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popcat69 · 8 months

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Incorrect Tmnt quotes

Mikey: What does 'take out' mean? Donnie: Food. Leo: Dating Raph: Murder Y/n: IT CAN MEAN ALL THREE IF YOU'RE NOT A COWARD.

Donnie: Favourite horror movie?

Mikey: It

Raph: Saw

Leo: Annabelle

Y/n: High School Musical. after watching it I spent all my middle school years terrified that the entire school would start singing something and I’d be the only one who didn’t know the lyrics

Leo: Croissants: dropped

Raph: Road: works ahead

Y/n: BBQ sauce: on my titties

April: Shavacado: fre

Mikey: Miss Keisha: fuckin dead

Donnie:

Donnie: I didn’t understand a single word of that and I hate every single one of you.

Y/n: Change is inedible.

Donnie: Don't you mean inevitable?

Y/n, spitting out coins: No, I did not.

Mikey: Hey Donnie,

Donnie: Yes?

Mikey: Can a person breathe inside a washing machine while it’s on?

Donnie:

Donnie: Where’s Y/n?

Donnie: April isn’t answering their phone

Y/n: I’ll call

Donnie: Casey and I have both tried six times each, what makes you thi-

April: Hello?

Y/n: Top 30 reasons why y/n is sorry... Number 5 will surprise you!

Raph: Top 30 anime deaths. Number One: YOUR FUCKING ASS RIGHT NOW!!!

Mikey: I'm incredibly fast at maths.

Y/n: Alright, what's 30x17?

Mikey: 47

Y/n: That's not even close.

Mikey: But it was fast.

Donnie: Would you guys be there for me if I was going through something?

Raph: Nope, absolutely not.

Leo: I hope it sucks, whatever you're going through.

Mikey: I hope it emotionally scars you for the rest of your life.

Casey: I hope you reach out to me so I can ignore you.

Y/n: I can't wait to go to your funeral, knowing I could've changed that outcome.

*Everyone is standing around the broken coffee maker*

Splinter: So. Who broke it? I'm not mad, I just wanna know.

Everyone:

Leo: ...I did. I broke it.

Splinter: No. No you didn't. Mikey?

Mikey: Don't look at me. Look at Y/n.

Y/n: What?! I didn't break it.

Mikey: Huh, that's weird. How'd you even know it was broken?

Y/n: Because it's sitting right in front of us and it's broken.

Mikey: Suspicious.

Y/n: No, it's not!

Raph: If it matters, probably not, but April was the last one to use it.

April: Liar! I don't even drink that crap!

Raph: Oh really? Then what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?

April: I use the wooden stirrers to push back my cuticles. Everyone knows that, Raph!

Leo: Okay let's not fight. I broke it. Let me pay for it, person A.

Splinter: No! Who broke it!?

Everyone:

Raph: Splinter... Donnie’s been awfully quiet.

Donnie: rEALLY?!

*Everyone starts arguing*

Splinter, being interviewed: I broke it. I burned my hand so I punched it.

Splinter: I predict 10 minutes from now they'll be at each other's throats with warpaint on their faces and a pig head on a stick.

Splinter:

Splinter: Good. It was getting a little chummy around here.

'Can I copy the homework?'

Donnie: I can help you with it!

April: Yeah, sure.

Y/n: Bold of you to assume I did the homework.

Raph: lol nope.

Mikey: Wait, we had homework?!?!?!

Leo: *Read 5:55pm*

Leo: bitches b like “im baby” but have childhood trauma and neglect like wtf do u know about being baby u were forced to grow up from an early age anyways I’m bitches

Leo, driving y/n and April: So how was your day?

Y/n: We almost got surprise adopted!

Leo: What?

April: We almost got kidnapped.

Leo: Oh, okay.

Leo: *slams on the breaks* WAIT WHAT?!

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sepublic · 4 months

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So I watched the drawing request livestream from today that I missed out on, and I must apologize! Near the end, Dana clarified that she preferred for the requests she drew to be Patron-exclusives, with her releasing them to the public as she saw fit; As such, I've deleted my previous post showcasing them. Sorry about that...

As for some fun facts I learned during the stream; Apparently Severine is named after Dana's middle name, Mary Severine! I thought Severine was a made-up name, in reference to the word 'Severing' as per Boiling Isles morbid aesthetic, but it's actually a real one! Dana Mary Severine Terrace...

Dana also mentioned how the red grass and purple trees of the Boiling Isles were meant to invoke a bruise that's healing; Symbolic of the Boiling Isles having issues it's dealing with, since even before Belos, and the colors of the isles were meant to convey the idea of Belos striking like a sledgehammer.

We very easily could've not had The Owl House, because of a coin flip! When deciding between Animation and Illustration as a career path, Dana literally flipped a coin to decide... Talk about a gift of fate! Though she did note throughout the stream that art direction isn't her thing, nor is illustration, as it focuses on fine-tuning specific details, whereas Dana prefers things like animation, writing, drawing, etc., getting her ideas out there. TOH might’ve still happened regardless.

And yes, Dana IS a fan of Fullmetal Alchemist, she watched both series when she was around 14 years old on Toonami! I freaking knew it, the similarities between TOH and FMA, the acknowledgement of Arakawa as someone Luz would've emulated in art... Dana prefers Brotherhood, since it's closer to the manga. The chimera episode messed her up like everyone else, and FMA was one of her favorite childhood cartoons alongside Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Champloo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Pokemon.

Dana also watched Dragonball Z, including the Buu and Cell arcs in real time, and was quite creeped out by Cell, as he was unlike anything she'd seen before; So the reference to DBZ in Eclipse Lake is probably from Dana's own experiences, as was the realization of how long it's been. Dana's first and favorite Ghibli film is Princess Mononoke, followed by Princess Kaguya, and she obsessed over the Gorillaz music videos.

Someone in chat suggested that for artists who want to get used to streaming themselves drawing, they can begin practicing by drawing in public! Dana liked the idea and encouraged people to also begin with friends to ease into it.

#Dana Terrace #The Owl House #the owl house severine

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cescalr · 7 months

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New tag game: list ten of your childhood ships!

tagged by @babybeale <3... forever ago. Uh. Whoops!

[I will also state my current feelings regarding the ship, and I'll go into as little or as much detail as I feel like <3 I'm also. I have a sieve brain. I'm trying to remember what the fuck it was I shipped as a kid lmao. Anything I shipped, say, pre 2016, I think should count? ftr that means I was 14 or under when I shipped it.]

Nina/Fabian, from House of Anubis;

They're still cute. Better than what they pulled in the last season ;-; fabian and mara...... why...........

2. Sam and Freddie, from iCarly;

This show was just. Not good at writing romance. At all. It was bad at it. But I am very smart and know better than them (/joke) so I could do seddie justice. Er. Maybe trying to do that right now, actually. Shh.

[also, friend; jade and beck is so complicated, you're right. A fun mess, but still a mess lmao. Me and my rarepairs was always a fan of stuff that never ended up being canon though. Might as well put it next, I guess? Looking at your 3.... when it comes to icarly; we could not possibly have had more different opinions on the matter <3 lmao]

3. Tori Vega / André Harris;

I haven't watched it in years so I do not remember why! But I do remember that I did. I think. Don't - don't quote me on anything ever.

