#to 99% of my followers who have no clue who they are

[sneaky-story]

had to

[kisaragihoney]

ive been following more people again to re-match my interests and also just generally liven up my dash. some of the blogs are ones who ive seen pop up in my notes so if uve been following me for a while and ive just now followed u back uhmmm hi :3

[qstarhalo]

Quiero sopa de res.........

[junipers-archive]

hey idk how your requests for fics/oneshots work but i thought of this idea! could you do a reader who gets injured a lot(bruises, scratches, burns) and doesnt seem to notice why shes in pain and spencer is always super worried, or points them out and asks if their ok and they are just genuinely like "huh??" like no clue they were actually hurt. i love protective spence. (this is totally self indulgent i spent 3 hours reading in the sun and didnt realize i was burnt until someone noticed ngl)

"Ow!" Suprisingly its not you who screeches, but Spencer who has been watching you like a hawk the entire case.

He had just witnessed you trying to retrace the steps of the serial killer you were tracking and cut yourself on the nearby wire fencing. Walking over to you, you notice his expression, eyebrows scrunched and mouth downturned.

"How does that not hurt?! It hurts me just to look at it!"

You're about to ask what he's talking about but you notice his pointed stare and follow his gaze to the slash down your upper right forearm. Its bleeding, which you would've realized if you hadn't been busy staring at him.

He looks over to hotch and gets a nod of understanding. And you realize you've done it again.

"oh. oops." Its all you can say, all you can come up with because it doesn't hurt, and also he's standing really close to you, too close, you can smell his cologne, which is clean but sweet and perfect and-

"How-how does this even happen to you?" He snaps you out of your daze, now guiding you to the car, popping the trunk to get the med kit out. He supposedly started it 'for the safety of the team members should something happen'.

Though everyone knows the only team member who needed it was you. You're 99% sure the only reason Hotch agreed to the carry on was because he was tired of having to ask for band aids at every police station you had to cooporate with.

Once you take a seat in the trunk he begins cleaning you up, which to your embarrassment, happens almost every case. But it was hardly ever your fault, your body just rarely experienced the sensation of pain.

Even when it meant you walked around with paper cuts on your fingers all day and only noticed the blood while doing paperwork.

"Sorry..." You mumble, lips twisting into a grimace at your childishness, you can't even take care of yourself, your coworker has to keep an eye on you. "You should be focused on the case, not worried about if I'll break my arm and not feel it.."

You cringe at his slight smile, expecting to be made fun of. "I-Its fine, Y/n I like taking care of you."

Rolling your eyes at his sweetness you tilt your head, "You really like having to keep your eyes on me 24/7, making sure I haven't gone and cut off a finger or fell and broken a bone, you want to keep your eyes on me?"

"Yes, I quite like it actually." And he's grinning Spencer Reid is grinning up at you like he's won the lottery, like looking after you is some prize he's won.

"What-Whatdoyoumean-" you begin quickly but he interrupts you,

"All done!" And he's walking away, he's really just walking away like he just didn't do what he just did.

"Spence! Spencer you come back here right now!" And now you have everyone looking at you like a lunatic. But by god you will find out exactly what he meant.

[flameraven]

On Fan Theories and Hyperfixations Georg

I wrote this in a previous post, but I think it bears repeating.

Fandom is not the primary audience for most shows.

Shows are going to be watched by millions of people, and 99% of them are going to watch it once, go "that was fun! :)" and then move on. The small group of us who obsessively interrogate and analyze every scene are outliers. We are Hyperfixation Georg and it's important to remember that.

My point is: if you are theorizing and your evidence rests on a handful of frames, or a bit of dialogue you think is an obscure reference to something outside the show... it's worth asking yourself: is this something the average viewer would catch? If a plot twist hinged on this, would that casual viewer be able to follow the logic and go "ah, of course! How clever!" Or would they go "where the fuck did that come from?"

A lot of the theories I see post-S2 are based on these tiny details that are only visible if you are scouring the show frame-by frame looking for them. But from a writing standpoint, it is not fair to the audience to base a twist on evidence that 99% of them will never see or notice. There has to be SOME clue that something is going on, otherwise when you do the reveal it just looks like you're pulling stuff out of your ass. It feels cheap and unearned. Gaiman is a better writer than that.

By all means, if you're having fun with crackpotting theories based on tiny details, go off. But I think it's worth making the distinction between "wouldn't this be neat?" and "I think this is what's going to happen in canon!" And if you really want to predict events for S3... it's worth checking in with yourself and asking: would a casual audience member notice this, or only Hyperfixations Georg?

[maxdibert]

“Sirius killed people-“ so did Snape, supposedly loved Lily but betrayed her location to Voldemort because he was jealous of James actually winning her heart, not to mention convincing Harry the abuse was his fault, nearly giving Neville PTSD to the point where his boggart was Severus Snape himself, being a racist pos to anyone born of muggle parents, and becoming a high ranking member of the death eaters so what? He could protect Harry?

“It’s easier to cry in a Ferrari-“

it’s easier to defend a terrible character and play the racism and eat the rich card when you can’t understand context and inference clues that JK Rowling laid out.

What’s easy is inventing canon. What a load of made-up nonsense, mate.

1. Learn to read. I didn’t say Sirius killed anyone, but he did attempt murder. And he did it because he thought it was funny to torture Severus.

2. There’s no evidence that Severus killed anyone before Dumbledore asked him for euthanasia. This is made quite clear when Dumbledore talks about his concern for Draco’s soul, and Severus immediately questions him about his own soul. If Severus is so worried about it, it’s implied he hadn’t killed anyone before—or at least not in cold blood.

3. Have you even read the books? The only person who knew the Potters’ location was Peter. He’s the one who betrayed them.

4. There’s no evidence he was a racist. First off, equating racism with the concept of blood purity not only trivializes a serious social issue but also makes it clear that some of you have no idea what racism is or its history. The discriminatory dynamics and their foundations are completely different. But anyway, putting that aside, there’s no evidence whatsoever that Severus discriminated against Muggle-borns. The only time he makes a comment is during the incident with Lily—which, conveniently, happens when James and Sirius are sexually assaulting him, and Lily seems to smile at James. I don’t think you can judge someone’s ideology based on a comment made in an extremely tense moment. Canonically, Severus doesn’t treat Muggle-born students worse in class or make comments about their heritage. Nor does he badmouth Muggles. At most, he makes condescending remarks—which, let’s be real, all the characters do, even the “good ones,” because they’re ridiculously patronizing toward Muggles.

5. Severus was literally a double agent and reached the highest ranks of the Death Eaters to, yes, protect Harry. That’s literally why. He’s following Dumbledore’s orders. Like, have you read the books, or are you just pulling this stuff from fanfics? 99% of what you’ve said so far is pure fantasy, mate.

6. Yes, love, it’s actually pretty easy for me to defend people whose actions are a direct consequence of their life circumstances, and whose poor decisions were directly influenced by a lack of opportunities, security, and the violence of their environment. In fact, that’s literally my job. That’s what I do for a living.

