#no in/cest here i will sue

[manofmanymons]

You got any ships that'd have people side eying you?

Uuuuuuh out of any fandom ever? Short answer: yes.

Long answer: it's a little complicated what I would define as a ship for me bc when it comes to ships I actively ship and actually think should kith I have incredibly few. But when it comes to ships where someone else will be like "these two are cute together" and I'll go "yeah I see it" and maybe rt/rb a post about them it's like...almost any ship. Y'all have watched me write hcs for almost every mix and match combination of almost every character in Survive even though I have like,,,two ships from that game. And also what some people consider side eye worthy is different from what I do.

Like,,,for example, I know I've said it before, but I don't think human x digimon ships are inherently weird. I think it varies on a partner-to-partner basis. I've seen a lot of people in gg fandom ship Ruli and Angoramon or Kiyo and Jellymon and...yeah I think that's fine. But no one ships Hiro and Gammamon because that would be weird. And I don't think I really have to explain what the difference there is. But I know for some people it's just a hard no across the board lmao.

Probably the only ship I actively ship rn that people think is weird is, for reasons I will never understand, ThomAya. For those of you not in Genshin fandom they're just a classic cute longtime best friends to lovers ship that some people unironically think is incest because Ayaka told one person one time that Thoma is kind of like a second brother to her. These same people will turn around and ship him with her actual brother tho which...what? Like if you actually think they're related or whatever how would that not, in your eyes, also make him related to her brother I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU PEOPLE. I digress.

OH OH OH NOT TO KEEP GENSHINNING BUT FUN FACT I totally got canceled on twitter for shipping kaether back when it was implied but not explicitly confirmed yet that Aether's an adult so the "Traveler is literally minor-coded" crowd came for my ass. I tragically got blocked by one of my only mutuals who liked Digimon back then over that shit lakfdjak. Like sorry for assuming a character who had "seen the birth and death of stars" but is kinda short was at least 18. I was right though.

I know a lot of my KH ships are side eye worthy because they'll be between characters who have literally never met (i.e. most mix and match combos of the characters who are Nobodies of or replicas of or the embodiment of darkness extracted from the other major characters). Some of them are between characters who, despite literally having entire arcs dedicated to establishing that they are NOT the same person, people will still point at and call self-cest. (i.e. shipping Roxas with Sora or Xion). So again I genuinely don't think they're weird, but I know other people do.

I've seen people say it's weird to ship Pao-Lin and Lara in Tiger & Bunny because of their "age difference." They are 16 and 14. Sue me.

Here's a special segment for things I shipped in middle and high school that no one thought was weird back then but would DEFINITELY get a side eye in 2024.

I was a sebaciel shippper when I was like,,,12. Would I still ship it today? Probably no. But hey it was 2013 and I'm pretty sure the show WANTED you to ship them.

Almost any hetalia ship. I am not even joking, almost every character in that entire show was related somehow or another. It was like 2015. I was not immune to smashing pretty characters together and shouting "now kiss." I also was not doing deep dives into whether or not the immortal personifications of countries were technically related or had age gaps, I'm sorry.

Totally shipped Yoichi and Gekkouin from OnS. I mean my main ship was kimiyoi but multishippping is real. To be honest it was just a classic case of being a teenager and shipping the character I related to with the character I thought was hot. It was not any deeper than that.

TLDR: if any of y'all do now or ever have shipped anything weird, I'm not gonna judge you for it. I literally do not have the right to.

[soothedcerberus]

Lambo Twin commission :)

#what annoying song is sides singing i have no ideA #transformers g1 #maccadam #lambo twins #soothedcommissions #sideswipe #sunstreaker #no in/cest here i will sue

[rcdrigvez]

             🤍  ━━    arón piper . cis male. he/him.  ／  iván rodriguez just pulled up blasting safaera by bad bunny — that song is so them ! you know, for a twenty-four year old actor & musician, i’ve heard they’re really -hotheaded, but that they make up for it by being so +generous. if i had to choose three things to describe them, i’d probably say silent nights, ripped leather jackets & lit cigarettes. here’s to hoping they don’t cause too much trouble !!

