#these are just 10 of the funnier ones i decided to screenshot

[existencebringsonlypain]

if anyone wants to suffocate from laughter, go read the AITale/AIRune/AITale Yellow TVTropes page. the nonchalant way they describe everything is so funny, especially when talking about things like "oh yea ceroba likes eating human skin".

[fruiteggsaladit]

Who she is to ME SPECIFICALLY.

Or,

Botan gets 10x times funnier if interpreted as being a 30-something-year-old

Link to tiktok user@johannes2o's "POV: our friend is an airport dad" video on tumblr: https://only-tiktoks.tumblr.com/post/713049563491155968 ; with screenshots of various comments: https://redead-red.tumblr.com/post/716343198278123521

Further thoughts:

.... Okay so I know three out of 4 of these circles are parental figures (technically only two of them are parental figures, the third one is a figure of speech) but I resent when a female character is assigned as the "mum" of the group when she's clearly, at most, if I have to use a failial term, an uncle.

The fact that in the manga she's told by Koenma not to tell Yusuke abt the egg potentially devouring him if he does or thinks something bad wasn't NEARLY utilised for its comical and dramatic worth that it had and this has scrambled my brains ever since. Yusuke thinks he just has to hang onto the egg, Botan however is fully aware of the truth of the test and is probably sweating bullets for him!

She's used to sending clients to their death not to help them improve as a person whose character growth will be acknowledged by the heavens - usually it's enough for the client to feel ready to move on but that isn't the case here! HE'S GONNA DIE FOR REALSIES AND HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW-- leading to Botan being Weirdly Invested and Pushy about Yusuke doing good deeds, which Yusuke finds weird at first bc she wasn't like this at the beginning? But he's also not smart or observant enough to assume that she knows something he doesn't. Misogyny win! (Headcanon: Yusuke thinks its feminist of him to know a woman can hit him just as badly as a man can. .... Yusuke oh my god.)

Which when I rewatched A Goofy Movie and we get to the principal yelling at Goofy about how Max is destined for the electric chair for staging a performance for the student body and ask Roxanne out, gave me perfect panicked Botan vibes.

"The electric chair...." (an extremely haunted expression on Goofy's face. He then picks up something that reminds him of the Goof family roadtrip and decides this is what will save Maxie from future legally sanctioned execution.)

There's also this one part in the Yukina arc where she, Kuwa, and Yusuke are trekking through a forest and she looks like she's the only one prepared for a trek, and she's the one pointing which way is the right one, gave me the headcanon that she camps and is wildlife-savvy and I got very attached to that.

Next, Mrs Bennet. Oh Mrs Bennet. Poor woman is stuck in a society that values men and realised a little too late that she and her husband should have made sure their girls could have an education and thus secure some work, sadly her husband is useless and she's the only one panicking about it; worse, her panic makes any potential suitors turn away from her daughters. Arguably even worse, it alienates her from her daughters, who also realise how dire things are, but don't appreciate her stress.

Have I mentioned my "Botan gets 10x times funnier if interpreted as a 30-something"?

Its canonically stated in the manga that her birthday and age are unknown, so really she could be billions of years old (Edltrich botan... YES) or she could be a baby ferrygirl/shinigami. She's never heard of Sensui until he shows up in the Chapter Black saga, who disappeared 10 years prior to reappearing. Which implies she entered this service 10 or less years ago.

I personally think it's the funniest if she's in her thirties and she'll still get swept up by the youthful energy of the kids and then repeatedly get mentally hit by the truck of "You're the adult here."

The miscommunication would be great! Yusuke has no idea why Botan is so invested in his good deeds first and now in him being the spirit detective - little does he know, she got invested bc she was literally told "if he doesn't do a good job, he'll get eaten by the monster he's made (that we gave him)", and she's having complicated feelings she doesn't want to address ever abt him being a 14-year-old with a life-debt to the afterlife bc they offered him the chance and never told him there were strings attached.

Meanwhile Botan doesn't know WHY he just can't listen to her or Koenma when that's the easy part!! Obedience is DEFINITELY the easy part!!! She's going above and beyond what was originally in her job description, he can too!! (Hello soul-crushing guilt she's locking away never to look at again. Hello shame that she was a part of this. Hello cowardice at the inability to own up to this!) Hence the yoda.

[extrahorribledynne]

Spoilers for transformers earthspark below! Musings about the first episode abound.

some general praise: my god the music is great. That’s an ost I would put on while doing housework or something. I like the animation; fight scenes in particular were satisfyingly snappy. Voice acting was also solid, I’m sold on optimus and megatron already.

I liked the parents a whole lot, and I found the kids cute. I think we as adult ass fans of a children’s franchise really need to reassess the part about, yknow, the fact that we are watching a show not for us directly. Of course the 12 year old character isn’t for you, adult who pays taxes. I will happily take a bat to the hornets nest and say I don’t honestly think the children characters in transformers shows are actually as bad as people often make them out to be. I was a tween once and I believe an angry tween would think he could bike cross country and I, too, would be very mopey at that age to not even be able to contact my friends through my phone in this day and age. Hell, we all freak out when discord goes down. Case and point.

mandroid is… still a dumb as hell name but for silas 2.0 he’s at least doing better than silas ever did so far. He’s already made a bunch of extremely high tech spiderbots and is already doing lots of experimenting on cybertronians.

also the energon was pink. I love pink energon, win.

while 10 episodes are dropping in 2 days as of me making this post and more context is on the way, definitely think it’s worth chewing on that we weren’t given the reason for the bot/con war in the first episode. This was even pointed out by Mo telling her dad he’s oversimplifying things. And since he’s a cybertronian historian he would like. Definitely know.

I find another caste system/revolutionary megatron story very likely due to what we’ve learned so far abt the show, so it’ll be interesting to see if they manage to handle it well.

what else hmm. I think Darran Noris’ character will show up in episode 7 according to the episode summaries. So I guess we’ll see about that. I think on a purely objective level it’d be way funnier if Mr. Smelt was not Knock Out and instead Darran Noris just got typecast as a fruitcake in a transformers show twice. I think that’s hilarious.

also according to the episode summaries the casseticons do appear… but just 3 of them. And I’ve seen the screenshot which has Ravage, Laserbeak and one of the twins (whoever they decide the purple one is this time) what happened to the other twin. I’m worried. Don’t do this to soundwave again 😭

[feelingofcontent]

DNP Rewatch: Social distancing with Animal Crossing!

Date video was published: 03/21/2020 (X)

DNP Main Channel Rewatch: 410

Time for some cute and calming (not usually a word I would use to describe Phil’s videos) Animal Crossing.

0:00 - the ‘Good Vibes’ shirt and his favorite jean jacket 🥺

0:13 - I remember that Switches were sold out everywhere too

0:31 - it is a 17 minute long video, which is long for a solo Phil one

0:37 - flashbacks to when DNP played the last Animal Crossing game and Dan posted this screenshot. and Phil talked about it in a video then too

0:57 - “are they twins, clones, friends, or gay racoon lovers” welp 😂

1:06 - and then the “oh it’s polyamorous” I love Phil

1:30 - Phil is so quick with the comments in this video. it’s great

1:37 - a non-bleeped “dick”?! he usually bleeps that

1:57 - who gave Phil leftover Christmas chocolate that he is shading here, lol

2:09 - I love a character creation opportunity and also always spend way too much time on it

2:25 - this is the first time he mentioned the brown hair in a main channel video

2:37 - “that looks like my mum...that looks like my mum going out to a restaurant” I am WHEEZING 😂

2:48 - taking the accuracy very seriously...his eyes look quite blue in this video as usual when he’s wearing blue

3:30 - “like a furry would choose it” alrighty then

3:45 - “it feels very Philly to me” aww

4:01 - that is a strange division

4:16 - speaking from experience from the house buying there?

4:45 - love hearing Phil reasoning out his choice here

5:05 - I am not shocked in the slightest by Phil’s choice there

5:20 - how they only ever actually missed one flight is surprising

5:41 - immediately swaying to the music

5:57 - of course he’s excited about the Christmas part 🥺

6:46 - capital£ester even in games, hahaha

7:23 - decided to give Hazel a northern accent there

7:59 - Australian accent appropriate for a koala I suppose...Phil and accents though 😂

8:25 - Phil wanting to turn it into a horror game there

9:03 - both Phil and his character look so pleased

9:11 - ewww. I feel like Phil and camping would not mix very well

9:19 - people definitely did argue with him about the pear thing...I agree though; pears are delicious

9:50 - faking a more northern accent is making his own accent come out

9:59 - Phil asking too many questions maybe

10:26 - just agreeing with the characters

10:40 - “don’t talk to me about your ass when you’re not wearing any trousers” -Phil Lester, 2020 😂

11:24 - angry Phil! very rare

11:37 - consistently terrible at counting in German

11:42 - ...although he didn’t forget the “sechs” this time...was that voice necessary 😳

12:22 - I wonder if Phil talks to the characters when he’s playing on his own

12:40 - “Philville” is cute

12:49 - and that would be hilarious

12:51 -  he asked while he was filming! and just a day before this video was posted, so he turned it around quickly

13:05 - there are some very funny suggestions from his audience

13:32 - the immediate “I CAN’T” but then he does

14:15 - Phil does not like that aesthetic

15:02 - again going down the horror path a bit

15:14 - giving the dog a ‘sexy’-ish voice and kind of? an American accent there...a choice

15:42 - actually this accent is much better than Phil’s usual attempts

16:17 - this is why Phil’s phone gives him cursed montages like this...because he’s always filming at ‘normal’ dinner time

16:28 - his face and voice at “major life event” 🤔 could be thinking about their own move coming up (I bet they still expected it to be sooner at this point)

17:17 - “working that angle” Phil is into this

Phil is so much funnier in this video than I remembered! I don’t rewatch the Animal Crossing ones a lot. This is cute and I love it.

