#and then be like oh nvm not an unpopular opinion i guess

[kaelio]

Oh nvm I guess you answered 10. 8 + 11-14 for violence asks

8. The wormhole aliens are fucking bastards and they should have exploded them.

11. I filter "The Untamed". It might be fine but it was taking up too much of my feed with samey-looking guys.

12. I tend to like unpopular characters, and tend to make a beeline to the crustiest old man on the block. Logan Roy was my favorite Succession character, and I love how he holds contempt for his children for being weak when any time they tried to be strong, he instinctively wounded them. I think Enabran Tain is decently accepted as a minor character now, but I love Tain and did a lot of work to have him reconsidered as a more interesting and nuanced character than he'd been given credit for. Dukat is fun and we should be able to acknowledge that. However for just 'unpopular as in overlooked' ah man am I disappointed that the TVC fandom never did more with Thorne. Was he left so long just for me to pick this guy up and brush him off?? I get that he's incapacitated for a while but he's really funny conceptually and he's a nice enough dude. Like, (guy walks in in 30 minutes later holding a beer) "hey what's up guys? oh woah lol. lots going on here." Also because as of book 8 AR hadn't stuffed the place with ancient vampires so it was pretty unusual to have a new old one still. And then he's pretty fucking... normal! Not just for a vampire, like a fairly normal guy for once! With THAT as his intro?? that's so fucking funny???

14. contentious contentious opinion but you guys make garak cry too much :x

[narzissenkreuz-ordo]

i know this is an unpopular opinion but like. i hate it when strangers mass like every single post ive made/reblogged in the past week. it cloga up my notifications, they avoid even interacting with any of my own content/art, and most of the time they dont even FOLLOW me

like this isnt tiktok im not a tag you just scroll through to find funny posts and memes and i think its so fucking rude. especially when these blogs dont reblog ANYTHING and theyre going around not reblogging from any other artists either.

its so frustrating and i dont want to block random people who do like my blog but. it feels like twt or tiktok where youre just feel like entertainment or a content factory and not an actual person. ive been on this site for so long, where its so much easier to make actual human connection put i guess most people dont think that way anymore

and this has nothing to do with with your actual followers & mutuals engaging with your posts. i love seeing my mutuals/friends like my personal posts & art from the past few days bc it just feels like a friendly wave

ig im just ranting because i woke up from a nap to see i had a lot of notifications and was like :D did my wrio art pop off let me go see if anyone said anything nice- oh some stranger just spam liked my entire blog nvm

[hedgefairy]

Okay, I know, I know, it's already old news, everybody and their uncle in the costuming community has already talked it over, but anyhoo, I made notes when I crawled my way through effing Bridgerton and I will be damned if I don't vomit them onto this site. I have 32 pages of this shit, I'm not gonna throw that away.

I'm also typing this on my phone because I'm stuck on a trainride that's just doubled in length because this is the 2021 Northern German snow storm. What, there's snowflakes on the rails? We cannot possibly keep up our schedule, say goodbye to 90% of the connections.

Okay, on to Bridgerton, Episode 1

We're in Britain (oh, London, okay), allegedly 1813. I see people who are clearly meant to be asympatico, but is this size incusivity I spot there? Daring! Gasp! Me li...

Oh wait, no. The character is promptly shamed for her figure (which is mostly caused by the horrible cut of her dress. Every size can look great in Regency garb, but never mind, we need to make the "fat one" look bad!).

Also, no shifts under the stays. Why. There was obviously enough budget, don't tell me you couldn't afford a few strappy tops - it's not like the rest is historically accurate, so it would have sufficed to send some poor underpaid intern to H&M and get some. Nvm, that wouldn't be sexay.

Wait, is the garishly dressed (always a sign of a character of bad character in a costume drama) woman Delphine from Selfridge? Does she always have to play bitches? That's not nice, and just because she has a recognisable face, which by modern (read: americanised) standards is not favourable enough. Ugh. But I like the actress, so I'll let it slide (for now).

Lol, buttocks.

Not sure about the girls' dresses. Also, the Queen is a WOC, cool!

Oh no, one of the Featherington sisters faints! But that's okay because the Featheringtons are just comic relief and foil anyway.

I get weird incest vibes from the Bridgertons.

So the court is clearly 18th century and the show is set in the 1810s. I've by now seen several explanations for this decision, I still think it robs the Queen of reproductions of her actual historical gowns which were heavily inspired by the 18th century but so. Magnificently. Weird. It would have been so neat, and more of a "hey, I'm kinda out of touch with things" vibe, but hey, I'm not the one getting paid for making those taffeta gowns here (her hair is glorious, tho).

I'm very into the intro.

That Regency gossip girl is a real b, not unlike the Dowager Countess of Downton (unpopular opinion, I think she's pretty overrated, yes, I like Maggie Smith).

Again, no shifts.

Where do I know the "pragmatic" Bridgerton sister from? Ah, it's The Paradise. And Jonathan Strange. (Wait, she's my age. And she's supposed to be a teenager. Man, do I love a good Dawson casting. I like the actress, though, she has a face ™!).

Aaaah. We get it. She's the spirited one. She also doesn't care about dresses because she's not like other girls™. I really like her voice (but she still doesn't sound like a teenager).

The heck is up with Lady F's dress and that of her friend? Oh, yeah. Antagonist fashion.

Of course the Featheringtons are Horrid Hags™ aside from Penny who's nice, but the pudgy one (at least we don't get a case of "she's not conventionally attractive so she's bad").

Oooh, the cousin! Supposed to suck, but ofc she's a stunner, and only Penny (who's the nice one, remember!) is delighted to have her around. She's also a POC, which is nice but apparently that means she does not follow fashion, hair-wise. I would have loved to see some Regency hair on her, it would have been so pretty *cries in Greek updo*

Ugh, we're still in Ep. 1, typing this on my phone was a bad idea.

