#love the old fan pv for this one too

[bubsmiraculousau]

These are my OT5 brainstorm pages. Elaborations on how I got to these below! I reference concept pages so if you see any pictures you don't recognize that's why. <3

First up is Cat Noir who I think is already perfect lmao. For my version though I wanted to lean closer to his PV design because I love it, like his larger triangle nose (you can't really see it at the angle in my drawing but it's there I swear!), the bigger bell, the more elaborate belt, etc.... so basically everything ... just in my style instead.

With my designs I think that whenever someone transforms into their miraculous persona it's based on what they think a hero looks like or what they think is cool. I think Adrien reads a lot of comic books and is a fan of characters like Batman (relatable for him LOL), Catwoman, and Nightwing, so his suit reflects that kind of vibe.

Extra: I decided that Ladybug and Cat Noir's masks go all the way up their foreheads because it looks nicer in my 2D style with their bangs haha.

Next up is the one and only Ladybug! Unpopular opinion but I actually like the all red suit! My hypothetical series would be a webcomic, and I feel like in action scenes the red differentiates her from Cat Noir esp at a distance, and more red style keeps their color ratios even.

I like the ladybug designs with a bunch of black sections they're very cute! Just not for my au. (I think it's just me but I find drawing the ladybug designs with inverted red dots to feel sacrilegious in a way,,, just my neurodivergent brain lol)

And I am a long ribbons truther, I love them and they can be very expressive. Also I knew I wanted Marinette to have a more vertical circular eye shape because her shape vibe is definitely a circle (Adrien's is triangle) and it reminded me of the eyes for the main girl in princess jellyfish (I've never seen it, love the style tho)

Her hair is a more bright blue to contrast her hair against her suit, and make her look more cartoonish. I imagine her idea of a superhero comes from kids shows and some magical girl anime. So her hair has a plastic shiny texture to it because when she thinks 'superhero' she thinks of kids toys. Also I just like color! The blue kinda gives comic spiderman vibes imo (the version with the light blue instead of the navy)

Queen Bee definitely changed the most throughout the design process. I really like her in-show design so I just tweaked it to be more my vibe. Adding a crown because she's a Queen.

Something that I've noticed is that Alya and Chloe actually share a lot of traits (There's even some old concept notes where I believe Alya and Chloe either switch names or roles at some point?? The miraculous concept info rabbit hole is real y'all) and I think this comes through in their final designs.

Like they both share a middle part, which bothers me for some reason, so I decided to give Chloe a little Ariana Grande side part into a ponytail.

I wanted each character to have a cool little piece on their costume, so I tried these little hip things to make her more commanding and girlboss, but currently her weapon is similar to ladybug's (but more like one of those hair ties w the little disco balls on them) and it would sit on her hip and would clash w her hip thingies, so I just decided to make her weapon the hip things instead, combining the two.

Something else that bothered me a lot was that Rena was the only one with white on her costume. Everyone has black but she's the only one with white... my brain says that this cannot be. So I tried to give Bee some fun white fuzzy bits but the texture just was too different...

And then I had the mega-brain idea to make her hair white to tie in the white from Rena. Her and Cat Noir both having blonde hair irked me as well LOL so this hit two birds with one stone. I wanted her hair to be sharper and more aggressively drill shaped because of her abrasive personality haha.

After that, is Carapace. I had an idea for him from the start because I felt like his in-show design just doesn't match his personality... I couldn't make his outfit all loose because I wanted to stick generally to the miraculous suit formula, but I feel like 'skin tight suit' just isn't his vibe. So he has a kind of hammer pants situation.

I think they capture Carapace's b-boy ninja turtle vibe while still looking like a miraculous outfit. Though I decided later that I wanted the pants to be a lighter color for contrast and the visor to be white (to tie in that Rena Rouge white).

Lastly is Miss Rena! Something that bothered me (back on the similarities to Chloe) was that they both have ponytails (yes I know I'm crazy). Even though they have very different textures I just wanted each of them to be distinct from each other. So I put her hair down and just dramatized her regular hairstyle.

Also her and Queen Bee both have black gloves to their upper arms, which, you guessed it, bothered me. So I shortened Rena's to just reach her elbow.

I wanted her to look like a magic-man, her illusion powers evoke a showmanship energy to me. I imagine her and Cat Noir are quite the dramatic theater kid-esque duo.

So, for drama I tried some flowy arm bits, which I think ended up just looking a little strange, so I'll pocket that idea for something else. Then, I tried to add her coattail from the show, but it ended up looking a little frumpy, not the drama I wanted.

I ended up making her coat more triangular in the front, to give off the vibe of a magician's vest, and changed it to solider red/orange double coattails, which I think makes her more magic-man-ish. And I think the white ends made it too busy.

So those are my hero designs! I'm still working out Hawkmoth and Mayura, esp Hawkmoth because I am not good at drawing masculine older men...

If y'all want LESS of the artistic process let a girl know lol! I know some ppl like it but this is very long,,, all my drawings will not have text this long! thx for reading if you did tho xx

[blueikeproductions]

The Trigger collab animation came out and it’s the best thing Transformers has done in the current decade.

Truly a love letter to Transformers from G1 to EarthSpark, it squeezes in everything it possibly can from most media. However the catch is that it’s only animated media and the live action movies, the comics (any assorted manga, Marvel, Dreamwave, IDW & Skybound) aren’t referenced, while some Japanese exclusive stuff gets a lil’ bit more attention (understandable since it’s, y’know, Japanese fans being nostalgic about the anime they grew up with).

Transformers Go, Q-Transformers, and the Beast Wars anime got particular attention.

This shot of Liger Megatron and Green Lion Lio Convoy is especially cool.

I think initially I was expecting a Trigger animated greatest hits from select moments from each show, and while they still technically do that in spots…

It’s mostly a mega crossover with different characters interacting otherwise.

And it’s all the better for it.

I mean where else are you gonna find TFA Optimus about to smash Masterforce Overlord’s face in?

There’s no real narrative, it’s just random cool shots though the closest thing to a framing device is the PV opening with Vector Prime looking down on Cybertron across all time lines.

Regarding EarthSpark’s contributions to the short, they’re minimal. The Terrans and Mandroid don’t appear at all, which is a little bizarre.

ES Megatron appears among the other Decepticon leaders instead of being with ES Optimus on the Autobot leader side.

You’d think Mandroid would be there next to BWII Galvatron instead, but I guess not. Sadly they omitted RiD15 Steeljaw too, instead using RiD15 Megatronus Prime’s floating head.

SatAM Robotnik voice: Ah well, life is not perfect.

The main ES rep are the Maltos.

This just reinforces ES needed to be 2D, because they actually look good. Roche’s style doesn’t work in 3D.

Anyway the human cast they chose for this final shot amuses me.

Love seeing my favorite Clays being included. The lack of RiD Steeljaw (G1 Steeljaw did appear with Lio Junior and RiD15 Aerobolt though) is forgiven.

Anyhow, the specific use of the Clays, the (S3) Witwickys, the Maltos and the Onishis (this is especially funny since Koji’s mom never met her universe’s Optimus) is somehow very random, but also kinda appropriate. Like I get Spike and Dot’s families, since it serves as bookends, but the Clays and Onishis still feel a bit random. Still, including both Robots in Disguise families is a nice touch in my book!

The short ends with a different bookend as mentioned.

What starts out as G1 Prime & Megs transitions to ES Prime & Megs shaking hands. The old with the current series. It works~! I admit I’m surprised they didn’t include TFONE somehow. I know it’s technically not out yet, but there’s enough material to have had Orion and D-16 have some kind of tussle. It would’ve been an interesting way to tie it into the above scene and this one:

When it comes to general rep, the stuff that gets the most focus is G1, Beast Wars, Animated, & Galaxy Force. Cyberverse doesn’t really get anything beyond the leader shot, but there is this awesome but very random shot of Croaton over looking Holi’s Rescue Patrol walking on a beach littered with the dead bodies of the generic Decepticons from “War Dawn”.

Sucks to be you guys.

