#IM JUST SPITBALLING HERE IM JUST THINKING OUT LOUD

[sunbratz]

ALSO MORE FUEL FOR MY UNPOPULAR SPARROW OPINIONS I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL WE GET NORMAL VS THE TWINS CONFRONTATION NEXT ohhhh my god

#also ik people are saying this gives more fuel to lark being normals dad which #i love and think its fun theyre playing with more now but #i also think it would be interesting bc originally anthony said the timeline didnt line up for lark to be his dad #wouldnt it make sense then that hero was larks #especially with naybe lark having passed down the family power to her since hes been #the most connected to the doodler situation since the stabbing #IM JUST SPITBALLING HERE IM JUST THINKING OUT LOUD #processing if u will #but it would again be another way where normal has this big dramatic storyline in his head about his backstory but hes just normal #with a dad and mom who couldnt care less about him #and an uncle who cares weirdly a lot about him but he doesnt get as an actual father so theres a level of disconnect #IT MAKES IT MORE SAD OK #anyway i said this post was for unpopular opinions so sue me #its gonna be alright

[lorillee]

you should think about von karma-edgeworth piano au forever and then talk to me about it forever. nudges your shins with my nose like a small cat hi. hello. hi.

-karmaicperfection

ok thank you for indulging me @karmaicperfection 😭😭😭 i started answering this and then got IMMEDIATELY interrupted for like a good solid hour but anyways. obviously this is like spitballing concepts for an au but i think the easiest way to take this is frankly just . incredibly adjacent to your lie in april (an anime which, if you have not seen, you should absolutely 10000000% go watch because im clinically insane about it and it is quite possibly my most favorite anime other than one piece . speaking of i should rewatch it again soon. anyways) except without the romance (which like. To Be Honest i think ylia would have done better without but WHATEVERRRR i suppose the romance is the hook for the average viewer) and obviously adjusted for character dynamics.

so obviously manfred is like world famous virtuoso classical pianist, born a prodigy baby, got private tutoring from some insanely famous pianist, and never lost a competition - plays always 1000000% to the score and never deviates an inch and to even entertain the idea is nothing short of heretical. since generally competitions are going to be judged by how perfectly the pianist plays, manfred always wins even if somebody else has a more interesting or frankly better interpretation of the piece. the main problem here is how the heck he's supposed to cheat since the thing with piano competitions and performances is like you either know the piece or you dont you cant cheat on that so maybe he's just like bribing the judges to favor perfection as opposed to their personal preference. i think he'd be a huge tchaikovsky & rachmaninoff & chopin kind of guy like tell me the revolutionary is not EXACTLY the kind of thing manfred would be playing (like those ending chords ??? you cannot tell me you cant just see him going absolutely ham)

naturally then gregory is another world famous virtuoso classical pianist, but instead of following the score 1:1 he puts a lot more emphasis on personal interpretation - he's very very popular with the people, but in competitions he's always divisive with the judges since some of them are real sticklers for sticking to the dynamics written on the page while others are more open to whatever he's doing. im thinking his taste probably falls more under beethoven & bach & mozart & chopin. i guess during some competition he somehow finds out that a few of the judges were being bribed & reveals this to the public and the Elevator Incident goes as per canon.

miles is like eight i think at that point so he's been taking piano for a few years but since when youre like eight your hands really arent big enough to be playing anything terribly hard, gregory's influence hasnt been set in stone yet - manfred obviously begins imparting the "The Score Is Absolute" mentality onto him. i think he'd also be a lot more strict on teaching music theory (something admittedly i never actually learned like anything about because i was huuuuuge brat and blatantly refused to do the workbooks my teacher gave me and i guess she just gave up 😭😭😭) than gregory. as far as miles' personal preferences go i think hed like chopin & debussy & tchaikovsky & bach. franziska is obviously also baby prodigy girl - she's absurdly competitive and very much a "practicing 8 hours a day minimum" kind of girl. her preferences are anything loud fast and difficult (1) more fun to play 2) gives her the opportunity to show off 3) much more rewarding upon mastery) so very very much a beethoven & rachmaninoff & chopin kind of girl, but also i think miles would give her an appreciation for slower & more sensitive pieces

anyways so i guess in this au phoenix would also be a WAIT LOLLLL hes already a pianist in canon. sorry the fact that that stupid pub he works in literally has a steinway baby grand in it and all phoenix does is complain about having to play it like. grabs you. throws you to the side. scoot over and let me PLAYYYYYYYYYYY .anwyays. anyways ok this is literally the premise of your lie in april but i guess phoenix was inspired to take up piano after hearing miles play when he was like 7 at some school talent show thing and like keeps tabs on him as he rises through the piano world but is distraught to find out miles has abandoned the art of actual interpretation in favor of sticking religiously to the script and through competitions teaches him the value of making the piece truly yours to impart some actual message and feeling to the audience instead of playing like a robot. of course this au isnt about him so thats like all im going to say on that

wait oh theres a problem here. if manfred kills gregory how in the world does that get resolved . ummmmmmm . hm. ok whatever lets just table that for now its not important. actually objectively the funniest way for this au to go is to give it the exact same amount of murder and melodrama and stakes as in the normal series except everybodys a pianist for some reason. this is incredibly tangential im getting wildly off track here but like klavier has the exact same huge fanbase of hormonal teenage girls except hes just like playing schumann. godot is like a jazz pianist that they keep letting enter into these classical piano competitions for some reason. the detectives are their accompanists? many thoughts. okay side tangent over lets get back to the main point here

franziska's arc in aa2 would probably still be the same re: even after manfred's gone she still sticks rigidly to the dynamics written on the score to the point of technical perfection, but completely lacking in personal emotion & interpretation - phoenix's repeated wins over her not due to his sticking to the score but rather to the brilliancy of his interpretations keep rooting up the beliefs that have been absolutely ingrained into her from birth, and miles helps her realize that to be honest actually having something to say when playing a piece is an artistic improvement over being The Most Accurate To The Score. and now i just want to draw everybody at the piano

#also sorry this took so long to answer i kept getting distracted listening to a bunch of pieces 💀💀💀💀💀 #ask #karmaicperfection #ace attorney #the von karma-edgeworth family soap opera #manfred von karma #gregory edgeworth #miles edgeworth #franziska von karma #lorillee.txt #aa pianist au

[makowo]

Stares at you. Kamuegi for the ship bingo pls <3

i forgot i was doing a ship bingo. just woke up and am too sleepy to bother with the picture. you know that i already LOVE this ship so im gonna take this chance to spitball about them.

honestly, on one hand, I Get Why They Aren't Popular. they're two characters that interact only once onscreen, and that's a sunlit scene in the destroyed classroom of HPA where they share only a reproachful look, and otherwise we can only guess at how much they've spoken. they dont even seem to have much to say about each other in canon, which is a VERY hard phrase for me to write out, because it's so clear to me that they would have so fucking much to say about each other.

