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rottenpumpkin13 · 2 months

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For April fools we need Sephiroth pulling pranks

Sephiroth's Prank

• April 1st is a chaotic date at Shinra HQ. Tseng has to call in multiple Turks to his office to discipline them for pranks like supergluing hair on Rude’s head, adding a dirty sock to the VP’s morning coffee, and nearly suffocating the entire board of directors to death with a stink bomb thrown in the confrence room—all three pranks were done by Reno.

• But April 1st is especially anarchic in nature on the 49th floor.

• Director Lazard is quite literally trembling in fear as he steps off the elevator early in the morning.

*Zack intercepts him, stepping out from behind the corner with a grin*

*Lazard screams*

Zack: Good morning, director? Care for a peanut?

*Zack extends a can of peanuts his way*

Lazard: …..Really? A can of colorful worms? I expected more from you.

*He opens the can*

Lazard: I’m pleased that you’re not taking advantage of the date to—-

*The can explodes in his hand, shooting smoke and blue powder all over Lazard’s face*

Lazard:

Zack: I am always two steps ahead.

Lazard:

*Zack begins to slink back into the shadows*

Zack: Two steps. Ahead.

Lazard:

• Meanwhile, Genesis walks into Angeal’s office where he and Sephiroth are. He sets their coffees down on the desk.

Genesis: Here’s your coffee.

*Angeal and Sephiroth pick them up and take sips, Angeal promptly spits his out*

Angeal: EW. DID YOU PUT SALT IN THIS?

Genesis: I’m a mastermind. Happy April fools!

*Sephiroth continues to drink the coffee*

Angeal: Sephiroth how the fuck are you drinking that???

Sephiroth: Oh, I ordered a salted caramel macchiato. I thought they overdid it.

*Genesis smugly takes out his copy of Loveless. He tries to flip it open but is unsuccessful. It’s superglued shut*

Genesis: What the—?

*Angeal starts laughing*

Genesis: Ha-ha. Real funny.

*Genesis tries to put the book down on the desk but it sticks to his hand*

*Angeal laughs harder*

Sephiroth: I don’t see the appeal of April Fools'. It’s just a day where the implications of the date allow people to hurt others with childish pranks.

Genesis: While I adore you as a friend, Sephiroth, I don’t expect you to understand April Fools'. It’s a fun holiday, for fun people to do fun things. Your boring, stick-in-the-mud personality doesn’t quite fit the requirements.

*Sephiroth puts his coffee down*

Sephiroth: I’m offended.

Angeal: What Genesis means is that you’re not really the pranking type, and that’s okay. Lots of people don’t have what it takes to pull pranks.

Sephiroth: You’re insinuating that I’m incapable of pranking people?

Genesis: Darling, we’re saying it to your face.

*Angeal gets an Email from Lazard—“SUBJECT: HELP, EMAIL: GET ZACK OUT OF MY OFFICE HE HAS A FLAMETHROWER” *

Angeal: I gotta go. Gen, don’t you have materia class with the Thirds in ten minutes?

Genesis: I do. See you, Sephiroth. Don’t let the April fool hit you on your way out!

• They leave the office. Sephiroth sits there with his arms crossed, looking more sour than his coffee. And then he veers sly eyes unto Angeal’s laptop and the printer sitting on the desk.

Sephiroth: Hmm.

• A few hours later, Genesis finds himself on his merry way to Sephiroth’s office to grab Sephiroth’s tablet for him. On his way there he passes by Zack (dressed as an evil clown) hiding behind a corner as Lazard approaches (breathing with a paper bag).

• Genesis grabs Sephiroth’s tablet off his desk, but then his eyes fall onto a curious document laying there. He, being the nosy bitch he is, picks it up and behigs flipping through it. His eyes widen, eyebrows creeping higher and higher toward his hairline as he reads. And then he runs out, panicking.

• He passes by Zack again, this time being disciplined by Lazard, who’s sobbing and beating Zack with his own squeaky mallet.

*Genesis grabs Angeal and pulls him aside*

Genesis: YOU’RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE WHAT I FOUND.

*He shoves the document in Angeal’s hands*

Angeal: What’s this?

Genesis, hyperventilating: It’s a classified report from Professor Hojo detailing the extent of Sephiroth’s condition.

Angeal: His…condition?

Genesis: HE’S PART CAT.

Angeal:

Genesis:

Angeal:

Genesis: I’M SERIOUS.

Angeal: Seriously in need of medication.

Genesis: READ IT.

*Angeal sighs and begins to flip through the papers*

Angeal:

Angeal: OH MY GOD.

Genesis: I KNOW.

Angeal: HE’S HALF CAT? LIKE ACTUALLY HALF CAT.

Genesis: It makes perfect sense! I don’t know how we didn’t see this sooner! His weird eyes, his fangs, the way he consumes 150 pieces of sushi in 10 minutes. HELL, THAT’S WHY HE LOVES THE BEACH. IT’S A GIANT LITTER BOX.

Angeal: Gen, calm down. For his sake, we can’t freak out.

Genesis: Why didn’t he tell us!?

Angeal: Probably out of fear we’d have the same reaction you’re having right now. Oh, that poor thing. He must be so embarassed, so lonely with no one to tell him that he’s special as he is. *Angeal begins to tear up* Or to give him head pats.

Genesis: What do we do now?? How are we supposed to act normally around him knowing he probably PURRS WHEN HE'S HAPPY??

Angeal: I DON’T KNOW! But We have to try! For his sake, we have to be as supportive and accommodating as possible.

Genesis: You’re right.

Angeal: And help him through this without letting him know that we know.

Genesis: You’re right.

Angeal: And be there for him tonight on the full moon when he fully turns into a cat.

Genesis: You’re righ—WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?

Angeal: DID YOU NOT READ THE FINE PRINT?

Genesis: NO!?

*Genesis snatches the report from him and reads through it again*

Genesis: OH GODDESS HE’S A WEREKITTY

Angeal: THIS IS SICK. HOW COULD HOJO DO THIS TO HIM??

Genesis: NO WONDER HE LIKES CATNIP TEA SO MUCH. THAT BASTARD’S BEEN GETTING HIGH OFF HIS KITTY MIND THIS WHOLE TIME.

*There’s a noise from the cabinet beside them, they turn and see Sephiroth crawling out from under it*

Sephiroth: Hello, gentlemen.

*Angeal immediately starts sobbing*

• Later in the day, Genesis is working in his office. Sephiroth sits on the opposite chair playing with a ball of yarn Genesis provided him with.

*Sephiroth sees the glass of water near Genesis. He slowly reaches for it*

Genesis:

*Sephiroth knocks it over*

Genesis:

*sephiroth throws the glass against the wall*

Genesis:

Sephiroth: That was enriching.

• Even later, Angeal finds Sephiroth kneading a couch cushion in the break room.

Angeal: 💡

*Angeal takes out a bowl of bread dough from the fridge*

Angeal: For you!

Sephiroth: Thank you, but I prefer the sensation of fabric to that of bread.

*Sephiroth starts chewing the blanket*

Angeal:

Sephiroth: Meow.

• Much later, Genesis enters the materia room and sees Sephiroth perched on a shelf, reading.

Genesis: H-How did you get up there?

*Sephiroth hisses*

Genesis: !?

• And then Angeal enters his office and finds his leather couch completely torn up. Sephiroth sits in a corner, playing with a piece of the foam.

Sephiroth: You’re not mad, are you?

Angeal, tearing up: Of course not! You poor, sweet thing! Would you like me to bring you Genesis’ leather coats for you to play with?

Sephiroth: That would be delightful.

Angeal: I’m on it!

• Sephiroth, Genesis and Angeal walk into the SOLDIER mess hall and see Kunsel and a group of Thirds playing with a laser pointer.

Kunsel: Hey guys! Check out my new laser pointer!

*Kunsel aims it at the wall. Sephiroth’s pupils dilate*

Angeal: NO

Genesis: GRAB HIM

*They tackle Sephiroth to the ground*

• Finally evening comes. Angeal and Genesis lay on the couch in the lounge, both of them exhausted after a long day of dealing with Sephiroth. And then an adorable, gray cat walks in.

Cat: Meow.

Angeal: OH MY GOD! SEPHIROTH!

Genesis: HAS IT HAPPENED ALREADY? HAVE YOU TURNED INTO A CAT!?

*They rush to pick up the cat and immediately start coddling it*

Angeal, sobbing: YOU POOR THING. IS THIS WHAT YOU DEAL WITH EVERY FULL MOON?

Genesis: HE’S SO CUTE! ANGEAL! WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF HIM!

Angeal: DON’T WORRY BUDDY! WE’LL PROTECT YOU FROM NOW ON!

*Zack walks in, shirtless, covered in war paint, carrying a shovel*

Zack: The lizard man has banned animals from the 49th floor.

Angeal: What? Why?

Zack: Because I filled his office with 30 angry chocobos, so now he has guards with tranquilizer guns stationed everywhere. Any animal they see, they shoot and take to the pound.

Genesis: WHAT? Oh no…not good!

Zack: Hey, cute cat!

Angeal: IT’S SEPHIROTH.

Zack: Is it? Cool!

Genesis: I know it will be hard to believe, but Sephiroth is half-human, half-cat, and every full moon he turns into a cat! This is him!

Zack: No, no. I believe you.

Angeal: Just like that!?

Zack: Yeah, I mean, I kinda already knew. I’m part of the Sephiroth-is-actually-a-cat conspiracy theory club.

Genesis: the WHAT?

*Zack walks over to a painting on the wall and removes it. Behind it is a white board filled with pictures of Sephiroth, cats and anecdotes*

Angeal: .......

Genesis: .......

Zack: We have an email list and everything.

Angeal: .......

Genesis: .......

Zack: Back to Sephiroth being a cat. We have to get him out of here before Lazard or the guards see him!

Angeal: I know! Come on, if we’re quiet, we can sneak him up to my place.

*They walk towards the door, but then Lazard appears with four guards with tranqulizer guns*

Lazard: A-HA! I KNEW IT! I KNEW I HEARD A CAT IN HERE!

