#ooooooooo this one’s fantastic

[rainymoodlet]

Kiss Me in Komorebi+ 🌸

[ Second Vacation: Keaton! ]

I am fashionably late, as ever! For our second mini vacation, we have the charming Keaton Stratton by @duusheen! Now that I’ve actually played in Chestnut Ridge, I can tell ya - they have way rainier winters than they do snows! I wonder if our dear Bachelor can warm poor Keaton up? 👀

Part 1 of 6 🌹

[autistictaylorhebert]

Just backgenned this for a power idea I thought was funny, curious what you'll make of this:

You are the leader of a minor unpowered gang. Circumstances being as they are, you have a lot of trouble keeping control of your territory, but you’re a fantastic leader- the core of your gang implicitly trusts you, and you have full confidence in their abilities. Unfortunately, between the more powerful parahuman gangs and the threat of the cops, you’re hemorrhaging money, and you’re constantly threading the needle between solvency and bankruptcy. You spend most of your time juggling confidence schemes and protection rackets, and each one requires the skills of both you and your gang, but no matter what, you cannot escape the specter of insolvency. After years of chasing after enough money to keep your gang running, you finally catch on to a massive lead- you hear the location of where a bank is temporarily storing a huge amount of gold. You immediately jump on it, and when the operation begins, everything goes smoothly. But just as your gang is about to take out the last of the gold, the cops report to the scene. You can stop right there, distract the cops and get your gang out of there, but that would be the end of your career, even if it means you keep their respect forever. Or you can sneak out, jump into the getaway van, and make out with enough gold to make you filthy rich, but that would mean abandoning most of your gang. You trigger as you frantically puzzle over your options.

ooooooooo 👀

This definitely feels like a tinker trigger. It's a problem over a long period of time that is treated like a puzzle that the triggeree can't solve. Resource and binary/multi-threaded tinker makes sense, but to me it's interesting to view the choice at the end as a continuation of a lose-lose situation they were facing over the longer period of time as a gang leader?

So maybe it's a conflict of "take on more dangerous jobs and step on more of the toes of heroes and more powerful criminals/take the van and betray your friends," vs "take the L, take the smaller payout and don't take risky jobs (while slowly going bankrupt)/distract the cops and lose out on a personal level in return for respect and social standing"?

Which in other words could mean a mastery/social focus and a more violent focus with risk/reward mechanics built in? So maybe emotion/"esteem"-affecting speciality (with a big power drain), and a cutting weapon/small vehicle speciality that can blow up randomly when overheating or pushed too far.

The resource they need is gold, or alloys similar to gold/coloured gold. When they have it all their gear is better, they can build tech that fits both specialities extremely well. But, when they don't have it each of their builds can only fit one of their specialities, and the drawbacks of both sets of tech is worse (bigger power drain from the emotion effecting tech, and higher chance of dangerous explosion in the cutting weapon/vehicle tech).

Alternatively...

...if you were interested in a non-tinker read, I could see this being a breaker power? They know that distracting the cops is the right thing to do, but their body is fully of fear and an animal need for control over the gang. From mind vs body incongruity, they trigger as a breaker with mover and master capabilities. In breakerstate they're a kind of 2d image or icon of themself (that looks the same whatever angle you view it from), slightly exaggerated and larger than life, able to fly and pull attention (and some emotions/attitudes) towards them.

However the form has an energy resource mechanic: spending time in breaker-state (or using the powers the state gives them) requires spending from a measure of energy that they are aware of at all times, and that energy can only be recovered through the gang "winning" territory and money, with the shard deciding what counts.

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 22/10/2023

Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday - as performed by Bob Dylan

Season 1 Featured on: Ooooooooo I Smoke The Weed, I'm Bob Dylan Also on: The Phantom Rips: SiIVa has come to, The Phantom Rips: Subsistence

Performed by Bob Dylan Ripped by PinkieOats

Long, long have I waited, to finally be able to talk about this man. With the festivities behind us, I can now go back headfirst into the absolute madhouse rips that truly go beyond understanding. As discussed in my post on Batman V Superman – Dr Pavel's Fly-So-Good, the first Season of SiIvaGunner had so many different, scattered jokes, some of which stuck as eternal parts of the channel's legacy wheras some eventually faded away into obscurity. But amidst the well-off survivors like Grand Dad, Snow Halation, The Nutshack and mm2wood, sits one sole ripper, with his one stupid inside joke. Everyone, meet the man behind Bob Dylan himself: PinkieOats.

The story goes that, whilst putting together a Metal Gear Solid-themed album in Season 1, a ripper had the bizarre idea to do a Bob Dylan cover of Can't Say Goodbye To Yesterday from Metal Gear Solid 2. The cover made it into the album, and channel owner Chaze the Chat was, for some reason, completely enamored by the concept. The two got to talking, and Chaze presented the idea of making an entire album just of these real, authentic Bob Dylan covers of various video game tunes. Just like that, the fledgling ripper by the name PinkieOats suddenly had an entire album all to themselves - a full-on identity and presence on the channel. Though the Bob Dylan rips were never the *most* popular thing on the channel, they've persisted ever since, and encapsulate just how bizarrely out-of-nowhere Season 1's jokes could be.

The entire album - Ooooooooo I Smoke The Weed, I'm Bob Dylan - is fantastic, and it was a surprisingly difficult task to pick which rip to feature on here. PinkieOats' Bob Dylan impression is both hilarious just in terms of pure vocal performance, whilst also having a weirdly well-done adlibbing quality to it. In several of these Bob Dylan rips, the core melody will occasionally be broken up by PinkieOats suddenly bursting out into a Bob Dylan-voiced quip, eg. "I'm Bob Dylannnn!!", "I smoke the WEEEED!", "I play da folk song!", and so on. Even if you don't think the vocal cover itself is all too impressive (which, frankly - how dare you) its damn near impossible not to enjoy just how much fun PinkieOats clearly has performing all of these, he sings in a way where you can full-on hear the smile he has on his face the whole way through.

Bob Dylan hasn't made a full-on cover for the channel in a fair while, though he crops up every now and then for small cameos. Though small and oft with low jokes, his presence on SiIvaGunner is undeniably powerful and unique - there's nothing quite like the sheer magic PinkieOats put into all of his vocal performances, and Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday - as performed by Bob Dylan is a perfect illustration of that. Amidst all of the seamlessly perfect rips on SiIva made to make their jokes feel subtle and unexpected, there's something really "human" about hearing a rip of just...some guy, doing a silly voice, but sticking to the bit the whole way through. Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday - as performed by Bob Dylan sits as one of my favorites of the group specifically because of that - its filled with little flubs, pauses in the music for the performer to just sit and giggle for a moment, and completely out-of-nowhere babbling where the music is usually without vocals.

For as much as I praise and celebrate their work here, SiIvaGunner's rippers are just people at the end of the day. And sometimes, that humanity comes through in the weirdest places - even in a faux Bob Dylan cover.

[shadowthegenderhog]

God I fucking love Ryme from the new Pokémon games like she’s already fantastic on her own but as someone whose favorite type is ghost it’s so nice to have a ghost type gym leader who’s gimmick isn’t just “OooOOooOo spooky” whoever decided to make her a rapper who went so hard she brought her dog back to life and then made it her whole thing deserves to retire to wherever the fuck they want after that one

Also semi related but if I was a ghost type gym leader I would have a ghost hunter aesthetic with a fuckload of older analog hardware and gadgets and shit, and I could wear like something very ghostbusters inspired with a bunch of vaguely scientific equipment strapped to me dude I’d have such a blast

[courtforshort15]

Ooooooooo time to give away all of my deepest, darkest secrets. Thanks @your-not-invisible-to-me for the tag!!

1. Favorite time of year - definitely fall! I absolutely live for cooler weather because it means boots, scarves, beanies and leggings. I was born for this weather.

2. Comfort food - I will eat mac n cheese 5 days in a row, don’t tempt me. I don’t care if it’s boxed, home made, or picked up from KFC - give me all the mac n cheese and I will die a happy camper

3. Favorite dessert - cookie dough ice cream. 

4. Thing you collect - I guess nerd artwork from comic conventions? I've been to a decent amount and have a bit of a collection. I made a nerd wall in my apartment that just has a random display of all books, TV shows, movies, etc. that I like.

5. Favorite drink - I have a Pepsi problem, it’s true. I tell myself there are way worse things to be addicted to than soda.

