#i had this as my screensaver for literal ages lol

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BNHA Headcanon

Requests are: Open! 

What the big three of class 1A would be like as a partner :)

I haven’t written in so long, it’s really sad :( I really want to write I just don’t know at all what to write! If any of my friends or any of y’all have ideas on what to write, please let me know! My request box is open! I really want to write more, so if you’ve had an idea in the back of your mind, please let me know! 

* Cough * now that I’ve finished my ramble lets get onto the headcanons!

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𝓜𝓲𝓭𝓸𝓻𝓲𝔂𝓪, 𝓘𝔃𝓾𝓴𝓾

Sweetest child ever, we love him so so much !

Possibly the sweetest of these three?

All the cuddles, for sure, hugs 24/7,

Kisses are different

 They boy gets nervous when a girl is too close let alone kissing them, are you kidding?

He, of course, really loves you, you know that, but it will take him some time, so in the meanwhile, hand holding, hugs, and cuddles are more than enough

But when he is finally comfortable enough to kiss you?

He won’t stop. You can’t make him.

Kisses your hands, cheeks, nose, everywhere he can, he loves you so much and this is how he shows it. 

Deal with it?

 Anyways, 

 He loves to cuddle you a lot, especially after a long day of hero training and just school in general, he loves to lay his head in your lap and ask you to run your fingers through his hair, or just softly cup his cheeks, just really tender and soft touches

He also really loves it when you lay your head on his chest, it makes him so happy for some reason idk

loves to scratch your back for the cute little snores you let out while you’re sleeping

OKAY I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS

If you call him ‘ Your Hero ‘ ?

He’ll die, he’s dead, good job, you killed him, what do you have to say for yourself? 

No but for real, it makes him so happy when you call him that, he’s striving to be the best he hero he can be, but having you call him Your Hero? It makes him over the moon with happiness

“ ThankyouforcallingmethatitreallymeansalotI’mgladthatI’myourherooh- “

You had to cut him off. He wouldn’t stop otherwise.

 Sweet boy. Yes yes, very good. 

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𝓑𝓪𝓴𝓾𝓰𝓸, 𝓚𝓪𝓽𝓼𝓾𝓴𝓲

Asshole child, I love him

This man is my desktop screensaver I- 

ANYWAYS

Tsundere, we all know this ass man is one, lets face it.

At first he absolutely loathes any kind of romantic interaction in public when you two first start dating, which was difficult to get to in the first place. 

I feel like even before you started dating, he wouldn’t want to even talk to you? Like yeah, okay, You’re cute and all... and maybe you have a cute ass smile...

But you’re a distraction from being on top 

If Once he kinda realizes that his hyper-fixation on being the #1 hero is a tad bit too much, he’ll probably pull back the reigns a tiny tiny bit, and finally kinda sorta admit his.. feelings? To you

“ Oi, dumbass, c’mere “ ... “ You’re kinda not terrible looking “ 

Once y’all start dating he opens up more, eventually letting PDA be a thing, because your his woman dammit! He’s gonna show you off to every possible human who is a male and in your age range, gonna let them know you’re his, got it? 

Don’t fuckin touch them. Mine. 

Likes when you lay on his chest. It kinda inflates his ego more than it already is tbh, he likes that you chose him to be the one to protect you, and thats kinda sweet ig

Will only really kiss you ( other than your lips ) If your asleep, aka forehead kisses and kissing you lightly on your eyelashes.

Likes to hold your hand to make sure these other idiots know that your his idiot. 

So sweet !

Definitely makes you rub his back after class

* ugh * fine he rub’s yours too

wtf he’s too good at this

why is Katsuki literally a housewife I’m confused. 

I like this explosion boy. He’s kinda cool. 

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𝓣𝓸𝓭𝓸𝓻𝓸𝓴𝓲, 𝓢𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓽𝓸

Ah yes, the one who doesn’t understand why these thirsty ass hoes are simpin over him

* cough * I am a simp for this man. 

Doesn’t really have that great of an understanding of what a relationship should be? His parent’s weren’t exactly the perfect couple? 

Like he was probably talking with the bois ™ when relationships come up and they’re talking about like.. normal relationship stuff and he’s all “ Huh? What? “ 

They have to kinda explain to him like.. what love actually is?

By the end of it he’s like “ Oh. “ 

That’s all he says.

As time goes on he kinda understands he has a crush on you? He enjoys being around you far more than your other classmates, and now he’s stuck because he A; Has never been in this situation before and B; Doesn’t know what to do when you have a crush? 

I would imagine that he would either go to one of the quieter boys of the class or someone like Kirishima. 

Whoever it ends up being, they tell him what he needs to do, I feel like for someone as reserved as Shouto, he would probably write some kind of short note, either telling you his feelings, or to tell you to meet him somewhere like in a cheesy ass movie

Fan service, anyone?

Anyways, it’s a memory you look back on fondly, now that you guys are dating.

Todoroki is absolutely the best person to cuddle? Are you kidding?

I know personally I like to be either warm or cold when I sleep, sometimes in-between, and he is quite literally half cold, half hot?

he likes to cuddle too, I imagine he likes spooning, both being the big and little spoon. 

Not especially fond of PDA, but will hold your hand. 

In private however, it’s mostly the same lol

at least at the start? You have to understand that this poor baby has both been physically and mentally abused for who knows how long? Love isn’t a normal thing to him. 

However, I believe that he will warm up to the idea of being loved by someone rather quickly once he knows how fun it is. 

