#tldr. um. they don't like each other lol

[salcreus]

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[ducktracy]

Were there any shorts that paired Bugs and Porky? Like the the only ones I can think of are from New Looney Tunes/Wabbit and I just know there had be shorts that starred just them before that.

OH MAN!!! OKAY. i'm going to preface this right now with: the answer is simple (tl;dr: barely, i'd say only one truly counts during the classic era) but the Porky and Bugs dynamic has become a side obsession for me within the past year or so, and i don't really have many opportunities to talk about it on this blog. so i will probably end up giving you way too much info than what you asked for. so there's the tldr above! and to reiterate it further...

SO. YES. to answer your question, they were occasionally paired together in the classics, but nothing really meaningful. Porky's Hare Hunt, which is a self-admitted rip on Porky's Duck Hunt, births a prototypal Bugs Bunny who could not be further from his fully realized counterpart... but there is a direct lineage.

this is the only short in the classics to have them actually talking to each other, and even then, proto-Bugs sounds nothing like how he would. i both count this one and don't, really... it's more interesting to count it, but, this isn't really Bugs. but as the title implies, it's all about Porky's attempts to hunt this screwy rabbit who keeps heckling him and slipping out of his fingers. it also births the Groucho Marx-ism of "of course you realize, this means war!" associated with the real Bugs, so there is that going for it!

interestingly, this model sheet surfaced a few months ago--Bob Clampett had said something in an interview about him helping out with the story for this one, and i always dismissed that as one of his "exaggerations" since he had a knack for making many mountains out of molehills, including his involvement in the origins of Bugs... but this does look like a Clampett or Clampett unit drawing, and the short was directed by Ben "Bugs" Hardaway, whose style was markedly different... so, just thought that was interesting! never got to talk about this yet. this model sheet is more appealing than the whole cartoon!

there's also this from Hare-um Scare-um, which is another proto-Bugs short... very prophetic honestly

there's also Any Bonds Today, where Porky appears in the background alongside Elmer and has at least one line to help shill war bonds, but it's really Bugs' thing first and foremost and he's just sort of there to look pretty and rouse jingoism through being a recognizable and "reliable" face

BUT! the next true Porky and Bugs short in 1943, which is more relevant to your question. A Corny Concerto is really only the "true" short that pairs them together... and it's for half the runtime of the short, and neither of them say a word to each other LOL. but they're together in the Tale of Vienna Woods segment, and i HIGHLY recommend watching it if you haven't yet--extremely entertaining and charming, and paints a very interesting glimpse of what a Porky and Bugs dynamic would look like, had that been a thing. very antagonistic! Porky is hunting Bugs again, who's heckling him (again), coming to a climax where he fakes Porky out by pretending to die and then slaps him in a gag that makes it look like Porky is being a masher. normal stuff.

and thanks to this short i've fostered the headcanon that i think Porky and Bugs would absolutely detest each other if they were ever to interact and it gives me great joy to think about, and has been something i've been thinking about and concocting in my mind palace very much lately.

AND THAT'S REALLY IT FOR MAJOR APPEARANCES.. i talked about it in this ask, but the end of Porky Pig's Feat does make history by being the only time all the flagship stars appear together--Porky and Daffy are held prisoner in a hotel since they couldn't pay their rent, and they start reminiscing on how Bugs Bunny, the great cartoon star, would be able to get out of such a mess... and they try to get his help, only for it to reveal that he's stuck in the same situation! Porky doesn't say anything to Bugs/hardly regards him, but he does start the "gosh, if Bugs Bunny were only here" discussion... Bugs is really more like a godlike cartoon figure here rather than an actual character, and i see it more as a loophole for Frank Tashlin to work with Bugs, since he was very vocal about his disappointment in not getting to direct him often due to being low in the studio hierarchy and being "stuck with the damn pig" (rude!!)

and the last instance of them together that i can think of is a very brief part in the 1964 Dumb Patrol short (clarifying the date since there's a 1931 Bosko short by the same name): Porky in a silent cameo is slated to take down Yosemite Sam's warplane, but Bugs knocks him unconscious and steals his place because "he's got a wife and six piglets at home!" (...or, it's just a slightly more creative way of concocting exposition for what's a subpar Bugs and Yosemite Sam short)

and that's it for the shorts! ...so, surely, you're asking "okay, but why the long winded anticipatory introduction?" and to THAT! i say... because Porky and Bugs had a sort of double life and were very frequently paired in merchandising together.

Bugs was Porky's Daffy-figure in the comics, to the point where they were often the face of the comics together. usually a lot of stories revolving around Bugs trying to stir up Mr. Moral Goody Two Shoes Porky and get him in trouble, the two going on adventures together, or them just being buddies. it's... weirdly fascinating? the comics were often drawn and written by many of the same figures who worked on the cartoons, so it's a very interesting "what if" scenario that might give insight as to what it'd be like if we got more Porky and Bugs shorts

one of my all time favorite comic stories is an entire story about a big, convoluted misunderstanding where everyone things Porky wants to kill Bugs and they all try to stop him. the comics have been excellent fodder in fueling my "Porky just hates Bugs' guts" headcanon that i kinda just thought was me being funny, but has a weird amount of "evidence" for it LOL.

i mean Porky just goes straight for the ankle breaker here!

