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infectedleviathan · 1 year ago

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So this is an item Id list for coding

I found one online but it was all jumbled so I put it in list form, gonna be making different categories too

309 Acorn Seed

541 Aerinite Mineral

538 Alamite Mineral

705 Albacore Fish

456 Algae Soup Cooking

300 Amaranth Vegetable

299 Amaranth Seeds Seed

66 Amethyst Mineral

529 Amethyst Ring Ring

587 Amphibian Fossil Artifact

117 Anchor Artifact It may have belonged to ancient pirates.

129 Anchovy Fish A small silver fish found in the ocean

103 Ancient Doll Artifact An ancient doll covered in grime. This doll may habe benn used as a toy, a decoration, or a prop in some kind of ritual.

123 Ancient Drum Artifact It's a drum made from wood and animal skin. It has a low, reverberating tone.

454 Ancient Fruit Fruit

114 Ancient Seed Artifact it's a dry old seed from some ancient plant. By all appearances it's long since dead…

499 Ancient Seeds Seed

109 Ancient Sword Artifact It's the remains of an ancient sword. Most of the blade has turned to rust, but the hilt is very finely crafted.

160 Angler Fish

613 Apple Fruit

633 Apple Sapling Seed

634 Apricot Fruit

628 Apricot Sapling Seed

62 Aquamarine Mineral

531 Aquamarine Ring Ring

101 Arrowhead Artifact A crudely fashioned point used for hunting.

274 Artichoke Vegetable

605 Artichoke Dip Cooking

482 Artichoke Seeds Seed

590 Artifact Spot (not-Placeable)

235 Autumn's Bounty Cooking

685 Bait Bait

198 Baked Fish Cooking

691 Barbed Hook Fish Tackle

540 Baryte Mineral

570 Basalt Mineral

368 Basic Fertilizer Fertilizer

370 Basic Retaining Soil Fertilizer

767 Bat Wing Monster Loot

787 Battery Pack Resource

207 Bean Hotpot Cooking

473 Bean Starter Seed

346 Beer Artisan Goods

284 Beet Vegetable

494 Beet Seeds Seed

790 Berry Basket

539 Bixite Mineral

410 Blackberry Fruit

611 Blackberry Cobbler Cooking

102 Blue Book(For Museum no Drop only Animation)

597 Blue jazz Flower

413 Blue Slime Egg

258 Blueberry Fruit

481 Blueberry Seeds Seed

234 Blueberry Tart Cooking

278 Bok Choy Vegetable

491 Bok Choy Seeds Seed

287 Bomb Crafting

119 Bone Flute Artifact it's a prehistoric wind instrument carved from an animal's bone. It produces an eerie tone.

458 Bouquet

216 Bread Cooking

132 Bream Fish

171 Broken CD Trash

170 Broken Glasses Trash

618 Bruschetta Cooking

684 Bug Meat Monster Loot

700 Bullhead Fish

702 Bullhead Fish

526 Burglar's Ring Ring

90 Cactus Fruit Fruit The sweet fruit of the prickly pear cactus.

542 Calcite Mineral

142 Carp Fish

209 Carp Suprise Cooking

143 Catfish Fish

190 Cauliflower Vegetable

474 Cauliflower Seeds Seed

78 Cave Carrot Forage A starchy snack found in caves. It helps miners work longer

566 Celestine Mineral

281 Chanterelle Forage

424 Cheese Artisan Goods

197 Cheese Cauliflower Cooking

638 Cherry Fruit

286 Cherry Bomb Crafting

629 Cherry Sapling Seed

105 Chewing Stick Artifact Ancient people chewed on these to keep their teeth clean.

113 Chicken Statue Artifact It's a statue of a chicken on a bronze base. The ancient people of this are must been very fond of chickens.

100 Chipped Amphora Artifact An ancient vessel made of ceramic material. Used to transport both dry and wet goods.

220 Chocolate Cake Cooking

727 Chowder Cooking

372 Clam

330 Clay Resource

428 Cloth Artisan Goods

382 Coal Resource

411 Cobblestone Path Decor

718 Cockle Fish

88 Coconut Fruit A seed of the coconut palm. It has many culinary uses.

395 Coffee

648 Coleslaw Cooking

404 Common Mushroom Forage

201 Complete Breakfast Cooking

223 Cookie Cooking

334 Copper Bar Resource

378 Copper Ore Resource

393 Coral

695 Cork Bobber Fish Tackle

270 Corn Vegetable

484 Corn Seeds Seed

717 Crab Fish

732 Crab Cakes Cooking

710 Crab Pot

282 Cranberries Fruit

612 Cranberry Candy Cooking

238 Cranberry Sauce Cooking

493 Cranberry Seeds Seed

716 Crayfish Fish

159 Crimsonfish Fish

214 Crispy Bass Cooking

418 Crocus Flower

333 Crystal Floor Decor

414 Crystal Fruit Fruit

409 Crystal path Decor

18 Daffodil Forage

22 Dandelion Forage

461 Decorative Pot

466 Deluxe Speed-Gro Fertilizer

72 Diamond Mineral A rare and valuable gem.

107 Dinosaur Egg Artifact A gient dino egg… The entire shell is still intact!

242 Dish O' The Sea Cooking

543 Dolomite Mineral

704 Dorado Fish

687 Dressed Spinner Fish Tackle

116 Dried Starfish Artifact A starfish frome the primordial ocean. It's an unusually pristine specimen!

169 Driftwood Trash

463 Drum Block

442 Duck Egg Animal Product

444 Duck Feather Animal Product

307 Duck Mayoonaise Artisan Goods

122 Dwarf Gadget Artifact It's a piece of the advanced technology once known to the dwarves. It's sill glowing and humming, but you're unable to understand how it works

96 Dwarf Scroll I Artifact A yellowed scroll of parchment filled with dwarven script this one's tied with a red bow.

97 Dwarf Scroll II Artifact A yellowed scroll of parchment filled with dwarven script this one's tied with a green ribbon.

98 Dwarf Scroll II Artifact A yellowed scroll of parchment filled with dwarven script this one's tied with a blue rope.

99 Dwarf Scroll IV Artifact A yellowed scroll of parchment filled with dwarven script this one's tied with a golden chain.

121 Dwarvish Helm Artifact It's one of the helmets commonly worn by dwarves. The thick metal plating protects them from falling debris and stalactites.

326 Dwarvish Translation Guide Crafting

86 Earth Crystal Mineral A resinous substance found near the surface.

148 Eel Fish

176 Egg Animal Product A regular white chicken egg.

180 Egg Animal Product A regular brown chicken egg.

272 Eggplant Vegetable

231 Eggplant Parmesan Cooking

483 Eggplant Seeds Seed

104 Elvish Jewelry Artifact Dirty but still beautiful. On the side is a flowing script thought by some to be the ancient language of the elves. No Elvish bones habe ever been found.

60 Emerald Mineral

533 Emerald Ring Ring

349 Energy Tonic

729 Escargot Cooking

544 Esperite Mineral

441 Explosive Ammo

595 Fairy Rose Flower

425 Fairy Seeds Seed

577 Fairy Stone Mineral

497 Fall Seeds Seed

240 Farmer's Lunch Cooking

771 Fiber Resource

259 Fiddlehead Fern Vegetable

649 Fiddlehead Risotto Cooking

403 Field Snack

565 Fire Opal Mineral

82 Fire Quartz Mineral A glowing red crystal commonly found near hot lava.

728 Fish Stew Cooking

213 Fish Taco Cooking

545 Fluorapatite Mineral

464 Flute Block

202 Fried Calamari Cooking

225 Fried Eel Cooking

194 Fried Egg Cooking

205 Fried Mushroom Cooking

536 Frozen Geode

84 Frozen Tear Mineral A crystal fabled to be the frozen tears of a yeti.

610 Fruit Salad Cooking

248 Garlic Vegetable

476 Garlic Seeds Seed

325 Gate Crafting

546 Geminite Mineral

535 Geode

561 Ghost Crystal Mineral

156 Ghostfish Fish

775 Glacierfish Fish

118 Glass Shards Artifact A mixture of glass shards smoothed by centuries of ocean surf. These could have belonged to an ancient mosaic or necklace.

208 Glazed Yams Cooking

517 Glow Ring Ring

426 Goat Cheese Artisan Goods

436 Goat Milk Animal Product

336 Gold Bar Resource

384 Gold Ore Resource

124 Golden Mask Artifact A creepy golden mask probably used in an ancient magic ritual. A socket in the forehead contains a large purple gemstone.

