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Josie and The Pussycats Episode 3

Oh no, it’s going to keep doing this isn’t it?

Today’s episode is set in India, and yup, it’s bad.

The cats uncover a conspiracy trying to take over the world by kidnapping the leader of another country. This happens because Alexandra gives the crew bad directions so she can be in a cab alone with Alan.

Alexandra gets some great licks in on Josie this episode. “He looks like a really creepy type.” “Yeah just your type.” And telling Josie she should look so good when a dude’s face melts.

Alexander: “Fel, for a girl you’re a mechanical genius.” 🙄

Right after they get the car onto the balcony, Alexander lowers the car with a robe, with his own hands!

Is magic real? They have lightning shooting staffs.

The chase song slaps.

This is the first episode where the band actually gets to their gig.

The formula for the show is just so good, the crew really just understands their medium, their bits are good, some of the lines are genuinely clever, and the episodes all seem pretty busy.

They fight a tiger!

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Josie and The Pussycats Episode 2

Come on Cats Let’s make tracks!

Episode 2 is just as wild as the first.

Dr. Greenthumb wants to destroy all plant life in the world. These villains don’t do anything by halves.

Alexandra tries to traffic Josie to the Amazon while the rest of the band goes to Nashville. The entire band ends up in the plane. Alexander is like “don’t tell me you put us on the wrong plan.”

And she’s like “of course I did!”

This episode heavily features some classic Hannah Barberas Tribal Depictions, deeply unfortunate. There’s lots of ungabunga talk, and it sucks. Josie and The Pussycats so far strikes me as a melding of scooby doo Johnny Quest. Which is a fun flavor, but if you’re going to dip your toe into pulp fiction, you’re gonna step on something racist. So here we are. Not to say scooby doo escapes it either.

Valarie is confirmed as the smart one of the group this episode, she springs them from the jail. And requires the evil scientist’s device, those are very strong feats!

Speaking of which, Alan is not Fred Jones, he’s a super human monster. He lifts all those instruments, he flings plants over his head like they’re nothing! The man I strong.

Alexandra proves to be weirdly competent in this episode, landing the parachute, performing magic, reuniting with the band. Plus a killer plant is going after her, and she just dead ass bites it, absolutely amazing.

The song for this episode slaps, great listen.

Alexandra name drops scooby doo!

I like Melody hearing the war drums, and being like “Groovy Beat!” And joining in. Peak.

All the officials at the end are white, in the Amazon. 🙄

The plants at the end dance with Alexandra, evil prickly creature recognize evil prickly creature.

The animations are so so, but I love how fluid some of the stuff is in their credits, the extra effort shows!

#josie and the pussycats #scooby doo #velma show #velma #hbo max #hannah barbera #meddling kids

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It’s always been my goal to watch every scooby doo anything ever made, because it’s my favorite show off all time. But that’s a lot to swallow, but it’s a lot less effort to get through the fucked up mystery solvers that didn’t make it as far.

Today it’s Josie and The Pussy Cats

We’re hitting episode 1 and can I just say, this show slaps!

I love the expanded cast, six characters is very nice and busy. Everyone has their own color which I’m realizing is very important for these shows.

Josie is the main of the show, so far no real personality, Except she like Alan and is a red head.

Valarie- it’s so cool to see a person of color in one of these cartoons. I’m a white guy so not really as sensitive to it as others, but just seeing her on screen really filled me up. Unfortunately she doesn’t get as much screen time on this episode as other characters, but she appears to be capable because she was working on the motor and knew what she was doing. She also plays tambourine.

Melody- is the groups bimbo, we love her. She is life, she must be protected, she just wants to help!

Alan is Fred Jones

Alexander is the groups manager, he’s like Shaggy’s sleezy cousin. I love him being like Shaggy, but kind of clever in a bad way, it’s cool.

Alexandra is Alexander’s sister, and she is That bitch! She is our queen. Just a sour, mean, lemon of a woman with an evil white streak of hair, she’s perfect.

