#like legit can be a commercial voice

[inkabelledesigns]

It's incredibly frustrating and exhausting to have to question every piece of media that passes your screen as to whether or not it was made with generative ai. I don't like that I can't trust people not to use the literal theft machine for their projects. Especially when it comes to indies.

Like, so there's a new indie horror game called Zoochosis, right? I have no stakes in Zoochosis, a game about a zookeeper that's trying to stop the spread of a mutation with the animals isn't really my speed. But I'd heard of the people who made it before, and I wanted to see if they'd grown. The devs behind it are also responsible for another game, Sparky Marky, which used ai voices, much to my frustration. I tuned into a stream today where someone was playing it, and after hearing a little bit of the dialogue from Doc, I asked if they'd hired actual voice actors. The streamer seemed unconvinced that they had. So I immediately turned it off and decided to go hunting instead, because I needed to know if real people voiced in Zoochosis. I needed to know if this dev team learned anything from their last experience.

Thankfully, there are credits for the voice actors of this game, but they're very far down, which is a little disappointing. The common threads between them is that most of them have a Fiverr page, so I imagine they were hired through there, but I can't confirm that. Frankly I don't love Fiverr given they are also run rampant with generative ai right now, it's not inspiring confidence. But a number of these voice actors have full on websites for their voice work that seem pretty legit to me. In the case of Doc's voice, Tim Stephenson, most of his work is in commercial voice over, not character voice acting, so that explains some of what I was hearing. Commercial VO and character acting for games, shows, etc. are different skills with different needs. Just because someone can do one very well doesn't necessarily mean they're perfectly equipped to do both, especially when I didn't see credits for a voice director here. Without a director, you're recording remotely and going off of your instincts, and while many actors can have great instinct for performing, getting a performance that fits the vision of the project still requires some communication.

I think it's too soon to tell if these actors were actually paid for voice acting, of if these are ai voices synthesized from their likeness. The game is so new that it hasn't shown up on their imdb credits or personal website credits yet, and until it does, I'm gonna be a little skeptical. At the same time, there are many explanations for why the voice acting sounded off. The dev team behind Zoochosis has a lot of names that lead me to believe they may not be native English speakers (and I'm fairly certain I've heard that from others too). Writing and editing dialogue for a game in a language you don't speak is NOT EASY! That's a big ask, and if that's what's happening here, then I'd actually be very impressed by the quality of what I'd heard. It's just...frustrating. I expect this from big corporations and companies, but Zoochosis is an indie game. The folks over at Clapperheads are a small team making this thing real. And I'm troubled by the idea of an indie team, something built on passion and a desire for creative freedom, using generative ai. They're not the only ones to do so. Pastra, a YouTuber who loves indie horror, has started a series of videos that play into this found footage/news broadcast horror story, and for part of it, they used ai generated images of photographs of children to represent the victims of the monster. And they defended this by saying that it was better to use these generated images of children than actual real children. And I'm just sitting here confused by that. Because like, the model that that generative ai is trained on is using stolen images of real children to make those fake photos. So not only does it fall under using a child's image without consent, but you don't even know what children you've stolen the visage from. That is not a good look. The same goes for Indigo Park. AI was used for the opening footage of Issac Indigo introducing the park, and that's part of why his facial movements are so janky. Mason from UniqueGeese at least apologized and said he'd do better next time, but like...the chapter 1 revamp came out and that wasn't changed.

It's small stuff and big stuff, but either way, it's not okay. Until generative ai is trained only on data that is given to its developers consensually, it is not a viable tool for creation. It's not ready to be tested until the ethics part is worked out, and even then, I don't think I'd ever want to touch it. Like I get it, game development is hard, and in the indie scene, it's hard to make it all come together. But also, I expect a project built on passion to at least TRY to be creative in its solutions, and for the people making it to know better than to use stolen content. I expect better. Maybe I'm wrong for expecting better. But I expect better.

I'm just...disappointed. It makes me feel like I can't touch anything in modern media. Like I may as well go back and only play games, watch shows/movies, and explore stories made before 2023. At least then I can trust that it was probably done without the use of the theft machine. That's such a hopeless thing, giving up on modern art and all the potential it comes with. I don't want to give up on art. I don't want to give up on people telling meaningful stories in modern times. Please, humans, keep making art with your own two hands. Please give me something to be hopeful for.

[kaunis-sielu]

Dangerous Places: 9

His hands are on the couch on either side of your legs but he’s not touching you.

“You’re bleeding!” You snatch up his hand to examine it before you know what you’ve done.

“I’m alright Bunny.”

“Glass? Did you punch through some glass?”

“Just a little.”

“We need to clean it.” You tell him and he stands pulling you up with him. You go to let go of his hand but he keeps holding yours, he gives you a little half smile.

“You should hold on. Wouldn’t wanna get lost on my way to first aid.” You roll your eyes at him but drag him along behind you anyways. “You’re moving better, are your feet feeling better?”

“Yea,” you tell him, “is there any glass in your cut?”

“Nah Bunny.”

“Wash it out please.” You tell him before pulling the first aid kit out from under the sink. When he’d been here Hulk had restocked it so you know that everything should be good to go. Steve turns on the water as you get out the gauze wrap and a pair of gloves.

You tend to his cut knuckles gently, making sure you wrap them tight enough to stop the bleeding but not so tight that it’ll cut off circulation.

“You’re good at this Bunny.”

“He got into a lot of fights on his way to the top. I was expected to care for him in every way he demanded.” You say softly focusing on the job you’re doing.

“I can do this.”

“No, it’s alright. I don’t mind, it’s kind of nice feeling useful.”

“What have you been doing all day?”

“Reading. Sleeping. Cooking a little. When the girls are here we talk.” You’ve talked about him more than you’d like to admit. He’s an extremely powerful mob boss but the girls really didn’t have much bad to say about him. His legit businesses give back to the community as much as they can, he takes care of his employees and is known for his weirdly strong sense of justice.

“If I could get you some things to do what would you want to do?”

“I don’t know.” You admit, you really don’t know what you’d want to do. “I miss music.”

“Music?”

“Yea, I know that I can’t have my phone but I like music more than tv for background noise. I hate commercials though.”

“So radio is out,” he says, “I’ll come up with something.”

“Oh, thank you.” You tell him securing the gauze around his hand. “Would you like to eat?”

“You don’t have to serve me Bunny.”

“I’m going to eat so if you want to I can make two plates.” You suggest and he hums softly,

“You’re sure you don’t mind?”

“I’m sure.” He studies your face for a moment then gives you a little nod. You move away from him and open the fridge then dig out the leftover lasagna. As you prep for dinner he leans against the couch and texts someone on his phone. You test your glucose then take some insulin while the lasagna reheats.

“Is there anything I can do?”

“Get your drink?”

“Okay.” He takes out a beer from the fridge, “What do you want?”

“I just do water.”

“I’ll get it.” He says as you drop your needles in the hard plastic bottle that you’ve been using as a sharps container.

You eat in silence, it’s not exactly uncomfortable but it’s also not comfortable either.

“You made this?”

“Yes.”

“It’s delicious.”

“Thank you.”

“You like cooking right?”

“I do.”

“You need anything for something you wanna make tell the girls, they’ll get you whatever you need. They’ve been kind right?”

“Absolutely.” You’re a little surprised by this question, why wouldn’t the girls be nice to you?

“I know Carol can be a bit harsh sometimes.”

“She’s just honest, which is kind of nice.” You tell him and Steve looks surprised. “What?”

“You seem to read people well. Quickly too.”

“You kind of have to in this life don’t you?”

“I suppose. What have you figured out about me?” He asks, his voice is even and calm but you won’t be telling him anything. If you offend him he could get angry and you’ve seen what his fist can do to glass, you don’t need to see what it could do to you.

“I don’t know.” You say softly after a bite of lasagna. This seems to be the safest thing to say and he studies you.

“You’re afraid you’re going to anger me. You won’t.” It seems he’s good at reading people too, “I know you said actions, and my actions today probably show you that I have a temper, which I do, but the anger wasn’t directed toward you. Not unless you betray me and I don’t think that’s going to happen. Do you?”

“No.” In all honesty that depends on what his definition of betrayal is. The second he lets you go you’re fucking gone, which Brock absolutely would have seen as betrayal, as for Steve, you don’t know.

“Alright then we won’t have any problems.” He goes back to eating like it’s nothing but you have to force yourself to eat, he hasn’t given you reason to really trust him yet. The girls, you’re getting more comfortable with them but you’ve also got your guard up. You’ve been fooled before, you won’t let that happen again. When you’re done eating Steve picks up your plate and brings it to the sink to wash and put into the dishwasher.

This starts a pattern, he shows up everyday for dinner. He never does any work when he’s with you and it’s so easy to forget what he is. He’s charming and kind and brings you a record player with three boxes worth of vinyls.

It’s not until one night when you’re sleeping and he comes in, gently waking you, with a glass in his hand that you realize his attention to detail.

“What’re you doing?” You murmur confused, it’s the middle of the night and he’s in pajama pants and a zip up sweatshirt.

“You’re double arrow down and at 85, you need some sugar.” He tells you handing you the glass, “it’s apple juice.”

“Oh.” You take a sip and stare at him in the darkness. “How did you know?”

“Bruce hooked me up to your system, it alerts me if you’re too low or too high.” You won’t tell him but you’re impressed.

“What time is it?”

“2:30.” He came all the way over here at 2:30 in the morning to give you juice? “Drink up Bunny.” He coaxes so you take another sip. Sometimes drinking the juice too fast makes you feel sick but you don’t want to crash either.

Once you finish the juice Steve takes the glass back.

“Thank you.” You say softly when he’s at the door. He nods and closes the door softly behind him.

When you told him actions would prove to you that he wasn’t like Brock. This is exactly what you meant when you said that, you don’t know how far he lived from here but the fact that he’s got an alarm set up to make sure you stay healthy. You get up and make your way out into the main part of the house and are surprised to see Steve in the living room.

“Everything okay?”

“Yea, I’m just going to test with my test strips. Sometimes the sensor is a little slow.”

“Okay.” He says standing and following you into the kitchen. You test and see that you’re going down still, but it takes about fifteen minutes to see any change.

“Do you need more sugar?” He asks as you take everything apart.

“Not yet. It won’t show for at least fifteen minutes.”

“Wanna sit up with me?” He offers,

“Um. Okay.” So you join him in the living room, “could, could you get me something to sew?” When he looks up at you in surprise.

“Sorry Bunny. What was that?”

“I like to cross stitch, could you get me a project to do?”

“Do you want to look online?” He’s going to trust you to use the internet?

“You’d let me?”

“Yea.”

“Thank you.” You pause, you have another question for him but you don’t want to annoy him.

“What else Bunny?”

“Hmm?”

“I can see there’s another question in there. What is it?”

“How long will I have to stay here?”

“A bit longer.” You feel defeated, it might not be so bad if you had a time frame rather than just question marks. “I’m sorry. We’ve got to be careful about this. If they know I’m coming it’ll be a war rather than the execution I want.” He says it so casually, “I’ll try and have a better answer for you soon okay?”

“Okay.” You agree before standing.

“Where are you going?”

“I don’t have my sensor to check my sugar.”

“I can.” He picks up his phone from the arm of the chair and looks at your number. “Oh, good 90 and steady.” You stand and make your way back toward the bedroom.

