#lets kill leafy from bfdi!

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Hehe my drawings there

FOR CELEBRATION OF EPISODE 90 OF BONUS STAGE TAKE THESE DRAWINGS

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Making my grand return after 3 weeks of inactivity! (Though I may not be active all the time) Lets talk about TPOT 14!

While I did enjoy this episode a lot, the only downside I have with it is how it was a little too fast paced, I can handle that for BFDIA, but I think knowing how TPOT usually is maybe it was a little offputting, I might need to do a rewatch, but I remember a lot from the episode so im still goin with this post.

So with that said...lets start the ramble session!

So I just want to point out how Pencil is clearly living in the past on how obsessed she is to desprately reform FreeSmart by getting Book and Ice Cube, idk why it just feels funny and weird, you can clearly tell how uncomfortable they were in this and last episode that they want nothing to do with her, whatever the hell she did to them in IDFB (im still having thoughts the 'FreeSmart downfall' is gonna hppen in IDFB with Match being the first to leave the LOL.)

Ill admit the shot of the new TCOA was pretty cool, I like it when they implement 3d things into BFDI

Now... onto the CAS. I freaked out so bad in vc when I saw Pin and Ice Cube safe, ik Taggy and Book was gonna be safe so i didnt worry, but felt like Pin was in danger because she couldnt do much being stuck to Gaty, I thought Icy was gonna be out because she was used just to try and kill the fish monster, she couldnt really do much. But OH MY GOD.

I FUCKING GOT IT RIGHT. FOR A WHILE I HAD A FEELING ERASER AND GATY WAS GONNA BE OUT. Ill be honest Eraser didnt have much going on anymore because of Teardrop being eliminated in TPOT 9, so what else did he have left? I dont know exactly, I really had expected him getting out. Now TREE? I didnt expect him to be in the bottom 2, I thought he would be third to last safe, Pin and Gaty being bottom two because both of them didnt do much but be stabbed and used as a weapon by Robot Flower. As much as I love Gaty, I had a feeling she was gonna be out, and finding out I was right about her and Eraser being out made me insanely shocked. The first time I ever got a TPOT prediction right, though I thought One was gonna immediately snatch them up soon after, but good thing Book took notice of it and try to have and her, alongside Pin try to keep Gaty safe. While the others threw Eraser around basically.

Now im glad we got to see the elimination space again, and seeing the others are trying to escape, Fries and Puffball trying to break what seems to be a barrier? Also I noticed Saw, Nickel and Coiny are not there, ik they arent snatched by One but maybe theyre somewhere?

This genuinely made me sad, I had a really good feeling Two was gonna be upset about Gaty being out, I was definetly aware they couldnt bring themself to send her to the elimination space knowing how close she is to them, I didnt expect them to send her to kitchen, however, seeing the scene of One staring at her makes me feel like Two should had sent her there, Gaty is at risk of being snatched, which is gonna upset them even more or hell, send them into a panic, from what ive seen, they seem to brush off the fact Bell/Bomby/Barf Bag/Needle are missing, but what happens if Gaty disappears? Will they try to keep running the show? Theres a lot of predictions you can go off from.

I just wanna show this screenshot its so funny that Taggy is just staring at Book like this 😭😭😭

Glad to see Firey Jr again!

Its funny how DPYA tried to do the same thing from last episode trying to defeat that venus flytrap(?), like sure that would totally work again.

Kind of like how Pin thought doing this again was gonna work in BFDIA 15, LOL.

Closing out my post on the post credits scene, I kind of wonder where the other exitors went. I completely freaked out seeing Match end up in the Pillary Ruins, and this shot here is so cool like.... Knowing last episode we saw Firey and Leafy, are we gonna see more of the BFB contestants again? I wonder what they will have for the plot in future episodes...

And something tells me FreeSmart may reform again, knowing Match is with Ruby and Bubble, and apparently Pencil trying to get Ice Cube and Book back, though its not gonna happen.

[tapwater118]

The Post-Split Rant, Part 2

a.k.a.: Grown Adult somehow whines about Baby Cartoon for even longer

Part 1

BFB Post-Split is my least favorite season, so I’m gonna keep whinging on about it. As a reminder to all who bother to read this, this is my opinion. It is fine if you disagree with me about something, and you probably will. This is a good thing! Disagreement invites discussion, as long as all involved are willing to discuss.

Ok let’s just get right into it.

BFB 22

THE LEAFY PLUSH IS NOW AVAILABLE!!!!! I don’t have really anything to say about the ad intro other than it’s become a vocal stim for me. Moving on.

erm taco got out and she was my favortie character so this js the wrost epistioe

Ok, but seriously.

Overall, this is a pretty fun episode! “Court case” doesn’t really sound like it would make for that good of a challenge, but they make it work! A lot of funny moments all around. Jet-flying class is a top tier bit.

That being said, I have two VERY BIG ISSUES with this episode that keep it out of my favorites list. The second one I want to save for later (after BFB 24), so let’s talk about that first one.

This episode, and the resulting elimination segment in the following episode, is the biggest middle finger to Bubble Post-Split ever pulls. She is killed off very early into the challenge, and is not recovered until the next episode. I believe this is directly responsible for her elimination. Leafy gets her moment with Firey (more on that later), Lollipop and Gelatin form their Newbie Alliance, and Teardrop has some cute moments with the typewriter. Every Have Cotter gets to do something intriguing or endearing this episode, except for Bubble. She is, quite literally, written out of the show. It’s not even like she did nothing because she’s a boring character; Bubble is a very interesting character! She was just killed off. (Honestly reminds me of how in season 1 they were pretty obviously trying to get people to vote Ice Cube out near the end, only this time they didn’t have to resort to a contestant vote to do so.)

Like I said, we’ll get to that second issue in a bit.

BFB 23

One last one-two combo on Bubble for really no reason or payoff here. Pretty much nobody remembers she even died last episode, and her elimination is by far one of the most anticlimactic in the entire series. No drum roll or anything, and she barely even gets to say bye. Spongy, the character everyone always seems to point to when people talk about characters being mistreated by the writers (rightfully so imo), had a more impactful elimination.

This episode is just bland. Challenge-wise it’s the exact opposite of BFB 22; the premise for the challenge is really interesting (A jailbreak! That’s exciting!), but they execute it in probably the most boring way possible. One team spends the whole time jumping on boxing gloves, and the other basically has a repeat of BFB 21. The Flower and Purple Face stinger is the best part of the episode.

Just wanted to mention Flower here because I’ll probably forget to do this later; she’s actually written pretty well, by Post-Split standards. I’ve seen people say she wasn’t done well by Post-Split, but I honestly don’t really see it. Post continues her character quite cleanly from Pre-Split; she wants to make friends and make amends for her past behavior, while also still being a bit rude and off-putting. Don’t really see where the issue is here. (As for why she’s like this versus her BFDI/A self, we’ll probably have to wait for IDFB to pick back up.)

BFB 24

Unless something really dumb happens in BFB 28-30 that I’m forgetting (haven’t got there on my rewatch yet), this is probably the worst episode in all of Post-Split, and maybe even the whole series. I know this is the worst episode because it was the only one during my rewatch where I checked how much time was left, saw I still had half the episode to go, and audibly groaned. Nothing happens the entire challenge except for people shitting around and talking, and the overall payoff for most of the contestants not doing the challenges is like one and a half kinda funny jokes. We barely get to see any of them getting the supplies for their parties, or setting them up, or even anything related to the parties until it comes time to judge. The intro/Cake at Stake are so much more engaging than the actual challenge portion. The best part is the Flower and Leafy team-up and even then barely anything happens. Definitely up there with the likes of BFDI 16, BFDIA 1, and BFB 5 for the “real stinker challenge segment” award.

Purple Face becomes a mainstay here, so I guess I’ll comment on him. He’s whatever. He has some good bits, but overall feels like he doesn’t bring anything new to the table. Kinda unnecessary for what Post-Split goes for (or at least tries to go for).

I’ll be completely honest and say I completely forgot about this Gelatin-Teardrop “arc” before this rewatch. It kinda comes out of nowhere too; their moments of “conflict” are not brought up as such (not even any subtle insinuation) until this point. But hey, maybe if they expand on it, Post-Split could really have something intere—aaaaaand it’s over. The same episode this “arc” is established, it gets entirely resolved. Glad that that conflict totally got fleshed out and developed to its full potential. Yup.

Ok, I said we would talk about it after BFB 24, so here we go. My second main reason for making this rant:

I do not like how Post-Split resolved Firey and Leafy’s arc

If you’re gonna disagree with me on anything in this rant, it’ll probably be this.

Let’s start with BFB 22.

First off, bozo, she DID try to talk with you, you just slammed the (soundproof) door in her face before she could get a point across. Ok time to talk about the actual writing.

As a whole, this whole scene comes off as extremely biased towards Firey. Yes, Leafy never apologized for stealing Dream Island, but Firey never apologized for both excluding her for an extremely petty reason and for ignoring her in the years since. This SHOULD have been a mutual make-up between the two. Both apologize for their misdeeds towards the other, and both promise to do better with each other moving forward.

