#they also unironically use 'snowflake'

[shawolsos]

If you ever feel like you were too harsh on that one toxic friend you cut off know that I felt the same way and that the person I cut off actually ended up proving me right themselves because they turned out to be racist, transphobic, homophobic, enbyphobic a little bit of a pick-me AND an anti-vaxxer

They also unironically listen to Nickelback which is nowhere near as bad as the other stuff but, I mean it hardly makes them look any better.

[universallydestinytaco]

The Little Smiling Mermaid (Chapter 7)

Thank you Roony AKA @sometimes-sleeby-octopus for this lovely gift! 💕 Please follow them and check out their awesome content, it would make both of us smile!

TW: Emotional Abuse and Brief Physical Abuse

“So, where is this grotto?”

Damien would soon get his question answered as he was lead by the cackling wisenheimer to where his littlest sibling had been hiding out for the past few days, after some 11 minutes worth of swimming passed, Damien was then greeted by his little “sister’s” absurdly large collection of discarded “land things”, much to his shock and horror. While he felt the way Pim was punished via ad hominem and property destruction was overkill, he still felt uneasy over how “she” was still fascinated with the culture of what he and the rest of the family deemed as “fish-mongering barbarians” and prayed to Neptune that Pim wasn’t naive enough to hold in “her” possession any of what their fruitcake cousin Graham Nelly dubbed a “grappling hook”. Damien’s gut feeling was to stand there and wait for Pim to return so he’d firmly let gently talk “her” into abandoning this grotto and returning home to the palace…with that said, his curiosity was starting to nag at him to see just how dangerous any of these items where. A now-bored Damien spent some time poking around the grotto, flipping through the collection of books until finding deep interest in a book about animals from the surface, laughing at how silly they all looked. Damien also toyed around with a snow globe and unironically found it quite satisfying to repeatedly shake it up and watch the faux snowflakes fall down even if he had no idea what snow was, assuming it was supposed to be a school of tiny white fish swarming around an oddly-shaped kelp bush decorated in shiny ornaments. Lastly, Damien swam up to a display of music boxes Pim had recovered from many a shipwreck, one of them was topped with a dancing couple of land critters in formal wear. Damien picked up the orient box and gently turned the key, omitting a “twinkly” tune. Damien smirked at the funny little music box, opening it to find Pim had stashed “her” own trinkets inside, among these keepsakes where a flower hairpin with a pearl in the center and a photo of way back when all three of the siblings would play in the garden. Damien felt sentimental and guilty, as he used to play with his siblings all the time until he hit a certain age where his father started barking at him to stop being “childish” and focus all his time training for combat and keeping up a serious façade, he soon started to winced recanting how he would start brushing his siblings off when all of a sudden their big brother no longer wanted to play with them anymore…oh, how he wished that he could take it all back.

As Damien spent more time goofing off with the assorted gadgets and gizmos in the grotto, he heard the sound of one mercritter swimming into the premises, and while he couldn't see who was coming, he knew right off the bat who it was going to be....”DAMIEN!"...or at least, Damien thought that it was going to be Pim as the harsh, rugged voice with the thick Aussie accent wiped the whimsical smile off his face as his blood turned to ice, making him drop the music box and it's contents on the sandy ground in shock. "WHAT ARE YOU OF ALL MERPEOPLE DOING WITH ALL THIS SURFACE GARBAGE?!" Damien caught the deathly glare of his cantankerous father, menacing towards his eldest with balled-up fists in rage, one of them holding his iconic trident. "I raised you better, boy, why I oughta-" In a fight-or-flight response masked with stoic coolness, Damien looked at King Steven square in the eye with a tough look he perfected over the years, clarifying: "I was simply inspecting these items, since I was told this is where Pimberly had been hiding from us." King Steven stopped for a brief minute, then his eyebrows furrowed with an expression where you could tell he was aggravated-yet-not-surprised. "Of course that little shit would be hiding here, apparently she needs to be taught another lesson..." his cold stare heated up into a vengeful grin, prepared to aim his trident at every single item in the grotto. "Stand back, boy."

~

Meanwhile, on the way back from the surface, the trio came across sunken treasure, precisely, a literal fallout from Prince Charlie's crazy birthday party that went south. Obviously, Pim was over the moon over the unexpected discovery, squealing and giggling in twitter-pated awe as he swam up to give the campy statue of his crush some affection by curling his tail around the statue's toreso and rubbing his cheek onto Statue!Charlie's nose. Alan looked away, flustered, while Glep chuckled at Pim's antics. "Oh Charlie, run away with you?" Pim whispered in a mischievous, somewhat-seductive tone, before turning his head to his friends to exclaim: "Oh, we have GOT to figure out a way to bring this back to the grotto!" A concerned Alan replied with his two-cents: “Pim…that’s a literal statue, do you have any idea how long that’s going to take us?” Pim opined: “I could borrow Graham Nelly’s you-haul and push it all the way to the grotto!” Alan had to talk some common sense into him: “That would take all night!” "But Alan, did you SEE me out there, rescuing Charlie? It's a wonder how a dainty little thing like me was able to lift that radiant muscular hunk!" Alan began ponder if Pim was losing his marbles.

Unbeknownst to the party, they where still being watched over by one sinister sorcerer was awaiting for all the pieces to fall into place, grabbing a tray curating a smorgasbord of otherworldly hors d'oeuvres such as pickled sea pig, seasoned sponge wrapped in kelp and toasted coral garnished with freshly-ground plankton to go with the piping-hot tea he brewed to perfection. “Dinner and a show, indeed.”

