#they're in the order of when they happen in the movie 😎

[dragon-spaghetti]

Every screenshot 'redraw' I've done but all in one post because I think they're pretty 💖

(Please click for better quality!)

[ian-galagher]

for your followers: africa spoilers galore.

today on nosho's gif shenanigans: hercules.

- ian going to africa. including him and his optimism is mandatory. as is getting his hopes crushed.

- "fuck, he's hot." ian: hehe, sexy mentor says i'm hot 😎 mickey: you fucking idiot are gonna die of heatstroke in these clothes! change! ian: "oh."

- mickey taking ian to kruger on day one.

- ian: proud of his pics. mickey: no.

- mickey, day two: you're going home. ian: i think the fuck not?

- nick.

- mickey pov when ian changed his shirt after getting the car out of the mud.

- on the lookout on day six.

- ian x mickey at god's window.

- ian and the dogs.

- mandy: "why the fuck are you dressed like my brother?" ian:

- "i like you, ian. […] can't believe you're banging my brother. you know you can do better, right?"

- i can't decide whether pain and panic are ian x mandy / ian x inyoni / inyoni x mandy, so i'll say all three and let you decide.

- "you and your stupid face distracted me."

- day twelve. send tweet.

- mickey finding out ian told his family they're fucking ("y'might as well have put an ad in the paper tellin' the whole world we're bangin'! who else did ya tell? bet you told everyone you know. i swear, if you told any of the rangers, i-").

- ian getting his toast back by making mickey horny.

- "friends forever?" / "friends forever."

- mandy at the braai.

- ian x mickey slowly falling for the other.

- ian x mickey:

mandy:

- bonus: me, @francesrose3, @juliakayyy, not necessarily in that order.

Herculeeeeeeeeeees! 😍 Nosho Nosho Nosho!!!! 🥰🧡 squeezing you hugging you giving you little kisses on your head 🤗

EVERY Disney movie just happens to have the perfect shot for "Ian is off to Africa" 😂😂😂

Ian calling Mickey out on him saying "fuck he's hot" 😂 Mickey, thinking fast: how do I get this guy to take his clothes off in front of me.... I KNOW!!! 😂

THE GATES TO KRUGER 😭

"mickey: no" 😂😂😂

"get lost means take me I'm yours" 😂😂😂 100% what Mickey meant there 😂

nick 😂😂😂

Ian changing his shirt in the car!! 😂

DAY SIX 😭😭😭

DAY SEVEN 😭😭😭

IAN WITH THE DOGS 😭😭😭 SO ADORABLE 😭😂

omg the SHOES 😂

"you can do better" HES A GUY 😂😂😂😂 too true! 😂

all 3 😂😂😂 whoever is talking to anyone at any point is pain&panic in that moment 😂

omg 😂 "we dance, we kiss, we carry on, we go home happy, what do you say?" 😂😭😂 IF ONLY!!!! Someone write a fix it for this fic 😂

LOOOL Mickey blowing up "I'm fine I'm cool" 😂😂😂 that's also me getting these posts 😂 I'm fine though, it's cool, all is cool 😂

game set match 😂😂😂 cackling!!

FRIENDS FOREVER 😭😭😭

Mandy getting wasted 😂

SLOWLY FALLING FOR EACH OTHER 😭😭😭😭😭😭 and then Mandy taking one look at them and she just *knows* 😂

omg the gang is here again 😂😂😂 needs more sparkles! ✨🌟✨

THANK YOU NOSHO THIS WAS SO GOOD AGAIN 😊🥰🧡

🦁🪶🦒🧡💖💚💙🤗😎

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

Just the Best 2/2001 2001 Pop / Euro-House / Trance / R&B / Pop-Rock / Europop / Pop-Punk / Dance-Pop / Hip Hop

God, do I really love going through these Now That's What I Call Music!-type comps from Europe. Late 90s/early 2000s releases like these always make for such fun, eclectic trips down memory lane, but from the perspective of a different region of the world. Our top 40 charts in America share a lot in common with other places, and that leads to a nice nostalgia rush for everyone involved, but there's also a lot of music we don't share in common at all. So the goal when listening to these ephemeral things is to get some of that good nostalgia, discover a few sweet tracks that you weren’t previously familiar with, and then hopefully find something so patently absurd and terrible that you really can't help but just smile at how ridiculous it is. And fortunately, I was able to tick all three of those boxes with this 28th dispatch from Germany's Just the Best series.

