#she has some weird pig tails btw

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since that one the coldest winter au animatic is inspired by THIS harumi animatic, i mixed them up. So shes here, winter!rumi..yay?

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"the" suicide squad is confusing the hell out of me like are they seriously trying to cover up the mess they made last time? they'rw acting like the previous one didn't exist. They decided to have harley quinn in this one too ane they hired the same actor to play her! But now they made her wear black and red again? And okay yes I'm faceblind but that guy in the yellow shirt? I don'g care if he's actually not the same person or actor, because that's the exact same character and he looks the same as that military guy except now he's got a yellow shirt instead of like military clothes or whatever? and now they have a shark guy and some super boring characters I can't remember just like the old suicide squad? The woman who invents the suicide squad concept is the same actor as the one from the last movie? And they're like come look at our new movie guys it'll be so much fun :) like dude we remember last time. and I gotta be honest - despite the toxic nature of their relationship and the joker having weird ass tattoos - most people who actually liked the last suicide squad were there for the shipping. I don't care what you think about it or what I think about it, maybe we can talk about it in a different post, but harley and joker were a huge part of the movie, it's basically like watching fifty shades of grey except its more interesting cause harley gets to smash some skulls in I guess, I'm not saying fifty shades was good but you have to admit a lot of people liked those movies and people liked this fucked up relationship to and you just can't deny it. So where is the joker? Nowhere, and harley and the yellow shirt military man looks at eachother as if to tell us they have a thing going on? If we pretend that the voice of the masses doesn't matter and we say joker x harley sucked, we are still left with the fact that harley was the single most interesting character in that movie. There's a scene in the trailer where harley is like shooting st someone or whatever and there's an explotion of colorful flowers behind her? They're trying to do something fun with her like in the birss of prey movie (which is awesome btw) but they are failing because black and red (harley) absolutely does not fit together with pastel colours in that scene, it just looks super weird! If harley is black and red she can't simultaneously be a pastel rainbow! I mean obviously she CAN but it doesn't go well together. Also there's an australian guy? And there's this cool man in prison who has a daughter he loves and wants to save? They are just remaking suicide squad! To be honest once more, the biggest reason why suicide squad failed is the plot. It was completely nonsensical. And "the" suicide squad actually looks like it might have a better plot! So it could be a good thing. But also. Why did you get the australian guy. Like I get it if its like chronological and the suicide squad military man and that ladyboss just hired harley again cause they have a crush on her or something and now she's single and can be with military man (where's his gf tho?) but why did they also hire like exact copies of people from the last time they did a suicide squad mission? also why did they name the movie "the suicide squad"? why not just do "suicide squad 2" or "suicide squad: shark man and his friends" or something?

Edit: Also forgot to mention, harley has long hair again?? and it's in pigtails but they're like not up? and it's dip-dyed once more but this time it's black and red? it's so bizarre to me cause like you could just go with the shorter hair up-pig tails and red and black and it would both make sense and look better ?

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Writing Advice: Plus size characters

Hi!

Before we begin, my posting schedule has started to change from Thursdays to Fridays because of school. So yeah. That’s that. 

All right. Plus size characters. Why now, you ask? Because I felt like talking about it. And because I’m pretty sure my friends and family were tired of me talking about it, so now I put my ideas down on paper (or more appropriately, on screen!). I know this is something we don’t talk about much, but the amount of fatphobia I find in children’s fiction is staggering. Later in this post that has become an essay, I will be giving advice that could apply to virtually any plus size character, in any genre, but I will be talking from the perspective of someone who, these days, reads mostly in her main writing genre, A.K.A. middle grade fiction. Stay tuned for a few pieces of advice on writing plus size characters at the end.

First of all, why middle grade fiction? 

I blame J. K. Rowling for this. I know, I know. It’s easy to critique J. K. Rowling nowadays, with Fantastic Beasts, Cursed Child and the History of North America being terrible for representation of any kind. So let me say this beforehand. Harry Potter is a staple of the genre (this book series is mainly what made the middle grade fiction genre in the first place) and is, unavoidably, one of the most important book series in modern literature. Full stop. I’m also a Harry Potter fan, Hufflepuff through and through. I have to admit though, I mostly watched the Harry Potter movies growing up and haven’t read all the books. 

Okay. With all that out of the way. From what I remember in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone... 

*Sigh*... It’s bad, you guys.

Whenever the Dursleys are mentioned as being evil (which, of course, they completely are!) it’s in relation to their weight. Dudley is a pig (and gets transformed into one by Hagrid, traumatising him for life probably) and Vernon becomes purple like a plum, because of his round face. He also looks like a walrus, because of his weight and his silly moustache. Sure, Petunia looks like a horse because she has a long, slim neck and a weird-looking face, but Petunia will also become the most important character out of the three Dursleys, being Harry’s biological aunt and Lily’s sister. She gets a full on backstory and character development.

You see where I’m going with this?

I’m not saying that plus size people can’t be villains (in real life or books!). Of course, they can be! There are evil people everywhere. And JKR definitely wanted to contrast Harry’s small stature (being underfed, malnourished and abused) with Dudley’s (who is loved and spoiled rotten by his parents). But in fiction, you have to be careful with the words you choose. Be sensitive. Characters can be hated, but the point of view (omniscient or first person) doesn’t have to always correlate their weight with their evilness. 

To mention another example that doesn’t have anything to do with HP, remember Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? He’s basically dehumanized (he’s just a boy, after all) BECAUSE he eats all the time and gained weight because of it. Of course, all those kids are treated terribly by Willy Wonka to, again, show how privileged they are compared to poor little Charlie. But see how it’s because of his weight that Augustus, the only “fat kid” of the bunch, gets hated, though? I’m only referring to Augustus because, well, Roald Dahl in 1964 played a part in putting fatphobia in children’s fiction. Fatphobia in children’s fiction has deep roots. It’s just unfortunate that in 2019, it’s still a problem. 

