#i like a lot of these though;;; :0) they’re silly but that’s why I like them

[dcschart]

Here’s a big messy doodle page I’ve been making my way through!

I’m not stressing or trying too hard;; I’m just messing around to get back into drawing (maybe);; :0T

#i like a lot of these though;;; :0) they’re silly but that’s why I like them #miraculous ladybug #eddie munson #chloe bourgeois #marinette doupan cheng #alix kubdel #chlonette #bunnyx #steven universe #steven universe amethyst #ghost hunters adventure club #(not that people will really get that ) #overwatch genji #spidersona #Jenjo ocs #steven universe pearl #steven universe lapis #oikawa torū #kuro tetsuro #oikuro

[gothhabiba]

why is happy holidays a silly phrase?

Like “BCE” and “CE” for “BC” and “AD,” it seems not Christian on its surface (because it doesn’t explicitly mention “Christ”), but it is still implicitly very Christian in how it considers time (i.e. setting Jesus’ birth as year 0, or assuming that early winter is ‘the time for big holidays’)

That is, it’s based on the idea that Christmas, Chanukah, and Kwanzaa are equivalents, or at least holidays of equivalent weight (like, Chanukah is the “Jewish Christmas”). This isn’t true—Chanukah is not the most important or second most important holiday of the year. And very few people celebrate Kwanzaa like that. And there is no Muslim holiday that is tied to the wintertime (though Ramadan being in the winter for a while did confuse a lot of non-Muslims on this point, who said “happy Ramadan” during the winter for years afterward….)

So the phrase owes its currency to this very liberal-multicultural-pluralism-diversity-and-inclusion idea of the “big three” holidays that we were taught in elementary school in the U.S. All broader criticisms of liberal pluralism apply here

The phrase allows Christians to pretend that the timing of breaks from school and work (for certain people) is not entirely dependent on Christmas. But it clearly is. And if Diwali has definitely occurred by November and Chanukah is over by December 15, what do you mean by saying “happy holidays” on December 20th…?

I think the usage of the phrase can actually be a ‘microaggression’ as the kids say. Like why say “happy holidays” to me while I hand you a Christmas present and make plans with you for Christmas Eve dinner and tell you “merry Christmas.” What are you trying to say. Lmao.

Also!!! If people are saying “happy holidays” to me specifically based on how they’re racialising me (as opposed to people who just default to it with everyone), then um. Which holiday do they mean? No Muslim holidays tied to December!!

Imo, if you don’t know anything about the person you’re talking to, just say “have a good day” or something. You don’t actually have to assume that everyone else’s experience is the same as your’s while putting on a thin veneer of pretending that that’s not what you’re doing.

#Anonymous #questions

[thebellearchives]

𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐑

~ solomon ; obey me

✧˚ · . S Y N O P S I S : when Solomon finds out about your secret he can’t help but treat you a little bit differently

‧₊˚ c o n t e n t s : fem!mc, fluff, Asmo speaks about smelling different types of attraction

‧₊˚ a / n : after writing this i wasn’t sure if it was good enough to post it here, but y’all can decide after reading it i guess ):

Solomon was barely paying attention to his friend rambling and rambling as background noise. His grey eyes focused intently on the small vial filled with blue liquid hanging from his fingertips, shaking it just slightly. Just like the white haired sorcerer was not paying attention to the gossip of his friend, Asmodeus was also oblivious to the fact that he was not being heard. Or to the fact that the sorcerer had told him not to come over to his room because he was busy working. But he just had to get all that gossip out of his system!

“… because he doesn’t smell like strawberry cream sweetness anymore! He smells like painful alcohol-like sweetness! Kind of like what Mc smells like when she’s around you.”

Suddenly the vial Solomon had in his hand crashed on to the floor. The demon let out a small scream and lifted his legs up to his seat.

“What was that?! Is it harmful? Can I breathe?!”

“Calm down” the sorcerer sighed “it’s harmless. What was that about Mc smelling different around me?”

Asmo raised an eyebrow, annoyed, as he watched his friend cleaning the small mess he’d made.

“Yeah, you know, I told you she smells like this strong annoying sweet smell people get when they go from having a nice scented crush to a hopeless romantic crush”

Solomon stared at Asmo with his eyes wide open.

“Why are you acting like you’ve told me Mc has a crush on me before?”

Mc had a crush on him? Like… Mc? THAT MC? His gifted pretty apprentice? The one everyone loved to death and the one he was sure he’d never have a chance with?!

“Because I did! I told you like a month ago! Do you not pay attention to me?!”

“When exactly was this?”

“I was sitting RIGHT here were I am right now, you were RIGHT THERE where you are right now, and you were also playing with this exact same silly chemistry set toy.”

“It’s not a toy, Asmo” he sighed.

“Whatever, I told you. And then I told you about that incubus I met at Red Nook Street. Do you remember that?”

Solomon was dumbfounded. He had just found out about Mc having a crush on him and there were A LOT of feelings mixing up inside him. What should he do? Should he say anything? So many thoughts, so may questions. He kept his composure though.

“… no” he absently replied.

“Sol have you been paying any attention at all to me?!”

“I do remember that I told you that day not to come over because I was busy working” he raised an eyebrow, Asmo stayed still “just like I did today”

“…you did?”

“Yes, I did. Have you been paying any attention at all to me?”

Asmo stared at his friend for like two seconds, before finally bursting out in laughter.

-0-0-•-0-0-

You tapped your nails on the desk and anxiously shook your leg up and down under it. Eyes wandered back to the clock once again. Five minutes to 10 am. It was the second lesson of the day, History of the Devildom, and one of the 4 lessons of the week you shared desk with Solomon. Not like you had much time to hang out with him since the brothers monopolized your time as much as they could (wether they did it on purpose or not), but ever since you became Solomon’s apprentice you had built up some courage to ask him to sit with you in the only classes you shared. So it was… 4 classes and Friday afternoons for sorcery class. You glanced at the clock once more.

“Oi, Mc!”

“Huh?” you shook your head to try and come back down to earth, focusing on the tanned white haired demon next to you “oh, sorry Mammon, what were you saying?”

“I was telling ya ‘bout this new Casino they’re opening tomorrow, wanna come?” he flashed a fanged grin.

“I thought you didn’t have any money?” you raised your eyebrows at him.

“Bah, I always have money for ya!”

You smiled.

“That’s nice Mammon, but you know my fridays are taken.”

He scoffed and rolled his eyes.

“Come on, be a little less of a nice student for a day.”

“Rude, I’ve skipped classes for you a couple times despite the ruthless scoldings from Lucifer” you frowned, remembering how angry Lucifer was when he found out it was deadly for humans to stay upside down for too long and he had to look for another punishment.

“Then what’s the difference of skipping friday lessons with the shady dude?”

“Mc loves having lessons with me, don’t you Mc?” out of nowhere, the pale pretty sorcerer appeared behind Mammon “that’s my seat Mammon.”

“Sol! You’re here” you beamed, heart beating faster almost immediately “of course I do.”

“Ya sure” Mammon pulled a face and rolled his eyes again before standing and going back to his seat behind yours.

“I’m glad” Solomon smiled.

You opened your mouth in an attempt of starting a conversation with your desk mate, but as soon as you tried the teacher stood up and started the lesson. Solomon had sat down closer than he usually would, and it was nerve wracking. The teacher spoke like he did every day, but this time you were just not able to keep up. Your mind was too busy being over aware of Solomon’s proximity, and your eyes were constantly going back to him. Maybe it was because you were used to looking at him when you thought he wasn’t looking, but you did notice he seemed a little bit nervous. Suddenly his grey eyes darted towards yours.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing” you quickly looked away, but after a second you went searching for him again “are you okay?”

“Hmm? Yeah, I just…” he stretched his arms with a sigh “didn’t get much sleep last night.”

He placed his left arm over the back of your seat and around your shoulders. Blood rushed to tint your cheeks a soft cherry color. You cleared your throat before replying.

“Oh” he seemed to be studying your face in amusement, eyes wide and sporting a cheeky smile “w-were you working on a new project or something?”

He giggled.

“Yeah, something like that.”

Something like that? You stared at the teacher as he kept talking about… stuff. Maybe you could ask Satan for his notes later?

What could’ve Solomon stayed up doing? Working on a new spell? A new memory container glass to replace the broken one? Some random artifact that makes you react in a weird way?

“Maybe pay attention to class instead of trying to guess what kept me up?” he caught a strand of your hair and hid it behind your ear.

Blushing once again, you blinked twice in surprise.

“H-How did you…?”

“I suddenly feel like I’m able to read you better than before” he chuckled, you heard Mammon groaning behind you. With a shy smile and fidgeting with the cuff of your uniform, you pretended to pay attention again. You didn’t know what Solomon was up to, that was usual, but if one thing was for sure it was that you kinda liked it.

#; fluffy belle #obey me #obey me swd #obey me x reader #solomon obey me #obey me solomon #solomon x fem reader #solomon x reader #solomon x mc #solomon x you #solomon x y/n #obey me x y/n #obey me shall we date

[foreos]

hatchetfield characters rated on how much they like sonic the hedgehog

- paul matthews: 7/10 i think just based on his age and personality he played like sonic adventure one as a kid and enjoyed it but hasn’t really thought about it since. if he were to play a sonic game again he’d be like “oh i remember this guy! silly :)” he does not like the chaotix.