373 Golden Pumpkin

125 Golden Relic Artifact It's a golden slab with heiroglyphs and pictures emblazoned onto the front.

569 Granite Mineral

398 Grape Fruit

301 Grape Starter Seed

297 Grass Starter Seed

407 Gravel Path Decor

153 Green Algae Fish

188 Green Bean Vegetable

680 Green Slime Egg

708 Halibut Fish

709 Hardwood Resource

298 Hardwood Fence Crafting

210 Hashbrowns Cooking

178 Hay

408 Hazelnut Forage

547 Helvite Mineral

573 Hematite Mineral

147 Herring Fish

283 Holly Forage

340 Honey Artisan Goods

304 Hops Vegetable

302 Hops Starter Seed

260 Hot Pepper Fruit

233 Ice Cream Cooking

161 Ice Pip Fish

527 Irdium Band Ring

337 Irdium Bar Resource

386 Irdium Ore Resource

645 Irdium Sprinkler Crafting

335 Iron Bar Resource

324 Iron Fence Crafting

380 Iron Ore Resource

746 Jack-O-Lantern Crafting

70 Jade Mineral

532 Jade Ring Ring

549 Jagoite Mineral

548 Jamborite Mineral

563 Jasper Mineral

429 Jazz Seeds Seed

344 Jelly Artisan Goods

167 Joja Cola Trash

350 Juice Artisan Goods

528 Jukebox Ring Ring

250 Kale Vegetable

477 Kale Seeds Seed

550 Kyanite Mineral

174 Large Egg Animal Product It's an uncommonly large white egg!

182 Large Egg Animal Product It's an uncommonly large brown egg!

438 Large Goat Milk Animal Product

186 Large Milk Animal Product A large jug of cow's milk.

137 Largemouth Bass Fish

162 Lava Eel Fish

692 Lead Bobber Fish Tackle

20 Leek Forage

163 Legend Fish

554 Lemon Stone Mineral

773 Life Elixier Cooking

571 Limestone Mineral

707 Lingcod Fish

715 Lobster Fish

730 Lobster Bisque Cooking

788 Lost Axe

204 Lucky Lunch Cooking

789 Lucky Purple Shorts

551 Lunarite Mineral

537 Magma Geode

703 Magnet Fish Tackle

519 Magnet Ring Ring

228 Maki Roll Cooking

552 Malachite Mineral

731 Maple bar Cooking

310 Maple Seed Seed

724 Maple Syrup Artisan Goods

567 Marble Mineral

306 Mayonnaise Artisan Goods

288 Mega Bomb Crafting

254 Melon Fruit

479 Melon Seeds Seed

460 Mermaid's Pendant

184 Milk Animal Product A jug of cow's milk.

243 Miner's Treat Cooking

770 Mixed Seeds Seed

257 Morel Forage

574 Mudstone Mineral

351 Muscle Remedy

719 Mussel Fish

682 Mutant Carp Fish

392 Nautilus Shell

586 Nautilus Shell Artifact

555 Nekoite Mineral

553 Neptunite Mineral

725 Oak Resin Artisan Goods

575 Obsidian Mineral

560 Ocean Stone Mineral

149 Octopus Fish

247 Oil

772 Oil of Garlic Cooking

195 Omelet Cooking

749 Omni Geode

564 Opal Mineral

635 Orange Fruit

630 Orange Sapling Seed

106 Ornamental Fan Artifact This exquisute fan most likely belonged to a noblewoman. Historians velieve that the valley was a popular sixth-era vacation spot for the wealthy.

556 Orpiment Mineral

723 Oyster Fish

303 Pale Ale Artisan Goods

457 Pale Broth Cooking

588 Palm Fossil Artifact

211 Pancakes Cooking

24 Parsnip Vegetable

472 Parsnip Seeds Seed

199 Parsnip Soup Cooking

636 Peach Fruit

631 Peach Sapling Seed

215 Pepper Poppers Cooking

489 Pepper Seeds Seed

141 Perch Fish

722 Periwinkle Fish

557 Petrified Slime Mineral

342 Pickles Artisan Goods

144 Pike Fish

311 Pine Cone Seed

726 Pine Tar Artisan Goods

221 Pink Cake Cooking

206 Pizza Cooking

604 Plum Pudding Cooking

637 Pomegranate Fruit

632 Pomegranate Sapling Seed

376 Poppy Flower

453 Poppy Seeds Seed

651 Poppyseed Muffin Cooking

192 Potato Vegetable

475 Potato Seeds Seed

584 Prehiistoric Vertebra Artifact

120 Prehistoric Handaxe Artifact One of the earliest tools employed by humans. This crude tool was created by striking one rock with another to form a sharp edge.

583 Prehistoric Rib Artifact

579 Prehistoric Scapula Artifact

581 Prehistoric Skull Artifact

580 Prehistoric Tibia Artifact

115 Prehistoric Tool Artifact Some kind of gnarly old digging tool.

74 Prismatic Shard Mineral A very rare and powerful substance with unknown origins.

128 Pufferfish Fish Inflates when threatened.

276 Pumpkin Vegetable

608 Pumpkin Pie Cooking

490 Pumpkin Seeds Seed

236 Pumpkin Soup Cooking

422 Purple Mushroom Forage

439 Purple Slime Egg

559 Pyrite Mineral

369 Quality Fertilizer Fertilizer

371 Quality Retaining Soil Fertilizer

621 Quality Sprinkler Crafting

80 Quartz Mineral A clear crystal commonly found in caves and mines

446 Rabbit's Foot Animal Product

264 Radish Vegetable

609 Radish Salad Cooking

487 Radish Seeds Seed

681 Rain Totem

394 Rainbow Shell

138 Rainbow Trout Fish

108 Rare Disc Artifact A heavy black disc studded with peculiar red stones. When you hold it, you're overwhelmed wih a felling of dread.

347 Rare Seed Seed

266 Red Cabbage Vegetable

486 Red Cabbage Seeds Seed

146 Red Mullet Fish

420 Red Mushroom Forage

230 Red Plate Cooking

437 Red Slime Egg

150 Red Snapper Fish

338 Refined Quartz Resource

252 Rhubarb Fruit

222 Rhubarb Pie Cooking

478 Rhubarb Seeds Seed

423 Rice

232 Rice Pudding Cooking

524 Ring of Yoba Ring

607 Roasted Hazelnuts Cooking

244 Roots Platter Cooking

64 Ruby Mineral

534 Ruby Ring Ring

112 Rusty Cog Artifact A well preserved cog that must have been part of some ancient machine. This could be dwarven technology.

110 Rusty Spoon Artifact A plain old spoon, probably then years old. Not very interesting.

111 Rusty Spur Artifact An old spur that was once attached to a cowboy's boot. People must have benn raising animals in this area for many generations.

