#sm villains every episode

[cure-yell-liker]

[bbibbirose]

the amt of plot holes and terrible writing in fruits basket is akahjwhdjsbcj

[spooky-month-archive]

Various references and Easter eggs in Spooky Month 5: Tender Treats

The photo of Bob where he has his thumbs up is meant to reference the real-life cannibal Ed Gein. Behind Bob is the corpse of his victim hanging upside down with a badly made cut.

Captain and Shotgun Man from Sr Pelo's 'Every StoryTime Animation' video.

Flashback scene with the old Spooky Month style

Sr Pelo's old YouTube username (123pendejos), Latino American joke (common in SM) about smelling like obo, and another Latino joke, if you read it you are cursed.

The book from episode 3 based on the song El Gran Varon/The Great Man by Willie Colón.

Skid and Pump JoJo posing (with Skid doing DIO's 'Wryyy' pose and Pump doing Jonathan Joestar's pose)

Skid and Pump doing the walk cycle from 'Every Fuckin' FPS Game' video.

Plants vs. Zombies reference

Día de Muertos/Day of the Dead themed Candy Club, with Pelo cookies and Among Us stickers.

Right: A lollipop of Sr Pelo's character Verwirrung, AntonM's character Lucy, Invincible Candy from Kirby, a reference to a character from the ENA: Dream BBQ game trailer, a skull from Zombicool on the Spooky Month team and Katz and Uno from Monster Lab by MeatCanyon.

Left: 2 of Sr Pelo's candy characters, Salad Fingers, strawberry candy, a reference to the scene in Beetlejuice (1988) where he gives a fly a candy and Top Hat from Villainous.

The Panvaso is a joke from a Mexican TV comedy called 'La Familia P. Luche'

[cloudyskiiees]

what are your thoughts on eva?

YEAA EVA ty for asking about her i love her sm <3

first things first, she is so incredibly underused within the tdi universe. ridiculously underused.

i think she has one of the most wasted potential of the entire gen one cast, if not THE most wasted. the writers did her so very dirty just over and over again.

the only good thing they did was forming team escope, which is mainly what i’ll focus on here!

eva herself though, is a very fun character who deserved more screentime to have some kind of arc or even play a villain. i think villain eva was robbed from us guys.

her aggressive nature and clear anger problems are what she’s always boiled down to in the fandom, but the season one finale ep is what gives us the most real insight to what she’s actually like. because she’s with friends!

it’s my personal opinion that team escope was formed simply because the writers couldn’t find anyone else for those three to be teamed with during the hunt for the million. eva and noah were voted off so early and are very off putting socially, and izzy was deemed absolutely mental by the majority (if not all) of the cast by that point. the three misfits had no where else to turn besides each other!

and how amazingly wonderful it was.

i think the biggest thing for eva is truly how authentic someone is. my reasoning lies within how different izzy and noah are, practically polar opposites, and yet eva seems to consider both of them friends.

noah calling her out on her bs with justin, calling her “iron women,” very very naturally? eva responding with “i’m so ashamed!” BRO THEYRE SO BESTIES

noah and izzy are so incredibly themselves at practically every moment. noah will never be able to shut his damn mouth and loves to be the little bitch he is, and izzy is always ready to pull some kind of prank or jump into some kind of acrobatic trick. they refuse to back down for anyone, and that’s the kind of strength eva appreciates more than anything else. people will who be themselves proudly!

also, eva is fairly loyal with her friends! she doesn’t ever really noah behind in that episode, even calling out to him to hurry up when he falls behind. this is a difference with her and izzy, in which the redhead isn’t afraid to take off for her own interests. (although i still feel that she does deeply care and is loyal in other ways!)

but yeah overall, eva is a very underused character with a lot of potential for plot and character development. i really wish we got to see more sides of her than just the angry one, which is the most prominent, but definitely not the only thing that makes eva who she is!

i hope this was a relatively satisfying answer lol thank you again for the ask!!!!

[signanothername]

Who's your favorite side-mutant/yokai in Rottmnt? You seem like a Big Mama enjoyer hehe

Oughhh this is so hard bdhdhdhhdhd

Ok I’m not gonna lie, rottmnt has such an amazing cast of characters that it’s genuinely hard to choose one single favorite, so I’m actually gonna give you my top fave ones all at once

Big Mama is ABSOLUTELY a fave! (I mean I love Nightmare it’s really obvious dhdhhdhd) I love her and her manipulative behavior so much, and the way she talks will forever be one of my favorite things in any media ever (also the fact she’s basically the turtles unofficial mom is amazing, I love her relationship with Splinter so much gdgdgxg), and I mean, every single episode she appears in is so damn delightful, she has such a strong presence, and is very unique, I love herrrr

Draxum too! I love his dramatic ass scientist personality and overall “I will destroy you!!!!” When he’s frankly bad at it vibe, and just his whole motive and how he’s basically the turtles Dad 2.0 beside their actual Dad, and his attitude of being a reluctant Dad after his redemption, I absolutely adore his relationship with Mikey especially <3333

I also have a very big soft spot for Hypno, love the silly Bisexual hopeless romantic Hippo who’s in love with (and married in my heart) a loser zero rizz news anchor worm shhdhdhd, I really love how despite being a villain, he’s such a softy

Also Huesoooooo!!!! I love him so much! He’s like the grumby reluctant uncle to the Turtles and especially to Leo, I absolutely adore him and his entire concept and restaurant, really love his story with his brother too hehehe, I honestly wish we saw him more in the series

I’d say these four are like, the ones that I love the most <3333

Also Honorable mention to Alberto (does he even count as a mutant??), Gorden Ramsey (Meatsweats), and Todd too dhdhhdhd

And an Honorable mention to Mira, she may have only appeared for like, one episode, but I love her design sm

[yumespooki]

☆Why Gregor is so important than you think and the series' relationship with tone

Im obsessed with an old man and I have all reasons to be also I have to sleep but I really need to make a colleague of gregor photos as the header image-

◇Part 1 - How The Tonal Shifts happen to be

Episodes 1 to 3 was all silly fun, though we have the idea that the series is gonna have a progression to having a consistent plot and story since Episode 2 setting up the episode formula of events/segments:

Skid and Pump doing mischief around town, there's separate segments of major characters that they come across and the villain that sets up the plot - who are in concept supposed to be parodies of horror villain stereotypes.

