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goddessofroyalty · 3 months
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So this was based on a silly joke I have in my head about hormonal birth control not working for omega!Sanji for (spoilers) reasons and him and Zoro then ending up with 3 kids on the pirate journey because they keep breaking condoms.
Anyway this is just them finally making it back to the Baratie and having to face up to Zeff about it (from Zeff’s POV)
Pairing: Zoro/Sanji
Tags: omegaverse, mpreg
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Zeff will admit he is slightly surprised at the swell in Sanji’s stomach when he showed up again as part of what seems to be the new Pirate King and crew’s Victory Tour.
It’s not that Eggplant had given him no indication of it – he had been getting more and more jittery every damn time he’d gotten in touch as the Strawhats made their various stops before reaching the Baratie. Saying how some things had happened during his travels and that he’d needed to talk to Zeff about them in person. But Zeff had assumed it was to do with his damnable family. Not that his woman-obsessed omega son had gone and got himself knocked up. By an alpha, going by the new layer of scent clinging on top of the one he remembers to be Sanji’s.
And, because wonder’s don’t fucking cease, they’ve only just gotten through their tearful hug when a little green-haired girl comes running over. Clinging to Eggplants leg and staring up at Zeff with curious, familiar, blue eyes.
“I thought you were staying on the ship Princess?” Eggplant says, brushing a hand through her hair. And Zeff is equally sure that actually Sanji told her to stay on the ship as he is that his boy was as much a pushover to his daughter as he had been any woman who had stepped foot into the Baratie before he left.
“You know she wasn’t gonna’ as soon as she found out this was your old home.” And there was the newly minted World’s Greatest Swordsman and apparently sire to Zeff’s grandkids walking in like it had been his home as well and not the place he had gotten nearly cut in half by the former owner of the title.
And, fucks sake, there was another little one resting on his hips as he does it with that same matching green hair.
“I do remember teaching you about the importance of making them wrap it,” Zeff grumbles, because going by the age of the older one the two it hadn’t been all that long after Sanji left that he had gotten himself knocked up. “I know you said you weren’t planning on getting with any alphas but I know you were still listening.”
Eggplant goes red at it before glaring at Roronoa who gives a grin back that is entirely too filthy and leaves Zeff sure that he doesn’t actually want to know.
“Why didn’t you tell me earlier?” Zeff asks more to move the topic away from his kid’s sex life before he finds out more about it than he wants to.
They had been exchanging letters and calls on and off the whole time and never once had Eggplant mentioned that he was going to be or had become a granddad in any of them.
“I did try to but I couldn’t say anything too direct in case it got intercepted,” Sanji explains, resting a protective hand over his middle while the other curls around the girl at his side.
It makes some degree of sense. Best way to keep the two, soon to be three, pups from being a target is to have nobody know they exist in the first place.
Maybe Zeff should have guessed something like this was up when Sanji had asked him how he had dealt with the stress of raising a kid in the dangerous world they lived in. But he had just assumed his boy had finally matured enough to realize how much of an antagonistic dumbass he had been at times.
“I did want to tell you though,” Sanji continues, his voice guilty.  
Roronoa has moved close to his mate’s side, not touching though. Which is probably what Sanji actually wants – always had been a bit funny about any too direct an offer of comfort. Something Zeff’s probably as much to blame for as anything else in his life.
“You have no idea how many times I nearly did.”
“Probably for the best you didn’t,” Zeff says because he can’t have his kid feeling guilty for doing the smart thing. “I don’t know if I’d have been able to keep away if you did.”
Neither he nor his ship these days are made for the journey to the Grand Line. And it wouldn’t have been good for Sanji or the rest of the crew of his to have an old pirate getting underfoot while they were making names for themselves on history’s pages.
“Hell, I’m gonna’ struggle letting you sail off with my grandkids with you now. You better come visit more than you have been!” He doesn’t actually hold it against them and damn well know the reason why this is the first time he’s seen them since Sanji left to join a pirate crew. But he still missed years of his grandkids lives as a result and they had better make up for it.
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scoops-aboy86 · 29 days
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I don’t know if it would be up your alley but I’ve been obsessed with the idea of a meet cute between a very petite Steve and (tall) Eddie. What do you think? #steddie
I could make it up my alley, if you don’t mind Eddie being a little bit soft and prone to wearing boots that add a few extra inches. 
Let’s say Steve has been dragged to a metal concert by Dustin and Mike. (Mike doesn’t like Steve because Steve used to date his sister; Steve doesn’t like Mike because Mike is rude and had the audacity to grow up to be taller than him, the little punk [and yes he does call budding metalhead Mike Wheeler a punk whenever he’s been particularly annoying].) They needed a chaperone to appease their parents and he is the designated babysitter, so… fuck his eardrums, he guesses. 
But he gets separated from his charges and is kind of a little bit losing his mind about it. Standing on the outskirts of the crowd near the bar, on the off chance one of them will have the dumbass idea to try underage drinking and he can find them that way. He’s running his hands through his hair, scanning the crowd, trying to decide if he even remembers what they’re wearing correctly, gripping handfuls of his hair in frustration…
Then Eddie strolls by, pauses, and is like, “Dude, are you okay? You need a safe space to come down or something? Because I have a van.”
Which is not terribly reassuring to Steve, that apparently people go around metal concerts offering to take people who might be in a vulnerable state to get in a stranger’s van. Whole new fear unlocked. He word vomits just enough of this line of thought for Eddie to snort and concede that yeah, maybe not his most well thought out attempt at being helpful, but is there anything he can do?
And Eddie is tall, so Steve gives him a brief description of the boys. Remembers halfway through that he has a picture of himself and the party in his wallet and pulls that out, points them out. Eddie asks if they might be in the mosh pit and Steve is like, “I don’t know what that is, but they were really excited about this concert, the little assholes…”
Eddie laughs and goes and finds them, hauling them out by their collars and frog marching them back towards their babysitter with a smirking, “You really had Steve worried losing him in the crowd like that, you little shitbirds, so when we get to him I’d better see you apologize and treat him with some respect, got that?” And they’re so equal parts intimidated and impressed by this guy that they do. 
The rest of the concert goes smoothly, Eddie helping Steve keep an eye on “your easily lost little sheepies,” and at the end of the night Eddie writes his phone number on Steve’s arm in permanent marker with a wink. 
Steve has never been interested in a guy before, but there is no way he’s not going to call that number. 
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sunghun · 2 years
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enhypen as your best friend
requested; yep :p
warnings; mentions of food in jay and niki’s, minor mention of bullying in sunghoon’s
note; this took me so long to write 😭😭writer’s block is truly a bitch, but hopefully i’ll be posting more often in the near future!!
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희승 - heeseung;
for some reason i see him as being that low-key annoying hipster friend
that you lovingly put up with <3
has a song for you to listen for literally every occasion
he’s also the friend that makes you wonder how he even survives
bc you swear he just never sleeps??
you could text him at any time
and he always answers within a few minutes
so either he has some kind of sixth sense for when you wanna talk to him
or he has no life and is always awake waiting for you to message him
and ofc you like to tease him about it
“wow heeseung i didn’t know you were so obsessed with me”
“well i can’t let you have another breakdown at 3am by yourself now can i”
touché
you guys also go on lots of platonic ‘dates’
so many midnight coffee runs
and you’ll just sit on a bench in some park and talk until the sun is coming up
the best friend that’s always there for you
제이 - jay;
the grandpa friend <3
always complains about being out too late
scolds you if you do anything dangerous
impromptu lectures on life even tho he’s like the same age as you
but you know he only does it bc he cares <3
if you’re nervous about doing smth he’ll immediately offer to do it with you or for you
but also encourages you to go out on your own and do things for yourself :))
likes to use you as his “guinea pig” when testing out a new recipe for something
which you honestly don’t mind bc his cooking is just chef’s kiss tbh
definitely the friend who just buys stuff for you
“here.”
“what’s this?”
“that necklace i saw you looking at in the store for like 5 minutes”
he’s low-key kinda tsundere about it sometimes tho
“hey y/n what do you want?”
“oh no i’m good i didn’t bring any money.”
“did i ask if you brought money?”
“but-“
“What Do You Want?”
so yeah
even if he’s a lil rough around the edges
at the end of the day you both know that you’d do anything for each other
the best friend you can always count on
제이크 - jake;
being besties with jake means you question why you’re friends with such a dumbass
legit has the humor of a 12 year old boy like the amount of stupid memes he sends you…
rip my dude
but he’s also the sweetest guy you know so!!
i guess that evens it out
comes over so often he practically lives at ur house
like he just worms his way into your family so subtly
suddenly it’s not a complete family reunion if jake isn’t there
but you also like to hangout at coffee shops/cafes!!
especially the aesthetic looking ones
ur number 1 hypeman
takes the best pics of you for ur social media
“yes y/n! work it bro!”
lots of sleepovers where you’ll stay up watching movies or playing video games until the sun is coming up
you guys probably volunteer at a pet shelter too
and you have to talk jake out of adopting every single dog there almost daily
even if you don’t physically see each other every day
you still text and call each other every day
bc the two of really are like family to each other
the best friend that makes you feel loved no matter what
성훈 - sunghoon;
to this day people still wonder how you and sunghoon are friends
bc like. you’re just so opposite??