Lots of gaming (1, 2) for DNP at the start of lockdown, it seemed. Nintendo also sent him the Animal Crossing-themed Switch after this video.

[breadstyx]

Tagged by the incredible @sunny-day-sky and since for once I'm on desktop instead of mobile I'll actually do it. ✌️

1. why did you choose your url?

It's a pun that came to me like 5 years ago and that I found so good that I instantly took the url. I started using it maybe 6 months after that and I'm never going back.

2. any side blogs?

Nah. I'm putting it all in the same pot, making a content stew babeyyy.

3. how long have you been on tumblr?

I think we're reaching 10 years in like, less than 6 months.

4. do you have a queue tag?

No, because I've never used and will never use the queue.

5. why did you start your blog in the first place?

No clue. I think one of my twitter friends had one and I decided to check it out ? I quickly let my Twitter wither as I moved here tho.

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp?

I like robots. I like the absurdity of this robot trying to "eat" an admittedly pretty good-looking hamburger. At this point I couldn't see myself switching to smth else now after years.

7. why did you choose your header?

Because it's one of the most satisfying pictures I've ever seen. I love it when stuff is neatly aligned and perfectly regular. I definitely could've done it myself so I felt like it matched my vibe.

8. what’s your post with the most notes?

Technically it's the "Kettle that boils your water by lowering the pressure" one — I think it's near 13k. But I'm 50% sure my screenshot tags on that one 100k notes post are the reason people have started using "tags passing peer-review" to talk about adding someone's tags to the main body of a post.

9. how many mutuals do you have?

Technically around 150, but most of them have long left tumblr. I actively talk/interact to like.. maybe 10-20 people on here I'd say? And on top of that there's maybe that number again that I don't actively talk to but feel like I could hit up and start chatting with again.

10. how many followers do you have?

A smidge over 1000. Most of them are inactive and/or bots, even if I block the really obvious ones.

11. how many people do you follow?

Just under 350, but a lot of these have been inactive for years.

12. have you ever made a shitpost?

A couple.

13. how often do you use tumblr each day?

There's huge variations in my tumblr use. These days I tend to come less and less as I'm finding more interesting ways to spend my time and attention, but there are still days here and there where I'm gonna spend a couple of hours on here during the day.

14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once?

Once or twice. Never too bad, never got in any drama.

15. how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts?

Oh fuck those. I either ignore or reblog from someone higher up in the reblog chain.

16. do you like tag games?

They're pretty fun ! Especially if they're image-based or p lightweight. I actually have a backlog of tag games like this one where you just really can't do them on mobile (and I'm on mobile most of the time) so I'm sorry to anyone that tagged me on smth like this and I never did it.

17. do you like ask games?

I don't reblog them often but I like to send some to ppl when I see those getting reblogged.

18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

A couple actually !

@queerlynx has that one Neko Atsume as real cats post that's just huge.

@sassypixiestrashcan got that one solarpunk post going, too.

@p0stmarxed is both famous (many good posts, renowned chef and knife owner, milf) and infamous (turn signal discourse, velociraptor sloppy) on here - a fact I know she despises.

@turing-tested of many good takes, even if he's more known for some of his funnier posts.

@asundergrowth for a bunch of things, even if not all of them on this one blog, because they're talented in more ways than I can count.

19. do you have a crush on a mutual?

If you don't have a slight crush on any of your friends that are on here (and some of your cooler mutuals), you're missing out.

20. tags?

Let's see.. @queerlynx, @jaffre, @elinaline (ik you were already tagged), @p0stmarxed (I don't think I've ever seen you do one of those so I have no idea if you like them or not), @wheatlev, @sassypixiestrashcan, @hatcrufle, @asundergrowth, @cry4judas, @fiul-risipit, @sweetbeansraych, @thatsthenorthstar, @kr1g and @flammedoudoune.

As usual, feel free not to do it if you're not into those.

[catradoraism]

buddy, do me a favor, snd rate fursuit content (art, fics, opinions, etc) just for fun

sure buddy

this was the first fursuit art made (well there are others but the first one in my circle of mutuals) and it’s absolutely horrible. both in quality and the actual content. u can tell this stupid bitch hasn’t drawn a Thing in her life and u know what’s even funnier? she hasn’t even done actual fanart of the kiss/confession so this is technically her only fanart of that scene. does she regret anything? she doesn’t but she should. -4648858/10

this one is by @appsa clearly this one is a fucking renaissance painting. Look at it. michelangelo couldnt paint something as brilliant as this. u can tell the artist put a lot of love and effort in it for some fucking reason. it haunts me both in my dreams and my nightmares. u can see the fear on adora’s face as catra’s gigantic furry paws caress her face. unfortunately well drawn. 3748747584847472192/10

the fic

u rly liked does she-ra hit different?, a fic about jealous catra and adora trying to get her to admit that she ra is sexy? or did u also like five nothing kisses... unless? an absolute masterpiece about catra and adora sharing kisses before the one in the failsafe. canon compliant. well those fics don’t matter this one is the author’s Best she ra fic who cares about the others. it is actually well written which is probably what makes it worse. it’s also rly fucking funny pls read it. i had tears in my eyes in every scene 10000000000000/10

this is a screenshot from @adooruh’s video. should be considered a deleted scene bc as far as i’m concerned, it’s canon. 9999/10

id post tags from every funny reaction but this post would be too long so i’m just gonna put my favourite one. from @catradora-bitch on appsa’s art. “the only light i want to see is the light of heaven” i have religious trauma and even i agree w this statement. but i’m definitely going to hell for this <3 8000/10

a lot of religious imagery in yalls reactions huh. this tag is brought to u by @lxix-cdxx-dclxvi on the fursuit fic. made me snort irl while i was eating and nearly choked on a peanut. 999999/10

this ask is from a beloved mutual. they had no idea what was coming or that i would even actually change my url to fursuitcatra. 8/10

this ask is from my favourite event. the day @shirouogaymi told me i was only the second most cursed out of our mutuals and i decided to,,, remedy that. i lost like fifteen followers that day. if u have been following me for a while u may be familiar w michelle. i’d call her my rival but rivalry would imply equal skill. and i’m clearly the better one. anyway michelle was ranked first and that activated my “win or die” mentality so i changed my url to fursuitcatra to one up her. like the hopelessly in love with me simp she is, she became fursuitadora to match with me. then some of my mutuals and other ppl became fursuitshera, fursuitbow and my favourite bc it’s the worst one, fursuit-shadow-weaver. they’re also the artist of the renaissance painting. anyway this anon was right we Are the worst but it’s okay bc we’re hot <3 anon could’ve been a bit more creative on the hate tho 5/10

there were way too many to add but here are some more of my favourite reactions

[ayankun]

Went crazy and decided to make a font from scratch so that the user can tweak the color palette for all elements of the UI.

The plus side is, it somehow does make the combos instantly funnier.

Here's some more huge screenshots of the behind the scenes.

So I'm using MIT's App Inventor 2 (Blockly), which is free and hugely accessible. Other pros include the color coding and spatial organization, which really help me keep track of the little bits. Cons are that you can't Ctrl+F etc to make global changes, and instead have to tediously click and unclick like a million individual things. I don't think it's intended to be used for huge projects, and I'm trying to keep unique items that need fiddling with to a minimum.

Here's the code for the main screen. The long boi on the left is the first-time set up of the databases when you load up, and the chonky boi on the far right is just for arranging and displaying the two title words (letter by letter btw).

The group of small instructions in the left third is the logic for shuffling the parts of the sentence, adding/formatting the articles (a/an/A/An) as needed, and updating the tense of the description of the plurality of the noun changed. :|

The whole middle bit is the animation physics, mostly logic for determining what happens when what collides with what, and resetting the sprites.

And the stuff to the right of that is from this afternoon, just for slicing up the chosen words to determine which letter needs to be displayed in what order and what color :|||||||

Here's the only other screen, where you set your color/sound preferences etc. V. tidy. The actual UI needs to be worked on, though.

And the font. I'm sure there's more than one way to do a thing, but what I ended up doing was looking up what each of the standard colors resolved to, and named each file appropriately, so I can just pass in the color variable in its native format.

Only 10 more colors to go ..... only 260 more files to tediously upload one at a time .... LOLOLOL I'M DOING THIS FOR FUN

Also on the to-do list:

Add palette presets, like Dark Mode, that will affect the whole app in one step

More sound effects, and re-record some of the ones that are in there

Add an "about" section

Oh, add a first-time-load screen that takes you to the color/animation settings right away

More words in the current sets; more sets

Maybe stats, like "high score" of bumper hits in a round, or possible hidden cheeves for shuffling certain combos?

