#and this is only up to ep. 40

[clairedsfield]

marta/fina + hands

[ghost-bard]

Katari life transference to synnove im unwell i cant do this chat

[jayjamjary]

I think if someone straight up ripped out Zoro's heart (the actually one, not the metaphorical one) he would just get back up and be like "Nah, I'm build different" and then he would kill them and then pass out."

[new-haven-psych-ward]

Kamen Rider Geats episode 40 poorly summarized via memes with as little context as possible:

[amelikos]

Spotlight posts of each chapter in anticipation of HZ100 (Liko and Roy Set Off, Terapagos' Shine, Terastal Debut, Rayquaza Rising).

[bbokicidal]

[SKZ] When you're included in a SKZCODE episode

i made this before the front desk at work tried to take me out so yall can have it now since my brain is rattled n chunky.

Genre: Fluff Pairing: OT8 x Reader Warnings: Lino's pics aren't from the episode I put bc I couldn't find any, sorry!

SFW Masterlist | NSFW Masterlist

Chan: Episode: Winter is Coming [Ep 1 & 2]

Pouts when he finds out he has to try and stop you from getting the flag up and down the hill in record time because he wants you to win,,, duh.

But it doesn't stop him from absolutely ramming a ball of snow into the back of your head (on accident)

Laughs at the way the boys try to stop you with their bodies and the way you fearlessly bodyslam them in an attempt to win the game

Almost dies of laughter at seeing you spin in circles and then try to attack the poor balloon - only for it to fly away and disqualify you

Buys you hot chocolate after the shoot is over and cuddles up with you to keep warm after being outside in the snow all day <3

Minho: Episode: The Ultimate SKZCODE Recap [Ep 69-70]

Has to hide his giggles at your poor presenting of the boys' awards

And how bad they are at guessing the right answers to the quiz questions

Gets all blushy when you announce him for any award and shies away when you run to the audience to sit down and cheer so loudly for him

Ends up trying to bribe you for answers to the quiz questions by winking and blowing you kisses from his table

Until he's called out by Jisung, at least

Changbin: Episode: SKZ-ARY TOWN [Ep 57-68

Cannot hide his laughter at the way you fail at bobbing for apples

But then loses his shit jumping around and yelling "That's my baby!!" when you manage to get a few and tie with Felix for first place

Tries to bribe the staff to give him the same amount of points as you since you're dating

Tells you to do the first position in the relay game but quickly switches with you when he realizes you almost fly away with Chan and Minho trying to restrict your running with the band

He's literally bouncing around with how good you are at the mini games and ends up putting you on the toast-toss station because you're the only team member who doesn't suck

Hugs you so tight when you win the game and swings you around in his arms just because he's so excited

Hyunjin: Episode: Go! Poolside SKZ [Ep 57-58]

Has the time of his life seeing you and Jisung run and dive in together because you lost rock paper scissors

Asks for you to not be on his team because he doesn't trust your ability in the water games as if he's any better himself

Ends up accidentally hitting you with the ball a few times and immediately apologizes, then allows you to throw it at him once on purpose as revenge

Just about loses it on Seungmin when he flips over your tube like Chan did with Felix, then yells for staff to disqualify him

But he's just as brutal because in the tug of war he rips your ass off of the platform and almost falls in because of how hard he's laughing at your yells of protest

Jisung: Episode: SKZ Family Returns [Ep 39-40] (He looked SO FINE in this episode good GAWD)

Has a blast flirting it up with Minho but after Seungmin starts biting back he makes a show of turning to you instead

You play his in-law technically - Your character being Hyunjin's sibling

Everyone is in shock and making a scene of Jisung's flirtatious attitude towards you as the roleplay goes on

And they're even more surprised and making drama of it when the two of you kiss behind Hyunjin's head

He ends up sitting with his guitar and singing the 'I'm sorry' song again because of it

Almost starts fighting Seungmin at one point because he 'also wants to have an affair with you' as a joke

Felix: Episode: Bedtime Bingo Hell [Ep 55-56]

Watching him yell about how he's bronze is what makes you laugh the most

He has a blast watching you try to do the pillow air-bowling but gawks when you manage to knock a few down and then yells about how you're his and how he's so proud

He's full of giggles when you hop on the whoopie cushion

And he's full of playful rage when Changbin is called 'the one with the prettiest butt' so he begins an argument that yours is way prettier

Also almost loses his shit when you come in second for the loudest fart

He's proud but at what cost

Seungmin: Episode: Fall Field Day [Ep 59-60]

Cries at seeing you in the raw chicken blow up costume and takes a picture before making it his lockscreen because he thinks you're so cute

He ends up being the one to fight you on the mat and ends up losing to you

Don't let his cuteness fool you - he absolutely obliterates you in dodgeball

Can he aim? No. And Minho can't guard for shit; So you end up getting hit more than you probably should

He giggles at you running around the sidelines in an attempt to get back in the game, singing out "I'm sorry ~"

Takes videos of you running during the relay race because he just thinks it's so cute

Jeongin: Episode: Suspicious Lab [Ep 47-48]

He's supposed to be guessing voices but he hears you go, "Ahh - I sound so much different than all of you, this isn't fair!" in your high-pitched helium tone and bursts into laughter

Your experiment ended up breaking so you did Seungmin's after him, wearing the stimulation machine on one of your arms and trying to fold an airplane

He ends up taking the remote from Minho at some point because he's having too much fun with tormenting you and Jeongin can't stand it

Turns up the machine even more to see you squirm

Also cheats during the game where he had to try and ramp up your heart rate (He touches your ass to get a reaction out of you) and then denies it in a fit of laughter when you call him out to the staff

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[pshbites]

LOVE ON AiR

SYNOPSiS » two podcast groups, both equally popular on the internet, start interacting with one another. however it isnt how fans want it to be.. OR yn sees sunghoon hating on lauryn hill and accidentally starts an entire fanwar with him.

