#sorry for rambling btw LMAO

[chipistrate]

In your Balloon Circus Story, would BB World return? I think it would be cool to see BB World actually coming back in newer games, the way Princess Quest came back in SB but just in case that's not what happens I'll settle for hearing what your awesome AU would do with it :D

I 100% WANT IT TOO!!

The theming is PERFECT for its return, and also 2 me it's a pretty important game since I like to believe that it's basically Gregorys Princess Quest, that being the game that set him free from the virus- or on the flipside, being the game that introduced him to the virus.

I'd love too add it to the plot somehow- make it important to the story. Buuuut I haven't found a way to do that yet,,, so for now it's one of the arcade games you can find down in the area where Faz Ent dumped the Pizzaplex stuff- a mysterious game that surprisingly still works, despite not being plugged in for years now.

I want to do more with it- maybe make it part of Cassie's plotline, with all the clown/balloon theming and all- maybe it somehow helps set her free from the Mimic. But for now, it's just another mystery below the circus.

If/when I figure out what to do with it there's a good chance I'll reveal it pretty soon after because I love BB World soso much I would be incapable of keeping my mouth shut if it became super plot relevant in Balloon Circus LMAO

Also thank you!! I'm glad you like my AU :D

And I also would LOVE to see Balloon Boy World return in later games- seeing how important Princess Quest ended up being is just- Like- the whole arcade conspiracy- Balloon Boy World mysteriously disappearing and ending up in the DA's room without anyone(besides the arcade conspiracy guy) finding it, and the whole glitched out area/ending with Eclipse and it saying "good night" before the game closes, and in Ruin having the roof in the DA's room turn into Eclipse with the corrupted sky when in VR mode. Chica's Feeding Frenzy being said to stay on even after being unplugged and the workers having doubts that the residual charge could last so long, and then having it give you Chica's voice box when beaten in Ruin, and then using said voice box to fix Chica. And EVERYTHING ABOUT PRINCESS QUEST!!!! Not to mention GGY putting such a heavy focus on arcade machines- and the logs talking about someone sneaking in and playing the arcade conspiracy games and then us literally NEVER learning who that was???

It's all soso interesting there's SO much we don't know about the arcade conspiracy that I'm DYING to learn more about and I SO hope they get explained soon- seeing it be brought up again in a future game would be a dream come true,,

Of course I have my own interpretations and theories, but there's obviously something being planned here- there's so much set up and so far we've seen no pay off and I NEED to know what's going on!!!! Especially with BB World cause that game has like the LEAST explanation out of the three- we get the whole glitch world and "good night" ending and the roof in VR mode but we don't get anything from the game itself like with CFF and it doesn't do anything major like the PQ ending, but we still have to go on a scavenger hunt to find it- and we can't even play it in Ruin, but it has a weird glitch effect coming out of the screen- like BB World is so mysterious and it and PQ are the games I need an explanation for the most There's just so many questions left unanswered and they plague my mind almost constantly I'm banging on Steel Wools doors and begging for answers I NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING,,,,,,

[neolxzr]

OK so heres some of my favorite things that were talked about during the enter the florpus commentary thing yesterday:

one of jhonen's favorite things in the whole movie is the writing in zim's kitchen that says "do anything is real?"

they clarified specifically that gir was not lying and he did in fact eat a baby at the crazy taco

gir smells REALLY bad. theres like rotting organic matter in his body at all times. he stinks

zim's human suit is made out of actual human skin

zim is acting drunk on nacho cheese during that scene in his house because richard horvitz recorded it while drunk

they planned to have this whole thing with tak's ship only agreeing to go to moo-ping 10 because it knows tak is there. they wouldve shown her in silhouette during that brief explosion and she wouldve stowed away on the ship without anyone knowing and then wouldve shown up towards the end of the movie, but they decided to cut it out

zim did not need to frame membrane for a crime in order to get him into space prison and likely just tossed the guards like 5 bucks for it. its a shady place. they did specify though that if he did frame him for something, it would have been jaywalking

they pointed out during that scene where zim is celebrating peace day on dib's lawn that zim's reaction to seeing dib was very much genuine and that's just how his brain works. he is genuinely surprised to see him pop out of his own house. (they also described his reaction as like "being surprised to see your best friend")

