#this looks like a movie poster WELP

[heygreyyart]

Spinning on that dizzy edge Kissed her face and kissed her head Dreamed of all the different ways I had to make her glow "Why are you so far away?", she said "Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you That I'm in love with you?" 

I like to think moments like these were not so often due to the nature of their proffessions (especially in the last arc of the story), yet still deeply cherished and encouraged when possible. An equally goal striven artist in love with a scientist means there are two very passionate driven people following their own paths, so it would not be a surprise for them not to sleep together or even meet for almost a week... until eventually one of them gets too angsty and desperate for comfort. It's usually Ella, though! Viktor has lost the concept of time a while ago, but still enjoys leaving notes hidden in Ellah's sketchbooks so he stays in her mind while he's gone.

[sukratyaropia24]

I have three Wips in the drafts and a shit-ton of ideas as well as a lot to ramble with many Fandoms/communities, so lemme tell some of them.

Spoiler on most of these and some swearing.

Genshin x Moonknight

Yall know where I'm going with this? No? Alright lemme explain.

Childe as like, the moon boys, Childe(Normal/playable one) as Steven Grant, Tartaglia(Electro one) as Marc Spector and Foul Legacy as Jake Lockey.

Yall understand where I'm going??? Like, please, I can't get this out of my head since they, to me, are so alike.

Imma bout to go feral with this I swear, like all Childe have their own conscious, like moon knight.

Unlike the moon boys tho, they have some difference with each other when they're on front. Childe has those deep blue eyes and the element in his vision is Hydro while Tartaglia has purple-ish eyes and the element in his vision is electro and I don't need to explain Foul Legacy's.

Loki series w/ Quantumania(Spoilers)

I think alot of people already know this, that the movie is like after the series or like the aftermath.

Fnaf movie & it's trailer poster(?)

Ain't no way yall and making a fuss just because of some fucking eyes, I believe it's intentional they did this because come on, this isn't the first goddamn time we saw amatronics(?) having red eyes.

Now we know that those black and white eyes means they're possessed and in security breach I believe, the amatronics have red eyes because THEY ARE BEING CONTROLLED.

So what we seeing in the trailer is that they are being controlled first. It makes sense because if I'm correct, it'll be a 3 game in 1 movie type thing and not 3 movies. We also saw in the trailer Foxy chasing a girl in a ball pit.

So to conclude, the black and white eyes will be shown maybe around the mid or first-half of the movie. After all trailers are just a heads up on what's going to be seen but that doesn't mean it'll show everything, it's not a summary but as I said, a heads up.

HI3, GI & HSR

Listen to me, so we all know how in Herta's space station, in one of the rooms(?) we could see stuff they got throughout the galaxies/planets and we saw the wind glider there, right?

So, I believe they may or may not have met some genshin impact characters, more specifically, Amber or the kngiths of Favonius.

Now, in another area, they may or may not have stolen it from someone, but isn't that just a no? I think they actually met Amber, the wind glider also looks new/in decent and pretty good shape so ain't no way they took from someone, also the another way to get the glider with by Amber and you need a license for it.

So you cannot tell me other wise that these mfs did not meet at one point.

Some facts that I believe that will prolly or maybe will make a bit of people mad

Simping for Overhaul is like simping for Dottore(Surprise, surprise, I have a hate-hate-love with Dottore but it's less with Overhaul)

Some Herrschers could kill fucking Aeons please, Doesn't mean they could ko archons doesn't mean they could on Herrschers, I mean look at them.

This will prolly contrast with the previous one but the toxicity of the comparisons of all three games.

Welp that's all I have for now, I'll let yall know if I have more shit ass rambles.

[thelastwalkingsoul]

I’m so excited for this ep and one of the scenes in particular. Pretty sure I know what cliffhanger they’re gonna end it on so we’ll see.

Onto The Last of Us Episode 6!

Ep 1 | Ep 2 | Ep 3 | Ep 4 | Ep 5

- It’s winter already?!

- Ooh who are these people?

- Hahahaha I love that Ellie doesn’t listen. What a queen.

- HAHAHA OMG I LOVE HER SASS

- Ohhhh the map trick. Nice Joel.

- OHHH ARE ‘THOSE PEOPLE’ WHO I THINK THEY ARE OH SHIT

- Joellll teach her how to kill rabbitsss

- ‘Come down from there your gonna break your neck’ SIR YOU ARE A DAD

- An old farmhouse, some land, raising sheep? DO NOT PARALLEL ELLIE IN THE SECOND GAME IM GONNA CRY

- Ellie’s love of space is everything to me.

- I thought they might not find people but then I remembered a clip from a trailer and now I’m scared

- SHES TRYING TO WHISTLE OMG I love when they take parts straight out of the games, especially little hidden ones

- ‘Does it sound like I know how to whistle?’ Babyyyyyy

- It’s the dammmm!

- Ohhhh shiiiit!

- Please be Tommy’s people, please please please

- Awww a sniffer dog for infected? So cute! and such a smart idea

- Joel honey. The ptsd from Sarah is real

- OH THATS MARIA!!

- Yesss I’m so exciteddddddd

- Jackson!!!

- Ohhhh it looks so similar to the second game ohhh my goddd

- JOEL LOOKS SO HAPPY OH GOD YES

- And Tommy being in charge of the construction? So perfect

- Ellie hahahaha ‘I don’t think I’ve ever had a proper meal’

- Imagine they make that random girl Dina? I will die

- Love that we’re seeing more of Jackson now rather than later

- OH SHIMMER

- God how weird would it be to just sit in a bar and have a drink?

- MARIAS PREGNANT?! Holyyyy shit.

- God. Stubborn ass men

- Oh Joelllll I’m gonna cry

- It’s Ellie's winter jackettt

- Hahahaha her reaction to the menstrual cup LMAO

- Oh woah. Learning about Sarahhhh

- God this is just confirming all those cute Jackson fics where the kids all watch movies together ahhhh

- He’s telling Tommy oh no baby

- I love that we’re seeing more of Joel’s ptsd from Sarah. God this is more than we ever got to see in the game.

- OH GOD IM GONNA CRY WTFFFFF JOEL DONT CRY PLS

- I THOUGHT THAT WINDOW BAY LOOKED FAMILIAR ITS THIS SCENE YESSSSSSS

- The giraffe poster in the background?

- IM SHAKING THAT SCENE. WAS. PERFECT

- NO HESITATION FROM HER OMGGGG

- THEYRE SO FATHER DAUGHTER IM GONNA SCREAM ‘you dick’ and Joel’s smug ass face oh my god

- Ohh this is the credits song from the gameeeee

- Aww him teaching her about American football (fight me)

- Pls if they have the conversation about Joel’s dream job I’m gonna cry

- YES SINGER JOEL wait can Pedro Pascal sing? We need to hear him sing.

- Ahh the universal horse sounds again. As someone who played a ridiculous amount of Star Stable when I was younger, I recognise the horse sounds. Everyone uses the same ones I swear. They’re as recognisable to me as the Wilhelm Scream.

- Oh this ep is totally gonna end where I think it is hehehehe

- Ooooh Salt Lake Cityyyyy

- Oh shit oh shit oh shit here we gooo

- Did he just snap his neck?

- OH YUP STABBED INSTEAD OH SHIT (why do I miss him being impaled lmao)

- wait WHY DID HE TAKE IT OUT. SIR!

- No Ellie please don’t cry

- Wow cannot wait for the next one. ITS GONNA BE SO GOOD AHHHH

- I’m absolutely gonna cry in these next three eps

Welp, come join me next time :)

[jediofbooksandsnacks]

Do you think Urobuchi could be the writer of this new "Providence" movie? It doesn't appear to directly continue the season 3 plot, so maybe? I'm just- so hopeful I guess? Maybe just blind? Could Urobuchi even save what this franchise has become?

Wow, dude. You slid in and asked me 5 different questions while wearing an Anonymous suit. I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you’re not trying to stir up the PP pot and answer you as honestly as I can.

Google tells me that after S1, the Movie, and the light novel / game Mandatory Happiness (which is amazing and you should go play it), Urobuchi became a supervisor. Unless this is his triumphant return—and that would have been part of the update, yes?—he has passed the PP torch, and he doesn’t seem overly interested in returning.

As for what Providence is about, all we can do is speculate. The poster does feature Arata’s dad, so maybe we will finally learn what sent Akane to jail, yes? Maybe? Or maybe it’s all just a massive bait-and-switch to the fans? Who knows? Not me, not until I see it. So: wait and see, compadre, wait and see.

And, look, on the hopeful and the blind point--sometimes in the dead of night I wish with all my heart that Urobuchi will come back and save us from the long, dull rants about the housing pandemic that have sadly taken over the writing. In the hands of a sharp writer, I would have been all in on those interest rates, you know?, but it was not written well. So, we can’t hit like and reblog to cast our way out of dull writing; it is what it is. And the characters (with one exception) are actually pretty good. Also, there is always the danger that the return of Urobutcher will ultimately kill our darlings, which, again, is fine if it is done with some foresight and planning. A thoughtful, bittersweet ending for any of them is better than a dumb, thoughtless ending where someone needed to die, and welp, I guess this person’s number is up. Which is . . . ugh, don’t get me started.

This comes down to the intersection between the character writing (pretty good!) and the plot (*inset sad saxophone noise here*). Urobuchi was a guiding hand, and the series seems a little lost without his sharp influence. The plot of S1 blew our collective minds. S2 was made without him and . . . yeah, even with my sad boy Hinakawa, not so much. Plot of the Movie, which he also wrote? Hell fucking yeah! Even Sinners of the System is collectively pretty good. But S3? First Inspector? Yikes, yikes, yikes. The characters were great, but I was more invested in the Pillbug Standoff than I was in the story itself. And that, among many other things, should definitely tell you something.

Now, of course my thoughts on the series and its writing are different from others, my friend. Each of us is just playing with the cool cyberpunk characters, and each of us does it entirely, totally differently from anyone else. What can be cooler than that?  

So, to sum up: since Urobuchi left, the character writing is good and the plot writing is meh. But, hey, you’re asking your question to a Shinkane blog on Tumblr dot com who writes like, a ton of fanfic about them. The clown potluck where we discuss our blorbos is scheduled for tonight, amigo. Bring something salty.

Meep meep.

[joshuahong]

“Our complete bond leads us to our brightest moment” Al1 Era / Seventeen / 05.22.2017

[thanksjro]

More Than Meets the Eye #33: In Which I Write the Word ‘Quantum‘ 19 Times

Dang, I forgot what happened at the end of the last issue. It was pretty important, too, but I don’t have time to reread. Maybe the establishing shot can help me out?

Oh, that’s right, Rewind happened!

Everyone’s pretty jazzed that Rewind is here, non-exploded, and supposedly alive. Megatron carries this ridiculously small man over to a table, while Skids is busy admonishing Nightbeat for trying to put the pieces of this mystery together.

That’s one of the two first canonically, openly gay Transformers, Megatron. You bet your ass he’s important.

Nightbeat’s dragged Nautica over to look at that poster for Crosscut’s play they saw last issue. Together, they discover something interesting, and it’s not that Nightbeat’s chin has elongated to the point of absurdity. On this future ship, the play was completed and produced a mere few weeks after the initial launch of the Lost Light.

While this is going on, Rewind wakes up and asks Skids what the hell is going on. Skids, likely not wanting to poke at farm-fresh trauma, glosses over the fact that everyone on this ship was violently murdered, and that they found Rewind blacked out inside the hollowed torso of his brother-in-law.

…This is a dark story line.

You see, the joke here is that “Dark Cybertron” sucked major chrome.

Megatron reminds everyone that they’re still in grave danger every moment they stay aboard this ship, but Skids is more concerned with Rewind’s mental health. Which is sweet, but maybe not the thing to prioritize in such a precarious situation.

Rewind takes the fact that Megatron is an Autobot now pretty friggin’ well, as well as the introduction of gender into his species. That is, until Nightbeat, the king of social graces, saunters up to the scene to ask Rewind what the hell happened to the ship. He does get his answers, despite Rewind being horrified to the point of speechlessness.

