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[sedgewick-gayble]

roaring twenties tumblr simulator pt. 2

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men be like "i would never succumb to homosexuality" and then hold a mans face tenderly as he lights his cigarette with his own. okayy pansy we see you

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art deco more like art dicko! aaaand post

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attended a petting party last saturday and there were no animals not even at all :(

#WHY WOULD THEY CALL IT THAT

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i lov my mother and father so nuch forever i cannot wait to attend my new job at the dubious factory where there have never been any machinery incidents evr before

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The cocaine in coca-cola just doesnt hit the same anymore....

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OP they took out the cocaine

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY TOOK OUT THE COCAINE

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Hes so puppycoded

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The eroticism of the machinery incidents at the dubious factory

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Easy website

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There is a gang war in Chicago. The first gang to get to 100 kills, gets to take over that part of the city. You NEED to be careful, Babe Ruth. You could be at high risk because of your high status. PLEASE be safe, everyone in or around Chicago, and please reblog this to get it to the celebrities in Chicago

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[txttletale]

roadhogsbigbelly is doubling down. genuinely incredible (yes i am aware how deeply funny it is to start a serious post with that sentence. it is my one allotment of levity)

oh okay you just assumed that "loliporn" was involved and something that i deserved to be associated with defending and accused of making "integral to the queer identity" because of stuff that the OP (who i cannot stress enough i never followed or talked to or knew in any fucking way!) did that got called out months after i made my addition?

the rest of his post is just a very lengthy way of saying "umm if you didn't want to be called a pedophile because you were mean about stardew valley maybe you should be more careful about how you reblog from". yeah buddy im sure you apply that standard to yourself too huh. im sure you pull out your Bad Person detector every time you reblog a fucking post and beam OP with it. you literally screenshot my post about how as a trans women i get this standard uniquely applied to me and went "um its a good standard though. answer for the actions of every fucking person youve ever reblogged a post by".

and all this whole fucking schtick where he's like "ummmm im not calling you a pedophile :) i just assumed you thought 'loliporn was integral to the queer identity' based on source: i made it up and am going out of my way to repeatedly say you're agreeing with pedophiles and not being wary enough about pedophiles and that 99% of people who make the type of post im accusing you of making are pedophiles" is so fucking pathetic and if you fall for it you are a blatant transmisogynist like come the fuck on man.

i am no longer having a nice time on the computer, i am pretty fucking angry. and all this because he "doesnt have much skin in the game" but he doesn't like my stardew valley takes! yeah man real proportionate response.

not to mention the aside he makes to say 'wah wah someone told me to kill myself' amiguito do you have any fucking idea what my inbox has looked like since this entire transmisogynistic harassment campaign began a week ago? i delete those asks because i'm not into flaunting every piece of online abuse i get to make myself look like the victim in computer arguments but it has been constant and graphic! breaking news, women are people too, some of the most cutting-edge research suggests they might even have feelings!

"oh i censored her identity i dont know how she even found it" oh okay so you were anonymously pedojacketing me to your thousands of followers while vaguing about a post i made that had thousands of notes and using the same screenshot that an uncensored version of was passed around with thousands of notes as part of a transmisogynistic harassment campaign last fucking week?

how could anyone possibly have guessed it was me! it's a real mystery man it was basically witness protection. "oh but i didn't know, i didn't know she was trans", maybe he'll also say he didn't know about the harassment campaign, hey fucker, maybe apply some of the constant scrutiny you're reserving for women who are mean about farming game and apply it to yourself and consider looking into these things before baselessly making pedo accusations against someone!

this transmisogynistic crybully shit is absolutely fucking insufferable and i am absolutely sick of it and anyone who buys into it. i'm done assuming good faith or ignorance. i am not going to be a good placid little bullying target and acquiesce to this vile shit. it's truly fucking incredible that a tme guy can be found out as an actual pedophile and guys like mr. belly can immediately jump into action to use this as an opportunity to denounce a trans woman who had one interaction with him ever that consisted of five minutes spent typing an addition to a post and hitting ''reblog''. & if you don't find that sickening then straight up you are not safe for trans women to be around.

[goldammerchen]

putting this here and leaving for the time being again fr

mid show but with potential = passionate fandom (or shows with too many characters so nobody is explored super in deep)

The Draw of the Hetalia Fandom (and Why You Can Never Leave)

From the perspective of a fan of (technically) twelve years or so.

Something occurred to me a while back, and I wanted to share it to get other people's thoughts. I'll try to add funny pictures and gifs to break up the wall of text so it won't be as exhausting to read.

I made a post the other day about how the Hetalia fandom always draws you back in. This was, of course, based on the joke about how you can never really leave the Hetalia fandom. A joke you can find virtually everywhere you look in fan spaces online.

But this begs the question. Why? Why can't you ever truly leave the Hetalia fandom? What is it about this fandom that consistently draws you back in?

And note that people don't talk about Hetalia itself, but rather its fandom. You could stop watching the show or reading the comics for years, but the fandom is what won't fully leave you be.

(The Hetalia fandom every time you check to see if it's dead yet).

One answer I've heard has to do with the phenomenon known as Associative Memory, where you can learn and remember the relationship between unrelated items.

For example, you watch Hetalia, a series about the countries of the world personified as anime characters. These characters have their own personalities, traits, quirks, etc. And the more you watch the show and get into the fandom, the more you start to associate these things with one another.

For instance, someone can say the word Italy, and I'll start thinking about Feliciano Vargas. Or someone could say the name Matthew Williams, and I automatically associate that with Canada. Or I could see bushy eyebrows and immediately start thinking of APH England. Heck, someone starts talking about Vikings and my thoughts almost always go to the Viking Trio of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. I could go on, but you get the idea.

And there's also the fact that we live in a world full of the countries that the show has personified characters of, which would in turn likely remind you of Hetalia.

But there's something more here going on. I've thought about it for a long while, and I think I've realized one of the biggest reasons why you can't fully leave the fandom.

It's because of how versatile the characters of the series can be in fan content. Allow me to explain.

(Me preparing to explain to everyone the epiphany that came to me one dark, stormy night).

Hetalia is a series with literally no plot. Like, zero. Some episodes may impact each other, but the overall series is episodic in nature. The only episodes you'd have to watch in order would be the ones going over the miniature love story between Chibitalia and HRE. And then there's the sequence of episodes going over the Industrial Revolution in season seven, and then the sequence of episodes explaining the relationship between Czechia and Slovakia. But that's it. And the Industrial Revolution and Czechia and Slovakia episodes aired in the latter seasons, long after the fandom was already very big and well established.

The episodes are largely adaptations from the original webcomic and thus are all a bunch of skits haphazardly thrown together. So I'll reiterate what I said earlier; there is no real, canonical plot to Hetalia. There are canon events and facts about canon characters, but seeing as the show is largely skits, they aren't tied down to any real narrative.

(The Hetalia fandom whenever they're given a piece of canon they don't like).

This leaves a lot of room for headcanons. Which leads to fans sharing their headcanons online. And when headcanons get super popular, they become fanon. And when a piece of fanon gets super popular, where it finds itself getting mingled with fanart, fanfiction, and even fan theories, you'll have people who start to confuse it with actual canon. There's really a lot to be said for the wild fanon of Hetalia, but I'll get to that another day. I need to turn the focus back onto the characters themselves.

I'm just gonna put it out there. The Hetalia characters are largely one-note. This isn't to say there isn't some depth to a few of the characters, but these characters are largely the epitome of "what you see is what you get." Especially in the early days of the series. The characters all have a set of straightforward, basic character traits, with their interpersonal relationships often being displayed in a very simplistic manner.

For example, Italy is a pasta-loving coward who's a massive flirt. Germany is strict and authoritative with a no-nonsense attitude. Japan is quiet and soft-spoken, only speaking up when he feels the need. America is a bombastic dork with a hero complex. England is an arrogant stick in the mud. France is a hopeless romantic who flirts with anything that has a pulse.

(Me taking a moment to pause and push away the cringy middle school memories of me shamelessly fangirling in class).

And as I said, their relationships are typically portrayed as simplistic as well. Italy annoys Germany, but Germany doesn't want to get rid of him because he's one of his only friends. England and France hate each other. America is that hyper-extroverted friend trying to get his introverted friend, Japan, out of his shell. Switzerland and Lichtenstein have a sweet sibling dynamic. And Prussia and Austria are portrayed as old friends who like to antagonize one another.

Because of the way the characters and their interpersonal relationships are written, this also lends them open to a lot of headcanons and eventual fanon. Not to mention that most of the characters have canon, human names. So if you want to use these characters in a fanfiction, particularly one where you don't want to depict them as countries (which is most fanfics), you have names at the ready that you can use.

And because of the simple way the characters are written, you can potentially write or portray these characters however you want in fanwork without too many people complaining that someone "isn't in character." There is so much room for your own interpretations of the characters. As long as you keep some of their basic personality traits from the series intact, you can portray the characters however you want. Especially because there's no real canonical storyline to drag them down. Because of the lack of canon storyline, you don't have to worry about fanworks being canon-compliant, canon-divergent, or canon-adjacent.

(Fanfic writers when they realize canon cannot stop them from creating whatever they want).

Do you want to portray Romano as the notorious mafia boss, Lovino Vargas, in the 1930s? Go ahead. As long as you can keep some of his cowardly and stubborn nature intact, you can do what you want with little trouble.

Do you want to portray England as the infamous pirate, Arthur Kirkland, in the 17th century? As long as you maintain his disdain for France, have at it!

Do you want to write a college AU with all of the characters present? As long as you keep in mind their personalities and have a basic understanding of their interpersonal relationships, have fun!

