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[upsidedowngrass]

sorry for such light posts lately btw, classes started back up and ive been busy in general </3

[lemonynesser]

ok this is really funny so i thought i’d review each point and my thoughts on ‘em

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indented text means it’s from the original post

non-indented text means it my thoughts

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ok, let’s begin:

you’re a terf

ok this one makes sense, i wouldnt wanna interact with ‘em either

lgbtphobic (not including panphobic, see below)

annnd we’re already getting into “what?” territory (in case i’m not clear, im talking about the parenthesized text here)

but let’s take a look at that “see below” now, shall we?

you’re pansexual or support pansexuality. pansexuality is rooted in transphobia and biphobia. i am not going to write a who explanation as to why just please go away if you’re pan or demi or whatever the fuck. if you call yourself pansexual you are literally just bisexual. it is the same thing. duplicate identities are not necessary especially if the copy is rooted in transphobia bisexuality includes attraction to all genders, not just two, and it always has

ok now, while this is the first entry that made me think: “wtf?” i’m gonna start this off by saying (at least in one part…): yes! i agree, bisexuality can include more than 2 genders, and always has. however, i feel that the original posters’ actual definitions of pan and bi sexualities are a bit off from mine. just so we’re clear, here’s what the definitions are to me:

Bisexual: Sexually attracted to two or more genders.

Pansexual: Sexually attracted to all genders/Sexually attracted to people regardless of gender.

so, in my opinion, it’s less of a “oh another one exists that already defines this one so i guess we don’t need this one!” and more of a: “i feel this one describes me better”/“i think it’s cooler”

to put it another way: all pan people could be described as bi (however not all of them want to be), but not all bi people are pansexual

also there’s that very out-of-pocket comment about pansexuality being biphobic and transphobic???? ok, biphobic makes sense. someone (like mx. wall of text up there) could (incorrectly) assume pansexuals are “erasing bi ppl!”, but transphobic?????? honestly i would have expected someone like this to think bi people are transphobic, considering how regurgitated the lie that is “bi people are only attracted to the 2 genders!!1!1!!” but i’m honestly confused on how the sexuality that says “i’m attracted to everyone! :)” could be interpreted as transphobic. i’m genuinely curious on how someone could end up at that conclusion, but they unfortunately said they wouldn’t elaborate on it so…

whew! i spent so long writing that, i forgot what the next one is, hopefully it’s not worse than what i just ranted about lol

you think that bi lesbians, lesbian men and shit like that are a thing. thats not how it works lol ( he/him lesbians and nonbinary lesbians are fine, one of my friends is a nb he/they lesbian ( hi skylar :] ))

ok, i’ve seen people talk about bi lesbians before but have no clue what it means, so i can’t exactly comment on that part (if someone could please tell me what it means i would be very grateful!)

however, i want you to put a pin on that part in parentheses, it’ll come up again later (if you don’t have a pin, here: take one of mine! 📌)

if you use the blue mlm flag, or as me and many others like to call it the toothpaste/listerine flag. just use the fucking rainbow flag dipshit!!!

ah yes, the classic “other people have the same opinion as me, so it totally isn’t trash!”

so, let’s go over a hypothetical: a femme-presenting nb person that uses she/her, she/they, etc. pronouns who likes men. what would you call that person? what flag would you give that person? calling them straight would be disingenuous, calling them gay would be technically correct but not only would that also mean that every nb person is gay no matter who/what they’re attracted to (i will elaborate on this point if someone wants me to), but if a femme presenting person says they’re gay and uses the generic rainbow pride flag, your average person might think they like women instead of men. the solution? the flag that this person so rudely despises. it easily says “this person likes men” without any ambiguity.

oh and it turns out the part that i told you to keep a pin in is coming back up sooner than i thought! (…now.) (…it’s now.)

📌 ( he/him lesbians and nonbinary lesbians are fine, one of my best friends is a nb he/ they lesbian[…])

so, this person is fine with nb people being lesbian (and also using the lesbian flag, i would assume) but not fine when someone uses the mlm flag to get their point across more clearly than the rainbow flag? i smell hypocrisy!

also they’re being kinda mean :(

racist

agreed.

a pedophile or support pedophilia

again, agreed.

are an “anti anti” or proshipper. if you ship underage or incest or etc shit get out of here fucker fiction affects reality dumbass

ignoring the excessive curse words, i agree with about half of what is being said (the incest part and the part about fiction affecting reality) but, saying shipping underage characters is bad makes me think that in this persons mind “shipping characters = you want them to have sex” which is not true even slightly. there are many ship dynamics, many of which don’t even involve sex or sexual desire at all!

also: i don’t know what “proshipper” means. ive seen it here and there, but not enough to form a definition in my head. if someone could tell me what it means that would be great! thanks!

you think it’s okay to age up characters that are minors so it’s “okay” to sexualize them, or make fankids out of them

ok, so. i think aged-up characters is more of a grey area than a lot of people say. i personally think it’s gross a vast majority of the time, but i understand why people say it’s not black-and-white as it is an of-age character at that point.

also about the fankids part (i know what fankids are don’t worry): i think it’s fine if it takes place after a timeskip or something of the like.

you’re a fan/watcher of any streamers/youtubers who are friends with or are dream. idc whatever your excuse is, i don’t wanna be near you. other mcyters are fine

i hate dream as much as the next guy, but this is a bit much, any yter who is even remotely associated with dream? does this person even know how many people are associated with dream? (answer: a lot)

i hate dream, and even according to this rule alone, i would be blocked (i watch Fundy, who was part of dsmp [also probably one of the best parts of it (ive seen clips)])

you like friday night funkin. the creators an asshole and one of the characters is literally from an insensitive game about school shootings. stuff like madness combat and other things that got famous because of fnf i also don’t like or trust (ENA is exempt from this)

in general if you have the “ng” letters emojis in ur twitter display name or have a link to your newgrounds with other stuff like twitter or tumblr i do not trust you. the sheer amount of creators on there that gladly support fnf and in general just other weird terrible shit on newgrounds makes me Not trust that. at all. very shitty community

great, another long one. been a while since we got one of these.

as someone who has been on newgrounds for (i believe, i haven’t checked) slightly less than a year, i would like to say a few things about the claims made in this section.

I havent seen much of the creators (and yes fnf was made by more than one person), but from that little ive seen of them, they seem like ok people.

I havent seen nor played the game pico (the character the original poster was talking about) however i do know it covers the topic of school shootings. however, even though i don’t know how tastefully they covered that topic (especially considering it was made in the early 2000s) i feel like they must have had some level of tact with the topic. how else would pico become the newgrounds icon he is today (and yes, he is an icon. he’s been featured in multiple newgrounds related things, and is almost like a 2nd mascot for them behind tankman)

I also like where they say madness combat became famous from fnf, when it was already one of the most popular animated series on newgrounds, and i also like where they imply the same thing happened with ENA when the only ENA fnf mod i can think of is one that got like 12% finished before being scrapped.

also , while we’re on the subject, they’re making these sweeping generalizations about things that were “made famous” by fnf, only to exclude something little to no one would’ve thought of. but that brings up an important question, what would be considered being “made famous” by fnf mean with that context? anything someone has made an fnf mod about? because holy shit that’s a lot.

not trusting someone because they have an account on a website you dislike is a bit petty, even for someone like this.

the reason people support fnf isn’t because it has a school shooter in its character list or whatever, it’s because of the music, the art, the animations, and how much life and passion is in not just the main game, but most mods too!

the reason there is so much “weird terrible shit” (as they put it) on ng is because the admins only take stuff down if it’s illegal (beastiality, child porn, stuff like that) or for rare edge cases. this is why their slogan is “Everything by Everyone”, because the mods often leave stuff up.

also, there’s actually less of said “weird terrible shit” on ng because of the blamming system. for those who don’t know: when you submit something to newgrounds (after getting it age-rated for its content) it is in a state called “under review” where it is hidden from a lot of places including most of the front page and the “new releases” tab for any one type of media. when a thing is “under review” you can determine if it stays on the website, or gets “blammed” (aka deleted) off of it. how do you do this? by rating it, of course! you can rate something 0-5 stars (including half stars) and the higher rated something is, the better chance it has of staying. and if something of yours gets blammed, you are encouraged to make it better and post it again when it is!

“very shitty community” again with the sweeping generalizations, just because some teenagers made some edgy jokes on it, doesn’t mean the entire website’s like that. (bonus points if said teen that posted an edgy joke actually grew out of their edgy phase by doing that

sorry that that was a long one (i like ng if ya couldn’t tell :3)

following the above, if you’re one of those people super into “[insert thing here].exe” shit. creepypastas can be fun but now every time a creepypasta is made fnf bitches flock to make a mod out of it. if i see “OMG FNF” when the fun is infinite screen is mentioned one more time i will be so angry. plus iirc the creator of sonic.exe is a freak

first off, about the creator of sonic.exe being a freak, yeah but sonic.exe has been so far divorced from its’ creator at this point that i don’t even remember their name!

aside from that, i can actually understand where the op is coming from here. don’t get me wrong, i still think it’s judgmental and kinda mean, but i would be lying if i didn’t say that i, too get peeved by people who don’t know what something is from and say it’s from something else. however unlike this person, who seemingly shuts them all out, i do my best to inform them that said characters/concepts are from something entirely different. most people enjoy learning more about a character they like, so there aren’t any issues most of the time.

billie bust up fans. GET AWAY FROM ME I FUCKING DESPIIIISE THAT GAME iykyk if you dont Dont ask. Please.

huh? ok, i know about Billie Bust Up, never played it, know vaguely what it’s about & plays like. so i’m not sure what could possibly get someone to react this way. i was gonna say that maybe they saw some fetish porn of the characters but considering the say they despise “THAT GAME” implies they hate the game itself. i wish i knew more about why this person hates a (from what i can tell) fairly clean, kid friendly game but they said not to ask so oh well.

you like any of the obviously problematic material in general- omori, homestuck, steven universe, hazbin hotel / helluva boss(any vivziepop shit honestly), harry potter, GENSHIN IMPACT. FUCK YOU

so, not only do i not understand why half of the things here are considered “obviously problematic” but also, some of the reasons these things are “problematic” is because the creator(s) got into some drama/were bad people (omori, harry potter) however from what i remember, omocats’ situation (omoris creator) had more shades of grey than a novel in the adult section of a bookstore, and most harry potter fans are the people to denounce jk rowling the most.

i also understand that hazbin/helluva has murder, drugs, sex, etc. in it. however, im gonna say something that has been said multiple times in defense of these shows.

they take place in hell.

the people in hell are not good people.

that’s literally the whole point.

also about hating genshin impact: yes. i agree. it is a terrible, skinner box, microtransaction-infested disgrace of a game. but you shouldn’t demonize the people who play it. that’s on the same level to me as demonizing people who are addicted to drugs because “drugs = bad” it’s unproductive and ignores the root of the problem.

you use the words waifu / husbando unironically

thats just mean

you make genderbends or any variations of it ( genderswaps, cisswaps, whatever else theyre called nowadays. transgender hcs are cool though :D for instance transgender tails or sonic truthers are awesome. genderbent tails or sonic likers GO AWAYYYY you get the difference. hopefully. and hopefully i as a nonbinary person dont have to explain why genderbends are bad )

ok first off i wanna say that i don’t know what sonic “truthers” or “likers” are, from context clues i guess they’re people who like trans and genderbent sonic interpretations respectively. if i’m wrong, pls correct me thank you!

next is that, as someone who’s is currently questioning their gender, i don’t think there’s any problems with genderbent interpretation of characters, there very similar to trans interpretations if you think about it! most genderbends make it so that the character acts like they had the different gender and sex from birth, or as more of a “what if” scenario. and trans interpretations of characters seem more grounded in reality (wether the source material is or not)

if you ship date and ryuki. the age gap makes me uncomfortable, joking about him having a dumb crush is okay. just like. outright shipping the two is weird as fuck

ok, i have no clue who the characters they’re talking about are or what they’re from, so I’ll pass on most of this

just wanted to throw a line in that show this is a bit hypocritical. they’re ok with talking about them having a crush but not them being “outright shipped”? tell me if i’m wrong but …aren’t those basically the same thing? the only difference is in the latter, they’re in a relationship, and in the former, they’re not in a relationship yet.

nothing wrong with this one but if you’re a fan of the “tales of” series, specifically tales of destiny. or any crossover tales of content with tales of destiny characters in it. again, nothing entirely wrong with liking tales of, i just have bad associations and would rather not see anything about that specific game in the series

ok, now, even though i don’t know what “tales of” is, i don’t need to know, because their problem isn’t anything in the actual series, but outside associations (aka im pretty sure they saw porn of one of the characters).

now, i see where they’re coming from for this one. something causes bad memories to resurface? don’t look at it! however, i also feel this could’ve been handled better than a blanket “don’t interact”, because this also discourages ppl that have a passing interest in it from interacting.

a better way this could’ve been handled would be to make a separate section called, like, “don’t talk about” or something, which has the above “tales of destiny” stuff, and anything else they might not wanna talk about for one reason or another

…aaand we’re done. whew.

that took WAY longer than i thought it would

(i’m talkin hours spread over days spread over months)

[sketchncanto]

Noise

So I edited/added to my little screenplay ficlet that I wrote a few months ago! Also posted this on AO3 for anyone that wants to read it there!

I can't get enough of baby Dolores and Bruno's relationship man. I'm eventually gonna write/post more little moments between him and all of the kids because (in Abuela Alma's voice) the brainrot is STRONG!

For clarity and to ease the reading experience, here's a description of the terminology I used, just in case anyone's like "how do you read a screenplay, what are these letters)

INT. and EXT.: Describes whether the location is indoors or outdoors (interior, exterior).

O.S.: Off screen. A character is speaking outside of the proverbial camera. They're out of the shot.

BEAT.: A beat refers to a pause. If there's a beat written, there's a moment or two of pause or silence.

The bits in parentheses are meant to be read as thoughts, feelings, tones and adjectives. (I prob didn't need to mention this but I wanted to just in case someone was like whaaat)

Anyway, hope you enjoy! <3

Edit: Idk why the spacing looks dumb on mobile, but looks normal on web? 🥲 Anyway let me know if it looks okay/is easy to follow when reading

INT. CASA MADRIGAL - VARIOUS INTERIORS

The Madrigals are having a game night and It's loud. The grown-ups are at the dinner table drinking, laughing and throwing cards around. Luisa (3)and Isabela (5) run around the foyer, playing tag and squealing as little girls up past their bedtimes do. Dolores lays on her stomach on the floor, attempting to draw a picture on a piece of paper with a crayon, but is interrupted by Luisa and Isa running by. The adults suddenly get riled up and cheer from the other room, causing poor little Dolores to cringe and cover her ears. Dolores, now visibly overwhelmed and fed the-hell up, gathers her paper and crayon in one hand, and covers an ear with the other and heads upstairs.

INT. BRUNO’S ROOM

Bruno sits at his little wooden drafting table, sketching a rat, who’s visibly struggling to hold a pose. BRUNO(O.S.) Almost done Alexander, just a little longer.

Alexander holds his pose, trembling. Bruno quickly and loosely sketches, looking up at the rat from his paper and down periodically. BRUNO(CONT’D) Oh come on, you’re strong– I’ve seen you lift an empanada twice your size.

A soft knock at the door. Bruno keeps sketching without looking up.

BRUNO(CONT’D) Come in!

Nothing. 

BRUNO(CONT’D) (Again) Come in!

Still nothing.

Bruno, visibly confused, turns in his seat and looks at his door. He gets up and walks to the door and opens it to find a tiny Dolores looking down at her feet. He smiles tenderly.

BRUNO (soft, warm) Hi Dolores. Any particular reason why you’re lookin’ at your feet?

Dolores looks up at her Tio with huge, watery eyes when… WEPA! The adults downstairs cheer and laugh wildly. Dolores promptly cringes and hugs Bruno’s leg.

Bruno’s tender smile falls– he gets it. He bends down and scoops his sobrina up, who then nestles into his neck and covers her ears. She starts sniffling. Bruno rubs and pats her back, trying to console her.

BRUNO (soft, warm..quiet) It’s okay, come on.

Bruno turns to head into his room, Dolores in arm and closes the door behind him.

INT. BRUNO’S ROOM (AT HIS DRAFTING TABLE)

Bruno sits Dolores down in his chair. He kneels down and wipes her eyes with his thumbs, then gives her a tissue which she then uses to blow her nose.

BRUNO (with a warm smile) You okay, kiddo?

