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Hi. I hope you're doing well. I wanted to let you know that your story analysis and whatnot goes hard. I've been enjoying going through your posts, especially in regards to receiving your insight on Disney related things. I also like that your Christian lens brings a very specific view to the table. I find it valuable, even as I recognize where I disagree with you.

Reading some of your thoughts though, I came across one post where you said something that greatly intrigued me. You said that, "homosexuality is a sin that is only destructive when it isn't submitted to Christ."

What would it mean to you to submit it to Christ in this context? Especially regarding how that would work with homosexuals such as myself. My own religious background hasn't given me the lens to fully understand the language that you used, and I'd appreciate further insight for better understanding.

In either case, I would like to thank you for your time in reading this, and hope you have a good one.

Wow, this is an incredible ask. Thank you for sending it, and being so kind and respectful. I will be honest: I don't remember which of my posts that's from, so I might get the context of what I meant there wrong. But I know that the Bible is consistent, so I'm not worried about trying to make what I believe on the topic clear!

I don't know your "religious background" and in our current culture it's not always effective to assume that what I mean when I use a word is the same as what you understand when I use that word. But the Lord'll make up for that,

So here goes!

People have been born with desires that are twisted (think like a spine that has vertebrae out of place, not "twisted" as in "I'm insulting you.") since mankind fell. Some of those desires are for power, some are for gratification of a sexual impulse, some are for selfish comforts, etc.

I think what I meant this: Homosexuality is not special or especially impossible to pop back into place; it is one in a list of twisted desires. And when you decide "no, I'm not in charge of my life—the God who made me is in charge of it, and if He says something in me is out of place, He's right, AND what's more, He can put it back together. I identify as His much-loved creation: I do not identify with the parts of me that are out of place/I do not identify as my homosexual desires." That would be submission.

I didn't make that up, and neither did any religion. God did. It's in the Bible:

"Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revolvers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God." (See, it's in a list of twisted desires/actions/sins that people identify with.)

But then the next part is:

"And such were some of you: but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of God." I added emphasis for clarity's sake, but see? Such were some of you--Christians. People who are called righteous by God, were once "homosexuals—people who identify with their unrighteous desires." But then they submitted those desires to be washed, and took on the name of Christ, instead of the name of "homosexual," or the name of anything else, for that matter.

If you're interested in reading more of my philosophy, or what I meant after hearing that:

God did make you for love. Love isn't wrong. Like how a toymaker made a little tin soldier to bring joy to children. It's natural and right for you to desire sexual intimacy and unconditional-selfless-acceptance from another person. You're supposed to desire that—the same way a sentient tin soldier might be "supposed to desire" being played with.

But, when mankind fell, they fell because they decided they wanted to be God. They wanted to pick what was right, and wrong, and good, and bad, for themselves. But that whole goal was a lie: it was never even an option. But we reached for what wasn't there anyway. And as a result, all of humanity's desires got corrupted.

So now that desire for love that the human being was made to have, and made to feel fulfilled by the God that loves them perfectly, is twisted up. It's corrupted. Suddenly you don't want love the way you were designed to have it; you want something that doesn't exist (because God gets to decide what "love", is, too, He invented it,) and doesn't fit.

See, that original desire is still there, and that's why it feels so confusing to be told "what you love is wrong" because you feel like it's such an integral part of you—and it is. But it's just twisted up. You weren't meant to love the same gender, or someone abusive, or any of the counterfeits. That "love" part of you was meant to love God, (and if another God-loving person of the opposite gender can enhance your love for God, to include them in that in this beautiful harmony.) But that part of you's twisted up. So it's still trying to beat, but it's to all the wrong rhythms.

It would be like the little sentient tin soldier suddenly deciding he should be a real soldier and fight the Revolutionary war. He thinks "I feel brave, I was built with a sword, I should do this." But he wasn't made to use it like that, so no wonder his toy sword immediately gets smashed in a real fight.

But then it gets worse. He doesn't go back to the toymaker and say "you were right, I was never made for this, and now I'm battered and broken and I can't do what I was actually made for—no child will find enjoyment in a shattered toy." He doesn't do that. Instead, he just keeps hopping into battle, poking feet with his bent-up toy sword and getting ground into the mud.

If the toy soldier would just go back to its maker and say "you were right, and I don't deserve it, but only you can help me" the Toymaker would straighten the sword. Shine him up. Give him a new coat of paint—and even better, he would give the toy soldier an add-on to his original purpose—he'd give him hands big enough to hold the tools that fix other toys. Now the toy soldier has new life in the purpose that he was made to be satisfied by, AND he can help other toys who lost their way, too.

That's what Christian's call "The Gospel." That's Jesus' sacrifice on the cross: the toy soldier got what he wanted and deserved to be left in the mud, but instead the Toymaker took what he deserved, and gave him new life.

But it took that submission, first. The toy soldier might still look fondly at real soldiers and might even have the feeling, as the Toymaker is still cleaning him up, that he might want to go back and be a real soldier again. But that's the thing: the Toymaker's changing his desires back to the way they were before he ever reached for the thing he wasn't made for, too.

Anyway, I don't know if that janky little analogy helped. I know our two worldviews are really embattled right now—they have to be, because they are opposites—but you asked so kindly, and I appreciate it. "Such were some of you"—such was I. I was you. Now I'm in Christ. You can be, too; you were made to be. But all that to say, I'm not judging you—because such was I, and such would I be if not for Him.

#Christianity #my one comfort both in life and death #Christ #Jesus Christ #homosexuality #Christians #asked #answered

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dontcare77ghj · 4 years

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Wings

Sam x reader x Bucky

Note: Just in case I didn't make it very clear, wings can be retracted back into people's backs or like Angel Salvadores.

Not everyone grew wings at the same time. There were babies with fully grown wings, and entirely developed adults just getting theirs in.

No-one knew why it took longer for others than some. No-one knew why some were basically born with these fully functioning appendages.

Scientists were not even 100% sure why people were born with wings. There were theories on evolution, gifts from the Gods, and so many more.

Everyone was different. Wings varied in size, shape, texture, and color.

Some wings were built for defense, some were too small to fly, some were purely for speed.

There were feathery wings, scaley wings, sheer, everything. The possibilities were limitless.

Not everyone on the Avengers had them. Natashas had been cut off in her Red Room days. One of Tonys had been injured after he was kidnapped, and he had to lose one. Yours had not come in yet.

It was the norm for many people, but it annoyed you. All you wanted was for them to come in. Everyone else in your family had gotten them young, another aspect that made you a freak.

Sam and Bucky understood your want to be like everyone else. They knew how ostracized you had been during your childhood. You were a telepath for christ sakes. They also knew what it was to want what everyone else had.

Sams wings had been very terribly damaged a few years ago. He had not had to lose them, but they were weak and could no longer do much. For the most part, Sam kept them folded in his back, and rarely ever showed them to even you or Bucky.

Buckys wings had not come in until he entered the war. Even skinny little Steves wings had come in sooner than Buckys had.

A large part of you was upset at your lack of wings, but when you're dating Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes, distractions came naturally.

"Y/N? Buck? Where's the paprika?" Sam called from the kitchen. "Hell, where are most of the spices?"

"There's a whole bunch of them in the bag on the bench." You said, moving into the kitchen.

"I was so sure we had whole jars in the cabinet," Sam said, rifling through the grocery bag.

"We did." You nodded. "But Wanda didn't have any, so I gave her ours. She brought us the new ones in thanks."

"How did she go through so many full jars of spices?" He asked you.

"She was trying to teach Vision to cook." You said, causing him to nod.

"At least she's sticking to it." Sam nodded as Bucky entered the kitchen.

"Vision set fire to the kitchen last week." Bucky scoffed. "Probably safer not to."

"You shouldn't throw stones. You set fire to the kitchen two nights ago." Sam pointed out.

"That was not my fault. It was the stoves." Bucky denied.

"Of course, it was." You cooed, kissing his cheek as you moved past him. "But that incident is why you're not cooking tonight." You added, putting your heat pack in the microwave.

"Your back still playing up, doll?" Bucky asked you.

A week ago, you'd been injured on a mission. You'd gotten too close to an explosion and had been thrown back. You hadn't been burned, but you did end up injuring your back. It wasn't anything serious, just a torn muscle, but it still hurt like a bitch.

"Yeah, Bruce said it should be fine soon." You groaned, rolling your shoulder. "Fucking HYDRA."

"Yeah, they're bitches." Sam laughed as Bucky sat you down on the couch.

"You sit. I'll get your heat pack, and then we'll watch a movie while Sammy cooks."

"Rude." Sam scoffed. "I'm gonna sign you up for Wanda's cooking lessons. Then you'll have no excuse." He said as Bucky grabbed your heat pack.

"And then I will get better than you, and you'll complain," Bucky smirked, draping the pack around your neck and taking a seat next to you.

"I'll always love your food, Sammy." You said, leaning back into the couch.

"There's no guarantee he'll even be good!" Sam exclaimed. "Barnes, stay out of my kitchen."

"Your kitchen?" You scoffed. "I cook more than you do."

"You can't stand for longer than ten minutes. You're out of commission for now, so it's my kitchen." Sam said, plating up dinner.

"Buck, you're helping take back the kitchen in a week." You muttered, causing the man to laugh. "We're starting a revolution."

"If you start any kind of revolution, you aren't getting fed," Sam said, walking over with plates in hand.

"I mean, I love you, Sammy." You said, making grabby hands at the man. Sam rolled his eyes as Bucky chuckled.

"Yeah, yeah, of course, you do." Sam gave you a small smile as he handed over the plate.

"I call picking the movie," Bucky said, putting his plate on the table and picking up the remote.

"As long as it's not a musical, I don't care what we watch," Sam said, bringing his own plate and sitting next to you.

"For the last time, I didn't make you watch a musical." You groaned. "It's Disney, everyone watches Disney."

"We've watched that movie eight hundred times," Sam complained.

"It's a God damn classic, Sammy. Tell him, Buck." You said.

"It's a God damn classic, Sammy," Bucky smirked. "Maybe that's what we should watch tonight."

"You two are horrible." Sam groaned, leaning against the back of the couch.

"You love us." You said, leaning over to kiss the man. "Come on admit it, you love us." You said, drawing out the word love.

"Yeah, I love you two," Sam admitted, causing you to smile widely.

"Knew it," Bucky smirked, leaning over you to kiss the man. "You can't resist us."

"No, I can't." Sam smiled as you curled into his side.

"I thought you two turned the alarm off?" You groaned, reaching over to turn off the blaring device.

"I asked Buck to do it," Sam mumbled, eyes still closed as he spoke.

"Bullshit. You said you'd do it." Bucky shot back from Sams other side. Sam wasn't usually one to sleep in the middle, but you couldn't stand the idea with how your back felt this past week.

"I don't care who forgot to turn it off, you're both in my shit book now." You said, glaring at the alarm clock. "It's five in the morning."

"Go back to sleep then." Bucky reasoned.

"I'm awake now. There's no turning back." You told him.

"Look what we did, Buck. We forced our poor baby to be awake." Sam chuckled, grabbing your hips and rolling you over, so you straddled him.

"You did." You hummed as Sam intertwined your hands.

"We're such terrible boyfriends, aren't we doll?" Bucky asked as he sat up in the bed.

"Not all the time." You smiled as Bucky sat behind you.

"That's nice to hear." Bucky chuckled, pressing a kiss to your neck. "We've got three hours until breakfast, maybe we should think about a way to pass the time."

"I can think of a way to pass the time," Sam said, pulling you down to kiss him.

"I like the way you think, Sammy." Bucky chuckled, pressing kisses down your shoulders.

You let out a gasp, pulling away from Sam as Bucky kissed your upper back.

"Wait, Buck, that hurts." You winced, leaning away from him. "That really hurts."

"I'm going to lift your shirt, baby doll," Bucky said after sharing a look with Sam.

"No, don't." You hissed as the shirt's material rubbed against your back. "I need to take more medication, and it'll fix itself."

"I don't think that's going to fix your problem, baby doll," Bucky told you. "Hold on a second." He said, reaching over to the bedside and grabbing Sam's phone.

"Wait, you know how to use that?" Sam asked, rubbing circles on your side.

"He's taking classes from me with Steve." You said, giving Sam a small smile. "Is my back bleeding again?"

"No, it's not, I promise. Just let me take this." Bucky said, quickly snapping a photo. "Look, baby doll."

Bucky put the phone in front of your face, and you inhaled sharply at the photo before you.

In front of your face was your naked back. But with two open gashed that were beginning to sprout your wings.

"Holy shit." You gasped, taking the phone in your hands. "Is that real?"

"What?" Sam asked, taking the phone out of your hands. "Hang on, I want to see this," Sam said, shifting on the bed, so he was behind you, and you were resting on your front.

"Can you tell what they're made of yet?" You asked as fingers traced around them.

"I always said your nickname should be angel." Sam chuckled. "Looks like you're going to have pure white wings."

"They're finally coming in." You smiled widely.

"They're finally coming in." Bucky nodded. "Downside is your back is going to be really tender for the next few weeks."

"So nothing different then from the last week," Sam commented.

"On the plus side, Bruce should have something to numb the pain," Bucky told you.

"Thank God, I can't tell if it burns more than it itches at this point." You said, rolling your shoulders slightly.

"Just feel lucky yours are coming out of your back and don't fold into your arms." Bucky snorted. "I have some painkillers in the bathroom. Won't be a second." He said, getting off the bed.

"They're beautiful, angel baby," Sam said as you turned and sat up in the bed.

"You're a sweetheart." You smiled, leaning up to kiss the man.

"Does that mean I'm off your shit list?" He asked, barely pulling away.

"I suppose so." You hummed, quickly pecking his lips again. "I love you."

"I love you too," Sam responded.

"I leave the two of you for a minute, and you both get sappy on me?" Bucky asked, reentering the room.

