Dispatch from Absurdist France
Just so you know we're still living in our own weird Kafka/Ionesco fusion timeline.
Macron's a pompous authoritarian dick and we hate him, so the good people of France started a little informal competition amongst ourselves to see which city or town can fuck his redemption tour of public appearances the most. Besides the usual booing, heckling (shoutout to the two old guys that called him a butthole to his face and called his government corrupt while shaking his hand on live TV yesterday, dudes rock!) etc, we've seen a revival of the ancestral tradition of the casserolade/cacerolazo. Which is basically bringing pots and pans and banging on them to make as much noise as you can to drown out government bullshit, thanks to our Latin brothers and sisters for keeping that one warm for us.
Since he's also very sensitive and his minions the préfets -kinda like a local police chief+mini-governor thing- are very attentive to his feelings, they're taking Measures. This morning he went on a visit in the beautiful, beautiful Languedoc backcountry, my only true love, and the local préfet wasn't about to be outdone in fascist shit by his colleagues.
He invaded the small town of Ganges (4000 souls) with 600 riot cops, not a typo, and illegally used an anti-terror law to forbid the carrying of various things in the municipality, including "portable sound devices".
WHICH, Y'ALL, APPARENTLY INCLUDES FUCKING POTS AND PANS!
Irony and parody are dead, here's the video of popo opening people's bags and seizing saucepans. Also they got manhandeld by a buch of dads with an average of around 0,64 baldspots per scalp and then threw CS gas from 5m away while being downwind.
To top it off, the word for saucepan (casserole) is actually slang for a political scandal, which Macron and his gov are full of (2 or 3 ministers in exercice and his Chief of Staff currently under indictement and 4 or 5 former ones still under indictment or convicted, I lost count)
All of that happened before noon.
I'm done with this clown state, I'll start an Occitan independentist guerilla, this is too stupid.
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14: Warlord Gammoth
Classification: Fanged Beast
Elements:
Ailments: Bleed; Iceblight
Weakest to: Fire
Habitat: Mountain Forest; Glacier Peak
"A Gammoth variant. It was forced into a harsher environment while young and grew much more aggressive and cunning."
Order: Proboscidea
Suborder: Scalp
Family: Gammoth
-Less furry but bigger than normal Gammoth, it uses its full weight to crush any enemies
-The scars are the result of many harsh battles
-It grew to learn to use its environment, such as throwing jagged rocks and trees against threats
-Even Popo avoid it due to its aggression
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If you have any fun fact about Samoa, please tell us and I'll reblog it!
Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.
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Working on Sideswipe’s sheet and I just HAD to show two future lovebirds in fancy hats (Sides still wears a flat cap every now and then as a callback to his manual class very Gangs Of New York-looking attire) snarking at each other, because if it’s one trope I’m a wholesale whore for, it’s Hypercompetent Badass Lady and That Cheeky Scoundrel She Can’t Get Out Of Her Mind.
Strongarm is not having his smooth-talking bullshit right now she is MAD WHY IS IT ALWAYS YOU WHEN THERE’S TROUBLE and Sides is like ma’am tbh Ima ask the same thing cause he know the popo got his ass tagged for rocking the boat one too many times, but you’re always somehow first on the scene so is it luck or is he just ✨special✨
(He ain’t complaining! It’s a cute view at least!)
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'while the others talked, we were listening to Lovers Rock'
Ayano and Osano don't have alot in common. In fact, they were opposites. Osano was loud, impulsive and hot headed. Ayano was quiet, decisive and her gaze was cold. Osano liked j-pop and j-rock. Ayano liked romantic music.
However, there was one song both of them enjoyed together. Lovers Rock
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Don't mind Ayano's braids, I enjoy drawing her in braids more than her ponytail 😫😫
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Okay so if you're wondering who the blonde guy next to Ayano is, he's the male version of Raibaru: Raitarou 'Rai' Fumetsu. Former Martial Arts Master.
Some headcanons:
Osano and Ayano are childhood friends, Rai decided to tag along since he's Osano's best friend.
Someone else who decided to tag along is Budo Masuyama 🤯🤯🤯 Budo openly has a crush on Ayano (she's very dense and focused on her mission to get rid of anyone who comes near Taro Yamada) His main excuse to hang around Ayano is because of Rai.
Osano, also having a crush on Ayano forms a lowkey rivalry with Budo 🥰
Ayano is very confused why these people attach themselves to her, she really doesn't care if she doesn't have friends. If anything they're more of a nuisance since she can't kill someone in front of them and get her ass ratted out to the popo. She just goes with it because they won't leave her alone 💀💀
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i’m very curious about a-yuan’s twitter fic now, any possibility of a snippet?