Lady Danbury and the Duke guy are delightful with each other (more POC! So neat!).

The girl the oldest Bridgerbro screws is apparently a singer, which isn't up to status for his doucheship, and she doesn't wear a shift.

The music at the ball sounds like something from the Top 40s, but I'm woefully ignorant of contemporary music charts so I can't tell what it is. I like it when they do that in historical-ish works, making well-known pop or rock stuff work for the ambience (ugh, that dance scene to Golden Years in Knight's Tale. My heart. In a good way.)

I dig the Ducktail hair of Penny's crush. Oh, wait, that's a Bridgerbro. I don't quite get why the hair trends of the time don't apply to the POC characters or extras, but seeing how most white characters also show a shameful disregard for the weirdnes and gloriosity (that's not a word) that is early 1800s hair (the 1830s take the cake, tho) despite those hairdos being basically designed for white people hair, I don't think I care much (well, I do, but about all of them). Overall the hair is horrid and not very 1810s. Let's just leave it at that.

Like a good old romance novel (I've since been told that Bridgerton is supposed to be a pastiche of such novels, but I really couldn't tell from the series, not at all, and I'm not inclined to read the books) we have

a pretty, kind, superpure daughter of the main family

the mean matriarch (could have been an aunt, too, but here she's the mum) of the rivalling or antagonist family

a spirited daughter of the main family (in most romance novels this would be our heroine but so far she refreshingly lacks a love interest and pretty daughter seems to get the most screen time)

a Horrid Suitor™

a Hot Suitor™ who doesn't want attention

a really good and doting good parent

Lol, misheard Greece for Grease with Ducktail Bridgerbro, whose name is Colin, apparently. This is funny because of his Danny Zuko memorial hair.

Overall a bit too much bling for my taste, and too few pearls. It looks like an episode of My Super Sweet Sixteen with a Regency theme.

Of course the romance is going to be the Pretty One aka. Daphne and the Duke and he's even bros with her eldest bro. Wait, are they exes? I can haz bi? No? Aww, shucks. Maybe in another episode (spoiler: no).

Okay, WHAT is it with Lady F's dresses and hair. Like, she reminds me of Mars Attacks. Which, as you might remember, was not set in the Regency period.

Lord B (Bridgerbro the Eldest) sucks, he's screwing Opera Girl without any intention of marrying her but he's bitchy about his sister being ogled by his Eton (or wherever) bestie?

Oh, I'm in Hamburg now. And my train back home got canceled, so back to Berlin it is because there's not a single option to get to Hanover tonight, at least that's what the lady from the train station is saying, "oh well, you'll have to go back and try again tomorrow", so that's awesome...

Honestly, if it weren't so late and I didn't have things to do at home I'd find this terribly exciting.

Back to Bridgerton!

Where were we? Ah.

I can't even read my own annotation. Something about George III. I think I was upset about how they totally ignored that it's called Regency because George IV acted as the regent king, and he doesn't even feature in the series, I guess because they wanted to play up the Queen? Not a fan, because thanks to Horrible Histories I'm quite fond of that guy.

Again, no shifts.

Oh, look, it's Horrid Suitor™, destined for leftovers.

The Featherington cousin gets all the attention but no fleshed-out character.

Penny Featherington's dog is named Lord Byron, which ❤️

I like the Duke! He's there, drinking in his club (even though they're a patriarchal remnant of the past I have a weird appreciation for stuffy Gentlemen's Clubs, I blame Bertie Wooster and the Drones), calling Lord B out for his general fuckery.

Oh no, Ducktail Colin is more into the Cousin than Penny, who obviously pines for him!

Thank you, Lord B, for enabling Horrid Suitor™. Nobody asked you to be such a fucktwit.

The Queen is, of course, a bit of a bitch, but patronage from cool Lady *scrolls up for name* Danbury ensues for Protagonist Girl™ Daphne.

"I wish they had found a better trend language", what the heck did I even mean by that? That's what you get for just scribbling down notes while watching and simultaneously sewing. 18th century pants, in case you wanted to know.

Cousin is angry, probably because Lady F behaves like Cinderella's evil stepmother, because Cousin is prettier than her daughters and gets, like, all the suitors because Lord B bitched away everyone who wanted to get into Daphne's dowry ifyouknowwhatImeanwinkwinknudgenudge, right across the street into Cousins parlour.

The Bridgertons are annoyingly perfect. Ugh.

Oh look, it's "banter" between Daphne and Dukey! It's so Pride & Prejudice! It's almost a tiny bit Shakespeare! I put banter in parentheses because wow, nope, I'm not getting any chemistry here.

Uh, Lady B calls out Lord B (aka. her son aka. Bridgerbro the Eldest) for his screwery with Opera Girl and his outpimpery of his sister to Horrid Suitor™, buuuurrrrrnnn. He promptly calls of his affair with Opera Girl.

No shifts!

Penny gets to dance with Ducktail Colin at the thing! Good for her, but it's a country dance with jumping and fun, because she's a) the pudgy character and b) a Featherington, so it can't be something romantic and pretty (I personally like country dances, but they aren't protagonist dances).

Oooh, Cousin had her period, oh no, oh snap, oh she didn't, because she's PREGNANT! Shit, that's problematic, and not because she's an unmarried woman in the 1810s, but because she gets close to no lines at all so far, and suddenly she's pregnant and telling Lady F that she sucks for being privileged, violence ensues, this is ugly. Man, I get what some critics mean by "the POC actors*actresses get all the problems" and that not exactly being great.