"You do the same thing, James," Sam said, moving so he was sitting next to you and giving Bucky room to join you both. "We all know you're the sappiest in this relationship."

"Someone should have warned me how much bullying would be going on in this relationship." Bucky sighed as he passed you the pills.

"You love us." You leaned forward and kissed the man sweetly.

"Yeah, I do." Bucky smiled.

"And don't act like you don't bully us regularly. I have evidence saved, don't make me get it out."

Wings didn't grow overnight. That was a ridiculous belief, and quite honestly sounded very painful.

Like wings themselves, the time frame for every person was different. Your mother claimed hers grew in a week, and you watched your sisters take four months to come in.

It had been three weeks since Bucky noticed your wings beginning to grow. They grew bit by bit but because they were still growing, you weren’t able to retract them into your back.

It was uncomfortable and impractical. You’d broke six coffee mugs, knocked any object off the bedside, and hadn’t been allowed on missions because you weren’t exactly stealthy with six-foot-long wings.

“Oh shit.” You swore as you knocked a lamp over only just managing to save it.

“Maybe we should just confine you to the bed, angel baby.” Sam snickered. “Can’t break anything there.”

“Lie.” Bucky scoffed. “We’re on our third headboard this year.”

“I’m a klutz magnet. Leave me and save yourselves.” You said, falling face first onto the mattress.

“I think you’re stuck with us, baby doll. What would we do without our morning cuddles?” Bucky asked, reaching over and pulling you closer to him.

“Or breakfast pancakes?” Sam asked. “Yeah, you’re stuck with us.”

“The daily growth has decreased Y/N, they finished growing soon,” Bucky assured you.

“You’re sure?” You asked, lifting your head.

“100%,” Sam answered, running his fingers through your feathers. “Soon you’ll be able to retract them in and be like the rest of us losers.”

“Remind me why I put up with you again?” Bucky sighed.

“Because you love me,” Sam smirked, leaning up to kiss the brunette.

“I suppose that’s a good enough reason.”

It had taken another week for your wings to finish growing. With pure white feathers and coming in at seven feet long, Sam often joked that you’d be either trying to help or kill the Winchesters soon.

It had been three months since your wings had formed and you couldn’t have been happier.

“I love you in my shirt.” Bucky murmured, resting his face on your shoulder. “I really do.”

“Do you love me in your shirt or do you love I’m only wearing your shirt?” You teased, flipping a pancake.

“Both situations are as good as each other.” He shrugged. “You left us in bed.”

“I wanted to surprise you with breakfast. You ruined your own surprise.” You said, poking a finger into his ribs.

“You’re not that sneaky.” Bucky pointed out, turning you in his grasp.

“You take that back.” You gasped in mock offense.

“I don’t think I will.” Bucky smirked. “And I think Sam will agree with me.”

“That Y/N isn’t sneaky? He’s not wrong, angel.” Sam agreed, suddenly appearing in the doorway.

“I’ve been betrayed by both my partners.” You deadpanned, watching as Sam turned off the stove and moved behind you.

“We can make you forget that.” Sam said, putting his hands on your shoulders.

“I don’t know. You might have to try really hard.” You hummed as Bucky kissed your neck.

“We’ll try for as long as we have to.” Bucky told you as Sams hands lowered until he was pressing a spot on your back that made you gasp and your wings shoot out.

“You two play dirty.” You whined as Sams skillful fingers ran through the feathers.

“You love us.” Sam said with a short chuckle.

“I really do.” You smiled as the three of you began to slowly shuffle back towards the bedroom.

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fabnamessuggestedbytumbler · 5 years

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Ok so fucking sue me but I actually liked the beginning of Disney's remakes. When they were adding to the story rather than just frame-by-frame remakes that look bad.

Maleficent? Loved it. I loved that it told the other side of the story. I loved that it showed a different kind of love. I love that it fucking destroyed the idea of love at first sight, and that the love had to be romantic. I loved that it showed an amazing mother-daughter love. I love that it made Maleficent seem more competent- I mean really, she's Maleficent, theres no way you can keep a child hidden from her for 16 years. If she can do a magic death curse and heal tree branches and kill a king with a flying swoop, she can do a basic tracking spell. I'll defend Maleficent to my fucking grave.

Cinderella? I liked that one too. It also toyed more with the idea of love at first sight, if less so. The visuals were pretty cool, and got some detail that would be hard for animation. That carriage? Gorgeous. But if you tried to make someone animate that they'd probably try to murder you. As it was, the metalworkers were probably pretty ticked about it. And I love that it focused more on her mother and their relationship, and her father and their relationship.

Beauty and the Beast is when it went downhill. It was obviously a pointless cash grab. For Christ's sake, the fucking trailer said "be our guest."

And now. The Fucking Lion King. It's awful. When I first heard about them making it I'd hoped it was a joke. I'm pissed that it isnt. It doesnt look good. They're not adding to the story. It's awful.

So you know what? Let's make it the biggest box office failure in Disney history. Make them come up with some original fucking ideas again. Oh wait, TLK wasn't even your idea, was it Disney? So now you're just making a remake no one asked for of a stolen story.

And for the love of God go back to 2d animation. It looks so much better.

#disney #the lion king #fab speaks

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televisor-reviews · 5 years

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Everything Of Note I Have To Say About “Star Vs. The Forces Of Evil” Season 4!

As I’m sure you’re aware, the great animated series Star Vs. The Forces Of Evil has recently concluded and I have a ton to say about it... So I made a list!

1. Spoilers...

2. Duh...

3. Before anything, I absolutely loved it! This was the finale this great show really deserved.

4. Let’s start from the beginning: I’ve been watching Star Vs. for a few years now when a good friend of mine recommended it to me. At first I was resistant because the advertising for it at the time was god awful, but luckily I was convinced otherwise and been loving it ever since.

5. The show premiered when I was a teenager, going through all the cliche teen shit. So seeing a show that portrayed the overly dramatic life of a teenager without being one of those stock teen dramas was a good change of pace.

6. In particular, I remember being amazed that it could be so relatable while still being able to have it’s upbeat and fast-paced fantasy/sci-fi action sequences and world while also having a good mixture of mature and juvenile humor. I mean, all of that would seem to work against each other and yet this show made it work in spades.

7. Actually, the way Star Vs. uses it’s fictitious setting to complement its down-to-earth characters while juggling great humor reminds me a lot of a different Disney property: Guardians Of The Galaxy. GOTG, I think, is the perfect film to study if you want to ever write for sci-fi or fantasy because director James Gunn understood that you can have as wild and crazy of a world as you want but you still need to write your characters as genuine as possible. If you don’t, you’ll get something like Avatar (the movie); a film that everyone remembers liking because of the incredible world and even better effects, but no one can name a single character or plot-point. The universe still needs to be grounded by the characters or else it’ll become forgettable and un-relatable. Star Vs., thankfully, does not have this problem. I love the characters, their trials, their tribulations, all because they feel real despite the world in which it takes place.

8. That isn’t to say there isn’t a reason to set a story in a fantastical world or that there isn’t an issue with being too relatable. If anything, the world of the show helps to make it more entertaining, less monotonous, and more unique. Without it, Star Vs. would be another Pretty Little Liars or Zoey 101 or Dawson’s Creek or any other boring teen drama out there. They’re practically identical because they start off too similarly! They all follow around relatively normal teenagers in a relatively normal world with their relatively normal life and god do none of them stand out. So Star Vs. separates itself by still keeping its characters pretty wacky and the universe as crazy as Daron Nefcy’s imagination!

9. Even by a storytelling perspective, this makes more sense because there is objectively more that can be done! By the end of Zoey 101, Zoey and her lame crew basically did everything they could do without jumping the shark too much. In comparison, there are countless adventures Marco and Star could go on even past the series finale.

10. And because the number of future adventures are countless, part of the tragedy of the show ending is that we (the audience) don’t get to experience them alongside these characters we’ve learned to love so much. Keeping that door open leaves a much longer lasting impression on the audience, as apposed to the ending of Zoey 101 in which... wait, what happened again? I don’t remember. Anyways!

11. I love the comedy in this show! From the very beginning, the humor was very lighthearted and yet mature because it had to be. It had to have a tinge of maturity to it because the target audience isn’t little kids like it would be for a show like My Little Pony or SpongeBob. Star Vs., with it’s doomsday atmosphere and constant teen drama, was definitely geared more towards older children/preteens. The ones more likely to watch a show like Gravity Falls or Rick And Morty and this audience will not tolerate childish humor. They can appreciate it sprinkled in here and there but if used too much, they’re taste will sour. This is because as they are maturing to to start maturing into adulthood, there is the natural need to separate from childish things with the added childishness of wanting to totally separate from it. That’s why on The Loud House, a punchline could literally be poop and why that is not something you’d see very often on Star Vs.

12. With that said, the show still needed the humor to be incredibly lighthearted because otherwise this show would be so depressing! The worlds in which these characters live in and know are constantly changing, evolving, and almost blowing up. For Christ sake, many important characters die in this finale! The only one who died in Gravity Falls was the villain and in this, the villain isn’t even one of them! Seeing Marco and Star still be able to crack jokes to one another and making each other laugh keeps spirits high. God knows Hekapoo can’t do that now!

13. Speaking of Marco and Star, I have been a hardcore Starco defender from the very beginning despite the show constantly trying to convince me otherwise! There are so many perfect pairings in this cast that any one of them could’ve worked if Nefcy were top change her mind. If it ended with Star x Tom or Marco x Janna or Star x Janna or Marco x Hekapoo or Marco x Tom or Marco x Kelly it would’ve worked perfectly well.

14. But lets not kid ourselves, it was always going to end with Marco x Star. Their relationship and chemistry is unmatched, they might be the only couple in existence to say a joint line like “With or without magic, we were always meant to be together,” work and come off as not only sincere but true. I don’t even believe in the whole “soul mate” mumbo-jumbo, but I’d be damned if they are not that!

15. I audibly squealed in delight when they finally got together. It was like the build-up of four season culminated in one scene.

16. Though it wouldn’t really surprise me if I was alone in this assessment because I am a sucker for a good romantic movie. I saw La La Land in theaters, I cried at Love, Simon, I actually really love Love Actually. And though I do think Star Vs. pulled off relationships better than most, take my opinion with a grain of salt because the build-up itself was a little grating.

17. I have a huge issue with “will-they, won’t-they” stories! It’s the same issue I had with The Office and Friends and The Big Bang Theory and Sailor Moon and That ‘70s Show and every other show that has this dumb trope! Of course they’ll get together because otherwise I wasted several hours of my life wondering about it! Star Vs. isn’t as bad about this as most others but it’s still there and it’s still annoying.

18. It does this better than most because of three main components: it’s relatively short, we get plenty of Star and Marco being all lovey-dovey with each other once they do get together, and they do have genuine chemistry together. They have so much chemistry that Star’s ex literally told Marco that they were clearly into each other. If only they could’ve avoided the trope.

19. Okay, this next point is a little personal but it did effect my feelings towards this show’s finale so I think it’s kind of important that I mention it. Around the time the Star Vs. was ending, I was just entering my first real relationship and around the time I watched this finale, we lasted long enough that we could start taking the relationship a little bit more seriously. Now before anyone says anything: everything’s going great (she actually made me my header) and I am absolutely still in a honeymoon phase with her. But I think you could imagine how a lovesick teen just entering a serious relationship would be effected by this show that ended with lovesick teens so in love that they’d happily sacrifice themselves for the other.

20. I may or may not have also been high while watching this and that may or may not have effected my viewing experience. Don’t be a narc!

21. I love what this last season did with Ludo. Push away the fact that they somehow keep talking Alan Tudyk into these rolls he clearly does need to do and yet still does a great job at it (did you know he was King Candy in Wreck-It Ralph? Why? Why did he do that? Why is he so good in it? This guy’s casting decisions are so weird). The character of Ludo was a generic comic relief villain (see Doofenshmirtz) but was usually fine if only because he made for a good contrast and was way more interesting compared to Toffee (played by Michael C. Hall, another actor who does not need this job). But season four made Ludo a million times more interesting by showing his obsession with the wand exactly what it is: and unhealthy obsession that he needs to get over. And I like where he’s left by the end, clearly still not doing too great but is making strides to get better. As someone who has known many addicts in my life, this hit home a little.

22. Actually, I think a large part of season four was specifically meant to fix the first two mediocre seasons. Just look at my new favorite episode of the series: Britta’s Tacos. In this episode, Star and Marco find themselves back on Earth after a year of being on Mewni and catching up with all of their friends and seeing what’s changed. Watching this episode, I was reminded that as good as the first couple of seasons were, the latter half of the series was a ton better! The characters, character arcs, stories, everything, everything was better once they went up to Mewni. So seeing them go back to Earth and challenging the writers with rewriting their past characters to be more interesting showed just how much the series has improved. Could you imagine characters as uninteresting as those nerds I don’t even remember the names of being introduced in the much more interesting latter seasons? I couldn’t! So I appreciate that they went back and made sure every character in this show was interesting... except for Toffee, he still sucks.

23. And of course, the character that improved the most, hands down was absolutely Jackie Lynn Thomas! She was as bland and boring as a love interest got and that bothered me from the very beginning. How is it that in a show this imaginative and unique they still felt it necessary to use this tired cliche. So bringing her back, the writers had to do something to make her more interesting and it was apparently really easy. All they had to do was keep the character herself basically the same but now she’s a lesbian. And somehow, just adding that one extra layer made her feel so different, so interesting, so complete. I think that’s what it was, she just felt like an incomplete plot point and giving her a girlfriend completely separates herself from being important to the plot and adds that extra layer to make her seem more finished as a character.

