#2.2.23

[sleepdeprivedgoat2]

Only thing i could think of when reading that page

[fuckyeahtomblyth]

Originally posted as a Boomerang animation but he deleted it before I could download it, so I only got a screenshot 😉 Happy 28th birthday, silly man!

[edo-vivendum]

This just in: accused of being emotionally manipulative for having abdominal pain, numb hands, and lightheadedness during an argument. The ER visit was obviously just to make him feel bad for being so inappropriately mad about me leaving my clothes on the floor.

I don't know what I'm going to do.

Waiting for test results with my parents in the ER. The husband is butt hurt. He showed up here, but when I didn't respond to a text within three minutes (getting test done) he left.

[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

I did literally just say I love Sonic now more than ever so gonna offset my last post about Prime being negative by mentioning a few things I really like about Prime.

One of the biggest ones is just how dope it looks! Really fun stylised 3D animation that looks smooth and has a good focus on like, keyframing and strong poses - combined with the really expressive mdoels it’s a style that really works for Sonic and I can’t wait for more even just to see how it looks.

And on visuals, I really like the character designs! Part of the reason I grind Sonic Dash so hard or why I bought the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is because getting any official opportunity to see the characters in alternate outfits is usually just super fun, especially because of how strict SEGA usually is with that stuff. Prime meanwhile comes around and has given us like 3 extra outfits for several of the core cast with still more to come! That’s just blanket really fun!

I also like that Sonic’s new looks tend to give him neat little abilities. Narratively it doesn’t amount to much but I don’t even feel like it has to - it’s a neat surprise factor/rule of cool thing that adds character to whichever universe we’re in and enhances Sonic’s reactions to those places as well. If anything it’d honestly be cool to have something like that in the games lol.

I like the voice acting a lot! I actually can’t meaningfully expand on that one lol, it just sounds really good, everyone feels well cast to me, it doesn’t feel like many awkward line reads made it through to the final thing. They are just nice. The only person I don’t adore is Eggman but even then, A) I so can’t imagine non-Mike Pollock Eggmen and B) actual Eggman is mostly absent in favour of Mister Doctor Eggman so I’m pretty much solid with it anyway.

I really enjoy New Yoke as a setting a lot. “What if the villain won?” is a classic setting for a reason, even being one that multiple pieces of Sonic media have explored, but I think New Yoke manages to feel particularly fresh even just on execution and aesthetic alone. It helps that it still feels very lived in - there’s a living, breathing population and a band of rebels that operate in secret and there’s Nine’s hideout and just like, cool shit going on lol.

For that matter I like Nine a lot. I literally put Tails as my 5th favourite Sonic character in that list I did a while back and he’s been in virtually every single Sonic game even during some of its most intense Solo Sonica eras - but he can feel very relegated to the background because of the nature of his character sometimes? So it’s really awesome to see Prime use Nine as an excuse to really let Tails play a major role with lots of actual development and stuff. This is helped doubly by the fact that, awkward pixel art aside, the flashback of his actual backstory (as canonised by Origins wow) alone helps him just feel like the real Tails we’re dealing with, just in a different setting. And yeah, the mechanical Tails are just really cool lol. Particularly a fan of the fact that it allows Tails to be up close and personal in combat again - he’s supposed to use his Tails to attack as well but lots of Sonic media has him holding back for support roles in combat, it’s nice that Prime is willing to acknowledge that, yo, Tails can throw hands. And also tails lmaoooooo

I’m not sure how best to word this part specifically also, but I personally was worried that Prime would sorta like, I guess just follow a rigid structure of x episodes in x shatterverse, grab the crystals, and then move onto the next one? The formula not really changing? But it does not do that and we kinda go back and forth between them and there’s things happening between the shatterverses and like, just in general there’s an actually good attempt to keep the structure fresh and interesting.

And the biggest thing of all is that. Prime is actually just really fun lol. There’s a lot of other good things I haven’t mentioned, but it all comes together with what I have to make a show that’s actually just plain old entertaining to watch. I didn’t feel like I was watching the new Sonic show out of obligation, I was just watching it because I genuinely liked watching it. Even my problems with it don’t feel like a huge deal because it’s so good at the moment-to-moment that I wasn’t really thinking about them while watching. Like it’s literally just a good show, and that slaps.

So fuck yeah, Prime is dope.

[avi-arts]

Day 2220:

2.2.23

Comm WIP

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[lilolilyr]

Sure, have a horse friend!

Omgggg thank you :D horsie 🤩 that is so sweet, my personal tumblr tamagotchi adsfghjkl I can't even

[muddykitten]

I feel affection for you

[purenumbers]

2/2/23

2 / 2 = |2 - 3|

Also:

(2 / 2) + 2 = 3

[all-the-trek]

Star Trek: The Next Generation S2E13 "Time Squared" (2365)

Pretty blue vortex time!

Whoops!

Weeeeee!

[comicaurora]

if only it could be The Festival Of Everyone Yells At The Elemental Magus every day

[dragonofthedepths]

Death Throes 2.2.23

DP x DC. Danny Phantom, Clockwork, Wonder Woman, John Constantine, Nightwing.

Clockwork goes to war with the Observants to protect Danny. It ends up spiraling into a fight that destroys the entire time stream, and with it the rest of their universe.

Clockwork manages to get them safely out to another universe, but with the time stream of their universe -the very object of his obsession- destroyed, his core is fractured, he has a few weeks left at most before his End. And with Danny's obsession being to protect, well... with Clockwork's impending death on top of the entire rest of their universe, the clock is ticking for him too.

No-one in the DC universe knows any of this when they first arrive. All they know is that another universe's version of Kronos and his firstborn son Hades have entered this universe, which gets passed on hard and fast to the Justice League by anyone even remotely capable of sensing the problem, because That Is Not Good. A pair of critically injured ghosts were not what the Justice League was expecting to find.

Day (612/100) in my #∞daysofwriting @the-wip-project 2nd of Feb

[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

Kind of in general I’m not really a fan of Prime’s alternate universe character versions. Lots of them are kinda just there to be punchlines and there’s not really any reason to believe that in this universe specifically the characters would behave that way. What about the forests being overgrown turns Tails into a wild animal. What about the world being flooded gives Knuckles a gold tooth. New Yoke is the only setting that feels like it’s interested in seeing the characters in another actually meaningful light and even that still has Rusty Rose who isn’t Amy in the slightest. The rest so far just feel like “uhhh pirate setting” and then warp the characters to fit the mold. Dread Knuckles has a character arc but that character arc doesn’t have anything to do with who Knuckles actually is. It’s very sad that this is the first Sonic TV series that actually wants to tell a story in almost 20 years but it’s afraid to actually write about any of the characters we’re familiar with so just puts them in funny costumes and gives them new names instead, you know?

[loveallthegays]

Armani Jackson and Tyler Lawrence Gray Instagram Live 2.2.23

[horsesarenotdeer]

OMG I JUST READ COMIC AURORA UPDATE 2.2.23 and YESSSSSS FALST DESTROY HIM FOR SLANDERING YOUR BOI

[fannyyann]

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all star weekend | 2.2.23

[rrhhiiaannoon]

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