#villain i was joking where tf are you going

[depressed-werewolf]

“Are you prepared to die, Hero?” Villain asked, their weapon pressed against the hero’s throat.

“Fuck yeah, I wanted to die anyway.”

The Villain groaned and dropped they weapon. “I’m not doing this.”

A look of confusion creeped onto Hero’s face. “Huh—“

“I can’t deal with you right now,” Villain exclaimed. They were walking away, now. It seemed they’d completely given up on the fight. “Come back when you’ve got a therapist or a will to live.”

[hampterguts]

forever amazed and confused at how often transformers franchise just straight up depicts suicide attempts. like not even considering the superhero trope of "i have to save everyone!!! by choosing to die!!!!!" thing. like. non-allow-yourself-to-die-to-stop-a-thing-from-killing-everyone-immediately type situations. which tbh i wish more ppl talked about but not the point here

like. sure mtmte, a comic abt mentall illness and war, i expected it to be aware of the concept. but its not handled well and mostly used for shock value or "im better now i swear! i have a husband and everything" BUT ITS IN THE KIDS SHOWS TOO??? MY BESTIE G1 RODIMUS?? BEAST WARS DINOBOT???

[darkstarofchaos]

For the character ask game, I'm not sure how many numbers you're willing to do for a single ask, so you can just do as much as you want from this. For Prowl - 2, 3, 7, 8, 12, 15, 16, 23, 25

I don't mind a bunch of numbers! Gives me an excuse to ramble, lol. And to rant, because Prowl deserves better.

2: Favorite canon thing about this character?

His willingness to look Optimus in the face and tell him he's being stupid, and to do his own thing to mitigate the stupidity if he has to. Mostly applicable to IDW, but Optimus needs a foil so badly in G1 that I've pretty much transplanted it into G1 Prowl when I write him. Not in its entirety, because G1 Prowl isn't IDW Prowl, but I like that he has his own opinions on tactics and morality and doesn't just go with the Autobot collective. His job is not to be a yes-mech; it's to keep people alive and win battles. If his commander is making stupid decisions, what benefit is there in standing back and letting it happen?

3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

Making the police car an actual cop was the most boring decision anyone could have made. In stories where the Cybertronians choose their alts, especially, there are so many more interesting things you could say about his character by giving him a pre-war job that's completely unrelated to his Earth alt. For example, I like to think he chose it for tactical reasons: it's a common black and white vehicle, thus perfect as a disguise, and the sirens let him "legally" break Earth traffic laws in an emergency. It's far more interesting if his alt is a result of strategy and reasoning instead of, "I guess I'll take the one that matches my old job description."

7. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

I like that people took the little tidbit about Prowl having trouble with the unexpected that has exclusively appeared in two bios (that I'm aware of) and made it reasonably common. Would be really nice if they treated it seriously instead of making it comic relief, but maybe it does get treated more seriously these days. I don't read a lot of Prowl fic.

Let's talk about why.

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

The image compilations of Prowl getting punched. The prick jokes that litter every TF Wiki page for every G1-based Prowl. The fanfics where Prowl is an uncompromising jerk or straight-up hate sink because the author needed a mean Autobot. The conversations and hypotheticals that make Prowl the source of any amoral action the Autobots take. The people who distill him down into Essence of Asshole and strip out every positive or sympathetic quality he has.

"Prowl gets villainized for being sensible" is one of my most hated fanfic tropes. Grab just about any fic where a Decepticon defects or earns the Autobots' sympathy in some way, and Prowl will be the only one who's unhappy with the situation. Which is perfectly reasonable because that is an enemy and he has no reason to trust them, let alone like them. But because we're supposed to sympathize with the Decepticon, that makes Prowl the villain. The other Autobots aren't naive and unreasonably forgiving, Prowl is just a bad person.

And it's not just IDW fics. G1 Prowl didn't get a whole lot of screen time, and thus no chance to develop his own personality, so he gets slapped with the same portrayal. Never mind the fact that when he does show up, he's one of the nicest characters - sure, he gets in on trash talking the Decepticons (though far less than some of the Autobots), but he's always helping out around base, shows concern for others, and pretty much stays out of interpersonal conflict. And yet, in stories based on a cartoon that has Powerglide, Gears, Cliffjumper, and Optimus Prime himself, I am expected to believe Prowl is the Autobots' resident jerk. Not gonna happen.

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

As I mentioned earlier, it's kind of quasi-canon that Prowl has trouble dealing with the unexpected. It's never appeared in any actual media, but it does come from official sources, so I wouldn't call it a headcanon. But I do headcanon that he has some pretty severe anxiety in dealing with people because of it. Things like math and physics are reliable; if something doesn't do what you expect it to, it's because you lacked information, and you can remedy that. You can update your calculations based on the results you actually got, or try to find out what you were missing the first time. Given enough data, you can predict just about anything as long as the results are consistent.

People are not consistent. You can make some sweeping generalizations about them based on categories - social groups, behaviors, readily obvious personality traits - but you can never say with certainty that someone will react in a specific way to something. Once you've known them for a while, you start to understand them and can anticipate them with a reasonable degree of accuracy, but that's assuming their behavior is genuine and consistent. If they're messing with you or pretending to be something they aren't, your data is inaccurate, and you can't correct it unless you know it's inaccurate.

People are the only things in the natural world that can deliberately give you false data about what to expect from them. So yes, I think Prowl has social anxiety. And probably some form of people-centric agoraphobia or anthropophobia.

(I also headcanon him as biromantic asexual. It has nothing to do with the above, and actually predates the anxiety headcanon).

15. What's your favorite ship for this character? (Doesn't matter if it's canon or not.)

If I had to pick just one pairing, I guess I would say Jazz/Prowl. Which is ironic, because for a long time, it was one of my least favorite Prowl pairings. Not because it was particularly objectionable; it was just everywhere, and I couldn't see it working. I think of Prowl as the kind of person who needs a steady, reliable partner who will let him have his routines and respect his desire to plan things before doing them, and Jazz's thing is more spontaneity and flexibility. He seemed like one of the worst partners for Prowl, especially with how I developed Prowl's disorders over the years.

In the end, though, that spontaneity is what brought them full circle to a pairing I can support. Because I do think Jazz would be willing to compromise and accommodate for Prowl's needs, and that Prowl could eventually trust that he's not going to suddenly change how he acts around him. It's a rather tenuous case of opposites attract, and requires patience from both parties, but I can see it working now.