6.Favorite musician/band - So my favorite artist of all time is Pink. I think she’s fantastic and she is AMAZING live. But I need to give major credit to Linkin Park, too. They’re the ones who brought me into the alternative rock genre back in 2002.

7. Last song I listened to - I was totally jamming out to some Florence and the Machine last night on my way home from a bar, so it was Dog Days Are Over

8. Last movie watched - I honestly can’t remember - I’ve been caught up in watching new shows. BUT tonight I am going to watch Thor now that it’s on Disney+, so I’ll just lump that in

9. Last series watched - The class complete series I watched was The Sandman. But the shows I am watching currently are She-Hulk (obvi), Rings of Power, and House of the Dragon. What a wonderful nerdy time to be alive right now.

10. Current obsession - I am still heavily invested in the resurgence of my Daredevil obsession, to be honest. But other than that, maybe writing again? I feel like I have so much coming out of my head right now and I’ve got like 10 pieces in progress. I guess the writing obsession and Daredevil obsession go hand in hand right now.

11. Dream place to visit - I reallllllly want to go to Italy and Greece. So much history! 

12. Place you want to go back to - I went to Washington (the state) over the summer and I have a feeling I’m going to end up moving there next year. It was so beautiful and green.

13. Something you want - Matt Murdock in my bed. A job that pays well enough so that I can travel way more than I currently do. I’ve been trying to do one international trip a year, but I’d love to do way more than that.

14. Currently working on - God, this is so stupid, because I was planning on writing in some super introspective answer about where I’m at in my life, but really what I’m working on is finishing this fucking Hogwarts puzzle that has been killing my brain for the past week. 

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I honestly have no idea who has completed this, but here are some no-pressure tags anyway: @hellskitchens-whore @abbyhaslongshorts @mindidjarin @itwasthereaminuteago @thoughts-of-a-scoundrel

#tag games

#tags

#shower thoughts with court

#this was so random and I loved it

[deleetrix]

🎶✨when you get this, list 5 songs you like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶

OK! So, I don't think I have all-time favorites. Mostly what I listen to is affected by whatever I'm currently into.

Currently that'd be Legend of Zelda! This is gonna be a tough choice sooo... I'm probably gonna come up with more than 5.

BOTW 2017 Trailer music - HA. My phone suggested this to me just before typing this. So that's a sign that I've probably been listening to it too much.

Lorule Castle Theme - I like the regular version but then there's also this really cool ALttP version!

Ballad of the Goddess - I like this one but the version sung by Zelda is nice too, very chill! Also the little bit of it in the Hyrule Warriors main theme is FANTASTIC!

Age of Calamity - There's actually quite a few I like to listen to from this one. I'd be here for a while if I tried to list them all so let's not do that, ok? The Knight Who Seals the Darkness oOOooOOoO.

Majora's Mask - There's this one I keep coming back to a lot the past few days, Termina's Demise. I think I just really like the added sound effects?? Specifically, the part with the fireworks and clocktower. I also like other songs that add in bells for "Final Hours" but can never remember which ones have em' and which of em' don't. Oh, and Oath to Order, there's a few versions of that one that I like.

I have a lot of favorites but I've just written what I thought of first. I could go on but that's um... five things in a way? If I do another bullet point I'll keep going so that's a good stopping point. I'm probably gonna think of another song in the next while and regret not mentioning it... and now I've just realized that I didn't mention anything from TotK.

Uh.

Colgera. 👍

[rainbowdelicsunshine]

🍡 + Danganronpa? <3

OOOOOOOOO!!!! This is gonna be a doozy since I'm gonna hard time choosing favorites for this as well since I have so many DR ships!

Here we go (as usual, this is in no particular order):

Teruteru x Fuyuhiko. I honestly have always loved the idea of these two short guys (one being a pervy but very kind hearted and passionate cook and a fried dough cookie loving yakuza heir who puts up a "tough" act) being a couple ever since I gotten into DR, it's a ship I hold very near and dear!

Hifumi x Chihiro. I mean, I always felt that Hifumi getting a crush on Alter Ego was a tiny implication that Hifumi had a crush on Chihiro during the Killing Game, but he repressed it so much he projected his crush onto Alter Ego once Chihiro was no longer alive. Plus they're both huge nerds in their own rights so there's that too!

Ryoma x Kaito. Yes, I much rather have Kaito with Ryoma than with Maki! I just feel like Kaito being there as a "coach" to Ryoma like he was to Maki and Shuichi would've been really nice and not as forced as I felt KaiMaki was. Plus Ryoma's last name Hoshi means star in Japanese and Kaito is the Ultimate Astronaut..... yeah how could I not ship these two?

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Thank you soso very much for sending this!! Answering these types of ask games are honestly really fun to do and I would love to see more sent in hopefully!

Thank you my friend and have an amazing fantastic day!!

[botwstoriesandsuch]

[Image ID: A screenshot of an anon asking saying “I just wanna say that your tags whenever you rb art and fics are so cute 🥺 you reblogged something of mine the other day and the tags were just so nice and innocent??? It’s like watching a little kid at an aquarium 😝so as an artist I thank you, hope you don’t take it as cringy” End ID]

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Cringey?? nonononono I may be a young kid watching the pretty fish swim aimlessly in the aquarium but I will

recklessly enjoy other people’s content don’t test me

I try to keep it in the tags cause I don’t wanna take away from the op’s original work, plus it makes it easier for other people to rb it from me, but I will amp up the love and appreciation when the situation calls for it. You could straight up come into my inbox or messages and just ask me to give you a reblog and I will do it, I do not care I love you, content creators.

Cringe Culture is dead it’s time to gush plus if I do this often enough people might do it more for me so it’s a win win hehe

Legit, I got a super sweet comment on one of my fics quoting something I wrote and it made me so happy so I was like “huh, guess I’ll do that more often then” and now I’m doing that, that’s how impressionable I am asdfghjk

Also hello?? specifically *my* tags helped you out?? I am a nobody, CLEARLY not enough people are doing this smh, allow me to teach the masses for a sec here

How To Make A Content Creator Happy: the world’s simplest guide to spreading serotonin through a keyboard

Step fucking one) You reblog it. I mean, that’s a given. You’ve all seen those “reblogs help creators out and likes do nothing” posts so I won’t rant too much. Likes are good, but reblogs are like handing someone a stack of a hundred dollars and all it takes is one click! 

(PRO TIP: Hold down the button and swipe for mobile, and hold the left alt button and click once for computer [though it will only rb to your main blog. if you want it for a side-blog then you’re stuck with two clicks but HEY two clicks to help out a creator you like is nothing!])

You share it! Just share stuff. Share the ao3 like, please do it. Don’t repost, don’t just mention it, give the links especially when you’re just in conversation or talking about it around plz I swear it does wonders

Ok moving on to the super simple stuff for commenting and putting stuff in the tags because I guarantee that the op will read them

write A N Y T H I N G and I literally mean anything just fucking:

!!!!!!!

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

sdjflksdjfkjh

?!?!?!?!!?

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhghghhhhhhhhh

:OOOOOOOOO

prettyyy

<33333333333333333

just fucking go ham, go nuts, it doesn’t need to be coherent it just needs to EXIST the very existence of someone enjoying someone’s content gives so much serotonin so stop being silent cowards and give us a smiley face from time to time

uh what else what else....hmm [golden rule is treat others the way you want to be treated, so if you’re a creator yourself, just give whatever you would want seen in the comments of your stuff! I mean that’s how I came up with all this...]

