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strictlyoc · 1 year
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❝If it doesn’t have rainbow LED is it even worth it?❞ Introducing the original character Dante Kelling    crafted by crow
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strictlycanon · 18 days
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❝It's actually one of my Commandments.❞   Introducing Flagstaff from Zombieland: Double Tap     cherished by crow
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echobravofoxtrot · 6 months
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return to the small web
This post originally appeared on my website
I was born shortly after the peak of the dot com bubble, after which point "google" became a verb and "facebook" was no longer something collecting dust in the attic. During this period, it felt as though the noisy construction of the modern Web was occurring in the next city over and not yet in the quiet towns where most of us resided. Recently, following the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us experience (social) media fatigue, and it lulls us back to when the Internet was more peaceful. To a time when most communication happened over email or XMPP, when we "followed" people by subscribing to their RSS feeds, and when a personal homepage was an extension of self.
This nostalgia for a simpler and more personal Internet is a driving factor behind what is known as the "small web" or "indie web." The small web is a loosely defined philosophy which promotes decentralization, user agency, and community. It does not intend to displace the tech giants of today, but instead it empowers people to host their own content and collaborate through alternative platforms. Many concepts and technologies fall under this umbrella: personal blogs, community forums, webrings, federation, etc. The ideology bears an intrinsic link to open-source software; and its echoes are audible in the alternative web protocol Gemini, federated platforms such as Mastodon and Lemmy, public-access UNIX boxes (also referred to as tilde communities), and more.
In this vast digital universe, the small web represents a commitment to authenticity. It encourages us to embrace the beauty of imperfection, celebrate individuality and diversity, and connect authentically. While it's quite possible that I'm just a corny nerd missing his childhood, I do hope to see others getting excited about this concept. At any rate, this little corner of the Internet is mine, and I intend to make something out of it.
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icy-vampire · 2 years
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introducing myself i guess
june 2022 i stepped on the scale for the first time in years and saw a 3-digit number (in kg that is A LOT) which was a huge shock for me
after losing over 10kg by restricting and starving myself i wanted to try to do this in a healthier way but i could not. the guilt from eating and not exercising, the obsession with becoming skinny, the self-hatred.
i have always been fat and a control freak so i knew i would probably develop an eating disorder eventually, but it never happened until recently and i can't stop anymore. but if this is the quickest way of losing weight i don't care, i just want to be thin.
so now i'm in this hellhole with you guys.
hello, my name is valentina (but i usually go by valya or tina)
about me:
18/05
diagnosed restrictive ana, addicted to fasting
istj
from europe
goth, nerd, weeb, bangya... you get the picture
asd, bipolar, was clean from sh for over a year but relapsed
my life is hanging by a thread and that thread is one (1) anime character i've been obsessed with for the past 5 years lmao im pathetic ik +a band i discovered at the worst possible time last fall
i have no idea why i made this post since this blog was intended to be just for me. i have been lurking here for some weeks before making this acc, mostly looking at thinspo so yeah.
i am not "promoting" eds or encouraging anyone to do what i am doing, please recover if you can.
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pterawaters · 1 year
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I posted 10,851 times in 2022
118 posts created (1%)
10,733 posts reblogged (99%)
Blogs I reblogged the most:
@sunshine-tattoo
@sarenraegalpaladin
@ivycross
@mrs-steve-harrington
@magdalyna
I tagged 6,321 of my posts in 2022
Only 42% of my posts had no tags
#stranger things - 2,053 posts
#st4 - 971 posts
#steve harrington - 754 posts
#ofmd - 733 posts
#stranger things spoilers - 652 posts
#gentlebeard - 319 posts
#nancy wheeler - 318 posts
#lololol - 275 posts
#vol 2 spoilers - 274 posts
#our flag means death - 248 posts
Longest Tag: 136 characters
#you're gay you're a nerd you have low self esteem and you have a deep well of love and loyalty that you ceaselessly give to your friends
My Top Posts in 2022:
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10 years!
I first posted on this blog 10 years ago today. It’s been quite a decade.
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Ptera’s Abortion Fund Donation Gifts
Hi, everyone! I’m offering a fic gift to anyone willing to donate to an abortion fund. To encourage as many people to donate as possible, I’m offering gift fics to anyone interested who gives any amount to an abortion fund. To be clear this is not a commission, it’s a thank you gift for donating.I will write 500 words based on a prompt of your choosing (G through E rated, though I reserve the right to veto any squicks I may have) for any donation amount, increasing to 1000 words if you donate over $20, or 1500 words if you donate $50 or more. I’m setting a 10k total word limit and will have the fics done by the end of August. If you want to wait longer, I can go over that 10k limit somewhat. If you’re interested, send me an ask or an email ([email protected]) and we’ll work something out!
Current workload: 0/10k words
Fandoms I’m willing to write for:
Stranger Things: No Billy ships, and no E-rated fics involving the younger kids (El, Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas, Max, Erica). E-rated fics about the older teens (Nancy, Jonathan, Steve, Robin, Chrissy, etc) are fine!
Our Flag Means Death: No Izzy ships
Free Guy: Keys/Antwan or Keys/Millie
Hawaii Five-0: just McDanno
Anything not on this list, contact me and we’ll see if we can work something out!
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Silver Nightshade
Chapters: 2/5 (8k/21k) Fandom: Free Guy (2021) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Antwan/Walter "Keys" McKey Characters: Walter "Keys" McKey, Antwan (Free Guy), Mouser (Free Guy), Millie Rusk Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Keys POV, Workplace Relationship, Power Imbalance, Dubious Consent, Non-Consensual Drug Use, Love Potion/Spell, Magic, Soul Bond, Non-Consensual Soul Bonding, Ambiguously Happy Ending, Anal Sex, Switching, Antwan is still an asshole, Moral Ambiguity Summary:
When Keys is given the opportunity to continue development of Life Itself under the Soonami umbrella, he's beyond excited. Finally, he gets to work on a game he actually likes. Except his boss, Antwan, might have ulterior motives behind promoting Keys to project leader. Keys will have to decide whether getting his game to market will be worth everything that comes with it.
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Hi!!
How do you think stoncy + robin poly dynamic would look like? ♥
Oh, what a good question!
I could see it starting a lot of different ways, but let's start off with stoncy established. Steve becomes platonic soulmates with Robin, so she starts hanging out with him, Nancy, and Jonathan all the time.
Jonathan and Robin would become close friends. I feel like Jonathan could be the person Robin would hang out with when she wants her brain to just slow down and mellow out for a little while. They would bond over movies, in particular. Both of them are prone to anxiety and catastrophizing, but Jonathan is good at heading it off in other people (his mom, Will), so I think he'd be a stabilizing force for Robin. Robin, on the other hand, would be good at joking in a kind way and using hyperbole to help Jonathan realize that he's blowing things out of proportion.
