#i haven't watched ren's videos for a while

[sometimesrendog]

[day 165] just ren holding doc. that's it

[minecraft-sideblog-tm]

Hilarious dichotomy in Hypno's new video as he fights for his life on level 3 of Decked Out, meanwhile Ren is in chat, uh *checks notes* having a child? Yeah, sounds about right lol

[theminecraftbee]

why hbomb94 should be the next new hermit: no listen this isn't just me being ridiculous listen listen--

okay but like. after today i am ON THIS TRAIN. i am FULLY CONVINCED that hbomb94 would be one of the BEST POSSIBLE CANDIDATES for "new hermit for hermitcraft". and please, just listen to my case for this:

so, after today, i'm fully convinced hbomb is a perfect vibes match for many hermits. he gets along well! he's actually pretty good at staying at hermitcraft levels of pg in videos (like, not swearing--he makes like, the catmaid jokes, but that's nothing worse than whatever ren gets up to on a given day). he's also relatively chill, already friends with a lot of the hermits, and connects well with them on a content creation level. like, he's excited for them, he slots into the bits well, the bits he brings to the table are picked up easily by the other hermits.

and the thing is... okay i KNOW hbomb isn't a huge base builder. i watched vault hunters smp too. but the thing is... he doesn't have to be! you see, there's a certain hermit niche they haven't invited a new hermit into in a while, and that's the niche that someone like joe hills or zedaph (or i'd argue etho or cubfan) occupies. it's the 'weird' niche. i don't think hbomb would be a builder hermit. i don't think he'd be a redstoner either. what he'd be good at is things like... hermits helping hermits! building minigames! have you seen hbomb actually, half of what he did on dsmp or on his main youtube is building minigames and escape rooms. he'd have good vibes! he'd show up to all the events! he'd probably RUN some events!

what he'd be is a new chill, friendly niche hermit, and i think we need more of those? more of the hermits who WON'T be building megabases, but WILL be building games, helping collect resources, and inventing new strange things to do. yes, sure, once again: i know hbomb isn't a builder, and next to someone like joel, that probably puts him out of contention, but... the last two hermits they invited were builders. they need a hype guy. an event guy. another team player. the escape rooms would be ENRICHMENT. it would be wonderful.

plus, i don't think he'd ever stop being a delightful audience insert about the other hermit projects. plus plus, i think he and scar and cub would definitely do a catmaid bit we'd all regret. plus plus plus i think he could do his rant about how weird beetroot is and the hermits would appreciate him for it.

as such i actually think hbomb slots in BEST of the visitors from today as a new hermit. (this is also in part because the empires crew tends to prefer much shorter seasons on their servers than hermitcraft has if they don't want to get bored and the hermits have pretty definitively decided they don't like short seasons. it's also a vibe check. skizz for hermitcraft fans, i am shaking your hand and saluting you, my guy who can't build and your guy who can't build should be hermits who join for similar reasons, we are friends.)

anyway will this actually happen? probably not. but like. listen. for the first time since hbomb hermit adoption arc started this feels VIABLE and i feel the need to make my case for why i want him on because the moment the season rolls over and we start speculating about new hermits this is the guy who has my vote please do you understand now please he'd be so fun--

[epic-arc]

''The Kabedon Technique''

Jaune was in his room alone while reading a book that Nora had given him called ''How to make a perfect kabedon'' and he was reading it with curiosity.

Jaune: I don't know why Nora would give me this but maybe it has something useful. Well let's do some tests. Then I can invite all my friends to watch animated films with me!

Ruby was walking eating cookies until she was pinned against the wall by Jaune which made her face turn slightly red.She could see a confident expression and smile on Jaune's face.

Jaune: Hello my red reaper. Do you want to spend time together for a movie night? Just the two of us~ and some friends, To chill and netflix.

Ruby, after hearing that invitation, had her face completely flushed like her cape. She would be ganging up and confused and not knowing how to react.

Ruby: I- UH! What! Huh! Me and you ?! Yes!? Absolutely what?!..Yes?

Jaune would place two fingers near Ruby's lips and say shh with his mouth and move away but look at her smiling.

Jaune: Its a date then?

Jaune(Mind): Cool! Having managed to convince Ruby to watch the movies with me, now I'm going to test it with the others!

Jaune would go to the library and see Weiss reading and then he would catch her attention and look at him a little irritated.

Weiss: What do you want Jaune? Can't you see i'm busy here.

Jaune approaches and pressed Weiss lightly against the table, which would make her blush slightly, but she was still irritated.

Jaune: Hey snow princess. Will you join me and the others for a romantic movie night? Would you do it for the teams and for me?

Weiss would have her face flushed and would pick up the book she was reading and lift it up, covering her face, preventing Jaune from seeing her flushed face.

Weiss: W-well, if it's to h-help with the r-relationship between the t-teams, I'll agree to go to this film session!

Jaune would leave with an expression of happiness on his face and meet Pyrrha in the hallway and taking advantage of the opportunity he placed her against the wall with a gentle smile on his face. Pyrrha was confused and happy at the same time.

Jaune: Hey partner would you be in-

Pyrrha: Yes! I'm interested in anything you're going to do with me but please be gentle jaune!!!

Jaune: Oh ok then see you later!

Jaune released Pyrrha and she ran away blushing and with a huge expression of happiness on her face. Jaune was slightly confused by her response. Jaune was going to the dorm until he saw Ren cooking and then he would go to his side helping him and then he would take his hand and look at his face.

Jaune: Hey beautiful lotus if I haven't been bothering you but do you want to watch movies with me and the girls later?

Ren would blush and look at Jaune with a gentle smile and nod and Jaune would see this and leave the kitchen heading towards his dorm.

Ren(mind): My god I'm a bisexual disaster!

Jaune was walking until he was pinned against the wall and what he saw was Yang who had a mischievous smile on hers face.

