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mivyprismatic · 1 year

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Finished binging Earthspark yesterday and have compiled my thoughts on it.

It’s so incredibly charming and sweet, I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. The animation was beautiful, the characters were fun and entertaining, and the episodes didn’t feel like they dragged or were struggling for a narrative. The silliness and playfulness of the story didn’t get cringy, and it’s very clear the writing team were having fun. Furthermore, I loved that the narrative structure was light and enjoyable, and wasn’t heavy on exposition or dodging setup/pay off arcs with the excuse “It’s a Kids Show.” For lack of better examples it reminded me heavily of shows like MLP:FiM or Bluey; A sweet little story with a contemporary look at friendship and family structures, the problems, highs and lows they can have, with each episode ending in a lesson learnt. Likewise, Earthspark added elements to engage an older audience with elements of lore, and the relationships and struggles of the adults, that are adult in nature (raising children, trying to connect with said children as they’re growing up, post-war mum, etc.) Earthspark also seems to add both the adult and the youth elements to the stories without suffering from tonal dissonance imo, unlike other TF media (looking at you TFP.) Combined with such wonderful pieces of representation and a good cast of VA’s it’s a great piece of TF media so far.

This is my first Transformer’s media I get to enjoy upon release being so new to this fandom and it’s been an enjoyable experience thus far. Earthspark clearly has a strong G1 connection, this much was made clear with the trailers, and I was worried it was going to be hard to get into without having watched G1 stuff beyond the movie. There were homages and Easter eggs there for the long time fans as I found out while watching with my friend who got me into Transformers, but it wasn’t so full of these things that it felt alienating. I could easily enjoy the story without having to stop and go to the wiki to figure out wtf they were referring to. The G1 tie in does have me hoping we’ll get to see characters such as Ratchet and Hot Rod (or Rodimus, who knows) but we’ll see what future episodes will bring. I would love to see Rung in this story because he really would work well, but I have a better chance of being hit by lightning. Everything is spoiler past this point, read at own risk ...

The most compelling narrative line in Earthspark for me was the relationship between Megatron and Dot. It’s evident that she’s the reason he bounced from Decepticon to Autobot, or more dropped the tyrant to be the hero. Their relationship was exciting to see and felt natural, this is a pair with a past and she’s not ashamed of it, nor he. I’m very excited and hopeful to see this explored more as it’s a side to Megatron I don’t think has been used in TF media. Speaking of Megatron, he is to me the most compelling of the original cast and seems to be the most dimensional. He’s clearly caring about Dot (and presumably her children), he doesn’t hesitate to step up to the role of mentor and guardian for the Terrans, and seems to be proud to do so when he does. He cares, he seems to really care, about his own kind and the relationship between Cybertronians and human beings. He also hates GHOST and their agenda, and thoroughly disagrees with Optimus’ choice to align with them, but respects Optimus enough to not only follow him, but have his back. Both he and Optimus conflict, and it becomes a sticking point at times, but not enough to cause a rift anew. Megatron doesn’t want he or other Cybertronians to be feared by humans, which is an interesting change of pace for the former warlord. It’s not quite the reformed MTMTE Megatron (and fair enough, that’s a bit dark for a G/PG show) but I can certainly see that poet-come-activist in this version of Megatron. If Earthspark expands on why the war happened in the first place, I’m keen to learn of Megatron’s origins in it. I didn’t hate this version of Optimus, and at first I was meh about him, but come the final episode I want to know his backstory too. This version of Optimus is desperate to do right by his people and the people of Earth as to him he and the other Cybertronains are guests to the planet. Much like Megatron, Optimus knows they have to be allies with humans in order to live on the planet as they cannot return to Cybertron. However unlike Megatron, Optimus seems to trust the humans and GHOST in an almost desperate way. He doesn’t fully trust them, keeping the Terran’s and Bumblebee hidden from them, but he’s seems at a loss as to what else to do. Or perhaps feels he owes a debt to them? It hasn’t been made clear yet. He rounds up and imprisons ‘Cons to “keep the peace”, an act that clearly agitates Megatron, and OP isn’t terribly keen on either (as we see when he lets the Cassettecons go and agrees Megatron has a point) but he doesn’t stop doing it either. This is a very beaten and defeated OP from what I can see. The time he truly lights up and becomes that Prime we all know and love is when he’s around the Terrans and sees a future via them and their connection with the Malto kids.

The Terrans, Twitch and Thrash are fucking adorable, and so are the Malto kids Robby and Mo. They’re believably youthful and have convincing conflicts young people deal with. The Terran’s aren’t exempt from this and are written not as Cybertronians learning to be human, but Cybertronians experiencing what it is to be human. Robby is convincing as a young teen character, Mo is a good tween, and Twitch and Thrash have this wonderful innocence and naïveté that isn’t obnoxious and woks well as a plot device. They’re also distinctively their own characters which is good to see. The addition of the three new Terrans, Hashtag (really?) Jawbreaker and Nightshade at the end is a cool move. Expanding the cast and the family. Again, hopefully this means we’ll see more of the bots and cons added to, but wait and see.

Alex and Bumblebee are just a goddamn treat. Bee clearly feels he’s above this, and Alex is just happy to be involved with his family. Making him a doctor of history is a good touch as the lore exposition that comes from him seems more natural. Though I am interested to know how he knows about the Thirteen Primes. Watching Bee be a mentor again is very enjoyable. RiD15 wasn’t terrible with this aspect, in fact imo it was the only redeeming thing about RiD15. TFE Bee has a personality that is more dimensional that some of his predecessors and is a good in between from the more elder and experienced Cybertronians to the new and learning Terrans. He’s not arrogant with age and wisdom making him disconnected from the world he’s now part of, but he feels he’s a little more important than a mere mentor. Is it really a Soundwave/Megatron divorce arc when it was a decoy all along? Does Starscream hate humans in this story, or just pissy at Megatron for Reasons™, or perhaps it’s something else entirely. (Maybe wanting to keep the bots and Megs stranded on Earth?) Either way that reveal at the end had me screaming and that they brought back Steve Blum to voice the goddamn diva snake is a fucking blessing. I could only hear Knockout in the drama teacher. It’s cruel we get Daran Norris back in a TF show and he’s not Knockout. AND Steve Blum is back as Starscream. Fucking evil move.

Mandroid is a peak Comic Book™ type villain that adds some threat to the cast but not a sense of doom and foreboding. However he did hurt Megs, so maybe he’s something to be concerned about. His connection with Alex is odd, but may have some fun pay off. I hope that they go with a guest bot or con every other episode so the cast can be diverse and expanded without being overwhelming. I can see this being achieved with the new Terrans, much like Wheeljack meeting Twitch. I can see characters like Prowl and Ratchet showing up to help the young ones, or Hot Rod coming in with Arcee to be an antagoniser. As with everyone there are characters I’d love to see, Drift and Rung would actually work in this story line very well, and Ultra Magnus would be a fun in-between of Megatron and Optimus. But the show can only do so much.

All in all I really love TFE and have high hopes for it. It has extreme potential as a piece of TF media and I hope the best for it going forward! Also I am very normal about Megatron, his voice and how he treats these characters and am totally not jealous of Dot, not at all. K Thnx Bye!

#tf earthspark #transformers earthspark #tfe #tfe spoilers #tf earthspark spoilers #long post #devilish thoughts #I adore Megatron and I want more of him #now if possible #this Megatron writes poetry and blog pieces and I wont be convinced otherwise #There's no real crit in this piece just good thoughts #Not that I don't have crit on TFE but I just wanted to write a more positive review #These opinions are my own yall free to disagree

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c4ndl3-w1ck · 2 years

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oog. Hiveswap/hauntswitch time.

This is just basically thoughts and stuff whoopee

Dammek thoughts woo woo he lives in my head

Um okay so Dammek is y'know. Mlm and trans yea yep okaie um also. He is a tall mfer. Like he is 5'8. Hes pretty average like body type wise and then he stands up and people are like "haha whAT THE FUCK" and his antlers only make him look taller.

Also he has mutations like any good troll important to the story. His antlers are actual antlers that he sheds twice a sweep and they grow back. And his eyes are sensitive to light and that's why he wears shades. But when its pitch black and even the trolls with the best eyesight cant see he can see eveything.

Also hes a stupid bastard idiot (affectionate)

Like he'd be like "xeff are you recording okay good hey guys Dammek here ttoday I'm gonna be biking offff my rooff and across tthe sttreett tto xeff's hive witth tthis ramp I made" then he points to the shittiest most unstable 'ramp' ever. Then he rides off it and lands in the middle of the street and breaks his nose and knocks some teeth out. Like full on "hi I'm dammek and tthis xeffros welcome tto jackass" (causes severe damage to both of them)

When he gets to earth for a while he and jude are trying to kill eachother and then when they calm down and stop they still have the dynamic of like frenemies "DAMMEK WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING over" (starts breaking shit) "sir ffinishing tthis ffightt"

He plays a lot of video games like troll halo y'know authority director aka troll master chief and he also plays troll nintendo and sonnic the quillbeast and on his gamegrub (gameboy) and his 3ds and he plays on his wii as well and yeah. Hes a gamer.

My man spends his days watching troll vines

Alternia still has vines and tiktok is still music.ly

Okay but also he like. Is kinda hard on Xefros because he genuinely thinks he's helping him and wants to keep himb safe. Also it says on the wiki he likes Xefros' smile and. 🥺🥺🥺 my heart. Also he has repressed flushed feelings for Xefros that he never mentions ever on alternia but as soon as he gets to earth and stops trying to kill jude hes like "ohhhh I miss my boyfriend uggghhhh" and never bothers to explain quadrants so jude just thinks hes dating Xef and Dammek never cares to correct him on that he doesn't find it important to be like "aha. Acttually we are justt moirails aka bestties ahaha" because y'know. Repressed feelings.

Also hes a fucking loser he is nearing 7 sweeps so he is 14 or 15 and as someone who is 14 hes a fucking loser (affectionate)

Also coming back to the antler thing I feel like he would shed them on earth and jude would try to put his mom's makeup on Dammek to make him look human and Dammek is just running around screaming and jude has to physically wrestle him down and put the makeup on him. Hes squirming like a cat and hissing and shit like "gett ttff off me I'm gonna kill you jude you are going tto die" and jude is trying to remain calm as this older alien who could throw him if he wanted to is threatening him. He gets the makeup on and just kinda. Brings him around town.

Before he disguises him tho he parades him around town like "I FOUND AN ALIEN over" and nobody believes him. He takes Dammek in for show and tell and his teacher is like "jude please stop dressing up your sisters friends like aliens" and jude is like "my sister doesn't have any friends" and Dammek starts laughing but it sounds more like clicking and chittering and everyone is confused and hes like "idk wttff a sistter is butt nice ffuckin burn jude"

#dammek #thoughts #headcanons #personal interpertation #hs #hiveswap #hauntswitch

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m39 · 2 years

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Doom WADs’ Roulette (2002): Nimrod

And so, we reached the last partial/total conversion on the Doomworld’s top 10 WADs from 2002.

And honestly, I wish it was a better send-off to these.

#5: Ni'mRoD - IXNAY on the HOMBRE

Main author(s): Unholy Software

Release date: July 23rd, 2002 (original release)/September 11th, 2005(GZDoom update version, database)

Version(s) played: GZDoom update

Required port compatibility: Doom Legacy/GZDoom

Levels: 10

Okay, I know I sound kind of pessimistic, but my first impressions with Nimrod were, let’s say, not really good. Despite seeing many people praising this WAD, I’ve found many problems that my first playthrough made me feel like I don’t want to touch it ever again. But I’ll elaborate on that later.

So let’s see who made this WAD, shall we (don’t send any threats to these folks, people!)?

We have Kristian Käll, who created 2001’s Phobia (later turned into Despair) and was leading the project behind Nimrod.

We have Paul Corfiatis, who was the main contributor behind 2002 A Doom Odyssey (most of the levels and the soundtrack) and was one of the composers for this WAD.

We have Sam Woodman, the author of the (in)famous Alien Vendetta map, Demonic Hordes, who also made two tracks for this WAD.

And finally, we have James Haley, the man behind Eternity Engine, who helped with the FraggleScript for Nimrod.

