#blog analyics

[justaweirdo06]

Happy one year anniversary!!!

Hi there!

For those out of the loop, the name's Dory, and it has been officially a year since I was on Tumblr!

choosing to ignore that this anniversary post is a few days late since I honestly forgot and because I'm wrapped up in school.

But yeah, to keep track of my progress, I have made a Tumblr wrap. Enjoy!

Top post

Currently sitting at 73 notes

Isn't that reason enough?

I made it at 2 a.m., and somehow it blew up, and someone even made a comic.

Coming in at 62 notes

Looking at you @epicflowpow

Take no offense to this. I quite enjoyed the comic and wouldn't stop talking about it to my friends.

Ya know I don't deserve you

And lastly at 37 notes

Another thing I made during the night somehow blew up and still gets notes to this day.

The evillious chronicles

I physically cringe at how I used to make Ocs.

I had an animatic in the works that I dropped. I may pick it up sometime, but don't count me on that.

Top blog moments

Number one

Definitely getting fanart not just once

But twice

By the same person no less!

Number two

Getting a like by one of my favorite artists

I didn't even realize they saw this until I was looking for my top post, but yeah, thanks @hheisa!

Number three

Finding this cool blog after posting my muffet design

@undiscoveredundertaleart is such a cool blog for looking at underrated fanart!

Top fandoms

I'm not exactly happy with these results over the course of last year. Don't get me wrong, I still do love Undertale! However, I'll be moving the focus more to different fandoms and hopefully my OCs this year.

(I am most definitely gonna become a Undertale blog since I have no self control)

It has been such a great year and I hope that you'll continue to join me

See ya!

[lost-inanotherlife]

Okay so this post continues a conversation I've started re: the "Let's hate on Jack Shephard" trend and how, I think, it's quite unfair towards the character first but also towards the themes of the show itself.

I finished my post by saying that on the island Jack is trying to be a better person but he's doomed to fail because this is what the rules of storytelling dictate. I mean, we the audience need him to fail because we're following the story primarily through his lens so if he resolves his arc the story's over.

Now I understand that the likability of a character is one of those really unfathomable things that escape even the finest narrative techniques. Some people will love a character, some others won't. I'm obviously fine with that. After all LOST has, like, almost two dozens characters on top of Jack so, you know, if you don't like him you can literally pick whoever else and all of these 20 characters are completely fleshed out and realistic. So, you know, there's space for everybody on the island, lol.

That doesn't change the fact that these techniques are in place and must be taken into account if one wants to analyize a character. So let's analyse Jack from the character arc perspective.

One of the reasons people seem to hate on Jack is because of the supposedly bad choices he makes: he's emotional, stubborn to a fault, he thinks he's being rational but it's a play pretend because he's an extremely emotion-driven character. This is important because, although he's presented as the "Man of Science" side of the dichotomy, he shows solid nerves almost exclusively when it's about health problems/procedures etc. Which, duh! He's, like, one of the best and youngest surgeons in his father's hospital, the man knows his stuff.

On the other hand, John Locke as the "Man of Faith" is actually more logical, rational and reason-driven than Jack. And OF COURSE he is! Because here's the crux of the matter: we the audience KNOW that Locke might not be right about his decisions but he's right about thinking that the island is not like any other island.

We the audience know how he had to use a wheelchair before crashing on the island and, once there, he miraculously stands on his own two feet like nothing ever happened. On top of that, the presence of Rose re-inforced the idea that Locke is, indeed, right to believe, or at least justified to believe, that they're there for a reason.

Like, people on the island think of him as this old, crazy guy in the jungle and, yeah, John is a little too sure of himself at times but from a characterization point of view it totally tracks.

Now Jack doesn't know what we the audience know. He's asked to believe what a totally random stranger tells him and yes, this is one of the core tenets of "faith": believing without knowing. So okay, cool, the conflict is totally justified at this point (S1-2).

Starting from S2, however, and the totality of S3-4 and beginning of 5, Jack is asked to believe and show faith in people who actively manipulate, betray, exploit and abuse him.

You guys know that on this blog Kate Austen is a religion but even she manipulated and literally drugged him and then had the audacity to be offended when Jack didn't believe her. Come on, girl be real now.