Over at the hole in the wall, Nautica and Riptide are taking a gander at the quantum drums, which house the quantum foam for the quantum engines so quantum jumps can happen.

As Nautica explains the process by which quantum travel works, she realizes that the answer to what happened to everyone who disappeared was right in front of them this whole time.

Quantum, quantum, quantum- doesn’t even sound like a word anymore, does it?

The data slug Rewind made corroborates this theory, showing a series of events that definitely didn’t happen to the Lost Light we’ve been following throughout this story so far. The data slug contains this Rewind’s version of dead Rewind’s “Little Victories”, the travelogue that was never completed, where the question “are you happy?” revealed just how emotionally unhealthy most of the crew is. I’d like to imagine this Rewind’s film is called “Small Achievements”, or perhaps “Dear Fucking Lord, We’ve Been on this Trip for Three Hours and the Captain Has Been Killed by a Goddamned Soul-Vampire”, or maybe even “Where the FUCK is Our Therapist”.

The DJD came into the equation by way of someone having led them to the Lost Light. We get a flashback panel of the gorefest, in which Tarn appears to have learned how to fly, given the angle he’s coming from.

Because Rewind’s big thing in this series is being the guy who records stuff, the DJD take the opportunity to make some movies of their visit to the space yacht.

James, why do you keep getting Rewind involved with snuff films? I’m starting to get concerned.

Now, the thing about Rewind is that he’s almost always accompanied by his other half. Where is Chromedome, anyway?

He’s dead, that’s where.

Turns out, when you tell the DJD that you won’t do the thing they want you to do, they have a habit of doing nasty things in retaliation. Chromedome got stabbed in the friggin’ visor with his own finger needles, because Vos enjoys ironic deaths, I suppose. There’s some other stuff that’s implied to have happened, but we’ll get to that once we learn a little more about the DJD themselves.

While Rewind recounts the grisly tale of his husband’s demise, Riptide notes that the quantum foam has begun to spread at a remarkable rate. This is a bad thing, because that shit can and will explode, given half the chance, and this wreck is floating right above a potentially-inhabited planet.

Though I could have sworn we established that this planet was a Smartplanet, and therefore very much populated by students and staff. I don’t know. Maybe we conveniently forgot that, so we could make this a learning moment for Megatron.

Jiminy Christmas, Megs, do you even listen to yourself?

Skids, who has had a very long day of finding corpses and learning about quantum theory, snaps at Megatron, telling him that in order to actually be an Autobot, you have to have a little frickin’ compassion for those outside of your peer group.

Which is sort of contradictory to the Aequitas trials, the Killswitch debacle, the POW situation back on Cybertron, and whatever the fuck Prowl’s whole deal is, but maybe Skids is speaking about his own, personal relationship with being an Autobot. Hopefully so, otherwise he needs a class on critical thinking, STAT.

Never mind all of that though, because the problem just got a lot worse- the quantum foam has expanded to a point where any holes in the stuff are too small for the Rod Pod to get through. We’re going to have to get creative if we want to save the day.

Luckily, we’ve got a quantum duplicate of just about the tiniest little dude in the franchise here to do the job. Now we just need another, equally tiny little man, so the quantum drums can be shut off at the same time. Nautica commits more microaggressions, and this gives Getaway inspiration for a witty quip, which in turn gives Skids a brilliant idea.

The gang heads down to Brainstorm’s lab, to look for the mass displacement gun that was used for treating Ultra Magnus’s nanocon infestation back in the 2012 Annual. While they search, Nautica explains just why the hell the Lost Light disappeared in the first place. You see, quantum duplication acts on the Cain Instinct— it’s fine, as long as the duplicates don’t perceive each other. However, the moment contact is made, it says “oh man, guess I’m gonna have to end you” to one of the duplicates. The contact in this case happened when the Coffin Rodimus was brought aboard the ship.

Anything that wasn’t aboard the Lost Light at the point of the takeoff/explosion was never duplicated, and thus wasn’t erased from reality once shit started going to hell. This is why the Rod Pod is still around, and why the remaining cast are— well, the remaining cast.

While this conversation is going on, Nautica and Nightbeat uncover yet another dead body; it’s Brainstorm, and he’s a little underdressed.

…Someone run a paternity test, I think Cyclonus might be the father.

Also, Brainstorm’s a double agent.

Fucked up.

Getaway is furious that a Decepticon has been living on the same ship as him for the last six months, right under his proverbial nose. Even Megatron’s surprised, stating that Brainstorm isn’t usually who the recruiters aim for.

So, no mass displacement gun, and now they’re aware of the fact that there’s a traitor on the ship who’s had access to a LOT of weapon tech. It’s at this point that Megatron decides to stop lying by omission and tells everyone that he can mass-displace, since he used to turn into a handgun.

Smashcut to Megatron and Rewind floating out in space, the former now not much taller than the latter, as they traverse the web of quantum foam to get to the drums. Nautica instructs them from the Rod Pod. If this works, anything produced or connected to the quantum engine will be neutralized, and maybe we’ll even get the other Lost Light back! YAAAAAY!!!

Y’all really let this man go out there to fuckin’ kill himself for the greater good, didn’t you?

Rewind is honestly pretty chill with ceasing to be, seeing as he watched 200/+ people die today, including his long-time spouse.

Jesus. I’d say get him a therapist, but in order to do that, we’re going to have to wipe him off the map anyway.

Rewind asks Megatron if the Chromedome that isn’t his and his duplicate are still together. And I mean…

Luckily, Megatron has the good sense to lie.

With that, they flip the switches, and deactivate the drums.

And that’s a series wrap on Rewind! Congrats to Mr. James Roberts for the esteemed honor of burying the same gay twice!

Later on, everyone is back inside the Rod Pod, as their disappeared shipmates return from being nonexistent. Chromedome pops back in, and Skids is on him like a shark, telling him to go on the roof. Skids doesn’t even try to explain why. Which, fair. How the hell do you explain to someone that their dead husband’s quantum duplicate survived both a terrorist splinter cell attack, and the laws of quantum sci-fi bullshit crashing down on his tiny, tiny body, and that he’s right there on the roof waiting for them?

Welp, there goes the Chromedome/Dominus endgame. Shame, that.

Looks like Chromedome finally hit the threshold for having earned Roberts’ pity, and won’t be directly targeted by the plot for a little while. This isn’t something you see very often, so let’s really soak this in.

…Someone had to have told Rewind what happened to the other Rewind, right? I wonder what that conversation was like.

Back inside the ship, Blaster gets word that the Lost Light has reappeared. As they navigate towards it, Megatron requests that an encrypted call be made to Rodimus, to discuss the Brainstorm problem.

In the interim, Ravage is offered the opportunity to be a part of the crew, so he doesn’t have to keep skulking around in the shadows. We don’t get an answer from him, as our focus shifts over to Nightbeat and Nautica.

Nightbeaaaaaaaaaat, stop stating the themes of the comic verbatim! People are going to start thinking you’re a shonen anime protagonist!

Nightbeat’s somehow managed to keep ahold of the briefcase that they found on the other Lost Light. Unless Brainstorm’s boyfriend is in there, I don’t think this one was the work of Huey Lewis and the News’ hit single from the Back to the Future soundtrack.

Over on the Lost Light, specifically in Swerve’s, Brainstorm’s making his way through the crowd, briefcase held gentle like hamburger as he goes. He makes it to the bar, where Atomizer tells him he can’t have his briefcase in here. Brainstorm has what most would accept to be a healthy response to being told “no.”

It’s what I would do.

[superbdragoncollection-stuff]

A Visual Reference guide to my thoughts through Wing it Like Witches

This is a visual guide of my reactions to Wing it Like Witches, written with notes I took during the episode that were typically stream of consciousness.

Okay, so we have another episode this week! Well, I wonder what they’re going to do. I mean some ships have been one-episode affairs and... Molly Ostertag helped write this one.

Let’s roll!

Scorpia?! Aw, no, never mind...

Sportsball? What’s sportsball?

HEY IT’S NOT SAD! LOTS OF US MAKE FRIENDS OUT OF-- Well, not plants...LOOK JUST BECAUSE SOME OF US TALK TO...COMPUTERS...AND VEHICLES...AGH 

[GASP] AMITY WHOO! Wait what are you up to--?

“I used to be like you; obsessed with status, challenging my competition, but I grew up. When will you?”

Aww! I’m so proud!

Literal school spirits? I’m not sure how I feel about that.

“Gory Days” doesn’t phase me at all. I’m just wondering how many bodies she’s buried.

Wait a minute did she say cheating? Oh no this had better not be a cheating episode--

“Cheating isn’t anything to brag about. How do you know how good you are if all you do is cheat?”

...Luz that’s a good point.

“Well, can’t reason with crazy!”

Okay, Eda, King is right, that rat didn’t look healthy. CLEAN YOUR FRAKKING HAIR!

The spirit and Hooty should make friends sometime. Probably wouldn’t end well though...

“Over fifty years ago, the emperor appointed a head witch to each coven” WAIT DON’T TRAIL OFF I NEED BACKSTORY MAN!

Hey, who didn’t use movies as guides in high school?

Not food. NOT FOOD.

WAIT A MINUTE, WILLOW FEVER?! IS THAT PIECE A CHARM OR SOMETHING?! WILLOW SAY IT ISN’T SO

Oh, it’s just a bully.

[pulls out gun] NOBODY MAKES MY KIDS SAD. Where the heck’s the teacher?!

Well I mean it is the Boiling Isles...

WAIT A MINUTE, WAIT A MINUTE...THEY ACTUALLY HAD A TEACHER INVOLVED?! I can’t tell if he’s just trying to draw her attention or...ah nuts.

OH MY GOD A HIGH SCHOOL KID INVENTED A NEW SLUR?!

“She got away with murder? I can’t say I approve but I’m glad she’s trying new things!” Hey, up yours Back-to-the-Future-teacher! Unfortunately, this is actually being played in a realistic way. This is a problem some schools have, it’s not a movie cliche. I’ve heard reddit stories like this, with the popular kids, especially the sports kids, getting support and are allowed to get away with everything.

[GASP] WELL DEAR VIEWERS, THIS IS WHY WE’RE ALL HERE!

OH MY GOD AMITY IS BEING SO AWKWARD IT’S ADORABLE

“YES I CAN HELP!...With what exactly?” oh my god that’s adorable.

Luz gets close and Amity starts backing up oh my god!

Luz oh my god what the hell

Wait is Amity thinking the same thing I am or--

...okay good

Hm, what’s mom doing back at the house?

Hm, the 90s motive might actually hint that she’s been exploring earth for a while--

HOOTY GET OUT

WHAT THE YOTZ I WAS NOT EXPECTING HER SUBPLOT TO DO THIS

Okay that jacket looks really good on Eda. I like the contrast it adds. Also she was just mirroring her wanted poster pose.

Okay, what’s Lily got this time? Hah, look at Eda...

Oh my god they’re such siblings. I love how she’s just ignoring her.

[SPIT-TAKE] “--THE HELL DID SHE JUST SAY?! ‘The emperor has big plans for the isles’?!”

EDA LILY IS BEING GRUMPY AND PLOT RELEVANT

Oh no...memory? “Why can’t you remember me...?”

I do love how Eda is just doing things for the heck of it half the time.

It’s refreshing that the sport they’re good at isn’t stereotypically “feminine”, like it’s not cheerleading or something. It’s the regular sports stuff

WHAT THE FRELL?!

CANTALOUPE GUY SHUT UP

OH NO OH NO LUZ GENRE SAVVINESS CAN BE A CURSE WATCH OUT

“Me?” ...what.

“On...a team...with you?” WHAT.

“Running around in cute uniforms?” OH WOW

“Sweating?!” THEY WENT THERE?!

“...I gotta go!” THEY WENT THERE!

