#succesion ponies

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and YES . roman roy is a BLANKFLANK!!!! listen to me.

context: after the Pool Incident

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FIRST REAL POST ON THE PONY BLOG: A MODIFIED MAGIC SYSTEM >:D

in equestria, all magic can be traced back to 5 core elements, and 2 "super elements": light & dark magic, sky magic, earth magic, and crystal magic, alongside harmony & chaos magic.

LIGHT MAGIC, alongside DARK MAGIC, are 2 elements that hold dominion over all that falls outside of the sky. these 2 split off into fire magic, shadow magic, and (when both are harnessed via chaos magic) transformation magic. their respective pony races are kirin and batponies.

SKY MAGIC is what forms the atmosphere surrounding the planet equestria is found on, and is responsible for all weather on the planet. sky magic does not have any known submagics, but it does have one pony race; the pegasi. hippogriffs used to be a sky pony race, but their transformation into seaponies changed their sky magic into earth magic.

EARTH MAGIC is what flows through everything attached to the surface of equestria, & the earth as a whole. its most commonly-known submagics are plant magic & water magic. its main pony race is earth ponies, but you can find its magic in multiple other races(though to lesser degrees) as well.

CRYSTAL MAGIC is found in places with high concentrations of magic, typically forming crystals in the area. its used mainly to harness & contain magic in items as well as ponies; as crystal ponies show off in their magic retention abilities. it is also the only kind of magic capable of whithstanding magic-draining spells.

HARMONY MAGIC is the glue that keeps all other magics in working alongside one another. it splits off into the elements of harmony and(alongside light magic) rainbow magic. harmony magic is also necessary in the creation of alicorns, requiring one pony to accumulate a variety of different magics into themselves and also hold themselves together long enough for harmony magic to form & the transformation to take place.

if harmony magic is the glue that holds all magic in place, then CHAOS MAGIC is the solvent that breaks those bonds. when there is a lack of magic in a single place, all other magics in the area rush in to fill the void which often results in different magics clashing against eachother, forming chaos magic. when a pony gains chaos magic, they often end up lacking the abilities their race is supposed to have & sometimes gaining new ones. the "pony" race associated with chaos magic is the draconequus, a pony who contained & maintained a large amount of chaos magic on top of a variety of other magics to transform themselves into something unrecognizable. as of now, there has only ever been one succesful transformation, as its very easy for a pony to explode from the sheer pressure of that much magic in 1 body.

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Top 20 Animated Episodes of 2020 Part 1 (#20-#11)

Hello Hello Hello animation fans! And welcome to something i’ve wanted to since last year. See I had the idea for a best episodes list back in 2019: rather than do a best shows list, which would be only about half of 20+ shows anyway, I thought i’d do a best episode lists: to give as many shows a possiblitiy to shine as possible while still honoring the best of the year. But my own natural foibles got the better of me: I INSISSITED on watching everything I missed.. then just kept putting THAT off until it was was spring, shows were coming back and I just threw up my hands. I’ve regretted it ever since and vowed, especially since in the interim animation went from just being something I analyized for fun to my analyzing it for fun AND profit, to get it done this year.  So I had to make a few caveats. First I gave myself at first till the 31st of the year and then due to covid and everything that happened, until the end of the first week or so of the year, i.e. today, to watch as much as I could. So several shows are missing. Some I REALLY got behind on and don’t have an excuse for (Craig of the Creek and Big City Greens), others I also really liked but my depression made it really hard to watch (F is for Family and very nearly Bojack), some I just kept putting off ever starting or forgot to start entirely (Hilda, yes even since season 1, Kipo: Age of the Wonderbeasts and It’s Pony) and some.. I gave up because as you can tell I sit on shows way too often (Ilve action wise I still need to get back to Doom Patrol), and I realized i’d rather watch stuff old and new I care about than waste time with something that I just stopped liking, i.e. Rick and Morty and Big Mouth which i’m guaranteed some flack for saying but I dont’ care. I have my reasons, and while I originally GAVE those reasons I decided to leave them out: this list is not about me bitching about why I quit certain shows. I’m a grown ass man, I can quit a show anytime, and given last year was such a craphole, I think we could use less piss and vinegar and more sugar.  So before we begin, a bit about the state of animation last year: It was in flux. WIth a new decade dawning we got great new shows like Owl House, Close Enough, which in a year full of terrible suprises not only FINALLY got released but did so with a second season order, Solar Opposities, the Midnight Gospel and Kipo: Age of Wonderbeasts. Ducktales returned for it’s best season ever. Amphibia returned for a pretty good season. Disney brought back the wonderful mickey mouse shorts towards the end of the year, FINALLY given D+ some non-movie animated content. The Casagrandes got better as it went and just barely didn’t make this list and the Loud House kept on trucking and shows no signs of stopping with a season renewal and a movie coming out. And Adventure Time staged a comeback a few years after it died and while I haven’t seen BMO yet, Obsidian was fantastic and only barely didn’t make the list. 

Not only that but we got   great new series announced for the next two years: Lumberjanes is FINALLY getting adapted and by Noelle Stevenson herself. Gendy Tarkovsky is not only returning to children’s animation but with a wonderously weird concept about immortal unicorns turned into teens> There’s a promising show about a ghost and a plucky tween coming this summer. The Rise of the TMNT movie is still happening. Craig McCracken is also coming back.  But naturally given this was 2020 the news wasn’t all good as we said goodbye to a lot of shows.. and this was after 2019 already took several from us, OK KO still being the hardest loss to this day and Star Vs very disapointing finale still leaving a bad taste in my mouth: Most gutpunchingly, the two frontrunners of animation at the time, shows that truly changed the game and probably gave other shows a chance at life they never would’ve had, including some on this list, ended. 

Steven Universe took it’s final bow after we got one last trip to beach city with the Future miniseries, with the show ending gracefully and beautifully, and having pulled off it’s third succesive possible ending for the franchise and it’s defntive ending for steven’s story. Bojack did the same not long before, ending on a bittersweet but beautiful note and with a one two punch of the series best episode and i’ts second best episode, a satsifying but bittersweet finale we’ll get to. Both shows as I said have set hte standards and tones for most animation after them, and both’s absence is felt.  She Ra suprisingly ended, though with a beautiful and wonderful finale we’ll, again, get to, and on i’ts own terms, but given it was the most likely to take up the shield from steven, it was another punch. Less peacefully was the ending of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a show I caught up on after it’s demise which was screwed by the network over toy sales because that’s.. still.. a thing. 

There is a light of hope, as the movie is somehow still in production and if it does well we may get season 3, but it’s dim and given the show, despite it’s flaws, had found itself and the finale, which they were given weeks to put together, was spectacular and, say it with me now “we’ll get to that”, I really hope it does. And that nick learns how to run an animation company for fuck’s sake. 

Infnity Train while not dead, is on life support despite having it’s best season in season 2 and an okay season that still tackeled racisim very well even if story wise the season faltered, at a time when we REALLY need to tackle racisim in our entertaiment period. Venture Bros meanwihle was just flat out canceled for no given reason despite both having as eason renewal order and you know, being Adult Swim’s highest rated and best show for over a decade. Like Infinity Train and Rise there’s a SCRAP of hope, both adult swim and hbo max are apparently looking into ways to bring it back so a finale movie or a season 6 comic are propable, but given the show ended on two big cliffhangers, and given 2020 already had pushed back a LOT of things I’d looked forward to for good reason, and had now just outright killed a show, it was a massive shattering blow and easily the biggest of the year.  But coming VERY close was finding out Ducktales was ending. While the finale would serve as a proper finale, I feel the show easily could’ve had more seasons.. Disney just dosen’t let shows go on forever, or sometimes not even for a reasonable amount.. or put those shows it didn’t let go on a resonable amount on Disney Plus.. and I will be bringing that last part up until Wonder Over Yonder is FINALLY put on the platform, along with MANy other shows. Figure it out.  But yeah that was ANOTHER show I thought would lead the way and like Gravity Falls lead to Ducktales, Ducktales will probably lead to more shows including HOPEFULLY a frank and matt lead Darkwing Duck.. and even that’s in jeapordy since instead it might be done by Seth Rogan’s company who while not bad people and if their working on Frakn’s reboot great.. are not the people who spent three seasons setitng up a reboot in a unvierse they already spent three seasons deftly crafting. I DOUBT Frank won’t be involved since Let’s Get Dangerous was promoted to hell and back, but again given this is disney.. it worries me and I won’t be settled on this till we get conformation of a proper reboot with frank and matt at the helm. 

Point is it was a rough year for animatoin even without covid taken into account pushing back seasons and forcing a change in work habits. But as this list attests even in the worst year in recenet memory, here’s hoping 2021 dosen’t say hold my beer, there was some damn fine animation, including some of the best i’ve ever seen and the shows that did leave or are getting ready to gave us one hell of a show. Before we get started one last bit of buisness for transparency: As I said i missed some shows and others I did watch but given despite this list’s sheer size it was still VERY tight, for the record each show got four nominees a piece, and some had even more episodes considered before widdling it down, and even at the 40 episode mark there were some tough cuts and by the end it was brutal. So here’s the show’s considered. 

Shows Watched: Steven Universe Future, Infinity Train, Close Enough, She Ra, Ducktales, Amphibia, The Loud House, The Casagrandes, Rise of the TMNT, Animaniacs, Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, Adventure Time: Distant Lands, Solar Opposites, Bojack Horseman, The Owl House, The Midnight Gospel Shows That Did Not Make the Final List: The Loud House, The Casagrandes, Animaniacs, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, Adventure Time: Distant Lands, and Solar Opposites.  Final note: all episode’s i’ve done reviews of at the time of this list will have links in the title to said reviews in case your curious So with that in mind , here’s my top 20 list, part 1.. becasue these posts are going to be long as hell so I needed to split up gang. On with the show after the cut as this is a really damn long one

20. Fragments (Steven Universe Future) “I bow to your strength.. my Diamond”  Steven Unvierse’s final act was a masterstroke. The show ended with every major conflict resolved as the Diamonds decided , if only for Steven’s sake at first, to change their ways and helped him restore the corrupted gems, while Lars made it home. Our heroes were FINALLY, after seasons and almost two in-story years, as Steven “Finally Done, Finally Us, Finally Me”, the last part being especially pogniant since, while done thanks to a horrifying action on whites part, his breif seperation PROVED there was nothing of rose left; She’s gone.  So Future uses this cleverly: With the conlfict of the movie resolved things were still very nice.. but eventually Steven started breaking down piece by piece: As the series went on it became clear what it was: A deconstuction of some of the less healthy part of the mostly fairly healthy and wonderful main show. It showed just what happen when someone whose put his identity into having some kind of destiny, someone whose felt their purpose in life is to make other people’s better and solve their problems and be a good person.. has no issues to solve. Oh sure there’s an antagonist here and there and Jasper refuses to change or admit no third great gem war is coming and that peace really has come.. but his family are finally happy with who they are, and are moving on with their lives. As someone whose had people move on without them and whose clunt to people this hits close to home.. hits close to home a lot. 

