#since that will probably get annoying

[saline-tournaments]

Ninjago Au Character Tournament Bracket and Other Stuff

I've gotten the bracket set up for my Ninjago Au Tournament, which was the one you guys voted for. There were some characters that I had to exclude since there wasn't enough room for them, which kind of sucks, but I think I got at least the most important ones (to me)

But anyway, the basic gist of this tournament is that I have a lot of Ninjago Aus so we're putting different au variants of characters into a tournament to see who's the best! (And there's also some ocs to represent the Next Gen Au but that's ok... and also Oliver if you count him as an oc...) Also I know that I have characters from my Black Knight Au which I have barely posted about, but I needed to fill out the bracket and I also didn't include every character from that au so I think it's fine. So yeah, let's go ahead and show the bracket.

All matchups were chosen randomly as that is what people voted for. I'm gonna add some extra tidbits of info under the cut that explain how the tournament is gonna work.

One last mention, is that I haven't fully decided when I'm going to be starting the tournament. It might be before the end of this week, but we'll just wait and see. I will make a post announcing when I actually plan on starting the tournament, so keep an eye out I guess.

So just like the OC Tournament, this tournament will include bulleted notes for each character that explains what au they're from and what their whole deal is.

The rounds, as usual, will be split up between separate days, so the first half of round 1 will be on one day and the second half on another. I'm also going to be reblogging the matches onto my main blog since that's where all the posts about these aus are actually located.

[milkywayes]

GARRUS VAKARIAN: DATABASE IMAGE ACCESS. > PT. 1 : 2160, 2166, 2170. > all files backdated according to user preferences: (terran_coordinated.calendar).

[beaulesbian]

[bottlemandx]

award for most neurotic 13 year old goes to...!!!!

(LOW-EFFORT FUNNIES UNDER CUT)

[apuff]

my chemical tober :D

[royalarchivist]

Mike: Oh, why is Richas- why everyone is pink?! Is it because of the Valentine's Day?

Mine: It's because of the Goddess!

Fit: Oh yeah, 'cuz of Valentine's Day.

Mike: Hi Ramon! [Gives Ramon a hug]

Fit: [Gasps] OHHH- he's got the pink mustache!

Mine: Everyone's possessed by the Goddess today.

Mike: Yeah!!! Yeah!

Mine: [Laughs] Hi Ramon! Hi baby!

Mike: It looks very stylish though!

Fit: Yeah

Mine: Hi Pepito!

[zeroslashsix]

One of the funniest lies X-Men TAS is trying to feed me is that Logan is afraid of Deadpool. No. No he's not. Why is every villain trying to stir up the Ghost Of Wolverine Past in the form of a red and black suit.

Morph/Evil Xavier/whoever: "I will drive you to madness by showing all the demons of your past!" *Turns into the most annoying person Logan has ever met*

[nebulainatree]

Ok in honor of this post getting pretty widely viewed I'm posting my (self proclaimed) funny tumblr text meme edit here

[chocokano]

it is officially the one year anniversary of hz episode 16, aka THE spinel pokemon episode, therefore!

a redraw of my very first (08/01/23) digital drawing of spinel (*'▽'*)

plus cool overlay hehe

i can't believe it's been a whole year since he got his big episode ∑(ﾟДﾟ) i don't think i'll ever be as excited for any episode as i was for 16

here's to another year of this freak !! maybe he'll actually show up soon outside of a 5 second appearance that sets up him being suspicious just for it to be forgotten for months

og under cut! (old art alert)

[readypanda]

Indigo Park Spoilers (and very long post) ahead

Since Indigo Park is the newest fandom I've been dipping into, I figured I might as well make my own analysis for the game. The question I'll be discussing today is,

WHAT EVEN ARE THESE THINGS?