“Good night.”

“Night Bunny. You need anything and I’ll be here. Don’t wanna leave you alone.”

“Oh, okay.” You tell him before closing the bedroom door and going back to bed.

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[panie-wanie-dean-bean]

“Hey you! Yes you! Do you want money? Do you want stability? Do you want to go to hell? Well boy do I have the job for you! Here at Rosey Posey Cafe it is our pleasure to serve a variety of guests magical drinks that you could only dream of!”

“Any human above the age of 18 may apply!”

“You don’t need any experience!”

“I’ll teach you how to read if I have to!”

“If any of this has interested you please call this number and we’ll schedule your interview for as quick as tomorrow! Hope to hear from you!”

You half expect this to be a scam. A weird, furry based scam due to the talking anthro cat from the commercial, but a scam nonetheless. Still, you do need a job, even if it’s fake there’s no harm in trying, right? Right. The start of the number is weird as, well, hell, but that’s to be expected from a hell run business you guess. You’ve yet to really visit hell since the rifts opened up last year but you’ve heard it’s actually pretty nice

You grab your phone from your bedside table and give the weird cat-lady a ring “HELLO!?” Ow, hi, you’re calling to ask about the job position “Oh, my ad worked?!? Yes! So, when can you come down for an interview?”

And the rest is history, well, recent history you guess, seeing as this is your first day. Turns out the cat-man-demon who runs this place was being super legit. Actually, what is his name? “Oh, I don’t think you could pronounce it, but in english I go by Evelyn or Ms. Rose! It’s so so nice to have you as a part of the team!” You’ve heard, repeatedly, ever since she hired you on the spot “Well it never hurts to say something twice!”

Your new boss is more than a bit odd, the whole human sized tabby cat thing aside she’s just, really friendly? To the point it almost seems like she’s fucking with you but…you don’t wanna be rude but there doesn’t seem to be a lot going on behind those eyes. You ask Ms. Rose if your training will start soon “Yes yes yes! Ok, question before we start. Do you know how to read?”

Yes “Perfect! I have a little booklet on how to make all the drinks we serve here. You don’t have to memorize it by any means though, I want this place to have a nice relaxed vibe so there’s no rush. I mean, don’t make a demon wait 10 years for their drink but aside from that you can take your time. Here’s the booklet! There’s rules at the top and two lists below it. One is alphabetical so you can search drinks by name, and the other is based on flavor profile so if someone wants to spice it up a little you can search by the flavors they like”

“If you have any questions you can let me know, but there are a few things I need to show you” He walks me through how to use the Fizzer, which is just a carbonator, the hot plate and sauce pan used for warming, and the blender, each explanation coming with a long warning about how it could interact with my “frail human body” After Ms. Rose finishes telling me about all the tiny pieces I could wind up as if I could somehow fit my entire body into the blender he takes a moment to think

“I’m pretty sure the rest is self explanatory but I’ll be here to chaperone you your whole first day, and never be afraid to ask me for help!” You thank him and ask when the store will open “Hm? It’s been open this whole time!” …Aren’t those open and closed signs supposed to say the opposite of what you are on the back?

“.”

“.”

“.”

“Fuck” Your boss walks dejectedly to the front door and flips the “we’re open!” side of the sign to face outside “Well, I guess we just opened!” She laughs as she springs back over to stand beside me. While we wait I take a second to really just admire this place, it’s a small cafe but it’s incredibly cozy. There’s a lot of dark wood work and fluffy pillows, even a few blankets in a basket with a “please return after use” sign above an empty one beside it, and the whole place just smells…warm?

You’re knocked out of your thoughts by the front door bell chiming “Hello! How can we-oh, it’s you” Ms. Rose’s voice drops all cheer as she greets…Oh my god, it’s Jean Laurent, why the fuck is your first customer a movie star!?! Jean fucking Laurent saunters up to the counter “Hey Evelyn~” “Laurent” Jean laughs “So cold” his gaze shifts over to you, looking you up and down

“Who’s this?” You feel like a deer in headlights, you were ready to serve weird demons not Whole Ass Human Celebrity Jean Laurent “They’re my new employee, and I’ll thank you not to fuck with them” The venom in your bosses voice snaps you out of your little trance, looking over to him you see that his eyes have strained into small slits and his ears are angled back against his head

Ok! Um, you ask what Mr. Laurent would like, he chuckles “Oh please, there’s no need to be so formal. I’ll have my usual, cutie” You can feel your face betray you as all the blood in your body seems to drain into your cheeks. Ok, focus! He wants his usual? Oh, here we go, Jean’s order. Ew. It doesn’t look good but if that’s what he wants then you guess so

You glance back up at your boss. She really doesn’t seem to like him. Huh, you know you probably shouldn’t but you have a feeling she’d get a kick out of seeing him gag a little bit. You fain a bit of cluelessness as you look through the drinks you could make. A Sucker punch looks like it could get a reaction out of him, it’d probably piss him off though. What should you make him?

[sobredunia]

hi bbg i have a question for you, how different is european spanish from latin american spanish? also do you know of any spanish speaking youtubers/streamers u would reccomend to me :)

There are a lot of differences, also considering how latin american Spanish is so different within its countries

Fun fact, there is a commonly used abbreviation of latin america, latam

In Argentina they use the word "vos" to refer to "tú" ("you"). This is generally pretty unused in other latam countries and especially in Spain, it's a pretty old way to refer to someone in a higher position you're not friends with with respect. Also generally in latam they tend to use more formal words, like "usted" or "ustedes" ("you" in singular and "you" in plural. They're formal words just trust me bro)

There are also differences in how we name things. A particular phenomenon I've noticed is how they tend to use words that are more English sounding, which is understandable considering how closely connected these countries -especially mexico- are to the US

Imma put English words, then the word in latam, then the word in Spain

Refrigerator: refrigerador, nevera

Computer: computadora, ordenador

Cellphone: celular, teléfono/móvil

For Spanish speaking YouTubers I recommend, there are a few which are very funny and very poggers

Rangugamer: he plays videogames on YouTube. His videos are most of the time an hour long so unless the adhd stars align on you it's better that you watch compilations of funny moments. He makes a lot of adult/dark jokes but they're incredibly funny, he is really good giving varied voices to the characters in the games he's playing, he's actually gained a little bit of fame for being able to predict shit in the stuff he's in the middle of playing, and he's managed to make a lot of popular memes that get referenced by other spanish youtubers

Eme: this man hasn't uploaded an animation in two years but his videos from like six years ago are still extremely funny. He makes a lot of puns and jokes you can only get if you can understand and decompose the language but if you don't get them it just looks like silly stuff that comes out of nowhere which is entertaining nonetheless. There are also a bunch of other visual gags and random bs that are funny even if you don't understand jack shit, like a dictionary he has that moans when it gets opened. Pretty nice ngl

Invokah: he mostly makes Deltarune theories but he's also talked about other stuff like Inazuma 11, rain code, and yo-kai watch. His videos actually get subtitled to a shit ton of languages, so you can watch it with English subtitles and learn a word or two that way. He's pretty entertaining and his character is nicely designed and drawn

Leyendas y videojuegos: he makes theory videos and dissects lore and talks about game development and whatnot and he's talked about a shitton of games, including FEZ which is why I love him forever and ever and he is so cool. He's actually making a videogame of his own and putting the development logs as videos in his channel. Also he's friends with Rangu, the guy I talked about earlier, and they're fucking hilarious together he thought squids were made of legit rubber

Joseju: this guy is an absolute god of comedy. He talks about videogames but in every video he always brings something new to the table. He reviewed a racing game where all the characters are in zooming toilets in fucking prose like it was a poem. He roleplayed as Walter White on skate 3. He made an hour long video where he dubbed over metal gear solid with a few other people like it was a shitty movie. He was actually the reason why I got into GRIS not because the video was really funny, but because he chose not to make the video funny because the game was just too delicate and sensible and beautiful to do that to it. He's made legendary skits dubbing over the flex tape commercial and over fish documentaries. He became a waiter at this random burger joint just because. He played fucking amongus VR and ran over his dryer. He made a review of tears of the kingdom where the thumbnail was a picture of him with the text "I don't believe in human rights" with flames in the background. You gotta watch at least one video of this guy please I beg you

As for latam YouTubers the ones I can undoubtedly recommend are

Sr.Pelo: you know why he's here

Holasoygerman: this guy hasn't uploaded a video to his channel in like 6 years but people still regularly rewatch all of his videos because he's just that funny and nostalgic (it's me I'm people). He makes short videos that are around 10 minutes long where he talks about random things in a funny way, like the first time something happened in the history of humanity, food, typical things, the friendzone, and the English language. I'm pretty sure most of his videos have English subtitles so u could try watching them n learn cool stuff. His stuff is so ancient it was actually a rather running gag across multiple videos how he's so excited for GTA V to come out and he can't wait. GTA V. The old ass game where it is a universal gag that instead of making GTA VI they just remake it over and over for years and years. Yeah he's pretty cool u should watch him

[bloodymiso]

Hi hi~! I was wondering if I can have a male stardew valley matchup please?

I’m a 25 year old female. I’m 5’4 with dyed burgundy hair and big green eyes. I also wear glasses and have a few piercings (nose and lots of ear piercings). I’m also a little on the chubby side.

Personality: I’m very shy and awkward around at first, but once I’m comfortable with someone I’ll warm up to them fast. I’m also more talkative, bubbly, giggly, sarcastic and a tad bit moody. I can also be mischievous and cause some chaos when I’m bored. I also suffer from anxiety and depression, so I need Simeon who can be patient and understanding. I hate confrontation, so I’ll avoid it as much as possible. I’m not a physical person as touching makes me anxious at times. But I’m very touchy and affectionate with loved ones. More of a reserved and calm person and rather watch my surroundings than participate in socializing. I’m also very sensitive and kind of a hot-head. I can be social if I want, but I’d rather keep to myself and stay home. Sometimes I don’t act my age because of how playful and youthful I come across.

Likes/dislikes and hobbies: if I see anything cute and fluffy I will absolutely melt! I also love kids and would like some in the future. I have two cats of my own, so an animal lover is a must! I enjoy playing instruments, gaming, watching trashy shows, traveling, doing my makeup, banter/teasing and naps! I can literally sleep all day long with no interruptions. Also enjoy spooky things and going on ghost hunts. Absolutely hate spiders, loud abrupt noises and crowds.

Thank you so much and I hope you have a good day/night~!

i ship you with..

sam!!

okay hear me out hear me out. when i started reading i honestly thought “oh def seb or harvey” but then i remember sam exists.

hes really immature for his age but willing to listen to anyone’s problems. he cant just turn on and off adult-mode but he can in the right situation. whenever you need comfort or a hug, he’s there.

i feel like you would have met sam through an injury. you were walking down willow lane when he was skateboarding and hit you like the dumbass he is. rather than going to harvey’s he brought you into the house with the help of jodi. as he *cough*jodi*cough* patched you up.