Point out the details! I mentioned earlier about quoting stuff from fics (that stuff is just 👌👌👌 so delicious) but I’m pretty sure (I’m not an artist myself don’t quote me) that the exact same effect is present when you talk about details in art or something. So talk about that pretty snowflake in the background! Or that piece of dialogue that made you laugh. Just a simple nod to the details is a big difference between saying “I like this” versus “I like this thing that you took the time to make the effort you put into the details did not go unnoticed”

just ALL the feedback please and thank you

this might vary from person to person, though personally I love when people are like “The way you write imagery is so good please do more!!” so just give a little nod to someone like “The way you draw this character is amazing please do more” or something like that

I wouldn’t go as far as to give criticism (although personally I’m the type of person that loves the occasionally critique for future reference, cause it means that you care as much as I do about the quality of my work) 

But along the same lines as the details thing, a nice nod to a creator about what they’re doing right is sooooo good! makes the butterflies flutter

                ~~~~~~Did that post give you emotions?~~~~~~

   G   O   O   D

 ~~FUCKING TELL US~~

THE ACT OF SOMEONE WRITING A SET OF LETTERS, OR SOMEONE SKETCHING A BLOB MADE ANOTHER DISTANT HUMAN BEING DEVELOP CHEMICALS IN THEIR BRAIN?? SURE WOULD LOVE TO KNOW THAT BECAUSE WOW THAT’S AMAZING!?!??

just go “I’m so happy” or “I’m so sad” just “TT__TT” just fucking “:OO” or just “I hate this” [HUMOURISTICALLY] and “I can’t believe you’ve done” just give it yes tell us the emotion that you have felt we love it

I don’t think enough people understand how amazing that is???? You were once in a normal, neutral state, and then a piece of content that I created just made you smile or laugh or cry like WHAT that’s amazing omg

Ok so that’s pretty much the simple stuff right, that’s your elementary classwork right there

Just give something, literally anything and just go “I love this so much!!!!!” bam done, you just murdered the op with your love, great job

So yeah, that’s that. Pretty simple stuff, no?

...but you wanna graduate to master class?

You wanna fucking go ape shit

you wanna just

g o    t o    town?

I said this was gonna be a simple guide so don’t worry, I’m not gonna tell you that you have to write a full length essay on every post that you come across

[BUT IF YOU WANT TO DON’T LET ME STOP YOU THAT WOULD ACTUALLY BE AMAZING?? HELL WRITING OUT A PARAGRAPH OF A COMMENT IS ALREADY JUST *CHEFS KISS* MASTERCLASS OF MURDERING THE OP WITH LOVE JUST ANALYZING THE SHIT OUT OF THE COLORS AND SHADING AND FRAMING OR JUST POINTING OUT THE THEMES AND SUBTEXT AND CHARACTERIZATION --part of the reason I love betaing stuff so much because I can analyze shit and shower it with premature love while also helping fics to be even better than they were originally ugh so cleansing for my literature heart-- SO YEAH GIVE CREATORS A PARAGRAPH, DARE I DREAM OF PARAGRAPHS, BECAUSE WOW YES PLEASE YES]

...ahem anyway

the way to graduate from good to great as a receiver of content is

to do all this

any of this

any of this simple stupid amazing shit

and just

put it in an ask or message

that’s literally it

Let me tell you why that’s so amazing, it pumps up the already amazing dopamine dosage of these actions alone, and multiplies it by a hundred, let me tell you why

Let’s say you read a drabble. You loved it, you reblogged it, you gave it hearts and emojis and ranted for a few tags about how it made you drop your muffin on the ground. Fantastic work, you just made the op pass out.

Then you go about your day and that’s the end of that.

BUT

if you do all that

and then put it in an ASK

dare you even a direct message?? (probably not most of us on here are cowards I get that)

but an ASK, anon or otherwise?

The message you just sent to the op was “I interacted with the post you made, and I loved it so much that I went the extra mile of going to your blog to make extra extra sure you understand how much I liked your thing”

There’s a wordless wall with every post! You like and reblog the thing and move on with your day. 

But the fact that YOU sent a HEART a SINGLE sentence about how you liked a thing? the fact that you BREACHED that wall and just fucking keyboard smashed in the inbox? the fact that you did that is the most amazing thing in the world

you just ambush the op with good vibes. we were expecting the bare minimum in the comments and tags, but the fact you when out of your way to make it a message or ask???? superb, outstanding, the sheer SHOCK of it will shift tectonic plates

you’re my fucking hero if you do this. you’re a godsend. I would kill for you,👏people👏would👏kill👏for👏you.

AT LEAST THEY WOULD KILL FOR YOU IF THIS ACTION DIDN’T ALREADY MURDER THEM

BE A MURDERER, NAY, A SERIAL KILLER. MURDER CONTENT CREATORS WITH LOVE

BE RECKLESSLY KIND AND LOVING YOU PIECE OF SHIT, ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE CRINGY TO STARVING AND DYING WRITERS AND ARTISTS WE WILL TAKE IT ALL GOD DAMMIT

YOU ARE A CHILD STARING UP AT AN AQUARIUM IN WONDER.

MAKE YOUR HAPPINESS STIR THE TIDES, LET YOUR PRESCENCE BE KNOWN PAST THE REFLECTION OF THE GLASS.

THE FISH ARE LOOKING FOR YOUR SMILE. 

[parkerlyn]

Oooooo I've got an RO question if you're up for one! A classic scenario, RO's and MC accidentally getting mistaken for a couple^^ Love the demo its refreshing and exciting, fantastic work! :D

I’m always up for these omg! ❤️Really you’re doing me a favor by helping me develop them even more! 

And thank you so much for the kind words!! Hoping to push out a restructure by tomorrow and hopefully a preview of Ch 2??

OoooooOOO hoo hoo classique 👀

The Healer: Instantly in spouse mode. Probably makes up a ridiculous story about how you met and a funny anecdote about introducing you to their family. None of it is true, but they sound extremely convincing. Makes up a pet name during the situation and teases you with it in the future.

The Sage: Very cordial about denying it in a complimentary way (“if I could be so lucky”), but you catch them lost in thought more often for some time after. When asked what they’re thinking of, they’re practically speechless, and try to avoid the topic and ask about you instead. When you respond, they’re all soft smiles and tender eyes.

Oisein: If they have previous feelings for the MC: Gets a little blushy and looks to you for a reaction, tries to laugh it off, but after the person mistaking you leaves is very “haha just kidding...unless..?” If they start as just friends: Milks it for all it’s worth. Convinces you to do a fake proposal to see how many people you both can trick and how much free stuff you can get. After you leave is very “....shit. Are these feeLINGS?”

The Magesmith: Absolutely flustered. Cannot compute. Immediately denies it. If teased about it, becomes a word for word replica of that ATLA “I said I’d rather kiss you than die thatwassupposedtobeacompliment” scene.

Thank you for the lovely ask!

[idontunderstandmetoo]

Riju POV2》

not be thinking with major morning brain, but could or would Riju be able to take down a Molduga with her fury lightning? If it is out of the ground, I think she would be able too,

OOOOOOOOO double teaming and taking down a Molduga (or two) for the one Gerudo who needs the guts for her sick husband,

since Riju is still a kid, I think taking her to see the Leviathan bones would be a fantastic idea, she would climb those like a jungle gym and just play, and be a kid, obviously Buliara wasnt a fan of the idea, and she said if Riju gets hurt, you are answering to her and only her, she may have threatened you too,

I have a feeling that introducing Riju to the Great Fairy in Gerudo Desert, would be a fantastic idea, I think they would talk and talk and talk until the morning, obviously you would be there too, smiling stupidly to yourself cause she is GLOWING at the sight of the Great Fairy,

you two would take turns wearing the Thunder Helm, pretending to shoot lightning from your finger tips, Riju would continuously say "that's not how you do it, you snap your fingers!",

taking Riju outside of the Desert would be such a sight, her rolling down the green grass filled hills, swimming, diving deep into the ponds and rivers, she freaks out when there is a chest at the bottom, she makes sure to tell you about every single one she finds,

teaching her how to ride a horse, properly, she would sneak a horse into the stable, name it a ridiculous name, and wait to hear about it later from you,

Riju is the Queen of Shield Surfing. Fight me, the present Champions have bets on who would win, Riju, Link, or you,

(all credit to the original artist. nothing is mine. nothing. one more time. nothing. is. mine.)