- emma perkins: 5/10 i can see a young emma being Violently Opposed to sonic and never playing it or engaging with any content. and then at some point ziggs or even paul has her play one of the games with them and she’s like “Oh Wait This Is Fun” but idk if she’d ever consider herself a fan.

- bill woodward: 1/10 he cannot remember sonic’s name. he is completely ambivalent because he doesn’t know what that is. he’d have an appreciation for tails if he knew he existed

- charlotte sweetly: 0/10 he creeps her out. i think there’s so much going on in her life that there is no room for sonic the hedgehog.

- ted spankoffski: 10/10 he also played the games as a kid and still enjoys him though he does not advertise that at all. in college he and jenny did smoke and play the entirety of sonic 06 together. he probably hasn’t really played them since at all since it contrasts with the new everything. he watched sonic underground.

- henry hidgens 0/10 he doesn’t trust sonic.

- melissa: 11/10 she loves sonic and you can interpret that however you want

- john mcnamara: 0/10 i cannot imagine this man with a game controller in his hands.

- tom houston: -10000/10 he is a technophobe and sonic frustrates him. he finds the characters annoying and tim keeps having to beat the levels for him and he doesn’t know why sonic is looking at him like that at the end of every level.

- becky barnes: 8/10 she just thinks he’s the silliest guy. i think becky would like sonic and the black knight and get a kick out of the gimmicky motion controls. i like to picture becky having stupid fun it brings me joy.

- lex foster: 0/10 no time for that also that’s kind of dumb also also where are his clothes.

- ethan green: current 1/10, potential 10/10, ethan has never touched a sonic game in his life but i think if he did he’d be hooked.

- hannah foster: 5/10 she has never touched a sonic game and isn’t really a video game person but she has nothing against the guy.

- frank pricely: 9/10 i think frank watched SatAM as a kid and the franchise is special to him even if he doesn’t really engage. probably drew pictures of sonic and tails as a kid.

- linda monroe: 1/10 it’s beneath her. linda probably doesn’t like video game and i think she’d find everyone really fucking annoying. river likes sonic though :)

- sherman young: 1000/10 but he’s not fun about it. if you like something he doesn’t then you’re fucking stupid. why does sonic have a sword. why is sonic in a car. i don’t know sherman. he refuses to play a lot of the games and is very much a purist about a lot of shit. he hates silver the hedgehog sooooo much.

- zoey chambers: 0/10 would shame sonic likers.

- miss holloway: 5/10 sonic is too nineties for her eighties but some of the kids she’s worked with liked it and she has nothing against the guy.

- duke keane: 8/10 i think like becky he would enjoy stupid fun.

- ziggs: 10/10 i think ziggs is a sonic fan. and i’m not saying that just because they’re a furry i think they’d genuinely like it. they are not good at most of the games though, they usually can’t make it past the typical sonic late game difficulty boost. ziggs hasn’t read the comics but they might have watched some of the cartoons, you know?

- rose: 6/10 i think she would have a lot of fun if she played the games but it’s never gonna be something she gets super into. sonic games do tend to have fantastic soundtracks so maybe she’d eat that shit up.

- daniel (stopwatch): 100/10 he really likes sonic. sonic is his kind of guy. i think daniel is a big shadow fan.

- sophia (spitfire): 5/10 she has nothing against the guy but she doesn’t know who blaze is or why daniel keeps bringing it up.

- pete spankoffski: 12/10 he inherited ted’s old games and LOVED them. he doesn’t really engage with the non game media but i think he’s played like most of the games.

- stephanie lauter: 2/10 what’s this nerd shit? weird :/. i think she’d like it if she tried it.

- richie lipschitz: 10000/10 he loves sonic. he loveeeeeees sonic. he has read the comics he has seen the shows he can name all the characters. richie knows the lore. richie used to have a crush on sally acorn. richie can go on the worlds longest rant about sonic forces okay it just never ends. he thinks shadow is The Coolest Guy and he embraces the franchise wholeheartedly.

- ruth fleming: 1000/10 she likes sonic a lot. she knows so much about all the games and she loves going so so so fast. i think she also read the comics and watched the cartoons and i think her and richie argue about it like all the time. she does have a thing for rouge the bat AND shadow and i think she has a little plushie chao keychain on her backpack.

- grace chasity: -10000000000000/10 she HATES sonic she hates him so much. he fills her with so much rage she fucking hates his ass. number one sonic hater.

BONUS:

- wiggly: 0/10 this game is hard to play with tentacles

- blinky: 5/10 he doesn’t really care but watching the hedgehog go zoom is fun

- tinky: 10/10 he loves this shit he wants sonic to go FASTER

- nibbly: 0/10 he doesn’t care he eated his controller

- pokey: -10/10 he thinks sonic is an attention whore and only he gets to do that

- webby: 100000/10 webby would like sonic do you see the vision do you see it. i think webby eats that shit up.

#hatchetfield #starkid #long post

[whereismyhat5678]

HEEEEY, PSSST!

(do you have more headcanons???)

Oh yeah *cracks knuckles*

Get ready for some PEPPINO

(OKAY IN ADVANCE- I wrote A SHIT TON below the cut, and I think because of this I have more headcannons for Peppino than Gustavo- SO PREPARE YOURSELVES- Oh! And I also added Pep and Gus mixed headcannons at the bottom so if you just wanna see those you’ll see this emoji: 💕 Alright thanks! And enjoy :00)

- I said this in a reblog-, at this point I think I hc him a lefty, I KEEP DRAWING HIM AS ONE SO FUCK IT-

- Oh sports are his life support, it’s his saving grace HE LOVES SPORTS- mainly football and soccer (he used to play soccer in middle-high school) THIS MAN SCREAMS AT THE TV “GOOOAAAAAAAAAL” WHEN SOCCER’S ON (he’s just like my dad for real- :0)

- He definitely listens to old fashioned Italian music, his mother raised him in it HE WILL DIE WITH IT IN HIS BLOOD. But he also likes other types of music (he mains Depeche Mode-)

- He has the most dankest most messed up shat up car you can ever imagine that’s STILL GOING, he treats his car like his child though, he cleans it and is EXTREMELY careful with his baby (He listens to his songs in there and bobs his head when he has a song he likes, but he looks really serious, like he’s gonna kill someone- but he’s still enjoying himself)

- I should also mention that he SUCKS at driving, man has a drivers license yet he’s dog at it?! This is also why his car is so jacked up because he kept crashing it when he was younger- I think he’s cooled down now but he still can’t park right- This is also why he rather would take his pizza delivery motorcycle or Stick just drives him (since he’s funnily enough the only good driver-)

- His house is pretty small, and a bit tight but it’s okay once you get used to it, he tries to stay organized but at times he does tend to leave clothes on the floor. Of course his garage is the cleanest thing known to man, a bunch of flags (a big ass Italian flag-) and signs that say “Man’s garage” or “Man cave”. He also has another fridge full of beers and sodas.

- Have I mentioned he likes beer?🍻

(- And when Peppino’s drunk he’s either two things, a silly drunk: he’s doing stupid shit-

….Or a flirty drunk 👀🔥)

- He still has his war gear in a closet, he keeps it for memories (the GOOD ones) and just cuz he thinks it might be important still.

- He keeps a shotgun underneath his bed (for protection of course-)

- He also has a punching bag in his basement, a big ol’ red one, and he has it there to take his anger out 🥊🔔

- I think he has a bit of anger issues, not too severe! Just that he can get mad easily if stuff just isn’t going right, which is also why he HATES The Noise and Pizza Head, they’re too chaotic for him-

- When Brick was gonna stay with them Peppino initially just wanted Brick away from him but he ended up like one of those Dads that have their pet on the couch watching TV. He also play fights with him too like: he’ll pretend to punch him or he wrestles with him for fun-

- He’s an asshole when he wants to be, one time he was eating with his friends at a McDonalds and they were getting breakfast, motherfucker ate half his friend’s hash-brown and put the half he didn’t eat outside the wrapper to make it look normal. (He did this when he was a teen but he can still be an ass like this-)

- He uses a lot of Italian hand gestures, he uses his hands A LOT he practically talks with them-

- He speaks very aggressively in Italian, the amount of times people thought he was angry and yelling at them even though he was just telling them to hand him a napkin. It’s hilarious, Gustavo is the only one to understand he’s not angry, he’s just talking- 😂

- This even applies to when he’s talking in English, HE STILL YELLS- Like his voice is a big BOOM, yeah he can calm it down but it’s still relatively loud, he’s only ever quiet when he NEEDS to be quiet-

Okay now for some Peppino and Gustavo together x] 💕💕💕

- Gustavo’s species has their own language but they can pick up on other languages pretty quickly, so when Peppino wanted to teach him Italian he started slowly and BAM 💥 not even a month passed and he’s speaking fluently! Peppino’s jaw dropped literally-

- Gus can speak his species language at times but only ever to himself.. He usually talks in English and Italian around Peppino (Gus when he’s angry talks really fast in his language, it’s best to just leave him be until he calms down…)

- They speak Italian to each other sometimes, they switch between English and Italian regularly, but they speak English mainly. They WILL however yell at each other in Italian, mostly so no one can understand their conversation if there is people around

- AND FINALLY- like I said with the Italian hand gestures, Peppino uses them A LOT, and he mainly uses them with the other Italians and Gustavo, BUT MAINLY Gustavo. He taught him every gesture in the book so Gus knows what he’s feeling just by hand gestures.

