#uhh guys it's a metaphor??? idk

[k0re-pp]

WARNING WARNING

the following post contains a drawing of a human heart and also some blood. it really just looks like a lump of meat (that's kinda what a heart is right?) so it pprobably won't be too distressing to look at or anything but still needs a warning

Hopefully when i post this theres enough content for tumblr to put that little "Read More" button here so people dont have to see it if they don't want to cus idk how to get that button

anyway this piece is taking too long and ugghhghh i dont understand how wings worg :((

im actually never gonna fucking finish this shit guys,,, the thing w/ the wing is supposed to b an angel but kjhguggffffff i dont wanna draw SIX FUCKING WINGSSSS,,,,,!! HOW DO I FIT THEM? AND THEY TAKE SOOOO LONG

[catholic-character-tournament]

Round 1 - Side B

firestar art by @kudos-si-do

Propaganda below ⬇️

Kirei

He fucked up so many people's lives so badly in just one decade (not on purpose) that the universe put him in the summoning pool of all world influencing souls. He doesnt really have any special powers but he does serve as a vessel for rasputin at one point. He's the guy who says "people die when they are killed"

please please please there's literally a type moon character in the gif on the top of this form so it's typemoonphobic if none of them get in but it shouldn't be her it should be kirei bc he's 50x funnier & more iconic than jeanne. funny lil murder priest who's fucking THE gilgamesh (from the epic of) in the church basement and dies in a knife fight w a 17 year old whose dad he wanted to fuck back in '94 before realizing that he was actually kinda lame and he's been bitter abt it ever since. he has an orphan torture factory in his basement but he's also canonically good at being a priest. he's so funny you should def try his mapo tofu i swear it's totally safe for human consumption and not made with any california reapers. did i mention he's a deadbeat dad.

Priest claims to be Pro Life to make Sakura Matou the most miserable girl on the planet, but he dies anyway.

bro became a catholic because he loves suffering

He’s a priest. Kind of. Not a very good priest obviously. There is something seriously wrong and fucked up with that man. It’s so entertaining.

he's gotta be one of the most insane catholic men ever with a very in-depth and interesting relationship with his religion and his relationship with god also he's the sexiest man ever to be conceptualized in the known universe and all of time

Will never forget the 40+ minute monologue in heavens feel being a thinly veiled metaphor for abortion

he wants to torment churchgoers and make them face their failures and suffering but all he ends up doing is motivate them to improve themselves. cringefail moment for him

he's absolutely insane. the coldhearted mercenary that barely reacts to anything is terrified of kirei. he's super fucked up. his ult in stay night is literally him channeling divine power into something called kyrie eleison. he's the vessel of rasputin (on account of being a priest with a huge....no i shant say) the biblical beast in grand order among other things. he gets drunk with and tops gilgamesh from the epic of gilgamesh in the church basement after gilgamesh from the epic of gilgamesh bats his eyes a little too hard at kirei in some of the horniest shot scenes ive ever seen. he also used to be a heretical "fixer" for the church, cleaning up scenes that would expose shit to the public. uhh what else. he holds cool swords between his fingers like a kid pretending to be wolverine but in my favorite route he just squares the hell up with the protagonist and they fight to the death outside planned parenthood

Firestar

Kitty jesus, he believes in starclan which is the kitty version of heaven/god and yea. All the warrior cats characters except those outside the clans or those that are atheist believe in the kitty heaven and would irl be bri-ish and christian as hell so. The authors are all older british christian women and so the way starclan is written is like undoubtedly that.

The main religion in the series is extremely catholic coded. Most clan cats believe in Starclan and the Dark Forest(or heaven and hell). There is a set of rule they must uphold and follow, where following them leads to heaven and breaking them leads to hell. Their religious leaders are sworn to celibacy, and the punishments that "code breakers"(or cats who break the rules) face are extremely similar to situations people with religious trauma have gone through.

OP notes: apparently converted to avoid getting his balls cut?? Idk. The discord yet wild for firestar so I had to include him because it's hilarious hehehe

[doubleuvariable]

Do you have any strange or underrated theories about DHMIS or Welcome Home that you'd like to share?

Ok ok lemme think uhh

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So I have this main one for DHMIS, which delves into basically the least liked character in the fandom (Warren The Eagle) and how he actually has a very significant role in the TV series.

A DHMIS Theory: Warren's symbolism

Firstly, we need to dissect the eye colour of Warren. He has green eyes.

The only other character to have green eyes (outside of yellow guys brain) is yellow guy himself! But this is only when he has fully charged batteries.

Now, what could this mean?

In my opinion, I think it means that Warren could actually have his own batteries too!

Or perhaps, it could be intended as a comparison between Charged Yellow and Warren...

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What i mean is that i think that Warren leaving his friends after they refused to listen to his business idea is a direct parallel to how red and Duck rejected yellows charged form and yellow left them to go up the stairs.

There is literally no way that is a coincidence, it's wayyy too close of a comparison to be a coincidence.

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It's possible that Warren was defending Yellow from the other two and trying to befriend him because he was trying to prevent his own fate from being repeated in Yellow, but what if additionally, when Warren is seen chasing Yellow in his monster form, it's a metaphor for Yellow running away from the inevitability of his own failure to save his friends.

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Maybe the so called 'worm in his brain' is telling him that he'll be trapped in that house forever because he's too trusting of his friends?? Obviously Warren never says this directly, but the chase scene could be showing all of this within the metaphor of Yellow running from something pretending to be his 'friend'.

