#but somehow this feels nerdier

[wishmaster]

The Closet Submissive

There’s a photo on your banner of a ripped asian guy, on his knees, in front of his master, chained.  I wish that were me.  To be forced by my master to work out and dumb down all day.  To be the cocky arrogant jock on the outside, but inside, but the submissive slave to my master.  To be forced to obey my master, and know that theres a voice inside my head that hates, it.  That I was once this super smart guy, but somehow master changed me into is obedient, dumb muscle slave.    That is forced to fuck, be fucked, work out and serve his master in any way he pleased.  That would be my greatest wish. 

And your wish is my command. 

You look in your mirror as you notice, the nerdy white boy you used to be has disappeared and this gorgeous young Asian stud with a full muscles body is staring back, you rip your shirt to get a better look at your new body. 

Fuck, you think, you’re sexy as hell, you suddenly have this feeling you need to work out. You keep the shirt off and head to the gym. 

You kill it, working out most of the day, each rep seems to make you bigger, sexier, hornier.

“Hey Adam.” a voice says. Some how that voice seems to trigger in your mind. You need to listen to whomever it belongs to, in fact just the way he says your name seems to send your body into weakness. You turnaround and see him.

It’s Danny your neighbor, Damn, he’s changed too. You remember that you used to bully him for being even nerdier than you. But now you turn and see him and suddenly your weak in the knees. 

“Master.” you mutter out unaware why you’d even say that, he winks at you and motions at you to follow him into the locker room. He motions for you to sit like a dog in front of him as he unzips his leather jeans, a massive cock flops out and he demands you suck it. Usually you wouldn’t be caught dead doing gay shit like this but your body does as it is told almost instinctively. You feel his dick enter your mouth, you want to resist but master.. why do you keep referring to him as that? You suck your master off until he’s filling your mouth and soon covering your new face with his cum. Good Boy, he says. Adam tell me what is it you do for a living? he asks your remember you used to work with computers at a big company but that is not what you respond.

I live to serve my master, making extra cash by keeping my sex channel updated with my progress and me pleasuring myself on camera. That’s right, you’re just a dumb, sexy jock now isn’t that right? I nodded in agreement, cum still hang from my lips. 

Master stared down at me, pleased with his new boy. I knew right then and there my greatest desire had been granted to me and I was now nothing more than Master’s perfect little submissive toy. I did only as he desired,  changed into his obedient, dumb muscle slave, forced to fuck, be fucked, work out and serve him in any way he pleased. He bent down and spoke in my ear, Your ass is mine now Boy. I stared at myself as I was about to start my next workout, I didn’t want master to be upset with me if i didn’t keep up his sexy look.

#body transformation #male transformation #wish granted

[agentnico]

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (2023) Review

A month ago at the point of Quantumania’s release I was discussing superhero fatigue, especially with the MCU. However now it seems it may in fact be fatigue of cinema as a whole! 2023...what have you done.

Plot: A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a long lost relic, but their charming adventure goes dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

Straight off the bat I’ll say that I am not really an avid diehard D&D fan. I have played a few games during university with one of my more nerdier mates back then. Yeah, you know the one. Everyone has that one geek king in their uni years who’s an expert in all things pop culture, comics, movies and D&D. So yeah, that cool dude! However outside of those few D&D sessions where I’d cameo as my dwarf character that I aptly named Gimli the Second, my knowledge of this trademark tabletop game begins and ends there. So of course I won’t get all the references and Easter eggs that are sure to please fans in this movie. That being said, as more of a casual viewer I must say...I didn’t really like this movie.

I know, I know, many of you liked this one. I’ve seen the positive critical reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and the excited audience response on IMDb. Yet I am not one of these lucky chums. Look, I’ve been getting really frustrated with the sheer mediocrity that Hollywood has been churning out recently. This year alone we had Adam Driver take on dinosaurs and somehow make it boring; M Night Shyamalan tackled the end of the world and there was no signature big twist; Nicolas Cage starred in his first ever western and surprisingly did not Cage-rage once; the new MCU big bad Kang ended up not being that intimidating...look, it’s been a crappy year for films so far. The fact that I’m considering Cocaine Bear at the top spot is heavily concerning. Now we have the new Dungeons & Dragons movie that I personally found to reinstate that fact of banality. 

The plot of the film is filled with predictable clichés all ripped from the likes of Lord of the Rings, Guardians of the Galaxy and The Princess Bride, only all those did it better. I found myself daydreaming multiple times throughout the movie and being flat out bored by a lot of what was going on. It was a weak narrative with very cringeworthy dialogue. Heck, even the comedy wasn’t really good. Hugh Grant does his usual over the top shtick, yet even though that worked superbly for him in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, in here it came off pompous and annoying. Chris Pine, as charming as he may be, is miscast as the lead bard, as the main character is supposed to be more of a know-it-all doofus, as such I feel someone like Jason Bateman would have fit the part more. In fact, this movie is directed and produced by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, whom both worked with Bateman previously on Game Night and Horrible Bosses, so I feel like they may have even had him in mind when they first wrote the script. Michelle Rodriguez is bland as ever, Sophia Lillis is forgettable, Rege-Jean Page was only cast for his looks and Daisy Head isn’t menacing enough as the villain. Justice Smith is the only one really who actually got some laughs out of the audience in my cinema, and also the only one to really have a proper character arc in the whole movie.

The visuals in all fairness were solid. The creature designs were realised really well, and the use of some practical effects is always a welcome. But overall this D&D adventure came off as a lazy fantasy rehash, and one that offered minimum thrill. Again, this may appeal more to hardcore fans of the original game, but overall the cure of 2023 movie mediocrity continues. Here’s hoping Chris Pratt voicing Mario isn’t as bad as it sounds...

Overall score: 4/10

#dungeons and dragons #d and d #dungeons and dragons movie #dungeons and dragons honor among thieves #movie #film #adventure #action #fantasy #movie reviews #film reviews #cinema #chris pine #michelle rodriguez #justice smith #hugh grant #sophia lillis #daisy head #rege-jean page #john francis daley #jonathan goldstein #2023 #2023 in film #2023 films #comedy #honour among thieves

[clairelsonao3]

Happy STS, Claire!

What is something that makes its way into everything you write? A character type, a scene, a trope, anything?

Is there something you really want to include in a story at some point, but haven't had the chance yet?

And do you ever hide easter eggs in your writing, even if chances that anyone will find them are low?

Happy STS, thanks for the ask, Elli!

Romance, or elements of romance, seems like something I'm incapable of leaving out of anything I write. It's probably why I've realized I may not be cut out to be a literary fiction writer, despite my MFA, because I just want to write about girls kissing cute boys, and that sadly just is never going to be regarded as serious enough to win me the Nobel Prize for Literature. Sigh. It's so unfair. (And whump, of course, although romance has historically been easier to work into most stories than chains, whips, and shackles, not that I don't try).

One of those things -- an impersonation gambit -- I finally did get to incorporate into Ch. 25-26 of GSNBTR. There are a couple of whumpy things I'm dying to include, but I may get to include them before the story is finished. If not, I'll incorporate them into the sequel or a side fic or something. (Don't wanna give them away here, though!) A few other random things I've been wanting to write about forever (in no particular order) are thieves, turn-of-the-century NYC, gutterpunks, international intrigue, Central America, and Antarctica. Maybe all in the same story.

I LIVE for Easter eggs, the nerdier the better. The Adored is absolutely littered with references to country rock legend Gram Parsons (up to and including the surname of the male MC), but he's never actually mentioned. The funniest part is that it's a YA novel, and the chance that any contemporary teen reader will ever pick up on references to an obscure country rock singer who died back in 1973 is slim to none, so it really is all purely to entertain myself (and maybe my dad, lol). And in GSNBTR, I keep managing to stick in references to Bob Dylan, despite the fact that in this universe, his career never technically existed, and he's probably still living in Hibbing, Minnesota, and retired from working at his family's appliance store. But as a protest singer, I feel like somehow, his spirit still informs this particular dystopian universe. And again, no one is likely to pick up on them anyway, so I figure, why not go nuts.