Even some…. Special ones 👀…..

OKAY THAT’S IT-

#Pizza Tower #Headcannons #MY HEADCANNONS??? #This time with Peppino WAHOO- #I’m so sorry for writing so much my god- #I wrote a whole ass essay down there- #I’m very passionate about every headcannon about Peppino because these were all inspired by my Dad- 💀 #I SWEAR THE STORY ABOUT THE HASH-BROWN MADE ME LAUGH- #I am also very passionate about the hand gestures- I’m so tempted to draw him doing Italian hand gestures- I WILL DO IT AT ONE POINT I WILL #Hehe alright I hope everyone likes them I spent a lot of time on this-

[zaddyazula]

gimme yakuza propaganda so i can see if i wanna peep it

🫡🫡🫡

well there are currently 9/11 main line games (i shall explain) and all of them are available on modern consoles (a lot of them came out on ps3 or ps4 originally).

there are two remakes, one for yakuza 1 (a ps2 game) and one for yakuza 2 (another ps2 game), called yakuza kiwami and yakuza kiwami 2. they are actually pretty good remakes from what i’ve seen, but i haven’t played the original two. this is why i said 9/11 main line games.

the total order goes (chronologically):

yakuza 0

yakuza (kiwami) 1

yakuza (kiwami) 2

yakuza 3

yakuza 4

yakuza 5

yakuza 6

yakuza 7/like a dragon

yakuza lad gaiden (the one that just came out)

they are all classic fighting games until 7, which is turn-based, i am still raging about that. gaiden isn’t though. also as you asked me about a while ago now, the guy with the spiky hair is the protagonist of 7 and he will be for 8, which is coming out january next year.

the main protagonist (table slam guy) is the or one of the protagonists in every other game (0 has two, 4 has 4, and 5 has 5).

women are written decently well, a lot, lot better than mgs, though there is about two main characters who are women per game 😭😭😭😭😭😭 not one of its strongest points but they all have clothes on!! the bare minimum we love to see it. (i will just say there is actually a fat woman who is a main-ish side character in 4, who is done pretty well!!! so hurrah!!!!)

characters are extremely well written and the writing is good for the most part, there are a couple of moments in earlier games (more 3,4 and 5) where you’re sort of shocked by how ridiculous it is, but it works decently well. i prefer the first couple of games, and then the 6+. there are a few spin-offs available in the west, being dead souls (zombie game), which is ps3 only, and lad:ishin, which is set in the 1860s (and a couple more others but i can’t think). the table slam man (kiryu) has actually started to remind me a lot of snake, and the series’ stories are actually quite similar.

talking about kiryu, he respects women!!! to the point where he refuses to ever hurt a woman, and has on many occasions beat someone up for hurting a woman. not to say he doesn’t have weird-ish female relationships, but they’re overall quite sweet and last for the game, and are then never touched upon again. they’re nowhere near a meryl-snake level catastrophe.

the games themselves aren’t too long for the most part, the longest i found being 5 (30 hours) and 7 (39 hours), but that’s including all the time fucking around doing karaoke or other things. 0 took me about 28 hours; kiwami 1 took about 22 hours (i think); kiwami 2 took me about 26 hours; 3 took 16 hours; 4 took 23 hours; 6 took 21 hours, and gaiden took 11 (it’s a lot shorter).

going back to karaoke - the amount of optional shit you can do is crazy. substories are probably the biggest thing with this, some of them being decently long and others being pretty short. they are usually quite fun and can give you a break from the story (which can at times be miserable). karaoke is probably my favourite mini-game in the series. you basically just press buttons with the right timing and it is ridiculously fun and silly. other mini-games are available, such as pool, bowling (in the earlier games), fishing, claw-machines, arcade games, DISCO (in 0 but it’s class), darts and probably some others but i can’t remember. the story can get a bit depressing, but it’s balanced out by the silliness the games also have, and surprisingly it works? in mgs, it sort of half works, you’ve got a monkey who smokes cigarettes and drinks coke and then the world is falling apart. war had changed. snake is old and dying and he cannot escape the world yet. and then johnny shits himself. comedy 👍 but with yakuza, the two different sides work together really well, especially in 0, and it ends up making sense eventually.

i think that’s it you have been yakuzer-propagandad!!!!

#i’m sorry this took like 7 hours i started it before i went to school and i then had to do cornell notes for homework so here you go!!!! #rgg #yakuza #my asks

[enassbraid]

Heya, I have been summoned by the requests call! I also checked out your masterlist, and you don't have a single Mafuyu work?? That has to change!

Can I get a Mafuyu x shy florist reader, that likes gifting her flowers and explaining the meaning behind them, but they only ever get the courage to do that behind closed doors when no one else is around?? TYSM!!

-> 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐟 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐘𝐨𝐮

Flowers were a big part of your life, so naturally you’ve come to understand each individual flowers meaning. However, you’ve never had the courage to explain it to others, until Mafuyu…

Genre) fluff! Tinge of angst if you squint though

Cw) mafuyu’s emptiness, reader is implied to be aware of it but it’s never explicitly stated by mafuyu, insecurities, another vague ending (my favorite type of endings frfr)

If you had to pick one thing that would be wherever you go, it’d be flowers. Nature was a big part of who you were, growing up with all different kinds of educational books on different types of plants, sceneries, and of course flowers. It wasn’t just a phase you had as a kid, it stuck with you for as long as you could remember.

Though, you wish you had the courage to share your knowledge.

It was a struggle getting through life while being too nervous to strike conversations or speaking up. You had moments here and there, but you still felt like a shadow. It was until a certain someone helped you out of your shell.

Mafuyu Asahina, one of the top students in the district. Everyone knew about her, she was perfect. Perfect looks, perfect grades, perfect all around. She was beloved by all your peers, who had gotten help form her at least once. You, however, never received her help. She was intimidating to you, even if she was a sweetheart. Someone that important near someone so unknown? What if it stained her reputation?

The first time you two talked, she initiated conversation. Seeing you struggle with the assignment in front of you caught her eye, why not help?

“So if you flip the equation like this…”

“Ah, I see it now… thank you, Asahina.”

She simply smiled at you, but didn’t move her seat. She stayed close next to you despite finishing helping you.

But you couldn’t shake the feeling something was… off. Off about Mafuyu. The way she smiled looked like it held 0 emotion, and the way her eyes lost any light left in them the moment she turned away. It was, well, weird.

“Say, (name), is this anything you like? Anything at all?”

The question was sudden, breaking the silence in a bold manner. But she seems genuine about the question, maybe she wants to get to know you better?

Someone wants to know you better..

“Actually… I like flowers a lot. I work part time at a florist place. There’s so many different kinds! And they all have different meanings and they can get really deep sometimes and-“

Ah, there it is. Maybe you said too much already.

“And?”

Mafuyu looked at you with curiosity, waiting for you to finish you’re ramble. Did she care enough to listen?

“And they’re all so beautiful..”

You didn’t know why you were so embarrassed to talk about you’re love for flowers. Whenever you rambled, even to your parents, you got embarrassed, like this was a silly hobby for a little kid. Despite all the reassurance, you couldn’t help it.

“I agree, flowers are quite pretty. A friend of mine also enjoys them a bit, specifically carnations.”

“Ah! Carnations are beautiful, with vast meanings depending on the color. While pink carnations are considered “lovely” and carry out the meaning of love, yellow carnations are the complete opposite. They resemble unhappiness and rejection. White carnations though..”

You’re voice died down, realizing you were rambling once again. But also, once again, Mafuyu didn’t avert her eyes.

And for once, you felt like someone was listening.

“What if you stopped by the flower shop later? It doesn’t have to be today. I can even let you pick out some carnations for that friend of yours!”

“Hm.. we can do today. Thank you, (Name). I’ll be looking forward to it.”

And with that, Mafuyu left the classroom. The conversation replayed in your mind over and over, something didn’t feel right…

Whether it was the weird feeling that brewed in your chest when you realized Mafuyu never looked away, or the hallow look in her eyes. Something didn’t seem right, but it’s too soon to pry.

But it wasn’t too soon to squeal about your next customer.

The longer your shift went on, the less hope you had Mafuyu would appear. After all, it was already late and the shop closes in just an hour. Would she have the time for all this anyway? Doubt flooded your mind, only thinking of all the harsh words said to you.

That’s right, you’re just some flower obsessed freak. Everyone thinks you go on dates with your ferns, not with real people. Maybe this was all just some-

“I’m sorry I got here so late. Archery club kept me longer than usual today.”