Yang: Hey vomit boy~ I saw that you were calling people to watch movies in the dorm and you still haven't come to me.

Jaune was blushing and confused thinking about what he was going to say but Yang saw that and let out a little laugh and let him go.

Yang:I'm not mad just know that I'll be there too I hope you enjoy action movies heh~

Jaune(Mind): Is she the creator of kabedon?!

(Base of this video)

[internals1ut]

I just had a thought, what kinda porn do you think the guys watch?

I won't lie anon,,, this is a hard one for me - only cause I am not one who watches those kinds of things - I actually get flustered and can't even look at the screen when it happens in shows / movies, reading is different of course -

I am racking my head but I haven't really thought of much for some,,, but I will list a few characters and the kind of stuff they did watch! I tried to make it one from each house -

*＊✿❀　❀✿＊*

18+/nsfw/minors gtfo

Kaito -

Wanted to rub one off but wasn't really turned on.. So he grabs his phone and opens that one site.

He probably watches something around with like hot milf on the screen and its from the guys pov

Keeping one hand holding the phone and the other in his pants, he touched himself while watching the video.

The whole mood got killed because at first it was a quiet video but then suddenly there was a loud part that made him drop his phone on his face!

Leo -

His own sex videos.

He most definitely recorded having sex with Sho, Ren, and Mido. So spin the wheel and see which one he going to rub off to tonight

Ren -

Definitely those anime porn videos -

He seems like the type who gets annoyed because of the pixel blurs on the video.

"I am watching it for the plot" ahhh kind of moment.

Taiga -

He was just bored, he thought he could watch something to get some new ideas.

But he ended up watching some bdsm type of stuff.

"Oh Lulu"~!

Zenji -

He made Haku look up stuff to see what kind of passion is in this to inspire in song writing...

It was just some random video sex clip from a movie.

Of course it was 50 shades of grey.

Edward -

Watched some as curiosity got the best of him.

Hre watched some casual sex of both same sex and not - got bored before he switched to those actually impressive animatic monster fucking videos on Twitter -

Yuri -

He wanted to try topping at one point, so he watched a video on it but got so deep into it that he watched all the categories.

Jiro ended up catching him watching the videos and joined him? Yuri was embarrassed, but this was just for research

Spoiler alert, he still bottomed.

[penny-the-pissed-poltergeist]

Jaunedice arc rewatch time time, Let's get this over with

.One of the worst parts about early Jaune is that he's too incompetent to any cool choreography in his fights

.They real did just give the characters video game health bars

.Oh no! Jaune lost to the guy who can casually bully people multiple school years above him, how surprising

.Ren, how the fuck would you know Nora's dream better than her... that makes no sense

.Really hope Ruby had something before or alongside cookies for lunch, that ain't good for you girl

.Velvet really needs to grow a fucking spine but that doesn't make everyone going "Oh he's so bad, it must be so hard for her" while doing nothing any less bad

... Why is Menagerie called that

.I think it would have been neat to make Oobleck a Faunus because his intro is him talking about Faunus lore and it would make him going asking Faunus in his class to publicly talk about their probably traumatic and sensitive experiences with discrimination a lot less invasive (It'd also be nice to a Faunus in power who isn't a traitor)

.The Faunus won the war but nobody ever fuckin acts like they did

.God I love Oobleck

.if Jaune told canon Pyrrha to kill someone, do you think she'd do it. She's 100% down to break Cardins legs

.Why is a Jaune quip the one suicide related thing in this series that actually lands for me?

.Did Cardin know they would be there or does he just like letting the wind in?

.You think a combat school would have good enough background checks to stop some guy from sneaking in but Jaune must have the best counterfeiting skills on remnant. even then you'd think his parents would at least be suspicious sense he had no proper combat training

."I can't do this on my own, what good am I?" You are already training as a part of school dude, stop being a stubborn loser

now on to Forever Fall....

.Ruby dropping the advice that destroys herself later (It's not always bad advice but god it became so toxic to herself)

.Cardin asking for some fuck bees, but not those bees

.Forever fall looking a bit cooler in the Black trailer but I still really like it here

."Professor Peach" Is expanded on in the books apparently but I'm point that out because there's a weapon's teacher called Herold Mulberry who's also only from the books so Ruby herself can't interact with him goddamn it.

.I will give Jaune one thing, He can SOMETIMES be funny, sometimes.

.Cardin's teammates haven't had a single line yet because they an 8th of a personalty each

.How is Nora slurping the sap that fast?

.Cardin calling Jaune "Jonny boy" gives me Maximilian Pegasus vibes

.How did Jaune's aura do that, we don't see Aura or the Aura amp do anything like that again

.Just send two more people away instead of letting them help you fight a giant ass bear because Yang and Blake totally can't deal with some grimm on their own

.Jaune has weirdly low endurance for the amount of aura he supposedly has

.People already say Jaune is "the real main character" but the problem of everyone but team RWBY feeling like the protag is something that crops up with both him and lots of other characters throughout the series.

.Remember kids if you want someone to stop bullying you, just save them from the fucking B E A R

.If someone is just watching the show without outside material, this is the first time anyone says the word semblance, no how short the episodes are doesn't negate how stupid this. Imagine if the first time hear the word mutation in an X-Man show was 8 episodes in, this is just brain meltingly dumb

.Pyrrha, all keeping that from Jaune is going to do is make him over estimate himself

.Oh yeah Jaune will never be a jerk again after this, he definitely learned his lesson. /S

[opalharkness]

My Bumbleby Rant (Don't Worry I Ship It)

Bumbleby antis who insist that Bumbleby is forced or poorly written or wasn't planned from the beginning piss me off so bad. I clicked on this video and I haven't even begun watching it but the comments alone have me heated because nigga what (I am black do not worry).

Bumbleby is written exactly like Renora (not exactly, exactly) and yet I hear no complaints. While yes Renora are impiled to have huge crushed on one another in volume 1 they don't do anything with it until volume 4! Even then it's mostly in the background of their interactions in an arc that's about Ren. Renora really doesn't kick off until volume 7!