4. Willoz - from buffy the vampire slayer;

No gifs for them :( :( :( love them still so very much <3

5. Honestly, I'd steal your number 5 bestie, 6Teen was great. In the spirit of obscure animated TV shows, though - and It's been so damn long I forgot the names of some characters, had to look up the guy's name, lol - Zero and Vin from The Invisible Network of Kids. It left a profound impact on my psyche because they did something really fucked up in the last episode, plus left us on a cliffhanger, and then the show got cancelled </3 rip. Haven't watched it in a decade or so. No idea if it holds up, but I was super invested in these kids doing spy work and experiencing insane levels of trauma that would be ignored come each new episode </3. I was literally 8 years old <3. It has a TV tropes page and the entire show is availible on the Internet Archive, of all places, sooooooo I may browse. For nostalgia's sake. There are literally zero gifs available for this one, because. I mean. No shit.

7. Didn't watch any of that continuity - only got so far as Tracey Beaker Returns... alas. Anyway, my pic for 7..... hm. Sigh.

Stiles/Lydia, Teen Wolf.

This ^ is NOT romantic! she slams her mouth onto his in the middle of a panic attack. Babe. No. No. Regardless; I don't like it </3. They really. Oh god they really fucked up this one. Like a lot. Plus, they both just ended up with much better canon ships (stalia, marrish) that then got shafted for this mess to be the endgame and then the movie breaks them up anyway!!! OFFSCREEN!!!! they didn't even last 2 weeks!!!! fuck!!!!!!!! I don't like them. But I used to. Playlist, for proof. I feel like this counts, because I shipped them when I first watched the show as it aired (I was 10 when the show started), but I did still ship the pairing until well into my teens (16 or so) before I wised up (the show made them very bad in a really boring way. Not that they weren't bad before. Love how they both do things that are otherwise reprehensible but the show frames them as romantic for some fucking reason </3 I was like 13 when I saw this kiss on screen. They're lucky I did research and didn't just take it at face value or I could've gotten some really bad ideas about what's healthy in a situation like this!).

8. Zikki (Zane/Rikki), H20: Just Add Water;

Season 3 does not exist <3 [also, the way they wrote the 'cheating' plotline was fucked up. That woman planted one on him!!! he did not consent!!! Why are we supposed to be blaming him for being sexually harassed in the workplace!!! No!!!]. Still ship them fr fr.

8. maf;lkasjd;f yeahhh. Think if you watched friends as a kid, it was inevitable you'd ship rosschel, the damn thing was pushed so hard. Stand in regretful solidarity;

For really obvious reasons (being that it is rosschel); hot damn no I do not!

9. Harry and Ginny, Harry Potter.

Ignoring the horrendous movie adaptation, when I read the hp books I basically just defaulted to shipping whatever was canon. Luckily for me, the canon hp ships are actually pretty good ones! If you ignore the canaries in the room. (I. Do not. Famously. Well. Infamously.) As for Hinny, whilst its a garbage ship name, the pairing itself is pretty great <3

10. kaljdflkasdt thank god I don't remember jack shit about watching glee for the first time! the sieve brain is a blessing in this one occasion. I've already mentioned in another (tagged <3) post my vaguely-relevant hsm ships, though, so..... hmm. What should I pick.... let's think.... I'm kidding. I don't need to think.

Shoker is a major missed opportunity in ME, and I've been mad about the choices for my fem!shep for YEARS because. Look. Kaiden she did not cheat on you. You left!! You accused her of being evil and fucked off after she was resurrected!! what else was she supposed to think other than 'guess he doesn't want to date me anymore. Rude.' And. You could have sex with Jack but not romance her, that was locked to male characters >:| biphobia [Jack can have sexual relations with women, but her only real connections are to men. Rude!]. And, Liara in my games always turned herself down for romance because she assumed my shep wanted to date Kaiden because she's not a total dick to him and there's no way for me to clarify otherwise, also people making assumptions :/ not great. Plus Li becomes the shadow broker and it's a whole thing, so that doesn't really work out narratively for me anyway. Can't romance Miranda. Can't romance Tali (wouldn't anyway - Tali/Garrus <3). Refuse to romance Garrus that is just so platonic a dynamic it's not even funny. Jacob cheats and dips, so fuck him. Like... all of the fem!shep romances are terrible (or Trainor, I guess, but she's... kind of. Nobody. She's Just There. Sorry. It's not narratively interesting enough for me.) and Joker was right there and augh. Augh! Still ship. Still mad about it. Hatboy Project is doing the lord's work! I salute thee soldier in thine endeavours. Waiting to replay LE until it's been finished <3.

If anyone wants to pick this up, go for it!

#took me so long i think you went through two url changes lmao #tag game

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punkhazardlaw · 2 years

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OP SPOILERS AHEAD (DRESSROSA)

Okay, I never write posts about anime and how I feel about them. But Oda, as an author, really, truly encapsulates every facet of incredible plot writing.

I have to admit, I knew that the ASL brothers were just that, brothers, because I had that spoiled for me. I cannot even imagine how I would be reacting right now if I didn't know Sabo was alive, because even knowing Sabo is still alive I'm in shambles. I just watched the episode about Sabo showing up to the colosseum battles and approaching Luffy so they could switch places, allowing Sabo to use Luffy's disguise to go win Ace's devil fruit. The lead up to this (in the anime at least, I haven't looked into the manga panels) was breathtaking.

Sabo's initial reveal has suspense and is not entirely blatantly obvious at first glance. WE know who it is, but do we? Is it a Sabo lookalike? An imposter to fool Luffy? No. It's fucking Sabo, in the flesh. Luffy thought Sabo literally died all those years ago and has been living with this guilt that him and Ace could've done more to try to save him. Luffy has lived how many years thinking that one of his sworn brothers was dead? Twelve. 12 whole years. The anime doesn't show Sabo's face during the initial reveal episode (663), but shows his classic style of the top hat and goggles, the dress coat, the blonde hair.

Luffy joined the colosseum fights to preserve the honor of Ace's devil fruit, even though he can't even use it. The flame-flame fruit is the last physical memento of his pressumably-only-living brother, his role model, his childhood best friend, his found family. Can you imagine the emotions he must have felt first knowing that Sabo was alive after 12 fucking years, let alone that his presumably-assumed-dead-now-actually-alive brother would like to take his place to obtain the flame-flame fruit? And this sworn brotherhood wasn't some childhood phase, as we see with Ace and Luffy throughout the show. They call each other brothers, they believe more than anything that they are brothers. Sworn over sake, the ASL trio took their promise to heart. Now, yeah, Luffy is a little oblivious and doesn't think to explain the whole brotherhood situation, even though people know or have heard through the grapevine that Ace and Luffy have different fathers, but does this phase him? Of course not. "Yeah that's my brother." Full stop, no need for explanation, take it or leave it.

There is no one in the entire OP universe that is more deserving of this fruit in Luffy's opinion, and Ace agrees, you know he feels just as strongly about this situation as Luffy does in the afterlife. Sabo is alive, Ace is dead, and the flame-flame fruit is within reach. Oda writes incredible stories and phenomenal characters which is blatantly obvious throughout the entire show, but THIS moment broke me in the best way possible. This show has truly changed the way I read or watch any form of media for the rest of my life.