Now you're probably sitting there thinking, "Big deal, people can create all kinds of fanwork, regardless of what its content is, or what property it's for. What makes the Hetalia fandom so special?"

It's special because, since Hetalia is a series with almost zero canonical storylines, and the characters are portrayed in such a simplistic way, both of which lend their way to boatloads of headcanons and fanon, as well as small scraps of canon information that we can choose to either ignore or elaborate like crazy on...

Hetalia is a freaking goldmine for creating all kinds of fan content.

(Hetalians when creating the 2p! variations of the characters, probably).

So much fan content is out there. From creepypastas, to Hetaoni, Dreamtalia, the 2p! characters, historically accurate AU's, school AU's, and so, so much more. All because the canon is just loose enough to allow all kinds of fan content to be created and not seem too far off from the series or characters.

And that fan content ends up being way, way more fun than the actual series itself! Don't get me wrong, I still love the show, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't (or currently don't) have a freaking blast every time I engage with fan content. The creativity is insane, and the fanon is even more fun and entertaining.

The reason you cannot fully leave the Hetalia fandom isn't just because of Associative Memory, but because of the immense amount of fan content and fanon where, because of the nature of the series, you can do, write, draw, and create whatever you want. You can project onto these characters and their stories and interpret them to your own personal tastes. And you know what? That's a heck of a lot of fun.

And there you go, that's my two cents.

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you know i love those dash simulator posts but it would be silly to make one for bvm haha

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cashier at hot topic yesterday said he liked my shoelaces but he seemed really genuine and i was wearing my boots with the gay laces so i just fistbumped him and walked away. do i deserve to be drawn and quartered over this minor social faux pas yes or no

#prev LMFAO #keep doing it

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the only thing worse than applying for jobs is interviewing for jobs what the fuck was that phone call ??????? i swear the guy (?) sounded like they were literally dying. prolly just a smoker though 💀 i hope this gig works out man i dont feel great about it

#the good news is my bubbe is coming to see us next week :) #becks personal log

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WHY THE FUCK IS GAS SO FUCKING EXPENSIVE IM GOING TO EXPLODE EVERYONE ON THIS DAMN PLANET

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they don't know this post is about the hearse running out of gas on the turnpike last week. with. you know. things. inside of it

#wtf misnis

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dude qhat if there was a way to make like. so so you knwo how money s madeup right .well wht if it was worse

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like if isnteadof it being materials we assign arbitrsry value ot based on manufactres scarcity wht if it was digital adn the value was based onlike uniqhe digital signaturess and algorthims qnd all the value came fromn specualotye invensitmetn instea d of anything REMTOELY real lmfaooooooo

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#who keeps bringing this back lmao cryptocurrency is already dead

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girl help there's a cosplayer on the bus rn in FULL monster mode it's SO FUCKING COOL and also HOT

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they did like an eldritch double face thing and the makeup is impeccable, it looks so real that i just. i just wanna lick it. "i saw you from across the bus and think you're super intimidating, can i bite you?" but genuinely !!!!!!!!! also they're like suuuper gnc which makes it one morbillion times sexier. god. definitely drawing them when i get home

#woagh that sounds rad as hell. and soooo valid op #like. i just want to eat a demon out and die with its talons inside me #and frankly i dont think thats too much to ask

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"oh, i don't think you're ready yet," he says, pressing a broad, calloused finger against your dripping cunt. "i wouldn't want to hurt you, after all.....

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new blog same fat wet manhole! they will never kill me in a way that matters!

#asmo originals archive #i miss my old url smh

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rly loved the dusk over campus tonight 🦇

#omg slay #gothcore #goth #aesthetic #alt aesthetic

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bee butts. you agree. reblog.

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#bestie why are you polling tumbler about this #personally id keep it #makes a great tactile stim

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might change my name again. i like damien but it just doesnt feel like me anymore idk idk

#i dont understanddd it just feels Wrong #sometimes i feel like theres really smth wrong with me man #and not in the goth way #like im goth i know that but being a goth guy is just. blegh #goth girls just have so many more options for looks it's not fair

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We're coming.....and we hope you will too...

This Saturday at the Moonbeef Cafe in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

#BE THERE OR BE SQUARE

[kindestegg]

You rbed that dragon comic and mentioned some assholes were stealing OP's idea. Could you tell me the thieves please? I'd like to know

oh god okay so. big fat disclaimer that im not trying to start any fights with this, im just some guy who realized a similarity and thought it was kind of funny it happened. i dont know if its productive to get super mad about this, i mean ops post has way more notes than the comic that plagiarized it but uh...

yeah, its this one.

its not the same beat-by-beat but like. person meeting baby version of a magical animal, gets told that they shouldnt encourage a specific behavior, doesnt listen and thinks its cute, later magical animal grows up, person asks "do you think shell remember me", cue magical animal being way too big and slamming person around. come on.

youll note the original comic with the dragon was posted nearly two months before the toh version of it. there is the fact two people can have the same idea and it could just be a coincidence but its... certainly odd. because the way i even found this out was by seeing your reblog of the dragon comic organically, IMMEDIATELY recognizing the exact same scenario in that toh comic and BOLTING to confirm which came first. and huh. looks like the dragon one did.

i talked to samsa about this earlier, and we agreed this is odd specifically because this person is known in the toh fandom to churn out comics insanely fast. we already know this is partially due to heavily reusing assets, but the idea of them stealing from other sources to come up with comic ideas is... a new one, ill admit, but not too far fetched considering, again, how fast the new comics come out. it makes me wonder if its just this one that got plagiarized or if there has been more... but again, i dont care that that much to investigate further, it just was a shocking and kind of funny thing to realize.

[dorizardthewizard]

Ninjago Crystalized E22 - E30 thoughts

forgot this was in my drafts

EP 22

ronin is a legend. he got done so dirty like... he had such a good arc in s5 only for the writers to revert him to a generic thief. and the ninja were just chill with getting him locked up in ninjago’s prison for the worst criminals?? what the hell guys. add onto this how corrupt/ incompetent the leadership and justice systems in ninjago seem and... phew, that’s some bootlicking from our favourite little legos /hj

nya knowing stuff about plants is so cute. let them have more interests outside of ninja-ing!

the production value on these fights really is good

oh wow master wu could really use an elemental dragon right about now!

"i fished out the last one" LOL

doing it again in the same canal LMAO thats an L having to give wu mouth to mouth. also not sure that’s what you should do with someone who still has water in their lungs

EP 23

aww cute jaya moments

nya has her powers back! wow i sure enjoyed her well developed arc that was so worth them bringing her back!! /s

aww i love these kids having their own little counterattack. kiddos aren’t your families looking for you?

love how antonia went from wanting to quit to being adamant they should fight back

"i am not about to lead a bunch of children against the embodiment of evil and darkness!" soooo like every other season? "that never stopped you before!" TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUTTA MY MOUTH LOL DRAG HIM

kind of surprising just how many times wu wants to quit and others have to remind him that ninja never quit, my brother in fsm you taught them that

btw this should have been the s10 ending just oni instead of the overlord. still mad about how rushed that season was.

EP 24

honestly idc about lloyd’s whole angst with his dad, they act like sensei garmadon never existed. evil garmadon hasn’t even been around long enough for lloyd to be super disappointed in him on a personal level like that. why can’t he instead be angry at this garm because he’s not the father he remembers and only serves as a walking reminder that he’ll never see sensei garmadon again.

dragon form let’s goooo

side note i miss lloyd saying dregon

omg the ice emperor are we actually talking about this

oh we're just gonna brush over it and make it a joke. got it.

RONIN MVPPP

borg tower yet againnnn also this guy was so focused on his projects he didn’t realise the apocalypse was happening? i love him

pixal: ronin why are you helping us?

WOW WE REALLY JUST IGNORED SEASON 5 HUH JUSTICE FOR RONIN

EP 25

few notes here bc i was too busy staring at the lava

the way he softly calls coles name when he wakes up ToT

kai fighting by himself to protect cole dsfgsd lowkey wish that fight had been extended for the wump but also so skylor can come just in the nick of time

i like the implication that skylor doesnt keep those powers forever, she has to touch an elemental master again to “recharge” so to speak. makes her much less op so that’s cool.

wu broadcasting on all frequencies but wouldn’t the bad guys hear him too?

that transition from the ninja running over the manhole to lloyd and garmadon being in the sewers is super cool. i love cinema.

lloyd's argument with garmadon gives the implication he's mad at him for never being a good father but THATS A MOVIE PLOT NOT THE SERIES ARRRRGHH

what could’ve been cool if instead they made lloyd not want to embrace his oni side bc he's scared of the anger and resentment building up in him over all these years of being the green ninja. y’know like the fandom keeps harping on about but is never actually portrayed in the show.

one thing i like about these new seasons is the clear motifs and musical character themes. paper delivery professionals for the win.

the paper kids wearing home made outfits with pots on their heads gives me such codename kids next d00r vibes

actually i like these post apocalyptic vibes, with everyone trying to look for each other and hiding but rallying secretly.

aww that happy moment with the family then kai and skylor hhhhngngng if only they delved more into skylor and her childhood crying

EP 26

omg kai finally having his speech skills back!!!

weeeeell kinda. actually it's effective lol he's so cute with kids.

had to pause this skylor and kai moment bc im dying from cringe. also lmao all these seasons and they weren't really together? oh he hasn't even spoken to her all this time?? skylor was at nya's funeral i swear ToT

here's an F for the lava fans. it was a pleasure shipping with you o7

zane is broken yet agaaaaim

if jay and the others could figure out the hint about the newspapers then surely the bad guys could

