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halcyone-of-the-sea · 8 months

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AHHHH CONGRATS ON 5k!!! Ok ok, hear me out on this request because I think it might make a good little fic. I can’t decide between Hesh or Price for this one but I got a general idea: stoned Hesh or Price. You know those videos of husbands waking up from surgery and not recognizing their wife right away but knowing they’re the most beautiful person in the world (something like this: https://youtu.be/kV8KyeApBJY). Well maybe it’s something like he got hurt from a mission (hurt enough to require drugs/anesthesia for the plot) but is recovering back at base and imagine their wife is their medic and she’s trying to update his team on how he’s recovering and you just got a stoned Hesh or Price completely hopped up on drugs following his injury, just fawning over her and he just goes bananas when she “reveals” they’re married. The team got a kick out of it

—Keep The Sheets Warm, My Love Is Coming Home

⇢ ˗ˏˋ 5k Drabble Masterlist ࿐ྂ

╰┈➤ ❝ [If this wasn't enough to prove that you were the only person for Hesh, you didn't know what did.] ❞

You walked around the room, tidying up what you could if only for the simple fact that it could distract you from the unconscious body in the bed. Realistically as a medic, you knew he would be fine—he was in the best hands possible—but Hesh had a track record for being unpredictable.

He’d gotten into some trouble out in No Man’s Land again. Broken arm and ribs; a bullet through his thigh. He was so pumped full of medication and anesthetics from surgery that you doubted that he would be waking up soon.

But then again, Hesh was always surprising you. It was one of the reasons you’d married him, after all. Never a dull day.

Elias’s voice calls from the doorway.

“You’re going to fall over at this rate,” you blink quickly, turning with an extra blanket in hand to spread around your husband’s comatose state.

Your father-in-law has his arms crossed, and Logan slinks his way through the doorway with an arm looping your shoulders, a head pushed into your scalp silently. You sigh deeply, tension that you hadn’t realized was on your face lessening.

“Only if he keeps me from seeing those greens of his.”

Logan huffs a laugh, squeezing you as his father grunts—the stern man’s eyes softening in a way they only would for you and his boys.

“He’d be more worried about you than himself if you did. Put my mind at ease, okay?” Your eyes roll but you nod with a small smile. You don’t argue with his point in the slightest.

So, that was how you ended up here, in a seat by Hesh’s hospital bed—your hand in his and your head nodding back and forth with fatigue. Elias and Logan are casually playing a game of chess from across the room when David’s eyes flutter; his mouth releasing a low groan.

Your lids snap back, spine straightening, but before you can get a word out, your husband is pulling his hand from yours. His green eyes are loopy, pupils blown wide.

He mutters something under his breath, lips grimacing and face pulling in at the sight of you.

“Hesh?” The two men stand as you check his vitals, heart hammering until there’s nothing out of the ordinary and you can sit back down with a sigh and a relieved smile. “Take it easy, alright? You got out of surgery a little while ago—everyone’s here for you—”

“W…Where’s my wife?” His words slur, jaw loose as he rotates it; the unbroken arm with an IV chord stuck in it raises as jerky digits rub at his eyes. You’re left at a loss, blinking slowly in confusion before sharing looks with your in-laws. “No offense, Miss, you’re pretty and all, but…shit, why’s everything spinning?”

A hand covers your mouth, heated embarrassment lighting inside of your veins.

“Hesh, Sweetheart,” your arm reaches to the brunette, trying to grab his wrist that he weakly moves away.

“Stay away from me,” he grunts, head limply lulling on its pillow. “Thought I told you to keep it to yourself. My Wife’ll rip,” Hesh’s voice fizzles, a loud yawn peeling his bandaged face back, “you to pieces.” A pause. You hear Logan trying to hide his loud laughter behind his lips. “Did…the doctor send you?”

Your body turns to Elias, face beaming and expression exasperated.

“Now that he’s awake will you get the other three? It’ll be easier to give the news to all of you at once.”

“Already commed ‘em,” the man states, watching his eldest with a raised brow and a slow smirk. “Least we know he’s a loose cannon on anesthesia.”

Merrick, Keegan, and Ajax all file in, and as you continue to watch over a loopy Hesh, his small noises and babbling continue even when you give the breakdown of the patient sheet. You stand just shy of brushing the bed’s lower frame. You won’t lie and say it isn’t hilarious.

“He needs to keep out of the field for at least two and a half months, boys, and I’m not joking about that, alright?”

Your husband’s slow voice slashes through your speech, and the rest of the Ghosts snicker, sharing knowing looks as Hesh tries to lift the hand currently wrapped to his chest to keep it still. “You’re a real beautiful lady, Doll, y’know that? I’m sorry you like me so much, but I love my wife, you hear? Please don’t be angry with me.”

“Hesh, Darling,” you walk closer and bend down carefully. He blinked owlishly at you, finger coming up to poke at your cheek. Your hand grabs his as you hear Ajax make a quick remark to Keegan about the man being ‘totally whipped even when he’s high.’

“David, hey,” your voice prompts him to smile, perhaps now only realizing the familiarity of it. “I’m going to tell you something, hm?”

“Okay,” he watches, petting your neck with his thumb.

“I am your wife.” The man’s eyes widen comedically as everyone shares a long laugh with one another.

“No way,” Hesh breathes after a moment, awe-stricken. “Really?”

“Really.” There’s a moment of silence, and then the heart monitor begins to pick up its pace to a fast pound. Your face goes hot with love, and you bend your head forward in a long and honest laugh into his shoulder.

Green eyes shift to the men, and Hesh beams, cheeks red and heart racing as he slurs out, “This is my wife?!”

It was safe to say they were never going to let him forget about this.

#cod #cod x reader #cod x you #call of duty #x female reader #call of duty x you #cod ghosts #cod ghosts x reader #call of duty: ghosts #call of duty ghosts #hesh walker x female reader #hesh walker x reader #david hesh walker #hesh walker #david walker #hesh x reader #david hesh walker x reader

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the-unrelated-theorist · 9 months

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Some Undertale gamer headcanons:

Someone said that Toriel would be the world Tetris champion, and I'm not sure why, but I agree with that. And not just Tetris, but bubble-poppers, match 3, marble-shooters, all of those kinds of games. She's the new Candy Crush mascot.

I've also seen people say sans would be into rhythm games, and... no. Why would you think he would be into something that takes that much effort? Seriously, come on. What sans is into is farming sim games. He's written dozens of online strategy guides for Stardew Valley, all of them under different pseudonyms.

Papyrus is into online multiplayers. All of them, any genre- Fortnite, Apex Legends, Fall Guys, Elder Scrolls Online, Runescape, you name it. He sucks at all of them, but none of his online friends is willing to tell him how bad he is because he's so darned innocent and nice. Nobody really wants him on their team because he'll always make them fail the mission, but he's so upbeat and uplifting that no one has the heart to tell him they don't want him.

Undyne loves Souls-like and dungeon crawlers, but she struggles with anything that requires stealth, she just doesn't. do. stealth. She says it's stupid to have to sneak up on enemies, she should just be able to barge in with guns or swords or spears blazing in any and all circumstances. Don't ever even suggest Metal Gear to her. Or Breath of the Wild- she rage-quit after the Yiga Clan Hideout quest (although it did leave her with the impression that bananas give you strength in battle, so she now always keeps a bunch of bananas on hand).

Blooky plays solitaire and Mah Jongg, and even those stress them out.

Maddie plays casino and slots games. On an unrelated note, she's always broke.

Mettaton is the rhythm games master. You will not change my mind on this.

Alphys is HEAVY into JRPG's. The more anime it looks, the more she loves it.

Asgore has no idea what a video game is. Well, ok, he has some idea, his kids both played games, but he never could figure them out. He thinks Sonic and Crash are both Mario characters and that Link is a girl- you get the idea. But he did used to play card and board games with Toriel. Especially chess (she totally owned his ass in every match). Ever since Toriel left, he can't bring himself to play chess. He plays checkers a lot, tho. He usually loses (he plays against himself).

Asriel and Chara were into action/adventure games. Asriel's favorite characters were Yoshi and Link, while Chara's favorites were Samus and Shadow the Hedgehog. What? No, I'm not projecting my favorite games onto the Dreemurr kids. What are you talking about?