#rant #one piece #sabo #ace #luffy #ASL #ASL brothers #devil fruit #one piece rant #dressrosa #fire fist ace #flame emperor sabo #strawhat luffy #straw hat luffy

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matt0044 · 8 months

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Have you ever found yourself asking, "I should hate this but... why don't I?" for any given Fandom punching bag?

The Rise of Skywalker was messy production wise and it doesn't go unnoticed in the film itself. It is the one opinion that Alt-Right Griftters and actually sane Star Wars fans will agree upon generally even if how they present their point will diverge completely.

So many have poured over what's widely considered the world of the worst and yet... I enjoyed it when I caught it the Christmas after it first premiered. I still look back on moments of it and my general opinions generally match that of CinemaWins on the whole.

A lot of the internet promised me a masterpiece of a mess but I exited the theaters largely satisfied. The star ships coming to help the Resistance being people and no formalized army. Rey's little dance with the devil being actually pretty cool.

Shit, even Kylo Ren turning himself around got me in the feels. Though yes, that kiss reeeeeeeeally could've been left on the cutting room floor. No shame to Reylo shippers but it was far from earned.

Fairy Tail is considered to be trash. It's Shonen Anime of the lowest common denominator. One Piece Lite. Power Scaling is shot. And don't even get anyone started on the Power of Friendship crap.

Yet I love it. In my book, it's solid 9 out of 10. I'm eager for the Century Quest series to be animated and I stan the hell out of it every chance I get. There's a unironic glee to its proclamation of bonds and found family. Even with its smut, there's a clearly passion and love put into it that I can never hate.

RWBY had the misfortune of being streamed on Crunchyroll where the wider Anime community took note of an Anime-esque web show, holding it to bigger studio titles like Attack on Titan. It's accrued a hatedom and grifters of said hatedom obsessing over what the story wasn't vs. what it actually is.

Yet I love it. I feel like leaving the school setting behind was to its benefit and allowed the characters to experience situations that had other sides to them revealed that Beacon wouldn't have.

Ren and Nora confronting their childhood trauma in Volume 4. Yang meeting Raven and trying to sort out her messy feeling about Blake. Weiss opening up more of her family life. It all felt more freed without the Anime warrior school restrictions in place.

Additionally, the earlier episodes are rough yet have a lot of heart put into what they're doing. It's an amateurish quality that attracts me to internet based series compared to the polish of Hollywood.

Back to the main point, I often find myself disconnected with the wider communities at play.

I'm supposed to rip on RWBY as expected of an Anime fan like me who liked top tier titles and nothing trashy.

I'm supposed to leave all that silly Shonen immaturity like in Fairy Tail behind. I'm a grown up. I gotta watch grown up stuff.

I'm suppose to hate The Sequel Trilogy with a red hot passion but... I just don't.

#star wars #star wars sequel trilogy #the rise of skywalker #rey #rwby #rooster teeth #fairy tail #hiro mashima #shonen anime #the skywalker saga #fandom #fandom nonsense

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buzzsawbrando · 10 months

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I’m not sure if this has been already asked before, but what inspired you to make art?

First time someone's asked me this, actually!

But, my art is a very strange amalgamation of inspired things, because I take inspiration from everything I get into to be able to improve my own artwork. But if you're asking direct inspirations (as in what really started me to draw) then I'll end up talking about both. Because I like rambling lol

What started making me draw probably isn't what most people expect from me,

Since I was a young kid, I would primarily stick to drawing really simple shaped characters. Kirby and Starfy characters were really easy for me to draw, and it helped me branch out to drawing more complex things like Pokemon or characters I liked from Brawl. (Captain Falcon was a character I mained extensively in Brawl and REALLY wanted to draw him as a kid. I still main him in SSB Ultimate alongside Kirby!)

Though, I did have way more relevant things from my childhood that probably left WAY more of an impact on my current art style today than anything else.

Resi 4 and Resi 6 specifically are the RE games I remember the most clearly from my childhood. ESPECIALLY Resi 4. Kind of strange to hear that 8 year old me ended up getting into these games alongside shit like Kirby, but my parents were never ones to really 'censor' what kind of gaming content their kids consumed and I would always watch my mom play through Resi 4 and Resi 6.

Resi 6 especially had a big influence on me because of one certain guy...

It becomes a common theme with me and evil blonde men, for some reason.

LIST OF AMALGAM'D INSPIRATIONS I'VE ACQUIRED FROM OVER THINE YONDER YEARS

This is either going to be really long or take nearly no time at all to write out. So here we go.

The most GLARINGLY obvious inspiration in my work (and has been for years) is Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.

Jojo part 1 and 4 had probably the biggest impacts on my art-style today. I even own Hirohiko Araki's Manga in Theory and Practice book which helped me draw muscles the way I do! He has an entire section in that book showing off his sketches and how he drew bodies during the development of Jojolion, which helped me out tenfold in regards to drawing muscular bodies to get results I wanted.

Also can't forget the.. Most glaring awakening I had in my entire life because of this series.

fuck you jojo

Berserk is a much more recent inspiration but its weaseled its way into my art in quite a few ways.

I've always loved Dark Fantasy as a genre, but consistently despised how it was handled. I avoided Berserk for a lot of reasons, but man binging it was probably the best decision I could've made even if I'm late to the party. It is DEFINITELY not a story for everyone, but I read it at a time when I think I needed it most in my life and it'll always stick with me for that. Berserk isn't a perfect story by any means, but I will always appreciate its influence and the ways it handled trauma as a subject. I still hope one day to capture some of the gorgeous aspects of Miura's artwork in my own, if that's even possible.

Skullgirls was a big inspiration in my work as a young'un, surprisingly enough.

It was a Fighting Game that really got me into FG's as a whole, and I think its really cartoony and 'bubbly' style absolutely inspired the way I draw a lot of things today. Eye shapes, thick lines, bright and poppy colors etc etc.. SG definitely had an influence on my work, even if it's hard to see today buried underneath all my other inspirations.

Osomatsu-San is probably my most shameful inspiration. To date.

It's not a bad anime or anything. In fact, it holds up really well. Hell, I've been planning to binge it again someday when I get the chance.

It's shameful because I got into it at its peak, where people really had a hard-on for shipping the brothers. And still do. I will refrain from commenting on that, but speaking as an ex-"blmatsu" it was probably the most shameful time of my entire life LMAO. I was a stupid fucking kid and I am extremely glad I grew out of it.

Despite my frankly cringe-infested past, this was still an anime that ended up really kickstarting my artstyle into the more cartoon-y side of things. It also is the anime that made me love coloring my lineart things other than pure black, the deep blue of the Osomatsu lineart has always been really appealing to me and I've always liked it from an artist standpoint. I've always been meaning to draw more matsu stuff.

Yeah yeah, hold your horses, but I read Chainsaw Man before the anime was even ANNOUNCED so give me a break here.

I'm an insanely huge shounen fan, if it isn't obvious already. The only thing is that I am a picky shounen fan. Chainsaw Man ended up scratching an itch other modern shounens like Demon Slayer or whatever couldn't really reach, which was how it handled monsters.

The monster design in CSM is probably the BIGGEST reason it's up here, it is one of my biggest inspirations with creature design and generally making unique looking beasts. This mixed with Berserk ends up making a horrid amalgam of beasts in my head and what I want to create someday.

Speaking of creature inspirations, here's something that isn't a manga or anime.

Gemini Home Entertainment is, in my personal opinion, one of the better analog horrors out there.