There are still other people who contributed to the creation of this WAD. Check the nimrod_team text file, or the Doom Wiki page to get the full list.

As for the story, you play as the titular Nimrod, a UAC soldier that was turned into a cyborg, 30 years after the events of Doom II. You are playing poker with some buddies in an abandoned storage facility when all of the sudden, shit turns into the typical Doom WAD plot AKA you being the last survivor cleaning up UAC’s mess.

And as you progress through the WAD, you find out that this mess is happening due to the original teleporters. Not because they are working but because they might cause more shitshow for humanity. Now stored in a place/planet called ExDeus, you have to go there to blow up these junks to make sure nothing bad will happen with these being used.

What I like about this plot is that it’s not invasive. It doesn’t force you to stop to read some stuff about it as much as some of the other WADs that used this technic in the past. There is even a cutscene in the second map where you talk to another person and he gives you a gun.

What I didn’t notice during my first playthrough, is that in the second half, your commander can’t communicate with you, so he leaves messages inside of the GZDoom’s console command (and I wish that it was written how to use this mechanic in the textfile rather than thinking that I must press other keys to read the messages).

Let’s continue out with an even more positive note. This WAD looks very good. While it focuses almost entirely on the style of the oppressive, industrial-like factories/tech bases, sometimes its architecture looks incredible. Which says something since, as I said earlier, you start off in an abandoned storage facility.

Almost all of your weapons and most of the enemies got changed sprites. It’s mostly digitalized 3D models and they look fine. I don’t think I have any problems with them. The rest of the sprite work is also good.

What I don’t like, however, is that the maps are sometimes too dark. You will be walking around it until you end up in the room/area where you can barely see anything. God help the poor bastards who play this WAD and suddenly a little bit of natural light comes at their monitors and makes them blind as a bat.

Changing the subject into something more positive: the music. It’s also good. If some of you may notice that it seems to repeat itself, that’s because it has a leitmotif. And as for my favorite track, it’s called Angry Riots, Troopers Yell from MAP07 (despite the fact that I muted the music on my first playthrough ‘cause this map gave me a White Fever).

The sound effects were fine, I guess? I’ve heard some of these from Doom 64 (like the Dark 7 Duology) and these are always at least good. The rest of the sound effects were... well I wouldn’t call them bad but I feel like it all needed some additional work on them. The worst was the one where it resembled something smashing against the floor or ceiling and it sounds horribly bit-crushed, sounds too loud in some places, and is just downright terrible. Didn’t help that I had to listen to this one many times during my journey through Nimrod.

Believe it or not, there is an actual voice acting in this WAD (plus some additional stuff from the voice synthesizer). Mostly prominent in the first four levels. And the quality is mixed in my opinion. Nimrod and Havoc sound pretty fine, but the commander sounds like garbage. Couldn’t they just make his voice just a little bit bit-crushed instead of making him sound like a diet, HECU Marine?

Also, the status bar looks somewhat unreadable. I keep getting numbers wrong.

That’s all about the visual stuff from me. But what about the gameplay though? How does it feel to play Nimrod without focusing on combat and monsters?

Well, it’s more complex than the typical Doom stuff. It’s not just going from one place to another while looking for keys. You are given a task to do on most of the maps like blowing up all of the old teleporters in The Alpha Outpost, charging one of the batteries in The Twice Risen Starport, or overloading one of the machines in The Underground Sewer Facility.

This WAD is split into three locations. You start out on Phobos (where you spend most of the time here), then crash onto ExDeus, and finally end up near the nuclear missiles facility on Mars.

Sometimes you have to pick up an item to place it somewhere to go further, like the previously mentioned batteries and explosives. One of these items will actually lead you to the secret area if you know where to look (it’s in Crate Factory).

Also, you have to remember this thing: Jumping is important! It is required to go further to get an item or a key or get into a switch or something else.

There is one funny thing related to the old teleporters mentioned earlier, where you have to destroy the last one by using a crane to drop from a high altitude. It’s really funny.

But you know what’s not funny? How really complicated most of the maps are. To the point that during your first playthrough you might be thinking that you are playing the spiritual successor to Eternal Doom and/or Herian 2. And that you start cheating because you are sick of these.

Let’s start with the level geometry. Many of these levels feel like some kind of double-jointed Frankenstein’s monster of a map. Even if you know where you are supposed to go and what to do next, you will still get lost due to how levels’ gigantic amount of passages lead to the same room/rooms.

Stuff connected with items is more tolerable but not as much. I already mentioned the dark rooms where you can barely see anything, and I’m mentioning it again because it is also related to the items other than keys/parts of the human body. It doesn’t help that some of these items tend to blend with the environment of the room that is placed. You might even think they are part of a map itself, thinking that they are just an added detail because it looks funny but nope. They are pickable and required.

And let me tell you something. The Alpha Outpost might have my favorite music track in this WAD but it might also be the most overly complicated level in Nimrod. I’ve already mentioned most of the stuff earlier that adds to my dislike for this level but let me tell you about the yellow key. It’s in a watch tower, behind the yellow door. How do you get it then without thinking: Why did the author put the key there in the first place? You break the window near the door to get there... Yeah, something that might never come to your head when first time playing if you played already many WADs that don’t require something like that unless you watch/read a walkthrough on the internet.

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You know, I should have gone apeshit at this point, but by now I think I’m starting to have a burnout from playing Doom WADs. I had to play one level per hour (or something close to that timeframe) while screenshotting keys’/secrets’ locations to not go insane.

Let’s change the subject. How hard is Nimrod? Well, it’s somewhere in between. Rather average. If you know where the items are along with the secrets, I don’t really think you will have problems with this WAD.

But it still has some bullshit sprinkled around, like fighting three Arachnotrons on the first map, the big groups of Hoovies in later levels (and placed in a dickish way), and new high-tier monsters that are in dozens in some of the maps.

And speaking of the new enemies, there are a few of these:

Instead of Zombiemen, you are now fighting Undead Guards, who will fire at you either like Zombiemen or SS-men. Other hitscanners are here but only Hoovies look different (along with Imps).

Pinkies are now bigger and black and they, like, propel fastly towards their target with their mouths. Also, they are using the name that will be used in the future by the infamous Sequel Trilogy hater: Longman of YouTube.

We have Badasses, green-colored cyborgs who shoot plasma at you, at a faster rate than spiders, and are worse than the hitscanners (same pain state chance as Barons I believe). I like to call them The Bruh Men since when they are awakened they say something that sounds like Bruh.

There is the red variant of these in The Underground Sewer Facility that you have to kill to rip his eye out to finish the level.

You won’t find any barons in this WAD. Instead, there are Archdemons, AKA Let’s make Arch-vile but without any indication that he’s attacking you and with a smaller timeframe to hide from his attack. They are bullshit.

Also, we have BAM, a huge cyborg that either shoots two Hellraiser’s blasts or hitscans your ass. He’s also bullshit.

So yeah, half of the new roster is basically Let’s make a new monster out of the old monster but more unfair to fight.

Do you at least have a good arsenal to fight them? Well, it’s hard to actually tell. Shotgun and Chaingun (now titled Panzer Bullet Chaingun) fire at a faster rate but that’s basically it for all of the weapons. The only exception is the previously mentioned Hellraiser, which kind of works like some kind of mini-nuke that obliterates every monster (including you) that is not Spider Mastermind or BAM. And in their case you need much more blasts than BFG to put them down, making this weapon obsolete on them (at least in terms of the Huge B8tch).

Even though the GZDoom version is playable and I didn’t encounter any bugs for almost all of the WAD, it can't be beaten without noclipping due to the one blue door in Shipping/Receiving/Spaceport.

For some reason, it requires a specific type of key to be open (keycard) but there is a problem: THERE IS NO SUCH A THING AS BLUE KEYCARD IN THIS WAD! Every human body part that you will find is slotted as Blue Skull. I even tried to summon the keycard myself and all I got was just some bullets. So basically, if you want to complete this level without cheating, then you are screwed. Other doors in this map don’t act like that (except the one that requires all three colors) so this piece of junk feels like an omitted game-breaking bug.

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sigh

That was Nimrod, people. I had no expectations for this WAD, and I still ended up with mixed feelings about it. I can definitely see that it has a heart due to all of these 3D models created and this WAD’s plot trying to give you a reason why are you doing these things. The problem, however, is that it’s mostly unnecessarily complicated, sometimes cheap in difficulty, and downright unbeatable due to the one door in MAP06 if you want to play the entire WAD in one go.

Then again, that’s probably what happens when you try to create a Singleplayer WAD experience when started as a Deathmatch package idea.

And I’m glad I’m done with this WAD since I’ve played three WADs in a row (not counting the first Dark 7) that were either partial or total conversion.

Good news though, the next WAD on the list is not like the ones from the near past. The bad news is that it’s a Doom I WAD made by a guy who probably made the least enjoyable maps in 2002 A Doom Odyssey.

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You know what they say: You win some. You lose some.

See you guys next time.

#doom #Doom WAD #review #doom mod #Doom 2 #2002 #doom 2002 #Ni'mRoD - IXNAY on the HOMBRE #nimrod #doom nimrod #Doom WADs’ Roulette

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fill-me-with-your-memes-daddy · 3 years

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Watching the Rise of the Titans movie and I'll be documenting all of my thoughts/reactions here. [Spoiler Warning]

So instead of reblogging every new update, I'm just going to have this post up on my phone as I watch and type my reactions in a bullet list format.

Nari's human disguise is so cute. As someone who does have a cottagecore aesthetic, I want to cosplay her so bad

Are Skrael and/or Belroc non-binary coded? Regardless, I'm also obsessed and I want to fuck Skrael and be Belroc.

STEVE CARING ABOUT JIM BEING HURT YESSSS!!! My god his redemption has probably been one of the greatest there is because he doesn't just suddenly go from being a bully to a completely good person. You can see the gradual shift in learning better throughout the shows which is awesome.

IN NEW YOOOOOOORRRRRRRK!!!!!! CONCRETE JUNGLE WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE OFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!

The mugshot montage reminded me of season 1 of trollhunters when toby and Jim were arrested at the museum.

STRICKLER PUT A RING ON IT??? HE'S THE ONLY DILF IVE EVER ACTUALLY AGREED WAS HOT WYM I CAN'T HAVE HIM??? well I'm still really happy about his arc over the series probably one of my favorite character growths.

Eli my guy got his growth spurt!!! As an 18 year old who is still 5'0", I'm happy but envious for him

So I went into this movie without watching any trailers or promo, but I doubt anything could have prepared me for the existence of mpreg. In fact, I wasn't going to document my reactions until I saw that.

NAMURA!!!!!!!!! MY BELOVED!!!!!! I CAN STILL THIRST FOR YOU WITHOUT GUILT

The coach teacher just called the kids zoomers so I have to dock one point from my final rating just because of that. Unforgivable

Those husky animation models suck lmao

Oh fuck the titans got power ranger zords!!

God why did they include the mpreg??? This movie would have been perfect without it.... After that plot point being revisited only one time I'm already beyond done with it

Like it's bringing me back to the v*ltron days where they're was a suspiciously high amount of klance omegaverse and mpreg fics and art created and it physically hurts because Steve and Keith's voice actor is the same person meaning this is especially cursed to me since I was unfortunately in the v*ltron fandom and remember all of that

But like on another note, how old are these characters again??? I haven't checked any wikis because of spoilers but is Steve an adult??? I know aja might be technically a lot older than 18 because alien but is whatever age she is equivalent to an adult as far as emotionally and physically in Akaridion development??? IS THIS A TEEN (M)PREGNANCY IN A KIDS SHOW????