Maybe fine-tune the gravity on the sprites, but honestly the way they brazenly defy expectations when landing is part of the charm. Please just let it be part of the charm.

[myfriendsarerealidiots]

Comparing Adaptations

‘Kay so I went on one of my whims again and did something stupid. Couple weeks or so ago, I wasn’t really in the mood to watch anime so I opened up Netflix and watched a Cdrama that I wanted to watch for a while now.

That Cdrama was ‘The Untamed’ which, prior to me watching it and doing said whim, I thought was just your typical historic Cdrama. Oh boy I was wrong. As I was watching it, I was thinking to myself, “This show’s really selling itself off as BL.” Which, I found out after finishing it was because it is BL. Hah...and that was just the start of it.

As I was doing my ‘Post-show research,’ I found out that it was based of a novel, called ‘Mo Dao Zu Shi’or as translated by the people on the internet as ‘Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation.’ Said novel had 2 more adaptations along with ‘The Untamed’ which were a manhua and a donghua. So me being me, I decided to watch the donghua adaptation and read both the og novel and manhua.

So how I went through this was...

The Untamed (2019)

The Donghua aka Anime I guess

The Manhua which I read while having class (such a responsible student aren’t I)

The original novel

All hail this person who has too much free time on her hands.

Anyways, as it says on the tin, I’ll be comparing the 4 adaptations/versions of the story and see what changes between them as well as the pros and cons. (Wow I sound so professional)

Some background of myself just to avoid confusion

I am not a mega hardcore Fujoshi. I don’t really enjoy reading smut, nor am I old enough to do so bear that in mind

I have 7 years worth of Chinese lessons under my belt which means I barely understand a thing and that I can get some of the jokes like how Wei Ying’s sword is called ‘Sui Bien’ and it’s funnier to hear in Chinese. In other words, compared to like actual Chinese people who live in China, I pretty much have the knowledge of a 10 year old.

The versions of the Manhua and Novel that I read were translated in English so somethings might have been lost in translation.

I have a bit of a goldfish brain so forgive me if I wrote something wrong or forgot the name of a certain character, most likely I will look it up to correct it but if I don’t...well sorry.

I am writing my opinions on each version as I finish them, so if they don’t link up to the original that’s the reasoning behind it.

All of these are my opinions and thoughts on the story. You are not entitled to follow them if you disagree. I personally believe that everyone has a voice of their own and they should use it. (Even though I don’t half of the time.)

Slight Spoiler Warning

I will be breaking down some of the scenes and characters for my comparisons so please keep that in mind.

The Untamed (2019)

As this was my first exposure to the story, I didn’t know what to expect. I loved everything about it except for the fact that literally half of the show was spent in the past, building context for what was happening in the present.

The characters were lovable and all had distict personalities, especially Wei Ying and Lan Zhan which I guess makes sense since they’re the main characters (their actors are also cute and have good chemistry.) Speaking of characters, Yanli has a more forward role in the story here compared to the other versions. The way certain characters were introduced was different too. Since it’s live action, it’s also harder to show things like extreme blushing and such so it makes Lan Zhan look very stoic and way more unexpressive here than in the other versions.

The soundtrack is nice to listen to, especially with the 2 mains singing the theme song together it’s so cute and gives it another meaning in itself. Although, I do wonder how that poor bamboo flute Wei Ying made in like 2 mins plays decent sounding music. Chen Qing(is this the name of it?), the flute he uses after his trip to the Burial Grounds has the same sound quality as that bamboo flute which is just, “how???”

They took out most of the extreme BL!!! I feel like that is the biggest difference between this version and all the rest. I know they did that to appeal to more people but it does remove some of the context to things. That doesn’t mean the moments that were kept in weren’t cute though. It did make the pair look more plantonic than romantic.

As for the story itself, as a story on its own, it’s nice, as an adaptation that’s where the line gets blurry but it leans more towards the good side. They did indeed change some things, made them work better with the medium than if they didn’t.

An example I can place is the mask. Where the other versions used white make up with oddly placed red circles around the eyes, this one used a mask instead. I agree with the choice they made, seeing as they removed the fact that Mo Xuanyu was homosexual and so the make up wouldn’t make sense. It also looks nicer than what I imagined what could’ve happened with they kept with the make up. They do make a reference to this in the show when Jin Ling and Wei Ying have a conversation in Carp Tower. “You’ve seen my face right?” “How do I know? Your face is always caked in make up or covered by that mask.”

Another issue I had which I’ll touch on later was the first episode—I had no idea what was going on for those 40 minutes of screentime.

Donghua

As of writing this post, season 3 of this has yet to come out.

My first reaction to this was “Man, the animation’s pretty, and they made Wei Ying look scarier.” Watching stuff at 12 in the morning isn’t the best thing but that’s what I do.

Anywho, this version made Wei Ying really attracted to going down the path of ‘evil’ compared to the other versions. I don’t really understand why they made this change...but they did so we have to deal with that. And his eyes glow red!! It makes him look scary and cool at the same time. I love it!!

The transitions between certain events were a bit weird to say the least. For example, at the end of episode 2/3 Wei Ying gets forcibly dragged into the Cloud Recesses and the episode ends there. By the next episode, we’re 16/23/13 however many years in the past. This makes it really confusing for someone who hasn’t watched or read any other version of the story. It definitely made me confused and I already finished one.

While ‘The Untamed’ told us everything in one long flashback, the donghua broke it up into small chunks placed whenever information was needed. I don’t think that was a good idea, but then I also think it was a better decision than what they did for the Cdrama. As I watched this adaptation, I found myself confused from time to time because what happened in the prior episode didn’t always match what happened in the current episode like I mentioned earlier.

As for the artstyle, personally, I think some of the characters look similar minus the hair. However, I do like the little ways they made Lan Zhan express his feelings towards Wei Ying.

Speaking of which, when I first saw them together in this version in the forest near the Goddess Temple, I had to do a bit of a double take because of the height difference which wasn’t so evident in ‘The Untamed’. I soon found out that Lan Zhan was taller than Wei Ying before and after he gets reincarnated(?) Prior, it was just a small gap of 2cm which later turned to 6cm after possessing Mo Xuanyu.

I didn’t notice their height gaps while watching ‘The Untamed’ because Wei Ying’s actor, Xiao Zhan, is taller than Lan Zhan’s actor, Wang Yi Bo by about 2 inches which is like 5 cm? and so they had to do some weird thing with platforms to make Xiao Zhan look shorter in comparison.

Soundtrack wise, I personally think that ‘The Untamed’ was better in that sense. Where it had an amazing souding flute, this one had minor earrape in a nutshell.

This version made itself, in my eyes look more like a historical fighting anime as opposed to the BL vibes I was getting from ‘The Untamed’ and the other versions. They added a lot of action scenes and made the mystery more interesting for me. Along with this, the overall look and feel of this made it seem like it came from a completely different source material.

Manhua

Small FYI, as of writing this post the Manhua is at 147 Chapters.

(I should’ve kept up the trend and got a screenshot from that scene in the Manhua but I didn’t so here we are with gay rabbits.)

As your local internet friend who reads more manga than normal books nowadays, I enjoyed reading the manhua and finished it in a couple days.

Compared to the first 2 versions here, these last 2 are both things that you have to read to get through, albeit one has pictures and one doesn’t.

While normally, one would read silently, I like listening to music while I do. And seeing as the OST of ‘The Untamed’ sounds really nice, I listened to it while reading both the manhua and novel when I could.

This one brought out the BL elements that were missing from the first 2. They gave Wei Ying and Lan Zhan a lot of kissing or just straight up affectionate scenes which I think ties in with the general theming of the original novel more.

As this one is probably the closest of the adaptations to the original, it’s the least confusing to read, although that might’ve been influenced by my experiencing the story for the third time at this point. I say that, however, there were many story elements that weren’t present in either one prior to this.

Examples this can be seen with their collecting of body parts that belonged to the former Nie Sect Leader. In ‘The Untamed’ they find the sword spirit which guides them through the rest of the story. In the Donghua adaptation, they get the arm, but also get the head of the the Jin with the hundred holes curse which was an original addition. Here, they get the arm from Mo Manor, find the other one then find the torso and so on before finding the head in Jin GuangYao’s possession.

The flashbacks in this version were also executed really well, in my opinion, as it doesn’t feel super confusing while reading it and it gives just enough information to help the events unfold. It also gives us a chance to see how much of an ass(sorry) Wei Ying was when he was the Yiling Patriach from his own perspective as well as give us a moment of WangXian in the middle of all that chaos.

Novel

Here’s a picture of gay rabbits for everyone.

At this point, I was switching between the novel and the Manhua to read whichever one I wanted at any given time which might have blurred my sense of what belonged in each one so I’ll try my best to make sure.

Since this one is the original source material, it was clear from the get go that this will be the one with the least confusing version of events and the most amount of detail.

I was surprised on how close the manhua and ‘The Untamed’ was to the novel. Although, the former condensed the mystery to fit within the timeframe while the latter hasn’t finished just yet.

Personally, I like this author, and will probably read more of her works further down the line. Even though the version I read was in english, I still could feel the meaning behind certain aspects which I think shows her skill as an author.

The novel clearly shows the mischief that goes through Wei Ying’s head and their gradual (I say gradual but I think Lan Zhan just snapped) change of attitudes towards each other.