Little Dolores nods and gives Bruno the snotty tissue. She picks up her crayon and starts drawing. Bruno tosses the tissue across the room missing the trash can (he doesn’t care– he’ll get it later) and continues with his rat sketch. 

BRUNO Alexander, I’m gonna need you to come back, amigo.  I forgot what position your leg was in.

Alexander doesn’t come back.

Dolores grabs her paper and presents it to her Tio (like check this shit out). It’s a drawing of her as a princess standing next to a big, burly man.

BRUNO That’s pretty good! (a beat) (pointing at the man on the paper) Who’s that?

DOLORES (frankly) My husband.

Bruno looks at his sister’s child, not surprised at all by her statement. This is Pepa’s kid, afterall. 

BRUNO (holding up his paper) Look at mine.

DOLORES (face scrunched, perplexed and kinda disgusted) His face looks weird– and why is his leg like that?

BRUNO (slightly taken aback, looking at Dolores and then quickly back down to his paper to keep sketching)

W-well I’m not done yet. (to Alexander somewhere in the room) And my model left me, so I had to guess.

DOLORES Well I think his weird face and leg give him character.

Bruno examines his little sketch.

BRUNO (You have a point) Mmyeh..

Alexander hops back up on the table, examining the sketch and squeaks.

BRUNO I dunno what you just said, but I’m gonna pretend it was a compliment.

Dolores giggles.

A knock at the door. Pepa pokes her head in the room before coming in.

DOLORES (softly) Hi, mami.

PEPA Hi, bebé.

Pepa walks up to the table to see what the rodents of the house were up to.

PEPA (warmly, to Bruno) Had a feeling she’d be in here.

BRUNO Yeah, guess you guys were being too loud for her.

Pepa, now visibly dismayed, looks to her daughter.

PEPA (Kneeling down next to Dolores) Bebita, w-were we too– 

DOLORES –loud? Yes.

Pepa looks at her brother. Even after all these years, he’s still the same soft, quiet mouse (well, rat more like) that preferred to be away from the noise. She can see him in her daughter.

PEPA (remorsefully, soft) Oh, Lola, I’m so sorry. It’s just.. We.. we’re working on it.

DOLORES (holding up her drawing to Pepa) It’s okay. Tio and I drew pictures.

PEPA Oh! Una princesa! Very nice.

DOLORES (snatches Bruno’s sketch from under his elbow) Look at Tio’s.

BRUNO (just realizing what happened, too late) Wait Dolor–

PEPA (uncomfortably) ..cute!

BRUNO (to Pepa, sarcastic) You’re so encouraging. I’d like to see you draw a rat--or anything.

PEPA (shooting him a look) Don’t start. (changing the subject) Alright, bebé, es hora de domir!  Say goodnight to your Tio.

DOLORES Goodnight, Tio.

She wraps her little arms around his neck and they share a hug. She pecks him on the cheek.

BRUNO (warmly) Buenos noches.

Dolores pauses and looks at Bruno, clearly unsatisfied.

BRUNO (furrowing his brow, confused) What?

DOLORES (clearly offended, crossing her arms) You didn’t give me a goodnight kiss.

BRUNO Oh, excuse me, what kind of Tio am I?

Bruno grabs Dolores in a cradle and starts attacking her cheek with kisses–she’s a tiny giggling mess. Pepa watches in adoration, melting at the sight. She loves her brother’s relationship with the kids–especially her daughter.

DOLORES (still giggling, struggling to get a word out) Okay, okay!!

BRUNO Wait, hold on, gotta get the other one.

He turns her head with a finger and starts peppering kisses on that side. Bruno hated getting kissed like that as a kid–ironic.

He finally lets her up from his clutches, smug.

BRUNO Happy now?

DOLORES (wiping her face) My face is all wet.

BRUNO You should be used to this by now, kid.  Look who your mother is.

PEPA He’s right, Lola.

Without any hesitation, Pepa grabs her brother by his cheeks and starts peppering kisses all over his face. Dolores looks on, amused.

BRUNO P-Pepa, knock it off! (struggling to talk past the constant contact and cheek squishes, annoyed) I a-already washed my face for the night! Now I gotta do it all over again!

Pepa lets go of his face, proud of the fact that she can still annoy him just as much as she did when they were younger. He promptly starts wiping his face with his sleeve like an annoyed cat. Pepa scoops up Dolores and turns to head for the door.

PEPA Sorry, I couldn’t help it. Besides, washing your face twice wouldn’t hurt. Your pores are huge. 

BRUNO (get out of my room) Goodnight Pepa.  (lovingly) Goodnight Dolores… oh wait, your picture!

DOLORES You can keep it Tio.  I don't get attached to my work..  It slows me down. 

BRUNO (who is this kid?) Oh, um.. Alright then.

Dolores waves to Bruno from her mom’s shoulder. He waves back as they leave the room. Bruno looks down at the picture Dolores scribbled. He grabs a thumbtack and attaches the drawing to the wall above his drafting table. That kid isn’t allowed to grow up.

[solitarydoomsday]

HOLY SHIT I NEED TO TALK ABOUT FIAMET **RIGHT NOW**

PLEASE KEEP SCROLLING IF YOU DO NOT WANT SHIT SPOILED FOR HIVESWAP ACT 3, I REPEAT, PLEASE KEEP SCROLLING IF YOU DO NOT WANT SHIT SPOILED FOR HIVESWAP ACT THREE!!! THERE’S WHOLE ASS CONCEPT DESIGNS AND SHIT IN HERE! IM NOT KIDDING!!!!

OKAY I’VE BASICALLY EXAUSTED EVERY OPTION (aka ranting to my boyfriend about my ideas for blockstuck that i will NOT spoil here) BUT I REALLY REALLY REALLY NEED TO TALK ABT FIAMET.

long story short, i was at SAHCon today, i was minding my own buisness when a panel ended, and i open my announcements to THIS

[image ID: a screenshot from discord from a server mod saying “@everyone - just in case you missed it, here’s the VOD of our impromptu Hiveswap Act 3 teaser!”, then showing a youtube link below it, the image in the embed being of concept art for a new character. /End ID] so i obviously open it, being in denial about that being a limeblood even though i can VERY clearly see green on her design and it is NOT olive, but then i get to here.

[image ID: a young looking troll girl with three sets of horns, an axolotol-esque tail and a middle part, wearing a black t-shirt with a violet sign on it, grey shorts and socks with lime colored stripes and wearing black shoes with violet laces. /End ID] so, in very “me” fashion, i start flipping my shit, internally.

[IMAGE ID: a discord screenshot between me and my boyfriend, me saying “changed my mind because i missed the first thirty minutes now im looking at the hiveswap thing and????” with “gen spoilers” in parentheses, an image below it showing concept art for fiamet. my boyfriend responds with “CREATURE” in all caps. i respond with “IF I HAVE TO GIVE ASELUS AND AOLOTOL TAIL IM GONNA BE PISSED //HJ” /End ID] i’m in denial, im afraid for my little fanartist life, and a few hours, now in the angered stage of greif later i go into a fucking FRENZY. i’m talking angered pacing, punching the air, yelling and damn near tears.

i was so mad, finally realizing that i had spent HOURS working panels with aselus with NO TAIL only for this new limeblood to completely throw all my shit out the fucking window. i was a wreck.

until...

i remembered someone.

[image ID: a masculine presenting troll with slicked back hair, horns that go to a point and curve back, red shades, a vest with a pocket watch, a teal long-sleeved shirt, dark grey pants and what i think is running shoes. /End ID] IDARAT CATLAZ

my hero, my savior, even.  this peice of shit that damn near charged me for pictures, kept me from loosing my IDIOT MIND.

i kid you the fuck not, when i realized this motherfucker existed, a wave of releif washed over me.i was zen, i was happy, unbothered and moisterized.

BUT.. i honestly forgot where i was going with this, i promise i had like a whole other page and a half thought out, but i’ve come up with two options for how two limebloods looks so VASTLY different.

1. fiamet has a mutation, similarly to mine where i developed a scruff to more closely resemble my lusus, except she got a tail (sorry to anyone who liked the hc of trolls developing features like their lusus turns out everyone from my timeline did not have anything similar and was just a me thing <//3)

or 2. *there’s both land-dwelling and sea-dwelling limebloods*

you bet your ASS im gonna play with the second one in blockstuck’s cannon, just you fucking wait until i rewrite some shit. you won’t fucking know what hit you, i’m not even kidding.

on some other ending note, if anyone wants to see the teaser, here’s the link right here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdMMjyUFFmg

(ps yes im putting image IDs in my posts now in a post probably no one will read, i need the practice of making them)

[blindedguilt]

About Leonard’s 1.3/Modern Verse

 Right I added them to my About like two, three days ago but like,,, it was nearing 3 AM and I forgot about them 😭😭😭 

Modern AU is neat stuff but I REALLY wanna talk about 1.3 because 

OOH HOOHOOHOOHOOHOOHOO!!!!!!!! >:} 

NOTE: 

From here on out, if you want to interact with a certain verse, just put in parentheses or something before the ask.

(Modern) “(ask bullshit goes here)”

(1.3) “(ask bullshit goes here)”

So like,,, more under the cut.

Modern Verse:

A heavily depressed car mechanic estranged from his family. Wants more out of life. Has a mug collection and a fondness for the smaller things in life.

this guy,,,, is just chilling. Expect smaller, more bitterly humoured interactions with him. His roommates are interesting sorts of characters and this guy is the one person who even seems to remotely give a shit about any of it; as such he is perpetually tired and only seems to be paying attention half the time. please wish him good luck 

SO ABOUT 1.3./What it is, for those who don’t know

A lot of my mutuals DO know about it but just in case I mean,,, from the looks of it, 1.3 is one of those things that depending on what side of the fandom you’re on, everyone or no one know about it. a lot of newer fans (particularly those who arrived from Nier) are pretty clueless about 1.3, despite it literally being it’s own canon universe like any other DOD/Nier game…

The biggest difference is is that it’s a novel instead of a game??? Or like a series of novellas basically which is like “hey what if DOD3 was canon to DOD1, or more specifically it’s Ending A was” And it’s just,,, this whole look at what comes from that focusing on the cast of DOD1 characters (AND SOME NEW ONES TOO!!! omg there are new, forbidden dod protags ❤️) in this world where things like pact systems and the goddess seals don’t,,,, really exist. Sure, you can make partners which funky little fantasy beings, namely dragons (Spoiler: there are a lot in 1.3), but uhhhhh it’s kinda like human partnerships (used in a general, non-romantic sense here but… *cough*) where like,,, whether it’s out of necessity, shared interests or just bc the dragon thinks they’re cool they’ll just,,, tag along being like “okay i’ll help you”. sometimes they just chill out together.  But their souls certainly ain’t bound together, they don’t feel each other’s pain and you’re gonna get some FREAKY ass instances like Verdelet with hair, Leonard seeing (and having green eyes, for whatever reason…?) and, god forbid, Caim speaking. He’s actually quite the eloquent little lad 😍😳😍   Unfortunately, 1.3 DOES follow the events of the slightly better-known Shi Ni Ataru Aka manga in a fuckin,,,,,  DOD3 Ending A -> 🤢we dont talk about this one :( -> ❤️‍🔥💕✨DOD 1.3❤️💘💗  hope that makes sense. Anyways it’s a groovy little thing that’s pretty neat.  It was released in like 2014 but is just now getting a translation from yours truly, at the time I post this I have like three stories left to do but till then: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EQgIx0uv6MMsXClKgdZdgwLze8urV12P?  enjoy.

So, little ones... ABOUT LEONARD’S 1.3 VERSE.

yeah, we’re getting into some ~shit~So uh, where to start. Here’s the description from the Wiki:

Fights to protect a small village - He teams up with a green dragon to protect a small frontier village.  In order to help heal the hearts of the villagers, he gathers and directs an all-boys choir.  There appeared to be some record of him being involved with the Union. 

And here’s what you’ll find on my blog:

The priest and leader to a small refuge village for those who had lost their lives and/or families to the Union. Directs an all-boys choir to give hope to it’s citizens, and is partnered with an elderly green dragon.

It also comes with a very very very clear warning that I want to share here as well:

Leonard in 1.3, like his DOD1 counterpart, is also a paedophile. Unfortunately he is strongly implied to be acting on this in the 1.3 universe. I plan not to bring it up unnecessarily and shall be especially fragile with his characterisation in this verse. Please keep this in mind when roleplaying with him.

What happens within Leonard (And Arioch’s) story - Context about the verse if you want to skip the reading 

Arioch and Leonard’s story is A_4010: The Truly Diseased. I can understand why one might want to skip this one though, while my personal favourite their story ESPECIALLY isn’t for the faint of heart. Read:

While I would HIGHLY recommend it, it’s not for everyone, and I can’t even pressure them to read it if they’re not at least decently confident they can handle the topics presented in this story. So here’s a summary: The Truly Diseased (TTD) follows a nameless half-elf girl (I have given her a fan-name of Agares, however, which if she’s ever mentioned, I’ll probably use lmao) who’s father and village was destroyed by Union dragon hunters for not informing them of a woman who had stayed overnight with a silver dragon. She, her pregnant mother, and two young little brothers manage to escape in search of the fabled “Village of the Green Dragon”, having heard stories from merchants of a small village where they would be able to take refuge from the war. Which, in Midgard, is a big fuckin deal. Eventually they do end up finding this village and it’s leader/priest, Leonard, who welcomes them in and helps in taking care of her mother alongside her — The half-elf girl/Agares begins to fall in love(…? Lust over?) with Leonard for his gentle and caring personality (and his beefy bilf bod), yet even she acknowledges that it’s a pretty one-sided affair with little chance of ever happening. Not that it stops her tho 😭 So things go pretty groovy for the most part until it doesn’t One fine day (evening?) protag’s youngest brother comes up like “hey I got in the choir and my piece of shit older brother did NOT”  And she’s like “….. wow.” “Its bc i can get my balls cut off easier” “that’s mildly concerning but okay” so anyways they all go to the performance thing and the protagonist has some ~unresolved jealousy~ about the attention Leonard’s giving her younger brothers like girl chill. Not like he’s more interested in them than he is you…. right? :’) So like,,, he’s like “this is a new part of the choir blah blah blah” and then the kid gets fucking shot in the stomach lol as it may happen, a little guy ratted out the village to the Union, now they’re killing everyone since,,,, it’s like, a village literally made to stand against the Union did I mention that lmao. This is mildly inconvenient for our heroine, who proceeds to leave her pREGNANT MOTHER AND TELLS HER OTHER STILL-VERY-YOUNG BROTHER TO TAKE CARE OF HER SO SHE, THE FUCKING HOMEWRECKER, CAN GO HELP LEONARD WHO’S GOING BERSERKER MODE ON FUCKIN EVERYONE BECAUSE THEY KILLED A KID. yeah he also got shot by the same arrow too but as it turns out people in 1.3 need to be strapped down and beaten to death with a radioactive brick to feel anything (look at Furiae) The green dragon, very elderly and hardly capable of even moving, extends it wings to cover the villagers and keep them safe from the Union. Did I mention our protagonist ends up not helping like she wanted? Like…… what was the point of that :/  Arioch pokes in lmao While it’s never explained in the story itself, it seems that Arioch and Leonard were pretty acquainted with each other. My guess is that she also came to the village and probably started to try some cannibalism shit before Leonard was like “:( not cool man” and drove her out. It’s funny because the way the novella puts it is like they got a divorce or had a fucking break up or some shit like “What happened between them?” The fuck if I know check their Instagram story or smth idk  Anyways. She,,,, she offers to help fight off the Union with a very injured Leonard who’s fine why ask,,, BUT. She wants payment. Can you guess what?

Leonard hates the idea but agrees and they fight together, wrecks everyone’s shit and then BOOM, YELLOW DRAGON OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE . heroine realizes that those dragon hunters that destroyed her old village were looking for a crazed yellow dragon and the woman following it. … welp. 😳 oh yeah and her younger brother #2 is dead now (what did she fucking expect?) and her mother’s in labour. Great timing! This’ll be a story to tell the little tike when they grow up. None of that matters anyways since said yellow dragon ripped the fucking WINGS off the green dragon, is eating it alive, and arioch has both her and her dead younger brother #1 held at gunpoint. leonard is there too

“so what’s it gonna be kid, huh? huh?”

