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[shanoas-artwork]

Inktober 2021 and beyond until the end of this year.

DAY 22: GARGOYLE FROM BLOODSTAINED: RITUAL OF THE NIGHT DAY 23: MAD MOAI FROM BLOODSTAINED: CURSE OF THE MOON 2 DAY 24: TERROR DACTYL FROM BLOODSTAINED: CURSE OF THE MOON 2 DAY 25 AND 26: SPHINX FROM BLOODSTAINED: CURSE OF THE MOON 2 DAY 27, 28 AND 29: BLOODBRINGER FROM BLOODSTAINED: RITUAL OF THE NIGHT AND CURSE OF THE MOON 2 DAY 30: SEEKER FROM BLOODSTAINED: RITUAL OF THE NIGHT DAY 31: TRACER FROM BLOODSTAINED: RITUAL OF THE NIGHT

Sorry for the long wait because i'm very busy with things. And yet, some of those monsters and villains from bloodstained seemed like a challenge to me. I'm glad i finished them all for inktober in the second part of bloodstained after 2 ½ years LOL.

[dq-avenquire]

DQIX Post Game Alchemy: A Non-Minmaxxer's Agate of Evolution Guide

[For the sake of not having to type agate of evolution 5 million times, I will be abbreviating it to AoE, you just have to remember that, in this case, that doesn't stand for area of effect. Thanks!]

As the title implies, making agates of evolution is a post game endeavour because of one specific required ingredient, so don't look past the read more if you're not comfortable with spoilers! To fully complete your alchenomicon and get your hands on some of the strongest items in game, you'll need around 90 AoE's, which is an incredibly grindy task. I hope this guide will be useful to anyone. I've cut out a few potential options for farming certain items because I personally don't judge them worthwhile and this guide is long enough as is, but I promise I've explored most avenues! That being said, this is NOT a minmaxxer guide. There are much more efficient ways of farming, largely through grottos at high levels and no doubt a few methods I have no idea about. I'm not one to do seed checks and figure out the numbers, and if you are then this likely isn't the guide for you!

RIGHT! For one (1) AoE you will need

2x sainted soma

2x ethereal stones

1x chronocrystal

Starting with the chronocrystal because it's easiest to address, you can only get these* by buying them from the Lonely Coast item shop for 50kg. Personally I farm gold passively while working to collect the other items needed, but if you're looking to do that specifically the three main ways are to repeatedly buy ingredients to make Ear Cozy's or Gold Mail, then selling those, OR to repeatedly accept the fake gold golem quest in Gleeba and kill those. While gold golems drop a cool 500g as is the quest grants you an extra 1000 upon completion, so you might as well. While note as repeatable/efficient I also collect platinum and mythril ore from the respawn points around the map and sell those for 1500 and 3000g each respectively.

*There is also one to be found in the Tower of Nod, in a red chest on L6. One can also be received as a reward for quest 173, which needs you to kill seaverns, which can only be found in high rank water grottos.

SAINTED SOMA

Requires 2x lucida shard, 2x sage's elixir and 2x astral plume.

For the lucida shard's:

Made with 3x brighten rock and 3x evencloth

Received as first time and repeat reward for quest 61

Lucida shard's can be pickpocketed/dropped by cosmic chimera's, who will otherwise drop or be carrying Brighten rock's, making them most useful for farming in that respect, though they only show up in mid to high level cave grottos

There are 2 material respawn places each that you can find evencloth's and brighten rocks, check this map for locations (this will be relevant again later.

Evencloth's are otherwise easiest to pickpocket/loot from the ragged reaper's near Zere, and failing cosmic chimeras the goodybag's near Batsureg or in The Bowhole are your next best bet for brighten rock's

For the sage's elixir:

Requires 1x magic water, 1x royal soil and 3x nectar

Received on repeat completions of quest 50

Magic water CAN be alchemised, but isn't worth the trouble. You're better off buying it for 500g in most item shops or farming/stealing from the jinkster's on Newid Isle

Royal soil can be found at 2 material respawn locations

Failing that, they can be farmed/pickpocketed from the mad moai on the Lonely Plains/Heights of Loneliness

For the astral plume's:

Requires 3x flurry feather's, 2x fresh water, 1x angel bell

Received as first time and repeat reward for quest 121

Flurry feathers can be found in two material respawn locations, and can otherwise be farmed from weakon beakon's in The Bad Cave

Fresh water can be found in two material respawn locations, failing that go for cheeky tiki's in Gerzuun or around the Khaalag Coast

I usually just buy angel bells since they're only 90g and available at most item shops, but you can also farm them from the chariot chappie's around Coffinwell

ETHEREAL STONE

Requires 1x enchanted stone, 1x perfect panacea and 2x narspicious

For the enchanted stone's:

Requires 2x thunderball, 2x ice crystal, 1x mystifying mixture

Received as first time and repeat reward for quest 60, however the quest requires nectar and narspicious which you will be using for other things, so judge carefully if it's worth it

Thunderball's can be found in two material respawn locations, failing that farm cumulus rex at Wyrmtail or Wyrmsmaw

Ice crystals can be found in two material respawn locations, and can otherwise be farmed from freezing fog's in the Gittish Empire, Gittingham Palace or Cringle Coast

Mystifying mixture regrettably also must be alchemised, as the chance of getting them from mudrakers is less than 1/100. You'll need 1x belle cap, 1x manky mud and 3x cowpat

Belle caps can be found in 3 areas on the map, and are easiest to farm from mushroom mage's in the Tower of Trades

Manky mud can be found in 2 material respawn locations, and are otherwise farmable from walking corpses on Newid Isle or in the Tower of Trades (kill two birds with one stone in the Tower of Trades for more efficiency)

Cowpat's respawn near Zere, or farmed from bag o' laughs' in The Hexagon

For the perfect panacea:

Requires 1x panacea, 1x angel bell and 1x wakerobin

As said, I usually just buy angel bells since they're only 90g and available at most item shops, but you can also farm them from the chariot chappie's around Coffinwell

Wakerobin's can be found at two material respawn locations, or be bought for 66g each at the Bloomingdale item shop at the entrance to town

Panacea is another thing to alchemise. It requires 1x each of special medicine, superior medicine and moonwort bulb.

Special medicine can be made with 2x strong medicine (which can be bought for 36g each at the Gleeba, Batsureg or Wormwood Creek item shop) (Or farmed from zumeanie's around Slurry Coast/Dourbridge) (Or made with 2x medicinal herbs, which are 8g in item shops and can be farmed from slimes near Angel Falls)

Superior medicine requires 1x medicinal herb + 1x strong medicine. See above notes for those.