“So...how do we play this game?” Luz, you’re a girl after my own heart. This is my friends and I trying to decode sportsball.

Huh. how about that minefield. At this point I’m hardened. Nothing’s gonna surprise me now.

HAH! ROCKY

What. The frell.

“What happens in the montage stays in the montage!” OKAY OKAY

WHAT THE YOTZ IS KING WEARING AND HOW IS HE PULLING IT OFF

This is gonna end with one heck of a sibling fistfight.

“She’s one of the best friends I’ve ever had” oh, kid, that hits me hard.

OH GOD IS THIS KOHLII? I’M HAVING MASK OF LIGHT FLASHBACKS AAAAAAAAA

HOW’D SHE GET A DVD?! Hm the way she hesitates, and the fact that Gus tried to eat the DVD, I wonder if that means it's not a movie here

Hm, now leadership is an interesting thing, how do you know how far to push the people following you--?

AAAHH WHAT THE FRELL 

SHE’S BLUSHING AND I LOVE BACKSTORIES TOO

“I know how to make it up to Willow.” [throws a grenade]

HOW MANY BODIES ARE BURIED HERE

“She can be so stupid...which i love…”

“I MEAN HATE” PFFF HAHAHAHAHAH

“Which is sweet…”

“AND I HATE IT. AND IT’S DUMB” OH MY GOD

Oh god that IV tower hurts.

What the frell. Welp, I have seen into the void.

EDA WHAT THE YOTZ?!

WHAAAAAAAA HAHAHAHA

“I’ll be waiting.” UH...

WHOOOO!

WHAT SOCIAL LIFE?!

SHE’S LOOKING INTO HER EYES WHO’S TALLER OH MY GOD

DA FRAK FIRE MAGIC?! WHOO!

Well I thought there would be a fistfight. I didn’t think it would be between Amity and Boscha.

HOLY CRAP THEY SURVIVED WITHOUT ANY INJURIES...Hey where’s Amity-

THE WHAT

THE SNITCH?!

I mean wow yeah quidditch freaking sucks.

OH NO AMITY NO NO NO

“Are you sure you’re okay? I could help carry you if it really hurts…”

“HAHAHA I’M FINE! WHO’S AMITY?!”

Lesbian.exe has stopped working. Oh you poor girl.

“And scoop!” OH MY GOD

“Oh...wow...sports…”

SHE’S STILL HOLDING HER UP- NERD ARMS INDEED

Mom’s scoping out her daughter’s new girlfriend…

I am actually really enjoying how accurate of a high school experience this feels like. It feels a lot like my own. Minus the magic of course. This episode wasn’t as extreme of a Lumity overload as the last, but prom episodes are usually stuffed with that sort of thing. This episode was great nevertheless.

[the-evil-authoress]

GX Month Day 20: “Main Phase”

We’ve reached our second Free Day! Take the day off or show some love for your fellow creators!

Welp, recent events reminded me that this Music AU of mine existed so y’all get a little variety in the free day shenanigans. Not to worry, I’ll be back with more FF7 AU content next free day.

Lyrics credit to Amateur Tempest.

Also I JUST WANNA SAY I LOVE ALL OF Y'ALL'S WORKS, REBLOGING YOUR CONTENT IS THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY DAY. <3

He sets up the amp and tunes the strings, before beginning the opening bars. A deep breath. He looks out at the park, the leaves swaying gently in the trees.

“ The search for a way of life, can’t be seen, it is a mystery yet still you, need to find a way through Into the unknown, you can feel the echo of your heartbeat going, the rush keeps growing ”

It’s an old favorite of his. Translated the lyrics himself. Probably lost a little bit in translation but the heart is still there, and music is all about heart, right?

“ Believe in the future, live here today. Don’t dwell on the past There’s no time for doubt, In this endless sky so spread your wings and never give up ”

A smile breaks across his face as his voice gains volume. A few passersby stop to listen.

“ The heart must WAKE UP! ”

Jaden loves singing. It’s a kind of rush he can’t get anywhere else, his heart pounding to the beat of the song as he pours his passion into the lyrics, feels the vibration in his throat, creates the melody with his own hands. He lives for this. And one day he’ll stand on stage and pour his heart out for a real audience.

One day. But today isn’t that day. Today he still plays in his favorite park for anyone willing to stop and listen. Jaden hums along softly as he strums out the last few chords, letting his voice rest and coming down from the high. A small pile of pocket change sits in his open guitar case. He didn’t even notice anyone toss it in; he gets so lost in the music.

His fingers strum idly until he settles on the next song and picks up the pace. The change pile grows as he cycles through songs. It’s easy to lose track of time out here but his stomach is quick to remind him when it’s gone too long between meals, and the daily crowd is starting to thin anyway. Mybe he can pick something up to eat on his way home with the extra cash. He sets to collecting the change and dollar bills when a pair of jeans enters his vision.

“Hey, you’re pretty good,” says a vaguely familiar voice.

“Ah, thanks, I-” The words gets stuck in his throat with an embarrassing noise as he glances up at a face straight off the poster in his fucking bedroom. “You’re-”

“I think you could go pretty far.” The freaking music legend himself, lead singer of the King of Music, grins at him and Jaden would be lying if he said he didn’t feel faint in that exact moment. “Here, take this.” The man holds out an envelope, and Jaden reaches for it before making the conscious decision to take it. “I hope to see you again. Take care.”

“Ah, wait a- What is-” Of course his brain only reboots itself as the man is walking away, and the famous singer doesn’t bother looking back at the flustered mess he created. A once in a lifetime opportunity and Jaden wasted it gaping like a dead fish! Groaning, he looks down at the envelope in his hand. What the hell even is this? And what did he mean ‘see you again’? Does he plan to come back and listen to Jaden again? Is Jaden complaining about the possibility of his idol coming to listen to him again? No, absolutely not, but also what the hell? Doesn’t this type of stuff only happen in movies?

Prying the envelope open from its fany seal, Jaden stares down at the equally fancy card invit- inviting him to a hiring event at Millennium Hits!? The squeal tears it away out his throat with force, gaping from the paper back up to the now distant back of his idol. “Th-thank you!” he practically screams. The man makes no indication that he heard Jaden.

Tossing the invite in the case with his guitar, he slings the instrument over his shoulder and grabs the amp. Home. He needs to get home and pull out those original lyrics he’d been working on. Ugh, but they still feel like they’re missing something! His stomach rolls. Food. Right. Food first, then lyrics.

Holy shit this is a dream come true.

...This better not be a dream.

[too-much-sunshine]

Fangs for the Hospitality

Chapter 7

Fic Summary: After Roman leaves his family reunion mad at Remus, his car breaks down. The huge snow storm forces him into the forest hes always been told to stay away from. Who will he meet? And why are they being so nice? Most importantly, why are his teeth so sharp?

A/N: I’m so very sorry this chapter took so long to come out…Life happens my guys gals and nonbinary pals.... Ill try and be better!

Relationship: Familial DAM, Eventual Roceit, Eventual Intrulogical

Warnings (per chapter): Roman has social anxiety, he is awkward, food (Let me know if anything else!)

Catch up!:  Master list, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6

Word Count: 2546

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Patton and Virgil finished their food first; Patton grabbing both their plates from the table and bringing them into the kitchen. Little Virgil hurried off his chair to follow after him.

Roman watched the two go with a small smile. He remembers how he and his brother used to be that close. 

Flinching slightly remembering the newest memory he has of his brother, he looked down and away from the boys. He ended up staring at his plate which he had only half eaten. He was starting not to feel as hungry anymore.

“Eat up dear, we have a big day in front of us." Janus chimed in.

Roman jumped slightly and looked up to the man who spoke. Janus picked up his wine glass and took a drink. Roman just now realized that Janus never had a plate of food to begin with.

"Aren't you going to eat something too?" He enquired.

"Oh no I've already eaten. Before I fixed you guys' breakfast to make sure it all went smoothly." Janus smiled, taking another sip.

"Oh...alright.." Roman looked back down frowning at his food. He felt dumb for asking, even though it wasnt an ovious answer. His stomach was turning a bit pushing the food around. He didn't want to seem wasteful or ungrateful, but he knew that his anxiety wouldn't let him finish what he had. Luckily the decision on what to do was made for him.

An arm came around Roman and picked up his plate for him. Startled, Roman looked behind himself to see Janus standing there holding Romans plate. He was so quiet Roman didn't even realise he had gotten up.

"It's okay if you don't want the rest, sweetheart. You seem to have been through a lot."

Blushing slightly Roman just nodded his head, avoiding eye contact.

"Yeah sorry...I'm just not..okay right now." He responded weakly.

"Let's clean up a bit and I'll send the kids to play. Then we can talk a bit." Janus said over his shoulder while walking Roman's plate to the kitchen.

