#and apparently for a 'reboot' it would NOT be used as an opportunity to do that

[fumbles-mcstupid]

It’s not that I’m not a fan of Babylon 5, it’s more that I’m MORE of a fan of what the show could have been if it had not diverged from the way the story was being set up through Season 1. I’m a fan of what the path not taken was trying to be.

[eri-pl]

(followup to this poll)

(We are deciding what we want to happen, not what would be most likely.)

Feanor has* a vision of Maedhros throwing himself into a volcano (also, he's got a lot of scars and just one hand and there's apparently some cataclysmic event around + there is a strange glowing thing in the sky + WHAT? why is the Silmaril burning him???)

His heart says to him: "Behold!…

\* assume it is happenning shortly before the action mentioned in your answer, at an appropriate point to not do the thing.

My thoughts on what might happen in some of those scenarios:

[In case it's confusing: I call the bad guy Melkor or Morgoth depending on how he was called at a given point in story. this is the natural way to do it for me.]

Feanor doesn't make the Silmarils is the boring option tbh.

Cooperate with Melkor... you could have Melkor gaining some common sense, and generally those two realizing that they have some ugly traits in common and getting into a more constructive sort of rivarly... but no. :D Realistically, it would end up as bad as the canon, maybe with a different setup of alliances and anmities.

Doesn't go to the party... I think this is what Melkor expected. We end up with Feanor dead but I think he would beat up Melkor well too. Melkor had underestimated him.

Which means that Ungolianth would have a good opportunity to negotiate her payment earlier. We may end up with a hilarious (well, ok, also tragic because Feanor dies) scene where Tulkas is the one to chase Ungoliant off from Melkor's face.

And Melkor gets (impisoned? kicked into the void?) so Beleriand is safe, I guess. Well, except one little admirable guy being left there without any supervision.

Also, the Trees are dead but the Silmarils are probably reclaimed and without Feanor having the opportunity to refuse earlier, his sons may allow the Valar to use them. The problem is: can anyone break them? (Alternatively, they got eaten by Ungolianth)

Take Finwe and Silmarils to the party… I assume Melkor knew (at least predicted) that Feanor would leave the gems (and maybe himself too) at home. So here we end up with a last-minute change of plans leading to a very surprised Melkor.

The Trees are still dead, but the Silmarils are available, and with Finwe being alive... I don't know. Feanor would surely take Finwë's opinion into account, but would Finwë want him to let Yavanna reboot the Trees at the cost of Silmarils? With Feanor believing that it would kill him: no, he wouldn't.

We still very likely get an Oath (to protect them from the Valar, which was imo the main goal of the oath) and Finwë is swearing it too. I like it, this makes 9 of them and 9 is a cool number.

And the Oath means that Feanor is banished, so they leave to Beleriand anyway. They wanted to leave even before the Darkening. Just with Finwë. Which may impact Olwë's reaction and later, Thingol's. Also, Finwë is the one going to "parley" with Morgoth (about what, if he has no Silmarils? idk, but Morgoth would think of something for sure)

Give up the Silmarils… Ooooh. this is the interesting one. I'll be honest: this is the one with best vibes for me. It just feels right and like it would result in the worst of Feanor's flaws going away.

The Trees are still dead, because the jewels are gone. However, I imagine this would change how the Silmarils impact Morgoth (because metaphysics). and by that I mean it's both more painful and somehow more constructive, more helpful to the general story?

Also there would be a Valar-approved army going to reclaim the gems, probably led by Eonwë. And much more coherent and with less tensions. And, of course, no problem with ships.

I like to think that Indis would go to war (why not? Morgoth killed her husband after all, even if she didn't care much for said husband). I like it because then she can die and Finwë and Miriel can live happily again and by letting go of revenge for Finwë, Feanor would eventually get Finwë back which is wonderful.

I don't hate Indis, but she is the third wheel here, sorry. Also, I believe she would stay in Mandos to let Finwë be happy with Miriel, because she is a good person. A good perso that is the third wheel.

Generally, somehow, happy ending. Happier than in the Silm, anyway. And Feanor doesn't die, or at least not for long. Miriel could heal after giving birth to him, he can heal after breaking the Silmarils.

Don't leave Aman... I'm not sure. He may start a civil war eventually (preasure the Valar to chase Morgoth and the preasuring escalates).

Doesn't swear the oath. This is another interesting one. He is not banished from Aman, just leaves by himself. The Teleri may be more cooperative. There may be no or less of doom of the Noldor.

It all may result in the sons of Feanor being much more cooperative after he died, trying to somehow make amends with the Valar? IDK.

Doesn't fight the Teleri… What's the alternative? Trying to build his own ships, or Helcaraxe? With all the tensions among his host? I think it's another "civil war" one.

Doesn't burn the ships… Much damage is done already, and I think Feanor still goes in front of the army and dies. It's just in character for him.

Succession crisis ensues (I don't think Maedhros liked Fingolfin a whole lot at this point?), Morgoth invites a king to a parlay… both of them, asking each to keep it secret… Fingolfin has to save both his cousin and his father.

I don't think there's much improvement overall. There is surely a big improvement for all who died or otherwise suffered the Helcaraxe, but in the historical perspective? Not much.

Doesn't die on Balrogs? This results to Maedhros not gtting captured, at least not so early. Feanor wouldn't go to a parlay— wait. He wouldn't be invited to a parlay. He would be invited to a duel. And go there, of course. Morgoth would be delighted. (Of course there would be no duel. It would be the same as with the parlay... And then he would have Feanor to "play with")

The sons would probably assume him dead? I'm not sure. Or they would die one by one trying to free him?

Anyway, bad idea. Probably worse than canon.

No second oath… I don't think it would change much. It felt like it deserved to be an option, but… idk.

[nimmie-nugget]

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Random Crap

[hcfiles]

He consciously gambled, betting blindly in a hazard game, moved by compulsion, for self promotion, believing in a bluff. The chances of losing the game were immense, but he was sloppy, vain and neglected important details that would obviously, jeopardize his integrity, because of a fake image.

He lost it big time, right after the first bet. But, instead of leaving the table and abandoning the game, while having a lot to lose, he decided to continue betting an amount he couldn't lose, without knowing the game, thinking he could recover what he's lost. At the end, he owed the bookie much more and the debt became huge. If only he had left the table right after the first bet.... But, he was convinced to come back to the game and was committed to the underwear, leaving the spot naked with a huge debt. Total shame!

Why didn't he give up betting? He already had had a painful lesson with the first bet. Why continue? Because, he couldn't stop. Gambling is what he knows. Besides the job, he got used to pretending a life he doesn't have on his free time and got a taste for it. Apparently, that was an easy job for easy money, having the advantage of, as well, getting laid. And, that trust in the job made him think no one would ever know the truth and led him to self destruction.

He was negligent! If he, at least, knew how to play this game and checked the players who would be at the gambling table, paying to be on the same table of his PR list... Well, maybe he didn't have the chance, for the latest PR stunt seemed to have been a last minute replacement, which could explain the mistake the tabloid did when announcing who the PR was. Apparently, the tabloid was informed the PR would be someone else.

Maybe, the promiscuous was someone trying to get an advantage of the situation without his knowledge.. But, there were prior staging pics. So, he probably knew about the plan and what seemed a tabloid mistake was, actually, an intentional move, her bet, while he believed the bluff. Her breathless appearance showing right on time and in a hurry for the pap walk could be explained by a flight delay or only as a move to call attention. She showed as if running from the police, as a last minute thing, while he, already expecting her to start the staging plot, was counting time, for the paps' clocks were ticking to charge per hour.

This shenanigan seemed to have been created so she had an opportunity to show off as irreverent and call attention to herself (with the help of an amateur team?). He could have thought the PR stunt would follow as usual and could have been caught by surprise with this intention of calling attention to her. But, was he really unadvised? Or he knew the intention was to sell her as an irreverent?

I suppose that was the intention all along, since the first pap walk, and that the supposed tabloid announcement mistake was actually part of the plan. The goal was to start her promo using "irreverence" to promote her fake personality as important, with a Madonna soundtrack (Who's that girl?"). Pitiful woman! She can't stand being insignificant. Irreverence, fastly, gave place to promiscuity and her lifestyle - promoted through a pic in which she's apparently doing a blow job in friends (one naked from belly to toe) -, came public. Karma is a bitch!

Also, a page spilling tea about his sexual intimacy appeared on IG. So, the solution they found for damage control was to create fake scandals to uncover the real ones, sacrificing his fandom, putting one against the other and motivating hate on the internet to make them accountable for the negative publicity they created and to discredit the real stuff coming out. Not pleased with it, they quickly and clearly rebooted his image, by changing clothes, speech, disposal in speaking to journalists and - what a surprise! - status. The goal became transforming a single, young, jerky famous bachelor into a conservative, decent old father for respect.

Or all this trouble is because of his mistress' rep and the unprofessional and amateur PR management from Viscuso's production company or there is something they are desperately trying to avoid from coming out. Her IG account was definitely deleted and rearranged to hide the fact she's promiscuous. Her social media life is narrow, untrue and non-existent before this PR with him. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Then, there's no need to change who you are. But, the changes his PR team is making indicates they are desperately, trying to hide something.

The news he was leaving TW - a production he loved more than anything else and which highlighted his acting career - may indicate a problem. It could have been for some trouble he arranged with a female (part of the crew), after getting involved with her. And, this shenanigan PR stunt could have been used by this female in a vendetta against him, discrediting him as a man. A little pushy? May be. But, don't you think it's possible? Just try to impartially, analize these past four years. Doesn't it seem they have brought signs he was trying to hide, defend himself from something and avoid being exposed? All he actually did was the minimum for professional reasons and to show with his mistress as if trying to piss someone off.

In the beginning, the first sign of change was on his bodyguards. All of a sudden, he started showing up for public events with female bodyguards only. Then, the dressing style, the older look, the elder speech (to print maturity), the gent-who-stands-for-a-lady speech, the against-sex-scene speech, the fake paternity plot. All of that, while a page started exposing him with tea about their SUPPOSEDLY sexual intimacy; some cheap tablois brought rumours that he had been disrespectful to female colleagues on set as the reason for leaving TW production; social media brought rumours of pedo etc. All kinds of rumours to diminish him as a man indicating a ressentful woman was behind all that.