And its all fitting in Pelo's style except its actually understandable and not have characters turn cartoonishly eldritch every 2 seconds.

Yknow we got SM 1 was an average pelo video then SM 2 is where we got the formula, everyone were just trope templates and the one that sets up the lore

SM3 is where things get normal but it's still silly, you can tell by the soundtrack, Moloch's theme is on dubstep it bangs BUT also introduces the Episode ending set up for its next villain.

Then SM4 happened. Oh Deadly Smiles my beloved, still my personal favorite

This where the good shit happens with different segments under 20+ minutes with finally having a grasp on how the episode formula works

Though this episode is kinda.. the chillest one among the episodes???

Everytime Skid and Pump goes around town with Spooky Swings playing, it's always fast paced and they immediatly go to the next in a few seconds but in Deadly Smiles, they take long stops before going to their next location. Most Characters also spend most of if not any of their screentime without Skid and Pump in it. [especially Kevin] it has its own unique tone and its cozy solely for it being winter themed.

Other than the more chill pacing, You got the rabid doll running place to place and getting thrown around to people to people to show what hes suppose to parody that when Dexter actually shows that he can be a threat is a really effective moment and really got me going "Oh shit OH SHIT"

But the scene that truly shaped Spooky Month the way it is now is the scene where he snaps at the kids, that moment is so important to the series because of the sudden change of tone to spooky/silly to scary. We couldn't see Dexter as a threat before this because the tone and plot prevents him to be one especially to poke out the trope of Doll killers but at this moment, the moment he expresses his situation and conditions, he went specific. and from there you don't see Dexter as a simple parody for the sake of being a parody anymore, Especially being a parody based on Chucky --who uses dolls on his advantage-- but For Dexter, below the surface is a man doomed from the circumstances that he desperately wanna get out of.

Episode 5 immediatly tells you its meant be atleast scary from the get-go since it was already established seconds into the episode, and only in the last minute with Lila it left us with an ominous note

Ok to be for real, I consider Episode 5 kinda standard compared to Ep 4 and 6 but is more better than the early 3 eps and I appreciate as the middle ground between Deadly Smiles and Hollow Sorrows. And also more cop screentime my luvs

And mainly the reason why I said this because of Bob. The villains of Spooky Month is always tied with the tone because they are the guys that bring the tension. Bob's kinda monotonic because his behaviour pattern in this episode is repetitive: He slowly approaches people, give them meat fact, dosent or fails to kill them, gets slapped with slapstick. Even at the climax where he's actually at his most effective by being actually terrifying, he still gets disrupted for comedic purposes.

He has a balance of being actually terrifying and being a parody by his slow movement trying to set up tension.

Incomparison to Dexter, yea he gets thrown around but they get to take him seriously at the right moment and being thrown around to different people showing this disadvantage will show you the wide range of what the characters will do with the doll, Bob just scares them throughout the episode.

And I can't be mad about it because Bob purposefully is doing that to distract the cops from the cult case especially thinking he can't die.

But Bob is still effective as a villain. He manages to get you on edge and also opens questions to more lore stuff. And this episode is also the most creepiest because of Bob's behaviour along with that Lila encountering him along with finding out he's in her photo book probably shaped Lila to her behaviour in episode 6.

Still a good ep. Alot of insight of other characters' lives is my main highlight of this ep

Then Episode 6 has Father Gregor finally established as a proper character now that's where the interesting THING starts;

◇Chapter 2: Why is he weird in a weird show

When Father Gregor is on screen, do you feel.. put off especially when he's first introduced into the episode? Like when we were first introduced to doll Dexter with actual spinechilling ost and visuals we were already accustomed to this to be something expected through the Newgrounds endings with its ominous tone, expecting to transition it to the main story especially in with Tender Treats being almost that except more heightened.

But with Gregor, I don't have the exact words to explain the tonal dissonance he gives us. He has a very clear leimotif soundtrack throughout the episode everytime he's on screen even disrupting themes of other characters or locations [like the candy club like what the fuck gregor excuse yourself] that it even turns to a more epic variation of itself with Moloch's exorcism.

since this guy has seconds of screentime on his 1st debut,he's unpredictable especially when each episode has a formula of events with characters that we are familiar off. and we know that there is atleast something goofy going on with them - except for the cops but for them they act silently or accompany moments with the characters - But Gregor dosent accompany character moments he's the goddamn spotlight, the emphasis on his scenes are on HIM like out of nowhere we got this guy coming along. Its kinda of a new breathe of air to have him around because we never got anyone else to come along with the Spookeez all around town and setting up their dynamic with the kids.