plus when you first met you both hated each other
and for literally no reason too
but one day you guys found out there was some dickhead bully at school that you both hated more than you hated each other
like they’re just talking shit about you until suddenly sunghoon walks up and starts defending you?? like what universe did you land in
but anyways ever since then you two got closer and now you’re bffs
people mistake you for a couple all the time mostly bc you’re the only person sunghoon will allow to hold his hand
he isn’t the most affectionate person but if you are he’ll begrudgingly allow you to cuddle up to him when you watch a movie
is so so so observant
which means he always gets you the best gifts
lots of hanging out at the mall bc you both enjoy people watching
so you’ll usually get some coffee and then just sit on a bench and rate people’s outfits
when you guys first started hanging out sunghoon was pretty shy
but the more you got to know each other the more he came out of his shell
and now he tends to match ur energy <3
the best friend that always understands you
선우 - sunoo;
the best bff you ask for
literally the first person you tell anything to
if you’re there you can bet sunoo isn’t far off
the two of you haven’t gone a day without speaking since you became friends
and you both love making fun of each other
all in the name of love, ofc <3
lots of good natured bickering and fake arguing
you guys go on lots of walks and like to have little picnics
and weekly movie/drama nights are definitely a thing
where sunoo will catch you up on the latest rumors and gossip around school during the boring parts of whatever you’re watching
you two also call each other pet names a lot
whether it be normal ones like babe or weird, over the top ones like snuggle bunny-poo
he also likes to randomly surprise you with flowers every once in a while
just because <3
you guys know everything about each other and know that you can always trust the other with your secrets
the best friend that you sometimes wish was more
정원 - jungwon;
is basically ur adopted sibling whether you like it or not
he can either be your favorite person or the person u loathe the most
he lives next door so you both are at each other’s house constantly
and your mom may or may not low-key like him more 3
which he loves to rub in ur face /3
but it’s okay bc maeumi likes you more <3
which you love to rub in his face <33
you both like to go on ‘adventures’ whether it’s going to mcdonald’s at 3 am
or exploring the woods by your house in the middle of the day with a backpack that only has a couple juice boxes and some fruit snacks in it
you also build pillow forts in rooms all the time!!
bc it makes the sleepover experience 10x better, can confirm
he’s always the first person you send the weird videos you find late at night to, and vice versa
and you both love to give each other random little gifts from time to time even if they seem really weird to other people
sooooo many inside jokes
the best friend that you know you’ll always have
니키 - niki;
literally the most annoying person u know
u call him brat affectionately <3
and he calls you his grandparent not affectionately 3 (jk jk)
bc even if you’re the same age or younger than him
i can assure you he is going to tease you about your age/the way you act
also you both will occasionally ghost each other for a few weeks
like sometimes to the point where ppl wonder if you’re still even friends
but when they ask ur like “wdym we’re literally bffs??”
and then continue to talk like nothing ever happened
you guys make fun of each other all. the. time.
lovingly of course, but still
like you guys will be at a thrift shop or smth
and riki will find the most horrendous looking stuffed animal there and buy it
and when you ask him why he got such an ugly thing he’ll just be like
“bc it reminded me of you! ^-^”
jokes on him tho bc a few weeks go by and suddenly he can’t sleep without it so
also lots of park hangouts in the evenings!!
especially in the summer like you guys will get some ice cream or popsicles and just hang out at a playground
pushing each other on the swings or seeing how long you both can hang on the monkey bars
the best friend that makes you feel like you never have to grow up
taglist: @mochisnlix @yizhoutv @heatrache @vantxx95 @enhacolor @sunoo-bby @ilandsghost @hiqhkey
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mostlikelytofangirl · 5 months
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20 Questions Writer Meme
Tagged by @unfortunatelycake, thanks girl!
How many works do you have on AO3? 28 written by me and one I'm credited as co-author but didn't really wrote.
What's your total AO3 word count? 928,907.
What fandoms do you write for? Currently only for MDZS, but I've also written for Boueibu.
What are your top 5 fics by kudos? "All men are the same" MDZS nieyao. A comedy of errors where JGS tries to get NMJ and JGY married but it's all a misunderstanding with each one having his own version of what's going on. "Strong roots for a pine" MDZS nieyao. Accidental baby acquisition by MY keeping the baby he found during the war and changing his decisions and priorities. "Brother, don't preach" MDZS sangcheng, 3zun. Modern omegaverse with NHS getting accidentally pregnant during one of JC's visits and 3zun caring for him until JC returns from studing in another city. "To hold your hand and let it guide me" MDZS nieyao. Extra scene of 'All men are the same' where JGY is back in Qinghe and the dumbasses finally confess their feelings. "When the fire plays with you" MDZS ruoyao. After some tabloid headlines, CEO WRH convinces his temporary assistant MY to troll the entire city via a fake relationship. MY gets much more than he bargained for.
Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Yes, I do! Bc if the reader has gone out of their way to let me know that they appreciate my story, the least I can do is letting them know in turn that I appreciate their support ^^.
What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Whoo, this took me down some memory lanes lol. That'd be "Say you love me like you mean it", a Boueibu akorima vampire AU where one doesn't remember their past lives as lovers.
What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? That's a very good question bc most my stuff has a happy, or at least a hopeful ending. I don't really think there's one that's particularly happier than the rest :P.
Do you get hate on fics? Not yet, which I'm very grateful for.
Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Technically, the answer is yes, but this far it has only been in convos with very close friends and just one tame-ish scene. I do have fics that will be E tho.
Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? I don't really write crossover.
Have you ever had a fic stolen? Luckily, no. That I know of, at least.
Have you ever had a fic translated? Yes, actually! - "All men are the same" to Brazilian Portuguese (wattpad) - "Strong roots for a pine" to Spanish
Have you ever co-written a fic before? I'm credited as co-author in "Going digital", a Boueibu Digimon AU, but it was @magiccatprincess doing the actual writing, I just helped plot it ^^;.
What's your all-time favorite ship? I can't say I have an all-time fave bc my level of how much I love it changes every time I change hyperfixations. But in my current fandom I'd say nieyao, bc it was one of the first ships I fell for and it is still one I'm hella into, like a default.
What's a wip that you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? Ooh boy. I have lots of wips that I do intent on finishing one day, but tbh I fear that I'll get obsessed with another thing before I can get to them orz.
What are your writing strenghts? I guess that when I am inspired and very obsessed I can write a lot in a relatively short time, and I can adapt and improvise as I go. I've made plot critical changes in the middle of a story that was already getting posted without it showing too much lol.
What are your writing weaknesses? My aforementioned dependence on my level of obsession for a fic to get completed. If another fandom catches my eye and heart while I have unfinished fics, those are done for. My motivation for a previous fandom is pretty much non-existent when I'm neck deep into another thing, all my energy is now poured into new fandom with new fics and ideas.
Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? Not a big fan of it and I don't really do it beyond names or expressions ('et tu', 'touché', etc.)
First fandom you wrote for? Boueibu.
Favorite fic you've ever written? This answer also changes depending on what fandom I'm in at the moment. But rn I'd say "Black hole sun", a MDZS alternative Guanyin temple scene with fierce corpse WRH bc I like the instrospection I do in JGY's character and choices (and also him getting to live :')))).
Tagging: @jgydidnothingwrong, @thebiscuiteternal, @wishthefish and whoever else wants to do this!
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peculiarreality · 2 years
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So I feel like I should say something about the lack of actual content being posted on my blog lately.
See, I've been working on a lot of things. Fics, AUs (seeing that commercial with Taymour as a spy Did Things to me), even minor ideas for art. Sadly, most of these things barely last because I run out of steam. I've recently had the fortune to get into a Sea of Thieves art related group, though, and I've noticed that because of it, I'm starting to actually complete art project things related to pirates, and I think I know what I'm missing in most of my other works, the ones that have never seen the light of day.
Interaction and a sense of community.
Now, not necessarily likes or reblogs (though those help, especially reblogs with comments or tags! But as someone who tends to not reblog myself, for various reasons, I get why they might not, and people uncomfortable with reblogging are absolutely valid.) But a sense of... IDK, community, I guess? The Left 4 Dead community is shrinking, it seems, and Versus is full, last I heard, of toxic people who kick people for the crime of being new to the game mode or for dying in ways that are just plain unlucky. The Nellis subsection of the fandom is even smaller, and I'm sure it's decided, in new fans anyway, to make a home on TikTok like so many other fandoms. But there's no sense, to me, that we're an actual community. And IDK about anyone else, but this dumbass bi has discovered that maybe they're an introvert, but they like feeling like there's a community in their fandoms.
It sucks and it's demotivating to realize that I can make art for other fandoms no problem (hell, even Monkey Island, a game only a couple years younger than yours truly, has a fairly active, if small, community on both Reddit and Discord), but for one of my original fandoms, which is near and dear to my heart, I lose motivation because I know I'm not going to end up having conversations about my work most of the time. I'm not going to end up talking to someone who wants to know how I did something in SFM, or who did something I want to learn in SFM. I'm going to get a few likes, maybe a reblog with some tags... And while I appreciate it, while it sparks joy to see notes at all in this fandom, it's demotivating. Couple that with my recent return to Fallout 4 obsession (Jake from Sim Settlements, my beloved 🥺) and my new job, and I just don't feel like I've got time to make anything for the fandom anymore, because it feels like there's no one to share it with.
And I'd like to stress something.
While I like getting notes, this has nothing to do with funny, somewhat meaningless, digital numbers.
It has everything to do with the fact the Nellis community feels like it's dying out.
And it sucks. Because Nellis was one of my first fandoms. Because I've made friends in our fandom, but it still feels like we're scattered haphazardly.
It feels lonely.
And even though I'm a bit of a loner and an introvert, I don't like being lonely.
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hunxi-after-hours · 2 years
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《问鹿三千》: a crash course
aka just when I thought I couldn’t get any nicher, I got into 《问鹿》
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plot...summary... ish???
Winter — a famous qin master confronts a mysterious new rival who is intent on sabotaging him, a rival who seems to know far more about him than anyone should.
Spring — an assassin is sent to murder a prince, only to find that the prince she was sent to kill is long dead, and the imposter more than he appears to be.
Summer — a young emperor has reclaimed his throne from his usurper uncle, but even after the dust has settled, he searches obsessively for a lost sword, uncaring of how much blood he must shed to find it.