The new look and speech is to give him the image of a respectful, dignified and mature man. But, isn't he respectful and dignified, already? So, why force another obvious fake persona trying to prove a point? When you know who you are and you are sure of your convictions, there's no need to prove anything to anyone. Unless, you did something shameful you shouldn't have done, that you are afraid of coming out. Or you did something that led others to spread a story that could destroy you, being necessary to fight it back with a new image of yourself.

Whatever it is, it looks like there' s something about this shenanigan to hide. Maybe, there's a wrong doing. Maybe, it's just a resentful woman spreading rumours to discredit the man, causing him extreme pain and shame, maybe, it's just cheap, amateur and unprofessional management he agreed to, to promote a promiscuous unknown sl*t. Whatever it is, a piece of this puzzle is missing and it's exactly this piece he seems to be hiding and the piece we wanna know.

[torchickentacos]

Is there anything you dislike about the pokemon anime?

OH BOY, ANON. Short answer: yes. Long answer, sort of no? Or, rather, nothing that I dislike outside of a petty, mildly annoyed sense OR nothing I care quite enough about to share my discourse take on. I don't have any genuine criticisms, because ultimately any I would have, I kind of signed up for by being a pokeani fan. Like, I know I'm not here for intricate plotlines or incredible character arcs. I'm mostly here for shitposting about the same four characters from 2007. I was the harley's ass blog for a while, after all. But for a more in-depth answer (mostly AG focused since I have to fact-check myself on it the least, though I'm sure I could bring stuff up for each gen)...

...Something that DOES bug me about pokeani is the concept of lost potential, or plots and ideas that lead nowhere. Like, in early early AG, May seems to be avoiding her dad and Petalburg city and then absolutely nothing is done with it. (Projection loss: character does not, in fact, have canon father issues for me to pay attention to instead of my own. Sad.) Another example? Drew being from a movie-only location, only for us to NOT SEE HIM IN THE ACTUAL MOVIE. SURE. But I've made like four posts about that by now, and I'll make another if someone asks me to. Another example??? Solidad as, like, an entire character. That deserves its own post. ily Solidad (Also Chloe- someone in the RBs, feel free to take that and go off about it!!!). Another? The People of the Water apparently being SUPER IMPORTANT TO MAY AND MAX'S HERITAGE, AND IT COMES WITH SOME DEEP INTERNAL CONNECTION TO MANAPHY/THE TEMPLE OF THE SEA but oops nope they only exist in that one movie, dw about it ever again. Brock's issues growing up with too much responsibility? You might get one or two mentions of it per generation but don't count on it actually being important to his character.

I would call this the GS Ball Problem, but at least we got some form of explanation for that one. Sigh. Good news is, here in optimist land, we can take all of this as fic/au opportunities and explore the foundation canon haphazardly laid!!! So, I wouldn't call this something I dislike about the anime per se as much as just something I don't GET, but hey, people take those gaps and do incredibly fun, interesting things with them, so I can't complain too much. Lapses in canon and a barebones foundation set the scene for fandom creativity and interpretation, which I honestly value more than anything canon would have thrown at us anyways.

And again, it's the pokemon anime. I KNOW I signed up for this, so I'm not writing a long post because I'm big mad about it, I'm writing a long post because I can't shut up and I like run-on sentences lmao.

EDIT and a reboot of pokemon chronicles would fix all of this, in this essay I will-

[tobiasdrake]

The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan, Episode 8 - A Plot by Haruhi Suzumiya

Everything Haruhi does is a plot by Haruhi Suzumiya. Haruhi is an incorrigible plotter. Unless you mean the movie she filmed, which is a different kind of plot by Haruhi Suzumiya.

(Two parts.)

I guess Tsuruya's joining the list of characters volunteering to be Yuki's fallback love interest if Kyon ends up red-stringed. Pretty sure that is a red-crowned crane, specifically? That looks like the red crown on its head.

Nope. Sorry, Tsuruya, but despite being more tolerable in this series, you're still on the shit list.

The hell does that even mean?

Hot springs episode really is going to hot springs episode at maximum velocity, isn't it?

I know this is going to be an opportunity to play with the Yuki/Kyon vs. Haruhi/Kyon triangle but if we're spinning a roulette wheel of shipping nonsense then I want to see some random bullshit instead. Itsuki/Yuki! Mikuru/Ryoko! Kyon/Tsuruya! The Will They/Won't They shipping war can wait until we get home; For now, let's get crazy!

Incidentally, the answer is yes. This is the gratuitous fanservice episode that "The Hot Springs Episode" always implied, and it is played as hard as you would expect the show that gave us Mikuru Asahina to play it. In fact, it even takes time for some incredibly gross Mikuru shit while it's at it.

Admittedly still not as bad as that time they drugged her but still pretty bad. They don't even do the "Tsuruya protects Mikuru and fights off Haruhi" thing they've been doing; Tsuruya and Haruhi team up for maximum grossness. It's like they're trying to make up for lost time.

Apparently "Matchmaking Bath" means voluntary peephole.

Uh. Okay. This episode is weird.

Ha!

Nice time loop callout. Though there is no way they've actually fit that many competitions into the short time Haruhi's been with the Literature Club. Taken literally, she pulled that number straight out of her ass.

XD HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Now that we're out of the Den of Male Gaze, the comedy's back. Poor Kyon. We all know it's going to be him. It's always him. It doesn't even need to be rigged.

Absolutely furious that Ryoko and Tsuruya's match wasn't animated. I have so many questions about Tsuruya's Dance of the Crane technique.

Also, Kyon and Mikuru continue to be useless.

When the hell did he injure his wrist? Did he beat Kyon's ass so bad he hurt himself?

Absolutely furious that Tsuruya quit the tournament in its second round, allowing the competition to continue while forever shielding her crane technique from the prying eyes of the camera.

Also, Haruhi, don't think I didn't notice that this is your second bye. You didn't compete in the first round either. You're advancing straight to the finals without ever picking up a paddle. Kyon was right to object to rigged games.

(Is that how Itsuki injured his wrist? Did he fake injury so Haruhi could have a 1v1 with her romantic rival?)

I'm with Kyon. The first round seemed legitimate but that second round was totally rigged by the Kouyouen kids.

NO

NOT MOVING ON

I WANT TO SEE THE FIGHT

What the hell!? How dare you deprive us of the pivotal battle between Yuki and Haruhi!? I AM SO MAD RIGHT NOW AAAAAAAARGH.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

No, for real, the comedic timing of Yuki Show is so good. If they ever bring back Melancholy, whether as a continuation or reboot or whatever, I hope they learn from the successes in this spinoff and build on them.

That means she won, right? I think that means she won. I am choosing to believe that means she won. Yuki won. I will accept no argument.

[mightyflamethrower]

Do not believe the White House/mainstream media-concocted narrative that the four criminal court cases—prosecuted by Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Jack Smith, and Fani Willis—were not in part coordinated, synchronized, and timed to reach their courtroom psychodramatic finales right during the 2024 campaign season.

These local, state, and federal Lilliputian agendas were designed to tie down, gag, confine, bankrupt, and destroy Trump psychologically and physically. They are the final lawfare denouement to years of extra-legal efforts to emasculate him.

Indeed, the nation is by now worn out by these serial assaults on constitutional norms: the Hillary-funded Steele dossier subterfuge; the pre-election Russian laptop disinformation campaign; the two impeachments without special counsel reports; the impeachment Senate trial of a private citizen; the effort to remove Trump’s name from state ballots; the ongoing attempt to emasculate the Electoral College; or the radical opportune changes in state election laws to ensure massive mail-in balloting.

Recently, Andrew McCarthy has reviewed in depth this coordination between White House personnel and prosecutors, long known and long denied by the left. Biden, for example, had complained to aides about Attorney General Merrick Garland’s tardiness in getting special federal prosecutor Smith appointed—and thus apparently ensuring Trump was convicted before the election.

Nathan Wade, Fani Willis’s now-fired paramour prosecutor, visited and consulted with the White House counsel’s office when he was acting supposedly as a purely local county prosecutor. The January 6th left-wing-dominated congressional committee consulted with the Biden administration in sending forth its criminal referrals about Trump’s purported role in the protests. And to handle his pseudo-indictment against Trump, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg hired Biden Justice Department official Vincent Colangeio.

Two, the prosecutors’ delayed criminal indictments and E. Jean Carroll’s civil suit were predicated only on Donald Trump running for reelection. After his 2020 defeat, the loss of the two Republican senate seats in Georgia, and the January 6 demonstrations/riot, Trump was written off by pundits as politically toxic.

Then his historic comeback in the subsequent year terrified the left. The reboot prompted the subsequent indictments and suits years after the purported crimes. It was left unsaid that had Trump not been a conservative Republican and leading presidential candidate, he would have never been indicted.

Three, most of the indictments either had no prior precedent in criminal law or will likely never be used again, at least against anyone left-wing. Moreover, many of the writs relied on manipulation of statutes of limitations.

Neither Bragg nor any other local prosecutor had previously transformed a supposedly local affidavit misdemeanor into a supposed federal campaign finance violation, a gambit so preposterous that it had been passed on by federal attorneys.

Letitia James was the first New York Attorney General to indict a state resident for the supposed crime of overvaluing real estate to obtain a loan, which was paid back timely and in full, to the profit of lending institutions. No bank, after auditing Trump’s assets and viability to pay back loans, was unhappy to loan to him. But all were quite happy to profit from the hefty interest—and would likely be happy to loan to him again.

James sought to make Trump a criminal without ever finding a crime, much less a victim. Nor, until the checkered and unethical career of Fani Willis, had any local prosecutor ever indicted an ex-president for a supposedly improper phone call questioning whether all the state’s votes had been fully counted.

Alvin Bragg’s case was nonexistent given the statute of limitations on supposed misdemeanors committed over six years prior—until Bragg transmogrified the accusations of minor crimes into felonies and, with them, extensions granted supposedly due to the COVID lockdowns.

In Carroll’s case, her unsubstantiated accusations of a sexual assault were also well past the statute of limitations until a left-wing New York legislator and unapologetic Trump hater passed a special law—a veritable bill of attainder aimed at Trump—waiving the statute of limitations for a year in cases of accusations of long-past sexual assault in the state of New York.