24. I’m actually really surprised by this recent trend of LGBTQ+ characters in kids cartoons. You’d think that of all mediums, kids cartoons would be the last to fully integrate a controversial minority but they’ve been some of the first. Steven Universe really started this trend but I feel like The Loud House was the first to show and say it outright. Star Vs. doesn’t do it that well (and I’m willing to bet that was because of higher-ups over at Disney) but I appreciate the sentiment anyways. They never call Jackie and her girlfriend a couple or show them kissing, the most they do is have them hold hands and though I guess that’s enough, I wish they were able to go further. Whatever, I already wrote about why this representation in kids media is important, go read that.

25. For a while, Star was my favorite character in this show. I just have a real soft-spot for upbeat female badasses (and I am very happy this has become more of a trope recently), I think Janna might’ve taken the throne. It’s not that Star stopped being interesting or anything like that, I just really love Janna and her “Jannanigans”. Plus, I do really like the “cute girl who’s into weird shit” trope too. She’s not my favorite version of this trope (see Raven from 2003′s Teen Titans), but she was always a delight whenever she was on screen.

26. Tom is probably the most obvious example of “boring character was made interesting” that the show has. In the beginning, he was the standard bad boy archetype but, over time, was given more personality and started working off the other characters much better. Sure, he and Star worked great with each other as to be expected, but I think the real standout relationship he had was with Marco. I have never seen bromance as strong as what those two have. Their little musical number at Queen Moon’s cornonation turned talent contest might have been the greatest piece of animation ever made (change my mind). And this I know people agree with me, I cannot exaggerate just how much literally everyone I have ever spoken to loves Marco and Tom. It just works so strangely, it has to come off as genuine.

27. I think the series was supposed to go on for another season. I say this because Kelly was too good of a character to waste like they did! She was a great character with tons of personality and amazing chemistry with Marco that was seemingly building up to something... only to drop the ball at the end. She isn’t given much to do, she doesn’t have a final scene with Marco, she isn’t even given a good ending. The most we got was Ponyhead theorizing what her life would be like just to cheer up Star. If that was all they were going to do with Kelly, that’s just a waste of perfectly good build-up.

28. It’s very strange how on the nose these metaphors in the show got at times while still seeming perfect. I guess it had to be on the nose so that the younger audience could catch on to them but I’m not sure what the’ll do with the knowledge that magic=nuclear power. Also, the monsters kind of changed metaphors, originally they were clearly meant to be Native American stand-ins but later on they kind of changed into African American stand-ins. Not that they’re histories (in America) are all that different but it was a noticeable switch. It’s not like Zootopia where any given animal could represent any number of races depending on the scene in question, this was definitely what Star Vs. was going for and I’m not sure if it totally worked. It didn’t NOT work, I guess.

29. I actually don’t like the whole “blowing up the magic” thing. It was something Star made up in a temper tantrum and goes totally against the theme. The whole time, the show was going on about how important integration is and how “separate but equal” doesn’t work and whatnot. So destroying the only way they know how to travel through different dimensions seems contrary to that point. I get that drastic times need drastic measures but I get the feeling that in a theoretical season five, Star and Marco would work to bring back the magic. Or maybe find a more scientific way to travel through dimensions... like some kind of portal gun. We already know this takes place in the same multiverse as Rick And Morty, it’s not that crazy an idea.

30. Another reason I think there was originally going to be another season is because the whole “Mewmans are humans” thing that came right out of nowhere! I mean, it makes total sense and I’m totally down with this plot point but it seems like that would be a much bigger deal than the characters make it out to be. My god, they don’t even let Marco finish explaining this. How the hell did that cave painting get to Earth if they didn’t run into Glossaryck until they got to Mewni! Explanation please!

31. I wish destroying the magic didn’t also mean killing off Glossaryck and Hekapoo. I don’t really care about any of the other characters literally made out of magic, but those two are just so likable and such fan favorites, it’s just a shame to see them go. Though I do really like that they’re reaction to the whole thing seems to just be a mild shrug. I get the idea that since they’ve lived for millennia which would make them more okay with dying. It’s easier to live a full life if you can’t die.

32. I like how Mina’s story ends: defeated and yet still refusing it. Her whole speech about having good ideas really says something, like these issues will never be fully defeated because everyone thinks that they’re right. It’s a bit more of a bittersweet moral than “bad always loses because they’re bad” but is an important lesson that I think kids need to learn. Especially in this political climate. Good god, just end me!

33. Holy shit, I’m up to 33! My Wakfu one only made it up to 25 and I am nowhere close to done yet!

34. A psychotic part of me really wishes the finale had Star and Marco die in each other’s arms in the Magic Dimension. It’d be the ultimate show of love as they’re sacrificing each other for one another and be the ultimate ending. I mean, what more is there to care about after the main two characters are dead? It’d be very bittersweet and much more emotionally taxing on the audience but it’d also be more classic. Like Romeo and Juliet or Bonnie and Clyde, they’re love was just too strong for this world.

35. With that said, that part of me is absolutely wrong! Having their dimensions merge was clearly what the series was building up to with it’s hopeful tone, the power of love being a big theme, the message of integration, and (of course) the promise they made to Meteora and Hispanic Meteora. It seems so obvious in hindsight and yet I still didn’t see it coming, I guess that’s a sign of a really good plot twist.

36. My god, everyone is such a dick to Queen Moon. Like let her be in love you jackasses. I had such a hard time liking anyone who worked against her (which is why I really like that Hekapoo had reservations on both sides the whole time) and this includes Ex-Queen Moon. I really can’t grasp my mind as to why she thought this was a good idea, it clearly wasn’t from the very beginning. Maybe if the show gave her time to explain herself I’d be singing a different tune but she never really does and I have a hard time forgiving her even after her apology.

37. This is just a reminder that Starco is best ship. Repeat, Starco is still best ship.

38. The ending reminds me of Titanic. I mean, two young lovebirds meeting each other, growing closer, and falling in love all the while a looming threat of destruction and death is above them. The epic scale of their problem being brought down to earth by the almost normal love story happening in the midst of it all. Their ever ready willingness to sacrifice everything for each other. Their world forcing them to cling to each other for protection. The grand scale of everything around them making their love seem grander than it would be without it. Yeah, there are more and probably better examples I could turn to for comparison (Romeo And Juliet, Les Miserables, Spartacus) but Titanic was the first one to come to mind and I’m sure my subconsciousness has a good reason for that.

39. I continue to have problems with this finale but I get the sense that I’m nitpicking because this was still an amazing end to a great show. When I think about this ending, the first word that comes to mind is deserves. This is the ending that the story deserves, that the characters (minus Kelly) deserves, that the show itself deserves. It really is a fantastic finale and I’m so grateful that I got to experience it.

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harry-hook-me · 7 years

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Hello! I really enjoyed "Boating" (Harry x Moana's daughter) so much that I'd like to request another story featuring the two of them, if that is ok. I was wondering if you could write one where Harry proposes to Moana's daughter, with a bit of encouragement from Uma (who happens to like Moana's daughter and is a very good friend) and Gil (who likes her too). Huge pirate/ Polynesian wedding if you know what I mean! Thank you

The PirateAnd The Polynesian Princess

Writer - @harry-hook-me (myself)

Request - @demigodgirl91

Disclaimer - I do not own any of the Descendants charactersor scenes from the movies, all credits goes to the creators and producers ofDisneys descendants.

Summary – Follow up to Boating; Harry and the daughter of Moana’swedding

Warnings – none… I don’t think.

Word count - 1630

Five years have passed since Harry helped me get over myfear of sailing, since then we both graduated from Auradon Prep and planned tosail the world together. He had always promised me he would take me toNeverland one day. What else happened? Oh yeah, we got engaged.

Flash back – Harry’sPOV

“Come on Harry, since when were you ever scared. Your Harrybloody Hook for Christ sake. Man up.” Uma nagged, I was planning on asking Y/nto marry me but I’m scared out of my mind, what if she says no? “Uma this is abig deal, you would be scare if you were in my position.” I fired back. “Sheloves you Harry, She’s so completely in love with you, and so are you to her,you both deserve to be happy, and together I know you will be. You love herdon’t you” Uma added “of course, more than anything” I replied, “so go for it,follow your heart” she encouraged.

Y/n’s POV

Uma had told me Harry wanted to see me down on the beach, asI walked down I thought about what my life is going to turn out to be like,will I be like my mother? Will Harry and I stay together? As I got closer tothe beach I saw hundreds of little candles all lit up in a row leading to theold shed with all the boats in, the place where Harry had encouraged me to gosailing with him. As I walked round the corner of the shed I saw Harry stoodleant against the wall of the shed, his signature red coat placed on the sand,with is hat and hook on top. “Harry?” I said softly, he turned and smiled hisbeautiful smile at me, coming closer and kissing me gently. “hey” Harry saidback after pulling away from the kiss. “What’s all this?” I asked referring toall the candles and rose petals scattered around the small blue wooden shed.“It’s for you” he grinned, looking down at the hard work he clearly had put in“do you like it?” he asked looking back up at me, locking eye contact “I loveit” I giggled in response. “So, Y/n, there’s uh- something I want to ask you”Harry said, I nodded gesturing him to go on. “I- I’ve loved you since I firstever saw you on my first day, I know that’s sounds all cliché and love at firstsight doesn’t really exist, but for us, well I guess it does. The first momentI laid eyes on you, something changed in side of me, I think it was my heartfeeling this strange feeling for the first ever time, that feeling is calledtrue love. I could not ask for a better best friend and girlfriend, I don’tthink I could last a day without you, you truly mean the world to me so…” Harrygot on one knee and pulled out a little box from his pocket. I coveted my mouthin shock, was this really happening. “Y/f/n will you marry me?” he asked. Everypositive emotion known to man hit me like a ton of bricks, Love, Happiness,joy. Tears began pricking at my eyes from sheer happiness. “Of course I willmarry you” I answered, Harry’s smile bigger than I ever imagined. He placed thering on my finger, it fit perfectly. He then stood up and we shared a long andloving kiss and a warm embrace.

End of flashback –Y/n’s POV

Today was finally the day I was marring my true love.Everything was perfect, beautifully organised with the help of Uma. We had persuadedfairy godmother to help us get the pirate ship sailed over to Auradon for thewedding, it was decorated with candles, flowers and very Pirate and Polynesian themedto represent both and Harry and I. The bides maids and grooms men were dressedin pirate type clothing, but a bit more formal thanks to Evie’s help. They alsohad red orange lays on. Evie had made my dress and it was stunning, I beautifulcream coloured dress with a muted orange sash round the waist. My long (Y/h/c)was loosely curled and flowing down my back, my makeup rather natural just theway I usually did it. As something borrowed, something blue and something old,my mother had given me the necklace she wore to return the heart of Te Fiti. Somethingnew, was a ring that everyone on Uma’s crew had, “you’re a part of Harry now,so you’re a part of the crew. Welcome to the family” Uma smile after placingthe ring on my right middle finger then hugging me.

Mals, came into the room me and my brides maids were gettingready in. “wow Y/n, you look amazing” she exclaimed before hugging me, shepulled away. “It’s time” she said with excitement evident in her voice.

Standing at one end of the else, I looked down to see Harry,in his typical pirate get-up, but a little more formal, and his trademark redleather jacket, and the red and orange lay round his neck. His smile biggerthan I have ever seen it before. God he’s beautiful.

A soft piano melody begun playing, my grandfather, ChiefTui, was giving me away. I linked arms with him and slowly began walking downthe else which was covered in orange rose petals and palm leaves. As I reachedthe end, my grandfather kissed my cheek and I went to stand with Harry. Once withhim I held his hands I mine and smiled followed by a tiny giggle. I can’tbelieve this is actually happening. His eye a little teary and his cheeks asoft shade of red, he looked so happy, which makes me happier.

Skip to vows

“My dearest Y/n.” he begun in his think Scottish accent thatI’ve grown to absolutely adore. “I don’t think I could have got any luckier,when I was first told I was coming over to Auradon, I didn’t really want to.Thank god I did. Because if I hadn’t come here, then I would still be stuck andcompletely lost over there. You found me Y/n, you found the true me. My goodside, the person I truly want to be. I saw you and instantly I was struck. Everythingchanged. Like lightning. You are everything I ever wanted and ever needed. You completeme. And I know that while I’m with you, and while you’re safe and well, nothingcan be wrong… because to lose you would break me, in a way I don’t even want toimagine. I promise to forever protect and care for you. As long as I have you,there will never be a day where you won’t feel loved, or appreciated, or beautiful,or cherished. Be my love, you are so beautiful, so appreciated, so cherished,and most of all, so incredibly loved. I will truly and forever love you with everythingI have. Y/f/n, I love you” Harrys words flowing so smoothly, I believed everyline, he would never hurt me and wound never hesitate to protect me. I’m somadly in love with him. My turn.

“Harry Hook, where so I start. From the moment you steppedout of the Limo on your fist day here, you took my breath away, and you never failedto continue doing that up to this very day. I could have never asked for abetter person to fall completely and madly head over heels in love with. I wantto run away, just you and me, take me to Neverland. I’ll take you to Montunui,we can explore the world together, that all I want to do because as long as wehave each other, I know nothing can stand in our way. You have made me thehappiest girl in the world, I know that sound totally clichébut it’s true. Your one of a kind and the only person I need in my life. If youhadn’t come onto my life I probably would still be terrified of sailing, letalone know everything there is to know about it. You guided me into my passion,well my two passions. One; sailing, and two, the most important one; lovingyou. Let’s spend the rest of our lives together, sailing the world together, discoveringnew things together. Doing whatever. Together. I love you more than you willever know, and I can’t wait for our happy ever after to begin.

