#i think of that one audio from bob’s burgers

[artheresy]

Golden tags, absolute truth from Pink like always

This man is a disaster and anyone who tries to tell me otherwise is WRONG, Yingxing is an utter dork at heart who can’t properly approach people for the life of him. Definitely someone who struggles with small talk so anytime he meets someone new it devolves into him ranting about craftmanship, his own skills and projects, and the artisanship commission.

He gets passionate too, watching this man, who you barely know, talk about this stuff can either be seeing him light up like a child on christmas talking about the benefits to repurposing discarded ingenium parts for all kinds of projects instead of continuously putting together new parts for specific parts for certain creations or he’ll be looking like he’s on the verge of plotting a murder, about to start screaming, because the master craftsmen rejected his most recent project idea even though it has a like 50 50 risk of blowing up the entire artisanship commission but no no trust me it’ll work, I can do it, that 50% chance is barely anything I can do it just fine. This man drives so many people away by sheer accident

This is why he barely has any friends outside of the HCQ (thank god for their strong wills and his connection to Baiheng) or certain fellow artisans who have been forced to be around him and have just gotten used to him overtime, at least overtime people can realize his very unique brand of charming

Thinking about the dynamic of Yingxing and Dan Feng as it appeals to me and while I think something I've seen, the Supreme Rizzler I have so much relationship experience view of Yingxing, is funny sometimes, I just absolutely can't picture Yingxing that way at all if I'm completely honest

In my head, Yingxing is the type of person to flirt in two ways. Either cringey, cheesy joke flirting (whether to provoke a reaction or just be silly) or he unknowingly says the most enchanting and romantic things with such ease and obliviousness that its utterly charming. And for the joke flirting, the moment someone flirts back, he's an utter mess and can't respond (the reason why depends on who's flirting back).

Also also, if you look at the level of obsession he was described to have for crafting in Blade's character stories, that was a man absolutely married to his job. And given his outward attitude, I feel like he would end up pushing most potential suitors away (contrastly to how I believe the arrogance and casualness from Yingxing would be the exact reason why he and Dan Feng were able to get so close).

I don't think Dan Feng had experience with relationships either like n o w ayy, I think he barely had experiences with friendships when the HCQ got formed. Aside from the friendship part too, I think what also separates their brands of inexperience are the fact that Yingxing has had little crushes before. He's never pursued them or his feelings for various different reasons depending on himself and the other person. Meanwhile, Dan Feng has never had romantic feelings for anyone before and is panicking internally trying to process and figure out what he's feeling and just a general whole crisis over feeling all kinds of things so much stronger than he's used to.

[revols-headcanons]

the belcher family headcanons

(i just started rewatching the show. i haven’t seen past s6 so don’t spoil too important things. but i’ve also seen lots of clips from later episodes, some full later episodes, and the movie).

they are all autistic; with tina, gene, and linda being the most obvious while bob and louise being less obvious. linda’s diagnosed while bob isn’t (he’s in denial of even being autistic), and they’re working on getting their kids diagnosed (though they cannot afford it, so it’s not a priority for them).

bob doesn’t believe he’s autistic (internalized ableism) but he is acutely aware that there is something ‘wrong’/‘off’/different about himself from others. both bob and tina share that same insecurity that everyone else can tell that they don’t quite belong.

this is based off of one line from an episode, but while gene loves doing filthy things (eating tacos on toilet, eating mold, etc.), he cannot stand the sweatiness of hands or the feel of his bare feet on the floor. he washes his hands consistently and he always wears socks. linda carries baby wipes, hand sanitizer, and extra socks for gene in her purse because of one really bad experience.

one of the belcher parents is hispanic. i’m saying bob because gayle gives off eccentric white woman energy. but gene learns all the spanish inappropriate words and bobs like “gene i don’t even know spanish what-”

tina ends up starting an elaborate friend-fiction and fan fiction business in her school. she makes a lot of money writing romantic hypotheticals for her classmates. louise becomes her sales manager (and gets andy and ollie to make fanart for the fics) and gene makes little jingles for them as well.

gene gets dizzy when he watches fireworks for too long due to his sensitivity towards bright, flashing lights. the forth of july and new years eve are difficult for him because he loves the celebration aspect, but has to go inside to prevent himself from panicking. usually bob goes inside afterwards to talk to him and calm him down since bob used to act similar as a kid.

tina and linda both do the dinosaur arms, and linda, gene, and louise do the hand flaps and happy claps. louise and bob both chew on their shirts when they’re stressed (and then immediately changing their shirts because wrinkly, wet t-shirt is an uncomfortable feeling/texture).

this one is based off of a convention panel, but louise is really good at math but doesn’t apply herself at all because she thinks school is pointless. either that or she is really good at learning languages and that she can speak spanish, french, russian, german, swedish, portugeuse, and japanese— all at varying levels of fluency and all learned during different time periods of her life.

^^also based on that same convention, but tina learns taichi martial arts because she thinks it’s cool. she originally does it because of the cute instructor, but then she realizes how nice of an outlet it is.

linda’s the only straight, non-LGBT+ belcher (or is she??) and she is very much like “aww my little babies going to their first pride! love is love, alright!” like the lovable, just cringy, supportive parents are. when the kids come out, none of them know the proper terminology. it’s like: “i’m not a boy! or a girl! i am everything! i’m collecting all of the pronouns like pokemon” or “i would very much like to date multiple people, that way i can admire all the butts.”

during pride month, bob puts up a little bisexual flag as a partial coming out, a partial way to create a safe space, and a partial rainbow capitalist move (something something mr. fischoeder threatens to raise their rent, and the belchers need a break financially), and he tells the kids to get business for the restaurant— the kids interpret that as: gene makes a really bad song like “boys are hot, i like them. gay people. love is love. buy our burgers cuz the gays are great and we support them very much” (or basically that one tiktok audio that goes “fortnite, balls, i’m gay, i like boys, i kidnap autistic kids”), tina puts posters up around school that say “buy one bob’s burger dish, get homosexual validation from an adult who supports gay youth” (which confuses bob when a bunch of children buy burgers and then rub their snotty noses into his apron and suffocate him while muttering “i haven’t had a parental hug in years”), and louise guilt trips and gaslights the elderly into buying from the restaurant or else they’re homophobic assholes (some of them openly are homophobic, to which louise purposely shoves/trips them in response).

^^bob ends up scolding the kids but they make a huge profit. the kids also didn’t technically say anything that wasn’t really true (except for louise but yk). bob pawns the comforting children to linda, who hugs and validates the children while bob grills.

tina definitely watches those magical girl animes like sailor moon. gene watches cartoons and slice of life anime. louise watches studio ghibli movies religiously and her favorite is my neighbor totoro (that green night light thing (kuchi kopi) is def based off of totoro). she also loves death note and definitely supports light and/or L to an uncomfortable degree.

tina is a massive taylor swift fan. her favorite album is fearless and her favorite songs are fifteen, hey stephen, love story, and white horse. she knows all of the lore and will make random references like “this is why you don’t miss someone’s birthday. have you even heard all too well? the moment I knew?” she compares jimmy jr. to romeo in love story and stephen in hey stephen even though she has no competition for him. she’s definitely dramatically slid down her door screaming the lyrics to enchanted before. (jimmy jr. would probably like john mayers music b/c of his dad, and that is tina’s biggest ick about him).

gene vaguely likes red and 1989 (specially sparks fly, new romantics, bejeweled, and starlight) and louise says her favorite album is reputation but it’s actually folklore (specially i did something bad, the last great american dynasty, karma, and peace).

they used to have a christmas tradition for the kids where they can get whatever they can carry in their arms. they stopped doing this after one year where all the kids got the most expensive items ever for no reason.

gene is a zodiac kid who definitely says “venus is in retrograde” and “you’re such a gemini.” louise always makes comments like “of course you’re one of those star losers.” he’s also like “tina, you’re a libra and jimmy jr. is a leo— that’s completely incompatible. the stars don’t lie!”

in a comic it mentions that tina has blue eyes, and the show mentions gene and bob having brown eyes, so i think linda has blue eyes and louise has brown eyes.

gene had a horrific musical theater phase. he learned burn and candy store on his keyboard. in high school he signs up for the theater program. he was one of the few amab people who signed up, so he got a fair amount of leading roles.

the kids full names are: tina ruth belcher, eugene nicholas belcher, and louise ann belcher.

gene doesn’t go to college, instead he pulls a bo burnham (minus the bigotry) and performs musical comedy.

louise takes online college courses to become a business major with a minor in culinary arts so she could run the restaurant.

tina goes to college to become an author. she writes both smutty romance books (pen name is dina capulet maybe?) and childrens pony books (real name of tina belcher) but by different names.

not belcher specific, but their town is the most neurodivergent town in existence: all five of the belchers, teddy, gayle, courtney, jimmy jr, zeke, andy and ollie, just to name a few.

[dancing-to-architecture]

36 - Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

I guess we're running up that hill today.

So I stopped watching Stranger Things in season 2 (my wife really hated when Dart are the cat and i felt no real compulsion to continue), so i totally missed why this song got really big out of nowhere last year.

Never really got into Kate Bush. Let's see what I've been missing.

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)-

Okay i never knew that was the full title of the song, that rules. Also didn't think it was gonna kick the album off. ALSO didn't know it had over A BILLION PLAYS.

And since I'm sure the audio players don't/can't track each other's metrics, that's just on Spotify! Holy shit.

Love that synth string in the intro.

Her voice is so cool, and the things she's doing with the layering are amazing.

Okay, wait, is she implying that he is the one running up that hill? And that she wants to make a deal to be running up the hill instead?

Because let me tell you, I've run up some hills, and it's not as nice as she makes it sound.

Hounds of Love-

I like the inversion of the Hounds of War.

Feels like the other side of Florence + The Machine's "Howl", being hunted by the idea of love rather than being the one hunting for it.

I would be incomprehensibly surprised if Kate Bush wasn't a source of inspiration for Florence.

(Been listening to Gecs lately while driving, and at that last line, all i can think is "i might go and throw my shoes into the lake, yeah".)

The Big Sky-

I like this one, mostly because I'm always pointing out clouds that look like things.

(The other day, there was a cloud above my house that looked like two kidney beans doing it doggy-style.)

If this isn't the unofficial song of Montana, that state just isn't trying. (It's the "Big Sky state" iirc.)

Okay, the end of this one gets a little repetitive. Feels a little unnecessarily long.

Mother Stands For Comfort-

A love song from the point of view of Jason Voorhees (...or maybe Ed Gein?)

Dark and jagged and erratic and atmospheric, i really like the instrumentation throughout, it's kinda like if Richard D. James wrote an art-pop song.

I stand by my initial assessment. A beautiful serial killer song.

Cloudbusting-

"I still dream of Orgonon" Wait, the orgonne energy research laboratory?

Google check confirms.

Yeah, this is a song about cumming. Squirting, possibly? "you're making rain and you're just in reach".

Immediately wondering if this is the inspiration for the Bob's Burgers song "Oil Spill".

(Yeah it's... Not subtle.)

Oh, wait, no, i think it's actually about water breaking and childbirth. I think i prefer the incredibly powerful orgasm reading instead.

And Dream Of Sheep -

This could be on a "go to sleep" playlist. Very mellow.

I totally feel the light sleeper part, though. Never been good at sleeping, and the army made that way worse.

Under Ice-

I grew up near a river junction in Illinois. One of the first things you learn is "NEVER trust river ice".

And, not to be too blunt, but if you don't learn that from hearing it, you likely won't need to worry about learning much else.

Honestly, this one is a bit of a recurring nightmare, the idea of being trapped under ice is horrifying.