SO! they have been paired together in the past, but in a sort of strange, convoluted way. in terms of shorts there's very little, and the only time they ever talk to each other one on one is when Bugs is in his most primordial form. the comics and merchandising of the era paint more of a picture of what that dynamic could be like, but maybe a bit of a dubious one, since the characterizations and writing and general style of the comics are a bit different and more sanitized than the irreverence of the shorts, in both tone and format

[mechagoenna]

Hello fellow Starbee shipper ✨ This is um.. embarrassing to admit but I uh.. I relate to Starscream a ton... and I think that's why I like Starbee so much cuz it's nice to see Starscream have just- someone he's (at first) forced to interact with and be open with. I really like that Bumblebee sees the best in all people, and more or less is good at grounding (haha) Starscream. Between the canon and the fanon, I see Starscream finally getting someone to lean on emotionally-- but that's my problem (sorry I take forever to get to the point)- I'm unsure if this is super reciprocated? I see so much fanfiction of Bumblebee being a good support to Starscream, and I love it, but it feels a little one sided- and that might be just because I love Starscream and focus more on him but I really want the ship to be mutually beneficial! Bumblebee deserves support too- I'm just unsure of how that would work and I really wanted to hear your take on it.

To preface this, I have to admit I'm not the most eloquent person so my explanation may be a bit lacking. Sorry! I'm also someone who ships starbee mostly because I find it funny, so the more...in-depth(?) aspects are wasted on me.

That being said, I've always viewed (IDW) starbee as mutually beneficial because it gives them both a room to shed the perspectives others have of them.

I think Starscream and Bumblebee are really similar in the sense that they both don personas during the war. Starscream is the conniving, egocentric villain who WILL backstab you and WILL scheme his way out of everything. Meanwhile Bumblebee is everyone's friend, everyone's moral support, everyone's anchor. They are those things btw, but they aren't just those traits. These identities work fine during the war, but they both found themselves bogged down by the way others viewed them during peace-time.

In RID, Bumblebee is at a point where he's incredibly overwhelmed with a leadership role that was thrust unto him because of his reputation. Everyone voted for him because he's popular but he's popular because he's friendly and sweet. He can't seem to assert himself or his authority in the way a leader should because of it. This causes him to make the wrong decisions, lash out (choking Prowl), and grow increasingly frustrated. And then he dies.

Starscream is different in that he actually wants the leadership role and he wants to be adored by everyone, but he’s also affected by the version of him everyone expects. He won't say he cares about Windblade because that'll reveal a vulnerability that is "unStarscreamlike". He'll instead say "Yeah I should've been nicer to her so it would've been easier to manipulate her".

Basically this:

They're both stuck as what people see them as, but around each other they can both kinda shed these facades and understand each other in ways that few others could.

So to TLDR and answer your question lol: I think Starscream affirms to Bumblebee that he is more than "the autobot mascot", that he's more than this two-dimensional ray of sunshine. Starscream gives Bumblebee a space where he can just be a bit of an ass and be taken seriously. With a ship like starbee, Bumblebee is just ultimately going to be the healthier of the two, but I don't think that means he carries no baggage, yk?

[etherealspacejelly]

hi dad, i'm having some internal conflict. i've always been a really anxious person (which is probably due to undiagnosed anxiety disorders) and i've never really "fit in." i've been treated as weird all my life. i've never understood tone and i get in a lot of trouble with my parents for this (even though i've explained i can't control it), i go nonverbal for brief periods of time occassionally, loud noises and bright lights cause me pain like extreme headaches, i always feel the need to follow self-created routines in order to feel safe, i don't understand social boundaries all too well, i intensely hyperfixate, i'm extremely hyperempathetic, etc. i've never understood why i'm the way i am. then i started learning more about autism and i think i may have it. many of my autistic friends seem to think so.

but my parents don't believe me and don't like me researching mental health stuff. they don't think i'm "autistic enough" because my mom used to work with autistic kids who were almost always nonverbal and on a more extreme end of the spectrum. i mask all the time too, as a defense mechanism since i get in so much trouble for misunderstanding. hell, my parents won't even get me an official anxiety diagnosis (even though i've had symptoms since the moment the signs can appear) because they think "labels don't matter."

and the big problem that comes along with this is, i don't want to self diagnose and seem disrespectful to diagnosed autistic people. i've done a lot of research and gotten a lot of opinions from neurodivergent people in my life, but i still feel fake because i have no access to a diagnosis. so many people have told me to try to get one and my parents completely refuse.

is it okay to self diagnose? will diagnosed people find this disrespectful? i'm not exactly sure how to go about this. it'll most likely be several years at best before i can get medically diagnosed.

tldr; i may be autistic but i have no access to a diagnosis and feel guilty about self diagnosing. any advice?

thank you and sorry if this was too vent-ish, i just wanted to see if you had any thoughts <3 feel free to ignore this ask if it's too overwhelming /gen

baby. honey. sweetpea. let me tell you something

autistic people actually dont care if you self diagnose. in fact, many of us are self diagnosed. diagnoses can be inaccessible for many reasons, and its perfectly understandable if you cant or dont want to get one

i can absolutely relate to you. my mum works with disabled kids too, and insisted that i couldn't be autistic because she "would have known". she considers herself an expert, but somehow missed all the signs in me. i guess because i am also quite high masking.

you definitely sound autistic to me, and if other neurodivergent people who know you agree then you probably are. autistic people can sense each other lol

i remember once when i friend of mine came to me and was like "hey btw im autistic" and i was like "yeah i know. you told me" and they were like. "um. no i couldnt have told you i only got diagnosed a few days ago and this is the first time we've spoken since then" and i was like. oh. i just Sensed it, you know? i just fuckin knew

so yes. you can self diagnose. thats perfectly fine. and if anyone tells you that you cant or that you're somehow "harming the autistic community" you can tell them to fuck off. self diagnosis does not harm the autistic community in any way, but it can really benefit people like you.

i hope someday you can get the accommodations you need and deserve. in the meantime, please give yourself grace. you're trying your best. and im proud of you, ok?