“sorry for the scratch..”

he actually felt so bad though like legit puppy eyes. he always saw you walking down willow lane to get to the beach or to yk any other part of the town but he never dared to even make eye contact with you. ever since that day he’d say hi. at some point that “hi” transformed into various conversations.

once you two got closer, BOOM jamming(not that jamming as in music jamming what are you thinkiny) sessions. like literally every day. expect seb to join you on saturdays. he invited you to the saloon and introduced you to the group. you and abigail would def do your makeup together, i can see you two vibing. you and abigail would go ghost hunting in the forest, sam would sometimes join but get ready for endless screaming. i can imaginr you and seb being complete gaming rivals

he always dreamed of starting a band with sebastian but now, he dreams of starting it with both of you. sam knows he cant hide his feelings forever, eventually he confesses in the middle of a commercial break as you were watching a movie.

after that you got together but completely forgot to tell the group. one night at the saloon, before you left you gave sam a quick peck on the kiss and left. the others stared for a quick two seconds before screaming at the top of their voice “WHAT.”

he thinks your piercings are soo pretty(i would too) he’d always giggle when he’d kiss your nose and feel the soft tingle of your metallic piercings on his lips. ever since you started dating you two have been complete menaces to the group. literally the best dumb jokes duo ever. jodi loves you, vincent thinks youre “stealing” sam from him.

sam would absolutely love youre cats, the problem is..they dont feel the same(protective much.) he’d try his best to get him to like him, but i guess it takes time:)

thanks for the request! i had a lot of fun with this . reblog if you can:3!!

[anotherghoul666]

FUCK ME DUDE I sent the ask off without the damn answer in XD I'm so sorry hahahaha @devoured-by-shadows here's the actual post holy fuck.

(Answers 19 and 25 are below the others under a read more cause there’s talks of sensitive topics in there, 19 light mention of the topic of death, and 25 especially be wary of if you’re sensitive to topics like addiction, overdose and someone withering away over years.)

12:A song from your preteen years Ooh, interesting, what was big in my musical life between 9 and 12. Let's see. I got into metal at age 7 thanks to my dad showing me Iron Maiden, so needles to say Maiden was My Band in those years. While yes, there were other bands that managed to pique my interest then - things like Linkin Park, System of a Down, Nickleback (people need to chill with the Nickleback hate, yes they're commercial as fuck but dear god Silver Side Up and The Long Road fucked back in the day ok, and I will respect and appreciate those albums for what they were) and my first forray into power metal through Gamma Ray and Helloween and Blind Guardian - let's be real, Maiden was basically my whole life. When I discovered Maiden through their older albums, they were currently fronted by Blaze Bailey. Bless the guy, he tried his best and there are legit good songs on his two albums with Maiden, but you just can't fill Bruce Dickinson's shoes man, nobody can. All we were waiting for was Dickinson's return. So when he did come back in 2000 for the Brave New World album, that felt like the biggest event of my short life, and that album became my hyperfixation and favorite thing on the planet.

Iron Maiden - The Wicker Man I could link the entire album here as my “song of my pre-teen years” but this is the first track off of the album, it’s the start of the obsession, it was one of my favs to drum to back in the day. Lots of good memories with this classic!

15:A song that is a cover by another artist You know what's excellent music? 80s synth-pop / new wave like Tears for Fears.

Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World

You know what's even better? When a silly-yet-actually-super-talented youtuber band does it over 30 years later and nails the atmosphere.

Ninja Sex Party - Everybody Wants to Rule the World Listen, the world can say that it wants about the whole Game Grumps / Ninja Sex Party / Danny Sexbang persona, I kinda don't care. Objective truth is, Dan Avidan has fucking pipes, his voice is a fucking treasure, and serious albums like that one cover album from 2016 really show off these guys' potential. I get what their shtick is and I respect the hustle. But dude, when they cover 80s tracks like this one or A-ha's Take on Me? This is where they shine in my opinion. There's something so comforting, so soft and smooth in this version, this song feels like a hug for my brain. I remember multiple occasions in 2016 when this song alone carried me through panic attacks.

18:A song from the year that you were born So I was born in ‘91. Solid year in music, and in metal specifically. Metallica’s Black Album came out in ‘91. Ozzy Osbourne’s No More Tears, Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger, classics everyone knows. Over in Europe in the Nordic countries, the late 80s to early 90s with ‘91 smack dab in the middle was the creation and solidifying of black metal. And while of course I did not listen to black metal as a baby (tho I wish XD) the genre became my favorite genre of metal nowadays. ‘91 was the year when Darkthrone released their first record. When Samael released their first record. And when Bathory, already legends back then, released Twilight of the Gods.

Bathory - Prologue / Twilight of the Gods / Epilogue Piece of fucking history this track is.

20:A song that has many meanings to you Ha XD Come try to crack the code of Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway storyline hahaha. 23 songs of the most beautiful madness in the world. Listen, I have listened to this album countless times, pondered meanings, I read the story, my dad saw the original show, we saw the officially sanctioned replica of the show together multiple times, with the costumes, the original videos, everything. I understand The Lamb, and at the same time I understand absolutely nothing about The Lamb.

Genesis - In The Cage Make your own meaning. The more you look at The Lamb, the more confused the creature will make you, and that’s the way I like it! Peter Gabriel era Genesis is the best music that humanity’s ever created. You can spend your whole life trying to get it and you won’t and you’ll still be on awe.

19:A song that makes you think about life I tend to think about life through the lens of death most often. Idk how morbid of a person that means I am, or how much of a realist it makes me maybe? I don’t like to spend too much pondering life cause I know it can easily take me somewhere dark in the mind. But I do instinctually think about the value of life and artistic output, and the limited and fragile nature of life itself, when I listen to songs by people I’ve never known or met or seen while they were alive, and yet here they are, alive and well somehow in my hands and ears. How trippy.

Windir - Journey to the End Raising a (non-alcoholic) glass to Valfar for his soul to share in whichever hall of the afterlife he’s at. The soul of the Sogndal scene, unbeatable creative who I firmly believe could have influenced black metal and changed the course of the scene if he hadn’t died walking home in a snowstorm in 2004. Life’s funny like that. Sometimes all it takes is a walk home that you never arrive from. That type of shit makes me ponder life and its weirdly thin meaning. You take a look at the lyrics, it’s almost like Valfar knew what was coming. Nevertheless, Valfar and Windir left us some of the absolute best black metal offerings in the history of the genre. You cannot tell me this guy wasn’t ahead of his time with that synthy / electro / dreamy second half.

25:A song by an artist no longer living Aaah I unknowingly preemptively answered this one with the Windir answer before uh XD Alright, well, let’s talk about another artist that’s passed away then. An artist I actually got to see playing live multiple times before his passing. An artist that we, in the melodeath community, thought was so fucking cool. His self-destruction, which was very vividly broadcasted to the public mind you, was glorified, it was so epic and wild and awesome. The Wildchild, Alexi Laiho of Children of Bodom fame. We aspired to be half as cool as him. Because for some strange reason when you’re a teenager, a person showing off how much he can drink and do drugs is cool. A metal musician you admire showing himself blackout drunk and passed out and making himself sick day and day out, was cool.

That’s nuts to me now, as an adult, as someone who has mildly dealt with addiction and even that fucked me up, as someone who works with addicts and sees the damages of this disease day in and day out. We all watched Alexi killing himself slowly in front of us, at shows, on camera, on the tour buses, etc. and thought it was cool. We encouraged him, egged him on. Fucking madness. It claimed him, in the end. In 2020. I saw it coming for a few years so I was zero percent surprised. I know it caught some fans off guard, I don’t understand how.

I saw CoB in 2019, less than a year before the guy passed. I also saw CoB multiple times from 2011 to then, so I saw the decline of the frontman, and I feel you had to willingly be blind to it to not see it. In 2019 the guy was a living skeleton. No energy, barely able to play on stage, haggard unfocused eyes, caved in face, skin over bones. I read reviews of this 2019 show, people wrote about how he looked good and had energy and was “at his best”, like?! Was it denial about their favorite musician’s health status? Or pandering to the music industry, unable to review a show honestly? That performance was beyond difficult to watch. It hurt. Still hurts when I think back on it. I was physically uncomfortable. We left before the end. I couldn’t stand watching a literal wraith shredding guitar on stage knowing full well this night too would end with him passed out drunk at the bar after.

It was a whole story, Alexi’s antics. It caused tension and conflict within the band, and of course, how can it not be harmful to watch your frontman and friend do this to themselves. But metal was and unfortunately still is a culture of excess and substances, and nobody did it “better” than the Wildchild. We all thought it looked rad, but in the end we watched this guy die for two decades. When the news of his passing came out in 2020 (from an overdose of lots of different substances on top of liver disease and basically an organ breakdown) I cried a ton. For the reality behind this precious piece of my childhood and teenage years that was CoB; but mostly for how unhealthy the live music scene can be and how it can encourage artists down very dark paths. I don’t understand anymore how watching people get fucked up on substances is supposed to be cool. So I do my part when I can, to honor Alexi Laiho and other musicians like him whom addiction claimed, and to remind whoever reads me that alcoholism and drug abuse isn’t “cool”. Taking shit doesn’t make anyone more manly or more metal or impressive. Addiction shouldn’t be trendy. It cost us too many great musicians already.

Children of Bodom - Thrashed, Lost & Strungout Man I miss this motherfucker.

[genav0s]

I know you've ranked the letalis members already, but could you rank avos in each talent category?

* ‎ ◜ OO. ㅤ ﹕ ㅤAVOS' SKILL RANKINGS⠀!⠀⠀[ . . . ]⠀⠀

vocal. ⸻ ian, sanghyuk, carter, romeo, hwaseong.

aside from sanghyuk and carter's positioning, no one really disagrees with this ranking.

ian is by far the group's most technically gifted vocalist and was almost guaranteed the main vocalist position from the beginning. he has a unique ability to bend the emotions of his listeners, both in their upbeat and ballad songs.

ian was nicknamed "soul train" as kind of a back-handed compliment by hwaseong on the survival show and the fans thought it was hilarious so it stuck.

romeo being ahead of hwaseong despite not holding a vocalist position was simply because romeo didn't want the sub vocalist position, so it went to hwaseong instead. romeo rarely ever sings on avos' tracks and regrets it whenever he gives in.

sanghyuk and carter's positioning is controversial because carter is technically more sound that sanghyuk but fans have noticed that carter will go through periods where his vocals regress.

sanghyuk has never been unstable a day in his career meanwhile carter often puts in the bare minimum which reflects in his vocal stagnation.

rap. ⸻ romeo, hwaseong, ian, carter, sanghyuk.

romeo's very invested in constantly improving upon his rapping. since debut he's been known to voice his distaste for the 'idol rapper' stereotype. he takes an active role in his improvement and it shows as he's landed recognition from legit rappers both in korea and outside of it.

hwaseong and ian fully live up to the 'idol rapper' image. while hwaseong does take notes from romeo and has a more charismatic delivery versus romeo's playful, experimental cadence, ian only raps when he's needed. he jokes that it's more of a talk-sing than anything but he does alright compared to most.

carter and sanghyuk don't rap and they're perfectly fine with that. sanghyuk doesn't have the right delivery and carter is just not interested. romeo has said that if carter wanted to work on it, he could be a great rapper.

dance. ⸻ carter, sanghyuk, hwaseong, ian, romeo.

avos is known for their uniquely, humbling choreography. part of their appeal is the fact that there is no group that comes close to emulating the things that avos does with their eyes closed. their dance practices are run like the military and all five of them are tapped in.

there is a notable difference in the different styles of each member.

carter in particular is praise for his musicality and groove. he manages to make any style of choreography, whether commercial, house, or krump, carter's technique and sense of self comes through in every piece, every single time. he never misses a beat and manages to make everything look easy. he's well known for his infamous 'no-sweat' performances where he's not only giving it his all, but crisp and stable without much effort.