#asked and answered #gsnbtr #wip: the adored #sts #writeblr #my writing

[thebossestunicycle]

Final Flash Update: an actual review

The DCEU has always been very hit or miss for me, but it has a special place in my heart. When Man of Steel came out, my dad was OBSESSED with it (still is), and it became the first superhero movie I ever watched. Despite the mediocre scores internet-wide (and how the terraforming scared the shit out of me as a kid), I cannot help but love that film to death. It really sparked my interest with superheroes and just ‘nerdier’ stuff in general.

While the DCEU opened me up to the whole world of superheroes, it also became part of what made me so weary of comic book movies. While there were good movies like Wonder Woman (2017) and (hot take) Black Adam, and great ones like the Snydercut, there were also huge disappointments that left me feeling pissed off when the theater lights turned back on. It’s not like all of these movies are downright horrible in every way (exception being 2016’s Suicide Squad), but each seemed to have its own form of kryptonite. The Justice League (2017)’s being its lack of character development; Wonder Woman 1984’s forgettable plot; and of course, Batman v. Superman’s Martha scene.

With the DCEU’s track record, the over saturation of superhero media, and with Ezra Miller being… Ezra Miller, my hopes for this movie were extremely low. But I actually left the theater feeling pretty.. decent?

Here are my main takeaways. Spoilers ahead:

Plot + Characters

As of now, I haven’t noticed any critical plot holes, which is pretty great, especially considering it’s a multiverse movie and all. Everything that blew up in Barry’s face was tied up nicely. But I am sorta curious to see how moving the tomato can caused Ben Affleck to become George Clooney.

The time mechanics were also pretty neat, like how a new future creates a new past.

I kinda like Barry a lot. He’s wicked awkward but it’s funny to watch.

Younger Barry too! He was such an airhead in the beginning that I was shocked to find out he was the guy that our Barry kept seeing when he time travelled.

I found Keaton’s Batman entertaining too. But the whole time Keaton didn’t really seem like he was trying to act. He just looked happy to be Batman again, which I can’t blame him for. On that note, I wish Bale’s Batman made a cameo somehow.

I was underwhelmed with the Zod plot. I was ready to watch him totally kick Flash’s ass. I didn’t mind Kara, but again she was a bit underwhelming too.

I got excited when Zod mentioned discovering Clark in his pod somewhere in space. I was like “Oh shit, did they take him in and train him to fight for them?” Seeing an evil Superman would’ve been crazy, but nah, they just killed him instead. Lame-os.

Effects / CGI

Oh man, I did not enjoy some of the choices made here.

First of all, the deep fake cameos. And also, deepfaking people like Adam West and all, who are dead, is a little odd. However Nicholas Cage showing up was very funny.

Then there was the CGI in the Speedverse (?? correct me if that’s the wrong name). It was video-game level. I felt like I was watching a skyrim-inspired acid trip.

Even outside of speedverse, the quality was really spotty.

Action

Oh my god, it’s so refreshing when there’s even the tiniest ounce of creativity in fight scenes (Looking at you, MCU).

Diving deeper into Barry’s powers was cool and seeing him fight with (and then against) himself was neat!

Then there was also pretty standard Batman stuff that I’m a sucker for

NEEDED a better Kara v. Zod fight. I wanted lasers. I wanted them to go to space. ANYTHING

Overall Emotional Reaction

Both Barrys hit hard a few times. The desperation to fix everything. Having to let go of their mom and accept their fate(s?). The scene when he said goodbye to her for the last time was pretty sad.

The themes were simple: accept your past; pain makes us who we are; etc etc. But there’s nothing really wrong with that.

The jokes landed! I laughed with, not at, most things

…Okay, I did laugh out loud at some things, like the deepfakes and when the Barrys phased for the first time.

But yeah, it was really enjoyable to watch. The runtime wasn’t an issue at all. Dull moments were rare (though I didn’t give a single shit about Barry’s dating life at all)

Final Score:

Characters: 7/10

Plot: 7/10

CGI: 4/10

Action: 7/10

6.3 / 10

If I had to rank: above Black Adam, below Wonder Woman

but seriously can they just recast flash already. I wish ezra miller all the best on rehabbing themselves, and they really do a great job with the character, but it’s like they’re trying to get a jail sentence with everything they’ve done

#the flash #dceu #g rambles- #I MEAN #g reviews

[dragonsorceress22]

Pride 2022 - Day 15

Today's rec is for the nerdy young adults of the world. And the nerdy adults. And everyone who's ever been to a fandom convention.

Available in print and audiobook!

Don't forget to check out your local library for a wealth of free reading, watching, and listening!

Gonna drop my giant review of this book after the break here in case anyone is interested lol

Okay. This book made me cry. A lot. It just hit painfully close to home for me. I will say that it started out just a little slow, but only because of the mandatory set-up of the Cinderella character's home life, which we all already know. (Veeeery similar vibes to the movie A Cinderella Story with Hilary Duff.) And if I were still in the same age bracket as the main characters, I don't think I'd have had any issue at all. I just remember that right at the start I felt like... oooh dear is this gonna be too young for me? AND THEN IT WASN'T. Because it was put together so, so amazingly well. Yes, I'm 30 and the characters are 17 and 18, but the message and emotion of fandom culture is so overwhelmingly strong and accurate, and age just doesn't matter in that safe space. The references are all solid and touch on so, so, SO many fandoms: Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Avengers, Batman, Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Sailor Moon, Firefly, The Princess Bride, and more and more. I could probably list references forever and not capture them all. And if the simple glory of basking in all the nerdy fandoms wasn't enough, this book also addresses the issues of Hollywood white-washing, is inclusive of all forms of cosplay no matter your skin color or if you wanna do your own version or genderbend. It's got het pairings, bi pairings, lesbian pairings. It doesn't rush the relationships. It does an amazing job of delivering a story we literally all know the plot and ending to and painting it beautifully, vividly, and unpredictably, with a heavy dose of seriously powerful emotion that is still somehow not unrealistically dramatic (except for maybe that 10 foot fall off a balcony? anyone else feel like maybe that should have been more injury inducing? oh who am I kidding I don't even care it was amazing). I was also impressed by the accuracy of the convention workings. I mean, anybody truly in a fandom who attends cons knows about the magical culture of togetherness that happens there, but the behind the scenes stuff? Also very on-point in this book. FEELS. Kiiiinda wish the narrators for the audio book (who were completely fantastic in every other regard!) had been instructed in how to pronounce some of the nerdier terms that got mispronounced, but c'est la vie. Basically this book is kinda snuggling my heart. Just... all the feels. I think I'll go cry some more just to get the residual bits out of my system. You know a book's good when you feel like you need to recover from it after it's over.

#Geekerella #once upon a con #Ashley Poston #bi representation #lesbian representation #lgbtq+ #happy pride 🌈 #audiobooks #book rec #conventions #DS recommends

[stephanericherthanyou]

Ch31-40

Ch31: Heroes Can Save You

lmao the logistics of zanpakutou + low ceiling

Ch32: Hero is Always With Me

just like the rent cost of everything these days :(

Ch33: Rockin’ Future 7

Look, / the azure sky that crushes us / licks up our spines. ...man i love these poems

yeah sometimes you do look back at a time and put your finger on it as a turning point, but other times it’s hard to say--ig i’ve never been through something as big n wild as the bleach kids. but that sort of anticipatory feeling, the heavy air before the rain type thing (i wonder if the rain mini-arcs are a metaphor somehow)...especially on a meta level, bleach itself transforms from monster of the week urban fantasy to...whatever it becomes, and never really goes back? like even when it does it doesn’t, you can’t stuff it back in the bag (all the stuff about the larger universe, gotei 13, complex worldbuilding stuff) /ramble but yeah this is my fave arc for a reason--i like the way it’s grounded in the human world, and i don’t like that it eventually basically abandoned that. but maybe my feelings on all that will change with this reread who can say

Ch34: Quincy Archer Hates You

URYUU!!!! love his early cameo as #1 in the class (even nerdier than ichigo!)

also i’m fond of how these plot points seem to resolve themselves all the while kubo lays the groundwork for later stuff....v interesting

Ch35: Can You Be My Enemy?

Unless I grip the sword, / I cannot protect you. / While gripping the sword, / I cannot embrace you.

i feel like this is that “let’s tell each other a secret” vine.