Instead, we this one-sided argument wherein Firey is given much more pity than Leafy by the show. He isn’t even all that remorseful about how he’s treated Leafy, he’s more distraught over potentially being eliminated for stealing the diary. And Leafy, of course, offers to throw the challenge to make sure he isn’t up for elimination. Ok. Sure. Maybe that is in Leafy’s character, to help save Firey from elimination when he’s done something the viewers won’t like; she is the super nice one after all.

Anyway here’s a completely unrelated screenshot from BFB 15. Just putting this here for no particular reason.

Episode ends with them being friends again, and Firey’s only punishment for stealing the diary is to clean the railway. Yippee.

Fast forward to BFB 24: Lollipop snarks in Leafy’s direction, and Leafy tells Firey she’s upset about him not standing up for her, as well as all the time he spent ignoring her. And Firey apologizes! Great!

THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN 2 MORE EPISODES TO GET TO!!! THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN BFB 22 WITH THE REST OF THE MAKE-UP SCENE (aside from the ferris wheel probably)!!!!! I can only imagine the crew realized how one-sided BFB 22 was to Firey, so they decide to shoehorn in this scene into BFB 24 to try and fix it. It doesn’t, and this moment feels so phoned in.

Overall, my main issue with how Post-Split handles this reconciliation is that it feels sloppy. It’s too biased towards one side, and they try and correct for that too little too late. It feels like rather than something they wanted to write, it was something they had to write, as they (correctly) predicted Firey didn’t have much more time in the game left, and if they didn’t do this now they wouldn’t get a chance to later.

Anyway, Firey gets eliminated so no more of this arc for a bit. Let’s move on.

BFB 25

Just want to mention it here, because this episode has a perfect example of it, but Four has definitely changed from Pre to Post-Split. Here Gelatin slaps Four, and instead of Four giving him a face full of zappies like Four most certainly would have in Pre-Split, Four just kinda insults him and then the episode moves on. I won’t really say whether this is a good or a bad change, but I will say I like Four much more in TPOT than in Post-Split.

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

Meme-slop aside, this is a very whatever episode. More just walking and talking, you know how I feel about these already. I do like both the detail of how Flower’s vomit-repelling sweater was what was causing the vomit-filled totem to run away from her, as well as the fact this detail goes pretty much unspoken. Certainly a nice change of pace from the amount of over-explaining characters tend to do (COUGH COUGH LOLLIPOP COUGH).

The best part of the episode happens near the very end. You know what part I’m talking about.

i need her

BFB 26

It’s the Profily episode! I guess I’ll touch on them a bit. They’re a pretty funny joke character! I can’t decide whether it’s funnier for them to have been there all along and nobody noticed, or for them to straight up be lying about everything. This is a good thing. Past that though, they’re just ok. Some good bits here and there, but after this episode they just become another face in BFDI’s minor character menagerie with nothing to really set them apart.

Nothing really to complain about here. Fun episode! Lots of silly things, and nothing stays still for too long. This and BFB 20 really show how good Post-Split could have been, I think. I do prefer 20 a good bit more, but I’d rank this one above 22.

Time to ditch the Pillary Ruins.

BFB 27

The thumbnail is the worst thing about this episode. Just look at it. Why is there just an ugly chartreuse slab on the side. Why are the characters arranged so haphazardly. What even is this composition. It barely even fits with the rest of the Post-Split thumbnails. I hate it.

What gets me is that there was a scrapped thumbnail that looked a lot better! No clue why they switched it.

I do like the desert as a setting more than the Pillary Ruins, which might be an uncommon opinion idk. The ruins always felt too cluttered to be good default backdrops, so going to something simpler is nice.

Yeah I don’t have much to say about this one, another “whatever talky bluh bluh” episode, but this does have some more funny moments than others like it so there’s that. The Flower and TD montage was silly, and it seems like they kinda set Leafy up for elimination solely because they didn’t want her in the top 3 again. Nothing really much else to say.

Actually, come to think of it, this is the last “regular” challenge before the final all-in-one challenge. Maybe escaping the oven was a callback to BFDI 22’s escaping the volcano? If so, BFDI 22 did it better.

This seems like a good time to stop for now. They’re about to bring back all of the eliminated contestants, so I’ll be touching on both Taco and Firey/Leafy again in the next and final part of this rant. We’ll also get to the third main reason I’m making this rant: BFB 30.

Part 3

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Pillow In Art Pixel Animation! (Piskel)

Sprinkles: Phew Phew, wow, I'm glad I escaped that crazy thing, hmmm anyway, next is Pillow, who was a character recommended to enter BFDI and BFDIA and of course she didn't make it into both seasons, but she did. on BFB for free because everyone except evil leafy entered BFB on good terms, after surviving an elimination she later went to TPOT and is still in the game and waiting for an elimination ceremony that will take place at TPOT 10, on the pillow , at first she looks like she's sleeping, because she's a pillow, right, but in BFB I'm going to tell you a difference in her that in TPOT, in BFB despite liking to kill, she at least had a little understanding with some people who were with serious problems like not letting the fork hit the four and other things, but in TPOT, she has almost no expression at all, which is scary, as as each episode goes on, she kills objects for no reason at all and in these last few episodes then she ends up becoming a psychopath, at least bomby did something against this psychopath, but in my opinion, what I have a very little understanding for her is accepting Fanny's offer to kill Tree to obtain something useful that can help them in the challenge and they did it, well, now let's see if I can get my gif video camera back and my headphones too and let's see if the pillow will get very far from the game!

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hiiii i have a question about object shows. i saw that clip u posted a bit ago where the muffin's voice was taken from bbh clips. are all the characters voiced that way where its audio pulled from elsewhere? also can you tell me about the leaf

OKAY so I don't think there are any other object show characters that I can think of who are voiced by clips besides like. TV from BFDI who will either speak in TTS or in cut-up clips from other BFDI episodes. there are several characters I know of who speak in TTS voices tho which is close. but yeah muffin from THANOS is the only character I know of who's actually like that. every object show pretty much has actual voice actors voice the characters?

ANYWAY MY LEAF IS LEAFY FROM BFDI WHO IS THE BEST OBJECT SHOW CHARACTER. ohhh my god I could talk about her forever and ever she thinks she is the nicest person in the world and generally does good deeds like she does try to help people and can be generous! but like. she's got a tier list of niceness with herself at the top. it can feel like she only does nice stuff to LOOK nice. like the second anyone questions her niceness she will instantly get so so so mad because of course she's the nicest, she's at the top of her own niceness chart! she's NICE. ignore all the people she has killed before and all the mean things she's done before because they don't matter because she's nice. she's nice. also. she stole the prize of season one (dream island) from the season one winner (firey) because firey (WHO WAS HER FRIENDDD THEY WERE FRIENDSSS) refused to let her stay on the island with everyone else. because she didn't like the ferris wheel that firey built for her (the ferris wheel killed her) and so she's "a mean person" (WHICH GOES AGAINST HER WHOLE "THE NICE ONE" PERSONA). so she gets pissed and steals dream island and this was the catalyst for SO MUCH like the entire cast tries to publicly execute her for it and like firey saves her at first but then she has to run away from a mob trying to chase her down and kill her so she lives isolated in the wilderness eating nothing but wild berries for like. ages. and whenever she interacts with firey he pretends not to even know her. AND LIKE SHE'S EVENTUALLY ALLOWED BACK INTO NORMAL SOCIETY BY SEASON 4 BUT LIKE SHE'S GOT NO FRIENDS AND NO ONE LIKES HER AND SHE KIND OF JUST MAKES EVERYTHING AWKWARD. like in the beginning of season 4 she makes a team all out of weaker contestants who she thinks need her "help" and then is so awful to them that they all end up rightfully hating her. at one point firey says to her face that he doesn't talk to her anymore because no one likes her anymore. like it would basically be social suicide to be her friend. EVENTUALLY tho her and firey make up eventually and apologize for screwing each other over and it's super sweet and they leave together on a boat to find a new dream island for them to share but she doesn't stop being her awesome toxic self with her insane niceness chart

[metalleafy]

BFDIA 14 thoughts (spoilers ahoy)

I can't believe they brought back the basketball rain of all things. Oh that thing in the promo image was a bunk bed. Lollipop face time is cool!! Finally TB admitted the cloud was a snowball.

Somehow I thought coiny liked bugs. David rave!! Shout out to yoylestraw, and now we have a host we can understand. I like the use of Pan Flute as a graph, it's what Kevin MacLeod would have wanted.

Shout out to Coiny making Pin get everything back but her limbs! Then why did we have the whole compacting thing anyway, just for false hope? I wish we would at least find out who controls everything in BFDI, probably just the Huangs.

Spongy relaxing on a beach with Bubbly Pop is great, and they're keeping the tradition of him killing hosts. The little instrument guys are back but they're dead, which is too bad. I like that they're still keeping the insulting cell phones from BFDI 25 in play.

I have come to like Barf Bag more after this episode, I just pay more attention to BFDIA. The LOLers being the host is so nice. I didn't like that GB got voted off, she is a favorite of mine, but it does help with TB's arc of learning how to do things on his own. It's funny that she was eliminated by a golf club.

