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s-insomnia · 1 year

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going on a big time rush nostalgia rewatch and i find it so fascinating how they handled addressing actual issues (homesickness, psychosomatic illness, fear of rejection, emotional repression)

like multiple times a character will plainly just. state the problem a character's having (ex: when bob tells logan that logan's relationships never work because he's afraid of rejection; when the therapist in that one ep just straight up says james' tanning spray addiction is because he feels estranged because of the pressures of his career; or when logan says that james' sickness due to him losing "swagger" was psychosomatic), just to have the other character respond by saying "what lol?"

it's so... interesting. because the writers clearly realized their core audience (kids) probably wouldn't understand the point when it's put in more "adult" terms (like kids aren't going to know what the hell "psychosomatic" means, or truly understand what fear of rejection in romantic relationships is), shown by how the point would be re-addressed sometime else in episode in much simpler terms. yet they still did it?

i mean, i don't dislike it. as an almost adult, it gives me a much greater appreciation of the show that i didn't have when i watched the show when i was 8. it's just... something i've really noticed.

#i could write a whole essay on how kids tv shows tackle 'real life problems'#like when in wizards of waverly place #harper says alex fell in love w the version of dean she saw and dated in her dreams #with the obv irl connection being how people can fall in love with the idealized versions of their partners #or how in big time halloween #kendall being a werewolf and trying to hide it from jo bc he's afraid jo won't like him anymore #is possibly an allegory for how nt people feel they have to mask their behaviors to fit in #or or or how in lab rats #spike is literally just a bad attempt at dissociative identity disorder #or maybe im giving the writers wayyyy too much credit #who knows #s-in.ramble #s-in.txt #what did i just write

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cherryisagamer · 9 months

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Yves: C'mon, there's a wonderful view up there. Although *looks at MC* it's nothing to compare to this view

MC: *turns around* Why are you looking at me?

Yves: *frustrated stare*

MC: Ah, I get it now! I'm the view!

[The remaining princes laughing their asses off in the side lines]

#ikemen prince #ikemen ouji #ikepri #yves kloss #ikepri emma #this is literally the last ch of the romantic route and i love it #source: wizards of waverly place #when yves started talking about the view #i was like 'oooh~ you talking about me? *laughs* yeah probably not...'#but then i was so right lol #cherry plays: ikepri

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gaycodependency · 1 year

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idk how to take this joke

#im serious 😭 is the joke that zeke referred to justin as 'her' for whatever reason. i'm confused about that..#justin has like no reaction i dont think he heard?#also they make a similar joke later in s3 when justin somehow gets mistaken as alex's sister for the CJBS comic they did #[trans hc incoming..]#the russo siblings r so lgbt #listening to electra heart n justin is so primadonna coded #someone talk abt wowp w/ me!!!! justin haters dni #wowp #justin russo #tv: wizards of waverly place

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starsbythepocketful13 · 2 years

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today I had to explain to my coworkers which actors were in which early 2000s disney channel movies and i guess watching every single one of them as a child/teen/young adult prepared me for this extremely insignificant moment LOL

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iamanartichoke · 2 years

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Thor: Why is Jane being so aloof?

Loki: Aw, aloof. Look who didn't skip English this week.

Thor: I remembered it because it sounded like a dog that has a cold. A-woof! A-woof!

Loki:

Loki, smiling grudgingly: ... Yeah, it does.

Thor: Yeah.

Loki: Look, Thor, you and Jane have been together for almost a year. You're at the point where you don't have to be together every minute. Your relationship is steadfast.

Thor: Steadfast?

Loki: It means solid.

Thor, nodding: Thanks, Loki. Now I can skip English.

Loki:

Thor: Hey, do me a steadfast and say here when they call my name? Thanks!

#incorrect brodinsons #wizards of waverly place #there's no way to adapt this into asgardian but #every time i see this scene i feel like this is the dynamic loki and thor shared #when they were young and being tutored (as royal children do)#and it makes me giggle every time

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ameliora-j · 1 year

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i want miss selena gomez to write the soundtrack to my life

#nani talks celebrities #selena gomez #she’s quite literally the queen of my heart #my bisexual awakening was watching her in wizards of waverly place when i was like 6

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kamefoo · 2 years

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THE PINK SUIT!!!!!!

