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I think it could be possibly doable to salvage Videl with a post-Buu-only rewrite, since the biggest slight the Buu arc does to her is randomly awkwardly shuffle her and her arc off the field halfway through the story so it can focus on Goku Hour again. I understand if it struggles a little, since post-Buu shuffles Gohan out of the major character deck (with him finally retiring his own Goku Successor ribbon and moving into academia as he wants), and since randomly ejecting her halfway through the story does damage her narrative character, but I think it would be doable to take what had been set up + awkwardly unresolved and build on that for her, and I think promoting her would also lessen the loss of Gohan for her arc.
But I do agree rewriting Buu is probably gonna be better for Videl than trying to clean up the mess the story leaves her arc in. Honestly, I’d argue we might need to go one further — instead of just giving her a Spopovich resolution and retaining her in the main combat team for the rest of the arc, I think we should go back and mess with her introduction as well.
See, from the start, Videl is a narrative foil for Gohan. Plus, She was a Girl, He was a Boy, could Toriyama make it any more obvious? That’s where she enters the canon Buu arc — someone for Gohan to play off of, someone for Gohan to be compared to, someone who takes an interest in Gohan. She’s smart and strong, but since this arc starts out as Gohan’s go at being our protagonist, Videl quickly falls into step as a supporting character in his bid for protagonist-land. While culling Spopovich is the actual bullet that does in Videl as a major player for the arc (and, by effect, for the series), her shot at being a main character is hampered somewhat by how much her role in the Majin Buu arc revolves around where Gohan is in regards to his own character arc.
So if we’re making a rewrite starting with the Buu arc and aiming to introduce Videl as our successor to Goku’s narrative role (and, possibly, his Art), I think we ought to go back to her introduction and entry to the story, not just her half-baked canonical arc. Instead of casting her as a member of Gohan’s supporting cast, we should establish her with her own supporting cast, potientially even slotting Gohan in to them instead.
Don’t get me wrong, I think she works great as a foil to Gohan and I don’t want to lose that. At the end of the Cell arc, Gohan inherited all the power of Goku, and simply never truly had the drive to use it, and that’s interesting! Videl plays off that well, since where she starts is all drive and no inheritance. They’re narrative foils, and we want to retain that. Plus, because they’re narrative foils, they do make a decent enough shoo-in for a romance pairing, inasmuch as Toriyama is willing to do one of those. They’re friends with fathers who have a huge reputation weighing on their respective backs in different ways, and honestly I bet they wouldn’t mind being born into each other’s families instead. (That’s be a pretty fun one-off/filler-type storyline, actually…)
But getting back on track, while we should keep Videl’s relationship to Gohan as characters, narratively I think Videl would benefit from being introduced in a way disconnected from Gohan. It’s a bit of a balancing act to do, I guess, because the telling of the story would probably want to shift from Goku to Gohan to her, but I think it would help if from the word to you could tell that she’s got her own story to tell. She walks in and the narrative stops watching Gohan to see what Videl is up to, that kind of idea.
From there, absolutely develop her interest in going beyond, give her what she needs to show her drive. She wants to become stronger than her dad, partly because he’s become a terrible father in the wake of her mother’s passing, but partly because she thinks it would help him to get taken down a peg — she’s angry but she’s not apathetic to him. A lot of her early beats work both for developing her and for developing the Buu plot line, but all that in canon is somewhat incidental — so make it intentional, make it about her and not just about Gohan or about the both of them.
And then, I think, the most interesting thing might actually be — what if after she sets out to face Gohan at the Tenkaichi Budokai finals, after she’s learned Ki manipulation basics in impressively quick time and laid out why he’s the one she needs to beat before taking on her own dad, after the two are lined up to face each other in the finals for that good old Tournament Resolution — have Spopovich show up… and throw down with Gohan.
As much as taking the Videl vs. Spopovich rematch out of the original Buu arc hurts Videl as a character with a narrative arc, Spopovich 1 isn’t really a main character fight. He’s there to set the fear of Babidi into everyone, and to show off strange techniques that make him not especially fair to fight. He’s there for someone to lose to, so he can show off. And even though Goku is not above getting seven shades of tar beat out of him in pursuit of a fight, protagonists are just never good fodder for that kind of fight, narratively, so setting him against Videl would hurt the narrative role we’re trying to sell her as. Instead, letting Gohan job it against Spopovich would do a good job showing that 1) as strong as Gohan is, he’s not invested in the Art like his dad was and like Videl will be, and 2) whatever the deal is with Spopovich, it makes him on a half-Saiyan’s level, and it is more important than the Tenkaichi.
