#Filler base

[howgalling]

so... i was never happy w/ the fact that legion walks around with a massive 'wound' exposing his internals. i like to think my go getter 'keep the crew healthy and happy' shepard would've fixed him right up. yes she gave him one of her chestplates do you think me a MONSTER??

#she offers to let him keep the old chest plate too. he's thinking abt it. #might do some more to this but it was only meant to be a sketch lol #legion #shepard #command shepard #femshep #mass effect fanart #mass effect #every VI that fangirls over shepard inside of legion is screaming rn i promise u that. THEY ARE BUILDING A CONSENSUS #full sketch was meant to have metal filler. rust stripper. sander. she went all out. #my shepard is based on crossfit women :^)

[buwheal]

Spamton, what's your favorite ice cream flavor?

#rebuilding my collection of still frame bases :-) #[you've got mail!] #spamton #spamton g spamton #deltarune #filler ask. both because i planned to and because they havent sent the rest yet.

[niobiumao3]

I keep thinking about how there is a delicate balance of the emotional behaviors of the Batch and you can see it best in what a lot of people complained was a filler episode, that being The Crossing, and to an extent also Aftermath.

In Aftermath we have the infamous food fight scene, which is preceded by Tech and Wrecker's continuing argument about programmed behavior. This will not be the first time Tech and Wrecker argue if they're left to freely interact; it comes up numerous times in the series, and (IMO anyways) stems from the fact that Wrecker is outwardly emotional and Tech is almost 100% inwardly emotional. Tech doesn't process externally like Wrecker does, and has a certain amount of trouble communicating with Wrecker, and Wrecker with him, as a result. So who steps in most of the time?

Crosshair and Echo, and by The Crossing, both of them are gone.

Crosshair is the one who tries to diffuse their argument in the mess hall, placating Wrecker while giving Tech a blatant look of 'stop antagonizing him and eat goddamnit'. He also serves as an added focus for Wrecker's Wreckerness, which means he's less likely to collide with Tech and have an argument ensue. We can see Wrecker variously joshing with the two of them in the TCW episodes and in Aftermath.

Once Cross is missing from the group, it's Echo who acts as the buffer, standing firm against Tech's chaotic nature and Wrecker's emotional reactions. Hunter wrangles them, but Echo actually manages them. It's a very different approach and we see first hand how necessary it was the second Echo is gone. Wrecker and Tech are bickering nonstop and Hunter barely has a handle on them. For the most part he seems prepared to let them sort it out, and I don't know he can be blamed for that.

This is almost the entire point of The Crossing as an episode: to demonstrate how important the group was as a complete team. Not in the sense of 'omg everyone brings one important thing/skill to the table' way but in an emotional, supportive way. Echo was the co-lead Hunter probably needed the entire time, gelled with him perfectly in that roll and tempered Hunter's hesitation with decisiveness while keeping the other three from setting the Galaxy on fire. Cross, Tech, and Wrecker formed a sort of balanced triangle between themselves which kept things at an even keel. With Cross gone, Echo fell into this role, somewhat naturally. This is all on display in The Crossing when we finally see what happens when that triangle is broken and Tech and Wrecker have to directly interact on a consistent basis. It gets messy.

And yet people complain about it being 'filler' and not advancing the plot.

#tbb echo #tbb wrecker #tbb tech #I am yammering because #this build is taking #for fucking ever and I'm tired #anyways whatever it's one of my favorite episodes #this is why midnight mass #is one of my favorite things ever #this episode is like that #everything which happens #is a direct result of #someone's choice which is #in turn based in their characterization #outpost is similar #mayday accepts cross #something he's not had #in a while #and it changes him #stop calling them filler episodes #the bad batch #star wars

[skialdi]

Some Sabo + Washi shenanigans

For @raedoodles

#revolutionary sabo #Sabo #rear admiral Washi #marines one piece #;; my art #skialdi art #digital art #anime art #one piece #fanart #one piece fanart #one piece oc #shenanigans #based on that one filler episode screenshot of Luffy dressed as a marine