Roman didn't respond since it didn't sound like a question. He just crossed his arms and laid his head on the table. 'This is going to be tough…' he thought as Janus came back into the room with Virgil on hip. 

~~~

Remus woke up with a startle, which was quite usual. He didn't ever really sleep that well. Constant nightmares and his lanky figure made it impossible to ever get comfortable anyway.

It also didn't help that Remy just poured a glass of cold water on his head.

"What the fuck!?" Remus shouted jumping up from the couch he was on, shivering as water dripped down his spine. Wait, couch? 

"Bitch. Wake up." He said monotone. "You were like. Twitching and shit. Not a good look."

"Yeah, thanks. I'm sure there was no better way to wake me up.” Remus pulled his shirt over his head and squeezed out as much water as he could. There wasn't much there, but it was a statement. Remy looked at Remus with disgust as he put his shirt back on. 

“Remind me where am I again? What time is it? It's not the first time I've woken up in a random apartment but it's been a while. Much less with my cousin...wrong state for that I believe..." He rambled, pushing his wet hair out of his face. He looked around for his phone while Remy went around the back on the couch to the kitchen area.

"First of all, disgusting. Never say that to me again. And second, Its around 6am. Which is usually too god damn early for anyone. But, you're lucky I like you and Roman." He said, grabbing a mug from the dark wood cabinet. "Oh also you are in my apartment so dont fuck shit up please."

Remus lifted his head from looking under the couch. He tilted his head to the side like a confused puppy, blinking around the room. He stood up and walked around a the table to the center of the room to see pretty much everything there is. 

"Your apartment? I thought you lived in like...a mansion with your parents." 

The place was actually quite small. A connected half kitchen and living room. Small tv on a small stand behind a coffee table in front of the light brown couch. There seemed to be two rooms off to the side, but the doors were closed. There was one window in the kitchen, and that was it. A few movie posters were on the wall and nick knacks but otherwise the place looked...normal. it wasn't very fancy, which is the opposite of what Remus expected.

"This is my secret apartment. The one where I go when I don't want to worry about being me. Don't tell anyone, you're lucky I let you be here!" Remy snapped.

Remus continued to look around but said nothing more, feeling that he had crossed a line somewhere.

Remy let out a long sigh and stopped making his drink. With his back turned to Remus he spoke again.

"Look.. I'm sorry. It's been a long night and now it's going to be a long day. I'm tired. Your phone is under the couch by the way."

"What? I looked there,” He said as he dropped back to his knees to check again, “ and It's fine. Just. Why are we worried ag-" and like a flip was switched, all the memories of last night flooded Remus' brain and he snapped up with his phone in hand. "ROMAN! have you found him? Where could he be!?" Remus raced into the kitchen, running into Remy. 

"Did you call anyone!? God he must be so mad! I'm the worst!" Remus continued pacing the room.

"Calm down! Of course I've called everywhere! But havent had any luck! It's only 6am so I couldn't call his work but I will when I can. I thought before then we could drive the way he went. See if he went home at all. The front desk at his apartment said they didn't see him come in last night but they could have missed him. It'll be a drive to get back to the countryside but we can make it. Here babe." He handed Remus a canister. "Its coffee. In the god awful way you like it."

"OoOooO thanks!" Remus said, taking a swig of the chocolaty, sweet coffee. "So. Are we gonna start with his apartment first?" 

"I think it's closer to here and the most likely place he is, yeah let's start there. But listen babes. He might be real mad still so don't push him alright?"

"I'm really worried, Remy. And I'm not usually like this...he's not usually mad like that either...I know I messed but ughhhhhh! Let's just go find him before I explode all over your nice, secret walls okay?"

"Gross hun... let's just go." Remy said, grabbing the keys hanging by the front door.

With that Remus followed Remy out to the hall of the building. After locking the door they took the elevator to Remy's car, but not the nice one he took last night.

"Where did this come from?" Remus asked, taking a seat on the passenger side.

"Last night I borrowed my dad's car and drove them there. But we took a carpool home. I told them I wanted to go out longer and they didn't question." Remy responded by turning the ignition key. "This car was the first I bought with only money I made. It's a piece of shit. And I love it." He finished pulling out of the parking space and turning onto the busy road.

Remus looked around the car. It seemed normal by any standard. Kinda small, a little dirty but it looked taken care of. Remus would have never have expected Remy to want to live like this. To each their own he supposed. It must be nice, he supposed, not having to keep up a facade all the time...

 "I had to do some research but I found where Roman lived. Have you ever been there? I haven't, so I might be wrong on the address." Remy broke Remus' train of thought.

Remus had to think on this question for a second, to restart his brain. Had he? He never really questioned it. He'd been to many of Romans homes before but had he been to this one? He couldn't recall..

"I don't think so but if the front desk recognized his name then he must live there."

"Yeah...that's what I thought too.." Remy said slightly nervously. He started tapping his fingers on the wheel as he drove.

"Why are you acting like that?"

"Like what?"

"Like weird.."

"I don't think I know what you mean.." Remy said ignoring Remus' tone.

"Listen dude what's up…" 

"I just...this isn't the best area of town. I live in my apartment about 75% of the time to escape my parents. I know this town, along with the areas to avoid. I was hoping I was wrong and he lived somewhere else. But let's just go there and make sure he's alright. Alright?"

"Alright.." Remus ended.

The rest of the ride was quiet as Remus just looked out the window. He had never been to this part of the main town before. He knew that there was a...not so great part of town. Every town has that. But this place looked run down. Old.

Most of the buildings seemed empty. Junk was thrown on the sidewalks, forgotten about. The road and sidewalks were cracked. The people walking around looked dull. It was hard to believe that this is the same town Remus lived in, just a different part of it. A part that Roman lived in…

Remus laid back in his seat staring forward as Remy pulled into a parking lot.

"Welp. We're here..I think. I'm actually quite surprised this place has a front desk at all if I'm being honest.. let's go. I'll ask which apartment is his." Remy encouraged.

Slowly Remus got out of the car and together they walked into the old building.

There was a front desk, surprisingly. Even more surprising was that there was a person behind it. 

There was a short lady behind the desk reading a very worn book. She had snow white hair and dark brown skin. He had both laugh and frown lines in her face. She looked as if she watched them build the whole town.

Remy took a deep breath and walked up to the desk and started to talk.

"Hi my name is Remy and I believe we talked on the phone late last night. We are looking for my cousin Roman. Do you know the apartment number?"

The woman didn't look up from her book, so, thinking she might not have heard him he awkwardly tried to speak up again. 

"Umm...excuse me…? He said a bit louder" 

Still, nothing. Remus shrugged his shoulders when Remy looked over to him.

"Don't look at me! I don't know what to do!" Remus whisper-shouted.

"Bish! You work with people! I don't! Talk to her!" He whispered back.

"Ugh! That's not how it works bitch!"

“I’m sure it helps!”

"Will you two shut up?!" Someone yelled. "This book is just getting good and you two are ruining it!"

Remy and Remus snapped their heads over the voice coming from behind the desk. The old woman was scowling at them harshly. 

"Sorry ma'am. Just looking for our friend. Which apartment is Roman Kingsleys?" Remy questioned quickly.

"Oh Roman?” The womens face opened up into a long smile. “What a sweet boy," her demeanor completely changed as if she was talking about a lifelong friend. "He didn't come home last night...probably at the theater, still. Poor boy. Always working. He's in 103 on the second floor. But I doubt he's home. I've been here all day. It wouldn't be the first time he's fallen asleep on stage" She let out a laugh that sounded like a mix between a window being wiped and a cackle.

After recovering slightly from the whiplash they just got from the woman, they thanked her and turned to walk to the stairs.

"Hold on now!" she stalked after them. They both froze in place. "Why do the likes of you want to go to his house? I can't just let anyone in!" She stopped right next to Remus. She barely came up to his shoulder, yet she was still terrifying. 

"I'm his brother! And this is his cousin! We are just here to say hi…" Remus uttered quickly. He didn't know why this woman made him so anxious. His family was 100 times scarier yet this woman shook him up. Something in the back of Remus' brain told him it was about threat vs action but he ignored that. 

"You better not be lying! That boy is the nicest person to walk in this hellhole." She sneered.

"No ma'am! Just here to see him!" Remy countered. "I-if you don't mind me asking though, how long has he lived around here?"

"Some cousin and brother you are if you don't know where he lives!" She laughed. Remy and Remus shuffled nervously in place. "He's lived here for about…. Ohh going on 3 years now? I think. He always tried to brighten this place up with flowers whenever he could. Recently though he's been  staying inside more. Poor child. I miss his humor. Tell him to come down here if he's up there! Give him a piece of my mind!" She finished as she stomped back to her desk, picking up her book and sitting in place, as if she never moved.

Remy and Remus smartly decided not to comment further. They continued their walk to the stairs. Each step was a bit wobbly but since there was no elevator, they had no choice. Though, judging by the look of things, they wouldn't have trusted the elevator anyway.

The walls had long straggling cracks going in each direction. At one point it looked like the walls might have been painted a baby blue or a similar shade. But years of no upkeep has left it looking grey at best. Cobwebs were strung up as if it was halloween decorations. The air smelled old and musty. The faint sound of dripping water could be heard from seemingly anywhere in the building. Yet it was eerily quiet as the boys approached Roman's apartment.

His door didn't stand out among the rest, which made Remus sad for some reason. He remembered when he would insist in the house that his door be painted a deep red color. Not it was just...bland. 

They both arrived at the door and stopped. They looked at each not quite knowing who should do what. Finally Remus had had enough and spoke up.

"What the fuck are we doing!? This is dumb. This trepidation is dumb! This isn't some horror fantasy bullshit! Let's go!" He shouted reaching for Roman's door handle. Slightly surprising both Remus and Remy, it opened.

Shaking the surprise off Remus busts through the door. 

"ROMAN! GET YO BITCH ASS UP!"

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[vavandeveresfan]

I saw “The Protege.”

Michael Keaton is the only reason I saw The Protege.

I don’t like violent movies.  Hate them, actually.  I don’t find violence entertaining, and I don’t understand people who are entertained by it. I don’t get any kind of vicarious release from watching people doing godawful physical things to each other.  I’m not against these movies. I just choose to avoid them, the same way I avoid watching football, reality TV shows, and ballet.

I read all the spoilers about The Protege, as well as a few reviews, so I pretty much knew what I was in for.  Except reviewers rarely mention the level of blood and bone-snapping in movies anymore.  Ever since CG became so incredibly realistic, films, and TV, have taken advantage of the tech to show horrible things in detail.  Children have grown up watching The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead.  Why would reviewers mention something that even little kids are used to?

So I wasn’t prepared for the sights and sounds of people having nightmarish (to me) things done to them.  A couple happened so suddenly I wasn’t able to close my eyes in time.  I kept them closed, but the Foley artist’s sounds were very effective in getting across what was happening.  I felt queasy a couple times from the audio alone.

The plot was rife with tropes, which is fine, because it’s a thriller.

Being Hapa, it was great to see a Hapa woman as the MC.  I loved her bookshop and her kitty.  Keaton’s character walking in was like a Villy fanfic where Modern V.A. comes into Milly Farrier’s bookshop.  Anna banters with him the way I’d love to write Milly bantering with V.A.

How could I not think of V.A.?  Remember that Dumbo promo poster, with Vandevere in a blue suit he never wears in the movie?

Welp, he wears it in this movie.

At dinner he wears an ascot.  This is fanfiction Modern V.A., I swear.

Now that I think of it, he does have a gray suit.  Also like V.A.

It was really annoying when the Villy-inspiring moments were interrupted with heads being blown apart and bashed in, arms being snapped, stabbings and shootings.  I impatiently munched on Raisinets while I waited for the next Anna-Rembrandt scene.

My patience paid off.  Not only was there Hot Banter While Threatening to Kill Each Other Over Dinner . . .

 . . . there’s THAT scene.

SPOILERS AFTER THIS

Rembrandt and Anna are trying to kill each other, they keep grabbing each other and looking hornily at each other, and Anna accidentally turns on a stereo which plays hot, horny music. They’re on a glass table, Rembrandt flips them, and they fall, crashing through the table and onto the floor, Anna on top of Rembrandt.  He rolls them over, and, while on top, he growls, “You’re going to have to make up your mind.  Either kill me or fuck me.”