Frisk has only ever played the hit indie game Undertale. About 500 times. Always Pacifist, they've never even tried a Geno run. They've been thinking about playing that Deltarune game, too, but they kinda wanna wait until the whole thing is released.

#undertale #my headcanon #toriel #sans #papyrus #undyne #napstablook #mad mew mew #mettaton #alphys #asgore #asriel #chara #frisk

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cleolinda · 3 months

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Weekend links

My posts

I have been amorphously unwell (migraines, dizziness, aches) this week, which is super great. I am, in fact, daunted by the complexities and unknowns.

See "Personal tag of the week" at the bottom for updates on the Tumblr happenings.

Reblogs of interest

Thousands of Israelis protest in Tel Aviv, demanding a hostage release/ceasefire deal and new elections.

I never know how to segue from a serious news item.

Theseus liveblogs the labyrinth, and it’s heartbreaking.

Before hbomberguy was going after plagiarism, he was playing Donkey Kong for trans rights.

“to touch is to interact, and when you put your hand on your dog the universe does not know that you are separate”

The universe knows you are separate from this cat’s Absolute Terror Field

Cats named Pigeon

The most dramatic cat

Figure out what starts your engine and ride the waves of your brain

This is not van fundamentalism

Lawful good werebears

The Godmother is not committed to the kindness

Escape room employees reveal the worst, or best, things they’ve seen on the job.

“So I explained to him the story of ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ and he began to get MAD”

It seems that y’all do not understand that the Better Call Saul ads are just how we live in the US, and that I pass five Alexander Shunnarah billboards just to get a quesadilla.

1) Don’t take your native animals for granted. 2) This jay is the bluebird of happiness, apparently.

Wisdom from a Tumblr longtimer

Benign chain posts: the Money Garf

Video

Every now and then I fall apaaaaaart

Click through for a massive gothic rock playlist on YouTube

It’s a great dance contest entry--but then they tell you it’s also randomly-paired improv

Capybara capybara (capybara)

The sacred texts

You have not seen a sacred internet text until you have seen the Lolrus (2006)

Personal tag of the week

“the happenings” is my tag for all internet platform bullshit. This week, it’s Tumblr, as CEO Matt Mullenweg lost his shit and started harassing a trans user (including on another platform). This is a factual explanation early in the week of what happened and how it started:

predstrogen (the first blog) was allegedly deleted for “sexually explicit material” despite any posts that may have been labelled as such being marked with a community label and her blog recently being manually approved as NOT containing adult content. she also talks in this post, as well as here, about how she has had a support ticket open for several months for harassment she was receiving that has not been dealt with

the CEO of tumblr made a post wherin he publicly aired information regarding her deletion and threatened legal action against her , showing examples of the alleged death threats where no actual threats were made and telling people in the replies to just leave if they were unhappy with the moderation of the site

Specifically, he was upset by the expressed wish that he perish in a car covered in hammers that would explode multiple times, a serious threat that could surely come to fruition in reality. If you can't tell that I'm being sarcastic, congratulations, you're CEO material.

It spiraled from there, but suffice it to say, it ended with trans employees posting on the Staff account (reblog here with commentaries):

The reality of predstrogen’s suspension was not accurately conveyed, and made it seem like we were reaching for opportunities to ban trans feminine people on the platform. This is not the case. The example comment shared in the post linked above does not meet our definition of a realistic threat of violence, and was not the deciding factor in the account suspension. Matt thereafter failed to recognize the harm to the community as a result of this suspension. Matt does not speak on behalf of the LGBTQ+ people who help run Tumblr or Automattic, and we were not consulted in the construction of a response to these events.

While the post is sincerely emotional and brave, the real chess move is this part:

We appreciate the space we have been given to express our concerns and dissent, and we are thankful that Matt’s (and Automattic’s) strong commitment to freedom of expression has facilitated it. We will continue to fight to make Tumblr safe for us all.

Matt Mullenweg now either has to nod and go, “Yeah, yeah... I’m a great guy committed to freedom...” Or he can, I don’t know, shut the site down in a fit of defiant pique? All I’m going to say about this is that the day all this first went down, I started archiving any posts I’d put significant effort into last year, and I’ll be crossposting them on Dreamwidth and Patreon. I don’t want to lose Tumblr’s culture and unique platform--I mean, I think the Weekend Links themselves make a case for the fact that there is nothing else like Tumblr on the internet. And shutting down is not even necessarily the most likely outcome--but I’m not gonna be caught unprepared, either.

#weekend links #odds and ends #linkspam #the happenings #tumblr

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danwhobrowses · 1 month

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One Piece Chapter 1113 - Initial Thoughts

It is time

One Piece is back again and the big announcement is almost underway. The Gorosei are circling though, much of the Straw Hats are cornered, will the revelation turn the tide?

Let's find out

Spoilers for the Chapter, Support the Official Release too!

A chess-themed colour spread this time; Robin playing chess with the crew as chess pieces

Contrary to the message the King should not be the attacking piece but other than that I did find it funny that Usopp is a Bishop with a bow and arrow, this cleric does harm!

Also lil Chopper pawns!

Picking up where we left off, Markus Mars has been stopped in awe of a sight in Punk Records

The remains of Vegapunk's humungous brain, as big or maybe even bigger than a giant, kept in a pod and still working even after his death

Mars does wonder if this is more Vegapunk's true self, which I guess if it has his brain it's probably the main part that's biologically living

People around the world brace themselves though

Syrup Village! Kaya, Merry and the old Usopp Pirates get a cameo

Despite her wealth being enough for Kuro to plan a murder/retirement spree, they do not have a Video Den Den Mushi

Though it seems like it's more size than price, and Kaya is already keen to hear what Vegapunk is saying, given his role in the medical field

Also lil' Merry details on the Den Den Mushi

The Marines are monitoring it too

Laboon and Crocus cameo!

And we even get to go to Baldimore, birthplace of Vegapunk

Some dialogue from the group that found Franky during the separation too

'I heard he's turned himself into a ship now' XD because of the bounty poster, and the bad timeline SBS image maybe, though I still think we could in the future get a Sunny mecha

Also got Chopper's bird and medic island listening in

The tribespeople even know about Vegapunk, they call him a 'king of modern science'

Even despite the Garp and SWORD attack, some pirates from Fullalead are listening in - some still wanna fight each other though

Mars tries to stamp out the Den Den Mushi, but it's of course a fake! It shatters to reveal just another regular Den Den Mushi

Fooled again motherfucker!

Vegapunk does introductions once more but now everyone wants him to get on with it XD

For the most part the more obscure world shots seem somewhat familiar, I couldn't tell what the rainy place was but it could be Water 7, the other one looked a bit familiar, the Longarm place looks like to have Brook's old talent agents too

But this campfire one, a child is hushed back to sleep by their likely mother, they're in tipi tents, what's interesting is the other person there, almost like Oda's pulling something sneaky

Through their collective telepathy, Mars announces his failure, it was a decoy so they have no leads

They wonder what Vegapunk intends to say, fearing that he'll carry on what Clover started before he was silenced

Back to Sanji and he hears a woman's scream

Bonney is being targeted by V. Nusjuro, Franky standing between them but Sanji demands to be the white knight

He jumps off the sword to kick him in the jaw

By comparison V. Nusjuro is pretty damn huge

His body sets on fire - fitting to his Yokai lore - but then the horse's head comes out to bite Sanji

Lots of crackling of bones, I wonder if his Healing Factor is still a thing

As Oimo and Kashii tackle V. Nusjuro (about the same size as them), Vegapunk's broadcast begins, admitting to committing two grave sins

Bonney turns into a giant with her fruit to attack V. Nusjuro, who has returned to his hybrid form

Vegapunk's broadcast admits that he is likely to be executed, and that this broadcast would start when his heart has stopped

Sabaody reacts first, realising that this means Vegapunk is dead

Duval has trouble processing this, since the news said that he was a hostage for the Straw Hats

Caesar's also mad, he and Judge went through that whole cover story alliance for nothing, so now they can promptly fuck off

And Morgans is angry because Vegapunk is giving BIG NEWS without him like it's not in his name

Interestingly, Vegapunk is quick to state that his killers should not be portrayed as 'evil' - because they're looking pretty damn evil to me

It seems maybe this is because he expects Luffy to have been pinned as to blame for his death, though it could be scanlations saying 'him'

Saturn faces off with the Labophase group, demanding they move away

Saturn and Robin however recognize one another, Robin from his voice back in Ohara and Saturn by her image

Seems Saturn blames Akainu directly for Robin's escape, I mean he did blow up the hostage ship but still, there were more marines out there

He goes to attack Robin, so all the other Straw Hats go into protection mode

Brook cuts a few limbs, but worryingly Chopper blocked some with his Guard Point - those limbs are poisonous remember? Though it's impressive that he could suppress a claw that could go straight through Kuma

Nami also remembers that she can use Zeus to block attacks

Mars is still on recon, but his senses can't pick up any 'telepathic waves' - wonder if that's a Haki feat or something relative to the Gorosei's shared thoughts?

