#now that the hype has died down I can't stand it

[umbane]

the more I listen to paranoia, the more disappointed I am tbh

[tubbytarchia]

Wild Life Session 4 smallidarity thoughts (+ some Scar and Lizzie)

See it was all fine, nothing to worry about!! Joel couldn't bring himself to kill Jimmy, he barely even harmed him. I'm pretty sure he shot him just once (after Jimmy trampled their crops so. fair)? Joel calmed down, he rebuilt his car, everything is fine. He says at the start that he's wary of Jimmy because of him going after Joel last time, and that's about it for the time being

Jimmy dies and Joel makes a deal out of it and calls him a muppet. As per usual. Meanwhile Jimmy is still adamant to get at Joel whilst Scar tries to deter him because they want to be an alliance

He and Jimmy meet up at some point after their brief interaction at the start where Joel shot him, and they just banter. And Gem and Scar are just standing there like "guyss we're a family come on" meanwhile Joel and Jimmy's exchange goes as follows: Jimmy: "you're the ones with tasty lives!" Joel: "yeah bet you wish you could have a chunk of me!" "Oh I'm having a chunk out of you!" "Yeah and you know where to take that chunk out of!" "Oh I'm gonna take it! I'm taking it!" "You should!" And then Gem and Scar tell them to break it up and Joel goes "we're just flirting!!" ? what the fuck? Genuinely WHAT are they talking about. is this an innuendo of some sort. is this another ambiguous smallidarity sex scene sorry who said that

Jimmy gets a double kill (in the most adorable way btw. The way he weasels his way in there and backs off and comes back to try again all crouched. animal) and goddd people hyping him up is so so sweet. He deserves this. He's also a little bit evil, he's getting the murder rush but I'm happy for him. He needs to kill more people, he needs to get this out of his system, he deserves this, things need to get worse before they get better. ANYWAY Scar all "that was the greatest kill ever on the life series" is so cute. And man I gotta agree. There's more unique and funny and impressive kills but I would not mind calling this the best just for the fact that it's Jimmy. He's competent, he can do shit like this, but it feels like most everyone and the world is continuously against his survival, but here he is... my son...

And then Joel coming up to congratulate him... Really blummin cute. In Joel's POV also, he says "I went to congratulate Jimmy and we had a moment" which I wager he might be referring to the creeper incident as 'the moment' but that'd make no sense to call it that. With that tonation. Why did he say it like that. Stop being cute

But yeah Scar tries to blow Joel up with creepers only for Joel to save him from his own creeper and he's so casual about it. He is incredibly kind to the bamboozlers, it's really cute...

And then Jimmy does it!! He gets Joel!! And he gets him real good!! And can you believe that the first person to kill either of the family duo is Jimmy, of all people. Scott has died by this point too and Jimmy is the one to make a dent in the full 6-life alliance. Crazy. I'm so proud of him. It was seriously really good too, see, when Jimmy puts his mind to something and is able to focus he excels, he really does. And Joel, oh Joel is such a good sport about it. He keeps saying how it was good and fair and that he still wants an allyship with him. Tells him "welcome back to green" aww. And they make a truce, Jimmy got it out of his system and now they can be friends and go kill other people instead and Joel is proud of him... Jimmy "Joel, I finally got you, so I will stop now, so let's do the perfect dap" and then they both count down and clap their hands to simulate slapping palms. Awesome. All of Joel and Jimmy is just really cute this time around. Very happy about them being a more proper alliance now, but we'll see if it sticks... Joel can only be so mean to Jimmy at this point though I don't think he has it in him to betray him or anything lol. Can't speak for the rest of them but not too worried for the smallidarity, it's a plentiful crop...

Also a very important exchange between Lizzie and Jimmy at some point: "I just finangled a load of diamonds off of Joel" "Oh? How did you do that?" "I asked him just really nicely" (lie btw she was moreso extorting Joel) "Oh, that doesn't work when I... I guess... you are his wife, I guess..." "Yeah..." "Lucky for some I guess- right (unrelated topic)" I'm not 100% confident that's what Jimmy said at the end, it's a bit hard to make out but. what? Hello?

I also extend gratitude towards Lizzie for being so nice and supportive of Jimmy, she was the one to suggest the cobweb creeper trap that ended up taking Joel out, but she also insisted that he drink a health restoration stew beforehand in case anything went wrong. Jimmy didn't end up doing so (he was full) and Lizzie is all "why?" and "something could have gone wrong". man. Nice to him...

[starry-blue-echoes]

Star Swap is so hyped for me!!!  cuz Jotaro just has to go through his trauma! Jotaro gets to uncover what happened! Protect his past self! He has to inform his past self that things are going to go well In the past his mom was going to be okay and nobody (Important Dio get fucked) dies. But also things are going to go bad because that brat that past him is currently inhabiting right now. Will make everyone in the past freak out so bad because he didn't write down a single thing explaining anything. 

SO RUDE JOSUKE! and low-key life-ruining.

I know you said in general that Jotaro Is going to have a thing with electricity and Loud Noises (which I think are Kira's bombs I'm pretty sure) I also think *Click is just going to Immediately alert him. But I would also like to add RATS.

 Because I can't get over the fact that two Jotaros with their same Stands are going to be facing off with two rats with their same stands and our two Jotaros are going to get CLAPPED.  Those rats were INSANE.

Anytime Adult man Jotaro nearly gets killed

The teenager Jotaro’s brain: FREAKS OUT

I think the main issue here is that Jotaro has no actual context so Jotaro looks at a radio tower “I have emotions towards this And have no idea why and that's a problem.” I also feel like he's probably going to be Vigilant toward any unexplainable feelings that seem to emanate from that memory Gap so those Feelings just kind of get Amplified until he gets an explanation.

Having said that, I do believe that it is quite possible for our adult man Jotaro to ping Yoshikage Kira  Before he does anything in front of anyone.  Passing each other on the road but only once.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS yesyesyesyesyesyes

GOD this is all so delicious I barely know where to start

I didn't even think about just how much the mystery of Jotaro's "past" is going to tie into all this. Part 4 really is just a mass of mysteries and uncovering so many decade old secrets, and now some of the secrets have become personal

(Also uh. Before we get into things, clarifying nicknames are likely in order <3 let's just keep it simple and easy, Jojo is the teen and Jotaro is the adult)

but just. Gods can you imagine the pure chaos when Jotaro and Jojo meet for the first time. Jojo of course realized what was going on first, after all Jotaro's style.... really hasn't changed much. Not to mention the subtle shift in the air when the other man used his Stand

and of course, when Jotaro realizes he gets thrown for a loop. He came here to check up on his father's illegitimate child and do some poking around for the arrows. Now he's suddenly being nailed in the face with the past that's eluded him for years

it's going to be a MASSIVE relief for Jojo to hear, even if he doesn't express it fully. That mom is safe, that everything turns out okay.

He is however, equally as frustrated by Jotaro's lack of clarity in his memories and starts planning out a very aggressive note to leave behind when they finally switch back

and YESSSSSSSSSS with the clicking noise and rat thing, that's absolutely perfect. Especially with the rat thing since well. They move :)

and the worst part of it all, the electricity and explosions and clicks and rats, is Jotaro doesn't know why. All he knows is that this is a danger to him, that it is life threatening and pain causing and he needs to get away

(and speaking of Bug Eaten, Tonio is going to be getting a L O T more visits than in canon on account of the whole..... Being The Only Healer In This Entire Stand Ridden Town)

I LOVE the concept of Jotaro getting vague feelings of events to come. Because his memories aren't fully gone per say, they exist and are present but they're hazy and muddled and unclear. And yet, with every day he spends in Morioh, every adventure he hears the kids have gone through and every adventure he gets roped into as well, they become clear

But rarely do the warning systems help. At least, not in any way that truly helps. After all, Fate and the Future has already been decided. every action has already been taken, every fate known, every thing unavoidable. This is not a second chance at the life Jotaro had lived, it was Jojo's first chance

that's the most taunting part of these feelings. How vague and muddled and fuzzy they are. A feeling of deja vu can mean a new ally or a hated enemy and he can't differentiate the two

when he eventually realises this, Jotaro shifts his energy to something he can do, and that's training the kids. He came back to his own time a competent fighter and with the ability to stop time, so dammit he knows he can at least try

...........wait a moment I had

a FUN idea to play with regarding the time stop

so. Given the fact Jotaro learned it essentially via a slight paradox, there would be no relation to Dio at all. There wouldn't be any baggage or trauma attached to it at all

at least...... not with Jotaro that is :)

the other Crusaders? Who fought and nearly died against such an ability? That's an entirely different ball park :)))

plus, it could also lead to some fun angst in terms of "Theories Of Where Jotaro Was" now including captured and possibly trained by Dio which wasn't a fun thought for anybody involved

[son1c]

Now I really wanna know what Windthrow and Mangey would be like together. I'm aware Windthrow is technically on Boscage!Eggman's side, but I'm dying of cuteness thinking of him and Mangey forming their own little pack because Puppies™.

well, i was thinking that, after watching windthrow thru the leaves for however long, the Treetop Crew(TM) becomes well and truly afraid of his darkened and threatening silhouette. and then mangey ends up falling off one of the canopy platforms somehow. and since he doesn't know that he can use his tails to fly, yeah, it's gonna be long drop.

but luckily, windthrow is there! and he catches him. and even though it's not what he was supposed to bring back, well... he's already got him, so, why not, right? and windthrow ends up taking mangey back to the ""egg base"" where the last of earth's surviving population is set up.

the Treetop Crew(TM), of course, sees mangey get carried away by the Big Scary Monster they've been hyping up for weeks with make-believe, grandiose tales of terror and... well, they Freak Out, to put it lightly. like, oh, he's dead for sure. but then after they calm down a little bit, they all decide they gotta go rescue him. they've already lost one friend, after all, and can't go with losing another.