Horrid Suitor™ makes property claims about Daphne, eeewwwww, thanks to Lord B's general suckiness, ewww, r@pe attempt ensues, was that really necessary? It doesn't really fit in with the rest of the series and generally nope, yay, broken nose! (which was indeed totally necessary). Nice one, and probably the only scene so far (spoiler: overall) in which I actually like Daphne. Dukey thinks a mean left hook is attractive, and, generally speaking, he's not wrong.

Daphne and Dukey come up with a pseudo-shakespearean plot to pretend to be totally into each other so she can attract suitors by being not available and he gets not to have fangirls by being not available, and as someone who has read a few too many historical-ish bodice rippers I know exactly where this is going. I mean, come on.

I can't see enough of the following choreography to complain about it. Man, I miss historical dance classes.

And that concludes Ep. 1! Finally! Thank you for getting this far, sorry for all of it (especially typos, it's the bane of unwanted autocorrect), I guess?

Update on the train situation: I've been told by the ticket control person that I shouldn't get my hopes up until noon tomorrow.

To be continued,

because I didn't take these 32 pages of notes for nothing.

[benisasoftboi]

Unorganised thoughts on Trails of Cold Steel II:

they still haven’t told me why it’s Class VII

So I liked this WAY more than CS1, thumbs up

I am annoyed that the only new location was Ymir (WHAT A COINCIDENCE that all the important places in the war were specifically ones Rean had been to already)

I just really wanna go to Parm idk

Bless Anton for showing up right at the end and giving me just enough AP to make A0

(fav Anton and Ricky subplot yet, god I love those guys)

I LOVED how tactile all the reunions were! I love it when fictional characters hug it makes me happy

I found it extremely funny that the final boss straight up tells the characters ‘hey, there’s literally no point to fighting me, you’ll gain nothing except closure I guess’ like that’s VERY on the nose and meta for a final boss

The game does have some real ending fatigue though, I don’t think we needed the epilogue

I did like the final boss though - up until that point, I had become so good at using my Dream Team of Rean, Elliot, Machias and Jusis (or Nuke-sis, as I call him, for his insane levels of arts damage output) that everything had got kinda dull for me. But final boss was actually a challenge, I had to think rather than just using the strategy that had worked on everything else

Which was Rean delays, Elliot heals/deals arts damage, Jusis drops arts nukes, and Machias does miscellaneous support/uses his link ability to keep Jusis’s EP topped up

Oh yeah I had them linked through pretty much the whole game and they hated it and it was super funny

So OH MAN, in their linked victory battle ending screen thing, Jusis goes ‘not bad, you actually held your own for once’

And it’s a little muffled, so the first time I heard it I swear I thought Machias responded with ‘you know what you can hold? Your damn top!’ and I dropped my controller. Had to go out of my way to win another battle with a link attack because no, no way-

He

Um

He said ‘tongue’

Anyway, characters!

Rean: Immediately upon starting up the game I found Ride Along Estelle in my DLC inventory and equipped it in the hopes that it would inspire Rean to be a better protagonist. It... kinda worked? I don’t hate him anymore, and I was pretty hyped to learn he was Osbourne’s son

And then Lloyd showed up immediately afterwards and I was like ‘oh wait here’s a protagonist I actually LOVE, nvm bye Rean lol’

Alisa: I literally never use Alisa unless the game makes me lol she was there and I don’t hate her but also I cannot remember a single interesting thing she did. Even during her one bit of plot relevance she was overshadowed by Angelica it’s hilarious that the marketing makes her out to be the deteuragonist 

Elliot: A GOOD BOY who served me incredibly well with his off the charts healing crafts, I can’t believe I started CS1 not liking him much and thinking him useless. I love the little dance he does in his idle animation

Laura: I still like Laura, I wish she was more plot relevant. I don’t feel strongly about her, but she’s always a welcome addition to any scene

Machias: Unpopular opinion probably but I really like him, even if his outfit in this game was awful. So are his alt outfits. Fashion disaster. I bought him contact lenses from a shady highway business man because he looks better without glasses. I made him ludicrously bulky, if he’d just had some kind of taunt craft to protect Jusis (squishy mage) with he’d be a perfect tank

I’m a fan of him in a ‘this is my trash son’ kind of way lol

Emma: Uhhh kinda boring which is impressive since she’s actually important and pseudo-related to Vita and all. Btw I guessed she was a witch in chapter goddamn three of CS1 after reading the folklore book, and I find it extremely wild that it’s either a dragged out, foregone conclusion if you have read the book, OR witches even existing is completely out of nowhere if you haven’t

Jusis: My favourite, because I’m basic. But like, he’s seriously the most interesting of the guys, and I made him Rean’s best friend (only one I got to rank 7 with lol). And his bonding event in Bareahard was so gooood!

I find it incredibly funny that he insists he and Machias aren’t friends because 1. Yes you are and 2. Do you even have any other non-Rean friends, guy? You literally never hang out with anyone else unless it’s plot related

Still low key ship it. Enjoy that Rean does too, apparently. Still reeling over their Trial Chest’s quote

His second S-Craft is ridiculous looking

Fie: Most interesting girl, love how she just doesn’t get flustered ever, funniest character, best girl in the game, what the HELL was that outfit

Gaius: I keep forgetting Gaius exists lol. I don’t dislike him, but he’s not very interesting to me. He’s Zin, or Noel

Millium: Man do I want to know more about Millium. Her whole thing about learning to cry... so sad and SO fascinating. What is the deal with her and Altina?!?

Sara: I hated Sara at the start of CS1. Now I adore her. God she’s just the best. Please let her interact with Schera please please please Falcom

Towa: Cutest! She’s so cute and I still love her and I did her final event even though she is TOO GOOD for Rean! She got to be a captain! I love her!