After the ‘I do’s were said and the party had come to itsend, it was tie for Harry and I to set off and sail the world together. Ourdream was finally coming true, and we had each other making it even better. Forbetter or for worse, I will always love him, “hey” Harry came up behind me,wrapping his strong arms around my waist and nuzzling his head into my neck. I smile,continuing to look up at the stars. I placed one hand on his that was restedround my waist and the other hand ran gently through is dark brown hair. “Youalright Mrs Hook” my smile became wider at his comment, I felt his chuckle onmy neck, I turned around in his arms, they still were wrapped protectively and lovinglyaround my waist. I wrapped my arms round his neck, he bent down a little to myheight and passionately kissed my lips, I pulled away and smiled at him, “I’m perfectlyand completely alright Mr Hook” I giggled at him, his cheeky grin plastered onhis face. “So where to first m-lady” he asked. “first stop, Neverland”

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anxiety-trademark · 3 years

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The week in review:

Raw 11/16 NXT 11/18 NXT UK 11/19 Smackdown 11/20 Survivor Series 11/22

Raw:

Appreciate Lana providing logic to the creation of this match.

“Is this a Disney movie” lmao.

Honestly Shayna works better as a henchman than as a final boss.

Love Lana’s theme btw.

rip Mandy.

Ugly kick by Asuka. Not a compliment.

hahaha Lana tagged herself into the match while Shayna had Asuka in the clutch. hahahahah.

“You suck, get out” rofl.

Asuka you’re trash for not saving Lana. Truly.

“I’m actually really proud of you, you showed a lot of courage tonight.” Nia is funny. A bitch and a bully, sure, but funny.

There’s number 9. rip.

First of all, Dana’s shaky interview was going really well, and I wish they had let her finish it cuz god knows she needs the practice.

Second, WHY IS MIA YIM ATTACKING DANA OF ALL PEOPLE?

I’m not sorry, I shamelessly love Bray and Alexa together, goodbye.

“Your word is... jackass” lmaooo why is he even doing a spelling bee to prep for this match.

rip Rambling Rabbit for the 38th time.

What makes him being killed so damn demented is not only the way he exhibits agony and suffering as he dies, but the way they STAND BY LAUGHING UNCONTROLLABLY. This is the definition of sociopathy.

“Bullseye!” “More like... Rabbit’s heart!” *continues laughing hysterically* jfc.

Really love how Alexa puts her hand beneath her chin and then waves. That goes along with her characteristics developed since the fairy gimmick in nxt back in 2014/2015, to the cosplaying mean girl in 2016/2017/2018, to the babyface in 2019/2020. Also adds another layer with her gloves. Love that.

Nikki’s wandering around looking for Alexa, when clearly she should be looking for the Firefly Funhouse. I suggest asking Seth or Randy.

“Friends never give up on each other,” they also don’t give each other ultimatums cuz that’s toxic af, but okay.

She keeps running her mouth about Fiend and I can already see Alexa demolishing her for it.

LOVE the cohesion in going from one segment to the other as Sarah runs around looking for an interview. Fitting since that’s obviously her job, but it went together smoothly. They really come off as tmz lol.

I appreciate how Miz doesn’t want to fuck with Bray cuz he knows Bray will just torment his family lol. I also appreciate his reasoning because he’s a true opportunist. he doesn’t want to exhaust himself with this match cuz he might cash in later.

Love Alexa’s remixed theme, it’s jarring af. Walking red flag btw.

Oh nooo Nikki what are you doinggg.

I’m not a fan of how Nikki sold this interaction. Didn’t feel natural at all.

OH SHIT the sound of that slap, oof.

Oh my god I love how Bray came out and glared at Nikki. FANTASTIC. Absolute gold. Then he just smiles at Alexa as she takes his arm to escort him to the ring.

And the way the camera focuses back on Miz and Morrison... Miz’s face... I can’t, this is tremendous tbh. What a great story to run throughout this week’s Raw.

lmfao the way Alexa stuck her head between the ropes to scare Morrison. Ugh this pairing is easily my favorite thing in wwe rn.

Interesting, so Bray protects her. A fair duo.

I will never not cringe at watching people pretend to break someone’s neck by twisting it to the side. If I was a wrestler, that’s a move I would NEVER allow to be done to me.

On the plus side, Alexa took out Morrison and he sold it really fucking well. On the negative, it seems that distracted Bray as he’s more concerned for her well being now.

Oh my god the way Alexa reappears from behind the barricade. Creepy as shit.

Love watching her “balance” on the barricade considering she was one hell of a gymnast in her day.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all for watching Lacey progress in the ring, cuz I think her character work is just fantastic, but holy shit what a downgrade going from Mandy and Dana to Lacey and Peyton.

Why is she excited? Why is it exciting to fight Sasha? Maybe Asuka should’ve taken that match a bit more seriously, considering the outcome. But I’m jumping ahead of myself.

“No one is ready for Asuka,” except for Charlotte, Becky, Shayna, Alexa, Sasha...

I do appreciate how Lacey isn’t scared of anyone while Peyton is wary of literally everyone. That’s good. Nia has a point though, y’all could’ve used Mandy. I guess it doesn’t matter though, considering the outcome. Jumping ahead of myself again.

“Worst idea since Quibi” lmao shots fired.

*Bonus* Peyton/Lacey online exclusive: they vibe real well off script. Peyton made points saying she can’t wait to teach Lacey how to be on a team. That’s valid cuz Lacey is NOT much of a team player. Points to Lacey though, she’s funny as hell.

Highlight: Alexa Bliss

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NXT:

Awesome hearing War Pigs during that Shotzi promo. Is that the official theme song for War Games? If so, baller to wwe for shelling that cash out.

I’m guessing Shotzi was fixing her tank? Was that the premise? Regardless, the setting was different and interesting.

I really like the fencing around nxt’s ringside. Fits with the grungy “indie” feel.

God I’m gonna have to watch Candice defeat Kayden and Kacy aren’t I?

Indi bought the Garganos a flat screen tv? :/ mk. What does she have to gain? Johnny was an AWFUL champion and Candice has never even held gold. What is she hoping to accomplish?

“Indi is gaining one of the best mentors in the nxt locker room” lmao WHAT.

omg Kacy and Kayden are so fucking entertaining, I feel like I say this every time I watch them. All tag teams need to TAKE. NOTES. Look at that cohesion and teamwork. Whew.

Hold on don’t try to retcon Tegan as leaving Candice’s side. I hate Tegan even more than I hate Candice, and she was a shite friend to Dakota by proxy of being a spineless dweeb, but do not try to paint Candice as the victim in her feud with Tegan.

I know nothing about the Dakota/Candice friendship but I’d go ahead and blame Dakota since she’s hella douchey lmao.

Imagine thinking Indi is an upgrade from Dakota. Commentary is super funny and distracting tonight lmao.

Was that not a flatliner? Sure looked like an intended flatliner.

So Kacy attempts to kill herself in the process of taking out Indi and none of the cameras caught it? :/ we still using interns looking for college credits in production? Is that what’s happening??

Vic is kind of an awful commentator in his actual calls. “Nice suplex, almost a brainbuster” better hope that was a brainbuster cuz if not, that was the saddest fucking suplex I’ve ever seen in my life.

So Kacy almost kills herself using offense against Indi and Indi was coherent first? Ugh anyway.

Why do we have to listen to Ember speak every week? What a terrible idea.

So now she’s gonna be nxt’s savior by getting rid of Dakota and Raquel? Oh for fuck’s sake.

Why does she have fucking soda tabs on her gear still.

Why is she teaming with Toni. I THOUGHT THEY WERE HEELS. Seriously, am I the dumb one? Am I the one who needs their hand held? Has Ember not been acting like a heel since she returned? Am I the only one confused about Toni’s alignment??

“We’ve fallen victim to the numbers game” WHEN have you fallen victim to the numbers game, Toni? WHO WROTE THIS.

I know nxt wants me to give a shit about Ember and Toni, but good luck making me care about anyone down there more than Dakota or Rhea.

I would really appreciate it if Dakota was moved up to the MR without actually showing any dissention from Raquel.

Dakota calls a lot of matches, I’ve noticed. Pro shit.

Toni’s German suplexes are amazing if she’s actually never hurt anyone, cuz MAN they look gnarly af.

Gorgeous tornado ddt by Ember. Nice speed, great handling by Raquel.

Don’t Dakota and Toni have quite the history? From UK?

Today in wrestling commentary: Vic cannot tell the difference between left and right.

Whoa I just noticed Dakota isn’t wearing her knee brace. That’s kind of monumental, right? Isn’t that a big deal? I feel like that’s a big deal.

Honestly I might like Toni more than Ember. She comes off as a lot more likable since her move to nxt.

Oh Christ I gotta see Candice again.

Hi why isn’t this main eventing? Do Rhea fucking Ripley and Io fucking Shirai not deserve it?? For real???

Hate it when refs hold the title up crooked. Noob.

Holy shit Io’s speed is TOP. TIER. Whew.

And then slips on the turnbuckle, sad. Could’ve been worse, could’ve been a Shotzi wipeout (and that’s what I’m gonna call it from now on)

What Io has in speed, Rhea has in strength, these are the facts.

Why did Vic cut Beth off by saying exactly what she was in the middle of saying? Vic’s losing a lot of points tonight tbh.

oof gnarly German suplex off the second rope by Io.

Oh my, Rhea’s ear is covered in blood. Must have punctured her ear with an earring. Rough. I say this as someone who has her fair share of piercings: it BOGGLES MY MIND why any of these women wrestle with their piercings in lmao. No ma’am.

Brutal match, whew.

Rhea wiped her own blood on her face.

There are some aprons spots with Rhea obviously waiting around that needed some work.

Rhea can sell, certainly, but her screaming is way too dramatic at times. Most notably at wm in the empty arena, but this match is a close second. Almost borders on annoying.

Niiice Rhea adding a nice vortex spin on the tail end of her cloverleaf submission. Points. Keep that.

Oh that Riptide attempt countered into an armbar by Io. BEAUTIFUL.

I liked that. Io goes for the 619 in the middle rope, Rhea ducks. Io goes for the 619 on the lower rope, Rhea dodges. Io strikes her a couple times, Rhea falls to the opposite side of the ring and Io proceeds to hit the 619. Good stuff.

Lol Io’s smiling at Rhea kicking out of the missile dropkick.

Nice flip off of Rhea’s clothesline but I’m not a fan of Io landing her moonsault on her feet. That’s not really her M.O.

Fucking spiked Rhea with a ddt by countering the Riptide again. That’s a solid champion, has her opponent completely scouted.

Beautiful sunset flip powerbomb through the ropes with Rhea landing through a table. Would’ve been cool if Rhea had let go right away, though.

In kf, I give points to Rhea for dragging herself from the rubble just to eat a clean pin. Great match.

Highlight: Io vs Rhea

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NXT UK:

Wow robbing me of KLR’s entrance. Guess Piper is officially the heel.

Quit calling her a “new” Piper Niven. A slight aggression is hardly “new”

BE CAREFUL WITH KLR’S SNAZZY COAT.

Y’all got tape out? Have we learned nothing from Bayley/Sasha hiac?

CHUCKED A FUCKING RING BELL INTO PIPER’S HEAD LMAO

Ugh headbutt that takes everyone out. Tsk.

Ric who? Charlotte’s dad??

Who do I gotta pay to see KLR vs Becky Lynch in an extreme match?!

KLR rolls away after that fisherman buster on the outside. Smart points.

Alright listen I’m on KLR’s side but WHY IS JINNY OUT HERE

Lol smacked Piper with a ‘no entry’ sign. Haha.

And Piper broke a sign over KLR’s head, followed by puns from the commentators.

rip random guitar.

Match doesn’t have any creative spots really, but they sure know how to utilize random objects.

BRO YOU CAN’T TAKE A STEEL PIPE TO HER KNEE ON CONCRETE, THAT’S HELLA RUDE. KLR lit a fire under Piper’s ass and Piper’s trying to retire her as thanks. Super, super rude.

Fuck her up fam, I don’t even feel bad.

??? Did KLR even land through the table or did she just land straight onto the fucking concrete? Jesus Christ man. No, she didn’t, she slid into the second table and just ate the floor. Oh my god. IS SHE OKAY??

Highlight: That vicious ending gained KLR a lot of respect in my eyes

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Smackdown:

Imagine being surprised that Adam chose the longest reigning SD women’s champion as his team captain. Granted she’s probably despised by everyone, but she’s got the pedigree, come on now.

Look how good Bayley looks. Whew.

“You know what time it is? Bayley time.” she’s so annoying rofl.

Wow riveting stuff, I have zero comments about this 2 min match tbh.

Go stand in the ring with your damn captain, Bianca.

Lmao Bayley allergic to hugs now. Character progression.

It’s quite the team I’m ngl. I just wish we could’ve wrapped up this Sasha/Bayley shit like... months ago so we could enjoy captain Bayley for a bit longer. Gonna burn through this in one damn episode. It’s a bummer.

*Bonus* Nattie’s online exclusive: “I sailed through some rough waters [...] I’m smart, I’m sexy, I’m funny, I’m rich” She is funny, I will give her that.

We’re getting Asuka/Sasha face to face? For real? Okay.

Cute, Sasha’s smile toward Asuka actually looked genuine. I miss when Sasha seemed genuine. It’s like Bayley killed that part of her.

“Michael are you forgetting what time it is?” BAYLEY TI-- “It is boss time, baby!” welp my mistake.

I’ve played Asuka’s dialogue to Sasha 3x and I still have no idea what she was saying because of her ridiculous fucking dancing and animation. I’m tired. Bayley come take her title.

Omg now she’s doing “you can’t see me” SHE ACCOMPLISHES NOTHING I absolutely despise her being champion.

Actually she is ready for Asuka, and I’m gonna take great joy in watching her win this Sunday. Sasha is hella unlikeable until the moment that bell rings, then she’s a god. Is what it is.

Booo Sasha was actually doing good on the mic, how dare you ruin that, Carmella.

Asuka is awful. Even Becky and Ronda fought off common enemies once upon a time. Asuka helps legit N O B O D Y. Awful champion.

Highlight: Captain Bayley

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Survivor Series:

Love Sasha’s gear.

