#tos anouncements

[theothersidediscord]

Hello everyone!

It’s almost December 26th and we’re sure many of you are eagerly waiting to celebrate The Greatest Showman’s 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY! We wanted to do something special for the occasion, and nothing seemed more fun and appropriate than watching the film with our friends and fandom!

Over the course of Wednesday 26th, we will host 3 online screenings of The Greatest Showman via rabbit (https[:]//www.rabb[.]it/) to give everyone the opportunity to join in. If you want to take part, make sure to get your rabbit account set up (for free) asap (:

Screenings will take place:

December 26th: 8am & 7pm UTC [Hosted by @silverlynxx] December 27th: 12am UTC [Hosted by @rootintootintonystark]

If you’re unsure how these times convert from Coordinated Universal Time to your own time, google can supply numerous time converters to help you.

Screening Access:

A link to a private streaming room will be shared 10 minutes prior to the screening time. The link will be posted publicly on The Other Side Discord Server, which you can join by visiting our FAQ page. Otherwise, if you aren’t able to join discord, you can message us via tumblr (before the 26th) and an admin can send you the link via tumblr messenger - make sure you can accept messages from other users.

Oh! Most importantly, don’t forget your ticket ;)

[cyberramblings]

Smash Wishlist #2: DO NOT WANT

As I found out yesterday, I actually have a lot to say about the characters that I do want in Smash. So today, I thought I’d knock out a bunch of the characters that I know for sure that I do not want to be in Smash Bros but see requested online.

Geno (Super Mario RPG) - This possessed doll (think Pinocchio with a gun for an arm) is side character from a 24 year old Mario spinoff game. I have never understood the wide appeal of this character. I feel like one of the hallmarks of a good Smash inclusion is that even non-fans of the source material say “yeah, that makes sense”, but I feel like Geno only makes sense to fans of the original game. Plus, at this point, characters that don’t represent a new franchise tend to be a letdown as DLC, such as...

Waluigi (Mario Kart, Party, Sports) - I’m generally a Waluigi defender and I think they should’ve found a way to shoehorn him into the game as an echo fighter (especially since Daisy made it in that way). Obviously he wouldn’t work exactly as an echo of Mario, Luigi, or Wario, but I feel like he would be a huge letdown as a standalone DLC announcement. Maybe if they make a dedicated Echo pack, but the purple man can’t be the big anouncement at the end of a Nintendo Direct. I feel like Piranha Plant already took the slot of “joke Mario character included as limited time free DLC”, which would’ve perfectly fit Waluigi. I’d love for him to get included that way at the very end of this game’s lifecycle, but not as part of Fighter Pack #2.

Lloyd (Tales of Symphonia) - He is the protagonist of Tales of Symphonia, a Gamecube JRPG. He is also Japan’s most requested character according to one poll. I played a bit of the original game and it is quite charming, but I feel we already have one too many JRPG protagonists. Between Hero, Cloud, Joker, Ness, Lucas, Shulk, plus the many Pokemon and Fire Emblem characters. Fighter Pass #1 was 1 fighting game character, 1 platformer character, and 3 JRPG protagonists. I’d be fine with Lloyd retroactively taken the slot away from Hero or Byleth, but a one-off character from a 15 year old game doesn’t make a ton of sense (even if he technically was in the Wii sequel). I mean, Banjo was fine even as the star of a dead franchise, but that’s because his series was influential and iconic to the Nintendo 64, whereas ToS is more of a cult classic that never “reached #1 on the charts” in music terms. I’d worry he’d play like Hero, maybe could even be an echo.

Raiden/Sephiroth (Metal Gear/Final Fantasy) - I actually really like Raiden as a cyborg ninja, but both of these silver-haired pretty anime boys serve as foils to Snake/Cloud who are already in the game. Of these two, I’d prefer Raiden by a lot, but we have so many swordfighters already.

Isaac (Golden Sun) - Again, another JRPG protagonist, and one who hasn’t gotten a new game in a decade. I feel like his inclusion would only make sense if there was a new game in development, and even then I’d like to see some more genres/styles represented. I worry he’d play like Hero, he could almost be an Echo.

Funk/Dixie Kong (Donkey Kong Country) - I feel like neither of these Kongs have a ton of momentum right now. King K Rool already got added as a way to round out the DK cast in Smash, so I just don’t feel like we need another Kong (unless we could get either of these Kongs as Echo fighters). I wouldn’t hate this inclusion as long as they tried hard to make unique gameplay.

Any Pokemon (Pokemon Sword and Shield) - Obviously it would make some sense to include a new Pokemon from the new game, but we already have so many of them included. I’m gonna roll my eyes if a new Pokemon makes it in.

Any XCX/XC2 Character (Xenoblade Chronicles) - It’s neat that Shulk made it in at all, I feel like two characters from this series would be overkill. At the very least, I’d hope for it to be a character with gameplay as unique as Shulk.

Protoman/Zero/Roll/Etc. (Mega Man) - I don’t feel like the Mega Man franchise needs more representation, but maybe that is just me. My biggest worry would be that they would play like Mega Man.

