#wasting a whole animals life for garbage ??? | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

corruptedcaps · 2 months

Text

Bad Blonde: Lucy

This is a ‘what if’ follow up to Bad Blonde where Lucy’s willpower fails her.

Lucy had hoped that a good night sleep would have cleared her mind of any further urge to put on the wig but her dreams had made sure to stoke the fire of her desire. Her dreams were filled with images of her as Lucia. She was feared and loved in equal measure and took what she wanted without care for anyone else. It felt liberating. She was filled with such confidence and power in her dream world that when she woke the next morning she felt incredibly deflated.

At breakfast she stared intensely at the fridge freezer knowing what was hidden behind the door. She could almost hear the voice of the wig call out to her, tempting her to open it, rip open the garbage bag and shove the wig on her head. She found herself wet at the mere thought of it as she sat eating her breakfast. She felt on edge and wasn’t sure she could last. She hadn’t even noticed Dora walk in.

“Hey babe, you look like a wreck.” Dora said bluntly. Lucy knew her girlfriend meant it out of worry but the comment made her snap.

“What the hell is that suppose to mean?” Lucy hissed at Dora who seemed taken aback by sudden vitriol.

“I-I just mean you look like you had a bad night sleep is all.” Dora said sheepishly backing away slightly.

“Well I did if you must know but keep your comments to yourself.” Lucy said filling with rage by the second.

“Lucy what’s gotten into you? First it was that nasty comment yesterday then I get home and you didn’t get the food you said you would and now you’re acting like a b-i-t-c-h.” Dora said finding some courage but almost instantly regretting it when she saw the fire in Lucy’s eyes.

Lucy was livid staring at Dora. How dare she be so insolent! Who did she think she was speaking to? Lucy was a goddess compared to Dora.

That’s when it hit Lucy. She wanted the power over Dora, she wanted to be her bully more than she wanted to be her girlfriend. The wig had given her a taste of being a bad bitch and now she wanted it for good. Last night she had been foolish to reject the power in favour of relationship. She would never make that mistake again.

“You think I’m acting like a bitch now? You haven’t seen anything yet!” She roared like a woman possessed, tossing her breakfast to the ground. She threw open the freezer door and pulled out the garbage bag. She ripped it open like a wild animal until she found her prize.

“Come to mama.” She purred putting the wig onto her head while Dora looked on at the bizarre scene taking place which was just about to get weirder.

Lucy threw her head back in ecstasy as the wig got to work changing her quickly. Lucy moaned as her body was recreated in the same form as last night. Big breasted, tight bodied and pure malice. It was so overwhelming that Lucy came multiple times, each one cementing her corruption. Every wave courting her nightgown into a piece of black latex until she was clad head to toe and sealed inside the shiny material.

Each wave of pleasure further pushed the wigs tendrils deep into her head choking out her natural brunette strands and replacing them. Within moments Lucy stood there a picture of pure bitchy evil. Dora looked on in horror.

“What the fuck are you looking at loser? You’re acting like you’ve never seen a goddess before. What am I saying, of course you haven’t. You’ve been stuck with that flabby body your whole life.” Lucy said with a cackle. She loved seeing tears well up in Dora’s eyes. It felt so good to be bad.

“L-Lucy what happened to you.” Dora stammered unable to keep in the sobs.

“Lucy’s dead freak, I’m Lucia your new nightmare. God to think I wasted my time being with you. Look at you, you’re pathetic, worthless and ugly. You held me back from being the evil bitch I’ve always wanted to be. My new gorgeous hair made me realize what an anchor you’ve been and freed me. I’m a goddess now!” Lucia hissed at Dora who was now sobbing uncontrollably.

“You’ve lucky that I want to put a few miles on my sexy new body otherwise I’d stay here humiliating you more. Now move you gross moron I have a new wardrobe of tight slutty clothes to buy. But don’t worry I’ll be back tomorrow, then our fun will begin.” Lucia said pushing Dora to the ground and walking out of their apartment.

That night Lucia made herself known campus wide as a force to be reckoned with. She quickly asserted her dominance over the most popular sorority and became their head within the week. The other girls fell in line obediently and started emulating her fashion and meanness. She loved having a flock of beta bitches at her beck and call.

They were especially useful when it came to bullying Dora when Lucia wanted to party or fuck. Lucia would assign her army different tasks to torture her previous lover. It all became too much for Dora and she dropped out. Lucia couldn’t have that though, she got off the most by picking on Dora. Thankfully the wig let her in on a secret. A power it only shared with true bitchy hosts.

A single strand of Lucia’s hair implanted in someone else would make the recipient subservient to Lucia no matter what. Lucia smirked as the wig filled her in on the delicious power, filling her mind with evil plans. Lucia however had her Guinea pig already picked out.

Dora woke up groggy in a room she didn’t recognize. What she did recognize was the figure sitting in front of her on a bed. Even for all the torture Lucia had put her through Dora couldn’t deny how attractive she was. She was actually finding it hard to find anything of fault with her kidnapper. The longer she stared at Lucia the more she felt overcome with desire to please her.

“Who do you serve slave?” Lucia said smirking down at Dora. For a moment Lucia could see an ounce of rebellion in her former friends eyes, like there was a part of her fighting the control but then in a flash it was gone replaced by slavish devotion.

“You of course Mistress Lucia.” Dora replied smiling.

“Good girl. Now come over here and service your mistress, I have a lot of planning to do.” Lucia smirked as Dora without hesitation approached her exposed pussy.

#f2f #corruption #bitchification #magic #evil bitch #corrupted hair #corrupted wig #evil wig #sequel

123 notes · View notes

ozziescribbler · 4 months

Note

Hi! I feel like I share your opinions on hotel Transylvania and I would love to know your problems with the films, especially the "zing" concept.

Hey, I'd assume you found me via my recent tweets, because that's first time in ages I shat on Hotel Transylvania!

I am indeed a proud, card-carrying hater of the first movie (and whole franchise by extension, but never watched the sequels, only the reviews) and would talk about it whenever provoked.

I agree with you, @chinesegal, that the movies were underwhelming, cliché and too juvenile. Which would be fine for a movie intended for kids, provided the overall message was wholesome, or at least entirely harmless. Keyword: "would".

I checked and this seems to be the first instance of me talking about HT, 10,5 years ago, and I still stand by those words:

I watched Hotel Transylvania last month and the single thing I hated about it was "LOVE AT THE FIRST SIGHT THE ONLY ONE THAT COUNTS! GO FOR IT OR YOUR LIFE WILL BE RUINED FOREVER! ZING!" moral that popped up at the end. This movie literally just gives love at the first sight name "zing" and shoves how irreplaceable it is up the viewer's throat during the third act.

This is straight up toxic. How THE FUCK did they get away with legitimizing literal love at first sight in the year 2012? And how come so very few people talk at all how messed up this is?

I am still confused why audiences and reviewers were positive towards this. Writing is so bad: annoying characters (especially Mavis's garbage love interest), lackluster worldbuilding (monsters as fantasy racism metaphor is fine, but why waste vampires if they do nothing vampiric?), unfunny jokes.

And while the visuals are... okay, I suppose, neither design nor animation were anything to run home about. A friend with animation degree was always so confused why animation in HT is treated like it was extremely revolutionary. I would not know, but wasn't particularly impressed either. Madagascar and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs beat it to a punch in regards of using 2D design language in 3D animation. Also, early HT concept art was much more interesting than the bland final result (RIP DILF Dracula).

All in all, you want to see a shitty Adam Sandler movie that at least leans into the horror/monster humor, just watch Little Nicky. If you want to see nice animation from Genndy Tartakovsky, then watch pretty much anything he did other than Hotel Transylvania. There will be also much better writing. Samurai Jack, Sym-Bionic Titan and Primal are especially worth anybody's time.

#FUCK Hotel Transylvania #Hotel Transylvania #ozzie critiques #media criticism #animation

28 notes · View notes

voraciousvore · 22 days

Text

Giganterra (Chapter 9)

Prologue/ TOC | Previous (8) | Next (10)

^ The giant royal family's coat of arms, briefly mentioned in this chapter. In heraldry, black (sable) represents grief, purple (purpure) represents royalty, and silver (argent) represents peace. In this case, "peace" is twisted to be a self-serving endorsement of the status quo, since it is easy for King Richard to desire and maintain peace when he's already at the apex of the hierarchy.