PAiRiNG » sunghoon x fem!reader

FEAUTRiNG » all of enha, giselle of aespa, txt briefly mentioned

GENRE » smau (social media au), fluff, angst, enemies to lovers (barely), chronically online humor, romance, podcast au, influencer au, HEAVILY inspired from suburb talks and under the influence podcasts, SLOWBURNN

WARNiNGS » profanity, suggestive humor, kys/kms jokes, lots of pop culture references (im chronically online im sorry), drinking, drugs, fanwars, yn haters (BOOOOO), stalking (sorta?) manipulation (NOT FROM SUNGHOON OR Y/N) changes every chapter.

STATUS » completed — (08/03/24) to (10/26/24)

PLAYLiST » your eyes only - enha, after midnight - chappell roan, ex factor - lauryn hill, kiss me - dpr live, read your mind - sabrina carpenter, 3005 - childish gambino, poison poison - renee rapp, thirst - dpr live, just a little bit - enha, daisy - wave to earth, nouvelle vague - wave to earth, thinkin about you - frank ocean. (got carried away .. 😁)

AUTHORS NOTE » BIGGG thanks to my bestest friend ever, my fav british person, @lqfiles , ily so so much and thank you so much for helping me with this process. teaching me how to work tumblr like i was a grandma even tho im only 2 years older than u and making this AMAZING cover (isnt she talented), i love u sooo much more than words can describe, you annoying brit (endearing) 🫶

TAGLIST CLOSED!

written chaps in blue

🔴 RECORDING..

teaser (read first for context!!)

profiles i & profiles ii

1) call my phone a vibrator the way it keeps buzzing

2) YAP CENTRAL EP.135: alpha male podcasts?!

3) first hate thread. feeling nervous

4) pussy slay queen!

5) okay alpha

6) ROUND TABLE EP.149: perfect pitch :o

7) 1 down 3 to go

8) what the fuck is a ynhoon

9) YNXOXO VLOG: night out w/ won and riki

10) wet and bothered

11) just a normal tuesday

12) jungwons evil arc

13) YNXOXO VLOG: cafe date with my girls <3

14) the battle of thirst traps

15) twitch streaming era

16) YAP CENTRAL EP.136: did social media ruin relationships?

17) second interaction: kinda scared

18) fuck skater boys

19) park sunghoon v. round table

20) riki emo era: OVER

21) sunghoons side hoes

22) ROUND TABLE EP.150: we traded phones?!

23) bro define: friend

24) spidey sense

25) on my cellular plan i pay for?

26) YNXOXO VLOG: night time routine + surprise!!

27) a face i would kiss

28) collab of the century

29) YAP CENTRAL EP.137: has love lost its meaning?

30) eyes don’t lie

31) operation: ynhoon (postponed)

32) crybaby

33) operation: ynhoon (BACK ON)

34) chat is this a date yes or no?

35) boss baby jay

36) boyfriend

37) soft or hard?

38) what da heck *tyla voice*

39) YNXOXO VLOG: ice skating! | vlog w/ a special guest!!

40) love is on air

UNCUTS

1) operation: get riki ip banned on twt

2) try not to blow up challenge: FAILED

3) JAYS KITCHEN: my friends trying to help me make food blindfolded. (spoiler: it’s a fail)

4) YNXOXO VLOG: my boyfriend does my makeup voiceover !

5) YAP CENTRAL BLOOPERS: riki kat and yn patreon ad

© all rights to pshbites 2024

[purplealmonds]

Finished this just in time for the new trailer drop! This is my Mononoke illustration featuring assorted merch from the anime, movie, and stage play! How many can you recognize? ⚖️👹

(Yes, please send answers in the replies! Answers, progress pics, artist commentary will be drafted on a separate post when I'm less tired) ⭐️ UPDATE 04/03/24: Abridged artist commentary is now available under the cut! For the full version, please see the Google Doc linked in the replies.

👁️Overview 

Late last year, I rather belatedly discovered Mononoke’s 15th anniversary came and went, and with it, an entire swath of new content to manically pore over. This is an illustration of the various Mononoke merchandise, props, and set dressing I discovered.

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🔎Scope

Some fun facts regarding the work that went into this illustration!

Not including research time, this project ran for roughly two months, consuming much of my waking hours outside of my full time and freelance jobs.

While the illustration does not depict all of my findings, it does feature over 120 unique props and set dressings!

The majority of the props and set dressing were modeled to varying degrees of detail in SketchUp.

To model prep, I often put together schematics on Photoshop or Illustrators. Some were created from scratch. Others were created with the liberal usage of the Photoshop transform and perspective warp function. 

The master file is 1.5GB. The dimensions are 6400x3600 at 300 dpi, and contains over 2,200 layers. 

Near the end of production, the master file became so unwieldy I created a separate working file. This way, I could create assets lag-free then import the layers into the master file. 

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Past this point is where most of the commentary cuts were made for the sake of brevity. Again, look in the replies for the Google Doc link containing the full version with a table of contents for easier navigation!

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🗳️3D Layout

As you can see, the backbone of this illustration is the 3D model. I spent perhaps 30-40% of my production time on this stage.

And this is the lit version. The lighting ultimately got downplayed in favor of showcasing the vibrant colors. I like how simple it looks though!

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🎬Production-Based Set Dressing

In addition to merchandise, I wanted to insert set dressing and props from the various Mononoke productions. 

🦊Kusuriuri

It’s odd to have a section dedicated just to him, but his unique appearance warrants it. His garb and overall appearance is an amalgam of the anime and movie. The original intent was ambiguity– kind of like the blue/black vs. yellow/white dress phenomena a few years back. But after doing the color flats, I rather liked how the rich, unaltered colored fit with the overall composition so it became more blatant. I’m surprised that nobody has commented on this since I published the illustration. Maybe because I didn’t feature him in a close-up?

