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[thedrunkenreadersreviews]

A long review of "Exquisite Corpse" by Poppy Z. Brite

NOTE: This review contains spoilers for "Exquisite Corpse." At the time of publication, the name of the author was Poppy Z. Brite. During reprints of the book, such as the copy of it that I have, the author's name still appears as Poppy Z. Brite. The author now goes by the name William Joseph Martin with the author name of "Exquisite Corpse" remaining Poppy Z. Brite. His website refers to the previous publication name of Poppy Z. Brite. This review respects Martin's pronouns (male) and name. His publication name in the title is only a reflection of the name of the author that still appears on new editions of the book as well as on the author's website. Going forward, the author will be referred to as Martin with male pronouns.

*Pours margarita out of the pitcher and into the glass. Sip, sip*

I know, right? Where the hell did this one come from? Well, it is a bit older but I was recommended it by a few people so I thought I'd give it a read. I am one of those people who can read extreme horror books and show no facial expressions whatsoever. I grew up watching horror movies, my Dad not noticing my three-year-old eyes peeping between the staircase railings as he watched Scream and The Exorcist on the big screen in the living room. I'll read about serial killers, watch the documentaries, and dig up all the dirty details. I guess this is why I love history so much; so many forgotten, unexplored details. But I digress.

*Sip, sip*

This book compiles a bunch of elements and throws them all into a pot like the numerous ingredients going into gumbo (get it? 'Cus ... 'cus it takes place in New Orleans mostly ... anyway). But while most of it works and Martin has a fantastic command of words there are some areas that fall flat.

*Sip, sip*

First, the praise.

Martin is a fantastic sentence writer. What I mean by that is, yes, he has an excellent command of words and yes, the sentences flow beautifully, and yes, sometimes you sit there and think, wow, that was an incredible sequence of words to explain this emotion or event or character or whatever it is. Martin can write an incredible sentence ... that does not mean that he is an incredible author.

*Sip, sip*

Now, hold on. I'm not suggesting that Martin is a bad author. I will confess, this is the only book I read by him. However, I will die on the hill of what I just said---Martin writes great sentences but the story is a little flat in the case of THIS book.

*Sip, sip*

The length of the novel, I must say was perfect. Nothing in the book was fluff, every detail was essential to understand the characters and the story. Also, with a book containing the subject material as this one does, less is more. If the book is too fat, too filled with gory details, the hardcore readers who won't flinch (like myself) will be able to push through, no problem. However, the exploratory reader might find themselves stepping away because the material is too thick. Length, in this area, is everything for this reason. Martin seems to understand that----mostly.

*Sip, sip*

The characters. For the most part, they are ... okay.

Focusing on the main ones, of course.

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Compton has a real Jack the Ripper vibe to him, is entirely self-serving, but not really balanced. What I mean by that is, his character is kind of two-dimensional. He doesn't really go into the "why" at any point. His backstory is lacking and his psyche is very, I'm doing this so I can do this to do this. There is no concept of consequence or inner struggle. Which, I understand, he is a serial killer. However, those types of people have more thoughts than just what I refer to as "road map thinking." Road map thinking is - I'll do A to get to B which will get me to C so then I can get to D. It's ... dull. Really, the only time Compton becomes interesting is when he meets Jay because that kind of throws a twist into his thinking. But even so, upon Jay's death there really isn't any diving into it. Compton kind of just leaves and says he's going to try to be in this state of meditation to be with Jay but here's the thing: the two of them interact so little that I was thinking, "Woah, when did any of this happen?" Granted, Compton is absolutely inflating this idea of love with what I'd say to be found obsession (Someone like me! We must be soul mates!). But even that is not fully unwrapped. Compton is the only character with a first-person narration in the book (which, I don't think did it any justice), while everyone else is viewed through the third person. I think it would have been great if Compton was in the third-person or everyone was in first. That way if one character is thinking one way because that is how their mind works, we should see how the others' minds work.

*Sip, sip*

Jay, by contrast, has a real Jeffrey Dahmer vibe. Like, tremendously. Even down to his looks, his method of killing, his reasons for killing, his disposal of the evidence and corpses. Anyway, he was also very flat with not a lot of backstory.

*Sip, sip*

I guess I found myself disappointed with these two main characters because, yes, THEY ARE EVIL, and one of the most important things that we can do as people is examine that evil. What led to that? What messed up their minds so much that they deviated so incredibly from the path? What happened to Dahmer that led him to do those things? What was wrong with Bundy? What the fuck was going on with Gacey? What the hell was the Zodiac killer's deal? Why was Jack the Ripper so fucked up? Why are these questions important? To try to stop this from ever happening again. There are always going to be serial killers and evil people, but the more we understand evil the more we can combat it and, more than that, prevent it. I wanted to know what happened to Jay and Compton. What brought them here but we don't ever get a peek and that peek, I think (for it is the case with me) is what interests us, as an audience and (hopefully) non-evil people when exploring these areas. Like, Damn! Who fucked you up so bad that this is what you do now? It is our desperation to solve the mystery, to find logic in the illogical, and to make something nonsensical make sense.

*Sip, sip. Sip, sip*

Tran. Damn. I barely had sympathy for Tran. Did I want him to die? No, absolutely not. I wasn't necessarily mourning him, however, or pleading for him to have a miraculous escape. If he did manage to get away, that would have been cool but I didn't really mind that he died in the end. Why? Well, that whole conversation with his dad. Tran kind of took this whole "woe is me" approach and I was just like "weird take ... but okay ..." I think his father had every right to be concerned. Tran, after all, was a very young adult who was obviously queer during the time a strain of a deadly disease that was running rampant through the queer community. The letters his father found, though he did not know the age of the person, were written by an adult to his young adult son and spoke in tremendous explicits. And Tran's father never tells Tran he has to leave. Tran just takes it upon himself to do so.

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In no way would I ever support a parent disowning, disapproving, or even ridiculing their child for being part of the queer community. That is horrible. It is alluded to that Tran's dad (T.V.) does not approve or like the fact that Tran is queer---more than that, T.V. does not seem to like the fact that his son is having all of these explicit things done to him, is taking hard narcotics, engaging in sexual activity with a deadly strain going around, and not knowing if Tran has ever brought any of that stuff into the house with the two younger kids around. T.V. also goes on to blame himself, saying that if Tran is doing all these things, he must have failed as a parent. 99% of this makes logical sense from a parent's standpoint. Do children deserve privacy? Yes, absolutely. Do all parents snoop into their child's belongings from time to time? Yes, absolutely. Why? For these very reasons. It's not a lack-of-trust thing. It is a been-there-done-that thing and I-want-you-to-do-better. In T.V.'s and other immigrant parents' cases, I think it is more of a I-sacrificed-a-lot-to-get-us-here-please-don't-waste-this-opportunity thing. And, it can also be a combination of both.