Gohan, I think, will handle Spopovich poorly. Gohan has a good foundation, but he’s already largely coasting on that foundation, rather than cultivating his Art. Spopovich would present Gohan a challenge that he hasn’t really sought out since the Cell arc — namely, a fight he has to actually try to think about. And while Spopovich would need to come packaged with a weakness so he can actually lose a rematch, Gohan will just struggle through throwing more and more power on the guy until he wears himself out.
(For bonus points, I think Gohan should also feel the need to hit Spopovich so hard that the dude’s neck breaks — canon Videl is at this point used to brawls that can go very badly very quickly, but canon Gohan was so over leveled for the Saiyaman fights he had that the presence of things like bullets and bombs just kinda went in one ear and out the other with him. This would be the first time he’s killed someone since he fought Cell, and I think however poorly Videl would react to Spopovich’s neck going snap, I think Gohan can react worse.)
Videl can also help cement her role as Goku’s successor by not having the Spopovich 1 fight, too — Goku’s counter-fighter antics can make a return in Videl, as she watches Spopovich eat everything Gohan can throw and find some weakness to exploit. It would be a nice little call-back of sorts to Tenkaichi fights like Goku v. Tenshinhan, and help sell the idea that Goku’s legacy will be ultimately inherited not by any of his kids, but by the random human girl.
(Though, Spopovich’s weakness would probably have to be added in by the rewrite of his first fight, since the Spopovich rematch being unceremoniously cut also deprived him of an exploitable weakness in the first place. He takes punishment like an Android or like Nappa (you basically have to land a kill shot because he’ll keep fighting through anything less), and he doesn’t die when he’s killed, so I almost wonder if Babidi randomly discarding him with only a fraction of his value claimed is because Toriyama had no idea how anyone could actually beat him when he still had the M?)
From there, Gohan and Videl would have an interwoven arc into the Babidi/Buu stuff, where it becomes clear that while Videl never got the power necessary to handle the kind of fights Gohan can, she still has the mind for it, backed by an unyielding drive to prove herself any way she can. Even though Videl only knows baby’s fist Bukūjutsu and not even a basic Kamehameha, Videl should prove instrumental to defeating (or more likely, solving) antagonists in the Buu arc. the ‘old guard’ would probably have to provide the power, and there’s a decent chance that keeping this arc’s sends offs for Goku and Vegeta mean they have to lead the ultimate resolution fight, but to let this arc set Videl as the narrative successor, she needs to not only stick around and talk to the rest of the cast, but play important roles with the tools she has (and prepare to pursue all the tools she doesn’t have).
hello. odd question: if you were given the choice, what sort of post buu sequel would you personally want to see? you don't have to write a whole story or anything, just, what kind of story would you want to see told if it were up to you? in terms of basic premise, tone, or "gimmick" if you'd like to see one.
Probably unpopular opinion but my ideal vision of a post-Buu Dragon Ball sequel would be to retire Goku and Vegeta after the Buu arc for good. Goku's story ended very satisfyingly with the Cell arc and I don't think Vegeta could ever go out on a higher note than what Buu gave him. I think Dragon Ball has a lot of potential for future storytelling beyond Buu but if we're working from scratch then these two characters, specifically, I'm ready to be done with.
What Dragon Ball needs to give it that shot in the arm is to have the courage to do what it wanted to do post-Cell: to start over and reinvent itself.
I do understand why that fell apart with Gohan. Gohan doesn't like martial arts. He never has. He enjoys it as an activity he can do with the people he loves, but he isn't a martial artist at heart. He has no drive for it as a hobby; His only relationship with it is as a necessary evil he sometimes has to engage in to protect his loved ones.
That's not a spark that can drive a Dragon Ball protagonist down a road of self-discovery and personal improvement through a deep, personal relationship with the art. And all the attempts to make Gohan relevant again just amount to giving him free power-ups and browbeating him into doing things that, on a fundamental level, he just hates doing.
Gohan doesn't want to be a Dragon Ball main character. He has never wanted that, and we shouldn't force him to. It's better for him and better for the story to just move along.