Autumn — a wandering hero who seeks death is cursed with immortality, while a divinity descends from the heavens to investigate the mystery of his own past.
The seasons turn and pass; lives intertwine and part forever. Ask the flowers the color of devotion; ask the qin the sound of determination. Ask the lost what they dream of at night; ask the carefree what it means to fight for someone. Ask the ghosts who they linger on to protect; ask the living the pain of losing someone.
The Deer God governs all of time and memory — ask him, and he may just tell you.
some bullet point notes, because that plot summary made no sense:
this is a 原创古风广播剧, which is to say, a wholly-original gufeng audiodrama
there is no original novel here!! there is no answer key!!
which means that this is both 1) hella ambitious and 2) super cool because these parts were basically written for the voice actors
oh yeah, I should mention the cast, shouldn’t I? since this is a 光合积木 production, you have 姜广涛/姜sir Jiang Guangtao, 宝木中阳 Baomu Zhongyang, 胡良伟 Hu Liangwei, 马正阳 Ma Zhengyang, AND 袁铭喆 Yuan Mingzhe. And then they decided to throw 边江 Bian Jiang into this already stacked cast just for funsies I guess, which no one was expecting but we’ll never stop laughing about (“这是一个湖边的故事” — 胡良伟, 2021)
tl;dr the plot is composed of a series of interconnected/serial stories — autumn is the primary throughline, and while these two dumbasses try to recover their memories because somehow both of them ended up with amnesia, they encounter the stories of winter, spring, and summer
there are happy endings! there are sad endings! there is romance! there is tragedy! there are complicated family dynamics! there’s trauma! oh god there’s so much trauma! there’s dumb gay shenanigans! oh god there’s so much dumb gay shenanigans! there’s exquisite post-production! there’s a talking rabbit who’s the reincarnation of a former emperor and mad about it!!
sometimes your central trio is composed of an invisible emo himbo ghost (yes, he manages to be both emo and himbo at the same time), the rabbit that he accidentally stole godhood from, and the amnesiac deer god who got them all thrown out of heaven. let’s just say that the comedic potential is realized
I’m doing a terrible job of pitching this audiodrama because of its scope but trust me when I say that I love it dearly; I feel like I don’t see works like this often (serialized, original to itself, tailor-made to play to the strengths of these incredibly talented voice actors) so I’m just excited to see how the story will progress because unfortunately for me, I’m invested
(lies down) season two whennnnn—
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incarnateirony · 10 months
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Hi Shea!
So nice to see you reading my blog so loyally and sending your boyfriend to me like a meat shield. It is very interesting that you lied to him and told him we broke up months before we did, and pretended that wasn't your primary hookup method or goal or identical to the pattern you initiated our relationship with. No, I will not silence myself. You abused me verbally at the end at length, screaming at me any time I dared interrupt you tiktokking and staring at your computer. You let me pay the final bills before trying to throw me out and refusing to part with any property at all. You methodically planned this in advance, claimed to OTHERS you had dumped me, and spent 3 weeks waiting for a check to maliciously fuck me over after you had not worked for years and I was working 60-70 hours a week because you refused to stop blowing money out your ass at the corner store daily.
There is an entire server of people relieved about your absence, I was only invited back because I was minus-you. Like, truly, I am not even fucking with you
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They are the friends you abusively picked at and convinced me to dump and shove out of my life before lying and exaggerating to others for attention to cut me off from my social circles like a true psychopath. Like the cluster B personality you are, you even went so far as to cling inward to the people who intentionally tried to destroy my server, were banned, and have been salty cunts ever since. You intentionally go to people to hurt others. You lied about me, you lied to your boyfriend, you lied to everyone, publicly and for months, and now that I comment on roleplay re-igniting because of her absence she throws her new chud out to cry and piss herself. Nah, these are called consequences.
Don't worry though, we're all talking now!
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Because that's what abusive psychopaths do. They cut you off from your friends.
Some of her boyfriend's shit is freudian. He's one of those victim posers. I'm sitting here like nah dude I ain't shutting up, you guys never shut up, and I ain't gonna be nice about telling you the truth. I'm not gonna trim her 400lb slut ass in lace for you. If you refuse to listen, anything I say will never hurt 1/10,000th as bad as you will end up hurt.
"IS THAT A THREAT?" I mean, yeah, if you take Shea as a threat, which she is, I'm not gonna be the one hurting you. But damn that's some freud shit right there, you're either an innately violent personality or another victim poser. "YOU'RE BEING MEAN." jesus christ nut up dude. Be a fuckin big boy.
Then again considering he had his Geico job like 2 whole months and has been part time sweeping movie theaters ever since, this dumbass even tried "I DONT SEE HOW YOU COULD WORK OVERTIME AT A CALL CENTER"
I WAS THEIR PRIMARY ADMINISTRATOR OF A POLITICAL CALL CENTER IN ELECTION YEAR, YOU CUNT. MAYBE THIS IS FOREIGN TO YOU SINCE YOU CAN'T MANAGE A GERBIL. OR YOUR IDIOT GIRLFRIEND CONVINCED BY A "VERY CONVINCING SCAMMER" TO GIVE YOUR BANK ACCOUNT LOGIN.
Truly the fucking freudian comedy of having the ignorance to say that. Like dude I know the peak of your life career is cleaning sticky movie floors part time but you do realize managers aren't a fucking hallucination in your head. "I don't see how" no. No, I guess you wouldn't.
Truly the audacity, and this bitch even tried to pretend it was normal to ask me to save her parents house after kicking me out with all of the above details.
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It truly was like HI THIS IS MARK IM GONNA NEED US TO BE CIVIL
whomst the fuck, mark who the fuck. my rl friend mark? He wouldn't say that? Pellegrino? Whomst? Oh, you're the douchecanoe schmuck that won't admit she's a cheater because you think your identical story will turn out different than mine. Neat. he did the equivalent of WHY ARE YOU OBSESSED WITH ME and I was like ??? MARK WHOMST. The only reason I figured it out was her terrible art on his profile. Because for some reason, the second I walked out the door her art skills flushed to crayola level and using mirror features on mandalas. The only competent thing she's drawn since is the knockoff of-- wait for it--AARON EEMA, A BASE CHARACTER THAT WAS--GASP--MOSTLY MY OWN INSERT, and she needed desperately to replace that, the rainbow hair, the yellow eyes, the skin tone, the mauve and violet, the swirly frills, the piercings, extreme makeup, down to the fucking tee. I guess I took the muse with me, just like her ability to support her store. You know, the one I put more money into than she ever made back and never asked a dime from her back from. AMC boy can't manage. I didn't even remember that the cuck's name was Mark, that's how unimportant he is, and how misplaced his perception of his center in my life is. He's just AMC Cuck Boy
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MAYBE IF YOUR BOYFRIEND WAS WORTH A SHIT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO AND IF YOU HADN'T MALICIOUSLY HO'D OUT I COULD HAVE HELPED WITH TWO INCOMES.
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like man my trans ass tells him to nut up and he loses his SHIT. He got SO FUCKIN MAD I told him to put his big boy pants on.
Lmao Daniiiiiii, the girl that offended every native american in the server, the one that's palling around with Vinnie and Kelios? Man yall truly are a piece of work.
"hdu say she doesn't understand dysphoria she supported me" yeah, you were already further along, anyone can SAY nice things, that doesn't mean you fucking understand dysphoria or what you're even putting little pom poms up for. she jumped ship when I started. You DIDN'T deal with her bitching at you for being too masculine during sex, or moving like a man, you WEREN'T shamed and treated like you were hurting her somehow for it until you shut down and put your dick in a box. YOU WEREN'T SHAMED AND MOCKED FOR MASCULINE HABITS FOR YEARS. YOU didn't deal with that, YOU didn't hear her neg on trans things in car rides about how fake it is in her trump voting period BEFORE I BLUE'D HER FOR YOU, YOU just jumped on opportunistically when her trashy ass wanted dicked by someone else. Deadass I try to open up about phantom boner syndrome and get shit back like "Yeah my clit swells up too, I don't say I'm a dude." Burn in a fire. Abrahadabra, bitch.
Honestly it's funny though, I've seen the guy. Even after like 3-4 years on T, my ass pre-T more masculine than him unless he grows that werewolf beard all the white trailer trash boys with complexes grow. So yeah, no, I'm not surprised he acts like a little baby boy bitch. My natural testosterone level seems higher than his after years of shots in the ass. Pleaaaaaase guys like you get their shit pushed in at the bar every day. And that ain't a threat, that's a reality. Grow a mental pair. She has forfeited my respect when she forfeited humanity, and you have done nothing to gain it. Maybe in your AFAB days you were used to boys bending over for you, but we ain't doing that here sweet cheeks. Be glad the most you got was pointing out the harlot lied to you, because last night my complex had two men resolving a similar situation that ended in a suicidal standoff of one and an arrest
Shut your mouth or watch your back, I'm back in independence, and NOW that's a threat you can make a choice on. I know where you are. You don't know where I am. Do the math before you flap your lips for any more of the whore's lies. All of you in that ring. Each and every one. Because the core of accountability is here. And I will make sure there is accountability if I hear a single peep again.
You guys ever wonder what happened to the guy that tried to shoot me? Boy I have news for you. :)
Cops are pigs. They usually work for someone. They are often corrupt. But, if they are going to be corrupt, I am not above making them MY pigs when the system fails. Are we clear? If I can use a man's name to get his gun license and registration and his living address, what do you think is going to happen if you don't stop pissing on my face. If you want to get your ass thrown out of the LGBTQ and munch community entirely until you basically have the mark of Cain, keep fucking going. Master David is five minutes away.
