#like it's still absolutely possible to get covid and for it to even give you symptoms

[sirenalpha]

people who are anti kingdon because Langdon can't be both a bad husband to Abby and a good partner to Mel are funny because

yeah actually that is perfectly possible

this is obviously complicated by the fact absolutely everything we know about Abby is second hand, Langdon and Dana are the ones telling the audience anything we know about Abby and Dana may not even know Abby herself, she might be going off everything Langdon told her and is just sympathetic to Abby having raised her own kids

but people have different needs and desires and likes and dislikes and bring different expectations baggage and histories

assuming Langdon is telling the truth and idk why he would lie about it, Abby wants a birkin bag which implies a lot about how materialistic, image conscious, and status seeking Abby is even if you steelman this desire for an insanely expensive and difficult to get luxury item that is well out of the price range of a resident presumably in debt from medical school to say nothing of whether or not Abby has her own debt and say this is just a fantasy of hers she gave voice to, she doesn't expect to really achieve this goal in real life to give her the most benefit of the doubt, she still knows what the bag is and wants one

Dana who is sympathetic to Abby is critical of this desire going what the hell does she need a birkin for

Does Mel who wears her hair flat to her head and tied back in a functional braid, has plain black glasses, plain t-shirt, and plain sweatshirt look like she knows much about or want a birkin bag? I understand she is at work, but Langdon has done more to style his hair fashionably than she has and Dana dyes hers, and compare Mel's glasses to Becca's, she could have gotten fun glasses, she bought Becca's, Mel chose not to

Langdon meets Mel when he's around 30 and he probably met Abby in his early 20s

Langdon has kids with Abby not Mel

Abby knew Langdon before during and after addiction and rehab while Mel met him one day before rehab and most likely doesn't see him again until he returns to work after rehab

Mel has been the sole caretaker of Becca for some time and has gone through medical school and is now a resident and we don't know what Abby does for work or if she even works

Covid, marriage, pregnancy and kids, addiction, rehab, residency hours those can all stress a relationship and we don't know what has built up from where, we haven't seen Langdon and Abby really interact beyond a one sided phone call and what we get from his side in s1 is that he seems to be making up for things but we're not sure what except he seems unaware of the amount effort raising two kids takes so probably that

But we see Langdon interact with Mel basically the whole day and he's good to her, he pays attention to her and checks in on her and even changes his communication style to better suit her, and Mel likes him enough in one day to be sad he left without saying goodbye and she can't tell him good news and get excited when she sees he came back

no this isn't a full relationship where they deal with their real lives outside the hospital like Langdon's addiction and marriage and children or Mel's sister and potential burnout or anything else they will have to navigate like having time for each other, intimacy and boundaries, living together, splitting chores etc

but it's a really good start and it looks a lot better than where Langdon and Abby currently are and it's still the same guy

[navree]

at the risk of sounding blasé (which i hate to do but it is a risk),

you did not "lose two years and counting" to covid, you lost a year, at most a year and a half. and that ended in 2021. which WAS two years ago

[ladyrebellion]

DATE WITH PEDRO PASCAL

Chief reporter Melanie Jassner is getting close to the man. Every month, she interviews a cool guy. This time: the most laid-back ladies’ man in Hollywood.

With the first “Hi, how are you?” it’s already clear why Pedro Pascal is currently making everyone go a little crazy — even if he can hardly be seen in the current Star Wars series The Mandalorian. Like a Daft Punk member, he’s mostly hidden behind a helmet in his role. But people are still swooning: “He’s just so hot.” It’s because of his voice, charmingly raspy and with a bit of that Latino vibe. You can even feel the charisma through Skype (because of the COVID situation, an in-person meeting isn’t possible). This man radiates humor and openness. Lots of laughter, lots of emotion. Emotional was also his role in Narcos, and now he can be seen in the movie Wonder Woman 1984, the sequel to the superhero hit — playing sleazy self-made mogul/slimeball Maxwell Lord, whose motto in life is: “Take what you want! You deserve it!” Does Pedro Pascal think the same way?

Are you a greedy person?

Not at all. As soon as I realize something is harming someone else, I’m out.

So, what are you greedy for?

Justice. I’m a pretty calm person. But when something feels unfair, that’s my big weakness.

What’s your guilty pleasure?

Women who love cheeseburgers and drink beer are irresistible to me.

So, Wonder Woman is out of the running then?

Not my sister Javiera. We are four siblings. But because my brothers are 12 and 17 years younger, I spent this chapter of my life mostly with my sister. I admire her so much; she always got attention — and I believe I went into acting just to get hers. I wanted to impress her.

What do you admire about your sister?

So much. Everything she does in life, she approaches with equal seriousness, no matter how important it is. We don’t call each other often, but when we do, I’m all in.

When someone marries you, are they also marrying your family?

Yes, absolutely. A woman would have to be okay with the fact that my family plays a big role in our shared life. Family comes first, no matter what

Your Instagram account is called @pascalispunk. Does that mean one would have to contend with a punk or what exactly would one have to deal with?

With a good sense of humor. As they say, “If you can’t beat them, join them!” When someone laughs at my jokes, I’ll do anything for them. Humor is the essence of life.

What makes you laugh?

I’m actually pretty off-balance. Oh God, I remember being in a bar with some buddies once, and I couldn’t stop laughing…

Why?

Prince was playing. He’s my biggest ‘80s icon. “Purple Rain” is my all-time favorite song. But when it came on in the bar, I just couldn’t take it seriously — I started giggling uncontrollably. I thought to myself, “Dude, keep it together,” but I just couldn’t stop, even cried tears of laughter.

What stirs your emotions?

Lately, I’ve been nostalgic. No idea why, maybe a midlife crisis. Maybe it’s because of Wonder Woman 1984, which is set in the ’80s. That was when I was a kid, and everything felt so wild and exciting… I’ve been thinking a lot about the past, kind of wistfully.

Do your roles reflect your own emotional life?

Totally. I think a lot about the question, “Do I deserve this?”

Why?

One of the biggest misconceptions is that people think I’m as cool as “Javier Peña in Narcos,” says actor José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal. But I come from an immigrant family. I was born in Chile, and when I was just a year old, we had to flee (editor's note: due to the Pinochet dictatorship). We were asylum seekers in Denmark for a while, then moved to the USA, where I grew up. And even today, I carry this feeling that I have to work twice as hard for everything.

Has this feeling helped you?

