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dollsorwhatever · 2 years

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GCDS x Bratz (Yasmin)

Hi! it’s 4am My GCDS x Bratz Yasmin came and I was way too excited not to rip her out and style her a little lol If you’re not aware, Bratz did a collaboration with Italian streetwear brand GCDS that includes clothing, accessories and a set of two dolls, along with an incredibly immersive promo campaign unlike any I’ve seen for Bratz since, like, Forever Diamondz honestly- cars emblazoned with the Bratz artwork, an animated billboard, pop up shops in Europe, a gorgeous photo shoot and even a set of massive hand sculpted Bratz mannequins along with custom OOAK celebrity dolls sent as PR and drag queens recreating the doll’s looks to promote the launch - like, this is a CAMPAIGN.

I was truly not expecting much from this launch when the listings leaked early this year, especially because Bratz’ branding has been a huge mess since 2019 and MGA seemed to care very little about the brand beyond Spencer’s merchandise and nostalgia pandering (and also because the 2018 was so frustratingly terrible- see my very impolite review here), but this line absolutely delivered for me in every way possible, both as a doll launch and especially as a Bratz launch. I don’t know who handled this collection at MGA but every aspect is infused with the essence of what made Bratz great and I feel so rewarded after waiting SO LONG for them to actually get something right. The 2001 repros definitely impressed as well but not to this degree (and we won’t talk about the tragic RA repros- though they are allegedly fixing them for the next batch so that’s nice!) I’m not going to do a full review but my friend posted one here and you can find more information about the launch from my other friend’s website Lookinbratz lol My basic summed up thoughts are as follows: -Clothing is amazing quality with unique designs, based on actual GCDS clothing pieces- the shoe and accessory sculpts are also entirely new, which is something we haven’t seen for non-2015 bratz since 2013!!! Very exciting!! -The doll herself is absolutely stunning; a brand new screening based on some of the older Bratz screenings (very similar to Secret Date with some changes in shadow and iris design), gorgeous, thick, shiny nylon hair. It’s actually surreal for me to be handling a modern Bratz doll with a screening that feels so much like the originals but with modern makeup and eyebrows. They do have UV-printed eyes, but this is largely not noticeable on the dolls themselves so I’m not bothered by it. -The box is GORGEOUS, incredibly well executed presentation. The box is so heavy and luxurious, the artwork is gorgeous and it feels so incredibly fresh while staying true to the Bratz DNA. The bottom portion turns into a large stand base, which can also be taken apart and made into a smaller rectangular base. -Quality control is excellent- I have yet to see any Yasmin dolls with flaws that I would consider unacceptable for a collector or playline doll (though Sasha’s QC seems to be worse, especially for her lipstick and hairline) And with that, here’s my Yasmin (well, one of them-I got two so I’d have an NIB one to display)

Surprisingly I didn’t wash her hair right away (which I tend to do with every doll) because she is so beautiful that I actually wanted to enjoy her without making any changes from the jump. Her hair is LONG. Like, past her ankles long, and it’s basically uncut. So while I love a doll with super long hair, once I did wash her I decided to cut an entirely new set of layers in her hair to make it look less bottom-heavy. She’s sitting like this right now until I dress her up again:

LOOK AT HER I only have a few small qualms with this launch: -They come on the 2018 body ( a hybrid of the 2001 torso, 2007 Movie Starz articulated arms and 2013 hands) which I truly dislike; the 2001 torso was outdated for it’s time and it’s incredibly archaic now, and I wish MGA would invest the time and money into either creating a new body sculpt for Bratz, or utilizing their older/better body sculpts- specifically the Sisterz Kiani body, which is proportionally very similar to the 2001 body with a more aesthetically pleasing torso and modern hip articulation. -Yasmin’s skintone is not only different from her original skintone, but also from the 2001 repro and the (orange) 2018 doll; I actually think GCDS has a much nicer skintone than the previous versions (it has a little more pink to it) but it does mean that I can’t put her on a new body, which sucks lol. This is kind of a nitpick so I’m not really that bothered by it. -I do think it would have been nice to include a second outfit, given that both Yasmin and Sasha come with very few pieces; however the pieces they do come with are very nice and made with quality materials, so I’m not super upset about it. Otherwise, this is my favorite Bratz launch in over a decade and I really hope they keep doing stuff like this for them. Considering how successful this launch has been (they sold out everywhere on launch day), I really hope MGA can take this as a sign that Bratz requires this level of effort to be good and that adult doll collectors should be their primary target audience going forward. Hopefully my GCDS Sasha dolls and Holiday Felicia will be just as stunning as Yasmin when they arrive!

#bratz #gcds #dolls #mga #bratz x gcds #bratz designer #qeued

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theliterateape · 3 years

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We Killed Jason Todd

By Matt Markman

In 1988 my friends and I killed a kid.

He was just a boy really. We had help it wasn’t just me and my pals. there were adults involved, lots of them. I mean we were young we were just thirteen and really couldn’t comprehend the ramification of our actions, the adults knew what they were doing. I’m painting it to sound way more sinister than it was, and in today’s society, wouldn’t trend on Twitter but maybe in the ’80s, it was probably considered quite ominous.

To set your mind at ease, it was Jason Todd. You know, Batman's sidekick, The Boy Wonder, Robin—well, the second Robin anyways. And I helped kill him.

I was big into comic books but my favorite was, The Dark Knight, The Caped Crusader, The Batman… He donned the best costume, he had all the money and was the most intelligent of all the superheroes. That last trait right there, the fact that he was considered a superhero and he had no actual super powers made him cooler than the other side of the pillow. You know how The Big Bang Theory has convinced the world it’s an Emmy-winning sitcom worth watching? I think it’s the fact that Batman was someone any one of us could actually be. Sure we needed to start with a base coat of genius followed by a splash of handsome billionaire playboy then train overseas in martial arts for several years, but if you had those things you, too, could be a vigilante. You ask me today and I'd stand by the fact that Batman would beat Superman in a fight, say ten out of ten times. This is not debatable because super beings from another planet are not real.