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Thank you so much for reading! I hope you enjoyed it! 

If you two don’t want to be tagged in my stuff, please tell me, but y’all are really my only two friends SO IM GONNA. @t-amajiki @mochimooncakes​

[phanomeheart]

do u have any recs for good omens blogs or fics?

Anon, I have SO MANY good omens fic recs!

I’m gonna put them under the cut, but this inspired me to finally make a spreadsheet of recs that will autofill from my master spreadsheet of GO fic with fics I’ve finished and recommend.

On to some specific recs, if you’re not wanting over 150 fics to wade through:

First and foremost, I have to rec the first good omens fic I ever read, Salinity (And Other Measurements of Brackish Water) by @drawlight. This fic made me go from adamantly insisting I wasn’t going to get into good omens fic yet cuz I still had to finish my thesis to now having read 245 fics in less than 2 months (send help). I’m going to go ahead and rec all of their fics and can so far personally attest to the brilliance and soul crushing beauty of: Quiet Light, Ad Astra, Alegría, and I Will Get Up Now And Go About The City. I consistently need a minumum of 24 hours to recover after reading something of theirs.

The rest, in no particular order:

small infinities and all that (M, 13.2k) by @billypotts: And there it is, isn’t it? Something they’ve known for a long time, but haven’t named it. Have been too scared to name it. Something that speaks in their bones, in the space between them. Crowley and Aziraphale are turned human. This is the aftermath.

lit in the darkness (M, 40.5k) by ToEdenandBackAgain: Aziraphale returns to Crowley's flat for the night after Armageddon. After all, it's hardly the first time they've shared sleeping arrangements. Or: Times throughout history Crowley and Aziraphale have shared a bed.

Something We Were Withholding Made Us Weak (M 17.1k) by triedunture: "Yes, exactly. Retire." Aziraphale reaches for the last remaining tartlet brimming with summer berries. "Somewhere along the south coast, perhaps." Or: Crowley and Aziraphale learn to move in tandem.

all i need, darling, is a life in your shape (G, 14.2k) by @mortuarybees: After everything, Aziraphale and Crowley, by unspoken agreement, begin sharing their lives. 

Something to do with these sacred words (T, 11.k) by Solshine: Crowley confesses early, and Crowley confesses often. Aziraphale never knows quite what to say.

Anywhere You Want to Go (E, 9.9k) by Aria: Aziraphale knew Crowley liked him. He'd known it with a horrible clarity since around 1100, which was at least a thousand years after the first time he'd thought of kissing Crowley, and some eight hundred and odd before it occurred to him that the specific quality of Crowley's regard could be very dangerous for both of them, if they actually admitted their feelings aloud. It was also two weeks since any of that had mattered at all anymore.

Slow (T, 9.4k) by @theirdarkreturning: It started like this: A boy with the ability to warp reality met an angel and a demon and he made assumptions. You might say it started like this: An angel and a demon found a marriage contract hung on the wall of the angel's bookshop. They didn't question it. It also could have started like this: Once upon a time, the angel told the demon he went too fast. The demon took it to heart. Aziraphale and Crowley find themselves somehow married. Crowley fears going too fast. Aziraphale forges ahead. Neither know how to ask questions of each other.

At Least Eleven Second First Times (M, 8.8k) by enjambament: Aziraphale deals with the consequences of having a brand new body after he'd broken the last one in for 6,000 years. Crowley helps. Taking a drunk-on-life Aziraphale on an impromptu road trip through French wine country to the North of Spain for a beach holiday is definitely helping, right?

An Angel who did not so much Fall In Love as Settle Into It Gradually (G, 7.5k) by @theladyzephyr: “Why does it bother you?” Crowley asked. “Even if you can’t get to them in time to wipe their memories, it’s not like anyone’d believe them. Kid goes running to her mum saying Ooh, I’ve just seen a bloke with three heads and a sixteen-foot wingspan, what do you think’s going to happen? Chances are they’ll just pat her on the shoulder and tell her what a vivid imagination she’s got.”“That’s not what worries me,” said Aziraphale.

it's the light (it's the obstacle that casts it) (T, 5.8k) by Handful_of_Silence: It's like having a curtain pulled back on something he wasn't expecting to see. A surprise punch-and-judy at an up-scale restaurant, a lobster thermidor when he's ordered an ale.Crowley's gleefully trying to wrap his head around the fact that Aziraphale is speaking Polari. Because of course he is. Or: The Patron Saint of London's LGBT Community is real, and he lives in Soho.

every angel is terrifying (T, 4.8k) by punkfaery: “Why does it bother you?” Crowley asked. “Even if you can’t get to them in time to wipe their memories, it’s not like anyone’d believe them. Kid goes running to her mum saying Ooh, I’ve just seen a bloke with three heads and a sixteen-foot wingspan, what do you think’s going to happen? Chances are they’ll just pat her on the shoulder and tell her what a vivid imagination she’s got.” “That’s not what worries me,” said Aziraphale.

a city wall and a trampoline (T, 4.7k) by kafkian: In their cottage in the South Downs, when Crowley eventually succeeds in getting Aziraphale to use a laptop, it takes Aziraphale literal hours to get past the default Windows screensavers of picturesque locations because 'oh, look, isn't it lovely, Crowley!' 5 times Crowley knows he’s in love with Aziraphale + 1 time he knows the reverse.