Content Warning: Vore themes

Word Count: 3.3k

------ Chapter 9: The Land of the Giants ------

The humans trembled in their cage as they listened to the giant men argue. To be spoken of as if they were nothing more than property—or worse, food—foreshadowed the treatment they would receive in Giganterra. Even Candy, who only had eyes for her giant knight, turned white as a ghost as she watched Chester nearly eat the peasant woman whole like a snack. Would the object of her desire be tempted to eat her like that, since he was a giant too? She glanced over at Sir Maneater, observing his facial expressions closely. He appeared upset over the whole incident, but her mind wasn’t entirely at ease.

Eren was surprised to see Joey, the giant whom she pricked with arrows like a pincushion, prevent the human woman from being devoured, and then defend their humanity with such passion. She thought, perhaps, that she had misjudged him; yet, he was still here with the others, enforcing the will of the king and allowing humans to be taken like livestock. She gritted her teeth. In the end, all giants were the same. He didn’t really see humans as equals; she was certain his protests were some form of cognitive dissonance that would iron out with time. She hated giants, every last one. She was tired of living under their control like an animal. She was determined to infiltrate the castle and cause bloody chaos, whatever the cost.

The rest of the humans were not doing well at all. Jackie was having some sort of mental breakdown from being swallowed alive, which only worsened when she witnessed Chester nearly consume another human. She was crying, whimpering, and shaking uncontrollably. Tanya worked hard to comfort her, not only to help Jackie but to distract herself from her own terrified thoughts that threatened to overwhelm her. She didn’t know what else she could possibly do, lest she drown in panic.

Gio stared into the abyss, lost in his own tortured mind. The betrayal hurt as much as a knife to his back. He kept replaying the king’s expression as he abandoned him, over and over in his head in an endless loop. This was how he was compensated for his years of loyal service, for going above and beyond his defined responsibilities to ensure the king always had what he required. He knew he was of lowly station, compared to royalty, but he didn’t expect to be thrown away like garbage at the mildest inconvenience. He had always respected and admired the king for being stoic in the face of adversity, and for retaining his composure despite the difficult decisions he was compelled to make. Now, he saw it all in a different, less flattering light. The king didn’t make sacrifices: He simply passed the burden onto his subjects. His heart filled with bitterness.

Addison hid under one of the seats, curled up in a tight ball. She didn’t want to be here; she didn’t want to be anywhere. She’d been nothing more than a waste of space at home, a painful fact that her mother was sure to remind her of constantly. Being worth something for once, even as a commodity, was slim comfort when compared to the horrors she would face in the clutches of giants. She understood all too well the futility of talking back or resisting against such behemoths, when she didn’t even have the courage to stand up to someone her own size. She was terrified.

Graham’s world had been thrown upside down, yet again. He thought his life was bad enough when he’d been wrongly convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, based on flimsy circumstantial evidence. He’d spent months in a gloomy, damp dungeon, lamenting his fate and praying for salvation. And this was the answer to his prayers: to be thrown into an even worse position. He would probably die soon, as fodder for one of these enormous flesh-eating beasts in the shape of men. He slumped on his side, not bothering to get up. What was the point? His days were numbered.

The giants passed through the border checkpoint. The guards leered into the cage with covetous eyes, grinning wide to show off their huge teeth and licking their chops. The humans felt very small and vulnerable, like trapped mice in a barn full of cats. Leon reclaimed his horse and strapped the cage to the back of the saddle. He tried his best to make the humans as comfortable as possible, placing padding underneath their enclosure so the ride would be less bumpy. He stifled an urge to apologize for their hideously unfair, dehumanizing treatment. He knew that his words would ring hollow and meaningless when they failed to match his actions.

None of the humans had ever been in giant territory, so they were bewildered to find everything, not just the people, so unfathomably large. The giant horse was an absolute monster, snorting and stamping impatiently with mammoth strength. When Leon stepped away from his horse to aid Joey, a gigantic crow landed on the cage and pecked at the bars with curiosity. The humans darted away from the huge beak, staring up at fearsome sharp talons big enough to snatch a human off the ground and carry him away. Its hoarse caw was deafening, the glossy black feathers rustling as loudly as flowing water in a stream.

Leon came back and shooed the giant bird away. The humans cringed away from his waving hand, which was just as scary as the crow, if not more so. The entire cage rocked and jumped as Leon mounted his horse and settled his tremendous bulk into the saddle. His back rose above into the sky like a monument. The tumultuous bumps of the horse trotting were even more jarring. The tiny folk stared in astonishment up at trees that seemed to tower into infinity, fantastically girthy and tall. A crosswind slapped a giant leaf the size of a comforter against the bars, with veins like thick tubes. The leaf skittered over the metal and was tossed away with the wind.

Chester, who happened to be riding downwind from Leon, perked his head up and sniffed intently. “Stop a moment,” he instructed. Leon, Joey, and Martin reined in their horses and looked over at him, wondering what was going on. “I smell a human.”

“Well, of course you smell humans, we have-” Joey began.

“No,” Chester cut him off. “A different human. Not one of the humans in the cage.” He dismounted his horse and tracked the scent with his nose. He prowled up to Leon and placed a hand on his saddle, next to the cage, snuffling noisily. The humans shirked away to the opposite side, fearful of the voracious giant looming above them, whom they knew wouldn’t hesitate to scarf them down if he got the chance. He circled around the horse’s hindquarters to the other side, mouth watering as the various human aromas filled his nostrils. Suddenly, he aggressively grabbed Leon’s leg and hoisted it up.

“Hey!” Leon cried out. “What are you doing?”

Chester ignored him, pulled up the cuff of his trousers, and clasped his ankle. He dragged a tiny man from the folds of fabric and dangled him in front of his face with a distrustful squint. “You!”

“Ooh, hey there big boy,” Cesar flirted, curling a strand of his wavy hair around his finger. “You found me, you lucky dog! Hungry for some appetizing man flesh, perchance?” He winked and flashed a pearlescent smile as he rubbed his hand down his body suggestively.

Chester cocked a brow. “Cheeky runt. I’d be interested in eating you if you didn’t taste like dog food,” he complained. Cesar’s face fell.

“Awww, c’mon! I can’t be that bad!” he protested.

“You’re pretty awful. Not worthy of a princess.” Chester turned his nose up at the inferior offering. “I couldn’t serve you to Princess Bianca in good faith.”

“We’re not too far from the border. We can still return him to the human lands,” Sir Maneater suggested. Joey nodded in agreement.

“No, don’t take me back!” Cesar pleaded. “Please, I have more value than just my taste! I’ll do anything to make the princess happy! She’ll adore me, trust me! Where else will she find a human that’s willing to obey her every whim?”

Sir Maneater shook his head. Joey stared at Cesar with confusion. He couldn’t believe a human would actually be begging to become a plaything for the giantess princess. Chester examined the man like a doll, picking at his limbs and rolling him over in his huge hands. “Hmmmmm. She’s very picky, you know.”

“Please,” Cesar repeated. Chester sighed as he looked at his earnest, handsome little face.

“Fine. I’ll let Princess Bianca make the determination. I’m sure she can find a use for you, even if you’re not suitable for eating,” Chester conceded. Cesar squealed with joy, clapping his hands as Chester dropped him unceremoniously into his breast pocket. He wanted to keep him, as inferior stock, separate from the other tributes that he deemed worthy. “Let’s keep going.”

As they entered more inhabited areas, the humans were nonplussed to see modest peasant cottages that exceeded the square footage and height of the king’s palace tenfold. A single stalk of giant vegetables or fruits in the boundless fields could feed the entire human capital for a month. The roads were wide enough to fit several human farms all in a line.

When the horses trotted into the city, the humans were assaulted with a cacophony of giant voices, sounds, sights, smells, and other stimuli. The metal bars, while oppressive, at least served as a barrier between them and the rest of the larger world, as slim as the protection was. They were fully surrounded by a whirlwind of giants of all shapes and social classes, working and talking and engaging in a wide variety of activities. The buildings stretched higher into the heavens than any of the little humans could comprehend. They felt smaller than ever, like insects trying to comprehend the universe.

