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overhearing my teacher explaining encanto to my classmates…interesting
#if i speak…#y’all don’t know this movie like I DO#hearing how wrong they all are 😭😭😭#ok my teacher is great but she’s white and lowk blaming abuela#sigh#oH NAH THEYRE BLAMING DOLORES#oh i’m go#IM GONNA FIGHT THEM#STOP BLAMING MY SISTER#NAH THEYRE SLANDERING ABUELA#FREE HER SHES TRAUMATIZED STOP VILLAINIZING HER#THEYRE SLANDERING DOLORES CALLING HER SELFISH AND GOSSIPY#FREE HER#OH MY GOD.#the amount of foolery and disrespect. THEY THINK DOLORES PRAYED ON MIRABELS DOWNFALL AND CAUSED IT?????#i will fight u all!!!!!!#bunch of surface level bitches#i’m pissed! this is why i don’t like any of u#they’re acting like she’s a man hungry greedy selfish bitch who only wants mariano and doesn’t care ab anyone
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every time I see people insist that the stark sisters will automatically hate each other and say that sansa "bullied" or "traumatized" arya (or vise versa) my eyes threaten to roll out of my skull. some of y'all truly have no idea how real sibling dynamics work.
#᯽ ooc. ⊱ ── ❝ 𝘖𝘩 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪. ❞#the irony is I'm saying this as an only child#the closest thing I had to siblings were a bunch of cousins I was raised with#and if I had to live with those bitches every day of my life for my entire childhood? yeah we would fight all the time too#why are we sanitizing EVERYTHING?? why do we put everything into a black&white box when these dynamics are more complicated than#being mean to someone = you hate them??#you are not gonna have a perfect conflict free relationship with anyone who is THAT close to you in your life#if you do??? if you never clash even over something stupid or petty or irrelevant??? consider. you are not actually close to them.#your relationship is not evolving. you don't truly *know* each other.#because anything that goes deeper than surface level projection of self image requires going mask-off to varying degrees#and having someone close enough to see the worse parts of you. because they DO exist. every one has flaws and bad behaviors#carefully hidden beneath the layers of the image we project#closeness requires letting another person see that#and sibling dynamics (non-withstanding traumas / abnormal childhoods / other factors) are most exemplary of that#because sometimes your biggest rival that you swear you would be better off without is also the person you would die for
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this might be a stupid question but, what exactly did Splinter do to the MM!trio? you’ve mentioned in both Don and Leo’s redesigns (both of which look awesome btw) how they feel about his ‘past actions’
is it just referring to his neglect, or did something else happen?
sorry again if this is a dumb question, or if you’ve already answered this. im just confused jsjabjs
No worries, I've been vague-posting about it and never really explained so you're definitely not alone lol, explanation under the cut as usual (warning, it's a bit long)
So I'm very interested in the headcanon that Splinter went through depressive episodes while trying to raise the turtles, and as a result neglected them by being emotionally absent, which could be technically canon based off how they characterized him in early episodes and various bits of dialogue?
I don't wanna jump the gun and say it's true to the show but there's hints here and there that he wasn't the most emotionally present parent (the fact Donnie has never had positive reinforcement from an adult and never spends time with Splinter, the fact Leo assumes he's the least favorite, Raph's entire conflict in the season 2 finale being burdened with too much responsibility, Mikey basically being the family therapist in place of, oh idk a parental figure, etc). Anyways, canon or not it's a legitimate thing in this AU.
Once the trio was old enough to look after themselves, Splinter fully fell into his depression and barely did anything around the lair. He would go days without leaving his room, not eating or doing anything, practically comatose in bed. His depression definitely wasn't helped with the way he lost Raph right after escaping Draxum's lab. I said it once, I'll say it again: survivor's guilt is a bitch
But the longest (and last) time he ever did so was when the turtles were 9-10 (Mikey 9, the twins 10). He completely isolated himself and left them to survive on their own for two weeks. Which doesn't sound that long, but it wasn't like they had two weeks' worth of food stocked up, not to mention the necessary upkeep around the lair. Leo and Donnie made it work, all while doing their best to keep Mikey happy, but it really took a toll on their trust in Splinter. After that, Splinter slowly made a recovery and has spent years doing his best to make it up to them. Leo appreciates it, Mikey acknowledges it, Donnie ignores it. But even now, nobody has yet to actually discuss the incident beyond surface-level apologies.
All in all, the fam is Not Okay but refuses to acknowledge it. I don't wanna get into too many details though, because a bunch of this stuff is gonna be talked about in either the fic or comic parts as they come out. Hope this cleared up any confusion :]
#i have so many thoughts on how their relationships have changed in this au but i wanna hold off on the details#at least until it's revealed in the actual storyline#whenever that may be#rottmnt rant#mutant manhunt au#asks open
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i sometimes think about how fgo does canonically have guda drowning in bitches by sheer virtue of will in surviving this long and the occasional moment where we see guda get to be hardcore (like when they called the lion king a bitch to their face for instance) and i always think that my favorite moments of characters being attracted to guda are specifically when mash is part of the equation because it acknowledges how they're a package deal as well as showing that its not just surface level gacha pandering. well and truly inseparable where musashi is happy she has two hands and edmond is like "dont worry you protect their body ill protect their mind" and scathach has both of them as her prized pupils and that time kintoki got drunk with both of them and a bunch more specific examples with different characters. mash prepares the summoning ritual for the hoes and guda pulls in the bitches with their autism. all of gudas bitches are, in fact, also mashs bitches and vice versa. those artists who draw the two being poly w/ bageko are so correct.