(sry for bad picture quality lol)

The thing I find interesting about these mascots (Molly, Lloyd, and what we've seen of Finley) that kind of sets them apart from other monsters in the mascot horror genre is...they almost seem like they're just animals. (I'll go over evidence for this in this post)

Think about it. In other mascot horror games, we've gotten:

animatronics possessed by dead children

employees/kids surgically(?) turned into toys

people mutated by a giant ink machine

animals/people who have had their DNA spliced with a mutagenic chemical

A little girl somehow turned into a monster (I think??)(really sorry Amanda I don't know what you are)

etc.

(I'm not up to date on all these properties and I know there's many more, so forgive me if my lore understanding is less than adequate. you know how it is with indie horror)

The important note about all these is that for the most part, these mascots are intelligent, or at least have the capability of intelligence. Almost everything on this list was at one point human, in fact.

So why do I think Indigo Park is any different? What leads me to believe they aren't intelligent? (at least, the animal versions of the characters that we run from in the game. Whether they are separate from the versions of the characters Rambley interacts with is something I'll touch on later)

I think the most obvious piece of evidence in regards to Molly and Lloyd (again, not much info on Finley yet) is how Lloyd acts. He doesn't talk at all, he just stalks the main character and attacks like an animal might (with the exception of a couple times he stands on two legs or props himself up here and there).

As for Molly, I hear you saying, "But she talks! We hear her speak!" And yes, dear reader, you are right. Molly does speak. This would disprove my argument of the mascots being purely animalistic, if it weren't for this kill screen.

Now, do we ever actually hear Molly say something that isn't a repetition or couldn't reasonably be a repetition? Has she said anything to prove her intelligence at all? (genuine question here because I haven't examined every one of her voice lines lol. If I'm wrong about this then whoopsie!)

Despite the past 250 words of speculation, though, whether they act just like animals isn't actually that important. We'll see more of them in later chapters anyway (or Lloyd and Finley at least) so that will likely prove or disprove this point with time.

The more interesting question is, what are they? Like, physically?

When Molly dies, we clearly see blood around her decapitated head. At the very least that rules out animatronics or something mechanical. In addition, in the audio of the hidden tape you get when you show Rambley one of the collectables, you can hear two staff members complaining about being replaced by "new mascots" right after they "got a new raccoon costume." This could mean a few different things, but it seems to imply that the mascots we see in this chapter are meant to be replacements for actors in suits (for meet and greets, promotion, shows, etc) and/or replacements for limited, expensive, and cumbersome animatronics. If this is true, we can also probably rule out them being human. Unless Indigo Park also had a secret human experimentation lab, which I wouldn't put past them.

I think it's too early to definitively state what these mascots are, but based on the evidence of above, I have a theory.

My personal theory is that these mascots are just animals who have been changed or mutated in some way to allow the park to have more "realistic" representations of the characters (also probably to cut down on the costs of paying a human employee). That would explain why they act the way they do and why they are so violent. They literally are just wild animals who have been warped to represent these cartoon characters.

Another important caveat to this theory is that, if this is true, then the mascots who attack us in the game are most likely NOT Rambley's "friends" as he knows them. That would explain why he doesn't call attention to Molly chasing us or Molly's dead body (with the exception of one very small reaction when he talks about the mascots). You would expect him to seem a little more upset if he thought that was his friend, but maybe on some level he knows it's not really her, just a representation of her.

That brings up another question, which is a can of worms I won't fully open here: Do Molly, Lloyd, and Finley have sentient "AI" equivalents like Rambley? If not, does Rambley know his friends aren't real? I'll let you decide.

Anyway, that just about closes my thoughts on this silly raccoon game. Thanks for letting me ramble on about it, and thanks for making it to the end of the post!