Wen Yuan doesn’t remember much from before he went into the camps.
He remembers living on a wild mountain, once, and eating meat stew and eggs and soft rice whenever he wanted them. A-Yuan’s mother was there then, holding him tightly when she took him out for walks and hugging him close to her heart at night after she blew out the lamps; he remembers that he never went to bed cold, or hungry, and that
A-Yuan doesn’t remember his father. But he does remember the men in yellow who burned his mother’s house to ashes, and the cold, stony place they were dragged to, where Popo and Mother were put to work carrying great rocks on their backs. Mother carried him on her chest, because she was too afraid to leave him behind in the hut where they all slept; but one morning, his mother didn’t wake up, and Popo and Ning-gege carried him after that.
And then one night, Xian-gege came storming into the tiny hut with his pretty Chenqing, and took their whole family away.
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Leverage ep 9
No pre-game thoughts, y’all, we going straight into this bitch!
[spoilers. you’ve been warned]
The Snow Job - Reaction
Oooooh synopsis is interesting 👀
OH???? Cop forcing a POC family out of their house so some corporate real estate can take it????? NO IM NOT MAD HUSH
NVM I AM MAD
ACAB BITCH
YES BABE FUCK THEM UP
PINCH THEM
Oh shit we talking about Hurricane Katrina???? More like hurricane tortil—*gunshots*
take a shot every time someone mentions having kids to Ford lmaoooooooo (*cough* so sorry for your loss dude, honestly that sucked *cough*)
oh ho ho! flashback trauma
“no just the cookies” never change Parker
Is Ford….hungover???? Bro why (she asks, knowing damn well why)
oooooooooh Sofie’s mad 🫢 Ford you in deep shit
Wait, so what is a luge????
ok i am sensing an intervention for Ford this episode
extreme intervention
OH THE RACECAR ICE TUNNEL DEATH THING THATS A LUGE
yeah? yeah, i think that’s it
Eliot, why are so acting like a dork you’re gonna make me fall for you T^T
Parker, never change <3 love you
ELIOT WHAT IS THAT PHOTO
NOT THE HUG
wowwwwwww, gross ew
even more gross
like i already hate this contractor/real estate family but now i’m just gagging
emo Denis 😂
intersting 👀 why are their comma weird 👀
totally not worried. nope. all will be well :)
nvm Denis you’re also gross
HE IS A FUCKING INCEL I KNOW IT IN MY HEART
YES DENIS EXPOSE YOURSELF YOU ASSHOLE
Ford, I am worried about you
Eliot let Hardison talk 😠
cops???? again???? why would they listen, they didn’t do shit
APPLE PIE?????
same Parker
take a shot every time Ford reaches for a drink
i am currently terrified of deranged Ford
prediction: I want Alec as the doctor
gross part 5
oh shit the popo????
oop just realized i spelled Dennis wrong
ACAB
WE CAN DO WHAT????? TO HER WHAT
Eliot, you’re so cute
Retzings Racketeering…..Racketeering Retzings…..Rocket….Racketeering…..Retzings….guys, i think i cracked the code
Sofie: *trying to give Parker acting advice….she is failing*
THEY ARE NOT DOING ROCK PAPER SCISSORS TO INJECT A CORPSE 😂😂😂😂
dennis you’re so rude
YES THE TRIO IS TOGETHER
IS PARKEE GOING TO— OMFG
she’s so mad lmao
YES INTERVENTION TIME
Does ‘skip some rope’ mean what I think it means????
