#thats a really really short timeframe!

[nightmare-foundation]

First. I must say, thank you for being an ozpin apologist.

What makes you dislike the Academies so much? Other than maybe the age. Actually how does the system even work? I never cared much for the rwby side stuff (only recently watched the vid on the great war & a reading of The Infinite Man), so if it's mentioned there I wouldnt know. Is it just Combat School-> Huntsman Academy, or is there more to it?

I don't actually dislike the Academies, but a lot of people do. I see them as a neutral/morally gray sort of thing.

In general, how the Huntsman system works seems to be you start training from a young age and then you get into one of the four Academies. A lot of stuff on how it works isn't very clear? But Combat School isn't a requirement to get into the Academies (Jaune and Blake got into Beacon without going into Combat Schools), though it seems to be the most normal, possibly the safest way to train and get into the Academies.

I think an issue is how young people typically start training, which seems to be... 10-13 years old if I had to hazard a guess? Though this doesn't seem to be required either (Jaune got in with no training, and learned quickly, but this doesn't seem to be normal) I don't think, just the norm. It's also unclear if 17 years old is the required age to get into a Huntsman Academy, or if 17 is just the minimum required age with the occasional outlier (i.e. Ruby getting in at 15). I'd say it's more likely 17 is just the minimum required age, since it'd be kinda stupid to not allow people to join based on age lol.

Its also unclear to me if getting into the Huntsman Academies is the ONLY way to become a Hunter. Overall I'd say the Academies are comparable to college, with it being the norm to train from a young age and then get into one of the 4 Academies at 17 at the youngest.

The Academies, to me, also seem to be pretty safe for what they do. No required waivers to get in (waivers, iirc, being legal documents to keep an organization or person from being sued), lots of safety measurements (the cameras in the Emerald Forest and the likelihood of the teachers intervening during initiation and training missions), plus legal processes (Ozpin interviewing teams CVFY and RWBY individually for example, and iirc says that certain things have to happen and if things go wrong he and Glynda are held responsible, etc). It's definitely not foolproof, given the plotline of Hazel's sister, Gretchen, dying during a training mission, but these moments of things going wrong are treated as unusual.

In my opinion, the Academies are definitely necessary on paper. The actual system itself is flawed, and each Academy has their own separate issues given they work independently, but overall the Huntsman Academies aren't as evil as people make them out to be. People are going to have to learn to fight Grimm, considering they're an existential threat, and it was already common to learn how to fight them before; the Academies just centralize the learning and makes it safer to do so, and also offers the necessary resources to learn and make weapons. It's safe to assume that before it was learn to fight Grimm or die, for the most part.

The Academies also help to make non-huntsmen feel safer, since Hunters can also be hired help, and there's lots of Hunters being pumped out every year. People can be protected, or they can learn to fight, where that might not've been an option before.

The Academies DO have flaws, don't get me wrong, but I believe those flaws tend to be intrinsic to the kingdoms themselves rather than always being a flaw of the entire system itself. The episode that reveals Cinders backstory is criticizing Atlas itself, since Rhodes is, presumably, an Atlesian Huntsman and pressures her not to fight her literal slave owners (and this episode is in the Atlas arc, which basically repeats "Atlas fucking sucks" to you a billion different times). Not only that, but Atlas Academy is also pretty tied to the Atlas military, and also doesn't typically let faunus in. These are pretty uniquely Atlas issues, given the other kingdoms don't have militaries and the other kingdoms also let in faunus, including the very anti-faunus kingdom of Mistral.

So the Academies don't all share the same issues, which is pretty clear since Beacon is seemingly the most progressive of the Academies (though still deals with anti-faunus bullying, but Cardin and his team are the only examples and were only seen in v1, so we don't know how common that is either). The criticisms of the Academies are all very region-based so far, and that's the legitimate criticisms (I'm still not sure where people got the impression that students regularly die in the Academies, since there's nothing even implying that).

Basically my opinions of the Academies are that they're more or less necessary, though they do have problems that vary from Academy to Academy (forgot to mention- Shade seems very ableist and strength-based, which is a very Vacuo-unique issue that the other Academies don't deal with). I'd argue the biggest issues lie with the Combat Schools, given how young students start training, though the Combat Schools aren't required.

Otherwise, the Academies lie in a gray area. The people on Remnant don't live like we do; they're in a perpetually post-apocalyptic world with monsters as an existential and very real threat. Even if you don't have any Huntsman relatives, it's still very likely you've either lost someone to the Grimm, or know someone who did. They're a constant threat unless you live a very privileged life, and even then, they can still be a threat. Fighting is a very normal and necessary thing in the world of Remnant, and is pretty much baked into the world's cultures. Civilization being destroyed is a very real threat, and a constant one, and the population on Remnant is much lower than here, IRL. So something like the Academies are genuinely necessary there, whereas it wouldn't be here.

Its a very complicated and nuanced thing lol. People have a hard time really believing that the Academies lie in a gray area, rather than being completely 100% evil and unnecessary. They're very necessary, and have flaws. The only way you can believe they aren't necessary is if you think the Grimm are somehow secretly Not That Bad. Dunno, it's complicated lol.