Diversity win! 💝❤️💗✨💓😍😍😍😍 that was the biggest fuck you rejection I’ve ever seen in media tbh. the virgin caim headshake vs the chad leonard cannibal-abandonment treatment  imagine falling in love with a guy and he chooses your like,,,, 7 year old brother’s corpse over your own life. Feelsbadman 😔😔😔  i could stop since that’s the end of it for Lenny but I’m not going to Anyways Arioch kills Leonard, and is cut off from her ramblings about what a stupid piece of shit he is by noticing the protagonists mother giving birth ohoh boy Arioch forcibly births the child herself and is stopped from eating the newborn baby by the protagonist, who had just,,, kinda been sitting in shock seeing all this go down. Can I blame her? Having finally snapped, she takes Arioch’s own sword and FUCKING HACKS HER TO BITS WITH IT LIKE OMGGGGGGG and like,,,, you won’t believe what happens next.  Caim and Angelus show up, Angelus starts killing the yellow dragon that was eating the green dragon, and our girl is just kinda “:l” right now. she gouges her eyes out. The end!  There’s also Legna. so….. thats their story in a nutshell, I presume. 1.3 verse, babey! I can’t wait. developing Leonard’s history with the Union, the green dragon and the village, whatever the fuck went on with him and Arioch…. They’re questions that I’d love to expand on in this verse! Having him seeing (with GREEN eyes!) and like,,, not being depressed anymore is going to be something so new and also like- Uncomfortable :/ but that’s the funnest stuff to write for that reason lmao I can’t wait to start!! ❤️

[cotccotc]

┈┈  𝟏𝟏:𝟓𝟕 𝐩𝐦 -: ✧ :-  “ 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 ”

𝐬𝐞𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐛𝐢𝐧

✩  blurb, ~650 words

✩ part of my happy birthday, baby series (which you can find HERE)

✩  summary: it’s your boyfriend’s birthday, so you decide to surprise him at work! ♡

✩  genre/s: fluff, established relationship, changbin x gender neutral!reader (feat. jisung & chan)

✩  warning/s: my awful commentary (in parentheses)

✩ a/n: HAPPY CHANGBIN DAY!!!

august 11th. one of your favorite days of the year. why? it’s your boyfriend’s birthday, of course!

however, just like any day of the year, he’s busy working. he’s allowed to take the day off for his birthday, but right now it’s technically still the 10th. so, where is he now? the studio.

however, just like any day of the year, he’s busy working. he’s allowed to take the day off for his birthday, but right now it’s technically still the 10th. so, where is he now? the studio.

luckily for you, fellow night owls chan and jisung were there too, working in a different room. once you texted them you had arrived at the building (y/n in the buildi- i’ll stop), they quietly let you and your box of cupcakes in. you had bought a half dozen cupcakes, one for each of you and two extra for you to share with changbin later.

11:58...

while in the elevator, the three of you joke around about the possibility that you’ll find changbin asleep in his chair. honestly, you wouldn’t be surprised due to the amount of work and energy your boyfriend puts into his craft. he never ceases to amaze you.

which is why he deserves this surprise so much.

as you reach the floor he’s on, you, jisung, and chan do your best to creep up to the studio’s closed door. your heart is pounding from the anticipation, as well as the love bubbling up inside of you for your boyfriend.

11:59…

“ready?” jisung whispers, his hand already wrapped around the doorknob.

“we still have a minute left,” you reply with a soft laugh, checking your phone with your free hand.

he says, “i know. but i’m excited.”

you glance at chan while the three of you try your best to stifle a laugh. “me too. let’s go,” you agree. just as jisung is about to open the door, you cut him off: “oh! wait! i almost forgot!” you open the cupcake box and hand it to chan. then, you reach into your back pocket, grabbing a heart-shaped candle and sticking it into the middle of one of the cupcakes. “jisung, did you bring the matches?”

“oh yeah!” he scrambles to stuff his hand into his own back pocket, pulling out a small pack of matches. after multiple attempts to light the match, followed by you gesturing for him to go faster, he finally lights the candle.

12:00...

you give chan a thumbs up, who then points to jisung with his free hand, saying, “3… 2… 1…”

jisung turns the knob and rips the door open.

in unison, the three of you shout, “happy birthday!”

(cue y/n signature jazz hands)

with a small jump, changbin swings around to face you guys in his swivel chair. he removes his headphones, placing them around his neck. the smile on his face is unmatched when he recognizes your presence. “holy shit, you scared me,” he responds. despite being an impeccable lyricist, your boyfriend sure has an interesting way with words and affection.

taking the cupcake box from chan, you begin to sing “happy birthday”. chan and jisung follow suit as you take the box over to your boyfriend. once you’re in arms reach from him, he places his hands on your waist with a sweet smile, spinning you sideways and gently placing you down on his lap. he never breaks eye contact with you as the three of you sing.

“happy birthday dear dwaekki~” changbin lets out a big chuckle as you all continue singing, glancing over at chan and jisung behind you who are doing the same.

you finish the song with a big round of applause and a few scattered “woot woot”s. you lift the box up toward changbin’s face. he blows out the single candle, then looks back at you with a loving grin. “thank you.”

you set the box down on your lap with your left hand, cupping his face with the right. you kiss him in reply, which earns some gagging noises from jisung and a snicker from chan.

ignoring the goofballs behind you, you break away from changbin, looking back into his eyes.

“happy birthday, baby.”

©️ cotccotc 2020 ~ all rights reserved. do not repost my work on tumblr or other platforms.

[violexides]

Slavmaeda- My (Hopefully Only) Statement

Note: The times listed here are mostly in EST. If it is in another time, it will state in parentheses. The other time will usually be Polish time.

Another Note: @slavmaedasaga exists, now, for all the posts. I don’t know who made it.

Possible Blackened-

Fir (aka Firanka)

Sunflower

Marshpy

Daniel

Jago

People who follow Sunflower / Marshpy / Fir / Jago

Gay Nagito Komaeda 

Experiencecarrots

Slavmaedasaga

Monokuma File- At an unspecified time this morning, Sunflower received an anon, posting “Slavmaeda rights” continuously until hitting the character limit. At 9:12 AM, Firanka confirms to receiving a similar ask. At 9:17 AM, Fir announces the case to a public discord server, “Danganronpa 2: Tropical Despair”. At 3:50 PM (POLISH TIME), Marshpy receives this ask. At 10:13 AM (or six minutes later, according to Fir), Jago receives a Slavmaeda rights ask. Then, everything went to hell.

TRUTH BULLETS

Alternate Anons: Other anons during this initial period of time were sending Sunflower asks.

“Fir”: One of these anons, not sent by Fir, uses her nickname.

Marshpy’s Account: She states to not having enough bastard energies, as well as her identity as “not Slavic” as proof of her innocence.

See: Marshpy’s Confession.

Marshpy’s Confession: Marshpy admits to sending the asks that went to sunflower and Fir, but none others.

She says she thought it would be funny.

Jago’s Account: [Jago’s] main line of defense is the website & the fact [Jago is] managing a group RP at the same time, [Jago] didnt even have tumblr opened until the situation started.

Jago proves in a screenshot that the first time she opened tumblr was at 10:12 AM.

Sunflower’s Account: She was typing up a character analysis, talking on a server, and answering other posts. Therefore, she did not have time to post these.

Worth noting that later, she would mark the times she was on/off tumblr.

Fir’s Account: She claims to being “confused the entire time”, which she admits herself is a weak alibi. She also states which specific anons she sent sunflower, none of these being the Slavmaeda posts.

See: Fir’s Confession.

Typing Patterns: The first ask was the same set of three “Slavmaeda rights” copy pasted, meaning that every third “Slavmaeda rights”, starting from the first one, had a capital S.

The second was in this same pattern.

The third was in all caps.

The forth had alternating letter capitalization.

Note: After this point, so many asks were coming in that it is hard to establish which typing patterns were used. However, it is worth saying that there were different typing and capitalization patterns.

Notes (Kind of useless but I typed it so whatever): As of typing this, Jago’s post received no notes.

Marshpy’s only received Sunflower and Fir’s declarations of innocence.

Sunflower’s posts received scattered notes.

Fir’s received an unspecified number of notes.

Sunflower’s posts, later, were reblogged frequently by the account “slavmaedasaga”

Daniel’s Account: Daniel is a bastard.

They have no tumblr account, so they can’t leave notes.

Anons can be sent without a tumblr account.

See: Daniel’s Confession.

Jago’s Website: “[It’s] not finished and navigation still is wonky but I can show if I need to prove [I’m] not really paying attention to tumblr rn”

It’s a really dope website not going to lie.

Just. Well done, Jago.

However, this could have been an alibi, planned, as Jago has been watching but suspiciously not contributing much.

Class Trial Rules: Only the first blackened gets punished.

This has nothing to do with anything.

We aren’t a class so technically it’s not a class trial.

But this is still an interesting point, motivation wise.

RickRolling Part One: Daniel is a bastard and a Mikan Kinne.

Deleted Message: Fir paraphrases it as “[trial participants] haven’t noticed something.”

This was deleted.

Daniel sent it.

Threat: “The Slavmaeda Revolution will continue without you” was sent to Marshpy at 10:31 AM.

Daniel claims this was not them.

Fir’s Confession: Fir claims to have sent the Slavmaeda asks to Jago and Marshpy, but did not send the Slavmaeda Revolution asks.

Rickrolling Ask: Someone copy and pastes the lyrics to “Never Gonna Give You Up” and sends it to Fir. After maybe a minute, she receives another Slavmaeda Rights ask.

This Slavmaeda Rights has the same typing patterns as Marshpy’s, except it cuts itself off at the end with a dash.

Threat Redux: Sunflower receives an ask that says “the slavmaeda nation shall remain eternal”

Gay-Nagito-Komaeda’s Account: They just follow Fir and are confused.

They’re innocent it’s just worth noting.

They later joined the Tropical Despair Discord Server.

Sunflower’s Ask: “slavmaeda is inevitable. succumb.”

10:55 AM.

Unsettling Truth: There is no way to track this, because, while certain asks have to have been sent by people in the server contextually, there could be people following Sunflower sending her asks, Fir sending her asks, etc.

Re: The Unsettling Truth: “Slavmaeda has already infiltrated your little trial. You are not safe there. Submit to the revolution.”

10:58 AM

Sunflower’s New Ask: The same Slavemaeda Rights that came with the Rickroll Fir received.

Sunflower’s Time Off Tumblr: 11:07 AM-11:09

11:20 AM-

Other Shit: “Rick rolling is the Slavmaeda National Anthem” (11:09 AM) (Fir)

Slavmaeda Rights (Robyn) (11:11 AM)

“Slavmaeda Slavmaeda Slavmaeda Slavmaeda” (Fir) (11:13) (not an anon, sent as daniel)

Daniel’s Confession: This fucking Mikan Kinnie.

Sent “a lot of [fir’s asks]” and “sent the revolution one to marshpy”

Experiencecarrots: “slavmaeda is the only alibi :)”

I’m gonna be honest, nobody on this server claims to be carrots.

So I have no fucking clue what is going on.

By the way, [I] is Sunflower.

THOUGHTS BEFORE POSTING:

It’s so fucking hard to track so I’m not sure if this is even accurate. This is the most information I’ve got. I’m also tired, so I haven’t looked through this in too much depth. But I think this is correct.

HANGMAN’S GAMBIT

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

r e v o l u t i o n

WHITE NOISE

Lyrics to Never Gonna Give You Up

EDIT ONE - The server this is on is Danganronpa 2: Tropical Despair. 

EDIT TWO - Ignore the Hangman’s Gambit and White Noise, I got carried away.

EDIT THREE - Experiencecarrots confirms to not be on the server. I sort of figured because I think we were mutuals long before this happened, but at the same time, I’m confused as all hell.

EDIT FOUR - Maybe the real culprits were the friends we made along the way.

EDIT FIVE - Carrot’s Account (via tumblr): “Hey hey hey! I only liked the post because I refresh my feed every 2 seconds and like whatever’s there. And I follow pretty much anyone I find, so ha. Also thanks for letting me be a suspect, quite the honor if I say so myself :)” This is regarding claims of being suspicious due to being the first likes on posts, as well as following slavmaedasaga.

EDIT SIX - Gay Nagito Komaeda’s Confession: They sent Fir the rickroll ask, which was incredibly coincidental, considering that they were not in the Tropical Despair Server at the time they sent it, nor at the time Daniel rickrolled us. That was pure fucking luck. Holy shit.

EDIT SEVEN - slavmaedasaga is, most likely, on Tropical Despair. They updated the rickroll post with, in the tags, “komaeda”, meaning that they knew that it was Gay Nagito Komaeda. HOWEVER, I am aware that I updated my post with this information. We have no actual timestamps of who did what exactly, but it was within minutes of each other. My personal thoughts are that this is a person on the server, but I’m not certain.

EDIT EIGHT - slavmaedasaga claims to be a single person. It is worth considering that they could not be, but I have a feeling like they are a single person. 

EDIT NINE - Daniel knows who slavmaedasaga is. It’s probably Daniel, isn’t it. We should have seen that coming. (But I will hold my suspicions until they say it themself.)

EDIT TEN - I want to make a public apology for mistreating my spaghetti. I understand that, in the light of recent allegations regarding slavmaeda and the trial ongoing to find the blackened, it may have appeared as if I have been so caught up in the information that I forgot to treat my spaghetti with care. I assure you in the future that I will never hurt my spaghetti again. 

EDIT ELEVEN - There is now a tumblr blog called “slavmaeda rights”, which is entirely focused on slavmaeda rights. I’m losing my mind.

EDIT TWELVE - Slavmaedarights deleted their post that had “Slavmaeda rights” over and over.

EDIT THIRTEEN - Worth clarifying. There are technically two “og Slavmaeda” people. One is Fir, who started all of this by mentioning the concept of slavmaeda. The other is Marshpy.

EDIT FOURTEEN - Slavmaedasaga is in Tropical Despair. We raised suspicions in this server (More specifically, Gay Komaeda Nagito did) that they were the same as slavmaedarights. They very quickly made a post denying this. Therefore, they have to have been in the server. 

EDIT FIFTEEN - Slavmaedarights posted again (just slavmaeda rights over and over) then deleted it. I never saw this with my two eyes. Marshpy and Gay Nagito Komaeda are eye witnesses. Some of the “S”s in rights were capitalized, according to Marshpy, which is vital to consider. Marshpy claims that there is no isolated S in this post, but she isn’t certain. Also worth considering. A deviation from a familiar pattern, which is interesting. 

EDIT SIXTEEN - TWO CRUCIAL BITS OF INFO! The description of Slavmaedasaga is “Hope” in Bulgarian. Also, Daniel bluffed when they said, in the Tropical Despair server, that they knew who “Saga” is. They just wanted clout. This is important info-- we have no leads on Slavmaedasaga. But we do know that it was likely not Daniel. Daniel accuses Marshpy. who knows. 

EDIT SEVENTEEN - Marshpy was shopping when "Saga” started, and Daniel sent a cryptic smiley face. They claim they were wrong about accusing Marshpy. 

EDIT EIGHTEEN - SLVRights = Damien. They aren’t the same person as SLVSaga. Daniel has shown evidence that they only have one blog. I’m getting funky anons. One anon is the same person, sending theories. There are some others. The theory anon also called me sun, which isn’t explicitly odd but I guess you can consider it. Not sure what else to say. 

EDIT NINETEEN - Haven’t been updating this enough. I’m getting a lot of messages and asks. “Beg. Beg for the answers. Slavmaeda is an unforgiving god. -Damien” was posted, then deleted, on the SLVRights blog in binary. I have an anon in binary. I’m inclined to believe they aren’t the same person. Someone on the server, not related on the tumblr side but helpful on the server side, has a theory. They have yet to say. I have a new ask.

EDIT TWENTY - Firanka wanted me to say that a lot of Tropical Despair people are having wifi issues. I highly doubt this is relevant. Damien posted something. I won’t type it here, because it is long, but I’ll see if I can reblog it. If not, I’ll write a transcript. Thanks for sticking with me. 

EDIT TWENTY ONE - A lot has gone on. Worth saying, I turned off my anonymous asks. Nothing happened. As in like, nobody sent any asks. One of my friends did as a test. I kept it like that for a while. But, as Daniel put it, cryptid hints are better than no hints. 

EDIT TWENTY TWO - Further clarification, for those lost. According to present information, Binary, Saga, and Damien are all separate people. That is as far as we know. I don’t know everyone who did this, so I apologize if I leave certain people out, but Daniel, Nebby, Firanka (there is still suspicion), Glitter (on server), and I have shown screenshots proving we only have our one blog. There are likely loopholes, but... worth considering.