[dykelizard]

hi yeah g-8 is actually the funniest anime filler of all time because this genius marine vice admiral is playing 4d transdimensional chess and thinks that the strawhats are too but luffy is actually just playing candyland while utterly oblivious about how this dude is literally doing mental gymnastics trying to figure out what his angle is. comedy fucking GOLD

#also im a total sucker for the “dressing up as the enemy and sneaking around their base” schtick soooo! #i am a proud filler enjoyer down to my core #its canon in my heart #g-8 arc #one piece #monkey d. luffy #1pc #op #straw hat luffy #txt

[usertransducks]

anyways I guess this is where I stop being a coward and actually post a few of my practice pages of learning how to draw ducks; official reference sheets and animator/comic guides have been invaluable in teaching me how these ducks work

#yes ‘i think we’re gonna have to kill this guy gladstone’ is under that angry donald #curse you wonky ass 3/4ths PK I’ll draw you correctly if it’s the last thing I do #i swear i’m the only artist that struggles with 4ths angles #anyways once you can draw his hat it makes great page filler #and the hands are circle based which is fun! #donald duck #huey dewey and louie #paperinik #disney ducks #ducks art

[tuberosumtater]

fishe : D

(And yup, I made a poor attempt at recreating Jim in Arcane Odyssey)

#filler post #roblox #roblox screenshots #roblox screenshot #arcane odyssey #treasure island #treasure island 1978 #anime treasure island #jim hawkins #宝島 #ジム・ホーキンズ #friendship ended with blox fruits now arcane odyssey is my favorite sailing/pirate-based roblox game #I would spend 99 percent of the game with fishing and cooking lel

[weirdbabs]

once again thinking about that forge comic where he lights some dudes cigarette and then takes it or something and the dude is freaked out bc he cant see him, but forge was wearing the armor that he was physically lugging around and thus wouldve been seen

#ever since that comic came out it randomly comes to mind and haunts me #i think it was a filler comic. and by that i mean i KNOW it was. but i think its been pulled down since. i have it saved to my comp tho #was thinking about how powerful spirits are poltergeists and able to be seen by all/hide themselves amongst the populace #like forge or the witch respectively #god did spender even realize how powerful forge was??? that he was lugging around an entire suit of armor???? #paranatural #armor that was most likely made by june. armor that he refused to melt down and turn into a door #carrying around the last momento of the woman you killed. whose death weighs on you and is a stain on your soul. carrying your baggage #oughhhhh its thinking about forge hours. I GUESS #post cancelled i checked back at the start of chapter 4 and his armors invisible. a fact i always forget based on it staying post death #and not being on him when we see him in chapter 5

[fruitsofhell]

One of my new surfacing gripes with FF7R is how a lot of moments from the original game that rested heavily on player investment seem completely stripped out of the remake in favor of everything being a constant 60 hour long movie experience.

Like every now and then I hear the original game get shit for not taking its political messaging seriously at certain key set-pieces that are too game-y and chill like Costa Del Sol and the Gold Saucer, but that's not the whole picture when you consider how much control the player has over the party in that game. Costa Del Sol was just where you landed on the next continent and there was like a guy or two to talk to to point you in the other direction, a few lighthearted interactions to break up the fucked up shit that happened on the boat ride over, and then you could leave. The idea that the original Costa Del Sol indulged in the tourist trap goes only as far as how you as a player approached the space, if you got to Costa Del Sol and felt "Oh, this is a shitty Shinra colonial project I hate it here" you could book it outta there and maintain some of that disgust, but you fucking can't in the remake and its horrible.

For some fucking reason the boat ride over is on a cruise ship instead of a military vessel like before, so instead of a funny moment of humanizing the soldiers by being miserable with them, you get this fucking card tournament quest where everyone is suddenly SUPER into all this shit and doesn't care about any of the obvious underlying bullshit of the boat? And then its even worse when you get to Costa Del Sol because likefhsjkdhf? Everyone is OK with this glaring parallel to real world colonization and exploitation of island nations? Even Barret who literally had an amusement park built on the ashes of his home village by the people who burnt it down? EVEN YUFFIE WHO'S WHOLE SHTICK IS HOW HER HOME WAS INVADED AND TURNED INTO A TOURIST TRAP????

