#i need a tag for my word vomit

[cherrirui-official]

Friendlocke Violet Gijinkas (Part 1/7)

Since the edited episodes are starting to come out, I figured that bc of that and the fact that I've been keeping this in the back burner for a loooong while now, might as well complete all my friendlocke violet gijinkas!! Some are gonna stay the same while others are gonna have slight/ complete redesigns, so please keep that in mind!

I plan on posting them in order by groups of three, so there's gonna be seven parts in total, all of which I'll be linking here when done vvv

(Part Two) (Part Three) (Part Four) (Part Five) (Part Six) (Part Seven)

!! These will contain personal headcanons I have for the cast, little fun facts, and also spoilers for Friendlocke Violet (for both the edited vids and the streams) !!

@saltydkart-reblogs

And that's pretty much it, designs under the cut!

LARK:

HUGE nerd. spent most of his time during the Uva Academy studying different kinds of pokemon as well as different fighting styles he can utilize once he is able to go out on his own journey with his very own trainer! Too bad that didn't really help in the long run...

His entire wardrobe consists of McDonald's related outfits. It's fucking insane. He even has some from long LONG ago that aren't available anywhere else.

The bubble pattern on his hair is able to move and change. Nobody knows how this is possible, not even Lark himself. All Lark knows is that his hair looks incredibly stylish!

Speaking of bubbles, he has the ability to blow bubbles whenever and wherever he pleases!

Often keeps himself extremely clean and gets upset if even a small speck of dirt gets on him, despite this he somehow smells like McDonald's food and axe body spray. Disgusting. He's so cool!

Even after death he still likes to hang around the other team members as a ghost, often getting to know the newer members as well as reuniting with the old ones. Sometimes they see him, sometimes they don't. It usually depends.

SARA:

Due to being a human in her past life, Sara is able to actually speak with the other humans in the pokemon world. However she usually doesn't due to it being seen as extremely weird and out of place. She did slip up once while talking in the presence of Arven, who thought it was the weed making him hear things.

Oinkologne are usually unable to do much with their hooves but Sara spent nights practicing how to knit with her new hooves and now she's able to do it flawlessly. I don't know how she managed to do that but go queen!

When first joining the team she'd often have the urge to eat her food related companions. It was a strange time for Sara, but she managed to overcome it.

When Peppy gets sick, she usually is the one who nurses him back to health. She was a human once so she often is able to figure out whatever sickness Peppy has and treat it properly. I suppose she's like a second mother to him.

The bag she carries with her is full of thread that she collected from various Tarountula she encountered on the journey, as well as little things she knits together in her spare time.

For the most part, Sara forgives... but NEVER forgets.

Did you guys know that Sara has a new YouTube channel? Check it out!

Pastey:

Before joining the team, Pastey was a nameless wanderer. He's been down every road in Paldea and knows almost the entire region (except for Area Zero) like the back of his hand.

He's gotten hurt pretty badly throughout the run (ie. the Mikey fight, the Atticus fight, and ESPECIALLY the final battle), however, he does not gain any (physical) scars from those fights. This is bc he's basically an axolotl, and axolotls are usually able to heal without scarring.

Pastey's "arms" are, to put it simply, mud prosthetics. More info here vvv

Pastey HAS met Mall Bingo once before the run, however, he doesn't recognize her. The only reason he does not recognize her is bc she wears glasses. (You know how people somehow aren't able to recognize Superman bc he wears glasses in his civilian attire even tho his face remains the same? It's basically like that lmao)

Unlike the lightbulbs he eats, the gasoline he drinks isn't really mandatory to his diet. Gasoline is like alcohol to him and he drinks it like an absolute CHAMP.

He goes fishing when there's nothing else to do or when he can't sleep at night. He doesn't do this bc he thinks it's fun or anything, only bc it's a "good time passer" or so he claims. Other members of the team will often sit with him and vent out anything that's troubling them at the moment, and Pastey is always there to listen to them.

And that's pretty much it. Next is Joe, Hannah Ü, and Mykyie!