Asuka kicked out at one, quick everyone cry about her selling. Oh wait she’s not Charlotte, my bad.

Beautiful attempt at an armbar by Sasha, whew.

Sasha is so good at this whole wrestling thing lol.

Nice pop up from that backstabber.

Right and in contrast, Asuka is an amazing striker.

Oh a codebreaker to Sasha as she dangles from the second rope. Gorgeous move.

Ahhhh the blue haired god got the job done. I knew she’d win but it’s so gratifying to see.

Not much to say about the match. The spots weren’t brutal or super creative/innovative, but it had GREAT back and forth and really showcased their chemistry in technical wrestling. Also might very well have been the best match they’ve had yet, seemed pretty short though. Still, an enjoyable watch. Good for Sasha.

Lol the disdain in Nia’s face as she looks at Lana.

Look, Bayley’s arm band says ‘captain’ so she’s the captain.

Love seeing how creative people get with their gear at Survivor Series, as opposed to just throwing a damn brand shirt on. Looking at you, 2016.

One thing I’ve learned about Bayley is if she calls you sister, she genuinely likes you behind the scenes. So glad to see Lacey is in her good graces.

Omg Lacey learned how to do a kip up, everybody clap.

Love how the light shines off of Nattie’s gear. Got rainbows popping.

Squatting while stalling a suplex, and synchronized kip ups. Bianca and Nattie are fun.

“Bayley and the great Becky Lynch,” Oh shit, peep that RESPECT we’re putting on her name now? She gets ‘the great’?? wwe finally seeing her on the same level as ‘the great’ Charlotte Flair??? I am shook. Good for her, fucking deserved (also poor Bayley rofl)

Lana tags herself in again lmao. Nia 5 seconds from killing her. Look, Lana tries. Let her try.

I can’t breathe. she been put in timeout.

(referring to a move by Peyton) “I give that a perfect 10“ PPPFFFFTTTT

What a bump by Bayley; a suplex off the top rope onto the entire roster on the outside, and what a great locker room leader to be checking on everyone IMMEDIATELY as if she didn’t just fucking take a massive bump. Also poor Lana standing over there watching the fun lol.

Now I already knew Peyton pinned Bayley cuz of the outrage by Bayley fans who deemed her “buried” afterward, but I think it was a poor decision to have Peyton get that pin. Peyton sucks, not sorry. Have Lacey get that pin before Peyton. Actually, have Lana get that pin before Peyton.

Not sure what Nattie was going for with that submission to Peyton, but she improvised real quick. So points.

Doesn’t Nattie usually wear wrist guards? Awkward seeing her without them.

Goes for a sharpshooter on a woman who’s not even active rn. I’m removing her points lmao.

I legit never get to see Bianca’s 450 splash and you know what? Fuck y’all.

Well Bianca’s a great partner to do a Spanish Fly with so, good on Lacey.

That’s an interesting elimination. Ruby would’ve pinned Shayna as she had rolled back and reversed the Clutch, but the ref was distracted by Nia. By the time he started counting, Ruby had passed out. Interesting.

Crucifix Bomb by Liv eliminates Lacey, fucking dope.

Having Bianca as the last survivor on her team is great for Bianca. This is a compliment from management.

BEAUTIFUL catch by Shayna into the Clutch. Wow that was nice.

Ah we redoing the spot from their Takeover match, IE my introduction to Bianca. Solid.

Oh this is good. Bianca passed out from the Clutch while on the ropes so Shayna was disqualified. Nia drug Bianca out of the ring to put her through the announce table and they started brawling until they were both counted out.

Again, I knew Lana was the sole survivor but seeing it happen is fucking hilarious. Nice protection for Bianca though, and seeing Nia this pissed off is so cathartic.

Highlight: Bianca was the real standout imo

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*Survivor Series shined the brightest as we had both a great technical match, and a fun, entertaining multiwoman match filled with shenanigans. If that’s a cop out, then I’ll give it to NXT this week.

#wwe #issa review #feel free to ignore these #cuz who tf cares lesbihonest #today's props goes to:#bianca belair

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Can you believe there are people who complain about KH3 despite KH2 being worse in almost every way?

I mean it is up to opinion and all but I prefer KH2 way more compared to KH3 for a lot of reasons.

First of all, I felt that the worlds in KH3 had no purpose until the final world once reaching to Xehanort. (The dlc played a huge role in trying to help the storyline of KH3 to be clearer than it was from before). At least KH2 helped explain to the viewer about the Nobodies, Ansem, Ansem the wise and etc. They did it in a way that just seemed memorable to the viewer compared to KH3.

Also, the worlds in Kingdom Hearts 3 just felt like spam. They didn’t add anything, again, to story. At least Kingdom Hearts 2 showed us Sora’s character development and need to find his friends and see them again. In all of the worlds, I just felt like the development of the characters was just WAY OFF. I mean they were dissing Sora for christ’s sake and were mean to him even though the WHOLE POINT of Kingdom Hearts is friendship?? I started noticing this in 3D Drop Distance since they started to make Sora be oblivious between the right and wrong which is just pretty sad to watch especially when knowing these characters and growing up with them.

Secondly, I don’t understand why they had to remove the Final Fantasy characters in Kingdom Hearts 3? For what cost? Because it was distracting? Was it tohelp the Plot? Even Tetsuya Nomura said it was meant to help the plot but I think it did the opposite. In previous games, Aerith ,Leon and Yuffie are the reasons why Sora even knows about the keyblade PLUS they help Donald and Goofy try to find Sora (specifically Aerith). In the first game, they help Sora, Donald and Goofy in Traverse Town for A LOT of reasons and are the reason why Sora shut the Keyhole in Traverse Town.

In KH2, Leon helps Sora take him to the Tron World to help access the files of the Organization 13 as well as Ansem the Wise. These characters, as much as they are minor characters, played a HUGE role in Sora’s life.

Thirdly, Kingdom Hearts 3 just seemed very easy of a game and it felt like it was specifically for newcomers to see what the game is like. I know a lot of Kingdom Heart games have a similar gameplay (apart from Re:chain) but at least they had a bit of challenge added to them. Kingdom Hearts 3 just seemed really easy to beat. I finished Kingdom Hearts 3 with a Secret Ending in 3 days. It wasn’t that hard.

The only thing Kingdom Hearts 3 did well in, was the graphics compared to the previous games. However, these changes for me as well as for others who have played this game series for a long time, weren’t really fond of the change since we felt like it wasn’t memorable to us. The old graphics were quirky and toony in the way that they were meant to be since it is a Disney game. I don’t wanna see Goofy, Donald and Mickey in HD 4k. The music in general of 3 is Amazing. Yoko Shimomura really outdid herself with any game that comes out from this franchise.

I dont know, again, it is up to opinion I guess, but each person has their own reasons to prefer one game from the franchise over another. But KH2 is probably still my favourite KH game to play. I mean, there is a reason why it got Game of the Year in 2006.

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keiziahknight1886 · 7 years

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My take on SnB:VS Episode 17 THE PUREST FKCNG CHARININA FKCNG SHTPOST TRASHPOST IN THIS ENTIRE PLANET VERY VERY VEEEEEEERY LONG, FKNG LONGER THAN EPISODE 13 BTCH

Warning this contains swearing, rage, excessive amounts of fangirling and tears, you have been warned.

FIRST OFF, MY FCKNG HEART FCK SAKES HELP ME!!! MY FKNG HEART CAN’T FKCNG TAKE IT. KILL ME NOW BECAUSE I DON’T THINK I’LL EVER BE THIS HAPPY HOLY SHT.

OK BTCH, I’M FKCNG WARNING YOU NOW, YOU’RE ABOUT TO GO UNDER 267 SCREENSHOTS IN ONE EPISODE, THIS TOOK ME FKNG HOURS TO MAKE TO I’M DEF WARNING YOU NOW THIS SHTPOST IS GOING TO BE EXTRA FKNG LONG. EXTRA CAUSE IMMA TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT THE FCK HAPPENED TO ME AS I WAS FKNG WATCHING THIS AND MY FCKNG THOUGHTS ABOUT IT TOO. FCKNG HELL.

Okay to start It all off we go to the castle.

First of all btch is fck you you black knight piece of sht.

Look at how his eye fkng twitched (btch if I knew how to make gif I swear all my takes would be in gifs, well some of it cause some photos need to be stared upon) YOU DON’T GO MESSIN AROUND WITH MAH GIRL FKC YEAH!

YEAH CHARI! FKNG GLARE AT THAT BTCH MOTHERFKER

FCK. WHAT THE ACTUAL FCK. Btch lemme tell you the story of what happened on this very moment. Look hunty I don’t curse (whaaat?) Yeah, I don’t, like that’s the reason why all my curse words are missing letters or are misspelled but lemme tell you when I fkng saw this shit I whispered to Sofiel and the other gods ‘fuck’ in the most ungraceful manner known to man.

But btch lemme tell you I aint the only one who fckng got shocked by this, my fckng phone refused to listen to Chari’s bullsht that it fkng disconnected my headset from my fkcng phone, and I aint joking btch like at this exact moment my phone decided to fck Chari’s bullsht and disconnected it and it added to my panic and frustration. Like btch I literally jumped out of my bed both cursing Chari and panicking over my headset like that thing cost me a fortune! So when I started playing just music btch it wouldn’t work I was so fkcng stressed that I got my backup headset which was waaaay awful and tried to restart my phone. What happened next? Looks like my phone needed to breath like me because the btch couldn’t handle Charioce’s bullsht that I had to reboot it, fkc if only the same goes for me and then next thing I know it was perfectly fine. Btch I was searching up for my headset’s warranty cause girl I CANNOT afford a new one.

Alright so here we are going back to ye ol episode and fck I still can’t get over Charioce’s bullsht.

So then as if I wasn’t on the verge of killing someone this fkcng a**hole was the first thing I saw and btch I was PISSED. Like fck you btch you fkng a**hole.

NO THERE IS NOTHING YOU NEED TO FKCNG LEARN ABOUT FCK YOU TO THE ENDS OF THE FKCNG EARTH! GO DIE YOU PIECE OF SHT.

When Chari says none Chari says fckng none! (Hold up, Chari looks sad here… oh gods, did you just say that out of professionalism? Kinglinism?)

Oh don’t you back sass me motherfkcer! I swear to Sofiel and the gods I hate you. Dumb piece of sht fck you.

Good Christ I’m sorry, Lord forgive my words because it’s about to get much worse...

Speaking of btches to be fkced fkc you too Gabriel, I know you’re hiding something you piece of sht btch and I aint trusting you! Not one second! You can die for all I care, I wish Michael was the one alive and you died hell make Sofiel the ruler since she cares for others way more than you do! Screw you for what you did to El. You deserve to be run away from.

Break for Rita appreciation time: damn gurl is looking fierce!

We bring you this commercial by Favaro Leone, look at them muscles let’s appreciate that hunk.

Commercial over.

In this scene the gang was all talking sht about Chari (well not really they were discussing this and that oh you fkng know) and YEAH NINA POUT AT EM GIRL, although I still am fkcng pissed about what that Chari said, POUT AT EM.

As you can see my baby girl aint having none of that sht.

In this scene we see Jeanne jumping off of heaven, that sounds weird but okay.

I still lowkey ship it since I highkey ship JeanAzel (although Azazel wasn’t in no how in this episode) but damn look at them, Sofiel as a woman I am VERY JEALOUS of your body.

AWWW!! Nina you look cute in blue hair!! You look fine girl! But still Chari would know you from a mile away.

So Nina went out to search for some intel and I love the scenes where she was running around the place cause it reminded me of the earlier episodes where sht hasn’t gone down and rained upon all of them.

Hmm I wonder where she’s off-

OH. MY. GOD.

YEAH NINA FKNG REPRESENT MY SHOCK RIGHT NOW!

I seriously thought they wouldn’t see each other yet and maybe one episode more but oh my god I am not complaining.

ALL YALL ALREADY KNOW THIS IS THE MOMENT WHERE MY FKNG FANGIRL GEAR KICKED IN AND I SWEAR I FKNG SCREEMED WHEN I SAW THEM.

Sneeky sneeky~

A-sneeky sneeky peeky

OH MY GOD YOU PRECIOUS LITTLE GUMDROP, YOU PRECIOUS SMOL LITTLE CINNAMON BUN. YOU LOOK SO OH MY GOD IN THIS (yes you look so omg is now a thing suck it up)

Hmm this is probably his mother’s grave since most villains start with mommy daddy issues and since his dad’s a dck this is probably his mother’s.

Yaaaaaas Nina, yaaaaaaa!!!! Represent my shock right now and fangirliness at the same fkcng time!

Me: *fangirling*

Nina: DAFAQ SHOULD I DO!?

Me: *laughs like a madman* This is so me rn

Come on, do something!

Yes…. YES.

OMG YES! FKNG YES! YES YES YES YES YEEEES!!!!

Sup btch XD what an entrance Nina, bravo!

Nina be like: oh sht

Chari be like: oh yeah.

You two are fkng adorable I swear I would die. I mean I still haven’t completely forgotten what you said Chari but we’re getting there.

I swear Nina no one will take you seriously looking like that I swear to Sofiel. Still though, cute.

My confused little sonofabtch

Look how my confused sonofabtch smiled like ugh my heart, I swear the way he smiled at Nina is so damn precious.

Sure Chari baby go along with her ruse.

It’s his mom, 100 percent sure of it. And thank you Nina for asking the questions we’ve been asking long ago.

I (and a lot of other people too) FKNG CALLED IT!

Why are you so shocked Nina? (I laughed at this moment because of Nina’s shock)

JINX! JINX YA CHARI! JINX (monsoon)

Me: Sure you aint but I called it. BUT LOOK HE’S COMING CLOSER!

YAAAAASSSS FINALLY THE BACK STORY WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!