Moonwort bulb's can be bought for 30g at item shops or farmed from leafy larrikin's in Eastern Coffinwell

Finally, narspicious can be found at two material respawn locations, or farmed from shivery shrubbery's found in Snowberia (lower drop rate, but easier to farm) or from sculpture vulture's found in The Bowhole/Wyrmtail (these also drop resurrock's which are used in a few other recipes if that skews anyone's choice)

[And that about covers it! Thanks for reading, and happy questing! May RNG be kind to us all.]

[stewykablooey]

pusillanimous fool’s gold scene is fucking crazy. kenstewy scene of all time

succession scene of all time honestly if we really wanna get into it. like for one scene to unpack So Much in one go was just absolutely insane.

kendall comes down those stairs and stewy is there and we haven’t seen stewy since he was in kendall’s room in england refusing him cocaine for his own good and you think okay. stewy is mad, he’s gotta be fucking furious. you think okay, stewy’s gonna call him an idiot and a liar and yell at him for fucking with stewy’s money and for the idk, the bad business acumen and unprofessionalism of backing out of deal or something.

but then stewy comes at him with ‘how did he get at you?’ and then he comes at him with ‘theres a friend card if you wanna play it. you can talk to me’ and then comes at him with ‘we had the whole world in our hands man and you fucking walked. why?’ and when he Does get mad after kendall feeds him the PR line he comes at him with ‘you pusillanimous piece of fucking fools gold fucking silver spoon fucking asshole’ with ‘asshole’ said with so much fucking feeling and heartbreak that its enough to level a small building and its like. suddenly all these pieces come together and you’re realizing just how deep and how far back this goes with them and the extent of the mess that is logans affect on kendall and this revelation that people Know, that whatever is happening with this family, with logan and the kids, doesnt just exist in this vacuum between them but is external and impactful and visible

and honest to god above in heaven it ALL rides on arian moayed’s delivery. he carried that scene for 9 months and Birthed it and we literally owe him our lives.

[adamwatchesmovies]

House of Spoils (2024)

House of Spoils is labeled as a supernatural horror film. Unnatural events take place, there are scary moments throughout but the conclusion recontextualizes so much of what we saw and is so tonally different from what came before that the label feels inaccurate. I’m not sure if a warning that this does not go the way you expect it to will make things more palatable for the audience but I’m going to try anyway.

Elena (Ariana DeBose) leaves her position as the sous chef in Marcello’s kitchen (he’s played by Marton Csokas) to open a new fine-dining restaurant in a remote location in the countryside. Her first efforts prove fruitless – all of the food spoils immediately. In a desperate attempt to meet the deadline imposed by her patron, Andres (Arian Moayed), she begins harvesting ingredients from the abandoned garden next door: a selection of strange plants the locals say was catered by a witch.

The film begins with a flashback to some time ago. Weird, ominous chants are whispered around a fire while a woman is strapped down and fed a strange little cake etched with a symbol. The mood’s been set. You know those lines mean something. The seemingly innocuous things happening to Elena confirm that by settling down in this area, she’s set herself up for trouble. The food that goes moldy instantly, the neverending bugs and the ghostly visions are not stress-induced; there’s something evil here. It gets you excited the way a good horror movie gets you excited. Our heroine is alone, she’s isolated and desperate. You admire her determination to open up her own business and move out from under the shadow of Andres, who isn’t terrible as far as head chefs go… but does make you wonder why ANYONE would want to work in fine-dining if the environment is that stressful and that toxic. The film successfully showcases “scary” aspects of the business too; the way a single critic can just throw your entire menu into the fire, how a single missing ingredient can derail an entire evening and the challenge of having to come up with a revolutionary menu out of thin air.

Another aspect of this film written and directed by Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy that’s intriguing is the food. In most dark food/restaurant movies, dishes look simultaneously delicious and grotesque to confirm the malicious environment. As Andres puts it when he sees what Elena and her appointed sous-chef, Lucia (Barbie Ferreira) have cooked up, his stew looks like it's been scraped off of a shoe. It's unappetizing. You know it’s a hint that what he's eating has a sinister origin. Only a spell could convince someone to take a bite.

The film’s scariest moment comes in a claustrophobic scene where Elena, locked in the restaurant cellar, is forced to escape through a tunnel that leads to a makeshift tomb. From there… any horror elements in the film vanish. We learn that while the garden Elena has been picking from was tended to by a sorceress… she was a good witch who healed people. So if there was no evil this whole time, why was the building's previous tenant driven to horrifying madness? Why does the witch’s ghost show up in the middle of the night to terrify Elena? Why all the bugs? Why the mold? This sensitive, female empowerment conclusion doesn’t fit the rest of the movie AT ALL. I suddenly had flashbacks of Andrew O'Hehir's butthurt review of The Conjuring, which complained about the depiction of witches as child-murdering, devil-worshippers. Is it possible the movie started off as a straightforward horror film but the writer/directors had a change of heart and hastily rewrote the conclusion to portray more "realistic" depictions of witchcraft? Maybe it was the opposite; it didn't have ANY horror elements at first, but they were introduced after the producers looked at the script and marked it as "non marketable"? Whatever the reason, this finale is a mistake.

I was enthusiastic about House of Spoils for about four-fifths of the running time. Ariana DeBose is likable. You cheer for her character and you're worried when she gets scared. Even if the conclusion comes out of nowhere, doesn’t make much sense and left me dissatisfied, I’m not sorry I saw the film. The parts that work are highly effective. The mismatched ending also works… just not for THIS movie. (November 15, 2024)

[mannliker]

I dug out one of my older sketchbooks.

I’ll put these in approximated chronological order, starting with the most recent. Most of these are JJBA bullshit; that was my main hyperfixation during my time with this sketchbook. There’s also a drawing of big-booty Leorio HxH in a nurse costume at the very bottom💀

Alr I was actually very proud of this first one at the time, and while I think I could draw it a little better now, I’m still pleased with it. It’s a Stand OC with a face like one of the fucking moai dudes. Drew it for some writing I was doing.

(c. Dec 2023)

For this one I was proud of the anatomy and didn’t want to cover it up so I just left his jacket transparent 🤷‍♂️ I was fucking around with anatomy and shading and shit

(c. 2023)

Another Stand OC.

(c. 2023)

Older stuff (JJBA wasn’t necessarily my gay awakening, but it was sure as hell like coffee and crack first thing in that figurative morning). I drew these as a joke for my friend at the time but bro it quickly became serious 😭 Anyway I think I draw faces a lot better now than I did then but these are still fucking funny as hell

(c. 2023)

Bonus HunterXHunter Leorio with the fatty 😭

(c. Oct 2022)

Bro is mad caked bye 😭✋ This was also drawn as a gag for a friend but I’d be lying if I were to say that I didn’t also want to draw it for myself.

