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#I just really liked the bigfoot episode okay??
thatonegeekygirl · 3 months
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hands up if your brain chemistry was altered by survival mode bigfoot ep
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softpine · 1 year
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what if i said finn was bill and asa was frank................ what then........................
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pyromegalomaniac · 1 year
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OI YOU
I HAVE AN IDEA
Puppet (or maybe actual) cryptid reader x Wally
I have so many ideas how to turn scary to spoopy
MOTHMAN - Fluffy little fellow that is extremely socially awkward
SIREN HEAD - little rockstar with another mouth on their neck. Horrible eyesight, and probably has a spare speaker everywhere hidden
SKINWALKER - just a silly shapeshifter who steals food and plays silly pranks
LOCHNESS MONSTER - professional mer-person, carry’s around spray bottle to sprits people who curse scales and SMOOOOTH. Skin
BIG FOOT - hiker, and buff as heck, socially anxious but always whispers out a ‘Language’ adnormally tall
EL CHUPACABRA - actually has a pet goat named baby. Fluffy!!
them is just off the top of my head. Their just silly little guys with silly inhuman features
Hey again, 112!! Glad to see you like my stuff enough to come back!! This sure is a lot of ideas!! I don't think I'll be able to quite capture your vision... but I can try!! I'll do my best!! I don't know a bunch about all these cryptids, but I know a crap ton about mothman, funny enough, since I listened to a podcast episode about him. Enjoy!!
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Wally x puppet cryptid!reader Headcanons🍎👻
Mothman-
Burying your face in your neck fluff
Your fluffy little antennas perk up or droop depending on your mood
Seeing Wally always makes them perk up
Wally loves petting your fur
You have really bad luck, accidents always seem to happen around you
That's okay Wally loves you
You give people nightmares when you're in a bad mood, so you try to stay near Wally since he makes you happy
Siren Head-
Generally loud as balls
Bumping into crap since you can barely see
Sometimes you pick up frequencies from radios
Wally loves to sing and dance with you
You're used a lot in Sally's plays for music and sounds
Lochness Monster-
Scottish Accent maybe
Lifeguard at the local pool
"Don't forget to bring a towel!"
(I'm sorry I couldn't help myself-)
Moves really smoothly
Wally likes watching you swim
He will NOT get in though
He doesn't know why you'd wanna get wet
Bigfoot-
Doesn't like pictures
Getting your portrait painted is fine though
Picnicking in the woods w/Wally
Healthy snacks like granola bars and stuff
So tall you can pick the tallest apples off trees
Strong and tall enough you can pick him up so he can pick the high apples too
Chupacabra-
You eat so much
Everyone likes your pet goat Baby
Wally has basically adopted it as his child
You are a very happy family
You will literally steal pies off windowsills
That one friend who always has food in their bag
Not to share necessarily
But you will sit down with Wally and eat a bunch of food
Wowsers, that's a lot!! Hope you liked these, 112!! Thanks for requesting them!! I had fun writing them, and I look forward to doing more in the future!! Much love!!
ヽ(>∀<☆)ノ
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girlwholovesturtles · 2 months
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Rolling With It
Okay, so I had surgery on one of my hands yesterday morning, my dominant hand no less, so typing is gonna be tricky but I am in fact stubborn enough to continue live blogging. Mostly because I have a garbage memory and if I don't put my thoughts down, I will totally forget everything I listened to.
I will start putting cuts though, since the episode came out literally today.
Heck yeah, the music!
Sam is still getting the paper work? And he's stubbornly still doing it? Dude, you should really ask your boss about this paperwork?
Oh, hello Jon? Just started on his own? Oh, statement from the Institute?
Bro, don't insult D&D!
Does this man have a set of cursed dice? Ah, gambler's dice maybe?
So this dude went around spreading bad luck so that he could take all the good luck the dice had. Definitely an interesting concept.
Oh? Wait, is this like a set of death's dice?
OH! Snake eyes. Well sucks to suck, my guy. I wonder if he was named Gary after Gary Gygax?
Dude, no! Mayhaps you should have appreciated the supernatural gift you were given instead of being a fool!
So what fear even is that? The End? Maybe the Corruption? Are there totally new fears in this world or maybe they're merging to become something new and not quite so defined?
Oh, we're getting Gwen?
I am also confused... Are you some sort of angel of death with this?
Alice! Who is this? Oh, he's the dude that left the first episode. Good choice not to go back, actually.
Interesting... so is the idea that Alice is still into Sam or is she actually into Celia? Like, I like Sam and Alice's friendship but I do want to know how they broke up before I say I want to see them get back together. And I'm also really on the fence still about if Sam and Celia are even into each other? Like, they made fast friends but it's had to really tell if it's actual attraction I should be reading into there.
Wow, Sam?! You really gonna just assume that Alice and Teddy have a thing just because they were hanging out? I'm starting to think none of you weirdos can read a room!
"Look mate, Bigfoots a good lay." Alice is my kind of people!
I'm sorry? Sam, you are gonna get Alice hurt!
Manchester? Wasn't the Institute in Chelsea? I just paused and looked it up and those two places are very far from each other. That's a four hour drive apparently.
And Alice is agreeing to this?! Oh, girly really does have it bad!
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misslisamiray · 5 months
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Okay, I have to ask: Did anyone else get an extra laugh out of last night's Pokémon references because, by total coincidence, you JUST started playing Pocket Mortys again yesterday? 🤣🤣🤣 Because I did!!!
I haven't played in about a month. But last night it got to be around 9:30 and I was just like, "Today was long and I don't have enough braincells to work on my fic right now. But if I keep sitting here cuddled up with a kitty, not really doing anything, I won't stay awake for the new episode."