Look, I don’t give a damn if you’re a Sirius fangirl. You can love a character while admitting he was a massive piece of crap. I love The Penguin, and there’s no way to justify him at all. Like, it’s fine, you know? You also have every right to feel sorry for him—I’m not going to judge you for that or anything. I’m not invalidating other people’s feelings if they think Sirius’s life was super tragic and feel a lot of compassion for him. Everyone has their own feelings and points of empathy. But that’s not the case for me. I don’t feel sorry for him. There’s no excuse for being an abusive bully with sociopathic tendencies toward someone who was canonically in a position of social and economic disadvantage. If Severus had come from a good family, with money and power—or if Sirius had been someone without a name, wealth, or status—then I’d view the situation differently because they would have been on equal footing. But just like the Black family chose Muggle-borns to torture because they knew they could, Sirius chose Severus because he knew he could. He’s a hypocrite and a piece of garbage. At least Bellatrix admitted her tendencies.

[recurring-polynya]

a cool thing about writing bleach fanfic is that i have read certain parts of the canon so many times that i feel like i know it really well and then i'll realize there's something i have absolutely no clue about. today's example: in the wake of Ichigo storming Soul Society, how widespread was the knowledge that Urahara had been assisting him?

Aizen knew, obvs, for Aizen reasons, but some of the stuff he mentions, like Urahara's known base of operations being in West Rukongai-> the involvement of known Urahara associates Shiba Kuukaku and Shihouin Yoruichi and other clues probably had a number of characters such as Yamamoto, Ukitake, Kyouraku, Unohana suspicious. I feel like Soi Fon and Kurotsuchi could easily have put it together as well, but I did not get that vibe from them so either they didn't or they were just too distracted or in Kurotsuchi's case, he probably did put it together and just didn't care (or pretended not to care)

When the captains finally show up in Hueco Mundo, we learn that Urahara had been working with the Gotei for some time so obviously his involvement has been known at some high enough level of security clearance.

Did Byakuya ever officially report the fact that Ichigo Hollowified right in front of him, which may not have meant much to him, but probably would have been a big tip-off to Yams. On one hand, it does not feel very Byakuya of him to leave something like that out of a report, but on the other hand, I really feel like he just kept it to himself.

Would Rukia have mentioned Urahara in her debriefings after she was arrested? On one hand, I do not think she understood who Urahara was and would not have thought much of mentioning him. On the other hand, Rukia is a "snitches get stitches" type to the marrow of her bones and I feel like she would have intentionally wiped any mention of him from her narrative 99% on principle and 1% for the purposes of protecting Ichigo

If I were banished from Soul Society and hiding out in the Living World, I would use an assumed name, probably all the time, but AT VERY LEAST for the case of interacting with active-duty shinigami. The only person who actually did this was Isshin and I honestly believe he just changed his name for wife-guy reasons.

Ichigo did, very much, straight up tell Ikkaku that Urahara taught him to fight and it was quite clear that Ikkaku was fully aware of who Urahara was. Did Ikkaku tell anyone this or otherwise do anything with this information? I feel like he did not.

Does Ikkaku have a security clearance???????

I would not give Ikkaku a security clearance

If I were going 100% by the manga, I would assume that Yoruichi ghosted after they failed to arrest Aizen, given that she's still very much banished, but in Honey Dish Rhapsody, she apparently hung around with Soi Fon for a while. Is it possible that she had some meetings with the Gotei higher ups in the interests of re-establishing a relationship/working on getting the banishment reversed? My heart wants to say no, but Yoruichi often makes herself freely available to the Gotei in filler arcs, so who knows?

When the Advance Team first goes to the Living World, Renji goes to stay at Urahara's in the interest of "asking" Urahara why he put the hogyoku in Rukia (I assume "asking" is a euphemism for breaking his nose). I feel like this could be the natural follow-on to the idea that Renji just got handed a file of classified info related to this mission and is freshly Hot Mad at this dude he didn't know existed up until now.

Presumably, Rukia also could have given Renji a more detailed version of her time in Karakura in a non-official capacity

Presumably also, the Karakura kids could have gone around telling anyone who would listen about their Mysterious Shop Keeper Friend

I think the answer I'm leaning towards is that the Gotei higher-ups knew about Urahara's involvement and re-established communication with him, possibly in an obfuscated way so as not to run into trouble with Central 46 (fairly easy to do, since they were dead at the time). It's a pretty poorly kept secret, but on the other hand, Gotei op-sec seems to lean pretty heavily on the assumption that people who accidentally learn state secrets don't know what they are looking at and will most likely forget it in a day or two anyway.

[sinning-23]

My Latest crush is an alien car from space Pt.3

Yall is eating this UPPP (rise of the mirage simps lmao) and I appreciate that so so much! Thank you all for the 300+ followers that's insane! Also, the taglist got bigger too! I got yall don't even worry about it lol. Anywho, there's a fuck ton of tension in this one and in the final part, I think yall know what's going diz-ownnnnn (alexa play pony by genuine) Let me know if you'd like to be added to the taglist!

(Heres the link to pt.2 luv)

(Heres the FINALE)

Without further ado, ENJOY! (this one is a little short but pt.4 will be kinda lengthy)

Pt.3 

Gimmie one margarita imma…

He was far taller than Mirage, robotic features more stressed-looking than anything. And before either you Noah or Mirage could protest, he pick you up by your shirt, your hands reaching to flatten your skirt. There was about a 99% chance you’d just flashed both Noah and Mirage. 

The larger bot who you assumed was named Prime scans you, and soon his voice sends shivers down your spine. 

“Who are you?” 

The question is simple really but knowing you and the fact that he just picked you up with no kind of manners makes you slightly more irritable in your answer. Maybe you were a little butt hurt Mirage didn’t volunteer this information about there being other to you but know him he’d probably just say ‘You never asked!’ With that stupid, pretty, dumb, adorable look on his faceplates.

“I’m not answering anything because you just picked me up and expected me to give you answers. That’s rude first of all. Mirage, come get him-” You huff, seeing the larger bot raise a brow in response and look at the silver and blue-clad Autobot.

Mirage only chuckles nervously, removing you from Prime’s grasp, and putting his hands up in defense. You’d been only a tinnny bit aggressive when you’d met a couple days ago so why he expected you to be all peaches and cream with Optimus somewhat interrogating you, he had no idea. 

“Listen, had another tiny setback. I promise this one isn’t always so…fussy. She’s cool. Cross my spark.” He explains nervously, seeing Prime's optics narrow. This mf just called you fussy? Like a damn infant??? 

You go to speak out, but the depth sounding in Prime’s vocalizer makes you freeze. 

“You seem to have no concept of that undercover means. How you’ve landed in this predicament twice still baffles me” Prime sighs, looking back down at you. 

