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popculturebuffet · 3 years

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Amphibia Weekly Reviews: New Wartwood and Friend or Frobo?

Hello all you happy people! And welcome back to another week’s worth of Amphibia reviews! And we got two standout episodes today as Marcy tries to home improvement her way into people’s hearts, and Polly makes friends with a destructive but endearing robot. Find out what I thought about in full under the cut!

New Wartwood: Marcy episode! Wu-hoo! And true to the show’s current status quo, and I do love how it evolves, it’s her first day in Wartwood and she’s pumped. And true to the awkward, probably autistic like yours truly, nerd we’re dealing with.. she does not make a great impression or intergrate herself to the naturally suspcious of outsiders tow. So when questioned by Anne how her day went she gets into how the town’s carefully built on a swamp.. and how the townsfolk hate her, complete with Angry Mob. Anne disperses it but it’s still the funniest moment of the episode to me, both in how a small one sprouted up so quick.. and how polly’s there despite LIKING Marcy (”I go where the mob goes anne!”). ALso i’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Anne just.. casually blushing while talking to Marcy. There’s no catalyist or any reason she would for any other reason than being sweet on her.

So Marcy, after fixing a statue she knocked over, decides she can earn their love faster as she dosen’t want to wait. This does get to one of Marcy’s core issues.. while she has many, like any of us, it ties back to the fact she has trouble getting this isn’t a video game. I mean she does get the diffrence between real life and a game on an objective level, but she can’t get real life dosen’t WORK like fiction, something i’ve also struggled with and can massively relate to. So she assumes helping them, via fixing up the town a bit, will make them like her. It makes them warm up a little but they still don’t.

So naturally, who should come in by blimp to give her a tempting offer that will end badly but Mayor Toadstool! He also has a blimp now but it keeps escaping... I think I know where it went.

So THAT’S how he can afford those things. Naturally seeing how nice Marcy made things he has a plan to exploit the hell out of her gifts with masonry to pretty up the town as a tourist attraction to make him more money. Anne talks her out of it.. but she ends up caving in the middle of the night. I also love the touch of her staying in the Fwagon, not forgetting the plantars bought it and finding a practical use for it in and out of story now i’ts no longer needed. I also love the little signs she has on it.

The next morning the town awakes to marble pillars in front of all of the shops to make them look fancy and Marcy and the Mayor promoting the town’s new effort,s including a golden founderss tatue and a horrifying golden clock of toadstool, with Anne warry of her girlfriend’s antics. Mostly becaue you can’t force people to like you or bribe them to. Otherwise you cause the entire town to sink into the water bellow... like now. But while Marcy is now convinced the town will never accept her she still dosen’t want them all to die, and summons Joe Sparrow.. who continues to be the best thing ever added to this cast I swear to god as he helps her save the day, removing the various new things to reduce weight, saving some villiagers from a pillar (as Croaker points out their frogs ending up in the water isn’t that deadly), and getting rid of the gold monstrosities.

So the end result is that the town is rightfully liviid, though she does genuinely appologize.. and suprisingly.. TOADSTOOL actually tries to take all the blame. The town rightfully dosen’t let him, but it’s clear he’s somehow growing as a person. Even if anne’s assement of him as “What would happen if the Monopoly Man had a Baby with a PIece of Fried Chicken” is still 100% accurate. They do agree they’ll like her with time, just like Anne, and if supscious, will gladly give her another shot. So Marcy’s learned her lesson.. always listen to your girlfriend. And while she literally fixes her damage.. the mascot toadstool hired explodes as it’s full of bugs.

Final Thoughts on New Wartwood: This was a fun episode. A fairly simple and predictable one, but sometimes that works perfectly and this one was just damn funny, charming and full of good character stuff. Top notch.