🐈 kai ~Ayakashi~Bake Neko (2006)

Finding props iconic to this story arc (outside of the Kusuriuri’s tools of trade, of course) was somewhat difficult. While the environment was richly decorated, it mainly consisted of 2D artwork which I wasn’t keen on retracing. I opted to paint objects that characters interacted with or featured heavily in the show.

Salt Jar

Candlestick

Rat Trap

🦋Mononoke (2007)

The props fall into three distinct categories here: Kusuriuri’s tools and trinkets; things featured in the opening and ending credits; and objects iconic to each of the five story arcs in the series. I tried to keep most of them clustered on the tatami, but as space grew scarce some props trickled up onto the deck as well.

Medicine Box

Exorcism Sword

Tenbin

Paper Talisman

Mirror

Ring

Geta Sandal

Necklace

Paper Umbrella (Zashikiwarashi)

Daruma Dolls ( Zashikiwarashi)

Gunpowder Ball (Umi Bozu)

Smoking Pipe (Nopperabou)

Genjiko Blocks (Nue)

Train Ticket (Bake Neko)

Lantern (Anime OP)

Butterflies (Anime EP)

☂️Mononoke: Karakasa (2024)

Pretty slim pickings for the new movie since I only had the teaser, first trailer, and movie poster to reference from. Kusuriuri’s tools of trade were a given, but finding memorable and narratively significant objects was a tad troublesome.

Thankfully, the set dressing ended up (however subconsciously) strikingly similar to the movie’s environment design, down to the green tatami and multicolor shoji screen. I suppose at this point I was so immersed in Mononoke content that its aesthetics subconsciously informed my design choices! 

Exorcism Sword

Tenbin

Paper Talisman

Comb

Movie Poster

Butterfly (Custom design)

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🪭Official Merchandise

Goods related to canonical narratives and/or productions.

🎊15th Anniversary

Mononoke Shu - A light novel by Hideyui Niki & illustrated by 2964_KO

Whiskey Glass & Box

📖 Key Frame Art Books by Hashimoto Takashi

Ayakashi Key Art Frame Book (2010)

Key Frame Art Book vol.9 (2017)

📚Manga by Yaeko Ninagawa

Kai Ayakashi: Bake Neko Vol. 1-2

Kai Ayakashi: Mononoke Prequel

Mononoke Vol. 1-10

🎭Butai Mononoke

Bakeneko Pamphlet 

Zashikiwarashi Pamphlet

Zashikiwarashi Acrylic Standees

Zashikiwarashi Manegi

💿Physical Media

Official OST CD

DVD Box Set

Yokai Pattern Fabric

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Common Collab Merchandise

This category consists of goods that are generally more affordable and feature graphics from the source material with minimal alterations.

Amnibus

Wall Scrolls

Tenugui Fabric 

Shot Glasses

Minoyaki Bean Plates

ANIGA-TER

Stickers

Can Badges

Canvas Prints

Anique

Diorama Acrylic Stand

Acrylic Blocks

Challenge Kuji

Kusuriuri & Hyper Clocks

eeo Store Online

Folding Fan

Keychains

Can Badges

gj character G

Cushion

Acrylic Charms

Neo Gate

Satchels

Mini Badges

Mini Badges by Mame Shinoda

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High-End Collab Merchandise

Goods which derive motifs from the characters, props, and patterns from the production and transform them in an elevated manner through abstraction or usage of precious materials.

gj character G

Exorcism Sword Ring

Goodsmile

Kusuriuri Nendoroid Figurine

Folding Screen

Kusuriuri & Hyper Plush

Tote Bag

Kaya

Umbrella

Tenbin Kanzashi

Tabi Socks

Dress

Kotobukiya

Figurine

Mayla

Pump Heels

Kusuriuri & Hyper Hairpins

Tenbin Earrings

Hyper Earrings

Noitamina Apparel

Perfume

Tenbin Necklace

Folding Fan

Super Groupies

Purse

Wallet

Watch

Tsumuji Design

Exorcism Sword Necklace

Ofuda Bracelet

Useless Use Lab

Fragrance Set

Air Purifier

Three-Sided Mirror

[cityof2morrow]

40+ Hood Deco Buildings

Published: 10-12-2024 | Updated: N/A SUMMARY 40+ hood deco buildings to fill up your neighborhood skyline – use them all or pick and choose which files to add to your downloads folder. They make great “filler” buildings for a downtown hood and you can overlap them to create unique structures. Enjoy! DETAILS Requires all EPs/SPs.

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[yarnzipangirl]

I have a somewhat wild theory

I don't think John was the King in Yellow.

Not 'isn't now'. Never was. And I've had a few different permutations of this theory for the last few months, mostly because the one line from the Witch really stuck with me:

"Why did you leave your kingdom in the first place?"

If that's not a smoking gun, I don't know what is.

(spoilers up to 51 onward) ETA: edited to add some new thoughts!!

Then you have Scratch and Lillith, who recombined with all the difficulty of hucking a stone through a portal. Scratch who had been separate for years, had a name, had a favorite. And yet, bim bam boom, Lillith restored, easy peasy.

Meanwhile the KiY tries it in the real world and can't, then brings them to the Dreamlands to try again.

But why? For one, why is Carcosa (and the King) in the Dreamlands? That's not their traditional location. Usually, they're in the real world, in the Aldebaran sector of space. It CAN be anywhere but that's not home base.

And for another: why did the King think he'd succeed in the Dreamlands when he didn't succeed before, while John and Arthur weren't even aware of the threat?

Then I was rereading The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and:

While other gods might have authority or access to the Dreamlands, Azathoth doesn't. Azathoth.

Azathoth, who is Nyarlathotep's father and boss. Who is Nyarlathotep's responsibility to keep asleep and keep happy. Who's dream IS reality. Who, if he wakes up, all of reality ceases to exist so Nyarlathotep has to keep him sleeping.

That thing whose being makes up the Stones. Those Stones that Kayne has had the boys find two of but doesn't seem inclined to let them actually touch.

Now, just a reminder: we've heard about three stones. And those three stones are the body, the spirit, and the soul. See where I'm going with this? What's missing? What do you actually need to dream?