QUINCY SEWING SKILLS ACTIVATE

Ch36: For the Sake of Revenge, Lead Us to Death

kenobi.jpg

“a long time” at this point is what, 20 years? maybe not even that?

(& tessai says ‘200 years’ - wasn’t he in everything but the rain or was he straight up lying?)

Ch37: Crossing The Rubicon

OH this is when everyone has the confrontation with hollows and their powers unlock! i forgot it was when uryuu did the thing and summoned the hollows

Ch38: Bent

Ch39: Right Arm of the Giant

im never gonna shut up about the Kubo Panels

Ch40: Grow

aaand you can tell by the cover that uryuu has been promoted to main character while keigo & mizuiro have been demoted

i’m so fond of the kurosaki sibs :’) chad noting the ichigo-karin similarities...pls

#richer rereads bleach #enough for today i have commitments #40 of 687 isn't too bad #that's almost one seventeeth #so like...2.5 weeks for me to get thru the whole thing if i do 40 a day #thinking dot jpg #bleach

[theghostpinesmusic]

I've been pretty obsessively watching Goose livestreams and archived concert videos since late 2019, but never really share much online about my enthusiasm for the band. Unless you know me in person or have listened to my currently-on-hiatus KTEC radio show in the past, you likely have no sense of how fully this band has completely taken over the Phish-shaped space in my brain over the last four years. And...maybe that's a good thing for you?

Part of the reason I don't post much about the band specifically (or the music I listen to in general) is that most people I know don't get the overwhelming level of joy out of live music that I do. Which is, obviously, fine. Different strokes for different folks and all that. The other part is that even those who like live music don't often go in for jam band music. There tends not to be a lot of actual crossover in the potential Venn diagram of people who freak out over getting to be in the stadium for one night of a Taylor Swift tour and people who freak out because this third version of "Arcadia" the band has played on this tour is *definitely* the best jam from the six shows they've attended over the last seven nights.

I mean, there's not *no* overlap, but...let's just say jam band fandom is kind of its own thing. It's sort of like being a baseball fan, but somehow nerdier. And your team never actually loses.

Anyway, long story short: I just happened upon this YouTube channel that posts webcast excerpts from Goose shows, which means I can write about and share some of my favorite recent performances without constantly dropping three hour long full-show videos that nobody is going to realistically watch into my feed.

Of course, it's possible that nobody is realistically going to watch a twenty-four minute video either, but shh...

I'm just finishing up catching up on the band's recent European tour, so I'm starting with this video, of "Madhuvan" from the opening show of the tour, which took place in Paris.

"Madhuvan" has long been one of my favorite Goose songs, partially because it's both a fun and interesting song musically and partially because I like the lyrics a lot as they speak to (as many of the band's songs do in some form) the transitory nature of life and the value of focusing on the present moment instead of on wealth, fame, popularity, or other similar things. If you're interested, the lyrics are here.

The "formal," composed part of the song in this video runs up through 6:50 and feels a bit more raw and rock-and-roll than usual. Either it's just my imagination, or it's the fact that the band was touring in smaller venues than usual throughout Europe and were all playing with at least somewhat stripped-down gear. Maybe it's both?! It's probably both.

Either way, after Rick's initial, brief guitar solo, we're off into the improvisatory part. Lately, it's felt to me like the band is deconstructing each version of "Madhuvan" that they play, trying to get more and more minimalist at the beginning of the jam and seeing what they can build up and into from (nearly) nothing. This version's no different in that regard.

The first little bit is what I often noncanonically think of as a space jam: there's no real melody or beat to follow, and everyone is just sort of chaotically throwing noises around to see what happens. This sort of thing can get kind of boring to me if it goes on for minutes at a time (The Grateful Dead's "Drums/Space" sequences have a mixed reputation for this reason), but here it's just brief bit of casting about and it's fun to be along for the ride. Then, around 8:30, a catchy riff that Peter is somehow playing both on his keyboard and guitar at the same time emerges and everyone else falls in musically around it.

This riff and Trevor's basslines lead the band along through a few minutes of this really unique musical space that, during my watch of the entire show a few weeks ago I thought of as "Evil Salsa." Like most jam bands, the "up front" melody instruments (guitars and keys) tend to overshadow the rhythm instruments in the mix during most of Goose's jams, and I'm a big fan of this section of this "Madhuvan" specifically because the percussion and bass are way more upfront than usual. I'm pretty much always going to enjoy hearing Trevor drive things.

The jam starts to metamorphose a bit around 13:00, as Rick starts chording a little more aggressively and Peter joins in shortly after. We're in a little bit more standard blues territory here, but the percussion stays in backbeat mode for a minute, producing some neat tension.

At about 14:00, the transition into the next stage of the jam is complete, and now we're in much more bread-and-butter territory for Goose: a major-key blissful gallop with Rick's guitar taking the lead. This is great, but it just kinda rolls along in the same vein for a bit, so I'll skip over picking through every detail...

It's at about 18:45 when Rick interrupts the gallop the band has going by holding on to a particularly grungy chord for a bit. The rest of the band immediately adjusts to reform the music around this move (this is the stuff I absolutely love hearing bands like this one do), and then shortly after we're off on another upbeat section of the jam that nonetheless has a bit of a noisier and messier inflection than the previous few minutes.

This bit roils along for a few minutes before Rick breaks the tension at 21:15 right after throwing a look at Trevor to warn him a key change is coming. This change resolves the tension of the previous jam space, making you feel suddenly relieved and happy even if you know literally nothing about music theory. If you're an absolute dork like me, you'll notice at this point that they're back in the key that "Madhuvan" starts in, which usually means it's about time to wrap things up.

There's a little more fun breakdown/tension action happening at 22:00, but we're otherwise locked in to the rush toward the song's composed conclusion at this point, so everyone's having a good time. The last minute or so is the song's typical ending.

I've really been enjoying watching the videos from the band's Europe tour, and this version of "Madhuvan" was probably the top highlight of the first night for me. For me, it's a song that a) is fun and well-written from a songwriter's standpoint as well as b) one that the band almost always seems to take as an opportunity to improvise outside of the kind of playing I usually hear from them. There's a lot of that in the first few minutes of the jam here, and then a lot more of that in the version of "Red Bird" that follows. I guess my only complaint about this video is that it's not the full Madhuvan > Red Bird combo from the Paris show :)

I'll be back before too long with some words (fewer than this time, most likely!) on the version of "Hot Tea" from the band's next night in Germany! Thanks for reading.

#goose #goose the band #live music #jams #videos #music #jam bands #writing #tour journal #Youtube

[eyeballtank]

Another one.

1:

If people really believe "Cringe is dead", somebody should've looked at Prokopetz or whatever he's called about his take "VN's/videogames will never be fully preserved because they're pervy" and how full of shit he is.

Because more respected mediums like film and literature have people defending more controversial works like Birth Of A Nation because "they're still part of history".

Shit I bet there's book historians that want to protect something like L*lita.

Only nerdier mediums like games or anime have this issue and that's why people even defend censorship now.

It's also a result of "anime is embarrasing in front of my parents" SA Goon shit that is mostly prevalent in American's influence online.

I bet if you go to Italy, you'd find graffiti pantings of Gundam or people singing the Lupin the 3rd theme.

There's modern releases of games that put up "attention, the content here is outdated" warnings and STILL somehow cut away stuff.

All the people going "MGS was always political chud" will say nothing when the MGS3 remake cuts content because they have no actual principles to stand on.

2:

Going back to "websites used to have different cultures/personalities", you can tell Zoomers fuck up ironic 2000's internet nostalgia when they mix up references.

Like putting Smosh next to Newgrounds when both popular NG celebs and their fans used to say "Pewdiepie is fucking cancer".

3:

If anything, people prefer when a guy calls the Mario movie "woke" than calling it "CalArts".

Because those TheQuartering types are goofy in a blatant useful idiot way, so people can use them as an example (Plus, they compliment other culture war idiots, even people that claim to not care about culture wars).

But the guy that calls the Mario movie "CalArts" comes from a genuine nerdy interest in animation history and at worst "sounds mean" but isn't really wrong.