The giant palace was even more immense, with great towers and imposing walls of stone. The entire kingdom of Minimaterra could probably be tucked away within its boundaries. Once the giant men with their horses entered through the gates, the walls that encompassed the courtyard muted the louder noise of the surrounding city. The only sounds were the clip-clopping of horse hooves on the vast landscape of stone bricks and the trickling of water from a fountain that produced a natural stream through a giant garden of trees and flowers. The humans gazed in wonder at the gargantuan hedges and statues, which were even bigger than the giants.

The men reached the stables and dismounted their horses. Leon unstrapped the cage and gingerly held it in his hands, staring down sadly at the humans inside in grim contemplation. Joey and Sir Maneater stayed with the horses to unload the gear and put the beasts away while Chester and Leon continued to the castle. Candy clung to the bars, looking back with fervent desire at Sir Maneater until he was hidden from view by Leon’s mass. A shadow fell over her heart as cold reality began to seep in. The knight hadn’t attempted to talk to her or hold her, not even once. Were her feelings unrequited? She’d hoped, deep down, that he would’ve been willing to save her. She believed they had a connection: Was she in error? Had she made a terrible mistake?

They entered the castle through huge creaking doors. The inside was breathtaking, consisting of a great hall with ornate chandeliers of gold and crystal hanging from the ceiling, lush purple carpets with gold threading, and magnificent spiral staircases branching off to different wings of the castle. The walls were lined with doors and extremely tall windows with elegant glasswork to let in the sun, framed with velvety curtains. The scaffolding and molding were pure artistry, every inch carved and painted with elaborate decorative patterns. Banners and flags suspended from the walls displayed the royal family’s coat of arms: a sable wolf on a checkered purple and silver background.

Smooth marble busts of the king and his progeny lined one of the inner walls, along with a gigantic portrait of the king in oils. As Candy’s eyes wandered over the titanic room and grazed the mammoth painting, her heart stopped. She recognized the man in the painting, with his silvery hair, sharp features, and icy blue eyes. He was the very same giant she witnessed in the soothsayer’s crystal ball, tormenting her alternate self with a sadistic leer. While his expression was portrayed as serious, Candy fancied she could see the ghost of a sinister smirk playing on his lips. She paled with dread. She had indeed made a terrible mistake.

Leon and Chester requested an audience with the king and waited patiently for approval. Candy, along with the others, broke into a cold sweat as the tension among them hung thick in the air. They weren’t sure what to expect, but whatever fate may hold, their future couldn’t be anything good. They didn’t have long to dwell on potential nightmares, for their giant keepers were ushered into a room that looked like a giant study, with a desk stacked with quills and parchment and a fancy brass oil lamp. The stuffed head of a proud buck with a splendid rack of antlers was mounted on the wall. The king was there, leaning back in his chair with his chin resting in his palm, with a look of cold boredom on his features. An overworked and flustered servant sat at the desk frantically scribbling on one of the pages. The king’s gigantic guard, his menacing shadow, stood a few paces off to the side of his chair, as immobile as a stone statue.

“Your Majesty,” Leon uttered with an affect of reverence, lowering into a deep bow. Chester mirrored him while the humans lurched in their cage at the wide movement. The king’s frigid eyes rotated over to his inferiors with condescension, but his face lit up when he spied the cage full of people.

“Ah, the tribute! Excellent!” he boomed in a deep, commanding voice that made the humans shudder. He turned his attention to his scribe. “Fetch me the prince and princess.”

“Yes, sire!” the servant cried, bowing fervently as he scuttled out of the study. The king held out a hand in a graceful movement, and Leon offered him the cage. His hands, huge and bony, curled around the cage as he raised it up to his face to examine his bounty. Adorning his fingers were several rings, fashioned with precious metals and gemstones, that clinked against the iron bars as he softly tapped the cage with anticipation. His irises burned with frigid fire as he studied each specimen, lips parted as they peeled back from large square teeth into a cruel leer.

“Mmmm… such a fine variety of young ladies,” he purred, devouring them with his eyes. They paused on Candy, the large black pupils dilating, and she nearly fainted with fear. His fingertips absently petted the bars as his rising appetites sought satiation; his imagination ravished the delicate feminine flesh within.

“Crown Prince Ronny and Princess Bianca!” the servant announced as the king’s children entered the room. “His Majesty, King Richard!” Chester and Leon bowed again. The humans got their first glimpse of the giant prince and princess. Ronny was hardly distinguishable from his bust, with handsome, haughty features that could’ve been chiseled from marble, and were just as pale and cold. His pasty skin was contrasted by his dark eyes and mid-length black hair, which was slicked back on his head to a glossy shine. His younger sister, by contrast, was warm and radiant, with bright hazel eyes and sensual curves. She was blessed with long black hair that flowed like rivers down her elegant back and shoulders.

“Enough with the titles,” King Richard said with a dismissive hand wave. “Go prepare the human habitats.” The servant vanished. The king smiled, raising up the cage with a slight bend of his wrists. “Look what we have here.”

Ronny grunted with indifference. His expression seemed to be molded permanently into an arrogant scowl. Bianca lit up with joy, leaning down to peer into the cage. She gasped. “Daddy, you got me MEN?” Gio and Graham stiffened.

“Of course, my darling. Anything for my little girl,” Hardon replied in honeyed tones.

Bianca squealed with delight. “Gimme!” She ripped open the door of the cage with startling force to the tiny humans and snaked her hand inside like a monster with gaping jaws, ready to snap up its prey. The two small men had no time to evade her grasp as her fingers ensnared them both in a tight fist. She tore them out and lifted them high in the air, ignoring their pitiful cries of protest. They shirked away from the gigantic hazel irises that scrutinized them with disturbing eagerness.

“Eeeeeek! They’re so cute!” she gushed with a hungry grin. The praise only frightened the poor men more. Ronny rolled his eyes.

“If I may, Your Highness…” Chester piped up with a small cough. She turned towards him, implicitly giving him permission to speak. He reached into his pocket and revealed Cesar, dangling him by the collar of his shirt. “This one is a bit of an extra. Regrettably, he doesn’t taste very good… but I thought perhaps you’d like him anyway.”

Cesar gaped when he beheld the beauty of the colossal giantess before him. She took him in her hand and he blushed hard, struggling to contain himself as her massive fingers curled intimately around his body. “Oh… oh my…” He wasn’t the shy type, but he was overcome enough to be rendered almost speechless. “What a woman…”

“I’ll take him!” she chirped happily. Without any further ado, she skipped out of the room, beaming as she squeezed her new toys in her hands.

“Ronny, you may choose one as well,” King Richard uttered, offering the selection to his son.

“Ugh… one of those little rats? No thanks,” the prince growled.

“Ronny.” The king’s voice dropped into a low growl. “Take one.” His tone didn’t leave any room for negotiation.

A raw shiver ran up Ronny’s spine like an icy claw. “Fine,” he snapped, though he had lost his edge. He wrenched open the door violently and thrust his hand inside. He didn’t bother to look at which human he was grabbing; he didn’t care. He didn’t want one, but he didn’t have a choice when his father was forcing him. He didn’t dare disobey.

The unfortunate lady he snatched was Tanya. “Unhand me, you brute!” she yelled, attacking his fingers. The other humans cringed at her boldness, afraid of what the giant prince was capable of. Ronny glared down at her with the upmost contempt. He tightened his fingers around her, crushing the air out of her lungs and forcing her into silence. She strained for breath, slumping into his fist. He paused, thinking to himself before leaving without another word.

King Richard watched Ronny go. His pale eyes narrowed and he withdrew as he contemplated his son with dissatisfaction. Chester and Leon waited for him, not sure what to do. Finally, Leon indicated he wished to speak, and the king allowed him.

“S-sire? Aren’t you going to choose one?” Leon asked timidly. “I’ll send the remainder to the kitchen for you, if you’d like…”

“No,” Hardon boomed. He leered over the cage, smacking his chops as a crazed gleam entered his pale eyes. “I want them all, right now.”