“Look, just leave that carved boulder over there for the night and we can take turns pulling and pushing it with enough helping hands, we’re all happy to help you but it’s getting late.” Alan concluded. Pim yawned in agreement, “You’re right, c’mon Glep, let’s swim back to the-“ Pim was interrupted by an audible explosion from afar, startling the group and prompting the pink mercritter to hide behind the statue for security. “What the halibut-?!” Alan squawked, turning his head to-and-fro as Pim and Glep peeked from behind, closely inspected two figures emerging. As Pim picked up in their conversation, his eyes widened in horror. “-those items where important to her! Are you trying to completely drive her away?!” “No excuse, that little freak KNOWS better! She’s a disgrace to this family.” Pim curled up in fetal position, tuning out best he could with daydreams he had of himself and Charlie exploring together��just then Pim felt a big meaty hand yank his hair from behind, causing him to yelp. “YOU!!” Pim’s vision went blurry, all he could hear was Damien’s pleas for compassion falling on ears with selective hearing. Once Pim retained a clear vision, he found himself face-to-face with King Steven, staring right back at his youngest with undiluted rage for five seconds before suddenly throwing him back on the ground coupled with profane venom spewing from his mouth. Pim miraculously gathered all his confidence and glared right back at the old man: “Why bring me back home when you can’t stand me whatsoever?” King Steven paused with a stunned look, then hissed: “No daughter of mine is gonna go on the lamb and not continue the legacy of our bloodline, I’m picking you out a suitor that’ll keep your ass in line.” Pim spat out: “Too bad, I already decided who I want to be with.” Alan and Glep huddled together in fear as Pim swam up to Charlie’s statue, once again cuddling it. Flabbergasted, King Steven scolded: “Have you lost your senses?! That bloke’s a land critter, you’re a mermaid!” Pim roared: “DADDY, I LOVE HIM! SO THERE!!” King Steven looked as if a jellyfish stung his ass. Less than a minute of silence followed as everyone stood in place. King Steven grinned, aiming his trident at Pim without warning, causing the mercritter to flee as the bolt struck the statue and blew it up to smithereens. King Steven smugly grinned as Pim witnessed the debris floating down before him, his eyes leaking tears as he held Statue!Charlie’s broken nose. “You’re a lost cause, obviously.” King Steven scoffed, “Don’t bother coming back, I’ll tell everyone you died in the abyss.” With that, he swam off. Guilt hit Damien like a boulder as he saw his baby “sister” in utter despair, weeping from the unpleasant reunion. He turned to Glep and Alan, the guppy shaking his head and the lobster shooting a vicious glare at him, knowing already he spilled the beans. Attempting to make it right, Damien swam to Pim, patting her back. “I’m so sorry-“ SLAP! He had no idea Pim’s little hand could leave a stinging mark on his cheek. “Go away, leave me alone.” Damien knew he fudged up big time and there was no coming back from this. Dejected with shame while not wanting to be seen sulking, Damien took off. Alan and Glep scuttled over to comfort Pim, only to stop in their tracks when a tall shadow emerged, hovering over the weeping mercritter. “Hey, babe, what’s your damage?” Pim looked up, introduced to a slimy-lookin’ eel-esque mercritter who looked at least a little bit sympathetic to the former, of whom trying to respond. “Whatever it is, I know this dude who’s able to solve whatever crap you’re dealing with.” Pim’s sorrow turned into curiosity. “How?” Gnarly answered: “Well, he could like, I dunno, turn your tail into legs.” Pim figured this sounded way too good to be true, but it would be worth a shot. “You may lead the way.”

….Alan and Glep had a bad feeling about this.

✨Chapter 8 coming in two weeks ✨

[libraford]

That "witch" dude using the term snowflake unironically in 2023 is hysterical 🤣

I love the word 'snowflake' as an insult because it tells you exactly the kind of person you're dealing with.

But I'm also gonna just end it there. I owe like 40 push ups now.

[jupitermelichios]

man I will never forgive marvel (and the trolls on twitter they listened to) for cancelling the planned new warriors volume 6.

to be clear, I don't think it would have been good. honestly, I think it might have been kind of awful. and I think it probably would have lost marvel money, so from a financial perspective cancelling it was a good move.

but as an enjoyer of weird awkward superhero media, as someone who spends a non-0 percentage of every day on this earth thinking about the Generation X tv pilot and the unreleased 1995 fantastic four movie, who absolutely adores the deeply sincere and yet wildly out of touch vibes of the runaways...

there was a "cool teen" vampire called b-negative who dressed like prince going through a goth phase. there were characters called snowflake and safespace who had ice and forcefield powers and who I really think were intended to be an awkwardly sincere attempt at representation. and on an unironically possitive note, there was a fat female superhero! do you know how rare that is?!

obviously the right wing trolls hated it, and they're probably the primary reason it was cancelled, but I also saw a lot of nice sane people making good faith criticisms that basically boiled down to 'but it looks like it's going to be so awkward and out of touch and probably accidentally low-key offensive in ways the writers would be horrified by if it was explained to them', and that's totally fair. it absolutely looked like that.

but that's where the new warriors thrive as a team and always has been, they're 'how do you do fellow kids' the team, and because of that they got to have some really important firsts and representation (after silhouette left the team it took almost two decades before we got the next crutch-using superhero in a big two cape comic). the new warriors trying too hard to be relatable and ending up feeling like a parody of a 'woke' superhero team is a big and legitimately important part of both their whole deal and the history of comics generally.

which makes it sound like i'm arguing we need to let comics be bad and cringe if we want to make strides in representation, and that is true, and I am saying that

but mostly I'm just saying that it would have been terrible and cringy in the very specific way I love, and I'll go to my grave still sad that I didn't get to enjoy it.

[madame-mozart]

Charlotte Li may be the most Mary Sue who ever Mary Sue'd, but I would still unironically defend her with my life.

Would you believe it if I said my most notorious original character is now over twelve years old, which also happens to be her canonical age?? Yup, this very chick I created all the way back in 2011 solely as a self-insert to be shipped with my favorite historical figure and classical composer of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!! SAY IT WITH ME: CRIIIIINGE

Yes, she really did have an angel AND a neko/catgirl phase. Even both at the same time. She also had extremely long Rapunzel hair (at least it wasn't like 50 feet long, though - it just reached to her feet)! She gets some pity points for not having a princess, mermaid, or magical girl phase (at least, not that I know of), but knowing eleven-year-old me, she would have made Charlotte all those as well if given the idea/opportunity. I mean honestly, this snowflake would DEFINITELY have her own ice queen Elsa "let it go" arc if I was still invested in her when the first Frozen movie came out (granted, I was thirteen years old when it came out and still found myself obsessing over Elsa and Anna and giving my OCs their traits. Fortunately, I had the sense even then to realize Charlotte was a bad character).

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On a less cringeworthy note, all of these Picrews were made by this person, whose name I believe translates to "Marine Cat"! I had been wanting to use their makers for a while, especially after they announced they would be deleting their makers in April of this year. I panicked when I realized I was a month late, but I was pleasantly surprised to see their makers were still up! Even more on a happy note, they have added in each of their makers that they wouldn't be deleted after all! And so, I've decided to show my love for the creator and their work.

If you happen to stumble across this, Marine Cat, your style is very adorable and I'm so sorry people have been trying to steal/profit off your work. I hope you're doing well in whatever you're taking up now (even if you're not making Picrews anymore). 💖

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One of these days, I'll have to do a deep dive on Charlotte so I can just prove to you all how horrible she really is despite her cute design. But for now, these Picrews will suffice - I need new profile pictures, anyway. Bear in mind, I didn't use ALL of Marine Cat's makers as some of them don't have Charlotte's "uwu beautiful" jet black hair color.