#I am a firm believer that Sara can and will beat ass #No i do NOT plan on making gijinka designs for Chatbike and Phil sorry guys #just getting that out of the way i know how much yall love phil /j /lh #Anyways it feels so good to finally start on this like holy moly #also idk when the others will be done... HOWEVER... #The sketches for Joe Hannah and Mikey are already pretty much done I just gotta make em digital #so ideally they'll be out pretty soonish I'd say... I hope #but yeah if anyone has any questions abt them feel free to send them in my askbox and I'll be happy to answer them as best as i can! #<- No anons tho sorry yall #Also I need to be honest here Lark's outfit kinda does look atrocious and I couldve changed it... BUT... #I honestly thought it was WAY funnier if Lark's attire looked weird on purpose so I kept it like that lol #Anyways sorry for the word vomit here are the tags #friendlocke #friendlocke violet #saltydkdan #should my gijinkas have their own tag...? Sure why not #Violet Gijinka Au #cherris canvas

[fitpacbo]

Fit and Pac first realize that the other had a crush on Tubbo when they found him asleep on his factory floor.

Pac’s face was positively gooey with affection and worried. The only way to describe him was lovesick.

Fit, although more stoic than his boyfriend, was clearly worried for the youngest member of the Morning Crew in only the way a lover could be. Pac knew Fit’s subtle tells well enough to read him like a book by now.

There’s a moment of relief when they come to the same conclusions about the other. The difficult part was trying to figure out if Tubbo reciprocated their feelings. After all, he had Fred.

#wrote this while half asleep #I’m not the best writer but I needed to word vomit #fitpacbo #poly morning crew #<- doing my best to populate these tags lmao #qsmp #qsmp shipping #fitpac #implied frubbo

[silly-little-lurker]

Uh hi

First post yippee

Scenes drawn from chapter 11 of THIS (link below :)) AMAZING FANFIC, I DOUBT ANYONE’S GONNA SEE THIS BUT IF YOU DO, GO READ GO READ GO READ GO READ PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE IT’S SO GOOD

(Read the tags on AO3)

I honestly didn’t think I was going to post anything here, but this fanfic is too good not to make fanart for hasgsfhvjvlws <33

Apologies if drawings are weird; I’m mostly a traditional artist trying to warm up to digital art and I have—

No idea what I’m doing!!

*jazz hands*

(I know that Vox is supposed to be stuck in the box on the narrow side but shhhhh (2nd image;middle doodle))

Okay bye :3

#Vox Box #please make this an actual tag #I find it so stupidly funny and I need Vox in a box #FOAMING AT THE MOUTH FOR THIS FIC /POS #Also don’t know how to use tumblr so there’s that #sorry for word vomit #I just have to write down all my thoughts or I’ll never be able to again #my art lol #vox #angel dust #ao3 fanart #I get way to anxious to post stuff wth

[grellestie]

literally cannot stop having sebagrelle thoughts

im about to be so obnoxious

imagining sebastian slowly falling for her but in his own demonic way. he starts off as being annoyed and slowly gets used to her antics before he realizes he actually does have some sort of feeling outside of resentment.

grelle would be completely oblivious and just enjoys having someone who enables her general bullshit. does she know it's bad? yeah but thats why shes having someone whispering in her ear to do it.

it's more like a devil on her shoulder than an actual good healthy relationship but if it's healthy, it's not victorian

them accidentally meeting at places but mutually decide to just be neutral since they have so much on their plate already.

imagine the conversations they would have... i feel like it would get somewhat philosophical intertwined with whatever's on grelle's mind.

she will be going from how she's stressed about her job to explaining her apathy when handling souls which she knows he would understand. ofc making jokes poking at how she's probably making him hungry- much to sebastian's dismay.

i could see one night grelle accidentally getting too cuddly with him when they're talking on her bed and falling asleep on him.

it's like a dilemma to him because he wants to push her off but she's soooo peaceful and sooo cute when she's not trying to attack him and- oh he's pushing her off the bed then trying to lie and say she rolled off herself.

