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Doodles post two

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3 (if it's not too much!), 24, 25, and 29

3. list your fandoms and one character from each that you identify with. 

for p5 it’s ryuji, we talked abt that yesterday :D idk like me, he’s very energetic and sometimes he accidentally says shit he shouldn’t say, but he cares a lot about the people he loves and i’m like... same hat ... same hat..!!! for ffxv it was always prompto, i know it’s kinda cliché but i really know how it feels when you want your friends to be happy all the time so you try to cheer them up by making jokes n shit :( like that scene in chapter 10 where he’s like ‘’you guys wanna see my pictures?’’ and noct says no he’s upset because he just wants to lift the mood D: other than that I Just Love Him sjdhgksh :D for loz there’s not rly a character i identify with per se? link does cheer me up at any given moment so there’s that :D

24. have you ever felt like you had a “mind-meld” with someone?

YEAH WITH YOU SJHGKSHGK like we really are very similar interest-wise but also in the way we think abt stuff?  there’s a reason we keep having to thank noctis and our Brain Cell shgksjhgk

25.  could you live as a hermit?

ooooo that is very interesting! (is it bad my mind went to futaba immediately jskdhgks WAIT IMLISTENING TO THE DAYS WHEN MY MOTHER WAS THERE FUCK-) i’m not sure honestly! i do like being alone sometimes to like recharge my social battery? i don’t mind being on my own at all, but i’m a very social person i think, and my friends are very important to me ;_; so even though my social battery runs out pretty fast, i do need that social aspect of life. i think i’d go crazy without any human interaction sjghskjdgh

29. three songs that you connect with right now.

these are only persona songs cuz i’m on a p5 kick rn but yeah :D colors flying high (this is the 2 minute version, i’ve never heard the full version and even though it’s on youtube i’m ignoring the shit out of it because i wanna be surprised when playing sngkjsgk) battle hymn of the soul cuz it goes so... hard.... last but not least the ssbu remix of the HSGHSKJHGKJ JRHH HS ORRY I JUST STARTED THE SONG ITS SOOO OGODO aria of the soul (ﾉ≧∀≦)ﾉ (ﾉ≧∀≦)ﾉ I HEARD IT FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS MORNING AND HOLY FUCKING SHIT BRO the piano !!!!! the drums!!!!!! im going buckwild!!!!!!!!!!! THHEH O THE GUITAR@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

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A Dream I Had

This took place in a Miraculous x X-men crossover kinda thing, I don’t know any X-men characters really but there were a bunch of people with mutant powers.

I was Chat Noir.

Not like the nice Chat Noir either, Ladybug died in the beginning of the dream and I went to the dark side hard. Changed weapons to these two curved, green and black colored blades, I grew hooves instead of feet for some reason, and I spent the first but of the dream fighting the good guys and hiding, Splinter Cell style.

By good guys I mean a bunch of people who had mutant powers on the airship I was on that, to my dream logic, were good guys just because. Oh yeah, and airship.

After a while of being a bad guy I found a guy on the airship who was worse. Won’t go into details but he did some really messed up stuff (slightly worried about my psyche, honestly). Witnessing this stuff I wanted to be a good guy again. I tipped them off and they all showed up ready for a fight, and I dropped my weapons, which lead them to paws for a minute. I explained that I wanted to be good now, naturally they didn’t trust me at all. One of them accused me of some of the awful thing’s I’d done, and I immediately chopped off one of my feet in ‘penance’ I think.

Anyway the dream jumpcut from there to a sort of training montage of my trying to win over the goodies, meanwhile the airship starts to fail to the point where it’s still flying but we won’t be able to make it home type deal. I become a good guy, still untrusted but called upon because I was powerful and stuff (main character, obv. C’mon, bad brain, better storytelling).

We confronted the really bad guy, who ended up holding someone in a hostage situation on the edge of the airship deck and eventually jumping with them, killing them both and further damaging the airship on the way down (out of spite I guess). Grieving moment with sad music that is quickly interrupted because the airship is going down in ernest now and we’re high above the mountains somewhere.