The mascot character for this group is Sebastian, and is the polar opposite of scooby. He’s here for the chaos, he loves drama, and since he saved everyone in like two seconds, he seems really competent.

I loved it, it felt really fresh from the scooby formula, and I’m actually quite smitten by the show so far.

Captain Nemo is the villain for this episode, or his grandson rather, which…. Is that actually a thing for captain Nemo because it happens in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He’s just a big doofus looking to sink EVERY SHIP IN THE WORLD, literally this man is willing to kill billions to make people respect his name. Besides genocide, this guy also trapped six kids at the bottom of the ocean in glass tubes. Which would run out of air real quick, and then they’d die! Maniac!

The whole thing gets wrapped up in a chase sequence, and I’m just in love.

Best line of the day: “this ship looks like a accident, heading somewhere to happen.” The our Queen Alexandra.

Watch it folks, if you have not. Episode one is awesome.

#josie and the pussycats #scooby doo #hannah barbera #teen sleuths #meddling kids #hbo velma #velma the series #velma #velma show

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I’m actually liking it. 😅

#hbo velma

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Dad: Do you want to eat dinner with us tonight?

Me: No I have plans.

Dad: That’s a shame, we’re having leftover meatloaf.

Me: …My Loss

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My life as a hunter x hunter self insert character Episode 23

“Guys we do not have to just let Hon get the shit beat out of hun because he wants us to. In fact it’s negligent of us to let him keep doing it.”

#hunter x hunter #anime

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My life as a Hunter x Hunter self insert character episode 22

“Will we get t-shirts on the tour?”

#hunter x hunter

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My life as a Hunter X Hunter self insert character.

“Um, Pokkle do you have a business card? Hanzo had a business card…”

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“The Hunter Exam isn’t over yet guys… we have to go a whole year within losing our cards!”

#hunter x hunter #anime

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My Life as a Hunter x Hunter self insert character: S1E15

“The Monkey had my badge.” 😏

#hunter x hunter

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My Life as a Hunter x Hunter self insert character: S1E3

“Fellas, that lady has a gun! We better look out for her!”

“Guys, I don’t think we’re making a big enough deal over that clown making a guy’s arms vanish!”

“Sorry Tonpa, I only drink Dr. Pepper.”

#hunter x hunter #anime

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My Life as a Hunter x Hunter self insert character: S1E2

“Mr. Leorio where are you going? You’re going to miss the bus to Zaban City! MR.LEORIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

#hunter x hunter #anime

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My Life as a HunterxHunter self insert character: S1E1

“Yeah I was going to save the ship’s twink too, I was just getting my swim shorts on first” 😤

#hunter x hunter

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Custom Nintendo Switch Joy-cons made by Kaltronics

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Pokemon Burgers served at Down-N-Out in Sydney, Australia 

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Just finished part 2 A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

I kind of want to stop reading.

Lucy won, Snow gets shit canned, that’s a happy ending to me.

Really don’t want to witness what I assume will be the spiritual or literal death of Lucy Grey.

But gotta say thus far, what an incredible book. Honestly loving it, I think it adds such richness to the world. Part of the reason I love it, is because it’s extremely fucked up. We see how the acts of rebellion or defiance from the main characters gets twisted to suit the system. Lucy Grey performing, her dress. The better part of the next century are shaped by her defiance and spirit. Now tributes will be forced to sing and dance and act like these horrible games are exciting. It’s a horrible perversion, and great commentary on capitalism. Anything that rises against the system will eventually be commodified and incorporated in the structure.

Even just the train that brings them in, feeding the tributes, Snow’s distaste for the train, the zoo, the starvation gets transformed into luxury cars, and feasts, and suites. He addresses the symptoms, the things that make him queasy, not the whole horrible system.

That’s great writing, that’s why he’s not a hero. We get to see where he gets the dynamic of never lying with Katniss he steals it from his own abuser. The doctor.