I dunno, maybe I'm just spouting nonsense lol

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As for welcome home, I don't actually have any theories really. I'm just here for the silly little puppets

Maybe Wally secretly wants to escape or something idk

Anyway sorry for the long post I hope this is a good enough theory post anon?? I think my warren theory isn't THAT widespread but idk

[trlvsn]

playing aa4 for the first time but i don't want to do a whole liveblog, so i will just put my thoughts into a draft and will edit it throughout the process. uhh here is the first case

oh come on. really? really?? shut up.

i am going to write a complete analysis of this man and then make a fanfic in the format of his therapist's notes. i don't care how long it will take i became a psych major for a reason and this guy has soooo many things wrong with him his mental issues are delicious

good god.

"the card was gone" did phoenix eat it

actually obsessed with the metaphors used in the first case... the bloody ace being fake evidence is so smart because. you know. an "ace" attorney covered in blood (aka being a murderer) is actually not what apollo thinks he is.

and here we have another example of comparing wright to a card! a blue flame (phoenix, blue suit) knowing the outcome but hiding it "behind his back", and maybe i'm reaching here, but. well. i do what i want

AUGRHHH phoenix being on the defense and immediately looking more alive and energetic and OUGHH !!!!! HIMMM

also he did not in fact eat the card? but he did put it in a glass bottle so. still a reference

something about his expression here got me. looking a bit mia-esque idk

sigh. so it WAS gay

knew this would happen but i would just like to say it was, in fact, deserved. like i get phoenix and his motivations and stuff but imagine presenting forged evidence at you literal first trial because a guy you admired so much tricked you??? and apollo had already just contributed to his former boss's imprisonment so. the guy had a wild day he's allowed to punch a man or two

anyways this was an amazing case although i Am very much surprised at how quickly we got to the end of it. i thought kristoph would seem like a good guy for the first two or three cases tbh.

[rqsser]

another wip game?!?

tagged by @john-cleven + @trashbag-baby666 :))

rules: summarize your wips badly and let people vote on which one they'd most like to read!!!

uhh i don’t have a lotta wips rn… been drawinf too much lately

tagginggg idk anyone guys WHAT @darkimpala1897 @sig-nifier (don’t do this if you don’t wanna)

[peachpopfizz]

yk the first couple of episode drops were a bit ehh to me but like.. these two just hit Right. maybe bc i knew what to expect pacing/story wise now? either way, they're def my faves so far, especially ep 5. that's my Favorite favorite :]

spoilers for both eps under the cut, mostly just me blabberin abt what i liked (warning: its alotta alastor)

for ep 5, at first i thought charlastors/radiobelles were winning (and while i don't ship it myself, i was happy for em) but then the realization of 'wait wait wait this isn't romo at all, alastors tryna be a FATHER FIGURE?!' hit instead and i went WILD bc thats 1000% my preferred dynamic for charlie and al. so uh.. yippee dadlastors, sorry charlastors..? gsjahafdaj

also the "Ha! Fuck you." im normal im normal im NORMAL im SOOOO FUCKIN NORMAL (IM CRAZY IM VRAZY I CRAZY IM CRASTY IM FUCKI)

mimzy!! (mimzie??) her intro was abrupt, but she seems like a doll, and her hug with al was real cute. tho i do think she needed that metaphorical kick in the ass abt al's thoughts when it comes to her leeching off his strength for protection. about that..

ALASTOR ACTUALLY CARES. HE CARES. (seemingly, at least). LIKE, HE ACTUALLY LEGITIMATELY, NON-FANONILY, GIVES A DAMN ABT THE HOTEL. HE WENT OUT OF THE WAY TO PROTECT THE PLACE AND TOLD MIMZY TO LEAVE IF SHE DIDN'T COME FOR REDEMPTION. MAYBE ITS IN HIS OWN WEIRD-GUARDED-PETTY WAY BUT FUCK FUCK HOOOLLLYY FUCK ALASTOR CARES

and one more thing b4 i move onto ep 6, i've already seen some ppl comparing what al did to husk in the hall to angel and val's dynamic, and while i do agree the two are both trapped in unsavory deals (loser, baby literally confirms this) i don't think al's ANYWHERE near as bad as val. was what he did fucked up? oh, yes, definitely. but it really?? shouldn't be surprising??? al's in hell ‘n has all this status for a reason, so i was really just waitin for a moment like that to happen. however, it didn't do any lasting damage. at least i really wouldn't say so. most it did was scare the shit out of husk for a minute, nowhere close to what val does to angel on the daily (see: episode 6). tho im willing to admit i might be lookin thru rose colored glasses bc i love al as a character. my opinion might change when/if the actual conditions of al and husks deal are revealed, but as of rn, i think al acted as he did there bc husk attacked a reeeally sensitive subject. he would've just been the petty bitch he always is if husk said like.. anythin else. oh and uhh yeah im abt 85% sure he and lilith have SOMETHING goin on. idk who the hell else would be powerful enough to have alastor on a leash

..oh yeah, lastly, lucifer was cool :] silly silly guy (with lotsa trauma) that hit me right in the daddy issues. funny tho, i rlly dont have much to say abt the guy despite the ep literally being focused on him. his song with charile was spectacular though, i need to listen to it on its own immediately

okokok, episode 6, finally, hopefully shorter than the mess of text above

first off. vaggie = fallen angel theorists, i would like to bow down and apologize for ever doubting you. i was one of the skeptics, i really was, but the show did it in a way that (albeit rushed, but what hasn't been so far?, thaaanks, 8-episode limit..) made it seem believable, with assdam calling her out for it..