[sanctifiedtongues]

i think subconsciously i always knew i didnt want to move to nyc though like The Fantasy is always appealing but reading the words 'trailer park-themed bar in chelsea' in this book solidified that further

[transfemkaladin]

final thoughts on wind and truth:

it was kind of mid. like it was Fine but it felt a lot weaker than the others yaknow

i like adolin, okay? i like shallan as well. i like them a LOT. but their povs (also jasnah’s and dalinar’s) just kind of. dragged a little for me?

kaladins therapist arc was fun (he gave therapy to a talking sword. on ACCIDENT. that’s fucking hilarious) but felt a little unsatisfying. the whole time he was talking with szeth i felt frustrated bc like. idk

and don’t even get me STARTED on the “‘no,’ kaladin said. ‘im his therapist’” line. that bit was ASS. it broke the tone and tension of the scene unnecessarily, in a way that hindered rather than enhanced the storytelling, and for what. an unfunny joke.

by the way. for a book that was theoretically supposed to focus on szeth i really wish it had done more of that. yeah he got more pov chapters and stuff but also i came away. not knowing nearly as much about shinovar as i would’ve liked. which is a personal preference thing (maybe i just liked elid a lot tbh. i do think she should’ve gotten at least one pov chapter)

oh THATS what it was. the only outside perspective we really got of szeth was kaladin’s. i think seeing how szeth was perceived by others while living in shinovar would’ve been a good addition.

ishar’s plotlines felt unsatisfying as well. like all that shit with torturing spren and putting them into physical bodies, and then it was just written off as “oh yeah that was just part of his insanity 👍”. like yeah it was but i wish it had gone somewhere

GAVINOR. the loose end of all time to me. what the fuck happened to him after the duel. does he remember his secret handshake with lift.

i miss navaniel. toxic yuri please come back to me. with sadalinar and navaniel and kalmoash all gone and kaladin and shallan healing there’s no one to be toxic and insane anymore. it’s just taravangian. we need more interpersonal problems we need more people sabotaging and fucking shit up for no reason

im also sad abt the venli povs bc she was one of my favorite povs in past books. but then in this one she was just There. where is her conflict. she didn’t even swear an ideal or anything.

tbh i think that’s probably my main problem with the book. the plotlines were all interesting and i liked getting to know more about shinovar (and i never really cared about szeth before so im glad we got to know him more!) but it all just felt like it was kind of There. maybe it was bc of the short timeframe but everything just kinda Dragged a little and everyone was kind of There. there’s only so far you can stretch the tension on that contest of champions, and when you spend over 1300 pages covering ten days? everything starts to feel a little like a filler episode.

also a lot of things just felt kind of underwhelming. the truth behind the recreance? eh. the stormfather being tanavast? eh. chana being shallan’s mom? eh. this was probably bc of the tension problem at least a little though

to be clear, i didn’t hate it. there was a lot i enjoyed- it’s just that the parts i enjoyed weren’t really given as much narrative emphasis, and the short timeframe of the story made my sense of pacing weird.

[mins-fins]

infinite love without fulfillment [prev].

and though you have always been the apotheosis of misfortune, it appears the son of sunny prosperity, huang renjun, can never just remain faithful to your very inquiries.

PAIRING. huang renjun x male!reader

GENRE. alternative universe, 80s–90s timeframe, hurt/comfort, a crossbred of slow and fast burn, angst angst angst, fluff.. in fleeting moments, a boy with bad luck x a boy with good luck, mutual pining, the typical isa mins-fins sadness meal, sort of relationship study, technically childhood lovers i suppose, much romantic

WARNINGS. swearing, explicit language, death, suicide, smoking, mere mentions of child neglect, school violence, bullying, mentions of slight injuries, bleeding, reader has the absolute worst luck imaginable, period-typical homophobia, the rest of the dreamies are kinda terrible friends, most of the adults suck, um thats it??

WORD COUNT. 1k, 1074 words preview | ??? full fic

NOTES. well jesus hello everybody, this fic is quite literally a monster and i have no idea why i conceived it or where it came from or why i so dearly cherish it but welcome to your much typical isa mins-fins angst fest with love, a non linear narrative, stuck in the past and simply boys with huge feelings 😁 this fic came from the most disturbing corners of my mind and is again much self indulgent because i have terrible luck so nobody is allowed pleasure and is subjected to pain!! of course, this preview is probably one of the few nice scenes in this thing, but don't get your hopes up, i am me after all 😋 i began this pre-renjun return, i just love him a lot.. and just for contexts sake bc this thing flip flops throughout several years, reader & renjun are both 74 babies, okay enjoy my mess

   1987.

the first meeting took place in a spot now abandoned. following the beginning of your teens, your uncle managed to grab you the occupation as his friend’s protégé. mr lee was about the sweetest man you could meet in such a town, his smile reached his eyes, his glasses tilted sideways in a display of his excitement, his words often scrambled and much too practiced for a kid your age.

you paid no mind to the peculiarities, there may have been a falter here and there, a fracture in the show of happiness he kept so perfectly built up as his defense. strange or not, you had nothing against a harmless, cheerful man who sought for the best life he could offer for his family, it was admirable really, you found him the closest figure of a father at the time.

the records shop was barely a mile walk, your shift consisted of sorting records of movies you had no mind to comprehend the existence of. the horror was typical, comedy was cheesy, romance was.. something, and you always wrote down in your mind to speed past the adult movies, glancing at them would be akin to committing the sin of lust.

clouds shook above on the dimmed november afternoon, a foreshadowing of the incoming rain. you spent most of your shift peering upward at the roof on its final leg, you’d not be surprised if it collapsed on you.

“it won’t fall” your boss voiced, assurance there when you most needed it. the state of his widened eyes behind his glasses still provides you a good deal of amusement, they were the thick ones, brims much too passionate. “place has been standing for years, a simple storm won’t take us down”.