Se we rig up this massive raft with a parachute sort of thing and get everyone on so we can try and float to safety. We end up barely making it to the peak of some mountain before the raft breaks apart, all leaping off and grabbing on to the mountain to try and stay alive, very action movie. It was very hard to breathe.

We start walking/climbing down the mountain, and jumpcut to us finding a large temple-like building with a road beyond it that has a few cars driving on it. ‘Yay, we’re saved!’ we think, we were running out of food at this point and were tired and stuff, yaknow. Then we see a two-deep line of people running at us, and we go to greet them, next thing you know it’s an ambush and half of us are frozen in time.

During the dream I knew exactly what everyone’s powers were but of course I can’t remember them all now. But on the ‘enemy’ side there was someone with Timebreaker powers, someone with Vanisher powers that extended to anything they touched and willed to vanish, someone who could absorb/expel extreme elements like blizzards or lava, there was someone who could short-range teleport, someone who was like an alchemist or something, and many others, probably 15 of them.

On our side there was someone with a bow made of ice, several knife throw-y type guys, someone with a very flimsy-looking staff in the shape of the white tree of Gondor motif that would emit a stream of flame, I don’t remember them as well but there were about 25 of us. :/

Anyway ambush starts right as we’re entering the temple with Timebreaker freezing someone in time, jumping back in time, freezing someone else, jumping back, and so on. They froze about half of us in the span of maybe ten seconds before someone managed to stick a knife in their throat. Then the real fight started and all hell broke loose. It was exactly like the X-men movies where it’s just a huge punch-up and everyone fights whomever is is in front of them because everyone is running around so much.

I killed Vanisher by figuring out how their powers worked. I killed the teleporter by predicting where they would be and throwing a knife to intersect with it. The entire fight was like that, just like an X-men movie with certain people figuring out and exploiting the weaknesses of others.

The fight lasts about three minutes. Towards the end of it there were three of us left against five of them. I was fighting the extreme element lady who was taunting me about having killed so many of us. I was holding the staff that shot flames from the dead lady on my side in one hand (having lost one of my swords at some point) to help against the extreme element person. I ended up severely injuring her by trapping her in her own lava, at which point the leader of the enemy (who had some kind of hammer possibly a la Thor) grabbed her and started to retreat with the two others who were still standing. The enemy alchemist lady was on the floor injured, and threw a potion at them right before I killed her that sent out a pink spatial distortion and made them disappear.

The rest of the dream was the sort of slow, disbelieving walk around the carnage. Like that slow-mo scene from every action movie ever after the heroes have lost and inevitably someone falls to their knees and holds their face in their hands (spoiler that person was me in this dream). We’d torn up the temple real well but it was still standing, a lot of us were frozen with slight expressions of alarm, slowly fading into nothingness. Left alive were a bunch of civilians from the airship who’d been a fair bit back during the fight, and two other superpowered people from the airship.

And then I woke up.

And that was what my brain got up to in my half-hour nap.

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Monster High Electrified!: Review

The digital version of Electrified was released this week so you know what that means! it’s review time!

Massive Spoilers and in depth analysis under the cut! This is our second movie into the reboot friends, I will not be as lenient as I was in my review of Welcome to Monster High. And as of writing this we do not know if we are getting a fall movie so I expect Mattel to have their stuff together by this stage in the game.

Ready? Steady? GO!

5 second in...I’m annoyed That has got to be some kind of record. Draculaura starts off by summarizing WTMH which I’m fine with - the part I take issue with is her opening statements.

“I’m Draculaura! and I’m a monster! but don’t be afraid! we’re not what you think! we’re nice and normal and weird too!”

