#straight up looney tunes shenanigans

[rootsofdread]

Thinking of Ace, Ash, Chris, Wesker and Anna with a s/o survivor with the HEAVIEST plot armor possible, as if they're from looney tunes. They are just so lucky trials get straight up comedic instead of scary — killers trip over their legs somehow, bang their heads on the trees, miss the easiest shots possible etc etc, and reader is just standing over there like "😄"

Mayhaps they could just go around helping people, since there's barely anything to do apart from that !!

🦞 eatwell

Ace Visconti:

Ace seems to love having another person around that has the same amount of dumb, “unlucky” luck that he has, too. Finally, someone who can relate to falling face-first in a patch of bushes after jumping out of a window, which really hurts, but will get the killer off of you. Though, your kind of luck usually ends with stuff like that happening to someone else instead of yourself…but he has seen you take a few tumbles down the basement stairs, and is always amazed when you’re perfectly fine afterwards. He somehow tends to be on the receiving end of your luck, he’s been tripped over and run over by the killer quite a few times while they’ve been carrying you, making them immediately drop you. But even with luck like this, he loves spending trials with you, because you make every single one fun.

Ashley J. Williams:

Honestly, Ash loves having someone like you around in the fog. Even though anyone around you tends to get hurt for your benefit, he finds it funny to watch from afar. It’s like watching a cartoon play out in real life. A safe distance, where he’s safe from being tripped over or tackled by the killer when they’re supposed to be looking for you, because he already has pretty shit luck and bringing you into the equation never makes it any better. But he is also known for poor life choices, so he does end up making the mistake of hanging a little too close to you when he probably shouldn’t. He’s been hit by missed swings that were meant for you many more times than he’d ever care to admit. But he will admit, seeing the killer run into a tree branch while chasing you down makes up for it.

Chris Redfield:

If you know Chris, you know he’s a very no-nonsense sort of guy. He doesn’t necessarily approve of the antics that seem to follow you around, but he also knows there doesn’t seem to be much that you can do about it. Most of the time, he sits back and watches you from afar to make sure you don’t get hurt or get into trouble due to…whatever it is that you seem to have. The joke is on him whenever he believes he has to jump in and save you though, because most of the time it ends with him getting tackled into the dirt by the killer when they meant to jump on you. You can probably imagine the look on his face when he gets hauled away by the killer and you’re springing away without a scratch.

Anna / The Huntress:

To put it simply, Anna gets incredibly frustrated by how well you avoid everything she throws at you. Literally. Every time she tries to throw a hatchet at you, you lean down to pick a flower and it flies off, or someone calls your name so you move and she hits a tree instead, or you just so happen to trip over a tree root at just the right time so that she hits whoever you were traveling with instead of you. She doesn’t know how you do it. How you always seem to know whenever she’s aiming to hit you. She usually resolves to just leave you alone most of the time, but she knows at some point she has to try to hit you. At least you give her good target practice…

Albert Wesker / The Mastermind:

Wesker has to admit, he’d much rather study you than try to catch you. Trying to catch you usually doesn’t end well for him or anyone in the immediate vicinity. He can’t complain when someone else falls in his path at just the right moment as you move out of the way, but you are who he’s aiming for. He decides he just needs to plan around your shenanigans, which may seem impossible to others, with how unpredictable trials can go with you thrown into the mix, but he’s a scientist. His entire life has been carved from the unpredictable, and he’ll get to the bottom of what makes you you, even if he has to endure smacking into a few trees and falling out of windows to make that happen.

[sminny-wew]

I burst through the doors of Warner Bros. HQ and make my way to the main boardroom and force David Zaslav and Sam Register to listen to my pitch for a new series of Looney Tunes shorts starring Pepe Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat, in which Pepe and Penelope are utterly in love with each other a la Gomez and Morticia Addams and Pepe is the himbo malewife to Penelope's klutzy girlfailure and the humor stems not from 1940s ideas of romantic comedy that people in the 21st century interpret as sexual assault but from the couple's lovestruck shenanigans unwittingly causing chaos and destruction everywhere they go (Pepe's skunk smell and Penelope causing bad luck to whoever's path she crosses; naturally because they are both culturally feared/despised animals their bad luck cancels out and that's why she isn't bothered by his smell or maybe Penelope has congested sinuses or something). Sam looks at me and says "Isn't this just the Goofy Gophers but straight" and I lunge at his trachea for even daring to imply that Pepe or Penelope are in any way heterosexual

I am then forcibly escorted from the Warner Bros. lot but joke's on them b/c while they were distracted by my brilliant pitch I managed to escape with a copy of the Batgirl movie shoved up my ass

[mvshortcut]

Ranking every time the Ten Men get taken down by how cringe fail they are (Part 1)

With 1 being "not too lame, actually" and 10 being "oh my god I have to put the book down and walk away for my own health." This post will include scenes from Books 2 and 3; I'll put the Riddle of Ages stuff in another post.

"But Milk, why on earth are you doing this" well you see I hate the Ten Men (<3) and I love to talk so this works out perfectly. Listen To My Opinions, Boy. Let's get started, shall we?

Book 2: The Perilous Journey

See Garrotte is like the Reynie Muldoon of the Ten Men in that he's so fantastically average (this is a joke don't come for me y'all I love Reynie). This is just a very Average way to get knocked out tbh. And honestly, I've gotta cut Garrotte some slack here. When you think you're on a deserted island, you don't really expect some scarecrow-looking ninja to materialize out of the darkness, hijack your tank boat, and knock you out. 2/10

Crawlings. Oh, darling Crawlings. I'm making the rule now that Crawlings can't score below a 3. He has a base level of cringe fail-ness simply by being Crawlings.

Out of all of the times Crawlings gets knocked out, this is honestly the least embarrassing. None of them really know Milligan's capabilities yet, so this sleight of hand is completely unexpected. Although the "As ugly as you?" exchange occurs immediately after Crawlings wakes up from this one (and that scene in and of itself is embarrassing.) 5/10

Now Sharpe and Crawlings get knocked out (again) later in TPJ but that happens offscreen, so without further ado, let's move onto:

Book 3: The Prisoner's Dilemma

Starting this one off strong with another Crawlings MomentTM. I know he doesn't get knocked out here but I literally could not in good conscience leave it out. Peak cringe fail. Local murderous henchman loses to a four year old with sharp teeth, more at 11. 7/10

I'm gonna be honest at least 70% of this post is gonna be Crawlings. But that isn't my fault now is it?

This is just. Peak Looney Tunes shenanigans. I'm surprised he didn't leave a cartoony indent of his limbs outstretched in the wall. The "humiliating yelp" adds ambiance to the whole scene. 8/10

and another one! honestly this is more impressive on Milligan's part (truly he is insane) and once again, I'm gonna give Crawlings some pity points because who expects their opponent to straight-up grab the electrified wires? The image of his eyebrow all bristly and shocked is very comical and undignified though. 5/10

Back to dear Garrotte. once again painfully average. I desperately need to know if Milligan actually hit him over the head with a ukulele. 2/10

Sharpe coming in strong with possibly the most embarrassing knockout yet. It wasn't enough to be taken down by a boomerang, of all things. He's gotta do these popping-up-and-down shenanigans before a twelve-year-old finally tricks him into knocking himself out with his own handkerchief. I imagine he looks like one of those inflatable dancing tube man things outside the car wash just flopping back and forth. 9/10

When I tell you I literally cheer ever time I read this part. It's what he deserves. "But, honestly, would you fare any better against a bird of prey, Milk?" yes. absolutely. Madge would sense my cool and swag vibes and would not attack me. McCracken simply did not pass the vibe check. SAD. 8/10

Y'know I wish this part wasn't phrased so comically because I burst out laughing ever time I read it even though it's such a tense and upsetting moment. This is SO embarrassing for McCracken though. Imagine at long last winning a tumultuous rooftop battle and it looks like things are FINALLY starting to go your way. only for your opponent to fling himself off a four story building directly on top of you and break all your bones. oof. there's no coming back from that one chief. once again he gets pity points because Milligan is absolutely insane and no one could have seen that coming. 8/10

And, for the grand finale, a guest appearance from Hertz! I would say we're switching things up with a little vehicular manslaughter here, but it isn't Number Two's fault that Hertz ran into her fake ambulance, now is it? It was quite a Choice for him to think he could win a fight against two vehicles, let alone vehicles driven by Rhonda Kazembe and Number Two. "He was terribly annoyed" yea I bet he was. Hertz darling what were you thinking. 6/10

part 2 here!