Waking The Witch-

Considering how the last song flows into this one, maybe it IS a nightmare.

Possibly just the sound of Catholic guilt?

This is a wild one. Lots of what feels like found footage audio.

Watching You Without Me-

Ocarina of Time's Goron City? That you?

Considering the sweep of the past few songs on the album, I'm guessing she didn't make it out from under the ice, it has the vibe of "ghost watching the living".

Oh, she straight up says that.

Oh damn! Inverse backmasking?

Record the melody backwards, while singing the words backwards, so it's still intelligible when played forward. I LOVE IT.

And the chopped up cries to be heard? Oh, this song rules. The vibe here is immaculate.

Kate, this one made me a convert. Masterfully executed auditory ghost story.

Jig Of Life-

The dead woman fights for her right to live? I'm hoping I'm reading this album right, because all of a sudden I'm thinking: "is this ALL one big story? Did i just get ’Hazards of Love'-ed here? What are the implications of that realization with the very clearly about a serial killer song in the middle there?"

Hello Earth-

A song for Doctor Manhattan? Idk. Also, not sure about this one within the "is it all connected?" framework.

Maybe the woman lost the fight for her life?

The return of "getting out of the water".

The German at the end translates to:

"deeper deeper

somewhere deep

is there a light".

The Morning Fog-

I guaran-goddamn-tee that someone somewhere had almost fallen asleep during last song only to get jump-scared to shit by the start of this one.

There's a certain amount of "through the underworld" to it.

Like being in a bad trip for a while and everything dissipates as the night fades away, and you just stand there in the growing light of the morning sun and finally feel refreshed and alive again.

You could tell me that this album was based on a Greek tragedy and i would believe you.

You could also tell me that this album was based on a really challenging acid trip and i would also believe you.

Either way, atmospheric as hell, beautiful and tragic and emotional. I really enjoyed this one.

Favorite Track: Watching You Without Me. I get why Running Up That Hill was the big single and this wasn't (it just couldn't be, it needs the buildup), but this one is the best track on the album.

Least Favorite Track: The Big Sky is slightly diminished in my eyes by that ending just going on forever, but this is a really good album overall.

[gypsydear]

Been slack for a couple of days.

Wednesday night, I worked. Was my last shift with Chelsea before she transfers out. I think she’s a sweet girl, and I’ll miss her.

It started raining Wednesday from the Tropical Storm/Hurricane, but that was all that reached us. The next day was an online learning day for the girls, and I had the day off.

I’m glad they were home though, because Kyla’s bird Parker passed away that morning and I’m glad she was able to be with her and I’m glad I was off so I could help her bury her. She was so sad. Afterwards, I took her out for milkshakes and we stopped at the store to print pictures and get a few frames for the shrine she was wanting to make for Parker. It turned out beautiful.

Afterwards, Bella and I went and got lunch for Kierra, drove out to the woods to check on my Lion’s Mane mushroom, (it’s not growing yet!), and then I let her drive for a little bit on the way home.

I got into a bit of a funk last night. Jon is out in GA with family and friends. It just makes me miss him more, and it makes my little jealousy monster creep up. I become a little … annoyed? I just wish I could be with him in the way I’d like, I wish that I could experience these things with him. Me. Me, who deserves to be with him. But, I think he felt that early and tried to squash it before anything even happened. And he’s been messaging and sending audios and videos and pictures the whole time. So, it’s been normal. 💋

I haven’t told him, but my anniversary is on Monday. Although, I don’t miss my husband … I’m dreading the date. Not for myself so much, but if my STBX has made any kind of progress on his hatred, I’m worried this day will create a reset. I’m worried of getting messages or hatred or … anything. He’s so unpredictable and I’m also tired of having nightmares where he’s chasing me or trying to kill me.

I broke out of my funk and went to Walmart very late. I ended up buying a new lawn chair, luggage, tweezers, a gift for Jon and a sandwich 🤭 I forgot my check went in today so now I am planning a day trip for the girls and I tomorrow morning. 40 Acre rock isn’t far and I’ve been meaning to take them. Last time I was going to take them was the week my STBX decided I suddenly needed to lay him $600 for a car he didn’t even own and I was nervous about having the money. Jon saved my ass that week. In more ways than one. I’ll be eternally grateful for that. 🤚🏼

Work tonight, off tomorrow, then 11 days in a row. No tennis matches are on right now that I’m excited to watch so I’m lying in bed watching Bob’s Burgers. I might lay back down until it’s time for work.

12:34 pm 9/1/23

[sunnymarbles]

MAYBE I WANT TO DOTHIS HUH☝️ WHAT THEN☝️ WHATWILL YOU DO THEN HUH☝️ I dont know hwo to copy and past the entire thing on tumblr so im typing it all manually

name: mattie or sunny

pronouns: theythem😱😱😱

where do you call home: with th��� with the people i l🤢 lo🤢 lov🤢e

favorite animal: FENNECS‼️‼️‼️‼️ or foxes

cereal of choice: erm. strawberry miniwheats is the most recent cereal fixation

are you a visual, audio, or kinesthetic learner?: What😍 the tests ive taken for school have said this before but. idk. the pyshical hands-on one i think

first pet: dumbdumb canibalistic guppies i dont really count them I COUNT MY KITTIES THOGUH❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ MY SILLY BILLIES❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

favorite scent: ??????????????#???i dontknow?????????????

do you believe in astrology: i dunno???????? im not really gonna believe a test on the internet if it tells me something about me and my friend not being good for eachother because im an aries and rhere like a fish if thats what your saying. people who do tarot card stuff are cool though big fan of that. witchy things and astrology goes hand in hand probably

how many playlists do you have on spotify: 😱😱😱😱11😱😱😱😱 ones a bunch of musical songs (thats over 24 hours long), four are for friends of songs that remind me of them, ones just a bunch of songs i plan to listen to eventually (I have not), ones of my top favorites, ones just a bunch of bobs burgers songs compiled into one place, ones songs that i resonate with, and two are based of emotions

sharpies or highlighters: why. sharpies i guess i dont really use highlighters

a song that makes you cry:SOMETHING BAD IS HAPPENING/MORE RAQUETBALL, UNLIKELY LOVERS, SOMETHING BAD IS HAPPENING REPRISE, YOU GOTTA DIE SOMETIME, JASONS BAR MITZVAH, WHAT WOULD I DO, AND FALLSETOLAND REPRISE ALL FRONT HIT 2016 REVIVAL MUSICAL FALSETTOS 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

a song that makes you happy: here's A BUNCH that are just musical songs;

a day in falsettoland + the baseball game + four jews + love is blind from Falsettos, partner in crime from Tuck Everlasting, prolouge + charming from The Great Comet, another day of sun from La La Land, love thy neighbor + dance with you + just breathe from The Prom, no reason + the whole being dead thing (1 and 2) from Beetlejuice, prolouge + downtown from Little Shop of Horrors, he lied when he said hello + vamp! + baby lets get good + some like it hot from Some Like It Hot ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC THERES SOOOOSOSOSOSOSOOSOSOSOSOSOOSOS MANY like. monster + just your problem from adventure time, strawberry blonde by mitski, lucky ducks + sunny side up summer + you got the guts from bobs burgers, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc i like musicals and cartoon and indie songs

do you write/draw/create: no. (yes) i hate art. (i love drawing) art is stupid. (its the biggest thing that brings me joy)

anywhosies

@damidaisy do it 😁 (the joke is they dont check tumblr ever)

Thanks a lot for the tag Kaz @akamikazae let's see if I can do all of them!! :3333

Name: Boro :3

Pronouns: She - Her/ They - Them

Where do you call home: I heard once that home is that place where you can go to the toilet without any problem. I would also add that is that place where you can get yourself a glass of water without asking for one.

Favorite animal: People assumed that I am a cat person, they are wrong I love every animal...also cats, felines in general.

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Cereal of choice: I have a problem with cereals I love them!!! My favourits are honey puff like cereals and those that are squares filled with chocolate or milk. Those are ddelicious GIVE ME CEREALS!!

Are you a visual, audio, or kinesthetic learner: I remember that we have to do this test at the Uni and I was like a mix. Most of the time I doodle while taking notes and when revising stuff I need to move around my room. Also, when I am thinking in general I need music or a podcast while pacing around and a small notebook where I can write down any idea that crosses my mind or doubt while revising something. I tent to do more than one thing at once so, pacing while listening helps me so... Audio-kinasthetic-reading learner

First pet: There is a festivity here Los tres Reyes Magos, Three Wise Men, that we celebrate durign the Xmas time. That night my neighbours dog gave birth to who would be my first truthful friend. I woke up and the neighbour told us that the mother couldn't pass the night. In a small basket they got both pups, one seemed so full of energy the other one was curled up and shaking. I got the curld one without a second though and hugged them. He would be my friend for more than 10 years. I miss him a lot. He got the name of my favourite journalist ever but I keep it for myself ;) Friends know his name.

Favorite scent: Baked cookies, cinammon, but mostly flowery scents like lavender and also, please do not laugh, there is this deodorant chocolate scented ...wow.

Do you believe in astrology: I prefer to keep my thoughts to myself on this one, yet I find astrology interesting but I would not let it choose my life or stuff like that. It is very interestign to have a look at it.

How many playlists do you have on Spotify/apple music: 10

Sharpies or highlighters: Highlighters! I actually enjoy the layers that you can do with them and they got this Cyberpunk effect when done right that I love.

A song that makes you cry: ‘Fucking Perfect' by P!nk or 'The crow and the butterfly' Shinedown.

A song that makes you happy: ‘Lady Domina' Haloo Helsinki! or 'Master of the House' Les Miserables the musical... I have a problem with musicals in general.

And finally do you draw/write/create? I write and draw, a different thing is that I have the guts to call what I do something creative or even worthy. But I just do it, hoping to get better eventually... hope is the key word there. So I do both and technically create since both are creations *badum tsch* I also do tons of memes so...that's creations too, isn't it? One day I may post here those abominations that I call memes.

Hmmmm I tag @succikko-nebulae , @shinoposting , @yamanaka-shin and @spellcasterlight <3<3<3<3<3

Thanks again Kaz!!1 This was fun, I did not know that I had so many playlist on Spotify...and I use one in a loop most of the time xD.

[cecilioque]

[Heat Stroke]

How many times do you think they found Ingo passed out during the summer because the man refused to remove his very hot all black cloak? Then again there is also Melli who cares, but doesnt care.

Here are the individual gifs.

>>Comic Catalog

I also realize this has the same energy as @nebulabun 's comic

Audio is from them one scene from bobs burgers

[pataliemortman]

I was tagged by the lovely @odeada-nightspawn so how could I say no

The game is pick 10 characters from 10 fandoms I love, tag 10 blogs! (idk if these are all fandoms but they’re my fandom so)

david rose from schitt’s creek (but honestly everyone is so good)

my two boys 🥹 ashitaka and yakul from princess mononoke

kirby

my queen 🥹

charlie from supernatural 😪

louise and kuchi kopi from bob’s burgers

charlie from it’s always sunny in philadelphia

every character in i think you should leave but especially this one

bmo from adventure time (this audio plays when I turn on my steam deck 🥹)

colin robinson from what we do in the shadows (again the whole cast is just perfect)

@waytogopaul @findingmybravado-again @peachchoker @nightmare-siren @brujadelsur @juliuspeppahwood @veronicaisexhausted @babyglockables @memesnotwelcome @tainted-affair

[oneirataxiahiraeth]

Room Thief

Pairings : avenger!reader x PeterParker

Warnings : swearing, dramatic reader, smut, oral (fem. & male), praise kink, unprotected sex, Peter being cute, fluff

Inspiration: That one episode from bobs burgers where Linda started an Airbnb and rented Louise’ room to Teddy.