It’s become my life motto. I always try to give my best. That’s how I landed good opportunities and roles. I owe my acting career to that drive. But I also know: not everyone gets those chances.

What would you be doing if you weren’t acting?

Probably something in care work. The thought has been on my mind for a long time. Maybe I’d work with kids or in hospice. I think I’d be good at comforting people.

Which film has challenged you the most physically?

Definitely Kingsman. My back was wrecked for weeks. But Wonder Woman too — even though it might look like I didn’t have to do much, I really had to hold my own against Gal Gadot. The woman is strong!

Do you regret any role?

Not a single one.

When was the last time you thought: I need a life like Wonder Woman’s?

This morning. Yesterday. The day before. I’m surrounded by amazing women. I’ve had the privilege of learning so much from them — especially from my mom. Women in Germany are also role models, by the way.

[bekolxeram]

8x02 specs based on promo and stills

I've been having so much fun picking out details from promos and now the stills, thinking of all the possibilities and coming up with my own predictions. It's like smashing two things I love together to create something wonderful. Thanks 911 S8, I've been absolutely fed for the past month. (It's just a bit scary actually posting my specs) Anyway, here we go:

Elderly couple, possibly going to Hawaii to visit a baby. Woman with cute dog. I hope they turn out okay. Airport 1975 is about the passengers as much as it is about Nancy and Alan Murdock. I suspect 8x02 would be structured a bit like 7x03, the first few scenes would be a flashback sequence about the passengers' background, before we continue on with the mid-air collision and Gerrard's busted head.

I wonder how Dennis Jenkins factors into all this. Is he going to get hurt and Athena must decide whether to save him or not? Is he going to spring into action and help the injured passengers in the cabin? All we know is that he cleaned up after killing Emmett and became an upstanding member of the society, we don't fully know his credentials. (Or maybe he's helping to land the plane, just because the writers want to psychologically torture Athena😬)

Oxygen masks are deployed when the cabin altitude is higher than around 14,000 feet, which should be where the plane is flying. In a loss of cabin pressure event, it's standard protocol to rapidly descend to 10,000 feet, so that the people onboard can breath normally. You see all the passengers here not wearing their oxygen mask, they should be fine for a while at 14,000 feet. But if you happens to run into a situation like this, be sure to wear your oxygen mask as soon as possible.

One of the most unrealistic things about Airport 1975 is that a light aircraft coming in contact head on somehow only tears a small man sized hole in the 747 cockpit, without doing any other damage. There should've been debris flying everywhere. Here we see there seems to be an even bigger in the cabin, so good job. Coincidentally, a hole in the cabin is exactly the one occasion where the cockpit door would blow open on its own.

So uh... RIP Captain Dominguez? The first officer doesn't seem too well either. The flight attendant is doing exactly what he was trained to: help the incapacitated pilot out of the cockpit, transfer him to the galley, give him oxygen, and search for medical professional onboard.

Athena is attempting to contact approach and declare an emergency here, but you do have to press some buttons and flick a few switches before you can reach air traffic control. You can't just talk into the mic, you don't want to hot mic ATC the whole flight. It's possible that Athena doesn't know how to operate the radio system. This is yet another thing that requires tweaking from the original Airport 1975 plot. Nancy had to figure out how to use the radio, Athena and basically everyone in 2024 has a cellphone, so she can simply call 911.

911 would most likely refer Athena to someone at the ATC center. Not only do they help guide Athena to the nearest airfield for an emergency landing, they need to know Athena's every move in order to divert all traffic in the airspace out of her way. In fact, I think emergency services have already been notified by the time Athena gets inside the cockpit. Air traffic controller must call 9-1-1 immediately when they witness an accident.

ATC supervisor from 5x01, good to know she's still working there post-covid. She's talking to someone on the phone here, maybe Athena? In the next still, we see a man holding the same phone, but he doesn't have the ATC badge on him, so who is he? A cop? A flight instructor? The airline boss? Another controller but we just don't see his badge?

I don't see the plane landing next episode just yet, it's a 3 episode arc after all, and in universe they probably want to take some time to assess the situation and test out which parts of the plane are still working. As for how faithful to the original will this Airport 1975 inspired disaster be, I hope not too much. Yes, I know talking a total layman through flying then landing a jet airliner is immensely difficult and risky, but can you imagine saying this about Athena freaking Grant-Nash?

[the-desolated-quill]

Okay. So. Lucky Day. Let’s give credit where it’s due. So far this is probably the least awful episode in the series. That being said, I still don’t think it works, but we’ll come to it.

The idea is solid. People have compared it to Love And Monsters, and yeah I agree. This episode feels like what Love And Monsters could have been had they not been lumbered with a monster designed by a nine year old. Gold star. Thumbs up. 👍🏻

Also, Ruby finally has something to do. As much as I love Millie Gibson and her natural chemistry with Ncuti Gatwa, her role and characterisation in the previous series was piss poor due to the restricted episode count and RTD’s unwillingness to do anything with her character beyond the stupid series arc. The closest she ever got to character development was 73 Yards, and even then RTD did absolutely nothing with that afterward. So this automatically feels like a standout episode purely because this is the first time Ruby feels like an actual person. And the fact that it took someone other than RTD to make it happen speaks volumes to how bad his second stewardship of the show has been.

All good stuff. Unfortunately the episode doesn’t really work for me, and in fairness this isn’t entirely the fault of the writer Pete McTighe, but rather the larger context surrounding this episode. How does this world work?

Seriously, does anybody know? What are the politics of present day Whoniverse? The first RTD era made aliens public knowledge on Earth. Everyone and their mums knew aliens existed, the Earth would get invaded every Christmas and so on. Then Moffat turned up with his crack of doom, erasing things from existence, only for those things to come back when the cracks disappeared… I think. Did they come back? I don’t know and I’m willing to bet you don’t either because Moffat was a terrible writer and worse showrunner. But anyway, back on topic, let’s assume the cracks disappearing put history back… except in the Chibnall era nobody knew what Daleks were. Which they should because Earth was invaded by the Daleks in 2009. Okay, so maybe not everything was brought back. So after the Dalek invasion that may or may not have happened, the Earth was invaded by black cubes, spoon people, and Cybermen, we have Zygon refugees claiming asylum, a Judoon platoon, another Dalek invasion, a Sontaran occupation that may or may not be canon because of the Flux, dog warriors, a squadron of insect police chasing a psychopathic fluff ball, the Giggle and Sutekh’s dust of death.