Medusa/Viridi (Kid Icarus) - Palutena and Dark Pit’s inclusions are already obvious favoritism, so I feel like one more Kid Icarus character would be overcool (unless....Echo...)

Porky Minch (Earthbound) - He got to be in Brawl as a boss, and frankly Earthbound needs more games before they get more reps.

Quote (Cave Story) - I recognize that Cave Story was important in the early indie game scene, but I just don’t feel like the game has aged well enough to warrant an inclusion, but I wouldn’t be crazy upset if he made it in. 

Noctis (FFXV) - Kind of like Byleth’s inclusion, this one would just feel obligatory to me, like a cash grab to tie in to FFXV, especially since we already have Cloud.

Jibanyan (Yo-Kai Watch) - Don’t like his design, don’t want to see the series represented. 

Rayman/Crash/Spyro - This wouldn’t be the worst ever, but I feel like Banjo already took the slot of “surprise platformer crossover” and all of these characters would be barking up the same tree. Of them, I think Crash makes the most sense since he actually has an upcoming game, but really any of these three would be fine “meh” inclusions. I’m not gonna get excited when I see them announced, but I’m not gonna throw a fit (which is how I felt about Terry and Hero).

Heavy (Team Fortress 2) - I have no idea why I see this posted so often. TF2 is a now-ancient PC first person shooter. There are many better picks for Smash’s first FPS character or first PC character. I think it would be kinda neat, but I don’t even need to plan my reaction because it is so unlikely.

By process of elimination, the astute amongst you can deduce what characters I actually do still want in the game, but I will be elaborating on that in the future. It goes without saying, but I will be happy with whatever characters are picked so long as they are fun to play and don’t mess up the meta too much (not because I care about the meta, but because I’m sick of seeing memes about overpowered characters and I still have flashbacks from Smash 4 Bayo/Cloud).

[anaisonfire]

Why are you considering making your blog 18+? Obviously at the end of the day it’s your decision and I’ll respect whatever you do, but as one of your followers who is 16, I’d hate to not be able to view your blog anymore.

First, thank you for following me! You’re awesome!!

[actual footage of me appreciating you; also, that’s a very big cat]

Ah, when I say making my blog 18+ I don’t mean clicking that “anaisonfire is explicit” switch in Settings that will hide my blog from anyone who has Safe Mode on. I simply mean putting something along the lines of “This blog may contain content not suitable for those under the age of 18. Follow at your own risk.” in the blog description.

There are two reasons I’m considering this: 

1) More and more recently I find myself not reblogging posts I find informative or interesting because they are discussing things that, irl, I’d be uncomfortable talking about with younger people around, and I’m aware that there are some 14/15/16 year olds who follow me.

2) I follow a couple of art blogs that occasionally post (mild, really, but still) nsfw art but I can’t reblog it because see reason 1).

Now, of course, I tag things, so this shouldn’t be that much of a problem; except that the overwhelming majority of my blog is memes & fandom flailing and it’s likely that most people who follow me did so for that. I don’t want to suddenly surprise someone by putting on their dash a long bit of Tumblr Discourse™ that gets explicit in places or something that can be equally unpleasant to come upon unexpectedly. By putting a “hey don’t follow if you aren’t comfortable with this” warning I can be sure that no one is going to get upset.

I don’t plan on blocking anyone under the age of 18* who follows me, like I know some people do. The blog content will probably stay the same, with things tagged for convenience (so I’m not going to suddenly start reblogging visually sexually explicit content, if that’s a thing you may be worried about). However, I will go through my followers and send an ask about the change to anyone with a younger age listed, in case they miss the anouncing post I’m going to make when I get around to doing that - which won’t be for at least a couple of days, maybe even not until Christmastime, when I’ll have free time. I’ll probably be cleaning up the blog too, like a theme change or something, because I’ve been meaning to do that for a while.

Also, if you need me to tag anything, feel free to shoot me an ask! No questions asked, of course, it’s none of my business.

*Caveat: Unless “under 18″ means 13 and younger. I don’t recall seeing anyone listing their age as that or younger (and hope I never do) but they shouldn’t be on tumblr.hell, both because of the ToS and for their own safety and sanity.

Uh, this got long but the bottom line is that if you want to follow me, I won’t block you or anything, but I’ll ask you to be aware that not everything is going to be PG-13 on here. Yeah.

Anyway, hope you have a nice last-month-of-the-year!! :D

[brynbraughton]

( On Finny-gen Street) Love's Own McGuffins run

(I think it's easier to read in an Irish accent 😇)

" Oh ! How they cowed to thine cowl -

With Sowed-in weep-woe

they knee-bow "

" How ?!"

" HahAHah!"( guffawing sound )

Shay Roe says ( outta her damn reddened head in da manda-la bed

( she owns the town of Anchora )

Yet told of ol Mcgowan

who Flown Gaudy gowns

( In a round way, )

yet feels the wheels resounding on the ground rain ( heads-a-pounding like down a stown drain )

And howled about plotting

the frozen west on

Aim'less a'less a'lay

.the death of the toes

in last

Severed king

Grover Blue bellows through

to the fowl n' crow

that flown( tree-low ).