To go back to JKR and the Dursleys (because OH BOY is there a lot to say about the Dursleys)... It’s bad. And it doesn’t get any better. Especially when it’s only after Dudley loses weight (he goes on a diet in Goblet of Fire because he, according to Wikipedia because I haven’t read the book, COULDN’T FIT IN HIS SCHOOL UNIFORM!!!) that he gets a redemption arc (in Deathly Hallows). What do you think that did to a generation of kids who, like me, had/have trouble finding clothes their size? Especially school uniforms that were never flattering? I may not have realized that when I was younger, but that still seeped under my skin. Not just because of the Dursleys, but also society at large.

Now, as an addendum to this section and to be fair to JKR, there are other plus size characters in her books. Neville (who was thin in the movies), Mrs. Weasley and Hagrid come to mind. But then again, I don’t think that’s good in any way. Most of the characters are thin, for the most part. Enough has been said about Neville, Hagrid is his weight because he’s half non-human and Mrs. Weasley is always described as “pleasantly plump” from what I remember. So if you’re nice, you’re “plump”. If you’re mean, you’re “fat”.

Okay. Deep breath. Rant mostly over.

Second of all, why is Harry Potter so important now? It’s been over for years!

Well, no, it hasn’t. Fantastic Beasts is still going, for one. And though I love Jacob, the fact his weight can’t be disassociated with the fact he’s a baker who also worked in a sardine factory beforehand (really?? food?? again???) and CAN’T FIT INSIDE NEWT SCAMANDER’S SUITCASE EVEN THOUGH A MAGICAL RHINO DOES rubs me the wrong way. Besides, JKR’s fatphobia has also seeped into fandom space and you can’t read a HP fanfiction without encountering fatphobia. But that’s a matter for another day. 

What’s really important here is legacy. As I said before, Harry Potter is one of the most important works of fiction in modern literary history. It paved the way for modern children’s fiction, notwithstanding 20th century books (The Chronicles of Narnia and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory come to mind) that aren’t getting any younger. Nowadays, it’s hard to find a middle grade book that doesn’t have an ounce of fatphobia. It’s become… casual. Accepted. In a book I opened not long ago (I’m paraphrasing here), one of the villains was described as “obese” and his mastermind plan was, instead of plotting to take over the world or something, to eat everything in his path, including the heroes ON THE VERY FIRST PAGE. I closed the book, never to be read again.

Which is a bummer. Because I want to read more books. Especially in middle grade, because I adore this genre. But because fatphobia is so pervasive to this genre, after a while, it gets difficult to stop caring. At first, you wrinkle your nose. Then, you get angry. And it really starts to hurt. And I’m not even the target audience! Children are! This is the reason why I want to be a sensitivity reader, one day.

Third of all, the advice for writers. How can you avoid this?

1. On terminology: I hate the words “fat” and “obese”. Some people don’t. I do. Those words have been used as insults against me. And sometimes, not even on purpose, but on accident! I prefer “plus size”, “chubby”, “overweight” (use that word with caution, though, sparingly, and please, not as a negative but simply as a descriptive word), “plump” (remember Molly Weasley? That was good, but don’t do what JKR did by making her plum and the Dursleys “fat”). “Stout” or “corpulent” are also good.

2. Don’t associate overweight = evil. It’s okay to write plus size villains (if you must), but be kind to them. Give them a personality other than “““glutton”””. Give them a fully-fleshed out backstory that doesn’t have anything to do with food (see: Jacob in FB). What works with villains works with heroes, but be even more extra careful. 

3. Everybody gotta eat, right? If you show your characters eating, show them all (or more than one) eating at the same time. Probably around the table (as a nice ritual of sorts!). But don’t let your ONE plus size character eat and eat and eat in the background, never talking (that’s a mistake I saw in the anime Little Witch Academia, which is to say, fatphobia is present in all genres).

4. This relates to the last point, but don’t have only one plus size character. In one of my favourite movies, The Greatest Showman, I didn’t care that one of the characters was “the fattest man on Earth”. Why? Because KEALA SETTLE IS RIGHT THERE. She has a fully-fleshed out backstory that doesn’t have anything to do with her weight. Or food. (Though it could’ve gone a different way; the Bearded Lady is thin in concept art, after all, I’m eternally happy they reconsidered for Keala). And BTW, you don’t need to give a supernatural explanation for their weight (see Hagrid). If you do have non-human plus size characters, let there also be human plus size characters.

5. Don’t use “fat jokes”. Those are boring and cliché. Like with Dudley and the pig tail. Or… Ha, ha. The “fat guy” is too big, so he gets stuck in a ventilation vent. A thin guy has to get him out! How pathetic. Bleh. And it’s not just in books! They pop up in movies and TV shows, too. Don’t. Just don’t.

6. Last but not least, if you need help figuring out if one of your characters is insensitive, ask sensitivity readers! Ask your friends. Or your family! Just be kind when you’re asking. Explain the situation and if they say they’re not interested, don’t push.

Thank you for reading this (if anyone’s still reading this mess of an essay). 

Stay inspired!

Marianne E. Plasse

[muthaz-rapapa]

StarPre Villains & Japanese Folklore

I think it’s safe to assume the rest of StarPre’s villains will follow the same pattern of being based off of Japanese mythological creatures.

And from what I’ve read so far while researching, the kappa is apparently Japan’s most well-known cryptid. 

Which fits hand-in-hand with Hikaru’s fascination over cryptids/Unidentified Mysterious Animals (UMA) and so on.

Also, along with the tengu, which Tenjo (sp?) is obviously inspired from, they’re the ones that are most commonly recognized and portrayed in media among hundreds of other yokai.

So that begs the question of what the other baddie generals will be based on.

Tbh, it was difficult to tell even with Tenjo because the shadow is so dark here and concealed her long nose (though the feather fan should’ve given it away).