16. What's your least favorite ship for this character?

First, an honorable mention goes to my immediate impulse, which was Constructicons/Prowl. I get why people want IDW Prowl to have someone on his side, and I don't think the Constructicons meant any harm. But Prowl was forced into the team through a series of traumatic events, the Constructicons like him for things he hates about himself, and being a part of Devastator seems to have contributed to his psychological decline. It wasn't a good or healthy situation for him, and I feel like the Constructicons having romantic feelings for him actually makes it more uncomfortable for me.

That being said, I'm going to have to go with Optimus/Prowl as my absolute least favorite ship. Optimus is very strongly motivated by morality and will generally take what he perceives to be the most moral action in a given situation. Pair that with someone like Prowl, who is willing to cross lines when he feels he has to, and you already have a relationship on rough ground. The only way things can work between them is either for Optimus to accept Prowl's "moral failings", or for Prowl to change a fundamental part of himself. There is literally no option that doesn't require one of them to compromise their principles or change who they are. And since Optimus isn't the kind of person who will do that, the only hope for a relationship is to "fix" Prowl. And that gets into abusive territory, because Optimus has power over Prowl in both the physical sense and in their professional relationship. He also has social power, because because Prowl is unpopular and Optimus is exactly the kind of person you wouldn't expect to be capable of abuse.

And yes. For the sake of argument, it could be toxic from Prowl's side too. He could try to hurt Optimus by throwing his mistakes in his face, or by blaming him for everything that goes wrong. But Optimus has a great deal of confidence in himself and the support of pretty much everyone, while Prowl is isolated and already isn't proud of things he's done. He is far more vulnerable to abuse than Optimus is, socially and psychologically, and he just doesn't deserve that.

23. Favorite picture of this character?

Mmm. I guess I would have to say this one, since it inspired an entire story that I'm still working on. There's actually another one that I like better (which also spawned an in-progress story), but I'd have to do more digging to find the link for that one. Might do it later.

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

When I started watching G1, the Autobots were just a conglomerate of near-identical personalities to me. Prowl was just one of the generic background bots who got a few minutes of screentime in one episode and was otherwise relegated to a support role. I was mildly interested by some of the fanfic portrayals I saw, but I definitely preferred the Decepticons, so I didn't read much where he was a main character unless there were Decepticon MCs too. And most of those fics were written by a couple authors whose endings were consistently disappointing, so after I stopped reading their stuff, Prowl just dropped off my radar.

Nowadays, Prowl is my favorite Autobot (well, second favorite after Skyfire). Thanks to IDW, I kind of see him as the Autobot version of Starscream (narratively if not in personality), but he's also a fascinating character in his own right. I love that he doesn't conform to the Autobots as a whole, he's fun to write and analyze, and he was the one good thing I got out of the IDW comics. 10/10 character, deserves better.

[loveislandthegame]

thoughts on today's volume! first off, let me say i really, realllllly hope that the next season doesn't have horrible couples acting like children at the finale 😭 hazel & hari were ruining the vibe . i gave FB props for not making her a villain, but i'm rescinding that now because they made both her and hari look absolutely ridiculous. it's astounding how much they manage to ruin their own characters. now let's get into the rest of it

FB you better be joking ! i've lost count of how many times they've used this box. at this point the feather is crusty, the silk is shattering, the massage lotion got bacteria in it, the whipped cream can is squirting out straight up nitrous oxide, etc.

i don't know what's more horrendous , the glitched massage oil overlay or this dress . what in the penny, nickel, dime is this ??

when i picked castle ruins for the final date i was envisioning like, a cute grassy hill with rocks scattered around, overlooking the sea . cute romantic vibes ... only for that shit to end up being a brick wall 😭 it's still a cute background though, and the date was nice

FB, where's my damn suit ! (i know i'm probably the only person that wants one but like, even the queen herself, s2 MC, had a suit option at prom) i ended up going with the black dress, which was a good shout because it actually looks really good with claudia . we're giving sun and moon 🌚🌞 <3

of course we won, but with the way this season's been going i wouldn't have been surprised if we somehow had a tie with sienna (i know it's not possible though because she gets dumped if you aren't wlw. if you're wondering about the ranking it was 4th: hazel/hari 3rd: sienna/kyle 2nd: bea/theo)

before going outside MC had a conversation with claudia's mother, and i loved this. minus the land part, this is the kinda shit i'd want as gifts IRL

when i tell you i groaned out loud when i saw who the VIP guest was. also, during the recap of our villa journey i have no clue why he was acting like i chose to be with jin in the recoupling prior the final one, did FB forget it was boy's choice ? (the AI is AI-ing girl...)

spin the block...? You can’t be talking like that White Baby

FB really screwed over the people who were romancing finn, i'm actually gagged . granted i think you're a bit delulu if you picked love instead of money with anybody besides lulu , but finn actually was an LI option. this is worse than hamish getting with ivy, i genuinely wanna know wtf were they thinking

the diamond scene with finn was the least robotic conversation this whole season, perhaps the misogynistic creeps that wrote season 5 came back to write that pile of bullshit. don't bother buying it. if you really wanna know: finn got back with kat, they tried to have an open relationship and it flopped

is he an option to run away with or what? i don't know because i slammed the tf out of the "i'm in a relationship" option 👹

love or money time, and i picked love of course ! i would say we walked off into the sunset but it's already night time

next week's volume is gonna be a reunion and ... ugh 😐 respectfully, they should've just pulled the plug here . at this point the only other islanders i care about are bea & theo, but after the final recoupling they pretty much became nonexistent (and knowing FB, this reunion is probably gonna be dedicated to helping one of these wack ass couples fix their relationship drama ...)