York is also having trouble figuring out where the Stella would've put it, since her position as a Celestial Dragon is on the line

Vegapunk's about to deliver his mission statement, which is putting the Gorosei into a panic

Mars considers blowing up the entire place, but Saturn and Warcury are weighing it against the possible losses; men, equipment, and any chance of recreating the Mother Flame

Wait. What?

"Our World...is going to sink into the ocean!"

Well you can't deny it: Global Warming is Real.

It's not just Water Seven and Aqua Laguna then, it's all going to sink, there's a lot of thematic consequences to that when you think about it.

Did the World Government ostracize the Fish-Men because of this? Knowing that they would inherit the world? Does this have any connection to Devil Fruits and why the Ocean really saps their strength? Did the ancient kingdom like Old Wano sink to the bottom of the sea?

It begets a lot of questions, in true Oda fashion.

The rest of the chapter was a lot more jam-packed than the last, even without Luffy. The carried tension of the announcement is followed by Saturn and V. Nusjuro's confrontations with the crew, giants and Bonney. As expected, Sanji took on V. Nusjuro, the hit didn't seem to do much in the long term as expected, though I kinda wish Franky also got a hit in but the extent of his own injuries is worth wondering.

I'm glad the Labophase crew are stepping up against Saturn, at least until the expected arrival of Zoro and Jinbe, but it does show their furthered growth versus Enies Lobby if they can successfully repel Saturn from Robin - her injury being validated by this scene, though I still wish we saw a flashback of the Straw Hats vs Seraphim and them uncovering York as the traitor.

Still it's bad PR from the Straw Hats either way, they're likely to be accused of killing Vegapunk, who was last deemed their hostage by the fake news machine (is Morgans still going to Egghead? I mean with Vivi with him we continue to tease a reunion), and while Punk Records still has a chance to live on this is definitely going to be something each crewmate will have to re-evaluate given the bigger picture. Still, that can come after getting off the island; Edison and the Sleeping Giant are still at play after all, Stussy still needs to release the barrier, it's looking more likely that we might finish up around 1120.

Still there has to be more to the announcement, if Vegapunk was waiting for a video display it means that there are visuals to corroborate his revelation - I wonder if the Gorosei are more open to this reveal coming out than what they expected with the Ancient Kingdom reveal they destroyed Ohara for? Like did Vegapunk dupe the WG into Buster Calling Egghead over a reveal they didn't care much for? He mentioned two grave sins too so there seems to be much more to his announcement than just the opening statement.

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bookburners · 4 months

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AFTG chess au head cannons pt. 2

- Kevin is currently #2 in the world and has been purposely loosing (not consciously ) to Riko sense 8

- Mary and Neil played on the run a little bit but she stopped when she realized exactly how talented Neil really was.

- Coach Hernandez still sent video footage of his playing rather than his stats.

- Andrew is easily bored and fucks up on purpose to make it interesting .

- The Ravens are a college club who have been dominating the chess world for thirty years

- Kevin (ranked two in the world) never actually competed in the world championship, opting to be Riko’s second.

- Allison always wanted to play chess but her parents didn’t think it was a suitable career/hobby for her especially after it intimidated the son of one of her fathers colleagues who he was trying to get her together with.

- Allison wears bright pink and stilettos her matches.

- Renee plays like a god damned general. She massacre’s and tears down and destroys her opponents from the get go. She’s horrifying,

- Andrew likes risky moves he’s most noted for winning a game exclusively with pawns.

- Kevin is brilliant, this is a science and an art to him. He was rumored to be held back by Riko who when they played 1v1 won but people pointed out obvious blunders he made Riko release fake info saying he cheated in past matches.

Pt. 1

#aftg #all for the game #renee walker #allison reynolds #kevin day #andrew minyard #riko moriyama #chess au #pt 2

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youling-the-ghost · 10 months

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silly (and some not-so-silly) Julian Ramis headcanons

he's on the aroace spectrum, though he's never really cared about his sexuality and labels

his leg bounces when he sits

he likes gardening, it helps him relax when he's stressed

he plays a lot of video games, but mainly games like stardew valley and animal crossing

he wrote poetry when he was younger and posted them online, but stopped after he saw them on r/im14andthisisdeep

he starts living at Gabriel's place after hear my cry (this is my absolute favourite hc of all time it's canon in my mind)

Gabriel initially wanted to legally adopt him but Julian refused beause he feels like it would be like replacing his father

he hangs out at the GPD with Gabriel sometimes and even helps out with some cases

he likes to show off the fact that he knows the GPD personally at university

he pulls his beanie over his face when he doesn't want to engage in a conversation

he knows how to play chess

he likes to joke about his criminal record with Jones and only Jones ("I'll do this if you clear my criminal record", "remember I have the ability to clear your criminal record" etc.)

he babysits for Sammy sometimes and has a tradition with Alex where they play a round of mario kart when he and Cathy return and Julian gets payed double if he wins

he's working on a crime novel based on cases that the GPD has solved

Julian's mom died during childbirth and he's always felt guilty for her death

he struggles with regulating his emotions and has occasional emotional outbursts (which Gabriels helps him with)

he had to wake up early everyday in juvenile detention and that habit extended to after he was released

his dad and Ramona visited him frequently when he was in juvenile detention and the first thing that he said to both of them was sorry

#criminal case #criminal case the conspiracy #headcanons #julian ramis #hey y'all i'm back with more julian content #i haven't abandoned the cc fandom i swear #i need to post more cc hcs

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o-chunks-appreciation · 3 months

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I would like to hear your in-depth thoughts on O'Chunks, Count Bleck, and Super Paper Mario as a whole!

Woah this is just gonna be a big ramble on how much I love the game and why.

I’m gonna start with Super Paper Mario as a whole, I’m a really big fan and I have been since maybe around 2016 or so. I was vaguely aware of it as a kid but after watching a cosplay chess (its where you get a bunch of cosplayers to roleplay and they’re on a big chessboard and they act out in character to defeat each other until there’s a winner or sometimes even a subversion of plot) video that had a Dimentio cosplayer in it I decided to look into the game. By that point I was no stranger to jester characters, I used to rewatch the Marx fight from Kirby Super Star Ultra all of the time so I was immediately going through SPM play throughs, fanfic, fanart. It’s a game I seem to be thinking about all of the time for months and years on end without a break lol. It admittedly catches my attention more than the other Paper Mario games, I’m not sure why, perhaps because it’s so visually different in aesthetic and character design. I enjoy its silly moments and it’s dramatic lore, but I also have a very specific issue with some parts of the lore being vague in Carson’s stories specifically. He’s always ending his stories in a question or talking about how much of a mystery these stories are. Maybe it’s on purpose and maybe this is also wishful thinking on my end, but sometimes I theorize that maybe they were going to reuse some of SPM’s lore for another game. I uhhh can’t say much about the game play because I’ve been enjoying SPM through play throughs.

On to O’ Chunks!

I think he’s in last place in terms of fandom popularity in terms of the Castle Bleck cast. Honestly I sort of get it, he’s not conventionally attractive and most artists sort of struggle with drawing older, bald, and bearded characters. Especially back in 2007 when the game was released when the anime art style was very popular on Deviantart. You could turn everyone else in castle bleck into a cutesy attractive anime character since their designs are just vaguely human enough for you to make your own little interpretations but with O’ Chunks you can clearly see he has a very human design so you can’t really make a Gijinka of him like you could the others. I think there’s something cool yet funny about that though, like he’s some unchanging force throughout everyone’s interpretation of the cast. (But I think it would be really cool as well to see people stray from his main design and interpret his design in the same way people would the rest of castle bleck)

He’s played off as sort of a joke character and then you read up on Carson’s stories of him and then it’s all like Woahh this is the same dude we’re talking about?? Funny characters that are secretly tragic is a trope I really like.

