#also some forced to watch!

[off-brand-likes]

Recording

"Zeb," Kallus whispered into the large ear mashed against the Glimmer of Hope's main cabin floor beside him. "Zeb, wake up."

Zeb growled softly. Since he faced away from Kallus, Kallus couldn't see if Zeb had opened his eyes. "Bounty hunters are--"

Heavy footsteps approached, fast. Maybe one of the hunters who'd taken the ship had heard Kallus whispering, or they'd figured that their stun bolts would wear off about now. Kallus rolled onto his back, away from Zeb, a big, obvious move that drew the hunter’s eyes to him.

A human stomped in the cabin door and pressed her boot to Kallus’s throat, with a blaster angled to burn his face off if she pulled the trigger. His wheezing breaths were loud in the small cabin.

"Kal?" Zeb mumbled without stirring. He'd taken a lot more stun bolts than Kallus had.

"Get down here," the hunter shouted over her shoulder in Huttese. She stepped out of Kallus's stun-clumsy kicking range to level her blaster at Zeb. "Stay still or he dies."

"I understand," Kallus wheezed in Basic.

"On your face.” Kallus rolled over to lie stomach-down on the floor. “Hands behind your head." The hunter kept speaking in Huttese, which was fine, and as long as she was out of his reach with a blaster on Zeb, he’d do what she said.

“What’s going on?” Zeb whispered.

Before Kallus could answer, more footsteps announced the arrival of two more humans and a big Trandoshan. All three of them surrounded Kallus to put binders on, and then the human with the blaster shifted her aim to him while they bound Zeb.

“Ready to move them?” one of the humans asked, still in Huttese.

“Yeah. They know what we’re saying, so, watch it.”

Kallus wasn’t actually certain that Zeb spoke Huttese. He barely made it to his hands and knees before the hunters dragged them into the Glimmer’s common room and dropped them on their knees in front of the holotable. It was on and ready to record.

“I have a bad feeling about this,” Zeb muttered. Kallus nodded. What were these hunters doing?

“Gags.” The hunter who’d stepped on Kallus earlier seemed to be the one giving the orders. He and Zeb exchanged worried looks as the hunters who weren’t holding guns on them approached with a cloth gag for Kallus and what looked disturbingly like a muzzle for Zeb.

“Wait,” Kallus said. “Who hired you? What are they pay—”

The leader didn’t interrupt her underlings gagging him before he’d finished offering her a better deal. She must be sure she already had one. And there weren’t many buyers who’d pay that much. Zeb was right. This looked bad.

“You two.” The hunter in charge paced around in front of Zeb and Kallus. “If you want to keep those hands, keep them behind your heads. Gags stay on, no blinking coded messages or anything, or you’ll regret it.”

She checked some readouts on the holoprojector that Kallus was at the wrong angle to see. “They’re all in, let’s go.”

The other three hunters moved to stand behind Zeb and Kallus with their weapons aimed at them the whole time Kallus could see them. Kallus would have to thoroughly distract all three of them to give Zeb an opening to take them out. Zeb looked a lot more alert now, but it wouldn’t hurt to give him more time to recover.

The bounty hunter in charge spun toward the holotable and hit the Record button. “Welcome, buyers,” she said in accented Basic. “Bringing you in now.”

Behind his gag, Zeb said something three syllables long, his tone a mixture of disgust and fury.

One by one, the holotable filled with people. Most he didn’t recognize, although he’d recognize ISB Agent Coomlin anywhere, and the nervous looking Mon Calamari wore a rebel captain’s rank badge, which wasn’t terribly encouraging. He was fairly sure he’d seen the Kitonak on a wanted poster for some deeply unpleasant crimes done for the Hutts. He was faintly proud that he and Zeb commanded such an audience.

“The targets on offer today are Alexsandr Kallus, former ISB, current rebel, and Garazeb Orrelios, part of the Phoenix Squadron. You got the ID confirmation we sent, or you wouldn’t be here. All buyers are muted for now,” she added while Coomlin silently said something about the Empire’s right to Kallus and Zeb, if Kallus was reading his lips correctly.