Arc One- Mo Manor

Past here I’ll break down the first arc of each one because I think all of them did it in relatively different ways. Be warned for spoilers if you haven’t watched or read all of them.

The Untamed (2019)

Out of all of these versions, this one definitely had me scratching my head in confusion the most even after watching it a second time once I finished the entire show.

As the only version that had the curse issued at the start as a moving factor of the story as well as the Yin Iron which was specifically made for this version, it didn’t explain enough at the start.

There were many things I could say were wrong about this beginning, from starting at a flashback to not properly introducing us to our characters but the biggest problem in my mind was the lack of explanation at the present.

Like I mentioned, starting at a flashback is a terrible idea as it gives the viewer high expectations only for it to be crushed the second it ends. Here, it shows a small portion of the battle at the Nightless City without much context then it quickly changes to 16 years later with a seemingly random group of people.

Another issue is the amount of useless characters who were introduced. In the other versions, there were only 2 Lan disciples who were given names and were introduced properly while here there were more than I want to count. Add to that the one telling stories about the YiLing Patriarch and the weird guy walking around with a flag, and you got yourself total confusion.

Donghua

This one was slightly less confusing to watch. As it starts with a clip of Wei Ying commanding corpses which matches the overall feel of the donghua. The rumors that he died stretched over the time skip and we meet this version of Mo Xuanyu who is caked with make up, whether or not he was a cut-sleeve (gay) in this version, I forgot.

It fully explains the curse and instead of having a couple of Lan disciples just standing there watching, we get to focus on the 2 important ones, Lan Sizhui and Lan JiYing. It gives us a slightly deeper insight into Wei Ying’s mind, as he states ‘you got the wrong one,’ just after being reincarnated, indicating that he isn’t as vicious as painted by the first few minutes of the show. Like the other versions, they also show how he considers the cons of using his demonic abilities and that Sizhui would probably tell on him to Lan Zhan, meaning that Sizhui was a keen, observant young man.

Manhua and the Novel

As for the introductions, these two were very similar. Both have the rumors of the Yiling Patriarch across the screen as we get further down the story and meet our main character.

It gets the details from the Donghua adaptation and mixes it with more information to create a more detailed account of what was happening, also making this Wei Ying seem smarter compared to his counterparts in other versions. He also hesitates more on showing his abilities, knowing that he’s going to be caught if he does.

Final Thoughts

As of writing this, I’m only halfway through the novel but it covers the portion until where the manhua is currently at. I would finish reading it before posting this but it would take too long and probably make this post even longer than it currently is, which isn’t such a good idea. If I had much more patience and effort I would really like to break down each arc and their differences from one another but I can’t be bothered right now. (Sorry)

I can safely say that in terms of adaptations, ‘The Untamed’ is relatively close to the novel, albeit a very condensed version. As flashback filled as it is, it wasn’t very confusing to watch past the first two episodes.

The Donghua adaptation takes several liberties, going more of an action oriented route instead of the calmer more, I wouldn’t say love but character oriented novel.

The manhua is definitely the closest to the novel, so if you really don’t want to read a lot of words, and I mean a lot of words, then go ahead and read it.

What else do I have to say...if you’re new to the story, welcome, if you’re a veteran who’s been here longer than me, sorry for taking up space on your feed. And congrats for making it to the end.

[carlatsukinamistolemyhamsandwich]

Facial expression ask from the ask game, I‘m too dumb and lazy to search for the emoji😂

That’s understandable lol, thanks for the ask!

✿ Which boy makes the funniest facial expression?

I had to think about this one but ultimately I decided to go with Kino for this expression:

The other boys have surprised expressions but Kino’s is just the peak of “Oh shit” and I find it hilarious (also having Carla glaring at him in the background of this screenshot makes it 10 times funnier).

[minervamagicka]

CC Creator Question Tag

I was on a CC bender and saw the talented @murfeelee doing this, and of course, I think it’s bloody fantastic, so here are my answers. It was actually pretty fun to do, all things considered.

Under a read-me so I don’t bomb some dashboards with long paragraphs.

1. What was the hardest project you’ve worked on so far?

Honestly, the Wrench CC I released a while back. This was mainly because no pre-ripped models from Watch_Dogs 2 exist, which meant I had to export models from my own copy of the game. Now, normally, this isn’t an awful fate or particularly hard for me to have to do, but for the love of God, Ubisoft makes it HARD to sift through their game files. That was probably the hardest part of making that set, mainly because I couldn’t find the poor guy’s textures and spent way too long having to blindly search through W_D2′s files.

  2. How long have you been creating cc?

Eh, I don’t know, 2016? 2015? I did private recolours and such earlier but I really got into the heavy stuff when The Witcher 3 came out and I wanted to start converting clothing, which is how my earlier abominations came about when I started heavily experimenting with meshes and rigging. I’ve done stuff in Garry’s Mod previously -- Damn it, Valve, I want to learn how to rig for Source but it’s TOO HARD -- involving .obj files and the like so I had some prior knowledge of modelling programs, but little knowledge of how to apply it to the Sims 3. A lot of my education was trial and error.

3. What’s your most favourite thing you’ve created?

GARRUS.

Call me the staples button because that was easy to determine. I don’t even know why I decided to start working on that project, I think it was a mix of fascination and hard-on for Mass Effect at the time, and also to see if it was possible with how I understood the Sims 3′s functions. And, well, it was! It was also so different than other CC I had seen coming out, and involved a beloved character... Perfect storm for me to be proud.

4. What’s your most hated thing you’ve created?

As cliche as it sounds, I really don’t like the job I did on Triss’ outfit from the Witcher 3, which was my first piece of CC on this Tumblr. I am 100% going to go back and re-do that (And more) just to make up for how trash I think I handled that outfit, to bring it up to my current standard of quality. In fact, I might start on that now.

5. What inspires you to create?

Honestly? Lack of what I wanted. Unless I’ve received a request for something, 100% of the time, when I release something, it’s because I wanted it in my game. Also that I want my fandom OCs to be dressed properly in clothes from their universes, damn it.

6. What gets you unmotivated to do anything or to delete your project?

When I hit a roadblock I can’t overcome no matter what I try. I generally have ‘systems’ I can run myself through when making CC, especially conversions -- ‘Oh, that doesn’t work? Cool, I’ll just try this..’. -- But when that fails too that’s when I’m like ‘Welp, time for a work-around to the work-around!’ and by that, I usually mean finding an alternative means of getting the effect I want.

7. What’s one thing you wish you knew how to do/do better?

Making actual sims. Most of the time I’m pretty insecure/worried about how my Sims stack up to others, and tend to overcompensate for that by decking them out in custom CC that makes them speshul.

8. How long does it usually take you to make something?

That sort of depends. If I want it, and I want it now? I can have an outfit in-game in 3 or so hours, and that’s working nonstop on it. That doesn’t necessarily guarantee it being perfect the first time around, but I’ve streamlined my outfit conversion process down to the point it takes me no time at all.

9. Is there a certain schedule you stick to when publishing?

Seeing as this blog was literally dead for half a year because I didn’t want to put anything out... No, not really. Whenever it’s done.

10. Your favorite programs to work with?

I would be lost without Blender. Seriously. Without Blender I’d be screwed. Milkshape and Photoshop take a close second as I use all three at once in my creation process.

11. Who do you look up to (creator wise)?

@kurasoberina was always an inspiration, but I think a lot of people can say that :^)

12. How many projects do you have at the moment?

Good joke, kid. Uhhhh. Currently, I would classify my crusade to convert Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate objects and clothing to be my project, and there are various subprojects under that -- Assassin attire, Victorian-era attire/props & then the attire and props from the hidden WW1 segment of the game. Right now, focused more on the Assassin attire and the WW1 objects because that’s where my OC is, lmao.

13. Screenshot your wips folder (if you have one)

Take me out to dinner, first.

Yes, the New Folder thing is real. Yes, I actually use that as an organizational system. Yes, it works for me. It’s best not to ask how or why. The name of my WIP folder is funnier, tbh.

14. Do you plan on creating for a long time or is there a certain period you know you’ll stop?

I don’t see myself stopping until it becomes completely unviable to do, I.E. TS3 becomes too outdated or something. Maybe my public releases will slow down -- Hell, they already have, but I still want nice clothes in my game.

15. What helps you keep focus during your creating process?

I have Spotify character playlists that I listen to when I’m doing conversions for a particular character -- I.E. I listened to Ayessa’s playlist whilst doing her outfit. Or I throw on Netflix. Actually, weird as it sounds, when I really want to focus I put an episode of Ghost Adventures on, because watching 3 surfer dudes yell at the Devil is surprisingly helpful.

Not sure how many CC creators follow me, but I’d love to see any of you guys give this a try too. Could be fun.

[ak-fantasies]

Tonight

EXO Baekhyun

Pairing: Baekhyun x Reader

Genre: Angst (?)

Song of Inspiration: Winner - Tonight

(This is in Baekhyun’s POV)

A/N: If you all would like me to write this in the reader’s POV, let me know. I had just finished my finals so I’m using some free time to write some one-shots here and there.

I sit up on my bed, looking at the person next to me. I bit my lips, feeling my heart drop. I looked at her face but all I can see is _________. I inhale before sighing. I could feel a sharp pain on my heart. All I could do was look at the girl next to me currently and imagine _________. Recently I’ve been thinking about _________. I remember when I used to like this current girl and was sick of __________.