the ham joke was ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL to the film and at some point jhonen remembered it and was like GUYS. WE ALMOST FORGOT THE HAM

there was supposed to be this joke where it cuts to and from gaz and dib in tak's ship and they would've had to stop at like a warp station or something and theyd be waiting in a long queue of spaceships and the radio is broken in the ship so theyre stuck listening to that one song. then itd cut to them like totally braindead drooling from listening to it for so long. and then a little later itd cut back a FINAL time and theyd know all of the words and both be singing along to it. but this was also cut out so only the last bit remained

when asked "who would win: minimoose or mrs. bitters?" the answer was along the lines of "neither, i think all of us lose in that scenario"

the tallest are just two dudes who happen to be the same height and therefore have to share the same job. they are not brothers and they are also not gay lovers ("as much as you want them to be, they are not. there is no love in this universe")

skooge is in fact alive and lives in zim's basement. they wanted to keep the number of "hey remember this thing from the tv show!" moments to a minimum so he was not mentioned in the movie. but he is there

[xeymol]

RATE THE FISHY

He reminds me a lot of my irl partner in some ways and I can’t tell if I’m tweaking just thinking that because woah cool fishy or not. Anyways yeah I want that fish💀

[fraternum-momentum]

so so so glad ur art has been taking off lately... i've loved ur dol art for ages now, so it's fun to see things with a wider appeal blow up! nwn

ty for sticking with me for so long !!!! it's honestly so surreal tbh,, im just kinda doing whatever comes to mind / whatever i want to do, im glad people seem to like it :33

[angelpuns]

Me looking at the super long definitely TMI diary-type vent post in my drafts: haha yeah you're gonna live there forever until I delete you <3

[tagidearte]

There's something special about Moon being the only side of the DCA who has canonically (gameverse) voiced his counterpart's name ("No more Sun", which yes it's not him directly saying Sun's name since it's a figure of speech, but still) whereas Sun - the chatterbox - only refers to Moon via "he" or "other me". Moon, the quiet one who mostly laughs vs Sun who mostly uses words. Sun, who is scared of Moon, never utters his name whereas Moon clearly has no problem with it. Both of them using "we☀️/us🌙" prior to Eclipse. Moon, whose only opinion of Sun we can infer is "the other me trapped me in light so now I trap him in shadow", vs Sun's whole thing which is profoundly more fleshed out.

I don't know man, the "no more Sun" line always did things to me. I remember playing Ruin for the first time and getting this... jarring emotion when I heard Moon saying that. It's such a small line but good god did I latch onto it.

[mad-c1oud]

was trying to figure out why my fic a letter to your old address was getting hella kudos out of nowhere and well uh

I see

[dailypearldoodles]

Pearl but as a Sky COTL person(i think their called moths)

Day 342

Just the newbies are called moths by the fandom! Canonically theyre children of light, but people usually call them skykids or skids for short

Have a moth Pearl and Grian :3

[pisspurveyor]

Ok so here's a horrifying tale of when I discovered the existence of the movie The Crow 30 years too fucking late this Friday, and somehow never even knew a remake came out for it on the exact. same. day. Bear with me.

Ok so I was on spotify listening to this song (song in question was L.I.S.Å by Taythedxn, please dont look at me) that for some reason had footage of this random ass guy in clown makeup playing in the Now Playing/More Info preview. And I was like - huh! That guy kinda reminds me of my BG3 Tav!!! Nice!!! Naturally I'm pretty interested to find out what the hell is going on with that. So, thinking it's just the music video for that song, I look it up. To my surprise, that was not the music video at all!

At this point I'm massively curious. I am sitting there absolutely dumbfounded and stubborn as shit; I had to find this gorgeous clown man, even if it was 1 am at the time. I was on a MISSION! Finally I managed to muster enough braincells up to reverse image search the guy, and lo and behold, The Crow (1994) pops up. Bingo! There's the gorgeous clown guy!

At first I'm just showing pictures of the main character to my partner like Look!!! Look!!! He looks like my Tav in clown makeup!!!! Woah!!! And then I mention the movie to him, and well- (gonna cut the post in half for you, don't worry 'just browsing' crowd)

My partner being the resident Nine Inch Nails listener pointed this out to me. SO IT HAD THE MARK OF NINE INCH NAILS? I was stoked - Trent Reznor being involved in any soundtrack has always been a great indicator in my eyes. Because of that, I just had to check out the rest of the soundtrack, and I was in AWE.