Oh and finally we simply state the whole point of Gregor and why he's so out of place -- his seriousness. He was never associated with the series' shenanigans, and questions his surroundings. He dosent enable himself with the series' comedy and at somepoint that it tries to bring him along for a second with the spooky dance. Hes not only unfamiliar in story wise but by environment wise. there was a little analysis essay I made a while back with how Gregor as a person in the setting is off to the townsfolk as they are mostly unfamiliar with Religious figures as the church was newly built, and everybody else never acknowledges his presence as a priest — Kevin and Frank calls him an old guy/man Radford dosent take him seriously because he mostly seen priests through movies, Jack has to ask if Gregor is one and Skid and Pump dosent know how the term father works in the church that even tells something. Only a few characters recognizes his role as a priest being Michelle, John, and Evermore.

Now let's move onto Gregor not following the goddamn script of being part of a parody

Ep 6 has the basics of a parody of exorcism movies: demon - check, priest - check, the victim check that's your main elements, but they never utilises these as.. parodies, because when one of the core elements acts like a normal guy and has a standard behaviour of a priest in those kinds of movies that wasnt exagerrated for the parody and has never been that early into the series to being so associated with the silliness of it making fun of horror. We had time with Moloch since Episode 1, 2 and 3 We witness his time from being just a gimmick character to being one of the mysteries and coming back as a serious threat.. or is he? Because on the 2nd half of the episode, Moloch's running away from Gregor, and attempts to fight back by trying to possess anyone on his way but in the end Moloch is defeated and the kids seeing this breaks their relationship with Gregor. At this point he himself is also an antagonist.

With Gregor breaking the law of parodies, and also breaking the traditional set up of villains for this series, he also differs alot of the standard priest character that he's supposed to be because usually those characters cannot exist outside of being the guy battling the supernatural forces—they are not the main focus. With Gregor, he's more than just an exorcist as for the most part we see him as a normal priest first, exorcist second. he's so determined in his job that any threat given to him makes him more motivated and half of the episode he spends his time teaching the kids to behave.

◇<Gregor and Tension>◇

We already established Gregor as a villain so what else is weird about this bald fuck

From Episode 4 we now get ourselves a consistent line of villains with Dexter being a strong start with the earlier mentioned being the guy responsible for the main story's tonal whiplash

Dexter, Moloch and Bob are villains with their main thing and concept as something terrifying — Dexter's an insane doll, Bob's a cannibal butcher and Moloch's a child eating demon who gives terrible side effects at something he possessed dead or alive.

Horror villains always relied in creating tension to make anyone scared. Dexter creates tension with his uncanny presence as a doll, along with his fast movements contrasting this with Bob, being slow and uses psychological intimidation than being fast, and watches his victims reacting to the situation their put into. Then for Moloch, he is tied with Gregor because how he creates tension is in complimentary with him.

The scary thing about Moloch comes from the ARGs mostly since that's where they build him up as a serious thing to handle in the series after Episode 3, but unfortunately for him as his debut as a serious threat has to be shared with just a dude

OK Moloch's scenes relies on a psychological effect because of his ability to possess people which he possess characters we seen before and are individuals. If you think about Dexter, we saw him killed off for a fucking joke then proceeds to be a threat for a whole episode by the result of his decreasing sanity of being stuck inside a doll. then you realize he's also someone's son. Both got killed by Moloch and used their images as his best attempt to manipulate Gregor which only angers him and makes him more determined to finish him off. Even psychological moves dosent work on him. Now at that point, Moloch lost the hold of the tension's weight. Rather than heightening a terrifying scene like a typical spiritual fight scene, Gregor steals it and heightens it by what made him unnatural since the start – he's constant seriousness that defies the the overall tone that it becomes a keypoint from the episode onwards, making Moloch run away.

Their last confrontation has Gregor on the upper hand with a successful exorcism and a banger of an ost that I still think about to this day, and it was never something to replicate horror. They were no terrific aftermath or a good ending, only the tears of children that comes after it, a dislikeness to the religious figure, and an awareness to how the series' main thing of silliness and chaos was all from an unsupervised kid and a bit carefree mother.

◇Chapter 3: the old man has a hold on the narrative

At the start of Episode 6, We were dismissed with a moment with Skid and Lila, about her situation arranging the house and Skid's Dad with her distracting Skid to go play with Pump. We know somethings off but this was already delivered from the ending of Episode 5.

Gregor states himself at the start as a guide to the children to reflect and be better, but how he delivers this wasn't clear to Skid and Pump and goes around apologising with no single thought other than this being important to their parents. The episode's main point was because of Father Gregor assisting the kids.

then the second that they got the parent thing shoved to their faces is with the cops, also one of the more grounded characters in the series but again they enable the goofiness of the series especially with Jack and his lowkey high kill count- Now that's when the themes of family are very stressed with the whole thing now about to ingrain in Skid and Pump's head.

Now to the scene where Skid and Pump cries for Moloch and now hates Gregor. It's all on him – he leaves without the need of approval but get his message and judgements clear. As he leaves the main cast and onto the church, he's finally at his most vulnerable. the tension spotlight is not on him anymore and has no control of the atmosphere as the Cult comes into the scene.

But what he does have control of was the effect he gave on the kids as his message of apologising and reflecting was the episode's ending note. Not only that, We got the tonal shift to scary, serious to bawling our tears out?? It was implied throughout the episode that the themes of family, especially broken ones are strong and the last scene of Skid apologising and hugging his mom was the perfect completion to build all of that. Not only the tension between Moloch, and Gregor is there the other important thing was the emotional tension.

This signals that Gregor's presence was such an impact that it still lingers, like the piano at the last scene that he's always accompanied with in the soundtrack. in the end it shaped the kids that gives a significant emotional weight into the narrative from now on.

And what do we do now if Skid and Pump finally reflected?? Will things change? Will they not go out and do havoc anymore? Will things lose the general comedic feel to something more serious? We don't know

But it's all really thanks to Father Gregor Raguel.

