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elliegoose · 5 months ago

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got tagged by @annunakitty in a thing! yippee tag game!

now the tag game was to introduce yourself with:

one tv show

one movie

one album

one video game

however, i'm doing two for each category! why? because i'm cute and special and get to change the rules, of course! and also because i'm really enthusiastic about sharing my favorite things with people.

tv shows: adventure time & scavengers reign

not being able to pick between these two shows is the reason i'm doing two for each category. adventure time is my all-time favorite show hands down, but scavengers reign took second place (overtaking russian doll, which previously held that rank) when it absolutely blew me away earlier this year. i've watched it twice now and definitely plan on giving it a third watch sometime soon.

movies: i saw the tv glow (2024) & suspiria (2018)

as someone who repressed my gender really hard throughout most of college after flirting with transitioning in high school, this movie really spoke to me. i've seen it twice now and found a lot of value in the rewatch. i definitely want to watch it again at least one more time. this is an incredibly profound movie that has changed me as a person.

on the other hand, suspiria (2018) is an enduring favorite of mine for a very silly reason. it is a straight up good movie, but the actual reason it's my second pick for this post is that for like a year after first watching it, i kept seeing the mangled bodies of characters from it as sleep paralysis hallucinations. it was terrifying at the time but i find it incredibly funny to look back on, and think very fondly of this film in general. i got to rewatch parts of it for free irl! thanks, sleep paralysis demons!

albums: feather river canyon blues by pigeon pit & kudzu, devour everything! by levees

for two years now, feather river canyon blues has very unambiguously been my favorite album of all time. it's lomes oleander's bold, dense, imagery-filled lyricism at its best, backed by the full band that her voice deserves playing alt-country sounds that strike the perfect balance between gentle and energetic. it's simultaneously desperate and hopeful, joyous and melancholy, and at every moment filled to the brim with emotion and beauty. this album feels like watching every sunset at once surrounded by your best friends and loved ones. transgender folk music will save us. if you have to pick one song from this album to listen to, make it milk crates:

kudzu, devour everything! is the reason i started playing banjo. levees is a friend of a friend, and i was introduced to their music because said friend was praising this album in our friend group's discord server. i find levees' idiosyncratic manner of clawhammer playing--often very fast and full of non-traditional rhythms--to be absolutely magical. their songwriting is also excellent, full of vivid stories and characters sung about in prose that weaves effortlessly between the elegantly straightforward and beautifully dense. i also recommend listening to their album vultures, as well as quarantipilation volumes 1 & 2. it's actually not one of the songs that contains banjo, but if you have to pick one to listen to from this album, i recommend her/hymn/their, which won't embed for some reason but hey here's the link

(also, honorable mention to drink the sea by the glitch mob, which is the first album i ever really fell in love with, and which inspired little 13-year-old elise to grab a copy of ableton and learn how to make music myself. until feather river canyon blues came along, i would have probably picked drink the sea for this post.)

video games: signalis & mice tea

first off, i cried at the end of signalis! while streaming! it was really, really good!!! it has a delightfully dreadful atmosphere, great story, very interesting worldbuilding, phenomenal art style, and excellent character design. plus, it was great for practicing my german. i strongly recommend signalis to anyone who likes survival horror.

second off, yes, i am choosing mice tea, a transformation fetish visual novel, as my second pick here. judge me all you like. i stand by my choice. its story is fun! the characters are excellent! its humor and conceptual ridiculousness disarm you and make way for genuinely emotionally impactful storylines! it has a lot of interesting commentary on gender! it almost single-handedly turned me into furry! also, it's hot! go play mice tea!

now, finally, it is time to tag! don't feel pressured to pick multiple things or provide explanations like i did! i just enjoy doing more than is assigned lmao. tagging @rotten-spaceymage, @birras0, @citrusuprising, @roboticvenusian, @femboty2k, and anyone who sees this and wants to do it themselves!