As for more minor characters - still think Angie’s great, just wish she wasn’t kinda creepy about her love of girls, deeply dislike that the game ship teases her and GEORGE, who I still otherwise find inoffensive but also, you know, male, Alfin is great, Toval is great too and I still can’t get over him being Toby, stop teasing Claire with Rean let there be one woman who isn’t into him please, oh good Sharon’s here and they don’t do that with her and she’s awesome also can’t believe I used to not like her, more Olivier always please, same with Mueller, Celine is Morgana from P5 except better in every conceivable way, Crow :(, all the Ouroboros lot are great as always, and Elise is easily my least favourite character in this franchise and can get in the sun for all I care 

I read a transcript of the drama CD and hey Rean’s dad can also get in the sun for saying that his adopted son isn’t good enough to marry his biological daughter like where do you even start-

I love that I’ve gone from reacting to Ouroboros appearances like ‘oh shit oh no’ to going ‘oh shit it’s these fucking clowns (affectionate) again’

Still love Beryl. Also love Lambert

When they mentioned ‘Mueller’s friend’ I thought it would be Julia and I was so excited and then so disappointed that it was Neithardt who I still don’t like

Elliot’s dad looks ridiculous riding on top of that tank

I loved riding the bike around SO MUCH, even if it took me a while to get a hang of the controls  

Aurelia Le Guin is just Edelgard Fire Emblem, right? And Bardias is Claude? Except I guess this game came first, so like, other way around

Man I loved flying around on the Courageous. Also I FINALLY got a map, all I wanted in CS1 was to see a map of the country 

However, Act 1 was definitely my favourite part - the sequence where the kids have to sneak through the railway lines under the bridge to get to Garrelia is one of my favourite parts of this entire series. I kind of wanted the whole game to just be this group of teenagers trying to lay low and survive a civil war while also travelling and helping out from place to place

I uh... I want JRPG Life is Strange 2

Why is there a snowboarding minigame. I mean, I loved it, but... why is it there?

I still really miss the old battle orbment designs from Sky. The ARCUSs just aren’t as cool :(

I watched the secret Black Records scene on YouTube and I am so happy to finally have an explanation for Rosine, it was really bothering me that she seemed so out of place at a military academy

I’m very very hype to play CS3 based on the spoilers I have for who will be making appearances...

:D

Seriously why is everything in these games azure though just say blue-

[temarisnara]

Gai, Kakashi, Asuma

gai

favorite thing about them: he's balls to walls insane and i LOVE it. he's just so funny and stupid, but also genuinely good. i love that he saw kakashi's depressed ass and was like "oh no no no. i'm involving myself."

least favorite thing about them: ok confession time i initally didn't like gai because of how utterly insane he is. i didn't dislike him but like. look at his fucking kids. neji needs therapy. rock lee is................rock lee. and he's just AH THE SPRINGTIME OF YOUTH. anyway gai is a good person and his kids are way more well adjusted than kakashi's but i look at how he handled rock lee's recovery and im just like, gai, no.

favorite line: when he calls kakashi his man of destiny like the giant fucking homo he is

brOTP: asuma and kurenai and rock lee!!

OTP: KAKASHI

nOTP: gai doesnt have any fucking ships because he's ugly and fandom ignores him. however i know there are freaks who ship him with rock lee and i want them dead.

random headcanon: i love trans gai headcanons that shit slaps

unpopular opinion: he is kakashi's husband yall are just ugly-phobic

song i associate with them: love shack thanks to you

favorite picture of them: no <3

kakashi

favorite thing about them: he is simply a depressed man who wants to fucking die!! but i love that his love for team 7 is...pretty gradual? like he takes one look at them and goes "oh they are NOT going to be good for my ptsd" and tells them he hates them aesrdtyfjgukhds BRUH THEYRE 12 GO TO THERAPY. but he really does grow to love them so much. i'm soft.

least favorite thing about them: his fans

favorite line: bruh that shit about filling the hole in your heart with other people...............good shit

brOTP: team 7, rin, asuma and kurenai. yamato i guess????

OTP: GAI!!!!!!! and obito

nOTP: anyone in team 7, iruka, and women

random headcanon: TRANS GAY MAN KAKASHI.

unpopular opinion: kakairu makes no fucking sense i dont GET IT where did yall come up with this!!! THEY NEVER TALK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

song i associate with them: holy shit i found a kakashi mix with the mask by matt maeson on it and its PERFECT

favorite picture of them: bro.

asuma

favorite thing about them: that is a handsome man who drinks respect women juice. also like, he's genuinely a good teacher.

least favorite thing about them: nothing he's perfect and sexy. actually nvm i just remembered his dying words to ino were about sasuke. bad take asuma.

favorite line: idk but like his entire fight with shikainocho makes me tear up thinking about and when asuma was like "wait i have something to say" and shikamaru was like "NO WE ALREADY DID THIS DONT RUIN IT" aesrtryjukyiuyt

brOTP: his students but especially shikamaru, i feel like he and gai especially vibe, and he and kakashi are good friends

OTP: kurenai

nOTP: does he have any other ships??????????????

random headcanon: he and kurenai have had a Thing for each other since they were 13, dated when they were 16-17, broke up, hooked up a few times throughout the years, started working things out towards the end of OG. they definetely had a red string kind of relationship where they always found their way back to each other.

unpopular opinion: idk i just think he's handsome

song i associate with them: i've had cardigan stuck in my head all week and it’s an asuma/kurenai song especially the bridge it’s very sad

favorite picture of them: he's always handsome i dont have one

[ghostsontelevision]

ok black friday official review SPOILERS under the cut. hopefully they fixed it so cuts work on mobile but if not uh. scroll fast i guess.