they're the type of couple that would tease the everloving hell out of each other and ofc go wayyy too far but still adore each other (sebastian somewhat but grelle definitely)

i love when grelle is portrayed as a cracked mirror to sebastian. they mutually understand each other but there's so much that's different and so much they couldn't possibly understand

like why grelle would feel so mixed on killing her previous master or why sebastian didn't kill her and wanted to torture her (basically) instead or why grelle bothers to stay with a dispatch that doesn't trust her and underestimates her talents or why sebastian doesn't just get ciel killed anyway

i feel like they'd ask questions about each other that would just be so prying to other but it's okay because it's mutual. they're intentionally seeing who would crack first and try to theorize as to why.

oh and def post-ciel, sebastian is visiting grelle a lot more often and they're free to do more together. they also don't have to worry about leaving each other's scent or hairs on each other

and ik yana said that grelle would get "bored" if sebastian hit on her and yeah, i agree. but cmon, he's not hitting her in the traditional way. he's doing it as a demonic being that doesn't understand his emotions yet he knows he wants her more but can't put it in a way that she would understand.

#this is just word vomit but they're rotating in my brain #black butler #kuroshitsuji #grell sutcliff #grelle sutcliff #sebastian #sebagrelle #sebagrell #sebastian michaelis #im sooo normal abt them #i really am #shipping headcanons #black butler shipping #grell #uhhh do i need any other tags? #we will find out!

[jolynejay]

I really do love how the world of Genshin Impact, of Teyvat, is set up to guide the Traveler to godhood and make them a "good" god at that.

Because one thing is for sure Celestia is limiting the world - it is paraded as the highest of high ideals to achieve but all it's appointed Archons are named after demons. As a metatextual reader this creates an immediate discrepancy between the "heavens" imploying "demons" to rule humanity. Furthermore, Venti calls Celestia's waters foul, its fruit bland. A front that looks all nice and shiny but is rotten at its core.

And while somehow the Traveler's Sibling was made part of the world and conversely is under the laws of Teyvat's existence, the Traveler themselves is not. They are an outsider unbound by the rules and affected differently than the inhabitants of this world.

And as they set out to find their Sibling (notably, GUIDED by Paimon whose irl mythological counterpart is also a King of Hell), they traverse the world and meet its Archons. Along the way they learn, consciously or not, what makes a "good life" and how the gods all try to enforce their ideals - their dreams. One after another, the gods, the lands, the world itself imparts their dreams of a good life upon the Traveler.

The kind but apathetic Traveler that from the beginning only ever cared for their lost Sibling, not for the world of Teyvat. The blank slate that continues on without a single dream of their own. This Fallen Star, who has traveled hundreds and thousands of worlds before, learns what it means to live and to care for the future of this world.

And so their journey slowly teaches them:

In Mondstadt, they learn of the importance of Freedom as one of humanity's highest ideals - thus always to tyrants. Deep down we're all meant to be free.

In Liyue, they learn that for society to function properly there needs to be a social contract between the people, the gods, nature itself. Because "even the wind cannot blow on forever." Freedom cannot exist without Order.

In Inazuma, they learn that linging to the past will only serve to make the world stagnant. Order is all well and good but trying to conserve the past will only prolong grief and suffering. Change is inevitable - the only thing to ever be eternal - and dreams the catalyst.

In Sumeru, they learn that history is written, it is malleable. But while it may sometimes is better to erase pieces to lead to a brighter future, you can't erase history to escape responsibility and accountability. To know ourselves and others well is the most difficult and meaningful work to do. Knowledge is a blessing and a burden - and we bear the responsibility to hold ourselves and others accountable for the actions and paths we choose.

And the Traveler's journey continues on, even as they suffer, have to learn how to handle their own emotions, and decide for themselves what they want the future to be. And they continue to learn until the day of their ascendancy...

When their wishes, their dreams, become strong enough to reach the False Heavens and the Starry Abyss.

#genshin impact #aether #lumine #the traveler #venti #zhongli #raiden shogun #raiden ei #nahida #genshin theory #well more like #genshin analysis #tags are hard #probably not a new take in any way but i needed to get it out of my brain #otherwise the brainrot will not let me sleep #hee hoo flowery word vomit from your favorite rando on the internet #jo's theory corner

[starlightshore]

Thanks for the Measured Response™. Unfortunately the character limit doesn't allow for much nuance in asks. My issue isn't so much with the character's actions as the way their conflict is framed. It always feels like we're supposed to judge Asriel way harsher - for ghosting the person responsible for their trauma - than Chara, who is actively trying to hurt them. I know you don't want to trivialize abuse, but the story still botches the subject pretty badly. Still, good luck with the rewrite.