Conclusion:

Tldr: Gregor is so odd to the show because of how serious he is that it extends to him breaking in series and horror traditions to the fucking narrative of making the series have some emotional weight

[mooshofish]

And this is…….

The live slug reaction to the big fucking episode 1 of Link Click/Shiguang daili ren Bridon/Yingdu Arc!!!!!

Rules and Powers

The theory of transferring your power upon death from (first brought upon with Qiao Ling) seems to hold truth withy the beautiful symbolism of the “ball being thrown into Lu Guang’s court” so to speak, also continuing the notion of trusting another (entrusting LG with Cheng Xiaoshi’s power). It is followed up by a far more direct demonstration as the gold color from CX’s eyes go into LG’s.

Additionally, the 12 hr rule is not specific to CX’s power but rather to LG’s first power of seeing into photos. Like entering a photo by himself, the risk comes from the absence of LG’s guidance.

SOMETHING IMPORTANT I NOTICED

Vein came into the studio to attack the two (or maybe just LG) because of LG messing with the past. It was followed by CX giving him his power and then the scene we know from the season 2 finale. The thing is: if this is supposedly the first time that he died, what did Lu Guang do with the past to piss the villains off?

Artistic Choices

Way to flex the budget in the first scene holy shit, they didn’t hold back with the basketball scene in season 1 and they aren’t holding back now!

I really appreciate the extra echo added to the characters who are far away. It adds a little extra finish that shows how much thought is put into every detail.

The fly during the dinner scenes may be a reference to Shen Miaomiao being sort of a fly buzzing around, as if she is sort of ignored in the conversations with her mother and family.

Just Notes

LG constantly checking the time constantly

CX BEING JEALOUS I CANTTTT

QL is a hero to women everywhere

CX keeps unintentionally calling men beautiful this is great

We got Lu Guang canonically kinning someone before GTA 6

LG HAS AN ENTIRE NOTEBOOK DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY. How many times has he done this… maybe I was wrong and it wasn’t the first time….

Didn’t expect to see yet another realistic family dynamic that really tugs at my heart with SM… I feel really bad for her

“Royal Academy of Bridon” it was like a gunshot went off the way all the hairs on my body stood at attention

Qiao Ling slap count: 2

Prediction: Vivan is an evil motherfucker and someone’s about to die.

Zhou Xun is not a smart fella

Xia Fei magazine jumpscare

Prediction 2: Based on the outfit CX is wearing and also the PV, he’s gonna end up running screaming out a back door from some crazy shit

CX does something fucking dumb counter: 1

I can’t believe they are effectively trial running their powers right now……….

Oh! This is hashtag scary now!

THEY SAID FUCK WORD YAYYYYYY IM SO HAPPY

I SCREAMED. I YELLED. VIVIAN. OH MY GOSH

So you’re telling me that if the express delivery didn’t lose Lu Guang’s clothes, Cheng Xiaoshi wouldn’t have found the Bridon photo and then……….

[jennrypan]

The Rooster has more of a personality than Bee— also them annoying Gabriel is funny as hell.

..I find her parents annoying- but thats me with every adult in this show fr..so take that with a grain of salt—

Alya is such a queen. I adore her sm— “hey thats censorship!” I adore her sm. And the monkey is so annoying lmao. Gabriel is such a loser..Ima keep saying it— no wonder Lilas better than him, hes sooo- also..the ice skater guy is stupid. I really wish the show would..treat Hawkmoth like an actual villain so it would make sense why Chat and Ladybug are struggling so much. But maybe I’m asking for too much with a kids show. Idk.

Also great plan- slay, but they should’ve saved the reunion until after they got the kwami back but it’s fine— dont explain shit to him!!! And he—-took the lucky charm? It’s fine— ig. Anyways exposition- anyways just..redrawing his original shitty suit. Ugh—

Oh right. I forgot this season introduced an irrelevant character that people used to replace Alya..AGAIN. And yet despite having such an “effect” on Marinette we never see her outside of this episode. (Thank god for that her character design is just..marinette with weirdly designed glasses and longer hair. )

She seems to randomly snap at people a lot actually. Also..we just have..dinosaurs?? I forgot about that..this show has too much nonsense. Like..focus on being a magical girl series and not “What kinda stupid shit can we include in one episode.” Be fuckin fr— ..they can fly. Ok

Gabriel using his dead wives appearance for his digital AI isnt..weird or creepy at all..anyways— Also lmao I love Tikkis “Marinette..” lmao also So..I’m not spelling her name I’m lazy. Is literally just..Alya?? Get her tf off my screen. The season and its need to shove in random characters that resemble other characters is..a choice (..ZOE.)

Justified crash out ?? Lmao. I wish we got more of that when it mattered but anyways- kill the principal ig 💀 Kagami being so ready for Adrien to date Adrien despite her liking him herself is girls girl of her?? I guess is..the take away. Sure. And ew Luka- WEAR EYELINER !! GET EYELINER DAMN. Anyways- Marinette greeting him in Spanish is hilarious. Slay—

Luka and Kagami moved from love rivals to Adrinette shippers real quick. Thats..normal. Also I love Kagami being blunt and simple cuz girl stop making shit hard and deal. Damn. Also her using Luka to see how Adrien feels about her in..shitty. Like girl yall use to date?? Why would he wanna hang around to see how yall hit it off?? Be so fr. I adore Kagami. And Marinette is soo..she stands in her own damn way far too often..shes been like this for 5 seasons at this point (spoiler..it doesnt change.)

