#salty boy series

[butterflyeffectiooon]

Going into day 5 of salty boy hyperfixation and I think one of the best parts about it is the vocal layering. At first I mostly focused on dongmyeong’s voice bc I can… more feasibly sing his parts lmao but just now I’m really admiring giuk’s singing parts too, the contrast is so good and it’s incredible how STABLE they are performing this song!!! I loooove dongmyeong’s high tone voice and it’s crazy how high he can sing without even going into his upper register (from what I understand, don’t quote me on this) tho I also think he does an incredible falsetto, was rewatching his performances on the unit and in all day I really think he out sang yuchan and jun and I absolutely love both of them so this isn’t even a dig at them, dongmyeong is just built different lol. Then on the other hand I never really considered giuk’s voice to be particularly low but his parts on the chorus where dm (too lazy to type his whole name again 😭) comes in are ridiculous and maybe I just think that bc I have absolutely no range and can’t even hit the “subject” in the first line of dora maar (this post has a really niche audience probably comprised of just myself lmao) but the kid has stupid range for a “rapper” which I put in quotes not because he’s bad at rapping, he’s actually so good at that too, but because he has an INCREDIBLY versatile voice??? He can go soft and airy (see: my blue) to like that kind of shouty pop punk tone (see: omnipresent and most of his solo stuff) like he’s a star you don’t understand 😭😭😭 they both are!!! Not to mention the 3 other insanely talented members!!!! Anyway if I die without seeing onewe live I’m going to haunt the earth until I can attend their concert as a ghost and if I do see them live and they don’t do salty boy I’m not gonna ask for a refund bc everything they touch is unbelievably good but I will be bitter about it forever lmao

[somewhereincairparavel]

Literally where do people get the idea that Jason was full of himself and that he thought he was better than Percy? This is legit brought up in so many 'why-i-hate-jason-grace" arguments it just screams lack of reading comprehension and obvious Percy bias saltiness. Like just say you are bitter that Jason is written as percy's equal and that you want Percy to have nobody rival him 💀

Never once in his povs did he ever think about how much better he was, on the contrary it's just him not feeling good enough about himself. He and Percy NEVER said anything bad about eachother.

His and Percy's rival is just a joke between two powerful demigods who have rival dads, that's literally it. Even if Jason did indeed think he's better, so what about it? What's the big deal?

he has worked hard and accomplished great things, so he has like, every right to be confident in his power, stop acting like hes all weak and inferior when he canonically killed a titan with like his bare fucking hands till the point Krios swore vengeance on him. No he's not "weak" or morally inferior to Percy as a person. You are merely trying to cope. Not to mention the way people judge a character's worth SOLEY based on their abilities is a huge red flag in itself, but that's a discussion for another time.

he shouldve canonically had more achievments and power than he originally got in the books as a son of jupiter. but rick made Percy too OP and fumbled jason for the sake of keeping percy's spotlight intact. Has it ever dawned on people that Percy is shown to have cool abilities like bending tears but Jason is never shown to have abilities like controlling lungs? Yeah, that's authors privilege for ya.

Y'all put Percy in an obnoxiously high pedestal and that's not a good thing. It diminishes his flaws and makes him appear so saint like and Gary Stu even though he's not. the fact that ppl get so sensitive over their rivalry and try to belittle jason by making up scenarios (like claiming jason thinks he's superior and shit) and go around saying that to ppl to reduce his value DESPITE being well aware that he has like enough hate already, is so insanely petty. BOTH Jason and Percy deserve equal amounts of respect.

God forbid a teenage boy say he's better than the other as a joke, he's such a terrible, stuck up, and shitty person who deserved death for that, isn't he?

[bylrndgm]

JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS (2020) // JULIE E OS FANTASMAS (2011) 1.01 - Wake Up // 1.01 - Enfrentando Fantasmas -> Julie meets the Band.

[boysslove]

Damn interruptions!

[respectthepetty]

I have no idea what was the deal with Jack and Mike. Medploy's friends SUCK. And these parents magically just got better for no good reason, but the worst offense of the Twins' finale was Sprite did NOT wear First's yellow.