*Sip, sip*

And Tran dropping that whole "well, you came into my room and went through my things so you don't trust me" line when he lied to his dad literally like a minute before, come on.

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He's a teenager. Yes, I get it. I really do. Teenagers lie to their parents and they do stupid things and they don't think their parents know anything and that they know everything. I was a teenager at one point too and I, for the most part, thought the same thing. I guess what really turned me away from caring so much about Tran is never does he think, "Maaaayyyyyybbbbbbeeeeee my dad was right about something." Not everything, but something. Nope. Never.

And he constantly, constantly puts himself into stupid situations. And he is a cheater. I have no forgiveness for cheaters. Doesn't mean I wanted him to die, I just felt nothing for him.

*Sip, sip*

Luke. Ugh! I liked him a little in the beginning but then the more I read about him the more I hated him. The fact that he tried to kill Tran, the fact that he was EVEN WITH Tran when there is that tremendous age gap! And once again, all for the sake of "woe is me." I know he is pissed off at the world for the shitty card he was dealt but I'm supposed to care about a character who tried to kill someone he claims he loves because he's pissed that he has a disease that will most likely kill him? Pass.

*Sip, sip*

The bulk of these characters have so little redeeming qualities or any, I don't know, substance. Compton is just evil. Jay is just evil. Tran is a typical teenager. Luke is just a bitter idiot.

The one character I loved and I mean LOVED and was always so happy to see was Soren.

He was the best part of this book and it is because he was so different from the other characters. Soren never takes this "woe is me" standpoint like Luke and Tran but he is not evil like Compton and Jay. He is just a freaking fantastic person who tries to help everyone. When you are stuck reading about a bunch of characters who just complain or have such dark thoughts, that one ray of sunlight, that one character that is different than the others has such a gravitational pull.

*Sip, sip*

And Martin ruins it.

Soren and Luke. Oh, I almost rage quit. I was so close to rage quitting. Soren having feelings for Luke, no problem. Soren asking to sleep with Luke right after Luke abused him and confessed he is going to try to save his relationship with Tran ... what? Luke going through with it after just confessing to Soren that he is in love with Tran? The fuck?! Luke being into it even though he has never expressed any interest in Soren or ever alluded to the fact that he even finds Soren attractive? WHAT?!

Like, it is explicitly said I believe twice, maybe even three times in the book that Luke has a fetish for Asian boys---and Soren is white.

*Sip, sip. Sip, sip. Sip, sip.*

I think this book did more harm than good. All of the main characters are gay men, which is absolutely, one hundred percent perfectly fine. All of the main characters are overly sexual and just scramble all over each other. I am not judging people who enjoy the promiscuous lifestyle, who enjoy sharing themselves with others, and who just seek the gratification of pleasure. To each their own. But to overly sexualize your gay main characters on top of not providing them with much depth is just ... bad. It feeds into the stigma that all gay men are promiscuous and just sleeps with whoever and prey on younger, vulnerable boys.

*Sip, sip*

So ... was it good? The words were great! The imagery was spectacular. The vocabulary is top notch and the story itself had the potential to be excellent! But the plot is not carried by the characters. Give Luke something beyond bitterness and hopelessness, which, I'll admit, is alluded to in the end. But only for like 2 pages. Not enough for me. Give Tran something beyond "woe is me." Give Jay more than just stab, sex, and eat. Give Compton more than just sex, stab, maybe try a piece.

And my goodness, don't give your ray of sunshine character such desperation in their romantic affairs.

Gay people, like everyone in this world, be it straight or queer, have depth to them. That is just one piece of them. There is so much more that could have been explored with these characters. I wish we could have found it.

*Sip, sip*

And I think that goes for every queer character which is part of the reason why, as you can tell from my page, I love Hazbin Hotel. I love Alastor (ace). I love Angel Dust (gay). I love Charlie (bisexual). They have SO much depth to them. They have so much within them to explore and bring forward and it's not just about who they desire to have as a partner or lack thereof. I don't want writers or creators to just full on this "well, they're queer so they have depth" idea.

And I'll leave it with this. The Hazbin Hotel post-Season 1 finale Q&A.

Blake Roman who plays Angel Dust was asked what he considers to be Angel's greatest flaw and strength.

Roman replies that AD's flaw is he refuses to accept that he is in as horrible of a situation as he actually is and will make light of it and not let people in.

However, his strength is, well, his strength! "Once he does allow that wall to come down, he is a fierce friend. You know you've got him."

Oh! Depth!

And Amir Talai who plays Alastor is asked, "What are [Amir's] thoughts on being part of the ace-rep through Alastor [...]?"

Amir, who is not ace, wonderfully replies, "It means a lot to mean a lot. [...] If you're aro-ace, that doesn't mean you're lame. It just means that there is a part of you that is different from what is considered typical. [...] And people ask, 'How has that affected your portrayal of him so far?'. Well, it hasn't."

Jessica Vosk, who plays Lute, shortly after jumps in and tells Amir, "But it's kind of nice to hear you say that when you were asked whether or not it has informed you with what you do or how you changed it. You said it doesn't because it's not like that is why Alastor is ..."

Amir: "Right!"

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In essence, a character's queerness is part of them, yes. But it is not ALL of them. That is not just who they are and to diminish them to just that one aspect of them is incredibly belittling. One of the main issues I have with the production of queer entertainment, [for example, the new "Mary & George" series] is that it is overly sexual as if that is the only thing that queer people have to offer. No. Queer people live like anyone else. And depending on the queer person, some may even have very little to no sex at all! There is no reason to saturate queer material with sex. This book mentions the word "dick/cock" in a sexual (not insulting, but purely sexual way) nearly 100 times.

*Sip, sip*

If you can stomach some gory details, I'll recommend the book but I don't think it is a book that you should read before you die. It's a book with a lot of sex and swearing and some blood. So ... yeah.

Cheers.

*Sip, sip*

[sofipitch]

I will say, I don't understand the compulsion to claim anytime a writer used to write fanfic that they repurposed their fanfic. Like read like 3 things by the same author and you'll realize authors have their things, characters and plotlines they like, words or metaphors they prefer. It can often be an intimate experience where you start to get the sense of what is haunting that author. Yes their works may look similar but they are in fact written by the same person, enjoy getting to know them. And furthermore I hate the culture of artists having to pretend art doesn't inspire other art without fearing accusations of plagiarism

[tazmilygray]

Kirby OC creation game

First letter of your URL is your character's species!