But the worst part of this is that he's asked to believe Ben. Benjamin Fucking Linus. I repeat: Ben Linus, ever heard of him? The IRONY of this situation finds its climax in "316" when, in front of a reproduction of "The Incredulity of St. Thomas" by Caravaggio, Ben asks Jack to believe him even without knowing, therefore not so subtly comparing himself to Jesus Christ and Jack to St. Thomas.

Mind you, this is not writers' pulling tricks: Destiny&Cons&Deception is a theme established since season ONE. I'll quote myself here but my question, I think, is still valid:

Season 1 seems to silently ask: are Destiny and Deception the two sides of the same coin? Is Deception inherently weaved into the fabrics of Destiny or is Destiny at work through Deception? Is Destiny itself a Deception? Or is it lie we tell ourselves so we can pretend to not care about the consequences of our actions, like Jack's father Christian ("That's why the Red Sox will never win the World Series")? Oh, so many questions!

This isn't a random theme. Having faith in your Destiny means that you have to have faith in the unknown. But what happens when the unknown is known and it's deceptive, it's a long con but it's also the only thing you have? How is one made into a comfortable position to make the "right" decision if one has to literally trust the same people who had betrayed them one second before? Ben's parallel is interesting because he fancies himself as Christ but we all know who's the real Christ-figure of the show: "One of You Will Betray Me" might be Jack's tagline, honestly.

Jack Shephard is a character who's asked by the narrative to be in that uncomfortable position from beginning to end. How can people not symphatize with that? This isn't about character's personality, this is about understanding one of the foundational themes of the show.

It's easy to believe when you know. It's difficult to believe when you don't know. It's existential to believe when you know that the probability that you'll get conned are high. When the odds are against you. When the Red Sox have never won the World Series.

Until, one day, they do win it.

How do you approach these questions? This is up to us as viewers to answer. But it's Jack who guides us through these difficult questions. Hating on him without seeing him is like being St. Thomas: you want a story where everything's transparent so it's easy to believe in it.

What happens when the story is not so clear? What happens when the characters are a little good and also a little bad? What happens when, regardless of how they are and what they've done, the same characters are faced with impossible scenarios where they are CALLED to choose and can't escape from making said choice?

This is the beauty of LOST in general and this is also the beauty of Jack Shephard because it's LITERALLY through his eye that the show begins and the show ends. If people want to hate on him, sure, they can, of course. But if they fail to realize the importance of the choices he makes, the reasons behind them, the consequences of them, I'm afraid they've missed some of the key aspects of the show.

[rattusrattus3]

I had to double check that you are the rattus rattus that I saw on youtube and you are! Your tags on my punk post are awesome and I love them, as much as I love your youtube videos!

Thanks for reblogging my posts and thank you for making such awesome content. I'm a bit baffled that Cool Youtuber I Like saw what I threw at the wall that is my blog, but I'm happy you found them :)

Wishing you an awesome day further!

Omg omg 🥺 that’s so sweet!!! Thank u! For the kind words and also for making that post(/& generally making alt content as a younger person—love to see it) - that post really like … brought up some feelings for me which helped me start thinking through some stuff / drawing connections more Critically and Analyizing like … WHY Do these patterns keep showing up??? Why does it bother me so much? And well. I have many many thoughts and feelings that likely will end up in a YouTube video that’ll be too long for it’s own good 😂 so thank u for being in the scene , and posting about it, cause we need more DIYs and thoughtful opinions and listening to one another and less …. Policing Everyone Over Goth Points!!

[cosmiccowboystuddies]

writing tips from your friendly neighborhood author whos about to get published (yay me!)

sorry from the brag in the title but I'm very proud of myself and how much my writing has improved in the past year so i thought I would share some tips that helped me

read alot

analyize the style of authors you enjoy or want to write like (ie: story structure, diction, voice, tone, sentence structure, figurative language) i have a template i use if anyone wants

write daily ( it could be journaling, fanfiction, or even a blog post, writing daily builds a habit, and anything, any words on paper, is better than nothing at all)

if you're stuck, find a quote and write a short story around its use

your first draft is allowed to be crappy, hell it should be, it will never be perfect

it probably will be, but its only supposed to be first one, edit and revise as many times as you need to

tell what happening, show emotions

" she yanked the chair from underneath the desk, and sat down starring at the floor, before putting her forehead flat on the desk" sounds better than " she pulled the chair from underneath the desk, and sat down starring sadly at the ground."