Same with Bumbleby, while their interactions in volume 1 aren't overtly romantic by the time we get to volume 2 and 3 something fruity was cooking in the writing room. In volume 2 Yang and Blake have their heart to heart in Burning the Candles which you can say isn't romantic but the framing of the scene says otherwise.

It's in golden hour, Yang is so very gentle with Blake even when angry with her. Yang winks at Blake at the end of the convo and says "I'll save you a dance" and the look on Blake's face as Yang walks away. The dance thing is also something I want to meation because that whole dance was just a plot device to futher romantic subplots and villain shenanigans. But the fact that Blake shares a dance with both Yang and Sun, her two most prominent love intrests, could mean nothing.

Also in Volume 2 when WBY have their talk in Montain Glenn and Blake is being very hard on herself it is Yang that attempts to reassure her.

However it is volume 3 where yall bitches should have known what time it was. After Yang and Mercury's fight, where everyone believes that Yang attacked him for no reason and their sitting in RWBY's dorm room. Blake is hesitant to fully believe Yang because of her experience with Adam but after being Yang looks Blake in the eye reassures her that she didn't hurt Mercury out of maliciousness Blake lays the whole thing to bed.

(sidenote that scene is a wonderful display of communication and character growth on Blake's part and shows just how far she had come because volume 1 and 2 Blake would have never have done that)

Yang and Adam, Blake's ex-BYFRIEND, are being directly paralleled in this scene. Then the scene where Adam cuts off Yang's arm. Adam just before Adam stabs Blake he tells her "He will make it his mission to destory everything she loves" which is line that screams LOVE INTREST ENTER STAGE RIGHT.

Yang throws herself at Adam in an effort to protect Blake (there are tears in her eyes btw) and we all know what happens next. The next time we see Blake and Yang, Blake is holding Yang's hand while sobbing as she apologizes for what happened. These moments scream romance to me because of similar scenes between love intrests in other media but also because it sets up a conflict between Adam and Yang.

The writers in volume 3 set up a conflict between Yang and Blake's ex-boyfriend and I'm supposed to buy that they didn't plan for Bumbleby to be canon? Really? Also Yang and Adam's semblances are simailr something we knew about these two characters long before that was revealed in the show in volume 6. Meaning the parallels between these two were something the writers had planned out for years at that point.

disclaimer for next part: I love Black Sun do NOT take this as ship war nonsense. I'm just talking about people who leverage against Blacksun against Bumbleby. This is NOT an attack on the ship.

This meme is literaly me. I am a firm believer in the Blake has two hands agenda. Why have just one bubbly blonde when you can have two?

anyway back to the show.

If CRWBY had planned for Blacksun to be canon and they only switched gears to Bumbleby in volume 6 then why doesn't Sun have any conflict with Adam? As far as I know he doesn't even interact with that man but Yang does. What reason would they have for paralleling Yang and Adam if Bumbleby wasn't planned by the writers? Like get so serious.

Also within volume 4 and 5 you have both Blake and Yang pinning after one another. When Blake is having her talk with Sun after he is injuried by Ilia her voice literaly breaks when she says Yang's name. The volume 4 opening has Blake looking off to the side at Yang. It's so clear that Yang is the main reason between Blake's spiral.

Yang is so upset with Blake leaving in volume 3 and is still upset about it in volume 5. The whole reason Weiss and Yang's talk in volume 5 chapter 8 even happens is because Yang is upset with Blake for leaving. Also Blake and Yang can also be parallel with Taiyang and Raven, Yang's parents and canonical romantic pairing.

Like yes, Blacksun had some really great moments in volume 4 and 5 and Like Morning Follows Night is an absolute banger however I don't think they were endgame. Over the volumes they're interactions start to feel platonic more than romantic, even in the earlier volumes they're interactions aren't that romantic when compared with other ships. Still love them as a pairing tho and I'll alway find them so much fun.

Well that's it. I don't know how to end this. (I still need to finish that essay about Tauradonna, Blacksun, and Bumbleby. I'll try to work on it later.)

[shoechoe]

I searched "Ren Seeks Help" on Tumblr and I stumbled across your APC posts. I just want to say, that they were quite fun to read. I also find this show really fascinating - my favorite thing to put in the background while drawing are Media Mementos' videos about this show. I admit, I'm too sensitive to gross-out to watch the show in its entirety, I only watched some clips and Ren Seeks Help.

A big part of the reason why I am interested in this show, is because I am interested in John Kricfalusi in general. He's just... a fascinating kind of person, you know? Whatever he makes is weird in a way you can't quite get anywhere else. And he is such a great artist, too. I read through his whole blog, and he really knows his stuff about animation. You can just feel how passionate he is, how it really is his whole life. He is well known for having ridiculously high standards, but you have to admit he knows what he wants and what he wants is quite tasteful, cool and stylish. Well, most of the time. That's the thing with John K, his taste is really weird and specific. Half beautiful moody art, half gross-out jokes.

To me, Ren Seeks Help is just... beautiful! The expressions are so specific and inventive, the colors are so moody (I especially like that sequence of Ren walking to get help). Though, from what I've seen, the other APC episodes aren't as pretty. Altruists, from what I've seen, has this weird thick lined style, that just isn't that appealing. You can't help but think - what if we took this skilled director and staff, but gave them some restrictions, to showcase all that artistry without the bad parts? But then I realized, that was just the original Ren and Stimpy haha.

Anyway, this show is super unique, because it's one man's (almost) unrestricted vision. It's so finely crafted, so much thought went into it, and yet it sucks. Like, you'll see a character do this beautiful, smooth, well drawn sequence, but they're doing something absolutely stupid.

