#then he just kinda faded to the bg

[bluupity]

Currently reading Ao Ashi for the first time. 100+ chapters in with no hint of stopping the binge and I can officially say that this is in my personal top 3 favorites in sports manga, alongside Eyeshield 21 and Baby Steps. It's got great art, thorough character development + interesting characters, and engaging matches that really gets you pumped!!!

[lokorum]

headcanons my brain came up with after 2 days crying over the dark murrrge story

mb i'll add ketheric's "but can you call it teenage angst when you're 250 yo" thorn and gortrash's hcs at the end, as "from: me | to: me" bonus but who knows??

beware - spoilersss!! (｢• ω •)｢

btw durge's name is isa (he\they, ~78yo, high-elf (ignore the horns phphph)

before events of bg3:

● loves: snow, spicy-milk tea, sleeping in the high, secluded spaces. hates: shoes

● bad, just purely evil combination of being taciturn and looking directly at people’s eyes (quickly became one of gortash’s “favorite last resorts” to speed up negotiations) 

● cosplaying seagulls - moves through the city over the rooftops only, eats trash, steals fish and vegetables for fun. probably definitely took enver’s  “it’s much easier to find beauty in something, when you’re looking at it from the above” advice too close to the heart

● most people in the bhaal church are used to isa leaving and returning in secret. (they tried to ask them about hiddens paths (with zero success); they tried to convince sceleritas fel to ask them about hidden paths (with zero success); they tried to spy on them to learn locations themselves (with zero success and couple of too bold adepts lost to the undisclosed accidents); 

● it’s “you get what you deserve, not what you want” kinda church, mate

● braids corpse’s hair, hums lullabies to fading fireplaces, carves bhaal’s runes on the walls and makes stone bleed

● wild bitch attitude - can appear in the middle of an important ceremony, take the priest's place and kill sacrificed person slowly and meticulously just because 

● ketheric - depressed enthusiasm; isa - violent enthusiasm; gortash - my enthusiasm is way better than yours and deserves all of the attention but okay, i’ll give you like 5 minutes 

● traveled a lot before settling at baldur’s gate just to be disappointed in 20 different languages 

● crawls back to his beloved underground temple like a defeated cockroach because its +25°С outside

● "behind closed doors they perform rituals that make wind howl and ground shudder. after that, for a long while, the air is cold and knives are somehow feels sated"

● refuses to show enver location of the church, but not because of how sacred it is 

● warm lights, buzzing streets, cheerful, unsuspecting, delightfully naive people - when isa first time visited baldur’s gate - the city was almost welcoming. when years after orin threw them away like a useless toy, disposed of them, broke them - (cheerful, unsuspecting, stupidly naive) part of them couldn’t believe that it’s really happening

● “you are the flesh maggots adore” vibes all over this stinky place

enver's hc before bg:

● “NO. no! No. No. No-o-o. no-no. no. No.” - starts tapping his finger on the table - “Well, maybe…”

● has two sides, one of them is in a dire need of bible, and the other one is responsible for that damn wardrobe

● "my work schedule is too tight for you and your nonsense” @ spends all evening crying into a cup of wine 

● sometimes his selfcare routine is to make other people feel miserable in the most spectacular way. sometimes he just wants to be left alone in his evil-scientist laboratory. and sometimes - restless hands, red cheeks from too much wine, voice like he is about to share a secret - it's something different

● can come up with 10 ways to orchestrate someone’s downfall in 10 seconds and it's not even his best results 

● “i have no idea where you’re receiving your information from, darling, but it’s inaccurate” - smiles and stealthy kicks body back under the table 

● uses etiquette as a weapon. can't be scared by ten different knives, forks and spoons at the dinner table (when alone - eats using a single fork that he fetched from gods knows where)

● if he knows that a peaceful solution is not an option - deliberately creates an especially scandalous scene, just to feel what it's like, to stand above a pile of dead bodies of someone who dared to threaten him

● having loyal bhaal child looming nearby, ready to protect - spoiled him rotten

● im like 99,9% sure he is an adrenaline junkie (and during events of bg 3 he is either deeply addicted to having an "illusion of control" or trying to outrun 10 different ways to die horribly is his new hobby, idk)

[m1ckeyb3rry]

THE BIBLE VERSE FORMAT I’m done imagine he makes his own “Bible” of sayings and it’s like “book of aiku, book of Oliver, aikulations, women” LMAOAOA

Actually wait reuniclus does give me nagi hype man vibes now that you mention it like fr just chilling and being Nagi’s cheerleader even if the decision is bad LMAOOO kinda like Shidou energy but like, not to that extent obv

PLEASE I mean if you HAVE the material I will never say no….but PMG WAIT the one from the mini smau you made too right??? Omg guys tullia reader reveal!!! I’m crying THE AUDIO ok who’s gonna hit reader up and say the “YIPPEE” LMAO and I forgot to mention I’m still slowly watching the dub and I just past the “don’t disrespect soccer” scene and I relived the cringe all over again LMAOAOA that scene is forever iconic though also SHIN AH WAIT HES SO CUTE

BAROU YAYOI EXES omg…wait??? Ok but anyways where was all this pokemon info when I was actively breeding stuff….wtf why did I never know some of these things

ORPHANED BABY KANGASKHAN so many potential routes…or post main plot he just ends up being the go to sitter first Tullia sends over her baby pokemon and then Hiori sends over some orphans and then baby pokemon just gravitate to him like he just wakes up one night to that munna at his door or like nibbling on his hair…LMAO real losercore it’s fr either flame or be flamed for him

LMAOO FR chigiri would so be like “wtv I don’t wanna put up with whatever shit they give me later” wait actually I don’t know the meme?? Do enlighten me LOL

“Interesting way of inhaling” has me cackling LMAOO real he would do that BACK ARCH IS ICONIC OFC IK IT hes jumping up chest bump the ball and hioris marking him and we see feathers and stuff how could I forget!! But REALLL LMAO yuki Reo Karasu sleeper build /j but yeah barous just ginormous it’s like putting otoya next to nagi and he looks short as hell then you realize Nagi’s just a skyscraper and otoyas pretty tall still

LMAOO first maid then stripper what’s next for fanon Barou

SHAHSHS “if my parents don’t get to divorce neither do you” HAAHAH the dynamic is fr so funny

Yuki back to being the opp FR but wait fwtkac bestie in the pokemon verse…guys…its all interconnected this truly was our miraverse multiverse

Me I just auto filter it out and enjoy the art LMAO

LMAOOO SELL THE PRINCESS side note but Nagi looks so cute like that HSSVSJSB the audio also has me laughing wait the yuki edit is kinda majestic esp with the eye blink fade to the flower bg???

I was gonna type LMAOO here but I look up and see like three LMAOOs stacked on top of each other so I’ll refrain ig but ok no if you’re just casually reading there’s no way you’d be able to tell (I think I’ve mentioned this before but before I put two and two together and realized you wrote peregrine too I read some of your other works including cherry tree and I fr had no idea I would’ve guessed that you were a Rin enthusiast considering how good it was) so I don’t think you need to worry LOL AHAHAHA the Isagi ones crack me up they were still fire though but considering the context and our convos I still find it funny bfb Karasu is my Roman Empire but anyways back to the point yeah I don’t think anyone would be able to guess because tbh even your works for characters that (I know now) you don’t rlly care for are more thought out than a good number of works I see floating around (no hate ofc but when I read your work I can FEEL that there’s been a lot of consideration put into it)

- Karasu anon

LMAOOO NAH BECAUSE HE WOULD BE THE ONE pls i’m going to have to take a break from the oaeu for a bit just to stop thinking in the aiku mindset before starting pursuit i cannot be writing such an insane plot and be dropping in aikulations midway through

LMAO NO LITERALLY all of nagi’s pokémon gas him up sm except for i think his snorlax (why do i always forget he has one) is lowkey his opp for some reason HAHAAH like it’s giving ash and charizard i feel

YES from the smau!! LMAOAOA PLSSS READER SEARCHING FOR THE “YIPPEE” TO HER FORTNITE UND COLA technically since she only sees kaiser and ness again in NEL and she’s on pxg (technically on their bench but yk) there’s a few options…either charles chimes in to be problematic, shidou does it for the same reason, karasu does it because he’s always matching her vibes, or rin deadpans it because he wants to impress her but he also thinks it’s stupid 😭 DON’T DISRESPECT SOCCER IS INSANE WORK the way nagi and reo were so unamused too it’s truly such an embarrassing scene idk how isagi nation recovered…look ik nagi’s going through it but that panel of his ego leaving him was GORGEOUS so we are always up!!

HAHAAH OFCCC i love making silly two second drawings!! maybe not EVERY ask but i’ll def sprinkle them in w some frequency!! here’s pursuit reader (post written by karasu tbh)

i was a smogon LURKER that’s why i know so much random stuff LMAAOAO anyways barou yayoi exes…barou who knows he’s dying and can’t bear to break her heart when he finally passes so he pushes her away but she doesn’t let him…yayoi who still waits by the door hoping he’ll come back one day and wondering if she did something to push him away but he’s actually just dead…nah because the karasus and the barous (technically reader is an l/n but ykwim) are so intertwined so paralleled it’s just soooooooo ahem anyways okay but then karasu finding reader is even more cute because it’s not just reader thinking “my cousin sent someone to look after me when he no longer could” it’s YAYOI thinking “barou sent his cousin to love my brother because he couldn’t love me” STFUUUUUUU i’m crying sobbing screaming shitting tears (love in this sense is platonic of course…ha ha…)

HELP KARASU JUST ATTRACTING BABY POKÉMON it all started w him accidentally adopting hiori and reader and everything spiraled from there okay wait lowkey instead of being a gym leader (i’m not mega attached to the idea because his goal in the story is proving himself to yayoi and after that he just hangs around to help reader and co out so his ending could be whatever) imagine karasu becomes the pokémon daycare owner 🥹 in an au where the daycare isn’t where pokémon breed it’s just meant for raising younger pokémon while the trainers are out battling or exploring dangerous ideas LOWKEY THIS COOKS IMAGINE HIM AND HIS BIRDS LOOKING AFTER THE EGGS 😭😭😭 or garchomp and lucario teaching the babies how to fight…dare i say an epilogue change is in order…

i don’t even know if there’s an actual meme it’s just whenever someone’s slaying in an unexpected way you just say “this diva” or “these divas” idk it just gives karasu/otoya

ok this is the only example i could find online that fits the vibe LMAOAOAAO i promise i didn’t just have this on hand

BACK ARCH TOP THREE KARASU PANELS AND IT’S NOT TWO OR THREE!! KDFJISJDSJ he’s just such a hater at heart he cannot stop himself…no because i always joke about isagi and otoya being short because compared to nagi karasu barou they ARE but they still are much taller than ME so i need to cool it w the clowning 😭 but agreed yeah barou is just massive bro his HANDS?? his thumb is like the size of isagi’s wrist good lord (lowkey karasu’s hands are also really big like in the panel of him waving to hiori they look magnificent)

