#ik this is probably common knowledge by now

[apologydanceenthusiast]

Hello, sorry-- is this seat taken?

No?

Thank you.

*sits down and folds his hands mysteriously*

"Oh, I learned that the hard way." Aziraphale replies when Crowley asks him about his shitty french.

You know, the french he learned from a teacher who's name translates to Nightingale.

French, you know. Like the language of love.

He learned it the hard way and still to this day can't seem to find the right words for what he wants to say.

That's all, thank you.

*gets up and mysteriously disappears into the void*

[fariesoiree]

Ty for responding lovey, I adore your interpretation, especially the part about googling stupid stuff lol. Going on quora and such. I can imagine him shamefully deleting his search history afterwards in case his fbi agent turned out to be a snitch

But, I wonder how fast he would just get tired of dropping subtle sighs and just tell reader about his feelings.

Hope you have a wonderful day/afternoon/night

~ ☄️

yk it’s so funny you mention this bc i actually already have it planned out in my head how reader n hobie come to be reader n hobie. i could probably write it but i wont bc it would be very angsty and im not a angst person.

everyone knows hobie is not into the way society operates. it’s common knowledge. that same thing would carry over to relationships and it would be very very very difficult for him to break out of his habits.

he’s not a toxic bf at all i think he’s very sweet n perfect n i love him. i just don’t think that he was the first one to make the move like the real let’s be exclusive n together move. in my universe, you and hobie are on again off again for a while. after the initial flirting, he never really asks you out. you go on dates and you act like a couple but he doesn’t put the label on it bc he doesn’t care.

now this can go one of two ways, you also don’t care and are chill w it or you do care. im gonna go w the you do care route. it becomes something that you ask him. literally you send the what are we text and he just blanks bc he doesn’t know what to call it but he knows he’s having a good time and is happy with you. he’s not into defining and labeling everything. he doesn’t like categorizing stuff and putting it into a neat and pretty box all bc someone said so.

this can and will cause problems bc you want a label. you want something to call him and he really don’t gaf what you call it. lots of arguments bc you don’t understand him and he couldn’t be arsed. like, this is a vvvv slow burn bc to you, a label means stability and you feel like he’s not giving you that and you’re not enjoying it. to him, a label is just another way of making everything fit in societies standards. he doesn’t way to do what everyone is doing and be brainless and conform.

in the end, i’m not sure what the push is or what the compromise is. you’re free to interpret and lmk but ig it just gets exhausting to do the back and forth but neither of you view it as more important than each other so you kinda just . . . never talk about it again. instead of introducing him as your boyfriend, you say partner and he likes it bc it could entail anything. life partner, partner in crime, wtv.

but yeah c: that’s my personal canon that i believe in for every hobie i’ve ever written, even prowler hobie. except sometimes ik ill use the word bf but now you know he just stopped bringing it up and pointing out that he doesn’t like it.

[dragon-age-sideblog]

wait so like. in da2 the deep roads expedition happens right around the end of 9:31/early 9:32 Dragon.

so. if you send them to the Grey Wardens, Carver or Bethany joins around 9:32 Dragon

ik this is probably common knowledge but my brain is exploding

100% the Warden Commander in Fereldan got a letter from Anders (right after the shit in Amaranthine happens) saying hey can you watch over this new recruit for me? It's my new friend's younger sibling and it would mean a lot. sorry i know i just like,, left the wardens but pls

and Daria Brosca 10000000% looks at Carver Hawke and decides thats her brother now

[lassieposting]

i have fallen into trash ships hell because of you and i have. so many questions

do skug and serpine ever come to realise their own feelings? does serpine figure out that skug is vile somehow? and how would that work out with the recent canon (not your thing, ik ik) now that ghastly is back?

Ohohohohoho welcome to the dumpster have a cookie and a t-shirt

So, in my headcanon, Serpine already knows Skug is Vile. He's known for like. A century. It's common knowledge in Mevolent's inner circle.

Because, like. In Nef's dimension, Vile's with Mevolent - he was the shiny new toy Mev dropped Nef for. And Vile's been with Mevolent for a really long time. Eventually, he became confident enough in that relationship to not always wear head-to-toe armor. So like. Nef, alt!Vengeous, the alt!Diablerie...they all know. They've seen him. They've heard him talk without the helmet warping his voice. He's. Very clearly the same person.

But he hasn't said anything - not even to Skug. That's his insurance policy.

See, Nefarian Serpine is a schemer. That's his whole thing. He plans things way in advance and has contingency plans for his contingency plans. And he didn't like the whole concept of the assassination mission, because it puts him in a dangerous situation with multiple threats to his life and too many unpredictable variables to plan for everything. But the one thing he thought he could count on was that someone - most likely Skug, but also possibly Saracen or Vex, would try to kill him out there - and he can't take any of them in a fair fight. He knows Skug's own side would have executed him for war crimes if his being Vile was common knowledge. So that's his safety net, in a precarious situation - "If you come at me I'm going to scream that you were Lord Vile and your friends will start asking questions."

But. Then he didn't need it. Skug didn't try to kill him, and stopped a few other people trying it, too. And the assassination attempt he was expecting after returning to Roarhaven came to nothing. So he held onto that secret.

Eventually it becomes almost an affectionate thing. He likes that he knows one of Skug's deepest darkest secrets. He likes that he knows something about Skug that almost nobody else is aware of - it plays into his obsessive tendencies: I know him better than you ever will.

As for realising their feelings...ehh. Neither of them is mentally healthy in the first place - Skug has been abused in almost every relationship he's ever had, and Serpine thinks all-consuming obsession and possessiveness = love. They don't exactly have a great understanding of what their feelings even are once they move past "passionate hatred".

Alt!Nef is a lot more sane than his og!verse counterpart. He's more likeable and less sadistic. He's clearly capable of empathy, and he makes multiple attempts to reach out to the others and form connections during the Leibniz mission. But Skulpine is always going to be some level of dysfunctional, because of their traumatic shared history.

They definitely both get to the point where they will admit, if asked, that they're not exactly enemies anymore. But while Nef - who's got relatively little Skug-related trauma - would eventually admit that he's fond of Skug, Skug - who has a huge amount of Nef-related trauma - would probably only get as far as, "I tolerate him."

They'd be that couple where everyone knows they're a thing before they do. They could be years into being casual-but-essentially-monogamous and Skug would still be claiming that he's only taking Nef to [obvious date night activity] because most of his friends are dead and "no one else he spends time with has any appreciation for the finer things in life."

Yes, they meet up sometimes for angry hate sex. Yes, he's technically paying Nefarian's rent. No, that doesn't mean he enjoys his company. The man is insufferable. Skug is still salty China foisted responsibility for Serpine on him.