“You send us the bids, bids get displayed on the channel we specified. You want to make deals on the side, do it, but we’re only staying here fifty minutes. Whoever’s got the top bid by then gets whatever pieces of them they want.”

Zeb said something incredulous and two syllables long, probably repeating “pieces.”

The hunter ignored him. “Let’s start bidding at ten-thousand credits. That’s your buy-in to ask questions about them,” she added to the rebel Mon Calamari, who was also attempting to speak while muted.

A smaller and grainier holoprojector on the floor made a pinging noise. As the hunters refocused on it, Zeb rolled onto his back, grabbed one of the bounty hunters behind him with his feet, and flung him across the room.

Kallus went for the leader, but the stun bolt from her blaster caught him while he was still reaching for her. He landed hard but didn’t go all the way out. His nose bled onto the floor under his face as he fought to turn his head and watch the struggle behind him. The human hunter who Zeb had thrown across the room stayed on the floor a few steps away from Kallus, bleeding from the head.

The noise behind him quieted down. When the leader dragged Kallus back to his knees by his hair he managed to keep his balance. She grabbed one of his hands in both of hers and he expected her to put his hands back where she’d told him to keep them. Instead, she bent his trigger finger back, fast.

The wet-stick snap of it came with a vicious burst of pain. Kallus screamed into his gag. She drop his bound hands behind his head and stomped over where Zeb lay on his back on the floor. Instead of bending one of his fingers back, she stomped on his bound hands until something cracked. The muzzle didn’t do much to muffle his roar of pain.

As tempting as it was to lunge at her again, Kallus held himself on his knees. This wasn’t the chance he was waiting for. They could fix Zeb’s hands, if he survived long enough to get to a doctor.

“I’ll break something you care about more, next,” she told Zeb. She glanced between him and Kallus and grinned. “He doesn’t need all his teeth, does he? Think about that.” She turned back to the holotable, where the auction bidders watched mostly with amusement, although the rebel representative looked more nervous than ever.

“Right,” the lead bounty hunter said to the bidders. “Who’ll give us fifty thousand?”

#star wars #swr #yes him again shush #whump #No effort Whumptober #text #recording #no.6 #also some forced to watch! #broken fingers #on his knees #i forgot i don't actually have to get people OUT of the situations for whump #so nice #can't believe I'm keeping up with this challenge #not everything has to be good enough for ao3 #auctioned off

[caruliaa]

staff still hasn't given me polls, what should i do?

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪����🟪🟪🟪 their moms 69%

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their dads 31%

grace image os i get to look at her

#edit: edited the og post to what i want but to set the record straight i edited to the post to be mathematically correct right after the #first person pointed it out which was like ten mins after i posted the og post. now fuck offf !!!!! the rest of the tags r from the og post #for some reason i feel very immature making your mom jokes about tumblr staff. which i shldnt !! #bc they suck nd they still havent given me polls. but i ig i feel imature bc it a your mom joke 😭 but still i tihnk its kinda funny #EDIT: edited the post to what i want bc yall were getting annoying . but to set the record straight i edited to post to be mathematically #also its *mum* not mom okay i am NOT !! an american . but if i say mum everyone will j be like 'omg british' like i dont know i am #anyway. i want polls please. give me the rigght to force my mutuals chose between the most inane things #also i tihnk it wld b cool for the cs weekly blog. like w each episode #i cld do a poll of like. out of five stars what do u think of this ep #and it wld b a cool thing of which eps r ppls faves #also i cld have like. whose ur fave in team red whos ur fave in acme etc #id prob just have to go with vile faculty bc theres more than 10 ppl in vile. and ppl wld kill me if i didnt include nel the ell or whoever #it wld b fun !!! #oh btw csweekly thats i thing i want to start. prob on uhhh the 11th of feb ill post abt it more but its basically #a tag/blog for watching cs one ep a time watching one ep every saturday #ya !! :3 #flappy rambles #inaccessible #ask to tag #(<- idk. just in case)

[turtleblogatlast]

Man “Battle Nexus: New York” was a great episode but I do have one major gripe with it.