#this is 50% me thinking 'man i fuckinglove mash fgo'#and 50% 'how much more could we piss off that one guy on the fandom wiki comments saying mash wasnt 'pure' post lb6'#fgo#zerav meme#fate grand order#mash kyrielight#guda is craved carnally by all the ghosts in the briefcase and goes 'ok well first off have you met mash fategrandorder??'#mash in turn has seen every peak of nasuverse powerlevels and even in lb4 was like 'have you fucking SEEN senpai'
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notes about how fuinjutsu works in plasticity, with some minor spoilers ig
*Fuinjutsu conceptually mirrors how a jutsu would work in a body; they are near universally circular because humans pull from a chakra 'core.'
*Fuinjutsu can therefore (theoretically) mimic any non-elemental ninjutsu and vice-versa. However, some jutsu are considered easier to do by hand and some are easier to do with the assist from paper (because seals help twist your chakra in unnatural ways). A lot of high-powered complicated justu started as fuinjutsu and were adapted to hand-signs later because hand-signs are more convenient for battle.
*Advantages of fuinjutsu:
A trained, steady hand can pull off more complicated jutsu than the user could "by hand" without needing insane Tsunade-level control
Sometimes jutsu take a very long time to execute. Fuinjutsu can shave time off the execution part (even if preparing your seal could take hours of prep time)
You can set up a seal and then walk away
You can easily pass a technique between people for reuse and without having to make sure everyone has specific training (such as a storage scroll!)
Cuts down in variation between jutsu -- very important for research, medical stuff, exploding tags, etc
Most villages have developed a decent number of "plug and chug" seals-- basic barriers, basic exploding tags, etc to make mass production/use by rando ninja without specific training easier
*Disadvantages:
Prep time: even basic bitch seals take minutes to draw (and bigger ones can take HOURS) AND even a small mistake could make it useless or, like, explode. It's not practical for most combat situations, so either you have to carry around a bunch of pre-drawn seals, or you need a way to distract an enemy for however long to make your seal.
Tools requirement: you don't need special paper and ink for fuinjutsu, but it definitely makes it easier, and most ninja don't even know you can free-hand carve a seal into someone's skin as long as you do the right modifications. So for most people, even if you get the rest of your team to distract an opponent while you draw a seal, environmental factors (temperature making ink run, uneven surfaces, limited paper/ink, wrong sized brush on hand, etc) decrease fuinjutsu usefulness.
Takes a lot of time and effort to learn to the degree you can start making your own jutsu, and unlike a lot of other jutsu training, it's very academic in a way that's not necessarily going to help other ninja skills. Most ninja know enough to copy a basic seal, and one COULD argue that in-depth fuinjutsu knowledge corresponds to in-depth knowledge of chakra, but it's not worth it for most ninja
Complexity vs chakra trade-off: the more complex a seal, the more chakra-heavy it is. This can be mitigated by requiring the user to modifying their chakra themselves WITHIN the seal. So in order to do the truly insane techniques with fuinjutsu, you either have to be a chakra powerhouse (or have other ninja do the technique with you) or have very good chakra control, which immediately shoves fuinjutsu into the "not worth it" category for most people
*For Tori, my concept is she sort of..... just breaks a lot of the "rules"/assumptions? Like, because of the circumstances she's been honing her skills in and because she literally can't do jutsu any other way (and also because people have neglected to tell her she shouldn't be doing this), she's been working very hard on nixing the "tools" requirement. And also (here's the spoilery part) she's ramping up to getting really into using non-humans as her chakra source, to nix the complexity vs chakra trade-off. yeah it takes more math to use tree chakra but also in a forest that means basically unlimited chakra
i really want to mirror that last part with her telling orochimaru about how most biological advances in our world is just hijacking other organism's evolutionary adaptations, because it sort of gives an explanation for why her way of thinking is different enough she comes up with alternate solutions............ i don't really like when SIs come up with some new revolutionary thing and they're just like "oh, i guess i'm just the first person to do this because i'm really smart /shrug" and there's NO reasoning for why some equally smart person hasn't already come up with it >.> Tori's attitude towards the natural world is "yeah, if bacteria naturally clipping out pieces of virus genomes leads to human gene editing techniques, why WOULDN'T i be able to hijack someone else's chakra?" which is very different from the attitudes we see in canon, aside from whatever senjutsu is (so like, what se's doing has a BASIS in what other have done, but it's considered very niche sage stuff)
reborn au kushina, watching tori do something with a tree in a time of great need: oh no. ooooh no. oh no
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tvc masterpost
the venus cycle, lovingly nicknamed "vgb" (vee gets bitches) is the trilogy my fiance @deadhorse77 and i are writing together. it centers on a strange town where, when new people arrive, they completely forget that they were ever from anywhere else, and their history molds itself to fit the city. it's also about a bunch of trans people who all kinda suck in their own way and end up in the worlds worst polycule, with one shared daughter!