The “oh hi, Louise 🙂” “oh hi, mom🤨” audio on tiktok.

A/N :

I wrote this toms birthday... did I post it on toms birthday? No... but it’s the thought that counts amirite?

I allowed myself to stop for a moment, taking in the word glares I was receiving from the rest of the team. Everyone just sat around, staring at me way too intensely as I walked into the compound. It was as if they were waiting for me to do or say something. Like I was supposed to say something.

  "Are you guys okay?" I asked slowly, watching as multiple stared broke away from me. Like they just couldn't help but not take there eyes off of me at first. "You seem a bit.. off."

  "Oh uh, no, we're good, Sorry." Pepper cleared her throat, unable to tear her eyes away from me. Did I have something on my face? I never got so many stares from so many people before. Not even when I looked my worst. Not even when I looked my absolute best. I hitch was a bit insulting now that I think about it.

  "Uhm... alright?" I sigh, eyes scanning over the group. Peter invited me out to breakfast this morning and just never showed up. I assumed he just slept in on accident, probably due to the amount of hours he spent patrolling the streets over the past few days. I would've went out to help last night, but MJ said she really needed my help with something so I spent all night with her. Strangely enough, all we did was talk about an existential crisis one of the characters were going through in the masters book shes read. "I'm going to go change."

   "You mean like... in your room?" Tony cleared his throat. There was no sarcasm in his voice, just pure concern for me being in my room.z

  "Where else would I- are you sure you guys are alright?"

"Yeah, yeah, we're fine." Steve cleared his throat, sending Tony a mean glare as if he's done something wrong. "You know, you should really stay down here with us for a while, y/n. We haven't talked to you in like... forever. Don't be stiff."

   "Did you just use modern day slang? You know what, uhm, yeah sure, whatever. Just let me change really quick, and I'll be right down... to talk." I spoke again, noting the weird behavior.

  "Wait, no!" Vision stood, quickly from the couch. He seemed out of it for second, before regaining his natural sense of calm. "I mean, wait." He rephrased. "I think you should let Wanda style your outfit for the day. In her room." He smiled, it seemed sweet yet condescending. A scary look he could not pull off at all.

  "Why?" I asked, Wanda standing up next to her boyfriend.

  "Because your wardrobe sucks!" Her accent making her words sound a bit harsher. My mouth dropped a little, eyebrows furrowing at the confession. "Pretend that I said that a little bit nicer." She cringed at the own harshness of her tone.

  "Uhm, yeah, ok... I'll meet you up at your room. Take your time, I have all day." I spoke, trying not to raise suspicions. She was on the same floor as Peter anyways, I'd just stop by his room to make sure he was breath before heading to hers. Both Wanda and Vision nodded, along with the rest of the group who seemed sort of relieved.

  I continued walking normally towards the elevator, with every intention of clicking her floor button. But I noticed the stares I was still receiving, like they were watching what I was about to do. I click her floor button, letting the doors close in front of me. For some reason though, a part of me was screaming at me to go to my room. Like something was off, and being in there would reset my balance. So I clicked my floor button. Wanda was only a floor below me, so I just stand on at the first stop, and got off at the second.

  And that's when I realized why they didn't want me going to my own room.

  The door was cracked open.

Someone went into my room. The one thing in this entire world that I have to myself and someone went into it. For what? For nothing, but everything in there belong to me and no one else. It's the one thing that I ask for. 'Don't go into my room when I'm gone' and 'don't touch my stuff'. The only request and set boundaries that I have or made. And some deliberately went against that. And now, here I was trying my best not be pissed off. Maybe it was just Peter in there sleeping in my bed. That was fine. I can deal with him sleeping in my bed when I'm away.

  See, now I'm all calm.

"What's going on in here?" My feet coming to a dead stop in the doorway. I spotted, 1 2 3. 3 bodies. 3 too many bodies in a room that didn't belong to any of them. Sam, Thor, and Peter. This whole trio just seemed odd to me... like why them out of all people? Sam slept next door, but we've never entered each other's rooms. Thor only ever came in when me and Peter were watching Star Wars to tell us how realistic it is and how on other planets in the galaxy he's seen places just like the ones in movies. And Pete only ever came in here when I was home, or out on a mission he couldn't attend... but all with my permission. No one in this room, asked my permission.

  "Oh hello, lady y/n!" Thor gasped, tossing the lamp he had in his had for some reason on my perfectly made bed.

  I didn't make my bed this morning.

Those wasn't even my bed set...

   "Hello boys..." I hummed, unable to hold on a smile on my face as I slowly took a step into my room.

  "Shit." Sam cursed under his breath, hanging his head down low. I was a bit of a freak about privacy and personal space. And here he was with a box filled with stuff in my room... my stuff. From what I could see it was a bunch of my books, and all of my electronics and their chargers my eyes then searched around until they landed on Peter who had a giant duffle bag with my clothes jam packed into into. It wouldn't even zip all the way it was so packed. And the worst part is, I don't even think he cared about the fact that all my shirt were being wrinkled because of him.

  "You're holding my stuff-"my head slowly tilted to the side.

  "Y/N before you get upset-" Peter tried, but it was already too late. My brain was moving faster than sound and I couldn't even think straight.

  "Hi Peter, what are you doing with my stuff?" My tone a little more harsh than it normally would be, but I just couldn't help it. There was nothing that bugged me more than people. touching. my. stuff.

  "Well I was- and then we were-"

"Don't say we!" Sam scoffed, shaking he head. "I was brought into this against my will-"

  "Why are you all in my room?" I asked again, tone somewhat more demanding than before.

  "I uh... we were just... uhm... welcomingournewguestintoyourroomforthenextfewweeks..." Thor spoke quickly, his voice raising at least 30 octaves higher than normal.

  "Into MY room?"

"For the next few weeks..." Peter added on, as if somehow I missed it the first time.

  "And how many weeks is a few?" I asked, trying to contain my will to punch each and every single one of the out of whatever window was closer.

  "Two months..." Sam answered... my willpower slowly withering away.

   "I didn't know mid guardian 'shampoo' smelled so divine!" An accent spoke out, echoing out of my bathroom. My eyes shot to Thor seeing as the accent sounding way too familiar to just be someone random.

  "Uhm... brother come out here please." Thor cleared his throat.

  "Brother!?" My eyes went wide, fist tightening at my sides.

  "Is she in her- oh shit" an out of breath voice coming from the doorway caught my attention. Bruce stood there, with wide eyes, about to back away before was able to reach out and grab the collar of his shirt.

  "You knew about this?" My eyes narrowed.

"No?" I took in a sharp breath. "Yes but Tony said not to tell you because Peter was supposed to deal with you!" He mumbled out, my grip on him dropping before my head snapped in Peters direction.

  "You weren't supposed to say anything!" He whined.

"She's scary!"

  "Are you done yet? I want to catch up on my reading before the sunsets." Loki came out with an interested look on his faces as his eyes scanned the room. His gaze stopped on me, before he sent a soft smile. "You must be, y/n! I'd say it's a pleasure but you look like your about to murder someone." He tilted his head at me.

  "Lady y/n, this is my brother Loki! He will be staying with us for a little while..."

  "You have a beautiful room, so nice and... organized."

"This isn't happening." I shook my head, my whole world basically falling apart in front of me.

  "Y/n-" Peter spoke up, walking towards me as if I wasn't seconds away from decking him in the throat.

  "This ISN'T Happening!" I breathed out, hearing the footsteps urge down the hall.

  "Uhm, on the bright side Tony said we could share a room for a while! No more sneaking out before sunrise, right?" Peter tried to make it better, not realizing that Tony was glaring at him from the doorway. "Oh I uhm- sorry. I mean-"

  "She doesn't seem very pleased with this whole arrangement." Loki sighed, not really caring, just watching I practically broke down.

  "She is very excited!" Nat claimed, wrapped her arms around my shoulder, as they all slowly pried me away from my room, my stuff animal still sitting on the shelves, watching me leave, never to return ever again. 

  "No im not! I did not invite Loki to come into my room-" I struggled against Wanda and Bruce's grip on me. "And move my stuff around!" I tried but their muscle power was just to much.

  "We'll see you at dinner, Loki." Tony spoke from the doorway as if this wasn't a big problem.

  "No! I'll see you in hell Loki you mother-" my hands caught a hold to the doorway, allowing me to hold onto something but not for long considering Steve was trying to pry my fingers off. "ILL SEE YOU IN HELL!"

  5 hours later...

"C-can I come in now?" Peter spoke, peaking his head in through the door. My eyes shot to him, but I didn't speak. He took that as a yes, and walked in, shutting his room door behind himself. "I'm sorry for not telling you sooner..."

  "Really? Cause it doesn't seem like your sorry!" I scoffed, turning over in his bed so I wouldn't look at him.

  "I gave you a 1 hour cool off!" He defends himself. "How much longer can you be mad at me?" I practically hear the smirk in his voice.

  "2 months." He laughed. "Fucking asshole." I groaned, burying my face in one of his pillows, letting out a deep breath.

"W-wait, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." He laughed again, scurrying to the bed. I felt the mattress dip under his weight, as he climbed his way over to me. His arms wrapping around me, smothering me in his scent, as he pressed sweet kisses up my shoulder and neck earning tiny giggle from me, only because it tickled. "Come on, forgive me. I'm sorry!" Peter whined, rolling my body over so we'd be face to face.

"But I want to be mad at you."

"Why?"

"Because I like the drama... what else?" I scoffed, his eyes rolling at me. "Now leave me alone so I can mope about that serpent in my room."

"So be mad at him, not me, forgive me. I'll do anything." He pleaded.

"Anything?" I asked, a smirk pulling at my lips as they did the same for his. His face lowering so that our lips hovered over each other's.

"Anything... just name it..." he nearly whispered.

"Get. My. Room. Back."

"Y/NNNN!!!!!" He whined.

"Leave me alone. So I can lay here and die slowly. All my stuffies are in there suffering from his stench and I'm down here with you."

"What's wrong with me?" He scoffed, as if I offended him somehow.

"Are you a stuffed animal with a ridiculous name that's a ridiculously bright color?"

"No."

"Then that's what's wrong with you."

He must've thought I was joking, because he began to laugh once again. I can't turn back over because he was right on top of me. And though I could've just knees him in between the legs, he was bringing too much comfort for me to want him to move.

"Forgive me." He stated once more, but I was stubborn.

"No. I'm not done being dramatic." I shook my head.

"Forgive me." He spoke again. I stayed silent, giving him a dead stare to let him know that I wasn't planning on giving up anytime soon. "Forgive me... please?" He spoke again, as if the cherry on top would've made the difference. "I'm begging you, my oh my, light of my life, I just want your forgiveness."

"That sounded very sarcastic."

"It was."

"I'm going back to ignoring you, dick." I scoffed, turning head the best that I could. Closing my eyes so I wouldn't have to look at him.

"Baby, I'm sorry." He whined, his head falling on my chest before picking himself up again. "Forgive. Me." He huffed. A few moments of ailments passed before I felt the first kiss. I was right on my cheek. I ignored it, trying to fight the smile at his adorable attempts to make me smile. "Forgive me." He hummed again before placing down another kiss on the corner of my lips. "Forgive me." He placed another one directly on my jawline. And the process continued. His kiss got lower and lower until he was in my cleavage and I was breathing a little heavier.

"I'm napping, can't forgive you sorry." I shrugged.