but putting adam aside, uh, lute?? maam?? holy fuck, step on me??? please???? i mean uh. sick character design yk ahah ^^

whats her name.. emily? the younger seraphim girl, i liked her, she was a cutie. she really did just seem like heavens version of charlie. and the older seraphim woman i (expectedly) have mixed feelings abt. i feel like all would've be great it adam got outta her damn ear cause she might've actually be down to try the hotel with em gone.. angel was doing so well

speaking of angel, ANGEL!! oh lookit that character development, charlie's gonna be so fuckn proud!!! also, CHERRI!!!! saw someone else say cherris the devil on angels shoulder while husks the (heh) angel, and i have to say i agree. they both want the best for him, they just have different ways of goin about it.

unsurprisingly, fuck Valentino. although i did notice he was wearing a dress today, so. (through gritted teeth) slay.

thiiink that's all i gotta say for today?? besides the fact that next week is gonna be agonizing, ofc :] buckle up ppl we might get a genuine, emotional chaggie fight come next thursday

..oh yeah!! molly!!! we briefly saw molly!!!! i hope youre absolutely thriving girl, you deserve no less <3

[misspickman]

fero pickman and xue yang. i know all your comics friends have you covered

fero !

Sexuality Headcanon: bi i think. i dont think hed care about defining that tbh. also keith once called him aromantic on twt and idk if thats generally considered canon but i enjoy it<3

Gender Headcanon: little guy. again to me? genderqueer but idk if hed care about it. in a modern au maybe, but less because he wants to define it and more because people would ask that of him. which maybe just makes him refuse to define it even more. much to think about

A ship I have with said character: ephero.. theyre so real in my heart.. i dont think about them much anymore but when i do. ah :(. also ferol he fucked that old man

A BROTP I have with said character: fero and hella and adaire,, what we could have had,, also mother glory. and samol. anyone of the main pcs tbh just put this guy in dynamics

A NOTP I have with said character: uhh idk honestly. i cant think of anything rn? im sure i have some but ?

A random headcanon: do you remember when we gave him a bunch of cats in our au. also: always fixing shit. this is how he shows he cares. he will not say it but he will fix that hole on hellas roof and be grumpy the whole time

General Opinion over said character: he has changed my brain chemistry irreparably. listening to seasons of hieron and going hes just like me fr (derogatory)

pickman!!!

Sexuality Headcanon: lesbian. probably not something she thinks about much, a la "im probably nb but i have a job so idc about that now"

Gender Headcanon: my big butch wife. but in general same as above, she is what she is and shes too busy to dwell on it, and its not like its anyone elses business, right? also what even Are gender expectations of a caprak? i dont think this is ever discussed but i would like to know

A ship I have with said character: pickman/chantilly scathe.. man

A BROTP I have with said character: alekest :) and colette<3

A NOTP I have with said character: uhh idk i cant imagine her with men. the lesbian energy is off the charts

A random headcanon: i would like to think she gets more into art after zevunzolia. maybe into wood carving. it would be sweet. would she write poetry.. i dont think she would consciously sit down to do it but she is Very good at writing letters (thanks jack, for that<3)

General Opinion over said character: miss pickman my wife miss pickman.. we shall have a spring wedding.. i think about her six travelers ep So much. "I think it is something magical that separates us. Again, I am not speaking metaphorically."

xue yang :)

Sexuality Headcanon: probably bi. similar to what i said for fero but for entirely different reasons, i dont think hed care

Gender Headcanon: you see this is a Question. its been so long since ive actively thought about this so i cant articulate it but theres something going on there

A ship I have with said character: songxue, songxuexiao, i love a very horrid and messy xueyao too. any ship with xue yang is horrid and messy but in most cases the horridness is one sided but in xueyao its both of them. this increases the levels of horridness. u get me

A BROTP I have with said character: in my beautiful mind and nowhere else? wen qing. in a more realistic sense aqing and meng yao

A NOTP I have with said character: oh im sure there are many xue yang ships i would not enjoy but i dont wanna think about it rn. but uhh him and mo xuanyu? i just dont vibe

A random headcanon: in any modern au i am giving this guy soo many tattoos and piercings. also motorcycle guy

General Opinion over said character: i miss him its such a shame i can never step back into that fandom. also changed my brain chemistry but in a completely different way

[betrayalbracket]

Is there any funny explanations?

oh, quite a few! we'll post our favorites under the cut! they'll include both full descriptions and pieces of descriptions that we found funny! as a fun game, try to guess who they're describing.