So let's start with all of this goofy and gaudy, brain-melting Eurotrash madness first, because that happens to arrive immediately on this double-disc in the form of an unbelievably awful and BIG nu-rap-metal cover of, yep, you guessed it, "Kumbaya," by Mittermeier vs. Guano Babes. But get this, y'all (as I pull up a chair and proceed to sit in it backwards): they didn't actually end up calling their version of the song "Kumbaya;" they called it "Kumba Yo!" instead, which should really give you an idea of just how cool this song actually is 😎. I mean, they even loaded it up with turntable scratches and there's a quieter beatboxed portion too! It really is such a dynamic work!

But we're really only just getting started here, folks, because later on in this first disc is also an utterly mindless Italian Eurohouse groove by a group called The Pizza Boys, who deliver their debut hit, "Oh Le Le," with verses about pizza pie that sound like they're being sung by a robot! And, honestly, does it really get more Italian than that?

Tomato, mozzarella Pizza bella, pizza bella Salami, margherita Pizza pazza, dolce vita!

And then there's this group of Danish teenage girls called Little Trees, who end up supplying a piece of manufactured, cotton-candied Europop fluff in...wait for it..."Help I'm a Fish," which apparently served as the title track for a 2001 animated box office bomb by the same name (also called A Fish Tale, which is *not* to be confused with the much more successful 3D-animated 2004 film, Shark Tale), and also somehow managed to fall just outside of the top ten on the UK's Singles chart as well. I've pretty clearly never seen this song's corresponding movie before, but this definitely feels like one of those soundtrack tunes that—just like how cheesy rap songs used to do it in the credit rolls for family-oriented blockbusters in the 80s and 90s—explains the plot of the movie through its very own lyrics. So I think this flick's about the wacky adventures of a kid who gets turned into a fish after ingesting a magic potion. But thankfully, the ending isn't spoiled through the song, so you'll just have to watch it for yourself in order to find out if the kid ultimately chooses in the end to go back to being a human, or if they decide to remain a fish. It's all so suspenseful, I know, but guess what else? The English-language version of the movie also happens to star not only a then-completely-unknown Aaron Paul, but also...Alan Rickman?!?

Alright, enough of this lunacy. Next section.

Let's get to the nostalgia portion of this post, which actually won't be very long, because I think there's only three songs across these two discs that actually turned out to be hits in the States: one-hit wonder Wheatus' radio-friendly nerdy Hot Topic anthem, "Teenage Dirtbag" (currently stuck in my head), which features frontman Brendan B. Brown singing every vocal part, including the falsetto of the female character that he himself is smitten with; the Britney Spears ballad, "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know," which was co-written by Shania Twain and didn't actually chart in the States because it was never released as a single here and only aired on the radio; and then brief R&B star Joe's "Stutter," which, much to my surprise, actually managed to top Billboard's Hot 100 chart for four whole weeks back in 2001?! 😯 An okay slate overall, I guess, but usually when it comes to Euro comps like these, somewhere between about a quarter and a third of their selections are songs that were popular in the US. So, on the early 2000s US nostalgia front, this release seems to be a bit of an anomaly.

And now, to finish with something else that also came as a bit of a surprise: some pretty decent dance tunes. Most of the time, these comps might come with one or two good dance tracks, and then the rest will be these disposable hunks of plastic junk that feel inexplicable as to how people ever unironically enjoyed them in the first place. And, to be clear, there's still a bunch of those types of tunes that are on here (see Gigi D'Agostino's monotonously stupid "Super (Riscaldamento)," featuring Albertino, for example). But there's also a good amount of tracks on this release that, I think, feel both pretty fun and well-made too. Stuffy trance snobs may still bristle at the songs that I'm going to list as highlights here anyway, but I really enjoyed the tribal drum-infused "Played A-Live (The Bongo Song)," by Safri Duo, as well as Airheadz' "Stanley (Here I Am)," which strangely goes on these brief trip hop detours that smack of Dido's "Thank You." Plus, there's a *really* good vocal house tune from French group Superfunk too called "Last Dance (And I Come Over)" that feels kinda perfect for a pool party.