So where does that leave us?
I think the Buu arc gave us all the tools we need to reinvent Dragon Ball already. I think the characters who have the most potential in telling new Dragon Ball stories are the ones the franchise kinda just... wants to sweep aside. It's Goten, Trunks, and Marron. Pan and Bra. And our new green god Dende. The next generation of Dragon Ball heroes.
It's Goten and Trunks looking at their fathers' backs and knowing that these are the mountains that they are meant to climb. To become more than Goku and Vegeta ever were. And questioning if that's even what they want for themselves. What is their relationship to the art, independent of their fathers? Independent of each other?
Who even are they to each other? Are they to be a reflection of their fathers? Are they to be their fathers' mirror opposites? Or are they to be something else, something independent of their fathers, something only they can identify?
And what does the art mean to them personally? When it stops being "I'm doing this because my family does it," what is it to them? Is it even what they want or, like Gohan, do their destinies lie down another road?
Who is Marron? Who will she grow up to be? What does the art mean to her? In this world of Saiyans and Namekians, what are the limitations that her humanity imposes on her? And how can she break those limits and become something super?
These are the questions that I think could fuel a really interesting sequel series. I think the key to Dragon Ball's artistic future is in allowing someone else to go on a martial arts journey of their own, so we can watch them grow from a wide-eyed child to a wizened master as we once watched Goku.
#dragon ball#videl#hope any of this makes sense#you’re probably right that the Spopovich rematch would be enough#(assuming she doesn’t get shuffled out again after that instead)#but if we’re gonna rewrite Buu arc to better position Videl as the successor…#yknow. might as well go all the way
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headcanon that people of the islands sleep schedule is like, four hours later than average.
they wake up at mid day, and sleep well past midnight. kids begging their parents on weekends to pleeaaase please let them step up just a little longer to watch the sun rise. early-riser visitors / tourists having to adapt to their horrid schedule because stars forbid theyre up and about at 10:30.
#radio rambles#isat#in stars and time#the island north of vaugarde#is that a tag? idk#anyway.#random thoughts go!#im imagining like. streets full of people and string lights at markets even though it is waay way dark#pretty imagery yknow??#i imagine as well they might utilize down-turned lanterns / lights to minimize light pollution#stars are important after all…..#uhmuhm uhm if new years is still a thing in universe#it would most likely be celebrated by feasting! since it would take place around their dinnertime anyway#(im thinking that their schedules are still. the same just. shifted lol)#(also yea i know people feast for new years anyway but. but. whatever whatever hfjdd)#uuuhh#mmmmm#bit of a stretch but might also explain siffrins sleeping habits…#ofc they have been Off the island for a while but. travelling on their own for so long… it would be silly. if his body just. never adapted#uhuhuh#ok i think thats all#ask me question if u want 👍 theres no real substance to this hc i just think it would be neat#or!! add on!
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i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you
#im reading that post that says artists are directors of audience reaction and not its dictator:#'you cannot guarantee that everyone viewing your work will react as you are trying t make them react. a good artist knows that this is what#allows work to breath. by definition you cannot have art where the viewer brings nothing to the table ... this is why you have to let go of#the urge to plainly state in text exactly how you think the work should be interpreted ... its better to be misinterpreted sometimes than#to talk down to your audience. you wont even gain any control that way; people will still develop their opinions no matter what you do#im thinking abt this again cuz i was thinking maybe the thing that lets adventure time work so well the way it does is cuz it doesnt#take itself too seriously that it gives the audience enough room to fuck with subtext and then fuck with them back yknow. i think it was#mentioned somewhere that they werent even planning to run with the postapocalyptic elements that are hinted in the show but changed their#mind after the one off with the frozen businessmen and dominoed into marcy and simons backstory. on the other side there are stories that#explain too much to let the story speak for itself and i think it ends up having to do more with the crew trying to lead ppl in a certain#direction than expand on what they have and i see a lot of this with miraculous. like when interviews and tweets are used as word of god in#arguments and it becomes a little stifling to play around with it knowing the creator can just interject. u can say its the crews effort to#engage