Aww… YOU POOR UNFORTUNATE SOUL! //slapped// (I’m willing to bet some of you sang that)

Nina: *cries on the inside*

Me: *at the edge of my seat err bed*

Did she hope that at least YOU would have a great life?

Oh I guess not…

I’m willing to bet an arm, a leg and a brother that he’s planning to revive her, or at least that’s what he wanted from the gods. Like his wish was for her to come back to life.

YOU BOTH HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON //slapped//

THAT FKCNG ‘Chari’s special smile for Nina’ smile is getting me holy sht I have a feeling that this episode is gonna ba waaaay better than 6 and 13!

That smile is so precious I cannot.

Me: HE’S CLOSER!!

Me: CLOSER!

YAAAASSSSSSS HELLO!!!! Oh sorry, ehem. So his name WAS Chris, aww I didn’t know Chari gave his real name to Nina! Omg that is so ngggghh.

Awww *insert that child wiping a character’s tears from the tv but eplace it with Chari*

Hahaha he’s still playing by her game

Come one, we all know that you both know who each other is.

Me: Yes… And?

Me: THIS IS MORE THAN PERFECT YOU LITTLE SONOFABTCH! YAAAASSSSS DATE NUMBER 2 IS ON BABY!

I love how Nina is like, oh… okay.

Oh mah gawd my precious children, mi preciozo. This brings back sooooo many memories!!! I love it I can die.

Oh don’t you be so awkward child, I mean I know you have a lot of things going on in that pretty little head of yours but… okay you have all the reason to be awkward.

Yes, yes he does.

He was playing your game, a ruse love.

Look at mah little baby looking at merch as if he was stroling disney land (by this point I’ve forgotten about what he said at the beginning)

So my baby bought something like a charm or whatnot and Nina’s telling him off but then LOOK. HE TOUCHED HER AND SHE WAS LIKE OH OKAY AND DIDN’T TURN INTO A DRAGON. I try to notice every detail when it comes to these two.

See?! Oh… OKAY. Nina’s always on the okay when it comes to her baby king.

Uh oh…

Uh oh, people are staring Chari…

Now what do we have here…

Me: *shrugs*

Me: Little demon babies?

Me: Wait…

OMG BABY CHARI WHAT ARE YOU DOING.

Yeah Nina, WHAT?

Woah…

WOAH.

WOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAHHHHHH DID YOU REALLY JUST… OMG THESE SWEET DEMON BABIES LOVE YOU CHARI

These demon babies are precious, all children are precious *cries*

THEY LOVE YOU CHARI THEY LOVE YOU OMG THESE SWEET DEMON BABIES ARE SO PRECIOUS.

I SWEAR

I FKCNG SWEAR IF THIS ISN’T A FORESHADOWING OF MAMA NINA BEING STRICT AND PAPA CHARI BEING LENIENT WITH THEIR KIDS I DON’T KNOW WHAT THIS IS.

Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior what is this perfection? I swear God thank you for this beautiful blessing you have bestowed upon human kind.

Look at him… LOOK AT HIM, OH SO PRECIOUS, OH SO BEAUTIFUL OH SO PRECIOUS *cries for the nth time*

Me: Huehuehue Nina go get em Chari meat

Nina: NO! MUST RESIST TEMPTATION!

Nine: Don’t fantasize about him, DON’T FANTASIZE ABOUT HIM.

Future dragon babies: Yeah mom! Come join us!

Future dragon babies: Yeah come play with us mom!

Nina: Alright, mom’s coming! *sees the skull*

Nina: CHRIS WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LETTING OUR CHILDREN PLAY WITH?!

Future dragon babies: Aww mom broke the skull of daddy’s enemy.

Charioce: Fear not my children, I know how to fix our problem.

Me and Nina: *staring*

Charioce: Let me be hot for a bit so your mom gets turned on.

(I’m laughing at my own stupidity, all hail future dragon babies!)

Charioce: I told you I’ve got this.

Let me point out again that all children are precious <3

Charioce: See? Dad’s bouncy ball is better than before!

Nina: *pouts cause her children went back to playing*

Nina: Really, Chris? Really?

Charioce: It’s okay, look. They’re having fun. *smiles all daddy like*

I swear these two look like a married couple. I swear if this isn’t foreshadowing I swear…

Charioce you sly sonofabtch, cheeky bastard.

We all do Nina, we all do.

I love how Charioce is juat smiling.

Oh…

Oh my god…

OH MY GOD!!!!!

OH MY FKNG SOFIEL THIS IS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER AND BETTER LIKE OH MY GOD LIKE

Charioce: Relax, they’re kids. They should have fun.

Just do it Nina, just fkng kiss already (was my thoughts and then omg)

I love these two to deth no joke.

Ahhh so Chari is being watched…. Well I should’ve know he wouldn’t step out of his castle without any guards following him.

Lemme guess, it’s that black knight piece of sht again, that little a**hole.

No Nina, those are actually us crazy shippers who are secretly stalking and taking photos of you

Omg.

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG CAN WE JUST APPRECIATE HOW PERFECT NINA’S HAND FITS INTO CHARIOCE’S? THIS BRINGS ME ANATAE FESTIVAL MEMORIES REALNESS!

ELOPE!!!! ELOPE!!!! FKCNG LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND AND ELOPE!!!!

RUN MY BABIES, RUN! RUN FOR YOUR FUTURE!!!

I really love these two shot, I don’t know why but I love it. Aesthetically pleasing?

I don’t know, but maybe it’s the way Chari pulls Nina that is so cliché animesque but I really love it, all their interactions in general. Hm maybe it’s because it’s this cliché of royalty running away from guards bit? Who knows.

Woah when Charioce said let’s lose them they really did actually loose them (maybe) like this looks waaay away from the place where they were.

Me when this very moment was shown: OMG THIS IS THE PERFECT PLACE FOR A CONFESSION!!!

I laughed at this scene because Charioce is all tired and sht while Nina I just chill wahahahaha

*sexy music plays in the background*

I legit thought Charioce was going to take his shirt off when he started roling his sleeves.

Charioce is hot. Just saying.

Oh my gosh that is so anime, like that sweat effect is so anime XD

Uh oh…

Nina, Imma stop you right there. What is in yo mind girl?

I was legit thinking at this moment that Nina was going to try and steal the bracelet from Chari.

Like look, it looks like she was set to get that bracelet so that was what I thought!

Little I did I know that this would be the start of the best moments in anime history, like I was screaming “CONFESS” in my head while watching this and little did I know what was going to happen.

AS WELL ALL DO.

My inner fangirl was slowly ascending to heaven at this point

And your baby

Yes that was what this whole thing was about

A moment of silence.

DAWWWWWWW *dies*

*fangirls at the memory*

I felt really sad for Nina at that time because she was so confused and somewhat hurt too by the fact that he’s hated by everyone

This is so sweet, I absolutely love it.

Yeah girl! Be determined! I am so rooting for you!

There’s that moment of silence again.

Chari baby I can feel your inner conflict all the way from here.

Still willing to bet that arm, leg and brother that what he wants to do is ressurect his mother (unless he wants to be all Code Geass and say that he wants the world to unite against one common enemy)

QUIT ADDING MYSTERY TO THE DRAMA CHARI!

Me: *shuts up for a moment*

Oh no… just what the hell man. That arm, leg and brother bet is still on if you like.

Pretty bad one if I do say so myself.

Me: *silent*

That’s so very kingly.

I’m sorry man but the mommy issues man. Next thing I know they’ll be an alchemy circle there and OMG WHAT IF THE PRICE ISN’T AN ARM, A LEG AND A BROTHER BUT INSTEAD AN EYE, AN ARM AND HIS EMOTIONS? OMGGGG LET’S GET FULL METAL UP IN THIS SHT!

Me: *okay me is silent again*

Oh my god, did he just… OH MY GOD (at that very moment I screamed to the heavens and my mom literally shouted at me to shut up and when I did my head almost exploded)

OH MY GOD, I’M FKNG FANGIRLING TO THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA, LIKE MY PILLOW COULDN’T EVEN HOLD THE SCREAMS I WAS RELEASING.

OH MY GOD THE CONVICTIONS! NINA OH MY GOD YOU LOOK SO READY TO JUMP HIM OH MY GOD!!!

Oh my god

Oh my god (look at Nina she so pretty in this frame)

Lemme tell you something real quick girl, at this very moment I had to pause because tears were coming down my face for real. I sent a photo to my friend about how much I was crying and when I paused did I only realize that I was holding my breath in. Btch that’s some good sht anime right there.

Even now my breath stops whenever I look at it.

Shocked Chari is shookt (I’m tearing up as I write this)

Don’t think about your inner conflicts Chari, just don’t.

Oh gods

Oh gods, Nina’s crying now I’m crying *cries*

This looks so fkcng perfect that I can’t my heart can’t handle this intensity.

OH MY GOD THIS IS IT OH MY GOD THE CONFESSION I’VE BEEN LONGING FOR

Oh god

Oh my lord oh my stars

Jesus Christ this is beautiful, I love these two so much that I would die for them.

All I can say is oh god and smile all tearfully.

*smiles*

That fkng smile *cries*

Oh gods wait, I know where this is going to oh my god oh my god oh my god

Oh god

Oh gods, oh gods

Oh my god you’re both so precious....

Me at the very moment this was shown: *GASP* *pause* oh my god oh my god oh my god *plays*

OH MY FKNG GOD!!!!!! HOLY SHT OH MY GOD MOM!!!! MOM!!! HELP!!! 911!!! AMBULANCE OH MY GOD!!! OH MY FKNG GOD JESUS CHRIST SAVE ME FROM DEATH BECAUSE I AM DYING RIGHT NOW LORD GOD THIS IS AMAZING THIS IS WHAT WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS IS WHAT MY LIFE’S PURPOSE IS THIS IS WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT OH MY GOD FATHER IN HEAVEN HOLY BE YOUR NAME I THANK THEE FOR THIS BLESSING MY FATHER!!

This is beyond perfection, this is so Romeo and Juliet like, like what the fck a tale of love and ruin oh my god. My heart can’t take this intensity holy sht

Wow just wow, like the way Charioce tightens the hug more as if he doesn’t want to let Nina go oh god wow such amazing detail to everything.

This is beyond amazing, this was so worth the wait… wow just wow oh god wow, I am speechless man just wow.

Fck man that hug… that kiss, like the more you zoom in the more you can feel the intensity

She’s not turning into a dragon *cries in happiness*

See? Even she get shocked!

They’re both so shocked *smiles to the point that my face gets ripped*

The emotions are so raw that I can’t…

Nina? Nina? Where are you going?!

To be honest I was legit thinking she was going to run away thinking that it was wrong and bad that she was doing this with the enemy like those anime cliches and I actually panicked for a bit.

See? Even Chari is confused.

Uh… Nina?

Ninaaaa? (legit confused)

Uh…

Woah!!!! WOAH!!!

WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH EVEN MORE!!!

Woooooooaaaaaaaaahhhhhh.

Somewhere deep in Chari’s mind: Was I that bad a kisser?

Woah wait, no way.

She turned back into a human! OMG this just proves what I said before that only Chari has the ability to turn Nina in and out of dragon form!

GOOD FOR YOU BABY NINA! GOOD FOR YOU!

Huehuehuehue, Also I love how Nina is fangirling over her own kiss. So precious.

What I am concerned about it that this is the second time Charioce has seen you naked, what a winner that man is.

His smile

Oh my god his smile

This is legit the most love filled smile Charioce has ever dawned on his face like if you look at his you can’t even recognize him, that’s how sweet and in love this smile is. (this is how my smile looks for the entire episode, not as good thought but still)

Ladies and gentlemen we all know that Charioce is into scales.

Dragon Nina looks fierce!!!

Somewhere deep in Charioce’s mind: OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

Look, all yall be honesty with me. I aint the only btch who thought AND shouted

“HE’S RIDING HER!”

Don’t you be lying to be when you didn’t think that up cause I swear you be lyin

Now I have a million photos of Charioce riding Nina *lenny face* but I’ll make a separate post for that cause this sht is long as hell already

I love how happy Charioce looks as he flies with Nina like look at him

This one is my favorite Chari smile next to the one in the cave

People say he looks kinda condescending in this but don’t be fooled honey it’s just his eyebrows.

Ah perfect moonlight

Ugh this again.

Yeah girl! Be assertive!

Here we go again with the next times!

YEAH! WHEN?!

Chari what the fkc, you’re not too deep into the relationship yet and you’re already snapping at her? Not cool man.

See, you’ve given Nina the impression that you’re mad you dumb fck

What? *still pissed*

Why do I feel a bad undertone to this? Like there’s a bad omen somewhere? Is this why you snapped? Because you’re worried about something?

See how much Nina loves you? You snap at her and she fkcng smiles at you you dumb fkc

WAIT WHAT IS THAT?

Charioce you…

You sly sonofabtch you dumb fck so you bought this for her, I take it back you dumb fck.

Daww

DAAAAWWWWW (btw I LOVE how you look right now Chari XD)

DAAAAAAWWWWWWW

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!! THIS ENTIRE EPISODE HAS JUST BEEN LOVE AND HAPPINESS AND JOY AND RAINBOWS!!!

Woah woah woah woah pause this sht I see that look on you face Chari, what the fck?

Chari why do you look like you’re in pain? What is going on? Why are you frowning? Why are you holding Nina as if it’s the last time you’ll see her? WHATTHE FCK IS WITH THAT FROWN?!

Hmmm should I make something out of this or naw? I’m going to leave this at that for now…

Nina you cute litte dragon lady you oh my god

Daww that nice little charm!

Fanservice plus fangirlservice both in one frame, of course.

HAIL HIT//slapped// I find this very cute shut up

And there she goes, off into the night.