💚 ~ LINKS! ~ 💚 First | Second & Third Fourth | Fifth | Sixth Seventh | Eighth | Ninth Tenth | Eleventh | Twelfth

[milkinmoose]

Your comments being turned off really shows how much of a snowflake you are to criticsm. 😊

Having your entire blog based on M/rston really shows the kind of person you are, I sure hope you don’t have siblings lol. I’m tired of seeing you freaks on Tumblr, on Pinterest, every. Fucking. Were,. And then you all acting fucking oppressed when you’re confronted???

I blockes you, I still see your art. I came for fucking Charthur and your freaky asses show up on my feed. For a while I thought you all stopped but no???? More show up. More. Not only do I have to deal with the fucking M*rballs and V*ndermusty shippers crawling out of the walls, but I come back and see M*rton shippers back at it. Fucking kys tf????

one, my comments aren't off honey bunches get your fucking facts right before talking to me 😊 also get educated with your yee yee ass typing and spelling. like fr you type like you're at gunpoint and shaking like a little woosey crybaby shitting your silly little clown pants

anyways, getting cereal.

I've seen your sorry lazy fat fucking ass copying and pasting towards other Morston creators, how unoriginal. i bet your response to that though would be "oH i HaVE nO tImE tO BE OrIGInAl wITh yOU" like every other person who supports Charthur 😋 most of you lot are snobby, defensive and extremely fucking racist whether you like it or not. get. your. facts. right. some of you complain about people drawing him skinny and fit? ffs he's canonically fit.

most people also draw him taller than Arthur? and larger? he's not. check his height comparison to Arthur. in game, they're around the same height, and the discussion is still on for his EXACT height, but i think he's between 5/11 to 6/1. all of you who make him a fucking mammoth are the racists stereotyping him for this massive black Indian man. disrespectfully, fuck you for massacring that beautiful man. 😊

idk what else to say anyways im losing brain joos soooo ima start getting silly teheheh

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS MRBALLS???? IM CRYING WHATTTT IS THAT THE NAME OF YOUR TRANSGENDER TESTICLES???? IMAGINE LOOKING DOWN AT YOUR DICK AND GOING "goodmorning MrBalls 😊" UNIRONICALLY

IM ON THE FLOOR BRO FUCKING WHEEZING LIKE GODDAMN PEPPA PIG RN YOU DUMBASS CHARTHUR SHIPPERS ARE SO FUNNY WHEN YOURE OFFENDED OR SEE SUMN YOU DONT LIKE 😭😭😭

I LOVE HOW YOU ALSO SENT THIS TO MULTIPLE MORSTON SHIPPERS???? LIKE TF POSSESSED YOU AND MADE MADE YOU TAKE TIME OUT OF YOUR DAY TO BLABBER SHIT WE DONT CARE ABOUT TO US

also crawling through walls is my favourite pass time, and it's where i have all my adventures with Barry, the paraplegic rat, and Sally, the overweight snail

FYI, for you snowflakes, the last half was just shit post. please don't take it personally and cry

thank you for reading whoever actually did read this far without shitting yourself from being offended. whoever is actually a chill Charthur shipper though, this is not directed at you. it's directed at the assholes who make Arthur hyperfeminine or Charles transgender 😊

have a good day to the nice people in the world i love you all <3

[sadboyhrs]

Stranger things Social Media Headcannons ❤️

Mike❤️:

discord mod

has been downvoted to oblivion like 15 times on reddit

regularly hosts 'study with me' lives on tiktok, the equivalent of revishaan

writes hannibal fanfiction and publishes it on ao3

follows Will's tumblr account, doesn't know it's him, but he is very entranced with the overwatch fanart

leaves really detailed analysis' in anime power scaling youtube comment sections talking about physics and how their powers and incompatible with the laws of the world

Will❤️:

draws furry fanart for commisions

discord kitten (has had nitro for 4 yr and hasnt paid for it ONCE)

has not one, not two, but three twitter accounts

they are for fanart, being a hater, and a professional one with posts about science/art competitions he's won

is addicted to online gambling, has made $1k in the 2 months he has been playing

refuses to post a thing on tiktok, but has lots of 'friends only' posts

unironically a communist. follows a tonne of marxist accounts on every social media platform he has

Lucas❤️:

uploads thirst trap tiktoks and gets a solid 50k likes per video

sponsored a nail polish brand and had rainbow nail polish for a week (after begging them for weeks)

follows Will's furry fanart tumblr account, knows it's Will

was mass reported off twitter after arguing with a taylor swift fan

plays online chess and always wins. he doesn't know a thing about chess.

got into a heated arguement on reddit with Dustin, they blocked eachother, neither know about the others reddit account

El❤️:

Trauma dumps in tiktok comment sections

uploaded make-up tutorial youtube videos when she was 10, her only subcriber was Jonathan

reads deathnote fanfiction on ao3, sends them to their gc

has stumbled upon one of Will's fanarts on twitter without knowing he drew it

has an edgy 'deep thoughts' twitter account with popular quotes she puts through rephrasing websites

has clicked many suspicious links and gotten many viruses over the years

Dustin❤️:

uploads science experiments to tiktok, has 10k dedicated followers

lives in the rick and morty subreddit

also trauma dumps in TikTok comment sections through his alt account

posts a couple story times that always do well, he has a series called 'gen z stand up' where he talks about his ongoing battle with Ted Wheeler (and complains about Hopper sometimes too)

used to play amongus BEFORE it was popular and regularly complains about it

Max❤️:

reddit user and mod

also a discord mod

has a couple thousand followers on twitter.com

is the only one that knows about Will's hater account and regularly quote tweets whatever he says with 'amen🙏'

publicly refuses to get tikok becaue it's 'for snowflakes'

has a secret tiktok account with 1 follower, with private tiktoks FULL of memories

has an aesthetic instagram account with scenery pictures

[talkingpointsusa]

Right-wing media freak out over Scrabble

Always the important issues over at FOX news (source: FOX News on YouTube)

This has got to be one of the most hilariously stupid non-issues in right-wing media that I have ever had the (dis)pleasure of witnessing. Apparently we are now mad about *checks notes* Scrabble. Lets get into it.

The Five

00:00, Jeanine Pirro: "Scrabble is dumbing itself down for the woke. The board game is getting updated to be more inclusive and less competitive."

This is why you need to fact-check your "news story" before barging in on live TV. Or at least before you barge in on live TV you should look at the image that you're running with. FOX News didn't do that because if they did they'd see that the box says "2 games in 1" with Classic Scrabble as one of the options.