You’d managed to take refuge behind Mirage, still embarrassed by the fact that you were almost 100% sure he got a glimpse of your panties. Despite the garage being empty yesterday, it obviously had some other tenants who hadn’t a clue in the world you existed until now. This was way outta your league. Robots and 3 more of them at that, were far too overwhelming and you’d be damned if you wound up in the middle of some cyber bullshit.

Sure you liked Mirage, his personality and kind of play boyish looks made you swoon MAYBE a little bit….but from the looks of it, there were already girls like that back where he lived, hell one of them was just standing behind Prime while he chewed out Mirage…..AND WHY WAS SHE KINDA CAKED UP? That was beside the point though, they already had one human (Noah), and Prime wasn't looking for any extras (you) from what it looked like. 

Taking your chance to escape, you grab your purse and slide out of the garage quietly. The others were going from somewhat scolding Mirage to discussing a plan for something you didn’t quite care about at the moment. The best option was to disengage and maybe things could go back to normal! You could pack up for your apartment. Go back to work, maybe you’d do something with mechanics after this instead of nursing all day? You pop your AirPods in and press shuffle. 

It was getting late but there was just enough sun to find you a spot to wait for an Uber home. You’d talk with Mirage later, it looked like he had other priorities. Speaking of which, what was that whole interaction??? You shake the thought away, that moan replaying in your mind. This was so wrong.

Your heart beats faster at the thought of how he seemed to melt under you, his servos hovering over your hips, wanting to touch but being so unsure. The way his otic seemed to be hazy and the way his fan picked up in speed. You run your hands down your face and sigh, definitely feeling like a drink would be the best option….speaking of which, you never did get your night out.

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It didn’t take long before Mirage realized you weren’t behind him. You’d obviously hightailed it during Optimus’s scolding and slipped past him like a thief in the night. Part of him knows you’re capable of handling yourself but the other half knows it’s not safe, especially now that you both have been formally introduced. And with what Arcee had reported, Brooklyn wasn’t getting any safer.

Apparently, a few more terrorcons had made their way back and we’re trying to do a bit of avenging considering Optimus ended Scourge rather brutally. In all, Mirage wasn’t one for the violence but when it came to helping his friends and the ones he loved, he’d set that aside for the best. 

Anyway, he didn't want you going anywhere without him, a sense of more or less responsibility for you washing over him. It was more of a protective feeling than anything, wanting to be the one to save you and keep you safe no matter what. The thought of you thanking him as your hero makes him weak. You knew what you were doing, touching him like that. He still couldn't get over the fact that you claimed it was for science….bullshit. The feeling was quickly becoming addictive and the longer you spent together the more he wanted you…fat chance. 

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Remixed renditions of Kesha songs blast through the clubs' speakers as you and your girls dance the night away. You each took about 3 shots to get your blood pumping and your closest friend was about to make it 4. Your body moves on its own, bass filling your chest as you catch any and all ass your friends decide to throw. You took pictures and posted them on your story and everything seemed good!...sorta. The last of your worries should be some cyber alien crush that isn't even here right now…you can't help but let your mind drift.

A wave of…what was that guilt? Washes over you as you take a break from the dance circle, alerting your girls that you be ‘going to the bathroom’ a lie of course. Maybe this wasn't a good idea? Part of you felt kinda committed to Mirage. Before you could make it down the hall past all the commotion, a pair of hands are warm against your hips. Whoever it is… they're tall. The faint smell of motor oil fills your senses and you whip around to see a pretty good-looking stranger with eyes blue as the damn sky smirking at you. 

“Where you going, mamas?” He questions, moving his hips side to side playfully with the rhythm of the music.

You can't help but giggle. Something about him was so.. comfortable and fun and familiar, and so so so damn charming! He's smiling right back at you freckles somewhat adorning his face as his curly black hair falls over his eyes. He looks mixed, more so Hispanic or Latino and black. Blue eyes were odd though, but it didn't matter because, at the end of the day, this man looked like he'd won the genetic lottery.

Soon enough, you're back on the floor the cheers of your homegirls reaching your ears and you shake your head. This was just some spontaneous dude that just HAPPENED to catch you before you made it to the bathroom, not like you really needed to go anyway. He sways you, pulling a few cheesy dance moves here and there but it is enough to make you giggle. The previous song soon is chopped and screwed and transitioned to what sounded like a reverbed version of ‘Streets’.

Either way, the air had changed while people, couples or otherwise began finding space on the floor to dance up on one another. He didn't say much, spinning you slowly just before pulling your body to his gently. You may talk a lot of game, but you'd never danced with someone like this, let alone be so close. The feeling of his front pressed to your back makes you weak, the feeling sinking lower and lower as he holds each of your hips.

“Cálmate mama’s. You know I got you right?” He hums, your body relaxing a bit as you find the rhythm again, rolling your body with his to test the waters

That voice was so familiar….you ignore it, thinking it must the alcohol. There was no way he could…could he?

You didn't care, letting your head roll back and rest against his shoulder, your bodies synching with each other, his touch never feeling forced or aggressive. It's soft, kind, and almost loving...like he just wants to be able to feel your warmth, know the way you move. You work up the courage to speak, voice small, almost nervous. 

“I didn't catch your name stranger.”You state, hoping his response would answer your question.

If this was really him, then there was no reason to feel bad about how up close and personal this was getting. 

“You know my name, pretty girl. Kinda rude of you to walk out on me don't you think? You're lucky Noah was able to see where you were at based on your story.” He reveals, making you smile. 

So it was him but how? Some kind of alien car tech you didn't know about? You didn't care, he was here and you were ACTUALLY holding him somehow. 

“I'm sorry, looked like that meeting was important.” You explain, pressing against him more now, his grip tightening when you did, a hiss escaping his lips. 

“It was but when I noticed you’d left I panicked a little. Noah told me where to find you and I knew I couldn't just waltz in. I'm parked outback, this is just a holoform.” He explains, flashing that stupid smile. 

“So that's what this is, you look good 'Rag. Not the first time you've done this I'm assuming. You're far too good of a dancer.” You joke hearing gasp in faux hurt. 

“Wowww it's like that lil mama? You're breakin' my spark.” He chuckles, pressing into you, making a gasp escape your throat.

You felt it…holy shit it was right against you, the miniskirt not helping at ALL, in fact, any more friction and he'd be right against your panties. The grip on your hips is only making you hot and his voice so close to your ear isn't helping. He smirks against the skin of your neck and takes the risk of kissing there. Another gasp, only this time it was more or less a whine. 

“I'm not doing anything else until you tell me I got the green light. We both know this tension can only build for so long ‘til one of us breaks and I'm for damn sure about to fall apart if I can't taste you soon.” He admits, his voice trembling slightly when he speaks.

He was right though. The last 2 days had been filled with nothing but flirting, touching, and teasing and before you were so rudely interrupted in the garage earlier you were sure you were closer and closer to giving head. The music is still playing and most of your girls had given the two of you space to ‘dance’ a couple texting you to let you know where they were in case you needed them. It was definitely time to leave because any longer in this dark little corner of the club and you'd be trying to peel your clothes off. 