Also just great insight into how fucked Panem is politically. It just seems to be run by goons. Their military service last an insane 20 years, and is a punishment, for debtors and criminals. It’s probably so long because no one wants to be in it. Fucking kids from some prep school are running the show at a national event. It’s fucked! Whenever someone in class questions the system they just get brushed off. One was told their objection to the question was irrelevant and for another they were just told to assume an incorrect premise was true. They just use thought canceling instructions whenever challenged.

Snow himself can’t even conceive that a government could have the backing of it’s people. When he writes his paper he naturally assumes people will break the law, and then turn against the government. So facism is their only course. When of course the obvious answer is to just have a government that shares a consensus with it’s people. Their assumption that they’ll always be at war with the districts is insane and wrong. By the time Katniss comes around the war could have been a distant memory regulated to the few living old guards. Prosperity could have come to the whole continent. Institutions and barriers could have been torn down, and wounds would have begun to heal, have healed by the time she’s a woman. But these people chose to keep themselves and the districts traumatized and scared for 75 years.

It’s also good to see the children who are awake enough to know the hunger games are evil. Outcasts now but perhaps they build the groundswell that will eventually lead to the revolution.

The book also does a good job with snow. We can see how he eventually becomes the fuck head he becomes, but we can also imagine all the off ramps he has to escape on. He’s a sociopath everyone thinks their dealing with the real him, but he’s gaming out every interaction to his benefit. All his actions seem noble enough from the outside, but we know his thoughts, we know why he does what he does, and it’s because he’s an animal.

So far it has been stellar.

#hunger games #a ballad of songbirds and snakes

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Somewhere in the capital there was an intern absolutely freaking out that the cave they designed was the one Katniss and Peeta ended up in. It’s like three days if intense coverage. This guy is doing AMA’s, getting really into the design philosophy of caves, he’s getting his picture taken with it. He writes a book, goes on sale the day of the 75th game, rumor has it he’s got some new caves for this year’s game, things are all going his way.

#the hunger games #hunger games

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The Sandman Audiobook Chapter 19: Facade

“They say cigarettes will kill you. That’s fine, I only wish they’d do it faster.” 🙄 insert jerk off motion here.

Language is fun because people constantly play and experiment with classic sayings and phrases.

I’m sure in the 80’s that line was fresh and clever.

I unfortunately don’t have much to say about this episode. I didn’t like it, didn’t hate it, didn’t really take anything away from it.

It would indeed suck to be an immortal being existing as a composite of elements. Sucks she didn’t have a support structure to help her, sucks that her CIA buddy really did try to reach out and help there at the end.

Notable for its lack of Morpheus, but there is a dream. It should be noted that this like Men of Fortune is out of sequence, which might explain it.

It’s interesting because death is featured, so we’re moving beyond the constraints of Morpheus and are now playing with the elements of the universe we’ve established.

We get some insight into Death, but it’s honestly kind of bad. She’s trying to comfort our point of reference and suddenly just goes on this rant about how she’s everything and aliens are dying and she’ll see everyone die. Fuck off, why would she care, it’s purely for the audience to get insight into death, and not for the scene.

Meh, I give it a meh. The story can be more than this, this story could be more. A story about depression, body dismophia, and suicide can and could have been great. I think this stumbles.

I think it’s rude to tag on something with nothing constructive, so I will say that I think abandoning all the talk of ra, and egypt and the mechanisms of her change was wasted space that could have been spent on more internal revelations or development. If you want to do a story about suicide don’t chicken out and throw in a pulp fiction adventure in the middle to keep me entertained. Actually dig into the bleakness and inner world if this woman.

She does kill herself at the end, it’s not like her suicide isn’t the point of this story. Why waste time on how she got her powers?

I was eager for some filler episodes, but I’m thinking maybe it’s time to get back to the plot, these aren’t filling me up.

On to the next!

#the sandman