RACER 7 I MISSED YOUUUUUUUU

also she's basically antonia lmao could they not have thought of a different design

"that paycheck of yours? kiss it goodbye"

I LOVE HER

stop fakeout deathing me with zane lmao we've done this 50 times already. wow she gave up pretty quickly huh.

oh for god's sake they'll reverse the fakeout death THAT quickly? i give up. and he lives just because of an emotional speech? please

can't believe tommy made a big deal about this and made everyone think they would split up somehow. oh wait he does that all the time and the fandom runs away with it every time. if you wanted emotional moments for zane and pixal you had a story about suppressing grief and trauma right there! why was pixal ok with him completely turning off his emotions earlier anyway?

oh well pixal's squeal of delight was adorable though

EP 27

lloyd: relying on others isn’t weak!

cheers i’ll drink to that. again this could have been really impactful after an arc about trusting too much to mistrusting too much to finally hitting that balance.

cuta jaya moment but nya's arc this season is basically generic “believe in yourself” and like. we've done that before. they literally just brought her back to return to the status quo for the “last” season.

racer 7: speed. i am speed.

ok i know i complain about ignoring the old seasons but at least they tried to tie in the other new seasons like calling vania and benthomar and all that. it's basically a replacement for when previous seasons would bring back the other EMs and such and i guess it makes sense since this is a different era of ninjago. all of that falls apart when they insist on bringing back characters like garmadon though...

oh finally they didn’t fall into the canal for once!

oh no if they make cole and vania get together i’m gonna...read the entire hs epilogues and hs2. worst thing i could think of.

the others are either gonna find another way to find out what happened and come to help them in the nick of time, or this was just a way of explaining why no one else came to help.

EP 28

oops i watched the final eps drunk after a party and I still haven’t gone back to rewatch them ^^; umm fun moments, dragon form was ???? out of nowhere and should have had a whole season centred around achieving this form, Nya’s character regressed, rushed ending considering how much history they had to tie up, llorumi bad and i miss those little legos already

[stoppostingforeverandever]

Omfg, oh btw whery im loopey on another account incase u dint know, anyways. Let me just. Scream for a hot second. UWUWHAHAHGETYEUWHWHWUISISJJDHEUEUWUAHHAHAAAAA IOWOWOWKJSJSUSH OOHOLYLLYKYNSHHSJIIRKTJTKT MOHOMGMG.

I ADORE THIS. I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. IT WAS SUCH A PLEASURE TO READ YOUR ANALYSIS TOO!!!! Ahhh I love how clever you are with design, it’s really so fun to read :] I feel like I see so many fanfiction where luffy ultimately keeps the hat afterwards, because they’re the strawhat pirates ofc! But,,, I genuinely dont remember if I’ve ever read anyone who actually talked about luffy PERMANENTLY giving the hat back to shanks, and omg thanku sm for reintroducing that idea into my brain. I love your idea of both of them forgoing their hats!!! Sabo looks really adventurous with just those goggles on his head too :D

Ahaha there’s this cover spread which I consider what the post-canon of OP to be

Like, the whole gang is around the table, and the tagline is looking for new adventures! The globe robin is pointing to is outside the grandline and everything, ahahah and usopp has clearly had his fun trip to elbaf :] ANYWAYS, i went back to take a look at this,, and lo and behold! Luffys strawhat is no where in sight! Haha he does have a silly pirate captain get up though :D and his jolly roger is still on his hat!! I imagine he’s playing dressup rather than keeping this as a permenant outfit, and it doesnt confirm if the strawhat is gone or anything, but i thought it was interesting to note.

Anyways. No joke. This made me so choked up man… u keep doin this to me…. It always struck me that sabo’s dream as a child was to write an amazing book and travel the world- not anything like bringing freedom to the oppressed. Luffy and Ace went down direct paths to fulfill their respective dreams, but Sabos having more of an indirect approach to it, and even then, he has so many duties as chief that he probably doesnt have any time to write!

I don’t think I’ve seen him look so free before. He’s dedicated his life to bringing freedom to others, and now he’s free to pursue his own childhood dreams to the fullest. KILL ME 💥💥💥💥💥💥

I found your analysis of his childhood verse adult outfits REALLY interesting, and it fits soooo well. I love the lighter, calm colours that you ultimately went with. Whahaha i love his snacky pockets too, big fan of many pockets in designs, esp when they have great uses! He looks so cute and I think you were completely right about the cravat thing, cause he has such an aura of FREEDOMMM and exploration and i think his cravat wouldve definitely restricted his style LOL. IM BEING SO TRUE RN WHEN I SAY THAT HE LOOKS SO BONEDEEP HAPPY NOW, HES SO FREE NOW, WHERY THIS IS MAKING ME SO EMOTIONAL. KILL ME 💥 💥💥💥💥

Ahhhh i love sabo laying down and listening to luffy chat about whatever, i wonder if hes telling a story about his adventures? Maybe hes talking anout something really stupid actually, maybe both! The aura around them is so serene though, I feel AT PEACE WITH THE WORLD!1!1!1! Wahah I love sabo’s lil doodles in his book! He loves drawing his lil brother °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖° and thats a great rendition of a bird sabo!!! JESUS CHRIST THATS A GIGANTIC HERCULES BEETLE OMFG LUFFY STAY STILL LET ME DRAW THAT. (❁´▽`❁)*✲ﾟ YIPPPEEEEEEEE luffy looks so happy XD hahaha did he draw that derpy ass sabo in there? His artskills have improved since we last saw him ahahah!!!

I ADORE THE DESIGN FOR THE SABO BOAT!!! YESS!!! YESS HE COMISSIONED FRANKY YESS!!! Its a lot more practical than the striker for travelling for sure! And i lvoe that he can really comfortabley sit down and propel the boat too :] the dragon figurehead is a brillaint touch, aahahah and it seems to be having fun on their travels too! The S (crossed out) pirates are back in business :) he finally gets to properly set out on his pirating adventures…. thank you whery. this healed me… thank you….

Is it so hard to ask that sabo follow his dream he had when he was a kid? IS IT??????

Also, his boat was commissioned from Franky! And he did a great job :)

Design talk:

Im gonna start with just sharing his canon designs

Colors:

Something i want to call attention to is the blue and black in his design.

When he was young, Sabo wore his heart on his sleeve. He had a dream for himself and was taking steps to complete it. Likewise, that blue on his coat is on full display its bright and vibrant and saturated. But also theres that dark blue, almost black, thats underneath it thats being hidden by that coat, the pants, and his tattered cravat. Likewise again, Sabo is hiding his darker side. He has secrets he doesn’t want his brothers to know of and he lets his aspirations and relationships he has with them outshine his past.

In his present design, that blue that was representative of his dreams, is now the one being hidden. Its covered by a complete black coat, a representative of the darkness in his life that now is drives him. This color switch up is symbolic for how he’s put off his dreams and kept it locked up (belt), while choosing instead to pursue a life of darkness for the greater good.

Also, these pictures of young sabo and young adult sabo, you can visually see how less saturated it is. The blue is duller of the coat/undershirt and even more-so with the pants. You can see how he’s much less vibrant than how he was.

In my Post-Story idea, what happens leading up to it is that Sabo succeeds in taking down the world government and after he’s sure the world can move on without him, he goes sailing alone as a pirate to write a book about the world, like he’s always wanted to do. Also, Luffy returns his straw hat to shanks.

So in my design, sabo wears a vibrant blue coat again. He’s living his dream and has nothing holding him back from doing it. The black is still used, and its not being covered, but its on his pants and his gloves. He still has that darkness, but he doesn’t use it as protection or as something to hide, rather as something he moves forwards and progresses with. He will never forget what pain and hardship he went through and he’s not trying to. However, whats underneath all the layers is not darkness or dreams, and its not necessarily being hidden either, its light. Not BRIGHT, but light. Mellow and calm. The settled true nature of a healed man.

I took more colors from his child design than i did with his young adult (YA) one, too. I wanted to show how he’s reconnecting with his younger self by bringing them through to his Post-Story look!

Also, since his journal is his dream, it is blue, as well.

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Items of Clothing:

In both of his canon designs, there is a sense of properness. A top hat, cravat, tailcoat, etc etc.. Its all properness. But more than that, its the idea of responsibility.

Whether he acts responsible or not isn’t what matters in his case, instead its that he wants to look responsible. He wants this because a) he was a little kid who wanted to grow up too fast and be taken seriously, and b) because he has an incredible amount of responsibility being the second in command of the revolutionary army.

To further prove that, I would like to point out his silly little cravat. I love his cravat. But how the hell is that practical for his line of work? Sabo is concerned with being practical, hence his baggy/movable pants and leather gloves. Additionally, just the waist/trench coat, belt, top hat combo would suffice for a proper looking person, but it’s taken excessively with the cravat. The cravat is purely for appearances.

Further symbolism with his cravat, i think, is that this appearance is visually choking him. Its wrapped tightly around his neck when he was a child and when he was most under control of a much higher power. However, when he’s a YA, it’s a lot looser. He’s got some agency, but he’s still being suffocated by responsibilities.

On with my design.

I took away his cravat. Im sorry but it is SYMBOLIC!!!!!!! He is not worried anymore with appearances, he is Free.

I took away his top hat but not his goggles, too. I think that after Luffy gives back the straw hat, Sabo forgoes his hat as well. In solidarity, maybe. If you think about it, the top hat isnt what makes his hat so special, its the goggles. So i got rid of the hat and kept The Goggs. Although it is sad that they are no longer Hatted, as that is one of the beautiful appeals of ASL, they are no longer ASL.

