#incorrect GO 263

[mimisempai]

They're… doing things…

Incorrect Good Omens Quotes Masterpost Part 1 : here

Incorrect Good Omens Quotes Masterpost Part 2 : here

[freddie-77-ao3]

garden games camp half blood has banned, a non extensive list:

tag. any version of tag. a lot of kids can teleport/shadow travel or have super speed, and the ones that don't DO NOT appreciate playing tag with them. It wasn't officially banned until cecil, connor, and chris teamed up in what became known as the "battle of the c's" and demolished everyone (all 263 kids playing) within three minutes and fifty-eight seconds. travis still has nightmares.

Freeze tag in particular was banned when someone with winter/ice powers misunderstood and actually ended up freezing a couple of demigods. Poor Chris never looked the same.

ring around the rosie. fun fact, this is how michael yew got claimed! yeah... not actually fun considering he started going on about how the song was about the bubonic plague and then GAVE clarisse the bubonic plague because... it sounded like a good idea at the time?

Red Light Green Light. Again, teleportation/superspeed. It had fallen out of favour, but was officially banned when five year olds Will and Connor both ended up in the infirmary because Connor kept cheating, Will got mad and started yelling, and a tree nymph got mad and tripped both of them.

Sharks and Minnows: surprisingly, not a superspeed/teleportation related ban. No, it got banned when nine year old Clarisse tripped Michael so she could make her way to freedom, but Michael fell into Annabeth and she fell too... Annabeth beat both of them up for causing her to lose. Miranda still talks about how she won. Annabeth still glares every time Miranda talks about it.

Simon Says. Sherman won all of Ares Cabin's cash by saying Simon Says give your money to Sherman, and Ares cabin refuses to back down from a challenge. This then turned into a riot when Sherman didn't give the money back.

duck duck goose. there's already an incorrect quote about "fuck, fuck, shit", need I say more? yes, actually, because that's not why it was banned. It was banned because travis gave beckendorf a concussion by hitting his head too hard.

musical chairs. they broke the chairs. the steel, extra reinforced chairs. because instead of playing, they were fighting over who's music to turn on.

dodgeball: certain someones (ellis and cecil) swapped out the dodgeballs for firework grenades. aka fireworks that are motion activated. that only activate when they hit their target. Auto banned... after it happened for the third time.

The floor is lava: michael climbed lee like a tree to win, and so did clarisse. Lee fell over. carrying several jars of nectar. yeah...

jump ropes with rhymes: apollo cabin is very creative when it comes to coming up with rhymes. a little too creative. banned.

hide and seek: so many incidents. so many. also malcolm kept winning and drew kept getting mad, and they started fighting, which meant they both lost...

[unpopularvivian]

Incorrect Ttte Quotes 263:

Charlie Sand: Hey, how'd you sleep last night?

Edward, absolutely exhausted and completely done with life: Fucking Sidney tumbled down on the stairs and that woke me up in 4:30 in the morning. As you know, that just means you just can't go back to sleep... How about you?

Charlie Sand: Well, first I had a nap and then I slept the whole night. I'm asleep right now.

Edward: You're aslee- What?

Charlie Sand: *Snoring*

[stitchkickinzu]

Dogday x Crafty headcanons and quotes bc my life I more boring than Ennui's from inside out 2-

Headcanons:

Crafty has an entire sketchbook dedicated to Dogday

Dogday helps Crafty break out of her shell

Crafty will tear apart whoever hurts Dogday in anyway type of way

Dogday buys art equipment for Crafty

Incorrect quotes:

Crafty: *hugging Dogday*

Bubba: will she let go?

Dogday: it's been 3 days, 16 hours, 26 minutes and 263 seconds. So probably not.

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Dogday: *asleep*

Crafty: *sketching Dogday while making sure catnap doesn't enter*

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That's it:p

[soniyakc]

Top Reasons Why Green Card Applications Get Denied – And How to Avoid Them

Applying for a green card can be long, complicated, and stressful. If your application is denied, it can feel frustrating and disappointing—especially after months or years of waiting. But many of these rejections happen due to avoidable mistakes.

Here are the most common reasons why green card applications are denied—and what you can do to avoid them.

1. You're Not Eligible

Not everyone qualifies for a green card. U.S. immigration law has specific categories such as family, employment, or humanitarian reasons.

Common Mistakes:

Applying without proving a valid relationship (e.g., not proving a real marriage)

Applying under the wrong category

Trying to adjust status when you should go through consular processing

Tip: Check if you qualify before applying. If you're unsure, talk to an experienced immigration lawyer.

2. Errors in the Application

Even small mistakes can delay or ruin your chances.

Examples:

Missing signatures or blank sections

Giving false or incorrect information

Forgetting key documents (e.g., birth or marriage certificates)

Submitting documents in the wrong language

Tip: Double-check everything. Include all required documents. Have a lawyer review your petition to catch errors.

3. Missing Appointments

Skipping USCIS appointments can lead to denial.

Key Appointments:

Biometrics – Fingerprinting, photo, and signature

Interview – To verify your identity and details

Medical Exam – Must be done by a USCIS-approved doctor

Tip: Track all appointment notices. If you can’t attend, reschedule in advance.

4. Financial Problems

USCIS needs to be sure you won’t depend on public support.

Common Issues:

Sponsor doesn’t meet income requirements

No joint sponsor if needed

Applicant is considered a “public charge”

Tip: Ensure the sponsor meets income rules. If not, add a qualified joint sponsor. Provide strong financial documents like tax returns, bank statements, and pay stubs.

5. Health Issues

Health concerns can impact your eligibility.

Risk Factors:

Contagious diseases like untreated tuberculosis

Missing required vaccines

Conditions that may harm others

Drug addiction or history of drug abuse

Tip: Visit a USCIS-approved doctor. Get all required vaccinations. If you have a condition, show you’re getting treatment and are not a risk to others.

Need Help?

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Top Reasons Why Green Card Applications Get Denied – And How to Avoid Them

Applying for a green card can be long, complicated, and stressful. If your application is denied, it can feel frustrating and disappointing—especially after months or years of waiting. But many of these rejections happen due to avoidable mistakes.

Here are the most common reasons why green card applications are denied—and what you can do to avoid them.

1. You're Not Eligible

Not everyone qualifies for a green card. U.S. immigration law has specific categories such as family, employment, or humanitarian reasons.

Common Mistakes:

Applying without proving a valid relationship (e.g., not proving a real marriage)

Applying under the wrong category

Trying to adjust status when you should go through consular processing

Tip: Check if you qualify before applying. If you're unsure, talk to an experienced immigration lawyer.

2. Errors in the Application

Even small mistakes can delay or ruin your chances.

Examples:

Missing signatures or blank sections

Giving false or incorrect information

Forgetting key documents (e.g., birth or marriage certificates)

Submitting documents in the wrong language

Tip: Double-check everything. Include all required documents. Have a lawyer review your petition to catch errors.

3. Missing Appointments

Skipping USCIS appointments can lead to denial.

Key Appointments:

Biometrics – Fingerprinting, photo, and signature

Interview – To verify your identity and details

Medical Exam – Must be done by a USCIS-approved doctor

Tip: Track all appointment notices. If you can’t attend, reschedule in advance.

4. Financial Problems

USCIS needs to be sure you won’t depend on public support.

Common Issues:

Sponsor doesn’t meet income requirements

No joint sponsor if needed

Applicant is considered a “public charge”

Tip: Ensure the sponsor meets income rules. If not, add a qualified joint sponsor. Provide strong financial documents like tax returns, bank statements, and pay stubs.

5. Health Issues

Health concerns can impact your eligibility.

