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i-willstealyourtoes · 1 year

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can i get some headcanons for jacket , hoxton , sokol , and bain with an s/o who is an over-achiever ? for example , s/o would secure as much loot as possible , regardless of how long it takes or the risk of injury being higher the longer they stay . i might just request some more later , but i'll do my best not to bombard you with a bunch . thank you !

Hi! Hopefully the wait was worth 😭

I LITERALLY KEPT FORGETTING TO SAVE THE DRAFT SO I KID YOU NOT I KEPT LEAVING WITH LIKE 70% FINISHED THEN COMING BACK TO HAVE ONLY 40% 😭😭😭😭😭

Jacket, Hoxton, Sokol + Bain with s/o who's an overachiever

Jacket

- I'm sure he definitely admires your determination fr

- I mean ambition is kind of required in a job like this so he gets it too ofc

- But even he knows you go a little too far

- 'Vamos!' is what he would spam as he saw you staying behind

- No but fr he is stern when you take it too far

- Like he gets ambitious too ofc

- He does kind of match you too

- I feel like you guys both match each other and also balance/keep each other in check

- Like when he pushes it too far you're there for him

- 'Okay, that's enough bags... about 8. Let's go Jacket!'

- '10.'

- 'No-'

- (As he's being shot) 'Diez.'

- '....JACKET....!!'

- You literally have to drag him by the ear

- Eventually you just hold his hand and move so he doesn't suddenly leave again

- (He may or may not stay behind on purpose so you'll hold his hand)

- Okay but anyway if YOU'RE the one who stays behind my guy will waste NO time getting you back fr

- 'Just let me get just one more-'

- 'NO.'

- Yes, he will hold your hand and drag you

- If you're not budging? HE WILL LITERALLY THROW YOU OVER HIS SHOULDER AND GO

- 'Just 5 more min-WOAH WAIT-'

- The last thing the cops see is Jacket just carrying you while you flail about 💀

- (Dw cops idk what's happening either)

- I'm ngl he kind of likes doing this anyway bc yay holding hands and holding each other

- The others do tease/make comments

- If you're already together he doesn't mind

- If you aren't they get death glares (don't out the man of his crush oml)

- OH also y'all be the kinda cuties to like... heal each others wounds after oml

Hoxton

- Like Jacket he also matches this energy

- But better bc you both get hyped at the same time

- If you're rlly ambitious, he's not far from it too

- 'We can get more guys, come on!'

- 'You heard them lads, move it!'

- Dallas/Bain likes to bring you two together especially on loud heist's bc uhm

- POWER DUO???

- But the only difference between you two is that he knows when it's time to go and you don't

- But this is sort of good bc at least he knows when it's too much

- 'Alright (Y/n), you'll be full of lead if you don't leave this time. Come on.'

- That's his calmer request if you usually follow him

- If you're stubborn tho?

- 'I SWEAR TO SHIT, IF YOU DON'T MOVE NOW, I WILL DRAG YOU TO THE VAN. MOVE.'

- He probably would grab your arm or drag you fr

- It's rare for him to actually pick you up bc idk I guess he isn't that kinda guy???

- Unless you're injured ofc

- 'What'd I tell you? I swear to god you're such a dumbass.'

- 'Yeah, but I'm your dumbass.'

- You're right

- Y'all are each others dumbies

- You always stick by each other tho so it's ok :)

- You guys are like the power couple that argues (in a lighthearted way usually)

- A couple that fights together stays together ig

- OH also if it ends up he's the one that gets hurt bc of his arrogance?

- TEASING TIME TEASING TIME

- 'What'd I tell you Hox? One day you're gonna have to listen to me!'

- You'd tell him while patching up

- 'Shut up.' (/lh)

- He'd let out a dry chuckle as you'd mock him more

- Y'all are so cute oml

Sokol

- OKAY YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE OVERAMBITIOUS???

- BRO HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?????

- Y'ALL..... HE'S LIKE THE DEFINITION OF AM OVER-ACHIEVER OH MY DAYS BRO

- Y'all are like the frickin chaotic combat gremlins

- Bc y'all actually both go too far oml

- See, you and Hox match each other in energy

- BUT YOU AND SOKOL?

- Y'ALL FUEL EACH OTHER

- 'Come on, Sokol! We can get one more!!'

- 'One more? I THINK WE COULD GET 5!'

- Y'all be running into straight death bc you missed a deposit box oml

- Calm down omd

- If Dallas or one of the older heisters are with you two I stg they just turn into tired parents LMAO

- I may have exaggerated a little

- Bc while Sokol is overambitious, he is also quite mature and aware so he does know when to stop (sometimes)

- Though sometimes it does become a little difficult in the heat of the moment

- Especially when you're there to encourage him

- But if one of you gets hurt bc of it? The fun stops

- 'Блять, (Y/n), you- Don't worry, I'm coming!'

- It's like a wake up call when one of you gets hurt or something else really bad happens

- He always feels a little guilty when you get hurt

- He feels like he's sort of the undeclared third in command (Bain at first and Dallas at second) so he feels like he caused this

- Even if you coerced him into doing it, he still feels a little bad

- 'Next time, stay closer to me..!'

Bain

- Ofc he likes your ambition, it's kind of what made him like you fr

- But he can tell when it's too much, since he has an overview of the mission overall

- 'Alright gang, let's get going. You too (Y/n), get to the van!'

- 'Hold on, just one more-'

- 'No! Get in the van now, (Y/n)!' (bro you got candy in there or something)

- He's definitely stern about you going too far, but it's bc he worries ok

- He literally does get grey hairs when you go out like that

- OH and if you do get hurt? AAAAAA-

- 'Shit, (Y/n), get out of there!!'

- Obviously he can't get you himself, but he can help you with directions, whether if it's to the escape, or just to somewhere to hide

- 'What'd I say, (Y/n)? You're being too reckless again. The loot isn't worth more than your life.'

- He's like a worried/stern parent fr

- (bro unrelated but I just got reminded of that voiceline where Bain calls himself 'daddy' and I'm going to cry)

- Anyways, he really does get worried for you, because he knows that if you get injured he can't even go get you himself :(

- 'Please, (Y/n), try to have sense of mind this time, or I'll pull you out of the fight.'

- He does make sure that if you are always gonna be stubborn about it, Dallas or someone from the og gang is working with you so they can keep an eye on you or pull you out

- He does love you he just acts a little strict sometimes <33

- He doesn't like to be too public though so that's why he sort of doesn't treat you as different???

- Though everyone can usually tell with the tone in his voice

- If you're on a solo mission (more specifically stealth) he's more affectionate though !!

- Calls you love and is more... tired sounding??

- NOT THAT HE'S TIRED OF YOU-

- It's just that when he's with you he feels more comfortable to let go a little and hide his emotions less

- He trusts the others ofc, but when it's a team he feels like he needs to pump them up

- (I headcanon he's like this with the ogs as well)

- He's more affectionate when you try be stubborn and stuff

- 'Love, you're going to get caught if you go back. Please get back in the van.'

- This is as affectionate as he rlly gets tbh

- OH also please thank him for his concerns, if you do it correctly he might be a little flustered >:D

- 'Thanks Bain. I know you're just worried. You know I love you.'

- He'll probably turn off his mic for a second to just process what you said (got the whole °/-/°)

- It only lasts for a second but its worth

- 'I.... love you too. Now come on, let's get back to the safehouse.'

- Y'all are cute oml I love y'all :)

#x reader #payday #payday 2 #pd2 #sokol payday 2 #bain payday 2 #hoxton #hoxton payday 2 #jacket payday 2 #jacket hotline miami

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owlyflufff · 10 months

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Whats Trigun about? I keep seeing it on my dash but like i have no idea what it really is besides that its a 3d anime djdmjfmfmfnf (youre free to not answer this, i know i could just look it up its just that fans are usually much better at hyping things up than like wikipedia articles or whatever)

Hallo hallo! Don't worry about it and thank you for letting me get to talk a bit about Trigun + introduce it to you! Also dw, no spoilers shall be dropped

For starters, would like to confirm that I have only watched the OG and Stampede, will read the manga very soon so most of my knowledge will be based of these two only. Although the story and characters give or take are similar or resemble one another <33!

Summary (Trigun Stampede):

The best summary I can give is Vash, also known as "Vash the Stampede" or "The Humanoid Typhoon", is constantly on the run due to a horrendously big bounty on his head, and by bounty I mean 6,000,000.00. The reason for his title as the Humanoid Typhoon is due to his ability to cause chaos and destruction in whatever town he finds himself in, ultimately leading to the deaths of numerous. However, the causation of all these damages is his brother Nai who he is actually running away from.

News reporters Meryl and Roberto stumble on Vash one day and it causes a domino of events to happen throughout the story.

Where to start:

Ultimately there are 3 routes you can take if you want to get into Trigun: the manga, the OG anime or the Stampede anime

Personally, I would recommend to watch Stampede first since amidst it only being 12 episodes, Studio Orange did a FANTASTIC job in the characters, world building and plot (there's also another reason why I recommend stampede first but it's kind of in regards to the narrative so it's a spoiler already TvT), and of course the incredible animation that this series has. You could really sense the passion they had with making it and they spent YEARS so I can't say enough just how deserving Trigun Stampede is to have recognition!!!

Overall thoughts/why I recommend it:

Well aside from Vash genuinely being one of my favorite protagonists-

This series tackles the sheer need for kindness in a world that is cruel. It's a battle of ideals between two brothers and just how far they're willing to go for such. Amidst the silly goofy nature that the series presents itself with, it raises up the point "does anyone truly deserve to die?" and just who exactly deserves to live or die.

Trigun overall brings about the "beauty amidst the hardships" and simply the importance of being kind and I love it for that :'>>

Also, a season 2 is in the works right now and the creators said they'll be able to produce more Trigun for as long as there is support so yeah!

In summary: Get into Trigun <33!!!

#Eli rambles #why must my rambles always be so long :'>>#but yesh hope this interests you in Trigun Stampede somehow <33!#this series deserves sm love I swear #also have a silly Vash at the end #he is so loved by me and if you get into Trigun you'd see why TvT!

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realcube · 3 years

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random kisses w/ the haikyuu!! boys hcs 💋

characters: tsukishima, akaashi, kenma, iwaizumi & noya

thank you to anon for the amazing request :3

IWAIZUMI & KENMA’S ARE AGED UP

tw// swearing, sexual references, mentions of kinks, mentions of choking

Kei Tsukishima

tsukishima was always very hesitant to kiss and hug tbh

the only thing he did freely without overthinking was hold your hand but even then, he’d immediately pull away if he thought his palm was getting the slightest bit sweaty (from his nerves)

also, he’d get really tense when ever he saw you lean in for a kiss bc he was always afraid that he’d mess up something

like what happens if he sneezes exactly when you’re about to connect lips?- he’d die, that’s what would happen.

anyway, when you first began surprising him by placing kisses on either the back of his hand or the nape of his neck, he’d become a blushing , irritated mess

like, he thought it was so cute and sweet so of course he’d blush but then he’d get mad bc..you made him blush! how embarrassing for him, tsk.

but although he’d be annoyed and hiss things like ‘you’re so weird’ or ‘that’s simp behaviour’ he would never tell you to stop bc deep down he knows that he enjoys it lol

and surprisingly, he wasn’t in denial about it at first either

like mans isn’t stupid

obviously he liked it, why else would he blush?

since he was aware that he liked your lil’ random kisses, he began to pretend to be invested in activity bc he realised that if you thought he was preoccupied with something important/stressful, you’d be more likely to give his neck a lil’ peck

for instance, if he’s just on his phone or whatever then you text him saying that you’re coming over, he immediately rush to gather his backpack and bring out his notes so he can sit at his desk to look like he’s studying lmao

then you walk in like ‘awh bb you’re always working so hard 🥺 kithes’

and he’s just got the most cunning smirk on his face which he’s trying his very best hide to conceal

then you gave him a kiss on the cheek and he was just like ‘gotcha bitch ( •̀ ω •́ )✧’

anyway, when he’s just deadass being lazy he can still tell when you’re about to kiss him bc he’s very observant etc etc

(also bc you always have a cheesy grin on your face before you kiss him lol)

so after a few years of dating, they become less of ‘random kisses’ and more like just regular kisses for tsukki but he always tries to act like it’s surprising

whether that be jumping slightly whenever you peck the back of his neck or inhaling sharply as you pressed a sudden kiss to his forehead

it’s just bc he loves to hear your giggles at his reaction 🥺 he thinks it’s so cute

Keiji Akaashi

this all began when he was lying on the couch, reading a book while looking absolutely scrumptious so you just had to give him a lil’ peck on the forehead and he’s been addicted ever since

he especially likes it when you sneak up behind him, wrap him in a hug then plant a kiss on the nape of his neck - he thinks it’s so cute and he always cuddles your arms to his chest so you don’t let go

OMG AND YOU DID IT AT SCHOOL ONCE AT THE END OF PRACTISE, IN FRONT OF ALL HIS TEAMMATES AND HE JUST- MALFUNTIONED FJBFVBGRAFD

deadass he just stood like a statue while you cuddled up behind him, his mouth slightly agape and his eyes wide

bokuto thought it was adorable and was like ‘awwwhhh!! #couplegoals!! 💖💕🥰’

(yes he does say the hashtag aloud)

while the rest of the team are wondering if akaashi is okay. i mean, mans looking pretty stiff

but dw he’s not dead y’all, he’s just ascended 👼

like seriously he loves it so much

sometimes he tries to give you random kisses by just grabbing your face while you’re doing something and lean in to place his lips upon yours but he always gets distract by how gorgeous you are, so he’ll spend a little too long admiring your face which will lead to you having to awkwardly muttering something along the lines of

‘i love you too, akaashi. but, erm, my toast is burning.’