I wanted to keep aspects of his YA design, since even though it is very perforative, its still a style that he’s stuck with since childhood, so he’s gotta like it in some capacity. I just tried to make everything look a lot looser/open on him.

Lastly, i gave him a bit of a beard cuz i think he deserves it.

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Alright! If you got this far, thanks so much for reading my insane ramblings!!!! I fr feel like this rn 👇

Visually, sabo’s design is not too complex, at least not when you look at him next to Ace, but theres a lot of depth to it. I didnt even think of half of these notes before i started typing this up, its just the more time i look at it, the more i noticed!

[star-nn]

I posted 192 times in 2022

That's 187 more posts than 2021!

30 posts created (16%)

162 posts reblogged (84%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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@justthoughtsabtknb

@hattalove

@filmgifs

@smittenskitten

I tagged 191 of my posts in 2022

Only 1% of my posts had no tags

#ann thoughts - 29 posts

#eurovision - 22 posts

#eurovison song contest - 21 posts

#esc 2022 - 21 posts

#eurovison 2022 - 21 posts

#ann's recommendations - 20 posts

#tatort saarbrücken - 19 posts

#esc - 17 posts

#cql - 15 posts

#the untamed - 15 posts

Longest Tag: 119 characters

#op i love your art but the food on harrys plate looks like baby voldy that they threw in the cauldron in goblet of fire

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

i cant believe eurovision this year is disrespecting me personally???? like all the songs i loved are just not getting points from the jury???? and the uk is winning right now???? if the public votes dont make this better i will start screaming

46 notes - Posted May 15, 2022

#4

PIA DU BIST DIE EINZIGE FRAU DIE ICH SUPPORTE, OH MEIN GOTT, DANKE DASS JEMAND ENDLICH SAGT DASS ES NOTWEHR IST UND YK, FUCKING VERJÄHRT

153 notes - Posted January 23, 2022

#3

europe really said: "we are the main characters"

See the full post

158 notes - Posted May 14, 2022

#2

the worst thing about the silly little wee-woo show is that its produced in murica. people keep on being like "new episode monday; bucks in the room on monday; eddie breakdown monday; maddie and chim are coming back on monday"

LIKE NO, THEY ARE NOT, THEY ARE COMING BACK AT LIKE 2AM ON TUESDAY AND MY BRAIN CAN NOT ACCEPT THAT SO I KEEP ON THINKING "MONDAY" BUT ITS TUESDAY! FUCKING TUESDAY!

284 notes - Posted April 11, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

we are watching tatort saarbrücken and adam and leo were hugging and all my mother had to say was: "Sind die schwul?" and if that doesnt explain this fandom experience then i dont know what will

722 notes - Posted January 23, 2022

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[tsumikicity]

god that post is making me want to talk about house of leaves more because that book is genuine experience to read. the only problem about talking about house of leaves is the best way to experience it is with minimal knowledge (id say no knowledge but theres some incredibly fucked up stuff so trigger warnings and the blurb on the flap of the front cover would be fine imo). its only a bit over 20 bucks new and i beg if youre to read it

get it physically

get the full color edition, from what i can tell using color blind simulators it uses colorblind friendly colors

take it slow, really take time to stew in the book, id even say to go as far as only a single chapter a day, its incredibly dense so blasting through it isnt really the best way to read it (as someone who blasted trough it i do regret reading it that way)

if you feel like you need to take notes you definitely should, i have some written on separate sheets of paper inserted in the appropriate spots

now if you choose not to heed my warning or, preferably, youve already read it rest is under the cut

now im first gonna say i may have got a little too heated in the tags but im very passionate about this book, and the fact that i dont know what pale fire is but comparing it to goncharov just feels wrong to me. a more apt comparison would be the original princess bride book where its pretending to be an abridged version of an incredibly boring book, but instead house of leaves is very much unabridged.

if op of the one post meant the navidson record, the story inside a story inside a story, i would understand but just saying house of leaves feels like its missing the point almost? like house of leaves is johnny telling us about himself through his tangents aswell as telling us about zampano who in turn tells us more about johnny since theres a really good argument for johnny and zampano being one and the same all the while zampano is analyzing the navidson reccord, a documentary which doesnt exist for us or johnny. and if you spend more time with house of leaves theres probably a great way to connect the story of the house on ash tree lane to johnny but i havent spent the time this book deserves, and i genuinely dont know if theres an amount of time good enough for this book.

and going back to point three above my memory of little details, and especially what happens towards the end, is incredibly fuzzy since i read it in about 3 days which is a big reason i want to reread it. and just saying this makes me feel like im falling into the books trap as well. just like navidsons obsession with the house, and zampanos obsession with the film, and johnny obsession with the analysis, theres the potential for my obsession with this book and figuring it out. i say potential but i havent ever really stopped thinking about it since i read it around march of 2019, nearly 4 years ago at this point. its a book that really can stick with you and creep up on you late at night when youre just watching the walls of bedroom, lost in thought. it sometimes just hits you, a feeling of uncanniness in the most familiar of spots, a sense of something just not being quite right, and i think house of leaves does a really great job of conveying that feeling through its formatting which is part of i why i hope its read physically. it can take even the act of reading it into the uncanny with how the front cover is a bit shorter than the rest of the book.

i may have gotten a bit sidetracked there but my point is the book is very much real and having it compared to a fake movie meme feel very wrong to me but it might also be the gaming exhaustion from pokemon causing me to misinterpret that original post. either way i got to rant about house of leaves for a bit so at least theres that

[dammithawke]

I’m not going to add on to the original post, because that just sounds like an absolute nightmare of a decision, but I do feel the need to lay my cards and thoughts on the table in regards to this exchange:

Where can I even begin.

Dante’s Inferno, and the Devine Comedy as a Trilogy, was Dante’s attempt to posit the question “What if the Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell mentioned vaguely in the bible were actual places? What would they be like and who would be there.” In doing so, he took a few concepts and characters from the bible and old testament to use as filler characters and guides. To flesh out this alternate universe he describes, he used real people from his own life and the political setting of his time, as well as a slew of historical figures to use as examples for who got punished where, according to him.

No one, and I mean no one, was equating Dante’s Inferno to “larry stylinson mpreg”, but since you really, REALLY want to go there: ‘larry stylinson’, for those not aware, is a ship names for a pair of men who were members of the band, One Direction. I never touched that part of the internet in particular, but, ignoring the condescending tone ( and, you know, I’m gonna throw out there that the term mpreg smacks hard of some transphobic bullshit that this post isn’t necessarily about, but is most certainly worth mentioning), the existence of ‘Larry Stylinson” fanfiction does fall in to a particular subsect of fanfiction: RPF (real people fiction). For the record, there is MUCH controversy, even in the many fandom communities, about the morality of shipping real actual people in this way. I personally do not condone it, but much like the transphobic bullshit OP insisted on bringing up, the morality of that is not necessarily the subject of this post.

EXCEPT

That’s exactly what Dante wrote, right down to to the use of Beatrice, a roman noble to whom Dante had previously dedicated many poems, as the embodiment of ‘divine knowledge bestowed by grace’ all the way to the point where his love for her is a catalyst to his ascension in Heaven. My dude Dante was just shipping himself with her. Never mind the ‘Self Insert’ bits. We already know he just straight up wanted to write about his own imagined journey to enlightenment. What’s more important is that Beatrice is there. Along with other political figures, she is a real person he is writing this fiction about.

Her, along with other political and historical figures of the time, saved Dante from the trudge work of designing and describing made up characters. What else serves this purpose, allowing an author to focus more on other parts of their craft and story telling?

Oh yeah. Fanfiction.

But you’re right, the fact that The Divine Comedy features Dante himself in a self insert protagonist role does not, in itself, mean that the entire work is fanfiction. Just like the fact that it was written between 1308–21 doesn’t negate the fact that it was based on the Bible and Roman Catholic Theology. Fanfiction, as a concept, wasn’t a coined term until 1939, and has since undergone a change or two in context/meaning. But the concept, as it stands now, is pretty clear: Fanfiction is a piece of derivative fiction as a tribute to another work or artist. 

Now OP also argues that it can’t be fanfiction because its an “Epic Poem”. I’m gonna level with you here; just like fanart is still fanart even if it’s featured later in the work itself, it’s still fanart. Fan-movies are also still a type of movie, and in the context of building on existing fiction, a form of fanfiction as well. People write fanfiction in the form of poems. Widen your fucking perspective.

Now, finally, to get a bit more general about your ice cold, shortsighted, condescending points: Not all fanfiction is silly, dirty, random, cringy, unedited garbage, as you seem determined to imply it is. Just like not all books are well written and worth reading. I love books. I love fanfiction. But you know which stories I’ve read have been the most personal, honest, touching, and emotional?

Fanfiction.

Which one is more accessible? Monetarily, as long as you have an internet connection and know what you’re looking for, the answer is fanfiction.

But which one is more respected? Obviously books. But why? What’s the difference? Books go through thorough editing and polishing to be published. The author is paid, usually, as a result. The product is bound and distributed -- or, in some cases, formatted and distributed digitally.

That being said, silly books exist. Trashy books exist. Self published books, books filled with typos and miss-prints, books that are based on other works in the public domain (yeah, bitch, I’m talking about fairy tail re-writes. It’s fanfiction too. Just because it’s based on public domain property and published for money doesn’t mean it’s not fucking fan fiction.)

So how do you find a good book as opposed to a bad one? You can go to a bookstore and just pick at random til you find one, but not every book you find is going to be well written or your cup of tea. Usually, it helps to be recommended a good book. 