Lemme know about your own theories in regards to what these things are, or if there's any key evidence I missed. Kinda threw this together lol. Most of it will likely get disproven by future chapters but hey, thus is the price of theorizing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[eddiegettingshot]

agree sm with your last post. the girl (the one who just made the joke, not the one who dmed him being a weirdo) was just fooling around without attacking him or something like that and os posted her account on his stories and now i'm seeing everyone jumping on her. i saw three people saying “kys” which is crazy because she's just 19 and she didn't do nothing wrong???

right like sorry but in the grand scheme of things even if she HAD lied (to spread the rumor that oliver is... looking at ryan's mentions for posts about himself? something that wouldn't mean anything and would also make sense for him to do?) the payoff of blasting some random fan on your huge platform to your followers who are so deranged even YOU cannot stand them half the time, over something the entire fandom has been joking about for at least a full day, is still pretty much zero. and then there's the fact that he clearly would have had to go look at her twitter account to see she'd said any of that, because as far as i can tell there was no mention of it on her instagram, which is where she actually interacted with him. so...? like this is so immature and annoying to me lol. and this is a guy who's been having problems with his fans on and off for like. years. it's not like he's completely unaware about how it works. literally don't look at your message requests, turn your dms off, turn your comments off, stop opening twitter, log OFFFFFF

[ghost-bard]

Kinda crazy that we’ve got 3 different lords of fortune between da absolution and tevinter nights and none of them showed up in datv but instead we got. A half assed isabela cameo. Like ok-

[mycatmoo]

Isat au where everything's the same except siffrin has nagito komaeda luck

Good luck following the script when the universe is actively working against stage directions bitch

[doodoodinklefart]

back for another jjk yap sess, this time abt geto LOL...

im honestly a little surprised i never noticed this before but the way that geto (who thought that his best friend was killed and saw a girl he was essentially willing to uproot his life for get murdered right in front of him) tries SOO hard to stay calm while toji's talking and then the MOMENT he brings satoru up again and trivializes riko's death, suguru loses it. i'm thinking suguru let him talk in the first place despite the risk of letting toji reveal his pact (and wanting to kill him Very Bad) cuz he figured it would be better to understand toji's deal since he beat satoru, something that suguru trusted would not happen

but then he starts referring to satoru strictly as "the six eyes", and i think that suguru, one of the few people that saw satoru as a person beyond his cursed technique or his family name could not help but get super pissed abt toji's dehumanization of satoru (and riko too, who he only refers to as the star plasma vessel). i just thought that it was very interesting....... suguru cared so much and it makes me CRAZY AS FUCK.

like, to begin with i think its sooo so interesting that suguru made it a point to be considerate of all the human parts of satoru despite the fact that im sure most other people assume he doesn't need to be worried about. i'll never stop thinking about suguru asking if he needs a break since he's overusing his technique, telling him he worked hard after getting back to the school, trying to rush to his side after he's been stabbed and being conflicted when satoru tells him to leave with riko and kuroi... he didn't just assume satoru could handle all that shit on his own cuz even if he could have he shouldn't have to.

also related omg im almost done i promise but!! the scene where suguru gets to the star religious group and sees satoru again for the first time...

the way that he can't even believe his eyes, probably in part because he's acting way different but also because he thought he FUCKING DIED. and he had to drag himself out of the tomb of the stars and probably went to look for gojo's body before even going to shoko. and then he had to tell her he couldn't even find his body man WHAT THE FUCK!!! i think maybe saw a twitter post about this part in particular but he might have thought toji took riko's body and satoru's, so the thought that he went all the way there thinking he'd have to see two dead bodies of people he cared about... ugh. suguru geto i love you

[becasbelt]

watched the first half of arcane season 2 with my little sister and she doesn't like caitlyn and i. simply don't know what i'll do if she doesn't come around to her in the end

[froschli96]

you know, i always find it really funny when dudebros complain about syndicate and odyssey being too "jokey" or not "taking its characters seriously" or whatever…

like, did y'all collectively sleep through "it's-a me, mario!", "i meant besides vaginas", ezio inventing the latte, bartolomeo's... just... *gestures vaguely* entire character, etc?

like, it's fine to have preferences of course, i myself prefer a more serious and grounded tone, but these are usually the same people who tout the ezio trilogy as "peak assassin's creed", call ac1 a glorified tech demo and hate on connor for being "too serious and boring", like? make it make sense!