[amateur-selfshipper]

*throws confetti* Have some Playmates headcanons!

Under the cut because WOW this got long

Sunshine + Irony Poisoned

If Jax pulls a particularly/unnecessarily mean prank on someone else in the Circus, Wendy will prank him back on their behalf

Ex: If Jax breaks Gangle’s comedy mask after she expresses joy that it hadn’t broken yet that day, Wendy will pie him in the face. He can take what he dishes out ;)

Jax’s response to Wendy telling him they loved him for the first time was literally “Why?”

Not because he didn’t reciprocate! He absolutely did!

But Jax knows that he’s the most unpleasant person in the Circus (that’s kind of the point). He knows that Wendy knows this and is under no illusions about the kind of person he is.

Wendy is very physically affectionate and will initiate PDA completely unprompted. Jax will try to brush it off in front of others to maintain his reputation, but in private he completely melts. Dude is touch starved and all of Wendy’s hugs and hand holding feel like heaven

Sleepovers! They spend so much time in each other’s room that they have their own draws

The prank wars are INSANE. Like seriously these two will straight up try to out-Looney Tunes each other with escalating shenanigans and cartoon violence. God have mercy on any poor soul unfortunate enough to get caught in the crossfire

I’ve talked about this before, but their opposing coping mechanisms lead to them butting heads a fair bit. Jax tries to be ironic and apathetic to what happens around him while Wendy is totally sincere and feels everything at 100

On the more angsty side, Jax and Wendy have an issue with codependency and dysfunction due to being trapped in a traumatic environment they physically can’t leave as well as communication issues that arise from their own traumas

Sometimes Wendy worries that Jax just sees their relationship as a game and will dip once he’s gotten bored. It’s not all the time and to be fair, some of it is because Wendy had “”friends”” in the past who saw them as a source of entertainment and nothing more. It’s just hard not to be insecure about your partner not taking your feelings seriously when he doesn’t take anything seriously. 

On the flip side Jax is secretly terrified that Wendy falling for him was just a weird fluke and that they’ll leave him once they realize they can do better. He’s terrified of being vulnerable only to be left behind because they got tired of his scheming.

On a happier note! They’re always there to comfort each other and try so hard to maintain their relationship!

Wendy was DELIGHTED to find out that Jax can purr and gains an instant confidence boost every time they’re able to make it happen.

Wendy adores Jax’s laugh and will do anything to hear it. They love everything about his voice actually

Jax loves how expressive Wendy is, especially their eyes. He has to be careful about making eye contact with them bc sometimes Wendy looks at him with so much love it makes his brain blue screen. “Watch where you’re aiming those things, they’re deadly weapons!”

[kirabani]

My One Piece theories

SPOILER WARNINGS FOR WANO and maybe more. I've reached episode 1056, and a friend told me to toss out my weird theories before I get as far as the "Huge episode"  1071. I've been right about a few things allready. So, Let's toss out the rest!

Makino was pregnant with Shanks. Not really a new or revolutionary theory. But anyhow!

Blackblackbeard is three people. In some way or form. Triplets? Split Personality? Oda has drawn him with 3 different noses, they reffered to him as "They" and his flag has 3 faces. An old a fun theory!

Shanks is a celestial dragon decent, og otherkin decent.

Is the origin of Devil fruit is on Laugh Tale? Shanks and his Crew knows they can't have devil fruit powers to get there.

I think most, if not the entirety of One Pieces plot is about freedom and imagination. Based on Odas obsession with animation, cartoons, and pirates, things are allready like taken straight out of Looney Tunes, and I'm certain it's just gonna get loonier as the closer we get to the end. As someone who grew up a fan of Looney Tunes, it's clear as day he took inspiration from the genre. Laugh Tale? The Entirety of One Piece is one big Laugh Tale. Oda doesn't want to do a single thing if it's not fun and make people smile. Luffy has been the representation of freedom, imagination and WILL since the beginning. Which brings me to my next theory,

Luffy doesn't have a gummy fruit. Details about Joyboy; Luffy has been a walking reincarnation of Freedom, imagination and loony shenanigans, and is the real representation for "You can do Anything and Everything you set your mind to." Only your own mind and fantasy is your limit! These things was what made me idolize him to begin with, growing up with him. Oda want him to make us smile. Since I first saw luffy, I always thought what if his fruit is about being a cartoon, who is freer that a cartoon?! And Since he bends away from damage like Buggs Bunny, and so forth. I couldn't believe such a heavy guarded fruit was a rubber fruit. JoyBoy; When I heard the name, I was in Awe! My sister grew up on Jamaica. And joyboy is a smaller carribian god for well, Joy! Who spreads laughter and joy to the beat of the drums. I believe the Joyboy before Luffy had the "gumgum fruit" aswell. - And I just got to Jimbei's fight against Who's-Who and went back to add details to this part! Boy do I now know that Luffy/ The gumgum fruit has the power of Sun God Nika. He practically Said Joyboy!! Inbefore luffy gets set on fire and turns into a dancing god.

Enies lobby needs to or will be plugged. The Swirls rule the planet, it's in everything we see. Just like the real world, with the golden spiral. We see it everywhere in nature, and some people say it's the key to the universe. Is it the key to One Piece? When I saw Enies Lobby I thought "That drain needs to be plugged". What happens if we plug it? Where does it go? Maybe if we plug it, all water will be raised up to the Red Line. And This theory goes hand in hand with;

The boat that Joyboy left with the fishmen is a Noas Ark. I believed for the longest time that they will plug enies lobby, fill the Noas Ark left by Joyboy and take all the people up to the Red Line for a Full Out War. OR, They use it to save the People, and the Pirates go to war on Marie Jois, now that the waterlevel can reach it. I'm guessing Joyboy knew alot in the void centuary, and made the boat for when the day would finally come when they needed to save everyone from the water. Water 7 comes to mind.

The 100 year void centuary was spend making the Red Line And that we are on a journey to make the world into One Piece again. Remove the Red Line, that they built to controll the world. They are currently building Another Line, so. Again with the spirals. The Golden Spirals. Spirals everywhere. In the eyebrows, the fruits, everywhere! Oda himself said it, if the earth stops there will be tidalwaves. Is this significant for what will happens if they remove the Red Line, or plugg Enies Lobby? Or how it was Before the Red Line?

The Egg on Rogers ship is a Dragon. An older theory was that The egg could be the one piece. The one piece is a dragon and whoever controls it will gain a powerful weapon. This was debunked, since Roger left Laugh Tale with the Egg. My theory is that the egg is a Dragon, and it is Uranus, the ancient weapon. I also had a theory that the middle name D stands for Dragon. So that those blessed with the will of D can controll dragons. But Monkey D. Dragon, Monkey Dragon Dragon? Sound a little too dumb to me. But Maybe. But Luffy understands the sea kings, just like Roger, and that could mean he can understand beasts/dragons.

And what is the One Piece? I've speculated a 1000 times like everyone else, is it the entry mountain to the Grand Line, is it A mirror of the truth, or Freedom perhaps? Oda promised it wouldn't be the journey along the way and the friends you made. But I belive it is Funny. Laugh Tale- They Laughed. I believe it is funny and dumb. Just like everything else!

[ask-agent-rapzutin-vodello]

Hmm... wonder if Raz knows that I sent a bag of marbles?

[Raz] Yeah, I got it. Me and Lizzie IMMEDIATELY used it to set up a prank, but ...It's hard to let someone trip in a building where nearly everyone can use levitation to hover over them. We didn't think that through.

[Lizzie] Yeah, we saw those marbles and went straight to Looney Tunes shenanigans.

[Raz] But the worst part? Hollis caught us.

[Lizzie] Yeah, it's been a few days and we are still finding marbles in the atrium, hidden in all sorts of places.

[Raz] And hollis won't give the bag back to us until we've found every marble.

[Lizzie] Speaking of which. Harold! give that here, little guy!

[saipng]

Maybe you can indulge me now because I am craving Science team + Joshua stuff because in honestly have always loved "found family actually partakes in raising a child" shit.

oh, i am but a humble servant to your every whim, wish, and desire

- none of the science team have ever seen, let alone interacted with a toddler before, so meeting joshua for the first time for them was a varying degree of ‘what the fuck is that’.