Hajime Iwaizumi

iwaizumi already did something kinda similar to random kisses but not really yk?

like whenever he saw you really invested in an activity that you didn’t like doing (cleaning, laundry, studying, chores etc) he’d plant a firm kiss on your cheek which would end up trailing across your face, to your lips - just to boost your spirits lol :)

but they weren’t really surprising or ‘random’ bc he would always announce something to grab your attention before kissing you, like ‘babe’ or ‘wow’

also, imo ‘random kisses’ gives off a ‘sweet lil’ smooch’ sorta vibe but the kisses he gives you are far from ‘smooches’

like they are unintentionally sensual as hell

and he doesn’t even realise how erotic they are so he just suddenly pulls away to leave you with your chores ✋😔

anyway, you first gave him a surprise kiss while he was cooking dinner and whispered something jokingly in his ear along the lines of ‘woah, husband material.’

damn, if iwa knew that all he had to do for some kithes was be a hubby then he would’ve done that sooner like geez 😳

istg after that day iwaizumi would be in full maid-mode whenever you were in the house (bc he apparently doesn’t know the difference between the duties of a maid and a ‘husband’ lol)

‘yes i do the cooking, yes i do the cleaning’ - nicki manaj, hey mama -iwazumi hajime after being told that’s he’s husband material

so know you feel obliged to give him kisses and praise him whenever you see him doing chores/cooking/gardening bc you know he’s only doing that to please you lmao

so you just give the man what he wants i mean, he’s trying so hard

and he puts in so much effort to make sure he looks hot while doing it

like if he’s cleaning the bathroom room, he’ll oil himself and get out the Mr Muscle spray to make sure that his chest is shinier than the bathroom tiles

then you’ll kiss his forehead and tell him how he’s doing a great job blah blah blah

honestly, the kisses are hardly ‘random’ anymore since iwaizumi sets up a whole scene just to get you to peck his cheek but whatever

anyway, you helped him realise that he had a domestic and servitude kink

and for that, he’s forever grateful 🥰

Kenma Kuzome

pov: you’re sad so you play stardew valley and your s/o notices and they pounce on you with their love and affection 🥺

and you cry bc you love them so much but you’re not good at expressing it 😔✌

- ok, end of pov -

that was kenma’s pov btw ^

but like seriously, it’s his absolute favourite when you give him kisses while he’s playing video games

and you always give exactly the right quantity - it’s like you can read his mind or something

like, if he’s in a the climax of a round of any first-person shoot/rpg and you happen to walk by, you’ll just place a brief yet caring kiss on the side of his head then leave him alone

or if he’s on stream and you walk into the room - but don’t wanna be on camera - you’ll blow him kisses and he’ll smile like an idiot then discretely blow one back

then his chat is like ‘omg he can smile?’, ‘why is he smiling?’ ,‘is he sending air kisses? SIMP!!!’

but when he’s down, blaring lo-fi music from his cat speakers and playing animal crossing, nintendogs, stardew valley or tomodachi life (etc), you’ll shower him with all your cuddles and kisses

ngl tho, when you scuttle up to him while he’s playing any game and press a lil’ kiss on his ear as you absently rub his shoulders, he literally melts

he just kinda sits there and stares at the screen but not even a fraction of his mind is dedicated on the game, it’s all just ‘(y/n). i love them so much. i hope they know that. wow, i got so lucky, i hope they never leave me. (y/n), if only you could read my mind.’

and to show that he likes it, he purrs!!!

not voluntarily, it kinda just escaped his mouth the first time you were giving him a massage and since you insisted that it was the cutest thing you’ve ever heard, he continues to do it - but v quietly

but- there is one thing he likes more than random kisses

and that is random cuddles

or random lapping-sitting yESSS

he is a simp so if you’re feeling needy or whateva and sit on his lap while he’s playing, he’ll literally just quit tbh-

that’s one of the only times he’ll not use the excuse ‘i’ll do it when this round ends’ so use it wisely and sparingly

but that’s only if you sit facing towards him bc he realised that if you sit like that, he’ll get some cooch

but otherwise, if you just sit on his lap for the sake of sitting on his lap, he’ll either jokingly push you off or continue playing his game by looking over your shoulder

Yū Nishinoya

you stole it from him lol

he’s the OG random kisser ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ

let’s recall how on your first date with him, you were worrying that he might’ve stood you up as you waited on the picnic blanket for him to arrive and then he jumped out from one of the hedges and attacked you with kisses

like mans got a lot of energy so i can just imagine him attacking you with affection whenever he is bored

and he does it regardless of what you are doing at the time

studying? kiss attack.

cleaning? tickle attack.

sleeping? cuddle attack.

hotel? trivago

he goes into that shit with a strategy too like ‘if i kiss them on the neck first they’ll move their head and arm which will give me access to their chest so then i’ll plant a kiss there too and depending on whether the jerk to the left or right i can then go in for a kiss on their n--’ etc etc

so imagine how hyped he is when you sneak up behind him in the school corridor and peck his cheek

AND IT WAS IN FRONT OF HIS FRIENDS TOO, IT WAS AWESOME

he was so triumphant about it, as if he had just won some sort of award lol

‘yes, i am the coochieman. and what about it?’

then he bought you lunch for ‘being the best s/o ever’ 🥺

but don’t think you’ll ever beat him in the random kissing game bc while he was feeding you the lunch he bought (he does that sometimes, playfully though, whenever he is feeling like a simp) he’ll lean in and steal a lil’ kiss which will lead to you choking on your rice

‘hey babe, plz don’t choke. otherwise i’ll have to give you mouth-to-mouth, ahaha.’

meanwhile, you’re turning red

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afrival · 3 years

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AoT Characters and Their Favorite Disney Movies

This is just so self explanatory lmao plz 💀 some of the their favorite songs are different from their favorite movies idk why 🤷 I need to cope after chapter 138

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Eren:

- AWWW listen he would love Aladdin a lot

- It’s his comfort movie don’t @ me, has a fat crush on Jasmine HDHFH

- He has mega One Jump Ahead energy and would absolutely love that song

Mikasa:

- 1000% Mulan, fucking adores it so much

- They all went to Disney once and she was so so so so excited to meet Mulan please that’s so cute

- Reflection ❤️ loves that song so goddamn much

Armin:

- fucking LOVES Moana, like that’s so obvious idc. Some deep inner part of him relates to Moana sm and he just lovers her

- Favorite song is obviously How Far I’ll Go, will absolutely sing his heart out EVERYTIME

- Just in general sings along to the entire soundtrack

Jean:

- Fucking Lady and the Tramp

- Once a romance like those fucking dogs so BADLY Fhjfjgf

- Insists that He’s a Tramp is his theme song

Connie:

- FROZEN BAYBEEEEEEEE oh man he loves that movie

- Anna is his favorite he loves her so much please

- “For the First Time in Forever” never fails to get him hyped as fuck

Sasha:

- LMAO FUCKING The Emperor’s New Groove

- She watches that shit all the goddamn time, and thinks it’s critically underrated (which it is)

- Also is a huge Frozen fan, she and Niccolo duet Love is an Open Door all the time. She and Connie dressed up as Anna and Elsa one year for Halloween

Ymir:

- Smh Beauty and the Beast easily

- Was so goddamn pissed at the live action remake like she HAAAAAATED that movie

- Belle reminds her of Historia

Historia:

- Lilo and Stitch

- THINKS ITS SO CUTE SHE ABSOLUTELY MELTS

- Ymir got her a stitch plushie and she just. Loves it so so soso much

Levi:

- TREASURE PLANET ‼️

- Thinks it’s funny how Jim Hawkins kinda looks like him

- HONESTLY also likes Coco, it’s like one of the few movies that got him to feel something

Hange:

- MEET THE GODDAMN ROBINSONS

- quotes this mf movie all the fucking time and Levi HAAATESS it

- Does not care that it’s silly, in fact that’s what she thinks makes it so fucking good

Erwin:

- Hercules LMAO

- Has absolutely no explanation as to why he just likes it

- Zero to Hero is his favorite song bye

- Got Levi to watch it and now Levi also really likes Hercules but won’t fucking admit it ever

Reiner:

- Fucking sobbed watching The Fox and the Hound and now he watches it whenever he feels like he needs to feel something

- How to hurt this man: best friend movies

- That being said his heart broke during Toy Story 3 he was Not Okay

Bertholdt:

- Princess and the Frog

- Fell in love with Naveen AAAAAAAAA me too buddy dw

- Cannot choose a favorite song bc they’re all so good, he listens to the soundtrack so much. Really wants to go to New Orleans

Annie:

- Man Tangled is her guilty pleasure movie

- Thinks it’s so cute and will absolutely never admit she teared up during “I See the Light”

- She and Armin dressed as Flynn and Repunzel one year (who dressed as who does not matter HDHFJ)

Pieck:

- The Rescuers!!!

- Gets so upset on how NOBODY talks about it, it’s so underrated and she has absolutely forced Porco to watch it like 10 times

- Also really loves The Little Mermaid :,)

Porco:

- Also adores Mulan but also a huge fan of the Lion King

- Listened to “Ill Make a Man Out of You” and took it personally

- He and Pieck watch The Lion King whenever one of them is sad bc they both love it sm

Zeke:

- T. Tarzan

- Phil Collins is his man crush LMAO swears that mans voice is so sexy

- monkey man

Niccolo:

- If you were thinking other than Ratatouille you’re fucking wrong

- Watches this dumbass rat movie like once a month with Sasha

- Kins Remy

mentioning beauty and the beast reminded me of Evermore and now I’m crying thinking abt some of my ships for aot for that song. it fits so many of them stop it I’m not fucking okay

now I KNOWWWWW shell NEVVERRR LEAVE ME, even as she FADES FROM VIEWWWWW, She will still inspire me— be a part of eVERYTHING I DOOOOOOOOO

#attack on titan #shingeki no kyoujin #aot #snk #attack on titan headcanons #aot headcanons #eren jaeger #mikasa ackerman #armin arlert #connie springer #jean kirchstein #levi ackerman #hange zoe #erwin smith #reiner braun #bertholdt hoover #porco galliard #kenshcs

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popculturebuffet · 3 years

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Darkwing Duck: Just Us Justice Ducks

This is it. 7 reviews, 10 episodes, 2 teams, 7 brave heroes, 13 villians but only 5 of which are relevant here. All leading to this. One big final review of one of the most loved, most important and most awesome Darkwing Duck episodes, the ONLY two parter outside of the pilot in the show’s long history. If your just joining us, as hinted at in the opening sentence i’ve been doing reviews of every episode of darkwing duck featuring the first apperances of the Justice Ducks and Fearsome Five. The only exception was Megavolt, but I ended up doing Negaduck instead, so I could cover both Megs and the original version of Negsy in one fell swoop (A great idea and comission from longtime supporter of the blog WeirdKev27). All so I could give this the build up it deserved and get the background I didn’t have years ago when I wanted to watch this, wanted to see all of the first apperances first.. then just didn’t get around to it, not even finding out the episode order is an utter nightmare. While i’ve given out about this before, allow me to do so again: Due to prioritzing what got done first over proper order, ALL of the justice ducks first appearances eps were aired after this and while Morgana at least got an episode before this, it was her second appearance. Same with LIquidator and Quackerjack though like Morgana, Quackerjack still got an episode or two before this one. So yeah as a result to most kids it was a bunch of heroes just introduced, up against two new villians and 3 old faviorites. You kinda see the problem. It’s why I watched it in chronlogical order: to have this be a gathering of established heroes against darking’s worst foes... and the debut of the worst of THE worst, the true Negaduck at long last. So with the proper build this deserves and not much else to say, let’s look at this two parter and see if all my effort was worth it and if the hype is real. Let’s, get, dangerous under the cut

We open in St. Canard in Darkwing Duck’s secret HQ over the bridge, where he’s getting ready to go out with Morgana and does... things to his hair.

Excellently terrible hair do.. seriously I love a good pompadour as much as the next person, probably unheathily more than the next person, but this isa bit much and adding a curl to it is just..

I mean Superman’s hair looked better at this point, and for those wondering “Wait superman usually has a pretty good look”.. welll.

Yeah.. post-ressurection.. he had a mullet. Look there are only 4 people in the world who can pull of a mullet: Brock Sampson, Patrick Swayze (God Rest his soul), Hank Venture and Daniel Cooksy as a teenager. And he ALSO put a curl in it and it still looked okay because that’s one of this things along with being selfless, and idiots calling him bland for you know, being a kind hearted symbol of humanity at it’s best. But man the mullet was just not for you bud.

Morgana naturally tries to change it while Gosalyn watches and...

Yeah as you can probably guess a LOT has happened.. and all off screen. Morgana is not only fully on the side of good apparently, but she and Darkwing have gone from simply flirting with one another to dating AND Gosalyn has met her and they fought the astro mummies together.. no wait that was the Caballleros yesterday.. but still eveyrthing else is PRETTY important stuff and even with the messed up episode order the kind of thing you’d ASSUME an episode would be made about. I mean this is her meeting darkwing’s kid for fuck’s sake. That’s a big step in any relationship let alone one just starting out. And trust me, I didn’t miss anything: every other morgana ep seems to have them already in a steady relaionship. I DO think it’s stuff like this why some fans aren’t crazy about this relationship. Me I think he’s honestly too good for her.

But before they can go out for whatever vauge date they were going to have the power goes out and DW notices it’s megavolt and prepares to go after him only for Morgana to question him about their date.

Morgana.. sweetie.. the entire city is blacked out. Nowhere will be open. But Gosalyn offers an alternative, Morgana go along with him and while both are reluctant they go with it. So Darkwing confronts Megavolt... and soon finds a bunch of chattering teeth. Yup, it’s Quackerjack as the two have teamed up, and together easily defeat Darkwing, putting him in an electric chair. The two also really get along which makes sense: Both have similar personalities, being kinda nuts indivdiuals with a singular obession , which compliment each other as toys often need electric power after all. THey strap darkwing into an electric chair, that got dark fast and he begs morgana to save him.. only for her to accidently turn him into jello. I mean.. they say pudding but.. their diffrent things. Just because world famous sexual predator Bill Cosby promoted BOTH for the jell-o brand doesn’t mean Jello is magically pudding. If he could magically make one thing

Point is Darkwing is jello, the villians mock him then set up some kind of device and head off.. while also mentioning a mysterious boss. I wonder who it could be.

Nah.. too obvious. Darkwing is humilated and of course blames. morgana.. for saving his life.. as while the jello humilated him he’s also you know not dead.

Anyways Darkwing storms off while Morgana worries he likes her. Morg.. the guy got pissy because you saved his life the wrong way with some bad aim. And before that clearly just wanted you there as a trophy to impress you instead of because he valued you in any way but your looks, because let’s face it he’s shown no intrest so far in any way that isn’t superficial and neither have you in him. You both need to actually try to deepen this or end it. Anyways enough me ranting at 90′s cartoon characters, it’s time for our next Justice Duck to enter the episode as Stegmutt is selling hot dogs now, but no one stops because they just.. run in terror. Poor guy, good thing he’s too oblivoius to notice. Maybe Dr. Fossil had a point. Back to the plot and it turns out the next phase in the Fearsome Five’s plan is to take out the police... okay so wait are they the bad guys or not? Questions for later. Point is we get a nice mismatch as Bushroot’s timidity contrasts perfectly with Liquidator’s showman ship and he drowns them out. Darkwing prepares to attack, but gets interrupted by Stegmutt, refuses his help.. and we get the best and most iconic gag of the episodes: Darkwing makes a joke about playing pretend.. and senseing Stegmutt is a dummy have him pretend to “put out the darkwing”.. which equates to pulling a Droopy while saying “put out the darkwing”. So the two villians finsih their job and high five and this is one of the most charming parts of this 2 parter: the camradere between the five minus negaduck. The other four just.. easily bond and enjoy each ohters company, only fighting ONCE, and then being on the same page after that.

