#they’re like the original characters but I kidnapped them and put them into the dollhouse that is my mind

[leluxiboi]

Fun fact about my Project Sekai unit shuffle au: The VBS characters spread rapping to whatever units they went to like some kind of banger disease.

Toya in the N25-equivalent, Dante’s Oratorio? Yeah they do music like N25’s, but Toya can also rap too.

The MMJ-equivalent, Heart ❥DRIVE having Akito? Yeah they rap now I guess (though I guess H❥D is also very VBS inspired anyway so-)

(Oh yeah and the VBS-equivalent, ⎡Nightingale Avenue!! ⎦? They still rap. And they’re lead by Shizuku, who now has a passion for rapping.)

[theliterarywolf]

How was the sequel to Tales from The Hood, a shitshow?

The original Tales from the Hood, while having some campy horror elements, still managed to present its stories and tone competently while still incorporating themes of struggles of black Americans in urban areas. 

Examples: 

A black politician who’s been trying to fight against police corruption gets beaten to death and injected with drugs post-mortem by said corrupt cops to slander his name. The politician returns from the dead to exact vengeance. Obviously this short tackles police brutality and corruption.

A little boy and his mother who are constantly beaten and abused by what he draws and identifies as a ‘monster’ who, it turns out, is the mother’s new boyfriend. The theme here is Domestic Violence and how often people try to brush it under the rug as just a way of life in the community. 

A former klansman-turned senator buys a building called ‘The Dollhouse’ that is of high historical significance to the local black community, despite their wishes and complaints, to serve as the headquarters for his racist campaign to become governor. The house in of itself was where a confederate-supporter, after the loss of the Civil War, decided to murder all of his slaves rather than see them freed. Their restless souls haunted the place until a ‘voodoo woman’ managed to calm their souls and place them into dolls. You can pretty much guess where this is going and the themes.

The final entry centers around a gang-member who, after getting hunted and shot down by rival gang-members, is taken into police custody and is given one last chance for freedom by a doctor’s new, radical behavioral therapy program. Said therapy takes a note right out of A Clockwork Orange and bombards our main character with alternating images of brutal gang-violence and KKK lynchings. After which, he is berated with apparitions of all the people he’s shot and killed; including a little girl who was a victim during one of his drive-by shootings. Of course, this kind of therapy will only be successful if the subject shows some remorse...

And all of this is wrapped in a framing device of three gang-members trying to find some drugs at a funeral-home, even harassing the funeral-director, which turns out to be a portal into hell.

... *deep breath*

I have to do a ‘Read More’ because this post got long. But I implore you guys to read on to see the abyss of insanity and bad directions that were taken in regards to the sequel of this movie. Please.

The sequel decided to throw ALL NUANCE AND TACT out of the window and give us such wonderful stories as: 

A white girl and a black girl are on a road-trip and decide to go to the... ugh... Museum of Negrosity where the owner chastises them on thinking that the uncomfortable racist memorabilia he owns (collections of minstrel show cartoons, golliwog and pickaninny dolls) are things of the past instead of acknowledging them as parts of America’s racist past. And, for some reason, the white girl is obsessed with buying one of the golliwog dolls because she had one when she was little. Anyway, they sneak back in later with the white girl’s brother who happens to be the black girl’s boyfriend, so they can steal one of the dolls. Through hijinks, the doll comes to life and grows to the size of a human being. The brother/boyfriend gets whipped to death, the black girl gets cut in half by a minstrel-colored guillotine, and the white girl... Fucks the giant golliwog doll, gets pregnant, and a few days later, has her stomach torn open as a bunch of baby versions of the doll go flying out everywhere.

Some gang-members track down a former pimp who’s changed his ways to try and shake him down for some owed money. He doesn’t comply, so they kill him but, golly-gee! How are they going to get the money now~? Oh, I know! Hold a scam medium hostage so he can perform a seance to talk to the pimp to find out about the money. But, oh no~ It looks like the medium’s powers decide to actually work this time~ Ooh~

Two douchebags hookup with two hot chicks and, after the world’s worst game of Cards Against Humanity, they decide to roofie the girls so they can record themselves raping them so they can post it to ‘le dark web’. ... Lo’ and behold, the girls turn out to be vampires who were playing 4D chess to rope the two douchebags in so they can use them for their own recording-something-brutal-to-post-online scheme. 