there really is no point in choosing between carter or sanghyuk for first place. where carter is musically gifted, sanghyuk is flawless. considering his background as a professional dancer prior to debut, sanghyuk is detail-oriented with a natural balance of fluidity and power. he's the balance to carter's groove that gives the group's choreography its edge and difficulty while maintaining sharpness and technical power.

hwaseong is closer to sanghyuk's precision in his style. while he isn't as technically gifted as the group's main dancers, he holds his own on stage. it's obvious that he doesn't have the background that carter and sanghyuk do but he picks up details well and is a quick learner.

while ian has a fluidity that carries him from one movement to the next with a casual ease, he tends to favor conservation of his energy that leaves him on the lower end of the ranking.

romeo always needs more time in the studio to refine his movements. while he can keep up with the others once its time to perform, he struggles to pick up choreography quickly and often needs to sit with what he's learned for a few days to allow himself to feel the music and add his own style.

performance. ⸻ carter, romeo, ian, hwaseong, sanghyuk.

it's not fair to place carter next to anyone really. no one comes close to embodying the performer he is, and he knows it. he's always stable, on time, and amazing. he bodies every concept, every song, and every mood and hypnotizes you all at the same time.

romeo and ian are on the same level for different reasons. romeo really finds his strength in the fact that he commands your attention anytime he steps into the center. he's intense in every concept and genre and when he's comfortable with his choreography he lets go to fully focus on putting on a show. ian is fun to watch. even if he might not be the most gifted dancer in the group, his vocals and facials seriously make up for it. he truly lives in the moment and his sirenic voice pulls all attention his way.

hwaseong and sanghyuk would instantly be center in any other group. but because avos is the group it is, they find themselves being overlooked often. especially when considering they often receive the least amount of center time and lines in general. hwaseong has an intoxicating presence but often struggles to find the balance between over-dancing and being just enough.

sanghyuk is a chronic no-expression performer. he often drops his face when focusing on his vocals before picking it back up moments later.

[shinekittenace]

liveblogging WTNV episode 9

WEIRD AT LAST!!!!! FUCK YEAH

ah yes stranger danger oh wait everyone danger

hashtag surveillence state

wtf is meditation equipment

ah yes taser the pyramid that'll do something

wtf is a nighttime only cereal

bro do you not realize that carlos ASKED the barber to cut his hair

bro you are so fucking vindictive dsjkfhjdklfhjkdfhjkdfhkljdasfhjkdsfahjkl

FUCK YEAH KITY

oh no a new intern i bet he'll die

ah yes organ harvesting of course

OH FUCK THE PYRAMID HAS SPOKEN

is the pyramid a scientist

VIRAL MARKETING DSSJHFKJDSLHFKJDSHFJKDFHDFAJKDAFJK

bleeding doors are so easy to deal with can confirm

oh man lawn care that's way too dangerous

ok what is the skin going to grow into where's the fucked up part

OH SHIT THERE IT IS WHAT THE FUCK

ah yes 15 inch horns can be difficult to spot

where are you supposed to get a sterile razor blade

"the nigh unbearable pain of existence"

OH FUCK I LEARNED ABOUT SEMAPHORES THE OTHER DAY

wait these aren't programming variables there must be another thing called semaphores that isn't a variable

ok if you pull up a weed does air deflate out of the earth then

ah yes amazon perfect fucked up sponsor

WAIT NO DON'T THINK ABOUT THE DOG PARK THAT''S NOT ALOWWED

I KNEW IT CECIL YOU'RE GOING TO GET UNPERSONED

yep amazon blood rituals sounds legit

(some of them at gunpoint)

i like the pyramid it's cool

how tf do they expect to arrest a pyramid

is this accordion music

this guy's voice sounds like Rose Tattoo by Dropkick Murphy

the world is dying bc they keep deflating it by replacing the traffic signs with cops

we wish the world wasnt dying but unfortunately we have jeff bezos and his blood rituals

what is wiith the pregnancy metaphors

i bet in the center of the earth there is an alien parasite like in chrono trigger that's probably it

dissaPYRAMID amiright

oh no processing by the city council that ssounds bad

DSHFJKSADLKFHDSFJKHDFSKJLHDASFJK "IT'S ABOUT TIME THEY WON SOMETHING"

awww babey pyramid

was this cereal commercial really worth it /j

[castle-dominion]

c6x10 audio commentary liveblog

les mis

lol typecasting drinking

XD gave me a heart attack

THEY GOT QUADRUPLETS

"she might have had more screen time than nathan"

with all the shootouts & fire THIS took the most planning?

"when nathan handed the baby to seamus it would start crying as if it read the script"

Julian my beloved "julian come on now don't look at them"

"skill set" crying, smiling, sleeping, stop crying when you pick it up...

Terlesky chose to film this on the lift, good for him

This group of people

NF: Seamus, I notice this every episode: your eyes POP

"howling at a moon" & I never wanted to correct him

"I made the database"

& the cobra's CRYING!

Ah two boys two girls

For a guy who's not a dad irl he's really a good dad on screen

they LEGIT HAD THE BABY CRY WHEN THEY HANDED THEM TO DEVER

NF: Ooh quads! Babies: we are not off-road vehicles

SD: Jon Huertas needs 20 minutes then he takes a nap NF: then he needs to get changed

baby POV XD

Good toss & coat dodge

TAMALA JONES

JT: it would be hilarious to say this technical jargon in a baby voice

Usually he can CATCH the perps when he's chasing them

They run by & seamus is in there oblivious

Despondent, good word

the high five was the baby's idea apparently

Apparently a lot of the stuff with fillion in the obs room is ad libbed.

He couldn't put in a good word BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT YOU ROPED BACK INTO THE LIFE EITHER

I love it when they get caught watching

Kristen Ariza, friend of Dever, did a play together which katic saw

straight laced gates cooing over the baby

A different side of everybody <3 thank you terri miller

Richmond & Andrea, the tech ones. Thank you for your service.

Three men & mustang

Boxes within boxes

In a situation where I don't have to go home hungry

Mum: I love Dever's laugh

Ah yes the relationship <3 I love these two. all the writers went "aww"

XD the us post service stole the prop mailbox XD XD XD

I NOTICED IT TOO, THEY WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT NOTHING IN THE BACKGROUND

JT: we'll put a pingpong table there one day I'd love to have a pingpong table there just for a time

still day one! SD: I don't change clothes nearly as much!

"that's the crying one"

there WAS a doll, $1 500 fake baby that you keep dropping, Nathan

Wanna have a baby?

Two grumpy babies, two happy babies, one was grumpier than them all

"bpice of ice cream's going up, by the time you're old enough to eat it you won't be able to afford it"

Ooh that ball is in the writer room huh

JT & his fun bits, glad this guy is here JT: & I'm glad all those years of WB cartoon watching paid off

AC: How long have I been gone? Love SS & MQ

This is the face of your future

I love watching this with my mom

WHEN THEY HIT PING PONG BALLS TOO HARD THEY LIGHT ON FIRE?

OH. RELIEVING YOURSELF. I SEE.

acme wine preservation kit

diaper connoisseur

oh no i hate the lottery riff

baby needs an education & this was edver & huertas

Lol the lottery ball machines didn't even work

Yeah how do they come in that order?

triple six fix

The guests are always so great

Come in, cry your eyes out, thanks you were great

Commercial!

Five down a hallway, sounding like a herd of elephants.

Yeah the background is so hard, where were you from this exact moment? nf: seamus write a song sd: ~background artists~ nf: not now

"We took the baby up in the helicopter that night" "but only for 20 minutes"

I started by touching... I touched everyone in this scene

lmao the newsie store "we turned him into a little white boy!"

scripted parenthetical

Jim, that's the one who got slammed by dever a billion times

[bloggershojib]

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[sofarawayinthemilkyway]

“THAT PURSUIT IS PHOTOGRAPHY”

Gong Yoo for ZenFone4 #1

[charnelhouse]

all our heroes are dead

Pairing: Steve Rogers x F!Reader x Soldier Boy Wordcount: 3.3+K Warnings: smut. gore. threesome. rough sex. anal. drugs. mentions of hair. ptsd. dp. a very soft/scared soldier boy. mcu canon divergence bc whatever. Summary: Just a couple of soldiers. A/N: reader’s super hero name is Black Magnolia (i know im a hack!), but i legit wrote this under the wire and my brain couldn't form other thoughts. read the first part if you want. the title was totally inspired by the stunning New Yorker article - the real heroes are dead

When Steve goes rogue, Ben follows.

She’s surprised, or maybe not too surprised. After all, Ben had always admired Steve. Steven Grant Rogers was good. He was a real American hero.

Ben was Soldier Boy. He was the movie star. He was commercialized beef with an addiction problem.

No matter how many films he shot. No matter how many times Louis B. Mayer called him the symbol of the God damn stars and stripes, Ben never believed him.

“The man you’re talking about, Mayer? That man went into the sea somewhere up north.”

***

“Shit,” she hisses as she digs her fingers into Steve’s thick shoulders. He’s perched on the edge of this shitty motel bed. It scratches his bare ass. She’s going to leave bruises on him, a fact he likes. There’s no one who can mark him like she can. She can do her damage and he feels it the next day. He buries his face into her pretty throat before gently rolling his hips upward. “Oh fuck,” she sighs as Ben’s hand slides across her stomach. 

Steve can feel Ben between his knees. He can feel him slowly nudging into her ass. 

“That’s my girl,” the brunette coaxes. His other hand clamps down on her hip as he keeps inching his cock forward. Steve can tell exactly when he breaches her, she goes totally stiff and Ben has to chill her out with soft mouth sounds.

“Distract her, Cap,” The order is locked in his throat, husky and strained. “I’m barely in there.”

“You’re too big,” she whines.

“Shit, honey,” Steve can hear the grin in Ben's voice. “That’s the nicest damn thing you’ve said to me.”

She inhales sharply when he tries to move further. “Steve,” Ben snaps. “Help her out.”

Steve jumps. He’s drunk on her pussy - balls fucking deep. She keeps getting tighter and he’s out of his mind.

“Shh, baby,” Steve coaxes as he nips her jaw apologetically. "It's just so good." He tugs her down, rubs their cheeks together. He strokes her skin, squeezes her arms. “Hold onto me. Let me know how it feels.”

“Full,” she mumbles.

“Christ,” Ben rasps.

There’s the drip of cold lube and the warm slick of Mag’s own pussy, creating a contradiction of sensation around Steve’s cock.

To his surprise, Ben is careful with her. He’s cautious. Soldier Boy peppers kisses along her shoulder and scents her hair. There’s a moment Steve feels possessive before he tries to shove it down.

Steve never told her that he watched all their old films. While working for SHIELD, he spent hours flicking through archived footage of Black Magnolia and Soldier Boy. He even ran through the YouTube fan videos of the two. 

Soldier Boy and Black Magnolia Were Destined!

Did Magnolia cheat on Steve Rogers with Soldier Boy?

Conspiracy! Evidence that Proves Black Magnolia and Soldier Boy killed Captain America!

Yeah. Never again.

When Ben finally sinks to the hilt, it’s a bit jarring. The three of them glued together as a single, undulating entity of limbs, breasts, and hair. Their bodies upgraded to withstand gunshots and bombs and dole out Hell. There’s Ben’s cock thick inside her, hot against the thin wall of tissue separating them. 