It’s also what makes them so deadly: the go too for ANY superhero team in any medium is to simply get the vilians to fight each other as most vilian teams are built on REALLY shaky ground, a mixture of egos and ambitions that unlike with most superhero teams, can’t really be overcome with the greater good.. because their only in it for what they want. The thing that keeps any of these groups together longterm.. is camradere. I’ts why the Flash’s Rogue’s gallery is easily one of the most dangerous; while there are outliers like the reverse flash, most of them are part of the rouges, and ascribe to their rules and morals.. and thus the camradre and support that comes with it. One guy with a cold gun or a super flamethrower or a weather wand or mirror powers.. is pretty damn tough. All four and more together, willing to bail one another out, having their own tailor and weapons hookups. The four remind me of that: a bunch of guys who have the common goal of beating darkwing but likely just.. hang out when not trying to do crimes. Well except negaduck, hence the four thing. By not being able to just easily turn them on one another, it means you HAVE to take them all at once. Even if you got rid of negaduck as both the comics and the 2017 reboot have shown.. you still have 4 immensley powerful, quackerjack included, supervillians who easily can work together instead of a bunch of angry assholes who tend to work better one at a time and just with a united goal. Point is Darkwing Duck is Darkwing Fucked. Darkwing once again refuses help and yells at Stegmutt, because he’s been evne douchier than usual, and then makes the mistake of yelling at Neptunia, who promptly has her octopus friend throw him into the distance because .. well he deserves it. So while Darkwing patches up that wound to his pride and his spleen, we finally meet our vilians new boss: NEGADUCK. And... they do not explain why a guy who looks exactly like drake is here, if he has any relation to the other negaduck he was inspired by, or why any of them would trust him. This would bother me more.. if A) it wasn’t too much of a stretch for darkwing to have foes we hadn’t seen given the whole casefiles thing and B).. well okay this isn’t really a logical opinon but since when have that stopped me.

There’s a damn good reason that Negsy has one of the biggest episode counts of Darkwings villians. The guy is just.. the perfect foil to Darkwing, the Joker to his batman, the reverse flash to his flash, the green goblin to his spider-man, the sabertooth to his wolverine. He’s Drake’s equal and opposite number. While Drake can’t take two steps as Darkwing without wanting some attention, Negsy is happy to avoid having any until the moment strikes. While Drake wants attention as much as he wants to do the right thing, Negsy just simply loves doing what he’s doing. To quote the Spies are Forever song “Somebody’s Gotta Do it” “Can’t you see.. how much I enjoy this, i’d never avoid this, cause buddy i’m a diffrent breed. This is my calling, and though it’s appaling, I love making people bleed.”

He just LOVES being evil. He’s as comically devoted to being a bad guy as Darkwing is to being a good one. He loves the idea of being able to shoot a bunny, he revels in his villiany and he loves every second. But as I said unlike darkwing he dosen’t let his flaws get in the way of his villiany as much. He still does on occasion, he’s still a version of Darkwing after all, but he has his eyes far more on the prize and is far less prone to distraction. He dosen’t care about toy deals or infamy.. he just wants to watch the world burn and laugh manically over the flames. While his obessions CAN be used against him.. as this episode shows it only lasts for a bout a second and he’s usually ready for it. He’s a Drake with no morals, no connections and few drawbacks. And he’s also every bit as clever, with him winning for most of the two parter. And not because the plot needs him too.. he’s simply THAT good at planning, with his plan here being geninely clever. I’m REALLLY hoping for Frank to lead the reboot because combining ALL of this with his reboot backstory will be divine if he gets to. Negaduck was very much worth the hype.

So his next plan, itself clever.. is to dress up as Darkwing and inflitrate SHUSH, taking out the next possibly thing that could stop them. And he does so easily, even while Darkwing is there and to show off just how friggin awesome he is predicts what Drake will say. The only thing that trips him up is drake hilarious pointing out a cute bunny, because he and the other Negsy apparently share the same burning hatred, causing him to get out his shotgun. And can I just say how wonderful it is he can use a shotgun? That’d never pass nowadays, which isn’t the worst thing but i do question why VILLIANS can’t be shown being reckless with fire arms. Their the bad guys, kids aren’t going to see it as a good thing. And they still equate laser guns with guns. They aren’t going to trivilaize gun violence because of Darkwing Duck or Looney Tunes.

Even being found out Negaduck still acomplishes his goal and floods thing. So now both the cops and shush are down, and things aren’t looking great. Darkwing’s still determined he can do this himself and beat them.. but it’s transparent that not only he CAN’T and won’t admit he’s outnumbered but freely admits he just wants the biggest win of his career by taking them all out 4 to 1. Probablem is.. he’s not spider-man and this isn’t the sinister six. As I said he’s not fighting a villian group whose egos clash so badly , at least whent hey first formed, they have to take turns or in later iterations have some member blackmailed in> Their working in concert. He needs help but as we’ve seen multiple times now Darkwing just can’t accept it. He has to be in the limelight and while he does have to relearn the lesson .. it works better here as personality flaws aren’t the kind of thing that fixes itself overnight. Sometimes never. It feels less like it does sometimes in cartoons, where the character just.. never fucking learns, and more like Darkwing has learned it.. he’s just so very human and thus can’t resist sliding black. Less peter griffin more bojack horseman is what i’m saying. I mean there are still bits of just poor writing, but for the most part his ego is like most of his enimies: he just can’t get it to stay beat.

So it won’t suprise you that when the national guard and gizmoduck are called he’s not happy. You may recall when I reviewed “Tiff of the Titans” I REALLY hated this verison of Gizmoduck. He was concited as Darkwing but treated like he wasn’t, treating the daring duck of mystery like a criminal for stupid reasons and was generally pretty useless and obnoxious. The fact that hamilton camps gizmoduck voice sounds not like a 20-30 something like Fenton is but like Grandpa Simpson mixed with a dash of dudley doo right dosen’t help.

It’s not lost on me that Dan Castellaneta’s character is NOT the one that sounds like Abe Simpson either. But while that problem is still around... the rest of them.. aren’t. Gizmoduck’s character development actually stuck from last time, so rather than be a dick to darkwing he’s warm, friendly and happy to accept his help when Darkwing shows up, thinking his old “Buddy” is just volunteering to help instead of screaming at him for doing his job. Not only that but while he still has elements of a standard superman type “Cape” hero parody... their more toned down and actually funny with him giving giant speeches, and that being useda gainst him and being over the top.. but still being the noble, big hearted hero you’d expect from the roll, just wanting to do good not for the Glory he gets anyway, but because people need him. In short.. he’s 100% better thsi go round. Well okay 80.. he still sounds like this.

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Gos also brings Morgana along, because apparently she forgot the entire episode where her father was so obssed with being noticed he tried to upstage his 10-12 year old daughter... and you know the hundred other times Drake put his ego over his job.

So he naturally wants to shoo her while Gizmo. .warmly welcomes the help because he recognizes that people are counting on them not counting on him. Just then the villians make their move and activate the electro slave device from earlier which.. does nothing like that’d sound like and just creates a giant electrical wall, cutting off ST. Canard and bringing the plan full circle: The villains have now cut off the town and taken out almost anything that could oppose them. And despite you know everything Darking only gets more pissy when Stegmutt and Neptunia show up., Stegmutt because he still wants to return Darkwing’s change as Darkwing bought a hot dog from him and Stegmutt’s also a really sweet guy and Neptuina because well... .the ocean’s her thing and a bunch of bad guys just put a giant line through it she’s now on the other side of. Gizmo suggests the obvious: It’s a day unlike any other when a threat no one duck, or fish or dino duck, can face alone. It’s time to assemble! And Gos is more than excited about the idea, suggesting the name Justice Ducks which.. is honestly fairly weak in my opinon. Not BAD but very clearly just “Justice League” with Ducks in it. Given how good the series is at names, you think they’d of taken more than five minutes on this one. Maybe it was disney mandate I dunno. But the concept itself.. is brilliant and I wish it came back in other epiosdes; Taking a bunch of other heroic characters in a setting and making them into a team is always a great idea, it’s why the tmnt unvierses have been using the mutanimals more and more lately, and they do ballance each other out nicely. You have a nice contrast of powers: while multiple have super strength, stegmutt is your bruiser, Gizmo is the tech guy, darkwing’s the strategy, morgana handles magic and Neptuina can swim in anything and is super strong and agile outside and inside water, so as long as she can keep hydrated, she’s useful> Which by the way has ALWAYS been the case for aquaman.. except the superfriends version.

He really does suck and ruined it for the rest of them till Jason Mamoa and his mighty abs, coupled with Geoff Johns run on the charcter that served as the foundation for that movie, finally rescued the character from a fucking decades old cartoon’s smear campagin. They have the makings of a great team.. it’s just Darkwing dosen’t want a team and screams at everyone to get out and that he dosen’t need them.. I mean he does try to be softer on Morgana but.. he’s still a dick and she really should dump him. Seriously, their attraction is superficial, at this point at least we’ll see in Feburary if it gets any bettter, he dosen’t respect her as a person, and now he’s having to restrain himself at yelling at her.. for HELPING HIM. When he clearly needs it. Holy shit... I was not prepared for that amount of douche. And this would sink the two parter.. were this not clever setup for one hell of a downfall and not a key part of his character. Like has been said: Ego is a massive part of him, and as Tad Stones has put it his real arch enemy. It’s been the basis for several episodes and as we saw in the pilot was his motivation for getting into crimefighting in the first place. He means well and clearly has a heart.. but this is just as much about thwarting evil as it is the attention. And here it’s used perfectly as in the reverse of the gizmoduck episode, where he wanted attention but for fully understandable reasons and judged Gizmo more on stealing his thunder, which while petty i’ll admit is a bit fair given Gizmo did NOTHING in St. Canard but got the key of the city while Darwing had saved it multiple times at this point.

Here he’s being petty and selfish.. and he has no good reason. It’s just his own ego wanting the credit for everything when it’s not what he or the city needs. Honestly this feels like an ahead of it’s time parody of how Batman would be written when written poorly sometimes in the years after this episode: a massive dick who thinks he knows better than everybody else and everything else should be entrusted to him because he’s the goddamn batman, the kind who throws people out as potential parts of his family for petty shit and acts like a controlling ass and okay maybe this is spiralling a bit. But the refusal to see any other way is right? Yeah that defintelyf its darkwing like a glove and eveyrone leaves either bummed or pissed at him. And the most pissed? Launchpad who while agreeing to it, his face and tone clearly mean he’s disapointed in his buddy for acting like this when now is REALLY not the time.

And I wish.. we got more on this because Launchpad disappears till the ending scene after this. No really. Despite being Darkwing’s best friend and sidekick and despite warranting a spot on the justice ducks and despite having every reason to pitch in. he just vanishes. I mean Ducktales may of gone overboard in not having him around since Let’s Get Dangerous, but at least that’s a valid reason: he has another family, he’s really busy and Scrooge has another talented pilot to do the job for him. Granted he’s clearly still doing it offscreen at times but he was both a major part of an hourlong and will be part of any possible spinoff. And hell even back in season 1 when the character ballance was at it’s worst... Donald and Beakly at least HAD reasons for not being in a whole lot of episodes: Donald HATED his uncle, HATED adventure, and HATED the fact his kids were following in their mothers footsteps as he only saw death at the end of it. While they SHOULD have found ways to include him more and his exclusion was pretty bad... he at least had a reason. Here launchpad just has to go now his home planet needs him. And he’s not the only one Gosalyn gets more, she’s worried about darkwing, we’ll get to why in a second and wants to go but Gizmoduck refuses.. and then ALSO vanishes. Which makes even less sense as when has Gosalyn EVER listned to an authority figure? Especially when her dad might be dead? It’s just grossly out of character for her to agree to sit things out and not just tag along with steggmutt anyway once gizmo can’t stop her. I do get this is about the justice ducks but there’s no reason to neglect the other main characters. At least have Negsy capture them too or something. Cripes.

So yeah the “thinking he’s dead part”. Darkwing sets out to find the five’s lair and misses the big honking flag Negaduck set up, but finds a crumb, puts two and two together and finds them.. as Negaduck planned. Down to the crumb thing as, in my faviorite line of the episode, he planned on Darkwing missing the flag and focusing on the flimisiit clue instead. Naturally they kick his ass, EASILY, and throw him out a window to his death and in classic bond villian fashion don’t check for proof of death. Krakoa would be ashamed. So part one ends with darkwing duck getting thrown to his possible death...

Only for part 2 to pick up with him landing in a trash truck before exiting. And this.. is what makes the ego parts tolerable.. Darkwing.. earnestly reflects, depressed he let his own ego get in the way of things and shoo off his only hope, and thus let the villians take over the city, with Bushroot’s plants harassing people, quackerjacks teeth running the police, and Megavolt having taken the power company and using it to shake down locals and Liquidator flooding part of the city for a plan we’ll get to in a moment. He’s at his lowest point and tht’s while it work: his hubris DOSEN’T get unpunished, he’s fully sorry for it and while he dosen’t out and out apologize to them, he’s not only genuinely contrite but does work well with them and evenly when he finally does get back to them.. but we’ve got a bit to go before that. So with Darkwing missing Gizmo takes over as big good and not bein ga prick eagerly takes the others help Neptuina nopes out of helping, which fits her personality, so with only three left because he dosen’t consider children useful which shame on you. I mean i’ts responsible from a real world standpoint but not from a cartoon show standpoint. But anyways they split up gang: Gizmo will go take the power plant back, Morgana will try and use her spells to find the lair and Stegmutt will find darkwing. I do like despite how they neglect Gosalyn that her friendship with Stegmutt was remembered and used as a plot point here.

So we then get to a rather repttitive part of the two parter. It’s not lacking in good gags or character moments but it’s basically the same scene repeated 4 times just with a diffrent scenario and gag for each of the justice ducks and the fearsome five member they encounter. They do their respective schicks the hero is defeated.. this is 5 or so minutes of a 20+ minute episode. Not TERRIBLE stuff, iv’e seen worse repttition, but not terribly intresting compared to the rest of the four parter. So, Neptuina encounters Liquidator, whose scheme is selling rafts to people to not drown in exhange for a millioin dollars.. or whatever they have he’s not picky, and they fight but Liqui ultimately wins, Gizmoduck, in the best of the four sequences, swoops in to stop Megavolt and not only lands on his foot.. but spends so long speechifiing Mega gets him from behind, phrasing. Stegmutt hilariously tries disgusing himself with Groucho glasses and is bested by Quackerjack, and Morgana finds the lair but gets taken out by bushroot, though her pet spider archie escapes to go warn the others.

So after all that Archie makes it back to darkwing’s hq.. only for launchpad to squish him. “ew a bug!”.. just a great quick laugh. Thankfuly he’s more resilent than the average spider and is fine once Gosalyn scrapes him off and they now know the five are in trouble. Also I was wrong Launchpad does return.. for this one scene. And neither get into action once Darkwing returns and after an overly long bit of him deflecting blame to the point I was screaming.