It also occurs to me the Rescue Bots cartoons appear to be omitted along with BotBots, but that might partly be due to them not having Japanese releases? I’m not sure, but it’s funny how Q-Transformers is acknowledged of all things, but not Heatwave or Burgertron. Maaaaybe that’s for the best on the later…

Still the PV is a blast and is pry the most earnest passion project that GETS Transformers vs what we’ve been getting post Aligned cartoon wise.

I still hope this leads to a proper TF anime series made by Trigger, like what happened with Gridman. We need a return to good 2D animated TF shows and not more CGI slop like WFC or S2 ES. That Beast Wars and Machines are still superior despite being retro by today’s standards says something…

The catch however is the original video is region locked…

but some fans have ripped it and posted it on their YT:

So go check it out while you can! It’s pure Energon-y goodness!

[halfetirosie]

🎠 Important info from the [Sleepless Fun Fair] PV! 🎠 (Reaction post)

1) 🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: KUYORB HAS BREACHED CONTAINMENT!!!! 🚨🚨🚨

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lemme tell you---when I first saw Kuyorb in the bag during the design reveal, I just----😭🙏

You know how I mentioned in Greenwood Miracle, when I saw Quincy's stubble, I could just FEEL the collective fandom losing their ever-loving minds?

THAT. That was how it felt to see the Kuyorb. ♡

And now the lil' freak has been freed! Say your prayers!!!

2) NOT THE COUPLES TEACUPS!!!!!! (∩˃o˂∩)♡

IT'S TOO CUTE, I WON'T SURVIVE!!!!

---and how Eiden's cup has (I assume) hot cocoa while Peepaw's has green tea, for his sensitive old-man taste buds...! (≧∇≦)

I have to wonder, though; in whatever room this is supposed to be, did Eiden provide the personalized cups, or did Kuya?? It's cute to think about either way, but I think it's cuter to think of Kuya magicking-up these cups with the catty excuse of, "so the young master doesn't foolishly mix up our drinks and steal my drink by mistake"---when really he just wanted to do cute couple things with Eiden. 😈

3) Not Olivine's background being my default home-decor style---

That Symbolism™ of the tiny Leopard-Eiden on the big Cat-Olivine is so goddamn CUTTEEEEE!!!!! FUCK!

4) Fucking hell, man---

OKAY, so of course, I love the adorable lil' fluff balls cuddled together on the present, in the Darling-snowman, and in the bag---

----WAIT. HOW AM I ONLY NOTICING NOW THAT BLADE'S BAG IS ONE OF THOSE SPECIAL POPCORN BUCKETS THAT THEY'VE BEEN MAKING FOR MOVIES RECENTLY?!?!?! 🤯🤯🤯

5) Fans: We want to see Kitsune-Kuya!

Devs: We have Kitsune-Kuya at home.

Kitsune-Kuya at home:

---I'm just kidding; I know they left out the real fox traits in this one probably just to have more variety in Kuya's cards. Can't be too samey-samey. I ain't mad.

This gesture of teasingly holding up the fox headband is sexy as hell.... (⸝⸝๑﹏๑⸝⸝)

6) SAVE ME, MODERN-AU WINTER KUYA. MODERN-AU WINTER KUYA, SAVE ME. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Kuya be lookin' fine as fuck in this more modern design, and I'm obsessed. Like, he always looks like the kind of man that will absolutely ruin your life (on-brand for him), but I think this design hits a bit different for me because the clothes are a little more "real."

Now it's like he's Mr. Ruin Your Life FOR REALSIES After Your Fateful Meeting At The Coffee Shop.

❤️❤️❤️❤️ _(´ཀ`」 ∠)

7) The lap-pillow, head-cradling, Eiden wearing Kuya's headband....

Lemme tell you, after the nightmare of Kuya's last R5, I am extremely pleased that we're getting a 💜Soft Kuya 💜 for this intimacy scene.

I hope that Kuya will be chill and 0% toxic for the entirety of this event, please and thank you. Gotta give me time to chill from all of the recent evil-writing!

8) HIS BIG OL' WAVE!!!!! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡

It's giving such puppy energy, I'm having heart palpitations!!!!!!! ﮩـﮩﮩ٨ـ♡ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ

9) Blade is determined to rot my teeth with all of his sugary sweetness, dammit!!!!

This is, hands-down, my top favorite Blade outfit. Our mans got the pastel palette, stylish hat, peek-a-boo torn jeans and crop top, and accessorized to hell and back!!!!

Our Sweet Diet-Decora Prince!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

10) HAND-HOLDING HAND-HOLD HAND-HOLDING HAND-HOLDING HAND---

11) Honestly, it is so refreshing seeing Olivine purely just enjoying himself; letting himself indulge in this he was never allowed to growing up (shoutout to Olivine's shitty parents, I hate you guys). ( ´ ˘ ` )

ALSO, THE PROPHECY IS TRUE!!!! I PREDICTED MUSTACHE-OLIVINE!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

(JK obviously, but now this got me wondering about mustache-olivine even more....)

12) *Immediately gives his belly raspberries*

(Is it just me, or does anyone else think Olivine's hair looks nicer than usual in this SSR? Did he start using a new shampoo or something?)

13) YASSS, QUEEN!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏

WEAR THAT SEXY LINGERIE!!!! 🔥🔥🔥

It's so nice seeing Olivine out here, living his best life, going out of his way to wear some winter-themed lingerie---I think it's partly to rile up Eiden, but mostly as a kind of self-care. We love to see it!!! ◝(ᵔᵕᵔ)◜

🎠 End of report! 🎠

[dirubtrentfree]

Seen a lot of 2024 wrapped stuff, but I felt like writing a little.

What I bought in 2024:

Okay, to be exact, what I've bought since August. 😄 Because that's when I decided to start over my physical media collection. (I lost all my old CD's / concert DVD's. 😿) I'm first focusing on stuff I can buy new, before I need to start relying on second-hand market.

About DEG

Coming back to diru properly this year has been a wonderful experience. DIR EN GREY was the band I listened to the most in my teenage years and early adulthood. Then I drifted away from them. Life got busy. Also, back then I was always afraid of them disbanding. I liked them so much, and couldn't bear the idea, so I created emotional distance. Nothing came to claim their place in my heart while I was away.

I started listening to Phalaris and DAMN. When Uroboros came out it was so good I cried. Phalaris mesmerized me much the same. From there I started to do catching up!

≡Σ((( つ•̀ω•́)つ

Last summer I started to search what tumblr has to offer, and seeing photos of them after a long break was just... ☺️ such a warm feeling. Also, the vibe I get from the band is somehow more positive. They are on social media! O_O It's quite different from the old days and hearing them mostly on interviews, sounding somewhat uncomfortable.

About B-T

2024 has been spent also falling deeper and deeper in love with BUCK-TICK. I started by just listening to their music. Watching lives/PV's/interviews came later, in 2024. I've had so much fun! 😹 But it also intensified the grief I felt about missing out all these years. Last summer I was cycling long distances through countryside, and happened to find an abandoned playground by a pond. With no-one around, I ended up spending way too long on a merry-go-round while listening to 80's BUCK-TICK. Maybe it was the abandoned retro milieu, but for some reason it just hit me really hard that I was really alone with my B-T enthusiasm. After that I started to check out tumblr, and created this blog in October. Now it's no longer a lonely fan experience. 😊 Just seeing other people loving the same music and caring about the band, it warms my heart. ❤

On some level I had assumed that the enthusiasm I once felt for music/bands was at least partially because of youth. I thought it might be different now, but no. 😄 It feels exactly the same. I'm just more chill, and in terms with the fact that these bands cannot outlive me. I must enjoy them NOW. 👍

About tumblr; I don't use any other social media, so finding shared stuff here is great! If you wrote about your thoughts or experiences as fan - THANK YOU, I enjoy text posts very much! 😊 And people who translate interviews and stuff – you're heroes! Thank you so much!

(ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ

~Happy New Year~

[thegazette5]

I've found out that reita is gone three months later

so yesterday at night, august 15, I found out that reita was dead... and I couldn't' believe it, it was so surreal and I cried reading the words of ruki for him. it pains me to know the gazette members were friends, mostly reita and uruha that used to know way before.

tbh I haven't listened to the gazette since 2016

I met the gazette's music at 18 or something like that and

now I'm 36 and I have clinic depression and when the gazette made their second world tour, the country I live in it's close to argentina, I had a friend who had an argentinian friend that got me a front row ticket for the gazette concert, I got the flight tickets for me and my friend, and then I had a shitty nationality that didn't let me go anywhere (I already changed my nationality) anyway, I didn't get the visa to argentina, I was so sad I wanted to end everything. I went straight to the psychiatrist, it was the first time I really wanted to end everything, every bad thing that had happened to me, not being able to got to the gazette's concert was the last blow, and someone I thought as my best friend back then, she got to go and it made me so sad and angry 'cause she wasn't even a real fan compared to me, she just happened to listen to their songs that year and go (she dedicated ito to me 'cause she missed me, and hell I told her 'bout that song's meaning, that's my proof she wasn't a fan)

so I stopped listening to the gazette, but this year I felt like listening to, and last night I was listening to layla by eric clapton because a kaleido star's fanfic I was reading with the characters layla and yuri, and I wanted a name for the main female character of the book I was trying to write, I thought layla was cool, but there's already too many L in my main male character's name, so I thought of reila (I thought it was reira) and there was "what happened to reita the gazette" on the search while I was looking for reila's lyrics, I thought it was a illness or accident, but no, reita is gone.

I found out that reita is gone while listening to eric clapton playing guitar.

I went to wikipedia and I thought a troll edited the page, a horrible joke, but it was real and it means I'll never go to a the gazette's concert in my life, maybe I still can, but it won't be the same without reita, he is the gazette and he is my fave bassist and I remember when I was young and grew up with the gazette's songs, I got excited just by watching their pvs on the screen, everytime I read their interviews were so inspiring, just a bunch of young adult friends that decided to pursue the same dream together. I wish I had that kind of friends, and let's face it, most jrock groups break after a few years, the gazette were friends with the same dream that lasted over two decades, they were losers that had each other and followed their dreams and made them come true and to me the gazette isn't one of the best rock/metal groups of japan, to me they're one of the best in this whole universe.

and I went to two aerosmith lives where they were in their 60s and I dreamed of the the gazette were going to rock 'til they were old in his 70s.

tbh I'm curious about reita's passing, I want to know why, last year matthew perry died and I love friends, it was shocking, but I did know why, however asian artists are more discreet than western ones and we may never now about what happened to reita. there's so many rumours and the gazette haven't released new songs since 2021? I guess there'll be a new bassist and I won't hate on him, but it won't be the same.

reita was so young, not 45 or 47, he was 42 and I don't want to believe in the horrible rumours. whatever happened to him, it was his life, if there's heaven, another life or another world I hope he's in peace.

and I'm hurt and I'm not ready to listen to the gazette music yet.

[mouldymp3rotations]

1224-016

BIRTHDAYMONTHです!

I use this as an excuse to dump 10 songs on you instead of the usual five :D

Last year's Birthday Month 10 Favourites

As usual : Song titles link to individual mp3 file download

All 5 songs can also be downloaded together in a zip file from the link at the bottom

Let's go !!

BLOOD - Blood ft. Exo-chika

This is easily in my top 3 favourite BLOOD songs ! The old version is good too, but I saw this being released as both a BLOOD and an Aural Vampire fan, so i'm forever gonna be biased towards this one lol :)

This version of Blood was on the Dead-Hearted maxi-single, released in 2007 (this might or might not be my rip, but yeah, file is old lol)

Blutengel - Seelenschmerz

Is anyone shocked that my re-exploring the visual kei i was listening to 20 years ago made me want to also re-explore the rest of what I was listening, back then ? Of course, some of that meant Blutengel. I went to see what happened between now and then, and really, a lot of their stuff is forgettable and I always end up annoyed at Pohl's fake deep voice sdkjasfkhjfkhj. But I still fucking love Seelenschmerz aaaaaah !!!! And i still owe Blutengel for being my introduction to darkwave and it's entirely because/thanks to their influence that I fell for Schwarz Stein eheheheh

Seelenschmerz was the title track of the album released in 2001

Chanton L'amour - L'horloge

SONG OF ALL TIME.

SONG

OF

ALL.

TIME.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chanton L'amour was a short-lived side-project of Machi from Lareine ♥ And this one absolutely is my rip (look, i don't remember buying this either but I have it, therefore I definitely bought and ripped this :) )

L'horloge was the title track of the single single they released, in 2001

(pleeeeease let her diiie ok, she asks so nicely ;^; )

D'espairsRay - Squall

I got my partner into D'espa, this year, and this is the song that completed the conversion lol :D

Squall was a single released in 2007.

(seriously, what was it with early-mid 2000's vk and their PV taking place in derelict buildings....)

Dalida - Parle plus bas

Oups, here's Dalida again kjdjskdhjkndjkds. Yes, that's the Godfather's song. Actually, you might know this as Speak Softly Love. I'm of the opinion that this is the best version of that song to exist. I love her voice soooo much T^T/♥

Parle Plus Bas was a single from the album known as Il faut du temps, if you're French, but Dalida otherwise, all from 1972

HIM - The Sacrament

For real, i don't care much for Ville Valo, but that song has been sticking with me for about 20 years, now, so I guess it means something :3

The Sacrament is from the 2003 album, Love Metal.

(ftr, this is what i'm expecting Lestat IWTVAMC to generally look/act/sound like but blonde, if the promo vid/song is to be believed lol)

L'Âme Immortelle - 5 Jahre

L'Âme Immortelle was in a similar basket as Blutengel, to me. But when I caught up with them, I found that they had everything I liked about BlutEngel and then some ! So I've been getting more familiar with the more recent stuff, which means that I got to hear the album version of 5 Jahre ! I had only heard the shorter, single version !

5 Jahre was found on the 2004 album, Gezeiten.

The video is for the single version (i wanted the clip !), but the mp3 I'm sharing is the long version from the album :)

Nightwish - Edema Ruh

I feel like Nightwish has become a product more than a band, in the past 20 years (ngl nightwish with Floor Jansen is a huge disappointment, but that's another story and shall be told another time (all I want is a studio recording of storytime gothdamnit 😤)), but still, sometimes they still have songs that catch me. Edema Ruh is one of them, or at least the synth caught me lol.

Edema Ruh was found on Endless Forms Most Beautiful, released in 2015 (imo their last album maybe worth listening, especially if you fell off after Tarja was kicked out, but please don't hate on Anette Olzon though. We don't pit women against each other, here.)

Pierre Lapointe - Dans la forêt des mal-aimés

I think from now on, I will make a point to include at least one québécois song in my birthday month compilation, as a little personal challenge, but also because i'm from there lol.

This song, like for most of Québec, was my introduction to Pierre Lapointe. This album, at the time, gave me hope that being musically weird would be more acceptable, in the province's music scene. It didn't. Now dude's a fucking coach on our version of The Voice 💀💀💀

Dans La Forêt Des Mal-Aimés was a single off of La Forêt Des Mal-Aimés, released in 2006

Rentrer En Soi - PROTOPLASM

Oh no ! Another song of all time !

Not only is this my favourite Rentrer en Soi song, but I think this is one of the best visual kei song ever made ;w;/

Protoplasm was single released in 2006

So yeah, my favourite genre of music is still dramatic and happy birthday to me :D

↓ zippity zip ↓

♥ HERE ♥

[princess-of-the-corner]

So apparently TA did yet another interview regarding miraculous and outside of lying through his teeth regarding chloe(again) There's some stuff I think you might want to take a look at.

https://www.reddit.com/r/miraculousladybug/comments/1dy1l98/the_interview_of_thomas_astruc_and_s%C3%A9bastien/

.....

