#happy 10 years of the 100

[veronicaneptunes]

A long time ago, we used to be friends... The Veronica Mars pilot aired 20 years ago today- on the 22nd of September, 2004.

[marshmallowgoop]

no thoughts just Heiji Hattori (HD)

[iizuumi]

More reno sandwich!!!!!

[mewpet]

Quick botfa scene :)

[maximura]

[sirtadcooper]

Her feet on the ground and her heart in the stars.

[christiecandor]

Pumped this little ditty out as fast as I could for the anniversary 😅

Happy ten years to you all! 🥳

I decided to make it a 2-panel mini comic ☺️ (below)

[kreachvera]

my son he has 73 diseases and turned evil .

pwab au zappa. pwabba if you will

[anewp0tat0]

I've been thinking recently, so here's a headcanon:

when Ciel is in a moment of distress, near panic attack perhaps, if someone were to reach out and touch him so that Ciel could feel their skin, his distress would be amplified. however, he does not react that way in response to a gloved hand reaching out for him. in fact, it is almost soothing. afterall, the hand that has comforted him for the past almost 4 years has been gloved. so if he was ever conditioned to fear all touch, that behavior eventually went extinct.

[miciiq]

Got Aventurine in 60 pulls!

He’s so auxhuehuche I’m so happy I have him now

[pummedraws]

A bit of rarepair-indulgence for myself (Khones my beloved), which I started shipping about a decade ago (holy shit) when Into Darkness first aired.

They've popped back up inside my head a few days ago and are currently invading my brain. :')

[riddlerosehearts]

saw a theory on twitter that malleus's magic is actually so powerful that it CAN put a robot to sleep and that when we saw STYX in the newest update it was really just ortho's dream, so that's why his parents a) wear daft punk helmets, so that they're more robotic like him and he can be their "real" son and b) are so warm and loving in contrast to what we saw in book 6. and i think i believe it tbh because the way they were characterized was just SO odd to me like seriously why were they seemingly never there for their sons before or after ortho's death, why did they not stop the researchers from blaming the accident on idia and calling the new ortho an unethical experiement, why is idia so convinced that they don't care about him and just want to get rid of him (though i guess that could just be a typical teenager thing if not for everything else), if they are soooo warm and loving and sweet? 😭 if this isn't ortho's dream then it's just some bizarre writing to me.

[luckyrave]

Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest Episode 11 Livestream Discussion/Review: Wraith, The Spirit Dragon

Natsu has encountered Wraith, The Spirit Dragon, another member from the Diabolos guild where he finds himself in a situation that reunites him with an couple of old familiar faces in a plain field he has entered between life and death. In the time Lucy is still strategizing a way to eliminate The Strauss siblings despite the power she was able to showcase in the moment.

[shopcat]

it is so odd that liking fanfiction in a normal way is a minority position on this site at all. like how did defining your entire life around defending it from anything and everything become the norm ... how did something that you can just have a basic amount of fun doing occasionally become smth you should be unhealthily obsessed with bc ppl grew up thinking coping mechanisms for their parents divorce being really hard are a necessary part of life instead of like... anything else, and also even a "coping mechanism" at all.

like all of these people just got slightly bullied in school or online about their interests and decided the way to combat that is to become a 2024 version of a 4chan creep who wears merch for a WEBSITE... a WEBSITE... do they realise they're the exact same type of person. hell they even share the same interests. like you can literally just read fanfiction in fact you can read a lot In fact you can technically read only fanfiction and no books that's like your perogative no one actually cares. liking things in extension of something u also like is actually normal. but becoming the type of loser scumbag who no one wants to be around except for others your ... kind ... is personally far too embarassing for me not to mention the glorification of modern fandom culture as is which is just basically like all the racism misogyny transmisogyny transphobia homophobia classism etc rolled into a ball of self entitlement and punted at everyone who so much as breathes towards a keyboard in favour of um. looks around. NOT being into rape or incest or kids or being openly vilely racist & islamophobic & pro-genocide.

i rlly think this site itself (tumblr i mean) has a long ways to go in terms of defining the correct way to act as an adult or someone coming into being an adult about the stuff you like and what you do with that stuff like beyond basic decency. like just like things for the sake of liking them and sure all the other people liking it at the same time can be fun but the fanbase cannot and SHOULD not be the end all and be all of your life. if you're not even if a fan of the actual content and instead in the fandom's fandom you have to like sort out your priorities not to yuck anyone's yum i guess but good god there's more to life.