(sighs) please anon, while I do appreciate the effort to acknowledge the lack of nuance in the previous ask, I would much rather you approach me more reasonably. I don't appreciate you coming to me, a complete stranger to both of us, with this attitude of already guilty. can you please learn to talk to people more reasonably? like, I'm living my life out here and you come and accuse me in a really rude way of promoting abuse or whatever the far-fetched conclusion that ask could come across as.

I am more than happy to accept fault over my writing and do my best to improve, but I want to do so on friendly, acceptable terms. please withhold condemnation and explain how and why you feel the story was mishandled. You do so really nicely in the second ask and I appreciate that.

Ultimately, regardless of my intent, my story didn't convey the message and that's, at the very least, mostly my fault. I can try to explain why I'd argue I didn't fuck up as badly as you paint me as, but I will accept that the story I wrote was not emotionally paced well made it weigh more towards cruelty without the hope and understanding I wanted the story to be read as.

I want to stress that I take abuse deadly seriously. I'm a victim of emotional abuse myself and this is something I am desperate to portray in all of its ugly, dirty detail and I want to do it without hurting people. I obviously failed when I first wrote this and I want to say thank you for coming to me about it, even if I feel there is still some friction here I want to express that gratitude. But also please be aware of how you approach people. (referring to the OG ask here).

Anyway

i wanna defend myself here a little and say I think you're missing the bigger picture of the framing of that scene. I feel you forgot the context of that scene and where it's placed in the story. It's this post.

Previously, that entire chapter had Chara idolizing the Asriel they knew as a child. Their timetravel ability being removed meant they longed for that power to control the narrative and live in the past. its like, metaphorical shit for how when growing up its hard to move on from the past and accept that you're aging.

That scene was the point where Chara realized that Asriel wasn't perfect -and has never been. The story is framed by Chara's POV exclusively and navigates Chara's feelings about their separation from Asriel. The "abuse" of that scene is the feeling of an older sibling telling them to "fuck off" and "stop acting like a victim" which are like... like devoid of the context of Asriel's perspective (which we didn't have at this point in the story) is a very hurtful and emotionally damaging thing to say to someone. I can see how someone reading that, who could have been through a similar situation, would react very badly to seeing that in the comic. Thus the content warning. I honestly don't know if "abuse" is the right word here, but what is someone going to have blacklisted for this? Like I said, my goal is to avoid hurting so I'm not going to not tag it. It's an issue of vocabulary vs. accessibility. I still wouldn't know what to tag this tbh.

the overall narrative of the comic is that Chara's perspective of Asriel was holding themself back. they were wallowing over a perfect picture that never existed -which reflected how they hate themselves for not living up to the perfect angelic ideal that they obviously could never have lived up to.

Chara condemning Asriel for being Flowey and being a jerk is the first step towards chara acknowledging their own blame in the equation. pretending the problem doesn't exist and that you're inherently awful doesn't fix things. Immediately after tossing out Flowey, they realize they are a flower as well. (literally becoming the thing they just condemned Asriel)

Once The two reconcile with the help of Actual Adults in the situation, the story changes POV to Asriel. It's then we're given context to Asriel's perspective and to show, that yeah, both of them Suck as people. That both are capable of majorly fucking up. And that's because the tools they're given a life of trauma and being reborn into a world that doesn't understand your damage is in itself traumatizing.

so idk man. the framework here serves a purpose and while I plan on showing a more nuanced and balanced pace -I really need to show the characters having more things going on than their larger conflict + be happier with each other. (the problem with writing for an askblog is that its very reactive and its easier to lean into tension and relationship drama than focus on the lighter but necessary moments. I know for sure the redraw will be better at this)

But yeah the framework, as it stands, feels good to me. Maybe in the details of how it's shown I'll be able to handle the nuances more gracefully but with the larger goal in mind, I'm not sure how I can change that? I would really love to hear your thoughts on that.