Anyway, this is about a newer version of Scrabble being released in Europe that contains both classic Scrabble and a more collaborative version that is focused on completing set goals using things like hint cards. This is meant to introduce more audiences to the game. Naturally this is the literal end of the world. Woke Scrabble is going to lead to the beginning of Revelations itself, in fact I'm pretty sure it was designed by the antichrist. At least according to these idiots who unironically use the word woke to describe a board game being released in a continent that they don't even live in.

00:08, Jeanine Pirro: "So, instead of competing players collaborate, games are shorter, there are clue cards and a no more scoring option so no ones feelings get hurt."

It's still scored, I don't know what she's talking about. Want to know how I know that? Because there are still numbers on the chips. Again, look at the photo that you guys are running with, you're supposed to be a news channel guys. Man, this is my first time (I'm sure of many) covering FOX News and my god they have not evolved from the Obama's tan suit days at all.

00:25, Jeanine Pirro: "What I think is interesting about this, uh Jessica is that they've removed certain words. They banned racist LBGTQ (her words not mine) slurs from the tournament but there are also new words that are -- you know that the woke generation would be very comfortable with."

"Oh, I guess we just live in a world where language....evolves or something. Ha! That's woke."

Look, as a leftist I can imagine that I'd be one of the people that these guys would call a "snowflake" but at least I've never been triggered by the dictionary before. Also, what exactly is Jeanines problem with removing slurs from Scrabble? Was she winning Scrabble games with the n-word in the past?

Jeanine Pirro's ideal version of Scrabble is Scrabble but only with the slurs.

01:27, Jeanine Pirro: "Ok Greg, the squares have been cream colored for decades. Do you think they're going to make squares of different colors not to offend people?"

Greg Gutfeld: "I hope so. I have never played Scrabble in my life."

And yet here you are talking about this.

01:58, Greg Gutfeld: "Playing a game without scoring, even if you suck at something, is so anti-human. It's like, scoring is part of your DNA."

Scrabble....is anti-human. You know, just when I start to think that I've heard the stupidest possible things for this blog they somehow manage to top themselves. No, scoring things is not an integral part of the human experience and even if it was it still doesn't matter because this version of Scrabble is still scored.

02:32, Jeanine Pirro: "I'm surprised that this new Scrabble didn't come with like, four trophies so that everyone feels they won."

At this point I was beginning to ask myself questions like "how is this a news show?" and "how on Earth did everybody at this table graduate high school". I hereby propose that we create a socialist version of Monopoly to really freak out FOX News.

Alright, I'm fed up with FOX News. Lets see what another one of these idiots is saying about Scrabble.

Matt Walsh/The Daily Wire:

I kind of figured that out of all these Daily Wire morons, Michael Knowles was most likely to cover "woke Scrabble" since it kind of feels like they throw him all the stories that nobody else wants to cover. Nope, Matt Walsh finally managed to stop thinking about trans people for enough time to complain about this as well.

46:02, Matt Walsh: "Daily Wire has this, classic board game dumbed down to be more inclusive and less intimidating to young people. One of the worlds most popular board games is being altered to be less competitive and more inclusive to appeal to young people. Scrabbles parent company Mattel announced the move on Tuesday, the first major change in 75 years."

Shockingly enough, Matt Walsh seems somewhat more aware than FOX News and at least briefly provides lip-service to the fact that this is only one of the possible ways to play Scrabble on this board. He still thinks it's "woke" though.

By the way, have we even figured out what on earth woke even means? Because the way it's being applied here doesn't make any sense. I guess it just means "stuff we don't like".

47:00, Matt Walsh: "I take board games very seriously. Way too seriously. I take them so seriously in fact that most members of my family refuse to play board games with me anymore."

Matt Walsh being a dick at family board game night is probably one of the least surprising things that I've found out while writing this blog. We all have one relative like this who is utterly obnoxious and being that relative isn't the flex that Matt thinks that it is.

The Matt Walsh method of playing board games is as follows:

Step One: Gloat about how you're going to beat everyone before the game even starts.

Step Two: Play the game extremely smugly until you start losing

Step Three: Flip the table over, game and all.

Step Four: Call everybody "groomers"

Step Five: Storm off muttering slurs under your breath.

If you win you gloat like an asshole until everbody is fed up with you by the way.

We all know a Matt Walsh, don't be like Matt Walsh.

48:48, Matt Walsh: "The whole point is to be competitive. It is to win. It is to destroy your enemies by any means necessary."

See Matt, that there is why people don't like playing board games with you.

Conclusion:

Well, this was more of a fun episode because man, it is really really easy to trigger these guys. If that Matt Walsh segment didn't make it clear, I come from a pretty serious board game family so I was assessing how likely I would be to play board games with all of these guys. Jeanine's probably the one I'd play a game with most likely since I'm pretty sure that she's consistently wine drunk when she's on camera. Anyway, cheers and I'll see you in the next one.

Original Videos:

“The Five”: Scrabble Dumbs Itself down for the “Woke.” Www.youtube.com.

“Ep. 1345 - the Media Nominates Their New George Floyd.” The Daily Wire.

Sources (do I even need sources for this stupidity?!):

“Fox News Is Mad That Scrabble Has Gone “Woke.”” Kotaku, 11 Apr. 2024.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I like how the idiot is going "NO U!" and ignoring a meme that fails to realize the mocking term "special snowflake" came from an unironic term about how people are "special, unique, snowflakes".

Just like "cancelling", which was a left wing term until the right started using it as an insult, like "woke".

And also many of the things listed got the right angry in response to changes made to make those things more acceptable to the left.

Heck, Aunt Jemima's been controversial with progressives for literally decades., and Quaker Oats made the change in 2020, when stuff got literally cancelled and altered to avoid pissing off the left.

It's classic abuser logic.

Go after people who criticize you, and ignore your own (team's) actions.

But when it's used against them they start to cry and tantrum XD

[quite-actually-a-nacho]

@ my step dad who likes to make racial or religion / holiday related jokes and says “I almost said something else but gotta be politically correct these days, haha! and you know that’s not me!”

just shut up actually

[izzythehutt]

Terry, Kreese, Johnny, what it means to be a Cobra Kai, 'villainous values' and the love of (evil) karate father for his karate son

I've been thinking about this moment:

First of all, ouch.

But it also got me thinking....why does Kreese feel so strongly about Johnny?

And as much as his contempt for Lawrence is motivated by jealousy, Terry's inability to see why Kreese believes Johnny is his best student (and why he loves him more than Terry) says so much about the divide in the two men's philosophy, approach and the fundamental values that drive their actions.