"But I'll do anything..." his voice a little softer, my eyes opening a bit to look at him, his dark brown eyes darker than usual with a glint of mischief in them. "Anything." He spoke again, his fingers running along my sides, down my body, stopping at the waist of my jeans. I felt my heart racing in my chest, even though we've done this plenty of times before, it always got me excited. "Still sleep?" He hummed, amusement in his voice. I didn't respond, just watched carefully at his next action.

He swiftly under the buttons and zipper on my jeans, tugging them down my legs. I was still silent just watching him in all his glory. His body crawling back up to mine, our lips hovering over each other's for a while. I could feel his crotch near my heat, getting me worked up at just the proximity. He brought his lips down on mine for a brief second before taking them away again. He crawled back down my body, snatching my underwear from my legs, ripping them in the promise.

"Peter!" I gasped.

"Shhhh..." he hummed, playfully allowing the fabric to fling off of his finger onto the floor.

I followed instructions, remaining silent as he moved again. His face coming down to centimeter in front of my heat. His breath hitting directly on my clit, sending an indescribable sensation through my body. My eyes never leaving his as I felt his tongue flatten over my folds, already dripping for him. Ready to take whatever it was he chose to give to me.

My legs opened a bit wider for him in their own, as he let his tongue travel through my sex. Sucking and working on my clit, earning breathless moans as I reveled in the absolute feel of him. The wet lewd sounds of his tongue against me filling the room. His hands placed on the insides of my thigh, keeping them apart, as he noticed them moving closer together around him. My chest rising and falling at a rapid pace. My hips pushing against him, desperate for more. I felt the vibrations from his own moans shoot straight through my being, the feeling better than anything I've ever felt before. My arousal continuously dripping onto his tongue. His lips attached to my clit, driving me absolutely insane.

"Oh fuck Pete- god!" I moaned, the sounds just rolling off my tongue. He just hummed in response, sending another shock to my core. His tongue fucking my hole with a power that almost had me screaming.

"yes yes yes, oh FUcK" I cried, my orgasm approaching quickly.

"Do you forgive me now?" Peter spoke, tearing his lips away from me, earning a loud whine.

"Yes, yes I do. I forgive the fuck out of you." I breathed watching his grin turn. "Please, I'm so close."

He went back down, continuing his work, my moan even loader the feeling on him. Before long he was holding my hips down to the mattresses as he was sucking me through an orgasm, not letting a single drop of me go to waste.

"Was that so hard to do?" Peter spoke with a cheeky grin on his face, lips pressing softly against mine once again.

"Well now I'm done being dramatic, but..." My eyes raked over his body. "Your not naked enough for me." I sent a fake pout, and he let out a light laugh. "I want you, like right now."

"Say please." He teased, my eyes rolling at the request.

"Please oh please, fuck me, Spiderman." I spoke in the same tone he used earlier.

"Really?"

"I think I'm funny." I shrugged.

"Mmhm." His eyes rolled, as he sat up, peeling down his shorts and boxers revealing his length, already hard and ready for me.

I wrapped my fingers around him, pumping him quickly as his forehead rested on mine. Tiny grunts and moans leaving his lips at my touch. I brought his tip to my entrance allowing him to do his own thing. He teased my folds with his tip, pressing down on my clit before going to down to my hole.

Slowly he pushed himself in extracting a loud moan from my throat. He let out a sigh as he allowed himself to bottom out. His hands on my legs, keeping the apart, allowing himself to look at exactly what was happening down there.

"God, you take me so well." He moaned out, my walls clenching around him.

Slowly he pulled out of my until as just his very tip resting into my cunt before moving his hips back into mine. He pace started off slow and sweet, allowing me to adjust to feeling before his hips began to snap into at a brutal pace. The sounds moans and near screams, and skin colliding together repeatedly filled the room.

"Fuck, your doing s-so well for me baby." Peter grunted.

I felt a heavy fluttering feeling throughout my body, as his grip on my legs got tighter. His movements sharper and more efficient hitting every single one of my rights spot.

He allowed my legs to close just bit before putting them over his shoulder, leaning down into me, hitting at a much deeper angle.

"Oh my fuu- Yes Peter!" I screamed, hands move up his biceps from something to grip on to.

My eyes squeezing shut as my vision blurred, I felt another orgasm approaching. My whole body going light and tensing as I neared my undoing, Peter above me singing praise after praise driving me absolutely wild.

  "M'so cl- ah I'm so close"

"Me too baby, let go for me." Peter moaned, his hips working faster and harder into me.

   My legs now stuttering as my mind was wiped smooth clean of thoughts. Nothing but moans able to escape my lips as it became physically impossible to be able to do anything else. 

  "Good girl, let go for me." He groaned, straight up tackling me right off the edge. I came with loud moan of his name, my cunt convulsing around him as he continued to fuck into me. My legs shaking over him, my sight going completely black, everything feeling foreign to me in this moment right now. My toes curling as I felt my release tear through me, his sweet praises egging me on.

"Fuuuckk." I moaned, body coming down from the high as he pulled out of me. His hand went to pumping his own cock, head thrown back in his own fit of pleasure.

I used whatever strength I had, sitting up and taking his cock in my own hand. Pumping him as quickly as I could. His eyes peering down at me, watching as I worked him towards him own high.

"Oh god, just like that, yeah-" he moaned. I could felt him twitching in my hand, his face twisting with pleasure. "I'm gonna cum" his mouth dropped open, as mine wrapped around his tip. My hand pumping whatever I didn't have the energy to fit as I allowed my head to bob on him. I could taste my own juices around him as I sucked on his tip.

He came with a long moan of my name, my mouth taking down more of him than I had, all his hot seed to hit the very back of my throat. I took down as much as I could, milking him for all he was worth before he became too sensitive and just pulled himself out of my mouth himself, collapsing right next to me on the bed.

    "Nice of the two of you to join us." Tony cleared his throat, taking a sip of whatever was in his glass. I just sent a glare towards him, taking a seat next to Nat as Peter took the seat on the other side of me.

  "Everything thing looks really good. Thank you, Wanda and Mr.Vision." Peter smiled sweetly, way too nice to the people who had so easily given up MY room to the godly guest. "y/n.." Peter cleared his throat, elbow nudging my arm to speak up.

“yeah thanks.” I sigh, earning a glare from Peter. “M’sorry for overreacting early.” I huff, not too happy to be apologizing for a situation where I was in the right, but Peter had given me the whole ‘be a bigger person’ speech in the elevator on the way down. I looked over to Thor and his room stealing brother, offering the best fake smile I could. Telling by everyone’s faces it wasn’t very convincing. “I hope you enjoy your time here.” I spoke through my teeth.

“Uhm, thank you, lady y/n.” The dark haired god spoke carefully.

I was going to let it go eventually. But that was before I noticed the distinct fruity smell in the air. A smell I had recognized as the Shampoo Steve had gotten me for my birthday a few months ago. He claimed he didn’t know what I wanted, but I think he just forgot and he had to improvise. Either way, I knew the smell because it was one of my favorite shampoos I’ve ever used. And now that smell was in the air. And it wasn’t me. Leaving only one other person.

“Y/N!” Peter gasped, hand gripping at my wrist. A knife caught in my grip as my hand went into the air. I hadn’t even noticed, it was probably just a reflex.

[mars-onthe-moon]

I saw that picture(s) you just did of Bill and Dipper (lol, they were just being funny in that one), and it mentioned Covid.

Did you get Covid? If so, I hope you feel better. I caught something too recently (either Covid, Strept throat, or the Stomach Flu) and it put me out of commission for like a week (too), give or take less too, and I am just now, kind of getting over it. So I hope you feel better soon too; being sick sucks.

Also, when you are feeling better, I am excited to see ur Mabcifica animation! And it is going to be angsty too! Nice. Even nicer, since your last 2 animations have been more comedic; though still great.

Ur Bill and Ford was funny btw (I esp. love when Ford starts speaking, I think it was Japanese? And then starts levitating, mainly due to the context reasons why Ford is doing so), and ur animation with Mabel, Soos, and the Fairies was so funny and so underrated. Soos, little laugh at the end and the "I am dead"/"I am so dead" (can't remember if that line had a "so" or not) was so SO funny.

My BillDip heart hopes one day to see a BillDip animation from ya, but I still love the animations you have done/will do regardless.

P.S.: I really like ur BillDip fic; one of my favs. And sorry for the anon on this Ask. I got a bit nervous/shy for some reason.

Yeah, unfortunately I think I picked it up from work. So, I’ve been resting mostly. I’m just now starting to draw and write again because, man- those first five days were killer. Now I just have this cough that won’t go away, but fever wise I’m all good, so, thank you! Yeah, being sick is no fun. Its like, on one hand I’ve gotten to miss some work, but on the other, I’m too sick to enjoy the days off. Glad you’re starting to feel better tho and hopefully it’s gone for good soon!

Legit, thank you for your feedback! It’s honestly nice to hear because I feel like I put out the most random shiz content.. so no one is gonna follow it in it’s entirety, but here you are proving me wrong and I’m psyched!

Making the crack animation is so fun. I mean, I love angst and ship art too, but finding funny tiktok sounds and then drawing my goofy boy Bill is a mood boost. Levitating Stanford sends me.

Also, glad the audio worked out for the fairies one! Because I had to splice that Bob’s Burger ep with audio from ‘Soos and the real girl’ and I was worried about the quality diffs.

I have a few billdip animation idea’s in my drafts, so maybe I’ll start to focus on some of those! I honestly have like waaaaay to many billdip wips in general, that I start and then never finish 😅 so yeah, I’ll start going through those!

Thanks about the fic! It’s my first and only one so I really appreciate that! I’ve been in like writer’s/editor block for too long now, I really need to just post the chapters that I have. So, since I have till Friday before work starts up again, I’ll try and get that up for y’all!

Hehe sneak peek time. Rn I’m working on a Bill animation, magical girl style! So, I’ll try to be posting that in the near future as well!

[klodas]

@pixel-bloom’s simblr voice claim challenge

rules: Share what you think your character would sound like in the real world! You can make a video, add audio, pictures, or just make a list! Tag some friends to see what their characters would sound like too

I was tagged by no one but i just want you all to know that i think onion sounds like Louise from bobs burgers <3

i tag anyone who want to do it!! <3

[musekicker]

Random head canons oc editions

- each of the kids pick at a build a bear like store

Harry: He choses a canine of some type. The plush itself isn't as important as the fantasy elements outfits he chooses for the plush. Probably tries to match a dnd character as close as possible.

Artie: She would want that alien bear that came out not long ago as I understand it, no question. She claims her doll is going to abduct Bastion's and Logan's doll. Bastion cries and Wolf has to tell her to tell Bastion that's not really going to happen.

Logan: A snake, that he gets a cape and cowboy hat for. Says the snake plush name is Snake-than (a bit of a play on Nathen) and that he's cowboy royalty. When question about there not being cow boy royalty Logan looks so solemn as he says "The last guy who said that to Snake-than did not survive. But since your my family Snake-than will forgive you this once." then he runs off with his new plush friend.

Bastion: a dragon, something clown themed. Got circus music in the audio box in it and it drives everyone insane. 

- Because I think it's funny, when the gang moved into a new home, their neighbor happens to be the chief. Yes, she does not trust the ex bad guys for awhile and does keep a eye on them for a bit. She starts to soften up though when it comes to the kids. She will elbow drop any one who would dare try to harm these kids.

She nearly cried when Artie made her a friendship bracelet out of yarn and soda can tabs.

- Older Logan writes fan fic. Think a less butt oriented Tina from Bob's Burgers when it comes to his stories.

- Harry collects different type of dice.