Friend or Frobo?:

I have a confession to make: I fricking love robots. It’s something that really HASN’T come up before, but I love a good robot. There’s just tons of good stories to be had with artifical beings, their struggles to be recongized for who they are, their cool powers, their awkward but endearing attempts to fit in with us less than deserving humans. And ficton’s had TONS and TONS of awesome ones: The Vision (in both 616 and MCU flavors), who is one of my faviorite heroes period, Red Tornado, Jenny Wakeman, Shard the Metal Sonic, BOYD, Aya, Data, Crow, Tom Servo, Gypsy, Growler, Robo, Grimlock. the list really DOES go on into infinity for me.

WEirdly though I didn’t pay much mind to Frobo before this episode.. but with no real personality other than endearlingly running into the same obstacle for hours, and no real background yet, I didn’t really have anything to attach to other than “Cool anne’s either going to nearly get killed by a robot or get one”. But this episode changed that using the oldest trick in the book: having a child befriend it. We’ve seen it before with Sentinels, Badniks, Autobots and Iron Giants. Now we get it again with largeish frog robot. And it is pretty damn good.

This is a Polly episode. It’s Hop Pop’s faviorite day: Seed Store Day! Naturally Marcy has come along and naturlaly she’s just as geeked out about seeds as he is because she’s precious and I must protect her from the horrible trauma her trusted father figure is about to inflict on her. Polly naturally wants to get into some shenanigans but suprisingly.. Anne and Sprig don’t wanna anymore. THey’ve learned their lesson and decide to just play video games. So polly does the resonable thing.. and blames them for some shenanigans on her part and goes out to get into more shneanigans only to find it’s lonely without a friend.

Enter Frobo, named that because he looks like a frog and she heard the term robo from anne’s game. And despite very limited programming... Frobo is VERY loveable. As Polly notes he’s essentially a baby: he starts by mimicing her, including his horrifying but endearing laugh, and even doing her spin dash she gained a few episodes back I didn’t mention because I forgot. That one’s on me. Sprig also did the Yooka Laylee thing on top of her spin dash then so there’s that.

Point is it’s all fun, games and heartwarming bonding till Frobo accidently floods the city and gets mobbed and one of the mobbs makes the terrible mistake of accidently kicking polly.

He goes into Red Eye Iron Giant HOmage mode and starts fighting everybody.. including Anne and Sprig who show up to contain things, but eventually Polly wins everyone over with a heartwarming speech as she stops him, pointing out it was her fault and while he is weird, he’s just an innocent> The town.. decides why not. As the mayor points out “We already have two freaks what’s a third”. And given Marcy nearly killed them all yesterday and they begrudginly acepted her and anne did it WAY more than once and they see her as one of them, yeah they give up.

Naturally once they get back Marcy is an easy sell. Now she can do chrono trigger cosplay! Hop Pop is a bit till it’s shown that frobo can farm super fast, and he’s part of the family now. Sprig and Anne shrug off him having come from the factory, and this surely won’t backfire on them surely.

Final Thoughts on Friend or Frobo:

This one was excellent. The idea of Polly having to learn repsonsiblity was a nice idea, and Frobo is as I said endearing: he’s simply an innocent being who knows nothing and is slowly learning and his friendship with polly is really fucking cute. And giving him an emotional attachment to the plantars means whatevers going on with him gets higher stakes.. and given how robots are treated in fiction i’m just counting the minutes till he tragically gets blowed up real good. But until then this episode was a standout for the season. While as I made clear the “Kid befriends death machine” trope is not NEW, the baby concept made it feel fresh. It also as usual had some good jokes.

So all in all a top notch week, really great stuff and i’ts only going to get better next time!

Nexttime: Mayor Toadstool is tempted to leave. Kay. But more importantly MADDIE EPISODE AGAIN BITCHES. AND IT HAS MARCY IT. I’M READY.