I wasn't expecting Zee and Salmon to get it together fast enough for a color exchange of red and green.

But I had faith at least one twin had a brain cell!

I don't care that Sprite wore an F initial necklace for First.

Because First was already wearing Sprite's S necklace.

I don't care that they put the yellow submarine in the blue water (take my crappy GIF!).

Because Sprite kept wearing blue.

Knowing damn well First was yellow.

YOU KNEW, SPRITE!

And yet you wore black.

BLACK?!

After First wore your blue MULTIPLE TIMES.

And combined y'alls colors into green!

I love you my tiny loser child, but I'm taking your lack of color exchange (therefore your lack of visual love for First) personally.

You and Twins are in Petty Prison.

[lolotr]

me: ho hum i'll only do @painlandweek if i have specific ideas for the prompts. maybe i'll start a doc and do some brainstorming just to see--

me: *writes 2k words of ideas/beginnings of fic in less than a day*

me: guess im doing payneland week after all

[scarefox]

posting this again for the unhinged glory of it all

all the Boys Journey crossover kisses

[asillydreamer-on-a-crazyworld]

Alan screams Gentle dom energy to me and no one can change my mind about that.😌

[damian-lil-babybat]

It arrived!!!!!!

I am now the proud owner of THIS COMIC waaaaaa.

Seriously, only good writing and good art can make me do fanart again for Damian. So I am happy comics nowadays are fun now.

Haven't bought any new comics since 2018...for obvious reasons. Let's just say, I don't want to give my money to DC editorials, until now. XD Dami-fans will know why. (Rant at the tags)

[bullagit]

ftr making the rottmnt movie only truly focus on leo and only truly develop leo while everyone else was kinda just there or designed specifically to push leo’s development was a mistake  

it’s made this fandom exponentially harder to traverse if you favor other characters or love the ensemble

[theyellowhue]

the real question now is how many episodes will Love Sea will have?

[threadmonster]

Sooooo... What's an anime (or anything in your non-native language) that you've watched so many times that you don't even have to look at the screen/read the subtitles often but you still know exactly what's going on?

[tarraxahum]

One thing I have to thank having Speed Racer as my first fandom ever for

is that it's practically impossible to frustrate me with adaptations being different from source material. However drastically.

No shade to fans who get salty about character rewamps or loose story interpretations, but when your first ever exposure to Media You Care About was a franchise that NEVER had two interpretations consistent with each other (story, time period, setting, location, race, names, looks, character development, family dynamics, who is related to whom, fucking car design, future generations consistency, you name it - they flipped it AT LEAST once)... You just never develop the ability to give a fuck!

[l3opardsp0ts]

there's a really interesting canon divergence where Izuku and Lady Nagant team up after their first interaction and she becomes a mentor to 'Dark Deku'. They track down the rest of the escapees and take out some of the lower level members of the League to set up for the eventual big war event and final battles.

Like I think she just presents such an interesting foil to Izuku, and not in the same ways that Shigaraki does. She was a starry eyed kid who did become a hero and got everything she dreamed about and it was also the worst thing that ever happened to her. She became so jaded that she snapped whereas Izuku, no matter what society did and how many times he was told he couldn't be a hero, did so anyway. And he still was able to retain his optimism.

She could also play toward that very interesting discussion of: when do you have to kill someone to stop them? How far do heroes have to go? Does Izuku manage to convince her that killing is never on the table or does Nagant show him that sometimes there is no solution where no one dies? I think it offers a more complex take on the situation than just the one or two lines from the vestiges that are basically throw aways of "this kid wants to save him!" I think she just has so much potential intrigue as a character, and especially as a corollary to the Shigaraki-Deku parallels and mirroring and I will forever be salty that instead of exploring this awesome new character she just gets fridged like every other interesting female character in MHA.

[purplepixel]

SHE. IS. RISE'S. CASEY. JONES.

not future boy

Everything said here is exactly how I feel towards Casey, Casey jr, and the fandom.

I almost wish they never created Casey jr if it means the fandom completely ignores Casey. I know from interviews and articles that the writers and people on the show loved Casey's character and never intended to replace her with Casey jr, but it really feels that way.

