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onebizarrekai · 4 years ago

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v3′s art is comically terrible for a professionally distributed game in a series: a compilation

in this not-essay I will list all of the mistakes and problems I have spotted in v3′s art. don’t worry, it’s entirely for fun and I’m doing this on a whim, so please feel free to not take this seriously but also it’s hilarious and embarrassing how ridiculous this is like what happened did they speedrun the whole production or what

see, there are some things you can take as meta like “they made it bad on purpose to allude to the downfall of tv shows that have been on air for much too long” but I have a very strong feeling this is not the case due to the nature of some of these errors

disclaimer, the more I study this art, the more I fear that the artists were underpaid and underslept, so if this is in fact the case, I am so sorry to all of them but also I’m going to make fun of the art anyway

anyway let’s get started!

if you study this image for longer than 5 seconds, you will see that kaede is the only one fully shaded and keebo is literally just his normal sprite pasted into the image. every other character is just an ordinary ref, hence most of them facing the exact same direction with neutral expressions on their faces. it looks like a bad edit, and is probably one of the worst pieces of art in the game. it kind of gets better from here on, but my roasting will not.

with that out of the way, here’s the problem that officially bothers me the most and clarifies my viewpoint of “this is not meta and an actual lack of company communication”

this freaking cg, which seems normal at a glance, but some wiseass was like “oh, kaede is a girl, so obviously she’s going to be shorter than the Male Protagonist™” ah, that’s funny. because if you look at the character bios, kaede is, in fact, one inch taller than shuichi and not like 6 inches shorter as she is shown here.

also shuichi’s shoulder is disproportionate and horrendous and he looks vaguely like a jojo character, but I wasn’t even thinking about that until right now.

thanks guys, 50% of the fandom who has never bothered to check these bios thinks that kaede is like 5′3 (did the developers really put so little thought into her to the point where drawing her correctly in the game didn’t even matter??)

also I would like to point out that, even though this isn’t related to the art itself, yes, a character kaede’s size being only 117 lbs is unfeasible, but this applies to literally every character in danganronpa ever and it’s not new news that it’s unrealistic

update: someone in the tags informed me that in versions of the game that use centimeters, like the japanese version, kaede is actually shorter than shuichi, which just adds another thing to the list of weird decisions the localization team made for no reason. that said, after confirming this, kaede is 167 cm in the original, while shuichi is 171 cm, which are approximately 5′6 and 5′7 respectively, but one inch is still nowhere near as drastic as it is depicted above. (in spite of this, I would rather depict kaede as slightly taller, so I’m probably going to keep doing that.)

the journey continues!

bro if you want kaede to have shoulder length hair then stick to it to begin with

you can pretend this is at an angle all you want but they definitely committed the shorter kaede sin a second time

wait a goddamn second.

DO YOU SEE THIS

no………… it wasn’t kaede who shrank. it was shuichi who got taller

speaking of which, can we talk about how shady the perspective is in this elevator pic? look at shuichi and kokichi in comparison to kaede. kokichi, who is canonically 7 inches (edit: or 5, if you’re loyal to the original) shorter than kaede, looks taller than kaede. he’s growing too. what steroids are these gays taking

running into the room, electric boogaloo: I don’t think tsumugi is supposed to be the same height as kokichi

gonta… gonta you’re lookin a bit like a jojo character there

I love how kaito’s head looks kind of like it was pasted onto his body. why is he the same size as shuichi? shouldn’t he be high school bully size or something? his torso is teensy

ah yes, white angie.

I love this cg but why is shuichi’s right hand so much bigger than his left hand

I also love how this cg looks like they literally took pictures of trees and pasted them into the background, especially on the left. the shadows are so weird, especially closer to the ceiling, it’s difficult for me to believe they didn’t do exactly that.

return of Enlarged shuichi

puberty update: kokichi is now taller than shuichi in spite of shuichi never missing leg day. what crimes will he commit

I have to mention it, guys. this has to be one of the worst danganronpa cgs. kokichi’s facial proportions look atrocious. look at the way his face sticks out like his jaw is in the wrong place. his scarf is a pasted texture. that’s it. this moment was so iconic but the cg just looks so… so… off. like something is terribly wrong, but you can’t put your finger on it.

you know what? let’s get into that ‘pasted texture’ thing.

let’s imagine you’re an artist working on a professional game. you’re assigned to draw cgs of kokichi ouma, who has a checkered scarf from hell. sure, it will be terrible to draw, but you only have to draw it once at a time! plus, perspective is pretty important, right? can you be bothered? nah, actually. let’s just copy paste a checkered pattern into the cg, because I’m sure nobody will notice. it’ll blend right in with the other cgs that someone actually put effort into drawing his scarf in, right?

no. the answer is no and I very much noticed. this genuinely looks terrible and I would understand taking a shortcut like that in fanart or even an indie game but this is a full price pc and console distributed game

(an addition: look at kokichi’s TINY HANDS in that last one)

meanwhile, they straight up forgot to color in kokichi’s scarf in this cg.

dude. I forgot about whatever the hell this cg was. anyway look at keebo please just look at him

lovin kaito’s baby arms

real talk, maybe you could argue that he’s missing muscle because he’s deathly sick, but most of his cgs don’t line up with this, and his arms just look disproportionate to his torso size (granted this is a consistent problem across all danganronpa games and a lot of characters have this weird problem, like hajime, but also kaito is bigger than hajime so I kind of have higher expectations of him) maybe it’s his stupid goatee and the way he reminds me of yasuhiro?? it creates this illusion that he’s older than he is and so I keep expecting him to look more like an adult

oh, also rantaro is missing some of his accessories in that video he made–you know the one–but I don’t wanna go back and screenshot it

also you may have noticed that I’m skipping all of the monokub cgs because I literally do not care about them and I’m not even bothering to check and see if they have artistic mistakes in them

JIMMY NEUTRON???

hey um uh kaito you seem to be missing your neck

hey guys do you like my pregame fanart

so, that done, the sprites are also pretty terrible at times. they’re not as interesting to go through, however, and downloading the full sprite sets for every character and studying every single one of them will drive me insane, so I’ll just sum some of the ones I noticed up. I made things for kaede and shuichi before deciding I wasn’t going to get into it, so here are these.

that said, other mistakes include kokichi missing his purple highlights in all of the sprites encompassing a specific pose, stray pixels all over the place on everyone, and everyone also has heavily inconsistent shading, but literally all I think about is how pregame shuichi is unshaded and two of kaede’s pregame sprites have glaring outfit change mistakes in them

anyway, thank you for taking the time to read my ridiculous ramble. in all seriousness, there’s this looming presence of some lack of communication in the development team, like with all the art and design inconsistencies, pieces and sprites that look rushed, stray pixels, and missing basic proportional stuff. these are the kinds of things that you supposedly have to pretty much have in the bag in order to get jobs in professional businesses, so it’s really weird to me that this game suffers from so many of these problems. it’s like they tried to make the art so much more crisp than the other games, but it fell on its face as they realized it was going to take longer to draw everything and they started to rush. it’s weird, because the coloring itself looks normal–it’s just sloppily drawn, and the proportions are a mess once put into the context of perspective. many of the cgs look like they were drawn by different people, and I’m still not over the fact that half of kokichi’s cgs have his scarf pasted in as a texture.

the moral of the story is that if you’re selling a game at full price that also happens to be in a series that has had 3 very good games in it already the stakes should probably be higher than this. v3 has been out for more than 3 years and it’s still $40 (did it cost more than that before? I sure hope not), and the overarching quality of the game is just not as high as the other games. I’m not saying that the other games don’t have any problems with their art at all, they’re just not as glaringly obvious and every artistic choice in those games feels intentional.

regardless, I had a blast roasting the art at 2am, so maybe you got a kick out of all this chaos.

#god I keep telling myself I'm gonna stop rambling about v3 #v3 spoilers #drv3 spoilers #ndrv3 #random stuff #but making this… it sounded so fun #danganronpa

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zyettemoon1800 · 4 years ago

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Um... Hello? First: I've read everything you've got at that blog and can I say, how much I'm LOVIN it? Next: if you accept requests, please one with pillarmen and S/O, that has a sneaky trickster personality? Like... Jokes, puns, real stupid jokes, dark humour(Thanks, Esidisi) aaaand pranks. So much of them! Like, food colouring and glitter at the shower(Yesss, pink sparkly water), hands cream instead toothpaste, showing up with "nails" in the face, sayin' "Any doctor here"?

I’m happy that you love my writing. It makes me happy that people like my writing.

Even though Kars loves you, he hates your trickster personality.

He’s so tire of your childish pranks and not funny jokes.

But what really crossed the line was when he came out the shower with pink sparkling hair.

For some reason you though it would be funny to put food coloring and glitter into his shower thinking nothing too bad would happen to him.

You heard him yell your name as he opened your door, revealing a angry Kars with pink hair covering two of his horns and his face.

You held your laughter, as he remind you of a pissed off unicorn.

As punishment he made you wash is hair tell it turned back to it’s original color which took three hours.

By the end of the day, your arms were beyond tired and you learned your lesson..............for now anyways.

He loves and your stupid jokes, but pranks are different.

He likes it when you come into his room when a funny joke you learned from Jojo, but his favorite are the dark humor ones.

The more sick and sadistic the better.

Some pranks he like, other leave him crying for hours.

You and Jojo thought it would be funny to tell Esidisi that you died in a horrible accident, even though Caesar told both of you, you would regret.

You put a fake knife in your head and fake blood around the floor.

To anyone else , this would look like a real murder scene.

You quickly got into position when you heard Esidisi and Jojo come into the room.

Esidisi cried as he held you close to him, he couldn’t believe his little was dead, but that all changed when he stop crying.

He grabbed Jojo by the neck as you started to smell flesh burning.

You quickly got up and took the knife out of your head and told Esidisi it was a prank.

He dropped Jojo as he faced you with tears in his eyes. He hugged you tightly as he cried relieved that you weren’t dead, but of course after the crying comes the scares.

He throw you over his shoulder and put you in a corner in his room.

Even when you pleaded that your legs were getting tired, he would ignore you and continue reading his book.

As for Jojo, Esidisi made him walk on hot coals 10 times before he could go.

You never did anything that extreme again.

Wamuu really doesn’t like any of your pranks or jokes, but he won’t stop you because they make you happy.

Most of the times he doesn’t understand the jokes and always try to make it into a realistic thing.

Like when you ask him “ Why did the fish blush?” He would look at you with a questionable look,waiting for you to finish “Because it saw the ocean’s bottom! “ You said laughing

He would then say say “Fish don’t blush, they don’t have that type of trait. and the ocean is a bottomless pit of water and the great unknown.”

By the time he’s done talking you don’t even feel like joking around anymore.

Though the jokes are okay, he draws the line at extreme pranks.

One day while he was resting in his bed you came in with nails on your face, holding a hammer, and asking him if he was a capable doctor.

When he saw the slight in front of him, he jumped out of bed and ran toward you as you fell on the stone floor.

He started to shake you, calling your name.

You started smiling widely and telling him “He’ll float too.” While holding up the hammer.

As much as you tried to stay in character, you started to laugh aloud.

Wamuu caught on to your joke, but he didn’t laugh or smile. He picked you up, sat in a chair, and scolded you.

After he told you about how serious it not to fake something like that, he took all of your prank items and put them in a place that you couldn’t reach or look for them. (On top of a mountain.)

Little did he know you had another box of stuff under the bed.

Santana doesn’t understand any of the things that you do and doesn’t try to understand.

You learned the hard way NEVER do pranks on him after the last incident (trust me you don’t want to know what foolish thing you did to this poor man)

You try showing him cool tricks that you learned, but he saw through all them and told you how you did it.

The only ones he will say he likes are the card tricks you learned from Jojo.

You told him a few jokes and he just look at you and went back to do whatever you were doing.

Sometimes if you tell too many jokes, he’ll kiss you to shush you up.

This one was really fun. Sorry that some of them are shorter that others. If anyone as any other ideas you want to see just submit an ask. Until next time my pups.