Like. Raph being paired up with Ghostbear? Makes sense. Works great. Works amazing, even.

Mikey being paired up with Meatsweats? Yeah that checks out!!

Donnie getting…Hypno…? I mean. I guess Donnie doesn’t like magic so it kindaaa works but Kendra would have been a much better choice to me personally. Maybe Big Mama didn’t wanna include a human or something…

And Leo getting…uh…one of the Sando Brothers???? Of all villains? Nah let’s be real, his main villain is more Big Mama herself (or Leo could be considered his own worst enemy lmao-). Hell Hypno would have probably worked better here considering their shared love for magic tricks and stuff, but Carl Sando????

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #battle nexus: new york #nah this will always be baffling to me #like no joke big mama really is Leo’s main villain so it makes sense that she’s not paired with him #given that she’s running this all #but giving him ONE of the Sando brothers?? not even both??? #outrageous #hypno or even warren would have been better here tbh #at least there’s some basis there for both and either option would have been so fun #not that what we got WASNT fun it def was but the sando bro was the weak link because no one cares about him #and I would have killed for a Donnie Kendra forced team up 😭 #Donnie also could have worked with Stockboy ig or hell even Repo tbh? #but Kendra is the much more interesting and fitting choice here for him imo #honestly though this post was made because I do NOT understand the choice of CARL SANDO #both of them together are forgettable enough #separating them gets rid of the one thing they even had #I remember watching and being like who tf is that #he’s got some funny moments but man anyone would have been better 😭 #going back to Kendra and Donnie because I LOVE their dynamic #the result of their team up could have ended exactly the same as canon #only instead of Kendra not knowing chess it’s instead her and Donnie arguing about what the right move would be #and they never actually make a move because of it

[navree]

"that you could be so cruel" ok correct me if i'm wrong but does penelope featherington not run a gossip rag that exist solely to publish unsubstantiated rumors about women she doesn't like for various reasons that have profoundly negative repercussions on those women (didn't the publication of marina's pregnancy lead to marina almost dying in her quest to terminate said pregnancy??????) and has in fact used that same rag to put not just colin's entire family but also specifically colin's sister, her best friend, through a significant amount of grief and strife that came as a direct result of that rag?

but colin's the cruel one? because she happened to eavesdrop on a conversation where he said he doesn't wanna date her? that's cruelty but all the other stuff isn't?

#personal #bridgerton #anti penelope featherington #i'm gonna be honest i skim the absolute fuck out of this show whenever i force myself to watch it #but from what i remember that is literally what penelope does as lady whistledown #but yeah sure a guy who'd never shown any interest in her continuing to not show interest is the worst thing ever done to a human woman #like girl fix yourself!!! #it's you you're the problem! #(also typing that just led me to a horrible realization that at some low point for penelope in the show) #(we're gonna get a vitamin string quartet cover of antihero by taylor swift) #anyway eloise should be allowed to slap girlie across the face once an episode until she begs forgiveness #i'm only interested in that and if jonathan bailey's character has more sad scenes i can use in gifsets about louis philippe of france

[francy-sketches]

Hiiiii guess who finished her pmv. finally. um enjoy :3

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #valyrianscrolls #cersei lannister #and a bunch of others I don't feel like tagging them #wrote some of them in the desc if you scroll past my ramblings. the others I hope you can tell by context clues i believe in u #my art #pmv #it's finally joever oh my god #i dont want to look at it ever again. this is my child and I'm abandoning it at your doorstep 🏃‍♂️💼 #btw confession time I started this before finishing adwd so like if you notice book inaccuracies. just ignore it #tbh towards the end i was just kinda going off the song lyrics more than anything #also like her hair should not be that long I think. the show poisoned my brain bc they do fuck all for like a year post walk #n e way ill talk about it more tomorrow probably. im gonna be so annoying about this btw I WILL force you to watch it #istg if it flops 🔪

[chirpsythismorning]