That being said it is nice when once Darkwing is aware of the situation he gloats a little.. but still goes to save them without any hint of caring about doing it all himself. He learned his lesson. So at the Lair of the five, Negsy shows what a sadsitc bastard he is, another great side of him.. from a writing standpoint at least. It shows that like darkwing despite a comedic exterior.. he’s VERY dangerous. And he’s set up speciic tourtures for each of the five he has: He’s hooked up Gizmoducks armor to a device that lets him control it’s power flow, so right now it’s entirely drained.. but he can overload it and electrocute him to death when he flips THE SWITCH. Neptuina is stuck under a heat lamp and will fry when he hits THE SWITCH. Stegmutt is stuck in a weightless enviorment that will also loose air when he hits THE SWITCH and morgana is in a chair that will crush her tod eath when he hits.. THE SWITCH... he really loves THE SWITCH and props to him. A lesser villian would’ve had all the traps have a diffrent trigger which while making it harder on any rescuers is just a time waster asking for the heroes he hasn’t gotten to yet to break free. And while it is based in his sadism he still fully intends to watch the deaths personally. Seriously he’s got all his bases covered.. and would’ve won.. if it wasn’t for the rest of the five. The rest of the five are fighting over territoiry: Buddies they may be but they all want the pie. Negaduck, in his most badass scene shuts them up by pulling out his signture chainsaw for hte first time and scaring the crap out of htem, then using it to carve up the model of the city: They each get a quarter.. and he gets all the loot. Which they dont’ like but agree to to not die today. Though really... what’s the value of that? They have a full city held hostage, control over a quarter each, and no real way to SPEND the loot without letting someone else, say scrooge mcduck, in to stop them. Just give him the money and let him sit on it Smaug style. You get a quarter of a new york sized city to yourself to live out your dreams. I’d love that... maybe nto become a supervillian for that but still, point is you have carte blanche jsut take the W. Darkwing meanwhile uses Nega’s scheme against him and plans to be delivering skulls, after flowers only piss nega off, and then knocks the guy out.. though his attempt at playing Nega fails as the Four have wisely decided that since they outnumber him and a four way split of the loot is better than none of it, to kill him. Nega.. is not pleased and just wants them to attack him, and they do, and it seems darkwing’s going to have a front row seat for THE SWITCH. But Darkwing recovers, and we get a great tug of war between him and negsy as the switch is turnd on and off on and off till Darkwing finally wins, and then frees Morgana and apologizes and has her free Gizmo, and so on and so on. So our team is reunited, Darkwing’s finally ready to lead and thus we get our battle cries “Justice Ducks, ASSEMBLE!” “Fearsome Five, GET OVER HERE!” And the two face off

And the battle.. is fantastic. Easily the series best so far as everyone gets a moment to shine. Neptuina takes out both Liquidator and Megavolt, this time beating liquidator by creating a whirlpool inside him and turning him into a watery tornado and crashing him into megavolt before he can get stegmutt. Gizmoduck beats Quackerjack handily by using a drill on the teeth, great gag then giving Jacky some ansteic.. a boxing glove to the face. And Stegmutt takes on bushroot and when unsure of what to do.. we get a truly wonderous callback as Stegmutt.. honestly dosen’t know what to do.. so Darkwing gets some payback and tells him to “put out the bushroot, put out the bushroot” you can guess what happens next

Or if you want the more recent versoin

Point is three down two to go, and we get a call back to the pudding thing with Morgana trying to hit liquidator.. before Darkwing in a show of how much of a team player he is now, offers his help, simply having Morg teleport some instant pudding mix over the guy... I mean at least it’s brown this time even if i’ts still in a jello mold. And to finish it off he and gizmo awesomely use a mixer on both sides. So our heroes have triumphed.. almost. Negs has the controls for the barrier and runs out planning to destroy st canard if they refuse.. then being Negaduck decides fuck it i’ll do it anyway... but Darkwing stops him and we get a slapstick beatdown as DW uses an anvil a pie and other classics and utterly curbstomps his nemissi in an wesome scne. The day is saved, the generator shut down and the city freed. So we wrap up with the Justice Ducks celebrating.. with Gos and Launchpad. I have an inlking how that conversation went.

Darkwing relcutnatnly is forced to eat his own words and admit he both enjoys the team and needed their help, before heading off on that Date with Morgana.. though Gizmoduck tries to make it a group thing. Dude no one likes a third wheel.. not even when i’ts ninja brian. So Darkwing uses the iris out to escape, but Stegmutt does try and give that quarter back first, with Darkwing, in a genuinely sweet moment, telling him to keep it and then going off, having earned his happy ending and grown as a person. Final Thoughts: This episode was WORTH the build up I gave it. It turns out I really didnt’ need most of the intro epsidoes, as while it enhances the villians the heroes are all given decent enough introductions apart from morgana so tht even without the context of how darkwing knows these people it still works. It’s a thrilling, tightly paced for the most part, hilarious and wonderful two parter that ties a huge chunk of the show together into one hour long masterpice. I had my issues of course and i’ve stated them: Gosalyn and Launchpad doing nothing, the pacing towards the middle of part 2.. but otherwise.. it’s perfect. It’ has a great character arc for darkwing on top of everything, once again having his ego bite him in the ass but in a unique enough way it dosen’t feel like a retread of the pilot, and having him genuinely feel bad about it and grow. a bit smug when he learns he has to rescue them sure but he’s never smug to the heroes themselves. And ironically.. he gets his big moment. While he dosen’t beat the five himself he still infliatrated their hq, beat up their leader, saved his friends and then beat negaduck all by himself AGAIN. It may of not been the big moment he wanted.. but it’s the one he needed. As for the road to the justice ducks itself.. it was a fun ride. Only one honestly two bad episodes; Tiff otf the Titans and Paint Misbehavin and even those had their moments, paticuarlly Misbehavin’s art sequences. The rest of the episodes ranged from alright to standout and overall it was a hell of a time.. so i’m going to rank all the ones i covered leading up to this review. Just Us Justice Ducks (Both Parts) Negaduck Beauty and the Beat Dry Hard Jurassic Jumble Ghoul of My Dreams Something Fishy Fungus Amongus Whiffle While You Work Paint Misbehavin Tiff of the Titans And i’m proud to say this is the first ongoing project on the blog, the first story arc or what have you, i’ve completed. While I DID do a four parter of catch as cash can, this is the first one i’ve done over several months that i’ve completed and i’m proud of it. Does this mean i’m done with Darkwing?

Next week we’ll be wrapping up some more unfinished buisness with another Darkwing Double Feature, this time covering the short career of Quiverwing Quack and in Feburary, and the reason I spent so much time catching up, we’ll be seeing both Morgana and Negaduck again just in time for Valentine’s day. After that?

We’ll just have to see won’t we? So until there’s another rainbow, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

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So I guess I have thoughts on The Timeless Children

If you’re expecting some well-organised meta this isn’t a good post for that, you should probably leave now

I probably forgot half the things I wanted to say because I waited 2 days to write this

Ok so first I have to say I’m disappointed that the horrible bullshit from the WW2 sequence of Spyfall part 2 wasn’t addressed at all. It means it was not part of some big plan and that Thirteen doing some horrible shit wasn’t foreshadowing, but just insensitive writing. Fine. Ok. I don’t like it at all but it, unfortunately, happens. Every single New Who showrunner so far has made a big mistake at some point or another so that doesn’t mean Chibnall is worse than Moffat or RTD, who also had their own qualities and flaws and some occasional horrible writing. It sucks, and it’s gonna taint Thirteen’s character for me. But I’ll live.

HOWEVER

THIS FINALE

Oh my god ok so uh first, Cybermen? again? But like? It was still interesting?? The designs were varied, and the Lone Cyberman had this whole Hellraiser-lite aesthetic going on, and that abandoned warship was straight out of Sword of Orion and I really enjoyed all of that. It’s a shame the Lone Cyberman was defeated so quickly, because he was a much more interesting “final boss” than the one from the previous season in my opinion.

The regenerating Cybermen were 100% ridiculous but it was the good kind of ridiculous and I loved it

I have to say something about the fam now but I don’t have a lot of thoughts about them specifically. I liked it when Ryan threw that explosive thingie and actually managed to hit the cybermen and was super hyped about that, though

OK SO

Look. I loved Missy. I adored her semi-redemption arc, and her self-doubt, and her ultimate decision to be good, just to be killed by her past self as a result, even though the Doctor wasn’t there to witness it. That was brilliant.

But.

This new Master. I already thought he was pretty great, but the way he’s been recontextualised in this finale? I?? Holy s h i t

I’ve said it already but the actor is doing a fantastic job

I wasn’t even planning to put pictures in this post but this shot is so incredibly good

So in my Spyfall post I pointed out that he was very aggressive and very performative in his evil actions, to the point where he looked like he wasn’t enjoying himself. He was, like, doing it to prove a point.

Turns out it was because the best way to make a new evil version of the Master after Missy’s semi-redemption arc was to base this new Master on INTENSE, DEVASTATING, SUICIDAL SELF-LOATHING

AND IT WORKS SO WELL??

AND I LOVE IT??

IT’S ALSO VERY UNCOMFORTABLE BUT LIKE? IN A GOOD, INTERESTING WAY??

The part where he gives Thirteen the key to stop him. And he doesn’t dare her to press that button. He’s begging her to press that button. He knows she will do it because she did it once before and he’s like go on. Kill me now. God

If you’ve ever been suicidal or even just self-destructive yourself, even if you’re, like, a nice person and not... well.... an intergalactic criminal like the Master is, seeing him being like “go on. Press that button. End me. Do it. NOW” is... extremely relatable not gonna lie

Thinking “oh mood” about the Master during one of his scenes is... not something I was expecting but here we are

Also I absolutely adore how all of his world-destroying rage against the Time Lords was basically fueled by “they hurt my best friend and only I have the right to hurt my best friend” that’s so in-character

SPEAKING OF WHICH

You already know I’m very in favor of fluidity in the DW canon. One of my absolute favorite DW stories I’ve read so far was Unnatural History, which basically said “the Doctor is an idea that exists across the entire multiverse and every origin story is true and every version is true and nothing is canon because everything is canon”

But I wasn’t very fond of one specific version of the Doctor’s origin story which is super popular in the Extended Universe crowd of fans, and that’s the Cartmel Masterplan. I won’t bore you with my full thoughts on it but I’m not fond of the idea of the Doctor being some sort of rebirthed god now on the other hand the idea that all Time Lords are eldritch beings and that the Doctor or the Master is Nyarlathotep-

But this isn’t what this finale is doing

So far the Doctor’s origin story in the tv series was basically saying “look. This character that grew up in a privileged and pretentious part of their planet’s society just had enough of that one day (for a reason or another or even several reasons) and decided to leave, and by traveling and making friends, they realised being kind was important, and they decided to help people instead of watching bad stuff from afar without doing anything.” And now this finale basically added: “That society of pretentious assholes? Yeah they actually adopted that character as a kid and exploited them like a convenient source of power, and at the root of their power there’s literal child abuse, and they had to erase that child’s memories so that the kid could be assimilated in the society built on their own pain“.

It didn’t change that many things about the Doctor as a character ; it DEFINITELY changed stuff about the Time Lords, but they have always been this kind of background menace, with evil founders and shady shit, so I think it’s very appropriate.

So yeah. If you ask me to pick one between “plot twist the Doctor is a god” and “plot twist the Doctor is a lost child with the ability to regenerate”, I pick the second one, definitely

The best part is, it doesn’t contradict anything really important. The Doctor didn’t remember any of this. At all. Their desire to run away, their eventual hatred of Time Lord society, their choice to be kind and to try to help where they can? This didn’t come from that completely forgotten past. They still grew up in a life of privilege after their memories were erased, and they still decided to run away. It’s still their choice.

It doesn’t even diminish later things, like Ten being afraid of dying, or River giving away her regenerations to Eleven. Because, again, the Doctor didn’t know any of that origin story. Just like Gallifrey being hidden in a pocket universe doesn’t erase or diminish Nine being completely destroyed by what he thought he had done. It’s still as good as before.

It does put that scene from Time of the Doctor in a different light, though! This wasn’t a new regenerative cycle being given to Eleven in the end, just unlocking a dormant potential.

I saw someone saying this episode was bad because it was saying nature was more important than nurture? But... the episode literally states the opposite very explicitly, with Ruth saying ”have you ever been limited by who you were before?”.

I also saw someone on twitter saying that the diversity in the past incarnations we briefly saw “felt forced” and. like. It’s 2020. Can we not do this again please

I have such a thing for identity crisis tropes and stories and adding a bunch of lives in the Doctor’s past is certainly that and it’s like opening a giant sandbox. Imagine all the things that are actually possible now. The stories you can tell in that nebulous past! And I’m so glad the Morbius Doctors were briefly seen too!

Hell, there’s even an open door right there if you didn’t like this origin story, built in the scenario, and I’m certain it’s on purpose: the Matrix projection didn’t tell us the child was the Doctor. The Master told us the child was the Doctor. You’re free to believe him or not. It’s not set in stone. And that’s even better in my opinion.

So yeah it was all very very Unnatural History and the only thing I disliked was how it was a bit too much “telling” instead of “showing”, but that’s a minor complaint.

If you disliked this story, you aren’t a “fake fan”

If you liked this story, you aren’t a “fake fan” either

If you like some parts of the show you’re a fan, and you’re free to dislike some other parts ; god knows I don’t like some other things in Doctor Who

The only fake fans are the people bullying other fans about what they should like or dislike

I can’t wait to see what the fandom is going to make with this new sandbox and I’m so glad to be enthusiastic about the tv series again

Have a nice day

#doctor who #long post #spoilers #the timeless children #thirteenth doctor #The Master #suicide ideation tw

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blayzez · 5 years

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I'm sorry, I know I don't usually post discourse on my blog. I'm just... really hurt right now.

At the age of 24, after spending my entire childhood forcing myself to believe I was straight because that's what my family and religion said I was supposed to be, I finally acknowledged that I was bisexual. Even then, I was still second-guessing myself: What if I only think I'm bisexual because the internet/social media makes it seem like the "In" thing? What if my sexuality is just a mask and not who I really am? What if, what if, what if. It was hard.

Then I saw Voltron. Lance seemed to have a bisexuality arc laid out for him, and it was obvious that he didn't quite know he was bi and/or wasn't emotionally ready to acknowledge it.

That was just so validating. It made me happy to know that being confused about your sexuality -- not being sure if you're the sexuality you think you might be -- was common enough to include it in a kid's show and it made me feel so much better! I was so happy, and with Lance's help (and the help of my friends and therapist), I was able to finally accept my sexuality for what it was. And I'm an adult. Think about how many kids his arc could have helped! Kids who were questioning, kids who were unsure, kids that might not being surrounded by a good support system and have to hide who they are. Lance was shaping up to be someone kids could really look up, admire, and in turn accept themselves for they are because of him.

And now that's washed down the drain. It meant so much to me, perhaps meant so much to a lot of kids that needed that role model, but it clearly meant nothing to the writers and that is just so disheartening.

This isn't even about shipping. I love K/ance with all my heart, but I would be okay with any endgame ship so long as it was written well. This includes keeping the characters in-character and allowing the romance to help in their character development. Keith was the most likely candidate -- he really did make Lance a better person and vice versa -- but if someone else filled that role and filled it well, I would have been perfectly fine with that! But that's not what we got. Instead, the boy who has been insecure ALL SERIES has to spend his only romance building up his partner and have that not be reciprocated. That most-likely-candidate boosted him up more than Lance's actual romantic partner, and that is just bad writing. That's not a good relationship. Relationships are two-way streets; you can't have only one of the partners be supportive -- they have to be EQUALLY supportive. And A//urance was not that. A//urance was rushed, did not help the characters develop in the slightest, and took away TWO great role models.

I don't like Allura. I think I've made this clear before, but I really don't like her. I was neutral to her in s1, then the whole Not-All-Galra arc happened in s2 and my opinion of her started going down at that point.

But she didn't deserve the hand she was dealt. She was the only woman of color in the main cast, and they KILL HER??? WHY????? I may not have liked her, but that doesn't mean she was a bad character! On the contrary, she was a great role model and I'm sure many girls of color looked up to her. And then they just kill her? First they take away the great role model Lance could have been as a confused bisexual character, and then they take away the only woman of color on the main cast. WHAT. THE. FUCK. You can't just do that! I feel so horrible for the kids who looked up to those characters only to have it all ripped out from under their feet.