The way she would get on my damn nerves if I was Luka or Kagami..but theyre patient as fuck whereas..I am not. Get a GRIP. Fuck. “Feeling jealous 😏?” Lmao.

Also Andre is sooo GOD. DIEEEEEE. Death to you bitch, die. And we’re suppose to be think he actually tried to be a decent father?? He’ll be a good dad to Zoe?? Really. He neglected his daughter, abandoned her with her shitty mom and hes a pos mayor and yet..he can brush Chloe off and take Zoe?? ..okaaay.

“You can tell me everything” ..and she never does lol— anyways- I also forgot this season was full of Chloe bastardization to the max. Like..jfc. What kind of damn lucky charm is that—

[that-left-turn]

I really hope the possible rewrites and post production will do the exact opposite as last year. Obviously they changed quite a lot in post which led us all being disappointed as Melissa (just think about her favorite scene).

We're quite loud on X and Tumblr but on X the critics are far more visible on EVERY post about DD from the official accounts.

I really hope it changes the dynamics, not just about Caryl but also bts. They can't reverse the damage but they could lay the ground for successful future seasons.

If they don't change anything, I don't think there will be any fans left beside the Norman stans. And I'm so looking forward to the first interviews to get a feeling about the atmosphere.

Keep being vocal, we need everyone to support Melissa. I'm already so proud of everyone under the posts who shares their feelings. ❤️

Thanks for the note on positive reinforcement, anon 🙏

One caveat: it's important to have somewhat realistic expectations for S3. If they didn't shoot them, post-production can't add more joint Caryl scenes. They can remove shipbait or whatever goes on between Daryl and the woman who's about half his age. (I don't think anyone has to worry about the 20-year old.) Post will be damage control, but like you said too, we need the BTS dynamics to change so future seasons will be better. Someone has to redeem Daryl and fix all the other things Zabel broke, like taking away Carol's iconic knife.

I would also urge you, even if you don't watch Dead City, to be supportive of Lauren Cohan's directorial debut. She needs to diversify her income (because she's in the age bracket when acting work dries up) and I think we need to lift up all the women who are actively working in the franchise. It's vital to see more female TWDU directors, just like it was great to see Danai write an episode for her show, and maybe we could get Melissa to direct in the future too?

The franchise desperately needs more women in positions of power/influence. TWDU's EPs, other writers and directors are overwhelmingly white and male, which provide for a limited perspective and it's difficult to speak up as a female EP and be the sole dissenting voice. (You quickly become tiresome and a 'nag.') A show, which features two DV survivors as leads, really needs a showrunner who has some sort of understanding of the psychology behind that. You can't write for characters if you don't understand what's shaped them into who they are.

Like I've said before, Daryl and Carol are unique in TV writing. They represent several different demographics, not just abuse survivors, that seldom get any kind of positive attention. They're mostly victims or villains in other people's stories, so Caryl's legacy is important. Being able to write nontraditional, emotionally mature men and strong, flawed but still loving women is wonderful and we need to not backtrack into toxic male heroes and women as wallpaper.

It's great that people share their feelings with AMC across SM platforms. And, thank you, anon, for sending this ask, recognizing everyone who's still here, fighting for equality and a better quality show. It means a lot to see fans be this passionate. Thank you.

Also, thanks to everyone who sends me asks: it's nice hearing from you and a big thank you to anyone who reads my very long and wordy posts 🙃❤️

[pngjamie]

I got blocked 🧍 a little addition to the last post/reblog, I do genuinely understand where contrarians come from calling indie web projects "formulaic" or w/e but that does NOT mean I agree with em I think theres a valid way to have that argument and opinion! Just, yknow without the subtle homophobic + sexist undertones 😰

Im gonna use TADC as an example here- A lot of people like to dismiss it as like, cliche food bait for popular tropes but like, do any amount of research into Goose and shes always been like this /pos Sometimes- people just like making their things funky and weird!/pos Have you considered that people just like those tropes-? Another example is Welcome Home- which got SUPER knocked off by some people as just cliche tropes bright colors with edgy horror themes, again,

These creators arent making these things because theyre popular bait or sm shit, they just like this stuff!! Theres so many creators that are finally getting the opportunity, freedom, tools and skills to make what they have in mind! I genuinely believe its just a new generation of creators with like minds growing up and were seeing them rise at the same time :) Im saying this as someone who also doesnt really like mascot horror game tropes </3 im not personally a big fan of superhero tv shows where every episode is mostly the same thing with a different scenario/villain GUESS WHAT ! IM LITERALLY MAKING A PILOT FOR A VILLAIN/HERO SHOW ! There are aspects of that trope i really like! Things i intend to tinker with but its still so easy to just "gah, another darn superhero show about morality" and i think thats okay :) Theres generally speaking better ways to go abt this stuff but I dont know, im generally a supportive optimist instead of a critic

indie animation community i love youuuu thats all :)

[devilsrecreation]

Okay so I’m watching a Jim Henson production called “The Animal Show” AND WHEN I TELL YOU IT’S AMAZING IN EVERY WAY THO-

Not only is Sly the crocodile a freaking DELIGHT, they show baby crocodiles AND GIVE GHARIALS RECOGNITION!!!!!!!!!!

BC WE ALREADY KNOW ABOUT ALLIGATORS AND POSSIBLY CAIMANS BUT I NEVER SEE ANYBODY REALLY TALKING ABOUT GHARIALS SO THANK YOU SM

OK SO LAZLO THE HYENA IS A GREAT CHARACTER BUT YK WHAT I LOVE? THEY GET HYENAS. LAZLO ISN’T PORTRAYED AS A VILLAIN HE JUST ACKNOWLEDGES THE REPUTATION HYENAS GET AND JAKE (a polar bear) ARE LIKE “wow, I have a new respect for hyenas!”. He does something the Lion Guard doesn’t: he explains he’s not a scavenger. He says ofc they eat the dead but they mostly hunt for their food and I think that’s beautiful

OH AND HE SINGS A SONG ABOUT HYENAS.