Analog horror is really oversaturated nowdays, but GHE is such a cool end-of-the-world scenario with peak body horror that I can't get anywhere else. Scarcely uploads, but christ when it does it's haunting and I love it. GHE is also a big inspiration for a character I have that i've been working on!

Do I have to explain this next one. I never shut up about Guilty Gear. No big surprise.

GGST is the first FG i've gotten into that really kicked in how much i really love FG's as a whole.

Plus, buff men. I'm a big fan of tit what can I say.

And before this post gets too long, here's some honorable mentions.

sorry this post is so long but . I have a LOT of inspirations always.

#ask

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jrueships · 2 years

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top 5 movies

OOOO OKAY so i actually hate doing top tens because i overthink everything and constantly switch things around SOO... im just gonna do a collection of five things bee likes SORRY FOR THE FALSE ADVERTISING 😭

1 City of God

i hate telling people this is one of my fav movies cus I don't wanna seem like that pretentious person who only watches foreign films for the sake of watching foreign films. This is literally my favorite movie because it's my favorite movie. I don't really watch a lot of movies and this just happened to be one i found and happened to like! I read the book first (dont. By the way. It kinda sucks partly because it got translated poorly so not it's fault but mainly because it's violence for the sake of violence. Like if the movie went just by book, i wouldn't like it. But it doesn't so <3 )

think of the movie and the book like No Country For Old Men. The book goes for shock and suspense and the movie goes to make it Art. It's a really pretty film and you kinda value it more knowing like. None of the actors went anywhere. They did their piece for the film then that's pretty much all. It's a good film of a bad film that made it good film? Like what happens is bad, but the bad doesn't happen just to happen and be Bad. IDK man !

Next is

YEAH SO. LMAO um 😭 let's get this clear i hate b*ll i hated him from the beginning righteous prick and i always skipped his parts in the show or used it to do homework when i was lil. I JUST REALLY LOVED THE ANIMATION!! the show and the movie is ass tho. BUT IT'S THE KINDA ASS... you Enjoy 😈. All intentions possible. I love love LOVE watching this movie with friends so we can make fun of it and point out the terrible writing, not in a 'we're better sense' but a 'LMFAO WTF WAS THAT????'

it's a very WTF WAS THAT movie and i love it 😭. Weird Harold, Rudy, and Otis (yall don't even know any of these people but especially Otis. All u gotta know is he's the best) carried. Dumb Donald has a great design cartoon wise but he got on my nerves. He's alright tho

the harder they fall's soundtrack is SO good. It's so cool, it's just a COOL movie. It's an action movie so some of the characters could've been written better (especially some of the women. They werent written horrible but they had more potential that you can feel wasnt justly reached), but the characters they spent time on, you could tell. From their stories and personalities and dialogue and interactions, very cool!!! Sometimes an almost anime-esque kind of movie? Sometimes shot like Scott pilgrim? Sometimes sphagetti western.. Sometimes action.. Sometimes comedy! It's a COOL movie that you can think about a little bit but not cramp yourself over. It's not a complete turn your brain off though. It's engaging in what it is! Which is a lot of things, so it's very engaging!!!

Blade!!!!!! The patron Saint of joth gf!! my first!!! my beloved!! my EVERYTHING!!!!! the movie's writing shows its time in only having personality in 'crazy side villain who dies' 'clever quip when someone dies' 'sad for short time when someone dies'. Maybe the new blade movie wouldn't be in such a fumbling state if i was in the writer's room with my divine, lifesaving advice of 'just make blade more babygirl'. Literally. That's all you have to do. It's not that difficult. ANYWAYS yeah he and the flash and hawkman were my 3 only childhood 'superhero' heroes. This is more of a personal childhood attachment thing like Albert than being a.. Good movie. BUT it DOES have its cinematography! You can feel the wuxia inspiration in some scenes

these two can sit in the same space because they're both childhood films as well. Boyz was better at leaning into characters as human (which i value a lot) and menace was better at showing the edge of what life can do to characters. They're both good films in their own right! Check em out! I liked menace way more than the other when i was younger but growing up im leaning more toward the other but they're AGAIN theyre both super snazzy

Some honorable mentions... to make up for the lack of a ranking system:

- New Jack City: NEWWW JACK! CIIIITYYY (NEW JACK CITYY 🎶 !!) older blaxplotation movie so cheesy, cheap, but like? Cool??? cut out the cheesy old cop crud and you get an entertaining villain with an entertaining mob. Also there's one death in the movie that's a brutal one, and it's offscreen. You just see a glimpse of the desecrated aftermath. Those are like the best deaths in a movie tbh. The imagination being our biggest friend and our biggest enemy. Love it love it!

- dead presidents: WAR IS TRAUMATIZING!!!

- mean girls: the Brutus speech about Cesar.. no essay can compare. Shakespeare shut the fuck up bitch

- clueless: 🥰

- little shop of horrors: open up here i come

- in the wood: STACY!!!!!!!

- Rocky: Apollo slayed and then he died

- sky high + high school musical: Disney peaked with these characters then never again

- FRIDAY + Friday 2: loved the 'you don't need a weapon' moral trying to be taught then using a weapon (brick) in the end. Seamless

- ratatouille: the wii game ratatouille was my red dead redemption

- baby jody: all manchilds need to watch this. It's hilarious and it's true. Don't be a manchild. Grow up. OH also the mom has a little garden and it's really cute. And she's super buff. People try to plant shit in her garden. Makes me so mad. We can never have nice things!!!

- coraline: the movie was so cool.. the video game on the wii scared me so bad i had nightmares from the bad game over screens. But the designs were great the elements the songs the using good characters abilities into their bad character abilities UGH it was SO cool!!! i hate people that like coraline though... it's like.. idk how to describe it. there's like two types of theater people... either really really nice or seems really nice, actually a huge usually passive aggressive or control freak holier than thou smart ass who thinks they're the stem of theater because their personality is loving hamilton (i fucking hate hamilto

- hot boyz: this movie is straight ass

- king of New york: this one kinda sucked too but the secondary villain was gay and awesome

- Good Burger: i watched a blossoming boy romance in a place that sells burgers. Good burgers.

- Monster House

they survived because they had sex

-Kung fu panda all of them except maybe not the 3rd: just gorgeous gorgeous movies. The animation is stunning

- Hustle & flow: Ludacris !!!!!!!!! Acts!! He gets his ass kicked but that's ok. I think in another film he also gets his ass kicked? I can't remember tho. He loves losing

- Se7en: themed kills that play with unique abilities 🥰🥰 i don't have the patience for a murder mystery so i don't remember who did it or what was in the box and i don't cool. Seven deadly sins awesome

- Barbershop: mollusk man and preppy man should've had sex. Hate sex specifically

- that one movie? 9?: i watched it when i was little and alone. The Bara fucking dies

- Johnny English Reborn aka THE MR BEAN X DANIEL KALUUYA MOVIE IM TELLING YOU THEY HAD S*X!!!!!!@ it's actually a mainly unfunny movie with some funny parts like most older comedies but it's gay so it's ok

- encanto: i don't like encanto like Some people like encanto but it was the first movie that made me upset, I can't even Identify why?? It got me in my feelings and i don't even know!! How!! Or what!!!! I wouldn't say it's my favorite movie in terms of i want to see it again because i Like it, but it IS a good movie!! Like objectively it's great

- night at the museum: gay

- white chicks: the dancing scene? Monster high wishes it could

- cars: the purple car was so hot

- mo' better blues: so much could be solved if hate sex...