#that's it this show is perfect actually #Wizards of Waverly Place ripoff with Sky High easter eggs #what more could you ask for honestly #also what I'm hearing here is that d***ey still has the suits 👀#and what I'm wondering is why use that suit for the easter egg #that's not the homecoming suit it's the alternate opening suit AKA the 80s suit AKA the suit that only appears in like half a frame #of the whole movie #it's not Royal Pain's iconic movie costume it's the one she was wearing when The Commander and Jet Stream defeated her #which makes it iconic... within the narrative... but not to the regular audience member #so was that all they had on hand? or were they just grabbing random stuff to shove in the room? or is there a tiny chance that this show...#okay sorry I just had to have my little superfan geek moment I literally never thought I'd see her again #no longer confined to the DVD bonus features the pink suit got her screen time #I had to make this post just in case anyone possibly managed to still think I was normal about this film

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howboycat · 2 years

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just found a notebook of my OCs from when i was like 10 and like 90% of them were dudes. tell me you’re uncomfortable with womanhood without telling me

#like…#what a clear reflection of my feelings #the girl characters were all notably less ‘cool’ than the guys #like obv lots of them had powers or wings or smth cuz i was 10 #and i clearly gave all the dudes cooler powers #my obvious thought is this is internalized from media #but when i think abt stuff i was watching at the time #prob wizards of waverly place and hannah montana and the like #it’s not like there weren’t cool female characters in my life #i just was NOT connecting with them #probably wasn’t connecting much with the guys either but still more i guess #oh how revealing to see the thoughts of your younger self #talking

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venussaidso · 3 months

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I'm cryinggg Jess and Rory from "Gilmore Girls" are an Ashwini couple, I knew it -- I am SO familiar with this dynamic. Ketu girl being an intelligent goody two shoes/bookworm and the Ketu guy being an intelligent 'bad boy' bookworm too, both connecting over their love for literature and nobody else understands them as much as they understand each other for that period. Also, them being the best ship to come outta that show.

Another Ashwini pairing is Alex & Mason from "Wizards of Waverly Place", both being soulmates and whatnot.

Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in "Carol"!! ASHWINI COUPLE MWAHAHA.

Remember, Ashwini Kumaras come in pairs, literally being twins -- it's almost like Ashwinis can go for each other as they may have a strong craving for a kind of closeness with someone who understands them so deeply and intimately, maybe even mirrors them. Literally think of how twins being intuitively connected, and no words need to be spoken to understand each other etc. I think this desire applies to platonic connections too. Also, in general Ketuvians usually go for each other.

oh look it's pictures of an ashwini moon man and an ashwini asc woman used to further push my Ketu agenda

Also the synastry is better when they're both not ashwini moons at the same time.

#random #ashwini #aries #ketu

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survivalove · 6 months

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Thinking about why I like Kataang so much

so a lot of my posts/asks lately have been about things I dislike so I decided to balance it out by talking about something I actually do like! ofc I immediately thought of kataang and started thing about why i like them so much compared to other couples in media I watched growing up.

first thing is, I don’t actually like romance in visual media. I much prefer it in books but having to actually watch it gives me the ick idk why. also when i first watched atla I was like 5, so the romance really had no appeal to me and I was super focused on katara and the other girls on the show because they were girls! i would completely block out the boys and all the ship scenes for years after that because my attitude to romance never really changed.

right up until I was about 11/12 and became aware of romance from hearing people my age start to talk about crushes, boyfriends/girlfriends, kissing etc. suddenly I had entered this phase in real life where romance was suddenly relevant among my peers and this made me start paying attention when it played out in the shows I was watching like Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place, etc. this also included ATLA as my dad and I would rewatch it together on DVD throughout the year.

as I watched with my katara blinders, like I always do, for the first time I started to notice the boys in the show, particularly aang, (yes I finally started focusing on the main character after 6 years 😭) and certain interactions katara had with him that I never noticed before.

*dramatic pause*

and the way I consumed media would never be the same.

jk, but really tho.

fast forward to now, and I’ve recently started watching anime after consuming a bunch of western media my whole life from cartoons and disney shows to contemporary literature and Y/A movies/TV shows. and one thing that stands out to me with kataang compared to most of the romance i see in shonen animes (one of atla’s biggest inspiration as a TV show) is the way katara and aang develop in a way that is realistic, yet too good to be true.

let me elaborate:

starting from the very first episode, katara and aang have that classic meet-cute interaction. the music is playing, their eyes are widening, aang’s acting like he’s never seen a girl before and katara is impressed by literally every single thing he does. this is pretty much how every ship is set up, anime or otherwise, and kanna basically spells out their imminent connection when she sends katara and sokka off and sokka even explicitly says the word boyfriend seconds before that. obviously, these two characters are gonna get together at some point and it’s just a matter of when.

this is where it gets more than that:

the more katara and aang spend time together, the more they start to get on each other’s nerves.