they have so fucking much going on between them though, yeah? like they're literally narrative parallels to each other, the artificial hope and the natural hope. izuru is a glimpse of what makoto could have ended up as, had he not had a loving family and a rigid optimism. izuru is also a glimpse of what hope is to different people, and how hope could harm others as much as despair could.

izuru takes an interest in makoto for his direct contrast to junko, and his standing as Hope in this conflict. and it's gotta be interesting, because while junko was a loud and bombastic person, confident in her ability to use others as her plaything for the sake of fueling her obsession with despair, makoto is... not that. he's willing to stand up for himself when he's faced with the need, but for the most part, he's a doormat. he has such an intense desire to help others that he doesn't care what harm comes to him, and he's so stuck on the idea that everyone is worth saving that he even grieved for junko. makoto should be a pathetic nobody, someone that should have died far earlier than their first face-to-face meeting, but he's the face of Hope instead. and he wants to help izuru.

sorry they drive me insane. makoto is determined to help someone that no one thinks is worth helping, a seemingly emotionless, untouchable murderer that exists only to watch everyone trip over themselves trying to do anything to him. but makoto wants to help him and see him for the person he is, even with the knowledge that he helped spark the flame that caused The Tragedy.

i sound like a broken record here but i hope someone understands. they're total opposites but they connect through it, and are pretty much the only people that could stand each other in a relationship, based on izuru's ease of losing interest in others and makoto's resilience to the amount of shit he can take from people.

that's all i have to say about their earth-shattering homosexual relationship. think about them more okay?

#makotalk #gumidols #kamuegi

[maybanksbabe]

😫🫠🫢 you're exactly right anon, you and JJ are solid and it would've had to be something big to push you to take time apart, I'm definitely leaning into the assistant trying to push her luck with JJ and someone catching wind, even though we know he'd never entertain it, it looks bad on him (tho he's probably oblivious to the fact she's really flirting)

PLEASE GIVE US MORE DETAILS LIKE HOW THEIR FIGHT WENT HOW DID THEY MAKE UP I WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING PLEASEE!! IM SO DESPERATE FOR IT😭

I DONT KNOW ANYMORE THAN YOU DO 😂😂 WERE ALL JUST SPITBALLING HERE 😭

I don't think it was a loud, yelling, slamming doors kind of fight, JJ is too easily triggered by that but it's gets heated enough to the point where you both know you need space or it will blow up and you won't have that. Ever. Not with Baby M in earshot at all times. So you take a step back and hold your hands up "I'm done. I'm tapping out. We're spending the night somewhere else." And that's when the panic sets in. The argument was just about what a colleague has said to you, not meaning to stir anything but wanting you to know that the new assistant was getting a bit too close to JJ and was wearing a borderline inappropriate outfit and that's what started it all.

But when you get to the hotel and get Baby M set up in the travel cot that you sit on the bed and just let yourself crumble. It's too much to think that an argument like that could be the end of you and JJ, you've come too far and been through too much together to call it quits now. But within hours your calling him because Baby M won't settle without her Dada and you feel awful for the way you walked out on him with your daughter. Though it takes some time (a couple of days maximum) before you and JJ are on speaking terms again, properly but you sit down and talk it out once Baby M has been out down for the night and although there's tears, you finally smooth it over and make things right 🧡

#jj maybank x reader #dad!jj #baby m #libra speaks

[nicollekidman]

it’s so funny because OBVIOUSLY realizing you’re into women at age 21ish then right away almost being in an abusive long-term long-distance relationship THEN being in another long-term long-distance relationship that is healing and lovely but also not physical at all would.......... lead you to not really know yourself that well and EVERYONE’S relationship to intimacy/love/gender/human beings is complicated and having thoughts about that is so normal but the way we’re all conditioned to question things is like...... any seed of natural change is a three-alarm level emergency so basically i’m jenny_slate_CRAZY.jpeg

#im spitballing here ppl again i have no ideaaaaaa #im just thinking out loud #it doesnt matter until it matters but ive never given voice to this before but its 2019 and we're growing ladies #OBVIOUSLY dont rb

[phoneybeatlemania-bit-the-dust]

Re: what Paul felt for John, I honestly think there might have been a romantic, but not sexual, component, there. John may have wanted more (sexual relationship?), but it seems Paul did enjoy having a sort of exclusive friendship with John, being the most important person in his life (see when Yoko came into the picture, Paul saying "If I had been a woman I might have..." in the 80s). Maybe I'm crazy, but it seems like there was an exclusive, romantic-ish connection. Just my asexual thoughts. :)

Yeah this seems more probable to me, rather then a sexual relationship. Im thinking out loud here, but perhaps they had a sort of “unsaid” but still recognised romantic relationship - like they were both aware that there was some tension there, and that their interactions did perhaps resemble that of a couples, but they never quite came to any actual, stated agreement regarding the nature of their relationship - and so there just remained this tension underpinning all their interactions.

Or perhaps Paul was aware of Johns attraction (sexual/romantic), but understood that it was an attachment he could not return, and so just “tolerated”* the tension from Johns behalf, until John couldn’t stand it anymore in “68-ish?

I can sort of see an argument for either of these being made, because I think Paul would’ve, to some degree, revelled in that attention. I don’t say this to vilify him, but I do feel like Paul has a bit of an ego, and he really likes to be liked, and so if John fancied him and showed him all this attention, I can imagine that Paul might have sort of enabled that behaviour - perhaps consciously or perhaps subconsciously.

This is all just spitballing and speculation though y’know, so don’t take this too seriously cause I haven’t thought out either of these theories extensively.

* “Tolerate” sounds a bit harsh, doesn’t it? What I mean is just, maybe Paul knew John fancied him but he didn’t mind it so much and just sort of got on with it?

#that might be the point anon was getting at ^^^ #so i think i just stole their thunder lol #anon #asks #discussion #sexuality #pauls sexuality #mclennon

[ddejavvu]

hi mei !! here to participate in ur valentines day celebration ! may i have a male ship from harry potter (marauders) pls?

here's a bit about me: im a enfj-t/infj-t. i love to make people laugh, im a bit stubborn sometimes, i always try to be funny and love being creative. my fav hobbies are drawing, playing video games, singing, dancing (not that im good at it tho), writing and playing my electric guitar. i love looking at the moon and stars and i'm a hopelessful romantic.

thank u sm <3 :)

hi honey!! happy valentine's day :)

i think you'd go perfectly with James!! (Also I couldn’t resist making a lil moodboard type thing so)

this would be a match made in heaven!! you guys are the ones that are just constantly laughing with each other, whether you're laughing strong and loud throughout the common room as Sirius tries getting spitballs out of his hair or giggling softly and secretly in the back of a classroom because you've charmed the board to say something inappropriate, or lazily chuckling at the little apartment you find after graduation as you fall asleep beside each other, you're always laughing with each other :D

unfortunately, he's also a bit stubborn, but as you two progress in your relationship, he realizes that compromises need to be made sometimes, and you both work together to try to talk things out instead of just refusing to budge

he's not the best at art, but he loves doodling, so if you're ever working on something more long-term, he'll sit with you and scribble on some parchment for a while :D except some really cute little doodles of you guys together (stick-figures, of course, but adorable nonetheless) and he's gonna ask to read all of your writing, if you're not ready to share with him, he'll understand, but there'll be a little pout on his face that you've gotta take care of :')

introduce him to video games!! i think he'd be pretty good at them, he might not be the most gamer-y gamer who's ever gamed, but he'd def love taking them up as a hobby!