So I can only give measly guesses at the other three (including one who was not depicted w/glowing red eyes, see below) at best.

Hmmm, middle one is wearing butler attire and holding a tray of tea while the silhouette of his head seems to resemble a goat (?) ... but if there are such things as goat demons in Japan, then this is the first I’ve heard of it. And when I think of evil goats, Umineko Satan comes to mind so hmmm, it probably isn’t (and oh god, I really hope not but ya never know O_O;; ).

Then there’s the burly beast on the right and frankly, other than a giant ape, I can’t get a good idea of what he’s supposed to be either. I just know he’s blue all over with long white hair (??).

...a yeti?  But Hikaru’s dog is already named “Yeti”!  

Hibagon??? I dunno.

Then there’s that lanky fellow/gal as some weird yellow rendition of the Grinch further down on the right next to butler in the middle.

The fact that they don’t sport glowing red eyes like the rest of the villains suggests they’ll be a character to watch out for. Maybe it’s an indication that they’re the real Big Bad Boss and/or will only appear as a “weak” underling to these other arrogant generals just to get a kick out of watching them get defeated one by one by the Cures until they’re the last one left?

In other words, the Big Bad’s strongest general.

Who knows? I’m getting off track but whatever.

But they definitely are not the same as (Warning: possible SPOILER-related discussion ahead)...

Yui’s evil twin, Ruri

...this twin pig-tailed, top hat-wearing, dark bespectacled girl shown right before it cuts to the bad guys.

For one thing, their clothes are different.

For another, everybody knows that if a female villain gets her own few seconds of solo footage in the OP sequence, it’s guaranteed she’ll become the mid-season Cure later on.

Unfortunately for a lot of us who didn’t want to get spoiled on the very first day StarPre started airing (seriously, screw you jerks), the image uploaded from the Twinkle Book merchandise that spread all over the internet pretty much ruined her debut already. Before she even appeared in the show.

*sigh* It almost makes me want to stop here. But since I went through all the trouble of getting pictures anyway, I mind as well.

So twin tails? Cat motif?

Nekomata.

Not to be confused with bakeneko, btw. Even though the distinction between them is stated to be ambiguous but the most noticeable difference is that a nekomata has two tails while the bakeneko only has one if I’m not mistaken.

Finally, Le Boss of the Notraiders.

Who’s all ominous and glowy and on green fire, OoooOOOooooOOOOO~......

He’s got no form now but as he is the biggest and baddest of them all, I suspect he’s gonna be revealed to be something utterly terrifying.

And when I think “terrifying”, I think chimera.

And the Japanese equivalent of the chimera...

...would be the nue.

Again, this is all just shooting bullets in the dark.

It’s still way too early to say with any amount of certainty what they’ll look like because HELLO, we’re only on episode 3.

But the mind wonders, y’know.

Anyways, I’ve had some other ideas of what creatures we might see later on (like kitsune, komainu, okami and even the qilin and baku were among them) but less concrete hints mean lesser haphazardly throwing out guesses.

And let’s not get started about the possibility of bringing in the other 76 constellations into this somehow. I’m not ready for that, if ever. @_@;;

[proteus-no]

i was thinking about how yan-dev said he was thinking about having dlc rivals, live kokona who is aware of being a guinea pig, and midori, but i had a horrible, horrible monstrosity of an idea for a dlc rival

this, everyone, is kineko-chan, or kitty-chan. to everyone at ackademi who knows kitty, shes an annoying otaku who swears her eyes, mouth, and hair are natural.

“eeeeeh~! n-no! i pwomise, im awbwino~ my hair and eyes awe suppowsed to wook wike this~~~!”

“i was bown wif a genetic defect that makes my eyes big and my mowf look weird! stop making fun of my wooks~~!”

she can never be parted from senpai, always following him around, always talking with him, and laughing at his jokes.

she, and her lines, would be mostly making fun of the mary sue anime ocs we all made in middle school. she would probably wear a fake tail, rainbow socks, rainbow gloves, and have a noticeably shorter skirt

but, digging deeper into her student files, and from information given from info-chan, kitty has only been a japanese citizen for about a few weeks, and only just recently started to going to school. any school. her notebook yan-chan took from her bag reveals that yan-chan needs to get rid of her, or shes going to loose senpai

1. she registered as Yamada Kineko, sister of Yamada Taro

2. she doodles hearts and senpais face all over her notebook.

other than the normal ways to kill her, there would be 3 new unique ways to kill kitty-chan.

1. there is a mysterious crater in the field behind the school, and on wednesday night, the schools going to be filling it in, and replacing the grass. kitty-chan, during lunch, but right before class, likes to practice her tuba in an empty room on the third floor. with her is a large music case for transporting her tuba. 

sedatives dont work on kitty-chan, so yan-chan has to win a fight, and shove kitty in the case while shes conscious. usually when this is accomplished, or while yan-chan is dragging the case out, the bell rings. yan-chan has to be careful dragging the case in busy hallways, so people dont hear kittys muffled screams from inside.

if yan-chan manages all of this, and also gets her hand on a shovel, she can bury the music case, and kitty, alive in the crater before it is filled up, leaving kitty to slowly suffocate, no one ever knowing what happens to her.

2. the drama club has been working on putting on a play, with the main character wearing a very distinctive mask, a cloak, and a black dress, and carrying an ornate knife. during the morning, before class, that character is always rehearsing lines, alone, in the drama club room. on thursday morning, midori shouts down at kitty, who is with senpai at the fountain, to help her with something on the roof. 

if yan-chan befriends the lead, if shes part of drama club, or if she steals the costume and knife, she can run up to the roof, use the knife to gut kitty, and throw her off the roof and into the courtyard. yan-chan, if going the befriending route with the lead, learns their locker combo and can shove the bloody clothes in there, before having to run, naked, to the showers. (being caught naked and bloody is an instant game over, ofc)

the blame will be placed on the lead, and they will be arrested.