Angeal: Director, wait, we can explain! This isn’t just any cat, it’s Sephiroth!

Genesis: He turns into a cat every full moon!

Angeal: He’s innocent! He just wants to knead blankets and nap and scratch up Genesis’s expensive leather coats!

Genesis: Yeah, he—WHAT?

Angeal, sobbing: You can’t take him away! He may be a cat, but he’s still our best friend! He can’t be taken to the pound! He doesn’t deserve this!

Genesis: If you want to take cat Sephiroth away, you’ll have to get through me!

Angeal: And me!

Zack: And me too!

Lazard:

Lazard: What drugs did you three take?

(simultaneously)

Angeal: WE’RE NOT HIGH

Genesis: WE’RE TELLING THE TRUTH

Zack: The doctor said it would help.

*Everyone turns to look at him*

Zack:

Zack: SEPHIROTH IS A CAT.

Angeal: WE’RE TELLING THE TRUTH!

Genesis: DON’T HURT HIM!

Lazard: You know what? I’ve heard enough. *He turns to the guards* Take the cat.

*The guards aim at the cat in Angeal’s arms, everyone starts screaming, the guards shoot—And then Zack jumps in front of the cat, taking the tranquilizer dart for it*

Angeal: ZACK!

Genesis: ARE YOU OKAY?

*The cat jumps from Angeal’s arm and runs out the door*

Angeal: WAIT, SEPHIROTH!

Genesis: COME BACK!

• That’s when Sephiroth (the real one) appears in the doorway. He whisks the cat off the floor and starts petting it in his arms. Everyone’s jaw is on the floor—except for Zack, who’s whole body is on the floor.

Angeal: Sephiroth….you’re not the cat?

Sephiroth: Never was, never have been.

Genesis: You mean you’re not half-cat?? YOU TRICKED US?

Sephiroth: Tell me, what does eating your own words taste like? I wouldn’t know the sensation.

#storytime #soldier pranks #ff7 #ffvii #final fantasy 7 #sephiroth #final fantasy vii #ffvii crisis core #genesis rhapsodos #ff7 crisis core #angeal hewley #crisis core #lazard deusericus #zack fair

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bigfatbimbo · 2 months

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silly low effort Velvette x reader headcanons —

If there’s one thing I love, it’s evil, malicious, terrifying, bitchy woman. Anyways, that’s why we’re here. LOOK AT HERE SHES SO EVIL AND BAD!! I LOVE HER!! I feel like to date Velvette you have to have such genuine patience because she is very difficult all the time. Like she’s the type to ask what outfit she should wear and hold up two different sets. And then when you give her an answer she goes ”What, you think I can’t pull the other one off, or something?” And you’d be like “dude, no that’s not what I—“ Then just to spite she’d go “Well fuck you then, I’m going to wear that one.” I don’t think she does it in a serious way though, she just likes escalating things. I mean, you guys all listened to respectless, of course she does. I think she loves those shitty reality tv shows unapologetically and with all her heart. And yes, she will make you watch them with her and you will not have a choose. You’d be curled up on the couch together and she’d be laying on your chest with one arm extended out to point the remote at the tv and flip through channels. She’d be like “What d’you wanna watch, you think?” and you’d say “Not that reality tv trash, that’s for sure” and she’d go “Mmmm, okay!” And then she’d turn on one of her dumb shows immediately and laugh to herself when you groan. Speaking of laughter, I have this silly headcanons where she snorts when she laughs. But she thinks it’s sounds ugly so she literally hates when you say something that provokes a laughing fit. Well, she doesn’t really hate it, not when you always comment on how cute her giggles are. They are not cute and they sound like she’s dying all over again. She also really likes when you give her massages and rub her shoulders like after a long day of work. Because it’s stressful stuff, the fashion industry. So she also appreciates softer quality time. Like just cuddling up on the couch in one of your t shirts. Also sometimes she fully cleans out your closest and puts everything she hates in one big pile that she calls the ‘burn it with fire’ pile. ”Hate the yellow, it’s hideous and makes you look infected. Oh and this red would literally only go good with one of your bottoms. It’s a waste.” But she thinks you’re beautiful and gorgeous and so obviously you deserve better clothes?? Like duh. She’s a big fan of princess treatment, too by the way. Like opening car doors for her, breakfast in bed, flowers for every anniversary (even the ‘8 weeks since our first kiss!’brandom milestone. Yeah, she just wants flowers.) BUT DO NOT do the throwing your coat over a puddle of mud thing for her because “Why the fuck would you do that to an innocent coat. Are you completely daft?” Just pick her up and carry her over the puddle, fucking obviously. Also she loves doing your nails, hair, or dressing you up in general. She’s actually weirdly such a mastermind when it comes to this shit because all of it is catered specifically to your style and vibes, while also purposefully complimenting whatever her fit is that day. I think she also likes very fancy dates where she gets to show you off to the public. Especially when you let her pick the outfits, she’s ecstatic and very very excited and equally proud of herself. Also I said this on a previous post but I love the idea and no one has brought it up for a while but once you make your relationship public, she watches edits that her fans make of you two.

a/n — Bottom Velvette request came in and lowkey i’m hyped. Princess treatment to the max, for real for real.

#hazbin hotel x reader #hazbin hotel fluff #inbox open #hazbin hotel x you #hazbin hotel velvette #hazbin velvette #velvette x reader #velvette x you #silly low effort headcanons

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twopoppies · 1 month

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https://www.tumblr.com/twopoppies/747389355237195776/hello-gina-i-hope-you-have-a-good-day-i-dont

You make some really good points here, especially about stepping away a bit and trying to just enjoy them as musicians. I’ve tried it with some success, but it’s not easy. I do honestly love both of their music and listen to it daily. Beyond that, it’s good to back off a bit for me.

I think for me something that has really become clear this last year, is that many fans feel entitled to what I would call Chapter 118 of the Harry/Louis WIP, and the reality is it’s just not coming. Now I love reading Larry fan fiction as much as the next person, but looking at it that way is so unfair to them. They have real lives and relationships and it’s not a story that needs to be tied up with a happily ever after. Lots of Larries - especially Twitter Larries - seem to use every interview or use of a primary color as a new chapter. I’ve never been a believer in the “mastermind” theory. And you are so right when you say the good vs evil is not really clear anymore. Yes, Syco and Cowell committed a lot of abuses, but those guys walked out of there with around $50M and tons of doors opened for them that wouldn’t have been possible without 1D , so the lines are blurred.

I think it’s pretty clear from Harry’s “corner of the internet ….it’s not real” interview to Louis latest, they don’t want our help in this - whatever “this” is anymore. It’s not underdogs vs overlords and I don’t like taking away Harry’s and Louis’s agency at this point.

It’s funny, because in 2016 if someone had said this is where you will be 8 years later I would have laughed in their face. But this is where we are and finding ways to deal with it and realizing we may never have more then we have today can be hard. Who knows what will happen in the future. Tomorrow the whole thing could blow wide open and lots of questions will get answered, but I just don’t think so and I’m ok with that. Sort of…. lol!

Anyway, thanks for the nice, calm commentary. I still enjoy reading it all!

Oh, I totally feel you on waiting for chapter 118. So many people treat their lives like an unfinished fic or a game to win. It’s super unhealthy for fans and I can’t imagine it feels good for Harry and Louis. And I very much agree that where we once were helpful, we may now be a hindrance at times. Saying that, I think it’s important to acknowledge that we’re not fucking making things up out of thin air and Harry/Louis/their teams often use Larry and larries for their benefit.

That makes it difficult to feel that they’re being completely honest when they say they don’t want a focus put on Larry.

Regardless, I’m tired of playing this game. I’d prefer to just chill in my own little circle and talk about Larry with my friends and go to concerts and have fun. But I don’t enjoy being treated like shit when it’s convenient and then sent flowers when I’m needed again, you know?

#current thoughts on Larry

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dnpanimationstudioclone · 1 year

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Rewrite Ideas for Lila Rossi

I know there’s been a lot of criticism about Lila’s lies and how Marinette’s friends and other people trust Lila’s word over hers, especially Alya her best friend and journalist. What if Lila wasn’t just more careful with her lies(telling more believable lies with fake proof or atleast have benefit of the doubt, more cautious about threats and frame ups), but instead of telling negative lies about someone people should know better about, she instead uses already known truths against them. Does still manipulate certain things but also make those are unto her or see as a threat, dig their own graves, expose their own issues. Ex, Like how Lila made Aya think the issue was just Marinette having a crush on Adrien and being jealous.

I think it would’ve worked more if Lila actually played into this more. Not just using Marinette’s crush on Adrien but her and the other’s biggest flaws(overthinking things, insecurity, digging herself deeper into her problems, etc) Using their issues and past mistakes to manipulate things in her benefit or atleast make people consider past issues that would make people have to also consider.

Marinette if she decided to just come out and say why she doesn’t trust Lila when she comes back as a new classmate, similar to when she talked to Alya and Nino.

Lila-I really dont get where all this skepticism’s coming from. I was only here one day and I don’t think we even got to meet, let alone talk, so how could you know anything I did-

Marinette-BECAUSE I FOLLOWED YOU!

Class-What!?

Lila-I’m sorry, what?😈

Marinette-I said I…oh boy. Realizes how bad that sounds and can’t really tell them the stuff she’d have to known as Ladybug.

Adrien-Wait I don’t get it, why follow us?

Class knowing Marinette’s huge crush on Adrien and the crazy things she has done involving him-…nervous coughs.

Ayla who also knows this and who Marinette told she was gonna follow them-Oh boy.

Later

Ayla-Listen Lila I’m really sorry, I should’ve stopped her. Are you gonna bring this up with the teachers?

Lila- Hey, don’t worry about it. I mean you’re her friend, not her mom, it’s not your responsibility to watch what she’s up to. I’m just happy this was simply because she likes Adrien and not because she really thinks I’m some “evil manipulative mastermind”, this doesn’t feel like anything I need to involve a teacher with, not like anyone got really hurt. I’ll be honest I have a problem sometimes being fully honest, I may exaggerate or tell a few white lies just simply to fit in, I’m not trying to hurt anyone. But seriously, we've only hung out like only a few times, he really is just a friend to me at this point. I’m sorry for all the trouble.