“knock on wood” you opted to whisper.

his replying chuckle is cut short when the bell above the door echoed off the walls in a stark, beaming sound. eyes narrowing, it is then when the first meeting took place. you can pinpoint the exact start; 3:45 pm, october second, in the lee’s movie record shop, you spotted the drawn out features in an instant.

your gaze averted as his settled onto you, your intrigue in your cuticles suddenly peeked. in contrast to you, mr. lee brightened at the sight of seemingly familiar folk. “ah! is that the huang’s i see? how was the trip?”

always ever so buoyant, conversation picked up rapidly, you always pondered on if all adults acted in such a way, you hoped it was a skill that developed with age, your own antisocial nature being that of your biggest weakness.

a pair of eyes kept themselves trained on you, yet you managed to avoid their path. you placed your hands forward, a pile of dvds suddenly tumbling downward and crashing onto the floor.

you swore under your breath, muttering apologies in the air. a nuisance you are.

you knelt to begin cleaning your mess, eyebrows knitting together as another figure kneels to aid you in picking up the clutter. you glanced upward, meeting an identically colored pair of eyes.

his features are soft, you theorize they still are. eyes wide, cheeks full, lips pressed thin, you two are the same age, yet he still appeared as a baby. protection, fondness, you wanted to insulate him from the horrors of this world. how funny.

“hello” he spoke as if you were delicate, fragile, glass would shatter if the volume had been too high, your expressions would fracture if he even dared to speak in such a contrasting way. “my name is renjun”.

it was never meant to be a conversation, never meant to be anything more than a spontaneous act of kindness. a sure fire, mundane november afternoon with rainfall right on your tail.

you stared inarticulately, as if rendered beyond words, nothing of a term on your tongue, like the mute kid those who don’t know you assume you to be. his gaze remained soft, nothing compared to the calloused looks from the other boys at school, they’re mean, they’re toughened, renjun? he was completely different, in the glass of his eyes was pure virtue, virtue he longed to share.

your throat went dry. “my name is.. um—”

you kept at a pause, the lack of malice foreign to you.

“y/n” mr. lee called, the tensing of your shoulder paired with your wince startled renjun backward, but you composed yourself quickly enough. “have you really never met renjun? he’s a good friend of donghyuck’s, you know”.

lee donghyuck was the son of your boss, his smile is toothy, his baby bones remaining present, his laughter always seemed endless, a true testament to the kind of son he is. you surmise that he inherited most of the traits from his father, his mother was never stone cold, per say, but she did not ease the stoic looks.

he could be akin to one great pain, but he could never be a genuine problem, he had vivid dreams and could power through any brick wall, you envied his vigorous manner.

“donghyuck is.. um, i— we aren’t really friends, i forgot to ask” you stammered, hands clasped, gaze frantic. he released his usual mr. lee hearty chuckle, the sound bouncing off the walls in a resounding action. “i didn’t know how to..”

you twiddled your thumbs, gaze straight down, shame running along with the bright red blood coloring your veins. there reigned a rain cloud over your head, dumping its depression ridden remains atop your head. you did not mean to ruin the mood, yet the aching silence alerted to you that all could sense the dejection lacing your tone.

stupid, stupid, stupid, you ruin everything.

you’re sure mother would never utter such words, yet her voice was all circling around in your mind, appending to the depressive rainfall drenching your very soul.

“it’s okay! you know, renjun likes books too, you two would get along!”

and he began his ramble, you found such a prospect amusing, he couldn’t help it, the manner of an excited child who had every spontaneous factoid to spew. both you and renjun merely glanced, equally as gladdened by the sight.

“these are scary” he voiced, staring downward at the picture of the omen. “do you like scary movies?”

“they are okay”.

your opinion hasn’t changed since.

“too scary”.

you could not help your silent chuckle, it was just the slightest bit cut.

[terraliensvent]

no more self promo in my inbox

Edit/Disclaimer: this post is out of date. please read this post for more information. the doxxer has now been revealed to be Veal themself, however per my rules of keeping everything in place, these posts will remain up for archival purposes, despite the ongoing speculation of the time.

Original Post below: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

so the more dillingent of you may have noticed that @terratimeventblog (aka, the one from this post) is now gone

turns out that they were using the blog as a front to dox our new public enemy number 1, veal.

this is pretty interesting considering the veal hate that came recently to here, but anyways, that account dmed veal to say someone sent them these anons:

shortly after, veal sent this:

seems like they deleted shortly after that

so! hypothesis and speculation time:

first off, i think the blog itself was probably made JUST for this purpose, seeing as everything happened in such a short timeframe. they possibly could have used a spoofed link on there? however since the gofundme is brought up, im more inclined to think they got the info there. since gofundme uses your bank account, you have to use your legal name. its possible they used veal's legal name in a background check website and got all of their info.

