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maomao is my favorite "not like other girls" style protagonist bc for one shes a girls girl through and through. to the bone. and two she's just a weird little freak. absolute lunatic. they have the whole "omg she's actually beautiful and everyone falls for her when she's all made up" trope but the punchline is that she does not fucking want to look like that. she actively puts dirt on her face every day bc she does not want to be perceived as attractive (mostly out of fear of being used for sex work though at the same time she has the utmost respect for women who do sex work like she grew up in a brothel those are her sisters). she's Sherlock level smart and solves every mystery so fast but goes "well thats none of my business. anyway back to testing poisons on myself" she has the 2nd most powerful guy in the nation head over heels in love with her and is like "man this guy is weird around me what's his deal. I guess he's fine though because he gives me rare medicines and has no dick" fucking ICON i love her. also she once slapped someone so hard they fell on the floor. 10/10

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Do you think those who study abnimals are called abthropologists

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MORE TAZ ABNIMALS DOODLES

I just had to get these out of my system lol

from when I was just drawing the semi-canon designs

before I realised that WAIT A MINUTE SEALS DONT HAVE VISIBKE EARS

LOTS MORE UNDER CUT!

Dang I have a lot of these

This is what happens when I don’t post for a month

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Me: Aw, Zeke the Fighting Nighthawk is so cute.

Me:

Me: *Dr Doofenschmirtz voice* EZEKIEL THE NIGHTHAWK?!

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Hatchetfield, Continuity, and Eldritch Horror

So, Nerdy Prudes Must Die just came out and it reminded me how much I love the Hatchetfield series and I want to talk about one aspect that makes it so unique and interesting. Continuity.

If you don't know Hatchetfield is a series of stories by Starkid that has three stage musicals and a series called Nightmare Time and a short film. It is a horror anthology series where in every story some different supernatural or other horrible event occurs where characters die or the world ends in different ways. But that is kinda of not true because anthology isn't quite the right word.

The characters stay the same as the inhabitants of the small town of Hatchetfield but each story focuses on different characters at different times and the interesting part is that while certain individuals will act differently because of something related to the horror or supernatural elements mostly they always stick to canonical personalities and histories, and it is heavily implied that the events all actually happen and there is some wider story where there are multiple timelines.

This creates two really cool effects.

One is that you slowly start to learn more about the characters as you encounter them in various stories, and different things come about depending on how the current threat affects them. It also gives more information than any length single timeline would because we get to see what pushes them to different points. From NPMD for example, the story takes place two years after The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals in which the world ends and Paul and Emma fall in love, but we see in NPMD that Paul for the first time gives Emma his number perhaps hinting at what the timeline would be for Paul and Emma's relationship to mature without the intervention of a world ending disaster.

The other thing is about Eldritch Horror. Hatchetfield's core story revolves around the Lords in Black a group of Elder Gods who orchestrate most of the events. In most cases Eldritch Horror has difficulty truly selling the concept of creatures outside of our dimension who are not bound by time and space, and even if they demonstrate their power to the characters, as an audience it doesn't have a huge effect. But with Hatchetfield, because as an audience we are aware of the multiple timelines, we take on the role of the eldritch beings and see the stories from their perspective. In NPMD they make references to other stories implying that it is the same Lords in Black everytime with Tinky talking about having "another Spankofski" for his collection(an episode of Nightmare Time.) They also play with having the audience being the perspective of these Eldritch beings with the stagecraft like in Black Friday where entering the Black and White has the president move in from the audience, or in TGWDLM the ending has the audience clap for the end of the show with Emma screaming for help and unsure why the audience won't help her.

Its a really cool format that I personally have never encountered before and really sells the horror and makes you more invested in the characters.

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I love that the theory that Crowley was Kokabiel is taking off

Here is some more evidence if you need it

Kokabiel was described being as big in comparison he was as tall as the Empire State Building if we look at season 2 when Crowley high off laudnum grew very very big. Perhaps foreshadowing to their true size.

This Angel was also described as a Seraphim if we look at episode 6 when Crowley opens the folder and said I wasn't always a demon this would explain how they had access in basics Crowley is on the same level as the Metatron if they are Kokabiel.

On the same note we know Crowley was possibly a seraphim due to one line Beelzebub and them said

Bee: Extreme Measures

Crowley: but that was something we told the cherubs to frighten them

Something WE told the Cherubs in mythology Beelzebub was counted as a seraphim before they fell, it would also owe to why Beelzebub said that you could be a Prince of Hell with confidence instead of sarcasm because Crowley is on the same level as them.

This could also explain together why Crowley and Aziraphales half miracle was so damn powerful

This Angel is also the only one to have fallen not because they defied God but because they protested against the mistreatment of their fellow angels that had just fallen so Heaven threw them in with the rest of them. How messed up is that?

This explains, however, why Crowley is so angry at Heaven and absolutely hates it. He has seen personally the misjudgment and cruelty that is heaven he's seen that toxicity first hand,

This is also why the Metatron most likely was also trying to get in between Aziraphale and Crowley I'm not sure but if Aziraphale Archangel Raphael it could terrify The Metatron as there's a theory that if a couple is powerful enough Heaven Nor Hell can touch them because they constantly come back in defeat eventually giving up.