So, bearing all that mind, you can’t then tell me that there’s a community of conspiracy nuts within the Whoniverse that doesn’t believe aliens exist. That’s just stupid. I get that it’s meant to be a critique of COVID deniers and the manosphere, but it’s one thing to deny something you can’t see with your own eyes. It’s another thing entirely to deny something you can see. That’s like me starting a podcast telling you that cars don’t exist. You would quite rightly mock me. If aliens are a fact of life in the Whoniverse that everyone has seen, there is no way a cottage industry of alien deniers could possibly exist. Unless… all that stuff I just described has been retconned… which it could have been. I don’t know. And that’s the point. Thanks to 15 years worth of writers pissing about with the basics in a desperate attempt to appear clever, there is no longer any internal logic or consistency within the show’s lore. I haven’t a clue how the world works, what people know and what they don’t know, and what the stakes are. It’s like the MCU on speed.

And it only gets worse when you factor UNIT into the equation. In 20 years of New Who, UNIT has gone from being secret to public, international to global, then merged with Torchwood to get all that sweet alien tech, then they had their budgets slashed, then got shut down because of Brexit or something, then got brought back with a brand spanking new Avengers tower, and now they’re at risk of being shut down again because… why?

Oh and let’s not forget Kate. Introduced as a scientific advisor who hates guns, she’s now a military leader who loves guns, and recruits ex-companions and child soldiers for her private army like a female Gaddafi.

Again, what are the politics of this world?!

This is what ruined Lucky Day for me because I had no frame of reference for where this episode fits with the rest of the show. Even if you disregard everything that came before RTD’s return for the 60th anniversary, the current state of affairs in this episode completely contradicts what happened in the previous series. There is no longer any synergy or continuity, and it completely takes me out of it. It’s hard to be shocked by Conrad’s betrayal when you’re too busy thinking how can people possibly believe aliens are a hoax in a world where London gets divebombed by spaceships at least once a fortnight!

So while Lucky Day is definitely an improvement over the past three episodes, I’m going to have to label it a palpable miss. But props to McTighe for trying. I’m glad somebody is.

[willowmosby]

So I decided to watch the new abc Doctor Odyssey, because God forbid I finish one of the multiple other shows I'm working my way through. My thoughts are below the gif (that i did not make in case that wasn't obvious)

Please please let me know if you have thoughts id love to know how others are vibing with this show!

So my thoughts. Is this a theme heavy pick apart the screen for details hold be accountable for their options show. No and honestly I'm kinda glad. Like I love me some Buffy or Black sails, of interview with a vampire. But honestly right now I'm super excited for super sexy boat time so whenever I use the world silly in this review please know I mean it in the best way possible.

The only weird thing is that I felt super weird the covid is now old enough to be a tragic backstory. I mean covid is absolutely tragic backstory material but like I thought we would give it a few more years.

Unless it ends up in some twilight zone shit it will be a little murder she wrote in the sense that like there's no way that a small town has that many murders and people still want to live there. There is no way they have even 3 emergencies a week that are as serious as this weeks on a cruise ship of that size. - but hey I'm not mad cause " work like a captain party like a pirate" is so silly but also so sexy and the ship is show shiny and pretty and the homoerotic tension is so there.

Like Tristan and Max had way more chemistry than either of them had with Avery. I could see an Ot3 cropping up but I don't think ABC is going to be able to actually do that - like it's still a stretch for me to think they'll go through gay route- but I think that could be fun.

The bit where Max decided not to sleep with Avery did feel very much like he's gay and just not out about it and got caught up in the homoerotic fight but somehow ended up with the girl? (Like you know that scene from how I met your mother where it's not Ted fighting someone for a girl or the girl and someone fighting for ted? )but if it's not that's fine too we love a man who realizes there is a power imbalance.

I just think it's a weird way to set up a straight will they won't they. You know cause most times in a will they won't they It takes them a while to get to the first time. Like if they were setting up a romantic trope they did it better with enemies to friends to lovers ( please please let this be the case) with Tristan and Max.

Anyway Sorry sorry for the ship discourse it's too early in the show to really tell maybe next week the cast will have settled in and the chemistry between Max and Avery will be off the charts.

For some ship discourse I do really like the set like it is so clean and sparkly and like it just feels like a glamorous, sexy, and fun time. Like nothing too serious or gritty can happen here no sir. Which isn't always my cup of tea but this time I think it could be fun.

I like the captain as a character cause he goes so far in being serious that it comes back to silly. I do think that if the show wants to last a long time it needs a few more regulars. I don't need a full ensemble ensemble but like 4 characters that we know by name is not enough. Give me a reoccurring lifeguard or bartender or something

Anyway just thought I get some thoughts out there while it's relevant, who knows if I will actually continue to watch ( just so many shows so little time) but I will try my best.

I'm super excited to see other people's thoughts and feelings!

[khaire-traveler]

I’m going to be brutally honest, I am a minor who is afraid of worshipping anything or anyone. I’m afraid because I think of the possibility that gods or goddesses are not real and my mind is making that allusion to comfort me due to me not having friends and usually being lonely. I want to start. I really do. I want to experience feeling that at least someone is going to be there for me through my thick and thin. I don’t have an alter nor do I pray. I’m currently sick with Covid and I feel awful. It was my first time praying to a Greek god. I prayed to Apollo, I mentioned his family, and his parents. I don’t know what to do or get started. I obviously can’t openly do stuff due to my parents. I want to start, I want to do this, but I’m so lost. I just need help. I know some knowledge about Apollo and his stories and his family as well. This is kind of stupid and I know I’m going to regret this but what if someone else is going through the same thing? My name is Khloe but I’m called Koko.

Have a goodnight <3

Hey, Koko,

There's no shame in feeling doubtful, but if I'm going to be honest, this isn't something I can answer for you. I can give you suggestions, but unfortunately, I don't have all the answers. This is the kind of thing that you have to figure out for yourself, in my experience. I used to have the same fear, and it took a long time for me to push through it. Even then, I still struggle sometimes which is completely normal. Many people have felt this way; you are not alone in this worry.