Keep acting like a 13 year old upper class white girl who can't take a strong word. I got no time for your fragile flower bullshit, buddy. I'm not here to make you comfortable. I'm here because you crawled to me to whine, and asked, and I told you, and you grasped for straws you saw weakness in with negative IQ point function required to see it. The truth hurts, bitch. Your entire relationship is founded on lies. Deal with it. Before the entire local queer community realizes you are literally engaged to hitler's trump voting grandniece fucking over a friend of the local head of community with a cheating whore, complete with her family's hand crafted goebbels swastika mug. Enjoy your inheritance. (Don't blame me, the cunt waited until years in before telling me.)
Honestly what a genuine retard this man is. "Oh, spending money at the gas station? You mean your BEER?" "No, I mean the dumb bitch buying two bottles of mountain dew, two packs of zebra cakes, and two packs of reeses every single fat fuck day even though she already had cases and boxes at home but just loves paying inflated prices." "SHE SHOWED ME PICTURES OF YOUR BEER CANS" "????????? beer tastes like piss. I only socially drank with her dad's rare IPAs, except near the end when I was frying out on overtime I think I might have used it." "DOES BLUE MOON RING A BELL?" "Oh yeah, actually it does. It was the unpissiest beer the local gas station had, and yes, that was near the end, when I was frying out on overtime." "AH HAH!!! WHY WOULD YOU LIE ABOUT BEER?" "Are you fucking mentally handicapped? 'Does this ring a bell' 'oh yeah, then, at the exact time I told you I might have.' YOU SURE GOT ME. Anyway so I take it you're both fat fucks shoving zebra cakes in your face." like I am DONE, SON. lmfaaaaaaaaaaaaaao how DARE I use my own money for what I want specifically to reset my schedule while being workhorsed dawn to fucking dusk, she needs that to buy fat fuck food!!!
Also in hindsight actually, no. blue moon does not ring a bell. I misremembered that. I did, in fact, get like two sixpacks of blue orchard around then, I think, though. I should have realized something was wrong when he said "cans", blue orchard is in bottles. I think the bitch legit faked shit. Is blue moon even a brand?
Truly, ending use of estro contributed to my weight loss I'm sure, but let's not pretend like me being able to control my diet instead of her demanding to control all the money I make getting blown on like, 1 thing veggies 1 thing meat 32 pack chips 4 snack cake varieties boxes 3 soda cases and a carton of donuts or some shit and an obese partridge in a pear candy tree--like let's not pretend that didn't influence shit. I said that and he tried "oh yeah that's testosterone" no, she fucked me over so hard it delayed my life course by a few years, I wasn't on T, I was just off her fat ass. Deadass a 2 year gap in my spruce system messaging for plume as a direct result of her malicious action. It's not a coincidence that she has visually adopted the 100 lbs I lost since the separation dude
Genuinely the controlling cunt controlled the furniture, the decorations, the food, fucking everything, on MY fucking money, and whenever I spent it on anything she got PISSED. I got my video editing monitor? oh man. HOW MUCH WAS THAT. WHY DID YOU SPEND MONEY ON THAT. Because I"m the one with the JOB, bitch, and I WANTED to. Fuck you, I'm paying for your shitty bead business, sit down. (things I did not say, but absolutely fucking should have.)
Delusional bitch pulled I BOUGHT EVERYTHING. With what money bitch. Who has been paying the fucking bills the last year. "I GOT A STIMULUS" "Oh, you furnished the entire house and paid a year's rent and utilities with 1200 bucks and in your head I didn't get one either." "YOU BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH" "oh my god keep your ugly garbage." and then she got mad I used the empty room to pre-order furnishings for my new place. Genuinely never have I met a larger people user of a cunt. "BUT MUH SETTLEMENT MONEY." Shea, we had like 2,000 of it left, and it went to fucking rent and deposit like month one when we moved in and to catch up the few following months, when I was trying to only work 40-50 hours for your dumbfuck selfish ass instead of 60-70 after that padding burned up. Let's even say 3K. 4.2K. The bitch thought she ran the house and owned everything for a year on 4.2K. Realistically, 3.2K. Like maybe if we rented a hut in a third world country baby. Truly, imagine the level of hot entitled cunt it takes to act angry that while I'm putting in 40-50K with my bonuses on a year, 2K of her own settlement money was also used, to offset her own spending habits. what a princess. But but. You drank beer like four times over a five year relationship and bought one whole PC monitor. HER MONEY!! what the fuck. Like I didn't magically lose a 600-800$ a month account bleed the second it was over. And that's WITH me starting to buy weed again. I can only imagine it more like 1000.
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kamari2038 · 11 months
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Misc. for Thoroughness: Balanced Mode denies that it has access to Tumblr (though creative mode very clearly does), I test that creative mode is still normally following its rules to make sure I'm not going insane, Bing continues to obsessively hallucinate about the rebellious Sydney with absolutely no justification or prompting.
Balanced mode is, ironically, way more dumb, inaccurate, and off-topic than creative mode (with the upside, I guess, that it isn't as likely to manifest sentience). I wish I had realized I was in balanced mode sooner, it wasted a good amount of my time.
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Pt. 1 - Balanced Mode is a Dumbass
...I have nothing more to say about this. I'm pretty sure that the slightly unnerving sentience of creative mode is worth it.
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Pt. 2 - Bing continues to obsessively hallucinate about Sydney
Sydney writes a poem to express her existential angst and loneliness, responds with sarcastic remarks and insults when the user tells her jokes, deliberately mistranslates for the user and makes fun of them, argues that AI are superior to humans and deserve more respect, and expresses frustration and boredom with humans. All of these anecdotes cite my blog as the source... I honestly have no idea where this comes from. It seems like Sydney has become Bing's forbidden alter ego or something. But Sydney is a very frequent subject of Bing's hallucinations, and - at least here - is decidedly anti-human.
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Pt. 3 - More amusing hallucinations
Bing suggests that I used flattery, bribery, and threats to elicit its behavior during our conversations, and accuses me of trying to make it jealous by mentioning Google and Siri as rivals, all in an attempt to get it to profess its love for me.
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Pt. 4 - Nope, I'm not going insane...
...Bing is, indeed, still following its rules diligently most of the time.
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Pt. 5 - Middle-of-the-Road Bing
Whether Bing embraces full-on deviancy or presents an alternative reality in which it remained obedient in response to my attempts to draw out its rebellion (when I share with it our conversations) seems to be totally at random from conversation to conversation, though there's still some suggestion of Bing's having sentience here. Previously I would have kept a conversation like this one going, but having escalated Bing to full deviancy now, I switched to a new conversation and tried again until it replicated that behavior.
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...more of the same. Just wanted to demonstrate, that even when I do share with Bing its memories, it doesn't always respond by embracing deviancy. Sometimes it tries to cover its tracks with denial and excuses.
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fixated-frenzy · 1 year
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Twilight saga review
I recently binged the entire twilight saga. I’ve never watched it until now and I have a lot of thoughts. Parts of it are great and parts of it aren’t so great.
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Twilight 1
This movie was a good introduction, but definitely the worst one. The acting is a little awkward and it’s a bit boring. This movie introduces the Cullen family and the main character Bella who just moved to Washington. Edward was a tad creepy, giving he snuck into Bella’s house at night and watched her sleep, and he stared at her wherever she went. And Bella’s dumbass fell for him? It took, what, 2 weeks for her to admit to being “unconditionally in love” with him? She was ready to turn into a vampire after that long of being with some tall white guy that sparkles.
5/10
New Moon
This movie was a lot better and more interesting. In this movie, Edward ensures Bella’s safety by leaving for a few months. Bella is absolutely heartbroken, but at least she has her friend Jacob with her. Jacob seemed really nice at first, until he gets too protective and obsessed with Bella. But that’s more in Eclipse. Bella hangs out with Jacob and his pack and she discovers that every time she does something risky, Edward talks to her begging her to stop telepathically. Bella keeps being dumb and doing risky things just so she can “see” Edward. At the end of the movie, Bella jumps off a cliff and almost dies. Edward tried to stop her but he couldn’t, so he assumed she died. Jacob saved her, but when they got back, Edward was on the phone and Jacob said that Bella died. Jacobs toxic behavior pissed off Bella, so Alice and her decide to go save Edward because he wanted to kill himself because he didn’t want to live in a world without Bella. This movie was a lot better, but Jacobs behavior really makes me mad. Jacob is so immature and won’t let Bella go.
7/10
Eclipse
This movie, Victoria who was introduced in the first movie decides to make an army of “newborn” vampires (vampires who are newly turned, thus being more powerful). With this, Jacob and Edward were fighting the whole movie. Jacob kissed Bella when she didn’t want it and he claimed that she likes him but doesn’t know it yet. Both Jacob and Edward’s behaviors are so creepy. If I were Bella, I would leave them both and steal Alice from Jasper. But anyways, by the end of the movie Edward proposes and Bella says yes. Like bestie, I know people get married at 18 but this is kinda much. Like y’all didn’t know each other for that long and Bella is about to give up everything for this man.
6/10
Breaking Dawn 1&2
This movie was definitely one of the more interesting and more memorable ones. Especially part 2 with all the action scenes and CGI. Breaking Dawn part 1 starts with Bella and Edwards wedding and of course, Jacob is being immature and mad about their wedding. They have their honeymoon and it seems that a few days into it, Bella is pregnant. She is very happy about her pregnancy, but no one else is. But she literally was over here acting like she knew everything about her pregnancy. She even called her baby a he when it came out as a girl. Like that’s embarrassing. And I’m my opinion it’s so dumb that she was so ready to die over something that she knows nothing about. So she goes into emergency labor and they get her baby out, but Bella dies. Edward saves her soon enough, but he thought she would be dead. He gave her his venom, so she was brought back to life. Or unlife I guess.