WE GET A POSITIVE REPRESENTATION FOR A HYENA!!!!!!!!!

Again, no villainization in any way. Vic is a very tough nile monitor (like NY mobster tough), but in a respectable way. And he teaches everyone about monitor lizards!!!!

And another lovable crocodile character, Frankie is also a very accurate croc 🥰🥰🥰

(plus more bby crocs in this episode 🥺)

[jedisandspacepirates]

Thoughts on Jod Na Nawood in Ep. 8 via gifs reactions

Here there be spoilers.

We weren't surprised here, now were we?

Watching Jod flail his lightsaber around and squeeze every drop out of his 'I'm an emissary, I'm normal, you can trust me' bs:

Jod doing his evil villain monologue.

Literally everyone else:

Jod when the parents decide to work together against him and destroy the barrier:

The throwaway remark he makes about the Jedi that found him and what happened to her -

Me:

but also

I need somebody to write something where Jod's Jedi master doesn't get killed...bc who the hell knows what would have happened if that hadn't happened to him. Am I okay? No.

Bonus: SM-33 lives!

Okay, I'm done. That's a very, very loose interpretation/summary whatever the hell you wanna call this of Episode 8, please watch the episode. It was good.

[ravenkinnie]

have you watched all the episodes yet? what are your thoughts?

I just finished all three episodes and lemme first say. I got netflix again for this premiere and netflix has ads now???? this is bullshit

now some thoughts:

THERE ARE SO MANY STORYLINES I'm being cautiously optimistic but I have no idea how they will tie up everything. also I think the reason there are so many montages and music videos in there is partially because the show went into production too late and they had too much shit to wrap up so we had to figure out cool ways to skip some exposition which. I appreciate when they just say fuck it, deduct it. and if I'm anybody in arcane universe it's actually that thick big titty bitch in bdsm gear in the art at the start of episode 2

everybody is extremely hot, caitlyn obviously, jinx is slaying every shot, ambessa and mel.... I shan't. but also it has to be said, caitlyn has a really hot dad like tobias is a beekeeping age

I'm getting my dues as a caitlyn stan and supporter, I mean I haven't seen the takes yet so she might be already fighting for her life but let me already say I don't give a fuck, I'll be defending her all month. she looks so good, she's eating her lil lines, she's so bitchy - when vi was like I watched them kill my parents do you know how that feels and caitlyn goes yeah I do LIKE SHE GAGGED US BOTH A LIL. the kiss was a massive slay, like absolutely delivered, I have no notes. IM SO EXCITED FOR HER AND AMBESSA TOGETHER if you see me on ao3 in those tags be fucking quiet. like not caitlyn accidentally becoming a dictator because a muscle mommy milf manipulated her, you don't understand she is such a wish fulfilment character for me. also she's slowly giving more and more princess bubblegum the more her villain arc starts

idk why piltover has the worst security than any other place, anybody could blow up piltover. WHEN THAT GUY TACKLED MELS ASSASSIN AFTER HE ALREADY TOOK THE SHOT SJSJJSJSK

vis action scenes eat so hard I know many annoying men will main her because for some reason gamers kind of love butches. I wonder if caitvi is slowly becoming that choice for lesbian edaters like the other two that think are this in league are leona and diana amd also weirdly evelynn and ahri

ambessa is incheresting, like she hasn't revealed much of her motivations beyond trying to seize power and not die but I love the scheming and scamming that the women are committing right now. also she made my wimb tremble many times, just like mel, congratulations to the whole family. the design for black rose fucking eatssssss and overall this is such a game of thrones ass storyline without the excessive sexual assault. like ambessa is such tywin, caitlyn is her arya

that silco montage was giving a bit greys anatomy carousel montages but the animation was beautiful, the melodrama was high, the way you can feel her die inside also peak

I'm like still figuring out how i feel about jinx this season, like she's slaying every scene, she's a diva but idk how I feel about the kid yet. jinx and sevika go crazy together, they ate thaaaat. she's kind of calm as fuck but I think with how suicidal she is it makes sense because it's like she's already given up, she made her peace and is finishing her business before she dies so it's this very eery calm. I kind of fuck with it, I think that's an interesting base but I can't figure out what exactly her storyline will be yet.

and the vi and jinx fight was soooooo. I cant lie when vi was like I didn't think my sister would be orphaning kids and jinx fucking went done it to myself enough, like i cackled. and then I SCREACHED when she said I know you're sweet on her, shut uppp caitvi fandom is so annoying I forgot I love them sm, like lesbians we always win idc

AND THE END PART OH MY GOOOD WHEN JINX GETS HER FINGER SHOT OFF AND SPITS OUT BAD BITCH LINES I WAS LIVING AND SHAKING and then the fucking kid had to get in there. I'm sorry that pissed me off if I was caitlyn I would also take the shot. I'd rather vi ended the moment in someeee way or even if caitlyn took a shot anyway. idk it's just episode 3 I'll see how it goes

overall I think zaun storyline is such a mess but it's so weird fantasy steampunk vibe I kind of love it. viktor girls... I see your vision now I almost fell in love at least once when he started looking like a nuclear waste rat

[chaifootsteps]

One of the many things that bugged me in the final, was Al's segment in the last few minutes, mostly because like everything in this show there was so much missed potential. So I present a part of a re-write I would love to do, this part focusing on Al because he could have been really cool and not an edge lord. Also most of this is stuff I've seen in other asks/re-writes that I think would be cool.