with its audience but it feels more like micromanaging. and none of this is to say there ISNT room for stories that spell things out#theyre just suited for different things. if sesame street tried abstract approaches to themes and nuance itd be counterproductive#a lot of things fly over my head so i need help picking things apart to get it- but it doesnt have to be from the story itself. ive picked#picked up or built on my own interpretations listening to other ppl share their thoughts which creates conversation around the same thing#sometimes stories will spell things out for you without being so obvious abt it that it feels like its woven into the text. my fav example#for this might be ATLA using younger characters as its main cast but instead of feeling like its dumbed down for kids to understand why war#is bad its framed from a childs point of view so younger audiences can pick up on it by relating to the characters. maybe an 8 year old#wont get how geopolitics works but at least they get 'hey the world is a little more complicated than everyone vs. fire nation'. same for#steven universe bc its like theyre trying to describe and put feelings into words that kids might not have so they have smth to start with#especially with the metaphors around relationships bc even if it looks unfamiliar as a kid now maybe the hope is for it to be smth you can#look back to. thats why it feels like these shows grew up with me.. instead of saving difficult topics for 'when im ready for it'#as if its preparing me for high school it gave me smth to turn in my hands and revisit again and again as i grow. stories that never#treated u as dumb all along. just someone who could learn and come back to it as many times as u need to. i loved SU for the longest time#but i felt guilty for enjoying it hearing the way ppl bash it. bc i was a kid and thought other ppl understood it better than me and made#feel bad for leaning into the message of paying forward kindness and not questioning why steven didnt punish the diamonds or hold them#accountable. but im rewatching it now and going oh. i still love this show and what it was trying to teach me#yapping#diary
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finally watched the latest Severance episode
what the fuck
#severance#severance spoilers#catch me going insane over the numbers thing#like ok. 4 tempers 4 baskets 4 refiners. but also the first number helly thinks is scary way back in season 1#she says “oh god! a 4!” and goddammit it might be important somehow#also. the fucking thing with the colors is driving me insane. should've known the red in the tent was bc helena#but also I was hesitant to outright claim that when we watched that scene because also red when mark. who. yknow how last episode ended#also HOW did irv come to the conclusion that she's an eagan. where did that come from irv#also woe reminds me of ms huang and Im having a Time about that too#also also. as per the theory refinement going on in this house. since the numbers are the people#do we think that mayhaps they're being refined into making the tempers real people?#like because ms huang being woe.. Id assume ms casey is frolic maybe? idk. I dont feel that she's dread and def not malice...#Alternatively the fact the refiners all fit so well as the tempers. irv is woe dylan is frolic helly is malice and mark is dread#like so so neatly all 4 of them fit in these boxes. dylan is goal oriented and a bit childish and overall loyal#irv is sad and odd and ill and was basically the focus of the episode named after woe and had her in a dream and. all that#helly is fire and anger and destruction and helena is even worse#and mark is. a mess. he truly is the most pasta a blorbo can be. spaghetti thrown at a wall levels of fucked up#but at the same time as that. all 4 of them exemplify all 4 tempers. mark is rebellion and anxiousness and loving and grief#helly is want and compassion and vengeance and uncertainty. dylan is perks and suspicion and drive and worry#and irv is curiosity and care and distrust and skittishness#(in order: m.s: m-d-f-w. h.r: w-f-m-d. d.g: f-d-m-w. i.b: w-f-m-d)#((which. makes it sound like helly and irving are really similar? hmm. find ur 4 tempers order personality test sounding bs))#(((mine would be f-d-m-w I feel. confidence-catastrophizing-righteousness-exhaustion seems like a solid combo)))#(((idk. tag urself or whatever)))
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the thing about chilshi is that i see it as super one-sided on chilchuck's part and that's some shit he's bringing to the grave with him
