#it looks like a fucking joke. what a waste of a concept. and of my TIME!!!!!

[starbuck]

lord give me the strength to not be a massive cunt at work today

[wonton4rang]

how do u think bnd boys wld act around you when they’re high?

bnd legal line being high or involved in drugs is one of my favorite concepts, oh myyy. plus, most of these came out as smut kinda thingy so yeah 😔

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why'd you only call me when you're high?

pairing: bnd legal line x reader.

warnings: +18, smut, mentions of drugs usage, dirty talk, pet names.

summary: how would bnd legal line act around you when they are high.

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sungho; let's go to a parallel world where he might do drugs cause i honestly don't see him into it but yeah. i feel like he would turn into this excessively touchy/ funny guy that would just not know the concept of personal space. he would sit besides you, his hand on your thigh while it went dangerously close to your heat only for him to laugh at your blushed cheeks and kiss your lips to whisper against them "you would look so pretty sucking my dick right now". and it was great, yeah, if the other members were not sitting across the room in the other couch.

riwoo; he goes into subspace and i'm a 100% sure, he would be so lovey dovey and happy, making those awful jokes with a numb tongue before he goes completely quiet. tbh you didn't noticed at first but when you looked for him with your eyes and saw him facing the floor while he played with his fingers, you knew he was wasted. so you just made your way to him, holding his hands and softly kissing his lips, whispering a loving "wanna get out of here, baby?" that only made him excited because he knew what you meant, whenever you looked at him like that he ended up w his dick wrapped by your pussy and his legs shaking and hurting due to the intense sex you gave him. and he quickly forgot anything and everything that was making his head go to places.

jaehyun; myungjae is such an ecstasy boy, damn. he's horny asf 24/7 and when he gets high?? he could even come across as too dirty or pushy because he is making you rethink everything you say when he makes a sexual joke about it, his hands getting freaky on your body, grazing your boobs under that shirt, your thighs and even lifting your skirt a bit so he could go further. but it was all in public so you would tell him to shut it off, only for him to take you to his car and fuck the shit out of you on the backseat.

taesan; dongmin gives me one of the strongest "if i did drugs, i'd smoke weed" vibes ever, like damn. so be aware that when he got high he would be almost the opposite, his jokes wouldn't be as innocent as always, his eyes won't look at you the soft and loving way they always did, and his voice would turn two tones down while he barely responded to whatever you were saying because he was so lost in the way your lips moved he did not gave a single fuck about what you were saying. so he would start a kiss, a rough one, suddenly towering over your body and giving zero to none space for you to even backup or take the lead if you wanted to. he would be demanding, rougher than usual and very quiet, he would probably adventure and try new stuff only to be really ashamed when he came down from his high. but it was that or him simply listening to the music blasting out his speakers while he starred at the ceiling with your head laying on his shoulder or his lap and he played with your hair.

leehan; i feel like leehan could be two sides of a coin, no in between, he could either be super scary or super cute. i feel like he wouldn't like to do drugs as a daily basis so he would do it at a party, his head spinning so much his eyes could only register light schemes, he would love the vibe too, specially because you always were there with him to take care of his pathetic self. yeah, that until you both got back at home, he is typically one to be very active sexually so if he is on his "scary" side of the high, he would push you against the wall, whispering a mean "you're such a fucking slut. teasing me all night when you knew i couldn't fuck you there", his voice low and his alcohol infused breath hitting your face and it honestly made you nervous because you knew he wasn't thinking right. but oh well, he still fucked you and you were the one asking for more afterwards.

[thealias0]

I might have came up with alternate resolutions for both The Giggle and Empire of Death in the shower

I think that those resolutions are both really underwhelming and deserved more. So, let's start what i came up with The Giggle.

Originally, The Toymaker was defeated by him just messing up. No clever play from anyone. 14 and 15 haven't displayed one of their biggest traits, which is their Time Lord super intelligence. They only displayed their ability to play catch, which is just such a waste imo. My proposal: Game of catch goes just like it did in the episode, but eventually 14 and 15 look at each other in understanding. They have cooked a plan. 14 catches the ball and throws it to 15, but he misses and ball falls off the edge of the rooftop. Both act shocked and 15 immediately sprints into the building. Toymaker looks at what just transpired and laughs and screams. "Go ahead, run if you wanna play hide and seek next. You will not escape me anyways." Turns to 14. "Are you proud? Your next incarnation revealed himself to be a coward! I expect many things from you, Doctor, but that sure surprised me. Now, you lost the game, so now's time for me to collect my reward." 14 smirks. "I wouldn't be so sure, as I believe... it is still falling" The moment he said that, the ball hurling from the entrance to the building hits The Toymaker and falls to the ground. In the way stands none other than 15 visibly exhausted from running and expression of relief on his face. Toymaker visibly angry, scared and confused asks: "Wh- What?! How did you... No... don't tell me-" "That's right, Toymaker" 15 expeled. "There are no rules forbidding the usage of time machines" 14 finished the thought. Then the flashback plays out showing the whole thing from 15's perspective. He runs as fast as he can straight to the TARDIS passing himself on the way, travels to the time and place where the ball is supposed to land, catches it, travels back and runs back to the rooftop passing himself on the way back. The rest transpires as it did in the original. I'm not claiming it's the best, great or even good alternate ending, but i think it would be more satisfying than what we got.

The resolution for Empire of Death is one of the most disappointing events I've ever seen in Doctor Who. It made Sutekth into a complete joke. Are you really telling me that the supposed most powerful being in existence. A god so powerful and terrifying that even The Toymaker ran in terror, wasn't able to handle a fucking rope? I don't care if it's a "smart rope" whatever that means. Toymaker was able to turn bullets into confetti, people into bunch of bouncy balls and implied he could turn galaxies into figet spinners or whatever. Sutekth is supposed to be more powerful than that and he couldn't do anything about it? Sutekth deserves much better than this. So this is what i came up with. It isn't nearly as detailed as the toymaker stuff, but i hope you'll enjoy the concept. So, i decided to actually use the spoon to save the universe in hopefully interesting way. I didn't think of any good scenario yet, but here's my idea for the concept itself. What if Doctor defeated Sutekh by using his power against him using the spoon. By that i mean that The Doctor could psychologically manipulate Sutekh into believing that the spoon through some classic Doctor Who technobabble, power of love and fairy tale salt spilling mumbo jumbo became an actual weapon capable of defeating him. Sutekh being a god and having power over reality itself could subconsciously make that story a reality and unknowingly empowering the spoon with his own power, which then Doctor could use to defeat him.

So that's what i came up. I am not a writer, so i apologize if that's an unbearable slop of a read. I'm not claiming that the dialogue i wrote is any good, as im just not experienced in writing. All i did here was not very thought through and only served the purpose of conveying my core ideas about the alternate resolutions for those stories. Hope you enjoyed and have a nice day

[sporesucker]

what i think the mercs got put on death row for

(please keep in mind that i couldn't find much info about death sentences in New Mexico in the 60s-70s but the info i did find is being used to make this as realistic as possible)

(also emesis blue lore states that they were put on death row, idk if this complies w/ canon or not but whatever its a cool concept)

Demoman: aircraft piracy resulting in death. him and soldier thought it would be good ol' fun to do this to celebrate a victory after a battle. only reason solider didn't get caught for this too was bc he jumped out of the gottamn plane and demo was too mf wasted to flee the scene as well. now its something they both look back on fondly. good times.