okay to start off? the songs? bangers. jeff blim really said every song on this soundtrack is gonna slap. i don’t think there’s a single song i disliked? wiggle is a standout, feast or famine rules, adore me rules, hell even the little song becky and tom sing when they’re looking for hannah is just. insanely good.

angela does a REALLY good job as lex, like she embodies this shitty disillusioned teen so well and she and kendall have great chemistry as sisters. she and rob also have really good chemistry, i love the bit where he goes “oh i guess i forgot cuz im just SO stupid” and she like, laughs and pushes him off, they have a lot of cute moments

(side note: i know with tgwdlm the theories as to why paul and emma never kissed was either lauren doesn’t like to kiss onstage or the lang bros don’t like making people kiss onstage, i think with black friday we can safely confirm the langs have no issue with making people kiss onstage LOL)

tbh all the acting is stellar as expected, i haven’t seen enough people talking abt how jaime kills it as sherman, so i’m gonna say that jaime kills it as sherman.

for something everyone’s been saying: lauren as linda monroe is SO good. i saw some people saying she was written confusingly, which i didn’t get at all? she seemed very straightforward to me. but yeah she was a delight every time she was on stage, it didn’t hurt that she got two of the best songs.

the running bit with gerald was good without ever seeming overdone, implant the way linda says “cinnabon” into my brain pls

i also really liked becky! i thought we got a lot of well written female characters this time around. i thought she balanced being a genuinely loving and empathetic character with also being the only character to have done a non-black-friday-related murder. her killing linda was very satisfying, i liked their dynamic

if becky becomes the new charlotte and i have to sit through 20 million “starkid unpopular opinions :)” videos talking abt how becky sucked and was annoying i’ll riot. charlotte and becky defense squad

i can’t just go through praising every character lol but also dylans return to starkid is worth the hype. it feels like he’s grown leagues since twisted

(hey langs? is literally ANYONE in hatchetfield happily married or is everyone either divorced, widowed, or being abused? are paul and emma going to have to invent good marriages?)

(wait mr. davidson and his wife are good nvm)

(i hope in the black friday verse mr. davidson communicates with his wife abt his needs in the bedroom)

the plot was pretty good, like things made sense and all that. i was a little worried abt an ensemble cast but tbh it’s really not that bad, like everyone’s easy to keep track of and no like, character development feels rushed or anything

tbh the only things that bothered me were lex never finding out that ethan dies (tho i get that there just wasn’t time for it since she and hannah don’t reconnect till the end) and that i personally wasn’t crazy abt the president segments? i would’ve rather just like, had mcnamara undercover at the mall and he like, finds hannah or lex and that’s when he explains everything. maybe wiggly shows up when like, hannah falls asleep or something, we’ve already implied she has a connection to the black and white so just push that more.

(tho tbh then the whole wiggly’s connection to america -> made in america doesn’t happen, so maybe the presidential scenes are a necessary evil who knows. tbh i liked the entire black and white bit)

(also starkid finally includes a fuck america song that makes sense in the narrative hell yeah)

i think the langs are pushing a like, everyone dies at the end of every hatchetfield show kind of thing, which is why it’s really heavily implied everyone gets nuked at the end, but i think you could’ve gotten the same tone by just emphasizing that wiggly mania is ALL over america, and we don’t know if any other place survived, if wiggly found another person to come through, etc. like you don’t need ww3 on the horizon to make it bleak

idk just imo ending act 1 with characters we’ve never seen before seems like a weak choice

(the obama impression was fuckin good tho)

also i’ve never been so confused by an act 2 opener but as soon as i realized what was going on i was delighted

santa claus goes to high school > workin boys do not @ me

(honestly its funny as hell to me that the langs probably KNEW santa claus goes to high school was coming when everyone was losing their shit over workin boys like. could yall demand a full musical of something that isn’t a 2 minute joke pls)

oh my other plot nitpick is why did becky have that syringe but i’m willing to handwave it as she came here straight from work and accidentally left it in her pocket

i liked the tgwdlm callbacks, some of them felt a little gratuitous but overall they were good. the SHRIEKS of joy when emma mentions hidgens were hysterical.

overall it was really good! i think tgwdlm is still my favorite just because the plot feels a little tighter but honestly black friday might surpass it on the strength of the soundtrack alone. its absolutely in my top 3.

OH ALSO THE CHOREOGRAPHY after my initial watch i put the digital ticket on a few times while i was drawing just to get the most out of the 72 hours i had it and i always stopped what i was doing to watch that one lauren-james-robert bit in deck the halls of northville high. you know the one.

anyways it was good 9/10

EDIT: also i forgot but i... think the langs forgot abt the lgbt character? rumor has it mcnamara had a monologue that got cut where he confirms he had a husband but it didn’t make it into the show so idk. maybe it’ll be in the youtube version

[janiedean]

sorry to bother you, but I was wondering why Theo/San was't your cup of tea?

you mean theon/sansa? (also no bother!)