psst,, he's not good at dancing either,, or singing, for that matter, but he loves doing both. You'll often find yourself wrapped up in his iron grip in the common room while a record plays softly in the corner, and your head is on his chest and he's rocking you slowly back and forth, and then the second a fast song comes on, he's twirling you around and dipping you backwards and jumping everywhere and making you do the jump from dirty dancing and he is just relentless!!

ever since i saw nowhere boy james has been the rockstar to me. like yes sirius is very punk rock emo grunge rocker type but james?? fuck dude, that man was born to play the guitar!! he picks it up super quickly and you never get a moment of silence after that day

the second he hears that you're a romantic, he is over the moon (no pun intended). you've got weekly dates atop the astronomy tower if you're still in your hogwarts years, and if not, the roof of your apartment complex is the perfect spot! he's determined to outdo himself every date, so they very quickly got extravagant

#you’re my crush i got a crush on you #james potter #james #james potter x reader #james potter ship #james potter x reader ship #james ship #mei's moots :3

[roykeeleys]

My headcanon is that Roy tells Keeley he loves her for the first time after they get home from Bernards house and he realises that Keeley cancelled her plans and walked all over Richmond for Phoebe and didn’t complain once (even though i know its like 9 months into their relationship and he probably told her already but whatever we’ll ignore that)

wait this is so 🥺🥺🥺 and also i do think that roy was the first one who says it!!! and i could see it happened too and it’s also quite romantic when you think of it because it’s christmastime, and and he just blurts it out like he was thinking out loud, something like “i truly appreciate it babe i love you” that surprises keeley even though she always knew that but it’s nice to hear too.

yeah i think they’re almost 9 months in on carol of the bells since make rebecca great again happened in march (my personal hc that “i love you” happened pre s2 & post s1, or post e1 after that date / struck by lightning quote, which feels to me like an indirect i love you too.)

also not a hc and im just spitballing here but id just like to add that even though it took us like 2x11 to finally hear them say “i love you”, their actions always speak louder than words. we could feel the love they have for each other, through their actions or even at the look in their eyes. i know juno and brett have said before that they dont think roy & keeley ever allowed people to really love them / theyre both scared of being loved — and when i think of that (other than a delicious plot point for s3), i’m glad that they’re finally getting the love that they both deserve.

#anon #replies #im having fun with these headcanon messages feel free to send them my way

[rheic-arts]

Just something I've been thinking about - hell knows I don't actually talk here much but tumblr is a wonderful place to spitball - is, like, Disney villains? How everyone waxes nostalgic for the queer-coded gems of the 90s renaissance and dismisses the modern twist villains? I have a theory.

First I reccomend checking out other posts and videos explaining the origins of the Hayes code and how only villains could be queer coded etc etc and that 'no rep is worse than bad rep' explains a tiny part of it. Those posts are way better written than mine and I'm tired.

Second is that villains just objectively get better songs and all are welcome to fight me on this but villain songs just slap so much harder.

But my theory comes in two parts. 1 - the old Disney villains were FUN, whereas new ones are SERIOUS. and 2 - campy, extravagant, loud and dangerous villains are a unique brand of queer *power fantasy*.

OK. Seriously. Old Disney villains were murderers, theives, backstabbers, tricksters and they fucking revelled in it. There was NO mistaking any second of screen time that these guys were having a blast being themselves - and as such anyone watching is going to be caught up in it! We're going to be entertained! Which is the point! Of a film! Arguably watching Ursula pull out ariels voice or Maleficent casting lightning from her tower was WAY more entertaining than the romantic tension between two leads we damn well know will snog at the end.

Modern villains like Bellwether and Callaghan spend most of their time onscreen pretending to be nice. They're still fulfilling their roles as antagonists, but now they're boring to watch because they're actively trying to come across as ordinary. Until their reveals - in which they show themselves (esp in Bellwethers case) as bad people. Which is less entertaining than a splash of real world depressing - like. Damn sheep lady if I wanted to watch lying rasicts get into power underhandedly I'd turn on the news.

Old Disney villains were escapism - camp, loud, entertaining escapism that let you live in a world where people can legitimately drop bangers out of thin air while monolouging about their planned regicide (be prepared) and it was the regicide that made you the villain, not the camp performance.

On to point 2 tho -

As a smol baby bi at the tender age of seven watched Jafar slay his eyeliner routine while manipulating the sultan, saw Ursula become a hundred feet tall with a deep booming voice and the power of all the seas, saw maleficent become a full on dragon and hook nearly stab a child onscreen - you know what that tiny child wanted more than anything? Especially given in mind she was seven and would have no concept of queerness for nearly a decade?

What that tiny child, who was connecting so much harder to the villains than the protagonists, wanted, was that kind of power.

Bear in mind im whiter than a snowflake so these films were absolutely targeting my demographic, but for ages I hated being asked if I wanted to be a princess. Like, no?! I wanted to be kick ass! I wanted people to notice me, respect me, be in awe at what I could do! Be Afraid Of Me!

(it is worth noting that I am extremely competitive and had just started karate. The thrill of paid for violence is intoxicating, but we're deviating from the point here.)

As I've grown older that wish for respect has mutated into an altogether healthier drive to do well at work and to generally be a good person. That wish for fear has made me killer at Halloween decorations and costumes.

But now that I'm 25, quite comfortably bi and experimenting with Agender pronouns, what brings me back to the old villains is that despite being drawn in the era where being LGBTQA+ on TV got you dead they were unabashedly themselves.

Look I barely have to code switch or pass for straight and have grown accustomed to my queerness in a wonderful age of acceptance, and I STILL find that kind of cackling-shrieking-delight a BALM for my soul. That kind of self acceptance, self CONFIDENCE, to be outwardly proudly different to the point of revulsion to the masses is such a power fantasy I can't even describe.

I can't imagine someone not becoming sick of hiding and hurting, sick of living a lie out of complete necessity, and not wanting that desperate karmic release of paying back that pain tenfold with no consequences. Damn right you should be scared of me! I'm everything you hate and I hate you right fucking back! The fantasy of dropping your moral compass into the dirt so you can finally feel good about your existence keeps me warm at night, and I'm the child who cried when my dad accidentally stole a CD because I couldn't bear the thought of getting in trouble.

Who doesn't look at 1959's sleeping beauty and just gaze in awe of how much Maleficent fills the frame and commands attention, respect, even as she inspires fear?

You're an absolute liar if quick witted, fast talking, God of inevitable death Hades didn't make you laugh in the way sassy gay besties do even as he tried to kill a baby. We're all going to die, might as well be as ourselves, right?

