#it's not super polished but it's nice and it has shading so it goes in my 'nice art' tag
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so it seems older Raz has overcome his difficulties with his hydrokinesis. Neat! I imagine dogen did too with his blast-isis thingie (saw it from ur comics) : D
so does that mean. Raz can form or Manipulate shapes of water. Kinda like how Maligula can with water serpents. I imagine Raz has own favourite animal for that? And water his strongest power or still struggle with it? anyway amazing work as always.
yeah, he's pretty good with it!
detail crop + more rambling under the cut
it's his strongest power, but he doesn't specialise in it super heavily. so he's not as skilled in it as, say, Lili is with her herbaphony. he's definitely not as good as his great aunt, but Lucrecia was, like, incredibly talented. from the feats we see her accomplish (making hundred-foot waves and tornadoes of water, crossing oceans, drawing water from the moisture in the air), I'd say she's quite possibly one of, if not the, strongest psychic in the canon.
could Raz be as good as her one day? maybe! he has the potential, but it'd take a lifetime of practice. and i think generally he prefers spending his time working on all his powers, rather than strongly specialising in just one or two. he's not as good at HK as he could be if he really focused on it, but in exchange he's also pretty good with a lot of his other powers. jack of all trades, master of none, y'know?
#psychonauts#future superstar agents au#instead of snakes his thing is hands. i just think the hand of galochio is a really cool visual#generally my headcanon is that talent and innate potential /are/ factors#but overall they're usually less important than just practice and hard work#some things will come more naturally to some people but generally anyone can learn any power as long as they're willing to work at it#it's like any real life skill. talent exists and it can give you a big head start early on#but it's ultimately unimportant without dedication and persistence#but then also (to immediately undercut my own tag ramble) there are exceptions!#people like Compton and Dogen are unusual among psychics. their brains just produce way more psychic energy than normal and no-one knows wh#it's theorised that blastokinesis isn't even a particular ability it's just the result of channelling WAY too much destructive psychic ener#anyway. glowing eyes go brrrrr#polish#it's not super polished but it's nice and it has shading so it goes in my 'nice art' tag#fsau raz
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Fly-Fishing Bodytype Headcanons
Inspired by @comingyourlugubriousness 's post
(Cw: disordered eating/body dismorphia/body disphoria)
Azul Ashengrotto
🐙 Years of self-image issues has left him, ironically for an octopus, rather bony.
🐙 Despite this, he still maintains that Octopod Strength Floyd alludes to during Beans Day. Most of it is in grip-strength, but there have been occasions where he has been caught moving furniture in the Lounge that someone 'of his size' shouldn't be able to move.
🐙 His human form, like all merfolk who have dual-residence on land, maintain some slight mer traits. Those being:
Color pointing on ears, sometimes limbs
Unconventional ear shapes
No mammalian 'traits' (teats/bellybutton)
Non-typical pupil shapes
'Birthmarks' in place where gills typically are.
Teeth (Azul having beak plates that resemble human teeth. Please don't stare.)
Sensitivity along where gills usually are, as well as legs in general.
🐙 He sometimes has to rely on his cane/magical focus on days the barometric pressure fucks with his joints. Most merfolk experience leg/hip pain when first coming on land, sometimes it lingers no matter how long they stay up here.
🐙 His poor vision and super-tasting are possibly connected as a side-effect of the Human Potion. As octopi can taste/sense with their tentacles, eyesight is not as much a priority, and glasses can make up for it, so all the extra sensitivity goes to that purple tongue of his.
🐙 The Human Potion locks the chromatophores in his skin to a particular shade, so when it begins to wear off/come time to take more, his skin will shift in color based on strong emotions (bright red=angry, dull gray=sad, purple=blushing, etc.)
Floyd Leech
🦈 (A lot of the size/shape difference I'm leaning into is def inspired by Julymarte's post)
🦈 both he and Jade have a set of pharyngeal jaws.
🦈 in lieu of glasses, he wears contacts (morays have shit for eyesight)
🦈 has a small pack of colors of insta-dry nail polish. It gives him something to pick at during the day but it looks nice first thing in the morning?
🦈 speaking of nails, he has to square off his nails, well, Claws on the reg because they want to grow out and point. It's gotten somebody slashed in the past because he's so handsy.
🦈 Coupled with his theorized growth spurt, his mer-to-man transition leaves him with achy muscles some days. Stretching seems to help a bit.
Jade Leech
🐬 Along with the above's differences, his hair has a finer texture compared to Floyd's courser hair.
🐬 Has some DAMN FINE calves from all the hiking. Hiking has also given him scary good grip strength. Moreso than Floyd 👀
🐬 Alternates between Contacts and glasses. Glasses are more reserved for 'after hours/weekends'.
🐬 Ties his work/school shoes really tight, and has debated about whether to also start wearing hiking boots like Rook, but it ruins the ✨Aesthetic✨
Albert Eastwind
🌂 2 yrs on T, (trans masc)
🌂 was already somewhat tall for his age, but is probably done growing at 5'9"
🌂 Being on T has caused a bit of weight gain, but he's curbed it with weightlifting. Most of his strength now is in his arms/shoulders
🌂 Has maintained quite a bit of dexterity from early years of gymnastics. He sometimes uses the (unoccupied) graves behind Pentergeist to practice vaulting.
🌂 Sometimes gets anxiety shivers, but doesn't know that's what it is.
🌂 From The Crash, his shoulder had been dislocated by the seat belt, and now his right shoulder clicks at certain angles. He has told nobody.
🌂 Has not been to physical therapy after, so he gets immense relief in his back from Floyd's 'squeezings'.
🌂 Stated above, he gets awful sleep, which is why he wakes up before anyone else. Suffers from nightmares every night to the point he's developed hypnophobia-extending to almost all forms of being unconscious.
#twisted wonderland#twst oc#floyd leech#albert eastwind#jade leech#azul ashengrotto#body types#twst headcanons
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🎁 I come bearing gift ideas 🎁
- Thomas strikes me as one of those people who has a wishlist of games he’s been meaning to play but hasn’t gotten around to actually buying for himself, and he just keeps adding to it so some of those games have been on that list for years and he’s pretty much forgotten about them being on it at all. So somebody giving him anything on that list would be a pleasant surprise (source: I am one of those people, my friends have done this multiple times)
- Edward seems like the type who’d appreciate something homemade or handcrafted, no matter what it is or how it looks. He’d treasure it because it was made with love and it’s from someone he cares about.
- Henry might appreciate some new gardening tools, like a new trowel or a set of good gardening gloves. Another idea for him is a bulb for an amaryllis, a large lily-like flower that grows well indoors during winter. They’re gorgeous when they bloom, and I’m sure he’d love to help it grow!
- Gordon… is tricky. He seems like the sort to say he doesn’t want/need anything, but you know he’d feel hurt if he didn’t get something meaningful. Personally, I have a headcanon that he really likes butterscotch candy, but that’s not something he goes around telling people. After all, he’s an engine, engines don’t need food, it isn’t proper… but he can’t help popping one in his mouth when he needs a pick-me-up and thinks no one he knows is around to notice. And if a certain someone did notice, well…
- James would probably like things he can use to spoil himself. A specific shade of nail polish from his favorite brand, a warm blanket he can wrap himself in, a pair of nice slippers to wear around the house, things like that.
- Percy is someone I headcanon as being really into Lego. Like, he’s got completed builds set up all over his room and is always on the lookout for a new challenging set to build in his spare time. Can’t go wrong with a cool Lego set for Percy.
- Emily is another tricky one, because she seems like the kind of person who just goes out and gets most of the things she wants herself, just in general. So a good gift for her might be an experience rather than an object; a gift certificate to a new local restaurant, tickets to a concert, vouchers for a spa day, something like that. She’d probably love it even more if it were something she could do with the person who gave her the gift in the first place.
🎁 I put way too much thought into this okay bye 🎁
Oh my gosh, I LOVE these! I don’t know, anon, if you’ve read my fic but I totally made Thomas a video game nerd (also like me) and the idea of getting him a game off his wishlist is BRILLIANT! Like he has a Switch and I’m sure his wishlist is humongous!
Edward is definitely a homemade gift guy, I’m taking that and running with it.
I know nothing about flowers, I could kill a cactus I’m such a bad green thumb. The bulb sounds like something his special someone would know.
OK OK you totally read my mind about Gordon and sweets so I’m gonna run with that one too 😂 but I also think he’d totally tear up with a homemade gift right? Cause he’s all prideful and a bit vain but like actual affection crumbles all the walls. Like he has a lot of good self-esteem but when others genuinely compliment him or make something for him he gets super emotional, but tries to hide it. Oh my gosh, thank you for this brain storming session!
James with like a Minky Couture blanket is now engraved in my mind. That luxury blanket in like a moulin rouge red, oh my Lady I’m living for it.
Percy is totally a LEGO guy! How have I not seen it?? Now I have to find a series to go with it. Like he has to have an entire collection whether it’s Lego City, Star Wars, Harry Potter, LotR, YES!!
Emily having a gift card and a ticket to experience something is also an amazing idea anon, I may need you for future advice because you are brilliant! It is my personal headcanon that Emily loves books. She’s basically Belle from Beauty and the Beast. So, maybe tickets to the theatre? I feel like that would like brighten her world.
Thanks for brainstorming with me anon, this has been amazing! I’m going to start working on it right away but I always welcome more! ♥️💙💜💛💚
#ttte#ttte fanfic#ttte gordon#ttte edward#ttte james#ttte henry#ttte humanized#ttte emily#ttte thomas#ttte percy
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Ratings + Insights on the Kaiju Paradise gootraxian redesigns
So the 3.1R update came out and gave me a bunch of furries to brainrot about. And as an enjoyer of Furry Character Design myself, I felt like reviewing most if not all of them.
Know that these are all personal opinions and art is, as always, subjective and disagreeing is okay!
anyways....
KAIJU
Originally a pretty good design. Average "gozilla-esque" look, the redesign is essentially a polishing so it fits more with the newer gootraxians. Looks cute, looks cool, still looks iconic. 10/10
CATTE
Once again, just a polishing of the original design, I like the whiskers, they're cute! Though I'm not sure if I'm a big fan of the washed out colors, and the bucket standing straight on their head. The one ear sticking out was cute. 8/10
FED
A design polish. Which is the treatment that the whole Wolf Quartet as I like to call them got. Well at least now I know that they're wolves. Still a pretty plain design, though the eyes look cool. 5/10
FIG
Can't get more "just a polish" than that. Fig is a pretty anecdotal gootraxian in itself... The texturing of the fur is a nice addition. 10/10
GHOSTFOX
At first I thought it didn't really need the polishing treatment. Until I got another look at its render and yeah, lol. Their face looks weirdly elongated, and the tails have become wispy, likely to emphasize the 'ghostly' look. Though I very much preferred the old fuzzy tails that emphasized the death by electrocution. But I guess it's one or the other.... 6/10
GLUBBY
Formerly known as Feizao, as it's more of a replacement than a redesign (because I'm including them too. Why not?)
Aside from the obvious design having to derive completely from the original, I feel like Glubby is cute and interesting! But it is dragged back completely by how poorly it translates to the 3D roblox models, making it look.... ugly. Unfortunately. 5/10
HAZZY
A really good redesign, holy shit!! I used to really dislike Hazzy because of how plain it looked and it was a pain to unlock it. But the buff not only made it grow on me a bit, the redesign made it actually top tier to me haha...
The hazmat suit patterns, stitches, fucked up and evil attitude are all incredible additions. 11/10
TOXIC RABBIT
A gootraxian that was in dire, dire need of a redesign holy shit lmao. Well it certainly looks more like a rabbit now, but once again, why the desaturated colors...? There's also not much of the evil gremlin energy is used to have. 5/10
SPRINKLEKIT
I started playing Kaiju Paradise, honestly, kind of late... So I didn't exactly experience Conekat firsthand. What I can say from what I see.... Sprinklekit is so much more superior, sorry Conekat fans.
Though I've heard Conekat could merge and have 3 heads so... points goes to them. I do like the sprinklekit variants though, strawberry is my favorite. 10/10
SLIMEPUP
Ah yes, the slimepup. Simple but effective and cute design, the lime color is actually my favorite! The floppy ears definitely makes it look more like a pup. Its artwork is reeally cute! buuuuuut, the design really doesn't translate well to roblox models, unfortunately.... 6/10
SLIMEHOUND
The slimehound looked super cool in artwork.
3D model had me disgusted.
2/10
SHORK
A very plain design that desperately needed an upgrade. And that is a good upgrade indeed! It's still shork, but at least it's not... boring. 10/10
SHADE
Another one of the wolf quartet. Shade is a little cooler than Fed to me. Its redesign is pretty good, it has its own color coding now! Congrats on losing your achromatic palette, Shade! 10/10
PLANTIX
Just a polish, and a very straightforward one too. The new tail looks really cute, I could play as plantix just to look at the flowers on it. 10/10
MOCHA
Mochi is. Very forgettable to my eyes, sorry Mochi fans...
The redesign makes it look more goat-like, I like goats. Oh, and the fur pattern resembling latte art is a really neat touch. Now I know it's a coffee dragon! Mochi/Mocha is boring to me, but it's undeniably a good design. 10/10
LEMONSHORK
Congrats on her transition!
More seriously, I think all the shorks have had the best redesigns haha. I always liked lemonshork design-wise, but the redesign actually looks like it smells and tastes like lemon. True advertising! 11/10
MANIC
Carneline was... my favorite gootraxian among them all. Its design was cute, effective and unique, its color palette was really good and balanced. I understood it being cut from the game so I wanted to welcome Manic with open arms.
But the design just... didn't translate well. It's also so... Monochromatic, so much redder. And the eyes have a busy design. The cyan sclera with fuschia irises is a simplistic yet perfect design. The purple fur contrasting with the red crystals was real neat too.
Manic doesn't look bad, it's just... not as good as Carneline.
....At least Manic's hot in its concept artwork... 2/10
DAGODA
Just like with Glubby, gotta push the drama aside. I really like raptors so there's bias there... People think Dagoda's ugly, I personally really like it! It's no Fashui (one of my old favorites), but it's no big downgrade either.
Although I wish it at least had a few glowing features, given it's a power outage/blackout gootraxian, and that's what made them special. The little lightbulb tail on Fashui is what made it cute...
7/10
MELONSHORK
Okay, I said all the shorks had the best redesigns... BUT.
Melon shork has... the opposite problem of toxic rabbit!
Why are the colors so saturated??? It looks closer to an actual watermelon, but it just looks... not that great. The pastel colors were much nicer. Maybe some thicker, more abundant stripes would make it more melon-y? I don't know...
4/10
PSEUDOSHORK
Now THAT is a redesign I fell in love with instant-fucking-ly. This might actually be the best redesign, if not just my favorite!
From a plain pink shork to this absolute murder gremlin, who bleeds gatorade and laughs at death. The asymmetrical fangs are a really cool touch too.
Top tier/10 Would make this my fursona.
HEBI
Okay, I respect Carneline and Panther's creator to have stepped down and dissociated from the whole concept but daaaamn why were those designs so good...