A - Puffball (like Kirby)

B - Penguin (like Dedede)

C - Whatever the mages and haltmanns are

D - Jambeliever

E - Key Dee

F - Scarfy

G - Waddle Doo

H - Burning Leo

I - Chilly

J - NESP

K - Noddy

L - Poppy Bros Jr

M - Paint Witch

N - Hamster

O - Human

P - Ripple Star Fairy

Q - Spider

R - Whatever Magolor is

S - Squeaker

T - Fecto

U - Awoofy

V - Octopus (like Chuchu)

W - Waddle Dee

X - Keke

Y - Whatever Tiff and Tuff are

Z - People of the Sky (flower fairies from KTD)

Favorite Season = Their Fighting Style!

Spring - Ranged Weapon

Summer - Melee Weapon

Fall - Healing/Support

Winter - Mage

Fave Color = What magic they specialize in, if any

Red - Fire

Orange - Rock/Ground/Earth

Yellow - Electric

Green - Nature

Blue - Water

Purple - Poison

Pink - ESP/Psychic

Black - Ghostly

White - Ice

Fave Flavor = A big part of their personality, a main trait

Sweet - Headstrong

Sour - Kindhearted

Salty - Short-tempered

Spicy - Selfish

What you like best will determine your character's Matter type

Clouds - Heart Matter

Rain - Soul Matter

Stars - Dream Matter

The Moon - Dark Matter

I hope this wasn't too much, I'd love to see what you create so, if you decide to use this, if you don't add on to a reblog, tag me if you upload what you make!

[kittyball23]

Once their egg has been laid, I can definitely see Branch being super protective of it. Poppy has to constantly tell him it’s ok but Branch would keep telling her every worst case scenario for an egg.

He'd be the type to enclose the egg in a glass case, barb-wire the crib, and keep a 24/7 sharp hawk-eye on it 👀 Always telling Poppy, "Well, what if *x y z* happened?? We'll need *a b c*!" Because if there's anything Branch knows, it's that he protecc, and, like a boy scout, he's always prepared, from the slightest disturbance to the worst of natural disasters 👌

[xxinkys-ocsxx]

First post on Tumbler! ^^

Hiya! I'm Inky! This is my introduction post, and at the time of posting, this is my first post on tumblr! but definitely not my first time on tumbler lol (I have a alt acc on my laptop)

(just a random reminder that this blog will include oc x cannon, if you don't like that stuff please be respectful ignore my blog and proshipers, ped0s, homophobes, racist, zoophiles etc, dni with me or my blog.)

I'm probably going to be posting art and POSSIBLY writing some oc x cannon/x reader fics on here because yass👏👏Anyway here's just a summary of me but as one of my ocs profiles loll

Name: Inky

Nickname: Inks

Gender: Cis female

pronouns:she/her

Species: Little sona gal

Nationality: England☕

Fandoms I'm in:

A:

Arcane

Animal crossing

B:

Bluey!

BEASTARS

Beetlejuice

Bendy and the ink machine

Black butler

C:

Circus of wishes

Cuphead

casino cups

Charlie the union

Chicken nugget

D:

Demon slayer

Deadpoll

Dark deception

Dhmis

E:

ENA

epithet erased

EYES ARG

F:

Fanf

Ferngully

Far fetched

F.r.i.e.n.d.s

G:

Glitter force

Garten of ban ban

Generation loss

GURBY

Guardians of the Galaxy

Gacha

Gravity falls

H:

Hazbin hotel

Helluva boss

Heart of Titans

Heathers

Hamilton

Heart stopper

Hotel transylvania

Harry Potter

Hilda

I:

Indgo park

J:- none yet-

K:

Komi can't communicate

L:

Lackadaisy

Lamas in hats

Little nightmares

Little misfortune

M:

Murder drones

Metal family

Mean girls

My little powny

My friendly neighbourhood

Mario

Monkey wrench

N:- none yet-

O:

One piece

Obay me!

P:

popee the performer

Perfect husbands

Poppy playtime

Portals

Purcy Jackson

Q: - none yet-

R:

Royal high

Ramshackle

rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles

Rise of the guardians

S:

SpyXfamily

Spooky month

Sam and max

Sad ghost club

Skylanders

T:

The amazing digital circus

Tokyo ghoul

Toilet bound Haiko-kun

U: - none yet-

V:

Vampire series

Villainous

W:

Welcome home

Who framed Roger rabbit?

Wimpy witch

X: - none yet-

Y: - none yet-

Z:

Zipped up

There are probably SOOOO meny more I just can't think of rn :/

But yeah! That's me! Expect to see lots of art, mostly oc x cannon

I'm excited to start posting, until then bye!!

[the-nosy-neighbor]

Tic-Tac_toe (Part 2)

3 parts to keep you from dying reading this

Edit: 4 parts

Spoilers abound

Use in Welcome Home

Several tic tac toe boards are found on the website. I am going to detail them, who won, who the x's and o's would represent and potential tac tac toe cypher. I moved the order of the paragraphs, so you won't knoe what i am talking about in relationship to using neighborhood locations as spaces on a board

Game:   Frank vs Julie, Julie wins.  There is another line that makes it look like frank could have won, but it is going through Julie’s marker, so probably not.  Julie is X, Frank is O.  I believe that means Julie went first. 

Neighborhood reference:  x’s—Frank, Wally, Eddie; o’s—Barnaby, Howdy, Julie

Tic-Tac-Toe Cipher:  J, N, R, U, X, Z  (incomplete since we don’t see the full board.)

Game:   Wally/Home vs Julie, Julie wins.  The board is pink, Like Julie’s color.  Julie is X, Wally/Home is O.  That means Julie went first. 

Neighborhood reference:  x’s—howdy, wally, sally,  o’s—Frank, tower, Poppy

Tick-Tac-Toe Cipher:  S. Z, X, P, N, L, D, B, I

Secretive tic tac toe board on an apple.  The color is off on this one, so it appears that it is Frank and Poppy, which makes sense, because this is the Frank/Poppy scene with Wally.  Game field is red? There is no winner in this game, it appears to be in progress.  However, Frank cannot win here, only Poppy.  If Poppy sticks with strategy, she is first, since she got the center tile.  This means it is her turn, and she likely would win the game.  Not for sure, since she could make an error, but still.

Game:  Frank vs. Poppy, Poppy wins. 

Neighborhood reference:  x’s—Frank, Wally, Sally; o’s—Julie, Barnaby, Eddie

Tic-Tac-Toe Cipher:  (going on the assumption that X chose center to start)  J, N, L, V, T, NOTHING? The cipher is short a space, F, G, H

In the comments: 

Exchange:  Commenter (Ant) “I know what you are.” Wally:  “You do.  I am so happy!”

Wally/Home playing by themself/es .  There is no winner since there is no opponent, but technically there are three in a row.  The game board is blue, which could indicate that Barnaby is taking part, but he hasn’t moved that we can see.

