share videos of themselves sucking an unwrapped condom up through their nose and attracting it out of their cavity.

Yes, it’s laughable. Yes, it’s dangerous.

But no, it’s not the large-scale new thought teenages are doing across the country.

According to Snopes , most of the videos being shown in media reports on the “craze” are from years ago, when snorting condoms was various kinds of a fad — one that never certainly became widespread and petered out pretty quickly.

This video from ThinkTank discussed the challenge in 2013 TAGEND

So apparently, my “worst nightmare” as a parent was sort of a act for a short while a assortment of years ago and has now somehow gained new life through the media. Mmkay.

News outlets and social media like to run “ look at this ridiculous teen infatuation ” narratives, but such narrations don’t accurately constitute the majority of teenagers.

Earlier this year, the Tide Pod Challenge was all over the word. The floor was that teens were taking to social media with videos of themselves deeming a Tide detergent pod in their cavities. Cue the gagging, puking, poison — and in some cases — hospitalization. Yay, progression ! em>

Stories of current challenges moved widely, eliciting Tide to release a request not to feed their detergent cod and Youtube and Facebook to boycott videos of parties engaging in current challenges.

What should Tide PODs be used for? DOING LAUNDRY. Nothing else.

Eating a Tide POD is a BAD IDEA, and we questioned our friend @robgronkowski to help explain. pic.twitter.com/ 0JnFdhnsWZ

— Tide (@ ebb) January 12, 2018

The narratives likewise resulted in The People of the Internet manufacturing Tide Pod jokes on every legend about young person and dismissing anything teenages said about anything.

Sigh . em>

Yes, some teens certainly were chewing Tide Pods. Yes, it’s reckless and dangerous.

But no, the vast majority of teens weren’t — and aren’t — that foolish.

When you do the math, it’s clear that these so-called cults are typically simply a small number of babies enlarged on the internet.

According to the Association for Poison Control, there were 86 incidents of intentional ingestion of laundry cleanser pods by teenages in the first three weeks of 2018. That’s a sharp increase from the year before, but still scarcely an epidemic.

Let’s do some speedy math.

There are more than 42 million youngstersin the United States. If 86 out of 42 million purposely “ate” a Tide pod, that intends nearly 0.0002% of American adolescents did it. Even if 10 days that many actually tried it and didn’t come poisoned enough to stimulate government officials register, that they are able to still merely be 0.002% — that’s two thousandths of a percent . em>

While assimilating laundry cleanser is clearly a bad thought, this does not appear to me to be a universal wont among teens — or even a moderately common one.

The contrast in the way teenages are evoked in the news in 2018 is striking.

The teenages who’ve experienced artillery violence and are channeling their powers into communal activity have gotten a lot of press. And they should. What they’re doing is superb, even if you disagree with their word. They’ve planned thousands, galvanized a movement , and effected real legislative change.

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Images.

Those teenages do not believe that this is gobbling Tide pods and snorting condoms through their noses in their free time.

And those young people bring a much closer similarity to most of the teenagers I know and are all aware of than the handful of teens I’ve seen in these “viral” challenge videos.

I feel teens are breathtaking. The ones I know are smart and principled. They know how to have fun and be silly without being risky or ludicrous. They care deeply about societal issues and are motivated to start the world a better place.

The teens in “peoples lives” aren’t excellent, but they’re likewise not assimilating soap or pulling contraceptives through their nasal holes.

Photo by Michael Paul/ Flickr.

Viral “ crazes ” compile immense headlines, but they don’t represent teenages overall. And it’s abusive to young people to imply that they do.

My two teenages wheel their eyes every time one of these “fads” stirs the headlines. They don’t know anyone who has done this type of challenges.

That’s not to say that no one does them — clearly , person em> does or there wouldn’t has become a tale there. But some people do reckless acts all the time in the adult world, more. That doesn’t mean we can ascribe that behavior to most( or even countless) adults.

Everyone needs to only calm down a little bit. The girls are all right.

In fact, teens are doing pretty great. According to the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, today’s teens inhaled less, suck less, get pregnant less( perhaps because they’re having less fornication ), get into fights less, and generally make less difficulty than my generation did. Yes, they have issues that we didn’t have due to social media, and they sometimes move controversial options, like all teenages have forever, but they’re not a bunch of sheep.

My teenages are exceptional in my eyes, but I don’t believe they’re certain exceptions. Let’s deter celebrating young people who are doing amazing things — and let’s stop considering the current generation like they don’t be better than to snack laundry soap or jostle rubber up their noses.

Because that’s plainly not the case for the great majority of them.

Read more: http :// www.upworthy.com/ condom-snorting-eating-tide-pods-don-t-believe-the-viral-hype-around-teen-trends