Panther was peak, unfiltered edginess that was still somehow cool.
And just like with Manic, my issue is the eyes... Hebi doesn't look like a shadow-lurking predator, but more like... a goth clown. Don't get me wrong, it's a really good design on its own! But compare it to Panther?... Man, I miss being edgy.
5/10
BUCK
Why is it red?
Why did they make it red?
It's a blackout gootraxian, not power outage. Why is it fucking red?
??/10
JAMMER
Ooooh the blackout wolves... They have been done dirty. The new patterns and fur colors look nice but Jammer looks too... silly. Too cute... I miss the cool attitude it had! And the outline glow really doesn't look nice either. It feels out of place, it doesn't feel like the Jammer is actually glowing!
no VIP variant can salvage this.
0/10
NIGHTSHADE
I don't have much to say about this. It's just like Jammer. The blackout wolves were done dirty. At least Nightshade kept its original vibe. 2/10
NUCLEAR RABBIT
Absolutely nasty. And I mean it as a compliment. That rabbit will give me every disease and call me a slur. 10/10
SINOX
I didn't have a big opinion on Sinox until I actually saw it in a blackout ingame. And thought "omg it's fucking gorgeous!"
The back is super sparkly, on top of the particles it sheds. Sinox has been given so much more personality, and really went all the way with its concept! That being... a glowstick in a rave. 11/10
WISP
Same creator as Carneline and Panther, and somehow the original design is so.... bland and uninspired. How? That shork doesn't feel very "lantern" to me. On top of looking quite plain.
Wisp brings justice to that idea. This shork is indeed lantern!! Also I really dig the bones. Is it see-through flesh? Is it just not there? Who knows! This design bangs
10/10
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capeIIa
nine, 10, 11, twenty-nine, 32, 34, 35
thank you dear!! these were some very fun questions to answer for this bastard // super detailed questions about your OCs
9. Do animals like them? Do they get on well with animals?
capella gets on well with their horse pyrrha! most other animals don't because i do feel like animals in general probably don't love the vibes hunters have in general, but pyrrha is a stubborn asshole of her own, so she and capella get along perfectly. privately, they wish dogs liked them more
10. Do they like children? Do children like them? Do they have or want any children? What would they be like as a parent? Or as a godparent/babysitter/ect?
oh g-d, no. they don't want anything to do with most children, and don't want any of their own. they're a half-decent babysitter if the kid is independent, but you're only gonna ask capella to babysit for you as an absolute last resort. that said, an aggressive kid who doesn't know any other way to interact with the world than screaming and biting and kicking? they can handle that, surprisingly enough
the rest goes under the cut!
11. Do they have any special diet requirements? Are they a vegetarian? Vegan? Have any allergies?
in the spirit of actually being able to eat, capella will not restrict themselves from any food that isn't mouldy. generally they aren't crazy about sweet tastes, and they don't accept food from people they don't know most of the time, but other than that they'll eat anything
29. What do they do when they find out someone else’s fear? Do they tease them? Or get very over protective?
it definitely depends on how they feel about you. if they genuinely hate your guts? sure, they'll use this knowledge for evil to try to get you to fuck off. but if there's any loyalty between you, capella will actually go out of their way to keep you safe from it. without ever acknowledging that's what they're doing, of course
32. What do they dress like? What sorta shops do they buy clothes from? Do they wear the fashion that they like? What do they wear to sleep? Do they wear makeup? What’s their hair like?
if they actually have the means, capella does honestly like to dress nicely. blacks, whites, and reds, waistcoats and walking skirts, and subtle but nice jewelry. in their tnp reality, though, they're wearing layers of wools, leathers, and furs to stay warm, and wearing their clothes until they fall apart. they prefer nightshirts to sleep, but generally this means stripping down to their lowest layer of clothing
if they wear makeup, it's in dark shades or dark reds. they're taking notes based on noel's white lower lid eyeliner, they might like to try that someday with red. their hair, meanwhile, is the sort of straight-wavy that could be curly if they knew how to take care of curly hair but shows that they clearly don't know
34. What is their body type? How tall are they? Do they like their body?
capella is all of 5'2" if they don't slouch, with a fat-buff barrel-shaped body, thick thighs, and lots of body hair. in tnp they've also taken some potion of trans your gender and sport some breasts that have just started to take the shape of such
they absolutely adore their body, and are well aware that they look good. this body has kept them alive all this time, and has been with them through thick and thin, all across the country and beyond. no scars, hair, or flab is going to change that, alhough vel rot might...
35. What’s their guilty pleasure? What is their totally unguilty pleasure?
all of capella's pleasures are unguilty, because they absolutely do not give a shit about shame. their totally unguilty pleasure, then, is their smoking habit. they have a really nice carved wooden pipe that they actually periodically buy oil and polish to take proper care of, and while sometimes that means they get in fights with lea over what their few funds go toward and that means sometimes they don't buy the good tobacco, they refuse to let their pipe go neglected
#these were some Very fun questions and i had a lot of fun#nothing is going to get this asshole down except death itself i think lmao#also yeah this is primarily tnp-verse capella ftr#they can afford to dress nice in wts-verse lol#grapecasechoices#grapecase tag#oc: capella#asks#asks: capella
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Hey! For the Top Five ask game: candle scents, shades of blue, and colors to paint your bedroom. :)
hey! Thanks for the ask! None of these are in any particular order :)
Top five candle scents:
Hmmm, I’m not big in candles, but I am big on hand sanitizer and scents in general, so I’m gonna assume bath and body works has a candle version of all these.
Frosted coconut snowball. Not a big coconut fan, but I really like this one. It’s so nice and sweet.
Sunshine And Lemons. Love me some lemon scents. Yes girl overwhelm my senses.
Blueberry bourbon. It’s a nice light scent.
Fresh Balsam: smells exactly like a Christmas tree. Super strong, overpowers all the smells I don’t like, always goes on sale, is super recognizable, ect ect. The old faithful of scents.
Toasted Vanilla Chai. What can I say, who doesn’t like vanilla scents?
Top five shades of blue:
Baby blue has a special place for me.
You know in a nature documentary based on the Arctic where the camera goes underwater and the sun is shining through the ice bergs? Yeah, the dark blue of that water.
Following the same idea as above, the spot where the sun is coming through the water? That blue.
A nice aquamarine. I’m talking the stone, all nice and polished, it’s a great solid blue.
Navy/midnight blue. That really dark vibrant blue, the sky in the night, is so nice to me.
Top five colors to paint your bedroom:
Mmmm you know I’m always down for pink. I think all of my bedrooms have had some sort of pink in them.
Yellow. Underrated. I had one room that was pink and yellow, like pink lemonade. I loved it. Yellow is an amazing color and is so pretty on walls.
Blue. An oldie but a goodie, you can’t go wrong with baby blue.
Orange. I just really like the color orange.
I think a nice light purple/lavender is always good. The color reminds me of my grandmother and looks great in the sun.
Also, not to be a sad beige child in a sad beige room, but I like tan/brown. Pair it with any of these, and it’s a whole vibe.
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painting their nails
genre: fluff
word count: 1k
requested? yes
pairing: enhypen x reader
note: i’ve had this on my mind for so long and now it’s the perfect time to write it i love it here
♡ — LEE HEESEUNG
hed be silently watching you paint your nails and hed probably think back to txt having their nails painted during puma era and he thought why not
so he kinda like slinelty goes up to you and stares up at you with big eyes and goes
“pls paint my nails for me”
OGNWIFIAODOSK you combusted right there and then
yOUR MF BOYFRIEND ASKING YOU TO PAINT HIS NAILS ??? yes pls.
you stop painting yours in an instant and bring out all the colours already asking and teaching him about everything 🙄✋
i can see him wearing pink polish idk why but i can and i’m here for it
SHOWS HIS PRETTY NAILS OFF TO EVERYONE LIKE HE SHOULD
rest of the boys under the cut !
♡ — JAY PARK
omg he for a FACT chooses black
black and that’s it
don’t even bother asking him to try other colours he just sticks to black and that’s it
but it’s good enough that hes letting you paint his nails and willingly too !! yes king break that toxic masculinity
hes the type of boyfriend to let you test new colours and products on him but doesn’t let you do it when you’re going out or sumn
but tbh he probably is mesmerised at how well you paint his nails and just after you’re finished with one coat he picks his hand up and just observes it and hes like woah
finds it super cool and loves how the black matches with everything he wears
AND WHEN THE POLISH STARTS TO PICK OFF HE LOVES IT EVEN MORE
♡ — JAKE SIM
mans has been asking you for ages and you’ve complied ever since the first “can you pls paint-“
like yes bb i got you what colour
you probably do a whole manicure on him tbh
give his hands some of that love
GIVES ME ORANGE VIBES !!!! ORANGE !!!
probably picks like the prettiest shades and he needs you to teach him how to do it so he can then paint your nails for you in return >:((
he loves doing this with you
great quality time together
and an excuse to hold your hand ;)
he definitely shows his nails off to everyone and is like “YEAH MY S/O DID THIS AND I DID THEIRS BC WERE THE COOLEST COUPLE HERE AND WHAT ABOUT IT.”
gets so sad when the polish starts to chip off :(
♡ — PARK SUNGHOON
i swear i remember someone saying he takes good care of his nails
so hed probably be like hmm alright
at first hed only be like “i’ll have a manicure 🙄✋ with only a clear coat pls” and then after a while of getting used to it mans starts to get more bold with the colours
the most colourful hes ever done tho was one baby blue nail on each hand and the rest was clear
he denies it but it was definitely his favourite “design” of all time
he liked having the simplicity of it being clean and sharp with the single blue and rest being clear
probably doesn’t try to do yours bc a) it’s a lot of effort and b) doesn’t wanna accidentally hurt you or your nails 💀
♡ — KIM SUNOO
HES THE ONE DOING YOUR NAILS FOR YOU
LMAOO
if it’s the other way round he WILL be annoying about the way you paint them and omg..
if he ever sees the tiniest part of nail polish on his skin or outside of his nail...
he will tease you relentlessly making sure you’re fully aware of how hes sm better at painting nails than you’ll ever be
likes to go with very simple colours
either super pastel or maybe black
but i also see him choosing the more neutral colours like beige and brown
hed love to have matching designs with you !!
flowers on his ring finger and then hearts on your ring finger :((
tbh he definitely paints nails better than you do so just leave the job to him ✋
♡ — YANG JUNGWON
HES SO BASHFUL AND CUTE ABOUT IT
he doesn’t fully paint his nails but instead sticks to the designs?? if that makes sense
youll paint colourful lines or stars or whatever on his nails and make sure to put a nice top coat over it to seal it all in 😌
if he ever does paint his nails fully it’s probably just gonna be black and hes purposely gonna pick away at it so it looks more bad boy-ish 😎
when he wears black nail polish it’s only for special occasions because it makes him feel super cool and awesome and as if he’s in charge of the whole world
and he is. hes just not fully aware-
but yeah he mainly sticks to the cute small designs
his favourite is dark blue lines that form waves !!
♡ — NISHIMURA RIKI
same as jungwon
barely asks you to paint his nails fully but instead has like designs
but instead of stars or lines or whatever
he ALWAYS has those super simple flowers which are literally just a few dots or like a single skull head in the centre of his nails
99% of the time you’ll catch him with the flowers tho bc omg he LOVES them so much
especially if the inside part of his flowers matches with the petals of yours and vice versa-
i feel like he likes having very very minor matching couple things so these tiny almost insignificant flowers on both of your nails in corresponding colours are a perfect thing
every time he holds your hand he inspects the pretty colours and smiles :D
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The 5 best and worst dressed islanders in S2
To begin, these are all just my opinions.
Starting off with a spicey take, I think Bobby’s the fifth most poorly dressed islander. I say all of that tentatively because the individual pieces are good, I just think the pairings should’ve been better.
I like the shape of his clothes- the unbuttoned short sleeve patterned shirt is really hot right now, the short shorts for his swimsuit, patterned blazer- but I think a lot of the colors and pairings don’t look great. His iconic button up shirt is fine, but the pastel pants, purple shorts, and hawaiian blazer could look better with different colors.
The styling on the statement pieces could be better too. I wish he had a buttoned shirt underneath the hawaiian print blazer. I wish his swim trunks were patterned. I wish they had paired the unbuttoned shirt with some cigarette pants.
He’s got the idea, but lacks the polish that some of the other male islanders have. Even Felix’s outfits seem to match better and have more cohesion.
But his kilt outfits goes off though. For his kilt and his button up short sleeve, I’ll put him head of the rest of them.
My issues with Elisa’s outfits are much the same as Bobby’s- she has some unique ideas but I don’t like how the execution ended up.
I like her in the y2k silhouette- low rise swimsuits and pants, halter tops, and empire waist belts. But the fringe is a weird element, and it mixes a lot of modern stuff like the athletic straps and chains with those elements.
As I’ve said before I think Elisa would be more of a silver and rich jewel tones kind of girl.
Her sleepwear is... Tragic. I like the high waist with hip cut outs as an idea, but the top looks bad with it. The way the two athletic straps cut her body and the top looks to big... Not a fan. It’d be cute with a long/baggy shirt.
Clothing made out of chains is super in right now- but the belt on the outside of the chains is Not It (TM) and the chains should be bigger (because as it is I can’t tell if it’s thread/fabric or proper metal chain).
I get that Henrik has a cohesive theme of granola, but that doesn’t make it not bad
I hate both of his tunic-style shirts. They’re too long and they don’t look good with his pants. Just crop them.
Wearing a carabiner on your pants? In the villa? Jail.
Those shoes are INEXCUSABLE you are not a 58 year old lesbian going kayaking stop it.
This isn’t super suprising, but ugh I hate Blake’s styling.
The metallic fabric of her dress reminds me of that metallic stretch fabric that was really popular in the 2010s? Like the stuff that every other skirt in Forever 21 was made of? And the shape of it is super dated as well
WHO THOUGHT THOSE BUCKLES WERE A CUTE IDEA
In general, the shoes and buckles and design really give me 2012 Seventeen Magazine vibes
46 year old accountant motherfucker. I know he only has to wear vests and khakis to work, but this is his idea of what looks nice?
THE SHOESSSSS. WHAT ARE THOSSEEEEEEEEE?!?!!
The button up shirt isn’t bad but why that shade. Why the nastiest, dingiest shade possible.
None!!! Of his jackets!! Match his pants!!!! They’re not the same shade where it’s a full suit and they’re not complimentary colors they just look bad together.
There’s something to be said for different blazer styles (I love Elijah’s double breasted jackets, you don’t see that very often) but ugh I hate Carl’s. The pockets are too big, there’s too many auxiliary buttons, it just looks like an old man’s suit jacket.
All of his pants are belted and I hate the belts. I hate the belts they chose so much.
BEST DRESSED
I didn't finish making this post, but it was going to be
5. Rahim. He and Noah are tied for this position but Rahim gets it because Noah's casual denim jacket with nothing underneath is a miss. But they both have really nicely paired evening wear, swim trunks that suit them, and a defined identity within their wardrobe.