(prim isn't happy about throwing herself into danger, but... she doesn't want the kid to die either, so she sucks it up.)

obviously, mangey is fine. windthrow didn't and wouldn't hurt him. he is, however, extremely scared and confused because holy hydrangeas, what even is this place? there's weird fleshy creatures walking around and so many new smells he's never smelled before... including... edible smells.

he looks toward the table on the other side of the room and-- oh, geez, that's a lot of food. more food than he's probably ever seen in his entire life.

the only problem is that big fluffy monster is standing in between him and the food. and he's scared. but... and now the gears start to turn in his head... should he be scared? mangey sizes the monster up. really looks at him for the first time.

and while he's doing that, windthrow--who rarely talks--asks him this: "you hungry, little buddy?"

and bro it is alllllllllll over. they are INSTANT friends. and mangey has never been happier to have almost died falling out of a tree LMAO

[the-californicationist]

We can't have you bored. Or lonely. It will not do! <3

So, since you prompted to ask you stuff, I'd like to know what your least favourite book was, that you read? I remember reading 'catcher in the rye' in english classes in school and I never got the hype about it. There are a few german authors that I despise, but I'd assume you don't know them.

Hope you day (or night?) improved! *muah*

LEAST favorite?? That's a tough one. There are plenty that didn't make it past the first thirty pages (I'm picky as heck). But, I think the one that stands out in my mind is The Grapes of Wrath. However, I do think everyone should still read it - especially the bit at the end of Chapter 25 - as it is relevant (perhaps even moreso) today.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth. There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Look, this is just my opinion. I don't really do politics a lot, and I barely can run two thoughts together these days without getting winded, so take this with a grain of salt, but... since you asked...

I mean... it's the most beautiful, gut-wrenching, straightforward two paragraphs I've ever seen in my whole life. I'll never be able to write something half as good nor half as important. It's too damn bad it's stuck in the most boring novel known to man that no teenager has read or ever will read (sarcasm, but kinda not). The message is essential! That's what we need to be talking about. It's all right there.

We never lost Eden! We're in it, right now. Oranges do grow on trees. Deer and fish live in our forests and rivers, and for all of the PIlgrims' complaints that they couldn't hunt game on the Royal lands, all they did was come over here and create exclusivity where there was relative freedom.

In no way am I saying that the indigenous peoples of America pre-colonialism lived in relative peace, nor am I suggesting that there was ever a possibility for peaceful colonization; colonization should always be contested and constantly so. But, what I am saying is that we have created a consumer market so profoundly broken that we are now purchasing things that are not, have not, and will never be real.

And I find that to be the last nail in the coffin of humanity, really.

Those "gems" on your cell phone game are nothing. They'll never be anything. You are paying for happiness, which you still did not receive. You received, perhaps, a simulacra of it. Some sort of mannequin where there should have been a real person. But, they have made you want it.

When you are force fed ads of people with Body Type A or Body Type B and yours appears in reality as neither, and theirs ALSO appears in reality as neither because they have altered it before selling it to you, they have now made you want to buy a whole industry's worth of products because they have sold you on a lie. A picture of an orange where there was none to begin with.

When Character A or Superstar A or Popstar A wears Tee Shirt A and its matching handbag, we are meant to want to emulate her because we are SUPPOSED to equate her wealth with resources. Oranges, perhaps. Real oranges. We know that, out of all of us, Taylor Swift can have the most oranges, if she so chose to have them. That is what freedom is. Freedom is not needing to guard or gather resources to survive. Resource guarding perpetuates racism, poverty, violence, and fuels the fire of an economy of non-fungible oranges.

Download my orange app today and get 500 orange gems totally free! Is your time free? No. In fact, in America (almost), we have decided that your time must be paid for (unless you are incarcerated (wrongfully or not!)), no matter what. As an employee at Target, every hour that belongs to you that you give to them is worth $15 (except half of that is the government's for, I guess, allowing you to breathe its air).

So, now, I want you to add up all of the 5 minute adds you've watched on YouTube this year and multiply 30 of those by $15. At any rate, I bet the amount you end up with isn't fucking $0. But, guess who got that time for free!? Every company who decided to take your most valuable resource from you and not once did they pay YOU for it. That money went to someone else. And no transactions were made. And you are still never going to get your five minutes, or the orange you could have bought for it, back.

And so, now, of all times, I think Steinbeck should probably be in everyone's hands. You know that the oranges (or minutes of your time) are being destroyed (or stolen) in order to further fuel a profit in a certain direction, and while there are plenty of things that you (I'm using a general "you" here) could do to stop it, there are very few things that you are willing to do. Are you gonna get a stick? Who do you plan to beat? Do you even know the name of the person who took your minutes from you? They have made damn sure that you don't.

So, yeah. For that reason, I hate The Grapes of Wrath. Way to couch the most important two paragraphs in the history of fucking literature in that boring manifesto, dude. ffs. lol.

[walkingstackofbooks]

DS9 4x15 Bar Association thoughts (I’m re-watching, so beware spoilers for future episodes!) [5 July ‘23]

So hype for episode. I love Rom to bits.

"Mister Worf, you're in love. With the Defiant." "You exaggerate, as usual." But he huffed in amusement and that was almost a smile, he doesn't do that with anyone else

Julian is so disgruntled about this outfit, aww :3

Leeta is awesome, advocating for Rom like that <3 I look forward to seeing more of her!

"It's all part of our generous employee compensation package. No sick days, no vacations, no paid overtime." Such sarcasm, Rom, I wasn't expecting that!

"I don't think Julian would approve." "We could ask him." ...I do actually like Rom, Leeta and Julian as a ship tbh

"Isn't this your tooth sharpener?" xD how proud was Worf of that purchase, that Jadzia knows what it is?

"They did not happen on the Enterprise." "Really?" Odo's grin - he's been waiting for an opportunity to reel off the Enterprise's biggest security breaches, right? XD

"We're going to form a... a..." Oh Rom, you're being super brave, I believe you can say it!

Miles perking up at the mention of Rom's union and being super supportive... And then telling Rom about how his ancestor died

It's always fun seeing iconic lines in action. "He was more than a hero, he was a union man."

"After that, it'll work like a charm." "Until the next time it breaks down." "That's the problem when you combine Cardassian, Bajoran and Federation technology." Love Miles being sarcastic at Worf, and Worf being so put out at the idea of things breaking down - poor guy, it's a good job he's not an engineer!

"It's a lot easier than working on the Enterprise." Worf's so confused by this XD

Quark's laughter before realising Rom actually means it

Hologram Quark!

Quark trying to call the cops on the strikers is so very him :/

And Odo agreeing! - never has he felt more police-like.

"But I have strict orders from Captain Sisko not to impinge on your employees' freedom of expression," he sighs, disdainfully. COP

"Wait a minute. I can't believe it! He's an enter." "Not for long!" I'm so here for O'Brien going after Worf

The three of them disgruntled in a holding cell is hilarious

Julian looks like a nervous school boy

"Captain? Can we leave now?" "I'll tell Constable Odo to let you go... in the morning." I love Sisko's "sense of humour".

Quark does not understand Rom's position at *all*, expecting an offer of private Latinum to sway him.

"Workers of the world, unite!" ❤❤

Oh Brunt's looking forward to this, isn't he? UGH

Love seeing the other ferengi getting involved and speaking up

"Spare me. I'm old, I'm fragile. I'll push the rest of them off myself." Classic.

"Don't let him intimidate you." ROM <3

The venom with which Brunt looks at Leeta, as he says "living on this station has... corrupted you."

"Standing tall like Sean O'Brien!" it's so cute how that story has inspired Rom

O'Brien's little thumbs up at Rom :3

"But you'll be living out there all by yourself!" "I know." Oh, Worf. smh

"What you were trying to do was make yourself feel important. Making me feel dumb made you feel smart. But I'm not dumb and you're not half as smart as you think you are." YES ROM

"If brunt gets rid of me, all your problems will be solved." This has really been the making of Rom

"You're here to help me, right?" "Wrong." Hah! Really, Quark?

"Let's see. Who else does Rom care about...?" Quark.

"If Odo hadn't come along when he did... "

"You have to dissolve the union... At least officially..." Yeah, an idea's coming

"Six months!" "It's the best I can do." "No, it's not. All you have to do is make up one of your fake business ledgers for the FCA. They'll never know the difference." "Shush! All right, you'll get your raises by the end of the week." End of the week?! Good negotiation, Rom, I love how well you know your brother - but also Quark was uncharacteristically generous with that haggling?

I'm sad the union couldn't last

"Better?" Hehe, Worf is so annoyed that even here, someone has found him to interrupt his peace XD At least it's Jadzia, am I right?