Immediately the scene goes to a bed, with shirtless Rembrandt rolling off Anna, and they lay next to each other, huffing from the exertion of what must have been intense fucking.

SHIRTLESS MICHAEL KEATON, Y’ALL

But this is where I get pissed off.  Before this there’s been explict gore and blood, tons of it.

But they couldn’t do an explicit, or damn near explict, scene of Keaton humping??  They couldn't show Anna arching her back and crying out as Keaton groans and pumps like mad??  What the actual not-explicit fuck??

I don’t reread my own fics, but now I need to reread As Long As You Love Me So, because I need a V.A.-and-Milly-fucking fix.

Also, there was a continuity glitch.  The scene starts off with the sheet down as far as Rembrandt’s waist, or close enough.  It then switches to Anna talking.  When it switches back to Rembrandt, the sheet’s higher.  But still can see that lovely, curly gray chest hair that would make Milly, and me, swoon and pet him.

To be honest, I felt no chemistry from Anna/Maggie Q toward Rembrandt/Keaton.  She said the lines, but her face just looked kind of . . . not really feeling it.  I think, like Milly in Dumbo, Anna is meant to be so traumatized from her really godawful childhood that she can’t express emotions well.  But, even as I type this, I realize that’s not true.  Samuel L. Jackson plays a man who saved her as a little girl and was her surrogate father.  You can see Anna loves him deeply.  But I got no real lust from her for Rembrandt.

As for Keaton, he did better.  But it wasn’t hot, panting lust.  It was like those acting classes when you’re trying to do a scene with a partner who’s just not as committed as you are.  He was, but Maggie Q., not so much.  Now that I think about it, I’ve never really seen Keaton do hot, horny lust.  With the exception of Beetlejuice. (but there are lot of his films I haven’t seen yet)

There’s an air of pining around Rembrandt for the rest of the movie.  When he and Anna have their final face-off, he’s trying to convince her that there can be more, for both of them.  But, of course, there can’t be a Happy Ending.  One has to kill the other.  It’s Anna who walks out alive.  I was spared seeing Rembrandt killed; it happens off-screen.

I wanted the last scene to be Rembrandt and Anna in their bookshop, him petting the shop kitty while she sells a rare First Edition.  But that’s a fanfic ending.

If you’re a Keaton fan and don’t mind gore and a not-challenging plot, the movie’s worth it for Keaton.  But just Keaton.  As this review says:

Review: As soon as Michael Keaton shows up, he elevates 'The Protégé'

I noticed that Keaton’s face is starting to show his age.  But.  At 70 (as of Sept. 5) he looks like 60.  And he moves like 40.  Whatever, he’s still hot as hell.

Extra crap about the movie that has nothing to do with Keaton:

The Evil Villain Rembrandt works for who Anna’s trying to kill lives on his own island in Vietnam.  Yes, the Evilest of Evil has an Evil Island, because all Evilest of Evils have one.

Naturally, the island is packed end to end with security forces.  They’re in full SWAT gear, have flocks of drones, tanks, helicopters, dogs, probably some Lovecraftian monster swimming its perimeters.  Because of course you have to convince the audience that No One Can Breach This Impenetrable Fortress It’s Impossible Don’t Even Try It It’s A Waste Of Your Time And Ours.

And of course Anna does.  By chopping her hair super-short and impersonating a waitress.

Because I guess this guy’s Evil Empire Staff didn’t do a background check?  I had to fucking pee in a cup and have my background scoured when I applied at a frickin’ jewelry store, but these guys, who are protecting a man tons of people want to murder, didn’t make absolutely goddamn sure any and all references and work histories were sound?  I guess Anna and Samuel L. Jackson mocked up a false identity so iron-clad the Evil Empire HR looked at her resume, shrugged, and put it in the Probably Not An Assassin pile.

Call me ruthless, but thrillers do not know how to wipe out an Evil Empire On An Evil Villain Island.

Two words:

Napalm. Sarin gas.

OK, that’s three words.

Now this shit is so truly evil that no one uses these as weapons in movies.  Hitler didn’t even use gas, because, putrid heinous scum that he was, even he was traumatized by what mustard gas did in the trenches in WWI.

And people in Vietnam know exactly how indescribably abhorrent Napalm is.  So do those of us who grew up watching the results of it on the 6 o’clock news.

Plus, in a movie, those weapons are too effective, and aren’t good visually.  You can’t shoot or stab Napalm or gas.  You can’t blow them up or break their necks. In a movie thriller you want bullets blasting everywhere at 100,000 miles per hour, gouging holes in walls, ceilings, and floors.  You want fighters in a clinch, punching, spinning, flipping, until the final Kill Move.

This is why thrillers bore me, because I’m not interested in any of that stuff.

[kaiowut99]

5D’s Episode 29… With an “Uncut” Dub?! (Re-Edited 4Kids Dub/Japanese OST)

“A Looming Threat! The Dark Signer Ushio?!”/”Good Cop, Bad Cop”

Everybody listen!

Well, after over 2.5 years now (...welp), this little mini-project is finally wrapped up! (Well, not totally, as I realized I have to go back and fix a few things for consistency, but y’know) It’s been neat editing these to throw the Japanese OST back in, and while I might do a few clips here/there now for fun, unless 4K/Konami Cross Media decide to flub up more episode uploads without their dub OST, I probably won’t be doing more full episodes. (Need to work on finalizing my GX subs finally, haha.)

But in case this is still the first you’re hearing about my mini-project here, let’s get you up to speed:

So, the official Spanish YGO channel on YouTube flubbed a few uploads of the 5D’s dub such that they ended up uploading a few episodes of the English dub instead of the Latin American dub (21-29)–but with none of 4Kids’s background music! Which meant that I could swoop in and re-insert the original Japanese soundtrack (which I did by matching each track to how it was looped in the episode), but I wanted to do more by also tweaking the dub itself so that not only was it matching the original footage, but the dialogue was more in line with the original dialogue timing-wise (since I couldn’t salvage much of what they changed).  Hence, the “dubbed uncut” gimmick here.  To this end, I’ve also used dialogue from Duel Links where applicable, or even borrowed audio from other episodes with the vocals isolated to lend to that effect.

Check out the masterpost of episodes here!

Check out this episode’s WIP videos! WIP #1     WIP #2     WIP #3

This was an interesting one to work with, and I was looking forward to it because of the Jack/Carly scene at the end over Jack Battle; it was also neat working in OSTs like Ceremony off Sound Duel 2 and mesh it with the dub, while recreating some of the OST tweaks they did (like speeding up Carly’s theme or sputtering Rua/Ruka Battle 2 as Jack calls Carly out lol).  Dialogue-editing-wise, this wasn’t as bad as 28, thankfully, as most of the dialogue was more or less adapted well, though I still did need to grab dialogue from other sources to cover for some dub fails, and I did grab audio from episode 30′s dub for the preview.  I also translated the “Road of the King” poster shown in four scenes (two outside the gala that happens and two inside as Godwin talks), using the dub’s “Atlas Rising - The Rise of Jack Atlas” name.  And since this is the last episode I’m working on, I thought it’d be cool to make use of Mark de Groot’s awesome Last Train - A New Morning English cover to really channel more of that “what if uncut” energy (just a shame no solid English CROSS GAME cover exists, but hopefully my eventual full translation when I post it will help that along). Full breakdown below, if you’re curious.

So, yeah... Enjoy, folks! Now that these are all done, I’ll be focusing more on my finalizing my GX subs and looking into finally reuploading my 5D’s sub/dub comparisons onto a new site, though this has made me want to revisit my 5D’s!DBZ Kai project occasionally, lol (I do want to see about using TheMilkman’s reduced-filler cut of Kai, though, as I thought it was a much more streamlined way to watch the show, but we’ll see).  I do have ideas for clips to create later on, but for now, enjoy these and think of what could have been (and could still be if we ever miraculously get a redub...)~

*cracks knuckles*

So, in the Noteworthy Cards section, the twins’ dialogue is still all from Duel Links, as I stitched together a “What will this Monster be?” line for Luna to match Ruka’s line, and recycled the “You get to see!” edit I used in 27 for Leo.

For the cold open, I tweaked Trudge’s dialogue to remove more of the “working together” fluff from the subplot they added (I removed the more overt mentions in 28 since I couldn’t edit around it).

*cue Last Train*

In Carly’s scene with the officer, I recreated the Carly Nagisa theme as used here, which was pitched and sped up by nine seconds, and replaced the one officer’s line about her needing to go outside with Carly gasping (since the officer was originally silent).  Once outside, I used a mix of lines from 27 and Duel Links to stitch together a better line about her fortune matching the original more, then did so again over the transition shots to the Road of the King/Atlas Rising red-carpet event (where the dub inserted a commercial break).

At said red-carpet event, I used a Duel Links line to make Carly’s “Angela! Didn’t see you!” line after bumping into Angela “No way! Angela!” to match the original.

Once the ROTK/Atlas Rising gala starts, I used the Japanese audio from the transition to it to after Godwin steps down the stairs to remove dub!MC’s added lines, then shortened Goodwin’s lines hyping up the movie so it all finished while he was onscreen, using the Japanese audio as the audience clapped.  When Yusei and Jack start hearing the movie on their TV screens, I used Duel Links lines to make Jack’s movie dialogue match what was said in those scenes originally (and the dub was inconsistent), and after Angela calls bull on the movie’s “Jack was born in the Tops” narrative, I kept the reporters prodding Godwin in Japanese with a subbed line because of how 4Kids edited them such that they kept speaking in turns within a shorter scene.  As Carly looks up at the movie before running off, I used a Duel Links line for Jack in the movie, and as she talks with Misty, I shortened Misty’s (fluffed in the dub) foreshadowing line to Carly to match the flaps.

I didn’t edit the scene with Yusei and Trudge much, and then as Carly bumps into a reporter outside Jack’s hospital, I wanted to remove the cameraman’s “We’re still live!” (since he was originally quiet, and you wouldn’t talk over a live shot like that lol) but the reporter’s “I’ll show you sorry” line overlapped with it, making a clean cut hard.  When Carly makes it inside, I shortened her (fluffed in the dub) line about her costume working, then as Trudge walks in, I switched to the Japanese audio to remove his “only doing this to get close to Goodwin” dub-only line, and kept the dub’s Dark Signer birthmark SFX as it appears on Trudge (since the JP version seems to just use the regular Signer one for it).

After the eyecatch, I used the Japanese audio as Mikage peels the apple (since Mina was humming), then switched to it again after Jack says he wants to be alone to deal with the dub cutting Mikage’s bow and removing Mina’s “call me if you need... anything” line).  Once Jack’s outside with Carly and possessed!Trudge walks up to them, I redid the Dark Signer birthmark SFX and the glowing right after to remove the dub’s added zoom-in SFX, then after Jack gasps, I switched to the Japanese audio to remove the dub’s added flashback-transition SFX.  As Carly flashes back to possessed!Dick’s dueling in 28, I added in the “whooshing” SFX and recycled some SFX from 28 to remove “Wipe his mark clean!” from possessed!Dick’s dialogue and adding "Blizzard Strike!!” from my edit in 28 to it, also recycling Yusei’s yelling/groaning to keep Carly quiet--her on-screen “A glowing mark like Yusei” line right after is recycled from 28 (Carly’s original line was “That glowing on his arm...”).  Used Japanese audio as Ushio activates his Disk, then stitched together a “You’re a Dark Signer?!” line for Jack to replace his “I seriously doubt [I’ll be the first to fall]” line to Trudge.  I vocal-isolated Carly’s “Yusei won” line after Jack asks when Yusei’s happened and put it just before he does, replacing Carly introducing herself (which doesn’t happen originally until just before the last turn), and using the Japanese audio for the SFX as Jack looks determined.  I used a Duel Links line to cover Jack using Carly’s name just before he has her use his Duel Disk, and then the duel starts.

I recycled a Trudge “It’s my move” line from later to remove his “Let’s cut the conversation” line (I did what I could to remove how conversational they made possessed!Trudge) over the 4000 LP shots, and then I vocal-isolated parts of Carly’s excited lines about dueling with Jack to remove the dub’s flashback-transition SFX (which they used over a vision...), recreating the Rua/Ruka Battle 2 theme playing here and the sputtering that happens when she declares her turn only for Jack to correct her and say it’s his, lol.  I vocal-isolated Jack dialogue from later in the series to use a proper Vice Dragon effect explanation over Jack’s trash-talk line to Trudge, then did the same for a Carly line in 37 to fix an error where she mentions Vice Dragon having 2400 ATK (as I thought it’d sound better than “twenty-hundred” lol).  I shortened Carly’s and Jack’s (fluffed-up in the dub) lines about his being a “once-great duelist,” then recycled some Trudge laughter to cover for his “Hey, has-been!” line; as Carly sends cards to the Graveyard for Warm Worm’s effect, I redid the Graveyard-sending SFX to remove her “That’s how this works” line and the dub’s add-on to that SFX, adding on a Jack “What’s going on?” thought per the JP script.  As Carly reacts to having to send more cards per Shield Worm’s effect, I switched to the JP audio as the split-screens happen and the cards are sent to use those SFX.