(TL;DR: it's his guts and heart, not what's in his head)

Terry and John could not come from more different backgrounds. Kreese was working class and completely self-made. His mentally ill mother's suicide made him a social pariah back home. His motivations for joining the army seem to have been twofold: a way of bettering himself and a genuine sense of patriotism/purpose. I think we can infer he never went to college and he was field promoted to captain. Kreese is naturally courageous, in his best iteration someone who has no fear of death or getting hurt. In his ideal form this courage is rooted in protecting someone (ie when he got his ass kicked helping Betsy.) In its worst form he becomes domineering and controlling of his loved ones, justifying any number of deranged actions as in their best interests.

Terry, meanwhile, came from money and probably was only fighting in Vietnam because his father wanted to "toughen him up" (if he's rich he could have gotten out of it so this is an extrapolation but I think it fits his character.) He even outright tells Tory that he is different from Kreese in this respect: he didn't have to scrape his way through life, but he did learn to use every advantage available to him. He is both intelligent/a survivor and values loyalty even more than Kreese does—you see this in KK3 and in the flashback of Kreese saving his life. He expects that loyalty to be reciprocated (John disappearing on him for thirty years is an obvious betrayal, John caring more about Lawrence is the nail in the coffin.) He admires the qualities Kreese has he doesn't, while secretly chafing against his friend's condescension even as he longs for his attention and approval.

Kreese is unpretentious, has never cared about Terry's money (and has been borderline too proud to take it since Terry was introduced as a character in KK3) while Silver is urbane, cosmopolitan in his outlook—comparatively "forward thinking," an ambitious, big picture guy. Kreese forms deep and personal connections with students that he has "gut" feelings about and sees himself in—as much as he sees Cobra Kai as his baby and legacy, he will only get emotional satisfaction from knowing that someone he personally loves is carrying it on (though he kicked Johnny out in S2, that was only for compromising what Kreese sees as the core 'principles' of CK, and he spent all of S3 trying to get Johnny to come back and S4 focused on grooming Johnny's son to do so in his stead.) For Terry what matters is the actual philosophy and its efficacy at helping weaklings channel their fear and turn it into power (though he's not beyond connecting with a student on a personal level, e.g. Kenny.) The "legacy" is the Cobra Kai "way", carried on by the ubiquitous nature of dominating a global tournament and making dojos, not any one surrogate son figure.

Kreese is a classic macho American archetype, unironically hanging American flags on the dojo walls and going off on political correctness/'snowflakism' while Silver is buying $500K samurai swords and enjoying stolen fine art before pimping merch on instagram. Silver has intellectual pretensions and business sense while Kreese's brain is rooted in animal cunning. These two are very different types of men and villains.

So...why is Johnny 'it' for Kreese but not Terry?

In S3 Kreese tells Robby the story of when he knew Johnny was "the real deal." What impressed him was not that Johnny won a fight, but rather was willing to go all-in against someone way beyond his skill level. Terry is not wrong that Johnny is not the most intelligent character on this show by any stretch of the imagination, which is something that is central to his idea of what a CK student should be, but I don't necessarily think it's central to Kreese's.

Kreese admires guts more than brains, something he does not think Terry has ever or will ever possess.

Kreese compared young Silver to Johnny in the prison scene, both scared and fearful—it's clear he views them both as "his", dependents that he "made", relationships his attitude towards has ranged from protective to condescending to controlling at various stages. But the difference is that Terry will always be a follower, a number two, whereas, at least in his own mind, Johnny is a true heir apparent, someone who he can project his own legacy onto.

He cares for Terry, in his own twisted way, but there's a fundamental lack of respect. Certainly he often treats Johnny like a child, but he's also his karate son that he believes sincerely is the best and who was "robbed" of his chance by Daniel in '84. Johnny is an extension of himself in his mind, someone who has the potential to carry on the legacy and philosophy he created, which is the thing he cares about most. He really, sincerely believes it helps children, that it helped Johnny.

By his own admission, he wanted Johnny to be better than him.

And he is—in spite of Kreese, not because of him.

Nothing exemplifies this more than the parallel of the S3 finale Vietnam and S5 finale fight. Contrast this:

With this:

The loss of Betsy (the metaphoric shedding of his humanity) gave Kreese the motivation to let go of all moral questions ("No mercy!") and the strength to kill Captain Turner, whereas the hope of his family, his children and need to live the rest of his life protecting and caring for them—the most primal human urge, embracing his humanity—is what gives Johnny the strength to keep fighting against all odds, people with greater strength and technical ability than him.

Sound familiar?

Johnny has become the man Kreese might've been, he has the same core values, heart and guts, as the man still buried deep within him.

At some primal, deep and subconscious level Kreese sees his own best self in Johnny, even if he doesn't understand that it was through rejecting the worst of what Kreese gave him—learning from his mentor's mistakes—that has made him a better man.

That's the tragic irony.

Well, that and the fact that Kreese can only get the emotional satisfaction of Johnny understanding what he tried to do in therapeutic hallucination form.

[slyeposting]

Rating Marvel’s new New Warriors

(long post)

After seeing the character designs for Marvel’s new series of New Warriors comics as well as watching multiple reaction videos and reading other people’s reviews, I thought I would summarize some basic points and add my ratings/review. Please prepare yourselves for this hot garbage. 

Screentime: 3/10

wow starting off strong

looks like Ben 10 

basically if Alexa was your obnoxious Fortnite-obsessed younger brother

writers will probably make him say “Ok bOomEr” and unironically floss

got his powers from internet gas????? whatever the fuck that means??????

Superhero name makes him sound like he’s six and his parents are trying to stop him from watching Ninja for 12 hours a day 

useless in combat bc other than him having a smartphone for a brain he’s a regular kid (aka: will die in one hit from a villain with actual powers) 

only redeeming quality is his visor reminds me of  Geordi La Forge

Trailblazer: 3/10

Dora the Exploer if she got really into bad 90s fashion

Backpack looks like Sleeper from the Venom comics 

her description says she “she doesn't think of herself as a Super Hero,” which is good because she isn’t one 

slightly more useful in combat than Screentime because she could potentially pull an RPG out of her pocket dimension backpack or something

oh wait she can’t even control what comes out of it!!! nevermind!!!!

fucking Percy Jackson did this with Leo and even then he had his own powers as well as this 

there were so many fat jokes/fatphobia in all the reviews i saw on youtube and it made me want to smash my head into a wall (not related to the review but I thought it was worth mentioning if anyone wants to look up any reviews after this) 

I keep coming back to the color scheme and it’s just. so bad. Neon sucks  especially when it is clashing with other neon 

apparently she got the backpack from God, but  “not the god you’re thinking of...” very cool writers. Real quirky of you. Can you be any more annoying. 

fingerless gloves

Snowflake and Safespace: 1/10

oh god

oh sweet jesus 

I don’t even know where to begin with these. the names? The costumes? The color scheme? Safespace’s fucking sideburns? help 

ok let’s start with the names 

it does not matter who you are on the political scale, where you are on the gender spectrum, or how okay you are with “”edgy/dark humor””- nobody who has even the slightest knowledge of 2017-era Twitter language will look at two superheroes named Snowflake and Safespace and think “these characters are reclaiming these otherwise insulting terms and using them as their own.” They will think the characters are a joke. It shows how utterly out of touch the writer is with modern day culture, which is not a good sign considering he’s writing  modern-era comic with all teenage characters. Snowflake is an insult. It just is. The idea of a “safespace” has been demolished because of the way it has been used by trolls online. No amount of woke points and “flipping the script” is going to change that. It’s a sad attempt to pander to a very specific audience, and the writers still manage to make it feel like a slap in the face. This is one of the poorest attempts to make a new-age, hyper aware characterization that I have seen in a long time. It fucking sucks. 

