#Grizz El Sayed

[jona3d]

Season champs!!!

[iznjstilldoodles]

happy @blaseballzinejam day !!!!

had a lot of fun this year, here are some of my submissions to zines ran by others (including a bonus one that did not get used for the where are they now which is v funny and you should go look at)

here's a link to the zines each are for:

Forecast Jazz Vol. 2 (x) featuring a collaboration with @pysics (also check out that cover!) The Big Blaseball Activity Book (x) Food and Fashion (x) Make It Blaseball (x) done in collaboration with @thehallstara All Players Have Been Released (x)

[idonthaveanyurlideas]

new beams new beams new beams they are nice :)

[Image ID: Two digital drawings with a plain yellow background. The first drawing is of Guozhi Ong and Grizz El Sayed, wearing Moab Hellmouth Sunbeams uniforms. Guozhi is a thin Taiwanese person leaning on one leg and dragging the other lightly along the ground, wringing their hands together. They have a short black bob and are wearing earrings and a beret based on a kosui pear. Grizz is a fat Palestinian and Southern Paiute person with a beard and mullet. She is sitting on the ground and leaning against something. Both Guozhi and Grizz are smiling. The second picture depicts Kajjala Aliyev, a Kannadigaru and Kazakh person with short dark brown hair and stubble. Ce has smoke emanating from cer hand and neck, which swirls around cer arm and head, leaving parts of cer face exposed. Ce is standing with cer hands in cer pockets and has a neutral expression. /end ID]

[lokrow]

G&G Lion dance

Drawn based on dasy's flash fic for the LNY maincord game

[psychedelic-lemur]

geez sorry i forgot about these

1. i agree. a book that's generations old must have tons of pages and weigh several kilos.

lmaoo every cooper's like "the hell is this??" fantastic👏

2. he's really living up to his apathetic essence i would say.

3. historically accurate👌 he most likely wore makeup too since that was very common

4. thoughts on TiT? this is gonna be a bit longer answer

TiT has its pros and cons. I like the worlds and the little extra details, for example the health bar logos. Each character has a very personalized logo with accessories, glowing eyes etc.

The worlds feel a little more alive than in the other games. I also like how the player is able to move around in the hideout and take a part in the activities in it. The treasures can be collected & viewed instead of being sold immediately.

Some of the ancestors (rioichi, tennessee, galleth) turned out quite good. It's a shame how salim got downgraded from his original design and what comes to bob? well let's not talk about that... and poor carmelita, let's not forget about her. Her whole character got butchered and sexualized in TiT and i will never forgive sanzaru for that.

The villains were not the best either. El jefe should have been something else than a tiger, toothpick was weird af and his ability was so far-fetched, i've already criticized grizz, ms. decibel.. just why, penelope deserved way better than this

and finally le paradox. i don’t know how i feel about him. I do like the fact that he's a skunk and his thing is hazardous smells or something. I don't like his design that much and it doesn't fit the whole thief demeanor. Also, he doesn't strike as a thief to me, at least not a one who' s from a long line of thieves too like sly is. I feel like that was just made up for the sake of some cheap plot.

it's been a while since i played TiT, so i probably missed something. But those were some of my thoughts.

Thanks for the asks!

[santiagonex]

As 2020 is nearing, it’s time to see what 2019 has brought us when it comes to gay representation in tv shows and movies. Below ‘read more’, there’s a whole list of tv shows/ships/movies (with pictures and basic description) which include/are about gay (used as an umbrella term) men and couples (so basically have gay storylines and at least one gay person is a main character of the show/movie).

Since I’m a gay man, I keep up mostly with mlm, if I included wlw as well, I don’t think the list would be complete with my lack of knowledge, so sorry about that. I’m pretty sure there are more competent people who can do that instead of me.

Total Count of TV Shows in the list: 65 Total Count of Movies in the list: 27

 Anyways, here we go.

TV SHOWS

TV SHOWS WITH TITULAR/CENTRAL GAY CHARACTERS/SHIPS

The Other Two: the funniest most-relatable show centered around three siblings – one of them is gay (left). A must-watch for sure. He’s pretty much the hugest part of the show, there are some love storyline (...and they were roomates), some self-loving moments and iconic lines. Just watch it, you won’t regret it.

Sex Education: show about two best friends, one of them (right) is gay. His name is Eric and he gets involved with his enemy Adam (left). Amazing show.

Special: show about a gay man Ryan (right) with mild cerebral palsy, who wants to live his life as an independent person to the fullest. Easy and short show to watch.

Druck (German SKAM Remake): if you don’t know SKAM, it’s pretty much a show where each season is devoted to one character. Third season of German SKAM aired this year and it was revolved around a gay guy (left). For the first time in SKAM history, the main character’s love interest is a trans guy (right).

Skam France (French SKAM Remake): the French version of SKAM had a gay season this year as well. 

WTFock (Belgian SKAM Remake): Belgium has a season focused on the main gay character this year as well.

El corazón nunca se equivoca: I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of Aristemo from ‘Mi marido tiene más familia’. Well, they’d already aired the first season of the new spin-off centered around their lives in college (I think).

Merlí: Sapere Aude: Bruno (left) and Pol (right) fans, it’s time to make some noise. Brunol is coming back because Pol is getting a spin-off which will be taking place in university. Bruno will be in it as well. First episode airs on 5th of December this year.

Pose: second season of Ryan Murphy’s popular show with main transgender and gay characters has aired this year.

The Politician: another show from Ryan Murphy was created. The main protagonist of the show (right) is played by Ben Platt and he’s gay. The show contains many LGBT+ main characters.

Tales of the City: the revival of the Tales of the City sequence of miniseries aired this year. The show includes many LGBT+ storylines.

The L Word: Generation Q: the revival of The L Word show will air on 8th of December this year. The show is mainly about lesbians, but based on trailer, there will be a gay couple included as well.

Years and Years: very futuristic show with a political message. Includes both mlm and wlw as main characters.

The Red Line: the plot of this show involves a white cop in Chicago who mistakenly shoots and kills a black doctor named Harrison. Harrison had a husband (left) and daughter (right). The show deals with the consequences of the event.

Now Apocalypse: all I’m gonna say is that Beck from Victorious got to make out with Scott from Teen Wolf, Matty from Awkward and Jake from Glee. The show was renewed for second season and later this statement was taken back and it got cancelled – which I guess says enough about the show.

This Close: the show is about two best friends who are deaf. One of them (left) is gay and has a storyline and spicy scenes with the guy on the right and some other guys as well. 

Schitt’s Creek: David (right) and Patrick (left) aka the cutest softest couple of all time. The last season of the show will air next air. Watch the show if you wanna laugh and watch the healthiest gay couple on tv. They also got engaged this year, which was beautiful.

NEW TV SHOWS (1 SEASON) WITH MAIN GAY CHARACTERS/SHIPS

Daybreak: both main characters and basically on different sides of the battles. Who wouldn’t want to watch enemies being in love Romeo & Juliet style.

El Juego de las Llaves (The Game of Keys): very interesting and fun show to follow, the one on the right is the main character. He’s closeted, has a girlfriend and gradually realizes there’s something else out there. Nice kissing scenes, plus one very spicy scene. Doesn’t hurt that the guy on the left he will be involved with looks like a dollar store Chris Evans if you squint hard enough.

Five Bedrooms: 5 strangers moves in. The guy in the middle is gay. His mom is a very traditional Indian woman who just wants grandchildren. The whole show is heart-warming and sad at times. The guy gets fair share of screentime and some love interests including a cop from the neighbourhood.

Made In Heaven: Indian show that follows the lives of Tara and Karan (left), two wedding planners in Delhi running an agency named Made in Heaven. Karan is gay. Very progressive show with spicy gay scenes.

What/If: haven’t seen the show yet but friends said these two have a nice storyline in the show. Threesome included.

Bonding: show about two best friends Pete (left) and Tiff (right). Pete is gay. They basically... do freaky shit for work... umm. Just watch trailer or something.

Osmosis: I have no idea what the show is about but the guy on the left is set to betrying to find a soulmate or something. I think I remember seeing some spicy scenes.

Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists: basically some gay romance with the guy on the right and someone else. The one on the left dies the first episode so I did not even bother after that. But you can be the judge of it.

Doom Patrol: Larry (left) is a superhero, kinda. There’s something haunting his past, though. Something that involves being gay.

The Umbrella Academy: Klaus (left) my favorite character. He’s kind of a hero along with his other siblings. There’s a deep gay storyling along the way.

Weird City: anyways... all I’m gonna say is that Dylan O’Brien played a gay for one episode in a show. Wish there wasn’t this huge ugly age difference.

Roswell, New Mexico: cowboys, aliens, bisexuality, homosexuality and all that. Didn’t really see the show but there’s a lot of content with these two.

Good Trouble: never saw the sow but the guy on the picture is a main bisexual characters. There are some mlm scenes.

The Society: Grizz (right) and Sam (left) literally the highlight of the show. Just watch it, it is worth to see it for both of them. Sam is also deaf. The show is basically about a bunch of teenagers getting stuck in a town with no one else in or around.

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: The High School Musical tv show has just started airing on Disney+. Carlos (left) is confirmed to be gay and to be getting a nice development this season which will probably involve Seb (right) as well.

The Heights: Australian tv show. Sully (left) is gay. Got a thing for Ash (right) at the start. Then things were messy. Then they suddenly kissed. And the things are messy again.