Mafuyu

“It’s all good! I thought you didn’t know where this was, I never did give clear directions…”

“I found it anyways, it’s the only flower shop around the area.”

“Right, I forget about that sometimes.”

Truth be told, customers weren’t so common. Of course there were the regulars you’ve chatted with here and there, but other customers aren’t frequent. You’d think business would be booming some other florist place if the only one around was this empty.

Silence fell over you two, the warm lights complimenting Mafuyu’s face. How could someone be so perfect with so many flaws?

“This flower is pretty, what’s it called?”

You examined the plant in her hand, recognizing it pretty fast. A pink camellia.

“That’s a camellia! The one you’re holding is pink, which resembles longing and pining. Camellias themselves mean love, all different kinds. White camellias are all about adoration, they’re something you’d give to someone beloved. Red camellias are a deeper kind of love, passion.”

For once, you didn’t feel embarrassed by your rambles. You actually felt proud. Mafuyu remained intrigued and even continued asking more questions.

“Are they associated with love because of their color variation?”

“I think so, most flower meanings are random. But camellias’ are consistent.”

“Are white camellias better to give to a friend? Or a whole other flower entirely?”

“White camellias are a perfect gift for a dear friend, but yellow roses are quite literally called friendship flowers.”

“Does it mean anything if I picked a pink camellia when I could have picked a white one?”

The first question you had to think about. That’s more of a statistics thing, right? She could have randomly picked any, red, white or pink. But perhaps, after today…

“Well, that’s for you to decide I suppose.”

#project sekai x reader #project sekai #prsk #pjsk #pjsekai #pjsekai x reader #pjsk x reader #mafuyu asahina #mafuyu #mafuyu asahina x reader #mafuyu x reader #pjsekai mafuyu #mafuyu fluff #dor writes

[larsisfrommars]

Wild Wild Reviews

The Night of The Inferno

Overall Score:

Story: 3/5

Dame: 4/5

Villain: 2/5

Gadgets: 5/5

Disguises: 2.5/5

Bonus Points: Gay Subtext: 1/5

The Yikes Dated Factor: -3/-5

Score: 14.5/25 (58%)

Tier: D

FULL REVIEW UNDER CUT

The Story

It’s a pretty straight forward plot that introduces most of the core elements of the show fairly well. We’ve got our inflable and courageous James West, our over the top villains, our femme fatale and our gadgets but it feels as though the story is missing a limb. That limb of course is Artemus Gordon. Yes Ross Martin is there playing counterpart to Robert Conrad but he doesn’t really seem like the Artie we know and love yet. He’s less intelligent marvels at inventions that given the later context of the show he could’ve (and probably did) build himself, and lets Jim do the detective work. His disguises aren’t a big focus, and he’s noticeably more of a coward than he is later on. Luckily they fix all this almost immediately but between this and the casual early 60s racism this episode suffers a bit.

The Dame

Our woman of the week is Suzanne Pleshette!

Most of us young’uns know her as the witch Yubaba from Spirited Away and/or Zira from Lion King 2. However she was a very accomplished TV actress before that! I think she does a fantastic job as Lydia Monteran!

She and Jim have history which is always a fun gimmick, and certainly way more fleshed out than the parade of other women in this series. She’s got her own illegal business and lots of personality, a classic femme fatale. She just doesn’t have a lot in the way of complex/personal motivations and doesn’t really affect the plot with her direct actions, which is why she isn’t a perfect score.

The Villain

Our villains of the week are Nehemiah Persoff and Victor Buono!

Now I don’t know Persoff from anything other than Papa from American Tail. His character bordered on caricature/hammy but I am honestly shocked to say that he was WAY more entertaining to watch than Victor Buono of all people?! He was very animated and had a lot of fun lines. Meanwhile Buono (who I know as the unhinged King Tut from Batman) was both chronically underutilized and the crux of the more dated and problematic aspects of this installation of the series. Generally though these villains lacked the camp and ridiculous plans/motivations that I love the series for. So I’d say they’re a little subpar overall

The Gadgets

The gadgets were PHENOMENAL in this episode. If it has a real saving grace it’s the gizmos, a cornerstone of what makes this show work. We get an introduction to The Wanderer, West’s notorious toolbox boot heels, and a really fun Chekhov’s Gun scenario with the self-defense measures built into the billiards table! Excellent visuals and gimmicks that will carry on throughout the series.

The Disguises

The disguises were… eh. Which makes sense for the pilot but also it’s a shame, considering just how much it becomes an integral part of Ross Martin’s multi-faceted performance as Artemus Gordon. We get him as some sorta grave robber/carpet bagger that seems to exclusively exist to be silly at Jim’s expense, and a brief appearance as a Mexican beggar. Only one really makes sense for the story and we see it for all of two seconds.

The Gay Subtext

(Don’t ship it? Skip it!)

So long as Artemus and Jim are in an episode together the Gay score will never be 0. That being said they haven’t established a rapport, or even Artemus as a solid character yet. So is absolutely bottom rung for subtext in a given episode to me. Artemus frets over Jim a little and musters up his courage in spooky environs but that’s about it.

The Yikes Dated Factor

I’m giving this a solid -3 because yes there are more sexist/racist episodes than this but there are also LESS racist/sexist episodes of this show than this one. The only reason this doesn’t get a worse score for the yellow face is because it was part of the villain’s ploy, so they technically didn’t have a white man playing a Chinese guy. It was a white guy pretending to be Mexican pretending to be Chinese, which is almost funny, almost. But then, we got a couple white guys playing Mexicans which (there are plenty of people in the Latine diaspora who are white.) still runs into caricature and colorism issues. The baddies are all foreigners sometimes pretending to be different foreigners with some casual orientalism. But hey! At least the Spanish wasn’t gibberish!

#the wild Wild West #Wild Wild West #James west #Jim west #Artemus Gordon #Ross Martin #Robert Conrad #suzanne pleshette #nehemiah persoff #victor buono #James west/artemus Gordon #the night of the inferno #tnot inferno #s01x01 #episode review #tv review #1960s #1960s tv #1960s television #vintage tv #vintage television #vintage tv review

[aquabuggy]

I’d say please don’t re-post these images but honestly why would you. This thing sucks. 🧡

Walmart Santa Ball Game Or Whatever

Alright look. Look okay, I’ve seen a lot of water games. A lot! I own a lot too. I’ve seen the very best these games can possibly be as a result of toy designers transforming the basic concept of a water game and going ham with it. There’s some wonderful stuff out there and I hope I’ve been able to enlighten some of you to it! But my point is, one could easily assume I’ve been spoiled by these fantastic toys, and have lost appreciation for the lesser quality ones.

But it’s just not true! I love cheap water games! I love bootlegs and knockoffs and questionable design choices and poorly thought through ideas that result in a hilarious yet admittedly charming end product. They’re the bulk of my collection for good reason. They’re silly, and I like silly.

This toy though? This particular one? Is not charming, nor is it silly enough to allow me to forgive it. Let me explain.

This piece of shit sucks! Oh my god! It looks so simple right? How could this simple festive ball catching game go wrong? Well! I’m glad you asked!

Whoever designed and produced this toy, did not care! At all. At any point in the process.

Let’s go over it. First things first, this is very clearly a reskinned baseball themed game the toy company already had on hand. The backdrop is a simplistic Santa clip art they probably bought off Getty during an end of November sale for 60 cents in a value pack. Lazy start sure, but not unforgivable yet. Hey, you could even say it earns some silly points, having the placement of the mitt look like it’s bursting out of Santa, clearly not attached to his hand, and the suggestion that his cap has grown a sudden taste for violence, having sprouted hands and a bat to swing. These choices were most certainly not intentional however, so I am hesitant to reward them. That bat by the way, serves 0 function. It’s also a molded piece that is a separate part from the tank that’s glued in after the backdrop is placed. They could have left it out entirely, and they chose not to.

So the actual game right? The objective is to catch those colorful balls in the mitt right? That’s what you, understandably, would assume. But no! You can’t! It is physically impossible! At most, you can catch ONE ball in the mitt. One. I have played this game endlessly, and there is no amount of patience that will allow you to fit or stack any more than a single ball. That’s it. That’s the whole game. It takes seconds to complete, a single button press. THAT’S IT. I began to theorize at some point that maybe the goal was to pick a specific colored ball and attempt to catch it, until I realized I was definitely putting more thought into it than they ever did.

I received this toy unopened. This thing, tricked parents that likely looked fondly upon their childhood playing with water games, and took advantage of their want to pass that nostalgia on, and thus took up valuable space in some poor kids stocking. And even the kid must’ve known this thing was junk, never played with it, and it likely sat in their basement for years before someone found it again, judging by the residual mildew smell the packaging had. I bought this off of eBay for a total less than $10 after shipping and tax, and I STILL feel ripped off.