He can practically feel your begging to lose any sense of morals, a few drink making your brain only a little foggy. That’d ware off by time you made it back home if you played your cards right. Turning to face him you cant help but let your eyes drift to his lips. 

“You gonna let me ride?” You hum, lips pressed to his neck.

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Aweeee shit the perfect set up for pt.4 cause in the words of miss Megan thee stallion... we finna ride that dik like a stolen car HAHAAAA

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[in-stitchesx]

hii

sorry if this sounds personal

but i was curious

what about tickling is attractive/erotic to you? no judgement ofc

No such thing as personal here!! I'm proudly a weirdo and over share anyway ���🫶

no clue WHAT about the action of tickling is attractive to me specifically but it's definitely the reactions that I wind up swooning over. Different laughs are... So fucking attractive, it's just what I look for in people, no matter what they sound like. Seeing how people who *like* being tickled react is just .. chefs kiss. The wiggling? Some people block their spots while other people don't even fight at all, I eat it all up ...

As for being tickled? It makes me feel some sorta way I don't even know how to explain it. Im a very giggly person without being tickled, I think I'm the funniest person in the world but I tend to really only .. laugh when I'm anxious. It's just 24/7 so I'm naturally seen as just extroverted or "bubbly"

I have a weird ass laugh but being able to let go of whatever fog is in my head and just ... Laugh naturally? And actually enjoy physical contact (when in reality I hate people touching me 99% of the time) is just so ... Yeahhhhh 🫶

When it comes to kinks, or anything erotic so to say, I don't really feel sexually inclined often. I won't say I'm not a kinky bastard but I'm NOT about to tell all my followers if I'm a bottom or not <3 Im the butt of many... Many jokes.

[queen-of-obsessing]

Why The Stranger Is Actually Saruman

A Deep Dive because I've been thinking about it Too Much TM

I need to get this off my chest because the Reddit bros saying that the Stranger is either a random blue wizard or Gandalf are driving me crazy, because from my perspective, they're so obviously wrong, and here's a compilation of all the clues and hints we've been given in Seasons 1-2 that prove why!! (Quick disclaimer: I've watched the PJ LOTR movies over 5 times, and have it pretty much memorized, so I'm coming from mainly a movie perspective - which the ROP showrunners have said they want the show to remain connected to, as shown by how they reference the films every chance they get. But I've googled the backstory of relevant characters from the sacred texts/lore to familiarize myself with it.) (Also spoilers for everything up to 2x06.)

The "Blatantly Obvious" Gandalf Clues (and why they're not that obvious)

The Stranger has a relationship with Harfoots -> Saruman was also familiar with Hobbits. "Your love of the Halflings' leaf has clearly slowed your mind", and his Isengard cellar is filled with Hobbit weed. He's also shown to have a dislike for them (perhaps if he was betrayed by Nori in later seasons).

"Grand-elf", "gand", "follow your nose" -> it's not hard to believe that these are surface level red herrings, they're barely of any plot consequence and are more like random remarks thrown in to throw you off the scent. If the Stranger is Saruman these would make sense, since Saruman was Gandalf's mentor, and the films bait-and-switched them before (see: the Gandalf the white scene where he literally had Christopher Lee's voice)

"They all but confirmed it at the end of Season 1" -> then why is there still a mystery in Season 2? The writers clearly want you to keep guessing who he is. If he was Gandalf, they would've just said he was.

Aaaand, that's about it on Gandalf evidence. Not a lot, is it? No, precious, not at all, the Reddit bros lied to us.

Now let's get into the Saruman theory, starting with the four big things that Gandalf doesn't have, that the Stranger does: Rhun, Sauron, Ents, and Palantirs.

1. Rhun

Gandalf never went to Rhun. (From the wiki: "Unlike Saruman, Olórin never took up permanent residence, and never went to the east, apparently restricting his activities to the Westlands of Middle-earth[.]") He has no business being there. For the writers to send him there would be a giant canon departure, and kind of pointless. But Saruman did! In his early days, he travelled to Rhun, stayed there awhile and then returned. The Stranger travelling to Rhun was the first dead giveaway.

2. Sauron

"Is it my task to stop the fire? Is it my task to face Sauron??" (2x04) Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm 99% sure Gandalf was never destined to face Sauron. In the films, he faced a Balrog and won, which already was an intense fight that killed him, and Gandalf indirectly facilitated Sauron's destruction by guiding Frodo, but he never directly confronted him, afaik. (Again, I might be wrong and missing lore info.) But we know Saruman was more powerful than Gandalf, and he was supposed to face Sauron, but ultimately ended up aligning with him. But in the show, the Stranger is supposed to face him, and if he was Gandalf, this would be a bizarre departure.

3. Ents, nature & trees

The Stranger is heavily associated with nature, but the biggest dead giveaway that he's Saruman was the scene in 2x04 where he's following the star map to a tree branch, and tries to break it off when the tree retaliates and sucks him in (very similar to what happened to Merry and Pippin in the films, with Tom Bombadil saying exactly what Treebeard said to free them, although that line was originally Tom's to begin with). But because of this scene, they're directly linking the Stranger to Ents & Fangorn. Which is fascinating, because Saruman, before he was evil in the TA, used to walk among the trees and befriended the Ents. In the films, his betrayal of Treebeard by cutting down the trees for his army is one of the key emotional moments of the film ("a wizard should know better!!"), and is what causes the destruction of Isengard. And in that scene, Stranger/Saruman tried to harm the tree, and the tree attacked him. Seems like foreshadowing to me.

4. Palantirs

Now, even though the Stranger hasn't been linked to Palantirs and Seeing Stones in the show, we know they're there, and characters have used them many times. We also know that Saruman has one in Isengard, and would make sense if ROP showed us how he got it. Gandalf never had a Palantir.

Some other theories and notes others have made:

The Stranger is established to have darkness in him and the potential for evil. The fireflies die, "I'm peril", having to remind himself that he's good. The opening line of the entire show is "Nothing is evil in the beginning."

An emphasis on names and the importance/power of a name -> naming the Stranger as Saruman will change our whole perspective of him. The writers want us to see him as good and loveable before putting that name burden on him. (Another show I love, The Chosen, did that for the character of Judas, a notoriously infamous traitor, calling him 'the Apprentice' for an entire episode before officially naming him.)

The Stranger's magic is super powerful. The conjuring of the sandstorm reminded me of Saruman's conjuring the snowstorm over the pass of Caradhras, in FOTR.

There's a moment where the Stranger's staff dissolves when he uses his magic, similar to the scene where Gandalf dissolves Saruman's staff in his hand.

The two towers theory: introducing Sauron at the end of Season 1, Saruman at the end of Season 2, so now both heads of the towers are in play.