Four, all the indictments and suits took place in either blue cities, counties, or states. And most of the jury pools in or near New York, Atlanta, or Miami were or will be heavily Democrat. So far, the New York judges who have overseen Trump’s civil and criminal trials—Justices Engoron, Kaplan, and Merchan—were all liberals, appointed by Democrat or liberal politicians, and some have donated to Democrat causes. They were not shy about expressing disdain for defendant Trump. No changes in venues were ever allowed.

Five, all the prosecutors, Bragg, James, Smith, and Willis, are likewise either Democrats or associated with liberal causes. In the case of Bragg, James, and Willis, all three ran for office and raised money on promises and boasts of getting Donald Trump. And all three have now set the precedent that local and state prosecutors can warp the law and use it to go after an ex-president and leading presidential candidate of the opposite party for naked political purposes.

Six, all these cases were equally applicable to high-profile Democrat politicos. E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit was the most laughable of all the court dramas, but its outline and protocols just as easily could have applied to Tara Reade. She came forward to accuse candidate Biden of having sexually assaulted her years earlier—roughly about the same period’s as Carroll’s fluid timelines. Her story is about as believable or unbelievable as Carroll’s. But the difference was that whereas the media canonized the delusional and self-contradictory Carroll as a useful anti-Trump tool, it demonized Reade as a crazy loon and liar—and a potential impediment to Biden’s 2019-20 primary campaign.

Bragg had to torture the law to fabricate a federal campaign finance indictment against Trump. But Hillary Clinton clearly violated federal campaign statutes—and was variously fined—when she tried to hide her “opposition research” payments to Christopher Steele as “legal expenses.” In truth, Steele was hired and paid to concoct a fake anti-Trump dossier and likely should have been barred from working for a presidential campaign given he was not a U.S. citizen.

In the case of Smith, simultaneously with his case against Trump, his twin special prosecutor, Robert Hur, found that Joe Biden had unlawfully removed classified files for much longer than Trump (30 years plus), in a much less secure location (his rickety garage), and without a president’s authority to declassify his documents. Moreover, he had disclosed their contents to his ghostwriter, who destroyed evidence under subpoena by Hur. Yet unlike Trump, Biden was not charged, given that Hur claimed that Biden, in his opinion, was so old and amnesiac that he might win sympathy rather than a conviction from a jury.

Willis indicted Trump for supposedly trying to pressure officials to “find” missing Trump ballots, thus supposedly violating “racketeering” statutes, as he oversaw an attempt to find troves of ballots he thought had been cast for him. Of course, in the same state, Stacy Abrams, after losing the gubernatorial race of 2018, claimed she had actually won, despite losing by over 50,000 votes. She sued to overturn the election and then made a celebrity-political career touring the nation, falsely claiming she was the real governor and her victorious opponent was an illegitimate governor.

For that matter, in 2016, left-wing organizations, celebrities, and thousands of political operatives sought to overturn the Trump victory by appealing to the electors to renounce their states’ popular vote tallies and thus become “faithless electors.” In sum, there was a true conspiracy, or, better, a “racketeering” scheme, to use Willis’s parlance, to coordinate various groups to overturn the constitutional duties of electors to throw the election to Hillary Clinton. Clinton, along with the likes of ex-president Jimmy Carter and soon-to-be House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries, would continue to deny that Trump was the legitimately elected president.

In sum, the number of suits against and indictments against Trump grew in correlation to his political fortunes. They were designed in the election year 2024 to do what Democrat voters likely cannot. They are ridiculous and sui generis, and will never be used against anyone other than Trump. They have done more damage to democracy, the rule of law, and equal justice to the law than all of the antics that Trump is accused of.

Moreover, they will set in motion a dangerous tit-for-tat cycle of weaponization that threatens the very constitutional order of the United States.

If Trump is elected to restore the rule of equal justice, will a Republican special counsel revisit Robert Hur’s work and find ex-President Biden quite capable of standing trial for the crimes Hur has already investigated and confirmed?

Will then a new Republican-appointed FBI director order a SWAT-like raid, with Fox News forewarned and Newsmax reporters on the scene, to descend into the Biden beach house?

Will county and state prosecutors in Utah, Montana, and Oklahoma feel that to stop this cycle of illegality, they must charge the Biden family members by bootstrapping local indictments onto federal crimes?

Will conservative women in the future come forward in Arkansas, Idaho, and Alabama to claim that in their past, they now suddenly remember that decades ago a prominent Democrat candidate harassed them? Will their right-wing lawyers cherry-pick the proper red-state judge?

Will conservative district attorneys find ways to indict Joe Biden on the various imaginative bookkeeping and “loan repayments” used to disguise the fact his corrupt family received well over $20 million from illiberal foreign interests, much if not all of it camouflaged to avoid income taxes?

Will some South Carolina legislator get a bill of attainder passed in the legislature, ending the statute of limitations for a year for all those in 2016 who sought to undermine the electors and flip them to Hillary Clinton?

In August or September, will a right-wing state prosecutor and a conservative judge find that Joe Biden’s creative bookkeeping warrants a $450 million fine, payable before appeal?

And will Republican officials and judges in purple states move to get Biden’s name off the ballot?

Such scenarios are endless and, given the current precedents, could all be justified as desperate deterrent measures to shock the left into ceasing their efforts to sabotage our constitutional system and rule of law.

A final note. There is a divine order of balance in the world, one known variously by particular civilizations as kismet, nemesis, karma, or what goes around, comes around payback. We’ve already seen such forces at work: Sen. Schumer at the head of a mob at the doors of the Supreme Court, calling out threats to justices by name, only now finding pro-Hamas thugs circling his own home. Or Democrats during the Trump years straining to find ways to invoke the 25th Amendment, now humiliated into claiming a non-compos-mentis Joe Biden is “sharp as a knife.”

Tragically for the country, to stop this left-wing madness, the Trump travesties may not be the end, but the beginning of precisely what the Founders feared.

[sins-and-wins-with-vix]

Everything Right/Wrong with “Rebooted” E1: The Surge

Sooo it’s been awhile but we’re back! Disclaimers: Show owned by LEGO. This is not a professional review/critique - it’s mainly intended for comedy!

Make sure to reblog, comment, and like! And tell me your thoughts!

- This season is titled “Rebooted,” get it? Cuz the show got rebooted for this season after it was supposed to end? And also the season itself deals with technology? And also if you’re anything like me this season makes you wanna reboot yourself so you can forget chunks of it ever happeneD- ❌

- Not my favorite intro or remix, but I still gotta admit it’s pretty cool, even if I do miss the family photo-like style of the OG ✅

- In the original intro it was just Cole, but now it seems that everyone except for Lloyd has lost their smiling privileges ❌ (the pic below shows everyone with their masks up but it’s taken from a later ep)

- The longer you look at this image, the more awkward the poses get… Seriously, look at all of them for a good while and try to explain what they’re doing ❌

- I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… this show knows music! 2 seconds into the actual episode and this score is already giving me goosebumps ✅

- ^ There’s a lot to say about this photo so I’m just gonna break it down here:

- Jay rocking the pose ✅

- Zane tried ✅

- Kai leaning on Jay… and maybe struggling to balance while doing so? ✅

- Cole is giving Dareth a piggy-back ride and I think we all wish we were Dareth right now ✅

- And Lloyd is very confused as to where the camera is apparently ✅

- “Ninjago City soon became… New Ninjago City.” Creative. ❌

- Also it’s never actually referred to as “New Ninjago City” much after this season, or even in it tbh ❌

- “And it became the center for great technological advancements.” Most of which will exit and re-enter the plot at any given time that’s most convenient for the writers because who needs continuity? ❌

- At first I was gonna ask who tf sings in the shower like this (Kai was just making random, loud noises - no actual words, and it didn’t seem like humming) but while typing I realized that this actually seems more akin to vocal stimming so… neurodivergent Kai canon? ✅

- “Brad got an ultra remote from New Ninjago City and it’s controlling Mr. Zane!” HOW? ❌

- “Mr. Cole is the worst!” Child echoes most of the fandom this early in the show’s run ❌

- Kai’s pudding cup was sitting in his bag with no lid or covering whatsoever ❌

- Wait, the ninja don’t have powers anymore because they don’t have the blades, so how did Zane freeze Jay’s pudding cup? I get that he’s a nindroid, but he doesn’t use ice powers for anything else until later this season when they officially get their powers back ❌

- “Why is it that whenever I teach, I get the feeling that none of the boys are listening?” Oh, I know the answer to this one!⬇️

- “I saved you some pudding.” “What did we talk about?” “Oh, right, boundaries.” You probably have some questions right now, like, “did Jay and Nya break up?” And “Why did they break up?” And most importantly, “are we ever gonna get answers to these questions?” And the answer to that is: No. live and die in wonder ❌

- They get clearance for a field trip that they have to take the day of? You could argue that Borg was in a rush to get the techno blades to the ninja and wanted to take this opportunity while he still could, and Wu really wanted to do this field trip so Nya jumped at it as well, and to that I say… that’s actually a pretty good argument. Well done.

- “If you ask me, people should concern themselves with the lessons of the past - not waste their time on disposable fads of tomorrow…” Of all characters, why would Kai have this sentiment? Especially since they already established Cole as the “lame” one. I guess I wouldn’t say it’s entirely ooc, but it still makes it abundantly clear that they had no idea what they wanted to do with Kai this season ❌

- Wu instructs Nya to “get a move on,” which she does, and immediately drives down a steep mountain, while Wu stands, unsupported, in the front of the bus ❌

- But ya know what? Nya saw her chance to attempt murder and went with it, and I can respect that ✅

- “Wow… you leave town a short while and-“ everything becomes tinted in blue?

- This bit where everything tech-related doesn’t wanna work for Kai is even funnier when you consider that it’s technically all sentient and controlled by the Overlord ✅

- “Your hardware is outdated and your processor is slow and incompatible with ours.” Line is not followed by air horns ❌

- “Even now, he is working on a digiverse…” foreshadowing ✅

- “They have a perfect match console!” Why do I feel a part of my soul dying?

- “What’s perfect match?” Seriously, why do I have this gut feeling that something very very bad is about to happen… like I’m about to witness a moment that will forever go down as this show’s worst writing decision ever?