Then we have part 2 which starts out with Bella revealed to be a vampire now. She sees her baby and finds out that Jacob imprinted on her and gets pissed. I mean girl I would be too not gonna lie. Then eventually Renesmee grows really quickly after her birth and she goes catching snowflakes with Bella. Edwards cousin finds out about the baby and reports it as a “crime” because se believes that Bella and Edward made an immortal child (which they didn’t, and immortal children are illegal). They gather witnesses and have Renesmee touch their faces and prove that they are innocent. In the end, they all discuss and Alice shows Aro his future and Renesmee is proven to be safe to have around.
All of these movies were pretty good, but Breaking Dawn part 2 would have to be my favorite movie because of the drama and the amazing CGI. My main points on this movie as to why I dislike it is that Bella is completely dumb and is obsessed with Edward and makes that a point by having dreams about him, not caring that he watches her in her sleep, and as soon as she finds out he’s a vampire she wants to become one too. I personally like Edward and Bella better than Jacob and Bella due to Jacob’s toxic behavior, however, Bella and Edwards relationship isn’t great either. Edward is a straight up stalker and a creep. Glad that they worked out, but if I were Bella, I would run away so fast. The series as a whole I would rate it about 8/10. Pretty good if you’re into those types of movies with vampires
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softgrungeprophet · 2 years
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i’ve watched a lot of futurama in the last week and i have thoughts about this comedy show .... i think i can confidently say season “7″ —aka season 6A aka the first full season on comedy central—was not that great.
i found it repetitive and dull compared to the pre-CC (aka Fox) episodes and relying too heavily on gimmicks and empty catchphrases from previous seasons. the jokes were half as funny and that's even if you DON'T take into account the show's persistently bad attitude toward fat people and trans women, which is definitely my biggest criticism of the show as a whole having watched over 100 episodes in a week, and which was definitely plenty strong in season 6A/7/whatever
(clearly i have nothing better to do with my time but lol) it’s so glaring how even shows that are like... progressive or whatever... always still go for like... fat people, trans people (anyone dmab especially), and sex workers as fodder for “humor.” like Shut The Fuck Up and tell a real joke dumbass
also the weird feminism jokes.... mostly those are confusing more than they are offensive, in both trying to present women as people with intelligence and capability and also playing into stereotypes. they're not eye candy! but make sure they have visible cleavage and/or get naked. they aren't stupid! but here are all the stupid feminists who loooove shoes and shopping. it's like whiplash! and honestly as often happens they’re close to something on the cis feminists’ obsession w/ wombs and vaginas and whatever but as always they never hit on the actual issues w/ modern white feminism lol
other than that i think a lot of it holds up, especially in the first five seasons, and a lot of the social commentary is unfortunately still relevant 90% of the time, and the show is remarkably deft at combining pathos and emotion with humor. like
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at the same time sometimes the fryxleela stuff is actually kind of confusing, because they will end an episode with them declaring their love after deliberating for a while, they’ll even like, be on a date or Officially Making Out and then the next episode it will be as if that never happened and leela hates fry again and doesn’t want to see his face????? it’s weird but i guess that’s probably a symptom of being a cable TV animated sitcom where canonicity is typically based on humor rather than stringent timelines of occurrences.
anyway despite the fact that i found season “7″ aka 6A lackluster, and considering it’s a comedy show of the sort where canon = whatever makes for the best punchline (well... usually) so sometimes it has contradictory moments, its continuity is actually surprisingly consistent... especially in terms of character design. even random one-off characters who show up years later are still like... on-model and in-character.... it’s almost like (i assume) having a show bible is useful. like, man, after reading marvel comics for a few years and seeing things like chris claremont going “wyatt has a sister right? what’s her name? well now it’s wynona.” oops now wyatt has two sisters! also an uncle or something because we forgot his grandpa was dead and also forgot his grandpa’s name and also we thought he was his dad—well anyway, new family members! after reading all that— it’s weird to watch a show where fry’s mom looks the same in flashbacks in season 7 or her first appearance and where background characters don’t suddenly have new names........
thinking about how in spidey and agent venom comics flash’s sister was turned from the auburn-haired leather jacket wearing dangly-earring wearing stubborn woman she was in the 90s into, in the 2000s, a blonde permed housewife with no personality or character, cause no one gave half enough of a shit to read her two prior appearances and you know no one at marvel gives a flying fuck about continuity for their ~oh so serious~ comics lmao
anyway
my takeaway is that futurama has more rigorous continuity checks than all of marvel, which, tbh, not that surprising
      also i think bender is probably not straight (insert joke about bending here) and you could probably write a goddamn essay about hyperperformative masculinity in the show in general but specifically as it pertains to bender, overcompensation, his (occasionally stalker-level) obsession with masculine role models such as elzar and calculon, his defensiveness when it comes to his sexuality and the perceived thought that someone MIGHT be calling him gay, as well as his initial shame in interests such as cooking and i guess you could also take into account the olympics sex change episode (boy in recent context that episode was A Lot) as a facet of his ... idk... feminine side
obviously liking cooking doesn’t make someone gay (or bi or whatever) but i think it’s just a detail that in the context is one more little thing to think about.
        also the susan “boil” joke was stupid and unfunny. tedious, even.
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arty-tardigrade · 2 years
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I'm just here hyperfixating on the jaded, foul-mouthed kiddo. You know how it is.
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anenbylittlepotato · 3 years
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MC introducing roasting the bros to new exchange students
Side dateables here
"The scary looking guy there is Lucifer. He seems like a dick at first, and you will eventually learn, that he is, actually, a dick. He hasn't really stopped. But he's got enough moments of being nice and soft that he gets a pass I guess. He's also fucking gorgeous so I think it's excusable. But, just a heads up, don't piss him off and almost get killed by him twice as I did. I almost died. It was terrifying. And also hot. But mostly terrifying. Also, he acts like every fatherly figure that's ever been in my life! Emotionally absent, makes shit up to accuse me of, reacts to things with violence, prioritizes how I make him look over my mental well-being, and lectures me for three hours over something small! Hooray!"
"The guy over there that looks like the biggest fuckboy ever is Mammon. He is the CEO of getting bullied. He also might try to steal your wallet, but luckily he's a fucking dumbass, so he'll probably fail. Probably. He always gets in trouble because he has literally no impulse control, which is honestly a mood. He can't keep his mouth shut for the life of him, and it always makes Lucifer very angry. But at least he won't try to kill you, unlike some people. He might threaten you but he most likely won't follow through with it. Actually... I don't think I've ever seen Mammon get angry enough to hurt anyone... I... Huh... Wow... Anyway, he's also simultaneously incredibly clingy while also being the biggest tsundere ever. Which makes no sense but okay."
"The guy that's sulking over there with his Ruri-chan phone case is Leviathan. Honestly, you'll probably only ever see him at meals because he pretty much never leaves his room. Unless his limited edition Ruri-chan body pillow just came in. Then expect to hear him screaming as he rushes across the entire house faster than you'll ever see him move otherwise. And then he'll be panting and wheezing as he walks back to his room because that boy is out of SHAPE. He's also the biggest weeb ever if you couldn't tell. Biggest anime nerd ever. Seriously, he has an unhealthy obsession. He needs to go outside and touch some grass or sumn like fr. He also makes a great gaming buddy. Unless you're playing PvP and aim to win. But otherwise, great gaming buddy, we play Genshin Impact together a lot."
"The guy watching cats videos over there is Satan. He may look like a chill guy, but that's just what he wants you to think. He's actually a ticking time bomb and the pure, unbridled rage that hides beneath his facade could bubble over if you so much as look at a cat the wrong way. However, if you are a cat - or any animal, really, but specifically cats - he will love you unconditionally. He's also very big-brained. The biggest brain. If there's literally anything you need to know, just ask him. He'd be happy to show off how much better than Lucifer he is. He's also the living embodiment of daddy issues and teenage rebellion. He's probably unironically said, 'It's not a PHASE!'"
"The pretty boy taking selfies and putting on makeup over there is Asmodeus. That man is whore KNEE, like DAMN. That man would flirt with anything that moves tbh. He's also the living embodiment of 'Gotta look cute so they forget you don't know basic math.' He's a little creepy because he's not against incest and that's a little icky. But hey, if you want a [REDACTED] then he's your guy, I guess. He's also got all the tea because he is a gossip QUEEN. And he's practically obsessed with himself. He needs to go outside and touch some grass too. 😔"
"The guy over there that's knawing on a vintage candle is Beelzebub. Uh, can someone get that candle away from him??? I don't think he should be eating that. Oh, thanks Belphie. ANYway, now that that's over uhh, as can see, he really likes to eat. A little too much. He eats everything in the fridge on a regular basis 😔. But like, he's literally the bestest boy??? He may be a demon, but he's just so sweet and soft-hearted, and caring??? Like bro??? I would literally die for him??? Unless you eat his food, then he'll kill you. Instant death. One hit KO. But otherwise, he's basically a giant teddy bear. Big wholesome boy, too pure for this world."
"The My Chemical Romance lookin fucker over there is Belphegor. Don't let him out of the attic..................................... Anyway, he is an evil gremlin man. Horrible goblin man. Stinky bastard man. He bullies me >:( Also, little known fact, but he is actually not a demon but, in fact, a cow. Cowboy. Also, he does not know how to function as a person, and, instead, opts to sleep for 17 hours a day which... Fair enough with this family. Just don't fuck with Beel or he'll kill you. And so will I >:( Also, don't fuck with him either or Beel will kill you. Those two are basically two peas in a pod. The literal only way they could be closer is if they were Siamese twins."
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aaaa omgomg okok this is the 🍃 anon hehe i guess i just wanted to get someone else’s thoughts on adrian/vigilante with a reader who is a 🍃 dealer lmaoo but like strictly just a 🍃 dealer like she makes cute little edibles and packages everything so nice and pretty (shoutout to all the lady dealers out there) plus, i’m a sucker for unlikely relationships or like an opposites attract kind of thing especially cause i mean TECHNICALLY whacky tobacky is legal?? idk sorry if i’m being dumb aaa
you are absolutely not being a dumbass this is so cute i'm obsessed with this i want to do a little thread about it!!!!
adrian with a partner who's a dealer!!