ooooooooooooh family drama 👀
damn Pam looks very similar to Parker
OH WAIT I KNOW IT WAS YOU PARKER
FAMILY DRAMA INTENSIFIES 💕👀💕👀
the boys are fighting 🥰
LMAO GET WRECKED BITCHES
HEY WHAT WAS THAT FLASHBACK FOR
Ford, i love you (please drink healthy)
oooooooh irony is a bitch and i love her
awwww they gave the house to the family 🥺🥺🥺🥺
“Give me a reason to stay” THE AUDIBLE GASP FROM MY MOUTH
General Thoughts
Honestly love this episode. Got worried a little bit in the beginning bc Ford was acting concernly unwell. Also, it’s funny how much I need to remind myself that the gang’s jobs always end well because I am so used to the opposite kind of heist story. The Nate/Sophie content was 🤌🤌🤌🤌 *chef’s kiss* Eliot was fucking adorable (he confuses me beyond no end, his backstory is so wild, tell me your PAST I WANNA KNOW SO BAD—) Hardison is beautiful and clever as always and Parker, my queen, was her unapologetic self 🥰
so yeah, great episode, on to the next 👀
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some songs some of my faves remind me of:
•mingi: at the library by green day
•hongjoong: moonage daydream by david bowie & just my imagination by the cranberries
•mingyu: mad about you by hooverphonic (orchestral version) & touch me by samantha fox
•woozi: the sweetest taboo by sade & berlin by yerin baek
•dk: the ketchup song (asereje) by las ketchup
•dino: i wanna be adored by the stone roses & my sweet baby by one ok rock
•wonwoo: rebel yell by billy idol (late night motorcycle drive vibes) & popo (how deep is our love) by yerin baek
•jeonghan: утре ще опитам by tino & nicka & i know you know i love you by sunset rollercoaster
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More Wei Ying writing.
I finished a chapter for Dreams of Paradise. (#MDZS fanfic) Here’s a sample. (It’s from chapter 5. If you want to know what happened before that, You’ll have to go to AO3. ☺️
https://archiveofourown.org/works/43934754
Leaving Wei Wuxian to cause trouble for someone else, Wen Qing wandered down to a side of the lake a ways away from the buildings. The ground was sandy and flat enough to make a nice beach once they removed the debris and branches scattered about. She gathered her skirts to her legs and knelt to clear a space wide enough to work.
After taking an inventory of the village, they had found their haven had beautiful, sturdy buildings, plenty of fertile land with several rows of vegetables already growing, fruit trees, and rice fields. All of this was so much better than anything they had before – shelter, water, and food. And sunshine, an abundance of sunshine.
Still, they had no furniture, no beds or blankets. They didn’t even have one scrap of paper or any ink. As for dishes, it had taken the whole morning for some of the others to make some bamboo bowls and chopsticks. She chuckled with fond exasperation. Leave it to the walking disaster to create a home without the basics for daily living.
For now, some of her family were working on building seats and tables while others wove sleeping mats from the reeds and long grasses. Still others gathered raw clay to make a couple of crude woks to cook congee, though the makeshift rice steamer Popo had made from bamboo that morning worked fairly well.
As she thought, she made a list of supplies, carving the words in the sand. If her new didi was right and they did find gold, it would save them having to think of other ways to provide for themselves. Yes, she could collect medicinal plants and sell them. They could also sell some of their crops too. However, there were more important issues they needed to deal with without having to scrounge up enough money for proper supplies. They needed blankets, cups, teapots, and material for new clothes.
She ran her fingers over her Wen hanfu, tracing the gold and red trim. These were the colours she wore until she died in flames. The memory of the fire licking up her clothing until it burned into her flesh made her close her eyes, though tears still escaped as panic overwhelmed her. She wrapped her arms around herself and rocked side to side.
Despite the new life, images of her former existence hovered on the edge of her awareness. In the quiet peace of the beach, they spilled forth, and she couldn’t stop them. Instead, she let the ache deep in her bones pour out, burying her moans of sorrow in her sleeves. The material covering her body was the stark reminder of a world that abandoned her, abused her family, and branded her as evil because of her name. She never felt more naked in her entire life.
Wen Qing had no idea how long her sobs went on. After she depleted her tears, she stared at the gentle waves slipping between the shore and the lake, mind numb, unable to process anything more.
“A-Qing?”
The sound of Popo’s voice brought Wen Qing back to reality.
“Here,” she responded, before splashing her face with water. The cool, clean liquid cleared her head and re-established her defenses. People needed her. She could process any pain later.
From behind, warm arms wrapped around her after she stood to greet her elder. “Mmm. My child, my beautiful angel, there’s no need to hide from your family. You have always been so strong for all of us, sacrificing so much to keep us safe.”
The woman’s gentle voice slipped in and settled in the emptiness inside. She sighed and sank into Popo’s embrace, letting them both stand there, swaying in unison to the melody her elder hummed in her ear.
After a while, Popo turned her around and put her hands on either side of Wen Qing’s face. “Better?”
She nodded, weary, though somehow stronger.
“Good. Now, we’ve made a list of supplies needed. Your third aunt smoothed out some pieces of bark and used a charcoal stick to write it all down. We’ve also made a list of possible income resources whether or not our miracle worker comes up with anything.” She chuckled and shook her head. “Honestly, that boy.”