The same goes for fanfiction. You want a good long fanfic? Just fucking ask someone. You want something well written, with amazing story arc and progression and pacing? JUST. ASK. 

And you know what? Fanfiction isn’t for everyone. Some people only enjoy things that continue where canon left off. Some people just want to picture their favorite characters happy for once in their fucking lives. Sometimes you just want to wonder what would happen if a show that had a good foundation was written by someone who actually knew how to fucking write. Sometimes you want the equivalent of Pulp Fiction books or short stories.

That’s all fine and beautiful.

You know what isn’t fine and beautiful?

OP being a pretentious piece of absolute trash. Please, for the love of everyone who has ever written or read anything, be less awful.

PS. Other classics that should be considered fanfiction include, but are not limited to:

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) Author: Victor Hugo Fanfiction for: The Notre Dame

Paradise Lost (1667) Author: John Milton Fanfiction for: The Book of Genesis from the Bible

Any Shakespeare Play Based on History (17th Century) Author: Shakespeare Fanfiction for: World History

The Aeneid (19 B.C. -29 B.C) Author: Virgil Fanfiction for: The Iliad

Lord of the Flies Author: William Golding  Fanfiction for:  The Coral Island,

The Three Musketeers Author: Alexandre Dumas Fanfiction for:  Mémoires de Monsieur d'Artagnan

For Sources on Dante’s Inferno and the Divine Comedy: https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Divine-Comedy

TLDR: OP is pretentious and Condescending and the only thing stopping fanfiction authors from publishing as actual books is copyright and connections in the publishing industry.

[electricpurrs]

i just realized i dont need to fight this fight alone, and maybe i can help educate an army of anti-reposted art soldiers. here's some tips for you:

STEP 1: spotting reposted art

a lot of reposted art gets popular on social media and a lot of the time its because the people sharing it arent aware its stolen, which frankly makes me angrier at the reposters for actively fooling people who dont know better. being able to spot reposted art is useful if you dont want to maintain that cycle

the thing about this is that its definetly not certain, its not always easy to spot and you wont always remember to check every single thing you reblog, but it might be worth keeping in mind, and being wary of things that look suspicious

lack of description: often artists add text on the descriptions of art they post, like giving the piece a cool title or just talking about what it is or what inspired them etc. if you see someone in a post going "so i drew this last night because i couldnt sleep" that sure sounds like their own art! reposters often wont add any description, or add a description that doesnt make it sound like its their own art, like "this is so cute! 😻😻" that sounds more like someone reacting to the art than someone making it

low quality: sometimes reposted art will have weirdly shitty image quality because its been reposted or screenshotted to hell and back. if it looks like the quality should not be like this, or if it looks weirdly cropped (sometimes cropped to erase the artist's signature), be suspicious

check the op: the first two are signs that can give you an initial suspicion to make you want to investigate further, but the quicker and easier way to be sure is checking the op and the original post.

check the tags: artists on tumblr often have their own art tags, like "#my art" or "#name's art", or often will add tags for visibility (though reposters will do that too). in that reposted sanrio art, if you check the original post, there are zero tags. none. weird.

check the blog: very very easy way to spot a reposter. an artist bio/pinned post will often have some sort of indicator that they post their art. like saying what their art tag is, saying "im an artist/i draw sometimes/this is an artblog/i make fanart" etc. normal stuff. you might be able to find more art of theirs, realize theyre all the same/similar art style, or have similar subject matters (like a sonic blog posting sonic fanart, or various drawings of the same oc). a reposter blog's will not indicate that they're an artist (unless theyre straight up impersonating and pretending to draw their stolen art, which is another can of worms)

if you check that sanrio post's op's blog......BOOM! an empty, wordless, "aesthetic" blog that seems to post loads of unrelated, unsourced images with no description or tags at all on any of them. that blog is exclusively resposting!

STEP 2: what now?

so you've found art that is reposted or that you suspect is reposted. what to do now? well, what ive taken as my hobby and sacred holy duty to do is actively find the source of stolen art.

its not always an easy or quick process, and you sure might not have the patience to do it, but if you want to, the first step is simply save/copy the art and look it up on google images. by whatever means, ends up google image search's massive fucking lovecraftian amount of internet data is pretty good at looking art up, and if you're lucky and the art you're looking up is relatively new/recent, was posted by the og artist on social media, and/or the reposted image is in enough good quality and uncropped for google to spot it well, you can find the source pretty easily.

i need to go in way, way more complicated rabbit holes sometimes to find older or more obscure art, but you might be able to find it

ok say you've found the source, what now? if you've seen the art reposted in a popular post with lots of notes, it might be useful to share your finding directly on the post. dont be scared of being rude, annoy the shit out of them. leave a comment, and/or reblog with an addition yourself letting it be known that its reposted, link back to the og post and say the original artist's name/url. reach up to mutuals that put the post on your dash and let them know (even if privately). you can't always do much, but if you teach one person to not share stolen art and make them find the og artist, thats a win!

i DON'T know if tumblr allows that (because tumblr is useless) but im pretty sure you can also report posts that have stolen shit in some social media, like pinterest and maybe instagram? not sure but might be worth trying

in other cases, i've been reposting art myself, specifically when its very old art/ art not originally posted on social media / art thats already been reposted so many times or has so many notes there's no point in trying to stop reposting, and instead reposting it myself but with proper source and credit this time. again, its not much but its honest work

STEP 3: ok but what if i don't want to do all that

show it to me babyyyyy!!! are you suspicious art might be reposted but arent sure? did you find reposted art but you cant find the source? feel free to tell me about it and i can do my best to find the source myself, i love that shit!!!! you can send me an ask, dm me, dm me on discord if you have me on there, im glad to help!!

with that i finish my presentation. thank you for listening. remember kids: credit your artists

sorry for how many times youve seen me reblog that fucking sanrio post by this point ive created a burning hatred and personal rivalry against that specific post and how many notes it has while being literally just reposted stolen art and no matter how many times i try to add the source nobody gives a shit. this will be what turns me into the joker

[bluewinnerangel]

I KNOW! I was literally like the least thing they could have done was follow us 💀

Aaaaand I'm going on a rant now. People don't really view tumblr users the same way they do accounts on platforms they are active on themselves... I think over there they understand it's nice to see a notif come in and so they do the same for others, meanwhile tumblr is some other plane of existence where we do not require the same treatment and a post can sit on 2 reblogs but have 40K likes on someones instagram on your explore page (this actually happened to me)... and the amount of times I've seen a completely deepfried screenshotted post of mine that's been taken to twitter then to instagram over to a tiktok and then part of a youtube compilation post, one that would sit on less than 100 notes, one that got who knows how many interactions each step of that journey, and none of that response ever reaching me, while I made it. (not to mention the follow button is visible in the screenshot more often than not) Also. I'm out here writing posts first of all mainly for myself but in a way tailored to my bubble, tailored to you, to the people I see in my notifs. You're in the back of my mind when writing it, the fucking tiktok horde isn't. If someone grabs that and runs with it.. it's not meant for twitter or tiktok like I haven't written it in a way for that .. bubble.. to understand, it's for my tumblr friends who I know will have context. Like there's a baseline of understanding in this place that's not there on other platforms. And I try to spell some things out sometimes just in case it'll reach some new people, other times I'm just shitposting for my friends yk. So don't bring it somewhere it just brings up questions in a pool of people not capable of answering it without notifying the person who wrote it, leaving it up for interpretation out in a void of "WHAT" and "I-" and "HUH"'s like that's just a bit frustrating when it's your words yk. (ok that got sidetracked)

But to get back to the post in question, this might be where they got it from by the way.. i mean .. its.. nice to see the peoples reactions? 💀

Anyway to anyone taking screenshots of posts on here and taking it to other platforms: Just fucking interact with us. Ask Us If You Can Repost. Some people don't mind the reposting, others you're making very very uncomfortable. Because exposing the @ of someone's blog they consider their safe space to an audience they don't know is scary as fuck, especially because there's an anon ask option on this hellsite. Like the thing is you're possibly sending anon hate our way. EDIT: And this does not mean repost anyway but cut our @'s off because then you're cutting off the source and not crediting and that's even worse. I'm just saying some people don't want you to repost at all for this reason, please don't fucking repost without credit. Anyway the point is if you like a post enough to repost it, follow OP and reblog (that like button doesn't do shit. reblog.) the post on tumblr because that's a free happy serotonin boost for OP and the person you're reblogging from. Even if you have a tiny account and nobody will see it, OP does in their notifs and that makes them happy and that's the only thing that matters k. write your response in the rb tags if you want. If you do have a blog but it doesn't fit your content make a sideblog if you have to. Even if it's got 0 followers, on tumblr you can't see that, and it doesnt matter. All that matters is you give OP some interaction and make them happy, instead of .. this. A fking rant post before noon.

