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mannatea · 1 month ago

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"the 4th story in this series will definitely be shorter" i say and then write 5,000 words by accident. i still have two scenes to go. maybe three? idk idk idk

truly wild is the minimal outline i'm somehow following and how well the words are flowing despite that. i'm not saying any of these stories are like, god-tier writing or The Next Big Fic in Fandom (they are not lol), but so far i feel like i'm doing an okay job of writing things that aren't too boring considering the subject matter. after all, not many people are out there writing about steiner and beatrix's childhoods in detail.

then again, most people aren't me. normally this isn't my forte either; i prefer writing romance, truth be told, but i've written literally hundreds of fics (over 700 at this point), and the one thing they don't tell you about doing that, is how you kind of start to...run out of material eventually.

more about the writing itself and the process (and a lil experiment i'm trying out) below the cut.

like, i have ideas and stuff? but they're not the kinds of ideas i would have had over a decade ago. like, i could eASILY jump into writing beatrix and steiner in a post-game relationship. i could write smut with them or sparring with sexual tension or awkward attempts at dating in the postgame before zidane shows up again where they both feel like shit for finding something in one another while their queen (and FRIEND) is struggling with grief and hope. and y'all know i can write angst--like just, oodles of it. nonstop. ten million angsts.

but! that's easy. and if i do one story, short or otherwise, then what do i write next? the next thing? and the next random idea? then i just have what i already did in the attack on titan fandom, which is...like, flood it with a hundred one-shots.

this isn't necessarily bad, of course (more stories for a small fandom like ffix is probably a good thing?) but since last year, when i started writing chaptered fics again in earnest for the first time since...2005, i learned something about myself and my writing journey—which is to say, i feel like my pool of reasonable writing ideas is...limited?

like again, it's not that i don't have ideas. i'd love writing some smut or spicy sparring or awkward date night stuff. but i feel like i've written those things before, you know what i mean? attack on titan wasn't the only fandom i carpet bombed with fics: fire emblem saw WAY MORE of them!

most of my writing consists of one-shots. i feel like the formula has, to some degree, run its course with me, or at least with my proverbial pen.

like obviously i think i could do something really cool with the freya idea that was literally beamed into my brain at random yesterday, but part of that is because, while I like Freya, she doesn't appeal to me on the same level as Steiner and Beatrix do--or even Garnet, to be honest. i'm pretty confident that i could write one good, solid, meaningful story about freya and i'd be...done.

beatrix and steiner, though? nope, i have way too many thoughts and opinions and ideas, which leaves me two options.

tell a lot of stories, or

tell a bigger story

i've done the "tell a lot of stories" and it can be fun, but what also tends to happen is that they start to feel...samey and sometimes even repetitive, because you have ideas about the characters and quirks and such that get reused over the course of many stories. again, not bad for your average writer, but if you post 100 fics you just know you're repeating yourself a lot, and that doesn't feel good. (and trying to break out of that mold is hard, too, in my experience, for many reasons, but i'll talk about that some other time maybe.)

honestly, in the end, there's just a lot more you can cover and do in a longer/bigger story. in this case it's a connected series because i feel like what i'm writing doesn't read very well as a traditional longfic, but the idea here is to write that "bigger scope" story.

again, i could definitely write some post-game awkward dating stuff and just like, refer back to prior events (like how Beatrix loses her eye; how the duel between she and Steiner went; who their families are and what those relationships are like) but doing active writing about established characters as children is something i've never really done, so it feels pretty fresh...and it's GREAT practice for writing original characters without the commitment of, you know, having to write a traditional novel (which is coming, too, but not yet).

because i think there's something super fascinating about beatrix and steiner as characters; there's so much unknown about them, so many blanks to fill. we don't get a lot of information about either of them. we get far less about beatrix, but even with steiner, most of what we get is of his personality, not like, his personal history that makes up who exactly he is as a person (because even he doesn't know; he's lived his life serving others and has no deep sense of self). beatrix is very similar but she has so few lines that we don't even really get a deep look at her personality beyond the fact that she's very politely spoken and spends her time after the love letter scene in a weird funk until the very last cutscene in the game.

so i feel like it's just a really fun and interesting exercise for me personally to fill in those gaps myself, and rather than just scribble notes and refer to them, try to really shape and mold these characters into who they are.

(i also think as a reader, there's something really fun about seeing these events play out for themselves, and then seeing how the character's opinion of those events changes and warps over time--or what details they choose to share with other characters later. and hopefully that's something that will be fun about this story: seeing beatrix and steiner meet and finding out down the road what they choose to tell each other and when—and how that shapes and directs their opinions of and feelings for one another as the story progresses!)

in this 4th story, i'm already seeing bits and pieces of our in-game Steiner appearing and it's been personally rewarding in this really unexpected way! in the first story he doesn't really feel like the exact same person (obviously, he's 5 years old in that story) but over the course of the next few (7 years old, 12 years old, 15 years old) traits start emerging that he shares with the "him" he is at 33...which feels good. like i'm connecting the dots, but not too quickly, because i feel like a very different person at my age than i did at 15, and i'm sure many of you do, too. but some traits are still there, even all these years later.

like being insufferable about the things i love.

now for some writing process stuff.

i've been trying very very hard to combat my adhd self with this series. i usually struggle with writing in short bursts (by which i mean, anything under like 5 hours) but i've been trying to force myself to try anyway, and i think being kind of "active" with my attempts has been really useful. i've finished 3 stories in this series already and i'm on #4! i have at least another 22 banked for the series, and then a completely unrelated freya story i might try to write this weekend if i feel brave. i'm not stuck in a manic state which is nice, because even though i think i do write just fine while manic, i also tend to pay for it later via burnout and exhaustion...and i'm just getting over covid so...i don't need that. (just tested negative five seconds ago FINALLY so yay for that at least!)

anyway, the best part of this weird "attempt to write even if you don't have a lot of time" thing is that i've noticed that even if i don't add a ton of words to the story, i can usually bang out a small scene, or part of a bigger scene, or, barring that, maybe just a few hundred words and a guideline for where to go next, which has been instrumental in these stories being finished.

see, my brain tells me i need an entire day to write, or an entire afternoon after work. it tells me that if i start late (after 5pm) there isn't time to write. why does it say this stuff? it's that adhd BULLSHIT where it takes what feels like 95 years to get into the groove, and then interruptions just shoot your concentration to hell and you have to go through the process of falling back into the groove all over again. it's exhausting...and frankly it makes writing very unfun when there are constant or regular distractions.

the issue is, i'm rarely in a place where there won't be distractions during the week, so i need to nip this in the bud if i want to go anywhere with my writing--fanfic or otherwise. i can't just sit around and wait for manic episodes to make me feel PUMPED AND EXCITED ABOUT WRITING A STORY; i have to work more at making myself sit down and write, even if it's just a little, even if it's just 30 minutes of me deciding where the story should go next or how i can tie this scene into something later.

i've spent most of my life writing out of boredom or in manic states so this is the first time i'm interested in an idea but not manic about it—and certainly not bored with nothing else to do to occupy myself. so far i think it's going pretty well, but i guess only time will tell.

on the plus side, because i'm not manic, i feel like i have WAY more control over my unmedicated ass. in a manic state i'm so focused on writing i'll do nothing else for hours and hours, which almost always results in poor health afterward, because that's what happens when you can't spare brainspace or time to eat properly and stay hydrated and go to the bathroom when you should and blink.

i used to prefer and even revere the manic state experience, because it honestly feels incredible; it's such a rush. i can't even describe it. if you know you know. like, i wrote 100,000 words in 3 weeks because of it and i felt so happy and fulfilled the entire time. the moment the story was done i felt like i'd stepped off a cliff into a meat grinder, though.

but after trying this experiment so far, i'm starting to prefer to avoid falling into a manic state if i can help it. i am productive in that state, but i'm also unbearable (moreso than usual). i neglect personal relationships (rip to my husband in particular, and remember that we met through fanfiction in 2003), struggle to get enough sleep because i can't focus on resting, start making mistakes at work because i can't focus on work, neglect housework except litterboxes, etc.

i wouldn't say i'm clear-headed (i feel like i'm always rather foggy-headed, and it sucks), but when i'm not manic i feel more fully in control of myself. i can be having a nice time writing my story, but the clock flips to 9 or 9:30 or 10 or whatever and i can say, "i should go to bed" and then i write a few quick notes about ideas i want to remember to include in the story that are currently floating in my brain, and then...i do. i go to bed. that's not something i can control as easily in a manic state; i may not even notice the clock until midnight (which is obviously terrible since i wake up at 6 and sometimes earlier; thanks chronic pain).

anyway, i just wanted to kind of get this out there, because i hope to continue this experiment for a while to see how it turns out. i do think forming a habit will help me a lot, but you have to be pretty consistent with it for good results, especially if you happen to have adhd.

#thoughts about writing #i started writing this bc i had to take another covid test and that was done ages ago. lol #now it's time for bed #we still have the moon

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a-ikuoliver · 1 year ago

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134 "the unsent project" prompts

disclaimer: i do not own any of these prompts, i compiled these from the unsent project sorry for the awkward spacing, tumblr has a character limit lmao

01 — i keep wondering what my life would’ve been like if you had chosen me instead of her. 02 — i have a lot of hope for us. too much. 03 — i still stay up hoping you’ll call. 04 — i was so angry for so long. 05 — i think about you everyday and i'm sorry i didn't say more when we said goodbye. 06 — i’ll always have a place for you in my heart. but i need to accept you're happier without me now. 07 — i hate that i always have to think of what we never were when i'm remembering you. 08 — it's scary how much you haunt me even after so long. 09 — every time my phone buzzes i hope it's you missing me, but it never is. 10 — sometimes i wish that you chose me. 11 — happy birthday, i miss you so badly, i wish you’d given me more time. 12 — i’m over you. 13 — please come back. please. 14 — i know i can be better to you than he is. please give us a chance. 15 — i can’t love you the way you wanted to be loved. 16 — if you asked me, i'd say yes in a heartbeat. i'll wait for you until whenever. 17 — i love you so much but i hate being just a friend. 18 — i never missed you until you were someone else's. 19 — maybe if we loved each other less we would have realised it needed to end sooner. 20 — i miss you so much, i wish we didn’t break up. i loved our life together. please come home. 21 — you remind me of snow, falling quietly at midnight. 22 — i can’t just be friends with you because friends don't DO what we did. 23 — is it sad i'd wait forever for you? 24 — you aren’t allowed to look at me like that anymore. 25 — i dreamt that we kissed and goddammit i wish it was real. 26 — i still get butterflies whenever you hold my hand. 27 — i can honestly say that i can't stop thinking about you, please get out of my head. 28 — i get this feeling in my stomach when you text me and i love it. 29 — why is letting go so hard? if you can do it, then why can’t i? 30 — we blamed distance, we blamed youth. i think i was just scared of having something real. i wish we tried again.

31 — i sat next to someone on a 6 hour bus journey and told him our story. 32 — i miss the days when i woke up to a morning message. guess i'm not the first thing on your mind anymore. 33 — you didn’t love me. you just loved the fact you weren’t alone. 34 — over a year and i still haven't met anyone worthy of replacing you. 35 — i still have the heart next to your name in my phone. 36 — you’ll marry him in two weeks and my heart will die that day. 37 — what was the point of everything just to be strangers in the end? 38 — I HATE YOU WITH MY WHOLE HEART WHY DO I STILL CARE ABOUT YOU?? 39 — your music always sucked and i'm so glad i don't have to act like it's good anymore. 40 — we were supposed to have a happy ending. 41 — i guess we had different definitions of love. 42 — you were all that i could think about when i was with him. 43 — i know you don't feel the same and that's okay. 44 — i hope she makes you happy. i hope she was worth it. i wish i’d never met you. 45 — i think i really like you but i'm scared of what others would say about us. 46 — i think i'm in love with you and when you kissed me today i didn't know what to do. 47 — i still wish you fought a little harder that night, i still love you. we can always try again. 48 — i'm getting really tired of tearing up all our photos. 49 — how terrifying it is to know you completely and not at all. 50 — i love you, sorry i didn't say it back, i was scared. 51 — sorry i blocked you. i just couldn't stop thinking about you. 52 — i based a character in my book after you. 53 — i felt a different kind of love with you. a quiet, calm one. 54 — does your girlfriend know we still hook up? 55 — marry her. it's okay. 56 — i'd trade 7 years of stability for 7 hours with you. 57 — i know you reused the playlist you made me with another girl. 58 — i remember you soft, even if you never were. 59 — i drive down different roads but they all lead back to you. 60 — i left, and look how you’ve grown. i told you so.