Because people in nerdy hobbies got "less nerdy" and "media literacy" is more about pretending to care about politics and mix it with media than actual interest in media and its history.

Hell, they're more ok with Funko Pop "consoomers" than the "This is CalArts" guy.

Makes me think making fun of Joss Whedon or shitting on Demon Souls' remake should've never caught on, because those come from people with actual knowledge/observation skills and people online copy opinions without actually believing them properly.

Instead, people will pretend some Youtuber "figured it out" and wasn't the one poorly copying info to begin with.

4:

"Game preservation" should mean something literal but it's also becoming a bit of a buzzword when you see it associated with scummy shit like Limited Run Games or WayForward's remake of ClockTower with an inferior art style.

Because preserving art should break certain laws if necessary.

Just pick the actual game files as they are and PROTECT THEM.

Even if a remake/port is really good, make sure the original is still available.

I used to hate that Doom 64 EX requires the N64 rom of the game to work but looking back, that was probably the most important part of that port.

5:

With the 2 "takes" mentioned above, nerd culture degredation goes more ways than just "guy who made fun of PC stuff is now PC himself".

Like people having less interesting observations, forgetting interesting/useful knowledge or even defending certain corporate things.

The old guard stagnates in ways that even impact more special areas besides just getting weirdly political but people on 4chan still only focus on "gatekeeping" the new blood when the old one is showing problems.

/a/ isn't even bothering to say "stop with the shills" over the One Piece live action show.

6:

"They/them pussy" feels like a very weird contradicting term.

On one hand, it adheres to modern gender "bodies and spaces" stuff but on another, it features a slang term that people would call it misogynist.

You're mixing something part of a certain culture of acceptance with a supposedly sexist term.

It's like using a term that complements black people and mixing it with the literal N word.

Makes no sense but then again, this is the culture some people choose.

7:

A fun thing about videogames is because they're recent, "personal favorite" choices mix up with historical ones.

So someone brings up both MGS or Half-Life in a "most important games of all time" list and a list of personal choices, even if they still include obscure games in the latter.

Whereas with music, one list will have Mozart or Beethoven, but then you'll have a list that includes modern rock/rap stars.

Even with illustration, you can put Da Vinci or Picasso in one list and the other will have HR Giger or Wayne Barlowe.

But this can also be a problem on its own.

8:

Because crossovers can attract autism, it's weird when you see people attached to "crossover-ish" stuff that isn't as enthusiastic.

I mean stuff like Robot Chicken sketches, those Meet The Spartan/Scary Movie movies or even BroForce and ERBOH.

Not the same as Smash or Kingdom Hearts.

9:

An important skill to have is acknowledge when something new is also smart.

One thing is seeing something new, another is when you can tell it's smart or dumb in certain occasions/examples.

10:

I feel like if you make videos like Let's Plays, commentaries, podcasts etc you shouldn't be offended by "content creator" as a term.

That goes for actual creatives like animators because they're the ones that gave up on Youtube.

Because even the best "commentary" Youtuber is technically part of the problem of why YT is the way it is.

Anything that can work as "background noise" is what's currently big on YT and keeps feeding the system.

It doesn't matter if Cr1tikal steals basic opinions or if Veritasium lies in some science videos, because most people don't really "watch" them properly.

"Here's why you missed the point of Breaking Bad".

Your own audience is missing the point of your shitty essay because they're making it background noise while looking at Subway Surfers gameplay and food videos.

But with Speedoru's Punch Punch Forever, you have to actually ENGAGE with it.

11:

I think the reason why dark humor is important is because it can come from a place of certain knowledge.

Think of why some offensive/edgy jokes can go to far, because the joke teller had to look some info or learn certain things to make a joke about a tragedy feel heavy.

Even if it's a guy spending too much time on 4chan or ED.

It's why SsethTzeentach made funny jokes because he had a real job related to chemistry and even EmptyHero's jokes are creative as if he did research or had interest in weird topics.

This is why Zoomer's "safe" humor like "i hate the Fr*nch" or "Big Tobacco" sucks: It's not just safe, it's also coming from a place with weak frame of references so you can tell a literal kid thinks those are funny.

Though edgy Newgrounds animations can still be crude and have basic references but still.

People think Family Guy is bad in general because it has "adult themes", when at the same time a lot of interesting and important artists/works of art tackle adult themes.

And you also have to consider the counter-culture aspect of going through crude or uncomfortable areas.

But with FG hate, we're yet again in the area of cartoon reviewers that only want comfortable cartoons I guess.

#blog

[userminusone]

I guess I'm on Tumblr. Again.

my brain said I should do this because why not and I was like "ok sure yeah whatever"

My tumblr friends are groundfault https://groundfault.tumblr.com/ and inthar/hikicawmori https://www.tumblr.com/hikicawmori. They're cool people and you should check them out.

I'm pretty obsessed with microtonality/xenharmony, and also music production and various EDM subgenres like DnB and also nerdier stuff like DSP, I've been a brony since 2022 which I think is the weirdest change I've gone through thus far but at this point I don't even care really. Also I like random other things that I may or may not talk about here, who knows. ADHD keeps telling me to like a bunch of different things to have variety but Asperger's tells me to invest in a few select special interests so idk what my brain is doing really.

Tumblr unironically gives me cult vibes so I'm hardly a true Tumblrite and more like a social media tourist using this platform to basically brain vomit.

I edit the Xendergarten podcast. I enjoy it but I wish I could make the process a lot more efficient.

I'm way too addicted to attention. In the back of my mind I imagine myself appearing on r/Tumblr eventually. Maybe one day

If you read this far and are still interested somehow feel free to check my youtube youtube.com/@Userminusone or my bandcamp userminusone.bandcamp.com to listen to the bleep bloops I've made

I'm the kinda guy who'd probably forget about Tumblr for a solid few months then dump 40 posts in one day or something idk. Maybe I'll even delete Tumblr again and remake my account for a third time just a few weeks later. My brain is a dog trying to chase after 20 tennis balls at the same time and not really successfully catching any of them

#my brain is so all over the place you have no idea #I guess this counts as an introduction about as much as 8\13 counts as a perfect fifth #be prepared to read my posts and have no idea what's going on because I won't either

[geniusincombatboots]

Well, I have officially fallen back into the LOTR fandom

When trying to beat a red light, or avoid another idiot driver, I have started internally screaming “DEATH!!!!”

#lord of the rings #rohan #forth eorlingas! #on purpose #I mean #there's also the fanfic i've been writing #but somehow this feels nerdier #idk

[recurring-polynya]

Do you have any headcanons about the Visoreds.

To be honest, I do not.

I like the Visored. TBTP is a great arc. I just never think about them and if I try, my brain pulls up an old Windows 95 screensaver while the wacky Visored Price is Right theme plays.

#visored asmr #i am sorry i am a disaster #my head is just 99% soul society and 1% karakura town #i make fun of this music all the time but it is the absolute perfect visored theme #and the fact that they introduced it in the same season as the arrancar spanish guitars? #perfection #yes i could refer to these songs by their proper names #i feel like that would somehow make me nerdier #as if that's possible #i will like any and all fanart about the visored wearing cursed 70s fashion #does that count as a headcanon?

[pommy-art]

broke: asriel is the dreamboat charismatic chad who everyone in town looks up to & the prophecy’s Knight TM

woke: asriel is just Some Guy, and Kris’ perception of him might have been a little bit skewed because they were much younger back then. so unepic that his clothes don’t change whatsoever when crossing to the dark world. somehow nerdier than ralsei so he sometimes gets bullied by ralsei 💖

(plus....... him being nervous for Kris having this New Courageous Experience is such a fun parallel to Kris feeling insecure when Asriel left for college tbh js idk idk)

#anyway let ralsei say fuck and stand up for his friends #basically let susie rub off on him a little sksjs #listen there has been a surge of love and appreciation for pathetic characters and i? i can have a little pathetic asriel. as a treat. #especially since people keep overhyping asriel like no guys lets lower our expectations a little just in case #asriel dreemurr #asriel #kris #kris dreemurr #ralsei #susie #deltarune #dr #krilsei #kralsei #if u squint

[absolutepokemontrash]

MC is Half Demon and They’re- Oh Crap They’re Barbatos’ Kid!