I might draw some JJBA stuff again soon, I been thinking about it lately

[swampstew]

What's the Magic Word?

Chapter 35: Rowena the Pirate

The finale

“WE’RE UNSTOPPABLE! THE KID PIRATES WILL DOMINATE THE NEW WORLD AND FIND THE ONE PIECE BECAUSE WE NEVER BACK DOWN!!”

Kid screamed until he was hoarse over the deck as the crew celebrated the success of their heist.

“FUCK YEAH!”

“WE WHIPPED THEIR ASSES, DESTROYED THEIR SHIPS, BRUISED BIG MOM’S EGO, AND ARE ONE STEP CLOSER TO MAKING ME KING OF THE PIRATES!!”

Heat excitedly blasted fire into the air alongside the others who began shooting off their guns.

Another keg was tapped and foam spurted along the floor and tables as the pirates eagerly refilled their drinks.

Papas, Moai, Killer, Haikei and Dive brought out plates of bread, fish, pasta, meat still on the bone, and other savory dishes that wafted over the salty brine. Spreading the food over the beer soaked tables and greedily taking their portions before the others reached the tables.

While Oscar and Jaguar hauled chests and sacks of stolen treasure inside the ship, Compo kept supplying Rowena more gold, soft metals, and all the jewels they stole. The Witch was in the middle of crafting a giant crown for the ship’s figurehead.

“OI! EVERYONE LISTEN UP!” Kid suddenly demanded. “I want every one of ya to take a piece of gold treasure you looted today and give it to Rowena. We’re gonna seal our pieces into the crown for our ship! We built it with our bare hands, we have dominated the enemies with those same hands, and we will reap all the wealth in this world just like we did here!”

“YES CAPTAIN!” They rejoiced.

Throughout the partying, members of the crew stopped by the bow to give their contribution to Rowena. Every few stragglers would attract a crown of braggarts that rehashed and slightly embellished their roles in the fight against the Big Mom Pirates. Each story drowned out with music and rising laughter as they dumped on each other with competing stories, calling each other liars and cowards, and falling down to good natured drunk wrestling.

Kid personally made sure everyone had given a piece of gold to Rowena before contributing his own.

A golden bullet.

Rowena used it as a stud on one of the crown points. Right below the bullet, she vertically laid down a large pair of sleeve cuffs in the shape of golden sprinkled donuts.

“You weren’t kidding about the donut obsession, hmm?”

“A serious man never jokes about his donuts, Kid.”

They stepped down to the main deck to join in the madness, and Rowena was soon swarmed by pirates asking her questions about her great deception. Of course, it had already been told and widely exaggerated, but she had to admit, it was a great ruse.

“How did you get Katakuri to overlook the scam?” Dive tugged on Rowena’s dress hem.

Hip answered for the Witch, “She manipulated the marine ship to make it look like were dirty marines and they had her hostage looking for an exchange.”

“Yeah but Rowena sold it when she looked all tattered and like a kicked puppy on the deck, giving those big ole eyes while weeping out ‘Please help me Kata-chan!’ It was theater!” Noe thumped Rowena’s back.

“Ok I didn’t look that pathetic,” the Witch protested, stealing Noe’s glass and downing it. “But I wasn’t controlling that one marine that made that disgusting joke, I think that’s what really lit the fire in Kata’s eyes and under his ass. For that he has my genuine gratitude! Don’t think I’ll ever be able to be in the same vicinity as him without him trying to kill me now though.”

“Why, you like him or somethin’?” Kid scoffed.

“Kid, I had to break down jokes for him once.”

That made the Captain howl with laughter, and even though the jealousy was superficial and for show, he appreciated that she entertained the bit in front of the others.

They had to practically fight the crowd to get to the food, and even then they were hardly left alone. It wasn’t unwelcome, just a bit much, especially the drunker the pirates got and the weepier they became at the realization that come morning, Rowena would be gone.

Kid tried to be patient, tried to be kind even. But if he was interrupted one more time by his subordinates, Kid could be liable to start tossing people overboard.

As if sensing this, Killer swooped in and began to make a toast to the crew. As he started with loud platitudes and drew everyone’s attention, he nodded to Kid who nodded back gratefully. As subtly as they could, Rowena and Kid dashed to the mizzenmast and climbed up to the crow’s nest.

Smaller than it’s counterpart on the main mast, it made up for its size with its accommodations.

It held a small cabinet with wine, liquor and someone had even left behind a bag of chocolate. It was theirs now. Reclining on the cushioned bench that encircled the nest, they could barely hear the cheering or sound of music being played from their height.

“I’d do anything for this night to never end,” Kid finally sighed.

“I know,” Rowena tucked herself under his chin and kissed his throat. “I’m going to call you every day, write you a letter every other week, I’ve got projection pretty much nailed now so we could even get a little frisky from time to time.”

“I put an extension on the snails. Its set to record and store messages if you aren’t able to answer when I call, or vice versa. Just, one more way to be able to hear your voice whenever I want.”

“Has anyone ever told you before how romantic you are? That’s the sweetest thing I’ve ever heard.”

He blushed, “No.”

“Well you are. I thought you were joking about the princess treatment.”

“When have I ever made a joke?”

“I laugh every time you open your mouth,” Rowena quipped.

Kid chuckled back before retorting, “You never seem to mind my mouth when its between your legs hmm?”

Flirting and teasing about their first night in the main crow’s nest, he peppered her with kisses, soft bites and a few shallow hickies as she goaded him back about how he had to get drunk in order to ask but not ask for a kiss.

Abandoning the rhetoric, Rowena wrapped her arms around his neck and marked him back, passionately pressing against his soft lips, her tongue fighting his for dominance. Melting into each other, their clothes were quickly abandoned as they took advantage of their last night together to desecrate the second nest.

When they finally emerged, it was the middle of the night and the deck was empty. Hand in hand, they walked down the length of the deck until the reached the crowned figurehead. Jumping over it, the couple sat just above the snout of the Punk’s dinosaur head.

Watching the waxing moon’s reflection on the undisturbed water – it looked as if the sky and ocean were mirroring each other. Mesmerized, they watch in peaceful silence simply enjoying each other’s company. Cuddled together, wrapped in an oversized fur blanket, and whispering stories of childhood lores and fascinations to each other well into the night

Had either one of them looked over the side of the snout, they would have noticed that something long, and slippery had curled and hoisted itself on one of the Punk’s teeth. The tip of the creatures yellow-hued tail floated atop the water before it pulled back all together and coiled in the shadows inside the mouth. Silently listening to the quiet chatter and eyeing the horizon warily.