So Pocket Mortys was the perfect solution: required less braincells than working on fic, would help me stay awake & had added bonus of staying cuddled with kitty. ❤️ So I opened the game & played 'til new episode time... and laughed hysterically when Rick revealed he was keeping Bigfoot in a Pokéball. Don't even get me started on the "Popéball" , because I am cackling again typing that. 😂
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pumpkinpie59 · 7 months
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while everyone likes to crap on leo/rai (for good reason) and on apritello for being cringe ig
i feel like one thing every 2012 ship has a problem with is pacing
yes i mean every ship
it’s clear that the 2012 writers don’t rlly know how to commit to romantic subplots so they either go the “they are super into each other right off the bat so there’s little build up” angle or the “will they won’t they,, but we’ll never show them actually get together” angle
i’m not saying these are atrociously bad or anything but it can be really annoying in the long run
apritello is the entire reason i got into 2012 when i was 11 lmao so it got stale for me when the show focuses less and less on their development since they didn’t want to commit to an actual subplot after the bigfoot fiasco. they both grow, sure, but it’s pushed to the background and we never see them talk about it. instead we get a kiss in a non-canon music video ://
dw apritello i still love you
with ramona, while it’s incredibly sweet how in love they are, the pacing of their first episode was ,,,, bad lol. the first time i watched it i was so underwhelmed i was like,,, this gets better?? right?? and it did but yeah i think that first episode for sure needed tweaking.
and more mona would’ve been great too. she needed some character exploration outside of her relationship with raph,, like having her talk more with the other characters her age (i would kill for april and mona content). i’m not saying she doesn’t have depth. she does. but a lot of it gets pushed to the background for her dynamic with raph.
they just didn’t even try with mikey and renet i’ll be real. they threw renet in there as a love interest and then kept making her and mikey kinda go in circles with their interest in each other. they’ll be cute and close in some scenes and then renet will act like she’s just humoring him while mikey kinda forgets about her when shini shows up.
i think renetangelo is cute to some extent (tho i do dislike 2012 mikey a bit so that doesn’t help) but time travel romances are automatically rlly hard to write well and since 2012’s romance writing is already messy, they weren’t going to do well. and renet herself is automatically more interesting when she’s not interacting with mikey. like her platonic dynamic with leo?? adorable. my favorite renet is 2003 and she’s not a love interest and she’s so charming!! renet is just a fun quirky friend of the turtles.
y’all know i love a lot of tmnt love interests so the fact that i prefer renet as a friend prolly says a lot about how she should be written gjdkdk
i don’t wanna talk about leo/rai much, but other than the glaringly bad i/ncest issue (both siblings and cousins), they just weren’t very good as a romantic dynamic either?
like yeah i’m biased bc lotus is the only leo love interest i will ever accept (and also leo/rai is gross lol)
but like ,,, with karai, leo saw her as an escape from being a leader so he can explore his rebellious streak. which is interesting! but unlike with lotus, leo was willing to betray her behind her back, and karai was willing to manipulate him to do what she wanted him to. but okay that’s getting off topic. back to the pacing,,
season 1 gets a pass for me since i actually love the pacing of season 1 alone (like honestly, after the cousin reveal, there wasn’t any romance up until season 2 from my memory,, and even before that after karai betrayed leo and the other brothers found out, leo wasn’t into her,, it was his brothers who were making fun of him), but afterwards, season 2 onward,the timing of leo/rai moments were always a slap in the face bc they were always. ALWAYS. right after they acknowledged her as family THRJEKSJDJDKSK
but yeah i think pacing is the worst problem of 2012 ships :p
obviously some other problems too, like sexism lol. but pacing is most glaring for me
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faterpresources · 10 months
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Mʏ Aᴅᴠᴇɴᴛᴜʀᴇs ᴡɪᴛʜ Sᴜᴘᴇʀᴍᴀɴ - Sᴇᴀsᴏɴ 1 Eᴘɪsᴏᴅᴇ 1
A collection of random lines compiled from the first episode of My Adventures with Superman Feel free to change the pronouns in order to better suit the parts involved.
❝ Pew-pew! ❞
❝ You nervous? ❞
❝ I can do this. ❞
❝ It gets better. ❞
❝ Ha! I am pumped. ❞
❝ Time for Plan B. ❞
❝ Goodbye forever. ❞
❝ This is precious. ❞
❝ Don't touch that. ❞
❝ We have no buyer. ❞
❝ We're stuck here. ❞
❝ It's not gorillas. ❞
❝ How am I doing this? ❞
❝ Oh, that's not good. ❞
❝ What are we going to do? ❞
❝ I've already got a lead. ❞
❝ Hi, there. After... you. ❞
❝ Do what I tell you to do. ❞
❝ Hey, you gotta slow down! ❞
❝ No. ___, you're an intern. ❞
❝ Do not crush his/her hand. ❞
❝ These are the new interns. ❞
❝ She/He's gotta be an alien. ❞
❝ I can't believe we're late. ❞
❝ Okay. I think we lost them. ❞
❝ Come on, ___. We're a team. ❞
❝ We're not a team. ❞
❝ What took you so long, ____? ❞
❝ Oh! I can't believe him/her. ❞
❝ Well, I didn't plan for this. ❞
❝ I know what I'm talking about. ❞
❝ You didn't give us the chance. ❞
❝ ___, this is your last chance. ❞
❝ The crew was getting restless. ❞
❝ People need to know about this. ❞
❝ There's a big pothole up there. ❞
❝ No, don't do that to your boss. ❞
❝ See you in there, big guy/girl. ❞
❝ Wait, were they garbage trucks? ❞
❝ Uh, they came from an army base. ❞
❝ It could be the sewer dinosaurs. ❞
❝ We've hit a snag in the operation. ❞
❝ What we need to do is keep moving. ❞
❝ New interns, out. Old intern, stay. ❞
❝ You didn't give us the chance. ❞
❝ Really? He/she seemed pretty upset. ❞
❝ Nah, that's just his/her face. ❞
❝ Our fence wasn't at the drop point. ❞
❝ Fine. I don't need your help anyway. ❞
❝ And then he says I'm the selfish one. ❞
❝ We call ourselves the Newskid Legion. ❞
❝ Why do you think that keeps happening? ❞
❝ Look around. There has to be something. ❞
❝ They're moving the robots to the docks. ❞
❝ And I saw a weird pigeon. It was gross. ❞
❝ Which one of you messed with the robot? ❞