Neighborhood reference: o’s—Frank, Wally, Sally, Howdy

Tic-Tac-Toe Cipher:  S, B. U, D, W, F, Y, H, I

Kind of hidden tic tac toe in Eddie’s video.  He has been making his shopping list.  I think the idea here is that Eddie is playing himself in order to deal with the boredom, but there are two pages full of tic tac toe boards, as well as a score.  The scoreboard is labeled “E” on both sides, so unless there are two of him, he is playing himself.  What’s weird is the sheer number of wins for each Eddie.  Surely Eddie would be switching off X between the two Eddies.  But I think some people play if you win, you get first pick, in which case one Eddie would statistically win more. 

Tic-Tac-Toe Cipher:   too many

That may be all of the tic-tac-toe.  It doesn’t appear that the TTT code is really working with this material.  I have seen a few people make an attempt at deciphering it based on that code, but there are a lot of consonants and more z’s than anybody needs.

In the end, it may just be Julie’s symbol and a fun thing.

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 33, 2024

A sparse quantized hopfield network for online-continual memory. Alonso, N., & Krichmar, J. L. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 3722.

An edge-simplicity bias in the visual input to young infants. Anderson, E. M., Candy, T. R., Gold, J. M., & Smith, L. B. (2024). Science Advances, 10(19).

Running together influences where you look. Brenner, E., Janssen, M., de Wit, N., Smeets, J. B. J., Mann, D. L., & Ghiani, A. (2024). Perception, 53(5–6), 397–400.

Dopamine D2 Receptor Modulates Exercise Related Effect on Cortical Excitation/Inhibition and Motor Skill Acquisition. Curtin, D., Taylor, E. M., Bellgrove, M. A., Chong, T. T.-J., & Coxon, J. P. (2024). Journal of Neuroscience, 44(19), e2028232024.

Control of working memory by phase–amplitude coupling of human hippocampal neurons. Daume, J., Kamiński, J., Schjetnan, A. G. P., Salimpour, Y., Khan, U., Kyzar, M., … Rutishauser, U. (2024). Nature, 629(8011), 393–401.

Drift of neural ensembles driven by slow fluctuations of intrinsic excitability. Delamare, G., Zaki, Y., Cai, D. J., & Clopath, C. (2024). eLife, 12, e88053.3.

A stochastic world model on gravity for stability inference. Huang, T., & Liu, J. (2024). eLife, 12, e88953.3.

Specific exercise patterns generate an epigenetic molecular memory window that drives long-term memory formation and identifies ACVR1C as a bidirectional regulator of memory in mice. Keiser, A. A., Dong, T. N., Kramár, E. A., Butler, C. W., Chen, S., Matheos, D. P., … Wood, M. A. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 3836.

Cholecystokinin facilitates motor skill learning by modulating neuroplasticity in the motor cortex. Li, H., Feng, J., Chen, M., Xin, M., Chen, X., Liu, W., … He, J. (2024). eLife, 13, e83897.

Wagers for work: Decomposing the costs of cognitive effort. Master, S. L., Curtis, C. E., & Dayan, P. (2024). PLOS Computational Biology, 20(4), e1012060.

Recurrent neural networks that learn multi-step visual routines with reinforcement learning. Mollard, S., Wacongne, C., Bohte, S. M., & Roelfsema, P. R. (2024). PLOS Computational Biology, 20(4), e1012030.

Human mutations in high-confidence Tourette disorder genes affect sensorimotor behavior, reward learning, and striatal dopamine in mice. Nasello, C., Poppi, L. A., Wu, J., Kowalski, T. F., Thackray, J. K., Wang, R., … Tischfield, M. A. (2024). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(19), e2307156121.

Representational drift as a result of implicit regularization. Ratzon, A., Derdikman, D., & Barak, O. (2024). eLife, 12, e90069.3.

Abnormal multisensory temporal discrimination in Parkinson’s disease. Rostami, Z., Salari, M., Mahdavi, S., & Etemadifar, M. (2024). Brain Research, 1834, 148901.

Motivated with joy or anxiety: Does approach-avoidance goal framing elicit differential reward-network activation in the brain? Sakaki, M., Murayama, K., Izuma, K., Aoki, R., Yomogita, Y., Sugiura, A., … Matsumoto, K. (2024). Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 24(3), 469–490.

A non-image-forming visual circuit mediates the innate fear of heights in male mice. Shang, W., Xie, S., Feng, W., Li, Z., Jia, J., Cao, X., … Yuan, X.-B. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 3746.

A dynamic neural resource model bridges sensory and working memory. Tomić, I., & Bays, P. M. (2024). eLife, 12, e91034.3.

A Neural Decision Signal during Internal Sampling from Working Memory in Humans. van Ede, F., & Nobre, A. C. (2024). Journal of Neuroscience, 44(19), e1475232024.

Increased flexibility of CA3 memory representations following environmental enrichment. Ventura, S., Duncan, S., & Ainge, J. A. (2024). Current Biology, 34(9), 2011-2019.e7.

Multiplexed representation of others in the hippocampal CA1 subfield of female mice. Zhang, X., Cao, Q., Gao, K., Chen, C., Cheng, S., Li, A., … Miao, C. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 3702.

[erisenyo]

Hey there, can I ask how you come up with your OC names?

Anon I am THRILLED you asked because I am about to dump so much in-my-head-only worldbuilding on you, so much more than you probably needed or wanted lol.

As always this is not short, and forgive in advance the butchery I’m about to do of like, all of phonetics and linguistics.

OKAY so generally speaking, when it comes to names I have a set of foundational building blocks/general guidelines for the various countries and I work from there. These are based on phonetic characteristics of the canon names we see, and then from there I'd start layering in additional fun along groupings I've noticed around gender or class or family lines or whatever if I want to take the worldbuilding that deep.

So for example, with the Water Tribes…

We have Sokka, Katara, Hakoda, Bato, Kya all from the South, so I pick out...

Hard K or T sounds being quite common

Primarily A and O as vowels

Vowels being between consonants (ie, being single vowels)

Names being 2-3 syllables

In the North, we see Yue, Hahn, Agna Qel’a, Arnook, Kanna, Pakku...

Some similarities with the Ks and hard Qs

Now we see some softer ‘gn’ and ‘hn’ and L sounds, and the addition of P (which makes Bato’s “B” and Sokka’s “S” stand out)

Some ‘oo’ instead of ‘o’ vowels (so double vowels)

Hahn and Yue with no hard consonant sound at all (and both upper class!)

So that gives us some basic starting blocks to start building up names that sound like they fit within the Water Tribe culture in terms of sounds, as well as some potential regional and class differences to start working with! (Maybe Q sounds are only in the North, and upper-class people have soft consonant names, for example.)