Chapter 10

#giant #g/t #giant/tiny #g/t writing #tiny #giant tiny #size difference #g/t story #g/t fearplay #giantess #sizetumblr #macro/micro #giant men #vore story

13 notes · View notes

asshlyyyy · 2 years

Text

Pumpkin Carving (Elvis Headcanons)

I wanted to get headcanons up between every fic this month. The same will be for the next two months as well. We are in holiday season my pals. I have four other headcanons planned, and yes these will all sadly be headcanons... I might have one fic planned that fits in the halloween theme.

Are we liking these? Are we not? Well, too bad. Because this is how its going to be. I also haven’t started on any fics so... That is great as well. I swear I am an amazing writer at keeping stuff posted for you guys... he... he... hehe...

Masterlist

Pairing: Austin!Elivs / Elvis x Gn!Reader

Warnings: Swearing, Spelling and Grammatical Errors

“Why do we need pumpkins again?”

“So that we can carve them,” you smiled and looked over at Elvis, who was currently driving the car.

“And what do we do with said carved pumpkins?”

“You put them outside, silly. It’s for decoration. You can even put candles in them to make them spookier.” You explained.

“Wouldn’ they just rot?”

“After a while yes, but they will last al of Halloween.” You replied.

"Okay, my darlin’, whateva ya want.” He hummed.

The two of you arrived at the pumpkin patch shortly afterwards.

You wanted the biggest of the biggest you could find.

Elvis wanted you to get one that you could carry. Of course, you argued with him and eventually you won.

So, you found the two biggest pumpkins and Elvis carried them for you.

He found it weird that pumpkin patches existed because… you went there for pumpkins and that’s about it.

He called it a waste of gas, but of course… he would do anything for his significant other.

You were his one and only

The love of his life

The one he wanted to spend the rest of his life with

“How do we even carve these?”

“Well, you cut off the top, and then you pull out all the guts. You want it to be completely clean. No seeds, no guts, no coconuts.”

“What?” Elvis looked over at you confused. You laughed gently and shook your head.

“No butts, no coconuts. You haven’t heard that?” You questioned as you went to grab some trash bags.

“No? Should I have?”

“No, you just had lame parents.” You stocked your tongue out at him.

“My mama raised me good, what do ya mean?”

“I know, but it’s just something my mama said. When I would say butttttt,” you smiled softly at the memory. “She would response, not butts no coconuts.”

“That’s cute,” Elvis smiled and walked over to you.

“That she was,”

“I was talkin’ bout ya darlin’,” He wrapped his arms around you. You giggled lightly and shook your head.

“Help me put the garbage bags on the table. DOn’t wanna make a mess.” You said and pulled away.

With Elvis’s help you were able to cover the table with garbage bags.

After pulling out the knifes and a tray for the seeds to cook later, you were ready.

“Elvis… please don’t cut off a finger.”

“I feel like I should be saying that to you. You’re more clumsier then me.” You gasped at his words.

“How rude.”

You too then started to get to gutting.

Elvis was a huge baby.

He was gagging the whole time, which made you gag in return.

But, eventually the two of you finished gutting the pumpkins, and you had a great amount of seeds to bake later.

Not to mention, you could make pumpkin pie as well.

You loved making your pumpkin pie. Not to mention, everyone also loved it. Especially Elvis.

“So now what?” Elvis asked.

“You make a design… like a face, an animal, or even a word.” You explained as you tried to figure out what to do.

“So I could do anything…?”

“Yes.”

So, time came where you two spent some time on your carving.

Elvis was done before you… of course.

You figured it was because he did something simple.

“Okay… I am…. Done!” You announced as you finished.

“Took you long enough.” Elvis chuckled. “What’d ya make?”

“Let me turn it around,” You said as you moved around the knife. You turned the pumpkin around so that Elvis could see your designed.

“Aw, that’s so cute, darlin’.” You blushed lightly and shrugged liked it was nothing.

“Nothing special.”

“Yes it is. How did you even do that? I mean… A heart with our initials in side… I love it.” He smiled and reached over for your hand.

He took it in yours and laid a kiss on it.

“Let me see yours now,” You giggled. Elvis shook his head and went ahead and turned his around.

“… Are you kidding me?”

“What?” He chuckled like it was nothing.

“You swore! We can’t put this out. Kids will see it!”

“The only ones who will see it is us and family and friends. It’ll be fine.”

“I can’t believe you swore.” You shook your head and stood up.

“Ya dragged me into this.” Elvis pointed out.

“I wanted this to be cutteeee, not… you swearing.”

Elvis got up and went over to you. He wrapped hair arms around you and pressed soft kisses against your check.

“Elvisssss,” you giggled.

“‘m sorry, dalrin’.”

“It’s okay, Elvis. I forgive you. Could always do more.” Elvis groaned and pressed his face against your shoulder. You giggled and lifted up his face and kissed him deeply.

“I love you,” you whispered and pressed again other kiss against his lips.

“I love you too.”

Want to join my taglist? // Let me know If I spelt any wrong! I have updated my form for my taglist. You will be tagged under everything now in that selected fandom/person. Just makes my life easier.

Taglist: @mirandastuckinthe80s, @mommy-maia, @yagirlalexx, @slutforblueeyes, @alligator-person, @diorxmimi, @anangelwhodidntfall, @pumkiinpasties, @djconde58, @starryhazee, @21bruhs, @girlblogger2002, @dollfaceyourfear, @smbonilla2002, @homebodybirkin2003, @apparently-sunshine, @dark-as-love, @pandora-journey, @hsstylesrings, @jeonggukschris, @4everrmore, @bewitched-tales, @thelaziest10, @butlersluvbot, @curatedbyemily, @lovingly-unlovingme, @starlight-jpg, @omegellenlouise, @gyomei-tiddies, @Chlobug07, @wandawiccan60, @re3kin, @Itzjira18, @passengerjett, @neepo, @vane28282, @emilykolchivans, @gothantoinette, @gruffle1, @ilovemuppets, @hangmanswhore, @theinvibislecapricorn, @hariestyles1, @annamarie16, @holliemahady, @misacc08, @Brighteyesscum, @marchingicenotes7, @callthedarknessdown, @domaniquessidehoe, @gay-af-satan, @skinnypantsmcgee, @sassyblazecloud, @lovelyney, @lordandmistress, @Sharkslayersblog, @billysway, @nuo0n, @coldonexx, @adoreyouusugar, @aliciaelle47, @kh1898, @danitheedanimal, @raefoxiegirl, @cobra-kaii, @rylee-durhxm, @bob-the-tomato, @crabat-the-queen, @naveyelise, @austinbutlersgirlfriend, @iluvnerds69, @hopefulinlove, @aradevil, @Tylerdurdenisme, @laperceval, @xcallmetaniax, @londonalozzy, @mslizziesblog, @rosemochaaesthetic-blog, @bxbylexi23, @gloomynigvts, @persephones-blood-iris, @milaa24, @randompointlessbeauty, @auds02, @BubblyYork, @nora-nexus-34, @jazmin2211, @kittenlittle24, @Rqseycheeks, @moonbird1507, @bobthefishiesworld, @cevans-winchester, @luckyevansstan, @noorreads, @idc123sworld, @normatural, @hauntedarchivesx, @Luna4mnoon, @imagineslut01, @Kayleealicej, @thatcrazyfangirl22, @amiets2, @loveisalover, @myguiltypleasures21, @poppet05, @xcallmetaniax, @fullmetal-falcon, @kaitaesupremacy, @rainydayz101, @asd-n-adhd-fox, @loveisalover, @eliseinmemphis, @adaydreamaway08

#austin butler elvis #elvis x reader #elvis imagine #elvis #elvis 2022 #elvis film #elvis fic #elvis fanfiction #elvis fluff #elvis fanfic #elvis headcanon #austin!elvis headcanon #austin butler #austin butler x reader #austin!elvis x reader #austin!elvis #austin elvis headcanons

160 notes · View notes

yuexuan · 1 month

Text

[Review]如何投喂一只深渊!

Title: 如何投喂一只深渊! How to Feed an Abyss!

Author: 江为竭

Length: 124 chapters + 12 extras

Tag: apocalyptic, sci-fi, slice of life, romance

Summary [taken from novelupdates]:

【if you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you】

The abyss, the most feared thing by the human race today. The animals infected by the abyss mutate into monsters, and humans are reduced to walking corpses.