Oh, but there was a random gay wedding at the end, so that makes it alllllllll better~

Except it doesn't. Adding in a gay wedding/kiss with little-to-no build-up is more likely to cause confusion than anything else. And it doesn't erase how dirty they did Lance and Allura. Both characters deserved better.

On the topic of shipping, yes, it was queerbait. I refused to believe the showrunners were doing that -- I absolutely refused because I trusted the showrunners completely. Surely they wouldn't have ALL OF THESE ROMANTIC PARALLELS between K/L with other canon romantic couples for nothing. Surely they wouldn't have developed K/L's relationship more than any other relationship unless there was a really good reason for it. SURELY THEY WOULDN'T BE OKAY WITH VAGUING ABOUT THE SHIP MULTIPLE TIMES AND BEING OKAY WITH DW USING K/L FOR MARKETING PURPOSES IF IT WASN'T GOING TO HAPPEN.

But nope. All of the media techniques to subtly hint at a romance used specifically for K/L meant nothing. It was just bros being bros nothing gay here.

And that is BULLSHIT.

Honestly, the whole season just screams, "SHOCK VALUE," to me. They wanted to shock people, but I don't think they really considered the repercussions of how they were doing it. I get shock value, bringing up the interest and encouraging audiences to rewatch the series to understand why the shock was actually built-up from the beginning, but there's right way to do it and a wrong way to do it. Voltron took the wrong way and screwed it up royally.

To be clear, I am not against straight ships. Far from it, some of my favorite ships are heterosexual. Nor do I fetishize mlm relationships -- K/L is only the second mlm relationship I've come to really love (the first being Hau and Gladion from Pokemon Sun & Moon). It's just that K/L really struck a chord with me and with so many other people, and to take that away for the sake of a straight ship and some shitty shock value? Dirty thing to do to the show's audience. Don't build up proper LGBT+ rep UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY FUCKING HAVE IT. The only rep? Shiro, and a hastily-added Zethrid/Ezor ship. Blaytz, too, but that was glossed over tbh and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the audience (not on tumblr because we analyze everything to death lol) completely forgot about Blaytz's interaction with that make Galra. That's not proper rep. That's throwing it in and thinking, "It exists so our job is done."

Media in general has being doing LGBT+ rep dirty for SO LONG. Even when we had positive LGBT+ characters in media, they were still characters based off of gay stereotypes. They were good positive characters, but were still perpetuating a certain bias against LGBT+ by displaying these stereotypes as fact. Times are supposed to be different now. We're supposed to be progressing, making it BETTER. I really thought Voltron was going to be part of that progress, that it would give us a well-written, well-developed, well-loved LGBT+ representation for kids of this generation to look up to and admire and learn acceptance -- about themselves and about others -- from. Instead, the showrunners three half-assed, tacked on LGBT+ reps and called it a day.

THAT'S NOT COOL.

This isn't about ships. This is about proper media representation for the LGBT+ community -- something that is really scarce, even now -- and how it affects the LGBT+ community when it's done badly. This also goes for racial rep. You can take two misrepresented groups and treat them horribly and then call it good rep. IT ISN'T. The poor representation of the LGBT+ community has proved to be detrimental in society's view of them. THIS DOESN'T HELP.

*sigh*

Off the topic of that, can we talk about how shit the writing was? Because it was really shit.

I'll admit that while I like s7, it wasn't written amazingly-well. Still, it wasn't bad and did have plenty of interesting episodes. Even with all of the asspulls we got in the last episode, it was still awesome because we got to see Shiro back in his element after losing almost everything in prior seasons. It was a mix of good writing and bad writing, but the good writing made up for the bad.

The seasons previous to that were well-done. Maybe not s4, but the other seasons were well-written and really enjoyable! There's a reason the show took off; the plot maybe standard, but the characters, character dynamics, and relationships were fantastic and were the true driving force behind the series and its success.

So why was s8 so all over the place? Why were plot threads that had been hinted at or outright confirmed left hanging or tied together hastily? So many things were alluded to in previous seasons only to lead to NOTHING. WHY???

Why did everyone BUT Lance get an arc?

What was the point of Lance getting a sword if it was never going to be brought up again?

Why was Keith's arc suddenly thrown to the wayside?

Why did Allura have to DIE for her arc to reach its conclusion?

WHY?

So many people complained about bad writing in Voltron, but I had always believed that the writing in Voltron was relatively good. Sure, it had its problems (like the entirety of s4, and the MFEs being boring as shit), but it was mostly a well-rounded show with well-rounded characters.

And s8... just threw all of that away.

All of that potential, all of those good arcs -- wasted.

The writing went downhill SO fast, and it's just such a shame. Something that meant so much to me has dissolved into the mess s8 was. It's disheartening.

I also want to apologize to all of my followers who followed me because my K/L optimism and metas. I'm sorry if I got your hopes up; I really thought K/L was the logical conclusion -- everything was building up to it, right from the first episode and even continuing in s7 (hell, even s8 added to it) -- and I truly thought the writers were going to follow through with all of the logical conclusions the previous seasons built up. I had faith in them, but I was wrong. For that, I apologize. I know it's just a cartoon show, but I also know how influential and meaningful media can be -- especially for marginalized groups -- so if my hype bringing you up made your fall harder when s8 was released, I am so sorry. You didn't deserve that; nobody in the fandom did.

I'm so jaded and disillusioned right now. Voltron has been a major inspiration for me; I originally decided to be a cartoonist to bring LGBT+ representation to children's media because of Steven Universe, but it was Voltron that really motivated me to reach that goal. I looked up to Voltron -- it was my muse, my main inspiration. I've learned so much about writing -- writing character arcs, relationships, etc. -- from Voltron and all of the analyzing people did. Seeing it devolve into what it did is upsetting. Something I loved so much has let me down, and I'm hurt and disappointed.

But more than ever, I want to create cartoons that don't do this; cartoons that tie up its loose ends, follow through with obvious character relationships, puts the main characters through complete arcs, and give proper development to them all. Cartoons that have proper LGBT+ and racial representation -- with LGBT+/characters of color that can be admired, that won't fall flat, that will teach the children of the generation about acceptance of others and acceptance of yourself regardless of sexuality, skin color, gender identity, etc. Voltron failed in that aspect; it was a compelling show that failed in everything it needed to succeed in. I refuse to make that same mistake.

With that, let's all look ahead to future and enjoy the fanworks that do these wonderful characters justice. Let Voltron's failure inspire you to create and make something better, something that will be much more impactful, much more meaningful.

Don't let it get you down; let it bring you up.

#voltron #voltron s8 spoilers #discourse #negative #im sorry to have this on my blog #but i needed to let this out #my post #reika rants

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linos-teeth · 5 years

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Yeosang's face when Wooyoung got on top of the table! Lmao I've seen a part of that video in an Ateez crack but never the whole thing. Thanks for looking it up lol and yeah I'll send you numbers! How about 1, 5, 6, 8, 17 and 20? Also my weekend's been fine lol I did nothing all day because luckily I finished all my exams so now I get to relax 👌🏻 . How was your day? - 🐶 anon

hello 🐶 anon!

ikr?? this whole thing is comedy gold and the reason why i rly need to go catch up! dw it wasn’t super difficult to find ♥

no more exams!!! that’s so neat, lucky you! yesterday was a relaxing day for me as well and i enjoyed it, but today i rly need to get back to taking notes for my last paper, i need to get it done by the end of july bc i’m away pretty much all of august and that probably sounds like a long time to finish a paper but i’m rly good at procrastinating, so.

numbers!! let me try to answer these

1. Which 3 members of Ateez would you get on well with the most, and why?

definitely yunho! according to a quiz he is my soulmate and i can see that, his goofy side would bring out my goofy side too and he would never be weirded out by my own weirdness bc he has some too and he’s so cuddly and soft and cuddles give me life!

yeosang! i think we’re both like...quiet at first but dumb and a lil snarky when we want to be? except he’s like generally far cooler even when quiet i just look weird

hongjoong! no real reason i just feel close to him idk does that count?

5. What is your favorite live stage from Ateez?

that’s gotta be the black/red hala hala one simply because bOY THOSE OUTFITS

6. Do you have any similarities you share with any member?

all i can think of is what i said abt yeosang...also maybe that both wooyoung and i have an obnoxious loud laugh? also hongjoong and i are both the dad friend and jongho and i are both monbebes but that’s all i can think of i‘m having a hard tme comparing myself to a couple skilled lil geniuses xD

8. Which member makes you laugh the most?

probably wooyoung!! that guy is just too much and when HE laughs i’m gone, but also yunho and mingi being the chaotic duo that they are! anyway yes we stan the hyena in this house

17. Which member would you choose to put an outfit together for you?

jongho! i haven’t rly paid attention to what they wear when they’re not being styled tbh but i trust jongho too much anyway and he’s a fancy boy

20. What job do you think would suit each member if they weren’t idols?

these aren’t necessarily based on skill more like my gut feel

seonghwa: a doctor, probably?

hongjoong: i’ll humor him and say music producer bc we know he couldn’t not do anything with music

yunho: a zookeeper maybe, or an acrobat/clown y’know like a fancy circus mix he’s got that presence

yeosang: just vibe wise he could be something artistic like an illustrator or a writer, i asked my atiny counterpart this question and they said bookshop owner and tbh i’m feeling that too!!

san: florist/barista i’m aware i‘m copying what he said but i think it would work

mingi: like a tour guide? (i mean i don’t trust him with directions but i trust him to hype up a group)

wooyoung: kindergarten teacher, model or like, real estate agent for some reason

jongho: uhh like....all i can think of is bodyguard, or like a banker? ceo? comedian would also work tbh he’d just have to pull one of his fake serious faces and everyone would laugh their asses off

#ask #atiny anon #🐶 anon #sorry i cant add read mores any more???#didnt mean to spam

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awkwardsturtle · 5 years

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I'm just gonna start compiling a list of possible reasons for the delay till 2020 that I see floating around (mostly for my own sake).

Hold tight this might get long!

Rewrite

The writing team are bound to have taken notes from everyone's reaction to this season. Possible they are working on giving season 12 more of an arc since that's something there have been a lot of complaints about. Also possible they are including some previous foes we are already familiar with! Writing has been described as pretty lackluster this season and the main issue, not the acting. Trying to save themselves?

Leverage

I thought this was an interesting point, someone with a DW source stated this so could be something to it, although they didn't go into any more detail than that so this is just my own speculation.

Does this mean that Chibbs has pushed for the year between as that's how he likes to work? (Broadchurch had gaps between each season and that's the only other thing he's done that's had more than one season). Is he hoping to prove that a gap between seasons isn't going to kill the series? If it works out he could be in a good position to argue for gaps between any further seasons he writes, could also mean Jodie will be a 3 season doctor like the rest (other than 9). If it doesn't work out it'll probably be goodbye Chibbs (and probably Jodie too 💔).

Another idea is he could be looking to do shorter seasons (again Broadchurch only had 8 episodes per season) but possibly an additional one to make up for it? (That's just me hoping because I don't want Jodie to have the shortest seasons bc I love her).

Last point, probably nothing to it butttt... Longer episodes? What if they push for 90 minutes like Sherlock? However, Sherlock only has 3 episodes per season so could be a big downside to longer episodes!

More specials

Pretty self explanatory, possibly looking to do Easter special as well as Christmas/New Year. Would bring the length of the seasons up, albeit on a technicality. Probably also fits in with the idea of not having a large story arc as specials are typically unconnected to main seasons content. Also 'early 2020', could they do another New Year special and then straight into season 12 which is followed shortly after by an Easter special?

Spinoff

Seen some people mention possible spin-offs in 2019. So far the candidates seem to be Doctors Daughter or a return of Torchwood? Possibly waiting to announce this (if it's Torchwood) until after I'm A Celebrity finishes to get more hype from those now following John Barrowman (especially if he wins). If this is the case I'm not sure it's the best idea, I think I'd rather have both a main series and a spin-off especially for the first season in case the spin-off is a flop. I'd be willing for them to alternate after that.

I think that concludes the list so far. Let me know if you have any other ideas or alternatively feel free to debunk any of these ones 😂

#doctor who #dr who #dw #jodie whittaker #thirteenth doctor #13th doctor #season 11 #season 12?#chibbs #chris chibnall #bbc #madip gill #tosin cole #bradley walsh

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starryseo · 6 years

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youtuber!changbin

omg i’m excited for this one bc it’s the loml

s e o c h a n g b i n

enjoy :)

introducing the one and only. . .

Changbin “I love dark” Seo!!!!

so, as you (probably) already know

he has done lots of collabs with chan and jisung under 3racha

that’s how he met the rest tbh; chan messaged him and jisung both for a 3-person collab and then he stuck with them bc they made some bombass tracks

and he also manages the joint StrayKids youtube account where their gameplays are posted

he has too much time on his hands

which is also why he posts a lot of diss tracks about the other guys

it’s all in good nature, no harm done

and his insults are the bEST

he’s actually a lyrical genius

and no one can hate him or what he says in his raps because

1) what he said is probably true

2) if you hate on it, he’ll come out with a second diss track that’s much worse

his tracks are usually about how chan is like the dad of the group

but everyone just uses him for his money (not in a mean way!!!!!)

or about how felix is desperate for changbin’s love but it’s unrequited (he’s still salty about the forced kiss ok, give him time pls)

he hasn’t made a diss track about jeongin though because the boy is too precious okay no one can say anything bad about him except jyp but hes a snake so screw him

you may be asking what changbin could’ve said about seugmin bc he’s also heckin’ precious but i’m afraid you’re gonna have to wait for seungmin’s one to find out ;)

jisung once hacked into changbin’s youtube account

hacked meaning he guessed changbin’s password (hint: it was ilovegyu<3)

and changed the profile picture to a screenshot he got from a video hyunjin took of changbin being dared to act cute

the video was vv cringey so jisung figured this was the perfect revenge for that diss track changbin made of him

and he also thought changbin needed a change from the pitch black profile pic he had up before

yeah, he loves dark thaaaaat much

as well as producing music and gaming

changbin also dabbles in skateboarding and a biiit of parkour

he does this with felix

(when he has a quick method of escaping felix’s wrath, he can tolerate time together)

his skateboard is. . .

you guessed it: black

probably has a skull or some other ‘scary’ design on the front too

but felix managed to notice a small sticker of a munchlax (the pokemon gyu is fyi) on the back too :) cutie :)

changbin really loves skateboarding because he thinks it looks cool and goes well with his dark concept

but then he always ends up bumping into something because sometimes he pulls his cap too far down and so he can’t see very well

idiot

it’s really funny seeing him try to act nonchalant about tripping up

when everyone around saw

and felix videoed it and is laughing his ass off

changbin threatened to murder felix if he posted that video anywhere

and felix was like “;) good thing i haven’t posted it... i did send it to the SK group chat though”

bro felix was literally running away for his life and changbin was right behind him on his skateboard tryna run him over

that was not a good day to be felix tbfh

the parkour he does is usually quite simple (about as simple as parkour w/ a skateboard can get)

but he looks badass whilst doing it so it’s cool

his favourite move is when he rides perpendicular to a rail and so the board goes under the rail and he jumps over the rail

it took a while to perfect the landing but he was really determined and now he’s mastered it i’m so proud of him

whenever he posts these videos he gets a lot of comments

because with his music & gaming videos his face usually isn’t seen

but with this, it is

so there are a lot of comments about him being b e a u t i f u l

the comment with the most likes was from jisung who was like “mr dark?? more like sunshine boy! :) keep up the great work i <3 your vids!!”