❝ Do what I say and we can still get paid. ❞
❝ Like the fact that aliens walk among us. ❞
❝ Uh, sorry. I'll fix the front door later! ❞
❝ Ready for me to bust the story wide open? ❞
❝ There's only so many places to hide them. ❞
❝ Then what are we waiting around here for? ❞
❝ We don't even know what half this stuff is. ❞
❝ I got him/her fired from his/her dream job. ❞
❝ I can't believe our alarm clock exploded again. ❞
❝ This isn't about the city, ___ , it's about you. ❞
❝ Uh, wait. ___, this is starting to feel dangerous. ❞
❝ You're, like, twice my size. You can definitely... ❞
❝ We don't have to go through the window, or whisper. ❞
❝ Okay, I had to save the cat. I had to save the cat. ❞
❝ PM could be initials, like...Paranormal Meta-sapiens! ❞
❝ Just take a risk. What's the worst that could happen? ❞
❝ The only reason I called you in today was to meet them. ❞
❝ I'll tell our boss all of this the instant we meet him. ❞
❝ So, I'm, uh, just gonna leave before this gets any worse. ❞
❝ You do not report the news. You do not leave this building. ❞
❝ Uh... Well, it's... Today's my first day of work and I'm... ❞
❝ And with my keen eye for observation, huh, I'll get the proof. ❞
❝ This is it. This is the story that'll make you a real reporter. ❞
❝ I'm a normal man/woman/person having a normal day, starting now. ❞
❝ We're meeting my important and very serious journalistic source. ❞
❝ What is wrong with your dumb, beautiful, coward of a best friend?  ❞
❝ Wait, did you say "beautiful"? ❞
❝ It's bad business to hand out freebies. I need something in return. ❞
❝ I mean, yes, I lied.But he/she wouldn't have helped me unless I had. ❞
❝ Aliens, Loch Ness, Bigfoot...that one psychic starfish from Germany. ❞
❝ Your job is to teach the interns how to scan things and make coffee. ❞
❝ For the good of me, you need to stop coming in with these wild ideas. ❞
❝ I trusted you, and you used me and ___ just so you could get your story. ❞
❝ It's the term for the super-intelligent gorillas France has been hiding. ❞
❝ Ooh, and I have the three dozen donutsy ou wanted to eat all ready to go. ❞
❝ We're just two dummies who listened to you because we didn't know any better. ❞
❝ I mean, technically, yes, but you wouldn't have helped me if I told the truth. ❞
❝ Oh, have you considered that these robots might have come from beyond the stars? ❞
❝ I was being selfish, and you just left us. But you came back, and...And I'm sorry. ❞
❝ Why don't we panic real loud in front of the thieves and killers we hired for this job? ❞
❝ Ugh. I know. He/She did lie, but would I have helped him/her if he/she told me the truth? ❞
❝ He/She kept me behind because he/she wants you to help me follow up on my stolen robot story. ❞
❝ Hmm. If I had to transport stolen goods through the city...I'd find a way to do it in plain sight. ❞
❝ And because they see everything during their routes, they always know what's happening in the city. ❞
❝ ____ , we can't just sit in a warehouse full of freaky stolen science weapons till the cops show up. ❞
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alpaca-clouds · 4 months
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This one amazing anime you have probably never heard about
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You know what? After talking a bit with a friend about this anime, I really gotta tell you guys about it.
For fucks sake: Watch Basquash. Yes, the show is more than a decade old, but fucking nobody watched it back when it was released, because people were too put off by the concept of the show to give it a chance. But literally I know few anime who understood the issues around capitalism and how it destroys the world better than this one did.
If you have heard about the show, you will probably know it as "the anime where mechas play basketball and some women have giant tits". Which... Both is true. But it also does not capture the essence of this show at all.
Let me tell you what the show is actually about.
Dan JD lives on the planet Earth Dash. He mostly does small time crime, trying to collect the money to allow his sister to travel to the moon. Because the rich people all live on the moon, which is why the moon has much better technology. This also includes medicine. And Dan's sister, Coco, was once a gifted basketball player, but through an accident became wheelchair bound. The technology on the moon could fix her legs. When Dan's childhood friend Miyuki returns from the moon with one of the mechas responsible for Coco's accident, Dan uses it for quite a bit of chaos - and incidentally starts Bigfoot Street Basketball through it, later known as Basquash.
And yes, you can kinda see the basics of the capitalist criticism in this short description. But believe me, that only scratches the surface. Because oh boy, this anime is basically just one big metaphor on how capitalism destroys the world - and how the lack of social mobility might well be the reason that the people who might have the skill to save us never get access to the kind of techology they would need for it.
I am going to explain under the cut - because of spoilers. I think the show is very much enjoyable even with the ending spoiled, but if you just wanna watch it... Go ahead. Please. Do yourself the favor and watch it!
Okay, let me talk a bit more about what actually is going on in this show.
For the destruction he commits in the first episode, Dan gets send to prison, though he gets out two years later. He kinda get into steering one of the mechas (called "big foots" in this world) himself and quickly starts to figure out how to use the thing to actual play basketball. And indeed, his stuff in the first episode lead a lot of people to play "street basketball" with those mechas.
Even though he had been in prison, someone shows up to want to sponsor Dan with this new sport. In fact, quite a lot of people become interested in how Dan plays the sport. And for the first bit we just have them play the sport, travel a bit, see different parts of the world.
Now, there is ton of capitalist commentary going on during this first half of the show, too. But nothing compared to the second half.
Because around the halfway mark we learn, why people are so interested in Bigfoot Street Basketball, aka Basquash. And this reason is that for a while now the moon has been put out of orbit, because the rich people build their city all on this one location, making the moon much heavier on one side. And this will lead to the moon crashing into earth, killing everyone.