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characters
vee/venus | they/them - one of the two narrating characters, they are the catalyst and the story begins with their arrival to the city. what they don't realize makes them special is that they remember their life beforehand, and instead they focus on situating themself in the lives of everyone they meet. with their arrival, the narrative dominos begin to fall. also, they're a whore and get involved with everyone else.
the chronicler | he/him - immensely private, TC keeps his name hidden from everyone. the other narrating character, he seeks to puzzle out the mystery of the city. while he doesn't have any personal memory of his life before the city, he's aware of the effects it has on its inhabitants memory. additionally, he's prone to stalking the "people of interest" of the city, trying to figure out what their role in the story is. loserly academic vibes, like a jon sims who doesn't even have the archives going for him. he has the looks of a depressed english professor and the soul of a whore for fucking real.
paris | he or she (not simultaneously) - titled the scholar by TC, paris is a nosy bitch who wants to know everything about everything and everyone--and knows pretty damn close to it. part fairy, and takes advantage of that extended lifespan to spend more time studying at the city college and to get into everyone's business. if you want to know something, paris is your fairy. also, he's genderfluid, swapping pronouns accordingly!
the oracle/sybil | fae/it - while the most obvious trait about it is faer gift of prophecy, sybil has many other skills, like being a bitch to basically everyone it meets. fae're the other fairy in our main cast, and sick to death of humans who want to get their futures seen.
jax | they/them - a member of the city police force, the detective is about as corrupt as it gets. they're violent, angry, and use their position of power to get away with everything. as an unfortunate blow to their credibility, they're also convinced that there's demons in the town, and that they'll be the one to catch one. also, they're down bad for the king.
the king | re/rem (he/they auxiliary) - like TC, the king keeps rheir name close to rheir chest, as well as a plethora of other secrets. from any surface level perception, the only things re cares about is gaining more money and more power within the city, as well as a certain member of rheir staff. don't look deeper than that, you probably won't like what you find.
the ram | arieself - part of what you'll find when you look deeper, the ram is the king's bodyguard. fully controlled by the king, air is rheir "pet project". immensely volatile and simultaneously a doormat in the face of the king's power. eventually, air will be able to come to terms with aries own power, but that time is far off still.
petra | they/them - said certain member of the king's staff, petra generally does not give a shit about the situations unfolding around them. they view most people on a spectrum of neutrality to dislike, and are deeply apathetic. also they have low empathy autist swag!
mama/eudora | any (written with just they/he/she for convenience) - eudora, fondly nicknamed "mama" by most, is the caretaker of the weeping girl, and a deeply caring person with a tendency to take lost souls under their wing. he's a mom friend to her core, and also? that's a fucking MILF babyyy!
the weeping girl | she/her - the heart of the city, though most don't know it. a very long time ago, she was cursed into becoming a statue, forever crying. the fountain her tears create has healing properties, and her slumbering life force shields the city from outside forces.
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while none of these characters know it yet, with vee's arrival everything they've known is on the brink of change. lives will be destroyed by their fun and flirty personality (joke + reference)
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relationships
here's the relationship quilt, because everything is too complicated for a normal chart (it's read in rows, so the first row is how vee feels about the people in each column, second row is tc, etc) ("spade" refers to the concept of kismesis from homestuck)
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asked and answered
on the ram
on paris and tc
on vee as the catalyst
on tc
on paris and jax
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anyways please ask the both of us about this. we love to talk about it and we have such a beautiful autism about our ocverse.
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After seeing ADC’s birthmark now I can’t get the idea of a Clexa Overboard AU out of my head 😭 The gay urge to queer-ify every straight movie I’ve ever seen and make it about a little blonde bitch and a slightly less little brunette bitch 🥴 Brainrot at its finest
Ok here's my problem. Objectively!!???? Overboard was a terrible movie 😩 not the movie itself on a surface level. The movie itself was entertaining and amazing and a classic. But the plot??? The pLOT??
Dude lied to her, gaslit her, took her and turned her into his maid/nanny. He neglected her and talked to her like shit, degraded, humiliated, and demeaned her repeatedly (often in front of people, to his own glee), and then had sex with her while she didn't have all of her mental faculties. And then had audacity to be genuinely hurt when she was mad and left when she found out. I know they painted it as though she could overlook all that for ~true love~ and that she, whew, that she learned the errors of her ways of being mean to him (I could write a dissertation on what the filmmakers were saying here 😒) but uhhhhhhh being a rude and shitty employer is nOt the same as kidnapping, borderline slavery, and basically sexual assault. I mean he made this woman believe she had children and made her feel like a bad mother for his lazy ass parenting. HE HAD SEX WITH HER WHEN SHE DIDN'T EVEN ACTUALLY KNOW HER OWN NAME FFS. I just
Believe me I've thought this movie through for clexafication because I do like the movie and have watched it a bunch of times, but I just... idk how I could adjust it realistically so it excludes all that awful shit 🥴
#bisexualseraphim#I'm still with you tho that if anyone should've been in the remake it should've been her cuz I mean come ON#with that birthmark? wasted opportunity
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I can't think of a specific question, but I'd love to hear anything about Godeater ! That wip scratches a very specific itch in my head it's very satisfying <3
hi after 80 years i’m finally answering this teehee 💀
something i haven’t fully talked about is how The Under mirrors The Upper.
like The Sun, The Waning Moon is “guarded” from those who would sneak to snuff out its power. however, the waning moon doesn’t have as much power as the sun, so not many go after it; leaving the “guardians” of the moon more freedom to do as they please.
the guardians of the waning moon are the 6 SINS; some of the first demons to defect from the upper after lucifer. the most powerful of the sins is avarice or “ava” (greed) and i’ve talked about him a bit before (and i love him) but i don’t give the other sins as much attention so let’s talk about them!!
also as a side note the sin gluttony doesn’t exist. why? cuz ava killed him :))))))
anyway tho:
(1) IRE (the SIN of wrath) -> she/her
ire is the resident hot head of the sins and the second shortest, taller than ava by a mere inch. she wears her hair in spiky ponytails, half red, half purple, and while she has a bad attitude she actually avoids cursing and tends to insert nonsense words into her speech when she gets really upset. she loves sweets and cute things but hates when people call her cute. very much a “that’s cute i want to break it” energy. she’s the third strongest of the sins but the most likely to whoop some ass bc of aforementioned anger issues LMAO.