This is the second part of that one request I answered for Dia and Barb’s possible kids. Sorry this took so long! Writer’s block, y’know? Anyhoo~ enjoy, everyone!

This story didn’t start on the first day of the exchange program, it started five days before in Barbatos’ room at three in the morning with the poor butler waking up in a cold sweat.

Oh dear, it appeared the exchange program would be up in a bit of a tizzy. He had… a child? Oh my… Barbatos hoped the young master wouldn’t be too miffed about the student not being a totally normal human.

On the day of the exchange program, Barbatos insisted he had to be present for the event, he carefully pushed a cushioned sofa in the drop zone before opening the portal. The child fell right out of the sky and landed perfectly on the couch, they were already wearing a helmet and looked quite shocked by the cushioned fall.

Well, it was a big shock to the assembled crowd, but the child gave everyone a lopsided smile and removed their helmet.

“So, I assume I’m here for the exchange program?”

Dadbatos

Well, this child was incredibly… what was the word the kids were using? chill? They were quite chill considering the situation, and was surprisingly prepared for the sudden drop into hell.

“Oh, I had a dream that this was going to happen, and I dream about the future n’stuff. I thought I’d come prepared.” “Ah, that’s very sensible.”

Diavolo recovered quickly from his shock and was positively delighted to meet this little munchkin. He insisted that they had to stay with their dad.

MC was polite, if not a bit overly calm about a lot of things. They didn’t run off to start trouble, and they didn’t seem very impressed by the Devildom itself. It was sort of like this child had a very low maximum level of excitement. Barbatos was glad his child wasn’t some little hellraiser.

He was never a child himself, so he’s a bit clueless about what children actually enjoy. Here child, have a… have an old torture weapon. Don’t use it on anyone who doesn’t deserve it :)

(I’m kidding, Barbatos is too responsible to give one of his instruments of torture to a child. That’s for when they’re older.)

“MC,” Barbatos knocked on his child’s door. “Have you done your homework?”

MC answered the door with a grin on their face. “Yep, done this week’s and next week’s. I’m getting a head start on the potions project due next week.”

Barbatos almost breathed a small sigh of relief. Thank the stars his child was responsible, it already took a big chunk of his energy to make sure Diavolo didn’t get distracted from his paperwork. Though, his stress levels did rise a tad when he got a glimpse at the mess in MC’s room.

“Are you going to clean that?”

“Nah,” MC shrugged. “It’s whatever. I know where everything is and nothing’s a fall risk. See you at dinner, father.”

And with that, MC shut the door. Well… no child was perfect.

As much as MC’s lack of cleanliness bothers Barbatos, he knows his kid isn’t being maliciously lazy, just for the love of the Demon King please stop leaving cups on the coffee tables without a coaster!

Oh yeah, Luke has a big sib. Sorry- little sib, because Luke isn’t some chihuahua child, he’s a totally mature grown-up Angel.

Barbatos is the type of father who will let his child go off and have whatever kind of fun they want as long as they don’t slack on their important duties.

Barbs also has a goddamn torture dungeon so we here at Stupid Headcanons inc. do NOT recommend trying to eat MC. Doing so may result in you wishing you were dead.

Don’t fuck with the butler.

Lucifer

…out of literally everyone in the room, the last person Lucifer expected to have a secret scandal baby… had a scandal baby. Damn.

At least the human wouldn’t have to live with him and his brothers. The last thing Lucifer wanted was for Barbatos to be even more aware of the chaos that went down in that house every single day.

MC and Lucifer have a healthy level of respect for one another, but Lucifer just can’t shake the feeling that this kid is messing with him somehow.

Just, little things… MC offering him fruit and loudly assuring him that it was just blackberries and nothing poisonous, asking if the RAD uniform suits his tastes, proclaiming that the dirt was high quality-

SOMEONE TOLD MC ABOUT LUCIFER’S FIRST VISIT TO THE DEVILDOM!

MC wasn’t exactly visibly goading him, they said everything with an innocent smile on their face.

When MC starts getting nosy with the attic, he’s not terribly sure how to deal with it. He was going up against a child that could at least partially tell the future. After the first time Lucifer told them to scram, they never went back to the steps… at least not when Lucifer was there to guard it…

After everything goes down, Lucifer is glad that MC wasn’t hurt or anything. He’d come to like the child and it’d be awful to lose the only person who could get his more hyperactive brothers to calm down.

Mammon

Mammon wasn’t present for the meeting, but when he was informed later, the news was met with an eloquent: “the fuck? Huh, wild.”

He isn’t too interested in MC at first. At least until the little runt saved him from getting busted for skipping class. Mammon was just eating his lunch in the courtyard when MC passed by and calmly told him that if he skipped class he should not hang out in the west staircase because Lucifer was going to walk down those steps during third period.

At first Mammon tried to brush off the warning, but ended up listening to the kid anyway, and what do ya know! He didn’t get caught by Lucifer!

That’s when it clicked that MC could see the future, right? Right?! Ya know what Mammon could use that for?! Right?!

Gambling! Scams! Schemes! General shennaniganery!

MC wasn’t terribly enthused about the entire situation, so they may have messed with Mammon a little. Just a bit.

It’s not like Mammon ever listened when MC told him to cut his losses and leave the casino anyway 🙄

Leviathan

First reaction? Thank the anime gods that there wouldn’t be another normie living in the house with him…

Reaction upon hearing that the MC was Barb’s kid? Really? Barbatos? Wow… well, to be fair Levi totally understood why someone would be attracted to Barbatos, I mean, Levi’s watched plenty of anime involving butlers, but Barbatos actually having a living breathing child? Damn.

But still, Levi wasn’t going to hang out with some normie brat. He had better and nerdier things to devote his time to.

Whenever MC visited, Levi was up in his room. But once MC decided to poke their head in the door while Levi was in the middle of gamer raging.

They calmly sat Levi down and explained to him that he could be upset about whatever happened in his game, but lashing out wasn’t going to fix anything or make him better at the actual game.

…damn it… they were right.

Slowly but surely Levi and MC built up a friendship, and the brothers rejoiced at the lack of rage related Lotan summons.

Satan

Out of everything Satan could have possibly expected from the second exchange student, this was not one of them.

Satan began to wonder exactly how MC’s powers worked, he didn’t exactly have any concrete data to compare them to because Barbatos was so mysterious

Hm, how very interesting. Satan decided that it was up to him to satiate his own curiosity and began to study MC. To be honest, MC wasn’t being terribly interesting.

They were a pretty normal kid all things considered. MC went to class, made friends, did their work, very very normal. Well, except for the fact that they seemed to dodge practically every unfortunate thing that could have happened to them.

They’d stop at the perfect time to avoid something accidentally being spilled on them, they always had pencils ready, and they always seemed to know exactly when a teacher was coming… mad sus.

Satan eventually confronted MC about this, and they just shrugged and explained that they tend to dream about what was most likely to happen the next day and would adjust their actions accordingly.

It may have been anticlimactic, but MC did inform Satan that there would be a cat in the courtyard in fifteen minutes.

HE NEEDED TO GO!

Asmodeus

Asmo had genuinely been looking forward to the new exchange program, he was excited to have a new face around the house to shake things up! He loves his dear brothers but spending thousands of years with them makes their shenanigans become a bit… well, a bit boring.

But my oh my, the new face was being obscured by that tacky bicycle helmet… the new face looked an awful lot like Barbatos…

Once Asmo registered what was going on, he was positively enchanted with the little half human. They were just so cute! They looked like a baby Barbatos with those adorably chubby cheeks!

Oh Barbatos~ he just had to let Asmo babysit!

When Asmo managed to sweep MC away for a fun day with shifty uncle Solomon, he was reminded of all the shenanigans that he, Barbatos, and Solomon used to get up to.

*sigh, Barbie was always so busy… no time for a fun night of torture, chaos, and revelry

Anyhoodles~ MC was always such a relaxed little thing. They let Asmo vent whenever any awful tragedies occur, like when Asmo finds a sweater that isn’t in his size… *sniffle*

Beelzebub

A child of Barbatos? The best cook in the three realms Barbatos?! …hey kid want to hang out with cool uncle Beel?