A MIND. A consciousness.

ETA: I keep the text there because that is how I originally wrote it but more thinking has me thinking that no, John IS the soul of Azathoth. The one stone we haven't seen, that Kayne doesn't seem to care about finding. The 'fractured' soul, of course. Why Kayne said he had "too much soul" for the King in Yellow in EP 40. Why Noel had to go: because he saw what John projected out looked like and it wasn't what Yellow looked like. And I wonder if the reason John didn't have his memory to start but he kept it after the second jaunt to the Dark World is because his memories are in the Spirit, the Grey Stone. After all, how would you be able to know anything but by accessing the memory of Azathoth?

Why did the King flee the Dreamlands when that portal opened? He didn't. But Azathoth's soul consciousness, trapped in the Dreamlands where it could never return so Nyarlathotep could muck about doing whatever the fuck he wanted, ran for it. And the King, sensing he'd fucked up and not wanting to be on Nyarlathotep's bad side... tried to retrieve the prisoner he was supposed to keep track of.

And failed. So he dragged him back to the Dream lands, figuring he'd tame him again since he has no power there but it didn't work. "John" fought him. So he threw him back into the Dark World, assuming that would be safe. But John didn't forget and built a Kingdom there. And Kayne had a Problem.

What does Kayne do every time he talks to John? Belittles him. Makes him think he's nothing. Calls him names. Tears him down.

-The Fungi from Yuggoth: XXII. Azathoth

And the part that *really* gets me is Kayne's so caught on John and Arthur, that whole 'only has eyes for you' bit... Azathoth's other name?

The Blind Idiot God

You know. A God with his eyes missing. And what does Yorick call John?

Not the King in Yellow. Never the King in Yellow, nor Hastur despite calling out Lillith and Kayne's traditional names. He calls him My King. Arthur is master. John is his king. A being that sees through the eyes of others calls John his King. ETA: And the eyes are the window to the soul.

Kayne treats Yellow as 'his guy' but not John. The way you would if someone was doing you a favor for a while. And someone you might punish for fucking your favor up. Yellow, who has the traditional rotting and corruption of the King inside Larson that hasn't happened at all to Arthur.

Big G. Been bugging me since Season 1.

John has no access to Arthur's dreams. Arthur has to tell him about them. And the one time he slept (Horig), he didn't dream.

ETA: Not to mention that the thing they've been seeking for the whole time, the most common fandom trope, is John gets a body. What is the Blackstone, guys?

I can keep adding on. But I think you get where I'm going with this.

So TLDR:

I think John Doe is a John Doe, his identity still unknown... and despite intense effort from the King and Kayne, despite it being inconvenient to Kayne, *not* the King in Yellow. Never was.

And everything else. And *that* is why Alia needed him to hope. Because as long as they believe in hope, there is a chance.

Instead, he is entirely his own. The Consciousness Soul of Azathoth. His belief shapes him.

Whether Kayne likes it or not.

[barblaz-arts]

Found out about you and your chaggie art on twt and decided to check out more of it on here! I’ve heard about hazbins hotel before and have seen the pair and fanart of them but haven’t made the decision to watch the show.

Wanted to ask from your perspective, what is it about chaggie that you like? Could be anything about their relationship dynamics, wtv representation that they portray, anything! Should I watch hazbins hotel for them 🤔

Gosh! What do I love about them??

Oh man, welll... On a surface level? The dynamics they display are just so delicious to me, and I especially love that it's always a little subverted with them, yunno? It's angelXdemon, but the demon is the precious sunshine while the angel is the grump with a body count. The princessXknight dynamic they display is subverted too because although Charlie is the one born in the worst realm in Creation, she's still the privileged princess, meanwhile even though Vaggie is the one who came from literal paradise, she's the one who lived a life that wasn't exactly luxurious. They just present dynamics I've already always loved but with a fun little twist.

But on a deeper level, I think I love Chaggie because they're already so far along in their relationship, and you can see it in how comfortable they are with each other, which was such a surprise for me. You see, I'm not very good at fixating on ships when they're already canon. Like, I'd think it's cute, but I wouldn't be itching to find fics about them. And if a ship I've liked finally gets together, I actually... usually... Kinda sorta love the ship a little less... I'd still like them! I just wont be as giddy about them.

But omg Chaggie still manages to give me butterflies, and I think it's because they're way past the honeymoon phase, something that I barely see represented for sapphic couples who are such important characters in a story. Lotsa people didnt like how it wasn't initially obvious that they were a couple, but I actually really loved how the writers and animators showed how deep their bond is without having them making out ang grope each other all the time. God if they were like that, it'd probably give me the ick.

It was just lowkey, because they've been together for years. Charlie would casually rest her arm on Vaggie's thigh and Vaggie isn't flustered because it's probably a habit of Charlie's by now. Vaggie would tuck Charlie's hair out of her face while she's worried about something and it isn't framed as a special thing, but you can tell by how Vaggie looks at Charlie that it wasn't done with any less love than it did over the years. And when Charlie's stressed about a phone call, Vaggie wordlessly offers her hand and Charlie takes it with a quick appreciative smile before holding on tight and bouncing their joined hands up and down like it's a stress reliever.

Their interactions weren't uber sweet with heated physicality, but the show had them display familiarity and comfort instead. And idk i just love that. I love that you can clearly tell they're best friends. Like, the very first scene they appear in for the Pilot, Vaggie is tying Charlie's bowtie for her while Charlie stares at her with a smile on her face. So cute...

Also. I just think both of them are hot lmao

So. Do I think you should watch the show for Chaggie? Idrk. I personally watched for them, but I came into the show expecting not to get much shipping fuel bcuz they were already in a relationship in a show that has a whole dang lot more going on in it. So some people who wanted to get into the ship expecting maybe a lotta smooching felt unsatisfied. But honestly, what did they expect from a 8 ep season that only had a run time of 22 mins per episode, in a show that wasn't even a romance? 😭 I personally thought we got a decent amount without taking away from the actual plot.