I cannot speak 100% for the original, because I remember it also missing these opportunities and besides that my memory is hazy, but its the fact that it wasn't flooded with all these ridiculous cutscenes and extra set-pieces that force you into experiencing areas a certain way, and a way that is just really fucking OOC?? And like for as OOC as the original could be, THE REMAKE IS 25 YEARS YOUNGER AND WISER THAN IT, PICK UP THE SLACK? But instead we get a fucking beach episode where you can put the girlies in bikinis or some shit. It's such a waste.

I can't think of like a single moment of subtly that the Remake retained from the originals. And it DOES have them under all the silly tonal whiplash stuff that the Remake cranks up to an unhealthy extent.

#shut the heck up #ff7 #the remake #i feel crazy cause i never hear anyone else bitch and moan like i do about the remake #im really over the 'wait to see what its cooking' with its metanarrative cause the narrative-narrative is just bullshit now #every decision they make for the actual plot is a shallower rehash of the original or STUFFED TO BURSTING with SO. MUCH. FILLER. #and sometimes like with Costa Del Sol - that filler is grossly out of character and damning to the actual important themes #ofc square would think its dumbass themes about the memories we have of all its exploits to milk the original story for all its worth - #- are more important than the original of trauma environmentalism and exploitation. #OF COURSE!!! #I used to think crisis core was a nightmare (and it still is) but ffs it was still based on themes of exploitation #Genesis and Angeal are narrative demons from the depths of directorial madness hell- #-but on paper they are both still great characters for exploring Sephiroth's pre-nibel state #tag talking #art mush

[krafterwrites]

I think we should stop letting people call stuff filler unless it's DBZ or something with a similar situation to it

#I saw somebody describe issues 51-55 of IDW as filler and I was just like. Do you even know the definition of that #There's literally plot important stuff happening in every one of those issues how in the world are they filler #51 and 52 moves everyone out of the Eggperial City in addition to showing Surge's return and her getting the Dynamo Cage #53 shows Surge obtaining all of Whisper's Wisps which gives her a huge power boost and also shows Sonic Tails and Kit learning she's alive #54 has Kit reunite with Surge and ends with them moving back into Starline's old lab #55 has Sonic and Tails as well as Eggman and Metal Sonic all move into the base to confront Surge and Kit #And also in that issue Sonic learns their true origin #So I really do not understand how anyone could possibly see any of that as filler #Krafter Talks

[oxbowreality]

I was designing my own clothing and I was like "woah, weird, this kinda whips" (like a guy who made something for an audience of one). Five seconds later I realized that I had created something so objectively retrofuturist that it causes the viewer to decide that the wearer likely went to steampunk conventions in the past and has niche opinions on mid-century science fiction. This is not true about me, but it is a vibe. I look forwards to getting weird looks in the future.

#oxbow.txt #I knooow it's the use of 1970s silhouettes and the application of Victorian closure types #but it's the sort of shit you'd see on a background character in one of those filler episodes of Star Trek or Doctor Who #where they go to a planet based on a single piece of literature or media #I think this character might be the daughter of the wicked baroness who catches the protagonists in the forests of her estate #and immediately threatens them with a laser rifle #Androids of Tara lookin' ass... #oh it's the overabundance of buttons that does it #thank you for listening #I needed to talk that one out

[indigosabyss]

my toxic trait is that I really probably do like cozy slice-of-life sitcoms but if something doesn't have magic or superpowers or some other fantastical element my interest in it immediately plummets. Which is not very conducive to finding media, as I'm sure you can imagine.

#this is why i was/continue to be obsessed with ben10 & MLP & Danny Phantom & DuckTales #rewatching yj and it's like. damn pls can we have more self contained storylines #they were alright at it in s1 but by s2 it completely fell off the train #it's not filler if we're using it to build a base for who the characters are and how they act gdi #fiction #media #tv shows #fantasy

[baked-hylian]

please remember to reblog to help get a large sample size!