[ratheread]

OKAY

So I just finished season 5 of bsd (Like 5 minutes ago) and the manga yesterday. (I was already halfway through season 5 when i finished) so lack of sleep and not a life has brought me here. ignore mistakes ill fix in the morning if I remember I'm tired asf but I wanted to write this with it all still new. so heavy spoilers undercut. ALSO FEEL FREE TO SHARE HEAD CANNONS, IDEAS OR THEORIES

SO SUCH A GREAT SEASON. I LOVE IT more than Dead Apple. THE MUSIC THE VOICE ACTING, THE ANIMATION ALL JUST REALLY GOOD. I love the story to i was worried when i first got into bsd that it was going to be like clique but it was actually a really got plot line. Like 5 seasons scared me a little but nonetheless. Im going to the last few episodes (10 and 11) THESE EPISODES WERE AMAZING, LOVE THE VOICE ACTING AND THE ANIMATION. OMG THE ONE SCENE (EPISODE 10? I cant remember I'm to tired) anyways WHERE DAZAI GOT SHOT HOLY SHIT BUT I KEEP SAYING THIS DAZAI SHOULD SAY FUCK MORE OFTEN. LETS BE REAL IF ANYONE IN THAT SHOW ITS HIM THE SICK VITORIAN VAMPIRE CHILD (REALLY HOPE HE GOES TO NORMAL THAT END SCENE HAS ME HOPEFUL) . CHUUYA BEING FUNNY IN 11 LIKE JUST A TON OF GAY SHIT (JOKE) Okay Fyodor insane ass man (cool villain ngl) but i don't think he's dead. Nikolai is funny as hell. Now onto 11 LOVE IT SO MUCH THE HELICOPTER SCENE SO FUNNY. Now the end i never cried over a "villain" But i was close (not one to cry in general but Oda's death really has affected me IM NOT A SIMP idk really wish i knew but its the same with Akugatwa or how ever tf you spell it) Anyways hope this makes some sense ill come back and fix later. Thanks for coming to my ted talk. This is my new hyper-fixation I'm going to sleep. Sigma love him looks really cool ngl and his character is cool) skk shipper and sskk

[teslacoils-and-hubris]

alright thoughts on tf classic? Or at least the classic teams roles in the comics?

i have literally no knowledge of tf classic outside of how they are in the tf2 comics

that said i love nothing more than to share my opinions so let me just refresh my memory of them real quick-

granny pyro fucking rules if theres one thing tf2 is good for its making fucking insane women<3<3

I really have no strong opinions on the rest of them honestly. The writing fascinates me, though. because when you take a close look at their actions, they really aren't all the different from how the team acts? like. ok. bear with me here while i put on my english major hat and go all character analysis on you

(for the sake of clarity, i'll just be using mercs to refer to the tf2 characters, also under the cut cause this got longg)

what is their role in the plot aside from being antagonists? they're hired guns doing their job, which is taking out the administrator and the mercs, until something better presents itself in the form of the australium based life support thing. At which point c!heavy decides to turn tail and go rogue and get the missing australium for himself

everything they do in the comics? killing and torturing for their own gain and pleasure? nothing out of the ordinary for the mercs honestly. C!heavy is the only one that they go out of their way to make him an asshole (more on him later). The main reason they come off as such villains compared to our mercs? they play the violence completely straight.

Whenever the classic team is shown, ALL of the jokes come from them being the straight men to the antics of the mercs. If they weren't paired so wonderfully to play off of the batshit moves the mercs make. C!pyro isn't even torturing solider for information after she gets what she wants, she's just doing it because she enjoys hurting people- meanwhile Jane wants her to torture him for information he actually has so he can prove that he won't tell her. Every interaction is like this! They're professionals who enjoy their jobs as guns for hire- same as the mercs except they don't tell jokes or get naked and covered in honey while they do it. Thats the only thing seperating how the teams act. the main exception being C!heavy

He is uniquely portrayed as an asshole. He's here for a quick, easy pay (he tells grey mann he doesn't understand world domination types, its too much work), he's extremely caught up in the gain (him instantly backstabbing grey mann to get the life extender for himself, and when he yells at medic about how much he's cost them in animal parts)

One scene in particular, however, really sets him up as the Bad Guy. When he hurts Archimedes. It's sandwiched inbetween two jokes (him getting mad at medic for reanimating sniper, and medic implying sniper has pigeon blood now) so it's maybe hard to miss, but the panel where he throws Archimedes into the ground is such a stark stylistic difference that it really just pushes home that this is something Important. the panel is pure black, with C!heavy and Archimedes in bright white. a spatter of blood shows the impact and damage of the action. It really shifts him into the role of scary villain. He's willing to hurt and kill this animal that did nothing to him. presumably because he's pissed at medic and he knows it will hurt him. Medic's reaction and obvious pain makes him a more serious threat than the other classic members, because even when c!pyro drilled holes into soliders teeth, solider didn't care. Everything else the classic team has done has been an inconvience at best (ok well, except killing sniper, but that is also done by c!heavy and treated the same as this example so-)

It's a really beautiful piece of story telling! It's a fantastic way of conveying that this guy is the big bad to the reader without even using words!

Oh and this is also why our mercs were able to win in the end btw, the classic team was prepared for a lot of shit but they could never expect the random bullshit the mercs pull on nearly constantly. They expected guns that shot bullets not ones with a "BANG" flag then getting punched in the dick

[safyresky]

tscs episode 6

I.....what???

HOW DID THIS GET A SECOND SEASON.

Okay so like. That was the most anti-climactic climax I have ever seen in my life? And for what? Scott getting his character arc? While everyone else resets back to this is fine!!!! Buddy suddenly is GUCCI with being Santa? Carol is GUCCI with being Mrs Claus? Sandra is suddenly GUCCI with talking to animals? When the kids were panicking about it before and Carol was like "press x to doubt!"

It's just so dissatisfying and I've seen folks be like "it doesn't feel like the santa clause ):" and it really doesn't!!!!

Some other gripes I had with this thing:

WHY WOULD YOU KEEP THE TOY SOLDIERS. ASSEMBLED. BEHIND A LOCKED DOOR? DID THEY NOT DESTROY THEM ALL? WHY WOULD YOU KEEP THOSE?!?!?! WHY!

Scott upon meeting befana: who tf are u

Scott seeing her little teleport tornado: oh i know this

HOW. HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS IF YOU NEVER EVEN SAW??? BEFANA?? BEFORE LAST DECEMBER??????????

????????????

Carol/Mrs. Claus's "identity crisis". That was BARELY a crisis. I think I'm most upset about that--her with the Mrs Claus identity, Buddy/Cal with the anxiety over being the next Santa and not WANTING to do it, and Sandra with the witch powers/talking to animals crisis and suddenly being okay with it. I would have LOVED to see that growth! HENCE THE MEME

Scott: the kids don't have magic

Scott 5 episodes later: I KNEW YOU GUYS HAD MAGIC!!

THE FUCK YOU DID????

I can't deal with the inconsistencies I just can't y'all.

AND SIMON???

THE ADVERTISING BAIT WHERE IT'S LIKE "HEY THIS POC DUDE IS THE NEXT SANTA" AND THEN PSYCH, MANS THE VILLAIN/BAD GUY AND HE GETS DUSTED!"