Morning Has Broken (T, 3.9k) by @dwarven-beard-spores: The year is 1972 and the last surviving member of Aziraphale’s gentleman’s club has passed away. (Warning for this one: heavy discussions of death and mourning. These are things I normally avoid for personal reasons, but this fic was gorgeous and just the right kind of painful on this topic for me.)

Love Hath Made Thee a Tame Snake (E, 3.5k) by @thehoyden: He was the bloody Serpent of Eden, and he wasn’t going to stand for this kind of flagrant trespassing.

An Invitation You Can't Decline (E, 2k) by @thehoyden: “I have standards,” Aziraphale huffed.“Don’t I know it,” Crowley sighed. And then, like he’d done it a hundred times before, he covered Aziraphale’s hand with his.

You, Soft and Only (E, 9.4k) by @thehoyden: He hadn’t expected a sudden lapful of angel.“Very sorry about this,” Aziraphale said, and kissed him.

the deft, sweet gesture of your hand (E, 12.1k) by @mortuarybees: Crowley arrives injured at Aziraphale's door. He takes care of him, reads him an awful lot of Mary Oliver, and knits elaborate metaphors for his insecurities (literally).

the technology is neutral (E, 6.9k) by @deputychairman: “Stand up?” he echoed, incredulous but too undone by sensation to express the full force of his disbelief. “I can barely even remember my own name after that, and you want me to stand up?”“Your name is Anthony J Crowley, apparently, although you never did tell me what the J stood for so I can’t help you there,” he said, not hiding his smile. “Do stand up, I promise you’ll like it.”

Sudden and Surprising Moments of Overwhelming Affection (G, 2.7K) by @forineffablereasons: Aziraphale has not shut up in thirty-four minutes. Crowley’s been counting.

get religion quick (cause you're looking divine) (G, 4.3k) by @brinnanza: So it was fine. Even if Crowley couldn’t love him, he clearly liked him well enough, and that was almost the same thing.It no doubt would have continued to be fine, or at least fine-adjacent, were it not for a narrowly averted apocalypse and several bottles of a really quite nice Riesling Aziraphale had found in the back room of his newly restored bookshop.

Wings and How to Hide Them (M, 10.1k) by triedunture: Crowley's been annoyingly in love for six thousand years. What's another lifetime between friends? Or: Aziraphale definitely fucks and isn't that just perfect?

i know i've kissed you before (but i didn't do it right) (G, 4.8k) by @gallantrejoinder: They'd given it a go once. Ages ago. And they'd both agreed it wasn't for them.

I’ll cut myself off there, but the Good Omens fandom is distressingly full of amazing fic, and there are so many more I love too (see the spreadsheet)! All of the above fics have personally ruined me and I cannot rec them highly enough. Don’t forget to leave a comment if you feel up to it! 

In terms of blogs, I don’t know that I’m a great source for that, but some blogs I follow: @rafaelafranzen, @forineffablereasons, @drawlight, @thehoyden. I’m realizing that’s really it on the primarily GO focused blogs. I also have a GO sideblog, @sansevieriatri, but I don’t know if I’d rec it, as it’s mostly me reblogging art and fic I love and screaming about it in the tags (so basically like this blog).

Thanks for the ask! I enjoyed this more than I think probably anyone else will, lol. (Also, my constant disclaimer, if I’ve made any mistakes let me know.)

[kinglegolas]

Pick your top 10 OTPs without reading the questions. these aren’t in any particular order tbh, and thank you meri @impractical-matters​ for tagging me! x

1. jake/amy - brooklyn nine nine 2. eleanor/chidi - the good place 3. david/patrick - schitt’s creek 4. aziraphale/crowley - good omens 5. alexis/ted - schitt’s creek  6. tony/pepper - marvel 7. ron/hermione - harry potter 8. amy/laurie - little women 9. rick/michonne - the walking dead 10. mark/lexie - grey’s anatomy

1. Do you remember the episode/scene/chapter that you first started shipping 6? A. the first marvel movie i saw was iron man 2 so i’m pretty sure it was then lol

2. Have you ever read a fanfic about 2? A. nah i don’t really read fics tbh...

3. Has a picture of 4 ever been your screen saver/profile picture/tumblr screen saver? A. no my screensaver is reserved for my cats on my phone and my m&g pic with niall on my mac lmao

4. If 7 were to suddenly break up today, what would your reaction be? A. i wouldn’t be mad tbh bc when i think about it they were a bit of a weird match and honestly? i’ll say it, i could see harry and hermione being better for each other anyways

5. Why is 1 so important? A. jake and amy are such a good representation of a solid relationship where two people love and respect each other. i love that the writers of b99 have actually let a couple have a GOOD relationship, i hate when couples are alway fighting/breaking up for drama. also i just love them both a lot!

6. Is 9 a funny ship or a serious ship? A. serious for sure. i mean i stopped watching twd ages ago but they were great together!