#anime #animation #cartoons #although I suppose this could technically apply to anything #I was more thinking in lines of shows or movies that have a source material #and anime was clearly the first thing that came to mind as typically they are based off of a manga #but I've seen people call all of these things filler #and myself I believe filler is option 1 with a bit of 4

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

@anachronistic-falsehood i genuinely wish i was lying right now

#dont even get me started on the post thats bashing other horror series #to be fair. to be completelt fair. to give them the benefit of the doubt #i dont think it was meant to be malicious. i think it was just a poor choice of words. #but that does not change the fact that it was worded horribly and genuinely is a MAJOR factor in why i am taking so much offense to genloss #but. yeah. little to no filler huh #as if the entire first stream was not filler. as if fucking. charlie slimecicke badly imposed on a goddamn towel is not filler #AND THE THING IS. THERES NOTHING WRONG WITH FILLER. #i fucking lovd 'filler episodes' of tv shows and wish there was more of themA #but when you have not even given yourself a base to stand on plotwise or characterwise or even . concept wise. #you cannot just do filler and expect it to be good!!!!! #genloss neg #genloss crit #also sorry im making all of these no reblog i would genuinely love to read tag rambles abt this #but you know how the mcyt fandom can be when someone dares to disagree with the majority opinion <3 #even if we're. objectively correct

[yourqueenb]

I remember you saying that MAH would've been better as a short slasher, so are there any other books that you think would also have been improved if they were significantly shorter (like if they cut out a lot of filler chapters/scenes)? Or for that matter, are there books that you think would've been better if they were longer than the usual 16-18ish chapters that Choices usually does (to make the story feel better developed and less rushed)?

Bachelorette Party definitely would’ve been better as a mini book instead of a regular length one. And I’m really not sure why that wasn’t something they considered. There was no reason for it to go on as long as it did, especially because it was neither entertaining nor funny. It was just really stupid imo. Courtney was annoying as hell, and her smiling sprite was terrifying. And I couldn’t stand Aisha and that damn briefcase. IIRC, that was the main reason the story dragged on for so long. The best thing to come out of that book was Ash Tanaka, but I feel like people forget about him because he was unlucky enough to be a part of BP.

Witness and MTFL both had the issue of an unlikeable MC. But I feel like that issue wouldn’t have been so pronounced if both books were shorter as well. All Witness MC and Cassian did was screw and argue for like 25 chapters. And they literally had MTFL MC wait until the 100th damn chapter to decide who she wanted to be with. Not to mention that god-awful first person narration along the way.

I think this last one is controversial, but Immortal Desires was also far too long. It just dragged week after week because the first 9 or 10 chapters were the same thing over and over again. Hang out with Cas. Hang out with Gabe. Oh no, our Mom’s sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong so we have to stand trial in front of the council again! Rinse and repeat 🙄 If they hadn’t wasted so much time on all of that, the ending wouldn’t have been so rushed and awkward now that they’ve decided to make a book 2

#choices #choices stories you play #playchoices #choices app #choices ask #maybe ID would’ve been more bearable if I had spent diamonds on it #but I had absolutely zero motivation to because of how boring the base story was #I liked Gabe as an LI but not enough to wanna get extra scenes with him #and I wasn’t interested in making MC stronger through the talismans #all of this said though I still don’t think I personally would’ve enjoyed any of these books even if they were shorter #bc they had more issues that just length #anyway though I don’t think any of PB’s books would necessarily benefit from being longer #of course there are books that I wish had gotten sequels but that’s different #I think there are lots that are at the right length #they should’ve just used certain chapters for character/plot development instead of filler if that makes sense #so basically instead of removing chapters altogether just change the content of them

[hraishin]

Gai is probably the best dancer in all of Konoha you can't convince me otherwise

#based on me watching people doing the hula dance and thinking 'gai would be great at this' #i just think he'd get the rhythm and the balance perfectly like that man has full control of his body and movements #he'd be enthralling to watch #he takes dancing lessons #it helps with his fighting #also so he can teach kakashi later as a challenge (date) #im obsessed with the idea of gai being a dancer (and good at it) now don't look at me #but at the same time his specialty is dancing the YMCA (obviously village people are naruto canon cause ymca is gai's song) #maybe im just in love and obsessed with gai maito you'll never know!!!!!!! #also i don't count his dancing with the birds on those fillers those were fillers they don't get my babygirl like i do #might guy #maito gai #gai maito #naruto #syd rambles