"Lila is the most difficult to write" yeah she REALLY doesn't have to be just make her fucking normal instead of creating hoops to jump through

'we already saw why lila is like this' unless this is 'because she's a 14 year old girl and therefore evil' there's been little that explains Lila. there /was/ originally back when it seems like she was just neglected and attention starved, but they turned her into some mastermind con artist so one of her marks being too busy to parent her is somehting she'd love.

I'm not even going to touch that 'we gave her the oppurtunity but it didn't make sense for her character' and 'a /real/ person would never turn good' bullshit.

..... they redeemed him. Because they wanted. To show a backstory. You can show a backstory without giving that fucker a 'oh actually /he's/ the victim here!!' bullshit ass redemption

At this point I really don't care why they didn't do the 2d

the darker tone of the PV was on the animators not TA and team? So one of the most intriguing aspects were literally just some guys going off on their own rather than intentional????

Simpleman being their favorite but either heavily disliked or straight up forgotten by the fans is.... telling.

Yet another on the list of 'based off someone TA knows!'. You'd think he'd stop confirming this after people went 'hey you base characters off irl people and you have an intense hatred of this character, are you venting something with her?'.

I call bullshit there's no way any of them would design themselves to look like that

At least we get a song!

On one hand, I want Akumanette and I def think enough things have shifted since TA's original 'no she would never be akumatized because then things are fucked' tweet to allow for that to happen. Namely Mr. Bug and Scarabella providing the groundwork of someone who could be Ladybug in her place. But I do not look forward to TA being fucking insufferable when people bring up the tweet and all 'you're looking too much into it' or 'clearly it was a deception'.

I know we're greenlit to season 8 already but GOD stop milking this dead horse

Ya know what fair enough gay as hell

On one hand I want more solid info on the alternate universe and The Supreme. But on the other hand the lore got so contradictory the more you look into it.

Nathalie's history is one of the few interesting points I'm actually kinda really hoping for.

my motherfucker in arceus Adrien is very much written as the secondary protagonist, we've had plenty focus on him and his pov. Just because y'all tried to make him the sexy lamp and shafted him last second in the finale and keep him from knowing jack all doesn't change that at this point it just becomes bad writing after multiple seasons of his importance

I am spooked by the idea of a live action.

Rip to Chloé continuing to get dunked on in season 6

[withered-rose-unbreakable-lotus]

So you want to listen to 9GOATS BLACK OUT?

...and you don't know where to start? Well I got you. I like talking about my favorite bands and I love recommending music.

So, I won't go into details about the band, you can look that part up. All you need to know, imo is that it's unfortunately disbanded. Why you need to know that? Cause some people don't like listening to bands that are no longer active. Another thing you might wonder is if the members are still active. Well Ryo (bunch of projects, HOLLOWGRAM, DALLE, etc.) and Uta (Sukekiyo) are. Hati isn't, I've looked it up and...as far as the rest of members, who weren't showing up much in photoshoots are concerned, I unfortunately don't know. The fact they were sometimes in sometimes out discouraged me from looking further into them or following their activities BUT I'm sure you can find something about them on vkgy (if you haven't tried that site, do so, it's an amazing archive of vkei bands). Anyway, let's get to the music.

[side note: Some fans might disagree with my choices or think I should add 1-2 more songs, but this is just an opinion. If you wish to make a list of your own go ahead, every person has different criteria on what feels easier to listen to first, or showcases a band's colors best.]

Sink is the first song that got me into the band and I would hands down recommend it to anyone wanting to give this band a try. It's a common starter for many fans as well, as I learnt years later so yeah. If you like moody stuff with a melody that takes you places, you will like this one.

If my 18-19 year old self saw me suggesting this song, she would goggle her eyes at me. The reason I'm suggesting this is because it was one of their songs I didn't like at all for years, however, whenever I accidentally came across it, the melody stuck to me FOR DAYS. This is one of their catchiest tunes in my eyes. You don't understand, when I don't like a song I almost never come back. I was bewitched to like this song xD. If you are like me, you probably won't like it on the first try, but give it a few listens and you might change your mind. ;)

This is another song I see many 9goats fans enjoy and I think it's easy to listen, too. I love it personally and I also love the pv cause I get to clearly see everyone! Up until their last pv's release, Uta and Hati, even though they showed up in photoshoots, they weren't often visible in pvs for long, if at all. They both have amazing aesthetic, beyond their music artistry, they can give you strong visuals if you ask them to, but they both were more focused on sound and I think, in Uta's case that is obvious even now that he is with Sukekiyo. They wanted their music to be the center of attention it appears and that's ok, but to me it was a bit sad they didn't let us see them in pvs more too.

I say that a lot, if you know me and we've spoken about this band before, but I consider them the closest thing I have ever felt like calling “black magic in music form”, but in a novel way. This song is a good indication why. Also this song showcases everybody's talent. Ryo's haunting voice, Uta's screaming guitar, and Hati's calm bass carrying everything else from the back and making the sound move like waves in the sea, slow at first and then speeding up and back to slow again. The drums are powerful here as well, the melodic piano, creating such a soaring feeling with everything else, it's just ugh.

This is one of those songs that feels like it's from a videogame to me. Or a movie, if you aren't a videogame person. It's mysterious, like following a character around during the night. It's quite haunting too. The way the music trails off at places especially....goodness gracious. The distortions, the melody just...try it try it. Very cinematic.

You might need more time with the band before you try this one, but it's really good. The way the drums enter after the guitar and Ryo's first lyrics grasps my heart. It makes me shiver every single time, chills, chills, chills across the board. If you have a woofer at home, please use it. Let it shake your room, feel it. And if you have earphones or headphones, choose headphones at least once. I don't know how effective this song is on others, but they can't have added so much ahm...how do you call that, underground sound I guess, unless they wanted people to feel the instruments vibrate underneath you (not that way, ye nasties, like an earthquake I mean).

I hope you find sth you like, if not, it's ok, we all like different things, but yeah, this was my attempt to entice more people listen to one of my favorite bands, 9GOATS BLACK OUT.

[mikunology]

Mikunology Reviews #1: Boku wa Hatsune Miku to Kiss wo Shita (2013) (Pt.1)

Here it is, my very first album review! I figured I would do something I'm pretty familiar with first, so I decided to go with this one: a review of one of my favorite Vocaloid albums of all time, created by my favorite producer! Boku wa Hatsune Miku to Kiss wo Shita (or I Shared a Kiss With Hatsune Miku) by Mikito-P (2013)! This album also happens to be Mikito's first full studio release.

By the way, let me go ahead and state that I am not a musician, so I'm not as good at really phrasing my thoughts on things in a technical manner. But I still hope you enjoy my opinion :> I'm also a big fan, as stated, so I will probably get rambly > <" But let's get started!

Part 2 here

Hatsune Miku to Kiss wo Shita (I Shared a Kiss With Hatsune Miku): The eponymous title track: a soft rock ballad using Miku Dark (pretty sure at least) about a frustrated artist getting through life alongside Hatsune Miku. I won't lie that I'm a bit biased towards this song given its one of my favorites ever, but I like to think there's a reason for why I like it as much as I do. The strong-yet-not-overwhelming rock melody is very nice (especially paired with the piano), but most of all, I love Miku's gentle vocals: Miku Dark naturally sounds sad and tired, but the way she sings here seems almost warm given the subject matter. The lyrics are also very beautiful and relatable if you're a fan of Miku's; the struggle of feeling low confidence and finding comfort in a concept such as Hatsune Miku is written really wonderfully. A really good start to the whole album.

Shinzo Democracy (Heart Democracy): A really good second track, and a pretty popular one from this album? It has a more present melody going through it than in track one, but still with that signature atmosphere from Mikito. Miku sounds like Miku Dark here, too, but with a more airy, echo-y quality that reflects off the guitars  - I think it works well for the song. If you want something with a bit higher tempo than track one, this is where it is. I remember people talking about the PV in relation to the lyrics as well, since it can be interpreted as the narrator talking about himself in a sort of disconnected POV or talking about a gay love interest. Whatever floats your boat, I think!