Next On This Blog: Final Space Yo! Quinn and Gary visit earth and Tribore leaves.. again. Be here or be... elsewhere I guess

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#amphibia #annarcy #anne boonchuy #marcy wu #frobo #polly plantar #hopidiah plantar #sprig plantar #mayor toadstool

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depressedhatakekakashi · 2 years

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🔥 rarepairs

Unpopular opinion

Rarepairs are actually not the same as crackships and fandom really needs to learn the diffrence

if you call something like Sasuke/Hinata a crack ship, you're wrong. Crack ship means 'there is no logical reason they two would know each other or get together'

if they were in the same class, it's not a crack ship. if there's any belivable scenario where they would be in a room together, they are not a crack ship.

those are rarepairs and the shippers deserve respect for seeing characters who get so little love and going "you know what, these two are awesome and i want to explore a relationship between them"

crack ship is 'there's no logical reason they would know each other but i wanna explore it anyways' (Temari being shipped with jugo for example)

Rare pair is 'they know each other, they have some sort of connection, they're just not a popular ship in fandom but i want to explore them anyways'

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nctoppars · 7 years

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Yuta Vampire Au (Random Headcannon Series)

Taeil - Johnny - Taeyong - [Yuta] - Doyoung - Ten - Jaehyun - Winwin - Mark - Haechan

REQUESTS ARE OPEN

Summary: A Yuta vampire au, loose story with boyfriend elements

Genre: 99% fluff, 1% angst

Warnings: Car accident, slight swearing

A/n: Something very casual to start this series

Starting this off with my ub

I love him so much

Anyways let’s talk about how he was turned

Was walking around the docks back in the 1800s when this dutch man comes up to him and goes “wanna see something cool?”

And Yuta was like “sure, I don’t see why not”

And then the dutch guy goes “kay but we need to do it in private”

Being the idiotic person he was back in the 19th century he suspects nothing of it

So the Dutch man and him go to a secluded area

And then this guy goes “watch this”

Then he shows Yuta his fangs

And he’s like “?? why are your two teeth so long??”

And then the guy looks at him like he’s crazy

“Well I’m what they call a vampire”

Then Yuta looks at him like he’s the one who’s crazy

“Oh you don’t know about vampires?”

He shakes his head

“Well… We kinda drink blood and stuff, plus we live forever”

And then Yuta’s like “Can I be one too?”

Dutch man is like “ uhh sure?”

So then the guy bites him

And then Yuta’s like “cool I guess”

Moving on

So in the next few months he starts to become a vampire and can’t deal with the smell of blood around him all day long so he goes and hides in the mountains

He builds a nice home up there and drinks the blood of those who come up (in moderation of course)

But in the 21st century a lot of people have gone missing from history in the mountains

So people stop going took you long enough to figure that out

And Yuta’s confused as he doesn’t really wanna drink animal blood he’s become a foodie

Or should I say a bloodie badum tss

So he has to come down

Then he learns of this country called South Korea and buys a one way ticket there

Once you’re immortal and a vampire the worries of not being able to make it go right through your head I guess

Anyways, he sets up a nice home there and everything’s going great since he can just travel to the blood bank to get his food

And he managed to make it to uni

So we haven’t talked about you yet, so let’s do that

You were a younger university student who was studying in Korea at the same school as Yuta

He was a really mysterious guy but no one really wanted to ask who he was since he was always studious and would only really focus on the work he was given, even in group projects

This makes him a great person to collaborate with

Lucky you got paired up with him for something that counted for about 10% of the class

Not much but it makes a diffrence

Moving on

He’s at your house and it’s like 12:30 am at night

He really wants to get this over with as you smell delicious and if he doesn’t get out of there he will literally eat you

So he’s just sitting there, doing his work as you much on some snacky food when you move the piece of cloth that’s been hiding your neck from him

And then Yuta goes “can you put that back?”

And you of course respond with “why? I’m not nun or something like that”

And he just looks up at you and says “I need you to”

And you look back at him and say “what, are you a vampire or something?”

The logical idea would be to deny it or something but Yuta feels so comfortable with you he goes “yes” and shows you his fangs

And you’re probably going “haha good joke” but he is adamant that he’s a vampire

And now you’re really creeped out and are starting to back away from him when he says “you know about soulmates right?”