S5 opener REAL

#byler #will byers #stranger things #every season besides s4-5 opens with non main characters #for el we got a flashback of the lab followed by her perspective in the scene directly after #and I think for Will we will see something similar #with us getting the flashback of him in castle byers in the UD #followed by him in the present in the scene after #but what exactly would warrant that memory being brought up in association with Will in the present? #mayhaps his connection to the mindflayer and the UD run deeper than we realize… #it’s likely not something he could just rid himself of in s2 and now he’s all good #he literally still feels a connection to everything he is feeling #that means he is still technically at risk of being the spy in some capacity #the massacre at Hawkins lab also was a guiding force for El discovering the ‘truth’ in s4 #so it’s likely for Will this instance will operate in a way that re-contextualizes the events in the past up to now #like that time Will suggested they go to the hospital in s3 only for the flayed to be waiting for them #or how flayed Billy knew they were at the cabin… #all while Will was looking cryptic as hell in that scene watching over el #or the fact that he picked Billy in the first place the season after he focused on Will… #you know.. williams #I think the easiest way to introduce the castle Byers flashback is a dream honestly #specifically a dream within a dream #seeing that recent leak and Will looking like either he has a black or hasn’t slept in days #is giving very much ‘I am afraid to sleep bc I’m scared of what will happen’ #I think dude is not exactly possessed in the sense that we already saw in s2 with like the particicles #but he’s still vulnerable #the door is still ajar… #no but fr this idea of opening a door in your mind was so blatant in st2 AND s3b of teen wolf #I think a big part of it will be guilting Will over the fact that Will has helped him before without Will telling the others #hence his weird vibe in s3… like he’s already successfully fucked with Will post s2 potentially with us being none the wiser aka here we go

[untouchedsoap]

there is something sooo fucking good about early seasons ian and mickey, about watching this summer fling turn into something more, the fear that elicited from mickey but him being unable to stop, finding those little moments hidden away and taking all this meaning from small gestures and persevering in dugouts and under bleachers and barely pressed confessions in the back of a church that is soo good for my brain

like i am very glad mickey gets to shout his love for ian from the mountain tops and also beat his love for ian into his dad's face but when he was clenching his teeth shut and his love for ian was coming out regardless ohhhhh baby i was eating

#shameless us #gallavich #and also they actually gave noel something interesting to work with instead of 5 mins of nonsense in the later seasons but. what can you do #like i watch later season stuff with like equal parts 'good for them i'm happy they are happy' and 'thats not my boy' #yes my man deserves to be out and happy and a bridezilla but also he would not act like that <3 hope this helps #yes he deserves to be a diva menace no he wouldn't do it like that though <3 #yes he should get to heal from his familial trauma no he should not be forced to care for and interact with that man who should be dead #gallavich truly double edged sword of biggest win for fans and also biggest fumble #like ian's supposed to be one time hook up in s1 became his HUSBAND after years of bringing him back and sending him away rinse and repeat #because the writers hated mickey but audiences loved him #so yay they're married! time to have the most uninteresting plots for them imaginable & retcon some dumb ass traits on them for plot purpos #the last 2 seasons should have centered around ian and mickey becoming the centralizing force of the house that fiona was at the start #god there are so many tags here sorry. got more passionate about this than i thought i would #mickey milkovich

[lannisterdaddyissues]

i totally forgot how obsessed my dad is with top gun actually lol. it came on tv and he made me sit down next to him for the entirety of the layton rescue while shouting at everyone on-screen and holding onto my arm and then he made me sit down again to watch ice and mav buzz the tower and hug on the carrier while pledging their lives to each other in holy matrimony

also according to him val kilmer is the best-looking man in human history (though tom cruise is close behind)

#this man is totally straight but he was in the air force so he’s got some man-enjoying tendencies i guess #anyway i told him i watched real genius last night and he got SO excited and started rambling about his favorite val kilmer movies to me #we babbled about real genius for a bit (he was SO thrilled i tell you he started waving his hands and quoting his favorite parts) #and then he told me to watch top secret! and tombstone and told me about those #he’s also a huge fan of viper and his mustache which i love #anyway i’m gonna show him top gun: maverick later this week bc he still hasn’t seen it #i cannot fucking WAIT for him to cry his eyes out at the wingman hug and ice’s funeral he’s gonna be so distraught #i just know he’s gonna love all the shit mav gets up to as well

[svtskneecaps]

i should be sleeping but i do want to reiterate how much i love that our collective fan community and also the streamers are constantly like, so new members when? new language when? a teaser drops and we're all like germans???? german time????? asiatic language time??????? new faces??? new friends?? new communities????

i've said this before but it just constantly makes me feel all warm n fuzzy to see it. i'm really happy we're all so excited and united in this.