[simply-ellas-stuff]

My thoughts on Zack Snyder's Justice League because I watched it

The opening sequence, bc even tho the repeated scream audio was stuipid this opening was better

The new meeting between batman and Aquaman - that drawing on the wall in the og was unnecessary

Diana's extra badassery

The design of Stephen Wolf, because now he actually looks scaryish

The Queens emotions about losing her sisters of Themyscira - QUEENS DON'T JUST SEND THEIR PEOPLE INTO BATTLE EMOTIONLESSLY THESE SCENES WERE NEEDED - FUCK

THE BIGGER WITH IN THEMYSCIRA WHY THE FUCK DID THEY CUT THAT OUT?! - oh right, its because the previous director is sexist as fuck,

Stephen Wolf's Daddy Issues because that's fucking hilarious

Bruce explaining his want to find everyone bc of his promise

The close up on the fly things because that actually made it scary

THE FUCKING LIGHTING CEREMONY IN THEMESCERIA HOLY MOTHER FUCKING SHIT

Diana's extra badassery after getting the Arrow because WHY THE FUCK WAS THAT CUT?! This explains SO MUCH about how Diana knows SO MUCH about a time she wasn't alive in and I have NO FUCKING CLUE why it was cut!?

Arthur Curry is a Stripper - Confirmed!

Arthur and his trainer talking, but idfk why they kept the bubble thing Although I do like that they clarify that it's not just Mera who can do that bubble thingy

The scene between Stephen Wolf and the stone-wall dude person was cool and it explained why Stephen Wolf was so desperate

Zeus, Ares, and Artemis prepped for battle along with Poseidon in the flashback was FUCKING AWESOME!!! Diana's Aunt as well, the shows of the Green Lanterns, and the ring returning to the planet [Although they should've named Artemis, bc she can easily be mistaken for Athena - Also; Artemis' roman equivalent in the goddess Diana ]

Darkseid being in the flashback, which explains a lot

The Gods vs Darkseid was FUCKING AWESOME

Barry's awkward rambling after running into Iris

ALSO IRIS FUCKING WEST!!!

The Big Belly Burger Reference, nicely done

My dad says Iris' car is beautiful

BARRY SAVED IRIS BITCHES

The slow-mo crash gave me anxiety

My dad says, "I know you got all the time in the world but c'mon this is ridiculous" about that scene then "That beautiful car..."

THE SCENE WITH STEPHEN WOLF AND THE ALTLANTIAN MAKES EVERYTHING MAKE SO MUCH MORE SENSE BECAUSE HOW THE FUCK DID STEPHEN WOLF KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE MOTHER BOX IN ATLANTIS

Do. Not. Make. Diana. And. Bruce. Romantic. Don't. Fucking. Do. It.

The use of slow-mo is kind of redundant

Victor being fucking AMAZING even tho he's getting in trouble at school

Victor and Mama's discussion gives some life to the 2-Dlike Cyborg from the og movie, WHY THE FUCK WAS IT CUT?!

Victor's inner-world where he's still fully human

Barry being sarcastic as fuck towards his father lmfao

"Very attractive Jewish boy"

The reference to Grodd YAAAAAAAS

I still hate that Barry's lightning is blue and not red

The explanation of the Speedforce and Snacks

"What are your super powers again?" "I'm Rich" Still one of the best lines

I love Diana's shirt in the scene with Alfred

"Looks like you have a date, Ms. Prince" lmfao - Unless his name is Steve, I doubt it

I feel like Victor and Diana would be a good brother/sister duo, ngl

Burying the fucking box at your mothers grave was the stupidest shit I have ever fucking seen Victor.

COMMISIONER GORDON HELL YES

Barry's utter fail at being normal around Diana

The underwater click-like dolphin speak was cool, but still kinda dumb knowing that later Aquaman speaks underwater just fine - ngl

Nice Liquidkinetics, Mera. Amber you're still a cunt.

Also, Mera says her parents died - Wasn't her father alive in Aquaman??

Victor seeing the bat-signal explains how he knew how to find them, honest

The badass entry of Bruce, Diana, and Barry makes me laugh

Barry is far too close to Bruce

Victor scared Barry LMFAOOOO

If Victor's father is the head of STAR Labs where the fuck is Harrison Wells?????

THEY LEFT BARRY BEHIND, ASSHOLES

Diana's annoyance at Barry running ahead is such a Mom thing

Stephen using the bug thing makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE

Diana trying to make a plan and it getting ruined fits with the exasperated Mom theme she's got going on.

THE SONG HEN DIANA GOES AGAINST STEPHEN WOLF, THE FUCKING VOCALS ALONG MAKE ME HYPE AS SHIIIIIIIIT

"I Belong To No One" I FUCKING LOVE IT

HEEEEEEEEELL of a push Barry lmfaooo

"Thank you Alfred" "Don't mention it" Mans is bored of your shit

"Sword Lady" LMFAOOOOOOO

Diana's x-move thing against Stephen Wolf YAAAAAAAAS BITCH

Diana saving Barry's ass - Accurate!

Victor taking over the Crawler makes more sense this way, honest

OKAY YOU AN ACTUALLY SEE AQUAMAN IN THE WATER AND IT MAKES IT MAKE SO MUCH MORE SENSE

That jump onto the crawler was smooth as fuck Diana!

Stephen Wolf getting visions from the boxes also explains a lot about some shit

"I know the requirements, I wrote them" Suuuuuuubtle lmfaoo

Victor brining the box them also fits better

Why is this Stone looking mother fucker speaking Latin?

Hello Darkseid, you look particularly dramatic this evening

Victor's explaining how he knows about the box makes a lot of sense, why was this cut again??

Actually explaining the fucking Mother Box was Helpful

Mrs. Kent and Lois having a heart to heart holy shiiiit

Martha talking about how Clark's death was drowned out by Superman's - wooow

WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH MARTHA'S EYES IS THAT J'ONN J'ONZZ?! THATS THE MARTIAN MANHUNTER HOLY FUCK IT'S J'ONN J'ONZZ

Ironic that Ezra-Flash's hero is Superman while Grant Gustin's hero is superman lmfao

Diana and Arthur chatting was cute, the quote was awesome and the Atlantians totally copped that quote from the Amazonians

Alfred being a sarcastic fuck is my favorite

Alfred being the voice of reason, as always

Arthur helping Barry pick a hat is AMAZING

Diana telling the boys to change, mom or big sister?? lmfaoo

Barry's social awkwardness gives me second hand embarrassment

This little infiltration arc makes SO MUCH more fucking sense

Every one being suited up and triggering the alarm is amazing

Mr. Stone fucking trusting his son is my faaaaaavorite

THE SUITS ACTIVATED AND CAME OUT WHEN CLARK WAS MOVED PAST THEM DUDE WTF

IS LOIS PREGNANT?!?!?!

Barry looks like he's about to throw up

BARRY HAS ALREADY TIME TRAVELLED THAT LINE SHOULDVE BEEN KEPT IN

Arthur being antsy about not doing the resurrection makes so much sense

VICTOR SEEING A POSSIBLE FUTURE IS THE BEST SHIT

I love vision-Diana's Norse burial

EVIL VISION-SUPERMAN DUDE CMON

THE MISUNDERSTANDING MAKES THIS WORSE AND BETTER AT THE SAME TIME

HE REVERSED TIME WHEN HE RESURRECTED SUPERMAN WHAAAAAAAAT

The Military arriving was a sensible addition

The fancy ass dramatic ass arrival of Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Cyborg when Superman gets to the monument is hilarious

Victor loosing control is the woooooorst

The Lasso of Truth almost got through to him but he's a stubborn fuck

Superman functioning in Flashtime is something I will never understand

Yeah lets shoot at the guy whose indestructible, right

"you should probably move" LMFAOOOO

Batman v. Superman part 2 insert eye roll here

headbutts like children - and that's cheating on the playground Clark.

Heat vision makes so much more sense than "do you bleed?"

Lois coming in cluuuuutch

I like Lois' appearance better than Alfred bringing her, it fits Lois better

Arthur and Barry now have rivalry lmfaooo

Mr. Stone being obsessed with the mother box is annoying as fuck

Mr. Stone is an idiot and he should've fucking left the box alone

That was a horrible death why was that necessary?!

Arthur being a pessimist in this movie is honestly hilarious, tho why is he anti-love??

Barry being surprised at Batman's richness is never not funny

"I'll take that as a yes" okay Clark, don't show off

IS LOIS PREGNANT OR NOT?!

"Its really me Ma" Best scene of the whole fucking movie

Barry and Arthur heart-to -heart "I thought you didn't car" "I never said that" BUILD THIS FRIENDSHIP

BRUCE TELLS DIANA OF THE VISION

Bruce talking about faith never bodes well

THE QUEEN LOOKS BEAUTIFUL

"uh with the power of love" "Barry" LMFAOOOOOO

THE KRYPTONIAN SUITS LOOK AMAZING

Since when does Superman have Geokinesis??

I LOVE HOW BOTH OF HIS FATHERS ARE TALKING TO HIM I FUCKING LOVE IT

THE SUIT UP SCENE ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME IT LOOKS AWESOME

"just have to knock a little louder" Well, that's one way to knock Bruce

Nice crash boy

Straight up sounded like "Loud and queer" lmfaoooo

Diana leading the teeeeeeeaaaam Hell Yes!

I do miss the "I think we're all gonna die" lasso-Arthur scene tho. it was stupid - but funny.

DIANA COMING IN FOR THAT SLICE AND DICE BAYBEEEEY

THE TEAM SHOOOOT YES totally taken from Marvel but fuck did it look good

"you really are out of your mind" says the idiot who talks to fish

"not done yet" vs "your welcome" I like the second one better

Glorious hair Arthur lmfaoo

Fucking chair eject

NICE SHISH-KA-BOB ARTHUR FUCK

Alfred doesn't even fucking blink when Clark arrives

ARTHURS TRIDENT DOES THE WAVY THING ON LAND TOO BROOOO

Oh yeah, step back for the demi-god princess

DONT PISS OFF DIANA AND DO NOT USE HER FAMILY TO FUCK WITH HER IT NEVER ENDS WELL

The familiar flash buildup power ring will never not make me happy

Daaaaaayum Diana!!

Nice catch Arthur

Diana knows her mother and sisters are alive bc they sent the arrow to her, so why is he even trying it??

NICE SAVE SUPERMAN!!

"Not impressed" Smooooooth

THAT FINAL BATTLE IS FUCKING AWESOME

TIME TRAVEL

BADASS DIANA WITH THAT DEPCAPITATION

You sent Today at 5:44 PM

Them all standing there was straight up "Fuck with us, I dare you"

The epilogue was great but that dream was confusing, are we doing Alt-universe shit??

MARTIAN MOTHER FUCKING MANHUNTER BITCHEEEEEEEEEEZZ

IS LOIS PREGNANT OR NOT?!