#random thoughts#dungeon meshi#if (somehow) senshi became aware i think he'd be flattered#in like an 'aw thanks man' way#this goes for marcille too btw but in like reverse#i could see marcille having a fledgling crush on chilchuck after he reveals his age#but before she fully internalizes he's An Adult. like an adult adult#like how she infantilizes falin? like that#and like she's honestly chilchuck's type yknow? being blonde and all#but i don't think he would date someone who views him like that#he might tolerate it from senshi for like 4.5 seconds in his fleeting daydreams#but in reality? noooo thank you#this is why i ship laios and chilchuck tbh. he's the party member who chilchuck thinks knows him the best#and he trusts him the most to lead!!!#also because i think it'd be funny if laios (26) started dating izutsumi's (17) surrogate father figure#also because i really like that comic where chilchuck's children judge him for dating someone so YOUNG. cradlerobber#this is quickly devolving into me providing my Opinion on dungeon meshi ships#might as well get into kabru and laios#i don't see it? it might be because i've only read the manga and im bad at fully comprehending those the first time through#but like. first of all kabru is a VERY minor character in my eyes#he mostly becomes relevant during the latter half which is my least favorite part#and ive seen people tote the 'i want to be your friend!!!' panel as like. fodder for the ship?#and honestly when i read that part i read it as kabru desperately grasping at straws to keep laios from going to marcille#his brain to mouth line fully shut down and he was just spouting gibberish#laios even calls him out on it#i see kabru and shuro as being in the same boat? seeing laios as insufferable but it's not his fault#marcille and falin are in lesbians with each other. gay as hell to revive someone with forbidden magicks#they are LESS gay than i was expecting though. which is a hell of a thing to say about two women who bathe together
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Sometimes I just look at Isabeau and just know that if isat came out and I got into it when I was like 16 he would be my favorite character and I would've gone absolutely buck wild over this man and feel like he was laser targeting me. But alas Odile has a grip of steel on me rn due to her virtue of being a middle aged woman
#rat rambles#stars posting#I feel like the biggest change in my taste in characters as the years have gone by is Im now far more biased towards old ppl lol#although tbf I was also the one person in 2016 who actually liked asgore so maybe Ive always liked parhetic old ppl#but yeah the reason isa is past me bait is because hes an exploration and subversion of the sort of tropes I Hated as a kid#and I still dont like them so isa still appeals to me its just not as much as he would have to a younger me#I do genuinely love all the party very dearly tho theyre all soooo good#I think my favorite part of isabeau is how like. of everyone we get to see the least facets of him but like in a very good way#this is a man who hides and bottles shit hes so fun to rotate#his self image is so carefully controlled compared to everyone else which makes him an incredibly interesting character to analyze#and I love that despite him seeming like the most emotionally stable person here on the surface he still clearly has like. hashtag issues.#like he's in that beautiful zone where its so so fun imagining what it would look like to truly break him#<- normal things that normal ppl say. like me.#I may have my very light beef with alt looping aus as a concept but hes probably the most interesting alternate looper to me#also my light beef exclusively relates to king quest stuff which is why Im a big fan of duo looper aus with sif#but honestly. isa might be the only one that I genuinely think works better as a solo looper even with taking king quest into account#although bonnie comes close. I <3 looper bonnie I <3 seeing fictional children go through the horrors#I think theres a lot of fun to be had with any alt looper au tho I just am a huge king quest fan so I like it when my favorite elements of#it dont have to be handwaved#but yeah the real question is how would younger me feel about mirabelle#because on the one hand: acearo character#but on the other hand: I have always been a little hater abt romance so idk if younger me would rly be able to follow her character well#I wasnt exactly good at character analysis back then lol#except for the instances in which I was but I dont have that sort of faith in my younger self#yknow Im thinking abt my history of favorite characters now and I think me being one of few 2016 alphys enjoyers might have been a prophecy#she was my quote unquote third favorite but in reality she was second#I think she chara and peridot su teamed up to define my taste in fictional characters for the next several years#and somehow that lead to olivia becoming one of my favorite fictional characters of all time#I say somehow as if that isnt a very natural conclusion
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"Missed connection (?) (aw & qb pseudo crossover, alan & tim, jack & paul, alan & barry)"
👁👁 you know I have to ask about it...
Thank you!!! Missed connection (name pending) is a fun one!! (lies)
in that fic I basically take the concept of tim dreaming about his alt universes' lives (canon) and the idea of alan not quite remembering barry (not canon, but you could read barry's absence in aw2 as alan deliberately forgetting abt him so he's far, FAR away from The Story), and have Tim recalling his (jack's) friendship with paul before time broke down while Alan being like man that sounds great :) why does this hurt though?
