#ok.....imma shut up now

[i-simp-stobotnik]

Day 1: Body swap

Wohoo, it's Stobotnik week!

Starting with one of the days that gave me the most trouble. 😅 In my head, if Stone and Robotnik were to switch bodies it would be because of one of Robotnik's inventions, 'cause come on. He's that kinda bitch. Robotnik would spend the day doing soldering and other heavy-lifting kind of work his machine-building requires, since "holy fuck, my back hasn't felt this good in 30 years!!" ... yeah, regular exercise and other healthy life style choices will do that to you.

Stone in Robotnik's body on the other hand... my goodness, that freaky boy. He would, as soon as he could, say that he needed to go to the bathroom, and spend quite some time in there, you know, just looking. Touching him. Touching himself. Because god damn. It's like he's actually getting to touch Robotnik, but at the same time it's like Robotnik is touching Stone and whatever noices he makes are with Robotnik's voice and the bare hands hooo boi. Yes, it's not really consensual, but I don't think Robotnik would exactly ask for Stone's consent for the body swap either so in Stone's head, he'll call it even.

Just FYI, I wanted to go wayyyy raunchier with this image, but I've already had a post banned once so I didn't want to tempt the Tümblr gods again. So have a dreamy Stone-Robotnik just lightly touching himself. xD

[argumentativeantitheticaldrmgirl]

Bouncy

[temeyes]

i'm so exhausted rn that the delulu in me won

[ipushedthewrongbutton]

Imma do this final vent and then I’ll shut up about it.

This was a dumb move, from every possible perspective.

In the og goodbye video, they really made it sound like they were doing the streaming service because they wanted to go bigger, make cooler videos, really see what they could do and let their creative vision take the lead.

Growing as an artist is what you do when you Already Have The Money To Do So. You don’t tell your audience “give me money and then I will use to it to make cooler bigger things”. That’s not a streaming service, that’s a kickstarter.

They didn’t have the numbers to pull a streaming service off either. “We think we’re ready for television quality content” no you don’t. Sorry, no you do not. Television quality content means 30-50 crew per project, means at least 4-5 production being worked on at the same time, and at least 4-5 productions being broadcast at the same time. Watcher has maybe 2 series they upload simultaneously and they have 25 employees TOTAL. Not even CLOSE to tv levels of content, who the fuck do you think you are???

Did they really think all 3 million of their subscribers were going to follow them on this? Including kids, whose spending is dependent on their parents? Including the casuals, who only subscribed for the occasional video? Including people for whom $6 dollars on another streaming service just isn’t an option? Why DIDN’T they poll this, was this being a surprise really that important??

AND why would you completely cut off another revenue? Even if YouTube is restrictive, it’s still another source of income. Cutting that off completely is… bold.

Especially since in the apology, they let it slip that no, actually, it’s because Watcher is on the brink of having to close up shop because they’re not making enough money with just the patreon, the merch sales, the ad reads, etc.

So… one of those is a lie. Or at least part of the truth.

But let’s assume they are in financial trouble, then this was still the dumbest they could’ve done.

Welcome to the entertainment industry where we follow 1 giant fucking rule: Kill Your Darlings.

Fellas, pals, amigos, bros, dudes. If your projects spend more than what they make, it’s time to downsize. Not upscale. Cut the shit that’s spending the most money, start concentrating on how you can conserve without having to fire your crew. Put the projects where you have to fly out and buy new stuff all the time on the back burner, you can get back to them once you actually have the money for them. Work with what you already have. You have a MASSIVE studio space, fuckin use it. You HAVE sets, you HAVE props, you HAVE talent and you have ideas. Start workshopping all the crazy and shit ideas you thought weren’t gonna work and start thinking how you could make them work with the lowest possible budget you can have. Your audience is there, they’ll watch whatever you throw at them. Now is the time to go crazy and see what sticks. You HAVE viewership. Collab. CONSTANTLY. Get it the fuck out there that you exist. A lot of people had no idea a patreon existed, mention it ALL THE TIME. To the point that it becomes annoying. Do it!

If your studio is becoming too expensive, get rid of it. Sorry, kill your darlings. Move some shit around in Steven Lim’s tesla garage, put up some green screens, this is where you work now until you can afford a studio in LA again, you dipshits. Editors can work from home, sound designers can work from home, writers and researchers can work from home, meetings can happen in someone’s kitchen or living room.

And finally: be transparent. Be honest to your audience and communicate. “We’re sorry to put Ghost Files on hiatus, however we can no longer justify the cost of traveling to locations.” The majority of your audience will understand and show patience. The part of your audience that matters will wait and enjoy your other wacky shit in the meantime. Hell, they might spontaneously start their own kickstarter because those who can, will want to support you financially, if you’re just hONEST WITH THEM.

As a business, you constantly have to choose between your financial stability and that of your employees, your vision and the future of your company and what you Want to do with it, and your integrity, the trust between you and your audience. (Especially that last one, businesses can’t pretend they don’t have a relationship with their audience, that’s not how business works, guys.)

When you’re in financial straits, one of those has to go. Watcher chose the latter, they should’ve picked the middle. Their grand television quality ideas can fucking wait, if money is a problem.