"i can’t shake the feeling that the actor’s intonation is pretty much the midpoint of Ian McKellen’s Gandalf and Christopher Lee’s Saruman" (ntraumintraum on Reddit)

Daniel Wayman did an Irish lilt in his voice, that Gandalf doesn't have.

Saruman has a fascinating, tragic journey of going from good to evil, while Gandalf remains good through it all. The former is more compelling for a show like ROP that's built around tragic fates + Saruman's story is still mostly untold and mysterious.

In conclusion, if he is Gandalf, I'll be very disappointed, but can live with it. It would just be a huge missed opportunity, but as of now, I'm pretty convinced that the Stranger is Saruman, and the dark wizard is a bad blue wizard.

So in further conclusion:

Update from 2x06: that Bombadil quote is kinda killing my theory here. ("some that die deserve life") it's such a famous Gandalf quote, but at this point it's so obvious that it feels like it's even more of a red herring. Ugh. idk. i'm confused. I'm starting to think the Stranger is actually Gandalf which is pissing me the fuck off. Dumbest choice ever made on the show 😭💀

Final update: I HATE BEING WRONG. JD & PATRICK YOU'VE BRUISED MY PRIDE AND HURT MY FEELINGS. I accept it, but i'm highly offended by it.

[o-uncle-newt]

EIGHT: audio is amazing!

In some of these I might, like I did in the last one, go into analysis of the actual episodes- here though I’m just gonna talk about how impactful it was to me to learn about the existence of spoken word audio and how important the audio medium has been for me personally as a way to experience Cabin Pressure as comfort media.

Here’s the thing- except for a couple of story tapes when I was a child and Harry Potter audiobooks that my mom used to play in the kitchen and I usually ignored (could never really follow audiobooks- still can’t), as far as I can recall Cabin Pressure is the first spoken word audio thing I EVER experienced. (And on the radio…! To me the radio was traffic and weather, and sometimes sports.) This was in the relatively early podcast era, and while other people were into them already I wasn’t. Like for so many other basic early-2010s teens, my first audio fiction exposure would be Welcome to Night Vale, my first nonfiction podcast Serial. Both came after Cabin Pressure for me, and I have no clue if I’d have ever tried them if not for knowing that this medium can be brilliant like that. (In fact, I’m 99% sure I got into Night Vale because I recommended Cabin Pressure to a college friend and she was like “oh if you like audio drama, I love this thing Welcome to Night Vale…”)

And, of course, and this has been often discussed in reviews, this allowed me to learn what audio can be that other media can't be- all the ways in which it's not just a runner up but the main event, to mix metaphors. Even when audiobooks work for me, I know that that's not what they're MEANT to be- Cabin Pressure isn't just a sitcom without visuals, it takes full advantage of being audio by doing so many jokes that they could never do on screen- whether in Qik, Rotterdam, Ipswich... he takes what is already an art form and hones it further. It's incredibly impressive and opened up my eyes to what audio can do in ways that I had just been totally unaware of.

Since then… I’m not going to say I’ve dived fully into the medium exactly, as I have learned about myself that I am prone to getting voices mixed up and to getting distracted and losing the narrative. But it got me ready for the mass-podcast era which has led me in some cool directions, it was a gateway into other British radio like Bleak Expectations and The Unbelievable Truth, not to mention JF’s other shows- and I discovered that audio, in the form of Cabin Pressure and some of JF’s other work in particular, was particularly valuable in audio form.

Audio is just kind of perfect because you can fully enjoy something without needing to stop doing whatever else you may be doing that might otherwise be occupying your eyes, or your legs, or your arms, or who knows what. And- and I'll talk about how important this has been to me more in a future post, probably- Cabin Pressure has been basically lifesaving in that kind of a way. It doesn't really matter what I'm doing, whether driving, walking, commuting by bus or subway, working, flying, exercising... and of course so much more, popping in some audio entertainment always slots in, and Cabin Pressure in particular is just beautifully calibrated to always get me in a better mood. It's been practically lifesaving in that regard in some of my worst moments, in fact.

I'm not sure what my life would look like without spoken word audio in it, and I have no doubt that with the podcast boom I'd have gotten into it in some other way. But Cabin Pressure gave me a high bar by which to measure everything that comes later. (And honestly- not just audio! At a certain point I'm like, if JF can do all this with just a script and some people with microphones...)

[marsbar17]

Hi! So we both know Revenant would never admit feelings, but he'd show it in his own way. What about a thing where it finally clicks in the readers mind and confronts him about it :3

Honestly I had a lot of fun with this one. I hope you don't mind that I made it sort of unrequited, really depends on how you look at it though.

CONTAINS: Nothing nsfw, just some anger and yelling, and gun fights

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Being in the presence of Revenant was always terrifying. You could practically feel murderous intent dripping off of his every word as he talked. He only helped people when it was beneficial to him, only saving people so they could have his back later on. So, you assumed you must be very helpful to him, and it terrified you. He always picked you back up, handed you shields and syringes, and pointed out ammo you could take. All so you could save his skin later on, right? It wasn't for your sake, surely. He must have some plan for you. Somehow, he would use you to better himself. Why else would he do it?

"There's light ammo here, come get it before you run out." Revenant grumbled, pointing it out before staying in the area while you came to get it. How did he know you only had 9 bullets left? You had no clue. Either way you were grateful for the loot, and told him so.

"Thanks, who knew you could be thoughtful for once."

"You can't survive without bullets, and I need a full team to win." Of course his answer was bitchy, what did you expect? For the Revenant to be nice one time in his life? Dream on.

It was duos, half the teams were gone, and the ring wasn't in your favor. Closing in 10 seconds and across the whole fucking map? Yeah, not in your favor in the slightest. You quickly topped up your r-99 and tucked the rest of the bullets in your backpack.

"It's time to go unless you wanna wake up in the medbay with 3rd degree burns." You said into the mic in your ear, and the only response from your teammate was grumpy mumbling before you saw him start the dash to the ring. Rolling your eyes, you slung your gun across your back and followed. The jog to the ring was long, and it gave you time to think. Too much time to think.

As your mind was occupied with thoughts of Revenant and what he could possibly want with you, you didn't process the gunshots slowly getting louder. Seems like a couple squads were fighting, right at the border of the ring. Great. You would've ran straight into the line of fire if a hand didn't grab your backpack and pull you into a building.

"Stop zoning out, you're gonna get yourself killed." The familiar voice of a murderous simulcran said behind you. He had pulled you into a small house, sitting you down on a box against the wall. He put his hands on your shoulder, cold, drawing you back to the present.

"I wasn't zoning out, I meant to do that." You crossed your arms, turning to look out a window at one of the teams crouched behind a wall. Your heart raced, fully realizing that if Revenant hadn't grabbed you you would've been dead within seconds of them spotting you.

Why? Obviously he wanted to keep you alive, but you thought the satisfaction of seeing you shot to pieces and being able to nag you about it later would've overshadowed that. No time to think, there were more footsteps approaching the house. You pulled out your r-99, but your sight was blocked by a big metal body.