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dear-yandere · 4 years ago

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—ask collection!

a collection of mostly very old chats and sweet asks that i never got around to answering! thanks for the patience and love!!

beware, fairly long post... woops....

chat asks.

darling: Eu-jin is best boy. Change my mind.

vanya: i am physically incapable of fulfilling that request, how dare you do that to me... i’m biased since he’s my own oc, but i would die for my (very best) boy eu-jin... who can resist such a gentle yandere that loves you so whole-heartedly?

that reminds me! he’s actually based off of kuroyuki and gekkamaru from the otome nightshade, so if you want similar characters by any chance, do check them and the game out ♡

darling: I was watching the dub for Part 5 of JoJo's Bizarre adventure yesterday...Mista called himself Daddy and I like- sdfghjfgsdhnhnmj!! My heart can't take this--

vanya: WAIT HE DID???? i’m not even big on daddy kink and reading that made me go 😳 this is vital information to know... what episode was this??? for research purposes, of course. gotta perfect my yan! mista, after all~...

darling: for yandere songs, have you heard of the major to minor covers by chase holfelder :O? the way he delivers the lyrics in some songs (betty, all i want for christmas), added with the key changes to minor, is really fantastic, and gives a stalker-ish vibe imo! and he's a really good singer in general

vanya: i have!! a good chunk of them are actually on my personal yandere playlist, so i end up hearing them frequently when i’m writing!! i haven’t been keeping up with his uploads recently, so ‘betty’ is completely new to me and just, wow???????????? this man is an absolute god send for us “romantic” horror fans... ♡

this ask gave me such a lovely idea, though, darling: assigning yandere types/mbti based off each of chase’s minor key covers. i think i’ll do that just for you. ♡

darling @blossomiich: I reread some of your old character interaction asks and saw the one with Jotaro hugging his Darling after a panic attack and the elephant seal plush reminded me of the iconic C H O N K Y ringed seal plushie that was kinda trending and I can totally imagine Jotaro having one of those >w< that's so adorable!

vanya: i honestly don’t remember that interaction, but then again i don’t remember most things hmghng so i looked it up and

j...just imagine star plat hogging it and not letting joot cuddle with it 🥺 the duality of man...thank you for this cute image...

darling: Umm, sorry for asking this. I'm just curious because of your bio language in your header. Are you Chinese too, perhaps?

vanya: no worries!! i’m mixed guyanese (indian, chinese, & possibly black and/or portuguese), but my family only celebrates (or rather, acknowledges?) our indian descent, since the majority of our family is predominantly east indian.

my header is actually a quote from a danmei novel (and one of my all-time favorite fandoms), tiān guān cì fú (heaven’s official blessing)!

darling genki stan anon: Omg you're writing for free now, i didn't expect that one lol. It's a cute show innit? Not a nagi stan but I feel like nagisa has that kinda unsnapped personality that would make him peak delusional yandere material lolol like oikawa but less threatening and without his head being up his own ass 😂. Hope you're doing well!! -gsa

Gdjsjs im such a fool, i think my last ask said something about not thinking you'd write for free when i literally just pointed out kisumi on your sideblog LMAO my bad 😅 😂 also ill hold back on the gen chan requests because ive already asked so many in the past! Thank you though 🥺. Also feel free not to post this, it can just dip into my onesided chats with my lil flower 💐 so long as you receive them im fine 😌 -genki stan anon

vanya: nagisa isn’t my favorite (kisumi is), but gods if he wouldn’t make a great yandere. honestly, out of the iwatobi boys, nagi is probably the most unhinged. i wouldn’t peg him as delusional, at least not at first; i think he’s very lucid and knows exactly what he wants and how to manipulate people in order to get it!!! kisumi is fairly similar now that i think about it... i might... have a type...

please feel free to send in gen-chan requests whenever you want!!!! i’m kinda super asocial, so it’ll take me a while to answer, but i love getting asks from you since you’re so sweet and excitable!!! your little flower reads and cherishes them all!! 🥺

also darling genki stan anon: Sorry for spamming you with asks hdjkdks, u dont even need to reply im just kinda brain empty venting here whether you recieve them or not 😂 i just needed to confess that while yes i am #1 gen simp, and he is undoubtedly my fave oc of yours but that Ilya tentacle smut had me very much so highkey kinda 👀, had to re read the genki oral style drabble to bring my head back. He dont even need to worry about luca bc that man a thot. I think therin is a thot too but like lowkey, a classy thót -gsa

vanya: omg i’ve kept this one for forever mnmghngh i might’ve even answered at some other point, now that i think about it... but i just 🥺 gosh i hope i find my muse soon, because i really wanna write you a genki fic 🥺 hhhh

the ilya tentacle smut was so in character for that boy... i have no clue how to write monsters, much less tentacles, but i’d honestly do anything for him 🙏 kinky russian boy...

therin is definitely a classy thot, the kind that only bangs the finest concubines then turns around and slut shames you for banging the very same prostitutes gbfmngnfg rules don’t apply to him, in his kingdom...wish that were me tbh ✊😔

sweet asks.

darling one: i've read almost all of your dazai and chuuya fics and i love them so much!! your formatting is also super aesthetic just a question, i saw on your kofi that you also draw so i was wondering if you drew all the header arts?? bc they're all super pretty :) have a great day!

darling two: Just wanted to say love the writing and the way your format your posts is so aesthetically pleasing. One day I hope my posts looks half as good as yours because I legit can't get over how pretty and organized it looks.

vanya: omg thank you so much!!!! one of my bffs, yue, is to thank for the formatting and aesthetic choices, really! if you wanna see more of her aesthetic formats and posts, she actually runs a few blogs! you may know her as @milkscafe, formally @milkaaton! i adore her and her aes choices so much 🥺

as for the headers, i don’t draw 99.98% of them! i have drawn a couple, but they’re so few and far in between since i almost never finish my art wips haha... my older posts are lacking proper credits because i’m an absolute idiot, but i’m slowly working my way backwards to credit them all where possible! they’re all indeed super pretty!!!

have a great day yourself, my love!!

darling: THEY’RE NOT BAD CONTENT, I LOVE THEM ALL

vanya: this was in response to a now-deleted lil blurb but i kept it in my inbox because i wanted to say i love u very much and seeing this ask each time i open my inbox makes my heart skip a beat ♡

darling: Listen I love your writing, you inspired me to start it myself! I've always loved to write, and read of course but your style and concepts just stick with me. If you where to write something besides Yandere content/fandom content and started your own series? I would read the shit, out of it. I'm always nervous to interact with my favorite writers because you know, I'm afraid of the impression I'd leave but I just wanted to say this anyway! 💞💞💞🔫😳

vanya: wowowow fgfnmgnfmngfg that’s such a high compliment my brain just gmfnbgmnf go boom fogjfngnfg and thank you for the interaction, us writers truly appreciate it no matter how awkward or nervous you think you may be / come off!!!

darling one: As a writer, your post struck a nerve with me. I don’t send feedback to writers I like nearly as much as I should (and certainly not as much as I’d like in return as a writer). So, as such, I’m going to start doing that when I can, starting with you.

You are an incredible writer. You were one of the first yandere writing blogs I found and you’re still one I check in on regularly to see what you have been working on. You can portray a sense of suspense and intrigue in a natural way that many other writers - published ones included - struggle with. You delve into the darkness without it feeling forced, and you have an amazing grasp on the psyches of the characters you write for (which is a quality I adore in writing and strive toward myself).

I’m not great at ending these things so I guess.. you keep doing you? Because the you is great and I appreciate it.

darling two: hey. i'm here to tell you that from the bottom of my heart i love you and your writings. i really admire your writing skills. you inspire me. one of your posts once saved me from a nervous breakdown. thank you for everything you do. you're a wonderful person. good luck!

darling three: I wanted to tell you that thank you for writing such wonderful beautiful writings and that you take time to edit and write I hope you are taking care of yourself 💖❤

darling four: Thanks. I was having a hard time and deleted all my apps, but as soon as i opened my phone my first instinct was to look at your blog and i got my motivation back. Thanks (:

darling five:��Hi ! I just wanted to say I really enjoy the stories you write and how they are detailed so well ! Stay safe and I hope you have a good day/night ! ლ(╹◡╹ლ)

vanya: ahhhh, these are very old asks mostly dating back to my “tumblr writing community is dying” post, and i’ve kept them this entire time because i’m just so starstruck. i have no clue how to reply to compliments, so i’m not sure what else to say besides that these asks made me very happy and got me through a few insecure moments!!! i’ve actually been feeling a little down about my writing recently, mostly because of lack of motivation / inspiration, so revisiting these really warmed my heart, so thank you truly ♡ i’m certainly keeping the originals in my inbox until the end of time!!

darling @monstrously-obsessed: psst, this local cryptic mom thing send all of their love for you 💕

vanya: your local herbo says she loves you very much momster 🥺 mwah

also, to the anon worried about my safety:

thank you so much for pointing that out!!! it hadn’t even crossed my mind when i made those ocs, so i appreciate your concern! i was contemplating revamping those two as is, so this is a great place to start! thank you again!!

#asks collection #not a fic #vanya rambles #[ vanya LITERALLY rambles ]#[ life's hard when you're this asocial i swear fgmnfgnmfg ]#[ now to answer concept asks ]

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that-shamrock-vibe · 5 years ago

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Movie Review: Sonic the Hedgehog (Spoilers)

Spoiler Warning: I am posting this review the day the movie is first released in the U.K, so if you haven’t yet seen the movie do not read on until you have.

General Reaction:

It's difficult with today's movie going audience to predict how movies like Sonic are going to perform and be received. Especially when the ad campaign did absolutely no favours for this movie other than convince Paramount that Sonic needed a more truthful redesign than what they originally put out.

Here's the thing. Sonic the Hedgehog to me is trying to be 2020's Detective Pikachu capitalising on that nostalgia of a beloved classic franchise.

However, I do feel that the haters and internet trolls out there are not going to be able to get past the comparisons this movie draws to 2011's Hop, which was a live-action/CGI-hybrid movie starring James Marsden who becomes the companion of a somewhat overbearing CG creature.

But, I encourage all movie goers, including the haters, to go into this with an open mind...particularly if you have any history with Sonic because you will get some enjoyment and walk away afterwards feeling happy overall.

My personal history with Sonic is slightly less-so than I would like. I played the original 2 SEGA games countless times and did watch some episodes of the earlier animated shows.

Having said that, my main Sonic fandom actually comes from the mid-noughties series Sonic X, which I feel this movie could have adapted but alas. Also I played the Shadow the Hedgehog spinoff game and more recently Smash Bros where I actually won as Sonic recently.

Now this movie reminds me of those shows and games practically in no way. I mean there is that opening sequence where you see Sonic running around and looping like he does in the SEGA games, I do also feel like James Marsden's character could easily be an older version of Chris, the boy from Sonic X, but aside from that, the gold rings and Robotnik...there's not a lot for the Sonic fans to spot.

I can't say this is a perfect movie, because it really is not. There are a lot of super speed gags and some of them do stick but some just fall flat and at times feel repetitive.

The worst crime this movie commits in my opinion is stealing Quicksilver's gimmick of speed scenes. By which I mean there are not one but two occasions when time is slowed down to almost a halt and we see Sonic running around still. They even have songs specific for these scenes.

Also, because I'm not fully aware of every Sonic incarnation, I did not understand why Sonic is effectively The Flash with being able to generate lightning. I mean I understand the laws of physics of generating enough friction can create static but I have never known Sonic to have any electric attacks.

I did like how the static electricity was preserved in his quills when they fell off though. In animation and the games you don’t think about Sonic’s realistic hedgehog qualities such as having quills so it was a nice touch.

I am also aware that Sonic has turned Super Saigen before with the help of the Chaos Emeralds I believe, so the fact we see a similar transformation here is quite good to see for that reason.

In terms of story I do think this is a simple plot that has been done numerous times, Hop is definitely one example that comes to mind, but I feel it’s also a very accessible story for non-Sonic fans.

I don’t know if Longclaw the Owl is an original character or one from Sonic mythology but I did not really vest much interest in her. Baby Sonic I thought was cute, but I refuse to accept anyone saying he is cuter than Baby Yoda as no one is cuter than Baby Yoda.

On the subject of age, it was good to see them acknowledging Sonic’s age for a change as opposed to just presuming because up until now I did always think he was some sort of teenager but this confirms it. If Baby Sonic is around 5-9 years old then Sonic in present day is late teens which makes sense with his temperament.

The gold rings being used as teleportation devices, I don’t know if they’re meant to be in the games but loved their use here.

I enjoyed the use of technology in this movie and particularly Robotnik’s commentary on how technology is more reliable than people which ties into his ultimate fate of being stranded alone without another soul on the planet he is sent to which forces him further into insanity.

The fact Sonic’s story is about fitting into society while James Marsden’s character is about figuring out what’s right in front of him are great parallels and do balance each other out rather well.

Also where he ends up with effectively being part of a family as well as a town hero was a nice way to wrap things up.

However, that mid-credits scene showing the arrival of Sonic’s faithful protege Tails to the real world looking for his friend screams for a sequel, especially if this means that more of Sonic’s companions could be introduced in the future like Knuckles, Shadow or even Rouge the Bat.

Characters:

Dr. Robotnik:

I don’t want to say he is the best character because I feel all four of the main cast members do a great job, but my favourite definitely is Jim Carrey as Robotnik. This is Carrey back on form and there were so many great shades of back when he was at the top of his game in the 90s with work such as Ace Ventura, The Mask and The Grinch.

From his first scene he stole every scene he was in. You could tell that he was taking the role seriously while also having the time of his life with it and this is why, back in the day, he was on such high form.

He may not have been the overweight bald megalomaniac, at least with the latter two not until the end of the movie, but he was the evil genius and mad scientist and almost every line he delivered he nailed.

I think “rockonnaissance” is going to be the new “joygasm” for him but it worked for The Riddler and it works for Robotnik.

I’m also happy he was nicknamed Eggman in the movie by Sonic because of the shape of his drones, I thought it was fitting. I can’t wait for Sonic to see the new bald version.

Sonic:

Yes Sonic is second but I said it before, there were times when he was overbearing.

Ben Schwartz by the way does a fantastic job voicing the character, I know he voices Dewey in the new Ducktales series and also for some reason voices BB-8 in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, but this is my favourite role of his voice is so realistic for a wide-eyed and somewhat innocent “alien” hedgehog.