“but julian-kun! why would we do this-”

because you would get a realy cool cutscene were yan-chan gives a dramatic speach from the play, before killing kitty. and it would look cool as shit and take a lot of effort to learn the lines

3. after hanging around senpai and kitty for a while, yan-chan learns that kitty never drinks water. and if investigated further, kitty says she has a weird, but severe, water allergy. 

yan-chan, very easily, can set up a booby trap near the fountain to trip kitty, making her fall in and basically be in extreme pain, and die bc of water. or, alternately, yan-chan can entice/pay bullies to give kitty a swirlie, which causes her to die, leaving only her skull with melted flesh on it.

now, there would also be 2 unique elimination methods other than death that yan-chan can do.

because kitty has this huge secret, and only senpai knows. but by sneaking around, listening to their conversations, placing bugs, going through both of their belongings, or by making friends with kitty, yan-chan can learn her big secret:

kitty-chan is an alien.

her ship crashed behind the school, and senpai was the one who found her. him and his family hid her ship and took her in. the reason why she looks like that is because she uses technology from her ship to make her look different, and the only media she has from humans was anime. but since her ships broken, she cant change it.

yan-chan can do one of two things with this information.

1. she can befriend her, and befriend other students in order to help her rebuild her ship, so instead of a confession cutscene on friday, there would be a cutscene of yan-chan and senpai watching as kitty-chan, who is now in her horrifying alien form, flies off in her ship. senpai tells yan-chan how nice and amazing she was to help kitty-chan go home, and says something along the lines of “im lucky to have such a great friend like you” before leaving, or somethign as equally as frustrating.

this would be an extremely difficult ending to achieve, since it would require befirending and doing tasks for certain people, such as ronshaku for money, people from the science club, and taking a lot of panty shots for supplies from info-chan, and also to keep her silence. also, if going along this route, on friday, there is going to be transporting a lot of contraband around in high traffic areas of the school. and on friday, kitty-chans disguise wears off, so yan-chan would have to get kitty a disguise, and distract people while she moves around school without people noticing whats wrong with her.

2. if yan-chan gets substantial, concrete proof of the fact that kitty is an alien, she can go and report it to the military, through a student at school of course. this would be simple enough to do, and would lead to a cutscene of the beginning of school, before classes, were the military storms in and takes kitty-chan away.

however, if yan-chan is not careful, this can lead to senpai being taken away as well, resulting in a game over. to avoid this, yan-chan would have to erase any evidence linking senpai and kitty before reporting her to the military, including editing her student information, and getting senpai to not be at the fountain when shes taken away, so he doesnt jump to her defense. or, by giving him drugs so he doesnt care when she taken away (which would involve something like tricking someone to give him laced foods at the beginning of the school day, before the military comes in.)

all of this, btw, for some shitty anime kawaii girl lol

[indiikaa]

Meeks CinemaSins’ Wreck-it Ralph

This is what I did last weekend when I slowly went insane. It’s under the cut, btw...

Because my ISP has decided to fuck up our service for the past four days, I have been stuck watching BLU-Rays. Unfortunately, I don’t have that many BLU-rays to watch, so I’ve been mostly watching one of my favourite movies over and over again. Which movie? Wreck-It Ralph.

Now, when this happened before, I did this hilarious Watch Through where I wrote down EVERYTHING I thought was weird, funny, or just wanted to point out in The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug. Kind of like Cinema Sins but with more humor/ insight. I decided to do it again with Wreck-it Ralph because I mean, come on.

 START

 v  When you pause, Chris Hardwick talks to you.

v  Why did Ralph never make a house in the dump like he does at the end of the movie beforehand? Sleeping on Bricks has to hurt.

v  In the intro, Felix doesn’t actually fully fix the building, there are still broken windows near Ralph.

v  Is the bulldozer sentient by itself or if there someone inside it?

v  Where does the bulldozer live?

v  You can see a lake and a nice forest behind the Niceland apartment, with a nice walk around it; why doesn’t Ralph live near there? He can move his stump there!

v  Despite what everyone says; Zombie is definitely from Night of the Living Dead, a real arcade game about Zombies with Hatchets. I swear.

v  Bowsers hair looks very... not Bowser.

v  Kano put that heart away that’s gross.

v  Why is Clyde the only Pac-man ghost we see at Bad-Anon? Are the others at Tappers? We see them in Game Central Station, so they must have gone somewhere.

v  Does Eggman wear a rubber jacket? Cause... wtf Eggman.

v  M. Bison should bring snacks.

v  Zangief is a good friend, he even saved Ralph a spot on the tram!

v  That Turtle looks like he’s enjoying his book...

v  Beware of roaming packs of Space Marines.

v  Why was Q*Bert unplugged? They never tell us why!

v  I get that DJ Hero was a thing and all, but... WHY?

v  So Pac-Man, Sonic, Skrillex, Some sun dude, A turtle named Glen from Frogger, A bartending Clown, Mario, some gram crackers, all the Nicelanders and Felix were invited to the party, but no one invited Ralph? They wouldn’t have a GAME without Ralph!

v  Why don’t Ralph and Felix move like the Nicelanders?

v  Gene is such a pompous asshole. Like, there’s absolutely no reason for it.

v  You mean to tell me in 30 years, no one’s even taken the time to get to know Ralph? Ralph is better off without the Nicelanders.

v  Gene, that was totally unnecessary.

v  I agree Felix, let’s just eat the cake.

v  Gene just makes the situation worse. Ralph should wreck him. Not that way.

v  Why are all the splatters pink? Shouldn’t they be multi-coloured?

v  I see a Space Invader!

v  Tapper has to be busy every night. Like, so many games, One bar game...

v  How did the Metal Gear Solid exclamation mark get into the lost and found? Metal Gear doesn’t have an arcade version...

v  Markowski’s callsign is “Hold Em!”. No seriously, his shoulder pad says his callsign.