I've lost where I'm going with this. Just. I feel like new generations are seeing queer coded villains as 'being gay is bad' which was legit the intent in the 40's! While getting the most rep media wise in living history. It's like this unspoken ability to relate to the vibes in media while not condoning the villains actions (because its fiction. There's no need to condemn or not, because its a story and we had absolutely NO power to change the Disney megatitan trajectory, so we took what we could and ran with it) is slowly getting lost to takes so fucking flat that you could bowl some skittles across continents and not get a bump.

Idk, power fantasies about capes, eyeliner and having horns while committing crimes is very very cool. I'm going to go watch pirates of the carribean and look at the clothes I desperately want but will be forever too scared to buy. Cheers.

#sometimes #I have thinky thoughts #And they turn into this #Disney was an enormous part of my childhood #And a large part of my teens #They were comfort films in times of great upset #And it's still rare that I root for the protags more than the villains #not my art #Disney #disney villains #Maleficent #Hades #Ursula

[crypticalwitch]

A Halloween night! Bloody Code Au (Part 1)

Ok, this is crossposted (i really hope im using it right) to my wattpad, but there its a songfic to Victorious by Panic! at the Disco, but i removed that here, because i liked it alot. also this is a cliff hanger that i will update to add the link to the second one later. Also some bad language, booze and blood and vomit. not graphic or anything, just wanted to mention! 

Part 1/ Part 2

Grian smiled. Halloween was always one of his favorite holidays, since it was excuse to cause trouble, and a halloween party at a night club was definitely going to be fun. The costume He and Scar chose was also very fun. While most might have just bought something, they had two advantages over everyone else, 1) Demise ment they had the best ghost costumes, with little to no make up, only using it to bright colour to scar tissue, which is why the pair were grayscale while walking down the road, and 2)Vex and Fairy, enough said.

And so Grian and Scar walked down the road toward the club. Grian had brought his vex mask, while Scar had made sure to have small stash of regen potions incase someone over did it on the drinks.

“SCAR GRIAN!” Rens familiar voice called out from down the road. Grian began to run closer, Scar on his heels. 

“HI REN!” Grian yelled. Ren was dressed up a stereotypical wolf man, though he only had the wolf ears,tail and clawed gloves. 

“Ready Scar?” Ren asked, jumping up and down slightly.

“You know it!” Scar smiled, “Cub already inside right?”

“Yup!” Ren cocked his head to the side. “What are you guys dressed up as?”

Grian smirked.

“Were Dead!” Scar giggled

“OH!” ren seemed to notice the grey skin, the X-ed out eyes, and the scars. The outline of grains skeleton was highlighted, and scars lips and hands were a pale yellow-green.

“Well, lets go!” grian said, his impatience beginning to show.

“Yeah!” Ren smiled and began to pull the pair to the entrance.

The club was bright, loud, and chaotic, in a very different way than Hermitcraft, and Scar wasn’t sure how to feel about it. Grian seemed to enjoy the loud music and immediately went off to the dance floor after seeing Iskall, who was dressed up as a mad scientist. 

Scar met up with cub, who was dressed up as a vampire, and got a comfortable seat close enough to the bar and the dancefloor, but wasn’t two crazy.

Things were fine at first. None of the group really drank too hard, and Scar even went out to dance with grian for a while. And then the coughing started.

It was only a small cough at first, occasional and something he could ignore. And then he coughed something up. A very familiar taste, the taste that ended his Demise run. He grabbed a napkin and spit it out, the pale yellow color staining the paper.

Grian was in a similar boat. The scars from the blast always itched slightly, even when he was alive, but at some point in the night, the scars began to inch and ache like crazy. It wasn’t until he rubbed one of the markings and his hand came away bloody that he realise something might be wrong.

Scar ended up in the bathroom, Grian at his side, Coughing and retching up poison and blood while Grian slowly dripped blood from his arms and legs.

“Feeling better?” Grian asked, rubbing his boyfriends back.

“A little.” Scar smiled, pulling back from the toilet “has the bleeding slowed any?”

“Yeah, its done I think.” Grian giggled, “Could you imagine if someone saw us?”

“In the same bathroom stall? Or coughing up blood and poison?”

“Yes.”

“Grian that makes no sense!” Scar laughed, 

“Ready to head back out?” Grian smiled, wiping the blood from his hands off on toilet paper.

“Yeah,” Scar smiled. “I think so!”

Grian and Scar slid out of the stall, right into a very confused Ren standing in the doorway.

“REN!” Grian blushed

“Uuhhh how long have you been standing there?” Scar asked, blushing under the grey.

“Long enough to know you two were in the same stall, but not long enough to know why!” Ren said, followed by an awkward laugh.  

“Really nothings happening.” grian began to spitball. “Its all fine. Nothings happening. Everything's FINE.” Scar facepalmed.

“We’ll explain later.” Scar smiled, “But not right now.”

“I guess thats fair my dudes.” ren smiled.

“Im just gonna,leave.” Grian carefully moved past ren, and entered back onto the dance floor.

Grian almost didn't notice the man dressed up as the grim reaper among the sea of costumes, but the reaper certainly noticed him. When grian got a drink, the man watched from a corner of the dance floor. When grian joined up with iskall on the Dancefloor, the man watched from the corner of grian’s eye.

“YOU!” he shouted, his voice gravely, as if he had been decomposing.

“Me?” Grian felt his face go warm.

The man stepped closer, and drew a scythe from his long tattered cloak. He growled, “You…”

Grian was finally able to get a good look at him. 

“Grimdog?” grains stomach flip flopped over and over again.

“Hehe” He nervously chuckled as the reaper apoached, flipping the sythe expertly around, so that the point was up, and placed it to Grian’s neck. “No hard feelings, remember ol’ buddy?”

The reaper growled.

Grimdog removed the point from Grian throat, before giving it a hefty swing into grian’s torso area. Grian lept back, the bone blade only landing a light scratch across Grian’s chest.

“Ok, got it, hard feelings.” grian joked, before pulling his mask off its chain. “If its a fight you want Grimdog,” Grian smiled, placing the mask on his face. “Then its a fight you’ll get.” Grian shouted voice took on an echoy quality,like many hims speaking at once.

Across the club, Scar, Cub, Iskall and Ren hear this, though only one recognised Grian’s voice.

“Oh no…” Scar murmured into his drink, non alcoholic as usual.

“Has someone already started a fight?” Iskall swirled his glass while he leaned back in his chair.

“Sounds like it.” cub smiled, slightly buzzed, “Wonder whats it over.”

“Somthin dumb probably.” Ren said. “Scar are you ok? You look nervous.”

 “IIIIIII, recognise that voice…” Scar said, nervously drawing out his words. “And if im right….”

“...WE should probably leave the building.”

“What?” Iskall sat up in his seat properly. “Why?”

“Cause if he’s any sort of involved with a fight…” Scar blushed as Grian-vex cackled along with the clang of bone and metal. People began to rush towards the exits “Shits about to hit the fan.”