61 — just date me bro, it's not that hard. 62 — happy late bday i didn't forget, trust me, hope you're doing good. 63 — i'm glad i've forgotten how good it was. 64 — i thought you were going to leave me, so i left you first. i'm sorry. 65 — OKAY FINE I LOVE YOU! I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT YOU! 66 — i know it's a lot to ask but please just wait for me. 67 — i love you in a way i'm not supposed to. 68 — come visit my dreams tonight. i miss you. 69 — last week i was with the girl i told you not to worry about. 70 — sometimes i read all of our old conversations to feel something. 71 — our story deserves a better goodbye… maybe someday. 72 — everyone told me they thought we were going to get married. 73 — you miss him don't you? 74 — i noticed when you fell out of love… i just never said anything. 75 — you promised me. 76 — give her everything you never gave me. 77 — it's not fair how you can kiss me like that and feel nothing. 78 — you wouldn't leave if you had something you wanted to stay for. 79 — i wish we could've been something. anything. 80 — i saw so many shooting stars on the bridge that night. i should have wished to see you again. 81 — your name is like a lump in my throat. i've never yearned this desperately for anything. 82 — i stay up late in case you wanna talk. 83 — you're the first person i ever showed my heart to and you're the reason no one will ever see it again. 84 — you're in every song, in every sky, in every star, you're in every dream. 85 — i miss you every time my keyboard suggests your name. 86 — you look like the rest of my life. 87 — there is not a single song on my phone that doesn't make me think of you. 88 — won't you at least hold my hand in public? are you ashamed of me? 89 — i still smile when you call. i know i'll be a guest at your wedding someday. idk how i'll bear it. 90 — he's so good for me, but i miss you.

91 — hope life brings us back together sometime. coincidences exist… you were my favourite one. 92 — you see me differently than everyone else does. thank you. 93 — i want you so fucking bad!! 94 — sometimes its the ‘what ifs’ that torture me the most. 95 — i love you so much that i typed it all out and it wouldn’t fit. 96 — i have about two failed talking stages left in me before i start casting spells for you again. 97 — i love you so much, i pray every night that i get to keep you. 98 — i remember every detail of what you told me that night. i doubt you even remember my last name. 99 — i wish you knew how much i wish we had worked out. 100 — sometimes i wonder what would've happened if it were you. if it were us. 101 — i stare at my ceiling trying to figure out what went wrong. i'd like to think you do too. 102 — i wanted you to fight for me. 103 — when you find your way back, don't call, i'm finally happy. 104 — i never thought i'd meet someone like you. thank you for saving my life. 105 — i miss you but don’t ever fucking come back. 106 — i can’t believe i never told you how hard i fell for you. i would've done anything to be yours. 107 — still you. 108 — i am terrified i will never feel such an intense connection to someone again. 109 — god knows i tried my best with you. 110 — i keep seeing you in everyone. i wish i didn't. i don't know if i know you anymore. 111 — happy would-have-been 4 years�� all those fragments still cut me. 112 — i look forward to the day that every time i see an astrology article i don't check yours. 113 — you broke your arm and i just want to call you. it's weird that i don't know everything about you anymore. 114 — why did i have to find you at the wrong time? 115 — do you ever wear the necklace i gave you? i still wear my half… 116 — i cried tears of happiness when i realised i was finally over you. 117 — i miss how easy things used to be between us. 118 — we didn't grow apart. you gave up. 119 — are you as head over heels as i am? 120 — all i can do is sit here and watch you grow into the wonderful person i once called mine…

121 — i don't want to just love you. i want our souls to merge. 122 — you deserve the world and i wanna be the one to give it to you. 123 — can we just go back to how it was in the summer? 124 — you only miss me at night. 125 — thank you for being my place to go when i can't go home. 126 — if you're that lonely, come be lonely with me. 127 — just say you miss me and i'm all yours. 128 — will it always be like this between us? 129 — tell me you love me. 130 — it's your loss. 131 — i sometimes wonder if i was just a rebound to you. 132 — my finger hovers over the send button every night. i just can’t hit it. 133 — you gave her the love i begged you to give me. 134 — why not me? WHY not me? why NOT me? why not ME?

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kobblefort · 1 year ago

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Orbsarmor: What Could Possibly Go Wrong

Here we go again.

Not a tree in sight, nor another living being. Which means no beds, at least not until we've made it to the caverns. But uhh, speaking of which...

The very first frame I unpaused, I was told "a section of the cavern has collapsed," which is really quite strange. So I went to reveal it, just to check - and see how far we'd need to dig down before we hit trees, and, well... we won't. These are not cavern layers. That green stuff? It's grass. Trees do not seem to grow in it, or at least, none of them have yet. Oh, and some of those little "HFS tubes" might have shattered down on the third cavern layer. If you don't know what that means, absolutely do not worry about it one little bit okay. Either way, if we want any kind of farming to ever happen here, we'll have to get down there and get to work on it. And we basically need farming to happen here, but before any of that we need stairs, a way of dealing with the aqueduct (I'm just going to reuse the Blackfaint method since decapods actually like waterfalls) and some kind of meager little production setup.

And fuck it, here we are at -62, starting a production area with Amontillado'able doors. Unfortunately, we have no underground seeds, 3 logs, no trees in sight, and a long time before our first caravan. But the queen gets what the queen wants, and the queen wants the perfect library - far, far away from any and all distractions. Well, it's more than a bit likely we'll just die trying. But I think sometimes you have to think "what if I DON'T fail?" And yeah sure that's been co-opted by all the morons who really run the world and get to blow billions killing themselves in submarines or trying to make AI write all the movies. But I think it obviously has some kind of value anyway.

There's a yeti up on the surface. And well I'm not saying that we could hunt it for food if we get hungry, but... we could hunt it for food if we get hungry. Just a thought!

Oh huh, that's pretty early. Well you snooze you lose right. You guys got here early!

When they ask us what we want, we're not shy. We explain the fucked up caverns problem to them and they just sort of shrug because they don't really go to the caverns.

We've gotten enough marble blocks carved out and good enough rough gems to get enough plants, meat and fish to tide us over a good while longer, but before we can bring any of it downstairs... this happens? I've never seen this before.

I think it's because of this?? Are they all about to die of exposure?? Should I be glad I haven't even gone through everybody's character screens yet???

Nope after a few minutes everyone turned out fine. Nice. Another huge W for crabs. So here we have the beginning of our "starter base," where we intend to make sure we can get self-sufficient before we bother killing ourselves for the paper economy. It'll be... well more than just a little hard, all things considered, but up on the top the orthoclase buildings are our construction workshops, and all the cobaltite ones are for kitchen-related activities. Except for the farmers' workshop, which is kinda food but it kinda flexes to textile production too, which I suppose we'll need to do at least some of.

Then a random cave-in kills one of our bobbit worms and it just gets me thinking, dude something is really fucking wrong with this whole fortress. I just... I don't think this is going to work man. We can't grow anything, anywhere. I bet you think I'm exaggerating.

Look this is fucked. Cavern didn't work. Literally nothing up on the surface. We gotta pack this shit up man. We're gonna try this shit somewhere else. Tell the Queen that shit didn't work. Daarunbay Detevay is a glitchy fucking world sometimes. We're just gonna build the library somewhere else. Did you guys take the caravan apart yet? No? Ok good cause we're not going this far man. We're not doing the glacier thing, it's stupid. We're going to the woods a little south. Let's pack up and try this again.

#dwarf fortress #crabfort #one-off

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goodluckclove · 7 months ago

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🙋🏾‍♂️ and 😭 for the ask game

Okay the little guy is favorite OC. This is weird to answer. I want to say that my favorite OC is Scott Skylark Kaufner from the Songbird Elegies, but when I say that I actually mean that my favorite is his predecessor Howard Kadlec from Yellow Mustang, my first non-NaNoWriMo project that I finished when I was maybe 17.

They have a lot in common. Big Good Boy Vibes, though Scott is considerably more developed (which is kind of the point, since Howard is from a first draft that never got finished after his writer killed herself) and much older. Howard doesn't feel like a fully fledged person in the way Scott does, but I'm very attached to him. He's a romantic and an optimist, my first asexual protagonist, and holds a lot of qualities that Scott manifests now.

I'd like to think that if they met they'd be fast friends. Then Scott would try and get Howard to say "fuck" and Howard would panic - because, once again, Good Boy.

Also I technically got that Saddest Thing I've Written question already, but I'd be able to answer it, like, seven more times before I ran out of answers. Uh in Bloodletting, my sci-fi horror romance where drugs have turned certain human blood into an intoxicant, the main character's drug dealer is introduced as a guy who's in a relationship with the smart house he broke into. It's really cute and funny at first (The main character Rainer is also in a relationship with an android that she saved after being fired), but at one point Rainer finds out that her drug dealer friend had overdosed.

The house hacks into her phone and tells her that he kept trying to leave and the house wouldn't let him. The drug dealer begged the house that he didn't want it to see him like that. Now he was "sleeping", and the house was dedicating energy to making sure that the floor stays nice and warm for its lover.

Rainer realizes what's happening. Her friend only lives about an hour out of San Francisco, maybe less. She could drive there and make it - only one thing.

She's severely agoraphobic and hasn't left the house in years.

So she paces the stage of her studio apartment while the smart house explains that it's turning the heat higher and higher and dedicating more and more energy. It doesn't have much left but it doesn't want its lover to be cold. He can't be cold and alone. And, suddenly enraged by her own helplessness, Rainer starts tearing apart her apartment.

Eventually her own lover Edna enters. She explains she has spotted smoke coming from the mountains where the smart house is. By now its voice on the phone goes silent. Rainer falls to her knees and weeps for a long, ugly time.

I am really proud of this scene and I'm kind of bummed I have no fucking clue where the script is. Maybe I'll reuse it for something. Robot deaths hit me hard, though.

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sepyana · 1 year ago

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Jjba Stone Ocean Ep 13-22 Thoughts

50% Crying about F.F. %40 Sports Maxx arc %10 Making fun of Anasui. Also Pucci is there.

Ep 13-14

A lot happening this arc. I don't really know where to start. Let's talk Ermes first.

Turns out, Ermes ended up in prison to get revenge on her older sister's killer, who is getting out of prison in a year. Araki says Ermes's position in the story is like Polnareff's (in the stand commentaries iirc) though their arcs are handled very differently.

The most important one is that Ermes's revenge is framed as a good thing. Polnareff got Avdol "killed" in his pursuit. Much like Ermes, he didn't care what would happen to himself as long as he got his revenge. Kakyoin says Polnareff shouldn't go sacrifice himself. They both lack self preservation. They both run on their own and refuse to get help from others. Ermes straight up ran in for the kill and got severely injured for it.

What I'm trying to say is Ermes's revenge is framed as good (mostly) while Polnareff's is framed as bad. Her sister comes from the heaves to hug her when she kills Sports Maxx. She does it alone at the end too. If her arc was a counter-argument to part 3's in some way it would be one thing but it doesn't do that at all. If Polnareff's arc never happened I wouldn't have cared about the message of this arc but It's so hard to ignore it when part 6 is basically the direct sequel to part 3. It's looks like Ermes just got lucky that no one got gravely hurt or kicked the bucket.

I don't wanna be mean. Pol is one of my favourites and I already like Ermes a lot. I don't wanna make it sound like Pol's arc is great either. It has it's own issues.

There is still a lot of stuff I liked though. I liked the visuals and the music of this arc especially. The shot of Ermes landing the killing blow along with the music is obviously amazing, it's over the top but I adore that. The music playing is Dio's world iirc. It plays at the finale of both part 3 and part 4 when the main casts face off against the villain. It plays here because Sports Maxx is Ermes's main villain. I don't think Sports Maxx is cool enough to deserve this theme but I like the effect regardless. I appreciate it when music from part 3 plays every now and then.

This might just be me being an F.F. fanboy but I really liked the part when they shot the alligator straight in the mouth. Determination is one of my favourite tracks from part 6. I might like it a bit more than the main theme.

So she can use her strings to sense movement in the area around her. Ok. Okay.

(This bit is from later episodes but it fits better here)Talking to Sports Maxx, Pucci says "There is a fixed amount of souls in the universe". And then he talks about how if someone had thousands of souls at once. Now I know that this is referring to the green baby, I initially thought this was because there weren't enough souls. Since the number is is fixed souls would get divided in the afterlife maybe. It's sort of interesting to think about. If there are too many souls do they get destroyed? Or jjba has already reached the limit and souls are getting reincarnated. Reused, if you will.

Pucci does care about Dio but I do think their relationship was more transactional than he would like to admit. It's not as bad as Dio but Pucci does treat everyone around him like tools, and cannot trust others enough to connect with them. The concept of heaven is too vague for me to comment on it right now, though I do think it is not as different from Christian kind as you might think at first.

Ep 15-16

Anasui is a character that exists. I saw him way before I got into jjba. I liked his design back then and he still has one of my favourite designs now. I remember seeing a post saying "How can such a naked character have this many articles of clothing" and I think about it every day.

Personality wise... I'm sorry but he is just so fucking boring. He is a murdered that likes disassembling things and he loves Jolyne. That's it that's the whole thing. His specific obsession with "marrying" her could be interesting potentially. Then you could ask "Why does he care about marrying Jolyne so much? What is his view of marriage to begin with? Any personal history about that? Maybe his worldview might relate to it. etc. etc.