My favorite thing about Batman, though, is his ability to balance out good and evil. He spawned one of the greatest comic book villains and fictional characters ever created, The Joker. They have tried and tried again but in my opinion never got close to the Clown Prince of Crime—maybe Negan from The Walking Dead, he's pretty ruthless. The Joker is what would happen if a stand-up comedian became a criminal mastermind, so basically the plot of the 2019 film Joker.

My love for Joker made sense because growing up I was always more into the bad guys than the good guys. Watching and playing with G.I.Joe, I was always on the side of Cobra Commander, the twins Tomax and Xamot, and Zartan because they were always more glamorous and eye-catching than the boring ass Joes. Just once, I’d like that “knowing is half the battle” part at the end of the cartoon to have been Storm Shadow giving us kids a tip on how to fuck up Shipwreck and his stupid Parrot. Megatron, Skeletor, Shredder, Mumm-ra…

The list goes on, but the antagonists always resonated with me. they had a much better and more intriguing agenda than the good guys did. I know that wasn't the purpose, we were supposed to cheer on the good guys, like the idea of saving the world and all, but the mayhem… It’s like Alfred Pennyworth said, “Some men just want to watch the world burn.” It’s odd because the bad guys in my life were real, the bullies and I didn't like them at all. They tormented me daily unprovoked because I was short and had big ears. Perhaps my love for the dark side stemmed for my desire to be on that side because in real life there was no Superman swooping in to rescue me from the clutches of Lex Luthor.

There were two sides, and good had a lack of champions looking out for the weaker, smaller good guys. The bad guys in my neighborhood, well, they were real and never really foiled and more importantly, they always got the girl in the end. Fuck the good guys!

My admiration for evildoers achieving their agenda was tested in 1988, Batman was running a four-part series called A Death in the Family. It was your typical Batman arc. Somehow, The Joker was going to get the upper hand on The World’s Greatest Detective only to be bested in the end by Batman. But this time, the third comic decided to do something nobody had never seen in the industry. The writers were going to give the fans the opportunity to decide where they were going to go with the story, only it was an option between two different roads, one quite unconventional. Apparently a few years earlier, one of the writers, Dennis O'Neil, had seen a sketch they did on SNL where Eddie Murphy held up a Lobster—Larry the Lobster—and was asking viewers to decide whether Larry was boiled and eaten or was to be set free. The choices were offered in the form of two phone numbers both costing fifty cents a call. One number was a vote for him to be freed and the other number was a vote for Larry to be murdered, smothered in butter, and devoured by Axel Foley. Ultimately, after nearly 500,000 calls, the people voted for Larry the lovable lobster to be pardoned with a 12,000 call margin. The popularity of this bit intrigued O'Neil and A few years later he decided to implement it in his Death in The Family storyline.

In the third book, The Joker had taken Batman's sidekick, the Boy Wonder, hostage. He’d beaten him bloody with a crowbar leaving a cliffhanger to be wrapped up in the fourth book. The last page of the comic was full page and at the top read in true ’80s Do the Right Thing fashion: “Robin will die because The Joker wants revenge, but you can prevent it with a telephone call!” They even phrased it to steer you down the hero’s path, like you can literally be Batman with one phone call. Underneath the imploring verbiage were two numbers, dial one number; The Joker fails and Robin lives, Batman would once somehow saves the day. However, call this other number and The Joker succeeds and Robin dies. Gruesomely.

Wow! They were going to let the fans decide the fate of Robin, really this was one of my earliest introductions to a reality voting competition type show. In my opinion, it was a bad idea. Robin was always the worst. Go back and read through an adventure or two involving Jason Todd and tell me he wasn't always whiney and bellyaching. He was never going to be iconic or cool like Bruce Wayne or even his predecessor Dick Grayson—the first Robin. See, Dick got pissed off, decided he was tired of being in Batman's shadow, ditched the Robin costume, threw on a black blue and gold costume, moved to another city and became Nightwing. Dick was a go getter, ambitious. Grayson’s Robin was a winner, Todd's Robin was an irritating little bitch; he was not an innocent lobster.

I went to my mother and asked if I could make a call that was going to cost just fifty cents and I would pay her back or she could just take it out of my allowance. She wanted to know what it was for and mostly wanted to confirm it wasn't for an adult sex line, which costs more than fifty cents a minute, but that’s a different story. It was nothing as tawdry as phontercourse, I just wanted to help murder an annoying teenage sidekick. My mother response was “Oh, yeah, that’s fine.”

I think after it was exposed that it wasn't phone sex anything else I said went in one ear and out the other, surely she didn't think I was actually voting for a plucky comic book sidepiece to be murdered by The Joker. So that’s what I did. I cast my vote along with a majority of DC comic book fans that shared my detest for the boy wonder. Ten thousand votes were recorded with a narrow margin going to Robin dying. I think the writers never suspected that fans would go that route.

O’Neal himself voted for Robin’s stay of execution. A man of his word, Batman issue #429 was released and Robin was killed by The Joker in an explosion and we were to blame for it. Sad to say but you give a bunch of comic book nerds the power I think it would go bad every time. That day we were all proud to be The Joker's henchmen. I felt like a soldier at the end of Star Wars cheering madly while The Joker received his metal shouting, “I helped that happen!”

So many shows these days embrace our fascination with the anti-hero with the success of The Sopranos, The Shield, Breaking Bad, hell Narcos had me rooting for Pablo Escobar—Pablo fucking Escobar. I wouldn't say I was a bad person growing up. Quite the contrary, I was a shy nerd with no power to do anything but pick my books up after they were smacked to the ground. What I’m saying is don't give me the power to make important life or death decisions with your franchise because myself and the other dorks will have the bodies of Orko, Snarf, and Jimmy Olson lying in a shallow grave, just tell me what number to dial… or text.