The way someone put it to me once was "So what if they're not real? You still grew as a person because of your faith. It still improved your life." Initially, that didn't really help to hear, but as time went on and I became more comfortable with the fact that I may straight up never know "the truth", it became something I understood. In any spiritual path, I feel this is a fact many people have to face: the reality that we don't know anything for sure... and that's actually ok. That doesn't make our beliefs any less valid. It doesn't make our time spent worshipping or the words we said in prayer any less real. If your faith gives you hope, that's what matters. Faith can be a beautiful thing, even when it's a little scary due to the uncertainties, but there aren't many things in life that are certain. Another thing is to keep track of your experiences, specifically things that renew your faith in a sense. It takes time to build a good list of these things, but even things like an answered prayer or a reminder that a deity is present are helpful to look back on.

Honestly, I can't tell you what's right for you. I can't force you to work through the fears and worries you're having. All I can do is suggest the things above and advise you to do what you feel is best for yourself. I say give it a chance because truthfully, what do you have to lose? You could be denying yourself an absolutely amazing experience, but you won't know until you give it a try. And if it turns out it's not for you, that's ok, too! There's nothing wrong with deciding that it isn't your path later on. I wish you well, and take care. 🧡

[lover-of-mine]

On Taylor, too..... Just wanted to add. I'm with you and the other anons annoyance of having to stick up for her. But we are also introduced to her in S2 when Eddie is dealing with his wife. Of course, I shipped Buddie back then, but literally, I'm all the way down the hole now. When she is reintroduced in Covid. That's the point I thought they were maybe going to finally diverge the Buddie storyline. I thought Eddie would go off with Anna. And Buck was lonely. He was isolated and not on a winning streak, so I was actually happy he got "his whale" in a way. But that was the shows last chance. They did will reveal. It was clear there wasn't doing to have a divergence in their story. So exactly why would I accept someone now who doesn't have 20% of the development of Taylor. So many years later where the only thing that stops bUddie from being married is they haven't gone to pound town yet.

Yeah, that's the thing really, up until suspicion and the shooting, buddie was very much still up in the air. It could've gone any direction because, besides some key moments, they are best friends, to tone it down a little bit and let them be besties with their respective wives seemed like the most plausible scenario. If there was no shooting, Eddie would've settled and had a decent life with Ana in my opinion, I see season 4 Eddie just accepting that was all he could get, he liked her, Chris liked her, life could be nice and that would be it. And Taylor, she was framed as this multiseason great love. They developed her character and her relationship with Buck, during First Responders and Treasure Hunt they are establishing a connection they could've worked with to keep Buck with Taylor. Let's face it, we were all looking at buddie and liking their interactions and seeing the potential but it is the shooting that changes everything, it's the "Because Evan" that makes them possible. Everything about the shooting is romantic. The slow-motion of the blood hitting Buck, the wide-shot of the both of them, the impression they give that they have their eyes locked across the pavement, Buck doing the saving alone, the focus on hands, "are you hurt", Buck escalating from we got you to I got you, from just hang on to I need you to hang on. And if that wasn't enough, they hit us with the will reveal. After Buck had already stepped up. Eddie putting Buck in his will is not inherently romantic, hiding it and only revealing it because he needs Buck to see he's loved and that his life matters? Absolutely is. The level of understanding between Buck and Eddie that was shown during Survivors destroyed any possibility of them not ending up together and it still being satisfying. And they keep playing that up. It wasn't an isolated event. Sure, it was a fantasy, because we were dealing with two guys that were being presented as straight, but the idea of them not ending up together feels unsatisfying and that's exemplified by the ending of season 6 because if that was the actual ending of the show it would've been deeply meh for both of them. And now Buck is canonically queer. Which means buddie is an actual plausible possibility. The amount of work that would have to be put into a character for them to even begin to feel as satisfying as a partner for Buck as Eddie or vice-verse was already a lot, but now that they are an actual possibility, come on. The work that was put into Taylor is the bare minimum. The idea that I should lower that bar now just because the person in question is a man is laughable to me. Eddie is right there. Six seasons worth of development, and friendship, and partnership, and understanding. I need at least half of that to even begin thinking about considering accepting someone else as a possibility.

[scribbleshanks]

I hope this isn't prying too much. I also have a march in my city for tomorrow (the 2nd) and I'm considering going, but I've literally never gone to a march before. Do you have resources on how to potentially prep for one like this? Is this one I should keep my phone off and my face covered? Being just a march instead of a protest, I don't think I have to worry about anonymity as much, but I have no idea what to expect.

you're good dude but honestly I also don't know what I'm doing, and I unfortunately don't have any easily available resources on hand about how to prep

but I remember this short comic by Dan Schade I came across that gives tips on what you can do to prepare in case you might you're worried about your safety, considering these sorts of things can be targets for police violence. I really recommend checking it out

here's a summary of it:

obscure your face, ie w a covid mask or bandana (for anonymity reasons but also covid reasons, still in a pandemic)

plain anonymous clothing, nothing identifiable

multiple water bottles, ear plugs

safety gear: safety goggles, spray bottle with milk in case of tear gas, neosporin

pepper spray if you got any

leave your phone at home; if you must bring it disable location services, put it on airplane mode, and keep it off until you need it

stay with the group, don't stray off, stay aware of your surroundings

don't take any pictures/don't post any pictures

don't talk to the police if you encounter any

to be completely honest it's possible you might not even need to do everything the comic suggests, but if you ask me it could be better to do some of the precautions in case anything happens

going to the march can really help boost the numbers and add your voice to the people there calling for a ceasefire in palestine, but I totally get that it's super nerve wracking as a first time thing (also my first time going to a march, I feel like I'm going to shit my pants). if you choose to go it doesn't hurt to do some of the small stuff like obscuring your face and turning your phone off if you're worried about anonymity or cops

wishing you absolutely all the luck anon, I hope you'll be safe over on your end

[animegirlsakurablr]

Shenanigans in the Grand Order, part 728

*deep sigh* And what do you mean by that, sir?

Oy vey, oy vey...

So, what you said (back then) is, essentially, an oxymoron?

And your semi-amnesia is goddamn pointless!

I feel like actual!Dobrynya would get along with Odysseus.

Heh, and he gets summoned to take care of a kid. And not just any kid... It's Koyanskaya.

And the (what feels like a last second) reason why she looks like Tamamo: Amaterasu came by (Why? Who tf knows) and granted her a life.

Anyway, this is now done. It's... not as awful as many make it out to be, but this chapter definitely has problems. It feels just so rushed. I know that story chapters and event stories usually have months to "wait in the oven", so to speak, but Tunguska felt like it only had weeks to prepare.