El Club (The Club): very interesting show. The gave these two really (like REALLY) spicy scenes. Some romantic stuff. But there’s really not much depth in my option. Check and see.

Volevo fare la rockstar: didn’t see it but it’s an Italian show and there’s a romantic storyline between these two.

No Good Nick: Jeremy (right) came out this year on this sitcom. Nice and very weid sitcom. Unfortunately it was cancelled, but the way they handled his gay storyline was rather nice.

World on Fire: follows lives of ordinary people from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the USA during World War II. Two of them are gay. And yeah one of those two is Will from sense8.

TV SHOWS (1 SEASON+) WITH MAIN GAY CHARACTERS/SHIPS 

Andi Mack: the show that made history. Andi Mack is a Disney Channel show and for the first time in Disney Channel history, Cyrus (right) came out using the word ‘gay’ and made it official with the recurring character TJ (left) this year. The two-season slow-burn was really worth it.

Shadowhunters: Malec got married this year. Yay.

Grey’s Anatomy: Levi and Nico still going strong.

La Casa de las Flores (The House of Flowers): despite the first season making it seem like it was the end for Diego and Julián, that’s not the case. In season 2, they’re stronger than ever, the scenes are spicier than ever and the show is gayer than ever.

Baby: first season was mostly focused on Fabio (face on right) realizing he’s gay. The second season has shockingly showed us that Brando (face on left) is gay as well. Very toxic ship so if you enjoy Gallavich this is probably for you.

Élite: Omar and Ander continuing their journey.

Shameless: Ian (up) and Mickey (down) came back to Shameless season 10 as main characters. About time.

Station 19: new love interest (left, a deaf character portrayed by a deaf actor) was introduced for Travis (right) in the season 2 finale. Let’s see what happens in season 3, which airs in 2020.

Ackley Bridge: they pretty much baited us with Cory (left) and Naveed (right) this season. They stayed just friends, but Naveed found a love interest, so that’s nice.

Find Me In Paris: Never saw the show, but Jeff (on the picture) is gay and his love interest Isaac gets introduced in second season that aired this year.

13 Reasons Why: Tony and Caleb going strong. It was also revealed that Monty (right) is a closeted gay and had a storyline with Winston (left). There’s probably more to come with them in next season. 

Insatiable: unfortunately they didn’t serve much Bob (right) & Bob this year. But they introduced detective Rudy (left) and there were some scenes and twists and turns. Whatever.

Riverdale: I don’t care. Kevin (left) is still there. There are some gay charcters based on wiki, but yeah. Crumbs, I bet. Whatever.

Charité: second season (which has the two main gay characters) takes place in Berlin in 1943. You don’t need to watch the first season at all, to understand the second one with them, it’s basically a stand-alone.

Animal Kingdom: Deran and Adrian’s story coming to an end?

The Magicians: Well, they killed off the central bi character Quentin (on the picture), so fuck them. 

How to Get Away With Murder: Connor (left) and Oliver (right) still there.

Dear White People: haven’t seen it, but Lionel (on the picture) is still there and he’s gay.

Zoe Valentine: there’s this web series and these two have a storyline in second season that aired this year.

SOAP OPERAS AND TELENOVELAS

Sturm der Liebe: Boris (left) and Tobias (right) are married and lived happily ever after. Really cute and sometimes dramatic storyline overall. Check it out.

Malhação: Vidas Brasileiras: Santiago (left) and Michael (right) had a gay storyline but the show ended this year.

Malhação: Toda Forma de Amar: Guga (right) and Serginho (left) have a gay storyline in the show.

Eastenders: Ben (left) and Callum’s (right) storyline has begun this year.

Neighbours: David (right) and Aaron (left) aka husbands still in the soap.

REALITY SHOWS

Queer Eye: five gay guys helping others. Season 3, 4 and a special have aired this year.

Are You the One?: for the first time in the show’s history, season 8 of this dating reality show had an all-sexually fluid cast this year. Which means mlm and wlw and anything else. Really fun show.

MOVIES

Benjamin: don’t even remember what the movie was about but I rec because it was cute and I mean hello Merlin.

Boy Erased: homosexuality and religion. Has a Troye Sivan in it. Very decent movie.

And Then We Danced: my favorite gay movie of this year. All the things they had to do to be able to film this in homophobic Georgia (the country)... just wow. It’s a must-watch.

Who Would You Take to a Deserted Island?: didn’t know what to expect from this movie. It is based on a play and it shows. Watch and be the judge of it. The acting was really highlight of the movie.

This Is Not Berlin: hasn’t seen it yet since it was just officially released. But it is included in an LGBT+ section so... hopefully they didn’ lie.

Rocketman: movie about Elton John with Taron Egerton and Richard Madden... I mean, phew.

Un Rubio (The Blonde One): gonna watch this, apparently it’s amazing based on what some of my mutuals have said.

The Death and Life of John F. Donovan: Jon Snow being gay and kissing Chris Zylka. Made by Xavier Dolan. A literal tripple threat. Genuinely enjoyed the movie and the soundtrack.

Ranchlands: haven’t seen this but my friend said it’s amazing.

Steam Room Stories: this movie was something... Eating Out levels of ‘I-’ but without all the sex. I guess watch this if you are bored.

Posledice (Consequences): very spicy and intriguing movie. Slovenia snapped with this one.

Papi Chulo: didn’t like this movie and the concept of it but... you can check out and see for yourself.

Dolor y gloria (Pain and Glory): Antonio Banderas kissing a man. Hopefully it really is a gay-related movie because I haven’t seen it yet.

Die Stropers (The Harvesters): brilliant cinematography but I expected much more from the movie.

Giant Little Ones: what happens when you’re into your best friend’s sister but the best friend gives you a BJ. Well... watch and see.

Kanarie (Canary): a war musical about a small town boy who gets chosen to serve his compulsory two year military training in the South African Defence Force Choir and Concert. Loved the involvement of the Boy George music, aesthetic and story. One of my favorites this year. 

Luciérnagas (Fireflies): haven’t seen it yet but the description says that the main gay character (right) “flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the tropical town of Veracruz.”

El Angel: haven’t seen it but apparently there are some implications it was lowkey gay... so yeah.

Dear Ex: from wiki “San Lian was devastated when she discovered her late ex-husband left his insurance payout to his male partner Ah Jie. She decided to bring her son to fight for their rights, but her son instead chose to stand on the other person's side.” Will watch this soon, sounds interesting.

Sauvage: one of the best gay movies this year. Don’t know how to describe it so let me copy paste the description “ Léo is a sex worker who uses drugs whilst longing for love.”

Sócrates: haven’t seen it yet as it was just released.

Marilyn: story about a farm worker who discovers his sexuality in a hostile environment. Didn’t see it since someone has told me there are some scenes that are really HARD to stomach and I ain’t about that life.

Les Crevettes pailletées (The Shiny Shrimps): the movie is about an Olympic swimming champion who makes a homophobic comment in a television interview, and is disciplined by the national swim team with the responsibility of coaching a gay water polo team who aspire to compete in the Gay Games. Sounds and looks like an amazing comedy and can’t wait to watch it when I will be able to.

Fin de siglo (End of the Century): it’s not out yet as far as I know, but it’s about two men who meet in Barcelona and realize they have met already 20 years ago.

Matthias et Maxime: another excellence by Xavier Dolan. Story about life-long friends who question their sexual identities after they kiss. Looks amazing and I can’t wait for it to get released finally.

The Goldfinch: not a gay movie, but I’ve seen many people considering it as LGBT+ cinema because of the book and you know what, they kissed after all so you can perceive it beyond friendship if you want. If not, then just skip it. I feel like it is worth mentioning it tho.

Mapplethorpe: movie is about the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Didn’t see it but Doctor Who plays him so there’s that.

UPCOMING

TV SHOWS

9-1-1: Lone Star: The spin-off of a popular show 9-1-1 by Ryan Murphy is premiering 19th of January 2020. It’s confirmed that the main character TK (a firefighter, left) will be romantically involved with the main character Carlos (a police officer, right). The show will also have a main trans man.

Love, Simon: The Series: A Disney+ Love, Simon spin-off is on its way and will premiere in 2020. The series will follow Victor (right) and his coming-out story at the same high school where Love, Simon took place. Didn’t find a photo with his love interest. The guy on the left will most likely be his enemy.

[inspector-montoya-fox]

here’s why Thieves in Time is a bad game

before y’all try it, i just want to say that i’ll be as unapologetically petty and sarcastic as i want and fucking rip this game to shreds. yes, this is how i’ve spent my days since Thieves in Time came out. sitting alone in my room, staring at the wall, crying and complaining. because it has since been my life’s aim and dream to think about it every day, state the negative things about it, and become an evil essay witch on this half-dead website. *evil laugh*

Story:

References: i want to start with the smallest problem, but one that annoys me to this day. in the original trilogy, there weren’t a lot of references but the ones that were included were meticulously researched and well thought-out (i’m specifically referring to that Neil Diamond Carmelita vinyl gag, but can’t find the original post). the references in Thieves in Time however, were obviously just the creators’ interests. Turning Japanese, Clan of the Cave Bear and Bentley’s “hacksona” presented as Rambo just scream 1980s (which i’m assuming is the decade the creators grew up in), and Of Mice and Men is classic literature about the Great Depression, which subsequently started being taught in school in the US during the 1980s. it feels like the creators just went ‘let’s discuss what our lives had in common during our teen years and put that in’ instead of researching it first. and, here’s the thing: when you’re adding references, in order to make them funny or interesting, they have to fit in with the property or the character that’s connected to them in some way. Don Octavio was an opera aficionado so his episode’s title card pays homage to the Phantom of the Opera, young Muggshot was influenced by the movie “The Dogfather” because he’s a gangster, etc. these were funny because they were so spot-on with these characters. if every character in the Sly Cooper universe references the same type of stuff (from the 1980s) and shares the same interests, it’s just claustrophobic and uninteresting. i’m pretty sure i’m not the only one who had to look up these ultra-hetero, scrotum references when the game came out. that’s because they were specifically tailored to be funny to them, and not their target demographic which were kids in 2013.