[thequackcity]

Quackity and Schlatt’s Relationship - More Complicated Then You Think

(this is all /rp and about the characters from the dream smp! pls assume i have the dignity not to write analysis of youtubers)

recently there was a bit of discourse surrounding the relationship between Quackity and Schlatt floating around on tumblr. tho i never saw the original post that sparked the conversation, i did see a few posts that were inspired by it mentioning how they disliked that the original post implied that Quackity and Schlatt were mutually abusive and/or equally bad for each other 

since i never saw the original post, i can't be sure if that's what the op meant to imply. it's not really my place to speak about a post that i never got the chance to read. BUT the conversation that was caused by the post in question did get me thinking about how this fandom treats the relationship between Quackity and Schlatt and how little nuance there is in discussions about it

now before i say anything else, i want to make a few things clear:

i don't think Quackity and Schlatt’s relationship is mutually abusive. no need to worry about hearing that from this post

i don't look down on ppl who have different interpretations of their relationship

there will be potentially triggering content in this analysis. i will place a quick warning whenever i think one is needed!

their relationship is romantic in canon and therefore i’ll be treating it as romantic

alright now that we’ve gotten all of that out of the way, we can finally get on with the analysis! i apologize for how long this is gonna be

part 1: let's talk relationship!

i think we can all agree that Quackity and Schlatt’s relationship was not exactly a healthy one. tho it didn't start out that way, it certainly turned into what could be read as abusive or toxic (i personally read their relationship as being abusive in its later half due to evidence provided by the text, but i understand if others prefer to view it as just toxic instead)

but what happened that led to their partnership ending so badly? what caused all of this mess?

well, it was a lot of things. but we will get to that later. let's talk relationship first!

from the very beginning, Quackity and Schlatt’s relationship was pretty one-sided. tho they both clearly liked each other as friends/partners in crime both before and after the election (yes they did interact before the election!) Quackity was also interested in Schlatt romantically- something that Schlatt wasn't fully committed to

as we all know from the infamous date stream and from a few other moments, Quackity and Schlatt enjoyed playfully flirting with each other- tho it was pretty obvious that Quackity was more serious about it then Schlatt was even tho Schlatt considered Quackity to be very attractive

in my opinion, Quackity is someone who wants a long term relationship, while Schlatt is more interested in flings. this can be seen in Schlatt refusing to marry Quackity and rejecting most of his advances while Quackity tried his best to convince him to feel otherwise. Tommy put it best: Quackity is just one of Schlatt’s many bitches U_U

to Quackity, the romantic aspect of their relationship was very important. because Schlatt never actually shot him down or told him that he didn't feel the same way, Quackity took that to mean that they were truly in love. Schlatt on the other hand wasn't very invested in the romantic side of things but clearly valued Quackity’s looks and his support as an ally against Pogtopia so he never fully rejected Quackity’s advances

this might not seem like too big of a deal considering the other things that happened between them, but i think it shows part of the nature of their relationship. there is a lot of miscommunication and, on Schlatt’s end, manipulation of emotions. love is a strong motivator for loyalty and Schlatt is a smart guy who would know how to use that to his advantage

but that isn't to say that Schlatt didn't ever care about Quackity!

Schlatt is a complicated guy and figuring out when he's actually being genuine can be pretty difficult. but i think there are some moments that point to Schlatt genuinely caring about Quackity

when he was alive, Schlatt was pretty paranoid. not as paranoid as Wilbur, but certainly up there. but there were never any times where he truly questioned Quackity’s loyalties after his first day as president. Schlatt also seemed truly upset that Quackity betrayed him, bringing up their status as partners in crime while ranting about how much it hurt him and singling Quackity out while talking about how he had been abandoned during his time of need

Schlatt also spent a lot of time sulking after Quackity betrayed him and whining to Ponk about needing a new bitch. this is in contrast to how angry he was after Tubbo betrayed him- both during and after the execution

there is also the situation with the Big Man Gym 

after being dead for a while, Schlatt contacted Quackity despite them leaving off on bad terms and asked for him to visit him in his cave gym. when Quackity showed up, Schlatt talked about how he valued their relationship and the good times they had together. tho this can easily be seen as emotional manipulation, Schlatt’s a lot smarter than he seems and- if he doesnt have memory issues due to being a ghost- would know that Quackity’s opinion of him was in the dump at the time of his death and most likely wouldn't have improved since then. Fundy has a higher opinion of Schlatt than Quackity does and is someone who obviously craves validation. but Schlatt went to Quackity first anyway and trusted him to help revive him

i think that this is all good evidence that points towards Schlatt truly caring about Quackity as much as someone like Schlatt can care about anyone- or at least valuing him as a companion

i also think that it is pretty common knowledge that Quackity cared about Schlatt- and possibly still does- but i will go over a bit of evidence that i haven’t already mentioned before we move on to the next part

Quackity tried multiple times to impress Schlatt (like when he lied about knowing how to play chess), would attempt to help Schlatt when he was drowning in water, sadly said that they could have had something together while Schlatt was dying in the caravan, and implied that he wouldn’t have left if Schlatt hadn’t taken down the white house. Quackity also willingly went to the Big Man Gym after being summoned there by Schlatt and wanted to revive him long before the revive book became part of the story

part 2: what made it fall apart?

everything i've said so far has been pretty interesting (hopefully) but it doesn't really answer the original question: what went wrong to turn Schlatt and Quackity’s mainly positive partnership sour?

well it comes down to two things in my opinion: their incompatible desires for political power and Schlatt’s deteriorating mental state

Quackity wanted political power from the beginning and wasn't afraid to be open about his desires. he pooled his votes with Schlatt because Schlatt offered him the position of vice president, something Wilbur and Tommy weren’t willing to give to him. tho Quackity obviously cared about L’Manburg and wanted to see good things for it, he also desired power and was willing to team up with someone he didn't fully agree with to get said power

at 32:40 in this video, Quackity talks about how in politics everyone uses everyone so it's alright if Schlatt is using him. he then talks about how he doesn't want to be a man with no power and how he understands that Schlatt’s main goal is also gaining/keeping power. Quackity also shows a bit of his naughty evil side by saying if he overthrows Schlatt then the fun ends too early! 

(side note: these two are pretty evenly matched in intelligence and manipulativeness, i love it!) 

it's a bit of a fandom misconception that Quackity was a love sick yes man during the Manburg era. tho Quackity did want to please Schlatt and was in love with him, he didn't shy away from standing up to or disagreeing with Schlatt when he believed it was needed

at around 26:12 of this video, Quackity and Schlatt meet together in private and Quackity tells Schlatt off for playing down his role in the power structure of Manburg. since this was very early in Schlatt’s reign, Quackity shows no fear towards him and confidently tells him not to treat him like that

Quackity also broke Niki out of jail after regretting letting her be put there in the first place, tried to convince Schlatt to not execute Tubbo, jumped in front of Fundy when Schlatt tried to attack him, tried to stop Schlatt from tearing down buildings, and attempted to protect the white house he built from being destroyed by Schlatt. these are not behaviors of a pure yes man but of someone who, despite fear, has the confidence to speak up for himself even when disrespected by someone in authority

Quackity has always been someone who wanted power and someone who was never a yes man to authority. this contradicts with how Schlatt believed Quackity should act as vice president. in Schlatt’s opinion, Quackity’s one job is to sit around looking pretty while Schlatt does all of the important things and holds all of the power. Schlatt was a big fan of promoting people to worthless positions of authority and its pretty obvious that he considered vice president to be similar to the fake positions he gave Fundy and Tubbo 

in the end, this was a big part of what destroyed their relationship. like it or not, Quackity’s a power hungry guy and always has been. he didn't like that Schlatt constantly shoved him aside and refused to listen to him

now onto the nasty bit...Schlatt’s mental state

cw for mentions of alcoholism, mental deterioration, and abusive behavior  

before i say anything more, i just want to say that i don't think having issues with alcoholism makes someone a bad person. i personally have some issues with such things so it would be pretty stupid of me to say being an alcoholic makes you a bad person. alcoholism does negatively affect your cognitive functions tho and, combined with other health issues, can cause some of the very serious mental problems that Schlatt clearly struggles with

throughout the Manburg era, Schlatt’s mental state rapidly deteriorated. he went from a pretty normal- if eccentric- guy who had a drinking problem, to someone who was delirious most of the time. it's a sharp and noticeable decline that caused a lot of pain for Quackity due to Schlatt often taking his excess aggression out on him by yelling at him and/or belittling him. tho Schlatt often belittled Quackity before he went fully off of the deep end, it was never as aggressive as it was when he was in this delirious state of mind

it was during one of Schlatt’s most aggressive and delirious moments that he tore down the white house despite Quackity’s protests. as we all know, this caused Quackity to snap and kill Schlatt (it's more complicated than that but we will get back to that). as mentioned previously, Quackity implied that he would have stayed with Schlatt if the white house hadn’t been destroyed

in my opinion, these two things combined are the biggest reasons why Quackity and Schlatt’s relationship fell apart. their differing desires for power were not compatible and Schlatt’s awful behavior while his mental state declined caused a rift between them that couldn't be fixed

part 3: how toxic was it really?

cw for emotional and physical abuse 

as i said all the way back in part one, Quackity and Schlatt’s relationship was not healthy. i have provided many examples in the other two parts that shine a light onto why it wasn't healthy, but i didn't show the entire picture

there are many moments that show exactly how Schlatt treated Quackity when he was acting at his worst and none of them are pretty. tho Schlatt was never truly aggressive with his insults until he started to go off of the deep end, that doesn't mean that what he said wasn't negatively affecting Quackity

Schlatt would belittle, insult, and mock Quackity for his appearance not being up to his standards, for his opinions, and for being emotional in ways that Schlatt disapproved of like crying. tho Schlatt would often brush off Quackity’s reactions towards this cruel behavior, it's very clear that Schlatt’s treatment of him has stuck with Quackity in many ways

Quackity is very sensitive about his appearance and it seems to be because of how badly Schlatt hurt his self esteem during their time together. Schlatt tied Quackity’s worth to his appearance and then would claim he wasn't meeting his standards of attractiveness. we can tell that this has stuck with Quackity because of his sensitivity towards people bringing up the scar on his face (something that greatly alters his physical appearance) and he still reacts very badly when Schlatt calls him the mocking nickname flatty patty

speaking of flatty patty- that stupid insult shockingly has a lot of weight in Quackity’s relationship with Schlatt. tho its something the audience is meant to laugh at, the nickname also shows just how little Schlatt respects Quackity because he's constantly throwing it around just to make Quackity upset. Schlatt’s last words are flatty patty all because he wanted to get in one last dig at his ex and ruin Quackity’s day even further 