EDIT TWENTY THREE - New stuff surfacing. I’m worried people are getting anxious because of some of this. If you are, please prioritize yourself. Like, literally, even if you’re a huge part of this, if you’re getting stressed? Take a breather. Stay safe. Alright? Not to be the mom of this situation. But it’s important. Take care of yourself. I’m leaving this pinned, but as it winds down, i’m probably gonna unpin this post. But, still here if you ever want to figure stuff out. 

EDIT TWENTY FOUR - Approaching 400 posts. That’s interesting. Also, the suspect list on here isn’t updated. Updated information is in the edits alone. I haven’t even looked at the truth bullets since posting.

EDIT TWENTY FIVE - “Binary” was run by @experiencecarrots. We don’t know who Saga or Damien (now going by just “B”) is. But. Most of this has settled down.

EDIT TWENTY SIX - “Saga” was @firankamipinska. Still waiting for B.

EDIT TWENTY SEVEN - No closer to finding out B. A new day has started. Slavmaedanation has been created. They “declared war” against B. 

EDIT TWENTY EIGHT - @gayer-nagito-komeada was Rights. To be honest. I don’t know how we didn’t see that one coming. But. There you go. They’re Damien/B/Rights. Now it’s just Nation to figure out. 

EDIT TWENTY NINE - Nation is @firankamipinska. I’m not really surprised, probably because she told me she was Nation. Nation was essentially supposed to figure out who Damien was. I was too tired to give much of a shit. I woke up at 7 yesterday. I had no fucking spoons. Zero. 

FINAL EDIT - Four blogs, a discord server, a channel in a discord server, and many friends were made through the Slavmaeda experience. Thank you all for embarking on this crazy ass experience with us. I can’t believe that the day after my birthday, I helped create a meme. Have a nice day. 

[torsamors]

#ShowYourProcess

From planning to posting, share your process for making creative content!

To continue supporting content makers, this tag game is meant to show the entire process of making creative content: this can be for any creation. RULES — When your work is tagged, show the process of its creation from planning to posting, then tag 5 4 people with a specific link to one of their creative works you’d like to see the process of. Use the tag #showyourprocess so we can find yours!

Thank you @ahomeboylives Kaitlynn for tagging me to talk about this poem <3 (you tagged me forever ago and ive had this sitting in my drafts and lowkey forgot about it oops)

1. Planning/Inspiration

So with poems for me I either start them one of two ways—either I sit down with the intent to write about a theme or person OR a snippet pops into my head and I write about that. This poem was a combination of that actually djabsj. I think I read a post about Jiang Cheng and it talked about the tragedy of his character and how he’s actually very loving at his core and this line popped into my head [ I would have somewhere to put all / this anger, somewhere to put all / this love.]

2. Writing

Next for this poem, I sat down and tried to write around this particular line. I played with it a few ways but ultimately decided I liked it as a closing line, so the challenge for me was trying to create a poem that lead up to that. I usually write poems in my notes app or if I have access to my computer, I write them in a folder in my googledocs. I kind of just let myself write whatever I want without too much care. If I think too much I tend get stumped. My thought process is I can write a bunch of shit and take the best lines out and really work with them when I come back and edit it later.

3. Editing

So here’s the original poem:

It really depends on when I get around to editing a poem. I have fragments from literally 2016 that I still haven’t edited. Sometimes I just wait until I’m bored or until something calls to me or if I feel inspired etc. This poem I think I edited a day or two after I wrote it? Editing for me really depends on how I’m feeling bdkahskajs I just Go With My Gut.

For this poem I immediately knew I didn’t like having it as a block quote and there were parts where I didn’t like the flow. I decided to break up the text into stanzas. For this I wanted to start each one with the line ‘in a kinder world.’ But while I was editing it I was also thinking about how Love and Hate can often toe the same line.

Also specifically, Jiang Cheng’s character is so complex especially regarding his love and how its often misconstrued for hatred/anger. Or how, especially with siblings, you can love them but also be so angry with them at the same time. And that feeling can be so confusing and weird! Idk I feel a LOT about Jiang Cheng and his relationship with his siblings and so I broke up the pattern I established with the stanzas with the line (Is this burning love? Is it actually anger? //Is it both?). I also put this in parentheses because I wanted it to feel like a quiet voice in the character’s head. Almost like they don’t want to admit that they are confused or that they don’t want to admit that their love and anger are so jumbled up inside of them. It’s a quiet thought that they don’t want to confront yet.

4. Posting

Finally when I feel good about the poem (or I’m sick of looking at it lol) I screenshot it on my computer and post it to my poetry blog @poetryoutloud and post a transcript of it under the photo so others can read it as well :)!

BONUS: the draft of the poem vs what i ended up posting

Thanks for tagging me!!! Really so many of my mutuals are talented so if any of you want to show your process please use this to do so and please tag me!!

[currently-shushing-birds]

Selfishness VS Selflessness thoughts as I watch without context as to where I am in the video

(Anything put in parentheses was added the next day :) )

the opening is so cute

voices??

They're happy to see him

..ew

Hence the marriage

HE FAILED

THE INTRO (the intro had me litterally screaming)

"ApRiL 13tH" mocking us

PATTON

I love Patton so much

Yeah Thomas watch your language

F

ROMAN

SONG

HOLY SHIT SONG

Loving game Roman's hair

I'm shaking :))

"But you're gay.."

Language Roman

Roman is smart okay

He's not having second thoughts

"Hind sight is 20/20" stop

Thomas knows his friends okay

I genuinely feel really bad for Thomas

FERAL CATS!?

The laugh-

PATTON

Where's Virgil and Logan I miss them

Ugh Catholics (edit: I should add that I was realised Catholic like Thomas)

Patton is such a sweet angellll

I just saw how long this is damn

"N o"

Karma IS a bitch though

"Why does their complexion matter?" Icon

I want a new side

"Roman that-"

Thomas you are a good person-

Leave Patton alone

ROMAN BE NICE

"You're welcome :)" he's so proud

"A BAGEL!?"

GamessssstORE

F r o g

Frogger is an icon

Stop with the PUNS

I love Patton have I said that yet

"16 GRAPHICS :D"

Damn Roman

Ugh the "encounter" was not a new side

I adore Leslie Odom Jr so fucking much I've met him :)

Feed him >:(

"Liquid lipstick of Shakespeare"

6am sharp

Fight him

"Please don't tell me you're going to wrestle Tony award winning actor Leslie Odom JR"

Patton's smile increases my life span

LOGAN

"Whatcha Doooooin logan"

I missed Logan :(

Damnit nevermind

Roman...n o

"You shouldn't press other people's buttons" okay that one was okay

"Holy hera" Percy Jackson

"One more time Roman-"

Excuse me Logan spoke

Did y'all notice Patton is a terrible lawyer

Roman knows he's a jackass at times

NO

"I dont think it matters w h y you do something" knew it

Typical tuesday

....does that imply leslie has ass??

That's not correct...ACCORDING TO THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF-

"I was just blanking in the word Guy but sure"

ROMAN IS A GOOD PERSON STFU

How am I supposed to read Logan's lowdown while true talk fuck (edit: I ended up pausing)

I'm with Patton

Thank you Patton

Roman's hair looks nice

Thomas also looks dapper look at him

That train sound scared me

WE DONT LIKE TO USE THE T WORD IN THIS HOUSE

He apologised for it I cant

"rIGHT!?"

Jesus Logan's acting weird

THE BLINDS PATTON

DID YOU BREAK MY BLINDS

...is he okay I love him

He keeps gesturing to his nose poor guy

He's in love with Logan

Was that accent okay-

Thomas is so relatable

The signature Thomas look

I'm not to commenting on the serious things because I'm paying close attention sorry

I dont believe Roman is a bad person he just doesnt have the right motives

Give Roman a hug

I agree with Thomas

ROMAN APPRECIATION

...Patton what

Buff Thomas?

Logan!

Where's Virgil :((

ME TOO THOMAS ME TOO

"I completely agree with ya...but I really dont see how that applies to what we're talking about" he's always nice

All these metaphors are throwing me off tbh

That short sigh

"Correct me if I'm wrong"

"I- uh- YOURE WRONG"

...oo you're really (edit: I seriously have no clue what I meant to put here but okay-)

PATTON

Oh my god

Give patton help

This is freaking me out

I'm only 31 minutes in

It's almost unsympathetic Patton and it...scares me?

"It's up to you" is said so creepily and makes me super uncomfortable

THANK YOU LOGAN

....deciet's theme

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG

I hate Deciet

I hate him

Kinda...he's ok

Wtf

Nice put Padton

So okay serious right now. Deciet was misleading Patton's conscience to things that would throw him off thus throwing his moral compass into orbit. Patton isn't thinking straight, it cant be a fair fight can it?

Word weapon because words hurt

It's hard to focus when their characters are so cute

Patton is thinking straight since more

Thomas...

Battle of the sides

Oh shit. Oh shit oh shit oh shit

I hate that I love Deciets outfit but it's dope

Patton..

Roman is me

There's still 20 minutes left wtf

What are these analogies

Evan hansen vibes

ACTUAL LOGAN

Hey we care Logan

Logan dont be an ass

Wait so when did Deciet take over the Lowdowns

I'm going to assume it was when the text was on scene without speech

THAT FUCKING F A C E IM ROLLING

I dint know whether I hate deciet of appreciate him he's hard to like but very helpful

Roman's gay he cant do math

Deciet is a bitch

Okay but is Thomas okay?

Deciet has a point

Living for the video game music

I just noticed Deciet's (edit: got caught off guard by Deciet's name and I forgot what I was typing)

WHAT NAME?

J-...Janus

ROMAN N O

Ohhh that's..that's rough

Remus and Roman are completely different but Deciet has a damn good point

Oh gee Roman

Patton is so gentle towards Roman I'd kill for him

Roman...

No

Patton and Roman needs hug

LESLIE HE'S SORRY

Wait that's a c t u a l l y Leslie Odom JR

"This is Sanders Sides not Odom sides. I'm not threatened at all"

Everyone clapping is iconic

The background music is honestly amazing

Deciet I know you're That Bitch but stop

Patton is just so kind and he tries so hard

Look he's going to check on him

Thank you Janus

Is Deciet truly the mom side

Damn

Okay I like deciet but just...he can really make me freak out

SNAKE BOY

SNAKE ICON

He's right

Thomas said self love in a new way and I'm dead

That wink was super sweet

Oof

Thomas

DOOR YELLING IM SCREAMING

....he- okay thomas

Brunch Tuesdays

Patton made that pun

Patton and Deciet are hangin out

I'd watch Odom Sides

Okay that's all :)

[interdimensionalspaceworm]

alright lads, I almost forgot I was supposed to make this.

it’s the markiplier lore color post that I have made because I think way too much about these things

so let’s start at the very beginning (I've heard it’s a very good place to start)

(putting a thingy here because it’s probably going to be quite long; also, sorry for all the parentheses and the pretentiously complicated language)

Prologue

So at the beginning, the early egos, like Wilf and (not-yet-canon) Dark didn’t really have color schemes to them. It was just Mark doing weird shit (and it kinda still is, but I digress). Even in the cyndago days, Wilf didn’t really have consistency in his outfit choices, so beyond just pink there isn’t really a whole lot we can say about his color scheme at this point. And it isn’t really until the interview skits that he gained his classic outfit, with lots of pink, some tan, some white et cetera. We’ve all seen it, we all love it, and I think that these colors were picked just to look neat, to go well with the situation and with Wilf's flamboyant nature. All this starts to get more interesting, however, when we get to the lore proper.

The Lore™

I’d just like to say before I start that most of the things I will point out in this section are likely just coincidental. For example, Damien and Celine's association with blue and red respectively was most likely included in The Lore because those colors are most commonly associated with Dark's aura (although, in ADWM, his aura includes other colors, and in AHWM, it is overwhelmingly red, but that’s another post entirely). However, as the recovering game theory addict that I am, I enjoy making connections where none usually exist, and I've been thinking about this stuff for way too long. So enjoy! This means nothing!

I’m going to start with Actor, since he happens to be the center of all the lore, which I’m sure he’d be very happy to know. His color is red (any red, really, though he does share the color with his wife)- the robe he died in was red, he wears a red version of Damien's outfit in DAMIEN, and even in his appearances in ADWM and AHWM he has a red tie while he’s wearing his suit. So it’s safe to say that he is often associated with this color, and for good reason, of course: red is the color of energy, emotion, and anger, and Actor displays all of these (he is an actor, after all) in spades. But I believe that this choice of color is significant in another way. 

Several characters in The Lore have red, or a shade of red, associated with them. Actor uses it, Celine uses it, Colonel uses it (the handkerchief around his neck, his suspenders) and, as Wilf, he will later be very strongly associated with pink (side note: yes, I know it’s more of a magenta-ish pink than a light red, but bear with me). What does this mean? What do these specific characters have in common? Then it struck me.

In a word (or thirteen): all of these characters are known to be associated with the House Entity (I really wish we had a better name for it). And, by saying associated, I mean manipulated by it in different ways. The intensity of the red that they are associated with corresponds directly to the depth of their corruption: Actor's red is traditionally depicted as the darkest of the three, and as we all know, his connection to the Entity is the deepest, having been influenced into betraying his friends and gaining a myopic, narcissistic vision of the world due to it. Celine's red is still very saturated: as one-half-to-one-third of Dark, a corrupted version of her personality exists in him, and even on her own she has enough knowledge of the occult and connection with the Entity to create a time loop in which to house her brother. William is less straightforward: he was also, in some interpretations of WKM, influenced by the Entity as a child and/or while having his affair with Celine, hence the red he’s associated with as Colonel, but why the pink? 

First, imagine a laundry machine (please,,,, for the love of all that’s holy,,,, stay with me here). Today, you’re washing your white clothes. But there’s something you forgot: there’s a fucking red sock. In your valentino white clothes. Now all your nice clothes are fucking red. You try to wash it out as best you can, but the best you can do is make your formerly PERFECTLY OK white dress shirt pink. Fucking pink. You can try all you want, but you can never get rid of the traces that that red sock left behind. Wilf is the dress shirt in this scenario. He no longer uses red- the signal of corruption by the Entity- because he’s no longer connected with the Entity anymore. My theory is that, in going mad at the end of WKM, he somehow made his mind inhospitable to the Entity. His reality-altering powers stem from the Entity, most likely, and of course his mind was broken indirectly by it, but for the most part the Entity cannot possess him utterly like we see it do with Actor (for most, if not all, of the time we know him) and Celine (in that rather dramatic instance in WKM). He is free of its influence, but its traumatic power still hangs over him: the pink dress shirt stained by that long-gone red sock.

And so, as Wilford, William is associated with pink: traditionally the color of whimsy, and of love and compassion. Wilf has no lack of any of these: as we see in WMLW, he helps Abe out of his distress, and out of all the canon characters he is one of the few who actually seem to care about Y/N. And, of course, he’d never be complete without more than a bit of whimsy.

And then, finally, there’s Damien. He is associated, as we all know, with blue: the color of trust, confidence, and sincerity. This fits him well, clearly, and there’s not really too much to say about that: he is what he is.

As Dark, Damien and Celine's souls are twisted and their worst aspects brought to the forefront of their combined personality. This can also be seen in their color choices: red can be associated with anger, blue can be associated with coldness, and both these qualities can be seen in spades with Dark. It’s so fun when everything works out, huh?

To be honest, I could go on for ages about the use of color in all the other egos, the palette changing from greyscale to oversaturation and back in WMLW, and all kinds of other things. And I will. But not in this post. I’ve had this sitting in my drafts for ages and I hope y’all aren’t disappointed, but this is the product of like 5 whole minutes of thought, which is more than enough to tire me out. So I’m gonna end it here. Stay crazy, y’all!

[mypunkpansexualtwin]

Pathfinder Campaign weeks 3, 4, and 5! Partly as one post to keep one dungeon run in one place, partly because I’m lazy and kept putting it off. Once again we had:

@theta-thoughts​ The Benevolent GM (^^)

@actnonsense​ The Kitsune Magus, Yamato Nobuyuki/Akira Kuruso (++)

@babebot​ The Ratfolk Alchemist, Durn (–)

@tobiyond​ The Tengu Rogue, Cial (~~)

and me, The Kval Barbarian, Blink Tehnk (==)

(Those little bits in the parentheses are for when I’m typing out quotes, so y’all know who’s talking. 1 for in character, 2 for OOC. Also, to my gaymers, feel free to reblog with the stuff you remember, or you liked better, or stuff I missed. It’s our game and I like seeing your thoughts too. Since these are from my perspective they get a little Blink centric.)