I think you should try to watch with the mindset of just having plain ol fun. Try the first 2 episodes, which is only 40 mins of your day. If it doesn't jive with you, that's totally fine. But pls do check out the songs if you dont like the show. The songs are so good. My favorite song from the season has plot stuff, but this one is my second favorite

And since we're talking about Chaggie, here's the reprise of that song sung by them. It's short, but they promised more chaggie songs will be in season 2 so im not too sad about it. Charlie and Vaggie's VA harmonizing is just beautiful.

Edit: for those who saw this post when i accidentally prematurely posted it before adding the links and photos, no you didn't 😐

[angophorasims]

✨[MOD]✨ TATTOO STAMP SET - KAWAII

well hello hello again!! here's the kawaii set that won the previous poll!! i love this one! i don't often choose the cute aesthetic but this is way to adorable to pass up <3 if you were expecting sanrio characters, thats not in this pack as i plan to eventually do a pack completely of sanrio alone, however - this pack has a lot of soft cute animals, plushies, bows, hearts, stars, etc in it that definitely will go great with sanrio tattoos from other creators you already have, remember these are BRUSHES so they can be placed anywhere and with other premade tattoos! <3 enjoy !!

Note: This is a MOD that adds MORE stamps to the tattoo system in the Business and Hobbies EP. With this set (any my other sets) of separate stamps you can make more customized and personalized tattoos as well as add on to the premade tattoos by EA & custom content creators.

Here is the info you need to know:

-40 stamps in total.

-They do not work with skin masks, only with skin overlays as skin masks go on top of the tattoo layers.

-They are stamps, so you can place them anywhere on the body, in any size, and any rotation, making your custom tattoos more personal and unique.

-You can combine them with custom tattoos from other creators. They honestly would work great to create fillers, or to add more personal details.

-You CAN change the color.

They can be used as erasers, creating really cool blank space tattoos on blacked out parts.

They do not override any of the current stamps, they are simply added to the stack of current brushes.

Instructions: Download the package file(s) and just drop it into your Mods folder.

[DOWNLOAD]

❤️I plan to make many more sets, in many more styles with different patterns, symbols, and themes!❤️

And PLEASE, TAG ME ON TUMBLR IF YOU USE THESE! I REALLY WANT TO SEE WHAT YOU MAKE!😊😊😊 [angophorasims.tumblr.com]

credits for tutorials: DISL & Sims 4 Studio forums

[ohnoproblems]

Would you be so kind as to recommend a few power metal albums by trans women? Seeing as Bandcamp Friday is coming up and it would be good to see what sorts of tracks I'm going to have to produce.

there is a hole in the cultural tapestry that the Encouraging Trans Women's Power Metal Concept Albums Metric (ETWPMCAM) seeks to address. my prior investigations haven't come up with much, unfortunately, but there is something out there. allow me to point you towards the artists Alicia Cordisco, Leona Hayward, and Melissa Moore (okay melissa doesn't strictly do power metal but she's cool). if you look at their current and prior bands you'll see a whole lot to dig into (with particular nods towards Judicator and Skelator and with the caveat that Absu is a complicated one because when moore came out as trans, the other member was a shithead about it so she left and took the bulk of musical talent with her).

moore's current band is Sonja, with one album released: Loud Arriver. i'm listening to it right now and lemme tell you: it fucking rips. bandcamp tags suggest she categorizes her stylings as more on the heavy/trad end of metal with a frisson of goth and post-punk. between this and the fact that the album's lyrics do not mention a single named princess, it is sadly exempt from counting towards a positive ETWPMCAM hit. she's still on the hook. but listen to it anyway, it fucking rips.

cordisco and hayward have collaborated quite a bit in several bands spanning several genres (i'm currently savoring the chance to dig into Wraithstorm once i finish listening to all this power metal), but most relevant to the metric are Justicar and the now-defunct Project: Roenwolfe. i'm cranking P:R's Edge of Saturn for the first time as we speak. it's pretty cool. across three albums, they included three parts (one apiece) of an overarching "Saturn Saga", totaling 16:55 of runtime.

if Project: Roenwolfe had continued that pace of inclusion, then in another 3-4 albums they would have reached the 40 minute minimum runtime bound for concept albums as necessitated by the ETWPMCAM. though maybe that strategy would only count if they had then put out some sort of Saturn Saga Compilation that combined all extant and hypothetical tracks into one continuous narrative. much to consider.

justicar's debut album promises to be an adaptational retelling of timothy zahn's trilogy of novels about grand admiral thrawn for the star wars extended universe. this is excellent news for the metric, but it's not out yet - though they do have an EP out about a different timothy zahn novel. i'm listening now. it's killer. adaptations count as concepts for the purposes of the ETWPMCAM imho as long as they're dedicating at least, again, 40 minutes of album runtime towards laying it out.

now leona hayward, she's got a band called Owlbear. i'm listening to it right now, as we speak. it's blowing my tits clean off. i'm looking at the lyrical content and i'm seeing songs about D&D (including the Dark Sun setting), i'm seeing record of lodoss war, i'm seeing fire emblem - there's a broad net here and they're casting it to fill two albums with absolutely rippin' miscellany. if they tighten the lens of focus to a single concept, then we at the ETWPMCAM tabulation office will have ourselves a HIT.

this was just from what i already knew bolstered with several hours' digging on bandcamp and metal archives. doubtless there's more trans women out there in metal - and the louder we are then the more out there in the metal scene and beyond can hear that and realize they can be loud like us!

but for the purposes of the ETWPMCAM - that is, determining if there is a power metal album out there exploring a single cohesive narrative concept for the majority of its runtime (à la Rhapsody of Fire's Emerald Sword Saga, Dragonland's Under the Grey Banner, Galloglass's Legends from Now and Nevermore, Unleash the Archers' Apex & Abyss duology, to give a few examples) which would not have existed without at least one trans woman's dedicated and direct creative input? i have got nothing. we have a long way to go.

anyway, to anyone in a power metal band with already-released concept albums reading this: it's never too late and don't die wondering. would LOVE to retroactively increase the metric.