... hahah. uhm. 100% show-based, but. PLEASE ANYONE INTO IT STOP READING NOW I WARNED YOU XDD

first: in book canon I wouldn���t mind I guess, but in show canon nvm the travesty of giving her his storyline, there were those two scenes in 5x07/8 where a) she asked him to help her escape.... without telling him she’d take him with her so basically assuming he’d just stay back and most likely get killed but whateverb) she told him that if she could she’d do to him what ramsay had done all over againand like... sansa never apologized for that, it never was referenced again and it was assumed textually as something he somehow deserved to hear (??) and even with that he saved her anyway because.... what? he’s a stark? he loves the starks? we just don’t know because oh, wait, they gave her his storyline, and I have to assume that hey since he helped her then it’s all fine? like, sorry but I can’t buy it and the fact that it was never resolved on screen sealed it for me

second: she had his storyline. like, sorry but show!sansa had S5/6 doing what he should have done, theon never even was told on screen that ramsay was dead, they made his death all about sansa and theon was forgotten or what, we didn’t even have a possible last minute patch for that in 8x02 because who knows what they talked about, I had to see my favorite storyline in the books butchered and theon’s character reduced at ‘being a honorary stark’ at the end of it all (which... ofc he was, since they took all his sl and agency and whatever to give it to sansa)... and I should be into that? like sorry but if I see show!theon/sansa I see validation of the show’s choices which imho weren’t even done well bc they didn’t even bond during their shared captivity or whatever and it was horribly written and I checked out of validating those show choices the moment they went there in S5. if it had been show endgame I’d have gritted my teeth and borne it but it wasn’t and all the rhetoric about theon’s redemption arc making him a stark after all was... well, not the worst that came out of S8 because they butchered jaime worse and dany worse and whatever but honest, no

third: unpopular opinion but with how they wrote sansa in S8, if at the end they had made san/san canon I wouldn’t have enjoyed a iota of it bc show!sansa is not book!sansa, she’s cersei lite, and I detested her characterization since S5 but S8 took the cake and atm I’m not interested in any show!only sansa ship bc I spent the last two episodes hoping that dany would roast the entirety of westeros for how done I was with dnd’s horribly written attempts to make me root against her and/or put sansa as their feminism model while writing her like cersei and tramping over every other female character to get there, and I’m saying this with pain in my heart because I love book!sansa and I could have pretended to ignore my issues with characterization in S6-7 if 8 had been done well... but it wasn’t.

tldr: that ship is encapsulating everything I hated about what they did with theon and sansa’s storylines and characterizations from S5 onward and I can’t get past that stuff in S5 that no one bothered address on screen. obv it doesn’t mean people shouldn’t ship it because like I’m not gonna ship shame anyone and you do you, but personally I don’t want to have to do with it if I can help it. :/

[riskeith]

HI BABY!!!!

I LOVE THOSE TYPES OF VIDEOS SO MUCH THE SECOND THE SONG STARTED I KNEW WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN!!!! I’M SO HAPPY ALSO THE PLAYER TRYING TO MAKE ZHONGLI DANCE SKDJFJDKDJFLD i love how dancin’ has just become the official genshin song.

yes back to scheduled program:

it’s a super unpopular opinion 😳 i’ve never heard anyone say that skdhdfjdks. but same i think i’ve seen the first two over ten times throughout the years but i’ve only seen the last one Once. the movies do a great job at lore though so i don’t think reading the books are necessary... personal opinion. OH idk how famous it is but it’s a truth and dare fic and it’s super nsfw idk how much you like reading those but it’s called ‘it started with a spin’... it’s a mess but i remember reading it years ago and really enjoying it jshshsj.. also WOW???? you really fell into the drarry hole huh? granted it’s understandable they have some amazing writers. and sooo much content.

BUNNY CUTE CLUNA OH MY GOD HE SAID BUNNY CUTE!!!!!!! 🥺 ok this just made razor and bennett my new favorite duo in the game sorry everybody else..... ok nvm aether + razor too? wait no now i’m confused razor should be everybody’s baby.. including ours yes let’s adopt him... i can’t believe we already have children together 😳

RIGHT? i love that so much too! as much as i enjoy canon bamf midoriya i love fics that contain quirkless midoriya as well. something about him not needing a quirk yet changing the world is just *chefs kiss* that does feel like a you thing to do lmao sjshskks imagine how easy writing would be that way. also i’ve been curious about smth: do you have any favorite fics you can recommend? longer fics perferably i’m feeling Angsty.

it is a long time but idk.. it can create friendships that last for a long time. i’m still bestfriends with people i got to know at 5 years old and i’m 21 now so sjsjdksdk i guess being around each other for so long makes your bond different. but i’m sure it’s the same when you share those crucial teenage years together too.

diluc is always there and he’s so tempting.. damn. but yeah after xiao you could go for it!! imagine having xiao and diluc on your team... the fucking op-ness. is it difficult to get primogems at the higher levels?

WHAT????? are you kidding????? holy shit this game is on something.... how long will it take to ascend hahaha. now i know what streamers mean when they say that it’s okay to stop at level 80 with most characters....

CLUNA DO YOU HAVE 8 TUMBLR ACCS OR AM I PICKING THIS UP WRONGLY.... but jokes aside that the best system you don’t have to worry about spamming one blog or it being messy. i admire that a lot, couldn’t be me but i admire that a lot.

CHONGYUN EATING COTTON CANDY.. i just got a visual like him picking cotton candy from his hair and snacking on it help shdjjdhdjsks he’s so adorable. (pink and blue are equally used here!! i mostly see it during fairs and stuff. do you like it?) dip dye was so famous around that time remember when everybody did it? i remember crying bc i wasn’t allowed. and yeah i dye my hair once a year usually. mostly softer brown colors (my natural hair color is dark brown) and black when i’m feeling emo. i did peachy red hair once and i think that was my prime hsjsks. wbu? have you ever dyed it?