- benrey literally just said ‘what the fuck is that’

- that being said, they would all much rather die than let anything happen to that child

- at first gordon was reluctant to even so much as let joshua out of his arms around them, but one thing let to another and at one point he fell asleep under a tree in a park when they were all having a picnic. cue a series of looney tunes-esque shenanigans where josh kept running away and the science team desperately trying to catch up to him.

- extendo-arms, pyrokinesis, liberal use of sunkist, and sweet voice were heavily involved

- by the time gordon woke up, he had the extremely tattered, beaten and bruised science team in front of him holding a happily laughing joshua, with coomer going ‘i am sorry, gordon. we have failed you’ as he points at the tiny scratch on the kid’s knee. from that point on gordon knew he could trust them

- bubby speaks to joshua as though he were an adult and frequently engages in debates with him. considering the kid is like, 3, he just mostly nods. bubby later tells gordon that his son is a much more interesting and intelligent conversation partner than his father

-also the first time bubby made joshua laugh was on his birthday, when he lit up a candle with his mind. after that for a solid month straight he would carry extra candles in his pocket and would insist on putting one in each and every food joshua consumed

- dr coomer recites wikipedia articles to put joshua to sleep, but sometimes it backfires and joshua can get too engage. at this point the kid struggles with saying ‘coomer’ but is pretty adept at enunciating ‘antediluvian’

- gordon more than once walked in on joshua nearly authorizing the purchase of Play Coins™️

- between all the scientists, gordon (mistakenly) believed that tommy would be the most adept at babysitting until he caught him and darnold pouring mountain dew into a baby bottle (‘it is perfectly safe, mr freeman! i have calculated the exact potion needed to make sure your offspring will never need sleep ever again!’)

- tommy is actually just. not that great with kids in general. but he did find that he can bond with josh over beyblades so they just mostly sit in silence playing with them

- as a matter of fact sunkist is probably genuinely the best babysitter, being the perfect dog and all

- i know this is a popular one, but joshua ADORES benrey. for absolutely no goddamn reason too. benrey just kinda stands there and josh would be clinging to his feet, climbing up his back, pulling at his arms. benrey is his favorite toy

- benrey rarely does anything special to indulge the kid, not really, he just kinda lets joshua do whatever. like he’d be sitting around playing video games and joshua would literally climb to the top of his head and hang off it and benrey wouldn’t even blink.

- he will pretend to be an airplane or a horsey or a doctor if needed though, and he will get in character

- gordon is consistently torn between being perfectly enamored with joshua and benrey bonding, and being horribly jealous that he is not his son’s favorite

- the order of being able to calm josh down when he’s crying goes like: bubby (he doesn’t even try, he literally just throws the child at gordon and runs away), coomer (‘joshua, for 2 Play Coins™️ I can sing you a lullaby’), tommy (or rather sunkist, really. if spinning the top part of his hat doesn’t work, he’s out of ideas), gordon (he’s his father, dammit, he should be at the top of the list), and benrey (the black mesa sweet voice really comes in handy here. he just shoots it in the air and josh is hypnotized by all the pretty colors, and if the kid is particularly grumpy he can always shoot directly at him. gordon says it’s cheating)

ok i really went off on this one hope this satisfies your cravings my liege

[spacenoise]

Essential Steven Universe Episodes

Hello everyone! 

Looking to watch Steven Universe, but not drag yourself through all the episodes? Never fear! I’ve made a list of what I believe to be the most essential episodes of Steven Universe with unnecessary ones labelled as such (and my reasons why). Now here’s some things to keep in mind before looking at the list:

When I say “essential” I mean ones that introduce important elements to the story. New important characters, new powers, episodes that develop the character and plot-relevant episodes fit this category. 

Episodes that develop certain characters will be labeled as “unnecessary” if they don’t contribute enough to the plot or their growth.

There may be some personal bias since I found one or two filler episodes to be enjoyable despite their uselessness to the overall plot but I’ll label them as well so you know.

 Avoid reading ahead. The labels for unnecessary ones may contain SPOILERS so if you care about that kind of stuff: you’ve been warned.

On to the list!

Season 1

1. Gem Glow

2. Laser Light Cannon

3. Cheeseburger Backpack: Steven’s first mission

a. Together Breakfast: shows off gem rooms and a monster but that’s really it.

b. Frybo: introduces PeeDee but he doesn’t ever really do anything so...?

4. Cat Fingers

5. Bubble Buddies

6. Serious Steven

a. Tiger Millionaire: while there is some character development, there isn’t really enough to make it worth watching since most of the episode is focused on wrestling.

7. Steven’s Lion

8. Arcade Mania

9. Giant Woman

10. So Many Birthdays: a peek at how dark this show can get

11. Lars and the Cool Kids

a. Onion Trade: mainly about Onion; if you like his character, feel free to watch but if not I’d avoid it since it ultimately doesn’t mean much.

12. Steven the Sword Fighter

13. Lion 2: The Movie

a. Beach Party: Gems piss off the family that runs the town’s pizza shop and try to make it up to them by inviting them to hang out. Shenanigan ensue, but has no lasting impact on the story.

14. Rose’s Room

15. Coach Steven

a. Joking Victim: develops Sadie and Lars’ relationship; skip if you don’t really care about either

16. Steven and the Stevens

17. Monster Buddies

18. An Indirect Kiss

19. Mirror Gem & Ocean Gem 

a. House Guest: shows why Steven has trouble with his powers, but nothing too important happens other than that; watch if you wanna see more Pearl & Greg interactions

20. Space Race: shows Pearl’s fondness of space; develops her character and background but not necessary; skip if you want

a. Secret Team: if you don’t like episodes about characters making temporary truces I’d avoid this one; not enough character development to make it worthwhile.

b. Island Adventure: another Sadie and Lars episode; Lars opens about his feelings but not much else happens.

21. Keep Beach City Weird: relevant for SU: Future reasons, but if you don’t like Ronaldo skip

22. Fusion Cuisine

a. Garnet’s Universe: contributes nothing, but is a kinda cute episode.

b. Watermelon Steven: introduces a character(s) that is only used a total of three (maybe four?) times; also introduces a power that is rarely ever used when it matters.

23. Lion 3: Straight to Video

24. Alone Together

25. Warp Tour

a. The Test: some good character discussions, but not important overall.

26. Future Vision

27. On the Run

a. Horror Club: if you don’t care for Ronaldo, Sadie or Lars: skip. Even if you care about Lars, skip this one since you kinda get the gist of his character at this point.

b. Winter Forecast: a few nice moments, but ultimately a big “what-if” episode

28. Maximum Capacity

29. Marble Madness

30. Rose’s Scabbard

a. Open Book: a Steven and Connie episode; fun if you like them, but skippable

b. Shirt Club: focuses on one of the Cool Kids but ultimately means nothing

c. Say Uncle: Uncle Grandpa Crossover; some funny moments from the Gems but if you don’t like UG avoid this one.

31. Story for Steven

32. The Message

a. Political Power: addresses certain concerns the Gems have, but nothing important crosses over into the next episode; most about Mayor Dewey anyway

33. The Return

34. Jailbreak

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Season 2

1. Full Disclosure

a. Joy Ride: Steven messes around with the Cool Kids; there’s a bit here briefly referenced in SU: Future I think, but other than nothing really happens; skip it if you want

b. Love Letters: properly introduces Jamie and shows his character, but he never does anything for the plot. All you need to know if him and Steven are friends.

c. Reformed: introduces Amethyst's new form and shows more of her insecurities but that’s all this episode is really good for.

2. Sworn to the Sword

a. Rising Tides, Crashing Skies: a Ronaldo episode; need I say more?

3. Keeping It Together

4. We Need To Talk

5. Chille Tid

6. Cry for Help

7. Keystone Motel

a. Onion Friend: another Onion episode; addresses how Amethyst feels regarding the current situation, but other than that nothing worthwhile.

b. Historical Friction: Jamie puts on a play and some gem stuff is involved; no action, but tells us about the Gems’ history

8. Friend Ship

a. Nightmare Hospital: mostly about Connie and her mom; some cool scary bits, but skippable.

b. Sadie’s Song: entirely about Sadie and how her mom makes her feel; skip if you don’t care much for Sadie.