Also Marvel makes their first nonbinary character and they name them fucking Snowflake? Are you  kidding me Marvel? I’m going to scream 

Moving on to the costumes, they’re actually shit. It’s like if the Wonder Twins became semi-professional roller skaters who watched Tron once while tripping on LSD. Why do they have vests. 

Why is everything Neon??!?!! Does the designer not know how value and complimentary colors work?! Can the saturation not be constantly at 100 please my eyes are suffering

Apparently their characters are just as obnoxious as their hair 

“they see their Super Heroics as “a post-ironic meditation on using violence to combat bullying.” They're probably streaming this.” WRITERS HAVE YOU EVER INTERACTED WITH A TEENAGER. THIS READS LIKE A REDDIT POST DO YOU THINK WE TALK LIKE THIS 

the best components out of these characters are the powers, and even then the powers aren’t extraordinary. Ice shurikens and force fields? Fine. A little standard, but fine. I just wish their powers weren’t so connotative with their names. I can’t fathom that someone actually approved these characters. This is exhausting. 

B-Negative : 6/10

probably the best one out of them all 

what every emo kid wanted to look like in 8th grade

a cohesive color scheme that isn’t trying to attack me through the screen 

actually has super powers that aren’t googling things or pulling things out of a magical Jansport that not-God found at Target for $30 

apparently this is where the creativity ends though because in the end he is literally just a vampire minus the immortality (why, you ask? I don’t fucking know. It’s like the internet gas everything is a shitshow)

“B-Negative ages like a regular person (or does he?) and he definitely drinks blood (or does he?)” I don’t care. (or does he? Jk I don’t fucking care. Stop trying to be quirky, writers. It’s not cute.)

“The world is a vampire…and so am I.”  Hi what the FUCK does this mean 

fingerless gloves 

Final Thoughts 

I am very tired

Marvel doesn’t know their audience at all 

The creators of these characters tried to make modern characters despite being extremely out of touch, making the concepts already seem dated and unappealing 

I’m honestly suprised they didn’t have a Hijabi character for those sweet sweet woke points ™ 

please for the love of god can I get some neutral colors once in a while. I can’t take this much longer 

fingerless gloves

[absolute-sakuya-stan]

nicknames | all troupes!

sakuya - he’s very shy and probably will not be able to use a nickname with out blushing furiously. but if he does decide to use one he’d probably go for something like honey, sweetie, or baby. or some variation on your name. he likes being called pretty much anything but calling him saku or babe makes his heart flutter.

masumi - won’t go for nicknames right away. but he does like calling you babe. he’s happy to be called anything as long as it comes out of your mouth. he does like being called masu, sweetheart, or babe too.

tsuzuru - he’s super big on nicknames. it’s actually shocking when he doesn’t call you by one. sweetie, sweetheart, princess, and love are some of his favorites. he’s big on being called ruru (as in tsuzuRU) or just simply babe or bae.

itaru - he isn’t too big on nicknames, but he likes sweetheart or darling. or even better, calling you his player two. this man loves it if he can make some kind of geeky reference in a nickname. he absolutely loves it if you call him taruchi.

citron - definitely calls you princess or darling. he has no issue with using nicknames (though occasionally he might mess them up). he doesn’t really care if you use nicknames for him or not.

tenma - more nervous then he thought he would be when he first tries to give you a nickname. he’s done it plenty of times on tv, it shouldn’t be too hard, right? wrong. he might be able get away with saying cutie or kitten before becoming a blushing mess. otherwise he can get away with calling you sunshine without becoming too much of a mess.

yuki - he really isn’t a huge fan of nicknames. maybe he’ll call you darling or bear if he’s really tired. yuki doesn’t really have a preference of what you call him.

muku - muku loves using nicknames. all of his favorite shoujo manga characters use nicknames so he definitely does. he really likes princess, peaches, angel, and sweetheart. using anything on him makes him a huge mess. just calling him mu will make him blush.

misumi - oh boy, he’s going to call you any name with triangle in it he can. he’ll call you, my triangle, my favorite triangle, the best triangle, or just triangle. the most normal one he’ll call you is baby. if you call him your favorite triangle he’ll be very happy, but honestly giving him any nickname will make him an overly happy puppy.

kazunari - this boy is for sure gonna call you babe, baby, bae, boo, queen, sunshine, hot-stuff, gorgeous, etc. basically, anything you can think of, he’s probably called you it at some point. kazu is down for being called anything, he particularly likes bae though.

banri - he’s another one who likes to call you babe, hot-stuff, or sexy. he would jokingly say he’d like to be called daddy, but he’d actually end up liking it.

juza - definitely any sweets related name he’s going to call you. if you’ve got a favorite candy he’ll call you that. otherwise honey, sweetie, sugar. calling him anything will make him a mess.

taichi - he’ll like to call you cutie for the most part. you can also retaliate in calling him a cutie and he’ll be as red as his hair.

omi - babe, darling, love, he definitely loves more romantic nicknames. omi is pretty happy with being called anything, but if you want him to blush, call him daddy.

sakyo - the only nickname he’ll call you is love, and even that is one very rare occasions. otherwise is probably strictly calling you idiot or dumbass. most nicknames you call him will just earn you a small smile and an eye roll.

tsumugi - definitely flower related nicknames, rose, lily, or just flower works for him. he also likes calling you darling or love. tsumugi likes being called tsumi or tsumu. a lot of other nicknames make him smile shyly and blush.

tasuku - he is not good with coming up with nicknames. if you want to be called something you have to tell him. he might call you snowflake without you telling him though. he doesn’t really care for nicknames, but if you call him one, he might have a odd look on his face.

hisoka - definitely calls you marshmallow, kitten, or kitty. he might call you snuggles too. he doesn’t really mind if you use nicknames, he does like being called hiso or mika (as in mikage) but he really doesn’t have much of a reaction to them.