(2) HUBRIS (the SIN of pride) -> he/him
literally the most flamboyant fag on planet earth i’m not even joking. he’s a diva and a model; tall and pretty with long hair and thick lashes. he’s overconfident but also loves to hype other people up, and can be extremely dramatic, his emotions a constant whirlwind. he cares about people very very deeply and always wants to lend a helping hand or ear to those in need. he’s actually the second strongest of the sins but is perhaps the least likely to use his powers. he hates blood and gore but if you really manage to push his buttons (he keeps them secret so it’s less likely) then he’ll tear you (the bitch) apart :3c
(3) PASSION “SION” (the SIN of lust) -> they/them
sion is team parent, the second eldest of the sins (younger than ava by a tad) and always looking after the rest of them as though they were their children. they’re very patient and mature and seem almost conservative in their appearance… though what they get up to in their own time is between themself and their partners lmao. despite being lust, like ava is greed, lust extends to a variety of different things and their thirst for companionship, care or affection runs deeper than only surface level sex. if they want something they want it in every way they can attain it. ava considers the two of them the most alike; very unassuming but carnal in every sense of the word :)
(4) APATHY (the SIN of sloth) -> he/they
the most similar to his calling card of the entire bunch, apa tends to be the most lowkey of the sins. he’s the most likely to stay behind and watch over the waning moon, and while he isn’t always a napper he does prefer a sedentary life. he does hibernate tho i need to figure out when and how, and to compensate stays awake 24/7 without needing sleep when he’s not in hibernation mode. low fi beats, music, and pillows are his jam.
(5): COVET “COVE” (the SIN of envy) -> they/them
cove is the youngest of the sins and has a big inferiority complex in being so young. they don’t have as much power as the other sins, and their childish ways do get the others to look after them quite often and they just want to be wise and powerful already. secretly they do enjoy the attention and enjoy being babied which is something ava and hubris tease them about a lot much to their chagrin, and they usually have a monopoly on sion’s time; the two of them go everywhere together. as they continue to gain exposure to the waning moon’s light hopefully they too will become just as powerful a sin as the rest of them :3
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when it comes to friends, remember what kanye said: one good girl is worth a thousand bitches!
but jokes aside, i used to be in a large friend group. online and in real life. what i can tell you is that a solid group of 2-3 is better than just having a bunch of people you only talk to on surface level
me knowing mattitties is the only friend i need
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the rtc characters' favourite tv shows because sometimes that's the vibe
constance: crazy ex-girlfriend. would y'all be surprised if i said i was projecting? it's not just because there are three bi main characters (men and women) and it depicts religious diversity (intelligent atheist, christian, and jewish characters, with their brains not defining their beliefs) although that helps. she loves it thanks to the complexity of the storylines, the willingness to show female sexuality, and of course the musical numbers. she appreciates the catchy melodies and often has a song from season 4 stuck in her head.
ocean: glee. oh come on, it's glee and she's basically rachel berry. she watches it at 17 and part of it is as she gets older it's nostalgia. she recognises it's bad eventually, sure. but santana was her lesbian awakening (i will die on this hill) and she first gets exposed to 85% of the songs through glee. her main issue with it is that it's so surface-level at times. also, her life wasn't as easy as rachel berry's.
noel: the good place (stay with me). i have a post in the drafts about noel's complex relationship with religion (specifically christianity since That's All I Know), especially once he's forced into karnak's limbo. i think he appreciates the creativity of it and it enables him to separate cultural views on heaven from his own beliefs, whatever those end up being. he also likes philosophy and considering these perspectives on what life is. plus, tahani is an awesome bitch and he is here for it.
ricky: doctor who. they just love the space travel and you just know they write a bunch of fanfic for it. they've seen every episode four times, from every series. they like how it goes to every extent possible and explores these ideas they find curious, even if there's no mention of zolar. also, they have a crush on amy pond.
penny: i think she really loves "how it's made". i don't have a massive reason for this, she just fucking vibes with the pretty colours and how GUYS THERE'S SO MANY WAYS YOU CAN USE RUBBER. FUCK YEAH. and the narrator's voice is the one thing that calms her.
mischa: heartstopper, fuck you. i will elaborate. btw this is heavy projection. so he watches it in his own time and then constance suggests that they watch it as a choir. he kinda thought he was straight-ish when he first watched it, but upon looking back he realises oh. he's bi. when he watches it with the choir, he keeps seeing how the bi experience (brought to you by nick nelson) is really close his. so, at one point while their watching it, he says ''i crush on a boy and that is not what that was like" (the boy is in the room. it's noel.) this is how he comes out. he gets really attached to it as a result, and yeah. this is a part of him actually represented. he wants to lift up his friend on the shore and scream that they're boyfriends. believe it or not, he likes the fluff. he desires that queer joy and comfort in his life. even if not all aspects of his identity are represented on the show, it's enough.