- “It finds your perfect partner with flawless results!” Wait…

- “Hello, Nya…” No…

- “You are an independent, self-confident young woman who refuses to be in a boy’s club…” please… please don’t do this

- ^ OH GOD F*CKING D*MMIT ❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌

- “I would’ve guessed ninja to sneak in the window… not take the elevator.” Apparently, Borg wanted the ninja to rob him ❌

- There’s no way Jay was this big a fan of Borg but didn’t know he had prosthetic legs ❌

- Most people have heard by now that the inclusion of Borg being disabled wasn’t really done for the sake of representing disabled people so much as it was for the convenience of the situation, but you’d think at least one of the writers would’ve said, “hey, maybe this statue we’re making of a character who can’t use their legs SHOULDN’T be STANDING normally on those two legs?” Could it really have been that hard to work the wheelchair into that statue design? Really? ❌

- “First you call us pedestrians and now we’re assailants?!” Jay finds these both equally insulting, which is not only hilarious, but also in-character since Crystalized showed us the only thing that offends the ninja more than being considered evil is being considered average ✅

- “Let the elevator have the techno-blades Kai! I think its made its point!” Jay has the backbone of a noodle, which we knew but still

- “Looks like we just quit our day jobs!” Don’t think I didn’t just see Cole’s mouth move with Kai’s voice ❌

- “Why don’t boys ever listen to me???” D*mmit, Nya do I need to bring the misogyny gif back out?

- “It’s not sharp. Why even call it a blade!?” Good question ❌

- Also, did you really need to test it out to see it wasn’t sharp? Couldn’t you have just, ya know, looked? ❌

- *glass cracks* “Oh snap.” ✅

- Why would breaking the window cause them all to immediately fly out of it? Before someone who actually understands physics comes into my comment section and explains how this works, I’m gonna cut you off and say I refuse to believe there’s an explanation that wouldn’t violate at least one health and safety protocol. OSHA: my scapegoat so I don’t have to learn how science works! ❌

- “You tried to give them the only thing that could defeat me and thought I wouldn’t notice?!” You DIDN’T notice - not until the ninja broke the statue - and tbh, you really should’ve. I get Overlord had to be cautious so as not to reveal himself too early on, but he literally watched Borg invite the ninja to his office, tell them it’s better if Lloyd wasn’t there, then send them off with a massive statue as a parting gift. Hell, Overlord has constant eyes on Borg, right? Did he not see him making new suits and shoving them, along with the blades, into the statue? ❌

- “A PROMISE ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH!” Admittedly, I have problems with Overlord this season, but I will NEVER insult his voice acting ✅

- I really can’t tell if Borg is screaming or laughing in this scene, which is probably the only reason it made it past the censors ❌

- “Cole, throw me!” “Excuse me?!?” “Throw me!” ✅

- I know it’s just the first episode, but I’m curious as to what they’re gonna do for new toys sets this wave- “The techno blade must’ve hacked the hover-copter’s system! Zane controls it!” Oh, there they are

- “*lying* I always said Mr. Cole was my favorite!” Accurate representation of middle schoolers… I’m counting that as a sin ❌

- “Anyone else feeling all tingly inside?” No!… maybe… ✅

- “I have given you new outfits to help block the facial recognition software.” They never actually do this. ❌

- “Robots vs. ninja? Dare I ask?” Someone mentioned awhile ago that Lloyd enters like a guest star on a sitcom and honestly they’re right ✅

- Also family hug! ✅

- “With a 4.2% chance of success, I’d say hope is slim.” “That’s why it’s called hope, Zane!” I actually have a lot to say about Zane’s arc this season, but for now I’m just gonna win this as foreshadowing and move on ✅

- “We will, but only when you’re safe!” “He wants these weapons, and for some reason, he also wants you. Remember, this was sensei’s plan. They can’t break him!” “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has yet to come. We need to worry about today!” “You said it, Zane!” “We will come back to New Ninjago City, and when we do, we’ll be ready!” I get Jay isn’t really depicted as the wise one, but was it really fair of the writers to take four inspirational, end-of-episode lines and only split them among 3 of 4 characters? Come on, give him a little credit! ❌

- ^ No. assembly line system. Could ever. F*cking. Function like this. ❌

Sentence: Ninjago Reboot….. (1/4)

[gothgalpumpkin]

Nah, bc I have tingz to say about Halloweentown!

I'll start off saying that I wouldn't really want a re-write or a reboot or something like that, but the way it could have been spread out was a missed opportunity I'll always lament on. What do you mean Gal? I'm glad you asked ghost in my corner! I mean to say that HT really could have been the Cromwell series and not just about my gurl Marnie. But instead ALL of the Cromwell children and their relations with magic and the magic worlds.

(Is she about to go into a tangent? Yes, yes she it)

Let's talk about little Sophie. Movie one demonstrates just how much more powerful she was to Marnie with her being much younger and already using magic without her knowledge. Now the argument could be that its just how all the children were since at that age of course they wouldn't know how to control their magic. However, never once was it mentioned either offhandedly or directly that Marnie or Dylan also experienced such a thing. Perhaps they did, but for argument sake, I'm only using the facts shown in the movies and the fact is, Sophie wanted that cookie and gonna get that cookie 🍪. All that being said, I wish we got more of Sophie and that struggle of obviously being the Family's prodigy but being overlooked by Aggie's favoritism towards Marnie (*I'll be going over this much much later in a different post 👀).

Perhaps we could have seen the fear that she'll never be as good as Marnie despite being stronger and since she's not getting that same level of training, Sophie might fear that her abilities will diminish instead of flourish into the Witch we all know she could be. I think the third movie should have been more about Sophie and that internal struggle of knowing deep down she's naturally stronger, but could never measure up to Aggie's high expectations. I'm not saying I'd like to see Sophie suffer or turn "Evil" but I'd love to see the turmoil that would arise from that internal struggle and how she views her relationships with her grandma and Marnie. Maybe she sees Aggie the way that her mother sees Aggie, maybe Sophie gets Gwen a little deeper. Maybe she understands Dylan in a way that makes Sophie a bridge between him and Marnie.

Speaking of Dylan. My poor boy, Dylan. OK, where to start. Oh, I know! (Bit of a rant incoming) How about the blatant disrespect for his boundaries and preferences? How many times has he stated he doesn't want to identify as a Warlock or that he doesn't feel comfortable with Magic to begin with? Since movie one this man has stated that he didn't like magic and that's more of a science guy. Cool, that's cool right? Nope, not for Marnie and Aggie apparently.

Yes, we all know that Dylans isn't the strongest warlock and that's because he has successfully locked it away within himself, that's his prerogative, he's happier with the "Normies" he's comfortable. Yet time and time again he's pushed into uncomfortable situations for the sake of Marnie's comfort (end of rant). Dylan is a muti-layered character that's actually very complex, however the story seems to continue this one note narrative of him being the "buzzkill" the "party-pooper" the one always complaining about having an amazing gift. But what may be a gift to you can be a curse to someone else. To Marnie, discovering that she's (genetically and historically) special was one of the greatest days of her life while simultaneously, it was crushing to Dylan. That gap of weirdness to normalcy has just widened and now its not as simple as being an outcast (for early 2000s standards lol) but it's inherently linked within. To Dylan, he knows he could never really be normal. Like Sophie, we really needed to see that turmoil played out without it being a joke because after the first and second movies, it's not funny anymore. He's not Marnie, he doesn't see Magic as a deep fundamental part of his being.

Can you imagine the feeling of being told your family name is important enough that it links to the founding of an entire world and that very world expects so much from you, but you don't have the drive to deliver? And why should you, it's just a name, right? You didn't choose to Heir from greatness, why is there so much pressure to do what you don't want to? That's what I think rings through Dylan. Because even in a place of Monsters and ghouls and magic, he's still the outcast. A Cromwell who doesn't have the ambition to become as great as their line before them? It's unheard of, it's strange. So, something must be wrong with them right? I think the fourth movie (we will FOREVER ignore HT4, what HT4?!) Should haven been about Dylan and his full acceptance as he is without the influence of his family. I think it should have been him going to a college of his own choosing (bc why would you make one child attend the same college as the other child just to keep an eye on them – uh, huh!?) we watch him find his footing and meets another witch/warlock who also finds mortal normalcy comforting. I think if he finds people like him who validates his feelings Dylan would be able to come to terms with so many internal struggles that be has such as he quiet resentment towards Marnie and Aggie. I think at even at a young age, Dylan truly understood Gwen and that's why he was always on her side with everything (also bc he's a mama's boy. Let's be real ✨️).

Often times I just that there were several missed opportunities for flesh out these characters and their importance in the world of Halloweentown and how they each interacted with their magical roots and culture.

I want to talk about Gwen as well, but I think that deserves its own post so I'll be doing another long one on her (and Aggie). But I will say you do look at things from her perspective as an adult in comparison as a child. I actually feel sort of sad for her, but I'll get into it soon. I have so many things to say about Halloween town and alot of the old 2000s disney spooky movies we grew up with and how they connect. I did an entire video on TT on how I believe HT and nightmare before Christmas is connected which I'll be placing here but in a more written cohesive format.

That's all I have for now, there's still so much i want to talk about, I'll be back soon 🖤

[coldgoldlazarus]

-Character A

-Aloof loner

-Hasn't been with party that long, hasn't had time to develop positively or get especially close to the party

-Tried to reboot her with a more friendly direction to account for that, it just didn't really feel natural or fun, and also another character's death immediately adjacent to that kinda forces her back into a bad headspace for a session anyway, before I can use it as a motivator to more naturally/gradually shift in the intended friendlier direction

-During that overall brief phase of negative mood, is rude in a minor way (sitting in a beanbag while wet on purpose) that comes off worse due to knowledge that neither she nor I had until after the fact. (Beanbag actually belongs to the party's youngest character, not the member she was actually trying to get under the skin of and who owned the house the beanbag was in) This is treated as high sin.

-Funeral for deceased party member is held. She wants to be the last one present at burial site, but don't want to impede on others' Big Moments, so I attempt to have her retreat to a more-than-respectful distance to let that work. DM continually interprets her distance as much closer than it's meant to be, and resists and eventually shuts down my attempts to clarify/correct that. End result is just hiding nearby, distracting from and overhearing the moments I was trying to avoid distracting from or overhearing.