Matt started performing standup comedy in 2004 in Las Vegas and is now a regular at every major comedy club on the Las Vegas strip. He released his first comedy album in 2016 titled Uncut available on iTunes. More about Matt and his upcoming appearances can be found on MattMarkman.com.

#Matt Markman #Matt Markman Comedian #Matt Markman Comedian Las Vegas #Las Vegas Comedians #G.I. Joe #Skeletor #Joker #Batman #Joker kills Robin #Jason Todd

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madimoo31 · 3 years

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Happy pride month!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 (I know im super late with this sorry)

A special thanks to the She Ra Uncut discord who helped pick out the outfits for this piece!!

My inbox is always open for art suggestions and you can find all of my works on Instagram under the same username!

#love them #it’s homophobic if you don’t support me #catradora #she ra #spop #she ra and the princess of power #pride month #lesbians #adora #catra #gay cartoons #cartoons #Netflix #she ra netflix #my art

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mybrainproblems · 3 years

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Top 5 Comfort Characters

I was tagged by @darkshrimpemotions (danke!) and this was... kind of interesting to think about because I have comfort shows/movies more than actual characters. So! I have made an attempt and tried not to overthink!

(In no particular order)

Garnet, Steven Universe

I have not watched past s3 except for a couple episodes but. Fusion gem. Ruby and Sapphire... Stronger Than You... the wedding... she's made of love... she really got me through some shit in 2015/2016.

Scorpia, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

She's a great hugger and an amazing friend. She is just the embodiment of friendship; literally friend-shaped. Watching her interact with other characters makes me feel like I'm being enveloped in one of her hugs. Just... pure unconditional love. I want her to be my friend and aspire to be a friend like her.

Catra, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

She's awful and toxic and does terrible things and is still loved and redeemed in the end. The catharsis of her redemption and the fact that her and Adora's gay love for each other saved the universe made me ugly cry on and off for two days. I still get choked up when I think about the finale. I love my problematic lesbian.

Dean Winchester, Supernatural

(Shocker, I know) Middle-aged toxic and closeted gays with all of your vices and psychological bullshit dialed up to 11 is something that is just so personal. I am destroyed by destiel and the idea that good things do happen to people who have a lot of baggage and have done some awful shit. I reject the finale and accept sinnabonka's fic Hope as the canon ending. Also, watching s1e3 made me realize I need to get back into therapy and that I want to transition. Have I made any attempt to do either of those and not just try to work out my shit by watching an awful tv show? Absolutely not. Have I mentioned that I'm terminally deancoded?

Y Tu Mamá También

Yes yes I know I'm cheating and this is a movie and not a single character but the relationship between Tenoch and Julio and the whole coming of age ~vibe~ of the film is so comforting to me. It's my go-to when I'm in a funk. Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal knocked it out of the park and Maribel Verdú is amazing as an outsider pulled into their friendship. I HIGHLY recommend watching but you need to make sure you get the unrated/uncut version. To me, this is the perfect film.

[film ending spoilers below]

What isn't comforting about boy best friends roadtripping through Mexico with an older woman who they both want to (and do) have sex with? You might ask if there's a common denominator with the above characters. Well, one of the last scenes is Tenoch and Julio making out and strongly implying they have sex. Which yes, it destroys their friendship but it's a truly phenomenal film where the ending makes NO SENSE in the R-rated US release because they cut the scene of them kissing and just skip to the next morning.

#there are.... trends here.#spot the disorders

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titusmoody · 3 years

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2021 Q2 stuff

Games

Return of the Obra Dinn -- Very different. A great experience to play, it doesn’t use any typical “gamer” skills or knowledge. It also hit on a lot of my personally prefered sensibilities (stories self-contained to ships, non-linear storytelling, mysteries, and meticulous attention to detail)

Kentucky Route Zero -- Even more different. I’m glad I played it for the atmosphere, though it didn’t click with me the way Obra Dinn did. Extremely atmospheric and cool, but also has a strong academic curiosity to it.

DOOM (2016)-- Okay, we’re back to regular video games. Everything about this one seems very carefully crafted. I had a good, mindless time with this one.

Spider-Man -- Not as well-crafted as DOOM, but also less juvenile. I also had a good, mindless time with this one.

Metroid: Samus Returns -- Feels like Metroid. The moment-to-moment combat is different than Super Metriod and Fusion, which is a nice way to keep things from getting stale.

Shadow and Bone -- Sometimes tropes exist because they make for good stories. This show was a good example of that.

Pani Poni Dash -- WTF Japan, in a good way

Princess Tutu -- Much like I felt about Cowboy Bebop, this show was very well-made and I had an easy time appreciating what it was doing, though in the end it’s not the kind of thing that’s really for me

Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid -- Pleasant to watch, mostly lighthearted but could definitely have emotional moments here and there to keep you interested.

Kakegurui -- Shows like this are the reason anime fans are so self-depricating. It was thoroughly trashy, but I’d be lying if I said that the trashiness didn’t lead to a lot of fun.

Love, Chunibyo, and other Delusions -- An excellent comfort-watch. About a high-schooler trying to run away from his cringe-y middle school phase. I definitely have criticisms of it, but I’m also definitely going to watch it again.

Devilman Crybaby -- I swear, Masaaki Uasa takes the most overdone premises and portrays them in such bonkers ways that they become pretty cool. This isn’t one of the best examples of that, but it still works.

Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket -- Part of Gundam’s brand is that it shows the effect of wars on individuals. This is a great small-scale example of that.

She-Ra -- It’s good. The plot kinda meanders and the backstory lore is presented confusingly/unclearly at times. But the central characters are good enough to carry at least a few seasons, and the secondary characters really elevate the whole thing. I was personally very fond of Scorpia as well as the way the writers used Entrapta both in the plot and as a character foil.

