#prepare to be entertained

[faintv0x]

WELCOME TO THE BLOCKCHAIN

[inafieldofstarflowers]

okay but think about the position kevin was in during that first scene in TFC and how familiar it must have felt to him: he’s found a player that no one else would take a risk on but who he knows has the skills, the potential, and he’s argued to earn the right to recruit them, only when they get his offer, they turn their nose up at it.

only this time it’s andrew at his side (instead of on the other side of the conversation), not riko, and his dad coach is with him, helping him make the offer, and if he’s still a star, he’s a fallen one, and the eyes of the world are on him, waiting to see if he can still shine. and he knows—he knows—that to show them, he needs neil josten by his side, and without the threat of what riko might do to get neil onto the team if kevin pushes and he still says no, kevin does everything in his power to talk get this boy (the one who plays like exy is necessary for him to keep breathing, whose sloppy form is unimportant in the face of the desperate passion that’s impossible to teach) onto his new team, and this time it works. kevin will have neil josten at his side, and he will have andrew at his back (and doesn’t that feel familiar, one partner at his side and another at his back), and even if they stand no chance against the ravens, no chance of winning finals, maybe that will be enough to prove something, even if only to himself

[yasbeych]

gasp! my memory circuits were shocked into remembering Plato’s allegory of the cave!

[ddarker-dreams]

Lock!! does ur big wrinkly brain have any neuvillette thoughts

yan neuvillette... it'd really be something.

he isn't cruel, deceptive, or forcefully restrictive. you'll walk away from interactions feeling like something's off, without being able to identify what. the quiet intensity of his gaze, perhaps? he looks at you like you hold the key to all the universe's mysteries. there's this expectation that neither you nor him fully understand.

he's just as perplexed by his behavior as you are, if not more so. from the onset, he rightfully predicts that nothing good will come from this. he values fairness and recognizes the immense gap in your positions. there's so much he could do, so much he could get away with, and his fascination with the infinite possibilities initially disturbs him. this mild revulsion never fully disappears, serving as a minor checks and balance for himself.

neuvillette isn't delusional. when he realizes there's no staunching this interest, he decides to take a practical approach by drafting his own code of conduct. he reasons that these 'rules', while dubious, provide a framework that's preferable to the draconic urge to possess you in your entirety.

the reoccurring tenet centers around doing you no 'unnecessary harm.' naturally, this is subject to his interpretation. your definition and his don't often overlap. he isn't deaf to your objections, though, in fact, he encourages them. he'd much prefer you spell out your thinking than leave him in the dark. if you make a compelling enough case, he'll relent. these minor victories mostly consist of you absolving innocent friends from his judgment.

you'll come to find out why your occasional run-ins left a lasting impression on you. it's because each second, behind that composed façade, he was weighing your fate on a scale that favored his interests over yours.

[girl4music]

The thing I want out of everything I want in Season 2.

Wenclair. I just want Wednesday and Enid to be a thing because if not, then Wednesday needs to be aroace.

I accept nothing else. Nothing else is acceptable.

I don’t want a random male love interest at all.

Also please tell me Lady Gaga is the new Nevermore headmistress… because that would be so awesome!

She’d be the one they couldn’t scare off.

OR

She could be the one making it all happen.

[badninken]

o__o

choking on my onigiri

[jtownraindancer]

they did an update video!

Highlights:

Deep and sincere apologies for the way they announced the transition, and for underestimating how much of an impact it would have on the fans.

If you want to watch shows early and ad-free, they will be available on the streaming site a month prior to their release on YouTube.

Willing to issue full refunds to anyone who has already made a subscription, in light of the new change.

All Patreon members will get a free subscription code to the Watcher Platform.

[greatlnn]

if you were raising the prince of your kingdom in secret would you not want him to at least be able to defend himself when he inevitably had to return to said kingdom like why wouldn't you get him into some self defence classes at the very least

[angronius]

Ohh since you are reading horus rising. Opinions on the mournival?

(I'm also reading it and they are my pookies <3 I'm sure nothing bad will ever happen to them :))

I ANSWERED THIS SOOO LATE IM SORRY

But im really enjoying the mournival and their dynamic!! The way they play off each others personalities is rly nice and everyone was so correct, I LOVE Tarik. LOVE. ADORE. I don’t have any least favs rn, which is a shock bc im a lil hater like Abaddon.

so true, they’ll live forever and ever, it’s a shame no one draws the rest of the mournival w Abby :3

[phinbua]

LOOK AT THE MATERIAL?

[gilbirda]

what are your thoughts on watcher’s new announcement?

So.

I've been watching the Boys since they started back in 2016 (i think around that era), and honestly I'm very conflicted about the decision. I've read so much stuff in favor and against the announcement and I don't know if my answer will satisfy you.

I have managed a community and I have the blessing and curse of being somewhat of a Name, experiencing the ordeal of being Known, and I can tell you that 1)you can never please everyone 2)people will always rush to crush you the second you do something they don't agree with 3)people will always twist everything you do with the worst faith in mind and 4)fandom forget very quickly that at the end of the day you are just human.

I think they made a calculated risk based on a purely economical viewpoint. I think they considered their loyal fanbase and how willing people have been so far with spending extra cash to support them — The live shows, the exclusive streams (like the Valentine's Too Many Spirits) and Patreon. How much of their fanbase was the "broke students" tumblr claim they are and how much was people with spending money willing to pay extra for them.