Similarly in the Fire Nation…

The royal family is Zuko, Azula, Ozai, Azulon, Sozin, Iroh, Lu Ten, so...

A lot of Z and K sounds

(Male) names that end in N

A lot of two-syllable names (with the emphasis on the first syllable)

A lot of riffs on each other (Sozin and Ozai, Azulon and Azula, Azulon and Zuko)

Iroh and Lu Ten stand out as having fairly distinct names comparatively, with the “oh” ending and the softer "Ir" and "Lu" starts

Chan, Zhao, and Ruon-Jian are the other upper-class guys we see, which gives us...

short syllables again

N endings (for men) agai

The ‘two word’ name again (so Lu Ten's name naming structure is used elsewhere)

The introduction of “Ch” and “J” and “R” and double-vowel sounds (ao, uo, ia)

We also see Roku and Kuzon...

So very similar names to our royal bunch with those Ks and Zs and oku/uko and uzon/ulon sounds

Also older names from 100+ years ago, and commoner names

Mai, Ursa, Ty Lee as our upper-class ladies gives us...

short syllables again

‘two word’ names again

M sounds!

Mai and Ursa both don't have a hard consonant stop

Some phonetic/vibey similarity with “Mai” and “Ty”

And adding in Chit Sang (another commoner!) (presumably!)...

Another two-word name

Introduces the ‘ng’ ending

Leverages a lot of the consonant sounds we already saw

Uses an “it” usage of the "I" vowel (vs Iroh’s I)

So pulling it all together, in addition to those foundational consonant and vowel sounds, we also see that the royal family has a distinct naming convention that may be rooted in archaic naming styles.

And we can start to build out some ideas around gendered naming, family/honorific naming, and some potential class/pre-unification culture differences, as well as some space to speculate about why Iroh and Lu Ten’s names are so different from the rest of the royal family, too (as well as the ammunition to suggest that Zhao comes from a family of suck-ups lol)

Moving onto the Earth Kingdom (where I truly went wild)…

We start off with Toph, Haru, Long Feng, Kuei, Jet, Bumi, Poppy, Lao, and there's a lot of varability here!

Generally, the names are one or two syllables and start with a consonant

We see more double-vowel pairs (uei, ao), perhaps in the upper class but just as many single vowels

Consonants are hard or soft, and don't seem to group like the Water Tribe or FN royals did around particular sounds

Names end in vowels or hard sounds or softer 'ph' and 'ng'

Those guardrails are fairly wide and broad for feeling out distinct-sounding names, but it makes sense given how huge the Earth Kingdom is and its history of war, displacement, movement, etc.

So for a fic like That Love You've Been Looking For which was super EK-centric and focused on worldbuilding, I ended up breaking it down into broad regions and leaning into place names as well to help articular some basic rules:

In the southwest (Gaoling, Toph, Lao, Poppy), I decided that there’d be a mix of single and two-word names, and that the ‘ph’ ending would be used by women and the ‘ng’ ending for men

On the western coast (Haru, Omashu, Bumi), I went with primarily two-syllable names that follow a ONE-two pattern (PA-lo, BU-mi, CHE-lu, HA-ru) and went with mostly softer consonants

In the north (Ba Sing Se, Si Wong Desert, Long Feng), I went with short multi-word names where each part would be a single syllable

And in the center I was kind of pulling it together from what was left, but I went with names that end with an ‘an’ or ‘in’ sound and echoed some of the place names I was using

So we have some building blocks for the various regions, this time that we can use to indicate where someone’s family could be from and to give each region a more specific feel.

For Kyoshi...

I generally lift the Earth Kingdom rules, but view it as more of a trade-center and melting pot (Suki could fit in WT or FN rules), so it's deliberately a lot looser and with more variation.

And everywhere has a Lee/Li, so none of these rules are hard and fast, and I imagine too that there’s a ton of cultural mixing and fads and trends and whatnot in naming across various regions.

A quick note from a process standpoint--

This approach is very much not trying to find names within various existing real-world cultures. If I'm writing ATLA canon-world, I tend to stick to the idea of leveraging real-world contexts as a base rather than a strict guide. Something I wanted to flag, as there are other ways to go about OC naming that lean much more heavily into researching the naming conventions of various cultures throughout history, thinking about translation and name meaning, etc.

And also, if I need a lot of names, I'll often use the Fantasy Name Generator and look for names that either fit or that I can tweak into the above 'rules.' (Otherwise I accidentally start giving people ship names lol, RIP to Mailee, Maizula, and Yutara, you lived on under new personas)

I also don't always dig as deeply into the way names can signify class or status or whatnot, either. It can be very fun, but sometimes you just need a one-off name so your POV character looks like they actually interact with the people they nominally see every day haha

[digiships]

🌊 CUPID 🌊

HE/IT/PAW 🪼 23 🐬 WHITE & ABLEBODIED & AUTIHD

more info under the cut!

DNI: pro/comship, age down self inserts/age up characters for selfshipping, under 16, transmed/truscum, ship with racist/rapist characters, racebend your self insert, erase canon orientations, are weird to ppl who arent ok sharing, etcetcetc be normal

BYF:

- if i softblock you, chances are either A. we share an f/o i have unlisted that youre not comfortable sharing or B. you share an f/o with my partner or qpp!! it's nothing personal!

- please tag posts that talk abt f/os as if theyre real people with "unreality"! example: a post saying "your f/o feels your love for them across universes", i have ocd and that kind of thing is Bad for me mentally

- yes some of these characters are "yanderes" and/or are from media made by pr0sh1pp3rs, this does NOT mean i am pr0sh1p. i am vehemently against any of that kind of content and am still disgusted by it. i selfship w these characters for coping reasons that i'm not going to list out here, but if it's important for you to know you're more than welcome to dm me/send an ask off-anon!! i actively avoid engaging w the creators and the fandoms and i stay in my little corner playing w them like dolls. if this still makes you uncomfortable then please hardblock me, do what you need to stay safe!!

* - ok with sharing!

