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My hero actually DID his job!
It had been a political meeting with the big media, as Vlad had to listen to other citizens talk about their heroes and complain about how they have more supervillains and damage. As a reporter, asked Vlad, the mayor of Amity Park, what he thought about it. He himself didn't talk about villain attacks or similar.
Vlad:" It's not my fault that your heroes are failures."
Yeah Vlad insulted every hero and city just with 1 sentence.
Politician angry from Metropolis:" What the hell are you talking about?"
Vlad:" How many years did your heroes fight their villains in your cities with collateral damage?"
Someone from Gotham said, " Maybe now 20 years maybe more."
Vlad:" The hero in Amity Park only took 1 year to show all his villains the right path, that they dropped being evil, and only once in a while visit to fight the hero without any damage to the city other than that place where they fight."
Vlad had built an Arena for it; it helped both Ghost and Danny fight and train.
Many of them are silent, as if they couldn't believe 1 word to say, " Impossible. Our heroes tried it for so many years."
Vlad:" If your failures did their job, you wouldn't have any villains years ago. So, yes, I don't think your heroes do their jobs."
Vlad then didn't talk anymore about this theme; he got bored of it.
And for the media and politicians, 1 online search and they saw Vlad told the truth... And they were kind of angry and confused. How comes that boy in 1 year fixed all his villain but someone like Superman or Batman wasn't able to do it for years!
#danny phantom#vlad master#danny fenton#dp#dc#dcau#dp x dc#dp + dc#dc x dp#dc comics#batman#Superheroes#Superman#Failures#Amtiy park has no villain anymore#Disappointed other cities#What are their heroes doing all the years#Playing a game with the villains??#Outside pov#Arena of Amity park
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sorry, but I love the "set entirely within Lumiose city" announcement. That only increased the hype for me. I love a good, fleshed-out city to wander in. But mostly, to me, that indicates a change in the usual formula, which is really intriguing. Yeah, there's the question of where we'll get wild pokemon - which then raises the question of whether that even will be the same old mechanic we're used to. Or will something else be going on this game? Without a region to fill, how in-depth in the city can they get and what will we be doing?
#it's also like. mostly players can agree that pokemon needs to shake things up instead of repeating the same old formulas#so I'm a little surprised to see some of the backlash and disappointment to this little descriptor which to me indicates a fresh new change#I'm not trying to condescend it though - I get that it hints at a type of game that isn't everyone's cup of tea#and that's why some people may be doubtful#and it seems to be a mix of opinions overall#and of course we know basically nothing right now - we'll have more to go on later on#I'm just sharing where I'm at currently#it also did bring to mind kamurocho if I'm honest lol#pokemon fans: what do you mean set entirely in a big city??#yakuza fans: [clapping and cheering and high-fiving each other]
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I'm like also really mad that they legit killed Chess and Horn off screen, that is just so disrespectful to their characters. Everything in this chapter felt disrespectful to the Tiddy Squad.
#They try to tell me crowley didn't know where his girls were#that horn and chess were killed off screen???#when??? and why the hell would crowley not notice???#when he was with them all the time before the whole progenitor meeting thing with the underground city going down#also horn wasn't drawn too badly but look what they did to my girl chess#and crowley#just#some angles were weird and others were good??#this new style is just not it#and the story they just did doesn't make sense???#crowley had a lot of stuff going for him#a light novel a meaningful background and connection to the group#and they just do this??? for no purpose other than shock value#that is such a waste and so disappointing#now if you'll excuse me i'm rewriting my canon#the tiddy squad doesn't deserve this
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One thing about canto VI is like. I see so many people predicting it'll be about Fighting Evil Wife or Breaking Codependent Toxic Relationship and I just kinda think that would suck? If the major theme isn't grief AND love and the way both are seen as like Kinda Weird/inappropriate in the setting of the city. Then I'll be very sad.