[boy-armageddon]

man could i get like. a crash course on your oc's. i don't know anything about any of them godbless

EEEE YAY OF COURSE!!!! (Insane ramblings about my world and 4 of my characters (technically like 6-7 though I mention some briefly) under the cut)

Okay so quick tldr thing for their world because there’s A Lot: set in a sort of fucked up future Detroit with a lot of pollution with this Alien God Blood/Fuel Substance (aka anti-essence) with a lot of. Basically killing machines of animals created from ingesting it (Reapers) who have changed a lot of how humans live and also the population in general is way down, so most of them live in cities now. Very compact and very low quality of life. The aforementioned Reapers are entities, which are beings created by old gods (aforementioned alien god things. Too much lore to get into but what you need to know is that they do exist and they do cause trouble for people and can possess people sort of. Not Reapers though they’re a weird exception). This is all I should say because Oh My God I run my mouth LOL

Enter my main protagonist freak, Jeong Chin-hae. Investigates entities freelance because of his strong moral convictions with helping people always no matter what it may cost himself or sometimes other people and all, and also partly because he is semi-possessed by an entity! Got nearly beat to death and a Shade (another kind of entity, friendlier than the others and distinctly nautically themed) tried to possess what it thought was his corpse but woopsies! He was still alive so they’re just stuck together LOL. Also other things of note about him: anger issues, autistic (specifically has a lot of sensory issues around being touched and has a special interest in hardcore punk and some of its subgenres. Like me yeah I know LOL), recently moved to futuristic Detroit and is sleeping on his friend’s couch. His friend is Dave btw she’s so cool but not too relevant rn, just know she’s Jeong’s ex (no tension or anything it was just kind of a funny thing and they just realized “oh yeah we’re just friends” and broke it off then) and only friend at this point and also a polyamorous weed dealer to the neighbors (not dating them though, just the weed dealer to them of course)

Speaking of the neighbors!!!!!!!! Cassy (Castillo) Navarro Villanueva :3 one of his mothers is an old god that feeds upon the fear of the afterlife/death and the one who made shades. Cassy specifically feeds more on sleep and has dream related powers, ironic considering he’s an insomniac LOL. Lives next door to Dave and yknow. Buys weed from him. Would have been a film major if he could’ve afforded it and still like constantly watches and talks about films (likes weird artsy bullshit and some stereotypical film bro movies. Wears a fight club shirt a lot but in entity affairs world it’s called Altercation Association). However! He is currently. Um. An organ harvester 😭 long story about that but that whole underbelly of the medical industry was basically his only option as, due to being half old god, he looks. freaky in a few ways (notably the multiple eyes and the hand mouths and other stuff). Very predatory industry stuff blah blah blah so that’s why he’s there. He’s also a cannibal AND in a weird gay relationship with Jeong they are So bad for each other ❤️

Other neighbor who mooches off of Cassy, Homhe! Pronounced like Hawm-hey does that make sense. Too much lore to get into but they’re like 17 year old albino amalgamation dipshit being manipulated by this one old god into doing so many horrible actions. A huge asshole on purpose yet is weirdly protective of Cassy (like the only person who hasn’t gotten fed up with them yet which is why). Technically some sort of entity but moreso a vessel, long story. Because of this, they can sort of leech off of other entity’s power stuff. Like a sponge! Hates Jeong so bad too. It’s a jealousy thing but not romantic jealousy OBVS LOL

Finally, out of my main character. My fave oc ever in the universe… Cecilia Moore!!! Yes Cecilia like Cecilia and the Silhouette Saloon. Constantly wears businessy clothes and has a flat affect and died once. She’s okay now though Cassy’s old god mother, Reorzæk, revived her because she just took a special time interest in her. Of course this is in exchange for being basically her “follower,” or a person (isn’t always a person specifically just any sentient life form) who just does the old god’s bidding, and is specifically assigned to the. Organ harvesting stuff, for the purposes of making more vessels (long story related to Homhe). Cassy’s boss basically. She’s very tired constantly and super overworked but she actually does have a similar music taste to Jeong (if liking more prog stuff than him), so when she has the time she either listens to music or reads (usually random super wordy books for fun.) Jayson’s older sister (not talking about my token cis guy rn because he’s not a main character, but if you want to you can ask more about him), transgender lesbian, generally the goat. To me

There’s more I can talk about obvs because look at how much I’m talking but alas. It would be a millenia to talk about it ALL in one post. Sorry for rambling 😭

[bredforloyalty]

you keep posting about columbo. do i need to watch it would u recommend?

first of all sorry for answering more than a week later... i had a feeling if i just keep on columboposting all alone eventually someone will be like what's going on.. my brain's been like THE KLUMBO!! every day most days for a while now so bear with me for a moment

my answer to "do you recommend x" is always that i can tell you about it, say what i like about it and what's possibly not to like so you can better evaluate whether it's something you would enjoy, yeah? 😳 like in the end it's either for you or it isn't and only you can find out. you know what i mean

um so columbo, the episodes are feature-length self-contained murder mysteries, if you wanted to you could start anywhere. and they aren't exactly mysteries because the concept is that you watch the murder happen and then the clues that lead to the arrest are uncovered gradually and the lieutenant and the killer dance around each other until the latter incriminates themself. usually because they underestimated columbo because he's a shabby little guy and appears to be sort of a bumbling idiot but is actually incredibly perceptive and sharp-witted, and he knows how the (usually rich) self-important murderers see him and uses that against them, as well as his compassion and intuition. that's pretty much it, it's a reverse whodunnit

i think (and it may be obvious) that the appeal of the show other than the crime/mystery is columbo, if you like him that could possibly be the thing that makes you continue watching. so i'll tell you that he doesn't carry a gun, can't stand the sight of blood, or high places, loves his wife. and his dog. simple guy, shrewd though. same rumpled coat and shitty little peugeot convertible all the time. he's very socratic in his methods, non-violent, and i think that's what really attracted me to this show. i enjoy the masculinity without the usual baggage, without the arrogance and the domineering and the posturing, if that makes sense lol.. plus i think peter falk's performance is wonderfully human, stephen fry said this once in an interview if i remember correctly: there's a certain warmth to it. columbo's a humble, virtuous character, yeah he's disheveled, a little all over the place but he understands people and is endlessly curious and dedicated and that's how he wins. and i like that and i think he's a bit of an unusual character because we're far from the macho tough guy cops who intimidate and coerce and threaten And from the trope of the egotistical superhuman genius detective.. he's a little guy c'maahn he's just a little guyy (it's not about him though viewers aren't even supposed to know his first name and it's hard to tell when he's bluffing and his private life is never the focus. so, a mysterious little guy)