But he's still taking him to the opera bye

[emo-protagonist]

hi tumblr, im currently studying for my finals which includes american history sadly and ive been reviewing the great depression. here are some notable things ive found that idk i wanna share:

one of the primary causes of the great depression was overproduction.

consumer debt was another major factor as most people could not repay their debts.

the top 1% also had all the money in america at the time

tons of droughts prevented farming and basically killed the food supply.

no one wanting to hire anyone because small businesses cant afford to pay people to work and big corporations werent paying people enough to live.

and the stock market crashed (historians dont have an exact reason, it was probs a combination of things.)

basically the point im trying to make here is that a lot these factors that caused the great depression, are kinda happening again like:

overcomsumption being a huge issue, causing landfills to be filled up before we know what to do with the trash.

every single person who went to college is probably in debt right now.

the 1% really do have all our money.

farming right now is bad(which ik is not common knowledge but our main consumption of water comes from farming, its honestly really complicated, but i suggest you look into if you can but tldr: our farming situation is bad.)

and small businesses cant afford to hire people and big corporations not paying people enough to live.

basically, if the stock market crashes (idk if that can happen soon or whatever idk anything about stocks) the great depression 2 electric boogaloo is gonna happen. we currently are hitting all the main points, but thats not even the worst part. do you wanna know WHY the great depression ended. its this little thing called WARTIME ECONOMY where WW2 STARTED which basically meant people had to work work work if we wanted to survive survive survive. stressing people out and somehow getting them jobs. (if ur interested look into it tho, also vry interesting stuff) so if the great depression 2 electric boogaloo does happen, the only thing saving us is ww3.

now im not trying to stress anyone out, dont take my word on all this im just a teenager procrastinating studying and someone else has probably pointed this out already but idk, im bored and thought id ramble about it. i really hate studying american history, like really really hate it.

[kaeyaphile]

ik this is a pretty personal question so no pressure to answer at all but i was wondering what new medication you’re taking? i cant for the life of me find something that actually helps fatigue from fibro pain

oh no worries, i don’t mind at all! especially if this info and knowledge can help someone else cursed with an autoimmune disease feel better!!!

(i’m putting this under a “read more” because i ended up rambling a lot 🤡 also if you have any form of emetophobia at all, probably don’t read this 😬)

today is my first day taking methotrexate! i’m on 2.5mg to start and i’m taking 3 pills once a week (i was told to take them all at once on the same day/same time every week) for two weeks and then 5 pills once a week after that! my rheumatologist suggested it before but the long list of possible side effects (the most common ones are: nausea, vomiting, mouth ulcers, loss of appetite, hair loss) made me cautious at the time, but she told me all of her patients that she’s prescribed it to haven’t experienced any of the bad side effects so hopefully i’m not the one outlier (with my luck i won’t be surprised though, which is why i am so anxious about taking it). she also has me taking 1mg of folic acid once a day because that helps reduce the risk of the side effects.

i sound like a medication commercial right now, oops 💀 but yeah i don’t normally have adverse reactions to any forms of medication or drugs (only morphine which makes me violently ill, ie: nausea and vomiting) so i don’t really know why i’m so anxious but also i just really, really, really need this to help because nothing else has and i have constant brain fog and debilitating fatigue from my fibro/ra pain 😭🤞🏻

[zwei-rhunen]

Squeenix why do u do dis to me D:

Someone tell the lalafells that there's an untapped market to be had! Level 35-48 jewelry is the latest trend!

A once in a lifetime gil-gathering endeaver for your local, aspiring venture capitalist!!!!

.... in other news, I've been prepping myself for jewelery-crafting shenangians, which means clearing out my inventory LOL

But I got too invested and this time I took the time to research alot of the stuff that I've been hanging onto, and it turns out they're really easy to get later if i really wanted them back.

Most of it was either crafting materials (i thought they were turn-in tokens bc they looked special) or they were things that were fairly inexpensive to buy off other people if I wamted to do that in the future. I'd kept alot of things bc I wasn't as familiar with the UI/the game as i am now back when I tried downsizing in the past. Like I'd hold onto alot of junk bc for example, I'd research about this cool shiny item. and it'd start out so innocently lol.

I'd be like,

"oh I can use this to craft neat gear! Well I'll hold onto it bc i want to do that soon"

but then itd quickly spiral into

"oh, well I need a master crafting tome of X level, and to get that I need to collect these things. Okay that's doable. But wait, to do THAT, I first need to level up these 2 jobs so i can craft/gather the ingredients, alright.. (goes to level up the jobs) ...oh. i don't even have access to the zone that I need to collect those materials in, so then ACTUALLY I need to do the MSQ up to THIS point. Damn, thats kinda devastating bc I just spent all this time leveling lmao. Well, I got this far and i dont want to just toss these items, so ill just hang onto them for now

And then eventually I forgot about the details related to those items, but I remember how let down I felt while dealing with them so i just put it off and eventually they blurred into the clutter of the other stuff going on in my inv/I got invested into other goals lol

But now I've gotten better at asking the right things like "is this item rare? Where is it dropped? What is it used for, is it for crafting or a token or smth else? Also, does an NPC vendor ask for this in return for something cool? Could i buy this item on the MB later on?"

Whereas before, I'd just be like "okay. what can i use this for?? " And then I wouldn't see any crafting use for it, so I'd just toss it, and then 10 mins later id go to Mor Dhona and realize DANG IT was a TOKEN, i coulda traded that for smth interesting!! And it seems like a PITA for me to get again 😭 .....so thus began my hoarding :)

can't regret what you don't discard! lmfaooo

Also said screw it and sold off most of my food bc I realized by the time I worked thru all those edibles, id probably have a sub and would be able to buy HQ food really easily. Like, I'd been holding onto the food from when I had brute-force-leveled CUL to 50, and I'm still gonna have like ~200 hours worth of exp lmao.

I also actually, seriously reviewed the differences in food stats for once in my life (this deserves so much praise tbh bc I do not care for their details as long as I'm getting the exp buff lmao) and realized my level 15 HQ food is useless to hang onto bc my lvl 40 normal foods are still way better, and all this other info that's probably common knowledge lmao (and ik i CAN get more efficient with this if I prioritized food with stats that align with which jobs I'm gonna main for now but um. this is far as I care to go into the weeds with food details for now lmaooo like... no. stop thats too much to worry abt for me 😭😂😂 i mean like, i know (i think i know?) Strength and determination for tank, spell speed/piety for casters, skill speed for dps bc it just sounds like it makes sense lol. So like ill half-assedly try and pick the best stat buff food but its not really smth tht im overly concerned abt atm tbh. Maybe later at a higher level but for now everything seems to be okay without needing to suffer over the details)

So I sold off a buncha stuff off to an NPC and now i have a whole page and a half of space. I'm so excited!

I also reviewed the clutter in my chocobo sidebags and finally traded in the ancient gear drops to Rowena and sold off some faded maps that i realized are really common and can get again later lol

I'd have more space but i think I can use those few items up in the short term so it's just a waiting game for moar space uwu

But, yeah!!

✨️ A page and a half of inventory!! ✨️

I haven't had this much space ever since probably the MIDDLE of doing the main 2.0 MSQ!! xD

[two-calicos-in-a-trenchcoat]

Yay my mom got me a new hoodie so I can stop wearing the Harry Potter one I got before i knew jkr is a terf.

[sternbilder]

YALL THE SDCC TAZ READING W/ MATT AND MARISHA AND LMM ARE BONUSES FOR THE NEXT GRAPHIC NOVEL PREORDER IM LIVING

[taizi]

(I feel like I should finish your prompt first but. These ones are so good....feel free to ignore if you have too many asks but 29 or 33 with chocobros...?