MIRAVERSE MULTIVERSE might as well make hiori’s love interest his childhood bff who only ever wanted to take care of pokémon and not battle them and when he runs away he doesn’t tell her so she can’t find him until she realizes he’s at the safari zone waiting for her in the exact house she dreamed of as a kid (white butterfree/beautifly asf) HAHAHA

THE YUKI EDIT ACTUALLY ATE AGREED!! and omg the nagi video had me cackling okay these two videos [1] and [2] aren’t edits they’re from an artist but the sae one had me cackling because that’s exactly how we believe he should be written and the tabieita one is tabieita so ofc it goes hard HAHAHA

IT’S OKAY I’M A LMAO WARRIOR i try to add in a HAHA and a key smash every now and again but when you’re texting there’s only so many things you can add in yk 🤔 ANYWAYS idk why but i read that as you JUST figured out i wrote peregrine and i was like ??? how did you take this long to realize??? HAHAHA please the isagi ones are so lighthearted tbh maybe i just don’t like writing him because nobody is making me make him SUFFER like i’m excited to write him in pursuit because he’s interesting and weird and has odd dynamics w the characters instead of being mega ultra green flag plus (isagi treating reader the way he’d treat barou but she’s not barou and never will be and sometimes that frustrates him because barou was his rival and best friend and he’ll never get him back and reader won’t even TRY [not that she should this is just the mindset] yet at the same time he also treats her very kindly when he can because she’s barou’s most beloved and whenever he upsets her he can feel barou’s disapproval and he wonders why he’ll never be able to live up to his rival’s expectations and questions if maybe the wrong one of them got to live…) LMAOOO okay but yeah bfb karasu is just that guy JFSKDKDS i’ve seen a revival in bfb interactions i’m expecting more people to find it now that s2 is coming out AHHAAH and yeah i always try to put some effort into everything i write!!! i mean i managed to cook for kiyora and i barely knew anything abt him i truly do think my wc is super prompt dependent more than anything!! like i was in the kitchen w white butterfly and i did NOT gaf abt hiori the prompt was just vague enough that i could infuse my own style into it so the wc naturally expanded 🤩 same w the instrument/seabird/cherry tree…not that i mind more specific requests it just means i’m more likely to be able to write less since there’s less avenues for me to explore ig 🤔

anyways uhhh idk if you’ll see it before you read this or not but 1k event post dropping posthaste 😏‼️ i decided to do the pokémon theme after all since soooo many people do food/drink themed ones might as well be #different #miraverse LMAOAOAO

[cat-buried-in-tall-grass]

ALRIGHT. SPILL EVERYTHING SILVER. I NEED TO KNOWWWWW (and if he has a masterpost that i just. failed to see. link me that right meow)

what agent number is he !! what does he look like !! does he have proper kitty features (other than his REALLY swag claws) !! how tall is he !! is he a radiant ? (if so what are his abilities !!!) whats his overall ~vibe~

omg..... i think he wld get along with pua SO WELL. HE AND NEON AND PUA THE ULTIMATE TRIO !!!! i wonder if he wld get along with shizuka and poeiva too 👀👀 (shizuka being grimshaw's assistant/apprentice and poeiva being chamber's partner and buddies with fade)

i think this may be one of the first times our ocs have directly interacted SO I AM SOOOOO STOKED AND I NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABT HIM SO THEY CAN BE FRIENDSSSSS (sorry for all the questions 😭😭)

ASNLKDJFCB OKAY,,,,,,,, no masterpost yet cause i'm Shy:tm: and not everything is fully set in stone yet

agent number is 31, which in numerology is asociated with originality and practicality. it can still change tho i'm. unsure. appearance wise he uh. i'm putting this utc don't wanna make it too long on the dash

his ears are PUNCHED w metal, both of em. his eyes are (nowadays) yellowish orange, and glow proper orange when using his abilities. color pallete is sth along these lines, and the most distinctive aspect of his outfit beyond his big fuckoff metal claws is that he wears a (somewhat cropped) hoodie that's oversized and a lil puffed up to cover up the wiring and metal strapped to him underneath it, which he uses to charge up his claws.

he doesn't have kitty features i'm afraid but he DOES have a kitty ears hoodie. it's his warmest, comfiest hoodie. his bestest hoodie. at heart he's a lynx. he's 179cm/5'8'' tall, and he IS a radiant, through prolonged exposure to radianite. radiation. lol. bit more lore of that can be found on this unfinished lore fic omg don't look at me.

his ability is metallokinesis, he controls all kinds of metal, but it's not exactly metalbending.

the "emp thing" is what's for now his ult. he digs his claws into one of his bombs while they're charged with electricity and throws it ahead to clear an area of traps and stuff. DON'T ASK ABT ANYTHING ELSE THO I NEED TO STUDY A LIL MORE TO MAKE THAT,,,,,,,

PERSONALITY. silver's like a cat in the sense that if he likes you he's really chill and nice and charismatic. and if he dislikes you he's probably two shitty comments away from slashing your throat. BIG hatred for corpos and authority thanks to his bg, really big on Justice and Retribuition, but it's skewed by his own personal experiences and attachments. the line between justice and revenge gets blurred. but when he's chill he's SO chill. literally a buddy. loves metalworking and general crafts, he made his claws and bombs out of literal scrap. big fan of card and tabletop games. has a soft spot for kids. loves himself someone who can match his vibe.

he's adopting shizuka as a SISTER tyvm, you got my back and i got yours kinda deal, a lil bickering but if anything happens to her he's jumping out and biting. poeiva. well. anyone who associates w chamber closely is on The Shitlist i'm afraid. buddies w fade tho? that means straight up "hm" territory

god that's a lot of stuff BUT HE'S SOOOOOO WILLING TO BE BUDDIES,,,,,,, I WANT THEM TO BE FRIENDS 🥺 LET THEM INTERACT....... HOLDING HIM UP TO YOU. HE'S J A SILLY LIL GUY WHO WANTS TO DO ARTS AND CRAFTS.

[miego-media-tracker]

RESPETO (2017)

10/21/2024

// SA Drugs violence police brutality

First watch. One of my profs recommended to the class and she said that we would be discussing it at our next meeting. That might have affected how I consumed it a lil but tbh not by too much. She also prefaced the movie by telling us that it was about the Filipino underground rapping scene. That def affected my experience watching because she did not go into the related themes of police brutality and poverty 😭 so yeah i kinda wasn’t expecting that (insert “i just wasn’t expecting it to be chinese..” vid)

So, Initial thoughts. It’s really well made. I’ve been kind of into opm, but I’m more of a soft rock and r&b enjoyer. This movie made me wanna listen to more hiphop/rap opm. I’ve also REALLY been wanting to get more into Filipino Cinema, and this is exactly the kind of story that I think our entertainment industry needs to really push for.

Some random details and notes that I liked. I loved how they implied what happened with Doc’s family before the reveal. Like the scenes where he would see his wife, they always had people talking about Martial Law or Marcos talking over the radio. (It made me sad that this was during the Duterte Admin, and now Marcos has taken over once again.) The imagery with the pages falling was also really cool and symbolic.

Another thing I found really interesting was when Hendrix, the mc, gets pushed down into what’s probably his lowest point. He gets humiliated, then the guy who beats him up even r*pes the girl he’s interested in. But, he doesn’t do anything. He’s complacent in it. He let’s it happen. Up until this point, all the moments of his life in this movie is filled with the sound of Hendrix’s rapping. Whether it’s out loud with his friends or just in his mind. There are specific places that the audience gets used to hearing him rap or listen to music in.

But, after his experience as a bystander to the SA of his crush, these places fade into the bg and become silent. He can’t just escape into music anymore.

There’s so much more I could say about it, about how despite the hopeful buildup for Hendrix’s character, he is tragically weighed down by his circumstances. I would also love to go into all of the shots and the color grading of the film but I can’t really verbalize my feelings on it rn and also I’m really eepy so I won’t

Honestly I don’t really have any issues with the movie? 9.5/10 took .5 away just because its not personally a movie i’d love rewatching over and over, but it’s def one I would revisit in my mind.

[leafonground]

i mentioned doki in my last post and yeah i kinda dont talk about it as much as the other seasons ive completed huh.

despite my incoming hater rant i uh. dont hate it? but i like every other season ive seen better and that includes tropical rouge, which despite being my first season i do find mid now. though thats really not enough credit to doki, its highs are higher, but its lows are waaaaay lower.

(ramble incoming, not important, just my own scuffed opinion, but its under the cut. also spoilers.)

first off, elephant-shaped ira in the room, yes im a self identified card carrying cure ace hater. i can own that, im fine with it, star twinkle madoka is best madoka, but also i feel like that doesnt give the nuace of how i feel enough credit. its sorta like, yes the fake-out was lame, but a fake out like that is supposed to make more sense in hindsight, when you see the rest of the story and know why it happened, but we REALLY didnt get that. was literally a deus ex machina to save the cures from getting washed by fucked up and evil and purple regina, then proceeds to become an even bigger problem than regina by finessing manas lovies while shes sad about losing her blonde villain gf.

i then made jokes about how aguri is homophobic for the rest of the show

proceeds to be a colossal dickhead for the next 10 episodes, then its revealed she cant back it up cus of the whole time limit thing that they discard at the end, and then just. says sowwy and fades into the bg until endgame arc starts. like we see that she was watching the cures beforehand, but then NEVER stepped in until the regina thing, which. why? she didnt know she and regina were split off from ange until way later, what compelled her? that the cures were gonna lose? howd that not get her moving the several times thatd already happened? theres no reasoning behind it, she shows up, acts like a dickhead, and turns endgame into the aguri show and turns makotos whole arc into an afterthought. most we get out of her after that was the brush your teeth episode. imo actively made the show worse off.

not the only one though cus okada joe, fresh from getting his wife killed and losing his homeworld, gets sent to the main world, immediately starts hitting on middle schoolers. its been said that they were gonna go full coco on this dude but one higherup said "ya nah", but its hard to tell if that happened before or after the show started airing, cus it only fully stops once we see him in the armour suit, going "i miss my wife tails makoto. i miss her a lot" when he was trying to rizz her up like 20 episodes ago. bigger danger to children than king selfish at that rate. only good thing about aguri imo is that okada joe vanishes for like 12 episodes since him meeting aguri would advance the plot.