TLDR: yes i recommend it if you like mysteries and would enjoy a crime drama with moments of silliness or would appreciate the unconventional masculinity (for his time definitely) i see in this character, and no i don't recommend it if you'd rather watch things that are short and snappy or if you strongly prefer an overarching plot or if you hate the look and feel of the 70s or if you don't like peter falk's whole deal and especially not if your pet peeve is talking in circles. oh and there are some moments and aspects of episodes that didn't age well but they're very few and far between imo. just wanted to mention that, i know nothing is perfect ofc<3

so yeah i do recommend it because i love it, thank you for asking !! :)

[sadistpet]

1, 2, 9, 11? (feel free to reduce the questions you want to answer lol)

munday questions !

1. how do you feel about reblog karma?

okay this is maybe controversial but i do not care. i understand why people do it and it's definitely annoying to be reblogged from a bunch and have nobody send in anything, but like. reblog from me all you want i genuinely do not mind !! i try my best to practice it because it's just basic kindness, or i just reblog from the source like others do, but if someone was to reblog memes from me i really would not care at all

i think nowadays it's even extended to like, generic musings posts and stuff ? people tend to reblog from the source rather than each other, and thats something i cant really wrap my head around kjfhfdkj tldr i'll do it for other people but i truly do not care if people do it for me, pls reblog memes and stuff from me all you want

2. is it hard for you to write with characters you don’t know/don’t know well?

um a bit? maybe? i think if i'm like completely unaware of the fandom then yeah, but if i have a general idea of what a character is like then i'm usually fine :3 i think ? maybe ? it is a little bit difficult just cause i'm not used to stepping out of my comfort zone, but obviously with an rp scene as small as mgs', you kinda have to branch out into other fandoms. like idk shit about final fantasy except like 5 characters max but i still like to interact with blogs from that fandom, even if idk much of um. anything about it. i find the characters themselves interesting :3

9. when you look at a new blog, what is it that makes you press the follow button? is it the muse, the aesthetics, the writing–?

HMM usually the muse themself, yeah, and the general attitude of the writer. i get shit scared of following people who are like, graphical geniuses or amazing writers because i feel like SO intimidated by them, but i wouldn't like. block someone or something just for being good at that stuff lmao. if you're a pretty chill person and i find your character interesting, that's enough for me !

ultimately i try to follow people who seem nice :3 i'm terrified of people who come off really stern or no nonsense ig, so i tend to gravitate towards people who are more. sociable and kind ? maybe that's naïve of me, but as someone who is very anxious all the time and very shy about interacting with new people, it helps a lot to know that the people i'm writing with won't like. spontaneously block me because i didn't post for a little bit yk

11. describe your ideal outcome/endgame for the muse you are currently writing. if you are a multimuse blog: do this for your current favorite muse, or the muse of the last reply you posted.

this is such a scary question am i fucking dying but i don't really have one ! i'd like to have a lot more rp partners and do a lot more writing in general, maybe get some mains and exclusives, that kinda thing. overall just character development through interactions !

as someone who was introduced to the rp scene through ask blogs and stuff, ig i've always been fond of like. having a narrative ? or connections with other blogs that influence how you write and what happens in your blog's "canon" ig. that's something that's always appealed to me :3 but i don't really have like an outcome or "endgame" ig because that sounds so ... final fjdhfjkhrg

[petphantoms]

this is the post i based my hermitcraft beginnings with, but i didn't actually use it much.

that said, i wanted to give advice about how i actually took it, but it is... long, sorry, um.. but i hope it helps! its just me detailing how i found out who i enjoy watching, and while i admit i've only been into hermitcraft for a few months, i know this exact feeling anon and its so recent that i know what my steps to get into it were :P

TLDR;

pick someone (i did grian), start a random season (i did 9), and if someone else in the video catches your attention, give their videos a visit!

you can seek out a relatively contained side series (3rdlife, streams), or fan content (fanart, clips), to see what projects, people, or characters intrigue you the most. check out the hermitcraft content from there.

don't forget about hermitcraft recap to help you learn about new people either, and the official hermitcraft website lets you see who all is involved and what they're uploading.

dont overwhelm yourself with people to watch, treat everything like a sample platter until you know what you like and want to experiment with what you're curious about

have fun and be yourself 👍

so! i consider myself new to hermitcraft personally, but its been a good few months with some experimentation, and what ive been doing is this;

i have OCD, and a really specific and severe issue where i cannot do ANYTHING that isn't in chronological order. so i didnt start where season 9 was when i got into it, i just picked up from the beginning and started binging it. i find this kind of nice, because then you aren't thrown into the middle of a project or an arc you don't really have the context for. also, at the beginning of the season, everyones kinda crammed together in starter bases, and theirs first session shenanigans that help introduce you to hermits other than the one you're watching.

depending on if you want to start now, or with the new season, this may or may not be something you even needed to hear advice for, but i figured it would be good to say anyway.

i started with grians videos, because i was told when i first started that he does events, and he socializes, and he builds, so he's pretty well rounded. as i watched grians videos, i got interested in his friends! i started watching their videos, and so the cycle repeats.