#bell.txt#not putting it in the tag i dont wanna spam but yes limbus posting yes girls will be thinking about mortal regret#LIKE. LIKE. remember the discourse on twt about how like it was bad writing that yi sang didnt mourn dongbaek etc#and like that was the thing right. thsts not a thing you do in the city. that was part of why roland (who takes lots after wh's themes)#was so exceptional. that is the whole thing about the sickness of the city#to say it in comedia literary criticism terms: sins are split between wrongly-directed love and excess of love with sloth (lack of love)#being an outlier. i think heatho and generally og wh is about excess of love and not wrongly-directed love. it is the thing that lasts#all the way to the other side. it is the shared coffin and meeting again in the next life#i think itd be AWFULLY disappointing to get some boring boring 'they make each other worse' take. being APART due to societal pressures#makes them worse and horribly lonely. death makes them worse baby. so in my mind thats it#we get to see cathy die or still be unreachable in some way and then in very roland style we get furioso mode#and then the ending is about recognizing the love that has in fact been there all along and carrying it with u. and hoping to reunite some#where some other time. NO more slander of that awful girl. YES to the comfort of the memories.#me typing over my foscolo notes like i can surely post about heathcliff really fast and not write a novel in the tags (unaware)#i have more thoughts about this in regards to ruina with xiao and some stuff from leviathan but in the meantime. listen to my ramblings boy#ALSO. considering that implication. he feels for her what queequeg feels for ishy. ARGHH. RIPPING MY HAIR OFF#ok actually its been enough hours to not spam ppl I'll tag it now for blog org. i should maybe have a tag for posting specifically#limbus company
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my friend: hey, you were over there muttering under your breath for a long time, are you okay?
me: oh, yeah, i’m fine! i was just vocally stimming. it helps me calm down in overstimulating environments.
my friend: oh, okay! if you don’t mind me asking, what were you saying to calm yourself down?
me: oh, i was just reciting the entire script of Disney’s 1992 flop movie-musical Newsies starring Christian Bale and David Moscow from memory.
my friend: …
me: i didn’t remember it as well as i used to, since i haven’t seen the movie in two years, but i got through about the first thirty minutes, minus the songs, without too much trouble.
my friend: how do you not have an autism diagnosis
#lowkey disappointed i couldn’t get through more of the script#but backstage during a concert with choir kids is so overstimulating omg#autistic#autism moment#neurodivergent#newsies#92sies#IN 1899 THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CITY E C H O E D WITH THE VOICES OF NEWSIES#BRINGIN YOU THE NEWS OF JOSEPH PULITZER WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST AND OTHER GIANTS OF THE NEWSPAPER WORLD.#ON EVERY CORNER YOU SAW ‘EM CARRYING THE BANNER#BRINGIN YOU THE NEWS FOR A PENNY A PAPE.#POOR ORPHANS AND RUNAWAYS#THE NEWSIES WERE A RAGGED ARMY WITHOUT A LEADER.#UNTIL ONE DAY ALL THAT CHANGED…
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I can physically feel my inner socialist evaporate every time I enter an LCBO and see their liquor selection.
#it's one thing to not have niche products from other countries#but the complete dearth of non-ontario Canadian products is so disappointing#not to mention their neglect of smaller-scale local breweries#the fact that i can't buy beer from half the breweries *in my own city* at a liquor store is wild#there's a lot i can criticize about alberta but their laws for producing and selling liquor are actually pretty good
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for the character-centric stories prompts, Ye Baiyi and "What would happen to a houseplant in their care?" ♥
“She’s not going to kill you if they don’t all survive,” Rong Changqing had told Ye Baiyi after Rong-furen had finally stopped with her instructions, repeated instructions, and even more admonitions.
“Not so sure,” Ye Baiyi said, trying to commit to memory what the little yellow orchids needed. They wanted little water, right, but regularly, and they could never be allowed to remain standing in a puddle?
Compared to the orchids, the large pot of silvergrass was simple. The kitchen herbs were even simpler -- give them two ladles of water whenever they started looking a bit wan.
“Don’t think about the damn plants,” Rong Changqing assured him, “the main thing is you keep training Xuan-er and make sure he goes to bed before midnight. And don’t let him tinker in my workshop by himself. At least not after midnight. Please? Baiyi?”
If Changqing looked at him like that, with his beautiful smile and beautiful eyes, what else could Ye Baiyi do but grumble “I’ll try to” ungraciously, rather than smile back and reflect the things that Changqing made him feel. Every. Single. Time.
You’d think he would be used to it by now. For the Heavens’ sake, Xuan-er was already nine; the pain in those feelings should have worn down, become dulled and familiar. Perhaps it was the immortality that Rong Changqing had so unwisely cultivated and then dumped on Ye Baiyi; not only Ye Baiyi’s body, even his feelings were preserved forever unchanging in a block of clear ice.
“Don’t look so crestfallen, Baiyi,” Rong Changqing said. “It’s not even a month; we just have to be at the wedding of my lady’s youngest brother. We’ll hurry back as fast as we can. And Xuan-er can help you. If you’re really scared of what she’ll do to you if her chives have turned into hay, or the forge cats have peed on the basil.”