Steve grips her chin and drags her down for a dirtier kiss than he intended. Nah - he did intend it. His beard rasps over her skin, and his tongue plunges straight between her lips. She’s riding him, thrusting back against Ben. Steve’s hand is between her legs as he trails his mouth from her throat to her tits. He sucks on the peaks of her nipples; he snaps up a little harder. 

“C’mon, honey; you can take us.” He grunts, teeth clenched as he catches Ben’s eye over their girl’s shoulder. The muscle in Ben’s jaw flexes as he nods. Find a rhythm. They do. They’re fast learners. Steve plants his feet and jerks up while Ben slams forward. They impale her at once, and she chokes, nearly collapsing into Steve. 

They ease back and draw out before sheathing themselves again. They repeat this. The bedframe squeals as their pace quickens. Short, blunt strokes. A hand collars the nape of her neck. Steve rubs the bud of her clit with the pad of his thumb. She makes these delicious mewls that she can’t seem to control. Her lashes flutter, her lids droopy with pleasure, and her cunt contracts around his cock. It’s twitching, spasming as he throbs inside her, and he doesn’t think he can get any harder than he already is. 

“Stay with us,” Ben growls as he cracks his hand across her ass. She startles, bucking against him, her back arching into something lovely. It seems that Ben’s caution has fled. The two of them are stretching her to her limit. Steve’s sweat is collecting at the base of his spine, ruining the sheets. He wonders if they can be heard through the paper-thin walls.

Of course. Of course.

There are the wet noises of them entering her. The audible slap of skin. There are her muffled cries against Steve’s mouth or his scalp as she fists his hair. She bites his ear at one point. Low, feral sounds spout from the middle of his chest. Ben is no better.

“Fuck yeah, baby doll,” he rumbles. “I dreamt of this.” 

He takes her in another round of long, hard pumps. With every spear of his cock, his dirty words are enunciated. “Wanted. Back. In. This. Perfect. Fucking. Ass.” There's a snarl under his tongue, barely contained hunger.

Steve keeps her anchored, holding her up to accept what Ben is giving her. They have a safe word. He's not worried, but he observes every tell that blossoms across her beautiful face.

This is about her pleasure. At least it is for him. She might want this to be about Ben. Ben might want it to be about her.

This could just be a crisscross of give and take and they've become a single organism functioning with veins and a pumping heart.

Keep it alive.

Steve lifts his head, holds her fucked-out gaze for what feels like forever.

Her thighs are trembling. Steve pets at her cunt that is wrapped around him. His stamina is unnatural, but he’s nearing his end. This whole dance has gotten him hanging perilously off the edge. He’s not sure what it is. Maybe, it’s seeing another man fuck his girl. Maybe, it’s because she’s still staring at him like he hangs the damn moon. She responds beautifully, and leans into his palm when he cradles her cheeks. “Kiss me, sweetheart,” he begs under his breath because he wants to be sure.

She lowers her face and gifts him her lips. “I love you,” she presses into the valley of his mouth. “Steve.”

***

“You don’t have to come,” she tells Ben as they leave an airport burning in Berlin. “This isn’t your fight.”

Ben sucks down another drag of his thinly-rolled blunt. His eyes soften. “Are you going?”

“Yes.”

“You believe in Rogers?”

“Yes.”

“Then that’s good enough for me, Mags.”

He doesn’t point out that he has nowhere else to go. Vought has proven an untrustworthy ally. All of his friends are either old or dead. He orbits around her like an errant moon or circlet of stars. He plays second fiddle to Steve Fucking Rogers. They’re going underground to take out bad guys on their own terms. No government. No rules. 

There is a piece of Ben that wants to adapt like she has. He wants to do some good.

***

They find a decent hideout in another distant country. The land here is coated in a frost of snow. It’s been a rough few months taking out terrorist cells and Hydra operatives and buried enemies. Barnes sniffs them out - recalling nearly every one of the Winter Soldier’s haunts that dot Eastern Europe. 

He has more in common with Barnes than either of them want to admit. A lot of Russia. A lot of frigid tanks and brain scrambling and torture. They regard each other with silent respect, but it doesn’t go beyond that. Bucky never liked him back in the forties, and he certainly doesn’t like Ben chasing after Mags since she’s Steve’s. Bucky is a loyal friend through and through and Ben can admire that.

Perhaps, they just don’t like facing each other because it’s a startling mirror image. They lash out. They have red-black nightmares that force them awake. It’s like having to stare at a constant reminder of yourself. There’s Bucky etched in his grief and his guilt. There’s Ben, who can’t control going nuclear whenever he hears a particular Russian song. 

He’s certain that Bucky, Nat, Sam, and Wanda know what’s going on between Cap, Mags, and himself. It’s not like they hide it. They try to muffle their grunts and whines, but it’s not foolproof. Sometimes the fucking gets so out of control that they forget people are even in the house.

It’s also not like Ben even cares.

The whole thing flows together incredibly easily. There should be a catch. There should be a hitch and there isn’t. At least, Rogers hasn’t punched him out yet.

Maybe it’s because they’re on the run. Their lives are completely chaotic and the sex de stress them. Maybe, it’s because Steve isn’t making her choose.

***

Ben wakes from a nightmare. It’s painful. It hangs onto him, burrowing its claws into the meat of his back. He drops his face into his hands and presses down until tiny black stars burst. He looks for her in her room but she's not there. It’s three in the morning, and, for a moment, his stomach flips over. That’s odd. He darts down the hallway,  the wooden floors creaking beneath his bare feet. With his enhanced hearing, he catches the heartbeats between the walls. The soft, relaxed breathing of the faceless others. These are ghosts in his head, and he doesn’t know how to remove them.

He slips into Steve’s room, where he can hear the pelting rain of the shower. The door is cracked open, and the light filters out, revealing the empty bed and rumpled sheets. There’s steam building, but he can see through the glass. 

She’s backed against the tile, her hand between her legs, fingers pushing inside her as she flashes Steve a mischievous grin. Steve’s is against her side, his chest at her shoulder with his arm braced over her head. He grasps his cock that juts against her thigh. They’re speaking in low voices, obviously teasing each other. Steve flicks one of her nipples, and she squeals, batting his arm away.

It’s an intimate scene and one that has probably happened many times. Selfishly, Ben tries to think of what they shared the years they were together. He’s had those moments with her though they were often blurred out by a haze of drugs or alcohol. Their fights were legendary because they’d always break some piece of furniture or an entire house when they made up.

He imagines how Steve and Mags lived before he came back and before they went on the run due to Stark and all the Accords nonsense. Did they cook together? Did they go on missions and fuck in storage closets? Did they think of having kids?

So caught up in his own pity, he doesn’t realize she’s looking at him until he lifts his gaze back to the shower. He freezes, unsure what to do. Now, he seems like a damn pervert. She curls her finger, beckoning him forward. Immediately he goes, shrugging his t-shirt off, working down his sweats. Steve doesn’t seem that pissed, his brow is simply raised in surprise.

“Nightmare?” she asks as he steps into the steam and is enveloped by the bright smell of Eucalyptus shampoo she favors. 

“Yeah,” he replies tightly. Of course, she could read him. She senses his terror. She knew without him telling her.

Without a word, she drops to her knees. Her right hand on Ben’s thigh and her left on Steve’s. She tips her head back as the water sheets down her body, between her breast until it swirls in the foam beneath her. “Let me take care of you,” she smiles before glancing at Steve. “Both of you.”

Ben clears his throat. Steve reaches down to smooth his thumb over her cheek. “Good girl,” the blonde murmurs, and her lips quirk. She leans into Ben first and takes him into her mouth smoothly. She swallows him to the base, and Ben’s legs nearly give out. 

He’d forgotten. The delightful, molten-hot suction of her throat. The decades she’d used to perfect her talents. 

“I love you,” he blurts out, and it’s said in his most sincere voice, almost high-pitched. He means it. He is in love with her and not just because her blow job skills are heaven-sent. The second it’s out of him, she chokes and sputters, pulling herself off his dick before she starts laughing. “Really Ben? Of all the times to say that.”

Steve rubs the back of his head as he tries not to smile. “Honestly, it sounded pretty genuine to me.”

Ben smacks Steve’s shoulder and crows. “Thank you!” His gaze falls back on her face. “See - Cap’s on my side.”

His chest unfurls. He feels something light between his ribs. There’s an intimacy here - between them. Secrets shared. He inhales audibly as she wraps her lips around his cock again, nails skating down the flat of his stomach. 

***

The sun burns on the crown of Steve’s skull as he waits for her outside the Hydra facility. A shiver drags through him.  It’s been too long. The coms quit three minutes ago, but going after her wouldn’t be smart. It might screw a delicate situation. He trusts Nat, who told him to wait. 

Still - he’s nervous.

Ben is no better. He shifts from foot to foot. He lights another cigarette as he begins striding from one tree to the next. He wears down the soil and the snow beneath the heavy tread of his boots. Steve can see each puff of breath as Soldier Boy exhales.  

“I can’t lose her,” Ben mumbles. Steve shoots forward, grabbing the man behind the arm. 

“You won’t.” Is that what he’s been whispering about this whole damn time?

Steve doesn’t like it because it only makes Steve begin to worry.

Ben’s eyes widen as he glances down at Steve’s hand on him. His nostrils flare before he rips himself away. “You don’t know shit.”

Steve lets him go off to sulk. There’s a part of him that feels sorry for him. His empathy hits just right, and he blames it partially on the fact that Ben reminds him of Bucky. The two men circle each other in the safe house, keeping their distance despite knowing what it’s like to be held down and tortured for decades. 

It’s not just that.

There’s also the fact that Ben and Steve were shaped from similar cloth. They were both flung into a war with suped-up bodies. They were paraded around like dancing monkeys. They fell in love with the same girl, and when Ben returned from the dead, he submitted. He didn’t barge right in and take her from Steve. That was something worth respecting.

I understand, man. I understand what it’s like to love her. It’s obvious she’s good with you. I get it. I’m not trying to rain on your parade or whatever. 

Steve’s helmet itches, his shield a weight on his back. “She’s fine,” he declares under his breath.

Twenty minutes later, she stumbles out with Nat. The place is rigged to explode within minutes, and he rushes toward them. They’re moving too slow. 

Ben’s already there, his arms around Mags as he tries to force her away from the concrete facility. It’s just an aged red door in a mass of woods. It reminds him of a fairytale.

“C’mon, sweetheart,” Ben urges - panicked. “Why are you lagging?”

She grunts, and it’s a pained one. Steve knows every sound she makes. He knows exactly what flavor those noises will take on when she laughs or cries, when she’s hurt, or when she comes. He stops then, his attention raking over her body. He smells blood, and then he sees it on the icy snow beneath their feet. It’s the color of rust.

“You’re injured,” Ben announces before he can. He sniffs as he presses himself closer. He drops low to the ground, one of his knives appearing out of nowhere. The silver glints in the raw morning light. He tears the tight fabric over her thigh, and blood pours out. 

It’s her femoral artery.

“Fuck,” Natasha gasps. “I didn’t - you didn’t say -”

Mags blinks, her lips curling downward as she sways. “I didn’t feel it.” She trails off as sweat collects along her hairline. She mumbled something Steve can’t parse.