THERE IS SO MUCH WRONG WITH THE WHOLE SIMON PLOT!

THIS WHOLE SERIES FEELS LIKE CHRISTMAS MANIFEST DESTINY OR SOME SHIT! I CAN'T EVEN DEAL!

HOW CAN I WRITE FIX IT FIC IN THESE CONDITIONS WITH A SEASON FUCKING TWO LOOMING ON THE HORIZON

HOW

Overall, the series had great ideas and none of them landed. The jokes are outdated and probably wouldn't even have been funny 30 years ago, and all of the potential this thing has was wasted on Santa once more LEARNING TO BE A GOOD PARENT WHEN IT'S LIKE. BRO. 3 MOVIES??? AND U STILL HAVEN'T LEARNT?????

I can't even write better thoughts rn and I have soo many gripes about this thing. SEASON 2??? LIKE. YOU KNOW SEASON 2 ISN'T GOING TO DO SHIT TO THINGS FROM SEASON 1. I BET SCOTT WILL LOOSE HIS WAY ONCE AGAIN AND BUDDY WILL QUIT IN THE MOST ANTI CLIMACTIC WAY POSSIBLE AND I'M JUST

😤

THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TSC RANT.

[septembersghost]

It sucks so bad that nobody can even breathe around or mention Taylor without dating rumors or feud rumors or whatever tf they want to make up today

i know, it's a tough thing fandom-wise to readjust to after years of not having to deal with the dating rumor mill (i forgot how much i hate it actually!), and the constant need to either attach her to someone or concoct narratives about interactions (especially the ones that just have to twist her into a villain in some way) is exhausting. do you remember on live lounge in 2019 where she "joked" about people overanalyzing everything she does to the point where it's hard for her to say hello without people going, why did she greet us like that? how come she said that? did she have a tone? what does this mean? it's an unfair paradigm that was foisted upon her and she's constantly had to try and deal with (and us by extension of seeing it).

[vertigoambrosia]

my husband is gone let's finish this depressing ass shit

oh man we're getting nobara's backstory she's in trouble...

i've seen fanart off her with an eyepatch so i think i know where this is going

but....tbh it seems like this series is kinda just pain this arc and forafter judging by people's reactions to the manga

wait

is she actually for real dead

are you serious

oh no more flashback this is not a good sign

LMAO MEGUMI PLS

he panik

oh ok no time to laugh we back to death

wait how tf can mahito use black flash?

i swear this dude is so stupid overpowered

fucking plot armor to the max

TODO

i have never been so happy to see this fucker

yuji :(

todo :)

oh thank god if someone says there's a slim chance a protagonist can live in an anime they def will nobara's not fucked!

HELL YEAH YUJI BLACK FLASH HIS ASS

FOR NANAMIN

oh this is sad but i am actually really happy that mechamaru and miwa got to talk to eachother one last time

bro you really think sukuna is gonna let you touch itadori's soul?

todo using the power of rainbows??? rainbow flash?

kinda gay lol

(i'm kidding that ruled)

ok fuck plot armor, mahito has straight up plot jutsu

like i honestly forgot how his powers work and do not understand why he can just keep doing shit

three episodes left!

god itadori and todo gotta like, rip this guy's jaw off or something i cannot stand to hear him speak another fucking word

like i don't even find the fight particularly interesting anymore at this point

the narration is kinda weird tbh it's always kind of an awkward device

oh great is todo dead too

um

what?

i have no idea what just happened but it ruled

oh yeah of course mahito has a new even better power

'an arm is merely a decoration' lmaooo todo

HELL YEAH

FUCKIN KILL HIM

YEAH BITCH YOU OUTTA MONSTERS

ohhh poor yuji kinda dead inside

is this yuji's domain expansion?

uh???????? what?

oh great we're gonna have to deal with lobotomy brain now? can't we just end this night?

lol of course kusakabe survived

oh now we gotta bring non-fantastical consequences like the economy into this???

choso not dead? i'm actually pretty interested in what's going on with him so i wouldn't mind seeing more of him

dammit if not-geto eats mahito does that mean he can use him again later? cause i never wanna see that bitch again

yes this is truly what i wanted. more curbstomp battles. more characters i know fucking dying. fantastic.

oh ok well at least the kyoto students aren't dead yet

??????????

ok this kind of explains some odd spoiler jokes i have seen..kinda?

fuck em up choso!!

(i am pretty sure he cannot defeat kumo pieceofshit because he is obviously the series villain, but still)

i both hate and love kusakabe

so ice lady works for kumo pieceofshit? man is this ever gonna end?

oh it's the person with the least emotional intelligence in all of the show

i guess i'll get to see her do something besides say all the wrong things to geto

man i hope choso doesn't die he's just gotta last one more episode!

damn japan really is cursed like that?

well now i just have no idea what is happening

or, honestly, what this asshole's goal actually is?

oh noooo megumi's sister

welp

man they really went full "nothing will ever be the same"

i think i might regret watching this

or at least the second season

yuta?

rika's still hanging around to help?

wait WHAT gojo is being blamed?

so i guess maki is dead and we're not even gonna acknowledge that?

and nothing on megumi or nobara?

what a fucking downer fuck this show

[monstermaster13]

TFs where it's just one character turning someone into a clone of themselves, looking at you tiger dancer tfs and that one time the dragon villain from Ring Fit Adventure got a lot of TF attention. Look I have no problem with these, but these are just arrogant to me. And this is coming from someone who does Dan Aykroyd character tfs. At least my were-aykroyds aren't obvious nazi wannabes unlike the tiger dancer ones.

'Zoinking'. Oh sure, you act like Zoinking is original but it's just a less horrifying way of saying 'brainwashed', it's just MC only it is the x-rated cut. 'you don't like zonking, get zonked idiot', more like get dum dumed because if those one of those people went up to me and tried to do it i'd turn them into a dum dum were-aykroyd to teach them how a happy transformation can be done without brainwashing.

'Balding'. As a general rule unless you are becoming a character who is naturally bald or a species that does not have any hair/fur in general you shouldn't be doing any balding/hair loss in transformations. I am sorry but if you have a kink for hair-loss you might have some serious problems and deserve to be thrown in an institution. I personally never got hair-loss in animal transformations and the same goes for teeth loss.