- "Mindy is an NPC who will offer to trade you her Haunter for a Medicham. Now, Haunter is a Pokémon that evolves by trade into Gengar, a popular Pokémon that’s hard to get if you’re like me and have no friends. So you trade with her and get the Haunter and does it evolve? No. Because MINDY tricked you. She put an everstone on that Haunter. She has no reason to do so other than pure malice. Mindy is easily the most villainous character in the Pokémon multiverse. Worse than all the crime lords and child abusers and guys that try to kill god." (just this entire submission is pure gold. you're so right. fuck mindy) - "You just shot your son asshole." - "Also when I was writing a high school au he literally could not be on screen without commenters squinting suspiciously at him even though the worst he ever did on screen was be a bad kisser and kind of a douche and that is still the funniest thing to. I was trying to play a long game and lull my audience into a false sense of security and I just couldn't get them to relax with him." - "Also he has dimples! He’s so cute! Evil baby" - "like 2 weeks later he robs and then tries to murder them. ow oof owie" - "in jcs canon: judas sees his best bud/maybe boyfriend jesus getting super popular and worries that it’s all going to backfire on them! so he tries to help by going to the authorities and having jesus arrested so that maybe jesus will get knocked down a peg or two. BUT instead they beat and crucify him and judas is like oh fuck maybe that was a bad idea. then he offs himself and comes back to life one song later to sing a baller 70s pop ballad. and the most fun part is that jesus KNEW the whole time judas would betray him so it hurts even more!! in bible canon: uhh idk he sells out jesus for 30 silver pieces just because :/" (i never thought anything would make me want to see a musical about jesus but here we are. anyways i love "just because :/") - "look at his big fucking eyes . ok now hes killed his teammates numerous times." - "Cask of amontillado-ed the soul of the planet Earth" - "and then he tried to execute all three of them. e rated video games." - "10/10 betrayal georg" - "She also has multiple charges of manslaughter/j" - "also he totally failed at the godhood thing" - "attempts to stab the main character in the back (and I don't mean it metaphorically or rhetorically or poetically or theorecally or in any other fancy way, he had a knife)" - "But oh, he's just so precious while he does it, such a silly little bastard who deserved that punch in the face from Stan 😋"

- "tricking kirby and friends into helping him repair his ship and beating the shit outa landia to get the master crown and then he steals the master crown and becomes god for a good 10 seconds and then kirby beats the shit outta him and sends him to hell. Is basiclly catboy Judas" - "oh you know. tricking a little inspiring scientist named ford build a little doomsday device. making him go insane and lose trust in everyone and completely destroy his life. almost ending the entire universe for a frat party. yknow. just silly things" - "Bitch fucking used Kirby and pals to fix his ship while he sat back and drank mamaosas before then tricking them into committing a coup on another world’s head of state bEFORE STEALING THE MASTER CROWN!!!! HE’S A LITTLE BITCH!!!!" - "Pretended to be my friend only because he wanted to execute me and my lizard bestie multiple times. He then tried to become friends with said lizard bestie only to betray him AGAIN. I have trust issues because of this man." - "I just know someone will drop the whole stitch but there's a reason he's paired with Sans from Undertale, theoretically betrays the players, I digress, in "Fingers up your ass" for no reason." - "Promised us the first female doctor. Ended up shattering the lore in half, spitting in our faces and then fucked off. Fuck you Chibby your Torchwood episodes aren't even that good" - "claimed to be scared of being murdered and asked to switch rooms with the protagonist, when really she planned on killing somebody and pinning the blame on him. girlboss swag!" - "Made deals, but instead of the cliche soul thing he KIDNAPPED PEOPLE STRAIGHT TO HELL." - "was actually from an alternate universe (where everyone is evil, don’t worry about it btw)" - "Bro. Buddy. Need I say more. My man straight up kidnapped a glasses girlboss, Oprah Winfrey, my actress lookalike, and a human duck. What an icon." - "idk man I’m agnostic and was raised atheist, I’m pretty sure he was once an angel and got demoted and stuff???" - "Killed me while i was doing a download (the most awfullest crime, worse than killing someone normally)" - "like. she kills so many people that are her friends and . i mean. what wasn't her betrayal?" - "Was literally just A Guy but it turns out he Was Not and was actually Evil The Whole Time" - "she didn’t do anything i just hate her (this is /j don’t include her in the bracket/lh)" (she's not going in the bracket but she's being immortalized here) - "Betrayed both the villain and the protagonist (i think, i just know his theme slaps)"

- "The entire plot of How Bad Can I Be really. Look me in the eyes and tell me im wrong" - "Put me in the fucking character betrayal pole the fruity little twink /lhj/j/j/nsrs" - "Cheated on Perry the Platypus with Peter the Panda (season 1 ep 7 it's about time"

- "he pissed on Eggman’s wife (and fucked her but the entire cast did tbh so)"

- "he promised raf he’d bring him back a snowball and he fucking didn’t"

- "Slept in my brother’s bed last night instead of mine >:("

- "That fucker voted me out AFTER SEEING ME SCAN. Bitch"

- "He was so nice and them bam 💥 sicced Giratina on us"

- "Borrowed a 20 and never gave it back. Pay up"

- "wouldn't you like to know weather boy /ref"

- "He stabbed that old man right in his pussy"

- "Nice-guying at Mabel, terrible hair" (tbh though i'd argue this wasn't even his betrayal- more something about him convincing the entire town he's just a harmless little psychic, or him telling dipper oh there's no issue this sort of thing happens and then trying to fucking kill him)

- "got jesus killed innit" - "Jesus"

and also, as a bonus, one that isn't a description but was still very funny: "that one motherfucker who killed me with the ultra stamp when I was trying to go for the ultra signal even though we're technically on the same team you fucking bastard"

[mossdogs]

abt your reblog on the latin american classics poll, i wanted to ask why you love rayuela?

i tried to read it but. uhh. 💔 anyway i never finished it but i’m thinking about reading it again

i can understand that its a bit hard to read cuz its rlly rlly long haha. i actually finished it not so long ago and it took me like. almost a year?? so yeah i can understand that its a bit tiring to get over w it

alright back to ur question: one of the reasons why i like it is bc of how unique it is when it comes to the way u read it. the guy basically tells u that u can read it the way u want, theres not a particular order to do so. and thats awesome cuz i have never seen a book with that format!! i mean theres probably a few out there who do, but that was the first thing that caught my attention while i was reading it and, personally, i never had the experience to read one w the exact same way

another thing i like is the way its written, since cortazar uses all these big words and metaphors and im a sucker for those. it feels kind of mysterious in a way?? im not sure if thats the word i want to use but uhhh its great. adds a great atmosphere to the story.