alice is also kinda lame. nothing else for me to say except half of the alice episodes felt like sebastian the butler episodes, except those were actually fun cus he has a personality thats more than a gentrified toothpick

but also the shows highs are REALLY GOOD. rikka is awesome. the first villain trio is excellent. every scene with regina in it is peak, especially the midseason arc (before aguri anyway). they made a line sticker of that one scene where regina and mana sleep in the same bed and thats the most adorable shit ive ever seen. that one pre-endgame episode with regina and rikka gave kira a run for its money with the funny homo factor. speaking of rikka, the first straight ship (not you raquel) ive seen the series push that isnt either basic as fuck or vomit inducing.

also mana is okay you guys are just mean. when yr in the same show as aguri the mary sue allegations kinda just explode into a cloud of steam

but thats not enough for doki to beat the mid allegations imo. which is a huge shame, this show has so much going for it, but it consistently put a focal point on the things that make it worse! and also why i havent posted about it until literally today, it isnt genuinely great like heartcatch or st, it doesnt have dedicated brain worms inside my frontal lobe like mahopre or kira, and it isnt a show thats overall good but then fumbled its main twist in the most personally aggravating to me way possible like tropical rouge.

oh yeah while im here ive also watched go princess, but that shows issues are more in that anything that isnt towa is kinda just fucking boring, (which is also a shame cus towas the best precure character period bar none) but thats a post for another time

[dreambook06]

Dream from: February 15, 2015

God dang dreams. The heck... why do you do this to me? okay so here is my dream. It's 8:16 am in the morning, Monday, no school. I just woke up. The whole time, this dream felt like a strange real life, Sorry about handwriting, tired. ok here we go because I'm already starting to forget what happened. So basically, I got out/appeared in some random field thing with mountains in the near distance, and there was a small-ish school. It looked like a thrift shop on outside. kind of and it was red. ok so then I went inside/it cutscened to me being inside. And I don't remember what happened then, as this was or must've taken place early on in my slumber... But.. oh yeah apparently I was a boy basically like Malcolm from malcolm in the middle and I was getting... no wait I got framed or something... I was reported by someone that I was in the back of a limo drinking beer or something and throughout this part of the dream it's just me trying to prove I'm innocent. Later on, now me in more real life form - so apparently there's going to be an indoor school carnival or fair thing tomorrow which is irrelevant as I ended up not going but I remember it for some reason... then this is kinda out of order and skipping around but ok: So we (random school people) were in a room (gymnasium?) and there's a huge window in front of where we're standing being lectured or something and then Santa flies past the window and I shout "Santa" loudly. I feel embarassed but I remember my "thing to live by #2 + #1" and soon Santa flies closer to the window and everyone shouts "santa!" so yeah wtf. There was also something about stars at night but I forgot (oh btw 2 nights ago I stargazed again, finally. pretty cloudy. I got a few tears but not much) so later... dang I remember a lot of things but they're too obscure to really remember and soon fade from my mind shoot! Remember - not quite in order!

ok so I guess I decided to go swimming wtf in a locker room pool & it was a small pool like 50 ft deep and oh yeah back up - first I was "spawned" in the next scene already deep underwater in a different pool as I struggled to get up. I think I was in the form of a jellyfish. weird & too blurry from my memory... I remember chucking a jellyfish back down once I reached the surface though. wat. Anyway, so I was at the edge of a pool oh yeah and naked for some reason (maybe it was supposed to be a bath, idk) and I just stood there throwing this pink blob (toy or creature? idk) thing which was squishy into the water, watching it sink and then resurface, springing out of the water, repeat. Few more times then on last time I didn't throw it down hard enough so it resurfaced slowly and didn't pop up so I couldn't reach it and left. Then walking out of the door (oh yea the pools were all in a row like rr stalls.) I didn't have clothes so I used my hands as best as possible. Idk where my clothes went wtf. So I was struggling. There was a person to my left and door leaving the room was open with people walking by in the hallway. A guy comes out too, same thing happened to him, so we're panicing, everywhere we look a person so we run, covering up, Trying to hide or something idk but we're just running down the way, then down to an arcade, I guess it is? Idk bg details. well we pass by Kerstin rae Kelly and she's like "cosette!" as I use the boy's body to cover myself up lol it was freaking weird and felt real... I really didn't want to go onto detail here let me just say I used him to cover up my backside well anyway then we hide underneath a blanket on the ground. There was a "game" under the blanket with animal pic on it and a number next to the animal... So the boy was like pick an animal to represent yourself" I picked a monkey and said because I'm ugly. He said lower numbers = cuter animals and the gibbon monkey thing had a 40. so I picked a lion which was a 300. wtf? So later I was just like "Whatever I can't take it anymore!" and left the hiding spot running super fast out a back door around the school house. I couldn't find my way back to the entry because of the growth everywhere and it looked the same everywhere you turn. ok.

Then cutscene. idk the rest oh yeah, and the boy then chased me (or I think so (I never saw him only heard him) so idk) up the stairs, now apparently a pag and shouted something at me, a pig pun using the word "hog" so wtf ok. Later on... more reality here, and this felt super real. The time of day jumps around a bit but this is the stuff I remember most... but forgetting as we speak so I have to hurry up!!! Now all these characters are from real life but entire school is way different. So... This involves Ms. Kral. I don't remember very beginning of this segment, but I was already in a sad mood because next year, Ms. Kral wasn't going to be my teacher. So hours later I was supposed to go to history class I guess, but apparently Ms. Kral was supposed to be teaching it and I opened the door, late, and take a nearby seat and there's a man in there yelling at Ms. Kral about not doing a good job with her students, some of which were Dominic, Peyton... etc. So he's saying stuff like "This place is worse than a prison cell" "You have our students in a prison!" "What Is wrong with you?" etc. Something about firing her n stuff. Mrs. Gordon is bending town taking to a student & glaring angrily at Mrs. Kral. Ms. Kral has little tears in her eyes. I could tell cause I was seated to the left of where she was standing. So the man (who looked like, or was, this sped teacher who works across the hall from her in real life) and he was just saying a ton of things, really well worded, and it was a yelling volume but the way he said them was under control.

then Ms. Kral just made a straight face and waited for him to finish then angrily tried to defend herself which came out all clumsy and she stumbled over her words and took a step towards him (nothing like real Mrs. Kral, who always has great and well-worded responces and comebacks) So guy got angry and quickened her "removal from students going into 10th grade" for 2 days. Weird punishment but: Dream logic. So later... I don't remember ok quickly back up: When the guy is insulting Kral he insults her brother, whose last name is "line", I think, and that's what caused the little tears. She quietly whispered his name, in a prayer-like manner because he's dead. she had his name written on the inside of her book bag she carries around. "line" wtf. Anyway so later on we're crying, back in her classroom. Or maybe that came later. first I think there was this guy who gave me a poster with Drago from Bakugan on it & I said "wow thanks!" Then wade from real life walks by And the guy gives this sphere thing to wade who was gone so the guy asks me to deliver it to him and I eventually give it to him. I make it to Ms. Kral's room and she's giving wade this space suit made of bones or something so he can float around easier wtf because he has trouble walking, which oddly enough is a recurring object from another dream.

Later... Memory dwindling shoot. Well during lunch I'm somewhere crying and somehow the time goes to 8:00 and I go to Ms Kral's room which looks like a living room and Brian is on the couch and I feel so sad that tomorrow she won't be my teacher (apparently she was my teacher 7 hours a schoolday, unlike real life) and I was so upset, I acted as if she was dying or something and I treated her like she was my own mother. It was just way different in the dream... memory fading... (it's 9:26 morning) well this goes on for a long time, this sorrow & pain feeling, and in real life I slightly come out of the dream and tears are on my eyes, I feel a tear form... back in the dream mode: There is way more to the Ms. Kral scenes than this btw, I just don't remember. So she's trying to comfort her student, telling them (including me) the'll be alright. I'm sobbing. She was the best, kindest, most interesting teacher in the school. We were only being relocated across the hall but it seemed like a big deal. So next morning, early, some ppl and I go into the new room and stuff and apparently there's 1 more day until it officially starts. so I sit down sad. my head just loses senses... idk.. Teacher at chalk board, I don't like him. Btw past night Brian and I just ended up sleeping the night on that couch w/ ms. kral and next morning when we woke, she was crying a lot and there were smashed ceramics and stuff on the floor... she was upset. So anyway, then later ms. kral was at the table with me/us and we were just talking about stuff. she was trying to reassure us it'd be okay. She stayed there for a long time.

Later this girl sitting behind me was looking at a calender or multiplication table and said "I have been counting numbers for hours" or "I can count for hours" and Ms. Kral and dominic were just like... They just accepted the challenge of counting nonstop. Next morning I came back (even tho it was the same day) & Ms. Kral was still siting there counting. I was like "have you been counting all night?" wtf. So later she's helping a student with HW and a book is open and she says "That's the tyrannosaurus constellation" and it's a picture of a carnotaurus. wtf.... then later she must leave back to her own class room  & crying ensued (Dik where the heck the other teacher went. And when she leaves I'm just like on the floor crying on the corner, lifeless, just lying.... Teacher comes back a kid took my spot so I had to sit in front of this big mirror in the room. I was wearing my black jacket. I cross my arms put my head down and sob.... There was way more to the scene than this... but like I said forgetting by the seconds! ugh. Like we had these weird hall pass things or something or he put a lock on our electronics when we asked to go to the BR so we couldn't use them- oh wait that happened the next day. Lots of other things happened when Kral was in the classroom, but all I can really remember was the crying. so next day I'm late and I thought tone was gonna sound any min. so I like slid into the classroom, running in weightless leaps down the hall, I smash the door open, crashing into it, I jump into a chair which apparently is on wheels so I end up slowly spinning around on the chair and moving... It keeps going... I just freeze. I get a look around the classroom while spinning in same position. Everyone is just silent, the teacher has stopped lecturing.

You'd think it'd stop spinning by now. wtf so I end up getting off it and sulk awkwardly to the chair in the farthest back. all eyes on me. The room is packed for some reason, like 40+ students. Haley's there and sitting in the front. The teacher says "That's not your spot" I move over more to a seat with 2 shoes on it (wtf) He says it's taken so I move a spot to the left which only has 1 show on it and sit. My vision is blurry and I don't care about anything. I feel so sad I miss miss kral... And then I wake up. Real life. My cheeks are wet and my eyes are all teary. I remembered reality... dumb old classroom, I only see Kral 1.5 hours a day, but reality... at the end of this year, Kral will never be my teacher again realisation of that fact kicks in and more tears emerge. And here I am. Sorry that dragged on fro so long. It was way different in the actual dream and more dramatic/emotional. It must've been, because I got real life tears!!! I should just start a dream journal I've been having insane dreams lately and have my whole life. I should at least draw the locations & scenes out, sketch then as best as possible. Yes that is what I'll do. okay. the sketching part at least. ok it is 10:00 my wrist hurts!!!

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surprising no one i once again needed the ability to add more images.

lightning round, let's go!

i feel like Kristal doesn't understand how employment works. like, a lot of people can't just quit their jobs that easily. then again, if Trevor (an intern)'s salary was enough to pay for a spaceship, and the show still had enough funds to pay for an entire ass colosseum, maybe they're all loaded.