"Sooner or later, you're going to have to adapt." I guess he does when he moves in with Jadzia? I can't imagine she moves to the Defiant...

"You're quitting?" "Effective immediately." "I gave you everything you wanted." "I know. But if the strike taught me anything, it's that I do a lot better when you're not around." Quark is so nonplussed XD But I love this for Rom

"Think about it from my point of view. If I keep working for you, all I have to look forward to is waiting for you to die so I can inherit the bar." Yep, that's sure a take to have

"Now get me my snail juice! ...Brother." Aww, he's so pleased with himself - and well he should be!

[formulaorange]

Winter 2023 Anime Review

This has got to be the longest season ever. I swear I stopped watching anime for a good few months and came back and the season's still going. I definitely cut down the amount of shows I watched this season since I burnt out but the upcoming Spring season should be a banger. My top 3 for this season: Buddy Daddies Sugar Apple Fairy Tail The Vampire Dies in No Time Season 2 Here's this seasons final reviews:

Giant Beasts of Ars - 12 Episodes Definitely one of the better anime originals I've seen in a while. This is a new sci-fi fantasy concept that felt a little reminiscent of Ghibli content. I was satisfied with the story but was a little disappointed they didn't end it off with 1 season. 8/10- Very Good

Trigun Stampede - 12 Episodes I honestly loved this. Studio Orange killed it with the 3d animations (they did Beastars) and the story is well rounded. I think the series is definitely underated and many people skipped it due to the animation style but it's 100% worth a watch. 8/10 - Very Good

Vinland Saga Season 2 - (Still airing - 12/24 Episodes) Who knew we'd see Facebook's farmville be animated in such detail. But honestly, the first half of this season is absolutely brutal. I know they're keeping it real and the slow pace makes the rest of the season stand out all that much more but damn. Doesn't pick up until episode 9 but somehow I still have high hopes for the rest of the season. (Side note - Mappa is killing it as usual with this take-over) 7/10 - Good

Blue Lock - Part 2 (Episodes 13-24) This is definitely still one of the best sports anime I've seen in the last few years. All the characters are unique and enjoyable to watch, the art style is solid and well executed and the story progresses at a decent rate. I honestly don't have many complaints about this series. (of course other than the usual butchering of english in the last 2 episodes) If you like sports anime, soccer or just want to watcha battle royal, this is one to check out. 8/10 - Very Good Endo and Kobayashi Live! - 12 Episodes This honestly didn't feel like a novel concept but I had a lot of fun. It's 2 romance stories in 1 but with all the fun of shitty otome game intervention animes. (I can't believe this is a genre now). Just overall wholesome fun. 7/10 - Good Revenger - 12 Episodes I really thought this series could've been better. While I did enjoy it to some extent, the story ended up feeling very superficial and didn't feel like it really went in depth on any of the characters and just floated along the surface story for the whole season. 5/10 - Average Tomo-Chan is a Girl - 13 Episodes I nearly stopped at the first episode. I'm still not 100% sold on the concept where this strong girl just wants to be seen as a romantic interest and a lot of the gender stuff was really on the edge but I think they managed to walk around it. The story did end up being cute without it stepping all over tomboys. Was fun to watch but not as good as the hype behind the manga. 6/10 - Fine Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill - 12 Episodes I really enjoyed the manga for this series and I was stoked that Mappa picked it up. I found that as long as you don't try to look for a serious story from this series it's a fun lighthearted watch. Definitely made me hungry while watching. 7/10 - Good The Eminence In Shadow - Second Half I think this show was actually pretty fun. Definitely more of a fantasy than isekai since it has nothing to do with his previous life. I had fun with Shadow's character but found that it got boring for a few episodes until the end. If it continues I'll likely still check it out. 7/10 - Good

The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague - 12 Episodes This was really cute and I liked the change of pace from other romance series where they're all workforce adults, like in Wotakoi. Still felt that it didn't really go anywhere. Enjoyed it but likely won't continue to watch if there's a second season. 6/10 - Fine

[sepyana]

Jjba Stardust Crusaders Ep. 34-39 Thoughts

Under the cut

Ep. 34-35 (D'Arby)

These episodes were pretty solid! Good setup and pay-offs.

The opening scene is so funny to me, they are all synced... wow

D'Arby is entertaining, his Japanese VA really does a lot ot he work, despite the dodgy English. I'd say his stand ability is a bit too obvious, taking people's soulds by gambling. I feel like something more interesting could have been done but it's fine as is, the stand's design makes up for it.

Also, this episode implies people in JJBA have souls? I'm saying implied because it's a real possibility that those are not actual souls, just a part of stands ability.

I love how fucking pissed Advol is this episode. I can't blame him.

I initially thought this was gonna be a Joseph episode since he is a natural gambler. I did like the direction they took. It's showing us that even someone like Joseph can't out cheat D'arby, getting rid of that as an option.

It's a bit weird that Joseph doesn't use hamon to keep the drink from spilling. Hamon would make too much noise, I guess?

The confortation between D'Arby and Jotaro was the best part, I think. It's entirely non-combat but the show utilizes a lot of the tactics it uses for fight scenes. With the lines and the colors and the music.

Jotaro is secretly the funniest character in part 3 and nothing will change my mind. He has Star Platinum bring him a drink and light his cig while betting his and his friends' souls. He could have done all these thing without being so extra about it.

D'Arby fucked up by letting Jotaro bet people's souls with a contract. I sure he thought there is no way he would go for it. He doesn't even flinch when betting Kakyoin's soul which is so funny to me. If the group is going down I'm taking him with us too. He doesn't get a pass just because he is away in the hospital.

Then he bets his own mother's soul. I was sort of expecting that to happen since if he dies, Holly will die too anyway.

I think he should have bet Iggy's soul too while D'Arby was panicking just to get the point across lol

Yeah these episodes were fun. The mechanics around the contracts gets a bit confusing if you think about it but who cares.

Ep. 36-37

I did say before that I would kill to see Hol Horse and DIO interact and guess what?? It was so worth it. I liked this way more than the DIO scenes before.

Otherwise? I struggle to find anything to talk about. I feel like this was just here just because of the set up from earlier, in the Justice episode. It would be worse if they never acknowledged Hol Horse at all.

My question is that, Is the scene with DIO earlier the reason Hol Horse's watch is wrong? I already know DIO's power is stopping time cuz everyone who has heard of JoJo knows. Let's be real. It doesn't make that much sense when I think about it but I assumed that was what they intended while watching.

Ep. 38-39 (Pet Shop)

I was really mixed on it initially but I think I like it a lot now. A fight scene between a superpowered bird and a dog have no right to be this well done.

The most notable thing I don't like about it is a personal preference. I don't like when animals in a show are anthropomorphized. Because part of the fun of an animal companion is that they don't think like us. The most amount of it I don't mind is Missile from Ghost Trick, as an example. Even the way he is drawn now anthropomorphizes him.

I did love the fight scenes. I love that whenever Iggy thinks he has escaped he gets found again.

The shows stops in it's tracks sometimes to tell us how COOL and FEROCIOUS hawks are, just really hyping up Pet Shop.

Speaking of Pet Shop, I really like him. I've found the Engrish names in JJBA charming, It gives a completely different vibe to those who know English compared to Japanese people who do not. It's not intended but it is either really funny or really bold. Pet Shop's name shows that well.

His design is strangely cute. Intimidating but also cute :) It's funny to think how DIO recruited him. Did DIO gave that outfit to him??

When Iggy started having flashbacks I thought "Holy shit is he gonna actually die??" You know how jjba is, if we learn a character's backstory it means death for them. The show knows this. It waits for the last possible second to save him, to make you think he was gonna die for real.

It was really sad seeing Iggy struggle to walk. I said I don't like tiny dogs but what I dislike even more is how much jjba loves torturing dogs.

So, Kakyoin is back. With sick shades too. I don't know why he has them, maybe his eyes are sensitive to light after treatment? They are a bit extra, sure, but they also fit his character really well for some reason. I appreciate this costume change and that he has scars left from the incident.

I love that everyone rushes towards him, sort of hugging and and then Jotaro is just like 😐. I know he is emo but he could at least pretend to be a bit more excited.

The translator of the manga I was reading even left a little note on top going "MY BRO MY BRO IS BACK".

They have found DIO's hideout so... we are reaching the end. I am excited but also a little bit scared.

People wouldn't be praising this part ao much if it had a horrible ending, so I'm not really worried about it being bad, at least.

Praying for my lads to make it out alive lol

I will try to watch the last 9 episodes as soon as possible.

[voidthewanderer]

4 6 and 7 for all three? (Lyric asks)

This was so hard to do! It’s even harder when you find one song that has lyrics that are like “oh yeah, definitely” but then you find another one and go “wait this one’s better!” And that’s just one of the reasons why it took me so long to do this. Not just the fact that I have like 1000 songs on my phone alone and I wanted to stick with music I actually owned. Also, I did not realize how many songs I listen to that can actually qualify as “romantic”. Since this is a little length heavy with it being three characters each, I’m gonna put it under a cut.

4. a song lyric to describe their personality

(Arsenic was the hardest one to find a song that encompassed the majority of his personality instead of just one facet.)