Alya- Don’t worry about it, honestly this isn’t really ur fault.

Lila-Well thanks and seriously, this isn’t really your fault either. Alya- Thank you. Still, maybe I should’ve been more concerned.

Lila- I mean these things happen, We’re teens, sometimes we might let our hormones get the better of us but I doubt this stuff happen all the time, she seems like a good person. Besides if she did do something that really crossed the line, as her best friend, I’m sure you def would call her out or atleast make it clear u don’t support it, right?

Ayla-…

Lila-Do you think I should talk to Marinette?

Alya- No, no don’t worry about that. Maybe I should though.

Lila-Yeah, I’m sure you’re right. she’d probably listen better to a friend anyway 😈

and doesn’t just do this kinda stuff with Marinette but can pit the whole class against eachother If she plays the cards right, full on Mean Girls Watch The World Burn🔥🔥🔥. All while, looking completely inconspicuous and whatever she could’ve done would be seen as simply indirect or unintentional and certainly no way she could’ve known it would lead to such an outcome…right?

Lila-As such a great designer Marinette, I’d figure you’d understand that rather try to make something completely new, better to make the best out of the materials you already have! And there is just so much to work with, especially with you😈

And rather Marinette not trying to expose her because of Adrien's advice but rather her own self doubt. “What if I really am just jealous and overthinking this whole thing”, “I technically was in the wrong first for following them, granted I had to for the book but I didn’t know that at first”, “what if I make things worse and Alya…won’t be my friend anymore”…”she’s probably right, maybe Lila’s just harmless and it really is all in my head”…”maybe it is just me”.

I just like antagonists who make the protagonists consider their own moral character and actions, if they’re really as good as they think they are. Even if they’re manipulative liars who are trying to be dishonest, there’s always that certain part of what they say that can’t be fully brushed off as entirely wrong, sometimes even being the ones to call out the protagonists’s less moral actions and mistakes. And I think Lila could’ve really had that sort of potential with Marinette. For better or for worse, her impact could make Marinette reflect on herself.

Lila-You’re the type of person who sees themselves as the hero in their own story and that everything you do is right, but truth is you can just as easily be the villain! You think my lies are bad? Half of what I say is just calling you out on your own mistakes. You just can’t handle the TRUTH!😈

what do u think? How’d u wanna rewrite Lila? I’d love to know💖

#miraculous ladybug #lila rossi #mlb lila #mlb rewrite #alya cesaire #marinette dupen chang #mlb marinette #marinette #lila #alya

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iamafanofcartoons · 10 months

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20 Ways how you know you might like RWBY?

Remember, there is no best show ever. Every show has its ups and downs. We’re just going to explain why RWBY is a show worth watching, that’s it.

1) Do you like ATLA, TOH, SPOP and LoK? -> Chances are, you’ll also like RWBY. Its not the same, and its never meant to try to be the same. But it does carry similar things.

2) Do you like stories with badass women taking on the roles typically held by male protagonist? -> Then you should like RWBY.

3) Do you like stories with found family themes AND positive Step-family relationships? -> Then RWBY should be on your list.

4) Do you enjoy stories with in depth fantasy lore and history? -> Then RWBY would be a fantastic show to watch, because it does have them.

5) Do you like analyzing shows that have lots of significant hidden details, foreshadowing, easter eggs, callbacks, and references? -> Then you’ll quite like RWBY.

6) Do you enjoy watching character development? -> Chances are then that you’ll like RWBY.

7) Do you like slow burn WLW relationships? -> RWBY, because BUMBLEBY KISSED TWICE, BABY!

8) Do you like shows with badass soundtracks made specifically for the show with lyrics that even add foreshadowing and other fun details? -> RWBY has that.

9) Do you enjoy shows that are all about hope and love in the face of despair and hate? -> RWBY!!!

10) Do you like shows where all of the characters are based on fairy tales, myths, legends, historical figures, etc. with wee details added here and there to give clues as to who each person is based on? ->RWBY

11) Do you enjoy shows that are more light hearted and fun but then also still get into serious topics like dealing with loss, alcoholism, PTSD, abuse, neglect, abandonment issues, etc? -> RWBY

12) Do you like badass fight scenes where the animation just keeps getting better and better as the show continues? -> RWBY

13) Do you like Warrior Nun and other similar shows? -> RWBY could very well be enjoyable for you too

14)Do you like long form story telling where details come back from all the way in the beginning of the show? -> RWBY definitely does that. We’re on Volume 9 and they brought up stuff from back in Volume 1 during it.

15) Do you like shows that are even better when you rewatch them cuz you can then pick up on all sorts of details you missed previously that MAKE SO MUCH MORE SENSE NOW and make you love the show even more? -> RWBY is so damn easy to rewatch

16) Do you like stories that constantly subvert expectations in brilliant ways? Like in ways that MAKE SENSE? -> RWBY!

17) Do you like stories about HOPE that aren’t just naive and blind to everything and to reality? -> RWBY 100%

18) Do you like fantasy-mecha type weapons that can transform and badass n creative character fighting styles? -> Have I said it enough yet?

19) Do you like shows with INTERESTING villains that actually have interesting backstories and motivations that isn’t just simply cuz they’re “evil”? RWBY

20) FINALLY: Do you like shows that take a very fanservice concept (girls fighting monsters) and gives them stories, personalities, development, and Bechdel-passing relationships, while it takes two male power fantasies (gritty edgelord who uses prolific violence and morally grey actions to pursue a noble goal, and tactical mastermind who makes difficult sacrifices for The Mission) and made them failures?...--> Again, RWBY.

Here’s something else to consider for you

https://yinyangofnevermore.tumblr.com/post/710346324045856768/so-youre-considering-watching-rwby-or-youre

Just remember. NOBODY is saying that RWBY is the best show out there.

We’re simply saying its a good show and that its enjoyable. So please? We’re simply asking you to give this show a chance.

#greenlightvolume10 #greenlightrwbyvolume10

#rwby #rwby is enjoyable #rwby is a good show #i mean for sure rwby is one of them #rwby is good #but please give the fandom just this one thing #give rwby a chance #just give rwby a chance #all we're saying is give rwby a chance #what I would give to see this on youtube #greenlightvolume10 #greenlight rwby volume 10 #greenlightrwbyvolume10 #greenlight volume 10

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tabithatwo · 8 months

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i have kindve a rant abt jackie that id like your thoughts on. whenever people write fics where jackie is like. wholly a dumbass it really irks me. like the most we see of her is in the wilderness, of course shes useless?? shes a normal person, she wasnt trained in survival tactics. theres another rant in there abt how she very much could have adapted but she was depressed and suicidal and i think thats mostly why shes useless, but thats a conversation for another time! but yeah. when shes just ditzy and shit in fics it really rubs me the wrong way. like i follow the hc that shes autistic, and specifically the kind where shes very socially aware but still sometimes fucks up a little. like how usually when shes mean she has no idea that it came off that way. i feel like people took that and twisted it to mean that shes some useless moron thats constantly oblivious and needs to be babied. i hope that made some sense? idk, im just curious if thats something other people have noticed and have a problem w or if im too personally offended by it lmao

Here is part 2 that anon sent separately!

Honestly anon fucking preach lol, that’s my thoughts on it!! I don’t think you phrased anything mean, I get the passion behind it comes from an important place! I tend to really bristle at any women being portrayed as stupid, even when it’s done in a cutesy (read: patronizing lol) manner.

NOW I can get behind a one liner joke like “aww she’s so stupid” about any of the yjs bc they ALL have their dumb moments, usually around EMOTIONAL intelligence! But I know what you’re talking about and I’ve seen it too—portraying her or describing her as likable but fucking dumber than a rock is honestly more annoying to me than the evil genius mastermind take most of the time.

It isn’t supported by anything we have of her character. There’s even a BIG point made with Shauna’s hallucination of her, where Shauna recognizes this sort of unfair impulse to jump to diminishing Jackie’s intelligence. I think that shauna simply feels like she needs one thing that’s just hers, one thing that she’s better at, and in her mind intelligence is the only option. But even she recognizes that’s bullshit. I think that yes shauna is framed as more book-smart than Jackie (honestly shauna is framed as the most book-smart, probably tied with Taissa) but we actually know very little of Jackie’s academic achievement, so it’s sort of up in the air.

But as far as day to day intelligence, I don’t think we’re meant to think Jackie is stupid. If anything, I think the lack of woods participation (which, as you said, is fucking depression and suicidality and fear) can be interpreted negatively as laziness, if one is inclined to interpret it negatively, or a fear of failure, more so than stupidity.

To each their own, I don’t think sort of notably off characterization is malicious unless the person is being cruel about it, but yeah I get annoyed and tend to click away lol and I do think there’s a lot lot lot of misogyny that infiltrates some popular jackie takes.

#yellowjackets #jackie taylor #shauna shipman #asks answered #jackieshauna

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extraterrestrialechos · 11 months

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Edward Teach: How to (de)Construct a Legendary Villain

The show introduces us to the legendary Blackbeard as a traditional Hollywood villain. He’s positioned, specifically, as Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, head of the global criminal organization SPECTRE.

This character came to define the trope of the criminal mastermind, including the trope of never showing the villain’s face. The chair obscuring Ed’s body while his minion takes orders from across the desk is classic Blofeld.

Along with Black Pete’s story, this is meant to pour in information about and expectations for Blackbeard in the short three episode buildup to his reveal: He’s big news, he’s bad news, and he’s the undisputed big dog whose underlings are cogs in his evil schemes.

Yet even in his first scene, the show begins to highlight the artifice at play and humanize Blackbeard and his subordinate.

Izzy is doing his level best to play the sufficiently professional henchman. Edward flirts with him until he’s forced to drop the pretense, his henchman act collapsing into an exhausted and familiar “Oh, Edward, can't I just send the boys?”