Risk Factors:

Contagious diseases like untreated tuberculosis

Missing required vaccines

Conditions that may harm others

Drug addiction or history of drug abuse

Tip: Visit a USCIS-approved doctor. Get all required vaccinations. If you have a condition, show you’re getting treatment and are not a risk to others.

Need Help?

Applying for a green card is serious business. Small mistakes can cause big delays. At Gehi & Associates, we help you file it right the first time. Whether you’re applying for the first time or after a denial, we’re here to support you every step of the way.

✅ Contact Gehi & Associates Today for a Free Consultation!

📞 Call 718-263-5999 🌐 Visit: www.gehilaw.com

Blog link: https://gehilaw.com/simplifying-the-top-reasons-for-the-united-states-green-card-application-denial/

Linktree: Explore all our links

Main Website: Visit Gehi & Associates

Contact Us: Get in Touch

#ImmigrationLaw, #USImmigration, #GreenCard, #VisaApplication, #L1Visa, #GehiAndAssociates, #ImmigrationHelp, #LegalAdvice

[glitterandmoondustofficial]

Side To Side

Chapter 263: From Past To Present

Notes:

Characters: Ruby, Lucia Rating: Mature Warnings: Blood, injuries, abuse mention, language Notes: :(

Ruby took in a staggered breath as she stared at the ground. Blood was on the floor under her, it was covering her arms and legs, her dress was torn, her hair was a mess and she was so tired. She closed her eyes, feeling blood drip down her mouth and onto her chin. She had to keep it together. She had to be patient and wait for someone to find her. 

Which was frustrating. She didn’t want to play princess in a tower. She wanted to fight. She wanted to be by Law’s side. God knows what he was doing and if Doflamingo had met with him yet. She heard the door open and worked up a glare. Just because she had been tortured a little didn't mean she’d let this insane family believe she was in pain. 

Ruby didn’t falter when it was Doflamingo’s wife that walked through the door. Ruby stared her down, challenging her to do whatever she could. She looked at Ruby, her gold eyes studying her before she closed the door behind her. She stared at the door and sighed. 

“You have a real plan don’t you?” Ruby narrowed her eyes at Lucia and stayed silent. “Do you?” She prompted. Ruby didn’t say anything, glaring at her back. The woman turned to look at her. “Well?”

“If you think I'm going to tell you anything, you're delusional. Then again, you must be crazy to be a member of this so-called “family,”” she snorted. “Did he send you to keep watch?”

“He doesn’t involve me in such things. I know that you must be dangerous to him if he's keeping you this close, though. Your captain...Law, the one Doflamingo wants so badly, is he coming here?” 

Ruby glared furiously at her. “I just told you I'm not giving you any information,” she spat out. She would protect her captain until her very last breath and there’s no way she would give away any information to someone she couldn’t trust. 

Lucia’s eyes filled with pent up rage and frustration. “I don't need to know the details, I just need to know if something is actually happening!” She shook, clenching her fists at her side. Ruby stared at her as she looked behind her, as if to check if anyone heard her outburst. “If there’s a real chance that you and your allies can beat these people, I’ll help you, however I can. I've seen too many go against them and fail, but I can tell this is different.” 

Ruby let out a breath and sat up straight. “Why should I trust you? You're his wife , after all.” Ruby knew that she’d always be on Law’s side, and would do whatever it took to protect him. She assumed Lucia was no different when it came to Doflamingo.

“Because I want to get out of here as badly as you do,” Lucia said and Ruby rolled her eyes in disbelief. There was no reason to believe her, no matter how desperate and beautiful she was. After a moment, Lucia rolled up her sleeves and Ruby’s breath hitched against her instincts. 

“He did that to you?” Law’s scars played in her mind. Law’s demons played in her mind. She knew those scars. She felt ill, knowing exactly what those meant. Her heart started to ache as she tried to keep her wits about her. 

“That and more,” Lucia replied, her voice and expression flat. “I've never had a real opportunity to get away from him.”

“How do I know you’re not lying about all this? You could just be some masochist, here to use a sob story to get information to give him.”

“Even if I am lying, it wouldn’t benefit me at all. Like I said, I'm not trying to find out exactly what your plan is, so I can’t tell him anything. And you're already trapped, so if I was truly on his side it would be in my best interest to just leave you here. But I'm offering you a chance, if you'll give me the same.”

Ruby went silent, thinking over Lucia’s words. She wasn’t incorrect in her reasoning. There was no way Law was in the castle and it was far too early for the trade off, so there’s no way Doflamingo was luring her into a trap to kill her in front of Law. Besides, she needed a way to actually get to Law. She needed to help him. She sighed after a moment and stared at Lucia, determined. 

“Fine. If you think you can actually get me out of here, so I can get to my captain, I'll do what I can to help you escape.”

“Thank you.” She looked genuinely grateful. “There’s still a chance that I won’t be able to help, but I’ll do my best. I'll find out what everyone is doing and try to get your key.” Ruby nodded and swallowed, watching Lucia leave the room. Ruby relaxed slightly, staring at the cobblestone. The glimmer of hope grew a little but...how was she to leave the castle after Lucia found the key? She stuck out. The churning in her stomach grew. She had to get out of here and find Law. If he was caught by Doflamingo…

Ruby’s head snapped up at the sound of the door opening. Lucia walked in, nothing to show for her efforts. 

“Unsurprisingly, it isn’t here, but he’ll return eventually unless we get lucky and someone kills him. Is there anything else you had that you might want back?”

“I wasn’t really carrying anything with me,” Ruby replied, shaking her head. “There’s some stuff back at the apartment where I was staying, but nothing I can’t live without. Though I will miss some of the clothes I got here, like this dress that got fucking ruined …” Lucia laughed, and Ruby looked over at her. “What’s so funny about that?”

“I suppose it’s just that we have similar priorities. Don't worry, if we get out of here alive I can make you enough clothes for a lifetime.”

“You can?”

“I’m a tailor, or was...I admit I’m out of practice, but I suppose that’s something I can work on.” 

Ruby blinked. A tailor? She pondered that a bit, what an...odd choice in a wife. “How did you end up with Doflamingo if you were a tailor?” Lucia didn’t respond; she looked like she was far off somewhere else. “...Lucia?”

“I’m sorry, what?”

“I asked how you ended up with him if you started out as a tailor. He doesn’t exactly seem the type...but it’s fine if you don’t want to talk about it.”

“It’s...a long story, but I suppose we have nothing but time on our hands.” She took a deep breath. “My family…we were the court tailors. Of course, that didn’t mean much in such a poor country, but it…made us friends. Doflamingo…he…he saw the friendship between me and Princess Viola forming and used that to manipulate and control us. He wanted us to be against each other. He played us against each other so that our friendship was ruined and we couldn’t collude.” She sighed with a regretful look in her eyes. “My husband and I…we were possessive of each other. Doflamingo married me for it, everyone saw that we were together and they wanted it, but it was just another way to control me. Soon he dropped the act of him loving me and started to…use his powers on me whenever he liked, to do whatever he liked. I isolated myself from him, from them, from ever hoping to contact my family.” She frowned deeply as she stared at Ruby. “And here I am, hoping against hope that you and your allies would save this island and…save me.”

Ruby stared at her with a frown. How…horrible. She took a deep breath. “You’d like our crew,” she said softly. “I bet you’d get along with them. Maybe even my captain, once he gave you the chance.” She smiled softly. “It took them a while to get used to me as well, but they came around.”

“You say that as if you’re taking me along with you.” 

Ruby shrugged. “I have a bleeding heart for those in bad situations,” she sighed. “I’ve been in some myself.”

“Oh?” 

“Yeah,” Ruby adjusted. “Since you told me your story, I should tell you mine.” Lucia nodded. “I lost my family when I was young, the government used the marines to kill them. From ten years old I was alone and had to fend for myself. I took an odd number of jobs just to survive but was never able to keep one for long. Eventually, I ended up in Knotely Jobst’s crew.”