[popculturebuffet]

Top 10 Regular Show Episodes

Close Enough is Close! 2 more days and a show i’ve waited without hyperbole years for will finally land offically. While i’ve seen three episodes preelease, one because of a french film festival the other two because HBO made an oopsie, and it’s more than likely i’ll be seeing those episodes again thursday, it dosen’t make it any less special, as with an offical release comes the fandom finally becoming a thing and the ablility to watch the episodes over and over again.. on computer till HBO gets it’s shit together but still. IT’s a great time.  And my hype for the show made me revisit it’s big brother: Regular Show. Created by what would happen if you condesned california into a person, JG Quintel, Regular Show, as you all damn well know but I like doing anyway so as rigby would say, STOP TALKING, was about two slackers and best bros: Laidback hipster and hurricane when it came to talking to women, Mordecai and Rigby a high strung, idiotic, impulsive, and frequently angry racoon who worked, when they absolutley had to, at a park. Joining them at the park were their coworkers and later closest friends: Benson, their constnatly angry boss who constnatly belts out empty threats to fire them and has a rather sad personal life, Skips, a centuries old yeti whose literally seen it all and despenses advice for the duo and is voiced by everyone’s faviorite grandpa/jedi/murder clown Mark Hamill, Muscle Man, a grotesque blob of a man who likes  “My mom” jokes and breaking things, Hi Five Ghost, Muscle Man’s sidekick who got like.. one episode focusing on him alone over 8 seasons moving on, and Pops, an odd but unfailingly sweet and kind vicotrian era gentleman whose also basically immortal and is Bensons’ boss in name only.  The Park Crew spend their days working, or in our main duo’s case trying to get out of work to do anything else,  while dealing with every day issues that would quickly ballon into insanity. Getting pops a birthday present of Fuzzy Dice from a local pizza place ended up with the crew having to fight a bunch of anamatonic animals that were stashing diamonds in there. Trying to get concert tickets involved getting caffine from the nipples of a giant sentient coffee bean in order to stay awake long enough to do the extra work. And Mordecai trying to delete an embrarassing message off his crush Margret’s voice mail lead to him and rigby getting hauled in front of a bunch of a message guardians, one of which is a sentient smoke signal that wanted to burn them while the other replied with “we’ree not going to burn them when have we ever burned anybody”... I love and miss those guys. Oh and it’s resolved by having to playt he embarassing song he sang while said message beings groove to it then ask him to colaberate with them on their album. THis show was on all the drugs and I am all the hear for it. I could go all day obviously but this section is long enough as is, let’s move on. 

Regular Show came at JUST the right time for Cartoon Netowork: Similar to how the 80s doom patrol comic started off really bland and cookie cutter and not at all doom patrol and then grant morrison came in, had hte previous writer kill almost everything, then rebuilt it from scratch with crazy, CN had few shows left and was coming off a really terrible attempt at competeing with NIck and Disney Channel’s live action dommance with a bunch of dude broy reality shows and other ill conceved ideas. The network had a few shows, Total Drama, The Clone Wars which got better and I need to watch those better seasons at some point, but they weren’t enough to make the network thrive again.  SO enter adventure time and regular show: BOth were creative, funny , a bit rough around the ages, and kind of nuts, but both were massive hits: The shows hit almost every demographics sweet spots: Kids like the bright colors, fun designs, and insanity, teens loved the edgy bits of the humor and also the insanity and 20 somethings and older both found refrences they got and loved, and well.. insanity. I mean being fucking nuts but also wonderful is kind of the watchword for most animation nowadays. While in the past in my own head i’ve played down Regular Show’s part in things, after all it came second and had a rough patch I told myself.. but I was wrong. Both shows had a lot of the same elements; insane stuff, great voice acting and good humor especially as they evolved.. but both also evolved in largely the same way and that way helped change animation for the next decade: Both, despite being comeidies, regular show keeping to it a bit more than adventure time did as they evolved, had the characters grow, something a lot of animated comedies didn’t do as much ast the time, even the good ones. THey had season long arcs, things that are now standard features in most cartoons for good reason were MADE standard by these shows. It’s just regular show’s legacy got diluted by shows that TRIED to copy it but both failed to see that it grew past season one or that it’s being okay for kids but really based in adult life and problems meant copycats like fanboy and chum chum, sanjay and craig and breadwinners, all thankfully long dead, eventually sputtered out and died. That and Nick is REALLY shitty at maintaing shows or treating creators with anything resembling respect. Somehow Teen Titans Go is still alive despite having similar failings but you can’t win everything. It didn’t help gravity falls came along right after and proceded to be even more influentail than both of these shows. Hmmm I just realized I haven’t done any gravity falls reviews here.. I gotta get on that. But while the show got eclipsed in quality and popularity I do still think it holds up for the most part as funny, charming and with , for the most part, good character arcs, it’s just that a bit of incosntientcy, some abrubtly done actions and a REALLY fucking terrible arc in season 6 dull the show a bit in comparison to what came after, but I do realize now it’s still worht watching, remembering and laughing at. It may of not been the greatest, but damn it was good.  So with my nostaliga for the show popping up, my faith in it restored, and it’s sucessor showing up in a few days, I decided to do a little something for the ocassion. I WAS going to do a full on review, but had troulbe finding an episode as some of my faviorites are part of a larger arc that was hurt by a later arc, and the show ping ponged between slice of life and utter insanity enought hat it was hard to peg down to jus tone or two episodes. So while I WILL review the show eventually, it has both good and bad episodes needing it, I decided instead to dig out something I hadn’t done in far too long: a top whatver lists! Now while I do get these things are clickbaity, because they are, I.. honestly just love making them. Even if i’ts not for any specific purpose I just love ranking, the stress, even if I normally hate stress given my anxiety, of trying to narrow them down, and the satisfaction of taking a ton of episodes and melting htem down into the best of them. And with a show as long and varied as regular show, If igured this was the best way to show it off before I dived into it eventually. I’ll obviously be doing more top, and bottom lists in the future, but for now this seemd like a godo place to get back to it. As  Now a few more things before we finally get started. Yes I know i’ve gone on for a few years now but i’m almost done. This list is obviously, my opinon. If you disagree fine, and feel free to comment or shoot me an ask about it but I stand by my list and what I choose. I had to boil down over 60 episodes I picked to possibly  be on the list and even after it was down to 40 cuts were really difficult, .. Also just as a quick note there are no episodes from seasons 1, 6, 7 and 8, and that’s not on purpose, as the last two seasons are really good, it just fell out that way and i’m sorry about it. So with that out of the way grabs some sodas and wings, get out your maxi gloves, and bring out your best sentient earworms wearing sunglassses, after the cut I count down the top 10 Regular Show episodes. OOOOOOOOO!

10. I Like You, Hi (Season 5, Episode 26) As you’ll be able to tell by the rest of this list Season 5 is my faviorite, and it’s where I feel the series hit it’s peak before next season lead to it’s valley. It’s got a ton of great episodes, as this list will attest, some great character development, and was still really damn funny.  But what put it over the top for me was the Mordecai and CJ arc. At the end of the last season as you probably know the show wrote out Margret, having her finally get into college like she’d wanted since she got an actual character back in “Camping Be Cool” instead of just being “that hot girl mordecai really likes but is too scared to persue”, and another fantastic episode we’ll be getting to, Mordecai was in position to move on.  Re-Enter CJ. CJ was introduced earlier in the season 3 ep “Yes Dude Yes” which itself is really good, where Mordecai thought margret was engaged and with Rigby’s encouragment, ended up meeting CJ, stands for Cloudy Jay if your curious, a sentient cloud voiced by the wonderful LInda Cardenelli, aka wendy from gravity falls and currently co star of the equally wonderful show Dead to Me. Seriously go check it out on netflix, it’s really good. It naturally went pearshaped since Margret wasn’t engaged, he tried going out with both, she turned into a thunderstorm out of rage... as you do.. it’s like the season 6 plot but less infurating and more understandable.  But the two remeet, and had a kiss on new years while not knowing it’s the other person under am ask.. and then CJ ran and both thought the other was upset: MOrdecai for him being MOrdecai, and CJ for running out on him and agreed to be friends. That didn’t last, though it did give us another classic on this list, as while exes can be friends and all, the two still had something between them. Thus came this one. And it was a hard one as it barely inched out the finale of their relationship arc, Real Date, which had the ceo of a dating company try to break them up and be really damny funny but it’s ulitmatley this one being just as hilarious while being a great character piece that gets it the rub.  As the episode opens Mordecai and CJ have been spending a LOT of time together and i’ts clear there’s a spark there.. but Mordecai insists it’s platonic. And yes there is a bad habit of animation being unable to accept females and males who are into the oppistie sex can’t be friends without being attracted to each other. It’s being cleared up more lately, but as Star Vs showed it still happens sometimes. But it works here: The two STARTED with dating, made out on new years, and are attracted to each other it’s just clear both were in denial about it. It’s not saying “well they have chemstiry so fuck their partners’ like star vs or “if you loved someone once those feelings will return and destroy yoru current relationship” like next season.... season 6′s arc is a tirefire burn it.  But the issue is forced when, while texting about an extreme baking show together while CJ’s at her job at a sports bar, it autocrrects from Yuji, the show’s host, to you hi, sending the title message “I like you, hi”. Mordecai, being even less adept with his feelings and anxiety towards women than me and trust me that’s saying something, spirals and we do get the episodes best scene, narrowly beating out it’s climax, where Mordecai summons a war council.. aka the rest of the main cast minus benson but plus Thomas, the intern who I wish stuck around longer even after he turned out to be a russian spy because they ran out of ideas for him, voiced by Roger Craig Smith and distractingly using his future sonic voice. 