“I am afraid for him,” Wen Qing admitted, her mind turning back to the state of his core. “What he did,” she shook her head, “it is unprecedented, as far as I know. To combine spiritual energy with resentful and earth energy, it should be impossible except I think the Tiger Seal altered him.”
Since she was once a healer in her own right in her youth, Popo wasn’t completely lost at Wen Qing’s comments. “Altered him, how?”
She took a deep breath, “I’m not sure he’s actually alive.”
Wen Qing’s elder’s face paled. “What do you mean? Is he like Wen Ning was, a fierce corpse?”
“No. Not a fierce corpse,” she replied, unsure how to explain what she meant. “He’s not dead but I think he’s Wei Wuxian, the Burial Mound, and the Tiger Seal all in one. He’s tied to this land, and I’m not sure he can leave it for long without suffering ill effects or ceasing to exist.”
Popo brought her hand to her mouth, worry evident in her expression. “He already went into Yiling and came back fine.”
This was true, yet did not negate her theory. “He wasn’t gone long or far. I would have to go with him and monitor him to see just how he is affected by a separation from this paradise he created.”
A sour chuckle escaped her lips. “He does things without any regard for what it might do to himself. I don’t know whether that is honourable or selfish.”
“It’s annoying, is what it is,” Popo told her with a frustrated frown. “He’s not going to like being unable to leave.”
“He’s going to pout is what he’s going to do: pout, whine, complain, and generally make a nuisance of himself,” she corrected, leading her elder back toward the village.
“Well, let’s keep him busy for now until we know more.”
Wen Qing nodded, frustrated by her lack of knowledge and resources. Ever since she met Wei Wuxian, her life had become a constant mire of uncharted territory. Yes, he was a genius, a genius whose brain worked faster than his self-preservation. Boundaries were just another challenge to him.
“Life might have been easier on him if he had any sense of self-worth.”
Popo patted her on the shoulder. “We’ll have to help him work on that.”
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Karushi-Kuro talk time, let’s go. There’s a bit so strap in, might make post another after this if I remember anything. Probably not but whatever
Karushi-Kuro are large leviathans, roughly twice the size of the Somnacanth they occasionally encounter in the Frost Islands. Living in the caves of the Frost Islands as well as being nocturnal has turned their thick yet flexible hides nearly snow white, helping them camouflage as they lie half buried in the snow. For leviathans they are surprisingly terrestrial, rarely being found near water outside of getting a drink when needed. They spend most of their day in the caves of the islands, emerging to hunt once the sun goes down.
Despite their large size Karushi are ambush hunters, lying half buried in the snow and dirt near half eaten and decaying monsters. Being surprisingly intelligent monsters, they sometimes kill Popo, tearing them up and lying in wait nearby in hopes to attract more rewarding prey. To help with their camouflage they decorate themselves with the bones of previous kills. When they decide nearby prey is suitable then begin to release a poisonous and paralytic gas from their toothy maw, poisoning and paralyzing their prey before they strike like a snake with their frill spines forward. If their prey somehow managed to get away the bleeding and poison makes sure they don’t get far, allowing the Karushi to quickly track down its meal.
Due to making themselves home in the caves of the Frost Islands, Karushi-Kuro often find themselves in encounters with the local Khezu, a monster they like to hunt surprisingly often. In the caves they are able to take on a more offensive hunting style, as the rocks around them are too tough to burrow into. They first fill the surrounding area with their gas, which also happens to mix with their saliva, trapping and poisoning the “poor” Khezu. Once poisoned the Karushi-Kuro uses its sharp claws and fangs to quickly dispatch the blind monster. But how does the Karushi defend itself from the Khezu’s electrical attacks? They have flexible, rubber-like scales covering their bodies beneath their bony armor, making them immune to the thunderous attacks that would turn away most other monsters. Their hide, combined with their armor, makes the Karushi highly resistant to slashing and cutting weapons. Along with these resistances and immunities, the Karushi-Kuro are almost completely resistant to icy attacks due to making their homes in such a frigid environment. This of course has its draw backs, as they are quite weak to fire and dragon attacks. During hunts hunters have also noticed that blunt weapons and explosive attacks are great at quickly destroying a Karushi’s armor, exposing their much weaker hide.
I imagine that these silly guys are, on the surface, like a weird mixture of Radobaan, fanged wyverns, and monsters like Rise Mizutsune and Ludroth when you fight them, of course with some unique attacks. Depending where you fight them, like inside or outside of a cave, they’d behave differently, digging and “swimming” through the snow when outside, using their gas attacks less often while running around and filling the surrounding area with gas when inside a cave. Just remembering Almudron was a thing, so they’d kinda be like them too, where sometimes you fight them half in the ground with only their head and tail exposed.