I'm not sure if it's because:

1) Sakurai also wrote the Christmas event and also this one, therefore writing two things back-to-back

2) Covid still causing some amount of trouble (remember, this originally came out two years ago on JP)

3) Sakurai was beginning to write Fate: Lost Einherjar and possibly being roped to be one of the writers for Samurai Remnant, and also possibly beginning to write the story for Summer 7

4) Some sort of combination to the above or some other reason

Like. I'm way more curious to what went on behind the scenes for Tunguska than I am for any of the other story chapters. Give me the goddamn tea.

Any positives? Beyond that it does end (albeit not in a satisfying way), Taigong Wang's nice, and the soundtrack introduced here is good too. And that's kinda it. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

And besides how rushed it feels, where do I begin with the negatives? The way Ibuki is given semi-amnesia, but the only characterization is "the party girl who is also the brute"? The two mounts who add nothing to the story? Why are there two halves of Koyanskaya now running around in Chaldea? Several characters repeating themselves ad nauseum- scratch that, that's sadly a Sakurai writing tick.

And oh man, Dobrynya and how Koyan came to be. I absolutely despise FGO's take on Dobrynya. Not only because it's yet another case of "it's this person, but it's actually that person!" (this case being the wife Natasha), but her design holds nothing to either of them - and what I mean by that is that her design is almost literally a recolor of her illustrator's FF14 OC. I am not kidding with that. And while that isn't particularly new, Raita did that before with Raikou. But here's the thing, Raikou - even with her "I can't take this character seriously because of her assets" design, she still fits in with where she came from in a more fantasy way. Dobrynya doesn't. And don't get me started with her coloration (oh yes, I want to be snow-blinded by a character's art /s).

And Koyanskaya's backstory... On one hand, being the embodiment of many animal souls because of a natural event (the Tunguska explosion) is a really interesting concept for a Servant, and I kinda want to see other kinds of concepts in the future. On the other hand, how it connects to her love/hate relationship with humanity is a load of crap. "Oh, the animals mistook the sound of the explosion for gunfire-" let me tell you how bullshit that sounds. Animals can be damn intelligent. They know what humans are. Several of them know in what way we do. They also can tell before any of us know when something is wrong, whether it be reacting to something that we don't see or when something like a volcano is going to go off. I don't know if the whole "animals mistook the explosion for gunfire" is something Sakurai herself wrote, or is something that Nasu wrote who just passed it onto her, but it really is just a bullshit reasoning for why Koyanskaya hates humanity. You could've made her the embodiment of something that humanity actually was responsible for, like Chernobyl for example. Just. Why.

I plan to get through Traum later this year, and then after that I'll be waiting for... LB7... Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay...

SQ used: 0

Revival stones: 0 (I wish to bonk the devs for not allowing the players to use the stones for main interludes with a bat)

[crownedinmarigolds]

6, 23, 24, 27, 45 and 63 for Khloe? :3c

Oh my goodness! SO MANY! Thank you!! :0 I think for fun because the questions seemed posed like an interview, I may have Khloe "answer" these herself! (Ask Meme Post here!)

Her hands are laced in her lap, and she can feel her heart pound in her chest as the interviewer gives her a quick smile over their notes to put her at ease. The questions shouldn't be too invasive, right? Khloe sits up when the other person appears ready. 6. Are you more mature than you seem? Less? Khloe laughs a little, though the question itself isn't amusing really, it's more like a valve release to get out the stage fright. "I get told I look younger than I actually am, so I guess I would technically be way more mature than I appear. I'm thirty but I get told I don't look like it. So that's nice!" 23. How did you earn a living? "I am still working for the company I was at before." She gets a bit more comfortable in her seat and smiles. "I'm just a data entry clerk, but it's work from home and I pretty much make whatever schedule I want, so it's pretty perfect for my, uh, current lifestyle." 24. Did you have any real friends? Khloe cringes a little, ouch. "I fell off accidentally with a lot of people. I just got busy, COVID hit and it was hard to meet up and then you forgot to meet up... Days just blurred together and before you knew it months passed. I would say though my Mom was probably my best friend..." Her voice trails off, and for a split second her eyes appear melancholy before she looks back to the interviewer. 27. What was your first brush with the supernatural? "Unfortunately, my first brush with the supernatural was my Embrace. I have lots of books and movies and games and whatever centered around the supernatural that I love, but I never thought it was real-real until I woke up a vampire. I wouldn't call me a complete non-believer, but I definitely didn't think every bump in the night was a ghost or a werewolf that's for sure." She shrugs, "I gotta say, wasn't impressed initially with the whole being a supernatural being either for a hot bit there. Thanks to being Thinblood, my heart still beats, I still feel things working, I don't even heal good - uhm, well I mean. So aside from feeling ravenously hungry, it wasn't very different than being human." 45. Why do you think they (your sire) chose you? Her nostrils flare a little, and though she tries to remain polite she can't help the slight disdain in her voice. "If everything she tells me is true, which sure I am inclined to believe her, then it was all an accident and my Embrace was out of the goodness of her heart. Or maybe even a weird motherly pull because she knew about her issues with Embracing. Either way, I don't think I was a real choice, just an opportunity that presented itself when she slammed her car head-on into mine and I went flying into the street." 63. Do you have a permanent home at all? The frown she had from the question about her sire remains, and she looks at her lap, "I have an apartment but I don't really stay there anymore. I stayed with my boyfriend in his trailer, but that's gone now too. I stay now with my coterie in our shared home - but who knows how long that will last. It's just the nature of the life I've chosen to dedicate myself to, right? You don't revolutionize without possibly getting hurt, and you can't always trust that your own bed is safe..." Her lips then quirk into a smile, "Though, I guess sorry to be so cheesy, I would say my coterie is my permanent home. That I can say for absolute certain."

[thessalian]

Thess vs Disability

I've probably mentioned this in passing, but it deserves a little bit more attention, particularly given that it's been giving me fibro flares and migraine flares on and off since it turned up on the UK news. I know that the US is busy combusting and that takes most of the news cycles, so I don't expect it to be common knowledge. Still feels like a thing, though.

So despite the fact that the Tories' austerity policies have been reducing our quality of life for something like fifteen years now, the new-ish Labour government has decided that the only thing that will fill the huge hole the Tories left in the budget is - you guessed it - yet more austerity. And Labour is starting to live up to its name in a pretty horrific way - sort of a "work will make you free" kind of way. Because the deepest cuts are to benefits - specifically, disability benefits.