And... The LAST one. Oh my God, the LAST ONE. *deep breath* Okay.

So we follow a black republican councilman who is married to a white woman and they’re expecting a baby after a long line of miscarriages. But the wife is having weird bouts of bad dreams and insomnia. What are the bad dreams about? 

... I need you guys to understand. That I am not shitposting when I type the following words. *deep breath* Okay. 

The wife is being haunted by the ghost of Emmett Till telling her that she doesn’t deserve to have her baby. You know? Emmett Till? The victim of one of the most brutal, horrific murders in America due to one of the most disgusting, vile acts of racism? THAT EMMETT TILL?!

So..! The black councilman is working for a white politician who... I’m just going to put a direct quote from the movie so you can get where they were coming from.

“That man wants to close down ten more voting locations, all of them in black districts!”

Anyway, after a house-call from a doctor who brushes off the dreams as hormones, the councilman hosts a party for the politician who’s running slogan is ‘Let’s take Mississippi back!’ Gee-golly-willickers! Can’t imagine where they were coming from with that one!!

So the party goes on, the politician even congratulating our councilman on his ‘white wife’, but said wife rushes downstairs after having another dream; ranting about ‘that boy from the field has decided to LIVE! And if he lives, our baby’s going to die!’ And she runs outside with a machete to try and kill the ghost of Emmett Till (who, again, very real person and victim of racist brutality). 

So the councilman’s mother and the local voodoo expert drive up and the voodoo expert tells the councilman that Emmett Till is trying to talk to him about the nature of sacrifice. The next day, the wife is talking about how her stomach is getting smaller, but the councilman doesn’t want to hear any of it and calls the doctor again. And, guys..?! If shit hadn’t jumped the rails before?! The train just starts doing cartwheels from here. 

The doctor is suspiciously short-tempered with the politician this time around and he does examine the wife to confirm that her stomach is indeed shrinking. However, when he’s told that the councilman is the father, he storms out and snaps “I don’t work for coloreds!” 

Then the wife runs out of bed and tells the doctor that the councilman isn’t her husband and that he kidnapped and raped her. So both the wife and the doctor drive off and the councilman realizes that the world has somehow gone back to the era of Jim Crow. 

... Oooh my gosh, typing this is making me want to commit toaster-bath but it gets so much worse..!

So, after the voodoo expert comes to chastise the councilman about not ‘respecting the sacrifices that have been gifted to you’, he is able to see the ghost of Emmett Till (who was a real person, why is this happening..?!) who is there to tell him that he’s decided that he wants to live. Which means that the world will never see the brutal images of his body at his funeral and that will cause a Butterfly Effect in history that will make it so that the Civil Rights Movement never happened. 

You may be questioning the logistics of this, but don’t worry! The ghosts of the girls killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing in Birmingham come to explain and further berate the councilman about ‘respecting the sacrifices that have been gifted to him’ and working for a racist politician. 

But wait! There’s more! *whines* I keep crying out to God but he won’t answer...

They’re soon joined by the ghosts of the three Freedom Riders who were killed during the Mississippi Burning Murders, the ghost of Civil Rights Activist Medgar Evers, and DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. 

Not to mention several other unnamed figures who walk up while everyone else starts chanting about ‘respecting the sacrifices that have been gifted to you’, who look like Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass, just to name a few. 

... I need a drink. I need a cold, stiff drink. ... Almost done. 

So, in comes the Klan. You know, the white-robed bastards; I hear they have an outreach center a few cities away from me. Sure, fine, whatever. The wife is leading them along with the white politician who hits the councilman’s mother in the face with a baton and Emmett Till stops time just as reinforcements show up to tell the councilman that, in order for everything to go back to normal, he has to join the ranks of those who sacrificed. 

“If what you want is worth us dying for, how come its not worth you dying for?!”

And, at first, the councilman disagrees; even being dragged away by Klansmen. However! It’s his wife angrily spitting in his face that makes him realize that this world isn’t the world he wants to live in. So he runs over to Emmett Till to tell him that he will join him... And then he’s beaten to death, becoming a sacrifice to get the world back to normal. And, once it is, his spirit joins Emmett Till’s and walks off into the great beyond. 