Arsenic:

So many bright lights, they cast a shadow, but can I speak?

Well, is it hard understanding, I'm incomplete?

A life that's so demanding; I get so weak

A love that's so demanding; I can't speak

~ Famous Last Words (My Chemical Romance)

Crow:

Don't you know I'm still standin' better than I ever did?

Lookin' like a true survivor, feelin' like a little kid

And I'm still standin' after all this time

Pickin' up the pieces of my life without you on my mind

~ I’m Still Standing (Taron Egerton cover)

Ripper:

Love is a beautiful language

I wanna know what you're sayin'

We're lost in conversation even when the night ends

Resta ancora, non posso fare a meno del tuo sguardo

Somethin' in the way you move, it's almost like the music follows you

Somethin' in the way your body doesn't need a beat to find the groove

So I'm askin' you; Give me your tempo

~ Tempo (Matteo Bocelli)

6. a song lyric to describe their personal style

(Not gonna lie, I interpreted this as their clothing style, how they dress to make themselves feel like themselves.)

Arsenic:

No, I ain't gonna comb my hair

'Cause I ain't going anywhere

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, oh

I'll just strut in my birthday suit; And let everything hang loose

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

~ The Lazy Song (Bruno Mars)

Crow:

There was a drifter passing through that little valley

See he had promised he was coming back to town (coming back to town)

They didn't know him by his face, or by the gun around his waist (ooh)

But he come back to burn that town to the ground

~ Hell’s Coming With Me (Poor Man’s Poison)

Ripper:

It doesn't matter; ‘Bout the car I drive or what I wear around my neck

All that matters; Is that you recognize that it's just about respect

It doesn't matter; 'Bout the clothes I wear, and where I go, and why

All that matters; Is that you get hyped and we'll do it to you every time

~ Pop (*NSYNC)

7. a song lyric that would comfort them when they’re sad

(Once again, Arsenic was the hardest because he bottles up sadness. He’s very particular, so if he were caught listening to certain things, people would know he wasn’t happy. And he absolutely detests letting down his personal walls for anyone besides Crow.)

Arsenic:

That was when I saw my family with my eyes shut real tight

Would they know how much I loved them if this was how I died?

No, I vowed I'd not be murdered by a monster in the sky that night

But if I went home to heaven, at least that's where I'd belong

Yeah, I tried to tell myself, it's always darkest before the dawn

So I kept hanging on; I kept hanging on

~ The Tornado (Owl City)

Crow:

I'll live now 'cause the bad die last

Dodging bullets with your broken past

Well, I can't hear you, I don't fear you now

Wrapped in your regret; What a waste of blood and sweat

~ Could Have Been Me (Halsey cover)

Ripper:

Let us piss from the vine

Let us claw in the mud

Let us swing with both fists

As we writhe in the blood

Let us walk on stained glass

Sinners one, Sinners all

It's always prettiest after the Fall

~ After The Fall (Terrance Zdunich)

[rantsandeepthoughts]

Is having sex just too hyped up?

I really wonder, about those people (religiously obligated ones) who got married just to have sex. And then maybe after 10 years, or 20 years, they realise that, it's not all that great. Especially if they're in a monogomous relationship with someone whom they are not sexually compatible with. Or perhaps they discover that sex and orgasms isn't all that big a deal.

But like, now they're stuck together, with kids perhaps. Unhappy but also unable to get a divorce (coz social stigma, and also perhaps feels like too weak a reason to get divorced. There's counselling but yeah, not many people go for that.)

Coz, y'know, an all paid for beach resort holiday surely hits better than a good orgasm. Or also well, being debt free and not having to worry about 'Will I ever retire?' plus additional worries if you have kids - all that on ones mind. Maybe sex and orgasms are just a distraction from the worries of life. Makes you get that endorphin rush so you feel good momentarily. I don't see how it's much different from going out for some desserts and sugar sweet beverages whenever it hits your fancy.

Well. It is technically free - if you're married. And if not, there's one-night stands and relatively cheap alternatives for self-pleasure. Economically speaking, a whole lot cheaper than $6 for a slice of cake or bubble tea. Unless you're paying big money for some sex toy.

Once the hype and curiosity of initial explorations dies down. I feel that, ones imagination is able to churn out more hyped up fantasies that reality will never live up to. What goes on in your head, or what you think you might enjoy, doesn't pan out the way you thought of it in your head. Because I can't help but think that, the slam-bang-wham of fiction writing or video content leaves out a whole lot of logistics and real-time biology.

Or y'know, after the hormonal surge of puberty and ones fertile years (coz fertility also pumps those hormones). The urge for sexual pleasure diminishes. I honestly don't know.

All that aside. I've always thought. That there's so much more to life than procreating and everything that surrounds the act - that has gotten too hyped up what with Hollywood and the way sexuality in all it's essence is still very much a 'taboo' topic in ALL societies.

Those who make sexual-related things/topics a commonplace for them are deemed as outliers, NSFW, perverts or something. So it still contains that element of "The Forbidden" which scratches that itch. I don't know the word for it. That itch people want to scratch even though it may be ill advised. Like breaking curfew coz you're hanging out late with friends.

I'm rambling by this point. But yeah. I was just wondering about it. Seeing as to how, getting married and making babies is a hot topic again. But people don't really talk about the sex part which is the thing you gotta do to make babies. The traditional way anyway. (We got IVF n all now) but yeah.

Yeah.

[kevinwillpkgd]

Enrollment down from 17000 to 600? (U of Orleans.)

Universities=(elite clubbing) A chill just went down my spine. V.S. com colleges (student loans took care of those degrees)

ed has died?

****

Pellet gun shooting on local bus: local radio silent. News from national paper. unco-op female, immigra, loon? (pick one.)

****

Started rewrite. feels great. most of the other stuff is "science experiment" stage. now in clean-up

****

open source AI is getting hyped; because corps can't make them work? hallucinations, Nazis and unable to play chess. paying models need a license. Open works? 500 billion size., woo.

****

hanfu, models, actresses, amine, magna, chesty actions.

I actually signed up for a subscription on youtube. (first ever. I feel dirty now) doll-girl deserved it; and trying to make a living outta google is worse than standing on the street.

a dancer got copies out of tumblr today; (Odd. not a sword dance, mona, VR suits or cosplay)

[skaruresonic]

Buckle up. I have a lot to say.

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I don't really think Tangle was that hyped?

Maybe not so much in the book, but in a 2018 interview with Game Informer regarding his thought process for Tangle's creation, Flynn essentially disparaged the female games cast to imply that Tangle fulfilled a role none of them did:

I hope I don't need to explain what's wrong with the statement "there aren't a ton of female roles within the Sonic franchise" when it has a larger number of girl characters than most other franchises. Moreover, most of them can keep up with the boys.

Note how he downplays the game characters. Amy is not the take-charge leader of Team Rose, but "somewhat active." Rouge's profession as a freelance spy is boiled down to mere "competence," which is somehow negated by her sex appeal. Cream is dismissed as a child, despite the fact that he doesn't downplay Tails as a child when listing the male characters he considers when thinking of the series' most prominent characters.

Amy's tackled Eggman numerous times, as have Cream and Rouge. Cream helped destroy Egg Utopia in her debut game, and Rouge canonically called herself "pretty strong" after defeating Flying Dog.

Blaze is not the only "kick-butt" female character in the cast. Furthermore, implying that a female character's only worth or cool factor lies in their combat ability is sexist.

---

There isn't really a problem about a character being "fawned over" or just respected by other ones.

Except when that fawning doesn't make sense, the character hasn't earned it, or the fawning comes at the expense of a games character. Silver morphed from the naive stoic he is in the games into a gushing fanboy just to infodump about Whisper's role in the war:

The shilling is not limited to just Whisper or Lanolin, either; the comic can't resist hyping up any of its original characters, no matter how small their role.

Amy gleefully dumps any and all responsibilities onto Jewel, to the point of pretty much declaring her the leader of the response in the forest fire arc.

Tails oohs and ahhs at... the fact that Belle is made out of wood.

Clutch, formerly a nothingburger of a villain, is framed as such a chessmaster that someone felt compelled to write an article about how he's surpassed Eggman's threat level:

A Small-Time Sonic Villain Just Became a Bigger Threat Than Dr. Eggman (screenrant.com)

By contrast, aside from maybe Tangle's initial starry-eyed impression of Blaze and Starline's early adoration of Eggman, you hardly ever see this process in reverse. How often have the comic characters shilled the game characters?

---

Heck, when Sonic learns Starline went Stardead he gave the infamous "big oof" line, and he wasn't saying that as a joke, he just didn't give a fuck about that guy.

Which just proves that Sonic is a hypocrite and didn't mean a single word of what he told Surge when he said he was willing to give even Starline and Eggman a second chance. Someone who truly cared about seeing villains turn over a new leaf wouldn't go "lol Fs in the chat, get dunked on, asshole🤪" upon hearing one of them died and now will never get the chance to become a better person. That just renders his Sermon on the Rock a bunch of hot air in retrospect.

I'm not necessarily saying he should have eulogized Starline, but silence would have gone a long way to establish some kind of internal consistency with this uber-moral Sonic. Because as it stands, it comes across as though he lied to Surge in order to morally browbeat her.