And then there's Nancy. I feel like her observation of Jonathan and Steve's relationship with each other could give her a framework for understanding how her feelings for Robin are growing less platonic over time. I think it would also take Nancy a long time to admit these feelings to anyone other than herself. Like, she already has Jonathan and Steve. Shouldn't they be enough for her? But she's crushing hard on Robin and dying inside every time Robin talks about another girl.
Steve would've figured out pretty early on that Robin has a crush on Nancy, but Jonathan would have been the one to notice Nancy's crush on Robin. They would tell each other about their respective observations, and then do whatever shenanigans they could to get Nancy and Robin out on a date together.
Eventually they would all live together, Robin and Nancy in one bedroom, Steve and Jonathan in the other, but Nancy ends up sleeping in whichever bed she ends up in for the night. Pretty often Steve ends up sleeping (platonically) in Robin's bed, because he snores and Robin's the only one who can sleep through it and doesn't end up kicking him half the night to get him to stop.
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moohnshinescorner · 4 months
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FLIRT ALERT BLOG TOUR
Book details:
The Flirt Alert by Kaylene Winter Publication date: November 17th 2023 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Synopsis:
When a man who has everything will do anything to ease the pain of the incredible woman who’s living with a timebomb.
My best friend’s twin, Shay Stojanović, is my ultimate gamer dream girl come to life.
Gorgeous, flirtatious and popular, she didn’t know I existed.
Until one fateful night, she made this nerd’s every fantasy come true.
The next day she blew me up like a frag grenade.
Years later, Shay’s brother and I have built a billion dollar gaming company.
He had the nerve to give his shady sister a coveted executive role.
Oh, I’m not going to make it easy on her—she’ll quit. You’ll see.
Everything’s going exactly to plan…
Until we get stranded at the top of a mountain.
And I learn the truth.
Now I can’t—and won’t—resist her.
She has a lot to overcome.
And I’m just the man to soothe her hurt.
It’s Shay’s turn for a flirt alert.
The Flirt Alert is a scorching, standalone, billionaire, enemies to lovers, best friend’s brother, forced proximity, STEM workplace, HEA romance.
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179489701-the-flirt-alert
Purchase:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3ugj1WQ
MY REVIEW
Shay and Austin's story is one of many challenges. The author did a great job creating complicated and troubled characters. Shay deals with many secrets that come to life in this story. Some are a bit scary and are all due to an even deeper secret. Austin deals with abandonment issues throughout. He has not had an easy life and he has been in love with Shay since high school.
Upon Shay's arrival at Austin and Miles' company, Austin is horrible to her and completely mad at Miles for hiring her without discussing it with him. But fate has a plan for him. One he may take a while to see.
Warning this book is full of sexual scenes. I love a good smut book, but this one seemed a bit overdone in this department. The story was a wonderful story full of self discovery and health challenges. These things brought a sense of reality to the story. A subject you don't read in books too often.
Overall this was a great read. It had a wonderful line up of characters and a challenging backstory. I would read more by this author.
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AUTHOR BIO:
When she was only 15, Kaylene Winter wrote her first rocker romance novel starring a fictionalized version of herself, her friends and their gorgeous rocker boyfriends. After living her own rockstar life as a band manager, music promoter and mover and shaker in Seattle during the early 1990’s, Kaylene became a digital media legal strategist helping bring movies, television and music online. Throughout her busy career, Kaylene lost herself in romance novels across all genres inspiring her to realize her life-long dream to be a published author. She lives in Seattle with her amazing husband and dog. She loves to travel, throw lavish dinner parties and support charitable causes supporting arts and animals.
Author links: http://rockerromance.com/ https://www.instagram.com/kaylenewinterauthor https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20367389.Kaylene_Winter https://www.facebook.com/kaylene.winter.5 https://twitter.com/kayleneromance
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fnaf-hereafter · 1 year
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Questions I'm answering before they're asked!
Will this blog follow me back?
No. I've stated in the bio that it's a side blog and cannot follow other blogs. I have enough accounts, I decided to utilize the sideblog feature for this one.
Is this account run by a minor/adult?
Adult. I'm doing this in my free time which means things will be slow, and also I'm one person. The only other human who has access to this blog is a friend I asked to help me proofread before I post chapters up. That being said, please follow Tumblr community guidelines... But do know this blog is Five Nights at Freddy's. It's an AU with OCs of mine. There will be gore warnings, injury warnings, death warnings, etc. Read this AU fic responsibly please.
Since this is a side blog, is there an account connected to it? Another blog? Is there a Discord server?
Technically yes, but I'm keeping my actual main blog off of this one for now. No, I'm not being secretive, I just don't want people to think I'm doing this for internet fame. I honestly don't expect this to get big. But I have a Twitter and Instagram I'm using to promote this blog, they're both under the "FNAF Hereafter" name, so they'll be easy to find.
As of writing and pinning this post I'm also waiting on an invitation to make another account to AO3 so the chapters can be posted there. Yes, I'm picking AO3 for the tagging system and filtering.
And for that last part... like I'm saying, I don't expect this to get big. I'm a huge nerd trying to share their excitement over a game they've loved since they were 18 but only just now developed a full AU for with other people. I'm a nerd sharing my OCs and headcanons and ideas. But if those who follow this blog decide they want a Discord server to easier see updates or something, I'm more than capable of I can get a small mod team on it.
Will there be art or just writing? And do you have designs for the canon characters?
Ahah, oh boy yes there will be. I've actually posted the lineart for several canon characters and OCs on my main Twitter before! And for any of my friends seeing this, you've seen the colored icons of the main cast. Eventually everyone, including all the background characters I'm naming, will have lineart designs at the least. There's a few scenes in my head that I really want to draw out, but they'll mostly be pencil and paper as that's what I'm still used to after 16 years of making art.
Is this blog just for posting the fic and art?
Actually it's going to be an ask blog as well! But one thing to keep in mind is the characters will be at different ages, levels of knowledge and experience, and stages of memory regarding events, depending on what chapter we're on! FNAF 1 versions will know different things than the FNAF 2 versions and so on. But once the first chapter is up, I'll make sure the ask box is open and y'all are free to ask away!
What do you mean when you say things are going to be out of order on purpose?