#qsmp #shut up vic #block game brainrot #this was also why purg2 was great for me specifically #like goddamn was that such a chance for me (and others) to meet streamers in an accessible setting #i only really speak english and half french so this was the first time i actually got to watch any aldo and understand more than every like #tenth word out of his mouth lmfao i get SO LOST #also was extremely fun bc goddamn for a while i rly thought i just Did Not Understand French #bc hearing the qsmp french speakers i'm like. damn. i'm lost. i get lost after like a sentence or two idk i'm so bad at understanding them #but dude holy shit i had kenny on while i did work fully like 5 ft from my phone and i was FOLLOWING #I WAS KEEPING UP???? LIKE THAT WAS INSANE so shoutout kenny for speaking french i can understand i rly appreciate the confidence boost #anyway i hope hope hope to see new members soon yesyes #be it purg2 returners (i have my wishlist but the wishlist does have Everyone soooo i win) or a new language!!! OR MULTIPLE 🙏 WOULD BE NEAT #i have said before that i think it would be fun if they drop two+ languages in at the same time #have the new languages work together to do puzzles and get used to the translations before dropping the full force of like #20-30 odd streamers who are unbelievably loud and extremely excited to meet them #would mayyyybe mitigate some of the french arrival where everyone DESCENDED on them and it was SO LOUD lmfao #anyway i will now sleep it just makes me happy to see everytime i see it #i'm excited to meet (hypothetical) everyone too <3

[mamanbou]

i truly say this with no malice in my heart but black butler fans who think the series peaked at book of circus/that the circus didn't deserve their fate........... are 7 times out of 10 not really black-butler-as-a-whole fans and are very unwilling to engage with the main themes and characters of the series as a whole. BoC was a fantastic high and had tons of engaging characters but I've met people who still hate ciel bc he had doll killed and that is CRAZY. to love a side character so much that it renders you unwilling to let the main/objectively most complex and important character into your heart at all. I'm sorry that the circus died but even though they loved each other they were also child murderers- in doll's case she still is LOL- and their most important narrative role is their impact on ciel/snake (whose plotline ties back to ciel's ideas about lies becoming the truth, so still a ciel thing ultimately). anyways the best arcs are Green Witch because it's good and Book of Murder because it's funny

#and the maid arc because jane was hot #txt #kuroshitsuji #ive just been thinking about this for some days now and had to get it in writing #also i feel bad for doll fans during the current arc. it's drastically shifted her character #in ways that make sense but like if you loved her bc of the moral struggle and now youre watching her in her most evil hour.. brutal #i kind of wish joker was a bizarre doll instead of her #his interactions with seb and ciel while he bled out were SO interesting i'd love to see him brought back and forced to grapple with it all #he has a way more nuanced view on what happened than doll possibly could #but then #thats why it had to be doll. she doesnt have context or nuance or anything but pure animal rage #50

[prettyupsetnerd]

(her mom was her best friend)

#dndads #scary marlowe #but ACTUALLY #terri marlowe #or however it's spelled #her story will always be so tragic to me even if it's not winning oppression olympics or whatever female characters need to justify their- #-complex feelings #anyway lookout to the scary watches the barbie movie comic I've been working on #maybe putting the idea out there will finally force me to actually bring it to life #also sorry to redhead scary truthers i know i made it look like it but she's actually a blonde to me #she used to dye only some strands of it #and when her rebellion first hit she just used what was already there and went nuts on it