OK I just realized rewatching for the post that Match being satisfied is probably a reference to how she and GB were in the bottom 2 in 5a. And GB screaming exactly how she did in BFDI 1a is just... :) I know it's nostalgia catnip but it works on me!! Kind of reminds me of Homestar Runner somehow

The Crappy Cliff being mentioned on the wheel is silly, I kind of like it. Pan Flute being killed because they spent money on the poster is sad but his manner of death was funny looking at least! And his influence is felt throughout this episode. Kevin MacLeod is a good sport for letting his character be killed, and iconic tracks REAL BFDI fans will remember are heard all over the contest, including the backwards remix of Sunshine as heard in BFDI 1b! I wish he put that on the vinyl record...

I can't believe Eggy hates poly freesmart so much. I kind of like the pair logos, I wish TB said "pair up? okay" like he did in BFDI 17, that would be a cool easter egg to add for longtime fans. This episode makes Tennickel a viable couple, and not just because Nickel was a good substitute for GB.

More Snowball content is always welcome, he is a jerk but a funny jerk at his best (at his worst he's just complaining about armless people). We get to see the Five Islands here, so they probably won't be the prize instead of the farm. Bottle talking about Evil Leafy made me want to start #bottlevil as a semi-joke but also yuri

The constant talk about "island 1" Is probably a BFDI 6 reference, but I'm not sure enough to put it on the wiki. Anything that is BFDI 17 Recommended Characters Auditions Mentioned makes me smile, like the "only ball with lines" bit. The Go Guys are back in HQ! And characters running through the Evil Forest with BFDIA 1 music is so familiar, especially since they are technically running from Evil Leafy, making it the opposite of BFDIA 1!

The FreeSmart SuperCoffin is so unhinged and I love it. Donut saying "NO!" is the only thing people remember about him since he was eliminated early but that was a setup anyway since the other two were CoinPin and all Donut did was bicker with Pencil. Coiny jumping from vine to vine is cool.

I can't believe TB just used his powers for evil. Oh, I get it, Fries fed his fries to Bomby, thats why he has one left. There's a PERC on Dora's island, I wish its pencil-excluding aspect was more relevant, because I want to see more specific recovery centers! There are ones for individual contestants, what about groups like teams or plant objects?

Pillow just learned pillows exist. I thought Needle slapped Book from far away. I like the use of Rocket by Kevin MacLeod with the "snatch" gag, and it's also a stealth pun on the rocket packs. I can't believe they used his track that was in a carykh video about all the recommended characters, though.

I just realized the teddy bears are the same types as the We Bare Bears. I like Teardrop's island, but I can't believe we saw Teardrop's cousins on BFDI before Gelatin's brothers. This may be a reference to an early "recolor camp" called BOTTLE, but that's probably pretty obscure.

ITS THE FREESMART COMEBACK OF THE CENTURY!!! And Ruby wanting to bring back Bubble is so adorable. Especially since I watched BFDIA 2 at the same location a lil more than 12 yrs ago and I was sad that Ruby didn't want Bubble back. #fullcircle

I love Cyborg Pin, by the way. I would rather her stay that way forever than have limbs. Of course they used the Teardrop Family Reunion line. I thought Coffee Drop would be diarrhea because they were near a porta potty and the other characters with many relatives have Poo relatives.

Pencil using helium to make fun of Ruby was so silly, especially since they used to have the same voice actor (Ruby switched Huangs after BFDIA 6, I just looked that up). I love that Bubble can fly if she is inflated enough, and that little Spongy mouth! TB calling Toilet Brush TB is a really good bit.

SPRINGY SHOES MENTIONED!!! Is everything that comes out of Pin replaced by ooze? Also Camera and Teardrop's Pirate Adventure mentioned. The characters trading off short voice clips was so random but I liked it, the Match/Pin rivalry from early BFDI is back! I never knew how much I missed, like, Match until now.

Coiny with the hammer reminded me of "be more careful" right away and I felt vindicated to see it used. Bob-Omb recommended character being a bobber combined with a bomb is underrated. Nickel has that Chip Skylark energy. I love Teardrop's pirate ship.

Puffball Island is awesome! I wish they stayed talking like Puffball. Did Fries just call Puffball brat? Pin's song is the best, by the way. BUBBLE SAYING YOYLECAKE AGAIN~ Bomby censoring Fries's anti-Puffball song is a good one. I wanted to hear Coiny sing.

I have come to like Puffneedle and I always saw a common bond between them with them both having nicknames, I'm the yuri hipster. Pencil is finally respecting Needle! Ruby's tactic to steal a song was very cool. BUT PIN SNAPPING IS EVEN COOLER!!! That scene was so Homestuck but also Fear Garden.

I ended up voting for Ruby to get the prize and Book to be eliminated. I like Book but I like Ruby more, so consider voting Book out VTSing Ruby. Also, I feel Evil Leafy should have been used better. What's the point of having a superpowered evil version of the best character in the show if she doesn't even get to kill someone, or talk to Bubble somehow?

[lanternouslobster]

Some of my BFDI AUs

I have a lot but these are my favorites.

Aphotic - One of my favorites, so it's at the top. Humanized and takes place in a realistic world version of Yoyle City, so no recovery. A mysterious, unidentified illness has been going around in Yoyle City, with seemingly no correlation or interaction between new cases. The problem? Everyone who seems to experience the symptoms goes missing around a week after the illness first appears. GB and TB, two world-renowned scientists, start investigating this illness along with Tree, Pen, Fries, Fanny, and Teardrop, as they were close to some of the missing cases. Things turn to utter chaos when Clock shows up at their research facility— three months after his own disappearance.

Shackled Divinity - This is the one with those deity designs I posted. Takes place presumably post-BFB and TPOT. Loser uncovers his buried memories as an ancient deity and goes mad with power, forcing Winner to gather up what other deities they can reach and put a stop to Loser's reign of terror.

Prismatic - Realistic world without recovery, but they're still objects. Tree and Fries are reporters who have picked up on a series of disappearances linked to the Crystalline Caverns, a popular tourist destination right outside of Yoyle City. Supposedly it's due to people wandering into the prohibited parts of the caverns without supervision, but Tree feels that something is off and convinces Fries of it. They go to investigate and get interviews for an article, only to discover that the reflective crystals in the caverns serve as a gateway to a near inescapable labyrinth that they unfortunately get stuck in. Now they must rely on the guidance of Pen and Puffball, two people who have gotten trapped in the caves years before, in order to find a way to escape.

Forager - Competition world, not humanized. It starts off as one of those classic BFB AUs where Four turns evil for no discernible reason and forces the contestants into a death game. One specific set of 8 are put into a heavily forested area far away from everyone else, and Four expects them to go insane and kill each other. So what do they do? Why, they band together and build cabins and farms and live together, of course. The group is Liy, Stapy, Lightning, Marker, Fries, Puffball, Pen, and Remote.

This one is unnamed and more just a flimsy concept I really really like. Humanized. Realistic world. Ish. It involves Pen getting cursed and now he's slowly dying and lots of flowers and Leafy being a malevolent nature deity and Tren and Black Hole being the embodiment of death. It's mostly Tren angst with a supernatural edge. No idea if I'll ever solidify this into an actual AU.

Hm, I sure wonder how many of these include Pen as a major character! Let's see... 4. Out of 5. He's like a lil' shimeji thing in my brain that wanders into my stories that I Cannot keep Out.

[jaaankiey]

about me (& other)

hey everyone! i'm jankiey! i like writing cruddy bfdi fanfiction surrounding leafpin (them but evil!!!) and posting them on ao3! and i can't believe people read it, much less actually leave a few kudos here and there haha. i have a a quick and dirty faq section and a few additional notes here! i'll add more if i think of anything haha.

last updated: 03/12/22.

faqs i thought on the spot:

(subject to change)

why leafpin?

a good question and something i frequently ask myself. not really sure how exactly i latched onto leafy/pin, but it may be influenced by fics made from other authors! i also have a bad track record of latching on to rarepairs so naturally, i was pretty bummed out to see that on ao3 (the only fic site i frequent) is barren in the leafy/pin tag department. i sometimes do writing in my free time and thought "why not? let's see if i can make some material for myself".

okay, but why does your leafpin have that evil spin to it? cringe

OOF. a bit of a hot take but i dooooooooo kind of think that both of them in bfdi/bfb are a tad bit dry. like, where's the spice? i do get appealing to a young audience so it's something that i've kind of shrugged off. after all, fanfiction is fanfiction and the "what if pin and leafy were actually seriously morally grey" thought was too tempting to not use. it also makes writing the fics much more fun because i do love exploring the mental state of characters through good and bad.

any other ships you like?

just a few! i really like tennis ball/golf ball or tb/gb/8ball [the latter one being i kinda get that vibe to write something for since i can't find anything either haha]. apart from those 2 and leafpin, i don't think i have any other ships haha.

anything about you specifically?

i prefer not to, but i am a very tired adult still getting an education (which is why it takes me forever to get anything thrown on the ao3... like i'm dead tired most of the time haha). you can call me jankiey or any variation of that; my main accounts are ao3 and tumblr (so if you see someone stealing my fics ?? please let me know!!). i'm fine with people using any kind of pronouns for me (masc/fem/neutral) so don't worry too much about that. i also think the color blue is pretty rad.

additional notes:

feel free to ask me anything relating to my fics/future plots/general (still writing related) ramblings! i love talking to people but if i'm slow, i'm sorry! i also get overwhelmed easily!

please don't ask about when i'll update stuff. i know it can take me forever to update on certain works, but i'd love it if i didn't get pestered for it. I will get it done (eventually) haha.

i write dark themes such as death, violence, plots involving killing, etc... everything's tagged appropriately to the best of my abilities on ao3 but if this isn't for you, then do not interact/read please (i will also try to give a heads up on posts here kdjvnajdkv).