Yuugure Twitter (Evening Twitter): This actually appears to be a slight remaster of the original song posted on NND - it's a bit cleaner, with better and clearer vocals and mixing and a longer guitar outro. I think I like this version of it best, to be honest, it really helps the song sell the sort of forlorn, dusky atmosphere it's setting. I also really like the way Mikito uses Miki - I really feel like his songs with her show his liking for the character. The guitar outro is also just…really good.

Kunoichi Demo Koi ga Shitai! (Even Though I'm a Ninja Girl, I Want to Love!): A MikuRin duet! This song is really goofy: just a fast-paced, lighthearted pop rock track following a kunoichi (a female ninja) and her efforts to be together with a noble's son despite the difficulties her job brings her. It's a really fun track, with a catchy melody and some fun, colorful visuals in the PV (plus Miku and Rin's tanuki/kitsune hoodies are super cute!). I also really like how Miku and Rin are framed like "narrators" instead of being characters in the story itself or being completely removed from it. Lastly, I really like the sort of "vrooooooom" noises Miku and Rin make at certain points, it gets you hyped up XD

Setagaya Night Safari: This one took me a bit to get into, but I can comfortably say I like it a lot nowadays. This one is a bit like track one in that the melody is a bit more…abstract? Than in like, Kunoichi. It also has these strange old-timey jazz segments at the beginning and end. But still! Miku Dark returns here again, and her vocals add a sort of melancholic wonder to the song, especially the chorus ("doko e iku no?"). A pretty good one, but I do think it might take a few listens to really sink in on whether you like it or not.

Tokyo Eki (Tokyo Station): A Rin solo track! I feel like this one isn't talked about very much, despite it getting a PV and everything. This is another atmospheric rock track about taking the train to see someone you love in the winter months. This track uses Rin Append (I'm assuming Sweet specifically) and I think she works really well! Like Miku Dark's vocals in Kiss wo Shita, there's a pleasant feeling of softness from how Rin sounds here, which fits the wintry vibe of the song. However, I still think that the premiere version of the song is the one using Len from ALL VOCALOID ATTACK 1…but whether you agree with me might be up to whether you enjoy Rin or Len's voices more. By the way, I really like the lead guitar and drums on this one.

Yuudachi no Ribbon (Ribbon of Evening Showers): This song comes from MAYU's demo CD! This one is more high-energy than usual, but still with a melancholic air about it. This song is about a pair of girls trying to hide their relationship, while a third girl (heavily implied to have feelings for one of them) threatens to expose them, all under a rainy sky. I really love the melody in this one; it's very catchy but also full of the emotion and drama you'd expect from a song with this sort of premise (helped by MAYU's voice), plus I like the vocal bits interspersed in the instrumental parts. My favorite part is the "issho ni kaero" part in the middle, where the melody changes up a bit before the bridge. Definitely one of my favorites from this album, and a great introduction to MAYU!

Bansoukou (Bandage): This is another one that took me quite a few listens before I liked it; this is one of the slowest tracks in the album, with another more understated melody. This is a ballad song, no real description on the lyrics/theme since it remains untranslated. I like this track way more now because of the slow gentleness of Miku's voice, the piano, and the great guitar melody during the outro, but I also feel it's a bit on the dull side in comparison to the rest of the album. You might like it much more if you enjoy slower rock ballads or shoegaze, though, it has a bit of a keeno-like feel to it. (Funny, since keeno is actually in this album.)

Hikoukai Nisshi (Private Log): Another more fun one! This song uses GUMI Power, and what a great use of GUMI Power it is (plus some giggling sounds courtesy of Yukari's EX Voice). This is a refreshing love song, with the PV setting against a very cute pirate Gumi. I really love the vibe of this track, it's very pleasant and perfectly captures the sunny seafaring adventure Gumi is on - the melody, as usual, is really great as well. My favorite part has to be the final chorus when Gumi's voice hits its apex, her final "susume" is so great and full of emotion! I love this one a lot, it remains one of my favorite Gumi songs.

Alright, Tumblr is telling me there's a character limit for articles on this site, so I guess I'm going to have to break this into two posts. Join me in part two, then, for the second half of the CD!

[a-bombyx-mori]

poking around on spotify earlier and saw that ghost hit 1 mil monthly listeners,,, holy shit!! and their work has been a constant in my life for about 7 years now holy fuck.

gets me thinking about their impact and stuff. still have mixed emotions about everything because they sure did get good and bad attention while they were online. it's gotta be satisfying to see so many people enjoy your art and music and for them to even pay for it. then there's all the problems that come with any fanbase or online presence in general. and I've been here a while so here's just a few things that stand out to me about. everything? things I've thought about a bit?

(this became a long reflection ramble thing whoops.)

I've never really had other songs or writing at all describe the weird mental shit I've been through. yep, it's probably dumb, but ghost and pals songs helped me identity my problems. they became a source of catharsis when I was in fucking middle school and still are to this day. hell, evolve was the first thing that got me thinking I had been in a horrible relationship (along with twisted love ofc). aoapp was a reflection of my anxious attachment for a long time. I wouldn't have been able to make personal progress the past few years without analyzing songs too much.

and don't get me started on their drawings,, their artstyle has always been so charming in its own way. for a long time I tried to emulate their techniques so I could be an artist too. AND THEIR PV EDITING?? mgnghfh full course meal. I still set stills as backgrounds every so often. the fucking colorbars picture was my email background for years until google decided to stop loading it sometime last year.

I still admire them so much.

but there's also things they did that feel off. like I'll never get over how the new chattering was supposed to be a joke. you can't go and make a polished banger showing off your improvement and then say "yeah lol I only did this cause my friend joked about doing it so I said bet." or smth along those lines. (ghost said they remade it cause creep-p joked about it. in a tweet I think? gotta find it.) at that point, it also becomes a slight against your fans. you can't act like everything you make is (essentially) worthless without unintentionally shaming those who enjoy it. it's like that one mirror reflection picture thing.

the whole deletion of specific songs/most of their old discography is also it's own complex beast. ideally, an artist should be in control of when their art is displayed, but you give up that agency when using the internet. hell, there's mirrors of my old Instagram pages, and I'm nowhere near ghost's notoriety. thats the nature of the internet. shit is saved and copied and reuploaded all the time. the only way you can prevent that is by not uploading it at all or going through copyright law/terms of use/etc.

when I first started listening to ghost, they had their old work in an unlisted playlist. cool. then another channel I believe? then later on there was no official way of getting them so ofc people reuploaded them. was that the best thing to do? nope. but people enjoy their old songs and wanted access to them. and not everyone has a local back-up of music cause they're afraid it'll become inaccessible lost media.

them deleting most of their music vids is similar. this happened around like 2018ish? people started reuploading their current songs because. guess what. they weren't officially avaliable. people were thanking translators and such who had the pvs on their channel because they had access to it again. I believe something like this happened a second time but I don't remember for sure.

THIS DOESN'T EXCUSE ANY OF THE PATREON LEAKS BTW. those were paywalled benefits so that's a fundamental breach of privacy (and site rules, I'm p sure).

also less serious thing but they set up a premiere at the end of 2019 for a new song or whatever and it turned out to be a fucking joke too. just like a dr phil picture or smth. only upset at that cause back then I'd get the biggest fucking adrenaline rush whenever they were about to release something. then again I was also depressed as hell so that's an old me problem imo.

there's probably other drama or whatever I'm completely forgetting about, but probably for the better. in the end it's all about the art we're here for in the first place, and the artist behind it. I hope they're doing well after detaching from social media.

uh. long essay thing over now. I think

[bluepoodle7]

#VideosIRemember#Nostalgia #VidsILike#MyThoughts

Just some more vids I remember or like.

Using the bootleg rare abstraction plush the first long plush than the chibi one that I will review later.

What the plush looks like from the side.

kaufmo digital circus plush｜TikTok Search

Amazon.com: Customer reviews: VAOUX 10 PCS Digital Circus Plush Toy,The Amazing Plushies Toy,Stuffed Animal Plushie Doll Gift for Kids and Fans.