So Al in this version is pretty close with pilot/original Al. He was still a serial killer who loves to make deals. He has his code for killing of killing those who take advantage of the weak and most of his deals are deals of protection(ie. every time you help me, you can call on me to help you that number of times), he still makes deals for his own gain of course and is still as ominous as in the pilot. Also he functions like a warlock from dnd, with no real power of his own. Also also, he never swears at all, not once and if he does its a more old timey swear, he cannot talk with out his staff and has to perpetually smile.

Have him keep his sentiment from the pilot that he's here at the hotel for his own amusement and that he does not care about anybody in it. Have Al start of as very aloof and keep him this way for the frist 10(give or take) episodes(also give the show more episodes). Have Al never use his powers on screen have only give hints that he's as powerful as everybody says he is. Over the first season have the cast grow to like each other more Al include but much much more mildly. The main villains of s1 should be the Vs also save Heaven for last or later. So s1 final, the Vs attack the hotel or sm and the main cast + sinners who have checked in to the hotel(believing it not to be a lost cause, which also gives Charlie some extra motivation). During this have a part where Al has to use his suposed powers only to reveal that he has none or that they are extremely weak. At some point either durning or before his 7 year sabbatical they where either taken or disappears for some reason(maybe because of a deal he broke?). After this have Al use what little magic he has to teleport away leaving the hotel(because he's a coward/does not want to be seen as weak in anyway). The cast gets the Vs to leave them alone with one of Sir. Pent's machines bc he's the best and we love him.

Another thing that I want to do is show Al being aroace. Have an episode where he goes with Angel to the Vs tower just to mess with Vox but they run into Val and Alastor is very obviously uncomfortable near him, you could even have Angel notice this and try to have Val piss off.

Ok moving on to next season, Al is missing and have the gang(mostly Niffty and Husk bc in this au those three are friends and you can pry that from my dead hands. Also Husk and Al have a deal of mutual protection, they help each other out. Hell this could be another reason why Al left at the fight because he could do anything to help Husk.) start looking around pride to try and find him. They do and he immediately teleports away leading to a short chase until Al runs out of magic. Then the rest of main cast confront him about the whole ordeal. I'm not sure how exactly it goes but Al durning the whole conversation is trying to doge all questions and lie as much as he can(the main cast after this still don't know all the details but the main idea is that, Al had a deal with somebody who gave him powers when he first entered hell, maybe Lilith? And 7 years ago he broke it somehow, leaving him to disappear trying to regain lost power). Husk and Niffty manage to convince him to keep helping the hotel and probably question him more in private. I'm not sure what the rest of s2 would be about, I know that s1 is about more sinners checking into the hotel and also getting Angle away from Val. s2 Might be about Charlie finally getting to talk w/ Heaven and would you look at that they love the idea of a hotel for sinners to reform because heaven likes the exterminations about as much as hell does(exterminations are still about over population in this au). Also s2 introduces Lucifer.

I'm not quite sure what exactly happens in s3 and 4 but I know that in s3 Al starts believing in the hotel more and caring about the people in it(would he ever admit this? no.). Somebody in this season also presents him with betraying the hotel which he says no to. Idk how s4 goes but it ends with some angels(not all of them, only the most dedicated exterminators) going to hell against heavens rules to kill as many sinners as they can. They get stopped obviously but I still need to work out more details.

I'm still working on sorting out other stuff for this re-write also sorry if this is really long or annoying, I've had this sitting in my brain all week. If you don't mind I might also send asks about the other characters in the re-write

Good rewrite! Interesting stuff!

[ivormybeloved]

Quick announcement:

The entire day my own story has just been BUGGING me mainly since

1. I don't have all the pieces exactly, haven't even finished the main plot

2. I don't know how to explain some stuff and then get concerned that people are not gonna understand (I always am terrible at describing the visions I have)

3. I literally don't know if I like some of the stuff I thought of for Delusion. Like- I'll definitely rewrite it, get rid of some stuff, and work on more story concepts on AO3.

4. I want to follow the actual story of MCSM and make actual terrifying designs. But I've already memorized some designs and love them. ..I'm trying so hard to make this a horror AU and I really don't care for the few ships I added- (except for anything with Ivor, Soren, or Harper. I love them too much to lose them.)

But yeah, this is just a quick thing to say that I'm rethinking story. Though I'm definitely getting rid of Milo betraying Jesse in the way I thought, not getting rid of his death tho.

But I also wanna focus on Jesse's trauma and other characters since he IS the main character, after all. (I love Vos and Milo but man, I can't traumatize them too much)

I also might rewrite Chapter 4 someday. Or I'll leave it as it is. The chapter itself doesn't even make sense to me since I was just tired and wanted to get it over with.