“I’m not scared,” Ye Baiyi grumbled. “I’m just offended that you wouldn’t even trust me with a fucking potted houseplant. I can feed the forge cats all right, and make sure that Xuan-er eats every day and sets nothing on fire. So why should I kill the damn orchids?”
“The forge cats,” Rong Changqing laughed, “will complain very loudly if you don’t feed them every day. Plants, however, just wilt quietly, and before you realize it, they’re dead.”
“Speak for yourself,” Ye Baiyi said, glaring up at Changqing, “I know what qi feels like, and I won’t let it falter.”
“Course you do,” Rong Changqing said, easily, but Ye Baiyi felt he still didn’t believe him. He made a face.
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Two lunar months later, the Rongs returned, with a lot of gifts and good food for Xuan-er, and a few books they had thought Ye Baiyi might like, as well as a few bottles of syrup for him to flavor his snow with.
Xuan-er had built a box that would shoot crossbow bolts without the crossbow, steadily feeding them into the mechanism; he proudly presented it to his father, and they took quite a while to take it apart and then improve it so it would shoot even faster.
Baiyi went and had some snow with pomegranate syrup; it wasn’t bad, really. He perched on a rock and looked into the valley where he hadn’t been for so long, except in especially fierce winters, and then only for a little bit.
He didn’t know how he felt about Changqing and Rong-furen being back. Life with Xuan-er had been fun; they had trained every day, there had been no set bedtimes or mealtimes for either of them, and they had just ambled through their days in the snow. Xuan-er’s martial arts had taken leaps and bounds with nobody to interrupt him. He did look a little unkempt now, but really, all those hot baths were overrated, especially for a nine year old.
It was already getting dark when Rong-furen came out to get her husband and son from the workshop; the fire was going, and she had been cooking dinner.
“What have you done to my plants?” she asked, casually, as she passed Ye Baiyi.
“Nothing,” he said, “except what you’d told me. The forge cats were much harder to take care of; the calico brought out her kittens, and we kept running after them. Xuan-er shot at an eagle who tried to grab one. They’re all doing fine.”
“Don’t deflect,” Rong-furen said. “My plants have never been this lush and healthy. You have made cuttings from the orchids, and the roots are coming on fine; the basil is almost a tree now, and the other herbs fairly burst from their window boxes. I have noticed the kittens because they were playing hide-and-seek in the silvergrass and jumping up to catch the fronds. The lotuses in their basin and the peonies in their container are already flowering even though it’s early for them, this far up. You turned out to be an excellent gardener.”
“I just did what you told me,” Ye Baiyi said. “I checked every day, and made sure the forge cats didn’t pee on them. That’s all.”
He may have been feeding the plants a little of his qi, but hey, he was an immortal, he had the stuff to spare.
“Do you want to carry on doing it?” she asked. “I have seen the way you repotted the little blue orchids; there was so much care and attention in the work. You enjoyed it, didn’t you?”
“Nah,” Baiyi said, “they’re your plants. I just didn’t want to be the one who killed them. Changqing -- well, he thought I’d screw up, so I wanted to show him I don’t. I’m no good at this, and the plants don’t really like me. I’m the last person you want as a gardener, really.”
“If you change your mind -- any time,” she shrugged, and went about her errand.
Changqing and Xuan-er emerged from the forge even before she had reached the door; they were holding out the kittens and talking enthusiastically while they walked back towards the house and their dinner.
“Good job, Baiyi,” Changqing said vaguely as he passed Ye Baiyi on his perch; he reached up to clap him on the upper arm, then went inside with his family, plants and Baiyi already forgotten.-
#i am writing#1k character challenge#ye baiyi#rong changqing#rongye#i default to sad canon rongye when given a YBY prompt any time#even though happy AU rongye (either AU) are a lot of fun too#world of the morning after: minglin once gave baiyi a flowering branch of plum and now it's a tree that is doing well on mount changming#city AU baiyi used to pay somebody to take care of the plants on the glassed-in balcony but now xie-er comes by for them once a week#and strictly instructs baiyi and changqing what to do with them in the meanwhile#and they are totally flourishing as none of them wants to disappoint the others
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i watched natla. while it does have issues i am v v happy w what they did w azula,,,,
#like she's a child just like the rest of them that's the point!!#love og azula love her va performance but i do think they kinda made her look older than she is#also saw a bunch of ppl on twt claiming she would never use a bow bc she thinks martial weapons are beneath her and like#tell me you dont understand her character without telling me you dont understand her character#she uses mai's knives and some martial arts at one point!! of course she'd train in other skills in case she cant bend for some reason!!#anyway me?? atlaposting in 2024? it's more likely than you think!! dont follow me for atla content tho you Will be disappointed#also i like the sets a lot i will say that. the cities looked so good......