Beel tried everything in his power to get MC to make him food. I mean, the genetic disposition for making good food has to have been passed down from father to child!

When MC finally made Beel food, he was ecstatic!

…Until the food touched Beel’s tongue and he realized it wasn’t good, it was just… okay. Average. Passable.

Aw man… but the kid looked so excited to have made something for Beel…

Beel really hammed up his reaction to make MC feel better. Beel was like “Wow. So good. Amazing.” “Thanks Beel.”

Very sweet child, they don’t mind being used in place as a dumbell.

Belphegor

Damn, and here Belphie was, thinking Barbatos has standards. Apparently not!

When MC went and walked up the attic steps, Belphie was almost bouncing on his toes in anticipation. This human had been a pain in the rear to call up, so he was excited to finally get a good look at them. And lo and behold, a half demon child of Lord Diavolo’s butler.

MC grinned and greeted Belphie first, using his name and asking why the Avatar of Sloth was stuck up in the attic of his own home when he was supposed to be in the human world. Belphie was flabbergasted and didn’t exactly know how to respond.

He came up with a new plan quickly. Belphie didn’t exactly know how this kid’s powers worked, so he’d continue with trying to trick them into opening the attic door. Allowing Belphie to end their miserable little life and thus ruining the exchange program.

The child continued to visit Belphie up in the attic, relaying the events of what was going on, and Belphie continued to play the part of prisoner. Until one day in particular…

MC appeared in front of the door, looking a tad more unkempt than normal, they weren’t smiling their usual carefree smile either. Their eyes bore holes into Belphegor’s skull as they flared at him.

“How long have you been planning on killing me?”

MC had seen the future where they died at Belphie’s hand, and they sure as hell were not going to let him out of the attic after that. Though, they did tell Belphie about Lilith’s true fate before they left, and assured Belphie they had no reason to lie to him about something he wasn’t directly involved in.

So, Belphie did get let out of the attic eventually, and even though MC smiled and welcomed him back all the same, there would always a barrier between the two. Broken trust wasn’t easy to mend, after all.

#I just like to think that the kid just carries weapons with them in their bag #But they never use the weapons for what they’re SUPPOSED to be used for #Like- MC: Oh yea this is meant for pulling out teeth but it’s big and heavy enough that I can just clobber someone with it #obey me #obey me! #obey me! shall we date? #obey me shall we date #obey me mc #Obey me Headcanons #Obey me! Headcanons #Obey me Barbatos #Obey me Lucifer #Obey me Mammon #Obey me Leviathan #Obey me Satan #Obey me Asmodeus #Obey me Beelzebub #Obey me Belphegor

[ongaku-ato-kakikomi]

Hi could I request a poly beck Oliver and Jade west and reader where they meet and fall for the reader is Robbie’s twin so she is a ‘nerd’ and a bit weird ?❤️❤️

(A/N): Thank you for your request! This was really fun to write; I hope you’ll love it as much as I do!

“Why are you so sweaty?”

You had directed that question towards your twin brother Robbie, who has been looking around the school’s hallways with an absolutely terrified expression on his face. Today was your first day at Hollywood Arts and he had promised to make you meet all of his friends in the morning; yet now he was looking like he was regretting that decision.

“I’m not...!” His eyes widen once he realizes what he just said, his head snapping at you with his mouth gaped open. “I’m not sweaty!”

“Gotta agree with your sister here.” Rex suddenly speaks up, the puppet turning his wide-opened eyes towards your brother. “You’re disgusting right now, dude.”

Robbie gives him a shocked gasp. “Rex!”

“See? Even Rex agrees with me.” You chuckle, shaking your head at him with a smile as you place down your stuff in your new locker. “Seriously, why are you so nervous? Shouldn’t I be the nervous one? It’s my first day here, if I remember correctly.”

“Yeah, but...” He bites his bottom lip, looking down at the ground with shame. “You’re my sister little sister, and... I really want my friends to like you.”

“Little?” You quirk an eyebrow at him. “You were born two minutes before me.”

“I’m technically older, okay?!-”

“Hey, Robbie.” He shuts up as soon as he hears a guy’s voice, your eyes already shining with curiosity. “Who’s the girl next to you?”

“Yeah.” A harsh feminine voice suddenly speaks up as well, and you could almost hear the sarcastic grin through her tone. “Did you finally cave and built yourself a robot?”

You turn your face away from your locker to look at the two newcomers, almost chuckling at the girl’s joke already. Your eyes shine even brighter when your eyes meet the boy’s, feeling the tip of your fingers tickle.

“Please.” Your smile turns into a smirk. “Robbie can’t even pour cereal into a bowl.”

The girl snorts at your comment while Robbie gasps. “That happened once! Once!”

“I like you.” The girl’s lips stretch onto her cheeks, and you take in how beautiful and intimidating she looks as she tilts her head at you. “Tell us your name. Now.”

“I’m (Y/N). Robbie’s twin sister.” You make a small movement with your head towards Robbie. “I know, I know. I’m way too pretty to be related to him, right?”

It’s the guy’s turn to snort, Robbie already pouting. “Why are you always so mean to me?”

“Aw, you know I’m kidding, Robbie.” You gently pinch his cheeks, making his pout increase. “You’re cute too... sometimes.”

He gives out a huff, freeing his face away from your hands as he mumbles under his breath. “Well... you’re... you’re way nerdier than me anyway...”

“Sure, Robbie. Sure.” The guy said those words, his eyes now looking at you with curiosity as he stretches one of his hands towards you. “I’m Beck. One of Robbie’s friends.”

“Oh!” Your eyes shine with excitement, happily shaking his hand. “I heard so much about you!” 

His lips stretch out onto his cheeks; somehow, hearing you say those words bring him some kind of joy he hasn’t felt in a while. “He did?”

“Yeah. He keeps complimenting you and all, it’s almost annoying.” You chuckle, every single word you say making Robbie more embarrassed with each second that passes by. “At least I can say he didn’t lie.”

Pure raw honesty, huh? Beck liked that, and he knew in that moment that he’ll like every single thing he’ll get to learn about you.

You turn your head towards the girl standing next to him, disregarding the weird look she’s giving you after that handshake.  “I’m guessing you’re Jade, right? Wow, you’re so much prettier than what Robbie told me.”

Your words shock her, her pale skin taking a slightly darker shade before she turns a hard stare towards Robbie. “Oh really?”

“I, um...” Robbie runs away with Rex in his arms as if his entire life was depending on it. “Bye!”

You chuckle and shake your head at that behavior, your hands soon rapidly closing your newfound locker before you turn your attention towards Robbie’s friends. “I see he’s not so much different here than from home.”

“Robbie is Robbie.” Beck chuckles, his eyes looking at you with curiosity. “So you just transferred into Hollywood Arts?”

“Yeah! I’ve made a few drawings that got me here somehow...” Your lips stretch out, showing the pride you have in yourself. “But I’m mostly looking forward to the science lab. Heard I could do lots of dangerous experiences there.”

Jade’s lips stretch out into a known grin. “Dangerous experiences, huh?”

She didn’t know why she liked you so much. You were a new pretty girl that transferred, a possible threat to her relationship... and frankly, you seemed a little too nerdy for her taste, but yet, she still felt something in you that drove her curiosity to the roof.

She wanted to know all of your secrets. And Jade always gets what she wants.

The school bell rings before you can even think of an answer to Jade’s words, the other students in the hallway already making their way towards their respective classes.

“Welp, looks like it’s time for class.” You give them a grin, already walking away towards where your first period should be; you’re lucky you took the time to memorize the plans of the school building beforehand. “I’ll see you guys later?”

Jade slowly moves her fingers in a circular way to wave at you goodbye, a wide grin settled on her lips. She rapidly loses it when she noticed Beck giving her a knowing smirk, her eyes already glaring at him with annoyance.

“What?”

His smirk stretches out. “You like her.”

She rolls her eyes, hoping he wouldn’t see the heat creeping up on her cheeks. “Shut up. You like her too.”

“Didn’t deny it.” He chuckles at her frustrated pout, putting his arm around her shoulder as they both walk towards Sikowitz’s class. “Wanna ask her out on a date?”