The table stared for a moment, suddenly serious. 

“Welp.” Cub stood up,  putting on his cheep vampire cape, “Scar swore, The sky is Green, Grass is blue, and i'm getting the hell out of dodge.”

“Ditto.”

“Right behind ya.”

The four only got a few blocks down the road when the sound of bricks exploding echoed through the streets.

“SCATTER!” Scar screamed, Cub and Iskall began running down alleys as Ren and Scar continued running the main streets.

“OH COME ON GRIM!” the voice laughed. “I thought you’d be better at using that thing!”

“really?” scar muttered, “taunt the reaper huh?”

“Is this guy really brave or really stupid?”

Scar rolled his eyes. “Both.”

“Oof”

The fight had made it to the pair, and scar pulled ren into an alleyway. Giving ren the first view of this mysterious man.

The man’s skin was a pale grey-blue color. His dark hair had many curls were supernaturally sharp, a look that didn't sit right with Ren. His eyes and mouth didn't help. Both were glowing white-blue, his eyes eerily pupiless and his mouth filled with sharp teeth, pulled into a frustrated and menacing smile. Behind him, a pair of white wings glowed, and in his hand, a loosely held an axe.

The Reaper, if he even was human, was worse though. His eyes were pitch black, and everything about was salow and decayed, like he had just risen from the grave. He was covered with a swirling cloak, and carried a large scythe that appeared to be the jaw bone of some large animal.

Ren looked up at Scar. Scar watched the battle with an nervous air. The pair were stuck. Ren didn’t know who to hope for. The Reaper with the Scythe or the Spirit with an Axe.

“I-swear-if-i-die-dressed-as-the-world-most-effort-put-into-bad-halloween-costume-i'm-going-to-haunt-someone.” he whispered, semi-serious.

The reaper and Spirt help up their weapons and charged at each other.

#hermitcraft #hermitcraft au #bloody code #Grian #Rendog #GoodTimesWithScar #iskall85 #cubfan135 #though their not really important #just kinda there #writting #im kinda proud! #those are a lot of words! #plus #plot!

[cruddyborderlandstheories]

So i’ve been looking around for footage of demo players looking at/attacking the purple rocks/crystals/eridium(?) we see around in the gameplay demos. I’m aware of the 2 in the beginning area, one in the area you reclaim with lorelei (the base with rhys’s hologram pad), and the one right before gigamind. trying to find more in case there’s more ~fancy shit~ inside them like the ones on Eden-6.

So far, rn, I have pictures of the e3 eden-6 Moze gameplay and the zane coop Joltzdude gameplay one (the one by gigamind). i'm trying to find a connection between all these things and literally all i’ve got is different colored (??) glowy purple rocks

so not really much to go on.

green

red

Also we get a special tool later on to break said glowy rocks that appears to be a melee override only for that interaction.

if the tool is by a corporation or alien in origin, i don’t know for certain. i like to think it’s atlas because of the color scheme and the triangle shapes, but that might just be because i like atlas (also, anyone else realize it’s possible this may be the one melee weapon the devs said would be in the game? ... aw man...)

It could just be alien in origin though, i don’t know for certain. i could be missing inscriptions or smth since my monitor is bad tm. Given what we know about Eridian weapons though im inclined to say it isn’t... mostly bc the holoblades we see guardians use in bl1 are strictly blue/purplish and the weapons we see them use in tps are always solid (AFAIK).

mmm im also considering zer0′s sword tech as an option, like the whole bit where they’re like ‘monomolecular edge’ and are able to cut straight thru a maliwan wall/shield. that seems a bit too... quick?? like we go thru all this trouble for a single sword upgrade, give it to zer0, then we’re done with it all after gigamind?

like... from a writing perspective we probably could’ve just knocked down the wall to gigamind using a cyclone or explosives or whatever. walked in through the front entrance. i mean we’re Vault Hunters for crying out loud, death and destruction is almost literally our middle names. that’s practically chekov’s monomolecular edge upgrade.... you get the point. the tech could (and should) totally come back into play. 

And i mean we’re probably not actually using Zer0′s sword itself, since that’d be weird for zer0, but the idea that Rhys helps us use that new tech to build a gauntlet to break those rocks? yeah i could get behind that. we know we talk to rhys in person about a vault at one point and we know Zer0 is present when we do. and yeah it could’ve just been a set up to talk to/introduce katagawa, but i don’t see why they can’t do both at once.

and i am wondering if the stuff embedded in the crystals themselves is eridian tech? shards? or something. hear me out, like maybe the color (green, red) is based off planet origin, given eden-6 has the glowing green and promethea has the glowing red. or it could be elementally-based, given what we know about sirens/Vault Monsters. Mostly think they’re eridian because of the rocks/walls we’ve seen in ruins with glowing inscriptions in 1 and 2, and TPS w/ tycho’s ribs/eleseer and the sentinel and even the traveler in tales. Like the sentinel changes color based on element and the traveler changes colors when it goes to teleport.

tycho’s ribs. you can see more crystals here as well.

eleseer and the giant crystal you walk into to enter the Vault.

sentinel changing color based on element

the traveler. tho they’re more crystally than the others, maybe the traveler is more ancient? it seems more sentient, like... it laughs and emotes and stuff so maybe the older Vault Monsters were built off sentient beings (like the Warrior) while the ‘newer’ ones (the Sentinel) are mostly tech? idk, just spitballing here lol

it does lowkey make me wonder if Sirens are meant to be Vault Guardians and that’s why we’ve seen a disproportionate number of them throughout the games. i mean that’d tie into the theory that Siren powers and Vault Monster powers are intertwined, although the only example I have of this is Lilith and the Traveler so... the better theory is the Sirens and the Lost Legion Eternal are intertwined bc that actually makes sense...

anyway magic rocks. we see some of them in tycho’s ribs and a huge one we move thru in eleseer, but the way they vaporize on contact with the new melee weapon in bl3 makes me wonder if it actually is Eridium Eridium or some weird Eridium (not-Eridium?) that isn’t the kind we see on Pandora. Maybe it’s not activated or something, i don’t know. it’s clear somehow refined eridium is still relevant in bl3 despite hyperion not refining it anymore (and the absence of slag) since it’s literally everywhere whenever you kill an enemy, so take that as you will. 

also, it could simply be the tool we use making it vaporize and shit instead of it inherently being like that. tho i don’t understand the reasoning behind vaporizing this very precious material. but im mostly curious why eridium is now suddenly appearing across the planets/galaxy. open first vault on pandora, eridium appears on pandora. open second vault on pandora eridium appears... everywhere else? and we know it was present on elpis before the opening of the warrior vault on pandora, but if that is because of it’s connection to pandora or other reasons, like it’s vault being weird, im not sure. 