9. Catch and Release

10. When It Rains

11. Back to the Barn

a. Too Far: develops Peridot and Amethyst’s relationship, and develops Peridot’s character, but not enough to make this episode necessary

12. The Answer

a. Steven’s Birthday: fun episode, but ultimately contributes nothing

13. It Could’ve Been Great

14. Message Received

a. Log Date 7 15 2: shows how Peridot got to where she is (as a character) and fills in some holes between Catch and Release and Message Received; fun and worth watching but skippable regardless

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Season 3

1. Super Watermelon Island

2. Gem Drill

3. Same Old World

4. Barn Mates

5. Hit the Diamond

a. Steven Floats: introduces new power but not much else

b. Drop Beat Dad: Explains where Greg gets his money, and I guess if you’re a Sour Cream fan watch this one? Skip if you’re not. 

6. Mr. Greg

7. Too Short To Ride

a. The New Lars: focuses on Lars mostly, but Sadie also shows up at one point; skip if you don’t care about them.

b. Beach City Drift: watch if you like Stevonnie; skip if you don’t really care.

c. Restaurant Wars: pointless fight between the pizza shop family and the fry stand family. I guess if you like food watch this one, but you can skip this one.

d. Kiki’s Pizza Delivery Service: focuses on certain member’s of the pizza family. Skippable, but watch if you like pizza I guess.

8. Monster Reunion

9. Alone at Sea

a. Greg the Babysitter: a “stories of the past” episode where Rose shows up; nothing important really happens though

b. Gem Hunt: a certain character makes a return, but not until the end of the episode; skippable

10. Crack the Whip

a. Steven vs. Amethyst: develops their relationship but skippable overall

11. Bismuth

12. Beta 

13. Earthlings

14. Back to the Moon

15. Bubbled

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Season 4

a. Kindergarten Kid: Looney Tunes-esque episode; fun but skippable

b. Know Your Fusion: certain fusions return but still skippable

c. Buddy’s Book: shows off more of the Gems’ history and has Rose in it; still skippable despite all this since none of it is super important.

2. Mindful Education

a. Future Boy Zoltron: skippable since it focuses on Mr. Smiley and a former colleague; watch if you want to see some fun interactions.

b. Last One Out of Beach City: fun episode and shows some of Pearl’s development, but still skippable.

c. Onion Gang: it’s an Onion episode so: skippable.

d. Gem Harvest: Thanksgiving episode; reveals Steven’s real last name but nothing else important.

3. Three Gems and a Baby

4. Steven’s Dream

5. Adventures in Light Distortion

6. Gem Heist

7. The Zoo

8. That Will Be All

a. The New Crystal Gems: shows us what Connie, Lapis and Peridot did while Steven was in space. Nothing really happens so just skip this one.

9. Storm in the Room

a. Rocknaldo: features Ronaldo once again and is arguably one of the worst episodes. Thankfully, it’s skippable.

b. Tiger Philanthropist: callback to an older episode; doesn’t contribute anything to the current plot

10. Room for Ruby

a. Lion 4: Alternate Ending: goes no where and contributes nothing; reveals possible name for Steven if he was a girl though so...cool I guess? Skip it.

11. Doug Out

a. The Good Lars: develops Lars’ character a little, but not much else

12. Are You My Dad

13. I Am My Mom

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Season 5

a. Stuck Together: Steven and Lars’ relationship develops further along with Lars’ character; some dramatic moments make it an overall a good episode, but you can skip it if you want.

1. The Trial

2. Off Colors

3. Lars’ Head

a. Dewey Wins: Steven realizes why Connie’s upset with him; saved you from watching Mayor Dewey for almost eleven minutes.

b. Gemcation: another good episode, but skippable regardless.

4. Raising the Barn

a. Back to the Kindergarten: shows how Peridot feels after a certain event, but nothing else really happens.

b. Sadie Killer: Sadie starts a band and that’s it. Skip if you don’t care much for Sadie.

c. Kevin Party: watch for character drama and one resolution, but skip if you can’t stand Kevin.

5. Lars of the Stars

6. Jungle Moon

7. Your Mother and Mine

a. The Big Show: a Sadie’s band episode; skippable

b. Pool Hopping: shows off Garnet’s fears and insecurities but is still skippable

c. Letters to Lars: basically amounts to Dewey finding his place in town after losing his job; nothing else so just skip this one.

8. Can’t Go Back

9. A Single Pale Rose

10. Now We’re Only Falling Apart

a. What’s Your Problem: develops Steven and Amethyst’s relationship further; skip if you want, but it’s a good episode to watch.

11. The Question

12. Made of Honor

13. Reunited

14. Legs From Here To Homeworld

15. Together Alone

a. Escapism: shows how Steven contacts the B-team but overall just feels kind of out of place? Skip if you want.

16. Change Your Mind (four parts; almost an hour long btw)

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Watch Steven Universe: The Movie if you plan on watching Steven Universe: Future

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Steven Universe: Future

1. Little Homeschool

a. Guidance: skippable since nothing in this episode is mentioned ever again. Smoky Quartz is in it though so watch if you like her.

2. Rose Buds

3. Volleyball

a. Bluebird: introduces Greg’s new look and a new fusion that’s never brought up again.

b. A Very Special Episode: fun episode but contributes nothing to the overall story.

4. Snow Day

a.  Why So Blue: shows other Lapis Lazulis and shows us how far Lapis has really come; watch if you’re a Lapis fan, but skip if you want.

b. Little Graduation: skip if you never really cared too much about any of the human characters since this is mostly about them.

c. Prickly Pair: downer of an episode; no one ever mentions anything that’s said in this episode, but check it out if you wanna see Steven more of Steven’s plant powers!

6. In Dreams

7. Bismuth Casual

8. Together Forever

9. Growing Pains

a. Mr. Universe: Greg’s history is revealed but doesn’t contribute much so skip if you don’t really care about that too much.

10. Fragments

11. Homeworld Bound

12. Everything’s Fine

13. I Am My Monster

14. The Future

And that’s it! I guess let me know if this list was helpful or not, but other than that: I hope you enjoy Steven Universe!

[azraeldigabriel]

*Ahem* Allow me to explain the phenomenon known as the "Vibe Check." It is a slang term used to invite people to express their present emotional state. In September of 2019, the phrase began seeing use in ironic shitposts in which it was paired with a picture showing a violent act. It can be used affectionately (like glomping someone) or in an incredibly silly or even outrageous way (like straight up Looney Tunes slapstick shenanigans, or implications thereof).

Bless you, jake

[mycasandstarrs]

SPN 8x08: “Hunteri Heroici”

THEN: Sam and Amelia bond over losing a loved one. Cas is out of Purgatory; the truth of how/why he didn’t make it out is revealed. Naomi is the one responsible for resurrecting Cas. She is also Cas’ new boss.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

That is terrifying.

RIP Gary. Heart burst right out of his chest.

“Yeah, hey, you know what? Uh, Dean's here. He really wants to talk to you.”

“Ms. Tran, yeah, hi, uh...” *hangs up*   

PFFT.

“Garth has a safe-houseboat?” I know, right?

“What's the word, Cas?”

“It’s a shortened version of my name.”

Oh, how I missed you.

“Any, uh, tablet chatter on angel radio?”

“Oh, I couldn't say. I turned that off.”

“You can do that?”

“Yeah, it's a simple matter of blocking out certain subsonic frequencies. I could draw you a diagram if you want.”

I would’ve been interested in seeing that diagram.

“Why'd you flip the switch?”

“Because it's a direct link to Heaven. And I don't want anything to do with that place – not anymore.”

Cas was trying to avoid Naomi.

AWW HON.

“I could be your third wheel.”

“You know that's not a good thing, right?”

“Of course it is. A third wheel adds extra grip, greater stability.”

Bless YOUR HEART.

“I even found a case. Oklahoma City – a man's heart jumped 10 feet out of his chest. It sounds like our kind of thing, right?” THE HUNTER LINGO, HOW ADORABLE.

Why are y’all mean to my angel???

Dean and Cas are standing rather close to each other.

“I can't sense any EMF or sulfur. Mr. Freleng's arterial health is, uh, excellent. Mm. He did recently suffer from a... *sniffs* ...mild, uh... *sniffs* What is that? ...bladder infection.”

“Cas, stop smelling the dead guy.”

Cas gets a gold star for trying.

“According to Olivia, they would meet at the park every Thursday at 12:45, walk to the Moonlight diner, where she always ordered a Caesar salad, dressing on the side. They would chat about everything, and she'd be back on the road by 1:30.”

“You don't think she's telling the truth.”

“Too much detail. Sounds rehearsed.”

At least Cas is learning from the best.

“Guy was living a lie, and it came back to bite him in the ticker.”