ROSA MARIA MENTION!!!

wait i thought Ashley said she didn't care about Nick. did she say that on national TV and then still hang out with him. that's kinda fucked up

dude... the Mario cosplay in the bg......

okay so like i know i'm being DIRECTLY bribed here (in the sense that i wouldn't be surprised if ONC gave the non-Riya characters perhaps out-of-character-ly happy endings in popular character combos in an attempt to distract people from potentially putting out backlash with regards to their divisive winner) but fuck you, YOU CAN'T TAKE THIS FROM ME! ALEC AND FIORE ARE BEST FRIENDS AND THEY HANG OUT WITH EACH OTHER ALL THE TIME AND THEY BOTH HELP EACH OTHER LEARN HOW TO TRULY CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE!!! >:D also good for Alec on shaving his depression five o' clock shadow.

who the fuck is this? and/or, how long is this Riya doomscrolling scene after the finale? did Connor just find another woman to marry, like, a month after the end of the show? why can he never find a love interest in his age bracket???

oh! she's got a cute design :D

and, i suppose that's the end. thank you to everyone who read until the end of this post, and an extra thank you to everyone who's been keeping up with my initial thoughts throughout the entire season. it's been a wild ride, and i've enjoyed getting to both highlight the aspects of the show i thought were done well, and discuss the reasons why i found the show lacking when i did.

i don't think i'm going to do initial thoughts for the staff series at least (i only have so much time i can spend on tumblr, and with despair time coming back i'd rather devote my time to that), and we'll see where i'm at with the tomjake series and/or season 4. i had gotten to the point before i started watching DC that consistently posting on tumblr had got to feel like a chore, and while my initial hype for DC was what got me posting more frequently again, i don't want to have the same burnout cycle occur here.

i definitely haven't gotten to the point where i'm going to give up on the show as a whole, though, so i'll probably still be involved in DC stuff for a while to come. best wishes to Disventure Camp moving forward-- may your talent only improve, and your ambition never fade.

initial thoughts on DCAS episode 21

AKA, the finale :O this will be a doozy...

for Going Through It as frequently and as strongly as Jake does, i find it hilarious that all of his promotional material always looks like it was ripped straight from a dorky high school girl's instagram feed. also, go Ashley, roast that clown (/lh)

that's such a cute drawing omg!!! i always have fun thinking about how good the drawing is in the context of the universe it was drawn in. like, to us, his proportions look kinda off, but in their universe, the giant heads and tiny waists are actually really accurate. Hunter is going to be the next great artist fr.

... i thought that the point was supposed to be that Jake grew more than anyone here, which is why he was facing down Riya. i mean, i guess you could say that Ally had to grow a new personality for the beginning of the season, and then have that character develop. she is more changed from s2 Ally than Jake is from s1 Jake because Jake had more of a character in s1.

and boy, would it suck if that promise was left unfulfilled! (/s)

it is true that this (if she actually remained on Riya's team the whole time) is kind of a win-win for Ellie. either Riya loses, or she gets $100K. both are acceptable.

this was such a cute/fitting response for Jake to have. it's a really great button on their relationship.

i love how smug they look at no one wanting to help Riya.

WHEN THE FUCK WERE YOU WATERBOARDED???

actually, we know that Tom is a terrible liar, so maybe he got waterboarded by the mob boss after they figured out he was lying in the interrogation.

w... what...?

dare i say iconic

i know that they didn't really have time, but with Alec and Ellie working together (and Alec protecting Ellie, as he did here), i had kind of hoped that we'd get a bit more closure on their relationship. like, does Ellie still hate Alec for betraying her? or is the fact that they were going to be in the villains alliance together mean that they'd cross that bridge? maybe i'm just forgetting, but their relationship feels somewhat unresolved. (i mean relationship platonically btw; no hate to people who ship them but i don't need to know if they're a couple or not because the canon answer is obviously no)

i don't know if this was really necessarily but good for you girl

this is like the first time Fiore has cared about anyone ever :,D Fiore and Alec the duo ever!!!

A GENUINE SMILE????????

why are you preventing this from happening? you know Gabby, so you should know that this would absolutely work.

rewatching the beginning of the episode after knowing the end, i sorta wanted to question whether Ashley abstaining from helping could have accidentally lost Jake the win. however, Tom is just so doggedly determined to cover his man that i think he probably was the best guy for the job. like, would Ashley dive for him? idk.

okay, 1) WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU THINK THAT WAS GOING TO DO, RIYA?!?!, and 2) HOW THE FUCK DID GABBY NOT LOSE HER ARM FROM THIS. IMAGINE IF SHE DID. THIS WAS WILD.

... does Riya understand how pain works? or the American healthcare system? Ellie surely wanted to use that money for something else, dude.

so they are kinda sweeping Tom's wrongdoings under the rug, huh? sigh. hopefully it's just a "for now" thing to be further explored in the miniseries.

i love Trevor's little :3 face

and boy, would it suck if this favor was left unfulfilled! (/s)

i watched a compilation of each Disventure Camp character's first and last lines, and let me just say, it's really weird that "Go, Jake!" (said with Aiden) is James' last line ever.

GIVE UP ON HERRRRRRRRR

(also, glad his foot seems to be doing better)

i know i probably would have made fun of this scene for being super corny/moving too fast if Tom had said "i love you," but it's perhaps equally funny that he didn't. like, c'mon bro, you can't even muster the L word in this incredibly dramatic and heroic moment?

COPE

oh boy...

y'know, beyond just not having a good time slot in which to do so, i also kinda put off writing these initial thoughts because i just really didn't feel like having to write anything about ONC's choice regarding the winner of the season. everyone online seems to have these really radical opinions-- either saying that this was a brilliantly subversive and poetic choice, or that the entire season (and perhaps even s2 before it) are ruined by the choice to let Riya in. the truth is, i'm incredibly neutral.

on one hand, i'm incredibly disappointed. if you've been keeping up with these initial thoughts throughout the season, or especially my episode-by-episode power rankings, you'll know that i've very firmly believed that Jake was going to be the winner of this season since the beginning of the merge. and it's not because he's my favorite character and i really wanted him to win or anything-- i have a generally favorable opinion on Jake, but it was mostly because i thought that the arcs and messages of the season would be best capped off with a Jake win. therefore, it's saddening to believe that they didn't capitalize on all that potential just for the sake of shock value.

then again, i really appreciate what ONC was trying to do with Riya. i can tell that they must have felt like they had a lot to prove with Riya in DCAS given how mixed her reception was in s2. so, they put in a lot of work to "fix" her character in DCAS, and, on the whole, i think they got a lot better! as much as i was predicting the Jake win, i was also kind of dreading it, just because it was the sort of cheesy, fanservicey ending that could be predicted from a mile away. so i appreciate the boldness to go for an unexpected ending, and the refusal to stagnate in cookie cutter fan-pleasing storylines when your artistic heart is driving you in another direction.

which is why, in the end, i have no strong opinions. i think that the character writing absolutely could have been set up to establish viewer expectations better, but i also don't think that the entire season is unwatchable because Riya wins. the truth of the matter is still that all of the other contestants besides Yul are the real winners of the season, because they made friends and grew as people. if you rewatch the season, you can still see the gang do just that. but the equal truth is that all of the promises those friends made and the goal that drove them to improve might all feel a bit more hopeless with the knowledge that Connor never did get to one-up Riya. People who needed the money more, like Ashley, Alec, or Ellie didn't get a cent of it. and unlike it would be for Jake, who had a lot of connections with a lot of people, many contestants had pretty much no bearing on the winner of the season at all.

i want to believe that the Disventure Camp writing can and will continue to overall get better, but i also can't ignore the obvious signs of growing pains. can't bring myself to get all too mad at them either, though. mostly, i just want to stay out of any drama.

it really shows that Jake hasn't been able to look at social media since the beginning of the show. trust me, buddy, not everyone was rooting for you.

unsurprising that tomjake gets the last kiss of the season/era.

cite your sources, please (/j)

i guess the real person Riya was lying to all along... was herself. *vine boom* because, seriously, how the fuck did she not realize that it wasn't just acting anymore? when she double-broke Connor's foot and tried to make Ally think that Jake lied about being suicidal???

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zombies fanfiction headcanons/rewrites/etc masterpost (y/n-ified)

this can + will be updated over time!! there's a lot under the cut :,)

» check out my super cool and awesome masterlist for the actual fanfiction :) ⋆｡˚ ☆

☀︎︎ y/n !!

》 mother was a zombie, father was human

zombie-human relations/relationships were banned until the summer before the events of z1, therefore they met illegally. when they were eventually caught, y/n was already 3yo, and their mom was imprisoned + died, and their dad ran away. y/n was taken in by eliza's family and hidden as no one outside of their parent's friends knew about them.

》》 being of mixed species, y/n has some abnormalities

instead of fully green hair, there's just some obscure streaks, moreso towards the front of their head.

y/n can only partially "zombie out," but only when their z-band is removed and they aren't in control of their emotions

additionally, y/n has visible (although fairly faint) eyebags and y/n's skintone stays normal -- although they turn extra pale when their blood pressure is low (dehydrated, losing blood, lacking nutrients, etc)

٩ zombies و

§} mutants not zombies

@unusual-ly (here) and another user(will credit if i find the post) had really great takes on this theory and i agree 100% that this makes sense + that people just called them zombies and whatnot, and i will absolutely reference this if i get the chance

§} eliza's dad, zed's mom, and y/n's mom, among multiple other zombies, died to an illness that spread throughout z-town. because of humans neglecting zombies and restricting their access to medical treatment, the zombies were extremely vulnerable -- especially when imprisoned, like how y/n's mom was

§} zed,, i fixed him

he's proud to be a zombie. i never liked how he kept trying to change himself to be likeable and more human, so when i write his character, he'll be more like eliza in the fact that he's fighting for humans to accept zombies for who they are, not for zombies to be more like humans.