-Finally, due to the out-of-character discussion of her whereabouts, other player characters refuse to budge specifically to foil her efforts to be the last one there, completely preventing her from getting the chance for any sort of similar moment as they had gotten, until she has to just give up on hiding and follow them back to the city; dogged to keep her with the group, and one further attempt to separate herself and double back is pointedly foiled.

-All she wanted was to use druid powers to make the grave site prettier, a slight bit of positive development that would ONLY COUNT if she was alone for it, and they'd only see the effects after passing back through later, otherwise given prior characterization it would just come across as making a (figurative and literal) show of caring. And it was foiled maliciously at every turn.

-Also OOC everyone hates her character and wants her to do a complete personality 180 that just wouldn't and couldn't make any sort of sense, otherwise her continued presence would apparently make everyone fucking miserable. Despite refusing her the chance to do literally anything to offset that in a way that would feel natural, and her overall vibes being much less combatitive 99% of the time than Character B's average.

-I point out this discrepancy and the answer boils down to "she just sucks, make her smile more and do it now"

-Internalize maybe she is a fundamentally bad character for the game, but still can't see any way to change her that would be fast enough for the rest of the party and that I would actually like playing. So decide fuck this and quit, have her just leave the party in-universe. And since making a new character wouldn't have made sense at the time due to other factors, out-of-universe retreat to a spectator position until I can feel better about playing again, and an opportunity to bring in someone new presents itself. (Neither has occurred yet.)

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Character B

-Edgy loner

-Has been with party for ages, has gotten closer, but still edgy loner with a long rap sheet of party-alienating moments

-Nearly kills an NPC important to another player character due to faulty/invomplete information, but is stopped for out-of-universe reasons at the last second

-Player who's character the NPC is relevant to is still kinda pissed, says she would be a bad character, if she had gone through with it. Rest of group isn't even upset over any of it

-Overall, this is a chance to kickstart further positive development and stuff, and treated as such by most of the group

[troutfur]

For the ones about Starclan & the warrior code, what are in-universe and/or out of universe ways you've thought of making these changes :3

(Ask game)

Ooooh, these are fun! Let's see...

✨Path of Stars - What character needs more love?

I have to say Frostpaw's littermates, Mistpaw and Graypaw. I've seen someone recently point out that Frostpaw's extended family are shaping up to be important players in the RiverClan plot: her mom Curlfeather got that death at the end of River and uttered her cryptic "Trust no cat", her grandma Duskfur seems like she's up to something, her uncle Owlnose had his brief stint as RiverClan's ineffectual leader, and so on. So it is a little weird to me how little we've gotten on her brother and sister. They certainly are getting a better deal than most other background extras, they showed up in Sky with some regularity, but if this murder mystery is going to involve the whole family I feel like they need to be fleshed out more. Yet another reason for me to root for them becoming developed characters eventually.

🍃The Apprentices Quest - Do we need StarClan?

Do the Clans need StarClan? At this point I honestly sometimes think they'd be better off weaning themselves off the clingy ghosts and start over with their society. But as a reader I do think they're a big part of the series' identity. I'd want them to have both a more subdued and more prominent presence in the seires. I want them to meddle less and for us to look into the goings on of them less often (abolish StarClan prologues!), but at the same time I want to see the religion play a bigger role in day to day life for Clan cats. I want to see more of a window into religious practices, I want it to feel more important to them in the mundanities of religiosity. Something like Garry Kilworth did in his book The Foxes of Firstdark, do y'all remember when I live read it right here on the blog?

🌑Lost Stars - Favourite character + why

Jayfeather! I have many reasons to like him. For one I'm attracted to the asshole with a chip on their shoulder archetype. I find his perspective to be interesting to read about. He has interesting family relationships, particularly to his siblings which captivates me as someone obsessed with sibling dynamics in fiction. He represents a really interesting writing challenge with all the myriad readily apparent flaws in how his story was handled. And above all he just captures my imagination. That's ultimately what it comes down to, he's my favorite because I enjoy spending time reading and thinking and talking about him the most.

☁️A Light in the Mist - You can rewrite the warrior code- what do you change?

I think the code is mostly fine as-is even if certain provisions strike me as too friendly. I'd like the Clans to remain antagonistic to one another for the sake of the continued drama. Collaboration and cooperation are fine to a point but if they're drifting to a more peaceable status quo it begins to feel pointless you know? But the biggest code I'd implement would be rather than a clearly ennunciated numbered list, the code should be vaguer, certain principles of it agreed upon all clans but disparately interpreted and applied across the four clans.

I think we're due a soft reboot and that would be a fantastic opportunity for implementing the StarClan and warrior code changes. Fast forward us to a point all currently alive characters have died. Give us a fresh cast. Worldbuild the future clans from the ground up and you've got a perfect place to start fresh. A clean slate will also let them avoid digging their grave further regarding certain controversial elements such as the tangled family tree or the writers parading the corpses of formerly beloved characters who've outstayed their welcome. I just think it's a neat idea.

[mount66news]

The Blockchain Era: Is it a Ponzi Scheme? The Truth Exposed (Update 2024)

As I had the opportunity to put my understanding to use in a variety of investing plans so that I could make investments in certain schemes, I discovered the reality behind a lot of businesses & their organizations, including whether or not they are trustworthy for investment. 

The Blockchain Era, a Ponzi scheme, was one of the investments I was able to recognize even though I received a lot of fraudulent and questionable ones. All of this system’s unstable features will be covered today.

Do you know about The Blockchain Era?

The website “The Blockchain Era,” sometimes referred to as “Jose Gordo’s latest scam,” has sparked controversy owing to its lack of transparency surrounding ownership and executive information. Several interesting things become apparent when looking at the domain registration and older website data.

The website’s domain, “tbe.io,” was first registered by The Blockchain Era in 2016. Nevertheless, it’s important to keep in mind that the domain authorization is confidential, which means that the information about the domain owner is not available to the general public. 

We look at 34 different data points when analyzing and rating online money-earning opportunities. Once the research on these data points is submitted, expert contributors reach out to the company’s customers and associates to get more insight into their operation. Finally, all the collected information is presented in the form of this expert review.

All the data is extracted from publicly available information and the sources are given in the transparency section at the bottom of every report.

These reports are made possible by the collective efforts of contributors like you. If you would like to become a contributor then contact us here.

Some level of continuous activity or maintenance is taking place because the most recent modification to this private membership was made on August 19.

You may use the Wayback Machine, a tool for browsing internet archives, to learn more about the website’s past and development. According to this source, The Blockchain Era’s website’s most recent edition only recently became reachable in late July 2023. 

Considering this data, it is conceivable that the domain for The Blockchain Era’s website was obtained in June or July of the same year, or around the time the website went live.

The Blockchain Era’s transparency and legality are called into doubt by the registration of private domains in connection with the website’s unanticipated appearance in 2023. Some have questioned the legitimacy of this online endeavor because there is no information regarding ownership and executives, along with the timing of the website’s launch, hence the nickname “Jose Gordo’s latest scam.”

When was The Blockchain Era established?

The domain name for the Blockchain Era website was acquired possibly in June or July 2023.

Who is the Holder of the Blockchain Era?

Luiz Goes emerged from the shadows as CEO of the Lyo* firms during this reboot.

You may follow him on his LinkedIn at the following link:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/luizgoeslyo/?locale=en_US

History Linked to The Blockchain Era

WeWe Global’s three-times-collapsed Ponzi scam includes LyoTrade and LyoWallet.

WeWe Global made its debut in 2021. The initial version was a straightforward MLM cryptocurrency Ponzi centered on WEWEX coins. WeWeGlobal created LyoFI and LyoPay after the fall of the WEWEX Ponzi scheme (probably LyoTrade followed later).

Luiz Goes also emerged from hiding during this relaunch, serving as CEO of the Lyo* businesses.

WeWe Global’s second incarnation was an identical Ponzi scheme as the first, except it was based around LYO tokens this time. A third reboot was introduced using the LFI token when it failed at the end of 2022.

WeWe Global’s third Ponzi reboot fell apart in August 2023 after a New Zealand securities scam in February 2023.

The corporate name “WeWe Global” was rejected in favor of The Blockchain Era after three reboots because it was considered too offensive.

The global hub of MLM crime, Dubai, is where Goes and The Blockchain Era are headquartered.

The rules for Dubai from BehindMLM are:

Someone trying to contact you if they are from Dubai and approach you about an MLM opportunity.

An MLM business that claims to be based in Dubai or to have connections there is a fraud.

How does The Blockchain Era work?

It is an unregulated & unauthorized trading platform that is unsafe for investment. Yet its functioning can be divided into the following points:

Products of the Blockchain Era

Compensation Plan of The Blockchain Era

Referral Commissions

Recurring Commissions

Products of The Blockchain Era 

There are no retail-ready services or goods available in the Blockchain Era. AiProFX affiliates are only allowed to advertise affiliate membership.

Compensation Plan of The Blockchain Era

This table lists the EUR payment amount, the EUR investment cap, and whether the contribution is eligible for XLFi returns. Payments under 5500 EUR do not qualify for XLFi returns; payments over 5500 EUR do.

In the outside world beyond The Blockchain Era, EURfi is a useless internal crap token.

Profits are paid both through the Quantwise trading bot scam (5500 EUR charge and higher) and the XLFi token minting.

The Blockchain Era is connected to another worthless home trash token, XLFi.

The following price points are available for XLFi returns if The Blockchain Era only wants passive ones:Fee (EUR)Maximum Investment (EURfi)22044044088077501540110022001760352044008800

The Blockchain Era’s MLM component rewards the recruitment of affiliate participants. You should be aware that 30% of all MLM rewards and commissions must be reinvested.

Referral Commission

On the funds invested by individually recruited affiliates, The Blockchain Era provides a 10% referral commission. For an affiliate’s first 30 days, this rate is increased to 15%.

Recurring Commission

Through a unilevel compensation structure, residual commissions are paid in the Blockchain Era.