I enjoyed how when he first came to Earth he was this urban legend around Green Hills who spent those 10 years people watching and either making up nicknames for the citizens while also longing to fit in with them but knowing not to.

Also the movie’s comedy was never as vulgar as Ryan Reynolds or immature as Russell Brand. I think they had one fart joke in the movie but the rest was generic comedy movie material which was hit and miss in comedy.

It was quite touching also that he was so protective of Green Hills and the status quo so much so that when Tom said he was planning on leaving to move to San Francisco, he was so offended and I thought it was going to be that trope of “Oh now they’re going to separate only to discover they need each other later” but instead it was a few digs and then they got over it.

I am so happy they did redesign the character because the movie’s original look for him was horrendous and did make Cats look reasonable whereas this is more like the Sonic everyone knows and I did not realise he didn’t have his traditional running shoes until Jojo, the niece of Tika Sumpter’s character, replaced them for him.

I will keep saying I want a sequel just because I am interested to see where Sonic’s story takes him next, especially with Tails now on Earth and the potentiality that others could join.

The Wachowskis

Again I thought James Marsden and Tika Sumpter did very pleasant jobs. This is my favourite James Marsden performance to date. Up until now his roles have been either corny or simply bland for me but here, yes there were a couple of dodgy jokes and moments but overall I thought Tom was a very likeable character and at the very least a driven character.

His wife Maddie, first of all props to the movie writers for having a mixed-race couple front and centre in the movie. But also, Maddie, who is also an accomplished career woman alongside her accomplished career husband, did not weigh Tom down or the story down as simply being “just the wife”.

I also enjoyed Maddie’s sister and niece, Jojo is quite cute and for the little screentime that she has does well with it for a child her age. While Natasha Rothwell continues to grow in my estimations after her fabulous turn in Love, Simon as the very sassy teacher.

Others:

As for the rest of the cast, this was a great who’s who for spotting the great jobbing actors as Lee Majdoub, Neal McDonough, Michael Hogan and Adam Pally all have minor supporting roles that do not go unnoticed.

Meanwhile Colleen Villard (née O'Shaughnessey), who voices Tails in the video games as well as voicing Wasp in The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes series and Sora in the Digimon franchise, reprises her role as the anthropomorphic fox in an uncredited mid-credits scene. I am hoping she returns for the sequel because it is good to hear her acting again.

Recommendation:

I do see a future for this movie in terms of a franchise. I do not quite see it crossing over with Detective Pikachu as I know there were rumblings of some sort of Super Smash Bros. movie cinematic universe.

However, if the movie does warrant a sequel, and with a current Rotten Tomatoes score of 64%, considering this seems to be a deciding factor for some cinema goers, I don’t see why not. I am hoping the future of this franchise does see the introductions of Knuckles, Shadow, Rouge and even Amy.

Potentially also spinning off from this franchise, there could be Donkey Kong, Mega Man and maybe even Mario to create that Super Smash Bros. universe.

Overall I rate the movie 8/10, it’s a great movie and definitely has some rewatchability to it.

Having said that I can see where some cinema snobs or even haters may come from as they inevitably target the movie but I encourage everyone not to be taken in by other people’s opinions, not even mine, make up your own minds and see it for yourself.

So that’s my review of Sonic the Hedgehog, what did you guys think? Post your comments and check out more Movie Reviews as well as other posts.

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whaq · 4 years ago

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Fuck You, Animu (3/4) - Cells at Work! Episode 7

While still providing the edutainment expected of the series, Cells at Work!’s 7th episode overreaches for your emotions and may have you yelling in anger instead of sobbing in tears as it tackles the topic of cancer.

From the power couple that brought you the community darling Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure’s anime, Director Kenichi Suzuki and David Production’s adaptation of Cells at Work! has brought biology to the mainstream. Based on Akane Shimazu’s debut manga, the series follows a red blood cell and a white blood cell’s day-to-day in the human body where we encounter anthropomorphised versions of the little beings that live within all of us.

A notable element of the series is its effort to use tangential learning to spoon-feed us biology through cute anime girls and surprisingly violent (which is ironic given how the characters consist of literal blood) action scenes. We meet many of our body’s protectors, from the onee-sama Macrophages to the delinquent T Cells that make the biodiversity of the cast impressive. If you want a casual but oozingly creative series to serve as a dose of edutainment, then Cells at Work! is for you.

I binged this series about a year after its original run because My Anime List is as bottomless as it is a cruel reminder of your lack of dedication to it. At the time, I only had a few key thoughts: “I wonder if my little cells feel as bad as I do when I get hay fever every morning,” “Oh my God, look at the cheeks on those adorable little platelets,” and, “Wow, that cancer episode was really something.” People seemed to agree with me on that last thought. Critics like the Anime Pope himself Jared of Mother’s Basement shared in the sentiment that the series’ 7th episode was well done. It humanized something that we humans are very inclined to hate: a malignant cancer cell whose only purpose is to turn our own body against us; a daunting task that anyone who’s tried writing sympathetic villains can tell you. But, after watching the episode again on a whim, the feelings I had on my first viewing suddenly did a complete 180 as I began watching in horror in lieu of sympathy. Here’s a hot-take: this episode is about Nazi sympathizing and here’s why:

We are taken to the scene of a previous episode where the NK cell is chasing after a suspicious cell that reveals itself to be cancerous. Cancer’s character design and subsequent animation are reminiscent of works like Akira or anything Junji Ito’s had his hands on. It’s gruesome, detailed, and overall as grotesque as it needs to be to get you to fear it. The animation of this fight consists of some decent sakuga as the Cancer cell is able to use its shape manipulation to stretch its limbs and morph them into practically anything. On the other hand, much of the episode’s, and by extension the rest of the series, animation is pretty inconsistent like when NK is seen strafing during Cancer’s speech. We see NK awkwardly slide across the screen while Cancer’s lipflaps remain static during his mini diatribe. “Begging for a Bluray cut” quality animation is the least of the episode’s problems.

Eventually, we’re given a look at Cancer’s backstory, and it is one of the series’ most emotional scenes. We see that the cancer cells are products of an error in cell division and appear with birth defects because of that. A pair of these newborn cancer cells, including our antagonist, attempt to run from the authorities that consist of the Killer Ts and Whites that we’ve grown fond of by this point of the series. In a heartbreaking dialogue, we find Cancer asking his friend if he is “-meant to die as soon as we are born?" This is nothing less than an emotional gut-punch, a nihilistic ponderance I wouldn’t have expected from a comedy. This is immediately followed by his friend being murdered by the guards while Cancer hides. The pained expression on this child that is mirrored on his present counterpart in the next scene really does pull at your heartstrings. The show effectively uses visuals and story to get you to sympathize with cancer, until it doesn’t.

It’s right before the arrival of our heroes that our antagonist is able to pour out his feelings. His people are oppressed and slaughtered for existing, something they obviously couldn’t have had a hand in, and it obviously pains him to see that. Right after this tear-jerking speech, he sprouts a pair of fleshy wings, that are grotesquely beautiful in their own way, which almost immediately have a machete tossed at them by the arrival of the other cells that begin to mercilessly murder Cancer’s people. The amount of thematic dissonance is palpable when you begin to hear the triumphant battle music that underscores the massacre of a race of cells you were just conditioned to feel bad for earlier. Upon defeating him, our other protagonist, White, is asked by Cancer why his people are targeted the way they are “We can’t save you. You violate the rules… hog nutrients and destroy healthy tissue. I can’t let you live… it’s my job.” Upon closer inspection, it’s easy enough to draw the line comparing the cancer cells to any persecuted race. What makes me think of the Jewish specifically is due to the events of the Holocaust, and its subsequent aftermath, that seems to mirror the events of the story. The cancer cells are even shown to be kept imprisoned in a cell full of green liquid, almost like the acid that served as one of the methods the Nazis used to exterminate the Jews during World War II. While Judaism is a religion, not a race, it’s intrinsically linked to people who descend from the original tribes of Israel, which is a huge group of people. It’s estimated that 1.7 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust by the infamously White-Supremacist Nazi Party that relied on propoganda that said Jews were taking all the money in the world and ruining the lives of the “superior race” of whites. Adding to that the display of a soldier just “doing their job” of assisting the genocide of an entire people. Knowing this, is it really too far-fetched to understand why I began gawking at my screen when our Jew surrogate, Cancer, is killed by an army, for the exact same reasons of being thought of as deplorables no less, made up of WHITE blood cells?!

Adding insult to injury, Cancer’s tragic death is then abruptly ended by Red comedically checking up on White as we see Cancer’s corpse desecrated by Looney Tune style black X-marks for eyes; as if his death was nothing more than a joke. As the show’s ending theme played behind scenes of the army celebrating their genocide, I could’ve sworn I heard the lyrics “it’s okay, I’m okay” in the song, that truly was the last straw for me. In a world divided between people who want to defend the defenseless and those who want to further oppress the oppressed, the meta-narrative this episode contains is down-right dangerous.

Thankfully, the rest of the series’ usually light-hearted and comedic antics can serve as a palette cleanser to wash the taste of this episode out. Continuing on from here, you’ll be met with more of the same edutainment you’ve been served so far in Cells at Work!’s last six episodes. If those episodes caught your attention, you’ll want to stick around to learn more about this corporeal incorporation.

#cells at work #hataraku saibō #hataraku saibou #hataraku saibo #anime #manga #satire #review #critic #media criticism #anime review #parody #otaku #this entire review was a joke

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psychosistr · 4 years ago

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Mending the Broken- Chapter 3

Summary: Jonathan awakens from one nightmare and finds himself in a reality far worse than anything he could've dreamt up..

Notes: Alright, no two-ways around this one, there are warnings for dubious consent, mind control, and Dio being a general d!ck. You have been warned. Only posting part of this here because of how lame Tumblr is for certain content. Link for AO3 version will be posted below if you want to see more.

-First Chapter-

Jonathan’s eyes snapped open and he gasped for breath. He recalled bits and pieces of his dream, enough to realize why he was so startled when he awoke, but not enough to remember every single thought that had passed through his mind.

He remembered himself and Speedwagon talking…He remembered Speedwagon silently crying alone while cracks appeared on his body…He remembered Dio devouring Speedwagon’s heart…and..that was it..there had to be pieces between those points, but he couldn’t for the life of him recall them at the moment..

Jonathan’s thoughts were stolen back to the waking world when he attempted to move. The first thing he noticed was a crippling pain in his arms as he tried to rub his eyes and found himself unable to move any of his limbs. Looking down in alarm, he saw that he was in a seated position on a stone floor with his arms and legs shackled to the wall behind him. Both arms were wrapped in bandages and the pain in them when he attempted to move suggested they may have been broken. Surprisingly, his legs, while sore from being seated on the cold stone, were otherwise unharmed.

Next, he noted, there was something wrapped tightly around his throat. It felt like steel encased in cloth. He tried to breathe deeply and focus his mind but, when he did, there was a clicking sound from the collar just before it tightened to the point of near suffocation. He gasped on reflex, but that only made the collar tighten further. He quickly learned to take short, weak breaths until it relaxed enough to let him breathe with only a little more difficulty than usual.

Jonathan turned his head enough to see that the collar around his neck was connected to a steel wire that fed into an intricate series of gears on the wall behind him. He had a hunch what it was for, but decided to test his hypothesis anyway.

“Haaaah-nh!” Jonathan attempted a deep breath to charge his hamon, but the tensing of his neck muscles tugged the wire slightly and it triggered the gears. The device then activated as the gears turned, drawing the wire back in towards them and, in the process, choking Jonathan. Jonathan quickly relaxed his neck and took in short breaths until the wire released him and the device shut off once more. His neck hurt now, but his hunch had been proven right. “So, this device is meant to restrict my breathing and keep me from using my hamon. I would call it brilliant if it didn’t reek of Dio’s sadism.”

Jonathan decided to take a look around the room to see if he could spot a way to free himself or, at the very least, gain a better understanding of where he was.

There were no windows there, only stone walls on all sides with a single wrought-iron door on the wall out of reach to his left. The meager light of the room came from a lone candle left to burn in a wall scone by the door. The only notable fixture in the room besides the chains and device that Jonathan was bound to was a lavish, ornate wooden arm chair with intricate engraving and upholstered in blood red cushions located against the wall directly in front of him.

At first, Jonathan nearly overlooked the chair as just a piece of furniture…that is, until he saw the chain attached to the ground by the leg of the chair. Following the length with his eyes, he saw a figure sitting in the long shadow cast by the chair in the dim lighting that he almost missed. It looked vaguely human in shape and he could tell it was breathing, but he couldn’t see who it was in the darkness.

“Hello?” He tried calling out. “Can you hear me?”

“……” The figure didn’t answer him. But, its head tipped to the side slightly and Jonathan saw familiar golden hair slip out into light just past the chair.

“Speedwagon?” Jonathan tried calling out to his friend. “Speedwagon, can you hear me? Are you alright? Do you know where-?”