“Doflamingo mentioned him once.” Lucia looked thoughtful. “He didn’t think anything of him but at one point that man annoyed him.”

“I probably have something to do with that.” Ruby said with a grin. “I destroyed his warehouses and loot, almost dying in the process.” She sighed. “I traveled again, from island to island, until I found one that I thought I could make my home. That being said, I was still pretty sure I was going to die. Or I was trying to die, that’s more accurate. I’d drink and do drugs, it was the life that parents warn their children about when they’re young. Eventually, I stopped, I grew tired of even that. I managed to have some acquaintances when I sobered up,” she smiled softly. “Then Law and the others found me.” Lucia nodded. “After a lifetime of running from people who wanted to kill me, you’d think I wouldn’t want to become a pirate, and I guess at first I didn’t,” Ruby grinned fondly. “I even threatened to kill Law at first.”

“And he still asked you to join?”

“It’s one of the reasons he did,” Ruby chuckled. “I supposed the why doesn’t matter. What matters is that he did. Now, I’m a Heart Pirate, I had a bounty there for a bit, before it was frozen.” Ruby paused.

“What?”

“With the announcement of the alliance I’m sure Law will have his title stripped away.” She shifted and looked at the ground. “Idiot.” She murmured softly. 

“You seem close.”

“We’re nakama ,” she answered automatically. “We all love and care for one another. We’re not just a crew, we’re family. Law commands respect because of who he is not just because he’s our captain. He loves us and we love him.” Lucia frowned. “What?”

“My husband...has told me of him in the past.”

“Oh boy,” Ruby started to snicker. “I’m sure it was a raving review.”

“You don’t care?”

“Nah, I know who Law really is.” 

Lucia blinked but quickly covered up her taken aback gaze. “I see…” she turned to look out the door. “Thank you for sharing your past with me.” She turned to look at Ruby. “I must go, I need to make sure he doesn’t suspect anything. With what’s going on, he’ll want you secure and secluded.” Ruby nodded. “I’ll return as fast as I can.” Ruby nodded again. 

“Of course,” Ruby sat up straight. “You know where I’ll be.”

Lucia left and Ruby was left alone with her thoughts. She took a deep, painful breath and let out a whimper. She was tired of putting on a brave front. Tears filled her eyes and she let out a tired sob. Everything hurt, there was blood everywhere, and she felt herself start to slip in and out of consciousness. 

“God damn it, Ruby,” she chastised herself. “What the fuck have you gotten yourself into?”

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#5

Bad Guy(on the phone): We have your son.

Athena(looks over at Harry): My son's right here.

Bad Guy: Then who is this guy who keeps keeps talking nonstop about somebody named Eddie?

Athena(rolls her eyes): Oh Lord. BOBBY THEY GOT BUCK!

Bobby: If he hasn't been gagged, give it another two minutes and they'll probably let him go.

288 notes • Posted 2021-10-01 08:33:51 GMT

#4

Taylor: Hey Buck, you wanna go for dinner tonight?

Buck: I -

Eddie: Buck needs to ask his dad for permission.

(Eddie steps away for a literal second and returns)

Eddie: - He said no.

Taylor: Buck's a grown -

Bobby(suddenly appears beside them): - No, he's right. I said no.

295 notes • Posted 2021-09-30 02:23:40 GMT

#3

Buck: If Bobby and Athena ever got divorced, and we had to choose between them...do you think Athena would let us visit Bobby on the weekends?

Bobby: YOU WORK FOR ME

Hen(to Buck): Probably not.

304 notes • Posted 2021-10-07 01:58:29 GMT

#2

Dick: Jason, when I die, I don't care who else is at my funeral, as long as you're there.

Jason: Of course I'll be there. The murderer always shows up to throw off the cops.

363 notes • Posted 2021-05-08 00:44:33 GMT

#1

(Buck and Eddie arrive at the 118, and are surprised to see what looks like a wedding chapel set-up in the firehouse - chairs split into two groups by an aisle running down the middle, covered in rose petals, and a big wooden wedding arch at the other end with Bobby standing under it, and Christopher beside him)

Buck: What the -

Eddie: - Hell?

(Chim and Hen, both wearing boutonnieres, rush over and pull Eddie down the aisle to stand next to Christopher - who is wearing a suit and grinning)

Eddie: What is going on? Christopher what is going on?

Buck: Yeah, what is going on?

(Maddie, wearing a dress and heels, rushes over, grinning, to stand next to Buck and smoothes out a crease in his uniform shirt)

Buck: Maddie what -

Maddie(to Ravi, upfront): HIT IT!

(Ravi hits a button on his phone and the wedding march starts to play. Maddie beams at Buck, loops her arm through his and starts walking him up the aisle. Buck sees some of the 118 squad, including Hen, starting to cry. They get to the end of the aisle and the music stops, and Maddie gives Buck a little shove forward to stand across from Eddie)

Buck(staring at an equally confused Eddie): Seriously what the fu-

Christopher: - Language!

Eddie: Bobby, can you please explain what the heck is going on?

Bobby(who is standing between Buck and Eddie): I'd be happy to.(to the crowd)...Ladies, and gentleman, we are gathered here today to join this oblivious idiot (gestures to Buck) and this oblivious idiot (gestures to Eddie) in holy matrimony...

Buck and Eddie: WHAT?!

Athena(seated in the front row): Fuckin' finally...

Christopher: Language!

Athena: Sorry, baby.

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#i had the idea that kris would kill everyone after the chapter 1 ending and asriel would have to stop them but after chapter 2 i don't know

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

When your host becomes protective of you despite you being an immortal being who is fully capable of killing the host within the snap of your fingers and you start to catch feelings--

People are acting like Madrat and Heart are straight when they've literally shared the same body. That's like the most paranormal and intimate shit that I can think of.

65 notes • Posted 2021-07-13 13:15:00 GMT

#4

Are we gonna ignore that Luigi is canonically a god?

In Super Paper Mario, they pretty much say that Luigi is the perfect vessel for the Chaos Heart. Whether that's keeping it stable inside him or able to wield all of it's dimension-destroying power is unknown.

And in Dreamteam, he has access to the dreamworld. Basically a big whole dimension housing a million of petrified Pi'illos, and shapeshifting-esc powers where Luigi can basically duplicate himself to his heart's content.

Hell, even in Smash Bros, he's able to embrace "the darkness" from living in his brother's shadow and basically do the creepiest Ultimate Smash in the game, the Negative Zone. Some of the effects of players hit by the attack go as follows:

Drastically reduced attack power

Greater launch distance when hit

Increased likelihood of slipping

Steady increase in damage percentage

Flower growth on head

Dizziness

Uncontrollable taunting

Sudden sleepiness

Decreased movement speed

Tumbling midair (the player cannot use their midair jump)

Note the "Flower Growth on Head" What does Dimentio use to hypnotize Luigi? A Floro Sprout, which looks awfully like a flower.

Nice one, Nintendo. So either they're implying Luigi still has the sprout in him and can even transfer it to other hosts, or that the Chaos Heart is still somewhat inside him.

Luigi has the power to break and create worlds, yet even Bowser can't be bothered to remember his name. Jeez, that's rough.

69 notes • Posted 2021-05-29 18:59:11 GMT

#3

Happy Luisley month!

Peasley loves his husband, even if he's not really human anymore.

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#2

I love it when video editing apps allow me to fuck up the audio.

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#1

The bugs when they have snax idk I've never played this game

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Videorama: Revenge of the Nooooo!

The year is 2005.

George W. Bush is just starting his second term in the White House.

The hottest game in cell phone technology is the Motorola Razr V3 and the PalmOne Treo 650.

The iPhone is still a few years away.