I’m sure everyone’s had a crush at some point, where you see someone for the first time and go “oh they’re so cute” and you feel the butterflies blah blah. you either fantasize about them for a while and move on, or you pursue the crush and start to actively make moves to get to know them better.

and as you get to know them, you notice some things about them that kinda piss you off. the way they pick their nose, the way they bounce their knee, the way they chew. it’s always something. it can even affect friendships because that’s life. we are humans, not concepts. no one is perfect, there is nobody on this planet that you will 100% agree with or like about them. it just doesn’t work like that. and for some relationships, there is that one irritating thing about them that breaks the camel’s back and it doesn’t work out. you learn what annoys you and move on to the next relationship. or you have the lucky ones who actually stay together and the relationship continues to blossom as you get to know each other better.

similarly, kataang in the beginning are completely enamored with the other. until they’re not. throughout season 1, we see katara becoming more and more disillusioned with aang going from “aang’s so brave. he’s the avatar!” to realizing he’s just a boy with insecurities and flaws just like her. some of which get on her nerves BAD. similarly, aang goes from trying to impress katara and going along with every single plan she has, to disagreeing with her and even getting annoyed by her as the seasons go on.

despite this, it doesn’t stop that thing they have for each other from growing and flourishing. that is the magic part. watching two characters fall in love as they continue to annoy and irritate each other more and more. the more katara and aang butt heads throughout the seasons, the more and more unambiguous their romantic interactions become.

aang bluntly telling katara she’s not funny like he didn’t just ask her to dance with him in a candlelit cave in front of dozens of people a few days ago? katara constantly getting annoyed at aang’s antics to turn around and ask him for his opinion on the way she looks or kiss him on the cheek? right.

this is what makes them stand out from other fictional couples I’ve seen, where the girl and guy’s opinion on the other never changes significantly from that first interaction they have. one person, usually the girl because of course, worships the ground our main character walks on, meanwhile he seems to barely notice her apart from that first scene where she looked pretty and his jaw dropped or something. and even if they do interact a lot, their dynamic hardly evolves from that initial setup. they never get upset with each other or at the least, visibly annoyed. their dynamic is static, stagnant, mostly affected by major events in the plot rather than personal characteristics and minor misgivings the characters may have.

there’s no juice. it’s stale. and for me, very unrealistic.

I was watching this video about writing couples in media and one comment stood out to me in particular:

What you said about charm is so true. Entertaining chemistry to watch ≠ chemistry that pairs people together. A lot of sitcoms try to pair opposites romantically or as best friends, because opposites are good for comedy and conflict, but I find myself not understanding why they’re so into each other.

instantly i was reminded of the way people call kataang vanilla/boring, in favor of pairings that are far less similar. and while katara and aang do fight a lot, fundamentally they are very similar which is why they are so believable and realistic. I love watching them slowly become disillusioned with the idealized version of each other they had in the first episode to seeing all the ways they manage to piss each other off, and still being drawn by that initial mutual attraction.

katara learns the hard way that aang isn’t the infallible savior from her grandma’s stories, but she never stops believing in him. aang comes to discover katara’s flaws and conflicting opinions, but he still encourages her belief in hope, affirms her as a waterbender/healer and yes still calls her beautiful every chance he gets.

and what I love about this, is, it gives them reasons to fall in love that go beyond the superficial reasons that drew them towards each other in the first place.

they don’t fall in love with each other in spite of those little minor flaws, but because of them.

katara doesn’t love aang because he’s the avatar. she loves him because he is the goofy fun boy that allowed her to be a kid while taking up this heavy responsibility. aang doesn’t love katara because she’s beautiful. he falls in love witnessing those moments of her being determined, speak up for herself and others, and even going to great lengths to inspire hope in everyone she meets.

#atla #kataang #katara #aang #whoa this is long #my bad #too tired to add pics lol

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fanfic-lover-girl · 8 months

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Magical Education in Harry Potter

I have continued reading snippets of HP and I realized once again how...boring the magic is in HP. Besides Snape, Dumbledore and Voldemort I think, no one in HP really does anything exceptional or innovative with their magic. Well...there are the Marauders with their map and their animagus transformations. Plus the Weasley twins are super creative too with their products. But I think that's it really. I will be mega generous and throw in Draco fixing the cabinet and Hermione's DA coins too.

Not even Harry Potter, who is supposed to be the chosen one and hero of the story, does anything great. He's tragically mediocre and not in a good way. I do not consider summoning a patronus at 13 to be a marvel. Considering he had special lessons from Lupin and his performing the spell is not really a special/new/creative magical endeavour.