Affiliates are categorized into various categories in this compensation structure according to their efforts in recruiting new members. The additional affiliates that level 1 affiliates bring on board join the original affiliate’s team at level 2. Although the corporation has set a limit of 15 layers, this recruitment system may theoretically go on forever.

Affiliates receive commissions for referring customers based on the purchases completed by the affiliates in their downline. According to the level, the commission rates change:

A 15% commission on the money invested by their recruits is given to level 1 affiliates who personally recruited others.

A 5% fee on the investments made by affiliates in their level is paid to level 2 affiliates (those recruited by level 1).

Levels 3 and 4 have a 3% commission rate, which means affiliates at those levels get paid 3% of what people in their downline invest at those levels.

The commission rate was reduced to 2% for levels 5 and 6.

Last but not least, the commission charge is still 1% for levels 7 to 15.

Affiliates are encouraged by this incentive structure to not only bring on new members but also to bring on more affiliates to expand their downline. Although the commission rate decreases the further down their downline goes, it may still be able to produce cash from several levels up to the maximum of 15 levels.

The following qualification requirements must be met to be eligible for unilevel team levels:Level BV RequiredLevel 1200 BVLevel 2300 BVLevel 3500 BVLevel 41000 BVLevel 51500 BVLevel 62000 BVLevel 72500 BVLevel 83000 BVLevel 95000 BVLevel 106000 BVLevel 117000 BVLevel 128000 BVLevel 139000 BVLevel 1410,000 BV

* Business Volume is known as BV. With each investment made into The Blockchain Era, BV is produced, however at a far lower rate than the actual investment was made with.

What is the procedure for joining the membership of The Blockchain Era?

It costs nothing to become a Blockchain Era associate. There is a minimum fee payment of 110 EUR as well as a further investment in EURfi tokens needed for full participation in the linked income potential.

Conclusion

Due to its failure to register with financial regulations, the Blockchain Era is now functioning illegally, as determined by New Zealand’s FMA. This absence is because monies from new investors constitute the main revenue stream supporting The Blockchain Era. A plan adheres to the standard Ponzi scheme structure when it uses fresh investments to pay off earlier investors.

The Blockchain Era’s ability to remain profitable, like all MLM Ponzi schemes, is reliant on bringing on new affiliates constantly, which eventually becomes unmanageable. A lack of funds for withdrawal results from a slowdown in recruitment since the flow of fresh money is reduced. The Blockchain Era’s demise as a result of this financial burden is inevitable.

The three prior collapses of WeWe Global provide a good illustration of this cycle in operation.

Even with the new name, The Blockchain Era will probably collapse even faster given that the third WeWe Global reboot only lasted eight months or so.

[thetwobosses]

Even more Saints Row reboot preview details from various publications (quoted parts are sections copied verbatim from the articles, not necessarily Volition’s own words):

Polygon:

“Ileso” in Santo Ileso means “unhurt,” or “unscathed.”

“While this is a more grounded game than Saints Row 4, it’s hard not to be a more grounded game than Saints Row 4, honestly [..] We’re still going to have outrageous antics; we’re still going to have lots of fun. This is not a grimdark Saints Row.”

The Saints’ origin: “They’re a startup business, they just happen to be criminals. The idea comes from Eli, a bowtie-wearing MBA and one of the four founding friends that start the Saints. “He just didn’t realize the business he was going to build was a criminal empire,” Jeremy Bernstein said. “So that means the next step is to make connections with people that can shoot guns.””

Neenah is the gang’s wheelman and was kicked out of the Los Panteros, Kevin, “a DJ party animal character“, was thrown out of The Idols.

“You’re building criminal ventures, and each criminal venture is unlocking its own custom gameplay with it. And that’s in addition to all the other stuff that you can do out in the world.”

The action and combat takes inspiration from films like John Wick, Baby Driver, and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.

Lots of driving combat, you can still shoot out of the windows but they decided to not implement cruise control as they wanted the cars themselves to be used weapons more than the firearms.

You can also traverse the map with aircraft, hoverboards, bikes and wingsuits, the wingsuits are even the focus of one of the side hustles.

Co-op play is across console generations. (so I’m assuming PS4 and PS5 can play together and same with XBO and XBSX)

Jim Boone said, “You get to decide what buildings you want to put down, you get to decide how you want to interact with them; you don’t have to interact with them if you don’t want to. But there’s a lot of depth there, and there’s a lot of aggression with this whole criminal empire area, and I think that is a huge separation from anything that we have done before.”

PC Invasion:

One of the new districts is Rancho Providencia, “the home turf of one of the competing gangs, which is a bit of a more downtrodden area than the neon lights of El Dorado, which calls to mind the grimier aspects of Vegas”

Neenah is the “driver and mechanic of the group. She’s an art school grad who couldn’t get a job at a museum and ended up working for the Los Panteros gang. It turns out she’s quite sick of working for others and would much rather work for herself, which is how she ends up becoming part of the core of the Saints.” 

Kevin is “a thrill-seeking DJ who’ll go to the ends of the Earth for his friends, and who’s seeking a place to belong and a real family.”

Eli has a fresh new MBA and wants to become an entrepreneur. He “very much treats the Saints and their rise to power as analogous to any other business. He doesn’t want the Saints to be a street gang. He wants to build an organization. As such, he’s the man with the plan… but he’s also quite handy with a shotgun.”

The Los Panteros HQ is in an abandoned car factory. Marshall Defense Industries is a PMC that owns and runs the commercial areas and is all about money. The Idols “are all about fame and notoriety: these are the taggers, the DJs, and the ravers. A lot of them are the rich kids from the mansions who spend their nights partying and causing chaos.”

You can use a helicopter and a giant magnet to abduct fancy cars.

Inverse:

Jim Boone said, “It was a great opportunity for us to tell the story we wanted to tell and most importantly tell a story that is contemporary that we think the people will relate to. What that means is, that could be everything from imagining the kind of debt that people deal with these days, student loans, the kinds of things you want to be able to do for the American Dream; imagine if you were in that world and you could form your own criminal empire.”

Playstation Lifestyle:

“You get to build your own buildings and set up your own less-than-legitimate businesses anywhere in the city, on empty lots across the environment. And the choice is entirely up to the player. Go ahead and build a toxic waste dump in the financial district, or launder money up near that gated communities.”

Gameplay similar to previous games. “This is not a precision shooter. Players aren’t meant to be turtling up and taking cover. It’s a run-and-gun experience that has been refined and, according to Volition, feels “really good.” It’s bold, in-your-face combat. Similarly, driving has seen a major overhaul, giving players the ability to upgrade any vehicle—even a garbage truck—for off-roading in the great rocky deserts of the American Southwest.”

Brand new game engine.

Volition has teased “pranking” in co-op but hasn’t specified what it means.

Rock Paper Shotgun:

The journalist summed up the gangs as “Los Panteros (Mad Max body builders with hammers), Marshall (PMC narcs with high tech weapons, apparently lead by Colonel Sanders), and The Idols (extremely hardcore Twitch influencers).“

“”We will absolutely have humour in the game," said Bernstein. "It's become such a staple of Saints Row that I don't think we could do the game without humour.”“

Stephen Quirk said, ”As you place buildings in your criminal empire you're building a crew, you're acquiring employees. Based on your choices of what buildings you place, you're also placing additional Saints there.”

"There are a couple of Easter eggs in there for the very sharp eyed, but by-and-large it's all new people with new quirks and new idiosyncrasies."

"Santo Ileso is our amalgam lots of different influences from the Southwest," said Frank Marquart. "It is definitely not exact replicas of what's in the Southwest, but I'm sure as you drive around the world you'll see things that are reminiscent of the actual Southwest."

[galactic-glamour-girl-posts]

My last impressions of the original Animaniacs, as someone who was introduced to it via the reboot

Part 1

Part 2

-So episode 84 is the last episode animated by TMS, and minus a small clip in episode 99 they don't make new animation for the show after this point, which is a shame because they're the best animation studio for the original series by far and it's not even close. Thank goodness they got to animate Wakko's Wish. The show just looks a lot blander when they're not animating it.

-"One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock" not only was a great episode, but it made me realise Slappy segments are at their best when there's a situation anyone could end up dealing with in real life, and the writers go "so how would a cartoon character deal with this?". It helps differentiate her from the Warners. I've stated before that some Slappy segments feel so similar to what the Warners would do that you could swap her out for the Warners and the plot would barely change. Now I realise why that is, not only was she tormenting jerks with cartoonish antics, those settings were way too fantastical (for example "Guardin' the Garden" was in the Garden of Eden, and in "Frontier Slappy" she went up against a pioneer).

Ideally Slappy should be put into more relatable situations (for example, "Bumbie's Mom" = parent comforts child who got upset at a movie; "No Face Like Home" = Slappy attempts to get plastic surgery; "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock" = visiting a loved one at a nursing home) that are too mundane for the Warners to end up in because they're child stars of an unknown species who are orphans, don't age, and live in the Warners Brothers water tower; Slappy is an elder actress who lives somewhere in Burbank...who happens to be a cartoon squirrel. Even when the Warners aren't going up against dragons or are in space, they tend to end up in situations that not many people do in real life ("Taming of the Screwy" = Warners go to a Hollywood party filled with celebrities, "The Warner's 65th Anniversary Special" = The Warners watch a documentary about themselves; "Back in Style" = The Warners get sold off to star in other cartoons so Warner Brothers can make more money."). Usually the only mundane situations they end up in seem like they happen only to remind the audience that they are children, like going to a candy store or going to school.

TL;DR: A Warners segment should be an adventure comedy whilst a Slappy segment should be a slice of life comedy.

-A lot of the Warner segments as of season 3 seem to focus more on doing parodies than the special friend formula. I know satire is literally in this show's DNA, and I know a lot of the Warner segments often have the "special friend" be a caricature of someone, but recently a lot of Warner segments have just been "let's put the Warners in Sherlock Holmes/Star Trek/Betty Boop/Pocahontas/James Bond/etc" with no real "special friend" in the segment, which used to be their main gimmick (apart from singing). I don't dislike these segments, and it's not like they ditched the special friend formula entirely, but it's an interesting change.

-There was a missed opportunity to make Scratchy, Ralph and Hello Nurse a trio (looking back, they never interact as a group of three that much at all). I'll expand on this in a later post, after I've watched Wakko's Wish.

