MARIEJORDAN NATION WE NEED TO RALLY BC WHY WOULD THEY CUT THIS

marie's grip on jordan's jacket oh it's actually so over for us all that is HER PERSON!!

jelly hair

a hairstyle with loose and half-tied versions!

it's compatible with all overlays for @raccoonium's hairs: ~ split colour (non-ponytail versions) ~ ombre (non-ponytail versions) ~ roots ~ raccoontails (shaded versions) ~ peekaboo ~ Crystallum and Eos Iridescent recolours (basic versions) ~ hairband (for the tied version) most overlays require CASUnlocks to enable occult skin detail categories for normal sims!

~ teen-elder, all frames, masc+fem meshes ~ 24 EA colours ~ hat compatible ~ loose version: 10290/2927/1361/885 polys ~ tied version: 11068/3217/1437/885 polys

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2023 Brazilian Grand Prix - Podium - Fernando Alonso

I love you NPCs in Tears of the Kingdom getting surprised when you move stuff close to them I love you Minecraft dogs shaking themselves dry after being drenched in water I love you Sims 2 Sims giggling after calling in sick to work I love you Oshawott throwing its scallop in the air and catching it in its Black and White idle animations I love you Sooza from MSM looking out of breath after playing its part I love you Virtual Villagers doing their laundry once the second hut has been built I love you tiny details in games that aren't necessary to gameplay but give it personality

All I'm gonna say about the karaoke scene is that I'm not very disappointed/surprised at the news? I never once thought we were ever going to get a full Buddie performance anyways? It would be a short scene of them singing at best so I'm not sure why people are shocked to hear it's been cut 😅. The promos didn't exclusively hype up the karaoke scene imo. It was just showing the shenanigans they got into. I didn't think it was going to focus on the karaoke scene specifically. I just knew we were going to get a montage/flashback of what happened for them to be so drunk and out of it. It's a Madney episode so I already knew it would be focused on them more than anything. It is however, worrying that so much content was edited out of the episode to make it so short.

(btw this is me operating under the assumption at least some of the karaoke/party scene WILL be shown. It's a completely different story if they cut off the ENTIRE thing)

hey YRF if John and SRK don't have a homoerotic moment that sets the stage up for an AU hate f*ck at least once in this film just so we can fully cement the latter's consistently rumored sexuality i'm suing for damages

back on my wolfwood bullshit! i'm using a lot of the same ideas from my other post so i'll try not to repeat myself, but as i said, a major theme of wolfwood's arc is autonomy and freedom, and the idea that having freedom to choose also comes with the responsibility to act and make good choices.

throughout trimax, wolfwood is in a strange position. he's beholden to higher powers - the eye of michael, knives, even vash in a way, while also simultaneously having a lot of freedom to act, particularly in the moment. the things that control him are more like swords of damocles - present, inevitable, but not immediate. he's constantly struggling to figure out what he should do - take knives out, kill vash, and more generally, things like his profession as assassin. he's very torn about the choices he makes (or doesn't make) and the life he lives because he's dissatisfied with his position, and there isn't an easy way out.

there are a lot of parallels between midvalley and wolfwood. midvalley, similar to wolfwood, was forced into a place he really didn't want to be in. he's hyperaware of the danger of his situation, knows he's expendable to knives, and that knives has so much power - how can anyone escape it? so he has to ask himself - how is he going to spend the time that he has? should he risk his life or play it safe? we know what he decides - he's likely to die either way, so he might as well try to get his way, release himself from knives' control.

midvalley pretty easily identifies wolfwood as someone who is allied with vash, who has no true loyalty to knives. he says they have no reason to fight - midvalley and hoppered have officially moved against knives and made their choice. is wolfwood going to resolve himself, follow what he truly believes - in vash, against knives? or will he keep playing the game of someone who doesn't have their mind made up, still working under knives thumb? (midvalley has always called wolfwood chapel, right up until this moment - he's breaking through the pretenses, acknowledging that he knows what wolfwood really is).