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help the spam bots are getting better at usernames!!
anyway, apologies to all lurkers! i support lurking but right now i'm just automatically blocking any new followers who don't have any posts because i Just Cannot Tell anymore
if you want to lurk and follow me that's fine! welcome! but please reblog at least (1) post about absolutely anything from absolutely anywhere so i know you're a human being and not a robot who's gonna start sending me scam messages <3
#i'm really sure about these two because they have female models in their profile pics#which is an auto-fail for the tumblr user turing test#but there have been a few others recently where i wasn't sure#v. disappointed they've given up on the SUZY + EMOJI EMOJI EMOJI + CITY NAME profile naming style#it was funny and also very recognizable#oh well#life and times of tumblr spam bots
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#I can’t believe I’m allowed to express love to Carissa to the extent that the metalocalypse fandom or doomers allow to because random people#Pass through my city every day#She is the true empress Theresa#And no lie I think the russian men can have no further word for me in America (slow for cop cart men to go and end mckamey manor other#Several facts)#Usable human bones#Shamu#marvel studios#indoctronation#Spain Russia Africa Germany Mongolian colonies#Funding human bones after stem cell disappointment#Bread
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trying not to be genuinely sad that there are no listening events anywhere remotely close to me but i am genuinely sad that there are no listening events anywhere remotely close to me
#there are THREE in and around kansas city but NONE in oklahoma???? at all???? and ONE in dallas???????#and. not to mention so many other cities with multiple events and some states with none at all.#there are so many more record stores than are represented there. the indie record store in my town did a paramore listening event#for their album!! there are so many fans here and in the other states that have 0 representation !#it’s ultimately gonna be fine whatever im just. disappointed.
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after mike finally gets his shit together and decided to come out to the rest of the party (will already told them he’s gay, they were all ok with it) this is how it went when he told steve:
*at the byers, probably* (having a “welcome home” party for hopper?)
*mike grabs steve’s elbow and drags him to another room*
mike: alright harrington, i don’t want to make a big deal out of it so like don’t make it one but uh i’m bisexual and dating will
steve: oh that’s cool kid, i’m glad you finally figured that out :) and yk i’m bi too we’re like the same
mike: what?
steve: i’m… bisexual too?
mike: no you’re not
steve: ..what???
mike: you can’t be bi, I’M bi
steve: you don’t like own being bi dipshit
mike: ugh whatever
*nancy walks in*
nancy: oh hey mike did you tell him?
mike: yea, can you move from the door? he’s being weird so i’m gonna go find will
nancy: how is he being weird exactly?
steve: i told him that i’m bi too and apparently he’s the only one allowed to be bisexual
nancy: …
nancy: mike you do know that i’m also bi right?
mike: WHAT
(end note: look at the tags for a little extra explanation and stuff to this story)
#or: the day mike learned that he’s surrounded by gay people#they’re all gay#try to stop me#i want to mention that the reason mike is telling steve separately is because he actually kinda looks up to steve#and so he saved him for last#if steve had a bad reaction no one would be around to see mikes disappointment#yk cuz he hates feelings#mike doesn’t know much abt his own community#but that’s ok#he’s really oblivious#he was going to leave and find will if other people can actually be bisexual#he thought it was like one person per city can be *insert sexuality*#like robin is the only lesbian he knows of and will is the only gay person he knows of so he just assumed that’s how it worked#ig he hasn’t told eddie yet#maybe eddie is like sick or something so he can’t rn#anyways#stranger things#steve harrington#mike wheeler#byler#steddie#nancy wheeler#ronance#bisexual#bisexuality
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I think a lot of the debate about whether characters are truly good (or evil) in sjm’s books is caused by a flaw in consistence.
sjm will establish at the start that her characters are fae, and not bound to human norms, then proceed to write them exactly as if they were human, while still excusing their ‘fae’ actions.
It makes it difficult to excuse a fae for behaving like fae, when they’re written in all other respects (except for their morally grey or outright evil actions) like a human.
It also makes the line between ‘villain’ and ‘hero’ heavily blurred, because if the hero can do awful things and be excused by the narrative, why can’t the villain?