As the shades of the sky slowly grew lighter, Kid subconsciously pulled the blanket tighter and higher above them in their sleep as the first rays of dawn peeked over the sea. Once it became too warm to ignore, they properly woke up and headed to bed for the last precious hours of sleep they could carve out.

The odd feeling of an empty bed space was going to be a challenge for both of them, as evidenced by the tangled way they woke up. Limbs locked around each other, fingers grappled into the crooks of elbows or curve of shoulders and tied in a bow of ruffled bedsheets.

Their morning routine felt hollow, and Kid could hear the sound of his heart thumping in his ears with each step they took. Breakfast was pleasant but painfully stretched, and everyone was anticipating how the goodbye would go. And to everyone’s best efforts, they treated it like it was a normal day on board the Victoria Punk, for better or worse.

Kid admittedly dragged out their breakfast, and then their morning rounds, and then gently persuaded Rowena to stay through lunch so she could at least eat before she left. Grasping at any loose end to prolong the inevitable.

And as painful and unavoidable the final moments were, Kid didn’t shed a tear. Those his wife got in private when he finally shed his last bit of personal pride and held her close while he cried into her neck expressing how much he was going to miss her.

While she hugged and exchanged goodbyes to the pirates, Kid stood stoically by her side as they went down the line. Half wishing that for every hug they got, it was only fair if he got it back two-fold before she made her rune.

In fact, he insisted and made Heat inscribe the rune since the firestarter was getting deeper into his studies with the books the Witch left for him. All while Kid clutched Rowena to his chest as the final moments were upon them.

The final, final moment.

It was time to let go.

He couldn’t do it.

Rowena didn’t want to do it either, but she had to be strong for the both of them.

Clutching his shirt with a fist and letting out a sniffle, “You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me, Eustass Kid. Don’t lose any more limbs before we reunite, I’m very fond of all the parts you have left.”

“Yeah yeah. Don’t sacrifice your broom again, I’m not making you a third replacement.”

“Yes you will.”

“Yeah, I will. But I’ll complain about it the whole time.”

Rowena delicately cupped his face and gave him a tearful kiss, “I love you, Red.”

“I love you too, Witch. Go, before I regret letting you go,” he deepened their kiss one last, hoping time would freeze and they would stay in that moment.

“See you soon, mi amorsito,” she whispered, finally pulling back as he set her down in front of the rune. Her broom laid next to the circle, her zipper waist bag wrapped around the handle securely.

Not breaking eye contact, she picked up her belongings, gave the Kid Pirates a final wave goodbye, and then disappeared behind the veil of transmutation magic.

It was quiet as a wake on the deck as the pirates quietly withdrew into the background to give their Captain his space. He stood there for another few minutes before letting out a somber sigh. When Kid felt he could finally move, he walked to the helms room with determination. Knowing full well what they had to do next.

“Oi, Kill.”

The blonde looked up from the maps he was scribbling on, “What’s up?”

“Make the call.”

Killer stared at Kid before nodding his head, “What made you change your mind?”

Kid took a seat at the head of the navigation table, “Been thinking you’re probably right, we should consider allying with those guys. Straw Hat’s crew is diverse enough to have all that he needs at his command. We need to outsource in order to advance our agenda. Get to Red Hair before that idiot tries to claim my glory.”

“All right Kid. Promise you’ll behave?”

“Shut up and call them.”

𓏧 𓏲 𓏲 𓏲 𓋒 𓏲 𓏲 𓏲 𓏲 𓏧

Rowena wasn’t really expecting anyone to be at Shakky’s bar when she appeared, so she nearly stumbled and fell backwards into the wall when she saw Usopp, Nami, and Rayleigh at the bar being served drinks by the owner herself.

“AAAUGGGHHH!!”

“AHHHH ROWENAAAAA!!”

“Oooh I was wondering what the rune would do.”

“That’s a hella of a trick, mind teaching me kid? Could help me out of some misunderstandings that happen to every day fellas like myself.”

“Hi everyone!” Rowena dropped her broom and squealed as she rushed into Nami’s embrace. The women admired each other’s hair before the Witch jumped Usopp in a hug.

Turning to greet Rayleigh, Rowena was pulled into a hug by Shakky who had walked around the bar to intercept her.

“We missed you! Didn’t we Ray?”

Rayleigh rapidly stood up and clasped his hand on Rowena’s head, “Sure did. Wasn’t sure who was going to survive who, glad you came out the winner,” he winked at her.

“In more ways than one hmmmm,” Nami winked at the Witch before unceremoniously inspecting and valuing all the jewelry Rowena was wearing. “Good to see he gives you the good stuff. I would have thunder-tempo’d his ass if he went cheap on you!”

Rowena burst into a fit of laughter, of course Nami already knew. By the looks of it only Usopp didn’t understand who Nami was referring to.

The scream he let out could be heard from the outside if anyone had walked by at the moment.

“YOU MARRIED EUSTASS KID?! OF YOUR OWN FREE WILL?!!?!”

After calming the sniper down and assuring him that she had not been under dubious circumstances, nor was there a catch to her marriage beside her unwavering loyalty and the traditional ‘til death’ clause, he seemed to accept the situation with surprising ease.

“Honestly, that was very strategic of you Rowena. Being married to one of the most formidable pirates with that kind of reputation – if I didn’t know you before I would be scared shitless being near you!”

“You were scared shitless of me the first time you met me.”

As the girls teased Usopp, they were interrupted when they became aware that there was a marine presence looming on the archipelago due to a group of imposters pretending to be the Straw Hats terrorizing the citizens.

Nami assured them that the fake crew was not a concern and would make a good decoy for them as they reunited, and that it was probably best if they started heading to the ship.

“I’ll catch up in a minute, I was hoping to have a word with you Rayleigh,” Rowena parted with the Straw Hats to finally address her biological father.

He patted the bar stool next to him and Rowena perched up the seat next to him. While she anxiously fiddled with her glass as the elderly man gave her a summary on Luffy’s training, along with another apology of not taking the Witch under his protection as well, Shakky was the one who quietly observed the jewelry sitting on Rowena’s pinky before bringing attention to it.

“That’s a pretty ring, Rowena. It feels familiar, like something you once told me about Ray,” the bar owner gently lifted the Witch’s hand to show Rayleigh.

The look the woman gave her husband was knowing, and Rayleigh looked stunned to see the jewelry before looking at Rowena with a studious eye. Then his jaw gaped.

“I’ll be damned…” he exhaled slowly.

Rowena looked between the two uncertainly.