(...) Apparently he did that a lot, protecting me, getting me out of trouble…" A smile tugged Alan's lips with the scene, misplaced nostalgia apparently being a contagious thing. "Uh huh." He encouraged him. "This time, we…" Tim closed his eyes for a moment, trying to recall the scene. The memory that wasn't his. "We were on a road trip, or something, and God knows what I was doing, but I ended up getting arrested." Alan snorted. "Is this Sheriff Breaker's dark and troubled backstory?" "Hah! I wish. Thing is, he bailed me out, right? But not before I managed to steal this... stupid wooden ram statue from the police station." "Seriously?" "Yeah!" Tim's eyes squinted while a laugh bubbled from his lips, as if he really was telling him about his actual life, and not visions of another reality. "The bastard actually kept the statue, you know? He never let that one go, I-" His laughter stumbled a bit, but his smile didn't waver. "In the vision, no matter where he went he always brought that statue with him. A reminder. Probably to make fun of me or something." Alan's face hurt from grinning. His body wasn't used to this kind of joy anymore. His throat hurt, too, like heartburn (...)
BUT THATS NOT ALL because after stealthily pointing out the obvious parallels between pre-time break paul's and barry's relationship w/ jack and alan it asks the question what if we went further with the parallelisms? tim talking about post-time break paul without the context, just knowing that suddenly he hated his guts for some reason, and alan later (but juxtaposed in the narration) having echoes to Some Guy falling down Some Rabbit Hole, and feeling dread
it asks the question what if you met your best friend but he's a decade older and he's involved in some shady business? THATS RIGHT I lured people with tim and alan and quantumbreak only to reveal the secret topic of this fic being my Blessed Barry au 🔥🙌🔥
[ask me about my WIPS]
#fic tag#tani's personal shit#you know how alice suddenly remembered what happened in aw1 and eventually found the way to help alan escape? barry Cant do that#hes not an artist!#in my barry & jesse fic the concept was well he cant do anything but he can find someone who Might. now. what if that someone is Blessed#the fic doesnt really go into detail but I just want to put this concept inside people's heads#you know remedy likes do echo itself and make parallels to itself so. who's to say yknow?#///but also. back to the first layer. its about missing your best friend ;_;#even though he doesnt exist in your universe or you dont remember him at all...
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It’s wild to me that some of you have entire discourse accounts dedicated to shipping hate & over analyzing shipping between the anime, manga, & light novels to the point of making harassment campaigns against the authors/writers of the side stories. Yet y’all don’t send the same hate towards Ikemoto & his highly suspect ass art style with the way he draws some of these kids.
#it’s just a bit telling??#do you lot have no life?#there are clearly bigger issues in the naruto & boruto fandom than shipping wars that have been going on since like 2010#good gods please get over yourselves#naruhina sasusaku narusasu leeten I don’t care!#the konoha 13 are in one giant secret polycule for all I care! boom there’s your solution!#& while we’re at it let’s make Kiba a sensei or a ninja hound class guy rather than a pig!#boom another problem fixed! lmao#Ikemoto & the way he draws these kids is a way more pressing issue than any of your silly shipping wars#if you’re gonna send this off the walls negativity anywhere direct it at the way he draws these children Mikeo Ikemoto is weird as Hell#for the way he draws some of these characters#it’s so hard to recommend boruto & boruto two blue vortex because of this suspect art style#I’m so serious too lmao I really hope studio Pierrot fixes the boruto tbv designs#but who knows how long we’ll be waiting on that#the anime is gonna be on hiatus for a loooooong time with how little room there is for anime-only content in the pacing#* mikio ikemoto my bad I got the spelling wrong & can’t edit tags on the old tumblr mobile#mine#op#naruto#boruto#OBVIOUSLY DONT SEND HATE CAMPAIGNS TOWARDS ANYONE JUST PUTTING AS A LEGAL DISCLAIMER BUT LIKE YKNOW IF YOURE GONNA THROW STONES ANYWAY#might as well throw them somewhere actually useful
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So I actually finished listening to the whole Sparks studio album discography today, with Plagiarism, which I probably would have put off still for an indefinite amount of time, but since that was the last album on the list and the new Sparks era is now imminent... felt fitting to sort of finally listen to that. So I've been thinking of making a (short-ish? lol) post and talking a (little? lol) bit about all the albums I've left off from my Sparkstember writeups because I wasn't familiar enough with them yet at the time. So that the essay collection is completed at last yay. But well yeah, big day I guess, I'm officially all caught up, after... A year and 10 months?! I take my time with things... even if I'm super into them, or maybe especially??