Narrative: now that we got that out of the way, let’s look at the narrative. at the end of Sly 3, Bentley says he’s building a time machine. Sanzaru took that joke and decided to run with it as the premise for their game. ok, not the best idea, but i get it - you’re literally picking up where the last game left off. since all the storylines were wrapped up, they could’ve done something different like Sly’s kids or Bentley and Murray’s families, but this isn’t an essay about suggestions so...... time travel (i want to say that it’s, again, an 80s reference but whatever) was pretty ‘out there’ in 2013. i mean, even Plants vs Zombies 2, which was released that year, had to do with time travel (yes, i’m referencing an app). but Sanzaru had the advantage of applying this premise onto already established mythos and lore. the story had definite potential: someone is threatening Sly’s lineage so he has to travel back in time to save the day. the player would get to explore new locations and iconic eras in history, and, of course, the main selling point: playable ancestors. how could you screw that up? welp.... let’s think about the plot holes here for a sec. Bentley’s device would take the gang back in time when given an item from the specific era. stop. this right here is called ‘over-complicating’. how did they know the items would take them directly to the point where the specific ancestor was in danger? the Feudal Japan period lasted for 700 years: how did the machine know when and where to drop them off? and if the gang could return to the present at any time, why didn’t they do so when they were in trouble? oh right, the machine was broken. so how did they return the baddies to the present after they defeated them? i mean, why did they use the Grizz’s crown to travel to Medieval England if they went back to the present to drop him off to Interpol first? and on that note, how did they drop the baddies off to jail without getting caught and without Carmelita being around? i can already hear you thinking but these are total details that aren’t important, you jerk! well, yea, they truly are details and i truly am overthinking it. and yes, i truly am a jerk. but let me tell you something: when Sanzaru chose to make a new Sly game, did they not think ‘oh we’ll have to follow up Sly 2 and Sly 3′s stories’ which were well thought-out narratives with depth and various themes and didn’t have huge plot holes (as seen by my analysis through the episode project) ???? and did they also not think that their game would come out eight years after the last one, having expectations at an all-time high???? yea, that’s what i thought.

Characters: i’ll make a different section for Sucker Punch’s characters, so this is for Sanzaru’s original ones. name one iconic original character from Thieves in Time. i’ll wait... nope. not one. that’s because all of them were absolute shit. and here’s where i want to touch upon Sanzaru’s over-reliance on the trilogy. Ms Decibel (perhaps the most obvious copy) is a mix between Don Octavio, Miz Ruby, and the Contessa. El Jefe is Rajan if he went to the gym. Toothpick has Sir Raleigh’s temper and tendency to grow in size. and the Grizz is... whatever the fuck he is. (don’t worry i didn’t forget Le Paradox and Bob). there’s a difference between studying & creating similar characters and blatantly plagiarizing older characters because you lack the creativity. oh, boo-hoo this evil jerk’s telling it how it is. this set of villains is so lacklustre, i don’t even know where to begin. El Jefe is a tiger, even though we’ve already had two major tiger villains and one tiger flashlight guard. ok. Rajan could summon lightning because of the Clockwerk heart but El Jefe can do the same, how exactly? Toothpick is an armadillo (good) from Russia (better) with an obsession with the West (excellent) who can also grow huge (very bad). it’s never explained how or why. why?????? just tell me why. i want to know. i really want to know. Ms Decibel is an elephant who got into a tragic accident which left her with the power of hypnosis. music and hypnosis have already been done, but ok, i’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. so how do we use this character? spend the entirety of her screen time making jokes about... wait for it... her weight !!! this is top-notch comedy... really? like... really? the creators’ humor is a crime, at best. fart jokes and fat jokes all around. oh, and then there’s the Grizz. what the fuck where they thinking? just, what the fuck. i guess the guys at Sanzaru thought black people speak in rap? is that it? apart from it being extremely offensive, it’s also a blatant copy of Dimitri’s backstory. like, his introductory cutscene even has his paintings thrown at him and into the trash, like the intro cutscene for The Black Chateau. honestly, all of these villains caused me several types of pain, but not as much as...

Bob & Le Paradox: the absolute worst. i can just imagine the meeting going something like this: Sly’s ancestors are awesome! i wish we could fit them all in the game... here’s an amazing idea! what if we use one of the game’s few levels to introduce a brand new ancestor! yea! let’s make him dumb as fuck, strip him of any athletic prowess, and retcon the entire lineage by having him be the first Cooper ever! the kids will love a prehistoric level! ..... could you kindly point out where and when did ANYONE ask for this? i remember @ironicsnap​ saying something like the game is good until Bob. no, it was already bad - Bob just lowered the standard. like, a lot. people love Murray and his gameplay is neat, but no one ever thought ‘oh i wish we had a Cooper character with Murray’s game style’. why would they waste the opportunity to bring in Henriette, Thaddeus, Otto, literally any ancestor? why??? but they went ahead and created their own Cooper, and that wasn’t even the end of it. they had to make him dumb. they had to make him unbearable. they had to ruin the Cooper ancestry by adding this mess to the lineage. Sucker Punch made sure that all the ancestors were unique, but at the same time made all of them suave and funny and slick and you wish you could be them! well, fuck that. also, his name is Bob. Bob Cooper. it’s been 7 fucking years and i still can’t wrap my head around it.... so now, let’s talk about Le Paradox. i don’t have to mention the previous main villains, but i will. Clockwerk killed Sly’s ancestors and father, and was seemingly an eternal threat. Neyla was a psychopath who fooled everyone on her journey to becoming immortal by resurrecting Clockwerk. Dr M opened up the possibility for Sly’s dad to be a jerk instead of a hero, and died trying to unlock the Coopers’ legacy. how does Le Paradox compare? well, he’s a sleazebag skunk who was mad because of his dad’s downfall to the Coopers. that’s it. no twist, no depth, no clever dialogue. nothing. there’s nothing there. this is a new character, unfamiliar to everyone, who was hyped up for 5 levels and defeated in the conclusion. why was he a match for Sly? i don’t know. how did he fight for his life and ultimately tricked Sly into helping him? i don’t know. how the hell did he kidnap Carmelita? i don’t know. was it the power of persuasion? no, he’s revolting. so i literally don’t know. there’s no backstory, no fleshing-out the character, nothing. all we’re given to work with is a brief info-dump about his dad and how he escaped prison. i don’t know what else to say apart from how big a humiliation this was for Sanzaru and their team of writers. you had 8 years to work on something and this is what you came up with? anything would be better. anything would best this utter cliché of a villain, a distasteful misogynist, crybaby, idiot with an accent. literally anything.

Arcs & Themes: let’s take a look at the formulaic subplots for the gang’s members. apart from dealing with Le Paradox, everyone had a small arc. Sly had to deal with his break-up with Carmelita. Bentley had to deal with his break-up with Penelope. Murray had to deal with playing second fiddle to Bob. Carmelita was a damsel in distress and sex bait for the ancestors. the ancestors had their own mini storylines along with reacting to Sly’s presence. there you have it. i summarised it all for you, nice and neatly. are there any themes like in the previous games? nope. i promise you i’m not lying when i say that i tried hard to come up with something, even some speck of a detail i could use to over-analyse the story and come up with some ideas on themes. nothing. there are no themes. the subplots are character-driven and the player gives it 0 emotional investment. there is nothing to analyse, nothing to talk about. maybe even a theme for each level, like a spooky level or something? nope. the levels are dependent on eras and historical periods. the variation here is ok. Feudal Japan, Wild West, Prehistoric Australia, Medieval England and Ancient Arabia  - pretty good selection. i’ll give them credit for it. but that’s it. due to the absence of themes, the hubs feel empty. there’s no replayability factor. after you collect the bottles and masks and treasures, there’s nothing. i would spend hours revisiting the trilogy’s hubs, just roaming around. the hubs here are huge and empty. there’s nothing to reminisce about. nothing to recall. oh that’s where this mission went down. no, nothing like that. the aforementioned subplots are resolved during mission cutscenes and then they’re gone. you don’t have to explore spooky Prague alone as Bentley to have him overcome his fears, you don’t have to find out miners abducted Murray’s beloved Guru and search the Australian outback for him, you don’t have to hold back your tears when you’ve reached the end of the Cooper Vault and Sly asks his dad for help. nothing.

Gameplay:

Controls: as soon as i laid my hands on the controller the first time i played the game, that fateful afternoon, i knew something was up. Sly would respond 1 second late after you pushed something on the controller. it felt clunky, is what i’m trying to say or, as my sister put it, it felt heavy. and she was right. the controls were clunky and heavy and didn’t feel light, like playing as a thief should feel. i don’t know shit about game mechanics but this definitely didn’t feel right. the hubs are also chunky in design, the cliffs are huge and so cyclical or hexagonal, that when you parachute your way to them and are just an inch close, Sly will automatically just drop because he can’t grab onto them. running as Sly doesn’t feel fast, silently obliterating guards from behind feels slow, and swinging, grabbing, pickpocketting, and hanging aren’t fun anymore. presentation-wise, @designraccoon​ goes into detail here, in an absolute gem of a post. in short, the gameplay animations make Sly look less sneaky. Sanzaru didn’t even consider a thief’s movements.