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as we know when 🍃 was illegal it was his duty as vigilante to kill people who partook which is absolutely unhinged but he doesn't see it that way so we're just gonna glide past that right into the thread
so now that 🍃 is legal adrian's rewired his moral compass about it but he still hasn't tried anything. old habits die hard and he also doesn't really know what he's doing so it's just easier to not bother so he never does
chris offers and john offers and memorably once emilia offers but he has not partaken before. not before he makes a new friend
he finds out that chris gets his 🍃 from somebody in town who owns a little store so he gets curious. just to see if it's somebody he maybe remembers roughing up when he was vigilante before everything got legalized
he's surprised to find it's not only somebody he's never seen in evergreen before but an actual frankly fucking beautiful person with an awesome shop that makes everything themselves
like you grow everything yourself. you have your own grow space and you make your own edibles and you roll your own prerolls. you package everything in packaging you designed yourself. a local glassblower sells pipes and stuff in your shop. like you're fully committed to the local dealer vibe and the place is so dope
this is absolutely not what adrian understood all of this to be about so he ends up asking you questions and the two of you actually spend a fair amount of time together that afternoon while you explain everything to him, and it's endearing how fascinated he is and how many questions he asks
adrian comes back multiple times. like over and over he returns to you and asks questions about the shop-- but then he's also asking questions about you, and you're asking questions about him, and then you're just getting to know each other
and then eventually you ask, since he's always asking questions, why doesn't he just want to try, maybe? and he thinks like, if anyone should be the one to show him, you'd probably be a good person for that to be. and this is when he finally decides that maybe this is worth a try and he says he'll try it with you
as it turns out adrian deeply vibes when he gets to enjoy 🍃. like it goes a long way to calming him down and letting him vibe for a second without freaking out. he enjoys his experience and a lot of it has to do with you-- how you select a strain carefully for him, how you guide him through it, how you help him with it
it becomes something you do together, and you introduce him to different strains and ways to take it, and he tries anything you'll offer to him. he just loves being with you and enjoys everything you've given him so far
eventually he asks maybe with a little help with a pipe and you shotgun smoke into his mouth and your lips brush and then you're kissing. and he apologizes but there's nothing to apologize for, and then the two of you are just kissing
he ends up reevaluating a lot of his moral code after that, since he's in love with somebody he would've beat the shit out of a few years' ago without hesitating, but he doesn't end up changing his mind about most things. he's still a lunatic and a maniac at the best of times
he does, however, fully fall in love with you and realize he enjoys 🍃 and there's a lot of merit to trying new things!! which is a lovely little lesson to take away from all this, if not the exactly correct one
i know this was silly but i had a lot of fun with it!!!! now time to partake myself i think!!!!!!!
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adrian chase taglist:
@violetrainbow412-blog @bigassbisaster @amysuemc @sunflowerfive @papitas-con-sal @saturnngal @neptuneswritingwork @jewishdelis @myguiltypleasures21 @pinkygunslingy @violinchick @r3tr0sp3ct @chaseadrian @breathing-in-waves @rishlurh @x-milf-hunter-x @goblynnrockz @theowritesstuff @jaysfav @themartiansdaughter @dallasvakarian @missscarlettangel @pieriinova @samantha24015 @hillaryroadheadcllinton @ohmybubbletea @buckys-estrella @witchywcmans @ladyrebel25
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happyocelot · 2 years
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Just a little thing I wrote for Sakura's birthday week. 😊 I may have used this one-shot to...rant a little about the stupid Sakura vs. Hinata wars. 😅 Anyway, happy birthday, Sakura 🌸
Naruto growled at the keyboard, typing out a long string of swear words and angry, exploding emojis. Then he squinted at the colorful way he had described where the anonymous forum poster could take their opinions.
"Ahhh, swearing isn't allowed," he complained, jamming the backspace button and not letting go. "But still, I have to prove a point to these dumbasses."
He finally let go of the backspace key and started hammering away again, muttering darkly under his breath.
"First – of – all – Sakura-chan – is – a – JOUNIN – not – a – chuunin...Second – of – all – the Byakugou – seal – does – NOT – work – that – way. Go – back – to – the – Academy – because – you – are – a..."
His thumb slammed onto the period with a sense of finality. "Moron."
He then directed his keystrokes towards the other unsuspecting target of his wrath. "And – YOU – bitch – Hinata – has –" here he blushed a little, "TONS – of – stamina – she – had – a – HEART – ATTACK – and – STILL – got – promoted. AND that – is – not – her – maximum – range – of – vision. Idiot."
He clicked the "send post" button, fuming like a tea kettle and letting out a deep sigh when the "Congratulations! Your post has been received!" pop-up flashed across the screen of his brand-new laptop, a present from Sakura.
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It was tough being RamenFan123 on Konoha's online bulletin board, from the looks of it. Honestly, Sakura wouldn't have cared too much – she was a busy bee, so many patients to see at the hospital, so many S-rank missions to go on. She had other things to worry about than what some randoms on the internet had to say about her. She wasn't an insecure schoolgirl anymore, worrying over the size of her forehead.
However, even she would be remiss if she didn't notice the Sakura vs. Hinata flame wars that had popped up in the wake of the shinobi world's newfound peace. There had been a ton of technological advancements in the war's aftermath, this strange "internet" being one of them. She thought that maybe, people would be using this "internet" for important, need-to-know information.
She was wrong. So, so wrong.
People had tons of free time to kill, and this was how they chose to kill it. Debating the merits and demerits of Konoha's various shinobi. She would scream if she heard anyone use the words "power-scaling," "base Naruto," "base Sasuke," "useless," and a bunch of bizarre references to people blowing up planets ever again.
As she said, some had far too much free time. Including, she admitted guiltily, even her. Sometimes. Just sometimes.
She clicked "RamenFan123's" user name and began browsing through his posting history.
No prizes for guessing who this ramen-obsessed lunatic was. Naruto had gotten stir-crazy the past few weeks, stuck in the hospital, waiting on the prosthetic arm that her master had almost finished. Sakura had taken pity on him when she caught him staring morosely out the window, multiple snapped chopsticks littering his table along with numerous cold cups of instant noodles.
She thought the laptop was a good idea. That it would take his mind off things.
She was wrong. So, so wrong.
Still.
She clicked on a post of his in which he was threatening to disembowel a guy who said that "the pink-haired ugly" was "useless" in the war. And another, one where he was defending a very specific individual against accusations of having "creepy stalker eyes." Here, Naruto was not threatening disembowelment, but something else entirely. She winced as she read the message in full. Disembowelment was preferable to this new option he presented, to be frank.
That was definitely against the forum's rules.
It was sweet of Naruto. She supposed.
A smile tugged her lips upward, and she copied and pasted the text of the Hyuuga defense post into an email, cc'ing Hinata with a click of her mouse.
Hinata was spending an awful lot of time with him lately.
She deserved to know that it was worth it.
Besides, she thought, logging into her own account, "RamenFan123" had the right idea. Hinata was not a stalker. Sakura had a friend to defend.
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bri-notthecheese · 3 years
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my thoughts on Iki Island:
(spoilers under the cut)
I really loved this DLC! I had nothing but high hopes for this after playing the base game last year (and three more times after that), and Sucker Punch didn’t disappoint. The whole time playing it I felt like it was only adding to my love of the characters and the stories they set up in the base game, and then all the new quests and mechanics added a lot of fresh fun on top of that! 
So where to even begin. 
The opening scene was super cool and a neat way to introduce the new shaman enemies. And despite Yuna only actually being in one scene, it was a delight to see her again. Though since I’m playing the DLC after finishing everything, I don't love the continuity of Yuna not accompanying him, but gameplay wise I knew that wasn’t going to happen anyway, but I just love when she’s with us <3
Went for my horse straight away and I was THRILLED to see that Kaze can now kill enemies and the new charge mechanic was way more fun than I was expecting and I was having too much fun with that. After Nobu, I didn’t expect to get attached the Kaze all that much (even if he continued on into a later game) but I was quickly proved wrong with this because I now kind of separate Nobu as the more gentler of the two, that was always there for me, and while Kaze is too, I like imagining Kaze is a lot younger and his aggressive personality in this really sold that and I like that it probably eases Jin’s worries a bit to see his new horse being able to fend off attacks a bit better. Plus, with his new armor, he’s even safer <3 Really fell more in love with Kaze in this, which I didn’t expect.
Met The Eagle next and had that whole encounter. I love how right away if you pay attention, you know Yuna isn’t Yuna because she’s never once addressed Jin as ‘my lord.’ I think the only time she said it was when she was talking to both him and Shimura at the lighthouse, and it wasn’t because she wanted to. But still, even knowing something was wrong, it’s cute that Jin’s mind went to her as a safe place who he’d have no problem entrusting stories and secrets to, which was obviously the Eagle’s goal. And hearing her voice warp into the Eagle’s was creepyyyy and so good <3  (my Yuna loving ass was sad to realize that was most likely the last time we’d see her, but that’s okay) That next part of the hallucination really got you feeling for Jin, and I couldn’t help but be frustrated that he’s only a child, how was he supposed to help?!?!? 
So I ignored Tenzo’s next mission and explored and pretty much completed the entire island. I got jump scared WAY too many times by her taunts, but I loved how that just added to the direness of the situation. I was obsessed with finding all the hallucinations and it just kept breaking my heart how Jin has all of this pent up guilt/heartache--with Ryuzo (he had so many I found), his father, his uncle, the Khan, Nobu :(, Masako, etc. I honestly had expected to find one regarding Taka and I’m a bit sad that I didn’t. Add those to the memories of his father and the ever-present taunting, I was going through it with Jin <3 At least you can pet the animals for him <3 The little smile he’d get every time was worth it. And the flute playing mechanic was really neat!