...This sentence right here is exactly the type of watering down of the Monster High franchise that pre-boot Monster high fans feared from the very beginning. Monster Highs original mission statement was “be Yourself! Be Unique! be a Monster!” love and accept those around you despite their flaws and differences. Draculauras statements here are more along the lines of “don’t be scared of us because we are exactly like you” - which depending on how you look at it could be really profound or really sad. I’m choosing to look at it from the sad perspective because it erases the need to love and understand those different from yourself. But at the same time I understand the messages “we’re all the same!” - which sounds profound on paper, but I feel like it can be easily misinterpreted as “what if they’re nothing like me? then can I be afraid of them?” I feel like the reboot so far has muddied the message it wants to share with Monster High... You can be normal or you can be weird- but you can’t be both but darn it is Mattel isn’t trying to have it both ways. Weird by definition isn’t normal.

HA! hahhahaa! This dude tried to catch a running wolf with his bare hands, no ropes or chains or a cage he’s just gonna reach and grunt. What was he expecting? was he just gonna pick up a fully grown apex predator by the scruff and just tote her back to the rest of the mob? hahahahaah!!!!

Our first real look at Silvi and I’m still kind of underwhelmed by her design TBH. grey skin, blue eyes, blue hair- I can’t think of any character we’ve had like that before. They could have gone all out and made her really wolfy! dark grey with patterns! But the went the safest most boring route they could have with her and it shows. We’ve had 5 new characters released since the reboot and all of them have had either familiar color schemes or boring color schemes.

These are the flesh colors of the 5 new characters we’ve gotten since the reboot began.

I would have also included their webisode colors as well as their 3-D movie colors, but Zomby Gaga and Dayna do not have 3-D counterparts and none of them but Ari have webisode counterparts because what are webisodes? sounds like a made up concept.

I am bored with this color pallet. The first five Monster High girls in the pre-boot gave us browns, pinks, blues, greens. So far the reboot has given us- grey and more grey and grey with shimmer and purple grey - TECHNICALLY Ari is white but they gave her a pink shimmer so I’m counting her as the pink grey. Dayna is the only one who stands out as GOLD which computers have a hard time translating metallics but she stands out against the other ghouls. I am over this pastel color muted with grey skin tone thing Mattel is doing with these new ghouls, I’m ready for some dark colors, I’m ready for some earth tones, I’m ready for some neon. Treesa Thornwillow cannot get here soon enough but even she has her own problems (like this bizarre brown skin/pink hair combo Mattel has been doing with her, Ginger Breadhouse and Howleen but that’s another rant entirely)... Silvi is cute...but what else?

Mattel:

Okay, Sorry I had to get that out- back to the movie.

The ghouls doing their best Charlies Angels / Ginyu force impersonation.

Clawdeens brilliant plan was to distract the normies who are looking for a wolf- by turning into another wolf and then returning to that same location... I wonder why that plan didn’t work.

Frankie being a super genius wouldn’t bother me so much if they didn’t take Ghoulia’s main character trait away from her and then demote Frankie to second banana. Are you smart? you like science? guess what! we’re giving your main character status to the cute pink frilly one, sorry for your luck Frankie.

Also: man that Mad Science class sure is missing- a teacher. if only they would hire more staff besides Dracula and Clawdeens Mom.

Lines like this are why I love Moanica D’kay. she’s not nice but she’s not wrong.

This is the new foyer? it’s so...bright, cheerful and average looking.

Twyla being visibly uncomfortable while being adopted by extroverts is the best part of the movie so far.

Ari why aren’t you in class? or at Lunch? do you just give daily concerts instead of having lunch? do ghosts not need to eat in this universe?

These dorks are starting a band...I can’t wait to see where this goes.

I need more into on that Metallic green fishboy and the confused brown werecat boy stat.