I just.. love everything about the scnee. From the term pulling a mordecai, to Rigby joining in, deservedly as he’s had front row seats for a lot of this bollocks, to everyone’s suggestions especially Muscle Man’s half assed one that somehow, but unsuprisngly, works for him and Starla.  Naturally Mordecai comes up with what Rigby HIMSELF admits is a Rigby level half assed scheme to get an actual photo with Yuji rather than just admit the truth. Yuji himself is an utter delight, having had his star not rise as fast as he’d like thanks to autocorrect and being entirely on board, and when it backfires as MOrdecai ends up autocorrected and sends the message thrice and gets sucked into the phone again, admits i’ts “pretty extreme’. I love the guy and i’m prety sure he showed up again, to my delight. 

In the phone Mordecai meets some old friends, the message guardians who I mentioned in the “insane shit this show has done” bit earlier: old forms of messaging who police texting, all voiced by Rich Fulcher of the Mighty Boosh and Snuffbox Fame. 

I love Rich and wish these guys could show up in close enough. Maybe they can, I don’t know how rights issues with turner properties work when it comes to two diffrent audiences entirely. Anyways what really makes the episode, besides the great callbacks in this scene, is when confronted with everything going on, Mordecai.. tries to run into the void, with Rigby, The Message Recorder and the Smoke Signal all encouraging him to come back. “There’s nothing out there for you, literally it’s just a blank void”. With the leading tape recorder pointing out from their text history not only how great CJ is but how much he seems to like her with Mordecai finally coming back and admitting the obvious: He does like her.. he’s just scared of beefing it again. Which he does but that’s not the point. Rigby, who as part of his character development helps Mordecai quite a bit with this stuff by being a neutral party, though he also likes CJ better than Margret which is a mood even though I don’t care which one you ship mordecai with frankly, you do you, I have my prefrences. And with that Mordecai finally texts her and asks her out, with her accepting via winky face.. with an added text to clarify it for his neuotic ass.. which is also a mood as my neuortic ass could use that a lot. Overall just a wonderful , hilarious and good bit of character growth.. that season 6 throws in the oven, but that’s a long rant for another day. On it’s own, “I LIke you, hi” is a good character piece for mordecai whlie still being really damn funny. 

9. Thanksgiving Special (Season 5, Episode 15)

Regular Show was really damn great at holliday specials. Their terror tales from the park every halloween were always a nice treat and a good replacement for Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror” which still exists, it’s just no one cares at this point, and their christmas and new years episodes are both really damn good, the first Christmas Episode being in contention for this list even. But to me the best of the best was easily Season 5′s  thanksgiving episode. 

The premise is simple: Mordecai and Rigby accidnetly destroy thanksgiving dinner, which the park crew is having for everyone and their famllies and, refusing to take Benson trying to dismiss their attempts to help fix their mistake, end up joining a songwriting contest to try and win a Turducken.. a natural one that’s born every 1000 Years because this is regular show. To do this they have to beat a parody of everyone’s least faviorite president Donald Trump, Rich Buckner.  The fact that trump was basically the main villian of a holliday special a year before he became president is not lost on me and  is one of the most accurate depections of the man i’ve ever seen. The fact Rich steals the prize despite our boys winning from his blimp with a grappling hook is peak trump. The fact Trump has’nt stolen more things with a grappling hook in real life is only because his hands are too small to use one. 

Getting past our president for my own sanity, the episode also has really great subplots: Muscle Man and Fives go to  a sports bar to get sides and end up pissing off a former football player and getting into a touchdown dance comppetition, sadly not set to the super bowl shuffle, while Benson, Pops and Skips go to get a turkey and end up fighting over it with men dressed up like a piligrim, a first thanksgiving era native american and a turkey, to which they don’t even really give an explination for.. granted most explinatoins on this show are insane but even by regular show standards, this gets none. And I love it for it.  While as you can tell the episode is really damn funny, what really sells it is the emotional core: For once while they do fear for their jobs a bit Mordecai and Rigby’s main motivation in this messup is genuine guilt and wanting to fix their mistake, and they work hard at it, even giving a genuine and awesome heartfelt song that notches itself up with other thanksgiving classics “That thankstiginv themed soul sketch on snl” and adam sandler’s turkey song also from snl. Not a high bar but it’s really good regardless

The episodes’ real strength though is it’s emotional core: For once instead of saving their own asses or understadnably wanting to get one over on the cranky and in the worse written episodes obnoxiously overbearing benson, they simply feel terrible about possibly runing the meal for their arriving parents and everyone elses parents and families and their friends and work to right the wrong. It’s not the first time they worked to do something genuinely good with no benefit to themselves, but it’s probably the best and Benson’s I forgive you, while hilarious is also really sweet. And speaking of sweet

It ends on a really sweet and touching note, as Mordecai and Rigby, after escaping a blimp via a wish on a golden wishbone because of course, make it home to find the various weirdos the park crew met have brought them thanksgiving, and their parents will be there and we get a nice touching ending as the main duo get a well earned toast from Benson. Just an out and out amazing thanksgiving special and a good reminder of what the holiday means.

8. Trucker Hall of Fame (Season 3, Episode 37)

Moving on from Season 5 for a second, Season 3 was where the show really started to hit it’s stride to me. While Season 2 was a nice increase in quality from the sometimes choppy and heavy on “everyone is an asshole” comedy season 1, Season 3 was where the increased focus on the rest of the cast outside of our main duo balloned and what seeds of character were planted in season 2 beautifully bloomed. And this episode is one of the best examples of that.  This one focuses on Muscle Man, who earlier on was basically the main duo’s rival alongside his buddy high five ghost, and kind of a dick. While “Kind of a dick” never left any discription of Mitch Sorenstein, this and previous episode muscle woman showed there was more to the goblin man than we thought. It’s also one of regular show’s few early mostly serious episodes and unlike the benson ones, again this list was tough don’t come at me with a machete, and realy showed why muscle man is the human tire fire he is. The episode introduces, and quickly kills off, muscle dad, mitch’s dad who gave him a love of pranks and was a truck driver who died as he live: mistaking a fake bear for a real one during a prank. Muscle Man being not the most stable person on a GOOD day, spirals, as seen above, and Benson tasks mordecai and rigby, since Fives isn’t good with death ironically and isn’t holding up much better, and as a much later episode shows the two became besties in high school so he probably knew muscle dad for a good ten years so he’s probably not in a great place either, nice stuff, to go with him to put his dad’s ashes in the trucker hall of fame.  What follows is a sweet and damn sad episode. While Mitch’s frequent breakkdowns can be hilarous their also really sad and having lost my grandpa since this episode aired, I can relate to being fine one minute and a total shrieking wreck the next over the smallest thing. But it also shows that Mitch genuinely thinks of our main duo as his friends, and that beneath his testorrone positned exterior he’s a decent guy, being genuinely greatful. Of course being regular show the 3 end up squaring off with some truckers, while Mitch also grappels with the revelation his dad wasn’t one but a forklift opperator who faked being a trucker for his son’s benifit and dleft a tender note in his picture, figuring correctly his son would break it open when he found out... oh and because this show is still nuts his ghost ends up saving them at the end which is really sweet , as mitch decides trucker or no his ashes deserve to be there. Also his ghost shows up again at thanksgiving so apparently he can just come back once in a while, which is nice but dosen’t demnish the bittersweet feeling of this ep. And as I said the show has a good grasp on continuity as this ep marked a turning point for our main duo and muscle man: while the’yve bonded before after this, aside from mitch’s habit of christmas pranks and his faking his death, they really don’t nearly get as annoyed by him ever again. i’ts a sweet touching ride tha’ts uncharacristic of the show’s usual chaos but really works. 