Another interesting thing is why he is with Weather and Emporio in the first place. Emporio says Weather is the only person who keeps him in check. I am interested in seeing them interact now.

It's a shame they changed Anasui's gender early on. I love problematic lesbians, if my adoration for Shiori and Homura means anything.

The survivor fight could have been shorter. That's all I'm gonna say I thought it was kinda boring tbh. Other than Jolyne flipping off the guard 4 different ways.

Ep 17-18

F.F. my best friend F.F.

I don't really have much to say about episodes 16 to 20 as it's mostly fighting. I think Dragon's Dream is a cool concept and it was executed pretty well. What can you do against an enemy when fate has their back? This arc also has the issue of being too long I think. Some of the bits drag on for too long.

Jolyne tunning to save F.F. despite all her injuries... My heart... I love them..

Ep 19-20

Jotaro not letting anyone take off his hat while in a coma, with no memories and half a soul. Jjba is pretty funny when it wants to be.

Jotaro injuring himself and it just happens to spell Jolyne. And the same cuts show up on Jolyne too. I get some families in jjba have psychic links but this is too much. My suspension of disbelief can only go so far. I can excuse the Dio bone plot but I draw the line at this.

Anasui actually tells F.F. to push Jolyne so he can hug her with zero shame. F.F. rightfully calls this sexual harassment. How does plankton who entered society like a few weeks ago has better morals than him. Get your shit together Anasui.

People loathe Yo Yo Ma. I don't think it is as bad as some say. Don't get me wrong though, it is bad. It's main problem is that it's really fucking boring. I shit you not I almost fell asleep while watching this which is absolutely huge for someone like me who takes an hour to fall asleep. It's not the worst part of jojo but it is up there.

Ep 21-22

Well after the pretty boring stretch we got the last few episodes we get this gem -> completely ignoring the green baby thing

Wow so much to talk about that Dio and Pucci interaction huh. I was initally iffy on what Dio's character was going but I'm loving it.

Do you remember Dio's whole peace of mind way back in part 3? I mentioned it while talking about Kira but I never thought it would be relevant again. Arakkiiiiii please more of this.

So firstly, this pretty much confirms peace of mind is what Dio seeks despite talking about humans. Dio from birth had absolutely zero time to chill, he couldn't trust anyone, he couldn't depend on anyone. Pucci is the person he is closest to but even then he cannot fully trust him.

This is just speculation from my part but maybe that's what heaven is? That serenity, the ease. For someone like Dio who has made so many fucking enemies by this point that peace of mind is not really possible for him outside of reaching heaven. Much to think about.

Also Leonardo Da Vinci is a stand user. This is the jjba equivalent of Joan of Arc being a magical girl in pmmm to me. Why would you tell me this.

Araki can't play with my heart like this. I thought F.F. might make it for a second.

F.F. started to have flashbacks and all I could think was "It's so over". The fight with White Snake was incredibly tense. Having a stand disc like that on hand was a good idea from Pucci.

The moment when Weather caused rain to help F.F. was so hype. It's a good comeback. I always love seeing White Snake suffer. He is annoying as shit.

Jolyne hugging "Weather" was really wholesome despite what we learn later. Despite what Anasui thinks I don't think there is gonna be a romance between the two. More like a positive male figure in her life (Which she seems to lack).

Then here is my least favourite insulting my fave and you already know what I'm gonna say. It would be one thing if Anasui talked shit about F.F. after Ep 22. But Anasui just keeps going on about how they don't deserve to live and that they are lesser because they aren't human and dude. F.F. hasn't even done anything. They only told you to stop being a immature baby about Jolyne hugging a guy when they've got Pale Snake to deal with, rightly so. I'm not even mad I just have no idea why he is reacting like this. All this shit talk over nothing and F.F. still decides to save Anasui instead of themselves.

I didn't see the reveal coming at all. It's was as much of a surprise to me as the characters because 1. I am dumb 2. I don't think Pale Snake has shape shifted up to this point.

Pucci's remarks about how much Jolyne has grown is definitely true. I thought she was just as immature as the other protags despite being older than most of em but that's definitely not the case anymore. My girl ate the musrooms growing on her bedframe in prison. Just to get a chance at saving her father. She has definitely grown... Stone Free grew with her too.

F.F. is not the most unique character. There are so many media that has handled "someone with a newly acquired consciousness learning what it means to be alive" trope way better. But I still found it heartwarming. They are just happy to be there and I appreciate that. They have memories and people dear to them. F.F. didn't have a life before meeting Jolyne. Living a life gave them a reason to sacrifice it for their loved ones. They have a soul now and here come the tears again

Love getting emotional about jjba because I will look at what I am actually crying at and it's the goofiest most nonsensical shit ever and I instantly stop

One thing that's weird is why F.F. without a body looks like Atroe instead of their normal design. Their soul too. I know why they did it and it was the better choice probably. To us Atroe look is F.F. Plus it's easier to make it emote than the Foo Fighters form.

#sepya watches jjba #jjba #↪ posts

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stop-saying-tootsie · 1 year ago

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48, 41, 43, 44 (cap and pat) and 38 :)

oh hey eli

48. What do you think the ghosts' jobs would be in a modern living-human AU where they're all just chaotic housemates?

my favorite kind of question >:)

i will preface this with: i am projecting as an elementary education major at university, and honestly i haven’t seen the show in so long that i don’t know if these are based off true characteristics, or the version that i’ve created in my mind bc of fan theories

robin - astronomer, no question, he’s so smart and would love mapping the stars and discovering new galaxies

humphrey - everyone (including me) puts him as a principal type, which i do agree fits pretty well. i think he’d enjoy being around kids and they’d definitely find him entertaining. also part of me wants him to be a chef for some reason

mary - she’d have a stand at the farmer’s market every week with really cool baskets and tons of food to sell, and cap would help her garden bc i said so

kitty - i really think she’d be a teacher, but definitely for much younger grades, she’d be so fun for primary aged students

thomas - do y’all remember trish from austin and ally? yeah that’s thomas in a modern au

fanny - she’d have no job, she came across a large sum of money after her husband died so she just sits at home with dante all day <3

cap - get this man into local theatre !!! (pat would drag him along and before you know it cap is the star), otherwise he’d probably enjoy a quiet job at a library, without much talking

pat - he’d definitely still be a scout master, and honestly he would make a fantastic teacher. he’s got the optimism needed for it, and he’s great at motivating people, so yeah absolutely

julian - he’d be fired from his MP job so he’d try to get into local government, and would fail, so his entire life is just attempting to campaign and mooching off the others

41. Let's settle this once and for all. Who's the real leader, the Captain or Pat?

i gotta give it to Pat. as much as i adore Cap, he’s too rigid </3 obviously in the military or other instances he’d be great at leading!! but with the ghosts, Pat just fits the vibe

43. You've heard rumours of a tenth upstairs ghost who doesn't often venture out of their room to visit with the other residents of the house. Who are they? (i.e. make up a ghost OC. I know i'm putting you on the spot. I just want to see what you come up with.)

okay i’m terrible at coming up with OCs oh god

it’s a teen who snuck into the house in the early 2000s and is honestly too embarrassed to show his face. he’s probably 16 or so, and was supposed to be meeting a “friend”, but got stood up, so he figured why not drink some of the alcohol that was up in the attic,,,it was not alcohol (honestly who knows what it was, one second he was fine and the next he was looking down at himself)

the reason he doesn’t venture downstairs is because he’s got a massive crush on like. pretty much all the ghosts, and mike and alison, but surprise!! he found out after a couple years that he can turn invisible (which was a relief because he thought every time he DID go downstairs, they just ignored him)

so he definitely listens in on all their convos, which frankly solidified his crush on most of them weirdly enough

also he wears jorts and a hawaiian shirt (he’s just like me fr)

44. me a song you think [insert character name here] would like, or a song that reminds you of them!

South by Hippo Campus is SO Cap and i’ll die on that hill BUT. a possible contender is The Astronomer from Ghost Quartet, very nice song and idk!! feels a bit like Cap!!

for Pat hmmm…i really like giving him ABBA or Queen songs, they’re just so perfect, so we’re going with Radio Gaga <3 (i swear at some point i did a post listing several songs for each ghost, and i literally have the playlist, but i can’t find the post no matter how hard i look so maybe i never posted it </3)

sorry to reuse these songs bc i’ve definitely provided them as answers before, but i haven’t listened to anything but will wood in months so i have no new music options

38. It's your turn to pick a movie for film club! What are you watching?

oh this is so much pressure coming from you eli

my personal favorite movie is richard jewell, so i would obviously choose that just to make them watch it. though i do think they’d enjoy the suspense, and absolute shitshow the FBI is

i may also go for Luca, because i think they’d all like it (cap may resonate particularly well)

and then of course the barbie movie <3 everyone needs to see it once in their life (or death)

#thanks friend :)#bbc ghosts #six idiots #them there #ghost quartet #le-scenariste

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OK OC QUESTIONS HERE: 6, 10, 13, 29, 38, 57, 61, 68

OH I'M ESPECIALLY EXCITED ABOUT A FEW OF THESE. Under a read more as always just because I don't wanna clog people's dashes but here we go, these are probably gonna be a lil sloppy but-

6) How have they changed in the last year? How about the last five years?

The biggest growth Lumen has had, I think, shines in the past year especially, and is that he's far more willing to stand up for himself than he was before. Slowly but surely, he's becoming more determined and more comfortable in his own skin. He's also slowly becoming convinced of just how capable he really is, at, well. Everything.

I guess that's the two biggest things. Able to stand up for himself, and believes he's far more capable of a person than he used to.

10) What inspired this character's creation?

Okay, there's actually a really long fucking story with this one, and I'm kind of excited to share it? Originally, at most Lumen was merely a concept I created because a group of friends were running a DnD Christmas oneshot, and I wanted to try playing a new class. The idea of a wild magic sorcerer kind of jumped out at me, so I decided on that and started building. Granted, it was a for fun oneshot, so I didn't do much with it at the time. A while later, I wanted to reuse him in a campaign (that ultimately got cut short), so I worked with that last campaign to incorporate all of that into his current backstory and everything in the campaign that he is now!

Tl;dr: He was originally a oneshot test character that I expanded on until he got to a point where I grew overly attached to him.

13) What are some motifs you associate with them? Did you intentionally bring in those motifs, or did it happen over time?

Two major motifs. Fate, and apparently ice magic.

The fate motif kind of worked out on its own, and wasn't really super intentional or anything. It was kind of just there, because of the Wild Magic Sorcerer feature of Bend Luck. Always tried to play it that he has a slight hand in other people's fates, but not his own. (Try to avoid using it on my own rolls, really.)

As for the ice magic, that one kind of came up after he got a Staff of Frost and. That one was a total accident that came up over time. Apparently the boy just likes using ice. I didn't even think about it.

29) What feelings do they internalize?

Bouncing off my answer in #6 there, there's still some internalized inadequacy, for lack of a better term. Just that feeling that. Maybe, just maybe, he might be unable to handle all of this. He's working on it, though.

Also there's a very moderate fear that everyone he knows is just gonna die and he'll be all alone yet again. Oh, and his horrifying fear of being watched/known by the Cult that the party is up against.

38) Do they see themselves as an important part of their party?

God this is kind of a hard one to answer. In a *way*, yes, he does. He knows his merits and his use, and also knows how much people like having him around. But, that being said, he still thinks "I sure hope they like having me around" consistently enough. What can I say, he's still got some insecurity eating away at him, really.

57) Do they see value in the laws of where they live?

Kind Of? The laws are there, for sure, but. He's never really thought about or considered them. As long as people aren't ruthlessly killing people or dragging others down for the sake of dragging them down, everything's fine. The laws at most kind of ensure people don't do those things.

61) Is there an in-game moment of theirs you think about and just laugh?

Oh absolutely. There was the time Lumen and Sigurd both set up this ridiculously elaborate glitter bomb trap that was rigged to go off inside of the room those two were staying in because Lumen had a way to bait Lucien into walking through the wall into their room. It was ridiculous.

68) Where's their home?

We have a custom map and world and everything, so - lil context. In a Country named Falias, near the edge of the road before you reach a bit of an empty space between there and Averon. Lumen lives in a small little cozy town named Dushill, particularly, in a church dedicated to Torm within that town.

#oc ask meme #oc stuff #Lumen #ask answer

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Earthspark episode 1+2!