The muggle world has great technological innovations. But wizards are not innovating magic on the same level at all. And I think part of the problem is their magical education system.

First, starting to learn magic at 11 is total rubbish. Using Avatar: The Last Airbender as an example. Learning magic at 11 is comparable to someone learning they can bend at 5 but they don't start training until 11. Or someone in our world has prodigious abilities but they don't train until high school. Do you see how dumb this is?

So in the meantime, wizard kids have this power that they can't control properly. It's not that big of a deal if the kid has a magical family but what about mugglebornes like Hermione or kids who grew up in muggle families like Harry?? Harry was literally a hazard to the Dursleys in more ways than one and it's understandable, not excusable, that they hated him.

Plus Hermione's character is annoying due to her role as an exposition device. It's tiresome that a muggleborne girl is constantly showing up purebloods who literally grew up around magic. As the books go on, she takes over Ron's role in the trio as the magical common sense guy. In reality, mugglebornes should be at a major disadvantage. Let's say I am trying to learn Spanish. I have no Spanish-speaking family. And let's say I end up in a class of immigrant kids whose parents all speak Spanish. They may not be fluent themselves but they have a huge headstart on me. In time I will catch up to them, especially if I work hard like Hermione, but initially, I would perform worse than them. As first years, the pureblood and halfblood kids should be blowing Hermione out of the water. If not for the entire first year then at least the first semester/term.

So how would I fix this issue? Four ways:

Magical kindergarten/elementary school

Hogwarts should be a highschool/college level institution. Or maybe Hogwarts could have different school levels. Kids should learn the introductory concepts for Charms, Transfiguration, Potions etc in primary/elementary school or even from their freaking parents. Ron's intro scene with that make my rat yellow prank spell was just sad. And having Hermione call him out for the spell not being real was just more salt in my annoyance. As kids, they learn the basics like wand movement, magic theory and safety. And basic spells.

Advanced learning

When they go to Hogwarts they should focus more on application and higher levels of theory. For example: Magical Ethics (what are the moral boundaries of magic **cough**rapedrugs**cough**polyjuicepotion**cough**), Magical Research (do projects/experiments to learn more about the nature of magic, like how is elf magic different from wizard magic), Spellmaking (why is Snape the only dude in HP inventing spells!), Improvised Spells (like in Wizards of Waverly Place), Magic Economics (how does magic work with the concept of scarcity, what is scarcity in the wizarding world), Magical Defense (not just against the dark arts but basic defence like self-defence in our world and perhaps survival skills) etc. They should learn non-verbal and non-wand magic as well of course. Maybe this could be taught at the end of primary school or the beginning of Hogwarts. Instead of the very end of their Hogwarts education.

Accessible classes for mugglebornes

So what about mugglebornes, you say? Well, there are two options. You can provide after-school classes for muggleborne students to learn magic before they attend Hogwarts. Think of extra lessons or night classes in our world. Or you can send the mugglebornes to summer school(s) before Hogwarts which leads me to my next point.

Different Class Tracks

Put muggleborne kids in a different class track from the purebloods/halfbloods who went to magical primary. Like how we have advanced classes for students who are super bright or slower-paced classes for students who need extra help. Students like Hermione would gradually graduate to the advanced track while lazier students like Harry may stay in the slower track. Or maybe bright students like Hermione could do placement tests to get into the advanced track from the start. Some pureblood students could even be demoted to the slower track if they begin to goof off (maybe Ron) or need extra help (maybe Neville). And you can mix and match! So Neville would be in Class 1 Herbology but Class 2 Potions :). Maybe Harry would be in Class 1 DADA but Class 2 Potions etc.

If lack of teachers is an issue, then pureblood families would teach their own kids and the primary school would be exclusively for muggleborne kids and/or pureblood/halfblood kids whose parents can't provide tutoring.

Conclusion

So yeah, that's how I would revamp the school system. Hogwarts is a weird school. Like students leave as adults but leaving Hogwarts feels like leaving primary school. I never felt prepared for the world after highschool but at least we have college/university. Even if HP has trade schools/apprenticeships for jobs like healing and being an auror, I think their magical education is seriously lacking. And the spellwork in HP is honestly very lame. Wands just end up being like guns. More battles should be like the Voldy vs Dumbles fight in book 5.

Magic should be something kids learn from the cradle. Magic is not a subject like Math is. Magic is literally part of who they are. Learning magic should be treated like learning how to groom yourself, eat healthily or even speak. It's strange how Hogwarts and the ministry restrict students from learning magic outside of classes. Maybe it's a conspiracy??