7. Out of all the ships listed, which ship has the most chemistry? A. that’s tough, i feel like most of them have great chemistry, but maybe mark/lexie or jake/amy or even aziraphale/crowley lol

8. Out of all your ships listed, which ship has the strongest bond? A. maybe eleanor/chidi? or rick/michonne. both couples went through some SHIT (like, literally being dead, zombie apocalypse). but idk really tbh. i could honestly say almost any of them

9. How many times have you read/watched the 10’s fandom? A. well i’ve fully seen grey’s beginning to end once because i only just watched it all last year, but i started rewatching a while a go but haven’t watched for a bit lol

10. Which ship has lasted the longest? A. romione i guess? or eleanor/chidi since, you know jeremy bearimy babey!

11. How many times, if ever, has 6 broken up? A. a couple i think?

12. If the world was suddenly thrust into a zombie apocalypse, which ship would make it out alive, 2 or 8? A. i think eleanor and chidi would be more likely to survive than amy and laurie lol

13. Did 7 ever have to hide their relationship for any reason? A. not really

14. Is 4 still together? A. technically they’re not together at all but the chemistry is *chef’s kiss*

15. Is 10 canon? A. yeah

16. If all 10 ships were put into a couple’s Hunger Games, which couple would win? A. aziraphale/crowley bc they can literally perform miracles

17. Has anybody ever tried to sabotage 5’s ship? A. don’t think so? i can’t really remember tbh lol

18. Which ship would you defend to the death and beyond? A. most of them but especially jake/amy

19. Do you spend hours a day going through 3’s tumblr page? A. no

20. If an evil witch descended from the sky and told you that you had to pick one of the ten ships to break up forever or else she’d break them all forever, which ship would you sink? A. romione lol

that was pretty fun lol

Tagging: @biancas-diangelos @calypsoatlaas @peetas-mellarks @louvegoods @severusnpe @mischiefsmanaged @romanoft @ginys + anyone else who wants to do it. as usual feel free to ignore and sorry if you’ve already done it x

[hyumjim]

List of PC games I played as a small child and have the vaguest pleasant memories of now

1. Millie’s Math House (1992)

1992 is also the year I was born! This game is as old as me. So, as you might imagine, I did not remember the names of nearly any of these games and had to do some very specific google searches. The games that were harder to find were the ones connected to big franchises like Sesame Street, since there are of course a billion of those. I did not have this problem with Millie’s Math House, as this franchise did not really get off the ground. Anyway I LOVED THIS GAME! The above is the home screen and the shelves behind Millie the cow represent mini games. I especially loved the cookie game where I think you counted jellybeans, and the pink monster bug guy whose body parts you could rearrange. I don’t think this game was any help in teaching me math because I was always terrible at it and still am to this day. But I had fun!

(READMORE BECAUSE THIS ENDED UP BEING A FUCKING LONGPOST... the more I write, the more I remember!!)

2. Math Munchers Deluxe (1995)

Funny how many of these games specifically are math-related edutainment, considering that this is my biggest weakness in life. Perhaps my parents and teachers were trying to help me, but failed! Anyway, I FUCKING LOVED MATH MUNCHERS! I guess I was doing math or whatever but they had a whole story and characters, with “common taters” (LOL HAHAHAH GET IT) who would comment on your gameplay like it was a sports game. I thought it was so funny and nerdy, I loved it! I love the Munchers Cinematic Universe!!! 

3. Sesame Street: Get Set To Learn! (1996)

I think I only played this at school when I was in kindergarten, which explains why I have only the vaguest memories of it and why it took me so much effort to figure out which Sesame Street game it was. But I remember this cookie pattern recognition game like it was yesterday. And the dunk tank with the pickles, too! Wow, everything back then was so bright and colorful and ugly, I love it.

4. The Land Before Time Activity Center (1997)

OMG um.... I’d like to apologize for calling the Sesame Street game ugly. I didn't know what ugly was until I looked this up 2 seconds ago. Sesame Street, I’m so sorry sweetie. Okay so this Land Before Time minigame collection was hideous, and also I think it was really bad. I mean I ate it up and played it for probably days altogether because I was a little kid and I LOVED this franchise. But it had very little to do with the story of Littlefoot and friends, and really the only thing I remember is the dreadful maze game up top, where you tried to navigate some kind of hedge maze that looked exactly like a Windows screensaver and sometimes a T REX WOULD POP OUT AND SCREAM AT YOU. AND PRESUMABLY EAT YOU. I also seem to remember the hedge maze game having awful music and sound effects. Just a terrible aural, sonic and visual experience all around. And a testament to the fact that kids will play literally anything. This game was apparently billed as edutainment as well, which I think is really a stretch. I will also note that in 1998 it apparently came bundled with The Land Before Time Animated Moviebook, which I also played, and which was altogether much better.

I mean if you are making a movie tie-in game for preschool-aged children, this is what it should be: basically a summary of the movie, so we can relive all of our favorite parts without rewinding the VHS tape. And put some minigames in there if you want I guess, it doesn't really matter. 

5. Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon (1993)

Let’s take a momentary break from franchise tie-in games to recall Humongous Entertainment. I’m sure you all played some form of Putt-Putt but do you remember Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon? Maybe I should have reviewed it first since I think it really is the first game I can remember ever playing. It is also the first point-and-click game on this list and notable for being the only one so far with an actual original linear plot... it was like an RPG! I really think this game was ahead of its time in many ways. I know the basic story is that Putt-Putt gets stranded on the moon and has to find a way back to earth. I read on the wikipedia page that he is helped by a “lonely moon rover,” who is pictured in the bottom image, and that triggered very strong emotional memories for me. I THINK THEIR RELATIONSHIP WAS VERY HOMOEROTIC. I mean Putt-Putt was probably the only person (car...) the rover had seen in years.... sigh. Anyway, you can tell it’s an early Putt-Putt game because Putt-Putt’s design is so weird. He is like an amorphous purple blob, barely passing for a car. and we love him. NOTE: the entire Putt-Putt collection is apparently available for Steam! I love that for him. 