            🤍  ━━    sup pals , i’m lorena ( 20 , she / her ) reside in the cest timezone & . am very excited to write with you all !! i haven’t been part of a group in a hot minute so please bear with me while i get used to it all again hehe , -  expect me to slide into your ims if you give the intro a like hehe . anyways , here goes a quick summary of my boy !! * yuh i accidentally posted n i wasn’t done sue me :(

                                                    ━━    re : STATS   ━━

full name : iván javier rodriguez salamanca . nickname(s) : jota . gender : cis male . pronouns : he / him . age : twenty-four . sexuality : bisexual . date of birth : october 30th . hometown : madrid , spain . tattoos : canon arón piper . piercings : canon arón piper + nose ring.

                                               ━━    re : BIOGRAPHY   ━━ * trigger warning : substance abuse *

beginnings .

             ━━   born in madrid , spain , iván javier rodriguez was born to juan antonio rodriguez & maría josé salamanca , two well known actors nation wide . following his family’s steps , iván would begin a career in acting at a young age , starring in several theatres , only to land a contract with disney for one of their shows in spain at age sixteen .             ━━   making connections early on , would later land iván a role in the record breaking hit netflix series jacaranda , at age nineteen , earning him several nominations & . awards both in and out of spain . he’d make the move to LA after landing a contract in another netflix series .            ━━    starting to release music ,  a talent that he’d kept hidden throughout the years , only seemed like the perfect move with his newfound fame , first album having gone platinum .             ━━   hit with a sudden wave of international attention & . fame , his instagram blowing up from several 100k to over 13 million followers in the course of a year and a half , would translate to a bank full of cash & . money to spend . add the wrong kind of people ?? and you get chaos             ━━   best friend , would introduce him to hard drugs , at first only doing a line of coke here and there , pop a pill & . deal with the crash the next day . until one line became two , and then three . fighting an addiction while on the public eye , certainly makes things the more difficult , though iván has managed to keep it a secret .

                                                    ━━    re : PLAYLIST  ━━

            🤍   ━━     soliá  .               ━━              bad bunny  .             🤍   ━━     c’est la vie .       ━━              plvtinum  .             🤍   ━━     e.t.a .                 ━━              justin bieber  .             🤍   ━━    jacaranda .         ━━             bad gyal .             🤍   ━━    in my head .       ━━             ariana grande  .             🤍   ━━    safaera .             ━━             bad bunny  .

                                       ━━    re : DESIRED CONNECTIONS   ━━

      best friend . met around 5 years ago , right after he move to the states , probably was the one who introduced him to drugs int he first place , his ride or die . iván would do anything for them , just like they would do anything for him . open .

      circle of friends . mostly featured on his Instagram posts , facetime calls at random times in the day , attending the craziest of elite parties together , iván has probably known them for a while . closer to some than others , he considers them family . open 0 / 4 .

      ex girlfriend . met around the time he first moved to LA , probably dated for several years until their messy break up . 0 / 1 .

     misc . frenemies , fwb(s) , past / current hook ups , on and off , enemies , costars , musicians that collabed in the past , friends from home , etc .

#❛ ✦ — — 𝕽𝖔𝖉𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖚𝖊𝖟 𝖎 ﹕ re . development . #tw: addiction #tw: drugs #la oof it's 2 a.m & here i am dropping this on le dash lmao #excess:intro

[renaroo]

Any thoughts on Venus de Milo(tmnt)?

BOY DO I

I wonder if this is related at all to MovieBob’s recent video about her being the worst female character ever because the moment I watched it I wondered if anyone would be asking me about her. 

So. Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation is... a thing that in itself is almost too difficult to explain outside of “you had to be there”, but I’m going to do my best. Because I was there. Oh, man. Was I there. 

While I had VHS tapes of the original ‘80s TMNT cartoon I grew up with and watched religiously, the show stopped airing new episodes before I was born, and stopped resyndication by the time I was four. So while I definitely grew up with them and loved them and read the Archie comics religiously as a kid and watched the original live action movies pretty much every weekend we rented movies from the down the road movie rental store (anyone remember those?), my actual first memories of watching any TMNT show as it aired was the 1998 flop show, Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation. 

In fact, I distinctly remember getting the chicken pox that year and part of the only good thing that came from it was I got to watch episodes of NT:TNM without impediment from my then-one year old sister because they kept her away from me as if I had the plague. 