“……” He stopped when Speedwagon’s head slowly rose and turned towards him. The light was too dim to see everything clearly, but what he did see caused a tremor of fear to go through his body: Speedwagon’s eyes, which were normally so bright and vibrant and reminded Jonathan of perfectly polished copper, were now dim and lifeless, a haze to them that turned them a murky color like thick mud. His skin looked paler than usual, almost sickly, and, from what Jonathan could see, there was dried blood around the sides of his neck. His hair was also far more matted and unkempt than usual, looking as if it had been pulled and mussed and tossed about for quite some time.

“Speedwagon..?” Jonathan’s voice had a quiver to it. He may not have been able to fully see the state of his dear friend, but what he could see clearly told him that something was wrong with the other man. “Dear god, Speedwagon…What has that monster Dio done to you?!”

That seemed to garner some sort of reaction from the blond. His vacant eyes slowly drifted towards the door. “D…Di…o…”

As if on cue, the door opened after a clicking sound was heard and the man in question entered the room. The vampire closed the door behind himself with a loud “bang” before looking at Jonathan with a malicious smirk. “Well, well..finally awake, Jojo? You certainly kept us waiting.”

Jonathan was about to speak, to demand to know what Dio had done to Speedwagon, but the words died on his tongue when Speedwagon suddenly got up onto his knees.

“Lord Dio!” The street-rat’s previously expressionless face now had a large, almost manic smile spread across it even though his eyes retained their blank, muddled state. He crawled on his hands and knees around the front of the chair, revealing that he was naked from head to toe aside from a collar around his neck that connected to the chain latched to the floor. His body was scarred and bruised and coated in patchy spots of dried blood and a white substance that Jonathan dared not guess the origin of. “Lord Dio! Lord Dio!” He called out with a tone that was both ecstatic and desperate at the same time, crawling on his hands and knees until the chain reached its limit and jerked him back into a kneeling position. “I-I did what ya said, Lord Dio! I didn’ move or talk ‘til ya came back! Did-Did I do good?! Are ya pleased, Lord Dio?!”

Dio chuckled in amusement and walked forward, allowing the man’s eagerly reaching hands to wrap around his legs while he patted Speedwagon’s already mussed hair. “Yes I am, my pet. You’ve done very well.”

Speedwagon trembled as if a wave of euphoria had just overtaken him and slid down Dio’s legs until he was seated at his feet. “Ohhhhh, thank ya, Lord Dio…!”

Jonathan watched the scene unfold in stunned silence for several moments, unable to properly form words or even thoughts about what he was witnessing. His friend..his dearest, closest friend..a man who’d once shot Dio in the face with no hesitation and stood alongside Jonathan valiantly..was now..now..

“DIOOOOO!!!!” Jonathan yelled as protective rage filled his veins like liquid fire. He struggled against his bonds, ignoring the pain in his arms and the tightening of the collar around his neck slowly choking off his air. “What did you do to him, Dio?!” The collar tightened to the point of near suffocation, so Jonathan forced himself to settle back down, though the rest of his body was still tense enough to clearly show how enraged he truly was. “What..did you do..to..Speedwagon..?!!” He managed to huff out while regaining his breath.

“You don’t approve of my new pet, Jojo?” Dio smirked again and stepped out of Speedwagon’s hold, walking over to the chair and seating himself in it with his legs crossed. He snapped his fingers and Speedwagon instantly crawled to him, kneeling at his feet with his head positioned under Dio’s waiting hand to be petted like a common dog. “I find him rather amusing. So loyal, so easy to train..I’ve already taught him a few tricks. Watch.” He uncrossed his legs and snapped his fingers again.

~(cutting here for dubious consent/mature content- full scene here on AO3)~

“Now then, Jojo..” Dio lifted Speedwagon off of his lap with ease and dropped him to the floor carelessly. He ignored the yelp of pain the other gave on impact with the hard stone floor as he tucked himself back into his clothing and righted himself. He then walked over to Jonathan and kneeled down to be at eye level with him. “I hope you enjoyed my little show. If not, then do not fret- I shall return soon enough for an encore performance.”

“Diiooooo..!!” Jonathan practically growled out his hated brother’s name. He was seething with rage, possibly the angriest he’d ever been. He leaned as far forward as the collar and wire would allow him, looking Dio dead in the eyes as he spoke. “You will pay for what you have done, Dio! I will find a way out of here and I will take Speedwagon back with me! Once he is safe, I will make certain you pay for what you have done to him!”

Dio laughed at Jonathan’s futile struggles and stood back up, now looking down on him both literally and figuratively. “My, my, Jojo. You actually seem to think you have a chance in all of this. How delightfully foolish.” He walked towards the door. “I invite you to try, though. Show me what you are capable of.” He glanced back when he heard a pained groan and a shuffling sound, looking at Speedwagon as the bloodied and bruised man brought himself up into a sitting position. “As for you, my pet, you are not to move or speak until I return again. Understood?”

“Y..Yes..Lord..Dio..” Speedwagon said weakly while catching his breath, sitting up with his back against the leg of the chair. “Anythin’..ya say..”

Dio seemed pleased by the response and opened the door. “Until next time, Jojo.” He closed the door with a loud “bang”, leaving the two men alone once again.

Jonathan glared after him for a while before his attention was drawn back to Speedwagon due to a dripping sound. He frowned at what he saw: Speedwagon, still seated in the same position he’d been in when Dio left, now had that blank, emotionless expression on his face once more, but with tears now slowly falling from his eyes and dripping down onto the stone floor beneath him.

“Speedwagon..” Jonathan said, trying any way he could to shift even an inch closer to his fellow captive. “I am so sorry..you do not deserve any of this..I swear upon my life and pride as a Joestar, I will find a way to free you from Dio.”

“…….” Speedwagon gave no response. There was no movement. Not even a glance at Jonathan’s face to indicate that he heard or understood what Jonathan said. He merely continued to weep silently while looking in Jonathan’s direction unseeingly.

Jonathan bit his lip, glancing down at the ground with a pained look of sadness. He had to find a way out. He had to find a way to free Speedwagon from Dio’s control. He had to defeat Dio and put an end to his cruelty once and for all. There were so many things he had to do that he wasn’t even sure where to start…

<-Previous Chapter Next Chapter->

End Notes: Another thing I wanted to see more of in the series was Dio's use of hypnosis- it was only ever briefly used on Poco, but then never discussed again that he could do that. This whole story was essentially me wanting more hypnosis and seeing what that could REALLY do when used by someone as sick and devious as Dio.

#JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken #jonathan joestar #robert edward o speedwagon #jonawagon #dio #diowagon #(yes I feel gross typing that part but it kind of is)#trigger warning #mental manipulation #emotional manipulation #abuse #mending the broken

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fly-pow-bye · 5 years ago

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Powerpuff Girls 2016 - The Final Stack Up (The Best)

It’s been a good time, friends, but the time has come. Which episodes managed to be great?

Same rules for the worst list apply here, except, of course, I have to say a bad thing about each of these episodes. A lot easier to do than the opposite, sad to say, but I'm not going to let that bother me. Also, I have to reiterate that this is my opinion and my opinion alone. Some may hate one of these episodes, and that's fine. Without further ado, let's look at 10 episodes that managed to get the top spot.

And yes, you can imagine the Cartoon Cartoon Top 5 music here.

The Top 10:

10. The Fog

PPG 2016 never really did a good villain team-up episode. The closest I'd say it ever got to that was one of the comic runs, where the villains all gather together in one big Bureau of Bad…to discuss the times they almost got them like that episode of Batman. There is also this episode, where Mojo Jojo, The Gnat, Bianca and Barbarus Bikini, and nobody else of importance team up to please a rather threatening villain that is more than meets the clouds.

Really, this episode shouldn't be seen as a villain team-up, but as a "Buttercup learns a lesson" episode. At first, it seems to fall into that tired "Buttercup does something bad, her more girly sisters get into trouble because of it, and the tomboy has to save them" plot, but the episode decides to do another twist that is actually pretty satisfying to see.

The episode even ends with a shot of the Powerpuff Girls flying towards a bunch of villains. That would have been a great way to end the reboot, actually; certainly better than Sitcom Dad having a Meet Dave-esque meltdown.

Bad thing: There's a reason why I avoided calling this a real team-up, because they only really team up at the end of the episode. The rest is just the villains trying to beat up the girls solo, or duo in the Fashionista's case, and them getting one-shotted. That should be normal for a Powerpuff Girls battle, but compared to episodes like the original's Meet The Beat-Alls, it's a real missed opportunity.

...also, they completely wasted that yarn villain. If ordinary rope can stop the Powerpuff Girls, this guy should be the Powerpuff Girls new arch-nemesis!

9. Toy Ploy

Going from one episode featuring Discount to another, here's an episode where Jojo decides to interrogate the Powerpuff Girls' toys to find out their biggest weakness. Trust me, it is better than it sounds.

This is another "three shorts" episode, this one using the Powerpuff Girls' favorite toys as its framing device. Blossom has President Dinosaur, who even the episode itself comments is rarely seen in the reboot, Buttercup has Monsieur Ducky, because Buttercup apparently has a soft spot for Ernie from Sesame Street, and Bubbles has Octi, who is revealed to be female in this episode and only this episode.

The Blossom part has a decent plot about Blossom having to deal with a pterodactyl who won't surrender. The Buttercup part is a send up of war documentaries, talking about Buttercup playing pranks as if they were military operations. The Bubbles part is just a little slideshow, but it does have some neat looking drawings, and it concludes with an absolutely adorable ending for the framing device. It's cute, I couldn't hate it.

Bad thing: Blossom's segment is definitely the odd one out, as the story doesn't even involve President Dinosaur until the very end. Not that I hated her part, as mentioned before, but when it doesn't use the framing device, it just makes me think it's an idea they couldn't expand into a full episode. That's what these seem to be, but at least try to hide it!

8. Take Your Kids to Dooms Day

I can see this one's inclusion in my best list as a controversial pick, since there's a major issue with this episode that will turn a lot of people off from it. Namely, and I am going to spoil a major part of this episode here: this episode involves Silico, a villain that was hyped up to oblivion in his first appearance, getting beaten up by someone who is normally a bumbling Sitcom Dad in a ridiculously animated fashion. I was not that bothered by that, though part of that is because he was already ruined by Halt and Catch Silico. This episode doesn't ruin him any more than the revelation that "they broke my toys!" being his reason for being evil.

Also, there's a good reason why I said "in most episodes" in that last paragraph, because this is not a Sitcom Dad episode. Sure, he's a total dork here, but that's still more fitting of the original Professor than being a doormat, saying really bad advice, or just being an oblivious dingus. Okay, sure, there's one scene where the evil plan was outright blurted out to him and he didn't really take it seriously, but I'll take that as a joke. Also, in the way the episode does it, him beating Silico made a little more sense than it seems? He made the suit, of course he could make a better one.

There's also this cute scene where the Powerpuff Girls, obviously disinterested in the Professor's actual job, trying to make their dad look like this cool superhero by making a cheap home movie about him. It even comes with Bubbles holding up a cardboard cutout of Townsville at the beginning of it. Reminds me of that awesome cartoon about three superhero girls fighting crime that aired on Cartoon Network all those times ago. I think it was called "Teamo Supremo."

After that aforementioned "Professor beating up that villain that really deserved better" scene, we get an ending that's only downside is that it has the opposite problem of Memory Lane of Pain's ending: it treats the Professor as a good father figure when every other episode treats him like a Sitcom Dad. I do not see that problem as horrible as that episode's, though. The Professor should be a good father figure and Bubbles shouldn't be an "everyday hero". All in all, I think it's good.

Bad thing: I already mentioned the bad thing, so I will do this minor aside: we learn that Barry's mom is a stay-at-home ninja...who apparently speaks Korean? The show has used Japanese quite a bit before, so it's not that they can't tell the difference.

7. Power-Up Puff

Sure, this episode may be just a way for them to introduce everyone to the hit new accessory that will come with all of these toys, but I can't hate on how they did it. The episode involves Buttercup and Bubbles suddenly getting Green Lantern powers that can easily defeat giant monsters. Blossom feels like the odd one out, as her powers don't seem to show up.

While it is a little predictable how this episode would turn out, even if all the merchandising, promos, and the one episode that aired before this didn't spoil this episode's twist, I can't fault this episode for how it did it. It actually made me feel an emotion other than bewilderment, disgust, or apathy, which is more than I can say for a lot of the early Season 1 episodes.

After I watched this episode, I was worried that they weren't going to use their fists anymore. It turns out they barely even use the aura powers outside of special occasions, so that's all moot. Not much to say, other than this episode isn't too bad.

Bad thing: I get that this episode was supposed to make Blossom feel sad that she doesn't have aura powers, but sometimes it just goes way beyond uncomfortable. This is especially true with this line from the guy I was praising a few paragraphs ago!

Sitcom Dad: We don’t know if you will get powers. You may even lose the powers you already have, and be an ordinary little girl for the rest of your life! Uh, I love you! Good night!

Honestly, I'm surprised I didn't come up with the Sitcom Dad joke sooner than Green Wing.

6. Lights Out!

As implied with my #1 worst, I almost considered putting Find Your Bliss on this list. However, I realized it was really only okay in the beginning, it just had one of the best endings in a show that desperately needed episodes that even ended properly. This is the best Bliss episode, and funnily enough, it's the only one that doesn't have the word Bliss in the title.