Now, of course rich people could have changed the way they behaved or stuff - but they didn't. Instead they banked on a prophecy about a chosen one with the ability to move orbits with a glowing ball. And because the basketballs that Dan throws start to glow, everyone assumes he is the chosen one and can save them. So, basically they can keep on going like they do and he is just going to save them.
But there is two issues. For one, they cannot be sure about it. For two, he is a little anarchist.
Which is why the backup plan is to genetically engineer a chosen one.
Never the less, in the end they have Dan there, trying to do the thing that would push the moon back into orbit and... he fails. Because it turns out, yeah, he wasn't the chosen.
We never learn, who is the actual chosen, but the series strongly implies that it would have been Coco. Who gave up basketball when she became wheelchair bound.
Now mind you, the show is actually fairly good about this. Because Coco herself is happy with where she is in life. She has become a writer, she likes writing, and she is frankly annoyed that Dan only cares about "fixing" her disability.
But yeah, she might have been the one to save the world - and she was not in the position to do that, because her economic circumstances basically made it that she could not access the kind of care she would have needed to fulfill that role.
And this is just... the amount of metaphor going on that I really cannot help but bow to. This is AMAZING writing.
Of course, in the end the world is still saved, because everybody realizes that waiting for the one legendary chosen hero is bullshit anyway and everybody should work together to find a solution, which they do and manage to save everyone.
But... Yeah, fuck. This show is so good. And it is just very unfair that because of the concept people just never watched it.
Oh, and also: This series has one of the most banger soundtracks ever. Just listen to the fucking ending.
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saintheartwing · 9 months
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So. The "Lois being mad at Clark for Not Admitting He's Superman" Thing Got Resolved and...
Okay, I'm glad Lois and Clark made up, but they didn't REALLY address the hypocrisy issue. I had a feeling they wouldn't. Otherwise, I enjoyed the episode quite a bit, especially finding out Jimmy's known all this time. Now...
FULL SPOILERS BELOW. BEWARE.
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Good.
The episode begins with them realizing Jimmy is just plain GONE. Clark swept the campsite. The forest. No sign. He's not answering their phone calls. Lois agrees to go help find him, but NOT cuz she wants to be around Clark. But because Jimmy needs them. During it, she reveals she knows a ton about tracking people through the woods cuz her dad took her on wilderness survival weekends.
If you know anything about the comics, you'll know what this is leading up to. Her dad wasn't just being all super prepared...her dad wasn't just military. He's General Lane. He's the bad guy in charge of Task Force X.
They find his phone and...holy crap! Bigfoot is real and it kidnapped Jimmy! Well...not exactly. It's Monsieur Mallah and the Brain.
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Jimmy however is actually super psyched that he's gonna be killed by a talking French gorilla and a brain-robot thing that can hover. Mallah and him bond, Jimmy getting to look around the laboratory the two came from. The Brain was a human, Mallah an ordinary gorilla, and they were in Cadmus's research lab, designed not around big fancy weapons, but around more "make cool stuff" in that regard, like mutants, or analyzing portals to other worlds, and of course in Mallah's case...creating superintelligent gorillas. Task Force X however came in and tried to shut it all down, a black hole sort of went off and it destroyed the Brain's body, but Mallah saved his...well...brain.
Meanwhile, Clark and Lois find a graveyard of dead soldiers. They tried to get in and failed miserably. And why? Well...see...that alien tech that keeps popping up got left behind. And it activates when Clark accidentally bumps over it with his foot. Worse still, Mallah and the Brain have been shielding themselves, keeping hidden with a red sun energy generator...which means Clark's powers aren't working well.
But Lois wants to know why Clark has never even told JIMMY the truth, when Jimmy's known even longer after Clark admits he's told Lois more about himself than anyone. She asks "Were your feelings towards me a lie" and he asks how she can think that...juuuuuuust before the robot swarms show up to get them.
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They manage to barely get away but Clark takes an onslaught of lasers to his chest, blowing his clothing off except his pants and...
Well...hot damn. Super abs on display.
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Seeing this, Lois is obviously concerned. She asks how he knew he was bulletproof and he says "I didn't. I just knew YOU weren't". Lois is now, obviously, feeling guilty about doubting what Clark had told her before and all that.
Through all this, Jimmy's been finding more and more secrets of the Brain and Mallah. They had said the black hole generator there had been shut down...but they kiiiinda sorta set it off to begin with to fake their deaths and cover their escape, and they've got it working again to try and stabilize it, so they can go to another dimension where they can live in peace.
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So they've sort of...kiiiinda lied a LITTLE about the circumstances of how they ended up here. But hey, as long as the power stays on-
Theeeeen the power fluctuates as Clark barely manages to get the big steel front doors open. At first it looks like Mallah and the Brain are gonna fight, but then Jimmy insists they talk it out. Clark and Lois apologize for ignoring Jimmy and not going on the camping trip with him and Clark's about to tell him the truth of him being Superman, but Jimmy is like "I KNOW you're Superman, you tore the handle off our door at college, I've known all this time". And he's also mad that Lois was told before he was. Though technically Lois wasn't "told", she found out. But Clark says they have robots chasing them, can they discuss this later?
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They all try to fight them off, and we learn they're "OMACS", the head fighting force of Task Force X, which attacked Mallah and Brain years ago. Things look bad cuz Clark's powers are on the fritz and during the firefight Jimmy and Lois ask why Clark didn't just tell the truth and he says he was scared.
"All I've ever wanted was to be normal...I don't want you to treat me like an alien. I just want to be your friend."
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Jimmy tells him he doesn't have to worry, they're friends with him cuz of WHO he is, not WHAT. And Lois says she just wants him to be open with them. This...gives Mallah an idea. "Open"! They've got to get the black hole open to stabilize it...and they open it enough to suck in the robots, and Clark's JUST able to hold on long enough to keep them steady while the black hole is then stabilized.