OIKAWAAAAA....... there’s something so fucking good about a seemingly confident boy that’s actually super insecure and very passionate that just hits right. right? and i do have two hq wips actually they aren’t very advanced because i’ve been so busy but they exist. one iwaoi and one kagehina. those two are my main ships in the show so far actually, that might change but who knows. i just love those two soooo much. the dynamics are just mwah. i need to get them out in the world some day.... hbu?? are you currently working on anything? hq or anything else? AND OFC IVE SEEN THAT. i actually love that drawing sooooo much cluna i remember seeing it weeks ago and going aaaaaah wow. the crown,,, his hair,,, i just think you’re the most amazing and i have such a crush on your talent.... 🥺 (just you in general as well actually 😳)

it’s the weekend, aka more time for us! can’t wait to hear from you again babe... <3

HI HIIIIII

HAHAHA YEAH WHEN I SAW IT I WAS LIKE OMGGGGGGG OMGGGGGG!!!!! the things people come up with wow 😩

oooo! that’s good then. i just don’t think i absorb information as well from movies compared to books ahaha. well i’ve learnt all the important stuff through fics now i reckon 🤪 oh i’ve seen that!! but i’ve purposely been not reading it fhdjdjskkwndks i feel like the concept wouldn’t be my thing but.. i might give it a shot. AND YESS there are so many good drarry authors who’ve written amazing fics ugh i love it here

it’s what razor deserves 😩😩 where should we take him first 🤪 family day out

hmmm fic recs which pairing? i could give you a lot of drarry, and a decent amount of iwaoi and kagehina maybe.. i don’t read a lot of fic for pairings/fandoms i write unfortunately.. but for a start the drarry fic running on air i mentioned is reaaaaally good!! a shorter one but just as good one is “to hurt and heal”. and i hope you’re doing alright 💞

omg nice!! that’s so sweet tho.. do you know anyone who’s had their childhood friends to lovers experience <33 ahahah

dude xiao and diluc omg… i am manifesting 🕯 it kinda is! if you run out of achievements and you’ve explored everything you can only really get primos from your daily commissions… i believe. which is why updates with new areas like dragonspine are a big blessing djdjskkdnfjc

yeah same omg crazy.. i think i might try levelling some of my main 4 up with books and then i’ll just like passively let them gain xp as i play lmao.…

I HAVE...… DEFINITELY MORE THAN 8 INCLUDING ONES IM JUST USING TO SAVE URLS/BLOGS I STARTED BUT NEVER CONTINUED BUT..… yeahhhhhh LMAO

omg.… your brain m.a. your brain!!! (i love cotton candy!! we call it fairy floss ehehe. do you like it?) FJSKKDKSMS i wasn’t allowed either 😔😔. oh nice!! omg peachy red??? das cool af. and i’ve never dyed my hair before!! but i’ve been wanting to bleach it lately heheh

iwaoi and kagehina dynamics are definitely top tier… i hope you’re able to work on those wips again soon!! and i have a lot of hq wips!! none i’m actively working on.. but yeah! thank you so much 😭😭😭😭 you’re too too kind to me 😭😭😭 but yeah i was also like??? i really did that??? wow. i must’ve been possessed by some kinda oikawa loving and good at drawing demon when i drew that fr (the feeling is.. mutual 😳)

ALSO THAT REMINDS ME. I HAVE THE PERFECT PLACE TO GO ON OUR CO-OP DATE omg so i was thinking about where we could possibly go together as xingqiu and chongyun before falling asleep and literally startled awake when i realised… won’t tell you yet so it’s a surprise hehehe unless you also know 👀 what i’m thinking 👀

woo!! can’t wait for your reply 💌

[drowthelynes]

For the character thingie: ZUKO, Yuri Plisetsky, gamzee, eren jagegaggrr

ILY THANKS

(also listen for the hotness level thing,,,, it’s mostly aesth appreciation but even then, the only men i would ever be attracted to are always 929386% fictional so :P)

Zuko 

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life | my pride and joy and everything that is #lit in this world (haha, haha, lit geddit ok nvm sorry lol)hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff (kinda gryff too, but i firmly believe he’s a puff at his core)best quality: his loyalty and (holy shit so much) dedication to people and things he cares about, his drive for self-improvement, his mad mimicry skillz, his “dramangst” tendencies (acc it’s not a good thing, but the context for it pertaining to his character development makes my heart literally shrivel up and cry so….)worst quality: his tendency to get carried away with literally anything (it may have lessened when he grew up and went through all that tear-jerking emotional maturation but still. JUST CHILL FOR SOME TIME MAN U DONT GOTTA KEEP PROVING YOURSELF TO EVERYONE FOR EVERYTHING)and???? ya dassit. oh and maybe how he always expresses whatever emotion he cant figure out,,, in anger. i mean, Iroh, dude. i don’t deny zuko was hurting ofc - but even later on it’s just a thing. him getting angry when he can’t figure some feelsy shit out or is lying to himself, not everyone is all understanding like iroh after all so they end up getting kinda hurt (for eg. MAI),(can you tell im projecting here oops)ship them with: WHO D’YA THINK - this brilliant snarky gorgeous idiot with a boomerang aka Sokka of the Southern Water Tribe,,,,,,,,,otherwise i kinda like zukaang and maiko too hahabrotp them with: ayyyy katara, yue, aang, maybe jet!needs to stay away from: hm ozai. durh.misc. thoughts: my heart literally swells whenever i see or hear of him,,,,, *his relationship and dynamic with azula never fails to do my chest a hurt (so i just imagine a lot of fluffy sibling stuff for them to make up)*i basically cry at him interacting with anyone ok he is that precious to me, *UNPOPULAR OPINION: BOOK 1 ZUKO IS HOT, *i relate to him (as well as sokka) a lot, but if we actually met irl, i can guarantee i’d either have a terrible impression of him or like, go ‘hmm seems cool but what is up with the stick in his ass’ - ofc, if we were friends, then this would all be moot.*fem(or just fem-inclined) zuko currently has my bleeding heart clutched in their fiery hand and i’m just thanking them profusely for it (also. they short. like. tiny. chooootu sa. very small.)