And, if we look closely in retrospect, the reason Ed doesn’t turn to the camera is that his leg is elevated to give relief to its nagging knee injury. There’s a cane in the bin in the foreground beside Izzy. These stereotypical trappings of villainy are partly a product of Edward’s high seas career wearing his body down.

On to Episode 4

Episode 4 isn’t a significant departure from any other day at SPECTRE flotilla headquarters for Edward. Yes, he meets a fun new guy. He also shows off what kind of brilliance is routinely demanded of him by his profession (of being a criminal mastermind) day in and day out, even if he hits a hitch. The emotional beat of the episode is exposing how this intense workplace grind is wearing him down.

Next, he decides he’ll sail with that fun new guy, murder him, desecrate his corpse and take his identity. The kind of nefarious scheme a pro would expect of himself.

The subsequent plot, then, does not come out of the idea that Ed, as Blackbeard, is any less than a man who’s achieved the pinnacle of Big Bad attainment, who in conversation with his subordinate checks off on killing entire crews as part of “the uzsh.” He really is that good, and Stede really would have made the perfect and unwitting mark Ed identifies him for.

Two things are true at once:

Blackbeard is his world’s all time pirate villain overseeing the dispatching of countless lives (we see the population of a whole merchant vessel butchered just in Episode 5 — but laugh, because the sequence is shot through with camp), and

Ed Teach “works for Blackbeard.”

Blackbeard isn’t who Ed is but a product of Ed’s theatrical skills.

The show has, already, in Episode 4 cast a realistic light on the inevitable psychological toll of being the Big Bad mastermind keeping yourself at peak performance all the time.

On to Episode 6

In Episode 6, the show deconstructs how one man, who has one gun and one knife just like everyone else, could feasibly construct such a legend.

This is, at the same time, a meta interrogation of how much effort a man like Blofeld and his infinite villainous counterparts across all cinema would have to actually put in to maintain their seemingly effortless style.

Here, the answer is Ed is a theatre kid at heart, relying on all the same techniques the real life crew themselves are using to bring us the show.

We’re given a scene of Ed seemingly teleporting around a clouded ship, delivering cinematic lines like “Flee and survive, or face me and burn!”

Barrels of sparklers stream flash powder into the air. The unnatural fog turns out to be the product of stagehands hard at work behind the scenes. We can extrapolate the flashes of lighting were likely, seeing as we can’t assume stage lights, the product of even more flash powder prepped in the style of old time photography.

Ed ends up in an elaborate harness. One that Izzy’s doubtlessly removed him from countless times, as he reminds Ed if they don’t work together Ed’s balls will chafe. (Ostensibly, this all used to go smoother before stress aged their relationship to the point of its present squabbles.)

Now we can spy back earlier in the show and see even in Episode 3 they were employing theatrics.

The smoke steaming behind Izzy as he fixes his spyglass on the Revenge isn’t mysteriously atmospheric. It’s from a big cauldron kept stoked on the deck of the ship, the handle of which peeks through. It’s a constant effort to keep the Queen Anne billowing across the ocean.

And Forward to the End...

Ed goes through multiple phases of trying on different Eds in the next four episodes. From living as tea with seven sugars Ed, to deciding he needs to physically move on if he’s not going to ice this guy but being prompted by Lucius to explore being “being in a relationship Ed,” to us seeing Jack’s Ed and his ability to relish brotivities, to stripped down Ed on the beach, a blank slate now able to open himself to considering what to paint there, to Ed choosing what to paint there.

Unfortunately, while it’s a new work, it's a dark one.

Having been rejected by Stede and Izzy successively as they see him trying out tidying house, become upset for individual reasons, and walk out of the room in nearly identical scenes, Ed takes stock of what he has left and what capacities in his repertoire will assure his future security.

We now see Ed pinning (stabbing) up a picture of the archetype he’s going to take on. This is Ed in his make-up trailer, looking to a character design by a concept artist and building a costume around it.

Grease paint, sword earring, jacket shrugged back on, full gloves, and, we see later, Stede's black cravat tight around his neck as @speckled-jim describes (and discusses further here) “like the albatross of Ancient Mariner fame,” reminding him that love itself can be a burden and to never allow himself to be that vulnerable again.

This new Blackbeard variant cuts a genius, poetic, unmistakably more dangerous image than the comparatively relaxed tough biker pirate we first met.

His newer, dialed up villainous persona, the Kraken, is face revealed with, among the many cinematic variations on the trope, what tightly resembles another more recent Blofeld shot, at once telegraphing this Ed is the Big Bad again and reminding us that being any Big Bad is a high camp performance.

The seams are already fraying. Fang and Ed are both shown drinking heavily to help cast off their sympathies for their recent associates and loose their MUAHAHAHAHA laughter. Already, before this scene, Izzy’s “Blackbeard is himself again!” is paired with the manic smile of a man who knows that whoever the new boss is, it’s not the original Blackbeard and he's in over his head.

But the three of them cut imposing figures on deck, and the future will tell if the movie magic holds.

Errata

Why would they think "Blofeld"?

It might be SPECTRE's trademark giant octopus.

#ofmd meta #edward teach #ed teach #extechos #ofmd

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waybacks-swag-awards · 1 year

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THE SWAG AWARDS HAVE OFFICIALLY COME TO AN END!

Finally, after a week of the toughest battles of your entire lives, it is finally decided on which Iterators have the most Swag! The most Blorbo…ness! And the most… Scrunkliness…? And etcetera! Without further ado, the winners of this competition are…

Hope For Bountiful Harvests (and his silly little dog, the Envoy) from @hopeforbountifulasks! My condolences! Huh, what, that’s the wrong—? Um, cheers, man! Thank you so much for being here with us! Tell your friends about what a great time you had here!

One Backward Step from @stepbystepback! Congratulations! Thank you so much for participating, we hope you had a good time! Come back soon! Huh? We’re not going to—?

A special thanks to the ones who made it to the final round — Pieces Of Memories from @pieces-of-memories and Endless Skies from @vivid-endlessskies! Thank you both for participating as well, hopefully you still enjoyed it even if you didn’t win!

And now, a final word from my manager!

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hello. it’s me, cream, the evil mastermind behind this whole thing. i really hope everyone had fun with this whole competition — i know it wasn’t very thought out in some places and that some things could’ve been done better, and it was my first time even trying to do anything like this, but Fuck It, We Ball. either way, at least for me, this event has brought a lot of joy and excitement, and i hope i’m not the only one!!!

so… it’s over! wow! the Swaggiest, Blorboest, Scrunkliest and etcetera iterators have been chosen…………………… but that was never the point of the Swag Awards, was it? sure, half the reason this event was created in the first place was to goof around and find out which iterator oc people are most obsessed with, but the actual reason was to bring everyone together, to shoutout smaller artists, to give everyone a chance. so if during this competition you’ve managed to find a cool new artist (or maybe even a new inspiration), a new favorite character, or if you’ve managed to meet someone new and make a friend or two — that means this competition has fulfilled its purpose! yippee!!! that’s all i could’ve ever asked for!

a very special thanks to all my friends who have enabled me throughout all of this, and to specifically @lyss-butterscotch for being the Main Enabler(tm) and drawing so much amazing stuff for the competition, even tho she didn’t have to!!! so go check her out!

i think that’s all i really wanted to say. once again, thank you everyone so much, and i hope you all enjoyed this silly little thing. if there is a next time, i’ll see you there, and if there isn’t, thank god & i’m never seeing any of you again. i’m going to hell after this post

#iteratorocswag #if i drew your characters wrong. feel free to kill me👍#also saturn i guess your submission was a prophecy. your oc is indeed the blorboest motherfucker known to man #i hope i didnt miss anything or forget to say anything o7 #i need to bury myself in the dirt now

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kit-walk3r · 1 year

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The Evans as Ghostface

What each of the Evans would be like as Ghostface from Scream

Warnings: mentions of blood, gore and violence

*Spoilers for the Scream franchise*

Tate

The most obvious Ghostface

Masked killer already? Check ✅

He’d think he was killing people to protect those he loved (aka Violet)

His kills would be pretty quick, like a couple of quick stabs and that’s it. They’d be quite messy though

Unless it was someone who had physically hurt Violet, then they would get a drawn out more painful death

He’d love doing the phonecalls and would be absolutely savage. He’d definitely say things like “hang up on me again and I’ll gut you like a fish” and “I’m gonna slit your eyelids in half so you don’t blink when I stab you in the face” (actual Scream quotes)

When it comes to the reveal he just cries

Would definitely fall over a lot when trying to chase people

Kit

Okay I’m cheating here but I refuse to believe that Kit would ever become Ghostface

Instead he’d be everyone’s number 1 suspect, like how everyone thinks he’s Bloodyface

He’d be the final boy instead of the killer. He’d be the Dewey Riley but more competent lol

Kyle

Kyle would be the Charlie Walker of the Evans: manipulated into doing all the killing

Poor Kyle would just be doing as he was told, he doesn’t know any better

Definitely the muscle

Doesn’t do any of the phonecalls though

He would be the most brutal Ghostface, we’re talking Olivia level kills. Messy, blood everywhere, dead body absolutely massacred

He would probably get the Charlie Walker treatment and be killed by his partner and then framed as the sole killer :(

Jimmy

Unpopular opinion?? Jimmy is one of the Evans most likely to become Ghostface

He’d do it for the freaks to protect them, similar to Tate but not as deluded since his victims do actually pose a threat to his family as opposed to just being like a school bully

He’s quick. Very much gives off Scream 5 vibes with the quick stabs to the neck

The first kill wouldn’t be planned, it would be in a fit of rage like how he killed the cop, but after that he gets the idea that he can protect the freaks by taking out those who could hurt them

If he had to have an accomplice it would be Amazon Eve but he’d rather do it alone to avoid getting any of the freaks in trouble if they got caught

Maybe his reveal would be that he hands himself in? Maybe there’s a Meep situation and one of the freaks is framed as the killer so he hands himself over to protect them

Jimmy’s not like other Ghostfaces. He’s not necessarily ‘evil’, he’s just seen the shit he and his fellow freaks have had thrown at them and wants to stop that from happening anymore

James

Hear me out: James wouldn’t be a good Ghostface, or at least not when it comes to the killing