PROMPTS LIST

33. “Are you SURE I can’t punch him in the face?” “Yes.” “What if I just break his nose a little?”

ik i just did this one for natsuyuu but...........chocobros

x

They're somewhere in Duscae, near enough to the coast that each breeze carries a hint of the sea, on another errand for another stranger to scrape together enough gil to eat tonight.

They've stopped at the last little roadside cluster of shops before the countryside stretches far and wide and wild, stocking up on what meager supplies they can afford.

Noctis has never lived this way before. He's never gone to bed hungry before. Neither has Gladio or Ignis, for all their world-weariness and the general practical knowledge and common sense they walk around with that far surpasses Noctis' own.

Ignis can budget with the best of them, and Gladio is willing to eat literally anything at any time, but Prompto is the one who gets it.

He chats at length about all the times he's had to get creative with pasta or rice because it was all that was left in his pantry. Back in high school, when he could only work part-time. When someone should have been taking care of him, and instead he was left to figure out how to stretch a tiny budget much farther than made sense.

"Come on, Iggy," he said once when they were out shopping, half-laughing. Like he thought Ignis was joking. "Fresh produce? We've got like a hundred gil between the four of us and we're totally out of restoratives."

And Ignis paused, and glanced sidelong at him. He put back the crisp, flowery vegetables and pulled out his little notebook and asked for suggestions instead. It took Prompto a few minutes to convince himsef that Ignis was taking him seriously, but now they like, bond over canned fruit.

"I'm gonna kill this catoblepas with my bare hands," Gladio says with feeling, leaning against the car. "I'm so godsdamned sick of pasta. Don't tell Iggy I said that."

Noctis rolls an energy drink between his hands absently, brow furrowed. It's tricky business, and he's not very good at it just yet, but home-made elixirs save them a ton of gil. He feels guilty when they have to spend their money on something he should be able to do himself.

"I'm telling him," he says without missing a beat. "He'll never forget, and he'll give you shit every single time you make cup noodles from now on, forever."

"I can't stand you," Gladio tells him seriously.

The bell above the door of the convenience store rings brightly, and Noctis glances up to see Ignis and Prompto walking out looking a lot more cheerful than they did going in.

Gladio's face does something very subtle and specific when he sees them, there and gone in a second, before Noctis can pin it down and figure it out.

"What are you two chucklefucks up to?" he calls over. Ignis immediately narrows a disapproving stare at him, but Prompto beams.

"I got a commission, sort of!" he says.

"A commission?" Noctis parrots, sending the energy drink back to the Armiger.

"Sort of?" Gladio adds.

"While we were checking out, the store-owner saw my camera, and seemed really into it," Prompto says. "Since, you know. It's unique."

Noctis does know. The digital camera hanging at Prompto's side has been with him since Noctis first bought it for him three years ago. He would rebuild it every so often, bowed over a collection of impossibly tiny parts spread out carefully across a dish towel at the kitchen table in Noctis' apartment. To call it unique is a bit of an understatement.

Gladio frowns, sensing where this is going a split-second before Noctis does. "And?"

"And he offered me money for it! Like, more than it's worth probably. A lot more."

"I don't see how that could be possible," Ignis says smoothly, leaning through the open window of the Regalia to put the shopping bag in the backseat. "Since your camera is clearly priceless. Which is what I explained to the man."

Noctis relaxes, glad that Ignis and Prompto have bonded over shopping to the point that neither of them want to do it unless they can go together-- because if Prompto had been in there by himself, he 100% would have sold his camera. He would have hated to do it, but he would have done it. It's like he thinks he owes his friends something just for letting him exist.

"Good looking out, Specs," Gladio says gruffly. Prompto waffles a bit, looking torn between pleased and embarrassed. Noctis decides to rescue him.

"What commission, though?" he asks.

"Oh, right. Well, he was kind of bummed about the camera, but he asked if he could see some of my photos, and Ignis said we had time-- "

If it were literally anyone else, Noctis thinks, up to and including and especially the Actual Crown Prince, Ignis would have said they were in a hurry and not to show off.

"--and he seemed really impressed! With the photos! I told him we were going to take down a catoblepas, and he asked why, and I said for some cash, I mean, clearly," Prompto adds, gesturing at the four of them and their general road grime. "So he, ah-- well he's never seen a catoblepas up close before, and he said if I could get some good pictures of it, he'd pay me for them. He gave me a figure, and it's, like, better than some of the jobs I've done for Vyv."

He's delighted, clearly. He likes feeling like he's pulling his own weight. Noctis is always so relieved when Vyv calls, not because of the inherent payday, but more because it puts this light in Prompto's eyes that Noctis would easily climb a hundred volcanic mountains for.

"Damn, Prompto, at this rate you'll have funded our whole trip," Gladio says. He doesn't ruffle his hair anymore, because Prompto actually hates that, just sort of scrunches his fingers through it instead. Prompto doesn't hate that at all. It's adorable.

Sometimes in the early morning, when he and Noctis are the last to drag themselves out of the tiny camper, they'll do their affirmations together:

"Gotta be our best today," Noctis will say, and Prompto will put on this absurdly determined expression, bed hair hanging into his eyes and cheek still creased pink from the pillow.

"Gotta get those hair scrunches," he'll reply gravely.

"What else did he say, Prompto?" Ignis says in a pleasant tone of voice that Noctis hasn't trusted since he was seven years old.

"Um! Nothing. Nothing worth repeating, anyway, you know." He is looking completely away from them now, an avoidance tactic if Noctis has ever seen one. "Woah, is that really the time? We better get going if we wanna catch that cow before it gets dark!"

He turns toward the car and runs into Gladio's arm instead.

"He suggested that Prompto's talents would be put to better use in different company," Ignis says, his voice carrying clearly over Prompto's whine of 'nooo, Iggy, let it go.' "He said that if Prompto ever got tired of our lifestyle, his door would be open."

Ah, Noctis thinks, followed by, ouch?

"Oh, fuck that guy," Gladio blurts. "Let me go talk to him."

"No!" Prompto clings to his arm, throwing all his weight into keeping Gladio in place. The Shield, who could bench Prom's entire body weight in one hand, lets himself be detained anyway and pretends to be annoyed about it. "Ignis, why are you causing trouble right now?" Prompto says frantically.

"Transparency is important in a relationship," Ignis replies.

"There's transparency and then there's causing trouble. Noct, tell them."

"I think Gladio should go talk to him," Noctis says immediately. But then Prompto looks betrayed, and it makes Noctis feel awful. "Ugh, okay. Okay. We're leaving. Ignis, Gladio, that's an executive order."

"Are you sure I can't punch him in the face?" Gladio grumbles.

"Am I-- yes, dude!" Prompto half-laughs nervously. "Very sure!"

"What if I just broke his nose a little?"

"Then that would be treason, I guess, cause Noct just said no."

It's with the standard amount of bickering and noise that they climb into the car, the top rolling up over their heads as it starts to drizzle. Ignis pulls smoothly back onto the cracked asphalt road and reaches over to turn the radio on; a peace offering. From the backseat, Noctis can see the corner of Prompto's smile, framed by a flyaway piece of yellow hair.