4. Arjun- his clothes are so well matched, he plays around with colors that all look stunning on him, he has a clear identity, and his wardrobe is a bit more unique than the other boys. Felix could be here with his florals, but that sleeveless hoodie is a crime. Elijah could also be here, I love his pairing a suit jacket and shorts and also his double breasted jackets, but I feel like the colors/fabrics clash.
3. Hope- she and Marisol both have really distinct, curated looks. I was leaning towards Marisol, but she kind of does the same thing over and over again- plain fabric in black or white with classic cuts. Hope is more creative, she has a clear theme and style but uses different patterns and all of her clothing creates different silhouettes. My only complaint with Hope's look is that she doesn't really have an identifiable color motif, but I love it anyways because the animal print is tasteful and distinct. Her prom dress is my favorite outfit in the show.
2. Lottie. Obviously. She has the most different outfits out of anyone, they all match her very distinct aesthetic but are different from each other enough to be interesting. Her prom dress is to die for.
1. KASSAM. The perfect balance of having a unique style but finding pieces that bridged the style and what would be typically worn on a reality show. I'm willing to bet Kassam has crazier looks but the looks he chose look polished, have a clear identity, are well paired, and have awesome finishings that make him and his clothes fun to look at.
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Spirit Bright and Beautiful
Written for @starkbucksbingo and this means a bingo for me! See below the cut for bingo details
Also on ao3 here
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He has a safe house.
Of sorts.
Not really a safe house. It’s an office space under construction, abandoned when the project ran out of money. Still, it’s safe and the important part is that it has a view of the tower and so James can see the Avengers when they’re coming and going. He can watch what they’re doing—not when they’re in the tower itself because the windows are tinted—but he can see when they leave and where they’re going. He never follows them, not with the Black Widow and the SHIELD agent on the team. But they don’t usually go far unless it’s a special event or a mission and if it’s a mission, James wouldn’t want to follow them anyway and if it’s a special event, he can usually watch it on the shitty TV he stole out of someone’s garbage.
James prides himself on being impossible to sneak up on. HYDRA’s training was good for that at least. So he hears the light steps coming up the stairs. He hears and he tenses because he doesn’t recognize those footsteps. He doubts it’s HYDRA—they’re usually heavier—and he doesn’t think it’s the Black Widow because he thinks he could count himself lucky if he actually heard her coming and she’s out on a mission right now anyway so that means it’s someone else.
Someone, who is apparently huffing and complaining about damn super soldiers who could do this without even breathing hard and—
A face with fluffy brown hair, big and warm eyes, and the most ridiculous beard James thinks he’s ever seen pokes its head around the corner.
“Freezer Pop?” the face asks and James suddenly recognizes it as belonging to Tony Stark, Iron Man, one of HYDRA’s do-not-engages long before he became a superhero. “Bucky Bear, you in here?”
He shouldn’t give away his position so easily. Then again, Stark is a friend of Steve’s and he remembers Steve. He’s not sure if he’s ready to see Steve again but he at least knows he’s a friend.
“What’s a freezer pop?” he asks, voice rusty from disuse. He emerges from behind one of the plastic sheets, flicking the switchblade he’d been holding closed. He doesn’t use guns anymore, can’t stand the sight of the things, and it’s not like he can’t defend himself with just a knife anyway.
Stark’s eyes dart to the knife, skitter away to take in the sight of the construction. “It’s a snack,” he begins and then stops, biting his lip to stop himself from saying anything else. James can’t help but wonder what he’d been planning on saying. “Is this where you’ve been staying? Cause I’ll be honest with you, this is…not great.”
James huffs out a laugh. “Better than the street,” he says and doesn’t say that he’s been on the street before.
Stark seems to hear it anyway though if the way his mouth twists is any indication. “It’s not like you’ve only got two options here,” he points out. “You could—”
“I don’t want to,” James interrupts, already feeling the panic creeping up on him. “I don’t—I could hurt—and Steve—”
He almost doesn’t see Stark move and his hand twitches for his knife before Stark stops only a few feet away from. The panic comes on fast and heavy then, overwhelming him. When did he sit down? When did he scramble backward from Stark sitting as well? When did—he tucks his head between his knees, screaming to drown out the static in his head.
He doesn’t know how long it takes him to become James again but when he raises his head again, he thinks the light has shifted. Stark is still sitting there though, still a few feet away, silently tapping on a tablet. He looks up when James uncurls from his ball, putting the tablet down beside him.
“Hey, I’m sorry,” Stark says quietly. “I know I can be an asshole but I really didn’t mean to upset you.”
“I didn’t think you did,” he rasps.
“I know you’re not ready. And I don’t really blame you. But Steve and the Murder Twins are out on a mission for the next two months and Sam is still in D.C. and Bruce and Thor are at their love nest in Greece that they think I don’t know about.” He rolls his eyes and the corner of James’ mouth twitches in a smile. “I’m just worried about you.”
And that—that’s just—“No one asked you to worry about me,” he points out.
Stark nods. “I know. But you can’t stop me from doing it anyway so here, I wanted to give you this.” He slides the tablet across the floor, stopping only when it taps against James’ foot.
He picks it up slowly, reminding himself that Stark wouldn’t kill him, not with a tablet leastways. “What is it?”
“Videos, mostly,” Stark says with a deceptively casual shrug.
“Of what?”
“The team. J says you’ve been watching us for a while and he’s pretty sure that you’re looking to see if it’s safe to come in, which I doubt you can figure out from watching the outside so I brought you this so you can watch the inside too.” He frowns. “That came out wrong. Look, I’m scared of Natasha too so I don’t blame you so I just thought maybe you’d like video of her throwing cereal at Clint because he drank all the milk.”
He unfolds his legs and stands up. “I’ll leave you to it. Just to warn you though, I’m coming back tomorrow with dinner. Gotta do something while I’m benched.” He taps his side like James is supposed to know what that means and then disappears before James can ask him either about his ribs or about the mysterious J.
~
True to his word, Stark is back the next day with something in a large paper bag that smells so good it makes James’ mouth water. He’s been eating mostly day-old sandwiches from the sandwich shop next to the office building he’s staying in and frankly, he’s tired of it but he’s not willing to go any further than right next door.
“You watched any of it?” Stark asks him, tossing the bag into his lap.
James fishes out two containers of what looks like spaghetti and a smaller bag of breadsticks. He sticks one of the breadsticks in his mouth so that he can avoid saying something when he nods.
Stark gives him an amused looks and then waits for him to finish swallowing before saying, “What did you think?”
…He doesn’t know what to say to that.
He’s been watching and he’s seen what Stark had talked about with the Black Widow throwing cereal at Barton. And he’s seen Dr. Banner trip over the god’s hammer and not even turn a shade before yelling at him about leaving his things in the halls. And he’s even seen Stark and Steve cheerfully bickering with each other—and that’s barely even a fraction of the videos on the tablet he’d been given.
He sees all of this but it doesn’t really make sense in his mind at the moment. Where are the fights? The arguments? The full-on hatred that expresses itself in sneers and glares?
“It’s fine,” he mutters. “Looks nice.”
Stark frowns but he doesn’t press the issue. For that, James is grateful. He still doesn’t have all of his memories back but he’s pretty sure that if it were Steve standing here in front of him, he’d be a lot pushier about this. Stark, though, Stark just sits down next to him and chatters about how much it sucks that he cracked two ribs and so he can’t be on the mission with everyone else. He doesn’t mind that James doesn’t do anything but sit next to him and eat his spaghetti. He talks enough to fill the entire room on his own.
It’s kind of nice.
~
The thing is, the Avengers are apparently nothing like HYDRA. They actively seem to like and trust each other. Their playful ribbing is nothing more than silly banter. Their light touches are warm hugs and not backstabbing embraces. They have movie nights and game nights and morning yoga sessions and in between it all, they hang out together and laugh and talk and love.
The thing is, Tony is warm and cheerful and lovely. James can’t remember the last time he thought that about anything, let alone a person. But as Tony comes over every single evening with delicious food—never homecooked because he says he can’t be trusted around a kitchen—and talks about everything and nothing all at once, James finds himself relaxing more and more around him.
The thing is, Tony clearly loves the team, treats them like they’re his family. He buys them extravagant gifts and goes shopping with Natasha and helps Bruce with dinner preparations. He spends hours in front of the TV with Clint, throwing popcorn at the screen during trashy soap operas. He poses for Steve’s art and he never complains when Thor hugs him just a little too hard.
The things is—if Tony can just choose who his family is, then maybe James can too.
~
“The team comes back next week,” Tony tells him one night.
James nods slowly. He knows. He’s been keeping track of the days ever since that first night when Tony had told him they would be gone for two months. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, they should be back in five days.
“What do you think?” Tony asks. “You’ve seen the footage. You know what we’re like. You ready to come out of the cold yet?”
It’s quiet for a long time. James’ stomach growls, reminding him that even though he’d polished off the serving Tony had brought for him, he’s still hungry. He had been eyeing Tony’s food up until this question (truthfully, he’s still debating tugging it closer to him; Tony never minds) but he wants to think about this first.
Tony waits for him patiently, still doesn’t push. He loves that about him honestly. He’s thought before that he liked it but he thinks now that it might go deeper than that. His…feelings for Tony as a whole might go deeper than that. And if that’s really how he feels, then he thinks there’s not a whole lot he wouldn’t do for Tony.
“Maybe,” he says eventually, still turning the idea over in his mind. “’m still a little scared.”
Tony nods and stands, dusting his hands off on his jeans. The movement startles James, who was expecting that Tony would be there a little longer yet. Did he say something wrong? Did he make the wrong choice? Did he push Tony away finally.
But then Tony reaches out a hand, holding it out for James to take. “Come on, James darling,” Tony urges. “Come home with me.”
James doesn’t really know where home is anymore but, as he grabs Tony’s hand and lets him pull him up and guide him out of the room, he thinks it might be with Tony.
Title: Spirit Bright and Beautiful
Collaborator Name: iam93percentstardust
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26044267
Square Filled: G1 - Chosen Family
Ship/Main Pairing: Winteriron
Rating: G
Major Tags & Triggers: Panic attacks
Word Count: 2k
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Tell us about what skincare ingredients and products you love!
Okay, so I LOVE TALKING SKINCARE. This is a huge topic for me and I often write up a blog post once a year where i recommend skin care products. So here is this year’s recommendation! An insanelyyyyy long and detailed post nobody asked for!! HERE WE GO:
I am a long time skincare advocate...before it really blew up and people started really getting to know more about their products and ingredients. I’ve just always had very acne-prone skin so I’ve had to pay attention to what products and ingredients I was using and how their formulas worked for me. As a result, over the years I tried A SHIT TON of products. Many expensive, fancy, high end, etc. But now I have my skincare routine down to a much more manageable and quality ingredient list. Obviously everyone’s skin is different...but this is what I use on a regular basis these days:
Serums:
- Krave Beauty’s Great Barrier Relief Serum: Honestly, this is THE SHIT. My favorite moisturizing serum to really help balance your skins hydration barrier and stay hydrated. It’s thicker and almost feels like a moisturizer. It’s so great.
- The Ordinary’s Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1% Drops: Niacinamide is an amazing ingredient for your skin and can help a tremendous amount with clearing the skin, resurfacing, fading scars, and more. This really does a good job helping with my acne, so i really recommend to anyone. And I am pretty sure it’s like $5 cause it’s from the ordinary.
Moisturizers:
- CeraVe Moisturizing Cream: It’s a very cheap drug store moisturizer that has good, clean ingredients. After using fancy moisturizers for years, I finally gave into my dermatologist’s recommended lotion. LOL. They do have a lotion that is lighter, but my skin tends to be dryer, especially in the winter so I use the cream not the lotion. It’s thicker. (For high end junkies--it’s like comparing Drunk Elephant’s LaLa Retro to their Protini cream). I also sometimes throw in drops of a marula oil into this cream if I am really dry. Make myself a little face smoothie.
Eye/Lip Creams:
- Mario Badescu Ceramide Herbal Eye Cream: Now honestly, I still haven’t found my perfect eye cream yet...but I have used this one for a few years now. It moisturizes well and is cheap to buy. It’s probs not the most effective but at least I am moisturizing my eye area. One day I will take on more eye creams that target certain things, but that is one day when I have money to spend lmao.
-Glossier Bubblewrap Lip/Eye Cream: This is a very unique moisturizing product that is meant for sensitive skin like your eye area and lips. It does say it plumps a bit, which I don’t ever feel a plumping effect, but I do love to use it on my lips. It’s so moisturizing and is kind of like using a primer before you apply chapstick or lipstick.
Exfoliators:
- Glossier Solution: The OG chemical exfoliant I tried and loved. These types of products aren’t great for everyone, and may have to be used less or more depending on skin type, but as an acne-prone human, I love a chemical exfoliant. This works and lasts a long while.
- Krave Beauty’s Kale-Lalu_AHA: Another chemical exfoliant. I recently tried this one because I do believe Krave Beauty uses better ingredients than Glossier Skin typically does (no shade tho). They were close in price, so I made the switch and have enjoyed the results so far. The packaging is also beautiful.
- Dr. Brant Microdermabrasion Exfoliant: This is NOT a chemical peel, this has aluminum oxyde crystals in it to polish the skin like a normal exfoliant would. It also has a lot of ingredients that help renew and refresh the skin while exfoliating. Now this product is HELLA expensive...I only have it because I once bought it for way cheaper when I had a subscription box. I don’t know if I would spend the full $80 bucks on it, but your skin does feel smooth.
- Tatcha The Deep Polish: This is an enzyme powder that you mix with water and exfoliate fro there. It is from when I used to buy the highest end products in hopes it would help my skin. It is pricey, but again does leave your skin feeling soft. So I rotate it in from time to time.
Masks:
- The Ordinary’s AHA 30% BHA 2% Peeling Solution: AKA THE BLOOD MASK. Now hugely popular on social media, the “blood mask” is a chemical mask that peels off dead skin and essentially works to eliminate the top layers of your skin and begin rejuvenating a fresher layer for softer, healthier, plumper skin. I do this once a week and it is way cheap. I can compare it to Drunk Elephant’s Sukari Babyfacial and it definitely beats that expensive version.
- Glow Recipe’s Avocado Melt Sleeping Mask: This is an overnight moisturizing mask that you simply wash off in the morning. It really helps lock in moisture and feels nice on the skin. I use this when I am feeling really dry.
- Aztec Secret Indian Healing Clay Mask: This one you have to mix the dry clay mixture with water and apple cider vinegar to create a goo that you can then let dry on your face. It may be intense for some, but I find it really helps dry out my acne spots and reduce redness in my skin. It’s always a fun one to do with other people too because you do have to prepare it. Good sleepover activity.
- GlamGlow Bubble Sheet Mask: This one is honestly more so used for when I am traveling and want to keep a mask on hand or when I am having a fun girls night or something. It’s a bubble mask--so to me that just means fun. I typically avoid sheet masks (unless I am traveling) because I think you end up throwing a way a lot of product you are paying for. But this one is fun, it’s cute, it’s different. I don’t notice a huge change in my skin tbh, but it is a fun activity for girls night.