Hivemind transformations that don't make sense. For pete's sake, stop trying to enforce negative stereotypes of wolves by making them mindless hive-minded biggots who only exist to assimilate others into being their ilk, it is not cool, and as someone with more than one were-OC I am offended by this negative stereotype.

Jingoism based ones. I am sorry but Americans are typically overweight as they are, they don't need a weight gain fetish stapled into the mix, I am not into half-naked overly hairy nationalist anthro beast-men who think that everything great comes from America. Nationalism of any country is not something to be fetishized. I don't go around shoving Canadian stereotypes into my were-aykroyd stuff do I? Of course I don't.

Clothing TF. Imagine you are me and you are looking at a tf caption or photomanip of let's say Phoebe Cates in Fast Times At Ridgemont High, you immediately think 'awesome, somebody did a TG caption of someone into Phoebe Cates's character from that movie and recreated the iconic scene' only to find it's about someone turning into Phoebe Cates's swimsuit from that movie. 'Aaaaw come on, it's a stupid clothing TF? Why the hell did you just bait me using the image of sexy Phoebe Cates in that scene hoping I would think it's about someone becoming her only to pull this on me?'

British 'chav' type transformations. Yes, because all English/British people swear and smoke and act like soccer hooligans and that totally isn't a stereotype at all. Even if the author is from England themselves they should know better not to portray their own country like that.

Weight gain where it's all 'he got aroused by how fat he was growing', yes author or writer we know you have a fat fetish, stop shoving this crap in my face, I am not turned on by this, yes I liked weight gain in stories, but that was a phase I went through and I only like it if it's willing and happy and they can move and aren't a slob. Heck, my dum dum were-aykroyds are PARODIES of this exact type of weight gain, and they are better written than these because at least they are considered a 'joke' species in the main universe of my character.

Clown tfs where it just a just stereotypical clown. How is it that these unoriginal pieces of crap get a lot of attention and praise while my Spirit Halloween and Joker and Pennywise related works get nothing? Come on, I have almost done all of the Killer Klowns in TF form including Klownzilla and Krusty, I think that should be worth something. If you are just going to go to do a plain old stereotypical clown, screw you. Seriously? That's all it is, just a generic clown design? Booooring. Come back to me once you have done a Joker or Spirit Halloween clown tf.

Fat nerd stereotypes. Oh sure, all anime fans are overweight and are bad at sex, all nerds are bad at sex and have bad hygiene, that is totally not an untrue stereotype at all.

[syoddeye]

re (or i guess re re re) the ask you answered with mwiv predictions, the one thing i'm most (morbidly) curious about from any prospective future game(s) is wtf they could possibly be planning to do with makarov from this point on??

specifically his death bcs this might sound weird, but he's in kind of the same situation soap was? in that the character & plotline large parts of his story & especially the end of it was super reliant on has been completely deleted, so… i really can't even imagine where they could be going with this

their handling of makarov as a whole has been soo underwhelming (how tf do you make one of THE most iconic video game villains of all time so gd boring 😭) that i rly can't imagine it will be anything other than super annoying. judging by how they went about rewriting soap's death to fit the new timeline, they'll probably just have this whole plot end with him getting hit by a completely unrelated bus offscreen or something lol

at this point, my only hope is that they somehow manage to find some reason to incorporate the 09 game's 1st person pov scene of being interrogated by an angry price 🤞

hi hi. i wish i knew. i can’t speak on the og makarov, but i find reboot mak underwhelming too.

which is a pity because from the start, they introduce him as a puppetmaster, with all of his planning and management of konni from the gulag. (evil type As, am i right? i am half-joking.) he has potential, but all i’m getting is pithy one-liners and a dude that seems way too hands-on for my liking. not that he should be at a desk or wholly removed from the action, but what’s the point of having hundreds of people at your disposal, people who seem to revere you as an almost religious icon, if you’re going to be boots on the ground all the time? ANYWAY. that’s just me.

i DO think he’ll have a more meaningful death than soap. 1) because with any hope activision/infinity ward listened to *some* criticism and decided major character deaths going forward need razzle dazzle. 2) narratively, i feel like they'll give players the satisfaction of stomping him like a bug and then grinding him into the pavement. and not just the players, but the remaining members of 141. 

if they incorporate a 1st person pov of price interrogating the player, i will not be held responsible for the shrieking you hear from the center of the united states or the absolutely disgusting fic that will flow from my keyboard.

[amarriageoftrueminds]

i don't get how some ppl have such short memories for the creative decisions marvel makes

people saying that james gunn(??) should write Bucky bc of rocket's arc in gotg3... did they forget that we already know what gunn's thoughts on Bucky and his autonomy are? none of them were remotely good, and it also involved rocket and his ableist running joke of wanting to dismember amputees replacement limbs off. marvel would rather humanize a raccoon than a human who was tortured and enslaved by nazis.

or how people will rightfully criticize all the available info feige puts out re: Thunderbolts for calling Bucky a villain... but then turn around and preeptively praise that he might have "long" hair (the WS cut) so out wondering why marvel keeps putting Bucky in winter soldier style designs whenever they villainize him again. it happens in both comics and mcu consistently. obviously those in charge want to keep him as the WS villain role and not progress his character and don't care why people liked the WS story (the development it set up)

or how some complain that Sam was unkind and victimblamey towards Bucky in tfatws, I feel like those got too into fanon!Sam that made him a therapist bc of his veteran work, but Sam re: Bucky started out wanting him to be put down like a dog, and consistently complained about Steve treating Bucky with kindness and empathy. fatws Sam wasn't OOC, he was always a military man whose empathy never extended towards the POW captured by Nazis and always regarded him as a potential threat that he has to tolerate, that was in character. the actual fault is the mcu not exploring the dynamic a super patriotic US military man not extending empathy towards a a ww2 vet for fought nazis only for said nazis to be hired by the US a lá Project Paperclip, but LBR the disney-owned and USDoD-funded marvel studios is not financially incentivized to delve into those topics in any way that doesn't ultimately end with "woo, Captain Amurrica, red white and blue stars and stripes, stand for the flag wooo! ignore anything close to critical in this project and embrace patriotic centrism!"