He wouldn’t really see the point in concealing his identity

He wouldn’t really have any sort of motive, he’d just do it for fun

He’d do great phonecalls, but it would be so obvious it was him from his dialect

Honestly he’d be a great Ghostface mastermind, like he’d probably be the best one out of the Evans, but he wouldn’t really see the point in dressing up in a costume to do the murders so he’d be a Ghostface mastermind but not actually Ghostface

He just gives people tips and instructions

Rory

Rory would love the theatrics of getting to be Ghostface since he’s an actor

But the thing about Rory is that he would not be able to keep it a secret that he was Ghostface

He would accidentally announce it in an interview or something

His motive would be something stupid like people not giving him roles. It would be people like casting directors, producers and other actors who ‘stole’ roles from him who were his victims

Would he try and get Audrey involved? Potentially

He’d have a lot of fun doing the phonecalls but would probably out himself as Ghostface over the phone too

“You stole the role of ___ from me you little bitch” … “Rory is that you?” “Fuck”

His reveal was be very over the top (if he didn’t accidentally reveal himself before) but after his monologue he’d stop and ask if it was good or if they wanted him to try it again in a different way

Kai

Masked killer already? Check ✅

Heard of the cult of Ghostface theory? Yeah, he’d be the leader

He would have an incredible reveal, although probably not much of a surprise

He’d have great one liners

Gives off big Billy Loomis vibes

Would probably be in charge of the phonecalls and would maybe leave the killings to the others for them to prove themselves

Unless it was a big person they were planning to kill, then he would get the others to bring them to him and he’d kill them himself

When he’s killing it’s slow and torturous

Mr Gallant

He’d be a follower, not the mastermind

Agrees to go along with the Ghostface plan but doesn’t think it will get as violent as it does, he just thought it would be a bit of fun

Only wanted to do the phonecalls

He only kills one person and it’s similar to how he killed his nana, he’s made to think it’s someone else

He doesn’t want to go along with the Ghostface plan anymore so he decides he’s going to kill his partner and end it. They’re out and his partner is planning to kill someone. Gallant sees someone in the Ghostface costume and, thinking it’s his partner, stabs them a bunch of times

Surprise, it’s not his partner but is instead just an innocent person wearing the same costume

Austin

Him and Belle are basically already a Ghostface duo

The most iconic Ghostface

His Ghostface would come with musical numbers

He’d definitely end up singing the phonecalls

Motive? There’s no real motive besides the craving for blood. He just uses the costume for dramatic flare ✨

Kills would be messy but it wouldn’t matter because he’d be drinking the blood afterwards

Peter

Struggling to think of why this lil’ bean would want to kill anyone but if he were to it would be under his dad’s influence and would be to do with mutant rights

Erik and Peter Ghostface duo? Would be iconic

He’d be a great Ghostface because he’s so quick, no one would see him coming

Bit boring though because there would be no chases since people wouldn’t even have the chance to run

His speed might actually give him away as Ghostface so he would probably have to slow it down

If he’s using his mutation then the kills are quick and clean but if he’s slowed down then they’re a bit more bloody

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I’m open for requests!

#american horror story #ahs #scream #evan peters #tate langdon #kit walker #Kyle Spencer #jimmy darling #james patrick march #rory monahan #Kai anderson #mr gallant #austin sommers #Ghostface #x men #Peter maximoff #quicksilver

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kazemi-archive · 2 years

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That Much

Pairing: Oikawa Toru x Reader

Word Count: ~1.1k

Genre: Angst

Warnings: Mentions of a breakup, crying, arguing, yelling

Summary: You weren’t the right person at the wrong time you just didn’t like me that much. You weren’t some evil mastermind. You didn’t try to hurt me on purpose. But I thought that you wanted to attempt and ruin my whole life. But then I realized, you just didn’t like me that much.

Part Three of Desiderium

A/N: If dialogue is in blue, this is irl something that was said to me or by me. Thank you for being here live for my therapy.

PLEASE READ ALL WARNINGS AND THE AUTHORS NOTE ON THE MASTERLIST ON MY BLOG BEFORE READING

“Don’t fucking lie to me Oikawa!” The poor box in front of me got the brunt of my frustrating, my open palm connecting to the top of it harshly as I yelled.

“Oh now we’re back to Oikawa.” The irritation and slight hurt that wove through his voice barely registered to my ears.

“What am I supposed to call you? My king? Love of my life? Tōru baby?” They were all said mockingly. A scowl on my face as he rolled his eyes at my childish behavior. I turned my back on him again and went back to throwing things of his into a box.

“Oh my fucking god!” He groaned and I just knew he was rolling his eyes. Knew that the words on the tip of his tongue spelled ‘you’re overreacting right now.’

“Don’t oh my god me! I fucking love you! You made me fucking love you!” I was trying desperately to keep myself from crying. Wanting to throw things at him. To break the stupid face of the man that made me love him. “I told you I didn’t want to date you and your crawled under my fucking skin and made a home there!” It was useless trying to not cry. It was going to happen anyways. I could feel the tears burning the corners of my eyes. “What was the fucking point!?” I snapped around to face him again. Determined to see his face when he answered me.

He looked how I felt. Distraught. Exasperated. Exhausted. “I love you! I just-”

I cut him off quickly. losing the battle against throwing something at him. It wasn’t anything terrible, just a shirt that he caught out of the air easily. “Don’t fucking lie to me!” I screeched, tears choking me as I fought to not sob.

“Stop saying I’m lying!” He yelled back. Like he had the audacity. The fucking audacity to tell me that I didn’t have a right to deal with this how I could. Like we weren’t packing our home together right now. Like he didn’t dump me out of the blue last night when we still had to see each other all week to finish our packing. To sort what was his and what was mine.

“What was the fucking point!?” My eyes caught a picture frame that held a picture from our first date. When I was still making him convince me that he could not be the person I feared he would. “Drag me along!? For years!?” I threw something else now, he stepped forward quickly dodging the pair of socks and trying to close the distance as I yelled. “Ruin my life!? Ruin me for everyone else and then fucking leave!?” He was closed and I was trapped by some boxes. I could move if I wanted to but I was determined to make him hear me. To force him to listen to me lecture him. “Some grand fucking scheme Oikawa!” He tried to reach for me and I couldn’t bring it in me to stop him. I punched weakly at his chest, a sob getting stuck in my chest.

“I love you.” I could see the small tears in his eyes, the threat of them falling as he looked down at me with nothing but sadness. A mix of emotions present on his face that I couldn’t find the energy to pull apart.

“Don’t fucking lie to me. All you’re fucking doing is twisting the knife. Hurting me on purpose.” My words were venomous. Lethal poison dripping off knives I was trying to shove into him. Wanting him to feel just a sliver of the pain I felt.

“Please y/n.” He gripped my face and I stood frozen as his lips pressed against my forehead, my body relaxing into him like a habit. And when he pulled my lips up to meet his, I was about ready to let everything slide, let him get away with it all. “I still love you, I just-” I can’t do this anymore. His words from last night hung in the air. I tried to yank myself away from him, feeling myself crumble in place. How dare he. How fucking dare he. “Maybe it’s the ‘right person at the wrong time’ sort of situation.”

“No.” I growled and pushed at his chest, trying to put distance between us before I kissed him again. “You’re not the right person at the wrong time. You just don’t love me that much.” It was said less harsh this time. More like a realization. Like a resignation. He wasn’t an evil mastermind, at least not here. Not in our relationship. And if the hurt in his eyes queued me into anything… Maybe this wasn’t deliberate. I wasn’t a target. “It would’ve been someone else if it wasn’t me.” I ignored the small sound of confusion that he made as I dragged myself away and to stand in the doorway, to leave him to pack alone. “I’m just an idiot and it's not your fault that I fell in love with someone that just didn’t like me that much.” He looked like I’d thrown a gut punch at him at full strength.

“Don’t say that.” He begged it. Looked at me with I shed tears in his eyes. “We were perfect until we weren’t.” I read between the lines. I was enough until I wasn’t. He loved me until he didn’t. “They say that opposites attract. But maybe we are just too different.”

I scoffed at that. We were more alike that he ever wanted to admit. But to think about it, “Well we sure are opposites, cause I’m still in love and you’re just-” what did they like to say was the opposite of love was again. Not hate. It was the look he had last night when he ended things. The look of indifference on his face as I cried, as I begged. For him to not do this. To not throw us away. The look that was void of emotion. I sighed. “You just didn’t love me that much.”

He wouldn’t be the one that got away. He wasn’t a soulmate like I thought and I couldn’t make him a nemesis. He just didn’t love me that much.

“I really can’t blame you.” I whispered as I pulled myself to the doorframe. “I know you didn’t mean to make me a casualty of your curiosity.” I swallowed the sob that threatened to come up. “So I’ll let it go.” I couldn’t look at him anymore. He looked dejected. And I had the audacity to feel bad for him. Even when I was breaking. I felt bad for not letting him kiss me again.

A/N:this one’s just free thoughts I suppose. Thanks for coming to my free therapy!!

#𓇻 Desiderium

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jazzybot4 · 1 year

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Under a cut because rage. More Flamethrower drama, this time with Bonus Morgynleri.

https://morgynleri.tumblr.com/post/706738832916283392/funny-thing-the-concept-of-shame

See, the thing is? Morgynleri basically accused Lily of the equivalent of sexual assault, in a dream, and demanded retribution and recompense in the waking world for it. That's the fight. That's why Morgyn stopped being friends with Lily. Morgyn also professes to worship deities that are actual end of the world death cult type deities out of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Of COURSE I was angry about that when I found out, but like I said in my goddamn screenshots, I didn't want the fight. It wouldn't solve anything. Morgyn was the same kind of self-absorbed new-agey-cultist my-spiritual-powers-are-so-strong-i-can-end-the-world-if-i-wanted-to egotist that was the same person who drove me to move across the country with a laptop case and a duffel bag. The same kind of headmate-worshiping crazy that I'd learned at the time to be incredibly suspicious of. I didn't let it turn me into a goddamn asshole attacking people about my own traumas.