I can say with certainty that this is the very worst water game I own. I hate this thing. And I can’t even destroy it because I need to keep it as a testament to just how lazy toy companies can get with their holiday cash grabs. MERRY CHRISTMAS

#aqua #aquacore #toy aqua #aqua toys #water toys #water games #water ball game #water catch game #bug’s collection #colored text

[aliceyabusamesoneball]

since everyone refuses to keep comparing me to ashe bradley... that wicked man..... i am here to explain our similarities and differences. i am sure that you will find that ashe and i are in fact complete opposites, and nothing like each other.

similar

- we both have little sibling who we hang out with a lot and have silly argument with

- we both wanted to be some sort of doctor at some point when we were younger (when i was in like 6th grade i wanted to be a psychologist.. not anymore though)

- generally considered smart by other people our age

- sometime help other people study + people ask for help with school

- read book

- both of our birthdays are on the 14th of their respective month

- wear chinese clothes (sometimes) (maybe)

- nosy

- want to know everything

- um ok maybe we have more in common than i thought

- can play the piano (i can play a little i want  to play more though)

- love pasta

- if my family died i would be very sad

- we both try to act without hesitate

- we both have a staring problem and probably stare too long at people

- aware of the fact that acting while only using your emotions/heart/feelings as reasoning can be a little foolish and can get you into serious trouble, however.... there is also difference here but i will say later

um okay actually that is a frightening amount in common BUT. ACTUALLY WE ARE OPPOSITES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND NOTHING SIMILAR. AND HERE IS WHY

- about emotions thing.. ashe uses his head and thinks very logically. however, usually i prefer to listen to my heart especially when making important decisions, and even though i know thinking emotionally rather than logically can and has caused me to hurt, i think listening to my gut feeling and my heart rather than my brain has also given me a lot of happiness and i just prefer to listen to it than use my head, even though that would probably save my heart, also it would make me feel really bad inside and anyway overall i just use my heart over my head majority of the time even though i know i probably shouldn’t i just can’t help it i love people too much

- umm

- anyways my hair short his hair long.. also i have black hair

- i do not research witches

- my eyes are not yellow

- i have 0 idea how to cook

- i dont know how to use knives

- unlike ashe who thinks people like claire and noel are dumb for using their heart over their head (haha) (sorry) i actually think that even though yeah it can be dumb to do that sometimes but also i think it’s a very emotionally strong move especially for like noel who KNOWS that he could just kill everyone except claire to grant his wish logically but who refuses to do so because it goes against his morals and his heart because i don’t think being kind to others and thinking in emotional terms rather than logical is an inherently stupid trait, yeah they can be dumb sometimes (especially claire..) but i think it speaks to their emotional strength that they’re able to listen to their hearts and are always kind and forgiving to others

- uhh

- my family is alive (i think)

- i OD NOT MURDER I PROMISE

- to be honest i’m not that smart.;. definitely not smart enough to plan out a whole murder like that

- in fact i’m a little stupid to be honest

- i am not that fast of a reader

- i prefer to look forward instead of towards the past.... but ashe... um

- he virgo i gemini

- he has difficulty trusting others because of what happened in his past however i trust very easily (arguably too easily) because i’m a little fool

- he was able to abandon his morals while trying to get his wish and my morals are always screaming at me everyday when i wake up.. however it’s not like i have a wish to grant so

- i don’t have any enemies to have homosexual tension with while ashe has like 2 ☹️

- his theme color is green and if i was in a game mine would probably be pink because its my favorite color

- I’m not from Colorado. It doesn’t exist. ITS NOT REAL

- hes way taller than me hes 5′10 and im like 5′0 

- he causes conflict with like everyone except claire throughout the whole game but i tend to click with people pretty easily.. i think unless everyones been lying to me 

- he’s 27 and i am not

i hope this is enough evidence to prove i am NOT ashe bradley. also sorry im not very good with words when talking about the emotions thing.. but yeah i have  lots of feelings about  claire and noel anyways I AM NOT ASHE BRADLEY. STOP ASSOCIATING ME WITH ASHE BRADLEY. I WILL NEVER BE HIM. 

#ashe bradley #actually this made me think that maybe i am similar to ashe in the past #maybe #scared #IM NOT ASHE BRADLEY. #STOP ASSOCIATING ME WITH ASHE BRADLEY!!! /J #ASHE BRADLEY SLANDER

[manchineel-mistress]

Ok so I've been reading a lot of Yugioh Harry Potter crossovers lately. Mainly because they are the whole reason why I even started rewatching Yugioh dm (like I was not about to accept that this damn Harry Potter crossover fic had actually in canon characterization for the Yugioh characters because It Did Not Match Up with my memories from 13 years ago).

Anyway, I think Yugioh and Harry Potter has this great crossover potential because a) everything has good Harry Potter crossover potential and b) their timelines match up. Yuugi is like.... a month and some change older than harry, and that's something you can’t just leave there lying. They can bond!! Over not having normal high school experiences!! And almost dying constantly!! And Destiny!!

But also like would it not be hilarious for Umbridge to get shadow gamed seasson 0 Yami style. I think it would be hilarious, just, she starts seeing everything as pink or seeing the words she writes and/or hears being carved into her skin as her penalty game. I think it would be silly and funny teehee.

Back to the fics, usually they give the gang magic (either going shadow magic route or millennium items gets an upgrade again), but consider. What if. They don't. Yuugi finds himself in Hogwarts and Dumbledore or someone is convinced he can do magic, but he can’t. Poor baby just sits in charms class and tries to levitate a feather, only to be waving a stick and saying nonsense words. No, the person who can actually do magic is Yami, and that's why they got in this situations in the first place, so every time Yuugi needs to preform magic, Yami has to step in and figure out someway to make his half remembered-mostly-instinct-and-completely-different magic do the thing that the teacher wants him to do. Or it could be the route that shadow magic and HP magic are the same, just different branches, and the folks out in ancient Egypt only learned the shadow magic branch. Wouldn’t really help Yami as he tries his damnest to bluff his way through class, but it would be interesting world building wise. Yuugi does all the writing work though, because they’re partners who share th work.

“But Manch,” I can hear the nonexistent voice in my head that might also be you say, “why the hell would the gang be anywhere near the UK?” Well the Fics (tm) usually end up with shadow court or Bakura goes on summer holiday or Dumbledore and Voldemort are eyeing the millennium items. But like, what if Kaiba or someone just hosts a duel monsters contest in London and the gang just get invited for the summer. Then cue deatheaters and then cue the gang getting kidnapped into the wizarding world. Or at least Yuugi. Why did they invite muggle(s) into the wizarding world? Well damn that pendant sure looks useful in this war- wait what do you mean it’s now tied permanently to that boy- goddamnit I wanted to avoid possible kidnapping charge.

Also, I think that the millennium items could definitely just one shot Voldemort. Drag him into the shadow game, he has enough pride to fudge up and end with him yoinked into hell or something. It would be funny.

So yeah, I’ve been thinking too much about YGO HP crossovers, it's been a couple of weeks and I needed to get the Thoughts out. HP crossovers are my guilty pleasure, especially when they are just tearing the HP world apart or are just incredibly silly. Silly crossovers are my favorite.

#yugioh #harry potter #harry potter crossover #yugioh crossover #YGO HP crossover #I'm so sorry that this is my contribution to the fandom #I just have had Thoughts #they plague me #anyway all the fics ive read have been so funny #its been an overall great time #i have too many thoughts about yugioh fanfics i will never write #pls feel free to take my ideas and (non ai) write them #i have other ideas too #i'm just keeping them on the back burner for now

[gothdabi]

ty for tagging me @skinwalkerbehavior !! :0

15 questions for 15 mutuals

1. are you named after anyone? nah.. i mean i did name myself tho lol

2. when was the last time you cried? uhh when i rewatched rengoku’s death a couple days ago 🥹

3. do you have kids? no and i never will. amen

4. do you use sarcasm a lot? more often than not tbh 😭

5. what sports do you play/have you played? i’ve never played any sports tbh. was never interested, i played basketball with my friends but that didn’t really count cuz it was in their backyard

6. what's the first thing you notice about other people? usually their hair or what they’re wearing (not in a judgmental way)

7. eye color? blue 😎

8. scary movies or happy endings? why can’t a scary movie not have a happy ending? though, i prefer happy endings because life is a scary movie SKDNSKNDK like… idk sad endings just ruin things for me

9. any special talents? i don’t know? i guess not, i mean i’m good with my hands but idk if that counts. like everyone i meet is like “woae u type so fast :0” but it’s just second nature to me. oh wait also i guess i have psychic abilities to an extent (believe or don’t believe is all good dw)

10. where were you born? in the south unfortunately

11. what are your hobbies? smoking weed- LMFAO.. i write fics that never see the light of day and uhhh i used to make silly little edits

12. do you have any pets? no ): guys convince my grandpa to let me get a cat pls

13. how tall are you? deku height

14. fave subject in school? art & english. english was fun cuz it was easy and i liked writing! i always got complimented for my writing skills in school

15. dream job? i do not dream of manual labor. however in a perfect world i could be an actor mayhaps

i tag (it’s not 15 but i’m shy) @enigmaticpink / @eddiethehunted / @lgbtchica / @tomurasdecay / anyone else who wants to do this (:

#deku height is 5’5 btw #TY FOR THE TAG sorry i’m slow </3 #these r fun !! #my grandpa is watching demon slayer w me now and he is so livid abt rengoku #kl.txt

[mejomonster]

yakuza 0 is a fascinating game. from my perspective, as a standalone, since it was the first entry in the series i played and so i treated it as its own single thing with no prior knowledge or context. also as a prequel game, i imagine it may have been somewhat aimed at new players to the series like some prequels are as ‘entering points’ into series

1. it highlights the serious drama/silly heartfelt sidestories structure, the way the mini games and then more fight-heavy combat go alongside each other to make this mash up game (which in some ways reminds me of Persona 3 combining life sim with turn base combat, or Devil Summoner Raidou combines action combat with these very slice of life social gaming aspects of making demon friends/case solving). 