[numeric-value-of-four]

This is a blog for Four from BFB!

I, the owner of the blog (@the-announcing-fox) am not affiliated with the creator. This will only be a blog canon to BFB, with occasional appearances of X, though Four will be the only one here most of the time. Long versions of PERSONALITY and POWERS will be underneath under a tag, where it goes more in-depth.

[ NAME : Four ]

[ GENDER : Genderless. Goes by he/they ]

[ AGE : (non canon) 19 ]

[ PERSONALITY : Sadistic, but has a kind and caring side. He's proven to be somewhat insecure, and wants people to depend on him. ]

[ POWERS : Screechy, Zappies, Advanced-level reality-warping, Gravity manipulation, Shape-shifting, Size manipulation, Brain manipulation, Perspective violation, Controlling and morphing clouds, Earthbending, Physical video conversion, Warping, Malleability, Recovery, Mutilation, Elimination, Inception/Astral projection, Super-speed, Teleportation, Incredible strength, Dismemberment, Flight, Regeneration, Fire resistance (external), Thought manipulation, Intelligence, Airbending, Brain scanning, Incredible hearing, Telekinesis, Despawning, Possession, Assimilation ]

[ PERSONALITY (LONG VER) : Although Four seems to be calm most of the time, they do get angry. Four was well-mannered at one point, however, and didn't screech. But in BFB, they have a mysterious, sadistic personality where they use their powers to harm the contestants just for their fun. Four was shown to want a sense of dominance in the show and gets furious if talked back to or has tasks done for them. When provoked, Four would show no mercy and would even do things such as "dissemble" close friends out of anger, even lacking remorse in the process. Four mistook Nickel's response to calling David and Roboty "the only two non-objects on the team" criticism (which they could not tolerate very well). Four threatens to zap Nickel, with A Better Name Than That's plan being the only thing stopping the attack. Soon enough, Four seemed to be a lot calmer, friendlier, and humbler, most likely because the contestants revived them. They were noticeably less violent than before. After their return, they didn't screech anyone until another episode, adding onto how friendly they became, but will still not hesitate to zap those who bother them. They also declared that they could not allow X to find their treasure because Four must be X's only treasure, signifying that they wants to be necessary to X. "The Escape from Four" shows Four's personality in more depth as well as their possible motivations: they seem to be childish. They act like a control freak because they want everyone to stay with him forever, explaining their narcissism and cruelty when hosting the show. Four throws tantrums when things don't go their way and strongly dislikes being abandoned (possibly due to them losing their playthings) to the point where they cry and refuse to let X console them since they think that X will abandon them too. After the split, Four seems to be nicer to the contestants and shows more personality. Toward the end of the episode, after the split took place and Two took nearly all of the contestants, Taco tells Four that they lost over half of the contestants. Instead of being angry or sad, Four makes light of the situation by saying BFB has "advanced" to its final 14 contestants. In "Uprooting Everything", when it comes to Purple Face asking if he could be a co-host, Four immediately declines, stating they have a better co-host. Four was down about the last four contestants complimenting X's position and saying they were a "good host" than not recuperating the same to Four. In "Chapter Complete", it is shown that they have an insecure side. They get worried that no one likes them as a host and that they would be better off without them. However, at the end, they realized the errors of their ways after hearing that the contestants enjoyed their hosting and has changed from a self-arrogant to a kind-hearted individual, who treats the others better from then onwards. ]

[ POWERS (LONG VER) :

Screechy: Stuns any contestant who's targeted by said screech. It can also generate hearts when Four shows love or excitement towards something, which can fling a contestant as shown with Eraser.

Zappies: Beams that shoot out of their hands and electrocute anybody who is hit by them, making them lose health. Although Four has to seemingly charge up at times (possibly for a longer duration, constant beam), they can also fire them instantly.

Advanced-level reality-warping: Four can create objects such as cakes, buttons, pillars, Paper Planes, Buzzer Boxes, soup, orange dye, and jawbreakers out of thin air. Not only can they revive contestants, but they can also revive them in a place other than their hand, as seen in "Lick Your Way to Freedom" when they revived the contestants in giant jawbreakers, which they also created. Also, as seen with the paper planes in "Fortunate Ben", they can likely manipulate the laws of physics.

Gravity manipulation: Donut, while inhabited by the factor of Four, was able to turn on and off the effects of gravity. This ability can be refined to only affect certain entities, as Donut only manipulated gravity's effects on the Moon. Four was able to crush down a planet-sized Black Hole into a significantly less voluminous state and near nullifying Black Hole's normally intense gravity, allowing Black Hole to compete.

Shape-shifting: As shown in "What Do You Think of Roleplay?", both Four and X can shape-shift, or change their physical appearance. Also, they can change the shape of other characters as well.

Size manipulation: In "Return of the Rocket Ship", Four grows to an absurd size in response to Pillow's criticism. In "Take the Tower", Four grows to a large size when stopping Blocky and creating the towers. In "The Tweested Temple", Four grows to an extremely large size after Four receives Gelatin's cursed totem and declares he is up for elimination.

Brain manipulation: In "What Do You Think of Roleplay?", Four displayed the power to augment and transfer the brains/personalities of the contestants into each other; however, instead of going back to their original bodies, the body that the person's mind was in shape-shifted into that mind's original body.

Perspective violation: Four can violate common 2D perspective laws such as sliding in front of objects on the ground and suddenly switching to behind objects on the ground.

Controlling and morphing clouds: They have used this to time contests that require a time limit to show how much time is currently left. Donut is seen doing this in "Four Goes Too Far", but it's most likely via the "factor of Four".

Earthbending: In "Take the Tower", Four rose their hands up to cause two hills to rise under the team's towers.

Physical video conversion: In "Chapter Complete", the BFDI was revealed to be BFDI and BFDIA converted into a deep-fried box by Four.

Warping: Profily is killed in "Chapter Complete" touching a Four cactus. They ascended, warped, and popped.

Malleability: As seen in "Enter the Exit", "The Four is Lava", and "Take the Tower", Four's body and limbs can stretch to extreme distances and can change shape at will. They can also contract extremely thin in "The Escape from Four".

Recovery: Four replaces the Recovery Centers from previous seasons by using only their hand to recover contestants and numbers, and also teaches X how to master said ability in "B.F.B. = Back From Beginning".

Mutilation: Turns any contestant into an abstract version of themselves, killing them. A harp strum plays in the process.

Elimination: Four replaces the Tiny Loser Chamber and Locker of Losers from previous seasons, by sucking up eliminated contestants or "eating" them. From there, the eliminated contestants are sent to Eternal Algebra Class Withfour (EXIT). EXIT also appears to be an alternate plane of existence, because the contestants probably shrink.

Inception/Astral projection: Four cannot only enter themself to talk to "exitors", but is also able to still do that when they are already inside themself, as shown when they inserted their arm inside themself again to pick up Leafy in "Get to the Top in 500 Steps". Their arm also appeared to be larger than normal, which suggests that anything that enters shrinks (except Four).

Super-speed: Four can fly at extreme speeds, as shown in "Enter the Exit". Also, in "Chapter Complete", when they merge with the Big Rotating Building, they can travel from the Earth to the Sun in approximately 12 seconds, flying at a speed of approximately 45,000,000,000 km/h, or 27,900,000,000 mph.This means that Four can travel almost 42 times the speed of light.

Teleportation: He can teleport whenever a "4" has been played shown in "Today's Very Special Episode". They could also teleport others with a snap of their fingers in "What Do You Think of Roleplay?", "A Taste of Space", "Uprooting Everything", and "Chapter Complete".

Incredible strength: In "Questions Answered", Donut is seen pushing the entire Earth (the Earth's weight is 5.972e+24 kg, or 1.3166e+25 lb) into his camera using only his feet via the factor of Four. This trait also applies to Four's ability to warp reality. Four was also able to stop the FreeSmart Supervan just by putting their hand out, crushing it in the process.

Dismemberment: This happened off-screen when X interrupted Four, who snapped off X's leg. This is unknown to be a power or not, however, as it wasn't known exactly how Four snapped X's leg.

Flight: In "Enter the Exit", Four was able to fly over to the Waterfall to eliminate Roboty.

Regeneration: In "Enter the Exit", when the contestants were recovering Four, they were in a liquidated state up until the point when they were reformed back to normal.

Fire resistance (external): Four is able to stand on the lava and dig their hands into it as well. They were also able to survive standing on the sun and even merging with it without any issue, as shown in "Chapter Complete".

Thought manipulation: During the Cake at Stake in "The Four is Lava", Four displayed the ability to create positive thoughts (or happy thoughts) and send them to the safe contestants of blegh. It is unknown if Four has the ability to create other kinds of thoughts at the moment.