#personal stuff #sams replies #uhhh man irony about a post discussing tagging but do i tag this as #negative #because there's some harsh criticism and feelings in here on both ends so #idk really #i gotta say idk how i feel about tumblr being the method we discuss this as honestly i feel this kinda conversation would be better suited #in DMS. because I don't want this to be a public topic because its very clearly a personal one for both us #i DON'T like discussing abuse so casually... its honestly a painful topic. in the abstract like this its not too bad but its defs not ideal #i'll grant you the need for anonymity tho so i don't mind but i'd prefer we talked privately somehow? eugh. hate writing long posts #i hate how i feel like i gotta word vomit to get my point across without being misunderstood its the woooorst #long post

[cliveguy]

coming to the conclusion i should probably date again because i cannot be 23 years old sworn off men because i had a bad experience 5 years ago but how do you stop being scared...

#um.txt #wrote an essay in the tags but deleted it people dont need to know that about me #there is literally a man rn who is in love with me. i can say the word and start it. #but still. after so long. it still exists in a room in my mind. the vomit at the back of my throat. #and the worst part is i doubt the guy remembers what he did. or even understands what he did wrong #but he killed me. #sorry im drinking anf watching the most unintentionally poignant depiction of an abusive codependent teenage relationship (twilight)

[calamari-minecraft-corner]

I’m trying to figure out how to phrase this.

Being upset is a huge understatement after everything has happened— and from this point forward I’m not supporting Wilbur or lovejoy etc.

I’m a huge believer of separating the character from creator so I will still be talking about c!Wilbur and stuff- probably not as much as usual at the moment. Same with c!wilbur art and fanfic but other than that that’s the most I will be doing involving that fucker.

I’m— im really trying my best to put my words out but yeah I’m beyond speechless about it all and I need time to process.

I genuinely hope Shelby is safe and gets the best support. And I don’t wish ill will on anyone usually but… yeah.

#I’ll do my best to tag what I need to when I do talk about c!wil but yeah #I’m sorry if this is word vomit my brain is just reeling atm #cala rambles

[pinkspiraling]

intro post 🫧

tw / depression, sh, anxiety, suicide, substance abuse, ed | this is a vent blog. i do not promote or encourage any of my behavior! block don’t report! this is my safe space, please don’t take that away.

i don’t post th1nsp0, tips, meanspo etc. i don’t post about my ed often, but if i do i tag all my ed posts with tws. <333 i currently post depressing shitty vents lol. i talk a lot about suicidal thoughts and drinking/drugs so pls be cautious.

i don’t mind spamming :) but i’m bad at following back so if i don’t feel free to dm/ask me and i will!

about me: i love hello kitty, vodka, twilight, the marauders, pink, body modification, horror movies, frozen, and lots of music. i’m always open to making new friends!!! i’m 22 so pls only dm me if ur 18+

#explanation of my tags: #pink never shuts up #<boring ramble stuff about my life #pink’s word vomiting #<venting or stuff that comes straight from my brain #usually more depressed or anxious stuff #pink put the drugs down! #<posts when i’m high or talking about drugs #pink put the bottle down! #<drunk posts or posts about alcohol #too real and now my tummy hurts #<posts that hit me so hard i need ten minutes to process #pinky promise i’ll answer #<asks #loud evil roommates who throw away my soul #<complaining about my roommates i do it often

[takethistoyourstardust]

Mage Ranks the JD2023E Map… Locked Out of Heaven

IT’S BLORBO TIME BITCHES. Um, I mean, we’re getting a bit dramatic now in our story line, as we meet Jack Rose, the flamboyant superstar son of our main villain!

MAP: Locked Out of Heaven - Bruno Mars DIFFICULTY: Medium EFFORT: Moderate JD+ NEEDED?: No SEASON: Base game/Enter the dancerverses playlist

Category Seven Autism Event inbound under the cut! Seriously, though, this one is long, ramble-y, and overall just a big excuse for me to infodump the fuck out of this map. It might not make a lot of sense, but putting it all down made me happy, so I hope it makes you happy to read it :)!

