#and force you to watch the whole animation… she literally does not have the same power he did…

[furious-blueberry0]

Are there people out there that really think that Star Wars is too political? And say that as if it is a flaw?

Like, I’m sorry, but did people seriously look at a saga literally named Star WARS and manage to complain about the fact that it has politics? Did these people watch the movies and only saw the lightsabers, the cool music and the pew pews? Is that all their brain could comprehend?

I’m not saying that you can’t do that, if you want to look at the fun side of the saga only than good for you, but using the argument of “too much politics” and make it the flaw of the story is so stupid.

Like that’s the point, THAT’S THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT.

George Lucas didn’t just make a story of a good guy vs a bad guy, he made a story where a Republic, a just system that has become corrupted to its core, finds itself into a devastating war and is pushed to its limit by a slimy and disgusting scheming bastard (inspired by George Bush), who then uses its weakness to take control of it and transform it, from a free system to a fascist dictatorship (inspired by Nazi Germany and the USA of the Vietnam war) and whose one of the first things he does is a literal genocide and ethnical cleansing of a religious order.

And this is only the Prequels, because in the OT the story is about how this Empire, whose head and right hand are literally the most powerful beings in the galaxy, gets utterly destroyed not by other powerful beings, not by superpowers, not by mystical forces that the human mind can’t comprehend.

But by people, normal people, the average person, who can’t fly, who can’t use mystical objects, who cannot move things with the mind or other tricks.

The heroes of these movies are the rebels, who are not fighting because of some ancient prophecy, or because of a quest given by mystical beings, or because they have to restore the fabric of the Universe, they fight because it’s the right thing to do, because this is what happens when you take away freedom from people, when you destroy their homes, when you kill their loved ones, when you obliterate everything they have ever known and loved.

Treat people like animals and they’ll react like animals, by biting the hand that carries the stick and then ripping it into shreds.

And yes, Luke is the hero that saves the day by killing Sidious and Vader, but he would have never, and I say NEVER have arrived at that point without the help of the Rebellion, it’s something that no one could have ever done alone, a single individual against an entire Empire is a suicide, no matter how powerful you are.

And I love it. I don’t even know how to put it into words, I love how this ancient and meticulous plan gets annihilated by normal people, who just wanted to be free.

THIS is Star Wars: a fight against tyranny.

And it makes me sad how people forget and ignore it. With the Rebellion it’s not just the special people who can be heroes, everyone can! And they don’t even need to do the heroic actions described in the stories and the myths.

A Hero says “No” when the Stormtroopers ask if they saw the young and scared boy who ran and hid behind the bins near their home.

A Hero gives extra blankets and food to the neighbor that is hiding refugees.

A Hero “accidentally” blocks the way of a squad of Stormtroopers, to give others the time to escape.

A Hero hides the weapons of the rebels in their well while the Stormtroopers raid all the houses.

A Hero runs through the streets and into the woods to go find the rebels that are hiding there, to tell them it’s time to run

A Hero talks loudly about the atrocities that the Empire is committing, forcing those who are silent to listen.

A Hero comforts the mother who lost all her children to the Empire.

A Hero organizes the funeral of that same mother, after she tried to take her revenge.

A Hero doesn’t let the Empire enter their head, they don’t let it change their being.

It’s all about the small acts of insurrection that pushes the line forward.

[sns-iux]

I want to say this and get this off my chest. Sakura fans, Hinata fans, Sasusaku fans, and Naruhina fans, this post is not for you so if you’re going to say anything rude don’t read this post.

I wanted to pointed out some things about Sakura and Hinata especially their fandom

Here we got this(not mine btw) What? Did this person ever watched the anime or read the manga at all? I don’t think we never had a canon reason why Sakura became a kunoichi/Ninja nor it was stated why she became one. Hinata had a canon reason I believe, She was a force to become a ninja or something like that but I guess some Sakura fans think Hinata became a ninja to get Naruto to notice her.

Apparently Hinata can’t cry because her husband is never home? Kushina and Minato died for their child and I don’t know how Mito died because I haven’t watched Naruto in a long time but I do have the manga but not the whole collection yet. I mean wouldn’t you be sad and crying that your husband is never home with you and your kids.

Sarada was being rude because she asked a question about her mom marriage?.. Never knew it was rude to ask your mom or dad about their marriage/relationship. Sarada does have a right to ask Sakura about her marriage with Sasuke, Sarada hasn’t seen her dad for years.

Now we’re fighting who’s the best mother now? My personal opinion who are the best mothers are kushina and Mikoto. They actually care for their kids and died for them.

The parents in boruto:

I might get hate for this but Hinata, Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke are all terrible parents. Sasuke and Naruto are both absent for their kids and Sakura and Hinata are literally ok with them being absent for their kids. Whenever their kids say about how they feel and wish their dads were their for them, Hinata and Sakura are like “He has a lot of work or “He has been oh his mission”. It’s also fucking funny how people call naruto a terrible dad for missing out boruto birthday and tried to attend his himawari birthday but failed but Sasuke has missed tons of sarada birthdays and people are like he’s hot or a better dad then naruto? I guess a dad who misses tons of his daughter birthdays is better than a dad who misses one his kids birthday and tried to attend his other one.

Naruto the last: I fucking hate this movie and wish to burn it. SP turned Naruto into a complete dumbass, sure naruto was dumb but not completely actually dumb like goku who doesn’t know what a kiss is. It’s funny how SP took naruto and sasuke bonds and give it ti naruto and hinata. Also why is hinata Charka Is purple in the movie? Oh yeah SP took it from sasuke and gave it hinata. It’s funny how they made this movie just for naruto to fall in love with hinata because they were no evidence of him falling in love with hinata. “But Naruto saved her” yes he did but does that mean he loves her, just because a male character saves a female character doesn’t mean he’s in love with her. Sorry to say this but if you get jealous of your crush wearing a scarf from his dead mother which is a memory to them, then you’re nothing but an asshole for that. I hate fucking SP for changing the personality on some of the characters on this fanfic movie.

Sakura: look I seen some people claim that Sakura can madara, obito, naruto, Konan, itachi, sasuke, karin, and others characters and I want to know give me a explanation of how can she defeat this characters? Yes she is strong but does that mean she can beat everyone, no. Madara can easily beat Sakura probably in like a second or minute, Madara is more stronger than Sakura. Also explain to me how can she defeat Karin who was long ass uzumaki chains and Konan who has millions or thousands of paper bombs, so how the fuck can she handle those. Also some Sakura fans are sensitive if you criticize her, if you say something about her then the Sakura fans will attack them, same for hinata fans they do the same thing of what Sakura fans do. It’s funny whenever someone calls hinata pretty or another female character pretty then some Sakura fans are like “nO sAkUrA iS OnLy pReTTy!!” I guess we can’t call other female pretty other than Sakura.

Sasusaku and Naruhina: I sometimes see on twitter about who’s the better ship sasusaku or naruhina and I will say this, they are both terrible ships/couples. They shouldn’t all have been single because sasuke has never shown any love interest in Sakura and girls. Yes they did have moments together but does that mean he loves her? No. He did care for Sakura in og Naruto but did sasuke love her? No he cares her because she’s their teammate so why are some ss fans acting sasuke loves her because he cares for her as a teammate. Almost the same for Naruhina. Naruto ignores her for years but out of nowhere they married? I mean sasuke and Naruto doesn’t even look happy with their wives. Naruto with sasuke he has a big smile but Naruto with hinata it looks like he has a polite smile where he’s forced to take a picture with his family. Sasuke doesn’t look happy around sakura, he just looks annoyed around her. Also what fucking annoys me that I sometimes see some sasusaku fans compare Sasuke and Sakura to Obamitsu(Obanai x Mitsuri) relationship. Really, you’re really comparing a toxic relationship to a healthy relationship? Let me tell you how sasusaku is nothing like Obamitsu

Sakura: was obsessed with sasuke for years and chases after him.

Misturi: wasn’t obsessed with obanai and didn’t chase him and cares for his feelings and wishes.

Sasuke: doesn’t have a shit about Sakura, tried to kill 3 times, abandoned his family for 13 years, doesn’t know he had a daughter, doesn’t visit his family, looks uncomfortable and annoyed with Sakura.

Obanai: cares for misturi, didn’t try to kill her, didn’t abandon her, looks comfortable and happy around mitsuri.