So as the season went on Steven clung to everything, taking it VERY badly when Lars and Sadie not only revealed their attempt at a relationship failed after years of build up, and never told steven because they thought it wasn’t his buisness, which is true to a point as them breaking up isn’t anything to do with him but someone should’ve told him it was amicable given the amount of shit he’s seen between you two, just saying. But it still meant a good chunk of his friends leaving town, and him, behind. Attempts to fillt his gap with tv watching or gardneing, aka what the crew amazingly dubbed “Depression Hobbies:”, a term that hits close to home, failed and then a far WORSE attempt to fill the void in his life by proposing to connie failed.. she turned him down firmly, but gently recognizing this was a terrible idea, they were too young, and he was clearly going through some stuff. As garnet put it “Your partner is your compliment, not your missing piece”. Another beautiful term to stick in my brain. 

So as if this wasn’t bad enough his body started mutatating and it turned out the pink form he’d gained was actually supposed to just be his body’s version of adrenline, but since he’d spent years in constnat struggle, his body was treating his emotinal stress like do or die situations with predictable results. We’ll get to that more in a bit but needless to say steven’s family were concerned and Greg returned from managing Sadie to TRY and help his son.. only to drive a wedge between them as Greg’s Smothering Parents seemed like the life Steven never had, instead of obnoxious people who refused to reconcile with their son even decades later despite plenty of effort on greg’s end and Greg having to raise a child alone with only marginal support from the gems at best at first. But Greg’s tragic inablity to see his son was hurting, as with everyone elses lead to him nearly getting them hurt in a car accident and thus this episode.  After getting chewed out by the gems, who tragically simply don’t realize what’s wrong with steven, can’t figure out why themselves and he refuses to tell them, Steven runs off, to the one person who would never tell the gems where he is and the last place they’d expect him to go at his lowest: Jasper. And thus we get one of the darkest and moodiest episodes of the show’s long history. 

After having lost a lot of his sense of peace of mind: his best friends are gone, his girlfriend is next, his parents and sister are constantly busy, there’s no one for him to turn to. Steven NEEDS someone like him and while his family is trying they just don’t know how to reach him and deep down he dosen’t WANT them to. Like me at times, shocker I know, he fears deeply that if they knew some of the flaws about him, some of the problems he’s had, they’d hate him. When as time would bear out for both of us, as my first stint of therapy near the end of colllege proved, it just means they understand you better and can HELP YOU. 

So instead he turns to Jasper, and he does so for good reason: He wants to control his power and emotions.. the problem is Jasper dosen’t WANT what Steven wants. Steven wants to feel godo again and feel healthy and be the person people want him to be. Jasper.. wants a fight. She wants a diamond, someone to serve, someone stronger than her who will LET her be what she feels she’s meant to be: a warrior, a destroyer, a breaker of worlds. So she slams that steven shaped peg into a round hole, and it’s horrifying and uncomfortable to see our hero turned from a loveable hero.. to a power obssed, almost vegeta-esque asshole .. in short she’s made him into the very thing he spent years fighting against, all because he’s so scared of himself he can’t face himself. It shows just how bad things have gotten: that steven’s hates himself SO MUCH, that he’d rather become something worse than face the truth and let his family help him. So convinced they don’t need him that he needs to be something ELSE. 

And so tons of training, abuse and hard labor lead to the moment Jasper and fans had been waiting for: a rematch between the two. And.. it’s easily one of the series best fights. For a series that’s at it’s core about ending the cycle of violence and often big exchanges of words and someone emotinally healing are treated as big as victories in combat.. the show has some of the best fight scenes in cartoons period, and this being the penultimate one, we’ll get to the last one next time, it’s a brutal, dbz style slugfest, something unlike the other fights in the show, with two opponents full of rage and hate going at it with everything they have.. ending in Steven, for one breif terrifying moment having BECOME what his grandmothers and mother used to be: A sadstic monster drunk on their own power “Your right jasper, I WAS holding back”

But when we next see Steven, running into the house and ingoring his rightfully concerned family..... he’s not that guy anymore. He’s back to who he was at the start of the episode: A scared teenager who deeply hates himself and who wants to be better but is ironically shutting out the only people who can help him. And one.. whose committed murder. This was a VERY bold move to make: Steven KILLED SOMEONE. Sure it was  shattering so it got past censors, but in his lowest moment.. steven did the one thing that to someone who treasures all life, is anthemia to him: he killed, did what his mother did before she changed, did what his aunts have done countless times to countless worlds. And it horrifes him, with him desperate to bring jasper back and using everything he has, his powers and his aunts essences, to try and fix his mistake.  And unlike anyone else in his postion he succeeds.. and Jasper, ignoring steven’s attempts to apologize is surprised at first at being shattered, knowing what happened.. befor bowing proudly, FINALLY getting what she was REALLY after: A diamond to serve. And steven can only gaze in horror at what he’d become and at the realization he can’t go back from this and he has no idea what to do now. An utterly grippling, utterly terrifying character piece with some of Zach Callistons best character work in the show’s storied history, with Steven shifting from being drunk on his power to utterly broken at having broken jasper. One of the series finest moments.. only topped by some things the series proper did.. and some more on this list. 

19. Perils of Peekablue (She Ra and the Princesses of Power) 

“They are my people. Which means most of them have sworn revenge against me at some point “  She Ra was easily one of the best shows of the 2010′s. While it started out excellent, and pretty gay, it ended being a masterpiece, and fabulously gay, as is befitting something related to He Man in some way. 

A masterful space opera, She Ra had some great bones in a thrilling love story, great humor, great action and wonderful characters most of them main and supporting going through some form of development. It was a wonderful, magical show and I look forward to Noelle giving Lumberjanes the series treatment, both because the series concept is frankly better built for an ongoing tv series than a monthly comic, and because after this series she has my utmost faith in whatever she does. Also her story about how she both came to terms with her sexuality and met her partner was VERY lovely.  Seriously check it out. Also her partner was the one who co wrote another entry on this list, just a fun fact. Point is this show was awesome.  But as I said part of the show’s strength was it’s character and that shines on this day in the limelight episode covering what’s going with the rebellion since She Ra shot off into space to rescue her best friend. We do get to see the best friends squad breifly, but their simply heading home: With Catra rescued and on the path to being a better person, and firmly in adora’s lap because again this show is wonderously gay and because it annoys her and Catra gets off on that, our heroes are wondering how everyone else is fairing.  So we see that, as with the Rebellion not doing so good against Horde Prime, our heroes seek the solution to their problems with the same solution homer simpson always uses:

Well okay less starting a new life and more getting the help of the mysterious prince peekablue, who I now realize is where the whole pikablue name for merril probbaly came from.. or maybe nerds making things up in the 90′s werne’t that creative. You decide!

So we get the ragtag team of Mermista, Seahawk, Scorpia and Perfuma, as the quartet try to bluff their way to the prince for help. Naturally we get Seahawk being seahawk, i.e. an awesome ham with a voice way older than he looks, Mermista being annoyed by that and being forced to admit she tried out pyromania to see what it’s like, which naturally is the most romantic thing Seahawk’s heard in his whole life.. as well as some VERY charming ship tease between Scorpia and Perfuma as Scorpia enrouages her the two bond and Scorpia finally likes someone who both likes her back and isn’t so obssed with her sorta ex and tied up in her own issues a relationship is impossible. Look I was suprised she found someone else as everyone here, but i’m happys for her. She’s the nicest person on this show and is now dating the second nicest person on this show. It’s nice okay. 2020 didn’t give me much nice, it gave me the emotoinal equilvent of being constnatly stung by hornets.

We also get a lovely musical number from Scorpia about being a spy.. and the revelation Peekablue.. is just Double Trouble. THEIR BACK BABY. It was nice for them to make a comeback for one last apperance and they do provid vallid information.. but prove to not be too useful despite this both due to their habit of being only out for themselves, hence setting up an elaborate cabaret act under the ocean.. and because Mermista got chipped by the crowd, so now our heroes are stuck in a giant coffin surronded by the thing she can manipulate. It’s only through a harrowing sacrifice by scorpia that Perfuma and Seahawk escape but with their sorta partners now brainwahsed to the other side.  To amp up the tension back home.. things are even worse as Spinerlla, whose been brainwashed for several episodes and seriously worrying her wife Netossa... has made her move and with the rest of the rebellion’s leadership gone, chipped everyone but Frosta and King Micah, who dosen’t last long, meaning not only do our two remaning heroes BARELY escape, but the horde now has, between both plot lines, four really heavy hitters, as later episodes would bear out that Spinerlla is basically the red tornado when it comes to wind powers. Point is perils is a fun, breather episode... that then turns into a still fun but also heartbreaking episode as our heroes loose and loose bad and their only hope is in our ohter heroes making it back to htem in one piece. 

18. 100% No Stress Day (Close Enough) “Long story short I owe them three grand”  Close Enough.. has not had the easiest existence. It was greenlit in 2017, used it’s pitch reel as the trailer meaning everyone thought it was MUCH farther along, was meant for TBS but got shelved because the show it was to be paired with, The Cops, was created by sexual predator Louis CK. And since he came up and h’es primarily responsible for this show getting shelved for so long... Louis CK is a bastard. He harassed women, literally and metaphorically waved his dick around to show his superiority, knew he could get away with it, and ACTED contrite when caught and rightfuly punished for it by loosing everything.. then has spent the last year or so TRYING to mount a come back, with the help of Dave Chapelle who I lost ALLLLL respect for in recent years, despite not having apologized or done anything that resembles him having actually learned his fucking lesson or tells me that, could he get away with it, he wouldn’t just do it again. I’m taking time out of this unrelated thing ot make sure he does not get ANY power back, as too often preadatory or abusive assholes get away with this and get right back to doing stuff, like say Doug Walker, who I only bring up to remind people he’s a bad person who enabled worst people and abused a lot of innocent critics, and let htem lovingly euologize a man he knew was a preadator in life without telling any of them about said behavior, which he coudl’ve done without outing the victim to the world against her wishes. Because as another episode we’ll get to next time briliantly put it 

But now i’m done reminding people of assholes, I can get back to what’s really important: The fact this show is a goddamn miracle. Not only is it as good as I hoped, which let’s face it in this year it was just as likely the show would be the video equilvent of scabies, but it got RENEWED. Turns out it’s being delayed.. was a blessing in disguise as it sidestepped being part of a failed animation block, and instead go to be the first adult animated show on HBO Max with tons of promotion. And judging by the future lineup of adult animated programming.. it’s probably going to be the ONLY good one for a while as other offering includes the prince, about life with the royal family, and a show about a 12 year old whose constantlly going thorugh trauma because they apparently did not get the irony when watching moral orel and also skipped the entire third season. And possibly got some brain damage I dunno. Hopefully will lead to much better shows down the line and actually gets a second chance at life, and even if it clocks in at only two seasons, it’s still a damn miracle and I will acknolwedge it. 