Feathered n' Fey bow

crowded round the soundin-bow

( our humble fettered fray )

bauble bound an Abba-Ray shunned neightion out of a wildly fray

and squabbled up (effort lez-lay)

the brahmen's Bray resound with noble lethargy leather-or hounded

To weather my livers

Ground is filled with shining ore

with plowsmoked to the epiphany

Verdant gazebos sliver

and vagabond

whispering glistening winterwords

Telling the stark truth simple-ly

"Harken Yon Bailed hay so foully bowed

Best you stay roudy-mouthed

And trippy-toed till the mob's away"

"Await the betrayed day for "tally-ho's"

"Like A date that is made with sally-hoes"

(Bombs away !) Doubting in those

Anouncing south , your rally goes

3 dawns a day.

A blue-flue Diadem of fire hymns

Runs the Huns away .

Sums become ones who

Inpire men to fame

with wires firing cathode rayguns

upon the briar

My glorious story of

Apes with stamen-cubs, and ,

Dubbed whats allowed and everdoubt

And rowed about round pubs in dublin -

Bali-hai of pink-hued

Love's own macGuffins

Who you knew have-Been ,Im'bued with the rough guffs given through pained

By puffins sloughed off yer damn roofs

By scoff-driven snowy bluffs outside

Cold-as-tombs

"Oh " I sigh

"Cuddle me up-under the blooms when ive done enough ."

Loved enough to stand to disrupt

To know just what is the setup

Putting the gruff men

Up in the cuffs and under the buxom bits

Of succubus bordered pit-hers Rat

the hatted hucksters fits erupt

with spit furs split askipped n'terse

Yet De-termined-mist apt of sister rupt

of sermons pictures luck

Let out a bout of terrorists

To buck-up the order of .

The cracked-up crux of it

with burning-fist

Plundering the sin-corrupt

Till thund'ring cups

Fill senates up .

[theothersidediscord]

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN SECRET SANTA

Hello everyone! The Other Side TGS Discord server are organising a secret santa and would like to invite the TGS fans of tumblr to get involved! Don’t worry if you’re not an artist, we’re accepting loads of a creative art forms, so if you would like to get involved providing one of the below, read on for our dates, application,  and guidelines to take part, we hope you’ll join the festive circus fun! Accepted Gifts; Animation/Animatic Digital and/or Traditional Art - Fanfiction - Moodboards - Photomanips - Song or Poem - Other (please send an ask to @theothersidediscord about other types of gifts and we’ll be happy to help)

Deadlines

Application deadline: November 28th Receive your recipient: November 30th Gift Deadline: December 18th Secret Santa Reveal/Exchange: December 22nd - 25th

Application

Submit via ask to @theothersidediscord. If your form is too long, submit it via our ‘submit content’ page instead (applications will never be published or shared beyond your Secret Santa)

Name: Your name here Would like: Insert prompt/character/pairing, etc. Would not like: Insert prompt/pairing/trigger etc. --- Will Do: Insert characters/subject/tropes/pairings Won’t Do: Insert characters/subject/tropes/pairings Can Offer Animation / Digital or Traditional Art / Fanfiction / Moodboard / Photography / Song or Poem / Other (please specify) Be a Volunteer?: If someone pulls out, would you be willing to do an additional piece of work for someone?

Guidelines

1. All gifts must be TGS related, PG13, and not have any explicit themes or imagery. 2. To participate, you must DM your completed form to @theothersidediscord 3. You can sign-up as just a *volunteer by filling out the bottom section of the form and sending that instead. 4. Make sure your gift is finished by the specified deadline, but if you must drop out, please give an admin as much notice as possible 5. Please don’t reveal who your gift recipient is until we announce the sharing period has started. 6. Please give your gift the same consideration you would like your Secret Santa to give yours. At the same time, it’s the thought that counts, so please thank your Secret Santa! 7. Completed gifts will be shared on the secret santa channel of the TOS server, if you’re not a member these can be posted to tumblr instead following the announcement. During the exchange dates - you can tag your gift recipient and reveal yourself as their secret santa! 8. Have fun! And if you've read the rules, tell us your favourite christmas song while submitting your application to us! *A volunteer is someone who steps in to provide a secet santa gift in place of someone who has to pull out. You can be a secret santa and a volunteer if you want, and are confident you can do both.

We hope to have a ton of engagement in this lovely talented fandom during this amazing time of year, especially to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of The Greatest Showman’s release! Happy Secret Santa’ing!

[theothersidediscord]

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

It’s not long to go until we run our anniversary screenings of The Greatest Showman on Dec 26th for everyone to enjoy in the company of their friends and fandom! Any and all TGS fans are welcome, so if you want to join in, check out our announcement post [HERE] for all the details, and we’ll see you there :D

[theothersidediscord]

Hello all! We would like to thank everyone who attended the anniversary screenings on the 26th - it was an absolute pleasure to host them and to watch something so meaningful to us in such great company. It was an absolutely roaring success, and something we hope to make a frequent event in future!

With much appreciation ~ Dani, Lynxx, & Taka