#elise.rtf #music #Bandcamp

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fly-pow-bye · 7 years ago

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Powerpuff Girls 2016 - “The Blossom Files”

Written by: Haley Mancini

Written & Storyboarded by: Caitlin Vanarsdale, Angela Zhang

Directed by: Nick Jennings, Bob Boyle

The truth is out there...and you're not going to like it.

The episode starts with Bubbles, Buttercup, and Barry recreating a portal to space from a magazine to find out the truth about the aliens from some distant galaxy. Blossom shows up, and she is annoyed at all of this. Not because this gate to the stars is clearly made up of cardboard, appliances, and Blossom's toothbrush randomly put in the shape of one, though it probably doesn’t help, but because...

Blossom: There’s no such things as space aliens! How do I know this? Because there’s absolutely zero proof! If you can’t see it, there’s no proof!

No, not just the specific aliens they're talking about, or the methods they're doing to get those aliens to appear, but to Blossom, aliens don't exist. Because it's not like Blossom has even seen an alien, never mind fought them. Especially not broccoli aliens. Especially not aliens that can predict their every move.

And especially not transforming alien crimelords. For the record, this episode did air in other countries before Never Been Blissed. Those other two examples came from the original; the reboot still can't decide whether or not that show happened.

Still, the Powerpuff Girls have fought giant monsters, super-powered vikings, ghostly Elvis supervillains, the devil, and magical extra-dimensional twerking pandas. The possibility that something around the billions of suns in this universe is alive should not be too hard to believe. This could be irony, but the episode does nothing to suggest that was intentional.

As those silly alien believers activate their gate to the stars, a surprise visitor emerges and asks them to take them to their leader! Buttercup tries to act like one, but the alien immediately tells her she is not a leader. A good tie in to the personality of who this turns out to be.

Of course, it’s just Blossom doing a prank towards the people she loves. Well, maybe not Barry. I hope. She's the bad guy of the episode, after all! She continues to mock the alien believers, knowing this will in no way blow up in her face like that kid who cried wolf.

I could see where they're going with this. Bubbles, Buttercup, and Barry are doing this unbelievable action to find some unbelievable creature, and Blossom, the super-smart one that knows everything, is the one that’s the down-to-Earth science believer that mocks them for it. The alien believers even put on tin-foil hats in the previous scene to secure their placement in this stock plot original storyline.

At night, Blossom gets up to get a glass of milk. Strawberry milk, to be precise. It’s almost like that old Got Milk commercial Blossom was in, except without all of that pesky crime fighting it came with. Clearly, we just needed more Blossom thinking her sisters are buffoons for believing in aliens.

Speaking of which, the fake gate to the stars starts flashing, and Blossom goes out to investigate, and to stop the gate from wasting all the electricity. Struggling to find the off switch, something pops out of the portal and steals her strawberry milk.

Specifically, a baby octopus-looking alien named Chiru. Clearly, it must be an alien; it can only say its own name. If it was an animal in this reboot, it would be talking and giving Bubbles less of a reason to exist. I'm surprised that they decided to avoid Blossom trying to rationalize what she's seeing, one look at this alien is all it takes for her to become a believer.

Blossom follows around Chiru throughout the night, as it takes her on a journey throughout a forest and a lake. It uses its powers to grow trees and generate fireflies, giving Blossom some great scenery to be in awe at. I actually really like this scene; it eschews the reboot's focus on dialogue and humor and focuses more on building a dream-like atmosphere.

I could imagine this whole scene being a dream, and I was dreading to think they were going to just smash cut to Blossom waking up. However, the way they cut from this scene made me feel like they're leaving up to the viewer if it really was a dream. It made me more interested in watching the rest of the episode to see where it was going, which should be a standard.

We fade to Blossom waking up the next morning on her couch after supposedly laying in the middle of a grassy field grown by Chiru, and immediately wakes up her sisters to tell them all about her adventures with the alien. Buttercup thinks Blossom is playing another prank on her, but she drags them outside to see all of the wacky stuff the alien did. To her shock...