So yeah as I said the show is fantastic and was one of my faviorites this year. The show treads some familiar terroitory as it does use the formula from Quintel’s “Regular Show”: Normal problems that spiral into bizzare chaos that still has it’s own effed up internal logic. The thing that honestly makes it BETTER in my opinon, is the passage of time. Quintel is no longer the brighted eyed fresh out of college and menial job guy he was: he’s married with a kid, and that fully informed this project, as instead of being about doofing around in your 20′s, it’s about the pressures of hitting your 30′s: from aging to keeping your relationship fresh to all the perils that come with parenting, to missed opportunities you deeply regret. There’s a lot of good stuff they dig into here, but it never overdies the comedy, simply ads a bit of depth to it. And regular show wasn’t LACKING that by any means, i’m not bashing the show.. i’m just saying Close Enough is starting at the level Regular Show was at at it’s best.. and could easily and handily suprasss it with time it now has. 

And I was first given a good and proper introduction via this episode, as it leaked beforehand due to a french animation festival and I couldn’t help reviewing it, as i’d waited quite some time. But honestly while I like the first episode in the all in the show proper, quilty pleasures.. I feel this is a WAY better first episode and shoudl’ve been swapped with Quilty, as it introduces things even better and lets the whole cast shine, and thus is one of two close enough episodes on this list.  The episode starts with Emily, the stable but stressed and anxious half our our main couple at the doctors office where we get a great barrage of jokes off the bat, from the laundry setting a blaze leading to one of the series best lines

Naturally this has lead to her body constnatly sleep fighting .. while she’s awake, so Josh, her husband and loveable doofus, offers to take care of errands so she dosen’t implode from the stress. This also displays one of the series best assets: While Josh and Emily are an optimistic and impulsive idiot and a stressed out, often voice of reason.. they actually LOVE each other. It’s like a far more healthy of early seasons homer and marge, where BOTH get in over their head but  both clearly love and respect each other, and while Josh CAN be irresponsible.. he still holds down a decent job (Though Emily is more of the breadwinner and her job provides the insurance), is attentive to their daughter candace, and WANTS to be repsonsible. Trust me after countless dom coms where i’ve had to restrain from yelling “GET A DIVORCE” at the screen, it’s nice the tide is turning and Bob’s Burgers has become more of the norm couple wise than the exception.  But yeah so the main group splits up: Josh takes candace and his best friend and local weirdo played by Jason Mantzokus every series needs, and easily my favoirite character, Alex to do errands while Bridgette, Alex’s ex husband, Emily’s best friend and both the bbay of the bunch and the most irresponsible one.. gets her high to help her relax. 

Both plots are really great: The boys and candace run into a ham shortage, a joke that actually plays better in the pandemic age, and stripper clowns because in the series best gag so far, Alex explains via flashback he bet them they couldn’t make a dog, and one did so.. using his dick. 

Just in case you were wondering if JG was enjoying the fact he could use adult humor now, though another part of the series charm is while it freely makes more adult jokes, it dosen’t ever get into gross or dudebro territory. It just means the censors are down and they don’t have to hide beer as soda anymore. They also have to tangle with some hamburgalers who are reselling the meat at rock bottom prices and creating the shortage.. and who deny being hamburgalers despite their tactics being backing up into houses with a large van and stealing hams. OUr heros avoid becmonig meat and naturally end up both in a car chase and then a bet for their lives in a game of Ladder World, josh’s latest game.  Meanwhile Emily blazes it and we get a great getting high montage, as it shows BRidgette’s idea does genuinely help a bit.. until they run into Timothy, the teacher at cadance’s school who I hope gets an increased roll as he’s always a delight and this is his best apperance. Depsite the understandable awkwarndess and paranoia of running into your kids teacher while high, being an open minded guy Timothy offers them wine and then weed and even takes Emily punching him when her trip takes a bad turn, giving her a stern but fair “bitch use your words!” before the next seen has him helping her through her issues with some solid advice, allowing her to arrive in home just in time to save her husband and the cave goblin who lives in her house from clown strippers and meat gangsters.. which sounds like one hell of a gay porno. All in all a solid, always hilarous, always charming ep that shows the series off at it’s best. 

17. How Santa Stole Christmas! (Ducktales)

“No, no.. Christmas is a SAD story?” 

This is my third and hopefully FINAL time talking about this one, though given it has a high chance of showing up on the series best of list, probably not. Not that I mind, this is a VERY good episode, I just don’t have anytihing new left to say. It’s a heartwarming, fresh, engaging christmas special that uses the characters perfectly and for once actually strips down the cast effectively instead of making you wonder where everyone else is, while still giving everyone an apperance. It also has Webby giving Lena (And Violet) an adorable cheek smooch when delivering her parents and I will never not find that fucking precious. Plus it’s gay as hell with plenty of gay subtext between Scrooge and Santa, a sentence I never thought i’d say but i’m so glad i’ts my job to get to type things like that, and said kiss so that helps. But even besides that it’s just REALLY damn good. Again i’m leaving this short both because i’ve talked about this twice now, once when it came out as I do regularly for ducktales and again for my best christmas specials list, but it’s really that good and made it damn high on my bet christmas specials list and is only so low here.. because despite being a terrible year in every other respect we got some REALLY good episodes this year. So yeah this one’s a classic, I love it but i’m tired of talking about it till at least next december. Moving on. 

16. Finale (E-Turtle Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shreddy or Not,  Anatawa Hitorijanai, and Rise) Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles “Oh and Blue your leader now”  As I mentioned in the intro. Rise of the TMNT was unjustly canceled this year and even worse got it’s season order chopped in half and was given just weeks to throw together a finale. So it’s remakrable that not only was the season pretty damn good, having the series usual problems of sometimes overdipping into the boys stupidity hence the episode where everyone but Raph keeps eating poison, but also had both great character arcs in Baron Draxum’s reformation and Splinter getting more and more fleshed out and more screne time, and great laughs. Seriously Clothes Don’t Make The Turtle, aka that episode where our heroes end up trapped in an 80′s dress up montage, BARELY didn’t make the list. 

And as a longtime fan of the franchise I couldn’t be happier this fresh take, which I was aprhensive about at first because it looked like yet another dumbed down teen titans go ripoff, and given it was dumb to begin with... but instead was a fun action comedy with a lot of really unique and intresting ideas. And despite the rush to finish.. they delivered one hell of a finale and on the high chance season 3 dosen’t happen... it’s a hell of a note to go out on.  First things first: yes i’m counting multi parters as one episode. Not more seralized shows like SU Future or Infinity Train, where events can flow in and out, but stories that are clearly one big story, in pieces like the old days. Since hour long episodes of shows are fair game, I felt it only fair that multi parters around the same length as an hourlong special be given the same treatment. Not that any hourlongs made it this year, sorry fans of Obsidian and “Let’s Get Dangerous”, though both are throughly EXCELLENT episodes this was just a tight list. 

Okay good. So yeah the finale, split over four episodes, is an epic: taking plot threads from all season and series and weaving them into a well paced, emotoinal, finale. Like previous more serious episode the comedy’s downplayed.. but it doesen’t feel like an entirley diffrent show and works well, and the always great fluid animation was kicked up to 11 for this one.  So to make a long story short: in this series shredder is a demonic set of armor, but came back wrong at the end of last season when the food clan revivied him, so while the clan now has him back, they can’t really use him. And current head Foot Recurit, a spunky foot recruit whose failed to rank up despite being tough and ambitious and worthy of it, is at a loss how to reviive her master.  The turltes, naturally, end up accidently blundering into the solution as they head into Splinter’s head to find the info to beat Shredder. The show gives splinter easily one of , if not the best, backstories he’s ever had: While at the start the character was highly annoying, being a lazy asshole who didn’t train the boys and did nothing.. the show eventually give us valid reasons WHY he’s like this: he didn’t like being turned into a rat by big bad of season 1 Baron Draxum and thus has depresion over that, had quit fighting since he’d been forced to be a cage fighter by his ex for a while,  his ex being a giant spider just in case you thought this would be remotely normal an forgot what show we were talking about and genrally just had no horse in the tight training he usually does in most continuties. 

This episode adds another, heartbreaking lair: We find out back when he was Hamato Yoshi, Splinter’s mom left to ward off shredder when he was a boy.. and thus never came back and presumibly died. Understandably he had no time for the clan at that point, constantly defying his grandfather.. and why should he have time for them? They took his mom away for a thankless duty sacrificing herself to stop something he had no way of knowing was real, another reason he never trained the boys. And his grandfather rather than be AT all apologetic clearly, via his actions, thought of this as some great honor and was baffled why Yoshi would have no intrest in repeating his mother’s actions or have any sense of honor, duty or even love for a man who as far as he could tell, threw his mom to the wolves and had no regrets about it. So we see Yoshi as both a rebellious teen and as a movie star throwing out his grandpa.. we see those in reverse of course, but the later scenes give context to those showing why Yoshi was so rude.. because he lost his mom and it still hurts him.  HOwever helping her frees the shredder.. but also Karai who bizarely, in this continuity is not only an aincent ancestor of theres but a firm ally instead of either a deadly enemy or a fremeny of sorts. Or Splinter’s dang daughter, one of 2012′s best plot elements.. that was then wasted by turning her into a snek for a while because that show really went off the rails. So it quickly turns from a heartwarming and awkard family reunion.. to our heroes and karai barely escaping with their lives as shredder demolishes the lair, and Draxum, now a good guy after a season’s worth of wonderful chracter development, and Splinter stay behind, with Draxum cleverly bluffing and pretending ot be evil again.. only to try and take out shredder. 

Meanwhile we get this series take on “the turtles going to teh woods to retreat” as Raph beats himself up for being a bad leader and our heroes learn to tap into their hamato nimpo.. which basically means super magic ninja powers which allows them to bring back their classic weapons and enhances their magic, as it was never in teh weapons but in them all along. Also April gets Karai in her, phrasing, and a glowing boost to her bat.  The result.. is one of the best fights of both the year and the franchise PERIOD, which is what got me to catch up to see the finale because I saw a fan video synching it up to “Spin and Burst”.. and while not a naruto fan.. that song is fucking awesome and that video showed off an utterly marvelous fight. See for yourself

Seriously I wasn’t kidding. I’ve been a fan of this franchise since 2003. This is one of the best sequences in it’s history with or without the added soundtrack: The fighting is fast, frentic, beautfully animated and cool to watch and perfectly combines the series humor, with our heroes giving out quips and callbacks at the right times, with it’s fast paced and wonderous action. It also shows how far our heroes have come: while PART of it is them having super mystic powers unlocked.. they both had to work to reach those powers, and spirtually rather than phsycially,in the third part, but each power is merly an upgraded versoin of their old weapon powers, ablities they’ve spent the entire series mastering, paticuarlly leo who went from BARELY being able to work his portals to using teleport spam here. While they did pull a power BOOST out of their ass, it would’ve meant nothing had they not been anymore skileld than when they started and it makes the fight feel rewarding and impactful. And it ends with the hamot clan as a whole, with new ally foot recurit aka cassandra jones ina great last minute reveal that they CLEARLY didn’t have time to build up better, and smoke that bitch. Also Leo’s leader now bye. It’s just a damn good finale and I dind’t even get into all the great character stuff, including the great payoff of Casey’s face turn after seeing just how much of a monster the man she always wanted to serve is, and how he’s hurting Splinter, who ACTUALLY cares about her well being despite being an enemy. It’s just good stuff that fits the franchise like a glove but iwth the series own unique stamp on it. Nuff said. 