v  Or it could be Ace, because all the cards are Aces.

v  You can see the port that Q*Bert would have been plugged into.

v  There is absolutely no way that Fix-if Felix JR. and Hero’s Duty would be plugged into the same power block. Not unless you want a shit ton of cables that cause a tripping hazard.

v  Why does Calhoun not wear the same uniform as everyone else?

v  Literally she’s more vulnerable because she has less protection.

v  Unless it’s coded that she can’t get hit by a Cybug.

v  The girl literally screams, but then seems not to care the next second. Wtf is with that?

v  Okay so I have a few beefs about Sugar Rush, but the main one this early in the movie is this:

As we learn later, the roster changes every day. This gives us a total of 9 racers per day, as it’s a

3x3 column. Remember this.

 v  The Nicelanders are all worried, it’s their fault that their game is Out Of Order.

v  They’re all surprised that Ralph Gamejumps. I would too if I was treated like dirt.

v  It took Ralph ALL DAY to climb the tower? It takes him maybe 3 seconds to climb to the top of the Niceland Tower. Nope, not buying it.

v  If Hero’s Duty is only the landing strip and the tower, with the drop off vehicle at the end of the landing strip, where do all the AI live?

v  What triggers all the eggs to hatch when the game starts?

v  Why are there stairs when the First Person Shooter AI-Bot thing has wheels? It won’t be able to make it up the stairs, unless they turn into a ramp.

v  Baby Cybugs are adorable.

v  Okay, Ralph just activated so many baby Cybugs. Why did they not hatch?

v  Sonic, you weren’t even hit by that, why did you lose your rings?

v  To think about it, why are there even escape pods at the top of Hero’s Duty? Is it so when it’s Game Over and they made it to the top of the tower, that the AI can escape?

v  Why does Sugar Rush have its name written in mint sticks?

v  Pocky Pussywillows. Yummy.

v  Who gave Sarah Silverman a microphone?

v  Why do Double Stripes break? There is no reason for anyone to know this except for Ralph’s inconvenience.

v  No, seriously, I’m hung up on this tree thing. Why in a game about racing is there a rule about not touching double-stripe tree branches? Unless it’s a part of a race track where you race through the trees or something and the track gives way under you if you go across a double stripe area...

v  When Ralph is hanging from the Double Stripe branch, why does it take so long to disappear?! The others were instant!

v  Okay so why are Hero’s Duty, Sugar Rush and Fix-it Felix JR. all plugged not the same extension? That’s impossible, since they’re all across from each other in separate sides of two isles.

v  Some of the Graffiti is hilarious, but I don’t think Arcade Games would know who Leroy Jenkins is. Or Aerith for that matter.

v  How can Burger Time be Now Playing, if the arcade is closed?

v  Where the hell does Calhoun hide that giant gun? Know what? Never mind, I don’t want to know.

v  Those FIFA guys keep walking around in the background in the same loop cycle.

v  14 of the Sugar Rush racers show up. If you look closely, most of the background ones are wearing the same thing – Parkas, Bows or hats with pig tails. Are they just bad re-skins of the same character, or all different characters?

v  Wouldn’t that get confusing to the gamers though? It’s the same character design but just a different colour.

v  The 9 racers of the day were: Rancis Taffyta, Blue Pigtails, Candlehead, King Candy, Pumpkinhead, Blue Parka, Snowcone hair and Green Bow. I’m going to guess that you can’t have more of the same “character” on the roster because that would confuse players, or would it?

v  Unless their all related.

v  What would players who have played Sugar Rush in other arcades think if they saw King Candy, if you know his story? Would they be like “Who the hell is King Candy? Where’s Princess Von Schweetz?”

v  What if you’ve never won a race? Are you just not allowed to race?

v  All the Racers names:

Taffyta Muttonfudge, Crumbelina Di Caramello, Gloyd Orangeboar, Adorabeezle Winterpop, Citrusella Flugpucker, Nougetsia Brumblestain, Sticky Wipplesnit, Minty Zaki, Snowanna Rainbeau, Rancis Fluggerbutter, Jubileena Bing-Bing, Swizzle Malarkey, Candlehead, Vanellope Von Schweetz and King Candy.

 v  Looking at the names, none of the racers could be related in any way, so why are half of them just reskins of the other half?!

v  Who names their kid Rancis?! No seriously, check the scoreboard, it says his name is Rancis, not Francis.

v  If Vanellope is really a glitch, why would her picture appear next to her name? Wouldn’t it be a placeholder icon? Or wouldn’t her name be all glitch?

v  Someone didn’t lock up the narrators memories.

v  Why is there a random cupcake standing on a pedestal like that? It makes no sense.

v  Police Brutality.

v  Taffyta, his name is RANCIS, not Francis. Get it right.

v  How does King Candy know who Ralph even is? Vanellope didn’t know who he was, but if it isn’t obvious that there’s something up with him...

v  More Police brutality.

v  Ha ha, Disney bought Star Wars just to use Darth Vader’s breathing noises.

v  Okay, so if Vanellope is at the Junkyard “fixing” her cart, why doesn’t she make one out of the thrown-out carts instead? There’s wheels, full carts with no engines; so all she’d need is an engine to go.

v  Only 10 of the racers show up, so one of each duplicate racer can come gang up on Vanellope’s car.

v  Wtf is Snowanna’s car even supposed to be? (Snowconehead)

v  At least Vanellope gets Rancis’s name right.

v  Why are they so offended with her car?

v  Who died and made Taffyta Queen of the Racetrack? Oh right.

v  Why is there a broken stoplight? Who killed the stoplight?!

v  That Jawbreaker split really cleanly...

v  Felix, seriously? You are so dense that you can’t see that something is wrong?

v  Turbo Time was next to Fix-it Felix JR..

v  How does Turbo hitting the car a cause for a glitch-out? It makes no sense.