So explain to me how is sasusaku is like Obamitsu. I bet Sasusaku fans compare them to obamitsu is because

Sakura and Mitsuri: Both have pink hair, strong, both has green eyes, both has a crush on black hair guys.

Sasuke and Obanai: Both has black hair, strong, both has snakes.

Also mitsuri goal didn’t revolve around obanai. But Sakura goal lead to revolve Sasuke.

It’s also hilarious how people will shit on hinata for stalking Naruto and losing fights while Sakura did the same thing as hinata.

That’s all for today. You can always correct me

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

Apparently when Aang was depressed and suggested that maybe they should abandon hope, he was actually ordering/Forcing The pregnant Couple to accept air nomad beliefs.

Also Aang apparently Regularly disrespects and refuses to learn from other cultures and Aang actually isn’t even a good airbender because somehow even though he regularly airbends, we don’t see him practicing at all.

Finally even though Aang allowed Katara to take Appa and acknowledged that she believes that she needs to go on the journey to Yon rha, Aang was forcing Katara to murder Yon Rha.

What show were Aang’s detractors watching?

I love the implication that somethings as simple as "having hope" is considered "Air-nomad exclusive belief", when that's a big theme throught the whole show and we have IROH telling Zuko not to give into despair, and explaining to the crew on "The Storm" that Zuko is so obsessed with capturing the Avatar because that mission allows him to hope he can come home and fix things with his dad.

They REALLY think that "pacifist" (which IS an air-nomad thing) MUST mean "hopeful, optimistic and cheery" like Aang - like we didn't see the air-nomads clearly freaking out so bad that they tell Aang he is the Avatar four years ahead of time, getting pissed whenever he is having any fun, and even want to separate him from his "father" because they knew something bad was gonna happen. Aka, they gave into despair.

As for him "forcing" the couple to give that name to their child

Husband: What should we name her?

Wife: I want our daughter's name to be unique. I want it to mean something.

Aang:  I've been going through a really hard time lately. But you've made me ... hopeful again.

Wife: I know what I want to name our baby now. Hope.

Husband: That's a perfect name. Hope.

That was a suggestion at most. Not an order, not intimidating them into doing what he wanted them to, and surely not forcing them to accept "air-nomad beliefs."

"The guy who spent the whole series traveling around to learn from different people, and was so understanding he was even sympathetic to the nation that killed everyone he knew and loved, did not respect other cultures" Bruh.

Literally the only two "disrespectful" things I remember Aang doing were:

1 - That bitter comment about "dead animals" towards Bato - which he only made because he was feeling left out of the conversation since his friends were so excited about being with someone from their tribe that they were completely ignoring him. Not cool, but totally understanding considering he's 12.

2 - Snapping at Pakku for not wanting to train Katara/trying to teach her what he was taught behind his back (even though the second one is on shaky ground since, even though that was a bit of a "cheat code" to make Pakku train Katara indirectly, he doesn't have the right to demand Aang never share his knowledge with someone he doesn't approve of)

And both of these, on top of being understandable, also have the disclaimer of "You can disagree with someone's beliefs/cultural habits without looking down on them" - hell, Katara full on says Gran-Gran left because she wouldn't let the Northern Water Tribes stupid customs ruin her life. Not to mention, the Fire Nation's culture for at least 100 years has been "fuck everyone else, only our way of living is the correct one" and the whole point of the show is "This belief is not only wrong and hurting the other nation, it is harming the Fire Nation itself"

"It's my culture" is a neutral statement. It does not shield said culture from criticism, and Aang disagreeing with someone's beliefs - be it that hunting/eating meat is okay, or that women can't be fighters, or that not all life is sacred - is not the same as him being disrespectful. He owes people basic human decency, not blind agreement with anything and everything they believe in.

So yeah, these people need to keep. Aang's. Name. OUT. THEIR. FUCKING. MOUTH.

[alexglitches]

Yune, the Host of the Lady Bone Demon (TWST x LMK)

this is a little funky crossover thing I did for Twisted Wonderland and LEGO Monkie Kid :)

kinda spoilers for season 4 in the post-possession part

Yune Pre-possession

Yune is a very kind person, they’re a bit shy too and a bit of a pushover

They like cute things, mainly animals and flowers

Especially likes cats

Took in strays and volunteers at the local animal shelter

They’re unassuming and as normal as you can get in their crazy city

Average grades, a nice group of school friends

Normal

A bit boring, right?

“Come on, Kitty.” Yune grunted as they stood on their tiptoes in some random alleyway, trying to catch their cat to bring them back home. 

Their cat, however, seemed to enjoy putting Yune through the ringer in trying to catch it. The tabby got up from where it had loafed and jumped over a wall into the alleyway on the other side of the street. 

Yune slumped and groaned. “Come on!” 

A blue light caught their eye and they turned, startling when they see a wispy fog rise like mist, then screaming when the fog came straight at them. 

It forced itself down their throat, like if they allowed an unwelcome guest into their home. They choked and collapsed, feeling hot and cold at the same time, they shuddered as the mist spread through their veins, then gasped as it was all finished. 

A numbness came with possession, they were helpless. 

Their mind blinked like a light went off, and the spirit took control of her new host with a maniacal laugh. 

~~~

Yune Lady Bone Demon

the Lady Bone Demon took to her new host like a fish to water

Everything continues on as normal in the Monkie Kid canon, except Yune is the one the LBD has under her control

starting with aiding the Spider Queen

she makes the spiders collect all the artefacts she needs

she’s the one making Yune manipulate and torment MK

she’s the one who attacks

she’s the one who holds Macaques life over his head and the one who takes control of Wukong and his powers

all the while, Yune is in a comatose like state in their own mind

of course, everything turns out alright in the end, MK and his team stop the Lady Bone Demon, save the world, and help Yune heal

“So, you thought you had all the pieces right where you wanted them.” Sun Wukong glared at the demon who possessed a literal teen. 

A whole new low for the Lady Bone Demon. 

“I have so many pieces I’ve yet to play.” She spoke through the child, wearing their face and morphing it into an evil smirk. 

Wukong growled as he and the demon initiated a fight, which ultimately led to him being held hostage in the webs of the Spider Queen. 

He made a vow that night that he would stop her in any way he could. 

~~~

Yune Post-possession 

Yune was p passed out for a few days after being separated from the Lady Bone Demon

from beginning to end, the possession lasted a month

but even then, the lack of control they felt during the entire thing terrified them immensely 

slowly, they begin recovering

they’re eating noodles at Pigsy’s, taking therapy sessions with Sandy and his cats, and they feel comforted knowing that their new friends have their back

until they don’t

SEASON 4 SPOILERS JUST IN CASE

so azure is casually breaking apart the universe, as one does

and in canon, we see the original host girl watching the chaos unfold

replace her with Yune

and add in the fact that they fall into one of these rifts

yeah, things aren’t going so great

this rift transports Yune to the world of Twisted Wonderland

so travelling to a new world and becoming the unspoken therapist to a bunch of mentally unstable boys, ADD IN THE FACT THAT THEY TOO ARE A MENTALLY UNSTABLE PERSON and they have to deal with other people’s problems, plus their own post-possession mental breakdowns 

EQUALS STRESS INCARNATE

YUNE IS NOT HAVING A GOOD TIME

someone give them a hug :(

Grim curled up next to Yune's head carefully, making sure not to wake them up from their sleep.

They were having a nightmare... they were crying.

Grim nuzzled their face and went back to sleeping.

They stopped crying.

[weatherman667]

Goblin Slayer S2 Conclusion

They had no idea what they were doing.

One of the best things to do in a story if you feel it's stagnating, or don't know where to go, is to add a new character. Goblin Slayer adds two. One, Rhea Fighter, (Rheas are basically Halflings), is wonderful. She actively wants to learn, takes advice, respects the veterans.

The second is Wizard Boy, the younger brother of the Wizard that died in the first episode. And he does everything he can to join her. The only reason he doesn't die, and take the rest of Goblin Slayer's party with him, is that they are the main characters, and have plot armour.

In the first season, the only reason they survive is that Goblin Slayer is crazy-prepared, and, quite frankly, often uses weapons of mass destruction. Goblin Slaying is brutal. Goblins are clever. Their nests are too smal and crampedl for a large man with a large sword. They are dark and twisting, the Goblins will use this to create secret hides to attack you from behind. Your clothing and armour becomes encrusted with Goblin Crime, to the point that adventurers will typically refuse to wear their good adventure clothing when Goblin Slaying.