Week 3

  ^^ “Okay, Tobi wasn’t here last week, anyone wanna give him the summary of everything you found out shopping?”   == “*quick and dirty rundown of everything I remembered, which I’m impressed with remembering as much as I did cause dissociation.* Plus the big stuff got added to the story tab in discord Theta left for us. I’m pretty sure I forgot something though.”   ~~ ”Alright, cool.”   ^^ ”No, yeah, you got it. Wanna go over it again in voice where we can all hear you or are we all good with what they wrote?”   == “Uhhhhhh…..”   ~~ ”Nah, we good.”

Waking up Act again, this time with the ps messenger app, feeling a little bad about it cause I’m well versed in the ways of the fucked up sleep schedule.

  ^^ ”Alright, so Lady Origena has summoned you four to talk about the kobold clan that’s becoming a threat to the city.”   == “THAT’S what I forgot. Tobi, the kobolds are restless.”   ~~ ”Thanks, Momo.”

Theta giving us the rundown on the whole situation as the NPC, asking us if we have any questions, and getting a solid 10 seconds of “Uuhhhhhhhhhhh.” 

Getting to the quarry where the kobolds made their home and immediately getting into a fight. Akira/Yamato using magic match #1 to set a kobold on fire, and watching them jump off the cliff and into the lake 30 feet down.

  = “Oh god durn it.” (After Durn walked out into the open, prompting that fight.)   ~~ “Goddammit Momo.”   == “I’m hilarious.”

Theta showing off the benefits of his newly acquired roll20 premium account and all the neato lighting effects that came with it.

  ++ “Okay, I cast color spray on these guys.”   ^^ “Blink is standing right there.”   ++ “What? He’s tiny, he should be able to duck under it. I’m casting.”   ^^ “Momo, roll a will save…. Okay, you took the blast, but shake the effects off easily.”   == “Oh good.”

Cial also getting a nat 20 on seeing through the “No I’m not a kitsune, we’re two different people” thing that Act has going for Yamato/Akira, but all of us agreeing to go with it anyway.

  ^^ “Guys, don’t split the party.”

Immediately splitting the party when Akira/Yamato takes off after a kobold that bolted but the rest of us stay to loot the ones we beat, then follow a different tunnel.

Nothing especially eventful for most of the route that Blink, Durn, and Cial took except avoiding a small pitfall trap.

Yamato/Akira’s route, on the other hand, had an ambush of like a dozen kobolds.

Switching between us and Act doing our things like some kind of action comedy sequence as we’re talking to a newly found NPC, Nighttail.

  ^ “Help me kill the Chief and let me take over, the rest of these guys will fall in line. You don’t need to kill everyone.” *Hard cut to Akira/Yamato literally setting fire to a group of kobolds with  magic match #2.*   ^ “I can get you around the traps in this area with almost no trouble.” *Cue failed stealth check as he walks into the line of fire for yet another group of kobolds* And so on and so forth.

Getting her out of the trash heap, giving her stuff back, then helping her get her pet velociraptor thing, Hack, back.

  ^^ “Roll knowledge nature.” *two nat 1s from Blink and Durn.*   - “The fuck is a lizard?”   = “Well, I think it has two legs.”

Everyone taking a moment to pet Hack.

  ^^ “Roll perception guys.”   ~~ “Uh oh.”   ^^ “You all notice you haven’t seen Akira in a while.”   ++ “You don’t say.”   = “Shit, we lost Fluffy.”

Hearing Act’s big fight down the tunnel fork we didn’t take before, which was a much shorter, easier trip than he had.

  ^ “Wait, your friend is in there? That’s the room we use to trick stupid adventurers into walking into a crossfire. It’s a complete dead end.”

The group snickering while we help wrap up the fight because the npc (and by extension, Theta) basically just called Akira/Yamato an idiot.

The repeated interaction:     - “I’m gonna throw a bomb!”   + “Try not to throw it at me again.”   - “That was one time! I panicked! I got shot!”   + “Yeah, you don’t see me with the friendly fire.”   = “No, because you tried to blind me with it.”   + “Listen, that is not the same.”   - “Maybe I’m still dazzled by color spray, but I don’t actually see much difference.”

Seriously, some variation of that argument was had at least 3 times each session between David, Act, and me.

  ^ “I’m sure you’re here to free the slaves my clan has taken as well.” Yes, we are absolutely here to do that. Definitely the main reason why we came.

Getting into a fight with the kobolds keeping the human slaves penned up and killing them all. (The kobolds, not the hostages, although we did have a brief scare with a missed shot.) Blink being deeply bothered by killing the one about to surrender because that’s what happens when you’re Good.

Durn and Akira/Yamato demolishing a group of rats that came up behind us as we were getting ready to lead the people back to town. Neither Cial or Blink even had a chance to react before they were all dead.

Week 4

Going deeper into the cave system and literally dropping in on a kobold while he’s fishing. Blink charging in and hitting him in the kneecap so hard he passes out. 

Cial touching things with his little crow feet. Standing on dead bodies and squishing his toes, dipping his feet into the water in the caves, at one point using his foot to save a teammate from falling into a pit, that sort of thing.

Foiling an ambush that would have dropped us into water traps with snapping turtles. Accidentally knocking one of the dead kobolds into the water and finding out that they were most definitely carnivorous snapping turtles.

Theta talking to himself to make NPCs interact. (That one is pretty much a given in every campaign.)

  = “I won’t argue with y’all about killing these guys since they were grabbing slaves, but since they’ll fall in line when we get Nighttail here put in charge, I’m sticking with nonlethal until we get to Chief Dicksplat.”   ^ “Hah! Yes, Chief Dicksplat!”

Blink is Tiny and can therefore occupy the same space as other creatures and it is in fact the only way he can land a melee attack. However, when using a sling, it is not recommended. For example, he might miss and accidentally almost break Durn’s kneecap. That is not hypothetical. He felt terrible.

  - “It’s okay, it’ll heal. (–) And I’d be a real jerk if I kept bringing it up.”   ++ “Listen.”

The party briefly splitting up again to check the room, thankfully not going very far this time.

Cial apparently being Blink’s lucky charm when it comes to finding sweet sweet loot. Or vice versa. Either way, they found the armory.

  ~ “The rest of you guys can take what you like, but I’m keeping the masterwork longsword and selling it.”   = “I could use it, but that’s cool. Dibs on the sling bullets though. All 120 of them. Plus a backup sling cause there’s 4.”

Cial dejectedly passing the sword off to Blink cause he can use it and it’s also better than his mace, plus Cold Iron is good against demons. Blink has a thing about demons.

Returning to Yamato/Akira and Durn to find an ancient kobold on his deathbed with long-term storyline info.

Theta playing the audio for said info, someone’s mic picking it up on discord, and creating an echo which made the foreboding exposition about 10000% more fuckin foreboding. Couldn’t have planned that shit. Unfortunately it made him basically impossible to understand, but Theta kindly transcribed it into the chat too.

Durn checking a closed but unlocked room ahead of us while stealthed and finding a dead-end room full of gigantic dire rats. Immediately needing them as pets.

  + “Does he see these rats at like… puppies or something?”   = “Probably more like how humans see monkeys.”   + “… How the hell do humans see monkeys? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a monkey. Pretty sure any monkey back home would have been made lunch immediately.”   = “Well I’ve gotten compared to little ones with mixed reactions. My guess is they usually think they’re cute judging by the fact they called me "freaky bald blue monkey thing.”   + “That… doesn’t seem like a sign of affection. But I can see your point, sorta.”   = “Well y'know, if they had to specify "freaky thing” they are not usually… blue and bald. With horns. And huge teeth. My impression is they’re supposed to be cute and funny. And before you get smart with me, I know that I’m very much not cute or funny.“   + "Did… did anyone else here an explosion?” (Durn was using some of his alchemy bombs.)

Half an hour later, Durn walking out with one drugged, slightly dazed, but loyal dire rat, now named Pickles. (Blink’s suggestion, made at random.)

Almost immediately walking into another crossfire booby trap.

  ^ “Did he just hit me with one of our bullets?”

  ~ “Lemme just straddle Blink here so I can line up my shot.”   == “Kinky. Or it would be, if there was anything to straddle.”

Having the party drag me along by my tail after that fight so I can set up macros for my new sword in roll20 and immediately coming up against a miniboss. Who summoned skeletons. That have high resistance to piercing and slashing damage. Like a sword would do. But are weak against bludgeoning damage. Like a mace would do. Like the mace that I had just unequipped and put in my bag.

  ^^ “Akira, you recognize the spell she just used as a protect spell that increases her AC against good-aligned characters.”   + “She cast protect good, not realizing that half of this party doesn’t give a shit and are just here for the money/adventure.”   - “Hah!”   ~ “Shit.”   = “Oh goddammit.”

“Nighttail” reminding us that since skeletons are undead, healing hurts them. Blink using one of his potions and finally damaging the skeleton he was up against.

  ^^ “The sorceress uses a spell and restores the hp of her minions.”   = “Well that just wasted my damn potion.”

Blink standing there basically just taking a beating so his skeleton doesn’t try and go after someone squishier.

  ++��“I’m gonna use my last match on her.”   ^^ “Alright. Aaand…. She made the save. She pats out the fire easily and gives you a dirty look.”   ++ “Well, fuck.”

The fight looking pretty grim until Nighttail and Hack charge in a second time (they missed the first time) and fucking skewer the sorceress beating our asses.

Blink basically immediately falling in love with her right there and being deeply confused and perturbed by this because this is a New Feeling he has no name for. When you spontaneously manifest fully formed and live for over a century and a half, you think you’ve got yourself figured out. New is nerve-wracking.

Cial getting dibs on her cloak of resistance, which Akira points out should have a big hole in it. GM rolls a d1 and says “nah dude, magic.”

  ^^ “Alright it’s late enough I’m not gonna add up all your experience for this run, but I know you all were really close to leveling so go ahead and start working on that and if you guys want we can roll for your next magic items.”

Blink got a Saddle of Transformation, which turns any creature you put it on into a horse, and the wearer can’t take it off by themself. Yes, it works on humanoids.

Durn got a Preservative Jar. “Anything placed in this jar enters stasis. Cannot hold anything bigger than a toad. Currently holds a toad.” 

Akira/Yamato got a Seed of Moon Ice. If dropped in a body of water, will “freeze” an area up to 20’ diameter. If swallowed, you die. If touched, save or die. Leaves awesomely frozen corpses that are not cold to the touch and never thaw.

Can’t remember for the life of me if Cial got one this run or what it was, but last time he got the Wand of Necromantic Cooking, which can enchant a corpse or cut of meat to cut, prepare, marinate, and cook itself. A slaughtered pig will seek out gravy to roll around in. Sausages will jump into the saucepan, and then seek out your plate when cooked. Which sounds awesome, I’d love that in real life.

Week 5

Late start by a few hours, partly due to scheduling, partly because I was the only good little cookie who actually did their dang leveling. (Admittedly I did that mostly because I didn’t wanna forget to do all the stuff I needed to switch over to the Titan Mauler archetype. When you’re Tiny, it pays to have bonuses against enemies bigger than you, because that’s pretty much everything we fight.)

While doing my changes, I double checked my weapon damage types. Apparently there were four slings for a reason. At least we know that for the next time we run into skeleleletons.

  == “I already did my character stuff, Theta, do I get a sticker?”   ^^ “Yes.”   == “Yaaayyyy, stickers!”

Akira/Yamato getting to level 3, meaning he gets his black blade, which is a sentient sword that’ll get more powerful and more full of itself as he levels. This took the form of a cane sword that he found in the base of the statue that the miniboss was praying at before she was so rudely impaled interrupted.

  ^^ “…And reflects the user’s personality.”   == “What? No, I’m a cane not a sword, that’s the other guy. Frankly I’m insulted you’d even insinuate such a thing.”   ++ “I… well shit. Yeah.”

Akira growing a second tail. The meaty crunching noise described was gross and disturbing.

  ~ “Should you be picking up the sword that came out of the statue that the evil sorceress was praying to?”   + “Pshh, it’ll be fine. It’s calling to me, I’m pretty sure I’m supposed to have this.”   == “In pathfinder game, sword seduce you.”

Finding the Guards of the Future, which initially intrigued us because Durn failed his stealth check and they didn’t immediately attack us.

The literal squealing in delight from me, Tobi, and David when a kobold baby darted out from behind the guards and hugged Durn, making him very homesick for his own siblings. (Admittedly the squealing was mostly me, and I’m counting it all as “in character” especially cause babies are a novelty for Blink.)

The guards warning us about a nasty trap up ahead in return for us leaving the babies alone. Seriously, this trap would have shredded us in a ball of fiery death. Instead, Durn disarmed it and we each got 3 flasks of Alchemist’s Fire.

Promptly using that fire on a handful of guards between us and the dungeon boss and setting like 4 of them on fire. It was nice that we were the ones who got to make the dramatic entrance for once.

Another instance where Theta played dialog from a character and the echo made it super foreboding, but also almost completely unintelligible. Thankfully another transcription was provided.

  == “Alright, I’m gonna use my detect evil spell-like, cause I get bonuses against evil characters.”   ^^ “Every enemy in this room is Lawful Evil.”   == “Yessssss. I’m gonna rage too, these guys are fucked.

Killing the guards that were on fire before the fire actually had a chance to do any damage.

Cial squishing his toes in burnt corpse.

Chief Roaghaz making illusion clones of himself, and me having the idea to ask if my detect evil would still show him or if all of them counted. Didn’t work, but it was a solid plan.

Blink yelling his permission to Durn to throw another flask of Alchemist’s Fire at the swarm of boss. That Blink was standing directly under.

  - “You sure?”   = “Do it!”   ^^ “Roll a reflex save, Momo… You dodge it and take no damage.”   = “Fuck yeah!”   ^^ “And three of the illusions disappear.”

Blink having the time of his damn life because of the rage, killing evil, and dodging friendly fire entirely unscathed for the second time that day. Less pleased about missing all his attacks of opportunity. (And I didn’t make any jokes about missed opportunities. Which feels like exactly that.)

  ^^ “Roaghaz’s teeth grow to immense size and he tries to take a bite out of Nighttail. He really seems to have it in for her.”   - “He’s a vampire!”   ^^ “No, it was all his teeth that grew, not just the two.”   – “Oh.”

Continuing to beat on Chief Dicksplat and wondering more than once how many hit points does this asshole have?

Theta talking to himself some more to make Nighttail and Roaghaz argue with each other while they fought.

Act (Akira/Yamato) using up his hero points to finally just fucking kill the bastard.

Finally just fucking killing the bastard.

The Guards of the Future coming in after the fight, relieved to find Chief Dicksplat dead and satisfied to put Nighttail in charge. Babby kobold happy to see Durn again.

  = “Well I was gonna butcher this guy here to add to my rations, but there’s guards and a kid here, so I don’t think I’m comfortable with that anymore.”   ^^ “The guards usher the child back to her room and Nighttail follows them to go and get things sorted out.”   == “Thank you.”   ~ “I can use my wand if you want, he’ll butcher himself.”   = “Nah, I’m good. This is my favorite part.” (Kval can eat pretty much anything and Evil is especially tasty.)

Getting like two rations’ worth of meat off of him while the others search his stuff, and finding dragon’s scales among his things. Definitely not foreshadowing.

Divvying up the Chief’s stuff between us, but Blink not really paying attention besides the cash because he didn’t really have anything he wanted. Akira/Yamato got a scroll to add to his permanent spellbook though, so that was cool. Basically an upgraded version of color spray, less thrilled about that.

Getting back to Lady Origena to explain the whole situation and ending up kinda babbling over each other. She’s not convinced until Cial steps in and explains in a concise manner that none of the rest of us were able to.

Akira/Yamato going back to talk with Bassy, the gnome woman from week 2 to regale her with the story, and the rest of us stocking up for our next adventure.

And that session wrapped up Chapter 1 of the long-term campaign. We did more for Week 5, but I’m gonna make that the beginning of next week’s post for the sake of keeping the next dungeon together.

[moonlit-nightsky]

Koi wo Shiranai Bokutachi wa (We Don’t Know Love Yet) - Chapter 1 -  Translation

Are you guys interested in Minami Mizuno’s (Nijiiro Days) new work, Koi wo Shiranai Bokutachi wa, or, We Don’t Know Love Yet?

I had some free time this week so I decided to try to translate the first chapter!  The art is gorgeous and the story seems to be interesting.