I think it’s really silly how everyone plays into his “chunking” catchphrases like Count Bleck saying: "Very well, O'Chunks. I'll leave the hero-chunking to you. Do not fail Count Bleck." Or Dimentio saying: "Mmm... I do enjoy a good chunking...", it’s really fun that the other characters are willing to hype up O’ Chunk’s catchphrases.

Also I think everyone sort of just glossed over the fact O’ Chunks was begging to die because he didn’t want to go back to Count Bleck and tell him he got defeated for the second time and only changed his mind after Dimentio shows up and talks a bit and afterwards he’s all like: “yeah I wouldn’t kill myself unless the count told me to.”

In conclusion he’s a really cool and underrated character and I like him a lot!! (If you couldn’t already tell by the blog theme and name lol)

Finally on to Count Bleck!

Wahhhh I love his lore and story it’s sooo bittersweet I want to fall to my knees dramatically anytime I think of it. He definitely seems like the type of guy that thought he didn’t care about his crew and everything they’re all doing was purely business because he’s just so caught up in his whole depressive world ending shenanigans that by chapter 8 he’s sort of surprised that he likes his minions as much as they do.

He’s still very much a bad guy, wiping out whole worlds and also lying to his very loyal group about making a way cooler world afterwards, and also on top of that even manipulating some of his minions unfortunate circumstances to get them on his team. (I.E: O’ Chunks) but I will let it slide this time because he’s a cool character to me.

All the memory sections of the game are so cute until it hits chapter six and then it’s like….ouch my feelings. He was mourning her so bad he would’ve unknowingly killed her if he’d succeeded, damn. But he didn’t so they got their nice little happy ending, and they’re just so cute together yaayyy!! (I’m in love with the picture of them under the tree at the end of the credits and I totally start to tear up when I see it with the credits music)

He’s a really interesting character and I can’t find myself finding another Mario character that inflicts this same emotions his lore gave me.

#super paper mario #thanks for the ask!#I uh didn’t proof read this so hopefully it’s readable #my last thought is that I wish this game had actual merch #but I guess all paper Mario games have some obscure merch usually stationary or cards merch

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whysojiminimnida · 2 years

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I'm Still On That Rolling Stone Shoot

Because sometimes, closets suck no matter how golden they are.

I loved @kanmom51 's post about this shoot last night and reposted it here but I COULD NOT STOP THINKING SO HERE WE ARE.

The photoshoot, in case you're a baby ARMY or missed it, was for BTS' Rolling Stone cover last year and the actual shot they were working on was from this set:

And we got the right side of the above video first. Cute lil jikook just jikooking, no big deal. I could be wrong, but I think the video above was taken between shots that were meant to be more than the single pic on the couch above - and WE DON'T HAVE OTHER STILLS THAT I CAN FIND from this part of the shoot. If you have other published ones, hit me with 'em. I want the full set. Because now Memories 2021 has been released online and arrived at a mailbox or two and Peaches got to work (wisely not translating a damn thing this year, GOOD FOR HER) and THIS HAPPENED

Kids, this is not a gay-panicky little Koo like we have seen in years past. This man has been warned to move his tattooed, ring-finger-bared hand, out of frame or at least out of view. AND HE IS PISSED OFF.

And I took screen shots. Hi, Hobi in the blue shirt! Hey, Taehyung totally off camera on the couch!

Everything was fine until that second, when someone - maybe Jimin, but possibly off-camera - told Koo to change position, I think. He was literally JUST TALKING and ...

"...oh here we go with the homophobic bullshit AGAIN..." he seems to be thinking.

Say what you want about Jeon Jungkook but he usually does what Jeon Jungkook wants, goddammit, unless or until his job or his man puts on the brakes.

He cannot believe the audacity. Tell a grown ass free human to unhand his own spouse, what kind of heinous fuckery is this? He no longer wants to even LIVE IN THIS UNFAIR WORLD /yoongi AND HE IS DISPLEASED. Not scared. Not "oopsie". This is Rage Against The Homophobia Machine Koo and we have seen it before, albeit usually a bit more defiant and less "oh FML I hate my job today".

So he moves his hand. As directed. But he is NOT happy about it and he does not care who knows. Now, remember, this is a very short clip. Five seconds. So what I am doing here is essentially expression and movement analysis and what you want to do, as soon as you can, is WATCH ORIGINAL CONTENT FOR TRUTH AND CONTEXT. Got it? We do that in this house because we are not insane shippers who have to make up things. As soon as the code hits my mailbox I will publish the entire segment so we can all see it together. Until then, this is what we have.

Now, Jimin is also annoyed, make no mistake. But he has two advantages here that JeiKei does not. One is camera angle - Jimin has a 90-degree angle to play with and it turns into a near 140 away from the camera. I think he went that way because of 2) his facial control. Which even he was losing. Normally Jimin's face never changes. Major reactions during actual posed shoots are unusual for him, but look at their posture. AND LOOK AT JEIKEI'S FACE.

Jiminie's gotta be feeling the tension from Jungkook. He is not unaware that his man is MAD. I mean, it's fast, but I promise you, whoever is behind those cameras is well aware. We got the pout. We have a full on side eye. We have malicious compliance.

And we have the gayest eye roll I have seen in a minute, as he flips that hand SO WE STILL SEE THE TATTOOS.

Jimin obliges by adjusting, but Jungkook is a professional model as well as a professional everything else. Nobody in BTS is ignorant of light, angle or pose in a shoot. They all know exactly what to do to get the shot they want. But they are also human. Not robots, not objects, not pretty chess pieces on a board. They're men. And two of those men have had just about enough of being told how much they can show. One of them in particular, in this moment, is OVER THIS CLOSETED SHIT. Praise Jesus for a Hobi knee, the man needs a headrest.

I don't know when, or if, they'll ever be able to come out, entirely. But this is one time when the closet walls appear to be feeling just a little too tight.

#memories 2021 #jungkook #jimin #rage against the homophobia machine #the jeon parks #the jeon half mostly #jikook #also a whole park jimin exists #jikook just jikooking nbd #kookmin #jeon parks jeonparking #jeon park house elves how we doin #hand tats and ring placement #the gayest eye roll i've seen in a minute #rolling stone interview #2021 rolling stone photo shoot #we got video but not enough

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hi bestieeee

ive been following & have had notifs on for years. i actually dont even pay attention to kpop anymore AIDBBFHFDISO but ive always wanted to know sooo badly: how does LOOH end?

I know it's on indefinite hiatus but it doesn't seem like itll ever be completed, and the curiosity has always killed me 😭

"it doesn't seem like itll ever be completed" PLEASEEEEE i screamed but yeah youre 100% right LOL

its kinda hard to say how looh was supposed to end because i kinda write smaus on the go without indepth storylines lol (i.e. basically i bullshit on the go and fake it til i make it)

fair warning also that ive forgotten almost all of looh by this point... i used to have a notebook with my ideas for the smau but i lost it during my last move so this is what i can remember. apologies if there are inconsistencies but i genuinely dont remember LMAOOO its been (8)4 years...

i can give you an idea of how i was thinking of ending looh... under the cut for the sake of people who dont give af lol

i do know for a fact that i planned jimin and y/n to be endgame. it was going to be a long process of "will they or wont they" because of jimins underlying insecurities and y/n's inability to introspect would always be a hindrance in their relationship

i know i framed y/n as like a "really good person" but she really isnt perfect. i was gonna lay more groundwork to "expose" her for some of the fucked up shit she did in the past (i forgor 💀) and i was planning on exploring her internalized "holier than thou" complex

that was gonna be the second main conflict after the whole jimin vs tae conflict... kinda like a season 2 lol

BUT BACK TO SEASON 1... tae vs jimin lol so yeah tae releases that slander video on jimin and he runs away... y/n is supposed to have a big altercation with jin and make him release a statement proving jimin's innocence... jin ofc says no and y/n + jimin (+kook on the side) have to figure out a way to improve jimin's public image

my initial idea was that he tries to pivot towards becoming a professional dancer and joining hoseok's crew... i was planning on introducing a new character (likely seungkwan haha gotta keep with the seventeen member cameos) who was gonna be like a PR manager... they'd make a youtube channel and post content about their dancers. not just their dances, but interviews, challenges, etc. just to "prove" jimin is the good guy or something.