First, we have something called Personal Independence Payments - a stipend to help pay for the extra things that disabled people need to be ... well, independent. That's looking like being cut to ribbons and possibly being taken off the table completely. Because the disabled don't deserve the dignity of being able to leave the fucking house, apparently.

Then ... well. We have disability payments for people who can't work - or can't work enough to support themselves - and we have what used to be Job Seekers' Allowance, for people who need to survive while they look for work. One's going to get cut. The other's going to get increased. The one getting the increase? Is the one for the folks looking for work. So that means that people who literally cannot work are going to have less money to live, because the government wants to force them to push themselves beyond their ability and get a job.

Now, keep in mind that a lot of people, whether they're disabled or not, are still having to rely on benefits just to survive. It's that bad. I figure those are off the table, as means-testing gets stingier and stingier. Worse yet, there's murmurings that the means-testing process should be farmed off to AI, same as they want initial diagnoses to be on the NHS. Either way, it seems designed to deny the disabled any kind of accommodation or support.

The problem with this ... well, there are so many problems with this that I cannot go into them all in any depth. It doesn't do the disabled any good to get a job that they can't do because so many companies will not make reasonable accommodations for their employees - like, say, working from home. The job market is a mess right now and even people who aren't disabled are having a bitch of a time finding work, and in a choice between someone who requires accommodations and one who doesn't, who do you think employers are going to pick? Most of all, the entire government seems to be putting the blame on us. They talk about obesity - okay, but keep in mind that Brexit fucked us so hard that unhealthy high-calorie food is often all people can afford, and we are worked so hard by employers that we seldom have time and energy to properly exercise as well as seeing to needs like eating, sleeping, and household chores. They talk about mental health issues like it's our fault for not "sucking it up and coping" - I'm sorry, but have they not seen what's been done to us the last couple of decades? How much worse they're making it? And the absolute kicker - saying that there's no valid reason why so many more people should be disabled now than in, say, 2020.

DID YOU FORGET LONG COVID WAS A THING, YOU ASSHOLES?!? Remember Johnson saying "let the bodies pile high in their thousands" when trying to lock down for as little time as possible? The number of people who refused to wear masks, or refused to wear them properly if they did? The anti-vax movement that seems to have sprung up here? Hell, the NHS won't pay for yearly Covid boosters, and they all seem to forget that Covid is still here! If you let something that causes a long-term to permanent condition become endemic in a population, and then don't take steps to deal with it like you do, say, influenza? The number of people with disabilities goes up.

Now, I'm fortunate. I don't have to worry about rent. I am employed. I can afford to take reduced hours, and was allowed to work from home (I mean, fine, I had to fight for it for like a year, but I got it). But two things. The first and most meaningful is this: I know how lucky I am, and how many people are not. This is going to kill people. They are going to overwork themselves, neglect their health - physical, mental, or both - and they are going to die. Maybe it'll be directly caused by the job. Maybe it'll be by choice because people can't take it anymore. Maybe it'll be through neglect because they still can't afford what they need. But people will die. The last time benefits got fucked with this hard, people died. This will be no different. And of course it gets me because it feels like the entire country is saying, "Well, they're disabled; we don't care if they die because they can't contribute to the economy and are a burden to everybody". And if you think I'm exaggerating? Consider that this is coming in the wake of laws permitting euthanasia, and from a service that not five years ago was assigning Do Not Resuscitate orders on Covid patients with autism without anyone's consent.

But it's more than that - it's more than me being a social justice barbarian in general. I'm lucky now. What happens if I'm not? What if I lose my job - how am I going to get another one that I can even remotely do in this economic climate? What if my condition gets worse and I can't work at all, and some AI doctor won't believe me? How do I function when the government of the country I'm stuck in thinks I'm a waste of oxygen?

...I spent so long thinking I was a waste of oxygen when I was physically healthy! It took so much mess, and years of therapy, and slightly fewer years of meds, to get me to a place where I didn't think I was a waste of oxygen anymore! Then I got the fibro and I had to use those coping mechanisms all over again, and I still have bad days sometimes! Now I have an entire government telling me it doesn't care if I suffer, it doesn't care if I die, and in fact it would be better if I did because that'll mean I'll never be a burden on the state. Never mind that a lot of that is my money, given to the government through my taxes.

So I'm stressed and I'm angry and I'm miserable and I'm frustrated and I hurt too much to punch things. But I want to. Oh, how I want to. Faces would be nice. Kier Starmer and Wes Streeting would be a good start. Fuck them for making the depression and misery a disabled person faces every day so much worse by justifying all our fears about being burdens to those around us. Fuck them for stripping our dignity and threatening our lives for budget cuts. Fuck them for caring about corporations and money more than the people they were elected to serve. Fuck them for their lack of compassion. And fuck them twice for doing it so they can free up some budget money to give to the military because some orange jackass in another country doesn't think we're spending enough on defense.

Oh, and on the assisted dying bill? Fuck them three times running for voting down the qualification that requires a doctor ask a patient why someone wants to die. AAAAAAAAAAAA!

[mushroompone]

Hello! I really love your writing and with all the hype going with the mlp infection/zombie I was wondering how do you approach writing horror/gore? I mostly like to write slice of life, romantic, fluffy stories, so whenever I try to write something darker, a zombie apocalypse for example, the violence feels juvenile and the horror falls flat. Your stuff is absolutely terrifying and amazing, so I'm just sitting here wondering how?? I know that's a broad question, but I would appreciate a peek into your thought process for writing horror. Thank you and have a good day!!

Oh my gosh you're so kind!! First off, thank you! I have really enjoyed writing horror for this community for many years now, and it's been sorry cool to see this massive interest during of of nowhere for MLP horror content!

Second, definitely a broad question, but I can offer some broad tips in response:

(1) Work with what scares you. Horror actually comes naturally to most of us, you just have to be willing to explore some of the darker corners of yourself. Consume horror as much as possible and try not to shy away from what scares you. Most importantly, though, understand why you find it scary. This leads to step 2...

(2) Drill down to the core fear. There's a lot of creatures and things that pop up in horror again and again: ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and certainly zombies. But to work with these effectively we have to understand why they scare us. The answer is different for everyone! Let's take zombies as an example: for me, zombies are scary because they are infectious. I find plagues and diseases to be really really scary, even pre-covid lol. For others, it's more about loss of control - becoming a zombie means becoming an animal, or something else inhuman. Dig until you find the why. Then...