"Rev!" You whisper shouted. "You're blocking my view!"

"I'm protecting you, dumbass." He whispered over his shoulder, raising his own flatline and aiming at the door. You were stuck, if you stood you'd be pressing against Revenants metal back, if you stayed sitting you'd have no line of sight of the enemy. Ah fuck it, you stayed sitting, but held your gun at the ready anyways.

Well you ended up dying anyways. Bangalore and Newcastle ended up barging in and annihilating Revenant before dealing with your now exposed form. Stupid soldier siblings. You woke up in the medbay, muscles aching but otherwise no injuries. By the door of the room stood Revenant, leaning against a wall. Closing the curtain around your bed, you changed out of the paper thin gown they gave everyone and into your casual clothes.

"Waiting for someone?" You asked, opening the curtain and walking towards the door.

"Waiting for you." There he goes again, with his caring words. You bet they meant nothing to him, he didnt know how weird it sounded.

"I already know I fucked it up for us, there's no need to yell at me." You walked past him, opening the door and stepping into the hallway. He followed, not walking beside you like a normal person but behind you by a few steps.

"I'm not here to yell at you."

"Oh yeah, I forgot you've got a fucking screw loose or something. You're being really weird, you help me out, you block me from gunfire, you show up not to yell at me? You’re acting like you actually fucking care about me... wait."

And then it hit you. You'd said it as a joke, but it was seeming more and more like the truth. Surely not though. That was just the part of your brain that saw him as a human, right? He doesn't care. He doesn't care. He can't care. It's not what he does. He doesn't care.

Revenant was weirdly silent during your haze of confusion. You expected something like "don't flatter yourself, skingbag," but he said nothing. Like he was ashamed to admit you were right, but didn't want to deny it either. It just made you overthink even more. He doesn't care, surely. He can't care. He doesn't feel love. He can't be in love with you. But he was, his silence conveyed that.

"This is wrong. This isn't what's supposed to happen. You don't love me. Tell me you don't love me. Tell me now! TELL ME!" Your confrontation had turned to yelling as he continued to stay silent. Thank god the hallway was empty. "Rev," you sighed out his name as you calmed down. "Tell me you don't love me."

"I can't lie to you." His voice echoed in the hallway, and you just couldn't stand it any longer. You turned away from him and walked away to your room.

"Just stop loving me."

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Requests are always appreciated and really help me out with writing. So please request anything on your mind! Thank you for reading!

[curly-my-beloved]

here's another thing to note about both IHNMAIMS and mouthwashing: they're both NUANCED. which i'm pretty sure you were TRYING to reference, but you just replaced an overly concrete take (anya wasn't raped, ellen was a whore) with another overly concrete take (anya WAS raped BY jimmy, ellen was entirely innocent and a pure victim) one of the most interesting things about an unreliable narrator is that we don't KNOW what the truth is. there are clues, and of course your favorite word, subtext, but they often go in both directions. you're destroying the ambiguity that comes with the genre, then immediately following it up by calling anyone who disagrees with you, or even wants to hear your point of view, a moron. also, i refuse to believe you don't actually know that not everyone gets the "basic" education you're talking about, or has access to classes that teach... media literacy in video games, apparently. i thought that with your incredible thinking abilities, you'd realize that you're not really that scholarly or good at media comprehension as you think. to be honest, i have no idea why i'm so worked up about this either. but you seeming to think that youve have these complex, intellectual takes, when you're just agreeing with 99% of the fandom rubs me the wrong way i guess. if you actually read all this, thanks for listening. i hope you at least think about it a tiny bit.

do you know why the internet is a wonderful place? because there's a ✨block button.✨ i'm letting the server reply to you because you'll just keep twisting my words if i reply on my own.

and just so you cannot claim i'm cutting it in any way, there's a screen recording, too.

by the gods, anon. block me if you're so upset with my opinions. i'm not keeping you here by force. you have free will and the tool to eliminate me from your internet experience.

also, this is the last time i'm responding to you. i'm not going to annoy us both with keeping this up. cheers.

[kimyoonmiauthor]

Tears for Fears and AI

Back to posting about AI. Stick around and maybe you'll learn some basic copyright law and Graphic design principles about why the cover sucks. AKA why you spend the money to pay for a graphic designer at least if not a photographer/designer.

Background: So Tears for Fears released an album cover which was made by someone who "professionally uses AI"

I should note that some of the content of this post, though not copied by words, was said under the Tears for Fears post. The notes I made about composition failing and Typography, the sky, and color notes are mine. I have done my best to give credit, but I missed a few and thus have pointed out when it wasn't my own idea. 'cause stealing other people's observations would defeat the purpose of this post.

Then they have the audacity after looking at that man's Photoshop layers to call that a collage. Even though the image itself is terrible and has a lot of basic issues.

If you can't see the Photoshop layers, it's basically. Gen AI, Gen AI, Gen AI Black layer, and text layer. Gen AI background. They are calling this a collage. Oh, Masking. Oh, look, set out the guidelines for the print bleed and then botched the composition lines without a ruler.

A collage is done in fair use category in such a way that the arrangement of elements is 1. unique, 2. makes a new statement and 3. uses less than 10 percent of the total image and/or is used as a parody.

A collage actually uses design principles and juxtaposition to boost the core message of the piece being produced, not overall harms it.

This image is far from that.

BUT BUT THE CONCEPT IS ORIGINAL...

BTW, the horizon line on the helmet is correct on this one, not that AI would ever understand that. It's called perspective.

Yeah, no.

Look, most AI prompters haven't developed or challenged their creativity that much so they don't know what the hell they are doing.

And besides, look at the other Album covers. They are better composed. The AI generated one needs to be composted.

But AI was only "one of the elements used."

99%, the other percentage is the text.

OK, let's get past the point that the idea isn't new which is terrible marketing, BTW. And all of the basic ethical concerns about AI.

But the composition is decent...

Honestly, the composition makes me want to cry.

First off the horizon line should follow the rule of thirds.

Either 2/3rds sky to 1/3 middle ground. Or 2/3rds middle ground to 1/3 sky. This is almost dead center, which sets my graphic designer and photographer senses on edge. I want to swear so much. DO NOT SPLIT your composition in half unless you have a really good reason for it. And he has no reason for it. There is no "choice" between two things, your eyes doesn't need to switch, he's got absolutely no clue how to do any basic composition.

Barring that, the horizon line cuts straight through the middle of the head which looks awkward. The horizon line reflected is odd compared to the picture. See the genuine plagiarized from picture has a different horizon line? Yes, because reflections are like this.

This is purely my note.

Second the guy botched The golden mean.

Not going to explain it. But the placement of the astronaut in the larger composition is incorrect. If the helmet is the focal point, he messed it up severely. Notice that the other compositions of the same theme do not mess it up.

This is also purely my note.

The typography is horrid.