Follow the translations with the raws from this website or this one. I hope you enjoy it!~

Since this is the first chapter, here is brief introduction of the characters:

Eiji Aihara: the main character, he’s a library committee member

Naohiko Bessho: main character’s friend since middle school

Ikezawa: Eiji and Naohiko’s classmate, also a library committee member

Taichi: library committee member

Unnamed girl: seems like she’ll appear more in the next chapters (she is in the color spread after all)

Izumi: Naohiko’s girlfriend and Eiji’s friend from middle school  (I think it’s her in the picture)

Notes: I used “” for thought bubbles, () for handwritten text outside the speech bubbles, ** for onomatopoeia and the texts that are in squares in the manga i left without any mark, I hope it’s easy to understand!

p.1 It’s something I didn’t realize. At that time, If I did it this way, Even if I thought about it afterwards, It’d be already too late.

p.2-3 We meet new people and then we discover new emotions

p.4 When I was a middle schooler, if I found a senior that was cute, I’d be excited all by myself Girl: Ah, Aihara-ku-n Girl: Here, here! Girl: Look down! *peeks* Eiji: ?

p.5 Eiji: Ah, those girls are from the tennis club. That girl is Ooi-senpai. (I saw her at the club presentation) Eiji: They were waving at me so I waved back anyways… *smiles* But now Eiji: It’s kind of weird… Naohiko: Eiji! Eiji: Oh, Naohiko!! Hey! Naohiko: Hey!

p.6 Naohiko: What is that? Are you still watching the seniors? (You really like that) Eiji: That’s not it! I was called from below so I was replying Eiji: As expected, I’ve grown taller Eiji: And, gradually, I’ve become cool!! Naohiko: You’ve really grown taller Naohiko: Even though, you were so small in middle school Eiji: I wasn’t that small!! What about you? You wore glasses, right? Naohiko: It’s difficult to do club activities while wearing glasses!!! Naohiko: Well, instead of talking about those things Naohiko: Eiji, did you do your homework?

p.7 Eiji: I completely forgot...!! entirely blank Naohiko: I knew it… if you don’t do it fast, the person in charge today will collect it. Ikezawa: Aihara-kun Ikezawa: I’m collecting the english homework… ……..... *stares* Eiji: Hehe… Eiji: Ikezawa, are you in charge today~~? Eiji: Sorry, but I’ll turn it in myself *aah* Ikezawa: It looks like it

p.8 Ikezawa: Also, today is the day of duty of library committee members Ikezawa: The other day you skipped it, right? Eiji: No, that’s not it Eiji: That day I just forgot it… Ikezawa: If you don’t come, I’ll be enraged Ikezawa: Be sure to come Eiji: … Yes… Ikezawa: Then, I’m counting on you Eiji: I’m not good dealing with her… (Ugh) Eiji: She’s always angry at me…. (it’s scary) Naohiko: It’s your fault, right? Naohiko: She’s usually kind to me Eiji: What!!?

p.9 Eiji: You are cheating!! You are cheating, right!? Naohiko: What!!? That’ not it. She’s just a nice person… *rings* Naohiko: …!! That timing Eiji: Doesn’t she have a good sense of suspiciousness? Naohiko: Stop it! I didn’t mean that!! (That’s not it) Eiji: Hehe Eiji: Is Izumi doing okay?

p.10 Naohiko: She’s fine Izumi’s message: Good morning~ It’s raining since morning here >_< It’d be good if the sky cleared soon Izumi is Naohiko’s girlfriend and now they are in a long distance relationship The three of us went to the same middle school We were good friends and always did things like going home together I don’t have a girlfriend, though Boy: (Hey! I looks like we’ll have soccer in PE) Eiji: (Really!? That’s great!!)

p.11 I entered high school and several months went by I even got used to the new environment And somehow I’m living happily It should be like this, but Sometimes, suddenly, I feel that there’s something lacking

p.12 I wonder why…... 「Re-submission」 Eiji: “……..” Eiji: “Maybe I’m lacking studying……” Eiji: “It must not be that kind of problem…” Naohiko: Eiji! I’m going to my club activities Eiji: Ah! I’m also going to the library Ah! It must be my imagination!! *slam* Eiji: Hey

p.13 Ikezawa: You’re late! Eiji: Ikezawa, you could have waited for me. We are in the same classroom Ikezawa: Weren’t you with Bessho? Eiji: Even if I was with Naohiko you could have called me Ikezawa: Yes, yes, I understand. For the time being, you can join me here Eiji: Hey… So, it’s only the two of us…? Ikezawa: (What is this, another mistake?) Eiji: It’s kind of awkward… (she must be angry again)

p.14 *sigh* Taichi: Ah, hey!! Eiji: Tachi!! A friend is here! Eiji: Taichi, you also came today? Taichi: Yup, only Nagato-senpai is not here Eiji: What do we have to do? Taichi: Just stick the labels~ Eiji: That’s easy! I’m glad we don’t have to go outside. We’ll finish it soon Taichi: That other day I had to go to Yamanote library…

p.15 Eiji: Wow, that’s harsh!! I absolutely hate that! Taichi: Right!? We had to carry too much for only 3 people Ikezawa: Excuse-me Ikezawa: Please don’t talk in such a loud voice Ikezawa: What will we do if even the committee members are so loud? Eiji: Yes Taichi: ...…… *whisper* Eiji: She gets angry very easily Eiji: Don’t you also…. *gazey* Eiji: ………….

p.16 Eiji: Why is your face red? Taichi: Because she’s cute ♡ Eiji: No, she was angry, right? Taichi: That’s why? I feel that I’m lucky ♡ she got angry at me Eiji: You have a really weird taste!! Taichi: She’s cute when she’s serious!! (And her eyes are pretty!!) Eiji: Oh~ I really don’t understand~ I prefer… *jumps* Eiji: Ah Taichi: Prefer? Taichi: What?

p.17 Eiji: No… it’s nothing special... Taichi: Whoa! Putting in parentheses. So lewd Eiji: That’s not it Taichi: Really? Ah! Do you have a girlfriend? Eiji: I don’t Taichi: What about a girl you like? Eiji: There isn’t one Taichi: What? So boring Eiji:  Why is that? Taichi: Well, that’s not fun Eiji: ….fun. It’s fun Eiji: At least sometimes

p.18 Eiji: But, still, I feel something is lacking Taichi: That’s it! Eiji: What? Taichi: Because you don’t have a girl you like! Taichi: Because you are a lonely boy, it’s boring! Eiji: ……… Eiji: I’m not lonely!! And it’s not boring!! (And what’s up with that face?) Taichi: Is that so? (hum)

p.19 Taichi: Since I’ve joined the library committee, things have gotten su-per fun ♡ Eiji: ………… Taichi: You know, girls Taichi: even boys would think so!! *gasp* *roar* Ikezawa: …how many times… do I have to call your attention…….. *scowl* I even if it’s fun I don’t like such a scary girl

p.20 Naohiko: Ahaha! Naohiko: Then, yesterday she got angry at you twice Naohiko: Indeed, in the morning she also scolded you Eiji: That’s right. But it was because Taichi had such a nice story Naohiko: Taichi must be that guy Naohiko: The one with long hair from class 2, Senami Eiji: Right, right Naohiko: He must be a funny guy. Next time, introduce him to me Eiji: Alright, but he’s weird Eiji: It looks like he’s interested in Ikezawa

p.21 Eiji: I mean, Ikezawa is not in the cafeteria, right? *looks around* Naohiko: I don’t see her If she heard it She’d get angry again Nagato: Ah! Aihara-kun! Eiji: Nagato-senpai! Nagato: Didn’t you forget your charger in the library? Nagato: I saw your mark in it Eiji: Woah, really? I’ll go look for it Eiji: Sorry, Naohiko. I’ll go take a look Naohiko: Okay~ See you in the classroom I’m relieved~ It was in the library

p. 22 Yesterday, I went home leaving it there Eiji: Hey! I forgot something so can I enter in the back? Girl: It’s okay~ Eiji: It’s really here! Eiji: I don’t have to buy a new one Ack! Ikezawa!! Eiji: Yo- you were here… Ikezawa: Yes, what is it?

p.23 Eiji: No, I just came to get something I forgot Ikezawa: The charger? Ikezawa: I was thinking who’d be charging stuff here Eiji: Haha….. Eiji: Well… Eiji: Ah! Are you taking that down? Should I help? Ikezawa: ...it’s alright Ikezawa: It doesn’t seem to be that heavy Ikezawa: It’s fine Eiji: No, because on top…. *shaky*

p.24 Eiji: Ah… *shaky* Eiji: It’s danger- Ikezawa: Eh? Ikezawa: Kya… !! *thump* *rustle**rustle**rustle* Eiji: Whoa-.... Eiji: There were books inside as well. It hurts-.... Eiji: Are you alright!!? Eiji: Ikezawa!!!

p.26 Ikezawa: Ye- yes…. Eiji: That’s good. Then you can get out Eiji: I’ll put this down Eiji: I mean, this is also heavy. What is inside this? Ikezawa: Thank- Girl: Hey! Girl: Is everything okay!!? Did something fall!? Eiji: Yeah, everything’s okay. The small one just fell, but Eiji: I could hold the big one. And...!! *throb* Eiji: ……..

p.27 Somehow It seems twisted Eiji: As expected… Eiji: Isn’t a bandage wound exaggerated? Eiji: It doesn’t hurt that much Naohiko: Still, it’s better not to move too much Eiji: Hmph… This is a man’s honour… (It can’t be helped) Naohiko: Hey, take a look outside Naohiko: Because you did something rare, like helping a girl Naohiko: It started raining like this (Now, club activities will be muscle training) *pouring rain* Eiji: That has nothing to do with raining, right?

p.28 Eiji: Since long before, I’m a man that helps other people!! Naohiko: First time I hear this Girl: Do the cleaning, you two~ See 'ya Bye bye! *grasp**grasp* Eiji: “It hurts a bit when I put force in it” Eiji: “To have twisted it like this” Eiji: “It’s weakened...” (shit) Well, rather than worrying about that

p.29 I should be worrying about this rain *pouring rain* Eiji: “I don’t have an umbrella” Eiji: “And I didn’t look the weather forecast...” Eiji: “It doesn’t look like it’ll stop” (What should I do?) *whoosh* Eiji: ……….. Eiji: He- hey... Eiji: You didn’t bring an umbrella as well? Ikezawa: What? I brought it *pulls*

p.30 Eiji: Of course Eiji: Ikezawa is the kind of person that would bring it Ikezawa: ………. Ikezawa: Wanna come with me? Eiji: You’re kidding, right!? What happened, Ikezawa!! (You’re being gentle!!) Ikezawa: Rude!! Ikezawa: I’d do that much, at least Ikezawa: You don’t have an umbrella, right?! Eiji: Yup (I’m worried about it) Eiji: “Hm? Wait?” (Thinking about it….) “Taichi: I got a thing for Ikezawa”

p.31 Eiji: Well, sorry. Let’s stop this~ Ikezawa: It’s only until the station. Let’s go Eiji: No, it’s that... Ikezawa: I have no ulterior motives, so relax Ikezawa: It’s just an apology Ikezawa: Since you covered me Ikezawa: Thank you very much Eiji: ……..ah-………

p.32 Eiji: You are, unexpectedly, honest… Ikezawa: …………… Ikezawa: It’s not unexpected Eiji: Haha Eiji: Okay!! *splash* Eiji: I’ll accept your kind offer, just this time (Excuse-me) Ikezawa: Go ahead (It’s narrow, though)

p.33 Ikezawa: Is your hand okay? Eiji: I can handle it Taichi: ………. *pouring rain* Boy: Hey Aihara Eiji: Heey!

p.34 Eiji: Ah, Taichi! Morning! Taichi: Do you Taichi: have a minute? Eiji: Why did we have to come to a corner? Taichi: Yesterday Taichi: You went home with Ikezawa, right?

p.35 Eiji: Ah… Yup, I went with her until the station under her umbrella Eiji: She said it was an apology Taichi: What do you mean by apology?! Eiji: I covered her when things were going to fall over her Eiji: Before going home I thought about you, but it was just a favor Eiji: I even rejected her offer once!! Taichi: ……….. Eiji: As expected, it was bad…. Taichi: Bad… It’s not that it was bad Taichi: That’s not it…

p.36 Taichi: It’s that you Taichi: You’re so sly!! Eiji: …!!! Eiji: Well, I’m really sorry Eiji: It was only an accident Taichi: Even if it was an accident, I should have saved her!! Taichi: This way she’d have shared the umbrella with me!! Taichi: Can’t it be that you are actually into her!? Eiji: What!?

p.37 Eiji: Of course not!! Eiji: Idiot! Taichi: To begin with, you are in the same classroom, right!!? Taichi: You are sly, and that’s the first reason!! Eiji: That’s not it!! Taichi: What!? I should be the one angry here!! Eiji: You! You are the one picking weird fights here!! Eiji: Before picking a fight with me, confess to her!! Taichi: ……that…

p.38 Taichi: If I could… Taichi: I wouldn’t be doing such a lame thing Eiji: ...What is that face? Eiji: Shouldn’t it be fun Eiji: When you have a person you like Eiji: It doesn’t look fun in the least Taichi: …it is Taichi: But Taichi: It can also be painful Taichi: You understand that much…

p.39 Eiji: ….I don’t Eiji: For me there was nothing but pain Taichi: What? Eiji: ...for the time being Eiji: You losing your temper at me was a mistake Eiji: Nothing happened, so calm down Eiji: Do that only after you are in a relationship Taichi: …….. Taichi: ...sorry Eiji: It’s fine but Eiji: Do you really understand Ikezawa?

p.40 Taichi: I’m really sorry… Eiji: Even if you are jealous, don’t get carried away!! Eiji: It seems that, before long, you’ll start saying things like “don’t talk to me” (That’s unreasonable) Taichi: Of course I wouldn’t say that!! Taichi: Shit~ I’m acting like a girl…!! Argh Taichi: In truth, I have no reason to be like that Eiji: That’s true. And that face? Taichi: My face has nothing to do with it!! Eiji: Joking. Joking. (hehe) Eiji: Everybody is like that Eiji: You don’t have to worry about it

p.41 Eiji: Even I Eiji: Went through something similar Taichi: …. Taichi: You really… Taichi: Are not into Ikezawa? Eiji: I’m not!! (You are persistent) Looking at Taichi, Once again, I start wondering

p.42 If the thing I feel I’m lacking is Not being in love with someone Naohiko: Ah Naohiko: “I found Eiji!!“ Naohiko: “He’s with Senami” Naohiko: “It’s early!” Naohiko: He-y! Naohiko: Eiji!!? *bam*

p.43 Naohiko: Ouch... Girl: Ah Girl: I’m sorry... Naohiko: No… *step step* Naohiko: She’s carrying a lot of bags. Was there something today...? That’s why I’ve decided I won’t fall in love Since that time message: (Naohiko) Earlier, suddenly I found Eiji… message: (Naohiko) And then, in the morning he was quarreling with a friend and then they became really close. He’s amazing lolol Izumi (?): *giggle* Izumi: What is Eiji doing? Izumi: It must be fun… Right? Izumi

So, what did you guys think? I’d love to hear your thoughts! Feel free to leave it on the comments bellow (if you are using a pc) or send an ask ^^

[scenarios-on-ice]

“…I’m sorry, what?”

Time to move on to a new song

“LUNA

If only you had heard the shit he said about you, I doubt you would have let it slide, and I was not about to! I came to ask you for advice, this is my very first duel…they don’t exactly cover this subject in fandom school…”

(Yes I know this is actually worse than One Last Time)

You know somebody is a cinnamon roll when you know literally nothing about them but then you read a comment they make on a manga or a random tweet of theirs and you automatically go “awww how adorable”. Ishida is apparently one of those ‘Looks like a cinnamon roll but could actually kill you’ types.

I don’t watch the AoT anime anymore because I don’t really like how it handles the characters (namely Mikasa, Annie and Eren; plus there wasn’t much of a point in watching it since it never advanced beyond the Female Titan arc until now) but I saw S2’s trailer and it does look amazing! The animation is as beautiful as ever :) maybe I’ll give it a chance if I have the time!