Missions: why the fuck would you remove the player’s option to choose between which mission to do first? why would you do that? the game lays out what goes first, sometimes having only one mission available in the hub. and the missions aren’t even enjoyable. firstly, the loading screens take up to 5 minutes, maybe even 7-8. secondly, there’s hacking every 2 missions. the missions don’t have any dialogue to make them fun, lack in interesting puzzles, what more can i say? they’re overly easy and lack any challenge whatsoever. at least there’s variation in gameplay (hacking, RC car, fishing, costumes, ancestors, turret etc.) but because of the controls, even these get tiresome. the missions are solely there to progress the story and that’s why the operations are merely ‘storm the main baddie’. the trilogy had some pretty interesting missions which made sure to complete jobs required to take down the big bad. e.g. kidnap General Clawfoot to take down the security, hack Contessa’s computer to make sure Carmelita will be freed, steal voices to tempt Neyla, and then take down the Contessa. the missions in Thieves in Time lack substance and variety. and the hacking (all three styles) sucks.

Collectibles: here’s another fantastic idea: have players collect costumes in order to collect bottles in order to collect treasures in order to collect masks in order to unlock funky Sanzaru logo-themed merch! what was the reason for the collectibles? in previous games, collecting all bottles would unlock special abilities. that was it. it’s the same thing here too, but there’s less incentive? i mean when you have to collect 1000 things, what’s the point? the treasures are random and very few are references to the trilogy, so whatever. and the masks unlock... superhero costumes for what reason exactly? oh, and then there’s also the achievements for your Playstation account, like ‘open the map in every single location you visit’. what fun! if the reason for collecting the treasures is to play godawful hacking minigames in order to get masks, what’s the point? decorate your paraglider with the Sanzaru logo? or have Bentley dress up as discount Robocop? i mean including masks in the interior locations was cool, but the bottles were always supposed to be something you could do whenever your soul desired. sometimes i left them last before the operation, sometimes i collected them before the first mission. so i was pissed when i found out that, in some cases, you had to unlock the episode’s costume in order to get the all the bottles. so, fuck off.

Animation: i’ll keep this short. the animation was terrible. do you remember that tumblr blog from a while back, where she dedicated the posts to pointing out the mistakes in the animated cutscenes? yeah. point is, there were lots of them. the animation style was bad, the character design was ugly, the characters’ movements were unnatural. everything about it was shit. looking past the bad decision to drop the trilogy’s comicbook-style animated cutscenes, couldn’t they have hired someone better? someone with more experience? their concept art was awesome. couldn’t they hire that guy and have it be comicbook style if he wasn’t trained in animation?

Legacy:

The Players: let me ask a genuine question: who was this game made for? kids growing up in 2013? maybe so. because it feels like Sanzaru didn’t even consider the fans of the trilogy. actually, it felt like a huge fuck you. Sucker Punch made their trilogy for whoever. there were great stuff for kids, but adults would pick up and appreciate the references, the real-life setting (e.g. tobacco use, existence of nightclubs, spice instead of drugs, etc.). that’s why all three games are timeless classics. judging by Thieves in Time’s humor, the game wasn’t targeted for adults. so, it doesn’t make sense to use an already established property, beloved by its fans, to attract a new audience consisting of nine year-olds who’d laugh at Murray dressing up as a woman. if they really wanted to appeal to the fans of the original, why retcon everything? why change who the first Cooper was? when the gang’s stranded in Saudi Arabia, why have Sly say ‘i couldn't remember a time since we've teamed up that we felt so defeated’? the gang’s been in way deeper shit before. why the ‘Sly’s dad vs Le Paradox’s dad’ deus ex machina? Sly’s dad wasn’t famous because of stealing the world’s largest diamond, what the fuck are you even talking about? do the guys at Sanzaru have such big egos and bravado that they needed to change the original games’ lore? were they so preoccupied with leaving their signature on a property which was never their own? i don’t know who needs to read this, but i’m stating FACTS.

Characters: now let’s talk about Sanzaru’s treatment of the Cooper gang and the ancestors (female characters will get their own section). why would you change the characters like that? if it wasn’t for the voice acting, i’d say this is a completely different Cooper gang. there’s no wise-cracking band of best friends, going on heists and being proud of their brotherhood and bond. all that is replaced with the formulaic story arcs for each member. the trilogy’s cutscenes and dialogues made sure to establish how Sly, Bentley and Murray have lived together since they met at the orphanage, play videogames all day and order chinese food and pizza and whatever. through missions and their adventures, they face obstacles they have to overcome as a gang, and when Sly 3 came around, their friendship was put to the ultimate test when they almost disbanded. Thieves in Time was too lazy to add to this. Sanzaru thought ‘oh the trilogy showed how they’re best friends so we might as well have them focus on their own stories separately’ and if this is truly the case then i ask again: who was this game made for? because new fans would never know how tight the gang was just by playing Thieves in Time. there’s a lack of genuine friendship moments. like, what happened when Sly came back after faking his amnesia? that’s completely ignored. where’s the witty banter? the ‘wizard & sitting duck’ type of jokes? nothing of the sort. what we get is fart jokes and Murray wanting to dress up as a woman. on that note, what was that all about? ok, have him dress up as a geisha to get in. fine. have El Jefe slap his ass, have him perform in a painfully lengthy dance sequence, have him dress like that during the rest of the episode, and then have him be persistent about getting the belly-dancing gig? the hell? Murray was always kinda goofy but this just feels kinda homophobic? it feels dragged out and unfunny. and then there’s the ancestors. i said it once before and i’ll say it again, Sanzaru deprived me of a buff Arab daddy Salim Al Kupar and gave us that elderly shit instead. all jokes aside, the redesigns were uninteresting. why take away Tennessee Kid’s facial hair and give it to Galleth? i legitimately think all the ancestors were boring. i mean, their gameplay was cool, especially Tennessee Kid’s guns, but in terms of character, they were just some dudes. did they believe that Sly was their descendant from the future? maybe. did they care? nope. they all had the same storyline of dealing with Sly’s arrival, flirting with Carmelita and getting their canes stolen. that was it. the fans waited for so long to get even a glimpse of the ancestors in action, and Sanzaru downplayed all of them. they reduced them to useless idiots too occupied with women and food, incapable of getting their canes back from stupid Le Paradox. and they didn’t even stick to the lore. no ma’am. let’s make Rioichi the inventor of sushi !! because that makes total sense and would defo fit in with the character and the property! why. just, why. you were handed the lore !!! you were given all this rich backstory and you threw it all away to replace it with trash !!! complete trash.

Changes & Inconsistency: i want to briefly mention some changes that pissed me off. where’s the laser glide move? it was an important turning point at the end of Sly 3, so why did they get rid of it? Sly is a master thief who’s traveling back in time, so you’d think they’d actually make him a master thief. also, the changes in the binocucom and Bentley’s slideshows in order to modernise them. if Sucker Punch managed to place the mission starting points at locations where the binocucom would show the objective clearly, so could Sanzaru. instead, they chose to have it be a moving camera, floating around the hub. and Bentley’s slideshows were absolute classics, opportunities to include gags and have Bentley show off in his own way. you just had to change it into a tablet, didn’t you. omg you’re still looking at small details like these? yes sweetie, i consider the details because i think they shape the game more than anything. if i didn’t consider the details, then my opinion on the game would be incomplete. when i praise the trilogy i don’t only look at story and gameplay. because i’m unbiased like that. here, i’d also like the mention Dimitri. what a fucking waste. you either include him in the game or you don’t. but don’t give me some half-baked shit on how he’s working for the gang back in present day. Dimitri staying home, waiting on the gang to call him in order for him to give them details on the villains. how does that even slightly resemble anything about Dimitri’s character? they didn’t even include his voice, some greasy sweet Raccoonus Doodus dialogue.