I’m very happy to see the reboot animators have a solid handle on Venus’s teeth... her previous iterations never had any consistency they always fluctuated from incorrect (Venus’s coffin bean art and her weird upper tusk teeth) or just not there. (most of her webisode appearances just omitted her teeth whenever her mouth was open) or just gave her normal teeth like everyone else (her 3-D appearances)  The red blush on her green cheeks is a weird color choice: I think in an attempt to make the ghouls look more cute Mattel is giving everybody red or pink blush- Frankie, Rochelle & Abbey all have it in their dolls and it stands out so much against their multi colored flesh in a bad way, Blush is supposed to be blood showing up though your flesh & if Venus is a plant creature her blood should be green: so in theory her blush should also be green just maybe a darker shade.

I am 100% here for Moanica to get a Spanish bad ghoul theme song while she causes trouble... I was gonna bust them earlier for the dramatic Spanish guitar music sting when she appeared but upon reflection I would rather have Mattel pound in that she is Puerto Rican to the point of redundancy than to have it left vague enough for people to go “she’s not REALLY Hispanic- she just speaks Spanish...not every person who speaks Spanish is Hispanic!” Because if you followed me throughout my black history month postings you will know we do have fans that are in some kind of next level denial when it comes to any character who isn’t overtly white... so go a head Mattel - pound it IN.

Metallic fish boy needs glasses to read! I love him. But isn’t he like the third or forth sea manster we’ve had with a fin mohawk? it’s a cute hair style Mattel but you’re milking it why no spiky urchin hair? or eel gorgon? or sea anemone dreads? there are SO many options you could have for sea boy hair styles! but y’all are married to this fin mohawk thing.

At least this backgrounder fishboy is a unique color and not blue/teal. though green is kind of Deuces thing.

I take issue with Clawdeen’s big dream changing from running her own fashion designing empire - to opening a salon. Not only did it take all the power away from her- making stylish clothing vs. waiting on humans hand and foot. I feel like it’s just a bit stereotypical that the one main canonically black character we have wants to open a beauty salon...and yes I realize that just about every doll franchise has a salon line... but did it have to be Clawdeen? I feel like whoever is in charge of handling Clawdeen in the reboot needs to watch more Shark Tank and watch less Barber Shop. How did we go from Clawdeens Fashion Entrepreneur's Club fashion pack & her Moanatella Ghostier fashion designer internship - yaknow the entire plot of Scaris: the city of frights...to “I wanna open a salon!” how did we fall so far??? Maybe I’m reading too far into it but this rubs me the wrong way & usually if something skeeves you out it’s for a good reason.

I also wanna add that she states her reason for wanting to design in the first place is because she lived in a “dark dingy den with no style or art” - then why is her mother teaching art at this school!? How does Clawdeen already know how to draw!? If Clawdeen had no exposure to art and fashion before she transferred to Monster high then shouldn’t she be new to all of this? is her mom even qualified to teach art at a school if she didn’t allow it in her home? This plot point has so many holes in it.

“My family built the pyramids!”... Cleo, somebody lied to you...I guess it’s not PC to say tens of thousands of Hebrew slaves built the pyramids despite the fact that's taught in 4th grade history. Because of this scene I’m giving everyone homework tonight- go watch The Prince of Egypt.

“Being creative is hard, You have to open up your heart and show it to all the world!...painful, yes. But joyful too! I believe in you! you just need to believe in you too! You can’t rush great art!”

As a creative person, knowing this movie was made by other creative persons I have to say that this is excellent advice and sounds very much to me like this voice of experience. Listen to Mama wolf gang! her words are wise ones!

It is really distracting that Clawdeen has like 500 eyelashes but Harriet only has one... That aside- this moment between them was very cute and well done. More Monster Parent interactions please!

I thought the entire purpose of getting Twyla to spy on the Zomboys was to find out stuff no one else could due to her shadow walker ability - but here she is taking  a picture of them in the foyer out in public where everyone is and can see, they’re not exactly being discreet hauling a wheel barrow though the building in the middle of the day.

Frankie Ex Machina. I was going to bust this scene for not being like the graphic novel but it was exactly like the graphic novel. Finally some consistency Mattel! I am impressed!