With the robots gone, Mallah and Brain decide they have to leave and it's clear Lois and Clark have patched their relationship up as they hold hands. Brain brings up how the tech, the red sun radiation field, the robots...all of it reacted to HIM. Cadmus set up shop there around 22 years ago...the same time Clark landed on Earth. All of this has to do with him, and this means the head of Task Force X is gunning for him, and he's a super patriot who would blot the sun out if he thought it would help his nation. He's got to be careful.
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Not long after, General Lane shows up, realizing the place was recently vacated. SOMEBODY'S been there...and not long ago. But there's still a bunch of tech lying around and he wants Dr. Ivo, his prisoner, to work on putting it to use...to destroy Superman.
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Heyyy, wait a minute, this guy's hair was all gone last time we saw him. How'd he get it back?
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Still...I liked the episode a lot. I was a bit annoyed they never addressed the whole hypocrisy argument, but as long as Lois doesn't KEEP doing things like stealing people's IDs to sneak into places or the like, aka, lying to get a story, AFTER promising Clark no more lies, then it should be fine.
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sollucets · 11 months
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congratulations on your follower milestone!! You deserve it! I would love to also request something from the touch prompt list for aye and akk? 50. putting a hand over the other’s mouth to shut them up screams Akk and aye to me..
hi nonny!! thank you very much for the prompt & ur well-wishes
this is set in-canon, specifically in the back half of episode 10 pre-protest. i think there's room to imagine a few extra days of secret boyfriends akkaye, and if there isn't, too bad, i want to. nearly 1k again bc it got out of hand
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The days between their first suspicions that the protest will be outside school and that weekend are tense. Very few people are acknowledging it out loud for fear of retribution; only in closed meetings and on social media does anyone dare to say anything at all is going on. Just another invisible threat to hang over all their heads. 
Akk leaves an after-school meeting with a frown on his face, stopping in an-abandoned-at-this-time hall outside the student affairs office to check over the hashtags. He’ll probably get away with being seen using his phone if he just says he’s doing his duty, but he doesn’t want to bet on it. 
So it’s understandable that he’s on edge enough to make an undignified shrieking noise when he's grabbed by the wrist and pulled around a corner into a smaller, connecting hallway. 
"Ayan," he hisses, because who else could it be?
Grinning, Aye runs a thumb over Akk’s pulse point before dropping his wrist in favor of leaning against the wall next to him, looking up through his eyelashes. He’s in his usual sweatshirt and somehow looks just as put-together as always despite it. “You know you’re not supposed to be using that, head prefect," he says, voice only slightly lowered in deference to their location. 
"What do you want," Akk demands in a whisper, checking back and forth down the hall. No one's here, but that doesn't mean anything; it may be after classes, but there are still staff and other students with late clubs around who might easily pass through here. He straightens his back nervously.
"To see my boyfriend," Aye says innocently.
That word still sounds so strange and precious coming out of his mouth. Akk rallies after a second. "You saw me in class multiple times today. Try again."
"To really see you," Aye amends, tilting his head coyly and reaching out to flip the hem of Akk's uniform jacket between his fingers. Something seems to shift in his face when he adds, "You look stressed, Bigfoot."
Akk's jaw clicks, and he sighs, leaning back against the wall too. The brick is uncomfortable even through the layers of his clothes, and he wants to reciprocate, to mess with Aye's hair or tell him the whole horrible truth or hold his hand, but the hall is only so empty for so long. "You always say that."
"You always look stressed. Can't I worry?"
He wishes he wouldn't. It's too much, sometimes, the guilt of it. "I'm fine, Aye."
Aye's dark eyes, always too-seeing, follow him as he shifts uncomfortably where he stands. “I don’t believe you,” he says quietly. 
Closing his eyes to get away from that look, Akk lets himself be honest: “I don’t expect you to.”
A hand brushes his for a second, warm and familiar, and then two hands take his face between them and squeeze. “Stop that,” Aye says as Akk’s eyes fly open and he jerks away. “You look like Singto when the treats run out.”
Akk has no idea what his expression is doing, but it must be hilarious, because Aye snickers unashamedly at him. "That's a better face."
Without much success, he tries to stop the corners of his mouth from curving up. He’s always at least a little out of control around Aye, honestly, and it should scare him even more than it already does, but— when Aye’s smile looks like that, all bright and teasing and blinding, what can he do? What could anyone expect him to do?
"And that's even better," says Aye, tone self-satisfied. "Show me that all the time, okay?"
"Shut up," Akk grumbles, the effect ruined by his obvious grin. He puts a hand up and actively pulls the corners of his mouth down.
"Don't think I will," Aye tells him, eyes sparkling. "The results are just so good. You're so cu--"
Akk takes the hand at his own face and slaps it over Aye's mouth, finally managing a proper glare. "Don't," he says pointedly. "I'm not."
Aye raises both eyebrows and wiggles them obnoxiously.
"You are very much the only person that thinks that," Akk tells him. He's surprised Aye hasn't licked his hand yet. "Most people actually take me seriously, you know. You could do that too. It wouldn't even be hard."
Aye says something muffled that sounds suspiciously like you don't want me to, and Akk rolls his eyes, laughing a little. "You're too full of yourself, really. You—"
Over Akk’s fingers, Aye's eyes go comically wide, and he shifts enough to slap his own hand over Akk's mouth just as the sounds of footsteps pass them in the connecting hallway, the murmur of a conversation identifying the people having it as teachers heading towards the offices.
Both of their hands over each other's mouths, their gazes lock for a long moment as the sounds fade away. Akk doesn't even breathe as Aye's fingers shift.
When it's quiet again, they both drop their hands, staring.
Then Aye cracks, his lips twitching, and Akk stifles a laugh of combined relief and sympathy with all his strength in turn, face scrunching up as he shakes his head. So stupid, and so close to being caught. He even still has his phone in his hand. He’s about to murmur something along those lines when his entire train of thought is derailed. 