The Rise of Skywalker isn’t even a twinkle in Disney’s eye––an eye that’s currently preoccupied with an overly optimistic Narnia Franchise Wet Dream.

In fact, Disney wouldn’t even buy Star Wars for another seven years.

It’s summer in 2005 and millions of marketing dollars can still pull the wool over the eyes of a naive movie-going public, dictating box office success regardless of audience consensus or even general quality of filmmaking.

All hail the grand illusion of capitalism.

It’s a warm evening in the summer of 2005 and video rental stores are still a thing.

One particular, independently-run store––freestanding, double glass doors on the left side of the brick facade, small parking lot––was just turning its sign on as dusk settled.

Videorama was open for business.

*

Tobey blinked incredulously at the three teenagers standing on the other side of the counter. His brain hurt as he attempted to summon the endurance needed to fathom the sheer stupidity of their question.

To buy himself some time, Tobey blinked again.

“… well?” asked the one with the long greasy hair. “Do you have it?”

There was no way these kids were serious.

Tobey shook his head in disbelief. “You’re not serious.”

The one with a bad case of acne threw his hands up in exasperation. “Dude, for fuck’s sake!”

Tobey looked over at the other man behind the video store counter, feet up, sketch pad in lap. “I think these guys are serious.”

The third teenager was pale and wore a lot of heavy black eyeliner. He spoke in a flat monotone: “Catwoman. Do you have it or not?”

Tobey broke into a lopsided grin. “Oh, I get it. This is like a prank, right? Where’s the hidden camera?” Tobey propped his elbows on the counter and leaned forward. “Am I gonna be on the internet?!”

Long Hair was reaching his limit. “C’mon, man, we just wanna rent the movie.”

Tobey’s grin dropped. “No joke?”

“Dude.”

“Catwoman?”

They were practically pleading. “Do you have it or not?”

Tobey stood back, somber. This was worse than he thought. “Holy fucking shit.” He turned again to the other guy behind the counter. “Kurt, these guys are actually serious.”

Kurt didn’t look up from his sketch pad. “Hm.”

Zits backhanded Long Hair’s chest. “This is ridiculous, man.  Let’s get outta here.”

Almost through this, Tobe.

Eyeliner started for the exit. “Fuck these asswipes.”

Fuck me.

“Alright, you fucking hormone-addled, gene-pool rejects. Listen.” Tobey leaned forward. “I can appreciate the fact that the three of you otherwise fine young gentlemen are undoubtedly blinded by your adolescent throes of puberty––to saying nothing of the ungodly amount of jizz sprayed in your eyes from the nonstop circle jerk that is your formative years––so it stands to reason that the mere notion of Halle Berry sporting a whip and a leather catsuit is enough to make you pop your collective nut––which, again, I do understand. Halle Berry is a fine specimen of the female gender and I myself have spent many a lonely night pondering Ms. Berry’s lithe and supple … skills.”

Tobey lost himself for a moment and the three teenagers stared at him in confusion. Tobey nodded absently and then returned to the conversation.

“Fellas,” he implored. “All that being said, you cannot tell me that simple, unabashed horniness is just cause for what will amount to the severe rapage of your individual minds––a tragic and unavoidable fate that you will all most assuredly fall victim to should you proceed to rent the motion picture that is Catwoman.”

To buy themselves a moment to process Tobey’s rant, the three teenagers blinked at him.

“… yes?” Zits said, lacking any sense of surety of himself.

Tobey sighed. Definitely worse than he thought. With a sad shake of his head: “Look, let me make a suggestion. Go with Monster’s Ball instead. It’s got our girl in it, bare titties and all. Lots of sex plus it’s a flick that won’t rot your brain. It’s a goddamned win-win for everybody. Especially you.”

Tobey pointed at Eyeliner before changing his mind. “Well, maybe not everybody.”

Eyeliner’s face was as a neutral as his voice. “Isn’t she fucking Billy Bob Thornton in that one?”

“So?”

Zits scowled. “Dude, that is so fucking nasty! He’s all old and wrinkly and shit.”

Tobey wanted to ram an ice pick in his own ear. “What the actual fuck, my man? We've already established that you're watching the flick for Halle Berry's tits, not Billy Bob's ball sack! What the fuck do you care what he looks like?!”

“We don’t!” Long Hair cried. “We just care about Catwoman!”

Tobey threw his hands in the air. There was no reasoning with these kids. “Okay, fine. I see how it is. Get out.”

Incredulous offense from Zits. “What?!”

Ineffable deadpan from Eyeliner. “You’re throwing us out?”

“No. Right now I’m asking you to leave in a gentle yet firm manner, as to assert a polite yet authoritative dominance over this conversation,” Tobey said. “In about twenty seconds I’ll be throwing you out.”

“We just want to rent a movie!” Zits said through gritted teeth and mounting frustration.

“Incorrect,” Tobey responded, raising an index finger. “You want to rent shit. There is a difference, although I can see that the lack of immediate release has caused the cum to bubble up and disorient your brain cells, inhibiting logical cognition. Regardless, I don’t even carry Catwoman since I have a very strict policy on stocking crappy movies.”

Long Hair tilted his head, waiting. “What’s your policy on stocking crappy movies?”

Eyeliner with the deadpan punchline: “He doesn’t.”

“––I don’t,” Tobey said at the same time. He shot Eyeliner an exasperated glare. “C’mon, dude!”

Eyeliner shrugged a shoulder.

Tobey leaned forward. “Now why don’t you three numb-nuts find yourselves a tittie mag, have a circle jerk, and just be done with it already, okay?”

Eyeliner scoffed indifferently. “This is bullshit. Let’s bounce, boys.”

Tobey nodded. “That’s right. But be sure to use plenty of lube. Too much bouncing chafes the shaft.”

Zits lunged across the counter but Long Hair pulled him back. “Fuck you, asshole.”

Tobey glanced down and flipped a page in his Indie Film magazine. “Mm. Clever.”

Zits straightened. He had one card left to play and he was entirely too confident in the move. “Hey. I wanna speak to the manager. Dick.”

Tobey looked up from his magazine. “I am the manager, you dipshit. Now get the hell out of my store before I call the fucking cops and have them throw you out.”

The three teenagers exchanged looks before stumbling to the exit, muttering various expletives under their breaths as they went.

“Yeah, I heard all of that!” Tobey called after them as the bell on the door jingled.

“You handled that well,” Kurt said from behind Tobey.

“You could have jumped in at any time there, buddy.”

“Seemed like you had it handled,” Kurt shrugged.

A young woman stepped up to the counter. Straight blonde hair to her shoulders and curves that Tobey drank in an instant glance, imperceptible the casual observer.

She perceived it. She always did.

“He didn’t have it handled,” the young woman said flatly, placing three DVDs and a member card on the counter.

“I had it handled,” Tobey insisted while he scanned her card. “Sure, I could have used some backup from behind the counter but that’s not to dismiss the overall nature of the situation behind, generally, handled.”

Kurt set his sketch pad aside and fiddled with a television set on the counter. A low-quality video continued playing––it looked like someone had used a cheap video camera to record a movie theater screen.

The girl’s eyebrow went up. “Is that Star Wars?”

Tobey didn’t look. He didn’t have to since they’d been watching the bootleg on a loop for three days. “Yep.”

“The new one?”

“Uh-huh.”

“That just came out in theaters?”

Tobey looked up from scanning the DVDs. “Wow. You’re a regular Veronica Mars. Can’t slip anything past you.”

She all but rolled her eyes and he decided to dial back the sarcasm.

“Yes, Kurt downloaded it a few days ago,” Tobey explained. “I mean, yeah, I paid to see the first two prequels but there was no way in hell I was gonna be stupid enough to let George Fucking Lucas screw me out of another eight bucks for yet another pile of shit he so fondly refers to as epic Star Wars lore.”