[adultswim2021]

Home Movies #6: “Director's Cut” September 2, 2001 - 10:00 PM | S01E06 Home Movies! The first *OFFICIAL* thing to air on Adult Swim! Home Movies was created by Brendon Small, previously of nothing, and Loren Bouchard, previously of Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist. Produced by Tom Snyder Productions (renamed Soup2Nuts by the time this episode aired). This first season of Home Movies utilized Squigglevision, first used in Dr. Katz. The show originally aired on UPN for the first five episodes back in 1999 and was promptly cancelled due to low ratings. I was one of the very few people who caught it during the UPN run, I saw, I think, one and a half episodes. Then, it was gone. I probably would’ve forgotten all about it were it not for Adult Swim’s revival of it. I kind of faintly recall seeing the initial promos for this show and thinking I’d seen it before. Do I explain the premise of the show here now? Okay, I guess I will. Brendon is (googling how old he’s supposed to be) an 8-year-old boy who makes amateur camcorder movies with his friends. Brendon and his friends are smart for their age, owing to the fact that they are voiced by adults leaning on their improv chops. There’s a ton of improv in the show. Brendon lives with his single mother and his dad is largely absent due to freakin’ cancel culture. His father figure is an alcoholic soccer coach named McGurk, voiced by Jon Benjamin, formally Ben Katz on Dr. Katz. In fact, it took me a while before i got used to his voice coming out of McGurk’s mouth, because I so strongly associated it with Ben. The plot of this episode is that Brendon’s crew want to film a script written by Duane, an older kid who performs all the music for Brendon’s movies. He wrote a rock opera about Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, which I have never and will never read. Brendon favors his own script and is jealous that Duane’s project is such a hit. The B-story is similar, McGurk is jealous of his assistant coach Drew who is doing a much better job than him. Drew is voiced by Larry Murphy, voice of Teddy from Bob’s Burgers and Assy McGee from Assy McGee. He speaks in what resembles his natural speaking voice, I assume, and you’d never guess it was him. I think this episode is good, but it’s light on laughs compared to episodes that came after it. Also, the literary references don’t thrill me. WE GET IT: YOU WENT TO COLLEGE. Big whoop. Go write for a Lampoon, why don’t you? I did listen to the DVD audio commentary for this (which are really funny! I forgot how funny they were!), which revealed that it was less about trying to find a literary reference and more about needing something public domain to make a rock opera about to avoid legal trouble. In fact, this episode was originally supposed to be a TRON rock opera. The other thing I have a mild distaste for is the aspiring film-maker character. You’d think I would hate this show, being that the whole thing is about an aspiring film-maker. Usually when there’s an aspiring film-maker character in a movie or TV show they are portrayed as a cutesy dreamer, and it usually doesn’t go deeper than that. Even though it’s reflecting a very true-to-life personality type I usually can’t stomach it in fiction. Who among us doesn’t know an obnoxious, borderline-delusional narcissist with stars in their eyes, getting off on acting the part of a bigshot creative type. But I guess all real-life bigshot creative types start out this way, so what the fuck kind of point am I even making right now? Anyway, there’s a scene in this episode where Brendon and his friends are negotiating the business side of their various projects and Jason demands “points” without having a firm grasp of what “points” are. It’s extremely funny, despite the weird hang-ups I described earlier. My favorite bit is the cold open, when McGurk questions why the team never carried him off the field in a celebratory manner after he witnesses Drew getting that treatment. “We tried once, but you were too big” Brendon says. McGurk is offended. “I mean, you were too... drunk” Brendon corrects himself. McGurk happily accepts. Goddamn, that’s a funny joke. Other things of note? This was the start of Adult Swim proper, with the old people swimming bumpers and whatnot. I think I touched on that stuff in one of my preamble posts, so I won’t belabor it here. But yes, this is technically the first Adult Swim show to air ON Adult Swim. What else? I like to complain about internet dorks who leap to wild conclusions about “unaired��� episodes of shows, so I’ll do that to close this out. I think Home Movies fans tend to believe that this episode as well as the rest of “season one” as we know it were just laying around on broadcast master tapes spitefully not being aired by UPN until Adult Swim rescued it. I believe that there had to be a break in production which resumed sometime between UPN and Adult Swim, and MAYBE this episode was partially produced, but probably not. But since Brendon’s mom is now voiced by not Paula Poundstone (which she was in the UPN episodes), I’m lead to believe that this could almost be considered the start of a new season. I guess I’ll find out if they ever discuss this in the DVD commentaries (they didn’t in the one I heard).

[if-i-am-not-for-me]

A lot of filmmakers have utterly forgotten what movies are for.

They are a form of storytelling.

But what has happened in recent decades is that the focus of filmmaking has shifted to visuals and spectacle. How realistic can we make this computer generated animal look? How stunning can we make the 3D effect? How real can we make magic beams coming from this characters hands appear?

And, yes, movies are an audio-visual medium of story telling, so of course attention must be paid to how everything looks. But not at the expense of the story.

The horror renaissance happening over the past 10 years or so shows how important story is. Movies like Hereditary, Midsommar, The Witch, Get Out, Us, Ready or Not, You're Next, Goodnight Mommy (the Austrian original), It Follows, The Babadook, and even The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2, show how audiences will respond to a film telling a compelling story with fully-realized characters. Most of these films involve very little major effects work, and those that do don't rely on it to do all the work. Instead, the in-camera and post-production effects work supports the story.

James Cameron's Avatar was a forgot-buster because the story lacked substance and depth. It was clear from the very start that the movie existed for Cameron to play with new technology. Compare that to Titanic, a James Cameron film with stunning visuals, for sure, but one that remains extremely popular because the story and characters were fleshed out, given depth, and were able to move the audience emotionally.

Take the Bob's Burgers Movie. The animation quality is higher than the television show, and the visuals are more detailed and wide shots are more epic. But the story was clearly crafted with care. As a fan of the show, I noticed all the details incorporated from the 12 seasons that had aired up to that point, but the team made sure that anyone who had never seen the show could walk into the theater and enjoy the movie just as much as I did. And, as with the TV show, the movie is wall-to-wall quips, one liners, and jokes. And it never feels forced. Because every line was written with an understanding of the character delivering it (or it was ad-libbed by the actor who has spent over a decade embodying the character). I cried in that theater, and I know I am not alone in that response to the movie.

I actually think this theatrical focus on soaring visuals is why prestige television is so huge right now. Yes, the effects work on GoT or HotD or Stranger Things is comparable to that seen in films, but you can't build an ongoing, weekly television series on visuals alone. Audiences would lose interest and not care about watching each week. So story and character has to be strong.

Hell, even "reality" television works hard to create storylines, because that is what retains audience attention and investment.

So, yeah, the problem isn't "quips". Its an utter disregard for storytelling.

I need people to stop blaming the death of movies on “quips”. A quip is just a funny line of dialogue. That’s all. Like I just saw a post talking about quips and the death of movies and brought up Pirates of the Caribbean as an example of a better movie and yes it is but also that movie is FULL OF QUIPS. I just rewatched The Princess Bride. It’s all quips. Every single line. And it’s a masterpiece.

Movies suck when people don’t care about the art they’re making. That includes them not caring about their quips. Which is why a lot of comic relief dialogue ALSO sucks now. But the problem isn’t that funny dialogue exists.

[meggannn]

the itsv commentary is so full of great facts and bts info so i wanted to write down all my favorite parts, but i just ended up writing down anything that was interesting, which was honestly most of it. four thousand words later i ended up with their commentary on practically half the movie. i’ve put the interesting or funny bits that i jotted down behind a cut if anyone is interested.

this commentary audio had Phil Lord (co-writer, producer), Chris Miller (producer), Bob Persichetti (co-director), Peter Ramsay (co-director), Rodney Rothman (co-director, co-writer), but it was kind of difficult to tell who was talking most of the time, so i didn’t include names on who said what, unless I knew for certain who was talking.

The first Miles sticker in the film is a “glitch” flashing on the Sony Pictures Animation logo. “Already putting his stamp on the movie.”

RIPeter is meant to be an amalgamation of all the Spider-Man we know, “good and bad” (as the dance happens, someone corrects him:) “Good and GREAT.”

(“I’ve got an excellent theme song, and a... so-so popsicle.”)

“That joke saved the movie.” “The dance move or the popsicle?” “The dance move. I resisted that dance joke and Rodney pushed hard for it (…) It told the audience what movie they were watching.”

“It was Rodney who was really pushing for him to be in this relatable idea of [Miles] not knowing the lyrics to this song but singing along.” “We started animating before the song was finished. It was really easy to not know the words then.”

“There are three very long shots that introduce Miles.” (The shot at home, the shot of him walking past Brooklyn Middle, the shot of him entering Visions.) “That was a deliberate choice, to open with a big crazy Spider-Man montage, and then with Miles, start a different pace, long shots, and just watch him and how he is, and don’t get too fancy with it. Although ironically these shots are really fancy.” The shot of him walking past Brooklyn Middle and the one of him walking into Visions are meant to directly contradict each other: his comfort zone vs him out of place in new surroundings. (Megan’s note: My take is that with these shots they might have been trying to represent his home, his past, and his future.)

“Everything [in this scene from color to sound] is meant to go from a very heightened experience with Peter to a very naturalistic experience with Miles.”

For the scene in the car, Shameik and Brian sat in chairs to set up in a car, with microphones and a rearview mirror. “Brian might have even been a little annoyed at Shameik a couple of times, and I think you can feel it in here, in a really wonderful way.”

(Talking about the chromatic aberration) “Sometimes it looks like you’re watching a 3D movie without the glasses on.” “That was on purpose.” “Every frame is supposed to feel like a piece of printed art.”

“On the cover of Great Expectations, there’s an image of Magwitch grabbing Pip’s shoulder in a cemetery.” “Foreshadowing!”

A side character named “Smiley Kid” is in several shots of miscellaneous Visions students. “Because he’s not a real person, I think we can say he is our least favorite person.” “I think he comes around. He’s great, then he’s bad, then he’s great again.” “He’s like the extra in every live action who worms his way to the front of every shot.” “He just almost always looks in the camera.”

Miles’s expression when the teacher calls him out at trying to fail was “completely ripped off of President Barack Obama.”

Benson Avenue was meant to call back to where one of their fathers grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

(“Hypnotize” by Notorious BIG playing on Aaron’s stereo) “Biggie Smalls in an animated Spider-Man movie. In what universe?” “This is the ideal timeline that we’re living in.”

(This comment is said as Miles presses his face on the glass:) “That changed people’s perceptions of the movie. When we had this in, it really lit people up.” (To be honest, I can’t tell if this comment was made in response to Biggie Smalls, or to Miles pressing his face on the glass.)

They all loved Mahershala Ali. “The shoulder touch would work if your voice sounded like Mahershala’s.” Everyone was in awe every time they recorded with him. “He makes you want to be a better person when you’re around him.” “He’s got a high bar.” “Then he goes away and it kinda wears off.”

The subway Aaron brings Miles to was a place he and Jeff used to paint in when they were young, which adds another layer to him talking about/missing Jeff when he mentions it to Miles. The age difference probably means Aaron was younger than Jeff, and now he’s the older one with Miles here.

There’s a bigger history between Jeff and Aaron that’s only hinted at, and part of it is the reason why Miles has his mother’s last name, not his father’s. It’s implied Jeff was worried his bad history would follow Miles if he took his last name. Also because “then he would be named Miles Davis.”

They were excited to depict a spider-man experiencing spider-sense for the first time.

“We did the most expensive thing. In all choices.”

“People ask, How does Miles with a cop and nurse parents afford Jordans? And the answer is, they were a gift from his uncle.”

(On Kingpin’s animation possibilities.) “We always had this idea that he was the living expression of a black hole. The right for him is this floating head on a body that we could scale up and down depending on the shot with hands at the end of arms.” “While creating a black hole, he is a black hole.”

Someone felt very passionate about including the dimensional map showing the other universes the collider was connecting with. “It felt so important to me.”

(Paraphrasing this one) “Once Phil and Lord gave the MO to push convention, the gauntlet had been thrown, we started getting crazy stuff back. And a lot of the time our art direction would just be like, ‘Yeah! COOL!' ‘Do more of that!’”

(Peter rolls his eyes as the Prowler menacingly steps forward) “I like that [RIPeter] is exhausted at the idea of being killed.”

“The Prowler chase sequence was the first sequence that went through the whole pipeline.” (This and the cemetery scene were the first.)

(The burst card of Miles jumping over the subway tracks) Bob Persichetti: “I had such high hopes to do a lot of burst cards, I think that’s the only one I actually did.”