And you go “yes”

“Well I think I may just be your soulmate”

And now he’s far from just being creepy so you ask him to leave

Yeah you two don’t talk for months

That was until you got a little bit too drunk with your friends and walk out into the middle of the road

You see a car coming at full speed ahead so you close your eyes and pretty much accept your fate

But when you don’t feel excruciating pain you open your eyes to find Yuta staring down at you with an incredibly concerned look on his face

He doesn’t let go of you as he walks you home

When you both get there he’s adamant about taking care of you, saying that vampires don’t actually need sleep but rest anyways as it’s hard to figure out what to do with all that time

So you let him in and he puts you to bed with a kiss on the forehead

He can tell you’re really flustered so he looks down at you with a smirk

He stays beside you until you fall asleep

And when you do fall asleep he prepares breakfast for you and puts out all the plates and things

When you wake up in the morning you find yourself trapped under his arms while he lightly snores beside you

You had to say that you wouldn’t mind waking up like this every day

Maybe Yuta was right about being your soulmate

Yuta would constantly make jokes about drinking from you

Let’s skip ahead a few months

After awhile you would have to go ffs Yuta if you really want to you can and he would just go wide-eyed and say “you sure”

And you’re like “yes Yuta, I’m fucking sure”

Anyways

Makes you breakfast everyday

Once he tried to it eat too but since he hadn’t eaten human food in so long he nearly threw up

And you went “aww baby it’s okay”

But he still felt bad

Would totally make you dress up as a vampire with him when you two go to costume parties

Thinks you’re really cute when you’re in costume and you pretend to be scary by hissing at him

“I can turn you into a real one you know”

“I’m fine being human Yuta”

He would probably have some jealousy issues due to being insecure about being a vampire

Almost teared two people in half at a club one time

Likes going out at night with you for walks or drives, mostly because the sun hurts his skin

He’s made a vow to protect you forever and always

Because of this he loves when you cling onto him for security

I can’t think of much else sorry

Overall he’d be quite the interesting vampire

Please check out this to see what thoughts I have for the other members so you can suggest ideas!

#nct #nct yuta #nct scenarios #nct headcanon #nct vampire #nct vampire au #nct yuta vampire #nct yuta vampire au #nct yuta scenarios #nct yuta headcannon #random headcanon

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celinacasandra13 · 4 years

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Jan 8

We went to SMSL to buy local goodies to bring here. When were about to go home, i got annoyed to her and asked if we can already go home. we already planned on having coffee after we buy things but since i got pissed i just wanna go straight home. but she insisted she still wanna get coffee so she ordered drinks while i wait outside. and then, to my surprise she got the planner ive been wanting to have :((( and asked the bartender to put”sorry” on the cup. (i swear, she dont di these stuff) hay. i was so excited for the planner i didnt know im not inis anymore. il love you babi

Jan 10

so much crying and hugging and crying again. this day couldnt get any sadder. i hate goodbyes. hay.

cant wait to go back home

Feb 27

hbd coj. everyone has work and im the only who was at the house that time so he asked me if i wanna go eat out. I dont really like sushi and anything raw but i cant believe myself i loved it. and i started craving for sushi and sashimi and anything japanese.

actually my fave food now

March 18

i was surprised Ina sent this for our monthsary. She said she found a local flower shop here and i dont know how she paid.

i wasnt talking to her for like months already bc im tryna break up bc i was so tired and all about our relationship. But she wont let go :(( you know, LDR thing :(

im trying to learn how to put make up on but i really suck and i dont look good with make up. plus, make up tools are expensive. UGH

April 1

hbd ced. spontaneously went to Mels Diner at 3am. this was when “dalagang filipina” was trending. this is so funny

April 13

went to a neon 5k fun run!! my first time. it was fun bc theres an after party. I was struggling half way thru. i couldnt run anymore. i was running out of air. they are all ahead of me. I WAS WALKING ALONE along with slow people.

Tried working out for like 2 weeks straight. then after that second week, i just got tired and lazy but i saw diffrence tho!!

ill work out again before summer

April 17

Surprise!!! I ordered flowers and pizza and to-go baon for work and let a grab rider deliver it to her on her bday. I love her so much.

I tried learning crochet but i think its not for me. My eyes and hands hurt. and patience is the key. I guess i dont have the much patience. tho i successfully made a bikini top HAH notproud

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