My version of the FNAF timeline is VERY skewed from what a lot of people think of it. I'm also interjecting some plot ideas in at different points (example; not all games are in my AU and not all characters have the same role or are even present!). But I'm writing the chapters out based on what game they came from and when that game released. So FNAF 1 is first, then 2, then 3, etc. But that won't be the official order of things due to how my timeline is set up. Eventually I will put out how my timeline is organized because I'm not Scott Cawthon and y'all aren't MatPat.
If we have questions for you specifically is there a character for that?
For one I have like, 5 personas that I use. For two I have a self insert who has a stand-in for this AU. For three, yeah, cause the idea of a narrator character that y'all can interact with is funny as hell to me.
That's all for now, this pinned post may be replaced or edited in the future, but be on the lookout for the first act and first chapters! They are currently in progress!
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cxlhouns · 5 years
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Miscellaneous tag dump
✥ the crow has spoken; out ✥ 
✥ come one come all; open rp ✥
✥ v; paging doctor spazz; undecided ✥
✥ pick a calhoun; meme ✥
✥ just a nerd with a blog; self promotes  ✥
✥ lovely human bean; promotes ✥
✥ please leave a message after the beep; queue ✥ 
✥ i think this is just neat; saved ✥  
♠ memories long forgotten; jace drabbles ♠
♪ upon the stage; skyler drabbles ♪
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goddessfavored · 5 years
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but now that I wrote one ic thing after blizzcon, follow me @ my new fish queen
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❝ What do you want from me? You want a teary confession about how hard my childhood was? Well, it wasn't. I was a rich, only child who got anything I wanted... as long as I behaved... and sat still... and didn't speak unless spoken to. My mother said I had to keep out of trouble. We had my dad's political career to think about. ❞ / independent MAI from ATLA as loved by MEL
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natalieironside · 2 years
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Hey Natalie, I was wondering if you had any guides you used for self publishing? I've written like..... 2 and a half kissing books and I'm considering publishing them for fun and profit 😳 if not nbd, I am proficient in google, I just have trouble figuring out how much of that grind mentality is actually important.
I'm mostly blundering my way through this myself, but I'll give it a shot.
No matter what anybody tells you: Once you've written the book and cleaned it up for publication, the hard part's over. My sales as a self-pub author of extremely niche fiction are already way higher than I expected, and none of the work I've put into marketing has been half as much time or effort as actually creating the thang dings.
If you have the money, hire an editor. The Last Girl Scout was a self-edit (on account of I didn't and don't have the money), and while I am still very happy with it, it's nowhere near the book it could've been as a consequence--as many Goodreads reviewers will tell you.
I also recommend hiring a formatter. You can do your own formatting if you're like a nerd who knows about computers and stuff, but it's a lot of work and not everybody has that skill set. Also, like with editing, it is very very easy to overlook mistakes when it's your own work your dealing with. Here I'm gonna plug @kodyboye, who's formatted all the stuff I've sent to print and does excellent work (also fast as hell; iirc he had like 24-hour turnaround on the typescript of TLGS, which is a 600-page leviathan).
Once you've got your formatted files and cover art (which is a whole 'nother kettle of worms that I do not feel qualified to get into, I have An Associate who handles that for me), self-pub is as easy as hitting a button if you use Amazon KDP or as easy as hitting 3 or 4 more buttons if you use another service. Then you'll have a book and you'll be like "Wtf I'm an author."
(note on the above: Do not fuck w/ any service that asks you for money. Pay-to-play publishing services are 100% a scam; a publisher or publishing service asking an author to pay them is literally the same thing as your boss making you pay to come to work)
As for marketing: If you don't have the budget for paid promotions (which I don't and I'm assuming most ppl reading this don't), the best thing you can do is to Be A Person On The Internet. I'm lucky b/c I'd already developed a not-insignificant following from being a weird nerd Tumblr shitposter before I had to make a book happen, but you can speedrun that by just being generally active on your blog. In addition to whatever your regular blog content is, post samples of your work, talk about your creative process, be ready to talk about your books A Lot even on those days when it feels like nobody else is, and follow tags like #writeblr and #bookblr. (I'm also gonna tag in @thebibliosphere who is an A+ Tumblr follow and way better at this game than me)
I also very recommend joining a trade organization; I've been a member of the Horror Writers Association for a little over a year now and it's pretty great being automatically plugged into a network of other ppl in the industry.
And for broader-scope industry networking w/ people who are also very very invested in Writers Getting Paid For Their Work, I encourage (that is: beg) everybody who's even thinking about putting pen to paper to join the Freelance Journalists Union:
Hope this helps <3
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strictlyoc · 1 year
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❝Save who you can save.❞ Introducing the original character Rio Estrada   crafted by crow
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strictlycanon · 2 years
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❝I’ve got many names. But you will call me... “Prophet”.❞   Introducing "Prophet” Dan from Back 4 Blood     cherished by crow
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kazububs-archived · 2 years
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TR Boys with a Game Streamer! S/o
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with; Manjiro Sano / Mitsuya Takashi / Baji Keisuke
cw; some swearing, gn!reader
note; this is a lil self-indulgent if im honest
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MANJIRO ''MIKEY'' SANO
- Would be so proud of you, and constantly promote your content just to show you off to everyone.
- He was your first follower, subscriber, and was there with you through every step. Mikey loved seeing you grow and build a community, and would be widely known as Y/n's biggest fan.
- Please let him play with you on stream!! Mikey's favourite games are ones where you play together and work together; like Little Nightmares or It Takes Two.
- Never leaves you alone well you're streaming. He's either cuddling into your side, distracting you, asking to play a round to give you a break, or simply whining for attention.
- "Y/nnn-chin, you've been at this level for 20 minutes now, take a lil break, yeah? Let me give it a try!" He says beaming up at you.
- Won't hesitate to threaten someone if they are acting creepy or trying to invade your comfort zone. You've had to remind him that, no he cannot kill someone because they complimented your play style.
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MITSUYA TAKASHI
- He thinks that its adorable that you have something that you're so passionate and devoted to. Will constantly tease you about being a huge nerd whenever he can.
- Mitsuya is the type to poke his head in during streams, calling your name "Y/n, hey doll, I made you a little snack."
- Your fans will 100% gush over how cute you two are, and would come up with a ship name just for you two. There will always be a passing comment to see Mitsuya just to see you two interact on stream.
- My boy just wanted to see your thrive, Mitsuya constantly has your streams playing in the background well he's working. It calms him down, and never fails to bring a smile to his face hearing you get all excited about a win.
- Only will play a game with you if you promise not to team kill him. He likes more calming games like Stardew Valley, and Minecraft. 100% will build you a beautiful house, "You deserve the best my dear."