Engie: murder related to a drug trafficking offense. idk why but i hc him as being a recovering addict. he stopped once he saw what it made him do and how it was affecting his loves ones (i am projecting) the team celebrates the anniversary of him going sober every year.

Heavy: alr heavy is a fuckin badass so he definitely did some fucked up murder but it was to protect his family. could possibly be involved with solider's 1st charge too. aka solider involuntarily got him wrapped up in it because he wanted to show heavy some good old fashioned american fun. heavy did not approve

Medic: bffr we all know what this bitch was in for. bro got a lil too loosey goosey with his intentional medical malpractice resulting in multitudes of murder. he does not care. he will do it again.

Pyro: terrorism. they didn't mean to tho.

Scout: i firmly believe he has killed. he just fucking lost it at one point and beat someone to death in a public setting. he freaked out afterwards and it messed him up for awhile after it. nobody brings it up and scout pretends like it never happened. my source? i was there i was the one he beat to death.

Soldier: kidnapping the president/treason. he tried to represent himself in court which didn't go over spectacularly. his reasoning was that he thought if he beat the other potential kidnappers to it, the president would be safer than ever. he doesnt understand how this is betraying his country, he literally was protecting its most important member????? heavy was involved in this as well because solider told him that they were going on a little boys night outing. heavy was confused why this boys night consisted of only 2 men and took place at the whitehouse.

Sniper: tbh simple murder charge. i think this guy has a lot going on and he just genuinely enjoys killing. hes the quiet, reserved type and used to working on his own which is part of the reason why he doesn't care as much about winning as he does killing. nothing else gives him the same pleasure.

Spy: you saw this one coming. espionage. idc if its basic or lazy but all the other capital punishment-worthy crimes are too low-down and dirty for him to take a stab at them. he sticks to what hes good at. also there was that one guy who was executed who made the "french fries" joke but im making it again bc its my post. french fries lmao.

[asordinaryppl]

A3! Main Story: Part 4 - Act 14: DREAM CATCHER - Episode 18: Young Thief

Hatou: Well, that’s all you have to do, Rurikawa-kun. Are you okay with that?

Yuki: No problem whatsoever.

Hatou: Haha, you’re so reliable. I look forward to working with you.

Hatou: Everyone in the office was excited when we saw Kataoka-san’s work. You’re bound to be influenced by top-rated work when you see it up close, after all.

Hatou: I think there’s a lot to gain from being involved first-hand, rather than just watching, so do your best.

Yuki: Mmhm.

Yuki: (Work is going as usual, but we’ve got far more requests, and I’ve got more things I need to be conscious of.)

Yuki: (Every single detail has a reason behind it and fits the topic.)

Yuki: (I looked Aiko Kataoka-san up before, but I understood her work better when I saw it with my own eyes.)

Yuki: (It’s a timeless design, but it’s sprinkled with cutting edge attention to detail.)

Yuki: (She’s confident in her designs and has fun with her creations… She’s truly amazing.)

Yuki: (This is a rare opportunity. I have to take back with me everything I can.)

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Yuki: …

[Flashback starts]

Review: “The costumes are as solid as ever. But maybe because Yuki Rurikawa’s artistry has been established, they sorta lack some element of surprise or change?”

Review: “It might be more noticeable because I watched it after Yua Troupe. But I guess it’s inevitable when all costumes have the same designer~”

[Flashback ends]

Yuki: (Element of surprise, huh. But, I…)

Yuki: (I’m also confident in my designs.)

Yuki: (Looking at it objectively, the costumes from the debut performance fit the concept that every character is a protagonist, and they’d look good on the members even now.)

Yuki: (In that case…)

[Knocking on door]

Banri: Good work. Omi baked a chiffon cake.

Yuki: Thanks.

Banri: Looks like your part-time job’s keeping you busy.

Yuki: Pretty much. But I’m learning a lot of things by watching the job being done up close, so it’d be a waste if I didn’t give it my all.

Banri: Ahhh, I feel ya. The knowledge you gain by watchin’ a play and by actually performin’ are different, after all.

Yuki: There’s no way I wouldn’t get motivated after seeing designers in their element and understanding their design process.

Banri: So that means this “challenge” was a big success.

Yuki: Exactly.

Banri: But it must be nice having the room to yourself. Wish Hyodo would fuck off to the US or somethin’ for a week.

Banri: But you’re probably lonely without the guy you’re always fighting with around, wanna switch places?

Yuki: Don’t joke. I’m concentrating so well without him here.

Yuki: And won’t you get lonely if the guy you’re always fighting with isn’t around?

Banri: You gotta be kidding me.

Yuki: Exactly what I’m getting at.

Banri: Yeah, but he’s probably startin’ his activities over there soon. How ‘bout contacting him?

Yuki: …

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[evilmagician430]

boyfriends but awesome (and instead of a webtoon its an independent webcomic)

design notes and 3ds flipnote concept art below the cut

general notes abt their designs and what the comic would be like in my head:

>they dont have names in this version cause i think that was one of the good things they did originally. i imagine they refer to eachother as "that one" "the other guy" etc like the dhmis guys when talking about eachother.

>they are not in a defined romantic relationship with eachother because i think thats more interesting, the polyamory aspect would be kept (im not polyamorous btw so im not gonna try to write an established polycule) but its more vague in that they all kind of have a thing for eachother but also hate eachother and want to rip eachothers guts out. and theyre all roommates and bffs. if you asked them what they were the answer you would get would be "friends who are boys". they are the height of male friendship, hate, love, etc.

>instead of focusing on sexualizing them in strange ways and doing boring moe shit it would lean into the comedy aspect BUT NO MEMES OR LATE 2010S SLANG !! this was something i could not fucking stand when reading the original (if you couldnt tell by now i did used to read boyfriends. it was a regrettable time and in redesigning and overhauling them i hope to make something good out of this wasted period of my life) like even when it was current boyfriends always made memes feel.. out of place. like as soon as they said it it wasnt cool anymore. it was the unfunniest shit ever

>i wanted the characters to look less WHITE and also more distinct from eachother and also less young cause in the original its like the same twink 3 times in different haircolors and their Chad. said chad is the best character only by way of not being annoying. so yeah i'll be more specific later but none of them are white and i gave them all different eye and nose shapes and distinct physical traits and bodies etc.