Season 2 wants to make it epic and glamourous.

What else do you do when you want to add to an anime?

Fan service is an obvious answer. In a gritty, horrifying, bleak, blood soaked anime.

What else? Character Development! Ah, yes, well, if only they had actually given the characters names.

Plot? Well, there is a plot. in the background. Goblin Slayer purposefully ignores the battle for good and evil going on in the back ground. And it was wonderful to not focus on the OP hero, but some schmuck doing the dirty work that no one else wants to do.

The Wizard Boy arc was a good idea in theory, just terrible in implementation. If Priestess had joined him and Rhea Fighter for some rat quests to teach them how utterly violent and gruesome it was. They could have had the Guild Girl talk to her directly, and just suggest she spend time with a lower-ranked party, so she could prove herself.

Instead they decided to make the Rhea Fighter almost a background character, and have the fucking twat join the main party.

They forced fan-service into the anime, where it didn't belong. Yes, the girls are all attractive, but they could have just had them do pinups in the eye catches. Instead, they create a modern bathhouse, with all of the modern amenities. When they could have had a much more simple bathhouse to do the exact same thing. They have the girls hang around in lingerie, when they are literally worried about being attacked by Goblins.

They visit High Elf Ranger's family, and we see her surrounded... High Elf Rangers. And half of the arc is spent awkwardly not using names, because none of them have names. And they can't even refer High Elf Ranger as High Elf Ranger, because no one would know if they were talking about her, or any of the other High Elf rangers.

While the world is interesting, the races and cultures varied, the whole design of the story is to NOT focus on this.

The rest of the arc is spent in fan service, which is the primary reason Cow Girl and Guild Girl were invited.

I recommend watching it once.

[winderlylandchime]

I feel like I have to keep you updated for these last few days and 70% of that is because I unfortunately made you all aware of my brothers existence and the other 30% is because he bullies me into telling stuff to his new ‘homies’. But also soooo much happened that i immediately thought to myself ‘i know a few people that would like to hear all this’ and my brother shared the same thought. So I apologize in advance for any spam that will happen in the next few days but I will also try my best to put it all into one message.

So first of all: MY BROTHER IS OFFICIALLY CLEARED UP TO GO HOME!! His tests all came back amazing so he is officially going back home on Sunday. Ngl the feeling is bittersweet because who is going to wake up half of the neighborhood with Sandstorm now and get stuck trying to climb a fence and force 50-60 year olds into watching qaf with him? And he’s taking the cat with him as well. Rude.

Anyway! I wish you guys could’ve seen him go into his lasy check up, he brought chocolates for everyone and got them each a card with personalized messages to say thanks for taking care of him. He was all happy and sweet, it was like a kid on Christmas. And then towards the end of the check up, one of the nurses was like ‘hey (his name), we actually wanted to give you a little something, to remember us by and also as a goodbye since you’re going home’ and they gave him a gift and guys, this shit was so freaking cute! They first got him some snacks he loves (he always came to the check ups with snacks and was offering them to all of the staff), but they also got him a penguin plushie (context: when he first came for the surgery, they told him to bring his pajamas from home since he will stay for a few days and he rolled up with two different penguin pajamas cause it’s his favorite animal..again this man is a grown 36 year old) And the plushie has the exact same scar on his chest/stomach as my brother does from his accident. And the surgeon goes ‘i made sure that they were identical, that way you’re no longer one of a kind’ because after the surgery when they showed him how it looked he was all high on meds and went ‘not gonna lie, this looks badass but fuck now i really am one of a kind and all alone.’ So the surgeon sewed the plushie to make it look the same. It was actually adorable as fuck! And my brother was all teary eyed about it. And then!!! the nurse goes ‘there’s one more thing inside and you have to check it now.’ And she explained that the nurse who knew about qaf (from when he ripped his stitches) is also a big part of this last gift. And it was a card and on the front it said ‘you’re cool but we really hope to never see you again’ (its kinda like a thing they say there bc it’s trauma department or whatever). Also sidenote: Did you guys know there’s a greeting/birthday card you can buy online that allows you to record a message and design the cover? So when you open it, it starts saying the message or whatever? Me neither. But apparently the nurses knew about it. So he opens the fucking card and Lover’s spit starts playing and all that is inside is a picture of Britin from the end of 3x14 where everyone is celebrating and they hug (Brian is like hugging Justin but he’s looking over him somewhere). And they go ‘you talked so much about that episode we figured it was fitting.’ And then they explained that the nurse who knew about the show helped them find the photos and everything and even fought them to make sure Lover’s spit is used since originally they wanted to put Cue The Pulse. And that nurse eventually won the “fight” because they remembered that my brother went on a whole speech when he watched 3x08 about the reunion scene. And my brother on the verge of tears goes ‘thank fuck cause this is way fucking cooler. No offense’ And that’s literally all there is in the card (well and all their signatures on the opposite side from the photo).

And then after the check up as we are leaving, the surgeon goes ‘well I think I can honestly say, that i will never ever have a patient like you ever again’ and my brother obviously took that as a compliment and went ‘well duuh, every other patient is boring compared to me’ and guys!!!! We were leaving, my brother is almost out the door, I’m already outside the office and the fucking surgeon goes ‘oh (his name), by the way, you were right. That proposal was ridiculous and the finale really did suck. In fact if it was up to me? I’d erase the entire last season.‘ and he’s like smirking at my brother and my brother (and me too ngl) is SHOCKED! And he starts stuttering and goes ‘you..you knew the show this whole time?’ And the doctor goes ‘don’t be ridiculous. I didn’t even know it existed but after your 3rd spiral over it, I had to check it out to see what the big deal was about it’ and then my brother was like ‘why didnt you say anything? We could’ve been buddies over it this whole time’ and the doctor walked up to the door and goes ‘Exactly’ and then he just slowly closed the door while waving to my brother and my brother was just standing outside the door not moving for so long, i had to drag him away. And he walked past the nurse and goes ‘he watched it!’ And the nurse goes ‘oh yeah, he came in one day and was like “you know that show (his name) is always talking about? Well my wife and i watched it and holy shit’

The whole car ride home, we were both in absolute shock. Him more but that’s because only one of us was giving full speeches and rundowns about episodes to the doctor. And as for the card? You know that scene in Easy A, where she keeps opening and closing the birthday card to hear the song? That’s what half of my Wednesday looked like.

Dear sweet anon and brother anon! I am so happy he’s cleared and discharged. That makes me so happy!

I am beyond surprised that the doctors and nurses all got him presents. Admittedly, any surgeries I’ve had have been done outpatient except for when I was 8 and 13, and with follow up only with my doctor so I don’t know what is common these days. But their presents! Those weren’t generic, we give these to all the patients, gifts. The penguin! With the matching scar! The card with the photo and Lover’s Spit! I’m dying.

And. The. Surgeon. Watched. Qaf. Like all 5 seasons. I am deceased. Ofc he didn’t tell your brother until the end. (Your poor brother has all these people doing things behind his back while he’s watching this show. He’s going to develop trust issues.) But he has all correct opinions.

Wait. As I’m typing this I realized. A trauma surgeon (if I understand correctly) watched prom and 201. He must have opinions about Justin’s injury and recovery. Wait. I have some questions. How comfortable does your brother feel calling up the surgeon and saying “so I’m tumblr famous and this rando girl who is equally obsessed with QAF wants to know what you think the long term effects of the bashing would be on Justin.”

I am just as shocked as both of you about this turn of events. What a way to start my Thursday.

[ruggiethethuggie]

What do the boys do when they help volunteer at my work

Ft: Heartslabyul, Savanaclaw, Octavinelle, Scarabia *notes: I work for a nonprofit organization where the main building is a shelter that does intakes and adoptions and where the other building is used as a spay/neuter clinic (which is where I am at). Also, this is semi-proofread (thank you my bby girl coworker). **tw: surgery (nothing is explicitly described, but it is referenced) © please do not copy and or repost my work as your own, my brain is massive and these are my thoughts.