“Isn’t that illegal?”

“It fucking should be.”

“I meant the downloading.”

Tobey held up the three DVDs. “I’m sorry, did you want to rent these movies—” he glanced at the computer screen, “––Alyssa Tanner of 9000 East Westmore Drive, apartment 263? Or is harassing me over my moral obligation to protest the misguided artistic values of a corrupt media empire entertainment enough for you?”

Kurt shot a sideways glance and muttered: “Misguided artistic values?!”

Alyssa shrugged indifferently. “I just thought that in light of your current career path, you might have a better appreciation for the damage caused by downloading movies illegally.”

Kurt put his feet back up on the counter as he turned his attention back to the sketch pad. “Here we go …”

“The damage I cause?!” The mock in Tobey’s outrage was mild at best. “What about the damage George Lucas caused with these blatant cash grabs? Have you seen all the advertisements for this one? He’s spending millions of dollars convincing the world that it’s the greatest film ever!”

“And you’re saying it’s not?”

“If it’s possible, this one is even worse than the last two combined,” Tobey said gravely.

“Dude,” Kurt said, pointing at the television. “It’s the Vader scene.”

Tobey’s hands went up. “Perfect!” To Alyssa: “This is what I’m talking about. This shit is fucking hilarious.”

Alyssa looked at the television as the bootleg copy of Revenge of the Sith played. Darth Vader found out that he killed his girlfriend, clomped around like Frankenstein and then cried out, ‘Nooooo!’

Tobey clicked the television off.

“The only good thing about this movie is that it’s so bad it’s funny,” he said. “We’ve been watching it for days and that Vader scene just keeps getting funnier.”

“You don’t think Lucas deserves a little credit for closing the loop on A New Hope?”

“Does Adolf Hitler deserve credit for closing the loop on World War II?”

“First of all, Hitler lost—”

“Which effectively closed the loop—”

“—and secondly, you’re comparing a movie to a war that literally killed tens of millions of people?!” Alyssa balked.

“I’m comparing three movies to a war that killed tens of millions––”

“Dude!” Kurt cut in.

Tobey sighed. “Fine. Okay. Maybe the prequels aren’t, like, genocide bad––”

“The fuck is wrong with you?”

“But they’re still pretty bad.”

At one point, not so long ago, Alyssa had been amused and slightly intrigued by Tobey’s acerbic banter.

That moment had passed.

An awkward silence clung to the air inside the video store. Alyssa glanced at the exit. Kurt’s pencil scratched at his sketch pad.

Tobey held up Alyssa’s rentals. “… you want your movies?”

She took them from Tobey. “Yeah. Thanks.”

She turned for the door and then stopped. “Um …”

“Three day rentals. Due back on Thursday.”

Alyssa turned back to the counter. She grimaced. “Actually, uh, that bootleg—”

Tobey held up a hand. “Wait. Are you saying—”

Alyssa shrugged half-heartedly.

“You wanna borrow my illegally downloaded copy of Revenge of the Sith?”

“I mean, if it’s so bad, you wouldn’t mind letting go of it for a few days,” Alyssa suggested. “Right?”

Tobey studied her grey eyes. There was something about this girl. He chewed his lip, thinking.

“Well?”

Tobey nodded slowly. “Okay, uh, lemme think of a creative way of saying this …” Tobey rubbed his chin and then raised an index finger to the sky. “Oh, I know!”

Tobey threw his hands in the air. “Nooooo!”

*

A VHS rewinder ground on old tape and Kurt cursed as he mashed the eject button, popping the machine open.

“Goddammit,” Kurt seethed. “Why the hell are we still stocking VHS?”

“Same reason we don’t open until four in the afternoon,” Tobey replied as he gathered an armful of DVDs to re-shelve.

“Because you’re too lazy to wake up in the morning?”

“No, because despite appearances, we’re here to serve our customers, Kurt,” Tobey said, strolling the aisles. “Working class Americans. The nine-to-fivers. People rent videos on their way home from work.” Tobey placed a DVD on the shelf. “Or in the middle of the night. There’s been studies. Or something.”

Kurt finished untangling the botched tape and tossed it into the trash. “So what you’re saying is that you’ve got a firm grasp on psychological makeup of our clientele.”

“I’m a savante that way.”

“An idiot savante, sure,” Kurt said with an eye roll.

Tobey placed another DVD. “People mock what they don’t understand.”

“So what about that girl, Alyssa?”

“Pretty sure nobody mocks her,” Tobey replied, scanning a shelf. “Fear her, maybe. Beauty is intimidating. Intelligence doubly so. Beauty and intelligence—”

“I meant her psychological makeup.”

Tobey shrugged absently. “If it’s anything like her physical makeup—”

Kurt sighed. “I mean: why does she come in so often? She was just here yesterday.”

Tobey glanced over at his long-time friend. “She had a two-day rental, Kurt,” he said flatly.

“And that explains why she was here for the past five days in a row, how exactly?” Kurt asked patiently.

Tobey pondered this half-heartedly. “She likes movies?”

Kurt went back to his sketch pad. “You’re an idiot.”

“I’m an idiot with a stalker, according to you,” Tobey said, shelving the last DVD and returning to his spot behind the counter.

“She’s not a stalker. She’s a nice girl.”

Naughty thoughts ran through Tobey’s head and his eyes went wide. “I bet she is.”

Kurt put his pencil down. “You know, people might actually like you if you weren’t so sarcastic all the time.”

“What are you talking about? People like me. You’re the one who pointed out that I have a stalker,” Tobey said. “Plus, you’re a person, too. You like me.”

Kurt tilted his hand back and forth. “Eh.”

Tobey shrugged indifferently. “Friends come and go. Porn is forever.”

“That sixty-inch TV in your bedroom working out well for you?”

Tobey turned and leaned against the counter, facing Kurt. “I watch it as I fall asleep so that I have pleasant dreams. Of vaginas.” Tobey spread his hands an arms-length apart. “Ten feet wide.”

“So what you’re saying is that the addition of the big-screen pornocopia has obviated any pressing need to actually be liked by the fairer sex?”

“Who needs to be liked when you have a stalker? Plus, there’s always Horatio.”

Kurt blinked. “Who the hell is Horatio?”

Tobey held up his left hand. “We have a very intimate relationship. He knows how to please me in ways that most women just don’t understand. And yes, the big screen pornocopia helps.”

The bell on the door jangled.

“A vagina ten feet wide?” Kurt asked.

“Ten feet wide.”

“You call your hand Horatio?”

“You spend all day drawing superheroes with their dongs out,” Tobey said.

Kurt nodded. “Point.”

“Good to see you’re being as professional as ever.” The voice came from the other side of the counter. It sounded tired and annoyed.

Tobey frowned and didn’t bother to turn around. He grabbed his film magazine. “You know what? Fuck off, my dude. I don’t have time for your shit right now.”

The man on the other side of the counter glanced around the empty video store. “I can see that,” he said. “These late hours of yours really keep the place hopping.”

Tobey sighed and deliberately turned around to face his older brother. “Fuck you very much, Walt.”

Tobey’s brother was two years older and looked about as tired as he sounded. A dark suit with a loosened tie, coifed hair grown limp, distinct bags under his eyes.

Walt help up his hands in a show of  surrender, car keys dangling from his right fingers. “Just here to drop the car off. I’ve got a guy coming first thing in the morning to detail it. Karen’s picking me up in a few minutes.”

Walt tossed the keys to Tobey. They hit him on the chest and bounced on the counter. They stared at each other for an awkward moment.

Kurt focused intently on giving She-Hulk a very large, very veiny cock.

“Uh, last I checked, I’m not your fucking valet, Walt,” Tobey said.