#rtc#ride the cyclone#st cassians chamber choir#rtc headcanons#constance blackwood#ocean o'connell rosenberg#noel gruber#ricky potts#penny lamb#mischa bachinski#oh? you thought i wouldn't project onto rtc for once?#how highly you must think of me#and how wrong you are#on my sugar queue
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Just saw Barbie and it was exactly what I expected, a fun way to kill a couple hours with a good friend dressing up and getting pink food before watching a fairly enjoyable movie I'll probably never watch again
The cast was great as I expected, the big stand outs for me were definitely America Ferrera, she delivers a speech that a lesser actress could have butchered and made incredibly cringe, but she nailed it perfectly for the movie she was in and also Ryan Gosling, he was incredibly genuine in everything he did, he's a very genuine actor in general, you look into his eyes and you believe him everytime
Yes, I understand why Simu's agent staked their whole career on this role
The feminist messaging was very surface level and extremely broad and in no way encapsulates the entirety of intersectional feminism or literally anything past the idea of "women can do anything men can do" and there was also an insanely cringey part where the teenager dresses Barbie down with a whole bad stereotypical gen Z rant about consumer capitalism that really reminds you this movie is being made by a conglomerate of giant corporations and the "Mattel" company in the movie is just .... bad. Absolutely ruins the entire movie. Will Ferrell tried his best, but there was absolutely no way to salavage a single one of those "Mattel" executive parts, so sorry, not even Daniel Day Louis himself coming out of retirement could have sold those roles, they were absolutely awful, Disney channel level of villainry and writing was put into those guys
I have one last thought about a scene I would have done differently, but it's super spoilery so I'm gonna put it under a read more and say my conclusion here,
It was a fun excuse to get dressed up like a Barbie doll and spend the day with my friend, I went in with super low expectations in the hopes that they'd be beaten and they were, it was better than I thought, but also about what I expected. Your uncle buck will complain about the overhanded feminist messaging, but not the way I do! And if you get high like me you might even cry when you think the dad is dead until it's revealed he's actually just off somewhere sucking at Spanish.
All in all Barbie was a fun movie with absolutely nothing under the surface which I will never watch again 💕🫡
Okay, so for all you bitches who've seen the movie or don't care about spoilers, there is a moment where Barbie has to decide whether she wants to be human or not and a montage of a bunch of home family videos starts playing on the screen in a dreamy haze
This moment was at the very end of the movie and it was also The Best Part. Period. Habds down. End of sentence.
And they didn't even execute it right
The montage moves much too slow and it ends way too fast, it should have been the other way around, make it twice as long and twice as fast, have it start of slow and then ramp up more and more and more getting faster and flashier and the music swells and it's huge and big and there's videos of kids at playgrounds intercut with people at funerals and people watching loved ones dying then cut to a wedding and then to a kids first day of school. This montage should have been absolutely jam packed with stuff and it should have been hitting the audience way faster until the end when it hits the cresendo and we cut back to Barbie and the air feels like it gets physically ripped out of her chest violently as she says, "Yes."
In the movie the montage lasts about as long as it took me to think, "oh this is the best scene in the movie" and there's absolutely no moments of sadness in it, like no one at a hospital, no one getting sick, no one grieving, the whole movie is about learning to love the good with the bad and then this montage just shows you kids being goofy and people at bowling alleys, like where is the fucking heart? And then it ends and we cut back to Margot Robbie very delicately saying, "yes"
And that was it
We move on to seeing Barbie in the human world with her human family and this big climacitic moment that should feel the way you feel when symbols crash in a classical song just fizzles
The last scene of the entire movie however I will say was a great way to cap a live action Barbie movie, Margot Robbie's giant grin as she says, "I'm here to see my
Gynecologist!"
Was good.
Okay the end I'm done thanks for reading 💕
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girl i have written essays in your dms about using kink terminology to define experiences of werewolves give us the damn alien lore
OKAYYYYY! This is gonna super long, sorry!!
Splitting this into sections: basic stuff, then one for aliens and one for bitches who found out about people with abilities/return of extinct animals/weird new weather things and are Funky About It.
First, basic lore:
The aliens’ experiments aren’t detectable to humans on any level other than what they can see at first. Not everyone is altered by their devices, and those who are don’t find out until either a stressful situation bringing out their power, or when they get to be around 14 or 15 years old. Abilities are varied, but can fit into a few overall categories; elemental, psychic, amplifiers, healers, empaths, shapeshifters, and better physical ability (strength, speed, stamina, etc). Most abilities come with side effects for the person affected, because humans aren’t meant to Be Like That.
the humans:
In one county, there are separately two different boarding schools nestled into the mountains. Around their bases, there are a bunch of small towns. One school is normal. It’s very slay. Some rich dude who founded it basically made it fully free for anyone in the county to attend, including housing. They have an unofficial club for people who got abilities from the aliens.
The other school is. Not as fun. Publicly, it’s a high school for teenagers who excel at science, where they get opportunities to get field experience in a study of their choice. Some of this is true. However. The head of the institute caught wind of the newly returned extinct species, and also that a percent of the population had gained powers. And he decided to study them. Without their knowledge. It’s real fucked up. Essentially, since finding all this out, every single student admitted to the school has been altered by the alien devices-whether they know it or not. Students then get put into research teams of eight; seven who are aware of their abilities, and one who isn’t. Each team is told that they’re the only ones with these powers. Their missions almost always involve the other changes to the planet, and the data they collect goes straight to the head of the school.
The two schools never interact, but the students have a mutual dislike of each other.
Finally, there are some towns that have formed of solely humans with abilities.
the aliens:
After exploring the galaxies extensively for an environment suitable for their experiments, they’ve found Earth. They’ve been here for several decades already. Their overall goal is to ‘improve’ life on the planet, but they don’t really care about the wellbeing of the people and animals who live there. They plan to take the information they gather from their research back to their home planet and implement it there. Physically, they have a variety of appearances, but are all blue and gold in color. They communicate through music and humming, but can translate it into spoken words for humans. To human ears, their voices are musical, and incredibly loud. Researchers on the surface are on strict orders to keep their work hidden from humans. Others, orbiting the planet, use cloaking devices to hide their craft from satellites.
So far, they’ve successfully brought back several extinct animals, created artificial weather, and caused existing thunderstorms to become toxic to human life. This is the only thing that has been universally discovered by humans, who have invented special rain shields to protect against the rain.
Okay wooo that was a lot!!
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TFA Invasive anon here, ready to serve up some more!