Aye brings the hand he'd used to cover Akk’s to his own mouth and silently presses two fingers to it in a smiling kiss. When all Akk can do is stare, transfixed, he draws a little closer and whispers, “You can have a real one if you let me walk you to your dorm.”
Like I want that, Akk wants to say, to fend off the way they both know he does. He shakes his head, ruefully this time. “We shouldn’t leave at the same time,” he says very softly, an apology. “I’ll — see you later?” 
Aye’s smile goes a little plastic for a moment, pained, but he doesn’t push it. “I’ll call you. It’s a promise.”
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I wanna talk about the approach to the supernatural in Reservation Dogs.
I'd like to add as a disclaimer that I'm not yet familiar with most of Taika Waititi's other work. I know he has written about the supernatural before, but I haven't seen it firsthand so I don't know if what I'm about to say is unique to Rez Dogs or if its common throughout his work.
The show presents the supernatural and poses the question of whether or not it's "real" in the very first episode of the series with Big and his field of catfish (among other conspiracies). Big is often used as the POV character for these phenomena because he's presented as someone who readily accepts conspiracies, supernatural theories, and is known in his community as a Bigfoot-hunting wackjob. By doing this, the show makes the audience question if the things Big sees are real. At the same time, very "real" supernatural events happen to other characters, such as the Spirit who speaks to Bear. Some truth is shown to Big's beliefs in S1E5 Come and Get Your Love, where the Deer Lady is definitely shown to be real. This is all the Season 1 setup for the glorious romp that is S2E8 This is Where the Plot Thickens (which we'll come back to), where the line between reality and supernaturality is completely blurred, but there's a larger theme at play here I think. I would say Reservation Dogs likes to present reality-based solutions to supernatural problems, but without ever discounting those problems as "fake" or "just in your head." I feel like this is in contrast to a lot of media, which tends to do the Scooby Doo "There was a logical explanation the entire time!!!" thing. Not here.
The supernatural IS real
BUT it is always conquered by the mundane.
First, I want to pivot to Elora. There's a small scene in Stay Gold Cheesy Boy (S2E7) that illustrates what I mean really well. At the end of the previous episode (S2E6), Elora is shown sitting alone in her house. A house she is now the sole owner of. She begins to hear chanting coming from Mabel's bedroom, reminiscent of the elders who chanted as she was dying. Elora nervously investigates. The chanting gets louder as she approaches the bedroom, but it ends suddenly when she turns the light on. Elora turns the light off and walks back into the hallway, looking around her darkened house as if in a panic. There's muffled chanting and a growing soundwall that makes you feel claustrophobic, like something is coming towards you/her. The camera zooms in on her distraught face in the dark and then cuts to credits.
I don't know about the rest of ya'll, but that scared the shit out of me!!! I was like "oh fuck, what might happen to Elora???" This is Reservation Dogs! Shit can get DARK. She hasn't been in a great place mentally.
We don't see Elora at all for the beginning of Stay Gold Cheesy Boy. When Jackie goes to tell Bear and Willie Jack that Cheese was arrested, she says that Elora isn't answering her phone, spiking anxiety in the audience. You're made to wonder if she's okay.
But soon after the three of them find Elora at her house, plugged into headphones, painting the walls of her grandmother's bedroom, and there's relief. But that was quite the buildup to what turned out to be a paint job, right?
Elora is haunted by her grief, and as we saw in Mabel (S2E4), by the memories the house holds that she doesn't, by its history. Elora wanted to leave the Village, but now she's chained to it by this house she suddenly owns. I don't think the chanting and strange noises were just in Elora's head. She was being haunted. But she also didn't get attacked in the night by ghosts and the solution wasn't to hire an exorcist. When we're haunted by the past, the best thing we can do is look to the future. Elora was being haunted by the house's past so she took a step towards the house's (and her own) future. It's a very... reasonable reaction for a person to have. You can sense the urgency Elora felt to get this done after that harrowing night. What would you do if you felt like you couldn't handle living in a house with its history and memories? If you can't move, giving it a new coat of paint might be the next best thing.
Back to S2E8, this episode is a great example because it plays so much with the audience's sense of reality. A character with one of the strongest connections to the supernatural we've seen, Big, accidentally starts tripping on a huge dose of acid. He's soon followed by Kenny Boy. Complete side note, the juxtaposition of nervous and terrified Big's first time on acid, and chill Kenny Boy (hecking love Kirk Fox btw), who has probably done this a billion times, just vibing is hilarious. A lot of what Big sees can be assumed to be hallucinations, although in this show you can never be too sure. Deer Lady appears but is it really her or is it just his memory of her? Until they come upon the cultists. The Field of Catfish was a mystery presented at the start and built up a little every time Big would see or talk about it with no possible explanation. It turns out, the answer was weird cultists who fuck dead catfish. As wild as that is, it's still an answer grounded in reality so it brings your expectations back down a little bit. Then a bona-fide Supernatural Phenomenon shows up to save them. Not only is the Deer Lady confirmed to be SEEN by someone other than Big, but Kenny Boy KNOWS her, they've met before! So, there can no longer be any doubt in the audience's mind.
As a refresher, the Deer Lady is a supernatural woman with deer legs (as the name implies) who kills "bad" men (and men specifically). Figuring out what "bad" and "good" means is kind of what Big's arc is all about. She asks if Kenny Boy has been good and he replies, smiling, "No... but I've been trying real hard." Kenny Boy isn't someone Big would consider "good" in his very simplistic, child-like idea of it. Her affection toward Kenny Boy shows that being good isnt just saying No to drugs and following the law. Her targets are consistently womanizing rich men who have no regard for others or their environment. She does extend to outright criminals like murderers and robbers if the opportunity presents itself, but usually to protect or save someone. I don't think she likes to work in the open if she can avoid it. The Deer Lady is a supernatural phenomenon that punishes Bad Men. You can avoid getting killed by her by being a Good Man. By not flaunting excessive wealth, by not harming others, and by caring about people around you. The fundamentals of being a decent human being.