Intelligence: Four can understand Insulavoric (Dora's language), Roboty's Morse code, Teardrop's sign language, and Woody's speech perfectly, even though Insulavoric is supposed to be one of the hardest languages to learn.

Airbending: As shown in "A Taste of Space", Four can give people air, even in the vacuums of space.

Brain scanning: As shown in "Who Stole Donut's Diary?", Four shoots a laser (similar style to Zappies) at X's head and receives their thoughts to find out who stole Donut's diary.

Incredible hearing: As shown in "A Taste of Space" and "Fashion For Your Face!", Four's ears are able to hear from miles away, up to the sun.

Telekinesis: Just like X, Four can make things float by snapping his fingers, as shown in "The Game Has Changed".

Despawning: As shown in "The Game Has Changed", Four can "despawn" a contestant by bringing them off-screen which results in them dying. While the method of how they do it is unknown, we see a white glow where they are despawning them. This ability was further explored later on. As shown in "The Tweested Temple", laser gun sounds play when Four despawned X. This ability was revealed and confirmed later on. As shown in "B.F.B. = Back From Beginning", when X despawned Teardrop, it has been revealed that both Four and X have white laser eyes that make a character look black and completely disappear when it hits them.

Possession: In "Chapter Complete", Four possessed a tree, the courthouse, the High Speed Express Train, the BRB and the sun. When doing so, the things he possesses become blue.

Assimilation: As shown in "B.F.B. = Back From Beginning", Four was able to merge with the Desert and reshape it closer to their own appearance. ]

[itissadbutitsmy-life]

the funniest jokes in bfdi

flower’s announcer crusher that she just. has, and everyone else just uses it too

trying to put out a fire by holding ice cube’s recovery center over the fire so she just falls into it endlessly

every single one of yellow face’s products, including but not limited to

fork attractant, for when you need a fork but don’t have the cutlery on hand

headphones you cannot change the volume on or remove

money slips, you just write an amount on them, and it counts as legal tender

“thats a pentagon!” “yeah! like if you took my name and added ‘Tagon’!“

in like episode 2 when they all run away from something and a second later flower casually power-walks away from it instead of running

when balloony deflated and a while later cloudy flies over and goes “i cannot believe it! this is a dead body!!”

“he’s not dead, he just needs a little help thats all! (starts reinflating him too fast) but i agree, he is a hindrance when he is deflate- ohh noooo”

hollow jawbreakers that sound can come into but can’t go out of

when they stuck loser in a jawbreaker they inverted it, so they can hear him talk to himself but he cant hear anything around him

no one seems to know that thats why they can hear him

one time they all ended up in space. because of budget cuts.

actually every time budget cuts lead to something that seems way cooler than their previous stuff, like sparkly purple lasers instead of a mechanical arm to eliminate people with

the consistently bad cake at stake prizes. one time it was just a block of ice cut into six pieces. one time it was dirty shovels.

the magical die of judgement

when freesmart drove across the ocean in their van and they managed it by holding their breath and each time one of them died they just recovered them and threw their corpse out the back

golf ball messing up naming her team by saying things like “we need to be another name” and ending up on teams called Another Name and A Better Name Than That

one team was formed entirely around learning to not kill people. pillow overhears them say “youre against killing?” and goes “:D did someone say killing??”

tennis ball admonishing rocky for not knowing how to write: “no arms is no excuse”

they had to find a needle in a haystack and needle just turned herself in, successfully

when they started using a board with the points written on it on flaps of paper instead of a computer screen, but due to budget cuts, it could only display two digits per contestant, so anyone who went over 100 started immediately dropping to the bottom of the rankings

when ice cube was sleeping at the cake of stake podiums and got shot up into the air at like 3000 mph

2763

when the eliminated contestants tried to escape the loser chamber and they just rolled it off into the ocean

theyre saved because the sun rises and picks them up out of the ocean

also apparently the chamber opens for like five minutes a day for sunlight, but instead of just climbing out during that time, which they seem to be capable of doing, they do a much more convoluted thing

they were sick of four so they got rid of him by multiplying him with donut, and it worked

ruby has some really weirdly specific ideas of beauty and coaches flower

the line delivery of “killing a bubble is as easy as one, two, th(pop)” “i just learned two things about bubble: she can be su i c i d a l and she’s S O D U M B she CANT even count to T H R E E!”

a few episodes later bubble angrily shows them she CAN count to three if she lives long enough to do so, and pencil and match are both like :O :O

bubbles first line in season four is her rapidly counting to ten before getting popped

the way each team breaks their jawbreakers

8 ball just goes “MNYAH” and bites it in half

"okay black hole, do the thing”

leafy tries to use woody’s tongue to lick it open even though rocky and balloony were doing just fine using acid

iance just going ‘bwehbwehbweh’ all licking the same one

team ice cube was doing a mix of bwebwhbehbbwehbw and loudly drilling it open with naily

when four loved so hard he shot eraser off over the horizon

when they’re discussing team names in season one  and theyre all talking over each other so you cant hear what theyre saying, except match, who grabs a megaphone and screams “SMOKY HOT FIERY BUNS”

when needle made a cake and put so much yeast in it that it breached earth’s atmosphere and astronomers apparently began classing earth as part of a three planet system (”consisting of the earth, the moon, and something called ‘needles cake’”)

“it’s ice cube! and she’s shrinking?” “she’s falling”

saying “(x character)! wake up!!” when it’s unclear (to the audience) why a character looks silly or apparently isnt responding

blocky’s sleeping pose is him with his eyes wide open, sporting a big goofy grin and hugging his legs

david’s sleeping pose is him with X eyes

one time the contest was to fill a tank with water from crying, and golf ball immediately ordered tennis ball to cry. he couldn’t do it on command, so golf ball tried, and cried her first ever tear, just... her first one

when the prize was fortune cookies, the fortunes were bracelety’s notes about how much she loves ice cube

“four, where’d you get these fortunes again?” “dumpster!”

“lightning always forgets to fly, so he had to be the fake”

when they were flying paper planes and stapy accidentally stapled his teammates into theirs, and he just hovered next to it while he was talking to them before they all started to plummet

the entire scene where liy tries to use ice cube to force teardrop to talk

“i’ll hold teardrops jaw open and you wiggle her vocal chords”

“i hate you” “yeah i hate her too!” “no. i hate you.”

“ice cube will only stop when she WANTS to stop!” “i want to stop”

“YOU SAID YOU WOULD HELP ME! YOU SAID YOU WERE COOL!” “so r r y (starts wiggling)”

“ICE CUBE! I AM APPALLED!!!!!”

ice cube gets bitten and starts screaming while bracelety is yelling “YEAH ICE CUBE! I CANT HEAR YOU, LOUDER!!”

apparently everyone who hates golf ball gets physically sick when they get near her (or at least, ruby does and snowball did once he knew she was there)

blocky got eaten by a monster in episode two but it turned out the monster missed him by a bit so he was fine

taco’s teammates thought she was dead forever and wrote eulogies for her, and once they found out she was alive lollipop threw hers away, but saw kept hers because in her eyes they’re still valid!!

when things started to get dramatic in the s1 finale, and leafy called announcer on the phone and he was in a ball pit

loser’s trapped in a jawbreaker and the only thing with him is donut’s diary. the next time you see him he’s reading it furiously and it’s filled with color-coded sticky notes

pillow decided if you wave your arms it means all your “care spirit” is getting sucked out your arms and sent into space (”a true indicator that person doesn’t give a fluff”)

remote got hacked and her FIRST INSTINCT is to send the hackers a bomb

“if theres an announcer recovery center now, that means we can kill the announcer as much as we want and he’ll still come back to give us dream island!”

they ask black hole to push them in their swing and he says he can’t push, but he can pull like there’s no tomorrow

“no i can literally warp space time so that there will be no tomorrow” “yeah,h don’t do that.”

when they have a tiebreaker announcer pulls out a silk tie and goes “first team to break this tie wins”

the second time, almost before he finished speaking, snowball just reached over and ripped it in half effortlessly

“proves you don’t need frills to make a feast for the eyes!” “more like taco doesn’t need to be dead to be deceased in my eyes!!!”

they had a race where everyone on each team had their legs tied together (like a three-legged race, but with like six people on a team)

pen’s team was doing fine but he wasn’t, so they just dragged him along behind

snowball tied his team into a ball and dragged them himself, to predictable results, and wouldn’t stop until he got to the finish line even though it took him until after the sun went down

he failed, actually, and him and his team plummeted down a ravine when he passed out

“the opposite of dream island! night...nightmare moon!!”

donut stuck his arms through a one way camera to the moon (it transmits matter as well as light), and to fix the fact that his arms were on the moon and his body was on earth, he pushed the entire earth through the camera

the moon is smushed up against the earth now. it has not been resolved yet

“gelatin and firey tied their legs together and fell off” “ya, seems like the kind of thing they would do”

pencil got caught by a monster and couldnt get away, so they had to kill her so they could recover her somewhere else, and they let her pick how they did it, which lead to everyone just sawing her in half while she grinned ear to ear. she was singing too. iconic

but first, match, her best friend, started waggling a big butcher’s knife around at her going “hoohoo hoeheehee im killing pencil loookat me” and pencil said “match put your butterknife away, you have to ACTUALLY kill me”

and when they were sawing her in half bubble had the BIGGEST, most BLISSFUL grin, with her eyes half closed like a happy cat

bell asks for help making people stop climbing her string, and snowball assures her he can do it, but he’ll have to climb her string to get to them

then like twenty people followed him up

when writing utensil characters use themselves to write with

sometimes they have tiny versions of themselves (sans limbs), but sometimes they just like, pull their caps off and write with their heads