[therianconfessionsblog]

Im actually a leftist, thank you very much.

Also Id agrue that denying people the ability to critically think, analyize, and question is more fascistic. Not the other way around.

The same reason I wouldnt tell a shizophrenic person that their visual and/or autitory hallucination is real is the same reason Im not going to tell a clinical zoanthropy their physical transformation is. It does more harm than good. Yes both a valid, this isnt an argument about whether or not they are having an expirence. The arguement is about whether we as a community should be avocating for taking "physical shifters" at their word or not. Which mind you, the first option has historically lead to problems within this community.

My biggest concern is the lack of care and discussion. My biggest complaint of surface level community posts and etc are stem from the same place, that fear many seem to have about actually having discussions. Because at least on this blog theres a place to actually discuss these things but the rest of tumblr (and therian spaces outside of this site) seem to be allergic to having disagreements and discussions about these more controverial topics.

I will always avocate for skeptism and I feel most people should be doing the same. I will not be made into a doormat nor to ignore the potential (mental or physical) harm this could lead to.

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[whatprince]

scientifically noting and analyizing the inconsistencies between the puppet blogs. scratching my chin and nodding emphatically

[vampish-glamour]

It’s really funny to me, seeing people deeply analyzing characters just to determine if they’re a top or bottom.

Like how do we tell them that sexual preference has absolutely nothing to do with personality, character arc, goals, clothing, personal problems... or whatever else they come up with lmao.

And then there’s the people who just treat it like a reworded “who’s the man and who’s the woman”, they’re worse.

Anyways stop with top/bottom discourse it’s so stupid and meaningless. Sexual preference isn’t a personality trait that you can analyze, stop trying to make it one.

[sylwanin-was-right]

I want to make it clear that I'm criricizing AWOW a lot not to express that its a bad movie, but because I do enjoy critical analysis and because I want the franchise to improve.

I dont want to seem overtly negative on this blog because I really do enjoy Pandora, the Na'vi, and the potential this franchise has for so much creative worldbuilding and fandom content. Its been my fave movie since 2009 because of these reasons, and as you can see on thi blog, theyre the main elements I commend when I'm not being critical lol. I've waited 13 years for A2 and still await the next sequels. I like rewatching both films because they mean a lot to me in personal ways.

But because I like the movies, want them to improve, and do enjoy fandom content of it, theres lots of things to comment and criticize about it. And since Cameron has confirmed that the Avatar series are political commentary and analogies about multiple issues, particularly racial and environmenal ones, the real world impact the franchise warrants criticism toward where Cameron, and other Avatar media producers go dubiously or brazenly awry in their production and writing choices.

I personally find a lot of problems with the films because their story quality is clearly produced by rich white venture capitalists with many implicit racial, neoliberal, and sexist biases. But what I love about stories and film is that it can be remade and retold, analyized for its improvement, subverted and rectified. Copywrite laws as they are now are absurd to protect the fincial assets of the uber rich, but they shouldnt stop humble fans and content creators from improving and engaging the films and their fandoms. Thats what I intend to contribute to with my critical commentary here!

[twilightofthesandwiches]

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Okay, so my current Special Interest is the Israeli Annual Hannukah Musical Stage Show 'Festigal' sooo....

💫- Favorite fact about your special interest?

Absolutely "Dog on a Dog", the Festigal 1987 Song about a kid and his parents coming across two dogs fucking in the street, while the parents struggle to explain to their kid what's going on in front of him.

I will just always cherish the feeling that I had when I first watched Festigal 1987 and slowly realized what This Song in the children's stage show is actually about. It is an absolutely bizarre moment but it's kinda hard to actually make fun of it cause the song itself is about justifying it's existance.

Like the punchline is that the POV kid DID understand what these two dogs are doing and didn't see what the big deal of it was - unlike his two embarrassed trying to bullshit something for him. He thought they straight-up didn't understand themselves and explained to them "that's how they love and make more puppies".