Female Characters: you know it’s all been leading up to this. this is the crux of the Thieves in Time hate. i don’t want to say the game is misogynistic so i’ll call it anti-feminist. why? just answer me. why? why did you have to disrespect Carmelita like that? right off the bat, they swapped the pants for the skirt. in what world does an active inspector who’s always on the scene wear a skirt? Carmelita now wears a skirt because her only role in the game is to be the love interest. Carmelita now wears bright red lipstick and has a new hairstyle, which would be ok if only it wasn’t Carmelita. Carmelita now plays up her inner sassy Latina because she’s pigeonholed into the ‘angry ex girlfriend’ role. they compartmentalised her, tried to sexualise her because she couldn’t possibly be one of the boys. nope. let’s take a respected woman, high in rank and as physically able as Sly, and turn her into a cliché, an angry ex girlfriend for comedic relief, strip her of her abilities and have her be kidnapped twice, have every exchange with her be about how attractive she is, have almost every male character in the game flirt with her, have her boyfriend be jealous of his own ancestors because they’re flirting with her in order to create purposeless love triangles, and then, after all that, dress her up as a belly dancer and distract some guards while the rest of the gang do the heavy lifting. that last one was really the nail on the coffin. did Bentley have other ways to enter that door? absolutely. so, what the fuck? why did i come back for a good Sly game 8 years later and receive a game where you have to shake your controller to have Carmelita shake her ass? why did they have the guards’ eyes pop like that? why did no one stop them? and it isn’t just Carmelita. it’s Penelope too. god forbid we have a female character who doesn’t have a waist smaller than my finger, and a voluptuous physique. why was the redesign so drastic? the story stuff is also nonsensical. why did she leave? wasn’t she happy with Bentley? i watched her speech about turning on the gang about a thousand times and it still doesn’t make any sense. like, i literally don’t understand. what was her motive? and why reverse her story of overcoming the Black Baron persona and the connotations of a meek woman hiding behind a man’s disguise? why repeat it, shamelessly? do the guys at Sanzaru only know women who have recently broken up? why does Carmelita, Penelope and Ms Decibel all go through break-ups during the game? why does Penelope go against Bentley before they even break up? why waste the opportunity to introduce a new, well-written villain and use it to repeat something already done? why???? no woman is safe from Sanzaru because Ms Decibel... boy, did i feel bad for her. apart from continuously reminding us that she’s haha fat!! she’s also presented as a blind lovefool. love? what a silly concept only women believe in! Ms Decibel had a crush on Le Paradox (for some reason i can’t even fathom) and for that she must pay by being utterly humiliated. and what do ALL women do when a guy breaks up with them? they get so angry! yikes, stay clear guys! ....why does Sanzaru hate female characters? i’m genuinely curious. i mean, what forced them to depict women like this? i’m sorry, i can’t take much more of this.

Ending: and how do you end a disappointment that came 8 years late and didn’t even have a sequel guaranteed? yeap, you guessed it! a cliffhanger. but not just any cliffhanger - a total fuck you to anyone and everyone. with a single move Sanzaru instantly screwed over the franchise. the fans, the creators, the characters, anyone looking to continue the series. everyone. WHY would you trap the protagonist in the past? WHY? did you feel defensive about something that wasn’t even yours and went ‘well you can continue the series but the sequel will have to do with time travel’. why did you think it was a good idea? how does it even slightly resemble a good ending? someone fill me in please. because i don’t think i’m being unreasonable, i’m just telling it how it is.

Conclusion:

i did it. i fucking wrote it in all its motherfucking glory. the idiots at Sanzaru could’ve given us an amazing game but instead of working on how to make it better or including extra levels, they wasted their time on deciding what killable baby animal to include in each hub or what the backstory for each treasure should be. how fucking distasteful. and to think i’m an idiot myself for trying to force myself to like it because i was so in denial about how bad it was. i’ve just outlined everything wrong with that cursed game. i’m exhausted.

[daethsticks]

RQG Moments That Peeled Me Like A Banana

(Here be spoilers!)

When they’re crossing the channel and Zolf throws his trident into the ocean, screaming at his god “take me not her” in order to save Sasha even though they only met like a week ago

Sasha realising it was a simulation bc everything was too good :(

Lichrally every time Zolf has a Feelings Rant. When will sad sea dad be happy sea dad :(

“I believe in you, Zolf” “payment enough was meeting you, whatever”

Hamid reuniting with his family before his sisters funeral. I am uncomfortable with the energy we have created in the studio today.

When the party leaves Grizzop in Damascus to go to Rome T-T

That first eerily horrifying description of Rome

Basically Everything about Rome. Rome SUCKS. Fuck Rome, all my homies hate Rome.

Hamid popping

The whole party standing up to El Darion to defend Sasha without hesitation!

Running through the portals in the other plane as fast as they can to save everyone God the TENSION!!!!!

Getting back from the other plane and realising that, not only had A YEAR AND A HALF passed, but Sasha and Grizzop were gone.

Real talk the brief period i thought Grizz and Sasha were both just dead was one of the worst moments of my life

Everything to do with Azu’s guilt regarding their “deaths” (it was NOT her fault and anyone who says otherwise Will catch these hands I am looking directly at you Alex)

Grizzops actual death. And Sasha’s reaction.

“Oh, so this is what’s next.”

Azu protecting Hamid with all she’s got because he Is all she’s got

Zolf coming BACK and Bryn/Hamid’s reaction

Sasha’s letter :’)

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

heimkoheimkofan replied to your post “would anyone be interested if i fixed sly thieves in time or”

Go ahead and tell your ideas, i'm honestly curious.

BUCKLE UP IT’S GONNA BE LONG 

and premise: i’m still using the time travel plot, because i DO have an original story for sly but i legit just want to fix thieves in time, not make a completely different story

to fix it properly the series should’ve ended with sly 3, but lets pretend we can go on

also important: while i’m referring at the main bad guy as le paradox, the main bad guy ISN’T the le paradox of TiT. he’s a stupid character with a stupid name and an even more stupid motivation to be the bad guy, i’m simply using his name as nameclaim for lack of other names.

VARIOUS CHANGES:

the gang doesn’t travel in time because le paradox is specifically attacking the clan; le paradox is stealing stuff that eventually would end up in the cooper vault without even knowing it, and coincidentally deleting SOME parts of the thievious racconus. le paradox themself isn’t even aware the cooper gang is fighting their team off until the medieval england level and isn’t doing anything about them for the time being

no sly doesn’t “misses thieving uwu”, he gets back in the gang because of the whole “hey the pages are missing”  and “penelope disappeared”. carmelita catches him and instead of being sassy and being like “woopsies lol” ofc he’s sarcastic at first but immediatly realizes he fucked up.

carmelita herself is part of the gang from japan, but she actually acts like part of the gang just at the very end of the level, where she actually talks it out with sly. their situation is still a little worrisome at the beginning, but first of all we don’t have carmelita getting kidnapped (NEVER.) nor her threatening him over and over. they very slowly understand to find a way to get over the whole “yea i was faking amnesia” thing

the time machine works differently. you gotta write the very precise date and place to travel!!! questions “shouldn’t we go back when neyla paralyzed bentley then?” or “shouldn’t we directly stop clockwerk then?” happen over and over and they’re quite the big plot point. they’re doing what’s right, not what’s good for them.

sly doesn’t go around saying he’s one of the cooper, once again because of time paradox stuff, but tries to find excuses about being a big fan or something like that. the ancestors don’t know he’s a cooper but his name becomes important for them (other than for slytunkhamen ofc) and is a name used a lot after that time

...also im gonna say it murray’s gay and has a crush for someone they meet during their travels. that’s it. it’s canon now no longer a shitty joke

LEVELS ANCESTORS AND BOSSES:

feudal japan, still w rioichi except that he didn’t invent sushi because it’s stupid and he isn’t a stereotype. el jefe can stay

the wild west is the only good level except for the whole “carmelita gets kidnapped” level and of course her stupid ass flirting with tennessee. everything else is perfect. tennessee is perfect. toothpick is perfect. i really like this level and it’s exactly the same except for that one level and the finale of course

in a better world bob nor grizz exist. the third level is the caribbean during the 1800, and the ancestor is henriette “one eye” cooper because i love her big time. the gang makes lot of jokes about “oh my god we’re with pirates again” and she’s the only one of the ancestors who lowkey flirts with carmelita. dimitri is having the time of his life and throws parties on the ship. idk who the bad guy is so don’t ask :(

ill talk about the medieval england and the black knight later but know that 3/4 of it is good and will stay. from penelope’s backstab onwards however it changes a LOT.

arabia can stay but it’s during the 40 thieves golden era, making salim a Big Boss  instead of whatever the hell that was. no bellydance minigame. mrs decibel is a victim of circumstances and eventually helps the gang. i need to change her a lil but ill think about it

instead of paris, the final level would be ancient egypt. again i’m gonna talk about it later :3c

VERY BIG CHANGES I’M GONNA PUT UNDER READ MORE BECAUSE IT’S LONG AND I’M GONNA TALK ABOUT THE WHOLE PENELOPE BULLSHIT AND THE BIG TWIST IN EGYPT HELL YEAH

PENELOPE

you know that one scene when the black knight is confirmed to be a mecha controlled by penelope? HAH NO SYKE!!! yes penelope is confirmed to working for le paradox, but she’s been kidnapped and captured with the idea that “hey, you’re working with your bf to make a time machine? make one for me too or i game end him and all your friends” so of course she’ll do it. as for now, she’s chained in the black knight’s factory and after bentley is assured she’s good and fine and they hug it out, the next mission implies freeing her using carmelita and defeating the big mechanical dragon penelope had to build

penelope in TiT was already a completely different character, both personality and design speaking, so might as well make her an original one. so i present to you... le paradox. 

the rest of the level continues just as in the game, except that bentley AND PENELOPE beat up the boss of the level - aka le paradox herself. from that moment she realizes the coopers are a problem and actively goes ahead and tries to mess with them on purpose, to the point that she wants to steal the thievious racconus to fuck with em.

penelope is part of the gang and actively works w them during arabia and egypt and become bff with carmelita and bentley proposes to her because shut the fuck up sanzaru

SIDENOTE: ARABIA

as i said it’s very different but esp at the end. salim’s thievious racconus IS stolen by le paradox and mrs decibel for enough for them to know about how slytunkhamen was the first cooper who wrote in it... and most importantly about clockwerk. salim’s book is retrieved also thanks to decibel, who spills the beans and explains le paradox’ plan to the gang to absolutely fuck up with everyone by giving clockwerk the necessary knowledge about technology to become the mechanical bird we all hate and dislike with the idea that “hey, if i steal the book and i let you kill the coopers we’re cool right?”