“Ray told me once upon a time before me, he met a mysterious and magical woman who he had a short affair with. He said that was his first love, and tried to convince her to join Roger’s crew so she didn’t have to do whatever she was involved with that required her to go back to her island where she would be cut off from the rest of the world.”

“Yeah, I even asked her to marry me, thinking that would prove my sincerity. She couldn’t do it, no matter how every fiber in her being told her to stay, she was duty bound to return home. I didn’t want to hear no, so I told her she didn’t have to answer, just take the ring. If she took it, I could live peacefully with the acknowledgement that she loved me back and would always remember me.

“This the ring I gave that women two decades ago. I never even let myself think that she could have gotten pregnant. I should have recognized it right away when I saw your eyes. Hecate had beautiful purple eyes, damn the more I look at you the more I see her,” his voice quavered.

His glasses skewed off his face as he dabbed the corner of his eye, “I-is she—?”

“She passed,” Rowena answered quietly. “I was able to contact her posthumously and she confirmed your paternity. Sorry you had to find out this way.”

“No-no—” Rayleigh swatted his hands, “I mean I’m sad to hear she’s gone but I’m overwhelmed to learn I have a daughter! C’mere kid.” He swiveled in his seat and wrapped Rowena in a hug.

Rowena’s breath caught as he embraced her, and a foreign feeling of safety and love flooded through her. A childhood longing she always had – to know her father – and now here she was in his arms. She hugged him back tighter, and the two became three as Shakky blended into their familial hug.

“Holy shit, I let my daughter run off with a punk idiot of a pirate!!”

“Your daughter married that punk pirate, dear,” Shakky giggled.

Shakky closed the bar down early and walked with her husband and step-daughter to the docks to set the Straw Hats off. While they had caught up on getting to know each other better, they had been keenly aware of the increasing alarm along the archipelago as several units of Marines were being deployed in multiple directions in response to skirmishes. With Rayleigh’s haki and Rowena’s magic in tandem, they were able to ward off anyone from approaching too closely as they continued their walk to the ship.

The Witch’s heart bloomed when she saw Robin and Franky on the deck and she sprinted to embrace them. Their excited chatter was interrupted by Rayleigh updating the Straw Hats about the incoming trouble, closely followed by Brook falling from the sky as he was dropped off by the Rosy Riders, at Shakky’s request.

Brook’s beating for his perverted panty request was suspended when they caught sight of Chopper with Sanji, Zoro and Luffy at his side, on the back of a giant bird speeding towards the Sunny.

“HEEEEYYYYY!!! EEEVVERRRYYBBOOOODDDYYY!!!” The unmistakable, joyous voice of Monkey D. Luffy echoed in the sky.

“I brought them!!” Chopper waved ecstatically.

“LUFFY! ZORO! SANJI! CHOPPER!!”

“HEEEEEYYYY!!!!”

“HEY YOU GUUUYYYSSSSSS!!!!” Rowena jumped up and down with Nami.

Robin smiled brightly as Brook sobbed and screamed, “Luffy! I missed you so much!!”

“You guys look stronger!!” Franky called out.

Marines were swarming the port from different directions, as well as coming up by sea as word of the Straw Hat’s had reached Navy HQ.

As the last four crewmates jumped on to the ship, the marines on land were held at bay by giant beetles and the sudden appearance of Perona and her ghost hollows, aiding in the Straw Hats escape. As the battleships began firing their cannons, Rowena went to deal with them but was surprised to see Boa Hancock’s ship moving in and blocked the Marines, raining down offensive attacks on their ships.

Realizing that their mutual allies had come together to help her friends reunite and avoid complications, Rowena turned back to fully embrace their reunion as the Straw Hats cried out in joyous relief at Luffy’s return. Usopp tended to Sanji’s sudden hemorrhaging, while Luffy delighted in childish wonderment over Franky’s upgrades.

Nami took charge of their distractions as Chopper’s bird companion attacked the new wave of Marine ships coming behind them. Sanji snapped out of his daze and blocked the new onslaught of cannon fire, Nami called out instructions to put the boat in motion, Zoro and Brook prepped the sails while Rowena raised the anchors. Shouting, explosions, laughter, and scared screaming harmonized around them and Rowena joined in the laughing.

Chaos.

It was so good to be home.

“Are the sails set?”

“They’re ready to go,” Zoro called down.

“Is it time Nami,” Luffy walked up to the redhead.

“Yep, just waiting on your command captain.”

Luffy turned to his friends, his signature smile plastered to his face. It might have been two years, but Rowena was thankful that the events of Marineford didn’t change him.

 “Alright. You guys! I’ve got a lot of things that I want to share with you, but for now, thank you for going along with my selfish decision for these two years!”

“Not like it’s the first time,” Sanji bit down on his cigarette to suppress his own smile.

“He’s right! You’ve always been selfish!” Usopp grinned.

Rowena could see, they were all just as relieved to see Luffy’s spirit as jubilant as it was the day they each met him. Spreading joy, warmth and happiness in their found family.

The coating on the ship began rapidly expanding into a giant bubble that would soon sink the ship and allow it passage under the sea.

“Lower the sails!”

“Yes and roger!” The crew cried back, moving to their positions to begin their descent.

“SET SAIL!”

“AYE CAPTAIN!”

“LET’S GO TO FISH MAN ISLAND!!!!!!!!!!”

The Straw Hat Pirates laughed and cheered as the darkness of the deep sea swallowed them. Their journey to the New World and their search for the One Piece could finally begin.

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[popculturebuffet]

Sam and Max Beyond Time and Space Retrospective: Moai Better Blues (Patreon Review for WeirdKev27)

Hello all you happy freelance police and welcome back to my look at the sam and max telltale games! We're onto season 2 episode 2. After a little christmas in august we're having a science fiction double feature for halloween as this review ended up behind due to a new member of the family.

This is Maddie. She's 5, she's precious, she's very loud , and she's very attached to me.

But even new fluffy good girls with spangly collars can't stop the march of sam and max.

Following up from our heroes adventures in the north pole, this ep finds our heroes dealing with an adventure that's weird even by sam and max standards. And I want to let that sink in because we spent last season stopping a child star hynosis crime ring, starring in a one episode sitcom with a british chicken don knotts, inflitrating a mafia chuck e cheese, running for president against a horny lincoln memorial, murdering the internet and finally facing down with a sentient plankton colony via psychic powers and magic tricks on the moon. And that's not even getting into that guy who would never put his hands down. What was his deal?

So what lies in the greatest mountain of sam and max madness? Stoned Moai, triangular portals, sea monkeys, ghost godlfish, baby jimmy hoffa and horny statue love triangles. So join me under the cut for the madness.