So! Not only did this schlocky, B-movie horror movie sequel decide to use a REAL LIFE VICTIM of racism-driven brutality as a story-device, but it also wants to put forth the message that the people who lost their lives during the Civil Rights Movement? Yeah, they HAD to die! Otherwise the Civil Rights Movement would never have happened~!

You see why I hate the sequel to Tales from the Hood so much? Not even mentioning the terrible framing segments of a racial-profiling robot being told these stories so it knows what ‘criminals’ to go after, but this movie is just a temple of ‘WHY?! WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS?!?!?!’

[guiltypleasuresminustheguilt]

A -through- Uber A Theory (This is gonna be long): *To be continued*

Sentences in * * are pure make believe to connect certain things.

Mona starts her A stuff, stalking Ali.

Ali investigates.

Ali uncovers truth, Mona is A.

Ali confronts Mona, tricks her into helping fake her own death by killing Bethany who she hated.

Ali tells Mona how to be popular and leaves.

Ali brings Sara Harvey in the day after labor day. (They had already been friends, *Ali met Sara after seeing her preform in a school play, she was impressed by how good she could lie and how little she cared about people, she was the perfect prodigy.*)

Mona becomes popular, then befriends Hanna on her own.

Year goes by and now all 4 liars are back in Rosewood.

Ali has gotten bored, she wants to play with her dolls again.

Ali reaches out to Mona, forces her to play the game again but this time stalk and torture Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer. Ali threatens to tell everyone that Mona killed Bethany thinking it was Ali and that she was forced to run away in fear of her life. Mona knows she will lose her best friend (Hanna) if this comes out, not to mention face serious criminal charges so she goes along with it.

Ali is A, but has Mona do most of the dirty work.

Mona starts getting too in-character, confuses reality, she starts believing her job as A (to monitor and punish the people) is real and takes matters into her own hands rather than taking orders from Ali.

Ali sees Mona getting real bad, she even started texting herself A messages, so she sets up the plan for Mona to get caught.

Ali has Mona take Spencer to the lair, everything unfolds, and Mona ends up at Radley.

Ali visits Mona in Radley, Mona says, 'I did everything you asked me to'. Ali tells her to just take her meds and get better.

This theory explains:

Why Mona would torture her best friend

How Ali's bracelet was in Bethany's grave.

Why Mona cliamed she became A: the others stole Hanna from her = all of them being back in Rosewood together is the reason Ali made her become A again, which caused Hanna to drift further from Mona.

How Ali always knew where the liars were and when they were in trouble.

Why Ali wouldn't ever give a straight answer when she visited and basically acted like it was a game when she saw Spencer.

How/why Sara Harvey was missing, if Cece brought her in that wouldn't have happened until after Mona went to Radley so why would she be missing before that?

Uber A:

Ali visits Mona in Radley

Ali brings Cece into the game and helps her get out of Radley (she already knew the truth about Cece from their summer in Cape May together)

Ali and Cece drug Emily and dig up Bethany's body and get proof the liars were there (Mona wasn't actually there, she lied about that)

Ali has Cece run things while Mona takes her meds to get better

Ali has Cece run into the liars and act suspiciously like Ali.

Ali starts using Cece and Sara as redcoat, Mona doesn't know who they are or how they're involved just knows of redcoat like the others and knows of Cece like the others

Ali brings Noel in because she knows he's a sadistic bastard who doesn't need a reason to hurt people.

*Ali instructs Noel to bring Jenna in, Jenna has no idea she is actually working for Ali which makes Ali love it even more.*

Ali finds out about Ezra's book and decides to use it to her advantage, make the liars think he's A, plus it'll kill Aria when she finds out which Ali loves.

Ali reveals herself to be alive to the liars

Ali has Shawna get Emily to come see her. Knowing the others won't let her go alone, she insists she come alone to cause issue between Emily and Spencer.

Ali uses the fact that Spencer can't remember that night to fuck with her

Shawna never knew Ali wasn't actually in danger, she never knew she had Jenna doing some of her dirty work

The liars arrive in New York York and Ali spins this horrible sob story about how her mother buried her alive and Mona tricked her into running away and the liars eat it up. *Truth is her mom caught her putting her bracelet on Bethany's dead body, had Wilden cover it up, and sent Ali away.*

Ali meets with Cece to give an update, Emily catches her so she spins a lie again

Cece was only given the passport so Ali wouldn't have a way out, but she ended up leaving the country and met Alex.