>mostly i just did this cause the "nerd" and "goth" ones piss me off so bad like thats not real. thats not a nerd thats just a nondescript waify femboy with glasses. thats not a goth, thats a tiktok eboy. and i felt bad for jock being trapped in this comic. and the prep one i feel nothing towards hes the most accurate to gay preps irl because they really are that annoying. but i tried to make him a little interesting atleast. anyways

nerd - black, brony, always aggressively corrects the others when they state an incorrect fact, really into playstation eyetoy and obscure playstation games. insanely autistic. usually pissed off if hes not indulging himself in something he likes (yaoi, games, ponies, figures, etc). i just wanted to overhaul him completely to make him almost nothing like refrainbow's nerd because nerd type characters are always the ones i tend to see myself in and are my favorites but reading the webtoon that guy just pissed me off fr.

jock - 2nd gen chinese american, one of the things i liked in the original actually was when they sexualized the jock (probably cause hes the only one who doesnt look 14 in that comic) and his big tits. hes a very genuinely kind guy, not the brightest, has a voracious appetite, he also still bakes cause thats cute i think.

prep - he looks different here because i was originally going to make him white but i decided to make him a light/medium skintone black guy (he just wears a blonde wig and contacts). when companies make their pride month merchandise and advertisements this is the exact person they imagine in their head who is going to buy these products. hes a million percent one of those swifties who thinks taylor swift is secretly a lesbian. trust fund kid btw obviously. his only redeeming quality is that hes good at makeup. jokes in the comic are usually made at his expense.

goth - 1st gen latino american, specifically peruvian because i am a self serving motherfucker. hes a really big numetal fan and listens to like 2000s evil wolf amv music in addition to legitimate gothic. his face changed a little too between this and the final design. his outfit completely changed but its only because i realized everyone else was dressed for relatively warm weather so it wouldnt make sense for him to be wearing multiple layers of black. if i do cold weather outfits for them id def reuse this look for him. hes still trans but i think all of them are in my version. also they dont use labels for their sexual/rom orientation. except prep hes homosexual gay.

congratulations for reaching the end of this incomprehensible bullshit 👍 hope someone enjoys this but idrc if its just for me either

[moistrodent]

What characters are your favorite(s) in HH? Mine are Pentious and Zestial

Pentious because he’s the only one with a soul in this show and Zestial because despite being wasted potential, is a really cool and interesting concept for a sinner (also I’m a sucker for the Middle Ages + Shakespeare)

Mine are Angel Dust and Sir Pentious.

I mainly like Angel Dust in the pilot, I thought his redemption story could be really interesting and I like his relationship with Cherri Bomb. I also like how much of an asshole he was, him the actual series sucks but I liked him so much of the pilot and the idea of him he’s one of my favourites. Now he’s just fetish bait and huskerdust is awful :( they massacred my boy, including this voice acting.

I enjoy Pentious because snake, I really like snakes and steampunk so I obviously like him (I wish he looked more like one but I’m taking what I can get). I also think he has more interesting and funny jokes than “hehe sex hehe fuck shit bitch.” Though I still refer his pilot VA and personality

[desceros]

🦷 ⇢ Share some personal wisdom or a life hack you swear on? I'm always looking for wisdom to hoard

🌿 ⇢ Give some advice on writer's block and low creativity please? I'd love to know how you get around it

🦋 ⇢ What is something that's been on your heart and mind lately?

And soft 🧩 (As in I already asked three and you don't have to include this one!!) ⇢ What will make you click away from a fanficfion immediately?

I'm glad I finally got to participate in one of these! I tried to grab ones I didn't see you answer already!

hi hi hi!!! these are fun, aren't they? i don't do them very often but it's fun to open up a bit hehehe c: i did already answer the writer's block one already, so i'll skip that one

🦷 ⇢ Share some personal wisdom or a life hack you swear on?

i think one of my most powerful pieces of advice for people is to be weird. don't waste your time and mental energy managing someone else's reaction to your words, actions, or habits. things like. i want to write this fic but no one will read it because i suck/it's weird/it's too kinky/no one's into this show anymore. who cares? you want to write it, write it! i have things in somewhat strange places in my house because over the years, i've found the places where i Think about things, and if the thing i'm thinking about is There when i think about it, i'll do it! is it weird? fuck yeah! i get odd looks all the time when people come over. but who cares? it's my house, and it helps me live a better life. i tell the weird joke that only makes me laugh. i listen to the music that makes other people go eugh. i dyed my hair weird colors while working in a conservative industry. i'm so fuckin weird!!! but i'm also happy, and the people in my life are here because they like Me for Me, not some person that i pretend to be in order to fit in.

🦋 ⇢ What is something that's been on your heart and mind lately?

hmm. thinking about changing jobs. not sure what i want to do. making it to the end of the day without having done anything towards fixing anything about it, day after day after day. annoying. hey, everyone, quick, pay me to write turtle smut

🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?

i don't like things in first person, but that's true for novels as well, so i'm not sure i think it counts as a fanfic-specific thing. i have a moderate tolerance for some grammar issues, but if they're egregious i'll back out. same with characterization i dislike; i'll tolerate some, but at a certain point i'm like ehh i'm just not the right audience for this (see my argument on how ooc is a concept i don't agree with). if there's a fic with heavy angst, i scroll to the end and read it first. if it isn't satisfying to trudge through all of that emotional heartbreak to reach that ending, i give the fic a pass. for reader fics specifically, i'm not big into oc/ fics that call themselves reader fics but aren't. think... written in third person, and they're named, and they have a physical description, like... my dude, that's an oc. which is cool, go you. but i don't wanna read your oc/ fic. i clicked on a reader/ fic, i want to read something in second person.

[maythearo]

Yeah! The g3!! I know it has certainly been a uhhhh controversial topic lol

Imo draculaura looks sooo cute

Certainly lolll

You know how it goes I'm gonna ramble again so I'll put the read more thing for the sake of scrolling past it 😭

Well I'll start off by saying that, in this era of reboots and mass adaptations of every mildly old franchsie ever, is kinda impossible to avoid negative reactions from the people who were fans of the first generation of such franchises, because it happens, when someone takes something you grew up with and changes it to a modern audience most people's reaction will be "what in the world that's not how it was back in my days" + the phenomenon of older generations not liking the stuff that comes all for younger generations and etc. And I mention all of this bcs this definetely affects how people's opinions on things such as design (of MH in this case) go, there's lots of strong biases in this conversation of reboots and all

And tbh I wasn't immune to that 💀 at first I didn't like a lot of small decisions they made because I was used to the old one and "the og's always better" type of opinion, monster high was a big part of my childhood and probably a big boost to my interest in art! Which is what I live for baisically nowadays so ofc I felt strongly about it 😭 but when I came back after some time I realized, hey it's not that serious. I don't even remember specifically what those things I criticized were about, so that's an indicator of how much I actually cared, deep down lol. Like, pink Lagoona did not kill me, can you believe that? /s.

My opinion as of now, is that I think the g3 designs are really cute on their own!! I'm gonna stop myself from comparing it to the first gen because for the most part that's a waste of time and also a huge tangent from where I want to get 😭 recent reboots are a product of this era and they adapt accordingly. Sometimes they hit sometimes they miss, I think g3 mh is going well mostly!

(Talking about the concept designs and doll designs in this part) g3 takes from general modern fashion, clothing-wise the characters are not draaastically different from each other, they all just dress like how teenagers nowadays do but each got their own little motifs to their wardrobes. I don't think this "lack of difference" between each other's outfits is an enormous one nor is it inherently a bad thing because hey, if it looks good it looks good, and you can distinguish their clothings between one another just fine imo. In some cases I got some nickpicking in terms of "the pattern of this shirt is not working with these pants" or "whoa there's a lot going on with these colors" or "they really love to put bright pink lipstick on everyone huh" but it's rarely something I heavily dislike (only cases I can remember are that I wasn't a fan of was Heath 💀 feels like halfway through the process of his design mattel said "no you can stop now he's good like that" nothing is happening with that look, it's crazy, what happened to my boy. And Twyla, that wasn't as bad a s Heath's, but it just didn't work for me)

I can't say anything about the quality of the material of the dolls themselves bcs I don't have any of the new ones but oh my god, I also think Draculaura is adorable 😫 I think Venus dropped too recently and I'd buy her for sure!! The braided hair is everything and her fashion sense is probably one of my favorites so far? I also love Abbey's doll, and Frankie too especially that one line that they got a guitar? Instrument? Rockstar theme I think? (I'd cosplay that, no joke) from what I can see the designs are putting a lot more variety on drawing and sculpting different body types, features and details on the dolls and I think that's super fucking awesome! G1 also experimented with facial features and details on the body every once in a while but not as nicely done as now!