(as Rio comforts Miles in Spanish) “We never translated on screen (…) The idea being, this is the fabric of Miles’s life.” “This was inspired obviously by Brian Michael Bendis” (co-creator of Miles Morales and his longtime writer) “and Miles’ bicultural background. But also Phil Lord grew up in a bilingual house.” “And I took Spanish in high school.”

(Stan Lee cameo) “[Stan is] the only performer in the movie who we went to. Everyone else came into recording studios, but Stan Lee, we dispatched the microphone to him.” “Everybody wanted to animate Stan.” “If you hit pause any time a train goes by, because everyone wanted to animate Stan, he’s in almost every single train.” “He’s an extra in a lot.”

(Miles reading comics before jumping off the building) “If you notice in that comic book, it’s True Life Tales of Spider-Man, and to keep his cover, his name is not Peter Parker. In the comic book, his name is Billy Barker.” “Great.” “Who could ever figure that out, right?”

A bunch of drawings around the grave of Peter Parker’s tombstone were all done by different kids of people on the show.

They mention the cemetery scenes was one of the first ones finalized. When they were still trying to figure out how to bring Miles to life, “you can see that his performance evolved from this [cemetery] scene.” “It’s super expressive.”

There was lots of debate on how much paunch should be on Peter B’s stomach. There are something like 3-5 different body models used throughout the movie.

They all loved the scenes of Peter B in his apartment: the cut to him crying in the shower, to pinned to the bed with his butt out, to his pose on the futon flipping through channels. Someone really liked “[his] little quivering [spidey] eyes on the seahorse shot.”

The comic book page-flipping device was a “late breaking” realization of how to transition between flashbacks and present day.

Chris Miller did the voice of the cop dispatcher on the radio saying the “Child dressed like Spider-Man dragging a homeless corpse behind a train” line. “The role I was born to play.”

In the walk-and-talk scene in the alley, they felt inspired to take a lot of crazy shots. “We were passionate that a Spider-Man movie needed to be shot from their point of view, where every surface can be the ground.”

“Because of questions on the internet, we took of one of Miles’s shoes. Just in case anybody wanted to know why he was sticking.” “Another thing that I was passionate about but nobody cared about but me.”

“One of the big tricks of this sequence and of this relationship was to let you believe that Peter was a good guy even though he was being a real… turkey… to Miles.” (Peter saying “No, does it look like it’s working? No! No, it’s not…”) “This was one of the few moments that we added kind of late just to know that he was a sweet pea underneath it all.” “Finding the right level for his not caring about Miles, and then learning to care about Miles, finding the right level from the beginning all the way through to the end, was something that took a lot of nuance.”

The interrogation/alley and burger scenes probably went through the most amount of reworks and rewriting than any others, because there was so much exposition and “you got tired” watching two heavy information scenes in a row. And given how often they said “this scene went through so many iterations” in this commentary, these two scenes must have been a LOT of rewrites. (Some of the alternate burger scenes can be seen in the film’s trailers and alternate universe cut.)

“I still kind of miss the unfinished version of this shot, where his feet… He had no toes for a really long time for some reason.” “You had to say like fifty times, ‘We’re gonna add toes right?’” “‘We’re gonna get his toes on there, right?’”

“One of the things about Kingpin is that he just magically appears outside of the car. Because there’s no way he could get actually get through the doorway.” “Maybe in the future where you guys are watching this ten years from now, someone will have figured out how to animate that. But in 2018 it’s still impossible.”

(Miles finding Peter in the vents) “These moments were really when you started to feel the relationship between the two of them develop.” “I love that Miles has to fight to occupy the same space and become an equal to Peter.”

(Peter mockingly blah-blahing as Doc Ock explains the danger of the collider, then saying afterward “Oh nevermind, that is bad.”) “For the sake of a laugh, we undercut the stakes, and then immediately had to buy the stakes back.”

“We went through probably 70 different version of what Miles would look like while invisible … and I like how how he comes in and out of invisibility was stylized to some degree.”

They say the Doc Ock/Peter scene was “really really bad at one point” and now it’s “one of the most wonderful surprises.”

Ock’s computer is based off of Phil Lord’s actual desktop. Some files are cut off the edges of the screen because they just dragged things off of the internet.

(Peter glitching in the chair) “I’m remembering all of the conversations that determined that it was funniest if you left Peter’s head unglitched.”

It was Justin Thompson’s idea to use soft robotics for this version of Dock Ock’s tentacles.

Everyone, from animation to the sound team, saw Doc Ock’s tentacles about 3 months before completion, went (exasperated) “Oh THAT’S what they look like? We’ll have to redo X Y Z whole thing…”

You can tell they loved the monitor joke. “Very silly things happening around very cool things.”

The Bagel! text was added last minute. “That was a joke pitch by Justin that was taken seriously.”

“Everyone felt empowered to pitch crazy ideas, and that’s why it felt so rich and deep.”

“It’s no understatement to say that this look in the forest is one of the hardest things in a movie like this. To make something look realistic is something we know how to do pretty well. But to make it look graphic and illustrative is almost impossible.” “Especially when you’re close and far to trees within the same shot at times.” “We had so many conversations with Danny, our V Effects supervisor, like, ‘But, you guys, we’re going to be in a forest, you really don’t want the leaves to rustle in the wind?' ‘No, we’ll be okay!’” (Later, when Peter and Miles swing off together, the leaves rustle:) “See, the leaves can move, guys!” “We just CHOSE for them not to.” “It was an absolute creative choice.”

“This is another moment in the story when we really open this beat up to let Peter and Miles have a victory together and cement their bond, that you really were rooting for their relationship. We breezed through this quickly and you didn’t have the same connection with the two of them.” “One of the things in the screenplay that we discovered really late is that you needed to have a lot of smaller, positive accomplishments throughout the center of the movie to have it work right.” “(…) This middle section of the movie is about Peter and Miles learning to fall for each other, basically.”

(During Gwen’s intro) “We give just enough to hopefully tease you guys into being really into each one of these characters’ origin story.”

“One week of days and nights just passed in that one shot.” “She hit a time anomaly on her way to this dimension.”

“She vibes with Miles after he had been bitten by the spider, and she purposefully bumped into him there, in case you didn’t catch that.”

“We were trying to make Ock such an intelligent and socially awkward person that then turns into this really formidable equal to Kingpin.”

(When Peter thwips May’s doorbell and then exhales with his hands on his hips.) “One of my favorite poses in the movie.” “That pose gets a laugh all by itself.”

“‘You look tired’ is a thing my mom says to me every time I see her.” “It’s accurate.”

“I fought hard to have (May) kick that door open.” “I tried to cut that and then you uncut it, correctly.” “Let’s be honest, she’s not treating her house very well.”

(In the Spidey Lair) “Lots of Easter eggs here.” “We should’ve put an actual Easter egg in this shot.”

They debated for a long time putting the B-team spiders in the picture at all, knowing it would be more work, wanting to make their characters worth being in the picture without taking away from Miles. “Nothing worked in the movie until it had something to do with Miles and his story.”

(On the spider team testing Miles:) This angle was “late-breaking, on the backside”: “This made it feel like they all cared about Miles, even though they maybe didn’t believe in him.” “Just Peter going ‘Cool it.’ For the longest time we didn’t have something like that.”

(Pretty sure this is Peter Ramsay) “When you’re making a movie it’s like you’re building an emotion machine. You’ve gotta have all the parts calibrated the right way, make sure it’s properly oiled, cause if it isn’t, the gears are gonna stick, and you’re not gonna feel right.”

The Prowler Sound™ is not a jaguar or cat, but an elephant. “We only did the dark scenes first cause they were easier to light.” (Some of those scenes they mention are Miles running from the Prowler, the cemetery scene, Miles writing the note in Aaron’s apartment.)

They tried about a million songs for Peni while she makes a new goober. (The song used is not in the soundtrack, but it’s “Want It Here” by Xenia Pax.)

(On Peni’s Heelies) “This shot’s not long enough to get her from the kitchen to the couch.” “Is that why?!” “That’s one hundred percent why. Just put those little wheelies on here!”

In the first draft, there was an idea there RIPeter was a grad student under tutelage of male Doc Ock so that’s how Liv and Ock knew each other.

“The table pushing into Miles. That was something my older brother, when we would fight when we were kids, he would do that to me.”

(When Aaron closes his eyes, refusing to kill Miles:) “That little look. ‘Cause he knows what’s coming.”

(They’re all quiet as Miles carries Aaron to safety, caught up in the scene.) “We’re all kind of gripped.” “We’re supposed to be giving interesting anecdotes here, guys, come on.” “It was so cold that day…”

Prowler’s death was the first session they did with Mahershala. “He’s a method actor, and his death scene, it was like he was really dying.”

“We gave animators the freedom. You can make Miles unattractive. He can ugly cry, because this is raw and it feels so emotional.”

(When Miles throws his sketchbook out the window, only for it to immediately come flying back in:) “It’s a one-shot transition from deep emotion and regret and pain. We said, ‘He’s gonna throw the one thing out that really represents his uncle, yet it’s gonna come flying back in.’ It was hard to make that shot work.” “It’s a great story statement that you can’t lose the things that make up your past.”

When everyone is talking about someone they’ve lost, an alternate line has Ham saying “I lost my uncle. He was electrocuted, and it smelled so good.” It got a lot of laughs, but the team says that from then on, the audience “resisted” Ham because he killed the mood, and it was hard for people to see him as anything other than a goofy cartoon, so they changed the line to “Miles, the hardest part about this job is you can’t always save everyone.” (Megan’s note: I think they probably didn’t bother to re-animate the others’ facial reactions after changing Ham’s line, because judging by the reactions from Peter and Miles in this shot it feels like Ham just said something annoying/out of place lol.)

When Peter says “It wasn’t their decision” (for Miles to stay behind), Miles has a very quick reaction shot where he turns away, bites his lip, and shakes his head. Someone mentions it’s one of their favorite shots of Miles.

(On the scene with Miles and his dad at the door) “When Brian Tyree Henry saw this scene [with a rough performance, just animation], he got the movie. It made such an impression on him. He was very happy to come in and pick any lines up for us and just keep working.” “We were working on the shots on layup for this. The idea of having them be on thirds to start, then coming closer, and finally ending with the final split-screen shot at the end.” “And Jefferson crosses the scene, which I think is really interesting. They start off on opposite sides of the screen. He makes the first move.” “It’s amazing to me to see Miles transformed by his father.” “It feels earned.”

“In an earlier version of that scene, Aunt May gave him a version of that speech, which was nice, but it needed to be Dad.”

(Later on, someone mentions:) “Tom was the first one to say ‘It shouldn’t be Aunt May at the door, it should be Dad.’ And we all sort of slapped our foreheads going ‘That’s absolutely right.’”

“After our premiere, my 9yo son [Luca? Luka?] asked me this. ‘So Papa, you know Miles spray-paints one of those suits and it becomes his suit. Super cool, Papa, but it shouldn’t fit him. It’s way bigger.’” (Laughter) “Did he have to wait a few hours for it to dry?” "We cut out the sequence where Aunt May sewed it tighter and altered it.” “And they had the hair-dryer express drying it. ‘Your friends are in danger.’ ‘Well just let me let it dry first!” “I tell you, spray paint, five minutes and you’re dry.” “She pre-altered it. She knew he was coming. She said, ‘It took you long enough.’ It all happened in advance.”

“The scene of Miles falling and everything slowing down and I always appreciated that Phil called out he was ‘falling and rising’ and the same time.” “It made the movie. A rare thing that goes from the stage directions all the way through production and onto the screen.”