I've consumed 1k+ fanfics y'all. I scroll through the fandom tag with NO TAG FILTERS. I've seen all (unfortunately). There are VERY few Casey fics. And the Casey Jones tag is...mostly her son. Hers is Cassandra Jones | Foot recruit. 🫠

Ok this might be an unpopular opinion but someones gotta say it...

Cassandra is a better Casey Jones than Casey Jr

Ive gotta be honest... i think casey jr is a kinda mid and i dont particularly think all the fanfare about him is warranted LOL

I want to note real quick that i dont DISLIKE him! He is a good character who only got as much development that a 2 hour movie could give him, and he filled and satisfied the role he needed to play in the movie, but the way the fandom latched onto him over the og casey... kinda makes me raise a brow

(Essay/rant about the prioritization of casey jr vs og casey under the cut :P)

Fandom spaces love a traumatized boy from the future, and believe me i do too! But the amount of attention given to casey jr after being revealed as casey is a wild amount compared to the amount of attention the original casey gets. Maybe its just me getting into rottmnt after the movie aired, but this seems a little baised?

Not only that, but the amount of... idk the best way i can think to describe it is infantilization of casey jrs character isnt helping my opinion of him. It feels like most content surrounding him babify him and reduce him only to his trauma post movie. I understand that it can be interesting to explore his trauma now that he no longer lives in the literal apocalypse, but it feels strange to see him reduced to someone who cant get around on his own and lives with the turtles when the original pitch for the movies ending has him leave to explore the world, which i feel is very appropriate for him and wish they had kept it in

In the movie when april shows us where the og casey has been and what shes been doing throughout the film, it tells us that casey is friends april which in theory, shouldve also shown us that she and the turtles are friends to some degree as well and should already have her place established within the group as this generations casey jones

However the final shot of the movie is a group shot of the family+casey jr, which subtlety implies that he's the new casey instead, and that this is the main cast moving forward (should it move forward *sob*). While both caseys being considered in the main cast could be true, it does strike me as a little odd that this was the final direction the rot team decided on for the official ending versus the scrapped ending, especially because it complicates the pre-established canon. It wouldve been one thing if our og casey was a different character, but that isnt the case.. y... (<_<)

Casey jr is an interesting character though! And i can understand why he appeals to fans, especially as his character post movie is fun to expand on aswell as developing his past involved with future versions of the main5, but one (me lol) could argue that the og casey is just as interesting of a character to delve into as she was involved, when you boil it down, a cult most of her life, and that concept, as well as the guilt she could hold for working with the foot and releasing the shredder, ontop of trying to befriend and gain the turtles and aprils trust are also intriguing concepts that could be explored, yet finding content that mentions her at all beyond her relation to casey jr is scarce

It feels as though shes been reduced to a background character within the fandom despite being a reoccuring character for the entire show.

For the two seasons of rottmnt that we did get, we are shown just what kind of character casey is and her possible dynamics with the turtles+april. Shes passionate and powerful and beyond determined to prove her worth and reach her goals. Shes also playful and reckless, a side that fits well with the main cast and their humor and, if the show was given more time, couldve developed naturally as the newest addition to the family as most caseys are. I could also argue that her characterization fits that of previous caseys more than casey jrs does (though i will admit that considering the plot of the movie, i cant positively say what hed be like outside of life or death scenarios, but i also cant imagine hes going to make a 180 in personality without it feeling jarring and ooc)

Now, i wont ignore the fact that her arc was cut horribly short and her involvement in the movie was quite literally a brief mention, both of which definitely play into how under appreciated she is. But at the same time it almost feels like everyone, including the show runners, have willingly pushed her aside for this new boy version to fill the role of casey jones. Hell, even when you look up rottmnt casey jones, cassandra barely shows up. Its casey jr which further proves my point

Idk, TLDR im pretty disappointed that despite being a consistent character for the entire show, no one seems to write or acknowledge her and if she is mentioned, its only relevant to push forward casey jrs character development or a brief cameo. As much as i do love casey jr (i can feel like hes mid and i can like him!) it seems like most people forget about the original casey, or favor casey jr in her place and she deserves more love and credit than shes given!