For the animated series I understand they had to tone it down to some extent because inserting all details the dolls and concept art had could lead to technical trouble (I think), so it isn't fair to compare them to one another. I'm just gonna ignore the animated series in terms of design for now, cause it's in the dolls and in illustration that a franchise like monster high work best anyway. I don't think much abt the cartoon tbh and I'm also not up to most episodes, idk who else dropped recently. But honorable mention, in the standards of the animated series my favorite designs are Deuce and Medusa for sure

That's long enough of a post so I'm gonna stop right hereeee, this was more of an overview of the g3 as a whole rather than ratings of each character, but yeah! I'm no longer a hater, I'm ok 👍 (if you're one of the people who heard me extensively complain over g3 before in another social, honestly I don't even know what it could have been about but you know what, disconsider it, it's easier that way 😭) I may have more opinions about it but that's all I could remember for now. Also my brain is fried.

And I can always change my mind on this, so there's that! Someone get me a Venus and Frankie doll rn please and thank you

[bittybeanie]

Hello! Would it be okay if I request headcanons where security guard dimple and reigen fight over coworker reader's attention? Thanks in advance in case you ever write it

hello hello! I always picture dimple and reigen as like.. an old married couple™ even if they aren't exactly dating and this concept plays right into the bickering aspect in my mind so I absolutely loved this idea- hope you enjoy!

dimple starts off at a slight disadvantage because while you’ve heard other people talk about him you haven’t actually gotten to see/hear him for yourself to get used to how... brash... he can be. so when this random (admittedly very attractive) dude wanders into the office and starts trash talking reigen and his lack of clients and nobody else seems bothered you’re just like… who the fuck are you? it's not until somebody finally addresses him by name that you realize reigen isn't sassing a random ass client

dimple is also kinda banking on the fact that you don't know who he is though because it means he can start with a Fresh Slate and make a Good Impression. not that he's doing that by shouldering reigen out of the way or standing between the two of you every chance he gets, but y'know. it's… endearing? in its own sort of way? you could get used to it, at the very least.

reigen is mentally distracting whereas dimple is physically distracting. dimple will lean on your shoulder or over you or have a hand across your back basically the whole time because he’s got a body and he’s gonna use it, damn it. but if he stays like that for too long, reigen will pull you away by asking you to help with something or grab something from the other room or basically anything that will move you away from dimple without you realizing specifically that’s what’s happening

despite their best efforts, because they’re both just trying to counter each other rather than focusing on you, they end up balancing each other out so that you give them equal amounts of attention. dimple probably realizes this the fastest and changes tactics to be on your desk or otherwise in your space rather than touching you directly. basically the "I'm not touching you" vibe but smugly directed at reigen.

their facial expressions change so fast when they think you can't see them, especially reigen. he's really slathering on the charm with you but the second you turn your head he's glaring dimple to within an inch of his life. dimple usually just sticks out his tongue.

I can't decide if it would be funnier if you knew and were kinda in on the joke goading them on or if you were totally oblivious and all their efforts were basically going to waste. or maybe a happy medium of like- you realize something is going on but you're not gonna question it because you're just enjoying the attention.

eventually reigen realizes he has to up his game by also getting physically closer to you, but that's when it all starts to fall apart. either you finally realize what's going on or it just becomes too much to handle but you get VERY flustered and kinda pull back in panic and run off into another room to pretend to work on something else

you can immediately hear them arguing over whose fault it was and somehow the fact that they're right back to normal calms your nerves over the whole thing. when you finally come back out, reigen apologizes immediately for "not conducting himself properly in the office setting” and ekubo continues to insist that it's reigens fault but it doesn't stop him from also apologizing. they give you some space, but they don’t stop glaring at each other when they think you’re not looking.

they never really stop competing but it slowly shifts from trying to sabotage each other to trying to outdo each other, and that’s definitely a change you can live with when it means you constantly have fresh flowers on your desk and you get to share reigen’s home cooked lunches almost every day.

(dimple can’t possess the poor guy every day, so sometimes instead of a flower you’ll find notes that he writes out in advance, which you keep tucked safely in a drawer of your desk. if he catches you reading them while you don’t realize he’s around he takes every possible chance to gloat to reigen and tease you the next time he brings his host.)

[akajustmerry]

Have you watched torchwood? Do you have any thoughts?

ooooh hi!!! sorry it took me a while to answer! but yea quickfire round!

I think children of earth is one of the best single seasons of television ever made. truly terrifying and compelling and clever! when Jack realises they need a kid to send out the frequently 💀💀💀💀

adored how horny chaotic and bisexual it was without concern for "representation". everyone was bi. no one gave a shit. iconic

tosh and owen were soooooo 🥺🥺🥺

I think the episode with the fairies is one of the most iconic "fuck them kids" stories of all time.

I adored seeing Martha in Torchwood where she was so RESPECTED and APPRECIATED. unlike some OTHER shows with Martha Jones. honestly, she should have stayed with them

Torchwood holds the prestigious honour of being the first show where I saw gay sex between men and I vividly remember being 15ish watching it like "oh that's what they do. I get it"

love the darker way Jack spoke about the Doctor in Torchwood. I love how angry he is over how little the Doctor actually helps.

hate Gwen, sorry!! Always have always will. She annoys me so much.

Look sometimes a show is good because it was made in 2006 and that's all there is to say about it.

I think....look it's a running joke in my whovian family that we don't acknowledge miracle day because... why would we lol. children of earth is a perfect final season and as far as I'm concerned it is. Miracle Day was a total waste of time, abominable execution of an interesting idea. I'd love to see someone else tackle that idea cos damn some of the concepts went hard.

okay I'm sleepy but moral or the story is I loved Torchwood a lot and really miss the speak spin off era where we had Torchwood and sja lining up with doctor who!!!

[phoebe-the-autism-fairy]

Why Matt Walsh is a terrible "children's author"

So I study children's literature at university, and about a year ago I watched a video posted by Sam Collins, who is a wonderful trans YouTuber, and he was reacting to a children's book written by an infamous transphobe and self-proclaimed fascist, Matt Walsh. This book was called "Johnny the Walrus", and allegedly it's about identity. About a kid who pretended to be a walrus and the so-called "internet people" took it literally and forced him to actually be a walrus. He did this as an analogy to mock trans people and trans children.

Not only is the book inappropriate, hateful and horrendously transphobic, but it's just a bad piece of literature in general. And I get that opinions are subjective, but this is from what I've observed from the book and what I've learned at university.

Starting off, there is a concept in analysing literature known as "death of the author and birth of the reader", in which the reader is able to have their own interpretation of a piece of literature regardless of what the author intended for the story. However, children as young as what this book is aimed at most likely don't have this concept, and therefore won't understand the analogy that Matt is trying to make. Because gender and animals are two very different topics, the most the book will do is convince children that playing pretend games is bad and that it will get them into trouble. As a kid I pretended to be various characters from TV shows I liked such as Nuzzle from this show called Nuzzle and Scratch but nobody ever forced me to become a fucking alpaca did they?