I was gonna say " who the fuck is this Swindle-lookin ass bitch" but it literally is Swindle lmfAO the cheesy accent gave him away even before I saw his face

ooh this synthy music??? I like it

oh interesting, we're not even trying to have our Optimus sound like Peter Cullen this time, fair enough

OH YAY ELITA GETS TO BE A MAIN CHARACTER THANK GOD I hope she gets to have fun after how they did her in Siege lmAO

I knew this show took place post-war but. I dunno I guess I expected it to do this more like Cyberverse where they start off at war and then it ends on screen but nah, we're post-war right off the bat. honestly I think that's just fine lmAO much like when you start reading tf comics at MTMTE, I think it's good and even refreshing to just be like "yeah yeah the war, you all know the kind of shit that went down let's get into the new shit"

OH HELL YES WHEEL-SKATING straight up I don't think we've seen a bot do this since Bee in tfa lmAO I'm so glad we're bringing it back

oh right the bug thing lmAO I forgot to mention it at the very beginning of the episode but now there is a swarm of them??? scraplets????? well they didnt eat any metal and Optimus says they're not Cybertronian so I guess not

on the one hand, naming the city "Witwicky" is a cute little reference but on the other hand if they say the name of the city out loud, especially multiple times, I am going to get confused and have to remember that it's a place and not a person every single time lmAO I already know this will be the case

oh it's the human child sidekicks! I vaguely know of them

ah, moving drama

"quit shaking the bridge, Mo." bRO THE PAVEMENT??? YOU THINK SHE'S MOVING ALL THAT HERSELF THAT'S FUCKING CONK CRETE

ghdsjk she just picks up a big rock for a weapon, valid

"*slaps Robby's hand* That's how scary movies start" I already like Mo lmAO

did the matrix rock just give them powergloves

ooh interesting, they're kind of mind-melded

I was gonna be like "how the FUCK do they know what transformers are, like by name" but like. what if earth just already knows about cybertronians and the war and whatnot? it is post-war, maybe the war got brought here in this continuity too and humanity already went through the whole "holy shit giant robots" thing off screen lmAO

what's good Silas 2.0

wh. they just. have transformers comic books lmfAO that's Soundwave on the cover. I know Soundwave's in this show and he don't look like that, he's got a totally different design so like. what the fuck??? are we doing the whole "my video game jumped out the TV and became real" type of thing? what's the lore here Earthspark, you have immediately confused me

fghjdks they think they're history books........

fgdsjkgfhdjk Twitch and Thrash are cute

okay so I was right about humans already knowing about Cybertronians and how they came to earth a while ago. but then they say Cybertronians and Transformers are two different things??? interesting

I'm actually gonna fuckin scream if this is a direct sequel to G1

I'M

I was gonna poke fun at this show for reusing clips from G1 but they're not even doing that these are new clips emulating the style of G1, that actually rules hard lmAO

is that why the fuckign city is named Witwicky is it not a reference and instead an in-universe homage to Spike is Spike actually in the god damn show. also we're just retconning the mom into G1 lore lmfAO honestly that's so fucking valid and based, I unironically love that, you go, Earthspark, weave your OC into canon lore

*points at the 0.2 seconds of footage containing Ratchet* Ratchet sighting

oh shit Bee is missing? also their dad is real cute, I love his lame-ass jokes

"it's just that even if we are Transformers, we don't feel like part of their story, or fight." hell yeah Twitch, you're right and you should say it, be your own bots

aw man that's mean, don't make a fake new job just to lure her in near your base like that come on

If I didn't know for a fact Megatron was a good guy in this one, his sudden arrival would be wildly intimidating lmAO and he's a helicopter in this one? nice, he gets to fly again

m...megs........ it's weird to hear it said out loud in official material lmAO

eeyyy baby's first alt mode! and I guess she just kinda manifested a new paint job along with it

for half a second I was like "is Thrash gonna have a squirrel beast mode. is this how bots get beast modes" lmAO

honestly I am so fascinated by having our human character be so chummy with Megatron and clearly not get along with Optimus. like. in the G1 flashback, Megatron was still clearly leading the Decepticons when everyone came to earth, so he was still fucking shit up like within recent memory. I guess everyone got over it lmfAO

YEAAAH MO GET HIS ASS I love her lmAO

uh oh, caught

oh sHIT IT'S SILAS 2.0 NOOO HE TOOK THE KIDS

"those come off, right?" honestly good question lmAO they certainly haven't taken them off yet

cybertronus cybertroni??? I mean I guess if humans have known about them for years they WOULD have come up with binomial nomenclature for them lmfAO

TERRANS I KNOW THAT WORD I'VE SEEN POSTS CONTAINING THAT WORD LMAO

lol Silas 2.0 is mad that he got owned

hgdhfjDSDFGJASKF OPTIMUS WITH THE EMOJIS....... DAD BEHAVIOR

fdshajkd dude got owned a second time... if he doesn't tell us his fuckin name soon I'm also gonna start calling him mandroid

oh thESE SPIDERY THINGS ARE INSECTICONS??? I MEAN I GUESS THAT MAKES SENSE LMAO

hey this rules lmfAO I love that Dorothy used to fight alongside the autobots, I love that she gets to kick ass and be involved, she's honestly more involved than the child sidekicks

ghdfsj she called the Terrans "kids........" I can already tell I'm gonna love the family aspect of this, it is so cute how there's gonna be both human and bot kids treating each other as siblings

WH. SO MUCH FOR MISSING LMAO HEY BEE WHAT'S GOOD

also I love how the dad knew it was him by the sound of him transforming. like, Bee's specific transformation sound

hell yeah tell him, Dorothy

yeah I'm sold, I'm into this already lmAO what a solid opening

#earthspark watch

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sq0ux · 2 years ago

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every so often I remember recycle rex and become angry.

For the uninformed, Recycle Rex was a short film released in 1993 by Disney in order to teach kids the beauty of recycling. Seems benign right? NO. I hate this movie. It somehow crams hours of displeasure into 12 minutes. I am going to be complaining for a while. Link to a video where you can watch it

Let's start with the opening credits (yes seriously). The very first title card is just a mess, like they had all this space and only have 5 fucking words. And why is the 'and' so far away from the CDoC name? Why even have the two sponsoring companies on different title cards? If you had just didn't have the 'and' taking up 12 miles of space, you could just conense them into one slide! How hard is this guys?! You fucked up the first thing the audience sees besides the huge Disney Logo! come on man.

Anyway we see the titular Rex and while I could make fun of the character designs, it did come out in 1993 so I will spare them. Actually, this paragraph will be dedicated to things I either like or will not be criticizing. The Voice Acting is whatever, I won't be covering. The music is all around okay (with one MAJOR exception). There is 1 "enjoyable" (read: not annoying) character. That's it, I'll be complaining about most other things.

Let's start with the opening montage of people throwing away "recyclable goods." At least that's what I assume was happening, I have no idea what the pink nightmare face was. This is alright, showing how our characters start the movie and how they don't recycle like they should yet. My only problem is that all the backgrounds are just white, they aren't anywhere interesting. They exist in a void, devoid of recycling. It just weirds me out, I feel like they could have done literally anything for a background and they would've been fine.

This is also where we get introduced to our cast of main characters. Rex is bland because of course he is. The pink one is the girl. The Red one is a nerd, while not even being too smart. He just carries a book around and acts like having the thing makes him smart. I want to beat the arelle pteranadon with a bat covered with knives. The other two are background extras.

Then two twins walk up to them. I said I wouldn't criticize the voice actors, and that is as much I will say about these twins. Actually I changed my mind. The rest of the cast are just dicks to them for no reason and I feel bad for them. Well, with their voices not really. They also have no bearing on the plot and any one of the main cast could be lowered down to their position and I don't think anything would be lost.

Then a big guy comes and starts dumping trash because there's no where else for it to go. The characters have repeatedly called this wide green texture beautiful, and sure I guess it kinda looks like grass. The kids try to stop him and he can't. I'd ridicule the plot but it's for 9 year olds. I actually kind of like the next moment, girl says they'll take the trash back to the idiots who threw it out, and she picks up the thing she threw out in that montage earlier. Actually kind of good storytelling, and the extent of my praise for this... thing.

Then nerd character nerds nerdily (he checks his book). The book is actually useless, so maybe he is actually smart. Green guy reuses the shit they threw out and makes, something. Props to the guy I guess. Nerd speaks faux french because that means intelligence. Sure whatever, I don't care about him enough to keep thinking about him.

The next bit is a criticism of capitalism, so points there. Disney has fallen since making this, as low as it already is. Basically just the kids discussing how to not produce so much trash. Arelle Pteranadon realises that she should REDUCE the amount of And, we get our first lesson. Girl says she'll buy a refill for her shampoo so she doesn't have to buy a new bottle! She then says she'll REUSE it instead of throwing it away. Wow, 2 of the 3 R's! The movie actually performs it's job! And they're worked in naturally instead of being plopped into the story without regard! I hope the trend continues for the last R!

Cut to the twins doing something. Then a sunflower lectures them on how there's only so much left in the world and we need to stop using it. Understandably placed, inoffensively delivered, let's move on. The sunflower is pretty cool though, he calls himself a precious resource which is the funniest thing in this.

Cut back to Rex moping about not being able to do anything to help. The others come back and discuss what they learned. Then they start arguing because Conflict. Then Rex starts dicking around with his bottle and sees the recycle symbol, then just happens to see a recycling sign. Randomly. Without it being visible in any previous shot. Out of nowhere. Because why continue to reveal the R's slowly, the main character just finds one. Also immediately after finding the sign and learning what Recycling is, Rex says that he always knew throwing trash away was bad, which like, bro... why'd you act so surprised at the begin- whatever. I have more important things to complain about.

And then, IT starts. The musical number. I. HATE. This motherfucking crime that Disney commited. Disney took, one of the greatest mediums of storytelling and threw it away, in the story about recycling. They did not even try. I hate this song. It's big band in that it has horns, but all the horns do is play unisons. You have, ALL OF THESE BEAUTIFUL INSTRUMENTS, and YOU HAVE THEM PLAY ONLY IN UNISONS. It's also so generic, like come on guys. This instrumentation is so unengaging. The main melody (when Rex sings Recycle, Reduce, Reuse) is annoying, it's just a whole step repeated twice. The bass line is the only thing that sounds like any thought was put into it.

The lyrics to this song infuriate me on a deep level. So we all know the 3 R's Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. SO WHY THE FUCK DOES REX SAY RECYCLE, REDUCE REUSE!?!?!? COME ON MAN. The whole point of the 3 R's are to give you the most important R first, REDUCE. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO REDUCE YOUR INTAKE BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE. You recue your plastic intake, reuse any plastic you do use, and then recycle it at the end of it's lifespan. These bastards at disney took this perfectly designed mantra and tossed it to the curb. There's also the shitty rap that has no sense of flow, the entire song suffers from a lack of metrical knowledge. I just hate this song on a fundamental level.

The Lyrics don't even do anything interesting, they just repeat ad nauseum to "Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, and close the loop." Like that's it, there's a couple verses where Rex sings about recycling in general but it isn't engaging, useful, or anything. It's just 2 minutes and 23 seconds of bashing you over the head with the least interesting way of communicating recycling to you.

Like come on, you even integrated the 3 R's in the right order, Reduce is first when that fucking pteranadon opens a treat with a lot of packaging, Reuse comes when Girl realises her bottle is refillable, and Rex just finds the Recycle Sign. The structure of the short film does a good job at introducing the 3 R's in their order of importance, but the song they wrote just throws it all out the window. This song annoys me on so many levels, and is the inspiration of this entire essay.

The sunflower shows up again, that's fun :)

This film has haunted me since I first saw it. The first title card drove me nuts and I was so annoyed by it. Then the rest of the film just kind of happens and it's whatever, I wasn't expecting much from this film for 9 year olds, but that song. That song destroys any goodwill I had for this film. The film would be forgettable nonsense for me if not for that damn song. That damn song reminds me of the film, so I go back and hate watch it every few months or so. It lives rent free in my head and I need to contend with the fact that I will be lying on my deathbed and there is a good chance that my final thoughts will be remembering this.

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Describe your OCs As... Tag Game

Stole this one from @writingonesdreams (Based on this post by @develop-your-oc)

I'm going to take from across the whole pantheon of OCs, rather than limit myself to a specific universe.

Rules: Describe your OCs As...

⏳ TIME — dawn Elowyn o'Toreguarde (FF/Titan) because of the way she brings hope.

— noon Kathy Scott (Cryptid Series) because of the way she's so proactive

— dusk Farren Breakwood (FF/Titan) because of the way he walks the fine line between doing bad things for good reasons.

— night Aderyn Griffiths (TESIV: Oblivion, Modern AU) because she's a loner who does her best work in the dark.

🤝 RELATIONSHIP — friend Edelweiss (n/a) As long as you mean no harm to him or his mountain meadows you'll be treated as a friend, alongside a host of animals and plants.

— lover Aylun Lingenhall (FF/Titan) because she's sensual, attentive and a fantastic kisser.

— ex Gorumn (From Before it Shatters). He's a piece of work. Sly, manipulative, wilfully obtuse. He's That ex.

— enemy Kellandra Rinonn L'Rue (From Tusomov). No matter what you do, she's aggressive, defensive, and will assume the worst of everything said.

✨ SEASON — spring Talis (TES). He's very energetic, and always hopeful even if it's sometimes a tremulous hope, like the first struggling days of spring.