Oh look! it’s Gob! being fat and greedy again... dog nabbit when will I be free from him!? I don’t care if he’s just doing it because Twyla asked him too. We all know he’s gonna eat the treats anyways because that’s what he is, a one dimensional fat joke and I can’t stand him! he’s even worse in this movie because he always has food floating around in his fat naked body....side note: why is he naked!?

Am I supposed to believe that a couple of undead teenage boys built this intricate tunnel system underground over the course of a couple of days?  I am?...okay, moving on.

.... Oh come ON.

At what point are they crossing the line of “lil bros helping out!” to exploiting child labor...

Those dresses are boring as heck Clawdeen, I expect better from you. But I guess they’re not bad for someone whose never been exposed to art despite having a mother who teaches it.

That is less boring- but now Clawdeen can’t take full credit for the design! best case scenario Frankie is her collaborator worst case scenario she is stealing credit for Frankies patterns...See how many problems you create when you make Clawdeen a salon owner instead of a fashion designer?

So not only can Frankie’s electricity put cute glowing patterns on dresses and NOT fry them, she can also create sentient life? Whoever wrote this script clearly went to the Disney school of how magical powers work.

I will always screen shot Monica making crazy eyes.

“hey! be scary!”

Okay, I genuinely laughed.

Moanica having some sliver of affection for the zomboys is adorable.

wow, even the background normies got an upgrade! unique faces! so many skin colors! diverse hair styles! this is good stuff A+++

Pour one out for this cute Lagoona we’re never going to get a doll of, Pour another one out for a DJ gig tore away from Holt, Elle, Operetta - literally anyone else who is musically inclined but Lagoona...just pour the whole bottle out.

Clawdeen is heart broken that Frankie isn’t at her salons big opening night....but why? she JUST met Frankie in the previous movie and shouldn’t be this attached to someone she barely knows. it’s not like they’ve been friends for months/years and have had time to establish a bond like they did in the pre-boot.

How many times do we have to watch Frankie get electrocuted to death Mattel? how many!?

Oh! so Venus and Silvi get electrified outfits too - that look exactly like the dresses Clawdeen designed except they weren’t made by Clawdeen they were shocked into being from Frankies power source....so....what I’m getting from this is that these outfits and unique styles exist with or without Clawdeens creative input...That’s a depressing prospect Mattel.

Hang on a second- Venus has an electrified doll... But that isn’t the outfit we see here.

Did...Did they just re-color her basic outfit in the movie with neon instead of putting her in her actual Electrified outfit her doll wears!? That is a new level of lazy I’ve never seen before in any of the movies. I’ve complained when they’ve made cool outfits for dolls that we don’t get in the movies (Moanicas dance the fright away look in WTMH) and I’ve complained when we get cool movie outfits that never get a doll ( literally every movie but biggest offenders are manta ray Gil from great scarrier reef & roller maze Cleo)- but re-coloring Venus’s basic outfit when she has a doll for this line is new and lazy and I am just flabbergasted by this.

“Hey! where’s my electric outfit!?”

Raythe asking the hard hitting question that we all wanna know the answer to. why didn’t he get an electric outfit!? so far he’s had more of an impact on the movie than Silvi and she not only got an outfit she got a doll too. Raythe got robbed in this movie.His signature outfit is already very boring- they couldn’t have at the very least gave him an Electrified debut doll outfit to make up for it? That’s messed up Mattel, what did this poor kid ever do to deserve this kind of neglect?

Moanica...this is a bad plan. The Normies are already afraid of monsters is the plan to scare them more? what are you going to do during the day time? What about the one who aren’t afraid of the dark? What about back up generators? It being dark isn’t going to stop one of them from just hauling off and punching one of your cronies in the face. this plan has so many holes in it.

and why are her eyes still blue!? her dolls eyes are green- fix it Mattel.

That’s all the space I have for this part of the review! if you wish you read the rest You can find part 2 right here!