furthermore, there could be eridium on promethea because the first vault has been opened. damn you tales for making me uncertain if this was atlas’s doing or Typhon’s! and we see one of typhon’s logs on eden-6, though we’re not allowed to hear what it says yet in the demo, so it’s possible he’s also opened the Vault on eden-6. if it’s him doing the vault openings, anyway. im so curious what the difference is between pandora’s eridium and the purple crystals on the other planets. how come theirs sprouted with cool shit inside and ours didn’t? fuck that maaaaan.

overall, im just very curious as to what’s inside the crystals. there is 100% something there, we’re not breaking them into purple powder for nothing. Moze even says something like “im breaking you out!” when attacking the rock during the gameplay demo so... she must’ve been talking about whatever [the green thing] is inside. we neeeeed it and it’s apparently more important than raw eridium. which is a doozy considering it is (was?) a fairly precious commodity

it would be neat if we were going around collecting the distributed pieces and reassembling them to create a big boy Vault Defender to stop the twins. but i highly doubt it. hear me out. it’s gotta be something important right? so im betting it’s some kind of gear or upgrade for our characters. maybe even some lore. but nothing huge. my reasoning is that it doesn’t appear to be a main quest objective. if anything, it seems like a crew challenge. i thought maybe it could be tannis’s but i thought hers would be the eridian logs (then i realized this is just glorified ECHO logs, so prob not) , or the Typhon Deleon logs. but it’s possible she has more than one.

and imagine someone ignores all the purple crystals throughout their playthrough. i really doubt right before the last mission of the game, they’d be like alright kids, go back and break every single crystal with these glorified brass knuckles for fun times!! because that sounds miserable. odds are they’re introduced in some way, and we get the gauntlet, and then we gotta break a few for a quest or two, then the rest are optional for unique gear/skins or upgrades or lore or smth.

#borderlands #bl3 #borderlands 3 #why am i like this

[virmillion]

yO im self-indulgent for FUN so here’s some usk nonsense (but like. Unedited. this is Straight Outta Lab’s Notebook)

Sixer shouts something, maybe, but I don’t hear it, still scraping along the stone ground and squinting at the brightness.

It must work, because when I next look up, I can sort of see. At least, there’s a huge shadow outlined against the unholy fire beyond. The smell is even worse over here, and the moldy green is revealed to just be a metric fuck ton of dirt smeared over bubbly green leather, apparently this thing’s excuse for skin. I’ve seen thicker hides, I guess. With a shrug, I slip the scimitar out of its holster on my right thigh and rise to a crouch, spinning the blade around in my hand. There’s no discernable pattern to its swaying, so I have to assume it’s watching the display Sixer’s putting on over there. I can’t hear anything, and the usual assumption that I’ve spontaneously gone deaf sets in, so I don’t worry too much. Rather, I use my crouch as leverage to jump up and bury the blade in the thing’s back.

Well, I try to do that.

The blade glances right off, as if I’d tried to stab steel. The thing turns around to face me, and whatever the hell Sixer’s doing over there casts an ethereal spotlight on the flabby mess. I wince as its unfocused gaze falls somewhere just above my head. Its bulbous eyes bounce down to meet mine as it cocks its head to the side and squints. It raises a couple of unfortunately shaped fingers and makes as if to pinch my vertical silhouette. Even without a spoken language, it’s not hard to tell what this behemoth is thinking as a moist red chasm splits open and curves up. A twin one widens beneath it, both bouncing around in tandem, a gruesome laugh.

“Don’t call me short,” I mutter, darting forward and sliding to a stop at its feet. It peers out over a rotund belly and makes a facsimile of a grimace, swiping those pathetic fingers again. I bury the scimitar in one of the hands (big enough to cover my face twice over, mind you), and miracle of miracles, it works. The thing clutches at its hand as its mouths fall open to unleash unison discordant roars. I mean, that’s what I assume it’s doing, based on appearance alone, but I still very much cannot hear it. I roll out of the way of its frantic feet and closer to Sixer’s light, which has somehow, impossibly, gotten brighter,

“I had a plan,” she says sharply. Her voice is clear as day, which makes exactly zero sense, but I let it slide.

“Cool. Get a new one,” I pat my left thigh, both to show off and to reassure myself that the dagger is still secure in its place. “Got one more blade left.”

“That was part of my original plan.”

“And so I reiterate, get a new one. Not that hard.”

Sixer scowls down at me, her light dimming ever so slightly. “Just hang back for a second, and I’ll—”

“Nope, I’m not a backseat sidekick. I’m front lines, Six.”

“If you would listen to my—”

“Plan that doesn’t exist? That that thing can hear? Fat chance.”

“Pascal, you need to work with me here.”

“Got it.” I call this more to the ceiling than to her as I jump forward, freeing my dagger and barreling for the thing. It’s finally gathered the sense to try pulling the scimitar out, a task with which it is struggling immensely. I sweep out a leg (too close for comfort, but I don’t really have a choice) to slam against where I think its knees are, sending it stumbling. In the same instant as it falls to a kneel, a burst of fire spitballs just inches over the top of its head. The scattering sparks narrowly miss singing me.

“Sixer!” I shout. “Watch it!”

“Pascal!” she shoots back, her arms outstretched, her claws less like fingernails and more like pointed embers. “Piss off!” I shake my head and turn back to the hulking thing, weighing my dagger in one hand and planting the other on the stone floor. Be a lot easier if whatever royal idiots that built this place had it done in wood, but that’s a gripe for later. As the thing gets back to its feet, both mouths set in heinous scowls, I heave the dagger in a high arc, aimed steady at the lower mouth. Just before it can sink past those awful green lips, the thing lurches to one side, clapping its unharmed hand to the back of its hand as it falls to its knees once more.

I shoot Sixer a dirty look as my dagger clatters to the ground at her feet. “I had it.”

“And I got it,” she retorts, smart aleck as can be. I scowl and stop the dagger with my boot as she kicks it back, her claws still coughing smoke. The thing is back up.

Finally, it picks out my scimitar and flicks it carelessly away, with absolutely no regard for the elegant curves of the aquamarine blade or the gold-encrusted—Right. Wrong thing to focus on. As Sixer’s glow picks back up, a considerable distraction, I sneak over to the abandoned scimitar. The sharper points drip violet. At least now we know what broke out of that cage. As if that was our biggest problem.

The fire is almost too bright to bear again, near the breaking point of flying sparks. Sixer wants me to take a backseat? Fine. I’ll take a back-fucking-seat.

I dart forward one last time, my blades pointed behind me, extensions of my arms as I throw myself at the thing’s head. I undershoot and land on its back like a spider, scrabbling to dig my blades inn for purchase. The light burns ever brighter. Tick tock.

I sink the blades into its arms and pull myself higher, tucking my feet in to throw them up and over its shoulders. My arms strain from the force, but I don’t dare let myself fall. I swing myself up with all the core strength I can muster, freeing my blades at the same time and flipping them around to press the sharper edges against the front of this thing’s swollen neck. I peek over the top of its head at the burning torch that is Sixer, only her red eyes solid amidst the literal hell radiating from her skin. I think the silhouette of light nods, maybe, which is all I need as the fire finally reaches a breaking point. I lean back, using the force of my blades’ grip around its neck to keep from falling as my head dangles, blood rushing up (or is it down?), sweat pouring into my eyes. The heat rises still, and I can feel my fingers slipping from the handles, and then it doesn’t matter, and I’m falling fast.