Chernobyl -- Second time watching this, it’s definitely a favorite.

Movies

Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again -- You already know what this is like and whether or not you enjoy the sort of thing it is.

Moulin Rouge -- It’s hard to watch Mamma Mia without thinking of this one, so I watched it soon after.

Minari -- My personal reward for being fully vaccinated was to go to the movies by myself. This was a good movie, though overshadowed by the circumstances in which I saw it. I would’ve been very happy to be seeing anything.

My Fair Lady -- An iconic pop-culture touchstone. Not my favorite musical, for sure.

Interstellar -- This movie is in the odd position of currently being my favorite Christopher Nolan movie despite the fact that I don’t like it nearly as much as I liked either The Dark Knight or Memento when I saw those for the first time.

The Perfect Storm -- George Clooney, big wave.

Legally Blonde -- I didn’t hear the term “sitcom” until oddly late in life, and when I heard it, I assumed it meant movies like this where there aren’t a ton of jokes, but the characters are constantly in inherently funny situations. I don’t like this type of humor that much.

Jurassic Park -- A big “moral” of the movie was “don’t trust computers to do anything important” but today it’s hard not to get the message as “never underpay your system administrator” instead.

Apollo 13 -- Pretty good

ET -- I really didn’t like this movie and I don’t quite know what it doesn’t do that Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones do. Imminent danger seem to be part of it, but I don’t think that’s the whole picture.

The Day After Tomorrow -- *shrug* I had fun watching it

Pearl Harbor -- expected it to be bad, it was bad. It was definitely bad in interesting ways, and was almost good a lot of the time.

Die Hard -- I was looking for suspenseful movies with clear character motivation and this fit the description. It was good, though I didn’t like it quite as much as I hoped to.

Star Trek V -- Star Trek is often silly and I just can’t get on board with some of the silliness, like the last part of this movie.

Terminator 2 -- Yeah, I do like suspense. I don’t think I’ll look back on this as a favorite, but I was pretty into it. Moreso than Die Hard.

Cast Away -- Pretty good

Predator -- Somewhere between Die Hard and Terminator 2. I was a bit bored by the end, which ironically was the part that most closely resembled what I was looking for.

Braveheart -- I think romanticising medieval Europe is fun and cool. Unfortunately this movie has some creepy sexual hang-ups as well as rampant “no step on snek” energy that ruin the whole thing.

Redline -- Just a cool looking movie

State of Play -- I forgot the whole plot of this already, but I enjoyed it

Troy -- It’s not as bad as its reputation suggests, though the end does get really over-the-top cheesy

Demon Slayer -- I liked going to the movies by myself so much the first time that I did it again. This time it was in a much more full theater and I was one of very few people over 17. Fun action anime movie, though.

Gladiator -- I’m so disappointed that I didn’t connect to this movie, since over and over I felt like I was very close to loving it. I think the revenge motivation was what ultimately prevented me from really getting into it.

K-19: The Widowmaker -- Hell yeah, extremely tense submarine scenes, that’s exactly what I wanted.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004) -- The movie felt like it wanted its premise to feel plausible, but it really didn’t. Still pretty good, though

The Big Lebowski -- Still not a big fan of this one.

The Naked Gun -- This confirms that my sense of humor has not gotten more refined since age 17 or so. I still thought this was pretty funny.

Dances With Wolves -- Mostly just boring.

Angels and Demons -- Even at age 15 the book’s riddles and clues premise felt a bit too contrived. The movie has the additional disadvantage that verbal explanations are the most boring way to resolve questions, unlike books where words are all you have.

Chinatown -- Meh, a fine detective story but nothing really clicked with me. The director’s life is wild, though. He escaped the holocaust, had his pregnant wife murdered by the Manson family, and is currently a fugitive from justice for raping a 13 year old.

The Core -- Like The Perfect Storm, appealing in the “so bad it’s good” way.

Porco Rosso -- Think the type of character study of Kiki’s Delivery Service, but about a middle-aged man, so it doesn’t resonate with Miyazaki’s audience enough for many people to talk about it.

Uncut Gems -- My second time watching it, it’s definitely a favorite. Between this and A Serious Man, I seem to love extremely stressful movies about mediocre jewish men.

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) -- Interesting to compare/contrast with the other version. I like both

Galaxy Quest -- another movie that fits my personal definition of what “sitcom” should mean. Again, not my favorite type of humor

Fantastic Planet -- Looks like something between the animated sketches in Monty Python and Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Very weird, it personally really worked for me.

Scarface -- I think romanticising organized crime is fun and cool.

In the Heights -- colorful, catchy, happy and fun.

Books

The House in the Cerulean Sea -- a good comfort-read. very simplistic and a little clunky and amateur-ish, but ultimately pretty cute.

There There -- not a comfort-read at all. A super raw look at the modern life of a variety of Native American situations. Very harsh but also interesting.

Six of Crows -- Fine YA fantasy fluff.

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filigods · 3 years

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Top 5’s of 2020

tagged by @khliorah!!

this has uhhh not been a good year mentally so most of what i was reading and watching was based on comfort. I think I did read and watch some new things at the beginning of the year though?

Top 5 Movies you saw this year

1. Did I watch any movies this year

2. Parasite

3. The first third or half (?) of uncut gems. my sensory issues wouldn’t let me watch any further but i believe all you film people when you say it’s good.