6. The Oregon Trail Deluxe (1992)

Doesn’t this look like a REALLY FUN game for little children to play??? No? That’s because it’s not. The Oregon Trail (which was colloquially referred to in my family simply as Oregon Trail, as in, wanna play Oregon Trail? FUCK NO) is a SHOCKINGLY ANCIENT GAME which was originally released in 1985 (!!!!!) for the Apple II. This version was of course very simple and with some quick googling you can find many places to play it in your browser online. It was a simulator of the emigration of a bunch of people west to Oregon along a wagon route in the 1840s, a trip which was apparently DEEPLY FRAUGHT WITH PERIL AT EVERY TURN. According to Wikipedia, the game was designed by a schoolteacher to “teach schoolchildren about the realities of 19th-century pioneer life.” is that not fucking psychotic? ALSO according to wikipedia, “between 3 and 10 percent” of emigrants on the real-life Oregon trail perished. Does that sound like a lot to you? Because that is WAY LESS than I would have inferred based on this game in which you were lucky if ANYBODY AT ALL survived your little road trip after going for long stretches of time with constant notifications that there was NO GRASS FOR THE OXEN. Perhaps the most enjoyable novelty of the game, which gave it replayability, was naming your party; assuming you were playing with a gaggle of schoolchildren, you would naturally name them after yourself and all of your friends, and see who perished first. It was like survival horror for children! What fun to experience the macabre joy of seeing your friends’ names etched upon pixelated tombstones! I also played this with my parents a lot, and I’m sure it was tons of fun for them to watch me grapple with their onscreen deaths, coming to terms with the fact that they would in fact one day perish. Anyway, for some reason this game was massively successful and spawned a whole bunch of sequels, which I enjoyed A LOT, also for unknown reasons.

(Pictured above is the 3rd edition, released in 1997, which I owned at home.) In addition to the significant graphical upgrade (check out those real live actors transposed on an uncanny 3D background!!!), these games included a (HONESTLY VERY FUN) hunting minigame; “UPDATED ROLES OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES” (we, too, could die terribly); a plethora of diseases one could catch such as cholera and dysentery; and random encounters with strangers who could kill you! Oh, does the fun never end? 

7. LEMMINGS (1991)

Isn’t that box art great? The creators of LEMMINGS were apparently aware of it being totally dreadful and mind-breaking and decided to power through and subject all of us to it anyway. This game was, as I recall it, a very difficult puzzle-platformer in which we were challenged to strategically prevent an infinite variety of mindless little green-haired fellas from plummeting to their deaths. As you may have inferred, LEMMINGS is the first entry on this list that is not an edutainment game for children, which means I was TERRIFIED OF IT and really didn’t play it very much. I watched my older sister play it quite a lot, and it gave me terrible anxiety. How could one person handle the responsibility of saving a whole race of idiot people from certain doom? I still cannot fathom it.

But apparently, for adults that played it, this game was a bit of light-hearted fun! Good for them, I say.

8. SUPER SOLVERS SERIES (1989-1993)

This series of edutainment games, which honestly in my head are all called “SPELLBOUND,” are apparently all subtitled “Super Solvers,” and titled as follows (in order of these images): “Midnight Rescue,” “Treasure Mountain,” “Treasure Cove,” and finally the actual “Spellbound.” I loved Spellbound for its spelling bee concept; spelling was always my strong suit, so it made me feel like a real champ. In general I think these games were more focused on reading/writing/spelling than anything else, which is probably why I liked them so much, because I liked feeling like a little genius prodigy (and I was probably playing them even when I was way too old for them so I could get that ego-stroke lol). They also featured random encounters with evil robots, and I really don’t know why the robots all had paintbrushes for legs, or why the paint was always pink, but they were very frightening to me. Also I’d like to note that I felt the first flutters of sexual attraction to the MYSTERIOUS PLAYER CHARACTER. Don’t you see it? Look at how sexy he is with his iconic turquoise jacket with the popped collar, his red baseball cap and yellow shorts... king of primary colors.

That’s all for now folks I have to go to work and be an adult, it’s a Tuesday. Tell me if there is anything else CRUCIAL that I left out and I’ll check back later and see if I remember it!!!!

[steve0discusses]

Yugioh S4 Episode 2: Rebecca...She’s back, I guess?

So I got hella sick this week so it’s...just one update this weekend. The rest of the next update has the caps done but then the copy I was putting together got very distracted about which Founding Father was the hottest and I think that was the Dayquil? I barely know what day of the week it is rn. I think it’s Saturday, is it Saturday?

Anyway, we’re battling that Monocle guy. Gurimo? Yeah his name is Gurimo. I honestly can’t remember him saying his name even once, so thanks Google for the help.

It’s a new season so not only did we suck all the power out of God Cards but now you can’t use them anymore with the new glowing green mechanic. The writers really did just...a lot to make it so God Cards are no longer relevant. Like they buried them so far.

This guy repeats himself quite a lot about being soul hungry? Yeah I watched all of Sailor Moon so like, I’m super up to date on my soul energy anime. I’ve walked this path before I know it well.

(read more under the cut)

Such a shame we can’t read those stats which may just be Hebrew letters in lorem ipsum (note that when Pegasus makes you a card, you don’t get to have stats) but it’s nice to know that, if you wanted to, you could play Rex and Weevil in universe of the show and something would happen.

Anyway, Gurimo lost, his eyes went all glowy red at some point, and decided to go out throwing stuff because it’s Yugioh and you have to throw cards at least 3 times a season, its in the contract.