First and foremost, yes, it was the Nemesis and crew that wound up on Earth with the repair team. It is definitely Milfatron time and the baby Optimus is holding is their eldest; he's already made squeaky noises at other attack helicoptors so they know his alt mode is chosen definitely. Otherwise, he's a little sweetheart that likes to chew on things and stare at everyone; aka just like any baby ever. There's a couple others from their broods in the herd chasing Bee.
As for Bee, the moped is actually his sparkling between himself and Prowl (Bee carried) and the four wheeler is Prowl's sparkling from Lockdown (Lockdown carried), who also stopped to top up on supplies when he heard rumors of a starting colony and had a few wild nights with the ninja. He still swings by every now and then to check up on them and take Prowl on dates. There's two other sparklings in the bunch that are Bee's between himself and Blitzwing (Blitz carried); one's a flappy wing'd triple changer and the other's a chunky grounder that's been patting tank pictures, so they know what he wants to be.
And yes to all of the rest; just all of it. Ratchet supervising nap times and tending to little hurts and aches and just being the best grandpa bot ever, grumpy or not. Prowl moves a lot more carefully now, making sure tiny watching optics can follow what he does and always ready to swoop in and catch anyone that slips off a branch or some other high surface. Bulkhead's art classes are very popular and the bitties love every moment of it; the art produced is hung up all throughout the base in various spots.
The other TFA characters are here too; Wreck-Gar helps with the art classes and just playing with the bitties. They love his high energy and willingness to get down and play with them on their level. The Constructicons aren't too good being around tiny sparklings but they help make playground equipment and bittie sized furniture out of stuff, as well as ensuring the nests and hides are safe and well put together.
Blackarachnia is still hiding out on Dinobot Island, with the Dinobots as basically her adopted sparklings. She and Optimus still meet up sometimes to catch up and just sort of...talk, about things. There's a lot of healing that needs to be done there, but it's happening.
Starscream took over the top of Sumdac tower, the tallest in Detroit. ONLY THE BEST FOR HIS NEST. He has a handful of squeaky bitties that are a full rainbow of colors, so best of luck guessing the sire(s).
And basically the only Decepticon that didn't date/get together with an Autobot is Lugnut, but that's only because of his loyalty to Strika. Who....he called over once they got a good signal going and she arrived with her team to help settle in. Then they had their *own* sparklings to add to the growing bunches.
....They may or may not have also brought in an Autobot team that they'd stopped to help; their ship had engine trouble and why not come along with to a new colony, right? So Team Athena could be here too as well!
Ok I’m just gonna go down the list and address every point one at a time, because this kind of ask makes me gush incoherently! Under the cut because this bitch is LONG
1. Hell yeah Milfatron time! 🤩 I gotta know, when you say the bitty OP is holding is their oldest, do you mean the oldest of like a litter, aka all born at the same time, or do they like each other enough to have bitties multiple times over the years? Both are good so it’s your call 👀 or even they’ve had multiple litters? I’m so here for it regardless
2. I’m so glad you’re throwing plenty of cross parenting out there! I’ve always loved that vibe for the invasive species AU. Some mate for life and others just wanna contribute to the colony, and both are 🥰 I’m my book. I love the BeeProwl moped baby XD I love the Lockprowl car baby. I love the Blitzbee bitties (twins?). There’s just so many bitties 🤩 you suppose Bulkhead decided to take the plunge into parenthood, or is he content just being their teacher and playmate?
3. Glad we can agree on old grandpa Ratchet. He’s already has his bitties over the years, and probably won’t be kindling ever again (unless drift shows up in which case-)
4. Wreck Gar! Hell yeah Wreck Gar he’s so cute :’) the bitties probably climb all over him, they just love their big loud Uncle
5. I…….. always forget about the TFA constructicons 😅 are we gonna go with their canon iterations or just go with more of them, as a gestalt? Regardless, at least they’re helping, praise Primus for that
6. Elita still mutated into Blackarachnia? Inchresting 🤔 was Archa 7 a potential colony planet? Were the three of the, just young and stupid and dicking around? How did that whole thing go down? Dying to know. But good on her for finding herself a niche and a family ^-^
7. As for the rest of the decepticons, I love Starscream and his nest of squeaky babies. Ofc he takes the tallest tower because that’s just how he is, BUT. I actually don’t know if it would be Sumdaac tower. Like, think about it. All of Sumdac’s fortune came from tech he got from Megatron’s corpse. Megs never crashed here, so he never had access to it. He still may be an inventor but one with such a vast tech empire? I kinda doubt it. So, whether or not it’s specifically his tower is up for debate, but still! Tall. If he doesn’t decide to stay in the Detroit area he probably peace’s out to a tall, steep mountain where no nosy humans can bother his sparklings and wake them from their naps
8. You will literally never convince me that Lugnut and Strika don’t have twin girls Clobber and Alpha Strike. You will literally never convince me otherwise. Lugnut is dealing with parenthood about as well as you’d expect lmao 😂
9. Team Athena 👀 Rodimus? Hot Shot? Red Alert?? 👀
#cybertronians are an invasive species#I’m sorry this is so ridiculously long but long asks deserve long answers!