I release its neck and plant my hands and feet on its shoulders, throwing myself backwards as hard as I can and bracing myself to collide with the floor. The cold, hard stones are a relief to my boiling skin.

A loud thud sounds from where the thing was standing, the first noise I’ve heard this whole time that didn’t come from Sixer’s mouth. I tilt my head up to see four Sixers running toward me, all eight of their eyes back to a normal, nonlethal red. I sigh and let my head thunk back down.

#labhwrites #usk #usk excerpt #can u beLIEVE this is unedited #cAUSE I CAN #two of my beans #one is a lovely punk and one is a downright bastard #take a wild guess which is which #catch me SPRINTING down my dash to find something to reblog so i dont look like a loser having this bs at the top of my blog lmao

[lovjeongin]

classmate jeongin

paring: yang jeongin x reader

summary: yang jeongin is just really bad at math

warnings: none but extreme fluff im so soft

a/n: this is my first ever bulletpoint imagine so it is most likely a complete mess!!! psa this doesn't have correct punctuation lmao

let’s pretend y’all go to the same school

you, an awkward child, doesn’t have many friends, like one or two lol

jeongin or should i say i.n is known by basically everyone in the building

u two never really talked??? like u have math together and sit behind him but u probably just asked what the homework was or if he had a pencil but like that was it??

tbh u just didn’t want to get attacked by his Gang of fangirls!!!

so

it’s math

u, an intellectual, are actually pretty good at math??

jeongin on the other hand

he’s just a lil bit confused

by a little i mean he got 4 when the answer was 5x+7

so he turned around and asked u, again the intellectual, what the heck ur class was learning

“y/n how did he get that answer??”

and u being the nice person u were, was able to help him understand

“thanks so much y/n!!!”

after the class ended, one of ur two friends was like freaking out

she was one of the girls in the Gang

“omg y/n u have to be kidding me. jeongin, himself, talked to u??? and ur just??? ok???”

“i mean yeah i asked him for a pencil once and never returned it the least i could do is help him with a problem”

needless to say jeongin kept on turning around in his seat to ask u questions

like frequently

“y/n why is it 87?”

“12? how?? y/n????”

THIS question really did it

“y/n do u know how to get it on the calculator?”

u were baffled

“jeongin do u not know how to use the calculator”

“i just can’t find it ok help!!!!”

u still helped him but u asked him a question (for a change)

“why do u always ask so many questions? not that i mind of course but still??”

he got a lil blushy at that bc darn u caught him

“well”

“well...?”

“it’s just an excuse to talk to u”

let’s just say it took u a while to process this

“oh”

“o H”

“OH”

u got a lil blushy after realizing

“the cats out of the bag”

“did u just say that jeongin omg”

“i was wondering if you’d like to go on a date with me?”

“idk man u just said that cats out of the bag”

“it’s a phrase will u just answer my question”

tbh u were really surprised at the fact that literally the schools prince was asking u out on a date so u just obviously said

“yes ill go on a date with u”

u tried to say it in a cool way but inside u were like hoshtkshhriehehrh

he got super smiley and u could see his cute lil dimples and u went hehehieiaprhkdhaktbdheihrhfhdksksjdh!!!!!!

“cool! do u think u can give me ur number after class??”

ur friend, who sits across from u, was literally screaming

“sure ill give u my number!!!”

as promised u give him ur number when the bell rang

he gave u his phone and let u save ur contact

u saved ur name as “y/n”

pretty boring ik

anyways later on he texts u

“hey just making sure this is y/n?? i was wondering if we could meet this sunday at 1? at the cafe near school?”

u text back

“sure!!”

and he’s like super smiley at his phone and hyunjin is like

“dude why are u smiling at ur phone that’s kinda creepy”

and he gets BLUSHY like boi :,)))

anyways there’s like a few days til the weekend

and u and jeongin talk a lot during class it’s getting on the teachers nerves

“jeongin will you turn around in your seat and not talk to y/n??”

and ur both red bc the teacher just called you both out during class

so

it’s the date

u were going to try to dress up but at the same time if he can’t handle u at ur worst he doesn’t deserve ur best!!!

so u just wore casual clothing

u walked to the cafe bc it was really close anyways

you thought you’d have to wait for jeongin bc you were a few minutes early but he was already there

and he had a brown turtleneck with a black jacket on u know what im talking about

and he had a bouquet of flowers

and he was so cute

”hi!!!”

“hey! these are for you!! i hope you don’t mind!!!”

u were like why would i mind

“they’re very pretty!!! thank you!!!!”

you walked into the cafe and ordered drinks

there’s like awkward silence until jeongin was playing with the straws and got a wrapper and threw a spitball at you

that caused some war between you two

let’s just say the waiter giving your drinks was annoyed at the amount of straws they had to clean up

after calling a truce you both just decided to ask each other questions in order to get to know each other better

“what’s ur fav color?”

“what’s ur best subject in school??”

“dogs or cats???”

u were extremely happy jeongin said dogs

it was his turn to ask u questions

“favorite movie?”

“why’d u say yes to a date with me??”

u almost choked on ur drink

“well u cute or whatever”

he got extremely smiley

and u just

melted

!!!!!!!!

that was the last question bc you both spent over like 3 hours at the cafe and the workers were burning lasers from their eyes so u guys decided to leave and u said

“i hope u had fun bc i really did”

and he !!!! bc u had fun

“i had a lot of fun!! i hope we do it more”

which is how this basically became a regular thing

so it’s school the next day

and ps you’re both not officially boyfriend and girlfriend!!!!!!!!

jeongin walks to ur locker (his Gang of fangirls is there too of course)

“hey jeongin!!!”

u didn’t notice the girls until u closed ur locker

“hi y/n!!”

“uh hi everyone else here??? why are there so many people here????”

u look around but almost all of the girls have death stares

so ur just a bit uncomfortable u kno

he can tell u don’t feel comfortable

“i was wondering if u want to go to the cafe with me after school?? and maybe help me with math????”

“sure!!”

“cool!!! thanks girlfriend!!”

u were

shocked

u had one date and he called u his gf uh

and not to mention in front of a whole bunch of people

he got super red

“did i say that out loud”

“yes u did bud”

he goes into super fast talking mode???

“are u uncomfortable im sorry it slipped i didn’t mean to!!!!!!!!!!”

and u laugh

and he’s like

“why are u laughing do u not see me literally freaking out”

“u look cute boyfriend”

and he almost passes out bc hello the person he likes called him boyfriend!!!!!

so that’s how you both began dating

i feel like jeongin would be the same even if ur dating or not

like he’d still ask u a million questions

“what’s this????”