Beyond being the best Bliss episode, the episode itself is pretty good, too. It's one of the many, many episodes that involves a science fair, and Bliss is showing off the Buggly, an earpiece that can generate anything! It's all well and good, until the power cuts out and the Bugglies stop working. And then Bliss turns out to be Silico in disguise, as he uses the Bugglies to control all of Townsville. Definitely a step up over his previous appearances, including the aforementioned Take Your Kids To Dooms Day.

This all ends with a surprisingly good fight scene between a trio that can make auras and someone with the power to generate anything, with the telekinetic teleportation girl helping out in various ways. Bliss doesn't heavily overshadow the other three with her ultra-super-duper-powers, something her other episodes definitely don't do. I can understand Power of Four doing it for the vast majority of its runtime to show how cool she is, but Never Been Blissed is basically the Memory Lane of Pain for everyone not named Bliss. They don't go too far in the other direction, either. She's necessary, but not overpowered. Perfectly balanced, that's how it should be.

Bad thing: This is the episode that gave us the term "uphill rollercoaster", a running gag that has no bearing on the plot, and has absolutely no payoff. This can describe a lot of running gags throughout the whole reboot, actually.

5. Home, Sweet Homesick

Starting from here are episodes I felt were genuinely good. Not "good compared to most of the reboot", I mean actually worth a watch. This is the lowest of the 5, but it certainly deserves its spot among the best. See, the episode starts off with Discount Jojo's hand getting broken by Blossom, complete with a bone breaking sound. 10/10, great episode. I'm just kidding, the rest of the episode is good, too.

The funny thing is that this episode essentially has the same moral as Painbow, except done in reverse. In Painbow, Buttercup needs to learn that there's a time for fun and a time to be serious. In this one, it's the complete opposite; Blossom sneers at this fun space camp, and wishes it would be serious. Blossom would be the only kid ever to enjoy Mario is Missing, apparently.

A particular stand-out scene is a musical number that happens right when Blossom goes into space. It's a parody of Space Oddity, and it perfectly fits the episode's tone. I will admit that some of the reboot's musical numbers that don't involve Buttercup grandma beatbox solos are actually quite good by themselves, but this is the only one to be nominated for an Annie. In fact, it's the only Annie this reboot was nominated for; they didn't nominate that horrible princess episode unlike a certain lesser non-animation-related award show. Unlike that one, I could say that nomination was deserved. Maybe not a win, but still.

It's good to see a use of a moral that actually did it justice, and it's good to see Blossom learning to have fun. Kind of wish it sticked, but nothing seems to stick with the Reboot Puffs.

Bad thing: There really isn't a reason why this plot needed to be done with superheroes beyond how she can survive in a rocket without a spacesuit. I have no reason to wonder why this episode starts with a Discount Jojo beatdown. Maybe that's why it's so good; it doesn't feel like a PPG 2016 episode.

4. The Oct-Father

It's amazing to think that an episode I reviewed just over two weeks ago would make this list, and it's easy to see why. What starts out as a decent Godfather parody turns into a psychological thriller, where we get to see what the Powerpuff Girls are from the villain's point of view. Kind of like a version of Taken where we focus on the kidnappers. I always wanted to see that sort of thing; that's one of the reasons why I was intrigued by that Bureau of Bad comic. To make a long story short, I was disappointed with that one, but not with this one.

Princess is running a scheme where she takes kid's toys when they're away from them, and ask them to give her offers that she will probably refuse in exchange for them. She tries this with Octi, and finds out that Bubbles has become a hardcore monotonous vengeance-seeker. We see all of the emotions she goes through with this as she desperately tries to get Bubbles to break with no avail, to the point where she breaks. It's entertaining, and it made me want to know what's coming next.

This is the best episode of Season 3, though it's not the best Princess episode, believe it or not! Princess is one of the few original villains that the reboot has not ruined, and this episode isn't the only example of that.

Bad thing: No, I don't think asking Bubbles for Octi would have her give it to you, ending.

3. Poorbucks

As hinted before, "character development" is practically non-existent in PPG 2016. It's sort of ironic; as most western cartoons of the 10s tended to go towards arcs, PPG 2016 was perfectly happy by being episodic and having everything go back to the status quo. If Blossom learned how to have fun, she ended up hating fun in the next episode. If Buttercup learned anything, pfft. This episode felt like a glimpse into a universe where PPG 2016 was like other cartoons that were airing in 2016.

Princess' father's company's stocks go down by a lot, causing her to become poor enough for her to beg the Powerpuff Girls to have her live in their home. Bubbles and Buttercup disagree with having this person who wanted to tear down their house a day ago live with them, but Blossom wants to bring out the good in her. After many nights of her being annoying, Blossom and Princess eventually bond over business, and we get a tease of a Princess face turn. They seemed to do that a lot in this reboot, but this is the episode where it felt genuine.

With that plot, a really cute musical number in the style of Schoolhouse Rock, and an ending that is downright heartwarming, this episode is worth of the number 3 spot. The saddest thing is that this wasn't a Season 3 episode; it was a Season 1 episode, during a time where people could have thought this was just like Steven Universe's more episodic Season 1. It really made me think this show was going to go places, and while it's disappointing that they never really went anywhere with it, I can't fault this episode for it.

Bad thing: Gotta love that character that only existed as an excuse for Princess to be evil again! And by love, I mean loathe. I don't need to mention his name, because that's all he did.

2. Fashion Forward

Out of all of the new villains, the Fashionistas are easily the best out of all of them in practice. The only problem I have with them is the lack of in-universe explanation of why she's paired up with a giant pink gorilla. Sure, she's a good excuse for this team to be any sort of threat to the Powerpuff Girls, but is there any other reason? The best we get is that Bianca considers Barbarus her "sister" in Bridezilla, already implied by her having the same last name. Whatever, that's beyond the scope of this list.

A new brand of scarves designed by these fashionistas becomes the latest fashion trend, and the Powerpuff Girls are denied them by their father figure because the Fashionistas are sending the wrong messages. Blossom seems to be the one that agrees with him the most until her peers in the student council decide to kick her out. Will she disobey her father? It is a good premise that ties into the superhero element of the show very well.

This episode is also one of the good Sitcom Dad episodes, to the point where I could call him Professor Utonium here, too. He becomes active in trying to get Blossom to learn the lesson he was trying to teach them, to the point where he is the major player in taking down the Fashionista's big evil plan. It's not a bad lesson, either: don't bow down to peer pressure, and looks aren't necessarily everything as much as the Fashionistas say it is.

This is the best episode of Season 1, though I would say it is a very close call with Poorbucks. This was the first episode that really stuck out to me as a episode I would watch again, and that meant it was downhill from there...except for one certain episode in Season 2.

Bad thing: As much as the Sitcom Dad's antics here don't bother me as much as certain other episodes, it just seemed ridiculous that him saving the day was more of an accident than anything. If one argues that he accidentally did it because he accidentally hit the Chemical X...he didn't, Jojo pushed him into it. I hope they still remember that.

Honorable Mentions:

Blundercup - I can see why people would hate this episode due to the odd premise of Buttercup turning into butter, but I actually found it interesting. We see a villain with lousy powers take the abilities of the extremely overpowered by normal superhero standards Buttercup, and Buttercup has to beat this villain with those lousy powers. In a way, it reminds me of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and anything that reminds me of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure needs to be in this list.

Splitsville - Here's another three shorts episode that was actually pretty good, with a neat idea for an ending! Too bad the Blossom part had that one scene, though. You'll know when you'll see it.

Our Brand Is Chaos - An excellent idea for an episode: Blossom going to all-but-said-to-be-Hell, and taking it over in her own way. Execution can use some work and it needed a better B plot, but still.

Man Up 2: Still Man-ing - This episode got a Neutral Buttercup when I reviewed it, but I can admit it grew on me over time. The minions, the motives, that killer vehicle Manboy has in this episode and only this episode, an actual fight scene in Season 1, I'd say this episode is a stand-out now.

Small World - This may be the only episode longer than 12 minutes I didn't hate at any point, though one part is a little disappointing than anything else. I was actually a bit intrigued with how the Powerpuff Girls could stop this Cheery Gumdrop Villain. Okay, maybe that villain wasn't that great, but still.

The Trouble With Bubbles - This episode could be a dishonorable mention as well, though I wouldn't call it a bad episode by any stretch of the imagination. It was so close to being an legitimately great episode, but it was ruined by the poor direction of the second half. What could have been great serious scenes are played for laughs for no reason. For a reboot that seems to love to have the "there's a time to be serious, and a time to be funny" moral, the reboot itself seems to need it the most!

Now that that's out of the way, here is a little backstory to this #1 pick. I watched quite a few episodes in Turkish. I will not say how, but I will say why: because episodes of PPG 2016 tend to air in other countries long before they get aired here, and getting a early look really helps with writing reviews even if I couldn't understand the language. When I saw this one in particular, I was convinced that this could either be the best episode of the reboot, or an episode that's almost worthy of being the best, and I only needed to know what they were saying to find out which. And, sure enough...

1. Bubbles The Blue

Much like Home Sweet Homesick, this episode was all about feelings. Specifically, this episode is about Bubbles being sad for some reason, and Blossom and Buttercup try to figure out ways to cheer her up. In a way, both of them end up missing the point. Here's a big hint to that: this episode is actually about depression. Not just being sad, but about the actual medical condition. That's not just one of my wacky theories, either; it's been confirmed to be about depression, and, for once, I sincerely believe that, because, unlike certain episode, they hit it out of the park with this one.

Buttercup deals with this in over the top ways, like stealing happy ray guns from Discount Jojo. Blossom, on the other hand, is just thinking it's something she did. In a way, Blossom is even more hurtful than Buttercup, as she eventually outright says that Bubbles must be doing this solely for attention, a sadly common line people with depression have to deal with. I've already detailed a lot of what this episode does right in my review of it, but there's one other aspect that needs to be highlighted.

Unlike Home Sweet Homesick, it seamlessly ties this serious message with the Powerpuff Girls' usual superhero setting. While they're trying to figure out what's wrong with Bubbles, Blossom and Buttercup keep getting interrupted by a giant armadillo that's destroying the city. We later learn that the armadillo actually has his own emotional problems, and only Bubbles could understand him. How does Bubbles get involved when she's constantly moping on the bed? Simple: the Professor decides to give her a talk about how it's okay to be sad sometimes. It's like he's an adult!

Best episode of Season 2, best episode of the reboot, way better than I thought it would ever be, and it might even crack the Top 50 Best Powerpuff Girls Episodes if I included episodes of the original. Okay, maybe I wouldn't go that far. Maybe.

Bad thing: I get what they were doing with Buttercup's character in this, but some of her antics are just not funny. One of the worst examples of this is right at the end, where she outright ruins the mood of what would have been a great final shot. This is especially bad when good final shots is something this reboot is starved for.

Well, that's it for the stack ups, but there's still two questions I need to answer.

How do the seasons stack up?

Season 1 is the season most people will think about when they think of this show, to the reboot's detriment. It was a growing period for the show, and "growing pains" would be an understatement. This was the season that brought us the twerking scenes, the references to internet memes, the Nike swoosh fight scenes, and 6 of the episodes on my worst list. Some may argue that Season 1's bumbling incompetency may be more interesting than the mediocrity that plagues most of Season 2 and 3. I disagree.

Season 2 is an improvement over Season 1 in every way. They toned down the meme references to the point where I can only think of that one reference to the late Grumpy Cat. It didn't have any twerking from the Puffs, and the crime fighting increased by quite a bit. Also, they didn't misspell the word "storyboarded by" in the credits at any point, which is an improvement over Season 1. It's not enough for a Happy, though.

Season 3 is a slight improvement over Season 2, if not as significant between the jump between Season 1 and 2. I would say that it did have a few more guilty pleasure episodes in my opinion, though they did not make the Top 10. It did give us its best special, as easy as that merit is, and it's good to see that the show didn't deteriorate like most last seasons. Sadly, it's not enough for me to consider giving it the Happy.

It is interesting to see the slight improvement over each season, which is sort of a tragedy considering the reboot is often represented by that No Me Gusta face it pulled in the first season. Sure, there were some rather ugly face faults in later episodes, but nothing got as bad as that. Speaking of which, I must answer one last question:

Was PPG 2016 really that bad?

It's not the absolute worst show that has ever aired on Cartoon Network; I'd rather watch this over Problem Solverz or Pet Alien. When it comes to The Powerpuff Girls...yeah, it's not a pretty comparison, let's leave it at that.

I'll say this: PPG 2016 is the worst of the three Cartoon Network reboots by a considerable margin. Teen Titans Go, while everyone loves to hate it, does have its moments of pure comedic gold, and it had a great movie. Ben 10 2016, from all I've seen, is a pretty good kid's action cartoon, and I have heard it's actually really good after the first season. Only time will tell if it compares favorably to Thundercats Roar, if that show ever gets to exist.

After watching every episode of this reboot, I can say that if I decided to stop watching the show after that twerking panda episode, I would have missed a little bit of content that is of at least decent quality. Unfortunately, that is a small minority of episodes in a muck of episodes that are mediocre at best.