[broke-on-books]

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The live action Scooby-Doo movies?

I did not see this ask until RIGHT now (first time on desktop since crab day, second time since Nov 5 2020 [which was DOUBLY experience since I got my phone taken the same day]) so I'm going to assume this ask got eaten on mobile because tumblr, HOWEVER you poked a bear with this ask anon (as I'm sure you knew when asking) SO without further ado: my Scooby Doo live action opinions

So when you say 'live action Scooby-Doo movies' I'm assuming you're talking about the James Gunn films, starting with Scooby-Doo (2002) followed by Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, just due to like, generally popularity and also the fact that I have actually seen those films. However shoot another ask if you wanted me to include Curse of the Lake Monster in this (because I will if anyone cares and turn this into a live-action scooby dissertation, i'd just need to like. watch the movie first) But anyways where I'm going with this is that this post is about the Gunn movies aka the ones with SMG, Freddie Prinze Jr., Linda Cardellini, and ofc our #1 man, Matthew Lilliard.

Okay so my take on these movies is... complicated. I wouldn't say it's as complicated as my feelings towards SDMI, because I watched the live actions way less as a kid and generally care less about them, but still no matter how much shit I throw at these two movies there are parts that I generally like (even love) that stops me from totally condemning them wholesale. Like the fact that these movies are FUNNY! There's so many moments from this duology that are just beyond iconic "like, that's one of my favorite names!" the whole thing with Scooby in the dress at the airport, ET. CETERA (like I can go on!)

The Gunn movies are genuinely SO fun and I can 100% see and understand how they've stood so well in the public view as a representation of Scooby. HOWEVER, this is where you start to see my problems with them. For the general American, (because that is the audience I'm familiar with) ESPECIALLY millennials and younger, who happen to make up the majority of both people on this site AND people I talk about Scooby with in real life, these movies, and the elements they introduced as "quintessential scooby tropes" are the base of their understanding of the Scooby franchise, along with likely some miscellaneous WAY episodes and maybe SDMI.

Which is where I get pissed off. In the pushing of the narrative of "breaking away" from the Scooby norm, Gunn basically invents (aka totally makes up) an idea of what classic era Scooby was like, cementing an idea of classic Scooby into the public mind that is totally disingenuous and just straight up false. For example, in attempting to portray Daphne as having taken strides to be seen more seriously in solving mysteries and defending herself, it pushes the narrative that in the classic era she WASN'T taken seriously, and only existed as a damsel-in-distress prop of a character, which is just not true??? Like yes, Daphne is clumsy, that's a part of her character, and her friends (because, fun fact, the gang ARE friends) joke about it sometimes because that's what friends DO. Framing that in some kind of sexist "that's all she does" lens is just total bull, especially as gang members fall into secret passageways/get lost etc. in WAY ALL THE DAMN TIME because that's how the plot functions! Like are we calling Velma ditzy for losing her glasses every other episode? Of course not, and Fred falls into passageways all the time, not to MENTION Shaggy and Scooby and all they get up to. Also one last thing on the topic of Daphne, like this idea of her mystery solving skills not being respected by the gang is just so supremely bullshit it amazes me sometimes, especially when she was the LEADER (or leader adjacent) through pretty much all of her appearances in the 1980s [Not that James Gunn could look at '80s era Scooby without spitting on it, but I digress]