(the same scream noise they use every time a group of people screams) “HONESTLY! (grabs a new can of fork repellent from hammerspace) are you guys going to scream like that EVERY time i use up a can?”

dodecadangit

OH THANKS AN OCTADECILLION, MATCH

they were basically playing hot potato where if you look at someone who was glowing you’d catch the glow, and most teams ended up just chilling with their eyes closed, but golf ball yelled “EVERYONE GET ON MY ROCKET” and she and her team just left earth entirely

this did not stop them from catching the glow

someone’s like “the communicator dish still works” and book goes “oh,” dips a chip into the communicator dish and splashes dip everywhere, “THATS what this is?”

the, like, five minute long end-credits scene of ice cube falling off a cliff eternally

pencil tells ruby which button to press and she keeps getting it wrong, partly because NEW BUTTONS KEEP APPEARING

the poison antidote that has the side effect of making the recipient eat one other contestant

pencil coaching her teammates on how to jump higher

“MMR? I love measles, mumps, and rubella!”

“golf ball knows how to do, like, everything!” (cut to golf ball) “i don’t know how to do, like, anything”

basketball invited 8 ball to be on her team cuz they’re both balls, then 8 ball said “sure, and let’s adopt these three” in reference to three other ball characters

loser said when he was younger he used to play with a toy that was apparently only just invented an hour ago, and everyone, like 60 characters, immediately disowned him and started a turf war over the situation

“black hole, you’re strong! open this jar for me!”

(as the world is literally ending) “FLOWER! WHATAVE YOU DONE??” “i got this jar open!!!”

whenever a host dies or is otherwise put out of commission and the contestants just keep trucking along until they remember no one can get the prize if the host isn’t around to give it to them 

that time announcer used like ten negatives in a sentence 

the way announcer says “wow!” with more emotion than anything else he says? idk if it’s intentional, or even a joke, but it’s the best thing 

(slow mo) “i want to cry now, i really do”

“and i cry acid”

ruby died of sadness and book made it big by selling her remains 

when they say some line that’s just regular words in a slightly unique way, and then the line gets repeated throughout the series 

announcer accidentally-on-purpose got everyone killed, except david (who’s immune to bugs), and he had a david cloner, so he just went ahead and replaced everyone with davids in costumes

halfway through cake at stake, the original contestants show up unexpectedly and explain that they “faked their deaths! obviously.”

“ive decided to not cancel bfdi!” “aw, seriously?”

the noises david and dora make when they do things, like clattering, or sprouting leaves 

bubble and match pretending to be trees

“NO BUBBLE! TREES DONT SAY THAT!” “OH, RIGHT! FSSHHHHHH! FWWWSHH!!!!”

when nickel and coiny get close together bad things happen

“how’s the tree-climbing going?” “it’s okay, but it’d be easier if you helped. (swoop) okay, just got to the top” 

“yes! I am the first one up the tree!” “that’s NOT true, I was here FIRST” 

i guess we’ll just have to use this trebuchet tennis ball built before he died 

“wha! yhad this the HWOLE TIME, I DIDN EVEN HAVE TO CLIMB THE TREE?” “physical exertion builds character :)” 

when everyone’s begging four to bring back their dead teammates, especially saw, who lost her entire team, and four is like okay I’ll bring back one (1) person, and saw very reverently starts to ask him for her dead team leader, but grassy says “tennis ball!” and four listens to him instead, and everyone immediately starts nagging four again to bring back more important people 

leafy, about to melt ice cube down for metal scrap: “ice cube, come on down! you can be my alloy!”

they met a new character and they’re like “who is that?” and pie’s like “I dunno, try squishing it” 

“theres another one? whoa! it totally has a different texture from the first one!”

8 ball beginning every single statement with things like “although I don’t have a favorite number...” 

“I do this!” (grabs pin and turns her, screaming, into a squiggly pile of lines) “pretty cool, dontcha think?” 

“can,,,, you bring her back?” “no” (five seconds later) “HEY CHECK THIS OUT! (brings back pin)” 

pen high fived black hole and his arm spaghettified 

“what are you doing?” “im going to die!” “hi needle! he’s not going to die.”

iance was trying to dig their way up out of the ground but they couldnt because golf ball kept blocking them from the surface

“maybe theyre trying to communicate with me?” “yeah they’re telling you to stop”

“they raise a very convincing argument. BUT IT’S NOT ENOUGH!” “OH what a pain!!”

she accurately guessed the fact that there was a group of people underground running from some lava who “clearly value avoiding [golf ball] more than their own safety”

“ohhhh so THIS is golf balls idea of fun!” “(sigh)... yep”

they looked through a camera and couldn’t see donut (the zoom wasn’t adjusted) and marker went “donut’s a vampire too?” 

too???

“meh, I’ve still got other evidence”

one time the eliminated contestants got to vote who to eliminate and snowball was like “ice cube, cuz it’s really hot in the TLC and I can’t be the only one cooling it off” 

like four other people were like “oh man he’s right” and did the same thing

“wouldn’t it be cool if the last word of the last episode was the same as the first word of the first episode?” “yeah :)” 

“take. a deep breath. you know. A DEEP FRIED BREATH” 

at the end of the episode he shows up with some boiling oil and is like “LIKE THIS! ONE, (sizzling and screaming noises)” “COINY NO” 

leafy was about to throw a knife at them but watched this happen offscreen with horror and then left them alone

david’s human, and that’s just weird

“im still mad you killed bubble” “youre one to talk, you were about to impale TWO WHOLE teams” “yeah, but bubble’s life? is special”

pen’s like “okay we three need to stick together while we’re picking teams!” but then eraser hears some other team has free food, so he runs off and pen very flatly goes “okay, we lost eraser.”

“well let’s not pick pen, he’s still two hundred bigintillion dollars in debt” which is mostly hilarious without the first three seasons of context, but even with context it’s hilarious. he looks so shamefaced when they say it too. i love pen

once someone finally picks him he IMMEDIATELY perks up and takes charge

the hphprcc went into self destruct mode and everyone started frantically trying to figure out what to do, and book’s like “okay it’ll either just disappear without a trace, or blow up and kill us all, 50/50 chance” and then of course, it exploded, and ruby started screaming, and then book was like “ruby, stop hallucinating! see? it just disappeared, without a trace!”

“YOuuOURE HalLUCINAATING!!” “DON’T do that!! it is K-R-E-P!”

pin tried to knock everyone off the eiffel tower by shaking it and book was like “who does she think she’s kidding? it’s the eiffel tower we won’t fall off”

“name ONE! name ONE friend you haven’t gotten extremely angry at!” “thats not fair,! there isnt even any of them!”

8ball was saying the opposite of everything golf ball was saying, up to and including calling the members of their team, a better name that that, “worse namers”

“is this because i killed you last episode?” “what?? no, i dont care about that!”

“life is CHEAP! get me a BANANA!!!”

flower bit off half of announcer’s head and he couldn’t make the K sound anymore

“have this -ashew” “bless you”

“no i said -ashew. -ashew. -ashew. -ashew.” “wow you must be allergic to something”

“maybe announcer’s allergic to this cashew? here bubble, you can have it!”

pencil won the staring contest because david’s allergic to sunrises

freesmart was making video diaries during the three year hiatus, but apparently did absolutely no editing or even rewatching of the videos, because they found out three years too late that ruby left the lens cap on every time she used the camera

when four played the cake at stake song in the classroom he played it on a low-quality portable tv instead of cutting to a fullscreen video

“iknowafasterway!” “NORUBYYOULLDIE!”

pin said she didnt want to halve the votes she got because she hadnt done anything that would make people want to vote for her, and it immediately cut to a series of old scenes of her throwing people under the metaphorical bus

literally nothing is funnier than “i mean, i havent done anything to make people vote for me” (cut to flashback) “there’s too much weight on this sinking ship!!! we need to throw someone OVERBOARD!!!!”

one team got stuck doing their nine-piece puzzle for a MONTH because all the pieces were the same dark brown color

the pieces were upside down

a month

“the finish line! it’s only twenty or so yards away!”

two people talking and using the word “needy” twice and pausing to throw their hands up protectively and go “HNnnnynGH”

“why do i have filling, but also a hole?” - donuts diary

in 5b theyre talking to some npcs and theyre like “well dont hurt us, because we just got finished being punished in lego brick’s dungeon” and the npcs were like “oh yeah he does that. he’s a great guy, but he does that.”

also in 5b when book met lego brick the FIRST thing she asked is if he’s “safe to look at” which,???

they did a trivia contest and multiple questions were in complete gibberish

presumably this is an actual language in canon since like three other people answered correctly, also in gibberish, but still

“you’ve got this, bubble, you’re great at mental contests” “question one: ooba grooba, grooba shmooba?” “HUH?”