Some random bits about them is that Karushi-Kuro have tube-like eyes like owls to both help them see at night and better focus on prey as they wait to strike. They’d also probably have a turf war with like, Goss Harag and 100% Khezu, losing the first but winning the second.
Anyway that’s all for this. I’ve got ideas for their armor in the works so I’ll post that whenever I get them drawn.
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Monuments of the Past
We docked as Aswan during an known moment in the middle of the night. I certainly was not awake for it, although the water in our room temporarily halted and I had to find an alternate method to wash my hands. Thankfully in Egypt, bottled water is aplenty and the only real way to stay hydrated. Anything straight from the tap would be detrimental to both guts and stomach.
Heading back to sleep, I was rudely awoken by an early morning wake-up call and rolled out of bed around 3:15AM in the morning as we needed to drive down to Abu Simbel Temple. Of course, by then, the toilet to the room I shared with Popo were constantly flushing and I was required to find a fix to the problem. I managed it. Somehow. But I can’t say how or why what I did helped. All I know is that it was fixed and we were ready to head down to Abu Simbel.
From Aswan, Abu Simbel was almost a four hour drive, made more complicated by the fact that the roads were filled with other large coaches, all needing to pass through a police check point.
It was almost 9AM by the time we pulled up at the temple and listened once more to the exploits of King Ramesses II, from how he defeated the Hittites, even though he was vastly outnumbered, to his vainglorious display of his love for his wife. After all, the small temple at Abu Simbel had been built in her honour.
What we didn’t get to learn, although I did hastily duck inside the visitor centre to read it just as we were leaving, was that the Abu Simbel we saw was not the original Temple in its original location. After the Nile was dammed and a lake formed in the 1960s (more information will be revealed in a future post), the original Abu Simbel was at threat of being flooded. Egyptian authorities requested the assistance of UNESCO to help move the ancient site out of harm’s way.
And thus, Abu Simbel was able to remain standing and frequented by tourists.
After drinking my fill of both the large Temple that was Ramesses II’s attempt to say that he was as strong as the midday sun (his statue was placed in the centre between the morning Ra and the afternoon Ra), as well as the Small Temple (although the line was so incredibly long), I started to make my way to the meeting point that our guide had indicated. That was until my hat flew off!
Sill me attempted to stop my hat but had forgotten that I was still holding a hefty water bottle in my left hand. As such, I managed to bludgeon myself with a mighty blow. There was no blood but it still hurt like the Dickens. And, of course, the blow sent me into a panicked anxiety-fuelled spiral. There I was, in the middle of Abu Simbel, wondering if I had suffered extensive brain damage, concussion or possible memory loss.
Let it be known, dear readers, that sometimes it doesn’t pay to read too many articles about sport-related head injuries and their consequences. While a little bump to the noggin can lead to long-term health complications if you’re unlucky, not every light tap will. And even if it did, well, there sin’t much I can do about it now, is there? The deed is done. Just learn to be careful for next time? Or live in a protective bubble!
Regardless, despite my best attempts to stay awake on the drive back to Aswan (for fear of concussion), the comforting rocking of the coach and the early start to the day had me falling asleep in mere minutes.
Once we arrived back at the Jaz Celebrity cruise ship, I had a quick lunch and barely any rest before boarding a sail boat to enjoy a lazy afternoon on the waters of the Nile river.
We then boarded ANOTHER vessel whilst on the water and headed to a distant Nubian village. And what a sight it was! The settlement was a myriad of different colours and the locals rode around on camels and motor vehicles alike. They also kept crocodiles in their own houses.
It should also be noted that the Nubians also have their own spoken language. After learning my numbers and the Arabic alphabet (which I promptly forgot soon afterwards), we also learned how to say them in basic Nubian (which I also forgot). Afterwards, we enjoyed some tea and snacks at a local Nubian house, which was just as colourful as the other buildings we had seen. But instead of traditional floorboards or carpet, the Nubians liked to coat their floor with sand.
As some of the tour members rested, including my grandmother, I and a few of the others left to wander the streets. I even bought a simple dress for my mother at a local stall before we returned to our cruise ship by motor boat.
Later, my grandmother was able to celebrate her birthday according to the lunar calendar and we all enjoyed some cake!
And so ended our third last day in Egypt. It was hard to believe that our time in this land of ancient mysteries was finally coming to an end.