#i meaaaaan I guess there's still annette left technically#except i did listen to that one once but only the shorter vinyl version and i almost forgot about doing that anyway#so yeah i want to get to watching annette eventually lol... (one of the two movies I'm going to watch this year)#the cool thing is that there's still stuff like the early demos & that one rarities collection etc that i don't know much stuff from still#and like i'm tempted to just get to those and give them one solid listen but also...#the thought of all those mysterious unknown tracks still being out there is too beautiful to let go of yknow?#however i also have a big problem with putting off getting into things... often until im no longer interested in them#not that this is whats going to happen here. but it happened before for sure. and it's just kind of a maybe not the best approach.#like having a cool powerful item in a game and never using it because it might be more useful later.#except sometimes it was a good idea to get to those things later#and spread the enjoyment i get from it over a longer period of time. so that meant MORE joy actually#but i already talked about something like this before didn't i. also well about plagiarism i will just say that#well i wasn't very impressed by it lol. not that i had a bad time listening to it but...#hmmm i guess it's just better to not think about it in the same way as you do with more traditional albums#but uh yeah i guess i'll get into that properly sooner or later#well all in all i'm so ready for the new sparks era i can say this for sure now#goosepost
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reducing mike and el's love for each other to something that'll make their relationship stumble and fall if not evaporate when they break up will never not be like emptying a room and then walking in and wondering why its empty.
#like it would be great if there was fighting involved im not gonna lie#mike and el being like lets break up <3 yeah okay :D makes no fucking sense okay they're both lost#and neither reacts well to that kind of stuff. mike is incredibly defensive and el is incredibly determined to getting the truth#and she could very well scream and he might very well scream too if he's still getting defensive like a yknow like an ass#im not gonna say 'neither is' like ik whats gonna happen in s5 but i will say neither /should/ be soft enough for a mutual breakup with#no sort of angst when they're both at the very least conflicted (in different ways) because of their relationship#but aside from all that fighting what i mean to say is idk that i agree with the fact that the biggest issue with mike and el is that they-#-have no foundation like they could never work even as friends#when at the end of the day that is essentially just an anti-mi/even rage that falls flat when this could stop at friends.#they dont need to be in constant tension forever in order to go their ways like they've realized all they were to each other was kissing#theyve done countless things for one another there is love there. and it does not cancel out mike and will nor el being free from mi/even#its givin ''mike said im not scared of u to el but he said what is wrong with u when she got lucas unconscious so he is scared of her!''#big picture maybe#elmike
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I log onto tik tok and see the most nauseatingly stupid take on media in the entire world WHY ARE THEY ALL SO FUCKINF STUPID. literally sickening. criticizing fetishized depictions of rape in media does NOT mean that suddenly every single piece of media that deals with rape and very dark topics are evil you are all so poisoned god bless
#blaming this shit on those twitter freaks we can’t talk about dark media anymore because stupid fandom mommies convinced everyone that som#somehow their bakugo baby no//ncon fanfiction was dark media no you dumb bitch you’re just a predator#nothing is black and white it’s important to keep these conversations going. none of it is simple and no one depiction of anything heavy is#gonna be perfect for everyone. we all have our own limits.#it’s important to criticize things as well and it’s especially important to discuss ways your own favorites can be taken#yknow like it’s just. thinojng is good. yeah#likez…. I think an important part of liking dsrk and heavy stuf is being able to critique or question if/when things are too graphic or#taken too far or when something might just be shock content. it’s nice to think about things I feel.#tired out of my mind god bless
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kabru is so fascinating to me.... girl what is wrong with u
#i love him though#see i understand partly whats wrong with him bc i also have a fascination with the workings of humanity and analyzing individuals#but the way i approach/feel about that interest is more similar to laios#well. not as unhinged when its real people but yknow#its more from a place of care and wanting to know how things work and how i fit into it (<-will never figure that part out)#but with kabru i dont get it#is it all about fitting in and being liked? what is it about laios that makes him tick?#he says his main motivator is his past but.. what do his weird mind games do to help him with his goals?#why lie to laios? why lie to anyone? why go through all that effort to be liked by everyone?#i dont understand people like that at all..... ive met a fair few and they all scare me#im definitely far more like laios ^^'#maybe its that sincerity that bothers him? laios cant lie to save his life and he cares so earnestly#and kabru keeps trying to come up with reasons as to why he might be sinister or evil but.... kabru knows hes not