Lu Tinghan is an abyss watcher. He has been guarding the world’s most terrifying abyss for ten years.

This abyss is not only scary, but also strange.

Throw the garbage down, after a few days, the garbage will be buried safely next to the abyss – like someone took a shovel and tossed it all night to bury them.

Throw hazardous waste down, after a few days, the waste will be thrown back with unbridled fury.

Lu Tinghan: ?

Ten years later, he left the post and became the youngest general in the Alliance.

The next day, the abyss was also gone.

——The whole thing disappeared and turned into flat land.

The whole world was shocked.

Until one day, there was a knock on Lu Tinghan’s door.

A boy with little devil horns stood outside the door, with delicate features and bright eyes. Obviously, he was scared to death, but he still plucked up the courage to say: “Hello, I, I am Abyss, can you continue to stare at me? QAQ”

He added: “I have helped you bury the garbage every day, oh!”

During their long time together, Lu Tinghan learned two things:

1. Staring at your abyss every day, the abyss will be happy

2. When the abyss is happy, it will purr toward you

Novel

Comments *contains spoilers**

If I have to describe it, this novel has stories centered around individual characters like Link Click S1, but set in a Little Mushroom-esque apocalyptic world. A bit more about the premise of the story: the appearance of abysses around the world had resulted in the contamination and mutation of wildlife and humans. Surrounded by monsters, the people within the Federation were largely constrained to a handful of cities. Yet time and time again, the cities were lost to an onslaught of monsters, particularly during peak periods of the abysses’s activities.

There was, however, one special abyss - Abyss 0, which had the strongest and most feared potential for contamination, but which had thus far not contaminated anything. One day, Abyss 0 simply disappeared…only to reappear as a young man in search of the Federation’s general - Lu Tinghan (ML). All Abyss 0 - also known as Shi Yuan (MC) - wanted was to find his human again and have the general stare at him. But in the course of doing so, he gradually learned more about humankind and fell in love with them.

For those of you that like Little Mushroom’s world-building, this novel is likely a treat for you since it shares many similarities. Examples include the setup of a monster coming from the barren lands into a human city, a monster x military main couple, the utilization of famous quotes (e.g. “Do not go into that gentle night” vs “if you stare at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you”), the existence of protestors against the ML, monsters attacking from underground causing the eventual fall of the city, and the overall desperation for survival. Need I say more? :3

Highlights

In a way, this novel feels like an ode to humanity. It highlights many tragic, but nevertheless hopeful, stories of humanity’s struggles in an apocalyptic world. In fact, many scenes evoke the beauty of humanity: From the lone deserted soldier dancing with his cardboard lover in the setting sun, to the theatre group performing despite an ever diminishing audience, to the people hiding in the underground bunker witnessing the blooming of the Federation’s flower. At every corner, people nevertheless try to make the most out of their daily lives despite the dangers surrounding them and honestly, I can see why Shi Yuan eventually fell in love with humankind.

There is also a nice blend of humor to balance out the dark tones of the novel. Shi Yuan’s naivety regarding human culture lends opportunities to make jokes in the most unsuspecting moments. For example, he was tricked into believing that ‘1’ meant people that are very powerful, thus he went about telling others that he was searching for his ‘1’, much to the other’s shock and chagrin.

Structure-wise, I really like how the theatre group’s performance at the start was used as foreshadowing for Shi Yuan and Lu Tinghan’s roles in the novel. Over and over, we are reminded of this performance in Shi Yuan’s dreams, where he stood on stage in front of all the monsters. It’s a recurring element that helps to keep the narrative focused on the ultimate ending.

In terms of pacing, it can be slow in terms of revealing Shi Yuan’s identity as an Abyss. However, the sub-stories focusing on different characters help to ease off some of the wait by directing my attention away from the imminent reveal. When the reveal finally came, I like how mellow it is with how quickly Lu Tinghan adapts to the situation.

Of course, as a sucker for worldbuilding, this story just hits in the right spots. I cannot emphasize how much I love that each Abyss has their own contamination characteristic, and how each city has their own industry focus. There is a city in charge of growing most of the food crop, another in charge of fabric production, and another with electric production. It does seem like putting all the eggs in one basket (i.e. one city going down = shortage in certain products), but at the same time specializing the cities ensures a steady supply for all population. Also, the way that the author describes so many scenes so vividly and beautifully - ugh. I just want to draw all these scenes.

As a final note…a few tissues on standby might be a good move. I find myself tearing up every so often during the novel :’) Just so, so many touching or tragic scenes.

Things I don’t like

If there is one thing I can nitpick about, it is the ending - specifically the last chapter. It seems superfluous in the grand scheme of things and an attempt made by the author to force a happy ending. Personally, I would have been fine with the penultimate chapter where Lu Tinghan eventually passed away after working from the bottom of the abyss for multiple years. It makes for a bittersweet and honorable ending, instead of the ambiguous final chapter where Lu Tinghan is somehow alive again. I can only assume that Shi Yuan used his abilities to reverse time, but without clearer explanations, it leaves one more confused than satisfied.

#review #danmei #recommendation #如何投喂一只深渊!#How to Feed an Abyss!

4 notes · View notes

vanillacreambunny · 8 months

Note

I want to kick your ex's ass for being living garbage and treating you horribly. None of what he did was okay in the fucking slightest and you deserved SO MUCH BETTER!

And you still deserve the whole world and to find people (and if you want a special someone) who will cherish and support you.

----

I don't feel right bringing up others past stuff when not prompted, and I never got the chance to say this completely before.

Also you don't have to post this, delete it if it makes you uncomfortable. I'm sorry if I'm overstepping your boundaries here by bringing him up

You didn't make me uncomfortable or overstep any boundaries! It actually means a lot that you listened to and remember these things about me. Thank you for showing me kindness. I truly appreciate it ❤️

tell me on anon what you'd never tell me off anon

I definitely haven't been the same since we were together. I miss the old me, and I hope one day I can find myself again. I had a friend tell me I must have a difficult time trusting people afterward, but it's actually the opposite, I don't trust myself. I'm afraid of hurting people and letting them down. I don't think I'm worthy of love or friendship, and I wonder if it's fair to get close to people when I have a lot I still need to work through. It's overwhelming and confusing.

He love-bombed me hard and fast, and there was a lot of future faking, lies, and gaslighting I didn't realize was happening or to what extent until the end. I'm still mad at myself for being so dumb and wasting 8 years of my life! I told myself I should be over it by now, but it really felt like my soul shattered that day. I've always been shy and quiet and have a difficult time making friends, so I thought I met someone who was my best friend and accepted me for who I am, but they only kicked me when I was down and left me at my worst. It made me feel like I shouldn't be myself or open up to anyone 😞 I still feel guilty when I do.

I remember he said if I was an Animal Crossing character my catchphrase would be, "It's up to you." I didn't see how messed up that was until much later because I ended up being agreeable and never wanting to speak my mind to avoid conflict. It was so much easier that way.

Ahhh, sorry, I rambled! Even though they left me in 2020 it feels like yesterday. I have nightmares and simple things like places we'd go to eat or shows we'd watch give me anxiety so I avoid them. I hate it. It left me feeling like too much and too little at the same time. I know I need to see a therapist to work through it, but I wish I could forget everything that happened.

#asks #ask games

4 notes · View notes

escargon · 1 year

Text

the space jam 2 post (spoilers)

Tl;Dr: there should have actually been conflict with the toons so that bugs relationship with them as his family could have been better explored as a parallel to LeBron James’ character. What we got was a contrived mess that did nothign for anyone and weakens the whole movie, also wasting everyones time.

My biggest gripe with this movie is the disconnect between the way Bugs is written and portrayed and the motivation given as to why he was abandoned at all. The first time Bugs is introduced he is alone, having been abandoned by the rest of the Tunes leaving for greener pastures within the Warner Brothers serververse. Bugs is not shown to have done anything that would warrant being abandoned, nowhere does the film imply explicit, deliberate coercion on the part of the antagonist in separating his friends from him nor does it even use the visual medium of the pictures shown on the screen that they were unhappy in the Toon World and/or the “franchise worlds” they are gratuitously animated into.