I'm still angry, but it's not worth having the giant fight about it. It's not something I'm going to act on. It's not something that factors into how I treat people. It's incredibly likely that everyone I know will eventually do something to hurt me, because that's human fucking nature. It's how you react to that hurt that shows me what kind of person you want to be. Did you know, I don’t think they’ve EVER CONSIDERED apologizing for tearing our friend group into little confetti bits?

Morgyn never thought of themself as the instigator here, only ever the victim, and since none of us were bending over backward to soothe them in the real world and validate their dreams as real actionable deliberate trauma visited by someone who I had only been dating for...a couple months? Max? At the time?, but who wasn't actually fucking like...some sort of evil dream-visiting monster? Who never wants to actually hurt anybody?

I also really want the examples here of bullying that they talk about. What the fuck. What fucking things have we done besides try to ignore all of this the best that we can? I know JWP has been working hard to ignore Flamethrower as often as possible, except when people bring their drama and history up and she responds in kind. I'm not sending anyone hate. I'm not sending any of my friends after them. I mostly just want them to stop trying to use us as scapegoats for their own bad luck, bad decisions, and shitty behavior. That goes for Flamethrower AND Morgyn.

The only people here making this into an issue are Flamethrower and Morgyn. Those are the only people I've got any kind of argument with and it ultimately boils down to how Morgyn tried to use beliefs and spirituality as a weapon against Lily *first*, and how Flamethrower has lied to me, manipulated me and other people, and continues to smear my good name. They want to paint us as this cabal of evil masterminds out to ruin their lives, but COME ON. I haven't looked at any of their blogs since they blocked me, except when someone sends me links where they mention mine or Lilys names, or vagueing about us. I haven't tried to contact them, I don't send people to contact them by proxy, we're not interested in their downfalls because it seems to us that they're doing a pretty great job of masterminding that themselves. We don't need to do it. We don't want to do it.

If you want the details, I've got links for you. Feel free to message me. My anon asks are on.

#Flamethrower wank

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jacksgreysays · 5 months

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"seven of spades" - Friendship Is A (Mutual) Con!verse, Team 7 vs. crime mob Akatsuki(?) maybe?

Seven of Spades

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” “Oh,” says the dead man with smile, “we’re going to need a lot more than just two.”

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There is a dead man walking this earth who has a grudge against Kakashi and his team. This dead man has connections all around the world, enough money and weapons and blackmail to take over a country, and just enough rage to save it for a specific goal instead.

What happens is not a game of chess—nothing so neat and orderly, no clean black and white lines, no rules of conduct—instead, it is a game of chance, of bluffing and gumption and desperation. A rigged game of probability, where the deck is marked, the dealer has fast hands, and the house always wins.

The dead man knows every con Kakashi knows and is far more willing to use the more ruthless plans. He’ll fold and give up a bomber here, a forger there, because he has the chips to spare. He’s patient. He’s been patient ever since his death. All he needs is for Kakashi to slip up once.

There is a dead man waiting for Kakashi to join him.

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“My brother has been acting strange lately,” Sasuke says, apropos of nothing, in the middle of their stake out. The shock of it has Naruto tearing his eyes away from the, admittedly, extremely boring target to look first at Sasuke, then at Shikako, clearly alarmed.

It is doubly alarming because Sasuke never talks about his family.

Shikako tries to convey with just her eyebrows and a tilt of the head that perhaps Sasuke is undergoing a stroke or has become delirious with a sudden onset fever and that Sakura, as resident medic, should check.

The fact that Sakura can understand her complex suggestion via facial expression says just how accustomed she’s become to this weird team. It’s that same familiarity which immediately makes her shake her head in a hard negative: a more naive and infatuated Sakura would have jumped at this opportunity, but the last time she tried to do an impromptu check up on Sasuke, he almost dislocated her shoulder. He did apologize for that… eventually.

“How can you tell?” Sai asks, not even bother to interpret all of the nonverbal communication going on.

“What do you mean?” Sasuke asks in return, because the rest of the stake out team is too busy making faces at each other to intervene.

“Well, you’re strange so how would you know what normal behavior looks like?” Asks Sai, resident expert on normal behavior.

The stake out van explodes.

—

Interpol wants Tenzo back.

Kakashi knows it. Yamato knows that Kakashi knows it. Kakashi knows that Yamato knows that Kakashi knows it.

They are in a car on the opposite side of the city from the kids.

They have not said anything for five hours straight.

—

There is a dead man walking this earth who wants Kakashi alone and miserable and feeling exactly like he feels.

There is a dead man waiting for Kakashi to join him in the dirt.

A/N: I don’t know how well this comes across, but it is Obito. I realized the shape/ghost of him was more prevalent in Friendship Is A (Mutual) Con than I had remembered. He’s mentioned a lot or, at least, hinted at a lot—which I suppose shouldn’t surprise me since, weirdly enough, this series’ “main character” is Kakashi—such that he feels like the ultimate big bad. And then if you take out the Kaguya moon thing and the fact that Madara is undying and manipulated Obito—then, yeah, Obito as the “real mastermind” behind Akatsuki does make sense.

Also, the title Seven of Spades is SO—all I could think of was that dig two graves quote. Because spades! Are shovels! And if there are seven of the team then there are seven graves! Obito’s trying to kill the whole team (le gasp!)

If I were to continue, the miraculous twist would be that Itachi had been treating Obito’s [[insert medical condition here]] and so the team thought he was evil, but then actually it was a double bluff in that the Uchiha family (because they are still mostly alive) are either extremely involved in law enforcement—or maybe just Shisui is, who had also faked his own death in order to catch their evil cousin—or were like… we can’t let you keep doing this, not if you’re going to go after your own baby cousin (not when it has gone from profit into murder. I’m not sure as to the ethics of the Uchiha family in this universe tbh)

Anyway, hope you enjoyed

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1024UB CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: NOW HE'S CRYING

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Ever since seeing Gyuri so depressed the other night, San got more restless. It took everything in him to not confront Seonghwa himself and tell him everything he’s putting Gyuri through, but he didn’t want to start anything in the group, nor did he want to upset Gyuri further.

He didn’t even know if it was okay for him to contact her. He wanted to ask her to meet up and resume their normal relationship, but given the words they exchanged and then the breakdown Gyuri had, he decided it would be best for them to take a little break from their usual relationship and keep their friendship more casual. It seemed like a load off, but it only left San hot and bothered. He hated that.

A new group formed after everything that had happened over the past several weeks: the Anti-Bora Club, or ABC. The group was pretty much all of the boys who convinced Gyuri to tell Seonghwa to break up with Bora, so Hongjoong, Wooyoung, Yeosang, Mingi, and himself. They all usually met at Ze Cafe when Wooyoung and Hongjoong were working, which seemed to be pretty often lately.

“Do you guys not have any other coworkers?” San asked Wooyoung and Hongjoong; he was the first one there. “I feel like you pretty much work here every single day.”

“Well, at least one of us is here every day, which is probably why it feels like we’re always here. It’s just how the manager organizes the schedule,” Hongjoong explained.

“Oh, that makes more sense.”

“Technically we are always here even if we’re not working,” Wooyoung pointed out. “This is our normal hangout spot after all.”

“I guess you’re right,” Hongjoong agreed.

Seconds later, Yeosang and Mingi showed up. The five boys stood around and talked, Hongjoong or Wooyoung occasionally leaving the conversation to deal with a customer. They were just talking about life, and they finally got onto the topic of Seonghwa as the club usually did. San wasn’t necessarily excited about the topic this time around, but he did have a lot of grievances on his chest that he wanted to get off.

“I’m kind of glad that they’re hanging out all the time. I was worried that their friendship was never going to recover,” Wooyoung said.

“Me too, I think—” Hongjoong cut himself off as two customers approached the register. He went to take care of their orders.

“I’m not,” San stated. The other four boys looked at him, each with a different expression on their face. Honestly, San was mainly frustrated that he lost his friend-with-benefits, but he couldn’t admit that to them— it would completely expose their relationship, and he did not want or need that right now. “I just… He hurt her so bad! If someone did that to me, I would never ever talk to them again. I don’t like seeing how much time they spend together.”

“What’s it to you? She got her best friend back. I’m sure if she didn’t want him back in her life she wouldn’t have let him,” Wooyoung shook his head.

“No, I have to agree with San. She was crying so much because of him. I’ve never seen her like that, ever. He shouldn’t just pretend like nothing happened,” Yeosang explained.

“Yeah, it was definitely upsetting even because Hwa’s never been like that before either,” Mingi added.

“What?” Wooyoung furrowed his eyebrows in confusion.

“Oh, right, you weren’t there to see how it went down. He completely insulted Gyu and said Bora was much better than her, and then he basically ended their friendship. It was scary seeing Hwa like that…” Yeosang filled the boy in.

Hongjoong returned at the end of Yeosang’s explanation and said, “At the end of the day, he’s still our friend. We’re the Rides-Or-Dies. We’ll never split like that. Also, I think you guys are forgetting that Bora was the evil mastermind behind the whole thing! We should really be blaming her, not Hwa; and at least he’s trying to make amends,” Hongjoong pretty much ended the discussion with that.

The club seemed to be satisfied with that, but San was not. He was definitely a lot more involved with Gyuri than the other boys could even fathom, but again, he did not dare say anything about their relationship to anyone, at least not until he and Gyuri figured out what they were going to do about their situation-ship.

Since he was still frustrated and couldn’t bring himself to contact her, San decided to go to the gym. He was pleasantly surprised to see Jongho arrive at the gym at the same time as him, so he asked Jongho to spot him as he bench-pressed his pain away.

“I don’t understand how you can do more than five reps of this heavy weight,” Jongho said with complete shock. “I also can’t believe that you’re not built like a bodybuilder.”

“Bodybuilders live at the gym, I don’t,” San said, although at that rate he was bound to be living at the gym.

“I really think you should add some cardio into the mix. You should keep things balanced otherwise you’ll end up top heavy.”

“Yeah, okay,” San said; he had no intention of doing so because he didn’t want to be at the gym more than he had to.