Riddle:

Probably comes in and immediately comments on how it smells like “animal”

I get vibes that he doesn’t care to be around the dogs that much

Honestly maybe not the cats either

I do think he would want to see the rats at the clinic (emphasis on SEE)

I think at first he would think they are cool but if one peed on him

Rat has no more head, ya know?? (Figuratively)

Would easily come and defend our front desk staff if he hears someone being a Karen

Ultimately going to wash his hands or use germ x every 5 minutes even if he doesn’t touch something 

I think he would enjoy walking around and micromanaging the staff

Or maybe he would be good at managing other volunteers

Trey:

Brings treats for the animals

They were all handmade by him

He probably tries to befriend the mean animals

To no one's surprise, he is their favorite person

He probably brings snacks for the staff as well

Will continue to ask us what he can do to help

Washes all the dishes in minutes and then reorganizes our food pantry

Is very helpful with paw pantry (he is charming and talks to the people easily)

Does not care to see the surgical side of the job and doesn’t step foot into clinic

He would help with intakes or adoptions if asked to

Cater:

Super sweet to all staff and volunteers

Likes to sit in the cat room and take photos of cats

Jokes that he will start coming to do photo sessions of the animals to get them adopted

Likes to post photos or videos on Instagram for us

Spends a lot of time laughing and looking at his phone instead of actual volunteer work

Compliments the staff and tell us how much he appreciates us and what we do

Enjoys having conversations with the animals, sometimes baby talks with the dogs

Likes to cuddle the puppies and take selfies with them

Any puppy or kitten posted to his personal account is adopted the same day, sometimes within the hour

Ace:

Never signs in when he volunteers, has to be reminded to every time

Refuses to do “kennel work” as a volunteer

Is adamant he can help with surgical assistance 

Honestly he isn’t terrible at the job

He knows how to hold the animals well and he makes jokes the whole morning

He is actually queasy the whole time he volunteers

He passes out trying to force himself to watch a surgery (like who are you trying to impress)

Is sent to the break room to open syringe packages for us

Opens a box and then comes to watch us for a few minutes before being sent back lol

Befriends the asshole clinic cat, May Belle

He and May Belle wreak havoc at the clinic

He talks a lot when he does the recovery area 

Probably is like me and likes to hide and scare the clinic staff and volunteers for funsies

Deuce:

Is willing to help wherever he is needed

Really good with helping clients with paperwork if you go over it thoroughly with him first

Does well at damage control with upset clients

Does not mind helping and doing “kennel work” unlike Ace

Will get attached to an animal the first day he volunteers

Found in his favorite dog’s run on break time

Tries to share his sandwiches with the dogs because he wants them to have something special

Keeps asking his mom to let him adopt, she hasn’t said yes yet

Helps front desk staff a lot

Is one of the first to offer help unloading the vans full of bags of food and cat litter

Is very humble when he gets complimented on how helpful he is

Leona:

Cat volunteer connoisseur

Literally the gatekeeper to cat adoptions

You better be worthy of taking one of his felines home or don’t even bother with an application 

He only approves the best of the best

His opinion holds no actual weight when it comes to decisions since he’s a volunteer 

HOWEVER, there are so many “misplaced” cat adoption applications that he has received 

He doesn’t actually clean the cat room when he volunteers but he does socialize the cats well

He spends a lot of his time worrying about sick kittens

He is always chatting with the shelter director on what more he can do to provide for their care

Any treatments he needs to pay for? Expensive medicines?

You name it and he will buy it for those babies

Ruggie:

Always brings the staff donuts from the local donut shop

Runs between shelter volunteering and clinic assisting 

Spends his morning translating to the clinic patients what is going to happen during surgery and recovery (like actually talking to the animals)

Usually calms down the crazy wild patients for us or the ones that are really scared

Likes to negotiate with supply reps so I don’t have to because he knows I have anxiety

Always offers to help carry packages for the UPS or FedEx drivers

Will offer helping Trey with paw pantry if he sees him outside with a client

Between he and Trey, people try to come by multiple times a day just to talk to them

Works well with the animals at the shelter

He likes getting them new toys every day and watching them play

He would rather help staff clean than walk the animals

He enjoys spending time with the animals, but knows he does well at cleaning so his help makes it go by faster

Jack:

Forgets to sign in because as soon as he arrives he is already finding things to do

Helps at surgery center instead of shelter

He is really good at dog handling for getting patients ready for surgery

Stays on top of laundry at the clinic as well, it’s like he hears the signal before we do sometimes

Has staff do a few stretches before we start surgery so we can “stay limber and flexible”

Is the one who carries the large patients to and from recovery

If he sees you carrying something and you’re struggling, he just takes it from you without saying anything

Lectures me about drinking water more and taking my ADHD meds because my brain is always scattered

Is the one we send to stand outside the door if people are acting crazy cause he looks like scary guard dog

Azul:

Volunteer? No

He actually helps our exec director a lot

He’s really good at overseeing projects and creating plans for the future

He assists more with event planning and acquiring donations for silent auctions

How he acquires the extravagant things he does is a mystery to some..

When he’s not helping the exec director with event stuff, he’s helping at the shelter

He likes working with the cats more because it isn’t as laborious as cleaning after the dogs

He and Leona talk a lot about plans on how to revamp the cat room

Leona knows his voice holds no weight here but maybe a small contract with Azul will get his ideas to the director

He also likes to bring snacks from the lounge occasionally 

You’ll find him sipping on his drink in the break room if he has time

Jade:

Not necessarily “normal” volunteer work for us, but I feel like he would be the one in charge of yard work

I think he would make sure the dog yards are cleaned properly

He’d probably keep their (le poopoo) to take home and use as fertilizer for his plants

He’d make sure the yards are properly mowed and look nice for visitors

Will absolutely yell at you if you try to move his catnip plants from the catio

Has ideas to plant more flowers and do some landscaping outdoors to make the vicinity look more appealing

Would probably not spend a lot of time with the animals while there unless it’s raining and he’s indoors

I think if he is inside, he probably stays up front near the cat room

Or he is asking the front desk staff if there is anything they need help with

He is very helpful at reception

Floyd:

Is not TOTAL chaos when he volunteers

He would rather help clean the dog room instead of walking the dogs

Will constantly yell “buckets” when he goes to throw stuff away

If you’re helping him clean, be prepared to be sprayed with water “by accident”

Likes to take people’s snacks from the break room and hide them around the shelter

He likes to tease and say “you missed a spot” when you’re cleaning something

Is the tall giraffe the clinic calls if they can’t reach stuff on the top shelf

You remember how I said Azul gets nice things for auctions?

It’s Floyd. Floyd is how

He’s super charming to donors and they find him really intriguing

But if they can’t be swayed by charm, he does have other ways to make them give up the goods

Kalim:

Brings us iHOP every time he comes to volunteer

It could be 2pm and he brings a whole bunch of pancakes with a huge smile on his face

Really enjoys helping at the shelter instead of the clinic

He isn’t one who does a lot of cleaning

But he loves walking and socializing the dogs

He really enjoys taking dogs out for meet n greets with potential adopters

His bubbly personality puts the dogs at ease and they’re more likely to show their personality when they meet new people

He likes to go into the dog runs when they’re outside and throw a tennis ball or a stick for hours

If he finds a good stick outside, he brings it to me to put in my stick drawer 

The dogs are always tired when he leaves, but so happy

Doesn’t leave the shelter without telling every animal and staff member goodbye individually 

“Goodbye Sid, Goodbye Meatloaf, Goodbye Gumby, Goodbye Hinoa”

Jamil:

Always comes on days Kalim is volunteering

Tends to help a lot in the cat room or with intakes

Occasionally will help with cleaning the dog room but hates when Floyd sprays him with water so he leaves

The cats like to climb into his lap in the cat room

He meows back at them to “chat” and isn’t afraid to hiss back if they threaten him

Is surprisingly good at giving the cats their nightly meds

Like how and where did you learn these techniques because wow

Always brings food for everyone to eat at lunch time, he doesn’t want anyone to go without

Makes food for both the shelter and clinic staff

It’s always delicious and well balanced 

Always says something like “a well balanced meal will let us take care of the animals better” blahblahblah

Had to wrangle Kalim at night time when volunteering is over

Basically says goodbye to everyone with Kalim

Thank you for coming to my ted talks. I will try to do the other half later tomorrow or something hahahaha. But I have ADHD so that is a really, really funny joke.