There's only an adorable raccoon, according to Bubbles. Much like a lot of episodes in the reboot, there's very little to seperate Buttercup and Bubbles other than Bubbles' actions being sillier. I will give this episode a point for having a joke that implies Bubbles can still talk to animals.

Blossom desperately tries to point to where all the alien plants were, but they're gone, too. Bubbles gives the most down-to-earth explanation that she dreamt the whole thing, while Buttercup calls her a nutbar. Blossom is not willing to let her beliefs be challenged by what are surprisingly believable explanations from the airhead and the rascal, so she decides to do a plan.

The next night, Blossom decides to set up a photo camera, draw a few crop circles in the ground, bang a gong in the middle of the night, and laying out a glass of strawberry milk, all to lure out Chiru. Blossom doesn’t even put on her pajamas before this, but neither do Bubbles and Buttercup when they come up to ask why Blossom is doing any of this. See, the tin-foil hat has turned; now it's Blossom being the wacky alien believer this time!

I should point out that even though Blossom is acting like the pinhead this time, even if she might be right, they decide not to do any wacky face jokes with her. In fact, the only real wacky face jokes is Buttercup's face shrinking when she goes "ooo-ooo-ooo" when talking about aliens. This is one inconsistency I can appreciate. With Bubbles and Buttercup on the side of the non-believers, who can Blossom turn to?

Enter Barry Macherbacher, who just decided to show up in full Men In Black gear. He is less willing to consider Blossom a nutbar, but he denies Blossom's claim because the alien she's describe doesn't sound anything like the aliens in his big red book. As soon as he reveals this picture, Blossom points out something behind him.

Well, so much for the “what if she really was dreaming” possibility, as we suddenly see a giant, tentacled alien coming out of the portal. It's rather sudden, though I do appreciate that they chose the ending that makes sense in this universe.

The Powerpuff Girls could easily take this monster on with all of their ultra-super-powers. They're not going to be instantly tied up in the alien's tentacles, and be helpless to the point where they need a raccoon to save them.

They instantly get tied up in the alien's tentacles, and Bubbles attempts to get a raccoon to save them. They do not even try to fight this monster. No eye lasers, no super strength, no aura powers, as far as this plot goes, they may as well be ordinary human beings. Bubbles doesn't even attempt to speak raccoon; it could have reminded me this was not meant to be a plot to a different cartoon.

(The racoon leaves)

Bubbles: Ah, Waterloo all over again.

Oh yeah, Blossom dressed that racoon up as Napoleon because...I have no idea. It is the one thing that seems to be consistent with what we've seen in the reboot so far: Blossom still doesn't know who won the Battle of Waterloo.

Suddenly, Chiru shows up in full view, and does some sort of wave attack. This causes the tentacle monster to go back into the portal, letting go of the Powerpuff Girls. Chiru also destroys the portal and Blossom's camera, and then just leaves. Yes, mark this as yet another episode where the Powerpuff Girls have to be saved by the character of the week.

The episode ends with Blossom gloating that she knew she was right all along about Chiru, and does a victory dance out of screen. The only real punishment she gets for essentially bullying her sisters because they believed in aliens before is Buttercup calling her a nutbar again. The episode suddenly cuts to black, with no real resolution. Well, I guess this is supposed to be like the X-Files.

Does the title fit?

They were going for Mulder and Scully, in both ways.

How does it stack up?

I try to find some positives with every episode I review, and it was easy to spot here. I was intrigued when I saw Blossom flying around with the alien in the dream-like forest, and it's sad that the rest of the episode does not live up to it. It's good to see Barry in a major role, too, even if he doesn't really do anything funny.

Other than that, I could not get into this episode. Your mileage may vary, but this flying object is best left unidentified.

Next, PPG 2016 tackles the timely pop culture sensation that is Survivor!

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littlewolfdiaries · 7 years ago

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30 Things About Me!

I was tagged by the fandom's only hope and best writer ever @noshittwobit and this gem @an-outsiders-blog y'all totally keep tagging me, nothing better than talking about myself 😉😉

Rules : Answer these 30 questions and tag 30 people

Nickname: I don't even have one like... If you consider "bitch" or "hoe" a nickname.