“Baekhyun!” I heard _________’s voice, making me rolled my eyes. I was tired and honestly was sick of _________ always nagging at me.

“Hi _________..” I looked at her and gave a small fake smile. __________ and I have been dating for about 2 years but recently she’s been really annoying. I also met with my friends the other night and he introduced me to a few of his friends. I managed to convince __________ to let me go since it was a friend that I haven’t seen in a long time. There I met another girl, Minhye, and we instantly hit it off. We got each other’s contact and from then I’ve been texting her non-stop, without _________’s knowledge of course. She trusts me and doesn’t need to know about me texting her.

“What’s wrong?” She asked and I shook my head. I felt a vibrate and turned on my phone. It was the other girl. I quickly unlocked my phone and texted her back.

“Who are you texting?” She asked and I shrugged putting my phone in my pocket.

“Just my friend,” I replied, I’m not technically lying.

“Who?” ___________ asked, annoying me a bit.

“Taeyeon.,” I said, lying this time. __________ knew that Taeyeon and I were friends so I hoped that she wouldn’t ask more questions. I wasn’t in the mood to answer any more questions. I had just finished a mid-term and just wanted to relax.

“What are you two talking about?” She gave me a small smile and I just rolled my eyes.

“Homework.” I gave a quick reply. __________ quietly nods her head and was in a cheery mood. I sighed and we both walked home together. She softly took a hold of my hand which I pulled away.

“We in public. Remember what I said?” I looked at her and she pouts. She sighs nodding her head.

“I know.. But I barely get to hold your hands anymore.” __________ said. I had entered a university away from my hometown, __________ being only a year younger had stayed behind. We kept our relationship long distance before she had moved to the same college as me to be with me. My parents didn’t accept our relationship though, so we decided to keep it a secret. I didn’t want any of my friends to find out because I had wanted to stay in a relationship with _________ and I was afraid that they would tell my family. We stopped showing skinship in public.

“Well, you know we can’t..” I said, sighing. She sighed.

“ I know… I know.”

I just shook my head, annoyed and sick with being with her. __________ was annoying and I just didn’t want to deal with it.

Later that night

I had been texting Minhye and I started to really like her. Well, I could tell she really likes me. She invited me to go shopping with her family and since there was a break coming I decided to go. We even Skyped and her personality was cute. It was different from when I’m with __________. I used to think that __________ had a funny, cute personality but I don’t really see it that way. She just became so annoying and honestly, I really think Minhye was funnier and cuter. I screenshot our Skype call and it captured Minhye’s smile so beautifully.

The next morning I had been half awake and sort of out of it. My mother had called me and I let it slipped about me and __________. My mother was furious but she told me that she wanted me to talk to this other girl that is the daughter of her friend. My friend was rich so because ___________ wasn’t in the upper class, my family didn’t like her. I sighed, I mean I did feel sad because I really do love __________ even if she had gotten annoying. Plus it’s not like I would’ve gotten with Minhye because I care for __________ and don’t want to hurt her. I had to tell _________ later that day and she put up a smile and said that she would be okay. I trusted that she will, she was strong.

The next day I went with Minhye and her family to the shopping plaza. I figured that __________ worked, so I didn’t text her at all. I muted her messages and had my time. I had found out that Minhye was the girl that my mother wanted to talk to. I got to hold her hand that day and posted it on my snapchat. I didn’t get home until 10 almost 11 and that's when I decided to text ___________. She should understand that things were going to be different and I had talked to her. ___________ and I had boring conversations and that was fine for us but not things are different. I had been texting Minhye for about 2 weeks non-stop and I could tell she liked me. I found out that she had a boyfriend for 1 year and had recently just broken up with him. She told me that she had lost feelings for him a few months ago. I haven’t made things cleared about me and ____________’s relationship. We haven’t broken up yet, so we were considered a couple.

I saw __________ less than usual and spent most of my time with Minhye. But __________ had texted me today asking to talk. I figure it was time for us to really talk and be clear about where we are at.

Tonight I had a lot on my mind. I realized that I never really knew how hurt _________ was and I don’t know if I would ever really know. __________ had always smiled around everyone, always hiding her vulnerability. Though there are times where she would just cry to me and I don’t like it when she cries. I don’t know how to comfort her but I try my best. It hurts me to see __________ cry. She had cried when I told her that my mother wanted me to talk to Minhye, she cried when she wanted to be cleared with our standing in the relationship but in the end, she would tell me that she was okay. I started to doubt her but I also knew that she would be. We agreed to be close friends like brothers and sister. She had still cared for me and I still cared for her. Though I am unsure if it’s out of guilt or out of my love for her. I looked at Minhye, who is by side. I don’t like this feeling tonight. I thought it was easy since I had started developing feelings for Minhye but now I feel like crying. Right now Minhye looks just like ___________. Tonight, I felt lonely when I held Minhye I longed for _________. A sad night tonight and __________ won’t ever come back tonight.

The next morning I went to her apartment, knocking. I wanted to know that memories of me didn’t die. I wanted to see her again. I knocked again, no answer.

“__________… It’s Baekhyun... Please answer. Are you there? Give me an answer.” I said, continuously knocking. No answer. All I want is an answer. I miss her. The ache in my heart misses our conversation, our memories, our love, everything we had. I missed how annoying she would be to me. I miss her and I want to see her. But it’s not going to bring her back. ___________ isn’t coming back anymore.

I met up with Minhye after she had finished her classes. I looked into her eyes, but all I could think about was ___________.

[chromemuffin]

Quan Zhi Gao Shou / The King’s Avatar Manhua (Chapters 6-10)

Onto the next five chapters! Thank you to everyone who read my weird ramblings in the first part!

There will probably be some overlap between this liveblog and my liveblog of the novel, but I’ll try to minimize it.

Chapter 6: Thief Shouting Thief

How nice of you to offer to help dry clean his coat, Chen Guo! 

xD Ye Xiu’s “Oh...” reaction.

Ah, so he actually said this through audio. I couldn’t tell when I read this part in the novel. That makes it funnier, him saying it with that flat expression. And Sleeping Moon’s “Hello my ASS” comment haha.

Decided to live up to that ‘shameless’ label, I see. The funny thing about this being in-game is that you can have that comedic moment of Sleeping Moon pointing up at the banner and have it not be a sort of fourth wall thing you’re supposed to ignore for the sake of the story. Like, the notification can actually be on screen here.

Did you not learn your lesson, like you really think you can screw him over, haha.

The names aren’t as fun this time around, though: Drifting Water, Sunset Clouds, Seven Fields. I think these guys have more experience than the previous party though, so perhaps that is meant to reflect that.

lol this time, no one is fooled. I love the chibis. Everyone’s expressions are really great throughout this thing, actually.

Actually it’d be better to say: use him for hard labor, then kick him out.

I LOVE THE HONESTY. AND THE IRONY.

You actually made your in-game avatar yawn. I know it’s a first person game and this is technically just an expression of the characters in real life for the benefit of the readers, but.

There was no way to represent the hilarity of these panels without screenshotting them all. Their progression through the cave, each expression changing with each panel, the little “being careful” vs. “vigorous strides”. I love how they’re so on edge, and Ye Xiu is looking bored. And Sleeping Moon looks like a scary imp.

I need to make icons of all the funny expressions made in this manhua or something.

lol after their wild theorizing on how he could be that good or pull off those combos, they then go “you know what, we shouldn’t piss this guy off” to being in awe of his skill.

Chapter 7: A Showdown in Spider Cave

T-the little chibi characters trying to climb up giant Lord Grim...it’s so cute.

LITTLE MOON MOON. I actually remember this from the animation, but it’s still hilarious.

AH. It’s Blue Brook Guild’s arrival on scene...They’re half the reason I got so confused with all the names in the first place. Their names all follow a theme and they’re too similar urgh. Ok. I’ll get it straight this time.

Pretty boy here is Blue River, yes?

Lol, DRAMATIC FIRST KILL CLAIMING SHOT--

Oh, never mind someone beat you to it!

lol someone who’s not freaking out about it right this moment. I liked Blue River in the animation, he was a fun character.

Chapter 8: Seizing first kill by ten seconds’ lead

They needed 11 ellipses for the silence that befell them after they were done killing the boss.

And back with the ragtag team with Lord Grim...they’re singing his praises up the wall. 

Poor Little Moon Moon. Why do I keep screencapping him? His super dejected expressions are gold, that’s why.

He’s a far cry from his confident, smug first appearance:

remember when he had some class?? xD

Ah, I remember when everyone started calling him Little Moon Moon too xD I love how no one even listens when he threatens them to stop calling him that.

We’re all adults here. Don’t be childish. It’s just a game. Don’t let this upset you.

words of wisdom to live by. too bad a lot of people are so horrible at this irl.

Blue River’s manhua version is so pretty...I have a weakness for bishounen characters, ok. Even if he’s currently just a character in a game and I don’t know what his real life character looks like.

OH GOD. it’s the nice ones that snap first.

I wish they would decide whether they want to censor curse words or not...I’m not going crazy, am I? It was spelled out some chapters ago.