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deeply intrigued by Bad Star Wars Opinions Haver Dean. what bad star wars opinions would he have
it’s nuanced it’s complex. to begin I think dean has normie stock standard white guy opinions about star wars (the OT is gospel, PT is hilarious dogshit, ST is bad because new things r bad. to be clear the ST is bad but not for that reason). for flavour I think he thinks that OT boba fett is overrated (correct but will get you yelled at by other normie white guys). i know he also thinks the mandalorian show is the coolest shit ever (not the worst opinion but only acceptable on a surface level). anyway I think dean just has normie opinions about star wars. his understanding of canon is mostly informed by the movies. he thinks the Jedi and the Sith are cool but doesn’t have opinions beyond that. he thinks darth vader is sooooooooo fucking cool and that pt anakin ruined it by being a whiney bitch. like it’s not that his opinions r wrong so much that the way he reached those opinions r wrong you know. You need to read a bunch of forgettable and mediocre legends novels published in 2006 to properly hold those opinions. You need to watch clone wars you need to read the comics. Star Wars is more than the movies but also the moves are the most coherent thing about the lore but also you need to study the deep texts in order to know the canon
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Stillness for Thorne, Informal for Asher, and Roots for Andry?
And if you have one you wanna answer for Crane pls do :)
Thanks for the ask!!!!!
stillness: How does your OC act while still? Are they fidgety? Do they have any common gestures or tics? Does their clothing affect how they hold themselves while at rest?
Thorne is capable of being very still indeed, but it's a skill he's cultivated with a lot of effort under some duress—he was probably quite a fidgety, getting-into-everything child anyway, not to mention the years he spent half-feral after his parents died, where he was always quiet but very rarely still. When he first arrived at the Falcon's Nest, he was capable of moving almost soundlessly, but had a lot of trouble keeping still.
However, Morden finds it distracting if Thorne is squirrelling around while he's in the midst of research or scheming or whatever, and of the handful of times he has ever really lost his temper with Thorne, almost all have resulted from Thorne's inability to keep still.
So. As with a lot of Thorne's personality, he's a bit split on this one. When Morden is elsewhere, Thorne is really quite fidgety; he plays with his hair, he bites his nails, he paces.
In Morden's presence all his motions are deliberate, and at rest he is still as a statue.
informal: What's your OC's lazy-day look? How do they like to dress when they're winding down?
If he's not going to be seen by anyone except servants and his family, Asher hangs out in a shift and stockings, which is what he would wear under most court-approptiate attire. (He also always wears slippers, because while there are rugs or mats in most rooms of Colomur Castle, that still leaves an awful lot of cold stone floor.) Asher cares a lot less about what he looks like in general than Andry does, and most of what he's required to wear out and about is more restrictive than he'd like, so pre-conquest he wore lazy clothes most days, since he didn't have to make all that many public appearances.
Honestly, one of the (surface-level, easy-to-think-about) things he hates most about his prolonged captivity is that he is almost constantly under the supervision of Leisevan soldiers, which... like, no one is going to tell him he has to dress up properly for them; his mother isn't here and Andry has other things on his mind and they're the only ones who would care. But. Even when he's in his borrowed quarters with the door closed, foreign soldiers or the Wolf or the White Crane himself might burst in to order him about at any time, and only the Crane really knocks. So. He's been dressing up properly in a doublet and breeches and even boots for weeks to just sit in his room alone and he really hates it.
roots: Is your OC's look inspired by any specific style of clothing or fashion trend? What are the roots and/or inspiration for their look?
.......okay so I can't like. A lot of what I picture for Andry is inspired by what they wear in the captive prince series. Lots of high collars and long sleeves that lace up. You know how it is.
I picture Craetalia as like...... very very vaguely Scandinavian? I have very clear pictures of everyone's outfits, and they are entirely based on my own aesthetic preferences and NOT historical accuracy of any kind, obviously. (In particular i always picture Cinth in like... Victorian-ass riding habits which is like a good 2-300 years off everyone else's outfits.) But Andry's style is very loosely inspired by like. 14-1500s-ish Vaguely Germanic Upper Class Attire. (I may make a post later with a bunch of outfit inspo bc I am a gay bitch who loves an Outfit)
The main departure from all this btw is the hair thing, which I just put in cause it's cool and I like it, but it also makes pretty good sense to me: Royalty and well-off Nobles in Craetalia keep very long hair, which they usually wear loose (men usually keep it entirely loose; women often wear braids, sometimes very elaborate ones, but still keep some part of their hair loose). The length and how well-kept the hair is is a status symbol: it's supposed to show a certain amount of poise and self-control, and it also implies that you can afford a whole team of servants to take care of it for you and you don't have to do a lot of strenuous work.
Lots of nobles only cut their hair 3 or 4 times their entire lives. Andry is royalty; his hair had never been cut before Morden got to it.
Speaking of Crane,
favorite: Does your OC have a favorite article of clothing or accessory? What is it? What's the meaning behind it? Do they wear it all the time or do they wear it sparingly to keep it safe?
I dont know if it's his favorite accessory (that's probably his Falconer Cloak; it has a feathered collar and he expends a lot of other people's magic repelling water from it whenever it rains) but he does currently wear a long braid of gold hair hanging artfully from his belt.
Audoine never wore it braided, obviously, because braids are feminine and the Lion of Colomur never questioned a gender role his whole miserable life. Morden braided it himself after he cut it from Audoine's head. (This was pre-beheading, obviously; he didn't want blood on it.) (Morden had Raptor do the actual beheading, but he cut the hair off himself.) (It felt good to give the old man what he deserved.) (The look on the Summer Prince's face afterward felt even better.)
#asked and answered#wkw extras#oc: thorne#oc: andry#oc: asher#oc: morden#also bonus fun hair fact bc i love Fashion: high class sex workers in Colomur wear extensions#but theyre legally required to be dyed fun colors. so that people know theyre not Real Nobility#there's a lot of skill and artistry that goes into arranging them and blending them with their natural hair so it looks nice#(there are almost certainly lots of nobles who wear extensions also but they would never ever ever admit it under any circumstances ofc#traumatic haircuts#minor character death#beheading mention
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Dragon Ball Z: Abridged Episode 18 Review
Originally posted on October 8th, 2015
Namek has changed our characters significantly.