Like bruh I saw a singular post on here before going into the movie that was like "rott spoilers without context" and there was a pregnant belly but I was absolutely not expecting the actual context of it. I'll find the post after I finish and edit this post to tag the creator right here: @makoden

This entire post is just gonna be me ranting about mpreg huh

Anyway I love the whole roundtable allusion to the legends of king arthur (not the toa version but the one he's based off)

THERE'S 3 TO 5 BABIES????? I need to take a break bruh this is just too much

Alright I've taken a 30 minute break got some food and did some things i love (decompressed by tactile stimming with some owl plushies and watched some videos on my favorite owl, Garu. He lives in Japan with his owner and is a domesticated eagle owl who basically just acts like a sky cat. If anyone else needs some eye bleach, here is their YouTube channel)

Blinky and ARRRGHHH!!! saying their "if one of us doesn't make it" talk my god one of them is going to die I can see it and I will be utterly crushed. Jim can't lose another father figure and Toby can't lose his wingman again I will riot if this happens

On a similar but unrelated to the movie note, can we just talk about how toa started with Jim having 0 dads and (if strickler and blinky live to the end) will end with 2 dads? Like I just really feel happy for him that he has two dads who actually figured out how to put the past behind them to not have any infighting between them so that both of them are healthy father figures. Jim has already been through literal hell and back losing his actual humanity in the process so if he loses one of them, I'm going to be really pissed because at this point, this is just Jim torture porn. Y'all know how as SpongeBob SquarePants went on, the show just became Squidward torture porn? It's starting to feel that way for toa and I really hope they cut the shit by the ending

Jlaire is such a good ship but like I feel like it's too perfect they never disagree with each other

YESSSSSSS Someone finally doesn't treat toby like a fat waste of space who messes stuff up!!! I think out of all the characters that would have been most deserving of a rewrite, it's Toby. Sometimes I just feel he's only comic relief and any heartfelt moments he's had in the series was also born of stupidity (ie his flour baby project being unharmed was seen by him as divine intervention from his parents but was actually just Eli and Steve behind the scenes).

Ohhhhh yesssssss Archie's father!!! I was hoping I'd see him again because we got so little of him last

Ooooooooooh Asian trollmarket!!!!!

Oh never mind slavery trollmarket

Bruh titanic camelot

I feel like we're not seeing enough of the villains because I completely forgot about the power ranger zord things

NAMORA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY LAST CRUSHHHH

STRICKLER NO NOT YOU TOO PLEASE

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE ONLY TWO CHARACTERS I SIMP FOR ON THIS SHOW DIED WITHIN FIVE MINUTES OF EACH OTHER

THAT WHOLE ASS RANT I WROTE IS COMING TRUE FUCK THIS MOVIE THIS SERIES IS JUST JIM TORTURE PORN

WAIT JIM'S SPERM DONOR INFO?

Oh thank God I don't want to know anything about that person

For the record, I call that man Jim's sperm donor because he has no business being called a father to him. All he did was donate some swimmers to the creation of him and give him abandonment issues

Oh another blind troll elder???? This fucker is just if vendel was a bad guy

Bruh I was grieving

PACIFIC RIM WITH GUN ROBOT VEX AND THE BELROCZORD? I've never seen that movie but I know the reference

Bruh Blinky doesn't read horoscopes? Does he realize conspiracy theories are just the manly version of horoscopes?

NO DON'T KILL VEX STOP KO-ING FOUND FAMILY MEMBERS

Oh thank God he's okay

NO NOT ARCHIE AND CHARLEMAGNE OH MY GOD

oh never mind they're just gonna coup de tat I believe in them :))

But I want to see him again

But I'm glad to see vex

Yay they're in arcadia!

But yeah I wondered why the trolls and Merlin didn't keep the whole "daylight doesn't hurt trolls" feature from the eternal night but now Guillermo del Toro I see you were playing the long con in that just to kill my girl Namora :(((

Oooooh I love the animation of the Narizord over Chihuahua!! It looks very good and realistic (if only they could have put some of that into those huskies from before smh)

Bruh the character designs of the arcane order are so good I want to be them

Nari making sure the Skraelzord doesn't crush the bus

DAMN DOUBLE HOMICIDE

Bruh I'm just glad we finally have an answer on why arcadia had everything going on as opposed to literally anywhere else!! I always found that as a weird coincidence for plot convince.

BRUH WERE BACK TO THE MPREG IM SO JEALOUS I FORGOT ABOUT THAT EVEN THOUGH IT WAS BECAUSE I WAS GRIEVING THE LOSS OF MY LOVELIES.

Oh that's real convenient that the ninth configuration meant all of them. Way to not decide which character gets more attention. Though it probably was a smart way to not have any infighting in the fandom between each character's stan group.

Bruh I just realized where is Barbera did they just ditch her on the Camelot ship???

And where are the other trolls that migrated at the end of trollhunters s3? They said something about new jersey but obviously Jim and the other main characters got on Camelot instead.... This feels like a plot hole

And we never learned the process of how changelings are made and bonded to humans and stuff. We just know it's super painful but I'm curious ffs!!!!

THE DONT THINK BECOME HERO SPEECH ALL SAID TOGETHER!!!

BRUH THEY REALLY HAD TO SHOW HIM GIVING BIRTH??????? WAS THAT AN ABSOLUTE MUST??????

Plus the main audience for this series is little children (the rating for the movie is literally TV-Y7) so even though my adult ass is not in the target audience, I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND WHY WOULD MPREG AND ANAL BIRTH WOULD BE AN IMPORTANT THING TO 7 YEAR OLDS???? THIS IS A LITERAL FETISH HIDDEN IN KIDS CONTENT ITS ELSAGATE ALL OVER AGAIN Y'ALL 😭😭😭😭😭

Though it's probably hypocritical of me to think fetishes don't belong in kids tv when I've openly admitted to thirsting for strickler and namora

HUZZAH

NEW AMULET WAZ GOOD????

STAB THAT BITCH JIM

WAIT NO I SAID STAB NOT GET STABBED

Alright good job just missed the directions at first but you fixed it

SEVEN KIDS?????????

T O B Y ????????????

W A I T NO

N O

IS HE ACTUALLY

OH MY GOD THERE'S HOPE

NO THERE ISN'T

F U C K THIS SHIT THEY REALLY JUST HAD HIM TO BE BULLIED THEN KILLED

Y'ALL IM ACTUALLY CRYING THIS NEVER HAPPENS

I NEVER ACTUALLY GET SO EMOTIONAL OVER MEDIA THAT I CRY IT ONLY HAPPENED ONCE AT THE END OF VOLTRON BUT AHHHHHHHH

W A I T

HE'S GONNA BE BROUGHT BACK?????

HOLD UP THEY'RE JUST GONNA BRING ALL THOSE DEAD PEOPLE BACK??????

WAIT IS HE

BLINKY CALLED HIM A SON

HOLD ON IS THIS GOING TO BE A CLIFFHANGER???????????

BRUH THEY REALLY JUST CAN'T END THE SERIES WITHOUT CLIFFHANGERS like there's always an open ending

TROLLHUNTER TOBY????? You know what forget the whole rants I had on how toby was written they just redeemed it all

And that's all! I'd rate it a 6.5/10 because it's definitely the weakest of all the sequels but still had amazing animation and some good plot points. It's just really hard to look over the bad stuff enough to rate it any higher.

#tales of arcadia #rise of the titans #trollhunters #rott #rise of the titans spoilers #rott spoilers #toa #3 below #athena's own original post!#jim lake jr #claire nuñez #toby domzalski

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Essential Avengers: Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #1-3

May, 1984

THE WAR BEGINS

Oof, here we go.

Just gotta replicate the pace that let me do the Hawkeye miniseries in one go, three times in a row.

This is probably too much effort considering its Secret Wars (or more accurately Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars) and maybe there’s not going to be a lot of big changes from this in the Avengers book to really justify it.

But we’re getting Jim Shooter writing the Avengers and his non-consecutive runs were a lot better than I had remembered. And it continues the theme he had from the Avengers book.

It just makes sense in a nonsense way to cover this story.

Last relevant time in Avengers! Acting Completely Normal Vision warned the Avengers about some weird, possibly hostile energy surges right in time for an energy surge to surge energetically in Central Park.

When the Avengers went to investigate, they found a weird structure that looked like a techy coliseum maybe. When some of the Avengers wandered into it (apparently the most bankable Avengers? Sucks to be Vision and Wanda, shrug) they vanished.

In the next issue, after several days, these heroes returned, speaking of a secret war they fought. Weird stuff like She-Hulk taking the Thing’s place on the Fantastic Four happened. In other books, Spidey got a cool new suit.

Would you know more?

After being raptured in their various books, the missing superheroes all end up on one of those distinctive structures like the one that appeared in Central Park, except IN SPACE.

Its cool that the Avengers will have some company.

We’ve got a terrific 3/4ths of the Fantastic Four, the X-Men (including Lockheed but not including Kitty Pryde for some reason), the Avengers, Iron Man, Spider-Man, the totally Articulate Hulk, and hilariously Magneto is also here.

Maybe Secret Wars is just setting up the most awkward moment in the universe, as a prank show.

I think I’d enjoy a big event that turned out to be a prank show at the last minute. The fan discontent. Imagine.

Everyone introduces themselves to each other but mostly the audience and Ben Grimm claims his new codename as the Easter Bunny.

Checking, marvel wiki doesn’t have Easter Bunny listed as one of Ben’s known aliases. Cowards.

Looking up into space, Captain America spots another one of the totally cool constructs and Professor X scans that it contains EEEEEEEVIL.

Specifically Amora the Enchantress, Ultron, the Wrecking Crew, the Absorbing Man, the Lizard, VICTOR VON DOOOOOM, Kang the Conqueror, Doctor Octopus, and Molecule Man. Also, hilariously, Galactus is there.

I’m more convinced than ever that this is a prank show.

You know what would be more hilarious? If Punisher ended up on this construct.

The distribution of villains is kind of odd though. Galactus and Doctor Doom map to the FF. Doctor Octopus and the Lizard to Spider-Man. Ultron, Molecule Man, and Kang are Avengers foes. The Absorbing Man and the Wrecking Crew can go a couple ways but started off as Thor villains. And Amora is usually a Thor villain but supposedly has chilled out around this time or at least is less of a pain than her horny sister.

No X-Men villains. Because Magneto is chilling with them in the generally heroic pod.

Also, all the heroes were raptured from Earth while the villains were grabbed from Earth, from space, from Asgard, resurrected just to be here, or from the FUTURE.

I know marketing is wagging the dog but be consistent, secret organizer who we don’t know yet.

The Thing points out that Magnet is off-sides, re: being in the hero construct, and Magneto is like ‘hey, chill out dudes’ and denies specifically doing murders.

Magneto: “I know not what power transported me here from my secret lair, nor why I was placed among you -- but I find it more appropriate to ask why such as you were judged fit to be placed in my presence!”

Oof.

Burn.

Then the conversation is put on halt on account of the wildest shit any of them have ever seen.

An entire galaxy vanishes but probably not due to a wave of anti-matter.

Thor: “It’s gone! Gone -- ! Swept away like dust before some unseen, giant hand!”

And then around that last star left unswept, various chunks merge together to form some sort of world, perhaps for battle.

A nice touch for later is that you can definitely see that one of the chunks is a stray chunk of city.

Some of the villains start squabbling because close quarters, ego, etc.

But Ultron goes hey we’re allowed to fight? I’m the best at that.

Ultron: “I am Ultron! I do not understand the events transpiring! I do not understand how I came to be resurrected... nor how I came to be here! Nothing computes... Insignificant! I am Ultron! My purpose is to slay that which lives. You are all living things, ergo -- Ultron must destroy you!”

With the benefit of having read all the Avengers up to now, I feel that Ultron got up on the wrong side of the resurrection a little.

He’s not not like this but he’s not usually this turned on?

(Then again, maybe he just came back cranky)

DOOM grabs and shakes Molecule Man to do something about this because given enough time even the mighty DOOM might fall before Ultron.

Ultron is famously annoying to defeat, what with that adamantium.

But Molecule Man is in therapy after the Avengers kicked his shit and Tigra yelled at him for being a punk. He doesn’t want to hurt anyone.

So Doom with all his brilliant genius tells MM a cool way to help out that won’t hurt anyone. Directly.

Using his Molecule Man power over molecules to lightly toss Ultron into Galactus.

So that Galactus goes ‘who the fuck scuffed my boots’ and rips out all the energy in Ultron’s Ultron.

He can do that.

Why wouldn’t he? If he can do that to a planet, he can do it to a pissbaby robot. Even one apparently containing more power than an atom bomb.

Then, because this is one of those plots where things are always thenning, a rift opens in the nothingness of space and a heavenly esque light shines out. A warbly voice commands the action figures beat each other up.

I mean. Its more like

The Beyonder: “I am from beyond! Slay your enemies and all you desire shall be yours! Nothing you dream of is impossible for me to accomplish!”