The, like, moral of this song is that it's silly to try and shield children from facts of nature like Two Dogs Fucking. Thereby justifying the existance of this Two Dogs Fucking Song.

💕 - What’s your fav thing about your special interest?

I love how weird and ridiculous it can get, espacially the way this weirdness can come from just like... thoughtlessness and stupidity and such a shameless attempt to chase trends that it circles back into being original.

Like how Festigal 2014 tried to mash together "The Hunger Games" and "Games of Thrones" into one child-friendly package and ended up with an Epic Furry Space Opera, or how Festigal 1999 had a romantic subplot between a spacefaring magical woman and a talking space blimp, or like... basically everything that happened on stage in Festigal 2000.

I also love that it has such a long and storied history, it had so many changes and evolution going from it's original "The Unofficial Northen Branch of the Children's Songs Festigal" origins to it's current "Jukebox Musical Starring Every Tween's Favorite Popstars" incarnation.

There's so much for me to explore in WHAT things did actually change and HOW and how these changes almost always tie back into bigger changes in media culture since the early 80's. There's a lot here to analyize and you can use it as a lens to analyize other things as well!

🏘️ - What was your first special interest you can remember?

Animals. I had like fifty billion nonfiction books about zoology and different animals. Some of them are so worn-down now that they're basically unreadable. I decorated my room with rainforest-themed drawings and pictures (and most of them are still up), I had imaginary friends which were just... whatever animal I thought was the coolest at the moment (spidermonkeys, aye-aye, hedgehogs). I'm actually really thankful for much following your blog has helped kinda re-ignite my love for zoology, @taggthewanderer!

....although I still can't talk about it as much as I can my stupid stage show lol.

[archivewilliamrikerstblog]

Be sure to take care of yourself!

It isn't all bad! I've actually been doing a lot better since starting this blog, coming out of my stupid little gremlin shell and interacting with people, putting ideas out there; actually participating in something other than just watching.

I never would have before - never felt able to before; I wouldn't even send anon asks to a blog because I felt uncomfortable doing so.

I've found my little niche, and that is insanely liberating to me. Yeah it is over-analyizing a character few seem to care for, but I am having fun with it.

I'm improving both in my ability as a someone who writes; and with a lot of my social anxiety because of the blog.

[popculturebuffet]

Amphibia Weekly Reviews and Analysis Mid-Season Finale!: Froggy Little Christmas: The Keith David Murder Santa We Deserve

Happy Holidays all you happy people! I”m Jake, I review and analyize stuff and things and i’m in a heck of a christmas mood.. not the least of which because one of my dearest friends @jess-the-vampire​ bought me this lovely fanmade tuca and bertie merch featuring my boy

But warm heartfelt gifts aside I just love Christmas, how it can bring out the best in people, the warm memories of christmas past, and relevant to this blog the sweet sweet ichor that is Holiday Television. We’ve gotten tons of great Christmas episodes, a handful of great hannukah episodes and far less Kwanza or Ramadan episodes than they deserve. Writers tend to break out their best stuff, so it’s fitting that much like last year we kick off full holiday hyjinks with a great chistmas episode that’s a capper to a great round of episodes in general... and one of the last hurah’s of the series before it enters the final stretch.  Last year Ducktales did the honors with it’s all time classic third christmas episode, this time it’s Amphibia’s. 

It’s also time to say goodbye to the show for now, and thus a time to reflect on how awesome this season has been thus far. Granted we have half a season left for things to go south and while you’d THINK a show couldn’t entirely botch things for it’s final season THAT fast... THIS still exists 

But I also know my fears are likely unfounded: Season 3 is easily the show’s best, taking what makes the show great, it’s slice of life mixed with fantasy feel, great characters, gorgeous animation and top shelf humor, and added some new things in that make it better. 