[miyamiwu]

How to watch Legend of Hei in the original Chinese audio with English subs

YouTube version of trailer

In honor of Movie 2 coming out on July 18, here’s a guide on how to watch Movie 1 (and the series).

But first, some context: The 2019 movie is actually a prequel to the flash animation series, which first came out in 2011. And the world of Legend of Hei is so vast and complex that there’s even a prequel prequel manhua of the story, which is set hundreds of years of back. (The manhua is called Lanxi Zhen, and it has different protagonists.)

If you want to engage with the story chronologically, then the order is: manhua -> movie 1 -> series. But you don’t have to do that. In fact, I myself don’t read the manhua because I couldn’t get used to Xiaohei not being there.

Movie 1 can be watched on its own without any context from the series and the manhua, and I think going into it blind would actually be more enjoyable. We don’t know yet what events will be covered in Movie 2, but I’m guessing it’s gonna pick up from where Movie 1 left off. I doubt it will cover the events in the series, so it’s probably safe to put off the series until after Movie 2. But if you do decide to watch the series, then just Season 1 should do for now, since it’s pretty much slice-of-life. Season 2 is where it gets more plot-y.

(Watch links under the cut!)

Movie 1

It’s available in Netflix with English subs, but I honestly don’t recommend it. Netflix literally translated the characters’ names into English, and it’s so cringe 😩. I also compared the Netflix subs with some fansubs, and the Netflix version really took a lot of creative liberties in the translation. (There are also English and Japanese dubs available on Netflix, but I am begging you to watch it in Chinese)

Here’s a link to the movie with English fansubs. Download the file and play it in a media player that can open .mkv files with soft subtiles, like VLC. The file has two type of subtitles, one labeled [Troy] and the other labeled [Netflix]. Make sure you’ve selected the former.

Series

Here’s a GDrive folder link containing all episodes of season 1 with English subs in 1080p. To watch, just follow the same instructions under Movie 1.

Edit: If you don’t wanna download, you can also watch it on YouTube. Here’s a link to all S1 eps combined into one 720p video.

By the way, each episode in the series is only 5-8 minutes each, so don’t be surprised that it’s too short.

Series (Season 2)

Although the fandom calls it season 2, it’s actually just a continuation of the ever ongoing series. “Season 2” just covers episodes 29-40.

S2 has no official English subs, but this channel on YouTube has fansubs of all the eps separately.

Edit: But I prefer the subs in this combined version because it’s more complete and accurate

That’s it, enjoy!

[sophaeros]

arctic monkeys for nme, 26 august 2006

From the Rubble to Reading

A year since Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festivals made them massive, Arctic Monkeys return with a new member and a message for anyone who reckons they're over

By Mark Beaumont

Photos: Dean Chalkley

Crack! Swipe! Stab! Ten minutes to stage time at Gothenburg's Accelerator festival, the Arctic Monkeys come within inches of actual inter-band slaughter. As the band sit in a backstage patio area, somewhat dour-faced, necking lager, without warning drummer Matt Helders grabs a glass beer bottle from the bucket, bashes it open on a wooden bench and, brandishing it like a rapier blade, lunges at Alex Turner's throat.

We know there've been ructions in the Monkeys camp, but is it all to end in murderous Pils-based bloodshed on a patch of car park in Sweden?

Well, no, it's just a little warm-up horseplay brought on by the nerve-wracking tedium of The Road. But it's the reaction that jars — the bottle stops inches from his jugular but Alex doesn't flinch; he simply lifts a lip in his trademark withering sneer and returns to glumly glugging his lager.

The thunderous sound of nobody laughing would speak volumes to the gossip-mongers and back-biters. See, word is the Arctic Monkeys are over.

They've stiffed, crumbled, cracked under pressure, flashed in the pan. Debut album 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not', after record-breaking, rock-rejuvenating first-week sales (already declared the best-selling album of 2006, in its first week it sold 363,000 copies making it the fastest-selling debut in the UK and, in the process, earning a Nationwide Mercury Prize nomination) has slipped out of the Top 40 only six months since its release in an era when the likes of Kaiser Chiefs and Hard-Fi are racking up a year in the charts. Their rocketing rise has spluttered, its momentum snuffed by the wilful self-hobbling of releasing the non-chart eligible Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?' EP in April. They've already lost one member — bassist Andy Nicholson, who was replaced by Nick O'Malley after refusing to tour the US this spring pleading "fatigue" — proof if any were needed that it was all too much, too soon. They were forced to run in the big sheds before they could walk in the theatres and what's more, Muse are going to stomp their grumpy Yorkshire mugs into Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festival dust with their gigantic robot alien metaboots.

Monkeymania is dead, that's what they say. And all because they wouldn't play the game.

“If we’d been a bit older it probably would all have been more of a headfuck” Alex

"What do you want us to do?" guitarist Jamie Cook shrugs, utterly un-bovvered. "Milk it like every other band does? We coulda really milked it but we didn't and no matter if you love us or you hate us you can never say a bad thing about how we've gone about pushing our music. We kept ourselves to ourselves. We coulda carried on, released every song off the fuckin' album.."

"If we were a bit older it probably would all have been more of a headfuck," adds Alex Turner, quietly. "We were just young, worked for a bit but then we ended up in this, so I didn't take it that seriously or think it were the end of the world if it all ended. If we were a few years older, with a few more responsibilities and that, we woulda thought, 'We've got to make this right' and that woulda ultimately destroyed us because we'd have ended up putting our singles back out and doing all the bollocks that everybody does, but we weren't obligated to do all that stuff because we had nowt to lose."

How do you respond to the argument that you're a flash in the pan compared to the likes of the Kaisers?

Jamie: "What, because they keep putting advertisements out? I'm not slagging them off, we've met the Kaiser Chiefs a few times and they are nice guys and they've done really well. We're ignorant little shits."