Good Kid - Summer (Official Video) (youtube.com)

The Love Boat - commercial theme (Princess Cruises) (youtube.com)

Passion Pit - Carried Away (youtube.com)

Pirate (youtube.com)

Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream (Lyrics HD) (youtube.com)

Bobby Caldwell - What You Won't Do for Love (Album Version) (youtube.com)

Michael Jackson & Roberta Flack - When we grow up (1974) . (youtube.com)

The Hungry Song from Vinesauce Games Repainted (youtube.com)

YouTube ‪Just the way you are Billy Joel Lyrics

‬‏【MUSIC VIDEO】Fantastic Plastic Machine (FPM) / Reaching for the Stars [Vo: INCOGNITO] (2003 "too") (youtube.com)

Fantastic Plastic Machine - Reaching for the Stars reprise (youtube.com)

【MUSIC VIDEO】Fantastic Plastic Machine (FPM) / don't you know (2006 "imaginations") (youtube.com)

【PV】I WAS IN LOVE - FPM feat. 細美武士 (the HIATUS) (youtube.com)

Eddie, Let Me Go Back To My Home - Donkey Kong Country (You Gotta Send Me Back) (youtube.com)

I'm Nobody's Hero (HD REMASTERED EDITION) (youtube.com)

Donkey Kong Country x Daft Punk - Metal-Head Around the World (Mashup) // I am Jemboy (youtube.com)

Pokémon Short 01 Japanese Unreleased BGM - Pikachu's Anger (youtube.com)

Pokémon Short 01 Japanese Unreleased BGM - The Great Electric Mice Race (youtube.com)

Fantastic Plastic Machine / Spectacular feat. VERBAL (youtube.com)

Fantastic Plastic Machine / On A Chair (youtube.com)

Magic Ways but you’re at the beach 1984 (youtube.com)

Just A Lil' Lovin' - Fantastic Plastic Machine (youtube.com)

Fantastic Plastic Machine - Take Me Away [HQ] (youtube.com)

Fantastic Plastic Machine - Steppin' Out (youtube.com)

Cartoon Network Groovies - "Mars Forever" (youtube.com)

They Call Me Sonic - King of the Ring (Professional Mashup) (youtube.com)

Sonic King of the ring (youtube.com)

They Call Me Sonic - FULL VERSION (youtube.com)

BLUE STINGER - opening (youtube.com)

Fish McBites "Fishy Fishy" McDonalds Commercial (youtube.com)

McDonalds Filet-O-Fish Commercial (8K) (60FPS) (youtube.com)

I like how the screen is clear on this old school blackberry phone like it's a smartphone but the real version would be pixelated and the sound would be crunchy.

The Fish Is Back! (youtube.com)

Frankie The Singing Fish - Give Me Back That Filet-O-Fish - Plus Remix (youtube.com)

Sega Dreamcast 2 Menu Demonstration - YouTube

BugaBoo Creek (youtube.com)

Moxie The Moose and Bill The Buffalo Audio Skits - Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse (youtube.com)

June 1996 - Don Pablo's Commercial (youtube.com)

High Above the Land (The Flying Machine) (Arranged) - Shovel Knight (youtube.com)

Queen Latifah - Living Single Theme - " 90's kinda world" Destructo Remix (youtube.com)

In Living Color All Intros. (youtube.com)

Justice - D.A.N.C.E Lyrics (HQ) (youtube.com)

D.A.N.C.E. 8bit janski beats (youtube.com)

Candy Colors (End Zone) - M&M's: The Lost Formulas (youtube.com)

PE'Z - Hale no sola sita ～LA YELLOW SAMBA～ (youtube.com)

Windy Hill (Windy Valley) - Sonic Adventure [OST] (youtube.com)

Undertale - Amalgam (Pokemon FR/LG Soundfont) (youtube.com)

AREA ZERO: Black 2 & White 2 Remix ► Pokémon Scarlet & Violet (youtube.com)

Area Zero Wild Battle Theme | Pokémon BW2 Style (youtube.com)

Comic Jumper - Brad's Theme (youtube.com)

Yeah Brad (youtube.com)

Pe'z Hale No Sola Sita 〜La Yellow Samba〜 (youtube.com)

Illbleed but it came out in 2007 (youtube.com)

ミカヅキBIGWAVE - Emotional Prism 感情的なプリズム (youtube.com)

Enjoy Your Stay (Extended Mix) - EarthBound (youtube.com)

Snowman Fusion Collab (youtube.com)

Snowman (JP Version) - EarthBound (youtube.com)

I remember watching when I was little with Ramen Flash, There She Is, and Attack of the Evil TV.

This is my first time seeing Terry Bogard before he got in smash through old Newgrounds memes and this video.

Terry Bogard's Day Out! (Better Version!!!) (youtube.com)

Love Is a Dying Art (youtube.com)

Cheap Talk - Stay The Night (youtube.com)

Uninvited - Scarlet O'Hara Metal Version (youtube.com)

Amalgam But The Notes Order Is Reversed - YouTube

Stronger Monsters but with no melody (youtube.com)

amalgam but its jungle (youtube.com)

Plasterbrain - Nimbasa Core LYRICS (youtube.com)

[SFM] Rule Breaker (youtube.com)

It's Showtime! (VHS Version) - Undertale (youtube.com)

Dogsong (Demo) - Undertale (youtube.com)

The Greatest Music Corruption Of All Time - Vinny (Vinesauce) - Corruptions For Charity {Highlight} (youtube.com)

Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley - Manga - ILoveU Music Extended (youtube.com)

Potential for Anything - VVVVVV (youtube.com)

Terrace Martin - Don't Let Go (youtube.com)

Terrace Martin - Don’t Let Me Go 【 𝑺𝒍𝒐𝒘 + 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒃 】 (youtube.com)

This song with the camera sound effects from the apple ad give me Illbleed vibes trying to use items in battle but can't but has a camera pause sound effect in it.

Attack Of the Killer Queen In 1991 (youtube.com)

Yu Yu Hakusho Unreleased Track#9-High Quality (youtube.com)

【CHIPSPEECH COVER】Sonic Adventure - E-102 Gamma's Theme【Terminal 99】 (youtube.com)

When I first saw Maison Talo's design I thought he would sound like Steve Broadie.

Kind of monotone but nice sounding.

He is also the narrator in Illbleed and Michael Reynolds.

E-102 Gamma [Voice clips] ~ Steve Broadie (Sonic Adventure) (youtube.com)

Illbleed - Level Intro - The Homerun of Death (youtube.com)

Pirate (youtube.com)

Soothe Me/Reuse 216 (youtube.com)

This song sounds like a early 2000s intro to a show kind of like Charmed to me.

Super Monkeyball Banana Blitz - Boss Music - Tako the Octopus (youtube.com)

Charmed Theme Song (youtube.com)

This theme is like if Balan Wonderworld had a sequel this would be one of the boss themes but has a spooky scary skeletons in the beginning.

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD ~ Octopocus ~ Theme (youtube.com)

Mackenzie Phillips - "In The Darkness 1.2" - From Disney's So Weird - FULL (youtube.com)

Passion Pit - Carried Away (youtube.com)

Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream w/lyrics (youtube.com)

Bobby Caldwell / What You Won't Do for Love [with Lyrics] (youtube.com)

Goldfish - Fort Knox (Lyrics and Song) (youtube.com)

Dreaming of You- Selena ~ slow & reverb (youtube.com)

| Hip Hop Beat | SSBM Opening Theme SHEIK (youtube.com)

shakambo - "Final Destination" Super Smash Bros Melee lofi (youtube.com)

Tower of Balue lofi hip hop beat (Klonoa) (youtube.com)

The Tower of Balue (From "Klonoa: Door to Phantomile") (youtube.com)

[thrilling-oneway]

I don't think this is gonna get many more votes so. run-through

btw i took liberties not all of this stuff is from the main (anime/school idol diary/linklike) canon and is from alternate canon or noncanon materials

Honoka stops the rain by shouting at it in S2E1

2. Mari is chairman of Uranohoshi because her dad helps to fund the school

3. Maki turns into her childhood self in the SIP OVA. Also here's where she transforms back into a 16 y/o. This might be a dream. This also is probably noncanon because the OVA is just a glorfied Music S.T.A.R.T.!! PV.