They live this way now, but they didn't always. Noctis used to have the run of the whole Citadel, had his own penthouse apartment, grew up dodging banquets and lavish dinners. It's not like he likes sleeping on the ground and having nothing to eat. It's not like he chose to lose his home.

But it could be worse. It's not a bad way to live, just Noctis and the people he loves best and these countless hours together. There's a lot of hard work and sometimes he goes to bed hungry but he knows he'll remember these days forever. He knows he'll miss them.

"Hey," he says, over the quiet sound of rain on the windows and the catchy synth-pop crooning out of the speakers. "Don't ever sell your camera, okay?"

Prompto says, "I mean, I wouldn't ever want to."

"Seriously," Noctis presses. He doesn't want to let it go. It feels important. "Your pictures are-- they mean the world to me, Prom. I can't even tell you."

His friend looks bewildered. He's half-turned in his seat, and his eyes stray to Gladio, then jump to Ignis, then settle back on Noctis. Whatever he's looking for, he seems to find it, because he smiles.

"Okay, weirdo," he says, "one fully-documented roadtrip, coming up. I won't leave anything out."

Noctis is counting on it.

[year2000electronics]

i actually don't have an opinion on either, so i'm curious: what do you hate about youtooz? (the price is way too much though i agree)

ok. so. first things first the REASON i compare these two series, and i believe it IS a fair comparison, is that they both serve the same role in their respective merchandising niches: a brand with a certain style that most figures conform to that is famous (or rather, notorious) for covering ridiculous amounts of media and their style being... well, depends who you ask. its just that funko pop covers mainstream media most of the time, basically anything that a big company can fund, whereas youtooz is for internet icons and independent creators 

and the BIGGEST point is the price point. 

so just using pops official website and my own personal knowledge as a jumping off platform, i know that the whole reason pops are so simplistic and accessible is because they’re meant to be easily accessible collectibles for the mainstream audience! theyre supposed to be neat little collectibles that are easy to get and easy to produce (which is how they maintain the price) 

the price here says these star trek funko pops are 11 bucks, and just from personal experience ive seen pops go for anywhere from 9 bucks to 15 bucks, with some really common pops even making their way to the dollar store! so if youre a fan of star trek who doesnt have CRAZY disposable income and you just wanna nab a spock, hey. there you go. 

now, vaulted pops and chase variants (basically pops that arent currently being restocked in stores, and rarer simple variants to already made models ie. gold mario) rack up a lot of money on auction sites, but this happens with literally every figure and limited item so its really not like, a pop problem. imo their goal of being simple, accessible collectibles for anyone to collect and enjoy WORKS.

now here ive got some figures from youtooz and- HUH. LOOK AT THAT. 30 US DOLLARS. (again, even more for me in canada!) now, i know that its not TOTALLY ridiculous bc even though theyre around the same height, funko pops have more hollow plastic and theres probably more complex designs but the REASON i do not think that these are worth as much as they are is because

2. THEY ARE UGLY. 

ive done a little sketch here trying to analyze the sort of design philosphies of the ‘pop style’ and the ‘youtooz style’ and i think both have their ups and downs.

i will give youtooz the point for the dynamic poses theyre usually in, as that usually makes the figure a lot more interesting, which you REALLY need if your figure has absolutely no articulation

look at the youtooz charlie brown doing a baseball- hes in the middle of an action pose, and it has a GREAT silhouette. 10/10 posing. some of the youtooz posing really fucking sucks but overall its got better pose quality 

but a lot of pops are Just Standing There. 

BUT overall i think funko pop has the stronger style. funko pop’s style has a REASON to be the way it is. why? because many of the first pop lines were just one in dozens and hundreds of already existing toy lines! so it needs a distinct style to not only give credence to a ‘collection’ mentality, but also distinguishing them from other lines of the same brand

like, there are so many different c-3pos out there, so i KNOW im getting a funko pop c-3po bc like. look at him. 

so then, i ask you, WHY does youtooz need a ‘unifying style’? why do internet creators need to conform to this style? because both the reasons i listed above just, do not apply here! one, these are often the ONLY figures made for these creators, and two, there is NOBODY who is collecting youtooz. the point of youtooz is that there are LIMITED DROPS, targeted SPECIFICALLY at fans of THAT creator. which is why they announce it on their channel! so theres no NEED to use this ugly UGLY style! and yet they do!!!

another thing the youtooz style sucks ass with is, like, the default expression. for funko pops, the default expression is usually a neutral, which SOME say is creepy or offputting but IMO. its like, a blank slate. a resting natural that could be anything and that works as these figures dont exist IN motion. look at hello kitty! she doesnt have a mouth and its used to her advantage 

but the closed eyes just fucking- its CONFUSING. especially in an expression thats not all smiley. its a confusing expression and usually a closed-eyes emotion isnt something that... stays on the face for that long? ik its a stylization choice but i dont LIKE it. theres no point of eye contact here. the posture suggests theyre looking SOMEwhere, like this rando throwing a thumbs up to the ‘viewer’ but his eyes are closed

AND THREE i just think funko pop does... ‘compromise’ better. so compromise is like, when something just WILL NOT FIT in your style. even if the reason for having that style is STUPID. funko pop has a better track record with bringing that style into synthesis with their own. yeah yeah you can strawman that fucking dory pop all you want but listen. there are GOOD EXAMPLES of this. 

look at this peashooter! hes adorable!! and the funko nose and lack of mouth get broken here. but LOOK HES SO CUTE

this pvz zombie breaks EVERY rule of the design. a non-standard nose, a body not smaller than the head, eyes that arent all black, MOUTH. but like. look at him! you know its a funko pop anyways bc its a small cute version of the zombie!!

now lets see how YOUTOOZ compromises. 

oh- oh wow. so uh, you saw a character whose big eyes are CRUCIAL to their design and instead of going ‘i know ill make the closed eyes bigger’ you go HMM LETS MAKE THE CLOSED EYES THE PUPILS’. wow. thats- okay.

tldr youtooz sucks and if it should exist it shouldnt force every figure to be the same stupid style. also who wants to pay for memes.

[quillsareswords]

ik it's not from your prompt list, but would you consider doing one with Damian and brushing the hair out of his (or reader's) eyes? thank you, ily ❤

Thank you for requesting! I love this little snipit 😁

Prompt List • Masterlist (in bio)

It's later than he'd originally estimated he'd arrive home. He distantly wonders if you'll be cross, while he all but staggers down the hall he shares with Timothy. You're usually very understanding of his vigilanty excuses, but you'd seemed particularly testy when you'd arrived earlier this evening.

His doorhandle is cold. You turned the boxfan on. You never gave it on while you're awake, because you complain it's annoying. You've either gone to bed without him, or you're lying in bed with headphones in. Either way, you're probably almost asleep, which means so is he.

He opens the door slowly and quietly. Wouldn't you know it? The lights are all off. He doesn't see the glow of your phone screen anywhere on his bed, so you must be asleep.

He closes the door behind him to avoid risking waking you with the light from the hallway. He relies on knowing the placement of everything in his room to manuver his way to the closet.