Ah Chari, you must be so happy to have finally

WHAT. THE. FCK. OH NO, OH NO NO NO NO NO. YOU FKNG OH MY GOD CHARIOCE FKC!!! CHARIOCE I SWEAR IF YOU BECOME THE FKCNG A**HOLE THOSE MOTHERFCKERS WANTED YOU TO BE AND USE NINA NOW THAT YOU’VE GOTTEN HER I FKCNG SWEAR A HATE BLOG ISN’T THE ONLY THING YOU’VE GOT COMING.

OH MY GOD NO CHARIOCE, DON’T TELL ME YOU’VE PLANNED THIS ENTIRE THING FROM THE VERY NO… No that can’t be, he didn’t know that Nina was a dragon before and then he can’t control her transformation now since Nina can do it on her own then what the fck is with that look what is you deal?! Oh gods no, please don’t be the a** the antis want you to be good god please don’t let this be a pretend for you gods please Chari DON’T BE A DCK! Good god Chari no, please don’t be that!

Chacioce Chris I swear don’t you be an a**! Don’t you be a- oh there’s more in the end…

THE FCK?! YOU AGAIN YOU FKCNG BULLSHT MOTHERFKCER! WHAT? SPELL? THE FCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? OH MY GOD!!!

WHAT IF CHARIOCE LOOKS LIKE THAT BECAUSE HE KNOWS THIS OLD FCKNG GIMP IS TRYING TO KILL HIS DRAGON WIFE HOLY SHT THIS MAKES A LOT OF SENSE NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT!

Dude I would think wrong about Charioce looking like that in the final frame since he just finished being all lovey-dovey with Nina and then he looks like that as if the moments weren’t sincere but since they showed this last part of the gimp and then going back to his eye twitching when this fkcer said he would kill Nina it all makes sense that he would look like that cause his baby girl is in serious deep sht.

Hold up before I forget, I HOPE YOU FCKNG DIE MOTHER FCKER! I SWEAR YOU PIECE OF SHT JUST GO DIE IN A HOLE SOMEWHERE AND NEVER RETURN FCKNG HELL YOU GIMP!

Anyway I still don’t know why Chari said kill on sight, maybe, as I said, out of professionalism where he has to act kingly and not let his emotions take over but dam son if after this day will you still say that you’ll let this fkcng gimp kill her? I can tell why you look pissed as fck since I wouldn’t want that either.

Still I don’t know, I’m confused but my heart is secured that all of it was real and sincere and this is actually Charioce getting mad about that onyx knight wanting to kill Nina. In fact my heart thinks this is him finally making a decision that he would keep Nina safe, that he finally made a conclusion for himself and would take action on it. Yeah because Mappa wouldn’t show us that last clip of gimpy saying Chari is under a spell unless it meant something right? The way he looked back didn’t come off as a ‘I’ve got her in my trap’ kind of look but instead ‘I won’t let anything hurt her’. Yeah, as I rewatch and analyze that’s how it looked like.

There’s a little bit of doubt but my heart is secured on this ship and as I have said before, unless Mappa makes Charioce into the dck antis wanted him to be then I’ll ship it to the ends of the earth and fight for it and if he does turn into a D I’ll start the hate thread.

Anyway anyway, here are my thoughts for this week’s episode. This was intense as sht and I am sorry for all the misspelled words and all the nonsense, this took me HOURS to finish but I’m happy about how it turned out. Again sorry about the errors since I didn’t have enough time to proof read it. Still I hope you enjoyed!

These are my thoughts, feel free to reblog or comment and if you have any questions you’d like my insight on feel free to ask!

I hope you enjoyed and here’s to another week of suffering!

(Kudos to tumblr for taking 200plus photos into one post and kudos to you for finishing this)

#charioce x nina #charioce XVII #nina charioce #nina drango #charinina #Shingeki no Bahamut #rage of bahamut #Jeanne d'Arc #sofiel #rita #episode 17 #ship #THIS IS MY SHIP #the ship has sailed #the ship is real

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Chris Evans Fic: Disney Princess Series Part 6 (Decisions)

If you hated Josh in the last one weeelllllll hopefully Lisa makes up for it in this!

*** PR recommended a complete radio silence about the whole situation. To address the reports would be to stir up more speculation, whereas the less that was mentioned about it, the less fuel added to the fire, the quicker it would all slide away.

So that’s what you did and, it seemed, it was what Chris was doing as well. You’d had a few pap opportunities set up for you, so you could be seen out and about alone, attending meetings or going to the gym and pretty soon, the story fell out of the tabloids. You had sneakily Googled Chris a couple of times, a queasy feeling in your stomach, and he’d done similar things: out walking Dodger, meeting friends at a bar downtown, gym sessions, all alone, all perfectly staged.

You just went about your business as you always had. You needed to focus on your career and what your next move would be off the back of the film you’d done with Chris. The momentum was there, now that the relationship gossip had gone away, and you just needed to act on it. A stack of scripts had been steadily piling up, ones that had been sent to and seen by your agent and then thought to be of interest and passed to you. You weren’t sure what you were looking for in your next project but these scripts seemed to be a good place to start.

All you truly knew was that you needed to get out of your head and focus on what was important. You’d had no problem with that before Chris Evans had waltzed into your life, and you should have no problem getting back there. Nothing had actually happened after all, there was nothing to be upset about. You hadn’t even kissed for Christ’s sake! But that didn’t stop you imagining that one moment every time you stood in the kitchen, his arms wrapped around you tightly, his mouth a mere two inches from yours as he was about to tell you… well, it didn’t matter now, did it? It was over before it had begun and there was nothing you could do about it. The trip to Disney would always hold a special place in your heart but that was all. So, taking a deep breath, you resolved to move on, starting now. You pulled the first script from the coffee table and opened it up.

But when, ten minutes later, you found your gaze once again wandering over to the spot in the kitchen where you’d stood against him, waiting for him to just kiss you already, you huffed out a frustrated sigh, flinging the script down on to the seat next to you.

Wiggling your toes into your flip flops, you located your sunglasses, tossed the scripts and your phone into a satchel bag and headed out into the LA sunshine, locking your door behind you. You needed a neutral place where you could just get him out of your head and your favourite coffee shop might just be the answer.

A coffee, maybe a muffin, and a dark corner were all you needed and soon you were lost in the story being told by one of the scripts. You were really pleasantly surprised by one of the narratives. Given that your resume was various tv spots in the main, plus your break out role in Sleeping Beauty and now your more action-based role in the ensemble drama you’d done with Chris, you’d been sent a whole variety of genres and styles. You hadn’t been type cast so far, and that could be nothing but good news.

The one that piqued your interest was an emotional drama about a couple who had married young and were now, a decade down the line, experiencing problems in their marriage: the husband purposefully choosing to work away more and more while the wife contemplated an affair with a co-worker. But then they find themselves having to take on the care of the husband’s father, suffering with dementia, and move him into their house. Through caring for him, he teaches them a lot about life, love and themselves and they slowly rediscover what they loved about each other and how to make their marriage work, ten years down the line.

It was desperately bittersweet at the end. You were silently crying by the time you read the last line, tears running tracks down your cheeks as the script came to its conclusion. You’d told yourself that it was just the emotion of the story that brought on the waterworks but you knew deep inside that it had simply tipped you over the edge of an overflowing glass. All of the feelings of frustration, grief, hopelessness, and plain sadness of the last couple of weeks came pouring out of you in the hidden corner of the coffee shop.

You allowed yourself a couple of minutes to wallow before shaking your head and pulling yourself back together. Quickly flipping the document to the front page, you double checked the post it note your agent had left, just to make sure it was the female lead you were being considered for and not the best friend or the sister, when a name caught your eye under the ‘Director’ subtitle and you knew instantly that as much as you loved the story and the complexity of the wife’s character, there was no way you would ever get the role.

There it was, in clear black ink: Chris Evans.

You knew he had a movie lined up and he’d spoken about it occasionally during the Disney trip but you hadn’t put two and two together as you’d opened the first page, only giving the title a cursory glance.

You pulled your phone up to type out a message - he deserved to know how amazing this script was and what a brilliant job you knew he’d do with it - before cancelling and darkening the screen. You didn’t have that kind of relationship anymore. You had no relationship at all, all because he’d decided that he wasn’t worth the risk to your reputation and your career.

But as you sat there, post-cathartic release, and really analysed everything that had happened, everything that had been said in his last visit to you, you realised you’d been duped. You’d been conned out of choosing for yourself, and you might be reserved, you might not let your feelings show very easily or very often, you might avoid things that could hurt you, but that didn’t mean you weren’t capable of making your own decisions just because those decisions involved some risk.

You couldn’t have the role, not because you didn’t have the talent, but because if you wanted both Chris and some semblance of career, you couldn’t pick up roles on projects he was involved in. If you were going to do this, business needed to be completely separate from pleasure. But you could, you were confident, make it work if you just tried hard enough.

You blinked, feeling positive and empowered for the first time in two weeks. You couldn’t have the role, but it didn’t stop you from going to the audition.

***

‘Son, I know you’re feeling a bit lost and down but you’ve both made your decisions, right? You’re just going to have to live with it,’ Lisa told him gently.

Not even two weeks after arriving back in LA, Chris was in Boston again, moping around his mom’s house. He’d done what he needed to do regarding being ‘seen’, alone around LA and after four or five 'appearances’ to make sure he had his photo taken, he was straight on a plane back to Boston. He’d expected to feel lighter when he arrived but no such luck. He knew he was being pathetic but he just couldn’t shake the resentment he held towards… everything.

'I know, I know. I’m just… it’s not like she’s just a girl that I’ve met a couple of times, you know? I’ve had time to get attached and I… like her. And I think she likes me. But it’s a hopeless situation. What if this is it? What if she’s it for me?’

He was sat at the kitchen table, leaning his head against one hand. Lisa placed a steaming mug of peppermint tea in front of him before ruffling his hair with her fingertips. She hated seeing her son, normally so positive and energetic, so despondent.

'Oh sweetheart, I don’t know what to tell you. What did she say when you told her what Josh said?’

'Just 'oh I see,’ and then I left pretty much. Didn’t seem much point in drawing it out any more.’

'Chris, baby, did you even ask her what she wanted? I know Josh gave you the advice he thought best from his perspective but it seems like between the two of you, you’d decided the fate of that poor girl before she’d even had a chance to think about she wanted,’ the reality of his conversation with you dawned on Lisa suddenly. Her eldest son always was convinced he knew what was best for others, even if it made him feel miserable. He was self-sacrificing to a fault but needed to understand that it wasn’t always his call.

'Well… I… she didn’t counter with anything. And when I said we could still text and talk and stuff she told me not to insult her like that.’

Lisa could hardly believe her ears, 'Chris! She’s a grown woman! Of course she doesn’t want to keep up some teenager-like phone relationship. And you wouldn’t want that either so why would you even-’

'I know, it was dumb!’ Chris cut her off with his own irritation at himself and brought his other hand up to cradle his head between his palms, breathing in the steam from his tea on the table and hoping it would help soothe him, 'I just - I was desperate.’

His mom sighed, pulling out the chair next to him and sitting down, rubbing one hand comfortingly across his back.

'Listen, I know the press was bad but it was one time. You know as well as I do that the longer a relationship goes on, the more they just have to accept that you’re in it for the right reasons. It means you have to both be strong and probably take some knocks at the beginning, but if she’s worth it, and if she thinks you’re worth it, and there’s a real possibility you could make this work in the long term, shouldn’t you give it a chance?’

'She’s only just starting out though, mom. Those knocks at the beginning, her career might never recover from them.’

'Then that’s a risk for her to take, not a decision you get to make for her. I know I’m biased, but I have a hard time believing that anyone would think my baby boy isn’t worth taking a chance on,’ Lisa playfully pinched his cheek and a half smile tugged at Chris’ lips.

'Mooommmm,’ Chris whined bashfully.

'You’re never too old to have some sappy comments from your mother. Now drink your tea, get your head straight and think about what you’re going to say when you see her next,’ Lisa rose from her seat with a final pat on his back to busy herself with the chores that needed doing.

'Yes ma'am,’ he replied with a grin.

'That’s what I like to hear,’ Lisa nodded definitively, 'When are you going back to LA?’

'Well, the auditions for the movie are being held on Thursday, the scripts have been out for a week with the prospectives now, so I’ve got a flight Wednesday afternoon.’

'So I get you for another three days then,’ Lisa did the math, 'Are you going to talk to her before then?’

Chris shook his head, 'No, I think I want to talk face to face. When I go back.’

'Good choice. Just own up to how you feel and let her come to her own decision. You’ve got nothing to lose, given the current state of things.’

'I know, thanks mom,’ Chris could always count on his mother to help him straighten his thoughts out.

That gave him three days to prepare for both the auditions he was holding for the wife character in his latest film project and for seeing you again. His mom was right, if you turned around and told him to leave you alone forever, he’d be no worse off than he was now. He’d call you Thursday evening, after the auditions were over, and arrange something for the Friday or the Saturday.

And then, he’d lay it all on the line.

#chris evans #chris evans imagine #chris evans fanfiction #chris evans x reader #chris evans x you

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Alright so the last review was a lot of fun, so I kind of want to do another one. I dont know who is even reading these but it's a blast watching these with a critical mind rather than a fanboy one and writing a semi professional review. I think I'm going to make a hobby of this. Anyways.

So this one I was actually a lot more hopeful for than I was for Aladdin. Maybe as a result I was....let down more than I was watching Aladdin. I am actually writing this after about the first 20 minutes of the film. I'm not going to post until I'm finished with it, but I dont see a lot changing here, and you will know why in a moment, so don't hold your breath for a rollercoaster review, because it's going to be about as flat as the film was.