Schlatt tends to do a lot of things that are intended to make Quackity upset. tearing down the room Quackity made for him in the white house is the biggest example of this- especially since Schlatt mentions how it will upset Quackity while he does it. you can see this moment at around 19:10 of this video

and now let's get into the elephant in the room when it comes to these two: Quackity was scared of Schlatt. tho we never really see Schlatt hit or attack Quackity physically outside of their confrontation at the white house or their confrontation in the caravan, these clips imply that Quackity was at the very least scared of Schlatt physically harming him in some way 

as for actually physically harming him, Schlatt hits Quackity multiple times with a pickaxe and with his fists during their white house fight. Quackity hits Schlatt a couple times too, tho these are all primarily defensive blows since he is trying to protect himself and his property. he also chases after Quackity with a bow after Quackity’s plan to trick him into signing Manburg over to the Pogtopians fails and hits him multiple times during the caravan confrontation

all of this evidence shows that Schlatt was an abusive (or at least toxic) partner towards Quackity and someone who greatly affected him in many ways

tho Quackity did a few questionable things throughout his relationship with Schlatt (such as trying to get Schlatt to have sex with him despite Schlatt not being interested as shown in the later half of this video) and did some downright morally wrong things during his time as vice president of Manburg, no one deserves the pain of an abusive relationship- even a person who has done bad things

as a brief side note before we move on because i know people will bring it up if i skip over it, Quackity did- and most likely still does- want to literally possess Glatt. he brought up reviving Schlatt and using him as a political pawn after Schlatt’s funeral and during their conversation at the Big Man Gym Quackity talked about owning Glatt and having him work at Las Nevadas with no pay

this is unsettling behavior to say the least but this essay isnt about the aftermath of their relationship so much as it is about their relationship when it was actually happening. maybe i will make another post talking more about how Quackity’s relationship with Schlatt affected him even after Schlatt’s death and/or about Quackity’s relationship with Glatt

part 4: final thoughts

i’m not exactly sure why the nuances in Schlatt and Quackity’s relationship get lost when it comes to the fandom, but it’s pretty disappointing to see. hopefully this essay can help people take a closer look at canon and maybe even help them find something interesting that they’d want to explore!

tho the point of this essay is to clear up any misconceptions and hopefully add some nuance to the conversations surrounding Schlatt and Quackity’s relationship, i also wrote it in hopes of showing people how fascinating these two partners in crime were back in the Manburg days. i didn’t cover everything but i think i did a pretty good job for my first analysis post in the dsmp fandom

also since you read to the end, i must say thank you! it really does means a lot to me that you did. i hope you enjoyed and maybe even learned something. this post can be used as a resource if anyone wants to use it as such

here’s a tiny devil Quackity for your troubles <3

[jamesvanriemsdyk]

Best GMs and coaches in the league ACC to you?

we can start with gms because coaching is a bit more complicated. best gms in the league is easy to look at because like, who has a good team? who has had a consistently good team? whose locker room is the most cohesive, whose coaching staff is the best? who is the best at acquiring and keeping the best players, coaches, staff, etc? and you can see that in the way teams play. 

(putting this under the cut because it got long. and i mean Long.)

so, in no particular order: kyle dubas (leafs), steve yzerman (red wings, i will explain this later), don waddell (canes), julien brisebois (lightning), joe sakic (avs), and kelly mccrimmon/george mcphee (golden knights) (god i still hate that name and also will explain this later too) are the best in the league in my opinion. honorable mention to marc bergevin, who has held onto his job much longer than he arguably should have, but still has a decent team on the ice and a decent coaching staff, although the french rule does severely handicap them (i understand why it exists but it does, it just does). 

david poile (preds) is the longest tenured gm in the league (has been the preds gm since fucking 1997, thats insane, thats legit before i was born, what the fuck), and i do genuinely think he is very good at his job, and that he is very hockey smart, but oh boy have his recent decisions been suspect as hell, and that reflects in the state of his team. doug wilson (sharks), who is the second longest tenured gm in the nhl, is in the exact same boat (the karlsson deal is a nightmare, and also did he just forget that his star core was gonna get old and retire or ??).

with dubas, waddell, brisebois, sakic, and mccrimmon/mcphee all have the same basic strengths: they draft well, they have a fundamental understanding of their team structure and how to manage public perception of the team and everything that implies, and they have two fingers on the pulse of their locker room at all times. im not going to pretend to know as much about sakic and mccrimmon/mcphee as i do the eastern gms, but it doesnt take much to figure it out. look at the avs, and their locker room, the success theyve found after being dead fucking last in the league. look at the knights and their incredible success that theyve found after literally not existing before 2017. ive talked about dubas a lot on my blog, but its incredibly easy to see that waddell and brisebois do the same shit he does, and i can do a deep dive on them if asked. bergevin has moments of brilliance, like the suzuki trade and acquiring caufield and anderson, but things like kotkaniemi’s development and their entire blue line give me a massive pause, which is why he’s not in the main list. he’s a good gm. he’s just not the best.

in regards to steve yzerman: you have to understand that this is the man that built the tampa bay lightning as we know them. this man was gm of the bolts until fucking 2018. tampa bay has been a monster in the eastern conference for years, BECAUSE of the work steve yzerman put in. his team set the franchise record for wins, and he was the first and is the only lightning gm to have won gm of the year. look up the 17-18 roster. it is, essentially, the roster that won them the cup last year. make no mistake, i think brisebois is great, and hes on the list for a reason, but the biggest part of brisebois’ success was steve yzerman’s incredible hockey mind. brisebois essentially had to sell off a fourth of his roster, and the lightning are still a top team in their division and in the league, and thats why he’s there (it is so incredibly easy to fuck shit up post cup win), but the brisebois lightning would not exist without steve yzerman, plain and simple.

what steve yzerman is doing in detroit should be watched very, very closely by every single person in the hockey world. youre fucking nuts if youre not paying attention to them, not gonna lie. the mantha trade was excellent, if really sad if you know even a bit about the wings, but the amount of draft picks steve yzerman has amassed and the way he’s using the prospects and players he already has is really fucking admirable. mike babcock left the red wings organization absolutely in tatters, and i think, honestly, it was always steve yzerman’s plan to go home to detroit and rebuild. if there is anyone who is going to strike absolute gold this draft year, it is steve yzerman. watch the red wings, i am telling you, keep a beat on detroit. they are going to be good. its not an if, its a when.

(real quick on the knights situation: mcphee was the first gm of the knights, and was also president of hockey ops at the same time, and then in 2019 mcphee said he was just gonna focus on his job as president, but we all know hes still an integral part of the way the knights are run, and he and mccrimmon have kinda been building the knight together since the beginning anyway bc mccrimmon was originally mcphee’s agm. so. thats why theyre together)

as for coaches, it’s very simple. rod brind’amour (canes), sheldon keefe (leafs, yes im biased, we’ll get into it), jared bednar (avs), joel quenneville (panthers), jon cooper (lightning), barry trotz (isles), and mike sullivan (pens).

(disclaimer: obviously coaching is done as a team, and assistants and specialist coaches and staff are all very important, but the head coaches set the tone and organize the entire machine, if you will, so im going to be talking about head coaches as if theyre the entire coaching staff. its just easier this way im sorry)

im gonna just start with the easy ones: barry trotz, mike sullivan, and jon cooper have been in the league for years. cooper is the longest tenured coach in the nhl for a reason (again, just look at the tampa bay lightning. its the gm’s job to make the coach’s life easier and the coach’s job to make the gm’s life easier, and this is one of the prime examples of it in the league. its dope as hell tbh), trotz is one of the most respected coaches in the hockey world for a reason (the caps lost something when he walked. they just did. and now the isles are absolute hell to play against and that is largely the coaching of barry trotz, you legit cannot tell me im wrong), and while mike sullivan does have his faults, i think hes found a way to please both management and the crosby-and-malkin unit, which has been really really fucking hard to do. he also led the pens to back to back cups, which you can never really uh. ignore. lmao. so theres those three.

i know less about bednar, but again, another example of the coach and gm working together to make each others’ lives easier. sakic gets bednar the players and staff he needs to make the avs better, and bednar takes those players and staff and makes them into the absolute giant they are. it wouldve been really, really easy to fuck up makar’s development, or bowen byram’s, or sam girard’s, or ryan graves’s, or jost or mackinnon or rantanen’s, but he hasn’t, and he hasn’t just given up on players like burakovsky or kadri, he’s given them new life as players and made them more successful.

joel quenneville is the reason the bl/ckh/wks were a legacy team point blank period. sure they had the talent, sure the gm drafted well, but you do not get the legacy of the chicago bl/ckh/wks without joel quenneville. they fired him on a whim and it absolutely was a mistake, and the moment the cats hired him i literally out loud said ‘oh no’ because i knew exactly what that meant for the leafs and their position in the standings. the panthers are underrated generally, yes, but they would not be the powerhouse they are this season without quenneville. just look at q’s wiki stats. he’s absolutely unbeilevable. he won the jack adams in fucking 2000, before he’d even won any of the cups with the h/wks. i cant tell you what kind of a locker room coach this guy is, but i can tell you his teams win and win convincingly, and that firing him was the biggest mistake the h/wks have made in years.