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I don’t need to tell you this song is good, right? It’s Bruno fuckin’ Mars, of COURSE it’s good! This song was actually pre-Uptown Funk, and it’s honestly one of his best songs from that time. I actually hated a lot of early Bruno Mars stuff (Grenade my beloathed), but now he’s probably one of my favorite vocalists. So yeah, I don’t need to tell you the song fucks! You already know that!

However, it’s the way that this song is used that fascinates me. The original context of the song is just “wanting to spend the night at someone’s house because they’re real good in the sack”, and the JD team saw that and went “But What If It’s About Parental Neglect” and ran with it. During the second verse, Night Swan’s face keeps taking over the background, that’s supposed to just be reflections of Jack dancing. And during that final chorus, after the first gold move where Jack is on his knees, and Night Swan Tower reveals itself, the jumbotrons that had Jack’s face on it are replaced by the tower’s visage, as the chorus sings “I’ve been locked out of heaven/for too long/for too long” and it fades back to his room, right where we started. Hell, even before that, he’s pointing to the audience during the lines “Can I just stay here?/Spend the rest of my days here?”, telling us in pretty fucking clear terms that his passion isn’t what he’s supposed to do, but what he wants to do - perform. He’s been locked out of heaven for too long, he’s been kept away from the love a mother should express for her child. And now he’s trying to find that happiness in his performance.

Speaking of, the routine! It’s fucking great! I think it’s ranked pretty fairly in terms of difficulty and effort, but if I can be honest, I found this routine shockingly easy. It’s not the easiest thing in the world, but after the technical nightmare that was Rather Be, and the (slight spoilers) upcoming technical nightmare that is Majesty, I would consider LOoH as almost a breather level. Almost, I say, if it wasn’t for the FIFTEEN SPINS you have to land. Seriously, between the one leg spin-hop, the full circle he makes during the chorus, and even the spin you have to do before the final Gold Move, there’s a reason a lot of people were joking that this song should’ve been called “Spinned Out of Heaven”. But maybe it’s the theater kid in me (it’s probably the theater kid in me), I didn’t find the spins all that difficult or demanding. And both the Gold Moves in this routine are fairly easy, with one being the jump you have to do at the start of the final chorus, and the other being the final move in the entire song, the hand raise that you started with. If I had to complain about one thing, I would say that I wish they had you “holding” the microphone in your right hand more. It’s easy for me to imagine holding the mic while doing certain moves, the bridge of the song being the most obvious, but most of the time it’s “in” your left hand when the game only tracks your right hand. It’s just a bit of a dissonance in my head, where it goes “wait, but i AM holding something in the right hand, why are you saying there’s something in my left?!”. But at that point, that’s just a nitpick.

The whole choreography tells us so much about Jack as a dancer. He’s flamboyant, he’s a showman, he lives for the dramatics. He knows how to work a crowd! His stage presence is amazing.

Speaking of! Jack Rose! The blorbo that has ruined my fucking life!!!

Quick note before I get into this... I’m not crazy when I say his name, Jack Rose, probably comes from the two main characters from Titanic, Jack and Rose, right?! No one else has pointed this out, not even the wiki, and I feel like I’m going fucking crazy. Like I know “Jack” is a very common guy’s name and “Rose” ties into the face his main color is red, but together? That’s a Titanic reference, baby! I’m not the only one who saw that, right?????

Anyways! Look at this man in his red suit, his stupid (affectionate) feather boa shoulder piece, his lipstick matching his hair, his gold glove, his stupid little microphone!!! All of this combined makes for one hell of a memorable character, at least for me. I love love love love LOVE monochrome character palettes, I love the mix of reds and blacks, I love it when random strappy things are on a character, I love a little pop of fur...

... wait a god damn second. Those are all the elements my ultimate blorbo of all time has!!!

(pictured: my ultimate blorbo of all time, aka my warrior of light in final fantasy xiv, ahrora, in her current outfit. note the reds, blacks, strappy things, and pop of fur. no matter what, she’s always gonna be my absolute favorite just because she’s my oc i poured so much into. don’t worry rora, you’re not getting replaced, you never could be <3) (it doesn’t help that her main class is quite literally dancer ALDFSKJAS;DFLKJASLD)

Okay, that’s a bit of a stretch, but I do adore red-coded characters, and honestly with the feathers it’s reminding me of one of my top 5 favorite characters of all time, Yamato Kazakiri from Animal Sentai Zyuohger, mostly because they’re both red and both give off Bird Vibes and not much else. But Yamato could sometimes serve this type of cunt. But now we’re getting twenty miles off from the topic so let’s get back the fuck on track.