he was close to reporting that comment just so it would go away lmao salty

but instead he ranted to gyu like “sunshine boy? i’m not a sunshine boy, i’m a dark, dark man, right gyu?”

the group have a lot of hang-outs at his house (bc dude look at his house wtfffff it’s so shiny)

and his mum is the cutest!!! always giving them food as soon as they enter

she also LIVES to embarrass her child, poor changbin :(

constantly pulling his cheeks, giving him lil’ kisses and always calling him her ��little prince” or some other equally cheesy variant

the guys lowkey thinks it’s cute and know she’s only doing this for fun, but they still use it as an opportunity to laugh at him

one time she whipped out the photo album with baby changbin pics and omg they’ve never seen changbin redder in the face than that day

no one knows if he was fuming or just really embarrassed lmao

what hurt the most was how jeongin - the baby of the group - was laughing and calling him a “cute baby”

and obviously hyunjin had to go “wow dude you were so cute, what happened to you??”

his mum, bless her soul, was like “he takes after his father that’s why”

#SavageSeoMama (this is where he gets inspiration for his diss tracks)

oKAY BACK TO GAMING!!!!

he mainly plays shooting games like battlefield, CoD and csgo with the guys

loves it when they play with just them in a local match, not online (mainly talking about CoD here)

because then he can put on friendly fire so that he can kill his team mates lmao

he’s a major kill scene stealer and proud - truly evil

the guys eventually kick him out of the lobby

only bringing him back once he’s apologised to them

to this day, he hasn’t apologised lmfao

when they kick him out he’ll just start playing online

because changbinnie don’t care

he loves killing people’s hype

for instance, jisung will be cheering over the mic like “yay!! i got the last kill”

and changbin will just reply like “ok and?”

jisung: “wHY CAN’T YOU JUST BE HAPPY FOR ME?!?!?!? I <\3 YOU”

the real question is: how did jisung say “<\3″?

he kills his own hype too though

like when he gets the final kill and suavely goes “wow much skill”

and felix is like “yeah!! wow!!! that was so cool changbinnie!!!”

he’s just like “yeah it wasn’t that good, stop that”

sometimes when they’re all playing free-for-all

he’ll start singing his threats

like he’ll be two steps behind seungmin and just start lowly singing “seungmin, i’ve got your back~”

and like normally someone might interpret that to mean “dw bro i got your back, i’m protecting you, you’re covered”

but nah

changbin straight up stabbed seungmin in the back

seungmin felt that betrayal in his heart

so on the one hand he’s singing to people before he kills them which is heckin’ creepy

but on the other hand he has a beautiful voice so it’s not that bad???

but on the other, other hand (idk imagine 3 hands or smth) he’s technically being nice by giving them a heads-up before he kills them so

really

they should appreciate his kindness

ok no i can’t defend him he’s too into these killing games

the only person he likes teaming up with is hyunjin and here’s why:

chan talks about strategy too much (dude all you gotta do is kill ok relax a bit)

woojin, as previously discussed, makes really bad rookie mistakes

minho gets too frantic when ambushed and just ends up dying without fighting back

jisung is too talkative

felix is also too talkative and is too risky (he’s literally jumped in front of changbin’s character dramatically like “I’ll save you!”. jeongin ended up killing the both of them together lmfao #DoubleKill)

seungmin just runs around in the middle of the battlefield with NO strategy

and jeongin is jeongin. he’s too precious for changbin’s lethality

so that leaves hyunjin. he’s the right amount of talk-y (yes that’s now a word), he has gr8 gameplays, he can handle a multiple-person attack AND he can be really frickin’ ruthless at times

gotta love that boi

felix is always fueled to kill hyunjin for stealing his man

but honestly changbin would rather just solo it because “i work alone, buddy” [sOMEONE GET MY REFERENCE PLS]

wow this has gotten rlly long soz

imma just end it here:

although changbin loves killing them in games and mocking them through his diss tracks

the guys know that they can trust him 100% and that he really, truly does have their backs (even seungmin’s)

and he’s always prepared to fight anyone that hates on any of the guys because only he can do that okay they’re his family and no one else can do that to them

he feels blessed to have them and whenever they come around to his house he’ll get lowkey sentimental bc wow, this is his family that bring a smile to his face everyday

and although he probably won’t admit it without jisung forcing him to, he really loves these guys and is glad to have met them

thank you for reading this far lmao hope you enjoyed it & feedback is always welcome!!

i saw some tag where someone talked about waiting for hyunjin’s one, and bc i’m doing this in age order he’s coming soon

and now just to playfully annoy them i wanna change the order

just kidding

ok not kidding i wanna change the order but i’m too lazy to since i’ve already planned it out

also!! is the desktop theme okay for everyone?? pls let me know of any improvements! :) thank youuuuuuuuuuu

#stray kids #seo changbin #spear b #spearb #3racha #sk #stray kids scenarios #stray kids writing #stray kids imagine #kpop scenarios #kpop writing #kpop imagine #kpop #youtuber changbin #youtube au #stray kids series #changbin #cnb

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kaoru-chibimaster · 5 years

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How Not to Run an Event

Don’t Do What The Kingdom Hearts Big Bang Did.

Just Don’t.

Rant under the cut, so like... Seriously, scroll past this. This is me letting my feelings out and I doubt anyone’s interested in that.

-o-o-o-o-

So basically this event started out pretty hype. I was super excited to join in with something related to the Kingdom Hearts community. Before this, I just wrote fic. Like, I was so far in my bubble, I wasn’t aware of zines, I wasn’t aware of other collabs, I wasn’t even aware of some BNFs (so I’m sure I got weird looks for asking who some people were when basically everyone knew who these “some people” were). I just wanted to write and I crossed my fingers and hoped at least someone might enjoy it when I posted it.

Joining fandom was not a sudden life-changing event for me or anything like that. I was 13 and just getting into forums and had essentially only had knowledge of the KH fanbase through gamefaqs, youtube, kh-vids and kh13 (and fanfiction.net a little later). Before then, my “fandom” was my close friends and I all being fans of the games. I saw posts and read fics and sometimes commented in forums but I was not involved. For the longest time I’d never really been involved.

Big Bang felt like a way to change that. I was so looking forward to the people I’d meet and the art and fics I’d get to see. I’d made friends over the past few months and I’m so, so grateful to BB for that. I was excited for all of the up and coming events planned for Dreamwidth. I’d started out in DW for FFXV related stuff but I’d never actually used my account, so I’m thankful for the opportunity to really learn DW and start using it more extensively. I loved the little events and activities like the posts where we could share our works in progress. That’s another thing I’m grateful for; there are a number of fics of mine that would’ve never gotten off the ground if not for WIP Wednesdays. I also really appreciated that this was set up as a pro-shipping community and that it emphasized that participants could ship what they wanted without being harassed.

Aside from that?

Downhill.

Like, at first it was a slow roll down the hill: the discord server would have some channels overrun with discussion I was either uninterested in or outright made me uncomfortable. I’m not going to name drop what these discussions were and who had started them but I muted them one by one until there were only maybe three or four channels (out of a good chunk, I didn’t count but it was a hell of a lot more than three or four) that were unmuted. It’d devolved from a lot of genuine and interesting discussions where we helped each other out with fics/art and just had general fun talking to each other into channels full of the same handful of people talking over each other or venting. Not at all what I was interested in from a community. It wasn’t too bad though because the server wasn’t necessary for the BB so if the people still there needed that space then it’s not my right to give them shit for it. It was, however, totally within my right to remove myself from it, just as it was my right to feel uncomfortable with it.

That was then though.

Right here and now?

It’s a shitshow. It’s a dumpster fire. It’s basically anarchy.

My discomfort with the direction the server went in was hand in hand with my loss of motivation for my participation. I can’t even look at the fic I was writing for this event without feeling upset and stressed over it. So I dropped.

And apparently, so did a good number of other people.

The mods made a post about how We’re Committed (which no one can find now because they deleted all their social media but I’ll get to that). They urged other people within the server to stay dedicated to the event. A rebuttal was made that pointed out the sort of environment they’d created that’d made a lot of people feel the same way as me: uncomfortable. The event mods were understaffed and constantly diverting attention to other/future events and one of them didn’t even communicate with the rest of the server save to make announcements, and the cherry on top?

They expected the participants to make the effort. They expected to create a server and essentially let everyone grope around in the dark until they found a handhold. They outright told us they wouldn’t hold anyone’s hands, which was as condescending a statement as one could get, and then somehow expected the whole thing to work out? When the rest of the server occupants, including people who hadn’t spoken for ages and people who hadn’t spoken at all, started voicing their complaints, the mods acted like they were being backed into a corner they’d already placed themselves in.

They lashed out. Like children. Like a little kid on the playground confronted by their teacher after they pushed another kid and then loudly proclaimed “He pushed me first!”.

They backed out of the event and left it to the server mods. They, after having made a big deal out of commitment to the event, dropped it like a hot potato.

And then they sent this nonsense:

Just. Out of nowhere.

It might’ve been salvaged if they left it in the hands of the other mods, but they cancelled it. They fucking cancelled all the people who put hard work into making fics and art and put time into this. Every single participant wasted their time on this. And it wasn’t just a few weeks, this fucking event started in April and they had the gall to just up and cancel it.

The rest of the email below, which is just as much a wall of text as this rant is, is essentially an overly worded temper tantrum in which the mods blame the participants for everything that went wrong. Like, I get it. You’re only human. You’re stressed too. You suffer anxiety like the rest of us. I get it. Yes, it was on us to communicate with our partners. But when we come to the mods for help? The last fucking thing you should ever tell us is “we don’t hold your hands”. No wonder no one ever came to you guys for help.

But what really gets me is the fact that not every participant in this event was in the discord. Not everyone saw the drama that went down. Not everyone saw this coming. Imagine having joined this event only to find an email in your inbox a month before we were supposed to start posting telling you that the event is cancelled and it’s all your fault.

Makes the mods come across as incompetent at best. Malicious at worst.

And seriously, regardless of what’s going on in your life, what sort of hangups or problems you might have...

YOU DO NOT START AN EVENT LIKE THIS WITHOUT BEING READY TO FULLY COMMIT YOURSELF TO IT. IF YOU CAN’T HANDLE CRITICISM, IF YOU AREN’T GOOD AT COMMUNICATING WITH PEOPLE, IF YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE IDEA OF MODDING FOR AN EVENT THAT YOU STARTED THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE STARTED IT.

This is common sense. Seriously. I’d never put myself in a position of leadership without being able to accept the responsibility that comes with it. Because it leads to shit like this.

I’m upset. I’d dropped the event a few weeks ago and still I’m genuinely upset. Because nobody deserved this. None of the participants deserved to have their time wasted like this. Nobody deserved the drama and the bullshit that was dredged up from this. Nobody deserved to have this bomb dropped on them literally a month before posting was going to start.

It was supposed to be fun. For me, a chance to finally contribute something in the Kingdom Hearts fandom as part of a fandom effort. A chance to reach outside of my bubble and make friends and create. And while I did get to reach out, I did get to create, and I’m going to continue to contribute on my own as I always did, I can’t say anything good about the Big Bang beyond that. All good will there might’ve been for it was ruined the moment the former mods sent that passive aggressive email.

Who the hell wants to see that nonsense in their email anyway. Aren’t they grown ass adults? They ought to know better. A simple “We regret to inform you that we’re cancelling this event” would have been enough. The rest was unnecessary and, quite frankly, downright nasty and that was honestly what pissed me off enough to make this rant.

In the end if it had silently died, I wouldn’t have even minded at this point.

But, well...

The Big Bang had to go out with a bang, I guess.

Too bad it was a shit grenade and now there’s shit all over the walls and I’m just glad I’m not the one who has to clean all that shit up.

#rant #khbigbang

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cadladefed · 5 years

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Judgement Day Storyline Buildup

Judgement Day Match One

The Revival are backstage bragging about winning the Smackdown Tag Team Championships. They are dressed like to impress. Bullying some low level talent at catering. They mouth off to the room but don’t leave until knocking a coffee over Drake Maverick.

The Revival are watching the match.

#1 CONTENDERS MATCH to the SD! Tag Team Titles

THE CLUB vs DANIEL BRYAN & ERICK ROWAN – 22 minutes

Nice, long match to put over the strength of our tag division. Main Events show.

Underhanded play from The Eco Warriors in heat, fixating their attacks on Karl Anderson’s left knee.

Luke Gallows breaks up 3 double team manoeuvres on Karl Anderson. Gallows sacrifices himself to take out Rowan. Anderson gets a reversal small package, 2 count, Bryan hits his running knee… one, two thr-KICK OUT. Bryan sells shock for a movement before immediately applying a figure four… but before fully applied, the pressure is reversed onto Bryan. Rowan stops the ref for seeing Bryan tap to this.

Anderson breaks the hold. Turns ref. Bryan bumps ref.

Magic Killer. No ref. Chair shots from Rowan. KEVIN OWENS returns. Hits Rowan with chair. Hit’s Bryan with chair. Pulls Anderson on to Bryan. 1,2,3.

Owens walks up the ramp after the bell saying “That’s for Sami asshole”

Further bullying from The Revival to Drake Maverick.

Handicap Match

THE REVIVAL vs DRAKE MAVERICK

With an assist from The Club, Maverick somehow is able to steal a victory.

In ring promo and stand off.

WILDER vs GALLOWS

DW over

DAWSON vs ANDERSON

KA over.

JUDGEMENT DAY –

SMACKDOWN TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH:

THE CLUB vs THE REVIVAL (18)

Your winner and new tag team champions, The Club.

MATCH 2

Build:

W1 - Daniel Bryan comes back to TV by attacking a returning Sami Zayn. Bryan puts Zayn’s famously damaged arm in a chair and stomps down.

Since Daniel Bryan was beaten for his WWE Championship, he has become hell bent on earning back his respect. He is feeling belittled and undermined, something he cannot abide with given his belief that he is the WWE’s moral compass. He thinks it is unjust that because Kofi had to relinquish his title, that Bryan is no longer eligible to a rematch.

W2 –

#1 CONTENDERS MATCH to the SD! Tag Team Titles

THE CLUB vs DANIEL BRYAN & ERICK ROWAN – 22 minutes

Nice, long match to put over the strength of our tag division. Main Events show.

Underhanded play from The Eco Warriors in heat, fixating their attacks on Karl Anderson’s left knee.

Anderson breaks the hold. Turns ref. Bryan bumps ref.

Magic Killer. No ref. Chair shots from Rowan. KEVIN OWENS returns. Hits Rowan with chair. Hit’s Bryan with chair. Pulls Anderson on to Bryan. 1,2,3.