§} bonzo is ~a year older than eliza and zed but got held back a year

i just believe he wouldve been

§} z-bands

over time, z-band tech evolves and zombies look more "human," looking less pale than they did originally, and their eyebags slowly fading

z-bands were created by humans who had relatives or loved ones who became zombies ((i got this idea from a tumblr post i saw somewhere,, if yOU KNOW WHO IT WAS PLEASE TELL ME I WANT TO CREDIT THEM

§} i may or may not reference @unusual-ly's BG Zombies, so you can learn all about them here!! they're amazing and so much effort was put into them, i absolutely recommend checking them out :))

☆ werewolves ☆

|| y/n meets wyatt ~a week before zed asks addison to the prawn in the forest while getting froyo

wyatt's working undercover at seabrook power

"what do you recommend?" "huh? oh definitely vanilla. it's a little basic, i guess, but i love it" "vanilla, please" ... "you work at seabrook power? you seem kinda young for that" "haha yeah it's uh, a summer internship" "that's cool :)" and then they got froyo together almost daily when he'd get off work

wyatt tells them that he's just moved to seabrook and is going to shs, even though he really wasn't he decided on convincing willa to let him go undercover there later

|| the "great alpha" is y/n, but they aren't a werewolf

the prophecy never specified that they would be a werewolf - only that whoever it was dressed like one in the prophecy's image, specifically

wyatt knows about the prophecy n everything, so he tries to get closer to y/n. when it's apparent y/n has no idea what/where the moonstone is or could be, he convinces willa to just go to the town as students and do their own research (like in the movie)

i changed it from addison to y/n for "y/n needs to be interesting" purposes and also because addison's character is so bad in the fact they made her the most stereotypical main character ever. she feels like an "i throw my hair into a messy bun and look at my blue orbs" fanfic sterotype main character sometimes im SORRY I HATE IT

|| the werewolves' ages are never really mentioned or confirmed so i'm going with them having the average human lifespan + age development, if that makes sense

i'll explain what i consider to be their ages later shdhfj

|| wynter is a year-ish younger than willa + wyatt and they treat her like a little sister

because i said so and also it makes sense

|| willa and wyatt only share a dad, wyatt's mom left the pack when their dad chose willa's mom

i just needed to give them parents okay? idk

|| the markings on their faces have meanings

willa's 3 stripes(?) indicate that she's the current alpha,

wyatt's 2 stripes indicate he's whatever the alpha's second-in-command is

everyone else has the 3 leaves signifying that they're "of the forest"

the geometric star type thing on their arms represents the "yellow sun" (i dont have a meaning for it yet)

elders get some other marking, i just dk what (it simply makes sense that they would)

if you have any ideas or recommendations on these i'd love to hear them!!

๑ humans ๑

> they were taught a different story in regards to the origins of zombies

"the winner writes the history books" -- zombies were caged in as the "monsters," so humans were told a slightly different story to keep them away from the "dangerous mutants on the other side"

> Addison fights for the zombies and werewolves because she cares about them, not herself

i don't like how she (specifically with the wolves) (almost) only cared more about them because she thought they were cool and because she could've been a werewolf. i think it should be a bit deeper than that, and that she should actively fight for integration (for both zombies and wolves) so she will be doing so when i write her :)

> Bree transferred from Northshore to Seabrook

for two reasons: one) continuity in regards to the way bree + addison met and the characters' ages, and two) because i like the idea of her begging her parents to move so she could join the seabrook cheer team (it was her dream)

> Bucky doesn't suck

at the end of z1, bucky actually had character development and he deserves to stick to it. the writers completely disregarded it in the following movies and i dont like that so im changing it. @unusual-ly worded this really well here and had some awesome headcanons that i'll be referencing/using here. i also really liked @ourveryowncheerrockstar's headcanons for him so i'll be referencing some of them, too!!

> Lacey's real name is Jenny(canon), Stacey's real name is Carla

i'd also like to think that bucky decided to rename them because 1) he thinks it's cool and makes him look cooler (its like his own branded entourage), and 2) he really likes those names and always has (he absolutely gave dolls these names as a kid)

□ GENERAL !

○ humans get more colors,

instead of just pale/pastel pink and blue, they get to choose from a variety of pastel colors

○ zombies get the rest

whatever the humans decide they dont like or want, in terms of fabrics, objects, etcetc, gets thrown into the junkyard behind seabrook power, and the zombies repurpose/upcycle/etc

○ similar rule in terms of food

there's more froyo flavors, but they're pretty standard: mint, chocolate, etc

less healthy foods go to zombies, and sometimes scraps/leftovers/expired foods

maps i made for visualization purposes :D

• zombietown(n/a) • forb. forest(n/a) • seabrook(n/a)

timeline ! (n/a)

[][][] ages!!

zombies (one)

sophmores: 15/16: addison, bree (transferred), eliza, bonzo, zed

juniors: 16/17: bucky, aceys

adults:: coach : 32, principal lee : 35, missy/dale : 41, zevon : 48

others:: zoey : 8

]]

zombies (two)

sophomores: 15/16: wynter

juniors: 16/17: addison, bree, eliza, bonzo, zed, wyatt, willa, j.c.

seniors: 17/18: bucky, lacey, stacey

adults:: coach : 33, principal lee : 36, missy/dale : 42/43, zevon : 49

others:: zoey : 9

z3 didnt happen, thanks there's so much i'd have to fix and also! not important for my fic so im leaving it be as of rn :•)

IF YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS OR IDEAS DO NOT HESITATE TO SEND ME THEM BECAUSE IM SO OPEN TO THEM!! and ill absolutely credit you too !!!

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Spoiler-FULL Reactions to RWBY Arrowfell~

The thrilling sequel to this post. Most of my emotional investment has already faded by now (as is usually the case with RWBY media...) but, since I said I was gonna do this and I already made notes, why not?

Environments and NPCS -Not much to see in this game...the environments look cute in isolation, but as a gameplay element they’re just too simple (and repetitive...) to be immersive. Especially in Mantle and Atlas-- random stacks of ‘techno-blocks’ are not a real setting and they don’t feel like one. :/

-I just wish it could’ve had a stronger atmosphere...the main show already tends to ruin the little atmosphere it does create with baffling character placement and lackluster/absent color grading (seriously, the BG artists deserve better). And unfortunately it seems like the game just...copied that...

-The new NPCs were cute. A little silly, but cute; much more interesting and better for worldbuilding than the background characters in the show.  And of course the NPCs based on existing characters (Penny, Qrow, Pietro) were nice too. Even the Ace-Ops were kinda fun (Vine Zeki gained a personality trait! o_O)

-I liked how the quests tended to interweave together, like you’d complete one quest and get an item required to complete another quest as a reward-- which incentivizes you to talk to more people if you’re having trouble finding something on your own. It’s smart gameplay design like that that made me rate the game a C+; despite its simplicity you can tell it was made by professionals.

Enemies and Boss Fights -Yeah, the clone-enemies in the Atlas/Mantle portions are pretty embarrassing, but I think the selection of Grimm was nice. They all had different strengths and weaknesses and attack patterns for you to learn to deal with; you certainly can’t say they were lazily implemented. Even the clone-enemies at least invited unique strategies...I know for a fact that redheaded “BANG BANG BANG~” girl was specifically designed to be a rage-quit obstacle, and I love that for her. ^^

-The boss fights were pretty good too; nice selection of attack patterns and usage of space (especially for BRIR). Bram Thornmane wasn’t much of a final boss, all things considered, but at least he had something creative going on with the arrow patterns; there’s a little element of challenge there. Nothing super fun for any sort of mature gamer (even a casual one like myself), but I can see that being engaging for, like, a 5th grader. ^^; I guess.

-BTW: a lot of people in the comments of the release trailer remarked that the combat looks EXTREMELY lackluster for a RWBY game, like a ‘step down from Grimm Eclipse’...and although I do think Arrowfell does an okay job of being the type of game that it is, I also kinda have to agree with those people.^^; I’ve found more action-packed platformers browsing for Flash games in 2008...

Even just more expressive FX animation could have helped (a combo mechanic would’ve worked WONDERS); the act of fighting feels more like a means to an end than something the devs really want you to focus on and enjoy. It’s been said many times that RWBY no longer remembers why most of its fans were originally drawn to it-- unique, creative fight scenes that told stories about their characters through high-intensity action-- and that’s on full display here.

And on that note: if you just want to make a cheap RWBY game, a sidescrolling brawler against hordes of Grimm sprites, or even a simple PVP (put that bloated character roster to good use...) would be a much better fit for the franchise than even a REALLY GOOD version of Arrowfell. :T Just sayin’.

Plot and Characters -The moment we’ve all been waiting for~ ^^ *cracks knuckles*

-In brief: the plot sucks and the plot-relevant characters also suck. :/ WayForward at least did a good job building the game despite clearly not caring; as usual RT did not care about the writing AND did not do a good job. I went into it expecting the plot to be EVEN LESS interesting than those of the show, and I was STILL disappointed...

-Small things first: the repeated “I guess we’re doing this now” apathetic sarcasm from Team RWBY during the cutscenes was kind of...irritating, actually. Especially after we had to watch RWB sit around watching the plot go by for half of Volume 8...it’s bad enough when the audience starts to feel like the protagonists have no real investment in the plot (which has been a thing since V5...); it’s a whole new level of bad when the protagonists themselves all but admit it right to our faces. We’re supposed to assume that team RWBY is still here because ‘it’s the right thing to do’; they ‘don’t [want to] let anyone else die’...but more and more of their chances to actually portray that type of righteous character onscreen keep getting replaced by quirky, disinterested snark or pointless one-liners. And I don’t think RT realizes that if that’s all we’re getting...then the result is a story about characters who have no reason to be in it and don’t even want to. :/

-Re: Fifestone-- I’ve already said much more than I planned to say about him (through responding to those asks, if you remember ^^;) but my original note was as follows: in this day and age when workers’ rights are finally making a long-overdue comeback in the public consciousness, and ESPECIALLY considering the way RT treats its own employees, deciding you need an unnecessarily evil union leader in your fictional story is disgusting, vile and morally reprehensible. I used to think RT’s leadership was just ‘childish-bad’...y’know, selfishness and an unwillingness to compromise or improve making life hell for everyone else. But something like this feels more like ‘evil-bad’-- i.e. deciding that the hell you’re putting other people through is necessary, enough to justify and actively maintain through propaganda/manipulation. I’d...really hate to see RT go down that road. :[

-Let’s end on a lighter note by talking about Bram Thornmane: probably the most pathetic antagonist in the entire franchise. ^^;;; When I heard him admit that he seriously did ALL that just because he wanted to join the Ace-Ops (THE ACE OPS??? THE ACE OPS?!?!!!! o_O) I literally sat at my desk at work and laughed out loud, for like 5 minutes. ^^;

Seriously, though, it’s SO bad...I thought things couldn’t get any worse than Adam ‘my girlfriend left me’ Taurus, but here we are. And at least Adam looked cool (and his character assassination was absolutely hilarious; 50% of the reason I love him is because I spent Volumes 4 through 6 laughing at him constantly XD).

Thornmane, on the other hand, is a nothing character. No cool design, no interesting personality traits, no noteworthy connections to any substantial characters. I don’t even know what his semblance is (he mentions it during his boss fight, so I assume it’s in the game somewhere...does anyone know??).