Walt sighed wearily. “I’m not asking you to be—”

“Cause you just up and threw those keys like––”

“Tobey, we need to talk.”

“I really can’t see why.”

“Can we just––”

“Get the fuck out of my store, Walter,” Tobey growled from across the counter.

Walt ran a hand through his hair. “… it’s gonna be five years next month.”

Kurt glanced up and could see Tobey visibly tense, clenching his fists. He promptly looked back down.

“Yeah, so?”

“So …” Walt said slowly as he nodded. “… I want you to come visit them with me.”

Walt tried to meet Tobey’s eyes but the anger shooting across from his brother was brutal.

“… I think it’ll be good for you, Tobe,” Walt said softly.

“No.”

“Tobey––”

“I haven’t gone yet,” Tobey spat out the words. “I’m not going to go and I’m certainly not ever going to go with you.”

“Tobe––”

Tobey cut him off. “Just get the fuck out, Walt. You can wait for Karen outside.”

“I want to talk about the store.”

Tobey’s hands went up. “There it is! Jesus fucking Christ. You lasted all of two minutes that time, Walter. When are you gonna give that one up? They left it to me, cut and dry.”

Kurt decided that She-Hulk’s cock wasn’t big enough and needed to be more throbby.

Tobey shot lasers at his brother. “… you don’t have anything to do with Videorama.”

“Yeah. Okay. You’re right,” Walt conceded. “I haven’t had anything to do with the store for a long time. But that’s not how I want it to be.”

“Well boo-fucking-hoo,” Tobey spat. “It’s not like you have a lot of options since, again, they left it to me, cut and dry.”

Walt straightened his shoulders and looked up, meeting his younger brother’s icy gaze. “Tobey,” he said, “I want to buy the store.”

Tobey’s anger kept his mouth moving before the words registered. “Don’t even fucking––wait––no––what?”

Walt swallowed. “I want to buy Videorama from you.”

For once, Tobey had absolutely nothing to say.

In the silence, Kurt’s pencil slipped through his fingers and clattered to the floor.

“Oh, nooooo,” Kurt said through a quiet grimace.

###

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Actually I have both an added note AND a counter-headcanon for this.

Michael is said to be a weird guy of the 'you never know what's on his mind' sort. A schemer that is said to be socially inept and too upfront about his desires in a very childish sort of way (he 'moped dramatically' because Raph and Luci didn't bring him sweets when visiting the human world T-T)

Given what we know of him I love, LOVE, the idea of him either:

a) no having ever cared about the names of the constellations because 'who tf cares about what other people arbitrarily chose to name them as?' He'll just name them whatever they look like in his eyes at that moment, and the little angels just assume he is teaching them correctly because he is the Michael. That's why half the angels will be like 'Oh, look, that's the duck constellation' while the other half's like 'what in father's name are you talking about, it clearly looks like a rabbit, so it's the rabbit constellation.'

b) him being a chaotic evil fuck mascarading as lawful neutral. This is one of his long-standing schemes, which aims to fuck with everyone in the Celestial Realm by teaching them contradicting information about the stars. Only Lucifer, Raphael and Simeon realize this but they see it as one of his most harmless, long-standing pranks so they choose to let it slide.

Truth is they don't even realize the ramifications this prank actually ended up having, though. Human astrolonomy is based on incorrect information Michael made up on the spot. Every 200 years humans discovered something they had always regarded as true about space was just bullshit all along. He had to tone it down after Galilei was almost executed by the Church for suggesting the Earth orbits the Sun, which contradicted the prior misinformation he had spread about Earth being the center of the Universe, but like damn... They've still failed to correct 263 of his fabrications, and that is only counting astronomical knowledge.

Also, don't ever mention astrology around him or you'll be forced to deal with an archangel cackling like a frigging hiena. Wanna know how Solomon got his ring? Michael invented a pseudoscience that became known as astrology and needed a human to spread it. That is how Solomon earned what he chose to ironically dub as the 'Ring of Wisdom'.

After the Celestial War, however? This angelic fuck ended up going right off-the-rails and ended un creating the 'Mandela effect' phenomena that has the humans freaking out. Why limit himself to astrology, when there's so much information to fuck with?

It's only a matter of time before one of the angels learns of this concept and links it to how some angels remember constellations by completely different names for seemingly no reason... Man's gaslighting two whole ass realms for his own amusement and has zero qualms about that fact. I mean, life in the Celestial Realm without Lucifer and his brothers is just SO boring.

Sometimes, Michael will start getting giddy at the prospect and Raphael will stare at him as vague sense of dread builds up in his gut. He just knows Michael is up to something yet again, but all he can do is brace for impact because if Lucifer is an immovable object the absolute gremlin that is his boss is an unstoppable force. Michael then he'll just carry on doing paperwork like nothing ever happened all like:

Having one of those 'hear me out' moments so....hear me out?

*As usual taking canon facts and building a theory*

So canonically:

• Michael lives in the Celestial Realm where it is always daytime

• Michael likes the stars and constellations (of the human world)

• Michael taught Mammon about the constellations

• n thousand years later Mammon gets them wrong/mixed up while pointing them out to Luke, MC & Satan

• Michael taught Luke about the constellations

• n hundred to possibly even just a year later Luke gets them wrong/mixed up while trying to correct Mammon

• Luke worships the fucking ground Michael walks on. He idiolizes Michael so much. His main reason for learning new recipes for sweets is so he can make them for Michael who has a sweet tooth. There is no fucking way he forgot/mixed up anything Michael taught him.

• Michael lives in the Celestial Realm where it is always daytime

Theory?

Michael doesn't know shit about the constellations.

He loves them sure, he's probably read about them but he can't accurately identify them to save his life. He, however, is 100% confident that he can identify them and is very excited to share his knowledge about them with his kids.

Thus, with each new charge he gets he teaches them a wholly different set of incorrect/mixed up constellations.

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

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66 notes - Posted August 19, 2022

#4

Kai: Go big or go home!

Nya: Please, for once in your life just go home. I'm begging you. Go. Home.

Kai: I'm going big!

69 notes - Posted April 15, 2022

#3

Dareth: That’s the longest worm I’ve ever seen.

Zane: That’s a snake.

72 notes - Posted March 24, 2022

#2

Ronin: What did you two do?

Kai:

Jay:

Ronin: You’re not in trouble, I just need to know if I have to lie to the police again or not.

83 notes - Posted July 6, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Nya, to Cole: If you see Kai, give him this message *makes a neutral face*

Nya: He'll know what it means.

*later*

Cole: oh, and Nya said to give you a message.

Cole: *makes a neutral face*

Kai: Oh no. The neutral face of displeasure.

141 notes - Posted April 20, 2022

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365 days of writing: day 263

Day 263: vet visit

   Good afternoon, this morning I watched a few YouTube videos and then I went through one of my bookshelves in the office room and put some books that I no longer want away in boxes. Poppy told me that anything I don’t want anymore she’ll try to sell and that she can put any money she makes off of those sales into my bank account to use in Japan. When I finished that I headed out with mom to the vet because she needed help bringing Cinnamon to the vet. I figured she wanted me to come also because Cinnamon is really affectionate towards me. He did not like being at the vet though. Mom had to bring him because he’s been having some behavior issues and his eye is irritated so mom worried he was sick. It seems like his behavior issues are due to anxiety of being around the other cats and not really having his own space. My parents have six cats so it seems like that’s an inevitable issue. The Vet recommended he take anti-depressants of all things. I’m not sure how I feel about that practice but I’ll try to have faith in the vet when she says they’re safe. She also offered some sort of spray that’s made of the same pheromones that cats naturally produce and I guess it helps them calm down. I took a pamphlet of it too to show Poppy and see if she thinks we should get them for Max and Ayu to help them get along better.