Name: Amber/Amberleigh

Gender: Female

Star sign: Virgo 💁🏼

Height: 5′4 1/2" (There's no hope).

Time: 1:32 PM, Tuesday (Answered it today because I'm trash at notifs).

Birthday: September 15th.

Favourite band: Probably Cage the Elephant, DOES ODD FUTURE COUNT, The Neighbourhood, The Killers, Alt-J, The Black Keys, Sublime, Weezer, Marcy's Playground (tb), then you have all the 50's-80's ones way before me and they're all magic.

Favorite solo artist: I don't have an exact favorite but if you know anything about me, I've been in love with Lana for a very long time and have seen her multiple times. She's definitely not the best artist out there. None of my choices are alive, honestly.

Song stuck in my head: Thankfully, nothing at the moment.

Last movie i watched: Taxi Driver last night online, young Robert De Niro, murder, psychology, must I say more...

Last show I watched: Forensic Files and there's no shame behind that.

When did i create my blog: I tracked it and it says 20 months ago?? I can't??

What do i post: The Outsiders. I used to post Teen Wolf and other content, so this blog really isn't almost 2 years old in Outsiders content.

Last thing i googled: "Old king that got assasinated in Wales a long time ago" I don't have an explanation for that. There's nothing. Do you have other blogs: A few sideblogs for The Outsiders but I hardly use them.

Do you get asks: I still get them daily but definitely not as many as I used to. I used to get so many. I love answering questions, though, so blow this shit up.

Why did you choose the blog name: This fucking story. So, like I said I didn't used to be Outsiders-oriented so "littlewolfdiaries" is a combination of Pretty Little Liars, Teen Wolf, and The Vampire Diaries. They're all ended now, basically. It's great.

Blogs you are following: my paps @the-outsiders-slut but that's all, when I made my blog I wanted to see if I could it without following other people, to kind of prove it to myself? I don't know?

Blogs following you: I think 2,377 but I haven't checked in forever and I'm too lazy to recopy and paste this so I can check, but yee somewhere in there.

Favourite colours: Kelly green. It's a new thing & I'm letting it happen. Cobalt and red, too. I recently changed my entire wardrobe style so this is really what I'm vibing w.

Average hours of sleep: 8, lower or more than. Lucky numbers: I LIKE 25 TOO! I like 11, 14, 25, and 15. 11 and 25 are the real ones, though. Instruments: These sexy vocal chords, saxophone, a lil piano, recorder1!1!, nah but I wanna learn acoustic guitar.

What am I wearing: Well, shit. I'm sick so I'm wearing this faded tee I got when thrifting and it looks vintage as fuck, I'm living for it. Also black sweatpants but no one cares about black sweatpants.

How many blankets do you sleep with: Like 3. But it always ends up to be 1.

Dream job: Ooh, working for Cosmopolitan in NYC (although I hate it there) or working high-up in the FBI as a psychologist or detective. I think working for NASA would be awesome, too.

Dream trip: Ireland, hands-motherfucking-down. In the states, I'd like to visit New Jersey for whatever reason. I've been there before, though. Or New England because part of me misses it back home.

Favorite food: Pastelitos, Creme Brûlée, chocolate milk, raw coconut or anything with coconut, really good steak (otherwise I hardly eat meat). I'm kind of a mess these are so random.

Nationality: American but from the US. I hate the phrase "America" like, bitch there's multiple and they include other countries??

Favorite song: Nothing will come to my mind right now yikes. A Little Death was playing earlier by the Neighbourhood but that's nowhere's near my favorite song. I mean, I love it and want to eventual fuck someone to that song but yeah I don't know, man.

Tagging the papi @the-outsiders-slut and everyone else I like and wants to do it because I'm too lazy to go through my messages and also check who has or hasn't done it yet. I love y'all tho ilysm there's just too many people who #support me

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