I already hate how long the last one got but another thing:

the way that Steve's mother and his Irish heritage (during the early 1900s which makes it more significant in that point in history) are given to shine, we don't even know her maiden name, even the story of Steve's father and how it's supposed to parallel Steve going to fight European fascism in both world wars, none of that gets any attention bc marvel as a franchise cares more abt the generic patriotism to dive into the characters

There's never enough talk about how post-CATWS mcu demoted Bucky from titular character and arguable secondary protagonist as a foil and parallel for Steve, be his alternate supersoldier/superhero journey based on who the world chose to lionized and who to exploit in the seedy underbelly and shady deals w nazis, but post-CATWS mcu (specifically CACW) robbed Steve of the chance to have Steve's (not Cap's, Steve's) character be explored.

Becayse why tf does that terrorizing billionaire have more screentime on what is (nominally) a sequel to Steve and Bucky's movie? We learn more about tony's annoying ass billionaire parents in a desperate attempt for pity than we do about either Bucky or Steve's families… the most we get is a name drop of Steve and Bucky reunion scenes that were clearly cut short if you compare them to the trailers of the movie.

the russos are branded as hacks (and maybe this is me still being bitter as an OG cacw-hater) but after they revealed in interviews that they kept re-editing and re-shooting civil war until half of test audiences sided with tony, that should've been where they were forever banned from filmmaking. that's not making a movie, that's making a product to sell action figures (unfortunately true for most of marvel if we're honest)

"Captain America: the Winter Soldier" nay have listed them by their titles, but that movie is pretty much the only time we see Bucky and Steve as characters most of the time, it's literally the only own with flashbacks to their relationship before the war, before "Captain America" even existed, to where it was just Bucky and Steve.

the vast majority of the marvel franchise treats them as only "Cap" and "Winter Soldier" their actual characters get lost by "creatives" who only have a superficial understanding of them as just two types of action figures to collect, they don't know Steve or Bucky, so we get sequels constantly about "Bucky's a killer robot who must be browbeat at every turn" and "Steve's most important thing in his life is the cap shield and legacy" as if their stories weren't centered around how Bucky was NOT the killer robot and in fact Steve's damn-near guardian angel character before the war and even during (literally killing nazis before they could touch Steve) and as if Steve didn't throw away the shield and Captain America title in each of his movies in favor of what's actually important to him: his oldest protector and the one he wants to protect in return, Bucky.

marvel doesn't even understand Bucky and Steve, they treat them as WS & CA, even though their core canon never showed them caring about the "legacy" and patriotism, it was always incidental at best or an obstacle that gets in the way. the most patriotism was in catfa, but it was always a mantle forced into Steve and his hero team (Howling Commandos) were purposefully diverse and non-American majority recommended by Bucky when Steve joined Bucky in the war to fight nazis. But now marvel wants to retcon in this stuff with lines like Bucky calling Hydra "my people" instead of his oppressors and torturers like they actually were, and storylines about how the patriotic legacy and shield are Steve's whole identity instead of Bucky speaking up and pointing out that none of the other characters actually knew Steve, they only knew "Cap" and "Mr. America" and that Steve literally abandoned the shield as his last public choice with it, so none of it even is his legacy at all.

the sheer gall of (in defense of infinitywar/endgame's BS) people claimed that Bucky would finally get focus again in tfatws, but in the end, only catws gave us flashback scenes of Bucky (and Steve!) before the war before the superhero stuff, meanwhile the d+ show didn't even acknowledge that Bucky's direct family's kids are 1000% alive (he had a big family!) and heard of the real uncle Bucky, and instead the show claimed that Bucky is closest to HYDRA… the ones who tortured him into a mindslave… and he said it to a government mandated therapist (institutionalization by the state) who works for the same government who had the hydra-nazis on payroll and funded Bucky's torture…

no one at marvel even gave a thought about Bucky's family or the direct fault the gov has in his abuse.. no one on screen points out that the state that's institutionalizing him as a felon literally owes him reparations. they could've done a storyline relating to other IRL groups and family descendants who are owed reparations for the USA's domestic and international crimes and how Bucky is a similar case, but instead it's about how Bucky has no family that he was violently imprisoned from and how he's the one at fault and how the government mandated oversight says Bucky should be apologizing for what they funded

Bucky has so many blatant similarities with victims and descendants of IRL state human rights abuses that those states refuse to recognize, but marvel isn't willing to frame in a way that makes the US look bad because they're too busy being patriotic and "respecting the shield" and flag symbols and "legacy" and pretending like the shield is so so so important to Bucky or Steve and retcon out the parts where the shield and the captain america stuff was discarded easily at the emotional climax of each of the first 3 movies in favor of protecting what actually mattered more: each other….

but patriotism tho, the new Cap & WS who replaced Bucky & Steve are too patriotic to point out that the government literally owes their (cuz both ssr/shield & hydra were agencies by them) their two most famous supersoldier experimental test subjects a lot of money and apologies for a long laundry list of reasons

[elfelt-valentine]

you will regret this /j

generally my attitude has changed a lot for the way fandom goes about characters i care about (i just don't engage and stay in my lane), but even then i still want to see others create and fill in the gaps in the story, especially of a character like Pharma and hellhole like Delphi, and what still disappoints me is that many people see his manic state and just......... start applying it to him as his personality as-is. i cannot stand his portrayal as being willing partner of tarn, i cannot stand him being portrayed as a self-assured villain when even in text it gets pretty obvious that he really, really wasn't.

the thing with mtmte as a story is that it is interested in telling the reader that nothing is black and white (even though it still fails sometimes imo- including the case with Pharma), and extremes to which the characters personalities are warped by fandom is not Pharma-only issue. It's not even a tf fandom specific issue.

Pharma in no way is a good person. Not in a "evil" way, but in a way that he's not perfect by large margin, and the entire story with Pharma and Delphi was more of a mild horror story to me than anything else. Because we see not just the villain reveal and hint at the actual evil behind it, we see characters we're supposed to like act inappropriately (How Ratchet Got His Hands Back)

Pharma was a victim. Does it make what he did right or excusable? Of course not. But it is a clear decline in his character where he just gets worse as he gets less and less freedom in actions and agency. He's a "control freak". Of course he was going to go nuts.

We have no reason to believe he would've acted any way discriminatory (something i see very often.... take is not as offensive considering ratchets internalized functionistic views but it gets kind of ridiculous sometimes), offensive or somehow belittling people around him. For all we know he was not that different from Ratchet - just more uptight and controlling. There's so much more to be said about what their friendship was. But i swear it was not worth it if Pharma was always an ignorant, insufferable cunt.

Its not even that i dont enjoy jokes and lighthearted treatment of characters wrongs but not when its their entire portrayal and personality.