Usually, but not always, writing and art tend to be similar in quality. If a show is made by people who don't care about the writing, then the animation is usually also not that great. And similarly, if there is enough care put into a show to make it beautiful, then there is often some passion behind the writing too. Of course, this is not a rule, but what I'm trying to say is, that it's rare to see a show like APC, that has such a high gap between artistic quality and actual content.

So yeah, that's about it. Thanks for posting about APC. I rarely see people talking about it, and when they do, they often just repeat the same points.

Cheers!

Holy shit, another person interested in Adult Party.

For a start: I do not blame you for not watching the thing in its entirety if you're repulsed by gross out, LOL. As I have said before, I gagged twice getting through it. It really tries to be the most vile thing you could possibly animate.

I do think John K is a fascinating case. I mean, what do I say about him that a thousand people haven't already? He's a groomer and overall abuser, especially to his workers, and he is pungently nasty and bigoted. He should never be allowed to be in any position of authority ever again and he certainly should not be worshiped in any way.

I absolutely do not want to downplay John K as a case of the industry propping up abusers. John K was only really fired from Nickelodeon because his constant fighting with the network and terrible direction was causing issues with getting episodes out, not because he treated his workers horrifically. And even then, it took until 2018 for the decades-old grooming accusations to come out for his public image to be soured. It was horrible and a significant marker of how broken Nickelodeon is systemically.

John K has been exposed for years at this point and, while he should've faced more real legal consequences for the shit he did, I feel confident saying that he will never be given another job in animation and his cultural influence has waned just about as much as it will. And there really is a lot of interesting stuff to talk about with how John K's life and opinions influenced his work (the constant recurring father problems, for instance, to the point where it's uncomfortable) and his work's subsequent cultural impact for the time, as well as how his abuse punctuated all of that.

Ren and Stimpy was a darling of the nineties, after all- and that makes it even more interesting to look at how John K's abuse of his staff, extremely poor ability to communicate what he wants, and refusal to just finish shit made him a nightmare to work with and caused so many issues with production that he was fired off his own show. The animation is really technically good and fascinating to analyze, and it culturally changed animation, but you know the nightmare behind the scenes it took to make just wasn't worth any amount of good art.

Adult Party Cartoon is a very unusual case of a show for many reasons, but one of the biggest ones is indeed the contrast between the obvious technical skill in the animation (despite me really not enjoying it aesthetically due to John K's obsession with making everything extremely ugly) and the actual content being... Like that. I do think I would be less interested in it as a show if it weren't so well-animated.

Sometimes the focus on animation quality actually tangibly worsens it. The horrifically slow pacing of the series is used to accentuate the skill in the animation of every scene, yet it also completely evaporates any comedic timing the jokes could have. Like, in Onward & Upward, there's a scene that lasts for about a minute that's really well-animated- and it's of Stimpy eating a guy's snot. You're aware that this scene required skill and talent to animate yet it's absolutely abominable and it just drags on.

I'll stop rambling, but basically: Yeah. Adult Party is really interesting yet largely culturally forgotten or dismissed, partially because I think people really don't... Want to remember it, LOL. John K is a vile person- fuck him- but he is also a fascinating case as a creator in multiple ways which makes his work interesting to talk about and look back on.

[onebraincell-itmiebcraft]

Liveblogging real life part 2: Joel (it's been 12 13 days) (already watched)

Okay so maybe we'll do the liveblog-every-five-minutes-unless-something-crazy thing also idk if I should link this up to my intro post (idk how) or reblogged my og one with this oh well we'll figure it out why am I eating AGAIN doing this

I got inspired after rewatching secret life my beloved for the umpteenth time :P

Okay ep. 1/finale is hilarious and new "series" 😭

Joel why did you point out the cursor I can't take my eyes away

First batch

Joel jumping then immediately keeling over in nausea:

Idk how to respond to that but it struck a chord within me, how true

BigB wholesome waving but it also looks like his arm is BENT I can't get over VR arms man 😭

Punching BigB because he's so tall is so real tbh + love the smash cut to Gem being salty

Headpatting + baby-ish voice "little gem/Ren/skizz" what a gentleman makes me think of the try not to cry challenge or Jimmy's crazy christmas series where he says Joel is a crybaby and Gem says he's a romance guy in a mental gymnastics train of thought

Grian throwing his head back from the outside?! Cryptid behaviour

The real life vids don't make me motion sick but Joel making retching and vomiting sounds does NOT help it makes me sick by proxy or something I hate being disoriented and nauseous too buddy

There's probably a video out there of someone comparing regular mc to vr because vr just hits different like proportions wise

Joel noises

Love this Joel-Gem duo already idk how to describe it just fun

Also Joel having to process out loud he won't throw up on Gem I remember playing Richie's plank experience or whatever years and years ago shit was REAL

Joel's inventory becoming disorganized with things that can be stacked together :(

Hey what gem said kinda reminds me of what grian said :D at the end of his episode awful :DD

Poor Joel he's battling his height complex alongside his motion sickness (rip bozo poor little meow meow)

I think almost everybody had the problem of facing the wall dude, it's okay it's very silly

Water foreshadowing (he will swim with his future gang and become incredibly sick)

Geminislay that pig

Wait till Joel learns about lying down‼️‼️

JOEL STOP MAKING NAUSEOUS SOUNDS I'M GONNA FROW UP 👹

"...Falling in powdered snow" kinda reminds me of this short story I read in grade 9 English class "The Bamboo Trap" protag fell in The Bamboo Trap™ and got bitten by big ass spiders or something the idiot, also I think got published in the same anthology as the most dangerous game 👊

Joel admits to weakness

Weird ass snow, someone built this or something?

Joel with his arms out looks so silly, so does gem

Oh gem how graceful with the figure skating history 👊👊👊✌️👉✌️✌️🤜🤛🤛🤜🙏

Lol they learn about the wrist chat

Second batch

Jimmy, oh iconic Timmy

Shield (why did I write this again?)