So…here’s more TG/Ham angst ^^ I have no idea how to make AMVs or MMVs but for some reason I decided it would be fun to write this little plan for a Wait for It MMV for TG. Here’s a snippet of the mess I ended up creating (the lyrics are in italics and everything in parentheses is the scene/panel I would like to appear during that lyric):

Love doesn’t discriminate

(Nishiki & Kimi or Yoshimura & Ukina)

Between the sinners

(Kureo Mado)

And the saints

(Hinami)

It takes

(the scene with Mado’s wedding ring)

And it takes

(Tsukiyama lying on the rooftop after Kaneki leaves him)

And it takes

(Kurona reaching out for Nashiro before Juuzou kills her)

And we keep loving anyway

(Kanae falling with Shuu)

We laugh

(Yoriko & Touka)

And we cry

(Akira crying after Amon and Takizawa’s ‘deaths’)

And we break

(Mutsuki comforting Urie in the auction arc)

And we make our mistakes

(Touka lashing out at Kaneki on the bridge in the first series)

I might regret sending this because it’s so messy XD Sorry just ignore it

Aww, thank you! I love anaylzing characters and scenes when I’m not too lazy to do so.

It’s interesting to compare characters too, how they can be similar and different at the same time- character relationships are also a lot of fun to analyze.

Speaking of that, though…

SPOILERS AND RAMBLING ABOUT TG’S RECENT CHAPTERS; BEWARE

(So, we got that Amon/Kaneki convo.

Amon: “The people you thought you lost…your friends and acquaintances…what if they somehow returned to you? How would that make you feel?”

Kaneki: “It’d be frightening. Because I’ll have forgotten their names.”

Maybe I’m being weird but I seem to recall the White Suits telling Miza that they followed Naki because no matter how thick he seems, he never forgets a friend and he has never forgotten the names of the people he fought with (he keeps apologizing to the dead members of his group every night). Kaneki’s statement that he’s 'forgotten’ the names of his lost loved ones seems to contrast with Naki’s behavior. Don’t know if this was on purpose or not but if it was, that would be cool.

We also got a Touka/Akira convo, which was really interesting.

Touka and Akira reached a tentative sort-of beginning of an understanding through their less-than-ideal fathers: When Akira claimed she was never ashamed or remorseful for the ghouls she hunted and that she was proud of her father’s legacy, Touka asked Akira if she’d never considered how things might have been if Kureo Mado hadn’t been so bent on revenge. She then admitted that she wasn’t proud of her own father either; that she’d resented him for being so obsessed with avenging her mother and that she’d been angry with herself for being unable to comfort him or make him stay with her or Ayato.

Judging from Akira’s expression and the way she said 'don’t you dare’, she probably did think of 'what if father hadn’t…’ before.

I also like how things are being represented. While Akira still has a long way to go compared to people like Kaneki, Touka, Nishiki, Hinami, or even Amon and Shuu, she’s not shown as being entirely in the wrong here. An interesting scene is when Touka leads Akira outside and shows her three young children playing together; Akira’s confused for a moment before Touka tells her that the children are ghouls.

Akira remarks that no matter if they’ve been orphaned, no matter the trauma they’ve gone through, these children are still going to grow up to hunt and devour humans and that is just a fact of life that can’t be helped. Later on, when Touka convinces the children to give Akira a hug, their first instincts are to remark that she(Akira) smells nice and that they’re getting hungry.

It’s a completely innocent statement with no harmful intention behind it, but it reminds us once again that peace isn’t going to be easy and that in different circumstances, Akira would be food to these children. Or they would be her victims.

Hinami also met Akira. Those two haven’t talked yet but they’ve hugged…?

Last note:

Furuta’s got his hands on Rize.

Y.

Did Shachi take her. That might explain it since he died at Arima’s hands so the CCG could have gotten Rize after that. If that’s the case…

Shachi, you’re a good dad but leaving her with Yomo might, MIGHT have been better for everybody in the long run.

Except Furuta, but nobody cares about him.)

OMG THE COLORS ARE SO PRETTY I’ve got to watch that now, if only for the visuals (I mean, I’m sure it’s got good characters and/or a sound plot too, I just think the art is lovely)

Thanks :D I’ve heard of Boku no Hero Academia too, time to look up the plot for that one…

I think the problem with me is that I usually join the most mainstream fandoms because I like to have a lot of fics to read and a lot of people with different opinions to discuss things with. That’s kind of why I dropped out of the Vocaloid and Evillious Chronicles fandoms…

Anyway, I’ll try to check out all your recs! Thank you again!

"Okay, Evans, my sweet cinnamon roll, here’s what you’re gonna do. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ENTER THAT DUEL AT ALL, YA HEAR ME??”

Yes, it is much, much worse.

Yeah, he does seem like one of those hahah Honestly, for some reason my favorite 'cinnamon roll types’ are 'looks like he could kill you, but is actually a cinnamon roll’ and 'looks like a cinnamon roll, but could actually kill you’. Aaaand, I’m gonna take a wild quess and say that you’re either a cinnamon roll who’s actually a cinnaom roll or a cinnamon roll who could actually kill you.

Ah, I remember spoiling the basement thing to you (really sorry again ^^;;)! And, to be completely honest, I’m not sure how much you’d like what’s currently going on in the manga :/ It kinda seems like Isayama took the 'easy way out’ of the whole 'let’s explain titans’ thing… not to mention it’s become as complicated as TG:Re, if not more ;-; But, hey, Armin, my sweet cinnamon roll, is still alive, so it’s comething!

That’s actually a very good idea! I’ve fooled around with making amvs before, so if you want, I can attempt to make this when I have time! It really does sound like it could break your heart if done properly. I take my earlier assumption back. You’re definitely a cinnamon roll who’d actually kill, because you kill my feelings on a regular basis :)))

Yeeah, I also love making up theories/headcanons about characters, but I’ll never get as detailed as you. As I said, I usually keep away from complicated things, like potential character pasts, I keep to the lighthearted things ^^;;

Whaaaaaat?? Kaneki forgot names of all the dead people?? When Naki, Naki who’s kind of an idiot (but actually a really good person), never forgot a single name?? I’m starting to dislike Kaneki more and more… I mean, it started after the Tsukiyama extermination mission, to be honest, but this is just… Ishida is E V I L Also, I think it might’ve been done to create a contrast to Naki, since Ishida is quite big on hidden meanings.

Excuse me while I go cry in the corner. WHY IS ISHIDA SO HELLBENT ON KILLING OUR FEELINGS WITH A CHAINSAW OR SOMETHING?! I mean, Akira’s no closer to forgiving ghouls, it would seem (from what you’ve written, at least). And Furuta has Rize. Ooooh boy, I wonder how that’ll develop. Can’t be good anyway. But, hey, Hinami and Akira hugged, so that’s something.

Yup, Love Live has lots of nice colours and it’s a really cheerful anime, so it might serve as a break after TG hahah And the sequel, Love Live! Sunshine!! is even better, if you ask me, but that’s probably because one of my favorite characters of all times appeares there ^^;; Also, the songs are pretty good as well, in my opinion. They can have really weird titles, though, like 'Happy Party Train’ or 'Storm in Lover’ or 'Cutie Panther’. But they really are good songs ^^;;

My friend, who recommended BnHA to me said at one point 'but beware, it gets really dark’. Now, it’s impossible he was talking about the manga since he refuses to read it (in general) and the second season wasn’t out yet, so he was obviously talking about the first season. So I’m like 'okay, I’ll prepare myself’ And I watch the anime… and there’s not even a d of the dark in there. Apparently, TG and AoT have greatly altered my viewing of the term 'dark anime’, since I’ll find a lot of things not dark, even though other people will find it very dark.

Ah, that makes sense! When I watch an anime that’s not 'in’, I’ll usually be a tiny bit depressed over not having anyone to talk to about it, since everyone’s forgotten about it :/ So I understand your reasoning ^^

One last thing, you’ll never believe when I typed this reply! Hint: we’re geographically closer than ever! Because I, the biggest weeb of all times, am flying to Japan! And I typed this in the plane huehuehue

[blaperile]

Homestuck^2 - Reactions Chapter 11 “History's Most Notorious Haters” (Pages 277 - 290)

Hurray, finally an update again! :D

"CHAPTER 11. History's Most Notorious Haters"

...That kind of sounds like something Dirk would say. Except the previous chapter has only just focused on Terezi, Dirk and Rose so... probably not?

Let's find out.

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...UMMM. That kind of looks like it could be a scribble mode drawing by... Caliborn?? What the shit?

It doesn't look like any of the ships of Dirk nor Meat Dave and his friends.

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HOPY SHIT IT'S DAVEBOT AND ARADIA! :O

Oh man, I thought we'd actually see them arriving somewhere, but no. Looks like they might have arrived on Meat Earth, taken a rocket there, and started chasing Dirk as well?

Woah, that's a pretty cool design for him though. I love the cape.

Holy shit I'm getting so much Jade vibes here. Both with the "time and shades come on" reference and her adorable fruits being used here as practice targets for Dave (welp!)

abundantChewtoys got a good point that it's probably Alt Calliope who's narrating this bit. Actually, when I think about it, Dave and Aradia aren't being referred to by name but by their title, which is exactly what Calliope likes to do.

Looks like they're on a 3-year trip as well, just like the two other ships. Heh, now Aradia gets to experience as well what that's like.

And all 3 ships have someone controlling the narrative. Dirk, Alt Calliope and... err, Alt Calliope?

It's kind of weird how she's presumably on all 3 ships, within a Jade . xD

Well, okay, I guess that on the other ship Jade just kicked out Calliope out of her body, so presumably she won't be controlling the narrative over there anymore?

It's interesting how the Calliope on that ship and this one control the narrative in a different way though, conform how they were at the end of the Meat and Candy Epilogues. One in her own quirk and text colour, the other in a spearkless type of manner.

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Oh my fucking god, Aradia's spent way too much time around Davebot. The way she's interacting and humoring him, it's kind of like how I'd expect Rose to behave around him, hahahaha.

I love all those references to how Aradia used to be a frog.

And welp, I was so caught up in Dave's radical rap that I completely missed when he was suddenly referring to leaving Jade behind. Welp. :(

And yeah, reference to how Aradia left Sollux behind!

Oh god I see a "months in the past" coming up.

Does that mean we're going back to the moment they left Candy Earth behind? Did Aradia talk to Sollux before ditching him?

I'd love to see Sollux again.

I doubt Dave talked to Jade before leaving though. :(

It's interesting how it's "months in the past" and not "years in the past" though.

And abundantChewtoys has a good point that the parentheses pretty much confirm we're now going back to Candy Earth!

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SOLLUUUUUUUUUUUUUX! :O

Oh man, look at his sad face... :(

Yeah, this is probably the moment when Aradia, Calliope and Davebot just went through the vortex?

....Pfff, yeah, abundantChewtoys is right. He's still blind. What's he gonna do now?

Has he learned to smell his way around a bit from Terezi, like he said all those years ago he wanted to learn from her?

Or is he going to be picked up by someone here? Karkat and Meenah?

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Yup, there Aradia went...

The brownish colors seem to suggest it's the infamous bell tower?

OH GOD

AN [S] PAGE

The question is... is this going to be another small one like the one with Jade's God Tier clock, or is it going to be (a bit) bigger?

And gaze... at WHAT exactly? HE'S BLIND REMEMBER? xD

But seriously, at what? The vortex closing? At the battlefield of humans fighting Trolls?

Very curious here...

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Pfffff, yeah, it was the first option. The vortex closing up. xD

I love how at first the soudn was so serious, and then there was an incredibly silly POP, hahahahaha.

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PFFFFFFFFF, MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY, SOLLUX.

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY.

Poor, poor Sollux.

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Oh jesus fucking christ, Jade's dead body floating in the background there while covered in Lord English's blood.

That's just so creepy.

At least Calliope dressed up in Meat Jade in finer clothes. xD

Oh god Dave's totally trolling Calliope and I love every second of it.

It's interesting how all 3 people here are talking in a variation of red.

And alright, seems like they really have only been on this journey for a couple of months, and still got a couple of years ahead of them. Welp!

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OH JEEZ. The ship's spinning out of control.

Just what sort of insane shenanigans have taken place over there?

And the better question is, has Calliope really taken on some new clothes now? :P

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Hahaha, okay, it was just a silly drawing and not actually the ship spinning out of control.

Oh man, Calliope looks surprisingly NORMAL here.

And uh... ARADIA! 0_0

It's like a mixture of her own God Tier Outfit and Calliope's. Now she truly looks like a handmaid to her, woah.

What is that about Aradia having spent so much time in doomed timelines? When did that even happen? HOW did that even happen? 0_0

Oh boy, and Calliope's even acting kind of silly!  

It's interesting how on the other ship, she referred to the occupants as her "friends" and Jade complained that they weren't Calliope's friends but her own.

But here, she actually seems to be building somewhat of a friendship with Dave and Aradia, as herself!

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Aradia is so, so proud. :P

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Oh Dave. Hopefully you're regretting now that you left your dear wife behind, hahaha.

Also, I forgot to mention this earlier, but what with how the palms of his hands are somewhat darker than the rest of his body or fingers, it reminds me of Dirk's fingerless gloves.

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N'aww, it's actually kind of cute to see Calliope's finally having a bit of fun. :3

Pfff, that "best narrator" mug though.

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OH SHIT

What's happening to Calliope? Is this simultaneously with when Meat Jade kicked her out of her body?

What kind of effect is it going to have on her though? Is she actually going to lose control of this Jade as well (for a while), or just going to have a bit of a headache?

[supermanonesie-blog]

the song remains the same

One of my dear friends recently shared pictures from our sophomore year of college with me. The first was a photo of three of us posing as Charlie’s Angels – which I am sure I had enthusiastically demanded we do. The second was the three of us on the balcony of our suite’s common area after getting ready for a dressy sorority event. We were relaxing from a prom-date style pose, where, to the left of my two friends and their boys, I am standing behind my then-BF (B.F., amusingly). I’m hugging him from behind, clearly very in love with this boy wearing tuxedo pants, complete with satin stripe down the side, and very, very shiny tuxedo shoes. I responded to this text with the general commentary that we were super hot, but also very very dumb and very very anxious back then, and how glad I was that I was not so dumb and anxious now. 

 Fast-forward roughly 36 hours, and here I am in my bed going through my old blog, entitled The Song Remains the Same. I wrote my first post when I was preparing for my semester in Edinburgh, a semester that turned out not to be the fun romp and adventure I had desperately wanted at the time. Instead it was a few months of empty solitude, a time when I felt stuck in grey, dull, nothingness – my own Phantom Tollbooth doldrums. Although really, it was darker than that – probably more akin to my own Azkaban and stint with the dementors. I want to go back and give 20-year-old me such a warm and loving hug. As I’m writing right now, I am getting teary-eyed, clutching the base of my neck right on my collarbone, feeling such empathy and love for this past me, who traveled alone, convinced she had lost her spirit in the nothingness of exploring with nobody to share life with. It was an incredibly difficult time in my life, and at the time I felt it as a great loss, that I was wasting away glorious time on this Earth in a never-ending, crushing depression. I still look back on my time in Edinburgh as being thoroughly grey and empty. I also now appreciate how I strengthened and fought through that time when I realized the immense, crevassing, ever-deepening abyss inside of me, that which I know now is the yin to my yang of highest highs, and a part of me I am incomplete without knowing. 

 I don’t feel the need to go into detail about why I am so proud of my younger self – but I realize now that I wasn’t dumb in college. Don’t get me wrong here – I did a ton of stupid things, which to this day I believe were completely necessary and of which I don’t regret any part with the exception of the time I was a shit friend and spent way too much time with a boy who, as I even knew at the time, was totally toxic to me. Heartbreak and devastation of your love and future as you saw it dying for the first time can promote some destructive behavior – blah blah blah, that’s another story. But I wasn’t dumb. I was earnest and passionate, fierce, SO hard working, silly and crazy, and endlessly strong. (Also a die-hard fan of the Oxford comma, as I am today.) I was also worried, not so confident, and took terrible care of my physical self for the sake of taking fabulous care of my hunger for all types of adventure and my intrinsic and powerful ZEST! And my compulsive need to avoid failure at all costs. Oy. Up until tonight, though, I had been throwing a blanket term on my college years because of the time I spend on a university campus observing the seemingly stupid, ANNOYING AS ALL HELL undergrads. And because I often wonder why on Earth I was so worried about things that really don’t matter, or so passionately opposed to Kappa’s slutty, bloated collective ego (like we were any fucking different – camera pans to my costume party outfits and drunken sass). I called myself dumb because I feel like NOW, I am so strongly growing into a force that takes up space, who is unapologetic, cares about her posture and health, one who takes things more in stride (I said more, okay?).