I'm not going to ask or force people to view him the exact same way i do (it is also pretty much a headcanon! we dont know enough about him prior to the events at delphi or luna 1! im just making my own conclusions!), but i also wish his character was taken more seriously. he's not a murderer for sake of murder, he's a professional who was forced into the lose-lose situation where he made wrong choices. he's not a soldier, or a strategist, he's not particularly smart, he just wanted survival and be able to continue doing his job after having done something so horrible. and after it didnt work out? what else did he have to lose? he continued falling and ratchet didnt help it at all.

genuinely cannot talk about the way pharma is treated by fandom without coming off as fun hating loser but its boiling. its boiling so hard

[lariskapargitay]

Encanto characters and their favorite Disney movies.

Alma- Snow White. First off, in canon, she would have been there for the very first Disney movie and it would have been ‘magic’ and amazing and reminded her of her youth. The prince gets the princess, the witch gets defeated, death can be defeated with true loves kiss, they get to go live in a magic castle in the clouds at the end with her true love after she was kicked out of her home by a villain… She would stan tf out of Snowwhite and she doesn’t care how old she is, she always gets teary eyed at the end

Pepa- Sleeping Beauty. Pepa may love dancing to traditional Colombian music but she also loves the ballet and she recognizes the music which is why she loves this movie so much. Plus it’s one of their classic love stories and she has a huge soft spot for it. Also the spindle scene used to TERRIFY her to the point the first time little five years old Pepa watched it she sobbed and had to hide her face and sleep in Alma’s bed for a week straight and Bruno would freak her tf out just by going ‘touch the spindle… touch it I say!’ And even as an adult she hates that stupid ass creepy line (which definitely isn’t me reliving my own trauma and passing it onto my fave)

Julieta- Aristocats. I have no idea, don’t even ask. She just looks like she would just like that suave jazzy music (and a movie where a loving devoted mother of three gets to star in her own romance with a guy who doesn’t really fit in? *click click*)

Bruno- *inserts obligatory Ratatouille movie joke* But honestly? Wall-E. He just loves the idea of that weird oddball adorkable little robot saving the day (plus it sorta fits into his oddball ness that while his sisters like the more classic animation, he likes the newer movies)

Agustín- Toy Story. Honestly? There’s no deeper meaning then just thinks it’s funny and cute. He is not ashamed to admit he cried at the third one.

Félix- Also sleeping beauty for no other reason then he gets to see his wife tear up even at fifty years old at the happy ending

Isabela- When she was little she pretended it was Beauty and the Beast. Now that she gets to be imperfect she can admit she loves Atlantis. A sorta unpopular not really ‘romantic’ movie that’s more action adventure then romantic and adorable

Dolores- Her favorite really IS Beauty and the Beast. The classic romance, the songs, the girl with the oddball parent no one in town really likes getting the guy in the end, the sheer perfection that is in every single frame and line… She wore both the soundtrack and the tape OUT when she was a little girl and there’s definitely photographic evidence out there of little Dolores in her mothers yellow dress reenacting the big ballroom scene

Luisa- Lady and the Tramp. Idk why I headcanon Luisa loving dogs and puppies but she does. Also adorable dogs falling in love? What’s more soft and joyful and relaxing than that? 🥺

Camilo- Dramatic theatre kid ass that he is? Is literally anyone doubting that it’s Aladdin? At all? No? Good. (Also he may or may not have based his WDTAB Bruno off his favorite Disney villain just to freak tf out of Mirabal)

Mirabel- Lilo and Stich. First off, we stan non-typical looking Disney heroines. But also the oddball girl who has no powers but the power of being fucking awesome and cool as shit saving the day? She loves it so much

Antonio- Lion King. Mainly for the animals but also Pepa and Félix are about to throw their phones because of how much they have to play ‘can you feel the love tonight’ whenever they’re in the car with him. He may or may not have refused to stop hugging Félix for a good hour after *THAT* scene

[faeflowerz]

Happy Birthday Malleus Draconia 🐉

I am super backed up on my character reflections but i wanted to give translators some time to put out the stories. Thankfully, someone roughly translated Mal's union ssr. It's enough for me to go off of since i doubt there will be too much conflict.

Anyway, Malleus is kind of the mascot of Twst. He's the one who gets to be hyped up like he's going to be important. And i think it's kind of true. Maleficent is the favorite of Disney's villains IP. She's pretty wicked awesome and I think that mantle carried over to Malleus.

Here we go!

I remember oomf said that they were a little bothered by Malleus because hes TOO op with very little effort. They said the same about Leona, but let's stick with Mal. What we are forgetting is that he's a prince and learning magic is vital to his duty. Unlike Leona, he's going to be king. He's got a duty to set an example for his people and country. Plus, hes at least 1k years old so we aren't going to see him train. Personally, I cant tell if that's a good or bad thing. A weak Malleus is something i would have liked to see, but a bumbling prince would be a bad mascot.

Malleus has big shoes to fill. It's a burden that I think he hasn't realized yet. He says that he's not particularly 'good' in any subject, and to all of us, he seems to be skilled. In fact, Malleus seems to have skipped some of the arrogance that Leona has. His blunt statements about his power is a mere fact to him. He's powerful. He could literally have anyone any dorm he wants with very little effort. Malleus has the skills but not the experience to be like any of the other leaders. That's what makes him different. That's his weakness.

What i mean is that Malleus was extremely sheltered. It seems like being in public is new to him. Yes, he's old like Lilia but unlike Lilia, he spent most of his time in his homeland. The only life he lived was inside a castle. He wasn't severely monitored like Riddle, Lived in a shadow like Leona, bullied like Azul, and so on. Malleus is just himself, which is kind of innocent. Even when he talks about humans, he's fascinated by our culture, even our celebration of mortality. Yuu is one of the few humans who never heard of him and in turn is unafraid of him. Mal is pure in human terms.

Ignihyde is perfect for Malleus. Since he seems like a super traditional guy, he would learn a lot about technology and strengthen that part of his repertoire. In terms of a leadership battle, he'd most likely lose. Hear me out: you need to have really specific qualifications to be a representative of the dorm youre in. Malleus may be able to beat Riddle, but his personality would be too conflicting. He's not as picky as Riddle nor does he have a strict adherence to the Queen's rules. By that logic, Malleus would be SOL if he was the leader of Ignihyde. Idia's competitive where it counts and he would show off his skills not for others, but because it'd be a game for him. Innovation is the main component to Igni so Idia would be the only one who can get it done fast...as long as you don't give him an old Tamagotchi.