We open with our heroes returning from the North Pole a month after the previous game, with it now snowing, providing a nice atmosphere to things. Before they can get back to the usual banter some fresh nonsense comes in: A triangle chasing their beloved friend Sybil.

It has a neat design too, red, pulsating with lines... it's an excellent triangle all things considered. B+

At any rate we need to stop it, so we go to the wisest sage for weird shit there is: Bosco. It's a nice way to keep him still useful while not having him be one of your item guys. Bosco is getting ready to bunker down from T.H.E.M.

But tells our hero their new foe is a bermuda triangle, an eldtirch shape that sucks people up to another place, and can only be stopped with most of the shapes. Most.. never come into play and are just for a good joke, like blue polyheadrons making them really want to roll them dice and maybe start a live play with a dungeon master with long hair and the voice of god.

The important one is red hexagons stop them.. and the game was REALLY unhelpful with this one. I did have my hints flavor blasted up to the maximum max could do without bursting a kidney.. but he just kept saying the shape and outright told me to go back to the office.. where it entirely wasn't. WE do have a new trophy though, boxing betty. So.. that's nice?

The solution lies in Stinky's diner, where i'd gone earlier since the Cops can't do buisness over the sound of screaming. Amateurs. Stinky can though even with the racket outisde and gives us a granite sandwitch that i'm pretty sure just.. sat in my inventory all chapter. Seriously you don't relaly use it for anything even when you think it'd be obvious like replacing a stone max's ear, and it's more just to set up getting a basalt sandwich from her later. It's on the kid's menu only though.

She is useful in that she has a stop sign for you and with some spray paint from your headquaters, you can make it deep red. Before we go though another beloved supporting character makes a cameo: Flint Paper. I just love how despite being grizzly and willing to beat up random strangers for money, as are we, Flint just.. cheerfully greets our heroes with a hey fellas every time. He's just so happy to see our heroes and they have a deep genuine admiration for him. Like with Sybil in the first episodes, it's nice to see someone our heroes actually like and unlike Sybil, it's nice to see there's at least one person they haven't traumtized. Yet. He's watching Bosco for Bosco's Mom who'se understandably worried about her son because you know, his whole deal.

For now though we go to stop the triangle in the name of love... only for hilariously this all to be mostly pointless as once Sybil stops, Abe shows up , gets sucked in and she goes after him. It's off to Easter Island!

Turns out Sybil and Lincoln are fine and are just enjoying the nice weather. Once again.. this is a dead end puzzle wise as the two are just there to move their subplot along. Unlike the sandwich though, it's at least entertaning.. and mildly creepy as Abe perves on one of the moai present.

Why the bermuda triangle lead to easter island.. is not something we'll be getting into here. What matters is the moai see sam and max as their savior. Well the middle one, a kindly lady moai abe's creeping ion, is. The left one has half his face buried and is contstantly upset, projecting storm clouds when pissed off that are naturally useful, and the right one is

And is largely useless, mostly just sniping at you.

Each has a power of the elements: Rain for the buried one, wind for the nice one and earth for the pedantic douchebag. The fire one was sadly was scattered to the winds long ago, but he did leave behind a son at least to carry on his legacy

At any rate before we can use the powers of nature itself for fun and profit, we have some problems: As it turns out the nearbye volcano is about to erupt and murder them all due to some understandable but tragic errors

Problem is someone's guarding his lair... and if you haven't played the game yourself, I warn you: You are not remotely ready. I sure wasn't. So whose in our heroes way? Why it's Jimmy HOffa in the body of a baby!

Yeah... look I love Sam and Max for being so gloriously weird. Weird as hell is one of my faviorite kinds of humor as long as their's direction behind the chaos. But It's still easily the biggest what the fuck moment the franchise has thrown me so far and that's with this happening last chapter

Granted I got spoiled there is some sort of payoff to the Mariachis via a thumbnail, and there is some actual logic behind this.. but even for this franchise "Jimmy Hoffa whose in the body of an infant because he drank too much from the fountain of youth pointing a gun at yoU" is a bit much. And more to the point they NEVER explain why he's working for the episodes big bad.

I.. can't help but love it though BECAUSE it's such a uniquely stupid swing: they had this idea, found a way to have it logically make sense and then put it in the game in full, all while giving us a ton of great jokes as Sam cannot ressit teasing him on the fact he's a baby.

We'll deal with this teamster later, for now we meet the other rugrats on this island: Amelia Earheart, DB Cooper, and The LIndburgh Baby... .

Their mostly here to set up a surfboarding mini game which frustrated me. It's not the game itself, it's a fun enough little distraction if fairly hard to get the analogue controls down on my switch version. It felt like the kind of browser game i'd play as a kid.

My annoyance.. is that the game dosne't tell you that you get nothing for it until you've triggered the right story event. So I went through the whole thing for nothing. Thankfully I also enabled mini game skipping.... I still will TRY not to use it often as these are part of the game and thus need to be evaluated as much as the point and click parts, but in this case i'd already done the actual task so when it asked me to again. As for why again, the trick to getting rid of our little friend involves serving him a drink, using a tiki glass you can pick up at the bar those dumb babies are at. But he'll only take union waitstaff, so you have to play the game to get cerfitied by him. IT makes about as much sense as it sounds. Ah back to normal for this franchise.

To actually do anything though we need some fountain of youth water unfortunately there's something in it

So to take care of them we have to complete a few other tasks

First is the COPS. As i'm guessing is standard for every chapter,we have another driving VR Game from them, this time a fun rythum based one with the beats going as you drive on them. THey thought it'd change the world.. those poor dumb bastards. It's clearly a jab at guitar hero, but it's a decent challenge while still being a lot of fun.

With that we get a car horn and that's the key to our next puzzle: We need to help Glenn Miller, a wwII era band leader whose also now a baby, stage his comback by giving him that new sound he's been looking for. Since the horn plays i've been workin on the railroad, it's just the ticket. He just needs a whistle sound, which you easily get by dumping some gasoline disguised as a drink into a nearbye fire, setting off a tea kettle. He gives you a conch with the single recorded on it. Apparently The Bermuda Triangles also visited skypeia.

Using the dial, we can finally solve our pirahana puzzle.. in theory. In practice it's utterly frustrating if you can't figure out the trick, not helped by Max CONSITENTLY telling me to use the thunder storm moai.