196 Salad Cooking

139 Salmon Fish

212 Salmon Dinner Cooking

296 Salmonberry Fruit

164 Sandfish Fish

568 Sandstone Mineral

92 Sap Forage A fluid obtained from trees.

131 Sardine Fish A common ocean fish.

227 Sashimi Cooking

523 Savage Ring Ring

165 Scorpion Carp Fish

154 Sea Cucumber Fish

397 Sea Urchin

152 Seaweed Fish

706 Shad Fish

720 Shrimp Fish

582 Skeletal Hand Artifact

585 Skeletal Tail Artifact

576 Slate Mineral

766 Slime Monster Loot

520 Slime Charmer Ring Ring

516 Small Glow Ring Ring

518 Small Magnet Ring Ring

136 Smallmouth Bass Fish

721 Snail Fish

416 Snow Yam Forage

572 Soapstone Mineral

172 Soggy Newspaper Trash

768 Solar Essence Monster Loot

224 Spaghetti Cooking

465 Speed-Gro Fertilizer

396 Spice Berry Fruit

226 Spicy Eel Cooking

686 Spinner Fish Tackle

94 Spirit Torch It's unclear where the blue color comes from…

455 Spongle Seeds Seed

399 Spring Onion Forage

495 Spring Seeds Seed

599 Sprinkler Crafting

151 Squid Fish

578 Star Shards Mineral

434 Stardrop Energy Up

268 Starfruit Fruit

485 Starfruit Seeds Seed

415 Stepping Stone Path Decor

606 Stir Fry Cooking

390 Stone Resource

323 Stone Fence Crafting

329 Stone Floor Decor

158 Stonefish Fish

203 Strange Bun Cooking

126 Strange Doll Artifact ???

127 Strange Doll Artifact ???

401 Straw Floor Decor

400 Strawberry Fruit

745 Strawberry Seeds Seed

239 Stuffing Cooking

525 Sturdy Ring Ring

698 Sturgeon Fish

245 Sugar

496 Summer Seeds Seed

593 Summer Spangle Flower

145 Sunfish Fish

421 Sunflower Flower

431 Sunflower Seeds Seed

155 Super Cucumber Fish

237 Super Meal Cooking

241 Survival Burger Cooking

417 Sweet Gem berry

402 Sweet Pea Flower

341 Tea Set Decor

558 Thunder Egg Mineral

699 Tiger Trout Fish

562 Tigerseye Mineral

701 Tilapia Fish

256 Tomato Vegetable

480 Tomato Seeds Seed

218 Tomm Kha Soup Cooking

68 Topaz Mineral

530 Topaz Ring Ring

93 Torch Provides a modes amount of light.

229 Tortilla Cooking

694 Trap Bobber Fish Tackle

168 Trash Trash

166 Treasure Chest

693 Treasure Hunter Fish Tackle

589 Trilobite Artifact

219 Trout Soup Cooking

430 Truffle

432 Truffle Oil Artisan Goods

591 Tulip Flower

427 Tulip Bulb Seed

130 Tuna Fish A large fish that lives in the ocean.

522 Vampire Ring Ring

200 Vegetable Medley Cooking

419 Vinegar

305 Void Egg Animal Product

769 Void Essence Monster Loot

140 Walleye Fish

690 Warp Totem: Beach

688 Warp Totem: Farm

689 Warp Totem: Mountains

521 Warrior Ring Ring

331 Wearthered Floor Decor

750 Weeds

262 Wheat Vegetable

246 Wheat Flour

488 Wheat Seeds Seed

157 White Algae Fish

774 Wild Bait Bait

16 Wild Horseradish Forage

406 Wild Plum Forage

348 Wine Artisan Goods

412 Winter Root Forage

498 Winter Seeds Seed

388 Wood Resource

322 Wood Fence Crafting

328 Wood Floor Decor

405 Wood Path Decor

734 Woodskip Fish

440 Wool Animal Product

280 Yam Vegetable

492 Yam Seeds Seed

#stardew mods #stardew farmer #stardew valley mods #stardew #stardew valley #mods #coding

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ennysue · 9 months ago

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MY CATS

and their name lore

Moxie and Pinto are sisters from the same litter. They have the same calico toe bean patterns.

Moxies full name is Amoxicillin Jones and named after amoxicillin.

Pintos full name is Pinto Penelope Palomino Rodrigues and was named after pinto horses.

Kimchi’s full government name is Kimberley Ann Chi. She was named after the food, but also after the fart cloud on the cartoon Chowder. She was going to be named DJ Baby Bok Choy after a Bill Hader Stephan skit.

Boots is named Boots because my dad is an uncreative bastard. But I like to call him Boots Bigman and pretend he’s a used car salesman. However he’s actually an uppity french snob in a cat body. He’s also married to Pinto.

#cats #ennys cats

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trees-and-flowers-and-buildings · 2 years ago

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Oyster pancake with corn chowder at Ruifeng night market in Kaohsiung. Crispy tapioca starch batter fried atop bok choy, oysters, and two eggs. Topped with a mild savory sauce. Corn chowder had a pleasant creamy and sweet taste with bits of corn and lunch meat and a light seasoning of white pepper.

#my photo #photography #food

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incorrect-got7 · 7 years ago

Conversation

Mark: Things are about to get cooking!

*Mark and Jackson walk into the bedroom*

Youngjae: Hey, where are you going? The kitchen's over here!

#got7 #s: chowder #got7 scenarios #got7 texts #kpop #kpop scenarios #jyp nation #jyp entertainment #mark #jackson #youngjae #mark tuan #jackson wang #choi youngjae

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idevourglass · 4 months ago

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Here are the choy fits I promised you guys

#south park #south park artist #south park au #south park oc #sp oc #sp choy #choy joy #choy chowder #south park original character #original character #oc #oc art

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rabbitcruiser · 3 years ago

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National Shrimp Day

Epicures, chefs, suppliers, associations, restaurants, and others celebrate shrimp today, the most widely eaten crustacean in the United States. As part of the day, videos and recipes are shared, contests are organized, specials are offered, and shrimp are eaten.

There are many species of shrimp. Some large shrimp are known as prawns. Coldwater shrimp, known as pandalid shrimp, are small shrimp found in the ocean waters in the northeast and northwest regions of the United States and Canada. One of these is the Pandalus borealis, a pink-hued shrimp used in chowders, soups, and salads. Warm water shrimp are found in tropical and subtropical regions around the world. These include white, brown, and pink shrimp, as well as hopper, tiger, and banana shrimp. These shrimp vary in size, taste, texture, and cost.

Wild shrimp, classified as either warm water or cold water shrimp, are caught in coastal ocean waters. These shrimp are well regulated, and make up less than ten percent of the shrimp consumed in the United States. Wild shrimp caught on the coasts of the United States are known as domestic shrimp. Farmed shrimp are warm water shrimp that are grown in open and closed pond systems and given formulated feeds. Over ninety percent of the shrimp eaten in the United States are farmed shrimp raised in other parts of the world. Imported shrimp usually means farmed shrimp that come from either Asia or the Pacific and Gulf coasts of Central America and South America.

Shrimp may be purchased refrigerated or frozen, the latter being the most common. They may be purchased whole or peeled, headless, tailless, and deveined. They are usually sold by weight and are categorized into sizes: jumbo, extra-large, large, medium, and small. Shrimp provide lean protein, are low in fat, and contain iron, vitamin B12, choline, selenium, and omega-3s. Their nutrients benefit the heart, boost immunity, and fight inflammation. Although, they do contain more sodium and cholesterol than other seafood.

Shrimp are versatile and can be eaten raw or cooked. They can be canned, smoked, or pickled, and can be deep-fried, pan-fried, skillet-fried, boiled, grilled, barbequed, or baked. They can be breaded or left plain. They can be made with rice and can be used in soups, chowders, and salads. Coconut shrimp, jambalaya, gumbo, scampi, poon choi, and okonomiyaki are some common dishes shrimp are used in. Cacciucco, paella de marisco, and caldeirada are European dishes where shrimp can be found. Shrimp curry is common in Asia. On National Shrimp Day, we celebrate all types of shrimp and all the dishes that can be made with them.

How to Observe National Shrimp Day

Some ways you could observe the day include:

Make a dish that contains shrimp.

Catch some shrimp.

Keep an eye out for contests being organized, shrimp videos and recipes being shared, and restaurants offering specials.

Host a shrimp party. You could ask everyone who attends to bring a dish that contains shrimp.

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timextoxhajima · 4 years ago

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The Misadventures of Ares: Promotionem

HOSTIS MASTERLIST

“Do I want to know if one of you will be reported missing tomorrow after I give you this information?” Dr. Choi has his left jaw snug in his left palm, head resting in his hand with his free one fiddling with the corner of a file.

“With all due respect, Dr. Choi, I doubt you have much of a choice,” Hyunjae grits his teeth and bares them like he was cringing. You would love to agree with him on the spot, but that’s not a very smart thing to do now, no.

The promotion was yours, and if it wasn’t, Dr. Choi might actually have to call 911 tomorrow when he doesn’t see your fiancé report to work.

He raises a brow and provides a slight shrug at Hyunjae’s words, already tuned to his little remarks that could cause a fire, but not enough for him to fire him. The hospital couldn’t anyway, not when Hyunjae’s done more good than most doctors in the building.

“I must have the both of you know that this promotion doesn’t mean anything. The paycheck is just about two or three thousand dollars difference and the working hours are still the same.”

A pause. He’s waiting for a reaction.

None.

“No matter which one of you gets promoted at this point, the other can get a promotion far more honorable, you know?”

He pauses again.

Nothing.

Dr. Choi sighs in resignation. “Very well,” He opens the file. Hyunjae sucks in a deep breath and shrinks his left eye, like he was scared something was going to pop out of those ivory pages. “I would like to congratulate Dr. l/n for excelling at her job, and the hospital would like to present her with-”

“YYYYYYYYYEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!” Your fists are clenched so hard and pushed so fast up into the air, the sides of your chest hurt. “AHA! DIDN’T I TELL YOU I’D GET THE PROMOTION FIRST?”

“Dr. l/n,” The senior doctor calls out, yanking your ghastly triumph back down to Earth. You hadn’t realised you were inches away from Hyunjae’s face, doing nothing but ironically talking down to him as if you were ready to win a rap battle.

“Oh,” Quick, embarrassed steps retreat you from your fiancé (and your loser of a colleague). “Sorry.”

Gaze stuck to the floor and your fingers tightly interweaved with one another, you cannot control the smile that’s erupting across your face. The glee, the satisfaction, the pure bliss that encapsulates your entire being in the form of a sheet of paper in front of you.