But you have to admire that this toy commercial of a comic book is being honest and upfront about being a story where action figures bonk off of each other.

Galactus just hears ‘i can finally shake off these persistent forever munchies’ and flies off to demand prepayment for action figure bonking, with DOOM following behind him.

The Beyonder speaks up warning Galactus that hey, personal space. And that a guy that can effortlessly wipe out a galaxy is gonna have a sweet barrier but Galactus wants the hunger pangs gone and does not listen.

DOOM recognizes a bad idea when he sees one once in a while and hangs back but still gets blown out of space by the force of Galactus bonking off the Beyonder’s barriers.

Captain America: “They were swatted back like flies!”

Professor X: “To the Beyonder, even Galactus is less than a fly, Captain!”

Interruption dealt with, the Beyonder gets the show on the road and sends the two constructs to different parts of the patchwork planet.

The Marvel Super Heroes And Magneto land on some hill and quickly make sure that there are no villains excepting Magneto around.

With Magneto around, the non-X-Men raise an objection to Magneto being around.

He sank a Russian submarine with all hands back in X-Men #150 but he insists that it was self-defense and also they started it.

The X-Men’s position is ‘hey he’s a jerk but he’s our jerk plus we could use his help? The bad guys get GALACTUS, how is that fair?’

Well, they don’t say it but they’re probably thinking it.

And Hawkeye decides to be a little racist today.

Hawkeye: “You mutants stick together, huh? Well, sticking to a blood-soaked maniac like him doesn’t speak well of you, pal!”

Dude, Clint. Your dear old friend is Wanda.

Wait, why ISN’T Wanda here? Did the toy people really not want her? Fools. Her husband is toyetic as all get out.

Also, point of order, Wolverine? If anyone qualifies as ‘hey he’s a jerk but he’s our jerk!’ here its you.

Johnny “good life choices” Storm decides he’ll just kick Magneto’s ass and end the debate but yeah. Yeah, no. Magneto makes a fool of him.

And then Magneto decides eff this noise and flies off.

With Magneto alienated (good job, guys), Professor X decides this group needs some dang leadership and throws a nomination to Reed Richards. Reed defers since he’s thinking of Sue, left at home and not able to participate in the event.

Wasp, the cool leader of the Avengers, nominates instead Captain America.

Wasp: “We’re off in a strange land, up to our ears in a little secret war that may decide the fate of the universe! Some people don’t know me well! They might have doubts... and there’s no room for that!”

I’m baffled that there’s people here who don’t know Wasp who has been heroing since the 60s but sure. Cap(tain America) probably gets more crossovers and whatever.

I mean, heck, we’re talking a group of heroes consisting of the Avengers (who she already leads), the Fantastic Three (who she’s well acquainted with), and the X-Men (who I’m sure she’s met, although awkwardly its going to later be revealed that Wasp is in the Hellfire Club, but only the sex parts).

And I guess Wolverine’s extensive backstory with Cap doesn’t exist yet because Wolverine isn’t keen on him being the leader, describing him as the least of the assembled heroes. When Hawkeye is right there!

I kid because I love.

Meanwhile, DOOM wakes up adjacent to Galactus ankle and heads to a nearby fortress which he correctly assumes is where the villains have ended up.

Wait, the heroes get beamed down to a random hill while the villains get sent to an advanced fortress with weaponry and we later learn vehicles sold separately?

Kinda stacking the deck, the Beyonder.

You gave the villains GALACTUS and A FORTRESS PLAYSET right out of the gate.

The other villains tell Doom that they’ve (mostly) decided that he should be their leader. But Doom has bigger fish to fry than the prizes that the Beyonder is offering.

In typical Doomesque fashion, he wants the whole kettle. But the other villains what with their petty concerns think he’s too afraid to fight.

So he ditches.

He goes to steal-borrow a spaceship and even though he hates the thought, takes off to go talk to Richards. And then Kang shoots him out of the sky with a GIANT GUN THAT THE VILLAIN FORTRESS ALSO HAS? to stop him from allying with the heroes.

Said (marvel super) heroes see the distant explosion and fly as a group in the most hilarious way possible to check it out.

God, I have always loved this image. Its squished down into the bottom third of the page but its a delight.

They find Doom sprawled in the crash site, rambling that he’ll only speak to RICHARRRRRDS and about the Beyonder’s power. But Cap offends Doom mightily but offering him a hand up and because Doom sees pity in Cap and RICHARRRRRRDS eyes.

So he blasts the heroes and fucks off.

How very Bakugou of him.

And right as the heroes recover from that, a bunch of villains arrive to get this secret war started.

I have a fondness for this particular issue. For a long while, issue 1 was the only issue of Secret Wars I could find. So I just had the start of this story with all these non-Spider-Man non-X-Men heroes I barely knew cliffhangering into an attack by villains I really didn’t recognize except for Doc Ock and the Lizard.

It was a window into another side of the Marvel Universe. And for child me, this first issue worked perfectly to intrigue me. All these characters, the very straightforward conflict, all the complications that immediately pop up like Magneto, Galactus, and Doom. Alas, small child resources.

June, 1984

PRISONERS of War!

The heroes react slowly to the sudden villain attack but thankfully, the villains aren’t working together well. Unthankfully, half of the heroes were already knocked out by the first attack.

Meanwhile, over at Doctor Doom’s side of the plot, he flies back over to where Galactus just in time to see him finally rouse from being slapped down by the Beyonder.

Galactus floats to his feet and wanders off.

Doom: “He ignored me! As though I were a gnat buzzing at his feet! And so I am... Just as all of us, even Galactus himself, are but insects to the all-powerful Beyonder! Thus, the others have chosen to play the Beyonder’s simple game -- thereby, in effect, paying homage to him. Should I, too, pay homage? Should I worship at the feet of this god-like being -- or chose another path... one only Doom would dare!”

I think anyone that knows Doom knows which option he’s gonna choose.

He heads back to the villain fortress and finds Ultron’s deactivated body and decides Doom can use this.

Meanwhile, back at the first secret battle of the secret war, the heroes rally and start fighting back under Cap(tain America)’s leadership.

She-Hulk even gets a designated girl fight with the only female villain on the villain team.

I’d complain, I would. But at least She-Hulk isn’t the only heroine on the hero side.

She-Hulk: “Hiya! I’m the She-Hulk! You must be the Enchantress! Gee, I’ve heard so much about you -- ! You’re a not-nice lady!”

Enchantress: “A green woman? Is there no end to the varieties of mortals?”

The Enchantress magic slaps She-Hulk away and comments that she could crush She-Hulk physically but its beneath her.

Yeah, all Asgardians have some level of super strength, that’s right. Even the squishy wizards.

But all She-Hulk heard was, ‘someone I can really punch!’

She-Hulk: “I don’t often duke it out with someone solid enough to really unload on -- and slow enough to let me! Oh, wow! That was, like tubular, you know -- to the max!”

Uh. Jen, are you okay? Did you have a stroke? You don’t usually talk so much in Mario World secret world levels.

I think maybe Jim Shooter didn’t have a good grasp on her. I don’t think he’s ever written for her. And the other heroes mostly don’t vary too much from generic hero speaking patterns. Add some smart for smart characters, add some rude to Wolverine, and so on.

The battle wraps up with Kang, the Enchantress, and the Wrecking Crew captured and the rest of the villains fleeing when the battle didn’t go their way.

Cap sends Storm off to scout for a cool playset that they can use as shelter and she does so, noting that the winds on Battleworld are super easy to control. Like Battleworld was created to create ideal fighting conditions for everyone. Pretty neat, the Beyonder.

Storm finds a particularly rad fortress (”Bigger than fifty-four and a half Pentagons, I’d estimate!” Wow!) and the heroes move in.

I unironically enjoy how toyetic this story is with the fortresses and the vehicles and the weapons. Because I’m almost positive that Mattel barely capitalized on it.

There were only two playsets. Pitiful.

Over in their new headquarters, Reed stashes the captured villains in some form of psychostasis which “works by controlling aggression through brainwave modulation!”

He also sticks Enchantress in a healing pod to address that nasty case of being She-Hulked right in the face. Nothing will salve her ego though.

Captain America: “It’s no wonder that the name Mister Fantastic is renowned for compassion as well as courage! You give added meaning to the word hero, Richards!”

Whenever someone loudly announces that Reed is super compassionate, it makes me feel like they’re overcompensating.

Nobody ever makes note of, say, Captain America’s compassion.

With the prisoners (of war? Is that the whole reason for the title?) accommodated, Cap calls everyone for a meeting in a cool meeting dome he found which has a small waterfall for aesthetic and so everyone has to yell to be heard.

Wolverine yells that they should mop up the rest of the villains and get this over with.

Not mentioning that in order to “win it” they’d have to kill the villains, which none of the heroes have shown any interest in doing so far.

Cap(tain America) replies that A) planet big and they have no idea where the villains got to. And B) the remaining villains slash antagonists are Galactus, Doctor Doom, Molecule Man, Doctor Octopus, the Wrecker, the Absorbing Man, and Magneto. Not really people you mop up.

In a fun logistics bit, Cap sends out a patrol to make sure the area is secure but he also sends out two additional groups to find if there are any places in this fortress they can sleep and whether there's any... food.

Makes me imagine a Secret Survival War where the sides have to wrestle over limited resources.

Hours later, the villains that escaped the fracas arrive back at their fortress.

I’m sort of confused here.

Maybe it took so long because they had to make sure they weren’t followed. Or maybe because they didn’t have the sweet tripod vehicle anymore. But think about the flow of events of: everyone beamed down to Battleworld > Doom ditches the villains and gets shot down > heroes investigate and Doom ditches > villains show up for cliffhanger fight.

The villain fortress should be pretty close to where that fight took place. And then the heroes find a nearby fortress of their own so their fortress should be pretty close to the villain fortress. Maybe not in the same neighborhood but surely the same zip code.

Anyway, they find that while they were gone, Doom swanned in and renamed the place the Doombase.

If they have problems with it, they can talk to his Ultron.

Which I’m surprised he didn’t rename Doomtron.

Doom also tells them that he’s in charge now.

Absorbing Man: “Aw! Who gives a hoot! I need a meal an’ sleep! You wanna be in charge, Doom? Okay by me!”

If you think about it, this is just some steps added what the villains wanted all along.

They wanted Doom to be their leader but he told them he had bigger fish to fry and fucked off. Now he’s fucked back on and told them all that he’s their leader. They initially object before reconsidering due to Doomtron but, yeah, its all gone full circle.

Doom is a lot more cordial to Molecule Man though.

Doom: “Molecule Man... uh, Mr. Reece, I believe it is? I trust you were not inconvenienced.”

Molecule Man: “Well, being absolute master of molecules I can just assimilate molecules when I want, so I never have to be hungry, and I can just shoo away dirt molecules, so I’m always nice and clean -- but I am tired!”

Doom: “I have prepared a special chamber for you! I hope you like it!”

Molecule Man: “If not, I can always reconstruct the molecules -- !”

Heh.

Nice to see Jim Shooter able to follow up on the trajectory he sent Molecule Man on.

The rest of the villains head off but Doctor Octopus, the only other brain cell in this group, hangs back to talk to DOOM.

He wants to know what he plans to do about Galactus and then shows Doom on the biggest screen TV that Galactus is standing on a mountain glowing with an awesome power.

Doom just retorts that his plans are for his forces to triumph.

Doctor Octopus: Something tells me he’s got ambitions that dwarf merely triumphing in the Beyonder’s little contest! The question is whether he will destroy us in trying to achieve them -- or immediately after fulfilling them?!

Like I said, the only other brain cell in this group.

Meanwhile, while Magneto secretly sneaks into the hero fortress for Reasons, the heroes have a quiet moment that lets this Secret Wars biz really sink in.

Wasp: “I’d be having tea in my studio now, Jenny... And lunch on my patio tomorrow... This... um... situation we’re in... is kind of... much, you know? I feel there’s just a little thin wall inside me holding back a flood of despair!”

Its a nice touch, if intentional, that Wasp only admits this kind of thing now that she’s passed off the leadership responsibilities to Captain America. Its been a recurring character beat that she’s been keeping these sorts of worries to herself as chairwoman.