on the side, the seungcheol/jeonghan/yoongi drama... yeah seungcheol gets dumped by y/n like an additional two times LOL and for funsies, jeonghan confesses his feelings for seungcheol to y/n (shocker) and its all very messy mwahahah (yeah they both end up sad in the end my bad). as for yoongi... OH BOY

so yeah he got rejected by y/n which RUINS his ego and he doesnt give up for a while. then he starts crushing on seungcheol (who previously had a crush on him lol) and it gets very messy but overall he gets called out on his power tripping ways and ends up alone at the end teehee (he was gonna get an epilogue scene where he goes to the club all drunk and shit and a younger guy hits on him but calls him "sir" after seeing his face properly lol)

as for jin/hoseok/namjoon... uhhh yeah 2seok dont end up strictly together... theyre both chaebols with fucked up senses of humor (they both enjoy playing with people like chess pieces) and jin gets super pissed when he finds out hoseok has been playing with HIM on the side. they have a heated argument that causes the collapse of bang ent (hoseok has more money/influence than him and essentially grabs the company off jin's hands) and BOOM friends to lovers to enemies to ???

oh and namjoon is there. uhhhh yeah he becomes jin's little puppet for a while. essentially namjoon spies on y/n for jin and breaks her trust. this further strains kook's mental state because he feels super guilty about everything. i was planning on kook being pro-joon and breaking y/n's heart, but i wasnt sure. it all depends on how i was feeling tbh LMAOOO sometimes i like making jungkook cry (all the time)

as for tae... yeah he wins LOL he's essentially the main antagonist (its not jin... surprise) but he actually succeeds in becoming a very popular pornstar. even when hoseok grabs the company, he keeps tae on their roster and tae becomes very rich. he continues trying to slander jimin but he eventually stops when hoseok forces him to stop (out of guilt? bribery? revenge? who knows lol)

umm back to jimin and y/n... yeah they get together blah blah y/n confesses first, jimin gets hurt a lot, y/n is bad at relationships (shes got bad interpersonal skills), they have a large argument where y/n accidentally dehumanizes jimin (ouch)... so many things. all that matters is that they do end up together... maybe not so happily, but they'll get there. i think.

SO YEAH THAT WAS SO MESSY idk how coherent this was... again like i said, i kinda write smaus on the go so a lot of these things arent necessarily canon. i only consider things canon when stuff gets posted, but again like u said thats probs never happening LOL but in the meantime, if u have more questions about any of the points listed above, lemme know!! i'll try my best to explain further (sobs i am so rusty at writing u dont even know) anyway blessings be upon ye!!

#PHEWWWW THIS WAS SO MESSY LOL IDK #looh was written in 2019 isnt that crazy #people have graduated from hs/college at this point!! FAWK #I GRADUATED FROM UNI!!! CRAZY TIMES!!!#textau3 #Anonymous #answered #sorry this took long btw lol i had to remember how to write (its hard)

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Mahiru 14, Kotoko 8, Haruka 7

7. Favorite relationship with another character if they weren’t in Milgram, the way you imagine it would like them to be.

Hmmm… probably Haruka and Fuuta would be the most likely to happen and I do like their interactions. It’s been implied in the timeline conversations and in Fuuta’s interrogation questions, that the two of them hung out quite a bit before Kotoko’s attacks (as liberally as I can use that phrase since they are in prison with limited options). Fuuta says that he looks out for Haruka since Trial 1 Haruka is very timid and shy. And I think that if Haruka had been voted guilty during Trial 1, he would have latched onto Fuuta even harder. What with Fuuta’s deteriorating mental health, he probably wouldn’t be the best option for Haruka, but Fuuta does treat him like a peer on equal footing rather than a child and cannot keep his mouth shut, so he would push back on Haruka’s Es/you are my real mom shit. Fuuta probably has his own mommy issues, but he has a better idea on what relationships look like than Haruka so it’s the “I lost my glasses with the coke bottle lenses” leading the blind instead of the blind leading the blind.

But outside Milgram? I think the two would have had a good friendship. Maybe not the healthiest because of their own issues, but I think they could help each other become better people. With Haruka, Fuuta could learn to soften his edges, or at least learn to show more patience and grace to those who make mistakes (which seems to be why he went after Killcheroy? I’m not totally sure on what Killcheroy did to be gifted internet cancellation). With Fuuta, Haruka could learn to be more assertive and sure of himself. I would like for this blue blorbo to have a hobby that doesn’t involve sleeping or killing animals and children. Fuuta defines friendship as two or more people getting hype over the same things, so I can see him introducing Haruka to video games, Twitter, and soccer and seeing what sticks. Haruka needs some positive attention to grow confident, and again, Fuuta cannot shut his mouth, so he would give Haruka some much needed pushback. You know that meme where there’s two people and one goes, “Excuse me? He asked for no pickles?” I can see Fuuta going, “Excuse me? Haruka. What did you ask for?” “It’s okay, I’ll eat around them.” “No, what did you ask for?” *cue more insistence that he’s fine until Haruka finally goes, “… no pickles please.”

Honestly, I’m fine with Haruka meeting any of the other prisoners IRL except for Muu (who feeds into his bullshit) and Kotoko (who will kill him).

8. What is your theory for their crime? If there’s a general consensus within the fandom, do you have any other, not-so-wildly-accepted thoughts on it?

Kotoko’s murder. Based on “Harrow” I think that her killing the serial killer was her first kill, but her earlier acts like bribing the journalist for info and beating up the thief were all escalating behaviors leading up to it. She worries me the most because she’s the one I am most convinced that would kill again if released back into the general population. Haruka is my blorbo but he is also a murderous, little bitch who deserves jail time. But he’s also dumb and will most likely caught and arrested quickly because he boasted to his mother about his kills like a cat bringing dead mice and voles to its owner’s doorstep. Kotoko is clever, and I can see her outfoxing the cops like she’s a chess prodigy playing checkers. Despite John’s bluster about being an uncontrollable monster, I do think that he knew his victims and viewed them as threats to Bokuto’s life and/or current position. Kotoko’s methodical nature and dedication to her role as a tool of violence inflicting ‘righteous’ judgment worries me more than that. I’m all for addressing the flaws of the justice system, especially when it is used to let dangerous people off, but I don’t believe the death penalty should be the decision of one person (even if they were held accountable to the law and a code of ethics), if that makes sense. I can understand and sympathize with her motives, but I don’t agree with her actions and I have enough faith in her to have wracked up quite the body count by the time she is arrested by police. Home girl gets shit done, and has enough distance from her (criminal) victims to elude the police longer than someone who knew them.

I am curious as to how she got into this. I definitely think that the serial killer she killed worked the area where she lived, so I can see her growing frustrated with police for not stopping him and taking matters into her own hands. Kotoko emphasizes in her first trial interrogation questions that she is not a victim. She is someone who sympathized with their plight and wishes to protect them. It’s emphasized enough that I think, “Keep telling yourself that.” The theory that the serial killer abducted and then killed her sister may have some weight because Kotoko wouldn’t be the victim, it would be her younger sister. Semantics. I have thoughts on the glitchy trailer lines, and I think her line is her talking to someone who disapproves of her plan and her snapping back at them to shut it because they’re too weak to do it.

If you’re going to pick your first human kill, a serial killer is always a good pick.

14. Any headcanons on their appearance?

Mahiru is definitely one of the most fashionable Milgram prisoners. Yuno and her battle it out for the number one spot lol. Mikoto trails close behind them. She almost certainly is someone who has been reading fashion magazines since the fourth grade and knows how to best coordinate outfits and accessories in accordance to the weather, preferred colored palette, and the formality of the occasion. The only reason I wouldn’t want to go clothes shopping with her is because it would take too long!

Based on her comments about always being the one confessing versus being confessed to, I’d reckon that she doesn’t have much confidence in her own looks, which is a shame because she is pretty. Naive she may be, but, I think she has good insides to match her outside.

She seems like someone who has an in-depth skin routine. If the fashion magazines comment doesn’t count as a headcanon, I would say she definitely has a whole skin care routine that she does and coming to Milgram wrecked it since she doesn’t have access to her things. She’s probably a little miffed about it, but she’s got bigger problems so it is a back burner issue.