Look, I’m an artist too. I had a vision too. But it was either my creative vision or being able to afford food and rent. Creativity can wait, creativity will always be there once I can support it. Living comes ALWAYS first. Asking my audience to fund my huge artistic dreams though, with only the promise of something cool, NEVER even crossed my fucking mind. That’s what donations are for, that’s what the patreon is for.

They apologised. And good. But this was a dumb decision from the goddamn start. There were like 500 steps in between and they skipped all of it. And for what? For money? For grand ideas? For greed or for hubris? How many of their original subscribers are actually gonna come back? How much money did they lose with this stunt? If they really are in financial trouble, this MASSIVE risk -which is what it has always been- might just be their downfall. And it’d be 100% their own fucking fault.

[amimochi]

Watching the last episode gave 'I'm afraid I won't be able to do the right thing.' from Tim in ep.6 a new perspective

In 1957 in a way is a very low point morally for Tim. He was disillusioned with many things in his life: Mccarthy, religious and Hawk. When he let Hawk back into his life, he just accept an affair relationship with him even saying 'I promise I won't be any trouble. I've got no expectation.' which goes against all Tim's prior value of being good and honest.

It was seeing baby Jackson in the hospital that snap him back to his old self and think about what's right and what's wrong. In that moment he realized that he should do the 'right thing' which is to let Hawk be with his family.

That's why in ep.6 he was so afraid, not just going to prison but of Hawk. He's afraid that will make the same mistake and give in like he did in 1957. But finally he did the right thing, he turned himself in.

[reidrot]

just him and his iconic scarf jacket w lockwood’s outfit combo against the world he looks so soft i wanna hug him so badly🥹 I JUST KNOW THAT HE’D BE A NICE HUGGER ok im crying

[coycorry]

The contest with Odyssey’s Bow

«Then, I’ll marry the one who offers most.

The man marked out by fate, can grip and string the bow with ease

And shoot an arrow through all 12 axes,

Shall become my husband…»

Inspired by the myth about Odyssey’s Bow for sasodei week 2023. Basically it tells us how Penelope, led by the goddess Athena, decides there will be a contest between the suitors, who can potentially become her husband. She actually didn’t want to do that because she loved Odyssey, but this guy was totally gone for a Trojan War and might’ve been pretty much dead. So Penelope kind of wanted to trick everybody by giving contestants Odysseus's bow and making them shoot an arrow through twelve axes. However! One of the unknown warriors manage to do that, and what a surprise when appears, that unknown warrior is (spoiler alert) Odyssey himself coming back from war, with Zeuses buff.

⚡️Enjoy⚡️

[loudtheoristfury]

The way he circles her desperately just-

[kyuoki]

Have you ever wondered how human Davy Jones would look like with corpse paint? Because I have.

[arthurpendragonssassydaggers]

As likely and angsty Arthur not having any true friends since Merlin is I’ve decided that is no longer the case.

maybe all the old nobles and council members sucked and uther was definitely an ass.

The knights however were not. At least not all of them some can be idiots but the knights were Arthur’s family growing up amen 🙏🏽 .

and I’m not even crazy really he says multiple times the knights are like family and that he grew up with some so yeah.

All this to say I need to see more Arthur with knights in fics and not the main few (besides Leon) because most of the fandom decided to give them to Merlin.

you know what would be a good idea if someone wrote a fic where it was one of those god awful(not judging if that’s your thing though to each their own) typical magic reveals but instead of no one being on Arthur’s side there’s a group of knights that grew up with him that stand up for Arthur and claim that he’d never hurt Merlin.

Including Leon bc I will say this a hundred times he would not threaten arthur.

[unstable-and-gay]

Listen.

Listen.

Listen.

I KNOW. That the "Miles throwing a bagle created the Spot" thing is mostly a joke because it's a fucking hilarious butterfly effect.

But

FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

Please tell me y'all know the bagel has nothing to do with the creation of the Spot.

PLEASE tell me y'all know he only mentioned the bagel to make Miles remember about him.

Because simply thinking that there's people out there that believe that Spot got funky multiverse traveling powers because a cafeteria bagel hit him on the head makes me violent.

[blehhmm]

me: I love him so much that's my soulmate

friend: the edgy murderer?

me: *clutching my copy of under the red hood & pride and prejudice* *dramatic gasp* you take that back, you are minimizing the deep complexities of this masterpiece of a character to simple words without fully understanding or acknowledging what they've been through

also me: Jason Peter Todd is a dramatic bitch (affectionate) with a fuck ton of trauma, any questions?

friend: you just said-

[luxtoony]

Last post before Easter today evening (let's say 14:00 cst)

You guys are gonna lose your marbles. (Yes I am this proud of myself)

Will probably delete this WIP later I'm just hyping ya up ;*

[strange-doll-child]

Wooooo, my genderbend series continuesss- God, I literally only genderbent this one because I got to his namee ghghhghgh

Very conflicted, I'm not like- Super happy w/ the way she turned out but also it's finneee- I guess, I might rework it when it's not late ghgh

[bunnihearted]

me rn

[tsuntsunfangirl]

SOMEONE MADE AN INEFFABLE CUT TO GETAWAY CAR AND I'M FUCKING SCREAMING--