“Not yet.” Jade gives out a large smirk, already imagining scenarios in her mind. “I wanna play with her first.”

Beck gives out a larger smirk, silently agreeing with his girlfriend’s statement.

Oh, this is going to be fun.

#victorious #jade west #beck oliver #jade west imagine #jade west imagines #jade west x reader #beck oliver imagine #beck oliver imagines #beck oliver x reader #imagine #imagines #x reader #reader insert #request #requests #robbie shapiro #robbie shapiro imagine #robbie shapiro imagines

[sugar-petals]

When I look at yuzuru he strikes me as a really soft cutesy charming etheral individual not really homme fatal kind of guy that's why I think he's pure romantic rather than TR what do u think? ( love you btw)

i’ve been thinking about it as well, but it’s not a crystal clear case. he’s a sportsman, skating morphs the body in the most uncommon ways which makes it harder to narrow down the type. 

basics first so we get the foundations right: pinpointing the kibbe category he is + isn’t and why, the subtype after.

1. which one of the big 5?

- safe to say, yes: he’s somewhere in the romantic category. nobody does these outfits quite like yuzu. light fabrics, intricate embellishments, he is famous for all that gorgeous princely tailoring. the sport is all about the sequins, he definitely shines in them. every professional figure skating photographer out there will tell you that he hits different and you can see why.

WOW.

i’ve witnessed people complaining that the glitz and glam no longer suits his age, he gets scorn for not dressing traditionally masculine, but i don’t know how it wouldn’t look appropriate. the only valid criticism is that it’s often a hit or miss, but we’d be damned if this isn’t what an ice prince looks like.

he’s the best in the world and his main goal is to put on a show. rolling up in a polo shirt would contradict the objective, being an allround artist first and only then a jump technician. he’s exactly how you’d expect a yuzuru hanyu to look like. if you appear ‘like yourself’, it’s the right kibbe category.

R clothing typically has a sexy edge as well, you can’t put a kid into that. cut out cleavage, transparent, figure-hugging, no way. if anything, most R styles seemed all over the place when yuzu was younger (this is from 2010). yin is meant to be tailored for adults to begin with, you can’t make it teenage gamine.

eleven years later at 26, yuzuru hanyu in 2021, adult man, wearing the hell out of a skating gala outfit. this would be tacky on someone any younger. R is not just light and sweet but also dignified and mature. long story short. he’s grown into a yin-dominant type. fits to a T, a feast for the eye.

- meanwhile: you can easily exclude dramatic. very thick, stable fabrics with large lines are gigantic on him. D clothing is a yuzu charm killer, figures because it’s the type opposite to romantic (pure yang). it washes out the face and is twice as wide as his frame is, bulks out around the shoulders.

- not a natural type either, it feels a bit too simple, underchallenging. ruffled hair appears dishevelled where it’d be just right on a natural. it doesn’t fully highlight him: natural looks aren’t the most memorable on yuzuru even if they tend to be rather neutral and don’t look too off per se, it has a bit of draping after all. 

he looks really good in the below outfit, but his frame doesn’t fill it out. he’s all elegant underneath and radiates ballet while N is a rough, easy-going, and leisurely concept for very bulky frames. the waist gets missing in translation, the mid-section of shirts like these is too wide.

- not a gamine either. he might appear like one and i deliberated back and forth whether he is Pure G or FG, but the material mix, line breaks, and fashion experiments are creating chaos rather than something put-together. it just isn’t as flattering as when he does drapes and florals. the hair being cropped (typical gamine cut) often obfuscates the face. G styles are confusing on yuzu.

his skating is from outer space but this is probably a bit too galactical 😅

- not a classic. something’s not right, suits like these contrast a lot with how round his face is and sit on his body very randomly. missing waist again (yin). the same people who want him to dress more conservatively/masculine have been roasting yuzu for looking like a salary man in that style 🤔 i sense hypocrisy. in any case, classic underwhelms, he’s made to dress up. more points to yin, he he’s too petite to wear C.

now, we got the main category down, time for subtyping. romantic has two options.

2. which romantic?

arguments in favor of Theatrical Romantic:

this type is what he often portrays in the rink (e.g. the phantom of the opera programme) and has become his secret weapon. whether that speaks of his true type is the question. what i mean is, he can pull it off, the seductive homme fatale. compare jimin, people lose their minds over theatrical romantic men. yuzu is in that lane as well.

as in, balance of main yin with a yang undercurrent — the very gentle, princely young man with the soft face who gathers everyone’s hearts, and he is a damn flirt on ice, but who can give a very visceral, dark performance. that shows a tremendous fervor and an edge, with an athletic and taut body.

he does have some yang elements to his physicality. streamlined silhouette, some narrowness, extreme flat muscle, long triangular upper body, some vertical line. also — his color palette (aka skin undertone, cool v warm, hue, chroma, deepness etc) might match TR. on the other hand, it might simply be the black hair giving him the contrast for it. 

the reason why we might get the TR impression is that he often wears all black which suggests dramatic, and the athleticism in his profession has trained away the chubbiness he might naturally have. the face as the only part that won’t be somehow affected by his routine is all yin. 

arguments in favor of pure Romantic:

... as you pointed out. in private life and backstage, he is quite effortlessly sweet- and small-looking. with the delicacy and doe-eyedness you’d expect from pure romantic, very unlike his performance persona. 

if you didn’t know he’s copyrighted BDE on the ice, yuzu seems like he can’t harm a fly, round rosy bean he is. he makes a very innocent and soft 1st impression in candids which no other type except soft gamine does.

facial features, all opposite of yang. not long, not sharp, not planar, not angular, not bony, not narrow. the button nose, full lips, and puffy cheeks is all you see. you’d not think of him as striking (=D, FN).

that’s also why he’s always pitted as nathan chen’s opposite in whatever he does. nate is on the other end of the kibbe spectrum, people probably don’t even realize that their physical lines are contrasting archetypes. it’s subconsciously part of why people can construct such a rivalry. 

study nathan’s face and it becomes apparent. very oblong shape, flat-laying flesh and an asymmetric jaw that couldn’t be any more prominent (=yang). the brows and eyes create a powerful horizontal unlike yuzu’s more wide-set puppy eyes. the nose is longer, the ears, too. nathan looks sharp, piercing, and intimidating rather than soft. you see the exact outline of the bone.

with him, you assume the reverse of what people think of yuzu at first glance. if you didn’t know that nathan couldn’t be any nerdier, you’d believe he’s 1000% jock-off-the-charts. how he has a lot of yang contributed to his on-ice image, too. one’s kibbe type can shape life choices since people see you in a certain way simply based on your lines.

how yuzu is such a visual difference to nathan further points to how he’s closer to pure yin: rather than a subtype that picks up elements from dramatic. otherwise, you’d see some of that angularity. but no: roundness over structure, you see the flesh, not frame. you couldn’t call him a jock by all means 😆 

you won’t see that chiseled geometry and crazy jawline/browline. as you say he’s more cutesy, and a charmer, the whole fandom will agree. pure romantics have everyone wrapped around their fingers (and their booty lmao!) because you want to pepper them with kisses, yin types all look so non-threatening and beautiful. ethereal is the right word. 

and they’re the sexiest ofc, since they’re curvy. R got hips.

sigh... this type is a showstopper. what to do with him. he can beam at ya or he can sway his hips at ya, another unsuspecting hanyu interessee falls for the guy. he does the prince concept and the sexy cutie alike.

he tries to convince us otherwise 😂

sexy aside, he looks great in the respective clothing recs, with waist emphasis and rounded edges. kimonos are often soft dramatic or natural-inspired, but it works out well this way. and again: romantic is not childish/playful clothing of some kind, it can be very official and deliberate.

rather than in edge tailoring which is very loose around his arms and does yuzu no justice. that’s actually the kind of clothing that makes him appear either younger or older depending on if it’s D or C.

TLDR - he might not seem completely yin in his appearance, but that’s because of his excessive sports regimen. since yuzu has been training since he was a kid, we never saw how he’d normally be. he rocks the pure romantic regardless and it’s likely it’s his kibbe type. him wearing R is always a spectacle.

bonus kibbe meme: yuzu, photoshopped to the moon and back, wearing soft dramatic for a toothpaste ad. amazing.