Over in another part of the fortress, Cyclops complains that he was right in the middle of his dang honeymoon when he was yanked into this event.

Cyclops: “I don’t know about you, Richards, but more than angry or afraid, I feel cheated! I -- I was on the verge of real happiness...”

Oof. This really sets the tone for his marriage with Madelyne Pryor.

Spider-Man and the Human Torch even have a little conversation.

Spider-Man: “You mean it doesn’t shake you, Torch, being here? What if we don’t get home?”

Human Torch: “The Fantastic Four have been off on space missions a couple of times, Spider-Man! We’ll get back! Believe me!”

I like when they’re friends.

So, I’m not sure what Magneto’s plan actually was. He was going to sabotage the fortress’ fusion generator as a distraction but Spider-Man’s Spider-Sense Spider-Alerts him to shenanigans afoot and he runs off to the power plant while Johnny Storm goes to get the other heroes.

Magneto decides to abandon whatever his plan was and captures Wasp as a consolation prize.

Gasp, another prisoner of war!

The Thing tries to give chase but inexplicably turns back to normal, smooth skinned Ben Grimm.

Also, Magneto escapes with the Wasp.

It’s like the aardvark says, you can get what you want and still not be happy.

Captain Marvel is holding the randomly anti-mutant ball for Hawkeye here and comments that none of the X-Men showed up to help stop Magneto.

Cap(tain America) tells her to belay that.

Captain America: “Let’s keep our minds on solving problems, not creating more!”

And they can’t even go after Magneto or rescue the Wasp right now because they have bigger problems: Galactus glowing with an awesome power and a massive storm that’s forming on Battleworld.

July, 1984

TEMPEST WITHOUT, CRISIS WITHIN!

The Beyonder has thrown in a nice stage hazard to keep things fresh in the form of a massive storm raging on Battleworld, with lighting that shatters mountains and winds that could tear someone’s limbs clean off.

Or perhaps its the unintentional result of just slapping a planet together out of random stuff you have lying around. The climate must be shot to shit.

I like it either way. Secret Wars has a lot of very toyetic collisions between groups of characters so its nice when Battleworld itself manages to be an obstacle.

Over in his giant U-shaped fortress, Magneto finally unwraps Wasp from the ball of random metal crap he has her in.

He lets her wander around until she finds him so that he can be all casual and eating a space scone.

Magneto: “Do not bother trying to attack me, my dear! My person is magnetically shielded!”

Wasp: “Well, la-de-da!”

Wasp: -blows up his space scone- “You think I have to strike at you directly to hurt you, monster?”

Hilarious spite, thy name is Janet van Dyne.

She also makes the point that magnetic shielding or no, she could bring this whole room down. Her being able to knock over a small house with her pew pew hasn’t stopped being true.

Magneto hastens to ask her not to do that because neither of them want to be out in the storm outside.

Besides, he just wants to talk! And flirt!

Magneto: “You are obviously a woman of intelligence and understanding as well as great beauty -- and I am not the monster you believe I am -- which is precisely what I wish to discuss!”

Wasp: “Oh? My intelligence, understanding and beauty or your non-monsterhood?”

Magneto: “Why... both!”

Back at the hero base (which is apparently ROUGHLY THE SIZE OF CHICAGO?? I want that playset), the storm has almost completely flooded the area, leaving just the top dome and such poking above the water.

The storm keeps dropping chunks of mountain at the base but Thor is standing on top, protecting it while grinning like a loon.

Captain Marvel even speculates that Thor could calm the storm but is whipping it up into a greater frenzy instead. Those storm gods, amirite?

Hawkeye is also standing by, with his explosive arrow, thinking to himself that if Thor fails, Hawkeye will totally save the day.

I don’t know whether that’s sad or endearing.

Mostly though he’s trying to distract himself from thinking about the new wife he left behind.

Cap, Reed, and Hulk are watching the villain base because apparently they do know where it is. The storm is keeping the villains in too but Cap figures they’ll pull one desperate attack as soon as the storm breaks.

They’ve already lost four of their dudes. Plus, Galactus isn’t a team player.

Spider-Man is just swinging around, enjoying how good for swinging the random technological pipes and tubes and whatsits are when he stumbles upon the X-Men having a secret meeting.

Professor X has decided, possibly on the basis of two (2) rude comments from Hawkeye and Captain Marvel, that the X-Men just don’t belong here and that they’d be better off going and teaming up with Magneto.

This... sure is a take.

Rogue comments that the Avengers don’t trust her because of that time she kicked their asses collectively. Which, hey, very possibly. They haven’t really had a thing to say about you though. They’ve mostly been grouchy about Magneto.

Which is kinda born out by the way he tried to blow up their base and definitely kidnapped the Wasp?? And is even now aggressively eating scones at her?

That’s the Magneto you guys want to go join because he’s more your people than the Fantastic Avengers and friends are?

You know, there’s a pattern I sometimes see with the X-Men where they loudly insist that the other superheroes don’t help them and don’t care about mutant stuff while at the same time doing shit like this.

“Should we get Reed Richards, smartest dick in the world to help with the legacy virus or the techno-organic virus Stryfe shot into Xavier? NAHHHH Beast can handle it.”

“Should we stick with the other superheroes or go hang with Magneto instead in a cool mutants only U-shaped fortress? Well, U is the coolest letter that isn’t X...”

If you squint, you can definitely see Krakoa all the way in the future.

Anyway, Spider-Man overheard all of this and goes ‘I’M TELLING!’

Wolverine tries to tell him that snitches get stitches but the thing is?

Spider-Man is ridiculous. He’s a ridiculously good combination of skills and powers which lets him make chumps out of entire groups at a time.

He’s embarrassed the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and now he’s about to embarrass the X-Men.

After making them all feel foolish, Spider-Man gets away and goes to tell Reed what that doody-head Xavier said when Xavier uses his psychic powers to just wipe the entire encounter out of Spider-Man’s memory.

Yeah, it’s to cover their imminent blowing off but also? I don’t think he wants anyone else to find out how badly his X-Men just got stomped.

Psychics are too OP, I tell you what.

In fairness IN FAIRNESS, the X-Men kind of have the right to fuck right off if they wish. I don’t even know what it had to be in secret. In fact, doing it in secret is a massive dick move of its own for reasons.

What would the Fantastic Avengers have done if the X-Men had just said ‘hey we’re heading out’? Would they have put them in stasis tube jail? I doubt it.

Professor X made the decision to handle this the stupidest way for whatever reason. That scamp.

Speaking of Magneto, he’s over at the U-Lair turning down a partnership offer from DOOM. So, hey, he has standards.

Wasp has become less ‘i’ll blow up this room and your breakfast’ about him over the course of whatever the hell they discussed in their offscreen chat.

Magneto even starts to make out with her and Wasp is like ehhhhhhhhhh what the fuck why not.

Why is this happening?

I guess he has a...................... magnetic personality?

Eh? Eh??

No, but seriously, I do have a theory that I heard someplace but it’ll have to wait.

What’s weird is that there’s a Marvel What If about some spinoff babies that come about if the heroes and villains got stuck on Battleworld and never managed to leave.

Wasp has a son with Human Torch. Which is pretty weird and comes from nowhere. I guess a lot can happen during a massive time skip. My point being though, its weird that they didn’t have a Wasp/Magneto baby instead given the weird chemistry they have here.

Meanwhile, over at DOOMBASE, DOOM has some women in giant tubes.

That’s So Doom.

Doctor Doom: “All is ready -- ! This alien technology, so rich, so subtle... so easily harnessed to serve my purpose... Energy, tapped from the raging tempest... And two mortal subjects who dare to gamble for power -- knowing that to lose is death, for truly, here I shall test the limits of power a human body can contain! With the throwing of a switch... so -- the die is cast! Hear me -- ! Power must be seized -- ! Crave it! Welcome it! Drink it in, despite the pain... or it will destroy you.”

And thus are Volcana and Titania created!

Talk about lasting effects of Secret Wars! Titania is going to be around forever! Mostly annoying She-Hulk!

Where did Doom find two random women to give superpowers?

Denver, Colorado.

No, seriously.

That city chunk we saw as Battleworld formed? That’s Denver, Colorado, USA, EARTH.

Why isn’t there a miniseries or one-shot about a normal ass civilian from Denver having to deal with OH MY GOD WHERE DID EARTH GO?

I actually read an interesting thing re: this scene. It exists because Mattel asked Marvel to introduce some new female characters so Shooter wrote in these two and a third who I’ll get to when I do.

Mattel then promptly used none of these characters for the associated toyline.

The toyline, in fact, used none female characters at all. It made toys of characters who weren’t in the story but did not have a single female character.

So its very weird that they asked Marvel to introduce some but I’m not going to knock the results.

Doom introduces these two new characters to the other villains.

Hilariously, Absorbing Man guesses that Doctor Doom just made women from scratch. Because doesn’t it sound like something he could do?

Volcana and Molecule Man immediately hit it off, her being attracted to his sensitivity and him being attracted to... positive attention at all, I guess?

He muses that he could easily stop the storm outside, because molecules, but his therapist told him to let nature take its course. “Unless Doom asks me to!”

And Titania and Absorbing Man. They don’t hit it off. She either wants to hit him or hit that and its not clear and it might be both.

(Spoilers: Its both)

Titania: “You! Absorbing Man! You look like the toughest man here! Get up!”

Absorbing Man: “Whatcha got in mind?”

Titania: “I’m going to do anything I want to you! Everything I always wanted to do to everybody who used to be bigger and stronger than me! Maybe I’ll just play with you... or maybe I’ll make you eat dirt... or maybe...”

Absorbing Man: “Woman, if you got somethin’ to prove, prove it tomorrow against the guys we’re fightin’!”

Titania: “You’re backing down?”

Absorbing Man: “Nope! I just ain’t getting up! I got nothin’ to prove... to a dame!”

Would you believe that they become one of the healthiest and most stable romantic relationships in Marvel?

Speaking of weird relationships, back over at hero base, Thor goes and pops the lid on Enchanteress’ healing tube because he’s bored and wants to talk to a peer. A god peer.

Enchantress is at first more characteristically worried about what her face looks like after being She-Hulked.

But she then creates a portal so she and Thor can go have a chat.

Later, it’s morning and Hulk has been too busy stressing over losing his Banner smarts to actually keep watch or wake up Cap for watch like he was supposed to.

So when the villains ram an airship into the hero base, the heroes are not at all prepared.

Titania hurls a giant slab of wall through the room the Terrific Three are sharing, breaking Johnny Torch’s arm and ribs and knocking out the other two. He manages to get himself and co out of danger by melting through the floor.

Meanwhile, She-Hulk is carrying a big heavy as she’s been doing since the previous night and is caught unaware by Volcana who blasts her off her feet and then collapses the room on top of her.

Doctor Octopus knocks out Captain Marvel who is in the hot springs dome but gets chased away by Hawkeye, claiming that long-range firepower is his weakness.

I’m stunned at the implication that Doc Ock is one of Spider-Man’s most dangerous foes but could be scared off by Hawkeye while Spider-Man could pretty easily drop Clint’s ass. There’s some rock-paper-scissors nonsense at play here.

Spider-Man and Iron Man are also taken unawares by Ultron but manage to hide under some rubble.

Hulk leaps into the fray at Molecule Man and Doom but Cap convinces him to fall back to a defensible position.

The villains reconvene with all the captured villains freed except Enchantress (since she fucked off to have a chat with Thor) and the heroes scattered and buried under various rubbles. How the fortunes of Secret War turn.

Sure would have been nice if the X-Men had been around to help or if they mentioned they wouldn’t be. Sure would have been.

Doom: “We have accomplished much here today! And to finish it, we shall level this place so that no stone remains on stone!”

No wonder Mattel didn’t make a playset of this base! Dammit Doom, you’re ruining the merchandising!

Follow @essential-avengers for more of Secret Wars! At this same pace! Its sustainable! This is fine! Like and reblog too!

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shnowbilicat · 3 years

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Welp, I already warned you all about a Zim AU, so here you have some concepts!