as for who is behind this, leads are minimal. veal did say that civ had donated to their gofundme, and while this doesnt directly implicate them it is a funny coincidence. personally, i think it could be any one of their cronies. they ARE someone in re-up, so anyone over there be careful with your personal info. this is proven with them using screens from the server that i havent used here (according to someone else in re-up) and the fact they specifically say "you can show this to re-up." theyre definitely an uber-cool master level troll who wanted to just sit back and watch it all burn *slides on sick shades*

their goal seems pretty clear, its someone with a vendetta against veal for whatever reason and wanted to scare them shitless. if i wanted to be even more of a conspiracy theorist, i would say the anon of my recent veal ask is the same person as the doxxer, but honestly i dont know how many enemies veal has

the last bit of interesting info is this post from civ that came out around 3 hours before veal dropped the "someone has my address" message

i hypothesize that this connects the situation more to one of civ's cronies, and possibly someone linked with isopups. considering zaga's current apology tour, veal suddenly getting hate, and the dark past of both isos and terras coming to light, thats what makes the most sense to me. this post could be a "coming to reality" moment for civ, not wanting to be tied in with these fucking lunatics anymore (and considering terras hasnt had any huge civ-related drama recently id say its a bit out of left field), but ultimately this is just me having playtime with my polaroids and red string

as a small conclusion, i feel slightly responsible for this, being the person to promo them (and considering the high visibility of this blog). as such, no more self promo in my inbox whatsoever. build an audience your own way

for a more final conclusion though, doxxing people isnt the way to go (thanks captian obvious), and really what does it accomplish? what are you going to do with the address of a person who pissed you off in a closed species discord server? are you gonna seek legal action against some stupid highschooler? are you gonna order pizzas to their house? SWAT them? send a really strongly worded letter? never mind the fact the communities involved are niches within niches within niches. try explaining this shit to someone in real life, try explaining it to your geriatric grandma.

my advice to you all: get a fucking job. go outside. talk to a real human person instead of your ChatGPT waifu. for the love of god stop wrapping yourself up so deeply in this shit that you need to go on a spec-ops mission to find some guy's address and scare them. do you really have nothing better to do? this behavior comes off as pathetic more than anything else. it screams to me "hi! im a socially deprived individual acting fucking insane because im constantly high off huffing the paint from the walls of my mother's basement, as well as the pervading stench of my own ass!"

genuinely, get a life

[cali]

im a different anon but im just curious what advice you would give to someone whos been pillbugging it for um. over a year now

mmm i cant really answer how to stop having depression which im guessing is what u mean + i dont know how ur head works but ive been living mostly NEET-ly for more than 2 yrs now and everyday im getting a better curve at dealing with it so i can tell u what works for me.

half the time when im pillbugging hard im paralyzed by a nontangible fear and the only thing that could stop it is adressing wherever the fear is coming from but the confrontation of the topic, trying to figure out where its even coming from, is terrifying too so i dont do it and stay swimming in tar. theres a sentence people keep saying when they explain why they watch 2 hour video essays "it makes my head go quiet". thats the enemy, the thought, not the person saying it. long term i mean. when its short term anguish that can be bridged by pillbugging its fine i think but if ur "making ur head quiet" for more than a month i urge u to make it go really loud again but thats hard. the only times i can try and confront those thoughts is when i feel otherwise nice, if i got externally forced to have a fun day, hike with my papa, date day with my girlfriend, sometimes just got myself to make a nice meal and it helped, when u feel better its a little less scary and u can maybe try and think out of it a little better. also i think on those days youre generally more positively charged so u got more hope outlook. COOL. i think this is why some people do meditation. im not good at it so i dont really know but i think its a brave pasttime of tackling unpleasant ideas. i used to try and dope my way out of it with lsd cuz everytime i used it it kind of forced me to confront whatever trouble i had but ive forbad myself that cuz i didnt want to rely on it as crutch + it was just unpleasant to get hit over the head everytime. now i only do it when i feel good already (havent done it in half a year lol). sorry, drug tangent. also weed is synonymous with pillbugging 4 me.

otherwise, rituals.... mmmmm..... when therapists and whoevers say stuff like take daily walks daily exercise take daily shower i think all of those are like half about the direct benefits they give and half just about doing anything regularly. cuz it helps. during pillbug hours the point for me is kind of to have time pass as fast as possible so the timeframe to hurt is reduced which is counterproductive cuz if it flows u by rlly hard u cant really grasp onto anything to get off the ride easily. and its never going to come really easy theres no probable single action or event that is going to singlehandedly pull u out of the mire, no rapture, no healing vitamin, its always going to be slow and tedious and boring and stupid but a routine is a nice framework to start that. brushing ur teeth is nice. and when u do something daily the days start becoming more tangible again and u will be able to tell how many days ago tuesday was. maybe u can think abotu what factors motivate u and twist them to do your biddinggg. shame and dissapointment works really well for me if i tell someone i will have this done by then and i dont it usually overpowers the malaise or whatever other reason has been making me not do it prior. but this requires social bonds and i cant guarantee u have those. in summer i started doing therapy cuz in germany i need it for transgenderism and shes also a good beacon for that, if she says do something until next time we meet i dont want to dissapoint her. other than that, um idk, everyting else is just kind of part of that. take walks even if u dont want to think about things even if its scary. be brave like childrens book illustration of knight slaying dragon. and then maybe u get a princess kiss

[dianakko-week]

“Who are you?”/Amnesia

Also, I am begging on hands and knees that more time is given to create the content this year. Last year the timeframe was WAY too short 🙏

Cool prompt!

And this year I'm trying to make sure there is going to be enough time.

Thats something I really care about and that's why I'm using my expiriance from last year to make sure it will happen!

(Shorter amount of asking for prompts cover art already ready clear dates for things etc)

Everyone will hopefully get to see the prompts chosen a few days/a week after we get them all!

(We already got so many rn!!)

So stayed tuned!!!

[cosmicanger]

“ppl talk abt the george floyd uprisings as failing i just dont think thats true. energy from them went into the revitalized labor movement and the clarity from them have been informing the pro-palestine movement, ppl need to see this as a long process rather than being defeatist.”