So you remember how last week I declared “A Lovely Bunch of Dragonballs” the best episode of Dragonball Z: Abridged I had reviewed yet? Well, as it turns out, that is still definitely the case, but “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Saiyan” is a pretty great episode, and it slips in as both a solid runner-up for best episode I’ve reviewed and works as an incredible follow-up to “Lovely Bunch.”
One of the greatest strengths of this episode is how it manages to both serve as a vehicle to establish the story for the following episodes and stand alone as a solid episode unto itself. And much of that I think has to do with the fact that “Mad Saiyan” is most interested not in the particulars of the plot surrounding the Ginyu Force’s arrival, but in the story around how Vegeta, Krillin, and Gohan all are reacting to the reality of Namek and the experiences that they’ve had on it.
Vegeta, for one, is more unhinged than ever, and while the strength he gained from his defeats since Earth has helped him accomplish much of his plans, it hasn’t helped him grow much more mature, which is shown in what is arguably Vegeta’s best scene in the series, as he essentially blacks out while threatening Krillin and is forced to bring himself back to reality (his scream even reaching twenty years into the future). His façade of unstoppable confidence is slowly peeling back to reveal the insecurity within, and it humanizes him quite a bit.1
Krillin is allowed to let his insecurities surface as well, shown when he verbally berates Bulma with one of his best lines in the series, declaring her to be the biggest bitch to ever live. Now of course, this tirade of Krillin’s is sexist as hell, but there is a very clear purpose for it; Krillin is realizing that through this entire trip to Namek, he has been so useless that the only person below him that he could possibly take his frustrations out on is Bulma. But he can’t actually criticize Bulma for her inactivity, because she is both not a fighter, and the person responsible for their being on Namek to begin with.
So, he attacks her with the only insult he has left: she’s a bitch, which, in context, roughly translates to “You wanting to be involved in the important events on Namek personally offends me.” And he goes on for as long as he can, and when he finished his rant, Bulma slaps him, retaliating simply, clearly, and concisely, which serves the dual purpose of shutting Krillin up and acknowledging that Krillin’s rant ultimately wasn’t about Bulma, but about his own feelings of inadequacy.2
And then finally, we have Gohan, who personally receives less development than Krillin or Vegeta, but gets to help in reaffirming the trend of “father figure” characters being deconstructed as being fairly atrocious at taking care of their “children.” To start with, there’s the “I need an adult?” gag, which happens between Gohan and Vegeta, Krillin, and Super Kami Guru, and the way it works for each is slightly different.
With Vegeta, it doesn’t serve much purpose other than to establish the joke for later repetition (and is also funny on its own of course), but with Krillin, it establishes Krillin’s incompetence at taking care of Gohan, and with Super Kami Guru, it builds on his established characterization as a selfish leader to show that he is even willing to disregard to comfort and safety of children to get what he wants (and It’s also a nice touch that Gohan’s power-up ends up being useless within this episode).
These jokes all also paint Gohan as clearly more responsible than any of the adults he’s encountered on Namek, and make it clear that his level-headed competence is the only reason he has survived as long as he has.
“Mad Saiyan” then closes with Super Kami Guru announcing the arrival of the Ginyus, an elite force we know next to nothing about, and it’s pushed to the very last second, which reveals that Team Four Star’s decision to spend most of their time with our three heroes3 is very intentional.
After all, some might make the argument that this time could’ve been compressed and cut so that we move right to the Ginyus’ arrival, but that would’ve been a mistake, as “Mad Saiyan’s” focus and slower pace gives room for the characters to breathe, and for Team Four Star to develop them as is needed.
Rating: 4.5/5
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Stray Observations
1Which is good and necessary, since he’s about to join Team Three Star.
2This is where my own interpretive lens comes clearly into play, and I would add the concession that I could easily be wrong about what they’re attempting to do with Krillin through his rant, especially given that another interpretation that could be equally valid is that Team Four Star could just have really wanted to go on a rant about how much of a bitch Bulma is. I don’t believe that’s the case, of course, as I believe that their track record makes it unlikely they’d stoop to that sexist and harmful of a joke, but it’s not beyond the realm of possibility either.
3Vegeta is technically too much of an anti-hero to qualify as a hero, but Goku’s not here and we need a Saiyan, so he gets lumped in with them all.
Vegeta: “I’m just… Saiyan.”
*laughtrack*
Vegeta: “Waka waka!”
(Fuck you, I love this joke)
Two episodes, two songs rewritten to be about Dragonballs. And they’re both wonderful.
Vegeta: “Well if it isn’t Moe Howard.”
Krillin: “How do you even?”
Vegeta: “Space Hulu.”
Gohan: “I need an adult?”
Vegeta, Krillin, and Super Kami Guru: “I am an adult!”
Vegeta: “I’m gonna go pay him a, what do you call it?”
Gohan: “Pay him a visit?”
Vegeta: “Beating, that’s right. I’m gonna go pay him a beating.”
“Wow. I now know what it’s like to feel like Krillin.”
Krillin: “Sucks, doesn’t it?”
I will never be able to answer whether the Team Four Star Soda joke at the end of this episode is terrible or wonderful. But either way, it is certainly kind of wonderfully dumb.
#dragon ball z abridged#dragon ball z#team four star#dbza#film criticism#dbza ep18#rad to see that i clued into the intent of TFS here#in the creator commentary Scott and Nick talk about Krillin's rant#they are a little embarrassed by it now#which is fair#but the idea behind it was definitely that Krillin is expressing his powerlessness#and it works to show his frustration very effectively
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