For starters this is the series best pacing period: each episoe feels important, but it keeps the series slower pace to allow it to have fun with the new setting.  The resulting mix allows the plot to move at a steady clip, while still having the episodes feel like you aren’t wasting your time waiting for something good to happen. Given how much of a mess season 2a was this is a welcome change.  We get plenty of answers while still having some room for some one off fun. It’s perfect

Not only that but thanks to having a looming villian instead of having to wait for the finale, we get frequent conflict: Andrias isn’t sitting around anymore and our heroes are in constant danger from him or X and it adds a nice sense of tension: any slice of life episode could turn into a life or death struggle and has.

The next is the setting: Moving to earth was a brilliant move and a geninely shocking twist back in True Colors as I assumed, via standard fantasy tropes, that Anne wouldn’t go back till the story ended and if she did before then, it’d be in the endgame. 

Instead shifting to earth allows us to learn more about Anne’s life outside of her disfunctional realtionship with her girlfriends. The best part of this is meeting Not-Jeff and Mae, Anne’s parents. Yes we finally got a name if on Brian Sonaluth’s twitter. God bless him. But since i’td be weird to still call him Mr. B i’m calling him Not-Jeff, since Jeff turned out not to be his name, until we get one. The two just add tons with Not-Jeff filling the unlucky dad void in my heart left by Donald, and Mae being tons of fun. The two are just adorable as heck while still being hilarous and often the highlight of their episodes. Especailly not-jeff.  I also have to give props to On Braly: as far as I can tell this is her first voice acting role but she steps up to the plate with the rest of the main cast like it was nothing, as does Sonaluth though he has a tad more experience. Not EVERYONE can pull that off, only select few like Olan Rogers or Alex Hirsch have really stepped up to the plate that fast, and i’m proud to welcome Mrs. Braly to the club. 

So yeah, Season 3 is  excellent and I can’t wait to see where it goes... but before we can get to that next year and say a tearful goodbye, we have to say hello to the newest episode so join me under the cut for that! Full spoilers as always and happy holidays!

We open with CHRISTMAS! Mae is decorating up the place at a rapid place and is easily the happiest i’ve seen her since her daughter came back. She’s just so dang gleeful as she christmases the hell out of places and it’s so nice to see her just so happy given all the crap she’s been through these past 6 months. 

Anne and Not-Jeff are naturally compeltely stoked. The plantars.. are taking things less well...

With this new tradition confusing them Anne TRIES explaining it, but it’s difficult as you’d expect. It’s also cut off by some big news as Mae gets an important call: it’s from the parade board. The downtown LA Parade wants her to take part at long last. Turns out this has been a lifelong dream of hers... and one she reluctantly turns down to her husband and daughter’s shock.

The explanation for this is the obvious one: She dosen’t want to risk exposing the Plantars, as having the three frogs in such a public venue, and one that will likely be recorded and threw up on youtube immediately by thousands of people, while their actively being hunted is just too risky. This is her lifelong dream sure.. but it’s not worth risking their lives over. And i’m sure some of you watching it thought: “Well why doesn't she just not include them?�� And the answer.. is as obvious as it is so heartwarming there’s a tiny sun where my chest used to be (it itches slightly): She dosen’t want to do this without her family.. and the Plantars ARE family. She’s gone from wanting to get rid of them so she can forget about all this... to seeing them as so much a part of her world that leaving them out, even if it means her dream, just isn’t an option. Their part of this too. It’s all of them or none of them. While she’s visably crushed to be giving this up, if trying badly to hide it.... it’s worth it to protect the people she cares about. 

Naturally Anne can’t let this slide and spirits the plantars off to her room. She uncancel’s the float, and explains why to her froggy family: Anne feels she’s already done enough to her mom with her absence, having to stash the plantars, and that porthole to hell she opened up last week. She’s not costing her her dream. So Anne’s going to sneakily build the float and unveil it as a suprise and the Plantars are naturally in. She even has a beautiful design ready to go that has the plantars incorporated in a way that keeps them safe by passing them off as just part of the show. And really the town buys the ninja turtle logic of them being just humans in coats so this is somehow MORE of a disguise than usual. 

Meanwhile at the Legion of Doom er... at Andrias Floating Castle, the three Newt Advisors are still working for andrias and unlike Olivia and Yunan seem to be fully on board with their bosses horrifying new ambitions. 