- remember the titans: football polycule and mean man

- fences: father issues . The Movie.

- into the spiderverse: yes.

- the players club: her boyfriend's name was Lance who tf is called Lance who is real? Like a real person? Lance is for GTA Lance Vance who likes to Dance. He cheated because he was always fake. Like Lance armstrong.. they are not. Real people.

- NOPE: the spectacle idea is SOOOOO

- glory road: gay people gay people gay basketball people gay

- space jam: i thought this was the coolest shit when i was little but the part where Michael's manager got flattened gave me nightmares.

Let It Shine: lord of Da Bling.....

-space jam 2: robot dame is still hot

- Get Out: I liked reading the script a lot for this one!! Also gay. Loving gay couple who survived crazy white people and coparent a tiny dog very well. A well deserved happiness

- jump in: this movie is like fat albert to me

- white men can't jump: gay couple school the system (love wins)

- Jason takes manhattan: my favorite character is on watchmojo top ten best Jason kills 😭😭 Julius gaw you should've won and i stand by that. Should've donkeykicked him in the stomach ROLL CREDITS!!!!

#i want to see bullet train and black adam!!#i think ill rlly like bullet train as a good movie and the fact that i like it as well #black adam i think ill just like to like #bcs it's gay or smthing #THANK U for asking I LOVED THIS!!!#most of my movies are old and bad and not in an artistic sense but in a yeah this is old and bad lol #i havent watched some of these in so long 😭😭#im very strange with movies where like.. if it's a movie i havent seen and it's just playing on tv #i have to watch it i have to keep glancing back at it #same with tv shows like.. what is going on?? i need to know!! why are people pretending to be pizza workers!! i have to find out!!#so yea i cant fall asleep when the tv is on so i dont have a tv in my room i never did #in a hotel i rmember watching this movie at 4am cus i couldnt sleep bcs a movie was on #it wasnt even good it was abt ordering anchovies on your pizza gets you s*x #it was stupid and i hated it and i couldnt shut my eyes from the torment #ted tumbunity things

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anime-re-views · 2 years

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Devilman Crybaby - It Made me Feel Insignificant (Review)

Major Spoilers

General Info: (From MAL)

Genres: Action, Avant Garde, Gore, Horror, Mythology, Supernatural

Episodes: 10

Runtime per episode: ~25 min

Studio:Science SARU

Rating: R+

Streaming Service: Netflix

Summary I guess: Akira Fudou is a crybaby. When childhood friend Ryo Asuka asks him to help uncover devils, he accepts without hesitation. They go to Sabbath: a place full of drugs and sex. Ryo stabs a bunch of people with a broken alcohol bottle, and chaos ensues. A bunch of people turn into devils. Akira attempts to save Ryo, but he merges with the devil Amon. Akira then becomes a Devilman. He slays the remaining demons. Akira has this new power, but it awakens a more violent part of him. Akira and Ryo work together to destroy devils and save humanity.

Story: 7/10 - I went into this anime completely blind. I had never read a synopsis, I just knew it was really hyped up. Oh my god I was not prepared. For one, everybody fucking dies. I am not kidding. It's not just characters we know either, it's EVERYBODY. The world gets demolished at the very end. Don't get attached to anyone. I got attached to the guys that would rap all the time, I got attached to both of the Mikis, and they all fuckin die. at first I thought it'd be a "devil of the episode" type thing. Like they'd fight a devil or two each episode and for the last two or something, it'd be a big fight with everyone. Nope. After episode 5, everything goes batshit insane and off the deep end. Everything gave me whiplash. If it was meant to be shocking, it certainly worked.

Characters: 7/10 - Nobody got character development except for Akira and Ryo. I did like most of the characters though. My favorite was Kukun, I fell in love with him after he rapped his feelings to Miki Kuroda. I'm rating this a 7 though because I wish we got more time with these guys. I am impressed with how I managed to get so attached.

Art: 10/10 - I've seen some people say it looks goofy, which I guess it does when Akira is running, but aside from that it looks really good. I will say, the gore could've been a lot better. I know this anime isn't super detailed, but it felt like they wanted to go all out with it, but decided not to. Does that make sense? I don't know. The animation was consistently really good.

Sound: 10/10 - The voice acting and music were pretty good.

Overall: 6/10 - I know I've shown some praise, but I think this anime is pretty average. More than anything, it made me feel insignificant after I watched it, which y'know is a terrible feeling. Gorey anime and anime where literally everybody dies tend to have that effect on me though. I also don't understand the hype, but maybe it's because of the original Devilman. I've seen a lot of hype around that. It was alright

#anime #anime review #anime reviews #devilman crybaby

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derekscorner · 1 month

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A part of me is dangerously curious-

-About Fate/Kaleid

I mean, from what I've not only seen but, also heard, it has one of the best versions of Shirou Emiya. If not THE best version of Shirou Emiya. The one known as "miyu Shirou".

All the praise I had for Shirou's character in Heaven's Feel supposedly done just as much justice in this alternate Shirou. His world is dying and his focus is his adoptive sister.

This Shirou solos an entire fucking grail war. I see manga panels of him using UBW to whip out guns and all this other crazy shit.

On the flipside, this Kaleid work features two parallel universes. So you not only get a glimpse of Shirou at his best but you get a look at what the Emiya family could've been.

Kiritsugu and Iri are live, Illya had a normal childhood, there's a whole family dynamic there that I would love to see. Most Fate stories are rather grim or at least have dark moments so being able to see a glimpse of this world in a happier shade is a strong curiosity for me.

My problem is I can't bring myself to watch or read. I do not know what the manga lets slide but the animes version of fan service is...well to be blunt it's a bit too far in a pervy preference that I am willing to tolerate.

I've had internet exposure since the early 2000s, I have seen some shit but that niche is one I do not wish to tolerate let alone indulge.

That said, it still makes me sad because despite not watching it I get manga panels appearing on my feed from time to time. Real gold writing sh*t too like this:

Just look at this, this is fucking great right here. This is a talk any version of Shirou needed.

Then there's just blatant decent fan service like the original servants from Fate/Stay Night seemingly working together like here:

It's like this story has all the things I'd love to see behind a "can you tolerate the grade schoolers making out" pay wall.

If someone's read the manga and is willing to tell me I'm wrong I'm all ears. I'd love to see a version of this Fate story that won't be off putting for me.

Or, at the very least, I'd love to see another Fate story use some of these ideas like a full Emiya household. I've only followed Fate for a year and a half, if I'm missing something please tell me.

#fate/kaleid liner prisma illya #fate series #fated rantings

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webbedphantom · 5 months

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Aaron in the Spider-Verse

This is something I've thought about on occasion, though I've never done much with it because it's always so... awkward starting interactions with other superhero accounts (aside from MHA OCs for some reason-). I don't even know why, it's probably just from my experiences with them over on Twitter. The Persona verse was much more accepting of Aaron as a concept than most other Marvel accounts, so it's always been hard to reach out.