7. A Bunch of Full Grown Geese (Season 4, Episode 19) After a few episodes that were more sentimental on this list, it’s good to get back to some good old regular show madness for this one, which was also the series 100th in production order and is a worthy milestone episode. Season 4 was really good building on the good will from Season 3 and FINALLY having payoff to the margret and mordecai thing, more on that in a bit. Not as much to say as seasons 3 or 5, but it was still spectacular.  The sequel to another ep, fittingly given it’s #100, full grown geese has our duo tasked with removing a bunch of obnoxious geese, with Benson in dick mode refusing to give the two more help, though it does lead to one of the show’s best scenes when he gives his usual your fried threat.. and fitting a milestone episode, Rigby calls him on never going through with it and the threat being as empty as my dreams. Benson responds by going nuts and angrishing them out of his office.. really funny. But yeah with the geese attacking them and , in their first attacking, poor pops, and no way to combat them, the two turn to the baby ducks, a bunch of baby ducks from the episode titled that who show up to help.. and this being the 100th episode of an already grant morrison level nuts show, it turns out the geese seek to conquer earth, voiced by david warner of course and have laser eyes.. and can combine. And the ducks do so again, mecha style, and add in our heroes and a bunch of call backs in one of the series best and most batshit sequences> The ending is also throughly satisfying as while our heroes win, Benson chews them out for tearing up the park in the process.. only for the ducks mom to call him out for not only yelling at the ducks, who are just kids, but at mordecai and rigby after they just saved the park from being a smoldering crater and not just trashed and he backs off. Just a fun episode where the crew just went nuts and the results speak for themselves. 

6. This is My Jam (Season 2, Episode 13)

Now this one I couldn’t NOT include. This is one of the series best even after it’s immense growth, and a beloved classic for a reason. And like the above it’s a good classic case of regular show hyjinks while also being relatable this time: Rigby gets a brainless but catchy pop song from the 90′s stuck in his head and despite growing to hate it, and Mordecai hating it because this episode establishes him as a hipster, and seemingly exercises it.. only for it to manifest as a GIANT CASETTE WEARING SUNGLASSES THAT PLAYS THE SONG JUST BY EXISTING AND DANCES CONSTANTLY. it’s utterly glorious and used to great effect, also annoying benson because he’s constnatly annoyed. To beat it the main duo get the rest of the park’s help at Skips suggestion to form a band and craft an even BIGGER earworm to cast it out. Oh and there’s a great scene where Pops is forced to awkwardly dance with the incarnation of the 90′s “But I won’t use my best moves”.  The climax also has one of Benson’s best moments as, after he’s irritated all episode, he comes in hot, with both the cast and audience expecting him to chew out mordecai and rigby.. only he’s mad because they forgot drums are key to an earworm and saves the day with his drumwork. It’s a great subversion and one of the first times Benson was more than just the angry but understandable, at times, dickhead boss. Just an utter standout and one of the show’s most memorable episodes for a reason. Also the line “you can’t touch music but music can touch you’ is great. 

5. Meteor Moves ( Season 4, Episode 28)

This one was a long time coming and to me is a great example of writers taking their own shortcomings and making something awesome out of them. I prefer that: instead of just retconning away bad writing use it as a tool.. I try to do that myself when possible. See early in the show as you all probably know, Mordecai’s crush on Margret was just a plot device: he had a crush on the cute waitress at the coffee shop so they used it to get him to do things. A gratioutis shot of her in bike shorts got him to bet all computer rights for life that sort of thing. The show.. wasn’t great with female characters till season 3 and even as it grew, as season 6 and just.. forgetting to give CJ a proper ending as a character shows, still grappled with it. It took writer Kat Morris saying “no no stop go to jail” to them wanting ot make CJ a difficult woman type, whatever horrifying thing that is. I don’t want to know, let’s move on. The point is it wasn’t till season 3 that Margret and her best friends, and Rigby’s future wife, Eileen got fleshed out a bit: Eileen got smarter and turned out to be good at wilderness stuff while Margret was chill, nice, if annoyed by the chaos around mordecai, and funloving, while also having a clear goal in stark contrast to her future boyfriend: going to college. Even after coming back it was botha fter finsihing college and to start a career. It wasn’t incredibly deep, but it made me not be ehhh to her mere existance like before. The show also started developing her and Mordecai’s relationship seriously with the two bonding and the previously shown Butt Dial showing for the first time, after previously having a terrible taste in men and then just not noticing his crush, that she was receptive to how mordecai felt. And the two had several moments and two dates even, it just.. never went anywhere for some reason.

And this was INFURATING to me: See back then shows had a tendency to just pop in love intrests SOLEY for plot fuel like margret with no intention of following through with things either through rejection or a relationsihp upgrade and by then I was sick of it. The whole spike and rarity thing in MLP (which to be clear I wanted her to just reject him but nope, even after I stopped watching she never did. ), Isabella and Phineas. I was fed up so I went from being “eh” about it to annoyed supremely.. but the thing is the writers realized this.. and course corrected. The first step was picking up Margret, where Mordecai agrees to pick her up to get her to the airport for a college interview and we get a nice deconstruction of things as Margret is anticpatiing things going wrong, and wrongly blames Mordecai for it.. I mean it is his fault sometimes but half the time weird shit just follows him. However she’s won over by him working past it, getting her there in time and kisses him.  That blew me away and made me think well it’s finally here.. and it was.. ALMOST. However the creators wisely, if frustratingly to past me, took one more episode to iron it out: Metor Moves has the two growing closer, and semi-going out, but Rigby pops mordecai’s bubble pointing out he never actually made a boyfriend girlfriend move and her move could’ve gone either way. So Mordecai , after seasons of being wishy washy and awkward, finally decides to go for it as he, rigby, eileen and margret go to a metor shower.  Being Regular Show it dosen’t go as planned as his attempted kiss is blocked by the guardians of the friend zone.. which is a real, phantom zone esque place here and that’s just fantastic. And it’s also clearly mocking the hell out of the concept, which is dumb. if you want to ask someone out just do it, I learned that the hard way. And if you really are friends, if she says no then you’ll accept it and keep a friend anyway as I have. But it’s clearly parodying it and Mordecai get sreplayed all the times he ALMOST made a move but didn’t but refuses to accept this clusterfuck, realizes he was a screwup when it came to this.. and kisses her.. and this time the two enter a relationship> Granted it barely lasted but still, it was nice while it did and this ep is just great for it. While not the funniest, it’s up this high because it took somethign the show did wrong.. and turned it on it’s head and into a character flaw and had mordecai grow past it, with a genuinely romantic moment on top as well as an utterly funny and batshit concept. It also had some Rigleen, as by this point rigby stopped being a hateful wastebasket to her and warmed up to her, and I regret there’s no reigleen episodes on this list. Their the shows best couple and utterly adorable. Just wanted to mention that at least once this list. 

4. Laundry Woes (Season 5, Episode 1) From the begining to the end. While sadly Morderet didn’t last too long in canon, which blows, it did give us some great episodes while it lasted, as with the above entry and their breakup in Steak Me Amedeus. As mentioned before Margret left for college, which while abrupt feeling did pave the way for great stories: The Mordejay arc mentioned above and that will pop up again very soon, This was one of them: the ep while lacking on laughs is a good emotional rollercoaster and starts with an amazing montage that catches us up from the end of season 4: Mordecai is miserable, as you’d expect and wallowing in it with Benson, of all people, letting him. And given Benson seems to have a heart attack any time Mordecai and Rigby aren’t working, that’s huge. But eventually his friends refuse to let it go on and in a really touching montage help him through it, taking him out places, giving him good times and eventually.. the fog starts to lift and he starts to enjoy himself and by the end.. he’s himself again. It’s one of the series best sequences, told with no dialouge and showing just how far the rest of the cast had come: Benson actually wants to comfort mordecai but is encouraged not to at first, underfstandably as it probably woudlnt’ help, and a crew that were once, aside from Pops who much like Krillin is everyone’s friend, just coworkers who barely tolerated each other, and are now close as family and help their own in need.  But Grief isn’t a straight line and just as Mordecai’s recovering he’s sent spiraling when he finds Margret’s sweater and uses ita s a flimsy excuse to go return it. It’s here I also get to talk about Rigby, who grew from an impatient idiot who hated Mordecai’s romantic endevors and actively sabtoaged them at times, to an understandting wing man who, while understandably frustrated with his best friend’s own idiocy with women, turned out to know more and be the wise council he needed, triggering both is relationships and only bailing out during the season 6 clusterfuck and even then was there to comfort him after it was all over and go to his aid to pull him out of another misery hole. And here he gives Mordecai the hard truth: He shoudln’t do this, it’s just going to tear both him and margret up again and he just put himself back together. He’s not going to let his best friend do this to himself. And while there is a supernatural elment, the sweater comes to life and tries to get Mordecai to force margret back with him and give up college, likely voicing his darkest wants that he hates himself for wanting, but it feels more like a manfiestation of Mordecai’s own issues than the usual madness. Like “Trucker hall of Fame”, a rare senntence, it’s a less funny packed more grounded episode. And in the end it’s mordecai himself, after rejecting the ghost sweater and seeing his ex truly happy , that gets him to NOT talk to her and just.. let it go. IT’s a good emotional episode and SHOULD HAVE BEEN the end of their relationship... but i’ve ranted about the cheating storyarc enough here, moving right along. 