Which I kinda did, but regardless. 

It was actually just 4 years later, in 2001, that I’d come to build an online presence with TERRIBLE Pokemon, Inuyasha, and Star Fox fanfics that I first started looking up geocities communities for various fandoms and one of those was TMNT. 

If anyone remembers geocities or pre-ff.net fandom lore in the Ninja Turtles circle, here’s how old I am: I, personally, used to talk to the likes of Kali Gargoyle, Azure the Turtle, Kat, Sakan (FREAKfreak), Ame Musashi, Buslady, and Machias -- a statement that I can almost guarantee means absolutely NOTHING to 99.9999% of you.

Now, an interesting thing about the fandom culture just before the 2003 cartoon aired was that there was actually a large contingent of the fandom that were defensive of Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation and thought of it as being only as bad as the current Power Rangers season of the time (which was the one right before Dino Thunder, so I can’t remember which one it was). In fact, people were so on the bandwagon for it, that the geocities community started an online petition -- which at the time was a difficult thing to do because it meant everyone sending a single email chain around and around so everyone can sign it with their online names and then email it to Saban, who owned the rights. The petition was to allow the show to have another season and tie up its loose ends with the (most likely misinformed) opinion that Next Mutation had had better viewership than the Power Rangers season it ran side-by-side with. 

Did it deserve it? With my nostalgia goggles off, having bought the DVDs of the series and watched it within the last four years, can I say Next Mutation and Venus de Milo deserved that type of fandom swelling in support?

...

Um. Noooooo?

Okay, my extensive fandom history aside, I cannot defend The Next Mutation because... it was really bad. Like, made the Shredder a good guy in the pilot and got rid of the most iconic villains for the rest of the series bad. Instead we had the Dragon Lord (eh) and Wick (his servant, again eh), Silver the Gorilla... gangster whose gang came straight out of the (also flop) Dick Tracey movie, and... 

Vam Mi. Who was probably the first indication my parents had that I was into girls. Because. Well shit. I mean. 

A Chinese vampire obsessed with the female of the show and wore tight leather and heeellllooooooooo

Vam Mi is actually the thing I remember the best about the show and I could probably write an essay on defending the storyline “Unchain My Heart” which goddamn if we’d had episodes like that throughout the show and a villain like Vam Mi throughout the show, well it probably would’ve gotten that mythical second sense that would have made sense of the other garbage. 

But I’ve obviously gotten away from your question. Which is about Venus herself. Or, as I prefer to call her (for reason we’ll get into) Mei Peih Chi. 

The reason I’ve had all this build up and quandering about the show itself is because Mei herself is such a product of this series that removing them from each other leaves out how things went so wrong with an idea that came from such an obviously positive place. “Hey, little girls deserve to want to be Ninja Turtles, too!”

Best intentions. Worst executions. 

If you read a lot of my meta, you know that I actually despise the concept of “Mary Sues” and how female characters are carelessly cast aside by people for basically having attributes of any main character. But. Well. Let’s just look at Mei’s character in its context: 

Mei is a fifth turtle who was in the same bowl that fell into the sewers and was mutated along with the turtles (aka, does not have her own unique origin story and was there from the beginning but WE’RE JUST LEARNING ABOUT IT), she was found by a Chinese monk (Chinese, not Japanese which is the ethnicity of the Hamato family of the turtles and Yoshi, sort of glazing over the cultures as being interchangeable), was raised as his daughter in the monastery back in China even though... he seemed to somehow know about the others Turtles and Splinter and inform her where to go after his death in the pilot?, and she -- in a series called Ninja Turtles, was not a ninja but a Shinobi priestess with psychic abilities. 

Oh, and throughout the show they keep bringing up the fact that none of them are blood-related, despite the turtles being brothers being a cornerstone to the franchise since the 80s comics, for the sole purpose of having a love triangle between Raph, Venus, and Leo without it being incest. 

(This hilariously backfired and became the justification for the ever growing T-Cest fandom that shipped the boys together for years afterward by the by)

She is a fish out of water, has zero fun throughout the series, is not as physically strong in a fight as the boys, and is basically the plot equivalent of Deus Ex Machina in the end because Magic > Ninjitsu in a franchise that is completely dependent on the physicality and Ninja-ness of the characters. 