“Yeah but the goal was defunding the cops and police funding increased. I'm not knocking energy and joy, but at some point, morale has to create a material result. We can't just "long process" ourselves forever. Believing in ourselves enough to go back to the drawing board and start figuring out how to do more is the opposite of defeatism. I marched with Occupy Boston. I marched after Michael Brown was killed too. I understand that *in theory* it is a long game. What incremental leftists don't understand is that the 21st century does not have to be like the 20th. The whole idea that long games work is based on 1) the civil rights movement, 2) smaller policies that marching has more consistently worked for. In both cases the results came from convincing people in power, which involved A LOT more than just marching. The electoral organization, the militant wings, the ability to overcome resistance from the right, none of those pieces are in place for big stuff because the country is structurally different now. We have a lot more people, A LOT fewer at the top, and multiple info bubbles. The "long game" argument is based on the idea that the majority will eventually win out, but the country is now structured in such a way that that's simply not true. Billionaires & politicians have figured out how to game the system to keep us constantly in a state of cope. This is why I've been doing threads on how they're playing us with Palestine. They do not care one bit that we're shutting down the streets. There does not eventually have to be a stop to the genocide just because the majority wants it. Those are 20th century assumptions. I understand that this is scary because it throws out the model of activism that incremental leftists have become entrenched in. But I expect that, as leftists, you should be able to face that fear head on. Otherwise you all are just street party Democrats. Also, finding new models of activism doesn't mean violence. There's more tactics in the world than marches, symbolic shutdowns, and violence. I'm begging you all to stop being so complacent about the long game and start thinking bigger. On Palestine, the past month has gone from "If we threaten not to vote for Biden, the Democrats will call off the genocide" to "Maybe if we get everyone in the streets?" to "Well, it's a long game, Palestine will be free eventually." Seasoned activists on here pivoted very smoothly from "The people united can never be divided" to "Well, look, boycotts take a year to really work, and movements are a long game." THEN WHY ARE WE USING THESE TACTICS, WHEN GAZANS MIGHT MASS STARVE IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS?????? If you see a short term problem and funnel everyone into long term tactics that OBVIOUSLY will not work in the scheduled timeframe, then as far as I'm concerned you are just as complicit as our entire government.”

[lightleckrereins]

Not sure if you’ve discussed this, but what actually is used for Cleves’ breakaway costume? Snaps? Velcro? Magnets (my best guess)?

Also I thought I remember somebody mentioning the actress had a separate, non-breakaway costume for post-Get Down, but I feel that may have been just a rumor. Any insight you could provide would be incredibly interesting! Thanks!

The reveal uses a combination of magnets, zippers that separate when pulled apart and really smart construction. I will eventually make a breakdown on how the costume works but those are the basics.

As for the second costume those are real. Mostly for practical reasons. During the show, after the reveal the jacket and shorts are thrown to the wings one on each side of the stage. After that Cleves goes offstage at the start of AYWD and comes back in for the first chorus. That leaves the wardrobe team a very short timeframe to retrieve both halves of the costume, take one to the opposite side of the stage, reassemble it, make sure it will stay in one piece and prepare a very fast and slightly complicated quick change; mostly in the dark. Thats not accounting for the potential of closures being damaged in the reveal or the costume not falling deep enough in the wings that they can retrieve it without being seen by the audience.

Wardrobe workers can literally do magic in a very short timeframe. But there are too many potential complications for this to be reliable so making a second costume is the safer option. Wardrobe just needs to preset the second costume in advance and do the quick change. This also has the advantage of giving them a costume with no visible tear spots (and more decoration in the case of US costumes) for promotional material and public performances.

As I said promotional images always have the non reveal costume, but a lot of backstage photos are from before the show so its easy to compare both versions. Reveal has a small gap on the sides of the shorts and the back of the jacket and no chains in US costumes.

[tiktaaliker]

so does judge hate Rasputin

funny enough, not really! mooncats (and angels by extension) can only be formed in instances/places with large amounts of death in a relatively short timeframe. Judge specifically considers this a "nessicary evil" because without these sorts of events mooncats would not happen (even though thats not even true considering natural disasters/plagues/graveyards/hospitals are the most common prompts for mooncats. judge is just kind of a bastard)

[crypt1dcorv1dae]

100% 100% youre so right

like thats his dad and he will always CARE but... he doesnt want to really... spend any time with him. their relationship will always be strained, no matter how much his dad changes his behavior...

plus i just have my doubts at him having really truly changed in such a short timeframe... unlearning racism takes real time and real effort, it can't be done in a day, no matter how much he may love his son, or how much he may have come to respect mr hawkins, virgil, and static within that time... so i just have my doubts that anything would really *stick* so quickly ykno?

....... buuuut maybe thats just my experience with my own father talking, hes the king of never changing for the better 🤪

virgil taking more after his mom and richie (pretty obviously) taking more after his dad ... both of these things make my heart hurt but for very different reasons

virgil seeing traits in himself from someone he misses every single day...

richie seeing traits in himself that remind him of someone he *hates* (bc idc how the show resolved it, i dont think they would EVER have a good relationship)

just. painful resemblances :')

[archer3-13]

Someone was dumb enough kind enough to get me pokemon violet this christmas so i guess i am gonna be playin it and gettin the 'inside scoop' on the pokemon companys latest game. For clarifications sake the last pokemon game i really bothered to sit down and complete was oras and thats only because oras was a remake of gen3. otherwise the last mainline one ive gone out of the way for is xy.

thoughts!