Let me just take a moment to gush about the cute little things about Malleus. Yes. I am deadass.

💚 he likes ice cream because he loves the cold feeling in his mouth. I would guess that he eats it way more often than he should.

💚 why tf does he have a big gargoyle in his room? Where did he get it? Does it have a name?

💚 he hates cake bc he doesn't like to eat it alone

💚 Hes a Capricorn which comes through in how he carries himself. Caps want respect but not attention. He's pretty lowkey despite his sociable nature.

💚 hes very cheeky. I like that you cant tell when hes joking about stuff.

💚 Hes the father of my children

Ok enough playing around. What do i want to see from him going forward? I want a challenge. Malleus is physically capable of surviving tons of shit, but it doesn't seem he's met his match. But that isnt to say that he cant be bested. I think his family is his weakness. Capricorns aren't known for their mushy sentimentality, but it doesn't mean that they don't have a soft spot. Seb and Silver don't seem to understand him quite as well as Lilia does (Lilia's post coming next) but having him around gives them time to bond. I want to see more of that too. The boys nearly idolize him to various degrees and as they see him in casual situations, it will make the heartbreak even more devastating.

It's the little things that Malleus does that make him popular in the fandom. We don't really KNOW him, but we get glimpses of him. His mysterious nature is accidental. Even as I write this, I realize how much I do like him as much as I love Maleficent (even as Kristen Chenoweth and Angelina Jolie). Chapter 7 better be 💯

Happy Birthday Malleus Draconia 🐉💚

[smart-and-dumb]

Amphibia Incorrect Quotes; Part 6

[Wedding]

Marcy: I do.

Guests: Oooo.

Marcy: Or do I?

Guests: OOOO-

Sasha: Tf are you doing??

Marcy: Building suspense before the otp becomes canon-

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[season 3

Anne: They're trying to lure me into a false sense of security. Well jokes on them!

Anne: I've never been secure in my life-

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Hop Pop: I think I forgot something.

Sprig: If you forgot, then it wasn’t important.

Hop Pop: Yeah, you’re right

Polly in the Walmart parking lot across town: >=(

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Marcy: -and those are my 20 theories on how Creatures & Caverns canon lore would make a better government than we have today.

Therapist: Let's talk about your social life.

Marcy: No uwu

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Anne: Remember how we fell asleep so we missed Santa Claus coming and cried? Man, being 7 was weird.

Marcy: I won't be missing Santa this year.

Marcy: [Loads cross bow]

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Anne: I think I'm making good progress on my fear of ghosts.

Therapist: That's the spirit!

Anne: wHERE?!

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Villain, holding Polly hostage: Give us 10,000 coppers and we'll give her back

Polly, offended: You think I'm only worth 10,000 coppers?!

Villain: What?

Polly: Give me that.

Polly: [Takes megaphone]

Polly: MAKE IT ONE BILLION COPPERS!

Sprig, outside: POLLY, SHUT THE FUCK UP!

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Anne: How are we going to get in without anyone noticing?

Sprig: Don't worry, I'm a master at stealth.

Sprig: [Blows the front gate up with a bomb]

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Marcy: Sasha and I decided you remind us of the ocean.

Anne: Because I'm deep and mysterious?

Sasha: Because you're salty and scare people

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Marcy: hey can I sit here?

Anne:

Anne: that's my lap-

Marcy: that doesn't answer my question, Anne!

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[Telling the girlfriends goodnight]

Anne: goodnight! Love you

Marcy: aw Love you too!

Anne: G'night. Love you!

Sasha: I love me too [already asleep]

Anne:

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Sprig: tell me something worse than heart break?

Sasha: when you wake up in the morning and find out that your phone wasn’t charging

Marcy: when you wake up in the morning

Anne: when you wake up

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Hop Pop: Treat spiders the way you wanted to be treated.

Anne: Killed without hesitation.

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Anne: how do you spell 'orange'?

Sasha: the fruit or the color?

Marcy:

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Hop Pop: I'm a confident dancer

Anne: you kicked Grime in the face-

Hop Pop: CoNfIdenTlY

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Anne, clinging onto Marcy: mine

Marcy: craft

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Anne: I'm not the brightest tree in the apple but grapes are delicious.

Marcy:

Marcy: what-

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Sasha, to Grime: do you support gay rights?

Grime: I'm gay

Percy: HE'S AVOIDING THE QUESTION!

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Sasha: Just so you know, if you end up in prison I’m not waiting for you.

Anne: You won’t have to. I’ll escape. We both know this.

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Sasha: [wears a slightly lighter shade of black]

Anne: I see you’re bursting out the spring colors.

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[Reunion]

Grime: How do you plead?

Hop Pop: [looks at Anne]

Anne: [mouths “not guilty”]

Hop Pop: Hot milky.

Anne, bangs head on desk: For fuck's sake, just lock him up.

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Anne: I get really nervous when Marcy compliments me. I don’t know what to say.

Marcy: You look good today.

Anne: Happy birthday.

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Polly: In my defense, I was left unsupervised.

Hop Pop: Wasn’t Anne with you?

Anne: In my defense, I was left unsupervised, too.

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Anne: I eat cheerios because they’re heart-healthy and my heart has been severely damaged…

Anne: …so Marcy...Sasha if you’re out there-

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Marcy and Anne: [staring into each others eyes]

Sasha: [opens soda can]

Anne: We’re having a moment.

Sasha: I’m having a cola.

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Anne: So are you the big spoon or the little spoon?

Sasha: I’m the knife.

Marcy, from across the room: She’s the little spoon.

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Sasha: I’m such an idiot.

Anne:

Sasha:

Anne:

Sasha:

Anne: I love you, but if you’re waiting on me to disagree with you, it’s gonna be a long night.

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Hop Pop: Do you want to tell me how you guys crashed Bessie?

Marcy: Well, we were driving and there was this deer in the middle of the road that apparently Anne didn’t see, so I shouted, “Marcy, deer!”

Anne:

Marcy: Do you want to tell Hop Pop how you responded?

Anne:

Anne: “Yes, honey?"

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Anne: Weird, all my jackets keep on disappearing.

Sprig, wearing Anne’s jacket: Spooky.

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Anne, frantically: Have you seen my girlfriends? I lost them in the crowd.

Someone: What do they look like?

Anne, sobbing: BEAUTIFUL.