I'm still working out the kinks, but everything important should be in listed in there owo

To keep it short though, the AU plays right after the movie. Either the Tallest finally banish Zim for good to earth or Zim realizes that he has BEEN banished and finally snaps out of his own pride and shenanigans, getting sad n stuff and then deciding to work with what he's dealt with. He decides to walk straight to Dib's house, without his disguise, not caring that he's been seen anymore, breaking into his rival's home and room and hijacking his PC to download everything about the human race from the internet. He also modified Gir, making sure Dib and Gaz couldn't stop Zim, before Zim disappears into his home, never to be seen again ...

... until one day he has grown taller, fully upgraded Gir and is getting head on with the Tallest, just to mess with them and fighting for his own independance and his own empire ... and to rub it into the Tallest's face that he is growing and being a better Irken than their lazy asses ever were.

He also found out how to clone and make his own little army of Irkens; which are kinda like his children and each have unique abilities and specializations.

In addition to that Zim created unique weapons, armor and even messed with his own Irken body and PAK to not only optimize it but also not make himself dependible to the PAK, but also have the Hive Mind not be part of him or his kids.

Together with Zim growing up, I also had the idea of an Irken 'Mother'.

While reading the Zim Wiki I had a couple new ideas for the AU, one of them was MOTHER, an Irken 'Queen Bee' type character. She was the first and only leader for a long while, being the one who pretty much virthed every Irken like a Bee or Ant queen and rules over the Empire with an iron fist to conquer the galaxy.

I always saw the Irkens as bug like aliens, with their antenna and their big eyes and green colored body. Their PAKs also look beetle like and they follow a Hive Mind, so I thought having a Queen of some sorts would be a coolio idea owo

I can imagine her being a patient yet terrifying type, being all gentle with her Irken soldier, but threatening them if they dared to get out of line or refuse her orders. She's also a little taller than the Tallest, cuz duh, she's the big boss, even above the Tallest ewe

Mom also does not like Red and Purple, cuz they are lazy af, destroy planets without thinking and never attempted to search for her when Mom was lost.

While Zim does his thing with building his own little Empire, he noticed some files deep in the Irkens' vast computer systems about MOTHER and her mission. So, seeing that she never came back he followed the coordinates aaaaand he finds Mom! She was stranded on a planet because her army wasn't prepared enough; all of her Irkens died, but she survived by a hair ... and nobody tried to find her :'D

While MOTHER was still at reign she created the Hive Mind to help deal with the Millions of Irkens; the Tallest should've been her right hands, the next leaders if she ever dies, being the next Queens/Kings to rule. She never imagined that the Tallest never thought about looking into the files she left sooo alot of the old days were lost, together with her.

I really love the character and I want to work on her more cuz so much potential QWQ

#invader zim #invader zim au #zim #gir #mother #art

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rigelmejo · 3 years

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march - just some thoughts

i have read more this month than any other month? and its not slowing down its only 3/12 so i have 2/3 of a month to go and i’ve read 26 chapters. even if these chapters are ‘short’ at 10 pages, if i wanna count by ‘20 page’ chunks i’ve still read 13 chunks so far. and i’ve still got more time in the month left. most other months i’ve managed to read ‘a lot’ i read 10-20 chapters. so i’m doing really good.

grammar is a weird thing? in reading i feel like its quite easy now to understand. when listening or watching - same. and yet if asked ‘why do i say/type X’ or ‘why is it written/spoken like X’ i have absolutely no explanation in my head. i could not explain the grammar if prompted. this puts me in a weird place and i feel like i SHOULD go over a grammar guide again just so i can WORD what i’m intuitively understanding.

this is a bit bizarre to me because within the first 6 months of study i DID read through an entire grammar guide just to get an idea of what i was about to look at, and it hardly made sense once actually reading/watching/listening. i understood the guide fine, but actually Seeing chinese i was still confused. i would reference AllSetLearning’s Chinese Wiki on some basic points, then after 6 months i just stopped. now its been what 1.5 years and - reading is so easy, listening is so easy, grammar wise. none of the grammar confuses me. but i no longer ‘explicitly’ have any idea what the fuck the grammar is. i used to. i studied it explicitly before trying to read/listen. and yet now that i can read/listen, i have no idea how to explain the grammar. i can listen to a podcast and i don’t think about what the grammar is i just get it. i read and just know what i’m looking at. its like english - i cannot fucking explain it. Which makes speaking/writing a bit hard. Because when i try to check if i’m right i have no fucking clue HOW anymore - i just say/write what comes to mind and HOPE it makes sense. i have no way to conciously check for errors except ‘does this feel right’? And that’s not good enough for me lol. So I definitely do need to eventually read a grammar guide for explicit explanations again.

Technically I think “English and Chinese Grammar Side By Side” grammar book would be an excellent one to use. Because i read the first 50 pages of it and it compared it to english (so it explained english too), and it was very easy to understand and started basic then got more involved.

I’m probably gonna use my very old Chinese Grammar Self Taught by Thimm book instead. Just because I really like that book. Then I guess use another after (probably Basic Chinese Sentence Patterns since its modern and perfect for ‘catch your own mistakes’ study and much shorter than Eng+Chinese Grammar side by side).

Anyway I’m in a very weird place right now lol. I know i’m understanding grammar that is stuff I never even studied initially in the grammar guide, but unable to explain what it is, and a lot of stuff i did explicitly study in a grammar guide i completely forgot the explanation for. My reading and listening is GREAT, because all my effort only has to go into learning new words lately! its relaxing! Its the only part i need to do! But my writing/speaking i am very concerned about because being able to check myself for mistakes is something i’d like the ability to do.

how grammar is presented really makes a difference in how well i get it. there is some serious benefit to ‘show simple first then build up what you know’ that text books tend to prefer. versus like grammar reference books that may start with some in depth stuff.

i tried to read a japanese grammar guide the other day and 1 it was great but 2 it covered some ADVANCED stuff i never learned in genki 1+2, and so it was Explicit grammar description of stuff i had literally years ago been immersing in japanese and Still not conciously known about. So i felt. Overwhelmed lol. I felt so confused. I feel like I might switch to Tae Kim’s grammar guide primarily just because its structured with basics covered first. and i feel like until the basics are again glued into my brain, seeing even more advanced stuff just confused me so much i had no idea how to remember it. which is funny because? my usual strategy with grammar guides is to just read it and let what sticks stick and what is confusing be moved on from, in the hope i will later see it again and understand it better. so like based on what i usually do i should’ve just been able to read through it (and i’m gonna try anyway lol). but truly japanese grammar just... my mind does not like wrapping around it and remembering it. (chinese grammar is so much easier for me... so much easier....;-; )

i have been tempted to just Restart Nukemarine’s LLJ (Lets Learn Japanese) memrise decks, because I KNOW they worked for me last time really really well. And they include Tae Kim grammar lessons. And I know if i did it then maybe i’d get back to where i was years ago pretty fast.

I tried Earthlingo app. Its a cool idea, I don’t think its worth it though unless you planned to get Rosetta Stone (since Earthlingo is FREE). Earthlingo features 1000 words per language, taught to you by exploring video game worlds as an alien. Its a cool concept, but since all words seem to be nouns then you aren’t even learning the most common verbs/adjectives. And 1000 words is not a lot. And you could learn 1000 quite fast if using srs flashcards like Memrise or Anki (think weeks if you push yourself, and a month or two months if going at a regular pace). Earthlingo you have to slowly explore the worlds so that eats time, you have to choose to test yourself (so you don’t review nearly as often as flashcard apps), and one test includes walking around the world clicking the object which you’re given the word for (takes time to find the right object). All this means a word that might take maybe 15 minutes to study over a few weeks, might instead take much longer to study and learn. I don’t use duolingo because it generally covers so few words (usually 2000-4000 i think which is good for a beginner resource but you have to do the WHOLE course to get to all those words and i take so long on duolingo that could take YEARS for me versus a month on a flashcard app or clozemaster). Duolingo I also don’t use because it very slowly paces learning material (it takes me months/years to get through 1000 words on duolingo - just personally i go so slow on it, i think faster people would find a use for it). Likewise Lingodeer takes me AGES to get through (and i think covers 2000 words nowadays? I’m shocked Duolingo has more words for the japanese course tbh). However, Lingodeer is by far the best ‘app’ for Japanese grammar lessons in app practice form. Even if basically all the apps feel pretty slow to me in how fast they give you new info. Earthlingo is cool that its free, and for learners 12 and under i think it would be super useful as a way to engage them and keep them studying (since what child likes flashcards? whereas as a child i would’ve loved this). But as an adult Earthlingo is sooooo slow on how fast you can learn words, and it does not even offer very many words (1000 is a nice bare minimum but without verbs/adjectives it can only be a supplementary learning tool for beginners at best).

Link about Lingodeer having 2000 words in a course. (Since its SO hard to lookup how much vocabulary lingodeer includes :c )

Nukemarine’s LLJ memrise decks (which I’m considering going through again but ToT agh flashcardssssss.... they sure do work though agh)

http://www.chinese-grammar.com/beginner/ - this is the site I read a chinese grammar guide on at like Month 3. I am rereading it now maybe it will help me remember wtf grammar explicitly is. ToT (A tip, read Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced sections). Last time I visited the site you just clicked a section, then saw each fully explained grammar point and clicked ‘next’ it was nice. Now its laid out a little less ideal for me, but its still got all the same nice info! (Also honestly if you are a beginner I really DO like this grammar guide... it introduces basic info first, gradually gets more complex, and i could follow its logic knowing like 200 hanzi and 100 words ToT. its very easy to understand even if it takes a while to apply that info).

im probably gonna read hanshe more today. i’m at the point where either i know enough vocab, or the writers style has just ‘clicked’ idk. but now i just am not getting bogged down by unknown words and am just. speeding through enjoying the plot. Also rip me this novel has 155 chapters and im only on chapter 30.

watching japanese lets plays is really fun! i feel like im 3 years old cause i just see nouns i can learn pretty easy in context cause i know the game well, and hear some vaguely familiar verbs, but its fun! also it helps i know kingdom hearts 2 like by heart so. a lot of it makes me instantly cheerful and nostalgic. roxas’s voice is so cute in the japanese version.

oh i almost forgot: I found a book recently for chinese that for it’s like 10 page grammar guide summary at the beginning ALONE i think is more than worth the 4 dollars it costs to get. It has a ton of compound words and its a reference book in mandarin and cantonese (it has pronunciation for both, all characters are in traditional). I got it initally because it as a bunch of compound words and I’d like to get better at knowing a lot of common ones. But the intro to the book has a page explaining sentence structures in chinese, then examples. Its so straightforward and to the point. I love it. The book is “Understanding Chinese: A Guide to the Usage of Chinese Characters” by Rita Mei-Wah Choy. (There is also a companion book for individual hanzi, which is nice but this book specifically I’m finding more useful).

what i really like about Listening-Reading method, and reading, as study activities: no matter how I do them it is only improvement. I have a tendency to ‘redo’ material i don’t feel i fully mastered, or refuse to move on. So when i have duolingo, flashcards (sometimes i can move on if i ignore reviews/make myself do new stuff), books, grammar guides, self guided classes - i have a tendency to redo the material. over and over. and not progress and challenge myself. whereas with reading - every time i look up a word its useful because its new or something i clearly Need to review (not something i’ve actually learned and can move past reviewing). so whether i reread material or read new stuff, as long as i run into things i find somewhat challenging (feel the desire to word look up), i know i am running into new material i can learn. Same with listening-reading method: whether i finish a book or just skip to random books, any new chapter i do will give me new words to learn/remember (until i’ve reached a point of perfect listening comprehension which is a WAYS away). There’s no way for me to mess it up. I can give up a book im bored with, i don’t have to stick to one resource to the end.

someone tell me why professionally made chinese audio books almost NEVER line up to the chapters???? whyyyyy ;-;

Even More Notes lol:

So I read so much in Pleco, which auto pronounces, I have COMPLETELY forgot. 得地 - for these two, when they’re attached after a description like 淡淡慢慢高兴 etc, when are they pronounced di versus de???? i’m pretty sure 得 is pronounced de when its an adjective like ‘-ly’. but for 地, i don’t remember if when part of a describer if its pronounced di or de????