[ordinaryschmuck]

"Ooh, look! Another Amphibia critique from Schmuck!"

Yeah, yeah, blame Twitter. This one came to me last night because of a post and it's been stewing in my brain ever since.

I'm learning more and more that nothing causes an Amphibia fan to foam at the mouth more than when you tell them that the first season is mostly filler.

Cause here's the thing: I've seen that first season THREE times. And every time, it felt like a chore to get through as I'm forced to watch characters go on silly adventures as the show dangles this carrot on a stick in front of your face, promising something interesting with a grander story.

"Ooh, look! Something's going to happen with the music box!"

"Ooh, look! Sasha's here and she means business!"

"What will come of this? Tune in next time to find out!"

And when you tune in next time, you're met with Anne and Sprig pretending to be cops or the town having a literal shipping war. And sure, that can be funny, but when you promise a grander story and take too long to get to it, it leaves people WANTING that story feeling a little disappointed.

Or worse: Annoyed.

Even MORE worse: Angry.

And when you bring up that season one is mostly filler, you're given the usual three responses:

"It's to build the world and develop characters!"

"It's starting off fun to suck people in before getting darker like [Insert show here]"

"[Insert show here] had a first season that was mostly filler and people loved THAT. Y'all just hating."

And those are good arguments, but there's also good counters to all of them.

Infinity Train is a series that has a new cast of characters every season, each one having only thirteen episodes to grow and develop while showing off the world around them. The writers make each episode count though, not wasting time as every goofy adventure the characters go on it either reveals something about themselves or about the lore of the train. You can absolutely let characters go and do something silly for ten minutes AND have it feel like the plot and development of the world and characters are moving forward. You just gotta do more than something as inconsequential as Sprig learning to be more patient when watching a hog or Hop Pop learning how to be honest instead of selling literal garbage. The meat of those episodes (I.E. the LESSONS) can be brought up in smarter, better ways that leaves EVERYONE satisfied, especially when they learn these exact lessons later in the series anyway.

As for starting off by being fun defense, it's a fair one until you realize what show everyone's trying to copy.

You see, Adventure Time is a great show. One that nailed the "silly at first but serious later" mindset. It changed the landscape for serialized animation, and shows have been trying to do what IT did ever since. BUT they forget one essential factor that's the reason to Adventure Time's success: It had NO plan. It started off silly and fun only to get more serious over time, but in a similar vein to your favorite comic series. The writers just wanted to have goofy fun times and nothing else, but the longer the series went, it would get more and more serious as it started to evolve into serialized storytelling. There was never a singular arc in Adventure Time or even an endgame in mind for how the show would conclude. There were definitely arcs but they were treated as small webs of something the show COULD build upon if the writers wanted to and less as a part of this grand narrative to a complete story. Even the latest spin off, which has a singular story in mind, is something based on an idea that NEVER went further beyond being something silly upon its conception. The writers just wanted to do something fun and would LATER come up with a good and expansive story through it.

Basically, the reason why Adventure Time nailed the silly THEN serious style is because it improvised the whole thing. When a show like Amphibia tries to go through the same style, it does it WITH a plan in mind and forgets that Adventure Time succeeded because it didn't HAVE one. The writers know exactly where they want the show to go and plan out how to reach that finish line, leaving behind crumbs of the grander narrative every now and again. But in Season One, so much of the focus is about characters going on fun adventures and leaving behind those crumbs not as often as they should. The end result might just be one of the weakest examples of a show being silly THEN serious because of it tries to be one thing while also wanting to be another.

And as for the final defense, about how other shows tries to be silly THEN serious too, let's look ANOTHER series made by Disney: Gravity Falls.

Gravity Falls' first season, let's be honest with ourselves, is a lot like Amphibia's. There's hints of a story there, but much more time is dedicated to Dipper and Mable going on goofy one-off adventures while the second season takes a much more serious direction towards the plot and characters. It still leaves crumbs as well, like what's going on with Gideon and the Journals, but the majority of the season is still stuff like Mabel freeing a merman trapped in a public pool or Dipper using a video game character to intimidate Robby. So while it's the same as Amphibia it terms of tone, there's ONE difference: Episode length. Within the first season, Gravity Falls has twenty episodes where Amphibia has thirty-nine. Amphibia has ten-minute episodes stitched together to meet the twenty-minute runtime that Gravity falls have, and the end result is making a series feel MUCH longer than it actually is. It drags out the silliness longer, making Gravity Falls more digestible because we're watching random nonsense ONCE per week and not TWICE. So when the bigger, more serious story stuff comes, it feels like less time was wasted to get to it.

You can argue all you want about how Amphibia's first season doesn't have filler or, if it does, it's not a detriment. And if that's how you see things, that's fine. But not everyone is going to feel that way.

Look, filler can be fun. It can give you an enjoyable little adventure in between the meat of this grander narrative the writers are building. But filler isn't fun ALL THE TIME, and you need to find a right way to space it out between the story bits if a serialized story is what you want to make. As fun as it can be, it's not the necessity that people claim it is for a good show to exist. Some amazing series exist when they're all killer and no filler. Just because the characters don't randomly go to a casino for an episode, that doesn't mean it's a lesser form of storytelling.

And the same goes for shows WITH filler. If you like Amphibia's first season because of how silly and fun it is, I don't blame you. To me, it was a show that got my attention because there was a hint to a bigger narrative, but it's not what the show tried to do in it's first season. It took its time and the end result was a finale that legitimately brought me to tears, so SURELY it isn't all bad, even if most of those silly adventures weren't my cup of tea. It's DEFINITELY a season of filler, but whether or not that's a detriment to a show is depending on who you ask.

[danzinora-switch]

AAAAHHHHHH!!

ROTTMNT The Movie Spoilers!

Just finished the movie and THOUGHTS!. HEAD IS FULL!

- Mikey’s mystic powers being the MOST. The MOST. He rips a hole in time with his BARE HANDS.

- Headcanon: Future!Leo does not have mystic powers. We don’t see him use them. We don’t know why he has Raph’s arm. I want backstory. I invent backstory and get back to you all.

- “Why are you wielding genius-level tech? This stuff is TRADEMARKED.”

- The sheer joy I felt at seeing our turtles on screen in motion again. Just, ugh. I missed them.

- “RETREAT!” stabbed me through the heart. And then I was literally stabbed through the heart. STOLE MY BREATH AWAY when Raph saved Leo just... god, these animators know how to do EMOTION.

- “We’ve never had to use the escape pods before” *thousand yard stare of horror* “So, how would everyone rate your experience?”

- On the subject of body horror, may I remind all that Rise has routinely flirted with horror? We have: body horror in the very first episode (delivery guy getting mutated) and halloween/scary/horror episodes like Mrs. Cuddles, The Gumbus, Flushed But Not Forgotten, Albearto existing, Draxum turning into the Shredder, the kid smashing his hand and getting bit by a komodo in Fists of Fury, actually I’m just going to link Salz’s amazing fmv Break Your Mind which has nearly all the horror bits from the show in it.

- But seriously, why did I start laughing maniacally the exact same time Kraang did as the Foot Clan was getting mutated? Connecting with my inner supervillain here, so blessed.

- Okay but Donnie’s soft shell being like a PLOT POINT? Like, I lost my mind when they outright were like “Donnie, no! Your battle shell, you’re too vulnerable without it!” Like, all the fanfics INSTANT validation. But THEN. BUT THEN THAT’S THE VERY THING THAT LETS HIM CONNECT TO THE SPACESHIP FULLY AND PUT IT ON THE COURSE BACK TO THE OTHER DIMENSION! I will have more to say on this.

- I’ve seen and read enough Star Trek to have Many Thoughts on whatever the fuck mind meld happened with Raph.

- Donnie’s maniacal laugh before powering up the Turtle Tank. Yes.

- I would say this is a Leo-centric movie for sure, but WE ALL GET ANGST. Raph angst. Mikey Angst. Donnie Angst. Casey Angst. Splinter I thought for sure was dying. Holy Cow.

- APRIL USES HER CRANE LICENSE!!!!!!!!

- “Mikey... I’m a SPACESHIP!”

- Props to Leo for being willing to go that far - literally stick himself in the prison dimension as Kraang’s punching bag for forever. And with Rise a part of me was like “seriously, they might commit to this. But at least if they do they would HAVE to make another movie”. Very moving.