whenever i talk about coaching, i talk about rod brindamour and sheldon keefe in the same breath every single time because there is no match, and i mean none, for the love inside those locker rooms. the avs, maybe, but my point stands. keefe and brindamour fucking BLEED team spirit, it is at the center of their coaching styles and their teams are good because of it specifically. marner and matthews are good, yes, and they always have been, but they have surpassed all expectation and then some with keefe. aho, teravainen, and svechnikov are good, yes, and they always have been, but they have surpassed all expectation with brindamour. brindamour and keefe have both hashtag played the game, so they Get It, and more than that, theyve grown and changed their understanding of the game as the game itself has changed, and so they can command the authority of their teams while also connecting to them on a really deep level. i should make a note here that keefe and brindamour are incredibly, deeply hockey smart, and that they are also just technically good coaches, skimming their wiki or nhl dot com articles will tell you that, but what makes them stand out to me is that their players would fucking die for them. the leafs would go through the end boards for keefe, the canes would do the same for brindamour. travis dermott said it best when keefe got promoted: boys wanna play for him. beyond that, the management skills both brindamour and keefe have are just frankly amazing (the amount of ego keefe specifically has to manage in the leafs locker room is astounding and he does it so incredibly brilliantly). the leafs and the canes are talented, yes, and would have been talented regardless of who was coaching them. but brindamour and keefe bring both of those teams from talented to exceptional, and the true mark of an amazing coach is not only how many games their team wins, but how they win them, and the leafs and canes have been winning games this year for and because of each other, and that starts with their coaches. what makes a great coach, to me, is not the talent on the team (though that certainly helps), but how the coach manages his players no matter who they are, and how he helps those players grow not just as players as people, because no matter how much pure stats people and twitter hockey dudebros wanna deny it, that shit does affect on ice play, and it does make good players better.

so theres my analysis of the best coaches and gms of the nhl, im so sorry this is so long, oh my god. also, shoutout to @bishops--knifetrick for sending me an ask about this literally a month ago that i just never answered, sorry for that, but here i hope this is good. :)

[majorshatterandhare]

[ID: four screencaps of tags reading as follows (with typos fixed):

Image One: “#definitely didnt just learn about rosaries the other day for a brian post and then not use the learned info in the post (that did happen)

#there are lots of ways to make rosary beads, and like. people probably msde their own for a long time (thats a conjecture i’m making based-

#on 'people used to make their own everything') and the beads could be made out of lots of different stuff.

#however im not sure the fort would have stones. not sure how accessible flowering plants are to begin with let alone to be able to use-

#either the seeds as beads (need those to make more plants) or the flowers to make clay to make beads (that becomes the fruit so food. plus-

#you need the seeds from the fruit to get more) but they have sand and fire right. so maybe glass beads, and they have metal and bullets-”

Image Two: “#so they can probably make metal beads. i imagine no wood for the same reason as other plant materials. does that mean their buildings are-

#made of metal? or are they just incredibly old from before things got so bad? and if plant materials are indeed so few and far between do-

#they not have rope? was brian hung with wire or sinew or intestine?

#wire would really suck for a meat person but brian isnt (mostly) so i guess it doesnt really matter. hanging space robot jesus with catgut-

#is really something though. like plant fiber to hang a meat person and meat fiber to hang a metal person

#anyway back to the rosary. do they have plastic? presumably there is some somewhere. in hydroponics or whatever. but would galahad or other-

#religious people have had access? (and would melting it not have killed them?)”

Image Three: “#OH OH OH i think galahad should have used a piece of brians hair for the string. because why the fuck not

#do you even need the medallion part when the string material comes from the guy youre worshipping???

#also while i think offering his body for the beads is less far less likely. maybe 'spinning falsehoods into gold' was referencing using his-

#metal melted down to make new things. rather than stretching it into string as i previously thought (still prefer the string though i think)”

Image Four: “#local priest and preacher man down bad for the man of brass who was bore of heaven and strung up like a man wrought in sin

#patron saint of morality and poetry, his beauty everlasting through tarnish.

#<- [arrow] those are ops tags. i like the tarnish thing a lot

#the mechanisms #hnoc #galahad #drumbot brian #blogbot q

#sorry i went insane in your notes. its what i tend to do”

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When I referenced Galahad using Brian’s hair I was imagining him to have copper wire hair. If he had real hair it couldn’t grow because then he would have living follicles which I think goes against his mechanism being everything but his heart. Maybe they could be from someone else but TS’s mechanism is everything but the voice box, which is from someone else, so it just really depends on how you want to set those rules. I think I see copper wire hair Brian most, so that’s what I was thinking (also, copper patinas green, so he would end up with green hair and it going from red-brown to green is fun and also I personally really like green and copper patina color). So how many hairs Galahad would need would depend on how long Brian’s hair is, and his hair is curly (or at least, I’m assuming it is, since Ben Below’s hair is curly), so it’s longer than it looks at first, and it’s wire so it’s durable! I was honestly just imagining Galahad… plucking a hair from Brian’s head while he was, like, powered down or something. In sleep mode. But I think if Galahad asked Brian would probably give him one, he’s seemingly in MjE mode during HNOC, so he can’t be thinking “this will help make sure he listens to me in the future” but I don’t think there is any moral issue with him giving Galahad a piece of his hair. And from Galahad’s end I think it would reaffirm that belief. Stealing it probably would be disrespectful, but he needs the rosary to pray for his mortal soul anyway! (/j) The only moral issue I could see is making Galahad believe in him when he’s nothing special, except that he is, he has prophecies if nothing else, and he’s not really making him believe, he’s just giving him a piece of hair for string for a cool necklace thing, right? Maybe three strands to braid or twist together for strength depending on the thickness of each strand.

I have also seen someone make rosary beads from roses! I would love to make rose beads sometime. In my research it seemed like that was a relatively recent development (like 19th century IIRC), but I’m not sure how much that matters to them, you know? It’s not near here in time or space. I… think I completely forgot about Brian’s rose Thing when I was writing this (and researching rosaries to begin with). But if he could have a few different bead types that works out anyway, since there needs to be a tactile difference between certain beads. I don’t know if Galahad Rosaries would follow the same pattern as ones here, but having at least two different materials wouldn’t hurt!

I seem to have also forgotten about the existence of chains when writing the original tags. It was late and dark, hence the typos. Chains would work to and probably would make sense with the aesthetic we get from the Pendragons (or at least, what I can glean from “motorcycle”). Although I am really into Brian being hung with sinew or catgut for the reason stated above.

Galahad could take a tire or something right? Cut that up, don’t melt it because dangerous and difficult, and just, string it on. That’s the fast and dirty way to make a rosary I guess 😂 [laugh-cry emoji].

please consider: Galahad always carrying around rosary beads/prayer beads that carry the image of Merlin, The Hanged Man in the style of a saint or of a crucifix. Also he handmade the entire thing of beads btw.

[nbmudkip]

sweet jesus youre REALLY good at pjsekai. props to you for real. ive been playing a little more often lately bc your posts remind me abt it. side note how do i get more than a C because omg the scoring is brutalll

SJHDJBJSB THANK YOUU!!! i dont know where this is coming from ive only like. briefly dabbled in cytus before this so like the rhythm game ability is not something i knew i had in me but here it is!

HONESTLY the best way to get higher scores quick is to play on co-op! both scores and song rewards are WAYYY boosted if you play in multiplayer rooms. usually when im playing i almost always play in co-op pro rooms unless im trying to get a new fc.

otherwise though, getting your scores up is a slow grind, theres no way around it. you have to get your talent value high in order to get higher scores! thats this number

the most straightforward way of doing that is just. pulling high rarity cards. 3 star and 4 star cards have much higher level limits than 2 and 1 star cards. pull from whatever banner is ongoing, get yourself some 3 and 4 stars, and then just grind those babies up. use your practice scores, especially when leveling up four stars, cause it takes a pretty sizable amount of work to max those out. when they’re as high as you can get them, upgrade them for 10 extra levels. if you have a team of all 3 or 4 stars that are all maxed out or at least upgraded, you should be at LEAST pretty squarely in the b range.

however! the area decoration items are also important!

thats the stuff like the flowers and fruit trees at the the two schools and the personal items you can get in all the sekais if you didnt know! you can get them in the shops in each area, the school ones by tapping on the shop npc seen above and the sekai ones by tapping on the miku plushie. these items are hugely helpful in boosting talent!!! if you have a specific character or band you play a lot with, go to that character’s sekai and upgrade their item or their group’s items as much as you can. if you notice your main team has a lot of a specific attribute then instead head to one of the schools and upgrade the flowers/fruit tree corresponding to that attribute. for the attributes, the pink flower is cute, the green sprout is pure, the orange heart is happy, the blue star is cool, and the purple moon is mysterious.

i, obviously, play a lot with wxs characters. my default team (in the first pic) is all wxs, and i almost never take tsukasa out of the leader spot, let alone off my team, even during events where he isn’t boosted. naturally im inclined to upgrade them more because of that, so my wonderland sekai shop looks like this:

and that contributes a lot to how high i score with that team! with my main team, i tend to get s ranks almost every time i play, even on singleplayer mode. in contrast, when im using a team focused on maxing out event points that doesnt have many wxs members, i usually average more around the A-S range in multiplayer and the B-A range in singleplayer, because while i do have some upgrades for every character, wxs is by far the most upgraded.

theres other things that boost scores too, like character ranks and having certain titles unlocked, but those other three are really the only main things you need to concern yourself with, the rest just kind of happens on its own as you play. i ended up rambling a lot but yeah! thats how to get higher rank scores in proseka teehee