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hello hello guess who's still alive 👀
feels weird to be away from tumblr sm bc this place has always felt like & always will be like home away from home
#haven't wanted to mention this much bc i like keeping my stuff separate but juustt in case any of my pals might worry#ive been alright dw! 💙#tldr i took up content creation some months ago as a way to keep busy and get out of my own head#and it's been going pretty decently ngl! :')#nothing im hoping to do professionally or w/e atm; but have had fun doing my silly little craft and tricking my brain into schedules a bit#smth i started on a whim but my therapist has been all for it and very much enthused abt me doing smth and having hobbies again lol#i do miss you all dearly & desperately need to get better at replying;;;;; y'all deserve sm better than this#i still very much suck at replying to anything and dealing with social stuff. creating stuff/vids vs talking to ppl isn't the same at all🫠#but anyway love yall sm miss yall sm you're all always in my hearts and in my prayers (non religiously but like yknow)#....wait hearts??? i have multiple??? lmfao tf#best wishes to all and i hope you've been well or that things get better asap. pls stay safe and take care my loves!! ❤️#jj.txt#jj.tagspeak#jj.personal
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finished undying moon! getting some Mission 51 flashbacks from this one but i enjoyed it a ton :]
#(metal gear reference) (because of konami) (yknow)#ok its not AS bad as mission 51 but in a way it is also worse. are you really not going to touch the game ever again or something#dont think theres anything else after this... unless i want to replay the game over and over lol#its a fun mindless one so i might as well eventually#but if that's really all for the story then it's not something i'm gonna play all the time#actually im surprised i wasnt expecting to beat it at all i just got the urge to play a run before bed#mine#gf
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cold as shit & freezing my ass off in this winter (But at least we made it to December.)
#dadbots.txt#starting the new month off with a sore throat & body aches due to household cold-like symptoms. Thanks. Even when I was trying 2 avoid it#and with how cold it is — permanently staying In bed forever. Like it’s physically making me curl into a crab rn oh my god it’s so cold#Which is both hell and good in both ways. Bad since I stay in bed too much anyway. Almost everyday.#Especially with chronic low energy and 24/7 fatigued. Mentally and physically. And i really gotta do better -#- and reduce that since that adds up alongside other unhealthy habits. And I can literally feel it taking a toll on me unfortunately.#But also good since I’ll be resting more often than not. It’s not something i do and so having the opportunity to rest is kinda nice?#Still. Two sides of a coin right now. And this cold is definitely not helping me or the fact it’s easier to get sick 10x more.#Back to pain relievers and heat ig.#Although with this just. Might be a cold but also not? Thing? Since not all of my sore throats are colds but overproduced mucus. Gross.#But been drinking tea like habitually to knock this out and warm blankets and stuff. Feeling better as of typing this. So thank god it’s wo#This month been… interesting to say the least. A lot of personal talk and changes that should’ve happened years ago.#But hey. You live and learn.#And I’m not mad at it. I’m making progress when I would’ve shrugged and say it’d never happen. Now it’s happening and even I’m surprised#Doesn’t mean it’ll completely override everything in my life or push stuff to the side. Though it’s better than nothing so I’ll take it.#Winter is always hard for a lot of people and I’ve been hit with it as well. Even near the holidays and all.#Been rough. And the constant realization that each month I don’t remember…. Anything. That has happened.#But also that I did a little more than previously and slowly pushing it each month. Little by little.#There’s been a drastic change from last year to now. Went through new lifestyles and experiences. Exploring different fields. Etc#So it’s been one hell of a ride anyway. And that I can sit back and be content with. Even if nothing else is currently going on yknow#December probably gonna be slow. But we’ll see. Hope to bring new opportunities fortune and possibilities along the way. Take care y’all
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unfortunately I have decided I just don't like camping in general. fortunately I was only going to stay one night anyway so I am home.
#unfortunately they both like camping and will be gone two more nights#but like. I can spend all day in the state park and still sleep in a bed is the thing.#I don't go 'woah I get to wake up here!!' or any of that I just go 'ugh. cold. hot. dirt. bones.'#the only time it would be fun is if I was entirely completely by myself#since it's way more isolated than a hotel or whatever#but I don't care about being isolated with other people yknow?#might as well just be in the regular world.#part of that may also be that I am isolated with my partners literally all the time anyway.
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