Shawna finds out the truth, pissed at Ali for making her commit crimes, lie, cover up the truth, and involve Jenna she comes with a gun to kill Ali

Ezra was following the liars trying to keep Aria safe, sees Shawna in a black hoodie and thinks she's A

Ezra gets shot by Shawna though the liars don't know who shot him

Shawna gets to the theater ready to kill Ali but dies herself instead

The liars all agree to tell the truth but Ali already had other plans set up

Ali lies to the cops and the liars idiotically go along with it.

Now Ali=A can use Shawna being killed and lying to the cops against the liars

Ali hires Cirus to get caught for kidnapping her, waits until the last minute to let him go because he had fucked her over in the past

The liars freak out about Ali going rogue and go to Mona for help

Mona is tired, she wants to tell the truth and wants to be free from Ali

Mona has been planning to fake her death and leave Ali held responsible so she could just run away

Ali catches on to this plan, calls Cece to return

Alex begs Cece not to leave but she loves the game too much

Ali has Cece intercept Mona's plan and take her to the dollhouse.

Ali tells Cece that Mona is her doll for now, as long as she stays in the dollhouse she can play with her whenever she wants.

Ali let's herself get arrested for murder knowing soon the liars will believe she's innocent, then get arrested themselves.

Ali has Cece intercept the prison transport vehicle and take the liars to the dollhouse, knowing it'll set her free soon.

Ali tells Cece since she just got out of jail she can't be too close to the dollhouse so Cece takes charge

Ali notices Andrew getting close to finding them, she frames him and makes a plan to 'save her friends'

Ali and Cece use the fact that Cece used to be a boy to their advantage, put his name in the dollhouse for Spencer to see, making framing Andrew easier

Now everyone believes A is a man named Charles Dilaurentis and he can never be found

With cops all over, Ali and Cece decide they need to end the game for now, they come up with a plan

Ali hires Reese to play a part

Cece 'kidnaps' Ali at the prom, the liars + Mona + Sara all head to Reese's office

Cece's big reveal is all lies, Cece killed Toby's mom because she caught little Charles wearing a dress. He freaked out thinking he'd be in trouble so he pushed her off the roof.

Cece takes full blame for being A even though it was her and Ali

Mona really was extremely drugged up when Ali first visited, she really does have mental issues which made it a lot easier for Ali to manipulate her

Mona does admit to killing Bethany but at this point after the dollhouse she is too scared to tell the whole truth and her mental illness is twisting reality

Cece was never going to blow up Radley with Ali and her family inside, the bomb would have never gone off

Cece gets taken to a mental hospital and Ali promises she'll get her out

Cece never got the chance to introduce Ali to Alex and wanted to keep her to herself

Ali had no idea Alex existed and played no part in her A game

Ali planned to pick up the game after Cece was released, but Mona killed her which stopped their plans

Ali didn't know who killed Cece

Alex hated all six of them, she blamed all of them for making Cece obsessed with the game

She planned to get revenge, but the game has a powerful pull to it and it sucks you in

Her plan got distorted the more she played and the more she saw how much Spencer had.

This theory explains:

How Cece could know everything she needs to about the girls including what they each put in the grave, because even Mona couldn't know that only Alison would be able to tell who each item was from and the story behind it.

Why Alison was originally working towards framing Spencer.

Why she started her own little army.

Why Shawna was mad enough to kill, sure Alison blinded the girl she fell in love with, but that was years before they fell in love and not really a worthwhile reason to go to prison in my opinion. While if she found out Ali was never in true danger, she was the one who scared her by knocking her out and telling her to leave, and had already lied to the cops and commit crimes to help her when she never even needed the help and got the girl she loves involved in criminal activities as well, yeah I understand her being pretty pissed.

Why Ali would act like she can only trust Emily but 'isn't sure about the rest'.

Why Ali would change her story to the cops at the last minute & that story have major holes in it. Ali is an expert liar, she chose to make her story seem doubtful and claimed her friends were instrumental in helping her, making sure they would immediately be arrested if her story came out to be fake.