“Oh fuck,” he hisses.

She’s out, and Steve barely catches her before she hits the ground.

***

“There are very few things that can break that skin,” Ben shouts as Bucky wraps her leg. 

“They had these new guns,” Nat explains. “Shiny. Too big. We didn’t think anything of it, but maybe they’re built for supes.”

Ben rounds on her. “You didn’t notice she got shot?”

Natasha is cool as ever, her gaze even and flat as she stares back at him. “She didn’t say anything. Her pain tolerance is crazy. I’m sure she got hit, and it felt like a scratch.”

Natasha would die for her teammates. The question is insulting.

Steve looks down at her as she lies on the kitchen table. She’s half in and out, her fingers loosely curled around Steve’s wrist. He murmurs her name - her real one. Not Black Magnolia, but the one she gave him when they met. 

He says it twice.

She stirs but doesn’t respond.

“Cap,” Sam whispers from behind him. “Maybe take Ben outside before he freaks out.”

Steve’s head whips around to find Ben faintly glowing. There’s sweat beading along his hairline. His chest is hitching as he worries his lower lip with his teeth. His pupils are dilating.

“Shit,” Steve stands up, marches toward Ben, and wordlessly hauls him outside.

***

Admittedly, Ben is grateful that Steve forced him into clean air. He was drowning. He was burning up. He couldn’t see straight. 

He staggers down the porch until he drops onto the wooden bench. He fiddles in his bag for his medicine, and Steve silently follows. He sits beside him, his eye trained on the dark green woods that guard the edge of the land. There’s no one for miles. Wanda has set up an illusion so no one can find their spot. They’re just blank - just nothing in the forest.

Ben lights up, inhaling a few heavy lungfuls of the blunt before passing it to Steve, who takes it without hesitation. The man was full of surprises, but Ben should have understood this. Rogers had never been the Andy Hardy adjacent good ole boy he was set up to be in the war movies.

He relaxes after a few minutes. He rolls his muscles out and stretches his arms above his head. He studies the way the sun reflects off the Quinjet in the middle of the yard. It sparkles. Ben counts the darts of light - the fragmented shades of a rainbow. He counts backward. He counts forwards. He tries to bury his fears. She’s good.

“That was close,” he finally says. 

Steve nods, his expression is stoic. 

“She wouldn’t leave us,” he states. It is to convince himself. These new terrors are ugly things. He used to be a warrior. He used to be okay with what he’d been given. He used to be untouchable. A God. In Russia, he’d been grounded. He’d been plucked. He’d been skinned down to just his meat.

He watches Steve out of the corner of his eyes and thinks - yeah, you’re right here with me. Everything that made us ended up being a fucking lie. Betrayed us. There are no more good guys to lift us up and make us idols.

“She wouldn’t,” Steve reassures him. “She’s like Teflon.”

“Way hotter.”

Steve’s lips twitch. “Yeah - she is.”

He begins to see that this is how Rogers deals with his fear. Ben saw it in his face back at that facility. Steve had been scared. He’d second-guessed himself. He’d hesitated. Now - he’s pulling himself back together. It’s churning just below the surface of his steely features. He compartmentalizes. He goes inward. Ben wasn’t too different once upon a time. 

Now - Ben is a damn open book. Now - he’s got shell shock. Now - when he has a nightmare, he crawls into their room like a child. What happened to him?

“You know, I was pissed,” Ben finally admits. He takes another drag. He wonders if he has more pills upstairs.

Steve turns toward him.

“About?”

“Russia,” he replies like it can all be summed up in that single word. His grief and trauma - those broken pieces all defined by Russia.  “You and I are supposed to go down fighting. We are supposed to go out as heroes. You went down in that plane. I thought about that a lot…when they tested things on me. Captain America died saving the world, and I was just used. I thought my life would remain in this cyclical stasis…a fucking lab experirment…a pin cushion.”

Steve blinks at him. There’s a snag in his brooding expression. A flicker in those blue-blue eyes. Pity? Understanding?

“Were you scared?” Ben asks him.

Steve swallows, but he doesn’t pause. “Shitless.” He crosses his arms over his chest as he leans back against the wall. “Thing is, I came back and realized nothing had changed. How many wars were fought after me? When did Hydra and Vought and SHIELD all accumulate into one power-hungry entity? I worked for them, fought for them, and they’d been the enemy all along.” 

Steve wasn’t wrong. How many wars had Ben fought after World War II? Communist-backed insurgencies. Bay of Pigs. Vietnam. Korea. 

“It got old,” Steve continues before he jerks his thumb toward the window. “Those people in there are why I do anything anymore. No glory. No enlightened purpose. Just them.”

“Her,” Ben says.

“Her,” Steve confirms, his expression softening to something warm and faraway. Ben wonders if he’s strayed into a memory. He wants to join it. He wants the years he lost even though Rogers lost more.

He combs gloved finds through his hair. The leather is still coated in Mag’s blood. It makes him sick.

There is still the question that’s been plaguing him for weeks. He needs to get it off his chest. As they share these intimacies at dusk, he realizes the moment is ripe for it.

“You’re cool with it?” Ben implored, and Steve gives him a sidelong glance. His hair is dark gold, and his beard even more so. He’s a good-looking son of a bitch, and, quite frankly, Ben might go there if Steve wants.

“Cool with?”

“Me barging into your thing with Mags.”

“Thing?” he chuckles because it sounds so insignificant.

“Shit,” Ben says. “You know what I meant.”

Steve shrugs as he appraises Ben with a thoughtful gaze. “She loves you. She loves me. Why make her choose? It seems to work for now, and she’s happy.” He scrapes a hand down his face, smoothing his beard. For the first time since Ben has known him, he looks tired. “I want her to be happy. I’ve dragged her all over the world, and she’s never fucking wavered. She brought me back when I woke up. She was patient and kind, and it’s been that way since Erskine.”

Ben nods, grateful. He offers his hand to Steve, who accepts it. Their palms match up, a few similar scars. They’re just a couple of soldiers on a porch in the middle of the world. No longer heroes.

He thinks that’s fine. 

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My thoughts on Seabound!!! 🌊🌊🌊 (4/4)

Here we are! What a journey, and while perhaps this season wasn't at MoM level it was REALLY good, with great new villains/allies, great little throwbacks and an awesome story! 🤩

How to get this was very good to great? Give me a very good ending Seabound!! 💕💕

Alright, here we go!

GENERAL THOUGHTS

I genuinely got too much into this remaining four episodes and forgot to put any general thoughts 😅 So you'll see me rambling at the end, see you there 😉

THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM

This title really summarize my feelings so far, like, I'm seriously wondering how it will move on from now, but I do expect the outcome to be CRAZY 🤯

Aaahhhh, yep, the one in Shintaro is a fake 😅 I wonder when did the change happen? How did Kalmaar pulled that off, wow

I'M SORRY WHY ARE WE PUTTING THE TITLE SCREEN WITHOUT THE INTRO?? THAT'S A FIRST EPISODE STUFF AND IT HONESTLY SCARES ME??? It reminds me of Winds of Change too and that episode was WOW 😭😭😭

Heeeeyyy, it's youuuu... huh... *watch scribble on hand* google snake guy, huh... Glucose... yep, good old Glutine and everything 😅

Are we having a "I may have made a mistake being evil" with this guy?

Jay: ah, Prime Empire! I was in that game you know! I fought for my life and the ones of all of Ninjago and I've seen my best friends and the love of my life die before my eyes... good times 🙂

Jay and Nya having fun at DDR has to be one of my favorite thing, they are so in sync and so lovable ❤💙❤💙

DID THEY ACTUALLY PUT THE JAYA SHIP NAME INTO THE SHOW??? OMG GUYS THE FANDOM IS TAKING OVER THE SHOW AT LAST!!! 🤯🤯🤯 The electric Jaya, heeeyy, niiicee 😎😎😎

HOW CUTE CAN YOU BE

MY SHIP 💙❤💙❤ They even gave each other high gives... this is neat, and it means something awful will happen right 🙂

Commissioner: he's saying something about a giant snake... and the end of the world... didn't we already have something like that?

Okay yep, he did the trick while fighting Nya, dang Kalmaar is sneaky! Not too shabby... but I gotta say, the summoning of the Great Devourer was a lot more dramatic 🤣🤣 Props to the serpentine, still my favorite snakes 💪💪

Wojira seems to be a little smaller than the Devourer maybe? His head way bigger than the bounty, while hers is not that massive even in comparison with Kalmaar

I might be wrong but at first glance, I stand by my opinion and by the superiority of the OG giant snake 🤷‍♀️

Yep Glutine guy did have a change of heart, better late than never 🤷‍♀️

You're telling me that Jay doesn't do engineering anymore, okay... HOW IS KAI A BETTER SOLUTION??? 🤣🤣🤣 Lol look at the messy brothers, love Lloyd and Kai so much I miss them interact 💚❤💚❤

Thank you Kelly for the alert 😗

It makes me wonder if they actually do have simulations of evacuations often, it would be pretty smart considering the city 🤷‍♀️

OKINO IS THERE HI DUDE!!! 😍 I hope he's doing great! 🥰🥰

Gail Gossip! Been a while!

WOW, this is going Deluge like, my first Spinjitzu Master! 😱 How... how do we go with three episodes from here? Like, I'm guessing Nya will have to do what Nyad did before her (which TERRIFIES me), so are they going to struggle trying to find another way? IDK BUT I'M IN LET'S GO!! 🤯

ASSAULT ON NINJAGO CITY

Alright, pretty straightforward title, let's see what we got here!

Tourists?... that actually makes sense, I mean, I would want to visit all the places where history was made on this island 😍 Aww nice to see they remember the battle against Garmy of Hunted, also that it is known that Jay was the one who faced Unagami 👍👍

DARETH!!! 🤎🤎🤎

Where have you been you knucklehead, I've missed you! 💕 I think I've last seen him in a commercial from the Fire Chapter?

This is a terrible guide 😵 Not knowing the brown ninja? Owner of the dojo the Green Ninja had trained in? Brief commander of the Stone Army? Master of makeup and puffy potstickers? Unforgivable, someone fire this woman ASAP 😡😡

LOOK AT DARETH TAKING CHARGE!!! 🤩 He's right, he should get involved every once in a while, come on guys!

Ah okay good, I'm not the only one struggling with that google snake name 😂

Yay Bentho is fully integrated with the team! He is a great addiction, like, I know he'll probably take the throne at the end or something but I do hope we'll need his help again in the future! 💙

Sometimes I forget how much I love Kai and Zane interacting 🤣 The brainiac and the airhead 🤍❤🤍❤

Oh right, Cole came back from Shintaro! So... now in this extremely secret city there is a fake amulet hanging into a highly secured place... how is it always Shintaro the keeper of flukes? 😂😂

A bath as a boat but it has a whole 😂😂 I love this show's randomness

What ears are they supposed to cover 😅

I LOVE THIS ATMOSPHERE!!! 😍😍😍 Between the gray sky of storm and the sea underneath, this is the perfect scenario for Wojira and it's not even forced! I love how they are handling backgrounds for Ninjago recently, I really hope it gets as good as in the finale of Prime Empire 💙💙💙

AAAAAAHHHHHhhhhh okay for a moment I was scared Wojira was going to eat Jay 😅 After The Island this is already the second time Bluebell risks it... STOP

WHY THE CLIFFHANGER!?!?