Their also dressed as elves, having been told about Christmas by Marcy. You know the girl whose currently being used as a horrifying meat puppet, something you three Schmucks clearly have no issue with. And no i’m not letting them live that down: Oliva and Yunan may be MIA but at least they TRIED to do something instead of kissing Andrias titanic ass. 

Speaking of which they have a gift for him: a new dragonfly drone , complete with wireless controler and headset to send after anne. Andrias tests it out on them, as he should, and prepares to send it after our heroine. 

Meanwhile Anne is putting her plANNE into action. You can’t hate me for that pun on christmas it’s .. yule law... yeah. That’s it yule law..... .... just let me have this. 

So she gets help from their various allies. First up she needs tech support and Polly knows just the gays for the job so it’s time for a ROBOT PARTY!

At the community college their apparently headquartered out of, the IT Girls are throwing a robot rager. Anne even hits on ... whatever this is

Good to see her get a rebound while she waits to get her girls back. Good for her. The Gals naturally gladly agree to help, sweethearts they are. The Plantars are naturally even more confused as Christmas now apparently involves mechanical men, so they ask the Gals what Christmas is. The two try their best to explain it but at best get out that you shouldn’t light trees on fire and that you should get people you care about nice gifts..  and we get this as a result. 

Well my heart just collapsed on itself from adorable.. it’s a dwarf star now. This naturally sends Sprig into a panic about getting his best buddy Anne a good enough gift. 

Onto their next stop Dr. Jan, who turns out is nuts about christmas and is intense about explaning it as I am about explaning marvel history. Fun Fact: Vision and Wanda’s wedding in the comics was a double wedding with Mantis, whose a space jesus in the comics, and the Swordsman, who was a bad guy who turned good then died then got reborn by fusing with a plant monster and the marriage was procided over by Immortus, one of the various kang variants. Why any of this happened.. I have no idea. No really I geninely don’t. 

Jan is naturally happy to help Anne and gleefully allows her young friend to raid whatever she needs for her float, which Anne gladly does. So while Anne pilfers valuable historical displays for her float, Jan tries explaining christmas to the Plantars.. but has the opposite problem of our technogays. Instead of underdoing it, likely not knowing exactly HOW to unpack something like christmas for someone who has no idea what it is, Jan OVERDOES it and goes deeply into the history of it so much it makes Sprig’s brain grow three sizes.  Thankfully Hop Pop at least finaally has SOME grasp on it as it’s like their own holiday, swamp hollow’s eve.. just without the ritual sacrifices. 

So with our heroes slightly less confused they set to work and we get a montage.. set to a minty fresh new song from none other than Rebecca Motherfucking Sugar. If you don’t know who that is first off...

And secondly she’s the creator of Steven Universe, having run the show, written the vocal songs for it, and in general being a delightfully nice and thoughtful person. While she’s currently between shows because making a show is exausting and she needs a break before doing a new project, she gladly did a song here, showing up as herself casually singing an often odd but still heartfelt christmas song as the episode goes on. It feels perfectly fitting given this show has a lot of Steven Universe’s dna in it: it’s also a slice of life show that slowly builds to universe saving levels, while never loosing it’s focus on character growth or empathy. So I feel this is a wonderful way to tribute it by letting the show’s creator have a cameo. 

While rebecca strums Sprig struggles with gift anxiety and the Thai community helps Anne with her float because their just the best. With that Anne’s masterwork is finished, a loving wintery tribute to her culture. The next morning she shows it off to her mom whose brought to tears by it and her daughter’s efforts, with Anne also showing the Plantars in a crows nest, with Hop Pop as santa.. and a great runner about him forgetting the final ho. Mae hugs her daughter and graciously accepts the gift and they head out for the parade. 

A the parade, which looks downright gorgeous by the way, our heroes gladly celebrate and work the crowd... .and we find out WHY Mrs. B wanted this so long. We find out that she and Mr. B immigrated here and thus she’s always felt getting into the parade meant finally being accepted by this country. It adds a shocking and suprising amount of depth to the story, and as Anne points out she can relate having gone through the same in Amphibia, her trip there itself an allegory for Braly’s own trips to thailand. It feels like Matt is , through mae, letting his mother tell her story and it just warms my heart back up to supernova. It’s truly beautiful. 