- Helped design your merchandise, and made you a custom hoodie with your logo on it, and he embroider a lilac heart on the bottom rim of the hood for you to snuggle your face into a be reminded of him.
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BAJI KEISUKE
- He's going to be right there with you almost every stream. You two feed off each other's energy and the fans can't get enough of it. They call you the chaotic cuties.
- Definitely the type to throw a match just to piss you off, and laugh at you when you pout/get angry at him. "Can't help myself, when ya look this cute babe".
- You have a love hate relationship playing video games with him. On the one hand, there's time when he can be sweet; getting you a pet pig in Minecraft. On the other hand, there's time where he's a little shit; team killing you in CSGO.
- Will always make it up to you, as your chat always begs you to forgive him after giving the camera puppy dog asking for help. "Please doll, look how distraught they are."
- "If someone gifts 5 subs I'll kill Y/n next round! >:)" "KEI! >:0" Chat always listens to him, Baji's got too much power of them. Who's stream was this again?
- Make it through his antics, and Baji will eventually calm down. Playing a story game together, you sitting on his lap with his arms wrapped around you, head resting on your shoulder as he watches you kick ass.
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hope ya liked my first ever hcs of my favourite bois <3
feel free to request more for me to write
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popculturebuffet · 3 years
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One Year Anniversary: Top 12 Ducktales Episodes!
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Happy anniversary all you happy people! Yes it was one year ago today I started reviewing animation and it’s been a ride to be sure. I’d always WANTED to be a reviewer: I love going on and on about stuff I love, really digging into it and picking it apart... but I could never get started. I tried youtube but I didn’t have the money for the equipment nor a proper shooting space to record, so my efforts.. were not great. And while I TRIED text reviews, my own looming pile of self hatred meant every attempt I made was shot down when it got hard as me not being good enough. 
But one year ago I finally got past that. I’d already been reviewing a bit, doing invididual issues of comics... but got way in over my head trying to do the current line of X-Men comics as it came out, and wisely bowed out of that. But that left a gap: I had nothing to cover week to week and with a demanding new job, I drifted into just doing in charcter chats, little fan fictions script styles. Not bad work, I should do some more at some point and I even got a comissoin once in a while, but nothing I could really live on and not what I wanted to do with my life. 
Enter Ducktales. I’d always WANTED to review the show.. and when the double premire happened, I decided fuck it, and put up my thoughts. And then decided.. hey maybe I can do this every week.. and slowly.. my work evolved, getting better and better, getting more and more likes. I picked up Amphibia when that came by week to week.
And eventually.. this went from a hobby, if one I was passionate about to a career. Not a largely paying one, as only one person was really intrested in paying me for it, friend of the blog and our fincial backer @weirdkev27, but .. it’s money and i’m now making about 30 dollars a month due to a comination of comissions and patreon. Other contributers are always welcome mind you, my patreon is here if your curious and comissions are 5 dollars an episode, but i’ts just nice to have money coming in. To have gone from simply WANTING to review things and make a living off it.. to simply doing it. 
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And it’s been one hell of a year.. and not just because 2020 felt like hell or 2021 began with a full on insurrection. I feel like i’ve acomplished a lot in the year i’ve been doing this: I finished what I started with Ducktales season 3, getting better and better as I went. And I didn’t stop there with ducks: I started covering what brought me to Ducks in the first place, the Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, and while that retrospective has slid a bit on the schedule, I intend to get it back on track this month. I reviewed a bunch of Darkwing Duck episodes leading up to the Just Us Justice Ducks.. chronologically anyway. The actual airing order reads like someone took 50 issues of a comic, made it rain with them, then just started reading whatever ones they picked up randomly. I also covered some of Duck Master Carl Barks work with the classics Night on Bear Mountain, A Christmas for Shacktown and Back to the Klondike, with more to come. 
And the Duck didn’t stop at just reviews I did on my own: Kev comissioned two MASSIVE retrospectives from me: My first for him was Ride of the Three Caballleros where in just a few short months I covered the boys entire televisied careers together from the movie, to house of mouse, to mickey and the roadster racers, to ducktales (again) and finishing with the wonderful Legend of the Three Caballeros. It has probably the worst Daisy imaginable, but otherwise is really excellent and i’m glad I finally watched it. I also covered Don Rosa’s two stories with the boys as part of it. It was a fun ride and I enjoyed every minute of it... okay most of them again Three Cabs Daisy is the worst. And once that finished Kev started up another idea: Shadow Into Light: a look at Lena’s character arc from start to finish that has gone on to be my most popular series on this blog, and that finishes next week. And there’s more to come as after that there’s a short breather with a look at Lilo and Stitch’s crossover episodes.. folllowed by me looking at all three of season 2′s ducktales arcs. And I fully intend to have covered every episode of the series by this time next year, so stay tuned. 
Outside of ducks though I didn’t slow down. I restarted my Tom Lucitor retrospective, covering what i feel to be one of Star Vs’ two best characters, tied with eclipsa, and my personal faviorite as he redeemeed himself, found love and I bitched a lot about the horrible directions the series took and probabably will more as that’s still not done yet. I did what I always wanted to do and started looks at some of my faviorite comics ever, starting with Life and Times and adding in New X-Men and Scott PIlgrim. I also threw in the awesome comic Blacksad. I did pride month for the first time and not only came out publicly, but also did two whole arcs i’m proud of with The Saluna episodes of Loud house and the rednid episodes of OK KO, and generally just had myself a good old fashioned time as an out bi man reviewing childrens cartoons. 
I started Season 2 of amphibia with it’s lows of an endlesss road trip and highs of adding Marcy to the cast and giving us more of the silky voiced keith david. And finally Patreon wise Kev’s taken me on a hell o fa journey: In addition to the restrospectives i’ve covered some additional darkwing duck, and a simpsons homage to the duck comics... but also got a bit weird and obscure with detours like the lost animnaics sucessor Histeria, the apocalyptic comedy where Santa dosen’t know how doors work Whoops! and the adventures of Santa’s bratty teen daughter jingle belle. In short.. it’s been a long year but damn has it been fun and there’s more to come. I’d like to thank all of you for reading, thank my Patreons Kev and Emma for supporting me, and thank my family for doing the same.  So with that out of the way, I figured the best way to celebrate was to do something i’ve been wanting to do for a long time, something honoring the show that gave me this calling in the first place. And with Season 3 sadly being the last, and enough weeks having passed for me to digest it between the finale and today, I could think of nothing better than my top 12 episodes of Ducktales.
