#if I had a nickel for every time I enjoyed a character who is mature for his age and has more power than he knows what to do with

[otaku553]

New blorbo :)

Also a silly interaction with this piece

[shaolin-spin-doctor]

If I had a nickel for every time I saw someone accuse a MK ship and its shippers of being Gross because they wrongly assume a grown ass adult in their mid twenties is actually a teenager, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but why the hell do people keep running their mouth and accusing others of being pedos without fact checking first.

Guys.......... There are no minors in the MK roster. Zero. Every single character is of age. The only person you could make an argument for is Ferra, but 1) there's no canon confirmation of her age or any way to calculate it, 2) I highly doubt NRS would include a playable child in a game where you brutally mutilate and kill your opponents, and 3) she's never really been relevant to this conversation anyway. I've noticed these accusations seem to be relatively common and seen as "valid" when it comes to ships involving the Kombat Kids, as people seem to be under the impression that they're, well, kids, because of the group's name. They are not. By MKX, Jin, Cassie, Jacqui and Takeda are all over 21, either confirmed for sure (Takeda being 23) or estimated going off timeline info (meaning Jacqui, Cassie and Jin are all around 23-24, maybe slightly older in Jin's case). There is nothing to suggest they are minors or freshly turned adults.

Listen, it's fine if you don't like a ship. You can find it horrible personally! It can make you uncomfortable! You can block people who post about it! And that's totally okay. But just because you don't vibe with it, just because you think "the characters aren't mature enough", which is a completely subjective statement NOT backed up by game events, canon or otherwise, it doesn't mean you get to label that ship as problematic and call people who Do enjoy it horrible things. You can simply Not Like things without doing mental gymnastics to justify why everyone else shouldn't like it either, and you can also Not vandalize art of the ship. Be respectful of other members of the community.

[clarajohnson]

the magicians s2e3

eliot giving a real and that's what you missed on glee performance to start the episode

ta fucking da (i am in love with him)

rhinemann ultra is possibly my favorite spell name in this show. certainly the most memorable. i point at the screen when they say it.

lmao i forgot they didn't take care of the cursed thrones yet

if i had been abandoned in rural ren faire land with a spouse i didn't choose and my best friend and crush and crush's girlfriend returned with matching tattoos i would go crazy even without a cursed throne

oo-surpers... yoosurpers.

We're Fine :-l

god i hate to always be the one pointing out when these characters are hot but cursed throne quentin... is kind of hot

of course cursed throne alice is also hot but that's no different than any other alice

jesus you're acting like this is your first regicide

i forgot how often penny is on eccentric mega-personality genius babysitting duty

hiiiiiieeeee marina

she's literally the best i'm such a fan of her character this watch

I FORGOT MY BEST FRIEND HARVEY GUILLEN IS IN THIS !!!!!! BENEDICT I'M ALREADY SAD FOR YOU

i make maps, your majesty ??

be nicer to fen, penny, that's my (tumblr user han clarajohnson's) wife

a benevolent mommy who will solve my problems with her gaia problems? literally marina call me any time anyyyyyy time THE LEATHER SKIRT ARE YOU JOKING

i may truly skip the cupcake scene when it happens i'm already worried about it. it was genuinely my least favorite scene of the entire show last time.

you couldn't hit a fat girl with a fat-girl-seeking arrow... i like it but i don't love it

margo releasing her cacodemon that early is so crazy like without a curse i'm sure she never would've done it and it feels like the writers were just so enchanted by the concept they wanted to use it again. and then they like, didn't use it ever again lol?

you shot me, you cock !!!!!!!

ah yeah i will be skipping all the marina reynard stuff sorry

fen with a crossbow is very pleasing to me

sorry it's like 50% horniness and 50% i love how crazy this show is and what it lets all its characters do, you know?

what's best in life? to crush your enemies ??!!!! i love you cursed throne margo

is it wrong to say i find her death extremely satisfying WHAT DID SHE MEAN BY THAT

PLEASE the noise q makes when el extracts the syringe

alice being disturbed by feeling her cacodemon under her skin is so fun. high fantasy autistic texture aversion.

man it sucks skipping the marina reynard scenes because she's my best friend and wife of twenty years

love the cool dude magic music they use to really emphasize how fun tutting is

MARINA GET THE LEO BLADE DO IT DO ITTTTTT

once again alice is the most not-grown-up extremely mature child in the world tell me why she's about to save the entire fucking universe and she wants a sundae with gummy bears on top

all i can handle right now is a goddamn ice cream sundae !!!! this feels like a trap !!!!!