ALL THESE GOBSMACKING BANDS IN THE SAME SOUNDTRACK. I WAS ABSOLUTELY FLUNG OUT THE WINDOW ABOUT THIS (as seen above).

At this point I was sold, I was GOING to watch this movie. I was deadset on it. And, to my luck, I found it free to watch on youtube... somehow. Still surprised about that. No I'm not linking it, I'm not a snitch, but I assure you it's very accessible. Anyways, I sit down, get comfortable, and get my shit ABSOLUTELY ROCKED. Aesthetically, this movie is everything I love - I had a lot of fun watching it (big fan of the lightbulb scene btw).

Anyways I had the time of my life watching it, really soaking the music and outfits in, absolutely hollering at every indulgently gothy scene. Honestly, what a fucking experience - Eric was a sight to bloody behold. God, I was googoogaga for Myca too!!! The fashion was immaculate, a lot of the costumes are things I try to replicate and wear myself nowadays, so I was beyond stoked to see that right in front of me. I may or may not have a new style guide now!

I finished the movie in a good mood, and ultimately wondered: Why had I never heard of this before? Naturally I check wikipedia, see what production was like and what it was based off of - really neat to see it was based off of a comic, but then as I read on and found out the whole story behind Brandon Lee's death on set, I was very quickly silenced. Suddenly it was way more grave than I anticipated.

Honestly it's a bit weird to mourn a dude 30 years later, but this may be one of the sadder celebrity deaths I've ever heard of. And knowing the effect it had on the original comic artist, who had been through enough shit in his life as is, was absolutely heartbreaking.

So now I sit here, unable to stop thinking about this movie, the comic it came from, and how I managed to stumble across it without even once encountering any advertisements or trailers for the remake that had released on the exact day I had found the original. Don't get me wrong, if anyone discovers the original because of the remake, I think that'd be fucking amazing, because the original deserves lots of love on top of the love it already has - but now knowing the remake was a piece of rubbish, I'm worried people might not look into it.

This may well have been the worst time to discover The Crow (1994) but holy shit, it is forever on my mind from here on out. I wish I had known it sooner, truly. As someone who considers themselves a goth, I did myself a serious disservice by not watching this sooner, I swear.

[harrowscore]

why are you, as an adult in 2024, still hung up on reylo. why are you still mocking the shippers. why do you believe yourself to be superior only because you dislike a stupid ship from a fucking space fairytale. girl (gnc) get a grip

[eggs-can-draw]

Staring at my ceiling listening to No Children by the mountain goats in one ear and Never love an Anchor by the crane wives in the other.

[marukfe]

Made these while streaming it in a vc with friends lmao

[eldrichfuck666]

POV: you're in love with your local occult priest that's hiding a dark secret you get to know once you accidentally run into him while burying a body of someone you've just killed in the night forest... and you for sure know what's going to happen next. cannibalistic gay sex.

[james-spooky]

this is a test

[sotc]

So two versions of Captured! quest can go down. You can choose to wait to be rescued or try to escape on your own but I like to imagine both scenarios were playing out at the same time for Milana just to add to the entire hilarity that is that quest to me.

Arl Eamon, upon learning of the Warden's capture (alongside Alistair's), would react by sending in two highly skilled and capable assassins to infiltrate Fort Drakon and retrieve them. Cue Leliana and Zevran. They've done this so many times before! This is their expertise! The way the scene plays out they bounce off each other well. She handles the captain with her bluffs, he keeps a knife handy just in case, they divert the guard's attention at her post so they can sneak in. It's going swimmingly!

Pan back to Milana and Alistair in their cell. Milana pacing back and forth. Both of them refusing to address they're embarrassingly down to their loincloths and totally don't have attractions towards each other. Alistair asking the Warden what she thinks they should do, does she think the others are coming for them? "Of course but we can't just sit around and wait either. Just be ready."