15. Toadcatcher (Amphibia)  “Your not upset because you lost the fight, your upset because you lost your friend! Your upset that Anne stood up to you and things between you will never be the same again.”  Amphibia was one of the first shows I covered reguarlly and along with Ducktales one of the most popular.. so yeah it’s weird it not only is low on the list, but this is the only represtintive. But this was a high volume year for quality and while the show had other standout episodes like gravity falls tribute “Wax Museum”, Marcy’s introduction “Marcy at the Gates” and noir patische “Little Frogtown”, as this list already shows it was a really tight race. It dosen’t help that while Season 2 isn’t terrible.. it’s a bit more uneven, and unlike season 1 it’s weaker stretches of episodes weren’t as easily covered, as instead of airing every weekday, it was a weekly release. Which I prefer, as it means they aren’t being dumped out en masse and are given room to breathe and the passage of time feels more warranted when it’s spread out over a few months intead of a few weeks. It just meant the weaker episodes stood out more and drained on me more.. but it also meant the stronger ones were all the more a breath of fresh air. And nowhere was this more apparent as teh worst episode of the season, and series, thus far, Quarallers Pass.. was paired with Toadcatcher, an utterly marvelous episode and followup to ironically the series best so far, Reunion. 

This episode catches us up with Sasha, Anne’s former best friend who tried to kill her in a sword fight, one where the entirety of wartwood including her adopted grandpa was at sake and Sasha knew this and did not care. She then followed it up by letting go when Anne was depseratley holding on, with the help of her new family, to save Sashsa’s life.. and Sasha let go. I discussed the full implications in the review so I will avoid trigggering anyone, and I mean tha tin the medical sense anyone using it ironiclaly or to mock people using it as it’s intended can get fucked, but she clearly didn’t intend to make it, but Grime saved her and spirted her off.  So we catch up with both licking their wounds from the ordeal: Sasha has decided to take the Jasper route of horrible coping mechanisms and is training constnatly, readily kiling dolls of the plantars but still unable to truly hurt Anne, burying her feelings over her guilt and her best friend rightfully turning on her and then trying to save her anyway despite Sasha trying to gut her. Grime.. is binging on the wonderfully terrible teen soap Supscion Island, coming back this january on the cw, that was intorduced last season and generally not carring the king has his best men, women and nonbinary folks out for his head. 

So both issues come to a head as General Yuaan, scourge of the Sand Wars, defeater of Ragnar the Wretched, and the youngest newt to ever achieve the rank of general in the great Newtopian Army, and she’ll never miss a chance to say that, has come for Grime whose in no condition and has no will to fight back. He also finally confronts Sasha when she snaps at him for it, pointing out she’s simply burying the fact that she lost Anne, things won’t be the same, and she won’t deal with it.  The episode adds real depth to grime, going from an intresting but semeingly just evil overlord.. to someone who worked his way out of a fighting pit to be given a thankfless if cushy job by the same people who threw him in in the first place, someone who to my shock at the time.. CARES about his protege. While allowing Sasha in was simply to their mutual advantage at first.. he’s grown to genuinely care about her as his friend and offers to let Yuaan have him so she can be free. but Sasha refuses. Despite her issues.. she CARES about the old toad and together, and using Yaan’s ham against her, they beat her, and decide to rebuild their army... after Grime finishes his soaps of course. Can.. relate. A thorughly good, throughly emotinally episode that dosen’t lack the series humor but does have a depth and rhthym to it that the series has at i’ts best. 

14. Quack Pack! (Ducktales)  Jesus I was so tired when making this I nearly forgot an entry. And shame on me as this was one of the best episodes of an already amazing Season. Season 3 is easily ducktales best and i’ve been proud to cover it. It’s been my most popular feature and while not every episodes been GREAT, only one’s really not been very good, and none have been out and out bad. While it may be the end of the shows run and not without problems, they still have trouble ballancing the adults at times if not nearly as bad as before, to the point Launchpad just sorta vanishes after Let’s Get Dangerous outside of the Christmas Specail that takes place before the season anyway, and Louie is often written VERY badly.. but i’ve talked about these things all season in my reviews.

Point is those faults are overwhelmed by the strengths; The character ballance is better, several side characters have gotten tons of payoff to their arcs and more development, and the main plot is easily the best in the series history: By having essentially one main plot with two focuses, before they merge at the halfway marker, it allows the season to be far more streamlined after the really messy way season 2′s plots were handled. It just shows the show at it’s best and has produced amazing episode after amazing episode and it was really hard to widdle it down to the ones that got selected here and even then one got left out. 

But one boost I haven’t mentioned is their wilingness to take risk. While past seasons had flashback episodes and what not this one, in hindsight, has some of the more risky episodes of the series, ones you really COULDN’T do in seasons 1 and 2: a whole episode flashback to the twins, basically taking our present day kids out for the whole season, an hour long special focusing on what, to fans not familiar with darkwing duck, is simply a very engaging side character and his new sidekick.. and launchpad (The ducks aren’t OUT of the special, but they aren’t the focus and aren’t around for most of the climax). An episode with really dark emotional moments.. which isn’t unsuaul for a disney show, see next time, but for one so close to their chest it was a lot. They were settled in enough to take plenty of risks and it’s paid off. It’s not to community levels of experimentation, but it’s still nice, intresting breaks from the usual adventures. 

And one of the best and boldest of these was Quack Pack. Taking our heroes and plopping them into a TGIF sitcom. Of which this plot not only happened TWICE this year, three times if you count the entirety of beef house, which I do so let’s call it three, but both cartoon examples are on this list. But both tackle it in diffrent and intresting ways so both got on here.  IN this case.. during a stock plot about a family photo, complete with Donald having his Don Cheadle voice back, we get some great parodies of convetions of les.s. good sitcomes nad even some of the greats: there’s the constnat catcphrases (ranging from a sticomy version of Della’s “On the moon”, to Beakly’s “I’m not a spy.. which sh’es understandably inscnesed to find out is her catchphrase) ,and even the wacky neighbor with our lord and savior Goofy showing up in the roll, as a nice nod to the more sitcom side of the Disney Afternoon. We just get a lot of good gags.. until Huey becomes aware, starting to realize things are off, with his guidebook being empty and things just not adding up. We even get a great bit of him being forced to do a disney channel/that 70′s show dance transtion only to react with exesntial horror.  Naturally, given their lives,a  genie did it, Gene, played by Jaleel White in a pefect bit of casting. Having been imprisoned in his lamp since the 90′s. Gene’s a bit behind on how sticoms work, but was just granting a wish, Donald’s wish, which the family figures out by trigggiring a flashback, Goofy VERY MUCH included. where we find out it was, unsuprisngly Donald’s fault.. though in his defense, and in the best line of the episode, when confronted about wishing for a normal life “I wish for that 30 times a day. How was I supposed to know a lamp was under me this time?”

And we find out why and it’s heartbreaking: Donald just wants a normal family, where everyone’s safe and, most tellningly “No one gets lost.”. It’s the climax of a series long HATRED of going on these adventures. For everyone else it’s fun, thriling, good stuff.. to him.. it’s not only a reminder of what cost him 10 years with his sister and his adopted sons their mom for that time, but a reminder of a lot of pain and humilation. To him he just wants the normal life he used to have back, despite that not being an option and his kids to be safe and his sister not to leave again. Granted his refusal to undo the wish is selfish.. but i’ts understandable. And while the rest of them try to break the wish, and end up fighting the horrifying audience it’s GOOFY who gets donald to see all families are diffrent and that there is no normal: just what you make and enjoy. It makes donald realize that as hectic as his life is.. it’s his life, his family.. and maybe. it’s not so bad. After years of denying how much he used to love adventuering.. he realizes part of him stilld oes and no amount of turning against it will fix what he lost... he just has to enjoy NOW. It’s good solid character development for my favioriote member of the cast, and overall a fun, genre spoofing episode that pokes fun at the genre but reallyg ets how it works. 

13. Growing Pains (Steven Universe Future)

“ What do I do? How do I move on from all the stuff I've been through? How do I live life if it always feels like I'm about to die?! “ So yeah big recap of steven’s emotional well being to get into future earlier, but rewinding a bit, this one takes place with our hero at a low point. Not “oh god I comitted murder what am I now oh god” low as we got to earlier and the series itself wold get to later, these lists make time warped and space bendeble, but still pretty damn bad.  As mentioned before Steven tried proposing to connie, not helped by Ruby and Sapphire both being fully on board, as both are hopeless romantics seprate but when combined as a Garnet their shared braincell can get working properly and has settings other than “emotoinal pain, peppy (ruby), a bit distant but kind (Sapphire) and horny”. While it was as beautiful a propsal as you’d expect from Steven.. Connie gently rejected it since you know, he also wanted to be permafused and their not even legal marrying age left. He’s 17.. despite what this episode claims. She’s 15 or 16. They aren’t ready and she knew it not even ruling it out entirely, just saying “not now”.  But as this episode bears out.. Steven really isn’t an emotinal state where he could properly process that way and after shooing her away, even though she WANTED to talk it over and genuiely make sure he was okay as she damn well knew this wasn’t easy on him, but also knew it’d probably be bad to press him while he was clearly in pain. So like everyone else she made the mistake of leaving.  So Steven’s binging on junk food, and bemoaning the fact that even dogcopter is getting married.. also Dogcopter is gay. Given the show he’s a fictional character in, you THINK i’d of been less suprised but you’d be wrong. Point is steven isn’t dealing well and is going pink and with the gems gone for the weekend, and Greg unavaliable due to being busy as a manager, Steven is getting worse and his body is starting to warp. Thanfkully connie comes to check up on him and insits he see a doctor.. and since her mother’s a doctor and thankfully had a cancelation. Unthankfully it turns out, to Prianka’s understandable frustration.. Steven’s never been to a doctor. Which does make sense, Greg taking him in might’ve alreted authorties to his lack of schooling or his injuries from age 13 onward, plus he had no idea of knowing how his body would react to tests. That being said given by this point in the series Gems are well accepted and known around town and everyone loves and adores steven, Greg had no real excuse by this age especially after the second gem war.  And that’s proven by the fact it turns out steven’s body has tons of internal scars which, due to him turning out to have a wolverine style healing factor, mean h’es alive and without brain damage, but still has plenty of internal scars. It’s a godo metaphor for his mental trauma: he came out of his various happenings ALIVE.. but not mentally okay and with PLENTY of ptsd. When Prianka asks him to list his traumas.. he dosen’t even get past season 1 before she’s understandably horrified, though she’s figured out exactly what’s causing his pink mode: as mentioned before his contstant life of danger and having the threat of a fight at any moment over his head for 2 solid years, maybe 3 given the third light game shows he still had a lot of work to do before the movie and future, and honestly still does at times during both, mean his flight or fight response has been shot so the adrenline charged pink form, meant to protect him from danger.. is triggering for EMOTIONAL pain and suffering. 