-I like that the show isn't afraid to point out lame jokes, like the countdown to a lame joke in "Papers for Papa" or when Wakko makes a Uranus joke in a different episode and Dot replies "I thought we agreed to cut that line?". It's little things like that that keeps this show and it's reboot in my top 3.

-OK as of "Bully for Skippy" (probably my new favourite Slappy segment now by the way) Skippy's voice seems back to normal, thank goodness. Apparently it was being electronically pitched higher before. Don't know why, he was already voiced by a kid and he still sounds like a kid without it.

-I mentioned last time that I wanted Dot and Yakko to get more story segments starring mostly them without their other two siblings being present for that long (not including short gags or songs). And whilst since then there was yet another one for Wakko ("Ten Short Films About Wakko Warner"), it seems like Dot finally got one in "Cute First (Ask Questions Later)". It took 93 episodes for it to happen, but hey, it happened.

-"Hooray for North Hollywood Part 1"...oh boy. So, the Warners wanna pitch a movie to Mr Plotz. That's sounds like a fun premise, but most of the songs in the episode only exist to stall for time (and yet the plot STILL felt like it dragged at a few points). They literally sing "Variety Speak" again for basically no reason. They explain the meaning of variety speak to two strangers who don't contribute to the plot at all, and once the song is over they go away. Yeah there are new lyrics and it's cute that Wakko is the one to start the song this time and sings more of it, that's a nice bit of continuity showing that he actually learned after last time, but that's still slightly lazy.

Not to mention "There's Only One of You" literally should not have been in this episode. Not only is it clearly only in the episode to stall for time, it ruins the context of the original song too. Originally it was written for the album "Yakko's World", and it was a song where the Warners sing to the listener about how unique they are and that they like them just the way they are. But in this episode it's either a) a completely unrelated song that stops the story completely or b) the Warners are lying and are only singing this to suck up to Plotz so they can be rich and famous. I don't have a problem with the Warners' motive in this episode, but this was a bad way to introduce what's probably the sweetest Animaniacs song ever into the show. The "transition" was bad too; Plotz says it would be bad if the Warners sing, they cut to black, start the song, the song ends, they cut to black again, and the previous scene continues as if the song never happened.

There's also the fact that the characters singing about how great Plotz is in the beginning is...weird. They've established for seasons he's not well-liked and that he's incompetent as a CEO. Heck, an episode just this season ("Back in Style") re-established this. Like, they can't be schmoozing Plotz, since he's not in that scene. Not to mention the Warners spend a good chunk of the episode literally just waiting in line-I mean come on...episode 3 of this show literally had a joke where Slappy points out that "6 minutes in a check out line" would be boring! Also the Goodfeathers were only in this episode to do their overdone gag and for a poop joke, so yeah.

-Well I can't stay mad at this show for long. "Hooray for North Hollywood Part 2" was MUCH better than part 1. First, they actually call themselves out for stalling for time in part 1. During Skippy's recap of part 1, they play a clip of the Warners going "We wanna make a movie!" and Plotz responding with "You can't make a movie!" three times, before Skippy says, and I quote, "That was pretty much it. For a FULL HALF HOUR." After I heard that, I knew this episode would be better. And it was! They actually let the story play out without interrupting it every few minutes with an overly long gag or a song. There are two new songs in this episode, but one (L.A. Dot) was part of the Warners' movie (and another Dot solo song is always welcome), and the other (It's New Year's Eve) was a celebratory song for the party at the end, so the episode was pretty much over anyway. The only other song was a reprise of "We're On Our Way to Go See Mister Plotz", but again it played at the end of the episode.

I find it interesting this is the show's first and only hour long special. But given how parts 1 and 2 turned out...I'm really glad they only made one. Half-hour specials will do, thanks.

-By the way, have you ever looked up season 5's original airing schedule? Go look up season 5's original airing schedule. It's abysmal.

-You guys ever notice every time Dot gets a solo song she's either interrupted by her brothers or her brothers eventually join in? But the other two have multiple solo songs where they get to sing all by themselves, with no interruptions? Even in album songs-apparently originally in "Several Drops of Rain" they weren't gonna interrupt Dot but the producers insisted that commentary by Yakko and Wakko be added to the song. The only times this doesn't happen is in "A Christmas Plotz" (both the episode and the audiobook), but that was really short; and I guess "Dot's Quiet Time", but that song had a lot of pauses in it (that and she was technically interrupted by other things during the song). That's kinda weird.

-Welp, never mind what I said about Skippy's voice, they pitched it again for episode 97. I'm not hating on "The Sunshine Squirrels" though, it's a good Slappy segment. I like it more than "The Carpool", which was another one of those episodes where the Warners annoy and harm people for not much reason. They started doing that a lot in seasons 4 and 5, and I don't like it. It's also the last Yakko Wakko and Dot segment that focuses specifically on them without the ensemble cast present, which really sucks. It's not even that exciting of a premise; what a bad way for their segments to go out. I know I have issues with episode 95, but it makes me wish "Hooray for North Hollywood" aired last. But switching back to "The Sunshine Squirrels", is it bad that after only one episode I kinda wish Suzie Squirrel was Slappy's main antagonist instead of Walter Wolf? 😅 I mean, Walter Wolf works fine as a character, but Suzie was so unapologetically awful to Slappy, and not in a generic cartoon bad guy type of way. I wish she at least showed up earlier, and more often. Oh well (RIP Phyllis Diller).

-Oh and by the way, I called "Hooray for North Hollywood" part 1 episode 95 and consider "The Carpool" the last Warner segment (that isn't a crossover with other segments) because the episode with "Magic Time" and "The Brain's Apprentice" was supposed to be episode 94, so I consider THAT episode 94. It only due to "Magic Time" airing months after "The Brain's Apprentice" and much of season 5 that Hulu considers the episode with those two segments in it episode 98 (although I will admit "Magic Time" makes for a better last segment for Yakko Wakko and Dot than "The Carpool").

-I think they ran out of ideas for what to do with the Goodfeathers at one point. They only get one segment in season 4 (of which they felt the need to put Plotz and Ralph in), a VERY short one in season 5 (it may as well have been a cold open), and literally no segments in season 3.

-Season 4 probably has the worst finale. Season 1 gave us an expanded version of the Warners' backstory, season 2's final episode had "I'm Mad" in it (the show's first and only cinematic short), season 3's finale had every segment be a song (which was fun), and season 5's last episode had a crossover segment and-even if the last segment was essentially an AMV-it did have some sense of finality. Season 4's finale was...just another episode. A good one, but nothing special. It didn't even have a Warner segment in it.

O-KAY! That's it. I've seen all 99 episodes of the original Animaniacs (freedom at last!). What a journey. I didn't want to shy away from being critical, one of my main goals with this was to try and not mention points I've heard people say over the years over and over again. Honestly though I was little emotional by the last episode-and this is post reboot, so I know new Animaniacs content is now coming (and I'll DEFINITELY be watching). It's nice to know what the original series was like. If you're interested in how I'd rank the seasons:

Season 3 (It was mostly Yakko Wakko and Dot and Slappy segments, and the songs this season really took it up a notch. I do think a bit too many Warner segments this season could basically be summed up as "now let's parody (insert franchise here)", but the good in this season really outweighs the bad.)

Season 1 (You could tell there were throwing stuff at the wall to see what stuck, so season 1, whilst it has the most episodes and gave us a lot of TMS animation, was overall kinda hit or miss. Although I will admit, it at least has more variety than season 3 and is less reliant on movie parodies.)

Season 4 (Not as good as season 3, has the worst finale, and "Anchors A-Warners" was the start of the Warner segments not being quite as good, but still good overall-especially the first two episodes-and the non-Warner segments were significantly improved this season. Might've been second place if this season was longer.)

Season 5 (A bit more focus on the Warners then last season, which should be good, but unfortunately a lot of them are not as good as they used to be; I like Slappy, but if I'm enjoying her segments more than the Warners' at this point-you know, the MAIN TRIO?-you've got a problem. Episode 92 was amazing though, one of my favourite episodes of the show.)

Season 2 (Only four episodes, half of them don't even have Warner segments-outside of Wheel of Morality- a lot of focus on the Goodfeathers, Buttons and Mindy, and Katie Kaboom for some reason. No Slappy, no Pinky and the Brain, no thanks.)

I guess now all I have to do is watch Wakko's Wish and the Pinky and the Brain spin-off series. Will I be writing down my impressions of those? Well my dear readers, to quote Yakko Warner:

"Uhhhhhhhh..."

(EDIT : OK I watched Wakko's Wish a few weeks before making this edit but you know what? I'm gonna say it-I liked Wakko's Wish but that should've been the one hour special and "Hooray for North Hollywood" should've been the movie. Sorry not sorry.)

[canary3d-obsessed]

Lost Tomb Reboot Lewks: Part 12

(Masterpost) (Other Canary Stuff)

Warning: Spoilers for both seasons of The Lost Tomb Reboot

Look 61

The first look is Wu Xie’s road trip outfit, which includes this grey and white jacket. It has a contrasting elastic waistband, cuffs, and neckline, and slanted pockets. 

This is exactly the sort of jacket that my 5th grade science teacher would have worn in 1979, and she would have slayed in it.  She awakened something in me and it wasn’t love of STEM. (Spock was responsible for my love of STEM, and various other awakenings in 5th-grade me) I’m sure it would still look great on her, because she is probably a silver haired foxy granny now, and that’s who this jacket belongs on in the current century.

Wu Xie should never have gotten within a mile of this old lady jacket.

To clarify, I’m not being gender-essentialist here; I’m being ageist. If this jacket had some contemporary detailing or interesting features to offset its last-century vibe, the way Bai Haotian’s green roller derby jacket does, it would be fine even though I’m not a fan of this sort of collar in menswear. But it’s just a nicely-made old lady jacket. Mary Berry could bake a nice cake while wearing this jacket. 

Note: Liu Sang could wear the hell out of this jacket, of course, because that man can wear literally anything and make it look like it’s made of spun pheromones.

(more after the cut!)

Wu Xie eventually improves this look by taking the jacket off and giving the camera operator a nice long look at his ass. He’s wearing dark jeans and a long-sleeve white thermal shirt, which is a great improvement. 