Okay I’m sorry this is so much longer and more disjointed than the other reviews but this map makes me scream cry and throw up.

The map starts with Jack as a kid, dancing alone in his room. His mother, Night Swan, looks on, and motions in a way that says she’s disapproving of her son’s actions.

How it’s supposed to come off: Night Swan disapproves because Jack is supposed to be training to be the leader of her army, and shouldn’t have time for frivolous shit like “his own happiness”.

How it comes off to a lot of people: Night Swan disapproves because Jack is expressing his interest in a traditionally “feminine” hobby.

I’m not sure how many people related to that second interpretation, but I did see a LOT of people say that’s how they felt when they saw this cutscene for the first time. Personally, my interpretation was more like the first one; Jack wasn’t being absolutely perfect, and she thinks that if he’s not, he shouldn’t even bother. Of course, a bit of parental neglect never stopped anyone! It just traumatizes and yassifies you!

Honest to god, when I first saw this transition from his child self to his adult self, it made me gasp a bit, Even after his mother has expressed disapproval, he’s still going forward with being a performer. Sure, he is the main leader of her assimilated army, but he just wants to perform in front of people! And he loves it! And the audience loves him too!

But at the end of the day, the one person who he just wants to get some form of approval from won’t give it to him. He’s not good enough.

No, not good. She doesn’t care much for good.

He’s not perfect enough.

God, the love of performance and heartbreak over still not getting any love from his mother after all this time is portrayed so well by his dancer. Makes me feel extremely insane.

I think a question that’s fair to ask is “well if she wants Jack to follow all her orders, why not assimilate him, too?”. And I think the answer is twofold. One, she needs someone who’s able to make snap decisions outside of her own brain to lead her army successfully. If you’re left to your own devices, you may end up making a huge mistake you didn’t foresee. And secondly, no matter how much parental neglect she’s shown Jack, on some level she can’t bring herself to assimilate him because he is her son. She doesn’t care about his happiness, but she doesn’t want to lose someone who may potentially be the final tie to her life before Night Swan, since the dad seems to be M.I.A. And her disapproval of Jack being a performer might stem from her own insecurities of being a failed ballerina; she’s already gone through the pain and humiliation of trying to be a performer and failing, and she doesn’t want Jack to go through the same. Of course, there might be an element of jealousy there too. He IS a successful performer. He’s performing in front of an arena of people, for god’s sake! She’s seeing him live out a dream she couldn’t have, and wants to shut that down for him.

Many thoughts, head full, blorbo living in there.

Of course, by the end of the map, the Just Dancers make it through to where he’s staying...

But for now, that’s where our story must stop.

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GENERAL RATING: THUMBS UP!!!!!!!!

SPECIFIC RATING: 10/10

Holy shit this is my favorite map in the whole game. I don’t give a shit. The choreography is fun and easy for a theater kid like me to grasp while still being genuinely challenging in a fair sense, the story of the map is told so well in less than five minutes, Jack Rose is just an iconic coach, everything about him just rattles my fucking brain like a cup of dice. Does he know how much I care about him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And to top it all off, he gets a song that already fucked hard and gets it recontextualized to be about an emotionally distant, neglectful mother, and how he just wants that closeness with somebody, anybody, and that he just wants to perform!

He just wants someone close to him to care about it, too!

... Is that really too much to ask?

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THANK YOU for reading, especially if you actually DID read my absolute fucking brain rot on a page and didn’t just scroll down to the end. No shame if you did, I would do the same LMFAO. Next time, we’re looking at the penultimate song in the playlist, Majesty! There’s no obligation to follow me (especially not after the absolute thesis i just wrote), but if you wanna see my rankings of all the other JD2023 maps, please stick around! I promise they won’t be as long/disjointed/nonsensical as this one ended up being! Have a good day!