AND THIS IS JUST DAPHNE! Like the perceptions pushed towards Fred (and Velma, but mostly Fred) through these movies are just as bad! Like okay, with Fred---In these movies Fred is just an asshole. I hate Gunn Movies!Fred. I mean yeah he can be funny but it's almost always so mean! Almost nothing makes me madder than a mean Fred by the way. If he's putting other gang members down (even halfway, like with his whole "dorky chicks like you turn me on too" line, which... ew) then to me something has gone very, very, VERY, wrong in your basic understanding of Frederick Herman Jones as a character. Like he's the cheerleader! He puts himself in between his friends and danger! He loves nets, and traps, and Elvis impressions, and wrestling, and the trapeze, and cars, and most of all he LOVES sharing the things he loves with his friends! (Sometimes to a bit of an extreme. No one wants to hear about your net facts, Fred) And the live action movies just don't understand that at all. And I know there's maybe something to say I suppose in that some of those aspects of his characterization hadn't been "established yet" by the time "Scooby-Doo" came out in 2002. But it's there if you look. For Fred Jones, being the leader means being the caretaker, (he's the Mom friend what can I say) and any version where he's cruel and arrogant and just DOESN'T CARE about his friends in the way he's shown to in the Gunn movies is just so far from Fred to me it's not even funny. And what makes it even worse for me is that this (or at least something similar) is the idea of Fred that has really spread to the popular culture. Just the "leader", the jock that makes the rules, the one that [insert X adaptation here] finally gave a personality and made interesting (something that has been said more times than I can count for pretty much every gang member, save Shaggy and Scooby).

And I haven't even touched on Velma, and how they gave her a bit of a early 2000s smart superiority girl complex against Daphne, plus the whole makeover thing and etc. etc. The Gunn Movies are pretty much what would happen if you took someone who hadn't seen Scooby since they were 7 years old (and honestly had a pretty negative outlook against it then) and tried to "fix" it, only his memory was so bad he just made up problems (and threw in a good helping of early 2000s style sexism with it) convincing pretty much the entirety of the popular culture that said problems exist and that Gunn was absolutely brilliant for fixing them (and then bringing up said "problems" whenever anyone wants to talk about Scooby) and this entire rant has been without even fucking MENTIONING what is probably the reason you, anonymous tumblr user sent this ask in the first place, to I, Swishy "Scrappy Doo Redemption Arc" Broke-on-books (dot tumblr dot com), which is his HIGHLY SUCESSFUL and utterly sadistic character assassination of my number one man, Scrappy Doo.

And I am going to try my damnedest here not to get totally into my highly passionate opinions over what James Gunn did to Scrappy in the first of his Scooby movies and how thoroughly it has pissed me the fuck off because I have been writing this post for over an hour now and if we start to really get into my feelings on this topic it will certainly be a couple of hours more but like. That Fucking Bitch. I give James Gunn personally a solid eighty-five percent of the blame for making my life as a Scrappy Doo fan UTTERLY unbearable with this stupid fucking movie alone, and just his Scrappy crimes would honestly be enough for me to say that I hate this movie, not even considering the numerous Scooby crimes I've been talking about here for the past million paragraphs, but the part about this movie that makes me the MOST mad the most pissed off is that it's actually a good fucking movie. James Gunn wrote two hilarious and entertaining movies that have become beloved in the popular culture for their successes in that arena, while at the same time pissing all over the core themes and messages of the franchise of which it was based, that of friendship.

TLDR; The Live Action Scooby Doo movies (written by James Gunn) are highly entertaining and fun pieces of media to watch, and are widely loved by the general public and looked at with fondness and nostalgia because of that. However, as a hardcore Scooby Doo fan (writing that phrase sounds so ridiculous but oh well) the existence of these movies and their impact on the popular culture can be extremely frustrating (despite any personal nostalgia said fan may have) due to their spreading of a misinformed picture of what "typical Scooby Doo" looks like. This picture is especially frustrating due to the fabrication or exaggeration of problems present in classic Scooby (such as sexism in regards to the girls), as well as giving more ammunition to other problems in Scooby fandom (such as oversexualization, and sexualization in general, which no one wants to see in regards to their children's cartoons, like HONESTLY.) Discussions of sexism and sexualization in Scooby (both of which ARE present and are issues, although not at their worst in WAY) can often lead to an overlooking of the issues that are very present and clear in WAY and have continued since then with far too little resistance (I'm 100% talking about the racism here) HOWEVER that topic deserves at least a dozen posts of its own that I am no way informed or qualified enough to even begin to think about writing. The Gunn Movies are frustrating to many longtime Scooby fans because of these reasons, but for me, and fellow Scrappy Doo fans there is also the added aspect of the demonization of Scrappy Doo in the live action movies and the affects that has had on the popular culture as well, making it uniquely inhospitable to like or enjoy the character of Scrappy. End post.

[monwillica]

Last post of my 100 Baekhyuns project!!!!

decade since debut: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

You can find all 100 drawings on this tumblr or in a highlight on my ig (@monwillica)