Breaking it down: using the glen miller dial conch, you play it for the nice moai, which gets her whistling. Now when you tick off her half buried friend next to you, which naturally max does with ease and maybe too much glee.. in fact i'm starting a " Going to Hell For This" counter, for each time we ruin someone's life, torture them or what have you to progress, or just for funzies, as we did it a LOT last season and so far have done it a lot. Now I"ll make acceptions for say outright villians or people who deserve it. And even then it'/s about proportions. For example, pelting the soda poppers with urine and bleach? Acceptable, their the soda poppers. Need I say more. But even if Jimmy Two Teeth sucks a LOTTT, nearly driving him to unalive himself is a bit much, not helped by Max's reaction essentially being

He certainly thought it hard enough. So we'll count that one, still keeping leonard hostage after almost a year, sending santa to hell (even if he was possesed), and not bothering to actually help save christmas. So going into this episode we have

Things We're Going To To Hell For: 4 And we can add from this episode taunting that poor moai.

Things We're Going to Hell Fort: 5

So I assumed both from the hint ONLY mentoing the moai , who creates a little storm cloud when uspet and the wind we were supposed to blow it at jimmy hoffa. Instead... it does nothing. It just dissipates if blown too far and never gets near him. Instead we use the portals, which are frustrating as the game makes it clear the two near the entrance are connected.. but dosen't make it clear EVERY portal is connected this way.

The solution is to open one by the fountain of youth, then open another next to the underground moai, have the good moai blow the cloud and boom, a LOT of dead pirhanas and a free fountain of youth. Also

Things We're Going To Hell For: 6

And with that we can use the glass to scoop some up, give it to hoffa... and blink him out of existance. THings We're Going To Hell For: Still 6 (He Deserved It Yo) It's REALLY sad when killing someone by making them age themselves out of existance isn't the worst thing we've done today. Or even this month.

This event also moves along Sybil's subplot for the season and who boy. Strap yourselves in because I haven't seen a character nosedive this fast in many moons. So the whole episode, Abe and Sybil have been picnicking, only doing that on Abe's suggestion.. and only so he can oggle the middle good moai. Yeah after several episodes of at worst being out of touch and mildly annoying.. abe's somehow lept straight to the bottom and is perving on someone right in front of his girlfriend and THEN asks her to have plastic surgery to look more like the moai.

Sybil runs off in tears.. and SOMEHOW, SOMEHOW, this gets worse... as Abe THEN tries to hit on the moai. To her credit she shoots him down fast and we get a great response out of him, a casual "that's fair". So he's still funny he's just WAY more of an asshat. I mean granted we just committed two murders in a row, so i'd SAY we can't judge.. but those murders were to save a LOT of lives from death and were of a bunch of fish and a murderous infant man.

Anyways with this we enter our final puzzle set, continuing from the formula laid out last time. Sadly.. they also fall into a fairly trite, terrible stereotype. It's forgivable enough for the time.. but it's still pretty tone deaf. I can't blame them for fixing it as unlike the various lines corrected for save the world, this is a large part of the plot and thus really coudn't be futzed with.. but it's still not great.

Okay so for our final stretch our heroes run into your standard tone deaf "the natives are stupid and belivie anything is their god" plot only this time it's sea monkeys.

Yeah.. they.. really coudl've thought this one out a bit more. We have to convince them max is their god/chosen one/whatever instead, in order to replace an old advesary: Mr. Spatula, sam and max's goldfish whose mad he's died and thus is willing to take an island with him. Now you may recall, even if I didn't name him last time, he died. And he did. THIS IS HIS GHOST.

So to prove ourselves we have to do three tasks. The first is easy and I stumbled into accidently: We have to make the water into BANANG!, an energy drink powder bosco happens to have a lot of.

To get it away from him, we have to torment him.. again. This time we simply radio in, claim to be THEM

And Bosco goes deeper underground, there's too much panic in this town. So we got the powder.. but we also traumtized a friend for life so

Things We're Going To Hell For: 7

Next is adding an ear to a rock formation that looks like max. Once again the sandwitch is useless.. except as a clue. We finally need that basalt sandwitch for kidz, so it's time to use the fountain of youth water on ourselves.. and ONCE AGAIN the game gets frustrating as you transform back very fast from drinking it. The trick is to use a gong I honestly forgot about in Stinky's diner max reminded me of. I can't tell if I just suck at adventure games or this is poor level design.

Anyways we get the Basalt and get a really funnys equence with douchecanoe moai as it turns out dude just needed to blaze it and basalt gets moai REALLY good and fucked up. With that he casually laughs and dislodges a stalctite we use to finish the max.

We then finish this section. The stone feet of the buried moai are needed to anoit us. Also yes they have hands and arms stuck in there. We simply use the shell again, this time on a portal next to the best moai , she whistles, he taps his toes and we win. Kinda.

Problem is the island's still errupting with Mr Spatula planning to take us with it. The only way to stop it? Some clever puzzlery. We get a high preist medallion from the Sea Monkeys, dip it in some red slime, then shoot the triangle, using the portals to send the red triangle through it , eating the lava.. and presumibly murdering someone but we won't worry about that. Our ride home is gone though but Abe offers a lift while the moai celebrate.. before being sad they can't move. Then their abducted by what seems to be aliens!

Moai Better Blues... is a very mixed bag. The writing as usual is hilarious, and while it's a very

Sort of chapter, it's a FUNNY sort of what the fuck is this, from the various babies, to the black comedy shenanigans as usual, to our heroes riding out on Lincoln's head. It continues episode 1's mean streak, but the weirder setting and more over the top weird black comedy bits like unexistinsing hoffa help it feel far less opressive than last time. The deaths and what we do to bosco are way more over the top. Even abe and sybil's breakup, acompained by the mysterious maraichi's, is more funny than genuinely sad. I DO feel bad for Sybil, but abe is such a dick and he gets karmically punished for it as the moai lady SHARPLY rejects him, multiple times if you want, and he looses Sybil.

Gameplay wise.. it's a lot more obtuse. A lot more relying either on memory (Which isn't good for me but is at least fair) or hoping you figure it out and with most of the max clues being way less helpful. It's a pretty meh chapter all things considered and hopefully as we get spooky next time, we also get back to our quality. Speaking of which

Next Time: VAMPIRES! Just in time for the season. And since it's the 2000's their angsty emo eurotrash vampires! Oh BoY! Thanks for reading!

[pidayforpi]

[Extreme self-indulgent cartoon/anime infodump below]

(Confession: I watch the Japanese dub for DT17 as well (among other cartoons).

And one dumb thing I like to do with (especially) Japanese voice-acting is looking up what other characters the VA voices.

And on Monday, I did that with DT17's cast...compared with JoJo's cast.