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AAAAAH GUINEA PIGGLES! Also I like the Rock so this is a bonus! Thank you @southern-belle-outcasts !!
Also tagging @xletmebeamonster and @forbiddenwoodlands for piggies!
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Gil: But... but STILL...!!
Lira: Really, Gil, Bean, I understand your frustration, but, even if you knew, or told us, do you really think that would’ve stopped them? Mr Boule said they were able to come up with a very elaborate distraction plan after-all.
Boule: Y-You can just call me Boule, Miss Lira... I’m too young to be called “Mr” in my opinion...!
Lira: Haha, I understand, but please, don’t beat yourselves up over this, I mean, Gil... you used to do things like this all the time...
Gil: I. Know! And that’s why I know how bad it is...!
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Moe: ... You couldn’t get anything from that encounter?
William: All I could figure out is that weird white attack was able to break one of my spike weapons... it felt like I was trying to cut through a steel type, but if that were the case, my attack would’ve met resistance, since it was also a Steel Move...
Moe: ... So it’s some kind of bizarre attack... plus, Ayanna’s descriptions of the weird shadow tendril thing that acts like a freaky blob monster from kid’s nightmares, draining energy from physical contact, the physical attacks not working, it’s body being so... strange from when she hit it and a rock that was thrown at it-
William: The lack of damage from Boule’s attack, but absolute destruction from Guildmaster Bak’s and then... those powerful attacks... what if this is some weird ability? Like Shedinja?
Moe: But what kind of type is it? Fire worked... so is it weak to fire??
William: But don’t forget the weird move that doesn’t have any recognizable type... what if that’s it’s type and that’s why it’s weak to fire?
Moe: ... I wish I had a book to look through all this with me...
William: ... Same... I feel like we’re missing something...
Moe: ...
William: ...
Both: Uuuugh....!
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Bak: Athan, can you also try and get through? I know this thing has a signal jamming effect-somehow-but it can’t be that large...
Athan: Right... it really can’t be... erm...
Popo: BRZT.. H----o?
Athan: Popo??
Bak: Hey, can you hear us?
Popo: Y--s... yes! I can now!
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#Telemonster #Plushies
Thinking about the Telemonster plushies and how rare these two are.
These are the main characters Eerie (Blue Werewolf) and Yossi (Kitsune) of a South Korean cartoon.
I love the art style and reminds me of Hanazuki.
There is a animal kigurumi pajamas of Eerie which is new to me.
I remember seeing on Ebay a long time ago seeing a plushie of Rock-G the Frog and a keychain plush of the Tv robot creature named PoPo.
This gave me Donkey Shrek vibes but If Donkey didn't want her.
[텔레몬스터] S1 EP6 공룡길들이기 (youtube.com)
[텔레몬스터] S1 EP10 여시괴담 (youtube.com)
That episode gave me ghost stories vibes.
The actual dub of Ghost Stories (youtube.com)
I'm trying to find this episode where Eerie has his human form show up and all the female animals fell in love with him like a old school cartoon.
I know his human design looks cool.
[텔레몬스터 TELEMONSTER] S1 EP34 이리와 함께 춤을 예고편 (youtube.com)
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https://shopee.co.id/boneka-eerie-Telemonster-i.221846338.7179691976… https://prod.danawa.com/info/?pcode=4286915
이리와( Come Here) (Telemonster OST)- BTOB (Eng sub|Han|Rom) - YouTube
FN - Photo - Eerie the Werewolf Telemonster Kigu (furrynetwork.com)
Korean DreamCNC Telemonster Doll Eerie the Werewolf & Yossi theKitsune Plush Toys 38cm | Lazada PH
[10TION NOTE] UP10TION Xiao during recording Telemonster OST "Leave Me Alone" | I am alone, Leave me alone, Leave me (pinterest.com)
160427 Telemonster Twitter Update with Red Velvet : r/red_velvet (reddit.com)
[텔레몬스터 TELEMONSTER] 서울대공원 동물원 텔레몬스터 버스 홍보 영상 (youtube.com)
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monster thoughts: loloska
popo | name: Nana | prior familiarity: none
i can’t belive this thing’s fuckin name is popo. third verse same as the first re: herbivores. unfortunately just a run of the mill fantasy mammoth, all you did was take the base animal’s most notable trait and skew it a little differently. 5/10
zamite/trios | name: Blastin’ | prior familiarity: plenty
slapping a shark’s body onto some amphibian legs is a bold but surprisingly great pull. it works! really strong shapes, great color accenting, looks even cooler with ice armor. i’m not sure if it’s a great tactic for something with thin stretchy amphibian skin to go around rolling over stuff that’s as hard, sharp, and spiky as most of the other monsters in this series but i guess it works for him? bad to look at tho. 8/10
zamite is very good too, they’ve got a cute stance and i really like their armor. it’s a bit weird to me they lose it by the time they get to being zamtrios, but i do appreciate that trios’ ice armor takes more or less the same shape as zamite’s plating. different enough to get its own rating, 8.5/10, pet material
*there’s a beta concept of zamtrios where it’s a basking shark and holy Shit why wasn’t that in as final. that makes so much more visual sense with the balloon thing....i guess i can understand it as a frog vocal sac played a little differently but i just like the basking shark way more lmao.