#ask game #haruka sakurai #kotoko yuzuriha #mahiru shiina

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Evolution of Brainy Smurf, Part 3: What’s In A Name? (Looking Abroad)

Years covered: 1975(?)-1979

Wikipedia lists the original airdate of the movie La Flûte à six schtroumpfs in Belgium as being 7th October 1976. According to the book The World of Smurfs: A Celebration of Tiny Blue Proportions it was released in Belgium (and France and Holland) on Christmas Eve in 1975. Either way, let’s take a look at it! Keep in mind it would still be some three years or so before the movie would be released in English for the first time as “The Smurfs and the Magic Flute”; thus, we must pay mind to its original French incarnation at the moment.

Now, within the movie, we of course have that song that gets sung about how, though the smurfs may be alike in appearance, they each have unique characteristics, and in turn the smurfs get introduced.

In the original French version, the lines in the song referring to Brainy go like this:

"Il a bonne conscience et le sens du devoir, mais le Schtroumpf à Lunettes est un peu bavard."

Which, courtesy of @ schtroumpfcurieux, can be translated as:

"He has a good conscience, and the sense of duty, but Brainy Smurf is a bit talkative."

Hmm!

Brainy getting mallet’d is also a thing that is alive and well in this movie. XD

We have mallet gags, we see him lecturing others, and he’s present in other scenes throughout the movie as well. So that’s a wrap on the movie! For now.

Now let’s turn our attention back to the comics for a moment.

1976 also brings us the Smurf Soup comic, La Soupe Aux Schtroumpfs.

In the beginning, Brainy is shown to be cautious and hushes the other since they’re near Gargamel’s hovel. Papa Smurf strategically deploys Brainy to lecture to Bigmouth in order to stall for time. Brainy seems shocked to note that the others are actually seemingly agreeing with him and encouraging his lecturing for once.

Brainy stupidly offers himself up to go into the soup, not realising that the others who have volunteered will be magically protected. Brainy, you FOOL. Not to mention he was also ready to unthinkingly give Gargamel instructions to get to the village, just like that.

He seems to be very “appearance over content”, unthinkingly prioritising form over substance even to his own detriment or the detriment of others. He doesn’t seem to be thinking through the consequences of his actions beyond the actions themselves. “I must volunteer to go into the soup because Papa requested volunteers, and I must always show myself to be following Papa Smurf’s words, and others are also volunteering…”, not actually thinking through what going into the soup actually entails, and “I know how to get to the village, so I will simply speak those instructions for how to get to the village”, not “it would be bad for myself and the village for Gargamel to have those instructions.”

There is also a collection of one-page comics published the same year;

In the one-page comic “It’s All Fun and Smurfs, Till Someone Gets Smurfed” Brainy is playing chess against another smurf – and loses.

Then there is the comic “Strike The Smurf While It’s Still Smurf” wherein Brainy gets mallet’d by his own reflection! (This comic is incredibly iconic in my eyes, but I may be biased to the extent that I can’t necessarily dissect it in much of the same objective manner that I am usually aiming for in these posts. Its presence on Brainy’s wiki page meant it was one of the first pieces of Brainy content I ever encountered, coupled with the caption seemingly framing the comic as a definitive statement of Brainy’s practically universal ability to annoy – it’s like a suggestion that even he would turn on himself, given the opportunity!)

To move on, now- it was The Smurf Song that really pushed the smurfs franchise into the international limelight. It’s interesting to note that Brainy is one of the three smurfs showcased in the associated video for it.

Now, the contents of the songs in the album aren’t canon of course, nor do they really showcase any of Brainy’s personality or anything – he’s just a random placeholder smurf that could have been switched out for anyone. I think his presence is merely to provide some variety since his glasses are something different and unique compared to other smurfs that helps him stand out. It showcases some variety in appearance/design. You have Papa’s presence as a very obvious choice – he’s a prominent character being the smurfs’ leader and with a design that makes him stand out very definitively. You need at least one standard, generic-looking smurf, and then instead of having two smurfs of standard design, they throw in the one with glasses as well, so that all three look different.

And although Smurfette had already been introduced to the franchise at this point, she was not nearly as central to the franchise as she would later become – by this point, she was a character that had been established to not live in the village with the other smurfs, so wasn’t really there/around much at all, plus canon still treated her in a very “othering” way wherein she wasn’t a go-to smurf to think of, but rather something “extra” – arguably a bit of an “afterthought” in the franchise’s eyes, if that makes sense. No Smurfette puppet in The Smurf Song, is what that boils down to. I mean, she wasn’t in Smurfs and the Magic Flute either – because she’s still not an established member of the village at this point. So that rules her out from being centred in any promotional/marketing material (unlike what would become the case later on). We’re left with Brainy as a prominent candidate as “smurf with a slightly different design compared to the others, adding in some variety”. Note that the appearance difference itself is the relevant factor here, not his actual character/personality. He could have had any number of different personalities and would still probably get thrown in for that bit of variety he adds.

The Smurf Song’s English translation was a massive hit in 1978. 1978 also brought us petrol commercials/ad campaigns featuring the smurfs for the English-speaking world. And yeah, Brainy’s featured there too.

Again, not canon and therefore nothing really indicative of Brainy’s character, but it’s interesting to note that in general within popular culture, when a bunch of smurfs are depicted outside of the core canon, there seems to be this notion of “just slap a pair of glasses on one of them” – a general awareness that there is a Glasses-Wearing Smurf that like, Exists, even if nothing at all beyond that is known about the character.

There is something I want to draw attention to however…

Now, Brainy is not referred to by name within these commercials. But the Lost Media Wiki shows this material produced showcasing the contents of one of the commercials before it began airing – it’s internally-produced corporate material.

And he has a name.

In English.

Brainy.

Now, smurf figurines were a Big Deal ever since the 60s… in the European market, at least. It would become a Big Deal in the English-speaking market later on too, but the question is… when? From what I’ve managed to find (and I’m welcome to receive any corrections on this, as well as any comments/feedback/additions on these posts in general!), it took The Smurf Song’s rise to fame first to get smurfs enough of a foothold into English-speaking popular culture before smurfs figurines could become much of a thing in these other parts of the world. We know the smurf figurine craze was booming in English-speaking places in 1978.

And why does this matter, you ask? Well, I’m terribly curious about this for one key reason: Brainy’s English name. If you’re pushing the sale of figurines/merchandise in the English-speaking world and Brainy is featured, the question becomes: how does, say, this smurf with glasses figurine get labelled? Because in the European market, he’d been labelled very straightforwardly as “smurf with glasses”. Or would the merchandise even have an English label to begin with prior to this point? A smurf-with-glasses figurine could still be simply treated as just that, the name cast as something of a point of irrelevance.

So far, the National Benzole commercial is the earliest instance I’ve found where Smurf With Glasses has been given the English name “Brainy”. (Naturally, as an extension of that, any Brainy figurines/merchandise associated with that specific marketing campaign would therefore be labelled with that name too. But still, what about before then…? Were there Brainy figurines available in English-speaking countries? If so, what were they called? Etc.)

We’re left with a couple of possibilities:

· The decision for Smurf-With-Glasses to be called “Brainy” in English had already been made prior to this point, with input from Peyo and co, and the commercial-makers took their cue in his inclusion/naming from this, adopting this name accordingly for their own glasses-clad smurf featured in their commercial

· The name was chosen in the course of making this commercial/associated marketing campaign featuring the Smurfs for the English-speaking places it would be featured in.

And to that end, if the name was only selected in the construction of this marketing campaign, who had the most influence over what the name would be, and what was the thought process behind it? Inquiring minds would love to know…

Either Peyo and co were consulted/had most of the input, or the commercial-makers/marketing campaign runners had most of the input when it came to his name.

In terms of the latter suggestion, keep in mind that these petrol commercials evidently cared very little for actual smurf canon, so it wouldn’t necessarily be too farfetched. They are only using smurfs as advertising set-dressing with no regard beyond that; “National Smurf” is transparently nonsensical in terms of Smurfs canon, created here to exist only for the commercial(s) itself. Smurfs named things like “Cheery” and “Helpful” were never actually established smurfs either – they’re made up by the people who worked on these commercials. I don’t think it’s outside the realm of possibility that the name “Brainy” was chosen somewhat arbitrarily by the people using smurfs to market the sale of petrol, and Peyo and co didn’t really mind/just sort of OK’d it.