Overall order of Events (with villains) I have so far is:

Sky City (Isa and Reginald)

Sunshine Institute (Warden)

Haunted Mansion (Cassie)

The Underneath (Binta)

Champion City (Stella + Petra)

Old Builder Games (Petra + Old Builders)

PAMA (ofc, PAMA + Radar (maybe))

The Admins (Romeo, Xara, Fred)

The plot has been shifted a bit since I need EVERYONE out for Jesse

Thank you for reading and understand I am thinking of more plot everyday. Not every episode is listed above, but those are only the plots I've thought of. I will be removing ships (except Harper/Ivor and Soren/Ivor I LOVE THEM SM AGAHHEV) so you guys can ship whatever you want. I can also draw whatever ships you guys want (also I might draw different Jesse designs 😄)

AND AND AND, since you're reading this far, I will be taking requests for Delusion AU specifically (I don't really draw much else 😭) and might be opening a separate ask blog for Delusion AU characters

Good morning, good afternoon, and good night. Thank you for reading this announcement. I wish you well in whatever you're doing <3

[r-0-x-4-s]

so... i watched tottmnt and i didn't love it

also why isnt this show being hated on whaaaat, every tmnt show has to go through the initial hate, thats like the law /hj

tw opinions under the cut

it just felt so... empty?? i dont really know how to explain it but, the lack of brothers interacting and anything ninja related, kinda made me frown

why did it feel nothing like a tmnt show??? my brother said "it looks like it took some ideas from rottmnt and just... made it worse", and in a way i agree? its like, in a way, this show wants to please everyone but doesn't have the balls to go full original and new like rise did...

i was very optimistic about it before its release, the turtles in high-school is something i dreamed of when i was a child! AND THE SHOW JUST BLUE BALLED ME??? I GET JUST SOME MENTION ABT WHAT THEY ARE DOING IN SCHOOL BUT ITS NEVER SHOWN AND THAT MAKES ME GRRRR

IT COULD HAVE BEEN SO EASY FFS, doing something none of the show before had ever done but nooooo u get two mini arcs

and lets talk about these arcs:

bishop arc: i really liked the general plot of this one ok, but since the first ep i could see one of the main problems with tottmnt, EACH EP IS ABT A SINGLE TURTLE retelling their version of what happened in the same moment, that could be cool, BUT THAT MEANS THE BROTHERS INTERACT WITH EACHOTHER IN ONLY 2 EPISODES CIRCA

AND I HATE IT SM!

also why does everyone kinda have the same personality (by this i mean cus they react basically the same in every situation, apart if there's a computer/something technological, then donnie would use it/the other 3 would say something abt like "donnie could use it")

and they are so chill abt their problems (leo's self worth issues, raph's anger issues) ? like everything is so lighthearted and they already know how to deal and therapy talk??

i wonder how they will get to grow as characters cus as of now, they are already way more mature than any other tmnt version???

goldfin arc:... so???? IM TRYING TO FIND SOMETHING POSITIVE TO SAY ABT IT REAL HARD, maybe it will come to me later so lets start with things i despise abt the show!

uno: I HATE THAT THEY PAIRED EACH OTHER WITH A "COUSIN", I WANT MY TURTLES INTERACTING WITH EO

deux: i hate that they have "cousins" 😭 why is every character related to them (tbf this was already from the movie so u can just ignore it) it makes the world sm smaller and takes out so many known villains... also i hate scum sm, also shes the turtles' cousin too so her relationship with splinter is kinda even weirder

(tbf it could be that i hate the cousins thing after i came back from my vacation surronded by my huge family, AND HAVING TO SPEND SO MANY DAYS WITH MY SO FUCKING MANY COUSINS)

три: the way that the stories are told, apart that it makes it look like nothing is canon? ive seen many fans confused about it, but i think that both stories actually happened. the only reason i dont like it is cus... it clashes with the choice of having a single turtle each ep so hard

like whats the point of starting the arc with a turtle narrating, but the next ep it will be focused on someone else?? and then ending it with the first one closing it like as if he had been the one talking all the time

quatro: uhhh by this time i found things i like so i want to talk about them too, but! i feel like this arc is so much worse than the bishop one and horrible for a closure.

the enemies are uhhhhh something, the stakes are lower than my will to live and we get poop jokes too <3

cinco: WHY DOES THE INTRO NOT HAVE LYRICS, EVERY TMNT INTRO IS A BANGER, THATS THE RULE!! U CANT BREAK IT OMG

six: WHERE IS MONDO GECKO, THE ONLY COUSIN I LIKED AND WANTED TO SEE MORE OF

sept: this leo isnt leoing and april's personality just being "girl with the phone and recording"

восемь: DONNIE AND MIKEY ALWAYS REFERENCING TO RANDOM AMERICAN PEOPLE OR OTHER POP CULTURE THINGS, I UNDERSTOOD 6% OF THEIR JOKES

by the second arc my brother started loudly sighing and glare at me every time donnie/mikey would make a "joke" we wouldn't understand, i started beating him to feel something

NOW THE STUFF I LIKED ABOUT THE SHOW

one: THE ANIMATION IS GREAT! im not the biggest fan of the artstyle but thats my personal bias, i like it being 2d! (i still like rise's animation and fluidity more, but THAT studio is impossible to beat, im still destroyed they dropped lmk <\3)

due: i liked the detective that hated birds, he brought a chaotic energy no one has in this show

três: THERE WASNT ANY APRILN4RDO THANK FUCKING GOD (i wrote this but then my brother made me notice the murales and now idk if i should take this out or myself)

четыре: i love hun and him being an animal activist is the cutest

and thats it ig?

tldr: i think its a mid series, it does nothing remarkably bad but it doesnt do anything remarkably good.

i finished and it left me nothing (it left me longing for more of rise actually)

though, its early to say it cus we have just 12 episodes! ofc i hope it will get better!!

(ALSO BEFORE SOMEONE SAYS ANYTHING ABT TARGET AUDIENCE, I WASNT EVEN IN THE RISE ONE AND I ENJOYED IT JUST FINE

also WHAT CHILD WOULD WATCH THIS OVER SOMETHING HYPERACTIVE AS RISE??? OR EDGY AS 2012/2003??? OR FUNKY AS 1987???)

also im autistic abt tmnt but in particular abt leonardo, i dont like this leo = my enjoyment of the show is very low

so until they get leo's character right, i will have spite in me