4. I know I watched kiki’s delivery service on my birthday because I had never seen it

Top 5 TV shows you watched this year

1. So many rewatches

2. She-ra

3. Queen’s gambit

4. Umbrella academy

Top 5 songs of 2020

1. Not a song but a whole album: Forward, Children: A Fundraiser for Durham Public Schools students by Hiss Golden Messenger

2. Show Pony by Orville Peck

3. Some songs I listened to a lot: just a fool by jim james (not 2020), nail my feet down to the south side of town by lee bains III and the glory fires (also not 2020), the wall & I by nation of language (trying to throw a 2020 song in there)

Top 5 books you read in 2020

1. I swear I read some books this summer I just can’t remember them

2. uh the murderbot diaries

3. I bet I reread stuff instead of reading new stuff didn’t I

4. Lovecraft country

5. Station eleven

6. To be fair I read a lot of essays and had more than one hyperfocus-driven 6-hour Google/Wikipedia binge

5 positive things that happened in 2020

1. started cooking more chinese restaurant dishes because i finally built up a decent collection of shelf-stable ingredients

2. went on several good walks

3. saw more snow than usual this year I think?

4. Went to the mountains for a couple of days last february

5. I am indefinitely borrowing my bf’s switch; I don’t have a lot of experience with games but i got very absorbed in a handful of them (hades, night in the woods, a short hike, animal crossing)

i have also NOT been communicating with people this year but this one goes out to all of you i still see around but fail to talk to. ily <3. tagging @iwritesometimes (to make up for all the other tagged memes that i keep forgetting to do!!), @holyknuckled, @trinketappreciator, @loamfaun

#minorselfieairheads

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swearyshera · 2 years

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The crew and I are proud to present Episode 1 of She-Ra Uncut! Thanks to Tumblr’s file size limit, this is in two parts (second part should post any moment) and in lower quality. But good news! You can download it in full quality here https://1drv.ms/v/s!AsPAyUCWoZ4Nx6p8YZic4fSO7WiL7A?e=pUi0OJ

There’s also a subtitle file for this video: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsPAyUCWoZ4Nx6p7mzlZP8OjLrKr8A?e=XSWIiS

(And yes, I know the audio is not perfect - that’s mostly my fault and we’ve already improved it for our shorts and second episode)

#she-ra #shera #spop #spopedit #shera uncut #Adora #angella #bow #catra #glimmer #light hope

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estrogeneeyore · 3 years

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#she ra #she ra uncut #spop

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irvanilla · 3 years

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Watch "She-Ra Uncut Livestream" on YouTube

Also streaming on youtube!👀

#spop #shera #she ra

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reeny-chan · 3 years

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Hi all! I’m still working hard on the latest chapter of my SPOP novel “The Last Hero of Eternia”, and while I’ve still got a lot of work to do, I wanted to share a sneak peek of the upcoming chapter, “Purpose”:

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Once the ship jumped to hyperwarp, Adora laid her hands in her lap. She sat there, silently, apparently staring at the telemetry being projected before her.

“Adora.”

She did not turn to Catra when she spoke. “Adora…what happened to you down there?”

Adora did not answer. Did not stir.

“Adora they…they used Shadow Weaver against me. Down there. What did they do to you?”

Adora finally turned to her. Catra could see her eyes were still deep red. It was incredibly unsettling. “A lot happened to me. Down there.”

“Yeah, I can see that,” Catra said. “Adora, you said - after we landed, before we went in that place - if something…happened to you, you wanted us to… Well, you never got to finish it, but-“

“I’m fine,” Adora interrupted. She stood and turned toward Catra. Her She-Ra form vanished, leaving her standing there in her usual red jacket and gray leggings. Her irises were still red, not their normal blue. The sight made Catra shudder. “Some - things happened, but I dealt with them.”

“I can see that,” Catra said. There was a moment of silence between them, and then Catra stepped forward and took Adora’s hand. “Adora…”

Adora pulled her hand from Catra’s. “I said I’m fine,” she said flatly.

The two of them stared at each other for a long moment, before the rear hatch opened. They both turned to see Scorpia starting to enter.

“Guys, there’s…” Scorpia stopped. She looked at Catra, and then Adora. Then back to Catra. “Umm…” she started. After another pregnant silence, she said, “Never mind.” She turned and left the command deck.

The command deck door closed behind Scorpia, and the sound of it made her feel as if something had slammed shut within her. She was starting to feel really claustrophobic now. She’d been thrown out of the med bay, where Glimmer and Entrapta were. And she guessed Bow was still there, too, since she didn’t see him in the corridor.

She apparently wasn’t welcome in the command deck with whatever was going on between Catra and Adora.

Were they mad at her? She’d been separated from them on the planet, and she knew that wasn’t her fault. But so much had apparently happened to them while she was stuck trying to break through all those rooms to find them. And Hordak…maybe they were mad at her because Hordak wouldn’t have gotten hurt if she’d gotten to them sooner.

It was a small ship, with not many places for her to go. After weighing her options, she decided to retire to her room. Upon entering she realized how small it felt. It shouldn’t have felt that small; Entrapta promised her it was the same size as everyone else’s. Then again, she was twice the size of everyone else.

It felt tiny, and lonely.

She opened the stand by her bed and pulled out her large-handled communicator. There were two messages waiting.

She selected the first one, by a tiny photo of Perfuma.

Hey sweetie! How is the pursuit going?

Just wanted to let you know I’m feeling lots better. Your special tea and a little bit of mugwort really makes a nice healing elixir. Plus it helped me a lot because it made me think of you.

Please call or message any time you want to talk. No pressure, I know it’s got to be a really exciting and busy trip, but I’m always here if you want to talk.

And I like to see you and hear your voice.

I love you

Perfuma

Scorpia sighed and hugged the communicator to her chest. She needed that right now. No matter what was going on here, she knew she had Perfuma to return to. And with any luck, they’d be together again in just a few days.

She looked at the communicator again and selected the second unread message, indicated by the letter “C”.

Chancellor Cobalt reporting.

Please contact me at earliest availability. Non-emergency, but given your sudden departure, some in our command chain need reassurance you are still in command.

Cobalt out.

Scorpia sighed. She wasn’t surprised, to be honest. With nearly all the people in charge of her new kingdom being former Horde, they were used to power struggles and quick, frequent changes in the command structure.

“Duty calls,” she muttered. She selected Cobalt’s icon and clicked the control stick.