oh and i have to mention ofc that i can relate to it, in a way. not particularly w the story or characters, but the setting. reading a book that mentions traditions, places or stuff thats from the place i was born feels nice. idk i might be cheating w this one cuz theres a whole lot of national books besides rayuela but i felt like i had to mention it.

andd thats it!! it came out pretty long sorry, i love rambling abt stuff lol. u should totally try to finish it tho!! u wont regret it i promise

[roxannepolice]

dyou still want thoschei hot takes? i think my takes are lukewarm at best (also why is it called lukewarm why not warm? i could google it but i dont really care that much). uhh i guess hot takes are like:

"Master" (the audio drama) is so much more than the one where the Doctor kills some guy when they're kids. It's actually a really cool exploration of their relationship.

Idk much about Classic Who but looking at it from my New Who and 7/8 EU lens, the Doctor is often self-righteous and tries to ignore the harm he does to others. The Master likes to kill people and that's pretty bad!

Like, one of them is obviously a worse person, but the Doctor contributed and contributes harm to their relationship. Also it's so cool in more than just the Thoschei thing? Genuinely an amazing audio all round.

I personally am terrible at reading big paragraphs of text with no paragraph breaks and I don't want the ask to get too long. Also I'm not sure if I have more lukewarm takes. So that's it I guess. If you didn't want hot takes now. Uh. Sorryy.

I'm always hungry for hot thoschei takes, they're pretty much the only stick I can poke my brain with xd

And yes, I agree, the Master audiodrama gets both too much and too little clout. Like, on the one hand there's the obsession with the whole deal with Death thing, which... just never made much sense to me? Not so much the deal itself as, oh see, the Doctor killed someone so now Death can claim them as their champion, except "others" had plans for them free will who?, excuse me, were the anthropomorphic personifications of Law or Justice consulted on this, because there is this thing called justifiable homicide and a panicking child reacting to their friend being drowned absolutely falls into this category? Like, is that supposed to be a metaphor?

You should have been the Master, and he should have been you is a great quote, but. it doesn't really mean anything?

But on the other hand, you're absolutely right - this is just plain a really good story! Excellent suspense, well fleshed out characters, magnificent voice acting... Like, if anything, the interesting thing for thoschei, and interesting in general, here is the idea of someone (an adult with full accountability for their actions) deciding it's their right to murder people they (and a considerable part of their society) have decided deserve it, basically to impress someone they consider the pillar of righteousness! Taking 7 of all regenerations to be involved, the guy who blew up Skaro, was an excellent choice, and I wish this aspect of the audiodrama was getting more attention.

[oh-phineas]

Saturday, November 30 — SWYNRP Character Wishlist: A list of 10+ characters you’d like to see in the RP (for you to play or someone else!) 

I probably won't get any characters any time soon, even 9 is a lot for me and honestly I feel pretty good with the stories I'm already focusing on. But here's stuff that's been bouncing around my brain.

First up: Timon and Pumbaa!

I love these guys because they're comic relief but I also think there's something a bit sadder going on with them under the surface. "When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world!"

I like the idea of them as misfits who fled somewhere less Magick-friendly because of their magic (uhh open to interpretation) maybe they're on sort of a crazy road trip situation or something and their car broke down in Swynlake and they go on a journey of realizing this is where they want to belong.

FCs! They should be comedians!!!

Timon: Jaboukie Young-White

Pumbaa: Kenan Thompson

Next: Kiki Takayama!

I don't think I'll get Kiki because the way I'd do her story would probably be kind of similar to Mirabel but tbh maybe someday if I did want to get into sorcery. But I just love her I love her story! Witch on her own for the first time, discovers burnout, magic as a metaphor for creative block, I just love it. I don't have a FC tbh but there are probably so many.

Next: Alisha Hawthorne!

Between recently reading Project Hail Mary and The Space Gal going up in space, having a lot of thoughts about astronauts lately. Imagine closing this character by sending her to SPACE. much to consider.

FC: Issa Rae!

Ok next... pls bring me the love story for the ages... FLO AND RAMONE! FLAMONE!

God they are just so slay... imagining Flo as this sort of all-over-the-place creative genius and Ramone as the man who loves her unconditionally, they're so classically cool with Flo's vintage style and Ramone's tattoos, they go out and Flo is making friends like crazy and Ramone is just like ya that's my wife... also more tattoo artists for Sunburst!!! Yes pls!

FCs: Flo - Keke Palmer!

Ramone: I don't have a FC in mind but trust me he would slay.

Okay next... DARLA!!

Bee's task inspired this because rlly I think something that is super important to merpeople's stories is that there ARE a lot of people who mean them ill or actually don't mean them ill but still have no respect for them or their right to live their lives. I think there could be something cool here with like parasocial relationships or something idk. Bring Darla!!!

FC: Shannon Purser

Next... HANK!

I love Hank. I love all of Finding Nemo. Who doesn't love a grouch with a heart of gold? Maybe even... retired RAS agent? Idk rewatch Finding Dory and try and tell me he hasn't charmed you

FC: Colman Domingo bring him plzzz

Additionally... MULAN!