Don’t think about physics guys, just trust that cards can do this on a roof where there’s no wind for some reason.

And then he went up in a green ball of glory. It was nice of the green beam of soul energy to wait until the impossible card toss was over.

Lol this show and how it just kills people on screen just...all the time. All the freakin time. Can’t show a gun, but murder as many people as you like. It’s OK, his soul is in a paper card so he’s not *really* dead. That won’t terrify children under the age of 10.

So Pharaoh decides to do the tactic of telling a bunch of motorcycle gang edgy kids (adults? not sure about those three) that stealing is Wrong.

They also, youknow, are implicit in murdering Rex and Weevil but youknow, stealing is wrong and the God Cards don’t belong to them and Pharaoh is shook that these kids won’t keep their end of their bargain that whoever wins the card fight keeps the cards.

So basically Gurimo died for freakin nothing.

Welcome back to the fold, Rex and Weevil, apparently this show isn’t done with you yet. I was pretty much done with both of you 3 seasons ago but alas, you will be back, with your raspy as hell voice acting, at the beginning of S5. I am sure of it.

(PS I just noticed I spelled resurrect wrong and I know I should go back into photoshop but like...I’m too sick to care at this moment so maybe I’ll change it in the next week or so I dunno, I’m just gonna post this thing so I can feel like I did something productive today.)

And so these kids decide the police are never going to freakin show up to the rooftop brawl where a guy super died and several children were endangered and a huge beam of light you can see from space went out like a bat signal to the rest of the city of “ps, something bad is happening over here, if any of you adults feel like helping out these four high school drop outs? Nobody?”

First, they decide to keep this horrible thing:

(which second thought is not SO surprising, because Yugi clearly loves hoarding dead people)

And then this other horrible thing:

Why would you keep these? Why would you do this?

I mean Yugi’s got such specific dark tastes that I wouldn’t be half surprised if his closet is filled with dozens and dozens of rat skulls he collected from the subway station.

And then the next day, Yugi decided to just like watch Joey and Tristan dangle Rex and Weevil like puppets. It just seemed super unnecessary.

Like Yugi isn’t even Pharaoh right now but he’s absolutely fine with these guys getting shook around. Yugi is all sorts of gray area in this show and I’m glad that’s never changed although sometimes it’s like “Is Yugi slowly turning into a mob boss? Because I’m down, but also somewhat concerned?”

Anyway, the God Cards aren’t even here anymore so we say farewell to Rex and Weevil who seem just as confused at how the hell you can steal a God Card as we are.

*not entirely sure where Rex and Weevil are from. I’ve been assuming the UK or the US but like...maybe they live here? I don’t even know.

And then Chibiusa--I mean Rebecca showed up.

Ah, remember this plot point from S1? What if she shows up and (according to Bro) Just never leaves?

I’m coming to terms with this. Anyway, Rebecca’s only purpose seems to be as a part of a (love????) triangle (square????) between Yugi and Tea but like...

And maybe this is the Dayquil speaking but...

Is this even weird?

Seriously, they’re family friends, why is this weird? Maybe it’s because one of Rebecca’s core traits is that she’s American and I’m also an American so I don’t even see a problem with Rebecca and how she acts (since she’s a freakin child with a crush on a card-famous person) but like what small child see her friend she hasn’t seen in 2 years and is not going to hug him?

Anyway, Yugi was the worst to not remember this chick. Maybe his brain looks like a box of loose packing peanuts (I say as a metaphor remembering that his brain literally looks like an Escher painting screensaver), but he can’t remember this chick from just 2 years ago that he gave his rarest card to? The chick who’s grandfather had that blue-eyes he gave to Yugi’s Grandfather? The chick who’s grandfather helped his grandfather get that necklace around Yugi’s neck? The necklace he wears every single day and is super cursed by?

How do you forget the Hawkins when they are part of the reason everyone thinks you’re losing your mind?

But I guess she looks older now and got a pair of glasses (bifocals????). She No longer has her hair in pigtails but, I dunno, she looks basically the same to me since she’s still about the same size as Yugi but wtv.

And then Yugioh was like “Listen everyone, we’re very tired of all of your angry reviews, and I see y’all are saying we never do romance, well get ready, we know how to do romance really well, get ready for it, we can make things move faster than a snail in wet cement, just watch.”

Because somehow, after Yugi was the biggest asshole ever to Rebeca, I guess she figured like “well, at least you’re still card famous”

You know what? I have several girlfriends who I am not dating, but, if it’s been a couple weeks since they’ve seen me last, will give me a huge as drunk hug on my arm and go “MY LOVE MY GIRLFRIEND MARRY ME” and like...Again I’m American so maybe this is just my culture here in California?

I’d like to believe that Rebecca is just messing with these people because she can.

Ps I’m pretty sure this girl was 6 last time we saw her but they decided...we better age her up if it’s gonna be a romance but they only made her 12. OK show. Yugi’s pushing 17 at this point so like...barely even logical. I’d say legal but I’m thinking more of just logic at this point because the last time we saw this girl she was holding a teddy bear (which we can guarantee is probably still shoved into her luggage)

...OK, show...

Now listen listen listen. All ships are fine here. I’m not gonna go after shipping because like, c’mon, it’s 2019. If you stan Rebecca and Yugi, go for it, why not? I’ve said it before, and my feelings haven’t really changed, I’m immune to shipping, so I feel absolutely no different with Rebecca and Yugi than I do with Tea and Yugi. I think Tea makes more sense, but that’s not saying very much because literally anyone else on this cast who isn’t related to him could probably work. Go ahead and bring back Mako Tsunami. There’d be a fun pair.