“Very graceful, Dr. l/n.” Hyunjae’s voice sneaks up from your right, and the childish need to stick out your tongue at him overwhelms your need to remain professional.

“Sometimes I question how you two made it past med school,” Dr. Choi looks up, over the rims of his glasses and raises a brow. The gesture earns a gentle huff from you as you turn away from Hyunjae. “Anyway, I’ll be sending you an email regarding the additional things you need to look out for, but for now, just keep up the good work.”

Clenching your fists in glee, you are snickering when you look up at Dr. Choi, who only turns to look at Hyunjae. “Doesn’t mean you can’t be the next to get a bigger promotion, Dr. Lee.”

“I know,” Hyunjae nods knowingly. The smug smirk directed at you rips out a sneer from your lips. “I trust you, Dr. Choi.”

You are halfway across the distance between you and your fiance, hand in the air and ready to slap it down against his arm when Dr. Choi raises both his hands, palms facing his audience and waving aggressively.

“If you two want to fight over this miniscule promotion, please do it at elsewhere, possibly in the safety of your own homes.”

Hyunjae tuts loudly, walking around you and heading for the door of Dr. Choi’s office. “Thank you, Dr. Choi,” He pauses, and glances between you and the older doctor. “And do help me call the police and ambulance tomorrow if I don’t show up.”

Your lower jaw goes slack as Hyunjae purses his lips in mischief, quickly exiting the office before you can throw something at him. “You-!”

“Dr. l/n!”

The mandarin shades of the setting sun is reflecting off the champagne glass tower as you are shown to the rooftop restaurant. With the spectacular view of the city and the sights of exquisite food placed on perfect-white porcelain plates, this is the last thing you would’ve expected him to do.

“Over here, Mr and Mrs Lee,” The waiter, who’s dressed in a suit that seemed mroe expensive than the clothes you were wearing now, gestures to a table for two nearest to the end where there was a gorgeous waterfall over the ledge and into the water catchment area below. “Here’s the menu. Today’s soup special is the Black Truffle Mushroom and I recommend that we get you started on a five-course seafood and steak meal with a Cabernet or Malbec.”

“Kitten, is there anything you don’t want before I get us started on that five-course?”

Your eyes dart away from the glistening water below to look at Hyunjae, whose eyes are plastered to the menu while the waiter is standing by the table with his hands before his abdomen.

“Uh- I-”

“We’ll both have the five-course. And make that two Cabernets. But is it alright if we change the soup special to Clam Chowder? It’s in the menu.”

The waiter takes the menu from Hyunjae that was being handed over. “Definitely. I’ll come by soon with the wine and soup.”

“Thank you.”

And with that, the waiter takes off with the menus and leaves you staring in awe at the view before you. Hyunjae peels your hand off the table and plants a kiss on the back of your hand, before cupping his own cheek in your palm.

“Do you like it?”

“Like it? I love it,” As much as you wanted to slam a book in his face for teasing you infront of your mentor this morning, you couldn’t. How could anybody? “You really didn’t have to.”

“No, no,” Hyunjae releases your hand for you to keep. “I’m great at being gracious and this is it. You won the fight and you deserve a treat.”

“But my treat’s the promotion. I didn’t need this.”

Hyunjae leans back in his chair, with his emerald green blazer a capturing all the orange there is that settling on the fabric. His hair is slightly tousled, and it’s a miracle how it remains in its position. He never liked touching much wax or hairspray unless he knew he couldn’t afford it getting into his face. But his skin is so clear, it looks like glass. And his eyes are pearls in the clear blue sea when you look down in the sand.

Then he looks at you with utmost genuine when he parts his lips, only speaking out enough for you to hear.

“At least let me enjoy celebrating your wins with you, even if you beat me to it.”

A gentle chuckle escapes your throat. “Is this how you won Minhee over, back when we were in school? With your... diabetic, sugar-infused speech?”

Hyunjae pokes the inside of his cheek with his tongue and crosses his legs under the table. “That probably wouldn’t work - words don’t click like they do in her head as they do in ours.”

“That’s mean!”

“Says you.”

The sound of your stomach gurgling stirs you in your sleep - which is weird. You've never had a problem with gastric or anything similar of the sorts. It's a surprise when your mouth starts flooding with saliva though, and you try to sit up in a bid to swallow down the need to hurl.

But a weight on your hip keeps you from sitting up completely, as so does Hyunjae's arm on your waist that keeps you pinned to the bed.

"Jae-"

"Hmm? What is it?"

"Get your leg off me."

"No."

"Get your damn leg off me before I-"

There it is again.

Hyunjae can feel your physique squirm against his chest. The feeling of queasiness lurches up your stomach and into your throat and finally it becomes unbearable. He isn't given a chance before you literally slide out from underneath him and bolt for his bathroom, and before you know it you're on your knees with your dinner and dessert being hurled out into the toilet bowl.

"Jesus, are you okay?" Hyunjae squats next to you after turning on the bathroom light. "Was it something you ate?"

The stench of the remnants in the toilet bowl stinks up the whole bathroom, and your slightly limp hand reaches out for the flush. "I don't know. I don't think so- you're not puking."

"Well- I could have a stronger stomach than you."

Sitting your bum to the cold tiles of the floor, your eyes naturally start shooting daggers at your fiancé. "You really know when to say the best things, don't you?"

The mischief in him slips away, replaced with a gentle smile as he presses his hand to your forehead. "Well, you're not having a fever so it probably isn't food poisoning."

"Never mind," Your hand searches for something solid to help you up, but Hyunjae interrupts you and slides his arms under your knees and your back instead. "I can get a check up at the hospital tomorrow when I check into work."

"Can't you take the day off and get your check up elsewhere?"

"We literally work at the hospital," Your bum leaves the floor as he carries you out, stopping by the switch on the wall to turn off the light. "Isn't it common sense to make use of that?"

Hyunjae hums, making it to his bed in about 5 or 6 steps. The cushion sinks under your weight when he puts you down in bed, and he crawls over you playfully, with his arms perching his torso above yours.

"You're so cute when you need me to take care of you," He pecks your nose and forehead.

"I don't need any taking care, Sir," Your fingers dig into his cheeks as you squish them, forcing his lips into an 'o'. "You're cuter, by the way."

Hyunjae grins widely, eyes still sleepy. Then he topples over and scoops you into his chest like a child holding a puppy, lips against your forehead as his gentle breathing takes you away into your slumber.

"Why did you even bother to clock into work today when you're not feeling well?" The general practitioner frowns at you through the reflection of his laptop as he watches you slide the door of his office shut.

"Aw, not happy to see me?" The sarcasm was awfully heavy in your voice as the smirk remains plastered to your face. Dr. Kyung Won Jin whirls around in his roller chair and scoots over to his desk where you head for, automatically pulling your white coat so that you wouldn't sit on it.

"I think I'd like it more if we were... perhaps in a restaurant or a café catching up instead." He takes your temperature and blood pressure.

"I would but I'm swamped," The blood pressure arm strap tightens around your skin and muscle.

"Not to mention that promotion I heard you got yesterday, right?" He smiles, turning to his laptop and letting some program run.

The satisfaction wells your chest. "So you've heard!"

"How could I not, when the entire department heard you yelling about it in Dr. Choi's office?"

A low chuckle collects the atmosphere as he removes the blood pressure strap. He clicks a pen and jots down the number, but it's not enough to catch your attention.

"Well, had to make sure to rub it in his face."

"Would've been there to see it myself... but, probably didn't want to be around when y'all are hurling things at each other."

"News flash, we didn't throw anything at each other," You grin at Dr. Kyung, who pulls out a needle and a blood tube.

"Nice to know," He wraps a band around your forearm before lifting the syringe. "Hold still for me, yeah?" Dr. Kyung starts pulling on the syringe. "So, how did he take it? Did he give you the cold shoulder?"

All you can remember from the previous day was the warmth of the sunset and the coolness from the starry night sky.

"Nah," A sweet smile overcomes your greed to flaunt your triumph. "He took me out for a dinner date."

"Aww," Dr. Kyung pouts cutely, eyes flitting back and forth between the blood tube and you. "So, when's the wedding? You've already registered your marriage, haven't you?"

"Well, yes. But the wedding's gotta wait," Dr. Kyung pulls out the needle, pressing a cotton pad to your tiny wound that you press into your arm. "I don't think we can afford the time to plan one now. We were already busy before and now with the promotion... Nah."

"Mm," He hums, sticking the blood tube into one of those test tube holders.

"That's a bummer. But if you do have a wedding, I'd hate to miss it."

Dr. Kyung helps you paste a plaster before you get up and take your leave.

"Of course not. Anything for you, Dr."