Here’s another point of consideration: if Peyo and co did have input into the English name that was chosen, what was their understanding of the English name and the reason it was suitable? How limited were they by the language barrier in place? How much were they needing to rely on an intermediary to bridge the language gap…?

Let’s think about the character’s existence and what we know about him up to this point and the selection of the name “Brainy Smurf”, and let’s play a game where we try to brainstorm hypothetical alternative English names/descriptors for him. I’m certainly not saying it’s easy. And something always tends to get lost in translation – there’s really not much of a way to preserve a 1:1 when you’re switching words between one language to another.

There are a lot of different factors you have to take into account here – you need a name that “works” in English. That takes “Glasses Smurf” or “Smurf-With-Glasses” off the table right away, because those names sound very clunky in English and don’t have much of a ring to them at all. Or to be more specific, “Glasses Smurf” can have its own charm as a name, but doesn’t really adhere to the -y/-er ending convention they’re going for. Not to mention that part of the appeal of smurfs in the smurfs franchise which was further pushed into prominence for the English-speaking world are their different personalities shining through – so when choosing a name in English, you’d preferably want to try for something that says something about the character as opposed to just a straightforward physical description. Not only that, but you want to choose something that works for children to be able to readily comprehend and understand – that rules out words that are too advanced for a standard child’s vocabulary or too complex. Words/names that are too complex also get ruled out if they’re too much of a mouthful to say.

Another point of consideration is marketing. From a money-making point of view, it’s preferable to have characters with marketable names that can become recognisable and appeal to consumers. (Looking somewhat ahead to the English translations of the movie/the 80s TV series, words that are too much of a mouthful to say also get ruled out from a standpoint of the name needing to get regularly used by the characters, and also if the name is too complex not only would it be difficult to say on the regular, but it would likely strain immersion/believability/suspension-of-disbelief on behalf of consumers, unless an over-the-top name is specifically the joke/part of the point).

So with that in mind, if we briefly go back to the character’s roots as Schtroumpf Moralisateur… Well, we can’t call him Sanctimonious Smurf. That word falls into the “complex” category. (We can’t exactly call him Sycophant(ic) Smurf for much the same reason, HAH).

Let me look at an online thesaurus. Moraliser Smurf, Stuffy Smurf, Goody-goody Smurf, Preachy Smurf, Morality Smurf… Hmm.

Let me throw out a bunch of further random names/descriptors (names that aren’t necessarily good, mind you, just me randomly throwing whatever at the wall)… Finicky Smurf, Busybody Smurf, Blabbermouth Smurf, Tattler Smurf, Fussy Smurf, Bossy Smurf. (Hell, in the Mr Men franchise, Mr Fussy later got the name Mr Persnickety/Pernickety, so why not throw in “Persnickety Smurf” too? Haha).

I’m sure there are more names I can come up with if I really thought on it. Now, all of these names are different – they focus on different aspects and would all frame the character differently for an English-speaking audience –but I’d argue they are all somewhat applicable descriptors for Brainy up to this point in the franchise (and there really is no “perfect solution” here when selecting an English name). One thing to draw attention to, however, is that the vast majority of name suggestions I have offered up here carry negative connotations. “Morality Smurf” is probably the one with the least overt negative connotations attached to it. In an alternate universe where Brainy’s English name was Morality Smurf, the name could seem innocuous enough, and then when you actually learn more about the character you find that a) the name is because he’s always policing others’ behaviour and because he’s seemingly so preoccupied with what one should/shouldn’t do b) the name is something of a source of irony whenever his own behaviour is substandard.

His French name, “Glasses-Smurf”, in its simple act of physical description, is rather value-neutral as a name.

The name “Brainy” has potential negative connotations as well as potential positive connotations. Its adjacent existence to derogatory terms such as “Brainiac” and the dated “Smarty(-pants)” (“Smarty” as a term on its own being something that used to be a derogatory name in the past for a know-it-all), and “wise guy” and “smart alec” and so on… you get the picture. These adjacent terms may get applied to a self-styled know-it-all who insists they’re right and know better than you (without necessarily commenting on the person’s actual level of intelligence). And Brainy is indeed someone who insists he knows better than those around him.

On the other end of consideration, you have the obvious, more positive connotations that come with the word “brainy”: intelligence, academic inclination, being smart.

(The word “intellectual” has also had its own negative connotations attached to it throughout history and has been used as an insult, but I digress).

Up to this point, Brainy Smurf has been shown to be pedantic. He’s been shown to be someone who acts like and insists he knows better than those around him. He’s been shown as an insufferable bore, a rule-enforcer, as someone who prattles on and on… but his character had never really had an explicitly academic dimension or connotation to it. Up to this point, there’d been no real association in terms of his name, behaviour, and character, with the concept of intelligence.

Gaining the English name “Brainy” presents an undeniable shift in the framing of this character for English audiences, who he is, his self-perception, his personality.

(That being said, as mentioned before, any chosen English name would have the very same effect in terms of changing the character’s framing, however subtle the shift would be; regardless of whatever hypothetical suggested name from earlier, any of them being chosen also would have changed the framing of the character for English audiences too! Unless his name was preserved as Glasses Smurf/Bespectacled Smurf, but that would present its own challenges as already discussed).

“The Smurfs and the Magic Flute” was translated to English and released in the UK in 1979. Let’s see what this translation has to say about the now-named Brainy Smurf, hmm?

“He’s a very clever chap, about life and such, but our Brainy Smurf often talks far too much!”

Let’s compare this to the translation of the French version from earlier in this post:

"He has a good conscience, and the sense of duty, but Brainy Smurf is a bit talkative."

Hmm… we’ve got “good conscience”, “sense of duty”, “talkative”… Ah, but I don’t see anything about cleverness here, do I?

Now, the reason for this semantic shift is clear enough: this song is specifically pointing out the smurfs’ unique personalities in correlation with their names, and the English version wants to emphasise that. The word “clever” gets thrown in here to help draw the connection to the name “Brainy”… Both this name and the mention of cleverness being completely absent in the original version.

…Well folks, the stage has now been set. At this point in our exploration, Smurfs have gained a foothold in and the attention of the English-speaking market, Brainy’s now sporting his English name… The 80s and its accompanying television series await. Next time, we’ll dive right in, and see where the canon will now take us! Thanks for reading, and looking forward to being able to do up the next post for you all!

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sorry if you've discussed this in detail b4 but I'm curious how you feel about marble nest as a game/text especially compared to P2...

I don't have a ton of thoughts on it really! I think it's frustrating that the "all a dream" nature of The Marble Nest makes it hard to connect into any discussion of how it reflects on "real" p2 - its being subjective to Dankovsky is kind of an excuse to retcon any of the game. its 2019 (bundled) release was a huge downgrade; beyond cutting out a lot of content including the House of Death quest, rats, and the "break marat's neck with your bare hands" cutscene, and making the lighting/shaders homogeneous with release p2's shaders, its addition of the stamina bar turns walking around from a necessity of motion where the player didn't need to worry about their speed into a pointless stamina management minigame that constantly diverts the player's attention. just visually and ludologically 1.5 stars worse and yet IPL asks you to pay for that version & also the 2016 one isn't downloadable anymore. 👎