Ducktales is one of the best cartoons of the 2010′s. Brilliantly taking EVERYTHING that had come before, the comics, the original cartoon and every bit of duck media period to craft a masterful, unique and wonderful reboot. It was funny, it was insane, and it had damn good character arcs. By the end every member of the main cast along with major supporting cast members like Fenton, Drake and especially Lena, had changed and signifigantly at that. The show was everything I could’ve dreamed of and more and I miss it terribly, hoping DIsney will do a revivial movie at some point. For now though, Frank and Matt’s run on ducktales, as they called it and I do too since i’m a massive comic book nerd, it’s time to look back on my favorite tales of ducks. So grab your sharks, your number one dimes and your friendship cakes with clear gay undertones and join me under the cut as I celebrate one of my faviorite shows and my anniversary in the best way possible. 
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12. House of the Lucky Gander! 
 So as i’ve gone on about before and no doubt will again, Donald kinda got the short end of the stick in season 1. While Frank and Matt had good story intentions, keeping Donald away from adventure since he had no interest in it, in practice it meant a beloved Disney Icon who they and disney HEAVILY promoted as part of the series and whose being here this go round was a big draw for fans of the comics.... was only in a quarter of the season and only got TWO plots centered around him in 23 episodes, with only one being the main plot of the episode. The PIlot and Finale both centered around the family more as a whole if your curious how I counted those so while he got plenty of focus in both, it’s still not a day in the limelight sort of thing. 
But unusually for Donald, he lucked out as his one big starring role for Season 1 was both one of my faviorites and one of Season 1′s most inventive outings.  A lot of the episodes enegy comes from a one two punch of a great guest star and one of the series best settings. The guest star is of course everyone’s faviorite overly lucky himbo Gladstone Gander. The show adapted the prick perfectly: The original Gladstone from the comics.. was the worst asshole imaginable, utterly insufferable. And for a villian, and Donald’s rival, that’s all well and good.. but his super luck meant he RARELY , if ever, suffered any consequences for being just...
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The 87 series simply made him nicer, while Going Quackers simply removed his luck. No adaptation really got how to make this fucker work.. until this one. Here Frank split the diffrence: Gladstone is still smug.. but he’s no longer actively malicious. While he is an insensitive prick to Donald in this one, unlike the comics he’s not constantly bragging about his luck or how great he is or actively BAITING Donald to fight with him or trying to ruin his relationship or a million other reasons he sucks and I hate him.
This version by contrast... is generous. He’s not the most empathetic, because he doesn’t get how life works, but he does share the riches of the casnio with everyone and in a cameo appearance in “Treasure of the Found Lamp” gladly offers his nephews some diamonds. He’s got a nice surface level charm to him that makes you understand why people like him.. but it’s also clear ther’es nothing UNDER that of value, making you equally understand why Scrooge and Donald hate him. Gladstone in this reboot is a perfect example of why we need reboots or new adaptations in the first place: Because sometimes the original got something wrong or something can be done much better by the new writers. 
He’s perfectly paired with the setting: The House of Lucky Fortune, a mystical casino with an East Asian astatic based in the country of Macaw and provides two great plots. Donald’s really highlights his character: His understandable jealousy at gladstone earning the boys love through nothing while he struggles to make a living for them, and how he feels like a looser and like Gladstone is simply showing that off instead of just not knowing what empathy is. Having Louie be the one to bond with Gladstone was also just pitch pefefct, as is showing some depth for the boy by having himr ealize his hero is an asshole and be the one to help donald in the end. 
The other plot is just pure joy though and is where the setting REALLY shines: Scrooge and the rest of the kids try to leave.. but can’t find the exit. This is where the creative part comes in: The Casino simply morphs to keep people trapped, and caters to them, giving them whatever they want to keep them trapped. In the cases of the kids it’s all hilarious and adorably in character: Huey becomes entranced by a fancy water show, in one of his best bits of the season, Dewey gets a pet tiger who sadly did not come home with him and Webby gets to live the dream we’ve all had of stuffing her face directly in a choclate fountain. Scrooge’s escape is likewise clever: He simply prepares to get a room.. then books it as the check in desk is ALWAYS near the front. 
We then find out Gladston’es trapped get the whole mystical contest with absolutely gorgeous animation, i’ll talk about it in full some time but this episode is just a treat to watch, has a great arc for donald and had some memorable gags. I can’t help but smile when I watch it. 
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11. The Dangerous Chemistry of Gandra Dee!  As I mentioned before i’m a superhero nerd so naturally Fenton was one of my faviorite parts of the show. Frank and Matt were just damn good at crafting superhero stories, and like gladstone improved fenton turning him from an awkward donald stand in to an awkward peter parker-esque science nerd who just wants to be a good person and the best hero he can be. He got into science not just because he thinks it’s neat, but because he honestly wants to help people and you can’t help but foot for him whenever he pops up. Lin Manuel Miranda is a large reason for that, bringing his incomparable a-game to the character. While we sadly didn’t get a ton of gizmoduck focused episodes, the fatct we got AS MANY as we did and that Lin didn’t drop out for a minute even with his busy schedule was a miracle and I’m acknowledging that. 
As for why this one, I feel it builds brilliantly on the previous Fentoncentric episode Who Is Gizmoduck?! which just BARELY didn’t make this list and uses the fact we haven’t seen fenton in a while as both a plot point and to move some things forward without having to spend screentime they clearly didn’t have. By having Fenton be just burnt out on superheroics it finds a way to both explain where he’s been, he’s been busy with his new job, and give us an interesting angle to the old “superhero is tired of the life” thing. He never once complains about saving people or stuff... it’s just like any job it gets tiring after a while. As someone who has his dream job but has struggled with it from time to time, I vastly relate. 
Though while I love my boy and Lin is game as always, the episodes real MVP is my other boy Huey. The episode has moved Huey up from being simply Fenton’s fanboy to being his best friend, and adorable as hell relationship. The two clearly respect and appricate each other and Huey is looking out for his buddy the whole episode. His love of love is also just really cute. Added in the mix is Webby, who in one of my faviorite gags of the series, finds out Fenton is  Gizmoduck because Huey is incredibly and insanely blatant with his unecessary coverup. But she of course is game to help while Fenton is trying to play it casual. We also just get a waterfall of great gags as everyone overdoes it wingmanning for fenton: Huey sets up an itallian bistro and tries to purposfully create a lady and the tramp situation, and sings opera (With Manny on acordian), the wonderfully 80′s suit from Fenton’s dad his mom gives him to wear, and Launchpad, who gives us a tremendous list of his exes, and plays my favorite song of the series: It’s a Date, a micheal mcdonnel riff. 