“but wouldn’t that create a paradox” yes but i never said le paradox is clever. she’s petty and stupid and had to kidnap penelope to make the time machine she doesn’t give a shit about paradoxes

EGYPT

it’s a true run against time. slytunkhamen is the only cooper who gets to know sly comes from the future because there’s no time to waste with silly excuses. half of the level is them trying to find clockwerk and overall saving one another from le paradox and clockwerk’s gangs and trying to reach for them before things happen

le paradox actually manages to find clockwerk, give him all the knowledge necessary, steals the thievious racconus and explains how coopers in the future learn from it... and just before the final battle with le paradox, well. clockwerk pulls a neyla and murders le paradox in cold blood

“isn’t it too much for a children’s game” neyla did the same to arpeggio and sly 2 is a game about drug deals shut up it isn’t

the remaining part of the final level is akin to the end of sly 2, really. clockwerk flying around and the gang trying to find ways to take him down and get back the thievious racconus before he could actually use le paradox’ time machine. because if clockwerk is dangerous, clockwerk with a time machine is even worse. he’s already immortal on his own that would make him Double Immortal

the gang takes shots at taking down clockwerk, pretty much, all of them working together until the final duel between him and sly.  once again, sly has to do the right thing instead of what’s good for him to avoid a time paradox - leaving the murderer of his parents alive to avoid completely destroying the timeline.  clockwerk grows knowing that someday he’ll have to leave sly alive if they met before sly is an adult + knows about the thievious racconus, giving him one more excuse to not game end sly when he goes to find connor and his wife

le paradox’ time machine is destroyed and so is the cooper gang’s as soon as they get back to the present. just to be sure.

FINALE:

everyone’s good 

no shitty cliffhanger

dimitri is good out there. he’s just vibin

murray gets back to his racing but stays a lil more in contact with the gang. maybe he gets a bf. who knows.

bentley and penelope actually get married and they’re Good and Fine back in crimes action

carmelita and sly actually talk it out. they grew closer!!!!! sly could show his Very Good Side and while they talk about how he couldve made things better for everyone, that would mean still lose his family... and her. they get to actually tell eachother “i love you” and while sly still remain in the interpol working with her, she sometimes closes an eye whenever some big criminal get their stuff stolen in the middle of the night.

rumors say the cooper gang is back in action, but... who knows? ;)

[babygirlizz]

Movies and TV shows of 2019

Okay so a couple or few years ago I did a review of movies that had released that year because I was super into movies that year. I am still into movies, but I have been watching a lot more shows this year. So, I will be reviewing movies and tv shows. Furthermore, I will be including stuff released this year, that I found this year, or that has a new season this year. Basically just anything that I have loved this year. Also, I don’t feel like ranking, so no particular order. Also, SPOILERS AHEAD - if you see a title of something you have not seen, and don’t want spoilers, please feel free to skip that section. Also, some of these I haven’t seen in a hot minute so if I get a detail messed up, we won’t speak on it. And finally, trigger warning - if you have struggled with sexual assault and may have an issue reading about it, either skip this post entirely or skip over the review of “Unbelievable.”

MOVIES -

1. After

I have been waiting for this since middle school. I read the after books on wattpad because what teenager in love with harry styles didn’t. Now I will be real with y'all. The acting could use some work in specific scenes, and some of the actors aren't MY favorite picks for certain roles, but I’m not gonna hate on actors. Ok so, Tessa (Josephine Langford) is an incoming freshman in college and is rooming with an upperclassmen, Steph (Khadijha Red Thunder) who has a friend named Hardin (Hero Fiennes-Tiffin). Steph wants Tessa to branch out and do new things, so she invites her to a party, where they play the stereotypical games, and thats when Hardin is kind of dared to make Tessa fall in love with him. ALSO, Tessa has a high school boyfriend named Noah (Dylan Arnold). She starts seeing Hardin, her boyfriend finds out, she falls in love with Hardin, and finds out it was all a dare. Buuuuuuut, pLoT tWiSt he actually loves her.

2. Avengers: Endgame

Ok listen, Infinity War was heartbreaking bc Bucky duh, but y'all are really gonna take Tony (RDJ) and Steve (Chris Evans) away from me? Shut up. Still, this was a really good movie and I’m not just saying that because I’m a marvel hoe. FRICK Thanos and thats on Ant Man. Thats literally all I have to say.

3. Annabelle Comes Home

I am a whore for scary movies. I love them so much and this one was *chefs kiss*. I love Mckenna Grace, she's such a good young actress and she fits so well in scary moves. There’s not much to say about the plot in this one, and ya really need to see it. Also, Bob (Michael Cimino) is so heckin cute what the heck.

4. Let It Snow

Ok this is a lot to unpack so grab ya snacks. Let’s talk about couple number 1 (of 3), Tobin (Mitchell Hope) and Angie (Kiernan Shipka) who are best friends. Tobin is in love with Angie but doesn’t know how to tell her, and gets lots of unwanted encouragement from his best friend Keon (Jacob Batalon) who just wants to throw a heckin good party, is that too much to ask for? So Angie gets invited to a party by some cute guy, JP (M and Tobin is jealous but goes with her anyways and they steal a keg for Keon’s party and run from the scary hosts of the party and end up stranded in a church after his car spins out of control. They finally make it to the party and kiss on the roof with the waffle town sign shining bright behind them. NEXT - we have Julie (Isabela Merced) and Stuart (Shameik Moore). This is kind of really cliche with the whole “he’s-famous-she-doesn’t-care-he-finds-that-attractive-lets-fall-in-love” aspect, but its also hella cute uwu. They meet on a train and the train stops so they go eat at the waffle town and go sledding and do a bunch of cute coupley shit. His manager comes to get him and basically tells her that nothing will ever really happen between them and he leaves. Then, he shows up at the party and they fall in love. NEXT- we have Dorrie (Liv Hewson) who is a lesbian that constantly struggles with the gay panic. Her best friend Addie (Odeya Rush) doesn't help much either because she's having her own relationship problems. Dorrie works at Waffle Town and when she's working the girl she's talking to, Kerry (Anna Akana) comes in with her dance team, and she's not out of the closet. A bunch of shit goes down, but they end up together and Dorrie learns that she’s worth more than she thinks and that’s all that matters. Also, Billy (Miles Robbins) and Tin Foil Woman (Joan Cusack) make wonderful additions to this movie.

5. The King

First of all - Timothée Chalamet and Robert Pattinson in the same movie? Sign me the HECK up. But they’re also historical, frick yea. Not too much to say about this movie other than it’s good. Super graphic (don’t watch if you don’t like decapitation lol) and super long, but good nonetheless.

6. Falling Inn Love

This movie is super freaking cute. Gabriela (Christina Milian) decides that she needs a change and enters a contest to win an Inn in New Zealand. She wins the Inn and is shocked when she realizes the Inn needs a LOT of work. She goes around town to get stuff to fix up the Inn and constantly runs into Jake (Adam Demos) and they have this flirty but we don’t like each other relationship, but then ya know, they fall in(n) love. 

SHOWS -

1. The Society

I could talk about this show for hours, literally. I love it so much it’s insane. Ok, so lets start from the beginning. A town called West Ham is being plagued by a disgusting smell. Due to this, the town decides to send busloads of teenagers to the mountains while they try and resolve the smell situation. All of the teenagers fall asleep on the bus and wake up to the announcement that they had to go back home due to road blocks. When they get off the buses, its late and no one is there to pick them up. They think that it may just be a sense of miscommunication, so they head home, only to find that none of their families are there, and they can’t get ahold of any of them over the phone. They finally decide to investigate and find that all exits out of town are completely blocked off. They then decide to find a way to survive without their families. This causes a lot of tension within the town including the death of a main character. This shows also includes gay representation!!!! This is my favorite couple, Sam (Sean Birdy) and Grizz (Jack Mulhern). Sam is deaf and gay and his brother, Campbell (Toby Wallace), makes fun of him for both reasons, and when the whole issue with the town happens, he believes he will never find love because he doesn’t think anyone else is gay, until Grizz comes along, and tries to learn ASL and loves him for him.

2. Roswell New Mexico

Alright, to be completely honest, I did not want to watch this. I have no idea why I just didn’t. I saw an edit on like instagram or something of the couples in the show and I was like, alright I can give it a chance. And spoiler alert I loved it. The series starts off with Liz Ortecho (Jeanine Mason) comes back to her hometown of Roswell around the time of her the anniversary of her sister, Rosa’s (Amber Midthunder), death. She gets pulled over on her way in and the officer that pulled her over was Max Evans (Nathan Parsons), who has had a crush on her since they first met, and just so happens to be an alien. After Liz gets shot in her families restaurant, Max uses his healing powers to save her, but leaves behind a hand print on her that makes her suspicious. She continues to investigate until he tells her the truth. She also finds out that her sister was actually murdered, and has the same hand print on her that she did when Max healed her. Turns out, his sister, Isobel (Lily Cowels) killed her, but it was actually another alien possessing her (which they didn’t know was possible when she killed her). When they landed on earth they also landed with their “brother” Michael (Michael Vlamis) who starts off the series with an on and off relationship with Alex (Tyler Blackburn) and I love them together. Alex is the son of one of the guys trying to find and take down the aliens and he also went to war and lost his leg. Anyways, towards the end of the season Alex starts seeing Maria (Heather Hemmens), which is a couple I don’t really like, but also bi representation is good! Anyways I don’t really wanna spoil this one too much I just love it a lot.