Steven dosen’t take it well and keeps enlarging when pressed.. and accidently spills the beans about the proposal... and understandably, even if she was FULLY in the right can’t be around Connie: while she had every right to reject him, it dosen’t mean it hurts any less. Sometimes even when you do the absolute right thing.. it can still hurt to be on the receiving end of that. But Connie is still Connie, aka the most emotinally  stable and mature person in the main cast very much including the sentient space rocks who are centuries older than her, so she called Greg who naturally dropped everything because his son needed him. It shows the genuine conflict, one, again that I’ve grappled with: Steven is so obssed with not boterhing those he loves, he fails to see they’ll help him when he needs it without a second thought. So Greg thankfully calms him down and taks over the failed proposal with no judgement or anything just support. Sadly things go downhill from here but it’s a good episode that turns the entire series on it’s head with some damn good character work. 

12. Annhilation of Joy (The Midnight Gospel) 

“Again? How Many times is this guy gonna die?” “Until he learns”  The Midnight Gospel was a plesant suprise. Penndelton Ward’s return to animation after leaving Adventure Time, the show is a collberation between him and podcaster Duncan Trussel. It was a suprise both in how quickly it came together, and in how it’s real nature wasn’t properly expressed in the trailers: while the series does tell us the trippy adventures of Clancy, a 40 something “Spacecaster” who uses an illegal simulator to visit worlds to interview various people.. said interviews are expercts from Trusseul’s own podcast, the Duncan Trussel Family Hour, something this series has badly made me want to listen to. As such while dealing with zombie apocalypses, a quest to avenge a dead lover, being processed as meat and meeting death herself while looking for his hose, Clancy interviews his subjects, including Death herself, and talks on various subjects related to medation and spirutality, throughly fascenating interviews greatly woven into trippy visuals. Hopefully the show will be back for round 2 at some point as both Ward and Trussel are game, but for now the first season stands on it’s own as a throughly trippy, throughly wonderful blend of Trussel’s words and insight and Ward’s boundless imagination.  And the best of these, narrowly beating out the final epsiode which uses an interview with Truseel’s late mother to inform clancy’s own actions, as Clancy’s Mom is dying from cancer same as Trussels tragically did. But I like this one slightly better due to it’s great blend of the subject with the plot. Once again Clancy is ignoring his pain, and his sister’s calls, by diving into the space vagina of his simulator, taking a weird form, and easily my faviorite of his shapeshifted forms of the season: a living rainbow that wouldn’t be out of palce in a pbs kids show, complete with the fact he makes musuical chimes when touched not unlike a children’s toy and has chosen this form to enter the simulator’s jail.  It’s there he gets engagled, literally, with Bob and Jason. Bob is an angry, upset prisoner who chewed his own tounge out years ago, and Jason is his soul bird, a represntation of his pain bound to him by blue rope that Clancy got tangled in. So Clancy is taken along for the ride with them as every time Bob dies, the celestial beings in charge of the prison put him through weird emtional torment, pluck out his heard and weigh it against  a feather plucked from jason. 

Thus while Clancy and Jason have a spirited conversation about Buddishm and about not treaing spirutality like a game with levels and having to earn progress but as an emotinal journey, Bob goes through a buddishm inspried journey of his own, mixed with a bit of edge of tommorow. He dies, gets tourtured then resets.. but slowly learns to empathize, to let go of his anger and violence and help those around him. It’s an utterly mesmering journey to watch this angry green big headed man go from a violet convict who will gladly shoot and stab.. to a pacfisit eager to help those around him. And it’s thorughly convincing and backed wonderfully by the interview and easily a sign of what this weird and unconveintonal series can do at all cyllnders. Seriously Netflix you’ve been on a loosing streak decisionmaking wise. Make. More. Of. This. 

11. Save the Cat (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) "C'mon Catra. You're not done. Not yet..."

God that image is unsettling. Anywho back to She-Ra, and somehow this is the second time i’ve had to rewind the progress of a season by about an episoide. Weird. Point is saved the cat is one of the most tightly packed and thrilling episodes of the series.. and the crux of Catra’s character arc.  Before this Catra had hit her lowest point, having lost ..j well everything. She pushed everyone from adora, to the nonambigiously a couple trio, to her own best friends away through her shitty behavior and inferoirty complex and somenoe she THOUGHT was her friend.. turned on her for money. Oh and as an added stomp on the tail all that betryal, all the blood spilled in her name.. was for nothing. Horde Prime made her irrelvant: she couldnt’ manipualte him because a combination of a god complex and an army of loyal drones meant he had nothing to hide and eyes everywhere. She had nothing. Eveyrthing she did every sacrifice she made every worse and worse turn she made a s a person... amounted to NOTHING.  So it was at this point she and glimmer, despite you know killing Glimmer’s mother, were forced to work together.. and Catra sacrificed herself both to get Glimmer safe and because for once.. she wanted to do something right. Her self loathing, some of it warranted, a lot of it already there from an abusive childhood, left her with one option: sacrifice herself and HOPE, something good can come of it, Apologize to Adora, hte one person she ever loved and hope she can at least surivive this.  Naturally, Adora having seen her friend/love of her life has not only REALIZED what she become, but sacrifice herself.. isn’t having this, and after an episode of repairs both on the ship and emotinally, our heroes are naturally, despite any personal hangups with her ready to save Catra. Naturally this hits snags. On Bow and Entrapta’s end, they accidently free a horde clone she mistakes for hordak and, having no other real option and with the guy being useful, Wrong Hordak is born! I love me some Wrong Hordak. What a guy, makes you cry, und I did. 

The main issue though is Adora let herslef be captured.. only to find Horde Prime is a sadstic bastard and has not only chipped Catra, but is using her newfound peace of mind to play with adora’s head, using Catra’s heartbreak from the past to manipulate Adora in the present.. and force them to fight because hey he’s a sadistic jackass with a god complex. They make their own fun.  But Adora gets through to her .. only for Prime to decide fuck it and try killing her with Adora BARELY saving her with her power, and Catra, as she fades, wondering why Adora even bothered. And the why is simple.. as a wise fictional version of a wise president once said “Dying is easy young man, living is harder”. Not the last time that quote will be relevant in this top 20 list, but the point, and it was delebrate on Noelle Stevenon’s part, was to subvert this kind of thing> The bad guy gets redemption but then dies seconds later. Instead.. Catra has to LIVE with what she did and make up for it, become a better person and work for redepmtion, instead of just getting to end in some big blaze of glory. But at the same time.. it’s the better route. The harder one sure.. but she gets to have a life and to undo the damage and maybe for once.. actually live instead of just trying to surivive. IT was the right call in a series full of them. 

But yeah the day is saved, our heroes have two new roomates and Catra weakly greats Adora.. but with genuine warmth for the first time in .. years I guess? I don’t know this series time span. Point is the healing and the ship tease for our finale can begin and this episode is a tense, well put together masterwork. The pacing really is what put it up this far, as it really ratchets up the tension, and being the last season, meant there was no guarantee anyone, including catra, was going to make it. Excellent stuff all around. 

So that’s where we leave off for now. i’ll be PUTTING PART 2 HERE WITH A LINK. once i’ts finished For now watch this space and..

[yourfriendslimey]

I love blackpink! And I think it’s super cool you’re confident enough to share your opinions on them omg i’d be so scared of getting attacked. The one thing that bothers me tho is when blinks say “oh YG won’t let blackpink write music omg their songs would be so good” and ive seen posts where people say jennie is a “writers and producer”. Like the only confirmed thing is that Jennie is good at writing lyrics and they’ve all dabbled in that. That’s only one part of a song, you can have bad lyrics and have succesful music like they do their lyrics are bad but the songs are good. It’s just insulting bc writing songs fully and producing are very hard. It’s rude to people who actually work hard and do that stuff, you don’t even know if her lyrics are good, it’s not like she’s written lyrics fully on her own that we’ve heard too they’ve all been co-written. Idk i feel like it’s insulting to idols who actually write and produce and to put them on the same level in that aspect is annoying to me

i hear you bb! i'm majoring in commercial music and taking a songwriting course because i don't think anyone understands that creating music from start to finish is so fricken hard. i believe if the girls had some input (and a new producer) then their music would turn out so much better.

and yes it's SUPER frustrating to put them on the same level as groups who write and produce their own songs which turn out fricken AMAZING. i know several of got7's songs were written by members such as Aura which is dare i say gorgeous! i can't remember which other groups do but i knows there's quite a few.

blackpink's lyrics are very weak and basic to me. and lately the music has just been straight remixes because the guy who produced their stuff refuses to do ANYTHING new. it's insane. and obviously everyone who loves BP is super free to do so because if they're your jan, they're your jam. however, they're definitely going to become fairly irrelevant soon because they "one trick ponies". i think maybe that's why they've been doing collars with western artists. i know they're not as mega popular in south korea as they are in the west but i also know the west has a bad habit of obsessing over musicians for a short burst of time then the light dies out. like they're still famous but they're name won't be everywhere anymore.

for example when Billie Eillish was about to really BLOW UP, her music was recommended to me everywhere. i couldn't click on a video without one of hers popping up no matter how irrelevant it was to me. then everyone was talking about her all the time. and a few months later i barely got recommended any of her music. and it's not like my watch patterns changed that much. news on her was so dead i honestly thought she'd stopped making music. it's like that with a lot of artists.

alright i gotta end this before i go into a bunch of other stuff that i'll save for...idk maybe i'll make a video talking about it. all my issues straight up that aren't "JEnNie'S pRiVilagEd and a BiTCh!" or "ugh the lazy dancing and not mention all their dances are the same". those points have been made probably thousands of times. anyway thanks for you ask baby boo!

[stallwinfredlauerequus]

List 5 facts about your most favorite Sim of yours and send this to 10 Simblrs whose Sims you adore ♥♥♥

My most favorite Sim of mine has to be my Elena sim ♥

Elena Victoria Winther

I. 27 years old, single, owner and main rider of Winther Lake Equestrian.II. She is very shy, but also a very outgoing Sim. She loves the company from friends and family, and are always happy to get to know new people, but loves her alone-time even more.III. Elena has always had a great love for horses, and as a little girl she was actually hoping to compete in Show Jumping, but after a bad fall from her pony, she decided to challenge herself to do what ever she could in the dressage tests. Now she is a really great dressage rider, and competes in both young horse classes and M-classes. At 23 she debuted in Grand Prix with her old, now retired, dressage horse.IV. Elena has a younger sister, Melanie, who is the exact opposite of Elena. Melanie doesn’t like horses, has never tried riding a horse, and is always on the go. Sometimes the only thing that is similar between the two girls is their blond hair and icy blue eyes.V. Elena never liked going to school because she was bullied for being a ‘smelly horse girl’. But that didn’t stop her. Now she has her very own and succesful business of Winther Lake - and also a law degree from the university!