Owens walks up the ramp after the bell saying “That’s for Sami asshole”

W3 –

KEVIN OWENS vs DANIEL BRYAN

Kevin Owens beats Daniel Bryan after a botched interference from Erik Rowan. Post match Bryan and Rowan attack Owens. They take a chair and place it on his arm as they did the week prior with Zayn. Only they think better of it… and in turn place it around his neck! They force Owens’ neck into the ring post and Owens is carried out on a stretcher.

W4 - The week after Bryan is promoing in the ring about how fickle and hypercritical the WWE Universe are. He is very aware that he is not in a particularly rich vein of form, but assures all that he is not to blame. He turns to Rowan and presents him with a kendo stick. He puts all of his recent failings on Rowan and proceeds to punish him with a series of weapon shots. Backstage Rowan is in the doctor’s office having shards of wooden plucked from his back.

W5 - Bryan protests to Triple H for an opportunity at the vacant WWE championship. He makes it clear that every quality you seen in AJ are evident in him. He also alludes to suing for discrimination in the work place dating back to the days of the ‘Yes Movement’. AJ intervenes and happily accepts Bryan’s challenge.

Bryan bars Rowan from attending ringside.

AJ Styles beats Daniel Bryan when a heavily taped up Sami Zayn prevents Bryan from cheating. Sami’s intervention stops Bryan from using a weapon and Bryan turns immediately into a Styles Clash. Bryan has been beaten again.

Rowan storms to the ring and chases Sami away.

* AJ is alone in the ring when Brock storms and F5’s his opponent for Judgement Day

JUDGEMENT DAY –

DANIEL BRYAN vs SAMI ZAYN (16 MINUTES)

Bryan gets his first win since losing the WWE Championship despite a stellar effort from a badly injured Zayn. Another botched interference from Rowan leads to a very believable falsey for Sami shortly before being caught in the LeBell lock.

Post match Bryan and Rowan again beat Sami down. They once again set Zayn’s arm up in a chair as they did previously, only for Kevin Owens music to hit. Bryan and Rowan scarper. Owens extends his hand and helps Zayn to his feet.

An alliance has formed.

MATCH 3

Build:

Several contests between all competitors, over multiple weeks, all fighting for the spotlight on a new look Smackdown.

High action, Indy scramble.

Winner of the below six man, qualifies for a spot in the MITB match.

JUDGEMENT DAY –

MONEY IN THE BANK QUALIFYING SCRAMBLE:

REY MYSTERIO vs ANDRADE ALMAS vs ANTONIO CESARO vs

CEDRIC ALEXANDER vs DOLPH ZIGGLER vs DREW MCINTYRE

(10 MINUTES)

Rapid pace back-and-forth. Cesaro takes the fall from Cedric Alexander.

MATCH 4

Build:

W1 - The double champ Becky Lynch is ruling the roost. Her biggest foes have not been seen since she beat the pair at Wrestlemania.

Beth Phoenix has her first singles match on Smackdown since returning as a full time athlete. She beats Mickie James in a bout that reminds all of how good she was.

W2 – Fatal Fourway #1 Contenders match for SD Womens Championship

Becky makes her way to the ring. She promos saying why she will beat whoever is the victory of this bout:

“Bayley is a precious flower, who ultimately can’t step out of Sasha’s shadow.

Nikki Cross is a mental.

Renee Young has no business being in the ring with me… huh… oh Alexa Bliss, is it… same thing these days. Except one of them headed up the much praised Talking Smack... and the other is linked to the tragic Moment Of Bliss”

Beth Phoenix paved a way for The Man to be The Man, but that was then and this is now so maybe go back to playing Florence Nightingale for your husband because I’m not convinced you’ve got The Glamazon in you anymore.”

She remains ringside for the match.

Beth Phoenix wins beating Nikki Cross with the Glamslam.

Becky & Beth stand opposite one another.

W3 – BECKY LYNCH & BETH PHOENIX vs THE IICONICS – WWE Womens Tag Titles.

The Iiconics lose via DQ. Tensions raise between Lynch and Phoenix.

JUDGEMENT DAY –

SMACKDOWN WOMENS TITLE:

BECKY LYNCH vs BETH PHOENIX (12 MINUTES)

Beth gives it her all but unfortunately for her, the better man wins the day. They square up post match before Beth raises Becky’s arm. Beth leaves Becky to reap the adulation of the crowd. Becky is on the stage when suddenly CHARLOTTE FLAIR returns, jumping the barricade. Becky is thrown off the stage.

MATCH 5

Build:

Samoa Joe is showing more and more aggression after Wrestlemania. He is sick of being overlooked and is taking it out on Smackdown’s newest asset, Finn Balor.

FINN BALOR vs ANTONIO CESARO – 20 mins

Finn over in what is hopefully a worldy.

Backstage an exhausted Finn is making his way back to the locker room when he is jumped by Joe and throws him through a pain of glass.

Joe is promoing in the ring. Finn is not around because he’s recuperating from last week’s injuries. REY MYSTERIO returns and mocks Joe for losing his US title before Rey could even get his rematch. He also calls Joe a coward for his actions. “Interesting…would a coward do this?” Joe jumps Rey but Rey is able to counter the brawl into headscissors followed up by a dive.

After commercial we have REY MYSTERIO vs SAMOA JOE – 15 mins

JOE over clean.

JOE vs CEDRIC ALEXANDER – 10 mins

Joe over quite strong.

Post match Joe promos and says if Finn isn’t physically capable of defending his belt, the workhorse Intercontinental title, he should be a man and relinquish it.

The lights go down and a message appears on the title.

“The man may be hurt.

But when a man is weak

He can draw strength

From his demons.”

Lights come up and The DEMON FINN BALOR is in the ring.

John Woo shotgun dropkick. Cue-de-gra.

JD –

INTERCONTINENTAL TITLE:

DEMON FINN BALOR vs SAMOA JOE (16 MINUTES)

After a flourish of high risk offense, Samoa Joe dominates this physical strong style bout. Finn is clearly still hurt following his attack some weeks ago. After enduring a heavy hit ‘murder, death, kill’, Finn is able to roll up Joe.

SEGMENT

Build:

Series of hype videos build to the arrival of Matt Riddle. Video packages get across the history of Riddle’s lineage in UFC and clips of him in PWG, Progress, etc.

The Friday night prior to the show, on Instagram The Miz announces he will be hosting a very special version of Miz TV at Judgement Day when he promises to once again, give us all “must see TV…. Bro”

* Miz TV segment * (12 mins)

Miz interviews new Smackdown recruit Matt Riddle who hopefully feels like a big deal. He has not been called up with everyone else, he has been saved and amped up accordingly.

The fans begin a deafening “bro” chant at Riddle and The Miz shut’s it down.

“I don’t care about your history. I don’t care about what you’ve achieved in the minors. This is the big leagues Matthew and as far as I’m concerned you’re reputation is built on defeating those not worth my time. I don’t care how legit you are with your flowing hair and sandals, you’ll never be The Miz, you’ll never be must see and you’ll never...” Riddle pump knees Miz.

Miz feeds in for a second strike. Riddle gee’s up big. Powerbombs Miz through a table in the ring.

As Riddle is showing out his music starts. McGuiness describes Riddle as “an incredible specimen, with the world at his bare feet. Truly a legend in wait.”

RKO OUTTA NOWHERE!!!!

Orton stands over Riddle.

MATCH 6 - MAIN EVENT

Build:

TRIPLE H is in the ring and explains that Smackdown is sans a WWE champion. He says this state of flux looms not solely over the blue brand moreover, WWE as a whole. “For too long as a business, we have rested on our laurels. We have monopolised the industry and have taken our foot off the pedal. Whilst the talent on Smackdown is exceptionally high, we have been guilty of not nurturing that talent. Management is guilty of failing to build the stars the WWE Universe deserves and that the roster is capable of becoming. We need a revolution. But a revolution calls for leaders.”

Triple H invites AJ STYLES to the ring. “AJ you are a once in a generation talent. You have against the odds attained success where no one thought possible. You are the standard bearer.

I need you! We need you! To be our leader. To be the leader this show, this company, Hell this industry needs!

Do this not because I deserve better. Not because the McMahon’s deserve anything. But because they do.”

As Triple H extends his hand BROCK LESNAR’s music plays. He storms the ring and kicks seven colours out of AJ.

Paul Heyman is promoing in ring about Brock’s creditials.

“We are in no need for reinvention. This is the era of Brock Lesnar. The most dominant, legitimate competitor this industry has ever known. Yet, because of his superiority, you as a fanbase, aren’t entertained. Brock has no interest in being and entertainer because he is a fighter and you people, you who claim to be fans of combat sports and belittle sports entertainment are nothing but a collection of uneducated, opinionated hypocrites.

Triple H’s music plays and he storms down to the ring to correct Heyman.

“The fans haven’t turned their backs on Lesnar because of his performance. They’ve done so because of his work ethic. The man may be my father-in-law, but Vince McMahon made the biggest mistake he ever made, when he tied your client up to the contract he has. Lesnar may well be dominant but when your schedule is as relaxed as it is, is it any wonder? An industry leader and generation definer doesn’t show what he’s made of 10 times a year but does it every Tuesday on television, all week on house shows and every PPV he’s scheduled to compete in.”

Heyman and Trips continue to bite at each other. Heyman states he finds it ironic that the man complaining that Lesnar has forged an easy way to the top, is the same man who slept his way into a position of power! Heyman jabs at AJ for not being in the same league as Brock, and for not having the edge it takes to truly define a generation.

AJ sneaks into the ring and strikes Heyman with an unprotected Chair shot. Heyman is left a bloodied mess.

AJ Styles is promoing in the ring. He’s confronted by former Paul Heyman Guy – Antonio Cesaro.

AJ STYLES vs ANTONIO CESARO (18 mins)

AJ over. Cesaro goes to use a chair after AJ kicks out of his Neutraliser. AJ ducks, rolls through into the Calf Crusher and taps Cesaro out.

Post match AJ goes to use the chair again but is stopped by Triple H.

Triple H confronts him and says he cannot go around attacking staff with weapons. If he lets Cesaro go, he will get Brock at JUDGEMENT DAY and in a NO DQ match he can have Heyman next week. AJ smiles, throws the chair out of the ring, and hits Cesaro with a Styles Clashes.

Heyman has been protesting since the announcement that he is unfit to compete. Triple H forces him to do so.

PAUL HEYMAN vs AJ STYLES

AJ is toying with Heyman (who is in a neck brace). Until Cesaro gets involved. After receiving a few chair shots (conventional), AJ hits Cesaro with a Styles Clash through the announcers table. Heyman is begging in the ring when Brock slides in and hits AJ with an unprotected chair shot an F5.

Heyman pins AJ.

JUDGMENT DAY –

The vacant WWE CHAMPIONSHIP (28 mins)

BROCK LESNAR vs AJ STYLES.

The bell rings AJ runs at Brock, ducks his clothesline and immediately dives to the outside, crushing Paul Heyman.

Aggressive match to not only crown a champion, but tent peg a new era.

All the shenanigans: Heyman distracts the ref, ref bumps, chair shots, etc

AJ incredibly kicks out of multiple F5 efforts. Brock attempts to F5 AJ from the top to the outside only for AJ to counter with a second rope Styles Clash.

He crawls on top… “ SHOCK… THE SYSTEM”

O’Reilly, Fish and Strong appear on the stage, Triple H makes his way to the walk way only for Adam Cole to make his way through the crowd and land a Panama Sunrise on AJ. Lesnar hit a final F5, Cole throws in the referee.

Your winner and new WWE Champion… BROCK... LESNAR

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K-EXCLUSIVE: DAY6 wrap-up their Australian tour with a phenomenal set at the Enmore