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so…now that we all know what you DISLIKE about star wars (and 400% fairly so, you have my full support here)…

what drew you into the universe, what keeps you around?

favorite characters, ships (OTPs or actual spaceships lol), overall themes, do you have a favorite random weird creature or robot that you adore? whatever you wanna talk about!

go off honey (again, but supportively 💖💖💖)

tax paid: the very nerdy star wars punk vest i made and the even nerdier matching vest i made for starsky

Lmaooo, entirely valid. You were like "star wars?" and I was like the drunk person at the bar who can't stop shouting about how much their ex sucks. But now that I have gotten all that off my chest, let's talk about why I love it (since if I didn't love it, I wouldn't have such strong opinions). Basically my feelings on the OG SW trilogy are similar to my feelings on the OG LOTR trilogy, as that tumblr post floating around somewhere put it: sure, they have flaws, but also, they're perfect. I have a complicated relationship with the prequels, as do we all, since George Lucas cannot write dialogue or direct actors to save his life (stick to what you're good at, George, hire other people to do the rest), but even they have their moments. Like. Hit me with that "Across the Stars" love theme, John Williams. Gahh. Just like that.

Because... Star Wars wasn't actually this omnipresent corporate global entertainment monolith when it started out. It was a dorky low-budget indie sci-fi film in the 1970s which everyone thought was going to bomb. But it told a simple and compelling story in an interesting way, everyone agrees that ESB is one of the best films/sequels ever made, and then ROTJ gave it a happy ending while it was still okay to do that. My main thematic gripe with the Disney trilogy (I will try to keep those to a minimum, lol, but I have to bring it up to compare) is that it very clearly fell into the "actual happy endings are naive and unrealistic and a cynical postmodern audience won't accept anything less than things being Bad" trap that, yet again, we have GOT to thank for. It obviously existed to some degree before that, but GOT blew it up to huge levels, where the only valid situation or character is that which is Grimdark and Depressing. Which, in my view, misses the heart and soul of what SW is all about??

Like. ESB is genuinely dark. ANH was this fun plucky little sci-fi film where the scrappy good guys won the day against the Nazi stand-ins, as they were supposed to, and then ESB comes along (speaking of John Williams, let us all chant together, DUH DUH DUH DUHDUHDUH DUHDUHDUH, DUH DUH DUH DUHHHH DUHHH DUHHH DUHHHH) and things go... wrong. Leia and Han are on the run for most of the movie, then get captured and tortured by the Empire and and betrayed (however unwillingly) by Lando. The Rebellion is attacked on Hoth (I tell you, those fuckin AT-AT walkers were SCARY when you see it as a young kid for the first time), and forced into hiding. Luke loses his hand, doubts Obi-Wan and Yoda and realizes that his mentors are fallible, makes dumb mistakes, and of course gets hit with The Most Famous Line In Movie History. But it's also just adrenaline and excitement. THE ASTEROID FIELD! THE HAN-LEIA BANTER! THE FIRST LUKE-VADER DUEL! THE FACT THAT YOU HEAR TWO FRICKING NOTES OF THE IMPERIAL MARCH AND YOU'RE JUST LIKE OH YEAH OH YEAH OH YEAHHHH!

But also then... Return of the Jedi. It gets shat upon for the Ewoks and reusing the Death Star as the Big Bad and being supposedly cheesy and not as Thematically Dark as ESB. Which is all kinda silly, in my opinion, but also, can we talk about Luke Skywalker's character arc and how he chooses possibly the most radical compassion ever demonstrated by a hero in an action movie, let alone a space opera. He insists that Anakin Skywalker is still in there somewhere and puts his own neck on the line to prove it. Luke doesn't save the galaxy by being a Badass Jedi. He saves it by throwing away his lightsaber and saying "I will not fight you, Father." He saves it by trusting that even in the depths of darkness, Anakin can come back from the charred ruins of Darth Vader and finally do what he was supposed to do all along. He can end Palpatine for good and all (we don't talk about "Somehow Palpatine has returned" because it's nonsense, obviously). Anakin can avenge the Jedi and what was done to him and all the lies he believed and the pain he wreaked on the galaxy, even then. It's not too late. It's not too late. Like. I don't care if this is Lightweight or Childish or whatever. It makes me CRY every time I watch it. Especially the moment where Luke takes off Anakin’s helmet and sees how ruined he actually is under there, and yet the downfall and death of the trilogy’s chief villain is not triumphant at all but instead utterly heartbreaking. “You were right about me Luke... tell your sister... you were right.”

Excuse me, I need to just /CRIES INTENSELY/

Luke won't be tempted to the dark side for his own sake, but Leia's ("If you will not join me, then perhaps she will"). I likewise hold firmly that Anakin/Vader is one of the best movie villains/antiheroes of all time and likewise have many feelings and Strong Opinions about his arc, prequel writing clumsiness and eye-rollingly tepid love story aside. (See: he and Obi-Wan were deeply in love and in a way they still are, don't @ me. I have no problems with Padme and obviously stan Natalie Portman at all times, but Anakin and Obi-Wan’s relationship is the real love story, the heart of the prequels, and in some ways even the subsequent movies, the end.) And “so this is how democracy dies, with thunderous applause” is... raw af as a line. For being in a Star Wars prequel movie. What?? (Also, the Revenge of the Sith novelization had no business being as good as it was. If only that dude had also written the movie.)

Anyway, my point is: the OG trilogy had plenty of moments of staggering emotional weight and where things genuinely sucked for the good guys and the outcome wasn’t entirely clear. The difference is that it didn’t choose to dwell on them, and it allowed for a transformative fictional space where a happy ending, fiercely fought for and squarely earned, was the right outcome. We didn’t need to go back thirty years later and make everything suck for fear that a cynical modern audience couldn’t connect with it otherwise. (Like I said, we didn’t need the new movies at all, but Disney heard that Cha-Ching of the Almighty Dollar). Star Wars was sci-fi, sure, but it also had the fantasy elements that allowed a happy ending to be the right choice for what we saw the characters go through and the philosophy that carried us through the original trilogy.

Likewise it’s just... Peak as far as dynamics go. C-3PO the fussy metal butler who worries about Everything and R2-D2 who is the droid embodiment of YOLO? Flawless. Sassy scruffy space pirate and badass politician warrior princess bicker constantly, butt heads, drive each other crazy, and then fall in love? Iconic. (And has shaped my ship tastes for... all of eternity, oops.) The above-discussed transformation of Luke Skywalker, whiny ordinary teenage kid, to the truly great man who fulfills what Obi-Wan, Yoda, AND the rest of the entire Jedi order couldn’t manage to do, because of their own flaws and blind spots and black-and-white moral views that didn’t know what to do with a man who loved as passionately as Anakin Skywalker, for better or for worse? The guy who managed to save the galaxy with love? STAN.

So... what? The Disney trilogy decides to retcon all that, throw everything that they’ve fought for out the window, make Han, Leia, and Luke miserable and rejecting the roles they grew into in the original trilogy, and die without ever really reuniting or seeing each other again as a trio? The underlying message was that “these happy endings aren’t satisfactory/realistic/sophisticated enough” and idk, maybe it’s just the shitshow of the last few years, but I’d like to see some entertainment that had the cojones to tell me that despite all the darkness and despair, maybe there’s a chance for hope. (”Rebellions are built on hope,” thank you Only Valid New Star Wars Movie Rogue One.) And Rogue One worked so well, despite being utterly GUTTING as all the heroes died one by one, because we knew what was coming next (A New Hope) and that their sacrifice was going to be worth it. I don’t care if that’s “realistic” or not. As I’ve said before, that’s what stories are for, and if I only wanted things that were Real Life, I would only read the news. Besides, the idea that happy endings never happen in reality is equally bullshit. We as a culture need to accept that more, instead of finding reasons to tear everything down.

So just... yes. The original trilogy might have flaws, but also, it’s perfect. And do I want to rewatch it all now? Kinda.

(Anyway. I warned you this was gonna be long. Oh look, it’s long, and I’m sure there is even more I could say, but still. Ahem.)

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