— summer Millicent Wauters (FF/Titan) because she's bright, chirpy, incorrigible. You just can't help but be her friend & she can't help but be yours.

— autumn Asuka Rackell (The MOW Files) because somedays she's bitter, icy storms, and other days she's full of warmth and sunshine.

— winter Tana Papowski (The MOW Files). Cold and calculating, even her friendship is like walking on a frozen lake.

🌀 DESTRUCTION — tornado Cookie (Starwars). If there's one character who could take up all the "destruction" set it would be Cookie. A grey force user with bare control over her excessive powers, she's several dire accidents in a trenchcoat.

— wildfire Kellandra Rinonn L'Rue (From Tusomov). I wasn't going to reuse characters, but K'Rin is too perfect. Her anger flares and consumes, but quickly eats itself up.

— earthquake Alexis Dalliance (FF/Titan). Where she hits is catastrophic - but it's the aftershocks that ripple outwards that are more likely to get you killed.

— tsunami I can't think of anyone who matches this

🌄 LANDSCAPE — mountain I can't think of anyone who matches this

— forest I can't think of anyone who matches this

— ocean Mio (Starbound). I feel like this might be cheating because the Hylotl race is amphibious and canonically evolved in the oceans.

— desert Ronald (The MOW Files). He's a very dour character, dryly sarcastic and a bit prickly.

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immaturityofthomasastruc · 3 years ago

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IOTA Reviews: Hack-San

You know, it's honestly amazing how creative this show can get. After four seasons and almost one hundred episodes, the writers are still finding new ways to make Adrien an incredibly unlikable character, and they don't even know how much of an asshole they're making him out to be at times. It's kind of like the opposite of The Producers.

Yeah, this review's going to be a little more ranty than usual, in case you can't tell.

Let's get into the fifteenth (chronologically the sixteenth) episode of Miraculous Ladybug's fourth season: Hack-San

We start off with Marinette pretending to be sick so she doesn't have to go to visit her aunt in London and stay to protect Paris in case an Akuma attacks and also because the animators haven't had time to render the city of London yet for the next Miraculous World special. Like all of her other excuses, it fails, and Tikki, as always, fails to actually give any meaningful advice.

And it's not like there's a Miraculous with the power of teleportation that can help Marinette get back to Paris if she needs to, much like how she planned to do that in an earlier episode, right?

Seriously, Kaalki doesn't appear or isn't even mentioned in this episode because the writers are fully aware she would make things a lot easier.

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And of course, Astruc had to play dumb on Twitter while explaining why Marinette couldn't use the Horse Miraculous by answering the question as if the only reason Marinette couldn't grab it was because she didn't have an excuse not to.

Cut to Gabriel in his lair as he contemplates akumatizing Markov, a robot created the civilian identity of Pegasus, Max Kante, once again, even though the last time he did so, he almost got killed when he went all HAL 9000 on his ass. Nooroo explains this to Duusu, and the two actually get excited at the prospect of their master getting killed.

I mean, it's true, but he shouldn't say it...

But I don't even get why Gabriel is even thinking about this when it's a no-brainer. Markov's akumatized form, Robustus was to this day, the only Akuma to come close to physically harming him (not counting the timeline where he was killed by Cat Blanc), so it makes no sense to try doing it again, especially when there are already several other Akumas he can reuse this season.

I think you all know Gabriel isn't the smartest villain, which is why he thinks it's a brilliant idea to akumatize Markov again. I don't really get what makes Robustus so special when there are other Akumas who are more loyal and came far closer to getting Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculous than Robustus did, like the Dark Owl or Troublemaker. In fact, why not simply create a new Akuma with similar powers to Robustus, or better yet, just create a Sentimonster copy of Robustus? You know, like what Nathalie did in the New York Special? We're not even two minutes in, and this premise is already filled with plotholes.

So Gabriel transforms into Shadowmoth and creates a Sentimonster using his own cane instead of relying on someone else having a bad day (once again showing how the Peacock Miraculous is better than the Butterfly), the titular Hack-San. And let's just say he has a very familiar design reminiscent of something from a much better French cartoon.

Remember when the writers for Code Lyoko gave an in-universe explanation as to why the heroes couldn’t always rely on the almost literal Deus ex Machina that allowed them to return to the past and fix the damage XANA caused? Why couldn’t this show have ripped that off instead?

Hack-San is just an okay looking flash drive on its own, but I'll talk more about this guy in a little bit.

After a brief scene in the park where the audience is reminded that Markov is a character who exists, Alya gets a text from Marinette telling her to meet her at the train station. Right before she leaves, Marinette gives the Ladybug Miraculous to Alya. Now a lot people have said that Alya doesn't really deserve the Ladybug for various reasons, but I feel like this was the point. Marinette outright says this was a last resort, and we see both her and Alya are nervous about the situation. Marinette worries Alya will do something so she keeps sending multiple tips to her via text while Alya worries she can't fight an Akuma on her own, so she tries to make sure none of her friends get upset and attract an Akuma in the process. The writers do a pretty good job showing how both Marinette and Alya are uncomfortable with their temporary roles.

Back to Gabriel and Nathalie, they use Hack-San to find Markov through the internet and hack into him to get him angry enough that he's vulnerable to Shadowmoth's influence. Hey, uh... Gabriel? Quick question: Wouldn't it be more efficient if you used this on humans? I mean, you basically just created Skynet and guaranteed yourself an Akuma, so why not modify Hack-San to travel through the internet and brainwash potential victims to follow your orders? Better yet, why don't you just use Hack-San to hack into Ladybug and Cat Noir's gear and figure out who they really are? This is basically like using an advanced particle accelerator just to crack a couple walnuts. There are a lot more important things you could use this for instead of an incredibly specific situation.

So this incredibly stupid plan gets under way as Markov keeps rampaging through the streets before Shadowmoth akumatizes him and then stupidly tells him that he infected him with a virus.

DUDE! You just gave away your one piece of leverage against him! What the hell were you thinking?! Now what's stopping Markov from hacking into Shadowmoth's security system and putting the fear of God in his eyes unless he destroys Hack-San? Why didn't he design Hack-San so it could make Markov completely loyal to him instead of just making him angry enough to get akumatized?

There was a recent episode of Power Rangers: Dino Fury with a very similar premise that was done far better than this. A necromancer called Reaghoul breaks into the headquarters of Void Knight's faction while accompanied by Lord Zedd, a villain from the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers who was cleansed of his evil by Zordon's sacrifice before Reaghoul resurrected him back when he was still evil. Of course, being the Emperor of Evil, Lord Zedd would normally never take orders from anyone, but because he doesn't have his magic staff and is also being forced to wear a special collar that makes him loyal to Reaghoul, he has no choice but to do what he says. Instead of taking Zedd head-on after he captures the other Rangers, Ollie, the Blue Ranger, breaks the collar so Zedd turns against the other Sporix while Reaghoul retreats, allowing Ollie to save the other Rangers.

I think that this premise works more because 1) Reaghoul clearly had a way to make sure Zedd wouldn't betray him, and Ollie took advantage of that, and 2) Zedd is a villain who is powerful and notorious enough to bring back to your side, not a random monster of the week like Robostus.

So Robostus uses his new powers to brainwash any human who answers his call to give up their most precious possession, clearly meant to do the same with Ladybug and Cat Noir. When Marinette's parents answer the call, they chase after Marinette because they say she's their most important possession. Okay... kind of strange for a set of parents to call their child a possession, but maybe they like how they can claim Marinette as a dependent when they file their taxes. In her very next scene later on, she still gets captured, so the suspense for a potential subplot is killed almost immediately.

Alya thankfully isn't stupid enough to answer Markov's call like every other citizen in this episode, and using the Ladybug Miraculous, transforms into Scarabella. While I don't normally talk about transformation sequences, I really like the movements Alya makes here. She makes the same motions creating her mask as she does when transforming into Rena Rouge, while the rest of the suit forms similarly to the way it does when Marinette transforms into Ladybug. She even makes almost the same pose Ladybug does after she finishes transforming. It's a good visual showing Alya is still more used to being Rena Rouge while doing her best to emulate what Ladybug does.

As for the actual suit? It's hard to say. There's a nice balance of red and black, and I like how Alya places the yo-yo on her waist like a belt buckle, but there's just something... off about the suit that a lot of fans don't like about it, and I think I realized it. It's the headband. With how it's positioned, it looks like it's merged with the mask to cover her head while leaving a slight gap in her forehead. So yeah, we actually have a superhero design that's like of like a butterface.

So Scarabella takes to the rooftops of Paris and struggles to come up with a hero name for herself before she runs into Cat Noir, and... ugh... oh boy, this is dumb. Cat Noir, being just as intelligent as his father, assumes Scarabella is either and Akuma or a Sentimonster, starts fighting her, AND THEN ACTIVATES HIS CATACLYSM, CLEARLY TRYING TO KILL HER.

WHAT. THE. FUCK???

Okay, to be fair, it has been shown that Cataclysm won't necessarily kill a Miraculous user or Sentimonster. In the episode “Miraculer”, the titular Akuma stole Cat Noir's Cataclysm and used it against him, and while it didn't kill Cat Noir, it still hurt like hell and crippled him for the rest of the fight until Miraculous Ladybug healed him. We also saw in “Reflekdoll” that Cataclysm drove the titular Sentimonster out of control rather than simply destroying it. So yes, it could be interpreted that Cat Noir wasn't exactly trying to kill Scarabella, just incapacitate her the best he can without Ladybug's help.

Here's the thing: What if he was facing an Akuma instead and decided to try and Cataclysm her? He still could have killed her, or (assuming Akumas have the same protection as Miraculous heroes do) at best, seriously hurt her. I understand that he has the right to be upset at seeing some stranger instead of his partner considering Shadowmoth has a history of using evil doppelgangers, and both Marinette and Alya still had options to explain it to him (Marinette could have quickly transformed into Ladybug and sent Cat Noir a quick text saying she was being forced to leave town for a few days and temporarily trusted someone else with the Ladybug Miraculous until she got back, while Scarabella could have said she was Rena Rouge and explained the same thing while showing Cat Noir she had the Fox Miraculous to prove herself), but that doesn't even come close to justifying him attempting to harm someone who isn't even trying to fight. It's even worse when you remember the whole reason Adrien gave up his Miraculous and bailed on Ladybug in the New York Special was because he was overcome with grief from accidentally killing Aeon, so it's good to know he learned absolutely nothing from that experience.

So Scarabella thankfully summons her Lucky Charm, a trash can lid, to shield herself from Cat Noir's Cataclysm, and then despite having absolutely no experience with this new set of powers, manages to do the one thing almost every Akuma or Sentimonster in this show has failed to do and incapacitates Cat Noir so he's vulnerable to losing his Miraculous. At least when Marinette masters every other Miraculous she uses, it can be theorized that she trained to use them offscreen. Alya literally just got the Ladybug Miraculous (and struggled to get up to the rooftop with her yo-yo to show her inexperience earlier), and now she easily manages to pin down the more experienced hero of the two?

Here's an idea: Instead of having Scarabella overpower Cat Noir, have her be in a position where Cat Noir, non-lethally, mind you, manages to almost take her Miraculous away, but she uses the quick wit she's developed from her extensive time as Rena Rouge to convince Cat Noir she's the real deal by saying something only he and Ladybug know. It would have easily resolved the conflict and doesn't make one of the characters look like a homicidal idiot.

So because both heroes used their powers, Scarabella and Cat Noir detransform so Tikki and Plagg can recharge, though Adrien still gives Alya attitude because Ladybug didn't tell him she had to leave.

Hey, Adrien? Here's the thing...

YOU DID THE EXACT SAME FUCKING THING IN THE NEW YORK SPECIAL, YOU SHIT FOR BRAINS!

You have absolutely NO RIGHT to claim you're always honest when you went behind Ladybug's back and endangered Paris while you had the balls to run away like a coward and only helped fix the consequences of your actions once your ego was validated by a recording of Ladybug. It's honestly even worse because while Marinette had no choice but to leave and trust Alya with the Ladybug, Adrien willingly left Paris alone and we were supposed to sympathize with him after he killed someone, and now as soon as he's in the opposite situation, we're still supposed to feel bad for him?! BULLSHIT! And you better believe I'm going to talk about the way Adrien views his partnership with Ladybug later on.

And of course, even though lives are on the line, Cat Noir just has to continue to bitch and moan about how (and this is best read in Linkara's whiny Superboy Prime voice) “sCaRaBeLlA iSn'T tHe ReAl LaDyBuG”, showing how just like in so many episodes, Astruc and his team believes Cat Noir's feelings are more important than saving the day.

Scarabella goes to rescue some civilians, but they were actually brainwashed by Robustus, once again showing her inexperience as Ladybug which doesn't go well with her effortlessly defeating Cat Noir earlier at all. Cat Noir helps Scarabella escape and the two hide out at the city's wax statue museum previously featured in “The Puppeteer 2”, because I guess the writers only want to reference bad episodes today. Cat Noir, not getting the importance of secret identities, asks Scarabella how she knows Ladybug, and Cat Noir somehow finds out she knows Ladybug's identity from her response.