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

Gabriel but underneath that armour he's bird demon howl from howls moving castle

Had to look it up cause I don’t watch anime

Approved, but without the human face

#the only time i have watched anime is when my brother forces me to lol #I’m allergic to faces don’t mind me #anyway #in my crazy mind the helmet is his face but it is also removable which doesn’t make any sense but it does to me #there might be something under there or there is nothing at all #but it’s not human #it can change based on feelings #if he can change the color of his armor then it must be part of him in some way right #and if his wings and halo can appear and disappear as well.. #ok I’m getting off topic here #non voice post #ask #asks

[chittychittyyangyang]

I could be way off base, but I have been thinking about this since she said this and trying to figure out what moral? At the time, the best they could figure would be to follow Alyx’s path, but not make the mistakes she made. We now know not only was the story changed from what Jaune was there for, but Alyx wasn’t like the girl who’s in the story.

If there is some “moral” to be learned here, I did wonder if it was to respect and understand different people. Because that’s something up until this current chapter NONE of our main cast have done. RW.BY have been operating out of a story with people as a means to an end. They aren’t really people in their own right, just a way to progress forward. They never really ask anything about the Afterans, outside of asking Curious about ascension, and it’s not like they are a reliable source of information since they seem to have the ability to influence Afteran’s will and only will answer what is asked.

Jaune mentioned that Alyx was cruel and didn’t think the rules applied to her, and while they’ve not been cruel about it we’ve not seen anyone from Remnant treat the Afterans like actual people until (R)WBY listens to the Paper Pleasers. @professorspork spoke about Blake caring about the Paper Pleasers and speaking up for them, and it’s really the first time any of them think about the lives of the people there and not just getting home… Not that Jaune or Ruby agree that they are people.

Just because it’s a fairy-tale to them doesn’t mean it’s not real to the people there. It doesn’t mean they don’t have full lives, even if the visitors of Remnant don’t understand or agree with their culture. Ever After has shown Blake specifically that her culture is very important to her, and if there is some moral to be gained by Blake in this “story” is that understanding different cultures only enhances everyone and leads to greater cooperation. Almost like that’s a goal of hers...

#ccyy talks #I also have thoughts about the rules in ever after #and that it is kinda like therapy island like we all joked about #but like all intervention they only really work if you put in the work #the bees got what they wanted not because ever after really forced it on them but that they wanted it #cause jaune refused to look at himself or penny weiss did nothing while watching the fall of her home and ruby didn't even see summer #after ever doesn't seem to put things in front of you unless on some level you do want it addressed #doesn't mean you're ready or capable to confront it #I'm not even sure I made my point really clear I am just avoiding my internship and school work oops #blake

[pendinganchor]

why do antis think it went:

- steve lies

- billy breaks a plate over steve’s head

when it actually went:

- billy gets smacked around, called a slur, then threatened all by his father because max ran off on his watch

- billy had to drive all around town to track down where she is, while he’s supposed to be on a date

- max sets the tone by saying “he can’t know i’m here. he’ll kill me. he’ll kills us.” (which babe way dramatic jfc)

- steve (a borderline 18 year old) lies about the whereabouts of max (a 13 year old) to her stepbrother. he also lies about even knowing who she is!!!

- billy calls him out for lying

- steve says “oh shit”

- billy sends steve to the ground for being weird

- flirting

- billy goes inside

- billy sees that not only was max with steve but three other boys as well (boys that billy has only ever seen making max upset)

- billy sets his sights on lucas who he already told max to stay away from (we can talk all about the racist undertones of this interaction but that’s not what this post is about)

- billy pushes lucas and tells him to stay away from max

- lucas kicks billy (rightfully so tbh)

- billy makes a threat that 100% was not serious (you think he would actually kill a child? be fr)

- steve punches billy

- billy’s reaction to steve punching him is laughing (LAUGHING but we don’t have time to unpack allll of that)

- more flirting

- billy swings at and misses steve

- steve punches billy again

- steve punches billy a third time while the kids cheer him on

- billy is still laughing

- steve punches billy a fourth time and backs him into a corner

- like mother like son billy breaks a plate over steve’s head

- the fight turns and now steve is getting his shit rocked

- max stabs billy IN THE NECK with a syringe with an unknown substance in it (this easily could have killed him)