So yeah, “I’m gonna steal unique technology and kill thousands of people to maybe hopefully make Ironwood look bad because he wouldn’t let me in the special club” is just the icing on the nothing-cake. Even a basic “I wanna take over the world” motivation would be better; it would at least make his actions feel justified...as it is, he just chose the most effortful, overly-convoluted way possible to express his anger over getting passed up for a team of huntsmen SO elite and SO special and perfect that they got washed by four newbie huntresses in 5 minutes. T_T Wowza. Now there’s an experience worth spending 30 bucks and 4 hours of your time...

-Easy Thornmane fix: Actually USE Arrowfell. They mentioned that Arrowfell was like an abandoned laboratory full of never-before-seen technology too dangerous to release to the world...USE that. If Thornmane wants to make Ironwood look bad, let him start handing this stuff out like candy to any thug on the street, and get people speculating about why such terrible weapons were even being made, and demanding that the General take responsibility (insert retroactive foreshadowing for his turn to the dark side in V8 here). Let him convince BRIR, the ‘guardians of Arrowfell’ (whatever that means) that this technology needs to be shared with the public to sort of ‘even the playing field’, let the people take back power from the tyrannical Atlas elites (insert morally-gray actually class-conscious Fifestone character here). Let him hoard some of the more frightening weapons for himself, and try to overthrow Ironwood (insert actually necessary Lt. Harper character here) and assume leadership of the Atlas military, to put himself in the position of power he always wanted. 

THIS STUFF IS NOT HARD GUYS; I came up with that in like 10 minutes! >_< And if I spent the amount of time you should spend on something you expect your fans to pay actual money for, I could do a lot better...

[aethlingg]

It's theme song analysis time! It's mostly gonna be about Ashe's theme but I will talk about all of the theme songs are perfect under the cut :]

I love ashe’s theme song so much, it’s My Famed Disappearing Act by Thank You Scientist. Not only is it a fucking BANGER but it fits ashe so well, especially knowing what happens to him at the end of season one. From the first time ashe was introduced, music has been a big part of him and this is the kind of music he likes so it has to be a big part of him too. 

The entire song is very reminiscent of ashe’s last scene in the finale, but this part of the song really makes you start thinking about that scene if you’re thinking about ashe. It feels a lot like when he’s already accepted that he’s going to be taken over by the trickster and he’s saying goodbye to the boys. The next verse is along the same lines but its a lot more complex. I didn’t even notice the connection until i was looking at the lyrics just now.

The first two lines are the trickster trying to take control of ashe’s body, the third line is ashe feeling his control fading (a bit of a stretch i know but its fine), and the last line is either dakota wanting to save ashe or its ashe not wanting to let down his new friends who are in danger.

And finally, in the last verse, the lyric “Don’t think you’d notice If i was ever gone.” Ashe was a nobody before he met the prime defenders. No one knew him and he didn’t know anyone. If he disappeared, mark would be the only person to ever know about it. And even after he became a prime defender, I don’t think he really believed them when they shared their appreciation of him. It took him a bit to realize that he was one of them. They cared about him and if he disappeared, they would burn down the world to get him back.

- Next is William’s theme. Yes, William’s theme song is Unravel from Tokyo Ghoul. And while that is kinda funny, that’s actually one of the reasons why its so perfect. You cannot tell me that William isn’t the kind of person to unironically listen to unravel and start crying. He’s so painfully a lame nerdy teen but he also has a lot of serious stuff going on. And tbh unravel and william have a very similar balance of cringe and actual serious, emotional vibes.

- Dakota’s theme is The Day from My Hero Academia aka the first opening theme of the show. First of all, Dakota is basically just a bnha character so thats already fitting. And this song is just really fitting for pd in general cuz its basically about the beginning of the show where school is starting and things go from them just being in school to dealing with things much larger than themselves and, well, that’s a lot of what pd is.

- Vyncent’s theme song is Wayward Daughter from Final Fantasy XIV. Tbh i know close to nothing about final fantasy (which is why it took so much work to even find the name of this song in the first place (tysm zoz)) but it does fit the trend of the theme songs in the sense of it being from an RPG which matches Vynce very well. If you know more about ffxiv and have smth else about why it fits him then pls let me know!

- And finally, the main theme. The song is Hero Too from My Hero Academia. This one is pretty obvious. Not only is pd basically just bnha with a different plot, but the whole point of the song is extremely fitting. The main lyric is “I am a hero too” and well, one of the main struggles of pd is that the heroes won’t treat them like real heroes and just treat them like kids.

note: for anyone who didn't know, yes these are all their official theme songs. bizly likes to choose songs for individual characters to play in the bg when a scene is centered on that character. and no, none of what i talked about in ashe's song was a reason for why that song was chosen for ashe. it was completely coincedence (i think) which i think makes it cooler! a big theme of jrwi is accidental foreshadowing ig

[ectonurites]

can anybody please explain the appeal of tim drake because ive been into the batfamily for a while now and tbh im really confused on why people like his character so much compared to the other robins. like they all have their own thing going on and he just... doesnt?

Have you read his Robin solo? Because if not and you want to try to like him but just don’t understand why people do, that’s what I’d recommend. That and like, Young Justice 1998. 

Because Tim definitely... does have his own thing going on. Maybe not in the same way as the others, but like, there’s a reason he has a 183 issue long solo comic that ran for like 16 years: he was fun to read about!

But I will give some more specific thoughts on the subject as a Tim Drake Appreciator™ (this got long im sorry)

The appeal of Tim (especially early on Tim) is kinda the fact that he’s this more normal kid. For a while that is his ‘thing’. He was basically designed to be a self-insert (he definitely became more than that along the way, but from the start he was meant to be relatable) in a different way than how Dick and Jason had been before him. 

Like the role of Robin from the start was this way to create a character young readers could identify with more, could see themselves in more. And Dick and Jason did that, but they still had this element to their lives and stories that was more... unattainable for the average reader. Dick was a circus prodigy, Jason was either also a circus prodigy if we remember pre-crisis or if we go with his post-crisis story he’s this street-wise orphaned kid who had a really tough life but still went on to be a hero anyways. Obviously those lives are relatable for some people, but those’re definitely not as broadly recognized as common upbringings especially not by DC trying to market to the ‘average’ kid/young teen.

But the creation of Tim changed the game a bit. Dick and Jason were these aspirations a kid could look to like ‘wow I want to be cool like that!’ but Tim was a Robin designed for kids to look at and go ‘wow, his problems and civilian life are just like mine AND he’s a hero, I want to be cool like that!’, ya know? Tim was... just a clever kid with an average life who managed to connect some dots and had enough drive to want to fix things he saw were a problem, he didn’t have the same kind of heightened drama backstory the others did. The Robins that came after Tim definitely didn’t have this idea of relatability in mind the same way either. Unfortunately Steph’s time as Robin was much more of a marketing ploy than an actual like... decision to make her Robin, so it’s hard to really fit her into this conversation. But Damian from the start was first of all initially created not to be Robin but just as the son of Talia and Bruce back in the 80’s, but when he was later reimagined into the character that would become Robin he had the whole ‘raised by and is the heir to the league of assassins and is the son of batman’ thing going on still. He just was not supposed to be relatable that same way, he was a character designed with different things in mind.

I really think it was more just DC’s 90′s era younger-audience comics in general that tried to push that relatability thing (like in YJ how Cissie even after quitting the team stays a major character as a civilian throughout, and the civilian aspect that’s super present in Bart’s 90s solo too, etc), but later in the 2000’s that idea was definitely pushed to the side in favor of... putting in even more dramatic superhero-y stuff.

And the other thing that’s... such a more normal thing but it actually made him unique here, was that Tim’s dad was still alive until like 2004 (so 15 years into Tim being around as a character). This gave Tim a lot more typical ‘family school girlfriends normal life etc’ problems on top of/in contrast with his superhero problems. These just manifested in very different ways than they could with the other Robins because of that unique situation with a living civilian parent who doesn’t know about hero stuff (until he did find out which lead to that whole Unmasked thing, but there was only the brief time around War Games & Identity Crisis where Jack knew Tim was actively Robin and he was... still alive) Tim also had his life at school expanded way more than most other Robins, like, he had such an extended supporting cast of civilian friends which is a really interesting thing to read about (and the fact that he hasn’t had that stuff since the New 52 I think really hurts his character)

And then related to that loss of his dad... Personally another thing about Tim that really interests me is how a lot of things were more... his choice. if that makes sense. A lot of characters in the Batfamily were struck with tragedy/extreme trauma before they became heroes and that’s what spurred them into this life of becoming heroes. Tim’s situation wasn’t like that at all! When he first got involved in everything during Lonely Place of Dying, the only tragedy he’d experienced was watching Dick’s tragedy happen. Which sure yes traumatic obviously, but that’s not the same as how pretty much all the other Bats had gone through these very personal losses or other sorts of very first-hand personal traumas that served as motivators. Tim didn’t start to experience those things until after he got involved in the hero life, and aside from his Mom’s death which was more of just an unrelated incident (that technically happened before he was officially Robin but it was during his time training to become Robin), pretty much all these other tragedies and things... would not have happened or been experienced by him had he not become Robin. 

That’s not me placing blame on him or anything like that, because god no that’s not how that works, but it’s very interesting because from his point of view he definitely feels that guilt because he knows him being Robin played a role in a lot of it (Thinking specifically about in Adventure Comics #3 when Kon even says “I know what guilt does to you” to him like it’s... it’s a thing with him!). His dad was murdered because he was Robin. He only met Steph and started dating her through being Robin, and thus he would not have experienced the loss of his girlfriend dying like that had he not been Robin. Tim met both Conner and Bart through being Robin, and would not have had a personal connection to them when they died otherwise. The whole Bruce’s death thing after Final Crisis, like. I could go on honestly, that was only talking about losses not even his own experiences nearly getting killed, but yeah, all these personal tragedies were experienced by him specifically because he chose to bring himself into this life, which I think in turn plays into how throughout his comics you see him go from having this really optimistic view on things and being really hopeful to seeing him at that low point he reaches by the time of Red Robin. (thinking about that one post that points out how Tim started out in the 90′s as an optimist and Steph a cynic and by the time they were Red Robin and Batgirl in 2009 they had switched outlooks...) 

I also think that him having had such a great team book with the original Young Justice can help contribute to people liking him. His friendships with the rest of the core four and that team in general are really compelling. (and that’s something like again when looking at the other Robins, while Dick had the Titans ofc, Jason never really found footing with a team outside of like one mission with the Titans and then We All Know How Damian’s Teen Titans Stuff Went. Steph also only ever really worked with a team outside the batfam on very brief occasions) and even though I’m not as big of a fan of the 2003 Teen Titans run that came after YJ, people who read Young Justice and also that could follow and be attached to those same characters over a pretty decently long period of time. 