#rant #march progress #march #everyone using ore in kh2 is hilarious a lil to me tho #u are all bishies u are all tiny kids WHy u acting so tough lol

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gaming-thoughts-by-an-idiot · 3 years

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Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta (dlc)

"Right... ok... what am I doing, what level and what have I done"

"Ok, let's do the alien thing"

"Ugh, I forgot there's no running in this game"

"I cant remember what I've done in the game, did I poison the water in this playthrough? Have I only done one playthrough... wait what difficulty am I on... very easy, good."

"Oooh, ok, I forgot how to change weapons, I'm living on fallout 76 controls"

"Cant I take a automated stimpak? Really? Shit ok."

"When I think about it, in every rpg, no actually, in every game I play or have played, I also go with melee, if I can? I fucking will. In halo, mass effect, skyrim, dragon age like- yeah"

"Battle music, what's up?"

*vats locked, ripper ready, one slice, yao guai down*

Me: :0!! Holy shit!

*enclave robot floating*

Me: *destroys it* hehehe

"I knew it was gonna happen, and I still got a jump scare"

"You raaaise me uuuup~"

"Blurry"

"Oh no, south park season one episode one vibes"

"Excuse me sir, that is my tralala, my ding ding dong"

"Hes -- aa?? Red screen??? I DID NOT SIGN UP TO GET CIRCUMCISED"

"Get some toy story vibes with that ceiling claw"

"I got my walk through, imma find all the holotapes."

"Ok, I got my electro baton, who do I beat up"

"I like being 3rd pov, but maybe I'll do this 1st."

"Found a rivet city guard, but she didnt wanna talk to me :) now i have better armour"

"Gotta make a list over the recordings, cuz I totally forgot that's what I was doing here"

"Alright, I know I'll fuck this up, but the road may be fun"

"A child"

"AH! Jesus... fucking alien shit"

"Riiight, I forgot I should get my weapons back, lol"

"Damn... I think I have to go back to the beginning, I'm carrying too much stuff... well, sure"

"Back we go"

"Ok, cuz I was like 300 already when I got on the alien ship, now! I got 92/300, so I'm ready to rumble"

" 'you are no longer well rested' bitch, when have I ever been"

"While the aliens played operations on me, I now got me some nice toast and coffee"

"Ah shit, here we go again"

"They should have subtitles for the alien languages, it should say [alien gibberish] I'm just saying"

"Ok... good to check the wiki before leaving the area, guess it's good I began again, i would've missed nr 3"

"I feel like I'm living like a king. I'm eating toast, drinking coffee, it's hot outside, air conditioner inside, I can pause the game at anytime without fearing for my life or my character to die from dehydration or hunger~ good life"

"The aliens have to be sooo irritated with Sally, like, she keeps sneaking out of her cell and shit"

"I wonder where her sister is though"

"Ok got my shit back, and look at that...147/300"

"Screw the electro baton, ripper time"

"I wonder what the samurai is saying"

"This dude looks like he was dragged right from oblivion, same ugly."

"Cryo thing done"

"I have to go aaaaaall the way back to the holding cells uugghhh"

"Finally"

"Okeiii wheres that damn holotape"

"Finally... aaaand now to walk ALL the way back... hhhh"

"I remember vaguely that I'm supposed to find the samurai sword...."

"Yes I can find it"

"Now... robot place thing"

"Kaay, wheres the tapes..."

"Okay wait, I'm confused, I have to look on youtube"

"Ok youtube didnt help at all, but google did yay"

"Cant get the sword cuz bugged yay-.-"

"Ok seems like I got them all, I'm ready to go to the next level"

"I cant jump and float :c"

"My dude sounds like darth Vader"

"Theres a button that let's me spawn brahmin..."

"Awh I can only get 3"

"Ah! Apparently I'm so evil, that I'm named 'the stuff of nightmares' like damn, calm down"

"Oh... ok now I get it, I've enslaved 41 humans... hey i needed the caps ok?"

"Can i shoot the earth with the death ray?"

"Quick save"

"I did, but I didnt get any bad karma? I gotta google to see if this is gonna impact, you know what? No. If I could do the ground zero in new vegas, I can do this. Fuck the world!"

*googles*

"Awh.. it doesnt do anything.. I mean yay that's good, it would be bad if many people died."

"One holotape left"

"Level UP! Here and now perk and LEVEL UUUP"

"I need to 50% less limb damage plz"

"ACHIEVEMENT!!! WOOP WOOP!!! YEEEEES"

"Its the final countdown wahwahwahwah wawawawah"

"The fucking cowboy died ugh, reload"

"Whoa.... explosion"

"And nobody died! :D"

"Can I come back?"

"Yes, awesome, I own a spaceship"

#gaming #relatable gaming thoughts #fallout 3 #Mothership Zeta #fallout 3 dlc

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tsukikoayanosuke · 4 years

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Me Rambling About Future Twisted Wonderland Events and Other Stuff Nobody Ask

Okay. A few days ago I found a theory that Grim was based on Jabberwocky written by @spindlebeforesunset . It was a convincing theory and I really like that. But this it got me thinking, if this is the same Jabberwocky from the Alice in Wonderland live-action movie, then we have an actual representation of Disney Live Action Movie.

Seriously. When the world is talking about POC and LGBTQ+ representation, I’m here talking about Disney Movie representation.

This also got me thinking about the Events we got (Happy Beans Day, Fairy Gala, and Ghost Marriage). Most of them are inspired by Disney Movies, but I’m still not sure about Ghost Marriage. I’m guessing that we will be definitely getting more Events between Pomefiore-Ignihyde and Ignihyde-Diasomnia, maybe even Diasomnia-Finale. So, I went through the Disney Wiki and looked at the list of animated canon to see what event we can get.

More rambling below!

As we all know, Walt Disney Animated Canon has eight eras of animation (according to the wiki, usually we mash the Bronze Age and Dark Age together):

Disney Golden Age: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) - Bambi (1942)

Disney Package Film Era: Saludos Amigos (1942) - The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)

Disney Silver Age: Cinderella (1950) - The Jungle Book (1967)

Disney Bronze Age: The Aristocats (1970) - The Rescuers (1977)

Disney Dark Age: The Fox and the Hound (1981) - Oliver & Company (1988)

Disney Renaissance: The Little Mermaid (1989) - Tarzan (1999)

Disney Post-Renaissance: Fantasia 2000 (1999) - Meet the Robinsons (2007)

Disney Revival: Bolt (2008) - Frozen II (2019)

Now, as you can see, between these eras, we have characters, dorms, and event represented in Twisted Wonderland.

Disney Golden Age:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937): Pomefiore

Disney Package Film Era:

Fun and Fancy Free (1947): Happy Beans Day

Disney Silver Age:

Cinderella (1950): Mozun Trein and Lucius

Alice in Wonderland (1951): Heartslabyul

Sleeping Beauty (1959): Diasomnia

One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961): Divus Crewel

Disney Renaissance:

The Little Mermaid (1989): Octavinelle

Beauty and the Beast (1991): Ashton Vargas

Aladdin (1992): Scarabia

The Lion King (1994): Savanaclaw

Disney Revival:

The Princess and the Frog (2009): Sam

Now, there are others I haven’t include: Grim, Dire Crowley, Ramshackle Ghosts, Fairy Gala event, and Ghost Marriage.

But before we discuss, I want to say that I will be only including the Disney Animated Canon, so I won’t be including the actual Live-Action Remakes or Disneytoon Movies, but I will connect it to the movies in the WDAC.

Fairy Gala Event. This is easy because we all know this is inspired by the Tinker Bell franchise [DisneyToon Studio]. Tinker Bell herself is featured in Peter Pan (1953).

Dire Crowley. We all know that our ‘kind’ headmaster is supposed to be the Twisted form of Maleficent’s raven. He could be the actual raven in Sleeping Beauty (1959) or maybe he’s actually Diaval from Maleficent (2014) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), which means we have another Live Action Movie representative.

Grim. Now according to the mentioned theory, Grim can be the Twisted form of Jabberwocky, which means he has a connection to Alice in Wonderland, both (1951) and (2010). Though I did make a meme that Grim is inspired by Stitch, I don’t have much proof.

Ghost Marriage Event. This event is interesting because most of us, including me, think that it was inspired by Corpse Bride (2005). Here’s the thing. Corpse Bride wasn’t made or distributed by Disney. It was produced by Tim Burton Production and distributed by Warner Bros. Picture. So, Disney has no involvement in this. However, I start to think about another possibility. Have you ever heard a short Silly Symphony called The Goddess of Spring (1934)? This animated short is very important because, from this, Disney could develop their skill in human character, which eventually lead to the birth of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). I’ll be sticking to this, which means Ghost Marriage represents the Era Before Canon or even Disney Golden Age.

Ramshackle Ghost. Honorable mention, they are probably inspired by the ghost in Lonesome Ghost (1937), while the Ramshackle Dorm itself is inspired by Thru the Mirror (1936) and has inspiration from Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) . The Ramshackle Dorm can represent Era Before Canon or even Disney Silver Age, while the Ramshackle Ghosts represent Disney Golden Age (it was released three days after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

Okay, to round it up we have:

Disney Golden Age:

Pomefiore

Ghost Marriage (my speculation that it’s based on The Goddess of Spring, which has a strong connection with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

Ramshackle Ghost (released three days after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

Disney Package Film Era:

Happy Beans Day

Disney Silver Age:

Mozun Trein and Lucius

Heartslabyul

Grim (Grim = Jabberwocky theory)

The Ramshackle Dorm itself (the through the looking glass concept, which is connected to Alice in Wonderland in some way)

Fairy Gala Event (Disney Fairies event, which is based on Tinker Bell, who is connected to Peter Pan)

Diasomnia

Dire Crewel (while unknown which raven he’s based on, both ravens are from Sleeping Beauty)

Divus Crewel

Disney Renaissance:

Octavinelle

Ashton Vargas

Scarabia

Savanaclaw

Disney Revival:

Sam

Now, we don’t know what will happen after this, but I have some wish list:

Halloween Gacha can be based this around The Headless Horseman from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) [Disney Package Film Era], The Black Cauldron (1985) [Disney Dark Age] maybe even Pooh's Heffalump Halloween: The Movie (2005) [DisneyToon Studios, but connected to The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) [Disney Bronze Age] and Winnie the Pooh (2011) [Disney Revival] ]

Gotta-Catch-‘Em-All Event, but instead of Pokemon you catch Winnie the Pooh inspired creatures [The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) [Disney Bronze Age] and Winnie the Pooh (2011) [Disney Revival]] or even aliens like Stitch’s cousins [Lilo & Stitch (2002) [Disney Post-Renaissance] ]

A Bird-Theme Music Festival for Saludos Amigos (1942) and The Three Caballeros (1944) [Disney Package Film Era]

Adventure/Explorer Gacha based around Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) or Treasure Planet (2002) [Disney Post-Renaissance]

Sherlock Holmes-like/Victorian Era Event based around The Great Mouse Detective (1986) [Disney Dark Age]

A School Festival Stage Play based on The Sword in the Stone (1963) [Disney Silver Age] or Robin Hood (1973) [Disney Bronze Age]

I’m sure you can give more examples but I’m gonna stop here. I rambled too much.

I just want something from Disney Bronze Age, Disney Dark Age, and Disney Post-Renaissance because we haven't got anything from there!

#twisted wondeland #disney twisted wonderland #twst #disney

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ouidamforeman · 4 years

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@bisexualamy Ok! I’ve read all but the last 9 or so EDAs so here are my recommendations on how to get through them. This post will probably be super long because there are so many books but I’ll try to be as straightforward as possible.

So first of all, no matter which ones you decide to read, I do recommend going through them more or less in release order to get the most out of the story and character arcs. I’ve been reading every one in order without skipping anything and it’s mostly been really enjoyable because not many of these books actually suck. However, there are 73 of them so not everyone wants to put in that kind of time and effort. Don’t worry much about skipping around a bit and then going back to fill in the gaps if you want, or just reading the highly recommended ones. If you’re really invested in getting everything, just skimming the wiki pages for books you don’t read should be fine too. That said, here are the ones I recommend definitely not skipping, along with some other suggestions:

-Vampire Science (this is the second book in the series and where most people recommend starting because the first book, even though it introduces a companion, is kind of garbage. Vampire Science, however, is a fan favorite by fan favorite authors.)