4. Honoka meets a mysterious woman in the School Idol Movie who bears heavy resemblance to her both in appearance and personality/mannerisms, as well the woman's backstory being identical to Honoka's current situation. Honoka meets her in New York when she gets lost and finds the lady doing a street performance, who then guides her back to her friends. She disappears before any of them see her, leaving her mic stand with Honoka. Honoka doesn't see the woman again and takes the mic home with her.

She "meets" the woman again back in Tokyo, though it's revealed to actually be Honoka's dream. In her dream, mystery woman references Honoka's childhood that was shown in the film's prologue. Honoka never returns the mic stand and the last time it is seen is in Honoka's room after the dream.

The most commonly accepted theory is that this woman is Honoka from the future, and the woman herself acts as if she knows Honoka and what will happen in the future. It's also worth noting that she is not in Honoka's imagination (at least during the NYC scene) as she interacts with other people.

5. THIS IS THE MADE UP ONE. I made this up on the spot but I think I subconsciously pulled from an old fan theory about Rina. Or that robot shikimei art I saw the other day. One or the other.

6. Rin and Hanayo have a love confession and implied kiss (1st image) in School Idol Diary, a series of light novels that act as supplementary materials to the anime and are generally considered to be part of the anime canon. Here is some other art of them kissing from SID and other materials. Nozoeli almost stage kiss and Honoumi almost (stage?) kiss in the novels too. Multiple idols kiss in the manga canon idk who specifically I know Umi kisses Honoka which I have put here and I think Nozomi kisses a few girls too. Might be more but I haven't read it and I forgor. OH and Chika kisses Ruby in the puppet show.

7. Famitsu trio 4komas were fucking insane dude. This was also referenced in one of this year's april fools pranks.

8. Mari's campervan flies in Sunshine 2x10. This is just for imagery. It happens again in the Shiny Racers MV.

9. Mutsuki Takamagahara my fucking beloved. They are plotting to take over the world and they also like building robots and making things fucking explode. No they do not canonically use they/them I just feel especially strongly about it. Mutsuki love worldwide. They are slightly insane. My ugly fucking child I want to thow against the wall and see if they make a splat noise. Uhh N girl stuff is like lost media now outside of what little they do in the Niji anime and archives of their card illusts so I hope these images of mutsuki and some random wiki screenshots suffice. I haven't lovemailed them in a while can you tell.

10. Shiki and Natsumi consider poisoning Margarete to get back at her in Superstar 2x09

11. Honoka is implied to be straight in a magazine interview. And here's some other art of Honoka from the wildly inconsistent dengeki canon.

And that's the quiz. I hope you learnt something weird about Love Live. For some stuff that got cut from the quiz: Ayumu epic gamer moments, Ayumu goku, Sayuri the idol with guns, Christina the nun idol, Ruby turning into a coelacanth, everything about the puppet show actually, Hatsune Miku watching Aqours through their phones and computers, Setsuna playing CoD, Setsuna trip and The Scene (it would've been too hard to put in the quiz lol i just want to spread yupomu agenda), and the school idol god

congrats to the one person who voted correctly lol

Mostly non Love Live people follow me so i wanna see smth

[halfetirosie]

🐇 Important info from the [Divergent Dream] PV! 🐇 (Reaction post)

1) 🚨🚨🚨 EIDEN'S-APARTMENT REVEAL!!!!! 🚨🚨🚨

I'm so glad he kept his Baby-Eiden Oversized Jacket!!!! ✨✨✨

Whenever I saw the small Eiden sprite with that jacket, I wondered why they chose to have the adult sprite wearing a different one, since it would've been charming to see how Eiden "grew into it"---And since the jacket was nowhere to be seen, I felt kinda sad, thinking that Eiden's old favorite jacket got destroyed or thrown away....

But there it is! In all its glory!!!! 😭🙏

(Gang, is it dumb to get emotional over a jacket?)

ALSO--- IS THAT THE CATURBATOR I SEE, TUCKED BEHIND THOSE BINDERS???? 😂😂😂

2) The little head-tilt he does at this part... Eiden, you handsome bastard......

😵❤️❤️❤️❤️

I have to say it---POOR EIDEN IS GONNA BREAK HIS HAND, PUTTING IT IN SUCH AN UNCOMFY POSITION!!!!

3) I love this running gag where Eiden is always associated with the silliest-looking sex toys in existence 🤣🥕

He's hot as hell.... But more importantly, IS EIDEN GOING TO BE RECORDING HIMSELF DURING THIS EVENT STORY?!?!?!?! THAT WOULD BE EVEN HOTTER!!!

I wonder; is this implying that Eiden might have been an adult-content streamer in the past? As another one of his 1,000,000 part-time jobs? That would be really interesting to talk about, if true!

4) Oh fuckkkk, he's going to be using a second sex toy in that same R2???? 🤤

THIS GAME WANTS TO ROB EVERY PENNY TO MY NAME!!!!!

Hello again, sock garters, my old friend... 👀

This game got us acting like Puritans, getting worked up over seeing a goddamn ankle....🤣🤣🤣

5) Yup, here it is! Our boi practicing self-love again!

ꉂ (≧ヮ≦)

I wouldn't consider myself a fan of selfcest, per se---for the most part, it doesn't really do much for me; at least, the Demon King Eiden ones didn't.

But, I wouldn't say I didn't enjoy them. I couldn't concentrate on trying to feel horny because I was laughing so much! 🤣 Hearing two Eiden-voices was like a weird echoing, and just, him talking to himself---like masturbating with extra steps---It was too silly for me to handle!

So, idk, I might attempt to pull on this banner just so I can enjoy the absurdity again.

⊹₊⟡⋆ ¯\_( • ᴗ • )_/¯ ⊹₊⟡⋆

6) I spy, with my little eye, another promising Eiden Outfit!!!!

He looked great in Greenwood Miracle with a hat + overalls, so this outfit should be pretty cute too.

ALSO, I JUST REALIZED----EIDEN'S HAIR IS ITS NATURAL DARK BROWN HERE!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I thought it was just a trick of the lights at first, but I looked back at the SSR bit that flashed just before this image, and the hair really is a different color!!!!

I'M SO HPYED!!!! ✧｡٩(ˊᗜˋ )و✧*｡

🐇 End of report! 🐇

[kittyclowns]

Pink Spider by Torboruta-P ft. Kagamine Rin

[toujoursmiraculous]

Thoughts and Reaction to SIMPLEMAN

A day late but that's what happens when good subs aren't out until the next day, and you're busy that day. This episode is so sweet and wholesome that it was worth it, for sure. I'm still not sure which one is Ella and which one is Etta. They're always addressed together so I just don't know, but I'd like to. ;-; (Note: Looked it up on Wikia, the one in pink with seafoam earrings is Etta, the one in seafoam and pink earrings is Ella) See Nino knows. Nino's concerned about Marinette babysitting three kids already. He lives with one all the time, times that by 4 and WOO that's crazy. Sweet of her to want to ensure her best friend has some time to relax with her boyfriend. Oh. OH those poor Kwami! Especially Fluff and her ears being pulled like a game of tug-of-war! I can see it now, Fluff now traumatized by young kids. So if Alix ever has any in the future, they better grow up knowing about Fluff right away or she's in for a horror show. PV TRAILER AND MUSIC! I'm such a fan of the music and the PV that when my sister told me about it, it made me even more excited for this episode than I already was. And I was very excited already! Manon: So? Aren't you going to answer it? She knows what's up. So Adrien's calling asking Marinette to help sew on a wing? Because nobody else there can do it? I dunno, sounds kind of sus to me, Adrien. Are you sure you're not using that as an excuse just to see your "friend"?