What is with the same value for the album title and the name of the band? My typography prof would have my head for that choice alone. Then you have the fact that you can't see the title at all. Remember, large contrast with small text on large space is readable. This does not do that.

I didn't realize there was a title or the name of the band on it until someone pointed it out, and then when I looked at the typography I about lost it.

The font choice is strange. The color is wrong and the margin spacing makes me cry in the print bleed.

And the tracking? What are you doing? There is a huge space between the words for "Songs for" then "a" then "Nervous Planet."

What is that? That's not a good choice.

Did you get AI to do your crappy typography too? Typography also communicates and works with, not against the image.

Uhhhghhh I could spend so much type ranting against the typography, but there are other errors to get into.

lol This is purely me, though I didn't see the type at first until it was pointed out.

The details of the space suit are wrong.

An Astronaut suit doesn't look like that.

What are you doing?

Would be faster to use a NASA Suit and then Photoshop in the reflection. You'd have to get permission, but that's not difficult.

This is purely my note. ^^;; I drew an astronaut by hand in a pixel program, so I roughly knew the one used was wrong.

The sunflowers are wrong

You know why sunflowers are called sunflowers? Oh, because they are famous for pointing every which way the sun is not? What? What?! So they will point at the ground, they will point east and west in the same photo. You know, that's why they are called effing sunflowers. What? What do you mean that makes no sense?

The AI genned photo versus the genuine one he copied and plagiarized from, see the difference? Oh My! The sunflowers are lined up in the same direction, as if they are pointed towards the what? The sun! Maybe that's why they are called effing sunflowers.

See, a human out in the world can experience sunflowers and see them throughout the day to know they are going to what? Always point towards the sun.

This was pointed out by someone else on the posts. But damned brilliant. The words are mine.

The clouds are wrong

I learned this in geography class, but there are cloud types for different levels of the atmosphere. Cumulus clouds are more likely to hang lower. Do you see the problem yet?

Also the clouds look too similar and the same.

Compare the images of the AI genned and the one he plagiarized from.

See, there is actual ranking to the clouds which also gives it depth. (Plus the earth in the background is pretty cool since it ranks the background int a secondary background. Did you learn about perspective? No?)

This is purely me.

The green nurple?

AI made a mistake with the sunflowers trying to twist the nipples of the suit? What?

If the guy could paint, it's an easy fix, but he can't paint so he leaves that mess there?

This was pointed out by someone else. Finding the origin of this turned out to be difficult since it was copy-pasted by different people.

The color scheme isn't my favorite.

My personal thing, but the colors feel off to me as if the guy has never met a color wheel before. I would wholly be tempted to force primary triadic especially since he wants to make the type red, though the shades of blue and yellow feel "off" to me compared to the genuinely made ones. I want more depth to the color ranges.

To show what I mean, the basics of color are usually saturation, hue, and brightness.

Ideally you want three shades of the same color for what are called highlights, midtones, and darks.

See, this, feels rich in color even though it's only bichromatic.

This is a genuine cumulus cloud formation.

The reason for the feeling of DEPTH is simply because there is a midtone blue, a dark saturated blue and then a different, but similar lighter, less saturated blue on the opposite end, but not on the direct diagonal. AND it comes to a logical horizon.

Does the AI genned image understand that and how light reacts? No, it does not.

This makes the image feel lifeless and flat, without purpose to do so. It doesn't add to the words "Planet" or "Nervous"

When a golden mean diagram has better understanding of gradients than your AI genned horizon which totally does not understand how a horizon line works, that's when you know you've been scammed.

Look at the horizon line on the genuine sky? !@#$. Do you see the issue yet compared to the genned AI image. Yes, yes. I know you see it.

!@#$.

When you remove say the midtones, it's an artistic choice, but in doing so, you have to really make it carefully or you eff the whole piece. The choices we make as graphic designers are purposeful, thought out and composed and then pushed into the art piece. Why? We have some semblance of how people think because we are humans.

This is purely me. I really hate the color scheme here. It's off. This is purely graphic design training on my part.

Ethical Concerns

"Songs for a nervous planet"

Sounds environmental until you know that gen ai machines eat a TON of electricity, thus power, thus pollute the planet, and create more heat and also contribute to global warming. They also drain the power grid as well and don't use the amount of sustainable energy as they say they do.

I suppose Boomers no longer care about the planet?

Been floating around for a while. I didn't originally find it, but you can see MIT here.

Plagiarism

The concept isn't new. The art is all stolen, but not done correctly anyway. The basis of gen AI is stolen. (Credited already).

Why are we here anyway? Oh yeah, some tech bros who knew nothing about art decided to collectively steal everyone's work without their permission and then try to undercut the artists until the artist put up protections against them, and now the tech bros are crying, but we need to force you to give up your material without an opt out option so we can feed our AI machine to undercut you with degenerate and substandard creations that don't understand the fundamentals of what it is like to be a human being because their AI is a simulacrum of humanness rather than an experience or a collective experience of humanness.

Clearly I side with Althusser on this one.

Anyway, the law from what I know (not a lawyer) says that art is fair use if it only uses 10% or is public domain. the majority of NASA images are public domain, it wasn't that hard to find a picture of an astronaut, make sure it was fair domain. What is hard for this prompter--not artist is that they clearly, clearly do not know the basics of life and graphic design if they think the final image is "good".

The problem here is that AI is based 100% on stolen art and 0% on personal life experiences. And the last part is what it makes it art and I would argue copyrightable.

Conclusion

What graphic design artists and artists do, etc is give you that feeling of the more you stare at it, the more satisfied you feel about the emotions it's trying to give you because those little details start to stick out at you, such as the energy or precision of the brush strokes, even in digital art. Or the amount of time you have to know that person spent

on something minute such as the tick on where the clock hand should go, or how the 6 is just a tiny bit off compared to the perspective on this piece.

This painting rewards you the more you stare at it. The closer you are to it since I've seen it in real life and would keep spotting more and more every time. That little rock behind what looks like a dead tree or branch, the hollowness of the tree, the indefinite shoreline of water, the water itself alluding to memory and of the mind. The way the horizon isn't quite precise, but that's a purposeful suggestion to suck you in. Each precision speaks to you until an emotion washes over you and then the next little detail sticks out at you and keeps pulling you ever in.

Gen AI makes you recoil every time you look at the details. You're left with asking about intention and then you have none. AI does not care about the details. It has not breathed or lived a full life.

Art not only delivers a point of view to the viewer, but graphic design also delivers a type of psychology that cannot be replicated by someone whose never lived and breathed, needed to eat, go to the bathroom, never experienced a field of flowers brushing past your hands, never seen a beach, never laughed when they saw someone botch taking photography of a beach, never cried over loss or extreme happiness and never dreamed. These are points of view. This is what art allows us to tap into fundamentally and this is why AI ultimately is flat. There is no surface to delve into. The surface is flat. And the details make you hate the art, rather than make you think or feel, and who wants art like that?