Don and Amelia’s wedding album. Small yikes.

The lighting during these scenes...is so superficially bright. Like it’s not real, like it’s just a dream.

“It's just this house, you – he's gonna think we're moving too fast. Are we moving too fast?” Yeah, y’all kinda are.

“So, who's this handsome fella? *Amelia’s dad walks past Sam to the dog* Yeah, he's a good boy! How you doing there? You're beautiful.” The chances of me doing that to someone are pretty high..

 (Did Sam ever meet Jess’ parents?)

“I got to say, Sam, you look like a real fixer-upper to me.” How do you even respond to that politely?

OH I KNOW WHAT THIS IS.

“Now, Ms. Freleng, I don't want to bother you. I – I really don't. But I – I do have just one question for you. *slams table* Why did you kill your husband?!”

I LOVE CAS’ ATTEMPT AT BAD COP, I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. 

“I was being bad cop.”

“No, you were being bad everything.”

Where the hell did Cas even learn to do that???

“W-what did you think Gary was hiding?”

“That he was sleeping with her.”

“I know.”

At least it was a good thing Cas exposed that right away. They can now rule out witchcraft.

Straight out of Looney Tunes.

RIP dude. Fell to his death.

“So we're looking for some sort of insect-rabbit hybrid? How do we kill it?”

I love Cas.

“They're little animated movies. You know, uh, the coyote chases a roadrunner, and then the – the anvil gets dropped on his head.”

“Is it supposed to be funny?”

Yeah, it’s hilarious. (Tho the Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner ones were usually my least favorite ones.)

“I understand. The bird represents God. And coyote is man, endlessly chasing the divine, yet never able to catch him. It's... It's hilarious.” You and your weirdo humor.

I love Cas digging through their stuff. It’s adorable.

“Cas, you gonna book a room or what?”

“No, I'll stay here.”

“Oh, okay. Yeah. We'll have a slumber party, braid Sam's hair.”

Team Free will slumber party! That would’ve been adorable.

“Okay, well, I need my four hours, so...”

“I’ll watch over you.”

“That’s not gonna happen.”

Dean gets so flustered over that.

RIP victim #3. Killed by an anvil.

Black Hole. a nefarious bank robber.

“Hey. Can you lift this?”

Cas is like “No shit, I can lift a simple anvil.”

One of my favorite Destiel moments, as upsetting as it gets.

“Your father... Beautiful handwriting.” Aww.

“Don't get me wrong. I'm – I’m happy you're back. I'm – I’m freaking thrilled. It's just this whole mysterious-resurrection thing – it always has one mother of a downside.”

“Maybe take a trip upstairs.”

“To Heaven?”

“Yeah, poke around, see if the God squad can't tell us how you got out.”

“No.”

“Look, man, I – I hate those flying-ass monkeys just as much as you do, but –”

“Dean! I said no!”

Cas putting his foot down.

“Talk to me.” I love when Dean does that.

“Dean, I... When I was... bad... and I had all those things – the... the leviathans... writhing inside me... I caused a lot of suffering on earth, but I devastated Heaven. I vaporized thousands of my own kind, and I – I – I can't go back.” 

(Cas does a little nose scrunch there that is the cutest thing.)

“'Cause if you do, the angels will kill you.”

“Because if I see what Heaven's become – what I – what I made of it... I'm afraid I might kill myself.”

WHAT A HUGE THING TO LEARN

OF ALL THE MOMENTS TO INTERRUPT. S A M.

I would’ve kicked Sam back out.

Sunshine Retirement Home.

“You can't tell me this joint doesn't give you the heebs and/or jeebs.” And that’s where I get it from.

Cas didn’t have his FBI badge? 

Dr. Dwight Mahoney.

(Also, the group alias: Crosby, Stills, and Nash.)

Cas is pretty.

“Oh! You look so much like my third husband.” Get it Sheila!

The heart eyes!

“A lot of these people – they just tune out and live in their own heads. It's like maybe the real world is too much for them, and they just run and hide, you know?”

Sam kinda looked disgusted with that meal.

“Uh, my father was in the Marines.”

“Jarhead, huh?”

“That's right. Uh, 2nd battalion, First Marines, Echo company.”

“I always thought they were a little puffed up, myself. But, hey. What do I know? I'm just an old grunt.”

Have some respect, dude.

“Sam, you got the look.”

“The look?”

“The one a lot of guys get after they've been through the meat grinder – the one that lets you know they've seen a lot of crap they can't forget. The second their feet hit solid ground, they start running, and they don't stop – not till they find something to hold on to.”

“You think that's what I'm doing here? Just holding on?”

Yeah, Sam.

“I think the two of you are holding on to each other, yeah. 'Cause I know she's scared. After what happened to Don, I don't blame her for taking off. Needing to run away and hide – I know why she did it. The question is – what are you running from, Sam?” Amelia’s dad freaking exposed them.

Fred Jones, a psychokinetic.

“So, you really think this one man is causing all of these... shenanigans?”

Testing the theory, Dean hit himself with a book. It’s textbook cartoon-ish, right down to the birdies.

“Do we... kill him?”

“Excuse me, Agents. Did he just threaten to murder one of my patients?”

Of all the times to get caught.

The cake mishap.

“Fred’s gone.”

“What?”

I’ll always love exasperated Cas.

Dr. Mahoney, the real villain.

The orderly just spills all the tea.

“Seems to me like the dude's living in a dream world.”

“This – it won't last. You are living in a dream world.”

“Sam is a mess.”

“I'm a mess. But when I'm with Sam, I'm happy, Dad. And I haven't been happy in a really long time. So please, just... let us be messes together.” 

But that’s how it falls apart.

At least the Dad immediately started on the “give him a chance” thing.

Cas gets him and Sam inside Fred’s mind.

Shattered reality.

“What's up, Doc?” Dean saw a chance and he took it.

“You let me walk, and half of this is yours.” UH REALLY

“Give up! I've been dealing with this crazy for months! And you – idiot – bring a gun to a gag fight.” Great line.

Sam vague talking about his own experience.

“Look, it can be nice living in a dream world. It can be great. I know that. And you can hide, and you can pretend...all the crap out there doesn't exist, but you can't do it forever because... eventually, whatever it is you're running from – it'll find you. It'll come along, and it'll punch you in the gut. And then... then you got to wake up, because if you don't, then trying to keep that dream alive will destroy you! It'll destroy everything!”

Fred takes back control.

RIP Dr. Mahoney. Forced to shoot himself.

“Now that's all, folks.”

“You got to make it stop.”

“There might be a way. The procedure will be painful, and... when it's over, I'm not sure how much of you will be left.”

“Well, what are you waiting for?”

Awww, Cas earned shotgun riding!

“I have been trying to pretend that I can escape what I did in Heaven, but I can't. All that pain that I caused – I – I have to come back, to make things right.” Cas took Sam’s words to heart.

“I want to stay with Mr. Jones. Someone should watch over him for a few days just to be safe.”

“Okay, and then what?”

“Then I'm not sure. But I know I can't run anymore.”

:’)

“So, Ame is playing the Sugarplum fairy, right? Right? Now, this is her big moment, you understand, and she waddles up onto the stage –”

“Waddles?”

“What? You were a chubby kid. It was adorable. Anyway, she waddles up onto the stage, and she is dragging two feet of toilet paper behind her.”

A cute family moment...

Sam opens up about what he’s running from: losing Dean.

Sam’s gut punch has come. Don’s alive.

“Ode to Joy from Symphony No.9” by Ludwig van Beethoven.

[littlemisssquiggles]

RWBY CHIBI Musings #3: An adorably funny way for the CRWBY to introduce Oscar into the Chibi-verse for RWBY Chibi Season 3

I’m not sure if I’m going to make it a habit to muse about Chibi but I just couldn’t resist further developing and sharing this one idea I thought of over the weekend. 

At first I figured it’d be too ridiculous of a concept to execute but then I remembered that this is the magical RWBY Chibi-verse: a wondrous world of slapstick where characters killed off in the main series are resurrected for good humorous antics and shenanigans; where a tiny pooch can be a stage hand, a life guard and a well-published author at the same time and where the Creatures of Grimm; monsters feared in the main story, are reduced to talking animals with lines straight out of a cable TV sitcom.

So who gives a shit about logic for in the Chibi-verse, anything goes. So if we can get all those things and more, then the likeliness of my crack musing becoming canon could be plausible. Alright, hear me out with this one.