Also. Despite Mei growing up in China, still learning English and Western culture, and having an obvious struggle with mourning the loss of her home in China and her Chinese father, in the goddamn pilot the main guys rename her “Venus de Milo” because she knocked the arms off a statue and they thought it was funny. Because while the guys are named after Renaissance artists, Mei is renamed and for all purposes “Anglicanized” for an art object. Like. It’s difficult to understand who okayed any of this. 

Like. Were they thinking?

Mei, from the start, was kind of a broken character with a gross costume design (turtle boobs turtle boobs what’re you gonna do there’s a turtle with fucking boobs) that still forces girls to see themselves as thin and demure even if they’re bulky, shell having turtles. BECAUSE WE GOTTA HAVE THEM HIPS AND CURVES i guess. 

She’s so loathed by Peter Laird (co-creator of the TMNT) that he made the overly drastic declaration that he’ll never allow there to be female turtles in the franchise again, period. Which I kinda... find extreme. 

Because....

As bad as she is. As problematic as she was. 

.... When I was six, I loved her. 

How could I not love her? She and Vam Mi were the only girls on the whole damn show! (April and Casey didn’t even get cameos). The face value of representation for a long time made me defensive of Mei and of the show because of how it made me feel as a kid.

It’s that Maya Angelou quote personified: “People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel.“

I didn’t remember how bad the props and puppetry was until I rewatched the show. I didn’t remember how annoying Venus’ “spot” in the team was as immediate den mother and object to be fought over (like Raph and Leo needed more to fight over really). I didn’t even remember that the show kept pushing for the Turtles to not be a family. 

I remembered having a lot of affection for seeing a female ninja turtle along with the characters I had grown up loving. I mean, seriously, do I have to post that picture again of me as a baby in the scariest Ninja Turtle themed grocery store ride in the history of ever?

So she’s bad. And there needs to be more effort in being progressive and being more inclusive, especially for old properties trying to adapt to the changing times. 

And I’m someone who believes wholeheartedly that any idea can be done well. 

.... Venus was not done well.

But she had her part in making me a lifetime Ninja Turtle fan. A complicated, twisted, only could happen in the late part of the Clinton administration way. 

So I will criticize the hell out of Mei, out of the series, but I’ll always be mindful of how it made a six-year-old Rena excited every Saturday. 

I’ll remember that and the hot vampire in leather. 

#long post #Rants of Unusual Size #opinions opinions opinions #Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation #Venus de Milo #Mei Pieh Chi #Anonymous

[fantaeurovision-blog]

Regolamento edizione 2017

Click HERE for the english version

Scopo del gioco: Ottenere il punteggio più alto con la propria squadra.

Funzionamento: Entro l’ 8 Maggio 2017 (il giorno prima della prima semifinale) alle ore 24:00 CEST ogni giocatore sceglie 10 tra i Paesi partecipanti all'Eurovision, che formeranno la sua squadra. 2 dei Paesi vanno scelti tra quelli che accedono di diritto alle finali, 8 tra quelli che si sfideranno nelle semifinali. La squadra definitiva sarà quindi formata dai 2 Paesi che sicuramente passeranno alle finali e da quelli che hanno passato le semifinali tra gli altri 8 scelti dal giocatore. Dopo la finale ad ogni Paese verranno assegnati dei punteggi basati sull'esibizione dei loro cantanti (i punteggi sono assegnati dagli organizzatori del gioco). Il punteggio del giocatore equivale alla somma dei punteggi assegnati ai Paesi della sua squadra. Il giocatore sceglie i Paesi rebloggando QUESTO post e scrivendoli sotto (non nelle tag).

Premi: Onore e gloria per il giocatore e le sue mucche.

Paesi che accedono di diritto alla finale: Francia, Germania, Italia, Regno Unito, Spagna, Ucraina.

Paesi che si sfideranno in semifinale: Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaigian, Belgio, Bielorussia, Bulgaria, Cipro, Croazia, Danimarca, Estonia, Finlandia, Georgia, Grecia, Irlanda, Islanda, Israele, Lettonia, Lituania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldavia, Montenegro, Norvegia, Paesi Bassi, Polonia, Portogallo, Repubblica Ceca, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Svezia, Svizzera, Ungheria.