3. Elite

This is a show that came out in 2018, but they released a second season this year. All I’m saying is please watch the original version, not the dubbed over version. Elite is a spanish show about a few students that get a scholarship to the private school after their school gets demolished. This shows is in the fashion of present and past which includes a lot of flashbacks leading up to the the murder of one of the students. My favorite part of this show is the relationship between Ander (Arón Piper) and Omar (Omar Ayuso). Ander is the son of the head of the school and Omar is the brother of one of the students that got a scholarship. Not only are they of different socioeconomic status’, but Omar is also Muslim, and his family would not approve of him being gay. He finally finds the courage to tell his family, but thats not until season 2. Also, his sister Nadia (Mina El Hammani) falls in love with the “bad boy” of the school, Guzmán (Miguel Bernardeau) and starts going against her parents wishes as well.

4. The Umbrella Academy 

Y’all mind if I confuse y'all real quick. So, a bunch of women all of the sudden give birth out of nowhere at the same time even tho none of them were pregnant? Yea I know weird. Anyways, so this dude tries to adopt as many of them as possible and ends up adopting like 7. They all have powers and they try and stop the apocalypse. That’s literally all I can tell y'all. 

5. Unbelievable

I swear I didn’t mean to get y’all upset right now. This show made me angry and sad and so many other feelings all at once. So the show beings with a girl named Marie (Kaitlyn Dever) getting raped in her home. When she reports it, they can’t find any evidence, as he cleaned the apartment and made her shower. This mixed with the fact that she struggles remembering parts of her experience (which is common with sexual assault), the police don’t believe her and force her to retract her statement. This in itself is awful, but they also charge her with false statement, which adds on to the fact that people already believe that she is a liar. Years later, two female detectives, Karen and Grace, piece together rapes in their precincts and once they find the rapist, they find Marie’s picture in with his belongings, proving that she was telling the truth the entire time.

6. Sailor Moon

I just got into anime and all I have to say is that I love this. That is all.

[everctts]

hola soy yo otra vez *suena música de circo* sheik o emmita ha llegado con otro personaje reciclado jiji. ya saben lo que voy a decir aquí vdd lean su información o no les contesto :/ avd. anyways abajo del read more les dejo datos del lisiado y si le dan like corro a molestarlos por telegram o im :D

* 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭 𝐣𝐞𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐬.

𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐨 / 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚 𝐝𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 / 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐢́𝐚

arizona robbins & lexie grey’s love child ! altamente basado en estos dos preciosos personajes de grey’s anatomy. soft, smart and baby™. also ! husband material alert.

es el hijo mayor del sheriff (es jim hopper por si se lo quieren imaginar), hermano de zelda. fue adoptado porque don sheriff jenkins lo encontró abandonadito frente a la comisaría y convenció a su esposa, a pesar de que solo estaban preparados para tener a una niña. seguro por esto, muchas personitas lo conozcan.

he says “ tiny humans ”, “ magic ” and “ yay ” quite a lot ! realmente es arizona robbins. es muy puro y adorable y bueno, irradia luz y te hace sentir paz y mariposas cuando te habla, es un ángel okay ! treat him well… o no lo hagan y odiénlo por ser tan buenito. queremos explorar su faceta negativa también, y viene bien, porque desde su accidente odia que lo vean como « aw, pobrecito. »

a los 22 perdió a su novia ( que era su high school sweetheart ) en un accidente de auto, y tuvieron que amputarle la pierna también. ahora usa una prótesis y se ha ido adaptando, pero todavía tiene episodios sobre el tema: p*sadillas, ataques de ans*edad, incluso el dolor del miembro fantasma. además, esto deterioró mucho su relación con zelda, la cual intenta reparar incansablemente.

estudia medicina, quiere especializarse en cirugía pediátrica. pueden encontrar más información al respecto en su biografía.

he’s a baby daddy ! si bien ambos estaban estudiando y fue un accidentito cuando tenían veintiuno, decidieron continuar con el embarazo. ahora él se encarga del pequeño grizz y se lo avienta a su mamá cuando no tiene tiempo por el estudio, o a zelda :/

solía ser muy amigo de nathan. aunque en realidad fue amistad impuesta por su familia, tuvo sus momentos que lo marcaron de una buena manera, así que le tiene aprecio y está preocupado por su desaparición.

¿qué buscamos? drama, that’s it :D pueden ser amiguitos de la infancia, alguna relación fallida porque no supera la pérdida de su ex, amigos por conveniencia, alguien que le cuide a la cría cuando está ocupado, alguien que le pida consultas médicas, y gente con quien se lleve mal porque quiero explorar esa parte de él jiji.

[swampythesweetsketch]

Why don’t you like sly 4

Bad story

Good charcter was completely rippsd apart for plot

Carmelita has a right to be angry and Sly has a right to explain his side of the story, they should've had a better resolve to their relationship than fucking "Sly I..." "I know."

Le Paradox

The entire story stood on a throwaway idea left on Sly3.

Lazy plot convenience with time travel

The ancestor(s) romance subplot. Fucking nasty

Penelope was made the villain cause they couldn't inplement the mole charcter that was supposed to be Mice and Mech's main baddy

Le Paradox

No villain (but Toothepick) feels like they're trying to slide by nonchalantly when they take over. It's "hey we're in the past and now we gotta conquer it" and no one (but again Toothpick) uses any time relevance to fit in or influence the surroundings.

Le Paradox

Fucking Le Paradox

This prick is a fickle fart compared to the sheer thunder Neyla made in Sly2. You want a family rival? Make a family rival that uses his established smarts instead of making him "ohohohoho so predictable!!hahahaha"

Also his boss fight, Sanzaru you shouldn't of brought back all the ancestors for one long fetch mission. Get cane, return to the past???

Honestly how did the ancestors just phase back into their own timeline they got to the present with the van.

Miss Decibel is the weakest female villain and only is ber boss fight in same difficulty as Mz Ruby cause goddamn as if the slow down power was mandatory.

AND TOOTHPICK WAS RALEIGH 2.0

El Jefe needed to chaange up his tactics cause why keep the Cooper you were sent back to capture, alive???

Grizz need to get on a grill and never leave

Penelope my baby what have they done to you.

She went down doing ugly fisticuffs with Bentley in a mecha.

Cooler option would've been to make the Mole, and have Penelope the Balck Knight STILL- but she was trapped in there without any control to the mecha.

Episode could've ended with Bentley beating the mecha, and the chest plate popping out, startling everyone as Penelope finally climbs out sweaty, disoriented, and tied up with extension cords. Cue Bentley vehemently apologizing as the Gang move on.

Sly is a dick to Murray and Bentley. And his suit sucks.

Dmitri never got a speaking role in game. Or missions.

Carm only got ONE MISSION.

Murray oh dear lord was the food gag pushed to an eleven.

Also Sly and Bentley being creeps.

What the fuck was up with the Ice Age episode.

Why wasn't Sly4 about Le Paradox trying to get Sly to slip out of his amnesia act so he'd get busted by Carmelita and start massive trouble.

But so why wasn't Sly4 not affected by any time alteractions. Sly could've been erased from existance, Bentley could've walked for a time before realizing he wasn't supposed to, Murray being a fraidy cat again.

How come Penelope and Dmitri didn't get any love in this game.

Why the fuck did a member of SuckerPunch say want the ping-pong minigame in there. Why.

[milk-karton-kids]

The Society Thoughts

So I figured I would make my own post about this with some topics I’m interested in (SPOILERS):

The plot was basic. Yes. We’ve heard/seen it before. It’s cliche. It’s classic. But those kinds of narratives are tried and true. I’m not saying they shouldn’t have experimented more, but yeah.

Should they have had more POC characters? Yes. But let me tell you when I was in high school in Connecticut my class had 1 black girl. It was literally only her the rest of us were white. Literally. However there were only 130 of us, and I’ve read that there’s 200 of them? But like my school had racist and homophobic af kids. It was an Ag school, so different than a normal public school, but seeing the sheer amount of more POC since moving down to North Carolina is shocking. Where the story takes place is literally like one of if not the richest and whitest part of Connecticut.

That being said while we had no black kids we had a lot of kids with colorful hair and “emos” and such and there wasn’t that either? But once again, they really are from the rich white kid section of Connecticut.

Campbell’s character sucks and they should have never made him. He’s a really fucking harmful stereotype so fuck that. There’s no such thing as a “psychopath”. He has antisocial personality disorder which is extremely rare. They’ve taken someone with a mental illness and turned him into the bad guy. Fuck that, and to everyone saying “I hope he dies” remember that there are real people out there who suffer from this mental illness and are being depicted horribly in this show.

Ellie is in an abusive relationship. She can’t “just leave” just like people irl can’t “just leave”.

Yes Allie should have let Campbell go and she was right to. She was right to not hold him just because he was “a danger”. Plenty of people there are “dangers” clearly. She would have to lock up the whole town.

Luke was shitty at the end. He should have told Helena. When she finds out he lied to her, and you know she will, she’s going to be pissed. I don’t think he loves her anymore. He said he wanted to know what it was like to be his own person and then he just fell under the pressure of his friends.

I like Clarke’s character, but he’s another really bad sterotype of “dumb jock” which is sad.

Lexie is a good character. I hated the actress’s character on Under the Dome and I hate her character here. She’s really good at playing a specific kind of character. Both characters in these two respective shows are really similar.

Grizz was never really a “jock”, but his friends never made too much fun of him for being super smart it seemed. Maybe they just didn’t care what he had to say. It didn’t come as a surprise they basically kicked him out. He never really fit in to begin with.