!@#$ I tested AI once and it couldn't figure out how to get out of the subway station. What makes you think it can make one effectively?

For those artists out there, don't use AI. Who wants to eat chocolate chip cookies that are ooey gooey inside, hot from the oven only to find out that there are egg shells inside, lumps of salt, not well sifted sugar, lumps of baking soda, and find out that the chocolate chips are melting plastic. To me, that is in essence AI. Looks good until you try to consume it and then you try not to cry for the next 20 minutes, not from overwhelming emotion of something great or something that made you happy, but that you're not rewarded but rather disappointed by the reality of the situation. Where is the final kick of detail that connects you to your audience and the understanding of what it really means to be a human being with a perspective on life? And that's why AI can't do art.

[akko-kagori]

I FINALLY GOT ACCEPTED BY THE SCAVENGERS :DDDDD

When I started Rain World I knew all about the scavengers, and desperately wanted to have a good reputation with them, so I did absolutely everything I could to do that

Whenever I saw them I would immediately drop whatever I was doing, freeze, and go on four legs to show I'm not a threat, when I saw them I would immediately give them whatever was on me just to build reputation, whenever they would get attacked I'd fight whatever it was with all my might, even if I didn't have a weapon I'd run towards them and try to grab the scavenger even if it was always a fruitless endeavor, hell, I remember once when I was in the chimney canopy and my shelter was RIGHT next to a scavenger treasury so I spent two hours farming reputation with them, I REALLY wanted to be buds with them, AND I'VE FINALLY DONE IT :DDD

at first I had NO CLUE I was getting a really good reputation with the scavengers, since whenever they'd see me they'd always act terrified, I actually thought I'd really messed up with them since earlier when a vulture came down and grabbed one, I tried to help by throwing my spear and... I accidentally hit the scavenger instead of the vulture

So I thought I'd ruined my reputation with the scavengers until when I when into my shelter I saw this

normally I never record myself playing games, but I decided to make an exception for Rain World since every time I played there would be at least one moment I wanted to capture, and I'm so glad I did

also I'm sorry for the super low resolution and quality, Tumblr is HORRIBLE with uploading videos so I made the video as low quality as possible so it would properly upload onto Tumblr

I know that everyone who doesn't know what Rain World is (aka 99% of my followers) are like "what the fuck are you talking about" and everyone who does know is like "this isn't even that big of a deal shut up" BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S A BIG DEAL TO ME

also yes, I am playing as monk, I'm new to this game so I'm playing as monk to get used to how the game plays before jumping in as survivor

[pistachions]

HI. HELLO. I said a while ago that I REALLY wanted to compare up my favourite shows cuz they're both SOOO undderated and here that is

A COMPARISON BETWEEN MILO MURPHY'S LAW AND STRANGE HILL HIGH

First.. I feel I need to introduce both shows

MML

If you didn't know.. it's made by the creators of and takes place in the same universe as phineas and ferb (it has a crossover too !!).. but as its own show, its SO unique. It follows a boy called milo who suffers from a family curse called Murphy's Law (anything that can go wrong, will go wrong) and his adventures with his friends !! Most of the episodes are just like general shenanigans that follow milo but it does have a plot that is introduced later on :) Also, because its made by the creators of pnf, its got the same humour .. it's really funny

CHARACTERS

The main trio are milo murphy, zack underwood and Melissa chase (in that order on the picture below) and they have a ... pretty standard TV trio dynamic, BUT all of the characters are SO fun and likeable!! Like, for instance, zack was in a regionally famous boyband and other fun things like that :)

Remember how I said there's a plot introduced later.. yeah, well it's basically created by these geezers (dakota and Cavendish, in that order on the photo below) who are introduced as time travellers set out to save pistachios. They're really funny and also voiced by the shows creators (or the same vas as doofenshmirtz and major monogram). They also REALLY remind me of me and my best friend, which means like ... nothing if you aren't us, but if you have a similar dynamic, it's SO fun to see

I dont want to spoil the plot much at all but the first season is about time traveland the second is space travel. If I'm honest the 2nd season.. isn't great cuz they made doofenshmirtz a main character but plot wise its still fun (season 1 is amazing tho still nothing tops it to me) so here's a picture from missing milo (one of the main plot episodes in s1)

And now to..

SHH

I'm gonna be so fr.. I've watched this show since release but have like 0 fandom interactions with it (thats a lie actually i have like 10 but thats not the point) so idk how much introducing it needs (still any is too little to me. imo this show should be standard watching for everyone) so anyway... the show doesn't rlly have a PLOT like all the episodes are stand alone, buutt it does mostly follow Mitchell as he starts at strange hill high and all the insane things that happen there (idk how to explain it cuz of how different every epiosde is but its SO good pls trust me). Its also fully posted on YouTube cuz it's like.. old and cancelled or smth so that's always good (not the cancelled bit tho lol)

CHARACTERS

Just like mml, shh also follows a main trio and has a great side cast. It's trio is becky butters, Templeton and Mitchell tanner (in that order below) and again have a .. pretty standard trio dynamic BUT more like the kind of British TV drama dynamic (.. cuz its set in a british secondary school). I LOVE these geezers SO much and they're just that kind of cast that to this day, I still don't know which one I'm more like

Because its not got a plot to vaguely explain, I'm going to tell you about my favourite episode 99 things to do with a time machine. It's one of my FAVOURITE episodes from any show ever. I love it. (I think it was also the first shh episode i watched cuz i watched it live on tv first before like.. downloading the whole show in 4 different places). The premise of the episode is that the gang is late for school so Mitchell decides to change the school clock so it doesn't LOOK like they're late. This actually turns back time and they abuse the hell out of this. Here's an image.

NOW TO THE COMPARISON!!

Ahhh.. this is like the MAIN bit but for 2 shows that are like permanently engraved in my brain its actually challenging me sm to compare them up like this. Why? No clue. Getting people to watch both is literally what I set out to to lmao

Shenanigans

Like I said, most of mml and ALL of shh basically revolve around whatever shenanigans the trio are doing. In mml they're very much unintentional cuz of murphy's law and the episode normally involves doing whatever to overcome the damage. This is more like the opposite for shh. The trio normally end up discovering smth wild going on in their school and mess about with whatever it is. Two examples I chose for this is mmls athledecamathalon, where the pitch gets destroyed and milo helps his sport team win, and sshs first episode, king Mitchell, where the gang discover a Knight who serves mitchell

These aren't exactly the CLOSEST comparisons I could make .. but you get the idea. VIBE wise they are VERY similar

SETTING

I also want to talk about the setting. Mml takes place all round danville (at different time periods too) and then a planet called octalia by the end of s2. Shh takes place EXCLUSIVELY in the school .. cuz it's puppetry and yk theyd have to actually BUILD a set

CONCLUSION

Ngl tumblr ate the rest of my essay. Twice. (Probably served me right for not having a backup but oh well) and it's kinda annoyed me. I promise you they're so similar is vibe PLEASE watch them both they're great