#snake talks

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Oh to drag your beloved children to the slaughterhouse every week

(The professor looks at our hard work and verbally rips it to shreds)

#snake talks #snake's text post #school stuff #vent

[snakeeyesdraws]

Overly Analyzing the Super Mario 3D World story intro

So I've been playing Super Mario 3D World a lot, and since I haven't seen many people talk about the opening cutscene, I wanted to do that since it contains a lot of very cute animations!

This will kinda be a scene by scene analysis with me just pointing out things I like, but if you'd like to see the full cutscene in better quality than my screenshots, you can watch it here!

The scene starts off with all of the main playable characters going for a walk under a starry sky filled with fireworks. I know blue/yellow Toads have been staples of Mario games now, since they colour code the main characters and Mario is obviously red, but its does delight me that Blue Toad is just invited on this little walk with them.

(Also if you listen closely, you can hear Mario say "Ah Princess, what a beautiful evening!" and I thought that was cute)

Their walk is interrupted by Toad noticing something offscreen, and they run ahead to see a broken pipe in the middle of the path! Mario and Luigi closely examine it, and then we get...

ACTUAL PLUMBING FROM THE SUPER MARIO BROS!

Real talk, the more the series goes on the less relevant their status as plumbers often becomes, so anything that references it or shows them actually using their plumbing skills makes me so happy. And their tools are colour coordinated!

A bunch of power ups and the green Sprixie Princess pop out, and we get some classic 2d artwork, which I absolutely adore. More of this in every 3d game, please.

The ground and pipe start rumbling, and this is where I really wanna focus on the character animation of the main four here. All four of them start looking around for the source of the tremors, and we see both Peach and Luigi lifting their hands up, Luigi looking more anxious.

Bowser suddenly pops out of the pipe and roars, startling all four main characters. We can see very different reactions from all of them.

Toad and Peach jump before covering their ears, very clearly intimidated by Bowser's roar.

Luigi is the only one to fall over completely from Bowser's appearance. He stays on the ground and holds one hand up in front of his face, flinching when Bowser roars. Dude is clearly terrified by Bowser.

Mario does jump in surprise when Bowser pops up, but he's the only one who doesn't cower when Bowser roars. Instead, he immediately gets into a confrontational pose, with one hand held out protectively towards Peach. This isn't his first time dealing with Bowser, obviously, and his instincts are to prepare for a fight and to protect Peach.

However, Bowser's target this time isn't Peach, but instead the green Sprixie Princess. A lot of people poke fun at the set up for this game - "if Princess Peach isn't in danger, why do any of them care?" - but I always like when Mario & Luigi and the others try to rescue others simply because it's the right thing to do.

Bowser turns to glare at Peach and Mario, taunting them to react. Peach and Mario are both upset by the capture of the Sprixie Princess, but neither react too strongly to Bowser. Both of them have interacted with him enough to know what he's like.

Conversely, both Luigi and Blue Toad react much more when Bowser turns to them. Blue Toad stumbles onto one foot, while Luigi cowers back further, keeping his hand raised defensively, which seems to be a common mannerism of his when he's frightened. Bowser seems to be grinning a bit more in this pose, as if he knows he can get a bigger reaction out of these two.

When Bowser disappears down the pipe, all four of them regain their bearings and jump back up, reaching out for the green Sprixie Princess.

Peach is the first one to rush forward to the pipe. She sort of flounders on the edge of the pipe before she slips down it - yeah, I don't think she had a game plan there outside of trying to rescue the green Sprixie Princess. But proactive Peach being included on the adventure is always a win!

Before Luigi even lands his startled jump, Mario is already rushing forward to follow Peach down the pipe, and Toad is right behind him. I'd say it's out of mostly courage on Mario's end, and mostly out of loyalty to the princess on Toad's.

Then we get to my favourite animation of this scene (can you tell I'm biased?)

While Mario and Toad follow Peach down the pipe, Luigi pulls himself together and slaps his cheeks twice to hype himself up. It's one of my favourite quirks for characters to do, and it's doubly endearing on characters who are timid in nature. Luigi was arguably the most started and scared by Bowser's appearance, but he knows he has to do something! Totally adopting this as a common mannerism of his

Luigi then follows the others down the pipe, and they travel to the first world of the game, bringing the opening cutscene to a close.

Fun fact; since I've only ever played this game solo, and since I main Luigi, I assumed that his animation of landing on his stomach outside of the pipe was unique to him, since he's established as quite clumsy.

But in 4 player mode, you can see all of them coming out of the pipe together, and Mario lands on his stomach too. Just thought that was a cute detail.

So that's the opening cutscene of Super Mario 3D World! It's not terribly complex, but I've always adored it for showcasing a lot of personality with the main characters, and since I didn't really see any discussions on it, I wanted to highlight it!