It's so odd to me that someone actually let him into a classroom full of children in order to spread his propaganda when more likely than not, these kids are not gonna know what the fuck he's on about. And when he's reading his wasted tree to children, he is not truly engaging with the children, and in turn, the children look bored and uncomfortable with his presence. He just has no interest in the children, or in actual children's fiction, he's clearly just there to spread hateful ideologies. And plus he kinda looks like a nonce but I digress-

And plus, when you're writing children's literature, it obviously needs to be written with sincerity, and to actually entertain children. For example, if you look at children's authors such as Michael Rosen, when he performs his stories such as 'No Breathing in Class' or 'Chocolate Cake', he interacts with the children very well, the children who are listening to his stories are entertained and engaged in the story, because Rosen not only tells the story, he also SHOWS the story, making faces and using body language to further express his stories. He's funny and relatable, he makes jokes and the themes of his stories and poems are light-hearted and suitable for all ages. That's what makes a good children's writer.

On the other hand, in Matt Walsh's story, there's nothing remotely fun or exciting or creative about the story at all, it's just bland and there is no substance. And it's only purpose is to serve conservative ideologies. Not to mention the illustrations are abysmal. Just because the narration is rhyming and it has illustrations, doesn't make it good, or remotely appropriate to read to children.

Also for the love of jesus, if you are writing a book for kids, don't include things like "bigot" or "internet people", or anything along the lines of a "woke mob", because kids won't understand that, and also it's cringe. Things like that do not need to be in a children's book thank you.

And plus, even if this story was literal, it would be inaccurate anyway. Because actual parents of transchildren are not forcing their kid to surgically transition because that would just be irresponsible parenting. Yeah, the kid may socially transition, such as cutting their hair, wearing different clothes, etc, but it doesn't go any further than that.

Face it my guy, you can't write for children so maybe just stick to ya shitty podcast.

[muffinmonstah-art]

Tim Drake's Gotham

Or the Tim Drake's Rescue Project

By @lahonestidadenmi-blog

You may like Tim Drake as a character. You may like his stories. Taste is subjective.

Objectively he sucks. Compared to the rest of the Bat-family he sucks. So I am wasting my time in a project that comes close to fanfiction if I am willing to insult fanfiction. I don't have the time to do this idea justice as fanfiction. I don't have the talent to turn it into images. So I will keep it as a vague idea.

Tim Drake is a redundant character that has nothing to offer to the Batman mythos because anything he does is being done better by other characters that are more popular and more established than he is.

So lets find the issues that need fixing and keep them in mind. This issues are present in many characters in western comics. Tim Drake has all this issues.

He has no superhero identity of his own. Red Robin is nothing more than a reskin of his Robin identity. The Robin mantle is firmly in the hands of Damian and that is not going to change. His "Drake" identity is a bad joke. If it sticks and is accepted by the public I am eating my own socks with bechamel sauce.

He does not have a distinct fighting style/weapon that makes his actions scenes distinct to look at. Jason has guns and brutality. Dick has acrobatics and funny sticks. Damian has a sword and is a tiny little shit making the differences between heights something fun to draw/look at. Batman has gadgets... and he is better than anyone else at literally everything but this is not the place for that rant. (MuffinMonstah’s note: He didn’t even remembered Tim used a Bo-staff while he was writing this intro. After I reminded him, he said: “My point still stands. Because when I think of sticks, I think of Nightwing”)

He does not have supporting characters or significant relationships with other heroes that are distinct and exclusive to him. His team ups/super hero teams are barely a re thread of stories that were done better with other Robins. The relationships he has with the Bat-Family members are the most boring when they are depicted at all.This comes from the following...

He does not have any aspect of his personality that is distinct enough to make him interesting. Jason is the violent one. Dick is the funny one. Damian is the dude with antisocial tendencies that learns to keep them in check. Tim is... Smart?  Bi?

He does not have any identity trait that is "future proof".

Let me explain.

 Since western comics have a lot of writers, everything about a character can change except the core aspects of their identity. When those aspects are future proof, you get the closest thing to stability a character in western comic books can get.

Superman is a moral example to all and saves the world. Batman does not kill and solves misteries. Those are future proof. Those are example of future proof traits. As long as a writer follows those they can't fuck it up that badly. If someone fucks it up, they can rely on those core traits and things will improve. And when someone ignores those core traits you get Wally West in Heroes In Crisis.

A character that does not have core traits that are future proof, quickly becomes aimless because writers don't have a clue about what to do with it.

Tim Drake does not have future proof traits. If I want to be an ass I coud say he has no traits at all.

Because of that...

There is no "Tim Drake kind of story". Superman saves the world. Batman solves misteries. Damian can switch from silly child like action to dark and edgy assassin shit. Harley Quinn has batshit insane plots or can tackle abuse as a topic. Tim Drake has no story that is "his style of story". Many characters in the Bat-Family have this issue, but he has ALL the issues.

I could go on. I am sure I will find more issues to fix. But those are enough. Time to build a concept that tackles every issue I mentioned.

No superhero identity of his own. Maybe the hardest one to tackle because creating a name, a look and a concept that sticks is hard as fuck. So we leave this for last. Tim Drake leaves his Robin/Red Robin/vigilante life behind in an attempt to make a difference from the civilian side of Gotham. Allows us to tackle the rest of the issues and create a Story arc that concludes with him getting a new identity. We start with him as an aimless being that has a general desire to do good and we end up with him as a fully shaped and tempered new version of himself.

Distinct fighting Style/Weapon.

Side rant. When Jackie Chan's career started he was sold as a new version of Bruce Lee. He failed at that. There was already a serious action-star/martial-artist with perfectly polished technique.

Jackie chan realized that he needed his own thing. So he went the opposite way and focused on comedy and fighting with props in the enviroment. Instant hit. You probably never knew that jackie chan attempted to be a serious action star specialized in perfectly polished technique.

So lets not re create the wheel here. Lets give Tim a fighting style that revolves around using the enviroment as a weapon. Writers/Illustrators will always have to show what objects/details of the enviroment are present before the action starts that way there is always a game for the readers. The object/detail that will become the focus of the action scene or finishing blow was there the whole time, it was a matter if the reader was creative enough or smart enough to notice what was going to happen.

Look at that, future proofing. That way every single writer from here on knows how to write/draw a Tim Drake fight.

Hey, look at that, we created a "Tim Drake style fight". We are giving him a core trait. And that core traits relies on being observant, smart and quick witted, something he is supposed to be good at and better than every other Robin if we read the comics books right. Except that we are going to use it and show it constantly.

Hey DC comics, steal this. Please. And fire the one responsible for thinking this kind of thing. Just kidding. You don't have someone thinking this kind of thing.

Supporting cast. A supporting cast must support the story and the main character and change/gain something from interacting with him. So we are either going to create civilan suporting cast for him or take characters that are not exploited and have no significant relationship with any other members of the Bat-Family.

Villains: Creating new villains is not the point here. Gotham has enough of them. We will have to create a new way to make Tim Drake interact with them. This will help with creating a "Tim Drake kind of story"

Relationship with the Bat-Family: No full crossover. None. At most we make them cross paths one member at the time so we can compare and contrast core traits to fully develop Tim Drake as a distinct entity.