- But then MIKEY. Through SHEER FORCE OF WILL, powers up and RIPS A HOLE IN DIMENSIONS WITH HIS BARE HANDS. Hell yeah, brother!

- I have so many mystic magic system thoughts. Will have to relate more later.

- There are so many little details, too, throughout this whole thing. The cat that ate the bird. Greg “Look Both Ways” Jackson still trying to cross the street with his groceries. 

- Portal chopping is canon. Yikes.

- I couldn’t believe Mikey died (old Mikey). I couldn’t believe Raph took that hit through him. I couldn’t believe Donnie committed to being absorbed in the technodrome. I couldn’t believe Leo trapped himself in the prison dimension. Just... so many moments where my jaw was hanging open going no way...

- Can be read as Leo is the New Leader or Leo is Not the Leader; you decide ;)

- I like this Kraang. The Head Kraang. The Kraangiest Kraang. Him watching Raph and Leo fight and he’s just so... eeeeevil. Love it. Love his sister, too! She’s delightfully bloodthirsty. And their brother who never says a word, but is sinister af. I like these guys, good bad guys.

- “THAT’S MY MOM!” I would expect nothing less. What was Cassandra doing when the Kraang invaded? Kicking ass and taking names and she ain’t raised NO BITCH!

[frostyreturns]

Frosty Ruins The Yearling

This is a movie where there isn't much to say because it's such a simple movie. However I like the simple charm of it, anything like this in the settler/pioneer time period is going to be interesting at least a little. On the other hand I'm not as much a fan of the setting as I am for some other similar stories. The marshy swampland homestead doesn't speak to me the same way as a little house on the prairie or a winter cabin in the woods.

That being said when a story is simple and wholesome it can also be boring at times. However there is one rather exciting but pretty brutal part. There is a scene where a pack of dogs fight off a bear…and there were no camera tricks, no special effects…they just literally filmed dogs fighting a bear. At first I thought maybe the animals were trained really well and none of them were actually trying to hurt each other…then I watched the bear practically suplex one of the dogs and I realized…no this is just from an era where you could just make animals fight and hurt each other on camera for the sake of the movie. Now I'm no PETAfag, I'll gladly kill and eat a bear but I don't see any sense in being needlessly cruel to animals and abusing them for entertainment in a film doesn't qualify as a legitimate reason to harm an animal. Especially when it's called the Yearling and centers around a boy taking care of an animal. So that didn't sit right with me but not in a way where it would ruin the whole movie.

I also think the anachronistic acting is kind of funny because you have an actor who is clearly not a southener saying words like Tabacci with clear dignified enunciation, and not even really attempting to speak like someone who actually had that accent..but he says the words like as though he did have the accent. It's ridiculous but again it can be looked past because most of the acting from this era was pretty bad by todays standard.

I also kind of hate the music, all these old movies from this era had that same super high pitched ambient wailing/singing where you can't hear a word of it. Part of the reason is the tinny sound quality being awful but even if it was perfect with modern audio I can't see enjoying it.

One of the problems I had plotwise is their explanation for why the mom is so cunty, I didn't buy at all. "I lost a child so I'm mean to the one I have now"…what kind of sense does that make. The man buys her a gift and she yells at him for being stupid for wasting money. Like I get the point is that it's a hard life and even minor luxuries we would view as neccessities were rare and ill advised given how close to the edge they lived…however you can make that point graciously. You can insist something is too much and that you don't need expensive gifts…and also accept them graciously instead of yelling till everyone clears the room and only admitting to yourself you appreciated it in private.

Also spoiler alert if you plan to see this now ancient movie and haven't yet. I also don't get the ending, making the kid kill his pet himself, him running away almost getting himself killed. I really didn't understand any of the characters in this, maybe it's that the characters are supposed to be that way, maybe it's that it's a story from another time and place, but I just thought all the main characters behaved kind of ridiculously. And I didn't like the message of the movie either and the obvious comparisons between the deer growing and the boy growing up. The whole message is life sucks and now you know how badly its gonna fuck you. On the one hand part of the reason it sucks is because you forced the boy to kill his own pet for no reason and then let him nearly die in the woods, that's not a life thing that's a you fucked up thing. There could have been a message about how life is difficult and part of growing up is realizing that without presenting such a bleak and tragic view of the world.

In the end I don't think this movie was for me, because by the end I was wondering why they hadn't already eaten the fucking deer, personally I think they tolerated it nearly ruining them for way too long. Just don't make the boy do it himself. Kill it take it to your neighbours and trade the meat with them so you don't kill the animal for nothing and so the boy doesn't have to eat his own pet. Trade the venison for some pork. There were so many common sense ways this could have worked out better that to blame it on life in general, even considering that theirs was a harder life...doesn't make sense.

Overall wasn't terrible C-

[riddlerosehearts]

watched spirit: untamed today. if you're a fan of spirit: stallion of the cimarron and you're not deadset on forcing yourself to watch every single dreamworks movie then please don't waste your time on this one. if you're ever taking care of a 4-6 year old kid who's never seen the original and feels like watching a cute horse girl movie... consider showing them one of the many, many out there that are less generic, pointless and poorly made than this one :(

look, i knew going into this movie that i was probably not going to like it much to begin with because i'd heard so much about how it went against the themes of the original. but i thought maybe it would still have something beautiful and unique to say, and be a decent kids movie if you tried to treat it as its own thing. well it doesn't and it's not.

as a sequel to spirit: stallion of the cimarron, this movie is weird because the original is about the devastating effects that colonization had on both animals and indigenous people and how they all have a right to be free. spirit doesn't even have a name for 98% of the movie until little creek, upon realizing that nobody should ever ride this horse because it's not what he wants, names him "spirit who could not be broken". and then spirit untamed is about a white city girl who tames a horse and makes him her bestie, and who decides to call him spirit before she's ever even interacted with him because she sees him resisting some wranglers and says he has "a lot of spirit". granted, she does (very randomly and suddenly imo) let him leave to be with his herd in the end, but still, it's just... this new movie, and the netflix show that came with it, is trying to take the name and brand of something that is so insanely different from it. it's filled with visual references to the original, in things like the framing of certain shots and some of the backgrounds, but that and the name of the horse are the only things it shares with it. it has none of the uniqueness or heart.

and as its own standalone movie, this movie just does absolutely nothing to make itself stand out. it's an hour and 20 minutes long but it was so agonizingly tedious and predictable that it felt like a 3 hour movie at least. the animation is so choppy and the art so flat that the whole thing feels cheap and unfinished. the horses in the original are all incredibly expressive and have strong personalities despite the fact that outside of matt damon occasionally narrating for spirit, they don't speak. the same doesn't hold true for the horses here. the human characters are also so painfully boring and simplistic that i already don't even remember the villain's name. i feel like a hundred different variations of this same movie already exist: headstrong young girl loves horses, dad hates horses and forbids her from hanging out with them, girl does it anyway, dad comes around in the end. i would rather watch shark tale than this because at least it's an attempt at an original story.

i've also read that this movie is basically a condensed retelling of the first few episodes of the netflix series "spirit riding free", only this was released in theaters and also retcons aspects of the show?? why??? literally who is this movie for??? i mean, idk, i guess a really young kid who's never seen the original movie or any other Horse Girl movie might enjoy it, but i very much think those kids deserve better than this. bleh. i don't think i ever wrote a post about how much i adore how to train your dragon after i recently rewatched the first two movies, so i will try to do that soon to balance out all the complaining i'm doing here 😭

[abandoned-dezxyre]

We figure we should lay out some info about us while we get ourselves together with more proper introductions! We'll go by order of manifestation/age!!

Ella - she/her! She's the og, having gone thru the typical edgy "I wanna kill/rule the world" phase. She even has a black and blue pallette with big black wings with blue primary feathers! She has many many years on the rest of us since the rest of us only appeared after september last year!

Sun! - he/him. he was the first of us, and boy was it a doozy when he did! He makes sure we get all of our work done, and he's really grown a backbone since he first came out! Unfortunately he still has his nervous wreck moments ^.^"

Eclipse - he/him. I'm one of the happy-go-lucky ones! Despite what you may think, I was designed long before we encountered the Sun And Moon Show, and have no relation to tsams!Eclipse.