-Genocide (this book isn’t extraordinary but it is interesting for its cameos and character development stuff. I feel like recommending it because it’s a good early book for Sam as a companion)

-Alien Bodies (definitely read this one, it’s where the overarching plot really starts picking up and a lot of the series’ important ideas are introduced. Plus it’s amazing.)

-Kursaal and Option Lock are actually pretty good but not absolutely incredible or totally essential, so go ahead and read them if you want a longer list

-Longest Day is.....not memorable but it did give me feelings and it does have an important plot point at the end that kicks off stuff in the next three books. This is one where reading the wiki page should be fine if you don’t want to read the book.

-Seeing I (one of my favorites, it’s so good and it’s one of the earliest EDAs with the intense character stuff carried through later books. Also finishes off the mini-arc started in Longest Day)

-Placebo Effect and Vanderdeken’s Children are fun but not essential

-The Scarlet Empress (another fan favorite you should absolutely not skip. Very beautiful, very interesting worldbuilding, introduces Iris Wildthyme to the range. Easily in my top 5 EDAs)

-The Janus Conjunction is another good one that isn’t necessarily essential, as is Beltempest, but Beltempest is,,,,,,super weird and divisive as far as who likes it. Try them out if you want.

-The Taint (not an outstanding book but I recommend it because it’s Fitz’s introductory story and has a lot of important stuff about him in it)

-Revolution Man is interesting and has some pretty important character stuff in it

-Dominion is another nonessential one but it’s super delightful so I highly recommend it

-Unnatural History (my favorite Doctor Who novel ever. I’m pretty sure everyone would recommend this as a non-skippable book but I’m not exaggerating when I say it Changed Me. It’s so lovely and has very important plot, character, and concept stuff in it, plus. Unicorns.)

-Interference, books 1 and 2 (more essentials, definitely read these not only because they contain a season finale’s equivalent of important plot and characters, but also because they’re amazing and super cool.)

-The Blue Angel (not only am I telling you not to skip this, but I’m begging you to come talk to me about it when you finish it because I am obsessed with this book. It even has a short sequel and a screenplay adaptation, which I also very strongly recommend reading because it’s just. So good. Also I didn’t understand the book until I read the annotated sequel and screenplay and talked to other fans about it so that’s another thing. God this book is a remarkable experience I love it so much.)

-The Taking of Planet 5 (super good book with important lore development)

-Frontier Worlds and Parallel 59 are two more really good and fun ones that aren’t absolutely unskippable

-The Shadows of Avalon (I consider this unskippable but apparently it’s not liked by a lot of people? Either way definitely try this one, I love it and it does have important plot)

-The Fall of Yquatine and Coldheart, two more I think are pretty good but you can skip if you’re overwhelmed

-The Ancestor Cell (not universally liked but makes everyone cry. Essential for its plot and character stuff. Like, major stuff that effects the rest of the series happens here.)

-I recommend at least reading the wiki pages for The Burning and Casualties of War just to understand what’s going on with the series plot arc, but they’re also pretty good books to read in full so you can decide on those

-The Turing Test (dear god this is a good novel, definitely read it and cry with me)

-Endgame is really fun but not quite essential

-I personally hate Father Time but lots of fans really like it and think it’s great, plus it has some important lore, so I recommend at least trying it

-Escape Velocity isn’t outstanding but it is the end of the previous mini plot arc and the introduction of a new companion

-EarthWorld (a very good and solid book! It’s probably ultimately skippable but I don’t recommend doing so because it’s so much fun and the character stuff is wonderful.)

-Eater of Wasps is a delight but not absolutely unskippable

-The Year of Intelligent Tigers (this is one of the fan favorite Doctor Who novels everyone constantly freaks out about, and for good reason. Holy shit. You need to read this. Remarkably beautiful worldbuilding and some of my favorite character work in the range.)

-The City of the Dead (another one of my top 5 EDAs, this book is so funny and atmospheric and fantastic, definitely a highlight of the range. I have more pages of this bookmarked than any other DW novel.)

-Grimm Reality (I’m not going to lie and say this one is essential but it is totally wonderful and I strongly recommend trying it)

-The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (this book is dark and dense and emotionally exhausting. Definitely read it. You may never want to read it again but. You need to experience this thing. It also has important plot stuff and it’s completely insane.)

-Mad Dogs and Englishmen (another essential!!! This book looks so stupid but it’s a masterpiece!!!!!!!!!!! I’m not kidding actually you need to read this it’s so good and so much fun.)

-Hope is interesting and has some important character stuff but I think it’s nonessential, and Anachrophobia is actually really really good but ultimately skippable if your reading list is overwhelming

-The Book of the Still (I think this one is forgotten a lot on lists of best DW novels but it’s truly wonderful and I definitely wouldn’t skip it. Also Fitz is in love with the Doctor, holy shit)

-The Crooked World (another super underrated book, this one is really weird but like. Genuinely amazingly good. Probably skippable in the grand scheme of things but honestly I would strongly recommend reading it.)

-I didn’t like History 101 but lots of other fans think it’s great, and it has some important plot and lore stuff if I remember correctly

-Camera Obscura (another huge favorite I think is unskippable, I really love this book and lots of important things happen in it)

-Time Zero (a hidden gem I definitely recommend, I actually didn’t realize how good this book was until after I finished it and couldn’t stop thinking about it.)

-The Domino Effect, Reckless Engineering, and The Last Resort make up part of an important story arc but they’re also the books that made me slowly lose interest in continuing just because I found them so depressing. I know they didn’t affect everyone like they did me though, so ???? I might not be the best person to recommend these or not.

-Timeless is the book I’m on right now and I’ve heard it’s important and that things pick up again after this! I’ve also heard that most of the books after this up through the last one (The Gallifrey Chronicles) are pretty good, so you can either ask someone else about these or just read them and see, whatever you want.

Lastly, there are also various other Eighth Doctor books that aren’t actually part of the EDA range, and I actually recommend most of them, especially Fear Itself (a Past Doctor Adventure), The Dying Days (the last book in the previous DW range, the Virgin New Adventures, and actually the first Eighth Doctor novel ever), and Fallen Gods (a Telos Novella, one of my favorite books of all time, please read this one, it’s so good).

And that’s all I think! I hope it wasn’t confusing or overwhelming, it’s a little hard to explain this series outside the perspective of having read almost all of them in order. I have PDFs of all of these books too so if you need them you can dm me. Enjoy!

#edas

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taki118 · 4 years

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Sorry but I love Rise’s April and I think she’s the perfect evolution to the character

I’ve said it once but I’m gonna elaborate on it here Rise’s April O’Neil is the best adapted version and Imma tell you all why by sadly having to compare her to the 2k12 version (as they are they closest in a narrative sense & cause 2k12 stans do it all the time).

First off the creators themselves have admitted she is the honorary 6th Turtle in their eyes and everything about her just screams that. She’s extreme, a little off beat, and up for anything especially if its action packed. Like why do you think her jacket is green?! And this just feels so natural April has ALWAYS been an important part of the team and i’ll be honest the main reason i was upset with the new turtle in the comics is cause she uses yellow.....THATS APRIL’S COLOR HOW DARE YOU.

Another is WHY she’s hanging out with the turtles. I’ve said it before but every previous April needed a reason external to herself to hang in the sewers with humanoid turtles. I remember back when the 2k12 series was getting hyped to air the creators had said something along the lines of “You might be wondering why a teenage girl would hang out with turtles in this series we have a reason” And i was excited for that but much like pervious versions it was external factors and the only kinda internal one was that she’s not entirely human herself.

Like we never really saw 2k12 April interact outside her life with the turtles not really, we never saw her not connecting with her peers, we never saw her showcasing her interests outside of team stuff, but you know which April does? ROTTMNTs

We get a few eps where we see April doesn’t fit in at her school and it’s not cause she’s secretly part alien/mutant thing, it’s cause what she likes isn’t popular and it effects her like any other teenager. We haven’t gotten a flashback to her first meeting but I get the feeling after initial shock April didn’t care these were weird mutant turtle guys just that she found people she connects with. I mean we kinda see this with Sunita. We also see there are things April loves that the turtles don’t get like her being a fan of Warren Stone. And this serves to better make April a more fleshed out member of the cast.

Another BIG reason (at least for me) is this April is never sexualized like at all. It’s a well known fact April has always been the eye candy of TMNT and don’t you dare say she wasn’t sexualized in 2k12. Like look her standard outfit isn’t awful I mean it has the really bad layering fashion that every show at the time had (like is she wearing a black full body suit underneath? Who would layer like this?) but despite this was very skin tight to show all her curves. Now you can say thats cause of cg its needed to make the animation easier but you know what wasn’t needed? the giant star on her ass

It’s like a your eye naturally goes to it cause its such a bright color and kinda out of place that makes you go “is that suppose to be there?” I know I did when i watched the first ep. OH and not to mention the ridiculous amount of ass shots this teenager gets

and these were just pics on the wiki that i thought like “Could you really not find a better way to frame this?” like i didn’t go looking for these (And this isnt all of them) Now her Ninja outfit is a little better and oddly a little looser but uh hey guess what it still has?

YEP THAT FUCKING ASS STAR AND OF CORSE HER WEAPON IS ON THE HIP AND NOT THE BACK

oh and lets not forget this “loving” homage to the 80′s series

Yeahhhhhhh everyone knows the yellow jumpsuit is fetished to hell by older fans did we really need Donnie & Casey oggling her? Oh and lets of corse mention that one of her big over arching plots was a will they, won’t they/love triangle to further showcase her as an object of desire. And I’m pretty sure there was an ep where a full grown man was obsessed with her.

Now by Contrast Rise’s April has a very simple and clean desgin. It def took some cues from the 2k12 design what with the leggings and sporty look. But its far more simplified and guess what it doesnt have? A giant look at her butt star! Rather it has a desgin to bring your eyes up to her back.

In fact the shirt it self seems be made long and loose enough that scenes 2k12 April was subjected to would be avoided

Seriously theses were the closest I found on the wiki. Now lets look at some alternate Outfits she wears and once again we get this simple clean loose look but still looks cute and feminine.

Like lets be real her ninja outfit is top teir. Plus they made a bunny girl outfit look cute.

And lets compare April’s intro to her series they are all typically similar in that they need to turtles to rescue them. Now 2k12 April we see her walking with her dad silently before getting captured all we learn about her before the rescue is that Donnie thinks she’s pretty thats it. A character intro is suppose to show the core of who they are the turtles here had it Splinter had it and their choice for April is to let everyone know that she’s pretty. That’s uh not a good look they could have had her talking to her dad about something but nope.

Now lets look at Rise’s April intro. She’s screaming excitedly taking pictures as the turtles do their pool dive showcasing her love of the extreme and fun personality first and foremost as they chose to make the choice that April already knows these guys to streamline things. We know immediately she’s a part of this group, she’s fun loving and the camera is a nice little nod to her interest in journalism to be show cased later. All this in a few seconds.

And I’m sorry 2k12 April but the fact that she becomes basically ninja Jean Grey doesn’t change the fact that she is constantly shown off in a sexual way. And i’m not saying sex appeal is bad I’m saying that when it towards a character whos 16 at a show aimed at kids its kinda like who’s this really for?

Speaking of fighting I got a great love for the completely un-trained taking whatevers around and going to town style. It’s definitely suits the street wise city girl the writers are going for and even harkens back to the 80′s version of the character who’d use her wits grab whatever is around and get the job done. Its not as technical or “ninja” but it feels her own and less male gazey as lets be real action girl is a trope that can easily fall under that.

There’s also the fact that April is JUST the turtles bestie. It’s kinda crazy how even now how rare a having a main female character who isn’t a love interest on a show with a target audience for boys. This April shows you can Love someone and not be IN love with someone.

Overall I’d say Rises April is the natural progression of the character as she’s changed through the years an adaptations taking little cues from each.

80′s- Her interest in reporting, documenting, news and do whatever she can to get new info 2000s’- Her tech abilities & interest, willingness to get down and dirty in a fight, using her wits to her advantage 2012- Her age and relationship with the turtles and desire to be there for her boys

This April is amazing and I need to see more of her. She’s the Turtles girl with a plan, their partner in crime, overall bestie and honorary turtle.

(Sorry about the outfit tangent but it’s bugged me for years)

#rise of tmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt #april o'neil #rottmnt

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