This episode also wisely ups Mark’s Beaks game as Fenton’s arch enemy, still keeping him hilaroius, with the guy acting like a bored teenager and guzzling so much nanite jucie he turns into a hulk, as well as said hulk mode leading to a ton of great gags from kidnapping the children (”I got your kids.. are they your kids? I don’t know how this family works), to “take that coach dad” to eating a pie with tins and all and wondering about said tins. But he’s an actual threat now, taking on fenton in one hell of a fight, and having an utterly transcendent scene where he hacks his way past gyro’s security while dancing.. and dabbing because of course he does. It’s a fun, well done character piece that’s mostly here for i’ts laugh but Fenton’s struggle with Gizmo overtaking his life, and finding out someone he truly hit it off iwth only wanted him for that.. it’s really good stuff and Lin’s delivery after Fenton finds out, the pure pain and betryal in his voice, is just excellent. Also that opera scene is poetry. 
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10. Quack Pack!
One of the episodes that started my career naturally landed here. Not for that reason though: Quack Pack is a fun riff on sitcoms, specifically the tgif ones of the 90′s that Disney Afternoon Kids no doubt also watched, the kinds Disney Channel still makes today, and most importanly the kind the Disney Afternoon itself made like Goof Troop and well... Quack Pack. 
Riffs on sitcoms are nothing new and the last year has been FULL of them. 2020 gave us this episode, Beef House and the wonderful “The Perfect House” episode of Close Enough, and this year gave us WandaVision, my second favorite MCU project so far, right behind Black Panther, which used the sitcom deconstruction to create one hell of a character study. 
So you’d think with a year having passed and this concept happening as an entire mini series would dull this one.. but no. it’s still damn funny, having fun at the cliches while, again like WandaVision, having one of the main cast be responsible by accident but go along with it. The episode pivots from glorious affectionate parody of cheesy sitcoms, to that plus horrifying “Humans”, and a character piece for Donald. This brings Donald’s hatred and fed up ness with adventure to a head revealing his fondest wish is just to have a normal life and not loose anyone again. 
It takes one of his best friends to snap him out of it. Look Goofy is my second faviorite of the sensational seven, an episode with him was already an easy sell for me.. but the episode uses him really well. First for laughs as he’s gentically dispositioned to be a perfect sitcom neighbor.. but also for heart. With his family preoccupied and a bit hurt, i’ts Goofy who cuts to the heart of the issue, pointing out NO ONE is normal and even his normal domestic life raising Max, who we see go to prom with roxanne eeeeee, has all sorts of chaos. Normal is what you make of it and pining for some ideal that will never happen was just tearing donald apart piece by piece and by letting go of that.. he finally begins to grow as a person throughout the season. It’s also a great thematic tie in to the season’s overall plot with Bradford and what Makes donald, despite also disliking the chaos his family gets into, different. Donald accepted it and grew as a person.. Bradford clung to his hate and it ate him alive. Or turned him into a non-sapient kind of vulture. Before I close this part out Jaleel White is also excellent and I wish eh’d get back into voice acting. He’s so freaking good at it. Seriously man i’d love to see him and ben in a sonic property together as a mythology gag. Same with Jims cummings and carey. Just think about it whoever owns the sonic movies.. think about it. 
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9. The Last Adventure!
Look I knew this was coming, you knew this was coming. But it had to be on here. The Last Adventure is not perfect: The lack of a build up episode like the previous two finales had really hurt this one: even at about 70 minutes, it still feels rushed in places and Huey, one of hte main characters of the season, dosen’t feel like he has a full payoff to his character like Dewey and Louie got. 
But despite those flaws.. this episode is just a damn good ending. Almost everyone gets a big moment paying off their character arc, everyone in the party that comes to rescue webby and huey, along with the two themselves, gets a moment to show off, and everything comes together to give us one last epic sendoff. There’s just moment stacked on moment stacked on moment from Launchpads heroic second wind and donning of the gizmoduck armor, to Webby’s tearful confrontation with Beakley, to Huey using the greatest adventure of all line to foil bradford in one of the most deligfhully nuts moments of the series, I could go on for days with just how triumphant this finale felt. While it left a lot of doors open.. that feels like part of the design. It’s the end of the fight with FOWL.. but our heroes will never stop adventuring, never stop going and never stop being in our hearts and the curtain call at the end is now my faviorite bit of end credits ever, perfectly giving the main cast and friends one last chance to take a bow in their own unique ways. I will always miss this show but I will never be disapointed by the note it went out on. 
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8. The 87 Cent Solution!
Look some episodes are show stoppers, some are heartfelt tearjerkers, some are all this and more.. and some episodes are just clever and hilarious. The 87 Solution is the second funniest episode of Ducktales with me and my go to episode when watching the show. It’s just pure fun and with a clever premise: Scrooge notices 87 cents have gone missing, and already coming down with a cold, goes mad with paranoia as the kids slowly don face masks, something that has become even eeerier given everything, one by one realizing he needs to stop. 
While David Tennant is an EXCELLENT dramatic actor, his comedy timing is really something that shoudln’t be ignored and i’ts on full display here as his performance gets more and more deranged, to thep oint he thinks an 8th dimensional imp is repsonsible. He nicely balances the disturbing side of Scrooge’s paranoia, his distancing from his family, with plenty of great gags about it too, the standout being when he offers 2 million dollars to whoever took the money like he’s publicly appeasing kidnappers. It’s fucking brilliant. 
But while David is awesome as ever what really, truly makes the episode is my boy, one of my faviorite characters on the show if not my single faviriote FLINTHEART GLOMGOLD. Keith Ferguson is ALWAYS a dream as the character but this is his best performance by far. Part of this is the addition of Zan Owlson, Kev who I mentioned earlier’s faviorite Ducktales character. She’s not only throughly likeable in her own right, but provides the one thing Flinty was missing; a straight man.. or woman in this case. Scrooge wasn’t TERRIBLE in the roll, but can easily step away from his shit or foil it. Owlson has to put up with Glomgold’s nonsense while desperatly trying to stop him from undoing all her hard work with sheer force of jackass. The two jut play off each other brilliantly, Glomgold not getting sh’es not his employee but his equal and Owlson constnatly snarking at him. 
And of course both things hit their peak in the climax with the family staging a fake funeral (Though no one told donald it was fake), and we get the funniest scene in the entire fucking show as Glomgold burts in in a white suit, money shades and full dance number to “All I Do Is Win’, which when first watching this I was convinced the song was somehow accidnetly on in the background but nope. They got it after using it in the test phase and the scene is better for it. Glomgold twerking on Scrooge’s casket, trying to get on it to dance, and having to be placated like ac hild is the icing on this very rich cake
And the reveal scene is also gold as Glomgold gets into a YEARLONG staring contest with a baby, fails to steal more than the 87 cents and, in my faviorite touch, put on an imp costume just to make scrooge seem crazier... then keeps the damn thing on the rest of the time for no explicable reason. The episode is the show at it’s comedic peak while giving Glomgold a chance to be a genuine threat and that’s Glomgood. 