[respectthepetty]

Addicted Heroin (Th) Cut Scenes and Colors - Episode 9

I'm reporting on the missing scenes from YouTube's version of Addicted Heroin [episode: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight]. This week's episode didn't have a lot of scenes missing from the edited version, but one of them was so off-the-wall that I'm unsure if it was good it was left out, but then again, this is the show that is trying to tell me it's snowing in San Francisco, so . . . this show stays wild.

First cut scene:

Pink Person Only takes Green Guy Pop to go visit his mother. No reason is given for this nor do we know where the mom actually lives. We just know they have to travel in the blue combi to see her.

Only's mom is very kind and likes Pop being there. She keeps doting on the boys but finally gives them space to sing their feelings or just talk to each other next to the pool.

Because of all the food she kept giving them, Pop's stomach is bothering him, so Only says he'll massage it, but while he is doing that in the most intimate way possible, Pop thanks 'Hero' for helping him instead of thanking Only, which prompts Only to ask what is going on between Pop and Hero. Pop says nothing is happening and they are just brothers. Then he starts singing the song that Hero's mom used to sing and the one he sang in the convenience store when he saw Hero while thinking of Blue Boy Hero who is missing Pop as well (and sniffing his clothes to show it).

But, once again, according to Pop, they are just brothers. Sure, Jan.

Second cut scene:

After Only tries to make Hero jealous at school by handing Pop back the clothes he left when he spent the night and his plan backfires when Hero tries to kill everyone during fencing class, Pop and Hero argue about it when they get home.

Pop says Hero is overreacting, but Hero says that Pop is lying to him and wants to know the truth about what happened between Pop and Only. Pop says nothing happened, but THEN Hero shows him a recording of when they FaceTimed and points out that Pop was not in his room, so now he knows Pop was in Only's room. Pop repeats that nothing happened and is disgusted that Hero recorded him. Hero flips the conversation and says if they can't communicate then there are other ways they can 'open up' to each other.

And they start making out and taking off their clothes.

But Hero's creepy brother walks in on them because apparently he flew in from snowy San Francisco and just stands there watching them about to have sex! When Pop freaks out and pushes Hero off of him, his brother says that he has seen all their videos so there is no need to be shy.

Pop is PISSED!

Pop and Hero argue because Hero says he didn't record them, but his brother put spyware on his phone, so his brother actually recorded them, which somehow he thinks is better. It's not, and Pop and Hero continue to argue. Finally Hero says if Pop doesn't trust him, then he'll just leave, and he GOES TO STAY WITH HIS BROTHER!

And this is how we ended up where we did at the end of the episode with Hero going back to Pop, and his brother calling their dad so they can be shot or something!

The end.

There are no more cut scenes, but I have a lot more to say about this episode because now that we know a second season is not happening, I see the editing for this one is a choice since we probably aren't returning to where the series started, which was the present.

Which means we aren't getting a separation after the car accident because there will probably be no car accident since we are barely getting the dad being upset at them in this episode.

Which means that the show will not resolve Only and Tiger because if they didn't talk about the kiss this episode, they won't talk about it in the finale.

Because Pink Person Only already said he liked Pop even though Yellow Yal Tiger said he liked him WITH ONLY'S COLOR WRITTEN ALL OVER HIS CHEST!

Like, I love these little color-coded boys and that Only is just sooooo pink.

But the last minute attempt to not fully show why Only likes Pop (even as Pop wears Hero's blue) by cutting the two group of scenes from the edited version is telling me that the last episode will just focus on Hero and Pop and nothing else.

Like I love a good self-pleasure scene in my QLs and the blue coloring was a nice touch, but . . .

This episode spent an unnecessary amount of time trying to convince me that it's snowing in San Francisco rather than focusing on how pissed Hero should be at his crazy ass brother which could've been done IN Thailand, therefore removing ALL of the Only x Pop plot, which would've allowed us more time in the finale to wrap both storylines up.

*deep breath* Super excited to see how this ends next week.