i appreciate the effort to cinematography, it helps breath a bit more life into the affair then there might otherwise have been

on the other hand the game runs like ass, which you could arguably say is a good indication of the ambition the pokemon companys going for this time... but i would argue back that its just the game being poorly optimized cause overall well its all rather ambitious i havent seen anything that feels too far outside the switches capabilities so far.

nemonas a treat, shes got that slight edge of barrys insanity but its a bit more balanced with calmer moments so that she doesnt feel quite as overwhelming as barry could

is catching easier in this game? cause it feels real easy so far to catch in this game, practically nabbed the whole lot of pokemon in the 'tutorial area' before hitting the school

i appreciate the game introducing terrestalizing the way it does, having nemona use it against you before letting you enjoy it. it helps demonstrate how well its quite the powerful new gimmick to use, its not invincible and can be beaten if ya play it smart

that said the ai for battles is feeling particularly rock stupid this time around. hopefully that'll change when things go on, but if nemonas response to having her pokemon wake up on red health with already 3 workups behind it, is to go for another workup as ralts erases it from existence immediately afterwards... im not confident itll get much better from there.

neither penny or backpack boy leave much of an impression so far. cant even remember backpack boys name.

it definitely feels like theres some form of response to criticisms of pokemons previous outings going on here, how a lot of the gens after xy were seeming to get increasingly hand holdy to the point of gen8 having the player around as a side piece to its actual plot. here the reins are taken off pretty heavily even just in the tutorial section and they really wanna emphasize how its 'your choice' on what ya do.

that said, the fact that theres 8 gym challenges but only 5 star bases and 5 titan pokemon makes me irrationally angry cause they arent all 8 apiece. hopefully they still all feel substantial enough that it doesnt become an actual problem...

the tutorial section as it were both lasts too long, yet feel too short in my opinion. cause mechanically you can get all the stuff the game teaches ya here out in a much shorter timeframe/area. but on the other it doesnt feel quite as immersive as i think they were going for to draw me in?

i like that even in the school setting child endangerment is just the accepted status quo of things. turns out even if red and blue were in school they'd still have a better then 0 chance of being killed by super powered monsters.

idk, maybe its the abysmal expectations i had going in but im digging this more then i thought i would. if the game ran more consistently and didn't... glitch out in a lot of places i'd probably be even more hooked into the experience.

they shoulda given you a cylcazar as a 'ride slave' instead of the box legendary to start with, especially if were just gonna keep the legendary out of battle 'till yer tough enough' regardless. that way you could have the legendary as a reward for say, completing the titans quest.

[ectonurites]

Do you think Bernard knows Tim is robin

I don't think he actually does, but I think he's possibly been suspecting it, maybe even before Urban Legends #6 if we want to take all canon back into consideration again since we're in this Infinite Frontier era where that's like... a thing we can do

Like. going back to classic Bernard from that pre-War Games era when he was introduced, we know how deep into conspiracies he was... and how he didn't really think Robin was just one person

(Robin #127)

BUT an important thing to remember when looking at these panels is that this is from an era where Batman is in full Urban Legend mode, the only photos and videos are like 'cryptid spotted'-type unreliable stuff, so the conspiracies are bound to be... a bit wilder like this!

It's not until during War Games that Batman lets himself be caught on camera/seen at large by the general public while bringing Darla out of Louis E. Grieve to the paramedics because he wanted to try and save her life, which while it starts new different rumors does confirm he exists.

(Batman #631)

Bernard was... present for this.

He saw Tim leave to go investigate during the shooting...

(Batman #631)

and was was one of the people in the room when Bruce, Dick, & Cass come to the rescue and... casually talk with Tim a little bit

(Batman #631)

While that doesn't directly indicate 'Tim is Robin', it's definitely a... someone onlooking and paying attention to Tim specifically might notice him having some connection with the Bats. But for someone like Bernard who didn't subscribe to a single Robin theory anyways, I don't think he'd assume immediately that Tim was Robin or anything, just that there could be something going on.

A little later, Tim actually uses a variant of Bernard's theory from earlier to try to get Darla off his back for the whole 'she got brought back to life with magic by a guy who hates Tim so she has to kill Robin now' thing. We see him do an amount of digging online where he specifically mentions limiting himself to the resources an average person with an internet connection could find, and still manages to find enough Robin pics to make this thing work (plus him slipping in some fake Conner!Robin pics because plot)... but that means Bernard also definitely had access to this sort of stuff

(Robin #141)

And like, frankly, if you were already into some conspiracy theories about superheroes, and then those superheroes show up at your high school in the middle of a huge gang war... I feel like just digging deeper and deeper into that stuff is a pretty reasonable course of action! (Tim even uses a similar reasoning to that when explaining to Darla why he suddenly knows about this stuff)

So I feel like Bernard while doing that might also be missing his friend Tim because they got sent to different schools after Louis E. Grieve closed (also I've seen people point out Bernard's behavior back then could arguably indicate he had a thing for Tim at the time, so dare I say missing his crush). He might remember seeing Tim getting all buddy-buddy with the Bats in the chaos of it all, he might look at those same photos Tim was able to find online and have been like 'hey thats funny this Robin kinda looks like Tim', like I see that as within a realm of possibility.