Customarily a haunt for stand-up comedy, the iconic Enmore Theatre was shaken all the way to its Art Deco foundations last Sunday night by the combined passion of South Korean rock band DAY6, and two floors of feverish, screaming fans. After building up an impressive following both at home and overseas since debuting in 2015, DAY6 successfully launched their first ever world tour titled 'Youth' in June this year. Australia, as the first international leg of the tour, was graced with not one but two stops on the east coast, with the band playing at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne on August 10, before heading to Sydney two days later on August 12 for their show at the Enmore. A note from the writer: Coming from a background where I was constantly slipping away to attend battle of the bands as a teenager, spending hours crushed in a pit or the basement of a dive bar watching hardcore, punk and metal artists swinging from the ceiling or climbing perilous scaffolding to get onto the venue roof, stepping into a DAY6 concert packed with a primarily young, female demographic, still feels a little out of the ordinary for me. I've attended dozens of concerts over the years, but based on what I witnessed on Sunday night, I can say with absolute confidence that DAY6 are in a league entirely of their own making; how many multilingual rock bands can you list with four powerful lead vocalists, all with their own distinct and identifiable style (who can also rap with effortless grit), play their own instruments and write their own music, with a fifth member, a literal drum incarnate, who keeps their very hearts beating with a shy grin from the back of the stage? Let me save you some time; I googled it quickly out of curiosity (admittedly with slightly less detail), and the list is non-existent. The 'Youth' world tour will be another long-term project for the band, on the back of their 2017 'Every DAY6' series, and we're sure they'll continue to slay every crowd with their bright, yet soulful, brand of Korean rock in each country, leaving behind a long trail of broken hearts (did I happen to mention that they all hit those required South Korean industry visuals? Because they definitely do). DAY6 will be returning to South Korea to play their next gig in Busan on August 18, before hitting the figurative road to conquer Taipei, Bangkok, Manila, Canada, USA and Europe over the next year; if you haven't yet had the privilege of seeing this band live, do not miss out on a ticket to one of these dates. Full transcript and setlist: DAY6 at the Enmore Theatre, Sydney A cliche, but a universal truth nonetheless, is the inherent ability of music to transcend language barriers. Despite this, one of the most impressive features of a K-Pop concert (or in this case, full-blown Korean rock concert), is the members' efforts to learn as much of that country's language as humanly possible, in order to forge a warm and genuine connection with the audience for the precious few hours they'll spend together. Although DAY6 have a slight advantage with wildly confident, English-speaking members Jae and Young K at the helm, it's entirely possible that native Korean-speaker Wonpil actually took the gold for both overall charm and line distribution during the ments (a.k.a. chatting with the audience) in Sydney. As you probably know, the dynamic five piece band is made up of leader Sungjin (rhythm guitar, vocals), Young K (bass, vocals, rap), Jae (lead guitar, vocals, and beloved YouTuber), Wonpil (keyboard/synthesiser, vocals), and maknae Dowoon (drums). See if you can hear their voices as you read through the transcript, and let us know how we did! Disclaimer: It was a crazy night on the dancefloor, and it's entirely possible that a few things are slightly mixed, or misheard here and there! It's not verbatim, but we've worked hard to imbue this transcript with the spirit and energy of each individual member of DAY6, and we hope you can happily experience every chuckle and heartwarming moment through our very carefully punctuated text! We also deeply recommend reading the rest of this article on a computer screen. Transcript key SJ: Sungjin YK: Young K J: Jae WP: Wonpil DW: Dowoon DAY6: The band MYDAY: The audience [trans]: live translation KR-ENG at the concert 한글/Romanisation/ENG: post-concert translation [The concert opens after the added anticipation of a slightly late start] SONG: '반드시 웃는다I Smile' SONG: 'First Time' SONG: 'Better Better' [First round of banter for the night] SJ: Going, keep going; show me your energy, ok! J: So… SJ: [launches into an acapella solo of '놀래Whatever'] SONG: '놀래Whatever' SONG: 'Say Wow' SONG: '쏟아진다Pouring' SONG: '어쩌다 보니Somehow' J: That's what I'm talking about! MYDAY: [cheering] J: …Ladies and gentlemen, we've just done seven songs and it's already this crazy. Tonight we need you to prepare yourselves 'cause it's about to get crazy lit up in here right? But before that we're going to introduce ourselves. DAY6: 하나 둘 셌! 안녕하세요 데이식스 임니다! /Hana, dul, set! Annyeonghaseyo DAY6 imnida! / 1, 2, 3! Hello we are DAY6! WP: Hello everybody, we are DAY6 SJ: So we'll go one by one [trans] WP: Ah, yeah. Um, first Sydney… MYDAY: [cheering] WP: …I'm really excited for tonight, we already did seven songs and you're already so excited [trans]. I'm really honoured to be here and I'm really excited for the show [trans]. I'm, Wonpil. YK: WHAT'S GOOD SYDNEY!? How you feelin' tonight?! What's good, it's Young K! DW: Oh, wow. Um, please keep cheering for us, yeah! I'm so happy to play the drums here, it's really THANK YOU! Oh, enjoy yourself? Thank you. [Startled] Oh, my name is Yoon Dowoon. SJ: What's up everybody!! I'm DAY6 leader, Sungjin! Uh, so good energy 진짜/jinjja/really, keep going! J: What's up everybody? I'm DAY6 guitarist Jae, nice to meet you. Uh, first of all before we continue on with our set, we are so grateful, so blessed, so humbled to be here before you today…we have wanted to be here a long time now, and because we did our trainee days with, uh, Bangchan [member of Stray Kids, rookie JYP Entertainment idol group]… MYDAY: [cheering in deep Australian] J: …he's always talking about Australia…he told us about how much of a beautiful a country it is, how beautiful the people are and EVERYTHING he said was true, so we just wanna thank you once again for welcoming us here. We are beyond humbled and blessed to be here today, so with that said and out of the way, are you guys ready?! We got a lot of set for you guys today, we good we hot? Let's all get hot together! [laughs]. Ok, so we're going to move on with our set, and our next song is…what's our next song?? SJ: Need. Need? J: …what's Need? [laughing] BINGO! Let's go! SONG: '누군가 필요해I Need Somebody' SONG: '어떻게 말해How Can I Say' J: Oh wow, this is wild. I think Dowoon has something to say, no? DW: Uh, oh, today it's so hot. Outside the weather is hot too…Wow, the weather is just great. Ok ok, how was your feeling? Wow. Yes, the weather is good, too nice, yeah. Oh, Wonpil Wonpil! Something to say to our MYDAY? WP: Uh Sydney…Sydneyyy…recently… YK: Recently? WP: Uh Winter… YK: Yes, it's Winter? WP: …but this place, Summer. My middle…inside…heart, so thumping…Sydney is Winter, but this place Summer? My heart… YK: My heart is? WP: …too Summer when it's in Sydney. [Deep breath, ready to summarise] Wonpil's heart and this place, Summer, ok?! Woooo! YK: Go Jae J: Alright, uh… how you guys doing so far, pretty good? We're going to move on with our set right, but before that, it might be a little bit dangerous for the people at the front, but we need floor two to stand up too, ok? No? That's alright, I'll just go then [pretends to walk offstage, laughing]. WE NEED THE SECOND FLOOR TO STAND UP can you guys stand up real quick? So, for this next little corner we're gonna do, we're gonna have to get a little bit hype, but, uh second floor please be careful? [sways from side to side] that's cool, but none of this ok [jumps up and down]. We don't want accidents happening and your safety comes first ok? So uh… MYDAY: [suddenly cheering loudly] J:…was it something I said? I never knew safety was such a great word [laughing]. Um, alright guys so we're gonna enjoy this, are y'all ready for the next section?! Is DAY6 ready for the next section? Let's get it on…[pauses as he realises he said something potentially racy, but laughs it off]. YK: [In the meantime, bursts into operatic vocals] READYYYYYY! ARE YOUUUU READYYYY! LET'S GOOOOOOO! J: Alright, what we got next up, 저 태양처럼/jeo taeyang cheoreom, let's go! SONG: '저 태양처럼Like That Sun' SONG: 'Dance Dance' SONG: '좋은걸 뭐 어떡해What Can I Do' SONG: 'WARNING' YK: How you feelin' so far? Lemme hear you one more time, how you feelin' so far?! Oh you guys are AMAZIN'! WP: So Sydney…inspiration… YK: …they givin' you inspiration? WP: Yah… YK: What you thinkin'? WP: Beautiful voice and, we are ensemble? YK: Working all together? He's saying we are one! WP: Sydney…wow. YK: It's Sydney and wow. WP: Sungjin too…Sungjin, what, ah, feeling? SJ: [sings] I'm feeling goooood! Feels soooo good! [talking] Are you ready [trans]? YK: Do one more! SJ: Then let's keep going [trans]! Jae, Jae… MYDAY: [someone squeezes a loud 'I LOVE YOU!' into a split second of silence] J: I LOVE YOU TOO! [Frowning] This has been a miscalculation on my part…second floor, uh, would you like to sit down, or… do you want to keep standing? SEE Y'ALL HAVE ALREADY SAT DOWN, you guys can sit down if you want! It was a miscalculation at first, I was like, oh let's all party together, and then during the song you guys were like, what am I doing here? [laughing] I felt bad, you guys can sit down, no worries…if not, let's keep the show rolling…Sungjin's gonna kick it off… SJ: Ah, ok let's…go! SONG: '장난 아닌데I'm Serious' SONG: '혼잣말Talking To' SONG: 'Shoot Me' J: Crazy YK: [Looking at the fan project banners for the night] What does it say? Shoot Me love? Give me more… Shoot Me love! I need more, SHOOT ME LOVE! Ahhh, thank you guys, you guys are AMAZING! Dowoon? DW: Let's go. YK: Isn't it great? DW: Yes, also… YK: Also what? Also… DW: Awesome. YK: Awesome! DW: Awesome. Ohhhhh yeah. Um, first time I come here, I see the city Melbourne, we see it together yeah, oh so beautiful. Australia is so beautiful. Yeah, I want to live here two months or three months? Yeah. YK:…Actually, we went to uh, to see the Opera House yesterday. Harbour Bridge. Yeah, it was actually beautiful. The weather was really nice too. It's Winter here now right? I love this Winter [laughing]. The weather was actually perfect wasn't it? WP: Sydney, uh, tonight is winter? Season, but um heat…it feels like I'm wearing a heat pack because this place…because I heard the beautiful voices of MYDAY my heart is warm [trans]. Yeah. So I'm not cold at all [trans]. I also want to stay in Sydney for more than two days [trans]. Yeah, I like it [trans]. Sungjin? Uh, Sungjin…Sungjin, uh what's that? [mumbling happily at the crowd] J: [to YK] Can you translate? YK: What, translate English to Korean?? J: [to WP] Ohh, you're speaking English??? MYDAY: [loud mixture of scandalised giggling and whooping] J: Oh, no no no! It's not like that, no, I was being curious, oh I swear! YK: [unable to contain his reaction, hollers] SAVAGE!!!! HARSH!!! [laughing] J: Wonpil was good, I'm sorry! MYDAY: [settling down again] YK: Guys, ah no, when we're on stage, when we're not wearing uh, our in-ear? Earphones? J: Uh huh YK: Uh, it's actually really hard to understand what anyone's saying. It's really…boomy? [laughs in Jae's direction]. [To Wonpil] Do you have anything more to say? WP: Yes, I already said but I'll do a bit more [trans]. I'll say more later [laughing]. YK: What do you mean? [Repeats the question in Korean, then English again] What do you mean? WP: What do you mean? YK: No, but this is the end [trans]? WP: No! Really? YK: Do you know how many songs we got through? 17 already! MYDAY: [Cheering] WP: Yeah, wow! YK: But wasn't it fun?! MYDAY: [More cheering] YK: But sadly, we're already at the last section. WP: No, you're a liar! YK: I'm a liar? WP: Yeah. YK: You sure? SJ: [looking at YK, suddenly deadpan] No, his name is Brian not liar. YK: NO! DAY6 (except YK): Brian. Brian. Brian. MYDAY: BRIAN! BRIAN! BRIAN! BRIAN! BRIAN! YK: [chagrined, and dripping with sarcasm] THANK YOU SYDNEY! [Back to normal]…Yeah, but sadly we're already at the last section of the concert [tech comes onstage], I was too excited, I was too hyped, so I kept stepping on the line? So, I actually plugged out the bass cord [laughing]. J: Honestly though, I think that today is just that kind of environment, like.. you know what I'm sayin'? Like it's so crazy, we got lights up in here, we got people who are dancin'. At one point, nah nah nah real talk, I don't say this at every stage, but at one point the stage was shaking. Real talk. So uh, we're gonna try to make that happen not in this next part now but…this next part…wait backtrack, that didn't happen just now…this next part is the last part…we…[laughing] I MESSED IT UP! [Quickly] Hey Sungjin, you got anything to say? SJ: Kiki…[grins] J: …Sungjin, you got anything to say? SJ: Yeah uhh…this part is uh, final section. Um, he told, told you guys um head shaking…but uh this part is not… head shaking yet [trans]? Show me the voice! Show me your beautiful voice, alright? YK: Are you guys going to show us your voice? Are you guys going to show us your beautiful voice? Uh…can I hear you guys sing? ['Man in a Movie' singing time with YK and MYDAY] YK: YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING! I really wanted to hear that, because actually, that was the last song before we came on right? And you guys were singing along to it? [points off to stage right] And we were right behind there? And we heard you. So you're gonna sing us the next song we're going to play. Alright, sing it first, let's go. SONG: 'Congratulations' SONG: '예뻤어You Were Beautiful' SONG: 'I Loved You' SONG: '좋아합니다I Like You' [SPECIAL VCR] SONG: '놓아 놓아 놓아Letting Go' (Rebooted version) [Ending ments] J: Wow [laughing]. Uh, this is so sad…come with me [laughing more]. Ok, uh, so guys, today for me was a phenomenal day. First off, um, you know, I was a little bit scared coming to Australia 'cause we haven't been here, it's our first time here for a concert. What if no one sings along, what if…[cheering]…you're right, I was stupid, you're right, you're right. You guys are crazy! Uh, yo, real talk, I don't think I've ever…uhh, how do I say this..I don't think I've ever let my 정신/jeongshin/ mind or mentality…I don't think I've ever let my mind this loose while being, while being on stage ever. Like usually, like, as an artist, you stand here like, I'm gonna sing good, I'm gonna play guitar real good, I'm gonna listen to my metronome, I'm gonna get…I didn't care today! So um, so excuse me if I was uh, off-pitch…I know, I know, I'm amazing! Haha, but anyway, guys today, today was exceptional. Um, no, no, really, you guys don't know how much this means to me today. Just overall, thank you so much for having us. I, I feel like, I feel like, well really blessed, thank you, I appreciate it. SJ: It's the first time for DAY6 coming to Australia [trans]. But this first experience was such a good experience in my life [trans]. Australia is a beautiful place and has beautiful people [trans]. Honestly, distance-wise it's pretty far; this time and memories, even though these will become memories, we think about it in the past, we will be together [trans]. So please don't forget this moment and I promise we'll come back [trans]. Thank you so much for today [trans]. See you guys, thank you! DW: Ha. He kind of said everything I wanted to say, yeah [trans]. Uh, ok? It was such a good memory for us today, and I hope this is a good memory for you guys too [trans]. We will work so hard and come back to give you better energy [trans]. Wow, thank you! YK: How was DAY6 concert? How was MYDAYs? 'Cause I thought you guys were amazing. There's so much I wanna say, but I don't know how to put it in words, especially in English. Uh, ok. First, I know how hard it is to memorise a song in a different language, 'cause we did covers and we tried singing in different languages; it's not easy. But throughout the entire concert, you guys were singing along…I don't know how that's possible. How many of you speak Korean as your first language? Not so many, exactly! YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING! So, again I feel blessed…I feel…I don't know if I deserve such love. Thank you guys so much. We really appreciate it, and we'll be back. Thank you. WP: So our first world tour, and we are so lucky that our first stop was here in Australia [trans]. I was expecting it, but I didn't know I would get this much love, energy…I'll never forget this moment, and I'll promise to come back [trans]. For us DAY6, thank you so much for making these precious moments [trans]. I love you too. Thank you for, appreciate it, yeah. I want to take picture. [DAY6 and MYDAY photo time] J: So we're really at the final part of the concert. But uh, you guys know how crazy it gets right, at the end of our shows? Do you not know how crazy it gets at the end of DAY6 shows? OH, just real quick, let's be, let's stay safe…[ suddenly, throwing his head and arms back dramatically] PREACH, YES JAE PREACH!! [Jae's comprehensive safety talk time continues] J: I think there's something Young K wants to say right? YK: How's the, energy level right now? It's great… but not as great as before. So [screams], no no save your energy, we're gonna check how you guys are, but this time it's gonna be Wonpil doing it. WP: Yeah. YK: You know what to do. WP: Uh, Sydney. Are you…ready? Don't hear me, don't hear me. I can't hear it [trans]. MYDAY: [reasonable decibel of enthusiasm] WP: Amazing music. I'll use magic [trans]. Look at my hand [trans]. [Punching upwards into the air] Let's go!!!!! MYDAY: [ear-splitting screams that JYP himself probably heard from South Korea] SONG: '바래I Wish' SONG: '하게Free' [DAY6 in the pit with MYDAY time a.k.a. a wild and incredibly unconventional victory lap of the venue while miraculously keeping the song going, all clothing intact, and sending venue security into an apoplectic state of panic] DAY6: [Warmly exiting the stage] J: Thank you guys! YK: Thank you Sydney! Thank you Australia! SJ: See you soon! WP: Thank you, I appreciate it! J: [whispers in WP's ear] WP: …This has been great! Everyone, see you later, I love you! [blows kiss] J: [the very last to leave, waving fondly at their MYDAY with both hands until he disappears] [Concert end] If you made it all the way to the end, thank you for reading! And if you attended the concert in Sydney, congratulations on creating these precious memories with DAY6! Still need more? If you're suffering from some serious post-concert depression right now, we prescribe one dose of footage from last years' 'Every DAY6 Concert' series while we wait for JYP Entertainment to release that 4k blu-ray 'Youth' tour content! You can also access our full suite of HD photos from DAY6's concert in Sydney here. A special round of thanks of course goes out to My Music Taste and JYP Entertainment for allowing our team to cover an incredible performance; as always, follow our page for future concert exclusives from Officially Kmusic! Source: (1) Media/Twitter/Writer/Editor: Carmel-Lee Skinner Media/Photographer: Shalamah Tautaiolefue The post K-EXCLUSIVE: DAY6 wrap-up their Australian tour with a phenomenal set at the Enmore appeared first on The latest kpop news and music | Officially Kmusic.

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