#meanmugging

[regsagc]

[badjohnspeakeasy]

"If I don't move, Genos won't see me."

"Perfect. I see that you are stationary. This is an opportune time to harass you about my Sensei."

[sylvaridreams]

I put the tahkayun mask on Nessa... Let's grin devilishly with dad.

[gar-a-ash]

Every time we go through a drive thru Tassie spends the entire time staring down the employees like this. Frozen. Unblinking. Does not react to them in any way.

Secretly waiting to see if maybe there's ice cream coming.

[moteldogs]

going into the makeup aisle feels illegal

[femme-enby]

So like… I downloaded an art app bc I wanted to try it just for giggles & also bc I wanted to color somethin in but I have seemingly lost all of my colored pencils…

And it’s cool! I mean… finger on iPad still isn’t ideal but it’s fun!

But then I was like “ah, I could try something easy! Outline teddy bears!”

Fugly. Crunchy. Evil. I yearn for pencil & paper for actual drawing. I still suck major ass… but those teddy bear outlines… they mock me.

[noireservoir]

Babycakes is so mean to the strays in this neighborhood like these werent her neighbors just a year ago,,,,,,

[meanmug95]

(Meanmug) Remastered

[crimewave420]

Why do you look like some angry bully in your icon pic? Like you're looking at the screen like you're trying to come off all cool and like you think you're so much better than everyone else, like you're just meanmugging the camera basically. Do you actually think that's cool? Well it wouldn't surprise me, because the irony is that even though you're trying so hard to look cool, your name implies you think stuff like crime and smoking weed is cool when it's actually not. You probably grew up in one of those places where good stuff is bad and bad stuff is good and now that you're older and involved with the world at large that doesn't feel that way at all, you still can't let go of that mindset. You basically just need to grow up and stop acting like you think you're going to get good things or go anywhere in life by acting like some kind of hooligan looking for clout by being mean and acting out some sort of superiority complex by putting everyone else down. Seriously.

type shit

[yifftwiceplz]

why cant we do something cool like the skate park

Dave you know I will take any and every opportunity to host a party and invite as many people as possible.

[eggwishing]

meanmug

[captain-price-unofficially]

Company Commander Chief Boatswain’s Mate Pat Case meanmugs a recruit at Naval Recruit Training Command Orlando, FL. 1990

[run-muse-dot-exe]

"..."

Clearing his throat, the man stands up straighter, gaze locked on the boy. Oddly, it was clear that he didn't want to show any kind of vulnerability around him-- was it out of a desire to appear in control, or...?

Perhaps he cared enough about this child's opinion of him that he didn't want to look a fool.

"...I just... know what your abilities are, and don't put pranks past you, is all," he admits. Again, funny, considering. "But... thanks for the advice, I suppose...?"

He didn't much know what wriggling would do against a villain, even one that his sidekicks could handle.

   “You  feared  this  was  my  doing,  didn’t  you?”

▸  // Enji’s  assumptions  were  correct.  If  Kit  attacked  he  would  have  finished  things.  In  fact  he  had  -and  will  continue-  to  have  the  opportunity  to  do  so  if  he  so  pleased.  Or  at  least  try.  The  man  left  himself  open  often.

“Sir, future  advice.  You  will,  as  you  have  learned,  boil  yourself  alive  with  your  flames.  You’re  better  off  using  flow  separation  to  your  advantage.”  Did  he  know  what  that  meant?  The  dull  look  on  the  kids  face  shows  little  faith. 

“Maybe  if  you  wriggle  hard  enough  and  force  two  opposing  velocities  you’ll  make  a  separation  in  the  water.”  or  rip  himself  apart.  It  depends,  really.  The  man  didn’t  need  to  know  all  the  gritty  details.

[oraclepop]

i saw your zb1 perspective on IVE reading but it got me thinking can you tell me if Leeseo and Yujin (zb1) are even friends or close since they are MCS?😭

are leeseo (IVE) and yujin (zb1) friends/close? tarot reading

(DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A TAROT READING. I DO NOT CLAIM IT AS FACT. READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION!!)

three of cups, eight of swords, four of swords, eight of cups, seven of cups

they get along, on the surface anyway, they get along well in a group. it’s not like when they interact they’re meanmugging each other, they probably do smile, laugh and joke, find each other funny and pleasant to socialise with. maybe someone feels trapped, restricted or overwhelmed though, cuz of the nature of the industry, or maybe they’re just anxious or shy, they can’t fully be themselves? they might not spend much time together outside of work/MCing because of that. someone is purposely walking away from any sort of friendship or connection. also, maybe fans think they’re closer than they are or have some sort of delusion or fantasy about their connection or bond, like, “oh they’re besties” or “oh they’re dating”. maybe that element to their “friendship” adds on to how confused and trapped they feel.

[spotlightlowlife]

I think we're forgetting a few things but WTH, improvement

and you can't tell me that these improvements didn't involve going back to the drawing board and using the critics that crazed fans want to attack as source and inspiration. The shorts, sluggish releases dispite this season supposedly being near complete years ago and now the leaks being branded fake, no, I call BS.

We finally got Millie and Blitzø's teamwork, friendships and first meeting rolled into one episode and all these things were good.

The flashback shows Millie looking like someone else all together, once was a rough looking, thought talking bar scraper who beleived that someone like her were only fit for bruiser lacky jobs. Charmed by Blitzø who was widely oppose to her beliefs but reached out to her to join his new business, so with a job, which makes her joining IMP, make sense.

What was a really good fit was Millie believing that IMP moving up in the world was too good to be true and too good for her, who knew the options of farm girl or bruiser. It fits her families attitude of her work not being a real job.