some hermits don't socialize near as much. that's fine, too, but then this method doesn't work as well. i enjoy scar and mumbo for different reasons than i enjoy grian, and the way i watch their videos is so different from the way that i watch bdubs.

if you do like grian and friends, the life series also contains a few hermits, which is how i properly got interested in scar's videos and now hes my the guy ever. the life series is nice because its 10 episodes a series tops (not even that) and because of the amount of scheming that goes on you kind of naturally want to see other perspectives, so you end up gravitating towards who interests you.

the other mod of this blog really likes geminitay, and im pretty sure they got into gem from the life series! ive personally also taken an interest in cleo from it too :P the only problem with this advice is that not all the participants are hermits, so it might not help with this hermitcraft quest.

if you arent into those folks, thats so real. thats just been my experience, but theres a lot of other ways to go about it that i feel like follow a similar method of experimentation and exploration. idk what you like, and idk how each of the hermits play, or their humor styles, but i figure a good way to figure it out is through watching clips.

a lot of the funny or weird guys get clipped and posted, so like, i can assume with a lot of faith that tibby here likes cubfan, lol. if you like the cub clips, or the cub fan content, 100% poke to see if cub would be your jam. try this method with others; i plan to with zed in the new season.

theres the hermitcraft recap channel and i saw it recommended to newbies? i would honestly take the idea of "this person seems interesting" from my grian watching and apply it to those too, tbh. i havent personally tested it, but im sure it would work.

a lot of my tips work mostly for social hermits, but that's also the type of content that i like watching. if you aren't into socializing and shenanigans, it probably wouldnt hurt to just open the hermitcraft website and click on whatever you see. if it doesn't interest you, then you can try something new. or, you can use what you know you don't like, to narrow down what you might.

don't try to push through a video style or some humor you aren't as interested in just because. i think in the beginning of getting into something like hermitcraft, which is so big and can be so overwhelming, giving yourself a solid footing in what you really like watching is more important than trying to have a diverse experience or a wide range of people to watch.

i dont really like pearls videos, but i enjoy her streams. i feel this same way about impulse. but i only explore that much because i know that if im not into it, i have other stuff that i am into to fall back on, and i dont feel left behind in the fan community just because someone doesn't fit my niche.

ill also say that i have listed a LOT of hermits that i watch. ... you can just watch one guy. i only watched grian i think for a solid two, two and a half months. i also consume a lot of video content, because that's just what i like to do, so i like having a large variety to pick from. you dont need that. you can subsist off your one little guy in your own little corner of the internet and be totally fine.

all that said, i hope this was of any sort of value, and totally see what everyone says about their favorite hermits in the replies, to see if that helps you find a starting place.

i hope you find someone you like and join the ride! :P

-mod mooshroom

where do I start if I want to get into hermitcraft? You post about it a lot and it's made me curious about what it is

oh gosh, that’s a tricky one because there’s a lot of seasons and a lot of different perspectives to watch with their own video styles. Honestly you asked at a good time, since the newest season is right around the corner! It depends on what kind of content you vibe with, though. There’s a lot of creators on hermitcraft with their own unique styles, some are builders, some are redstoners, some are very chill and laid back while others are very high energy and fast paced.

honestly if anyone would like to pitch their favorite hermit & why anon should watch them in the replies i’d greatly appreciate it (my carpal tunnel has been acting up these past few days and i dont think i can write my goodtimeswithscar and cubfan essays right now hahah but those are my reccomendations)

[virtue-and-beneviolence]

:) You said yesterday not to get you started. I've decided I would really like to get you started and hear about Hanma/Ran threesome 😏

Forgive me imma sin rn

Minors and you blank blogs I swear to fuck y'all better stay off this.

Okay god. Fuck. They're so mean. And just filthy.

Hanma and Ran bond over making you crumble for them. They only talk to each other, really. It's like you're not even there. They know it gets to you. They know you crave their attention. They know it only gets you wetter, makes you louder trying to get spoken to not about. And somehow, when they talk directly to your pussy, it makes your need for them to acknowledge you even stronger. They call you all sorts of lukewarm mean things. They banter about how needy you are and how pathetic you sound. And god,,,you didn't know how badly you wanted that,,,

Ran gets your pussy first, (they probably flipped a coin ahead of time) but not until after shuji feasts on your cunt and not until youve sucked and spit up and down Ran's long cock. All the while Ran isn't shy about asking Shuji how's she taste?

Shuji laughs, directly in your lips and asks how badly he wants to know as he collects your slick on his tongue and presents it to the other man. And by god if Ran isn't feeling absolutely foul enough to lick your slick right off Shuji's fucking tongue.

I swear to God you e never met men so secure in themselves that they could just casually pull that shit in their first encouter.

No now hear me out bc shuji is such a whore okay shuji is dying to fuck you at the same time okay so you're riding Ran while he preps you okay then bam you're absolutely losing you're mind. Both men are fucking you and you can't even tell that shuji isn't gripping you he's gripping Ran's hips trying to get him to fuck you faster, deeper, making it an even tighter, more mind boggling experience for him.

So um tldr. They're mean and vile and delightfully homoerotic despite maybe being pretty straight? I mean shuji is so bi to me but idk I don't know Abt ran except that I do think he'd get this way at least when he's super into it lol.

I hope you like the cliff notes of why I think they're super sexy together. Such weird unhinged chemistry ugh I need it.

[harriertail]

Can you elaborate on your opinions on gray wing?? I’ve only ever seen ppl describe him as a good dad who couldn’t breathe and I never read him entirely as that so I’d love to know your thoughts!!

(long) Well i don’t know.