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7. Let’s Get Dangerous!
Frank’s Rebooted Version of Darkwing Duck is probably his greatest achivment with the show. While this show is a team effort, something I slowly realized as I reviewed the show, it’s very clear from the way he talks, how well he knows the show and how much effort was put into porting Darkwing into the reboot that this was his baby. While redefining ducktales for the 2010′s was clearly a huge dream of his... doing the same for the master of suprise was an even bigger goal. And as a huge fan of superheroes i’ve seen my fair share of half assed takes on laired and complex characters. The XCU alone is one giant grab bag of missed opportunities for me. 
So i’ts no exageration when I tell you Frank.. nailed it. In one of the most brilliant moves i’ve seen for a superhero work Frank worked his love of the show into the reboot.. by having Darkwing have been a show, one Launchpad loved.. and so did Drake, who was inspried by the show to become an inspriation himself and while his attempt to do that through a zack snydery reboot failed, Launchpad encouraged him to do it for real. Drake was still himself, but the meta aspect and the toning down of some of darkwing’s more obnoxious traits that didn’t work in a universe that, while patently rediciulous still took it’s characters seriously, he made a BETTER version of the character.
This is where all that comes to it’s peak, and hoppefully convinced Disney to let Frank , and possibly matt, run the reboot. And no, even if Point Grey is producing that dosen’t stop that: Thanks to Invincible i’ve now realized that Seth and his friend Evan producing the show dosen’t mean it’ll be RAN by them, nor unrelated to this. It just means their helping make it and if anything given how lush and gorgeous invincible’s animation is, it’s a VERY good sign their helping out with it if it’s true. 
But wether this versoin continues or not, Frank gave it his best shot. Part of his diffrent angle is having Drake as a rookie here and as such here we see him truly struggle: he’s had his origin, he ahs the cape, he has the gadgets (in a brilliant turn thanks to fenton, who he actually likes... but is so far the ONLY person to not get he’s Gizmoduck), and the city.. but no crime to fight and no real idea how to go about his lifelong dream. The events of the episode slowly shape him: WHile he already had the spirit for darkwing, never giving up, looking good in a cape etc, this episode gives him the heart the same way it gave his original it: With Gosalyn. Dimantopolis and Beatriz just play off each other perfectly, as the two go from neimies to slowly bonding as Drake realizes this kid needs him and that he needs to fight for more than just filing the ohle inside, and goes to hell and back to help her get her grandpa back, with one of the best moments of the episode to me being when Launchpad helps her realize how hard he’s been working at it, an exausted drake refusing to acccept that he can’t get her grandpa back because he promised. He grows from simply trying to live the dream.. to surpassing the original. We also see more from Launchpad, who grows into his new family and helps push his boyfriend and newa dopted daughter in the right directions. The episode really evolves these characters from the simple disney afternoon versions, who while awesome were made into fully fleshed out characters. Gosalyn still has her edge but now has a hard lesson to learn about doing the right thing, forced to give up someone she loves for the greater good but finding a new family in the process. 
Part of what makes the episode work though as while it is funcitonally one big darkwing duck reboot pilot that’s awesome, heartrending and a joy to watch... it’s still a ducktales episode in parts without either part hurting each other. Huey plays a vital role, figuring the ramrod is too good to be true.. and discovering just how it is, then when captured, slowly unravling why Bradford’s there and being at least in part responsible for outing him as a FOWL agent. While this is largely Drakes story the rest of the cast is still vital to it: Scrooge trusting in huey, Louie serving as his logical counter and Dewey meanwhile bonding with team darkwing and helping Gosalyn, knowing exactly where she’s been and providing a nice foil. The episode is just one long and impressive love letter to the original show while creating it’s own thing and that’s really this reboot in a nutshell. It also has some of the best fights of the series, with the first fight between darkwing and bulba, where our hero, unlike his original counterpart, easily troucnes bulba using his speed and skill, is the standout. 
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6. Woo-Ooo!
I covered this one recently so I won’t go on for too long.. but I will say I hold this one up as the gold standard for first episodes. In one hour, hell even in jus the first half we get a sense of the whole cast, the tone of the show, and the world we’ve been thrust into. It gets all the table setting out of the way by weaving it into a compelling story of Scrooge getting back in the game, finding a reason to get back to what he does best in those he loves most and setting up the season long arc effortlessly in the process. The worst I can say about the episode is it sets the bar a bit high for Season 1 and a lot of the first half really struggled to reach these heights. This episode is a masterwork and the perfect showcase for what the series would be at it’s height. 
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5. Moonvasion!
Speaking of Golden Standards, Moonvasion is one of the best season finale’s i’ve seen. it’s not THE best.. but that’s a really high bar to clear and that spots currently taken in my heart by “The Crossroads of Destiny” from Avatar the Last Airbender. But while not the best of it’s kind, it’s sitll the best the series put out and is an utterly satisfying epic that ties up season 2. 
While I love the Last Adventure, it had a LOT to tie up and was really hampered by having to do all of that with no direct lead in. Moonvasion by contrast hits the ground running with the Moonlanders arriving on earth and all hell breaking loose, and the episode itself breaking into two stellar plots. Scrooge leading an army of every ally he has against the invaders, and Della seemingly going for reinforcements.. but really just trying to keep the kids safe from it, to their anger once they find out. 
Both sides end up going badly: Scrooge looses most of his army as Lunaris was one step ahead of him and is left iwth Beakly and Launchpad, while Della ends up marooned.. and finds Donald. The reunion between the two is the highlight of the special, as the two argue as you’d expect (And Dewey cutting in seemingly to stop it.. only to rant at Donald for costing him “ten years of turbo” is the best gag of the episode), before embracing. 
Our heroes naturally find ways to bounce back though. Louie, capping off his growth for the season, convinces his mom they can’t just hide.. and in the second best scene of the episode sings the lullabye she wrote.. one Donald sung them every night
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And no sooner than Della gets her step back and realizes that dangerous or not she and her newly reunited family have to get back in there, do the cousins show up on Fethry’s giant shrimp/girlfriend Mitzi, and our heroes head back. 