NUUUUU WHAT NOW??? 😱😱😱 We have two more episodes, how is this going to end? I DON'T KNOW AND I REALLY WANT TO PLEASE GIVE ME A GOOD FINALE SEABOUND!!! 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️

NYAD

I AM SCARED FOR MY WATER LILY OKAY

Daaaang she can just float on that? She got super good at controlling water! Now I want her and Kai just randomly flying around with their powers 😂😂 Kai got missiles in his hands come on 🔥🔥🔥

JAY CAN YOU LET ME WORRY ABOUT YOU GUYS ONE AT THE TIME??? 😱

What would Kai do? WHAT WOULD KAI DO?? DID YOU DECIDE YOU WANT TO DIE JAY WHY WOULD YOU THINK OF HIM??? ... although technically Kai is the only one with Jay who didn't straight up die before coming back to life in a dramatic moment... huh... Kai might be the most reasonable choice after all 😅

We grew up from Ninja never quit to NINJA AREN'T IDIOTS AND KNOW WHEN TO GET THE HECK OUT 😎😎 Even our motto got a character development 💪

JAY NOOOOOOOO 😱😱😱😱

BENTHO YAAAAAAASSSS 🥳🥳🥳🥳 Did I ever say that I love shark boy? BECAUSE I FREAKING DO!! 💙

Master prankster Wu once again, take that empty ship Calamari head 😎 Although the poor bounty doesn't deserve to get destroyed as many times as it did until now, it's my favorite ship... pun intended 😜

Ah more ninjajan, wait a moment

"Auto Pilot". Fair enough, although I was hoping for a "psych" or something 😂😂

NO WAIT NO WHAT THE HECK!!! I THOUGHT JAY GOT SAVED HE INHALED WATER??!? BLUEBELL NOOOO!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

But Cole running to his best friend immediately? HECK yes 🖤💙🖤💙

NYA CARRYING HER BOYFRIEND BRIDAL STYLE THIS IS THE RIGHTEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN!!! ❤💙❤💙❤💙❤💙 Gosh this season gave me amazing Jaya moments, I've been fed 👌👌

Okay Lloyd pacing back and forth? Kai already mad at their enemies? All the guys eager to help Jay? MY FAVORITE NINJA FAMILY BABY!!! 😎😎

I NEED A MOMENT 😭

Oh... oh gosh I knew Nya doing the Nyad thing was meant to happen, but this way? My heart is melting already 😭

I remember a post that said that Jay told Nya that he loves her many times, while she never did. Tommy reponded that she lets her actions speak... boy do I see it now, I see all of her love 😢😢

I never felt such conflicting emotions for a villain like I do for Kalmaar, like, he caused so much pain to Nya... but he is voiced by Giles... but he is the reason Jay is hurt... but that startle gag 😂😂😂

Okay this? Is adorable?

What the HECK? The police in this city is generally not very helpful, but the Commissioner is very wholesome 💜

Nyaaaaaaa 😭😭😭😭 I didn't think it was possible to love her even more, she was ignored for so long during the show, but now we finally see all of her. She is an amazing warrior, a selfless person, and a real hero 💪💪 And coming from such a mature girl that doesn't like to act irrationally, this means so much more

Jaya grew up so much, it went through some very questionable phases yes, but what they have here? It's the result of all they had lived together 💙❤💙❤

I have chills, this is amazing so far, I'm legit scared of going further 😱

SHE SAID IT!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭 Okay this moment, everything, EVERYTHING, is absolutely marvelous. Nya said I love you without a voice, alone, showing again that she values the actions more, but still her feelings are 100% truthful. Then the transformation (THERE IT IS HER BEAUTIFUL WATER FORM 😍😍😍), Jay getting saved, the realization of what she just did from everyone... DANG IT IT'S ALL BEAUTIFUL HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO THINK OF THIS SCENE???

*slow clap for Bragi, Tommy, and the Ninjago crew*

Jay and water Nya with their hands together gives me big The Form of Water vibes... LOVE THAT MOVIE WHO'S READY FOR AN AU??

Jay wants to help her, I had no doubt 💙 They always help each other in these BOUNDs seasons 😍😍😍

Kalmaar: where are the ninja??

Commissioner: I don't know, they are ninja!

FINAL BATTLE INCOMING AAAAHHH I HOPE THIS WILL HAVE A GOOD ENDING OMG BRING IT!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

THE TURN OF THE TIDE

Oh, curious title? It feels a little vague, I don't really know what it could be

YES GIRL GO GET HIS CALAMARI BUTT HECK YES!!! Just how cool can you be for walking slowly while the attacks go straight through you? 😂

Hey Nya still recognizes Jay! 😃😃

HEY NYA GOT VAPORIZED WTH 😱😱 It's too early, I don't believe that's it!

WHOA JAY WENT BERSERK JUST NOW!! I don't think I've seen this before, this is the coolest thing! 💙💙💙 I just love when he shows how strong he is, you can be a comic relief AND kick butts 😎

FIGHTING ANIMATIONS MAN I LOVE THESE SCENES!! 😍😍😍

What the- was... was that a cameo of the lightning chicken? Ninjago what the HECK I love your randomness 😂😂

BENTHOMAAR TAGS IN!!! Showing off why he is best boy of the season 💙 These fightings are very cool but I can't help imagining Wojira just chilling while there are midgets getting very angry at each other onto her head 🤣🤣🤣

WHOA, CALAMARI BITE! Kalmaar got the Pythor treatment... might change color by next season if he returns 😅

(Please return I loved having Giles' voice in this season 💙💙💙)

NYA IS A DRAGON!!! I REPEAT NYA IS A DRAGON!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍 I was wondering where the dragon moment was, this is Ninjago after all 🤷‍♀️

Head empty, just Jay smiling softy at Nya because he loves her 💙💙💙

IT'S RAINING NYA, HALLELUIA IT'S RAINING NYA, HEYE!! ☔☔☔ This fight is MASSIVE! We had finales with big creatures before but now one of the ninja is big enough to face them and that's 🤯

NYA DID IT!!! 🤩🤩🤩 ... now onto the angst that I KNOW it's coming

Kai being unbelieving is tragic, and Jay's "don't leave me" broke my heart. Please end this misery, where is the deus ex machina that solves everything?

Wait she left?

...

WAIT SHE ACTUALLY LEFT??? WHAT THE HECK THEY AREN'T ENDING IT LIKE THIS

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OH MY GOSH

ARE THEY?!?

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

Omg the grief in this is beautiful, nice to see Jay and Maya so close to each other! Also Kai leaning onto his mom while Cole is comforting his best best friend? Amazing, they really do these scenes great 👌

EVERYONE SHOWED UP I LOVE THIS CITY SO MUCH 😭😭😭 Aww Ed and Edna, wasn't this such a sad situation I would be so much happier to see you guys 🥺

Master Wu even mentioned that she built Samurai X, you really want to make me cry now do you? 🥺🥺

MAYA AND RAY 😢😢😢😢😢😢

Omg look at Cole being there for his best friend, he is amazing 🖤💙🖤💙

I have such Rebooted vibes from this... is it hopeful? That Nya comes back like Zane? She's no nindroid but still... oh my gosh they got her symbol on the vase I just noticed, I need more tissues 😭😭

"In loving memory of Kirby Morrow". Always in our hearts 🖤🖤🖤

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Wow

WOW

THEY ACTUALLY DID IT I NEED ANOTHER MOMENT 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 WHAT IN THE WORLD THIS IS THE BIGGEST CHANGE THEY DID IN A WHILE!!!

AND NOW WHAT??? 🤯🤯🤯

FINAL THOUGHTS

I'm speechless... like that's true, have A LOT to write over here 😅

This type of plot twist reminds me of our early seasons. Zane sacrificing himself, Garmadon giving up his life, those moments that made me so curious and excited about the following. I have no idea what will be the outcome for this, but I can't wait to find out

With that out of the way, AMAZING SEASON 😍😍😍 I think this finale beats MoM's, just because it was really unexpected and opens up a SEA of possibilities... yeah too soon 😭

I'm still shaken, my world, they did something HUGE and I do hope it will be a good shake to the entire Ninjago plotline. Nya is "gone", we still don't know about the person behind all that vengestone, we haven't heard from Garmy in forever, there are so many good ideas out there now that they've set the ground for more 🤩🤩

Voice acting was *chef's kiss*, not only for the villain which I already stressed enough about, I think Kelly reached a new level of emotional intimacy with Nya and I'm so happy she showed her skills 💜💜

Animation is TOP, there's little to no point into saying anything else since they showed it very clearly in the latest season ☺

This was the emotional, witty and engaging writing I was looking for! Good jokes, meaningful dialogues, emotional scenes, everything was really good and I'm gonna rewatch some scenes especially for that 😍

It turned out having Maya and Ray back was kind of a distraction to fool us all 😅😅 Well played actually, and it was very cool seeing them again in any case 🙋‍♀️

And now? Jay lost his love, I have no idea if the show will work on him getting over her or hold onto her memory (thinking of Jay probably the latter, although I do think that handling the first would be an interesting idea). KAI LOST HIS SISTER 😢😢😢 I have no doubt he's gonna beat himself up for it, like he did when Zane was gone too. Everyone lost their friend, she had become such a vital part of the team and now she is not here anymore it will be hard...

They are back with the four plus one green savior formation, I sincerely don't know how I feel about that 😅 I'm always happy when we get the OGs, but this is about going on without Nya... maybe Skylor will be called? Or Pixal will be more active? That could be interesting to see, who knows 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Gosh, how are they going to handle the next season? It will have to give A LOT of answers to the millions questions we all have right now. Man I can't wait, it could be anything!!! This is a Ninjago revolution!

But if I have to mention a little complain, and I'm a fangirl so I absolutely have to, Kai didn't show much of a reaction to Nya's "departure". Okay, she didn't straight up die like in Skybound (I'm gonna fear all BOUND seasons from now on 😱), but he's her brother and he loves deeply his family. Either we're gonna see him go all out next season, or the writers really did only focus on Jaya. A tiny bit salty... but you got me a fantastic finale so I'll move on 👍

Outstanding, I'm blown away. Whenever I think I'm used to this show they do stuff like this. I'm so glad and sad you guys 😅 But mostly happy that despite everything I still get very strong emotions while I watch this long time favorite show of mine 💜💜💜

What else can I say at this point? ONTO NEXT SEASON!!! 🤩🤩🤩

Thank you for reading me freaking out over LEGO spinning ninja as always! It helps me calm down but this time it might be harder thant the others... *sobs*

I need to lay down and process all of this, I'll be on my way 😂😂 BYE!!! 💜

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ZFAW Fan Content Creator Interviews: HayleyNFoster

Hey everyone! We hope you’re all excited for ZFAW, and to honor (ha!) ZFAW’s commitment to supporting and celebrating fan content creators in the Zutara fandom, we’re going to be rolling out a series of interviews with well-known and widely-beloved content creators over the next few weeks. We’ve got artists and fanfiction authors, some names you recognize as well as a few phenomenal up-and-coming talents, and we can���t wait for you to meet them all!

For the second interview in this cycle, we have our best propaganda creator and this fandom’s hottest new artist/undisputed queen of the animatic, @hayleynfoster!