ANYWAYS, back on topic-

I don't think Aaron would really have much of a place in the Spider-Verse, at least the comic book one. To put it in layman terms, there are these things called totems, people embodying or empowered by different animals, and Spider Totems are special for some big multiversal thingy that holds all the worlds together for reasons I can't remember and don't feel like looking up. And there are even special-er totems that take on a specific role in some cycle or whatever-

Anyways, I bring all this up because Aaron isn't any of that. He has spider powers, but he's not a totem (because yes that can happen). Aaron's kind of an outlier, in both the Spider-Verse and among other Persona users, even other Jokers. The things that allow him to be both a Spider-Man and a Persona user are also the things that keep him from truly fitting in with either group.

I've even thrown around the idea of Aaron not being his world's Spider-Person, that it's actually his kid (whoever that turns out to be) who becomes their link to the Web of Life and Destiny. But maybe that's a bit too far.

I don't know, I just like Aaron being an outcast among outcasts for some reason.

For the movie Spider-Verse though, he'd fit in alright. They don't really have totems as far as I know, and Aaron's definitely had a few canon events, at least in the main AU.

Though he also never has an Uncle Ben moment, since he didn't need one (Canonically, Joker helps that woman without a second thought, so he didn't need to learn anything to become a hero. Just needed to reaffirm the beliefs he already had). The closest he has is Shiho, but no matter the verse there is nothing he could've done to prevent what happened... yet he blames himself anyway, because of course he does.

So yeah, he'd fit in fine and relate to a bunch of the different Spiders. Though, I imagine as excited as he'd be by the idea of alternate realities (he's a massive nerd after all), he'd be a bit more conflicted on the idea of him being a part of some massive legacy. Like he wouldn't be sure if he deserved to be a part of it, and would be constantly terrified of tarnishing it in some way.

Something else I think would be interesting is meeting up with a few particular Spiders. Generally any Spider around his age would be someone he would grow attached to. It's hard to find people who just... get exactly what you're going through. He'd similarly bond pretty well with any Spider that started in their teens, and would take their advice to heart should they offer any.

But the biggest one has to be Miguel O'Hara (My favorite fictional character of all time!!) Because Spidey 2099 is literally the character he grew up reading, who inspired him in so many ways, who he partially based his outfit on, albeit subconsciously. And while Miguel isn't identical to the Prophet of Thor Aaron is such a big fan of, he's close enough that he'd recognize him immediately and fan boy his heart out.

This last part is gonna get into spoilers for Across the Spider-Verse, so if you somehow haven't seen it yet, first of all go watch it right now. This is a threat. Secondly, come back to this after you've seen it to see that-

So, let's talk about the Spider Society and canon. Aaron would probably be really excited about the place at first, super happy to be around other people like him, not to mention working alongside a guy who is all but living incarnation of his childhood hero. But over time, he'd get a bit... less so. Namely when it comes to the canon.

Aaron has two simple beliefs that are the core of who he is. "Inaction makes you complicit" and "There is always a better way."

In other words, if someone gets hurt and you had a chance to stop it, it's on you. And if you come across a situation that forces you to break or bend your moral code, you weren't looking hard enough.

Simple, a bit naive in some ways, but that's just who he is.

So finding out that the Spiders are actively letting people die for the sake of the multiverse... Yeah, he'd hate that.

I mean on one hand, he'd kinda understand because with that many lives at stake, of course you wouldn't want to risk it, but on the other "There's always another way." And it's the fact that they don't seem to be looking for it, that they seem content to just let people die to keep the status quo, that would really piss him off.

I do feel like he'd try to give them the benefit of the doubt at first, like wait a bit before doing anything to drastic and try to see things from their perspective, since he would want to get along with them, especially Miguel. But eventually, especially if someone's life is on the line, he's going to turn on them.

Originally when I thought up this idea, the life that was on the line was someone close to him, someone who's death would be a canon event. But while I do think that would still work, I realized it really doesn't have to be anyone from his universe, anyone he knows at all. Sure, it's impactful to see how far he'd go for someone he cares about, but I think it's even moreso if he goes that same distance for a complete stranger, not to mention totally in line with his character.

It would really tear him up inside to go against them, especially Miguel since he's again, basically his childhood hero on par with Batman and Sonic... But he's gotta stay true to his beliefs.

Now herein lies the issue with writing anything related to canon and the Spider-Verse movies-

We don't know who's right.

Yes, there are hints throughout the film that Miguel is wrong and that canon isn't what holds the multiverse together or that there is another way, but we don't know the how or why of it, nor what that other way is yet. Which is a pretty important thing to know when writing a story where two characters fight over something like this. And until Beyond the Spider-Verse comes out, the only way to really tell the kind of story that I want to tell, of Aaron going against the Society and desperately searching for either proof that they're wrong, or another way to keep the canon intact without letting people die, is to just make something up... which could end up being disproven whenever the movie eventually releases.

Which as someone who is obsessed with continuity, is not really something I want to happen-

So as much as I would like to write that stuff, I think I'd rather just wait for Beyond...

Still down to interact with other Spiders though. Just gotta work up the courage to... y'know, do that-

#ooc - out of costume;#au thoughts #kinda?

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lohengrinoverture · 9 months

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“Castles Crumbling” by Taylor Swift is such a Mytho-coded song. Especially with the fairytale-Esau’s aspects of the show.

Once, I had an empire in a golden age

I was held up so high, I used to be great

They used to cheer when they saw my face.

He’s the handsome storybook prince, universally beloved, always saving everyone. Everyone loves him, everyone wants to protect him.

And I feel like my castle's crumbling down

And I watch all my bridges burn to the ground

And you don't want to know me

I will just let you down

As the raven’s blood further corrupts him, he turns cruel to everyone around him—even Rue as Kraehe who wanted him to love only her. Even Fakir who’s been at his side since childhood. Even Princess Tutu who he once viewed as his savior.

Power went to my head, and I couldn't stop

Ones I loved tried to help, so I ran them off

And here I sit alone, behind walls of regret

Falling down like promises that I never kept

The greater the raven’s blood infects him, the hungrier he becomes. He starts preying on the hearts and innocent love of the girls at school. At one point, he demands why Kraehe won’t love him more. The more the main cast tries to help him, his actions as raven!Mytho further alienates them, as he even sets the ghost knight against Fakir and preys on his sister figure Raetsel. He can’t be the perfect prince, the heroic savior everyone sees him as from the story.

My foes and friends watch my reign end

I don't know how it could've ended this way

Smoke billows from my ships in the harbor

People look at me like I'm a monster

Now they're screaming at the palace front gates, used to chant my name

Now they're screaming that they hate me

Never wanted you to hate me

Even at his lowest point, Mytho still very much craves love. His corruption at this point has ruined his reputation at the academy, with the girls now fearing his new nature. Yet he reaches out to Ahiru in her duck form as an innocent animal, the part of him still desperate to be saved.

#princess tutu #mytho #castles crumbling #taylor swift #musings #princess tutu mytho #prince siegfried #swan lake

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mydepressingpoetry · 10 months

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What am I supposed to do?

What am I supposed to do with everything that you left me

The pieces of a life that could've, should've been

That now I come pick up from the home we shared, months after the fact

Or that I kept in my storage unit a thousand miles away,

never again to see daylight

What am I supposed to do with the clothes

That were yours, you gifted them to me

The sweatshirt from your undergrad

That I made you wear occasionally so I could smell your perfume on it

What am I supposed to do now that I know I'll never smell it again?