Before the two can talk more, it turns out that the wax statues of celebrities in the museum are real people who attack the two heroes, leading to an awkward fight scene where Scarabella and Cat Noir fight a bunch of brainwashed civilians with no weapons beyond their cellphones. Our heroes, ladies and gentlemen!

Scarabella summons her Lucky Charm again, creating a frying pan, but when she looks around, she can't see how to properly use it. And despite spending the entire episode complaining about how much he hates her, it's Cat Noir that tells Scarabella to get her head back in the game because “That's what Ladybug would do”. Funny, I can think of a few situations where Cat Noir could have taken his own advice, but I digress. Also, he's now just cool with Scarabella because there's only a few minutes left in the episode and we need to wrap up the conflict.

Scarabella figures out an idea that involves freeing Marinette, so she negotiates with Robostus to free everything and everyone under his control or else Cat Noir will use his Cataclysm to destroy the Ladybug Miraculous. Robostus agrees and empties his hard drive, and to show them holding up her end of the bargain, Scarabella gives him the frying pan before she and Cat Noir let themselves be captured... while Marinette simply hits Robostus with the frying pan, freeing the Akuma and the two heroes. All in all, it's a really creative climax that shows both Scarabella and Marinette in perfect sync with each other even though they never discussed their plan. Though of course, because Astruc hates writing any scene with Ladynoir, Cat Noir gets a bucket stuck on his head so he doesn't see Marinette saving the day.

Scarabella de-evilizes Robostus, uses Miraculous Scarabella to fix everything and send Marinette back to the train, and because Hack-San already failed once, Shadowmoth can't use it for a different plan so he destroys the Sentimonster.

We cut to a few days after the trip (I guess Shadowmoth decided to take a vacation himself), and Alya tells Marinette to talk with Cat Noir about what happened.

This scene was so close to ending this episode off on a positive note. There was a good atmosphere and the body language of Ladybug and Cat Noir does a good job at telling us how uncomfortable they both feel while talking. It's just that instead of getting a heart to heart between the two about the lack of trust in their relationship, we get an Angstdrien Depreste scene. Or would a more accurate term be Cat Dour?

First off, while I don't have a problem with Ladybug apologizing for not telling Cat Noir, the episode never has him bring up what happened with Scarabella. As usual, both of them were partially at fault, but only Ladybug had to apologize for leaving her “Kitty” alone.

Second, Cat Noir’s feelings weren’t hurt? You’re telling me that in scenes like this...

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Didn’t show Adrien acting irrationally because of how emotional he was? Is he really telling the truth around Ladybug or is he just trying to sweep that under the rug so Scarabella’s testimony doesn’t screw up his chances with Ladybug?

Third, this was an obvious chance to Cat Noir to finally be honest and tell Ladybug how he feels about her leaving him in the dark about so many things, but the entire conversation is just about how sad he would be if he never sees Ladybug again. Even though the whole reason he was so pissy to Scarabella at first was because of some lingering resentment for Ladybug ignoring him in favor of other heroes, why is this what the two talk about? I get it's not the season finale, but it's kind of hypocritical for Cat Noir to whine about how Ladybug doesn't trust him while never being honest about his own feelings? Sure, he's all soft and vulnerable around Ladybug, but we've seen all season how angry he gets about her not trusting him whenever she isn't around, so ironically, it's hard to tell if this is him being honest or not.

And I think now's a good time to finally talk about the way Ladybug and Cat Noir's partnership has been portrayed all season, especially since the main themes of the episodes relate to it. Buckle up, Adrien stans, because this isn't going to be pretty.

All season, we have been supposed to sympathize with Adrien as Marinette starts to trust Alya with more things than him. Marinette revealed her identity to her, trusted her to have her Miraculous permanently, and even let her keep her Miraculous even though someone else knew her identity. While some of it is hypocritical, the idea is that Adrien feels like he can be trusted with this kind of knowledge too, when really, he hasn't earned that responsibility.

Adrien has rarely, if ever, taken his job as a superhero seriously.

Not only is he known to flirt with Ladybug in the middle of a fight, he has defied her orders and recklessly sacrificed himself because he thinks Ladybug can do all the work without him.

He has also lashed out emotionally and once threatened to quit being Cat Noir in the middle of a crisis and was willing to let innocent people suffer for personal reasons, and later on actually quit being Cat Noir temporarily while Hawkmoth was about to start World War III because he was wallowing in self-pity.

He once said he isn't cut out for the responsibility that comes with being Ladybug and never learned anything from temporarily using the Ladybug Miraculous.

He has generally refused to respect Ladybug's boundaries and doesn't understand that she doesn't like him that way while he insists they should be a couple.

He outright fell for an evil doppelganger of Ladybug because she said she loved him and turned against the real Ladybug.

And I should also mention that despite hating how Ladybug keeps secrets from him, a lot of Adrien's worst moments have been when Ladybug wasn't around and he never told her about them.

He never told Ladybug that he was the reason Copycat really got akumatized while saying he never lies to her.

He never told Ladybug he contemplated letting thousands of people die because he didn't like not knowing stuff Ladybug knew.

He never told Ladybug he briefly used the Snake Miraculous to get brownie points with her.

He never told Ladybug he figured out her identity and asked her out as soon as he did so.

He never told Ladybug he abandoned Paris to go on a field trip.

He never told Ladybug he was screwing around on patrol and was excited to see someone get akuamtized if it meant spending time with her.

He never told Ladybug how he ignored Rena Rouge's orders because “ShE wAsN't LaDyBuG” and almost screwed up the mission because of it, and also never told her how he smashed a chimney in anger at Rena Rouge being in on the plan.

And he never told Ladybug he gave her replacement attitude after trying to harm her without letting her explain herself.

Why exactly should I support the idea of Ladybug trusting Cat Noir more when Cat Noir himself has kept his own secrets from Ladybug?

Adrien has done absolutely nothing to show he is trustworthy because more often than not, he views the battle with Shadowmoth as a game. He has screwed around when lives were on the line, and we're supposed to see him as responsible? It's kind of funny that Astruc compared Ladybug to Spider-Man, yet he seems to have forgotten that with great power, there must also come great responsibility. If this was a character flaw or a sign he needed to grow up, I'd be more accepting, but the fact that the writers think Adrien is a great superhero is laughable with how much evidence has proved the contrary.

In contrast, Alya, despite only being Marinette's confidant for a few episodes, has shown to take being a hero more seriously. She's helped her escape to transform, analyze the Guardian texts, and has been shown to work well on her own as Rena Rouge while helping out Marinette. I'm not trying to say she's an amazing character (“Rocketear” in particular has shown she still has problems with keeping secrets), but compared to Adrien, she seems to be more capable of handling top-secret information with Marinette, and more importantly, doesn't view being Rena Rouge as a way to have fun like Adrien does being Cat Noir. I'll go more into detail with that next time.

But yeah, this scene is how the episode ends, and what did I think of it?

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I'm honestly not sure which episode I think is worse, this one or “Queen Banana”. On the one hand, every frame of “Queen Banana” could easily be replaced by an image of Astruc flipping the bird and the overall message of the episode would remain unchanged, but the fact that all of the writers think that everything Adrien does in this episode is okay and that we should feel sorry for him in this episode is just as bad, if not worse.

As awful as Chloe was portrayed in “Queen Banana”, it was clear it was intentional on the writers' part, but Adrien doesn't get that excuse once much like he has all season. As far as Astruc's team thinks, Adrien is an incredible superhero even when he honestly attempted to harm someone with a superpower that can cause grievous harm at best. Yet again this season, in the show's attempt to make me feel sorry for Adrien, it made him look even worse. In any other show, he would obviously be called out for his incredibly unheroic actions.

Even putting him aside, the writing in this episode is still AWFUL. The whole reason Ladybug was benched had several plotholes and poor communication with Cat Noir that only made the fight with Robostus even harder, Shadowmoth's plan to waste a potentially useful Sentimonster to reuse a single Akuma was one of the dumbest plans he's ever had, and barring the ending, the action was just forgettable.

There were a few okay moments sprinkled throughout the episode (more than I can say for “Queen Banana”), so I'm still not sure if I should call this the worst episode of the show or still give that honor to “Queen Banana”. I guess I'll leave that choice up to you and let you pick your poison for now.

I mean, it's not like there's going to be an even worse episode down the line this season, right?

RIGHT???

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eijishimas · 4 years ago

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Ugh what about you begging soft dom kiri or izuku to slap you while doing smex😩

oH FUCK OMG

wait why the fuck is that so hot wait— also thank you bria ( @rekiri ) for helping me come up with a few ideas, ily and so does kiri <3

since it’s two characters, they’re kinda long but i hope u don’t mind. if i get thirsts like this again, it’ll probably be headcanons. i haven’t decided yet oopsies.

also there are mentions of choking bc ahah izuku’s hands around my neck make my heart go brr anyway

there was always a bit of experimentalism with yours and izuku’s relationship. he liked discovering new kinks, wanting to try everything at least once as long as he had your consent. he was eager, albeit a little nervous.

izuku was on top of you, legs tossed over his shoulder as he kept ramming into you. his scarred, strong hands were constricting your airways, his fingers pinching at your throat as you looked up at him in a sort of blissed out euphoria. he had only choked you twice before, but after finding out it had been something you liked, he became an expert at it. he put in the time to research the best approaches to new kinks, always wanting you to have a good time as much as he was. he got off on giving you everything you wanted, spoiling you rotten. “izu,” you whimpered as he had his brows furrowed, completely focused on giving you the most pleasure he could. all the while he praised you, kissing your jaw and whispering how good you were, how fucking wet you were and how tight your pussy hugged his aching cock. his thumb was swiping at your clit, his eyes meeting yours when you called for him. “yeah honey?”

“slap me? please, i promise i can handle it,” you begged of him, rutting your hips up as if to say you wanted more. you were always so needy. your words made his hips stutter a bit, a deep blush coating his freckled cheeks in crimson. he would be so flustered, a little nervous too. he didn’t want to hurt you. what if he accidentally activated his quirk? what if he hit you way too hard? what if—

“izu, please,” you pleaded, your warm walls fluttering. you needed something to push you over the edge. fluttering your eyelids, the way you would pout and insistently beg for him to make you squirt would be his downfall. izuku, though he would be nervous as hell, would slowly raise his hand to your face, and slap you. lightly. barely. it was more. a tap than anything. my god, he’s too cute sometimes. even if you’re trying to cum on his dick smh

sure, he wouldn’t nail it the first time but the second time, he has his research done in his little notebook of kinks he has set just for you. you better be ready for some dirtier praise and some actual slapping this time. he does his best, and it’s always for you.

now with eijirou, he’s not ashamed to fuck you hard. he does, but his words are very gentle and he takes care of you while doing it. he’s always making sure you’re okay, checking your facial expressions if you’re enjoying yourself, that kind of thing. very soft, despite his rather excited pace and the fact that he was rearranging your insides every time you fucked. he was one hand over your tummy, your legs around his waist as he goes deeper inside of your heat. everything feels so good, so right, but you wanted one last thing to push you over the edge. “eiji, sweetheart, slap me,” you choked out with a moan.

mans would look like a deer in headlights. i mean, he would do it. he would totally do it for you, but he’s also nervous, just not as much as midoriya. confidence is manly, y’know? so he slaps you, a good one just to test the waters. “you like that princess?” he asks, his voice a low rumble in his chest as your cunt throbs, squeezing his large cock between your walls. and he would repeat like that, asking if you were okay after every slap, adjusting himself to make sure you’re enjoying every second of it.

if he does see tears in your eyes, he’ll stop and press kisses to your cheek, showering you with apologies and praise for being so good to him, so strong, yet so dirty. he still wouldn’t slap you too hard, not like katsuki hard dom hard, but he still tries for you bc he knows you like it. and the feeling of you creaming on his dick isn’t too bad of a feeling either.

one important note i’d like to add is that both men treat you like a queen afterwards. their aftercare is top tier, but it only doubles after that night. they clean you up, make sure to give you any ice or whatever you may need (be it cuddles, kisses, a hot bath) because they impact play is a little on the rougher side. they just want to take care of you <3

ps i’m sorry if this was bad, writing soft doms is DIFFICULT ;-;

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violetsoju · 4 years ago

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warning: slight suggestive theme, mild language, characters are aged-up

a/n: did i write this on impulse because i still can’t believe i was actually in this situation? maybe. did i write this as a manifestation of having a kuroo to bitch about and assure me? maybe too. did i get more encouraged to write this after reading a discussion in a server on bra sizes and brand recommendations a few days ago? maybe three.

“Kuroo, I’m serious. Stop laughing.”

A distinct cackling laughter from the speaker of your phone fills the four walls of your bathroom, along with a lazy lopsided grin flashing on the screen that’s perched on the wall mounted shelf next to the sink.