(3) Give someone the worst day possible. Picking your protagonist is critical. The monster has to be difficult for them to face! So think about what will play well off your core fear. If you've found zombies as your monster and distilled that to loss of control .. well, Luna would be a great choice! She's all about loss of control. That's super scary and very real for her. If you're going in more of an infectious disease direction, Twilight would make more sense - she would make a very believable germaphobe, yet still be driven to help those around her and find a cure. If you do it right, all you have to do is...

(4) Sit back and let it happen. It helps to have a destination in mind (even if it's as simple as "happy ending" or "real downer"), but if you've set yourself up this way you've got a concept and you're ready to let it rip. Start writing. Be gross. Scare yourself. Look over your shoulder and wonder who might be watching you. If you get stuck, ask yourself this: how could this possibly get any worse? Then do that. With pizzazz.

The details of writing prose that is gooey, gory, and chilling come from reading. You'll start to get a feel for where to linger, where to hold back, where to describe, and what to leave up to your reader's imagination. The hardest part is the balancing act - keep some things obscured. Leave some mystery while making it clear what is scary and why. However, once your audience knows the precise size and shape of what they're dealing with, it becomes a lot less scary! My rule of thumb is that I never want my audience to be able to plan a way around the danger. They should never be able to devise their own means of escape - something should always be left uncertain or shrouded in darkness.

I hope this helps!! If you'd ever like someone to look at what you're working on, I love beta-reading pony horror :) actually, come to think of it, I love beta-reading all horror!

Again, thank you! Your an earned my heart ❤️ I love hearing that my sacred are still scaring!

[squirrellypoo]

I will be your blood loss consultant

Hey IWTV fic writers - want to ensure your character's blood loss feels realistic? Got a situation where a petit coup has gone too far, or a character got gravely injured? I've got a unique perspective to offer to the fandom - I've lived for extended periods of time with extremely low blood counts* and I'm happy for you to send me WIP snippets or to ask for advice on blood loss storylines.

To break it down a bit further, from my experience, how being low on the different types of blood feels/affects you:

Red blood cells - Red blood cells carry oxygen around the body, so if you're low on these, you're effectively low on oxygen in the blood. This is the most obvious, but you feel really sluggish, tired, and will be breathing heavily at the slightest physical exertion. Physically, it kinda feels like you're moving underwater, and your limbs feel heavy, and even short walks feel hard. (I went from running 10km 3x a week to getting out of breath just walking up stairs, for example). Cognition is fine, but frequent naps are a requirement.

Platelets - Platelets are what allow your blood to clot and heal cuts, so a lack of these means you bleed and bleed for a long time. But also you bruise super easily, and bruises last a really long time (weeks/months). You can also have spontaneous burst blood vessels in the whites of your eyes. Parts of your body that wouldn't normally bleed also do - like waking up to blood on the pillow because your gums bled overnight. The most unexpected part for me was having a constant background rushing sound in my ears - kinda like holding a seashell up, but all the time (until a transfusion).

White blood cells / neutrophils - A lack of these doesn't make you feel that different, tbh, but a lack of WBC means you can't fight off viruses so you pick up every single cough and cold, and have it for twice as long as normal people. A lack of neutrophils means you can't fight off bacteria, so your body's normal bacterial cohabitors cause problems that can really mess you up. So you've got to be insanely conscientious about what you eat (no runny eggs, unpasteurised cheeses, raw vegetables!), and brush your teeth and mouthwash after you ingest anything. You'll really only need to worry about these symptoms though if you've got low blood levels for an extended period of time (several weeks+).

Overall though, I've described the extreme examples. If your character is young and healthy, they will probably only experience the red blood loss symptoms (and possibly minor platelet symptoms) for a few days, depending on how much blood was lost. If they're in a situation where a hospital would give transfusions, be aware that you'll only ever be given enough to get you out of the dangerously low territory, never so much that you'd be "back to normal" counts after the transfusion(s). But transfusions do make you feel better almost instantly (better, but not good).

But again, feel free to message me with any specific questions (I can also tell you how chemo, meningitis, spinal taps, surgery w/o anaesthetic feels if that's of use!), I'm happy to talk about all this and I want to give back to this fandom and IWTV fanfic writers in particular to say thanks for the hundreds of hours of enjoyment you all have given me!

* I'm absolutely fine now! Over my lifetime, though, I've survived off the blood of literally hundreds of people. A bone marrow transplant saved my life 14 years ago and I run marathons now and am probably healthier than most 40-somethings, except I'm still Clinically Extremely Vulnerable to Covid and can't go into crowded places or unmask indoors. But my bloods have been fine for over a decade and this is in no way traumatic for me to talk about!

Please consider joining your country's bone marrow donor registry and/or donating blood regularly if you're able to! Both saved my life.

[imaginespazzi]

Hey bestie,

How are you? I hope you’re doing good! Me? Not so much after reading part 3 😭

My thoughts:

I wasn’t expecting us to finally get the fight from that night, so I was NOT prepared. This - When Azzi’s 18, Paige says those words, ones that sound a lot like giving up, and teaches Azzi that sometimes in life, even the people you thought would never make you feel this way, are the ones who'll break you the most – this broke me babe, and to think Azzi still held on despite everything. Like I know Paige was just hurting but maybe she does deserve the suffering (a little bit) after all.

The entire summer scene was fucking elite. Poor Katie and Tim, they just wanted a. nice. family. dinner!! And instead they had to sit through their daughter’s gay ass drama lmao, #freeKatieandTim

The bros standing ten toes down for Pazzi ✊ Jon and José not even trying sent me, like no sorry, P is our sister-in-law but we appreciate you dropping by. AND DREW, our MVP - Drew had looked over to Azzi then, his eyes wide and accusing, “you can’t be Azzi’s girlfriend.” – little man was a bit traumatised, like sorry pookie who is this girl and why is she claiming to be something she can’t possibly be? He’s the GOAT fr, I know when he and P got back home, he scolded tf outta her and it went something like- Drew: “Why are you letting Azzi be other people’s girlfriend?? That’s OUR pookie.” P: “I know, I’m trying bro!”. Drew: “Well try harder!!” *stomps away*.