So going in, I knew what I signed up for at least. Sarah was a little bitter, having to rewatch the first 15 minutes again. I'm going to say this is almost a SHOT for SHOT remake. I mean FRAME FOR FRIGGING FRAME, LINE FOR LINE. Even the timing is ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME. Honestly I might be just as much to blame for this as the next guy. I wear nostalgia glasses loudly and proudly. Just take a look at my living room. But the further I got into this thing the more I found myself asking "Is this truly what I wanted?" A few points before I finish this thought, because I am definitely going to lose my train of thought between the baby and the continuing movie.

-This feels like Disney wanted to go shot for shot, and only partially committed. Shots were almost copied verbatim, could have been traced in some cases, but because they were going live action.....I dont know how else to explain it but if there were an uncanny valley for animated animals it undoubtedly lives here, in the "Pridelands".

-Unfortunately the voice casting suffers a bit here too. It certainly isnt helped by the...lifeless animation (yes I know live action animals dont generally emote, but for christ's sake all things considered it's the goddamned Lion King. Come on now), but the performances are largely flat and dull. Standouts in disappointment especially pointed at the death of Mufasa, large parts of James Earl Jones' performance (mostly just because you can hear the age in his voice, where in 1994 he sounds about where he should have been age wise. There is a youthfulness in his wisdom that literally is bringing tears to my eyes thinking of the strength of that performance, compared to this one), NOT Jeremy Irons, oh sorry, Chiwetel Ejifor, and the shameless insertion of Beyonce (sorry folks, she is the Kristen Stewart of voice acting, and clearly in it just for the money as opposed to actually adding anything to the craft).

-There should not have been so much freedom allowed with the musical performances. With a couple small exceptions, The vocal performances were stale. It kind of felt like the performances were a meal and SO much was eaten up by the original performers that there just wasn't much left for the usurpers, or that they just didnt know what the hell to do with it.

-All hate aside, this film is visually stunning. I sort of hated the animal performances, or lack thereof anyways, but it is still a beautifully realized film. My favorite scene visually is 1000% where Simba is speaking with the spirit of his father, and the lightning is rolling through the clouds, outlining parts that look like a lion's head, instead of outright just being fully visible. Fucking beautiful. (By the way, we just got through the final fight between Scar and Simba. I didnt know it was possible to trace a cartoon with a computer but they did it. W......T......F......of course it has to happen as I'm complimenting it.....)

-Seth Rogan and Billy Eichner were pretty charming. The only outstanding performances in the movie from top to bottom. That said, Donald Glover was pretty good too. Speaking of exceptional performances in the face of an overall poorly performed film, my OTHER favorite part of the film was the three of them singing The Lion Sleeps and running through the oasis. Holy shit that was charming.

-Sad and kind of disappointing was the fact that the VERY little original writing, or improv, or whatever the hell it was was really good. I loved the quipping between Timon and Pumbaa, and it was REALLY good when it went a little meta. The fart joke and the piece about "Be our guest" was immediately recognized as both reverent reference and irreverent ribbing and was appreciated by both me and Sarah. Sort of shines a disappointing eye on Jon Favreau. I loved what he was able to accomplish with The Jungle Book. I realize he probably didnt do a lot of the screenwriting on either film, but with producer credits comes criticism for laziness where high quality is expected. Cmon man, I love what you do. SO DO IT ALREADY.

-I largely think this film could have been helped on a few fronts with one improvement. OR possibly changing a way the movie was put together, that is, if what I THINK happened was what actually happened. Animated films originally gave you a at minimum believable performance by capturing the physical performance of the voice actor performing ADR, and giving a rough animation estimate of that performance, since movement and expression largely impact what comes out vocally. I am not 100% sure that isn't what happened, but it FEELS like it didnt happen. If animating aspects of physical performances isnt the route, I genuinely think that having a sort of facial motion capture coupled with ACTUAL emoting could have drastically improved performances. It's interesting to see what happens when you put primarily voice actors in front of a camera, or primarily screen/stage actors in front of an ADR microphone. You can truly see the depth (or sometimes lack of) of their abilities as actors. One of my absolute favorite voice actors is Bryan Cranston, for that very reason. Unbelievable performer, in every arena. One of my least favorites is FUCKING BEYONCE. Goddamn is she a one trick pony, if that trick was simply existing. Truly a MASTER OF THAT CRAFT. That said, its 2019 (at that point), if we can give Andy Serkis EVERY tool to be successful, Disney should be able to put out a LITTLE Disney money to allow their actors to, you know, act.

Long (looooooooooooooooong) story made super short is The Lion King (2019) is more of the same, and symptomatic of a problem we created for ourselves: Shameless money grabs at nostalgia. Disney miscued like crazy at remaking a thing I didn't realize until only now how precious it was to me as a kid. Couple that with the fact that they have done SIGNIFICANTLY better doing the same thing but doing a different take, with a different, more modern and possibly more poignant message (I'm looking DIRECTLY at you, Maleficent). Honestly, as much as it KILLS the kid in me to say it, leave the sacred cows alone. Sometimes a good thing just needs to be left to be admired. Nobody ever thought they needed to improve on, say, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, or Ridley Scott's Blade Runner with a sequel or a remake. Wait. Shit. I mean Lewis Carroll's Alice in WonderlandGODDAMNIT. I QUIT.

Verdict--4/10. Seriously please make it stop at Mulan. I really want to see that one, see it not suck, and see it STOP. And for the love of god PLEASE DONT CAST BEYONCE IN IT.

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Season 8 Retrospective

This... Okay, Season 8’s final W-L-T score was 0-11-15, which means that, quantitatively, it should have been the worst season yet. But...I dunno, this season just kind of...came and went. It might partially have to do with the fact that this is the eighth season of a show that should have ended with Season 3, but I think there’s a bigger factor at play here. Yes, it’s that most baffling of poor decisions, the School of Friendship!

I still cannot figure out why they thought this was such a good idea to build the entire season around. Maybe the voice actors for the Mane 6 are trying to move on from the show and are minimizing their future commitments? If it’s just trying to sell toys of the New Mane 6, they wouldn’t need to focus on them so heavily (people will buy figurines of background characters, for god’s sake), but phasing out the original Mane 6′s toyline also seems like a dumb idea. I think it’s just that corporations still haven’t gotten over the collective concept that they all seemed to have in the 1980s that kids love school and will watch anything set at a school. You know which cartoons I watched the least (or just flat out never watched) as a kid? Recess! Teacher’s Pet! Braceface! You know, the ones that spent a large chunk of time at school! School is by far the least interesting part of any child’s life! If the characters were school-age, you maybe showed a scene or two an episode just to establish that, but that’s it! A good example is Kim Possible; sure, she went to school every episode, but the majority of each episode was all the spy shit. Because no duh! (For the record, as a kid, I was also incredibly bored by any show that was just about kids doing normal shit all the time, school-related or otherwise: Doug, Rocket Power, The Weekenders, Hey Arnold!, Pepper Ann, As Told by Ginger, every single live-action laugh-track Disney sitcom...come to think of it, is that all that late-’90s to early-2000s Disney Channel and Nickelodeon shows were? Jesus Christ, I miss when Cartoon Network was fun.)

Anyway, I don’t know what kids watch these days. Maybe they don’t even watch this show; I have no idea. I haven’t kept up. Why am I even still talking about this? On with the list!

#1. “Road to Friendship”: Like I said, this one was the closest to “good” we got this season. Starlight and Trixie tend to have good dialogue together, and this was no exception. Did anyone notice that Starlight was barely in this season at all, though? They really need to deal with their constant problem of adding characters to the main cast and then not knowing what to do with them in future episodes.

#2. “Sounds of Silence”: If not for Autumn Blaze being so goddamn annoying (and the moral being fairly lame), this episode might have been better. At least I now know why I’ve been seeing kirin fanart for a few months now.

#3. “What Lies Beneath”: This was probably the only halfway decent episode involving the New Mane 6 because it actually gave us a bit of insight into their characters besides “like the Mane 6, but children”. The Tree of Harmony’s way of thinking is still super fucked-up, though.

#4. “Molt Down”: Puberty episode? Sure, why not. Still better than Big Mouth.

#5. “Father Knows Beast”: This one goes right next to the other Spike one because, like all Spike episodes, it really left little to no impact. The fact that Spike is still being written to be dumb enough to fall for some random dragon showing up and saying that he’s his father is pretty grating, though.

#6. “The Break Up Break Down”: Miscommunication storylines annoy the shit out of me, especially since Modern Family became 90% “I heard a thing and I’m going to assume the worst instead of just confirming it with the person I heard it from” episodes. At least Discord finally got a couple funny lines again.

#7. “Non-Compete Clause”: I don’t know why Applejack and Rainbow Dash thought a rehash of “Fall Weather Friends” would be a good idea if they mixed in a bit of child endangerment. Thank god the kids turned out to be smarter than them.

#8. “A Rockhoof and a Hard Place”: Still hard to believe they couldn’t find Rockhoof any digging or demolition jobs anywhere in Equestria. I do like that the ending basically acknowledged that they still don’t know exactly what the point of making Twilight a princess was or what she even does anymore.

#9 & #10. “School Daze”: I was technically right. Neighsay did return to be a villain in the season finale; he just wasn’t the real villain. The fact that they could have arrived at the solution at any time and just chose not to was really annoying. Remember, kids love storylines about legal loopholes and technicalities!

#11 & #12. “School Raze”: Yet another episode that required everyone involved to be as stupid as possible to get the plot going. Nothing like going with your first assumptions and ignoring all evidence to the contrary, eh, Twilight?

#13: “Marks for Effort”: This was just dumb. Twilight wouldn’t let the CMC into the school because they already knew enough about friendship? Yeah, sure. If anything, the episode proved just the opposite. Cozy Glow intentionally failed the test because she thought it would get them in? Uh-huh. Given her secret ultimate evil goal was to make everyone friends with her, I can only assume that she did in fact think that that plan would work, since getting them kicked out definitely wouldn’t endear her to them.

#14. “The End in Friend”: I don’t think this episode accomplished what it was attempting to. No, Rarity and Rainbow Dash don’t have anything in common. No, they don’t have to hang out together if they don’t have any activities they both enjoy. No, that doesn’t make them enemies, nor does it mean they can’t still hang out with their other friends. Sheesh.

#15. “The Washouts”: More child endangerment! Why a dangerous stunt team was able to hire Scootaloo I still don’t know, but apparently no one in the audience had a problem with that. If the lesson was to teach children not to be so fickle about picking their role models, that’s probably a good idea.

I’m not sure there’s all that much difference between these two parts of the list, but whatever.

#16. “Fake It ‘Til You Make It”: Seriously, though, Fluttershy’s only mistake was not telling those raccoons ahead of time that she was going to be using different personae. It was working!

#17. “Grannies Gone Wild”: This episode beat out Book Club by a whole month for its message of, “Old people are people too!” The Wonderbolts are assholes, Applejack is an asshole, and everypony loses! Hooray!

#18. “The Mean 6”: At least Chrysalis was still kind of intimidating in “To Where and Back Again”. This episode just made her look like a joke who had no clue what she was doing (more than “A Canterlot Wedding” already did, I mean).

#19. “The Parent Map”: Remember “Parental Glideance”? That was last year’s, “God, my parents are so embarrassing!” episode. This is this year’s. Joy.

#20. “Friendship University”: Someone was confused that I complained about Twilight apparently hating competition, even though she was trying to shut down the Friendship University because she clearly knew that Flim and Flam were untrustworthy. This person apparently missed the fact that Twilight was upset that somepony was opening a competing friendship school BEFORE she found out it was Flim and Flam who were running it, and she in fact went to the Friendship University specifically to find something wrong with it. That’s the part I was objecting to: the fact that Twilight is still so neurotic that she can’t handle not being in control of everything. In fact, that raises an interesting point. Has there ever been an episode where Twilight has had to learn the lesson of, “Other people are capable of things, too. Not everything has to be run by you first”? It certainly wasn’t this one.

#21. “Surf and/or Turf”: Hey, another episode where the conflict made no sense! And, as an added bonus, another one where just talking to the other people involved would have resolved it instantly! Huzzah! Old El Paso managed to make “Why not both?” the lesson of a 30-second commercial. I don’t know why this took so much longer.

#22. “Horse Play”: COM-MU-NI-CA-TION. “You’re a bad actress. You can have a surprise cameo at the end of our play to make the crowd happy, but that’s it.” Jesus.

#23. “The Hearth’s Warming Club”: What exactly was the message of this episode? “Don’t lie”? No, because they never told Twilight the truth; she just happened to be standing behind them when Gallus told the other kids. “Don’t wreck shit”? No, because Gallus never faced any consequences for that. Honestly, the lesson should have been directed at teachers, and it should have been, “Don’t try this shit. It never works; it just pisses everyone off, including you.”

#24. “The Maud Couple”: Worst new character of the season. Hands down. I hope we never see him again, especially if the only way we get more Maud is if he comes along for the ride. What a prick.

#25. “A Matter of Principals”: Speaking of episodes that teach the lesson to the wrong person... Remind me again why Discord wasn’t the one who learned the lesson here? Because he’s unteachable? Because he’s “reformed” and therefore has already learned all the lessons he needs to? Also, this is a rare episode where the characters do actually communicate properly (Starlight does tell Discord to knock his shit off), and they try to pretend they didn’t! Twilight gets mad at Starlight for not talking to Discord, even though she did! You can’t do this, writers! You just can’t!

#26. “Yakity-Sax”: Talk about not knowing what fucking lesson they were trying to teach. You know what? I bet this actually happened. I bet Michael P. and/or Wil Fox were practicing their electric guitar or drums or bagpipes or whatever for days on end at all hours of the night, and all their neighbors called the cops on them. This was their way of sticking it to everyone. “No! You should let me do whatever the hell I want! It doesn’t matter if it disturbs you! Fuck the system! It’s my passion! You can’t stop me from living my dream!”

There’s a holiday special next week, and near as I can figure, it hasn’t been aired in another country ahead of time! We’ll actually get to watch this one together! Yay!

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