2. it serves to introduce the families at play, clans at play, the tojo clan and omi alliance, and show kiryu at his youngest as like his origin. 

3. as standalone stories, kiryu and his entire involvement with tachibana is a full drama story of its own, majima and his entire involvement with makoto is a full drama story of its own. so what it ends up feeling like is 2 games in one. 2 games that could have maybe stood on their own as 2 independent stories/yakuza games, combined into one single game. likely because they revolve around the same large-scale event of the empty lot and dojima leader being taken down from power.

4. because the game at no point has the 2 leading characters (who are leading their own respective “own stories/games” in the game) never meet, it pretty much start to finish feels like playing 2 parallel stories/games. i found this an interesting but really odd choice? i am not sure i remember any other game where 2 leads of 2 stories which connect (since their larger stories do connect as flip sides of each other) never meet or cooperate in the game. I can think of Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories where Sora never meets Riku but Riku IS actively looking for sora and at the endgame interacting with his body/his safekeeping as the ending conclusion. Or KH Dream Drop Distance where Riku and Sora are often apart and unable to communicate or work together, but know each other before the gameplay starts and interact again in the endgame. Meanwhile, I expected the same of yakuza 0 - for majima and kiryu to either meet in endgame and Work Together or to at some point be aware of each other to a decent enough degree to be acknowledging it (even if its like “this kiryu working with tachibana, this majima who helped makoto and is now taking out Dojima while i go to protect makoto” referring to an off-screen known ally to their goals). But that never happened. The ENTIRE game, even inside each other’s spheres of influence as they are deeply tied during the endgame in their goals/who they know/what they’re doing, they never are aware of each other (beyond this k-san i’m investing in lol). it seemed very interesting to me that the writers chose to keep the stories only parallel without ever having the 2 leads run into each other or acknowledge each other’s participation much. It makes me wonder WHY they chose to write it that way. did they want to show what majima and kiryu have in common in their past, even though the 2 men themselves dont know its a shared experience? did they want to simply show a backstory for why BOTH characters are the way that they are now, and so felt they both deserved an origin story? (which would imply majima is Quite significantly viewed as a character, to get to deserve an origin story explanation with as much attention as main-character kiryu, since majima is a full on required playable character with his entire own story going on). I am playing Yakuza Kiwami now, and the game itself so far (I’m in chapter 4) has had majima around as a helpful “train me” guy, but he doesn’t particularly yet seem like he’d be any more significant as a character than say Bacchus in Yakuza 0 or Reina or Nishiki - maybe significant sure, but not enough to merit his own entire game-playthrough and story. So its just an interesting design choice for yakuza 0 to decide he IS that significant, to be on kiryu’s level as a main character. It may have been a fanservice choice, in that maybe majima became more popular through the series and by yakuza 0 he’d become More Important and worth making a 1/2 a game entirely on. It may have been he’s always been an important parallel to kiryu’s character, and this was a way to showcase that more. 

5. again... what’s perhaps most interesting to me isn’t even that majima gets co-lead status in yakuza 0. but that kiryu and majima Never cross paths during the game’s plot in person, despite being both dragged deep into the main story events of the empty lot, makoto, and dojima. i wonder why they chose to keep them apart. (i can make guesses - perhaps its important to the characters histories, that they met as casual coworkers with no inkling of what each other USED to be like, but it was still important to show Audiences what they both used to be like. that perhaps their actual early relationship has some significance in some plot, so it could not be altered to serve this yakuza 0 plot - but this yakuza 0 plot could still individually highlight both their own character arc stories individually. or maybe the makers just wanted to make 2 parallel games with yakuza 0 like an A and B side of a story).   

#yakuza 0 #lb #rant #feel free to ignore #i just find a lot of the design choices interesting #from a intro to series perspective? 10/10 this does a good job #showing ppl what yakuza games offer and if they'd like them or not #but then like. also the choice to make 2 not-touching main characters is a choice i rarely have seen #and i doubt it will show up in much of the other yakuza games #so i do wonder why they made the choice #im HAPPY i got all the majima side story lol. i loved majima and makoto together. i loved the cabaret running #nishitani. the guilded cage situation. all worthwhile to me #but it doesnt feel like they Had to add it in to make a 'decent complete yakuza game' #so im really curious Why they still added it and made it 50% of the game

[boysplanetrecaps]

Build Up Episode 2 Recap: Something Like That

Welcome back to my recaps for the MNET show Build Up. In the previous one, we covered the performance of Tomboy from episode 2. In this one, we’ll continue with episode 2 and cover the performance of Something Like That. Let’s do it! 

So, this song is originally by a woman named Park Hwayobi, whose is often known as just Hwayobi. She’s been called the Korean Queen of R&B and she’s credited as a singer songwriter, though I don’t know if she writes all of her songs or just some of them. She’s been putting out music pretty steadily since 2000, with her most recent song coming out in 2021. I think she’s currently mired in some sort of contract dispute with her former agency, and that might be why she hasn’t put out any songs in a few years. 

The song Something Like That is apparently also known as What’s Going on. I found a video for it on Youtube, which apparently was filmed on a potato and then recorded on a piece of Laffy Taffy for posterity, so watch it at your own risk. Musically, it sounds like a song Toni Braxton might have sung in the late 90s or early 2000s. Lyrically, t’s a breakup song, kind of akin to Don’t Speak  by No Doubt. Sample lyrics: 

After walking some distance/ You'll turn around to give me a glance won't you / With that, just like the old days / You'll come to me and hug me with a smile won't you?

You really liked me once, you had treasured me so much / No, I'm going to believe / that something like never seeing you again / will never happen

Though the song itself is pretty old, it’s been covered many times, as the editors of Build Up point out, including a 2023 version sung by Paul Blanco, who I know nothing about but appears to be male. In other words, this won’t be the first time that men sing this song. 

The judges joke a bit about how difficult the song is to sing, noticing as if for the first time that all the songs are hard. I mean, isn’t that the point? 

Flashback to the beginning of the mission. We see a little montage of all the groups meeting each other, shaking hands, being a little silly, getting to know each other. 

Then we see Team Something Like That and they’re just sitting there, looking kinda beige. 

Finally, Taehwan from Vanner, the most colorful of them, asks everyone about their ages, so they can establish their pecking order. 

Left to right: Ma Jae Kyung, Kwon Euibin, Taehwan, Lee Minwook

Turns out that Taehwan is the oldest, at 30 years old, and Minwook is the youngest, at 24. 

We didn’t see much of any of these four in the first episode, so here’s a brief recap of who they are. See my Episode 0 recaps for more info on everyone. 

Jaekyung used to be the main vocal of a group called Romeo, performing under the name of Kyle. He was V25 and I didn’t love his super nasal tone and wobbly vibrato, but maybe he’ll surprise me next time!

Euibin is a trainee who has been on other shows. He was V35, and I thought his voice was sweet and pretty, but he strained on some of the higher notes and occasionally got a little shouty. 

Taehwan was shown on camera a ton in episode 1, but we didn’t hear much from him. He’s from a group called Vanner that actually seems to be on the up and up. He was V13 and I thought he sounded a bit pinched and nasal, but he has a warm, textured voice -- a lot of talent, maybe less training. 

Minwook is from a group called Newkidd. He was V9, a ballad I actually kind of liked. He sang completely live with apparently just a guitar, and I liked how much warmth he put into his lower notes. I didn’t get to hear much belting or upper register, but I liked what he did already a lot.

It’s kind of interesting that Jaekyung and Taehwan are in this group together, since they were both in groups that competed on Peaktime last year. But they might not have met during that competition, since it was group based and they might not have mixed. 

Keeping with the theme of seeing very little of any of these four, we see almost nothing about them during their rehearsal period. They’re portrayed as boring and stiff and pale when they meet, and then we go almost immediately to the performance, with the on-screen caption, “What would the emotional ballad Something Like That be like interpreted by these four?” It’s dripping with sarcasm. Thanks, editors. Theditors. 

Taehwan, their leader, introduces the team as Four J, and they all make J shapes with their legs.

LTR: Kwon Euibin, Lee Minwook, Taehwan, Ma Jaekyung

They explain that the name is based off their MBTI -- they’re all “J”s. 

Backstage, Jay Chang says he’s also a J/Jay, and when Solar says “I love J,” Jay says, “Thank you!” making Geonu laugh. 

The members introduce themselves one by one, starting with Euibin. He speaks in a kind of monotone, saying, “If you hear it once, you’ll remember my voice”. His words appear as a caption on-screen with periods in between each syllable, and the editors add a pixelated noise, as if he’s a robot. 