CHEN GUO. “You don’t want to live anymore!?” She went to sleep, got up in the morning when it’s nice and sunny, and he’s still playing...Furthermore, he’s teamed up with the guy who trash talked him and everyone is willingly giving up drops to him. No wonder she’s bewildered.

I mean, it’s stopped absolutely no one before, but yes he has a point.

“You not only transformed your foes, you made them your followers as well!?”

The madness and shenanigans of the 10th server are just beginning.

What a handsome Ye Xiu. You do not look like you pulled an all-nighter. You should be dead on your feet.

But aww, Chen Guo fixed up the spare room for him. She did feel bad about it earlier, I remember from the novel.

Uh, is he taking his shirt off to sleep in the middle of winter...? he didn’t bring a change of clothes or anything either.

Chapter 9: I was exiled to to the Qin Mountains in the autumn wind

What’s with the chapter title this time around? I think I’m missing so many references here.

The press conference and announcement of Ye Qiu’s retirement was a strong moment in the animation, and it’s presented nicely here as well. The look on Ye Xiu’s face is particularly painful, as he stands alone in the back of the room essentially watching the last 7 years of his life summed up on screen.

As well as Chen Guo being absolutely devastated that her idol retired. Haha, he’s still coming out right and telling her his identity, but she doesn’t believe him.

The irony in asking if he wants tissues to cry over Ye Qiu’s retirement, and he says “Why would I? How could I ever cry?” when he really has the most cause to cry out of anyone at that moment.

For someone who was never into publicity and stuff, he has a suuper charismatic smile apparently. Look at that thing.

omg yeah I remember now, Sleeping Moon being a fan of Ye Qiu and depressed that he retired. Must be so awkward for Ye Xiu.

Speaking of awkward, he feels awkward having to keep relying on the others, in his words ‘free labor’ lol. I don’t think his feelings were so clear in the animation.

Wow, these skeletons are well-drawn. And wonderfully gross.

Chapter 10: At the blue bridge, you returned to Changan with the spring snow

Had to take this page directly, I wanted to get a better look at all the character designs. Aaah, I really love the designs. All the little details~

Ooh, so this is where the manhua works in its explanation of the weapon types. Nice little graphics to go with it too.

Was this the best image to pick to go along with the idea of ‘professional research facility to create silver weapons’...?

So Blue River is Blue Bridge Spring Snow, but in the 10th server. Thaaat’s not confusing at all. (his name is a reference to the chapter title which is a line from a poem, right?)

T-the Cleric’s name is Bound Boat...

I didn’t recognize her at first either. HAHA Ye Xiu was also surprised.

I do like Chen Guo’s explanation why she doesn’t think Ye Qiu should retire, she’s quite perceptive and analytical. Even though this is her idol, she sees that his performance hasn’t been good and that was probably why Excellent Era used him as a scapegoat over the years (apparently more than once).

Once again, the designs are so nice. And we get a little sneak peek of the real people behind the characters.

lol Ye Xiu not listening to Chen Guo at all. SHE WAS ONTO SOMETHING, TOO.

“But that machine’s the server!” “I’m the boss.” hehe Chen Guo is too much.

“I forgot to read the guide.”

oh no. so much for mr. textbook player.

← back・onward →

[walks-the-ages]

m gonna assume @bongwatershots who messaged me an entire rant calling me a coward and about how i was "exposing csa survivors to stuff like this" is the same person as @Vampireloveintrest AND @grandpasarmchair , since they adnitted in your screenshot above that vampire love interest is one of their side blogs so yeah if you get a really ranty long insult filled rant in your inbox from someone named bong water shots pretty sure it's the same person cuz they decided that because I didn't respond to them while I was at work all day for 10 hours in the pandemic that I'm "a coward who is intent on exposing my followers to kink"

Like???? Hello??????

Posting a screenshot of someone with an ace icon using a pacifier under their mask and saying you want to murder them in the streets is not "calling someone out" or "being nasty" as they liked to phrase it.

Autistic people use pacifiers, autistic people use chewy necklaces, autistic people stim in different ways. In ZERO ways on their post did Toast Potent talk about why they wanted to murder this person, except for the fact that them being Ace made it even funnier and more offensive somehow.

They're trying to defend Toast Potent, and literally ALL they had to do (including toast potent) was inform their followers of what the person in the screenshot was doing. Toast potent is a fucking INFAMOUS aphobe , do you really expect every person that saw that screenshot to not assume this was a Known Bigot asking for autistic ace people to be murdered?

HALODITE, A FUCKING INFAMOUS BLOG, MADE THE ORIGINAL POST. Are you really trying to say fucking HALODITE wasn't advocating to hunt down autistic and ace people in the street?

Because autistic people exist. Autistic people that use Pacifiers and chew necklaces to stim orally exist. Autistic people face ableism every single fucking day. All you had to do was politely inform people "hey this person is running an 18+ account, this is probably a kink thing" but even before you knew that for sure you were defending toast potent and Halodite! You literally had to go *digging* through someone's Twitter feed to find evidence to back up your claim that Toast Potent wasn't being ableist and aphobic, when they're reblogging from KNOWN ableists and aphobes, with zero mention on ANY forms of this post about what it is their mocking.

For your free blocklist: @bongwatershots , @vampireloveintrest, and @grandpasarmchair ,

All three run by the same person by their own admission, block evading, leaving rants full of insults in my inbox, and being so desperate to defend known bigots they're going to act like *everyone* should *obviously* know exactly what littlefur means instead of explaining it in the first place! And from all of their original responses to the post as vampire love interest it's pretty clear that they did not have any actual knowledge of what little ferment or any of this information that they're now bringing to the table they literally just wanted to defend known bigots and they then had to go out of their way to search up evidence as to why we shouldn't be blocking these known bigots for this particular post they didn't even know this in the first place that they had to go digging for it specifically they were looking for a reason to defend known bigots and to justify what they said from known bigots who had at no point on their blog and any indication of what exactly they wanted to hunt this person for sport for except for the fact that they were Ace and exhibiting what's it literally anybody's eyes was autistic traits.

Also really gotta love how they ONLY respond exclusively in the notes instead of reblogging for everyone to see and easily interact with, and the fact that they're respondong from THREE SEPERATE ACCOUNTS to continue the ""conversation"" lol.

Toastpotent is an aphobe

Okay, noted, but as an aspec person on Tumblr I just kind of ignore that 60% of the funny people are aphobes lol.

I want to have fun on this website lol

[fly-pow-bye]

Powerpuff Girls 2016 - “I’ll Be Bake” & “Blissfully Unaware”

No, I wasn't unaware of these. Part 1 of 2 of the four shorts they put up alongside Power of Four!

I’ll Be Bake

Wow, that is a lazy pun. Such laziness is not unfitting for this short, really.

As the title implies, this episode is all about baking. It would be a good break from the norm if the Reboot Puffs doing normal things in this reboot wasn't the norm. I'd be fine with this if it was doing the norm in a superhero way, but it's not going to be very apparent in this short.

The short starts with Blossom preparing to bake a cake. Bubbles and Buttercup show up, holding vases. They argue over which vase is more priceless, and immediately break them as soon as they see Blossom. Already, this short establishes that Bubbles and Buttercup are going to be on the insufferable end of their new personalities.

Bubbles and Buttercup beg Blossom to have them help her bake that cake, which she allows, but only if Bubbles and Buttercup are filling to follow the steps precisely. There is a potential for comedy there, though it never really pays off.

We also learn that she's making it for Student Council, in that wording. This is the only line in the short that raises any sense of urgency, but it does raise a question: didn't she forfeit the Student Council in Presidential Punchout? Maybe she could have meant making the cake for the Student Council, possibly to appease them to give up one of their seats, or maybe this is something the writers didn't think about. I'm going with the latter.

As predictable as it is, the rest of the episode is essentially just a bunch of scenes where Blossom tries to tell them something to do, and Bubblescup ruins it somehow. I say "Bubblescup", but one thing I can give this short over Bubbles Beauty Blog (But On Video) is that they try to give them things to mess up the cake in ways that fit their character.

For example, when asked for milk, Bubbles persumably steals a cow. She did have that habit of bringing random animals to the Powerpuff household in Helter Shelter, but I think it's more of an "oh, that silly Bubbles" joke. There's also Buttercup using tons of mixers with the butter, leading to a shot of a window getting covered in butter. Like blood! That's the closest this short gets to a joke I can recognize. Oh, and she says this before she does it:

Buttercup: Hasta la vista, budda.

Oh, so that's why it's called I'll Be Bake! It has a random Terminator reference! After Bubbles and Buttercup decide to play with the icers instead of using it to ice the cake, she's had it. What is she going to do? Is she going to inspire them to use their creativity in a good way? Is the cake just going to be ruined?

No, she just ties them up with duct tape, and finishes the cake herself. At least duct tape a step up from ordinary rope and rubber bands. What lesson did we really learn here? Don't let incompetent people work on anything?

This is pretty much that Bubbles Beauty Blog short, but with cooking instead of fashion, and it's Blossom being tormented instead of Bubbles. I don't look back at that episode too fondly, either. Other than some cutesy scenes that are somewhat relatable, as hard as calling anything in this reboot cute can be, this short just felt pointless in the end.

Blissfully Unaware

Oh yeah, I’m unaware of any bliss when it comes to this show, but that's not the bliss they're talking about.