Moon - he/him. Usually very reserved and tired, and tends to try to make sure we all get to sleep at a more reasonable time (tho that's hard with our parents-).

Lunar - he/him. Again, despite the name, he was designed before tsams!Lunar was introduced. We normally describe him in three words: sassy murder boyo. His teeth are literally stained and his joints rusty from when he forgot to clean up-

Bloodmoon - he/him. Now THIS guy is sourced from tsams. He's twins with Glow(up next) since they both appeared/manifested on the same day, but he fronted first so he's technically older. He's a lot like both tsams Bloodmoons combined, and does still want to hurt people, but he doesn't ever act on it. He just kinda.... imagines.

Glow - he/him. As mentioned previously, he's Bloodmoon's twin, and the only one Blood allows to call him "Bloody" (He growls at the rest of us when we try-). He's another happy-go-lucky, and really balances Blood's murderous nature easily.

Rascal - he/him. This guy is from an anime called Glitter Force/Smile Precure, and he carries a lot of theater/drama kid energy. He's very over the top and loves playing games, especially with our friends. You can actually see him in the center of our banner, but our Rascy is a bit different from cannon Rascal!

Collector - he/they! Smol. Ink watched the whole show and I appeared literally an hour after he finished Watching And Dreaming. Still pretty oblivious to stuffs, and still childish.

Hunter - he/him. Pretty sure I'm the most prone to anxiety and am the least likely to talk to anyone. Still in love with wolves, and still an 🌟iconic mess🌟 for some reason the phone's keyboard doesn't have a sparkles emoji-

Ruin(Tulip) - it/its/he/any. Resident little. Talks in computer programming. The only factive in our system, as it split from a different system's alter. Although it uses Ruin Eclipse's form, it doesn't really act like Sun, Moon, or Eclipse. It acts as its own being. Only dca under 10'2, being 7 ft.

All of the animatronics here are 10'2, the others are varying sizes of smol. We don't have a very good relationship with our dad, and our relationship with our mom isn't much better. We love to draw (especially ourselves- :3c), and look forward to getting our own phone and being able to animate things!

Please reblog our posts so that people run into them easier!

Dni list is the typical: homophobes, haters, karens, etc. etc.

[merrysithmas]

I know you said you haven't watched it, but just to inform how dumb it is, clearly Hayden is the only one on set having fun and is clearly trying. And the fight between him and Ahsoka is bad. Anikan is clearly so much better then her and they try to frame it like shes capable of overpowering him.

His movements are so fast and fluid, his strikes are so precise and specific and you can see how important all behind the scene training was to Hayden even for his small appearances like this. And it's so bad because Ahsoka is really awkward. She is slow, her movements are stilted and clunky and she does not fight with any grace. Anikan is so much faster and better then her, then he fights a young Ahsoka who is noticeably much better. Only a kid and shes fast and more graceful and can keep up much better.

Only to cut back to adult Ahsoka is once more is slow and stilted, but Anikan is slow now. Like it's very clear they had to tell Hayden to slow down, because now Ahsoka is supposed to be able to beat him. But its obvious because hes so fast, fluid and precise but he moves so slowly while doing it that you can tell Hayden's been instructed to slow down and hold back.

They have to hide Ahsokas movements to gain the upper hand in the editing because you can tell Anikan would never have lost if you could see what was happening.

Rosario Dawson either wasnt interested in learning real fight choreography, or Dave didn't care enough to try. But it's so painful because not only does acting wise Hayden steal the show, but he is so much better and so impressive that they literally had to force him to be slow just to make it even remotely possible that this Ahsoka could beat him.

Kid Ahsoka was actually pretty good, with more time with her I think we couldve seen an Ahsoka more on the skill level she was in tcw. (Like Ahsoka is literally better in combat in her 30 second fight with Mando in season 2 then she is against Anikan the whole episode).

I just don't understand why they brought Anikan in, but didn't actually put the work into Ahsokas fighting because it makes her look really bad compared to an actually skilled fighter.

Just make the episode her having some weird drowning flash before her eyes shit of her as a kid, because the Kid Ahsoka actor did a good job paired up with Hayden.

Rosario acts and fights like she just downed a bottle of melatonin.

i totally see that. i think dawson is horribly miscast and since Ahsoka is supposed to just be a continuation of Rebels - you'd think the live-action Soka would act like the animated Rebels Soka ... which she does not.

At all.

Rebels' Ahsoka still had the same pluck and nerve and strength although she was burdened by sorrow. She was still a hero.

I saw some gifs of young!Ahsoka fighting and it did fool my eye with the same energy and style as animated Ahsoka which I thought was cool.

It's too bad they picked Dawson, honestly. And then they covered her with all that bad makeup. She looks more like Ahsoka without it, ironically.

[zensakira]

So I wrote some notes while I was watching the miraculous movie. (I didn't intend to watch it today, I was looking for something to watch and was pleasantly surprised to see it popped up on Netflix.)

With absolutely no further context, here are my notes.

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That is not marinettes singing voice

Doesn't fit her

Animation is beautiful

There's no chemistry between marinette and adrien

Adriens singing voice fits better

How did fu know hawkmoth's name is hawkmoth

HE GETS A SONG????

THE MIME GUY IS NOW A CRIMINAL??

MULTIPLE AKUMAS AT ONCE?

Tom is gonna embarrass her

NO SAD TOM IS SAD ME

DID THEY JUST USE A SCREAM MEME SOUND EFFECT

Ain't no way they just said they have style

THEY INCLUDED THE VOLKSWAGEN

Where did the ice cream go

I don't see the annoyance bit

THEY DID THE KOREAN THING

WHAT

Now that is chemistry

Is ladybug flirting back what happened to I'm so annoyed

ANd yOu nEeD a piAnO foR tHat??

"you've revealed a whole new world to me

And its all thanks to you"?????

IT'S BECAUSE OF PLAGG ENTIRELY

YOU SAVE THE WORLD EVERYDAY BEHIND A MASK BUT THE GIRL BEHIND THE MASK SAVED MY HEART

UGHHHGHHB CHEESE

Hang on so canonically she likes them both at the same time and recognizes that

Adrien talking back to Gabriel,???????

Sir that someone else can't go to the ball anyway besides the ball doesn't equal a date nor does it mean you want to be together in a relationship

Is it another song

It is

Lyrics need workshopping

STOP IT ADRIEN JUST GO

Hmm a lucky charm would be nice

Does he have super speed as well

Don't worry the Eiffel tower always falls

Just lucky charm it

So what exactly is the super power he gave himself

WHAT IS THIS

THE FORCE??

I will myself to be a jedi ig

Gabriel is a star wars nerd confirmed

That scratch is the only retailiation that son will ever have over father

NOT THIS CHEESY LINE AGAIN

How did she jump so high without super powers

That jump was for nothing I guess

And.... Indestructible suits??

Oh. That's why they made his eyes white at first

  where's the lucky charm coming

Hang on is this movie almost over it felt like nothing happened

Where did all the backdrop butterflies come from

SHE'S MASSIVE

DAMN GABRIEL YOU MARRIED A GIANT

Marinette it was obviously him

CHLOE SPOTTED HELPING SABRINA UP?

Hang on I'M SORRY? Construction workers have no job I guess and also what if she missed a spot, does she only reconstruct what her eyes can see???

Wait what's the point in gardening

Creation = growth? Can you help babies grow too?

Dupin? DUPIN??? IT'S DUPAINNNNNNN

Oh it's December

Wow hawkmoth gets defeated in less than half a year instead of 8 years wait no it's only been one school year in the show as well darn

Ok Chloe has a pretty dress

It's a black mask girl what point was that gonna prove

Why he crying

How did they know to meet each other outside

Wow they don't even kiss

What is the new movie after finna be about the peacock or what

Oh it's about Emilie except she's literally dead and there's no preserving pod or anything

That's it????

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Some final thoughts. The animation is stunning. As an animator myself I found myself admiring the beauty of the rendering very often. So the movie did this fantastically well.

But the script overall is lacking. Watermelon is a fun joke. Flea bag is a funny new nickname. But none of their interactions sound endearing or even natural. The delivery was so flat.

I understand that there are troubles in condensing a five season show into a movie. But similar to how they adapted the lightning thief into a movie, my thoughts are the same: if you're not going to do it justice don't do it at all.