While Gabriel and Beelzebub aren't like this I really think our a Ineffable husbands are. One is a seraphim who created literal universes and could drive men mad with the knowledge they held of the universe and the other is going to be the supreme archangel over protection healing and Love

That is a very very powerful duo

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"Gloreth didn't think Nimona was a monster until her mom said so"

No. No, it's worse than that.

She decided Nimona was a monster when she tried to protect herself.

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." "If you kill a Nazi, you're just as bad as them." "So much for the tolerant Left!" "We have to be accepted by the cishets in power, so let's turn on trans people." "My community won't hurt ME, so YOU must be the problem."

Nimona was attacked, and couldn't escape, so she fought back. And Gloreth didn't understand that her neighbors, who were always so nice and kind and rational to her, were dangerous and deadly to her friend who was Other.

She was a small child. But she is a stand in for everyone who sided with oppression and murder because they didn't recognize their privilege. And, like many fascist governments do, she was used, her story warped, to persuade people to build the wall "to protect our children and future".

Gloreth didn't turn against Nimona because her mom said to. She turned against Nimona because she refused to accept that her community was cruel.

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Behind the Animation for Nimona | Netflix

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I was searching for some pretty Hanukkah gifs to schedule a post tomorrow wishing my Jewish followers Happy Hanukkah and I found a fit/shape/body building site that posted this

And I thought to myself, I simply must show my Jewish followers fit Menorah Man

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good morning! today is the day. guess who still hasn’t seen the last scene of the puppet history season finale? us

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I was talking with my friend and I think my biggest reservation with The Legend of Vox Machina is the same one I had with the comic… Namely that they keep trying to fit the characters into these boxes and flatten them into more conventional archetypes for the sake of comedy and/or timing. But these versions just aren’t as rich and enjoyable as the three dimensional characters we saw from the start of the stream.

Vex is not the team b*tch. She is the treasurer, she is shrewd, but she takes care of the money because she grew up poor and she wants to protect the group from that life. She is a nurturer. She cares so much. She feels worst when she thinks she didn’t do everything she could for others. Vex is warm and bright and just because she’s “the hot one” that doesn’t mean she looks down her beautiful nose at others with disdain.

Pike is not the moral compass. As much as they tried to argue it occasionally in the show, especially when Matt was NPCing her… Pike doesn’t particularly seem fussed to lead anyone to the light. She’s just doing what she’s doing. Pike is a monstah. Pike is a mess. Pike is a vodka aunt. Pike will try anything once. Pike loves practical jokes. Pike doesn’t really know what’s going on a lot of the time and we love her for it. Pike is more id than anyone gives her credit for. This is not the stereotypical cleric you’re looking for.

Keyleth is not a starry-eyed moe girl. Keyleth is awkward. Keyleth is opinionated. Keyleth is the moral compass. Keyleth is the one trying to make them do better. Keyleth is often depressed and anxious in ways that aren’t ‘cute’. Keyleth is often argumentative and pious in ways that aren’t ‘sweet’. Keyleth is often bitter because she was told things were one way her whole life and she’s finding out they’re not and that makes her angry with a righteous fury. She’s the reality of a sheltered childhood, not the romantic ideal.

Vax is not a broody goth boy…yet. Vax’s arc is important. Yes, in the end he was a dark and serious character. But in the Briarwood Arc he wasn’t brooding and frowning all of the time. He was an imp! A trickster! He was always smiling and smirking and very touchy feely. But Scanlan has to do that and we can only have one person in each archetype so we’ve got to push Vax into another box.

Vox Machina was not a group of disaffected, edgy punks. Vox Machina cared. They were trying to fix problems, even pre-Briarwoods. Vox Machina is not a group that would hear ‘maybe we should do the right thing’ and all of them, including Keyleth, would go, “Nah.” The fact that they generally were trying to be good and failing miserably was part of the charm.

I’m coming to terms that this is an adaptation and interpretation of Vox Machina and it doesn’t have to completely mesh with the original. I’m getting there. And I’m going to watch every episode of this series.

I just had to get this out, because… Sometimes I feel like even the people who played these characters don’t understand what made them so special.

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Rewatch Husbands of River Song 1, 2

To recap, River has just finished saying:

“The Doctor is not stupid enough or sentimental enough, and he is certainly not in love enough to find himself standing in it with me!”

And then River pauses to take a breath and is suddenly

very aware.

Of someone

stupid enough

standing next to her.

You can see the moment River begins to have an inkling.

As Twelve continues to look at River with all the love and sentiment River claimed the Doctor never had for her.

And the penny drops…

And I’m just – look at how steady Twelve is, how comfortable he is in standing still and being seen.

(As the music swells in the background)

River is for a micro second, still trying to grasp as

Twelve says, softly, with all the love in his hearts, “Hello, sweetie.”

This is the greatest and sweetest endearment callback that started decades back and circling into this earned, affectionate moment.

Seriously, the most romantic moment in all of Modern Who I’ve seen and still standing number 1 to this day.

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You guys see it too, right?

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who’s the third hand?? SHANE?? WHO’S THE THIRD HAND??

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They gossiping about someone

bonus:

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Mortis FutureVision!Ahsoka 💫

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