The marble counter is slightly stained with cream sauce and some pepper when the pasta is done cooking, and Hyunjae wraps his arms around your waist in a bid to plant little kisses into the back of your neck.

"You're already not helping and you want to pull this stunt now?"

Hyunjae turns off the stove before you're done and turns you around, letting you lean against the edge of the counter. "Who said I didn't help? I got the groceries and I set the table."

You can taste the butter from the garlic bread he was told to make when he presses his lips into yours.

"I told you to help with the garlic bread, not eat them," Hands on his chest, you pull away but unable to escape from between his hands on the edge of the counter.

"I was hungry, let me live a little, would you?" His fingers find your chin and bring them to his face again. The smile that stretches across his lips when you can't resist the kiss he's offering tastes like-

Then Hyunjae's right arm finally leaves the counter, and his left rests on your waist instead. His lips don't leave yours until he finds the vibrating device in the back pocket of his pants.

"Mm, hi- Dr. Kyung," He manages between the kisses. "Mhm- yes- she was just- cooking-"

Of all times to call...

"Right- the blood test- Mhm-"

Then he abruptly screeches to a halt, and your lips are left alone like ditching a puppy along the street.

"Ugh, will you hang up and just-"

"No, shut up, kitten," He shows you his palm as he transfers more attention to the person on the other end of the line, his left hand still gentle on your waist.

Rolling your eyes, you turn back to the pan and pour out your dinners into two plates that you bring to the table.

"It's my blood test," You mumble to yourself, annoyed. After setting down the food, you finally turn around to look at him, hands on your hips. Your lips are already parted to ask him to hang up and just come for dinner if it's nothing important, but he beats you to it.

"Kitten," The phone is held a distance away from his ear, his eyes flickering like satellites in the sky. "You're pregnant."

#hostis #timetohajima hostis #tbz hyunjae #hyunjae #lee hyunjae #the boyz #the boyz hyunjae

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peytonainsworth · 5 years ago

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/ * { madelaine petsch ☁ twenty-seven ☁ she/her } among the whispers around peach hollow, have you heard of peyton ainsworth? no? well, let’s catch you up to speed. rumor has it, they’ve been seen strolling around olive avenue & have lived in peach hollow for two weeks, seeing as she just moved back. it’s good to have them around because i hear they’re an event planner for a living. recent events must have them trembling because it hasn’t be long since everyone found out that peyton used to escort in order to support herself after disowning her hotel tycoon father’s riches. let’s hope they learned their lesson that the truth always catches up to you. { haley ☁ twenty-one ☁ she/her ☁ est }

hi babies ! i’m haley, twenty-one savage from the est. massachusetts to be exact. like every bostonian, i drink clam chowder through a straw and hold a tom brady vigil by my bedside nightly. some of you may know peyton and her big personality already but for those of you that don’t, here is my lil red lipstick, ginger, regina george queen <3333

personality

character inspo: quinn fabray, santana lopez, regina george, jackie burkhart, blair waldorf, heather chandler, cheryl blossom ofc

HEAD BITCH IN CHARGE

will roast ur entire existence

perfectionist!! detail oriented!!

CRAZY PSYCHO BITCH

the problem child bc her sister is an angel

big bitch but has a heart sometimes

she will not go get mexican food w u don’t even ask but she really just wants a damn burrito

will literally come over and marie kondo ur entire life

evil genius and luvs revenge

a legit psycho when it comes to loving people like has hacked her exes phones even though she seems calm and collected on surface level

will force u to watch home videos of her skating and u will watch

don’t ask to see her sketch books she will blush and change the subject

past

peyton hasn’t live in georgia all of her life. in fact she is one of the town’s newer residence. she moved there a little under a year ago with her mom and sister.

peyton was born and raised in san francisco in a neighborhood called pacific heights, commonly known as billionaire’s row.

she was born into wealth, her father owning a chain of five star hotels that had been passed down through the generations for as long as she could remember. she spent a ton of time in the beautiful hotels her father owned, learning her work ethic from him. her father was stoic man who put more value on a dollar than substantial relationships with his family. your typical rich dad.

her mother was a trophy wife, spewing meaningless side projects like perfume lines and eye shadow palettes that enviably made their way into departments stores alike.

peyton’s fondest childhood memories was helping set up for the weddings in the hotels. watching the flowers be arranged, the chairs be strategically placed, the wait staff setting the champagne flutes. this lead to her taking an interest in doodling wedding dresses and small flower arrangements.

she has a small wildflower tattoo going along the curve of her breast that she drew, fun fact.

when she was three, her little sister was born. the two grew up inseparable, running amuck in their house together, pranking the nannies but most importantly: ice skating. there were obviously no ice rinks in california naturally but their nanny would take them to an indoor skating rink for lessons. peyton and audrey were quite good skaters.

in high school, peyton won a ton of awards in art contests and even got scholarship to attend art schools across the country.

her dad insisted there was no money in being artist (even if money was never a problem for them), he urged her to take over and be a hotel tycoon like him. peyton and her father fought a lot towards the end of high school about this but at the end of the day, she was her fathers daughter and was stubborn. peyton knew the key to happiness was chasing you passion instead of the dollar.

she attended rhode island school of art and design, earning a degree in interior design and a minor in illustrator. after graduating, she returned home and expected to have a job in the hotel that could suit her.

as she expected, her father got her a job in his business planning the events and having creative control over how each other ballrooms looked as well as the lobbies. working in close quarters with her father made their relationship grow quite strong. the two did everything together and suddenly their stoic walls were crumbling, only for each other.

it seemed as though everything in peyton’s life was coming together. she was the head event coordinator at the hotel, her father was her boss and allowed her to have free range. her sister was around so they could goof off at work.

this was until one day peyton was bringing her father lunch from their favorite mexican food truck in the city. she then walked in on her father sleeping with his assistant which put a stake in their relationship.

peyton couldn’t keep the secret from her mother. she’d rather her mother walk away with dignity rather than stay with a man who had no respect for her. but her mother did not have the same respect for herself.

peyton made the decision to take her funds and move to georgia to be near her grandparents, that’s how she ended up in peach hollow.

peyton’s time in peach hollow

peyton moved to peach hollow three years ago per her ultimatum to her mother that it was either her or her father and her mother chose her father.

she moved into a house on olive avenue and visited her grandparents frequently.

being skeptical at first about the new town around her, it took her a while to warm up and make friends.

she owned her own successful event planning business.

after about a year of living in peach hollow, she started dating leo choi and their relationship was rough from the very beginning. around the time they made things official, it got exposed by the peacher that she was an escort. and it also got exposed that leo had a secret child.

but peach hollow made peyton an extremely happy person and even made her a better human being.

peyton and leo were happy for about a year after overcoming their obstacles, just to run into another. leo got busy with work and his son, growing closer to other people as peyton began to drift away herself. it wasn’t until one day when their estrangement became physical.

leo walked in on his roommate lucas and peyton having sex and that was the end of their relationship. this was also the end of peyton’s time in peach hollow.

the last two years & now

after cheating on leo, peyton moved to nyc to take a job offer at a five star hotel planning events and also freelancing other galas throughout the city.

peyton’s been absolutely thriving, becoming a bit of a party girl with the city life but also finding herself as a professional in the daylight.

she’s even had a few relationships in new york but nothing as serious as her relationship with leo. she lowkey still has their pictures tucked away in her manhattan apartment.

she brought her dog mango to nyc from sanfran.

doesn’t talk to her mom or dad, has cut all ties completely.

moved back to peach hollow (olive ave) bc her grandma is sick and she needs someone to take care of her. is not happy ab it. was living her best life.

#peachesintro #about #bio

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homeskillet-1 · 6 years ago

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Light and flavorful, salmon cream soup //

After visiting Bergen, Norway I felt that we lacked delicious fish-based soups over here in the States.

This is not at all Bergen style, but a delicious salmon soup with soymilk rather than heavy cream, making it healthier it would have been if done in the classic chowder style.

It was also inspired by the show Terrace House, since one of the house members made a salmon soup using soymilk. I used onions and bok choy because that’s what I had at home.

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seeksstaronmewni · 7 years ago

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Saving the Day before Bedtime in Style: The Powerpuff Girls Then vs. Now

THE CITY OF TOWNSVILLE!

I remember growing up a little with The Powerpuff Girls, namely the pre-2002 episodes on CN and a promo for the show on my VHS of Animaniacs: Wakko’s Wish. That show is a part of my childhood. My sister had an Easy-Bake Powerpuff Girls “Cookie Makin’ Bake Set” and a Burger King 2002 figure of Bubbles. The length of the series’ run is now 20 years old, though the franchise as a whole is over 25 years old, if you count A Sticky Situation.