Sniff.

He pauses, hands still curled around the Velcro keeping his cloak attached to his tunic. No assassin or spy would be dumb enough to sniffle when coming for the son of the world's greatest detective.

Still, knowing you're in the room (information provided by Alfred), he takes every precaution.

"It's me," your frail voice mumbles. You must have either seen him stiffen in the moonlight or sensed his shift in demeanor.

He turns toward his reading chair, nestled in the corner between a wide bookshelf a tall window.

Your silhouette is curled up there, between the thick, plush arms and the tall back, one of his softest blankets in the house wrapped around your shoulders. You sniffle again.

Your voice is too thin, too tired—even for this hour.

"Why are you sitting in the dark?" he asks, moving closer to you and the lamp beside you. He's careful to keep his voice low. "I'm turning the light on."

You hum, just as the yellow light floods the room, washing over your face and invading your vision with a sharp ferocity. You squint.

He takes your face in his hands, squatting in front of the chair. Your eyes are red-rimmed and a little puffy. Your hair is messy and unbrushed, a little coarse and sticky from a long-passed shower.

"Beloved?"

He isn't the best with emotions. Never really has been. You understand this, and you're very proud of the progress he's made over the time you've known him, but because you know this, he doesn't feel as pressured to step out of his comfort zone. You know what he means—even if he doesn't know what or how to ask. Especially now, when he's tired and sore.

"I'm okay," you assure, fingers hooking around his wrists. You try a little smile, but your lip starts trembling so you give up before you make him more concerned. "I tried to go to sleep early, but I had a– uh, a nightmare."

He exhales deeply. Hands slide from your cheeks to your shoulders. He looks your face over carefully for a long moment, examining every pore until he's satisfied that you're telling the truth.

He combs a hand through your hair, pushing stringy stray strands away from your face. "Get into bed. Turn on something lighthearted." He stands and tugs the blanket around your shoulders a little more firmly. "I'm going to change."

You nod, slinking out of the chair as soon as Damian has moved.

The bathroom door closes as your curl up on your side of the bed, flicking through Damian's recently watched.

The theme music of Avatar: The Last Air Bender plays quietly through the room as Damian reenters, holding an icepack to his shoulder.

He climbs in next to you, wiggling an arm beneath you to wrap around your shoulders. "If you'd like to talk about it, I'll listen."

You curl closer, burying your nose in the softness of his blanket. "I know."

A thank you isn't necessary. It's common knowledge between the two of you; his offer is simply a reminder.

You fall asleep again before the episode is over, and this time, you sleep peacefully until the morning.

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Michael in the Mainstream: Black Widow

As many of you may know, I am a huge fan of the MCU. I grew up reading comics and seeing all these superheroes, and it’s interesting to see how they are interpreted on the big screen. Sometimes I love it (Iron Man, Thor: Ragnarok, Infinity War), sometimes I don’t (Thor: The Dark World, Iron Man 2), and sometimes it’s my favorite movie ever made (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2). The point is, while I’m predisposed to liking these movies, I don’t always, and especially in a post-Endgame world these films really need to try and do something new if they want to grab my attention. There’s only so many times you can watch a guy fight another guy with his same exact powers in an origin story before you say, “Give me something different or get lost,” right? Comic book movies need to be more colorful, more creative, and more weird if they’re going to survive… And I really can’t say Black Widow is any of those things.

Black Widow is yet another film that feels like a holdover from ten years ago, which is at least partly the case. The stories of the racist, sexist Ike Perlmutter are common knowledge now, so it’s not really a huge shock that it took so long to get Widow a starring role in a solo film. With that being said, could they have not tried to make it feel less like a Phase 1 or early Phase 2 Marvel movie? It ends up falling into a lot of the same traps Captain Marvel fell into as a result, at least in regards to feeling way too standard for this late in the game. But, much like that film, there’s still a lot of things to like here.

Just a quick note here before continuing: I’m probably going to be using Captain Marvel as a point of comparison a lot. To be perfectly clear, the reason for this is because both movies feel like leftovers from earlier phases of the MCU being shoved into later phases, and there are actually real-life misogynistic reasons why this ended up happening. I’m not trying to “pit two bad bitches against each other,” I’m not trying to trash talk Captain Marvel (it’s a decent enough movie, I don’t hate it), but both films have a lot of similarities in where they excel and where they fall a bit flat.

Now, why don’t we start with what I liked? The absolute best part of this film is the supporting cast, which is actually very similar to Captain Marvel, complete with said supporting cast completely outshining the lead. Natasha, at least, is a lot more likable than Carol was in her debut and feels far more fleshed out after years of getting to know her, but that does make the supporting cast overshadowing her sting a bit more. This is, most likely, her final appearance after all, and she’s getting sidelined by a bunch of newcomers. Florence Pugh’s Yelena in particular gets a lot of focus and development, and she grows into a really great character by the film’s end, but the absolute best character of all is David Harbour’s Red Guardian. Imagine the world’s most embarrassing dad, except he’s an aggressively Russian super soldier who is so very proud of his adopted children being assassins. He gets a few laughs here and there and even some really sweet moments too; it’s almost enough to wash the taste of Hellboy out of your mouth.

Surprisingly, the action is pretty solid. It’s not the most amazing stuff in the world, but the movie is actually pretty smart about it. Natasha is never put into any situation where she’s at a serious risk of dying, because the movie is aware that you know she’s making it out. The new characters, on the other hand, are constantly put in peril, and it manages to make the action still thrilling and engaging. It’s a clever little screenwriting trick, and even if the action isn’t the best you’ll see, it’s at least watchable and choreographed well enough. The comedy is actually decent here, if only because the four characters cracking jokes the most are established as a (very dysfunctional) family of choice. It felt a lot more natural than most times this sort of quipping happens in MCU films, though one joke where Natasha and Yelena graphically describe their forced sterilization to Red Guardian after he makes the “Is it your time of the month?” comment swings way too far in the opposite direction of Joss Whedon’s disgusting “Being sterilized makes me a monster” bit from Age of Ultron.

By far the best bit, though, is the dinner scene. Kevin Feige had to fight ScarJo and the director to keep this one in, and honestly, it’s a good thing he did. One thing the MCU excels at is when characters stop and have these moments where they bond. Aside from the aforementioned sexist bit, the cabin scene in Age of Ultron is the best moment in the movie. Captain Marvel also has a great scene where Carol, Fury, Talos, and Rambeau all hang out at her house for a night and interact. Moments like these are, I think, what really makes or breaks an MCU movie, and at least here we have some very strong emotional moments, from Yelena starting to crack at Natasha constantly deriding their former family as fake, her cries of “It was real to me” really hitting hard. And then the moment where Red Guardian goes to her, tries to bond with her with a gross story, and then sings to her? It really feels kind of like genuine and familial. It’s such a good sequence, and one far better than any action sequence in the film.

But hey, I did say this was like an early Phase film, and you know what early Phase films in the MCU were known for? Awful villains! And guess what we have here? Awful villains! Here we have the cinematic debut of Taskmaster, the mercenary who can copy any move he sees who is beloved by comics fans! Except here, Taskmaster is reimagined as a mute assassin whose powers come from a computer system in their helmet. They have no personality, no lines, and are a bland retread of the Winter Soldier rather than the more dynamic character Taskmaster is known to be.