homare - my rose, mon amour, darling, my inspiration are all names he likes to call you. he doesn’t really what you call him, but if you call him minou he likes that because it’s french

azuma - he calls you darling, sugar, or angel. it really doesn’t matter what you call him. he unironically likes being called daddy though

[blackh0legreensun]

dark academia/witchy/cryptic things i do irl

i got this one from the original tumblr post but ever since i read it, i too now wear one of my late mother’s old rings to remind me not to become her. she gave me PTSD but man did she have pretty jewelry

unironically love hamlet

unironically love the old ivan the terrible movies (see: my pfp)

i really want to study classics/literature even if i’m not really that good at reading

i really fucking love black coffee okay

i own a trench coat 

everywhere i go, i wear two necklaces: one is shaped in the sun and has a celtic knot on it, and the other is a snowflake obsidian with my sign engraved on a piece of metal (capricorn btw)

my nail polish is always black and always chipped. my nails are short from anxiety and playing the violin (i am not good at that lemme tell u)

my friend and i tend to discuss the homoeroticism of our favorite pieces of media over taco bell-- we always seem to land on jekyll and hyde

i have had an in-depth conversation with an online friend about whether or not Frankenstein’s monster is fuckable

on the very top of my altar is a pouch with a tuft of my late cat’s fur inside, and behind that is my late dog’s collar, the rest of my mother’s rings, a few bones i’ve collected and some shells

my desk has melted wax stuck to it

everything i own is covered in incense ash and i will probably die from inhaling it so much

doodling sigils on my arm to help me lucid dream, that way i can easily reality shift to hamlet or to fuck fyodor basmanov

my english teacher and i had a very nice email discussion just naming gay ships in classic media

we have also had an in depth discussion on old execution and torture methods

i never leave the house without fingerless gloves

my friend and i visit the same taco bell consistently, they recognize us now

i always point out fairy trees

i’ve named the crows that hang out by my apartment (the one near the old folks home is dave and the one who hangs out on the telephone pole is Artur. i can differentiate them by their caws)

the starlings seem to really like perching on the roof above my window

[heavenaintaniceplace]

i need a outside opinion, please help

if anyone can help me because i’m actually having a hard time determining whether or not in a self-help cult and its freaking me out because my intuition says yes but logically there’s not that much evidence? if any survivors wanna chime in, i would really appreciate that but here is the basic rundown in vague as possible language so they don’t get tipped off and call me out or find me.

tw: cults, religion, ableism, harassment, high control groups

the premise of the group is to “find out who you truly are” via personality testing, personality indexes and communicating with your inner self as a separate but connected entity. this group is mostly online with meetups here and there between people but never large groups. people mostly congregate on tumblr and discord or on forums. right now, i’ve been pushed to the edge because i kept questioning authority figures and kept trying to make more inclusive spaces. 

the cult like parts come in when you question any of their practices and methods, doing that gets you put down pretty quickly and usually everyone is expected to agree with the group member or whatever “veteran” is around at the moment. debates happen, but directly questioning the authority of those deemed “in charge” gets you reprimanded.

reprimands have also became verbal attacks and accusations like claiming anyone who does any of the practices in an unorthodox way is just as “special snowflake” or just being rebellious on purpose. people who deviate too far also get unironically labeled as mentally ill and accused of having schizophrenia or DID. ableism runs deep here.

in addition to that they actively encourage people to not think too hard about the logistics of the community dogma but also encourage people to participate in it the most (the personality testing). if you do, again, you get reprimanded or laughed at usually in the form of people ganging up on you. either that or you get a flood of people who affirm how wonderful and “robust” their practices are. when you do set forward on finding your correct personality profile you have the option of writing up a whole profile about yourself that people can use to match you. you’re taught not to disagree with your math or you’ll be told that you’re just lying to yourself if you claim to know yourself better than the personality system does. the personality uses MBTI and ennegram (and i already know ennegram is popular in evangelical spaces which makes me very wary).

i should mention that on their website q&a they have a bullet point that literally says “we are not a cult so don’t worry” which is very sus to me. there is a mix of spirituality in some practices even though its not default in an explicit way, the goal of the practitioner is literally to communicate with their “soul” and that terminology (soul) is used often regardless of individual religious beliefs. they heavily conflate “personality type” with “soul” on purpose but no one really questions this.

the group also has a tight inner circle and i’m actually really worried they would find this post and try to find out who i am or that someone would recognize what community i’m talking about even though its very niche. ever since some serious intra-community conflict happened (that resulted in harassment that lasted hours with those who recognized themselves as in authority not backing down in telling the people that questioned them were wrong and mislead) i’ve been distancing myself from them more and more. it made me realize how much of my personal boundaries had gotten swallowed up by the group and their mentality because everyone was expected to lend personal information freely and keep in close touch.

typing this out now...yeah it does really make me think it might be a cult or a high control group after all but it also feels like i’ve trained myself to deflect any inconsistencies and negative things about them up until now because i knew my place in the group kind of depended on it unless i wanted to start a fight with a bunch of my mutuals. i’ve tried to make more personal space but as far as the community goes the dogma is pretty all encompassing.

but i truly believe that somehow these people have taken away my ability to criticize them because they’re so good and convincing people their beliefs and practices are within reason and harmless. whenever someone has a problem with their beliefs they chalk it up to them having a problem with themselves instead of with the organization in order to deflect blame. its very textbook “we can do no harm” thinking and its dangerous. every time there is a conflict i get the same feelings of when i’m reminded of my religious trauma, namely their way of advertising themselves and talking about practices sets off my flight or fight response because it reminds me so much of proselytizing plus the fact that a lot of the beliefs are literally based off of a set of literature and philosophy. the slogan is “everyone has a inner self!” that asserts everyone is already like them, they just need the group to properly get in touch with theirself. they also assert that everyone fits a certain personality profile with the same candor.

i’m really considering this a group i need to hurry up and get away from. i know its online and i can just turn off my phone/computer but i’ve been here for years. and i think its done actual damage to me that i don’t even realize yet. i have plenty of good friends there i want to keep. my friends aren’t the problem, the group and their beliefs and actions are. i don’t know what to do in order to fully leave except delete all my social medias related to it and ghost everyone. after finally breaking my main connections with them i felt worsened anxiety around them and felt constant fear when interacting with them online after conflicts happened because me and my friends were harassed and put down. its just recently i’ve felt safer after blocking almost everyone and automatically distrusting new members i hadn’t met before. i’m so tired of feeling afraid and feeling like i can’t trust my own conscious because of them. i don’t know if that harassment and conflict traumatized me but it sure feels like it did, and no one in charge actually cares about that except making sure everyone accepts their viewpoint and beliefs. other people have said that this group is poison and detrimental before (even though these statements were difficult as hell to find) and i honestly believe they were right.

so yeah, thats my story about my time in a horrible online community. if any of this resonates with you, please, please talk about. i feel like i’m stumbling around in the dark looking for answers and i just don’t know.