Bro got very excited when I mentioned a MakoxYugi pairing just now ps.

But it really does feel like this ship has the dynamic of the Usagi/Chibiusa/Mamaru ship from Sailor Moon where Usagi was always jealous of small little Chibiusa spending time with Mamaru who was her OWN DAD. Why would you EVER be jealous of a 12 year old girl hanging with your boy...friend? Tea is a 17ish year old ballerina who never, ever wears full pants. She’d have this in the bag if she ever decided to like...do anything with...this. And I don’t blame Tea for never doing anything with “this” because like...look at “this.”

I just don’t think the writing team knows how to write a competent love triangle (square) but...this exists now. They even had Rebecca decide to dress nearly identically to Tea as a demonstration of her devotion but like...it honestly comes off more that this small child just admires Tea. Because she’s 12.

Yugi is just babysitting this girl for his Grandfather and it feels like the writing team just had to have the girls be all catty at eachother. Because it’s a kids show. Gotta have those girls all catty. Can’t let them be friends.

Anyway, back at this museum that these kids visit so freakin often, you’d think they’d change their home address, we meet up with the granddads in question.

Ah, now Ishizu is no longer with us, Exposition Grandpa is here to take the torch. Can’t wait for that.

And I made his font gray because I freakin give up. Grandpa Hawkins might change his font color every episode. I...I’m figuring it out.

And then, every helicopter in Domino shed a single tear.

Wow. I’ve been so mad for so many seasons that they never use a freakin seaplane to cross the ocean that when they actually do I’m like...kind of disappointed?

I mean it’s not shaped like a dragon, but I will take this perfectly acceptable seaplane.

I can’t believe they drew a normal ass plane. on this show.

*Waits patiently for it to turn into a blimp next episode*

Anyway, if you just got here, this is a link to read all the caps in chrono order. There’s over 3 seasons of this. Y’all I’ve done over 100 episodes.