According to Bugs, the messaging being given to them was that they were “wasting their time” living in the toon world. What that means is unclear, leading to a very weird scene where the entire cast sans Bugs is implied to have left of their own free will and on some level were nondescriptly dissatisfied with life in their own world. There are so many things to be said about the IP shoving garbage that is the entire runtime of this movie, but this is the part that makes the least sense to me. I think they were going for “representation of the future thinks the Looney Tunes are outdated,” but that comes across only after careful deliberation and is barely there in the actual text of the movie.

The audience and the characters themselves are given nothing other than “serververse cool” as a reason for these characters to leave Bugs, and also no indication anywhere that there is something stopping them from coming back. There is no barrier to entry in these words but transport, which historically has been very easy in Looney Tunes and from how easy it was to bait Marvin and steal his ship, easily could have been done at any time. And then, all the other characters do throughout the serververse is play “recognize the IP dress up.”

There was no reason for Bugs to stay there alone going mad unless it was some sort of self-imposed exile because he failed his friends, or there was the aforementioned barrier to entry to and from Toon world (which doesn’t seem to exist). Addressing the former, what would be the reason for that? Bugs has done literally nothing. He has done nothing wrong. Nothing worth cutting him off. Nothing. All he did was choose not to leave his home. The actual presented stakes of this situation are so bizarrely void of any meaning when there is no reason for them to be separated or get back together at all other than “Warner Brothers is making a new Space Jam movie,” and even then they don’t make any sense at all, and the emotional stakes the co-lead to this movie could have had are so contrived and nonsensical they had to introduce a life-or-death element one hour in because none of the other characters or the story itself are actually responding to the emotional journey the performance (given by the combination of the voice actor and the animators, I know Bugs Bunny isn’t really there) is trying to convey.

This movie is fucking awful and confused and there’s not enough thought put into the emotional journey of Bugs Bunny, and this is mostly just a thought dump as to why. I genuinely believe I thought more about the plot of this movie than the writers did, and I watched it for the first time literally 26 hours ago. At least Back in Action had the decency to only be an hour and a half long and has interesting character moments with Bugs and Daffy (who was done. So fucking dirty by Space Jam 2) despite having a lot of the same problems as this movie, weirdly enough.

#chatter #oh my fucking god.#is this anything?#like does this make sense #i feel like i was just writing in circles but i am rotating this rabbit #looney tunes #space jam #space jam: a new legacy #space jam a new legacy #long post #bugs bunny #im not even gonna talk about daffy in this movie all i can really say is #HHHHH H HE WOULD NOT BE LIKE THAT #YOUVE FLANDERIZED HIM

10 notes · View notes

phoenixkaptain · 2 years

Text

No you know what? The Faithful Wookie short is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen, but not for the reasons you’d expect.

This was the first appearance of Boba Fett, which automatically makes it very funny to me because oh my god, why does he introduce himself like that?? The first time we meet Boba Fett, and it’s on this weird water planet that is almost entirely pink and also he is shooting the weird sea monster thing. The weird, dumb sea monster thing.

I love the sea monster things. They are dumb and they want food and they’re just hanging out. One eats Luke’s ship, but it isn’t even threatening. They all have this dumb, perpetual grin and I just trust them entirely. Do they even eat living things? Because they all just seemed interested in eating metal. Is that just them being dumb again? I mean this in the nicest possible way, like when your cat slides on the hardwood and crashes into the wall, or when a dog barks at its own reflection, or when deer jump when they shed their own antlers because they weren’t expecting it, that is what these things are like and I love it.

Anyway, not the point.

Boba Fett. Comes in riding the weird pink sea monster (my beloved). And he is just the most suspicious man on the planet. He is literally wearing a helmet. All the other characters in the series that wear helmets (at this point in ths series, back in the seventies) are literally evil. And Luke Skywalker takes one look at this suspicious fellow who sounds like the least trustworthy man in the galaxy and goes “Yeah. I trust this man :)”

Like ???? Luke, why do you immediately trust this helmeted stranger who tells you that lower, dumber life forms shouldn’t have supplies wasted on them???

This is made exponentially funnier by the fact that literally no one else trusts Boba Fett. C-3PO doesn’t trust him, R2-D2 doesn’t trust him, Chewbacca doesn’t trust him, Han knew him for all of fifteen seconds and so we don’t really know, but I’m pretty sure he probably didn’t trust him. Like, the only person who trusts the suspicious man is Luke. Every other character is very wary of the suspicious man, and C-3PO is like “Why do you trust him?” and Luke basically says “What do you mean? He’s friend-shaped :)”

Like, okay, they find out he’s evil and working for Darth Vader and all, but Luke just kind of watches as Boba backs out of the room, pointing a gun at him, and leaves. Mid explanation of why Boba is evil, and Boba dips. He’s out. And Luke just politely watches. Why does Luke just politely watch? He doesn’t even try to stop him!

Luke is like “He sure had all of us fooled” and Chewbacca is the one they say wasn’t fooled, but literally nobody else was fooled. Luke was the only one fooled.

I don’t know how to explain it. This thing is nine minutes long and the art style makes my head hurt but Boba Fett is the least friendly-looking thing in the entirety of ever and Luke takes one look at him and immediately trusts him completely. He’s not even angry Boba Fett turns out to be evil. He’s just kind of disappointed. It is literally so funny, I don’t even have words.

This was the best introduction to a character that I’ve ever seen, including how Boba either is the most talented actor ever or was actually legitimately concerned for the weird blond kid who immediately trusted him.

How to explain this. They walk onto the Millennium Falcon, where they know Chewbacca is and they saw Han upside down behidn Chewbacca during a transmission. Okay. Chewbacca is throwing the weird artifact out what I assume is the garbage shoot. Luke gets zapped by a weird laser and immediately sort of melts onto the ground (okay, he passes out, the animation is just silly). It looks like it came from Chewbacca and when I tell you that Boba immediately gets defensive, I mean it.

I think the whole plan was for Boba to show up, probably with Luke, and explain this whole mystical artifact that makes people sleep (and kills them unless they’re hung upside down, what type of artifact is this??? Who made this? I don’t mean Sith or Jedi or other, I want to know the specific person who exists in the Star Wars universe and who woke up one morning and somehow thought, “Hm, what to do today. Oh, I know! I’ll make a weird thing that makes people die in their sleep unless they hang upside down! Yeah, that’s what I’ll do :D” Who are you???) but did Boba not expect it to shoot Luke? Was that not in the plan? Why does he react so weird? Like, he immediately ties up Chewbacca like he thinks it’s him, is Boba Fett just a wonderful actor? Am I just dumb? Why is the scene so hard to comprehend?

The answer is: the animation is weird and the pacing is terrible and the whole story is convoluted and by God it was the best nine minutes of my life.

#luke skywalker #boba fett #chewbacca #r2d2 #c3po #han solo #han solo is mentioned in this post the same amount as in the short #star wars #star wars holiday special #faithful wookie short #bobaluke #because why else would luke immediately trust suspicion personified?#what was the plan?#i know it was to gain their trust #and find out where the rebels are hiding #but how did they know it would work?#this is peak anakin skywalker plan #because it should not have gone so well #if boba approached literally anyone other than luke #they would not have trusted him #was the plan dependant on luke?#my dear luke dumbass skywalker?#boba fett is the most aggressive friend shape #god i love it #i have so many questions and i have no answers #and that just improves the whole experience #0/10 would def recommend #the inane ramblings of a madman #long post

46 notes · View notes

shoppncarticles · 2 years

Text

The Grimer Family

Hell yeah!!! If you’ve got any taste, you ought to know every game series out there, nay, any media franchise on Earth ought to have at least ONE funny little slime creature somewhere in its deep, rich catalogs, and Pokemon was smart enough to knock that requirement out in the first generation. We were lucky enough to be blessed with Grimer, an oozing pile of toxic sludge with a big smile and almost manically small pupils in its eyes. Pokemon could’ve done anything with its first slime monster, maybe it would’ve gone for the far more basic water-based jelly ball, like Dragon Quest (no disrespect to DQ Slime of course!!!), but no. Pokemon makes absolutely sure to remind us that Grimer is pure filth. Several Pokedex entries make note of it eating raw sewage and garbage and drinking rancid wastewater. One claims that Grimer was born from sludge settling at the bottom of a seabed - delightfully making it a marine Pokemon by association! - but another explicitly mentions that it was brought to life by X-rays from the moon touching a rank stream. HUH??? How’s that even work??? WHO CARES!!! Moon magic is real in Pokemon, baby!!!