As Carly declares another turn but catches herself, I used an “It’s my turn!” line from Jack to remove his “Let me see my cards” line, then tweaked Carly’s line to fix an error where she has Strong Wind Dragon take out Shield Worm in a “direct attack” so it’s “take out Shield Worm and attack!”; I vocal-isolated the resulting “Dimwit!” and “Did I mess up?” lines from Jack and Carly to remove the dub’s split-screen SFX.  As Trudge brings back Shield Worm with Regretful Rebirthborn, I moved his line about its effect so it started while he was onscreen per the JP script, also removing his “you and your little assistant” fluff, and I vocal-isolated Jack’s “Not as sorry as Trudge is going to be” thought to remove the dub’s added zoom-in SFX, using part of the JP audio to use that SFX, and then using the JP SFX as Carly sends the cards to their Graveyard.  Having removed Jack’s fluff here as there was a dub commercial break inserted, I tweaked a Duel Links “From my hand” line to use before he declares his Twin-Shield Defender summon, using the JP audio for the summon itself.

I moved Trudge’s “It’s my turn then” a second or two earlier, then used the JP audio after he summoned his Worm Tokens as the split-screens and counter fly-ins happen, then vocal-isolated part of Trudge’s line after to remove the dub’s split-screen SFX, and I used the “chaos” part of one of Trudge’s Duel Links lines to try and fix the dumb “Dark Tuner Chaos-Rogue Catastrogue” error (which I do 2-3 more times), using the JP audio as Chaos-Rogue’s summoned.  I moved Jack’s “What’s this Dark Tuning business all about?” line a second or two later to remove his use of Carly’s name, then used the JP audio from where Chaos-Rogue starts tuning to the Worm Token glowing to remove Carly’s added line about Dick Dark Tuning, and used the JP audio as Dark Diviner/Pitch-Dark Zumwalt’s summoned.  I redid the SFX as Carly sends cards to the Graveyard per Chaos-Rogue’s effect to move part of Trudge’s line attacking with Dark Diviner earlier (since 4Kids cut a second or two from this shot), and then vocal-isolated part of Trudge’s line about Dark Diviner’s effect to remove the dub’s split-screen SFX.  I switched to the JP audio as Carly sends cards to the Graveyard after as I moved Trudge’s line a bit to shorten it, then after Carly shields Jack from the attack, I vocal-isolated part of his line to Trudge to remove the dub’s split-screen SFX and used a Duel Links line to extend his dialogue (which 4Kids shortened); I also vocal-isolated Trudge’s line after to remove the dub’s split-screen SFX.

As Carly apologizes to Jack, I used a “Well?” from Duel Links for him to remove his guessing Carly’s name now that she properly introduces herself, and then vocal-isolated their lines as they start their turn to remove the dub’s split-screen SFX.  I used the JP audio after they draw, then again when they activate Mind Trust, vocal-isolating part of Jack’s line to remove the dub’s split-screen SFX and stitching together various lines to extend Jack’s explanation of its effect by adding a mention that it’s a Tuner with half the Level of the Monster he releases that he’s adding to his hand (4Kids cut this short and he just says “to pull a weaker Monster”).  I added a whoosh as the screen goes up Strong Wing Dragon to match the original audio, then as Dark Resonator’s summoned, I used the JP audio as the ATK counter flies in (but at a lower volume, since 4Kids moved Jack’s dialogue about the summon to during the summon itself, since Jack’s lips weren’t moving when he originally said them while onscreen), and stitched together a “Dark Resonator tunes with Twin-Shield Defender” line to remove the “tune-up” line, using Duel Links lines for Jack’s Exploder Dragonwing chant.  I vocal-isolated part of his explanation of its effect to remove the dub’s split-screen SFX, and then his line having Exploder Dragonwing attack to remove his “Of course [I still have it], I only lost yesterday” line to Carly, using his Duel Links “King Storm!!” shout for its attack, and switching to the JP audio as the attack hits and causes the explosion.  

As Trudge comes to, I added a Duel Links grunt over a second of lip-flaps that the dub cut, then no real dialogue edits to Carly’s and the reporter’s lines as she runs out with Jack.  Then, as Goodwin meets up with Yusei, I edited his “It’s time I told you the whole truth” line to match the flaps, adding a vocal-isolated “You see” from 26 just before “It’s time I told you the truth,” and used the JP audio after Yusei gasps looking to where he points to end the episode.

In the Preview, as mentioned, I used dialogue vocal-isolated from episode 30 to recreate the JP dialogue, though I did want to use Crow’s “Ready! Set! Duel!” from Duel Links but it wasn’t working too well, so I stuck with his “Time to ride!” from 30 that hopefully still sounds good.

*phew*

[gwennavierre]

I don't have a computer yet, but wanted to start writing a little fic where Plagg overindulges and gets... chatty.

I don't know how to do a cut in the mobile app, so sorry!

If you like this and want another chapter, please let me know!

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Notices: season 3 spoilers, alcohol consumption (by kwami, not kid)

Delicate combinations

Chapter 1

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'Would you like some cheese with that whine?'

Adrien glared at the smirking kwami and stopped his tangent on how frustrating it was to be in love with a girl who didn't like him back. It wasn't her lack of feelings for him that was the main issue (though it was high up there...), but how difficult it was for him to let go of his feelings for her to pursue someone else. He enjoyed spending time with Kagami, and tried really hard to feel happy at the thought of possibly k-kissing her... but.. Adrien sighed. Plagg was right, he was whining and that wasn't doing anything but making him feel worse.

"Sorry, Plagg. I know you're tired of hearing this. I am too, to be honest. At least you're not stuck inside my head with my thoughts, right?" he grinned as Plagg sighed and heavily rolled his eyes.

'I need more cheese for this, Adrien. I'm wasting away, using all my energy to listen to you mope. In fact, I could go for some actual wine as well. It's been a while since I paired my cheese with a nice wine...' he tapped his.. chin? with his stubby arm while he pondered to himself about the delightful combination of good vin and fomage...

"I'll see what I can do, Plagg. Wait here!" The blonde was out the door the next moment, leaving Plagg to start drooling in anticipation.

When Adrien came back, he was holding a glass bottle under his shirt and doing his best impression of a spy in an overrated action movie. Plagg raised his eyebrows as his chosen turned and closed the bedroom door, badly humming a theme from one of those movies.

Turning to face Plagg, he pulled the bottle from its hiding place with a proud flourish. "Ta-daaaaa!" He rubbed his chin with one hand while turning the bottle in the other, reading the label.

"It's the first one I saw and one of the chefs almost caught me, so I don't know what kind I grabbed. I'm not really a fan of wine, either, so... I hope this is okay?"

Plagg hid the bit of emotion that almost showed on his face. Adrien might be an idiot, but he was one of the best humans he had ever had. He flitted to his cheese cupboard and chose the best piece to go with the bottle.

"I forgot to grab a glass.. want me to go get you on-...?"

Plagg had already forced out the cork and was somehow tilting the heavy glass bottle into his mouth. Adrien may not like wine, but he definitely knew that was not how one was supposed to drink such a fancy one... ah well. His kwami looked delighted as he went back and forth with the cheese and the wine, no doubt enjoying the (supposedly) delicate balance of flavors.

Smiling softly to himself, Adrien flopped onto his bed and pulled out some reading he wanted to catch up on. He hadn't realized how sleepy he was until he was woken up an hour later by Plagg... who had apparently been poking his nose while making "beep" sounds to bring him back to consciousness.

'Beeeeep' *poke* 'beeeeep' *poke* 'BEEEEEEPP!' *aggressive poke*

"Ow! Plagg, what the hell?" Adrien groggily sat up and covered his bruised nose with his hand.

'Finally! I've been soooo boorrrred, Adrien. You fell asleep and I had nooooo one to talk to except your pictures of Ladybug, and apparently she's not very talkative right now..' Plagg glared at one of the aforementioned pictures, thoroughly offended at its lack of engaging discourse over the past hour.

"Plagg... are you... are you drunk?"

'What? No, I'm Plagg. You lidderulllly jus' said it. Why would you think I'm Drunk? What kinda name is that, anyway??' the kwami wobbled a bit, even while floating in air, and gave a crooked smile.

Adrien stared blankly at him and slowly blinked. "Right. You weren't supposed to drink the WHOLE BOTTLE, you know!"

'How was I supposa know that, huh? You left it on the table for me. You didna say I had to limmmmmit myself.' Plagg sniffed in indignation and held his wobbly head up high and seeing the humorless Ladybug staring out at him again from her place on the wall. Plagg narrowed his eyes and floated towards it, seemingly tripping on himself a few times.

'And YOU!' he angrily pointed his stubby arm at the picture. 'You are NO help ADDDAALL, with your buggy liddle face making my cat go all loopy dovey goggly eyes.'

Adrien rubbed the last bit of sleep from his eyes as he watched his kwami yell at a poster. This... was starting to be very entertaining, if also a bit embarrassing. Poor Plagg was all he had to talk to about his love for the polka dotted heroine, after all. He was bound to get frustrated with it eventually...

Adrien tuned back in to Plagg's lecturing of the Ladybug poster.

'...an.. an he won't... stop... talking about you an I know you ca't stop talking 'bout him either, and you're both soo... sooo... UGH.' Plagg was pulling at his face in frustration.

Adrien frowned.

"Plagg, what do you mean she 'can't stop talking about me either'?"

'Wha? Oh. Yeah. Badylug. She's todally obsessed with you. More than you are with her, 'ccording to Sugarcube... '

Adrien felt his face heat up, even as confusion clouded his brain..

"Ladybug barely tolerates me, Plagg. She's not obsessed with me... she likes someone else, after all..." he couldn't control the sad sigh that escaped his lips.

Plagg narrowed his eyes in Adrien's general direction (he wasn't sure which Adrien was the real one, so focused somewhere between the two). He had had ENOUGH. Boi was gonna have a 'come to kwami' moment, right here, right now.

'Adriennnnn... you are the best black cat I've evver had..' he allowed his words to sink in and bring a smile to Adrien's face.. 'you're also the most infuriating and dense one I've had!' welp, so much for that smile... may as well get this over with..

'YOU are the one badylug likes, you freaking idiot. She's obsessed with you, has pictures of you all over her walls!'

"... what do you mean? Why would she keep turning me down then?"

'Not pictures of Chat NOIR, you idiot. Pictures of YOU. ABRIEN UNDRESSED. Um.. Adrien Agreste. Heh. I'm star'ing to sound like her... an.. an Sugarcube hasta... hasta put up with her moaning abou' YOU, 'cause you don't even know she likes you cuz you.. you're stuck on Badylug!!' Plagg hadn't actually slipped up on her name that time. He had started liking it and was now saying 'Badylug' intentionally. He tried to focus his eyes on the two shocked looking Adrien's sitting on the bed. Was this.. okay? Should he have told him so much? Could he have survived anymore pointless pining if he HADN'T said anything? Glancing at the empty bottle of wine, he knew the answer to that. He was doing this for all of them. Adrien, Badylug, Sugarcube, and himself.

Besides, it's not like he's telling him her identity or anything... he should be happy knowing his love loves him back, right?

Adrien blinked several times. Ladybug... liked him? Liked Adrien? No.. was obsessed with him?? Had pictures of him on her walls??

He cursed gravity for not allowing him to float up to his ceiling on a cloud of bliss.

Ladybug... loved him. And he loved Ladybug.

Wait. Ladybug loved him but he had no idea who she was. Was he ignoring her advances the way she ignored his as Chat??

"Plagg! Who is she??"

'Nuh uh, I'm not 'sposed to tell ya.'

"I know that, but.. Plagg, if she loves Adrien and doesn't give Chat a chance because of that, and what if I'm doing the same thing to her??"

'Gee. I wonder.' Plagg's sarcasm shot at Adrien, who gasped.

"Tha- that's why you've been so annoyed! You know who she is! Her kwami knows who I am, too, right?" Plagg nodded.

"So.. you two have been watching and listening to us fall apart over our love for each other and didn't think to mention any of this before NOW?"

Plagg glanced sideways at Posterbug and stage whispered 'maybe this wasn't such a good idea afferall, Badylug...' Posterbug winked at him. Yep. He had most definitely overdone it with the wine.

Boldly ignoring Adrien's rant, Plagg phased into a cupboard and curled up for a nap. Adrien will calm down, eventually. Then maybe he can stop moping about Ladybug and start paying attention to a certain girl in his class who smells like cinnamon and freshly baked bread. Plagg sighed and tuned out Adrien's attempts to open the cupboard. Plagg was no longer bored, but definitely needed a nap.

[marikaaajoy]

my relationship with digital art and how BNHA salvaged it

I just wanted to let out my thoughts but I can only do it here :>

This might be a downer for some people but I’d like to share it with people here. BNHA means the world to me and this is why.

I first started drawing when I was 7 years old in 2006

I think it’s ugly now, but 7 year old me remembered being so proud of this because this is a drawing of my stepfather. This is the only drawing I have that was from my childhood. I think the aim here is to draw in anime style BUT I didn’t even watch anime back then. I had a classmate who loves anime and she taught me to draw in school. Drawing became a favorite hobby immediately after that.