What’s worse is their connection to the other villain. The other villain is the man behind the Red Room, who takes little girls and molds them into Widows. A man like this should be utterly evil, reprehensible, and disturbing, and yet the movie decides to turn him into a Saturday morning cartoon villain who is just blatantly and over-the-top misogynist, monologues excessively for his entire time onscreen, and who secretes a pheromone that makes Widows unable to hurt him. Yes, the bad guy has the power to smell bad, which makes this guy an evil smelly misogynist. Captain Marvel had this problem with their main antagonist too, where he was just a straw misogynist with so little going for him otherwise. At least here it’s so embarrassingly stupid you can laugh at it.

What it’s hard to laugh at is the fact that Taskmaster is his daughter. This isn’t bad on its own, but what is bad is how they shoehorn a personal connection to Natasha in. This is, in general, an issue with comic book movie villains; there always has to be a personal connection to the villain, because it raises the stakes and makes the fighting more intense. But if you’re going to do that, you need to implement it well, and this movie does not. Natasha recounts the famous Budapest mission, where she sued Smelly Man’s daughter as bait and blew them both up with a bomb to end the Red Room forever. The big twist in this movie makes Natasha seem incompetent, makes this bomb the least lethal bomb in the world, and robs her of a lot of the moral grayness that would come from a hero who sacrificed one child to save millions more. It kind of cheapens Natasha, if only a little bit, and it certainly doesn’t make Taskmaster any better or more interesting.

The big issue, though, is this: Black Widow’s dead and probably not coming back, so this whole movie is just robbed of a lot of impact just from knowing that. Like what is the point here? We know how her story ends. Everything we see here doesn’t move her forward because we know where she stops. And even with all that said, we’ve seen spy thrillers before. The Winter Soldier already exists, Falcon and the Winter Soldier already exists, so what is this movie doing beyond bringing us a spy thriller with a girl as the lead? It has its good points, but it isn’t doing anything new or interesting, and like I said, if the MCU is going to keep doing it needs to do new and interesting things.

In the end, this movie isn’t really great, nor is it offensively bad. It’s just okay. It’s about agood a spy thriller as a middling James Bond film like Spectre or For Your Eyes Only or From Russia with Love, so if those are your cup of tea you might like this. It’s a perfectly alright Marvel movie that doesn’t really effect anything at all and that just doesn’t feel like it matters. How much you like it is really going to depend on how much you enjoy fun character interactions and family of choice stories, because that stuff shines the strongest, and even then you could be watching Guardians of the Galaxy instead since that film does it so much better than this one.

 I compared this a lot to fellow female-led superhero film Captain Marvel because both movies feel like Phase 1 films shoehorned into later Phases, but another film it could easily be compared to is The Incredible Hulk. Much like that film, this is a perfectly decent, perfectly okay superhero movie with some good bits… but in the end, it doesn’t really matter, it doesn’t really change anything that happens, and it just doesn’t really do enough to justify being there. Black Widow is ultimately just a film that exists, and despite its aspirations never really reaches higher or lower than that.

[listless-brainrot]

for the side character asks--yue, song, bee :)

oh HELL YEAH I LOVE THEM time to collect my Musings

yue:

-ok less a headcanon more a want. i wish she was a waterbender truly i do i think it would’ve made sense considering she was saved by the moon and it would’ve been interesting if her bending was affected in some form because of that. also it would’ve been cool to see northern water tribe style bending from someone who wasn’t pakku

-her mom helps her do her hair and all of the intricate braids and i feel like she’s very particular about the way she does it and as such it takes A While for her to get ready

-i feel like she was naturally drawn to the moon ever since she was saved by it and assuming she was allowed near the ocean spirits was the one to tend to them and often talked to them

-i’d like to think that she and katara became really good friends!! i know the most interaction yue gets with sokka but i feel like they’d get along super well Too

-this is just kind of funny but since hahn sucks i feel like whenever she was asked about him and how she feels about the proposal by someone in the nwt she’d be like. he’s certainly a warrior! certainly a person! effectively dodging the question

-as a spirit i’d like to think she’s watching over team avatar a lot and whenever they feel like they’re alone during the night she’s always there to comfort them whether they realize it or not in her own way

song:

-i feel ike she’d be very knowledgeable about earth kingdom tonics and medicines and has a lot of useful knowledge pertaining to healing practices and first aid

-even outside of the hospital i feel like she helped a lot of people whenever and wherever she could, maybe she travelled towns to help the sick before settling at the hospital 

-speaking of the hospital given that it’s stated to be a farming hospital maybe the hospital is owned by her family?? probably a bit of a stretch or at the very least they helped to set it up assuming it was something that popped up over the course of the war

-considering the scar on her leg and how much of her calf it covers i kind of wish song had a cane or something now that i think about it it would’ve added to the severity of the fn’s impact

-yes this is because her name is song yes it’s cliche BUT i think song actually loves to sing and hum to herself as she works and she has a very pretty singing voice

-after zuko steals her horse she sets off after him on her own to get it back. while zuko is searching for the avatar song is hot on his heels. give her back her horse, zuko.

smellerbee:

-she’s best friends with the duke even after she was kind of annoyed she was saddled with the duty of basically babysitting him, she taught the duke how to use a knife :) and by knife i mean a really pointy stick. he’s still eight you know

-i feel like she’s really good at breaking out of traps/handcuffs/rope and is extremely good at thievery but she also uses that knowledge of knots to help do repairs around the base especially with the rope bridges

-the red streaks on her face are War Paint that she stole once from a camp and has been using ever since because she thinks it makes her look cool and she is absolutely right 

-much like how longshot is scarily accurate with a bow and arrow i feel like smellerbee is scarily accurate with throwing and twirling knives. no one taught her this even if jet taught her the very basics of knife handling

-she and longshot know each other super well to the point where it kind of unnerves the other freedom fighters just how in sync they are but that’s simply the power of being best friends actually

-she’s one of the only freedom fighters who wears full on gloves. this is because she is smart and knows you shouldn’t leave fingerprints all over the things you are stealing. who cares if they don’t have the technology to identify prints. you still shouldn’t leave evidence. she has said this many times and no one listens to her when it comes to Glove Etiquette and General Common Sense

[peachy-inserts]

kageyama falling for someone/relationship hcs

request: hello!! so apparently ur taking haikyuu requests now so if it's not too troublesome, how abt some kageyama bf headcanons? thank you!! 😊

warnings: cursing

a/n: first haikyuu post, tysm! i hope this is ic for him, since its our first shot at this! i actually fell in love w him a little writing these, i didnt like him all that much before but now im realizing just how much of a sweetie he can really be aww (ik this just said bf hcs, but im adding it to our series!) long post, more under the cut

Kageyama is stubborn, he’s slow to come around to his own senses whenever he’s crushing one someone. It takes a good while for him to finally recognize what his own feelings are, and when he does it makes him sick. He’d be in denial for a while before he finally just couldn’t take it anymore and decided to bluntly ask you out