In the past, I watched little of PPG because I neither understood nor appreciated action at a very young age; the same went for Samurai Jack & Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003), though I did watch Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), which included a former PPG writer, Brian Larsen. Now, “Cartoon Cartoons” like @crackmccraigen‘s Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Dexter’s Laboratory, Grim & Evil, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Ed Edd ‘n Eddy, Chowder... I grew up on those. I remember little about 2 Stupid Dogs (now officially available on MOD Disc DVD) and Captain Planet. I didn’t see the PPG marathon in 2009 with the final McCracken-produced episode so far, The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!! (my sister watched it, though). I began to return to PPG as I saw excerpts from the show on Netflix in late 2015, prior to the reboot. Tara Strong’s tweet of dismay, I think, was how I heard of the new PPG episodes.

The first time “Painbow” was encored (that is 2nd airing), during like 6 in the morning, I began to love Ms. Keane, their teacher, who’s voiced by Jennifer Hale (I knew her best for voicing Gladys, Billy’s Mom, in Grim & Evil / The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, whose voice is nearly identical to Keane’s). What I love about Keane is that she’s sweet, somewhat perky but usually mellow, and kind, in addition to her voice, big blue eyes, and hair style, that I find to be attractive, but ultimately she is very nurturing to her students, like a mommy. Ms. Keane is why, in 2016, I became really into The Powerpuff Girls... and, including regard for the former CN Studios team, hyped for the return of Genndy Tartakovsky’s Samurai Jack (season 5, which featured Craig Kellman and other familiar creatives). However, though The Powerpuff Girls is my personal favorite of Craig McCracken and I grew up somewhat more on Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, I do feel that Wander Over Yonder is Craig’s greatest achievement as it excels at not only humor--both slapstick and... well... “modern”--but also some very important life lessons and ultimately the heart.

Now, many PPG fans were upset with the new episodes for many reasons that were, in my opinion, nostalgically incorrect. Personally, like many fans, I mostly prefer the former art styles of the series (specifically the 2002 movie and episodes, as well as the following designs by art director Paul Stec and character designers Carey Yost & Stef Choi) but I also highly admire @cheyennecurtisart for adding more defining details to our favorite crime-fighting and now ex-kindergarten students (and also for designing my other favorite woman, Star Butterfly, whose title show @crackmccraigen, creator of The Powerpuff Girls, wanted to produce for CN). The main reason for the hate is apparently that the new actresses replaced the former ones for the title characters. They are fairly good voices, but I still prefer the former, namely Tara Strong as Bubbles (No offense, Kristin Li, but, to me, it feels impossible to turn down Tara’s acting). Natalie Palamides as Buttercup is probably the closest-resembling to the original voices, but she still stands out differently; likewise Ms. Keane’s voice, though akin to the voice direction of Jennifer Hale by Craig McCracken and later Colette Sunderman, also has an accent that stands out, while Tom Kane is generally true to the nature of Utonium’s voice. Of course, once the casting and/or voice direction changes, maybe Cavadini, Daily and Strong will return. Also, E.G. Daily said in an interview that Cavadini, Daily & Strong originally did record for, I believe, Escape from Monster Island, until someone else replaced them; if bonus features exist on future season releases of the Jennings-Boyle PPG episodes, then an original dialogue recording track for the episode should totally be on it.

WHAT LOOKS DIFFERENT ABOUT THE POWERPUFF GIRLS?

Another reason for dislike from PPG fans is all about the art direction. Although @eusong Lee worked with Craig Kellman on Storybots and current art director Roman Laney designed and painted backgrounds for Craig McCracken’s Wander Over Yonder, their art direction resembles that of a more streamline, smooth, round, futuristic, not-so-cartoony look contrasting with the simplistic, storybook-like art direction of Craig Kellman, the cartoony but simple art direction of @donshank, and the defining and Hanna-Babera like art direction of Mike Moon, Paul Stec and Sue Mondt. The buildings in the Jennings-Boyle episodes are more straight, detailed and lineless, whereas the former designs were more extreme and exaggerated with building shapes.

Comparing the designs above of Andy Bialk & Stef Choi (whose designs were of many shapes and sizes; former monsters had sometimes simple but also very wild designs)...

...with those of Alan Stewart & Steve Lambe and Dean Heezen & Carlos Nunez reveals great contrast. The character design of current Townies, like the backgrounds, are more round-edged and of more simplistic, specific shapes and sizes. The monsters are different too; props are more realistic and explosions usually look simpler and more streamlined, round-edged, etc. Also, character & prop outlines aren’t really thick, which many CN/H-B cartoons are know for having. As the current designs from Memory Lane of Pain show, the Mayor and Robin Schneider are seen, along with an elderly woman who looks similar to the usual one in former episodes and a kid who somewhat resembles Mitch; next to those 2, there’s also a big guy whose model appears... shrunk for some reason.

Now, some Season 8-9 designs look a little more familiar, like the disguise character of an alien in Never Been Blissed, Locan Logan. He looks fairly akin to the works of Craig McCracken. Could the alien be disguising himself as Mac (from Foster’s) at an older age?

Not belittling @cheyennecurtisart‘s contributions, character designs developed for The Powerpuff Girls Movie are some of the finest ever done for the series, lead by Carey Yost; these designs were eventually implemented into the series, supervised by @andybialk and Chris Reccardi and designed by Stef Choi. Ultimately, though, @cheyennecurtisart and Carey Yost plus Andy Bialk (2002-2004 only for the latter two), did my favorites.

As you can see here, Man Up 2: Still Man-ing was the one of the few current episodes where the Mayor’s mouth is visible... but it wasn’t the first time. Paul Rudish storyboarded the Mayor with his mouth for transition in Boogie Frights; some official models of him (as well as a comic book cover) show the mouth as well. It’s unorthodox, but honestly I’m not hating on the new creatives for that. In most of the episodes excluding Man Up 2, it’s probably a mistake, since in those episodes he also does the mustache lip-sync thing he tends to do.

On the bright side regarding nostalgically correct art direction, the Pokey Oaks flashback in The Wrinklegruff Gals (art direction by Eusong Lee) was very true to that of Paul Stec (I’d think that Ms. Keane’s in the first shot, but these shots are 1.78:1 and not “letterbox” widescreen like the DVD covers of most CN shows in the last decade claim them to be in). They included students Mitch Mitchelson, Elmer Sglue, Robin Schneider, Harry Pitt, Suzie Jenkins, and Clara (the African girl in purple dress, called by Ms. Keane in ’Twas the Fight Before Christmas; in other episodes Jennifer Hale voiced her and the other dark-skinned girl in a pink dress). The new art creatives were so good at that, that I wondered if they’d contribute to season 5 of Samurai Jack. Speaking of that, the series finale of Samurai Jack, EPISODE CI (as did EPISODE II and Comic Issue 19), referenced The City of Townsville with the city of dogs that Jack saved! I also recently noticed a background from The Powerpuff Girls Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins in Aqua Teen Hunger Force, cleverly called “Powerpuff Mall” (tweeted here), and the episode “Universal Remonster” features a PPG with a mohawk on a Spring Break Cancun shirt!

Also, there’s the reference to Abracadaver in Memory Lane of Pain, where Blossom realizes how different she looked then and a re-orchestration of the PPG’s theme plays in the background, as in the new intro itself. The shot in reference is a digitally traced, cleaned-up version of a shot with models by Andy Bialk & Chris Battle.

Relatively, former character designer @chrisbattleart designed for the PPGs in the Teen Titans GO! episode “TTG vs PPG” which were true to the improved designs of @cheyennecurtisart...

...though they sometimes resemble the pre-2002 models, which he reflected in the last Craig McCracken-produced episode, The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!! As with both specials, the PPGs have thick outlines & black-colored mouths and are in model-rigged or “puppet-ed” animation.

Also relatively, Wander Over Yonder, which referenced both PPGs & Samurai Jack, featured @lambebeardo, who storyboarded the PPG-referencing episode The Boy Wander, who did some character design on season 8 PPG episodes.

The new theme song implements the general PPG theme within, as I said before, but there’s more nostalgia than that: the extended version of the current intro/theme song, “Who’s Got the Power?”, opens up like the original intro, with the original Tom Kenny narration, score and certain sounds. “Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice. These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect little girl, but Professor Utonium accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction...” Yes, except that Utonium didn’t break the bottle of CHEMICAL X by throwing his fist in success, though; Mojo rammed him into it. That is an error of continuity, which some episodes have, namely The Power of Four (regarding a rival of Utonium, Netronium, creating the perfect little boy)... though there is one thing that that episode did right...