Core personality traits and making them future proof: People. He is good with people. And he solves people’s problems with his own hands or at least attempts it. Those will be his core character traits. He found out who Bruce and Dick were. Realized that Batman needed a Robin. He became Robin. It worked, it could have ended up in a masive backfire.

Sure he is smart, but everyone in the Bat-Family is smart. The distinction is how he focused on the people involved, saw an emotional problem, he tought about a solution and went and applied it with his own hands putting himself on the line.

Also, those traits are future proof and are a good point to start talking about...

"A Tim Drake kind of story" A Tim Drake kind of story must always be, or end up being about people. Their problems, an attempt to solve them and how does that attempt work or fails to work.

We are closing around an idea that as some vague shape. But before starting this project we need to talk about the elephant in the room.

Romance.

There is no elephant in the room. Romance will be ignored in this project. Romance in western comics is the place where good writing comes to die. I am already taken a gigantic unholy task. I am not Jesus. I can't raise the dead.

The end.

Soooo. One story arc to solve all this issues...

Tim Drake retires from superhero life. Why? Because he likes to solve problems at an individual level. Superhero life does not allow for that. He fixes the issue at hand, he moves to the next. Not enough interaction with the root of the issue, no real solution. If there is a real solution he does not get to it in a direct, in person manner.

There are more than enough superheroes in Gotham doing the exact same thing he was doing. It is not like the family can't call him when they think his help will make a difference.

He becomes a cop... and here comes the cancellation mob... I don't care. By making him a cop I can write him into situations that will be interesting, I can keep him close enough to the rest of the Bat-family. I can keep him close to the victims and the thugs so I can make them actual people with actual problems that Tim can try to solve by himself in a direct manner. I can keep him close to petty crime, organized crime, I can make him go into mysteries/investigations that can link him to super villains. I can explore the GCPD as an institution with every ugly and good thing... so fuck it. I am making him a cop.

Bruce slips a letter of recommendation for him to whoever has some kind of pull. Lets say Gordon. And this trusted ally puts him away from him, as a trusted person that can help him solve a case at the other side of the city (That way we keep him away from Gordon, Gordon is a Batgirl's and Batman's supporting character). Also, he is instructed to keep an aye out for corrupt officers.

The case to be solved is a mystery that will be resolved during this run and will help to create the new super hero identity that we are trying to build for Tim.

The basic of the stories that will be part of this arc would be this one.

[Tim is assigned to problem/crime] [Problem involves civilians or random thugs that work for a villain] [Civilian's/Random Thug's situation is explored to humanize the people involved in the problem/crime] [Tim tries to solve the human issue that is behind the problem/crime by being involved] [Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, sometimes it is beyond any hope and it ends in tragedy] [At some point in the story, Tim finds new information/evidence about the ongoing case/mystery. This part will change once that mystery is solved]

I almost forgot. All good arcs/stories have a theme that ties every individual story/issue together.

The theme will be "Gotham is human. Gotham cares. Gotham's people care."

I will continue with this later on.

In case you did not notice. This is not born out of love for Tim Drake or DC. This is born out of hate for bad writing, hate for wasted potential, beer and fernet branca.

End of the intro.

This is a project my boyfriend has been working on over the last year. I supported his idea from the start and I’m going to be providing the concept art for Tim Drake on his new adult superhero identity, while my boy continues to write and develop his prototipe of character arc for Tim.

There will be updates of this project soon!

[thegeminisage]

time for. SSSIGH. a star trek update. last night we watched tng's "starship mine" and "lessons."

starship mine (tng):

i actually didn't hate this one as much as my beloved cowatcher did...i think if the details of this had made more sense it could have been a really fun and sexy episode for picard to FINALLY serve some fucking cunt in. uuunfortunately

firstly we have...the welders, which have a range of like two inches. why picard dropped his weapon when one of those was trained on him i'll never know

then we have the entire premise of the baryon sweep itself...surely such a dangerous maneuver would be locked behind some kind of. like those cars that don't start if the driver's seatbelt isn't buckled. the computer won't start the sweep is there are life forms aboard. ik all the people working at this station were ""terrorists"" or whatever but they had to beam like a thousand people off the ship surely they're fucking outnumbered. if he called for help someone would hear him?? bnot even getting into the fact that an operation of this size would have more than like half a dozen people working on it

furthermore, this woman's escape plan was to get beamed off back to her own ship...so what was picard's escape plan? like, yes, sure, go to ten forward to buy yourself some time, but how are YOU getting OUT?

we saw him use a communicator at the end and realized he'd had it for like half the episode. again, WHY DIDN'T HE CALL SOMEONE?

the fact that this sludge, which they invented for this episode, can be used for NOTHING except weapons. i know why they said that. they wanted a quick way for picard to figure out the thieves were dangerous and make him look smart in the process. but it's fucking lazy, like the rest of this episode, and it has horrific ramifications for the worldbuilding at large. all of that waste has to go SOMEWHERE. even radioactive waste in real life gets reused as much as it can and in star trek they apparently solved the problem of nuclear waste so making up this spaceship waste is like. you realize you're implying that it gets dumped somewhere, right? right???

this episode wasn't a total loss to me though. for one thing, the running gag with the saddle actually was very funny and it got funnier every time it got brought up. deanna also got to cuddle with riker at one point and later tenderly wipe the blood off his face. i have mixed feelings about Smalltalk Guy (smalltalk isn't bad and talkative people aren't evil, the problem was that guy was talking At people instead of with them, but when engaged with data he waited his turn to speak), but watching him and data go was also really good

and the CONCEPT of this episode - that picard knows his ship so well he can play cat and mouse with five other people when the ship is powered off and in the dark and put the fear of god into them and then JUST when you think they finally got him he stone cold kills them on the way out - that's hot. that's not what this episode actually did, but it's what it thought it was doing, and i guess i can understand if you want to view it that way in your mind palace.

oh yeah i also recognized that guy from voyager. and i was like no way is that the guy from voyager, faceblindness strikes again! but i googled him and it was.

lessons (tng):

this one i did fucking hate, though having two picard-centric episodes in a row has done him no favors. i feel like we've had a lot of single-characters eps lately...one deanna one, one worf one, two picard ones, etc. i know the watching order has contributed to this plus the natla/bad batch break but i feel like we haven't had a genuine ensemble episode in 100 years

the big thing with this episode is of course ZERO regulations for a captain fucking around with his subordinate officer. this is a bad idea for many reasons presented in the episode itself - from picard's flirty like joke (???) about firing her to the way her requests of other crew members made them uncomfortable to the way she would go over someone's head if she wanted. again, in fics, they at least have to file paperwork. someone has to be assigned to step in if relationship problems interfere with work. i don't think it's reasonable to expect any person on the ship not to date when they're all stuck on that thing together for quite literally 5 and 10 years at a time but you have to at least have SOME regulations about it. starfleet has regulations about every stupid god damn thing in the universe, but not this?? when the episode itself showed it was demonstrably a bad idea??

apparently people praised the performances of these actors. i liked the girl, but i think for the first half of the episode sir patrick stewart was phoning it in. i don't understand why you'd have sir patrick stewart on your show and then give him such a shitty guy to be but whatever, man. like, he amped it up near the end, but by that time i was already so exhausted watching him awkwardly flirt in the exact same tone he uses to converse with his coworkers on the bridge that i didn't care.