So our heroes party on the float like their the joker. But since we have a chunk of episode left we can’t just leave it there. Andrias has been hunting them, but while he can now fly the drone properly, it dosen’t have the fancy scanners the annesterminator did so he can’t find them as easily. Lucky for him Anne just happens to be on a giant float, with her last name on it screaming her full name for the crowd for no reason, so it’s time for our big climactic fight. 

So Andrias finds a santa float and jingle jangle hey chris kringle’s now got nanites in his veins for a reason. So thus we get keith david piloting and voicing (since the drone has speakers.. despite not having a mic. ) a murderous santa claus. They say the best christmas gifts are the ones that suprise you and this proves them right. 

So after the giant santa attacks the crowd Anne has the IT gals book it as their driving.. once Polly snaps them out of their giant robot stupor because as we all know, Chicks Dig Giant Robots. 

So an awesome chase/fight insues as the nanites allow santa to have tree themed sheileds, candy cane lasers.. it’s just so wonderfully insane. Our heroes throw everything they got at it even the kitchen sink but eventually Anne realizes the way to stop it is a chekvos gun: light the tree on fire. Polly’s time has come. So they use the old video game standby of attacking it when it’s weakpoint is open and fire it into it’s mouth leading to the best two bits of the episode in rabid succesion. First...

Anne: Merry Christmas!z Andrias; (geninely and reflexivley) Merry christmas! .... wait OH NO!

This destroys santa which a young child sees and asks if santa is going to be okay to his dad... who says no reasuingly. Back on Amphibia, Andrias blames the controller.. before the Core gets him to compose himself. Once he has Andrias decides his master is right and that this loss dosen’t matter.. their army is almost complete... and is terrifyingly massive. 

So with that our heroes escape and now it’s clear SOMETHING’S going on to the public, and everyone’s worn down.. and Mae STILL enjoyed it because they were together. And because let’s face it who WOULDN’T love killing a giant robotic santa. Anne finally explains the true meaning of christmas: it’s not the getting, i’ts not the getting, it’s the loving. It’s spending time with those you love most and the presents and trappings are just to celebrate that. Sprig gives anne her gift, a handmade action figure and she loves it. Awww. Our heroes go for cookies.. and clearly the fact the invasion is happening SOON isn’t enough of a wham for one episode as we FINALLY tackle one of the most obnoxiously hanging plot threads of the season. But I was patient since I figured Matt had some sort of plan for it.. and he did... as Anne writes anonomus letter’s to Sasha and Marcy’s parents, promising their okay , telling them about the other dimension thing.. and saying she swears to bring them back, singing it a friend.  Because SURELY four grown adults can’t spot the handwriting of one of their daughter’s best friends. Surely. Also we find out Sasha’s parents are divorced so that’s a thing. 

We go out on some closing credits, as we see something fans kept bringing up even AFTER a christmas episode was announced finally also resolved: Anne gives her mom the pin she got her last season, to tears. Mr. B is just as generous giving Sprig a Tarantulaman figure, HP a book on directing and Polly a nerf machine gun because she apparently wasn’t terrifyign enough. Add in domnno perched on frobo’s head and it’s just.. so fucking sweet. Merry christmas, see you next year Plantar-Boonchuys. You’ve earned a break. 

Final Thoughts: This special is terrific: sweet, heartflet and featuring Keith David in the part he was born to play, this will be required viewing every year for me here on out. 

If you enjoyed this review consider jingle jangling a few bucks over to my patreon which has exclusive reviews and just ONE contributor means i’ll start covering the first season monthly, so you get a nice gift too. 

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And if you want to talk frogs while we wait for the rest of the season, dash in a one horse open sleigh over to my discord, which is open to all

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[sollody]

Vecna in Stranger Things 4?!

So apparently, there is this brand new video - posted by Christopher Oquendo - which suggests the Creel House to be Vecna’s Lair. (I’m not sure whether this is news to the fandom as I haven’t heard of this one until just now.)

https://youtu.be/rKLKBP4U7Ko

Anyway, if this happens to be true and Vecna really is a/the new enemy - it is time for people to bring up some great new analyes and theories.