- max threatens billy

#billy was punched four times before he landed a hit #if you think billy is the winner in this situation you’re completely wrong #mind you i went to the episodes to get this 100% accurate and forced my way through scenes that are hard for me to watch #if you don’t think steve was in the wrong for lying to billy please block me #you disgust me and i really hope you don’t have little siblings #steve didn’t tell some harmless lie #he told the brother of a 13 year old that his sister wasn’t at a stranger’s house in the middle of the woods #also why have i never talked about the song that plays while billy is leaving the wheeler’s house i’m gonna be sick #billy hargrove #steve harrington #stranger things #userkarson

[ducktracy]

what a fantastic transition

#as much as i absolutely adore LT with all my heart there are no cartoons out there that give me such a CONSISTENT sense of raw visceral joy #than the Fleischer Popeyes #they are the epitome of fun. that’s such a vague word i know but i think it perfectly encapsulates these cartoons #not too gaudy or self absorbed. despite the fantastical nature of some plots and the gags and visuals there’s a down to earth humility as #well. it owns its simplicity very well. hearing that ‘30s jazz reach a climax as the visuals and gags and tactility and emotions get #stronger and faster in the climax of these shorts literally #gives me goosebumps! it’s an adrenaline rush #i also adore Olive Oyl. i mean i love them all. Bluto is the greatest cartoon asshole of all time. i love the nobility of Popeye. but i #really love that Olive gets to be just as loud and mean and weird and ‘ugly’ as the rest of the guys. she can throw a punch too. she’s not #just there to look pretty or be coquettish. she has a really natural charm and doesn’t feel forced like ‘oooo look at the cool LADY #participating too!’ which i feel is an issue with cartoons of both the past and present #she’s just another facet to these cartoons without calling much attention to herself and i really like that and wish there were more #like her #popeye #seasin’s greetinks #kneitel #vid #the lack of regular woman characters outside of thin tropes in golden age cartoons doesn’t bug me as much as it really should #because as a kid i was so used to watching ‘boy’ cartoons and connecting with ‘boy’ characters (i thought liking girl characters would make #me ‘girly’) and so it’s something i’ve always been sort of used to #but with that said Olive is one character i feel very strongly about and am glad she exists for those reasons #i don’t know why i’m getting so deep on this 10 second post? but anyway you should watch Popeye if you haven’t

[mattodore]

guy whose childhood drags behind him like a dead body

#river dipping #simblr #ts4 #ts4 edit #theodore doe #echthroi #i forgot to post this after sharing theo's birthday edit last night... listen i was so tired i just hit post and passed out #but so far today i've just been looking through character page themes for a bit and messing around with codes while watching dropout tv #i still need to get to my activity feed sometime today or tomorrow and then i want to set aside some time to just hang out on here #and catch up on things like i keep disappearing and missing out on posts jgkhjfnkh so i gotta do that... #but i'm actually fighting off the world's biggest nap rn..... my meds work really well but lord i'm still so tired all the time woof #so i'll probably end up caving soon lmao #but!!! anyway!! THEO!!! there was nothing i could do abt the proportions on theo as a kid like i couldn't make his head any smaller... #the sims team actually hate me so bad and are trying to force the huge cartoonishly big heads onto my sims </3 #also when i aged him down to a kid like all of his presets were gone so i just had to try and replicate them to the best of my abilities #his lip preset actually has a much deeper cupid's bow but thanks to the liquify tool <33333 it looks like his regular preset #i've actually posted teen theo on here before but i've made a ton of changes to him since then so this version is pretty different compared #to the older version of him at sixteen #he's definitely got more baby fat than he did before like his cheeks are pretty round #um. also i have these closeups i took of adult theo from the pose i made for his birthday edit that i gotta edit a lil and then post!!! #bc you really didn't get to see his expression or the actual pose that well and EYEEEE personally am really in love with the details #of the pose itself like ugh.......... theo is so.......................... yeah. #holds him