1. Tell us about how you came to ship Zutara. What does this ship mean to you?

When I was around 14 or 15 and caught Avatar: The Last Airbender on television, I was drawn in by the art style, the humor, and the wonderful characters. I caught the episodes out of order, and the first one I saw and wasn’t prepared to be sucked in by was The Waterbending Scroll. It intrigued me at that age, and the line “I’ll save you from the pirates” combined with the tension between Katara and Zuko in that whole scene was electrifying. I remember my teenage self thinking these two have so much chemistry! And when I saw a commercial on Nickelodeon that featured fanart submitted by fellow Avatar fans, I realized that I could do that to! So I set about making Zutara fanart for myself. I stumbled onto Youtube, practically in its infancy, and discovered that people set clips of Zuko and Katara set to music (And this was still in season 1 days… so people who made these amvs were the real mvps because they were able to make compelling narratives in their amvs with like practically nothing to work with!). The AMVs really spurred my interest in this couple, I remember distinctly one Zutara AMV using the Dido song White Flag utterly capturing my imagination. I found fandom shortly after, getting into deviantart and forums. But the ship really began to mean something to me when, as I was working on my drawings in the computer lab at school, a buoyant presence hovered over my shoulder noticing my Zutara art on the computer screen. The girl was someone I had never really talked to and had only seen from afar but she immediately started excitedly saying she shipped Zuko and Katara too! In this simple shared obsession, I made one of the best friends I’ve ever had and we’re still friends to this day. We would theorize and fangirl over Avatar like it was nobody’s business; we poured over bootleg San Diego Comic Con footage that showed spoilers for season 2 before it aired; we lost our freaking minds when we finally saw The Crossroads of Destiny. We had watch parties every week as Season 3 of A:TLA aired, and comforted each other when the show ended as it did (much ranting was shared). Those are some of my happiest memories from high school… all because this one pairing from this wonderful show. Even though Zutara didn’t happen, we still chat every now and then about it. Zutara will probably be a lifelong obsession, always bubbling under the surface. And without it, I would have never realized that animation was a viable career path. It really did inspire everything including the work I’m doing to this day in the animation industry. I owe a lot to this ship and to Avatar: the Last Airbender.

2. What inspires you to create zutara fanworks?

The resurgence of Avatar: The Last Airbender this year really helped sort of spark that dormant love I had for Zutara. The show’s ending still disappointed me on the rewatch, but Zuko and Katara’s relationship arc was as captivating as ever, so I turned to some fanfiction and looking at people’s pretty Zutara art and AMVs to just revel in fanon instead of getting to hung up on the actual ending of the show. But then I realized, with quarantine and my work load being pretty light, I had time to actually make all new Zutara art for myself, art I was never fully capable of making as a kid, but now could do with my 7 years of industry experience and just… life experience. And I was inspired to do some corrective animatics to satisfy my own desire for a different ending. I just really like exploring these two characters, doing different and interesting things with them, and frankly I’m inspired to make cute, fluffy, romantic art simply by virtue of living in a really sad and depressing world. Things are so crazy right now, creating art about two characters I love being in love, is comforting. And it helps to have inspiring music and amazing Zutara amvs to just sort of stir up my emotions and imagery in my head to make into animatics and art.

3. Be selfish - if you could request one fanwork based on your own art/fanfic, what would it be? What would you absolutely love to see someone create?

Ohhhh… Well, It’s always nice to have people write fanfiction that puts words to my animatics. I am not that great at coming up with dialog myself, so I’ve just chosen to indulge in visuals and emotions for my boards. But when I read things like RideBoldlyRide’s take on my Reunion Animatic, it makes me pretty giddy. (They finally have voices!) :) And this is the MOST selfish thing I could request, but I’m not shy about saying how much I love well done amvs, so I will literally kill for someone to make Zutara AMVs to songs I like… Like, most of AURORA’s songs but especially Exist for Love, Sunseeker by The Naked and Famous, Promises or Take Me by Aly & AJ, Adore You by Harry Styles, Human Enough by ONR, Never Let Me Go by Florence + The Machine, and/or Almost (Sweet Music) by Hozier just… I can see the AMVs so clearly to any of these songs in my head, but I don’t have the tools or skill set at my disposal to make a compelling fan video. When I was in high school, I originally thought I wanted to go into video editing simply because I loved making very crappy AMVs (they were so bad you guys), but I figured out being a storyboard artist was more in my wheelhouse. haha

4. Any words for people who are new to the fandom and/or nervous about sharing their work for the first time?

If you’re new to the Zutara fandom, just have a good time! Don’t waste too much time arguing with people over your shipping preferences. I wasted so much of my teen years having pointless shipping wars with people on DeviantArt, and I’m just so much happier nowadays because I’m just making Zutara art in my little corner of the internet, and honestly, in the politest of ways, I don’t give a shit if people don’t like my art or Zutara. haha I think that’s sort of a key thing for people thinking of posting creative works here in the fandom, just make art for yourself, satisfy your own desires for the pairing, get your creative sparks flying, and create just for the joy of creating. It’s always nice to get comments and such, but simply making the art should be what spurs you on, not the external validation. And have a good time, don’t worry too much - I say as someone who worries about EVERYTHING. But honestly, making art for A:TLA is some of the most relaxed I’ve been because I make it just for me. I’m lucky others seem to like it too!

5. What’s an idea for a fanwork that you have but haven't gotten around to making?

I have an idea for a second generation storyline with my Zutara kids that involves Kya (the eldest firebending daughter) falling in love with an airbender boy (tentatively named Gora in my headcanon who’s a bit of a rabble rouser and one of Aang’s kids he had with a Kyoshi Warrior), and then they start a socialist revolution in the Fire Nation in order to dismantle all of the hierarchical societies across the Avatar world… Together Kya and Gora Fan the Flames of revolution… ehhhhh... Get it?? Oh! Oh, and then Katara, who had put in legit liberal reforms in her time as Fire Lady listens to her daughter after resisting in the first part of the story, but then realizes she can actually play a part in the dissolution of the royalty and is also active in the revolution realizing that moderate liberal reforms are no substitute for a society free of serving royalty (which she had always been uncomfortable with but had rationalized with herself that she was doing good in her capacity as Fire Lady.) I just feel like there’s a lot of cool potential for discussing these ideas and also having some aspirational change in the Avatar world. lol For aesthetics and just happy fluffy times, I can indulge in Fire Lady and Fire Lord Zuko stuff, but really at the end of the day, I take issue with the structures in a society that have to exist for monarchies to exist. Soooo, I kind of want to do my own corrective story for that… if I ever have the time or guts. On a less ambitious note, I would love to do a Zutara sparring animatic to practice doing action, but I need a good story; I am not good at doing fights just for fighting’s sake. Those are just some things I have rattling around in my head.  

6. Are you participating in ZFAW? If so want to give us a hint as to your plans?

Yes! The most I can say is I have one animatic almost finished and one that’s still being thumbnailed. The rest are probably going to be comics or emotive single pieces based on the fanfics I really like right now. :)

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Robot Chicken #19: “That Hurts Me” | July 11, 2005 – 12:00AM | S01E19

I only have two hours to finish this blog from scratch! So I’m gonna BLAZE through this, if I can help it. I am also BLAZED on marijuana, which is when I am so creative. My ideas are going to be off the charts in this one.

First is a baffling Godzilla 1998 remake (a remake of a remake? HOW IN THE WORLD? Who has ever heard of such a thing!) but with dancing added and I guess it was done on purpose to get in trouble with making a movie have dancing in it. That is the idea. You make a movie that has dancing in it and a guy yells at you for it. “You’re not supposed to put dancing in stuff!! AAAUUGH YOUR FIRED!” If it happened to me, I’d kill myself! 

There’s a thing where monkeys are Batman, and they have their own jungle-made Arkham Asylum and stuff. All the stuff looks like monkeys made it, you know? There’s a bank where you use turds and bananas for currency, I think? There’s no twist, which I respect: It’s just a concept played out for nor reason other than a creative exercise. This might be my favorite sketch yet. I like when the monkey drinks his own pee. I saw that and thought “I will probably not be able to focus on reviewing the episode because I’ll keep thinking about that  monkey drinking pee”. I was right.

Big Brother with scary guys (Jason, Scream Mask, Leatherface, Pinhead, F. Kruger, maybe another guy I���m forgetting). This one is kinda okay. I guess I like gags about scary guys. The end twist is that Michael Meyers (it was him, he’s the one I forgot earlier) is actually Mike Myers under that mask and he does bad Austin Powers voice to the point where I didn’t get who it was supposed to be at first. It was Mike Myers.

This one is “okay” in that I didn’t get mad at any of it.

Oh yeah the Crazy Davey sketch was pretty good, too. But the care bears sketch sucked

CONTACTING GHOST PLANET...

Space Ghost Coast to Coast #16: “Sleeper” | July 28, 1995 | S02E06

Space Ghost gets increasingly Larry Sanders-esque with a cold open where Space Ghost, Zorak, and Moltar recite poetry to each other, an underrated activity among friends. If you haven’t done it, I suggest trying it for your next get together. Just google “jew poems” and print a bunch out and take turns reading them in your best voice

This one has a first guest name of “Hulk Hogan”, who might be my favorite actor to have ever lived. Every time he acts he is the best part of any movie. We prove this here, where we cut back and forth between weird snippets taken out of context of Hulk being “in character” and a few unguarded moments. Hulk seems to really be laying it on G-Rated-Kids-Movie thick. That’s why Hulk Still Rules. I applaud Space Ghost for making him look dumb though because I’m an “anti” kinda guy.

And hoo boy, this might be one of the best “throw to commercial”/”back from commercial” combos ever. We go to commercial with the image of Hulk and Space Ghost posing, flexing for the camera, when their heads inexplicably switch with one another. It’s so fucking stupid and funny. I don’t know why. Then back from commercial we have Moltar who I’m pretty sure is just Clay Croker NOT doing the Moltar voice but pitched down to sound like he is, saying this bit, which I used to be able to recite off the top of my head (thanks snard for the transcript):

Moltar: (to Space Ghost) Originally, they used to say, "Couples skate next - two girls may not skate together." And then like a couple years later they'd say, "Couples skate - two girls may not skate together. Two boys may not skate together." But they'd say it like, "Who'd've figured! Two boys may not skate together?!"

It’s one of my favorite bits from the show ever. I love it so much.

Next guest is the scary hairy musician Slash, who seems legit pissed off, and is like asking to leave the interview and stuff and moaning about how much it sucks. It’s also very funny! They just included all the footage of him melting down. This is maybe one of the most mean-spirited Space Ghost’s ever made. I love shit like this so much. It’s so... punk.

Lucky for you, HBOMax includes the FULL version of the episode, with the post-credits/post-title stinger in tact! Go check it out! You’ll get to see it complete with HBOMax’s autoplay menu completely obscuring it. Isn’t that so much fun?

MAIL BAG:

Don’t you agree with me that is nice to answer mail

Kinda funny in a morbid way: andy merrill jumps around like an idiot for a spot on  America's Funniest Videos and Bob Saget dies a tragic death a few days ago...

AH! but I do not find it strange or even queer in the slightest! IT is all part of g-ds plan! Respect me in THIS HOUSE

I've never smoked weed anymore. I'm too young. Is it scary? Weird? Fun? I have no idea and maybe never will since it's illegal in my state.

Lol, heh, hey kid... let me show you the ropes :SUNGLASSES yeah it’s scary