I don't dislike him but i don't like him (skip to bottom for TLDR if you care) I can't really discuss Grey Wing without also Clear Sky so. There is an opinion of him being 'good dad can't breathe uwu he made starclan' which I used to just accept but re-reading DoTC (parts of) its kinda... not true. The DoTC cast are flawed characters, they are mean (to each other, to strangers) they are pretty fucking stupid, and overall opinions tend to be (exaggerated) 'Clear Sky worst man ever, Grey Wing did nothing wrong', or 'Grey Wing is actually awful, Clear Sky did what he thought was right he's actually super nuanced' even tho there are a lot of smaller moments of awfulness from the both of them that show their awfulness.

I feel a lot of CS/GW opinions hinge on rejecting Thunder and the First Battle/borders thing > 'smaller' scenes of awfulness > Clear Sky and Thunder especially, theres scenes in TR and BS/AFD (so even post 'redemption') of Clear Sky trying to 'one up' Thunder and show off while hunting or traversing the forest, the killing of Misty, Jagged Peak, letting Tom sod off with TTs kits and lying about it, trusting One Eye, the whole Micah and Willow Tail thing, etc, so i definitely see Clear Sky as bad guy and not 'morally grey' or whatever, he's only really good to his new family with Star Flower or cats when they threaten to leave him (AFD). He disowns Jagged Peak and Thunder because they aren’t useful to him, but SF constantly boosts his ego and his new kits don’t give him trouble so he likes them. He doesn’t really get a redemption, beyond being leader of SkyClan. I can’t really see any ‘nuance’ to him, he’s not evil evil he’s just a generic dickhead (with a splattering of murder) and doesn’t really do anything by APoS/MV to make him not a dickhead. I like the idea that SkyClan’s removal from the forest was due to Clear Sky’s wickedness, and the dreams the med cats had of SkyClan being exiled came with whispers of ‘you brought this onto yourself’. I think Quiet Rain was right to disown him (and the fucking 'i forgive you' come on, very ooc, QR was fucking vicious all her life and definitely were i think Clear Sky got it from- I think the mountain cats all got their occasionally horrible personalities from their harsh environment and constant suffering in the mountains but) // I also don’t buy the whole ‘Clear Sky did bad things he knew others thought were bad but he had to do it he was suffering so much making those decisions, it was for Thunder/Jaggeds/insert character’s own good’ idea like, he knows he’s a dick, he knows he’s in the wrong. I wish his POV went more into the suffering in the mountains (Quiet Rain, Fluttering Bird, his dad) and how that directly affected him (nightmares? flashbacks? comparing everything to the mountains? we only get a few ‘ive seen cats starve’ lines like okay u had a rough childhood stop killing people; all of your friends are telling you this is a bad idea wth)

Onto Grey Wing (lol) > i think the 'uwu soft' opinions come from the old trope of 'evil sibling, good sibling' repeated in warriors (Hawk and Bramble, Ivy and Dove etc). His moments of awfulness are probably less obvious as he is the first POV so like... subconsciously we probably take his 'word' for more (same way people see Squirrel as annoying becoz Brambles POV introduces her as annoying), but most of his interactions with Turtle Tail and Bumble either come from a complete fucking socially-inept idiot who is too harsh and doesn't realise, or a really mean guy. I don’t know why Tall Shadow made him leader in TR and I don’t know why he got a ‘second chance’ with Slate. He can be pretty rude to Thunder but its nothing major, its just a sign that he’s got the familial dickhead streak. Um where was I going with this? Oh yeah, my opinion. IDK. The whole ‘good dad’ i don’t get because he just like, oversaw Turtle/Hawk Swoop raising her kits/Thunder and didn’t really, raise them; TT’s kits are basically plot devices, especially Pebble Heart. anyway. I think a lot of DotC conversation (including this) is pointless because not only is the overall arc flawed in terms of plot and character consistency, but because Clear Sky and Grey Wing make a lot of bad decisions and say/do some bad things that the narrative kinda expects us to just be like ‘and then they were good leaders’ in the end (I have a few ideas for a dotc rewrite but). I don’t like either of them, but I don’t hate them. I dislike the way their characters (in a writing sense) continued after TFB, and i think both of them becoming (in the narrative) leaders and founders kinda softens our perception of them being.. not good people. But i also just tune out any ‘grey wing good clear sky bad’ discussion because i don’t really care either. The more I think about DoTC now the more mediocre i think it was lol. The last chapter of APoS was good tho. 

TL;DR - I think Clear Sky is a major dickhead, and i think Grey Wing is a lesser spotted dickhead. I don’t really care for DoTC after more than 5 minutes of thinking about it. All the characters have room temperature IQs. Grey Wing needs a different personality because he’s very all over the place to me, and Clear Sky could have been something.

[arthurmorganwateringhole]

There is nothing that makes my blood boil more than RDR fans that claim that they know everything about these two games.

I recently saw on tiktok many posts how John Marston is a bEtTEr gUnSlIngEr thAn ArtHur MorGaN. "John solos" "Arthur solos". Like can they just shut the fuck up? I don't like comparing these characters, but when it comes to dealing with ppl like this I'm literally raging. Their only arguments are that " John is smarter than Arthur, John was taught by Landon Ricketts, he has better deadeye or he's faster and better at gunslinging". The only thing they are forgetting that they literally play those characters and they CONTROL THEM.

And if someone dares to disagree with them, they say that this person never played rdr1 and their opinion isn't valid.