There's other examples of this throughout the show of course, but these are a couple that stood out to me. A kind of overlapping theme that I'd love to delve into is the reverence given to Weirdos who Just Say Shit. Junkies, homeless, random dudes in waiting rooms, etc. All spewing their strange ramblings to whoever will hear, but the show frames them as wise and worth listening to. I think I need to end this post before I get too off-topic, but I think it plays into this theme as well.
I've intentionally avoided speaking on the scenes of prayer, where there's a very obvious crossing between these boundaries. I think there's a lot to say about those scenes as well, but I am not Indigenous and I feel like I'd be trying to speak on cultural and spiritual practices I know nothing about. I already feel dangerously close to doing that. I really don't want to make assumptions about anyone's beliefs, so I've tried to stick to examining the screenwriting and how it conveys these themes. If anyone else is willing to add their input, I'd be thrilled to read it.
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Dating Todoroki Headcanons <3
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A/n: having sm Todoroki brain rot. Ltrly only thinking about him. There isn’t enough fics in the world, need more🤞🏽🤞🏽hope u enjoy
Warnings: none 😘
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• Todoroki takes a breath each time he kisses you. Every time you stand near he straightens his posture. He cups your hand into his when you walk, it’s so casual he does it without thinking.
• During every party his eyes scan the room before finding you a seat and a drink.
• He just has an empty stare when other people talk and you know he’s thinking about anything other than the main topic.
• But when you talk he’s intensely focused and bringing up certain points of a story if you get off track. It’s just:
“…Then I found out he cheated on her twice. You’re probably thinking ‘how can anyone do that to someone they love’ right? Well actually the whole time—“ your phone chimes and you pause, “Oh hold on…”
When you look up you sit back in thought, “What were we talking about again?”
“You were about to explain why he cheated on her.”
“Oh right!”
*Repeat this 15 times*
• He loves watching discovery channel at 3 am, yk when they start airing episodes of “catching Bigfoot”, or “true signs of aliens” like he genuinley sits down and watches this. You have walked in on him, fully awake, one hour into these episodes, on cable television.
• Omg loves trashy reality tv as well. Watches love island and real housewives with you, he loves the drama. (Due to having such little social interaction, he believes people behave like this irl…)
• He gives you very detailed and sweet compliments. Compliments the way you smile with a kiss. Compliments any outfit he finds cute while feeling the material. Just calls you pretty while pressing a kiss to your forehead.
• Likes and reposts all your insta posts to his story.
• Will hit you with the sweetest, most heart gushing words you have ever heard before going to bed like it’s nothing. He will just:
“You’re the only person who makes me this happy. You’re perfect.” With a soft hand to your cheek.
Then passes out. like ???
• When you two argue he has the cutest expression, it’s just him with squeezed eyebrows and a frown. Looks so deeply in thought it almost makes you forget about what you were mad about.
• After any sort of argument he goes in for a hug. Stuff yours face into his chest. Asks if you’re okay or if you need anything. U can’t even be mad anymore!!
• Shares food with u all the time. Even if he is super hungry, he will let you take a bite from whatever he has. (He kind of even encourages it!!)
• Loves being apart of your regular everyday moments and making them super domestic. like cooking with you, watching television with you on his lap, washing your faces together. Turns every boring activity into a really fun quality time moment.
• He also loves to hold you by the waist, everywhere u go his hand is just on your waist. Maybe cause it’s easier to pull u closer to him?? Idk but he loves resting his hand there.
• He loves the way jewlery looks on you, how necklaces hang past your collar bone, how your earrings sway with your head, omg rings?? Loves it, always grabs your hands and plays with the rings on your fingers. Put on any form of jewlery and this man will be on you within seconds.
• He would literally be the sweetest boyfriend ever. Will take care of u better than anyone else. Only man worth getting on my knees for… to propose :)
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I'm re-reading the bigfoot series because I'm finally in a stable enough mental space to finish it.
(I have a horrendous habit of refusing to finish things I love. I've managed to rewatch every season of The Office ten+ times without watching the final three episodes. I know. I'm a crazy person. So, the fact that I haven't finished the bigfoot series is a compliment lol.)
I don't have a question. I just wanted to say the whole montage of the roadtrip is so dear to me.
Nothing really outright "romantic" happens, but it's still one of the most romantic sequences I've ever read.
I don't know how to pinpoint why it's so special?? Idk, it's the vibes, man. You are the true master of vibes.
Thank youuuuuu <3<3<3
Actually I appreciate this information and from now on I am just going to assume that anybody who is not reading my fics is only doing it because they are afraid they will love them too much lol.
Yeah that road trip, up until the end, they really just eat a lot of french fries and try not to stare at each other lol. They are both just like "what kind of gay mess have i gotten myself into this time???" and they dont even know the half of it. They're just babies, man.
I hope the ending is okay! There is also a secret epilogue that is not technically part of the series but I was still deep in the bigfootverse mindset when I wrote it so I consider it part of the universe.
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hiya raz! idk why but when i read your 3 fun facts i immediately wanted to pair you with aziraphale. i’ve only seen one episode of good omens but i feel like he would appreciate your crocheting abilities :’)
no obligation to answer, i’m sure your inbox is full, but here are my 3 fun facts:
1: i have a degree in animation! i focused on character design, world building and storyboards/animatics
2: i love art history, art museums (museums in general actually, love a good science museum) but i’m especially interested in architecture, especially when i’m able to take good reference photos for my art.
3. i’m really into cryptids. of course the classics like mothman and bigfoot. but i’m also a sucker for the flatwoods monster and the fresno night crawlers. (and aliens, of course, but i wouldn’t consider those cryptids.) i think the folklore of each creature is so interesting, even if you don’t believe it, it impacts the local culture so much.
i hope you’re doing well! :3
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Omg ZIRA!! AAAH!! A perfect match for me tbh. Thank you so much for matching me btw <3 that's super sweet and so much appreciated. I am also okay, thank you. Chugging away as per the usual.