What am I supposed to do with the stuffed animals

Part of me wants to burn them

but they are innocent

The bunny and duck from two Easters,

the polar bear just because,

the build a bear from our first Christmas,

the tiny dinosaur that lived on my car's dashboard and has traveled more miles than I have

What am I supposed to do now that I can't bear to look at them?

What am I supposed to do with my new apartment

You helped me move out of my last one

just two months ago

You were going to help me move into this one too

You aren't anymore

What am I supposed to do with the room and bed that I thought would be ours, even for just a short while?

What am I supposed to do for fun

when you were the only joy I knew

for so long

When I have no one to go to trivia,

or to do corn mazes, or go to children's science museums with

No one to shop and cook dinner with, or watch Dance Moms with every night for two weeks straight

We never finished it

What am I supposed to do now that I know I never will?

What am I supposed to do now that my routine is gone

You know me, you know I hate change

You changed me

I thought it was for the better

Now I'm not so sure

But I know I will never drive you to your lab in the morning again

Or pick up Starbucks for you between classes

Or lift weights with you in the evenings before we can go home and snuggle on the couch

What am I supposed to do when you made me the kind of person who needs that?

What am I supposed to do with the photos

They take up so much space on my phone

But I can't delete them

Not yet

All of the special things we did together

Once immortalized on my Instagram

Now with seven days left before they're deleted forever

Just like us

What am I supposed to do when I want to leave them up just to see your face again?

What am I supposed to do with all of your promises

that you never could keep

When you said we could go pumpkin picking later

And later and later and later

And then the pumpkins sold out

When we couldn't celebrate our anniversary because I was in the hospital and you said we would next weekend instead

and months passed and you kept promising

But we never did

When you said you had a Christmas present for me

after I took you to Corning

and we made blown glass ornaments

When you said we'd come back every year and make more

Neither was true

When you told me on Valentine's day that you didn't have time to get me a gift

But you would next week

You never did

When you said we'd go camping when I came back this fall

Right before you decided you didn't want to see me again

When you said we needed a break

because I was too anxious and depressed and you weren't as attracted to me anymore

And you gave me a list of things to work on before we were together again

I gave you one too

And you said you still loved me and you wanted it to work out

A couple of weeks later, you changed your mind

You don't love me

Maybe you haven't for a year

You texted me this while I was on a road trip with my family

You didn't want to lead me on

What am I supposed to do when you've broken your promises and my heart too many times to count, but I still can't let you go?

What am I supposed to do with the friendships

that I had for those years

Ones I'd made because of you

You know me, I don't have many friends

But with you I had plenty

Your roommate and lab group and childhood friends and grad school friends and even old exes of yours

Especially your cat

We had fun

I would try to stay in contact, but

I'm sure they took your side

I'll miss them almost as much as you

What am I supposed to do now that my support system is gone?

What am I supposed to do about music

when we listened to the same thing

They say you shouldn't date someone who likes the same artist

Because then all the songs are ruined if you break up

They are right

What am I supposed to do when what used to bring me the greatest happiness now brings me pain?

What am I supposed to do with the memories

That haunt me every time my mind drifts from a task

Or in the middle of the night

They will haunt me forever

How on our first date I got lost

and we played Marco Polo over text

How you thought you were reading me wrong because I didn't kiss you until the third date

But actually you were my first kiss and I just didn't know how

How we kissed in your car, named Baymax, in the vet school parking lot

After playing trivia at the game bar

You tasted like the brussels sprouts we'd eaten

I didn't mind

How we had the perfect day going to the glass museum and the Christmas market

And I never wanted it to end

How I had a surprise for my birthday

for the first time in my life

And I went to watch you and your friends

run half marathons that spring

I'd never been more proud of you

How I spent Easter at your family's house

and then we went to Niagara Falls too

I liked them

How I taught you how to milk cows that summer

And you taught me how to dissect mice

I spent all of my weekends weighing tissue for you

But I didn't mind

Because I would do anything to spend more time with you

How your roommate and I turned your birthday into the Triwizard Tournament

With themed challenges and drinks

How we hosted a Halloween party

where we were internet browsers

I was Safari, you were Chrome

How you took me to my procedure at the hospital

And bought me a sloth that said "let it sloooow"

Which was funny because I was sedated

How the months kept passing

And you got bored of me

You said we were like an old married couple

But that I shouldn't worry

What am I supposed to do now that the bad memories are fighting to outweigh the good?

What am I supposed to do with the things you taught me

Like which fat deposit was which

Or how to make a drink I actually liked

How to cook the best salmon

Or how to celebrate the lunar new year

Also how to apply eyeliner

You always had to do it for me anyway

How to use a tampon

And how to use an air fryer to make Pillsbury cookies

The ones with the Christmas trees on them

How to see myself as attractive

Until you stopped seeing it in me

What am I supposed to do when doing any of those things now feels wrong?

What am I supposed to do with my future

now that it is lost forever

I won't marry you

I won't move to Massachusetts

We won't have children with your hair and my eyes

If we ever could've anyway

What am I supposed to do when I can't see a future with anyone else?

What am I supposed to do with all this love

Love that I tried to give you

You didn't want it

You didn't want me to hug you

You didn't like cuddling

Or pet names, or proclamations of love

You didn't want me to beg for you back

You just wanted me gone

But I don't want to be

I would've done anything for you to keep me around

What am I supposed to do when I love you so much that I'd rather die than never talk to you again?

What am I supposed to do?

#breakups

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hello darling!

feeling kind of glum leading up to halloween, so i would like to know what your fav comfort movies are? 🤎

hey!

Some of my favorite fall-themed ones are:

-Practical Magic (1998) I fell in love with this movie when I was sixteen. Everything about it is delightful! It's about two magical sisters who are raised by their aunts in a small town. One of the sisters wants desperately to fall in love while the other hopes she never will. There's a great deal more to it than that. A generational curse, witchy aesthetics, and a happy ending.

-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) I know you could've guessed this one haha! It doesn't need any explanation.

-Over the Garden Wall (2014 Mini-series) This series is chock-full of fall imagery and the animation is so cozy. It's set around Halloween time and it's about two brothers who find themselves lost in a mysterious forest and try to find their way home. It's silly, heartfelt, and fun to watch around this time of year!

-The Pagemaster (1994) This was my favorite movie as a child and it continues to be so. There is something so unexplainable nostalgic about this movie. It reminds me of the vivid imagination of childhood. Almost the entirety of the film is set in a library which I've always loved! It's mostly animated and it's about a boy who gets caught in a storm and seeks refuge in a library. Once there he finds himself trapped and with only the books as his companions. To find his way out of the library he has to battle his way through literary classics. I can't suggest this movie enough, I think you'd enjoy it.

Some other ones that I enjoy:

-Matilda (1996) I would be surprised if you haven't seen this movie but I wanted to list it anyway. It's about a little girl named Matilda who grew up feeling isolated from children her own age and feeling different from her family. She took comfort in reading and became a bit of a prodigy. She developes psychokinetic abilities and uses them to protect herself and her friends against the trouble they face at their school. It's a fun movie and centers a bit around the found family trope which I love!

-The Secret Garden (1993) I think you've seen this one but just in case! This movie is just so pretty, every shot is lovely to look at. It's about a young girl named Mary who lives in India with her parents. After an Earthquake kills them and makes her an orphan she is sent to England to live with her reclusive Uncle in the countryside. Once there, she discovers that there are many secrets haunting her Uncle's home and a hidden garden is one of them. It's a beautiful movie!