Like I'm just tired of these ppl every time comparing them. Whatcha thinking about this? 🤣

Oh wow! Um... lol, first of all as an RDR1 player, deadeye in rdr2 is more sophisticated. I would say it's improved, but I know some people think it's a downgrade because rdr1's deadeye has a lock-on. Also I don't understand the shooting speed. Arthur can fan a revolver too? I think this might come from their perception of dead eye in both games. The shooting happens in real time once targets are tagged in rdr1, so it appears faster, whereas a fully upgraded deadeye in RDR2 can remain within the slowed time. BUT ANYWAY there are just things about this where like deadeye is actually a non-diegetic feature of red dead (i.e., it's not actually something that characters within the universe of red dead are aware exists). It's completely there for the player, so basing character superiority on a non-diegetic mechanic feels very like... idk weird and childish? lol

I also don't understand the need to pit them against each other. Like lore wise, all that is just... wrong lol. John isn't smarter than Arthur (though Arthur might've felt insecure about John's closeness to Dutch at one point, sarcastically calling him the favorite/golden child; but I think they BOTH had that insecurity as they joke in Chapter 6 that they used to wonder who was Dutch's favorite).

TLDR I think it's nonsense. TBH I've been very lowkey and inactive on here, because it was getting unhealthy to be in this fandom and seeing very bad opinions or takes. I love this game still, but at a certain point I need to distance myself from arguments like the one you cited. They're weird, pointless, and flat-out wrong. I'm really sorry you were subjected to all that!

[ramjam]

come on don't be shy. tell me more about the lesbians. i mean this respectfully but i know you have no restraint when it comes to info dumping so

anon this is so funny and rude i'm obsessed with you.

SORRY LONG POST IM ON MOBILE... run while you can.

but um... they are beidou and ningguang from genshin impact... there's literally so much going on with them, i don't even know how to condense it?

ningguang is a powerful political figure and beidou is a pirate who constantly breaks her rules to the point of irritation. but since beidou is such a reliable person, ningguang eventually begins to work with her in spite of their differences, under the deal that ningguang will look away from her rule-breaking and lessen her fines/punishments. so they oppose viewpoints but are also strangely compatible despite that.

^images that make me feel riddled with brain worms

beidou's character was revealed in a trailer of her and ningguang playing chess together and this was their dialogue exchange. it kind of sums up the type of relationship they have.

the significance behind their matches over chess is that beidou is one of the only people to challenge ningguang in a game, rather to be challenged. and she's the only person who has beat her at their own game (chess is ningguang's hobby.) not one time, but twice. beidou presents the best challenge to ningguang which is probably the implication behind beidou teasing her that she won't have anyone to play chess with if she leaves. ningguang can always play with someone else, but no one who comes to her first.

they also have a lot of general opposing themes that display the difference between them, but also tie them together. ningguang represents the sky as her workplace is like a floating palace, whereas beidou is the sea for obvious reasons. worth mentioning the name of the location they live in is literally called the "sea of clouds" lol. their elemental abilities (earth for ningguang and electricity for beidou) bring them together because, well, lightning is always drawn to the earth etc etc.

this also speaks for itself i don't feel like retyping it but... umm... ❤️ (it also highlights how important beidou is to the government and how the city functions, even if she's not apart of the government itself!)

(the armillary sphere because it's a device used to view the stars, which fits with this whole name theming. ningguang's title also kind of contrasts with beidou being the brightest star in the big dipper, whereas ningguang is in the background/the dimmest. you'd think it'd be the other way around given their positions.)

tldr they're very important to one another lol.

the two of them also come from similar backgrounds, two women who rose from poverty and into power. beidou was working behind the scenes to side the people from below while ningguang was doing it from above, they work worked alongside each other before they even knew it. ningguang doesn't see it that way. i think it has less to do with beidou's actions and more to do with the fact she hates the idea of anyone breaking her rules because she's a control freak (again, why the chess symbolism is important.)

ningguang puts up this front about disliking her and not wanting to be around her, but she like... regularly plays chess with her (seems pretty relaxed while doing it as well) and keeps an extravagant gift from beidou in her personal office lmaoo (this is one of the few items you can interact with in ningguang's chambers and the only one to mention another character. the fact they chose to highlight this is... hmmm.)

the english dub kind of plays up ningguang's lines about her as really angry and aggressive, but in the original CN she sounds more exasperated than anything. that's an important difference imo. i think the misconception of genuine hatred comes from that directing choice and it drives me insane. but she goes between two different moods a lot, it's really funny. girl you are so embarrassing.

ningguang has a line where the implication is that she was going to veer into concern for beidou's safety while out at sea and stopped herself. like there's no other way to read this. i hit my image limit so i'm just going to copy and paste: "gales like this can be the demise of fishermen, not to mention... heh, nevermind." the "heh" is more like a sigh and not a laugh by the way.

there's also an emphasis ningguang puts on the fact she hired beidou, not her pirate crew. still, doesn't stop her from constructing new docks in the harbor for her and her crew exclusively.......

also this outside perception from one of ningguang's co-workers about their dynamic: "(smirk) thing is, the tianquan is supposed to be the one enforcing the rules [on beidou], but she always seems to be busy..." the smirk drives me insane.

beidou isn't really swayed by whether or not ningguang likes her, but she sure enjoys her company. her one gripe is the idea that ningguang is her boss, which she denies because she wants to be clear she works on equal footing with her. other than that, her negative feelings aren't as strong. the fact she insists on being ningguang's equal and shows no reverence towards her is one thing she respects about her. most people don't dare to do that. even though she kind of teases ningguang by signing her gift with the name of her pirate crew rather than her own name, it was an incredibly though out and extravagant gift that fits perfectly into ningguang's tastes. very personal and thought out.

beidou hasn't appeared in the story yet, as she was apparently off on business in the harbor and stayed later than usual. given her most highlighted business is with ningguang, the connotation is that she stayed out too late with her without noticing it. beidou is very devoted to her crew so something distracting her so heavily to the point of accidentally neglecting them is... interesting. very interesting.