Bi shoes, love seeing gem's skin wearing the bi shoes I forget about it every once in a while and when I see it again it's a pleasant surprise

Vr players learn to pvp

When you use the shield to block in first person it looks kinda stupid dude

Campsite vibes tbh, I really like it.

Bee spotted 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 what is it doing

Shaky controller cursor over top chest plate I feel you

Falling irl indeed (recursive mention about plank)

LOUD holy moly Joel is loud (not negative)

Healf being something people can't look at at all times is actually a kinda funny mechanic

Smajor friendship aww when will they team up (did I forget about a series)

The poor beg for bread, we live in a society ✊😔

Grian killing??? Since when??? (Sarcastic)

Batch three

Peace and love is why they haven't died yet 😘

Arms again! Weird looking things

Hand gesture reminds me of that one diamond scar short with etho's greedy "I want the diamond" voice

Flint and steel? Weird looking thing

Omg red club looks like bugs, the way the trio gossips about them ♥️

Right no out messages...

Can't believe the most motion sick man gets in the water not once but TWICE this ep

Does he know

Where did the horse thing come from

Can't remember if I mentioned this but when the sword swings without critting in VR it looks so silly it pokes

A bugs life: the sequel

Club: deadly euphemism

Sword 😐

Something about jimmy doesn't get burnt...

Why is Jimmy jiggles the only one with a wooden sword???

Strong words from a man on the verge of mania 👀

Lol knowing impulse breaks the ground under Joel big brain man going for the kill

Something about the disappointed way Joel says "scar!" And scar stabbing him in the first caused this

Tim is so British he says "get in" so much

Joel, again exasperated, cries out "where's all my stuff?!"

Funny Minecraft men, my favourite funny Minecraft men

My god seeing from Joel's perspective his second death is from zombie

I think Joel was about to saying bluming + the cover behind house + the constant begging for his stuff back + violence as an answer (he hits men)

4

Oh scar up to no good again

JOEL GETS IN THE WATER AGAIN!!! MOTION SICKNESS WIN!

Joel and scar just did mitosis stop being scared of biology 🙄

What was Mr solidaritygaming doing in that hill and said yes to did he finally get iron?

Aw the silly arm motion I love greeting people with spirit fingers reminds me of that

GOON SQUAD?! (neuron activated)

Famous moment

Oh more famous moment here comes the smallidarity kiss

Love Tim's body language once again the sharp smooth head turn to grian he's like a cartoon character

(what grian mean they are suited and booted he cut this part out I don't remember the other povs 😢)

Leave it to solidaritygaming himself to be the most homoerotic straight man there is of course + Joel is still patting him on the head? + Timsel being cringefail needing to jump multiple times on ONE BLOCK + Joel did NOT need to lean that much he looks like he's powered by springs + Jim's arms always being so tight together. Makes him. Look like. An old granny??? + Joel IMMEDIATELY checking his wrist afterwards like it's a Tuesday and he's on break + homophobic GRIAN + impulse's dad delivery one liner

The more I watch smallidarity kiss the more bizarre and asinine it becomes to me 😀

When did Joel learn to button jump (he WAS mental for jumping irl irl)

Okay Joel cut out that canary comment why don't you 🙄🙄🙄

WHACK 💀 SHAKE YOUR HANDS REAL FAST 💀💀 JOEL SCREAM #3997 💀💀💀

Fond of Joel's cadence of saying "hello guys!" And "I'm coming in boys!" And "HAHA!" oddly musical

Okay aaaaaaand he dies worst ranking ever good for him the end

Idk if I should liveblog scar next or watch Ren because I've already watched up to skizz + me 'ead 'urts oh well

[roleplay-abiogenesis2]

Questions 7 and 8 for the ask the mundane meme. I'm mobile and can't copy/paste, sorry!!

Multimuse Asks || Currently Accepting!

which one of your muses has the most ships?

I am going to assume you're asking about ships I have partook in. I do not really involve myself in the fandoms I roleplay (like forums, twitter, reading fanfictions or watching videos), so I wouldn't know what people outside of my own sphere of involvement ship. Anyways with this premise...

I believe Sephiroth is the one I have written the most ships with. Which is not a lot, if you can believe it? Most of my RP partners haven't gotten to ship with me because of how slow I am in my approach to chemistry building.

With Sephiroth I have at least two ships established, which is my highest record for a single muse so far. I know, not a lot. Told you I'm Mr. Slow Burn!

what is each of your muses otps? notps?

Akihara Ren: no OTP or NOTP decided

Auron: NOTP with anybody, leave him be

Hakkai: OTP with Gojyo, NOTP with Goku, sorry, but he will cook him treats!

Cyno: Too soon for me to decide on OTP, but I am very weak on pairing him with Aether, Candace, Nilou and possibly Tighnari. Too early to decide on NOTPs.

Fushimi Niki: OTP with Kisa, as OTP as that means- NOTP with Saru and that should be a GIVEN.

Fushimi Saruhiko: SaruMi OTP forever and always, NOTP with Suoh. It gives me the heebie jeebies, please don't.

Sanzo: No OTP, but no NOTP either, really?

GLaDOS: OTP with science, NOTP with cake.

Hazel Grouse: OTP with teasing Sanzo while completely unrequited because those scenes are the best; NOTP with Sanzo because then I wouldn't get any more disgusted Sanzo reactions and where is the fun in that?

Kenshin Himura: no OTP or NOTP decided

Hisui Nagare: no OTP and definitely NOTP with Iwa he is his SON

Hope Estheim: he's a child so I don't really think about ships with him

ZEN: JuZen OTP!! Juzen OTP!! NOTP with Yoosung- and tbh... Jaehee. I'm sorry.

Iwa: Strangely OTP with Fushimi Niki, it's a personal verse in my brain and probably will never see the light of day again. NOTP with Nagare

Jet Enduro: OTP with Virginia Maxwell, who I will never find to RP with and that makes me honestly sad. NOTP with Gallows.