 Well, that was all a massive parenthetical in spite of the lack of parentheses, so let me bring us back here. I had been so unappreciative of the different form of the person I have always been. And, in spite of my increasing adult-y-ness, I still love booty dropping and dressing up as a glittery magical sexy feline and have no issue yelling AW SKEET SKEET MOTHAFUCKA, AW SKEET SKEET, GOD DAMN even though I am also working on my PhD. I had been distracted by the rhetoric I created and the partying skinny loon captured in photos, that I forgot the ways in which, although I have shed a lot of my self-doubting skin, I have had the same spark inside me for over 26 years. I somehow knew this six years ago when I picked my old blog title, that in spite of how you change your path or how you pick parts to grow and parts to shrink, how you love yourself and others differently as your perspective evolves – in spite of these changes, you carry yourself wherever you go, and the part of yourself that is unshakable, intrinsically you – this remains the same. And it will never be dumb.

[theworstbob]

yellin’ at songs: week thirty

brief reviews of the songs that debuted on the 8.2.1997, 8.4.2007, and 8.5.2017 editions of the billboard hot 100

8.2.1997

4) "Mo Money Mo Problems," by The Notorious B.I.G. ft./Puff Daddy & Mase

WELCOME BACK. I am refreshed, I have had a nice few days away from pop music, I got that sweet sub-2:30 in LTTP rando, and I'm coming back to this song, which, hey. It's a classic! I have nothing to add to the discussion around this song. This is one of the most enjoyable pop songs ever made, one of the most enjoyable rap songs ever made, people at the peak of their talents figuring out a magical way to rhyme over an incredible beat. Seriously, "I'm Coming Out" is one of the best songs ever made, and this improves on the foundation, and it's just this beautiful, magical place. It's so good. I am incapable of saying anything constructive in regards to this song. They nailed it. I don’t need to tell you how they nailed it because you can hear how they nailed it.

45) "Coco Jamboo," by Mr. President

So my opinion on this song is that I would have rather not listened to it, but a cursory glance of their Wikipedia page shows that this was a #1 single in Sweden. It reigned for five weeks in the fall of 1996, and it was preceded by "Wannabe" and  followed by a song from a band called E-Type named "Free Like a Flying Demon." You know what kind of owns? "Free Like a Flying Demon." It's not quite what I wanted "Free Like a Flying Demon" to sound like, I thought Sweden was still willing to make a #1 hit out of the occasional bitchin' metal jam (I'm probably thinking of Norway, those freaks mosh), but this sounds like a decent Depeche Mode outtake.

72) "Do You Like This," by Rome

Enh! I've had worse. Thank you for asking me how your song was! This review was much easier to write with the prompt! I also appreciate the way this dude is passionately drawing in every single breath. He is inhaling with PURPOSE. He feels these feelings so intensely, he has to gulp in all the oxygen he can so he can properly express his feelings. Also at one point he goes "nnnnnn" for seven seconds. This is the ur-R&B dude song.

75) "Can We," by SWV ft./Missy Elliott

The soundtrack for Booty Call has two unforgettable cuts, both in vastly different ways from each other. This is more in step with what I expected from the Booty Call soundtrack, just a smooth song asking if y'all DTF. Not that song that was just straight-up porn, just a song that sounds like the last half hour at a club and a last-ditch effort to make something happen. I like that. Especially after Rome being over-dramatic, I'm way into a song that's just, "I dunno, it's just sex. Y'all wanna do it or no?"

81) "Fix," by BLACKstreet ft./Ol' Dirty Bastard

WHAT IS THIS I LOVE THIS. HELL YEAH. I am so, so appreciative that BLACKstreet was willing to go on this adventure, and that Ol' Dirty was willing to hop on the bus with them. This was pretty amazing, though, hey, I'll cop to being a sucker for rock guitars where there typically aren't rock guitars. Slash did things! Slash toolded around in the studio for ten minutes and did enough amazing things to be featured in the song! This was hella fun, I hope more R&B artists made hard rock jams in 1997. I want to live in a world where I don't just hear Rome a thousand more times, I wanna hear this overtake Rome and his ilk for the definitive '90s R&B song.

90) "Can't Get You out of My Mind," by Lil' Suzy

Hey! You know how I haven't been that into Europop? You know how I've been enduring these garbage dance songs for the sake of experiencing the odd "Fulton Street" or "Fix?" GUESS WHAT, THIS WHITE GIRL FROM NEW YORK JUST DROPPED CULTURAL APPROPRIATION INTO THE MIX. I know I made fun of "It's Alright, It's OK," but I would listen to a thousand white girl journal entries before I listened to some girl from Brooklyn pretend she's from Hamburg.

You know what I forgot to do last week? The Top 20s! Here’s what 1997 looks like through 30 weeks. 20) "Step by Step," by Whitney Houston (3.15) 19) "Can We," by SWV ft./Missy Elliott (8.2) 18) "On and On," by Erykah Badu (1.25) 17) "I Want You," by Savage Garden (3.1) 16) "It Must Be Love," by Robin S. (5.24) 15) "Smokin' Me Out," by Warren G ft./Ronald Isley (6.21) 14) "Fix," by BLACKstreet ft./Ol' Dirty Bastard (8.2) 13) "Silent All These Years," by Tori Amos (3.22) 12) "What They Do," by The Roots (1.11) 11) "Step Into a World (Rapture's Delight)," by KRS-One (4.5) 10) "I'm Not Feeling You," by Yvette Michele (2.22) 9) "Bill," by Peggy Scott-Adams (3.29) 8) "Just Another Case," by CRU ft./Slick Rick (7.5) 7) "I'll Be," by Foxy Brown ft./Jay-Z (2.15) 6) "Felton St.," Leschea (6.14) 5) "Bitch," by Meredith Brooks (4.26) 4) "Mo Money, Mo Problems," by The Notorious B.I.G. ft./Puff Daddy & Mase (8.2) 3) "Return of the Mack," by Mark Morrison (3.1) 2) "Hypnotize," by The Notorious B.I.G. (4.26) 1) "Not Tonight (Ladies' Night Remix)," by Lil Kim ft./Angie Martinez, Left Eye, Da Brat & Missy Elliott (7.12)

8.4.2007

6) "What Time Is It," from the cast of High School Musical 2

Given that there will be hella High School Musical 2 in this space four weeks from now, I'd like to reserve the right to have a comment on High School Musical 2 until such a time that it is appropriate. This song is fun! Make sure to come back in four weeks to hear me say that again but longer!

7) "Sorry, Blame it on Me," Akon

...Did anyone else notice that Akon released an album in 2017? In this calendar year! I know it's hard to keep track of alll the things that are happening, what with the president yelling about how he can pardon himself and all, but I went to the AZLyrics page to clarify some of the lyrics, to, y'know, make fun of this shitty song where Akon is only passively-aggressively taking the blame ("even though the blame's on you/you can put the blame on me" christ dude either own your shit or don't), but there's an Akon album called Stadium with the number 2017 in parentheses next to it and song titles under it! The songs have lyrics! One song has a Ludacris feature! Oh, man. This is one album I am not going to listen to! (Follow-up: looks like it’s yet to be released. I am sorry for teasing you like this, I know how much you have been looking forward to hearing new Akon.)

85) "Ready, Set, Don't Go," Billy Cyrus

Everything about this song is gross and awful and I hate that it exists and I hate how it was brought to existence and I wish I had watched a lyric video instead of the music video because I hate looking at this freeloader's face. "This is where I don't say what I want so bad to say." YOU RELEASED THIS SONG TO RADIO. SHE CAN HEAR YOU. JUST NAME THE SONG "I DESIRE ATTENTION AND AM SO VERY HAPPY MY DAUGHTER ENDED UP BEIN' FAMOUS."

88) "You Can't Stop the Beat," from the cast of Hairspray

In 2007, there were multiple feature-length musical comedies featuring Zac Efron. It's not that we didn't have anyone else that could sing and dance while acting. We just decided to let Zac Efron have a go at it. Also, while I have not seen this film (either original or remake, would much rather see the original), I am so glad it exists. So, so very glad there is room in some subculture for John Travolta in drag and a fat suit.

89) "Bed," J. Holiday

Dipping back into 2007 R&B is weird after so much 1997 R&B because I have to come up with something different to say than "'90s R&B, amirite?" This song, though, it's always been a personal favorite. It's over-the-top, but it never feels silly, settles in this nice groove where it's this ridiculous song about fucking. It's probably a mid-tier '90s R&B song, but this was kind of the best 2007 had to offer; I'm not sure why else I'd remember it if it weren't the among the strongest things R&B had to offer that year. Fun fact! J. Holiday's most recent single is called "After We Fuck." Getting better with age like a fine, horny wine.

90) "Can't Leave 'Em Alone," Ciara ft./50 Cent

This is nice! (many hours pass) Nope, nope, still haven't formed any grander opinion on this song. Ciara whispers prettily, and Fiddy doesn't do anything to make the song less chill. Real quick? Team? Team? Real quick? I don't mean to presume, but I'm pretty sure the niceness of this song means the best song to debut on the Billboard chart the week of 4 August 2007 was "You Can't Stop the Beat." Guys, I know I've had my issues with 2017's music, but that's because it's boring. There's nothing wrong with boring, but the problem ends up being that the songs are just there, they're incredibly average. 2007 hasn't been funky in weeks. It's just been bad. Like, look at next week: you have "Stronger," which is a classic, but then three county dudes and whatever "Hood Figga" is gonna end up being. It's easy to yell at 2017 because it's new and we want it to be better, and we can yell at 1997 because of the occasional dip into horrible Eurodance, but I don't think any of the three years has wasted more of my time with songs that just blandly exist than 2007.

97) "Stranger," Hilary Duff

It's like someone decided to take "Beautiful Liar" and add 100% more of everything. Honestly, if they're gonna follow up "With Love" with this, I should be allowed to make whatever mean joke I made in the "With Love" review. If they're not gonna put any effort into their music, I shouldn't have to put effort into the review. (I think I've used that line in a previous review, so look at that, I'm doing it anyway, probably!)

99) "Online," Brad Paisley

This is one of the best country songs about catfishing in existence, as well as the only country song about the internet version of catfishing. This is a fine companion piece for "High Maintenance Woman," and my headcanon is that the maintenance man is also the main character of this song. I will never not appreciate Brad Paisley playing guitar and dad jokes, I can appreciate this very dad summary of how the internet works, and you KNOW your boy appreciates any song with a tuba section, however brief. It won't keep a cover of a 20-year-old musical closer from being the best 2007 song of the week, but it's a song with some degree of depth (and any degree of sweet, sweet tuba) that we can enjoy, and that's kinda "best-case scenario" territory with 2007 songs.

It has been nearly two months since we updated the 2007 Top 20. Since then, one new song has been added. 20) "Lip Gloss," by Lil Mama (6.9.2007) 19) "I Don't Wanna Stop," by Ozzy Osbourne (5.26.2007) 18) "Stolen," by Dashboard Confessional (4.21.2007) 17) "Beautiful Liar," by Beyonce & Shakira (3.31.2007) 16) "Cupid's Chokehold," by Gym Class Heroes ft./Patrick Stump (1.13.2007) 15) "The River," by Good Charlotte ft./M. Shadows & Synyster Gates (2.10.2007) 14) "Say OK," by Vanessa Hudgens (2.17.2007) 13) "Alyssa Lies," by Jason Michael Carroll (1.13.2007) 12) "Never Again," by Kelly Clarkson (5.12.2007) 11) "Can't Tell Me Nothing," by Kanye West (6.16.2007) 10) "Get Buck," by Young Buck (4.14.2007) 9) "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," by Jennifer Hudson (1.13.2007) 8) "Thnks fr th Mmrs," by Fall Out Boy (4.28.2007) 7) "Candyman," by Christina Aguilera (1.13.2007) 6) "Misery Business," by Paramore (7.21.2007) 5) "Because of You," by Ne-Yo (3.17.2007) 4) "Umbrella," by Rihanna ft./Jay-Z (4.28.2007) 3) "Beautiful Flower," by India.Arie (6.16.2007) 2) "Dashboard," by Modest Mouse (2.17.2007) 1) "The Story," by Brandi Carlile (4.28.2007)

8.5.2017

75) "A Lie," by French Montana ft./The Weeknd & Max B

Like, this is what I mean when I say 2017 is incredibly average. I remember mostly enjoying the two French Montana songs on the chart, but I don't remember anything that happened in these songs. They don't do anything. They just exist, and they're pleasant to listen to, but no one's taking any risks. There's nothing wrong with a B-, B- is still above-average, but my stars, why settle? Does no one want an A? What are we doing here. What was I supposed to hear in this song to make me believe there are only 74 songs currently in existence which best encapsulate the present moment. It's not bad, I just want something to care about.

86) "Jerika," by Jake Paul & Erika Costell ft./Uncle Kade

This is a love song by a man who, every time he has ever seen any banana in his life, will chuckle, point, and say, "Penis." If I could go back in time and stop myself from starting this project, I would not, because my life is better for having "Felton St." and "Bill" and "Get Buck" and "It Ain't Me" in it, but I would give that time machine a long, long look before deciding not to board.

91) "Young Dumb & Broke," by Khalid

Absolutely fuck this song. Fuck this PBR'n'B version of an anthem. Fuck this dude's ironic detachment, fuck this go nowhere track, fuck that dumb Rodney Dangerfield-ass joke in the second verse, fuck whoever told this dude he was complex, and fuck the naked appeal to the #teens. American Teen. Do #teens actually listen to media with "teen" in the title? I mean, they must, they've been making songs with "teen" in the title since before Billboard published charts, but this song isn't for teens as it is for pretentious music writers who want to write thinkpieces about the state of R&B. This stupid song probably got an entire Slate article published about it by now, and he's only 19 for seven more months, and boy, won't it be a drag when he can no longer substitute his age for an identiy. What a fucking bore.

96) "Woman," by Kesha ft./The Dap-Kings Horns

Y'ALL, FUCK YEAH. Like, last week's song was last week's song, and I respect that it needed to be made. But you know what I like? I like when someone shouts about how happy they are to be alive over a saucy horn section, AND GOT DAMN, THIS DELIVERED ON THE PROMISE OF THE TITLE. Everything about this is good and pure and should be enjoyed without reservation and a daily fixture at every karaoke bar and shouted from the top of every mountain simultaneously and goddamnit it's not gonna be on the chart next week, is it. (This is only gonna be #18 on the list. When 2017 is on, it is goddamned ON, and that's what makes enduring the French Montanas and Khalids such a chore, because I know they can do better! They have done better, and frequently!) But man, this song, I am in love with the Scissor Sisters-y breakdown, I am going to buy space on the Jumbotron at a baseball game to propose to that breakdown, this song muthafuckin' rules.

Seriously tho the 2017 Top 20? 20) "Felices los 4," by Maluma (6.3) 19) "Bodak Yellow," by Cardi B (7.22) 18) "Woman," by Kesha ft./The Dap-Kings Horns (8.5) 17) "Smile," by Jay-Z ft./Gloria Carter (7.29) 16) "Love Galore," by SZA ft./Travis Scott (7.1) 15) "Bad Liar," by Selena Gomez (6.3) 14) "DNA." by Kendrick Lamar (5.6) 13) "It Ain't Me," by Kygo x Selena Gomez (3.4) 12) "Craving You," by Thomas Rhett ft./Maren Morris (4.22) 11) "That's What I Like," by Bruno Mars (3.4) 10) "Chanel," by Frank Ocean ft./A$AP Rocky (4.1) 9) "Strangers," by Halsey ft./Lauren Jauregui (6.17) 8) "Either Way," by Chris Stapleton (5.27) 7) "Run Up," by Major Lazer ft./PARTYNEXTDOOR & Nicki Minaj (2.18) 6) "Green Light," by Lorde (3.18) 5) "ELEMENT." by Kendrick Lamar (5.6) 4) "Despacito," by Luis Fonsi ft./Daddy Yankee (2.4) 3) "Issues," by Julia Michaels (2.11) 2) "iSpy," by KYLE ft./Lil Yachty (1.14) 1) "Hard Times," by Paramore (5.13) There’s been hella jams in 2017, like there’s a reason it and ‘97 are tied in the standings (SPOILERTH), but man, you just get tired of hearing the same shit all the time, y’know?

Won won the week?

1997 won this week incredibly hard. 2017 put up a good fight at the end, but man, 1997 started strong and never looked back.

Current standings: 1997: 11 2017: 11 2007: 8 2007 is lagging behind, but next week is “Stronger” week, and 1997 doesn’t look to be lining up the strongest contenders, though I could be wrong and Nastyboy Kiick could be ready to dazzle me. What will 2017 bring to the table, and can Kanye carry a bunch of schmucks to a W? Find out!