It's not that bad, it's just not good. Watch the original series, watch the movie, watch that 2010 Powerpuff Girls Rule special, and give this one a pass. One may miss out on some decent episodes, but in the end, ignorance is bliss.

For those who read my reviews since the beginning, those who just found me because of these lists, and everyone in-between: thank you.

Hurrah for Cartoon Network and the Powerpuff Girls. Bye.

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imagine-hetalia-countries · 5 years ago

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Hit the read more if you want to know about the personal things that have been keeping me away from the blog, ignore this post if you don’t care. It’s long and there’s a lot to cover.

Alright, where to start... well, if you’ve been around long enough, you’ll remember Mod Ruebi and me used to run this blog together. She’s still somewhat active in helping me with requests, but for the most part, it’s all me now. Ruebi and I had a falling out a bit after the blog’s original hiatus.

The cause of that falling out is trust. Our friend group consists of a close-knit group of people, we trust each other with everything. There’s five of us now, but we were four back then. A new person had tried to come into the group, we’ll call her Alice. Not her real name or even her screen name.

At first, Alice was great. Ruebi and I got along with her, our other two friends also got along with her. Everything was fine. Then, I had a night where I felt horrible. If you don’t know, I selfship. I selfship to cope with things. That’s important to this story. I followed Alice’s blog here on Tumblr, I knew her blog when I saw it ask a blog I followed- one that occasionally roleplays as one of my main f/os. I saw it the night I felt like shit.

To paraphrase “omg you’re so hot I shouldn’t love you but I do” to anyone else, this might seem like she’s not saying it in a selfship way, but trust me, she was. If she knew we liked a character, she did too. None of us said anything because we thought she did it for coping as we did. I’ll get into that in a bit. Anyway, I already felt like shit but that made it worse. I was talking to one of our other friends, one I’m still friends with today. We’ll call this friend Josie.

Josie tried to reason with me that she might not mean it as selfshipping. She said her screen name. Keep in mind, this conversation was happening on Quotev, I was on an account that Alice didn’t follow, Josie was on an account that she did, so while she didn't see anything I said, she saw everything Josie said. Alice immediately assumed Josie and someone else was talking shit about her. I only saw Josie’s responses to Alice, but all my misery turned into anger when I saw her accusing my friend of talking about her behind her back. I got angry when I saw how the tone in Josie's posts would switch from trying to help my emotions and trying to get Alice to back off. I went to an account she followed and told her off. I got very heated and very angry. I included her knowing the shit I’ve been through and why I need the character she sent that message to as a coping mechanism. I got very angry, I let my emotions drive what I said. I was upset at her for turning everything around to be about her all the time, I was angry about her calling Narancia’s boyfriend a snake. I was pissed at her, I didn't think about what I said.

An hour later, I’ve deleted what I said to her and apologized. She doesn’t seem to care. Next day- because this happened around 2am- Ruebi and Narancia are told what happened. Narancia tried to talk to Alice to see what her side of the story was, we all just tried to be civil and move on. Alice refused to move on. Alice started talking about us, started calling us names. Josie, Narancia, and I had unfollowed and blocked her at this time. Ruebi still hadn’t. Alice kept talking about us for six months. She kept posting about us and making fun of us for six months.

I don’t blame Ruebi for this anymore. I’ve moved on and I’m not angry anymore. But back then, I was upset and hurt by it. I talked to Josie and Narancia about it, they both agreed that we needed to talk to Ruebi about it. I did it for them since at that time I was the only one of us that talked to her every day. Her bond with Narancia and Josie had already dwindled, because of Ruebi needing to get away from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, which the rest of us were (and still are) basically obsessed with. JJBA is where the character in all this comes from. I explained the situation, how I know I shouldn’t make her choose between friends, but that seeing her still talking to Alice after what Alice did hurts. I explained it to her. As far as I’m aware, that still talk occasionally

But that is not the straw that broke the camel’s back. No, that draw was when Narancia came to me with a link to a new account. One that Ruebi had made in secret to get away from the rest of us. To talk to Alice and get away from us talking about what made us happy.

That’s what caused the falling out to be so bad. We’ve taken a break and I’ve talked to her recently. We are trying to repair some form of friendship, she's not active on the blog, but she does still help me with things on the doc.

Alright... with that part out of the way, we can get into the recent stuff.

My nephew- my oldest brother’s son- is going through a lot. I’ve been talking to him and trying to be there for him over discord as much as possible. To put it simply, he’s trans, his mother is a terrible parent (not that she doesn’t accept him, she does, but other reasons), and he has suicidal tendencies. I’ve been trying to talk to him every week at least to remind him that he has someone who loves him.

My father... oh boy. No other way to say it, he is an abusive asshole. He kept my mother awake for a week. On purpose. He pissed on the floor. And I’m not saying that he pissed his pants- which he does- in saying that he pulled his penis out of his pants and pissed on the floor. On purpose. The bathroom was open. That’s the kind of person he is. Anyway, we have him in the Jackson VA hospital right now, but we’re looking at moving him into long term care. Mom can’t take care of him anymore, she’s afraid for her and us. He cut off her c-pap’s vent one night. He tried to kill her.

Ah... I think that’s everything big that's been happening. I’ve been stressed out and trying to keep friends and family from getting stressed. I’ll be back soon though. I have a few requests finished and some of my own things in drafts.

#not an imagine #mod oasis #personal stuff #tw abuse #i've needed to get what happened off my chest for a long time #long post #i'll be posting requests soon i promise

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the-e4b · 7 years ago

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I have a very good inkling on who this anon might be. And if it’s true what I’m thinking then you just lowered yourself immensely in my regards of respect. I have only one watcher on DA that knows and criticized me on my statuses (because those are private to watchers) AND is a fan of Peet.

And no, there were no “allegations of tracing”. You saw the pictures yourself in an earlier post. They might not be 100% traced but you can’t deny that almost 90% of the picture was. Then there is also the fact that this artist was spreading rumors about me harassing others and I gave my watchers hard evidence that it was not me who was harassing anyone. Granted, I was no angel but I didn’t do anything wrong in the aspect of harassment. And I shared my comments together with that hard evidence so I left NOTHING out of that whole ordeal.

And that brings me to the next thing: We do not make empty accusations. We have proof for those. Screenshots and archived links, might I add. You know what those are? Those are links that come directly from the source and stay on the internet for as long as the internet exists.

Peet was throwing some things out of the window lately regarding some “lies and slander” we were throwing at it. Shall we begin?

Let’s start with the most important thing of all, the pedophilia accusations. No, it’s not because you have a relationship of a 47yo with a 24yo or because you feature a pedophile being institutionalized. It’s because you had a scene written in your original story (which you deftly removed after being pointed out) that had a 14 year old Scootaloo having wild sex with a fully grown, mentally unstable Rainbow Dash. https://archive.fo/pd2N9 (last point on Trivia if you scroll down) and like I said, the internet never forgets: https://fimfetch.net/story/170125/stockholm?html#14 HUGE NSFW WARNING!!! (If you scroll through starting from where the link leads you, you will come across a horizontal line that’s followed by a part entirely written in cursive, that’s the “juicy stuff”) Which also brings us to the fact that Peet was manipulating its audience to draw R34 art of a minor (at the time) because she disagreed with a ship on Tumblr. https://archive.is/tz299

Second accusation: The fact that Peet says that it never told anyone to kill themselves (this one’s not that hard to debunk, just go check its privatized twitter) https://archive.fo/Lm5aS . Also check Josh’s “response to Peet” video. In the description you’ll find tons of “Kill republicans” archives.

Third accusation: the sockpuppet accounts. Well, please, don’t let ME explain myself, let me show you someone who can, an admin of a site where Peet had several sockpuppet accounts and was banned for it.

https://derpibooru.org/434414#comment_1859030

Now the only accusation I’m not going to throw is Tara. Tara is allegedly a girlfriend that Peet made up and then was thrown into prison for owning child porn. I would love to proof that but unfortunately there is too less proof for this fact to hold. The only thing we know is that the avatar she used on several sites was a picture found on Google. And that there were a lot of suspicious things going on at that time to make us believe that Tara was a fake persona of Peet. (But like I said, no hard proof unfortunately).

Last thing before I pass the torch to my fellow mods: See Peet, we make only accusations that have legit proof and when WE are accused of something we don’t do damage control or pretend it never happened (a.i. delete our posts or block the people who criticize us). When we are accused of sth we will own up to it if it’s true or debunk it with hard facts. Not write endless paragraphs turning around the same point but never adressing the actual point.

The one throwing a temper tantrum when contradicted and throwing their toys out of the pram is not us, deary. It’s you.

- SM

What we have here as my co-mod eloquently stated is a response to an ask from an anonymous watcher who had been quite the bother to us in the past who watched our Space Mare… or it could be a former subject on the blog who googled her up to find some juicy dirt. I wanted to talk about my thoughts on a certain comment in the response talking about our ‘recent’ post… I think we’ve had more asks since that one you singled ouyt

As DP said in a previous ask, if Peet were to change and stop breaking people down, we would back off right here

I said something similar when we received an ask corresponding to the last post over here suggesting I wouldn’t remove the screencaps and archives, keeping them as a reminder of not becoming your on-air persona. Peets felt it would be better if “I would pretend nothing happened and keep up the posts…”

I’m confused here, what do you mean ‘nothing happened’? This blog is merely a catalogue of some of the worst individuals in the fan base and you are on the way to being the worst, you’re tied with a man who hid his niece’s Twilight Sparkle toy because he believed Alicorn Twilight Sparkle would make women regress back to the 50’s way of social norms.

We want people to learn from these footnotes of how to better themselves and try not to let history repeat itself because the future belongs to the next generation and they shouldn’t follow down the same path as we have to emotional oblivion.

-JoJo

Figured I’d add my two cents as well (and keeping myself calm by not flying into the usual swearing rage to chill-hop).

It’s amusing that Jerry once again pulls the political card on the blog and says we’re right-leaning.

Oh sure, coming from the person who’s so infamously left that even 4chan would cringe at, example?

Or use a tragedy like a shooting as his soapbox and rage to the echo chamber he calls his tumblr:

Clearly Jerry knows how America works as a country. It’s called research Jerry, sweetie. Learn it!

As we’ve made clear on this blog, we’re not at all interested in politics, regardless of what the ever screechy DisneyMaster once accused us of. I can’t speak for my friends on their political view but I’ve stated I stopped caring for political topics due to how abrasive people turn over them. And while the blog has made a few political posts, it’s rare and it’s always in a neutral stance.

Meanwile Jerry over there goes so political left that it’s not even funny, such as:

Stating the Republican Party only panders to “neo-nazis”,”the KKK”, and the “big stupid masses”.

Screeching that Donald Trump should be killed.

Saying Pence should also be killed.

STILL thinking the Electoral Collage doesn’t work because “WAH HILARY SHOULD HAVE WON!”

Blaming the Orlando shooting on Republicans because “THEY AGAINST LGBT!!!”.

And of course the one that struck a nerve:

“If you don’t enforce politics in your reviews, you are a terrible critic”

If that’s the fucking case, then the late Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel sucked at making movie reviews.

In all honesty, that post might as well be Jerry again throwing a fit because there are people out there who don’t like his actions and will critique him for it.

It’s lovely to see the sodium each time Jerry focuses his time yelling at his detractors than his content.

…Then again, that’d be considered a saving grace considering his content is as bad as his rage inducing posts on tumblr.

But the archived postd don’t lie. But we’re still gonna get a fucking “KNOB” post. I can feel it.

- deafpony

#space mare post #lily peet #jerry peet #jojo mod post #collaboration post #deaf pony post

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dispensemiracles · 7 years ago

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HOW HAS YOUR CHARACTER DEVELOPED FROM THEIR ORIGINAL CONCEPT ?

IF YOU HAVE A CANON CHARACTER, answer in the sense of what made you want to play them, how you have come to interpret them differently -

PART ONE. what thing(s) initially inspired your character ? -

I’ll try to keep the Jojo influences not mentioned as much here because literally everyone and their mother has heard me preach about Nozomi being while not identical to Joseph Joestar, extremely similar in core aspects of their personalities (honor, trickery, cleverness, being a bit of a joking and awkward jackass, intelligence, jolliness, selfishness, thinking they know everything but they dont, being easily emotionally charged during critical moments that happen outside their predictions or are too heavy for them emotionally etc.). Instead I’ll go into more of other characters or things.

As you all know I’ve said before that I use my own understanding of my similar emotions to Nozomi’s regarding her core personality despite the sometimes different circumstances we’ve been formed in. I draw heavily to most importantly what I both remember in feeling emotions in response to various situations in my life as well as empathizing with and understanding the emotions Nozomi displays in canon. I personally can find something for Nozomi in every aspect of daily living too. At moments of me doing anything and I mean truly anything, I’ll have that thought of “How would Nozomi approach this?” or “Would Nozomi like this?” or “What would a Nozomi version of this look like and how does this make her feel?” etc. Because I think this and essentially practice it daily to every other day, I not only draw from how my life experiences make me feel but also in adapting merely the situation I’m in itself to Nozomi’s character. Thus I try my best to make her feel herself but above all, Human. Nozomi has become a part of me in full, and my life itself and the things or people I encounter so too contribute to how I refine her; and the answers don’t always have to line up with what I personally believe. In fact for her I try to distance imprinting myself onto her as much as possible. I want to be professional about it.