TV PUPPET PALS PUPPETS! These character originally appeared in a few episodes like Mommy Fearest, and were created by either Genndy Tartakovsky and/or @crackmccraigen for The Justice Friends, whose pilot was about TV Puppet Pals. Once again, some nostalgia is preserved; thanks to Prop Designer Nathan Alexander Rico (and/or the act’s character designers/storyboard artists)!

In case no one noticed: I refer to the current seasons of The Powerpuff Girls, produced and directed by Nick Jennings & Bob Boyle, as the 7th, 8th, and 9th seasons, since, to me, it’s still the same show; despite different art direction and other styles. The other reason is that some episodes did call back to former events, like I said about Memory Lane of Pain.

Another thing that seems to be lacking in The Powerpuff Girls is the visually cartoony stuff. Memory Lane of Pain is the only episode to use a “pow” cloud as the Rubber Bandit streaks out of a shot. This was common in earlier episodes, often accented visually with words like “POW”, “ZIP”, etc. In most current episodes, characters run out of a shot more realistically.

WHAT’S WITH THE ANIMATION?

Additionally, most of the animation direction, though still with Robert Alvarez, Randy Myers and Richard Collado, is pervasively slow-paced, compared to the pre-2016 episodes, namely those of seasons 5-6 and, of course, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, on which Genndy Tartakovsky was the main animation director. Unlike most current CN Studios programs, however, Samurai Jack season 5 did its “sheet timing” very well, particularly in EPISODE XCVIII and its scene of Ashi owning a whole army of orcs (Sheet Timing by Rob Renzetti & Robert Alvarez; storyboarded & written by Bryan Andrews & Genndy Tartakovsky).

As with that and most CN Studios programs, both Samurai Jack and The Powerpuff Girls have animation that is checked by CN’s Sandy & Julie Benenati. Speaking of creatives still involved, there’re at least 25 people still working on The Powerpuff Girls just as they did decades ago... including @joltumblingart, a former BG/Prop designer! At least us nostalgia-craving fans can appreciate that! (By the way, if you crave classic CN Studios projects, you can watch the ENTIRE series of Samurai Jack here!)

WHAT OF THE NEW GIRLS AND GUYS ON THE SHOW?

Now, I can say that some of the new creatives could serve The Powerpuff Girls well:

Character designer @cheyennecurtisart did designs for Star vs. the Forces of Evil; the show’s art direction (namely season 1/Joshua & Justin Parpan, but also including Israel Sanchez, who all worked on Wander Over Yonder) is similar to the works of @crackmccraigen and closer to the Mike Moon / Paul Stec styles I prefer, specifically elements of background/location design and character design. Some designs of Princess Bluebelle in the Emmy-winning episode Once Upon a Townsville seem to resemble the looks of Star Butterfly. Also, SvTFOE location designer Larry Murphy did background design for PPG episodes “Save Mojo” and “Substitute Creature”. A number of creatives from SvTFOE should work on current PPGs too, regarding art direction/design/storyboarding action, in addition to former creatives involved with Samurai Jack (including season 5) and Paul Rudish’s Mickey Mouse, including clean-up artist king Robert Lacko. Relatively, SvTFOE location designer @peteremmerich served as the art director on Netflix’s Harvey Street Kids, whose background design is very much like the PPG locations under Paul Stec’s art direction.

Character designer @lambebeardo did storyboards for Disney’s Wander Over Yonder, created and executively produced by @crackmccraigen, as mentioned before, including “The Boy Wander”, which ends ala “The Day is Saved!” segment. There’re 2 specific creatives for a season 7 (or, in reboot terms, season 1) PPG episode...

Power Up Puff features storyboard artist Roque Ballesteros, who storyboards for Star Wars: Forces of Destiny and did animation/layout on CN’s Enter Mode 5 at Ghostbot. One could compare that to Bryan Andrews who did storyboards for Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003-2005) at Cartoon Network Studios, where Power Up Puff was produced; Brian Larsen, who worked with Bryan Andrews, also did storyboards for PPG and Samurai Jack, as well as (the non-Cartoon Network Studios) Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008-2019)...

...and then there’s animation director Shaun Cashman, who did animation/sheet timing for another CN Studios original, Genndy Tartakovsky’s Sym-Bionic Titan. Cashman also supervised the timing on Disney’s Star vs. the Forces of Evil and produced Grim & Evil AKA The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy for CN. I think that there’s some good animation timing in Power Up Puff, which’s rare due to the way CN Studios and SMIP do the animation these days.

One episode I intend to note here is Save the Date, which’s about Ms. Keane, as was Keen on Keane. A few aspects on design are covered below. One is about the title cards as shown above (which uses props/characters to reflect the episode’s subject/theme) and below.

These cards swipe to the right, rather than having the PPGs beam by and then reveal the storyboard artist/writer and art director. Originally the text was still, until after the movie and they’d zoom in slowly, not italicized and even glowing the tiniest bit. Also, some of the writers aren’t storyboarding, and the art director’s listed on the credits.

Lastly, of course, every single episode is directed just by Nick Jennings and Bob Boyle, aside from a supervising director. Can’t someone from Samurai Jack, Wander Over Yonder, Star vs. the Forces of Evil direct instead? Often, an animation director like Robert Alvarez or Randy Myers would direct The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Grim & Evil, etc. For that matter, someone on the show should get, like, Genndy Tartakovsky (currently at Sony Pictures Animation) to direct. High-octane action and slapstick are a big part of his direction.

Since the Season 7 episode People Pleaser, @deanheezen is the main character designer, in place of @cheyennecurtisart; @carlosluisnunez still contributes, but usually Dean Heezen or Gordon Hammond (and sometimes Steve Lambe and Alan Lambe) are the only designers for an episode. From the episode Save the Date onward, Ms. Keane has only one bang, when she usually has 2, though there is one shot in Keen on Keane where she has one bang, (in various shots of the episode, she has 3 bangs).

In Save the Date, Ms. Keane’s fashion is different from hers in Keen on Keane, which was modified in Octi-Gone. Also, Keane didn’t walk well in high heels in Save the Date, unlike Keen on Keane.

Pertaining to certain fashion, like Keen on Keane, more of Ms. Keane’s body shape is exercised, namely on her legs. Unlike Keen on Keane Ms. Keane’s calves aren’t as obvious if [one of] her legs are straight. Usually, her legs appear shorter as well... kind of stubby, which I think is cute. In some shots in Save the Date, Ms. Keane’s hands are sharper-looking, as were the designs by Carey Yost and Stef Choi.

Relative to both animation and design, compare Ms. Keane fighting the giant, radioactive ant in Save the Date with the aforementioned sequences in Samurai Jack EPISODE XCVIII:

Now, in these 2 shots, you can see more detail to the design/form of the legs in action. If Carey Yost did the designs of Ms. Keane like those they did in Keen on Keane, the look and form to Keane’s legs in action would appear maybe somewhat stylized, but far more realistic.

In the fight in Save the Date, there’re a few pieces of fast-paced animation, but only a few as, like I said before, animation in CN shows these days are usually slow-paced. In Samurai Jack, of course, there’s much balance between both fast and slow-paced animation which helps convey more realistic (and intense) action. Robert Alvarez was an animation director with Sherri Wheeler (supervising) & Randy Myers for Save the Date and did sheet timing with Rob Renzetti for Samurai Jack EPISODE XCVIII.

Now, like Samurai Jack, Ms. Keane here shows good form in an action pose. The lines in the PPG shot are similar to the shot of a falling catapulted rock in Samurai Jack EPISODE III, too.

Relative to Samurai Jack EPISODE XCVIII, the Dexter’s Laboratory episode Dexter Dodgeball has a very nice sequence of well-timed, balanced traditional animation including much fast-paced animation; Dexter’s hair animates somewhat as well. In addition to being filmed and animated with cels, the timing/animation direction gives to moments of this scene movie-level quality of traditional animation. “Additional Animation Direction” is claimed to be done by Robert Alvarez, @crackmccraigen and Rob Renzetti.

Ms. Keane’s homes vary in the series: Dave Dunnet designed 74A in Keen on Keane and another house in ‘Twas the Fight Before Christmas, while Santino Lascano & Clark Snyder revealed a much bigger home for her in Save the Date.

Speaking of location, current episodes have new places like The Snooty Rose and Penguin Pete’s...

...but what about Pete’s-a Pizza, Malph’s and La Donut King Donut?

One interesting thing to note about Save the Date is a matter of size (this’s also the first time in the entire series that sweet Ms. Keane cries). Of course, she’s not the only one with concerns of size.