In the meantime, he becomes sort of stand offish with you. He wants to do nice things for you, but he just feels so silly doing it, he gets clammy, his palms are sweaty, and he can’t stop tripping over his own words

You make the blood rush to his face and the tips of his ears burn a bright red that is singed forever in his memory, who gave you the right to do that? He’s Tobio Kageyama, someone who doesn’t rely on others, who’s always sure of himself, and can’t be influenced by someone else’s opinions

He’s so blunt and nervous that it’s probably common knowledge by now to the rest of the Karasuno team that he has a massive crush on you, and the more he tries to deny it, the more he’s teased (by Sugawara especially, who eventually gets so sick of his love sick dazes that he bullies him into asking you out before he’s even considered it a possibility)

You may not even realize it yourself, though, with the way that he acts around you. It’s almost as if he’s pulling your hair, teasing you and then running off, but it’s not on purpose. He’s.. doing his best, but it certainly doesn’t come off that way. He only hopes that you aren’t offended by him, as most people seem to be

One of the major things holding him back is his fear of abandonment, his reputation being of no help in that. Even if you do show interest in him, he convinces himself that it’s only casual small talk, only a fabricated smile you use to make him so flustered that he excuses himself to finally leave you alone. Why would anybody ever want him? He’s cold, blunt, and clueless. He doesn’t really bring much to the table in a relationship, right?

So when he does finally ask you out, standing outside of the school just after class has let out for the day and tugging at the hems of his practice clothes all while trying not to bite his own tongue while he stutters, it comes as a bit of a shock to you

Is this some sort of prank?

You’re relieved, albeit confused, to know that he doesn’t actually hate you and in fact returns your feelings, and happily accept his confession to which he excitedly whoops and then runs off towards the gym, glad that it’s finally over with, before realizing just how rude of him that was

You haven’t moved an inch, completely bewildered by the event that seemed to have played out in front of you, when he comes back panting and asks you out on a date. Smooth, Kags…

Your date is, well, interesting. He’s super excited, nervous, and fucking terrified. He wants to vomit but he also kind of wants to hold your hand? Ugh, this sucks. And people just do this for fun? He fell for one person and feels as if his entire life has been turned upside down. This is your fault!

Once you officially start going out, he gets a little full of himself and despite how awkward he still is around you, he wastes literally no time whatsoever in rubbing it in Hinata’s face. He can’t do anything with Kageyama bringing up the fact that he has a s/o now and the red head still doesn’t

Smack him.

Past the beginning stages, once you’re established a stable and comfortable relationship with him, things are a lot different

While he’s himself around you, witty, sarcastic, and a little bit careless, he also feels the need to constantly impress you. He can’t start slacking; what if you get bored of him and leave him? He should always be striving to be the very best boyfriend he can be, even if he stumbles a few times on his never ending climb upward

He’s not super open to you about his feelings, but tries to make up for it in doing smaller things that he knows would mean a lot to him were they to come from you. He’ll get an extra snack at the vending machine, try and carry your bag whether you’re at school our out together, and listen to every song you send him (when you recommend music to him, he always teases you that it’s awful or makes his ears bleed, but he adds it to a playlist of songs that remind him of you and plays it whenever you’re around as a subtle way of letting you know it’s special to him, that he really does care. He’s not actually blowing you off)

Kageyama sees a Pusheen keychain set after practice one day, and even though it’s not something he’d ever buy for himself, he purchases the set and gives you the other half so you match. It’s so cute, and he turns beet red when somebody sees it attached to his bag one day and asks him about it. He tells them that you’re the one that bought it and he just didn’t wanna tell you no

Wow, he must be so caring, and they roll their eyes 

He’s not big into PDA, but he doesn’t mind holding your hand when you walk together or giving you a quick peck on the forehead as a goodbye at the end of the day when you’re forced to part ways. He’s not that shy to show people whose you are >:)

As for jealousy… yikes. He could stand to be put into his place every once in a while, as he tends to snap at people and go completely over the top for small and petty reasons, often getting caught up in his own insecure and blinding rage that he forgets what even set him off in the first place

Whenever you come to his games, he’s completely thrown off. He’s not used to people showing up and cheering for him, and he gets so nervous that he’ll mess up in front of you that he wastes time trying to focus on impressing you and throws himself to off

He loves and you wanna support him, but… maybe it’s best if you just make up an excuse and send him off with a good luck charm

By the way, if you do happen to make him a good luck charm then he is going to carry it in his pockets for an eternity, not only at games but just in his day to day life, except for on days he gets to spend with you. He doesn’t need luck when you’re there, because he’s already struck gold

[katara0524]

Impromptu Ramblings about the NEO:TWEWY Demo

In case y'all weren't aware, I've been a pretty big fan of TWEWY for a couple years now, and with the sequel coming out next month, the excitement I feel for this game is greater than ever :) I played the Demo for the first time yesterday, and following a couple views of some livestreams of others playing it, I felt like sharing my (very ramble-y) thoughts prior to the release of the full game. This post WILL contain spoilers for both TWEWY and NEO:TWEWY, so if you want to avoid those from now on, please block the tags: #twewy spoilers, #ntwewy spoilers, #neo twewy spoilers, #ntwewy, and #neo twewy ^_^ Oh, and if you wanna keep up with any other posts I make about my experience with this game, please refer to the tag "kat plays neo twewy" :)

-First things first: I have not watched the Final Trailer and I don't plan on doing so to avoid spoilers, especially after the pre-release era of KH3 where a lot of the later trailers spoiled a lot of the endgame content. That being said, I've seen some minor screenshots from the final trailer including what many believe to be characters from the original TWEWY, namely Shiki and Joshua. That is all I know about the Final Trailer and I would very much like to remain as blind as possible going into NEO :)

-The very first cutscene was quite ominous in the sense that this game is likely going to be about "changing fate" (a recently common theme in Squeenix games, which I do appreciate), perhaps leading off from the end of A New Day in the OG and trying to stop an Inversion of Shibuya. Also worth noting that A New Day had similar aspects in which the main character experienced "future visions" of tragic events, although in A New Day these events were not able to be changed, while in NEO it seems like one of the main "powers" our protagonist has is specifically to rewrite these events and avoid a "bad ending." Very interesting indeed!

-I really like the revamped comic book style dialogue scenes, it's much more fluid and modern, which is an excellent direction for the series to take!

-I would love to have an actual PokemonGO knockoff of Final Fantasy creatures, please Squeenix that would be incredibleeeeee

-Also the LINE stickers??? Are so cute???

-I would just like to point out that Fret is an absolute treasure throughout this entire demo, he's hilarious and I will protect him with my life

-UHHHH don't like that Fret picked up some Reaper Pins just out of nowhere.....or the fact that they're apparently popular all over Shibuya.............did y'all not learn anything from the OG game or what lmao

-Okay so when I first got the "curry or ramen" scene and heard NPCs talking about the new curry place replacing the old ramen place I became IMMENSELY distressed that Ramen Don was totally cut from the game because....well, Ramen Don is a King okay?? But I'm glad to learn that no, he didn't fall off the face of the earth, he's still in business and he's the one opening the curry restaurant lolol. PHEW, crisis averted!