v  And even so, when we learn what happens to Turbo, how did he game-jump for so long without anyone knowing?

v  How does Felix know what Laffy Taffy is?

v  Why is he Fix-it Felix JR. when his uniform just says Felix?

v  Why does his hammer work outside the game?

v  He totally can’t hold her, he’s not even half her size.

v  How DID the Cybug survive the Candy Swamp anyway?

v  How does one enter the Make Your Kart mini-game?

v  Does Sugar Rush have a Make Your Own Racer area too? That would be better than the 4000 different reskinned characters.

v  There is NO WAY that Kart would come out looking like that, from THAT mess. Nope, not happening.

v  Is it like in real racing arcades where you can create a profile, put in your secret code and keep playing from last time?

v  Why is there a Nutrition Facts label in the Security Office?

v  Get it? Their Bear Claws. That’s why they’re C.L.A.W.

v  Hidden Mickey!

v  There is no way that Ralph and Vanellope are faster than King Candy and the cops.

v  Wouldn’t King Candy know about the hidden passage?

v  How does Vanellope know the lollipops are sugar-free?

v  Mentos agreed to this.

v  Wouldn’t broiling hot diet coke smell really bad? It sure tastes bad.

v  Where do the other kids live in Sugar Rush? The trailer park or? We don’t see a village or houses or anything...

v  How many different tracks are there in Sugar Rush anyway? We see at least three – the unfinished bonus level, the one the kids race on, and the one at the end of the movie.

v  Why did Vanellope look around her dashboard for the start button? She literally has only ONE button on her dash! The rest are lights!

v  Why would Racing be the only thing that Vanellope still has in her code? Wouldn’t King Candy have taken that out too?

v  Why is the Contra code something in an Arcade?

v  I don’t think Sugar Rush was made by Nintendo.

v  I don’t think it was even on the NES, not with those graphics.

v  Why is King Candy’s profile so much bigger than everyone elses? Is it because racers think he’s a super rare character or something?

v  Technically, wouldn’t he glitch out because, he’s not from Sugar Rush?

v  Great example of PTSD.

v  Why does Felix refer to Ralph as his friend? He hasn’t done anything to warrant calling Ralph a friend!

v  When did Vanellope have the time to make Ralph the cookie medal?

v  Why did King Candy return to where he last saw Ralph and Vanellope anyway?

v  If King Candy took the medal out of the pot, wouldn’t the game glitch and Vanellope be unable to race? Technically she bought her way in with the game thinking the medal was a coin, so why not?

v  According to King Candy, Sugar Rush is next to Dig Dug.

v  King Candy knows a lot about what happens when a game is unplugged. Was that the fate the twins had when Turbo Time was unplugged or? Did Turbo just sadistically watch his game get unplugged and watch the twins glitch out trying to get out?

v  How can Ralph hold onto Vanellope when she glitches?

v  Vanellope is seen glitching off the tree, why doesn’t she just glitch off before Ralph breaks the kart?

v  Wouldn’t Ralph have seen the other Nicelanders in Game Central Station when he was heading back to Fix-it Felix JR.?

v  Why did Gene stay behind? To shove it in Ralph’s face?

v  Gene, he seriously wanted friends and you’re just being an asshat. Good riddance.

v  When Ralph looks to Sugar Rush (Which brings back the question: HOW ARE THEY PLUGGED IN THR SAME POWER BLOCK?!), we see Vanellope in a racing-style outfit. Why don’t we ever see her in this outfit?

v  We also see her driving her actual kart, wouldn’t that tip Ralph off that King Candy isn’t driving the right kart, since he drives Vanellope’s original kart, with added horns and flags?

v  How was King Candy able to lock up memories?

v  How does Sour Bill know how to fix Vanellope’s code? Wouldn’t he have forgotten, or King Candy forced him to forget?

v  Oh hey, I forgot Calhoun was in this still.

v  Calhoun’s GPS sets off the Cybug’s eggs, so why did Ralph touching them with his foot earlier only set off one and not the whole gang?

v  Felix, you hit the broken bar with your hammer. Bar repaired and strengthened itself. You didn’t touch it; you hit it with a hammer.

v  Try using your fists next time.

v  It took 30 years, almost drowning in chocolate milk mix, and being imprisoned for Felix to finally realize what Ralph goes through every day.

v  That “Bad Girl” sign was awfully specific.

v  “Glitch Proof” but what if it’s not actually a glitch?

v  Wow, it took them like 4 hours to clean up the starting track.

v  Hah, she burned out at the start line.

v  Why is there, excluding King Candy, only one male racer?

v  They stole item blocks from Mario Kart. Quick Nintendo, sue them!

v  Who let Candlehead put fire on her kart?!

v  Cybugs are Asexual reproducers.

v  Who is the stupid racer who is only like 10 feet from the start line? Like, really?!

v  How did King Candy know about the secret road?

v  How could no one figure out King Candy was Turbo? Like, wouldn’t he have been missing for a while and wouldn’t people wonder what happened to him after he game jumped?

v  As many have theorized before: Vanellope’s glitch isn’t actually a glitch, it’s an ability, since she can use it at will even at the end of the movie.

v  Why did the sky suddenly go dark? Having Cybugs appear wouldn’t magically change the skyline, unless they ate the code for day.

v  Why would Turbo’s Cybug body looks totally different than any other Cybug? Is it because he’s a “virus” or a Glitch in the game?

v  That was incredibly selfish of you, Ralph.

v  Fucking Bad Guy Affirmation. Tissue time.

v  Okay, I get this is a super emotional scene and I admit to crying in the theater when I saw it, but who’s car did Vanellope steal? Why didn’t she glitch hers out of the crash and go after Ralph with her own?

v  I get the cola is broiling hot but that wouldn’t destroy the Cybugs, would it? In Hero’s Duty, the Beacon is like a bug zapper. This is just hot cola.

v  Why are Ralph and Vanellope drenched? Before, the chocolate didn’t work like that.