Honorable Mention/Random Products:
- Youth to the People’s Kale and Green Tea Superfood Cleanser: I stayed away from this one for a long time because it’s expensive and I could rationalize buying such an expensive cleanser, but I got a gift card to Sephora and finally decided to try it. And ya know what?? I guess I am fancy now because I really love it. It does not overly strip your skin at all, and for the first time in my life I really know what that means. It’s so great, it smells so good. Ugh. Can’t get enough of this bougie bitch of a face wash.
- The Inkey List Retinol Cream: A recent purchase, but I have enjoyed seeing the results. Everyone imo should be using an eye cream and a retinol. This is a nice introduction to retinol, so I recommend to those looking for one.
- Glossier Mint Balm Dot Com Chapstick: THIS AGAIN--IS THE SHIT. Many will say they would never spend more than two bucks but one tube of their’s is seven bucks and it is WORTH IT. I buy the three pack once a year and i’m good. This is the best chapstick you will literally ever use. Fucking buy it. If I could tell you only three products that are a must from this list this would be one of them. (the other two would be great barrier relief and the kale cleanser)
- Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask: I like this lip mask, it’s not needed everynight, but I do like to use a lip exfoliant (made or buy one, whatever) and then use this to really retextures my lips.
- Bag Balm: Now this is a very unusual product to recommend lmaooo. Originally, bag balm is used for chapped cow udders on farms--which is how I discovered it. Farmers eventually noticed that it helped your skin retain moisture and repair cracked skin in their hands. So now it is known as a good thick ass cream for hands and feet. Now this shit is again--used on cows originally, so the formula feels thick and greasy. I like putting it on at night and letting it soak in for a while as I lay on my phone. It really works--I swear to you.
- Sagely CBD Cream: I use their relief and recovery crea which smells like lavender and has a cooling effect when applied to the skin (kinda like biofreeze or icyhot would). This is only a 50mg CBD lotion, but I do like it.
- Mad Ritual CBD Muscle Recovery Balm: Now this is thick and definitely a balm, not a cream. It is much higher strength though, so I break it out when needed and a little goes a long way. This one is 200mg of CBD.
- Mario Badescu Drying Lotion: This drying lotion is now so popular but has been a staple of mine for at least a decade now. You leave it on over night and it really does dry up and reduce zit size. Helps a lot. There must be a reason why super models are told to use this shit before a runway show.
- Tatcha The Essence: Essences are a new and kind of weird thing, kinda like priming the skin to allow for better absorption of a product. Now this product I received as a Christmas gift one year, but I am pretty sure it’s like $100...breaking the bank as always, tatcha. Anyway, it does allow for better absorption of products and feels light and refreshing on the skin. One bottle has lasted me two years now. I don’t know if I would recommend it, but I do use it somewhat regularly and it does make you feel like a bougie bitch.
AND THAT IS THE END. Sorry that was soooo long. But like I said, I do a write up once a year of my skincare products anyway. So there you guys have it!! If you have any questions at all about your skin or skincare routine , honestly hit me up. Over the years I have slowly has friends come to me. Once I collect all of the I will have all of the infinity stones lmao.
#asks#skin care#mary's 2021 recommendations#personal#life of mary#honestly if this doesn’t get noted I swear to fucking god#lmao
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So I watched 365 Days on Netflix and boy was that a ride
But I’m gonna be controversial and say it wasn’t that bad. Can’t say I’d call it particularly “good” within the traditional sphere of film, but I’d call it not that bad
Because here’s the thing, it started as a book that was meant to be an even hornier take on 50 Shades, so it’s another fanfic book/movie with all the quality in writing that entails
But the thing that brings down stuff like 50 Shades and After is that they focus so much on the romance (because they couldn’t get theatrical releases with all that porn in it) that it comes off as “This is meant to be a desirable relationship”
365 Days got released on streaming and had waaaay fewer rules on what it could show, so they skip right over romance and make it very clear that this is nothing but a sex fantasy, and that’s why it works. No one is trying to justify what happens by saying this is in any way a good foundation for a relationship, it is the central meeting point between film and pornography and it really doesn’t try to be anything more than that. You know the “porn with plot” fanfiction tag? That’s the movie
So for anyone who doesn’t know, here’s the plot: Massimo is the son of a mafia boss and he saw a beautiful woman on the beach right before he and his father got shot. As he was having a near death experience her face was all he could think of, so he spent the next 5 years hoping to find her again. Turns out her name is Laura and she’s a Polish executive and she goes on vacation for her 29th birthday where Massimo sees her and kidnaps her, telling her he’s going to keep her for 365 days to see if she can fall in love with him in that time
And again them falling in love is mostly a sex montage and them spending his millions of dollars on fancy outfits in two different shopping montages
So writing is pretty much just there enough to string the sex scenes together
The acting is hit or miss based on what they have to work with, but Michele Morrone does his best with Massimo and I’d like to see him as an actual mob boss cause he’s good when he’s meant to be intimidating and given some room to move (he tries so hard with the three different times he has to deliver “Are you lost, baby girl?”). And the best scenes are between Anna Maria Sieklucka and Magdalena Lamparska as Laura and Olga as best friends. Like their scenes together really have the best chemistry and bring some surprising heart to the story near the end. Magdalena Lamparska is so charismatic in her few scenes and steals every scene she’s in
And honestly the cinematography was at times gorgeous, Bartek Cierlica did not have to go this hard on a porn movie. You know in Love Actually when they’re making that apparently super high budget porn film? This movie is what it looks like they were making. Shout out to directors Barbara Bialowas and Tomasz Mandes for getting the budget for multiple mansion sets and also a whole yacht when all they were gonna do was rub peoples asses just all over them. But yeah, there was some great scene composition and amazing lighting. Like there were people having sex on screen and I was distracted by how nice the shot looked and how nice the lighting was (the dark purple lighting in the lion portrait room? Bold choice and it worked)
The score wasn’t great, they didn’t put instrumental in the background like most movies and mostly just put pop songs in the back of scenes which was kinda distracting when it kept happening but the songs were fine so as long as you like them it’s not that bad
So yeah, if you accept that it’s not a romantic drama and is just an erotic fantasy put on screen, it is surprisingly ok
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A bit about Moss
Originally made by Stuck On My Shit (original here)
Personal - Basics
[Name]
Moss
[Race/Species]
Demon [] Angel [] Human [X] Other: []
[Age]
Supposedly 23
[Birthday]
May 18
[Height]
172 cm or 5′8
[Fingernail Polish Color(s)]
Navy blue
[Hair color/description]
Moss has messy white hair that goes down to the middle of their back. They often have it in some sort of ponytail or bun.
Personal - In-depth
[Gender or no | Pronoun(s)]
Nonbinary They/Them
[Sexual/Romantic Orientation or lack thereof]
Pansexual & Polyamorous
[Occupation Before Devildom Life]
They were Madame Luna’s successor doing complicated spells for people.
[Favorite Color(s)]
All shades of blue
[Personality]
MBTI: INTF
Ennagram: ???
Zodiac: Taurus
Personal - Other
[Likes]
Art, Music, Sweet foods, Anime, Jars, Bells, Incense, Candles, Frogs, Pigs
[Dislikes]
Loud noises, Crowded areas, Anything orange, Math
[Positive Traits]
Clever, (Mostly) Friendly, Forgiving, Confident
[Negative Traits]
Sarcastic, Dishonest, Impulsive, Lazy
Relationships
(I’m adding my other OCs to this)
[With Demons]
Lucifer:
Moss looks up to Lucifer and respects him but gods does he get on their nerves. Everytime he speaks Moss has to hold themself back from slapping him.
Mammon:
Moss considders Mammon their best friend. They always get up to stupid nonsense that is sure to piss Lucifer off.
Leviathan:
Leviathan is one of Moss’s favorite people. Moss adores him and would do anything to ensure his hapiness.
Satan:
Satan and Moss get along well. Satan reminds Moss of themself when they were younger.
Asmodeus:
Moss loves hanging out with Asmodeus or just being around him. They also often gossip together.
Beelzebub:
Moss and Beelzebub both have verry large apatites so they often sit and eat together. Moss thinks Beelzebub is absolutely precious and if anything bad ever happened to him they would RAISE HELL.
Belphegor:
Belphegor is always surprised how eisily Moss trusts him after what he’s done. Moss can’t blame him for killing them though and it’s not like it’s the first time they’ve died.
Diavolo:
Moss likes Diavolo and thinks his personality is quite entertaining but part of them can’t really trust him...
Barbatos:
Moss calls Barbatos “Barbra” and often talks about how annoying he is. They truly have no problem with him but it’s now an ongoing joke between the two that they hate eachother.
Layla:
Moss would die for Layla. Kill for Layla. They think she’s absolutely PERFECT and would do ANYTHING for her. Layla is very aware of this and uses it to her full advantage.
Nita:
Moss thinks Nita is hilarious with her shy tsundere aditude. Nita looks up to Moss but she would never even dream of telling them.
Noah:
Moss adores Noah and thinks of him as a younger brother. Noah still feels bad for breaking Moss’s leg once but Moss has told him he has more than made up for it by being a wonderful friend.
Rogan:
Moss calls Rogan her pretty lesbian and would die for her. Rogan loves spoining Moss and finds it funny to get all cuddly with Moss right in front of Leviathan. Moss acts oblivious to her playful advances and Levi’s jealousy.
Max:
Moss and Max get along just fine. They enjoy talking to Max when he and Satan are together in the house.
William:
Moss and Will cuddle all of the time and Will often spoiles them with presents and praise. Moss loves this and tries their best to give him gifts that are just as nice.
Pidge:
Moss saved Pidge’s life once so Pidge feels like she is forever in debt to Moss. Moss just enjoys hanging out with Pidge. Especially when she takes them out flying.
Lyle:
Moss looks up to Lyle as he is technically their older brother. Lyle is the voice of reason to combat Moss’s impulsive chaotic personality.
[With Angels]
Simeon:
Moss thinks Simeon is very kind and looks up to him but they also find him very bland.
Luke:
Moss adores Luke. They call him “My son” or “My boy” and would literally kill anybody who dares upset him. Luke looks up to Moss and hopes to one day be just like them. Moss hopes that this does not happen.
Arina:
Moss likes Arina quite a bit but they find her much too serious. Arina sees every interaction with Moss as just a business interaction (it technically is) and that really annoys Moss.
[With Humans]
Solomon:
Moss quite likes Solomon but they find his overly kind personality somewhat suspicious. They would never admit that to Solomon’s face though.
Jackie:
Moss only wants to impress Jackie and sees her as a motherly figure. Lackie would kill anybody who so much as looks at “her boy” the wrong way.
JJ:
Jeremiah looks up to Moss and refuses to call them anything but “Boss” most of the time. Moss finds this adorable but in return jokinhgly calls him “Pretty Boy”
Shank:
Moss gets on Shank’s damn nerves and Shank often tries to kill them. Moss finds this hilarious and likes to flirt with her and call her “Pretty Woman” or “Pretty Lady” just to get on her nerves. Shank secretly adores Moss and they are the only person besides JJ allowed to call her Kiana.
Madame Luna:
Moss loved Madame Luna as if she was their actual mother. They still feel guilty for killing her even though it had to be done.
[With other beings]
Indigo:
Moss and Indigo have a mutual admiration for eachother. They get along very well as their personalities are very similar.
Jay:
Moss and Jay get along just fine. Moss finds Jay quite plain and Jay finds Moss much too chaotic and obnoxious. And if Mammon’s boyfirend thinks you’re chaotic it’s probably true...
Stella:
Moss thinks Stella is rather admirable. Stella is the clever businesswoman Moss’s parents always wanted them to be.
E: E is quite important to Moss for many reasons. E finds the “tiny human” quite intriguing but she will always slightly fear Moss because of the first time they met.
Sadie:
Sadie is like a sister to Moss. Moss has literally killed for Sadie before and would gladly do it again if necessary. Sadie has been with Moss through everything and their bond is unbreakable.
Lucy:
Lucy and Moss act like they hate eachother with Moss calling Lucy “Spooky bitch” and Lucy calling Moss her “Piggy faced sibling”. But in reality they would do anything to protect eachother.
Favorite Things About the Devildom
[Favorite Job(s)]
The Royal Library
[Favorite Place(s) to Hang at]
In Levi or Asmo’s room, At Will’s house, The Planetarium, The roof of The House of Lamentation
[Favorite Food(s)]
Anything sweet
[Favorite Class Subject(s)] {You can check out this awesome list by @hyper-super-clover for ideas or be creative}
Spells, Curses & Hexes, Potions, Devildom History
[Favorite Devildom Version of Something from the Human World - Be Creative!]
Moss thinks that the rip off names they have for apps and games is hilarious. Every time Levi tells them about a game that has a name VERY similar to a game in the human world and the game is exactly the same as the human world version Moss can’t help but laugh. When Levi told them about “Devilcraft” they just laughed their ass of.
Least Favorite Things About the Devildom
[Least Favorite Job(s)]
Hell’s Kitchen
[Least Favorite Places to Go]
Any party Asmo or Mammon tries to drag them to, they also clame to get weird vibes from the Demon Lord’s Castle and refuse to spend too much time there
[Least Favorite Foods]
Anything spicy
[Disliked Class Subject(s)] {You can check out this awesome list by @hyper-super-clover for ideas or be creative}
Sacrificial Teachings, Mathematics, Sports
[Stuff that Can be Considered a Negative About the Devildom]
Moss hates how dark and cold it is. They loved it at first until they kept getting sick with their shit immune system and no sunlight.
Personality Chart
#obey me#obey me shall we date#obey me oc#obey me mc#obey me mc template#obey me mc chart#obey me template#obey me lucifer#obey me mammon#obey me leviathan#obey me satan#obey me asmodeus#obey me beelzebub#obey me belphegor#obey me diavolo#obey me barbatos#obey me luke#obey me simeon#obey me solomon#obey me barbra#mc: Moss
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Episode 8
I’m sharing my initial and unfiltered reactions per episode. Spoilers ahoy!
A more polished review will come when I’m finished the whole series ☺️
Ooh Granville is painting the Bassets
Eloise questioning Benedict
Marina saying Colin would one day see how good Pen is to him
and here comes Sir Philip!!
And George is dead 😔
And Benny is at Genevieves 🤣 so his thing with her is random but 🤷🏼♀️
Ooh actor from Harlots has turned up
And Philip is honourable 🥰😭
And she said nooo??? (The other Featheringtons as super jealous!)
What is Daff looking for... hmm
Aww the letters
Anthony - get over Siena already!
Francesca is finally bloody back! I would love to know the logic behind her absence
Oh Benedict 🤣 ‘friendship’ 😏 naked friendship 🤣
Eloise is soooo off the Mark 😂
Hyacinth being all cute with Simon
Shade from Genevieve - giving the fabrics to the Featheringtons that no one else wanted 🤣
And the baby I still on the way Marina
Ooh Eloise! Nice moment with Daff.