Look 62

The granny jacket is contrasted by the blessed arrival of Huo Daofu’s daddy jacket, and the rest of the clothing that Huo Daofu is wearing with it.  This is a dark green jacket with a nipped in waist, military styling, and invisible stitching that says "obey" You can't see it, but oh, it's there.

He's wearing this jacket of domination with jeans so tight they appear to be made of paint. I approve of these jeans so much that I might need to take a break from writing for a moment. 

Instead of shoes he’s opted for a pair of tall riding boots, just in case anyone failed to get the message.

He finishes off this look with gold rimmed glasses, pomegranate-toned lips, and an air of authority so strong that even Pangzi does what he tells him to with minimal back chat.

Later the jacket comes off, so he can wrap it solicitously around the shoulders of a person who is already wearing a perfectly good jacket.  OP looks up “service top” in the dictionary.

Underneath, Huo Daofu is wearing a grey houndstooth waistcoat. Shen Wei’s tailor would gnash his teeth in envy, if he saw the cut of this vest. This tops off a warm-toned brown shirt worn with a silver-toned watch. The watch is...round, and it tells time. He’s wearing a brown belt with his black jeans. Huo Daofu is great at combining warm and cool, formal and casual, in a single look. 

Look at this dapper bitch. Slaying this hard has got to be against his Hippocratic oath.

This jacket-free look is combined with hip posture so provocative that it sends Wu Xie into a hasty search for the last scraps of his heteronormative assumptions. Xiao Bai does her best to help.

Look 63

The beards. 

OP's family of origin is full of hairy visigoths, so Pangzi's beard is a style I've encountered before, alas. We call this a [US] Civil War beard. This one is terrible and lopsided, but at least it covers a lot of Pangzi’s face.

Wu Xie’s fake facial hair isn't terrible, but isn't great. You can tell it’s fake because everything about Zhu Yilong is inherently lovely, and this isn’t. 

Also, it's a ridiculous idea for a disguise. Wu Xie's close-trimmed chin patch and mustache are nice style, very typical for a Chinese dude. They let Wu Xie’s lovely facial structure continue to do its thing while they just provide a bit of an accent. But this is a problem, because they don't change his appearance in any meaningful way; his cheekbones are still visible from orbit. 

He’s wearing this facial hair and cap with the same vest he wore earlier to practice slingshot. This time he's accessorizing with a simple tan jacket, with an interesting buttonhole detail... 

...and with an attractive human IV stand.

Doctor doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loving you you loving me.

Look 64

This look belongs to the man that Jia Kezale’s wife has replaced him with. We have to infer his look based on his shoes, and that he is presumably in the same league as the extremely hot Jia Kezale. 

Based on these shoes, which are very nice, if a little weathered, Huarache-style loafers, this other man in her life also presumably wears linen trousers and a guayabera shirt. 

*mentally pictures this person* 

ok, I guess I don't blame her. 

[Image, and shirts, from cubavera dot com]

Look 65

After having his IV fluids, Wu Xie goes for a nighttime motorbike ride, because he apparently needs to go way up on a hill to see that the hotel he’s staying in is circular.

So, what is with the Ultraman motorcycle helmet? Does it have any padding or insulation at all? Why doesn’t it cover more than 40 percent of his head and face?

And shouldn't it have a chin strap?  How does it stay on in a crash?  I mean yes I know this is a show with sentient crustaceans...yeah, never mind. I’m sure that’s a super effective helmet. 

Once the rain starts, his mustache and beard look better. Still not great, but better. Here he looks like he’s cosplaying as Zhou Yunlan.

Now he’s wet and lying on the ground because...oh, hell if I remember. Just look at him, poor moist snookums. He needs a blankie and a hot tea and a hurt-comfort fic about him and his doctor. 

This look gives the newest members of the polycule an opportunity to demonstrate their devotion, as they haul him off the motorcycle and over to a wall, and then continue to stand in the rain, for some reason, instead of going indoors. 

I gotta say, when a producer decides to pour water on Zhu Yilong, they  commit to it.

Speaking of commitment, here’s Huo Daofu holding his hand up over Wu Xie’s face like a tiny umbrella. 

Bonus 1

Look at the yellow duffle coat on that kid. She looks beautiful and classic, and the mustard yellow color just pops so nicely in this scene. 

The mustard yellow also visually marks her allegiance to gold-dragon-wearing Xue Wu. 

Bonus 2

This look is Wu Xie’s antique-scheming outfit, but now he is wearing the Sunglasses of Manpain. They belong to Pangzi, but Wu Xie is wearing them while he waits for Pangzi to collect his angst from the morgue.

These sunglasses are good to wear while contemplating the fact that, despite the many differences in narrative tropes between Chinese and Western media, the one where a female character is hurt and/or dies merely to further a male character's emotional development remains a constant.

That said, this is a nice small signifier of their relationship, as he puts these glasses on Pangzi, allowing him to hide his feelings, while hugging him, allowing him to express his feelings.

[dukeofonions]

Sensing a pattern thanks to the critical fans' asks... I'm a professional producer who's attempted on numerous occasions (unsuccessfully) to secure Thomas for a part in a Broadway-bound musical. TL;DR: How he and his team -- not just friends, but "pros" -- "run their railroad" confuses the hell out of us, and is probably the biggest obstacle to his getting anywhere besides YouTube. Frankly, we now wonder if this is by design and not just typical lack of experience winning the race, as it were...

(Sorry it took so long to respond work has been killing me the past few days.)

Longer Version (1/?): We've been working on this musical for just over a decade, and after we discovered Thomas's long-form content and the singles he's released, we thought he was a good fit for it. Without going into detail, the show's always been kind of a long shot, for many reasons, but we (still) think it'd be a great showcase for his brand of talent. So we decided to approach him and to gauge his interest, since he'd discussed Broadway dreams before. And there, our troubles began...

(2/?) So, five years ago, we approached Thomas through his then-management, Reboot the People, a company that managed a *lot* of content creators back then. (Their remains still exist on Twitter @RTPfamily.) They may have been a little out of their depth when they heard our pitch, and wisely looped in his agent at the time, Ty Flynn at UTA, from whom we heard... nothing. Okay, maybe it wasn't his thing; we had other projects to pursue and we moved on but... we still kept an eye on his content.

(4/?) When we returned to the project a couple years later, Thomas was still a favorite for the part for which we had him in mind, and building a much bigger audience than before, so we decided to reach out again. The business fawsterdog email address, as I'm sure fans have discovered by now, is useless. No one there ever got back to us. More than that, when we tried to learn who was managing him now (at times pleading on Twitter and during streams for info), we kept hitting dead ends.

(5/?) We finally managed to obtain a lead when we watched the "NO ADDED SUGAR for a MONTH!" video, and someone described as Thomas's manager actually appeared on camera, Matt Hogen, the president of Direct Artist Management. Further Googling revealed Matt had apparently been his manager as far back as 2013, way earlier than we'd been directed to Reboot The People for business inquiries. To say this runaround was confusing as hell, *even for show business*, is the understatement to end them all!!!

(6/6) At that point, after all that confusion, we just gave up!! If we have to chase someone's representation to the ends of the earth, only to find out there was one person we should have been talking to the whole time, it's probably more convoluted behind the scenes, and we don't need that extra stress in our lives. Watching the recent storms unfold, and wondering how true to life the "Putting Others First" video is, we can only assume he likes the *idea* of career more than really having one...

(I lied, 7/7) Bottom line: he presents a picture of unreliability and a lack of professionalism both to his fans and to industry people, and -- assuming there's *any* autobiographical truth to Sanders Sides content -- it may be because he's deliberately not taking this seriously. If losing out on big opportunities is the price he pays for keeping his mental health and well being in check, that's fine. But it's not how you succeed in this business... in any business, really. I wish him the best...

Wow, that is a lot.

Well for starters (and I hope you don't take this the wrong way) I am the tiniest bit skeptical about this story being true. I mean I can definitely see it happening giving Thomas and the team's track record, but there are just a few things that make me hesitate.

For one thing I'm surprised that a professional producer found their way onto my blog (which I try to keep out of the open) and took the time to read through some asks then send an ask of their own. Not that it's impossible of course, because here you are. But you know anyone can claim to be anyone so I hope you don't mind my skepticism here.

And admittedly I'm not entirely sure how the producing world works along with agents, especially when it comes to getting someone cast for your show. I can't see Thomas turning an opportunity down like that unless he just wasn't interested or never knew about it.

Which, honestly, if you did try getting into contact with his agent and he was told about it and wasn't interested then ya know, the least they could do was tell you so you could start looking for someone else.

I did also find the Twitter account for Reboot The People and yeah, it's long since abandoned and I'm wondering how you even got directed there in the first place when he had a manager already (if I'm understanding the time line right)

I do kinda question the whole asking for answers in streams bit (since Thomas rarely if ever does public live streams and I don't think he did much back then the only streams he does consistently now are for patreons) and he never leaves them up anyway so it's not like I could go back and look through the chats (not that I would because I ain't got time for that) but again, it's not impossible for that to have happened. Just a tiny detail my brain got hooked on.

Even if I'm still somewhat doubtful about your story (again please don't take it the wrong way I just like to be sure before I 100% believe something) I do agree about Thomas and the team's lack of professionalism, just look at the Story Time Madlibs situation, and they continue to make decisions (especially within the patreon) that just continue to baffle me.

I mean at the end of the day no one knows what's going on behind the scenes. And as it stands Thomas has found enough success with YouTube where he's stable enough to make it his full time job and can go months or even a year without posting a video.

But he even brings this point up in one of his Sanders Sides videos that YouTube isn't a stable job, and you never know when everything can suddenly flip and before ya know it the job ain't as stable anymore, and at that point you've gotta have some kinda back up plan for if things go south.

Because eventually (and I've already seen it happening) people will just get bored without new content or just grow out of it and they'll move on. Even if they've got nothing against the creator, that's just what happens. Some will stick around but even then no one's bound to last forever. Especially when there's always new stuff to be found.

But hey, he's good where he's at for now so I guess one might as well enjoy it while they can. I would like to see him succeed in actually securing a bigger role (whether in a film, Broadway, or even a TV show) because I think he'd do really well and he has been contacted by Disney before to be in one of their shows so who knows?