-.....I don't like the sudden appearance of a Wall Reaper and being able to read NPC thoughts. Wtf happened when they left the ramen place??? Are they playing the Game alive somehow?

-Okay so I have my own theories about this "Swallow" character and what they're up to but considering this is only the Demo and I still Have No Idea What's Happening, I'm just gonna say that I think Swallow intentionally led Rindo and Fret to the Crossing so they could join the Game. I mean, add in the fact that Swallow still communicates with Rindo during the Game and you've got yourself a suspicious character right there lol

-"Hey they're shooting off fireworks!" Fret honey that's not fireworks oof (see also: "*laughs* I'm in danger")

-WOOOOOO way to traumatize Rindo right off the bat like that LMAOO

-The visuals for the intro are VERY GOOD, the song is pretty decent until it gets all "screamo" (which I absolutely cannot stand sorry lol)

-Shoka is every Customer Service employee ever and I respect that

-Susukichi went from being "meh" to "WOW THIS GUY IS FUN" in the span of 10 seconds and I also respect that (he is also built like an Absolute Unit which is hilarious)

-The Wall Reapers (and just Reapers in general) seem.....way nicer and more helpful this time around?? Like in the OG the Wall Reapers were SO RUDE gfhjgjdfkhn and yeah I'm sure we'll get some like that but the juxtaposition of the first Wall Reaper in the OG compared to the first one in NEO is insane.

-The puzzles are quite a bit more entertaining this time around even if it's generally the same "fetch quest" formula lol

-"Rindo's Group" way to go Fret HFKJDGHSDFKJ mans really left the default name in there lmao

-OKAYOKAYOKAY so to those who aren't aware I am a MASSIVE SIMP for Sho Minamimoto, he's my absolute favorite and I think about him daily. HIS INTRODUCTION IS. INCREDIBLE. I LOVE IT SM.

-GOD hearing him actually SPEAK FULL SENTENCES is just SO SURREAL I love this sm

-Also the remix of his theme???? NEO TRANSFORMATION????? IT'S SO GOOD????????? It's like gone from a Boss Theme to a more triumphant sounding theme and I am HERE for it (every version of Transformation is just INCREDIBLE and getting a new one is even better)

-I Love Him, Your Honor

-Also idk how exactly but it's kinda weird seeing Sho in the OG vs NEO, cuz while he's mostly the same Insane Math-Obsessed Catboy, he's.....calmed down quite a bit?? Like OG made a whole point of how poorly he cooperates with others (not to mention just being completely unhinged and trying to kill everyone), whereas here in NEO he's......actually kinda working with others??? HELLO???? Sir what happened to you and Neku during those 3 years I would love to know all about it

-I guarantee you Sho is still probably scheming shite and will likely pull some total insane BS later down the road, and I am very much looking forward to that. Also, is he looking for a certain Pin or something??? Cuz he keeps talking about different Pins and even mentions "this is just another Psych Pin" like he's actively looking for a Pin to do something with. Maybe it also has to do with the "latent powers of Players" thing he mentioned as well??? What is this dude UP TO oml (also is he in contact with Neku at all?? they're both technically fugitives at this point right?? WHAT HAPPENED AFTER A NEW DAY I AM BEGGING YOU)

-I seems like Sho ALSO has an idea of what's going on in this specific game (even if he won't admit it straightforward). Per his quote "The game's 142,857. Factor it out," he's essentially saying, "This game is a neverending cyle, figure out how to get out of it" (or at least that's what I got from his "cyclic number" nonsense lolol)

-I do like how Sho mostly stays out of sight until he's needed for a battle or assisting with a mission, that's kind of on par with his whole "uncooperative" quirk from the OG, plus he might literally have to stay out of sight of other Reapers and Players considering he's likely breaking the rules of the Game (not surprising considering him and Neku broke practically every rule in the book during OG)

-The nicknames for Sho- I can't- They're so FUNNYYYY GFHJSDFKJ

-He goes from being called "Pi-Face" and "Tabooty" in OG to "Mr. Minami" and "M-Teezy" in NEO LMAOO

-(Wowee I just realized I've been mostly talking about Sho oopsies sorry y'all, this is what I meant by thinking about him almost daily he is THAT much of a fav of mine ghfkjsd)

-Okay RIP Fret and Rindo for not getting literally ANY explanation as to how the Game works OOF, that is kinda cringe that whoever gets the Pin earns points, not whoever erases the Noise (which like I understand but also URRRGGHHH I WANNA SEE THE SQUAD SUCCEED)

-"I should be going home now it's getting late" Oh you sweet summer child-

-Also love the mention of parents in this game???? KH you could learn a thing or two from TWEWY (poor Rindo's mom fhgjkdh)

-KUBO IS HILARIOUS I SUPPORT HIM AND HIS GROSS FACE (also thank you Final Trailer thumbnail for spoiling my suspicions about him very cool smh)

-Kaie is a LAD I also support him, go King type those funky texts I believe in you

-FRET PLS STOP SCANNING FHGJKSDHKJFGHFKJ he's like me when I scan in OG during Weeks 2 and 3 and see Taboo Noise coming after me ghfjdshfj

-Also Rindo can you stay off your phone for TWO SECONDS ik you're trying to figure things out but Fret is a jelly boi and I don't want him to be upset with you my guy

-Sho being an actual sorta mentor to the kiddos?? Who are you sir this is so unlike you ghfgskj what happened to the guy who tried shooting children in the face 8 times over LMAO (granted he's probably just using them but it's still nice to see him actually cooperating and sharing knowledge with the kiddos aaaaa)

-EYO EIJI OJI THE TIKTOK INFLUENCER IS BACK LMAO

-hgjkfshgkjf "we aren't glorifying capitalism on my watch" THATS SO FUNNY TO ME GFHJFSDGHJKS (also an all-orange ensemble is disgusting you deserve jail for one thousand years fkn Cheddar Goldfish Cheezit ass woman)

-WICKED TWISTERS NAME DROP EYOOO we love to see it

-gfhsgjf Poor Rindo embarassing himself for the sake of the Game that's incredible

-R e t u r n t o M O N K E. That is all.

-Dialogue during boss battles is HELLA cool i love that

-HHHHH THE KANON SCENE MADE ME A N G E R Y FRET STOP SIMPING MY GUY says the girl with a Literal Simp Encyclopedia and simps for pixels on a screen daily

-Can't wait to see the other Reapers :eyes emoji:

-CAN'T WAIT TO SEE NAGI MY BELOVED YEAHHHH WOOOOOO AAAAND that's about it for the demo lolol, I absolutely CANNOT wait for next month, this game is gonna be INCREDIBLE holy hell Prepare for more simping, more screaming, and more vibing from Yours Truly :) I fully intend on sharing more general thoughts like this on both Tumblr and Twitter so it's not just reblog-retweet-reblog-retweet with the occasional comment fhgskjd

If you wanna witness my insanity up close and personal I have a Square Enix Discord server called Sea Side Dreamers! You can look it up on Disboard, or you can add me on Discord @Katara0524#9244 for a direct link :) We have topics about Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, NieR, and ofc TWEWY (as well as other topics!), so if you want some good ol' chaos and chitchat, you're more than welcome to join!