And one Featherington will have a happy ending!
Can’t miss Pen in that yellow...
Aww Polin!! He’s leaving 😭 (but that’s good cos he needs to grow up...) Pen 😭
Eloise tries to save the day!
Oh Sienna... she’s not a fool at all. Anthony you are lost!! Yes!! I feel kinda sorry for him... but if he really, truly loves her, he would have fought for her 💁🏼♀️
And Lord Featherington is dead
🤷🏼♀️
Not hugely shocked since he is dead in the books...
Portia seems way more bothered about the money
HEA for D and S 🥰
Peneloise 🥰🥰🥰
Off goes Marina and Sir Philip...
Oh oh oh. Who’s is inheriting the Featherington estate?!?!?!
And Anthony is ready to find a Viscountess... 🤣🤣🤣😏
And shock horror! LW is Pen!
Gee that’s a lot of people in the birthing room
And a bee 🐝
*other thoughts
I really want Violet to find more love 🥰
There is a bit too much satin in the costumes 😱
I need them to sexy up Sir Philip for his story with E 🤣
I feel the pacing needs work
Bring on Anthony’s story!
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Magical Girl Raising Project Limited - character design ranking
Captain Grace
An alright pirate design with enough little details that keep it from being forgettable (I especially like the anchor buckle on her belt, and the earrings and hooks on her hair). The spikes on the coat are what stands out most to me; makes me think of a Mario enemy or something. However I’m not sure how much of a Magical Girl design it is. Like pirates and frills already go together, so the well tested formula (put a miniskirt and frills on it and it’s a magical girl look!) doesn’t really do much. Maybe it’d be better if she had some cutesy detail in there somewhere? Also is that an tail again or what, or some kind of blunt hook? What is it with these unnecessary tails in Magipro designs. 6/10.
Funny Trick
I’ve always liked Funny Trick’s look, and it’s probably because of the pleasant colour palette, unique eyes and two-tone hair (I’m easy to please with two-tone hair). The nail polish and colourful glitter on her fur are also good little details. But apart from that I guess this is only barely strange enough to be any kind of “magical” look rather than just an anime stage magician, but at least that’s pretty close to magical girls already. Also is that a frigging tail again?? At least it goes well with the hair I guess... 8/10.
Kuru-Kuru Hime
It’s a cute design, but when I think of a ribbon magical girl I somehow expected more ribbons? Like this feels like an the higher end of an average magical girl amount of ribbons? Or maybe it’s totally over the top and my perspective is just skewed since I love ribbons and want them everywhere. Either way I like her outfit from neck down, but I’m not that into the headgear, the combo of the bonnet thingy and the weird crown just sitting on top if it looks strange to me. Nice hair tho even if it could use more ribbons. 6/10.
Weddin
I absolutely love Weddin’s design. The muted and light colour palette is very appealing to me, and the dark chains break up the mostly monochrome design so it doesn’t look dull and faded and also give the otherwise super frilly appearance quite a lot of edge. There’s repeating elements (braids in her hair and veil, the same kind of flowers everywhere, flower yellow also appearing in her eye makeup) so it doesn’t get too complicated, and all of them go well with the wedding theme too. The flame... is a bit of an odd touch and I’d rather associate it with a birthday party or Christmas than a Wedding but I guess you can have candles at weddings too, and I don’t find it too distracting.
I’m not a huge fan of the lingerie like look though, but at least visible garters go with the wedding theme and she’s so covered in veils and frills that it doesn’t look so bad. Also the back train looks kind of lazy. But overall still one of my favourite Magipro designs. 10/10.
Rain Pow
A tail again! However this time I actually like it, since she has that rainbow hoop behind her it looks good to stick something through it, and at least it somewhat resembles her twintails.
As for the rest of the design, it has zero frills and ribbons and looks more like some kind of scifi spacesuit than a typical magical girl design, but somehow I still really like it. I think the weird heart hair is just enough to pull it into magical girl territory for me so my impressions are more on the “an unique take on an mg look” rather than “not mg enough” side. Then all the rings keep the look consistent (I absolutely love the rainbow halo) and the suit itself looks alright enough. I also find it interesting how muted the suit colours are for a rainbow magical girl and even the rainbow is pretty pastel, but I figure this is a better choice than all the expected seven colours in all their eye-strainy glory. 9/10.
Postarie
Please put on some pants, that is a shirt and not a dress.
Not too interested in this one, but I find it a commendable effort on making a design on the idea of “postal delivery girl”. Still lots of repeating elements so that’s a plus, especially the back epaulette is such an absurd idea but somehow it works and its wings and the wing hairstyle add the required fantasy touch. Bonus points for the cute birds. 7/10.
Tepsekemei
An inoffensive genie design but I struggle to really have emotions towards it. Butt flower is silly and I have no idea what the things hanging from it are, but at least they’re consistent with her head decoration. Don’t care for the shoulder spikes in an otherwise soft looking design. Huge earrings and multicoloured nails are a nice touch. 6/10.
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Also one of my favourite Magipro looks. It feels like the design philosophy here was “gakuran jacket and some frills, and then some hearts. And more hearts! More! Even more!” and I think it’s a great way to go with when designing a magical girl. Using just hearts everywhere makes the outfit cohesive, but since they’re all implemented in different ways it doesn’t get boring. I especially like the little hearts on her hands and under the eye, and the one in her pocket.
Two-tone hair in twintails is also one of the best design elements out there and the hairstyle is quite memorable (and also manages to incorporate the heart motif) and I’m always a fan of caps too. The green eyes and the little bit of green nail polish which you unfortunately can’t see here go well with the otherwise reddish look. Maybe the hair looks a bit too clunky (I only just realised it appears to be tied in a hoop behind her) but I won’t let it bother me. 10/10.
Mana
A solid witch design, I especially love the dimensional cape and hat. I also like the huge collar with the lace detail, but I’m not sure if it works with the hat brim. Not a big fan of the hair, I think it clutters the design. The snake leg accessory feels weird and a bit out of place but I do appreciate the asymmetry and also having something dark to break up the otherwise plain bottom part of the design.. 7/10.
Gekokujou Hana
I tend not to be a huge fan of kimono-based clothes, but this one is an exception I guess. The great colours must play a part in it, and the bottom part is fun. Then the dangly decorations add the correct amount of strangeness so it’s not just a bunny girl in a mini kimono Also, another tail, but this time it’s almost a requirement and I love how ridiculously huge it is (and also repeats elsewhere in her outfit). But really I can’t think of anything to dislike about this, must be the colours and the tail. 10/10.
Archfiend Pam
I believe this is the record on how little clothing you can wear in this franchise... At least she has the personality to pull that off. But that is not a top! At least it’s something new...? The wings fit the description in the story, but I don’t think these blank rectangles look very aesthetically pleasing. I like the tail best, the fur edge makes it a lot more interesting than just the usual demon tail. I don’t know, if the theme is a sexy demon girl this design definitely accomplishes it in a unique way, but also I don’t care for this fanservicey designs. Also not a fan of the hair. 4/10.
Pythie Frederica
Before drawing her for the chibi series I thought she had some kind of a helmet but upon closer inspection of course it’s a veil. But what are the horns?
Upon closer inspection this one is also very fanservicey, in that her “dress” is actually see-through and the only thing covering the critical areas look like thin belt-thingies. At least she doesn’t look like she’s ten... But a major issue I have is the bottom part of her outfit, like how is it supposed to work? Is it one big piece of cloth, or multiple thin ones? What is the “fire” behind her? Is the dark part her hair, or the clothing, and is it supposed to be black or just shading? I do like the stars; otherwise the design gives a more mature “sexy” air, but the little stars everywhere adds a cute element. The colour palette is pleasing, but as much as I like multicoloured hair it doesn’t grant points this time, because the wiggly stray strands look very out of place here and the colour change makes them even more noticeable. 2/10.
Tot Pop
This one really isn’t my aesthetic, I very much prefer the cutesy style and there isn’t really anything ‘magical girl’ about this design. And it doesn’t really evoke the supposed image of ‘pop star’ to me either, like if you remove the guitar I’d think her theme was a prisoner or halloween. Though I don’t really know what a ‘pop star’ should look like anyway, like can’t they wear anything they want, I know Lady Gaga had a meat dress or something. But as of this design, I don’t think there’s anything specifically wrong with it, the colours are pleasing, the details are consistent and it’s not bland or boring either, but it just doesn’t do much for me because of the theme. I like the blood-stained hair and the spiky hair accessory, the long hanging part makes for a nice silhouette. Meanwhile the skulls on her shoulders feel somewhat tacked on, and in general I don’t care for piercings in anywhere else than ears. 5/10.
Pukin
And it’s a tail again. What is it with the stupid tacked on tails on every other design in this franchise? Sometimes it’s not so badly out of place, like if you have an youthful cutesy design, a fluffy animal tail can still add to the cute effect even if it’s otherwise out of place. But Pukin is supposed to be this dangerous and majestic authority figure and a cutesy tail very much doesn’t fit that image. And while we’re on the topic of animal features, the story describes that she has a feather decoration in her hair, but the way it’s drawn as a tiny feather jutting directly up in the middle of her head gives me more the impression of a character whose theme is a baby bird rather than a fantasy prince.
Now that we’ve dealt with the tail let’s get the biggest issue out of the way: I’m aware that there was a time in history when people used to wear these kind of giant ruffled collars but I really don’t care if there’s some kind of history based reasoning. It looks like your head is on a plate and it’s something I can’t ignore. I don’t feel even clowns can pull that off. There is no way getting around this.
When I first read Limited I thought Pukin’s appearance was an absolute mess and an instant 1/10, but upon closer inspection there is stuff I like about it too. She has a good colour palette, great shoes and gloves, and as a friend of multicoloured hair I welcome the yellow hair tips. The big heavy cape balances the small top and pants, and I really like the fur. Earrings go well with the pants too. The theme is a bit confused, or at least I don’t know of any fairy tales about pumpkin prince, but it’s not like I would complain about pineapple or cauliflower princess so that’s not really a problem. 3/10.
Sonia Bean
And we end Limited with yet another excellent design. I like how this manages to look kind of tattered and messy without actually being gross and dirty with the patchwork dress, dustball-like thingies, newspaper clippings and asymmetry. Even her hair looks disheveled. The headgear gives the design an old-fashioned vibe which suits her well since she’s so old. The light palette, soft design elements and ribbons give the look a cute feel, but at the same time she feels suspiciously pale, and the manic expression screams danger, like you can’t reason with this girl. She’s like a ghost of a Victorian era child who wants to play with you but you know you definitely should not follow her.
The design only works if I don’t think too much about it though, like dust is gross and newspaper paper is crinkly and not soft at all, but since we’re magical girls here I can ignore that and enjoy the image the clothing evokes. 10/10.
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Limited average: 6,9.
#magical girl raising project#mahou shoujo ikusei keikaku#mahoiku#my stuff#ranking#ranking: magical girl raising project
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SCOOB! Stream of Consciousness Review
Here we are folks - I finally review the originally cinematic, fully CGI animated Scooby Doo Movie (one year later... I did not queue this as I thought I had last June - damn you, Tumblr. I’m not changing much here, so enjoy as it was intended).
Created by a team who have professed their affection for this mystery team and their meddling dog too, will this be a lush experience fit to satisfy any Hanna-Barbera fan? Or will it be a hot garbage cash-grab, littered with Easter eggs and references that do nothing to hide a meatless mess of outdated memes and shallow character development?
LET’S
FIND
OUT
Below this cut is my entire stream-of-consciousness review on the SCOOB! Movie, as experienced. SPOILER warning here - I’m digging into everything, no plot points spared.
Here we go~
And we start off with a decent shot of the California coastline (looks like the kids backstory is front and center), some 90s hip-hop synthwave song about California, and OH SWEET JESUS THESE MODELS LOOK TERRIBLE
Ahem
Yeah, this is a problem right off the bat - some of these people in the opening shots look remarkably unfinished - think three shades above “Rapsittie Kids: Believe in Santa” level - and the animation on them is less than stellar.
On the plus side, we do see a fantastic variety of ages, sizes, and races - there’s a brief blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Sikh man on roller skates playing a sitar - but when the designs look rushed in the opening shots, it’s not a fantastic sign. At least they’re brief, but it’s hard to see if this is a lower level of the film’s style due to rushed animation, or if they didn’t care to polish it up as much, given that it’s maybe a 30 second scene.
Still, kudos to actually going for variety in the crowd shots. Minus kudos to making most of the clothes look like Play-doh draped over a Barbie doll. I’m not even kidding on that one, the clothes are super basic and barely have any sign of texture or creasing or even fabric/cut variety. Almost reminds me of the first Toy Story movie’s design for human clothes, yeesh.
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Ahh, our first introduction to Scooby Doo at a Greek gyro food stand. That’s foreshadowing right there folks! 😉
Sadly, he is really weirdly animated in his run sequence - he looks out of proportion as he’s running on his hind legs, and the human animation has really bad consistency - some background characters are really janky, while others actually move really nicely. The characters we immediately focus on seem to be pretty smooth at least, but that’s still very strange.
On a side note: Ruby and Spears Sub Sandwich shop. Nice 😁
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They are reaaaally pushing the super over-the-top dramatic music for a bike cop chasing a dog that stole gyro meat
Why
It’s not even interesting chase music, just generic super-hyped-up chase music
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And now we finally get to see a young Shaggy, standing next to a tie-dye food stand called Casey’s Confections that… sells meat. Hm. Guess WB hasn’t learned after all these years 🙄
Unfortunately, I’m not a huge fan of the kid they got to play him, Iain Armitage. He’s not a bad voice actor by any means, but he just doesn’t sound right for Shaggy. I know that as a kid he’d be much less likely to have a cracking/squeaky voice, but he sounds… it’s hard to pin down a word, but - precocious? Darling? Either way it doesn’t quite match, especially given how Shaggy sounds when he grows up via Will Forte. Just… no connection there.
I tie it down to the particular vocal twangs and nuances the gang usually has. I’ll touch base on that note later I think, once we hit the teenage versions of the gang, but for now I’m just not feeling it.
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On the one hand, I empathize deeply with Shaggy and his Spotify’s unsettling ability to pinpoint his insecurities with song choices, and also deeply enjoy that one small gesture where his fingers kind of shake & tighten around his phone while he takes a deep breath to calm himself- it’s a very nice, subtle sign of frustration
On the other hand we just passed two guys with no nipples and an unerring likeness to a Ken doll in those Barbie movies, so I’m distracted by that now
(between this and Fred’s no-nipples in Happy Halloween SD!, is WB just terrified of giving men nipples in animated movies now? what gives?)
Also distracted by the thrifty lesbians who bought those two shirts that come together to make a heart in the middle, on the store’s 2 for 1 day
happy pride y’all!
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Finally got context for the two sand piles!
Very, very sad context, but still! Progress!
Basically Shaggy’s practicing talking to people in order to learn how to make friends, since he either has no idea how, or has never had a friend before. So he’s trying to learn the right way to do it since his own attempts have failed
And him talking to these sand piles not only counts as practice, but he’s using them so that his mom thinks he’s spending time with friends like he told her
Ow :)
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So ketchup leather is apparently a thing that exists
I’m learning so much today!