He might have had his Sermon on the Rock in issue 50, but "big oof" inadvertently shows us IDW!Sonic's true colors. He only cares about appearing merciful and compassionate instead of actually being merciful and compassionate.

---

Again, Silver kind of is a child, but I digress.

...Really? Silver is the same age as Blaze and equally as powerful, yet nobody would argue Blaze is "kind of a child."

The infantilization of Silver does not exist in the games; it was fabricated by the comic.

---

The Lanolin moment™ was widely criticized by nearly everyone that reads the IDW comics. But one, we haven't seen her for much, and what we've seen of her, she is likely very traumatized from everything that happened to her.

1.) "But one, we haven't seen her for much" - Irrelevant.

This would also be difficult to measure by any objective standard; how many appearances count as "we haven't seen much of her," especially given how much screentime the comic tends to give the OCs? She featured heavily in several issues and had at least one scene dedicated to her insecurities as a leader. Does she need a miniseries in order to count?

2.) "...she is likely very traumatized from everything that happened to her." - Okay, but you would need to apply that standard to everyone.

According to that logic, Whisper would have had no reason to apologize to Tangle for being triggered by Tangle calling their team the "Diamond Cutters." Which... she really shouldn't have felt the need to to begin with, but the comic certainly felt Tangle was owed a lengthy apology, so.

---

Two, nobody really knew who Duo was, and she wasn't the only one against Silver there! In fact, Silver is constantly shown to be suspicious about Duo, and the only one noticing he isn't what he seems.

Wasn't Whisper cottoning onto Duo's schtick too, but was dismissed by the others as being oversensitive due to trauma?

FUCK, WHISPER of all people sided with Lanolin!

Probably because Lanolin did this when Whisper merely grabbed her arm:

Of course she would. Lanolin is unhinged.

And no, before you ask, I'm not taking the scene out of context: Tangle was merely looking at her paddle before Lanolin smacked it away.

---

Cream is a child, she was helping her mom with the food and was left to finish the rest on her own. Two big meanies shows up and ruins everything she worked really hard to do.

Okay, so Cream is a child. Really think about this. Would you leave a child to watch a boiling pan of hot oil unattended? Vanilla could have helped her finish the food, sent her out to buy ingredients, or at least postponed cooking without risking a house fire.

Such are IDW's contrivances: plot comes at the expense of character and common sense.

---

Finally, she's infamously gone a lot™ in the Zombot arc, including having lost her best friend and her mother.

I don't know why people insist that Cream has this long-lasting trauma from the zombot arc when A.) everyone not named Eggman should still be shellshocked, not just uniquely Cream because "she's a child," and B.) the book missed its window of opportunity to show us the effects of that trauma. I don't see any evidence for it. She was back to cheerily baking cookies by the Chao racing arc.

Besides, I very much doubt there was anything in that story to imply zombot-related trauma. IDW is not particularly subtle, so if her tears were indeed the result of zombot trauma, I'm sure there would have been an entire blubbering speech from Cream about how the mean bad guys reminded her of her mom dying, and Vanilla would have comforted her.

Besides, why would the house being on fire and two burglars entering her home remind her of zombots? She wasn't there when Rough and Tumble got turned into zombots.

Also not to shill my own work, but crying is not the only way trauma manifests itself. I used nightmares, sleepiness and a clinginess to her mother to imply Cream was processing the trauma of Eggman kidnapping Vanilla in one of my fics.

---

She's a child under a lot of stress, and I don't blame her for crying, I would've cried too and I'm way older than her.

The problem does not inherently lie with the concept of Cream crying in a stressful situation; it lies in the exaggerated and inaccurate degree. Like the heat that was left on way too high, so too was Cream's occasional habit of crying cranked all the way up.

While Cream has been known to cry sometimes in the games, doesn't do much more than sniffle. She also gets over it fairly quickly.

This is toddler behavior. It's infantilizing, in addition to inaccurate.

Cream began to cry a little when she and Emerl were kidnapped by Eggman's Phi robots and taken to Gimme Shelter in Sonic Battle.

But, bear in mind, that was after watching Emerl fight waves upon waves of enemies, with guilt over being unwilling to fight and being a bystander to Emerl getting hurt (he had to assure her he was having "fun" instead ;A;) adding onto the stress of abduction. You could also argue she didn't want to fight after being forced to help Amy boxercise to the point of exhaustion.

The circumstances are not the same---here she's in her own home, Rough and Tumble are just bullies, and she has Gemerl and Cheese and Chocola to help her.

---

Rough and Tumble are consistently written as dumb asshole losers as well, so them being the ones to haven finally broken the straw on the rabbit's back shows a bit more about Cream than them.

You do realize you're implying that Cream is easily overwhelmed by these F-tier assholes, yes? Cream, the goddess of destruction who tore through Eggman's bases in order to rescue her mother in her debut game? Okay.

---

To say that Starline was hyped and "superior" to Eggman is... kind of a straight up lie.

Explain this, then.

On his first appearance, he is instantly regarded as "just Eggman's obsessive fanboy that might be a bit gay" and while his hypnotic powers are genuinely dangerous (mainly due to the fact that it affects psyche, not physique), he is also kind of a pathetic loser? He overworks his ass off, he is given advice almost akin to dating advice by Zavok (who probably had second intentions himself), he throws a temper tantrum when Eggman "fires" him, he records all his plans (the last thing a villain should do) and everytime he's pitted against Eggman, he gets his ass completely whopped.

You remember when Bad Guys treated "if you emulate Eggman, it will doom you to failure because you'll only be repeating his mistakes" like it was a huge turning point in Starline's character? Only for it to lead nowhere because oops, it turned out Starline "didn't think his plan all the way through"?

Bad Guys did not have the other villains call Eggman's methods "sloppy" and scatterbrained six or seven times - yes, I counted - just for Eggman to pull a victory out of his ass from literally nowhere. That's such a copout.

What was the point of having us follow Starline for 40-something issues only to establish the point that he is small beans compared to Eggman? Something we already knew due to A.) knowing who Eggman is and B.) knowing that Starline stole 90% of Eggman's shit?

There is none. It was all just a huge waste of time.

---

She has a sympathetic backstory, her focal point being how psychologically damaged she is (and to an extent, Kit as well), and her entire existence being a nightmare, "created" to be haunted by a non-existent past, a dead creator and someone her life was entirely made around hating.

>>she has a sympathetic backstory

>>"created" to be haunted by a non-existent past

Pick one. Her backstory cannot be "sympathetic" if it doesn't exist. We don't have any frame of reference for what she lost, and so we lack the proper context to feel sympathy for her.

Take Shadow as a contrast. We may not have the deepest portrait of Maria, but what the games do provide are enough for us to tell that she must have meant a lot to him. If the games gave us no idea who Maria was, Shadow's motives would not be nearly as compelling.

I literally cannot tell what it is about Surge's past that merits this kind of sympathy unless you plug in the gaps yourself. Surge even questions her own past a few times, wondering if she and Kit were unwanted or criminals. But because the book refuses to elaborate, we're stuck with playing multiple choice.

It's difficult to take Surge seriously either as a woobie (for the reasons I just mentioned) or as an ultra-badass new rival to Sonic when she flipflops between having panic attacks, Looney-Tunes style hijinks and being handed victories on a silver platter.

Not to mention the hype she receives from the creators---apparently Stanley thinks the events of Forces would have been 10x more difficult on the heroes if Surge were in it. Sure, Jan.

---

I get how some people may be frustrated about certain characters not showing up more, but we have to be aware that characters created for a comic are gonna appear in the comic, this isn't really a Ken Penders situation where the characters show up to save the main guys and never let them act.

1.) The book is entitled "Sonic the Hedgehog," yet for its fiftieth issue, Sonic was nowhere to be seen on the cover. Much Sonic, many wow.

2.) It's not unreasonable to expect a comic book based on a video game to focus on the video game characters. That's why we're reading the book in the first place.

3.) The real reason the book doesn't focus on the video game cast is because the writers feel stunted by writing the games characters. They find it difficult because they can't "develop" them (ie changing them), hence the heavy focus on comic-exclusive characters.

The worst part is, they can't even keep their own characters consistent, either, so it's not a "Sega mandates" issue nearly as much as it is a skill issue. They're not doing any better in developing the comic characters because half the time they flanderize them for the sake of plot anyway. Belle is afraid of her own shadow under Stanley's pen but screams at Starline under Flynn's; Surge flipflops between being a cool badass and a woobie we're supposed to be rooting for depending on whatever reaction the writer wants to wring out of us at the time; Starline was touted as more thorough and meticulous than Eggman, yet lost because he "didn't think [his plan] all the way through." And I swear Tangle loses IQ points with every issue.

It really is not just annoying, but also somewhat sad, that IDW characters can never have a meaty role without shamelessly upstaging a game character. It's the ultimate play of insecurity.

Tangle gets touted as the Sonic Female of All Time while the crewmembers drag the game females through the mud.

Whisper gets randomly fawned over by Silver and Jet of all guys.

Lanolin humiliates Silver and treats him like a child.

Rough and Tumble are too much for Cream the OP to handle.

Starline was hyped up for an extended period as Eggman's superior (no, his final fate did not undo sitting through his agonizing "Sonic VS Eggman is routine" soapboxing).