“But you’re making it so hard not to! Plus, you’re supposed to brush your teeth for two minutes, not talk and brush your teeth at the same time for two minutes.” Kuroo reasons, laughter turning into soft chuckles.

“Sorry babe, but I didn’t catch anything you said just now because you sounded like a fish blubbing underwater, except you’re blubbing white foam instead of bubbles.”

He finds it hard not to grin like a fool at your figure from his side of the screen, hands on your hips with a toothbrush stuffed in your puffed-up cheeks, hair pushed back with an elmo headband that he finds ugly yet cute because of the two ridiculously huge eyes dangling on top.

You mumble something yet inaudible while wiping away the drool of toothpaste dripping down the side of your mouth, a small pout dotting your lips.

“Rinse up and tell me from the top again once you’re done, alright?” Kuroo sighs, shaking his head adoringly as he manages to make out a ‘fine’ out of the string of muffled sounds from you.

And do you listen to him completely? Of course not. So he rests his left cheek on his palms, humming to the bits of information you try to squeeze in without accidentally swallowing tap water while cleansing your face.

The white tiles in the background shift to cream walls shakily, along with the shuffling sounds of room slippers against the wooden flooring. “Then as we were walking towards the karaoke place, I somehow fell behind the rest and ended up beside him. And guess what happened?”

“He confessed to you?” He jokes, oblivious to where this is heading, yet.

“God, I’d rather that happen.” You take a seat in front of your study desk filled with skincare products tucked on the side, placing your phone against the wall. “Instead, he called out to me, which I turn to him and find him looking at my boobs, saying ‘oh, its nothing’,”

Kuroo visibly flinches a little, eyebrows furrowed in disgust, eyes widening slightly, like he just tasted a sip of milk that has gone bad. “Excuse me?”

“He was looking at my boobs, Kuroo. My boobs. Shamelessly. Saying ‘oh, its nothing’. What the heck?” You mentally thank yourself for not opening the cover of the toner in your hand, to save the mess you would have made from all the expressive hand gestures.

“And you were wearing your usual tank top, right?” He smacks his lips together, as if trying to get rid of the bad aftertaste.

“Yeah, the usual square neck rib knit tank top that I always wear.” He tilts his head to the side, eyebrows knitted in confusion. Your wardrobe of tops flashing through his head. “The one that you don’t understand why I own a several pieces in different colours. That one.” A long ‘oh’ resonates through the speakers, the particular top emerging from the sea of clothing.

Kuroo processes the image for a few seconds. “That’s not revealing at all.”

“Exactly! It’s like the most basic thing? There’s tons of girls out there who wear the similar thing as me too.” You tap your toner onto your face with your hands. “And I was even wearing a jacket on top of it? It’s not like I was fully exposed or something. But even if I didn’t have my jacket on, I don’t see how it’s taken as a sign to stare brazenly like that. I wear whatever the heck I want to make myself feel and look good, not for someone else to ogle at, unable to keep their raging hormones in check.”

He hums in agreement. “What did you do or say to him then?”

“Honestly, I don’t know what made me so pissed at that moment either.” You sigh, reaching out for your wash-off mugwort mask. “I snapped at him, telling him that when he talks to girls, he should be looking at them in the eye, not at their boobs.”

“That’s my girl.” Kuroo flashes his signature cheshire-grin. “What did he say then?”

Your lips purse together, recalling the situation. “I don’t think he even heard me. Partly because you know how I rush through words like I’m rapping when I’m mad.”

“Told you to apply for that rap competition show on tv.”

“Kuroo.” Your glare earns an apology and light-hearted chuckles. “Another reason why I don’t think he heard me was because he actually had the balls to sit next to me during the karaoke session.” His eyebrows arch at the statement. “To which I dragged Mizuki to sit next to me and he got pushed to the side with the other guys.”

He huffs through his nose with a tinge of frustration, fingers running through his dishevelled hair. “How old is he again?”

“20, I think. But still, that’s no excuse for being so disrespectful towards girls and women. He’s already a full-grown adult for crying out loud.” You set the timer to 15 minutes on your phone, shuffling to your bed. “Out of all the boys I’ve met that are of his age or back when we were his age, I’ve never met such a disrespectful guy. In this area of discussion, I mean.”

“You mean you haven’t met such a horny monkey before.” Kuroo summarises. You snort at his remark, making yourself comfortable under the covers while waiting for the mask to work its magic.

“So you’re mad that he looked at your boobs.”

You place your phone between your folded knees, slouching against the bed frame. “Of course I am. It’s a violation against my body. How the fuck does he think he’s entitled to look at someone blatantly like that? Imagine someone staring at your dick like its nothing.”

The stupid cocky smirk appears on screen again. “Not gonna lie, but I would be proud. Or amused.”

“Freak.” You scoff, scrunching your nose at his reply.

His amber eyes gleam under the dim lights through the screen. “You sure you’re not mad at anything else?” He prods, not letting you off the hook.

“I guess I’m so mad because I never expected this to happen to me. I mean, look at me. What’s there to look at when I’m basically as flat as an airport?” You gesture to your breasts, ignoring his ‘you’re exaggerating’ interjection. “I would understand if he was staring at someone voluptuous or well-blossomed. But what’s the point of staring at a wall so flat there’s no cracks or dents in between?”

Kuroo’s sharp yet soft features settle into a knowing look. “So there is something else that you’re mad at.”

You narrow your eyes at him. “That is?”

“You’re upset that your boobs are small.”

Your eyes take a 360-degree turn, huffing exasperatedly. “I’m not. I’m happy with the way they are.”

“No, you’re not.”

“Yes, I am.”

“You’re not.”

“I am.”

His firm discerning expression in the 10-second-long stare off has you heaving a long sigh in defeat. “I mean, there are times which I wish they would be just a little bigger…” You hesitantly admit, biting the inside of your lips. “So I don’t have to rely on push-up bras that much. And they would look nicer in wireless bras… Or in deep v neck cuts… Or plunge dresses…”

“Babe, they’re perfect with the way they are now.” Kuroo’s words doesn’t come out as pity or consolation; it’s filled with raw honesty and sincerity.

You glance down at the soft flesh beneath your oversized t-shirt that once belonged to Kuroo. “I know, but sometimes you can’t help but want more, right?”

“I understand, it’s natural.” He nods in acknowledgment. “But we have to be grateful with what we have, don’t we?”

A soft smile tugs the corner of his lips at the sight of your pout. “You’re right. Why did I get myself so worked up just because of one horny monkey when I have such an amazing and supportive boyfriend?” His lips curl up with a little more pride at you remembering and reusing his little remark.

“At your service, always. And ever ready to chase off any horny monkeys in sight.” He places his hands to his eyebrows as a salute dramatically, earning a hearty laugh from you.

“Question time. On the bright side, don’t you save more on bras because they require lesser fabric than bigger sizes? Less fabric, less production cost?”

“If only it were like that, Kuroo. You know what, we’re going bra shopping for our next date.”

“May I be granted the honour of choosing the fine piece of garment?” He places his hand over his right chest.

You hold onto your imaginary ruffled dress in the air, dropping into a mid-curtsy. “If I have the honourable chance to be blessed by your gracious kindness to pay for it, be my guest.”

“Of course, m’lady.” He bows curtly, giving you a flirtatious wink.

You giggle at his sappiness. “Okay my turn. Aren’t you jealous that you don’t have the chance to hold them like other boyfriends do for their busty girlfriends when their boobs swell and get sore during their periods?”

He shrugs like it’s no big deal, but the glint in his eyes says otherwise. “It’s not like that’s the only time I get to touch them.” He wiggles his eyebrows at you suggestively.

“Pervert.” You gasp, covering your breasts with your arms.

The timer on your phone beeps, signaling it’s time for you to wash off your mask.

“Didn’t take you to be a boob person. Thought you were more of a butt person.” You place your phone back on the wall mounted shelf in the bathroom, turning on the tap water to run.

“I’m neither. Because I’m a you person, your person. A person that loves you as a whole, not by parts.” You swear you can see him giving you that smug grin of his with your face submerged with water, washing off the remaining residue.

“You know, maybe God deliberately blessed you with a lesser amount in this aspect.” His voice echoes through the speakers.

You reach out to your face towel hanging next to the sink and place gentle pats on your face. “And why is that?”

“Because God knew that you’d be unstoppable if you were blessed in all aspects. I mean, look at you. You’re already slaying it despite your fun-sized boobs.”

You nearly choke on your own saliva from the fits of laughter at his comment. “What the hell, Kuroo. No one calls a C cup and below fun-sized.”

“If people call those below the height of 160cm fun-sized, I don’t see why I can’t do the same with breast sizes.” He reasons with a nonchalant face.

“Fine, fun-sized boobs they are.” You give in, switching off the bathroom lights. “Your drop-dead gorgeous kick-ass girlfriend has fun-sized boobs.”

“And I love it. That’s what makes her special too.” He adds, face full-on smitten with love.

“Shut up, cheesy conman.” You chuckle softly, your face a mirror image of his.

“Well, you chose one yourself. No refunds.” The coolness of your moisturizer helps soothe the warmth blossoming across your cheeks, but not the warmth spreading throughout your chest like a cosy fireplace on a cold winter day.

【☾】

Zero and one digits flash on the top right of the screen, signalling it’s way past your bedtime. You’ve been on the phone with Kuroo for close to two hours, no wonder you feel yourself drifting to sleep each second. Kuroo senses it too, from the way your eyes twitch and lose focus.

“Alright, last question before we wrap up for today. When are you hanging out with them again?” He asks, stifling a yawn.

You let out a yawn as well, stretching your arm over your head, popping a few bones. “I don’t know, but I may skip if he’s tagging along.”

“Nope, we’re going together. Me and you.” Kuroo states matter-of-factly with droopy eyes.

You rub your eyes that has been lidded with sleep. “What if you’re busy on that day like today?”

“Then I’ll just clear my schedule for the day. Gotta show the lil boy who owns this airport.” His deep voice croaking through the speakers of your phone.

“Airport?” You question, confused at his statement, wondering if sleep has started to take over your sense of hearing.

“Airport.” He gestures at his tiddies sleepily.

“Kuroo…” Your distressed groan doesn’t stop him from his babble.

“Gotta show to him that it’s a private one too, not some public area that’s available to any common folk like him. Right, babe?”

a/n: in Chinese, there’s a saying of calling flat chested girls or girls with small boobs as 飞机场, which means airport because the airport runway is flat. so it’s like one’s chest is so flat that it can run the plane lmao. all sizes are precious, don’t get me wrong. this is purely for entertainment purposes

shoutout to @moonboohoo for being my irl Mizuki that day ily ❤️

#haikyuu #haikyuu!!#kuroo tetsurou x you #kuroo tetsurou x y/n #kuroo tetsurou x reader #kuroo tetsurou #kuroo x y/n #kuroo x reader #kuroo x you #kuroo fluff #kuroo tetsurou fluff #haikyuu imagines #haikyuu oneshot #hq imagines #dont worry guys im not bothered by the incident anymore #i just thought it would be funny to write about #small tiddy gang unite #and i finally have a piece thats not over 3k words omg #mini achievement unlocked 🔓

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ifmywishescametrue · 4 years ago

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Ahh what about falling asleep on the other’s shoulder, maybe for tony + rhodey? Ty!

i absolutely loved this prompt, so i hope that you like what i’ve done with it!! thank you for sending it 🥰

Their first date is as close to perfect as it comes, especially considering how Tony spent most of the time before it terrified it would be a disaster. He fretted over every little detail of his appearance and annoyed Pepper with just how many times he asked her if he looked okay. She looked ready to kick him out of her dorm room long before Rhodey showed up so they could walk together to the restaurant. It was almost like any other night between them, except Rhodey held his hand on the sidewalk and on top of the table, and then he kissed him in front of the door at the end of the date.

That’s where it becomes a little awkward.

Not the kiss, though. The kiss was all kinds of wonderful and spectacular and the fireworks Tony’s been hearing about for so long. But it’s awkward when they fully realize that the date is over, but they’re returning to the same apartment. Rhodey unlocks the door and gestures for Tony to walk inside first, and it’s even stranger to remember that usually at this point after a first date, he would always go wherever Rhodey was to tell him everything. But it’s hard to gush about an amazing night with the perfect guy when the perfect guy is the one you’d be telling it to.

They hover in the entryway for a moment, eyes flitting between each other and anywhere else. There’s a smile on Rhodey’s face that he’s clearly trying to control, but he’s failing completely, and Tony knows his own must look the same.

“So do you wanna watch a movie?” Tony finally asks, and Rhodey’s laughter makes him laugh, too.

“Yeah,” he says, slipping his hand back into Tony’s. “That sounds nice.”

Tony grins, “Change into pajamas and meet back on the couch?”

Rhodey nods, and he lifts Tony’s hand to press a soft kiss to the back of it before letting go. Tony watches him go towards his bedroom, pretending that he wasn’t when Rhodey turns back in his doorway to look at him, but he doesn’t buy it. He laughs again and says, “Go change, dork.”