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Given that Shaggy has no friends at this stage, but he’s still called Shaggy, I’m kind of wondering if that was a mean nickname that everyone called him, but he was just grateful for the interaction/pretended it was from friends, so he kept it 🤔
Actually, take it back, his mother is calling him that. Family nickname, maybe…?
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Shaggy has Blue Falcon (classic) and Dynomutt funko pops
noice
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Oof, you can reaaaaally hear the age in Frank Welker’s Scooby voice. Can we get Scott Innes back? He sounds almost identical to his performance 20+ years ago :/
Also talking waaaay too much - even SDMI Scooby wasn’t this wordy, and he NEVER shut the hell up
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Okay wait
So Shaggy met Scooby on Halloween day - then met the rest of the gang hours later?
Huh. And here I was thinking it would have been a few weeks minimum
Although I have to say there is a lot here to work with, if it paces out how I think it does
Shaggy meets Scooby. Bare hours later, he buys him a collar (instead of his mom? weird) and asks him to stay with him, despite not really knowing him. Then, only a couple hours after that, he finally makes some friends… but only when Scooby is with him.
Given that it looks like the gang are all around the same age in the same neighborhood, there’s a solid chance that they’ve taken classes together at the same school. If none of them met/knew/made friends with Shaggy then, but only did so AFTER Scooby came into the picture, that might lead to the argument we know about later when they split up; afterwards, S&SD go to the bowling alley, then get abducted by the Blue Falcon, plot continues. This could make it seem like they were only friends with him at the start because he had a dog.
And the brief scene earlier with the music device shows that he tries to tamp down on his anger/doesn’t really address it - could lead to something more later
hmmmm 🤔
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Wait what
These two kid bullies just came out of nowhere, stole Shaggy’s candy… and then started on about how Halloween is only a marketing ploy to get companies to rot your teeth and go to the dentist more, before throwing the bag through a window and telling the two that ‘your blood sugar will thank us for it!’
Are - are these the brainwashed children of a Karen? Is that what I’m seeing?
I mean we could have had a Red Herring cameo, but apparently informing children about candy conspiracy theories is more important :/
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Daphne: It’s Halloween - no one should go home without their candy
FD&V: *none of them have candy/candy bags*
???????
(Wouldn’t it make more sense if the bullies had stolen their candy too? What the hey man)
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I do find it neat that we actually get to SEE the wires the ‘ghost’ uses to fly in full effect - that’s actually pretty cool, and not really something we get to see up close in older Scooby shows. Most of those just have the bad guy randomly flying about, and the wires revealed after the fact
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Actually, given how FD&V react to this ghost almost immediately… have they already been solving mysteries? It seems like it, given how smoothly they move together to capture him
That’s kind of odd in kids. Like, even in PNSD they weren’t perfectly in-sync on stuff
This then leads to the gang solving mysteries together… in spite of the fact that all Shag and Scoob did was hide in the wardrobe that had the stolen goods, while FD&V captured the dude
Granted, they do ask Shag and Scoob if they wanna join in and say yes, but that seems like an strange jump after what could have been a one-time deal
I just find that a touch odd - esp when they could have had a five minute scene or so of them wandering around the house, touching on some old SDWAY traits. Heck, show that they’re SCARED in some way, and don’t immediately move to tackle what looks like a murderous spirit at age 8-9 or so. Even just showing the kids learning about each other would be enough, but what do I know. I’ve only watched Scooby Doo everything since I was 4 🙄
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Ahhhh, and now for the updated rendition of the theme song
Where they’re all still kids doing everything the teenage gang did in the theme song
It doesn’t look as good as the OG, though - kind of like a computer game simulating the SDWAY intro using the PNSD kids in CGI. It’s honestly strange to see, and a little jarring - especially when we then transition to the older teenage gang right in the middle
Like, we don’t get to see you guys age through the song as you’re chased by/catch different monsters? That could have been pretty neat honestly - shows how long they’ve been doing this
Tho I gotta admit, seeing the Spooky Space Kook with his OG sound effects is pretty awesome, brief as it waoH MY GOD FRED WHY ARE YOU HAVING A ROMANTIC BEACHSIDE DATE WITH THE MYSTERY MACHINE
THAT WASN’T IN THE ORIGINAL AND NO ONE ELSE GETS A CHARACTER INSIGHT SHOT LIKE THIS
WHY
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Huh, looks like Ruby & Spears gave up their subway sandwich shop for a coffee shop
That apparently the gang goes to in order to eat malt shop food
okay?
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Ah, and here’s where we finally look at the voice acting of the older teenage gang. Buckle up folks, cause I gotta lot to say
We’ll start with Fred, bc honestly? I think Efron actually fits him pretty dang well. He’s got a different cadence from Welker, true, but as far as an update goes? I think he’s a solid fit. Very much in line with the all-American kid that Fred’s kind of been slated as for the past 50 years or so, but updated more for the modern perspective. I call it solid (and possibly a replacement for whenever Welker decides to retire).
Next? Oof. Velma is, IMHO, the weakest casting. Velma, no matter her voice actress, has ALWAYS had some form of nasal twang to her voice - that’s part of what makes her Velma to begin with, and helps her stand out. Nicole Jaffe, Pat Stevens, BJ Ward, Christina Lange (PNSD), Mindy Cohn, Kate Micucci, Linda Cardellini -heck, even Haley Kiyoko from ‘The Mystery Begins’ and Sarah Gilman from the ‘Daphne and Velma’ movie understood this! They all had that nasal twang to their voice - differing between actresses, of course, but still recognizable as Velma. Gina Rodriguez though? Honestly, it just sounds like she’s acting it straight. Not bad acting at all, by any means - she just doesn’t sound like Velma, and doesn’t seem to be trying to. (Honestly wondering if she was only hired bc she voices Carmen Sandiego in the reboot cartoon for the lolz fun reference! type connection)
Daphne is sort of similar in voices, but hers is more of a pitch her voice hits - Heather North, Mary Kay Bergman, and Grey Delisle Griffin all have that pitch they hit naturally when speaking. Amanda Seyfried? Does not - in fact, her voice is actually deeper than I was expecting - but it’s not quite as big a difference as it is for Velma. It fits her character type okay, and she does well with it overall.
And finally, the most controversial one: Will Forte’s Shaggy.
I’ll go ahead and say this: he’s not Scott Menville levels of bad Shaggy voice acting. If I were to place him on a list, I’d probably put him around Billy West level - kind of sounds similar via vocal tics (voice cracking, likes and zoinks, etc), but his own voice just overtakes the impression he’s seeking to hit. When I hear him speak, I don’t really hear Shaggy; I just hear Will Forte trying to do an impression of Shaggy.
In comparison: when Scott Innes took over for Shaggy, it was like Casey Kasem’s, just a touch more of a twang to his voice and just a dash over-the-top - but it was still Shaggy, and you didn’t doubt that for a minute.
Same thing for Lillard, but maybe moreso - he was pretty much the most perfect casting for a live-action Shaggy there could be at the time Scooby Doo (2002) was made. Him taking over for Kasem from there made perfect sense: he was honestly the best cast Mystery Inc member of the live-actions, and a lot more recognizable to the general public as Shaggy than Scott Innes was. He could also do different emotions with Shaggy that not a lot of the other voice actors had the chance to do (mainly bc script), so for future stuff they have that flexibility, if they wanted to play around a little more.
With any luck Forte will get better over the course of the movie, but honestly the casting could have been so much better with Matt Lillard and Kate Micucci.
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Shaggy Rogers, evading taxes since 2020
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siMON COWELL??!?
WHAT THE
WHY?!?!?
ALSO HIS CHARACTER DESIGN STYLE IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THE REST OF THE GANG WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON?!!?
IS HE SUPPOSED TO BE THE SD CELEBRITY CAMEO
LIKE
IF YOU WERE GOING TO DO A CAMEO FROM AMERICAN IDOL WHY NOT RYAN SEACREST
HE TOOK OVER FOR CASEY KASEM ON THE AMERICAN TOP 40 WOULDN’T THAT MAKE MORE SENSE
aaauuuggghhh
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Also he’s there as a potential investor in Mystery Inc as a detective agency
A music industry professional… is interested in funding a detective agency.
Like… did he miss out on Josie & the Pussycats? Is that why he’s here?
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Wait a minute
Oh noooooo
I know why he’s here
I remember this spoiler
Shit
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And once again, here is your reminder to tell Simon Cowell a great big fcuk you
Only this time it’s for making Shaggy and Scooby feel worthless and saying that friendship is worthless and cannot be counted on for anything worthwhile
Simon Cowell: Professional Dickhead
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Welp, at least this gives a solid reason why they leave: Simon Cowell was being a professional dickhead, and the gang didn’t really say anything against him or interrupt him on his whole ‘Shag and Scoob are worthless spiel’
Or, well... Daphne stepped up some, but more to say ‘they’re our friends!’ rather than ‘that’s entirely wrong, our friends aren’t worthless!’ Better than nothing, but yeesh
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Ahhh, Takamoto Bowling - the emptiest bowling alley in the evenings this side of Coolsville
(no seriously, the past few times my dad has taken my sister and me bowling pre-pandemic, no matter the day or time? it’s ALWAYS got more than 6 lanes of people there, what the heck)
Also Scooby wears three bowling shoes, which honestly makes more sense than I thought it would - that pup goes spinning and sliding every which way on a normal floor, bowling alley floors would be like ten times worse
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here’s a nice little detail - when Scooby sees one of the bowling pins peek out with red eyes and he yells that to Shaggy, Shaggy actually squints and walks closer to see if it actually does have eyes
aww
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Huh, okay
Panicked Will Forte Shaggy actually sounds more like a good Shaggy voice than normal talking Will Forte Shaggy
I can dig it
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Still kind of underwhelmed by the Shag and Scoob disguise scene - wouldn’t it make more sense to have them like, dish up hot sauce or something on a plate that nonsensically makes the robots overheat before they discover their ruse?
Idk, maybe they’re off their game after Simon ‘Dickhead’ Cowell
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Carlton Way - must be named after Fred’s only other voice actor, Carlton Stevens of PNSD
Also Hanna’s Barber Shop is next to Barbera’s Pizza! Cute.
And… Pitstop’s Pink Perfume ad. Wait, who is that? *assorted googling noises*
...ahhh, Penelope Pitstop from Wacky Races! Who, according to Wikipedia, was revealed to have Greek ancestry in the 2016 Wacky Raceland comic book, having been born on the island of Aegina
Now I’m wondering if we’ll see her in this too, given Cerberus...
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Honestly kind of fascinating to see the gang with a police radio in their van
Also fascinating to see that only main characters are allowed clothing variety and texture/creases/folds
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it’s actually really sweet to see Fred, upon hearing that Shag and Scoob are likely in danger, immediately makes a 90 degree turn in traffic
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It looks like they changes Dee Dee’s name a hair - now it’s Dee Dee Skyes, instead of Sykes
It works well for the Falcon aesthetic, so that’s cool
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Shaggy, after Dee Dee tells them that Dastardly’s trying to kill them: Scoob, someone thinks we’re important enough to *mimes slitting throat*!
Scooby: It’s nice to be wanted.
Excellent! This movie has captured Shag and Scoob’s blasé attitude towards death! Now we’re onto a solid Scooby film :D
Dee Dee: Hmm, I hear that!
And they even have a friend to share in their attitude! Splendid!
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Christ, I can work photoshop better than Blue Falcon can, and I don’t even know how to use photoshop
I will give major kudos on his costume tho - it maintains the important elements of the OG Falcon, while still updating it with more bird-related aesthetic, like the feathered appearance of parts of his costume, the split cape resembling the tail feathers, and the talon gauntlets & boots. neat!
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Yooo, Dynomutt, I thought secret identities were still a thing with Superheroes, what the hey are you doing giving it out to a duo you literally just picked up behind a bowling alley
Ngl, I’m kinda hoping we get some scenes where Dynomutt messes up a little like in the OG cartoon - this one feels really serious, which is kind of strange
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Okay now I want to see older!Blue Falcon come in for a cameo
Mainly bc I’m getting the feeling that this one is a major dumbass, and not in the fun and friendly himbo kind of way 😑
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Wait, THAT’S our first look at Dastardly? That’s a bit abrupt, isn’t it?
Also his ship must be pumping thousands of gallons of toxins into the air, that smoke cloud looks hideous. Forget logging into his mom’s Netflix account like the trailer said, EPA should probably be hunting him for sport with a laser cannon, jesus fcuking christ
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Honestly kinda want a plane you can pilot like a motorbike now
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Welp, it looks like we have a fun, mustache-twirly, puns-aplenty, loves-to-be-bad kind of villain on our hands folks! This is gonna be FUN AS HECK
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Eurgh, this scene - the super-stiff-but-stretched-out ‘yeeurgh’ faces really squick me for some reason, but I can’t really pinpoint why
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I have decided I highly dislike the Brian Blue Falcon, or Brian Falcon for short, and would like to see Dastardly tie him to some railroad tracks
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North St for Heather North, and… wait… Funland Carnival? Like where Charlie the Robot hung out?
Apparently that’s in Romania.
A very yellow-greenfilter Romania at that.
Like, I’ve seen blue washes on movies trying to portray evening in the middle of the day so they don’t actually have to shoot at night, but yellow? That’s normally used for deserts and hot days and uhhh
NOT for evenings in a country with landscape like THIS
odd
(I mean I guess they got the mountains and trees right, but still. Yellow filters make a place look arid, which Romania is Not, to my knowledge)
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Dude, Brian Falcon is such an idiot even Shaggy and Scooby, commonly portrayed as the idiots of Mystery Inc, look at him like he’s a moron.
(They are Not Amused.)
Also Brian Falcon is an absolute coward. That’s new. Even Shaggy and Scooby face off against the robots directly in a Whack-a-Mole game and destroy some. Dude, get your head in the fcuking game already, yikes
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Woah, Laff-a-Lympics, Wacky Races, Hex Girls, The Banana Splits, Penelope Pitstop, Space Stars, Posse Impossible, and Hong Kong Phooey easter eggs in one shot
Geezus
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Another nice moment: when cornered by Dastardly, Shaggy moves to stand in front of Scooby to protect him
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Dastardly (to Shaggy): I don’t care about YOU. You’re not REMOTELY important!
*proceeds to shoot Shaggy THROUGH the ceiling and up into the highest car on a Ferris Wheel where Brian Falcon is hiding like a man baby*
Welp, so much for a fun and zany villain. Time for this Plush Anon to kill a bitch *cocks shotgun*
I will, too - kudos to the animators for hurting me so badly with the face Shaggy made right before being shot because
OW
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Ehehehhehe, yess, the infamous ‘Dick’ scene
Dastardly: No, I’m a DICK. With a D!
You sure are, you sack of dildos with a D!
This scene had to be put in on purpose - if this had been released in theaters, I just know the adults would be dying in laughter 🤣🤣🤣
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Shaggy: Brian, do something!