Surge is being hyped up for even longer as the most badass villain and the most badass character period, despite having absolutely nothing of merit to show for it.

Is it really that hard to find a middle ground? I get you want your character(s) to do big things and be a legitimate part of the cast instead of sitting in the background with their thumbs twiddling, but this is not the way to do it. Trip was only recently introduced to the series, and she found her place just fine. She didn't need to effortlessly beat up Sonic in concept art in order to earn her stripes. She didn't need her creators to brag that she would improve Forces through her mere presence in order to cement her value.

Look. I talk a lot about Trudy. I talk a lot about her role in my fic, her interactions, her dynamics, her abilities, her quirks, all that good stuff. I take her role in the story quite seriously, and in an age where it's become taboo to have your OC do literally anything with the game cast (because overcorrection), I've stuck to my guns and made her a big part of the fic.

But - and this is a big but - none of this comes at the cost of the other characters, or the story as a whole. Sonic is still Sonic, and acts as you'd expect from him. Tails is still Tails, and isn't dismissed by the narrative as a mere sidekick to prop up Trudy as the "true" hero by comparison. Amy is still her bubbly self, not morphed into a Sally clone. Cream is still capable, despite her youth and innocence, and her bond with Trudy doesn't reduce her to literal baby. Eggman treats Trudy no differently from the rest of the cast, and he sure as hell doesn't show any fear at the prospect of facing her. Stellar is not little more than The Trudy Show: it's Sonic's latest adventure in a new land that Trudy happens to be tagging along for, and how he leaves an impression on her. Just like Unleashed did with Chip, and Secret Rings did with Shahra, among other examples.

Even Sonudis, for as Never Going To Happen In Canon For Very Obvious Reasons as it is, is still made with the mentality of not only what Sonic himself is actually like in canon, but the others too. It's not a shallow bait that exists solely to exist, it's something I took seriously in regards to how it could potentially work without sacrificing Sonic's official characterization. Is it a fanfic cliche? Is it self-indulgent? Maybe, but writing fanfic in general is inherently self-indulgent. The sooner you accept that, the better. But as fanfic-y as some concepts may be, I still try to portray them as naturally and as faithfully as I can in respect to the games that spawned this franchise. That includes not reducing Sonic to a lap dog with no independence or backbone.

You can make your character important, and even give them a risky role if you're daring, without disrespecting the game cast and what they contribute to the franchise.

[pomoapple]

Now that Dane Cook has finally turned his child girlfriend into his child bride I can confirm without a doubt that I'm not impressed with age gap relationships at all.

Im not impressed with the men who "found love" at the age of 50 with a teenage girl. There's nothing about the happiness of a senior citizen that should come before the well being of a girl. Alienating her from the men her age out of jealousy, purposefully making her family and friends feel uncomfortable, robbing her of her youth by pushing her towards masking her girlhood so she can "keep up" with the rest of his elderly friends, using his life experience to manipulate and coerce, forcing her to be financially dependent on him, and the fucking ego decrepit men get by "conquering" all of a woman's first. It's all endgame for these old men. They can't stand the thought of "dating down" by dating their equal so they'd rather marry their "goals" instead of starting a life with a woman who fits perfectly with their lifestyle.

But on the flip side I'm also unimpressed with the couples who "made their age gap relationship work". Never will I ever be blown away by people who feel like they're in a happy relationship. Having a happy relationship is the STANDARD. You won't get roses from me for the bare minimum. A man finding a woman with HIS interests, a woman "putting up" with people asking why her partner couldn't find someone his age, a man joking about keeping up with his school kids at 60, a woman feeling flustered every time someone asks her if her husband is her dad, and any sort of age gap related embarrassment or elation will never get a sympathy nod or polite chuckle from me. I'm not interested in being your couples therapist. Keep it.

Young women and girls growing up in this male podcaster/pick up artist/alpha man influencer culture are all under siege. Social media addicts are being fed the lie that their manliness and money will make up for their mileage and Medicare, and now you got these half dead losers believing the hype and have "opened up" their dating pool to include teenagers and 20 year olds when statistically and socially these women have almost NEVER opened up their dating pool to include grandfathers.

I'm sure when Kelsi Taylor walked down the aisle, heart fluttering, excited to marry the only man she's ever been with, thinking back on how lucky she felt meeting her celebrity husband at 15 when he was in his 40's, she felt like the luckiest girl in the world. And I want her to keep believing that. And hopefully when he dies of old age and she's glowing in her prime she can meet someone who is her perfect match in every way and FINALLY get her happily ever after ❤️

[woodchoc-magnum]

Lone Star Hate Watch - 3x03

Disclaimer: As always - I hate this show, you love it! Please don't read this and have a wonderful day

Eddie Diaz to bless us with his beautifulness before we descend into misery:

Let's suffer together:

Okay I can barely remember what happened in the last episode but here we go

The snow makes this show looks awful

What are the chances that Marjan crashed right where Owen is with all the migrants

Wow the ol' bait and switch, did they teach Owen those fighting skills on the mean streets of Manhattan

Oh great TK's in a coma and now we have to suffer through his subconscious just fucking kill me now

Lisa Edelstein, you deserve better than this show

She also deserves an acting partner who can, you know, act

Like he actually can't act. It's embarrassing

Oh maybe he's dying?! Please? Fingers crossed?

Why is Carlos keeping vigil, like honestly Carlos, you deserve so much better than fucking TK

"It's pretty clear where this is headed?" – do they all think TK is going to die?

Why is this show getting my hopes up

Also I'm just going to point out that at no point did Nancy or Tommy do anything to warm TK up after he nearly froze to death so like… yeah.

"Because of me someone's kid is dying" – babe yeah you should've warmed him up just saying

"How am I supposed to face Owen" – this is assuming Owen will actually care that TK is dying

You know, if it's not to do with his hair or his skin routine does it even matter

I'm really sick of this snow storyline

This guy taking off on his own is going to die

Oh I forgot Paul nearly froze to death as well

I love Judd so much

I was just like "who the fuck are these people visiting Paul?" and it's Lindsay's parents and 100% they're rich

So this is how they get the firehouse back huh

"Would you like a Maserati?" fucking calm down bro

The special effects are sometimes laughably bad

Oh just like I called it, the guy is going to get killed – and I think the police are IN ON IT

And now Marjan is here?

Now the bad cop is chasing Marjan who is in a very easily camouflaged pink outfit, doesn't stand out at all in the snow

Oh great now we're back to TK fucking kill me

You can buy toffee in a jar in the US? What kind of sorcery

"I always be that little boy mom, I still am" TK says in a monotone

"You are surrounded by love" – this fucking reminds me of Taylor saying to Buck that his life is nothing but meaningful relationships

I can't believe Tim is focusing on this show rather than the OG, it's SO BAD.

This toffee in a jar thing… I'm stuck on that. Oh is it like caramel pieces? Do Americans call caramel "toffee"? you guys honestly I am side-eyeing this

"Can we please have a little more time Mom?" can he not go and visit her in New York

I'm so glad they didn't do this for Eddie, my god, it's so dumb

It's so fucking dumb

This Sheriff dude is bad news. You know people talk a lot of smack about Billy but at least he's not a people smuggler, like he could be worse

Julie Benz has gotten herself into a real fucking mess hanging out with Owen Strand let me tell you

Oh dispatch throwing Grace a baby shower

She is TWO WEEKS OUT FROM HAVING BABIES AND STILL AT WORK? My god

Oh she's definitely going into labour in the middle of the snow storm right

Somehow I'm only 22 minutes in

Owen has let the bad cop into his house

Maybe he kills Owen? Fingers crossed!

Marjan should steal the police car

Look I'm just going to say that Owen's hair is looking fucking terrible right now

God I hope this storyline doesn't drag into another episode

Don't you fucking hurt Julie Benz YOU MONSTER

Isn't enough that she died in Buffy, Angel and Dexter HASN'T SHE HAD ENOUGH

This bad cop is such an asshole let me just say

I know this is meant to be tense but I'm so bored

I'm so sick of the ugly snow effect

God damn them for using good music in this show fuck you Lone Star

Roy Orbison? YOU BASTARDS

You know it's funny, I watched Rob Lowe do Hot Ones and he didn't talk about Lone Star once

He's happy to star in it but he doesn't hype it up

Grace I swear to fucking god IF YOU FALL OFF THAT LADDER I WILL FREAK OUT

Oh it's Billy

My favourite 😍

This is how Grace goes into labour, Billy is going to antagonise her into it

Billy wants Judd to be a captain but we all know he won't take that job even though it totally makes fucking sense

Because he's going to go back to the 126 and be second to fucking Owen Strand and that doesn't make sense

And also – like, I know this show is pushing Billy as the villain here BUT he's really not? If you think about it, what he's doing makes total sense? The 126 burned down, it doesn't make sense to rebuild it if they have enough fire stations to cover the city, he's offering Judd a fucking promotion like… ?????? I'm sorry but you will never convince me he's a villain. He's opportunistic, sure, but like, I love him. So I'm fine with it.