Then it was 2013 and I was 14 years old. Drawing is still my favorite thing to do besides being on the computer. I love anime at this point too. My parents bought an iPad for the whole family, but I was almost always the one using it. I discovered an app called ArtStudio and thought “Wow, I can draw without making a mess and with only my fingers” because I was always too lazy to take out my drawing materials and clean up afterwards.

These were my first digital drawings. The pirate one was the very first. I got obsessed real fast. I can color so easily, undo any mistake, layers are a blessing too. There was just so much more freedom. I always sucked at coloring in traditional art and I didn’t like the mess (idk my hands get so messy traditionally)

The next year, it was 2014, I was 15. My birthday is in a couple of months and I knew my parents were planning to buy me something pricey (I think it was a laptop) so I approached them and asked if they could just buy the Wacom Bamboo as a present which was cheaper anyway and I even explained how it works to them and how it would allow me to draw on the computer instead of the iPad. I tried really hard to be convincing. I would have prepared a powerpoint presentation if I had to.

They did give me the wacom as a present. They even gave it to me months before my birthday so I could use it already. I thought I was the luckiest teen in the world with my parents.

These are a collection of my favorite works from 2014 to 2016. The middle one was my second drawing using wacom and Paint Tool SAI. I was a part of a lot of fandoms in those years lol

It gets downhill from there :/

April 2016, my mom and I moved to Japan, while my stepfather and siblings stay in my country. It was tough. For someone who is obsessed with anime, you’d think I’d be thrilled to live in Japan.

I was. Though only at the first few months. It’s not the same as it’s portrayed in anime (I should’ve known but I used to be blinded by anime). It was just lonely. The language barrier sucked and then lots of financial and family issues until my parents split. I got my first boyfriend too and I thought I was blessed by the nicest boy, but the relationship became extremely toxic but I didn’t have it in me to walk away.

All the shit that happened affected me mentally and emotionally. My biggest outlet which was digital drawing, was also out of the question because I did not have a computer/laptop when we moved to Japan. We left it in our home for my stepfather and siblings, even the iPad. I have my wacom with me, but no computer/laptop to use it with. I couldn’t draw.

I tried though. I used my phone to draw, but it wasn’t the same. Then the life problems got piled up, things got worse, and I just lost motivation in anything. Literally anything. From 2016 to 2019, I stopped watching anime, I dropped out of all the fandoms I’m in, I stopped watching my favorite TV series or movies, and I stopped drawing. I even got a bit disconnected with my friends who lived in my country (we talk regularly online). My family was broken so I gave all my attention to my toxic relationship as well which made everything worse too lol

I didn’t draw besides from a few scribbles and the drawings above. I did try digital art on my phone a couple of times again and even posted them on my IG, but they weren’t any good. Eventually, I got mentally and emotionally drained and dropped out of senior high school. I just stayed home for almost a year, leeching off of my mom. I felt even more worthless and my life had no direction at this point. Nothing mattered anymore.

April 2019 or so I think, my (ex)bf bought me a laptop. He says it’s a gift, but I think the real reason was to make up for something horrible that he did (which is stupid because money /gifts won’t resolve anything). I have a laptop. I can draw again, but I didn’t. I didn’t care, I wasn’t interested in drawing anymore anyway.

Welp. June 2019, I went back to my country. My (ex) bf stayed in Japan. The distance helped me end the relationship and my friends were there (they always were) to help put me back together along with two trips to therapy. I went back to finish my senior high school in my own country this time. That said, I have to stay in my country for school (but I was happy because I didn’t wanna go back to Japan yet when the breakup was still fresh and with going back to school, my life has a direction again.)

It was weird. I remember just being sorta lost and confused because I used to put my time, effort and everything into my previous toxic relationship, which was now gone. I was free and I had so much free time that I didn’t know what to do with it. I got so used to doing nothing and being nothing.

This is where BNHA enters.

Dunno when it started, but I started seeing Bakugou frequently online. It’s usually just Bakugou. I knew who he was because my friend suggested BNHA to me back in late 2018 I think but I didn’t watch it since I’ve lost interest in everything at that point in my life.

But ye I thought he hot af but I still didn’t watch BNHA.

But then for some reason he REALLY kept appearing in my social medias and it was really frequent. The last straw was when I saw a pic of him in UA’s gym uniform and thought “damn boi aight imma watch bnha for u” (y’all gotta admit he looks good in those colors with his combat boots XD )

I watched BNHA. Fell in love with Iida along the way. Then I switched to Tokoyami (but Shoji was hot too so aaaaa), but then angry emotionally-constipated sea urchin head caught my heart again. But oof. BakuDeku moments really made me feel some type of way I haven’t felt since I moved to Japan. It felt new but nostalgic. I fell hard in that ship.

I started obsessing. From memes to posts to fanfictions to buying merch to filling my room with BNHA posters. I realized I was reverting to my old self from the time I was still happy and it was thanks to BNHA (and the good people who helped me through the worst too)

Shit I wanted to draw BNHA, I thought.

I mean, I have a laptop, I still have my wacom and drawing softwares. I could totally draw digitally again if I wanted to.

But guess what

I can’t :c

My hand physically cannot draw. My drawings don’t look the way I want them too. 3 years of not drawing really destroyed any skill I had. I was back to square one.

September (yeah they’re ugly, I laughed at it). If you’re wondering why I drew on paper, it’s because, for some reason, I really CANNOT draw digitally. I mean it. I can barely sketch digitally at this point. The lines and shapes just doesn’t come to life. They’re just scribbles. But somehow, I can kinda draw on paper with a ballpoint pen. But yeah, that was the best I could do at this point in my life

After that, I still tried to draw, to regain my old art style, but it didn’t happen... It just doesn’t look or feel the same. Drawing used to be fun. But during this phase, it felt like my ugly drawings were just mocking me (probably was just too emo that time lol)

Weirdly, around a week or two I think, after my half-assed attempts at drawing, I managed to draw digitally somehow o.o

I did a Midoriya and Todoroki drawing like this too. It was my first post here on Tumblr I think. The annoying part here is that I cannot draw digitally unless I draw on paper first, take a pic, and then trace the lineart. I couldn’t draw directly on the computer. Granted, drawing on paper and drawing on digital is very different for me in the first place anyway. But it was still a pain. And it still looked like shit. I can only draw stiff poses :/ it seems like my brain decided to delete all data about anatomy and posture and backgrounds. My lineart here is even messy af. It still really not the same as my old style.

By 2020, I think I got my old art style back. On March, I made this. This took me 27 total of hrs to make.

Right now, I think it’s not bad, but back in March, I was disappointed with the result. This is when I finally broke down crying because it didn’t look good enough and I hated that it took me 27 hrs to draw “bullshit.” I was angry at myself for losing interest in drawing for 3 years when I could’ve used that time to improve. I had to start all over again and it still didn’t look good. (Current me thinks that the drawing above is alright. I was just a lot harsher to myself back then. Used to have a lot of issues but I’m doing great now)

I cried myself to sleep that night. Woke up wanting to cry again. I wallowed in sadness for a couple of days. Eventually told my friends what’s up. Got some pep talk. Even talked to my sister (she’s great, she always hypes me up with my stuff and sometimes I think she’s my biggest fan with how she appreciates my drawings and I’m really grateful for that).

My world turned a 180 and I was weirdly positive after all that crying because brain chemicals and shit. I had a revelation. If I hate how my art style looked so much, then I should have been putting effort in changing my art style, not trying to regain my old art style (that I don’t like anymore)

I researched a lot. I analyzed different art styles and anatomy again. I did everything I could think of to find a style that works for me. I might have even neglected school for a bit to focus on digital art lmao

After all that work, I posted a fanart of middle school BakuDeku in their classroom. I love that fanart so much even if I probably have better ones by now because that was the first fanart I made that I felt like I could be proud of and it was the first one I made in my new art style. It was a milestone for me.

March 2020, I moved back to Japan and without the toxic relationship, I’m a lot positive now. Happy. I’m myself again after the previous bad years. I’m still continuously learning though, trying to improve, but at least, now, I found my own art style :) I really suck at interacting with people online, but I’m always grateful for the support everyone has been giving my fanarts. I’m happy when my content makes people happy.

This is why BNHA is important to me. The series is great alone, but it’s not just that to me. BNHA is so much more. It’s what made me find the passion to create again, only this time, it’s focused on drawing (I used to write, but now I just draw, but maybe I’ll write again for BNHA).

My family is supportive with my love for BNHA, but I think they don’t know the deeper reason why I love it. Sure, I was fine living on with nothing much going on in my life. I’ll finish school, get a job, work until I die or something. It was okay. It was the way of life. But BNHA gave my life color again. I wasn’t just blindly going through life anymore. I have something to look forward to everyday now. BNHA even became a bridge to other things. Ever since then, I’m a lot more open to people, to try new things, to explore and not just live through life and waste away. I got better at leaving my comfort zone. I’ve never been happier in my life :D

Thank you for supporting my fanarts. Thank you so much for giving me a chance to express myself through BNHA. I hope to make more content in the future and improve even more :)

[rubyvroom]

things I said while watching Mandy:

Is this King Crimson? Of course it is.

Somebody turn on a damn light.

I like Mandy. We would be friends in real life.

Is that a lamb? That’s some anvilicious foreshadowing. 

This dude likes Heavy Metal. Do I mean the music or the movie? Yes.

(All mentions of This Dude are in reference to Pantos Cosmatos)

It’s definitely a Charles Manson shout-out but also all cult leaders are Like This. Pretty much exactly like this. 

I know this book is a fake book but I absolutely read this book in the 90s.

They cast all the creepy-looking craggy face motherfuckers they could find in this movie. 

Oh man, she laughed at his dick. I love this chick. 

Welp, they fridged her. Dead Dove Do Not Eat.

I do appreciate that there is, noticably, no actual violence against women depicted onscreen. An (slight) effort was made. 

The only well-lit room in this movie and it contains nic cage in tighty whities.

Gotta take time out from screaming despair and exposition to FORGE A GODDAMN AXE this is a FILM

Pure uncut 100-proof Nic Cage rampage incoming

(5 minute break from movie to change the picture settings on my remote to see if it will help me see what’s going on. It did not.)

Right, anytime I’m in a demon biker’s lair and I come across a strange substance in a dirty jar I immediately taste it to see what it is. That is a normal human reaction.

Face directly into cocaine is a great summary of this film experience

This dude absolutely had a lot of black light posters in his dorm room.

Nic Cage stole the Evil Four-Wheeler. I would have gone with Evil Motorcycle, but you do you. 

This is like if Ghost Rider was good.

I feel like it’s been decades since I heard a regular old drum backbeat in a movie score.

He’s definitely emitting a cosmic darkness. I think him being smeared head to toe with blood was your real tipoff though. 

Why on earth would you have a chainsaw that big? Other than “to have a chainsaw fight, duh”? 

This screenplay was written by a 12-year-old, but like, in a fun way.

I’m still trying to explain to myself why I liked this as much as I did. I think because it’s pretty much exactly what me as a child in the 80s imagined the Heavy Metal movie would be like - loud rock music, lots of drugs, demon-fighting, great visual style, nice animation, crazy violence and pretty girls - when I wasn’t old enough to watch the real thing and find it kind of boring. 

Imagine if Nicolas Cage had died and Mandy went on the murder rampage though. (I know the point of the starling story is that she wouldn’t have, but still, imagine.)

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15 Best Bollywood Actresses Without Makeup Nailed The Natural Look

If you think celeb beauties would never and cannot bare it all, you’re about to be proven wrong. This is an ode to every bollywood actresses without makeup that was brave enough to flaunt her flaws!

Bollywood Beauties! Ahh who doesn’t want to be a Bollywood beauty or atleast look half as good as them. Welp, their beauty comes at a great price- healthy diets, extensive beauty routines, expensive treatments and a lot more. Like Queen Bey said “Pretty Hurts”!