I know I throw the word around a lot in these reviews a lot, but there’s just something innately charming about Grimer’s huge smile and goopy arms. It always looks like it’s having the time of its life, which is an excellent personality for a terribly disgusting slime monster to have. There’s always gonna be horrid sludge somewhere, Grimer is never truly alone!

Special mention goes to one of the major cities in the original Kanto region which has a small pond which the player can ride their Pokemon in. Usually, water will give way to encountering various Water-type Pokemon, but this little pond? 100% Grimer. A nasty little still body of water in an urban city, a perfect playground for everyone’s favorite little sludgy buddy.

Once Grimer’s spent long enough sipping up some especially sickly sludge, it becomes Muk, an even larger pile of ooze with a particularly pained and pitiful expression. It lacks the pure glee and delight that Grimer had, but misery works just as well for this shambling heap of waste and excrement. Make no mistake, by the way, both Grimer and Muk are constantly rippling, oozing to the ground in a continuous flow wherever they go. The dripping string across is also an excellent touch, and really does a lot to sell that whole goopy globular monster look Muk’s got going on here.

Surprisingly, Muk was chosen as one of the few Pokemon that main character Ash caught and used at some point during the anime series, featuring as a member of his team at various points and even used during some of the tournaments that he participated in. Muk was also portrayed as being especially affectionate, out of all things. It’s probably a joke about how the last thing you’d want to cuddle with is the living pile of polluted water, but making Muk just as sweet and lovable as any other Pokemon is something I wouldn’t have expected to see, especially on top of giving it billing as one of the main hero’s few teammates. It shows that every Pokemon is worthy of love and kindness, even the thing that’s probably going to give you 30 diseases if you let it touch your skin.

And guess what?? We’re not done yet, because Grimer was lucky enough to also get an Alolan form! I really dig the sunken eyes the Grimer now has, and the toothy rocks it’s gained give it such a charmingly dopey appearance. Apparently, Grimer were imported to Alola to help cut down on waste, since they consume it and all. They began eating solid garbage, and all the various germs, poisons, and toxins they ate crystallized and hardened in their bodies forming the teeth they now have.

This is emphasized by Grimer now learning a variety of biting attacks. Just in case you didn’t think the living sludge pile was bad enough before, now it can bite you and get its poisons under your skin. Admittedly, the teeth don’t look too impressive on Grimer, but once we get to Alolan Muk…

Now, I know some people aren’t immediately captured by big slime monsters in games, but let me tell you Alolan Muk is absolutely fantastic. Solidified toxic crystals now decorate its body all over, as well as giving it a snaggly set of teeth and even claws on its arm to boot. Muk keeps a sunken in, now more menacing eye, and now also sports a devilishly vibrant striped color scheme. This is an especially monstrous design, helped by Muk’s artwork keeping it so only one side faces the viewer. It feels very animalistic, almost snarling with that expression. Where normal Muk looked pained, Alolan Muk looks pissed.

Also, drawing attention back to those colorful stripes, they may seem pretty odd at first, but once you recognize what it is it becomes a bit more clear what Muk is going for.

Alolan Muk is meant to resemble what it looks like when oil touches water, resulting in a shimmering rainbow-colored surface that is quite surprising to see the first time. It’s easiest to see in parking lots during or after rainfall, thanks to oil that manages to leak out of car exhaust pipes. It fits well with Muk’s new island home, likely rife with liquid waste and runoff due to being so close to the sea. Those colored stripes also continuously flow down Muk during its idle animations, just in case you forgot how oozy Muk is.

Also, if you know anything about me you know I have to mention this, but ever since it was first revealed Alolan Muk always reminded me of the icky, paint-like Goop which is such an important part of Super Mario Sunshine. I know that Muk has nothing to do with it, but both are multicolored, oscillating, stripey oozes which characterize excessive pollution, especially in tropical island environments! The resemblance is just uncanny!! Sunshine is such an important game to me, and having the ability to control and command a monster in a game which so closely resembles the Goop from that game is so incredibly appealing to me, you have no idea. No one can stop me, I will take this parallel to my grave!

Also, before wrapping up this review, I absolutely have to draw attention to this Alolan Muk card. It captures everything wonderful about this lump of sludge.

Score: 5/5 - PERFECT!

Grimer and Muk do not disappoint the universal requirement for all franchises to have funny slime guys somewhere in them. They are without flaw.

[Gen 1 Archive]

#pokemon #pokemon review #grimer #muk #alolan grimer #alolan muk

10 notes · View notes

dirty-xenobladeconfessions · 2 years

Text

Admin L's thoughts on xb3 so far:

I know the other two admins are of opposite opinions so i'll try to come from a slightly more objective perspective. I have learned that by watching cutscenes alone, we are missing about half of the story because a lot of the dialogue is imbedded in text boxes as you travel. I think this game is similar to X in that it is carried by its gameplay experience and not its story, and am giving people the benefit of the doubt because being immersed in the world endears it to you regardless of any garbage surrounding it. That's part of why I enjoy L! Despite contributing nothing to the plot in XBCX, he saved my life countless times on the battlefield, and that's an experience I'm not going to have watching cutscenes alone.

I don't have the money or patience to play Xb3 myself, especially knowing how many dry cutscenes I must sit through before anything happens. If anything even happens. The story to me is incredibly boring. We've had to watch it at x2 speed and it's STILL too slow for me because it is a lot of uninspired fight sequences and faction talk. And because i'm missing half of the character interaction, I can't be bothered to care during their lighthearted moments either. Meanwhile the villain designs are atrocious so I can't take any of them seriously. Especially J who we just got to… he's 5 foot nothing, wearing a clown outfit with his whole ass out talking about "quivering with excitement" at the prospect of doing evil like… I can't do this dude

Personally I think if the cutscenes cannot hold their own, then it's not a good story. However, perhaps the full game is a good experience. I'm not going to find out.

For me, the artistic elements of a game are the most important factors for my enjoyment, and there is little I enjoy there. I hate the new lifeless anime style they've chosen to go forward with, but that's old news. Most of all I hate how they cut the culture and uniqueness out of the Machina to make them conventionally attractive. For me, the story drags on, the pre-rendered cutscenes lack the dynamic camera shot work of the original, the music packs little punch, the character designs are largely uninspired. (I like Sena's design at least!) Even the landscapes xenoblade is known for are not very visually distinct in the cutscenes. So far it all feels like a lot of franchise callbacks, visual flashiness with the mechs and flute scenes, and trying to wring heavy emotions out of a dry towel for the easily swayed, in order to make up for subpar writing. But this is all a matter of personal taste. Some people enjoy or will excuse this kinda stuff. That's fine. I don't.

I can say most of this about both 2 and X as well! This series is devoid of the charm and heart and the good limitations that the original xenoblade was built with, flawed as it may be.

All this is to say: I understand why people come to enjoy xenoblade 3, and if I actually played it, some of the characters and world might really grow on me! But as is, I personally find it is lacking in a lot more areas than people are willing to admit. I wish the story -- the driving force of the game -- didn't drag so much so I could actually watch it without feeling like I'm wasting my time. :[

#Admin L #just had to get it off my chest after last night #also i want to clarify im not saying the mechs and flute scenes are pointless #the flutes are my favorite element!#im saying theyre using their cool factor to hide the fact that nothing else is really happening #theyre banking on them carrying the game for them

8 notes · View notes

shomagravity · 2 years

Text

【Life in Switzerland】|| October 1, 2022 Unowan Translation

youtube

Assistant in training. Currently struggling. Video Official Description: Our life in Switzerland is coming to an end in no time. Upon my return to Japan I’ll have to start university and work on my research as well. By the way the filming is by Demi Sensei.

TRANSLATION OF SUBTITLES BELOW.