Brian Falcon: Like what?
Shaggy: Like, drop some F-Bombs!
love it 😂
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Is it like movie law now, that if there’s an action scene with a Ferris Wheel in the background, it has to fall off and roll down a mild incline like a wheel? Because it kinda feels like it
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Aha! Dastardly said his drats! Perfection.
Now to shoot him through a ceiling to make them matter even more :D
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OOF.
Well that hurt.
Poor Shaggy - basically internalizing now that he’s the worthless one and weak link of the group now that Scooby is considered more important
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Holy fcuk I’m crying
Shaggy just broke Brian Falcon down to his deepest insecurities without even trying while talking to him
He even used the words ‘imposter syndrome’
Shaggy hon, you’re the best
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Oh hey, Fred, Daphne, and Velma! It’s been a while since we saw you guys again, what are you doing?
Arguing about the metric system and realizing that Shaggy and Scooby reminding them to eat periodically helped them keep a clearer head...
And using the word ‘hangry’.
But then looking through a ridiculously cute photo album of the two and a video the gang took together (the video is honestly really heckin’ cute, 10000/10 would recommend)...
And then getting pulled over so Fred can have a brief ‘oo-la-la’ montage about the pretty blonde cop who honest-to-gods looks like a Barbie doll.
Where Daphne then describes how ugly Dastardly is...
Right before the petite blonde cop who’s maybe like 5’7” at best rips off her outfit to reveal it was Dick Dastardly this entire time, all 7ish feet of him.
And then kidnaps them all along with the Mystery Machine while he makes terribly fun dorky puns
…
...SO BACK TO SCOOBY AND SHAGGY...
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...where Scooby is making kissy faces in the mirror while wearing his Blue Falcon uniform
Hrm, that’s not really better is it
We actually see Shaggy reading (OG) Blue Falcon’s autobiography, and making hurt but snide comments about Scooby’s ego
Which are actually pretty clever tbh
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Cooooooongratulations, Fred Jones! You are now officially a full-on himbo!
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Alas, poor Daphne. While your knowledge of the tropes of your show might have served you well in other places, this was to be a theatrical release once upon a time, and so such knowledge falls to ruin.
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You know, I just realized - we’re never really told HOW the Cerberus skulls work, both in how each skull can be used to find the others, and, presumably, in releasing Cerberus itself. We’re given a brief glance-over of Scooby’s ancestry (and I mean REALLY damn brief), and a quick mention that these are supposed to be Cerberus’ skulls being stolen, but… that’s it. Nothing else is given.
Now, I read the first few chapters of my SCOOB! Junior Novelization, and it actually went into further detail about the skulls themselves and what Dastardly’s initial plan was early in the book - open the gates of Hades and obtain the seas of treasure therein. It acted as an introduction both to the climatic endgame we’ll face at the end of the movie, and to Dastardly, who uses the same disguise trick he used as the Barbie cop when he stole the first one in South America.
(They actually DID plan to use this as Dastardly’s intro, but cut this… 3 minute scene for time. Yeah. See below video for the details - honestly think they should have kept it in. Saves time later and definitely more show than tell, compared to what we got)
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I feel like that would be a better introduction to him than the one we got - hell, it would have fit in quite neatly after the revamped theme song montage. They could have the scene with Dastardly finding/stealing the first skull as an introduction (as above), then have him answer a call or something. Exposit openly “You found the key! Excellent! Now where are we going next?”
THEN cut to the diner/coffee shop scene we had earlier. We still wouldn’t know exactly what the key was/entailed off the bat, and they could still have FD&V find out on their own - maybe by hacking the little robot instead? IDK.
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The final skull is on Messick Mountain.
Cute.
On a side note, I do love how Dastardly’s ship interior looks - very dieselpunk
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Velma just hacked into Dynomutt… somehow, and I finally get my wacky Dynomutt shenanigans! Hazoo!
...sadly that was really dang brief. Realistic, yes, but still too brief.
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Eyyyy, we finally get the whys of why Scooby is needed! … really dang fast.
Also Fred says Jinkies.
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Hey, Muttley popped up! In a shrine… to his demise… that we find out he reached when Dastardly pushed him forward into the Underworld to steal the treasure of Alexander the Great in a portal he rigged up… only for both of them to find out it was a one-way deal unless they used the key to be able to come back. The key, of course, being Scooby Doo, descendent of Peritas, Alexander’s dog.
Eh, workable enough-ish. It’s interesting to see that Dastardly, despite how much he disliked Muttley in the older cartoons, still cares about him to a certain extent.
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Pfff, Fred’s a poor man’s Hemsworth XD
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Sweet, we’re in ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ now!
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Um
O W W W
You guys really had to do the ‘me or them’ thing with Shaggy and Scooby… and tHeN hAvE sCoObY cHoOsE tHe FaLcONs?!? Just because they said he was important as “the key” and gave him a spandex costume.
Over at least 7 years of friendship.
Booooooooooooo
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actually no I’m Not Done Yet
This whole scene is a mess.
Like
Shaggy’s turn was really dang fast… but I can still see how he gets to it. It’s at least a day between Scooby being chosen as a pseudo-sidekick and the island arrival, during which Shaggy’s talk with the main adult (who has taken up the mantle of his favorite superhero) essentially confirms his feelings of worthlessness and leaves him to stew for HOURS on end (on top of another adult, Dastardly, who also calls him “not even REMOTELY important” at the carnival before freaKING SHOOTING HIM THROUGH THE CEILING NO I AM NOT OVER THIS). Tie that to a teenager who also believes his only friends have come to think he’s meaningless baggage, and suddenly his entire support system is vanishing underneath him to one of his former idols without ANY sign of hesitation from Scooby’s part (with the exception of the collar scene, but I don’t think that that means the same to Scooby, given how quickly he bounces back)
Scooby tho… hrm. It could be that he’s clinging to the good feelings Brian Falcon inspires in him (by choosing him as the next possible Dynomutt), as a way to overpower how FD&V hurt him, while also building on how he came to love the duo because SHAGGY loved them so much. But the movie doesn’t frame that up… at all?? At least compared to Shaggy.
Idk, maybe I’m missing something, but this scene is a mess through and through
Boooooo
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Scooby: *tries to leap into Brian Falcon’s arms like he did with Shaggy but falls*
Brian: Uh, what are you doing?
Scooby: Rhaggy never missed.
Damn straight he didn’t
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oh hey, it’s Captain Caveman
I was wondering when we’d see him.
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AAAUUGGHH
It’s that blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene from the trailers I sobbed over - the one with Shaggy holding Scooby’s collar
Fun fact it actuALLY FADES INTO THE FLASHBACK
THAT WAS NOT A TRAILER THING THAT’S ACTUALLY HERE IN THE MOVIE
OW
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Oh No
Fred is here, alone, after that whole scene with Dastardly saying he had a use for Fred
...while that’s likely Dastardly in a Fred suit (that sounds creepy just typing it), I’m still going to enjoy this brief but absolutely lovely hug Shaggy and Fred share...
(seriously tho, look at this, it’s a genuinely close, squish-your-lungs-out kind of hug, I love it)
...as well as Shaggy, who's still hurt from his fight with Scooby, immediately gearing up to go help him after hearing Dastardly’s trying to kidnap him.
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Brian Falcon and Scooby Doo now have to take on Captain Caveman in gladiatorial combat in order to claim the final skull of Cerberus
I love cartoons sometimes
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Captain Caveman just put the smackdown on Brian Falcon and punched him into the ground up to his CHEST
Then smacked him so far into a wall he cracked the stone around him!
GodDAMN is this satisfying 😆 altho minor question here: how did he gain the rank of Captain? Do cavepeople have a naval force?
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He just whirled Scooby around his head, then spun him so fast his costume broke off
I may have to look into some Captain Caveman stuff now, that’s fantastic
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Shaggy and Fred - sorry, “Fred” - just smashed through to the colosseum in the Mystery Machine
And Dynomutt just fired missiles at Captain Caveman to smash him into an Amigara-shaped hole of himself
I REALLY love cartoons sometimes
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Oh No
Just as Shaggy starts trying to apologize, “Fred” kicks him in the back, rips off his disguise to normal Dastardly self, and kidnaps Scooby atop the skull, before revealing he destroyed the Falcon Fury jet
New tagline for this movie? Shaggy Rogers and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day
...at least the rest of the gang is back together?
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Brian Falcon: *Immediately tries to blame Shaggy for inadvertently leading Dastardly to them, while storming up to get in his face*
Fred: *upon realizing BrianF is blaming Shaggy for everything, without a SINGLE moment’s hesitation, immediately leaps in to defend Shaggy and physically push back Brian Falcon several feet*
We stan one Himbo, theydies and gentlethem
Also?
Velma (sneering): What kind of hero blames other people for his problems? *Walks over to comfort Shaggy with Daphne, while Shaggy looks dumbfounded they’re defending him bc he also blames himself for Scooby’s kidnapping*
This. This right here, is the kind of Mystery gang content I wanna see.
I don’t care how the rest of this movie goes now, this scene right here is ambrosia to the Scooby fan’s soul, and therefore makes this entire movie worth it, outdated memes, lingo, and all
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Cackling rn - Fred and Brian Falcon are in a point-off a la the Spiderman meme 😂
or, more specifically, the post-credits sequence of Spiderverse where they’re arguing about who started pointing first
It gets better when Velma and Daphne try to pull each other off of their pushing fight, and Velma grumbles “Toxic Masculinity” I’m crying
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WOAH
More super Shaggy stuff here (apart from being flung through a building roof without a scratch) - he pushes apart both groups effortless, and even knocks them back several feet
If we estimate Dynomutt as… we’ll say 450 since he’s made of metal, Falcon at 220, Dee Dee at 160, that’s about 830 lbs on one side
Then Fred, Daphne and Velma on the other (hmm, 180, 150, 130?) would be around 460 lbs
Dang boi
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Oh honey no, it’s not your fault
But dang if he didn’t get a good message from it, one I’ve done my best to transcribe here:
“I was afraid that... things were gonna change. And they did change. But like, that’s okay! People can grow. But it doesn’t mean that we’re growing apart. Because the one thing that will never change is that Scooby Doo is my best friend! Ten years ago, a little boy made a promise to a stray puppy that he’d never leave him no matter what. And I’m gonna keep that promise! Now it’s time we stopped that mustachioed menace from opening the gates to the {underworld} and letting loose that fearsome {Cerberus}. So what do you say we get out {of here}, and go get my always-snacking, never-lacking, often-napping dog back? Who’s with me?”
Honestly not a bad message for kids. Things will change, people will change, but that doesn’t mean you have to stop being friends. (Obvs real life exceptions apply, but that’s not a bad note honestly)
...shame that that conclusion comes right the FUCK outta nowhere
Like
How, exactly, did he come to this conclusion? WHEN? What inspired him to realize this, what was the impetus for this specific line of thought, that it’s okay for friends to change?
It kinda feels like this should have been either the happy ending speech given after they’ve saved the world, or one at the start of the third act, like if Shaggy arrives when Scooby thinks he’s chased him away and ruined everything, and Shaggy & the gang still save him. And Scooby asks him why he did that - when Scooby tried to change himself to fit what Brian Falcon wanted, instead of treasuring the friend he still had, or maybe why Shaggy reacted the way he did. THEN Shaggy gives the speech we hear, a la:
“I yelled at you because… like, because I was scared. I was scared that... things were gonna change. And they did change. But like, that’s okay! People can grow. But it doesn’t mean that we’re growing apart. Because the one thing that will never change is that YOU’RE my best friend! Ten years ago, a little boy made a promise to a stray puppy that he’d never leave him no matter what. And I mean to keep it!”
At least that would make a little more sense to me. Again, not a bad speech, but a little rearranging would help to really hit home.
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Okay, now we’re back with Dastardly in Greece, and suddenly the background people all look MILES better than the ones at the start of the movie. Did they just forget to polish the first two minutes of film, what the heck?
Also, Dastardly’s ship is literally the entire length of the Greek ruins presented o_O
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HOLY SHIT THE SKULLS TURNED BACK TIME AND MADE THE RUINS INTO AN ENTIRELY RESTORED PALACE WITH THE GATES OF THE UNDERWORLD BEFORE THEM
They’re also colored a very atmospheric neon arrangement that’s surprisingly quite tasteful ^.^
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The Mystery Machine can fly now!!! eeheeheeeheeheeheeheeee
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And so we finally see Cerberus, a massive, towering figure with sharp teeth and pffffffhahahhahaa why are all three heads wearing Spartan helmets
To its credit, they’re also wearing basic body armor, wrist guards, tail spikes, etc, but the helmets are killing me 🤣 who thought to stick that onto the dog? Did Hades forget to remove the armor after winning the Gods’ Pet Costume Contest, or was it like that horse in the ATV costume - it felt safer so it didn’t let anyone take it off?
Or was this a precaution against Herakles coming back? These are questions - hilarious, hilarious questions 😁
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Awww. Scooby immediately runs to the battered Mystery Machine to rip the doors open for the gang!
And… wait. THIS is where that wonderful hug was in the trailers? I thought that was at the end of the movie when everyone was safe!
This now does not bode well. But we’ll worry about that later. Time to enjoy this gorgeous wonderful hug of the entire gang, and Shag and Scoob apologizing to each other for fighting 🥰
Yet another scene to make the rest of this movie worth the rest
(halfway wanna frame this shit and put it on the wall, it’s that lovely)
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Fantastic! Dastardly is now in Hell, where I’ve been wishing him this entire movie! :D
And dang… he actually apologizes to what he believes is a dead Muttley. Who is, naturally, snickering at all of this. The two bicker predictably, but eventually hug and make up, too happy to see each other to resort to old habits. Honestly a nice little scene, all-in-all.
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Back to the gang and they’re doing the glowy eyes in the dark bit! I actually haven’t seen that in a Scooby movie forever, it’s neat.
Also Fred is now going full Liam Neeson over his van, war paint and all, using the tire cover as a shield and… holy shit.
HOLY SHIT
THE ASCOT IS BAAAnnnnnd it’s gone. Boy, that was… short.
Fred just ran full-tilt at Cerberus, screaming like a mad man, before getting flicked away by its big toe, and losing the ascot and makeshift shield. It punched so hard his facepaint came off
It was fun while it lasted y’all
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Heyyy, Shag and Scoob just came up with the plan, and it’s actually solid! I’m so proud, and so is the rest of the gang! Also willingly going to distract Cerberus while the rest figure out how to close the gate and stuff Cerberus back in
I love my boys 😊
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Annnnd there goes Brian Falcon like the coward he is
To… call his dad? And admit he isn’t a hero.
Only for Dynomutt to point out Shaggy and Scooby are taking him on and are terrified.
This then cuts to Shaggy and Scooby running around in a chariot and gladiator wear, running back and forth a la the door gag from Cerberus to the OG SDWAY theme
I think I love this movie
(although they’re hinting at Dynomutt being resentful of OG Blue Falcon essentially abandoning him to his incompetent son, and I really wish it had been touched upon more
that’s actually rather heartbreaking, when you stop to think about it, and there’s a lot that could be done with an additional two minutes of screentime)
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Huh, another good message for kids: it’s okay to fail and be scared, so long as you keep going and try to do what’s right.