V: OTP with Jumin, yes, I said it. NOTP with Saeran or Saeyoung, he loves them as surrogate kids or little brothers. Also NOTP with Yoosung for the same reason.

Jumin: JUZEN OTP!! NOTP with Jaehee because that is just wrong, and NOTP with Yoosung. What do I have against poor Yoosung?

Kjat: Nothing established.

Syaoran: OTP with Sakura, obviously enough. No real NOTPs so long as age limits apply.

Yukari: no OTP or NOTP decided

Munakata: no OTP decided but DEFINITELY NOTP with Saruhiko... please don't make me do that. I will cry.

Neji: no OTP or NOTP decided, he's a child

Ran: no OTP or NOTP decided, he's a child

Red XIII: OTP with Deneh, NOTP with anyone not his species, you weirdos.

Roy Mustang: I will gloss over this guy for my own safety-

Sephiroth: Sefikura OTP as fanon as it is. NOTP with Hojo, Hollander, President ShinRa, Palmer..., NOTP with Vincent. NOTP with Jenova.

Sesshomaru: No OTPs. Definitively NOTP with Inuyasha or Rin. And I will deal with the consequences of this stance.

Squall Leonhart: No OTPs or NOTPs decided.

Totsuka: OTT with the Homra Founders, of course! No real NOTP decided.

Warrior of LightL No OTP or NOTPs decided.

That was almost painfully shameful to go through. I swear I am not anti-shipping! I just... don't really think about ships much until I am thrown into one through roleplay?

Ace problems I guess.

[leslyepenelope]

Human art with an impact

Nick Cave wrote that ChatGPT has no inner being. And Joanna Penn talks about doubling down on being human in an AI world. I've been thinking about that a lot as I learn more about what other writers have been and are planning to do with the technology. There are things that I think cross a line, at least for me, though of course I can't control anyone else. I've been thinking that my boundaries have to do with why I write and create in the first place.

I believe that writing is spirit work, that what I do requires a soul. But for the people buying outlines and synopses and character arcs online to write books from, and those generating all of the above from AI, they obviously feel differently. For those who plan to use this technology to publish hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of books, they feel differently because they write for different reasons.

I don't operate from a scarcity mindset, so while all this is concerning for many business reasons, I try not to be threatened by it. Because they can't do what I do. One of the reasons I write is to make an impact. Art that makes an impact changes lives. It changes hearts. That's what I want for my career.

All of this was underscored this evening when I watched the video "Hi Ren" by the musical artist Ren. (If you haven't yet seen it, I implore you to watch it.) I've followed him for quite a while now and this is the kind of art that is impactful. 10 million views in 4 months is impact. Dozens of reaction videos with people breaking down into tears is impact. The comments section is full of lives being changed by this art. This man baring his soul is changing lives.

This is what I think of as having an impact. Being vulnerable and sharing your human truth. Something AI can never do.

[thistaleisabloodyone]

Finally managed to watch Jiggy Paradise and Leiya continues to be in all of the MVs - at this point, I won't be surprised if he's in Habanero, even if I really can't think of a reason for it.

Unsorted thoughts:

Ryota finally showed up with his crystal! He has a green one. So now we're only missing 4 Psychic Fever crystals - Tsurugi, Ryushin, Kokoro and Ren. We'll probably see those tomorrow. There haven't been any repeats - no one has a crystal twice.

Ryota didn't have a crystal in Beautiful Liar, but got his in Jiggy Paradise; Kazuma had a crystal in Beautiful Liar and didn't have one in Justice is Blind; Riku didn't have a crystal in Justice is Blind, but had a crystal in Black Magic.

Unsure if the crystals are an Aesthetic thing, I'm not sure what theme is or is not happening with them. I just know everyone has them. Jiggy Paradise introduced at least one new color - Yoshi has a blue crystal. For the 'at least' part, I'm not sure if Ryuta or Ryusei have new colors. Ryuta's crystal could be yellow or orange - if it's yellow, it's a new crystal color; if it's orange, Jimmy and Weesa had orange crystals in Black Magic yesterday. Ryusei's crystal honestly looked more like a hunk of silver than a crystal, which would - be unique and new. So if it's silver, new color. If it's white, which is the only other possibility in my mind, then it's not a new color.

I have a document tracking who has what color crystal and what video they got their crystal in, but I'm again on mobile and that document is inaccessible at this time.

Kazuma showed up in Jiggy Paradise, much to my surprise! He had a shot unsheathing a katana.

Fanta showing up around Miku surprised me at first, then Itsuki showed up and I remembered that Miku's character, Future, has ties to both Astro9 and Kisaragi (Itsuki's character) - Future and Kisaragi both grew up in the same wealthy social circle. And Future's father is, I think, the owner of the park where Astro9 performs. Future's father is, at the least, Very Important to the park.

That shot of Masa grabbing Ryushin intrigues me - the facial expression he had seemed to be some form of "Got you", but not like - a surprised got you? A I know you and I've caught you kinda got you. Ryushin's expression also didn't catch me as "Oh, no, a strange enemy has grabbed my arm!"

I really need to, like, rewatch the prior MVs to look into the lion's head pen. It's been in all of them so far and Ryuta capping the pen is the shot that transitioned into Kazuma unsheathing the katana, which may be related, may just be the best place to do the transition.

Also, there was a shot that looked to me like Miku was having a clairvoyant moment and it included a shot from one of the 2019 videos - I'll have to rewatch those three to figure out which one eventually.

I think the background object is some sort of vault door, maybe? Other option is big ass turntable, but that doesn't seem right. Every other background is tied to the novels in some way - Mad Jesters have one of the Books of Chaos; Rowdy Shogun has the Black Diamond; and Astro9 has the mirror (that I cannot recall the name of) - and I'm fairly certain there is a vault of importance, while there aren't any big turntables.