Maybe it's a joke to himself of 'what if Tim was Robin oh my god' because it'd be both his crushes actually being the same person, but not something he ever takes that seriously

When he comes back in Urban Legends and drops this line it kinda further cements to me that after the gang war he kept following up on Robin info and news and stuff, and that he totally had a thing for Robin

(Batman: Urban Legends #6)

So like... Okay. Putting all of it together I just think that:

Bernard has had a crush on Tim for a while, since back at Louis E. Grieve

Bernard has also been obsessed with Robin & had a lowkey crush on him since after the Gang War when he realized Robins probably aren't as temporary as he once thought

Bernard spends time over the next few years keeping up with Robin info and missing Tim

Now in present day, Bernard goes on a date with Tim and gets kidnapped

Very shortly after, Robin comes to save him. That timing is at least a little bit suspicious

Bernard sees Tim up close & in person and then Robin up close & in person within a pretty short timeframe which... means the physical similarities would be apparent.

Bernard takes that shot in the dark and confesses his feelings about Tim to Robin during the fight

Tim comes to his door a few days later and jumps right into a conversation about the kidnapping and the feelings (that seems like it comes right off of what Bernard had said to Robin) and accepts a date with him

Bernard's brain is screaming at him that the 'Tim is Robin' theory is looking more and more likely every day but he still doesn't know for sure

[doobashmurp]

just watched noiseman sound insect had a time of it now i am talking about it to meself weehooha

BACKGROUND INFO the original broadcast released in 1997, its a ova from studio 4c, masaaki yuasa was on it doing something and thats how i found it lol lmao

the name? oh my god its incredible…. noiseman … sound insect…. rotating in my head in big sparkly text for the next section of my life methinks

noise man..... sound .... insect ...... dawg i do not know what a sound insect is but by jove do i want to find out.......

aaalso the characterization in the setting of the world - at least what i could glean from the backgrounds - is incredibly suited to go right to the part of my brain that loves items and things to have and hold. these guys did tekkon kinkreet also and this very much feels like a practice run for the environment they cultivated there, HUGE fan

the actual story, and execution thereof, seemed very jostled and clunky to me, though. this thing its 15 minutes and i think that was FAR to short of a timeframe to do the little story justice - things were happening all the time in a way that hindered my experience with it rather than adding a sense of charm. like, it was fast paced, because it HAD to be, and not because it WANTED to be... i wonder what happened for this ova to be granted a runtime shorter than a typical tv anime episode! strange, and i will not look into it, because i dont feel like it, cheers, i get the sense that the production team was doing the best with what they had available to em and looking at it through that lense paints the project in a much warmer light to me in retrospect, but i dont think i will think about this very much in the future, and i dont think id want to come back to rewatch it at all really

thats all

have a good night

[raveneira]

Warning: If you ship BoruSara or KawaSumi keep scrolling because this post is not for you, if you read it anyway dont complain to me about it because you were warned in advance.

Gonna be a bit controversial again, but since ppl like throwin around [sourceless] interviews, I figured its only fair to point out ones that completely debunks it. Since yall love sayin "Kishimoto said you cant change the couples halfway through"

Its about time someone finally kills this with some context once and for all, because unlike the lies that were spread on me, your the ones spreading false information. So lets delve into the actual facts shall we?

For starters Kishimoto NEVER said that, atleast not in that context. In reality he was strictly talking about NS and why despite the studio, several staff, and even his own wife pushing for it, he considered it but ultimately decided against it because at that point it was halfway through the series and having her suddenly change her feelings from Sasuke to Naruto now would make her a terrible woman, that & he says Sakura has always been wholeheartedly inlove with Sasuke, THATS why he didnt do it at the halfway point.

It had nothing to do with him saying you CANT do it cuz you clearly can & he clearly considered it, he decided against it ONLY because of the circumstances & the feelings of the characters. Plus NH/SS were always his intended endgame so he had no desire to change it to begin with

He just briefly debated it due to so many ppl wanting it. Also when asked he said he decided NH from the middle, but in another interview he said early on but doesnt give a specific timeframe like he did SS.

What makes the most sense here is he chose NH early on but didnt have his mind made up until the middle, which was around the time he was considering NS instead but then firmly set his mind on NH once he decided against it. Thats what makes the most sense from what he said.

For context on what I mean about the timeframe, the VAs specifically says SS was decided around the beginning of the anime, but with NH Kishi only said early stages which could be either or. Early stages is a broad timeframe because that could literally be anywhere in pt 1.

Moving on from that, if Kishimoto DID decide on NH from the middle, if he infact considers the middle as 'early stages' and isnt contradicting himself, then that alone blows yall entire argument out the water. But since theres so much uncertainty lets not speculate any further.

To add on to him 'deciding pairings early on and you have to focus on which ships are developed from the beginning' is also false and once again based on his statements completely out of context and a sourceless interviews. Infact Kishimoto completely contradicts this.

He left the romance up to the characters and focused on the main story and see where everything goes from there. COINCIDENTALLY Sakura and Naruto were different and he decided their romances early on, it wasnt planned, he just happened to of decided for them before anyone else.

Romance he claims in several interviews was never his primary focus nor something he was actively conscious of, due to his shyness around the subject, altho he still included romantic elements he admits he wasnt really comfortable really delving into their love stories.

Which is why he was glad SP took that off his hands with The Last since without them, he had no intention on writing their love story and woulda left it as is. My point here is this 'You cant change halfway' & 'you have to focus on the main couple from the beginning' bs is wrong

It's all based on twisted interviews, unsourced made up interviews, and things taken completely out of context. In short, just because ykw has had development and moments since the beginning does not mean its the intended endgame, it just means their MCs.

Just because Kishimoto COINCIDENTALLY was able to decide on Naruto and Sakuras relationships early on does not mean the same happened here, infact, since he never even intended for a sequel and was vehemently against it but forced into it anyway, the chances of him having decided on the endgame ships early on like yall say is slim to none, since there was never any intention for a continuation anytime soon because he was done with the franchise and tryin to move on to something new.