I have loved Billy Burke for SO LONG, I will NEVER STOP LOVING HIM

Judd and Billy were BEST FRIENDS? When? Did I know that? Wtf

"The Department would've gone bankrupt trying to rebuild it" – I'm sorry but he's just talking a lot of sense and I think they're all being salty little bitches

Oh was Billy at the 126 with Judd before the place was decimated in Season 1? Okay okay that makes sense

God I love Grace even though I think her anger is misplaced

Oh shit her water broke but thank god she didn't fall off the ladder right

Billy is trying to do the right thing here, like I'm sorry

But you will NEVER CONVINCE ME HE'S A BAD GUY

Five minutes to go come on we can do this

"The universe is shouting in your ear and you can't hear a thing" bitch you are just fucking STEALING LINES FROM THE OG AT THIS POINT

Ugh seriously this fucking annoys me so much

It's lazy fucking writing

Oh fuckkkk now they're fucking singing

FUCK I HATE THIS SHOW SO MUCH

I fast forwarded it I'm sorry guys I can't

TK could die! Fingers crossed!

There's an awful lot of praying in this show which I think is one of the reasons I don't like it

One of the many reasons I don't like it

Billy and Grace are definitely going to end up in a car crash aren't they

Oh no they're stuck in the snow or something? How does she have an SUV with no four wheel drive, I thought that was the whole point

Is Billy going to deliver Grace's baby? Fuck that would be hilarious

Also it's finished thank god

In summation - Judd and Grace (and Billy) continue to be the best parts of the show, I cared for literally nothing else

Eddie Diaz for cleansing energy:

Lone Star needs to get some new fucking material is all I'm saying

Bonus Billy Burke!

How can you hate this man, I love him? I don't get it

[abbatoirablaze]

Down The Rabbit Hole, Chapter 1

Word Count:  2.3k

Warnings:  none really

"Hello, teaching assistants and teachers of Greendale Community College," Dean Pelton stated in a wildly excited tone. He was addressing us in the cafeteria, dressed in a lab coat, 1950's style pin up style blonde wig, and holding a beaker in one hand and ruler in another, "I'm your amazing Dean, Craig Pelton, and I'm happy to announce that our 2009 Fall and Winter classes will start tomorrow. Now, I've got the lists posted of which teaching assistant will be paired up with which professors. I've-"

"Let us deal with this Craig," the theater professor called from the back. An English teacher agreed from the other corner, and I saw him deflate. He'd gotten really excited about whatever kind of party or social this was.

Professor Slater shooed him off the stage, and she told the dozen of us to go look at the lists and to enjoy the spread. Me, not being excited about having to double up on professors since I was an education major, sat back as the other co-eds looked to see who they got.

"Miss. Michaels?" she said, coming over to me, "aren't you going to see who you got?  It’s an exciting moment to be a T.A.  Your careers start here.  I’d be fighting my way to the front!"

“There’s no need to fight a crowd,” I sighed.  I shook my head, "at least, I’m not willing enough to fight that crowd. I’ll give it a few moments and check once the hype has died down.  I swear everyone is fighting over you guys."

"Well, I'll tell you then," she smirked, "You have Professor Duncan and I."

"Aren't you guys separated across campus."

She shrugged, "sorry about that. I can't help they left Duncan in the wrong wing when they built onto the campus.  Social science guys got stuck with the English teachers."  

I shrugged, "alright so what's my schedule?  Who do I work for and when?"

"You won't really have a set one," she said, sitting down at the booth I'd been seated at. She raised a hand and haphazardly waved, "IAN. Ian, come over here."

A moment later, a Psychology professor known as Ian Duncan sat next to her, "Miss Michaels, I presume!"

I nodded, "yeah.  That’s me."

"Well, it's jolly good to meet you," He smiled.  I couldn’t help but return it.  I could see that he meant well, "I'm assuming Professor Slater has told you that you are our teaching assistant."

I nodded, not entirely sure what to add to the conversation.

“Excellent.  I’m right on excited to have you join us!” he smiled, nudging professor Slater, “isn’t that right?”

“Don’t touch me, Ian.”

I bit my lip as the man frowned.  It was obvious that he was awkward at best, but excitable over his position.  And I found myself wondering what exactly I had signed myself up for as he tried to conversate.

"Now, since you have 2 professors that you are assisting, you're going to get both of our classes as credits. That also means, however, that you will have twice the work. We may ask you to grade papers, hunt down students who are saying they are turning assignments in late, and even run some errands for us. Okay?"

I nodded once more, "Okay.  That sounds easy enough.”

"Well, that's pretty much it," she said, standing up from the booth, "did you get registered for all of your classes?"

"Yeah," I replied, “I’ll email you each a copy of my schedule when I get back to the dorm.”

"Great," Duncan smiled. He stood up and put a hand out to me. I nervously took it, as he helped me out of the booth, "Take the first few days and get settled in. Then come and see me about halfway through the week."

"And see me on Friday. I'll have some work for you by then."

I agreed to their days, and we walked out onto the quad together. Slater started heading off to her office, and as I walked to the parking lot, I was left with Duncan.

"Well, here we are," he said with a smile. I looked around to the lot and saw that my car was still further off.

"Okay," I laughed awkwardly. I kept moving as he tried to hint at something I clearly wasn't interested in, "Bye Professor Duncan. See you in a few days."

"Oh, goodbye Tawney."

The first few days went by quickly. I had gone to all of my classes and gotten the standard syllabus. Nothing fancy. By Wednesday, I felt like I'd spent more than just a few days here at Greendale.  From the quad, I could see Dean Pelton with a microphone. He wasn't wearing anything nearly as outlandish as he was during the TA social.

"Uh, good morning," he started shakily, "Many of you are halfway through your first week here at Greendale, and as your dean, I thought I would share a few thoughts of wisdom and inspiration. "

I looked at the still sleepy campus. While there were a few new people such as myself starting to gather around his small attempt at a stage, there wasn't a whole lot of action around the campus.

"What is community college?" he asked, "Well you've heard all kinds of things. You've heard it's a loser college for remedial teens, 20 something dropouts, middle age divorcees, and old people keeping their minds active as they circle the drain of eternity. That's what you've heard! However, I WISH YOU LUCK."

My jaw dropped. I looked around and quite a few other people looked shocked as well. Pelton's eyes widened as he realized that he clearly didn't mean to say that. He began shuffling his note cards, before lifting the microphone to his lips again, "Okay, uh, you know, there's more to this speech. There is a middle card that is missing. Can we look around our immediate areas. Because, I, well, I actually wanted to-uhm."

"Can you believe this guy?"

I turned to the guy beside me. He gave me a soft smile, "I mean, he's trying right?"

He laughed and held out his hand, shrugging more to himself, "I guess.  I'm Troy."

"Tawney."

He smiled, "Tawney. Where you from? I used to go to Riverside High. Was the star quarterback and prom king. Just graduated. "

"I just moved here from BC."

"DC?” he asked.  His eyes went wide, “WOW!  That’s wild! Hey, do you know the president?"

I laughed, "No, BC, like British Columbia.  I'm from Canada."

"Oh," he sighed, immediately deflating a little bit, "hey aren't you in my Spanish class? I could have sworn I saw you in there this morning?"

"I just transferred in," I admitted, "needed a language credit."

"Me too," he smiled, "Well hey, I gotta go to my next class, but maybe I'll see you around?"

And just like that, before I could answer he was disappearing down towards the Math wing. I looked at my watch and saw that it was 11:17.

Shoot.

I have to meet up with Professor Duncan at 11:30. I gave a sympathetic look to Dean Pelton who was trying to save his speech, before heading towards where Professor Duncan's office was.

By the time I got to his door and could hear someone arguing with him. I went to knock, but the door opened, "and if I wanted to learn something I wouldn't have come to community college."

The mysterious man turned towards me, and I dropped my hand, and my jaw. He was gorgeous.  I stood there, unable to say anything as I looked at the men. 

He looked between me and Professor Duncan.

"Tawney, Come in," he smiled warmly, "Mr. Winger was just leaving, wasn't he?"

"I was just joking," the guy said, trying to backtrack, "I mean we who wouldn't come to learn here?"

"What?"

" I mean who wouldn't come here to learn?"

"Right," I said slowly, slowly moving my gaze between the two men, "If I'm interrupting something I can come back Professor Duncan."

"No, no, no," he said, motioning Mr. Winger to leave, "Jeff, this is my teaching assistant Tawney, and we have an appointment set up for right about now. We can talk about your issues later."

"You take appointments," Jeff said with a gross smirk, "how do I make one?"

I felt my stomach squirm and I cringed, the man quickly becoming less than attractive in my eyes as his cockiness rose, "I'm here to learn, Mr. Winger. I'd appreciate if you closed the door on your way out."

The guy didn't seem to know how to take my rejection as I brushed past him and sat on the upholstered chair in front of Professor Duncan's desk. He did a double take before finally closing the door.

"Wowwee," Duncan laughed as he left, "That was amazing Tawney."

"What was amazing?"

"I've never seen anyone leave Jeff Winger speechless."

"Oh?"

"That's my lawyer," he laughed, "my oh my you won't believe why he's here."

"Well, do tell?"

He smirked, "He's been disbarred. Turns out his bachelors from Columbia wasn't real. Someone turned him in. Now he's trying to get me to give him all the answers for every test in all of his classes."

I raised my brow, suddenly curious, "is he blackmailing you?"

He chuckled, "hardly. He just thinks that because we're "friends" I'll pass over all the answers to every test. It's laziness at best."