(using the overhaul translation here bc it's much clearer!) midvalley basically says that wolfwood does have power, but at that point in the story, he's mostly just going along with what's safe, as opposed to midvalley and hoppered. midvalley is aware that wolfwood might have similar goals to him. as someone who, like wolfwood, fears knives and what he can do, midvalley criticizes wolfwood's passivity or inability to fight for what he wants.

still, we see that when midvalley does act against knives he dies. immediately. both him and hoppered made their choice, and it didn't end well for them. maybe they knew it'd be that way. still, it's a poignant reminder to wolfwood about the power of choice, and the risks that come with it. he has to confront what other people are willing to risk and ask himself if he can do the same.

then we get to volume 8. wolfwood, who spends so much of the story agonizing over his choices, is finally resolved. he goes against knives and frees vash. he chooses not to kill unless absolutely necessary. his autonomy is realized at the price of his life. and that's the equation he has to figure - save myself, and damn everyone i care about? be dissatisfied with myself, my life? or save what he loves, do what he wants, and risk himself? wolfwood is keenly aware of his own morality. he has so much he wants to protect, and he can't do that if he's dead. i think one of the reasons he's able to take a stand against knives is because of his relationship with vash - he knows that there's someone with similar goals and values who will fight to protect humanity after he's gone. he goes out having taken care of chapel and livio, and trusting that vash will handle knives. he can die peacefully knowing he's assured the safety of his family.

by volume 10, wolfwood is showing everyone who he is and what he stands for, for better or worse. he was willing to fight - and willing to die - to do what he believed was right. trimax shows, again, and again, that there's often no easy answer, no easy way to live, no easy choice to make. that's sort of the idea that's communicated with the bird imagery - a life of freedom is a life of struggle. it's not a new idea, ofc. but we see with wolfwood - the right thing and the safe thing are often not the same. what are we willing to do? how far will we go? what will we sacrifice? and what will leave us most satisfied at the end?

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The thing about natla is it’s almost perfectly cast and is visually great, all issues arise from changes made to pacing and release of background info that is probably far less jarring if you’ve never seen the cartoon (but who is watching this who hasn’t already seen the cartoon???)

Appreciation post for LotRO NOT being a pay to win game. The only thing you have to pay for is access to certain content, after which point everyone is on even footing. And that's great!

Song of the Day: December 6

"Your Body Is A Weapon" by the Wombats

I need more aritsts who name their songs like Jhariah. Not enough weird and long song titles

I've extended the Tezuka hyperfixations into the self care area...

Do u still write tua fics?:)

A guy gets busy for two months and suddenly he doesn't write fics anymore smh...

Jokes aside - yes. I am still writing tua fics. Life's just been busy, and around that I haven't had the energy to use the free time I do have for writing. C'est la vie.

I do get this feels like an uncharacteristic gap - and it is from what I've done before! For my other projects, long fics were finished before I even started posting, so I could keep up a regular, fast update schedule because everything was ready to go. In regards to JT, I had a huge buffer of written and half-written chapters to keep close to that same, fast pace. We've run out of buffer tho - the last few chapters are either ones I need to write or need so much editing and rewrites that it's basically writing them from scratch. I need time to do it, I have plans to do it, I want to do it, it just hadn't happened yet. Such is the much more normal pace of fanfic publishing.

A peek behind the curtains, too - lockdown for the pandemic was huge for how much I wrote. From 2020-halfway through 2022, I worked basically part-time due to restrictions at work, so I had a lot of time to fill and not much else to do besides write. In that time, I wrote like 700,000 words (~425k is up on AO3). I did like three accidental NaNoWriMos (none in November).

Now? Here in 2023? Work is back to full time. Things are open, friends want to hang out, there's movies and shows I want to watch and games I want to play, I want to write, I have Life Things to deal with, and I have much less time to split between all those.

A little of what I'm getting at here is that - I'm tired. I was going to make this announcement after I finished JT, but I'll do it here: I will be taking a break after I finish writing JT. I wrote a lot of words, I had a lot of fun writing those words, but I'm starting to feel a pressure to get words done, which doesn't help words happen and I want writing to stay a fun hobby, so a break must happen. If a little oneshot or something happens during my break, then it happens, but I'm not pressuring myself to have a Next Thing out quickly or in x amount of time. I'll still be around here on Tumblr and all my everything will still be up on AO3, so I hope you guys stay around to hang out and chat, but you'll have to get your sharkneto fic fill from the 24 fics already up.

So, yes. I'm still writing and still in TUA. JT will get finished - I do feel bad that it's sat for so long without an update. And then I'll be chilling for a bit.

Thanks for all your patience and the love for my writing - you guys are what makes sharing fic so fun!

FOUR AND HALF HOURS LONG???

I would have been in that theater willingly for every single second.

honestly audio on shit these days is so garbage (and has been going that way for years) that i can't even follow along with video DUBBED IN MY NATIVE LANGUAGE if there aren't subtitles or closed captions available

like

i cannot be turning the volume up so loud that if somebody screams it damages my hearing or every bit of action in a fight scene shakes the walls just to be able to pick out the normal conversational volume level spoken words from the music and background audio

it takes so much brainpower to try and pick out what's being said and process the words that i can't focus on the action or follow the plot along because it's eating up all my mental resources just trying to figure out what's being spoken.

:/