I do recommend you watch the cutscene since a lot of the nuances and details can't be shown in screenshots - or better yet, play the game yourself! It's a ton of fun ^^

#snake talks #Super Mario #Super Mario 3d world #smb #mario #super mario bros #woke up with the urge to info dump about this game so. here we are #this was fun too do!! I might do more of these :] #just as a character animator I really care about and love small details like this #this cutscene isnt long but it tells so much about the characters and its very cute

[oddogoblino]

I remember once as a kid, my grandpa's house had lots of snakes under some old car that he had moved or smth at some point. They were all really gorgeous snakes, a mama and her babies. The weird thing is, they were all pink, a beautiful mix of this light and hot pink with a white belly. I dont remember what they were and I can't find anything abt them on Google.

I wish I kept the one that I got to hold with me until i could release it somewhere safer... Sweet, peaceful thing. Didn't even threat pose or anything-

#oddito ramblinos #snake talks

[luigisgreenoveralls]

a Mario blog for shenanigans and tomfoolery

Heya I'm Snake!! And I am trapped in Mario hyperfixation for the foreseeable future

Here I mostly reblog Super Mario stuff and I'll be posting any WIPs or doodles since my main is a bit more of a free for all content wise :] I interact from @snakeeyesdraws check there if u want more info!!

#snake talks

[elainiisms]

all the people sympathising with snow and saying they can't hate him anymore after watching tbosas... y'all let awful white men get away with ANYTHING as long as you find them attractive and it SHOWS

#btw im not referring to people who are simply trying to acknowledge why he became the way he did #im talking about the ppl who like him and thirst over him #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #thg #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #elainposting

[indoraptorgirlwind]

#indora talks #Ashshshfjdjsjfkfkfkd #Cute little guys #Love them #herpetology #Reptiles #amphibians #Snake #Frog #Turtle #Tortoise #Viper #Toad #Caecilian #Axolotl #Bearded dragon #Gecko #Iguana #Gila monster #Crocodile #salamander #Biology #Animals #Memes

[unwri-ten]

Something happened today

#I actually did not know the crown could talk #I thought it was just a funky snake sometimes cuz visuals are cool #also holy shit the sin mechanic explanation got me #reeling #i think i get it but also what #cotl #cult of the lamb #cotl lamb #cotl sona #teniseeart #ten's cotl shenanigans

[snakehours]

I just queued like... a million things for the coming weeks. There's so much more in the backlog I have to post too. Hope y'all like anime men.

#snake talks #I'll try to set it to two posts a day but we'll see #just until i get through a majority of what i have in my files #and then i'll start posting new things as they come #im so sorry to anyone who's followed me for gomens and the like its an ongoing fight #for me to draw it rn

[hopelizabeth15]

the thing I really love about tbosas is that you go into the story thinking you know who’s the songbird and who’s the snake but “songbirds” and “snakes” are both plural because as individuals Lucy Grey and Coryo are both a songbird and a snake in their own right, in this essay I will

#i could talk about it all day #the chokehold they have on me #tbosas #thg #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #snowbaird #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow

[andillwatchh]

i need someone to talk about reaper ash from district eleven. i need someone to talk about him and how he had collected his fellow tributes’ body one by one after they died and covered them with ripped out flags as a way to give them their own resting place in the arena. and i need someone to talk about how, after lucy gray had tired him out, he just made his way to his own makeshift morgue, rested beside his fellow fallen tributes, and covered his body with the flag before he himself died.

and how that was literally all he did. he didn’t kill anyone there (which was not said to uplift him from the others because it is a kill-or-be-killed situation, just to make a point) despite what he had said to them the night before, and how he had his own way of resisting against the capitol by refusing to play its games. someone talk about him!!!!!

#i can talk about so many things from this book #not sure if i can do it well and intelligibly but!! #seriously there are SOO many things to uncover here #reaper ash #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #lucy gray baird #the hunger games #thg #talking

[sncrlynwtms]

He won’t leave me alone

#someone’s probably done this already #josh hutcherson #whistle edit #the hunger games #thg #thg series #hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #five nights at freddy's #five nights at Freddy’s movie #fnaf movie #fnaf #memes #josh hutcherson meme #bai shit talks #spiderman meme

[cupcakeshakesnake]

I personally think videogames need to offer more paths than just the linear progression of "ally > friend > love interest"

Like there needs to be a "really close friend" relationship option that isn't just a tier lower from "love interest"

Besties option, dare I say

#snake talks #snake's text post #videogames #asexual #aroace #I want to be closer to [insert NPC] but not in *that way* which leads to just staying friends awkwardly #aromantic

[snakeeyesdraws]

Overly Analyzing; Favourite Scene in Bowser's Inside Story

Well, analyzing is a bit of a stretch. I moreso just want to highlight my favourite small interaction from this game!

After the main incident that kickstarts the plot of this game, which is Bowser inhaling most of our main cast (no, I'm not kidding. Bowser's Inside Story is a literal title LOL) we control Mario as he tries to find the others.