I also think that the decision seem stupid if you look at it from the perspective of "why the hell would I pay $6 to watch such little variety of content?" and that's a Correct Assumption, but Observe — they have been very slowly pulling everyone that made Buzzfeed famous and enrolling them in. Very recently they gathered the Worth It boys, the second show that kind of carried Buzzfeed back in the day (apart from the Try Guys). I think they can't talk about it right now, but the goal is to relaunch Buzzfeed but without ads and without making it the soulless content machine it became. I think their dream and goal has always been making what Buzzfeed could have been with better management, kind of like "If I was the Management in this company, things would have been better" dream fulfillment. That's why they made the direct jump to a streaming service instead of the logical steps of Patreon-exclusive content or even jumping to Nebula like other youtubers. It was never meant to stay one single channel, it was supposed to be bigger.

Is the projection of making a "better Buzzfeed" worth risking this step? Time will tell. I don't know. I personally never cared about anyone except Buzzfeed Unsolved. I still watch Unsolved on repeat. Is my comfort show. Maybe they are overestimating how much people care about other shows not hosted by them.

Although they did hint that "we want shows not hosted by us". This tells me that they are settling down, they want to ramp down a little bit, do the hook with Ghost Files aka Unsolved Supernatural Lite for the streaming service, and once people are hooked, launch more shows by the old-school Buzzfeed people. Won't be as big as a show hosted by Shane and Ryan, but it will still make people feel like they are getting their money's worth.

I would forgive all of this if only they didn't use the excuse of "if we want to do Netflix-level productions we need money". I'm sorry but that means nothing to me. We loved them when it was a powerpoint slide show with 2 idiots in a set. We didn't fall in love with the toys or the trips or the high tech. We didn't fall in love with the fancy animations at the beginning of Ghost Files episodes that they are so proud of. That was all their idea.

I've seen this trend of content creators ramping up their creations to an unsustainable point, completely crash and burn and then having to apologize about having to step back. Then making it the moral trap of an argument that they have been doing their best to bring quality content to their audience, and of course making it impossible to argue against. If you speak up and say "well we never asked you to break your back" then you are ungrateful audience. That's exactly what's going on in here with the Watcher announcement — "true fans" criticizing people who point out the fact that they created this money problem on their own. Is not the fanbase responsibility to cater to a company's bad money decisions. Is not our fault that they decide to scale up their operation to a point they "haven't been making a profit for 2 years". It's unfair that the fans are at each other's throats for daring stepping back and saying "I don't want to be part of this".

I don't think Watcher Entertainment is actively wanting to collapse their fandom like this. I don't think this was a calculated move. But I do think that they are a group of adults trying to make a career of something they enjoy doing. I think they made this move with the perspective that fandom is not end all and they can always rebuild it.

— And that they are planning on making a machine that can work without them, and that requires breaking something in the fans, it requires kicking themselves out of the pedestal fans have put them on. They know they won't be allowed to have a normal life until people stop looking at them waiting for them to say their phrase.

In conclusion I think they made a choice that made sense if they are planning on separating Watcher Entertainment from "The Ghoul Boys" fame, and it makes sense if they are aiming at something bigger than what they've been doing now. Money of course is the goal and the reason presented, but there's a lot that they are not saying and we will not know until it happens.

Until then, it does feel like they have just shot their careers in the foot.

Also I'm salty that I can't join the service because I'm outside the US.

[woe-is-tuli]

ATEEZ(에이티즈) - 'IT's You (여상, 산, 우영)

[chthonic-kids]

as it was written

[rascalentertainments]

(non-wish question) 1. You are knowing Toil and Trouble, Lauren Faust's Cancelled Show? (Wish question) 2. What are the hints of King Magnifico and Queen Amaya's defeat? 3. Star is turning into an armardillo? 4. There is your headcanon voice for sakina? 5. Valentino is getting angry easily?

I actually heard rumors about the show a while back, but it looked like was going to a fun Halloween-esque series. I think its now being revived as a Netflix movie instead. Hopefully it turns out good.

I can give you three hints! :

Bonus for Cosmic!Star:

3. Yes, for one gag/callback to "The Incredibles". Simon will throw him like a football when he has to knock the king's staff out of his hand from a distance.

4. I know it sounds weird, but its Whoopi Goldberg! I think she can give WG!Sakina more vibrancy to her character. (No offense to the original VA)

5. He's usually a mellow little guy. He seems to only get angry when Asha is threatened and he wants to protect her. That, or Star is getting way too close to Asha and then Val just wants to bite him. 😂 I think Val would only calm down when he senses Asha is much happier when she's around Star and his weird magic.

Thanks for the ask, anon! Sorry it took me a while! 😅

Here's some extra clues to the second half of Wish Granted, guys! 😉

@oh-shtars @tumblingdownthefoxden @chillwildwave @your-ne1ghbor

@ishadow246 @thesafireartist @annymation @kenihewa

@natsuki208 @uva124

[frikatilhi]

Happy Winter Solstace! We made it!

The day is 5 h 20 min long here. I am so done.

[kylejsugarman]

jesse vaulting out of bed after being woken up by the thrum of the power going out during an alaskan snowstorm so he can rescue baby from her dark bedroom before she can get scared by her nightlights going out