“but tennis ball -- oh... tennis ball....--”

team naming, especially in season four

“we’re not ALL in the alliance!” “well, if you take ‘the all’ out of the alliance, you get...”

“and what is your name?” (everyone says their own actual names at once)

ice cube is not on team ice cube

Death Prevention And Creating Trust

“let’s be called The Losers!” “awww! you didn’t have to”

wheel ooze a hole bunch. WOAH bunch!

“but then it sounds like youre saying free-DUMB!” “and we are so like totally not dumb!”

when the losers decided to use iance’s idea to win the swing contest and it was styled like an overenthusiastic science video 

“WHOA!!! iance just had a RADICAL idea!!!”

“TREASON! TREASON! TREASON!” “im in what?”

“seriously why are so many people drowning? it’s not even quicksand, or anything” - announcer, responding to five people drowning in a basket of bread

they were whispering with “susuusus” noises and cloudy whispered “zuzuzuzzuz”

the spaceship with the sign that says “this spaceship runs on big squishy contestants” or whatever and after the credits it slowly flips over to say “this spaceship runs on VOTERS”

“stop shooting at me!” “no way! i got these cannonballs on sale and IM GONNA GET MY MONEYS WORTH!!!”

eggy and cake’s argument over who has a deeper spiritual connection with loser

“my connection is so strong that when i crack, i bleed loser’s COLOR”

playing catch with a star they plucked out of the big dipper, and leafy’s horror over it

adding “ey” to people’s names (personal favorites are announcery, fourty-four, flowey, treey, and belly)

blueberries are EXPLOSIVE, including the ones inside pie, so sometimes she just explodes

“but over a year ago, four said you dont need frills to make a feast for the eyes, so that means hes okay with trash!”

the anti-advertisements advertisement!

four ate a whole team and they just sort of stood around inside him sticking their arms out his mouth and laughing hysterically

“again! again again again !!!!”

“we could be leaving!” “yeah, but when’s the last time you saw remote this happy? this is good for her!”

book, three episodes into season 3: hey, what is it we’re even battling for?

(iconic voice): dwream island,??

when they had a beauty contest and firey speaker box and flower speaker box just immediately chose firey and flower to be the winners without a second’s hesitation

“book! come help us catch a criminal!” “no thanks, im good!”

donut tried to punish people for getting the wrong answers when he was hosting, but it turns out a recording of four screeching doesn’t work... quite as well as the real deal

four zapping gelatin

ok ok ok this is insanely long but please add more if u have any favorites i missed

[analysingbfdi]

what are your thoughts on fireafy?

Fireafy, regardless if it’s a shipping or a friendship, is a well-done relationship between two kind individuals. I do enjoy them together, platonic or otherwise, but let me explain why.

The narrative of their friendship begins officially in BFDI 20. Prior to this, they’ve had sparse interaction here and there, but none that can account for friendship. 

People criticize their interactions for being too out of the blue and forced in, but I would disagree with that. Firey is a very friendly guy, and Leafy is one of the friendliest (if not the friendliest) contestants, and is easy to hang out with and get to know. It doesn’t seem too out of character for them to interact, especially with each other.

Their friendship starts with a simple game of (well, 73 games of) tic-tac-toe, but from the way they talk with each other in this scene, it’s clear they’ve been interacting for a bit before this. I’m not counting the times they’ve exchanged words in the past episodes, I mean they must have interacted between episodes.

At Leafy’s capturing, Firey shows a lot of concern for her well being. They do a good job of setting them up as two people who care a lot for each other. I, honestly, don’t think Firey has ever cared as much for anyone else before. 

Later in the episode, Firey and Leafy shit talk discuss about David and how weird he is. They bond over that and when Leafy says they should be friends, she cringes at Firey’s assumption that she means to form an alliance. This could mean that she dislikes alliances because of Match, Pencil, and Bubble (which would explain her disgruntled opinion of Pencil’s “clique” in BFB 10). Another reason (and the one that makes the most sense to me) is she doesn’t like alliances because an alliance gives the impression that the people in said alliance are only doing it to get through the competition. Leafy doesn’t want that, and instead wants to form a friendship based on companionship and truly caring for each other.

Throughout the rest of BFDI 20, they both show that they have each other’s backs and are truly caring for one another. Firey, again, shows despair when Leafy’s been killed. (Don’t worry, though, Leafy’s okay!)

Throughout the rest of the episodes leading up to the finale, Leafy and Firey are shown to respect and care for each other.

(She saves Firey’s sorry ass over here)

(There are more screenshots but I’ll refrain from posting anymore, for the sake of your computer or phone or whatever.)

The finale really ties the relationship between these two together. Firey gave up on the friendship for the role purpose of a misunderstanding on his part when it came to his Ferris Wheel, but when he realized he was wrong (because others yelled at him for it), he went back in time to save Leafy from the death penalty, because spending time with her meant more to him than Dream Island.

Also, Firey rescued Leafy even after everyone tried to convince him she was a dirty traitor, which adds even more emotion to the scene.

This ship, platonic, romantic, or otherwise, is a good one that shows a good example of two kind characters helping each other along and growing close to one another in the process. The relationship is healthy and you can tell they really care for one another. They’re good pals, that’s for sure.

[birthisland]

in 2013 i wrote a BFDI joke fanfic based on My Immortal called My Recovery Center. here it is in all its glory.

Hello my name is Leafiana Foliage Points Mew Flame and I am called Leafy of course since I am BFDI Leafy! I look like a leef (AN: if u don't know what leaves are get out cuz Leafy is one!) and I have metal points frum being metall and red cat ears. I have flufy pink wings and glissenin pufball eyes. My arms are made of vines and my legs are Yoelberies. 1 day i woke up in the dreem iland hotel. My bed is a huge coin with leaf sheets. Neway (geddit cuz it wuz on screen when the anouncer said it) i ate a caek with leaves in it. It was dream iland outside. I glissened (geddit like ep 21) in the sun. Then i saw fiery. "Hey leafy". Said Firey. I sed "Fiery wanna play inside evileafy?" Fiery said "But you are evil leafy." I turned red and my eyes widened. I was Evilleafy alright. Then i ate Fiey. From Fireys happy cheers it sounded like he was happy. Then he asked to get out. I shot him out of my mout. I then asked fiery "Wanna go to Goim 500?" (AN: Goim 500 is a game by mike and cary go to twins.net for more!) In goim 500 i went into the pink zone. Since i was not pink Pink Facee killd me with her pink ray. It was fun. I played in the portholes and was soon at the bilding. I fell into the partee room where i heard a loud vocie yell "BLOCKY!" Oh my tree (geddit cuz leafs come from treez) it was the real blocka! I wanted to show my friend teardrop (AN: Magicalgirlsuper this is u!)  "Teardrp the real blocky is in goim 500!" TD lerned how to talk after being in the tlc on bifida. So she said "Oh my eye itz (geddit cuz bfidia used to be called ITZ da feirce batle) blocky!" Teredrop went to goim but there was no blocky. But there was Snow Ball. I said "SB do u know were is blocki?" SnowBal spit out "BUT I HAD TO KICK HIM OUT OF MY ALIANCE! HE SAID I AM DUMM!" I felt i was turning into evil leafy as i shot my point at Snowbal in rage. "BRING BACK BLOCKEY" I cried. Teardrop just used her lazor (H*R rox!) on snowball. I had to find block! I asked fiery where blocky was. But Fiery didnt answer. Fire tears floted from his eyes. "No i still like u best fiery!!" I cried. Then we got on the hang glider and flew on out of goimey 500. I sliced a point off with my knief. Leaf gloop (geddit bcuz cake at staek song) oozd frum me. It ran in2 my cak. I ate the cak. My gloop wuz dlicious. Then i remebered "blocky!" i had to fnd him!! Then i thougt maybe snow killed him! I crankd the hprc and tiped BLOCKY but there wuz an erare! It sed blockiy wuz alive. I got on puff ball and lookd from him. I found erase but not Blocky. But I asked Erasey where Blocka wuz. Earaser said "Nowball put him to the TLC!" But hao (II rox!) wood i get in? Teardro cut a door(a) (geddit cuz dora) in the tlc with her lazar. I saw blocky in it. I anounced "We have GOT to kil Snowfall!" Blocky said "Ok! BLOCK ALINCE!" I said "but your not in it! So we wil get Snowbll from Giome 500!" When Bloci found Snowblah Blocky slaped him over. "LET ME BAC IN BLOCK ALIANCE!" shouted Bloky. Snowball said "But u called me dum!" Blocky said "Oh fine your not dumb!" Snowball then let Block into block alliance. "BLOCKY" yelled Blocky wen Flower came in. Shee (geddit cuz ECC said shee and ecc is englishcreamcakes) then yelled Blocky too and pet blocki. Then I went to Fiery. I made an "I vote Pencil shee never got a vote" joke and BloFirey laffed. Fiery said "Leaf wanna go to the drea island hotel?" I said yes and we were in a leaf rom. Fiery then kised me. My puffball wingz envelope him. I didnt burn bcuz of bujet cuts. Then I said "Butdget cuts more likee leafy cuts!" as i slicd in2 myelf and died. It was fun!