v  Why does Vanellope’s code have her hair like she’s had it during the  movie (in a pony tail), and on the side of the box (still in a pony tail), but when she’s Princess Vanellope, her hair is in a bun?

v  I love you, Calhoun.

v  Would racers at Litwak’s Arcade think Vanellope is a super secret unlocked racer or something, because she would have never been seen before?

v  She can still glitch, so there has to be a reason for that in that it’s her special power.

v  So, why are the Nicelanders nice to Ralph at the end of the movie? Did Felix talk to them or something? Why? It makes no sense!

v  Zombie smiling is weird.

v  Wouldn’t the Q*bert guys glitch out or something in Fix-it Felix JR.?

v  Isn’t it taboo to wear the same wedding dress?

v  Wait, why would the racers get coins? At the end, Vanellope gets a trophy. Where do the coins come from?

v  Was it the surge protector responsible for all that graffiti?

v  Doom/Wolfeinstein-Style Hero’s Duty. Okay.

v  Ralph is overkill in destroying the car come on man.

v  Felix looks weird in 64-bit.

v  Look at all the Medals they left behind! There’s no way that between the four of them, they didn’t get all the medals.

v  Overall, Wreck-it Ralph took place over the span of approximately two days. (“I’ll get someone to look at it tomorrow, but if he can’t fix it, it may be time to put ol’ Ralph and Felix out to pasture, like my Nana!” – Mr. Litwak). One of those days, Calhoun is in Sugar Rush trying to find Ralph with Felix; who did she leave someone in charge of Hero’s Duty – Like Cohut? – or?

v  See Timeline of Events to understand that one.

v  Q*bert!

[alternativemiraculous]

NEW HOLDER SPOILERS AND OPINION.

There we go. Mylène as Rat and Jules as Tiger, a thing we all knew. I have some things to say.

Overall: it seems they're experimenting more with designs. Queen B, Rena, Ryūko and Ladybug were all so plain compared to the boys. These ones at least have more interesting patterns and even clothes.

Multimouse (does she have the same name as, you know, Multimouse???) looks fine. Her hoodie looks so fucking cute. Her mask too. And her costume seems interesting! She has a jacket. I can't see if her tail is part of the costume (which I hope so) or just the rope, tho. The only thing I'm wary of is her hair. Idk if I like her having pink hair lmao. And I don't even like her civilian hair because it's appropiative. Other than that (if I ever draw her I'll definitely change her hair) Multimouse's design might become one of my favorites if they don't fucking change her body type.

Vesperia. I know we've known her for a lot of time but I never gave an opinion on her. Well, I hate the color yellow, it's my least favorite color. I'm biased. Vesperia's design is fine, it has an interesting color pattern, but it looks kinda... eh. Her braid is cute, but the black parts sometimes look weird, I think they'd be better if they had less hair, to mimic antennaes. I don't like her mask and I think it's a big problem with ther design. It makes her look so weird for me haha. Her costume is fine, I just thing it's too dark compared to Queen B, and it makes her look like a wasp instead of, you know, A BEE.

I want a Rena redesign. No changes other than keeping her skin color consistant and not whitewashed, AND keeping her body type.

Tigresse Pourpre... I was thinking of something else tbh. I think the design is too gray when it should be, for me, entirely purple. Her stripes are weird too, they don't look like what a tiger would have (similar to how Vesperia's don't look like bee's!!!!). Her hair is fine ig, I just find it funny most people had already chosen a ponytail for Tiger Juleka. Her mask looks ok, but I personally think that grey color does not go with the red-purple they chose. They just clash a lot. Her hand has something, looks like claws?? I love it. Overall, I think my main problem is that grey color they chose, I don't like it with purple.

Pigella was already here, I know, but I didn't really talk about her. I don't really like her, I hate how her blonde changes (a nitpick I know). Her costume is nice and a breath of fresh air after S2-S3 girls. But it doesn't look like a pig at all and I hate it. It's so weird dhjdjdksw. Why are there no ears, no tail??? If someone not familiar with Miraculous looked at her, chances are they wouldn't know she's supposed to be the Pig hero. I think her padding is weird, it looks too harsh compared with her ballerina theme. I'd personally prefer a fairy theme, princess theme or angel theme for her, btw. Rose just gives me Barbie vibes.

I'm starting to think it's weird how many times the show LB's ass in promotional pictures xd. You all know what I think of her design. They didn't change her hair (everyone here has it changed) and she has a plain spotted costume (almost everyone here has more original things). She should have her upgraded costume always tbh, it's a big improvement (although I don't get why her hair gets bigger, is it a Brid/PV!Mari reference?).

Overall, S4 girl designs seem to be getting better. There's a big difference between Ryūko or LB and Pigella or new Multimouse. At least they're doing something else this time. But this makes me salty considering they won't change S2 and S3 girls into something better. Kagami and Marinette deserve something better. Literally everyone got their hair changed and theirs are just the same as their civilian hair. Their costumes are so plain and uninspired. And, well, we have whatever happened to Rena Rouge's body, which is something they won't address and I hate it 😭. Mari, Kagami and Alya deserve better hero forms.

[cutiecrates]

Review 1: Doki Doki Crate 10

Fun Fact: one of the names I considered for this blog was “Cutie Towers” and THAT was why. Also I’m sorry for the lighting, it was around 3:00 am when I was taking these pictures.

After recovering from the majesty that is “Cutie Towers“ (and by that I mean having the crates fall on me and knock me unconscious for about 10 minutes while my cat, Peach, stood there and watched) the fond memories of receiving my very first Crate came flowing back to me.

On the day I got it, I was preparing to head to the Hotel for an evening stay. I also knew the Crate was to be arriving....

except... it didn’t...

For about ten minutes. As it turns out, they accidentally dropped it off at the Neighbors.