great/baggi | name: Scooter |prior familiarity: only its battle theme lol
third verse same as the first re: theropods. while the visual flavor is at least different enough from jaggi to be distinct, it still uses the same base and animations so it’s like. eh. jaggi/10
lagombi | name: Shredder |prior familiarity: somewhat
as an infamous hater of rabbits and rabbit-based designs, lagombi is actually pretty good. really dig the whole streamlined facial situation and the belly sled is a fun, if annoying to deal with, gimmick. brown fur ridges are a little silly and unnecessary imo but that’s a nitpick. looks absolutely ridiculous using its dash anywhere but on snow. 7.5/10
nargacuga | name: Betty |prior familiarity: plenty
despite being one i liked a lot before playing any games, i just don’t have much attachment to this thing here? another whose flavor is probably hit pretty hard by stories’ rpg format; don’t get to see it do its cool nighttime ninja stuff. sleek solid design, nothing too wild but it accomplishes its idea very nicely. also it’s funny so much of its flavor is dedicated to being... cat. 7.5/10
barroth | name: FudgeCake |prior familiarity: none
how is this thing speed type? that’s a fuckin Rock bro. definitely one of the Cool-type designs, but has a decent amount of its own flavor. lots of fun stuff going on with the face but weirdly the part i like the most is the growth ring sorta circles on the top of its crest thing. barroth succeeds where yian-kut-ku fails at having the head be the only really ‘special’ looking part with an otherwise fairly basic body. also really dig the way its coloring is done in stories. 7/10
jade barroth [name: Radio] is a very cool thing to run into the first time, but i generally prefer the standard colors
anjanath | name: Sarahhhh | prior familiarity: plenty
that’s my MANS. ok look ive been giving the smaller theropods and the dinosaurs in general a lot of shit; and anjanath is, for all intents, Kind Of Just A T-Rex, but the thing is....... i just rly like anjanath ok. it’s the little things i think. the sunken fleshy look. the mouth that opens slightly too far. the funny furred ankle socks which i 100% did not know were a thing until seeing it in stories. just the general fact they made a pink ass t-rex.
more than anything though i am always a slut for any kind of ‘movable’ or ‘hidden’ stuff on a design. if the nose cone and sails were there all the time as part of the default look i wouldn't care about them half as much but oohoooo babey seeing ‘em pop out when you know that thing is PISSED and ready to kill. ohohohohoho. awesome accenting to an already great design & i love that she is so pissed. 10/10
gypceros | name: Dorothy | prior familiarity: none
uh oh lads this one is kind of bad. stiff and plastic-y looking body, unflattering colors, inexplicably mismatched ugly tail. i’d be totally willing to accept the tail if it had a Function, but without one the amount of visual emphasis on it as a distinct Part just feels misleading. i also do not like its teeth. the mechanism for its blinding/flashing gimmick is pretty neat but nothing else seems to gel with it, though i do appreciate the detail of its eyes being shot from the light. 2/10
conga/lala | name: Boober |prior familiarity: none
turns out 'boob’ isn’t allowed as a name. the claws definitely feel unnecessary and detrimental, and hippo/ape is a really really unfortunate combo for me [both some of my least favorite animals irl]. the bizzarely bright pink/green and the farts are 100% not helping anything either. that chopping chattering noise it makes with its teeth is pretty neat but aside from that....ugh. 4/10 the design is decent enough but please go away
kecha wacha | name: Joe |prior familiarity: none
EMPHATICALLY no familiarity. absolutely the guy who’s surprised me most. what the hell is that thing i am being attacked by a washcloth. during most of the fight i was unsure what to make of it but the ears thing made me instantly go oh this freak fucking rules [see previous: movable parts on a design lmao]. a delightfully unique face and it wears the bright colors very well. very hard to get me to like a monkey-based design but he absolutely has it. 9.5/10
nerscylla | name: Schroder |prior familiarity: none
always hard to rate video game bugs. when they’re not being incredibly derivative, a lot of them tend to be over-complex and hard to parse without a lot of actual flavor, and i can’t really give them too much shit for it because irl bugs are also frequently complex and hard to parse.