The device beeped once, twice, three times…and then Cobalt’s face appeared. Always hard to read, she couldn’t tell if she was seeing relief or annoyance in his countenance.

“Cobalt here, Your Highness.”

“Hey Cobalt,” Scorpia said. “Tell them that I’m fine and I’m on my way back. Should just be a few more days.”

“Understood,” Cobalt replied. “Was your mission successful?”

“I…it was…” Scorpia glanced toward the door, and visualized the people beyond. It hadn’t been a smooth victory and…things weren’t so great right now, but… “Yes, it was successful.”

“Excellent. That will definitely help maintain your standing with the troops. They’ve been sharing stories of the battle in the Reach. It was good for morale for them to finally be able to participate in battle again. Even if it was alongside their former enemies.”

Scorpia nodded. “That’s, um…that’s great.” She took a deep breath. “Anything else to report?”

“The first shipments of food have arrived from Albara. It’s helping reduce the strain on the new farms, and we’ve reduced the drain on our ration stocks by 50%. And they…there was a - gift of some kind for you that came with the shipment.”

“Oooo, a gift?” Scorpia said. The idea of that helped raise her mood, if only a little.

“That’s what they called it. To be honest, we thought it was some kind of bioweapon, the way it smells. They said it was ‘cheese’.”

“Oh,” Scorpia said, the word drawn out in mild confusion. “Okay. Tell them…um, say I said thanks, I guess.”

Cobalt nodded. “We ended up having to seal it up to stop it from stinking up the entire compound. It’s in cold storage now. You can decide what to do with it whenever you get back.”

“Okay,” Scorpia said, not at all excited. “Great.”

“One more thing. I wasn’t going to bother you with this until you got back, but since communications are now open I think you should know. There’s a - delegation from one of the tribes that lived in the Fright Zone before the Horde. They arrived the morning after you left for the Reach, and asked to see you personally. I told them you were off-planet and they could return after you did, but they insisted on waiting here.”

“Really?” Scorpia said. “I didn’t think any of the old tribes were still around.”

“Apparently it was a well-kept secret,” Cobalt said. “I didn’t even know about it.”

“Well,” Scorpia said, sighing and taking another look around her, “I can talk to them now. I probably won’t have much else to do for a while.”

“I was actually going to suggest that,” Cobalt said. “Especially in this case.”

Scorpia’s brow furrowed. “What do you mean ‘in this case’?”

“They call themselves ‘Scorpioni’, and they, um…they look a lot like you.”

Scorpia gasped. She practically jumped off the bunk. “Scorpioni? Really?”

Cobalt nodded in his unflappable manner. “Yes, Your Highness.”

“Can I talk to them now?”

“They’re roaming the compound. I’ll have them brought here immediately.”

“Oh, I’ve gotta tell Perfuma!” Scorpia said, practically squealing. Then, when she saw Cobalt’s raised eyebrow, she cleared her throat and said. “Call me back when you find them, please.”

“Understood. Cobalt out.”

Cobalt’s image was replaced with the text message that had prompted her to call him.

Scorpia was shaking. It made it difficult for her to manipulate the communicator’s controls to select Perfuma’s icon.

When she finally initiated the call, she was practically bouncing on the bunk, her prior worries all but forgotten.

Perfuma’s face appeared on screen. “Hi Scorpia! How’s the mission going?”

Scorpia felt the pit in her stomach grow. The worries came flooding back. For a blissful moment, she’d forgotten all that had happened. She knew she needed to tell Perfuma about it all. She wanted to tell her. But for now…

“It’s...okay,” she finally said. “We caught Adam.”

“That’s wonderful!” Perfuma said. “And fast, too! You’ve only been gone a few days!”

“Well, apparently he came from a planet not too far away from ours.”

“Eternia?” Perfuma said.

“No, it was…’Cruller’, or something like that. Kind of a messed up place. But listen, I have even better news! I found out who my people are! People who look like me! And know what else? They’re still around, and they’re waiting to meet me! At Horror Hall!”

Perfuma gasped. “Really? That’s incredible, sweetie! I’m so happy for you!”

The communicator beeped twice, and an icon appeared in the upper left corner. “Oh, oh, that’s them! That’s them! Bye, I love you, see you soon!”

“O-okay! Love you too! Good luck!”

Scorpia clicked the call over. “Cobalt?”

“The delegate is here,” Cobalt said. “One moment.” The image shifted.

Scorpia stared at the screen with excitement, and then when she saw the delegate, her eyes went as wide as they possibly could.

“Princess Scorpia. I’m so glad to finally meet you.”

Scorpia brought a pincer to her mouth, and tears started welling in her eyes. She then touched her pincer to the screen.

“Mom?”

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Conspicuous Media Consumption, 2020

it’s that time of year again! *saddest toot from the party horn*

for those of you just joining us: it’s a “consume a different content every week for 48 weeks of the year” challenge. for a longer explanation, check out last year’s write-up here, and as always, feel free to pop in and ask questions about any and all of this content.

(same disclaimer as last year too: content for this project ONLY here, and not certain...*looks at my billion Sad Cop Lady posts*...hyperfixations.)

(man remember when i was big into X-Men comics earlier this year? better times than these, if only because no one's discoursing about Emma Frost’s woobie/war criminal ratio anymore--her w/w, if you will)

(...i swear at one point i didn’t exclusively like platinum blondes but alas)

Bitter Root (comic, 1 issue finished 1/1/2020): still very cool on a basic concept level, but runs into the Image Comics problem of just not having enough content to keep my interest beyond that. part of that is on me, for picking it up again BEFORE the second arc rolled out, but the first five issues didn’t really follow (or resolve) any cohesive story either, so...meh.