3. Portable Toilet (Season 5, Episode 16) Back to the Mordejay arc. And yes this arc is my faviorite and while I didn’t make it clear at the time I really shipped the two, even before it became canon. I had nothing against morderet, these two simply had more chemistry and these episodes built CJ up as more of a character than Margret was at the time. It’s why that later arc sucks so much to me: it destroys a perfectly good relationship and story arc for dumb reasons and never really did enough with it to justify doing so. I’ll get to it some day, or if someone comissions it soone rthan some day, but as you can tell i’m still sore over it and great eps like this are part of the reason why. It’s the same reason i’m sore on how Tom was handled on star vs. But as you can also tell as bitter and lemon scented as I am.. these eps are still objectivley great and thus took up a third of the list basically.  Case in point Portable Toilet, which zooms back a bit to when neither would admit they were into each other but were now friends at least. Also Eileen was CJ”s friend now because plot convience. I mean they worked, and it bothers me a lot that the creators claim cj washed her hands of her even though she’s not the one who made out with margret... which come to think of it adding her to rigleen.. not a bad idea. I mean Rigby didn’t really like margret true, but they did almost go out before mordecai killed him and then reset time because Mordecai’s always kinda sucked. I’ll file that away for later. But my new OTP aside, I did like the two bonding and what not.  Anyways with their outside park friend/RIgby’s future girlfriend now friends with Mordeai’s future girlfriend the four have apparently been hanging out which, while i’ve bemoaned off screen stuff at times, works here and regular show uses it better than most shows. While Rigby can clearly see Mordecai and CJ are into each other Mordecai is as we covered in denial and while that dosen’t really progress here, it does lead to one of teh shows finest hours. When talking would you rathers, CJ semi-flirtly dares Mordecai to eat his lunch sandwitch in a portable toilet, which he agrees to and drags a reluctant rigby along for. This being regular show, it goes south fast as the two get stuck, with Rigby’s clautrophiba kicking in leading to an amazing exchange Mordecai; Dude that makes no sense! Rigby: You’s makes no sense! While our dynamic duo try to get mordecai and rigby out the two are carted away and repalced with a new portable toilet, a deluxe one. Also we get another great bit when our dynamic duo find Muscle man, in a robe with choclate’s claming “Eileen, other girl, this isn’t weird” before screaming “This isn’t weird”. Turns out old portable toilets are taken to be blown up by the miltary and we get one of the shows best one off characters in the general, who not only explains it as “toilets being about the same size as the enmy” but when told he should call the president says “the preseident is not my father i’ll blow up as many toilets as I want.”. Spectacular. So now it’s a scramble for one twosome to rescue the other, Rigby lets out a cathartic “THANK YOUUU MORDECAI” over the flirty toilet dare, and the day is saved> This one is another pure comedy one, even if it ties into a plot I really like, and i’ts gold for obvious reasons and manages to take blowing up porta poties, a premise that dosen’t seem that funny, and make it utter comedic gold. Speaking of pure comic episodes that are utterly insane...

2. Cool Bikes (Season 3, Episode 7)

This one feels like regular show boiled down to it’s core: semi-relabtale hyjinks dovetalling into pure madness. And the premise sounds like a shit post i’d make: Mordecai and Rigby want benson to admit their cool and get into progressively weird outfits and tricks to their bycycles to do so, eventually becoming so cool their put on trial by the council of cool , ending up having to make a runner when Benson finally breaks down and admits it.  The premise is utterly stupid in the best way possible, with the conflict being the kind of petty bullshit we all get into from time to time with our aquantinces: not wanting to admit something and loose the argument withthings escalating. And in regular show terms it escalate sperfectly into the entire unvierse being threatned adn our heros being on trial for their lives. There’s not much to say here, it’s just pure comedic gold with a premise that just works. It also has good moments for Benson with his finally admitting they are cool and saving the duo’s lives whne he realized he just gave them a death sentence. Utter fun. And now we come to the finale, my faviorite episode...

1. Dodge This (Season 5, Episode 15) 

Yup this arc again. But this one has more than my ship going for it, and it’s why it soared to the top: It takes the excellent character work of other episodes and weaves it with excellent comedy to create an utter delight and the episode I remember most fondly and most often. It’s just great. The second part of the Mordeijay arc, not counting yes dude yes, the episode is half that and half sports movie: The Park Guys have been taking part in dodgeball as a team bulding thing and it shows how far Benson’s come as he not only praises mordecai, and launches the mordecai and benson ship in the process, but gives his team full wings and his full support, a far cry from his usual self. It’s also the first big instance of him getting hammered on wings and it’s glorious to see drunk flirty benson.  Benson is also genuinely congratulatory to the team’s ace mordecai, and most of them realy for b eing valuable and hopes to win this year.  IN their way are two things: The magical elements, aka the floating baby heads that gave skips his immortality, his friend with sparkly eyes who works for them and death himself whose a recurring character and fucking great and who were their bowling rivals too. The other is CJ is back, and Benson in another good moment actually talks mordecai through it and his nerves over it assuring him. So we get a great sports piece as our heroes work through various callbacks and even beat the magical elements iwth Rigby’s hilarious and rediculous rignado manuver, which is as dumb as it sounds and winged a guy hilaroiusly before with Benson scolding him like a toddler.  Of course it ends up with Mordecai and CJ against each other, both incredibly awkard over things as mentioned before, and both ending up in a stalmate that magical dodgeball guardians have to resolve because, let’s do this one last time. IT’S REGULAR SHOW. We do get a good moment though as the two work through their awkwardness: both thinking the other is rightfully mad: Mordecai for his two timer date with her and Margret and CJ for running out without talking to mordecai after they had a moment on new years. The both work past it, the park strikers loose,benson likely gets hammered again off screen.. it’s a good one and I have no shame in putting it at number one. It’s got heart, really great jokes, and some good charcter stuff, not to the level of other episodes on this list, but it wasn’t a full episode of that like those were and still works to move the plot forward and is still a classic. Just a fun, breezy, well done epsidoe fully rooted in the cast’s characters and getting laughs out of that.. mostly benson.  And with that this giangantic list comes to a close> I hope you enjoyed it, if you liked it follow me for more. I’ll be doing close enough coverage every week, as well as amphibia and owl house among other reviews. Until we meet again, later days. 

[kae-karo]

hi so i saw this post (x) and

giran: hey kiddos we got a box of these heelys by mistake i'll give em to ya for ten bucks each

shiggy: WE'LL TAKE IT

compress: do we even have that kind of money?

shiggy: shut up magic-man, the kind gentleman is making us a very generous offer.

shiggy: which we WILL be accepting

dabi, chillin on a bean bag in the corner: do u even know what heelys are

shiggy: shut up you second-rate endeavor

dabi: fine see if i fuck u any time this week

shiggy, turning back to giran: use AFO's credit card it should still be valid

giran: sure, whatever, have fun

toga, coming out from somewhere: ooooooooooo shiggy, whatcha got?

shiggy: *very proud of himself* we have heelys

twice, also coming out from somewhere: WE HAVE HEELYS???

dabi, cackling in the corner: a whole box

toga: ooooooooo i always wanted those!!!

shiggy, convinced this was a fantastic idea if the real villain wanted them: indeed, it was a strategic purchase from giran. i did some excellent negotiating to acquire them

dabi, losing his fucking mind in the corner: expert negotiating yep

compress: *staying totally silent as he opens the box*

toga: oooo do they have a size seven????

twice: and an eleven!!!!

shiggy: i'll take the largest, since i'm the leader

dabi: *making weirdass noises cause he's laughing so hard it hurts*

spinner: oooo what we got?