[perap]

Ngl hearing your Avery headcanons would be neat!

HEAVY BREATHING

ok perap. you are going to talk about avery. you can be normal when you talk about him. you can do this.

ok first thing i wanna say is that, much like half the pokemon fandom on this website, i too have absorbed him into my personality day one of the dlc. he literally hits all the marks on character traits/tropes that i love and im so happy he exists and i can(have) write(n) actual essays about him. this also means i project on him like a bitch bc i both want to be him (ok. maybe i want him to be like me, i mean, hes already got the family disappointment part down so.) and want to date him (also like half the fandom). btw fun fact as of the time of writing this i have officially thought about him for exactly 200 days in a row :)

welp. off to an absolutely terrible start on the whole being-normal-about-him thing huh

ok anyways actual stuff abt him now!!!1!!

a while back i mentioned he was was demiromantic but i want to specify that he is bi-demi and if there is ANY TIME anyone tries to complain abt me making him a special snowflake i will add another label. dont test me. hes also ace (acery) bc i have this thing thats like gaydar except its ace-dar.. ace-ar? idk but i have that for fictional characters and his ace frequencies id received from him were through the roof. totally not because im aspec and i like him or anything and also that ive typoed his name like 30 times already. also he is touch starved and doesnt know ANYTHING abt romance bc he is dumb :)

this is a good time to say that it comes as a surprise to literally no one that i unironically and unapologetically ship him w klara bc im like that and i have to ship the best friends. YES they become friends after they get arrested at the wendys. it takes a while tho and even longer for them to start dating bc hes demi and also i l o v e slow burns. like they really dont like each other during ioas storyline but reluctantly work together anyways bc they find a couple of kids more threatening than each other, apparently. and shenanigans ensue. THATS HONESTLY what originally drew me in to their characters and god bless honey and mustards souls for putting up w them both at the same time because. god they are stupid. disaster assholes. dgtuusgudftzu. like i said this before but they legit have a jessie and james dynamic except way more petty and rude to each other and WHEN i saw OTHER PEOPLE on THE TUMBLRWEBZ say that EXACT THING about them i lost my fucking mind bc!!! THATS THEM!!! AND IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY WHEN I SEE OTHER PEOPLE W THE SAME HCS AS ME AND I JUST!!! GO CRAZY GO STUPID YA KNOW!!!!

but ya in my au they get married in like 2030 because i said. spoilers.

ok but abt the shenanigans thing, they are both just inherently prone to slapstick (his powers especially open up so many opportunities for stupid gags) and i just REALLY love how expressive they are and i like imagining how animated and eccentric avery can be... like thats just my love for the style of old cartoons creeping its way into my interests sydjsysjs

ok other random things: he is a germaphobe and doesnt want to touch anything ever, i mean hes got those stupid gloves on which would help but it doesnt even matter bc he just... uses his powers for everything so its like. he has negative muscle mass in his arms before he gets jacked ofc AFGSHSHVJ bc he doesnt ever have to do anything with them.

also hes afraid of bugs bc psychic and that makes him an easy target for klara to fuck w him :}

OHHH... did u kno? (i posted it before so maybe) avery secretly has another power... each of his tails is filled with immense love, and when touched, if he likes you, that love and happiness will be transferred to you... its true...! but ONLY if he likes you. if he doesnt, well he wont curse you or anything like that cuz he cant (he wishes he could tho) but he will forcibly move you 10 feet away from his person... vertically.

hmm.. more about him being a fox... he wasnt even supposed to stay as a ninetales but foxes are my favorite animal so i got attached to the idea bc its rly indulgent... and also? i think it works so much better for his lore that he isnt a psychic type but the stuff abt his family lineage and how his powers work with the igi lore surrounding the furries is a WHOLE other can of worms and im not about to make this post a biography and lore essay lmao.

speaking of his family stuff... the big change to his arc in igi is that he doesnt become a gym leader... and this is entirely due to the fact i may have read way too much into his character and came to my own conclusions about where his arc was headed. i was honestly satisfied with the fact it was left open-ended at the conclusion of ioas storyline cuz that meant i could interpret his future however i wanted and still have some merit but... they really did just vaporize all my character development id made for him with the release of the second dlc. i mean, i expected it, but i was still let down. guess its no ones fault but my own for feeling betrayed! and i am the ONLY person on this planet who was adamantly against him being a gym leader and i will probably be called a fake fan and a loser for not supporting his "dream" but... once again with the worms and not wanting to go into it all here.

THAT WASNT THE FIRST TIME ID ~ALLEGEDLY~ MISINTERPRETED HIS CHARACTER THO... i... i made the man TOO SMART... i gave him TOO MANY iq points and i fucking lost it when i realized... fucking.. ok... i had figured, after getting fired or whatever from being a gym trainer, he had maybe somewhat tried to not levitate people, or at least acknowledge that he probably shouldnt have been doing that... not because hes concerned for other peoples personal space or safety... oh no, it was because he just didnt wanna get kicked out from the dojo like he did from the gym. and then the fucking. twilight wings episode came out where he was just casually harassing that poor man and i was like GOD i really gave him TOO MANY BRAINCELLS HUH. FUCK he is an IDIOT he is SO STUPID...

ok. ya know what? ill say my reasons for why i accidentally made him Think Thoughts for once. i will end this off with an angsty thing. as a treat. because i like angst and i like hurting him :o) ya see, after hed lost his position as gym trainer, his family (parents? grandparents?? whoever) were Not happy with him... they basically ~banished~ (OoOoh scary) him until he could prove he was capable of holding the title of gym leader. and i thought maybe that would smack at least enough sense into him to not repeat the same mistake that got him into this mess in the first place... though i cant make any promises considering hes a jerk and his attitude gets in the way of all logic and reasoning. so yes there is a lot more edgie stuff where that came from cuz its igi and thats how it is :o)

SO YEAH SHDBSHDH!!!1!11!! THANKS FOR ENABLING ME I LOVE THIS MAN A L O T. THERE WERE OFC OTHER THINGS I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO ADD BUT IT WAS GETTING TOO LONG.

IF U MANAGED TO MAKE IT THIS FAR HERE IS A WIP ANIMATION OF HIM AS THE DANCING BRAZILIAN DOG MEME I HOPE TO COMPLETE IN THE NEAR FUTURE