Two good messages for kids in one movie. Not too shabby, on the whole.
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Brian Falcon just flew in and punched the three-headed dog, then jumped into its mouth as it tried to eat Scooby, resisted the MASSIVE JAW STRENGTH, and got them out of there safe and sound
Finally, something heroic!
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I was wondering where Dastardly and Muttley got off to - apparently they’re off to take a money bath.
Aight
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Shag and Scoob have now convinced the Rotten Robots to turn into bowling balls to knock Cerberus off their feet a la the classic marbles pratfall back into the underworld
That is a sentence I just wrote
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OH FCUK NO
NO
ABSOLUTELY NOT NO
YOU ARE TELLING US THAT AFTER ALL OF THIS - ALL OF THIS - ONE OF THEM HAS TO STAY IN THE UNDERWORLD TO LOCK THE GATE
THAT OCTOBER LEAKER WAS RIGHT WHAT THE HELL
LITERALLY SO
I mean i know its a kids film specifically Scooby Doo so happy ending but what the literal FUCK
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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGHHH
SHAGGY NOOOO
“Buddy, back when we were kids, you saved me. Now, it’s my turn.”
and he dOES THIS WHILE HOLDING SCOOBY’S HEAD TENDERLY IN HIS HANDS
AND WHEN EVERYTHING REVERTS IT’S JUST RUBBLE AND RUIN AND SCOOBY’S LEFT SOBBING OPENLY AT NOTHING
AND THE GANG ALL COME TO CLING AT HIM AND CRY OVER THEIR FRIEND WHO THOUGHT HE WAS WORTHLESS MOST OF THE MOVIE AND THOUGH THAT THE GANG THOUGHT THE SAME ABOUT HIM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHH
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WELP, TIME TO COPE WITH INAPPROPRIATE HUMOR
Shaggy: I yelled at my dog, got him kidnapped, and ended up helping the bad guy to open the gates to Hell. Guess I’ll die.
Dee Dee: Well actually, this is more Dastardly’s fault because -
Shaggy, yelling as he slams his hand against the lock: GUESS I’LL DIE!!!
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Ah, so the writers wrote themselves into a corner, and the only way out was a Deus Ex Machina (at least, I think I’m using that term correctly…)
Because to get Shaggy back, a giant statue of Alexander the Great and Peritas appears out of nowhere - literally, since it definitely wasn’t there before - with an inscription Scooby has to read to get Shaggy back.
This would have been a lot more effective if we’d seen it when Dastardly arrived in Greece - maybe even as the marker for where the gate to the Underworld was. Have Alexander facing one way, and Peritas facing the other. You open the gate on Alexander’s side, and come home on Peritas’ side. Having this unfold into the gate gives it more purpose than “magically appears right the fcuk outta nowehere” and you could have a pun with the “backdoor” escape. Everybody wins!
And if that’s too good for ya, how about a brief lingering shot by it at some point as Dastardly flies into Greece, behind where the gate materializes, or directly across from it on the plaza? Maybe have one of the gang kick it after Shaggy leaves, and say ‘This is all your fault! Why would you make something like this?’
It’d still be a magical contrivance, but at least it would make some fcuking SENSE.
(Granted it DID lead to this hilariously ominous shot, so maybe I shouldn’t complain:)
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Velma: I finally figured out what you guys are! You’re the heart of Mystery Inc.
Me: YEAH BABY! *flips over table* I’VE BEEN SAYING THAT SHIT FOR YEARS AND NOW, I’M FCUKING VALIDATED AT LAAAAAAAAST!
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Shaggy: *rips off Dastardly’s face to reveal…*
ALL: SIMON COWELL??!?
Me, choking on food: I’m sorry WHAT?!?!?
Velma: *takes off mask again to reveal*
ALL: DICK DASTARDLY?!?
Dastardly: Drat! No one ever goes for the double unmasking.
So I was right all along - Simon Cowell truly was a Dick this entire time.
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And so we close on the gang unveiling a Mystery Machine paint job on their official detective agency building, Brian Falcon living the good life as the DJ at their party, the Falcon team gifting a sleek new Mystery Machine to the gang (which honestly looks pretty unique - it’s not the classic, but it is something new that isn’t awful, so kudos there), and the gang on their way to another mystery.
So, at the end of the day is this a good Scooby movie?
Meh? *waves hand in meh motion* But it definitely had its moments.
This Scooby film is flawed as heck, no doubt about it - the plot has a MAJOR problem with telling instead of showing, some parts feeling out of order or WAY too short, and of course the deus ex machina ending. I honestly would have loved some more time for their first mystery as kids, where we actually got more character moments/bonding from Fred, Daphne, and Velma as they solved it the more traditional route, as well as not framing FD&V as super duper mystery solvers right off the bat???
The stuff with Blue Falcon isn’t AWFUL, per se, but it is ridiculously satisfying to see him get smacked around. Captain Caveman was honestly one of the funniest bits in the movie, same with Dynomutt.
As far as the character stuff? It all felt fairly natural, progression-wise. Shag and Scoob don’t have this big break-up with the gang - they’re hurt by the literal Dickhead’s comments the gang don’t speak up against, and go to blow off some steam together. Shag and Scoob don’t have this giant blow-up argument - it builds over the film into a hurt spat they both recognize they overreacted to almost immediately. The gang (FDV) go looking for them almost as soon as they leave, and, upon hearing they’re in danger, turn and head towards them to save them, realizing how important the two are to Mystery Inc along the way. They defend each other, help each other, have some of the Best Dang Animated Mystery Inc hugs I ever did see - THIS feels more like the Gang I’ve been waiting for forever to come back to DTV (and in a rough sense, did). While I do wish we’d gotten more screen time of FD&V, what we got wasn’t too bad.
Weirdly enough, at the end of the day, I’ve actually grown more accustomed to Forte’s Shaggy - it feels like it fits this different style a touch more than I originally thought, and holy hell if I didn’t come close to tears at that ending gate scene, he knocked that one out of the park. Velma still doesn’t feel much like Velma, but I did get used to it by the end. I kept cracking up at Efron’s Fred, and no complaints on Seyfried’s Daphne.
Jason Isaacs as Dick Dastardly absolutely killed it. Blue Falcon Crew was okay (excepting Mark “The Racist” Wahlburg - it was just him talking, no real effort. You could recognize Wahlburg right off the bat, acting as a goofy douche) and freaking Captain Caveman was awesome. Apparently they combined both Billy West and Don Messick’s recordings for Muttley (awesome!!!), so this may very well be Don Messick’s final role in a Scooby Doo film.
It got off to a rough start, but ended well enough. The animation was solid, the writing has some unexpectedly clever and funny moments sprinkled throughout, with some pretty fun action sequences on the side. Watching this, I really do believe that the people working on it love Scooby Doo and all things Hanna-Barbera… at least in their own way.
I ended up buying this instead of just renting it ($5 more, why not) and I am honestly glad I did so. Despite its flaws, it has some great moments with the gang as friends, and I have been Craving That Shit for DECADES
And if these writers/directors ever did another Scooby film? I think I’d be up for giving them a chance - at least so long as we got some more absolutely BEAUTIFUL hugs with the gang
I hope you enjoyed this stream-of-consciousness reaction to SCOOB! (2020)... a whole ass year LATER, admittedly (I didn’t switch my Save Post to Queue, curse my hubris), but hopefully y’all’ve been entertained. Good night everybody!
#scoob!#scoob 2020#scoob#scooby doo#plush reviews: final thoughts#note to self: never use queue for the big posts
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haikyuu orchestra au, karasuno version. let’s go!
daichi: he gives off cellist vibes, definitely section leader. probably has a cello that isn’t polished but it looks so neat and pretty, y’know? he knows how to use the copier machine and makes extra copies of his music. a very responsible player. stops nishinoya and tanaka from annoying the band kids.
suga: first violinist, section leader until kageyama showed up and prodigy-d his way to the top. rents a violin. it’s polished. he’s the type to name it. (it’s named “haku” because the violin is a nice shade of amber.) will make extra copies of the sheet music but leaves it everywhere. the next class comes in and his leftover sheet music is on the stand. hypes up bow sword fights.
asahi: he’s a violist because he felt bad that there weren’t enough. the section is sandwiched in the middle of the orchestra and no one really cares for violas so he likes being there. gets sad over viola jokes. the type who’s pretty shy about his talent, but he’s the section leader for a reason. his playing is so smooth and pretty that it makes people cry. paranoid of tuning because oh my god the string might snap and hit my eye, so he asks kiyoko to do it. once dropped his rosin and almost cried.
kiyoko: she gives off cellist vibes. used to play saxaphone but moved to orchestra. before ukai became conductor, suga was supposed to conduct but he can’t stop cracking stupid jokes in between so she did it. everyone worships her at her feet. no one knew she was in orchestra until one day when she just appeared with a “gigantic guitar.” probably befriended a lot of theatre kids.
nishinoya: he saw a bass and saw a challenge. (the bass is twice his size; he can’t take it.) the type to sword fight with his bow. a literal prodigy, but he’s shit at being section leader so he’s second chair now. when the lower chairs ask how to play something no one can understand him. he forgets to bring everything he needs and is woefully unprepared. used his shoe as a rockstop several times. he named his bass “chad” for no reason other than “it sounded funny.” he once played during a sight-reading practice and it cracked everyone up. he rides on those bass buggies like they’re hoverboards and screams “ROLLINGU THUNDAAAAA”, knocking out like three band kids on the way. tried to snort rosin.
tanaka: definitely chose a mainstream instrument, most likely cello because “violins are too screechy! EEEEEEEEEEE!!!!” he calls it a knockoff guitar. people are always surpised when he says he’s in orchestra, he seems more of a band kid. maybe even a delinquint. he and nishinoya sword fight with their bows. he def makes viola jokes, which makes asahi sad :’(. he plays too loud during the soft parts. a good and dedicated second chair, but he puts the stand so c l o s e to him when he practices. daichi either wrestles for the stand or gets another. memorized meme songs and plays rick astley’s “never gonna give you up” in the hallway and a saxaphonist joined in before a teacher told them to knock it off. actually snorted rosin.
ennoshita: this boy is a second violinist: practically forgotten. he’s definitely section leader, because WHERE ARE MY CAPTAINS AT??? he’s a responsible senpai and stops nishinoya and tanaka’s bow sword fights. also knows how to use the copier machine and makes extra copies for his kohais. a god at shifting.
kinoshita: bassist, section leader. he brings extra things because of nishinoya. used to take piano lessons and sometimes uses the one in the choir room if no one’s looking. his playing is very neat and tidy and he’s better at explaining than nishinoya.
narita: violist, third chair. likes to turn around and talk to kinnoshita and nishinoya. uses the copier machine for other classes. he gets along with band kids and tried to learn the flute. (it was a mistake.)
hinata: he saw little miss ling ling play a violin solo and wanted to do that himself. he’s barely a beginner so he’s last chair but he’s! so!! enthusiastic!!! he picks up things pretty quickly and he’s pretty good but he has no sense of rhythm. you know that one violin in the back who sounds kinda off? yeah that’s him. he loses his place in the music pretty easily and his stand partner has to help him out. wanted to sword fight with tanaka and nishinoya but ennoshita stopped him. (suga: “fight! fight! fight!”) visited the band room and got his head stuck in a tuba. his hands are small and can’t reach some harmonics; he cries over that at night.
kageyama: this prodigy can play all instruments, but he specializes in the violin. took suga’s spot as section leader, but he’s shit at leading so suga does it anyway. always out-plays hinata because he’s got the melody and harder music. a sight-reading god. he memorizes the music, the entire thing, even if it’s five or four pages long. no one knows how he does it, not even himself. he definitely plays all-region and played nationally.
tsukishima: he was tall so he just got put in as a bass and never got out. he definitely makes viola jokes, especially when asahi’s around. he makes fun of nishinoya for being half the size of a bass. goes in empty practice rooms and just... does his phone. someone comes in, probably hinata, and he stares at them until they leave. he memorized the melody of the jurassic park theme song (it’s not that hard).
yamaguchi: viola bby!! he and tsukki talk a lot. ukai almost moved the two to last chair so that they’d shut up. he has his own viola with a nice green case and he puts stickers on it. he was a pretty average player until he started to learn all-region music. he practices a lot and wants to do his best!
yachi: i feel like she’d like low notes, but not super deep, so she’s a cellist. she was, unfortunately, tanaka’s stand partner, but kiyoko switched places with him to calm her down. used to be in art but wanted to play an instrument. almost chose band, but she saw hinata’s head stuck in a tuba and decided not to. always ready for anything, even has extra rockstops. a very quiet and nervous player. ukai keeps telling her to play closer to the bridge. she’s good at sight-reading.
takeda: he’s that substitute teacher that has no idea what’s supposed to be happening but he’s interested. at least the students help out. he gets all the things they need and has them on him at all times. nishinoya accidentally dropped his rosin again? he’s got one. the band kids broke the copier machine again? he’s got another copier machine at home, he’ll copy their sheet music for them. what a guy.
ukai: a bassist. once tried to play violin to give the violinists “a visual representation” and he sounded terrible. the type to not care what’s happening: the band teacher once reported tanaka for cursing but ukai lets him off with a “don’t do it in front of teachers.” his desk is a mess but takeda tries his best to organize it. (the longest it’s stayed clean was thirty minutes because ukai suddenly lost his lighter.) a very agressive conductor. when the orchestra can’t play on beat, he yells over the screeching and S L A M S that motherfucking baton on the stand. he’s broken at least three. (one split in half and flew past yamaguchi’s face, almost missing his eye. it was scarring.) takeda has twenty more batons in his pockets.
saeko: she used to be a band kid and has no idea what’s happening, but she’s so excited! her little brother’s up there! oh, you can’t see him? LOOK HARDER. claps the loudest after performances. everyone looks at her weird.
michimiya: second violinist, second chair. she and ennoshita talk about the other players, primarily daichi because why is the man so ripped he’s only in orchestra. she helps hinata a lot.
akiteru: cellist, used to be last chair. tried his best, but some people will always be prodigies. supports kei no matter what.
udai: ling ling. he’s that kid who knew how to play the violin since he was six because his parents wanted him to play an instrument and pushed him a lot to succeed with it. once he was out of high school, he dropped the violin and became an artist. he plays sometimes, like for birthdays and shit, but he’s happier without the pressure.
#haikyuu#haikyuu!!#hq#hq!!#orchestra au#alternate universe#haikyuu au#sawamura daichi#daichi sawamura#daichi#sugawara koushi#koushi sugawara#suga#azumane asahi#asahi azumane#kiyoko shimizu#kiyoko#shimizu kiyoko#nishinoya yuu#yū nishinoya#nishinoya#tanaka#tanaka ryuunosuke#ennoshita chikara#hq ennoshita#haikyuu ennoshita#ennoshita#haikyuu kinoshita#haikyuu narita#hinata
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