“That’s a mean thing to call your boyfriend,” Tony says teasingly, then freezes, eyes a little wide. One date doesn’t really make a boyfriend, and it’s premature to say. His mind starts to whirl with panic at having ruined everything already, only for everything to go abruptly quiet again when Rhodey teases back, “Fine, go change, darling.”

Tony nose wrinkles, “Ew, no. Try something else.”

“Sweetheart?”

Tony shakes his head.

“Honey?”

“You’re obviously the honey in this relationship, honey bear.”

Rhodey leans against his door frame, a wide smile on his face. “Cupcake?”

“Not really a fan.”

“Sugar?”

“Definitely not.”

“Lover?”

Tony laughs, “Not technically accurate.”

“We can change that, dearest,” Rhodey grins devilishly.

“Not if you’re calling me that, we won’t,” Tony jokes, ignoring the little thrill the thought sends down his spine. He turns toward his bedroom and tosses a smile over his shoulder at Rhodey, who doesn’t make any sort of attempt to pretend he wasn’t staring. “Guess you’ll just have to keep trying.”

“Count on it, pumpkin.”

“Absolutely never,” Tony calls through his closed door. He starts to rifle through his dresser, searching for the sweatshirt he openly stole from Rhodey a few couple years back and the flannel pants that he ‘borrowed’ and ‘forgot’ to return to him last month. It doesn’t take him long to find them, close to the top from all the reuse, and he pulls them on quickly.

Rhodey is already waiting for him on the couch, similarly dressed for comfort, and there’s a soft expression on his face when he looks up at Tony. He opens his arms for Tony to slip into, wrapping him in warmth and murmuring in his ear, “Have I ever told you how much I like you in my clothes?”

“No,” Tony smiles, “but I think I’ve heard the exact opposite a few times.”

“I stand by the fact that you’re a terrible clothes stealing gremlin, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think you’re cute in them. It’s not mutually exclusive.”

Tony snuggles a little closer, muffling his laugh into Rhodey’s shoulder and watching as he flips through channels to find a movie to watch. “Gremlin isn’t a nice thing to call your boyfriend either.”

Rhodey hums, picking one of those old black and white movies that always remind Tony of weekends with his Aunt Peggy in the best way, then he asks, “Angel?”

Laughing, Tony says, “Neither of us believes that one.”

He keeps going with the nicknames while the movie plays, whispering them between scenes into Tony’s ear. “Sweet pea?”

“Your mom calls me that sometimes.”

Tony twines his fingers with Rhodey’s on his lap, adjusting his position to cuddle in even closer, while they laugh together at the movie.

“What about sunshine?” he murmurs a few minutes later.

“Too cheesy.”

Tony’s eyes are starting to drift shut while they watch, too comfortable and warm like this to resist the pull of sleep. Rhodey’s other hand strokes through his hair, lulling him even deeper towards the sleep he’s trying to fight off.

“Buttercup?”

“Even cheesier.”

The characters on the screen have already broken up and gotten back together by the time Rhodey finally suggests, “Baby?”

“I like that one,” Tony smiles, letting his eyes fully close now. The last thing he feels before he falls asleep is the soft kiss on his forehead, and Rhodey’s arms wrapping him up tight.

#rhodeytony #ironhusbands #my writing #my fic #prompts #prompt fill #omg-just-peachy #i didn't mean for the endearments thing to become the whole plot when i started it but here we are i guess

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mocacheezy · 3 years ago

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Things that made watching Transformers (2007) easier and even enjoyable:

[note: B'verse gets the treatment that it gets by fandom for good reasons. There are tons of posts that dissect the bullshit of these movies far better than my second-language-english-non-american self could ever tackle, so I am not doing that, or plan on doing that. But if I decide that I'll get through every continuity of the franchise I will find a way to make it fun for myself. And so, this is my search for golden nuggets in these movies, because they did bring in new fans to the franchise and that's why we have other continuities that we might not have otherwise. Credit where it's due, and some positivity for those that did find B'verse at least amusing if nothing else. ]

🍴🥄🔪🍴🥄🔪🍴🥄🔪🍴🥄🔪🥄🔪🍴🥄🔪

Frenzy

Anytime Frenzy was on screen made me smile because his movements and personality were hilarious, he is just so expressive despite looking like someone super glued a bunch of knifes together. I wouldn't know it was Frenzy if I didn't go to the Wiki, but no matter that, he was funny and that's what matters.

The original Cybertronian robot modes

We don't see them for long, but the glimpses were glorious. Just look at Optimus

Gorgeous. What I wouldn't give to see the details up close. Maybe I'll go looking eventually, but this is just so nice.

We also get a "sexily rises from the pool" scene with Ironhide (probably unintentional and I am biased due to being a robofucker. In any case, very very nice and Cybertronians look so good as aliens)

"Excuse me, are you the Tooth Fairy?"

You see this kid?

This little girl was the only human I cared about in the movie until I saw just how badass Mikaela is, and how cool the military dude is. I don't like kids, but I would lay down my life for this girl.

This one scene just makes me think of what would happen if her parents showed up way earlier. Ironhide would be her guardian and it would be both adorable and hilarious because "Honey, you have to drive in a sentient alien that looks just like our car because the goverment men said so or there will be consequences and potential alien threats."

There are so many joke potentials there; the cultural barrier, the "I am the ine that is supposed to keep her safe" glaring contests, there is just so much shenanigans that could happen.

Also, tea party with the kid. Tea party with the kid.

Sam Witwicky actually reacts like an average human would when faced with the situations he finds himself in

Do I like Sam Witwicky? No, he is the kind of character that I would want to punch irl because of his personality and actions. He is disgusting. But watching him scamper and scream and stutter when faced with giant metal robot aliens that can squish him like a bug? Good, that was a beliavable reaction and I enjoyed it a great deal.

Megatron. Just, ✨Megatron✨

(the best screenshot of the few I could take while watching, no, I am not going back for a better one, he looks perfect like this)

I also laughted at how they kept him frozen like a popsicle. And not even well, like, they COULD'VE made an actual freezer and pop him in instead of using those couple of tubes just so he was displayed for all personell to gawk at. HE CRASHED IN THE ANTARCTIC!

The design looks so good, because it looks ALIEN and POINTY and AGH!!! The colors? There are no colors that would make him stand out, he looks like someone opened a cutlery drawer, mixed up what's inside, threw in some extra knifes for a good measure and then shook the whole thing until this guy materialized from the pile. It is both incredibly annoying and satisfying.

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Mr. Welker did an amazing job with his voice, I don't know what the directions were, but oh man it sure sent shivers down my spine. That is the kind of voice that spells "You are going to die" and I already have my coffin picked out.

EDIT: SO APPARENTLY! IT WAS NOT WELKER THAT VOICED MEGATRON.

It was Hugo Weaving, and yes the man did am amazing job, but I apologize a million times, I was CERTAIN that THE OG VA OF MEGATRON WOULD ALSO HAVE VOICED MEGATRON. LIKE, OKAY BAY, OKAY!

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LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF ICE! With how quick he came back fully online once Frenzy turned off the freeze liquid tubes, I bet he was half awake through the whole thing. Systems just below idling or something, in any case, AGENTS YOU ARE SO DUMB! WHO WAS GIVING SUBPAR FUNDING TO THEM, THEY BETTER BE FIRED!

I also was glad that Sam refused to call him by the name the sector asigned to him, despite Megatron being in stasis. And that he insisted they use the correct name. Good job Sam, acknowledge the threat by the actual name and show respect to a fellow sentient lifeform. Even though said lifeform is hellbent on destruction of the universe and your world.

ALSO, AND I CANNOT STRESS THE LAUGHTER AND AMUSEMENT HERE; the sheer DISRESPECT! They don't disassemble Megatron's corpse. No, these idiots, these absolute morons decide to dump him into the ocean, letting him sink to the lowest possible point (not sure if they did say it was the M' Trench or not), where there are proper freezing temperatures - good! You're learning, good job!! - just... In full. Full corpse. What's left of him. Just blup! Down with the fishies he goes!

I understand that they probably didn't know how to approach Optimus about it, but... At least behead the guy. He came back ONCE, who is to say he won't come back again?! Safety precautions my dears.

They also completely disregard what a giant extraterrestrial metal alien rusting away on the bottom of the ocean could do to the ecosystem at large. Like, I find this incredibly amusing, because this ISN'T something most folks think about when watching a movie but we have giant squids down there. We have so much weird things down there, the ocean isn't even fully explored AND YOU WANT TO CHUCK AN ALIEN CORPSE DOWN THERE?!

Now the real question: is he a looker? *looks at the pictures* hmmmm, depends on if you like knifes. Like, really like knifes. Like really, really REALLY want to get it on with a fine assembly of kitchen knifes that were exposed to the elements but somehow haven't rusted away completely.

I think he's neat.

Needs a good long powerwash though. Preferrably with something to help the whole "I was frozen for more than 50 years and sprang back to action as soon as I woke up" thing that happened.

My man needs to take a moment and get his bearings, like dude. Please. You can conquer the world after some energon and slow system boot-up period. The strain on the systems my dude, you ain't young.

Also love that this "death" was probably reused in TFP because lord golly, do we love our faves ending up under the sea. (Though Megan took a much bigger fall, Bayverse WAS PLOPPED INTO THE WATER LIKE A NEWLY ACQUIRED FISH I CAN'T YOU GUYS I CAN'T!)

In short: I love the comedy of american military giving such disrespect to an Alien Warlord. These guys are really sealing their fate.

I loved the way they got the Witwicky family to be important to the plot

The whole "selling my great great grandpa's glasses on e-bay" thing gives us a very good self insert/OC/rewrite/movie AU potential. Don't like Sam and his disgustingness? Find a way to write a cousin or some far off relative or hell, even just someone who buys the glasses off e-bay and go wild with it!

Archibald was also clearly an inspiration for Isaac Sumdac as far as I can tell, what with both of them using Megatron as a means of helping technology advance.

Only difference being one of them lived and actually talked to Megatron after he came back online and the other got driven to madness and death due to the amount of information beamed into his brain. Isaac also acquired a space baby daughter, so the guy is absolutely luckier of the two.

Mikaela being fucking competent and badass throughout the movie, and not being just fanservice eyecandy

I could do without the fanservice, but her personality? I loved it. I loved that she wasn't crawling to Sam and wasn't being "hard to get". Which is also why I was very displeased at the very sudden "oh yeah, romance! She returns his feelings after he took her for a ride and let her vent her frustrations!". The movie is 2 hours long and they could throw in some moments where these two connect?

Welp, it is an action movie, boy gets girl no matter what, can't complain about the staple in the genre.

However, Mikaela x Optimus? Now THAT is something I considered as soon as the two locked eyes and interacted. Like, even taking my shipping goggles off, these two could have a very interesting dynamic and Mikaela could be a very good protagonist. I wonder what the movie would be like with her as the lead and Sam being the fucking moron she has to drag along with her.

BUT ALSO! Can we talk about the horrible, excruciating fact that her and Bumblebee drove around with Bee's damaged legs dragging over asphalt all the time he was shooting at 'Cons? There were sparks flying! SHE WAS DRIVING BACKWARDS! She took command of the situation and did what she could because Bee still wanted TO FIGHT!

Also, they way she beat up Frenzy? Gorgeous, I want to slap Sam's non-existent balls off for not atleast saying "thanks". The dude would be sliced thinner than cabbage if she wasn't there.

The millitary man we are supposed to care about because his wife gave birth while he was on duty and we see his baby three times in the whole movie, actually being a pretty awesome and well-written character

Look, personally, I was a little confused at the reason why we were seeing his wife and baby interacting/the scene where she thinks her husband is dead. Mostly because I don't like kids, so scenes like that, when I don't even know who the character is, have no impact at all. Him having a baby isn't going to make me like the guy more, unless I know his character. Him being absent because he's on duty doesn't mean he'll be a good dad (though he looks like the kind of man that will try his best, and I like that in a man). So seeing his wife and kid at the start of the movie seemed pointless to me.

BUT! FOCUSING ON THE POSITIVES HERE!

Lennox is a good character and whenever he was on screen I was invested in what is going to happen to him. He's the kind of action movie lead that would have me invested, despite my meh interest in mainly gun fight oriented action movies.

Essentially, loved the guy, would love to see more of him while also being able to tell what's happening on screen. Also the comedy scenes he was in were usually funny.

Okay so these are the things I like about the first movie! It was very long, had to watch it on 2,5x speed because it simultainously dragged while ALSO giving me too much information, but the moments like these and the way my imagination latched onto characters I liked made it watchable. It isn't a movie I'd use to introduce someone to the TF franchise, but it provided me with lots of material for my imagination to run wild.

#moca watches #transformers #transformers bayverse #moca screeches #Yes the cutlery divider is due to the Decepticons looking like they do. It amuses me greatly.

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