Marinette's biggest problem is thinking so far ahead in her brain that when she goes to speak, she's either way far ahead of herself or gets everything mixed up as it comes out of her mouth. If she just lived in the moment and didn't plan (which being Ladybug that's probably very hard not to do outside the costume), she'd be able to do this and overcome that fear of rejection as well. She seems to have that part fairly taken care though. When Gina said she was in China to learn Kung Fu and met a girl that reminded her of Marinette, instantly thought about Fei. How could it not be her? Rolland gets asked to babysit, immediately is like "Let's do something fun and dangerous!" Tom must have had an interesting childhood with Rolland and Gina. o.o Clearly Rolland doesn't realize who the heroes are based on. Or just completely forgot he met them when Bakerix. xD Adrien's so sweet with Marinette, even if he can't understand a single thing she says. That's adorable. But a really good way to thank her could've been "Would you stay and watch the photoshoot, and then maybe we could go do something fun/get something to eat after?" BOOM. Problems solved. But I have a feeling this may come back later, and maybe that would turn out better. Marinette's grandparents tend to give Hawk Moth/Shadowmoth the most sass and trouble in comparison to other Parisians. XD Rolland is so sweet to these kids, and they are so caring towards him. It's so wholesome! Just think: if that helicopter wasn't crashing behind her, she would've screamed she loved Adrien. So close. Simpleman is the chillest akuma. Being all "Hey kids, even though I'm akumatized, let's go out into the city!" and the kids are like "Yeah, okay. Hey let's get ice cream!"

Him protecting them from all the flying pizza boxes that guy was throwing around everywhere was super sweet too. LB and CN: Things are complicated. So we should find Shadow Moth directly. Let's run around the city screaming for him to come find us so we can fight him! I seriously think if Chat Noir or Ladybug brought up the fact that their identities made things complicated, they would've revealed themselves right then and there. LOL at the old school fighting and them behaving like young children xD "NO!" "I'm NaNa, ClaCla is no longer with NaNa! Paris is really messy! BuggyBug, KittyKity, help us!" Oh this is going to be so hilarious in the English dub with the voice actress who also voices Nathalie. XDDD A bouncy ball is very complicated for Ladybug. That a literal 5 year old can figure out. Wow this villain's power sure did a number on her. xD I find it all the more stressful actually, that Chat Noir and Ladybug can remember what they were doing the whole time they were affected by the akuma. That means if Marinette said she loved him, or they revealed their identities, there would be no going back or being able to make an excuse for it. Can we just talk about how those kids could understand that the reason he wants things to be simple and is upset that the world is so different, is because it scares him and he doesn't think he's capable of learning and changing with the world? A majority of adults these days can't even take two seconds to try to understand someone else's situation(s) before judging and being outright nasty people towards them. Yet these kids were able to do so. And a lot of kids actually are like they are in real life. Some may see this as an episode just for kids to appreciate, but there's a lot in here that's aimed at adults, too. Adults need reminders and these lessons just as much, if not more so than young kids. It's adults that lose their way and needed to be reminded of it, as they have a greater immediate impact on the world. I've seen so many people judge Rolland, make assumptions about him which is almost always the very worst things they could think of. But this episode shows how caring and willing to learn and understand he really is, he was just hiding behind his fear of change and not being able to keep up with it. Some lessons in this episode for the adult viewers are: -You're never too old to learn, get over your fears, try new things, become a better person, and see things through new eyes. -Don't over-complicate or overthink, but don't be lazy and think keeping everything simple will actually in reality be the answer, sometimes it can make things worse! -Kids tend to see the world as things are, not what they think it should be, or believing they're the center of the universe like adults tend to do. -Being wise means knowing that regardless of your field, educational background, age, or lived experiences, you don't know everything, there is always more for you to learn about everything out there. The kids in this show are quite wise, as they know that there is so much they don't know and how they treat learning new things. They also know how adults tend to understand, or act like they understand everything, so we as adults aren't used to it when we don't and react negatively to that because it scares us when we don't know. In that way, this episode was very brilliant! Also that hug at the end, oh you can bet these kids are going to want to go visit Grandpa Rolland, and honestly I'd love to see bits of them here and there, their bonds are adorable and they've changed his life in such a positive way. Also the pure Ladynoir without another hero or Alya or any kind of upsetting situation was honestly such a breath of fresh air! Maybe not the kind of Ladynoir people wanted, but it made me happy. Marinette acknowledged her problem is she's scared of Adrien rejecting her. First step is admitting it! Can't blame her for not being able to do what she wanted, she only just realized the issue after all. It's going to take a little time now to work on it! Is it just me, or

does it seem Adrien's almost trying not to laugh when she was messing up and then asked if he liked fishing? XD Maybe it was the actors tone with the facial expression but it seemed that way! But the way he just watches her run away and does that adorable little chuckle... Oh Adrien, we really need you to start realizing why you keep doing that. "She (Ladybug) reminds me of your grandmother and you know what? You look exactly like her (Ladybug)." Well. Oop. He's onto you! Apparently Rolland isn't blind, as not a single character suspected her from her personality or appearance to be Ladybug so far. Even Adrien only began piecing it together due to circumstances (and his own personal wish that Marinette is LB, you can't convince me otherwise this isn't true). This is going to come back later, possibly Dearest Family? Overall such a good episode with a lot of things in it, if you decide to watch without high expectations or biases. After all the angst lately, it was certainly needed as a nice change of pace.

[thatlittledandere]

💕 - Since you got back into recently (and honestly same, that 20th anniversary PV made me so goddamn nostalgic), how about Naruto?

Love not being the only one to whom 2020 is still "recently" but YES once you get into Naruto there's no truly getting out. Believe it

Sasunaru. I don't need to explain this.

Shikatema my high school otp 🥺 Gotta admit that Shippuden rewatch left me kinda cold (WHAT DID BLANK PERIOD DO TO TEMARI SHE WAS SO NOT HERSELF) but I can't just let go... I believe in them... They're the only canon pair that got it even remotely right..

Sakulee I guess? Huh I don't think I ship too many things in Naruto (anymore) but yeah Lee and Sakura get along and respect each other and - at least I want to believe - actually LIKE each other. Lee would treat Sakura right. They'd be a good match pleeeade

Obirin... if that's the name... Listennn most canon Naruto pairs are of the tell-don't-show variety but Rin was ACTUALLY IMPORTANT to Obito, even if I believe it was more of a childhood crush turned into an unhealthy fixation than True Love., nd what really sold it to me was that it goes both ways!! Rin always cared about Obito a whole lot and showed it! I KNOW that the picture of her relationship with her team we get is skewed because it's basically all through Obito's eyes (Kakashi didn't pay much attention before Obito's death and we never get Rin's PoV as she is dead and a girl in a shonen series) but I really got the idea that Rin was closer to Obito. We're TOLD she liked Kakashi but when did we SEE it? In action? Obito touched her life more on the personal level simply by being there. The bar is low but by god. They're cute. I'm unwell about Obito Uchiha also

KAKAGAI I ONLY REMEMBERED THEM NOW THINKING ABOUT HOW I DON'T SHIP KAKASHI WITH OBITO SHKFSVJK. Tumblr sold me to this one. I was never a fan of Kakashi and used to see Gai as like a funny little man. Tumblr opened my eyes to HOW good of a guy (lol?) Gai is and HOW important they both are to each other. Their rivalry isn't onesided like I once foolishly thought and neither is their friendship. Give me those 30-year-old ossans I like them

Chojikarui kinda. You already know why that is shjfsfhj I'm just happy Choji has a love interest and she's such a BOMBSHELL. A BABE. SOLID 10/10. And personality-wise such an interesting pick for him?? Kishimoto I am chewing on rubber and banging my head against the wall TELL ME HOW THIS HAPPENED!! Definitely better in fanworks, though I don't know what we even know about their canon relationship as I refuse to touch Boruto. But the POTENTIAL... Give me a spinoff starring the Akimichi family (the short manga of Chocho looking for her "real dad" 🙄 doesn't count) and I just might abandon my principles (as I known to do occasionally)

I guess that's it...? Like the ships I even somewhat actively care about? That's not a lot for a show with like. A thousand fucking characters.

Send me 💕 and a fandom and I'll post all my ships from it