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Press Release: In a bloodsoaked historical context where the simmering tension of an unacknowledged holocaust threatens to burst the flesh of its ivory benefactors, what can one do but dream of a past less fraught; or so says the work of Melbourne artist Minna Gilligan. ‘The 60’s’ as imagined by Gilligan seem to be a time of  technicolour fantasm, of naiive reverie and snappy outfits. Gilligan openly admits to her construction of a falsified epoch , having herself been born in the 90’s and subsequently coming of age in the early to mid 00’s. The presentation of ‘Feeble Minded Gifted Kind of’ is the result of a fortuitous oversight on behalf of the artist. A large cache of works from Gilligan’s formative years (2009-11) lay dormant in a document drawer deep at  the Victorian College of the Arts; where Gilligan studied under the artist John Campbel over this period. Ignoring calls from concerned gallerists and the artist alike, White Cuberd and Melbournefineartgossipblog have excavated, and now present a selection from this early period of Gilligan’s practise in the hope of illuminating new readings of the artist’s oeuvre. Here we see the underpinnings of Gilligan’s artistic world. Inhabitable realities give way to uncoagulated forms suspended in mathematical planes and dimensions. The artists Narrates these scenes with a wry nihilism, as with the shows titular work ‘feeble minded gifted kind of’. Cringeworthy execution and materiality evoke what can only be an irony akin to german painting of the later part of the 20th century. Or maybe this is just garbage that should have been incinerated instead of dragged from the bin and into the gallery? Gilligan currently lives and works in Melbourne, Australia and is represented by Daine Singer gallery. Press Release by: Zabludowicz. JR. * * * Review: Minna Gilligan: Coping Mechanisms. Minna Now Escapism. “Art and the current climate”1. Art as commodity (beyond art as ‘Art’ (i.e. striving for some moral value?)). Art as fashion… art as fashion with Artist as product. Minna herself is/ is also the interest point. “A figure who is not simply a figure of moral autonomy (self-governing and self-crafting), but a figure who seeks to enhance its competitive positioning in every sphere of life.”2 ‘let me address why I don’t make political art and won’t make political art…. while simultaneously platforming myself in a politically active narrative’ (Gilligan in February 2017 blog post). A Minna on a Fitzroy living room wall, the homeowner is sipping a glass of red after a long day in the office working on the next Future Estate development. “The subject as pleasure maximizer and pain minimizer, a utilitarian calculator.”3 Disco, flower markets, corduroy, macaroons…. “A subject who is concerned with its present and future value, not simply maximizing its deal-making capacity and not even simply entrepreneurializing itself, but investing in itself in order to enhance its present and future value and in order to attract investors.”4 …. I see this in Minna (Gorman, commercial outcomes, commercial gallery, she has value as a brand herself). I see this in myself. I see myself in Minna. Fun pop colours, textas, spray paint!, fashion collage. Here for a good time, not for a long time. (“But credit my work if you are RG’ing”). What would happen if Minna’s work was suddenly really scary and fucked up? Politically what does it mean to be visible and popular in the arena of Australian art today and refuse to engage with the present, or speak to the present through your obsession with an inauthentic past and telescoping into life's niceties? Make cool art; be cool (funky); be hot (and cute (not threatening)); ignore the present (through ‘the past’); be a feminist (unthreatening, seemingly not very critical?); make money; fashion, art, design; lend your art to a clothing brand that only makes clothes for thin people. Fun, colourful, easy, uncomplicated, messy, ugly spray painted abstractions. Honestly a Minna5 was my iPhone screensaver for most of 2016. The feeling I get when I look at it is the same as when I am watching The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills or The Kardashians. Escapism. Escaping into “reality”. A reprieve. What is the link between the enjoyment of her work and how that functions in the world today that I am finding troublesome? Something to do with the popularity, niceness, fun��. The world is the opposite….. What responsibility do Artists have to engage with reality (if they are popular, nice)? Maybe that isn’t her reality (she maybe can not/ does not see the world as fucked/ part of it?). Why am i so compelled to want to reveal her work as perpetuating this fucked-ness, like why do i care? Minna is Pepsi Kendall. I am Pepsi Kendall. Minna is just trying to cope, like the rest of us. Gorman made clothes to fit dogs before they made clothes that fit me. But I would sell out too. Sign me up. How does Minna’s popularity as an Artist speak to the fears of the current consumer? (i.e. if her work is a coping mechanism, and it’s popular…. Does that mean everyone is fucking terrified and also desperate for reprieve?) Consuming/ consumption as medicine. Semi-left ‘floating in space’ crowd…. If only they could face the terror?…Minna’s work being a dummy to placate a child, and the audience is using it as a numbing device…. But this doesn’t have to be bad. Literally sign me up. “Her practice speaks of fleeting, personal encounters with the past and present, and manifests in a tumultuous reconciliation of both.”6 Is there actually a successful reconciliation of past and present in her work though? Plot twist: it is in fact the UNSUCCESSFUL reconciliation of the past and the present which MAKES her work so successful. The space in between what she is putting down, and what exists all around it. Vintage housewife collage on pretty pop colour texta doodle. ‘Utopia’. Head down, don’t look up. Early Works *knife* “Her works are playgrounds of colour, often inhabited by lone protagonists trapped in states of longing, sadness or exhalation. Though her paintings reference 1960s/ ‘70s psychedelia and evoke a nostalgic romanticism - with lone women floating in technicolor dreams - her work is atemporal, existing in a utopian space of imagery filtered through the digital realm.”7 Why would an artist be compelled to work through “states of longing, sadness or exhalation” in Australia today as a cis white woman who is successful and does not make political art? I am so untrusting of Utopian spaces. Utopia = red flag. Yet I work towards trying to create utopian spaces IRL all the time and am a constant cop. So why would I trust Minna’s work more if it were Dystopic (from her POV)? (NB: I do think her work is Dystopic). I feel uneasy about Minna Now because it mirrors my own complicity. It seems like Minna herself is pointing towards the dystopic in her Early Works. CAN’T TELL YOU WHAT IT REALLY IS8. Pictures of meat on pretty pop colour texta doodle. Utopia. Man with blood nose on pretty pop colour texta doodle. Utopia. STAY AWAY9. I DON’T FEEL LIKE IT ANYMORE10. Tigers; lions; snakes; horses galloping into a void. DON’T WANT TO CARE11. This world is so different from what we now of Minna Now. SIMPLICITY FUNERALS12 vs. rainbow stylin’. I just don’t see space for this emo/ goth vibes acid-trippa girly girl on Daine’s sales spreadsheet, too real (dark). Is the shift from Minna as ‘feeler’, as seen in the Early Works, a commercial tactic? Does the artist's current work function as the personal antidepressant that I use it for myself? After Thoughts “It is true that the worst thing any of us could do would be to stop making work and abandon our artistic narratives. While I will not be making overtly political work, as such, I not be silent out of fear. I will still be painting, drawing, collaging, and posting the results on Instagram, with all of the above paragraphs considered.”13 A world in which making art is better than not.... Lol. Close your eyes and press your eyeballs so hard colours start appearing, and hope so hard you can forget. Minna Gilligan’s Early Works tell me the Minna we know now is not the Minna of yesteryear. In the Early Works it appears Minna was concerning herself with a certain “reality” (grim, ugly, not exactly a wrapped up package) that is only present in her works today through its total erasure, disappearance. The world was ugly and something had to give. The machine churns on. There is money to be made, collabs to be had, and memories on the dance floor to be etched into the only future Minna seems interested in… a happy, pretty one? tbh that’s scarier to me then before but alas- who could blame a gal? *knife* 1 Minna Gilligan, “Art and the current climate” (blog post), 02/02/2017. Accessed April, 2017. http://www.minnagilligan.com/ 2 Wendy Brown, “INVEST YOURSELF! WENDY BROWN IN CONVERSATION WITH ISABELLE GRAW”. “The Individual” Issue No. 104. December, 2016., Texte Zur Kunst. Accessed April, 2017. https://www.textezurkunst.de/104/tzk104-brown-graw/ 3 Ibid., (Brown). 4 Ibid., (Brown). 5 Minna Gilligan, “All the things that we do for fun” (2015), acrylic, spray paint and collage on canvas. 6 "Minna Gilligan", Daine Singer (website). Accessed March, 2017. http://www.dainesinger.com/minna-gilligan/ 7 Ibid., (Singer). 8 Text found on Minna Gilligan’s untitled ‘Early Works’ 9 Ibid., (Gilligan). 10 Ibid., (Gilligan). 11 Ibid., (Gilligan).12 Ibid., (Gilligan).13 Ibid., (Gilligan, blog post). Review by: i-D.vice

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