Once again, there was the page flying through left to right with everyone watching it go. This has been a shot in every MV so far, since Ryota tore a page out of the book and threw it, and I'm wondering if the page keeps flying in Habanero or if maybe someone grabs it? Either one would work, but I feel like grabbing it would be a better ending. There haven't really been any - returning themes in the music videos between generations of BOT, so I feel like the flying page would be ending in this BOT generation.

But those are my initial, unsorted thoughts on this bad boy. Can't wait until Habanero's out and I have the full set to repeatedly watch for details. 😂

[yaffles-world]

Sleepy Time with Taka and Wawa

Like 700 words of headcanons lol

Well

Serizawa is a night owl, and so is Reigen but we try and stick to a reasonable ISH schedule you know 

I'm kind of a night owl like idk

Anyway, because Serizawa and I have that anxious, autistic glory, and Reigen has whatever the hell is wrong with him, bed time routines for sleepy are important 

From when we get home from work til when we go to bed, we're together - once seri has graduated school at least. Reigen and I are together, when he's not working back which he doesn't do often. So sometimes we do have nights alone but 99% of the time we end up in the same bed

If we're together we usually divy up the kitchen chores in some way, cooking, cleaning, etc

Either watch a show, a movie, play video games, sometimes I'll draw while they do their own thing etc, or read

Anyway when we actually go to bed

We all get into our pajamas and will go to the bathroom to brush our teeth

Then, especially if its later, we'll shuffle like one big lump of cuddle into the bed

Sometimes one of us will read to the others, sometimes we do our own thing, sometimes we just talk

Various cuddle positions 

All spooning each other in a row

One of us on our back and the other two tucked under each arm

Lying on top of eachother :3

One of us facing one way, the other two facing the one (typically seri cos long) with arms around the two 

Just. Sprawled. Everywhere. Unknown where one limb ends and another begins 

They are sprawled out sleepers, particularly Reigen 

He's like a cat he's the smallest but he fricken spreads his arms and legs out and takes up half the bed

I'm exclusively a side sleeper i must be on my side to sleep, this is a true fact about me

Serizawa prefers to be on his back but he can sleep on his side or whatever particularly if it makes for better cuddling

Serizawa sometimes uses Reigen or me as a weighted hehe

Reigen is so clingy its ridiculous 

This little bitch he has so many needs 

I love him

He's like… without inhibition in the middle of the night

So there's lots of clinging to me and seri and lots of like… love hehe

"Ren… play with my hair… Seri… come here and cuddle me…"

We don't sleep until he does lol

Which is fine cos he's out like a god damn light 

Like we'll all be talking and he'll fall asleep mid conversation or even mid sentence

Reigen's favorite sleeping position is sleeping with his stomach on the bed face down on the pillow like some sort of freak

God bless

He SNORES he SLEEP TALKS and he DROOLS

I LOVE HIM SO FUCKING MUCH 

Sleep talking is cute the drooling is fucking adorable if not kinda gross hehe  but the snoring its like taka shut up 

As soon as he starts snoring if he's too loud i wake him up

For a bit. Eventually we just get used to it. Serizawa likes the noise

Oh and also, night lights

We have a little light above the bed shaped like a crescent moon

Serizawa needs it pretty baby

Reigen needed one til he was 14 and he still prefers one so 

Serizawa also has nightmares :(

Which is about the only thing that will wake Reigen up 

He kinda freaks out a bit but it's mostly manageable 

Generally nowadays it just makes the lights flicker, maybe something floats a bit

We hold onto him and give him kisses which usually calms him down

Sometimes if Serizawa can't sleep he gets up to make some tea

If it's after a nightmare, Reigen's also awake usually so we all shuffle into the kitchen all hanging all over each other 

We'll cuddle and cling to him as we make the tea and speak softly 

Lots of kisses and softly spoken "I love you"s

If seri just can't sleep he'll get up on his own but I either haven't been sleeping either or get woken up so i join him

I think… thats all…

Sleepy kitchen dances :) Serizawa is a really great dancer and its so nice and quiet and UGH

Will probably update with more later :)

[sodantics]

I've been working through a bunch of perspectives aaall weekend and am watching through some more right now while I'm working on a commission, and bdub's ep was SOO good. His editing is so lovely! I love the serene and cinematic vibes, an absolutely delightful episode to watch. Amazing interior on his build as always. Very cozy. Hope the mailbox thing takes off, hermits crawling out of their bases and holes to check their mail every morning... such a wholesome and mundane everyday event to think about.

Also, Grians wheat & sunflower field.... such a lovely image. I hope it gets kept for the rest of the season, I absolutely love crop and flower fields. Really makes me wish minecraft wheat and sunflowers both grew a bit taller!

Tango also FINALLY getting to do regular ole' minecrafting again after being locked to a dungeon for months and months is gonna be super fun. I loved decked out of course but his regular minecrafting is where its at for me, he always blows me away with how good at everything he is...

Joel was also a very silly little goofy boi. I love his longer series so its gonna be exciting having an excuse to catch his videos more often now that he's on HC! I click very well with his sense of humour I just prefer him interacting WITH people!

Hmm what else... Pearlie a little Silly as always. Gem's skin design for this season is so cute can't wait for a good chance to draw it. Zed... gonna be interesting to see his antics as always. Mumbo's starter base is cool and his GRAPHICS! for this season. So amazing (yes I saw the binary yes I am crying)....

There are probably some I'm forgetting and still a few eps I haven't even caught yet (Ren, False, Impulse, Cleo...), so its a lot of fun to have a long watch list like this :0 I hope I get to catch them before peoples ep2s start rolling out!!

[mumbo-wumbo]

spent yesterday evening watching a bunch of hermits' first s10 videos while building a mini room diy kit and it was so nice. i might have to make that a tradition - saturday crafts & catching up with any new povs that have come out during the week.

thoughts under the cut:

Fav POVS so far: Gem and Zedaph!