My gym did a "favorite disney princess" poll the other day and because it is a gym the winner was Mulan. I always want to see more #jocks, hit me up for highly competitive backstories etc. I just think Mulan totally slays and we already have Shang and Mushu and the Mulan 2 crew so!!!

FC: Sabrina Wu

And finally... ABBY MALLARD!

I love Abby from Chicken Little. I love a misfit who doesn't care what anyone thinks and marches to the beat of their own drum. The karaoke scene in this movie is unparalleled. Selfishly would love for someone to bring her to the psychology department at Pride U or maybe Jiminy Cricket's office, maybe she wants to be a school counselor!

No FC idea because tbh I think FC-less is the way to go here?

Anyway those are my ideas! Yay finished Wrimo!

[mettasing]

btw about this mouthwashing situation (partly). i get that new fandoms are rabid, and everyone wants to ride the train BUT. there's stuff that happens all the time, and it's especially prevalent in these new fandoms. cuz ppl want to latch onto the hottest thing, etc. it's media "analysis".

...how do you sit there, retell the complete story of a book/movie/comic/game with some lame-ass comments and monotonous cool guy voice for 40 fucking hours and then have the gall to name ur video AN ANALYSIS. analysis where??? bitch that's a summary??? and it's not even good??? idk why i choose to appear emotional over this but i'm so fucking tired of "yeagh... so johnny johnson picks up the axe and then dismembers milly jilly gruesomely and uhm guys i think there's a metaphor for systemic misogyny and some deep allegory guys i'm not very smart so idk i won't bother explaining it to ya... and then he hunts down bobbly wobbly and strangles horse plinko and he's a very bad guy. so yeah a harrowing story about our human nature" – and i doubt that something like last sentence will be there tbh... if you want to analyse something then do it, otherwise name ur stuff "story summary" and move on. it's not immoral, it's just uhh nobody presents a lizard and says it's a bird. retelling is not analysing. i get that names and labels are all made up, but we didn't invent them just to fuck around.

*falls on a pillow*

[frogsandfries]

Did I ever tell you guys?

So, when I was really little, like in kindergarten, my womb donor's father died. Obviously, I didn't realize I didn't need to go to a funeral at that age, so I begged her; I was a really curious kid and I wanted to see what a funeral was like.

Uhh, turns out I don't really remember what a funeral was like; I've never been to another since.

Don't take your five or six year olds to funerals, guys.

As a result of attending a funeral at about five or six, periodically, throughout my life, I have been overwhelmed with existential dread and fear. The last time I was this overwhelmed with the fear of dying, I was....in middle school, if memory serves. To clarify, I'm not counting my suicidal period as being afraid of death/dying. Obvi.

Turns out, I'm going through one of those periods right now. So I thought I'd take you guys along with me, as I try to work through this and at least get a little closer to shedding it:

So. Here's the thing. I was super seasonally depressed this summer. It was rainy and stormy when my body was expecting to recharge its seasonal batteries. It probably didn't help that I was off medication, both for my depression and my blood pressure, and high blood pressure causes body-wide inflammation, which can cause the body to go into a bit of a safe mode.

So that's great.

Then, for the first time in aggggeesss, I'm stuck in a very, very small town. Actually, this one is even smaller than the last small town I was stuck in. I literally cannot get out of my own volition. There is no grocery store. There is a library, a bunch of bars, a fishing shop, ONE (1) restaurant and it serves the most half-assed food I've ever eaten from a small town restaurant, and there is a gas station. That. Is. It.

Obviously. No public transit.

I have no freedom. I have the least freedom that I've had since I was in high school. I had more freedom in college, when I had no fucking money.

Okay, so next: I am most likely never going to have a child. Unless I marry someone with either amazing health insurance that would cover fertility treatment (🙄 so not here in the US); or marry someone who makes good-ass money or idk....a fucking miracle that involves me also having sex with someone who isn't complete garbage.

This is a big one for me.

I have harm OCD. As a teen, it was incredibly horrible and had me thinking I should and could never be around children. I thought I was a fucking monster because all I could think when I was around children was all the different ways I could hurt them. I could hurt them horribly and the adults would never know.

But of course, I'm not actually a monster; my brain was just extremely fucked up when I was living with my gene donors.

My brain is still pretty fucked up, but I've been lucky to live in the age of the internet, and a beautiful era of mental wellness. Realizing the thoughts were not real per se really freed me. All of a sudden, I felt like I had a choice about whether or not I had children.

Of course, on the romantic front, uhhh, I'm hopeless. I've dated two people, fucked one, and all three have been garbage human beings who like living in their filth, literal and metaphorical.

Let's not forget, I cannot reiterate this enough. I. Hate. Living. In. Wisconsin.

Much like I tried to downplay the atrocities my womb donor committed against my siblings and me when we were under eighteen, only to live with her again; her behavior didn't change and I was forced to disown her.

I tried to downplay how bad for me living in Wisconsin was. Like I've been saying for months, this summer, the weather was shit and I had fucking SAD in the fucking middle of fucking summer. The humidity is un-fucking-bearable. And I've been having the worst allergies all summer and they're really ramping up to a point where they're affecting my asthma. Which has not happened since I left. Honestly, living in NM, I was starting to wonder why I still had the doctor prescribing me an inhaler--I only used them a few times before they expired. Now that I'm back, I think I'm going to have to ask the doctor to prescribe me montelukast again.

It got so cold all of a sudden when it became October, and the whole house is basically made of paper and popsicle sticks, so there's almost no point in trying to keep it any kind of reasonable temperature. Really, the only solution feels like space heaters and heated blankets. You guys, I haven't been like, uncomfortably cold inside my domicile.....uhhh, ever.