Backstage, some of the guys are laughing, but I don’t think it’s mean spirited. They say, “he’s so nervous!” and shout that he’s cute. 

Next is Ma Jaekyung, who says he wants to serenade us. He says he’s a former member of Romeo. 

Taehwan introduces himself as the main vocal of Vanner and says he’s a human cider. Ok, let me explain. In Korea, a “cider” is a soda like 7up or Sprite, not the alcoholic apple juice. In slang terms, the feeling of the word cider is of refreshment in general, especially if someone says something that perfectly expresses what you’re feeling. Here’s more on that, if you’re interested. 

Baekho asks Taehwan if he went on a survival program recently, and Taehwan confirms that he did, with a smile. Baekho says that Taehwan’s grades on that show were good, and yes, they were! Vanner actually won Peak Time. We see a clip of other contestants approaching Taehwan during the first episode to congratulate him on Vanner’s win. 

Baekho says, Your team already has a reputation for good singing…? And Taehwan says that he wants to be known personally for his singing. He’s a cutey, isn’t he? 

Lee Minwook introduces himself as “Sweet but full of ambition -- Lee Minwook of Newkidd.” The judges ask him why he came on the show, and he says that his group debuted during Covid-19 and have never really done any proper team activities. Everyone says “waaa… aigoohh” 

It’s almost as if these guys have really interesting backstories, MNET? And maybe we could have spent some time getting to know them? 

Oh, but we’re not going to do that? Just going to briefly show a few still images of Newkidd and then go straight into the … oh, no time, here we go!

Here’s the link without all the reactions. 

My thoughts:

Oof, what a cheesy arrangement, with bad sound mixing that was actively fighting the vocals. But the vocals themselves were mostly pretty fantastic. Lot of good stuff here. 

Minwook was occasionally slightly pitchy at the start, but he warmed up and got better as he went. He had a lovely vocal color, with sweet high notes. His belts later on in the song were fantastic. Really, really great stuff. 

Jaekyung was a lot less nasal than he was in his teaser performance, and none of that ultra-wobbly vibrato. Just a really great performance.

Euibin may well have been quite nervous, because he was pitchy and nasal for his first two sections of singing. His vocals got cleaner and cleaner as he went, and we could hear some of the excellent technique and lovely vocal color that must have earned him a spot on the show. That one belt toward the end, during the key change, was amazing. His last line was a tiny bit pitchy again, though. Also, he never varied his facial expression. 

Here’s Taehwan. Uh oh, guys, I think I have another bias. Slightly older with an appealing smile? Check. Voice that gives me shivers? Check and check. Ok, his first line or two were maybe slightly pitchy but then he got into it and it was amazing. I’ve listened to this a few times, not looking at the screen so I’m just hearing the voices, and every time it’s Taehwan’s turn I’m like ahhhh. Like when you stick your cold feet into the warm water of a jacuzzi. Ahhh. I know I said in my initial write up that I didn’t think he had as much training as some of the others, but I take that back. This guy knows how to sing. I know I’m not saying anything of substance but I just like his vocal color so much.

All four of them are great, and Jaekyung and Minwook are excellent, but Taehwan is superb. 

Side note: what is this weird liminal place they’re performing in front of? Just this mostly empty room with egg-sized raindrops beating down on the garage door sized windows.

The MNET edit lets us know that all this singing is good.

Soomin likes the singing. I think. I guess?

Solar likes the singing. I think. I guess?

We hear some instant replays of Euibin’s big note during the key change, but otherwise they’re pretty restrained. 

When they’re done, the judges applaud, and backstage, the boys wonder who could even be chosen as top tier in a group where all of them were so good. 

Jaehwan leads things off by praising how smooth and effortless Minwook’s singing was as he went through the song.

Baekho tells Taehwan that this is the first time he’s really heard Taehwan sing, like really sing, and he was so happy to hear his real real voice. VCG agrees. 

Eunkwang points out that Euibin did a great job with those high notes in the middle, but that the first two sections he sang were a bit disappointing. Ok, for once I agree with Eunkwang.  Mark your calendars. 

We don’t hear anything about Jaekyung, good or bad. 

So who will the top tier be?

Baekho votes for Euibin. VCG votes for Taehwan. Solar, Eunkwang, and Jaehwan vote for Minwook. 

I can’t be mad at it -- he did an excellent job. Congratulations, Minwook! You deserve it.

See, Taehwan says congratulations, too!

Minwook says he really didn’t expect to win. He’s stunned. He says it’s his first time winning first place and that it’ll probably be one of the most important events of his life. 

Then we have a preview of awfulness to come. Sigh. 

The next song up is going to be Sum (Breath). I’ll see you then and there! Thanks as always for reading. <3 

#bpr recaps build up #vanner #newkidd #taehwan

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Hi!! I wanted to ask, in celebration of Deltarune CH. 2, do you have any updated thoughts and head canons about the game?? Like, y'know, similar to a previous ask about Kris in your Deltarune tag? Thanks!

thoughts on kris part 2 i guess???? (part 1 from ch1 here lol)

spoilers for deltarune like woah. this wont be kris focused just random thoughts on everything. thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk

not that many thoughts for this chapter tbh! EDIT LOL: this was a lie i have a lot of thoughts

-just in general i feel like the player isn't the only one controlling kris... like yes the player forced kris to do what happened in the snowgrave route but AT THE SAME TIME idk it feels like there's someone else too. just because of the terrifying voice i suppose. and also the jerky movement kris does every time they get their soul out? unless there's another reason for it... maybe getting your soul out means you walk weird lol

-BUT ALSO i feel like kris is 100% in control when they create fountains. idk it just makes sense kris would create them. to create another world, a better world, A WORLD WHERE THEIR BROTHER IS HERE PERHAPS? i do wonder why they get their soul out then though. i'm all for it sweetie! do whatever! i support you!

-(i am and will be playing deltarune with only kris' best interests in mind. i will not hurt anyone unless kris wants me to. dont worry my little meow meow im on your side! talk to me! no? okay ill stay under the sink its fine)

-speaking of asriel. SUMMER VACATION COLLEGE WHEN? SUMMER VACATION COLLEGE WHEN? SUMMER (starts crying) V-VACATION COLLEGE WHEN

-kris misses their brother so much it's so sad. if you make kris steal 5$ from asriel they take it "reluctantly"? talking to asriel online so often even alphys knows?? the google search?? GOING INTO ASRIEL'S GOOGLE SEARCH ROOM WITH THEIR EYES CLOSED BECAUSE THEY'RE CONVINCED THEY ALREADY KNOW WHATS IN THERE? THAT ONE IS LESS OF A MISSING THING BUT IM LIKE OH MY GOD

-the city walk with susie at the end makes it clear to me that kris really values susie's friendship... kris even sits with her if you spend long enough near the lake like aaaaah ;_;

-and even in snowgrave you spend your last acts with the final boss calling for your friends like YES there's a way bigger creepy aspect to this (kris as more of a Leader who Commands and commands their subjects to come) but still :'0 (and then noelle answers oh my god noelle im so sorry for the trauma)

-berdly. listen. listen. listen. liste

-berdly sucks but [berdly hurts his arm in the battle against queen if you don't save him because he doesnt want to hurt you] [berdly realizing smg's wrong in snowgrave and immediately taking steps to save noelle] berdly is my little crumb nugget. i will protect him.

-noelle. noelle. girlboss!

-like ooooh listen. hearing about the genocide path for undertale. made me go "that is SO COOL. i HAVE to experience it myself this is great. hehehe killing time" and like no regrets. i was fully enjoying the experience knowing i was an awful person. SNOWGRAVE THOUGH. i will never try this myself its too fucked up. casually grooming your childhood friend to murder people <3 and also acting like a weird stalker towards her <3 stockholm syndrome speedrun i will get all the info i can about this but i will never do this myself

-people remarking the kris/player>noelle relationship is similar to the relationship between player>chara in genocide path is like yes. chefs kiss. don't worry we just are making you stronger and everything will be fine "you made me kill my friend? and for what?" this is fine sweetie don't worry about it!!!!!!

-like the amount of details added to snowgrave, like if you equip noelle's watch she notices later? and her battle animations change as time goes on, she gets an ice shield and stops sighing in relief after battle? oh my god? oh my god.

-(berdly is not awake.) JUST KILL ME RIGHT HERE I HAVEN'T STOPPED THINKING ABOUT BERDLY NOT BEING AWAKE!!!!!

-also why didnt he turn into dust. so many possible reasons. is magic a thing in the normal world and perhaps no magic means no dust (theres graves). maybe he isnt dead. maybe hes braindead. maybe he'll come back. either way that boy is now in the closet big enough to put someone in

-also dess' name probably being december AND THATS WHY NOELLE LOST THE SPELLING BEE?!?!??! FUCK ME UP!!!!! JUST FUCK ME UP!!!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!!

-also so many good pixel art this chapter. too many? i didnt need pixel art of cardboard noelle falling on the statue. like thank you but please. please it hurts my game artist brain.