→ Gladstone Gander = Tonio Trussardi (Tokuyoshi Kawashima 川島得愛) is cool

→ (Melon) Mickey = Donatello Versus (Takanori Hoshino 星野貴紀) is still cool

→ But Lena = Gwess (Momoko Taneichi 種市桃子) is really something

"Webby, Webby, Webby, Webbyyyyy~ ♪"

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(Additional infodump that is actually longer and more serious:

As you can see from the list above (yes, that's it, afaik), the DT17 dub cast don't really star much in JoJo. Actually, they don't really star much (majorly) in other anime as well. The only other VA with a famous role is Della's, who voices Nami from One Piece (yes).

I think the most famous VA in DT17 are those for The Three Caballeros: Donald, José and Panchito, who literally also voice three characters from Dragon Ball (Beerus, Frieza, Piccolo, respectively). And two of them are guest stars.

There are many reasons why this is the case: First of all, I'm only looking at voice-acting. Some of the dub VA are actually not VA by profession, but instead, say, live actors/stage actors/narrators etc. IIRC, the previous official Japanese voice of Mickey Mouse, who had voiced Mickey for almost 3 decades, isn't even an entertainer by profession.

Second, some of the VA are quite young, both in terms of age and career. That doesn't necessarily equate to fame, but there is a certain relation.

So. Why am I saying all of that? Because despite all those things, the dub is fire. It is above average at worst, absolutely amazing at best. Call me a weeb, but I have never seen a Japanese dub that is worse than the original voiceover.

HDL sound just as distinct, Webby sounds just as hyper, Fenton sounds just as adorable, Gyro sounds just as crazy misunderstood, LP sounds just as the himbo he is, Scrooge sounds just as...old (there is legit an "old people's way of talking" in spoken Japanese). And of course, Yamadera-sensei perfectly replicates the Donald Duck speech...but in Japanese. (Donald speaking "normally" is literally just Yamadera speaking normally as himself)

The same goes for other animation dubs as well, such as LotTC (the two Sheldgoose are so damn funny), GEAH (Sam is the MVP there with his amazing voice change), or RotTMNT (I legit watched the Japanese dub first). The VA themselves may not be famous, but they still do an excellent job that could be worthy of the fame.

Mad respect to that dedication and talent.

Oh, and if that isn't enough: They dub the goddamn songs as well. They sing them themselves, in Japanese, with Japanese lyrics that fit, sound good, and are accurate.

Remember the "Waddleduck" theme? Yeah, they dubbed that. The "It's a Date!" song? They dubbed that too. Donald's "Hear My Voice"? Yamadera sang it himself, both in normal voice and Donald Duck voice.

And all those silly, out-of-the-blue songs from LotTC? They dubbed them. All of them. Sheldgoose's song to the moai and lava geckos is my favourite.

[Attached with the Japanese version of that song. The only part they didn't dub over was the Spanish part, but otherwise I think it is very neat.]

(3-8-2023)

[lesbiancosimaniehaus]

I cannot be mad about Uranowitz winning over bff Arian Moayed bc that was also a gutting performance

[enbyboiwonder]

Mad moais and beakons have got to be one of the worst combinations of monsters to face, ever. The mad moais will blind you, so even when you’re not frozen in terror from the beakons’ screams, you still can’t land a hit, all while the beakons just keep summoning more and more of their kin. I thought I was never gonna get out of that fight!

[pulptv]

mw 30+ faces?

⠀⠀ ◜ ★ ⠀ I'VE ASKED OUR lovely members and the biggest request is for pedro pascal ( times three might i add ) but here are some others as well !

jeffrey dean morgan, steven yeun, riz ahmed, edgar ramirez, tom hardy, idris elba, bill skarsgard, pablo schreiber, murrary bartlett, colin farrell, oliver jackson cohen, hiroshi abe, jacob anderson, barry keoghan, keita machida, jon bernathal, peter gadriot, harrison ford, keith urban, jake johnson, taylor zakhar perez, daniel henney, jeffrey wright, lewis tan, logan lerman, berker güven, diego luna, alexander skarsgard, mahershala ali, ebon moss-bachrach, kiowa gordon, arian moayed, yahya abdul-mateen ii, timothy olyphant, alp navruz, george clooney, woo do hwan, oktay çubuk, forrest goodluck, david tennant, manny montana, cillian murphy, kofi sirobe, lakeith stanfield, robert de niro, daniel kaluuya, lee dong wook, henry golding, rami malek, fujioka tatsuo, adam brody, david castenada, ken watanabe, donnie yen, kiernan culkin, mads mikkelsen, hiroyuki sanada, omar sy, dev patel, tony leung, javier bardem, manny jacinto, alex meraz, and robert pattinson !

[mikuhats]

arian moayed confirming stewy will always choose money over his friendship with kendall is not news to me bc like, yeah. Lol. but there is still a coexistence with that & the fact that kendall is still the second most important aspect to consider to him. like even if he'll always choose money, kendall being involved will make him at least hesitate before doing so. THAT! is love! i don't think he'd properly sacrifice his friendship with kendall for money either, cus like, its more complicated than that. like with kendall, he kind of always assumes that people won't actually leave him. he can be mad at them, or them mad at him (unpreferable though), but eventually they'll forgive each other. and to be fair, that is how a lot of his biggest & longest relationships work (his siblings, and his relationship w stewy). so its very complicated, to me at least, to say stewy would ever throw their friendship away for money, bc they both very much expect that, eventually, they'll be back in each others lives. blahblahblah.

[aka-fraim]

DQ IX mini project - number #070-071!

[stewykablooey]

‘would stewy get mad at kendall for this’ ‘would stewy turn away from kendall for that’ ‘would stewy feel guilty for doing this with kendall’ like. stewy does not operate on a different moral compass than kendall or anyone else on the show. i know we dont see a lot of him and when we do he’s fun and funny and likeable and calling people out on their shit but stewy is not nor has he ever been positioned as a moral or even rational focal point in this narrative. dont let arian moayed’s big brown beautiful earnest eyes fool you.

[puppys-rhythm-heaven]

why do people think that remixes being repetitive’s a bad thing? cuz it isn’t. it really isn’t.

OH ALSO SOMETHING I REALIZED (don’t mind me screaming): UH. REMIX 8′S REPETITIVE TOO??? MAYBE NOT AS MUCH AS DS’ OTHER REMIXES (in remix 8 it’s just the individual parts within themselves that’re repetitive, as opposed to the others where they have like one, maybe two, parts that repeat a bunch) BUT. WITH THE LOGIC OF “DS’ REMIXES ARE BAD BECAUSE THEY’RE REPETITIVE” SHOULDN’T REMIX 8 BE BAD TOO???

[parasyte-brainrot]

mostly old stuff bc i havent done anything recently