i remember hating q during this argument and i don't hate him now but it does still kill me that he thinks now is the time to have this conversation. also don't make alice cry quentin

idk how olivia taylor dudley does it but she has this wretched little about-to-cry voice that kills me every time

i have... befouled... the wellspring

god i so don't care for ember i find him unpleasant and unnecessarily grody but i do enjoy the weirdo wellspring twist

i, like the magicians writers, forgot that q incurs an injury for which he will lose an arm

to our pretty corpses :'-)

i love el and margo's casual intimacy they are the sweetest friends

in 2016 "full harry potter part seven slash eight" was still a funny joke. I Assume.

(everyone chanting) NIFFIN! NIFFIN! NIFFIN! NIFFIN! NIFFIN!

perhaps the most pathetic q has ever looked up until this point

if i had a nickel for every time a quinn child had niffined out...

can't not say it niffin alice is so scary hot

aw margo apologizing to alice is so sad once again this character has LAYERSSSSS

feels really revealing that q chose el and margo over alice idk

now i'm not going to say that between quentin and marina as characters i'd choose to change marina's death... but between marina and anyone else i'd choose marina

[madamegemknight]

Miscellaneous thoughts about CGI MOTU (in no particular order)

Beware spoilers under the cut!

I really liked the way they recontextualized some of the pieces of previous continuities! “Modulok” being a game with non-standard use of arms and legs was a really clever way of calling back to the character, and I thought it was neat that Colossor was a creature the original Orko defeated.

I thought that from a meta perspective it was funny that Cringer and Duncan had pretty much switched personalities, with Cringer being the battle-ready, mature Dad Friend™ and Duncan being the walking ball of anxiety. I dunno if that was intentional or not, but I still got a chuckle out of it.

Krass my beloved. I’ve always liked Ram Man as a character, but he’s never been in my list of favorites until now. Ram Ma’am is just such a fun character and I’ll probably be able to properly explain why I enjoy her so much after I’ve thought about it for a while but for now all I can say is Ram Ma’am good please give me more.

I’m glad that there were 10 episodes for the first season instead of 5 like Revelation - I liked Revelation, but having such a short amount of time to move your plot forward means that character moments and plot twists can’t really be touched upon as much. Those extra 5 episodes really helped me feel more connected with the characters, even if it still felt like a few moments were rushed.

Where’s Marlena. Mattel where is Marlena. What did you do with my astronaut mom Mattel. Mattel she better be in the next season.

I really hope we get to know more about King Grayskull and his allies  - a couple things have been mentioned, but nothing major, and given how we literally have a character who knew the guy (or a legacy recording of the character, at least) it would be neat to have a flashback episode like we had in the 200X series.

The transformation sequences for Evil-Lyn, Trapjaw, and Beastman were absolutely terrifying and I have no idea how they were allowed in this show for children. Given how Tuvar and Baddrah both show up I am very terrified at the thought of their potential transformation sequence. Mattel please don’t scare the small children and also me.

YES WE’RE FINALLY TOUCHING ON ETERNOS NOT BEING A PICTURE PERFECT KINGDOM AND HAVING LEGITIMATE FLAWS I AM HYPED.

Ork-0 my beloved but also HOLY FLIP there is so much to his character and I feel like they’ve barely scratched the surface. What was the original Orko like, given how the Eldress said he never had a “true heart?” Is it legitimately just a legacy recording scenario or was there soul magic involved because it seemed like he was doing magic in the last episode (the clothes summoning and the teleportation)? Why did he have a legacy recording in the first place? Are we going to get a flashback episode for how the original helped all the Trollans ascend and what happened to him?

SPEAKING OF TROLLA if I had a nickel for every time a He-Man series released in 2021 had a sublot where the characters go to Trolla and realize there’s nobody there I would have two nickels and I would have preferred it to be 0 nickels thank you very much. What does ascending mean? Are they dead? Are they in another dimension? Why was this continuity’s Trolla in Eternia? Are we ever going to see any Trollans?

Overall I really liked it! It’s not one of my favorite series, but it was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. Outside of one or two cases where a joke didn’t click, the humor was really spot on and I like the overarching story they’re going for. The characters are all really great, even if it is still a little weird seeing them so drastically different, and I’m excited to see where the show goes from here (and hopefully we’ll get to see more Trollans please Mattel I just want to see them again).