The PPGs themselves were made to be giant by Mojo Jojo, too, in What’s the Big Idea?, one of the last McCracken-produced episodes (and starring @donshank as a protest leader. He’s the Townie in that fallen building).

The other thing notable about this episode... “WHAT ABOUT THE GIANT ANT” in Bubblevision? Of course, that was a different ant that looked more realistic and just gnawed on stuff at random, but I like that more. The giant radioactive ant in Save the Date was only pushed back by the heat ray of the PPGs, but in Bubblevision the giant ant totally burned up.

One thing I don’t like about the credits--aside from lacking BiS’s popular hit, The Super Secret City of Soundsville Song, which’s the PPGs’ End Title [Theme] Song--is that they don’t specify the voice of the episode’s lesser characters (such as “Todd”, who kind of sounds like Tom Kenny... just a hint of Commander Peepers in his voice). Of course, Samurai Jack season 5 sometimes did this too. Typically, they don’t credit sound designers or foley artists/recordists, either; at least The Powerpuff Girls Movie gave credit to Joel Valentine and his team for Sound Creation and Design and foley.

Now, there’re approaches to character design in current episode that I do enjoy. In this shot from Buttercup vs. Math, Blossom recoils from intense emotion with a very funny yet simple face.

Prior to that, of course, the former emotions are also very wild and creative...

...but that doesn’t mean that Andy Bialk, Carey Yost & @chrisbattleart didn’t do that either (though rarely), as this shot from A Very Special Blossom proves. Art Director @donshank and Models guy Carey Yost, like many great CN Studios creatives, were formerly involved with Spumco, particularly on The Ren & Stimpy Show, which could account for this wild, somewhat detailed design.

Unlike most of Craig McCracken’s former works, except for Wander Over Yonder, character reactions in design weren’t usually as exaggerated as they are in the new PPG episodes. Such design extremes tend not to apply to Ms. Keane as she’s rather mellow and more realistic with emotional reactions, and usually not in grave danger or needful otherwise, compared to another woman designed by Cheyenne Curtis, Star Butterfly, who tends to be highly poignant with emotion (in most ways I love her more than Ms. Keane because Star’s been through a lot, needful and emotional).

In very rare cases, though, like these shots in Keen on Keane and Speed Demon, Ms. Keane shows catchlights in a closeup, which may contribute to either intensely poignant emotion and/or close-up detail (including lighting). Her look in Keen on Keane (Carey Yost) does suggest a needful emotion, but not too exaggerated.

As I said before, I don’t care for the current art direction as much, except for @cheyennecurtisart‘s part; eventually Dean Heezen took over until Gordon Hammond started doing all of the character design, which aren’t really much different. Some others don’t like the designs currently with The Powerpuff Girls, including one artist who decided to re-design and re-animate the promoted scene from Man Up. The designs of the PPGs look very much like the SSN 1-4 models, and the rest vary; some resemble Andy Bialk/Stef Choi or Stephanie Ramirez. The backgrounds are very detailed but similar to the original art direction.

Tom Kenny’s famous, lovable narration that began and ended all pre-2016 episodes has been absent in most current PPG episodes (except for a few, like Painbow, Little Octi Lost, and Fashion Forward). Even worse is a talking snowman voiced by Maurice LaMarche narrating instead--and on-screen--which is one of the major crimes to The Powerpuff Girls in their second Christmas episode, You’re a Good Man, Mojo Jojo. “I BEGIN AND END EACH EPISODE OF POWERPUFF GIRLS, ME, THE NARRATOR!” he claimed at the end of Los Dos Mojos. Next to Scaramouche, Spongebob and Commander Peepers, his narration on The Powerpuff Girls is one of his finest and most memorable roles.

Also missing are more familiar and specific Townies like the Chief of Police, the Pokey Oaks students (excluding the flashback scene), Floyd & Llyod... Also, since Chuck McCann died, I wonder who’d voice the Amoeba Boys now. Perhaps former creative Lou Romano could, since he was their original voice in the pilot/Craig’s student film A Sticky Situation. Some creatives and production staff on the show made cameos, namely @donshank (voiced first by Tom Kenny and then Shank himself), who, himself, served as a supportive character in What’s The Big Idea? leading a protestant group against the PPGs. This Easter egg is rare in cartoons these days (though a recent Teen Titans Go! episode put @chrisbattleart and other creatives in a city crowd), but the episode Electric Buttercup implemented creatives like @cheyennecurtisart, Nick Jennings & Bob Boyle, Kyle Neswald, and others in “THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF SHAME”.

In general, the approach to sound design on the show is a bit quieter but uses more Disney sound effects and other typical Hacienda Post sound design, as well as aural gags thematically associated with noting a certain subject (e.g. a cash register opening and ringing accents a thematic element pertaining to the Monopoly-esq game in Rainy Day, as money is a relative/thematic element). Although Hacienda Post (namely the team) has always been involved with the series since 1998, the original “Sound Creation and Design”, debuting on the episode Crime 101, was by Joel Valentine (Samurai Jack, Big City Greens, Wander Over Yonder), one of my favorite sound designers, who was only credited on The Powerpuff Girls Movie; episode credits would mention only Twenty-First Century Entertainment, Inc. for “Sound Editing”, though they obviously did sound design and foley too. Whether or Joel or all Hacienda, foley members are usually uncredited on the show, yet they bring our favorite Townies to aural life. Joel used his funny little castanet sound to accent many emotions, and the “SINGLE MAGIC WAND HIT” among other sfx to accent the PPGs beaming away. The classic H-B/Universal explosion often accented big feet, impacts and explosions, as well as the original title reveal in the intro; Joel would use some more tweaked variants of that sound too, and, next to Skywalker Sound, Joel is the only one whose consistent use of that sound excuses the general cheesy nature of that sound. Of course, in my opinion “ROCKET LAND SPEEDER: START AND AWAY”, which often accented the PPGs flying (usually for relatively fast/increasing speeds), seemed particularly exaggerated, but Hacienda Post seems to avoid overusing that.

Also, the music style often is more pervasive compared to former episodes, and Mike Reagan did some very nice cartoon-y music, like in the beginning of Rainy Day, though the style feels different from that of Thomas Chase & Steve Rucker in episodes like Pet Feud. The stylized sound of horn sections and strong techno beats in the score by James L. Venable (AKA “DJ Avalanche”) are very cool but aren’t so common in the current episodes, though respectively the action doesn’t live up as well as former episodes, like Live and Let Dynamo.

Near the end of this post, I note that I found great value in The Ren & Stimpy Show as many creatives on it/at Spumco worked on The Powerpuff Girls, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Samurai Jack, Spongebob Squarepants, The Iron Giant, The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, and many other great animation, including a gem of a Cartoon Network “Minisode”, Buy One, Get One Free*. My love for the work of John Kricfalusi/Spumco boosted with [adult swim]’s airing of the Yogi Bear/Ranger Smith episode “Boo Boo Runs Wild” on August 13th, 2016 A.D.

To conclude: The Powerpuff Girls is an iconic show that deserves to still have some design that feels signature to it, over 25 years after the pilot, @crackmccraigen‘s CalArts student film A Sticky Situation (originally with a mildly profane name for the trio, though Paul Rudish came up with their official name). In my honest opinion, there’re 5 original people whom I wish and pray would contribute to The Powerpuff Girls again: Carey Yost (with or without @chrisbattleart), Tara Strong, Dave Dunnet (with or without @shinypinkbottle), and at least Joel Valentine. Honestly, regarding Star vs. the Forces of Evil, I hope and pray that Joel Valentine, Genndy Tartakovsky’s band of excellent writers/storyboard artists, and even @crackmccraigen could/would contribute to that franchise’s future media. Additionally, the new creatives in season 5 of Samurai Jack, like Dustin d’Arnault, David Krentz, @stephendestefano and Amanda Qian Li, should contribute to these shows too. Again, I also suggest that the former voice of The Amoeba Boys, Lou Romano (in A Sticky Situation), should replace the late Chuck McCann. While Craig’s first words to me suggest that he may not return, more or less, to PPGs, still at least members of his team deserve to, and who wouldn’t want to come back? Meanwhile, at least Craig’s working on new stuff to be announced, including Kid Cosmic for Netflix.

I leave you with not only a petition image to suggest ways to bring nostalgia back to our favorite kindergarten crime-fighters, but also IMDb lists of appropriate creatives for future media of PPG, future media of Dexter’s Laboratory, and even future media of Samurai Jack (pre-Season 5 events to fill a more or less “50-year” story gap). Spread the petition (and/or IMDb lists), and perhaps our childhood days will be saved--thanks to fans like you! GO, POWERPUFF! [z, z, z-z-z-zuuu...] *cue H-B swirling star* (also a Tumblr post)

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