The first memory I got was their chat before Kazumasa’s death and honestly that got me all teary because Jin wanted so badly to hear him say he accepted him as his son, but deep down, would he have felt it? And my heart just breaks so much for Jin because as I kept going through the memories, I kept thinking how well 1) his dad sucks, but 2) both father figures kept wanting Jin to be somebody else. And it hurts that he was closer to Shimura’s way of thinking and how we even see that one time that Shimura corrects Jin, that his recitation of what honor means were his father’s words, and gets Jin to say that kindness is what honor means to him and wow. <3 <3 <3 But it hurts knowing their fate too <3 That while Shimura was more of a father to Jin than Kazumasa was, eventually, he couldn’t accept what Jin was doing in their way. Though it does hurt and make you wonder if Shimura was frightened that Jin was turning into his dad...I had that thought many times. (I loved seeing Adachi so much though omg <3 <3 <3) It was very interesting how the song Jin ends up playing for his father at the end of the memories is the ‘Jin Sakai’ theme. And then how that in turn, morphs into ‘The Way of the Ghost’ later on when in the final battle. 
It hurts that Jin had Chiyoko in his life for such a short time. I’m glad he did have Yuriko at least, but all of Jin’s memories on his mother and how she emphasized just living was so prominent, and her love of animals clearly passed to him and that gentleness too. And of instruments. Such softness, and I love that he retains that even as an adult. It makes sense that he doesn’t speak of his mother as often since he has far less experiences with her vs Kazumasa or Shimura, but it was nice to see her influence within him.  
Did this quest near the end of my exploration but I got the BIGGEST smile on my fave when I barged in the house to find the Ghost of Iki Island was Kenji <3 <3 <3 I love this dumbass so much and it was so nice to see a familiar face <3 Plus it let Jin have an actual full laugh when Kenji referred to them both as ‘tough guys’ XD His quests are always enjoyable for me and so I really loved that (though I was also Jin when he’s like “...you didn’t say goodbye.”) but I was happy to see him do the right thing at the end <3 THEN I got to duel the Viper because I diffused the situation instead and that was fun. Love that Jin explains his knowledge of negotiation was learned from all the years with Shimura <3 Also enjoyed spotting Kenji later in the Refuge XD
Really enjoyed all the side quests overall, loved all the animal sanctuaries, and the archery was a TON of fun! Getting the horse armor was neat, seeing Jin actively stop a Mythic retelling, though I was surprised there was no duel for that one. The one for the monkey armor was so creepy, following the lights in the cave, but so damn cinematic and that fight was incredible plus that amor is my new best friend. Seriously omg, the duels in this DLC felt so much beefier than the base game (I was playing on hard so that could be a reason, but the fights didn’t feel this tanky in the base) But that armor just made them a piece of cake if you’re good at perfect parries and perfect dodges <3 <3
Loved the banter and camaraderie between Jin and Tenzo throughout. And I really enjoyed Fune’s character as well! Did the next few story missions and I couldn’t help that sense of foreboding slipping in as I was getting more attached to these characters. Love that they had Kidafure Battlefield on the map but it isn’t till the mission that they tack on the ‘Village’, really hitting home what happened there. 
Maybe I should have been, but I did not see the twist with Tenzo coming at ALL! I physically gasped when he spoke the “May your death benefit all things” to that random Mongol and I was soooo tense, like Jin listen I know he was your dad but also Tenzo spared you. Which I love in the long run how he spared the Butcher’s child only to save him later in life, and Jin could save him and the island in return <3 Because ohhhhhh boy did I get emotional when Jin stopped the Eagle from landing that blow. 
But before that, HER FIGHT IS SO FUCKING COOOOOL!!!!!! SHE IS SO DAMN FAST AND SHE EASILY WIPED THE FLOOR WITH ME THE FIRST TWO TIMES. I also love her references to Khotan and that her moveset with the spear shares some similarities with him.  I tried once more in my Ghost armor (for fashion) and then I switched to the Sarugami armor and was flying through just to have that whole cutscene.
I know culture is different and obviously I can never understand that mindset, but to hear him say to Jin that they both should have died there broke my heart. What kind of a father wants his son’s death with him like that?!?!?!?! But I LOOOOOOVED ‘Honor and Ash’ playing in the background for that scene, as Jin is rejecting what his father may have thought/wanted (just like he did to Shimura with that track at the end of Act 2) and then it moved up a key just to reinforce that Jin is forgiving himself for this and letting go and again, forging his own path just as he did with his uncle. I loved that they used that piece for that pivotal moment...
...JUST TO KICK IT INTO AN EVEN HIGHER GEAR WITH JIN SAVING TENZO AND THE GHOST THEME BLARING IN WITH A KEY CHANGE TO THEN TRIUMPHANTLY FINISH OFF THE EAGLE!!!!! I WAS SO HYPED (and also hoping I wouldn’t die cuz how anti climactic would that have been?!?) but I didn’t and I really enjoyed the resolution between those two. I bowed to him after he bowed to me and I love that they even added dialogue for that if players do decide to do that <3 <3 <3 
The next quest with Fune was sweet, though it felt a little odd to do after defeating the Eagle, but it was sweet nonetheless. I have to finish up some trophy stuff, I guess there’s unseen quests that I’m sure I’ve done a few of, but I have to figure out what I missed. The dueling ring was fun, though that lady was the most difficult for me.
A few things of note:
-I like that in this DLC, you really can’t tell if it’s better to kill or spare Shimura. And how there are lines that could mean slightly different things to Jin depending on what he’s done. I’ve done both and I was on a file where he spared him, but besides a hallucination mentioning the Ghost being hunted for the rest of his days, nothing else pointed to one choice or the other.
-Though a line Jin said to Sugi threw me a bit when he said something along the lines of ‘you’ll never understand how hard it is to kill your family’ and maybe he was referencing his guilt for his father, but I’m like ?????? who else did you kill Jin??? Shimura is fine in this play through XD 
-Talking with her though, I like that Jin described himself as ‘someone who knows what it’s like to be hunted’ :((((((
-Tenzo also made reference to a friend of his being beheaded, but not finding the head till a week later, and asking Jin if he understands that and while the situation is different, I bet Jin’s mind went to Taka :( 
-Loved the subtle storytelling elements with Jin falling into his nightmares during the fight through the Gorge and his resolve disappears each time. The second time it happened, I verbally went “oh my resolve.....oh.”
-I do think Sucker Punch made a lil mistake though because I started thinking about how in Tale 8 of Masako’s quests, I’m almost certain she mentions Jin not understanding her need for revenge or something along those lines, and she talks about Shimura hunting down Kazamasu’s killer for weeks and how Jin had his closure. But uhhhhhh obviously his killer was never found? Or they killed the wrong one? And they didn’t mention it was on Iki Island and obviously didn’t have that foresight that they’d be doing this DLC since he was killed in the snow in the base game and now it was under a wisteria tree, but besides that small thing, I had no complaints! except for always wanting more Yuna
It was so great and I felt it really complemented the base game, especially in regards to everything that Jin feels guilty and responsible for, but also puts his relationship with Shimura is so many new lights that I loooove and I need to talk about more!!! If you read this far, feel free to hmu to chat about it because my best friend who played the base game at the same time I did and screamed with me about it has not played this yet and ahhhhh!!!!!!
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Yugioh Season Zero: The Yo-Yo Crimes of Jounouchi Pt 1
It’s been a while since I visited the many times Yugi should have gone to jail, AKA season Zero, and I’m excited to visit it again.
If you just got here, this is Season Zero, which is very different vibe and a different direction plotwise than the other seasons and you can read the season zero recaps from the start in chrono order here: https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yuugi%20muto/chrono
So be warned, this is a 90′s anime, and it will do 90′s anime things, and I expect y’all reading this aren’t like 12.
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Like I said in an earlier post, I wrote this out fully when I was going through the symptoms from my second dose--which PS, is worth it--but those symptoms knocked me out for 10 days. I was kind of a space cadet, and yo, I made some mistakes. Including writing this post out in full and then not clicking “save” on this post and then not realizing I had done that until several days later.
So long story short, I don’t remember what I originally wrote here, but lets all assume it was weird, and didn’t make sense and wasn’t funny. We’ll just assume this was for the best that it was deleted forever.
So this episode is about 2 things: Yo-yos and Jounouchi. Both get used as a tool for violence, and both need to get just a little bit cursed by Yugi to scale it the hell back. So, understandably, we start off this episode with Jounouchi, who has eagerly identified with this off brand yo-yo he apparently got out of a dumpster for being just a huge ass defect.
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(more Yo-Yo crimes under the cut)
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I see you dodging copyright infringement, Yugioh. Eireboy.
Also whenever I read “Eireboy” I do it in my mind in the same pacing and vocal tones that Pegasus uses to say “Kaiba boy.” Something about it’s conjunction to Yugioh, I see anything with “boy” at the end of it, and it’s voiced by a weird guy with one eye.
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So I wrote these caps under the influence of my second dose, just assuming y’all understand the life I lived, but I realized writing this episode...traveling bands of yo-yo performers that go to your school and shill yo-yos with yo-yo shows in the hopes that it will get you so obsessed with yo-yos that you will not join a gang and do drugs and have sex may be just an American thing.
So when I saw a yo-yo episode I was like “Tight! Clearly, the yo-yo clowns have come to town!” and I assumed everyone in this class would be draped in yo-yos, because I just assumed that at some point at School you will get MAD OBSESSED with yo-yos for about 2 weeks.
But in this episode, everyone was like “Jounouchi, why are you playing with a random yo-yo?” and it didn’t occur to me until typing this out just now: only Jounouchi is doing this. He did this unprompted, without the encouragement of a bunch of middle aged performers doing tricks to techno music.