I'M SO HAPPY FOR SKIZZLEMAN dude seemed so excited to be there ;__;

Gem I've been meaning to watch for forever but haven't so I thought: why not now? and she is SO CUTE AND FUNNY and that boat starter base! what a perf little build!

and ZEDAPH. what an ENERGY. another hermit who i've always loved to see in other hermits' POVs but never got around to watching. and he's so fun!!!!! might have just rocketed up to become one of my fav hermits, flat out.

I love the editing Mumbo did in this first episode - the new title sequence cards are so charming 🥰

& Fuckin project manager Ren lmaooo. RIP to a real one. 'you hate to see it \_u_u_/'

I'm soooo so excited to see how magic mountain develops and all the interactions we hopefully get. They are RIGHT on top of each other! i think that's wonderful!

[princeoftheroses]

i know that i am far from the first person to say it, but i really am disappointed thinking abt the wasted potential in nora’s story arc in volume 8. 

[more under the cut, but disclaimer, i am mostly rambling] 

like, before vol. 8, i didn’t really care much for nora either way. i thought renora was fine & a good background ship, and sometimes nora got a laugh out of me, other times i thought she was annoying, but in general i just was pretty ambivalent abt her and wished she got some more character development which she never seemed to (besides for a little bit in vol. 4, though that was more of ren’s arc than hers, but still i will take what i can get. it’s probably my favorite part of vol. 4 considering mostly i find 4 & 5 to be very boring)

then in vol. 8 they sort of tried to give her her own character arc! i thought it was sort of weird timing & kind of sudden but hey! i’ll take what i can get. and it was also a sign of the writers trying their best & remedying some past mistakes (they did this with cinder, too, trying to fill in the blanks by giving a character arc now - no matter what i feel abt these characters, i do appreciate this. better late than never, right?) 

but like a lot of other aspects of rwby, nora’s story arc suffered from bad writing and lack of direction. it could’ve been much better thought out. it started out strong, with nora’s feelings of not knowing who she was and her worth when she is not with ren - which makes sense, considering those two characters have been joined at the hip & a package deal since vol. 1, but with the circumstances of the plot in vol. 8, they finally separated. even the fact that she talked abt these feelings with weiss and blake was really good in my opinion, because in some way it showed that she was close enough with these other teammates of hers that she could talk abt these feelings.

then she goes maximum  because she thinks what she is good at is “be strong & hit stuff”. i have mixed feelings on this because while i do think that this was a cool scene and was very crucial to this character arc, we have never seen nora having a limit on her powers before (or at least i don’t think we have?) considering she has been hit by lightning multiple times & also lightning shots from dust, but considering vol. 8 tried to mess with multiple characters’ semblances i was willing to put up with it.

the real pinnacle moment of her arc was, while injured and recovering, penny is getting taken over by watson’s interference, and nora is able to comfort penny and help her with the “it’s just a part of you- don’t forget about the rest” moment. that was probably my favorite moment of all of vol. 8. it was really meaningful and emotional in a way that i don’t think the rest of the volume managed to successfully do and the framing of the scene was fantastic. it showed a new side of nora, where she is using her own struggles to empathize and help her teammate and friend. really great stuff.

from then on the arc kind of... fizzles out? 

my least favorite aspect of nora’s arc is the fact that they use her getting injured as a reason why ruby’s team doesn’t really do anything else until after they are reunited with yang’s team. 

they try to conclude it with her and ren’s reconciliation and her going “i need time on my own to figure out who i am without you” kind of thing. but then they don’t take the excellent opportunity for her to be someone who falls at the end of vol. 8? instead, she and ren are one of the very few characters that make it to vacuo! if she had fell instead of jaune (or they both could’ve fallen) you really could’ve had her go on more of a journey of self-discovery without ren by her side. OR! ren could’ve fallen and nora could’ve made it to vacuo. she wanted time by herself to figure herself out, but how would she react to knowing that she will only ever be by herself now that (she thinks) ren is dead? it could’ve been some compelling stuff! 

the biggest waste of potential is the fact that nothing comes of her interaction with penny. for such a pivotal moment in her arc, nora and penny really don’t have a meaningful connection for the rest of the volume? 

penny’s death was already a really badly written moment meant more for shock value. in my opinion, her dying and making winter the new winter maiden was a big waste of future story potential and made the fact that penny even came back at the beginning of vol. 7 a real waste of time (if penny hadn’t been brought back in the first place we would basically be at the same place we are in now. penny would be dead & winter would’ve been the winter maiden. nothing really changed much abt winter to warrant her getting the maiden power now instead of earlier. she would’ve just had a change of heart and left ironwood to join the main cast as the winter maiden at the same time as the heroes left ironwood instead of afterwards.) it would’ve been so much more meaningful if, after her interaction with nora, penny decided to make nora the winter maiden. it would’ve been a change of pace and actually made her character arc MEANT something. her feelings, her development, and her interactions with penny would have been significant and meaningful, instead of just one nice scene that wasn’t really addressed again and becoming a waste of potential. 

it would’ve also made penny coming back in the first place only to die later mean something to, because nora definitely never would’ve become the winter maiden without it. 

overall, nora’s arc in vol. 8 really just felt like a vague attempt at writing something for nora without actually changing anything. it felt like busywork, something for her to do without much real thought behind it. i do not have much high hopes for them continuing her arc next volume, especially considering the arc they already gave her. i hope i am wrong, i hope that what they did in vol. 8 with nora has some actual consequence (either good or bad) but genuinely i feel like they only gave nora an arc because they realized she hadn’t done anything interesting in a while and threw something in there for her. like a lot of rwby, it suffers from the rushed writing. if they had more time to write and develop the script more, they might have realized how meaningless nora’s interactions with ren and penny were this volume because of how she basically ends in the same place she started, and might have done something abt it. i’m hopeful that since they aren’t putting vol. 9 out after only a single year like they did with the rest of the volumes, there will be better writing, but i’m not too hopeful considering all the other projects crwby is working on at the same time as vol. 9.