toga and twice, simultaneously: HEELYS

spinner, losing his fucking mind: we have heelys oh my god that's so fucking cool shiggy did u get these for us???

shiggy, starting to get a little suspicious that he hasn't just purchased a very useful weapon: i did...

spinner: AWESOME, you're the best leader ever!!!!! hey hey compress do we have a size nine?

compress: uhhh yep, and we've got a men's six, will that work for u toga?

toga: I HAVE BIG FLUFFY SOCKS *disappears to get said socks*

compress: twice, here's yours, and spinner

shiggy, watching with increased horror as he realizes he just bought some shoes: they're,,,,,,,,,shoes

twice: *already lacing his heelys up* yea what'd u think?

toga: *slides into the lounge or w.e with her fluffy socks* twicey can you help me with my shoesies?

shiggy: what have i done

spinner: oh my god they're all the same style, we can be matching! it'll be like a cool team uniform

dabi: *cackling in the corner*

compress: dabi, did you want a pair?

dabi, glancing at shiggy, who looks some mix of horrified and pissed off: hell yeah give me an eleven as well

twice: WATCH ME BOSS! *runs through the lounge and then starts heelying*

toga: oooooo yay i wanna try!!! *does it but not very gracefully, twice catches her when she stumbles* aw, that's hard!

spinner: watch and learn, noobs *proceeds to fail even harder than toga*

toga, pouting: it's really hard isn't it????? hey hey dabi wabi are you any good at it???

dabi, quirking a brow at a now-fuming shiggy: i suppose we'll just have to find out, won't we? *executes a flawless glide with the level of coolness that spinner could only aspire to*

toga: ooooo that was so good!!! *little claps*

twice: hey teach me how to do that, you looked like such a badass! he looked stupid as does everyone here including you you idiot

spinner: hey boss, you gonna get in on this heely action?

shiggy, one second away from disintegrating the entire box: we are sending them back and putting our money toward something more.......useful

dabi, heelying across the lounge: what a shame, i'm sure hawks would love to try them out

shiggy, suddenly interested: he.....would?

dabi, totally bullshitting: oh yeah, yep, he's a big fan of these kinds of trends

spinner: yeah he seems like he's pretty funky fresh with the trends *attempts another glide, falls flat on his face*

dabi: besides, it'd be rude of us not to treat him as an equal, if he's to be joining the league

toga: yeah!!!! hawksy should come heely with us!!!!

shiggy: he thinks they're cool?

dabi, still heelying flawlessly across the lounge: absolutely. he'd probably think the league was even cooler if he saw us all heelying

shiggy: all of us?

dabi: oh yeah, all of us. in fact, i think he'd expect it *heelys over to shiggy, leaning to whisper in his ear* i mean, he'd hardly respect you as a leader if you weren't participating, would he?

shiggy: compress. get me a size ten.

-----ten minutes later--------

shiggy: this shouldn't be this hard they're just shoes

twice and toga, heely-dancing: it's so fun boss, thanks for the gift!

shiggy: not a gift!!! we can...use this....somehow....... *scoots himself forward a few inches on the heels before stumbling and nearly falling over*

dabi: so i told hawks to come over

shiggy: take it back right fucking now

dabi: oof sorry boss no can do, he said he's already on the way

shiggy: *scoots with more determination*

spinner: hey dabi can you teach me how to do it all cool like you do?

dabi, quirking a brow at spinner: .................no. *heelys off toward the door to wait for hawks*

shiggy: dabi i refuse to allow you to open that door for-

hawks, bursting down the door, lowkey out of breath from flying so fast: i was told there'd be heelys

[pawprinterfanfic]

You seem to have such amazing relationships with some people on here. I would love some new blogs to follow, recommendations?

YES OH YES THIS IS A GREAT ASK. I love any chance I get to brag about my amazingly talented and kind friends.

@eyessharpweaponshot — Jen is the first person that comes to mind because I love her dearly 🥺 She’s so kind and warm and sweet, so PLEASE do yourself a favour and follow her. It doesn’t hurt that she’s a bomb ass writer and is basically my inspiration but whatevvvvv.

@catastrophic-chloe — Chloe is 10/10 100% an amazing person to follow. Like Jen, she’s super sweet and is always there to listen to me ramble (and scream) about fandoms (including fandoms she isn’t apart of). I may or may not have dragged her into approximately 3 different fandoms at this point, but that’s neither here nor there.

@probably-voldemort — Kee is HILARIOUS oh my goodness and is a blast to talk to. There’s never a dull moment with her (unless you drop off the face of the earth, like I do, SORRY KEE). Her writing is 10/10. If I need something to make me smile, her fics are the first ones I’m reaching for. Or I scroll through her blog because her posts make me leave with aching sides from laughing so hard.

@raven-reyes-of-sunshine — ooooooooo I miss her sm 🥺 I also love her to pieces and love our conversations. She’s so fun and open and KIND. (What’s with this fandom and kind people by the way?). I love her openess and ability not to judge people on ships.

@thelittlefanpire — Sara !!! IS !!! A !!!! GEM!!!!!! She is honestly a gift to the fandom AND TO ME. she’s so willing to help whenever I have a ~writing problem~ and I honestly wouldn’t have managed to write a BUNCH of stuff without her. She’s so positive and I love that about her blog!!

@agentsofoakenshiield — Lai is one of my best gals on Twitter. She’s so encouraging and hypes me up and SHES FANTASTIC!!!!!

@knockingonbellarkesdoor — I CANT SAY ENOUGH ABOUT JEN. SHES A GEM and also one of my best gals from Twitter. A superb writer, my #1 hype woman, a true gift to the fandom!! She writes faster than I do (and READS EXTREMELY FAST) and she has such unique fics. Love her, love her work.

@grifffinclarke — JULIANNA. THE SWEETEST. THE KINDEST. another gem from Twitter that I happily found on Tumblr.

These are the few on the top of my mind right now, but I know I’m missing a ton 🥺 This fandom is filled with so many kind and talented people. The ones I mentioned are SO welcoming and are great blogs to follow.

Thanks for letting me brag about my friends!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edit: @chase-the-windandtouch-the-sky @talistheintrovert @carrieeve @she-who-the-river-could-not-hold are four more that came to mind 💗

[cellard0ors]

yaboybergara replied to your post “Would you consider writing a fanfic where The Bois™️ visit Derry and...”

I'm writing one for january 2020, probably the second or third week!

OOOOooooo! Look y’all! This is some exciting news! @yaboybergara is a fantastic author! She’ll do great with The Bois in Derry! ;D

[storybookstalker]

Valid!! Character choices I also like korra it's just I felt more connected with past characters then the newer ones! Oh btw it's the second season of Korra just do you know (one thing I don't like about korra was the romance it just felt like too many people working on it and changing it so I just lost interest) Amon is my favorite vilian cause he's voice is cool and scary lol also Netflix will be adding all seasons of avatar the last airbender I think on the 15th so that's amazing

WAIT NETFLIX IS DOING

WHAT!?

Omg omg I didn’t know this how did I not know this >:OOOOOOOOO well now I have something to help with the stress of an exam coming up ( ;;•̀ᴗ•́)و

Also that’s super fair! I liked season two but I agree some of the writing felt off even to me who just watches things to watch them lol. The romance in Korra was okay but honestly I wasn’t into romance at the time so it just annoyed me overall, but looking back on it- it wassss kinda weird that they only dated within the group. I would have loveddd to see them bring in extras or new characters as love interests instead. The Last Airbender definitely has much better writing in the romance department. Amon was honestly one of the best villains in LOK. He was written well and his design??? Amazing I loved it. His voice?? Fantastic. He seriously fit into the steampunk-like setting of Republic City. The only thing I didn’t like about Amon was his ending, I didn’t like how his scarring looked so real only to come off so easily after a dip in water. But he was definitely my favorite villain!

[rainbowdelicsunshine]

*kneels down one one knee* i know this is a big thing to ask but. RainbowDelic will you do me the honor in making me your mutual.

OOOOOOOOO YES I SHALL MY GOOD FRIEND AAAAAAAA!!!!

Just gave ya a follow so hopefully that'll help with that hehe! I'm so happy whenever I see you in my inbox so this was a very lovely thing to see, thank you so much again friend, have a fantastic evening!!

(btw I follow via my art blog @rainbowdelicartz)