Idk man, I don’t really have an ultimate point here i’m just rambling. I can definitely understand not seeing the appeal to him right away (honestly i’ve been into Batfam since like 2013/2014 and Tim did not become one of my faves until 2020) especially if like... idk when you say ‘into the batfamily’ that can mean a lot of different things. If you’re reading more like the bigger events with the batfam sure Tim can kinda fade into the bg a bit, if you’re more talking about fanon the fanon version of him is prettyyyyy uhhhhh not really the same as how he was in pre New 52 canon, if you’re mainly reading New 52 era Batfam stuff then that Tim I also don’t understand the appeal of bc thats Not My Boy, if you’re interested in a different member primarily and only familiar with Tim when he shows up in things focused on that other character then it’s easy to not really understand the appeal right away bc he’s more there to support that character rather than shine in his own right. 

I think it’s also worth mentioning he’s just not everybody’s cup of tea, and that’s totally fine. Like, these are fictional characters and sometimes you just will vibe with a character and sometimes you won’t! idk if this helped at all or even made sense. but yeah. I just think he’s neat 😌

[salamispots]

finished midnight mass awhile back but I had thoUGHTS

-Riley (anxiously?) pulling his sleeves over his hands and him when he gets ‘blessed’ decides without much hesitation shown from him to die by sunlight (but also did they have to traumatize her like that like sure I understand maybe for plot/def. wouldn’t have believed it was real otherwise but still)

-the priest dude inviting Riley to do AA on the island and then flat out admitting he didn’t realize it’d be awkward just the two of them LMAO

-the priest’s voice and how he talks and how he genuinely thought he was doing something right

-Joe Collie and him crying over his dog/his softness and the scene with him and Leeza

-lmao I thought the doctor’s mom looked/sounded like someone young trying to play an older person HAHA

-didn’t mind the monologuing about death but some it went kinda long and my eyes started to glaze over a little fhjghf

-Sheriff Hassan saying he misses praying with his son and at the end the last thing they do together is pray (initiated by his son)

-that one conversation on the boat between Riley and his dad and something about money (idk since there’s usually the whole forgive others unconditionally and then you have his two devout parents and his dad admitting he does love his son or he tries but is resentful of having to pay so much for the bail/laywers etc.)

-Riley’s thoughts on what happens after death liKE YES (got raised in a christian household and I remember throughout highschool just being like...but the whole life in heaven for eternity sounds so tiring can’t I just be left alone/fade into oblivion fhfjjfjfhg) and never really brought that up to anybody but hearing that was weirdly cathartic? validating? aNYWAYS)

-thanks this show made me realize one of the surefire ways to freak me out HAHA (the whole nothing’s out of place in the bg but then something melts away? AWFUL. the fact that something’s been there the whole time watching you? extremely eerie/unsetttling also I hate jumpscares where they add loud sounds but that abrupt discordant violin sound is gOOD and adds to creepiness haha.

-the way the ‘angel’ feeds on victims like he’s holding a lover is interesting and also super unsettling haha

-oh oH I loved that one scene of the big black empty doorway and the man hearing his own voice thrown back at him

-one of Bev’s lackeys (the big dude with the gun) looking after the teen and the man who didn’t know wtf was going on

-sPEAKING OF BEV what a spiteful awful manipulative unkind person I had to pause and take breathers when I was watching hgfhjfj and maybe just a little sad? (pitiable?) thought it was super interesting at the end when she’s on the beach and sees the sheriff and his son praying she almost looked like she was going to copy them but nope she’s just digging into the sand as a last ditch effort. 

-the way Bev talks is interesting too (the rhythm?)

-that reveal when the priest is sitting and confessing gOOD and also how frighteningly easy it was to kinda shift/twist the sermons towards something a bit darker near the end of the show

idk that’s all the thoughts I had? liked it a lot :0

[professorchaos]

What were your thoughts on the episodes of this season?

pajama day was an ok start, not very memorable but had a kinda promising plotline that kept it afloat and seeing everyone in pjs was cute! the second ep was enjoyable too, nothing special but the tolkien gag was made stronger by the commitment to the bit (changing online links etc) and my sp parents-loving heart was warmed by steve black being a massive lotr nerd (i wish that he'd done his lotr-themed weed idea in the end tbh)...

still, despite some strong ideas, the writing this season was shockingly bad and at many points it was pretty obvious to me that the season was a low priority for m&t. i have a strong suspicion that it was primarily written by ghost writers, which isn't necessarily a bad thing! i'd love if sp brought in fresh talent to the writing team, but whoever handled these 6 eps seemed to be struggling to find their feet.

city people and back to the cold war were probably the worst eps of the season, with city people being absolutely lacklustre and back to the cold war relying far too heavily on jokes completely empty of substance. it was disappointing and surprising, bc eps with either cartman or butters as a central character are usually really good and i think it's hard to go wrong when playing liane and eric off against each other (or indeed butters and his parents), but they ended up neglecting to properly utilise their strongest characters here. the plot with mr mackey did feel like a suitable commentary on current events and definitely reminiscent of the attitude i have noticed in american adults around me, and was the saving grace of the horse riding episode, which otherwise would have honestly been one of the worst sp episodes in a very long time. i would have liked to have shown in to certain american family members who have been treating the war in ukraine like a personal issue. still, as a european i didn't find it to be anything revolutionary.

the last two eps were the strongest, with the last possibly being my favorite for the season. help, my teenager hates me! was a nice, wholesome main 4 ep, though i thought it felt odd that both eric and randy barely spoke (this has been happening a lot this season though, with certain characters just fading into the bg almost as badly as, historically, kenny has done). eric was forgivable, due to the continuity gag (him being depressed about living in a hot dog), but randy could have had a couple more lines, at least - it's weird to have him there and not talking these days. still, i was really happy to see stuart (!!!) and gerald used, and even jimbo got to make a cool little cameo as eric's stand-in dad. the take on teenagers was pretty funny (them with their heads on the trolleys in the supermarket made me laugh especially - i was totally like that when i was a teenager myself, oh my god, the agony of being taken places you asked to go, the agony of doing literally anything etc etc. also the kid burning himself with the naruto poster behind him... classic).

the "st patrick's day special" was the closest to being "classic sp" levels of enjoyable; it was great to see butters and randy both used well (as a butters fan i hate to say this, but butters is funniest when he's suffering for no reason, and they don't make him suffer enough these days). playing them off each other was a good choice, and something i wish they'd leaned into a bit heavier - they're two of the show's best and most popular characters, but how often do we get to see them interact? the take on st patrick's day itself was kinda unintelligible and the episode wasn't really saying anything that i liked (making light of sexual assault accusations with no clear punchline just felt a bit weird coming from people who hold a lot of power in a notoriously abusive industry... but hey). i have noticed since being in america that americans take to this holiday with a bizarre amount of enthusiasm for people who by and large are about as irish as i am (which is to say: not irish) so the idea that it's secretly a way to celebrate being white felt pretty on the nose to what i've been thinking every time i see all the green shit in stores lol. i liked the thing they did with splicing artstyles at the end for st patrick! i've definitely missed that aspect of the show in recent years.

all in all it was just ok, with some strong moments and a lot more shockingly terrible ones (seriously... some of the writing was just so awful this year that i almost gave up watching halfway through the season). in some ways i do feel like aspects of the show are headed in the right direction, so i'm still excited to see what next season is like, but if it isn't significantly better than this one was, i'm not sure how much longer i'm gonna be bothered to keep watching -_-;;

[mevekagvain]

Chapter 512 - 14 murder satellites in total... I can't even begin to imagine how much money and resources were wasted.

- No seriously, hire more hackers to help Tao.

Chapter 513 - It's a little funny that Erin isn't present even in Muzaka's mindscape. Forever dead <3 Ashleen's a cutie though.

- Imagination Ashleen calling Muzaka dad always makes me cry. Urokai 🤝 Ashleen, saddest arcs.

- Tbh any crush Lunark may have had on Frankenstein seems to be fading away as she actually spends time with him ajjsksks.

Chapter 515 - And Yuri just disintegrated a bunch of people.

Chapter 517 - Makes sense that the murder satellites have been in the making for decades. Would be weirder if they weren't.

- I see the KSA building got an upgrade since it was destroyed lol. But yeah the bgs have gotten so much better. Mostly. Rooms tend to not be furnished much still...

- 'It was daytime' lies. It was dark out how tf was it daytime?

Chapter 518 - ...Honestly Frankenstein, your plan sucks. It'd be one thing if you had a group of hackers but there's only Third and Tao.

Chapter 519 - Lukedonians <3

- So Lukedonia really does have nobles worldwide for scouting. And yet they still alway know nothing. Kinda embarrassing tbh.

- Crombel should have lined up his eradicating humanity plan for 2012/2013. It would be funny.

- So uh. Tillie def has broken up with Aris once the end of the world shtick became obvious, right? Right??? Also imagining all the non murderous Union members trying to prevent this shit but it's a bit hard when your life's work is education... The department heads are mostly modified though, one would think, and should have hackers so they help through that I suppose. Or just by preventing Crombel from accessing their resources.

Chapter 520 - Yeah I get you Frankenstein, I'd be annoyed too if evil men kept on trying to recruit me.

Chapter 521 - Aris,,, news footage isn't a movie. Don't compliment yourself in 'scenes'. There are no scenes.

- Finally! Tao gets assistants! They're just Third's men so nothing's actually changed but still. Also because Third isn't gonna die so he won't get them...

Chapter 522 - Ah yes... The 'blame nobles for anything that goes wrong' manual is being put into practice.

Chapter 523 - Why are these Royal Guards clones of each other 😶 Huh and their blood is green?

Chapter 524 - 'Why is your hand disagreeing with your mouth?' is my new favourite noblesse quote. Move over 'regrets are an extravagant emotion', you have competition.

- And Suyi's just straight up gonna murder Shinwoo <3

- I like how Raizel can just sense a satellite charging up. Even more fuel for ur-Hulda's sacrificial life.

Chapter 525 - I like to think that actually Amore and Blood Witch are the easiest methods by which to shoot extremely long distance attacks. For example... into space :)

[gayspock]

also ohhh by the way vis a vis black sails i dont thinkive done asilly little check-in post in a while so :3

FIRDTLY i am enjoying it so f- OH GOOD HEAVENS....