Punteggi:

Ogni Paese riceverà un punteggio equivalente al punteggio assegnato dai giurati. 

Inoltre il Paese vincitore riceverà un bonus di 100 punti.

Arriva in finale (solo per i Paesi che non accedono di diritto) 50

Esibizione mai vista prima della semifinale/finale bonus 30

Canta in più di una lingua 20 a lingua (esclusa quella principale)

Indossa pailettes 160

Indossa piume 170

Indossa abiti lucenti 20

Indossa un copricapo appariscente 120

Indossa abiti tradizionali/storici 200

Indossa abiti di gomma e/o metallizzati 110

Indossa abiti con spalline, strascichi o colli particolari 90

Indossa un mantello 40

Indossa gioielli particolari/appariscenti 40

Indossa vestiti di pelle 35

Indossa trucco particolare (oltre al classico make-up) 45

Indossa occhiali da sole 20

E’ vestito da creatura soprannaturale 300

E’ vestito da animale 280

Acconciature particolari 50

Capelli di colori non naturali 70

Spogliarello 100

Usa fuochi d'artificio 100

Usa fiamme 150

Usa scintille 80

Usa luci stroboscopiche colorate 70

Usa coriandoli 80

Usa neve e/o pioggia 90

Usa nebbia/fumo 60

Usa vento artificiale 55

Usa piattaforme rotanti 310

Usa gabbie/cornici/specchi 270

Usa attrezzi da cucina in modo improprio 140

Usa attrezzi sportivi 75

Usa attrezzi professionali 95

Usa fiori e/o frutta 120

Usa ananas 150

Usa immagini/testo sullo schermo televisivo 25

Usa video suggestivo alle spalle 30

Usa video sul pavimento o in altri posti che non sia lo schermo principale 50

Bonus per interazione del cantante con il video 30

Usa accessori/oggetti fosforescenti/fluorescenti/che si illuminano al buio 55

Usa scenografia a tema 100

Usa riprese in bianco e nero 20

Usa strumenti musicali non comuni (esclusi pianoforti, chitarre, bassi e batteria) 20 a strumento

Usa il triangolo 30

Appare la bandiera del Paese durante l'esibizione 70

Appare la bandiera europea durante l'esibizione 95

Musicisti sul palco (oltre al cantante) 30 a persona /conta anche la band/

Dj sul palco 50 a persona

Ballerini sul palco 40 a persona

Coristi sul palco 20 a persona

Atleti sul palco 30 a persona

Artisti sul palco 50 a persona

Over 70 sul palco 30 a persona

Le persone sul palco (ad esclusione del cantante principale) ricevono 20 punti bonus per ogni attività extra (ad esempio un musicista ballerino riceverà il punteggio più alto tra musicista e ballerino (ovvero 40) più 20, per un totale di 60 punti)

Il cantante balla 145

Il cantante balla una coreografia in sync con la band/i ballerini 175

Il cantante suona uno strumento 75

Il cantante corre 100

Il cantante fa capriole/ruote 135

Il cantante saluta a inizio o fine canzone nella lingua del Paese ospitante 30

Il portavoce indossa trucco o costumi 40

Il portavoce sventola una bandiera 10

Il portavoce saluta o ringrazia nella lingua del Paese ospitante 15

Il portavoce canta 25

Possono essere assegnati punti extra per esibizioni/azioni particolarmente divertenti e/o inaspettate, a discrezione degli organizzatori

#fantaeurovision #rules #italian

[soothedcerberus]

A commission I got from @notsotinyblob !! 🥺💖

#LOOK AT THEMMM #WHAH TY AGAIN #comfort bby bro #commissioned art #needlenose #tracks #maccadam #transformers #no in/cest here i will sue

[soothedcerberus]

Doodled a bunch of different lambros! :>

#no in/cest here i will sue #gave them pupils because it gives them character and lets me practice eyes #maccadam #g1 #sideswipe #sunstreaker #ill do more later! #my art #transformers g1

[soothedcerberus]

Anon, i stayed awake to draw this i had to, thank you for sending this incredible idea in i cry ;-;

#OKAY I SLEEP NOW #maccadam #no in/cest here i will sue #transformers #g1 #sunstreaker #sideswipe #NUZZLE NUZZLE #my art