-Flipped (2010) Something about this movie had me infatuated when I was young. It was the original "we just keep missing each other" trope where one person falls for another but by the time the other person returns their feelings it's too late. It's just a sweet coming of age story really.

-Stand By Me (1986) This was my dad's favorite movie as a young boy and I watched it with him for the first time when I was fifteen. Since then, it's been added to the list. It's based on a Novella by Stephen King but it isn't a horror story. It's a coming of age that centers around the struggles and adventures of a young boy and his three friends. His brother has recently passed and he is coping without support from his parents when he and his friends decide to embark on a journey to recover the body of a missing boy. It's an emotional movie but it's a good one!

Those are all of the ones that I can think of. I hope one of these movies serves to make you smile a little. Be gentle with yourself in the meantime. I wish I could be there with you <3

#comfort films #ask #syrus #did you know the persian origin of your name means sun?#isn't that apt?

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(Gary anon) Journeys could have done a lot of things; the song the fandom bellows every week. Vs Cynthia seems most people's last stand for this series as I see less and less excitement for Leon. Even the Japanese side seems to be having increasing mixed feelings and confusion on choices that were made.

(Part 2) (As I say before, if Gary is Ash's last confidence push for Leon and shows up to support him personally, I'll be okay with that as his ending than whatever Project Mew has planned. Yes, even they gave G-max Blastoise. But it'd be a plus) Goh has accomplished a lot, but nothing screamed 'Surpassed Gary' to me. And with the limited amount of episodes left, any reasonable "defeat" is going to be unsatisfying regardless.

(Part 3) Not just because of lacking buildup, but the PWC drowned out everything else. (I won't spoil, but based on certain SV details, they could theoretically take that and continue Ash's story without setting him back too much. Whether he wins or loses. But does beg the question of his personality being changed again) The TPCi dub in general has a on-and-off problem with that, alongside the weird music choices and characters sounding more high-pitched than normal since SM.

(Part 4) But Journeys has been feeling the most like "done on a budget"; I wonder if the Netflix scheduling effected its usual production time. Some of these like sound like first-takes. (Speaking of dub, Covid got Veronica too. :[ )

(Part 5) So, this episode caused quite the stir on all fronts. Alain vs Diantha is back in discussion again. Cynthia and Garchomp's childhood although cute, some thought there should have been a bit more. The kids were fine, but the distraction from the match to watch a Glossifleur evolve didn't sit well. And growing mixed feelings about Ash's possible match results against Leon. At this point, a tie would probably caused the least ire.

Yeah. I'm doing my best to stay optimistic and focus on the positives, because I have had a lot of fun with Journeys, but even I have to admit a lot could've been handled better.

Hopefully Ash vs Cynthia is a good battle--muting the most negative people on my TL has made opening Twitter on Fridays a lot more bearable, but if that battle doesn't meet expectations I don't think that'll be enough.

Here's hoping. I really want good things for Gary, he really deserves a good ending. I want good things for Goh too, I've become really fond of him over the course of Journeys, but in a way that feels earned narratively.

Good to know--I'd really miss Ash if he was replaced.

True, this dub has some... issues sometimes. It being a more faithful dub than 4Kids was has pros and cons--the 4Kids dub had its issues with over-localizing things and sometimes making the most random edits, but it had a lot of charm too. Makes one wonder what the anime would be like now if 4Kids was still doing it.

Netflix's scheduling might have something to do with it, yeah.

D: Once again, hopefully she'll be okay!

That doesn't surprise me, though personally I thought the episode was fine. I'd been feeling a bit burned out on battles and I appreciate having a couple breather episodes before the really major stuff, and Ash and Cynthia having some time together outside the battlefield now so that doesn't have to be crammed into their battle episode was probably a good move.

My personal feelings about Ash vs Leon really haven't changed, though I'm not looking forward to what the fandom response will be one way or another. Sometimes I think about taking a step back from this fandom--the fact that new episodes are dread-inducing sometimes just because of how other people are going to react is kind of telling.

#Andrew answers #Gary anon

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HEY!! i just wanna start by saying i love love LOVE ur stuff and I've read too much to calculate three hundred times and everything u write is so cool woohoo

and speaking of my boy Carl! i downloaded matchmaker recently, and after hours of cheating at candy crush, i found that apparently one of Carl's interests is anime??

i rly don't see him watching anything other than like, death note and spirited away, but i rly wanted to see what u think abt it!

thank you so much, it means a lot to know people like carl's story 🥺💙😭

sooooooo... i'm absolutely the wrong person to ask this, 'cause i don't watch anime so my answer will be lacking.

from the ones i've seen, i agree with you about 'death note' because it has such a dark storyline, i think carl digs that a lot.

'attack on titan' is in his list for the same reason. it's almost cathartic to him i would say. don't know where he stands with this tik tok trend though lol

i haven't seen 'spirited away' yet, so i don't know what's about and can't really agree or disagree (i want to stay away from the premise 'cause i like the mystery), so let me comment on the ones i think he might dig besides those:

he read 'demon slayer' mangas and is enjoying the anime now. the humor, sometimes acid sometimes goofy, can really represent his own jokes fairly, 'cause most of them are double meaning and whenever he catches one he's like "😝 haha i get it".

also, he might really like nezuko because of the duality she's trapped in. being a demon is not easy, especially if you're travelling in a box.

anime probably happened really early on, so 'sailor moon', 'dragonball' and 'saint seiya' ('knights of the zodiac') might've been part of his initiation. playing around while pretending to be one of them is probably the thing he did the most, especially because i think he had a lonely childhood. i definitely seem him playing as ami mizuno (sailor mercury) and the little dude in red (i think he's pegasus seiya?), because of the aesthetic they have in common.

and i don't think carl cared about being a female character at all. they have a lot in common and that's what matters to him.

"fullmetal alchemist" is one of those pieces of media that truly mature a child quickly, since a vital part of the story was really shocking (you know the one). now it feels nostalgic to go back and watch it, and cry over that part. given he was 10 when it was first published i reckon he grew up wth it, but it's so mature i think he watches it to this day.

he might've let animes like 'sakura' or 'naruto' slip because of the themes. carl strikes me as the type of kid who was born with an old soul, so naruto repeating himself for the 50th time in the same episode could've been jarring, despite having some other amazing characters like kakashi, gaara (the love of my life) and even sasuke.

i also headcanon carl being very passionate about sakura being wasted away in stupidity for so long. SHE WAS WASTED, OK? she was so fucking capable but somehow would turn into an idiot all the time, i hated that!

now, about pokemon. i feel like every kid had their phase, and sometimes pokemon doesn't even feel like anime because it's not as underground as others can be.

still, i can see little carl with a cap on his bowl cut and fingerless gloves while playing with stuffed toys, and later on gameboy.

it's possible he still plays it from time to time, including the TCG format and pokemon go. no one can change my mind he geeks out about legendary pokemon he has in his backpack in the app.

plus, i risk to say his favorite of all time is arceus or xerneas, and his initial was squirtle.

and i think that's all i can contribute! i haven't even scratched the surface with these suggestions, but i would like to hear your thoughts and anyone else's who digs anime and manga. i have probably seen less than 1% of what's out there, so i would love to hear from more people!

#litg #litg carl #love island the game #litg s2 #litg season 2 #queue

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