Of course however I’m not entirely above letting spite influence what goes into me writing Nozomi. Half of the reason I’m so steadfastly dedicated to canon when writing canon Nozomi verses and let her canon personality form the core of all my AUs- is because of how I see her treated at large by the Love Live! fandom. I’ll keep it brief because this is also something I’ve spent months yelling about so it doesn’t need to be exhausted. In fandom by and large Nozomi is treated as being heavily or only subservient, entirely dependent, lacking any capability for any emotion beyond pathetic attempts at replicating her carefree side/facade, lacking any capacity for intelligence or basic human reasoning, lacking in morals instead of being awkward on boundaries due to childhood social isolation, as being nothing more than a caricature of what this site finds to define a lesbian; hypersexual, predatory but in denial of this predatory nature, morally bankrupt, incapable of regarding the dignity, independence, and value of human life, constantly passive aggressive, fetishistic, compliant without a fight in abusive ship fics, little more than a savage inhuman brain dead animal. This fandom projects the fact that the majority of it is comprised of people who yell and scream about why no girl loves them and that they respect women as they sit at home and jerk off to minors and god knows what else and approach life entitled and passive aggressive themselves; the rejects of human society and civilization. Like hell I’m going to roll over and let that bullshit dictate what would make me a Nozomi blog and most offensively obscure the truth.

PART TWO. how has their personality developed from their first concept ? -

Much like I’m going to repeat below and which I’ve also discussed before, my original focus on Nozomi was magnifying her Joseph Joestar-like traits. Then I’d sprinkle in my own limited headcanons and stumble with keeping her canon personality in tact as I myself was trying to fully determine it in the beginning. I still however gave attention to the subject of how her rough childhood shaped her worldview; something I continue to do today. One of my favorite asks from that time is this.

Since then I’ve better grasped her true canon personality and my thoughts on it and have made her come into her own. Thus I feel very comfortable throwing her into situations drastically different from what she goes through in canon (as I have done many times now); while feeling that I can translate her canon personality in tact. I don’t make her such a gimmicky almost Joseph clone like I used to. It’s also gotten far easier to write for her as I’ve attuned my thought process to hers and come to see it as second nature by now.

Nozomi can be bold, she can be shy, she can be adventurous, she can be clever, she’s great at pattern recognition, she loves plants and appreciates nature, she can get angry, she can be mysterious and mischievous, she can have her heart broken and not let go, be possessive, jealous, kind, compassionate, protective, a person with her own beliefs and ideals who constantly tries to justify them in the world she lives in because all she really wants is the love she never had as a girl.

PART THREE. how has their appearance developed from their first incarnation ? -

Frankly here there’s not much different as the last question. Though I’d like to add that following people who are amazingly as dedicated to their own characters as I am has absolutely also played a major influence. I’ve been inspired to push myself in refining Nozomi simply by reading someone’s detailed headcanon that while they think is rambling I consider genius. It’s uplifting to see people who give their all without hesitation, without prompting being necessary, and without shortcuts or attempts at sounding deep. Their passion is infectious and has furthered my dedication to all my blogs. Music too has also played a major part in the things I associate to Nozomi and how I try to incorporate my imagination from music into writing.

PART FOUR. what do you think most makes your character unique ? -

Nozomi definitely falls into an archetype of “mysterious trouble maker with a heart of gold who seeks attention” which is definitely one of my favorite sorts of characters. I think what kinda separates her from other characters like that that I know of is that shes very mild in expressing it by comparison to say another of my fav characters, Asuka Langley Soryu or even Francesca Lucchini, Faye Valentine etc. I’ve also never seen one of those sorts use tarot cards as part of their act; which was something that surprised me and reminded me of my paternal grandmother who actually does do fortune telling with them and did so when I was a kid. I would actually see her do a divination for her clients. Sometimes she even tried to teach me how to use cards or read my fortune. So I guess the nostalgia makes Nozomi that much more special.

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duhragonball · 3 years ago

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Battle Tendency Liveblog: JJBA Ch. 99-104

Personally, I prefer it when JoJos have a smaller supporting cast, but I will admit that it has it’s downsides. For example, Joseph doesn’t have any one handy to talk to in scenes like these, so he just has to announce everything he does to nobody in particular.

Last time, Joseph was fighting Wammu in this zany midnight chariot race with vampire horses. Sometimes you have to type these sentences out to appreciate just what the “B�� stands for in JJBA. There’s a pillar on the track where weapons are provided, and Joseph managed to snare a big ol’ warhammer. This was done mainly to keep it away from Wammu, who’s already big and strong enough as it is. But it also makes a great equalizer for Joseph. By covering it with oil, he can charge the hammer with Hamon and tee off on Wammu. Wammu has that Hyper Storm Ultra Deluxe, or whatever he calls it, but he needs both hands to use it, so he can’t use his finisher and hold the reins on his chariot at the same time.

But Wammu was counting on Joseph to go for the big hammer. Wammu doesn’t need it, because he can just rip off the top of the pillar and bludgeon Joseph with that. There’s a lot of moments like these in this fight, where Joseph seems to forget that he’s dealing with a Pillar Man. Maybe it’s because Esidisi didn’t show off these kinds of powers during their battle. Santana did, but he never bothered with chariots and warrior codes and all of Wammu’s other quirks. So I think Joseph kind of got so distracted by all of Wammu’s other qualities that he lost sigh of the fact that he’s a super-strong monster.

So Joseph gets knocked off his own chariot, and Wammu’s all set to run him right over. There’s a small chance that Joseph might try to dodge to the left or right, but Wammu seems very prepared for any outcome.

Except this one! Joseph grabs his hammer, confusing everyone, and then he slams it down on the bar linking the two horses together on Wammu’s chariot. This lets him vault over the horses and onto one of their backs. So now he can just tee off on Wammu, like he originally planned, right?

Nope, because while Joseph was pulling that stunt, Wammu entered the body of one of the horses. Also, like when Santana snuck inside of Stroheim’s leg, the horse doesn’t feel any pain from this intrusion, so it just keeps running, and Wammu is free to reach out and grab Joseph’s boot.

But Joseph just shimmies out of his boot, so he’s in no danger at all. And now that Joseph knows where he is, he can just finally tee off on Wammu, right?

Wrong! Now that he’s inside the horse, Wammu doesn’t need to bother holding the reins, so he can use both hand to hit Joseph with Holy Super Double Secret Sand Storm 64! At point blank range, even! Joseph’s dead, right?

Kars sure seems to think so, as he orders room service. Lisa Lisa looks... well, inscrutable, but she stands up, which is a clever use of body language to communicate what she won’t show with her face.

Kars congratulates her on Joseph’s performance, but Wammu is clearly the victor, so all that’s left is the second match. Ah, but Kars doesn’t like to fight women, and Wammu dislikes it even more. So Kars tosses her a bottle of poison and suggests that she use that to die painlessly. I always liked that gesture from Kars. The Pillar Men are ruthless, and Kars especially so, but he can still display a sliver of graciousness. He needs Lisa dead, and he won’t hesitate to kill her if he has to, but he doesn’t particularly want to do it himself.

Except no, Joseph is totally fine, and Wammu is all fucked up somehow! Kars doesn’t pick up on this until his vampire servants all cry out in horror. What the hell happened? Well, Lisa Lisa is suprised too, but she manages to figure it out.

Turns out, Joseph had the Sandstorm scouted. The hammer was a diversion, as his barefoot snagged the reins on Wammu’s chariot. You know, the reins Wammu couldn’t hold, because he was too busy preparing his Sand Storm attack. You know, the reins that conduct Hamon.

The result is that Joseph’s totally fine, and he only pretended to sell any injury from the Sand Storm, which probably didn’t have that much punch behind it, because Wammu was getting zapped as he executed it. But Wammu’s arms are all fucked up now, and more importantly, his confidence has been shattered, because no one’s ever gotten one over him like this before, ever.

But Kars is still confident, because of something called “Switch Winback”, a technique used by athletes to overcome these kinds of devastating setbacks. I’m not going to go into the exact concept, because I can’t tell if it’s a real thing or just something Araki made up, but the gist is that Wammu can get back into the game by activating a particular “trigger”. For Wammu, that “trigger” is gouging out his own eyes. According to him, he can operate more effectively by sensing air currents via his special horn.

So they go around for another lap, and this time around the weapons offered are crossbows, one big and one little. Joseph goes for the big one, thinking he can use it’s greater power, but he isn’t strong enough to draw the string, so he can’t load the darn thing. Meanwhile, Wammu can use the smaller crossbow just fine, even without his eyes. He fires once, just to get a handle on it, and blows off the entire head of one of Joseph’s horses. Damn!

Joseph thinks he can fool Wammu’s senses by staying on the opposite side of the track from him. There’s a big fire pit in the center, you see, and Joseph figures the flames will hide his presence. This is true, except that by doing this, Joseph is basically telling Wammu exactly where he is: on the opposite side of the track. So Wammu lines up his second shot and fires away from Joseph, hitting the rim of the track. The ball careens around the circle and nails Joseph from behind. Ouch!

So Joseph’s fucked, right? Not quite, because falling off his horse somehow allowed him to pull his drawstring into position. He fires, but seemingly in the wrong direction. Then he starts to panic, tossing stones at Wammu’s chariot like a punk.

But this was just a diversion to keep Wammu from sensing the shot coming at him from behind. Joseph’s shot wasn’t a misfire, he simply aimed in the reverse trajectory to the shot Wammu had fired at him.

So now it’s Wammu who’s clearly at a disadvantage. There’s a gaping hole in his chest, and the Hamon from that shot is causing the wounds in his arms to get worse. He tumbles from his chariot, trying to lure Joseph in for a kick, but Joseph sees it coming and hits him with an Overdrive on Wammu’s legs.

But Wammu’s not finished. He uses his own wound to his advantage, launching his severed arms out of it like a cannon, and into Joseph’s throat. This disrupts his breathing, giving Wammu an opening to use his ultimate move. No, not the Sand Storm thing, he’s got no arms left. I’m talking about his ultimate ultimate move, the one he never mentioned before: Converging Squall? That’s a terrible name. I hope that’s just a scanlation thing, but I’m not going to waste time looking up the official name.

Anyway, the gist is that Wammu sucks in air from tubules in his back, compresses it in his lungs, then sprays it back out through a razor-thin aparture in his horn, I think. So it’s like the deadly spray of oil from the Hell Climb Pillar, only with air. Kars knows how this move works, but he also knows that it could kill Wammu if he isn’t careful. And Wammu’s already wounded and desperate, so this could end poorly.

And it does! Joseph can’t use the Ripple, and Wammu has him more or less cornered by the fire, but Joseph makes an improvised candle out of his trusty oil bottle, and tosses it at Wammu. Wammu destroys the bottle before it can even get near him, thanks to the high sensitivity of his horn. He can’t pinpoint Joseph’s location because he’s too close to the fire, but he can sense anything Joseph throws at him. Then Joseph tries lighting Caesar’s headband and throws that at him. Wammu cuts that apart as well... but that’s just what Joseph was hoping he would do.

See, Wammu’s been pulling in all this air from his surroundings, and that means he sucked in all the oil from the bottle, and the flaming cloth, and when they meet inside Wammu’s lungs...

Well, Wammu explodes, leaving just a head. Worse, the Hamon attacks have reached said head, and Wammu’s probably got a few minutes at best. The fight is over. Joseph goes to finish the job, but instead of using a final Ripple, he spills his own blood on Wammu instead. Wammu thinks this is an act of despicable pity, but Joseph explains that it’s a gesture of respect, just like Wammu letting Caesar’s blood bubble float away.

Realizing that Wammu is toast, the vampires in the audience try to take matters into their own hands and attack Lisa and Joseph. But Lisa kicks their asses, and Wammu loads his own head onto one of the crossbows and launches himself into his own goon squad. Even on the verge of death, he refuses to allow the vampires to attack Joseph in such a dishonorable way. Wammu fought with honor and lost, and he’s prepared to accept his fate.

Wammu’s last request is for Joseph to drink the antidote from Wammu’s lip ring, the one Caesar stole and sent to Joseph in the blood bubble. Joseph does, and then salutes Wammu as the last of him is destroyed.

You know, this kind of reminds me of how Anderson went out near the end of Hellsing, and even his enemies paid their respects to him as he died. There’s a few other similarlities to Hellsing that I’ve noticed while reading this. Lisa Lisa is a no-nonsense leader-lady who smokes, like Sir Integra, Stroheim is a cyborg Nazi, like the Major, and I guess Caesar kind of looks like Seras if you squint hard enough. Oh, and this final battle takes place under the full moon, like nearly ever battle in Hellsing.

Okay, it’s not much, but I’d really like to know of Kouta Hirano took any inspiration from JoJo. He must have, right? Guile from Street Fighter ripped off Stroheim’s hairdo. Yu Yu Hakusho ripped off the Stands. Everyone was ripping off stuff from Jojo in the 90′s.

Anyway, Wammu’s dead, and the vampire goons turn on him almost immediately. “Aw, Wammu was a big jerk,” they say, forgetting how they were cheering for him only minutes earlier. Lisa is disgusted by their fickle attitude, and Kars destroys them for their disrespect. Also, he eats them, maybe because he wants to be ready. He still has to fight Lisa Lisa, after all.