But first, this short starts with an overly muscled chef named Chef Mussel. He's all about flexing his muscles, and adding a pinch of salt. For a show about little girls that can do feats of strength despite looking like cutesy little girls, they sure like muscle-related humor. At least there's some humor in the contrast.

If you haven’t guessed, this short involves everyone’s favorite character, Bliss. Just assume this happened between Bliss appearing and Bliss moving Saturn all by herself by just how amazingly not powerful she is. It really does sound like an exaggeration, but that’s actually what happens. Bliss can move entire planets, while the Powerpuff Girls you all know and love can be stopped by duct tape!

We get to know one more thing about Bliss the special didn't get into: she likes pizza. She asks the Professor if he's making pizza, and he says she's close.

The Professor is actually making something called Broccoli A La Grossier, which is filled with all the things that make 6-year-olds, and apparently 16-year-olds, squirm: broccoli, brussel sprouts, and parsnip sprouts! You know it's gross when they have to use actual photographs!

Bubbles: That’s more sprouts than I can count with my fingers!

I hope the joke is that she can only count to zero. Bliss isn't a big fan of the brocolli-based dish, either. I guess she was on an island for 10 years, so I should cut her some slack on never learning to eat her greens, or beat them for that matter. So she decides to do a plan.

While the last short was about throwing a bunch of jokes and hoping one of them sticks, this one focuses on one joke, for the short's benefit. She telekinetically moves all of the healthy food away. That sitcom dad ends up being blissfully unaware that his replacements aren't necessarily healthy. I can't say the title doesn't fit!

Bliss and the girls, their involvement is so little in this short that they might as well have a "and the rest" credit, remain smiling throughout this, acting like innocent little angels. That screenshot looks really important for some reason!

We get a montage of Bliss magically swapping the ingredients, and the chef saying things that remind me of the "Stir, Whip, Stir" scene from the Star Wars Holiday Special. PPG 2016 reminding me of great things, let me tell you. At least it's slightly funnier due to how over the top the chef is, though that's not a high bar to clear.

...the Rude Broccoli is finished, which looks suspiciously like a deep dish meat lover's pizza. Of course, the Professor looks at this, and, in a shocking twist, he doesn’t notice a thing even after staring at it. On one hand, he did say pizza was close to what he was going to make. He's happy to see the girls happy, and he promises that he'll make broccoli every night, causing them to gag. Maybe even the girls knew Bliss was temporary.

I found this better than I'll Be Bake, even if most of it is on a technicality. At least it involves a superheroine using superpowers, something that was extremely rare in the last short. I would complain about the Professor being the oblivious sitcom dad rather than the genius he should be, but that's sadly consistent with his character in the reboot.

I probably could have done all four shorts in one go, but then I’d have nothing for next Saturday. Also, I needed the break so I could use more time to study for my midterms. See you next week!

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[itsbenedict]

So today I spent approximately all day (to the exclusion of even the exercise i was supposed to do on my off day) playing Miitopia. Yeah. I got that thing and played it. I got through the first third of the game, hoping to do so before one in the morning but failing to do so because AGH

I’VE NEVER FELT SO MUCH PURE AGONY AT THE SIGHT OF A FORK ON THE ROAD THAN I HAVE WHILE PLAYING THIS GAME. WHY DO I NEED TO PLAY THESE FEATURELESS LEVELS THREE OR FOUR TIMES BEFORE THEY’RE COMPLETE. HAVE MERCY.

i’ve got a bunch of miis but also a bunch of roles i still need to fill- friends with OC miis, please send QR codes my way if you’ve got them

anyway here comes miitopia screenshot dump/adventure log

the autofilled streetpass pick for the tutorial character was so good that i didn’t bother changing it. “Carefree Guide Introducing Player Character To The Starting Town”, go.

i only had one granny available, so i guess helen’s gotta be here instead of doing something funnier later

i got malky’s DISTRUST miis all up in this. here is Mizushima Yuu scaring the daylights outta me

or i guess Heterodyne Yuu, because there were only so many characters i had available who were inventors and also potentially moms. sorry, agatha, them’s the breaks! you gotta deal with this kid!

designated pronouns can kiss my ass, harold

later oshiro rewards me with 10 gold for saving his entire face. what a fuckin cheapskate this guy is.

who let this man run a town???

then again, i could say that for pretty much any of the miis in my collection, so, alright monsieur voltaire, you are the least unqualified candidate here! congratulations!

AND THEN A FINAL BOSS ATTACKED

evil intern Mell W. Kelly is moving up in the world!

(...i’m gonna be honest, i was planning to make myself the Dark Lord and put someone else in as player character, but then i saw the pop star outfits and couldn’t resist.)

look at her. she’s so happy to be terrorizing the planet. helen would be proud.

then i got to choose my class, and... there really wasn’t any other choice.

look how fucking rad the male pop star’s starting outfit is??? i’m living the karamatsu aesthetic. hell yes.

shortly, my first party member joins me! i was planning to have him show up later, but the team i had planned for the first leg of the journey... well, i didn’t know that all the classes weren’t unlocked from the start, so my dream team is going to have to wait.

so instead, i recruit a space pirate.

welcome to the party’s Thief, Peter Vonn! with the amazing ability to Stab Everybody At Once.

also jesus christ the way i set up the eyes causes BIG PROMBLEMS with certain expressions

the third party member is...

Lisa Bradley, aka Paladin, from Strong Female Protagonist! It... turned out there wasn’t exactly a proper Paladin class, so the joke fell a little flat. but still! she’s gonna win!

then Mell came by to blast us into microscopic debris, but 

SHSL Philosopher is basically the same thing as “Great Sage”, right? the party’s verdict:

(if you haven’t read Strong Female Protagonist, Paladin is being an entirely in-character amount of gay right now)

(if you haven’t read Parhelion, Peter is being an entirely in-character amount of gay right now)

anyway, then it was time for the fourth party member to show up- but i realized that all the lesbians in my collection who weren’t underage, which would have left Lisa high and dry. i ventured forth to Mii Central to find a community-created perfect match

ms. pauling gets to be a cleric because there’s no “assassin” or “bureaucrat” class so far, and my party needs a healer badly. she’s going to room with Lisa and they are going to be the world’s deadliest power couple.

so that’s the party for part 1! me, Peter Vonn, Paladin, and Ms. Pauling. Kind of a motley crew, honestly! but i made it work.

oh, and. here begins the unintentional but in hindsight inevitable story of how i get ruthlessly seduced by a space pirate.

 a space pirate wearing a purple duck costume. Vonn, please.

Vonn, please.

VONN, PLEASE.

VONN, YOU’RE TOO SMOOTH, STOP

VONN, HOLY FUCK

anyway those things happened over the course of the plot, wherein we eventually reached the castle. the castle had guards. the initial selections were...

questionable.

for the guard who blocks your progress and won’t let you pass, i, uh. made a decision.

because. of the line where he goes. y’know. on the bridge. to the balrog? that one? that line? is the joke? i’m. sorry.

for the other guards...

a cushy job, except for the part where you get beaten up by demons later! sorry about that one.

at one point i got a haircut and it was FUCKING fantastic. i didn’t know that these weren’t permanent and only lasted for the scene where you show them off, and you would not BELIEVE how disappointed i was.

then we met the king, and i didn’t have any great ideas for him- so i went to Mii Central and looked through the popular choices again. and i found one that turned out to be on the popular choices list for a REASON

i also met the princess, but i’m not going to show her just yet, because for the love triangle, i decided to go with a certain infamous trio of podcast adventurers, and i’d like to preserve the mounting sense of dread as the identity of the princess is discovered via process of elimination

here’s number one:

it is SO hard to make a mii for Magnus Burnsides when the mii maker doesn’t have any fuckin sideburns options whatsoever

some miscellaneous scenes from the adventure:

workout sesh feat. matching outfits. god damn, vonn. how do you set these things up?

Vonn finally becomes a pirate

the game had me be like “haha just kidding” after this but, no, come on, this is exactly in-character, thank you very much

also i got the best outfit in the fucking game

fuckin. look at this. i’m ripped as hell, wearing a teal lamé outfit feat. suspenders and no shirt, carrying a rainbow microphone, makin’ bedroom eyes at Peter fucking Vonn. what has he done to me. what are these powers he has.

and then we meet the snooty asshole prince- which is to say,

“expert swordsmanship” here meaning “keeping the Flaming Raging Poisoning Sword of Doom decoratively strapped to my back the whole time”

and now that you know who the two princes are, i have some bad news.

AHAHAHAHAHA GET DUNKED ON MAXIE!!! GET DUNKED ON!!!! I GOT YOU! I’M A THOUSAND PERCENT SURE I FUCKIN GOT YOU!!! GUESS WHY I WENT AND BOUGHT THIS FUCKIN GAME? SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS MOMENT, GET WRECKED

anyway then i won and stuff. but at what cost, etc. etc.

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Watching The Return of Doctor Mysterio for the first time

Ayyyy long title.

-SERIES 10!!! SERIES 10 IS HERE!!!!!!!

-SDALDFHGALSDHFGAS,LDHFASLDFGASLDFHASLDJFGASLDHFALS

-LASGFLERN283WQUR’QSEI;RWQER;WIERXIUI;I::weif:weif:eifE;IQUGWIF

-*cough* okay... Let’s watch this

-(I just realized the episode I’m watching is flipped horizontally because of copyrights or something, so the screenshots are gonna be flipped too because I’m too lazy to edit them)

-Ah, this takes place in the U.S.