   Mom took me to lunch after that and then she dropped me back off at the house. Once I got home I took a shower and watched episodes 59 and 60 of Dragon ball Z. Before I get into too much I did some research and found out the clip Youtube showed me was not from Super but from a 2008 OVA/movie. The Animation looks close to Super so that’s why I assumed it was Super (that and 99% of what the app recommended to me was from Super). It just bothered me, I didn’t want to give incorrect information so yeah back to the entry. Well, it was nice to see Bulma in action again even if she was forced to and she’s still whining. I’m sure these were technically filler episodes but I can at least start to feel like Bulma is going to start getting more like the old Bulma I know and love. I’m going to skip episode 61 because I already saw it when I previewed DBZ in search of the scene where Goku takes a beer out of the fridge. I don’t know that I’ll have time to do so tomorrow but I want to get back to my odd+even episode viewing so I might watch 3 episodes in one sitting even thugh that’s really pushing it and will probably give me a headache but whatever... my brain is being anal about it for some reason.

     Next I watched episode 10 of Kakegurui and it’s another two-parter. I am not a big fan of Mayude (glasses guy) so I guess I can at least safely say that I don’t have a weakness for all cold glasses-wearing characters. I guess it all depends on how they’re presented to me. Also I’m very curious about the vice president of the student council because she’s always wearing a mask and has been quiet this whole time but she finally spoke in this episode. I’m curious because her voice sounded sort of androgynous and this might just be my wishful thinking but I wonder if she’s a trans woman. Trans women characters do exist in Anime from time to time even if they aren’t very common and seeing one is still more likely than having a trans male character it seems sadly. I don’t know if they’ll ever reveal it or not or if this is something the manga fans know only. I just really hope she’s not what people call a ‘trap’ and boy do I hate that term btw. I couldn’t find any wikia articles about her so I guess the internet doesn’t know yet either way so I have to be patient.

 I wanted to mess with my external drive today but I don’t really feel like it anymore since lunch with mom took longer than expected but I’ll try to take care of it before my best bro comes over tomorrow. For now I have two short YouTube videos to watch and then I’m not really sure what I’ll do yet. I’m not sure whether I feel like dealing with the sunlight enough to play Sims 4 for a bit or if I should just head out into the living room. I’m wearing a black T-shirt so it’s particularly hard...then again I could just play it shirtless...ha ha I won’t have many days with this file after-all.

[sandytree1]

14:25 - 17:58 You might have captured too much depth. Even if the captured screen is small ... See, her hips go down in this part, but earlier she held this pose the whole time, even when bending forward. So make the flow here more like this. Then when she’s putting force into it, turn more to this side. If you don’t create flow, the sense of force doesn’t come through. Also, it’d be good if you modulated her poses more. Instead of moving in a straight line, do it more circular. That way it feels better? The greatest corrections are for the movement of her hip as she raises herself up. I hadn’t really considered that stuff about energy escaping before. It’s different. The whole feel of the scene ... is just better. The picture is different. 

19:09 80% backgrounds are done digitally, but I paint the backgrounds with poster paint and drawing paper. Same as from elementary school. We set up a fixed camera above his desk. Long side for a background pan down, so it’ll probably appear for about 3-4 seconds. Doing a 1 second cut will take the background artist a week to complete. 

22:00 The blue tags are layouts. Yellow tags are completed key art. According to the schedule, half of these cuts should be yellow by now. But the youngsters have only gotten OK for one cut apiece. 4/% are having trouble progressing from the layout stage. 

23:20 These corrections are for dialogue cuts, which hardly has any movement at all. What could be wrong with them? The answer lies in this diagram by director Yoshinara. The position and perspective of the characters are a bit off, also the angle’s not what the storyboard intended. I originally had the camera above, but it’s actually better to use a lower angle. And due to the positions, her eyes should look towards the right. I see, it’s more focused to the center this way. Based on these positions, the target dragon should be over here, but I have it here [eye pointing]. They’re facing this way with the camera above them, and it’s incorrect. 

To show the back and forth between multiple characters talking to each other, you need a firm grasp of the relationship between their positions. The diagram that director Yoshinari made was for this purpose. It shows the positioning of the five characters. Since cut 268 has the camera between the dragon and the teacher, the focus should be towards the right. The camera position in cut 263 is horizontal and at a distance, so there’s almost no angling. Cut 269 has the camera partially inside the group. The teacher is shown obliquely. Only cut 271 has a mismatch. Can you spot it? 

You draw while visualizing this arrangement in your head. This is another fundamental skill for an animator. Do you agree with this advice? Yes, I can’t believe I didn’t notice it sooner. I’m not sure if I definitiely will nail this in the future. I couldn’t spot it without seeing it all together. 

Start of a lecture series sponsored by Anime Mirai. He photocopied a layout sheet to work on during the few brief pauses. You better put that away once class starts! The third course is a photography lecture followed by camera training. They’re learning how to do real photography with a single-lens reflex camera. “There’s master focus, exposure, composition and equipment, and included with that is the lens angle. As these have had a great impact on animation drawing. I’d say they have many elements in common.” 

27:10 Now for the photography practice. Each of them carries a camera for a photography meet at a nearby shrine. Although they’re looking at the same scene, each person has their own way of framing it. “You have an unique point of view.” Spending day after day stuck to their desks, they haven’t been outside for a while. A brief moment of freedom. 

After New Year, Trigger is moving their offices to a different floor. We should be done with the key frames according to the schedules, but we’re a bit behind. At this time the key animation is about a third of the way complete. Only 100/400 cuts have finished animation with color added. 

30:00 These are assembled into a test film. The scenes with the youngsters in charge have few cuts with colors. Most are unfinished, and just captures the layout line drawings. Especially prominent are the cuts where the backgrounds are complete, but the characters are pure white. The only ones that provide peace of mind are the minotaur scene done by Kaneko-san, who has some months of prior experience already. He’s been progressing at a good pace since the beginning. At the moment he’s only got two keys left. 

33:50 These are the layouts, showing the flow of movement. The pinks are the directors, while the white part is mine. So what’s different? The motion, the whole performance, is different. I basically just went by the storyboard. But doing it that way makes it a little less exciting. I don’t know how to improvise. I can’t really get an image in my head. So I draw more like the storyboard. 

34:50 Let’s compare and see just what’s different. While the director’s part moves more gracefully. Sakamoto’s part has its charm too. Seems some animators can spot differences other people can’t. I’m pessimistic y nature. The moment I think I did well, it comes back with tons of corrections. I never had much confidence to begin with ... but up close, I can feel that director Yoshinari is a true genius. I spend hours working on a cut, then Yoshinari fixes it up and it only takes him an hour or two. It makes me realize I have a long way to go. 

36:50 The word genius keeps popping up among the young animators, but how does director Yoshinari really work? As we watch him work, we’re surprised to at the lack of indecision in his lines. He hardly uses the eraser. He also flips through the drawings much less than the youngsters. He progresses before our eyes as if the drawing were already finished inside his head. Sakamoto spent two days, while the director only spent four hours. 

39:15 Whenever someone corrects my work, I assume that they’ll return it completely different. But director Yoshinari incorporated my idea instead of abandoning it. I personally find that very hard to do. The part where Diana kicks off from the wall was not in the storyboard. That was Sanomiya’s original idea. If we compare them, the director hardly changes the base poses. He just reordered the modulations for the act of standing up from a crouching position. He restrained the urge to do it his way, and instead incorporated my clunky movements. But this way I can take it in easier. I think it’s wonderful that he’s teaching us in this manner. 

41:40 Checking the in between animation. She literally inspiects the completed animation drawings one by one, checking for any inbetween mistakes or omissions. Patience and concentrations are useful skills. It’s like checking a flick book. The reason I flip back and forth so much is because I keep changing the area I’m checking. One moment I check the claws, the jaw, etc. I noticed the teeth has no shadow when there should be. Doesn’t feel natural if the shadow just suddenly disappears. 