-the expressions in this chapter were also top notch. all the unsettling noelle expressions like (i fall over face first)

-i threw away the ball of junk (which i already tried in ch1) and this time the game was like "ARE YOU SURE BC THIS IS A BAD IDEA" and kris felt bitter :'( (it deletes all your items in the dark world)

-i uh fucked up and skipped the susie+noelle scene bc listen last time ralsei mentionned seeing what susie is doing we missed some PRIMO LORE. turns out it just makes you skip the scene and you dont get anything new. welp

-speaking of ralsei well you know. he exists. but im stuck on him going "i just wonder what being ralsei-like even is...?" ralsei my dude there's so much i could say about this. do you feel like you can't be ralsei-like because you feel like you have to be asriel-like

-but also that makes no sense bc susie hasnt even mentioned ralsei looks like asriel. and i cant imagine asriel being so meek. so WHAT GIVES

-ralsei as kris’ “i wish i was a monster just like my bro and family and i’d look like asriel but with red horns [THE HALLOWEEN COSTUME] and my name would be something cool like ralsei instead of a boring human name like kris and im sweet and cute because thats how i act with asriel because ASRIEL MADE ME” theory because that would be cute.

-ASRIEL GOING TO THE CHURCH TO CONFESS HIS "SINS" WHEN "SINS" AREN'T A THING IN THE ANGEL BELIEF LIKE I KNOW THIS INTERACTION WAS TREATED AS A JOKE BUT WHAT THE FUCK ASRIEL?

-kris definitely has a connection with the big red door in the city, judging by what the kids say they probably went there... i feel like this place's dark world will be the Final Dungeon you KNOW some shit happened there. also the sounds you hear when you go there is the phone dark world call's sound slowed down? AND AFTER SNOWGRAVE APPARENTLY YOU CANT HEAR IT ANYMORE? HUWAH?

-speaking of songs the songs were all so good, My Castle Town rules, the berdly snowgrave music is stuck in my head, flashback is uwah wuahah, Until Next Time is so good, AND ALSO A FRIEND NOTICED THE DARK WORLD CITY THEME IS JUST tHE SONG 74 (MOST NOTICEABLE WITH THE SNOWGRAVE VERSION)?????? WHAT DOES IT MEAN????? it might be just "hey its just reuse" BUT MR FOX YOU KNOW WE'RE GONNA READ INTO THIS IS NOELLE THE ONE SINGING IDK BRO!!!!!!!!!!

-asgore dreemurr fired from the force what happun!!!!! game theory is that asgore is related to dess' death/disappearance but eh who knows

-you start the chapter at lvl2 and get to lvl3 after the final boss, a friend mentioned this is probably because we destroyed a world and im :0

-to go back to kris it's still so interesting to figure out who they are based on how they act/people mention them. like kris shaking the ferris wheel car? yeah makes sense i can imagine a pranking kid do this. kris' dance? yeah thats a little silly but i can buy it. doing cool anime poses? well i dunno this doesnt line up PERFECTLY but sure. BUT EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN SNOWGRAVE... especially >proceed like that is such a weird thing that i can't imagine them doing, but i can't completely see the "player" doing either (compare with going to sans -which kris doesnt know- and going "SANS!" because of course the player would know sans), like THATS one of the reasons i feel like there's someone else in there. the weird robotic merciless actions. if im going super meta it feels like there'd be someone else like writing the choices into existence for us to pick you know? gaster probably? god i need to read more gaster theories i completely sidestepped the gaster shit bc i wasnt interested. anyway just spitballing

-(looks at big shot guy) please dont make him the next tumblr guy i beg you

-obligatory "queen was great" mention if only because this part made me laugh a little bit too hard

that was a lot. thank you for letting me talk

#ask tag #deltarune #deltarune spoilers #snowgrave spoilers

[shotorozu]

HELLO, ok so I saw ur reqs are open so I zoomed, do you know that trend on tiktok where it goes ‘he was big and strong and his eyes are flaming glow’ LIKE BAKUGOU, KIRISHIMA AND TODOROKI’S S/O FORCING THEM TO DO IT FOR CLOUT bcs they’re beefed asf, and how their s/o would react too + the comments BAHDHJAH I HOPE THAT WASNT CONFUSING 😭😭 anyways take ur time and stay safe <33

big and strong

(tiktok trend)

character(s) : kirishima eijirou, bakugou katsuki, todoroki shouto

legend : [Y/N = your name] quirk not mentioned, they/them pronouns used

headcanon type : fluff and the mildest of spice ?? not nsfw and not overly spicy!!

note(s) : I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE‼️ kirishima would literally own this trend?? i saw an animation of kiri doing this and i PASSED AWAY—

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kirishima eijirou

you hate using your relationship for clout on social media but,, you shall make exceptions

you saw this trend going around— and it’s literally the male equivalent of the ‘small waist, pretty face with a BIG BANK’ trend

and your mind immediately thought of your boyfriend, who would probably rock this challenge no pun intended

so you immediately rushed to eijirou, who was just chilling in his room— and you asked him kindly to do the trend

and he was like “oh, what trend—” then he saw the trend and went 🤠 I’LL DO IT WITH OR WITHOUT THE CHECK

no hesitation here.

so he does the challenge, and you’re like Σ੧(❛□❛✿) my boyfriend’s too hot wtf

he literally murdered the challenge, and he delivered so well. when i say murder, i mean blood everywhere

hand in marriage now! you’re just fawning over him for a good minute— bc you’re totally distracted.

then you upload the video, and you honestly thought it wouldn’t get any more than 50k on tiktok bc tiktok’s reach is just something else

but you open the app the next day, and it’s EXPLODING with hundreds of thousands of notifications from that one video

harboring 500k likes :0

and the comments are just like “is your boyfriend single?” “i have no words” “YOU’RE DATING HIM??” “he’s HOT and RESPECTFUL!!”

you show kiri the result of the video all excited like“you’re tiktok famous!!”

kiri’s just in awe. like.. people think he’s manly omg.

but he doesn’t look at the simp comments because he literally looked at one comment and ran 🏃‍♂️💨

“i appreciate those comments but i’m dating you, Y/N!” we love kirishima in this house.

bakugou katsuki

declined when you first asked him 😔

“wtf no, that’s weird.”

again, man is NOT on tiktok, and you cannot change my mind otherwise.

okay but don’t get me wrong, he’ll eventually do it— but you just need to bug him about it.

but then katsuki thought about it for a bit, and he thought about how you’d react— and then how you’d literally be all over him for a while

and he just went “okay, fine. i’ll do it just for that.”

he’ll tell you that he’ll do it, and you’re just so EXCITED 🤩

katsuki made you promise that you’ll only have it up for 5 days though :,) because he didn’t want it to be up on the internet FOREVER

but don’t get me wrong, you can keep the video.

you sit in the back, watching him film the tiktok— and you’re just experiencing some major WHIPLASH from the entire experience.

when he finished filming, you’re just there totally appalled— sitting there in silence 😳

he did it despite his conscience telling him not to, but at least he got a clingy Y/N for a while (he’ll say he hates it but omg he loves it.)

you upload it, and the next day IT BLOWS UP like— it really blows up.

i’d say maybe 750k likes and nearly 900k views.

the comments were mostly like “IS YOUR BOYFRIEND SINGLE??” and “WHERE DID YOU BUY HIM??”

bakugou being petty, responded to a simp comment with a video of him kissing your cheek lol. (that video got some attention too)

“i did that stupid challenge for you.” he’ll roll his eyes— “and i’m yours. so don’t think that those silly ass comments matter to me.”

when you privated the video, it had like 4.0m views 😔

todoroki shouto

you’re reluctant to ask him because again— shouto isn’t the most socially aware person??

and he’s not on tiktok either

but you figured that you should at least ask him, just so you could know if he hates the idea or not.

you ask him, and shouto’s response was just

kinda confused?? but he can— quite literally, see the shimmer in your eyes when you look at him

so he accepts

“..promise me you’ll give me lots of hugs and kisses afterwards.”

and an exchange was made

he’ll do it, and moments before the video ends— he’ll make a point to pull you into the frame and hug you, showing everyone that he’s taken

as he should

he still did the challenge though, and BOY did he execute it better than expected??

your face is buried in his chest like “my boyfriend’s so hot wtf” and shouto’s in heaven rn, don’t interrupt him.

you’ll upload the video before you go to sleep, and you’ll just let it sit, not thinking too much about it

then you wake up to 1M likes like.. wtf?? your notifications 💀

the comments are like “HE’S HOT!! but he has an s/o 😔” “the fact that he’s hot, and manages to look at them like that is.. BENXKALZ” “what store do they sell boyfriends like that?? i want one rn.”

and you show shouto like “!! you’re famous!!”

shouto doesn’t really care that much about being famous, and he just presses his face against you— mumbling something like “are you proud of me?”

ofcourse i am, shouto

shouto doesn’t really get the simp comments because he’s dating you?? why would he be flattered by compliments that aren’t from you?

“i’m glad you’re happy, love.” he smiles just watching you replay the tiktok over and over again “however, i can definitely show you more.”

oh

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