[marcoharem]

Last random thoughts of the year

Hello everyone, and welcome to the last “Random Thoughts” post of 2018. I know I’ve been very outspoken about things I didn’t like from season 3 and… I know that some of you enjoyed S3 and that’s okay because it’s important to have different opinions, all that goes without saying.

Now, the reason I’m bringing this up is because, instead of talk about what went wrong, this time I want to focus on what went right. What makes SvtFoE so appealing, and in order to understand this, we need to talk about the most important aspect of every succesful cartoon: The Characters.

The problem is that this show in particular has way too many characters to analyse and discuss, so to make it nice and clear, we’ll just focus on the main characters: Marco and Star. People of the MvtFoL community, I present to you:

Top 8 Reasons Why (I Think) Marco is a better character than Star

DISCLAIMER: The thoughts and opinions expressed on this post belong solely to the author (that’s me) and doesn’t necessarily represent the views of the MvtFoL community as a whole.

#8-Sidekicks: I know this one technically doesn’t count because we’re talking about the main characters, but on my experience, the friends you choose to hang out with tell a lot about you on a personal level (especially if you’re a teenager like Marco and Star)

Star has Princess Ponyhead, a rude, loud, egotistical and obnoxious character that (from my perspective) only exists to appeal to younger kids who love memes and internet culture. Marco on the other hand has Alfonso and Ferguson, two stereotypical geek characters that were created out of executive meddling (and that’s not my perspective, Nefcy already comfirmed this statement)

Now, I’m not saying that Alfonzo and Ferguson were particularly outstanding or interesting, (in fact a lot of people find them annoying) I’m just suggesting that they are less obnoxious than Ponyhead, not because they’re human, but because they seem more genuine as people, unlike Pony Head who always seems like she’s trying WAY too hard to be “hip” and “cool”.

#7 Character Archetypes: Now, don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against Star, I don’t think she’s the worst of her kind, nor she should go away and allow Marco to become the main character (it would be nice for a change, but that’s beside the point) my point is: The energetic-cutesy-bubbly-lovable-sillypants archetype has been done like a million times before, so in terms of personality, she brings nothing new to the table.

Marco is completely different story. Yeah, he may seem like the average teenage boy at first, but unlike Star, he plays these character traits to his advantage. For example, on the first episode of the series, when Ludo and his minions were about to attack to take Star’s wand, he jumps in front of Star to protect her and shows his karate skills for the first time, subverting the idea that just because he’s “the safety kid” it doesn’t mean he’s a useless coward with no skills or talent whatsoever.

#6 Character Appeal: This part is more subjective if we consider that we’re talking about characters from a kids show and… I’m not part of the main target audience, but with that said: I never found Star very appealing, I mean, she’s skilled with magic, can be occasionally funny and design-wise she’s good looking. But other than her magic and goofy antics, Star is not very likeable. In fact, she can be overbearing at times (especially when she’s paired with Pony Head)

Being an average human being, Marco’s skills such as karate, cooking, psychology, etc. comes from his own hard work rather than just play the “it’s magic, don’t question it” card like Star does. Not to mention his deadpan sense of humor and delivery is way more subtle than Star…. Also, for what I understand, he’s considered to be pretty handsome both in-universe and by the fanbase, but that’s something I’ll leave for open interpretation.

#5 Better Living Through Chemistry: One of the things Starco fans always bring up when they talk about the couple, is the amount of chemistry between Marco and Star and… yes, they’re right from a certain point of view, but here’s the thing: Marco has good chemistry with pretty much everyone.

I mean, every time he shares screentime with a female character (whether be Star, Jackie, Janna, Hekapoo, Kelly and so on) he nails it almost everytime, I mean aside from being a good speaker, he’s nice, gentle, loyal and (for the most part) selfess… Star on the other hand… well… There’s Oskar Greason and… StanFan13 I guess?

Which is funny considering how in season 1 gave us the impression that the writers were going to take “reverse harem” route and make Marco, Tom and Oskar falling for Star, but come on… she’s both a wizard AND a member of the royalty. She doesn’t need a bunch of guys fighting for her as well (even Tom seems to have better chemistry with Marco than her, just remember the “friendenemies” episode)

#4 Role model: Now, I don’t think that all the characters on every kids show should be a role model nor preach us with sappy morals and stuff… but here’s the thing: Fiction is a form of escapism and characters serve as self-insertions in which the audience project themselves either at a concious or an unconscious level.

Characters like Marco work with this idea at the right level. He’s strong, intelligent and charming, but he’s also shy, clumsy, naive and has moments of childishness as well. He has enough character development to distinguish from the average harem protagonist, but he also has enough flaws to avoid the mary sue territory. That sounds like a good role model to me.

And Star is… how can I put it? She acts like a brat. Not only that, but she’s also very vain and shallow, even when she seems to fight for a noble cause. The irony is that while Brittney was created as a foil for Star (both of them are rich, self-entitled princesses) Star can be just as rude and spoiled as her.

#3 Symphaty contest: Once again, Marco outperforms Star on almost every level. And this may sound bias to all of you but I’m sorry, I can’t feel any sympathy towards Star even when she’s being naive or well-intended.

The only episode I can recall where I felt symphathy for Star was the “Other Exchange Student” episode, because it was the first time someone else took the spotlight away from her. Also it was a breath of fresh air to see her getting jealous, but not on a romantic way…

#2 Character Development: During the first 2 seasons, Marco not only proved to be a highly talented individual, but also proved to be capable to overcome every single misfortune that got in his way (Tom, the naysaya, the cashier of the VHS Depot, the monster arm), he found the courage to speak to Jackie only to find out that she reciprocates his feelings, and just like like every human being he commited mistakes such as trying to slander Jeremy by recording a video of him being a douche to expose him to Sensei Brantley, only to realize all by himself that spy on people is bad.

And meanwhile, Star… pretty much remains the same. And no, turning into a giant butterfly with god-like superpowers doesn’t count as character development. And like I said, even though she learns that monsters are creatures with hopes and dreams just like the mewmans, it doesn’t change the fact that she still treats Marco like garbage (Booth buddies), annoys her mother even when she’s on a highly stressful sitaution (Battle of Mewni) and kisses Marco and keep it in secret only for Marco to do the right thing and confess (Divide/Conquer) so don’t be surprised to find people on the internet that… doesn’t like her very much.

#1 Overall Best Person: And once again, it seems like I’m beating a dead horse, but it can’t be said enough: Marco is an individual with higher moral values than Star.

I mean, seriously: He’s willing to do ANYTHING for Star, whether be cross-dressing, fight monsters, give up his entire life and happiness for a vague promise of being knighted. And the fact that so many people find acceptable that Star keeps perpetuating this cycle of abuse as if is “cute” is just… ugh… I’m sorry, I just cringed for a moment.

And again: I have nothing against Star, but please: Stop pretending she’s like a perfect little flower that deserves being rewarded only for who she is rather than her own merits. And as long as that old, tired dynamic doesn’t change, I’ll keep saying that Marco Diaz is a much better character than Star Butterfly.

And that’s all I have to say for today. Thank you for your time and I wish you all a happy new year. And rembember: The point of these posts is to encourage discussion and keep this page alive, because let’s face it: It’s up to us to give Marco support by shipping him with all the female characters (including Star), even if it’s not cannon. That way we’re reaffirming the fact that Marco is more important to SvtFoE than Star ever will…

#haremshipisthebestship

[beachsekai]

A Funtime Frexy FanFic

Chapter 1 - A Really Bad Disaster

written by me ( @life-of-a-rodent )

special thanks for @rizenchi & @personwithnochillwhatsoever who read my fanfics in real life ^^

BEFORE YOU READ THE FANFIC:

every animatronic wears clothes

Freddy & Foxy are referd to Funtime Freddy/Funtime Foxy

this is my first fanfic, so my writing could be terruble, so bear with me

this fanfic is inspired by this youtuber

you can ask questions to me about the fanfic & stuff if you like ^^

Ok here we go

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Chapter 1 - A Really Bad Disaster

Just as in the pizzeria, its really quiet. Inside & outside. kaboosh. Well, not really quiet in the inside. It was one of Lolbit & Bon Bons experiments... (again. dont ask why again) They’ve done experiments that were succesful, unless they fight, one little mistake goes wrong. And its a really bad one. Smoke has spread into all parts of the pizzeria, making everyone uncomfortable. As it reached Foxy & Lolbit’s room, foxy was really disturbed by the smoke. “cough, cough. AARgh. What is this smoke?!” he complained. but something was really wrong with him. His nose was runny, his chest was beating, he couldn’t feel his tail too.”W-whats wrong with me?!” Luckily he ran into a mirror. and he realized: he was human.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH”

“LOLBIT! BON BON! WHAT DID YOU DO?!” He screamed at them. This made Lolbit and Bon Bon’s quarrel stop. “Yeah?” they both asked, realizing what they did. “YOU TOO?!” Foxy was confused, and surprised. Lolbit was wearing a shirt with a purple bow tie at the back of her waist. She was wearing purplw jogging pants that ends at her knees. She also wore purple boots & her hair was tied in a pony tail. Bon Bon wore a red bow tie.... with a tie? He also wore a blue and white suit with dark blue pants and shoes. WAIT! Bon Bon doesn’t have legs! Well, he’s human, so he does have now. “You too Foxy?” Lolbit asked. Foxy had pink hair with white streaks and a tainted pink pirate’s clothes and dark pink pants with a brown pirate vest. “Yep. You guys really need to get along.” Foxy suggested them. “I could. If SHE had to mess with my brewing stand!”Bon Bon complained. “Well, if YOU didn’t miss the last ingredient we could’ve prevented this!” Lolbit complained back. 

“YOU just don’t know about MAGIC!”

“YOU just don’t know about SCIENCE!”

“MAGIC IS BETTER!!!” “SCIENCE IS BETTER!!!”

“Why won’t YOU GUYS SHUT UP and FIX THIS SMOKE YOU CAUSED!” Foxy interrupted them. “Yeah what’s with all this smoke?” someone asked. It was Circus Baby and Ballora. They are human, but they still look like themselves, so they need no introduction of what they’re wearing. “Oh, its Bon Bon again. This always goes wrong with Bon Bon.” Ballora said in her weird voice. “WhY dOeS eVeRyOnE bLaMe mE?!?!?”Bon Bon complained even more.

“Wait, where’s Freddy?” Foxy wondered.

thanks for enjoying this chapter ^^ if you enjoyed...

[ishgardianskypirate]

Did some pony farming tonight with my FC mates, with succesful results!

[pimsiepim]

SO I received this (no I am not auto-congratulating myself guys XD) and even though I am no longer active here on Tumblr, I didn’t want to ignore it. If you take the time to write such an adorable, inspiring note, then hell yes you deserve a reply (if I see it obviously O_O).