I enjoy the focus on townsfolk/unnamed NPCs over the People list (and am excited to see this continue in the upcoming route), especially the portrayal of the major characters as chess pieces implying that they're seen in a strategic-manipulation kind of way, and how the same treatment extends to the NPCs you interact with in order to get the true ending. in short, the way that having to select specific actions and get specific endings for plot threads overrules the Bachelor's personal will and his care for people in the pursuit of "winning" / the truth, in the same way that his tooltip thoughts about the adherents are secondary to their roles and usage in the game he's been playing... very characteristic of him :-)

tmn is 95% of all characterization we have for p2 Georgiy so as a note, I love Georgiy's writing in the marble nest, he's awful but he's one of the only p2 characters who has a defined philosophy and will actually explain it to the player and attempt to achieve his own goals at your expense. it's literally not georgiy's fault that haruspex route copied his deal for its OWN antagonist. similarly, Aspity's great in it it's nice that she got to have a character and express her view of death at some point before being flattened into a mother figure for the haruspex. eva comes pre-fridged in this one so we don't get to see the hole generated by her absence, only how sad the bachelor feels walking past her house, which could've been at least mentioned in the cathedral part but my theory is the writers just didn't know what they wanted to do with her yet. other notes:

the graveman is one of the best and coolest game design features they could've added & fixes tmn's most annoying aspect in a way that adheres to the bachelor's constant themes about time

the meta aspect of being a video game played by the player is handled much more cleanly IMO by the time loop than by 2's theater play framing

even with unlimited sprint, walking is The weak point - while it's mitigated a little by having so much wandering NPC dialogue and frequent event changes, it's a lot of time and attention spent without even the reward of (having a use for) trash pickups, and I think the district's sound design could've been improved to add variety. boats fix this in the haruspex route

the graphics and mechanics don't take precedence over the narrative content / dialogue so it feels way more solid and put-together. including how every piece ultimately fits together... the use of limited characters and physical space works to ensure that each conversation brings in something unique :-)

AND the kids have a high measure of control over the game situation & ability to speak for themselves, as it were. & it even connects to and ultimately explains a piece of lore (the nuts) and introduces characters (marat and dora) beyond the bounds of what 1 had established, without breaking anything fundamental

in general I think it was excellent as a demo, pretty good as a game in the pathologic franchise, and definitely a worthy use of (checks notes) 8.15 gigabytes of hard drive capacity. and the important thing is that it's fun

#tmn #tmn spoilers #asks #anonymous #daniil dankovsky #<- it's 1 paragraph more than I usually post about him so.

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the one where you feel like you've never felt about him (a sunshine kitty series) - jjk

summary ✩ you and jungkook have been friends for as long as they can remember. a few drink and a birthday later, they suddenly become more than that, jungkook has kept a secret from her, once that secret comes out, jungkook nearly loses her for ever.

pairing ✩ swimmer jungkook! x figure skater (&nerd) f.reader yn (swim captain taehyung! x reader)

genre ✩ f2l, smut, angst, cheating

rating ✩ 18+

word count ✩ 1K+

warnings ✩ dom/sub themes, virgin reader (jk changes that), size kink, body worship, fingering, cheating, breakups, makeup sex, alcohol, crying, yelling matches. injury of main character.

★ passion and pain taste the same when im weak - tove lo

★ for tove's entire sunshine kitty album she released asl videos for lyric videos. this vid is truly amazing like all the rest, if you have only listened to habits, i am begging you to please listen to her other songs, it's really fucking great. this one was produced by finneas, who is an amazing producer and artist!!! check him out too!!

a/n: this was a bitch to write and edit, ANYWAYS blue is the notification and purple is the response, the white in between is the name of the person who sent to message. ICE means in case of emergency.

you and jungkook have been best friends since you were six years old. one day jungkook approached you at the playground, you weren't very fond of playgrounds, the sound of swings and loud children screaming and sand, you hated everything about it. so every recess you played chess.

suddenly a boy with a bowl-cut came your way. "im jungkook" he said, sitting in front of you. "im yn." you smiled. "teach me, please?" he said, nodding towards the board.

the rest was history, you and jungkook were inseparable from that day forward. your families went on vacations together, family dinners every week, you attended jungkook sports, jungkook attended your figure skating competitions. nothing was separating you both.

you and jungkook graduated as honors graduates, even got into the same college. jungkook and you shared an apartment near your university. you loved it.

jungkook's 19th birthday, was amazing. you and jungkook spent the day together, drinking and laughing. that night changed you two.

now here you are getting cursed out by jungkook's friend gia. this was strange as you and gia had never had any problems the past three years you've known her.

"yn?!" she burst through the doors of the indoor pool. "i had a feeling that something was going on, but you? i thought we were friends!" you are very confused as gia is fuming. jungkook quickly runs over to intersect you two.

"gia, what are you talking about?" she laughs angrily. "you dumb fucking bitch, im going to-" suddenly she lunges at you, jungkook grabs her, tossing her over his shoulder. "jungkook did you fuck her while we were together?"

your heart drops, "baby, look it's complicated." jungkook breathes out, "jungkook you aren't shit, we've been dating for three years. did you fuck that bitch yes or no?" jungkook sighed, "look, i will talk to you once you are done yelling."

you stood in silence, watching her blood boil and jungkook come up with some bullshit excuse about you guy's fwb deal. your heart was pumping a million beats per second. you swore you could feel your blood moving through your body. 'dating' you thought, they were dating, but nearly every night he touched you make you feel like no one else could.

there was a feeling that was overcoming you. you had never felt this way for jungkook, it was disgust, anger, and hatred wrapped up and tied with a bow. "fuck you jungkook! fuck you too yn!" gia said, leaving the pool.

jungkook moved towards you, soon he stood in front of you as you dropped in your seat. he grabbed your hand, you quickly snatching it out of his grasp. "you lied. why?" you said strangely calm. "look, yn, this was not supposed to happen-" you cut him off. "i already told you i was scared of this- this ruining us. then you lie." you chuckle, trying not to burst out in tears. "yn look at me please" you realize you had been avoiding his looks the whole time. you look him right in the eyes. "yn i love you-" you stopped him. "i fucking hate you. i am so fucking disgusted with you, literally i can't breathe right now."

you stood, grabbing your bag, then sitting back down. "hurry up and get your shit so i can take you home." you said. you looked down as he felt him stare at you. "now or im leaving you here." you knew that wasn't true, you just wanted him to do anything but be around you. you were extremely pissed off and grossed out, but you weren't going to leave him.

when you two graduated you were both 18, you made each other a promise, if you had ever lied to each other you'd never do it again. you'd never leave each other regardless of arguments, or disagreement. you'd always make sure that one another were safe, and had the things they needed. you were keeping that promise. jungkook broken his end of the promise but you cared for him way too much, regardless of his scummy lies.

you sat in the car holding back tears, knowing that any point he'd get in the car. you were driving back to your shared apartment, "are you hungry?' you said after a very long way without speaking. "yes." you pulled up to a bakery, grabbing his favorite sandwich and cookies. you got in the car not speaking any words, handing him the bag and starting the car once more.

"yn, do you really hate me?" he spoke. the tears in your eyes started to brim. you let them fall so they didn't block your vision. jungkook always hated seeing you cry, knowing this time it was his fault killed him. you stayed silent until you pulled up to your building. "get out."

"yn please tell me you are okay." he said, not moving at your demand. "why the fuck would i be okay? you laughed. "what part about this situation would i be okay with? you used me jungkook. the craziest part was i cared what you thought about me. i held at you some hierarchy. what you said to me mattered. so no, asshole, im not okay. you were the only person who i cared what they thought about me. now i can't believe a word you fucking say. get. out. "

"why'd you bring me home if you hate me?" he asked "don't try to make me feel stupid, you've done that quite a bit today. i keep my promises. that's why you are home, with food and safe. because regardless of how you've treated me. i don't want anything bad to happen to you. now get out of my fucking car and go upstairs." he looked at you before get out of your car. "please be safe." he said. "like you give a fuck. call gia." you spat before rolling up the window. he watched you drive away.

you arrived at your rink, "no jungkook today?" your friend quinn asked. "i would be happier if i never were to see him again." you said, lacing up your skates. "woah, you've been mad before, but not wanting to see him again mad." you shook your head "i don't want to talk about it" you said, ending the conversation as quickly ask it started.

meanwhile, jungkook was at home trying to figure out if this was even fixable. he was so angry at himself. gia was someone he would be upset loosing, but he almost couldn't breathe without you. the thought of you leaving, had him drowning.

6:45pm

message from

mrs. yl/n

message from

momma

family dinner in three weeks! potluck addition!

now he was royally fucked. you never missed family dinner, you definitely weren't missing the chance to visit your mom and dad.

message from

my heart (y/n) ICE

we'll be there momma! ill make cake!!

you were acting completely normal, which shocked jungkook. you were quick to tell your mother everything. admitting to your mother that you've been fucking your childhood best friend wasn't an easy feat. also, admitting he used you was extremely difficult. all in all you decided to not tell her.

jungkook's head hung low. he had no idea what you were going to do and how you both were going to move forward. but now you finally got the chance and had the reason to do something that had been occupying your mind for quite some time.

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