Then the Cayman Islands - UCLA and UConn to each other: 😡😤🔪🤬🖕👿 while Azzi and Paige: 🥰😍🫂🤩💗👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 and then there’s probably Carol like: 😩 (she’s so over all this)

And then the ending! I’m guessing P left without saying goodbye because she probably saw the text from Zoe and once again was promptly reminded of their reality? 🥺

Speaking of Zoe, oh girl I’m so sorry, you deserve better – like damn, she just wanted to share some fucking pizza!!

Also, jealous Azzi making an appearance! (I’m such a shameful sucker for the jealous Paige and Azzi trope, I’m sorry!)

Oh and one final thing on part 3 – babe I know you said writing **** was taking years off your life, but we really appreciate your sacrifice because it was absolute 🔥🔥

What’s next (potentially)?

Oh man where to from here huh… I feel like Paige is eventually gonna get to the point where she's like "choose me, pick me", only to realise that Azzi just can’t do it cause she can't trust her with her heart, and I know it's gonna hurt bad. And even though Paige needs and wants more, she’ll also take whatever she can get even if it’s slowly killing her, because it’s Azzi and she’d rather have a little bit of her than none at all 😔

Also, a tension-filled game between them in the final 4 coming up maybe??

That part where Katie shoots Azzi a look of disappointment – I wonder if momma Fudd will ever call out Azzi over whatever’s happening between her and Paige and poor Zoe?

Either way, something tells me we’ve still got a lot of angst coming our way, and look as much as I want our babies to finally just get their shit together, I just can’t say no to more angst you know, I’m just a girl. 🤷‍♀️

Oh and this part - she’s even less sure about how she’d survived that one year where they’d practically lived in each other’s skins – is this something (I'm guessing this is their covid era?) we go into a bit more?? I do love all the allusions/references to how long they’ve always been something more and the blurring of the lines but never fully crossing it obviously until that fateful summer of 2022. I guess it does explain somewhat, though, why Paige felt so betrayed about Azzi not choosing her (UConn) because baby girl probably thought “ok once we’re both at UConn, we can finally be together 😌” - like her dream/vision of them playing together and also being together got ripped away from her ❤️‍🩹

As always, bestie, thank you for existing, thank you for your talent and for being so generous in sharing it with us. You outdo yourself every. fucking. time. 💐

Quick non-ucla fic side note: ESPN’s Bracketology having Utah and UConn on opposing sides of the bracket, so basically they’re saying Utah vs UConn championship game where I get to watch AP and PB ball out? Yeah ok, give it to me. 🤪 #APHiveUP (but bleed blue always ofc)

Favourite quote/line:

“You always say the right things,” Paige says quietly, and then even quieter, she whispers under her breath, “you make it so hard Az.”

Big love always 💗,

-🙋‍♀️

Hi bestie,

Omg I'm sorry....again 😭

I was gonna wait a little longer with the fight but it felt right to have it in this chapter and I wanted it to be from Azzi's perspective because it would hit just a little harder

Poor Katie and Tim fr like they should have just gone on a cute date instead of having to deal with this craziness

The brothers are the biggest Pazzi shippers like they're actually tired of their sister's bullshit at this point. Drew with the biggest truth ever really just shut everybody else up. "GET OUR POOKIE BACK BEFORE I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING" - Drew Bueckers at some point probably

I was gonna add a line about Carol and Charisma just frowning at their teammates and being all exasperated and then fully forgot lmao but yeah UCLA and UConn are big mad at each other. Though writing Nika and KK are Muhl and Arnold felt so weird.

Bestie you might be the only person who got my hint which apparently was not as obvious as I thought 😭

Zoe, poor girlie pop, y'all are gonna be absolute wrecked for her soon because girlie's just a sweetheart who does not deserve this but got caught in it anyway

Jealous Azzi might actually be worse than jealous Paige in this universe lmao but the waitress was doing *too much*

Part 4 is honestly a bit of a mystery to me because I've dug myself a bit of a hole but never fear, I will angst myself out of it somehow. 😭

#APHiveUp YES EXACTLY BESTIE!! Utah vs UConn for the national championship because actually AP vs AE would be pretty fun too and listen not to get at my girl AP, but AE would win that and then UConn would win and that's the only valid ending.

As always, thank you for being here bestie. I love your long asks and how much you just get me and the UCLA fic which really wouldn't even be a thing without you.

Love you babes <3

[lumslittleland]

Not Been Well Recently - Sorry (Covid x3)

I apologise for not having been active for quite a long time.

I have been struggling with ill health, work and personal life problems for quite some time. My new medication is taking quite some getting used to, and it's efficiency depends entirely on how and what I do, eat, breathe and sleep.

It works wonders, but it's like a master lock on a bloody safe to get it to work just right, and I'm finding it difficult because I've never had 'tightly wound and intricate' issues to deal with before - like food allergies or asthma, or shit that needs extreme care. So I'm not that good at being patient, or meticulous.

Then I've had Covid about 3 times, with the full blown rash, and everything that comes with it, and I'm starting to wonder if I've got it longterm now as it's caused me to have a few seizures and eating problems and (what might be, but prob isn't) early signs of mild skin cancer, so my GP has asked me to be part of a research program for Covid.

At this rate, I feel so ill I frequently wonder whether life is worth living - and yet nobody seems to understand as they just get up in the morning and 'feel good.' Even on a shit day, there's plenty they can do. I'm stuck like this for life, and it interferes so much with everything it makes living nearly unbearable.

Sorry for this little self-absorbed rant.

I had to get it out in the open, because sometimes I feel like I am struggling alone... and then there's this major dickhead on this game pretending to have cancer to get attention, when in facts he's alienated everyone from him because of his hateful behaviour, and normally I would just ignore that because I just haven't got the time or energy to be bothered about some twat on the internet lol.

But apparently he's now asking for gifts and money, and someone close to me died from cancer, and it kind of makes me angry to make light of a subject like that...

Anyway my Twitter username has changed, and I'm going to be posting updates on there more frequently than on here, because it's just easier.

So if you want to give it a follow, I'll be posting updates on my fanfiction and any fan arts that people gift me. I wanted to run a full Stobotnik Tumblr on here, and maybe when I have more time I will do. But for now, I just want to sleep, get better and do the absolute bare minimum...

I've also deleted a lot of my comments on the new Sonic trailer, as I realise that there's more to it than what I previously saw, and I think that's because I didn't fully grow up with the Sonic franchise.

There's still a lot I hate about it, and possibly even when I see the full film will still hate about it.

But as I don't want to ruin it for you guys, I've started afresh. Have fun xxx