As said, Millie looks like someone else, I don't know how anyone would have identified her without being told who she was. The lack of height consistency was a major part of this, did people (who were maybe overworked and even outsourced) not think, notice or care? These are leading characters and their backstory together a long time coming, was there little communication for such a crucial scene? Were some of the cells recycled for this animation from another character or two?

Unless it's somehow intentional that Millie was physically taller and meanmugged when she was a tough and independent bandit, who then shrunk and got more girly looking as she got sweeter and friendlier with a relationship that's just one year into marriage?

Or was it the case that having work provided by from this great true friend who we're only seeing as her bestie now was what caused her to glow up? We fight see her interact with Moxxie at all even though he discovered her and it's not obvious that they have ever spoke when they move to their office and where were they before when on their way up?

If scenario 1 was the case, it's not like this show doesn't have a pattern of turning someone with charisma and influence into vulnerable and childlike damsel dependent on their lover

Exhibit 1

Exhibit 2

If scenario 2 is the case, then this is another example of not being able to pull off the many ideas that are presented, because these two being best friends and Blitzø being the one to build Millie up just happened.

Millie x Moxxie have near no connection at this point. They have had about two episodes were they set off on missions together and aside from Unhappy Campers, the long anticipated 'Millie' episode, I don't remember anything of them working together in the episode Stolas got abducted and later hospitalized, same episode Striker returned, same episode Blitzø took Loona to a long overdue medical appointment.

Even meeting the in laws managed to do nothing for their paring, nothing at all for Millie and Moxxie needed to be incapacitated for Millie to flex.

Moxxie holds up against other characters, we see that he wants the business to work, he has a buddy cop dynamic with his opposite Blitzø and Blitzø sexual harrassment directed towards him serve as a further reminder of their differences, one of them is happily married the other has flings and difficulty sticking around, we see how Loona is mostly a liability who gets away with anything from their interactions, even his brief meeting with Blitzø was enough during is backstory, their desperation and willingness to make their own path made sense, yet content with his own wife revolves around their sex life, what do we know about them?

Millie is gradually getting her time but it's in a clumsy manner in which Moxxie is absolutely absent, which I'm guessing is in direct response to the very fair criticism of Millie moments becoming Moxxie moment and her simply acting as his cheerleader/fangirl in response to drama which she should be more involved in, or at his grand gestures.

Millie and Loona's exchanges are no different to the last time they really interacted back in the first half of season one, the whole episode set up is nearly the same, Millie needs to fix things, only Millie and Loona are of any use, Loona makes remarks about Millie's age before reluctantly agreeing to fill her role and like an even earlier episode, Moxxie needs to be out of his mind for Millie to shine.

Bonus Blitzø out if it too because that's what worked before.

Remember how Millie opened up about enjoying being the centre of attention and that Moxxie was putting her low with his time wasting ideas and sulky attitude?

He had to realise he wasn't being supportive and let Millie have her time to shine, she got to flex which made little difference to the plot and Moxxie was elsewhere at the time.

In anotheter instances Moxxie has to quietly slip through his own home. Millie has her sister over, her sister who like the rest of the family was rude to Moxxie the last time we saw them together and clearly that was nothing new.

Yes, I know Sallie was chilling with Millie when Moxxie slipped by, yet the episode starts with Sallie arriving to visit Millie, the two of them spending the day at bars and shops, a totally forced and out of place sob story that would change a big fat nothing before the two of them fell chilled on Millie and Moxxie's sofa, clearly Moxxie would kill their vibe just by being seen, clearly there was no intention of really showing Millie stand up for her new life and marriage or any intention of showing any family member accept these things.

Millie having autonomy when Moxxie is totally sidelined hardly works for Millie since they are the leading couple and Moxxie has a more extra personality and connections, good or bad with others. As much as this episode worked, gave her more personality and established the relationship she has with her boss, yet again a set up of desperation and separation was needed

along with responding to criticism

It's sad that shorts and the pilot that may have been branded irrelevant are manditory viewing in order to give the main show it's needed extra substance, it seems Millie x Moxxie need a short or two about their get together, romance and what they actually like about each.

Blitzø content was good.

It was a pity to see a brief illusion of his mother were he wouldfeel relieved to that his many traumas were a dream, only for this scene to be done, dusted and mean nothing

then for the biggest reaction and majority of bad memories to be of his Stolas drama

but this was truly a Millie episode and no complaints on that part.

Since now the leaks are being conveniently called fake, it may be a good idea to scrap what leaks remain and turn the recent Stolas content into the straw that broke the camels back for someone who has been through a lot? Can't say I have much faith in this though, since the sped through apologies to those who don't make any difference yet Blitzø knew he hurt, the watering down of Stolas and Fizz, dismissal of Barbie and Verosika's shift from fun scorned woman who rightfully looked down on Blitzø to spiteful tragic heartbroken ex who stalks his life. As usual, too much offered, too little focus. I can't see the direction steering in any other direction that hooking up Blitzø x Stolas, even though both characters have things to offer independent of one another

and they're a horrid ship.

So returning to the episodes story, I don't even know how to review it other than barely existent.

The villain seemed a massive waste, not only was he voiced by someone very popular but he seems yet another interesting idea for a character, but where was his point other than tormenting Blitzø who stepped into his territory? Is this it for this villain? Why wasn't another big hotel a bigger deal?Leading on to the sinner we met at the start having her subplot was quickly forgotten.

What do we have to talk about when it comes to these introduced individuals?They told us why they were here but nobody cared. Other than the lore of this type of demon and them being voiced by a godfather of strange and queer adult media and Charlie?

Too many things are taken on when the show has a tendency to have too few things matter.

[meanmug95]

(Meanmug)