So, another long and strange turn-of-the-millennium trip through the nutty German mainstream is in the books here. Didn't really end up getting the nostalgia rush that I thought I was gonna get, but the unexpected dose of good dance tunes made up for that anyway. And that small handful of extremely tacky and beyond-the-pale Eurotrash could also definitely come in handy for the next time I end up reaching a plastered state of delirium as well 🥴😅.

Highlights:

CD1:

Wheatus - "Teenage Dirtbag" CD2:

Safri Duo - "Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song)" Airheadz - "Stanley (Here I Am)" Rui da Silva feat. Cassandra - "Touch Me" Superfunk feat. Everis Pellius - "Last Dance (And I Come Over)" RMB - "Deep Down Below" Svenson & Gielen - "The Beauty of Silence"

Lowlights:

CD1:

Mittermeier vs. Guano Babes - "Kumba Yo!" Little Trees - "Help I'm a Fish" Pizza Boys - "Oh Le Le" Glow - "President of Boarderland"

[sugaroto]

Can't believe I have to deal with prom....

I thought that shit was just in American movies

It's ridiculous tho,

The Greek version of prom, aka ~Χοροεσπερίδα~ It's ridiculous, how everyone reacts at it I mean

In any movie ever the guy🤵‍♂️ asks the girl 👰‍♀️🙀💍🧎‍♂️😎

Here, it's so...??? Mandatory?

The other day I witnessed that conversation:

👱‍♀️: [Name]! Come here!

👱‍♂️: what?

👱‍♀️: we will go to prom together ok?

👱‍♂️: why?

👱‍♀️:because you're tall and blonde and I have my hair dyed blonde now so I need a guy to match with. Also I'm gonna wear heels that's why I need someone tall

👱‍♂️: I'm not coming to prom

👱‍♀️: you will

👱‍♂️: why don't you take [Other guy who's tall and Blonde]?

👱‍♀️: no you'll come with me

👱‍♂️: What if I shave all my hair off? (So he won't come to the prom)

👱‍♀️😑: Your loss

And she was like "hmm😑 your loss, I'm awesome, you're so negative'' I mean dude? You just announced it to him?

And some days later in the bus we were talking about prom couples again and she was like "some girls are forcing boys to go with them already"

I mean??? Isn't that what you did?

Anyways, they're making a list now.

Like, anyone who doesn't have a partner will go with someone from the list

(Thankfully I'm going with my best friend so we're safe from all that drama)

And like they have all the couples there and today the school president and other kids from the council were coming to class asking if we'll dance traditional or latin

*Funny thing-

👩: Will you dance Latin?

Me: I don't know I'm dancing with [Friend] we don't know what we'll dance. I don't know if he likes Latin (also I've no idea what Latin is supposed to be)

👩: You don't have a problem with Latin tho? Do I write you down for Latin?

Me: 🤷‍♀️yeah sure

👩:OK and we'll ask [Friend] now that we're going to his classroom

And his classroom is right next to our and apparently this happened

Class president: *opens the door* [Friend] Your sister said you're dancing Latin!

Whole class: Eeh????

Everyone was like what sister, and then I guess they realized they were talking about me and they were like not his sister

It's the second time someone thinks we're related anhshshd why??😂 I mean ok, I know why, but wouldn't they know if we were twins? Firstly we don't look alike second of all we have different last names yknow?

#secret_sister_reveal

So yeah, that about the couples I guess

Now the problem is that not only do we need to find clothes but we also need to be matching

How the fuck are we gonna do that

First of all I don't even know if I'll wear a dress, I want to wear a suit or something but idk

It makes me think will we both look OK in suits?

Then he wants to wear red or burgundy

And I had said something about green, but I don't know, I don't really like green so anyway

He said I could wear black but isn't that basic? According to my mom I look good in black but Eh... idk

He said, since girls usually find their clothes first and then the boys find something to match he'll be OK with not getting red, but he said he wanted red since last year and now I feel bad to make him take something else

Like I could go in purple but does that shit match with burgundy? Will I look ok in a suit? I don't remember if I ever wore one? But dresses are uncomfortable and how the fuck am I supposed to dance in one?

Also- I'm not wearing fucking heels

Will we need to order clothes? Do they have good enough looking clothes here? I live in a small place idk

And when I mentioned purple he was like "someone else said they were going to wear purple" DUDE WE'RE ALREADY HAVING TOO MUCH TROUBLE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE 2 OF WILL BE WEARING ARE YOU KIDDING ME? IM NOT- I CANT MATCH WITH EVERYONE