the mention of the episode where he got his flute/learned his music WAS interesting. i wish they allowed character development and references to past episodes more often. but picard sharing his music with this lady and then being worried after she died that he would never enjoy music again just felt...selfish? especially because of:

BEVERLY. i feel like this is two or three times now picard's gotten interested in a lady and beverly has heard about it secondhand and made little jealous faces and then disappeared for the rest of the fucking episode. meanwhile when beverly was datign that trill picard got be like hey whatever else happens we're still buds ok? not only is beverly finding out like this insulting considering her and picard's situationship, picard LYING about where he got the tea recipe to her makes it perfectly clear he KNOWS what he's doing isn't fair to her. like, you see them share meals ALL THE TIME...i bet that dried up quick when he was dating this lady. did he even bother to tell her they weren't doing breakfast anymore?? my guess would be no.

i want to like picard SO MUCH but the truth is between the wooden flirting the general selfishness and the fact that he never does anything...blegh. i used to be a little unimpressed by his righteous speeches because while they were great in isolation (especially the one in data's trial...mwah) there were so many it felt like a one-trick pony situation. but we haven't had a good righteous speech in AGES and i KNOW this man can act. i actually really miss them. aside from the scotty episode, there are 4 lights, and schisms season 6 has sucked pretty bad i think

also, how are people out here saying THIS GUY is more mature than KIRK? kirk would torture himself over every one of those deaths from the firestorm whether he was dating those guys or not. he also wouldn't mess around with a fucking crew member to begin with - in dagger of the mind he was so mortified to have accidentally done so he could barely look that woman in the eye AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN FUCK. half of spirk fic angst comes from "oh no it's bad to fuck while you're captain!" and PICARD is the mature one??? kirk had fucking principles!!!!!

anyway, for half the episode we kept waiting for this lady to be evil or something and in a way that might have been less sexist and it definitely would have been more fun. picard roulette let's GO. but alas.

also, sorry, logistics again. number one in that little firestorm why didn't they send them down with GEAR. i know star trek is guilty of this across the board - nobody wears masks gloves or goggles in tos - but at least in tos they did have fucking space suits. number two why the fuck is some random employee allowed to SHUT DOWN the things that make FOOD on a whim. sigh. ok.

geez. tonight, in a well-earned break, we have 2 ds9 episodes: "vortex" and "battle lines." thank GOD it's not more tng

[weebsinstash]

Not really sure what genre music you like, but honestly Cannibal by Neathan Apollo makes for a good Val x defiantReader song, recommend it as a listen :>

I've always had a weird relationship with music because I kind of grew up online so a lot of music tastes have been stumbled onto. Like unironically I love the music meme megamixes that switch tracks every few seconds or kind of joke around with certain chord progressions, or they like, mash-up video game music with popular artists.

Before we move on to some of my ideas, this song, right! It can almost apply to either Reader OR Val if you think about it, because from a toxic narcissists perspective Valentino may also consider you to be a sort of little manipulator capable of pulling his strings, but the line that jumps out at me is

"Time for my confession

You're toxic but infectious

You feed off my attention

Well? Starve"

I constantly think about, like, if Reader is just, someone who at least tries to be a nice person if it isn't as natural. And maybe Val gets a little too cozy and comfortable with how polite and sweet you are, running little errands for him, bringing him food and drinks when he asks, seeming to listen closely with interest and dedication when he speaks, and one day he fucks up. Maybe he's been teasing you yet it's nothing too awful but one day he mocks you in front of others about something you're insecure about and he can just see the shift in your expression, and from then on you're like night and day. You quietly set his drinks down and walk away instead of making eye contact and smiling and asking if he wants anything else. He texts you to fetch him something, and someone else brings it in your stead (maybe you even outright paid them because you didn't want to see the Overlord THAT bad)

One of those real "didn't know what you had until it was gone" kind of scenarios where maybe he starts getting pissy because he tells himself you're just having an awful attitude or being an ungrateful brat for no reason and he has no idea "what he did". I imagine he wouldn't take it very well. I can see him trying to crack a joke or make a comment that normally would have at least made you fake laugh and you just glance at him, say nothing, and look back to your phone, gritting his teeth before asking you what your fucking problem is, making it confrontational, and any further sass you display counts against you. The real salt in his wounds is if he catches you being nice and doing things for someone else that you used to do for him, because then he's getting fucking jealous and possessive and god forbid if you're trying to date someone during this time period, they will go missing, Val doesn't really want you dating anyone period anyways. Even if he is so much as keeping you as a groupie or a servant, you're still "his" and he doesn't like to share without some incentive

((As a side note can I piss and moan that tumblr made some sort of adjustment again and now I can't put anything in italics or bold without it doing it to the entire paragraph because it is so fucking annoying, why is it doing this???? Is it this new phone? I use italics a lot in my writing and this is so fucking obnoxious 😩 i basically can't use italics or bold anymore AT ALL without redoing it over and over and over and at some point i just give up)

But moving on to my suggestions, as someone who likes to get stoned and listen to music while I do my not-actually-writing writing-adjacent daydreaming, I've kind of found few songs that I think of stories for? Actually I found a really good one literally within the last I think two days? I was listening to Just A Waste by PinkPantheress and realized it fits a lot of the concepts and ideas I've had for a hazbin based Reader, while also having a very funky synthy vibe like the time period Valentino is from

How'd it ever get so wrong? Crying on the floor of a washroom stall (working at the club as a waitress only being able to really cry in the bathroom)

You don't know where I'm from, Don't know how I got here but I'm all alone (self explanatory and also works for ideas for a Reader who doesn't know how they died)

I've been waking up as lonely as I did before (works for a Reader who was depressed n shit before death)

A line from the second verse hits harder with "I never asked to be driven away in a foreign car, 'cause the bus will take me just as long, and now I gotta sleep with the lights still on now" like, this is peak, it fits so well. You took his help because you were scared and vulnerable but you really didn't have a choice in context, being freshly dead and alone and confused and panicking, and he was just RIGHT THERE, but after you're in his clutches you realize how dangerous and foolish it was and how maybe risking it on your own would have been as equally unsafe

I also tend to have just. Plotless "Reader getting frustrated and singing" sort of ideas which fits into, the vibe of Hazbin, they do just kind of break out into song, it's a cartoon, but also who doesn't vibe out to music and think of someone belting out to it? So sometimes I also think of the ever so elusive Male Reader, maybe you're kinda on the downlow, making yourself kind of boring and uninteresting because why would you try to stand out when your boss is a horny pansexual sex trafficker, and eventually enough little jabs and comments get under your skin and it's like "oh what, you want me to bounce my ass and shake my hips, put on a little show for you? Bitch I was a musician, I did this shit professionally, i could do this shit in my sleep" and you drop a bop or two or three where you're sassy and snapping your body to the beat just because you're frustrated and tired of being mocked and its like "whoops you kind of just dropped a really high quality performance out of basically rage and outed yourself as a potential asset he can use", this of course being intensified if you were lucky enough to get those Alastor esque showman powers where you can essentially summon little shadow goonies who love doing what you say/etc

Angel and Reader getting into it and Reader all "oh what, you think pole dancing is hard? Maybe 50 years ago, now white women taking yoga classes in strip malls learn that shit to be trendy, you aren't special" and Reader was like some pole dancing instructor in like a very sanitized downtown LA kinda way kwim and just to prove a point busts out some of the things they know and, oh joy there's Big V himself watching his two favorites getting catty with each other and enjoying it