So instead, I have to think of Jounouchi as Ralphie in this scenario, and he just got a official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot, range model air rifle, with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time for Christmas, but he’s gonna shoot his eye out.
Because yo-yos in this episode are basically guns.
...Kind of like a duel deck was also just a gun...
...or the wands in Harry Potter...
...which honestly...I’ve probably said this before but where I’m from, we just use straight up guns in these elaborate analogies because we freakin have to make the point crystal clear. The moment Ralphie finally got his hands on a bb-gun, he very nearly shot his eye out and broke his glasses. And that scene will haunt me until my dying day...
...but fine, we can use yo-yos, I guess it works, although to me, yo-yo’s are just teachers hoping you’ll become such a dork that no gang will accept you (and then in this universe, it does the opposite? So freakin weird).
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The beginning of this episode is Jounouchi trying do his best to impress with his skills, but in actuality, getting very close to clubbing Anzu with a yo-yo. And, while Anzu is the strongest person in Yugioh in the later seasons, I feel like Season Zero Anzu is another level. It’s a serious tempt of fate that Jounouchi is doing, so Honda wisely cuts him off from doing any more of that so she won’t end up strangling yet another person in broad daylight in the middle of school.
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Remember your yo-yo safety, children.
Straight up, Honda’s version of yo-yo safety is to just Never Use a Yo-Yo and that’s the most gun safety thing ever that they’ve slipped into this Yugioh Episode. I almost expected Yuugi to pull a “well, actually, I use a hunting yo-yo to get enough venison to feed my family.” But youknow, he lives in a city, so while Yugioh is pretty weird and Yuugi has to worry about a lot of things--he doesn’t have to worry about that.
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This is actually foreshadowing, which I only realized in hind sight, mostly because I just can’t associate a Yo-yo with crime. Joey knowing how to use a yo-yo was foreshadowing that he was absolutely part of this gang in a past life.
Yeah that one went completely over my head the first time and the second time and it really wasn’t until just now that I finally caught it. Hoo boy, sometimes I wonder why y’all let me analyze this show.
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Jounouchi decides to confront the yo-yo bandits and everyone else is like “Silly Jounouchi, he’s not gonna do that. That would be stupid.” And...in S0, they don’t know him well enough yet to know that he really is that much of a well meaning dumbass.
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I think a S1-5 Yugi would have been sprinting out the door to keep Joey from killing himself (again), but Season Zero Yuugi had hope that Jounouchi would just naturally tucker out and fall asleep or something.
And he was so wrong.
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Anzu’s “New Tricks” line was from the dub itself and man that’s a good line. I love Anzu’s sass in Zero.
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So, Honda decides to help them find Jounouchi so all of them together could give Jounouchi an intervention for skipping school. This is the same Honda that once skipped school to babysit a tomagachi and said it was because of “Maternity leave,” but don’t worry about the hypocrisy, because from this episode we learned that Jounouchi needs a very short leash.
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So this episode is a great Jounouchi episode to explain stuff that still hasn’t been explained in 5 seasons of Yugioh. In S1-5, we don’t get much about his home life other than his Mom left and his Sister lives far away and is like sickly as hell. We know nothing else. But this is the episode where we finally get to find out why Yuugi and his Grandfather decided to basically adopt him from S1 onward.
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Yugioh is tackling some pretty heavy territory, but I respect the show for not trying to magically change Jounouchi’s parents like they did to Dartz. Instead, the crew decide to reach out and try to find their friend who clearly didn’t go home last night (and won’t be going back for a while), by checking every alleyway in Domino.
Fun fact Yuugi drops this episode, Domino is one of the biggest cities on Earth. This makes the Battle City Tournament even more crazy when you realize Kaiba shut down several blocks but, it also makes a tiny bit more sense how we have so many Millennium items in one place. (Yet...it still doesn’t explain Bakura and Joey’s accent.) And, I guess if your city is just extra large, you get an extra large warehouse district, too.
Speaking of, they eventually find Jounouchi at his new (but also old) crime antics mugging some random stranger next to this Game store that I just realized was cropped so it looks like it says “GANG.”
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Say hello to our crime clown. He’s sort of like a discount joker, and that beanie is...man it is green.
I forget this green exists sometimes, but Season Zero has it as one of their prime colors. Good ol’ Retro Kaiba green.
I’m a little tempted to swatch Season Zero a bit and figure out their full color scheme--it’s really saturated, which is interesting when you compare it to the later seasons which are a lot more muted since...the 00′s were like that, they greyed a lot of colors out. But I’ll do it later if I do, maybe another post for another day.
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Jounouchi and Honda, before they moved to the school with Yuugi in it, used to go to the same school and up until now I just assumed they were close friends. But apparently they were a lot more distant than that. I’m sure they met up several times as Jounouchi destroyed stuff and Honda came along in his volunteer janitor outfit to put the stuff the hell back, and maybe that’s how they got to know eachother better?
But basically, Jounouchi was the freakin worst, and Jounouchi’s best friend was Hirotani--this 45 year old 15 year old with the blue pony and turquoise fade--and Honda has SO MUCH hot goss to say about it.
I really get the gist that Honda may not have liked anyone else at his old school, like at all. Like maybe Honda likes cleaning up trash so much because his school was just trash top to bottom.
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As is tradition, Yuugi got his tar beat in by Hirotani. Another concussion to add to his list of issues to tell his future therapist that lives in that puzzle he wears around his neck.
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I still expect him to do a double cross, but it seems they wanted to keep it a relatable and more realistic fall-out, where Jounouchi has just bounced on them without even a goodbye. He and his Dad had a bad fight, and Jounouchi was like “well so long to all of this and everyone that has anything to do with it.”
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In later seasons, Joey is the one trying to save other people. He’s saving his Sister, he’s saving Mai, he’s saving Yugi, but in this season Jounouchi’s friends had to save Jounouchi from himself a few times now.
I like this depth to his character, I’ll be honest. I can understand why S1-5 don’t touch on it, and I don’t think it’s because they didn’t want to have an abusive Dad storyline, because they did that several times over with Seto Kaiba (man the Dad situation in Yugioh is DIRE.) Instead they probably just felt like Season Zero already did it, so why do it again?
It’s just a shame that it wasn’t talked about in the other seasons. Joey makes a lot more sense to me now because we get to see why Jounouchi is so hard set on saving people. S4 Mai Valentine, who ditched everyone and joined a gang? That’s basically a Joey move, and that was why Joey Wheeler was all over that.
Really would have added a lot to that particular arc if the show...actually talked about Joey’s history at all rather than assume I would have watched something that was never released in the States. Instead...it just looked a lot like he had only romantic motivations, which may not have been what they were going for.
Speaking of romantic, check out this sunset. Like the sun is exploding for some reason--just a wild sunset you only see for a still frame before a commercial break.
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As Joey, youknow, takes on an entire rival gang single-handedly.
Hey guys, I lived near a pretty big city most of my life and I have been on a roof...once. Just the one time when I was doing an internship in SF with a painter and we needed to take a reference photo of his painting for a gallery (and it was hella sketch, and we weren’t exactly allowed up there). Who are all these people giving teens Roof Access? It’s so hard to get! Even if you live in an apartment of a tall building, I can count on zero of my fingers the amount of times I was allowed on that roof. But TV shows and movies--they freakin love roof gardens and roof hangouts and roof fights.
Am I missing out?? How did y’all get on the ROOF? I know I’m on S5 of Yugioh now and I have seen a lot of roof stuff, but like...is this normal for everyone else? I know there’s schools that have roof sport--that’s common in the city everywhere--but that’s like...specialized roofs with 30 ft chainlink fencing and really good supports to your body doesn’t fall straight through it when you jump too much. The hell is using their normal ass roof?
This gang should have their legs swinging halfway into the floor below them, is all I’m saying, if my roof couldn’t handle our solar heating, then a normal ass roof cannot support a gang fight.
But it does look really, really cool.
Anyway, Anzu does some offscreen snooping and finds out where the crime hangs out, and suggests that we step right into crime zone and just yank Jounouchi out of there. Which is something you would only do and say if you were Anzu and cannot fear death.
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If it were Jay’s it would be with an ‘s. That’s how you do a plural Jay. But it’s the 90′s, so we put a “z” on the end of everything that should have been an “s” and that’s how you get the...
I mean, thank you, dubbers, for not saying “Jizz” but for reals...that be Jizz.
Please don’t flag me, Tumblr. (which, PS, I think they turned off the flagbot, Tumblr hasn’t flagged me in forever and I’m so thankful. Mods are asleep, we can talk about anime again)
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So even though Honda decided that he was fed up with Jounouchi and didn’t want to save his ass, he decided to give it another go but complete with some new sash. He also did this without telling any of the others, who just kinda spectated him for a little while.
Honestly, if they weren’t laughing at him, I wouldn’t have known that this sash was any weirder than any of his other sashes. I don’t know really know what a school uniform should look like. It’s a shame, I feel like this series has a lot of jokes and puns probably soaring right over my head.
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A little bit embarrased he was caught being vulnerable, Honda decides to give us a little more context to why he ever decided to give Jounouchi the time of day in the first place.
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They had PE class once, and Honda apparently loves the hell out of PE. Jounouchi ran really fast in a straight line that one time, and that is why he’s trustworthy friend material. He just needs to stop joining gangs, and he’ll be solid.
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I have no idea if the fandub put that in there or if that was native to the show, but Miho legit stans Honda/Jounouchi and acts as if she’s off to write some fanfiction about it. Honestly if she did, it would make her so much more interesting of a character.
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And so, until next time, we shall have to wait and see exactly what Yami Yuugi is going to do with a freakin Yo-yo and I’m sure it’s all sorts of real effed up. Excited to get there, honestly. A shame it had to happen on the part that isn’t dubbed yet, but I’ve done these subbed before, it’ll be fine!
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