Even after his intense workout with Jongho, San still felt the frustration burn within him. He took a nice, long shower in hopes to extinguish some of the frustration, but that definitely didn’t work, even though he really catered towards himself while taking that long shower— he was definitely grateful that Yunho was not home at that time. Finally, he decided that he should just go to the girls’ apartment. He hadn’t texted Gyuri that he was going to come over because he was still unsure of what would happen, and he preferred to do things like that face to face.

When he arrived, Gyuri was not home, but Iseul was. She was sitting on the couch in front of the television watching some sitcom. She barely turned her head to look at him— her eyes were really glued to the television. “Hey, San,” she managed to get out as she continued to stare at the screen.

“Hey, is Gyuri home?”

“No, not yet.”

“Oh…”

San was about to leave when Iseul paused the show and said, “She should be back soon if you want to just chill out for a second.”

San ended up joining Iseul on the couch. The episode Iseul was watching ended, and instead of going to the next one, she paused and turned to San. “What’s up, San?” she asked.

“Nothing, really…”

“Come on, you look like you have something stuck on your mind.”

“Well… I have been thinking about bleaching my hair,” San admitted; he wasn’t lying. He really did want to bleach his hair, but he had been sitting on the idea for a while.

“That sounds hot! Do it,” Iseul nodded her head.

“Really? You think so?”

“Yes, do it.”

Fidgeting, San asked his follow-up question, “…Do you think Gyu will like it?”

“I’m going to punch you,” San flinched as Iseul really did prepare herself to punch him. “If you want to bleach your hair, then do it! Don’t worry about what she thinks.”

“I’m going to worry, Iseul.”

Iseul rolled her eyes and said, “Okay fine. She’ll think it’s hot.”

“Don’t just say that for the sake of saying it! Will she actually—”

“Yes, you annoying child! I know her, and I know she’ll like that,” Iseul ended his worries.

San went silent for a couple of seconds before Iseul started speaking again, “I know you’re angry about Seonghwa, and you’re right to be angry with him.”

His eyes wide, San stared at Iseul, unblinking. “How do you figure?” he managed to get out.

“I mean, look at him. He’s really trying to pretend like everything is normal… it’s concerning because I don’t think he apologized to Gyu enough.”

“I don’t know, Iseul… It’s not like we hang out with them all the time… What if he did?” San voiced his anxieties.

“Shut the fuck up. Stop play devil’s advocate. Seonghwa did horrible things, and that’s that.”

“Sorry… Joong’s been trying to get all of us to trust Hwa again.”

Iseul nodded knowingly. She looked around herself suspiciously, not that anyone was around and going to eavesdrop on their conversation, but she took the precautions anyway before dropping her voice and saying, “I don’t think I should be telling you this, but Gyu hasn’t been dealing with this Hwa shit all that well.”

“Yeah, I know. I saw her the other day when you called me,” San was a little confused.

“No, like since then, it’s gotten worse.”

“What do you mean?”

“She’ll, like, come back from their hangouts with such a fake smile, and then I hear her just sighing all the goddamn time. I feel for the girl, but if she sighs one more time, I may put my head or her head through a wall,” San could hear Iseul’s teeth grind.

“Hey, your teeth, don’t do that,” San placed a hand on her knee.

Iseul’s jaw unclenched. She shook her head and exhaled sharply through her nose. She made intense eye contact with San to the point where San felt like his retinas were going to burn. Her voice even lower than before, she said deathly serious, “Another thing, but you have to swear to me that you will not under any circumstance tell Gyu what I’m about to tell you.”

San couldn’t even bring himself to answer— that’s how scary Iseul looked at that moment. He settled for nodding and pursing his lips. Iseul continued, “One day, when Gyu wasn’t home, Hwa stopped by looking for her. I told him that she wasn’t here, and his face changed so fast.”

“Changed? How did it change?” San whispered.

“He went from being the Hwa we usually see to this controlling, possessive Hwa— well, those are actually strong words, but his eyebrows were so intense that even I got flustered.”

“Okay…?”

“Then, he sat down next to me, the same way we are now, and he told me that he’s had feelings for Gyu for a while.”

“What the fuck?!” San choked on his spit and spiraled into a coughing fit. Iseul immediately got up and returned with water to help him stop choking. “Thanks,” San croaked weakly.

Iseul continued with, “Yeah, and get this, he’d been crushing on her since they were in high school—”

“High school?!” Whatever water was in San’s mouth completely dispersed, Iseul dodging the water attack just in time. She handed him the tissue box to clean up his face.

“He said he just never made a move because he wasn’t sure how she felt, and then slowly over time, more girls starting paying attention to him, but he still only really liked Gyu.”

“Jesus Fucking Christ,” San could not believe what he was hearing.

“And then Bora came into the picture and fucked with his head. Apparently she had been interested in him for weeks, and she didn’t like how close he was with Gyu, so she literally lied to him to get him to kind of turn to her.”

“What lies?” San truly felt like he were a housewife or one of the neighborhood grannies in that moment.

“Okay, so technically they weren’t actually lies. She saw the two of you getting together, and that’s when she saw her chance. Of course, now Hwa thinks that the two of you together is a lie, but back then he went to Bora for comfort.”

“Wait… huh?”

“So, when Hwa got clarity that Bora was toxic and manipulative, he thought that everything that came out of her mouth was a lie, so you two being together is a lie in his eyes.”

San’s jaw dropped. He truly didn’t know what to do in that situation other than just gawk at the girl in front of him. He felt all of his energy getting drained from his body as he sank into the couch, Iseul patting his thigh sympathetically. When he was finally able to close his jaw, San murmured half to himself and half to Iseul, “Is it my fault that Gyu got hurt by him…?”

“Don’t be ridiculous! No one knows or knew about the two of you. Bora’s just so evil and manipulative that she literally stalked Gyu out, only to see the two of you together—”

“Yes, but if I never started hooking up with Gyuri, then she and Seonghwa would have still been friends… or maybe even more than that…”

“It’s still not your fault! If Seonghwa trusted Gyuri, then an outsider like Bora shouldn’t have been able to get into his head, and if Seonghwa were half as bold as you, then he could’ve made a move on Gyuri well before you two even had the chance to hook up.”

San didn’t know how to process any of that— the only thing that he could think about was that he was partially to blame for Gyuri’s sadness. He didn’t realize that his actions would have consequences on her, and even though she willingly entered this relationship with him, he still felt guilty that he split two people apart. He leaned forward and buried his face in his hands. His hands moved up and clenched the roots of his hair as Iseul did her best to calm the boy by patting and rubbing his back.

The keypad to the apartment beeped, and the door opened.

“Hey, where’ve you been?” Iseul asked as she continued rubbing San’s back.

“Grocery shopping,” San heard her place the bags on the kitchen countertop with a light thud. He didn’t hear anything after that until Gyuri said, “Sannie? Are you okay?”

He didn’t respond. His mind was reeling, and he felt dizzy. He felt Iseul leave his side, only to be replaced by Gyuri. San felt her place a hand on the back of his head, her other hand resting on his knee. San moved his hands from his hair and pulled Gyuri into his chest, his arms wrapping around her tightly, but not so tight that he was squeezing the life out of the girl. She hugged him back, her hands resting on the small of his back. San could faintly hear a door close— he assumed it was Iseul either leaving the apartment or retreating to her room.

San tried his best to stay strong, but he felt his eyes well up with tears, and a couple of the tears managed to escape his eyes and fall on Gyuri’s shoulder. He felt her jolt in surprise in his arms, but she didn’t go anywhere. She stayed right there. She whispered in his ear, “San, what’s wrong?”

He moved back and softly bit his lower lip in hopes that it would stop his tears. Gyuri wiped the tears from his face the same way he’d done with her so many times in the past, and he felt comfort wash over him as Gyuri continued to let her fingertips linger on his skin. He managed to blink some of the tears away as he moved one of his hands up to the back of her head. Their lips touched softly, briefly over and over again. He couldn’t bring himself to kiss her more intensely than that, nor could he bring himself to stop kissing her. San just wanted her to stay right there for as long as possible.

At some point, he stopped kissing her and leaned away. He stared at her face long and hard. She looked concerned but also… Well, he didn’t know how else to describe the look on her face other than caring. “San-ah,” she whispered. “Tell me what’s wrong.”

He didn’t. He promised Iseul that he wouldn’t say a word about all the information she just gave him. San just hugged her once more and managed to get out, “Just let me keep hugging you, please.”

The anxieties and thoughts that swarmed his head earlier dissolved as he hovered above her in her bed. They somehow made it to her bedroom, and instead of him kissing her softly, she pulled him in for slower, deeper kisses, her hand resting on his cheek, her fingers grazing his ear. His hands rested on waist lightly before wrapping around her back. He lowered himself and continued kissing her until the day turned to night, until they slept side by side, their foreheads pressed against each other, their hands wrapped around each other, their hearts beating together.

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Dragon Ball GT 42

✨GT Stands for Gero’s Teammate✨

All right, so we’ve reached the final leg of GT. The series began with the Black Star Dragon Balls and then changed course into the Baby Saga, and now both of those things are in the rear-view mirror. The big question is, where does GT go from here?

Unfortunately, the answer is “not very far.”

✨”Good” “Ideas”, Poorly Executed✨

All right, so let’s get this out of the way, since this is easily the most creatively bankrupt part of the series.

In DBZ, Dr. Gero created Android 17 as part of plot to kill Goku.

In DBGT, Dr. Gero and a second Dr. Gero create a second Android 17 as part of a plot to kill Goku.

That’s what we’re doing.

Let’s dive a little deeper here. So Dr. Mu was killed in Episode 22. As you may recall, he was the Machine Mutant scientist who thought he was the evil mastermind behind Baby, the Machine Mutant army on M2, and the Luud Cult, but then Baby revealed that he had created Mu, and not the other way around. So Mu seemed to be a clueless puppet, someone who thought he was important, but then turned out to be nothing special.