After reuniting with Starlow, the first person he finds, of course, is Luigi. And yes, this is what inside of Bowser looks like. Just don't think too hard on it.

Luigi jumps back up, takes a couple of glances around their current predicament, and...

-immediately bursts into tears and falls onto his knees, clinging onto Mario. Aww.

Very clear example of Luigi being prone to crying when overwhelmed! But of course, there's no judgement on Mario's end. Hell, the moment isn't even really played for laughs narrative wise, considering Starlow doesn't chime in until after the fact.

Instead, we just get Mario being happy to comfort Luigi. He holds him back and gently pats him while he cries. Mario doesn't think any less of Luigi for have a brief emotional breakdown; they're in a scary and unfamiliar situation! Most people would be rattled and upset, especially someone who is as anxious and scares easily like Luigi, but he at least has someone to comfort him. It's a very sweet moment.

In the remake this scene is largely the same, albeit with different graphics. They do add one cute detail which I find very fun.

The scene is interrupted by some enemies spawning. In the remake, Mario straightens up and repeatedly taps Luigi's back, noticeably quicker than the gentle pats he was giving earlier, to get his attention.

We get a very quick reaction animation of Luigi turning his head while still holding onto Mario, which I just find, so cute. It's a very blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but it's attention to detail that adds some good personality that I adore out of this series.

Link to the scene in the original Bowser's Inside Story game

Link to the scene in the remake

#snake talks #super Mario bros #smb #bowser's inside story #Mario and luigi #Mario Analysis #was this inspired because of the recent talk about old Mario characterization? perhaps. perhaps #I will take any opportunity to talk about how Mario is a good and caring older brother who would move mountains for Luigi #fun fact this was the only M&L game I owned growing up bc we could only afford so many DS games #I would restart my file over and over to get to see this scene again bc I loved it so much as a kid :]

[sweaty-confetti]

crowley who has to physically fucking restrain himself from needing to touch aziraphale not even sexually just needing to be wrapped around him and his face nuzzled into his neck or cuddled up to him because fucking snakes seek out fucking warmth and aziraphale exudes the warmth of overwhelming love (but not just love for the creatures of the world, not just the regular all consuming angelic love, it’s stronger somehow, it’s different) and the gentle and enveloping warmth of the sun and crowley has to step away to stop fucking snake instincts from wanting to wrap himself up in him and feel that warmth and safety fill his blood and body and feel the tension drain from his woefully serpentine and painfully human form (the sun is 93 million miles away from the earth, aziraphale is 3 feet away from crowley and feels even farther)

#emo moss talks #ummmm what the hell possessed me here okayyyy #good omens #emo moss writes #not really but eh #gomens #gomens 2 #good omens 2 #snake Crowley #crowley #Aziraphale #anthony j crowley #aziracrow #ineffable spouses #aziraphale and Crowley #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #ineffable divorce #azirafell

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo getting hit with a truth curse but instead of forcing him to admit to super sad or worrying things it’s things like “it was me who broke the remote” “I saw Mikey prank Donnie and helped hide it because it’s way funnier if he didn’t know who it was” “I rip my clothes to look more like Raph’s because he’s really cool” “my stripes aren’t even red they’re pink!”

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rise leo #plot twist he COULD be admitting angsty stuff but he’s pushing the less oof truths forward instead on purpose #raph: hey leo what do you want for dinner #leo: *about to bare his soul on all his internal torment but pivots* I’m afraid of snakes #(no but fr Leo’s stripes being technically more pink instead of red is cute ngl) #(a very reddish pink to the point that in certain lighting it looks red but at the base they’re p pink) #(i also am very fond of the idea that Leo doesn’t just have questionable taste in fashion he also just loves Raph a lot and looks up to him) #but yeah I think that something like this would be 99% Leo admitting to unimportant things or admitting to how much he values everyone #like they all KNOW Leo loves them and he’s talked them up enough for them to know but it’s different when he’s like #‘I just wanna read my comics with you guys around - it’s my favorite place to be’ #or again just random bs that doesn’t REALLY have a lot of weight like #‘I like using my portals to prank random people around the world’ #‘I’m worried about being a bad influence on hueso jr’ #‘sometimes I kinda wanna see hypno’s plans succeed’ #‘it’s been way too long since I found this out and honestly it’s embarrassing but I actually don’t have a di-‘ #SORRY COULDNT HELP MYSELF #(<-but did u know that that pink rather than red observation actually ties into this headcanon as well if u know about red eared sliders)

[burntblueberrywaffles]

Do you truly love a piece of media if you’re not making it everyone else’s problem

#star wars #jatp #Anidala #Snowbaird #tbosas #star wars prequels #also gonna tag #the amazing devil #pomme #pomme singer #because YOU WILL hear about how #drinking song for the socially anxious #and La Lumière are the greatest songs of all time I do not care 😤😤😤 #burntblueberrywaffles #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #julie and the phantoms #haven’t talked about jatp much recently though bc it makes me sad now 🥲🥲🥲