Of course Grizz is my favorite character and I knew he was gay as soon as he talked to Sam at the prom.

I like how close Grizz has gotten to Allie in a platonic way. That scene where he put his head on her shoulder? It was cute. I love all of the platonic relationships that have formed with everyone. People who would have never seen each other’s rooms go in and look around as their classmates’ rooms and they start to get to know them more. That’s sweet.

Allie has a Less Than Jake poster. 10/10.

I don’t like Will but I’m glad he got with Allie cause I guess my bi ass shipped them. I feel bad for Will and I understand how he came to be the way he is and I respect that but I wouldn’t want to be his friend.

I agree Will toyed with Allie and Kelly and neither of them deserved that.

Kelly deserves so much love and respect.

Sam should have stood up for himself when he realized that all of a sudden there were actual consequences that affected him and Grizz when he still agreed to be the father of Becca’s baby.

Everyone knew he wasn’t the father idk what the point of pretending was but

Grizz deserves Sam but Sam doesn’t deserve Grizz right now.

Harry’s allowed to be depressed, it can happen to anyone. He’s a shitty character and he has shitty actions that I don’t condone but you can’t say he’s “not allowed” to be mentally ill.

I do feel bad for Becca and I do hope she’s happy and well cared for.

The show jumped time a lot which was kind of annoying but

The scene where the girl comes into Grizz’s tent was just weird and gross and I don’t think I would have let her stay in my tent what she did was really fucked up and creepy.

Grizz deserves better

Will and the guard were like “you can’t hold him prisoner we don’t have enough people to watch him” like dude you only need 1 person at a time to watch him and then they were like “you either have to let him go or kill him” like nO cut off his finger or something like that’s punishment. Cut off his whole hand if you need. Like those were not the only two options. They really weren’t.

I feel like they could have made a better cover story than “we arrested El for no reason” but sure

Anyway I just wanted to throw my 2 cents in.

[grizzs-garden]

Hmmm I think tumblr ate my post, but to the person that asked for Elle from the character ask game.....

Why I like them: I love Elle! I think it's because she's often depicted as very vulnerable, but still she's one of the only people to fight back against Campbell, and I think that's really kickass of her.

Why I don't like them: I don't really have anything against her? I just wish she had gotten out of Campbell's house while she could on the night of fugitive.

Favorite episode: I hate to admit it but I really like the "Poison" episode. The stress that whole episode induces is wild and I love it.

Favorite season: I'm going to interpret this as "favorite scene" because we only have one season. I really like the scene where Elle tells Allie about Campbell.

Favorite line: I can't think of anything else at the moment, but I really like, "I can't help but think God is punishing me," just before they play fugitive.

Favorite outfit: I love it when she wears big sweaters, they make her look so small, but I really like the dress she wears when we first meet her. The little ballerinas on it are so cute!

OTP: I don't think I have an otp for Elle, but I suppose Allie would be good with her, mostly for the scenes they share after Elle has been "arrested".

Brotp: Grizz or Helena! Grizz is always so nice to everyone, so there's that, but I really like what he says to her before they play fugitive. I think Helena would work too because she's the first one to notice that something's wrong, and although she was mean to Elle in the past, I feel she could redeem herself, and they could be good friends.

Headcanon: She loves movies! Before the parallel universe, she would spend free nights with a movie, a warm blanket, and a bowl of popcorn. It took her mind off school, but now I imagine she can't watch certain movies because they remind her of Campbell.

Unpopular opinion: I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion or not but ehhh I've always looked down on drug use (just from the way I was raised) so when she does cocaine or whatever with Campbell after fugitive that kind of put me off but it's whatever.

A wish: I wish that in season 2 Elle gets away from Campbell and lived a happy healthy life far from that asshat.

Oh God please don't... LET CAMPBELL HURT HER ANYMORE GODDAMMIT.

5 words to describe them: quiet, strong, resiliant, damaged, courageous.

Nickname: I don't really have a nickname for her, but sometimes I read her name as Ellie, because I have a friend who spells it Ele while it's pronounced Ellie.

[josephconnersblog-blog]

Fresh Entry

Okay okay okay, so I had a blog post ready to publish, I just was finishing it and then guess what happened? If you said, I lost it all. Ding Ding Ding you are correct and get 15 fictitious points. Right, I’m just going to do away with that blog post and start again. I haven’t posted in a while, due to being very busy with travel, shows and not feeling very well. So the last couple of weeks that I talked about in the entry that I have just lost. Most of that will be done away with. I will talk about the last few days, as I didn’t get chance to touch on any of that, in the other entry. As you have probably realised, if you have read my previous blogs, or just follow me generally on my various modes of social media. My weekdays when I’m not wrestling (sometimes I’ll be wrestling all week) aren’t the most exciting. A lot of it contains gym work, training, the odd cinema trip and catching up with friends. (sometimes the television show, as it’s now been added to Netflix even though I own the entire boxset on both DVD & VHS & my actual real life friends) The 2 weeks prior to the one just gone, as you may remember I had an extremely busy schedule. I’m not going to go into a huge amount of detail (As I had all ready done, and have now lost all that) but I travelled all around the United Kingdom. Going to Glasgow, Dublin, Cork, London, Scarborough, Darlington, Liverpool, Sheffield etc etc. Some of the highlights, in no particular order. Myself & Wolfgang had a match in Liverpool for TNT where I am their current Champion, where the crowd after watching 7 matches before ours, I thought may not be as invested in our match. Mainly due to the fact I had been advertised in two different matches prior to it settling on me and Wolfie, so I thought it may have taken the Heat out of the contest. However the TNT audience certainly proved me wrong, as they were awesome through out the match, providing the match with a big fight atmosphere. Crazy to think this is the first time I’ve wrestled Wolfgang outside of a WWE ring. Look forward to future matches with Wolfgang. It was good being involved in both Hustle Wrestling & Paradox Debut shows, that were both very successful and enjoyable to be on. Look forward to future shows with both promotions. Continued having fun side by side with El Ligero, where we are still holding the Southside Tag Team Championships as a duo named the “Joseph Conners Experience With Ligs”. We also have our first T-Shirt which is close to being sold out, which you can find at www.josephconners.bigcartel.com :) On that weekend I also faced off in a first time singles match against Big Grizz. Someone who that same fortnight, I’d seen have a great match with Wolfgang at ICW. Very much enjoyed having a scrap with Grizz and was probably my favourite match of the weekend, in terms of my own performance, even fighting through my illness. Grizz is clearly going to continue to be a staple of any Heavyweight division around the UK and is one to keep your eyes on. It was also a pleasure catching up with Hardcore Holly over that weekend. A man who has been an instrumental mentor since meeting him around 4 years ago. I’ve faced off against him numerous times, and learnt why he is known as one of the toughest men whoever laced up a pare of boots. However this time, I got to watch him hand out the ass kickings to our opponents as I got to tag alongside him. As I say Bob Holly, is someone I’m happy to call a friend & a mentor, and appreciate his support, kind words & help since meeting him. Always great to see him advertised on UK shows to catch up. Well looking back at those paragraphs I did a decent job of recovering some of the stuff I lost in the entry I lost. So moving onto the weekend just gone. I was at BWR’s biggest show to date on Friday, where they sold out the ‘Memorial Hall’ in Cleethorpes with a star studded line up, built on British talent. I currently hold their Championship and was scheduled to face off against current WWE UK Champion Pete Dunne, for the second time this year. I think me and Pete had an exciting worthy main Event, with back and forth physical action through out. It only frustrates me that there was no winner that evening, as T-Bone decided to interrupt and cause the match to be thrown out, for what reason I don’t know. Though I look forward to beating it out of him, in the near future. Hats off to BWR and their team for another successful event, keep your eyes out for them. as they continue to push forward and deliver great shows to their audience. On the Saturday, I would travel to Bolton. Thanks to Ryan, who drove the team of myself Gabriel Kidd & Brady Phillips. We had the opportunity to wrestle at the beautiful Bolton Albert Halls.  I’d face off with Brady Phillips which I believe is only the third time we have met. If anyone has seen my twitter posts regarding Phillips, you will know that I (along with others) view him as a future star. He’s physical, athletic, looks great, and is just waiting to crack through the next glass ceiling. Not a cash of “If” with him, truly is a case of “when” This match, was mainly built on feel and reading the audience, which is one of my favourite things to do. Was really enjoyable event and match, and look forward to wrestling Phillips more and more in the future. Was a fun show to be around good friends and have a laugh and a nice way to cap off the wrestling weekend. This week, I am back in the ring tonight, to work on my wrestling cardio, which is something I haven’t been able to do recently, due to feeling under the weather and being away. I am looking forward to it, and not at the same time, but like any workout will be happy for doing it after it’s done. I’ve also made a decision and hired a nutritionist, who I spoke to face to face for the first time today. That’s something I’m excited about, and to see where that takes me. So constantly trying to make decisions that will positively effect me, moving forward. This weekend, along side shows in the UK, I travel to France to wrestle which is going to be a lot of fun. So I have plenty going on this weekend, and will have plenty to talk about in my next entry. Anyhow, until next time...  Thanks for reading guys. 

[extraneousdominomask]

“El Jefe” is a fuckin great thing to call yourself. Not only is it fun to say, the use of the definite article carries a lot of implicit swagger. “Yeah. I’m the boss. Singular.”

The Grizz is dumb and uninspired - as is his choice of name! [AIR!! HORN!!] But I can see what he was going for.

...”Toothpick”, though? I kinda have to wonder about Toothpick.