And yet, after Baby, Mu is pretty much the top bad guy in GT. I think the logic was that they needed to dip into the GT Rogues’ Gallery for the next arc, sort of like how Batman will fight the Joker in one story and the next one will have him fight Riddler or Penguin. Except GT’s “Rogues’ Gallery” sucks eggs. It’s Baby, then a bunch of idiots who worked for Baby, and then Ledgic and that one asshole who predicted earthquakes. Dr. Mu’s kind of the only choice, here, but I can’t overstate how weak this is.

Like, okay. So Mu is dead, and Dr. Gero approaches him in hell and says he says he needs his expertise in Tuffle science. That makes sense, except Mu isn’t a Tuffle. I don’t think he even knew what Tuffles were, because he seemed to have no idea what Baby’s true nature was, or that all of the science he knew was given to him by Baby. So why doesn’t Gero just go find Baby instead? He’s dead too, right? Goku blasted him into the sun. And don’t tell me Baby went to heaven.

Also, unlike Mu, Baby has a grudge against Goku. I mean, sure, Mu probably doesn’t like Goku either, but Goku didn’t kill Mu. Baby killed Mu, and Goku killed Baby. So you’d think Mu would be writing Goku a thank-you card.

Actually, while we’re at it, let’s talk about Dr. Gero. In DBZ, he wanted to kill Goku to avenge the destruction of the Red Ribbon Army. This was later retconned to a more personal grudge. Gero had a son, Gevo, who was killed during Goku’s attack on Red Ribbon HQ. And that made perfect sense in DBZ, when Gero was still alive. But now he’s dead, and it wasn’t Goku who killed him; it was Android 17. So you’d think Gero would now be more angry at 17 than Goku. But he’s not trying to get revenge on 17. No, he’s making another 17. Somehow, Dr. Gero has been in hell for 23 years and he seems to think that his fatal mistake was in not having enough Android 17′s.

Anyway, the two doctors somehow build a copy of 17. He even has all the same clothes he wore in DBZ, which is oddly specific. Somehow, this duplicate 17 is in contact with the still-living original 17 on Earth, and the two of them can produce some sort of energy that opens up a portal connecting Hell with Earth. How did Gero and Mu pull this off? We never find out, because they did all this off-screen.

Phase 2 of the plan is to send a bunch of dead bad guys through the portal to attack the Earth. So we’re not just ripping off the Androids Saga. We’re also ripping off the B-plot of Fusion Reborn.

Phase 3 will be to get the original 17 and the duplicate 17 to merge together, which will produce an invincible Super 17. Sort of like DBZ Movie 7, where Android 13 combined with parts from his comrades to become Super 13. So for those of you keeping score, this arc is now ripping off the Androids Saga and two of the DBZ movies.

So, this arc is off to a pretty weak start. Don’t get me wrong, this could work. Ripping off all these old DBZ stories is cheap, but it does make a pretty solid premise for an action-adventure story. In the hands of a great creative team, this could have turned out to be a lot of fun. But it’s Toei, and it’s GT, and by now I think we see their track record for this sort of thing.

Again, the point I’m trying to make with this segment is not that GT isn’t allowed to borrow ideas. The point is to poke holes in the idea that GT “had some good ideas”. It didn’t. There isn’t a single new idea in this whole episode. It’s just a mashup of stuff we’ve seen before. And that could still be okay, but it’s that “poor execution” that damns the series.

✨Positivity Page✨

How can combining 17 with himself make him stronger? Well, this is the one part of the plan that they bother to explain. According to Gero, he had designed 17 to be the ultimate android, or cyborg, or whatever you want to call him. He even says in this episode that 17 was meant to be even stronger than Cell turned out to be. But 17 never achieved his true potential. Gero blames this on his failure to completely erase 17′s former identity when he rebuilt him into a cyborg. I’m not sure I follow that logic, but we do know 17 was never truly loyal to Gero, so maybe what Gero is saying is that he had to leave out certain powers from 17′s design, because he couldn’t be trusted.

But the way Gero says it, it sounds like he means 17′s disloyalty made him weaker somehow. Anyway, Gero seems to have solved that problem, because the duplicate is completely under his control, and he original 17 seems to be doing what they want him to do. And the duplicate contains special upgrades and enhancements that the original lacks, so when they merge together, they’ll finally become the ultimate artificial warrior that Gero had intended from the start.

And you know, I guess that does sort of add up, now that I think about it. I’ve always balked at this explanation for Super 17, because the whole point of Cell was that he was Gero’s “ultimate weapon”, except he kind of wasn’t. Cell was a failsafe, something Gero gave up on because it was taking too long to finish.

So I guess the narrative here is that Gero planned to achieve the ultimate android in #17, but he couldn’t suppress 17′s personality, so he had to nerf 17. Then he made 18, perhaps as a second try, and she had the same problems, so he put both of them in storage, for fear that they’d turn on him. He ended up designing 19, using some different powers that weren’t included in 17 and 18, but given what we know about Super 17, it seems like the idea was to have one android with all of those powers, and some more besides.

Anyway, since 17 didn’t work out the way Gero planned, he tried to create Cell as a way to salvage the project. But Cell would only combine with 17 by literally consuming him (and 18). He’d become incredibly powerful, but not necessarily as powerful as the original Super 17 design. But Gero had to settle for that, because it was the only way to approach Super 17 power levels while also eliminating 17 as a potential threat.

But now, with Dr. Mu’s help, and 23 years in hell to consider the problem, Gero thinks he can finally build Super 17 the way he wanted from the start. And that kind of makes sense too, because it took Gero’s computer about 20 years to finish making Cell, and you have to figure that Gero could improve on that in the same amount of time, especially when he has the completed Cell available for reference.

So I don’t know, it’s not all terrible. But it is mostly terrible. Also, I like this mad scientist toast that Gero and Mu share.

✨Is this episode worse than “The Roaming Lake”?✨

This episode is pretty much focused on setting up the plot, which is a good thing in principle, but it takes a really roundabout way to get there. I just explained Gero and Mu’s scheme, but I had to jump back and forth across this episode’s runtime to do it. Let me run through these scenes in order to give you an idea of the problem here.

So we open on Goku’s house, I think? It looks like Mt. Paozu, except there’s a town around them. Anyway, the Son Family is having Bulma, Trunks, and Bulla over for dinner. Trunks is running late, and then he shows up and collapses in Pan’s arms. He says “17″, and passes out.

Then the good guys notice the giant hellhole in the sky, and King Kai contacts Goku to tell him what that is. He doesn’t know how it happened, though. Also, King Kai has a cold for some reason, and I don’t know if that’s supposed to be a plot point, or if they just wanted to do something different with his visual.

We get a lot of panicky Earthlings reacting to the Hellhole, and then we find out Mu and Gero are behind it, and they explain their plan, which I’ve already covered.

Then Trunks wakes up at Goku’s house, and he explains what happened to him. He was on his way over for dinner, when the original 17 ambushed him, beat him up, then told him about the Hellhole. Note that a lot of this information has already been explained elsewhere, but this is how Goku finds out about it. The only new detail in this scene is that 17 told Trunks to send a message to Goku, challenging him to face the bad guys in hell.

After Trunks tells his story, the gang sees a news report about all the dead villains invading, and Goku decides the only thing to do is take the fight to Hell before Cell and Frieza come to Earth. Again, we’re just sort of rehashing the basic problem. King Kai told Goku about this Hellhole problem early on, so we didn’t really need 17 and the news media explaining that dead bad guys could come through it to get revenge.

So we can finally move on to the real meat of the story, except most of the episode was spent over-explaining the situation. Goten and Trunks kill Pui-Pui, Yakon, and Android 19 while Palace watches. I guess fans of Bisexual Goten really did this shot? I don’t have much of a head for this sort of thing, but it seems like something they’d like.

And Pan wipes out just about all of the Red Ribbon Army guys. Wait, why did Staff Officer Black get to keep his robot suit? It’s weird enough that No. 19 and Sgt. Metallic are in this episode, but I can sort of buy into the idea that they had souls. But Black’s mech was just a machine. Did Gero build him a new one? Or did Black come to Earth, and then he went to an old Red Ribbon storage facility and get a new robot suit just like the one he used when he died?

As for Goku, he flies into Hell by himself, like an idiot. When he finds Gero, Mu, and the duplicate 17, they just nope out there and fly through the hole, closing it up behind them. Goku stands there like a dummy and just watches them escape. So now Goku is trapped in hell, while Gero and Mu are free to wreak havoc on Earth with no one to stop them.

Mostly, Goku’s pissed because he came here to fight Cell and Frieza, and he’s worried that it was all a lie, but then Cell and Frieza show up, and it looks like they stayed behind to keep Goku company.

And this is presented like a terriffic cliffhanger, but... it really isn’t? The idea here is that the Earth is besieged with dead villains while Goku is trapped in hell. But... we already know there’s a way out, since Gero and Mu just used one. Sure, the trick will be for Goku to find his own escape, except.... no, Goku can just turn into a Super Saiyan 4 and use Instant Transmission to leave. We’ve seen him do this before. He teleported back and forth between Earth and Otherworld during the Buu Saga. The only limitation seemed to be that he couldn’t move freely while he was dead, but he’s not dead this time.

Then there’s the dead villains. Well, they could cause all sorts of problems for our heroes, except... no, they can’t. Goten, Trunks, and Pan just took out a bunch of them already. Most of the bad guys in this arc are so outclassed that they’re not even remotely a threat. Cell and Frieza might be able to cause some trouble for the weaker heroes, but they stayed behind to fight Goku, who... Well he’s a Super Saiyan 4 now! Frieza died to a Super Saiyan 1, and Cell died to a Super Saiyan 2. Do the math.

The only real tension to any of this lies in the pair of 17′s, but they don’t really become a threat until they combine together. So this whole arc is really just a one-villain deal, but we have to wade through all of these small fry just to get to that part, which is a waste of time. And as we’ve seen, GT loves dragging things out.

So yeah, this is worse than “The Roaming Lake”, because of the way it sort of repeats the explanation of the conflict, rather than giving the audience any reason to care about it.

✨The Blade Braxton Memorial Haiku*✨

That android is toast!

Yeah, more like... burnt toast... again!

And again... and... a--

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