(note: this was submitted by @bryanmcdonald7 I have no idea how this thing works on tumblr, and I don’t want her to not be tagged just in case). Everything following the “line” are her words:

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@pimsiepim I am still not too sure about how Tumblr works and I apologies in advance because I might have posted this message twice.

Here’s the thing Cindy,

when you first announced that there was going to be a sequel to “His Girl Wednesday”, I decided that I was not going to read it. After reading the last chapter of HGW, I had so many mixed feelings and felt too conflicted that I just could not. I guess I was disappointed because I did not expect such end. But although the end did not sit right with me, I could not deny how much fun I had reading HGW and how much I loved it. I ADORE (yup capital letters) HGW, I read it so many times that I stopped counting after 5. It is up there with all my favourite Olicity fanfictions, and to be honest it is probably my favourite one.

The way you write Olicity, Felicity and Oliver as individuals is really fantastic. You have reconciled me with this ship quite frankly.

So, a couple of days ago, as I was re-reading HGW, my stubborn self decide to give “Some Things Are Meant To Be” a try. I am 15 chapters in (Pony!!!) and I don’t regret a thing! Your writing is exquisite. You made me change my mind on something I was dead set on not reading and for that I thank you very much. 

And don’t even get me started on “The Old-Fashioned Way”. At first I was not really sold on the plot but I decided to just dive into the story because I am a big fan of your writing. I already love it and cannot wait for the chapters to come.

I apologies for the rant, but I really wanted to express my gratitude and the love that I have for your work. 

So. Thank you Cindy.

Chance

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First of all, I am painfully aware of a certain number of readers who were very disappointed with the ending of HGW (but, and I want to thank you all, most of you didn’t feel the need to explose in anger or tell me about how I ruined things for them. It’s never nice to read that as an author, PSA. I have read stories that took a road I really didn’t like or ended up in a way I didn’t like but never felt the need to drag down the author and discourage them from following what the characters or the story was telling them to do.)

The thing about HGW, I did have doubts, and while writing STAMTB I also had doubts about that road. My personal life was also very tough at that time so it clearly didn’t help, especially since my interest in the show was dropping like... well it was dropping fast and hard. But, and that’s when I’m really happy when people like Chance coem forward, is that I didn’t do it for the sake of a sequel, for the safety of still writing the same couple, or to try to get the success from the first one to the other (spoiler alert, STAMTB wasn’t/isn’t as succesful as HGW. I never expected it because I had been astonished by HGW’s success in the first place). And a bunch of you who gave the story a try (probably by curiosity? I know I’d still be curious XD) then came forward to tell me that... they “got” it. They saw the interest of that particular road for the two of them. They saw what it allowed me to explore, and how it allowed the readers to feel even more deeply because they had grown attached to the characters over already one long story. Felicity’s angst and pain at the beginning of STAMTB would have never, ever been as impactful if you hadn’t seen her slowly but surely fall in love over 51 chapters. Oliver’s self hate and doubt and fear wouldn’t have been so gut wrenching if you hadn’t seen the carefree Oliver slowly turning into a Man only to have everything he had built and created being ripped away from him. It was also the best way to show that no matter what, these two were meant to be together. When life was somehow easy, they fell in love. When death tore them apart, they STILL loved each other. And when they were reunited and everything seems so hard and dangerous and complicated, they only loved each other more. 

So, thank you so much for giving it a try, for taking a chance on them and I’m very, very happy you loved them in the sequel as well.

As for the Old-Fashioned Way, I promise there won’t be no island involved whatsoever - apart maybe a vacation in Hawai.

Cindy

[zibizuba]

The 13 Smartest Porn Stars of All Time

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From incomes PhDs to beginning small companies, listed here are the neatest, geekiest and most pushed porn stars of all time. Porn Stars are sometimes derided for being unintelligent and shallow, however let’s be sincere, they have been good sufficient to make a dwelling at one thing all of us do free of charge. These girls have been profitable academically in addition to financially, from founding succesful enterprises exterior of the porn trade to main an Oxford debate group to victory. These 13 grownup movie actresses show they’ve huge brains to match their different massive belongings.

  Sasha Gray

Right here’s a video of Sasha Gray describing her 5 favourite movies.

Solely in her early 20s, Sasha Gray has starred in over 170 grownup movies.

She’s been on numerous packages all through tv and the web defending her life-style and people who select it. She has been quoted as saying that she’s by no means completed something she didn’t need to do.

How is she clever sufficient to be on this checklist? Effectively, she turned to p*********y as an artwork type. She says she used to look at it when she was in school and used it to m********e, and was an enormous fan, however at all times felt like one thing was “lacking” from it.

Her distinctive model of name-calling and vocal reactions to what’s taking place in each one in all her scenes are what she describes as a type of “psychological warfare” she wages on her co-stars and the viewers with the intention to problem all of them.

Along with her profitable grownup movie profession, she’s additionally starred in mainstream director Stephen Soderberg’s movie The Girlfriend Expertise and even has her personal band.

She has since used her recognition to herald such causes because the Individuals for the Moral Therapy of Animals’ initiative for animal contraception.

Shy Love

Shy Love has starred in over 250 grownup movies throughout her profession.

She legitimately graduated highschool on the age of 16, then earned a bachelor’s diploma and two Masters Levels. She received her Bachelor’s diploma in Accounting, then received her Grasp’s Diploma in Accounting instantly afterward.

Quickly after, she grew to become the comptroller of a multi-national pet pharmaceutical firm in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And through her employment there, she discovered the time to take evening lessons to earn her second Grasp’s Diploma in Taxation. By the age of 25, she was an authorized public accountant, which implies she’s in all probability REALLY enjoyable at events.

She’s at the moment a expertise supervisor, as she even began her personal expertise administration company.

  Asia Carrera

To not be mistaken with Wayne’s World’s Tia Carrera, Asia Carrera was born in New York Metropolis and studied piano as a toddler (which might be the place she will get her quick fingers). She was so good at this, in reality (the piano enjoying), that she carried out at Carnegie Corridor TWICE earlier than even turning 15.

She’s starred in over 275 grownup movies in her profession (as well as some mainstream films) and has as IQ of 156. She additionally attended Rutgers College from which she earned a full scholarship, the place she double-majored in Enterprise and Japanese. She was also an avid Woman’s Basketball fan.

She by no means fairly completed her full diploma, although, as a result of she made more cash on the stripping job she had throughout school and in accordance with her simply “had extra enjoyable” and, in accordance with Cyndi Lauper, that’s all women need to do anyway, so the whole lot appeared to work out.

She’s gone on to personal the rights to a few of her most well-known movies, together with “A is for Asia”, and has turn out to be one of the crucial well-known grownup movie stars of all time.

She’s the self proclaimed “nerd of porn” and is an avid participant of Unreal Event (a well-liked First-Individual-Shooter recreation). She even went so far as designing her personal recreation skins.

Her gamertag is megabitchgoddess, for anybody who’s .

You could acknowledge her from the pretend porn movie in The Large Lebowski (Not to be confused with the Real Porn version of the Fake Big Lebowski) or from the motion figures of her which are bought in some novelty shops.

On this video: Asia’s rocky journey to success, fueled primarily by her clever survival.

Jenna Jameson

Jenna Jameson is extensively thought-about probably the most profitable lady in porn. (As well as starring in mainstream films.)

Whereas her educational profession isn’t a lot to marvel at now we have to provide credit score to the lady who nearly single handedly introduced porn into the mainstream. She owns a number of companies and constructed up, then bought to Playboy, an enormously worthwhile manufacturing firm in ClubJenna (that has over $30 million in income, with no less than half of that being revenue).

The largest cause for Jenna Jameson making this checklist, although, is her debating abilities. In 2001, the Oxford Union debating society invited Jameson to come back to Oxford to debate a proposed British legislation towards pornography. Shockingly, she led her facet to victory, successful the controversy 204 to 27.

She’s additionally taken Invoice O’Reilly to activity for a few of his hypocritical methods. Right here’s a youtube video of her look on his present, Jenna Jameson on Bill O’Reilly . Later, in February 2003, Pony Worldwide deliberate to characteristic her as one in all a number of porn stars in commercials for athletic footwear. This plan was attacked by O’Reilly, then Jameson despatched a sarcastic e-mail to the present, writing:

“I hope Invoice understands the distinction between a porn star and a hooker. I assume he has completed some analysis on the topic as a result of he requested a few of my movies after we completed taping my look. I think about he needed them for skilled causes.”

Jenna Jameson for the win.

A.J. Bailey

The Scottish 29-year-old blonde holds a Bachelor’s Diploma in Anthropology and studied artwork at St Andrews, the highest Scottish college attended by Prince William.

Whereas she attended the college and was in MBA programs with a few of Prince William’s associates, she received her first unfold in Hustler journal.

She’s admitted that she spends plenty of her free time studying Tolstoy and Oscar Wilde.

“I fairly like being referred to as the world’s brainiest porn star… it’s a cliche that every one porn stars are airheads.”

Laurie Wallace

Scottish grownup movie actress Laurie Wallace graduated Summa C*m Laude (should not… make… joke) with a double main in German and Political Science from Loyola Faculty in Maryland. She later attended legislation faculty at George Washington College.

She was additionally an intern on Okay Road, a middle for numerous suppose tanks and advocacy teams situated in Washington D.C.

She later moved on to modeling and intelligently moved onto p*********y afterward, as a result of that was (clearly) her calling. She used the pull from her modeling profession to make appearances in Maxim, FHM, many nationwide commercials and over 300 romance novel covers.

She’s undoubtedly somebody who might have stayed a scholar, and will have turn out to be a really profitable, well-connected lawyer, however CHOSE one other occupation she simply occurred to get pleasure from extra. And for that, we salute her.

Nina Hartley

Coming from Buddhist mother and father, Nina Hartley began working in strip golf equipment throughout her sophomore yr of nursing faculty to help herself. She graduated magna c*m laude (should not… make… joke….) from San Francisco State College’s nursing faculty, and is a registered nurse.

Considered one of her greatest quotes is: “Intercourse isn’t one thing males do to you. It isn’t one thing males get out of you. Intercourse is one thing you dive into with gusto and prefer it each bit as a lot as he does.” She’s a widely known intercourse educator and sex-positive feminist.

Earlier than Jenna Jameson’s rise to fame, she was just about THE go-to eloquent, well-spoken spokesperson FOR p*********y. She even appeared on Oprah Winfrey defending the topic in entrance of dozens of offended girls within the viewers.

She can also be a extremely skilled and clever intercourse educator and teaches through a sequence of “Information to…” movies that just about cowl your complete spectrum of sexuality. She has a “Tips on how to” video on how you can do absolutely anything and can educate you and your accomplice to do all that stuff you’ve at all times been afraid to do.

Joanna Angel

Joanne Angel will not be solely a star, however is a director and author of the grownup movies she stars in, which is scorching.

Even hotter nonetheless, she has a Bachelor of Arts diploma in English Literature with a minor in Movie Research from Rutgers College.

Like Asia Carrera, she enrolled in Rutgers College. She earned her B.A. in English Literature and minored in Movie Research.