Oh, and let's not forget. I got fucking heat sick for probably the first time in my fucking life. So now I'm kind of cursed, because when you get heat sick once, it makes you more susceptible. I hope that resets at some point sooner than later.

So yeah, maybe it makes sense that I'm feeling some existentiality. I'm the most sick I've been in years, possibly more sick than I've ever been. And I'm extremely socially isolated. At least living in the city, living in an apartment, hearing other people come and go, hearing a city live and breathe around me--from the air traffic to the drag racing out on the freeways--for me, that's peace. Knowing that, even though the public transit system sucks, it gives me the freedom to go most places in the city that I might need or want to go, that's peace.

On top of the social isolation, I was really proud of myself--I paid my entire lease entirely by myself for three years, as well as still paying for other stuff, like my phone and internet and being able to feed myself without food stamps, and have cats, something I've wanted to do since I was living on my own in college. Sure, I hated the fuck out of my job, but I was utterly independent for the first time in my life.

Only to move back to Wisconsin and be basically unable to get or find a new job. I can't rely on my sister for transportation; her hours are crazy all over the place. Until I'm assessed for ADHD, I really do not think I should be driving. I just don't think I can drive. And if I can't drive, and this is where I'm living, I kind of have two options: I can either resume working from home or--more realistically, given that I've been struggling for years with the job thing--I think I should go on disability. So I'm working on that.

Anyway, if you've read this far, thank you? But I'm not done yet.

I kind of don't know what I'm getting so worked up about. My womb donor's mother lived to eighty-five. My womb donor had a fucking stroke because she thinks she knows better than her doctors, but both of my parents are currently about sixty now and still trucking. I don't really think I have anything to worry about. My three grandparents who died earlier all smoked. I have at least another thirty years, but even given my health, probably at least another forty or fifty, or so.

That's plenty of time to make some cool shit.

But more than that, I guess I'm just terrified as shit about what's going to happen. I'm past the age of thirty. I'm slowly, slowly marching toward death. After all, there is no real escape from death, just a delay. It is going to happen. And then what. No fucking idea. My heart is going to stop beating, my lungs stop expanding, my brain stops firing. Done. Over. No more.

Did my grandmother love her husband? Did she die surrounded by love? Why did she have four kids and I can't even have one? Who's going to be at my bedside to notice when my heart stops? Did my grandmother find anyone to spend her last days with? Friends, at least? Will I find anyone to spend my last days with? What am I supposed to do with all my shit? What about the shit that I start and simply don't have the time to finish? What about books I never case in? What about beading projects I never finish? I mean, sure, it's easy enough to case in a book, especially if I leave instructions, "cover with this fabric, add these end pages"; or to follow a beading pattern. But will anybody actually want to finish these things for me? Will anyone care about my shit as much as I do? I don't have a lot of shit to go through, but will anyone be there who will want to? Will there be anyone who wants any of my shit? Will there be anyone who will miss me or notice my absence? Will I care at the age at which I die?

Why am I cursed like this?

Why does it matter so much? I never would have imagined my sister getting a house, never even mind inviting me to live in it. I never in a million years would have imagined myself living in New Mexico--never even mind falling absolutely in love. I never would have imagined there would be a place in the world I could go, and leave, and be the most homesick I've ever been in my life.

I just remembered I put beans on to soak yesterday evening.

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

Ope?

Is that the cruise 😬?

Okay not yet phew

Hi Maddie :)))!!

Oof this poor guy xD

Uhh lost??

Ahh enemy territory 😑

I mean maybe it'll be okay xd?

Hmm nah it's gonna crash to them lol

Especially if he's watching planes xd

Eesh the drama 😬

OPE

YOOO WHAT O.O 😳😳😬

O O P HELLO PLANE

Gosh 😭😬

Hi Hen :D!!

Hi Buck 🥰

Hi Eddie ❤️!!

Hi Chim :DD!

And y'all still arguing xD

Uh oh he's stuck D:

Uh ohh

Hmm yeah that's not good xd no sparks lol

UH OH

A MISSILE??

Oh okay it's a dummy :D

Oh okay apparently not xdd that's just the dumb thing we're calling it lol

Uhh yeah no time for that?

UH OH OPE SIR O.O

Idk if that's a good idea about alright let's try 😭 xd

Okay okayy goo nice

SIR?? HE DOESN'T KNOW ಠ⁠Oಠ??!

SIR XD

He's probably concussed or something

Like yeah he he fell 10,000 feet!

Red seems more like the thing to cut anyway

Yeah that makes sense

PHEW

Okay nice you're all good :D

WAIT HUH

Okay good lol

Tell her you're dead ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ??

XDD the chair LOL

Lol Hen xD

Chim you'll be fine

Flight path xD

Aww yeah honey just don't get let it :)

The first personal scene of them they give us and it's the two of them talking while Eddie's not wearing a shirt. Why do they even give them girlfriends

?

Wait so if y'all are doing good and have already been on dates which makes sense because it's been several months, is it some weird metaphor thing?

:OOO CHRISTOPHER!!!

OOOH THE TEA :DDD

Awww that's so cute :))

Lol but also a date for you xD

:O-

OAUGHUAUUAGGHH!!!!

THEY BROKE UP!!!

AAAHHHHHHHHH WHOOOO!!!!!