[diefakekalvingarrah]

Golf Ball and Tennis Ball aren’t dating. They’re QPP’s

I don’t get why people don’t like leafy. She really is trying her best. She has some issues sure but doesn’t everyone?

The one scream sound they use throughout BFDI haunts me. You know the one

I love Golf Ball. She’s a cool character. She’s changed a lot and has a cool personality

If you couldn’t tell I’m binge watching BFDI before the new episode of bfb tomorrow

God damn Pencil’s got the jams

Open mouth yeah yeah yeah let him out yeah yeah yeah 

Front facing eraser haunts me

“What in the spherical world was that for”

When leafy fucking shatters you with a bowling ball trying to show you something cool

What does OMZ stand for?? You’re a leaf??

what does OMW mean??? And it’s not on my way. 

WHEN THAT GUILLOTINE SNAPPED OFF PENCILS DICK I CHOKED WHAT THE FUCK GIRL ARE YOU OKAY???

Fiery you can at least fucking try. Your hands ain’t made out of water are they??

THE FIRST TIME USING THE DIGIT IN THE TENS. TWELVE VOTES. CAN YOU IMAGINE. 

Mm now i want key lime pie. Based. 

Why are they just casually discussing their favorite cake flavors I 

Not to be an sjw but the fat phobia is real in this

“Just drew a little doodle” I love that I wanna make memes out of that

Why everybody on this show so goddamn strong wtf?? They be tapping each other and knocking into the next dimension 

Pence pence is such a cute nick name

“Absolutely coolio”

1 2 3 4 who do we not adore? Spongy. Spongy. 5 6 7 8 who do we? Hate? Spongy. Spongy. 9 10 and then 11-“

She shoulda left the song writing skillz to pencil

The fact that the fire is just a couple transparent fiery assets kills me

Bubble: Hi guys ^-^*

Pencil: *straight up fucking kills her*

Pencil: we’re girls 

THEY SAID THE SUICIDE WORD BAD CERY BAD THIS IS FOR LITTLE KIDS IM CALLING THE POLICE

A TEARDROP FAMILY REUNION IM DEAD

Why didn’t their tests get wet wtf

I MUST BE RETARDED WHY DID I FALL FOR THE APRIL FOOLS JOKE. ITS SAID THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN REMOVED AND I WENT “oh ‘:/“

This is the second time my leg has fallen asleep

Twelve again. How sad

Mmmmm ice chunk cake!! I’d take suma da

K r e p

Imagine trying to play the intro twice. Couldn’t be me

Who threw the fucking strawberry at her??

Golf Ball just happily making her cake on the side just gives me life good for her

Mm rice cake 

God Leafy is so nice

I take it back why the fuck did she have cyanide 

The $8 bill I’m weak

I do not understand the two metal balls joke all I know is that I did not like it

$1.99 bill I’m so weak what is this shit

Damn that flower cake do be lookin kinda fine

Fiery is lovely, cooking his own cake on himself

Rocky. Please. That’s disgusting

Whats the point of the fucking dice??

Yay automatic ten for effort. Congrats babe

GOLF BALL GOT A 0/26 THATS FUCKED UP MAN

NOOOOO LEAFY YOU POOR THING THIS IS SO UNJUST

That “wow” from the judge was lovely

The fucking tie breaker

What the fuck is happening? Needle’s cake?? I do not understand??

And it’s over. What was the point

OMPF??? What???

Aight I’m taking a break from da

[analysingbfdi]

Analyse BFDI 25, it's definitely one of my least favorites.

Oh absolutely! And the difference is remarkable, since BFDI 25 is an episode I find myself enjoying quite a bit, but there are some problems I have with it as well.

One of the most notable things about this episode is the return of the eliminated contestants. I really liked seeing everyone here and interacting amongst each other again. One of my favorite parts is seeing who each vote for, as it provides small insight into their character. For example, Match voted for Bubble because she’s her friend and they were in an alliance, and she got slapped in the process. Pencil also was going to vote for Bubble, but refrained from doing so because she was afraid to get slapped. I never realized that she was more cowardly than Match was. Really puts how she acted in BFB into perspective, huh?

The call-backs were also a treat. I enjoyed seeing Pin remember their alliance, as if she promised to always remember. It’s a cute thing, that the friendship between them mattered so much to her. (That is.. of course… until we get to the end.)

This is probably one of my most favorite scenes from the episode. Despite how he appears, Announcer truly cared for the competitors, and was happy to see them succeed. (Remember when he tried to become Firey and Leafy’s friend?) This did make me feel quite sentimental, if I am going to be honest. 

But then comes the part of the episode many people don’t seem to like, and honestly, I can’t blame them. Leafy explains why I dislike this part so much pretty well.

Why Firey didn’t let Leafy in doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. This is, without a doubt, the biggest issue with the episode, because if it weren’t for this scene happening, Leafy wouldn’t have felt the need to steal Dream Island, the others wouldn’t have turned against her, and everyone could have lived happily ever after. Yeah, it wouldn’t have been the best finale, and I could Micheal and Cary were going for a big bang, but this just leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

This is the huge plot-hole of the episode. He let everyone else in, even Coiny (who, might I add, was way more rude to him and said worse things than just “let me out of your ferris wheel before I DIE”), but Leafy says one thing (one thing!) and he hates her. Not to mention the amount of times she helped him along the way.

And this was only in the one of the recent challenges. Throughout the series, especially nearing the finale, Leafy has befriended Firey and grew incredibly close to him in doing so. They played tic-tac-toe together, and Firey cared a lot for. The fact that Firey turned against her for something like this is incredibly out of character.

I find myself so frustrated with his sudden change in character. (And, since someone is inevitably going to ask me about this, yes, I am aware he said “-it hurt me deep down inside-” but this isn’t enough of a reason to exclude Leafy. He even let in Flower, who killed him tons of times and refused to share any information or help him along.)

Okay, okay. I get it. You can bring up the arguement that, yes, Firey was hurt deep down by it because he made the Ferris Wheel for Leafy, and she rejected it. That’s true. You’re right. He would be justified in being angry at her. But then he says… this.

Right, because the person who told him “I’ll be happy if either of us wins,” and the one that helped him along, and the one that meant so much to him that he bet his life’s earnings that she would come back was “a mean person”?

And, FYI, he bet his life’s earnings for her the exact same episode where she supposedly hurt him deep down inside. Hm. I’m sensing… what is it? Bad characterization? Yeah, that would be it.

I’m not going to spend anymore time on Firey’s mis-characterization (I’ll most likely make another separate post all about him), because there’s more issues with this episode.

Oh my god you guys are ridiculously stupid.

This is probably the worst scene in the entire show. They all turn against her, and assign her a death penalty for stealing Dream Island. They completely ignore how she was kind and patient with them and helped them throughout the series for so long, just because she did something they didn’t like.

And what’s worse is that Flower, probably the most hated contestant among them (before Leafy took her spot), didn’t get any sort of punishment for her actions. Yes, she got killed in the finale and no one really likes her anymore, but she didn’t get the death penalty.

You could pose the idea that everyone just didn’t expect it from Leafy, and that stealing Dream Island was too big of a “mistake”. Yes, I suppose this is true, but they certainly went quite too far, especially with a death penalty. Now, how would this help? Sure, it would teach everyone to not steal Dream Island ever again, but who would bother? The Announcer went back to his home planet, and, as far as they know, there’s no other game-show host to be seen.

And then we’ve got Firey, who’s done an entire 180 and is trying to find Leafy to apologize. Great.

The worst part of the episode was everyone being incredibly out of character (especially Pin, Golf Ball, and Firey), but the episode isn’t all bad. For a finale, it’s rather choppy, but there are some good points, too.

The scene between Firey and Leafy when they were in the air was incredibly sweet. Firey may have been annoying, but his little speech was very well-said. I loved it, and although it doesn’t make up for Firey’s character issues, it did give the finale a very heart-warming feel..

And now, time for a hot take.

I’ve seen a lot of criticisms against this episode, and one of the biggest is that Leafy was very out of character in the episode. To this I think, no, not at all, as Leafy has always been prone to lash out at those who she didn’t like or those who hurt her. As @treeafypop put in their wonderful Leafy analysis, Leafy has always been rather rude to those she wasn’t a fan of, or those who weren’t useful to her in a particular time.

One example being how she called Flower “evil”, solely because she finds her to be mean. While Flower is mean, and it is right to call her evil, Flower never hurt anyone Leafy was particularly close with. For Leafy to snap because she felt Firey was unjustified in how he acted is entirely in-character. Many people’s view on Leafy is an overly nice, perfect mary sue, but she was always susceptible to sudden anger bouts (also see: her trying to get Ice Cube to not talk to the “back-stabbing Bubble” in episode 19 of BFDI). 

Conclusion: While this was a rockity episode on some levels, this was quite a heart-warming episode to see. We see Firey and Leafy’s relationship become stronger, and there are some neat call-backs and enjoyable moments and scenes. The bad thing is how out of character some of them are. This disrupts the overall flow of the episode, and, while it doesn’t really balance out, it still ends up being an entertaining finale, but they definitely could have done better.