She’s extraordinarily effectively spoken and really eloquent, in addition to knowledgeable about her commerce. Her writing has been featured in magazines and newspapers akin to The New York Instances. She even wrote a intercourse recommendation column for widespread music journal Spin.

Right here’s a video of her views on the evolution of p*********y and what impact the web has had on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGsKytQ7g5A

Right here’s her discovered perspective on the demise of reputable sexual contacts on Craigslist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhShhLRnb24

T. J. Hart

T.J. Hart graduated with a triple main in psychology, sociology and artwork, with a minor in early childhood training from the College of Colorado.

She was additionally member of the 1988 US Olympic swim group.

Beat THAT, anybody you’ve ever dated.

Lorelei Lee

A graduate pupil at NYU, Lorelei Lee, 28, is a well-known porn star who has managed being a pupil and grownup movie star for nearly 10 years.

(To not be mistaken with the wrestler)

Lorelei is a 2008 graduate from San Francisco State College. She enrolled at NYU’s artistic writing program.

Regardless of a lot criticism, she continues to juggle each her grownup skilled profession AND her grueling educational duties/schedule.

It is a image of her being studious (superior, proper? You haven’t any concept how exhausting it’s to search out clothed footage of her).

Beneath is a video.

Most of her work is predicated on her expertise within the grownup leisure trade. She’s even been featured in NYDailyNews, the place she informed the reporter that she “isn’t fairly positive what [she] desires to do after she graduates, however [she] doesn’t count on to go away the porn trade.” She says, “I nonetheless do get one thing out of my work in porn; I feel I’m good at it, the flexibility to concentrate on what’s taking place proper at that second. In these fields, you must have plenty of private drive.” (Giggity).

Right here’s an interview along with her discussing her grownup and educational profession: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZGjPG9gubs

Lisa Sparks

This pornstar who holds a world file for having intercourse with 919 males within the house of a day has a Grasp of Arts diploma in Multimedia with a minor in Enterprise from the College of Kentucky.

She even began her personal associates program through her private web site which receives tens of 1000’s of tourists a day. This program she developed permits her to maintain over 50-65% of preliminary gross sales from her adverts/web site. She runs the positioning, and her personal manufacturing firm (together with filming, casting, and so forth.) along with her husband.

Simply as a facet be aware, she received the world file throughout the Third Annual World Gangbang Championship and Eroticon in 2004. That’s proper, you learn it proper, these exist.

Right here’s an fascinating interview (NSFW) about her profession and her experiences within the trade, completed shortly after her world file: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ0nx76DiWo&feature=related

Annie Sprinkle

Annie Sprinkle is the primary porn star identified to have earned a Ph.D.

She earned her doctorate in Human Sexuality from the Institute for Superior Research of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, California.

Her work spans over three a long time and is at the moment being studied at many universities all through the U.S. in departments akin to Ladies’s Research, Movie Research and Theater Historical past. She’s additionally a college member at The New Faculty of Erotic Contact. So, for sure, she’s 100% a PRO.

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Ron Jeremy, the world file holder for many appearances in grownup movies, truly was once a instructor. Earlier than he received into the p*********y trade, he was making nice use of his bachelor’s diploma in Schooling and Theatre and his Grasp’s Diploma in Particular Schooling from Queens Faculty in New York.

He’s since been famous as one of the crucial distinguished faces of the p*********y/grownup trade and has even been invited to deal with the Oxford Union, a debating society whose membership normally comes completely from both college students or alums of Oxford College. His speech, which defended p*********y, was well-received by critics and students alike.

Since then, he started a sequence of comparable debates on p*********y, visiting numerous U.S. and Canada college and school campuses as a part of his 2006 “Porn Debate Tour”.

He’s additionally helped open a Membership Sesso (which I imagine means “brains” (in meat type) in Spanish) situated in downtown Portland, Oregon.

Hooked up is a 3-part debate Ron Jeremy held at Laurentian College.

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What would a full blown make-out session with Blush Lips do for someone?

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Design commissions for my boi Peskypooch!

He but me in charge on making him an male alicorn character and a male succubi character and give them a bit of story so I have been cooking these two up for ome time now

Eclipse the Alicorn

Eclipse is from a long line of carefully selected aranged breeding marriages to produce the best unicorns in Equestia, all family lines succesful and caring a lot about reputation. So of course, the family was thrilled when it turned out his mother was pregnant with something as rare as a Alicorn. It is unknown, how some foals turn to alicorns, but it is extremely rare and only a few have ever existed.

Eclipse have been destined for greatness, or at least, that is was his parents tell him. As a colt, he was excited and proud of it, but now, as a young, soon to be adult, he is slowly, but steady breaking under the pressure, tired of the fancy dinners, the lessons the stares. Tired of being his parents trophy-child. Tired of not having hi own voice.

What will happen when he finaly breaks?

Onyx the Incubi

Onyx is from one of equestias most hated and feared races, and a rare male speciment. The popurlation of Succubi is carefully controlled by the the leaders of the equestian council, and especially the males numbers are kept down. unknown to them, the males are actually the less magical gifted and less agressive, but nobody cares to do any research on the creatures.

Onyx managed to escape, by slipping past the guards in his ponyform, desguised as a male guard. The guards are trained to keep and eye out for females, and did not notice anything strange about him.

Finally free, he is trying to find others of his kind in the world of ponies, but has so far, failed. He is very social, and have managed to find a few (unknowing of his true form) friends in equestia, and slowly teaching himself of this strange world. He hopes to find a way to help his kind somewhere in the future, but for now, just sucks in everything around him.

As a note, he is often confused for a mare because of his andogyneous look and voice.

I hope you like them darling!

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Even if you wish to guess on expertise, purchaser beware. However, there’s Zack Greinke ($54) and Jacob deGrom ($58). They’re additionally each on the highway, however face higher matchups. deGrom has possibly the very best matchup doable by beginning in opposition to the Marlins. In the meantime, Greinke, who skipped the All-Star Sport however goes to be again in motion Sunday, is going through the Cardinals. St. Louis was anticipated to be good, however truly rank within the bottom-10 in runs scored. Mike Soroka ($41) is not as huge of a reputation as any of these guys, however he is having fun with a improbable season. Not solely has he posted a 2.42 ERA, that quantity sparkles on the highway at 1.29. Now he is getting to begin in opposition to the Padres in Petco Park, among the best stadiums for pitchers. Lastly, should you’re simply making an attempt to save cash, Homer Bailey ($40) has a 4.28 residence ERA at residence and is going through the Detroit Tigers, who’re down there with the Marlins by way of the league’s worst offense. KEY VALUES/CHALK Anthony Rizzo ($17) has been a gradual hitter for the majority of his profession, with a .281 batting common over his final six seasons. He is additionally mainly a close to lock for 30 homers and 100 RBI yearly. Trevor Williams hasn’t had an excellent season, however he is been notably poor since coming back from damage. In three begins, he has an 8.31 ERA. It is not unusual for hitters to have important residence/highway splits for the Rockies, however Charlie Blackmon ($27) has taken that to a brand new stage this yr. Whereas he solely has recorded a .630 highway OPS, his residence quantity is available in at a gaudy 1.440. Fortunate for us, Colorado is at residence this weekend. In the meantime, the Reds are beginning Tyler Mahle, and his primary difficulty as a pitcher is giving up residence runs. Do the maths. Ramon Laureano ($21) is a good fielder, however he is additionally a succesful hitter. The 24-year-old has posted 17 homers and 10 stolen bases in 93 video games. He is additionally been sizzling lately, with an OPS over 1.000 over his final 20 contests. Final season, it appeared like Reynaldo Lopez was beginning to flip it round for the White Sox, however that has gone out the window in 2019 with a 6.34 ERA and permitting 2.11 homers per 9 innings. Adam Eaton ($13) has struggled from an influence perspective, however he does nonetheless have six homers to go along with seven stolen bases in 87 video games. He is additionally nonetheless getting on base, as his .367 OBP will point out. Whereas Eaton hasn’t lived as much as a few of his previous seasons, he appears to be like like an All-Star in comparison with the struggles that Jake Arrieta has been having. Arrieta, who has been coping with an elbow difficulty, has struggled to a 5.06 FIP. STACKS Astros vs. Ariel Jurado (Rangers) Michael Brantley (OF – $17), Josh Reddick (OF – $12), Yordan Alvarez (OF – $25) It looks like each summer time, we hear about how the ball flies out of the Rangers’ park as soon as the climate warms up in Texas. This can be a well-worn little bit of perception in baseball circles, however that does not imply it is not true, and value noting right here in the midst of July. Jurado is available in with a 4.23 ERA, however that features time spent within the bullpen, and in addition has a 4.51 FIP. On high of that, his ERA at house is 4.73. Brantley has performed properly in his first yr with the Astros after spending his total profession with the Indians. He was an All-Star, and he is having fun with his greatest season by way of batting common, OBP, and slugging proportion since 2014. Brantley can also be hitting lefties properly for the primary time shortly, which is useful when the Rangers go to the bullpen. Story continues Reddick has had a weirdly down season at residence, however he is doing simply nice on the highway with a .847 OPS in away video games. Then there’s the rookie Alvarez, who’s already mainly restricted to being a DH as a 22-year-old, however man can he hit. He is slashing .349/.417/.756 with 9 homers in a mere 22 video games. Brewers vs. Tyler Beede (Giants) Christian Yelich (OF – $27), Mike Moustakas (3B – $20), Keston Hiura (2B – $15) Beede has a 5.64 ERA, and that is with getting the advantages of pitching his residence video games in San Francisco. Throughout his profession, which is mainly simply this season plus a couple of innings in 2018, he has appeared terrible with a 6.50 highway ERA. Although Beede pitched properly in Triple-A this yr, clearly he does not appear fairly prepared for the majors. Nonetheless, he is nonetheless getting the highway begin in opposition to the Brewers, which bodes properly for Milwaukee’s huge bats. Yelich wants no introduction. He gained the NL MVP final season, and he might repeat this yr if he retains up his present tempo. Yelich has launched 31 homers and recorded a whopping .701 slugging proportion. Give him a good matchup, and the thoughts reels on the potential. Moustakas is a southpaw, however weirdly this yr he is hit lefties higher than righties. That is not the norm, as he has recorded an .839 OPS versus right-handed pitchers since 2017 – versus a .779 OPS in opposition to lefties. Moose additionally possesses a ton of energy, with 25 homers over 86 video games. Hiura was thought of the very best prospect in baseball previous to being referred to as up, and he is proven why that was the case since becoming a member of the Brew Crew. The 22-year-old has a .284/.350/.532 slash line, with eight homers in 29 video games. Hiura has already seemingly locked down second base for Milwaukee, and he is already able to serving to DFS gamers. Source link

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Canto was also altered in TRS & BS. In TRS, Canto is a personal skill only some mounted units have & it only works if you don't take damage during your attack. If an enemy lands a succesful hit on your unit, you can't remove. In BS, the same rule applies, except canto is a skill that Horses have as they are equipment with their own health and stats in that game.

Like horses in FE10

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