And I get that it’s probably difficult to write truly fae feeling fae and still make the characters relatable, but that is sort of a curse brought on by herself, isn’t it
#and it’s frustrating for the reader too#you’ll be blatantly told to support a character even as they do awful things#and then to hate a character even if they have done good things#it just gets to me#and i think it leads to a lot of the debate and bitterness surrounding certain characters#because if you try to analyse several of the characters on any level other than ‘fun fantasy/romance books!’ you will be disappointed#anyway#this is not meant as a slam against the author it’s just an observation#sjm critical#(not anti)#(i just think these books don’t really stand up to most forms of literary analysis)#(and we should stop taking them as seriously/treating them as if they do)#acotar#throne of glass#crescent city
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I'll spare my usual "I liked them before they became famous" hipster music rant about the alt-indie bands I come across but my god boygenius' newest album fucks so hard I wish I still had my car just to be able to drive around screaming the lyrics to Not Strong Enough.
#late night ramblings#im annoyed that all the bands/solo acts i like get popular because i can never get tickets (at a reasonable price) to their tours anymore#its happening with transviolet too now and theyre so fucking good live#the japanese house as well although shes more popular in the uk than the us but its im convinced its just a matter of time#im happy for them being successful and getting their music out to wider crowds but i miss the small club shows with three encores for $20#i miss being recongized if they come back to the same cities multiple times over the course of a few years#now it seems like if i want to go see any band its a minimum $75 outing usually more and the crowds haslve somehow gotten worse?#as in both numbers and quality. i used to be able to just vibe with whoever i was next too and we would bond for the night#then never see each other again but that was fine. now no one wants to even talk to anyone outside their group (unless theyre being a creep)#and venues are either stadium sized or way too small now. theres no in-between anymore#probably due to covid stuff but its disappointing#i dont even get super into the music scenes either i cant imagine what live music heads have been going through
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hhhhh why are symphony tickets so expensive >.<
#I would desperately love to see an actual performance of The Messiah this year#and—what luck!—there’s one in my town!!#exCEPT the tickets are $40 apiece. and I simply cannot justify that kind of money for that specific purchase when I am saving for college.#besides—even if I *did* decide I could just not get coffee for like the rest of the holidays and buy the ticket#I’d never be able to convince anyone else in my family to also spend that much and go with me#even tho my sister told me in earnest the other day that she’d really love to go to a performance someday#and my mom has mentioned on and off for years that she went to one once and would totally go again bc of how cool it was#also it’s doubly frustrating to me bc right smack in the middle of the orchestra’s website homepage there’s a big message#about how the orchestra can only continue to perform for the city if people continue to take an interest#and how they’re funded mostly thru ticket sales and really need people to buy tickets to keep them going#and I UNDERSTAND I’m not demanding that you give us these things for free!! art should be paid for!! I agree!!#but I simply cannot pay that *much*#it’s very disheartening bc I /want/ to support the arts I /want/ to experience beauty for myself but I CANNOT#entirely due to my efforts to be reasonable and think carefully about the future and avoid going into debt for the sake of my education#which is why I’m living at home working 45 hr weeks in retail all thru the holidays a year after I had planned to be at college#sorry I am not trying to bellyache and complain 😅🙃 simply sad and disappointed bc I was very much hoping to get to go see The Messiah#performed live in the our great big huge beautiful old Catholic Church downtown 🙃#mobile#gurt says stuff
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I don't know if it's just me but I was so incredibly underwhelmed by the scene the cover of Flashback is from. Like in Everblaze the scene on the cover is a rage of everblaze destroying a building and killing Kenric as Sophie and Fitz fall through the sky to escape after partially healing Fintan's mind!! and Nightfall has the three of them stopping and entire city from flooding at the climax of the book as they float into the sky and hold back the ocean!!
and then Flashback?? yes the illusion is cool and I love Wylie and Tam, and it is relevant to the alicorns and they're important, but the center! the star of the show! Sophie throwing a goblin throwing star directly at us! ....is from her getting nervous and hearing a sound that turns out to actually have been Tarina. and then they just make a joke out of it and move on. it is so disappointing to me
I thought it would have a lot more action and intrigue given that it's the cover of the book.
#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#like I love the art. it is so pretty. and it's one of the few times sophie isn't wearing white#but I distinctly remember being so underwhelmed when I finally got to that scene#just 'that's it?'#it's great in other ways. uses characters we haven't seen before. relates to things in the plot. looks cool#however I'll always disappointed because I thought it would be a scene with cool sophie fighting and being powerful in a new physical way#and it was not that#this is just how I feel about it tho#happened to have left the book on my bed and saw the cover and the disappointment hit me again#like yeah it's fine. but still
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