-WUT

-What’s swinging outside his window

-DOCTOR WHAT ARE YOU DOING

-Well this is a dangerous situation for him, I doubt that even Timelords can regenerate if they fell from the sixtieth floor, there would be no piece of body big enough to regenerate from

-Pardon me if I’m wrong on that though, I’m not the best at Doctor Who science

-His voice what happened to his voice

-WELL OF COURSE CLARK KENT IS SUPERMAN DOCTOR PLEASE KEEP UP WITH AT LEAST SOME OF THE MEDIA

-Well this is a weird start to an episode

-”Vomiting, hair loss and death, fat lot of use.”

-What is that those

-”How did you even get a glass of water in your pocket?”  “Skills.”

-I’m calling it, his pockets are bigger on the inside.

-All this fucking Christmas shit again

-Annnd I’m dead

-But seriously, I grew up in an un-religious household in Asia and Christmas was just this little holiday with trees and presents and--

-GEMSTONES THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT GEMSTONEs I should shut up

- --Anyway it was this little holiday with trees and presents and department store sales--

- -- HOLY SHIT DID HE EAT IT

-"What are you, 36?”  “Eight.”

- --AHEM anyway yeah, that little holiday, and--

-HE’S FLOATING??!?! WHO THIS? WHAT?

- -- UGHHH anyway, yeah. I grew up with that and then there’s this Western Christmas culture where it’s such a big thing and it’s, just, really, strange.  Initially that little rant was gonna be a bit longer and better articulated, but interesting things kept happening in the show.

-”YOU’RE A SUPERHEROOOOOOO”

-IS THAT NARDOLE

-Okay what is happening and what is wrong with these people

-BRAINS WTF

-Why do science fiction lights always turn on so loudly

-”Donated to the facility by our benefactors”  “DONATED”  yeah.  Looks like he murdered those benefactors after all.

-What’s the Doctor even eating

10/10 face

-What’s with the guy coughing blue milk

-WHAT

-For some reason I am inclined to pet this brain creature (pf which, by the way, I failed to upload a screenshot because everything else would be uploaded except that image, even with the quality lowered), but because there are many hideous monsters in Doctor Who that are not to be judged by their appearance, I’ll keep a neutral opinion on this guy until further progress in the plot is made to prove either its hostility or its friendliness.

-Yep, I’m not petting you, brain dude. You’re not friendly. You get no pet.

-”I had a change of mind”  WAS THE JOKE REALLY NECESSARY

-And were those surgeons just standing there doing nothing 24/7 until someone came in

-WELL THIS IS TERRIFYING ALRIGHT

-Who’s the writer again... *takes a look* Yep, Steven Moffat.

-”No one will believe that, this is America.”

-”Special Agent Dam Dangerous Schgsfilurfylas”  My English hearing’s not the best, okay

-Dude’s hand is shaking, that yells terrible aim

-”o on, tell them you shot us in the back for self-defense.”

-Heyoooo, it’s the boy with the glasses, except he’s not wearing glasses anymore and I’m NOT talking about Harry Potter.

-God damn I wish someone would turn down that guy’s accent, it’s like he has a swollen tongue and is trying to decide whether to spit out or chew a hot piece of bacon

-Where did Nardole even come from

-Heyooo

-WHY DID THAT KID GROW UP TO SOUND LIKE EVERY PARODY OF BATMAN’S VOICE EVER

-Flashback?

-So is he gonna sh-t out the gemstone or

-nevermind what I just said

-HE GREW UP WITH A THESAURUS AS WELL APPARENTLY

Pffft

-what’s with the wind noises

The Doctor with a baby is the best thing ever, it doesn’t even matter which reincarnation he’s in

-BUT WHAT’S WITH THE WIND NOISES

-Nardole with that elephant lol

-Wait... Isn’t that the reporter girl?

-WHAT IS WITH THE FRICKING WIND

-ACTUALLY I JUST REALIZED THAT THIS WIND SOUND SPANS ACROSS THE ENTIRETY OF THE EPISODE, IT’S NOT THE EPISODE ITSELF IT’S THE GUY WHO UPLOADED IT

-OR SOMETHING

-GOD I WAS FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS STUPID THING

-IT HURTS MY EARS

-I’M WEARING HEADPHONES AND THIS WIND NOISE IS TORTURE

-X-ray vision would actually be great because everyone would be spooky scary skeles

A HA HA HA HA HA

-Did the Doctor just drink alcohol from that bottle

-Yep, he’s getting wasted

-*unholy squealawking* ”This is Mr Huffle. Mr Huffle feels pain. Meet me in the kitchen.”  what the fuck was that

-I DON’T LIKE THIS WOMAN NOR THAT LITTLE RUBBER DOLL

-I DON’T LIKE YOU AT ALL

-I HOPE YOUR LITTLE MR HUFFLE DRAGS YOU DOWN INTO HIS SPECIAL HELL WITH YOU

-You can just see how those soulless eyes of his are begging for the sweet release of death

Wake me up (wake me up inside) Can’t wake up (wake me up inside) save me

-He is screaming, free me, free me, free me from this pain

-look here lady you are clearly very clever and all but you better close your bedroom doors securely at night and make sure that lil guy is outside or you might never wake up one day

-Change of subject: I thought this guy would be the one called Dr Mysterio but instead it turns out he’s called the Ghost. Not this Ghost either.

(Image from Star Wars Rebels)

-The deathly stare of Mr Huffle is refusing to leave my mind, help, what do I do, I have been cursed

RUN DOCTOR RUN, HE BLAMES YOU AS WELL AS HER

DOCTOR: THE HORROR GAME Do not let him look into your eyes!

-IT’S THOSE OPEN BRAIN MEN FROM HUSBANDS OF RIVER SONG, THEY’RE BACK AT IT WTF

-”Good to keep an open mind, ha!”

“I am totally against bantering.”-

-Ah, back when his floof was still flat, calm and level one.

-Woohoo speech

-WAIT WHAT THE TARDIS SHOWS UP AT WHISTLES TOO

-Oh, so that’s why that guy’s wearing jewels in the trailer, I tought he was always like that.

-And apparently the Doctor got him out of the robot king to keep him as a companion.

-”I’m not avoiding anything, I’m just trying to save a planet.”  “Which is what you always do when the conversation turns serious.”

-”Hello Doctor nice suit”  “Hi”  “Good morning”  “Whatever”  “So uh.. what happened to Clara”  “WHOOPS GOTTA GO SAVE A PLANET BYE”

-Bet that guy wanted to rip his shirt open to reveal the supersuit inside for years

-Why are they suddenly in Japan

-”I flooded downstairs with Pokemon.”  1. I laughed at that bit in the trailer, but it’s somehow even funnier considering they’re in Japan.  2. BBC doesn’t even care about copyrights anymore. In fact, they haven’t careed for quite a while.  3. favorite scene in the episode so far.

-FUCKING TEA

-WELL IF THIS ISN’T BRITAIN

-Oh yeah, brilliant plan, have the creepy stare-y surgeons march along down the street in a line, no one will ever notice

-An ambulance? Okay, less stupid plan

-Random question: Why are those guys’ heads split diagonally and not vertically or horizontally? It gets on my nerves. Besides, what if one of them is left handed?

-That mask reveal took a turn, and uh  but uh  “Grant, the man I took for granted”  SHE’S MAKING PUNS EVEN WHILE GRIEVING

-That’s awkward

-”What do the rich old men always do when the fighting starts? They’ll find the safest place to hide themselves away and send all the young people to die.”  I feel bad that this is too true to be taken lightly.

-”Oh, there’s the smile, I don’t like the smile!”

-”You’re completely out of your mind!”  “How is that news to anyone?”  I love the dialogue in this episode

-WOOHOO

-”He’s actually left handed”  So I was right, crackheads can’t be left handed?

-GRANT, THE BOMB

-Welp

giving up on life like

The Doctor’s having none of your shit

sarcasm.jpg

-WHOA BITCH THAT HEAD IS BLANK

-”Put in a call to Osgood.” Nice reference.

-WHOOPS THAT SOLDIER

-”I’ve been away for a while but I’m back”  Also nice reference to the previous episode (that I CRIED ABOUT)

-DAMMIT STOP TORMENTING MR HUFFLE IF YOU WISH TO AVOID A PAINFUL DEATH

-OH GOD NO

SHE’S PASSING THE CURSE TO THE DOCTOR

-HE MUST BE SAVED

-REBLOG TO PASS THE CURSE TO SOMEONE ELSE OR WHATEVER

-#SAVETHEDOCTOR2017

-OH DEAR GOD THE CURSE IS WITH HIM, NONONONONO DOCTOR DON’T TAKE IT WITH YOU SHE’S TRYING TO DEFLECT ITS RAGE TOWARDS YOU

The... shirt... That’s a first.

-Oh jeebuz crisxenz now Mr Huffle is in the Tardis and he will bring bad luck to us all and he will be the reason we will be crying in any future episode ever and he will cause Twelve’s regeneration mark my words

-Dear Lord protect us

-Oh wait Moffat’s not gonna protect us is he

-We’re screwed