^ im ok sharing Most f/os if we're already mutuals, but if we r strangers i will block you So sorry . if im still not ok w it i will just blacklist your ship tag if u have one! tldr mutuals i love you

Main F/O's:

🌌 Kurt Wagner - X-Men

🍎 Wally Darling - Welcome Home

🍑 Sun Wukong - you know

🌺 Vash the Stampede - Trigun

🎤 Natsuki Shinomiya - Uta no Prince-Sama

🪽 Dick Grayson - DC

💳 Mammon - Obey Me

🔥 Caleb Widogast - Critical Role

🖍️ Sunny Day Jack - Something's Wrong With Sunny Day Jack

🩶 Pe.ter Dun.bar - Yo.ur Bo.yfrie.nd*

🌱 Law.rence Ole.ander- Bo.yfrie.nd to De.ath 2

🔪 John Doe - Mortisfox*

🦇 Rei Sakuma - Ensemble Stars

⚔️ Future Trunks - Dragon Ball Z/Super

Other F/Os:

🌐 Gamma 2 - Dragon Ball Super

🍖 Son Goku - Dragon Ball series*

💎 Demiurge - Overlord

🧸 Toki Wartooth - Metalocalypse

🖲 HAL9000 - 2001:ASO

🩸 Ve.ssel - Sl.eep Tok.en

🔮 Gale Dekarios - Baldur's Gate 3*

❤️‍🩹 Astarion - Baldur's Gate 3*

🐻 Halsin - Baldur's Gate 3

🗡 Wyll Ravengard - Baldur's Gate 3*

💣 Hi.romu Taka.hashi - NJ.PW

👹 Ka.ne - W.WF

🦷 Ma.nkind - W.WF

📌 Floyd - Trolls

🍦 Kaito - Vocaloid

🔑 Chilchuck Tims - Dungeon Meshi

🌤 Dogday - Poppy Playtime

🔫 Pico - Newgrounds

👢 Boothill - Honkai Star Rail

🧨 Scar - Wuthering Waves

💐 Pim Pimling - Smiling Friends

⚾ Kenji Sato - Ultraman Rising

🟪 Infected/Kasper - Regretevator (Roblox)*

⚪ Wallter - Regretevator (Roblox)*

🐟 Sebastian Solace - Pressure (Roblox)

👔 Aaron Hotchner - Criminal Minds

Crushes:

🧤 Spencer Reid - Criminal Minds

📱 Derek Morgan - Criminal Minds

👒 Luffy - One Piece

🃏 Bittergiggle - Garten of Banban

🥊 Banban/Uthman - Garten of Banban

💤 Geshu Lin - Wuthering Waves

Familial F/Os

🎸 Dethklok + CFO - Metalocalypse

🍷 Sebas Tian - Overlord

🐛 Piccolo - Dragon Ball series

🛡 Vegeta - Dragon Ball Z/Super

🌟 Daycare Attendant - FNAF:SB

- ☀️ Sun, 🌙 Moon, 🌗 Eclipse

[backseatloversz]

thx 4 the tag @bellesaysmeow :3 new post for the tag game; pick a song for every letter of your url!

B: born this way - lady gaga A: art is hard - cursive C: closer - nine inch nails K: kill the lights - set it off S: sex changes - the dresden dolls E: erotic electronic - slayyyter A: all the angels - my chemical romance T: time to dance - panic at the disco L: lovefool - the cardigans O: oblivion - grimes V: violet - hole E: eyeless - slipknot R: round here - counting crows S: starlight - muse Z: zig - poppy

ummmmm. 1 no pressure tag: @gothsugarbunnidisco and @ anyone else who wants to!!

[mylivingend]

FIRST LETTER OF NAME A - Apple B - Berry C - Crooked D - Dawn E - Ember F - Feather G - Goose H - Half I - Ivy J - Jagged K - Kestrel L - Loud M - Mist N - Night O - Oak P - Poppy Q - Quick R - Running S - Soft T - Tiny U - Upright V - Violet W - Weed X - Xerus Y - Yarrow Z - Zapping MONTH BIRTHDAY IS IN

January - Ears February - Heart March - Clover April - Nose May - Sky June - Feet July - Claw August - Tail September - Brain October - Leaf November - Scar December - Snow [inspired by https://www.tumblr.com/clanslist/720218445831127040/sootwhisker?source=share]

[easterartist]

Ello! Welcome to my master post! (I will be updating it as I go along.)

This is basically where I'll be linking either things about me or my aus! (It will be very very long lol.) (My welcome home aus mostly have their own ask blogs so imma put the links to the blog itself.)

Silly Easter non-au stuff:

- ✨my most incredible fandom list✨

- Second main: easterartist2

WH au blog: Starrybluenightz

My TMNT aus:

- Brother come home

- Rusted metal

- Found family au

- Glitched out

- Lost under the sea

- Lavender treasure

- How the heck did the party guy get reincarnated as the faceman?

My Welcome home aus:

- Fiddler Wally and his shadow guardian Home au

- Chrono Eddie dear au variant

- Herbalist and GH!

- Last ones standing au

-The spark brothers

- Sabotaged Howdy

- Scout

- Lost soul wally/trapped in a husk au

- Chained au

- Obsession

- Hopper eddie

- Ender

- Roller

- Amor

- Adopter

- Bowdy B. Pillar

- Rainy Pastels

- Shadow

- Narrator

- Fae Home

- Doc

- Baku

- Housedrake

- Mochi

- Insomnia

- Silly

- Indestructible

- Kingdoms of elements

- balance twins

- bound wings

- Lonely heart ( @william-bookkeeper also is in this one (they created the original Lovey and helped me create this variant of him :3))

- Plush Poppy

- Rifter

- Sirius Orion

- Trailblazer

- Timeturner

- The one who was left behind

- Nix and Teddie ( co-owning with @thesouloftherift ! Nix is their silly and Teddie is mine :3)

- Stein

- Inky creations (an au I adopted from @starclowns )

- Seb

- Beige au

- Dead plate au

- Pocket protector au

- Little nightmares au (given to me by the creator of @merchmaker )

- Cat burglar

-

Crossover aus:

• Welcome home:

- Megawally au!

- welcome to the homescreen

- SCPuppets (which is also worked on by @thesouloftherift and @lushy-nights !)

- Welcome to the circus

- Inked puppetry

- Welcome to playtime

• Tmnt:

- Same blue different shade au

- Once a hamato always a hamato

- Pain-filled inky memories

Ocs and their blogs:

- Chief and the multiverse police

- Solar Starlet

- Arkham

- Z-890 "Jinx"

OG non-canon blogs:

- Silliest happiest bugdega owner (Howdy)

- Wooden heart (Home)

- Fluffy clover bull (Jonesy)

- The Fluffy Craft Goober (Goob :3)

Au blogs I joined to help RP some characters:

- Ascended Wally (Created by @onewallywithmanyfaces )

- Sentient broken minded house (Not sure what the au name is so I shall put it as the blog name. This one was also created by @onewallywithmanyfaces !)

Aus I have given away:

- Asylum of wayward souls (given to @thesouloftherift )

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[ofstarlght]

⚔ ⸻ ( poppy drayton → cis woman → she/her ) / / * seems like ZARA LIGHTCROSS , crossed the city limits into rome : you know , the thirty four year old SHADOWHUNTER , who is reputed to be HEADSTRONG and INDEPENDENT, but is avoided when they are STUBBORN and a WORKAHOLIC. rumor has it that has been heard saying ❝ YOU DO NOT YIELD ❞ . that would explain why THEY ARE LOOKING FOR the mortal instruments.

𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬

full name . zara lightcross

nickname(s) . z

age . 34

sexuality . bisexual

place of birth . london, uk

occupation . shadowhunter

species . shadowhunter

loyalty . the clave

height . 5'6"

tattoos . here

piercings . here

𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬

( tw : serious injury )

born  to  the  head  of  the  london  institute,  zara  was  expected  to  do  great  things,  and  great  things  she  did.  pushed,  praised,  criticized,  held  to  higher  standards  than  most,  she  pushed  past  the  bar  and  continued  to  show  how  good  of  a  shadowhunter  she  was.  it  became  a  cycle,  zara  apart  from  the  others  at  the  institute,  a  lone  wolf,  but  successful.  with  each  success  she  knew  she  had  to  do  more,  be  better,  and  achieve  higher.  the  only  constant  in  her  life  that  didn’t  push  her  like  her  parents  and  herself?  her  childhood  best  friend,  the  person  who  would  one  day  become  her  parabatai  and  show  her  that  she  didn’t  have  to  work  alone after a near fatal injury trying to fight a powerful demon alone.

zara  is  a  mess  of  “ i  can  do  it  alone ”  and  “ maybe  i  do  need  people. ”  it  really  makes  her  hot  and  cold,  combined  with  her  stubborn  head  and  brazen  nature  she  truly  is  a  hard  pill  to  swallow  by  some.  she  doesn’t  hate  all  downworlders,  but  she  doesn’t  love  them  either.  she  recognizes  that  not  all  are  evil,  but  that  most  hate  her  by  her  own  blood.  all  she  cares  about  is  doing  the  clave  and  her  parents  proud,  but  what  room  has  there  ever  been  for  her  own  ideals?  she’s  beginning  to  question  if  she’s  even  meant  to  have  her  own  thoughts  and  opinions.  it’s  a  real  spiral.

her  parents  have  tasked  her  with  finding  the  mortal  instruments,  but  she’s  not  even  sure  she  wants  to.  everyone  is  after  them  for  one  reason  or  another,  what  would  the  clave  even  do?  zara  is  beginning  to  see  how  archaic  some  of  their  rules  are  with  the  new  propositions,  and  she’s  not  eager  to  see  the  fall  out  of  it  either.

over  all  girly  pop  is  just  a  bit  of  a  mess,  a  bit  of  a  b,  but  also  a  damn  good  shadowhunter  and  cocky  for  it  too.

𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬

on main : parabatai

ex  :  something  messy,  something  chaotic,  maybe  a  dash  of  forbidden.  zara’s  not  the  best  at  commitment,  she’s  not  great  in  a  relationship,  and  truly  they  were  more  fire  and  oil  than  anything  good.

mentor  :  should  be  from  the  london  institute,  or  a  traveler.  they  worked  with  her  at  a  young  age  and  the  pair  stayed  in  contact.  one  of  the  few  people  other  than  her  parabatai  to  knock  through  her  thick  skull,  tries  to  get  her  to  take  care  of  herself  and  not  just  focus  on  the  clave.

challenger  :  zara  has  been  questioning  a  lot  lately,  and  this  person  will  add  to  that.  they  can  be  any  species,  but  either  way  they  challenge  her  thoughts  and  loyalty.  it  won’t  make  her  sway  from  loyalty  to  the  clave,  but  it  will  make  her  realize  blind  loyalty  isn’t  it,  and  retake  some  of  her  own  individuality.

𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐬

✦  𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐚  𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬  *⁎  ,  ✦  𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐚  ⁑  threads  *⁎

✦  𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐚  𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬  *⁎  ,  ✦  𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐚  ⁑  inspo  *⁎

✦  𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐚  𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬  *⁎  ,  ✦  𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐚  ⁑  dev.  *⁎

✦  𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐚  𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬  *⁎  ,  ✦  𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐚  ⁑  image  *⁎

[starry-skies-116]

FUCK IT, NEW PINNED POST THIS TIME!!:

Okay, once again, from the top- top of the mornin' to ya! My humblest and sincerest greetings to all mortals, dragons, demons, spirits, celestial beings and all in between and many more!

I’m your local multifandom enthusiast, I go by Starr!

I’m aroace and intersex, and I am genderfluid/nonbinary! Presentation changes from time to time but I really want an undercut tbh. I'm still kinda sad that sex-ed in schools isn't LGBTQIA+ friendly yet.

I also have very few but very loving and wonderful IRL friends! Usual pronouns change between she/her, they/them/ he/him and it/its; I am a neopronouns user too!

Also please use tone-tags around me, this user's can't tell a joke from a serious statement a lot of times-

Personality: Hopeless idealist, wants deep companionship, feels lonely and ignored from time to time but that’s aight, life do be like that sometimes though. Sappy poet and writer lol-

I do program and write and draw, but half the time whenever I program I just wrestle with the computer lmfao (ESPECIALLY the standard library like tf)-

DNI: Transphobes, Truscum, Transmeds, TERFS, ableists, anti-cluster B/believe in n@rc abuse, racist, aphobes, homophobes, queerphobes, xenophobic, gender-critical, bigots, LGBTQIA+ exclusionists, thinspo/pro ED, bullies, NSFW/K!nk, anti-agere/agedre, Pro-DDLG and all its variants, P3d0ph!l3s, N@z!s, really anything that makes me feel uncomfortable- just come on here and you're welcome as long as you're not being an ass. (and don't make fun of me for having a DNI, it really isn't that hard to spare me the trouble of blocking you and just... not interact).

Actually REALLY high empathy by modern standards, just figured out I have to turn the tap off a lot because the suffering of other people affects me deeply!

I stim alot irl (playing with hair, foot/leg spazzing out restlessly, vocal echolalia/mimicking choirs, rocking back and forth but never adjusting position, chewing gum a tad too aggressively if I have any- if not then grinding teeth way too much, etc.)

I'm diagnosed with depression, PCOS and ADHD, and have a lot of symptoms of autism and dyscalculia (because of how genuinely chaotic and dysfunctional I can be at times tbh). I also do descend into major depressive episodes from time to time, though I don't know how to recognize if they're just sensory overloads, meltdowns, brain fog episodes or just bad brain days/symptom days in general.

My mental and physical health is getting better, but I still hate being called a cis woman or being referred to as strictly feminine.

Multiple fandoms and hyperfixations, including but not limited to:

ROTTMNT, FNAF, Poppy Playtime, Fire Emblem, Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, Demon Slayer/KNY, TMNT, Stranger Things, Star Wars, OMORI, Transformers, Pacific Rim, The Owl House, Zelda, Zenless Zone Zero and much more!! Sorry if you're here for any one of these specific fandoms, I tend to aggressively post about my current hyperfixation depending on it lmao-

Additional facts: Kind of a glutton when it comes to food, introvert asf on top of being autistic (doesn’t know how to do human social things), has way too many hobbies/things I find interesting to count! Absolutely fuckin HATES dresses and the unnecessary, excessive femininity of periods (especially when they worsen my gastric issues and give me stool problems)! I DO also age-regress and age-dream from time to time!