HALLELUJAHHH :DDDD

I know I was saying good for him like 30 minutes ago but hey xD

One down-

Anyway slay :D

"Welcome back to the land of the living" xD

:O aww a date night!!

Lol the miscommunication in this conversation xDD

It's funny though lol

Un proposal xD

Aww that sounds cute :))!!

AYY the cruise :DD

Aww y'all are so cute 🥰🥰

Huh who are they :o?

OHH THEM LOL

That's wild o.o xDD

Oof poor Athena and Bobby xDD they are so uncomfortable lol

Nahh she sleeping with him 💀

That was awkward xD

Aww hey guys :))

I mean you don't have to eat there every night xD

OOP okay Bobby 👀

Uhh?

OOP okay so there is actual reason o.o

OH NO :O

THE D R A M A

Not Athena and Bobby :O

Ahh yeah she doesn't know what's left after that :((

Honestly out of all the complications this one does make sense for them

Not y'all again lol

I don't mind too much but I'm sure Athena and Bobby do xD

OPE lol Athena wants to go to avoid being alone o.o

XD Bobby's reactions are just amazing lol

Y'all xD

[candiedcoder]

puss in boots/the last wish spoilers ahead

if you have not watched the movie, you should, its so cool. however please just skip this post and blacklist the spoiler tag if you can.

ok so this movie somehow is so actiony anf fun while still having good use of themes in a literary sense i guess. the backgrounds and general art direction was so beautiful. like it was sooo cool.

puss learning not to fear commitment or death was an amazing arc for him to go through

but it isn't only puss who has an arc either. mostly everyone who wants the wish has some sort of development over time too.

might as well start off with the exception of the wish wanters, Jack Horner. Definitely an interesting source to pull from for a Villain. The fact that he is from a nusery rhyme instead of a full fairytale is also brought up. He is a spoilt boy alright and the 2nd most threatening villain I guess. Funny how theres a villain in both movies called Jack lol.

the dog (forgot his new name, i am not the best with those sorry). subjected to the horrors but is clueless. a very good therapy dog. I like him.

Uh i guess next kitty softpaws. not much to say. she does some cool stuff. probably wrong to say this, but i just find it funny how her conflict with puss is because he ran away from their wedding, idk why sorry.

To finish off the wish wanters, Goldi(locks) <3 <3 <3 >//w//<. Her story as an orphan is so sad and her goal of getting her original family is just very sad and quite impactful. I love how she realises her family was the one who adopted her and helping her. The found family trope is just ydheiebeusj yeah i like it very much. I'm not giving the bears their own paragraph, but I like how they all have their own traits and personality and all have their dynamics with each other (including goldi). I also adore how they accept that Goldi wants to reunite with her most likely deceased parents. However she still gives that up to save her family and realises the thing i said sentences ago (sorry this post is just rambles not very organised). Her voice is so uhh idk how to describe it, but i love it. Everything about her is so pretty, her hair, her face, her dress, her most likely stolen jewelery, it just makes me GRHEKVEJOVSHOVHIWVCJDJGSUCWJNGSUXB. I love her. Kissing her rn....

finishing off, Death. that guy. The physical form of it, nothing metaphorical about it. Definitely very threatening. The fact they don't appear again after the first fight until puss is adventuring again is a neat detail and could most likely be analysed more by higher skilled people in that sort of thing. The resolution for him was pretty good. You can't kill death but you can accept it.

I don't understand number scales so I will give it a "pretty Amazing so cool Has pretty girl" out of Perfect i guess

Might make a follow up post with the other stuff I noticed I guess in the next few days mayeb

[superchat]

im still just. so amazed at the creation of the silent hill frachise. like, resident evil 1 comes out in 1996, its a hit. and konami is like "uhhh shit. these RE games are pretty popular huh, we need a game to compete with that and cash in on horror." and literally 7 months later after RE1 was released, had a team made called "team silent" and started production of silent hill. like, this is just a "oh horror games are big? uhh, lets make one too haha get in on the craze while we're ahead." apparently the team consisted of konami employees who failed at previous projects who planned to leave. so it was just like a "idk, last ditch effort to these guys."

And silent hill couldve been anything. couldve been a spooky town haunted by an evil spirit that makes zombies, or a vampires, or some like just lazily done and obvious cashgrab.

But like, instead we got this game with incredibly dark and heavy themes, where the monsters and environment is full of metaphors and references and physical depictions of abuse and trauma. (not only that but coding of the game was incredibly well done and used so many tricks with the limited hardware of the PS1).

Like, idk how to express how cool that is to me, the game couldve been so easily forgettable and only known by people who scroll through konamis games list on wikipedia. but the developers just made this game thats so much more fuckin weird and more deeply intimate and scary than even resident evil was known for (thats not to downtalk to RE at all). like. its just this fundamentally different form of horror that i vibe with so hard

This isnt even getting into silent hill 2. silent hill 2 is a game im really obsessed with and the entire setup of SH1 just elevates every aspect of SH2. like, i cannot get over how incredibly good it is to set up expectations of SH with the first game, and then subvert expectations (HE SAID SUBVERT EXPECTATIONS) because. in SH2 there is no cult, or ritual. the town is just....Existing, and passively tormenting these characters. tormenting THE main character. it just gives the lore a much deeper, more haunting depth to whatever god sleeps there.

Theres soo much to say about the story and lore of SH2 but im not gonna rant abt that rn, i justewanted to focus on appreciating how we got what we did from passionate and clever and smart and talented writers, art designers, developers, programmers, composers, sound engineers etc. you can see the care and thought put into the games and its incredible we got them