If anything he had his NEW series romance planned out, the series he was ACTUALLY invested in doing, not Boruto's.

In short, you cant use a coincidence as definitive proof that EVERY TIME the ships will be decided early on when he literally said he leaves it up to the characters and doesnt consciously think about it. Romance is not his primary focus, but he writes the stories and the characters and see how things play out and go from there, but ultimately he mostly lets the characters decide for themselves.

Finally, having lots of 'development' and 'hints' does not mean that ship is endgame, Kishimoto made it very clear he intentionally mislead fans into thinking their ship was gonna happen by throwing in a bunch of 'nuggets' as red herrings, the MinaKushi parallels especially.

So if anything, the more development and hints you have goin for you, the higher the chance your being mislead by more of those 'nuggets' being thrown in to deceive you from the truth lol But tbh even with those nuggets he still made it relatively obvious SS and NH were endgame

Despite all the misleads and red herrings for NS, he never implied Sakura was moving on nor Hinata. If ppl didnt see that then thats a you problem, I can get how ppl were mislead but not how they were surprised by the outcome.

So far in Boruto theres no such strong evidence like there was in OG, the only confirmed Semi Canon ship in Boruto thus far is BoruSumi, every other ship is up in the air rn but one things for sure, any long time fan of the series knows when a girl wholeheartedly loves a guy

She never moves on from him, even if he marries someone else or dies she will always remain devoted to that guy and never move on to someone else. Ino is not a good counter to this, her feelings for Sasuke were on the same lvl as all his other random fangirls.

It wasnt genuine, she quickly became attracted to Sai and started flirting with him while supposedly 'still' loving Sasuke, and in her dream she literally has Sai and Sasuke fighting over her. Thats not someone wholeheartedly inlove with someone, she was fickle af.

No shade to Ino this time Im just making a point that this argument for why Sumire can move on because Ino did is false, her feelings for Sasuke have never been genuine or wholehearted THATS why she moved on. I have no idea why anyone even brings up Ino in this argument when SasuIno is literally just as bad as SasuHina with the only difference being Ino spoke and interacted with him ONCE in the OG series, but never again. Their incomparable.

Sumire however DOES wholeheartedly love Boruto, the kanji used to describe her love literally confirms this isnt just some infatuation or crush, but genuine love. So although your free to ship her with whoever you want, any Sumire ship at this point is dead on arrival. So get ready to end up like SK dead flower shippers, you have more than enough time to prepare yourselves for disappointment because red flags are everywhere for you.

And before you use the tired excuse of 'Ppl learn from their mistakes' pump the breaks because Kishimoto never regretted or viewed his endgame ships as mistakes, infact he was SHOCKED that they even caused so much controversy.

Stop tryin to wiggle out of the obvious, there is a clear cut running theme in Naruto that has never changed and was never regretted

1 when a girl truly falls inlove her feelings dont change easily, they cant change, this is emphasized all throughout Naruto and literally spoken in words in The Last movie, referring to both Sakura and Hinata’s feelings for their respective loves.

2 History repeats itself ALOT with relationships, theres literally 2 other versions of NaruSaku [ObiRin, JiraTsuna] and SasuSaku [FugaMiko, KakaRin] and 4 of NaruSasu [Yahi/Naga, Kaka/Obi, Jira/Oro, Ind/Ash]

I mean what more do you need? Boruto IS a Naruto sequel so repeating previous themes are inevitable, theres no getting around it. If you cant see Boruto & Kawaki are new gen SNS, KawaSara is new gen SS, BoruSumi is new gen NH then I dunno wtf to tell you.

And no, this is not me saying that their copies or the exact same in anyway, none of yall made that BS assumption when it came to OG pairings being similar to various previous ones so dont try that nonsense now, you know exactly what I mean. 

Plus sharing similarities is inevitable, you cant escape it when you have characters of the same tropes and archetypes and children of previously established characters your gonna see similarities regardless, theres no getting around it. You cant have the kids NOT act like their parents and you cant have the rivals NOT act like rivals and so on and so forth, its inevitable.

Anyway this thread turned out WAY longer than I intended it to so Ima cut it here, doubt anyones even gonna read all this but if yall do then you a real one lol

Ppl can get mad at this all they want but honestly idgaf, Im not writing the series, I didnt make the themes, I dont control which pairings happen, so dont get mad at me for pointing out the obvious.

And before anyone try to come at me with 'Well wheres your sources?' I gotchu fam dont even worry bout it, I never bring up anything without sources so here yall go, fact check away.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/0mni8zktkhcdo4q/Sources.rtf/file

Heads up though, the Saiyan island website is down so unfortunately I cant include it but it was a pretty reliable website for Naruto news among other things.

[gnarlyeddy]

ichiya -> IndigoBounce, blue and white spotted pelt, kinda short but otherwise pretty average build. namida -> PepperWhisker, orange and white pelt, long fur, average hight, has two long bits of fur hanging from her cheeks. murasaki -> Pricklepaw/PricklePelt, older apprentice/new warrior depending on the timeframe, PepperWhisker's apprentice, chunky ball of black fuzz. thats all i have the energy to write out atm, names are just based on what I thought sounded nice/made sense to me lol -🐍

WHATTTTT these are so good!!!!!!! Mura being nami's apprentice..and a fuzzy black kitty.. again I'm not a warrior cats expert but this looks so fun... The names really fit too!!