Cue Milana flirting with the guard to get his attention. BIG BROWN EYES ACTIVATED. Alistair in the background trying not to blush to the tips of his ears because 1) he was NOT prepared for that plan and 2) he'd never expect to hear such blatant flirting from the Warden even if it was a ruse. All it takes is for him to enter, a little more flirts to disarm him further, a step closer before she truly disarms him and kills him swiftly. "That's one way of capturing the guard's attention." Milana shrugs. "I saw the way he was looking at me." A chuckle rings out before a familiar voice follows. "Ah, my dear Warden, did you miss me?" I have to imagine they arrived just in time and overheard the tail-end of that whole exchange. Zevran overhearing his Warden flirting up a guard to escape? I know he finds that so fucking amusing and would tease her relentlessly for it considering even he wouldn't have expected it. "The man was powerless against those lovely eyes, just as I was. Who could blame him." :3c

Anyways, from there on out I imagine they manage to find the armory to get their gear back and charge their way out from the fortress.

It's a super fun time to imagine. 😋 But I won't lie I had an underlying darker thought to this whole scenario. When was the last time Milana was left prisoner to a bunch of guards in such vulnerable clothing and state? On the surface she may have shrugged it off but I think there's unsaid satisfaction when she kills the guardsman who was more than eager to exploit her. Like dogs, Shianni.

[nugulover69]

I too am a member of the Taiya-hater club and every episode I question why I'm not dropping this show until they show me scraps of Mira or Agent Shirabe or the Three Idiots, but I think from now on I'll be fastforwarding through new eps just for them. My only sentai are Zenkai and halfway through Donbros so being forced to watch Boonboom Red as the main character is like beibg fed cardboard after a pizza.

Oh man. if your only sentai experience is zenkai and donbros, two very experimental and Not A Typical Sentai sentais, yeah boonboom must hit a real sour note since its a return to basics lol

I personally wouldn't call it bad so far, a solid B+ imo, but Taiya is def the weakest character, and his blandness is only more evident whenever an episode is focused on him

I can suggest some good sentais that are more typical in structure for you to watch in the future:

Gokaiger- the core team is phenomenal here, bursting with personality and incredible chemistry between each of them. this IS an anniversary sentai, meaning past rangers are constantly showing up to be apart of the plot, but you do NOT need to have seen their shows to get the gist and have a fun time. you're following the gokaigers and their character arcs are always the main focus. plus they're aliens (space pirates even) that don't know jackshit abt Earth, so you and them are on the same level of knowledge lol

Idk why folks don't recommend this as a starter sentai more often. it was my first ever sentai and I picked the next sentais I watched based on how entertained I was by a past characters appearance. its how I watched go-onger and carranger (and liveman but I don't wanna talk abt that)

Also Marvelous is best red. this is an objective fact we as a community all agree on, even if he's not our own personal favorite red

Speaking of go-on

Go-onger- the canon, main strength of this team is their stupidity. VERY CARTOONY, heavy on hijinks, light on serious plot (it was written by a veteran kids anime writer and boy can you tell). if you like loud genki kinda assholeish shonen protags than you'll love the red Sosuke. if you don't...perhaps skip this one lol. Sosuke is a biiiig make or break of someone's enjoyment of go-on. the villains are great tho, very team rocket, kinda like the Sanseaters in boonboom

(and its a much better car sentai. Speedor is there all the time. boonboom only has Speedor for one episode. I rest my case)

Zyuohger- if you need an animal sentai under your belt, this is the best one. the red, Yamato, does get more focus than the rest of the team (many more power ups as well) but he's a likeable character played by a guy who can actually act. GREAT VILLAINS, they evolve over time as well and I can't say much w/o spoiling things, but I'll just say Genis caused his own demise

Also I haven't seen donbros but I know the donbros sixth is deranged, so if you need more deranged sixths in your life you should watch zyuoh for Misao

Gekiranger- if you really love serialized story telling and characters growing and changing and all that, I cannot recommend geki enough. in a lot of sentai, the weapons are usually just found or given, which isn't inherently a bad thing but I can see why someone wouldn't care for that. every weapon and power up the gekis get is always earned thru them overcoming some obstacle, literal or figurative, so its that much more rewarding when the new Marketable Touy is used

Also they're kung fu fighting cats. did I mention they're kung fu fighting cats. the red was raised in the woods and literally acts like a feral animal most of the time. he does mellow out over the course of the show, but honestly if someone doesn't like Jan from the jump I don't trust them (he has CRAZY yaois with the main villain Leo btw)