Idk I just think of a lot of ideas involving music and dancing and things like that lol. Shit I've even been getting more into like drift phonk and more aggressive synthetic kind of music and sometimes I think of "imagine if Reader was waiting tables for Val and eas just secretly building some sort of massive career or online fame and one day Val is hanging out with his boyfriend and Vox has something on his phone playing and you just point like, 'oh hey that's my song, what do you like about it? I wanna come out with a new album but I'm looking for inspiration"

I guess this is kind of ultra specific but I also like the idea of like, Val clearly has no problem publicly mocking Vox and humiliating him, so I can just see like, Valentino shitting on Vox's taste in music, all "what, did a robot make that? How are you even supposed to dance to that? Cringe" and Reader is just kind of tired and annoyed with Mr big dick over here always pretending he has one over on other people and everything he likes is cool and everyone else is a loser, and you just, pop out of your seat and start shuffling, and if you remember the concept with Reader who can make their hair and or eyes glow, I like to think of Reader sort of pulsing on the beat, with all kinds of songs really. Imagine you're just trying to vibe on the dance floor at a club and your hips are swaying and light pulsing on the beat and it's like honey, your boss is a MOTH

I bet with Valentino it's a constant struggle depending on who you are. Trying to stay under his radar and not stand out too much but maybe needing some of his favor and protection where you at least need to be somewhat close to him. Not wanting his lust and possessiveness but maybe you're lonely or need some sort of acknowledgement you aren't completely worthless. Not wanting him to know you've got a specific talent but it being something so crucial to who you are that he finds out eventually, whether it's writing music or performing or dancing or writing or art or even skills that may help him in his criminal businesses like having magical powers or even having knowledge in chemistry or cooking drugs/making synthetics. Shit, I've even thought about a Reader who is a massage therapist or a chiropractor and next thing you know he has you becoming his personal "doctor", happy endings included.

[frostythefrostedfox]

What's your opinion on the recent Frontiers teaser?

Right between "Nothing", "Fucking boring" and "Is this game still a thing?"

Nah I am joking, my serious opinion is that this shit fucking sucks, its ass and I am sad it aint dying faster.

Let's start with the basic problematic stuff of this trailer

Eggman, why in the name of chao is Eggman tired, oh, let me guess, someone had the brilliant idea of "Lets make him lazy hahahaha", but guess what, WRONG, Eggman has been shown to be a fairly strong person, and have quite the physical prowess, where in fuck did this concept of "He uses machines bc he lazy" came from, really, because He has been shown doing physical activity before without breaking much of a sweat.

Second, these motherfuckers are so cheap they couldn't even get a few voicelines on the thing? Because I gotta be honest, this entire thing is very devoid of any emotion, it doesn't makes me feel anything, there is music sure, and there are things happening on the screen, but none is making an impact or being meaningful, they just stand there, clench their fists as if any of them was gonna do shit (because in case anyone forgot, the 3 stooges on the left don't have a physical form, Baldy McNosehair on the right aint certainly gonna fight this robot and Alexa 2 in the middle has no control over the robot so she is as useful as the first Alexa by Amazon.)

The fuck is this, really, the fucking flying fuck is this, this has to be the ugliest motherfucker I've seen all day, and I don't mean that as a compliment, is this supposed to be The End's new form? Because it looks like an amalgamation of all the other Titans into one, trying to look menacing and creepy but all it does is look like the failed fusion of Mistral and MG Rex from Metal Gear Rising, it even has Mistral's colour palette lol.

Wasn't The End supposed to signify your deepest fears (assuming for a second that was always a thing and not something someone in sega made up at the last instant to simply justify that awful touhou minigame at the end of the game) so why would this be in any form the physical manifestation of fear?

Again, the design is utter garbage, it only has two arms to the side, the rest are on top of that carapace thing on its back, which renders all arms automatically useless because they are barely able to reach for anything at the ends of it, he can't grab anything with those, they are just there to look menacing and "oh look, he's eeeevil" but they serve no function, besides, what is he gonna grab with it? Because there is only one titan with stuff to grab, and that's Knight, and that is only a sword and a shield, what you gonna use the rest of your arms for? Oh wait, for nothing! Just like I expected you to!

I assume this is the part that you and (literally nobody) everyone wanted me to talk about

This utter waste of screen time and hype-bait.

Why do I call it that? Because that's what it is, is literally what we had before but now the eyes are blue because blue is now the new orange or something like that, that is all that changed.

His transformation into this wasn't anything spectacular, just another burst of energy and ta-da, done. I'm sure 99% of the kiddies that are dying to play this shit aren't even old enough to watch the original dragon ball z, but when Goku turned into Super Saiyan 2 for the first time, not only there was a physical change on his appereance, it truly was something magnificent, you just had to be there; now, why would I compare this to SS2? Because in case anyone forgot, Sonic is just Furry Goku, and if you don't believe me, ask any actual sonic fan, not the newer ones that unironically think this game is well written, the ones that are old enough to consume alcohol, legally, in all jurisdictions of Planet Earth.

Anyways, i am getting sidetracked; this is supposed to be a "Teaser", why in heaven's name would you reveal your biggest card in a teaser? Is like the "Would you kindly" thing from Bioshock 1 was shown in the first trailer, y'all get what I'm saying right? Please don't ever play poker in your life, because you're gonna start jumping up and down when you get a pair of aces. Why the fuck would you show the "wowzers" moment of the update in a teaser, not even a trailer, a teaser.

Second, what purpose does this form serves? Super Sonic is already strong enough to easily conquer the other titans, he was never struggling in any point of the game as super sonic to kill them, he always had this "Imma kill you" expression mixed with "Pathetic" on his face, he killed all four titans without even sweating, why a new one would be a problem? This overhyped tech demo has zero idea of how to escalate a context because it aint escalating, is the same thing we had before, but then again, his new form also is the same one we had before but now featuring big blue evil demon eyes (or some bullshit like that some fans are gonna start calling it in a few days, or maybe they are already because oh my god we've never played a real game in our lives before.)

This form really serves zero purpose, it is just there to pretend like SEGA is trying to get sonic somewhere other than the bank to cash in all of their millions that the "highest selling game in the franchise" gave them while at the same time spending as little money as they can so they can maximize their profit margins; this form is just there to make you look the other way and be all hyped for "look super sonic with blue yes" so you can ignore the blatant problems of this game that are still not fixed and the updates actually added more or made them worse; this form exists so you can look up to big boy sonic team and thank them for the crumbs while at the same time chanting your mantra of "At least it aint forces" and/or "At least it aint 06" while you eat up whatever that is remotely serviceable and praise it to heaven and back not because is good, but because it doesn't sucks like 90% of the content we've gotten for the past 15 years.

But deep down I know all the answers to my questions

This shit was planned from the start, this is the same shit EA does with 90% of their games but everyone hates because is cool to hate EA, this is the same game that many other companies have played before, the whole "thank you for your imput" and then they wait until what people says alligns with what they were gonna do since the beginning so they can either say "look guys, we listened to you" if it comes out good, or "this is what you asked for" if it bombs; this is the same shenanigans we've seen countless times before, but since is SEGA, we must bow to them like they are reinventing videogames, but I guess I expected too much of the average internet user.

Don't think I'll ever forget when I predicted all of this shit almost a year ago and y'all called me "overthinker" and "paranoid".