Immortal Hulk (comic, 3 trades finished 1/17/2020): still not gonna be something i care deeply about (maybe one of Bruce’s Hulksonas dyed his hair???), but i do want to give kudos to Al Ewing for sheer consistency in terms of sustaining this level of quality storytelling month by month for more than two years now. working with the dense archive of the Hulk mythos and managing to make it interesting and thoughtful is impressive even if i personally would not expend the same effort.

Disco Elysium (game, finished 1/18/2020): honestly i should have twigged onto what this year was gonna be like when the third thing i drew from the barrel was pure uncut Eastern European flavored depression. i faintly recall people ragging on it for being pretentiously cynical, but i actually thought its core slid more towards idealism than people give it credit for. also gratified that i haven’t heard anything about Robert Kurvitz using slave labor to finish it, which is a thing we have to say about our video games now!!! fun.

Watchmen (TV, 7 episodes finished 1/27/2020): i am a fool who wants to believe in Damon Lindelof and I WAS RIGHT!!! honestly still cannot believe that he pulled off this highwire act with such deft aplomb. might be my favorite TV this year, which is a pretty high bar given how much TV i ended up watching.

On a Sunbeam (comic, finished 2/1/2020): Tillie Walden rightly deserves all the praise for inventive queer storytelling, but i will say that on reread--since i first read this as a webcomic--there ARE some issues with pacing here that clearly come from the foibles of its original intended medium. still just excellent, even if after some plot significant haircuts i was having trouble telling a few folks apart.

Lazarus (comic, 1 trade finished 2/8/2020): it’s so good and i want moooooorrrreee--though obviously Rucka and Lark have the right to take all the time they need. the newer longer issues work really well with the epic prestige drama vibes of the story! i’m into it.

The Good Place (TV, 4 seasons finished 2/18/2020): i’m gonna be super honest: i actually wasn’t a big fan of the finale, nor the last season as a whole. it felt like all of Eleanor’s flaws vanished for a majority of the season, and the Chidi-centric episode where they tried to give a legible justification for why he’s Like This was...i didn’t care for it. still, it’s so good and unique on the WHOLE that we’ll literally never get anything like this ever again, and that counts for a lot.

The Old Republic (game, finished 2/21/2020): it’s an MMO so it will never actually Be Finished so long as the servers aren’t shut down, but i caught up on the content i’d missed in the intervening months. Onslaught thus far has mostly been...kinda bland tbh; going back to Imps vs. Rebs after all the shakeups in the previous expansions feels like a waste.

High Road (album, finished 2/22/2020): someone should tell Kesha not to say that word!! otherwise i was very happy with this album, and happy FOR her even though we don’t know each other. being able to find joy again in the same genre of music you made while you were being horrifically exploited is very cool.

Young Justice (TV, 13 episodes finished 2/28/2020): given how much the middle stuff dragged--STOP KILLING YOUR HIJABI CHARACTER IN HORRIFIC WAYS--i was...actually kinda mad by how the end managed to stick the landing anyway. the day being saved by Vic’s self-acceptance and Violet’s sublime compassion was A+, and even the Brion/Tara switchup was a pleasant surprise, though it relied on me caring about Brion MUCH MORE than i actually did.

Manic (album, finished 2/29/2020): do people still care for/about Halsey? i feel like even That One Song that was on every tumblr gifset ever has kinda faded into obscurity at this point. this album was...okay. i feel like people give Halsey a pass for extremely obvious lyrical turns that they wouldn’t for other folks because of her subject material--which is fine. not really my cup of tea, but i also listened to lots of Relient K this year, so that’s probably a good thing.

Jade Empire (game, 3/10/2020): the only 3D-era Bioware game that didn’t franchise out, and for good fucking reason!!! the Orientalism and appropriation really haven’t aged well, and even beyond that the story was...standard Bioware faire. even my usual “my wife’s a bitch i love her” Bioware type didn’t do it for me, and i just ended up romancing no one. it did make me think a lot about what level of cultural borrowing is accepted nowadays, and why: people still look fondly at Avatar and talk about how ~accurate and respectful it was, for example, despite it being staffed almost entirely by white folks, and the Orientalism ALL OVER the monk class in DND is still fine for some reason.

Alif the Unseen (book, finished 3/31/2020): interesting to have read this AFTER reading The Bird King last year, because it highlights how the intervening years have shifted G. Willow Wilson’s thematic interest and improved her craft. i’m actually quite fond of how her characterization work is rougher here--Alif is extremely flawed to the point of being insufferable, but it makes his development by the end more satisfying. Dina is also just good and i love her

Baldur’s Gate (2 games, finished 5/31/2020): well, having finally finished the series i’m happy to say that it...still doesn’t really do it for me, sorry. any awesome story moments were overshadowed by the EXCRUCIATING inventory management system and the combat (i still don’t know what a THAC0 is and at this point i’m afraid to find out). these games crucially lack the Home Base that later Bioware games were so good about, and that (coupled with the huge cast of characters you can drop off and never see again) really hurts the intimacy for me. by the time we finally did get one it was the Hell Dimension in Throne of Bhaal, and i was just...trying to get through it. (yes, i did just say that about one of the most beloved expansions ever to one of the most beloved games ever.) THIS particular iteration of “my wife’s a bitch i love her” was very good, but the game wouldn’t let me romance her :(

The Underground Railroad (book, finished 6/19/2020): honestly what is there even left to say at this point! it was exactly as good as every critic on the planet said it was, even with my usual aversion to hype. draining and horrifying in turns but still insistent upon a future for Black folks.

Steven Universe (6 seasons and a mooooooviiieeee, finished 7/11/2020): yes, i DID finish the show and almost immediately begin a rewatch. this series is now one of my top five most formative things, and the amount of love and respect i have for it is incalculable. that said: i once again did not love how the central conflict of Future was resolved (just the resolution--i loved the finale just fine). for all of Steven’s breakdown was built up, resolving it with “EVERYONE HUG HIM UNTIL HE CRIES” felt...cheap, especially since up until this point the show had been so good about treating trauma and mental illness with the respect and nuance it deserves. it made me wish some of the earlier, less substantial episodes had been cut so we could spend more time at the end.