I laughed, "you've got to be kidding me."

He shook his head, "not in the slightest. So here's your first project from me. We're going to teach Mr. Winger a lesson. We've got to make it seem legit. Get me a large manilla envelope, 200 pieces of paper, blank of course, a black marker, and some duct-tape."

"What are you thinking Professor Duncan?"

"Well, he's going to give me his car," he laughed, "and in return we are going to give him what he wants."

"Seriously?"

He laughed, "it won't be the real answers. Anyways he won't even open the packet until right before the test. He's the ultimate procrastinator."

"If he's going to procrastinate, why won't we just give him blank pages. All except one."

"And we write Boo-Yah on it."

"Boo-yah?"

He nodded, "yeah, like in your face Jeff Winger!"

"We could do something like that," I admitted, not entirely getting the point of him writing boo-yah, “or we could do something…else.”

"Yeah, Boo-yah," he smirked again, glazing over the fact that I thought it was stupid. His attention turned back to me, "Alright Miss. Michaels. Time to prove your worth. Get that all put together by 3:30 P.M today and have it ready on my desk."

"Okay," I said, standing up, "is that all?"

"Ohh, no," he said pulling his own stack of papers from behind his desk, "I gave out a surprise pop quiz on the first lesson I did yesterday. I need you to grade these by tomorrow's class at 9. Here's the answer key."

I took the stack of tests and answer key and put them into a folder in my messenger bag, "Okay, I guess I'll see you tomorrow morning then?"

"Yes, 9 AM sharp. And can you bring me a tea from the café? Light cream and sugar."

"Yeah."

He smiled and waved me off as I headed off to Senor Changs classroom. He was just finishing up with his Spanish 2 class.

"HASTA LUEGO!" I heard the class respond.

"Excellente," Senor Chang exclaimed, "read the next chapter and we'll have a quiz on Friday."

The class began to file out and I watched Senor Chang sit in his desk, "ENTER!"

I walked in and he smiled. I stood in front of his desk, "hola Senor Chang."

"Hola. What do you want from El Tigre Chino?"

"I uhm, just transferred into your class this morning," I reminded him, "you told me to come get the syllabus and papers that I missed from the first few days of class."

"Oh yeah," he laughed, reaching into his desk. He fumbled around for a few papers and tossed them to me, "Read all of it and have it completed by Friday when you come to class."

I nodded and put it in my folder, "Okay. Thank you."

"Don't forget about the test!"

"Si, senor Chang."

"Excellente," he smiled, "you may go now."

I left the classroom and headed towards the bookstore to get everything Professor Duncan had told me about. The bookstore was as sleepy as the campus. For being 2 PM I thought it'd be at least somewhat alive.  But I was sadly mistaken.

"Hi I'm Abed!"

I nearly jumped out of my skin as I turned around. I was clutching my chest, "you scared the heck out of me."

"You're in my Spanish class, right?"

I nodded, trying to regain my breath, "Just transferred in. Why are you going around like Michael Meyers trying to scare people?"

"I'm not going around like Michael Meyers. Michael Meyers would chase people down slowly with knives. I'm not doing that to you.  Am I?  Do I secretly have a knife hidden on my person?  Oh and one of those masks?"

I laughed, "I guess you are right there. "

"So, what's your name?" he asked with a smile.

"Tawney. Tawney Michaels. "

"I'm Abed. Abed Nadir," he said, copying me. He held out his hand and I shook it. I couldn't help but smile, "so Tawney Michaels what are you doing?"

"Getting some supplies for a project," I admitted, telling a half-truth, “Though, it’s more like a hijinx and less like a project.  I have to hurry though, because I have to complete this and study for our Spanish test and I'm super nervous about that."

"I can help with one of those," he said, his smile never faltering, "We are having a study group at 4 in the library. You should come."

I smiled, feeling completely at home around the new friend I’d made, "Okay.  That sounds awesome...I'll be there."

“Bye Tawney…I’ll see you at the study group, later.”

“I’ll see you later, Abed!”

Chapter 2

[terminaxshowtime]

ok here is my jojoposting masterpost part1! already seen everything in the manga but it was a while ago (like 1 and a half years) so i might've forgotten stuff, i'm noting other things as well! i get really hyped so i might lose my sanity and act more hyper and childish than usual so yeah. so cringe warning i guess :/

part 1 i guess, featuring episodes 13-14

araki you really gonna make ur florida prison guards look like that huh...

!!!!!!!! THEY CHANGED THE ENDING OF THE INTRO!!!!!!!! NOW JOLYNE LEANS AGAINST JOTARO'S BACK!!!!!!! AND THE FROGS AND THE DOVE!!!! AND THEY DON'T SHOW IT BUT I'M PRETTY SURE THE POSE JOLYNE DOES WHILE HOPPING ON JOTAROS BACK IS BASED ON THIS THIS

OUGHHH THE 3D PENS WHILE 2D ERMES JUST VIBES THERE... YES...

I FORGOT THIS WAS ERMES AND PUCCIS FIRST INTERACTION... OHHH NOOOO....

FOOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHE'S HERE!!!!!!!!!!!! FOOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

'i feel like others don't accept me here' girl you are plankton. BUT ALSO JOLYNE DEFENDING HER BESTIE... SLAY...

foof i love you so much but this is NOT how you do things girl. eating rice and eating food with your left hand even tho your body is right handed and wants bread is NOT going to help you fit in with society.

omg foof loving salmon because she's plankton... I CAN'T I LOVE HER...

I CANT HANDLE THIS why is she dragging people INTO the line I DONT REMEMBER THIS I LOVE HER SO MUCH SHE'S TRYING SO HARD- OH WAIT NOW THEY'RE ALL ARGUING GOOD JOB FOOF GRAB THE FOOD AND RUN

jolyne sounds so offended at the fact that ermes is stalking a man. like girl are you jealous. you fucking lesbian

oh my god yes ermes backstory! i remember this! man.

man ermes really out there tryina go to college...

GLORIA WAS SUCH A GIRLBOSS ACTUALLY... AGHGHHGH... :(

oh i hope this fucker burns in hell

dude the photos... thats so fucking creepy but also a good tactic...

holy shit ermes on full genocide mode

oh shit.

oh shit she fucked up

oh shit

i forgot about this stand jesus fucking christ i hate it.

NOOO THEY CHANGED IT IT'S NOT CALLED FLACCID PANCAKE ANYMORE?!?!?!??!?!? WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

girlie this is a two parter this ain't over yet

oh shit it ate mickey mouse

dude this is so fucking creepy. invisible corpses attacking you? like what the fuck

i love how when most people lose their leg it's like oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ough!!!!! uauhgughuh!!!!!!! but since foof is plankton she's like damn. why did you have to do that >:T

VIBE TO THE INTRO TIME!!!!!!!!!

OH I MISSED THE FACT THAT IN THE INTRO JOLYNE IS NOW RUNNING ON THE WATER WITH HER STRING... FUCKING AWESOME...

no yeah she's 100% doing that pose with jotaro

jolyne's smart as her father as always...

'an invisible corpse has no concept of up or down' YEAH UH NO SHIT. DID YOU THINK INVISIBLE CORPSES WOULD OBEY THE LAWS OF PHYSICS???

OHHHHHHHHHHHH GO FOOF POP OFF!!! SHOOT YOUR HAND TURNED INTO A GUN!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE AWKWARD THUMBS UP EVERYONE GIVES EACH OTHER... man...

dude foof is such a great medic. like imagine being glued back together by plankton. that's so fucking awesome

OHHH FUCKING. DIO'S BONE. THAT'S RIGHT I REMEMBER

OHHH WAIT HE'S DEAD EVEN THOUGH HE DOESN'T REALISE IT... THAT'S SO COOL ACTUALLY. OF COURSE!!!!!! BECAUSE HIS STAND POWER IS CONTROLLING INVISIBLE CORPSES SO HE DOESN'T REALISE HE DIED... THAT'S SO EPIC...

no that's so funny this bitch doesn't realise this guy is unconscious and being controlled by an invisible ghost... damn...

AND THERE'S THE REALISATION THAT HE'S DEAD... MY GOD

oh this man is fucked up. ough he really is a zombie. fucking eating brains

i literally DO NOT remember this WHAT

THIS IS SO COOOOOOL

dude he's dead of course he can bite the shit out of someone without consequence

FUCK

oh that stand catch is epic

ermes let your bestie help. come ON

NONONONONONO FUCK WHy are they HERE fUCK

GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!!!!!!!!!!!

'revenge is the way to settle the score with my fate' my god. she's so awesome

WHERE did your medic go. like maybe i lost track but where tf is foof

OH GOD SHE DED

nevermind

oh i LOVE how the copied head doesn't follow the real heda's facial features... oh god...

speechless im just watching this battle in awe of ermes. holy shit what a girlboss

korebo might as well be her stand cry now /j

im clapping. you cant tell but im clapping

jolyne just sat there the whole time like What the Fuck did I just watch

OHHHHH GOD

THERE'S THE MEDIC. FOOF HELP YOU MISSED OUT

why do they show the to be continued AFTER the credits. man

leaving it at here because i have too much to say and there are too many episodes and i don't have time to watch any more tonight but holy Shit AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH