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[violethowler]

I posted 11,097 times in 2022

That's 7,720 more posts than 2021!

27 posts created (0%)

11,070 posts reblogged (100%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@prismatic-bell

@hyena-frog

@blowingoffsteam2

@athingofvikings

@pixel-creates

I tagged 4,280 of my posts in 2022

#kingdom hearts fanart - 771 posts

#soriku - 556 posts

#kingdom hearts meta - 307 posts

#voltron legendary defender - 288 posts

#voltron fanart - 258 posts

#sheith - 232 posts

#current events - 228 posts

#kh sora - 227 posts

#signal boost - 182 posts

#kh riku - 157 posts

Longest Tag: 89 characters

#but it always feels like they're trying to use it to invalidate ppl who ship soriku alone

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Constructing Kingdoms Episode 12 Now Live On YouTube

My original plan was to wait until saturday to post this, but since the video’s done and the big Thanksgiving gathering I’ll be attending doesn’t start for a couple of hours, I figured “why not?” and decided I’d surprise my followers by publishing my newest Constructing Kingdoms video 2 whole days early.

As you can see from the thumbnail, this month’s video is dedicated to our Mistress of All Evil herself and the role she plays in the context of the series’ overarching narrative. 

31 notes - Posted November 24, 2022

#4

Wait. What happened with Bob Koplar and Voltron? There were reasons as to why it was so bad?!

There absolutely are. 

And before I go any further, I have no clue if you already know who Bob Koplar is, but if you do, then this little explanation will just be for anyone reading this who doesn’t: Bob Koplar is the current head of WEP (World Events Productions), the company that made the original show in the 80s and owns the Voltron brand. Dreamworks at the time of the Netflix Voltron series’ production only had the rights to adapt the existing Voltron material and did not own the brand outright. All scripts/episodes for VLD had to go through Bob for approval (by his own admission, although the video where he acknowledges this has sadly been deleted from Youtube). 

So with that explanation out of the way, the reason the final season of Voltron is so bad was because the showrunners and writers at Dreamworks had a very specific story they were trying to tell, while based on comments made by cast, crew, and Koplar himself over the years, Bob wanted 1) a glorified toy commercial to sell toys to 6 year old boys, and 2) a successor to the previous Voltron series, Voltron Force. 

Based on all the evidence found in and around Seasons 7 and 8, the crew’s plans for the final seasons would have involved revealing that Lotor was still alive in the Rift, that he was innocent of the crimes he had been condemned for, and that he would reconcile with Allura and Team Voltron before joining them in the final battle against Honerva. 

Bob found out about this while the crew was making Season 7 and ordered them to change it. Based on interview comments and the history of the Voltron brand, the most likely reason was because he wanted Lotor to remain a villain so he could be reused as the antagonist of a sequel series. The crew complied and removed much of the content surrounding this plotline from Season 7, but then reworked it into Season 8 and tried to push for their planned ending anyway, banking on the fact that by the time Bob found out they’d defied him it would be too late for him to do anything. Instead, the showrunners were forced to cut out multiple episodes’ worth of footage and then rearrange what was left in order to have the number of episodes their contract with Netflix obligated them to release. (A summary of the most notable evidence of changes within the season itself, along with a rough outline of what the final season should’ve looked like based on what was removed, can be found here)

And this all happened after production was already completed, as even the animators and most of the voice actors were surprised by the version of the final season we got. 

Bob has also been implicated by multiple interviews with cast and crew as pushing back against the crew’s desire to include queer characters and relationships in the show, and prevented them from including any same-gender romance between the paladins. 

If you’re interested, the group of fans behind much of the research into the Bob-mandated editing of Voltron Season 8 has put together a few reconstruction videos depicting an approximation of what the unedited versions of certain episodes would have looked like. 

31 notes - Posted August 29, 2022

#3

The newest episode of Constructing Kingdoms is now live on YouTube!

I’ve made no secret on the channel that I look at the series through a Soriku lens, and this is the month where I finally break down the narrative evidence for Sora and Riku to be the endgame romance of the narrative.

At just over 42 minutes, this is my single longest video to date. It’s been a labor of love for the last 2 months, with many nights spent staying up past midnight when I had to get up early for work the next day. But it was all worth it in the end, and I’m proud of this episode.

Be sure to stay to the very end for a post-credits surprise! ;)

59 notes - Posted February 26, 2022

#2

Constructing Kingdoms Episode 10 Is Live

The 10th episode of Constructing Kingdoms is now live on YouTube. In this episode, I’ll be discussing a particular character archetype I’ve noticed pop up in various KH theories several times over the years, the most common interpretation of how the series will implement it, and my own interpretation, incorporating key details that are typically overlooked. 

This will be my last episode for at least the next few months, as I’ll be taking a break once I upload this so that I can recharge and focus on other projects that I let fall by the wayside in the last eight months I’ve spent focused on making these videos.

71 notes - Posted March 26, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Timeline of KH Dark Road

So the whole time I was watching the finale of Dark Road, I was keeping track of when all of the “X years later/ago” scenes took place, both in relation to the main story and in relation to the rest of the KH saga. Since Xehanort’s conversation with MoM is specifically identified by Remind as being 75 years before KH3, I decided to use that as the base point.

So without further ado, here’s a timeline of Dark Road’s major scenes:

85 years before KH3: Epilogue scene of baby Xehanort on Destiny Islands with Player

78 years before KH3: Xehanort leaves Destiny Islands

77 years before KH3: KH3 Xehaqus chess scene

76 years before KH3: Main Dark Road story

75 years before KH3: Xehanort goes on his first world tour post-Dark Road and meets the Master of Masters

74 years before KH3: Xehanort returns from his first world tour

72 years before KH3: Xehanort goes on a second world tour to prepare for the Mark of Master exam (the 4 years later scenes)

70 years before KH3: Xehanort and Eraqus become Keyblade Masters. Eraqus is bequeathed Master’s Defender while Xehanort is given No Name.

69 years before KH3: An unknown crisis occurs in Scala that makes Xehanort desperate enough to try and summon Kingdom Hearts (his fight with Eraqus in the trailers)

21 years before KH3: Xehanort and Eraqus argue over Xehanort’s plans to start another Keyblade War, ending when Xehanort scars Eraqus’ face (as seen in BBS flashbacks)

12 years before KH3: Xehanort finds Ventus in the Keyblade Graveyard and takes him as an apprentice

11 years before KH3: Xehanort brings Ventus to the Land of Departure. BBS happens a few months later.

Some quick observations about the timeline of events:

In his conversation with MoM, Xehanort indicates that his training is nearly finished and the Mark of Mastery exam is coming up soon. But according to this timeframe, he didn’t become a master until 5 years after the conversation. Then I remembered that after failing the exam in BBS, Eraqus tells Terra that “there’s always next time”. Indicating that another Mark of Mastery will be held at a later date and Terra can retake it then. So there are two possible reasons for this discrepancy between the game’s stated timeline and what Young Xehanort says to the Master. Either something happened that caused Odin to delay the exam, or both Eraqus and Xehanort failed and they had to wait a few years before he would allow them to retake it.

The time of when Xehanort found Ventus means that Ven was only living in the Land of Departure for a few months before the start of Birth by Sleep, even though the prologue on Destiny Islands where Sora healed Ven’s heart happened when Sora was still a baby. Since Dark Road emphasized again that time moves at different speeds on different worlds, this means that while 4 years passed on Destiny Islands, only a few months passed in the Land of Departure.

107 notes - Posted August 28, 2022

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[hofudlaus]

also posting these two on their own :-) based on This post by @outpastthemoat

[idkaguyorsomething]

“apollo wrote the hamilton musical in pjo” “hermes wrote the hamilton musical in pjo” you fools. ¿have you forgotten who the greek god of theatre is?

[dandeleon]

happy fiddauthor friday everyone 🫶

[grandkhan221b]

HOTD season 2 coming up got me re-reading ASOIAF again wooops

[narsh-poptarts]

Long time no FD how we feelin

[jarrows]

recently i reread a bunch of my favorite sherlock holmes stories (norw my beloved) and felt compelled to create my own diagram for 221B

[egophiliac]

so on the subject of the "Crowley is secretly Revaan/Laverne/Levin/please Twst give us his name" theory, I think my feelings are best summed up as "I don't really buy it, but it's funny". like, in all seriousness, I'm not opposed to it; I have enjoyed the writing in Twst so far and I'm willing to trust that whatever happens will, you know, make sense and not be terrible. but I'm just not really convinced by the current evidence! maybe that'll change once we learn more, we'll see!

with that said, may I propose a few alternate theories about the possible Crowley/Revaan connection:

[uncharted-constellations]

I... Cannot stop

[almondpiglet]

just fooling around at the speed of sound... found a cool brush to play with...

[insufferablemod]

@badlydrawndavepeta here's a few B3c

[hop3isaprison]

decaying.

[itslilacokay]

[avalonlights]

"Yes sir."

[izuku]

i'm sure i'll lose followers for this, but i hope everyone who interacted positively with this post never pretends not to be an antisemite again. this is such a great way to instantly demonize any jew who says hey man calling a bunch of us getting murdered liberation has upset me

this is what she said. saying this is all it takes for twitter antisemites with nazis in their replies to take the new bad jew label and apply it to her and tumblr users will gleefully call her a liar and wish for her death. somehow this is not proving her point about inhumane anti-jewish online comments.

[demaparbat-hp]

Zutara makes a statement.