What It Is (comic, finished 8/19/2020): y’all i love Lynda Barry SO MUCH. for the longest time i was worried that One Hundred Demons was more a lightning in a bottle situation but every book of hers i pick up makes me feel obscure emotions i didn’t even realize existed. the compassionate way she’s able to describe her child self and how weird and fucked up she was (and still is) is honestly aspirational.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (TV, 5 seasons finished 9/26/2020): so here’s a reversal of what i’ve been complaining about with other shows: i was mostly lukewarm-to-warm about She-Ra, but the later seasons and the finale made me much more into it as a whole. more shows should improve in stakes and overall quality as they age tbh!! i still don’t actively love Catradora (my sole quibble with season 5 actually has to do with the way Adora kept backsliding as a character to make certain Plot/Relationship things happen), but i’m very happy for them nonetheless. i can certainly appreciate a show that will go for High Feeling over tight plot. dark horse standout moments: trees growing everywhere proving that Perfuma Was Right, and Hordak and Adora seeing each other--that weirdly intimate moment of recognition.

Fetch the Bolt Cutters (album, finished 10/7/2020): again i find myself not having much to say that no one else has said. it’s good! once again love it when an artist reclaims something they’d attached with negative affect (anxiety, depression, disordered eating) for better and brighter things.

Solutions and Other Problems (comic, finished 10/25/2020): i was very into Allie Brosh’s ambition with this book, which feels weird to say but i stand by it. it’s cool to see an artist try to make a new medium work for them instead of just sticking to what already works. not all the experimentation was 100% effective, but it was still delightful and occasionally devastating to read, so.

Legend of Zelda (3 games: Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, Link Between Worlds, finished 11/1/2020): this was the third time i’d played Ocarina of Time, which made it the nice, comforting groove i settled into before Majora’s Mask blatted me in the face. i’m not usually a completionist Zelda person because...the gameplay in Zelda is bad, do not at me it just is, but i really felt like i HAD to be one for Majora’s Mask since the whole point is to get attached to the banalities of the town. i’m sure nobody’s surprised that i loved it, even if it gave me an existential crisis about how life goes on in the game for NPCs when you’re not there to save them from it, and there’s not enough time to save them all all the time (also not a surprise to anyone: Romani and Cremia gave Personal Feelings). Link Between Worlds...bad. not like in a “this is a bad story by every measurable gauge” way, but i was already struggling with the 2D playstyle shift enough that for the whole story to end with some “yes it’s v sad that Lorule is Like This but trying to steal Hyrule’s privilege is Even Worse Actually” noblesse oblige bullshit left a VERY poor taste in my mouth, this year of all years. i did audibly gasp when Ravio took off his mask, though. i’m currently playing Breath of the Wild in cautious increments; it’s the first time i’ve enjoyed early Zelda gameplay, but if they wanted fully voiced cutscenes i wish they got voice actors who...knew what words sound like.

folklore (album, finished 11/6/2020): my belief that Taylor Swift is Just Fine continues, i’m afraid. i LIKED this album, don’t get me wrong, and respect her constant drive to innovate, but i didn’t love it substantially more or less than any other Taylor Swift album. mostly i’m just tickled by how she thinks leaning into the indie aesthetic means borrowing Vita Sackville-West’s entire wardrobe, though i will admit to feeling Something when she swore in a song. i think it was like. savage vindication?? you go ahead and swear, Taylor Swift. you deserve it.

Shore (album, finished 11/19/2020): do people still care about the Fleet Foxes? i think there was some Drama with Josh Tillman a while back but i don’t remember where the discourse landed with who was being more problematic. it was nostalgic for me to listen to their new album--made me remember being an undergrad who exclusively listened to men who mumbled and played acoustic guitar all over again.

Star Wars (3 movies: original trilogy, finished 11/27/2020): there is So Much bad Star Wars these days that every time i rewatch the original trilogy i’m afraid that they will suddenly be bad, but guess what! they’re not. i love these children and their hot mess stories, i love that Lando doesn’t know how to say his best friend’s name. what stood out to me this time was the way Obi-Wan described the Force in A New Hope, which strongly implied that ANYONE can be Force Sensitive; that obviously faded with each subsequent movie, but part of me does wish they’d kept it.

X of Swords (comics, 22 issues finished 12/5/2020): i am enjoying Hickman’s X-lines!!! not so much here for the Grand Conspiracy or whatever, but the character work and highkey weirdness is fabulous--they FEEL like X-Men, despite all the shakeups in-universe. this crossover is a nice microcosm of all that: grandiloquently all over the place, but still full of cool standout moments and genuine hilarity. ILLYANA DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO SPELL MAGIC.

Fire Emblem (4 games: Sacred Stones, Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn, Awakening, finished 12/14/2020): this was the thing that i was closest to giving up early on, but i ended up hyperfixating on it instead. that’s a credit to what the gameplay does to my lizard brain more than anything else, because the story and character writing is...insipid. it was very bizarre to witness this franchise blunder around with its animal-people racism allegory around the same time i was getting back into RWBY, and ITS animal-people racism allegory blunders. Awakening was the first time i felt anything for the franchise beyond “teehee red units disappear make exp bar go up and brain go ding,” so i’m excited for more mature storytelling in subsequent games (they MUST get better. they MUST). the child husbandry thing is...very bad tho, and Apotheosis being “challenging” entirely through the game changing all the rules is also bad.

once again no vidya games that came out this year--i’ll probably pick up Spiritfarer or Hades after the New Year, though (or maybe TLOU II! but probably not. sry Laura and Ashley). more TV and franchises this year, which made me feel In Touch with the Children but was also kinda exhausting. nothing was so egregiously terrible i dropped it without finishing! in a year like this that feels almost like an accomplishment

#conspicuous media consumption

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