nerscylla falls to the latter category; it’s definitely Cool but it’s so hard to get a feel for it unless you’re seeing it in motion. that said, the crystals and helmet-looking head are cool, the mandibles are.... silly but well-utilized, and putting skin/webbing Between its legs is kind of a wild move that really helps give it its own identity. bit of a coward’s move to give it only 4 legs but tbh i would not want to model and animate more than that either so it’s whatever. funny how much better gypceros’ colors look on this thing than actual gypceros. 8.5/10
rathain | name: Chikn |prior familiarity: plenty
actually i’m using this spot to talk about the about the story rathalos bc i forgot about him on the last post just like i do ingame :^) you’re not allowed to name your wimpy-winged child but in my heart his name is potato.
rathalos is an impressively cool design, but i don’t have much to say about it since it’s kind of not doing anything besides Being A Really Cool Dragon. the wing shapes and patterns are definitely neat, but on the whole it gets outshined by the more out there concepts for me. i also dont particularly like how its face looks in stories jkfdjkgh. 7.5/10
rathain’s green is kinda gross and i don’t like the chin spike so she gets docked half a point despite getting to keep the cool wings.
khezu | name: Plumpp | prior familiarity: plenty
why does it SNIIIIIFFFFFFF like that it doesnt even have nostrils... missed potential for some weird ass smell sensory organ i think. longer thoughts in another post; i don’t have anything against the design but it’s very not my thing. also since then i have learned it has wet schlorping noises for footsteps which is like Augh. 7/10.
red khezu [name:Velvet] is silly looking in a fun way but i think white does the aesthetic better.
tobi-kadachi |name: Prius | prior familiarity: plenty
goodbye forever ranmar lol. FUN guy this one, real spunky lookin’. viper/squirrel is a very random pick and i feel like there also might be some owl or maybe cat in its movements? at any rate it all works together super well and i love pretty much every part of this thing. it’s got the same alternating rows of fur and spines thing as zinogre and i have to wonder if there’s some specific thing they’re referencing with that motif...
the skin flaps feel pretty tacked-on, and while flying squirrels and gliding snakes Do exist, i feel tobi’s tall stance and the way its legs are built makes it parse more like a cheetah. no harm in ‘em being there though, they’re still fun. 9/10
barioth | name: Teacup |prior familiarity: somewhat
#2 silly running animation goes to this guy. i definitely like barioth but i don’t have much to say about it? kitty. fangs are good+strong as a defining trait, the back plating is great, color scheme is really nice. 8/10
legiana | name: Altair | prior familiarity: plenty
i honestly... have no clue what this thing is supposed to be. hawk/nudibranch? whatever it is it fucking rules, all around incredibly fun and unique shapes painted in stunning colors and accenting. trying to find anything more specific to say about it but it just comes back to its shapes are soooo gooooood. 10/10
seltas/queen are the only unrideables so no cut lol.
ok so monhun also has this thing of making guys walk on thier knuckles with part of the limb folded back inwards and it bothers me. kecha, congala, any wyvern that uses its forelimbs to walk; it just looks so uncomfortable, especially when there doesn’t seem to be any kind of specialization on most of them for being able to safely put so much weight on a joint [wyverns at least have wingfeet usually but...]. seltas queen is absolutely the worst about this. WHY do the feet bend inwards!!! it looks not uncomfortable but unstable! you’re rollin all around on those things! just have them bend outwards like a normal bug you literally don’t need to change how they're built at all!
that aside this duo and their sword/shield motif rules. seltas is a bit hard to parse just ‘cause it has like no thorax area for the relatively large legs to attach, but tbh it doesn’t matter ‘cause the head crest thing is all it has and needs.
seltas queen is just TANKED from every angle and i love that shit. the way the pincer mandible things puzzle piece with the upper shell and hide most of its body w just the eyes peeking though, while still being mobile. mwa. big fan also of how the top is just, flat. like its just fucking flat. the tail feels a little unnecessary, but i’ll admit that’s probably just my bias for mech-walker style quadrupeds speaking [gigalith is my fave pokemon lol] since it lessens that look. regardless, it’s a perfectly cool feature and there’s nothing actually wrong with it being there. 9/10, incredibly funny they hit you with a monster that can also use ride on+kinship attacks
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