Summary: An enjoys some treats with her friend and Toro. Itsuki takes us through an informational walk about Switzerland laws as he throws out the trash. They’re returning to Japan soon.

ー Having treats with her friend Moshu-chan Moshu: Huh? You’ll give it to An first? Moshu: (Annoyed) Moshu: I’ll eat the whole thing. An: Give us more treats! Moshu: (Annoyed) Moshu: Hmph! ー Moshu’s mom! Thank you! An: Treats with Toro-chan next. ー These are reward treats after trimming An: An still wants to eat ー Just a little because you can’t eat too much Toro: This is Toro’s reward time ー An... Those black things are nails... Toro: Toro will eat too! Toro: You can’t eat this,, ー Champery after rain ー My brother has practice Demi-san: Shoma, see you later ー See you later! ー The skating rink right ahead of us! It’s close ー Dog waste disposal bin! With plastic bags ー It’s funded by a tax called dog tax. ー Because there are many places you can enjoy with dogs ー as expected, it is a country with advanced animal welfare. ー Both at restaurants and hotels ー You can see dogs with only leash. ー I’m just worried because ー There isn’t anywhere that sells tools to remove ticks ー There’s a risk that they may be growing in nature ー I don’t have the courage to remove a tick if one gets attached... ー Maybe it’s okay because we make them drink medicine every month ー I want to come together with the dogs but ー the flight is rough and ー the quarantine procedures are very difficult. ー It’s pretty strict. ー I can see the waste collection point. ー The garbage container also blends in with the nature ー Waste sorting is also easy to understand! ー Mission accomplished! ー I have to pack when I get back ー I can see my brother over there ー Do your best at practice!

#uno shoma #shoma uno #switzerland diaries #itsuki uno #uno itsuki #demi-san #oh i wonder if yesterday was also demi-san then #but his voice sounded so much like hamasan haha #my bad my bad #unowan #unowan translations #shomagravitytranslations #2022 translations #2022 october #toro #an

11 notes · View notes

crystalelemental · 1 year

Text

Unit Teambuilding - Lorelei

Being Kantonian is amazing. Rulin’ over this island with great alts, and great grids. We even got this anime kid! The hell if I know where he came from. This really is, the high life.

“Except for Lorelei.”

Oooooh Lorelei! What’s the matter Lorelei? Still mad cuz your sync multiplier sucks and they’re gonna spec your grid to being a sync nuker anyway?

“Bitch ain’t even got DPS.”

Surge even got this EX shit to make his nuke stronger. He don’t even need it!

How’s it feeeeeel, Lorelei? To be a...bitch?

General Overview If anyone picked up on what I was doing there, apologies.

Anyway, Lorelei is such a good Kantonian character. I’m sorry, she’s one of the few I legitimately remember because of stuff from the games. FRLG gave her that whole thing about being obsessed with Pokedolls, and sick as a child, and all this stuff that actually like...fleshed out a personality. And yet she’s still, I feel, less respected than the other Kantonian E4 for some reason. Which is mind-blowing. If the gacha dudebros are to be believed, the only thing that matters for popularity is being a cute girl, and not to be this way, but Lorelei’s a good looking lady.

Yet this is her lot in life. Being kinda ass garbage. Because her tech nuke multiplier...is the foe has to be frozen. The only other time this has ever come up was with Brycen, a man whose existence is entirely around Haze being the best tool against Latias and Cresselia. He had relevant utility. What does Lorelei get? Some defense buffing and Gradual Healing. Oh, but at least she gets natural Hostile Environment 1 for a 20% chance to freeze on Ice Beam! That’ll help!

Oh but she does have Blizzard, that’s not bad. Her special attack is low, but if they can make that accurate and relevant, maybe she’ll be a decent secondary DPS? Just give her some tools to set Hail up or something, and some multipliers through Hail, that’ll solve it. Oh. Oh, we’re not gonna do that? We’re just gonna give her some sync multipliers, a little bit of self-sufficiency with Ramp Up 2 on Trainer Move, and her only move DPS is Freeze Synergy 3 and Invigorating Hail ONE? Can we at least give her useful defensive tools for an off-beat tank? Healing Hail, Endurance, and Natural Remedy? That’s it? Well...can she at least be one of the best freeze bots in the game? Give her Hostile Environment 2 to match Lodge Silver? No? Just HE1? Oh. Okay... Sorry, sir...

Lorelei is bad. She will always be bad now. And it sucks, man. It sucks so bad. Because it doesn’t have to be this way. Lorelei was one of the first units my wife got really invested in because she loved her design, and we’ve been eagerly waiting on this grid. And not only was she one of the last ones to get anything...they didn’t even give her anything particularly good. Sure, 150% sync multiplier is nice, but it means very little if she can’t hit her natural multiplier, which she can’t, because it’s atrocious. You even locked full power behind the need for Hail, which is wildly limiting. Even worse, you need defense. Towering Force is great, but her trainer move only gives relevant defense if you’re injured. Otherwise it’s like +1. So she realistically needs support with crit, special attack, and defense, all at once. Who the hell provides all that, and Hail? No one! There’s no such thing! So her team composition structures are a dumpster fire on top of everything else!

It’s sad. I really like Lorelei, and I wanted the best for her. Now I’m just stuck hoping they give her an alt. Which means open conflict with Leaf, who also feels overdue. Dammit Kanto. The one time you let one of your units be outright bad, and it’s like the saddest outcome.

Team 1: Lorelei, Piers, W!Nessa/Candice This is practically a joke at this point. Let Lorelei self setup, what’s the worst that happens? You waste three turns to not even get the best sync setup because you’re likely missing defense, while Candice would nuke harder? Just play supplemental DPS! I’m sure Blizzard matters somewhat in complement to Candice’s sync nuke. Maybe it’ll even freeze if that 30% works with you!

Team 2: Lorelei, P!Bea, Candice Actually maybe that’s the play. Just go supplemental DPS. Sure she can’t really take her multipliers, but she’ll be able to take-oh my god she can’t even get Sharp Entry, Hostile Environment 1, and both MPR and Ramp Up on the same grid. Okay fine, P!Bea, give a bit of offense so she can drop the MPR. Now she gets Freeze Synergy 3. Maybe, if the moon and stars align, she can do something with that.

Team 3: Lorelei, Candice, Summer Steven Maybe??? Look, she has defensive stats and some traits, maybe it works, I don’t know. Spam Ice Beam as an off tank, Candice supplies Hail so you can actually heal yourself at all, maybe you’ll get lucky in Gauntlet and the freeze will last longer than two actions. Not like Steven’s flinch won’t be doing most of the work anyway.

Team 4: Lorelei, Lodge Elesa/Lodge Cynthia, Ghetsis/W!Leon Okay you know what no. Fuck you. I’m going to legitimately try here, and the attempt is double AoE DPS with freeze. Ghetsis has Cold Snap 2 for a 30% chance at AoE. Lorelei...it gets halved so it’s only 15%. Not ideal. But fuck it, we ball. Lodge Elesa and Lodge Cynthia boost accuracy and crit rate. Lorelei may not be able to buff her defense well, but she can buff special attack with her trainer move now so that will have to do. Between the two, freeze chances may occur, and she may be able to help, even though her DPS is so much lower than his anyway. If you really, truly want? Winter Leon can also participate. He doesn’t need the accuracy buffs, but she sure does, so you’re not even off the hook for needing accuracy as part of this.

Final Thoughts Lorelei is downright bad. It’s staggering to see this. I feel like they vastly overestimate the impact of freeze. Like sure, it can stall a move, but no more than sleep or flinch do in most circumstances. The myth that freeze is somehow less resisted in Gauntlet is just that, a myth. I’ve seen plenty of these stages, including shit like Uxie where you really need it to last, just snap out of it instantly. So her utility of freeze is both not that significant, and worse off than most due to the AoE nature of her skill.

I legitimately struggle to piece together her utility. This is like the Tate situation, where the support she needs doesn’t exist yet, but unlike the Tate situation, she doesn’t have some insane 140% move damage multiplier backing up her weaker more consistent move. Maybe in the future we’ll get something that can salvage her. But right now? It’s bad out here, man. It’s really, really bad.

#unit teambuilding #lorelei

5 notes · View notes