At first I figured it’d be something simple like maybe the RWBY girls magically wind up lost in Mistral and have to stop and ask for directions from a stranger and after giving the side eye to a brief surprise cameo from a shady looking Chibi Hazel or even Chibi Tyrian, they end up taking advice from a small gentle farm boy who was quietly enjoying a normal day on his auntie’s farm when the four girls came rolling by.

In the beginning, I thought that might be more canon-worthy but then I thought ‘No Squiggles! This is the RWBY Chibi-verse you’re dealing with! A cartoon reality that gives the royal middle finger to anything sensible. So think harder. Think less logical and more cartoon-spoofy that would make Bugs Bunny slow clap in approval!’

And that’s when I came up with this.

Imagine if...

The girls make the daring jump off the bridge all Thelma and Louis-style but instead of falling to their supposed deaths, they end up pulling an ole Looney Tunes trick and wind up bursting through the Chibi set designs that were modelled after Vale, flying straight towards a new unknown location never before seen in the show.

Cut to somewhere else in the Chibi-verse, a completely different set design placed in Mistral where we get our first debut appearance of Chibi Oscar. The young boy was sitting warily up in his room complaining out loud to himself that nothing interesting ever happens around his aunt’s farm in Mistral. It’s always the same old routine every day. He gets up in the morning, tends to his usual daily chores around the farm, returns back up to his room in the barn till his aunt calls him down for supper. He eats and then it’s time for bed to begin another day of same old, same old.

With a disgruntled huff, Oscar pleads to whatever ‘Writer Gods’ that exist in the Chibi-verse that just once he’d like for something interesting to happen on the farm. And just as the young chibi farm boy says this out loud...

BAM! The RWBY mobile crash lands right in the middle of his room, putting a nice big hole in his bedroom ceiling. Oscar stares at both the vehicle and the mess it did to his room in complete shock; unable to believe his eyes.

“Holy Shitake mushrooms! That actually worked! Auntie was right. Praying to the Gods does work! It’s not just a trick to get me to go the church.” Oscar remarks jubilantly. He then gets down on his knees in a praying position.

“Now I wish for an infinite supply of money!” Oscar says, praying to the Writer Gods once more. Of course, nothing happens this time and the young boy is displeased by this.

“Seriously? You crash a car into my bedroom but won’t send me the money to fix it!” Oscar gripes with huffed freckly chibi cheeks, “Well if I can’t have more money then can you at least give me a cute girl to love me!”

Just as Oscar utters those words, the back trunk of the RWBY mobile springs open and out pops Chibi Ruby who gets shot out of the vehicle right into the outstretched arms of Oscar who catches her in perfect timing. Oscar gives Ruby the once over, ogling her with wide hazel eyes and she in turn stares right back at him, waving and smiling awkwardly.

“...You...have silver eyes?” Oscar mutters bewilderedly.

“...And you...have avocado-eyes?” Ruby responds with an embarrassed shrug, “Sorry about your roof but do you mind telling us where we are, exactly?”

Oscar doesn’t answer Ruby. He just looks up to the heavens again and says “I will never doubt your magic again.” as he thanked the Writer Gods, before unsubtly breaking the fourth wall and winking to the audience watching.

And scene. Roll credits.

 Ey? Eyyyyy? Whaddaya think? Totally RWBY Chibi material, am I right or am I right?

I know the chances of this being Oscar’s intro into the Chibi-verse are slim to...never gonna happen in a bazillion years but a squiggle meister can dream, can’t she?

 ~~LittleMissSquiggles (2018)

[lightdancer1]

There were also two pastiches of the two major versions of Raven at the time (now there’s what, six or seven or more but I’m sticking with the two I grew up with).

The Lightdancer is the Wolfman-Perez cosmic horror character with her demonic elements entirely visible and the overtly pagan and religious vibe.

The Shadow-woman began as an expy of the 2003 version, down to the bob hairstyle, and the far more aggressive element with her use of weaponized shadow-powers (which is not a power the original 80s Raven had). She began that way but she’s evolved into a cosmic Deadpool/Bugs Bunny expy complete with a sister, Blackbird, who’s closer to her than any of her blood siblings and happens to be the firstborn daughter of Angra Mainyu, the four-eyed ruler of the Tetrarchy of Pandaemonium, the Lord of Skulls and Ruin.

Blackbird, however, is more the straight (hah, as if anyone in my cosmic hierarchy actually would be straight) woman to the Shadow-woman’s shenanigans, and something of the cloudcuckoolander’s minder, and possesses equal or greater power as a spanner in the works.

The Omniverse Tales system relies on cosmic good and evil in an endless cycle of Ragnarokian rebirths with new evils and new goods arising, with the triumph of Good meaningful and evil actually having the function of a more overtly malicious concept of entropy.

The function of the Shadow-woman, Karlee Meir of Gotham City and her sister the Blackbird, is to take this perfectly honed system and insert into a fourth-wall aware cosmic horror that knows she’s fictional and so are all of her kin, who regularly makes rather unkind comments about the stories she and her sisters get put in, and has a habit of deliberately hijacking narratives for the sheer fun of it.

Imagine the Mask and/or Deadpool if they had the power of a capital G god, the same sense of humor, and what would happen if this Looney Tunes style figure decided she wanted to mess around with anyone in her sight.

The *best* case scenario is being that one cop in the Jim Carrey mask movie. The worst case is that *she* sees it as that movie but the person on the receiving end gets the *DARK HORSE* Mask which was more of a horror story about someone with Toon Physics turned slasher movie villain.

[funnycutcats]

The Most Popular Famous Cats and Their Impact on the World

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There are cats – and then there are famous cats. We're talking about those instantly recognizable felines whose image and legacy define entire pop culture eras. In the world, the internet and the printed page, here is a call of the world's most iconic felines.

Social media stars and starlets

Grumpy Cat. Photography © Alamy Stock Photos.

The social media is about to come out of the world, but it does not come close to Grumpy Cat when it comes to spreading a feline's face around the world. Renowned for her characteristic – the result of dwarfism and an underbite – pictures of the self-defined "world's grumpiest cat" blew up the reddit circuit before going viral and inspiring an avalanche of memes. It's a fame that Grumpy's flipped into an empire that includes a movie, a series of books and an endless stream of merchandise.

Lil BUB. Photography © Alamy Stock Photos.

Just like Grumpy Cat, Lil BUB's take off when photos of this litter took over Tumblr. But thanks to her small size – she's a "perma-kitten" due to genetic abnormalities – and constantly stuck-out tongue, she's used to become an ambassador for special-needs cats and adopt-don't-shop culture. BUB's owner, Mike Bridavsky, claims to be more than $ 300,000.

Maru the famous cat. Photography © Alamy Stock Photos.

Swinging back to the lighter side of the social media circuit, Maru has become a kitty champion by virtue of one of the finely honed skills. Videos of Maru mastering his art are so popular that this is the most popular movie on YouTube, claiming over 350 million views.

On-screen famous cats

Orangey in Breakfast At Tiffany's. Photography © Everett Collection, Inc. | Alamy Stock Photo.

Long before we are all fixated on YouTube videos on our phones, the cinema was the place to catch famous cats in cation. In the pantheon of famous cats on screen, one cat takes top billing and that's Orangey. Well, that's his real name, but you probably know this marmalade thespian as simply Cat, the darling feline from the Audrey Hepburn movie Breakfast At Tiffany's.

Orangey's other screen times include The Diary Of Anne Frank and The Incredible Shrinking Man, along with the TV show Impossible mission. But behind the glamor and glitz, the Hollywood rumors suggest that you have been in the dark, often scratching and attacking actors who could not live up to his high dramatic standards.

Continuing with the orange-cats-on-camera angle, Morris The Cat is the tabby that stars in the 9th Lives series of cat food commercials. The original Morris was scooped up from the Humane Society in Illinois back in the '60s and proudly embraced his role as the world's most finicky cat'.

Later on in his career, Morris would score roles next to Burt Reynolds and Elliott Gould, and even take a trip to the White House where it's drawn to a bill.

Literary kitties

The Cheshire Cat. Photography © Alamy Stock Photos.

Back in the 1930s, the Algonquin Hotel in New York City began fostering lineage of literary cats. The Algonquin Round Table – a group of smart-ass writers that included Robert Benchley, Harold Ross and Dorothy Parker – but then a cat called Hamlet showed up and attempted to usurp them all.