TUMBLT DO NOT TURN MY POINTS INTO - oh fine. sniff. ythats sick though. that makes my thoughts look wayyyy too official i only even bop thrm with a dash bc theyre just disjointed silly little things, heavens above!

but firstly: yes well i am enjoying it!! I THINK... hm. it hasnt gripped me! THATS NOT IN A MEAN-MEAN WAY- i think its just you know, not making me obsessseeddddd, which is quite the shame. there's some really good fucking stuff in here, is the thing and some good fucking characters but i think, perhaps, my one issue with the show is... there's some really mediocre connective tissue? which- really isnt a horrific ISSUE its just kind of dragging it down a bit. and it's, like, mostly TOTALLY inconsequential stuff but it accumulates and i think, if there was some polishing and this thing was REALLY TIGHT, then god... god this would fuck so so fucking GOOD. and again thats not to say it doesnt- i am liking it so far, im just like well :3 an episode...

like, for example: there's certain characters i dont care much for. certain plot points i dont care much for. certain executions im very lukewarm on. and lots that i DO care for. i feel as if... if this were tighter somehow, i'd be more into it, but also im not SO sure what it is i would cut out ... like its just like. god if we got to FOCUS more on these specific things, i'd be obsessed- but also i dont know how that would work without compromise of other things i like. so im like hm hmm hmm. like- i called it connective tissue, yeah? bc that's what it is- like all the stuff.. that's fitting ALL the stuff together. ehhh. im like ehhh! youknow? EHH?

like i think flint is, perhaps, like the BEST example of like: i want to be so obsessed with you (ESPECIALLY what they're doing with him in S2!!! moves in the right direction) but still feel like... we don't get enough to bring it, bring it home. perhaps i just need to sit tight a bit longer- bc again this isnt the "oh, death sentence!" its just like a well uhm i would have to liked to have seen it now !

and i think one another issue is, that im having with the show, is sometimes help..... i'll admit: there's random side characters i lose track of. any older white guy? hell- any white guy that isnt one of the MAIN white guys ... he just kinda fades into the bg for me. andTHATS SOOOO a me thing. but also help. i want to be intrigued more by internal politics of nassau - i really do - but i do kind of... lose threads when guys show up and im like wuh huh.

WHICH, sspeaking of: as i said with flint, i like what theyre doing so far with him in s2! I REALLY like it. showing a bit more of his past- but also showing more of him... as a captain? and what it really means to have influence, and to command people and to have that authority over them.

which speaking of, speaking of: is funnily enough... ONE point of disappointment: dufresne. and i know there was some other issues (i saw abt his actor whilst reading up abt him :(... honestly such a fucking shame) so im conscientious of that,and i realise that must have affected SOME ofit... to the extent, i don't know if we know!? as in- dont know what the writers have said about that, and i dont know how much im comfortable speculating on what-ifs there BUT.... YEAH. SAD. i really liked him, i did- but mmmm. there was something so rushed about his "arc" and kind of a shame, you know? hell- i was so fucking into it, into this idea of HIM becoming the captain of all things and i dont say it was OOC but then the actual ... way it was executed and played out. maybe it WAS the replacement actor who dropped the ball with it, i dont know, but it was like... there was a lack of something, you know? because again- i dont think him stepping up could be OOC, that he WOULD act so drastically, that he had the moral compass to act like that and to respond to flint like that in the aftermath of what he went through. makes a hell of a lot of sense. BUT also i dontknow- it feels like.. it wasnt right, in its execution- i feel as if... there was a lack of that conflict within him played out. and it, again, could be actor issues- the new guy not delivering, or hell them intentionally scaling back on him bc they just wanted him to fade out more organically but hm... i dont know. either way the point is it felt... like they put out a good character, gave him a really good scene, and it just sort of flittered out? shame

and i SAY this bc. shite why was i SAYING this... bc it DID sort of set the stage for Flint, and for demonstrating him well, and.... i think THATS what some of the trouble is, sometimees? sometimes? characters used, and introduced solely to demonstrate another character- which is FINE, yknow, and things like that happen aaalllll the timeeee in media yes sireee but sometimes- you know, i dont know. it does have a certain inelegance, a certain clumsiness - because obviously ideally you arent just setting up characters to develop others, etc. butlike... mm. like in general there's, again, one or two one note guys floating about- which again WILL always happen, you know- but they'll get... a LOT of screen time for who they, because theyre obviously advancing the plot along in nature, and then its like oh well ehrm YAH?

the other guy tht comes to mind is uh. that unsavoury cunt from s1- you know... who i mean, i presume... who was unkind towards max. i dont remember his name- truthfully dont FEEL like giving him one. but its like: obviously, freaking god, i dont want him to have a sympathetic angle. when it comes to guys like that- i'd much prefer a one note guy, to some godawful attempt to build depth into him, bc if ur clumsy it just reads as whatever. like fucking hell. but STILL- it does leave him feeling (and i do wince at this word for him- sorry) a bit cartoonish, like... yeah. this dude fucking SUCKS! he walks out and he SUCKS! and he just does BAD SHIT! now he can DIE to cause us PROBLEMS. like that's- again its all well and good, but it does seem to also be happening with the new bloke being introduced THIS season. and so the issue is- you know... characters brought in for, like, purely functional purposes? or being turned into- like dufresne... it feels eh to me.

and again. its like i dont want the shitty guys to have a sympathetic spin on them and i'd rather them be just straight up cunts than them do a clumsy attempt at making them more. but i think- you know, that's why i LOVE what they did with dukat in deep space nine. like fucking hell. he had a lot of depth- but he was the fucking worst guy around. like they showed what shitty people REALLY are like, irl. they arent just guys who do bad shite for the sake of it. but theyre guys who actively choose to be the worst fucking people - and they convince themselves of it all, sooo hard - and there's no "oh, they did this bc THEY had to! no choice! they were raised wrong, etc.!" bc whilst those can be factors its like. at the end of the day? dukat thought himself better than others; dukat was selfish and power hungry and did not want to sacrifice his positions of power; and it lead to some godawful perceptions he had on the bajorans, and he treated them shittily because of that .... and itmakes no apologies about that. but it shows like his thought process, exactly this that and the other, and its fucking horrible. as it should be, bc thats what oppressors ARE irl. theyre not some guys lead down the wrong path... they DO actively choose to be like that, for their own gain, bc they value it more than the livelihoods of others and i think sooo often ppl try to make the worst fucking ppl sympathisable and its like. fucking come on man. idc.

anyways what was i saying. yes. my point is- you can GIVE shitty guys some depth, have them be characters, rather than vague antagonistic forces to work against and to advance issues within a story, yah? its possible! but idk- it feel slike black sails does just... fall into that problem sometimes, mmm. which is a shame! it is! bc like i said- god, i really do like a lot of the other stuff theyre laying out... but when u just. idk. theres a lot of mediocre ppl dumped into this story that idc for that much is all. anyways positivie s tho bc

i like anne a lot. like i do. i said the show doesnt drive me crazy cuckoo bananas- well its true, but when i see anne she does to me. its that moment of mmm. :3 the perfect little sweet spot thats ENTIRELY appealing to some specific personal tastes of mine so hiyyaaaa anne. bestie anne. you and your girlfriend and your.... eyebrow raise boyfriend. your pet little he/they for you to carry around in your purse. LIKE IM LOVING ALL OF THEM- jack, anne, and max... theyre my faves. my ride or dies.

other than them i loved gates so bad. i knew he was sort of doomed from the start- like his character.. YEAH. YOU COULD FUCKING TELL. so i just sort of held on there with him and got shocked nonetheless when he died. i also loved billy. no idea what theyre gonna do with him going forward- but im SO intent with it like ooey ooey... I HOPE they do well with him.

(though maybe thats another issue? i dont know- its like... theres a PACING thing going on here ad maybe it relates to the above. im not sure. its like ithink this works as being fast paced- but also it feels like its taking some weird slow moments and its like god i dont know. maybe its the rate im watching it at- or maybe its ME, bc i know i have problems with ehrm. time. in general - but i feel like i havent seen billy in fucking forever... that he's been unresolved for forever. which is weird. its been like half a season. but still eh. you know!??)

and who else. i said i liked flint- but i fucking LOVE thomas even more... nand yep. yep god. okay. god bless those fucking men i can so easily goinsane if we get to see more of them - it has to be said - and if they are going about things well enough of course.

and then eleanor? I THINK ITS ODD- I THINK... characters like her, in general? god i do like them- but i do feel as if my like for them is more of a: upon reflection, yes..... do you know what i mean? shiv and helly from succession are two that come to mind: girlbosses i cannot relate to on any sort of level, but when i step back from the work and get to really appreciate the decisions they made... yeah. loving it.

BUT: i dont know how i feel about her and max? i mean- look, im not a shippy guy in THAT sense you know... just eh. dont know how i feel- i know they were together and loved each other and liked their chemistry well enough, but we're obviously seeing the unfortunate side of their relationship here. so im like lukewarm - potentially turned off a little? which - i dont say that in a... OK. thing is: i dont really care for it, ever, when a character is SO dedicated and lovestruck by another but we dont really get to see A LOT of why that is. and i get why that is some with max and eleanor- we see bits of it! but also again we are seeing a LOT of the unfortunate side and so its like... eh. you know. WHAT they were to each other god thats so sweet- but the story we're getting now is the sadder partofthat.

and . what did i say: OH I SAID TURNED OFF BY IT. YES . WELL. to elaborate more- bc im obviously not like... turned off by two ppl not being together any more its not thatits the. ok we have to bring him up. fuckin charles. mixed feelings on the cunt. bc him and max had a little exchange just now like goddd we're so in love with that girl- and its like with them both im just like . i dontknow. i dont care for it, sometimes? MAYBE ITS IKE- im not... obsessed with romantic plotlines, or at least not ones where the romantic foot is put before the other one. i love stories wherein romance emerges between the characters. but if the driving factor is: oh these guys are in LOVE! we're both so blindly in love with ealanor. full stop it doesnt do much for me. shruggie shrug. and i think theres enough surrounding max and eleanor that its not LIKE that- but itdoes sometimes give me a bit of an ehhh whatever cmon keep it moving girlies....

but yeah. freakin charles. i ahve my finger on him- bc i think he IS the more "antagonisitic" freak with some depth to him, that could have frankly been used this entire time rather than introducing new ones for like the purposes of the story... but its like idk. again with the introducingnew guys- i suppose they did that, in a way to sort of soften his presence which. againjust makes me eh? bc like-i did not like his behaviour towards eleanor to begin with and i certainly did not fucking like what he did to max. bc yes theyre all god damn pirates; yes theyre fucking horrible and yes theyre operating within a system that perpetuates that horrific nature, makes it all feed into each other... but yeah, its p obvious when youre being a bit of a fucking CUNT even within the space you're put in babygirl. m. and its like- i have a cerain OWRRY with him... that they're going to try and sympathise with him more which. im not saying they CANT do- that they cant od redemption arcs with guys that have done what they did- but it does make me nervous a little. i do like his character, though, with some reservations there- like... i do think that he is a guy written well thus far its just. a tipping point thats VERY very delicate and yah. make him go through the fucking ringe.r then we will see.

anyway do i have any other thoughts god i dont know

im just finished s2e4. its odd. i thought there were so many mre episodes- why did i convince myself there was seven fucking seasons of 24 each? thats half the reason why i put it off so long- nutno girl help...

anyways maybe it will send me crazy insane more as i go forward. it DOES have the potential to for suresies! :3 but also idk. im thinking abt what to watch next? yah.... smile.