Alex: "You see other bands knocking about at festivals and the looks on their faces... In return for someone perceiving you as big I don't want my face to look like that, because I feel wonderful."

Are you disappointed the momentum hasn't continued?

"Nah!" Alex splutters. "What do you want, fuckin' Shea Stadium?"

"People keep going on about breaking America, says Jamie. "I'm like, 'What you on about?' We went out to America and played to 3,500 in Arizona in the middle of fuckin' nowhere with cactuses inside the venue. We went out there and played a sell-out tour. If we can do that every time then we've broke America for me."

Alex: "But then what? What is there? 'Are you gonna break the moon?'”

How are things in the Monkeys camp now?

Jamie grins broadly. "Wonderful."

"Well, I don't know." Alex drawls. tipping him a comedy Wink Of Death. "You're next."

“People might be like, ‘Write about nine to five again’...I’m sick of fuckin’ people singing songs about all that shit” Alex Turner

Contrary to popular tittle-tattle, i'sa talkative and relaxed Arctic Monkeys that settle on a bench by a river in Gothenburg's Tragarn Gardens — slightly older (Nick celebrates his 21st birthday today, closely followed by Jamie in three days' time), hugely wiser, no longer the prickly young upstarts turning their noses up at the faintest whiff of a Dictaphone. Far from a band in crisis they seem relieved that the hype storm has passed. and that they weathered it with their egos still manageable, their sanity intact and their enthusiasm for their music undimmed. Aside from the change of personnel the Monkeys have only suffered a slight road weariness and sharpened their healthy edge of cynicism and suspicion about the industry workings — all except Nick that is, who's still somewhat wide-eyed about the whole thing Unsurprising; a few months ago he was a Sheffield student stacking shelves part-time in Asda, today he's the bassist in the biggest and best new band on the planet.

Nick grins wide. "It's a bit of an improvement career-wise."

Matt: "He's like Cinderella."

The former bassist with Sheffield grit rockers The Dodgems and a long-term mucker of the Monkeys — he went to college with Alex and they all live within "a hundred-metre radius" of each other in High Green — Nick was the obvious call to make when Andy Nicholson (reportedly the most fame-shy Monkey) announced that he didn't want to play on this year's US tour. Why did he back out?

“We’ve had probably two weeks off in in 18 months," Jamie explains. You get to go home for two days every six weeks. I love touring but you're gonna miss home and until you've done it you can't explain. You're living on a bus with 12 other blokes and when you're driving through the desert for a day..."

What did you think when you got the call, Nick?

"I was a bit scared," Nick remembers, "because I had two days to learn everything and I'd just had a cast on my hand took off [Nick broke his hand being 'playfully' thrown over a wall by a Dodgems roadie just weeks before the tour kicked off] so I weren't really sure how it would go. At first I said no, but then Al rang me up again and went, 'Can you hold a plectrum?' I kinda thought, 'Well, even if I do play shit I'll still have a right good time, go to America and just enjoy it'."

Alex: "It's not as if we've just had to bring in a session guy, it's someone we've known for a long time. We're the last band in the world who can just pluck someone out of nowhere."

Jamie: "I don't think we'd have gone if it were a session guy. I think we'd have had to probably cancel the tour."

"Everyone might say we shit on Andy, but they don't know. We know, Andy knows and that's all that matters" Jamie Cook

Over his month in America, Nick turned out to be a Mani-in-the-Primals style shot in the arm for the Monkeys and, bouts of alcohol poisoning permitting ("I wasn't used to free alcohol," Nick sniggers. "I learnt my lesson"), they unexpectedly found themselves in a more exciting, harmonious and well-oiled jag-pop juggernaut. Hence, within weeks of getting home, Nick received one of those rare and legendary Do you fancy being a rock star?' Golden Phone Calls.

"Those were my exact words," says Alex. "Were you there?"

We have a tap on all your phones.

Nick: "It were, 'Have you got a sequinned vest? If not, get one'."

Matt: "You're coming to Disneyland!""

How did the meeting go when you told Andy he was out?

Alex shakes his head. "It were a really dark page."

"You can imagine, can't yer?" says Jamie. "I don't think it's nice to really talk about it. I don't think anyone will understand. Andy understands and Andy's family probably understands and we understand and everyone that needs to understand understands."

Alex: "But everyone else will probably never get it because they weren't in the band. It's difficult to explain, it's not like a day in a normal job. Five weeks or whatever it were, three weeks, four weeks... time's not the same as it is elsewhere so things happen, you have to make decisions sometimes. Everyone will always fucking speculate about it "

Jamie: "Everyone might say we're wankers and we shit on him, but they don't know. We know, Andy knows and that's all that really matters."

Alex: "It weren't like us wanting to carry on like this as punishment for him wanting to opt out. We sorta found ourselves in a situation where we wanted to move forward."

Three days and two birthday lashes later at Ireland's Oxegen Festival the band look back at a year that could only have been more celebrated if Alex had been made Poet Laureate and Matt had been awarded a Nobel Prize For Paradiddles.

"We celebrated the singles best," Jamie chuckles. "We were in our local and got hammered with a loads of mates."

"That were a special night," Matt nods, swigging cider in one of Oxegen's more salubrious dressing rooms (most bands get a glorified changing cubicle). "I kept saying, ‘I bet no-one who's walked down this road has been Number One, I bet no-one who's used this cash machine has been Number One?"

"We went for a KFC," Alex laughs, "and we were saying 'I wonder if anybody's been to KFC this soon after finding out they're Number One?""

The Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festivals is set to be a landmark event for the Monkeys — it was here in 2005 that The Madness broke free, their mid-afternoon set drawing a headline-slot crowd and launching them into a year of whirlwind ascent set to be triumphantly capped on this year's Main Stage. And while they may have made a fair fist of making the best job in the world look like a bit of a pain in the arse ("I don't think we do though," Alex argues, "I've never given the impression I'm not grateful"), secretly Yorkshire's most famous grumpos have had the time of their lives. They've hung with Jay-Z in New York, bar-spotted actor Edward Norton in LA, gone speed boating in Sweden, trodden the pitch at Barcelona, become the first band that Morrissey has ever apologised to and been given the Liam Gallagher Eyebrow Of Approval ("He went, "That 'Riot Van' — tune!'"), all while selling more records than Pete's had hot heroin. What's more, they've managed to galvanise an indie generation in a few short months. Freaky - how come no other bands want to slag you fellers off?

"It's 'cos we're the best!" Alex grins. "We've done it how we wanted to. The only things people say is daft things like Jeft Monkeys manager wrote all the songs and things like that. Someone will come though, I can't wait 'til they do."

Who do you fancy in the apocalyptic Kooks versus Razorlight rumble?

"Kooks and fuckin' Razorlight?" Alex laughs. "That'd be like a fight between two cyclists."

Has success made you paranoid about what people think of you?

Alex is suddenly serious. "I suppose it does, but my mind wobbles so much that it's one day sometimes you think that and then other times... I think I've learned not to care so much, not to listen, but it's hard not to."

So, sensing the vultures circling, it is with some trepidation and secrecy that the Arctic Monkeys are approaching their second album — 13 songs written to date, including a number they describe as "the bakery tune that goes ‘I wish you would have smiled in the bakery' which is like, you're anywhere in a crowded place and there's a laugh and a smile but you're never gonna be able to get to that person".

Plus, 'Brian Storm', a song about a Derren Brown-esque character they met at an Australian gig.

"People might be like, "Who the fuck is this Aussie guy? Write about fuckin' nine to five again," says Alex. "That's another thing that pisses me off, I'm sick of fuckin' hearing people sing songs about all that shit and I were before we even did our album. I never even wanted to do that, fuckin' write about work and shit like that. I think it's insulting."

But having connected with your audience by portraying a sardonic, yet somehow celebratory, vision of everyday life, surely there's a danger of alienating them with a second album griping about press interviews, long-haul flights and the difficulties of opening a decent Swiss bank account. We've already had the tongue-in-cheek Despair In The Departure Lounge' on the ‘Who The Fuck…’ EP — is the new album going to full of songs called 'Bored Of Bono', 'Catering In First Class Isn't What It Used To Be' or 'So Much Money (Need A Shovel To Get In My House)'?

Alex snorts. "Or 'I'm Not Old Enough To Drive Me Range Rover'. Nah, you still have emotions and you still get angry about things. A lot of our first album is about coming in contact or not coming in contact with girls I suppose, and they're still there. People go, 'You're not gonna write about getting kicked out of clubs again'. Well, no, but who'd fuckin' wanna hear that again?"

Of course, having so expertly captured the fear, excitement, danger, humiliation, anger, desperation and celebration of an uncertain modern youth, Alex Turner should just as artfully lay out the emotional minutiae of a successful young manhood. But first the Monkeys are closing the book on the 'Whatever People Say I Am…’ era with typical anti-industry aplomb by releasing the non-album track 'Leave Before The Lights Come On' (written during sessions for the album but deemed to sit uncomfortably in the tracklisting).

"We thought we'd start the next album with it," says Alex. "Then we thought we wanted to do something to close this off. It's like leaving."

The Monkeys are heading for Reading and Leeds with fire in their scrawny bellies on a mission to casually conquer without even trying.

Finally, have the past 12 months made men of the Arctic Monkeys?

"We've grown up a bit," Alex ponders, "but not enough to spoil anything."

Murder in the ranks? Oh no, these Monkeys are swinging…

The View From the Main Stage

A glorious year comes to a head at the carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festivals

Is this weekend going to be another Monkeys milestone? Jamie: "That's where we're gonna end it and go do the next record, we've always said that. It's good that we've got Leeds an' all, because it's only 20 minutes up the road from my house."

You're on before Muse, is that a worry? Alex: "It's probably good that it's different. Maybe the Muse fans will all wait at the top of the hill and our lot will be at the front." Nick: "Or the Muse fans might all stand down the front taking the piss."

Muse'll have a big stage show with balloons and glitter cannons. Alex: "Well, you wanna see ours!" Matt: "We'll have some hot air balloons. I parachute in." Nick: "I'm coming by underground drill."

Last year you changed some of your lyrics at Reading to have a go at "that sarky bloke from NME" — why? Alex: "I can't remember. We got a review or summat and read it and I went [Disgusted From Sheffield voice] ‘I can't believe this! Right! I'm gonna change this line!""

I wrote that review, actually. Alex: "Riiiight! Cunt! There was summat in it about The Zutons or summat." Jamie: "No-one ever used to write about us so when anyone did we used to get right wound up."

[shaunashipman]

ok so this is what the show should have done

have madney simply decide to start trying for a baby in 8x06, instead of having the two 40 year olds be so careless with their birth control they end up with another unplanned pregnancy after the first one resulted in ppd so bad Maddie almost killed herself

then 8x07 8x08 we can have fun bits of them trying, having buck babysit jee, of course because he's sad about the break up and jee will cheer him up, but also they need the house to themselves to fuck like rabbits, which buck eventually realizes and we get some "eww gross so happy for you guys but yuck of course I'll watch jee just don't ever tell me this again" fun stuff

then in 8x09 maddie finds out she's pregnant near the end of the ep, and maybe she just has the positive pregnancy test out or maybe she bought a "world's best big sister" shirt for jee, and she's got it all ready to pull out and show chimney when he gets home and then BAM she gets kidnapped

and chimney comes home and finds the test/shirt and also realizes maddie's been kidnapped and is stuck in a mix of joy about the pregnancy and also complete terror because not only has his wife been kidnapped but also his new baby that he literally just learned about

and then when maddie gets rescued/rescues herself we get the cute moment in the hospital where they find out the baby is okay and chim lets maddie tell him about just how she had planned to