their whole business situation itself is confusing to me personally. it seems like ningguang sacrifices a lot in order to work with beidou. her public image, her money due to the fact beidou's fines are lessened, and her own control freak behavior. beidou is reliable, but surely there's other people to work with that'd be less of a hassle? yet they keep going back to each other. ningguang has a line where she states that partnerships based on money cannot last. their relationship doesn't seem to be based around money, it's around services. the payment is the lessening of punishment, we haven't heard anything about beidou being paid in money for her work. interesting. that's all i have to say about that lol.

ningguang has stuff in her bio about how she turns down male suitors and mostly manipulates them for her benefit. the story goes into how she generally rejects romance because she doesn't want to be tied down and distraction. her love is money. but there's certainly a... way to read her inconsistent frustration with beidou with that type of frame in mind. there's a hidden fondness she rejects. in terms of ningguang's reasons for avoiding romance, the one thing important about their partnership is how both concede that they can't hold the other back and they work on equal ground while still pursuing individual ambitions. the fact they're distanced between the sky and the sea, but work so well together despite distance, is kind of... well. you could say that would be a type of relationship compatible with someone like ningguang. ningguang is also someone who strives to collect the unattainable. who is more unattainable to ningguang than beidou? teehee.

they also both have female co-workers who explicitly want to bang them or has a crush on them and i always believe proximity to gayness is important to note when analyzing subtext in other characters. the game actually has quite a lot of explicit lesbians it kind of drives me insane. the company's other game is like that too with the main cast. teehee also ningguang's chamber where she collects her precious items is just full of beautiful women while all the men stand outside... okayyyy...

tldr, women playing board games can be so homoerotic <3

[everybodyknows-everybodydies]

Molly Cadoret, known brawler,

the brawler: lack of empathy, confrontation

Her hand hurts. It has, for days, though differently; they insisted on a healer to fix her hands, grow back the nails she broke off, but they couldn’t insist that she let them. Three and a half hours of holding her down to pull her nails out to a normal length, clean the scabby mess she’d made of her hands on the stone. Healing hurts less if you don’t fight it, Molly has learned. Hurts like hell if you do.

Her hands have hurt like hell for days.

She thinks with vicious satisfaction that she’s wrecked her knuckles on his face, now, as the high chancellor staggers backwards with a hand covering his freshly-crooked nose, blood spurting bright over his elaborate robes. He does not swear—though the way his eyes are screwed up she thinks he must want to—but he does wave his other hand to return the half-moon of swords drawn to point at her to their sheaths. “It’s fine. Fetch a healer. Miss Cadoret,” the high chancellor says, through his own blood, “this is the greatest honor that we can bestow. There have only, in history, been six—”

“I’ll hit you again,” she says, quite calmly. He won’t make the same mistake of leaning within reach, if he’s smart; but he doesn’t look so sturdy that he can’t be knocked down.

“Martin Septim—”

“Brother Martin.”

“—the Emperor,” continues the high chancellor, with a delicacy not meant for her, “would have wanted some recognition of your—”

She laughs. The sound is ugly, scratchy; she’s made of dry straw and sparking and they, still, won’t just light her. “Because you know that, do you, you know what he wanted, and what he would want now—or you could just go ask him. It’s not like he’s going anywhere now, is it?”

One of the shiny suits of armor beside him, wearing a bland blank face instead of a helm, twitches for the sword again. The high chancellor dabs his handkerchief at his bloody nose and murmurs, “Leave it.” Aloud, he tells her, “We would prefer your cooperation, you understand. The political situation, as it stands, is… precarious.”

“I bet.” Breathe. One-two-three-four— “But I said no.”

“It would be a service to your Empire.”

Service to whose godsforsaken— She says nothing, snips her mouth shut, her teeth sore from grinding them, and flexes the hand she hasn’t hit him with yet at her side. She barely registers the stinging in her palms from a series of bleeding crescents, the fresh nails they made her grow back sharper than she’s used to.

The high chancellor regards her for a moment. “We’ll need to schedule a fitting,” he says, now, to another of his shining bland-faced array, “for the new armor.”

So: she doesn’t even see him, really. Just white. (And light, and light, and light—)

The arc is in progress before she’s aware of it, because she did decide it, and she did warn him. She doesn’t reach him this second time: someone sends her crashing to the cold tile, rattles her skull, sears her vision. She hears some awful howling and it was supposed to be over, it was supposed to be over, but they won’t even leave her anywhere alone and they want to take her name and the wolf and the stone-grit embedded in her fingertips—

“Where is the boy,” the high chancellor is saying as his healer with the dour eyes arrives to set his nose at last, and the suit of armor pinning her to the floor makes no move to get off her. Someone else goes out the door to chase his question.

She runs out of energy before there’s even tears. Finds herself, instead, staring at the ceiling as her pinched face goes slack again, everything too heavy, everything a waste. Her breath rushes out in a limp wet puff.

He stays silent as the healer finishes straightening his nose. Molly can hear her blood in her ears. “Let her up, Quintus.” The suit of armor obliges. She makes no move to get off the floor, anyway. “The remaining Blades insist you are an asset of a sort we are running low on.” The high chancellor sounds cautious—always looking for the stable footing. There isn’t any, obviously, but it won’t be taken the right way if she points it out.

He's the closest one, she thinks, to agreeing with her aloud. “And do you think I’m an asset to anyone,” she says to the patterns on the high ceilings, her voice unsanded.

There is a long, long pause. “Without an emperor,” he says, “there is no Empire. The world is no more secure than it was two weeks ago; we only face a different threat, now. We are yet fighting to preserve the people—their homes, their futures. Miss Cadoret. Can we count you among our number?”

Her body doesn’t even fit right. Too substantial. Too small. Everything useful has already been wrung out.

But this is not the answer he wants, so she gives him nothing, instead.