First of all: I’m not a professional analyst because I usually struggle to make my point in a way other people will understand (I do have some theories but there’s way too much chaos going on in my head -- but whatever. :D) and I am certain that - IF there is something to analyse - people like @kaypeace21, @strangertheory @hawkinsschoolcounselor @hawkinsunsolved @sttheorycraft and other bloggers are way more qualified than I am.

I still want to share my - rather messy - thoughts and hope they somehow do make sense.

Source: https://dumpstatadventures.com/blog/deep-dive-history-of-vecna

According to a popular theory, Will Byers is the creator of the Upside Down. (I do like the idea of the Upside Down being an inner world but this is not relevant right now.) Now, we know Will plays a wizard (it seems only Mike refers to him as a cleric because of... well, he most defintely has his reasons. :D) in Dugeons&Dragons and we also know there are parallels of the Stranger Things characters and their D&D classes.

source: kaypeace21

Another popular theory claims Will has light and electricty powers and I do think this one is true as well.

At one point, Vecna was nearly defeated by some clerics who worshipped Pholtus - the god of light in a battle in which Vecna had slaughtered many people in the Flan City of Fleeth.

Pholtus (source greyhawk.fandom.com) 

Vecna by Andrea Piparo

I think there are some solid parallels and I’d be super stoked if they do add Vecna to the Stranger Things Villians - so here is hoping the leaks are true.

This turned out shorter than I expected. :D

Please feel free to add your own thoughts.

Thanks for reading! x

[aabhinishi]

7 YouTube Tools For Every YouTube Creator

in This Morden Technology Days Tools Help Us a Lot, From Making High Quality & Engaging Post to Removing Our Image Background, It Helps Like a God. as a YouTube Content Creator, We Work a Lot Starting From YouTube Thumbnail to SEO Of Our YouTube Videos & with Manually it’s Becomes so Much Hard & Time Taking

in this article, I am Going to Share with You,7 Best & Life-Changing Youtube Tools For Every Creator in 2022. All These Tools are Very Useful & They will Make easier Content Creation.

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[wolfwhiteflowers]

Glad ep 18 is coming soon! Like tomorrow or Friday? I like that we (online fans) analyize it and got be prepared about Leah situation for like a month (tho too long)

But yeah it's been overwhelming from the fandom and all. I just think we all said what we wanted to say or I/we thought it all out basically. So .. Just wait for after ep thoughts and diverged ep.

Look at positive bloggers' old posts. Re-read them. Look around my blog. Take care. #*twd

Or maybe decide what to do now ..change. And you can't change someone or change something. And you're not alone in this.

[10argumentsact]

Joel and Felecia’s Collaborative Third Argument Blog

Welcome to our blog about Jaron Lanier’s “Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts.” Felecia and I have analyized and put together our thoughts and opinions about the third argument in Lanier’s book.

To start, what makes someone addicted to social media? How does one know when they are addicted to social media? Is social media creating a new negative identity for your online persona? The answers to these questions are not that simple. Lanier, however, may know a little about these topics. Does the social media hierarchy influence etiquette?

[raquelsantos92]

Dear Raquel ! l have two questions : 1.Why women ship Charmie ? You had posted once a great analyses why straight women find two men kissing/ making out do find hot but l could not find it again:( . 2. l am a great fan of your fics. But l wonder what are the favored fics you have read or still reading?

Sweet Anon, I will be honest with you, the only analyes about straight women regarding m/m homoerotica that I can remember ever being on my blog belonged to @holdmygazeoliver and I can´t seem to find the post right now. I will tell you that I never really stopped to think much about why literature/movies about m/m relationships attracts me so much, they simply do. I wish I could elaborate something very meaningful to you, a proper analyses and maybe I can think of it, try to come up with something later on, we´ll see how that goes.

Now your second question is fairly more easy for me to answer right now, so I´ll list some of them for you:

Shiver At The Sight Of You by @isitandwonder 

Save a Prayer by @foryou-insilence

The Scene by QuesNdAys

Between the Lines by @foryou-insilence and @694699

No One Asks If You Are Ready by @bartbarthelme

And anything @lion-from-the-north