Now, onto your own match.. hmm...
Bucky Barnes from Marvel!
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Bucky is awe-struck by your talent when it comes to animatics and story-telling. He's been around a good while and he knows a good story when he comes across one. He hasn't quite got the hang of social media but he'd definitely share all the posts of all your work if you let him. Bucky doesn't really get the fascination for history (given that he's been around for a lot of the modern part of it) but he does like art. There's just something about art galleries that he finds so peaceful. I feel like he'd get really into photography actually, and that he'd end up taking really good pictures and showing them to you and seeing if you wanted them as ref images. He's not so into cryptids, but he adores how into them you are.
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Robot Chicken #70: “P.S. Yes, in That Way” | January 11, 2009 - 11:30PM | S04E06
Whatsup dick head. Time to talk about An episode of a TV Show called Robot Chicken that I’m forcing myself to watch because I implied I would in the description for this blog. I of course am going to pick and choose what sketches to talk about so I can get this done quicker. 
Okay things I hated first, because I think it’s nice to end things on a positive note: They did a sketch about Billy Dee Williams which–you guessed it–further dissects lore from the Star Wars films. Robot Chicken, can’t you just isolate Star Wars stuff to your awful Star Wars specials? Fuck you, dude (you can tell this show is a DUDE!!!!).
The Strawberry Shortcake sketch really bothered me. It diligently follows the trope of most of their sketches about kid-friendly shows from the 80s; a typical problem arises and they solve it by doing something violent, which would be out-of-character for this show. That premise is as tired as another trope: just having a sketch all be jerks. Like, when everyone in the sketch is just a jerk who acts like a jerk to the other jerks in the sketch it feels so hollow. It’s like ersatz subversiveness. “Ersatz subversiveness”, wow that’s really smart-sounding of me to say. Wow. I have done it again. Anyway, sketches like this illustrate why I (mostly) hate Robot Chicken.
There’s a sketch I didn’t like that much where they make fun of writer Doug Goldstein for spending $12,000 on a timeshare. I dislike a lot of these guys on a visceral level but will fight to the death for their right to make navel-gazing sketches about themselves. It’s a time-honored sketch comedy tradition. Anyway, I thought this one was sorta interesting but I didn’t laugh. I hate hearing Brecken Meyer’s voice on this show.
Okay, so one of the sketches I liked the most was the Back to the Future thing. The most charitable thing I can say about a “good” Robot Chicken sketch is that it feels like something that might be riffed out on Cum Town. I also liked the sketch parodying Harry and the Hendersons and the bigfoot makes the family watch him beat off before going into the woods. I guess I like masturbation. Speaking of, I need to go, uh, do something. Now.
EPHEMERA CORNER
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Today, like every Friday, the thing that made the day berable at work was knowing I would come home and eventually listen to the new episode. And what an episode! I can’t believe we’re already on S2ep5 (chapter fifteen)!
Spoilers below:
Interesting beginning...specially with the question on how they plan to put things back into balance the “too small to let us in” -- what are you really after...
Jeremy and Thomas finally having a bit of the convo we’ve been waiting for!
The fact that it happens while grocery shopping
That they are both worried about each other
The very specific way that they each are dealing with everything
I love that Thomas is still getting used to present day - the whole thing about earthquakes. 
Thomas just casually mentioning he met Shelly...
Jeremy wanting time and wanting to focus on the immediate fire instead of everything being fully valid while Thomas thinking that resolving it all will lead to him being okay because “it’s bigger than just me” 
The difference between Jeremy saying “you’re my responsibility” and Thomas saying “it’s not your job to worry about me” 
Thomas: “It’s a lot” 
Jeremy: “It’s a fucking lot” -- drinking game for every time Jeremy curses. 
“You’re not alone in this” - I really love that perspective from Thomas...not just because he’s right, but because it’s clear that before the start of S1 Jeremy really had no one but maybe Vipin. 
I am here for all the Vipin and Olivia we’ve been getting this season. 
The ley lines vs the planets argument 😂
Paranormal Seekers: Cindy, Kevin, and Spencer give me good vibes. Very different from the Legend Tripper that Jeremy met. 
Did find it interesting they had no idea about the Legend Tripper that went to see the cows. Makes me even more suspicious about her...
“What constitutes a real believer?” - an excellent question. 
The owl attack coming back into play! 
Love that Bigfoot theory! 
“There are assholes everywhere” - nothing has ever been more true
Vipin listing all the types of mythical black dogs. 
“I’m a friend, Jeremy, come on” - ahhh weird creepy trying to be friendly voice...
Hmmm so he goes on a walk on his own and runs into The Legend Tripper? Suspicious. 
Interesting that Jeremy explains being there by talking about Celeste but not bringing up her name even though everyone in town should know about her death...
The EMF detector...
Did she not introduce herself by name again? 
The shared trauma of both getting lost in the forest as kids? Why does that make me even more suspicious of her...like the whole bit about her admitting she actually lived there as a child and moved away. It’s all just too many parallels between them. 
It’s this weird thing about Jeremy connecting with someone so quickly and him kinda opening up to her...
Also I do have to wonder about Jeremy being the only person that’s spoken to her...and the way that when he invites her along she declines even though big foot sighting should be her thing. 
Thomas being worried about Jeremy going on his own. Aww. 
This argument and Anne being in the middle -- they’re such a family. 
Again with them worried about each other more than themselves. But also the way that Thomas doesn’t expect Jeremy to handle things as well...and like he isn’t wrong all things considered. 
Also in all the why did you go alone...why does Jeremy not mention that he wasn’t actually alone even though he entered the forest alone...which just brings me back to him not mentioning The Legend Tripper to them the first time...
Actual Bigfoot! 
Peyton Blake...I have so many questions...
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