Yuri Plisetsky (Yurio)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would banghogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin (with some puff characteristics) | ravenclaw | hufflepuffbest quality: his obsession with animal prints (why child why), HIS AMBITION AND RELENTLESS DRIVE TO LEARN AND IMPROVE HIMSELF (skating and otherwise ok), his ability to withstand humongous amounts of bullshitworst quality: his drive can very easily turn into holding himself to impossible standards (jesus why is he so similar to zuko whatthefuck), ship them with: beka!! but i like them being friends for a long time first ok, like yea sure even after he’s of age and like way past the age or whatever. slow burn bff-to-lover yurabek is the Wholesome Organic Shit™brotp them with: yuuri katsudonki:’), phichit can you imagine the hilarity, beka ofc,needs to stay away from: uh…? idk probably JJ bc yea sure they’re more civil towards each other later on but… they just don’t get along lmaomisc. thoughts: i know the whole running joke abt ‘haaaw poor yura the embarrassed kid third wheeling for the sapfest that is viktor and yuuri’ but honestly??? i feel so much for him lmao*bc even at his biggest moments of victory, he has always been sidelined by Nikiforov and Katsuki: Romantic Bliss At GPF (im only like bitter on his behalf bc otw yall know i love viktuuri ok)*DARK KUBO-SENSEI SHOW ME MORE OF YURA’S HISTORY AND RELATION WITH VIKTOR*i think of him curled up in a gigantic duvet drinking horrifically bitter hot chocolate, beka in shorts and a ratty hoodie beside him sipping on fancyass sweet cold coffee, skyping the nishigori fam (yuuko promptly congratulates yura on his boyf and he just. literally. does a ‘I CANT HEAR YOU- SHUSH BEKA SHE DIDNT SAY ANYTHING’ what a dork) - i am content.*i still want an episode focusing solely on yurio with ALL his guardians - ft. viktor/yuuri as oogie loving parents, HIS GRANDPA PLS, lilia who i love, and yakov who just needs some rest

Gamzee Makara

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life | i’d die for themhotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would banghogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff (i…… didn’t wanna give in to the ‘Weed House!!!!!!!!!!!’ cliche, but honestly,,,,,, personality wise also i cant imagine them anywhere else - they’re not that hardworking tho oops, at least not in the conventional way)best quality: the way their can see smth beautiful and worthy in everything, i know it follows the ‘haha stoner’ trope in the comic but srsly,,, their quiet droopy comforting love for people they care about, their fashion sense broooo,worst quality: got subjected to the comic (which was obvs not their fault but yea. worst™ thing to happen to them,) the fanaticism ship them with: TAAAVROS }:0) gamtav is the purest thing brotp them with: karkat obviously, pale gamkar is :’) and alsooo jane (baking buddies!) roxy and dave (baked buddies if ykwim :)) needs to stay away from: haha. cal. cal should just stay away from everybody lmao (and like. caliborn, if extending from that.)misc. thoughts: ok so. they’re agender ok. there are just some characters who are just inherently flung out of the gender binary for me, gamz is one of them (actually a lot of the homestuck characters, esp the aliens)*i’m not even gonna go into how unfairly they were treated throughout - even till the end!!! tf huss i’m fuckingfg coming for you (and for not giving us more rosemary development or a canon davekat kiss even tho it ain’t my main ship OK WOW IMMA STOP NOW BEFORE I - yeah.)*anyway they got out the goddamn corpse fridge and managed to meet goatdad, had some weird redemption/reunion with jane which involved an explosion in the kitchen, had a feelsjam with tavsprite and strangely, kanaya, and etc etc etc *you read the fifth-iteration series. yeah that. all of that. everything in that.*they and GHB would get along better than kurloz and GHB do which is weird bc GHB is literally alternian!kurloz lol (in fact gamzee just. doesnt get along with his bro very well.)*they have a sweet tooth that would give anyone diabetes (john is disgusted. jane understands.)

Eren Jaeger (lov how u spelt his name lolll)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would banghogwarts house: gryffindor (i mean ,,,, anything else? nah lmao he is the Perfect Gryff) | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuffbest quality: him being sO,,,, AR I E S, him controlling such an eatable titan (one of my highest aesth crushes, shit), him being such a passionate hothead (toldja, aries), his chemistry with various characters!worst quality: his,,, passionate hotheadness - it comes with an unshakeable side effect of loyalty - he will end up sacrificial crucial things and people just for his friends…. bigger… pi c. tu….re eren…..meri jaan,,,,,ship them with: ehehe, ehehehhehe, ehehehhehehhehe - JEAN KIRSTEIN (i blame and am gr8ful to my friend who introduced me to them), marco bodt (but mostly erejeanmarco…. eremarco is pure thooo), annie leonhart (lol angst ship x’0)brotp them with: oh god, reiner, sasha (my wife), connie (my gr8 friend), marco again, m i k a s a a n d a r m i n, needs to stay away from: hm,,,, idk……….. def bertholt, ?annie as well but….., ok yeah dassit,misc. thoughts:  i Dont Understand E//R//e//R//i wtf??????, eremarcojean is so fucking wholesome and pure and illuminating, erejean’s The Shit srsly (and jean’s not abusive dammit), ya….eren is hinted to be adopted, and of his ancestry originating in Turkey, and that ….. main character’s poc,,,,,,,,but also? he’s always presented as white and german,,, ://// and the show itself has some ,,, themes i’m not ,,comfy with (titans…. you see), and ya….fuck im saying ‘ya…’ a lot pls excuse meeren is a naive motherfucka sometimes,,,,,,, but he is best example for determination,uh yeah dassit p much ehehe,,,,,,,,