There are many bits of the movie that I love, thematically, aesthetically; tHE KOREAN MOVE that playfulness was the only thing that made me feel they had chemistry. I liked their initial meeting, stumbling into each other; but every interaction after that made ladybug- marinette (oops spoilers jk) feel like a wishy washy character who can't decide between being annoyed or insecure. And even the annoyance is just so terribly expressed, its hard to tell what's genuine and what's playful. Every eye roll is accompanied with a smirk or a smile, so it feels like she doesn't mean what she says when she tells him to stop.

Also, when chat noir first falls in love with ladybug.... It doesn't feel that impactful. Like that scene of being in awe.. What are you in awe of? Vs the show scene where he witnesses her be impossibly brave, purifying like a billion butterflies at once and then essentially declaring war on hawkmoth and pledging herself to be the hero of Paris... Like that's awe inspiring. Speaking of, what happened to the gargoyle unpurified ladybug??

I've waited so many years for this movie and the aesthetics are stunning but. The delivery is just.. The script.. Aiii. And also Fu is portrayed as this more ominious crazy old man when he's supposed to be a kind old man! Though I do like that plagg and tikki are the ones who pick their holders.

Anyways. If you're reading my live notes from the movie just know that its in chronological order. Feel free to guess exactly which moment is referring to which part of the movie.

[davekat-sucks]

I think it would suck horribly to be friends with trolls if you're human (hell even a troll). Tavros and Xefros being the exception and a few others, most are just so violent and mean and would probably murder you over the pettiness of shit. Take a look at friendsim, see how majority of them would kill someone and have no problem with it. Trolls are instinctually a violent species, not peaceful and I'm wondering how the hell the adjusted to human customs in comic? Kanaya obsessively watches Rose, Karkat was obsessive over Terezi, Equius tried to Force Aradia to love him, Vriska tormented Tavros, point is it's natural for them to take things to the extreme even if it would hurt their love interest or friends. Isn't it IRONIC that out of my examples Eridan was the most emotionally mature about his feelings? The bar really is that low. Sure he bugged (ha pun) everyone but at least stopped after he was rejected. Even with the whole joining Jack bullshit he was giving Feferi an option to come with him. He didn't kill her because of rejection, he killed her out of self defense and even tried to apologize to her when dead, he feels remorse for his actions. Karkat fucked up big time and admits it, he do nothing to diffuse anything and was focused on Terezi pussy. Trolls are a terrifying species and they would not be soft and cute are they are so commonly portrayed you'd have to be crazy to even date one

If not only biologically that they are violent creatures, but the living conditions that the trolls had to go through was also hell that it is instincts first before logic and reason. Anything and anyone could kill you at a drop of a dime. Whether it is from the wild animals that live by or to the literal acid rain that pours down the planet. Trolls, when they start as wrigglers, need to rely on their lusus being strong and smart against the ecosystem of their planet. They have advance technology, but the start of how they raised are feral for the most, even for highbloods since they are born in the same caverns as other trolls have. Eridan could have used his highblood status to make others like him. But he never did. He had power close to Feferi's, but never used it to force it on others. Sort of surprising people look past Equius making Aradia love him via a robot programming. Yes he does get his beat shit out of him and a kiss that ended to be a joke, since they weren't really together together. But also not even Aradia speaks to Equius again when he became ARquiusprite. So it shows much how Aradia cared little about Equius too, in both pre and post retcon. Tavros and Xefros would definitely be the only exception of trolls being the nicest and would not harm anyone, not even a fly. People may try to point Nepeta, but they forget she is a hunter. Crazy cute cat shipper girl hunts animals herself for meat and paint. She hunts using her own biological instincts that she honed and trained for sweeps. Nepeta would prefer to hunt a rabbit that shows up in your local town than get it from some grocery store, because the meat is better fresh when they were alive than placed in some fridge for who knows how long. Most fantrolls, especially in the nu-fandom, always go for the route of "trolls rebelling because the hemospectrum system is bad" as the easy way out for why their trolls are more nice and heroic. They want to avoid everything that makes Alternia the way it is or why we were interested in trolls in the first place. We liked the trolls because they were alien and foreign that their lives are different than ours that they accepted their horrible planet as it is. But now, people just think of trolls as just GREY HUMANS. They are not these unique cool aliens anymore. It sucks!

[ritsuleo-moved]

omg hi cloud so i remember i tried out miraculous ladybug at one point because i like to try out new media and i remember being so annoyed by the one episode i watched and afterwards i was like "i really could have used half an hour for so many other things instead of watch this mess" 😭 GOD the way i forgot her name marionette?? the way she fucking trips over air sometimes is so annoying like she thinks shes straight out of some slice of life anime and other shit i can go more and more on about ughh. glad you healed

HI LUKE!! yeah i'm not surprised that it annoyed you so bad sorry u went through that </3

i forgot her name after reading this if im honest hold on. marinette. yeah it's meant to make her a "cute clumsy awkward teenage girl" and keep some distance between her as a civilian and hero since ladybug is so put together but really it just comes off as annoying especially with how often it happens and like you said how she trips over nothing. every time i see her trip in the opening i get a little more annoyed

it does have some good concepts like personally i enjoy the function of kwamis and their jewlery and the idea of a ladybug/black cat superhero duo representing creation and destruction and the silly crush dynamic would be nice if it didn't suck but the execution of everything is so bad it's unforgivable

unfortunately i dont think ive healed yet i'm going to put the rest of this under a read more to spare everyone bc i have a lot of thoughts on this.

i've seen a lot of people say its a good show like. are we watching the same thing ? this fucking sucks. the writing is horrendous and its being dragged out unnecessarily. when they actually do something interesting it's immediately scrapped. as an example, the bully character chloe was on the track for redemption and then they went "nevermind" and replaced it with bringing her nicer sister in because the creator got mad that people are capable of change and said that this 14 yr old character didn't deserve redemption. and that's not an exaggeration he went on a twitter rant about it. the creators being shit (thomas astruc specifically in this case) is an entire other topic i wont get into just know that they should die :|

also the characters going back on development isn't a one time thing. this is a smaller example that doesn't matter much but still made me mad, but marinette's best friend alya is suddenly convinced that she's just being jealous during an episode where adrien is being forced by his father to go on a trip to model with another girl. it makes no sense since alya and marinette have been friends for a while now, so i don't think she'd be as dismissive.

and of course the "lovesquare" between marinette and adrien aka ladybug and chat noir. the showrunners Know that they've always appealed to not only a younger demographic but shipping culture or whatever its called as well like that was probably their main goal which is why they use the main characters' relationship as a "will they won't they" so heavily even now. it gets people to keep watching

there's an episode where they finally reveal their identities and start dating but then there's a whole bunch of time travel shit and it's a prime example of them dragging it out on purpose. like its the laziest and strangest copout ive ever seen. they literally just went yeah here's the relationship they Could have but because of their love chat becomes evil in the future ! or at least thats what ladybug thinks ! so now they cant get together because she thinks their love destroys the world like. are you kidding me?

also going back to the point of character development there's more than 2 miraculouses of course, the ladybug and black cat are just the main two. and eventually basically everyone in the same class as adrien and marinette get their own miraculous and this causes conflict between the two because she keeps calling on other heros instead of her original partner. marinette ends up saying something unecessarily mean to adrien and he decides to… completely give up on being a hero because of it?

he leaves his miraculous on a rooftop all alone (dangerous because there's a literal supervillain who has been trying to get these to destroy the world) and discards his kwami (who is basically his best friend and is attached to the miraculous). i cannot stress enough that he would never do this. adrien's only freedom in his daily life is being a superhero and to give that up is unthinkable. his days are planned out for him down to the minute by his extremely controlling father and he finds no joy in the things he's forced to do, but he does find joy in being a superhero and getting to actually express himself outside of his father's curated image of him as chat noir.

also lastly just some things i would change off the top of my head:

the design of the hero suits. they aren't good or age-appropriate even a little bit and it really annoys me. i saw someone redesign them so they look like teenagers actually made them and i really liked those designs. if i find them again i'll link it here

the sheer amount of miraculouses there are. i wish there were less but unfortunately it makes for good toy marketing and a lot of hype around the reveal of a new hero or miraculous combo. i think it's just unecessary to have so many though especially to the point of everyone in the same class having a miraculous. at that point it shouldn't be hard for the villain to figure out their identities

sorry that was really long <3