“This sequence used to end with him getting hit by a truck. But really felt like it was time for Miles to get a big victory.” (Megan’s note: This scene is shown in draft stage in the alternate universe cut. Miles makes his leap, free-runs over some trucks and buildings, and his scene is interrupted when he gets hit by a truck and crashes to the ground. There’s a moment where he collects himself, the pushes himself to his feet and runs off into the city to join the others at the collider. I interpret this idea to be their showing how Miles fully embraces the “Get back up” lesson, since Miles’s pose in the sketches imitates the same one in the basement when the spiders are hazing him and he’s on the ground.) “And now people applaud.” “There’s a general attitude with this movie that was like, ‘How can we do things differently?’ That was a case of when we were like, ‘What if we didn’t have the audience feel really good in this moment?” (Laughter) “What if we had them feel really bad? Right at the moment they want to feel good, what if we made them feel terrible?” (Joking) “Let’s poke THEM in the eye.” “I think in early drafts, we just were like, Miles is losing and falling short the whole movie until the very end. And when we put that up, we realized that you needed to see him slowly winning and winning and winning until he won even bigger at the end.”

A set-up that never fully made it in the movie is that Fisk runs charities for Spider-Man and that’s why the dinner was set up like it was.

The bread scene was on the chopping block for a long time. “By adding this interaction, and making it about Peter and MJ and something real, all of a sudden this scene was worth it.” “It’s necessary to know what Peter’s giving up by sacrificing himself.” “It lasts just long enough because we learned that if you stay way from Miles too long--” (They interrupt here to point out two cameo people at dinner, “Danny and Josh,” who I couldn’t get a cap of) “--We lose our connection to the movie in a way. But at this point we care enough about Peter to want him to get back to MJ too.”

“The servers that were holding the movie were moving slow by the end of this shoot. And we had the best computers.” “At a certain point I think we overloaded Imageworks’ server. There was a moment they were afraid the movie was going to break their machine.” “Which was our whole idea. Our whole approach was, how do we break these pipes that make the movie?”

(During the final collider fight sequence, but they don’t specify what idea this was about specifically:) Chris Miller: “One of the only times I can ever remember saying ‘Okay you’ve gone too far.’ There was one brand where I was like, ‘I don’t get this.’ A few of the drawings that were somehow even more insane than this.” “What you’re saying, Chris, is that there’s a version of this scene that’s even crazier than this?” “Literally the only time I can remember going, ‘Okay guys, you’ve done it. You’ve broken it.’”

“I’m sure there’s are filmmakers watching this, so I think this is a learnable lesson from this sequence. Which is if you want to put something super crazy in your movie, wait until the very end when a lot of movie has been spent on your movie and your release date is 3 to 4 months away and they literally cannot stop you or else they have no movie.”

One of them points out Miles webs a turntable to propel himself upward. (Megan’s note: Miles also does this just as his own theme starts playing, which starts off with a record-scratch. I thought that was cool.)

(The moment when Gwen calls Miles “Spider-Man”:) “That choice went through a lot of iterations like “What’s the end of their relationship?” That she calls him Spider-Man instead of giving him a kiss on the cheek? It makes me well up just thinking about it.”

Kingpin breaks the glass of a building and the pieces fly toward Miles. Bob Persichetti calls these “Dorito chips.”

After the train enters a collider steam, there are versions of the interior of the train that flash from all five dimensions. There’s a futuristic Peni version, an old-timey Noir version, there’s a Gwen version… “As it passes through the beam, you get to see five versions of the train existing at once.”

(Vanessa and Richard seeing Kingpin) “This idea of repeating mistakes (for Kingpin). No matter what, he was gong to keep repeating these mistakes.” “He’s still who he is.”

“It was my dream to have Kingpin headbutt Miles and it finally came true.”

Each one of these character is in a black costume, and black surrounds them, and yet you can still see what’s happening.

“I remember people wanting to cut the shoulder-touch at the end.” “Who wanted to cut this?!” (Overlapping chatter) “No names in the screen.” “I remember feeling, oh my god. You’re LUCKY you got the shoulder touch in.” “The fact that you could pay off a set up that wasn’t even a set up…”

(On Miles seeing inside the universe as the collider explodes) “And then this. How long can it be? Let’s make it way too long!”

“The Anvil (that clanks at the end) was in Ham’s pocket?” “In the hammer space.”

(Miles hugs Jefferson) “This was the moment everybody went ‘Oh, YES.’ No matter what, we have to get to the hug, and the disguised voice, and the ‘I love you.’”

Someone describes the ending soundtrack as “Miles’ playlist meets Aaron’s playlist meets a superhero movie.”

They indirectly confirm Peter B and MJ do get back together. “Peter B gets his happy ending.” Another bit someone mentions was a late addition.

“I like that the movie starts and ends with Miles in his bedroom by himself.”

“We could do a whole other commentary saying completely different things.” “Probably four.” “We should do an alternate universe commentary.”

“You’re your own champion, I think that’s the idea. This is a story of empowerment. A champion is not coming from outside of you to come and save you. It’s your job.”

(As the credits roll) “Every name you see right now, we’ve seen them cry.” “We’ve made them cry.” “Every name you see right now has yelled at us.”

(On the post-credits scene) “We thought of this (post-credits scene) two months ago.” (They recorded this commentary in Dec 2018.) “We wanted to get Miguel in there and show the opportunities of where the multiverse could go.”

“I looked this up. This IS the most expensive dumb joke of all time.”

“We didn’t finish cleaning the cell on that close-up of Spider-Man.”

[daleisgreat]

Man vs. Snake: The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler

I am a huge fan of the classic 2007 documentary, King of Kong, that saw two arcade players vying for the all-time Donkey Kong high score. Last year I was visiting a bunch of friends at a retro gaming convention and while hanging out after the con, one of them suggested to throw on today’s entry, 2015’s Man vs. Snake: The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler (trailer) on in the background. I had no idea what it was and immediately focused all attention upon it once I realized it focused on the same premise of two old-school arcade players chasing down the top score for another 80’s arcade game, Nibbler. It is not from the same directorial crew of King of Kong, but is shot in a similar style and shares a few supporting cast interviewees from King of Kong such as videogame high-score gatekeeper Walter Day and the controversial Billy Mitchell. Being a huge fan of King of Kong I was stunned Man vs. Snake went three years going off my radar. I listen to several videogame podcasts and keep up with the gaming press online and on social media seemingly daily and somehow this one slipped by me for three years. Upon getting minutes into the documentary I was doubly stunned that I had never once heard of or seen footage before of the 1982 arcade game, Nibbler this documentary is centering its high score chase on. The two creators of Nibbler, Joseph Ulowetz & John Jaugilas, are interviewed and explained how the game essentially came and went with middling sales and no real lasting power in the arcade scene at the time. If you are in my age range in your 30s you likely first experienced a variant of Nibbler more commonly known as Snake in the late 90s on either flash-based gaming websites, TI graphic calculators or simple black-and-green Nokia cell phones of that timeframe. I never recalled once seeing this in arcades and much-appreciated the history lesson. The two creators are only shown briefly in several excerpts, but they have an uncut 15 minute interview in the bonus material worth seeing because both of them go in-depth about how Nibbler came to be, crazy office stories and revealing the reason behind some of its gameplay secrets.

The two high score-chasers Man vs. Snake is centered around is Tim McVey (no, not the one you are thinking of) and Dwayne Richard. The documentary kicks off with exquisite animation sequences reminiscent of the style in Bob’s Burgers detailing how McVey originally posted the first official billion point game in Nibbler and procured the world record. Billy Mitchell is interviewed here elucidating the story because he is a real-life friend of Tim’s and witnessed him post that original record score. McVey was dethroned not too long later by an Italian, Enrico Zanetti, who is also interviewed and has his own unique tale on how his record stood for over 25 years. The animation featured in the opening and in a handful of other sporadic scenes throughout the film is incredibly impressive and is a worthy substitute for a lack of TV footage from that time. Flash forward to the late 2000s and the doc does a great job at detailing the impetus for what drove Tim and Dwayne to start competing against each other to set a new world record. A standout scene is showing clips and recapping how Dwayne & Tim compete against each other at MAGfest one year and the highs and lows of that public event. Later the focus switches to Dwayne & Tim’s own personal livestream attempts to try and break the world record and the stress of being filmed throughout the whole ordeal. McVey is featured more prominently throughout along with his wife and the film reeled me in for the agony of defeat as Tim went through all kinds of failed attempts due to several different type of circumstances. Both McVey and Richard have their feel good moments, and like King of Kong their successes did not go without controversy. Walter Day is the ever-present authoritative figure throughout with his trademark referee shirt just like we remember him from King of Kong. For fans of that documentary, you may recall it shares a couple glimpses of Walter’s unique personal life, and just some forewarning that Man vs. Snake dives a little deeper into Day’s lifestyle in a couple of scenes and it goes places I did not expect.

Also worth noting is that the DVD has both a censored and uncensored version available. I watched the uncensored version and what stood out from that is a couple of interview subjects being unfiltered at times and a couple graphic blister scenes due to playing Nibbler nonstop for over a day. For other extra features there are a total of 50 minutes of bonus scenes and that is where you can find the aforementioned interview with the two creators of the game. Other recommended cutting room floor scenes are more in-depth recaps of a couple of McVey’s failed attempts that did not get highlighted in the feature and a interview with another arcade score-chaser, Rick Carter, on his memories of trying to dethrone the Nibbler world record. There is also an audio commentary with directors Andrew Seklir and Tim Kinzy which is worth checking out because they have nonstop insight and facts on tracking down interview subjects, acquiring archival footage and discovering which interviewees they have fond and/or disdainful memories of throughout the production process. Man vs. Snake reminded a lot of why I loved King of Kong. I would rank it a notch or two under King of Kong because Man vs. Snake does not have the convenient hero/villain dynamic of Wiebe and Mitchell as McVey and Richard are both affable and positive figures to root for throughout. It also does not helps that King of Kong is based on one of the most popular arcade games of that era while Man vs. Snake focuses on one that I had no idea existed until I saw the film. Do not let that sway you from avoiding Man vs. Snake because it is still a vastly fascinating and entertaining documentary worth going out of your way to see. Other Random Backlog Movie Blogs 3 12 Angry Men (1957) 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown 21 Jump Street The Accountant Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie Atari: Game Over The Avengers: Age of Ultron The Avengers: Infinity War Batman: The Killing Joke Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice Bounty Hunters Cabin in the Woods Captain America: Civil War Captain America: The First Avenger Captain America: The Winter Soldier Christmas Eve Clash of the Titans (1981) Clint Eastwood 11-pack Special The Condemned 2 Countdown Creed Deck the Halls Die Hard Dredd The Eliminators The Equalizer Dirty Work Faster Fast and Furious I-VIII Field of Dreams Fight Club The Fighter For Love of the Game Good Will Hunting Gravity Guardians of the Galaxy Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 Hercules: Reborn Hitman Indiana Jones 1-4 Ink The Interrogation Interstellar Jobs Joy Ride 1-3 Major League Man of Steel Man on the Moon Marine 3-6 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Mortal Kombat National Treasure National Treasure: Book of Secrets The Replacements Reservoir Dogs Rocky I-VII Running Films Part 1 Running Films Part 2 San Andreas ScoobyDoo Wrestlemania Mystery The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Shoot em Up Skyscraper Small Town Santa Steve Jobs Source Code Star Trek I-XIII Take Me Home Tonight TMNT The Tooth Fairy 1 & 2 UHF Veronica Mars Vision Quest The War Wild Wonder Woman The Wrestler (2008) X-Men: Apocalypse X-Men: Days of Future Past