Watching the editing is a part of the job too. “Get involved in other aspects of the work besides animation drawing.” This is one of the objectives for nurturing young animators that Trigger agreed to. In a typical TV series, after submitting the key art, you almost never see your own work before it’s broadcast. These five are seeing this stage for the first time. Editing involves omitting or refining footage to meet the predetermined film length. First they play it from the start, to check impressions given by the whole.

52:50 He seems close to perfecting the fireworks key art that he’s been wrestling with for a long time. Nowadays, most fireworks are almost always done in CG. However Handa-san has animated the firework stars by hand, down to the individual grains. His key art totals 38 sheets, including materials for the special effects. It was all by hand, so it took a lot of time. a week for 4,5 seconds of ONE bang. Now the rest is up to the inbetween, painting and compositing departments. 

Compositing is the last step in the production of an animated work. Based on directions from the animators, they add special effects with the computer. They may use computers as a tool here, but the concepts behind the process are unexpectedly analog. For instance, tataki is a technique passed down from the days of cel animation. Tataki materials created on paper are captured by the computer, then arranged for easier digital handling. The blue spots adds more pizzazz to the orange explosion. 

And now, the final screening. Getting to see the finished work as a whole. This half year project is coming to an end. 

1:03:00 One last question. Do you like these young animators? Well, hm. I’d have to spend a little more time with them to know. Come to think of it we mainly communicated through drawing. If possible, I’d like them to continue this line of work. There’s so many who leave this industry even when they have potential. I do hope I can work with them in the future. 

[loyallogic]

The Rebuttal Expert Report: 4 Steps For Critiquing An Opposing Expert

If an expert is necessary to prove a case theory, chances are the opposing party will also retain their own expert. But no matter how sound one side’s legal theories and expert opinions appear to be, an opposing expert’s conclusions will likely present a number of challenges to those arguments. However, an unfavorable opposing opinion does not mean that your own expert’s opinion is incorrect or incomplete. Oftentimes, a rebuttal expert is used to rehabilitate your side’s arguments while discrediting the opposing expert’s opinions. Like the initial expert opinion, a rebuttal expert may draft a report of their findings. However, the substance, strategy, and timing of this report serve different functions. When offering a rebuttal expert report, it is important to keep these four considerations in mind.

1)  Consider the Scope of the Rebuttal

Rebuttal evidence, as the term suggests, rebuts the evidence offered by an opposing party. It is limited “to that which is precisely directed to rebutting new matter or new theories presented by the defendant’s case-in-chief.” See Step–Saver Data Sys., Inc. v. Wyse Tech., 752 F.Supp. 181, 193 (E.D.Pa.1990). Rebuttal evidence is properly admissible when it will “explain, repel, counteract or disprove the evidence of the adverse party.” It is not “an opportunity for the correction of any oversights in the plaintiff’s case in chief.” See Crowley v. Chait, 322 F. Supp. 2d 530, 550–51 (D.N.J. 2004).

In the context of rebuttal experts, Rule 26(a)(2)(D) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allows the evidence to be admitted if it “is intended solely to contradict or rebut evidence on the same subject matter,” and must be disclosed 30 days after the other party’s disclosure. A “rebuttal expert report is not the proper place for presenting new arguments, unless presenting those arguments is substantially justified and causes no prejudice.” See Ebbert v. Nassau County, 2008 WL 4443238, at *13 (E.D.N.Y. 2008). Courts have wide discretion in the admissibility of expert evidence and can strike a rebuttal expert’s disclosure if it goes beyond its permissible scope. For example if the report “fails to provide scientific disagreement” with the opposing expert’s construction (See Shire, LLC v. Amneal Pharm., LLC, 2013 WL 1932927 at *9 (D.N.J. 2013) or it contains “substantial new data and information” exceeding the original report. See Reckitt Benckiser, Inc. v. Tris Pharma, Inc., WL 6722707 at *3 (D.N.J. 2011).  Although an expert’s rebuttal report should not contain new opinions or information which contradicts the initial report, it need not be stricken if it is “an elaboration of and [is] consistent with an opinion/issue previously addressed” in the expert’s initial report. See Pritchard v. Dow Agro Scis., 263 F.R.D. 277, 284–85 (W.D.Pa. 2009). A report “may cite new evidence and data so long as the new evidence and data is offered to directly contradict or rebut the opposing party’s expert.” Glass Dimensions, Inc. ex rel. Glass Dimensions, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan & Tr. v. State St. Bank & Tr. Co., 290 F.R.D. 11, 16 (D. Mass. 2013). In other words, there is no “bright line rule” that every expert opinion “must be included in a preliminary report, or forever be precluded.” Hill v. Reederei F. Laeisz G.M.B.H., Rostock, 435 F.3d 404, 423 (3d Cir. 2006). That being said, it is important to be mindful of the content of the rebuttal report so that it does not go beyond its permissible scope.

2)  Learn the Opposing Expert’s Opinion

Before attacking the opposing expert, the first step is understanding the opinion and the bases on which it is formed. A critical analysis is necessary to ensure that the opinion is challenged in a meaningful way. It is also important in understanding which aspect of the opposing expert’s argument is incorrect or contradictory to your side’s position. All key ideas, methods, and assumptions used in the opposing expert’s opinion should be analyzed to determine where the two parties diverge. It is not always as straightforward as simply stating that all aspects of your adversary’s analysis are incorrect. More often than not, there is a more nuanced difference between the two. In cases where testing and experiments were conducted, it can be helpful to recreate those same conditions and variables to pinpoint why the opposing side reached a different conclusion. Overall, like any strong rebuttal, the opposing arguments need to be fully understood before they can be successfully challenged.

3)  Challenge the Methodology

As aptly stated in the seminal United States Supreme Court decision, Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993), there are several factors that should be considered by a court when determining the admissibility of expert testimony. While no one factor is deemed more important than another, it would be remiss to ignore the significance of the first listed factor: whether the expert’s technique or theory can be or has been tested. (That is, whether the expert’s theory can be challenged in some objective sense, or whether it is instead simply a subjective, conclusory approach that cannot reasonably be assessed for reliability.) The takeaway point of this factor is that admissibility rests on methodology as opposed to conclusions. In other words, an expert’s opinion should derive from a reliable, objective methodology. In accordance with this factor, the methodology of an opposing expert’s opinion should be critiqued first. The ways in which a specific methodology can be challenged are as numerous as the fields of expertise themselves. Does your rebuttal agree with the type of testing conducted? If the type of testing was correct, is the potential rate of error accurate? Do peer review and the opposing expert’s reputation in the scientific community factor in? Were inconsistent testing or analysis methodologies utilized (i.e., different methods of measurement used at different parts of the experiment)? By focusing on the weaknesses or inconsistencies in the opposing expert’s methodologies, a rebuttal report becomes substantially more persuasive.

4)  Provide Alternatives

While rebuttal reports are typically more limited in scope, sometimes they might need to state new alternatives in order to effectively rebut the opposing expert. As held in Deseret Management Corp. v. U.S., 97 Fed. Cl. 272 (Fed. Cl. Ct. 2011), a “rebuttal expert may introduce new methods of analysis in a rebuttal report as long as the new method is offered to contradict or rebut an opposing party’s expert.” In Deseret, for example, a rebuttal report applied a different valuation method in estimating the value of a license at issue. The Court found that the report was properly submitted, even though it applied, a “new, alternative theory,” because both reports addressed the same subject matter and the rebuttal report was offered to contradict the opposing party’s report. Therefore, rebuttal reports need not avoid alternatives or new means of testing if they are offered to contradict the opposing side’s arguments.

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