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psychosistr · 6 years ago

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Worth It Chapter 9- Well Rested

Summary: Caesar has trouble sleeping, so Joseph helps him sleep..and takes advantage of it to gain some insight into their current relationship.

Notes: Once again, this chapter contains hypnosis, though a bit less subtle and more outright this time as it’s from Joseph’s perspective but Caesar is still unaware of what’s going on.

Joseph blinked and stared at Caesar for a good minute, his brain trying to fully process the request Caesar had just made. “….Huh..?” Was the only intelligible sound to fall out of his mouth, making Caesar roll his eyes in annoyance.

“Mama mia, Jojo- I didn’t stutter, did I?” Caesar’s annoyed scowl was still visible, even in the darkness of the bedroom with only the light of the stars and the moon peeking through gaps in the curtains offering any illumination. He folded his arms as best as he could with the chains keeping him attached to the bed, leaving them resting on his crossed pajama-clad legs as he was already sitting up. “I asked if you could put those earbuds in for me.”

Joseph cocked his head to the side, still a bit confused at being woken up for such an odd request. “No, I heard you. Guess I just don’t get why you had to wake me up at-” He glanced at the clock on his nightstand to confirm the time. “-three in the morning to ask that.”

Caesar huffed in irritation as he lay back on the bed. “Because I’m having trouble sleeping, damn it. I’ve been trying for the past few hours now, but I just can’t seem to fall asleep for more than a few minutes.” He turned his head on the pillows to face Joseph better. “Those music mixes you play while you’re gone usually help me relax, and I’ve even fallen asleep to them a few times before. So I thought, maybe, it could help me sleep now.”

Joseph nodded as he listened to Caesar’s explanation. The reasoning was sound, the request just caught him by surprise. Caesar had never ASKED for the earbuds before and had simply seemed to accept them as part of his daily routine whenever Joseph went to work. Joseph had planted a subliminal message in more than a few of the mixes for Caesar to relax while listening to the music and enjoy it- he just wasn’t sure how well that bit had taken root in Caesar’s mind. This seemed like pretty good proof, though. Actually, Joseph had designed a new mix a while ago that he wanted to try out..seemed like as good a time as any, he thought..

“Yeah, sure thing, Caesar! You could’ve told me you were having trouble sleeping earlier, y’know?” He said as he opened the drawer of his nightstand and pulled out the earbuds and MP3 player. “Here, hold still..” He held Caesar’s chin gently in one hand and slipped the earbuds in carefully, securing them with the elastic behind his ears. “There, good to go.” He said with a smile and gave Caesar’s cheek a tender caress before moving back over to grab the MP3. He scrolled through the playlists he’d made and selected the one he wanted, leaving the volume at its normal level for now, then lay down next to Caesar again. “Sweet dreams, Caesarino~<3”

Caesar yawned softly, unable to cover his mouth as he closed his eyes and got more comfortable on the bed. “Grazie, Jojo…”

Joseph couldn’t help the soft smile that bloomed on his face due to the warm feeling in his chest. It felt so nice to be called “Jojo” by Caesar again. He felt like he was out of the metaphorical dog house now. Sure, Caesar only called him “Joseph” when they first met, but once they became friends he’d been upgraded to “Jojo”. After that he would use that as a gauge to determine what kind of mood Caesar was in or if he was in trouble for something: “Jojo” meant that everything was fine, well within normal levels even if Caesar seemed annoyed about something, and Joseph wasn’t in any serious trouble. “Joseph”, on the other hand, usually meant that Caesar was two second away from hitting him upside the head with something, he was on very thin ice, or that he was still in trouble for something even if it had been resolved hours ago. So, to Joseph, Caesar finally calling him “Jojo” again was a HUGE sign that things were cooling down between them.

He heard Caesar’s breath evening out and growing slower, a sign that he had truly fallen asleep. To test this, Joseph reached out and gently carded his fingers through Caesar’s blond locks. He noted that his hair felt a little bit greasier than usual, but it was still pleasantly soft to the touch. When Caesar didn’t stir from the touch, Joseph took this as a good sign and slowly drew closer after grabbing the MP3 player, careful not to wake his beautiful sleeping lover. With as much care and precision as he could manage in the dark, Joseph positioned himself so that he was curled around Caesar, one arm around the unaware blonde’s waist and the other snaked behind Caesar’s shoulders before winding up to continue gently stroking his hair.

Caesar still didn’t wake up, only making soft mumbling sounds in his sleep as he was adjusted. “Nh..”

Joseph smiled more, unable to get over how absolutely precious Caesar looked when he slept. He had to remind himself to gaze later, work first. He’d wanted to try this very scenario for a while now and he couldn’t let it slip away!

With his resolve hardened, Joseph used the hand around Caesar’s waist to turn the music down to half-volume. “Caesar..” He began softly. “Are you awake..?”

Caesar exhaled softly, his breathing still even and slow. “No..” His voice came out breathy and barely there, but it was the reaction Joseph had hoped for. Now to test the waters…

“Good. Stay asleep, Caesar. Stay asleep, but keep listening to my voice. Let it draw you deeper and deeper into that comfortable sleepy state- let yourself fall deeper and deeper with each word. You feel very relaxed right now. You feel safe and warm- nothing can harm you here, so you can keep falling freely. You can keep falling and falling because you know that you are safe with me..”

Caesar practically melted against him, any tension that was in him before completely gone now. “Relaxed…safe…falling…”

Joseph smiled again. Perfect, this was working out just as he’d planned. He had designed this particular music mix with the idea of being around Caesar when he had the earbuds in. The script was very light on this one- simply commanding him to let his consciousness fall asleep while his subconscious accepted what it was told and responded accordingly. He’d originally planned to save it for his next day off during the week so he could set Caesar up like normal and just not leave- but what great luck for Caesar to actually ASK for them!

“That’s it, Caesar..” Joseph spoke as he held Caesar to him gently. “You’re falling away from your conscious self, leaving only your unguarded subconscious here in my arms. I am going to count down from five, each number making you drop faster and faster, until, when I reach one, you will be left completely open for me- only able to tell the truth and accept what I say. Ready..?”

Caesar’s reply was a mumbled groan of affirmation. “Mhmmmm..”

Joseph started the countdown, gently rubbing Caesar’s back with one hand to help with the feeling of ease he was trying to create. “Five..feel yourself dropping away..Four..your conscious mind becoming quieter with each breath you take..Three..the warmth of my arms is drawing you in..Two..your conscious mind is so far away now..and..One..only your subconscious is left..” To test if it worked, Joseph leaned back enough to look at Caesar’s eyes. “Now, I want you to remain like this while opening your eyes- only your subconscious mind is awake now.”

Caesar exhaled a soft sigh and opened his eyes slowly, only getting them half-way open as he stared ahead unseeingly. “….”

So far so good. Now to gather some information. “Caesar. I am going to ask you some questions now. You will answer them honestly because your subconscious is unable to lie- either to me or to yourself. Say yes if you understand me.”

There was a barely-there nod of Caesar’s head. “Yes, Jojo…”

“Good..now..” Joseph took in a deep breath, getting his questions mentally sorted based on how pressing the answers he needed were. “Are you afraid of me?”

“No…but…I am worried about you…”

Well, that was an answer he hadn’t expected. “Why are you worried about me?”

“Your behavior…it is…scary…I am worried that you might snap…and…kill one or both of us…or…get caught by the police…don’t…want you to get hurt…”

While Joseph was touched that Caesar worried about his safety, he didn’t like that Caesar thought he’d actually KILL one of them. “You really think that I would kill you or myself..?”

“Not on purpose…but…I can’t predict you anymore…don’t know what could set you off…”

Joseph frowned a bit at that. He felt bad- he would never do anything like that. He loved Caesar too much to even THINK about killing him, and if he died he’d be leaving Caesar alone. He’d have to work on his behavior around Caesar a bit… “Do you still think I am going to hurt you?”

“No…you kept your word…haven’t hurt me…or drugged me…or touched me…I trust you not to hurt me…”

Joseph’s frown lifted a little at that. At least Caesar trusted him again. “Do you like it when I touch you now?”

“Yeah…feels nice…comforts me…”

Joseph smiled a bit more at that. Good. That was a good start. “Do you ever think of me touching you in more intimate ways…?”

“Sometimes…I haven’t done anything intimate since…since that night with you…keep thinking back to that night when I get bored…try…to hide it…”

Joseph had to suppress a chuckle at that. He’d known Caesar hadn’t scored with anyone since then, but it was cute that he tried to hide it like that. “Why do you try to hide it?”

“Embarrassed…don’t want you to get the wrong idea…and…think that I want you to touch me…”

That statement felt loaded to Joseph, so he decided to follow up on it. “DO you want me to touch you?”

“Not sure…need some sort of relief…but…I don’t know if…I’d be able to turn you down if I got it…”

Ooooh, Joseph was going to have fun with that bit of information later~<3 For now, though, he had a couple more questions that Caesar needed to answer. “Tell me, Caesar- do you hate me?”

“No.” That answer was much firmer than the others. “I don’t hate you…can never hate you…you’re…my best friend…”

Joseph felt a bit of hope rise in his chest as he asked the question he desperately wanted an answer to: “Do you love me…?”

Caesar was silent for a while, apparently having trouble coming up with an answer. “I…don’t know…”

Joseph deflated a bit at that answer. Damn it, he thought he was making better progress.. “Well, how do you feel about me?”

Caesar was silent for a little longer than last time before answering. “I like you…a lot…I care about you more than anyone else I have ever known…I always want to see you happy and healthy…I enjoy the time I spend with you more than anything…I want you to always be a part of my life…I don’t want to lose you…but…I hate feeling trapped here…I don’t hate you…but…it is hard to like someone when they keep you caged like a pet…hard…to think it’s really love when you’re not treated like an equal…all of it…confuses me…”

Joseph listened intently to every word Caesar spoke. So, he did like Joseph- that was good to know. The way he described his feelings even sounded close to what Joseph himself felt for Caesar. He didn’t seem to be fully in love with him yet- but Joseph could work with what he had for now and help it grow. But, the part that left Caesar confused did make sense, too. Joseph realized the truth that those words held- he hadn’t been treating Caesar like an equal. This was a problem considering that was how he saw Caesar and what he wanted him to be. He didn’t want some broken husk that sat there like a doll or a sniveling slave desperate for his approval. He wanted a PARTNER. Caesar was his equal in so many ways, he’d just have to do a better job of making him see that.

To that end, Joseph decided it was time to put the next part of his plan into action. “Caesar,” He began after thinking of how to best phrase his next question. “You said that you would not be able to turn me down if I tried to pleasure you. Tell me: What weaknesses do you have when it comes to sex? What gets you so turned on that you can’t stop yourself from wanting more?”

“My feet…” Caesar confessed, too far from consciousness to feel embarrassment over answering such a lewd question openly. “They’re really sensitive…feels nice when they’re rubbed…or kissed…I’ve gotten off before on people worshipping my feet…” He took a moment to continue, apparently trying to think of anything else that would satisfy Joseph’s questions. “I…also have a praise kink…compliments during sex make me feel really hot…”

Joseph grinned, blushing slightly as he took in this new information. He could DEFINITELY work with that. He’d be happy to worship any part of Caesar’s body and he already enjoyed openly praising his precious little Caesar. Joseph was already formulating plans on how to create a natural interaction with that. For now, though, he’d have to plant a few seeds to weaken Caesar’s defense a bit more.

“Caesar, I am going to give your subconscious a few rules to follow: From now on, whenever you are bored, you will think more and more often about the night that we had sex. Whether you are alone or with me, it will not matter- your mind will wander back to the feelings you experienced during that night. You will not question why you are thinking of it more often, you will just accept it. You will also be unable to look away from me when I am changing clothes, working out, or walking around shirtless. You will look over every inch of my body that you see and remember how it felt to have our bodies touching intimately. Every time you remember that feeling, as well as anything else from that night, you will also think that it was better than any other sexual encounter you’ve had in your entire life. These thoughts will only stop after you get to cum. Do you understand, Caesar?”

“Yes…I understand…”

“Good.” He pressed a light kiss to Caesar’s forehead. “Now, when I kiss you again, your subconscious will rejoin with your conscious mind, but you will stay asleep until the music stops. You will hold onto all of the rules I have laid out for you deep within your subconscious- following them perfectly, but you will not remember anything that happened tonight after you fell asleep. Do you understand, Caesar?”

“Yes, Jojo…”

“Perfect. Sweet dreams, my little Caesar~<3” And with that, Joseph tilted Caesar’s head up and kissed his perfect lips. They felt amazing, so plump and soft and warm. He drew out the kiss, making it last for as long as possible, and even slipped his tongue out to taste Caesar’s own mouth. He was a bit disappointed at the lack of response, but he let it go- he would have the real thing soon enough.

When he pulled away from the kiss, Caesar’s eyes were closed again and he was in a deep sleep. Joseph gently wrapped his arms around Caesar and cuddled with him as he let himself fall asleep, too. He had a three day weekend coming up- and he was going to enjoy it…<3

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