It's not everyday you see an actress without makeup. They have a certain image of beauty to live upto, people expect them to be flawless porcelain dolls, every minute of their life. Keeping up with such expectations comes with a heavy price and it's not easy.

Here's a list of 15 incidences when a Bollywood actress stepped out without makeup or minimal makeup and showed the paparazzi that their camera didn't matter and absolutely slayed their natural look.

We applaud these celebrities without makeup, for giving unrealistic beauty standards a Big Finger!

From airports to gyms and everywhere in between, these actresses have time and again bared it all and beautifully!

Bollywood Actresses Without Makeup

1. Deepika Padukone Without Makeup Is Still A Queen!

This long-legged bombshell is a perfectionist- with thick eyebrows perfectly lined in shape, her chiseled cheeks highlighted and lips colored pretty, everytime she makes a public appearance she is impressively dressed to the T! Dressed in a casual grey 3/4th sleeves t-shirt with a tan side bag and no makeup, Deepika is seen keeping her style simple, comfortable and classy.

You’ll hardly see this actress without makeup. Only on a blue moon would you see Deepika at her raw best but when she bares it all, she certainly is not afraid of flaunting her natural beauty, she wears it proudly!

Honestly with her smooth, shiny tan Deepika padukone without makeup is just as beautiful as deepika with makeup.

2. If You’re Born with It, Wear It Like Anushka Sharma Without Makeup!

Anushka’s dewy, lush skin speaks for itself. She’s one of the few lucky people who are genetically gifted in the beauty department.

Tbh Anushka sharma without makeup is healthy skin-spiration!

It’s not unusual to see her sport the #NoMakeup look. From red carpet events to casual public appearances, Anushka is seen keeping it simple with minimal makeup and opting for fresh looks all the time. Solid color tees paired with basic denim pants and white shoes apparently turn out to be Anushka’s mantra for her stylish airport looks. It’s a rarity to see her wear heavy makeup, this beauty is not about the OTT life.

3. Sonam Kapoor Without Makeup Makes It Up With Her Fly Style!

This ‘Fashion Royalty’ has Expensive written all over her, in bold!

Popular for her unconventional, avant-garde, unique style, this B-town beauty doesn’t shy away from getting raw and filter free in front of the camera. Thus sonam kapoor without makeup is a frequent feature on her instagram too.

This fashionista knows exactly how to slay a no-makeup look. Spotted in a grey checkered power pantsuit with oversized black shades to hide the eyes and a brown handbag, Sonam Kapoor makes a powerful statement and absolutely nobody even notices her bare face. Lately one can witness Sonam Kapoor posting no filter and no makeup looks on her instagram profile making her support for raw and bare-faced looks more prominent.

4. Alia Bhatt Without Makeup- Young, Fresh & Healthy!

Nobody does casual as cool as Alia!  Spotted in a black t-shirt, Alia almost always has fresh glowing skin and with a charming smile like hers, makeup is not a necessity. Alia’s young, healthy skin is a result of power juices, a healthy diet and extensive exercise sessions with Yasmin Karachiwala.

It’s not often that you see heroines without makeup but she being the carefree millennial that she is, Alia Bhatt without make up is a common sight and if you’re lucky you might just run into her on a walk around town!

5. Priyanka Chopra Without Makeup, Owns It Like A Boss!

A patron of natural beauty and embracing flaws, Priyanka chopra has never turned face from giving the world a taste of her glam.

She is often seen gracing posters and magazine covers without makeup, she is unafraid of criticism and can handle whatever’s thrown her way. One to defy norms both social and beauty, Priyanka Chopra without makeup still rules our hearts and the style scene.

This Boss Lady owns her flaws!

6. Kareena Kapoor Without Makeup is Literally BAE!

When you’re born with good skin,silky hair and beautiful eyes, do you even have to worry about what you look like?

Bebo sure seems to not bother much about makeup! Often spotted in round neck full sleeves t-shirts or a tank top with skin fit jeggings, sports shoes and a high ponytail, Kareena Kapoor without makeup still lives up to widely acceptable Indian standards of beauty. It’s not out of the ordinary to see her go ‘au natural’.

Whether it’s a workout sesh at Bandra or a beach vacation in the Maldives, taking a break from makeup sure seems easy for this Diva.

7. Katrina Kaif Without Makeup Serves Freshness!

You’d hardly ever see Katrina Kaif wearing heavy makeup. One to levitate to softer looks -  even in movies, at red carpet events or high profile weddings this actress has time and again shown the world that she doesn’t rely much on makeup.

The Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara actress Katrina Kaif, without makeup is everything that every woman wants to be. She has a clear, blemish-free, fresh skin that anybody would kill for and is often seen flaunting her hot-bod and post-workout clear skin in Bandra.

8. Shraddha Kapoor Without Makeup Makes Me Believe In Herbal Tea!

Maybe detoxicating does do your skin wonders because Shraddha Kapoor without makeup is like a ray of light on a dark night! A healthy lifestyle advocate, Shraddha sure seems to be practising what she preaches! Often spotted donning a comfy crop top and joggers, Shradhha Kapoor never fails to flaunt her glowing skin and beautiful smile in front of the cameras.

You don’t just stumble upon fresh, dewy and glowing skin. Sometimes you have to work for it, work hard for it!

9. Jacqueline Fernandez Without Makeup Is A Winner!

Jacqueline’s happy and energetic laugh is enough to make one fall in love with her, her long luscious locks and beautiful face are like a cherry on top.

Even when Jacqueline Fernandez steps out without makeup, her positivity and happy spirit reflect on her face. She’s winning our hearts and giving us the confidence to embrace our perfectly imperfect skin.

10. Madhuri Dixit Without Makeup, Can Give Actresses A Run For Their Money!

This evergreen actress is the epitome of classic Bollywood charm! This B-town Mohini  (enchantress) has enticed Indian audiences with her beauty over two decades and is still ruling hearts.

A champion of healthy living and keeping fit, she dances her way to organic beauty. Known for her impeccable style and charismatic smile, Madhuri Dixit is a perfect example of beauty with brains. Unafraid of what her critics have to say, Madhuri Dixit without makeup often makes appearances at dance sessions and public events alike.

11. Hina Khan Without Makeup Gets Honestly Bare-Faced!

ou have to be really brave to be able to go bare faced everyday for months on national T.V. especially when you're a much-adored celebrity from the silver screen.

Well Hina Khan without makeup was a regular on our tv sets during her stint on Big Boss. Her workout looks are so well put together, that they serve as an inspiration to all for opting a healthy diet and a perfect fitness regime. The television actress Hina Khan doesn’t shy when it comes to putting out her transformation pictures or no makeup workout selfies.

12. Kajol Without Makeup  Is Carefree! Well, She’s Always Carefree!

This Bollywood actress is known for her zesty, feisty personality. She speaks her mind and has made her strong opinions about celebrity airport looks and all the efforts that go into creating eventful celebrity looks quite clear. She really isn’t about all that effort. Mother of two, Kajol likes to keep her look minimal and yet never fails to take us by awe with her zealous nature.

Naturally it’s not really a big deal to see Kajol without makeup. It’s no big deal to her, shouldn’t be to us either right?

Nevertheless, she’s beautiful.

13. Do It Like Sunny! Sunny Leone Without Makeup - A Heartthrob!

Sunny Leone is blessed with good skin and beautiful eyes. You will often see Sunny Leone without makeup especially during her workout routines that she usually shares with her fans online. Apart from that she is often spotted at airports wearing full sleeve tops and distressed jeans carefully paired with bomber jackets and sneakers. She often shares pictures with her kids and husband Daniel Weber on Instagram while enjoying her casual days out in L.A and Mumbai.  

Even dressed at her simplest, she reflects positivity and a natural glow!

14. Kajal Agarwal Without Makeup Is Super Casual Chic!

It's not unusual to see a Tamil actress without makeup, they are pretty famous for sporting natural looks.

Kajal Aggarwal without makeup is a common sight around town, she is often caught at her casual best on outings with friends and family. We must say she slays casual like no other celebrity! Known for opting a fuss-free casual look, it is evident from Kajal Aggarwal’s Instagram profile that she likes to chill in comfy yet stylish crop tops and track pants.

15. Sara Ali Khan Without  Makeup or With, Is Always A Charmer!

Making her Bollywood debut with Kedarnath, this fresh-faced beauty has certainly inherited good looks from her mother. Almost a young clone of her mumma, Sara Ali Khan without makeup has a fresh charm that no other actress can match right now. Despite being new to Bollywood, Sara Ali Khan has already got herself quite a fan base because of her chirpy and carefree attitude towards most things in life. Known for her famous “ Namaste”, Sara is often seen flaunting her carefree side by choosing comfy denim pants and round neck tees or sweatshirts while traveling.

Even at her simplest, in a plain suit and no makeup at all, Sara Ali Khan is a pretty spectacle.

Everything said and done, there’s no denying that these actresses are just as prepossessing with or without a made-up face. Take inspiration from your favourite Bollywood actresses without makeup, go makeup free and embrace your natural beauty and don't let anyone else tell you what's best for you.

What your critics say ,don’t matter! How you feel about yourself is all that does. So love yourself girl!

Source: https://www.bewakoof.com/blog/actress-without-makeup

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APA 💐 for 1-15 please

Oh Dang!!!! Thank you so much!!!!

Fic Asks

1: What inspired you to write the fic this way? A book I was reading at the time (The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory) swapped back and forth between the two main characters’ perspectives. I really liked that structure and thought it would work well for APA.  Plus it gave me a chance to show a lot of different relationships that I may not have gotten to show if I only stuck with one perspective.

2: What scene did you first put down?

The first scene I wrote was actually a scene I cut! I repurposed part of it but I’m sad I never got to do anything with the Nathan/Charles bit here. The first scene I wrote that stayed in the fic (albeit with some changes) was when Toki and Skwisgaar pretended to date and kissed to appease a nosy customer. 3: What’s your favorite line of narration? Uhhhhhh a bunch but I really love: Overhead, the sky was a murky mush. Navy blue clouds on the edge of black, swollen with potential snow. They evoked a sadness in the pit of Skwisgaar’s chest he could not place. Some long ago childhood disappointment, the specifics lost but the hurt everlasting.

4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue? It’s very silly but I made myself laugh a lot writing the two “detectives” talking about being great detectives. It’s just me imitating my two friends who insisted on getting a cameo and eventual spin off, and I just wrote it in a way that I hoped they would find funny. (They did!) 

5: What part was hardest to write? Honestly the ending! Partially because I had to claw myself out of the worst depressive spiral of my life, and partially because I was really sad I was finishing this thing I’d worked on and obsessed about for over a year. Other sections, like Skwisgaar rescuing Toki from his village or Toki galavanting around town during the arts and crafts showcase, were more complex but came much easier to me than just........writing a scene where Toki walks across the apartment. 6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?

It’s my longest fic and it’s my most elaborate AU. But this fic is really special to me because I’ve always wanted to write the Big Romantic Multi-Chapter. This is the type of fic I would have wanted to read when I was a lil fandom babby and I’m really proud of it.

7: Where did the title come from? I love puns, and I wanted the title to be something that would be at-home on a rom-com poster with Toki and Skwisgaar standing back to back and looking at each other over their shoulders and smiling.

8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it? There’s a lot of personal stuff in here! Skwisgaar and Nathan’s apartment is based on my apartment. The town where they live is based on the town where I live, and a lot of the stores in the fic are real stores. The Green is the park in the center of my town; the clock where Toki and Skwisgaar eat hot dogs is based on the town clock in my hometown where my husband proposed. 

9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic? It used to be a lot shorter! Like 11 chapters, maybe! Welp!

10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story? Skwistok is always going to be my Number One Boy in terms of MTL pairings, I love it so much, and I just wanted to create a nice little world where they could be regular jack-offs and fall in love :) 

11: What do you like best about this fic? I can’t pick just one thing! I’m really happy I was able to incorporate storylines for almost every secondary character, and I’m really happy with Murderface’s community center plot in particular.

12: What do you like least about this fic? I’m always going to worry about pacing, forever. 

13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading? So much 90s pop, stuff that would have appeared on a Meg Ryan Movie Soundtrack. I made a playlist a long time ago but I’m too tired to find it heheh.

14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic? Ummmmmm I guess Give AUs a Chance, they’re fun!

15: What did you learn from writing this fic? That I can actually complete my big ambitious fic ideas! So keep an eye out for the Pickleface and Narles sequels, maybe, probably, we’ll see.