“i thought u just asked questions as an excuse to talk with me”

“im also not good at math pls help y/n”

u both still go to the cafe and u do hw and just talk tbh

ur both just chillin in ur room laying on the bed after school

and he’s playing with ur hair while ur head is on his stomach

and ur both trying to watch a movie but ur not paying attention

“hey y/n guess what?”

“what?”

“i love u”

and ur heart goes 1948592 miles per hour

“i love you too”

and he goes!!!!!!!

and basically

u and jeongin would be so cute and pure and :((((((((

#yang jeongin #yang jeongin imagines #stray kids #stray kids imagines #stray kids scenarios #kpop scenarios #kpop imagines

[alphysmd]

HERE IT COMES!! A POST WHERE I RAMBLE ON ABOUT CARTOONS??? ARE YOU EXCITED???

seriously though, under the cut i ramble about cartoons in a post that took me like an hour to type up, i didnt proofread any of it, thats my warning

ok but seriously. lets talk cartoons. there is a a lot that’s been on my mind as of late, i think we are on the changing tides of cartoons and we can be in for a great couple year of toons or we might hit another...dry spell.....

let me start with Cartoon Network, since they seem to be cleaning house over at their network, Regular Show is over, Adventure Time has little less than a year, i forget the exact amount that is left, like 40? at the upfront that just happened it sounded like ANOTHER mini series was about to come out, picking up right where Islands left off, which makes me wonder what is left of the show? is the rest of the episodes just going to be plot based? or do we have some one-offs and goofy adventures left? im not sure what i want but i’m really hoping for the best possible ending for the show and im crossing my fingers the theatrical movie is still coming out! i would really love to see one final adventure on the big screen, cartoon network hasn’t done a film since Powerpuff Girls, (well, i don’t think the Aqua Teen movie counts, i think that’s considered a Williams Street film), and I think theatrical cartoons like that are just like a thing of the past and it makes me sad. that being said, it’s been confirmed that Clarence is on it’s final batch of episodes, a show that i fucking adore and i feel never really got a chance to shine. i know so many people refused to watch the show after what happened with the creator and it was sad because Clarence is such a pure hearted kids show, it’s filled with really lovable character and i just think it sums up what it means to be a kid so damn well. I’m really glad it got as many episodes as it did (looks like it will probably have just over 100 when it ends!) but i’m really sad to see it go because there hasn’t been a show like this in a real long time. with everything besides We Bare Bears (a show i never got a chance to get into), Gumball (a show i fell off years back for no real reason) , Steven Universe and Teen Titans Go ending, I wonder what direction they are gonna head in? I wonder if CN is going to fall into fan pressure and cancel SU? I mean I still love the show to death and think most of the criticism is bat-shit insane but I wonder with the cancellation of the two shows (adventure time and regular show) that brought CN back into a golden age if they are gonna kill the only other show that has close to the size of the fanbase either of those shows did? i mean i say this because CN is still pushing TTG as the best show on their network, and don’t get me wrong if you are a fan of that show, but it’s really not fair that it takes up like 85% of the networks air time. i hope CN sticks with SU because i think it has a lot of steam left in it (i thought the same with AT, RS and Clarence but I DIGRESS), and i think such a positive show like that deserves to be on the air more often.

on the Adult Swim side, things seem to be picking up. Samurai Jack’s new season is beyond incredible and for me is setting a new standard of what adult cartoons can be? i mean we see action shows from japan all the time but there hasn’t been anything this adult and this well put together from western animation in ages. I’m hoping that Adult Swim/Toonami starts pushing for new series like this, and it seems like they might, with those new FLCL episodes coming out in the near future. it’s also pretty obvious now that Rick and Morty is Adult Swim’s new flagship series, and I’m gonna be pretty shocked if that gets the axe anytime soon. Based on Season 3′s first episode, i think the show is still going to be pretty great, i was a bit worried about it because it seemed like from interviews that Justin and Dan were arguing a bunch and trying to make it the best they possibly could. I hope they can continue to go on weird adventures and try out new things, and based on the final several mins of the new episode it looks like things are changing, and maybe even getting a lot darker, which i’m all for!  i’m still sad that Aqua Teen got canceled because they still have not found a proper replacement for that classic Adult Swim absurdity. i think the closest they have come was Mike Tyson Mysteries, right down to that old school Hanna Barbara style, it felt like they almost from the ground up made one of those “recycled properties” shows that Adult Swim was filled with in the early days. if you are a fan of the real absurd, that real classic contrived plots that filled shows like Aqua Teen or Sealab, check out Mike Tyson Mysteries because it makes me laugh my ass off. i guess the other night (UNLESS IT WAS A PRANK) they said season 3 of Mike Tyson was coming in May, but they also announced that Hot Streets and Apollo Gauntlet were picked up for series which is great because those are more in the realm of weird cartoons that Adult Swim is known for. (PLUS while it’s not FULLY a cartoon Dream Corp LLC is getting a new season which is GREAT because i think that show really finally became it’s own in the final few episodes!)

the other big news concerns this piece of news about Nick ( http://deadline.com/2017/03/spongebob-loud-house-sherlock-gnomes-1202054433/ ) it seems like Nick is about to go all in on theatrical cartoons again which im HYPED for. I’m really shocked that The Loud House is getting a movie but i’m really excited because I thought I was the only one who was really enjoying that show. You can never know how a show is doing on Nick since all they play is Spongebob reruns and that’s why shows like Harvey Beaks got killed so early on. While I never watched Harvey Beaks, I honestly saw no promotion for it from Nick and when it died I thought a similar thing was going to come for Loud House. I hope these Nick Movies go well because I want to see more feature cartoons from big companies like Nick, maybe this will give Cartoon Network the nudge to get in on the big screen game too. But with the Loud House movie in the works, I’m CROSSING my fingers it’s in the vein of something like A Goofy Movie, you never see those classic cozy road trip cartoon movies anymore, it always has to be some big loud SAVE THE TOWN/WORLD like story, i would love to see more down to earth things and I think with The Loud House it might be a perfect fit. I feel like I should note that the article lists that two UNNAMED NICKTOONS are getting feature films as well, and I may be spitballing or dreaming big here but remember a few months back when CH Greenblatt said that Jhonen Vasquez was working on an Invader Zim movie with Nick and then promptly removed the post about it? i mean i was just thinking that he spoke too soon and it was going to be like the Hey Arnold TV movie that’s happening this year or that Rocko’s Modern Life TV movie (1 hour special as i see it being referred in some places) but WHAT IF, i mean hear me out, Nick is really going to go all out and do an Invader Zim theatrical film. I mean....fuck. I would die. I would straight up die.

OK THAT’S ALL THE CARTOON TALK I GOT IN ME FOR NOW, I WAS JUST GOING TO MAKE A FEW TWEETS AND CALL IT A NIGHT BUT I COULDNT SO SORRY FOR A LONG POST NO ONE WILL READ OR CARE ABOUT but if you do read all of this and want to respond please do i love talking cartoons like the big idiot i am, and i’ll probably respond and write even more about cartoons, thanks bye.

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