Scrooge’s plot hits i’ts peak though as he’s forced to accept the help of an unlikely and unwelcome ally: Glomgold, who turns out to be exactly what they need: While his plan is as stupid, short sighted and insane as you’d expect, complete with forcing Scrooge to dress up as santa just to piss him off and dressing his sharks in parkas (”I call them sharkas”), the sheer lonacy throws Lunaris off as he dosen’t know how to deal with this and Glomgold not only gets the better of him but gets his company back as part of his scheme.  “You were prepared for our best but not our dumbest!” “And i’m the dumbest theirs ever been! Muahahahaha! Wait...”
And of course our other heroes arrive just in time to save things.. and the episode still manages to pull off what many works struggle to, something tha’ts very hard to: a SECOND climax. Lunaris decides to just say fuck it and blow up the earth and i’ts up to our core family to kick his ass in space. Epic space battles, Della’s girlfriend meeting the family and more insues and an emotoinal, action packed and fully satisfying finale is had by all... and it’s all topped with one of the best sequel hooks i’ve ever seen as FOWL makes themselves known to us.. and prepares to strike. 
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4. How Santa Stole Christmas! This one will also be short as i’ve talked about this one.. a lottttt. The initial review, my best christmas specials list and my best of 2020 list. I stand by all of that: this is a unique and wonderful christmas special, i’ll be watching it every year, and i’ts full of charm, humor and gay subtext. In short it’s this series but on christmas footing. 
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3. Last Crash of the Sunchaser! 
Another one I covered very recently, this episode is a master piece of suspense, slowly building tension as our heroes get closer and closer to the truth about Della.. and to death, the simple but deadly stakes making this an absolute nailbiter from start to finish. This is some of the series best pacing bar none... but what seals it is the ending: the masterful flashback finally explaning whatever happened to Della duck, our heroes lashing out at each other.. all cumilating in the best Scene of the show. I said it might be in the review but no I can confirm: Scrooge bitterly ruminating over things while we find out just how much he’s lost... ending with him tearfully and angrily sitting once again alone in one hell of a powerful shot echoing Scrooge’s first apperance. Damn fine stuff. 
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2. Escape from The Impossbin Only one episode not only matches Last Crash in mounting tension and atmosphere but suprasses it. With FOWL and Bradford’s true nature now out in the wind, this episode uses that to create tension and rattles it’s two most unshakable characters: SCrooge’s normal boundless confidence is shot, not sure he can win this time against an opponent who knows him as well as he knows himself while Beakly slowly unravels, pitting Webby against the boys.. and pitting herself against Webby when Webby sees her terroizing them is only dividing them. Both plots start out funny enough but slowly escalate in tension and stakes until by the end your on the edge of your seat. The Beakly plot is the standout of the two, giving Bentina the starring role she badly needed, having gotten even better in light of the finale. Everyone is at the top of their game and everything builds up to one hell of a twist ending and one hell of a badass boast from our heroes: Their down.. but their far from out and this is far from over. 
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1. Nightmare On Kimotor Hill!
I”ll be reviewing this episode in full later this week as part of my Lena retrospective, but I stand by putting it up top. This episode is ducktales in it’s purest form and focuses on it’s best original character as Lena grapples with her self hatred and her past. That core helps anchor an amazing concept: going into the Kid’s dreams and finding out their greatest desires. The results.. are all gloriously rediclous and are easily the best gags of hte series as a whole: Dewey’s high school musical santa claus is going ot high school nonsense from getting a’s in Dewology to running away from the abstract concept of a love intrest, to not getting the sybolism of himself crying a moon made of his own tears. Louie quite literally becoming garfield, and my faviorite scene of the show: Huey, wanting to be the tall older brother..g iving himself horrifcly long leg. While everyone else is just understandably baffled, what makes the scene is the banter between Dewey and Huey, with Schwartz and Pudi at their best as Dewey first freaks out and then asks what the hell man, while Huey defends his weird decision (”I”m not good at imagination stuff okay!”), and then tries to get a jar of pickles. Each dream is just so oddly and wonderfully specific to each kid and each one of the triplests dreams, as well as violets being color coded down tot he backgrounds is a very nice touch. The visuals here are just peak ducktales, using the setting for all it’s worth and the climax is utterly emotoinal and heartbreaking... and Lena’s break from her abuser, finally realizing she has the power now is not only a wonderful metaphor... but also just so damn cathartic. And that’s why this one’s the best to me personally: it just packs so much into 20 minutes: some of the series best and most creative jokes, a gripping emtoinal arc, and so much more. It’s just that damn good and tha’ts why it’s the best... that and starting Huelet for me. Seriously that LIbrary scene is so fucking cute. 
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IRONDAD FANDOM MEET & GREET!
Hello everyone! This is my Meet and Greet for the IronDad Fandom Check In run by @superherotiger
First, I never fully introduced myself to the Fandom. I'm SheabeePrime. I started as a huge transformers nerd, but almost two years ago I also got my hand into the IronDad fandom and have not looked back. I love to write and absolutely adore the fanfic writing events the great members of this community put on. I am currently in vet school, so I don't have as much time to write as I want to, but I try to stay active, so if I'm not writing in an event I will often beta read. I'm thinking about doing a IronDad only side blog to keep Transformers and Marvels separate, so input on that would be amazing.
I got into IronDad in December of 2019. It went through a bad break up with my long term partner and just found the fluffy, romantic fanfics I usually read to be repulsing. I've always loved Spider-Man since I was a kid, but when I found that Tony Stark had also lodged himself a place in my heart, I started to look up fics of them teaming up and eventually in the father-son roles. This is probably because I felt the need to be nurtured myself but was in undergrad and far from my parents. And the Peter Whump subsect I often read probably was a way to let out the pain I was feeling from my break up. Either way I became hooked. I absolutely threw myself into IronDad. It was the only type of fanfic I would read for almost all of 2020, and for the first time since high school I really found myself enjoying reading and writing again. I was staying up long nights in the IronDad tag on Tumblr or 'Peter Parker & Tony Stark' tag on AO3. I started collecting Irondad keychains and pins and writing down all my fanfic ideas in my notebook. IronDad saved me in a way. It also re-inspiried my creative fun side, and it helped me get through the pandemic. The fandom has been so amazing and great too. So excited to see what else is in store for us, especially with No Way Home coming up.
As far as my favorite tropes, I love anything with Peter acting as Morgan's older brother. I also love anything whumpy. Oh and anything where Peter stands up to Captain America. But I don't like to limit myself to these tropes and am always open to new suggestions and reads. PLEASE DM me with fic recs and what else if you would like, even if it is shameless self-promotion.
Anyway, that's it about me. I'm excited for out future and am on the look out for any upcoming events. Stay real, y'all.
ASLO P.S. This is my AO3
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