I like sweets, rice, food in general, dogs (have one, he's named Bruno and he’s a little baby I love him sm), butterflies, sleeping, plushies, space, dragons, fantasy, sci-fi, writing and reading fanfic, drawing/painting, numbers, napping in the sun/underneath the stars, stargazing, etc.

I strongly dislike spiders, too-spicy food, tofu when it’s cooked wrong, cooking (because I’m a disaster at it), bigoted people, strong smells and bright lights, difficult people, being bored- y’know, the works.

Aesthetics change from time to time but I love wierdcore, dreamcore, 80’s core, nostalgiacore, fantasycore, faecore, dragoncore, cybercore, kidcore, spacecore, liminalcore, etc.

Will update this Pinned Post from time to time as time goes on and my fluid identity changes, but for now, I’ll keep being me and I hope to get along well with everyone here!

[kittyball23]

Trolls Soundtrack Prediction?

Idk if anyone else has made a post like this, but nevertheless wanted to talk regarding the soundtrack for Trolls Band Together.

My bro and I were discussing the possibilities the other day and we made a rough outline of how we think it’s going to go, so here it is :3

Opening Melody (We Are Family + something else)

Both Trolls movies have started with opening melodies, part 1 being Move Your Feet/D.A.N.C.E/Sunshine Day and part 2 being Trolls Wanna Have Good Times. From the trailer we know that We Are Family is one of those songs that they’re going to mashup with another one or two songs.

2) BroZone Flashback Song

Yes, I know the trailer had Staying Alive, but let’s remember that Zim Zallah Bim was used as a trailer song for the K-Pop Trolls in Trolls World Tour, whereas the movie instead had Russian Roulette. My bet is on Staying Alive maybe mashed up with something else :3

3) John Dory Song

I think it’s quite possible each brother will have their own solo song at some point. Their profiles on the BroZone website stated their tastes in music, with JD’s being listed as Top 100 Pop/Rock

4) Spruce Song

There’s definitely gotta be one for this guy. Tropical Rock is listed as his preferred taste in music, another clue leading me to believe he’s found on Vacay Island

5) Clay Song

Not a whole lot of info that I could find yet on this brother aside from what’s on the BroZone website, but as he’s voiced by Kid Cudi, I’d imagine he’d have a song too. BroZone site lists his preferred taste in music as Alternative Rock.

6) Floyd Song

He’s the one being kidnapped. Whether it’s for his talent or not, I still believe he’s going to sing a solo. Soft Rock n’ Roll is what he likes according to the site.

7) Villain Song

Original or not, Velvet and Venir will likely have songs. It might not even necessarily be ‘villainous’ per say (like Barb’s songs in Trolls World Tour) but still something

8) Viva Song

She’s voiced by Camila Cabello, so yeah, she’s gotta have a song XD

9) Sad/Slow Song

Trolls and Trolls World Tour had their glum moments and a song to accompany it.

10) Reprise of a song from a previous movie

This one might be a stretch, but I really like callbacks to previous movies when they are musicals to be in song. Disney’s Z-O-M-B-I-E-S series had the song Someday in each movie of their trilogy, and I remember getting real happy when I was younger when We’re All in This Together was brought back in HSM 3.

11) BroZone Reunion Song

My guess is that the brothers are going to have their tiff but come to reconcile, whether it is an original song or a boy band song that already exists. If they shoot for original, the example that I could think of off the top of my head would be something along the lines of Cheetah Sisters from The Cheetah Girls 2003 (starts off slow and uncertain before hitting the beat, singing about being brothers and a family, each one gets a solo part before singing all together, echoing off of one another)

12) Poppy and Branch Song

It’s been implied that Branch and Poppy are going to get at the very least engaged by the end of the movie. They’ve gotta have a song, whether it’s fun and bouncy or slow and loving (or even a combination of both!)

13) Finale

A musical movie has got to have a musical number at the end, no doubt about that

14) Original Song 1

Most likely something with Justin Timberlake + someone else. In Trolls it was Justin + Gwen Stefani What Cha Workin’ With, Trolls World Tour featured Justin + SZA The Other Side as well as Justin + Anderson .Paak for Don’t Slack. My bro thinks it’s going to be Justin and Camila Cabello in this one

15) Original Song 2

Trolls had Get Back Up Again, They Don’t Know, and What Cha Workin’ With. Trolls World Tour had It’s All Love, Leaving Lonesome Flats, Don’t Slack, Just Sing and Rock N’ Roll Rules. Trolls Band Together is sure to have more than one original song

16) Another Version of a song already listed

Trolls soundtrack had two different versions of True Colors and Can’t Stop the Feeling. Trolls World Tour had two different versions of It’s All Love

17) Snippets of songs that were extended to a full version

Rock You Like a Hurricane from Trolls World Tour was only in the movie for like 2 seconds and it got a full 3 minute track. Just about the same thing with Crazy Train and Atomic Dog. On a side note, I do think that there will be little snippets of songs maybe throughout the movie that did not get onto the soundtrack, like how Celebration was very briefly sung in Trolls, and how Can’t Touch This, Russian Roulette, and Mi Gente were all featured real quick in Trolls World Tour

Aaand, that’s about it for now! I might get more ideas when more trailers, merch, and TV spots come out. With this outline and the knowledge that the Trolls movies are primarily a jukebox musical, what other songs do you think will find their way onto the soundtrack?

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Beau: Are you guys excited to see the new Megamultiverse Movie: The Final Todd? Dahlia: I'm just happy to watch a film that doesn't have my mom in it honestly.

Liz: You guys are lucky, every time I go to the movies, my parents make me write a 3 page thesis on "the educational and technical content of the film." Beau: Yeeesh. My mom just asks where I got the money for the tickets in the first place.

Dahlia: If you want I can buy your popcorn! Beau: I would not turn that down!

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Liz: Oh, Look the populars are fighting again.

Poppy: What the fuck Valor! You know I didn't do anything with Chad, so what do you want?

Valor: Oh Poppy, not everything is about you you know. Maybe I'm just trying to be a good friend. Something you seem to have forgotten how to do.

Valor: Maybe you can remember how to be a good friend next time you try to fuck with me Poppy.

Jacqueline: They're out of chicken fries. Valor: No problem, I wasn't hungry anyway. Trying to watch my figure for Prom. Poppy: //𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺//

Valor: Do you like Chicken Fries Poppy?