If you read my In The Box review, you might remember me saying “part of my decision to get the box was because of its cute pink, heart theme.“ Well, this specific box was the other part. For September, DokiDoki Crate decided to focus on CATS. I knew right then and there I had to have it. My hesitation flew out of the window and in two seconds I was ordering it.

Now, for the first Review I decided to cover the contents of the DokiDoki magazine/booklet. Just a little bit of information you guys can look forward to.

Pages 1 and 2 generally cover the contents of the booklet and the theme.

Page 3 is generally reserved for Tomomi (the mascot of DokiDoki) and Hoppe-chan (who I plan to go over further in my post about the DokiDoki Crate branding itself) Here they both discuss cosplay and cat ears, pretty much.

Page 4 usually consists of two comics related to the original character within the box, or the theme of the box itself. Always very cute and funny.

Page 5 and 6 is reserved for revealing the Crates contents, including a picture and information on it. I had planned to show that here but I kinda thought that’d spoil the rest of the entry.

Page 7 is normally reserved for the Suteki Crate, which is essentially a very special, monthly “bonus crate“ full of special items that a random subscriber can win. I have to admit, I REALLY wanted to get my hands on that Ichimatsu x3 I adore him and honestly didn’t expect to see anything related to Osomatsu-san in the Crates. But its cat themed. You can’t have cats without Ichimatsu~

Page 8 is used to discuss the included original DokiDoki character. For this issue it was Julie, a kitty model in Shibuya who enjoys being pampered (spoiled). She is a rival of Take and Omo, the Harajuku twin dogs.

The final pages are dedicated to the fans, with one usually detailing a contest and the other full of fanart or pictures taken by fans. At the bottom of the last page is a section dedicated to the cover artist. For this kawaii kitty box, the Artist was Taxikun!

So this ends the detailed discussion on the Doki Doki booklet/magazine. This won’t be in every topic, just ones featuring a new crate review (but they are all genuinely the same).

For the month of September (btw, anyone who got this, did you notice the contents table inside listed it as the 09/August?), each subscriber gained 6 items.

Julie - A Doki Doki original (and possibly only controversial) character. A cutie-kitty with a posh fashion sense and kawaii generic plush stuffs. I thought she was the cutest thing ever and cuddled her silly. I will admit, she wasn’t the best quality though, the fur on her cheeks and tail are terribly matted and just unpleasant to touch. Her hat also seemed kind of weird, but I tried not to think much of it.

Unfortunately, it seems I wasn’t the only one with a “messed up Julie“. Several subscribers complained (some even threatened to stop subscribing) and the staff officially addressed the situation, explaining that it had to do with the sealing method the company uses. You can get the full story here:

http://blog.japancrate.com/blog/2016/09/16/julie-plush-from-septembers-doki-doki-crate

With this, I really hope Julie isn’t a rejected character. She’s too precious, and I really can’t wait to see more of her!

Pusheen Roulette - The next item was one of several each Subscriber could obtain. There were 2 alternate types of socks, this hat, and a cat-eared hat with Pusheen’s face. Right away I will admit some disappointment, but not because of quality (cause its amazing, the hat is so warm!), but because I actually don’t like to wear hats, I don’t think they look good on me. I’m trying to get over this though, and its so snuggly comfy~

(I also wanted to mention, I saw the hats at Claire’s while I was at the mall October/November)

Pusheen Laptop Decal - This was another collab item and pretty much what the name says. It’s a sticker. It’s an adorable sticker though, but I can’t bring myself to use it on anything (because of weird issues I won’t get into). So I added it to my official kawaii sticker collection.

(sorry for old lousy picture, I forgot I was currently washing the shirt when I took these new pictures. I also feel the need to point out the shirt looks ten times bigger in this picture than it actually is.)

Neko no Hajime No Ippo T-shirt - The Doki Doki exclusive featuring four troublesome kittens (so far everyone I know guesses they’re pigs. ONE person guessed they were cats) and “neko no hajime no ippo“ written on the side, meaning “the cat’s first step“.

Shikakui Koneko Coin Purse - Shikakui means “Square”, while Koneko translates as “small cat”. Each Crate has a chance to receive 1 of 8 styles :3 which included: Yellow with happy shut eyes, calico, grey (the one I got), Pink with winking face, White and grey, blue with relaxed eyes, black, and orange.

It’s so cute and little, this is the perfect coin purse~

I kind of wish I got the pink or black one. But this was too precious to be choosy. I don’t actually use it, I will confess, but only because I don’t carry change.

(Unless I find it on the ground, I have that uncanny ability to find dimes and pennies everywhere.)

Monthly Hoppe-chan - The only item I knew about before I got the crate. I’ve been obsessed with Hoppe-chan for the past year or so now, but its nearly impossible to find anything of her (at least for me). Here she cosplays as a kitty with adorable neko ears and tail, accenting them with an adorable deco bow.

To give you guys a close up I carefully undid the box. Hoppe-chan is very soft to the touch, being made of a rubbery material. Her parts are plastic deco bits, while the cheeks are adorned with gems. I can’t really bring myself to unwrap her and string her up for her intended purposes though.

Hoppe-chan is so cute and little~!

Okay Cuties, here we go. We’re at the rating part of the Review!

Quality - Besides the messed up Julie I thought the products were wonderful. I saw nothing that looked dirty or stained, no strings out of place. The items are very well made. 4 out of 5.

Content - 6 items for about thirty dollars. I felt like this particular box might not have been worth that price, considering the tiny “throw-ins” like a keychain sized coin purse and sticker. I think if asked how much I would pay for this, I’d say 15 to 20 dollars. 3 out of 5.

Practicality - For anyone else this is a no brainer. A shirt, a hat/socks, a coin purse. But for me specifically... I don’t use the purse, nor do I wear the hat (although it does come in handy when I’m bedridden). I actually don’t use anything in the box, but I do love it. I’m remaining unbiased here though, so 5 out of 5. 

Total RANK - 12 out of 15 Cuties!