Since then, the Algonquin's resident feline has been referred to as Hamlet or Matilda, depending on gender. The duties of the current incumbent, Hamlet VIII, include presiding over the annual cat fashion show.

Broadening the feline Literary Circle The Cat In The Hat and The Cheshire Cat. The form, a creation of Dr. Seuss, donations to a red-and-white striped hat and a couple of kids with his rhyming patter. Popularized by Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures In WonderlandThe Cheshire Cat is famed for a super-wide grin, which suggests mischief or some sort of psychedelic night.

Cartoon cats

Tom and Jerry. Photography © Alamy Stock Photos.

The cartoon world is littered with famous cats. Debuting back in 1919, the black-and-white Felix The Cat can be said to be one of the world's first animated feline superstars, thanks to an endearingly wide grin that reads silent movie screens. A couple of decades later, Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry helped popularize the cartoon cat trend by portraying the slapstick of a domestic shorthair who's continually toyed with a tiny brown mouse.

In a similar style, the same animation house brings the misadventures of Mr. Jinks, an orange feline constantly thwarted by a couple of dapper mice, while the studio's Top Cat character kept the shenanigans running through the '60s New York City staff crew continuously harassed by Officer Dibble. Slinking over to the Looney Tunes world, we can not forget Sylvester, a tall tuxedo cat with a lisp who can usually be found on the chase of Tweety Bird.

Embracing the less energetic side of the spectrum is Garfield, a proudly portly creation of the cartoonist Jim Davis. With his slothful and cynical outlook on the world, Garfield has kinda come to symbolize the excess of the '80s.

Jumping forward a decade, Ren and Stimpy performed a similar trick, with the off-kilter brainchild creation of John Kricfalusi channeling the MTV era by presenting a skewed view of life through the lens of an animated Chihuahua and his well-meaning goal goofy feline pal .

Moving on to the '90s and the early days, CatDog switches up to the formula of a cat and a canine together with their opposing personalities. Naturally, Cat is the refined, more astute – and, admittedly, often cunning – side of the partnership.

Finally, we could not say hello to the most recognizable cats of the world without a hint towards hello kitty, a feline whose cultural impact is so great. Now that's iconic.

Follow these famous cats on Instagram

Grumpy Cat @realgrumpycat

Lil BUB @iamlilbub

Maru @maru_the_cat

Morris the Cat @ morristhe9livescat

Hamlet @thealgonquincat

Garfield @garfield

Hello Kitty @hellokitty

Thumbnail: Photography © Xinhua | Alamy Stock Photos.

Phillip Mlynar spends his days writing about cats, hip-hop and food, often while being pestered by his rescue, a mackerel tabby named Mimosa. His work appears in Vice, Pitchfork, Village Voice, Bandcamp and Catster. He's won various awards at the Cat Writers' Association's Communication Contests, some of which are proudly on display at his local dive bar in New York City.

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Amphibia Weekly Reviews: Bessie and Mircroangelo/The Third Temple “The Things We’ve Set into Motion Cannot Be Stopped”

Hello all you happy people. It’s been a long road, with an even longer road trip, but the season’s almost over: just two more weeks of Amphibia.. and with all the build up weighing down on our heroes two things are clear: this cannot end well for Anne or anyone involved, and this is going to hurt. It’s going to hurt a LOT. it’s going to be some...

... how have I not used more MST3K gifs. Questions for later. Point is with emotional pain immient, a revolution on the way this episode only ratchets up the tension.. while also sparing some time for makeover jokes and a breather episode about snail mentorships, fashion montages and giant crabs. I do love me some giant crabs. And i’ll tell you allllll about it under the cut. 

Bessie and MicroAngelo:

This episode finds our heroes preparing for the third and final temple, loading up the wagon and preparing weapons, maps, potions, all that good stuff. 

We end up getting two plots out of this. The first is the titular one: so Polly can help prepare, Hop Pop gives Bessie the task of watchin gher snail and certified cutie MicroAngelo, that tiny Snail who I assumed would disappear forever after his intitial apperance because that’s usually what cartoons does. But much like One Piece, Al Ewing and that owl what watches me while I sleeps, Amphibia never forgets. 

It’s some Looney Tunes style shenanigans.. not the bugs or daffy, more on him later today, kind more the “Bigger more responsible party protects the smaller more vunerable or reckless one” kind you’d see eveyr so often. Tom and Jerry also really loved this. And Amphibia wears it well, with some good gags and really cute bonding and some really excellent animation on Bessie, giving the old girl plenty of life and animation. The only part I genuinely do not like is Hop Pop  blaming Bessie for.. running after micro angelo afte rhe ran off. Aka doing the job you assigned her. 

Someone i’m looking at. Regardless otherwise it’s just some fun, adorable slapstick with a downright precious ending. And hop pop DOES apologize.. and wish he was a cute snail. I do not have time to unpack all the implications there nor ponder what Hop Pop would look like in a snail costume. This week’s given my brain enough nightmares. 

So anyway, our subplot has Marcy trying to give Anne a Makeover... and her past attempts with Sasha have been objectively horrifying so Anne is rightly scared, though the armorer who comes to help with it has a blue crab so tha’ts where all my attention. I fucking love crabs.. they just look so neat. Some see the fact a spider crab being out and about in animal crossing as horrifying. I see it as oh look at my cool terrifying crab friend. About the only crab I don’t like is this asshole. 

And even then he can be VERY funny. .he’s just also an exploitative douchebag and having worked in food service, let me tell you I.. I get why Squidward is the way he is. That said Krabbyland is a masterpiece entirely because he’s such a terrible person, so it ballances out when the show’s doing it’s best. 

Point is I like crabs and I like this subplot.. though mostly because it says a LOT about who Anne and Marcy are and where there at. Part of why Marcy is so gung ho about helping Anne is she figures this is her last shot to be whoever she wants to be. But really she’s just projecting: it’s been obvious since we properly met her that Marcy.. likes living HERE more than earth. On earth she’s an outcast: her hyperfixations, her tendency to babble about things she likes, her smartness... alll things that just make people turn away from her or pick on her on earth, with only two people relaly understanding and appricating her.. maybe more but we don’t know the situation with her parents yet. As someone who is a lot of those things, I get where she’s coming from. 

So ending up in a world straight out of an rpg... she florished. Everything that made her life difficult at home suddenly made her florish: her skill with RPG’s meant she could blend in easily with the courtly high class of Newtopia, gave her a love of taking on missions, and allowed her to put her hyperfixation, knowledge and enthusasim to real world use, creating massive improvments in an already ritzy city. Everything that made her an outcast in our world made her a hero there. It’s why I worry about what’s to come: to both Grime and Andrias.. she’s the perfectly made pawn: too desperate to have Sasha back to see the kinfe he wants her to plant in Marcy’s, and too happy to be accepted to see the rpg convention, the benevolent ruler turning out ot be a puppet for the big bad, starring her in the face. Amphibia’s given her her freedom.. but it’s also left her very vunerable and may leave her alone. 

As for Anne.. she realizes how far she’s come: from selfish and kind of distructive to selfless and self reliant.. and still kind of destructive but hey, you can’t cahnge eveyrthing about yourself. It’s why when given heavy armor.. all she needs is the core of it.. something simple to guard her but nothing too complex. She’s fine with who she is.. and it’s why she’s in the best place of the three girls. And why she’s left smack in the middle of the war to come. A war she can’t stop and that will leave her having to choose one... or do the right , hard thing and choose neither and try and free them from the bad influences they’ve embded themselves in. Either way this is going to hurt both her and the audience. 

Final Thoughts: Bessie and Mircoangelo is good classic cartoon fun with a suprisingly deep subplot. Simple, but a nice pallete clensar, especially since the next episode is pretty tense and given it’s ending and eveyrthing that’s been building this season, it’s likely only going to get worse from here, so it’s nice to have a quick and breezy break before hell comes to frogtown. 

The Third Temple:

Before we get to the final temple we get a flashback showing how Sasha met Anne and Marcy. The other two were playing on the swings when two big dillholes pushed them off and Sasha selflessly and fearlessly stood up to them. And promptly beat herself up more than the bullies who dodged her and eventually got so freaked out by whatever the hell this was they ran and a friendship was born. But noticably she’s a lot diffrent 7 years ago, aproximately, than she is at 13: she’s every bit as fearless and willfull.. but the compassion she once had got buried under a need for control. It’s easy to see now WHY Marcy and Anne loved her so much: she was their friend, their protector, she cared about them.. and while she never STOPPED somewhere along the way it became less about doing the right thing for the women she loves and more about getting her way. 

And now the two have had time to heal from what their friend girlfriend became.. it’s time to rip that wound wide open as finally, after almost a season of waiting, Sasha reunites with Marcy for the first time and Anne for the second. 

Naturally her return is in time for her gem to be charged, though our heroes unware of that didn’t seek her out before going in. This time Frobo’s riding claw though weirdly dosen’t come inside. Which is a problem with Frobo’s addition to the cast as the whole: they’ve kept him out of any episode since his induction into the family and only properly explained it once. It just dosen’t make a lot of sense to me; Yes he is massively powerful but his childlike thought process counters that. He’s easy enough to write in but is left out becasue the writers don’t want to deal with an extra character. And I had more than enough of that shit when watching Ducktales. I don’t need it when your main cast isn’t NEARLY as large or hard to juggle. It’s just galling to have spent an entire season showing he was following them, give him a whole episode.. and then just forget about him because i’ts convient. Hopefully he’ll play a bigger role as things progress and we find out where he came from because his misuse is a dark spot on an otherwise great second half of the season. 

Frobo does get to prove himself useful though and open s the temple door he just weirdly dosen’t come along. But this does leave the door open for Sasha to come in as our heroes struggle with the first puzzle: Turns out this dungeon was built by a bro, seriously the temple languge is very broey and VERY hilarious contrasted with how normal for a fantasy setting the others were, as is fitting the strength gem, so our heroes have to compete feats of strength. Unfortunately this does not mean wrestling the ghost of Jerry Stiller to the ground but instead fighting some Lava Worms, and fighting just ONE of them and lifting the provided warhammers is a challenge for Anne.. and she’s the only one who can with Marcy not having enough upper body stregnth and the plantars all de-hydrated spongebob style. 

So naturally Sasha ends up being their savor, easily dispatching them and getting some help from grime who while also dehydrated, is still phsycially strong enough to be of some help. Marcy is overjoyed to see her.. and is the only one. Given Marcy hasn’t been on the wrong end of Sasha and Grime like they have, it’s understandable: while Marcy’s grappled with Sasha’s actions and grip on her and Anne, it’s been clear it hasn’t hit her as hard as it has for Anne and she likely dosen’t get the full scope of it like Anne does. To her Sasha just made a mistake and she’s back now and tha’ts what matters. To Anne and the Plantars... sasha and grime tried to kill them and Sasha then tried commiting suciide to save them. The scars of that haven’t really healed for them, nor should they. 

And given Sasha has spent the season clearly blamiing everything on Anne defying her and has been raising an army based on her resentment, and given she flew into a jealous blinding rage at finding her exes were fine and dandy without her she.. wholheartdly apologizes. 

Yeah she apologizes.. but tellingly while she talks about her and Grime being left homeless following the battle.. she leaves out everything after: The fight with Yuan, the growing rebellion, driving her friends away, the horrifying army Grime now commands. Something’s off. 

Anne naturally dosen’t trust her to do this herself and insists on coming along sitll. The next task is juts.. asking how much you lift bro, which Sasha easily passes by lifting, bro. 

The final test in Jim Crunch’s Temple of Fitness, I mean who else could’ve wrote this, is of course a big fight with a giant statue of a toad, fitting how each temple so far was built by one of the civlizations: there were frog statues and symbols in the first temple, the second was guarded by a newt and the last now has a toad guard.Though curiously.. the test itself is wholly designed for a human. Before it wasn’t 100% clear even with the hyroglyps if the chosen ones had to be human or not.. but now it’s impossible to argue otherwise. There were hints : The fact the guardian pegged her as a possible chosen one on sight , the ruins in the background of the title cards which also depict the watcher with a thousand eyes (which is what i’ll be calling him till we get his, her , they or it’s actually name. ).. but here the chamber includes a gravity increase dbz style, meaning our heroines are the only ones who can stand as the Plantars and Grimes frog and toad bodies respectively aren’t strong enough to stand anymore. And while Marcy tries it ends up falling on Anne and Sasha with Sasha being Angry Anne doesn’t trust her.. and Anne not refuting it, pointing out she has EVERY REASON not to. As she puts it “it’s not just toad tower”. For most of their lives Sasha has been controlling, caring about what she wants and not what the people she loves wants. It wasn’t just the fight there... it was simply the wakeup call to how bad a person Sasha had been. 

And for the first time in the episode.. Sasha is geniune, apologizing for what she did, and genuinely admitting how she treated Anne wasn’t wrong. it was something she coudln’t admit to herself episodes ago.. but faced with both loosing two more people due to her behavior, and having plenty of time to reflect on said behavhior.. she finally relaizes it’s her. Fuck man.. what else is there to say. 

Oh right the giant monster thing, which Anne trusts Sasha to finish.. and we get anothe rDBZ homage as Sasha removes part of her armor, which creates a CRATER, which lowers her weight enough to fight the thing. She gets a thumbs up and the honor of recharging it. 

Anne suggests opening the box.. but Marcy is VERY quick to shoot that down and suggest talking to the king. And while her reason SOUNDS good,, they don’t want to get warped somewhere ELSE at random.. it’s very clear from her actions and how quick she tried to stop it that she needs them to get to Andrias for whatever he’s talked her into. And I emphasis talked her into: Marcy trusts the king, and was in a very emotional place when he was about to talk to her at the end of season 2a... and he knew it. He knew she was at her most vunerable, most malable and trusted him completely.. and knew right then and there was his shot at getting vengance.. for him and his master. Whatever he has planned.. it’s not good. The mechancial lovecraftian horror he keeps in his creepy basement full of lost souls is a dead giveaway from that. But I don’t.. fault Marcy for it. It’s not just because I sympahtize.. to her Andrias is a good noble king trying to help her. He’s the kindly mentor she always wanted, a person who enjoys her skills dosen’t care how much she talks and has complete faith in her, something even Anne struggles with. 

But it’s VERY clear, to me at least he’s been likely using her from the moment they met: to her sh’es just an optomistic pawn, someone gullible enough to do whatever he says. I’ve always felt that her “missions” probably had some darker purpose she wasn’t aware of: getting Andrias things he needs for his army, an army she has no idea is opressing people. She’s insulated from that and instead surronded by adoring people who accept her for once. Even going to wartwood, she hasn’t yet made the connection between the toad towers and what their purpose is. I think deep down she might suspect this stuff.. but she can’t ACCEPT that the one person who every had nothing but faith in her.. is a horrible person who opresses others and somehow has even WORSE plans in store. 

Sasha likewise is facing the pressure of her parental figure.. while her patching it up with Anne was legitmate... her and Grime’s own plans rely on getting in there and Grime simply sees the other two as pawns , and just like the king he wants he wants to overthrow, their use expires once his plans in motion. 

But the thing is.. it’s clear despite assuring Grime she’s still all in.. her face in the last shot, as seen above.. says otherwise. Her apology was legitmate, not just an attempt to get close to the one thing in her way of power, but what she’s come to realize: she’s gone from blaming Anne for it.. to realizing it was her. But she’s also stuck: while Marcy is unaware of the strings her pupeteer is pulling her towards.. Sasha is all too aware of what her mentor is planning. And the thing was she was all too willing to go for it. She blamed Anne for what happened at the tower, blamed Anne for turning marcy against her and blamed the plantars and co for turning anne against her. But in the harsh light of day... none of that’s true. Marcy dosen’t hate her, neither does anne, they didn’t turn against her.. they were just tired of her shitty behavior and wanted the friend they found that day on the playground back, the woman they loved who’d go to hell and back for someone and not the bitter, manipultive person she became. She’s once again realized it was her fault.. the question is if that’s enough for her to do the right thing or not. And the hardest question of all is IF not reblling isn’t the right thing. Wfhile the Toad’s probably shoudln’t be in charge either, Andrias REALLY shouldn’t. There’s NO easy answers here, no happy outcome that makes everyone live’s better. There’s no easy way out, no shortcut home.. just the louder and louder drumbeats of war and one girl’s decision of whose side she’s going to take.

Final Thoughts on the Third Temple: As with the other four sasha episodes thus far, this was frogging brilliant. Shoudln’t be a suprise and it makes me both look forward and dread the war to come

Next Week: The plantars try to bury the hatchet with Sasha and Grime, the girls enter a battle of the bands, and the finale comes ever closer.

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