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gaycodependency · 7 months

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mann, ppl's urge to say alex is the nicest character in the show and try to clean her image is, to me, a bit of a disservice to her character. she can be mean and sneaky and manipulative and to try to erase that ur not getting alex as a character?? like it's finneee!!

#like yes there r times where shes done wrong n she is NICE but dont try to make that all who she is cuz it's not?#saw an imdb review and can i just say wowp fans r some of the most annoying mfs out there #what happens when u put less than morally good ppl in a disney channel sitcom #and saying justin is the 'most toxic person' theyve ever seen. have u only watched sitcoms in ur life?? I CANT DO THIS #not trying to say justin is a saint either. like none of the russos r. thats kinda the fun of it at least to me. but give me a breaakkk #can only trust like 3 wowp fans in the world #wowp #tv: wizards of waverly place #deranged v deranged (me). who will win #.txt

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your-old-sins-tournament · 2 months

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12 YEAR OLD OCS; SIDE A

hạt dẻ hạt phỉ [@tboyblogger] (she/her sister, he/him for brother)

theyre a pair of twin beasts, middle schoolers! i have no idea who is hazelnut and who is chestnut i kept calling them both names like that, theyre they/them in the way there are always two kids. these kids are beasts(?) that look like human but with magic and animal ears and tails. theyre adopted by a desi family of wizards so they do witchy spellcasting stuff. their names are in vietnamese cause. well im viet, and theyre kind of a ripoff of a vietnamese early 2000s tv show about a family of wizards (LOL) coming to the human world and try to blend in, except mine is just about the family trying to take care of these two beasts and the shenanigans revolve around them! if i were to continue writing them now i'd probably do the sitcom format, something like old d*sney channel series like wizard of waverly place (wait i think i also stole from this LMAO) or good luck charlie where the focus is on the interpersonal relationships of everyone in the family and how they are to the kids, growing as they learn to take care of them? idk. but this was 2012, i was 12, so i ripped from cardcaptor sakura and ben10 and pokémon or other similar video games to make them into mahou-kodomo shounen protags going around different worlds capturing creatures-of-the-week but theyre all in the back of my head now </3 vote for them if you like little animal freaks that would crawl on the floor chewing furniture and bite each other then cry to mom

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Follow Excavator, the world's WORST and luckiest archeologist as he embarks across the world to different locations that his 12 year old writer was learning about in history class. Watch as his boss constantly fires and re-hires him on account of Excavator's stupidity and luck at finding rare artifacts. Embark on his first adventure when he accidentally hurled himself into a tar pit from clowning around and found the Rosetta Stone buried deep beneath. Join him on his trip to China where he gets thrown into a basket and is forced to float the Pacific Ocean for days until he discovers ancient Chinese scrolls hidden in the basket with him, narrowly escaping being fired by his boss yet again. Follow him to India where he believes he traveled to the 1800s and is mistaken for a butler and cleans precious furniture with bleach which ruins everything until he realizes he was just staying at some guys house the whole time and he didn't time travel to the 1800s.

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#ocs #polls #ocs you made when you were 12 tournament #old sins #bracket tournament #side a #hạt dẻ hạt phỉ #chestnut and hazelnut #excavator

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generallemarc · 2 months

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Idle question

When a tv show(usually by Disney) has a mixed race or mixed-culture family, why is it always the mom that's the different culture and the dad who's white? That oye primos show everyone hates just got revealed to be doing it, Amphibia did it, The Ghost & Molly McGee did it, hell even Wizards of Waverly Place did it. And except for the new show that's not out yet I don't think, those are all good shows for the most part, so it's not like it's some sort of problem or anything, I'm just confused as to why this is always how it happens.

#although I guess with Wizards you could say that Jerry being a wizard meant both sides of the family had non-typical cultures #didn't they contrast that a couple times?#i always thought it was neat

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beannary · 4 months

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ok @faiakishi i was going to draw a thing explaining this but i forgot to and now im watching keyan carlile's video essay on wizards of waverly place and im actually deciding that big mama hiring just regular ass humans is just like how regular normal body guards escorted Professor Evilini off of Wiztech property after Alex made her confess her evil plan to drain Justin's magic powers

like its exactly the same thing if you think about it and im so right and brave for saying it

also the real explanation i was going to draw was either that the security guy is just wearing a cloaking broach or that he is just so stupid so silly so stupid he's just like wow huh this is some costume party! these costumes are all so good!

and why did big mama hire some humans? its because her yokai employees unionized and so she has to pay them a lot more than she wants to but the humans are a mess so she hires them when she can to save money aka to hoard money

#bean babbles #tlp au #the little prince separated au

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