~ Mage <3

#just dance #just dance 2023 #jd2023 #jack rose #jack rose just dance #mage's rankings of just dance 2023 maps #danceverses rankings #i need a just dance tag #SORRY FOR THE WORD VOMIT IN ADVANCE. THIS DOESN'T MAKE ANY GOD DAMN SENSE. #the Mage rambles #i have a lot of thoughts about this man and i cannot succinctly word it to save my life #so you will have to be subjected to a glorified stream of thought #a lil behind the scenes here but i write these rankings late at night #it's almost 3 am on sunday and my brain is fucking BUZZING like crazy #also! cameo appearance from my most beloved oc ever! say hello to her or i will blow you up! #ANYWAYS THANKS FOR READING. I AM GONNA SCREAM MORE NOW <3

[wavebiders]

the blindspot re: Orym is very fair! he was mostly just some guy to me until that moment in ep 34 (and after that point, when i finally went back to watch EXU), and even then i didn't rlly start rotating him in my brain so intensely until Team Issylra arc as well

He just got so overshadowed by all the crazy shit going on with the rest of the party that I just never stopped long enough to really think about it! Even in episode 34 I was too distracted by the Laudna of it all to fully register what was happening with him lmao

I should do an EXU prime rewatch of my own soon, I feel like there's a lot of stuff about this lil guy that I missed

#him in the team Issylra arc tho #impossible to ignore #its like #he's in so much pain but he grew up in a community where the system works! #what happened to his family was an outlier tragedy he never had to question the status quo #and now everyone around him is questioning the ultimate status quo even as he fears it will clash with him getting his revenge #I don't think he was ever compared for things to get this complicated #he's 'just a guard' he doesn't need to think much beyond that #so he's got no framework to process any of this stuff even without the death of his family being a factor #it is messing him up in very sad and very interesting ways #critical role #cr3 #orym of the air ashari #lol im sorry the tags ended up being unprompted Orym word vomit he is in my walls #ask wave #boneheat #*prepared not compared but im not redoing all these tags

[guardian-angle22]

Paul Strickland in 9-1-1: Lone Star S3E18

#911 lone star #911 lone star spoilers #paul strickland #am i fucking buzzzing over the tarlos engagement? hell yess #am i still gonna prioritize making gifs of my fave paul strickland? also hell yesss #i have very unpopular opinions about this season involving this man right here but imma save it for when im not super excited about things #season 3 over all has been flskjdnlskj amaaazing #definitely the best season so far #my gifs #its a sign that i need to go to sleep when i start word vomiting in the tags #episode: s03e18 a bright and cloudless morning

[literaturezombie]

also watching season 2 now that I'm in a queer relationship is changing my brain chemistry like. s1 was so much fun and perfect and I loved it but like. watching this season??? now that I get to scream I love my girlfriend into the ether????? it is rewiring things up there like. the way queer affection is shown on this show is just so. sweet and affectionate and Real like I've always felt kinda disconnected from romance plots in movies & stuff like in the past I've felt kinda like how I am in relationships doesn't connect with what I've been shown? like I felt like.i had to performatively live up to what I was told was romance in my private life but like. every moment of queer interaction in this show is just. exactly how I exist in my relationship right now. like it's silly and awkward and sweet and gentle and like. Pete and Lucius proposal where they kiss and then Pete kinda squwaks incoherently and lightly ribs him for being silly. the gentle wanting of every Ed/stede interaction, being afraid of going to fast too soon and wanting to make sure your partner is comfortable. the silly little game they play with their hands. it just. it's all so imperfect and kind and earnest and genuine and I feel so seen and perceived in a way that I literally never have in media before and that I never thought was possible before I started dating this woman like??? realizing I'm a lesbian has made me so soft and silly like a teenager again I didn't know y'all were feeling this I thought this was a bit that they invented for love songs????? idk idk none of this makes sense I'm just a bit tipsy at the airport and I have so many feelings!!!!

#blame the MUNA show immediately post ofmd with the category 5 boygenius moment and katies extremely heartfelt little speeches for ruining me #in this way #hush tumblr dont cut off my tags for being too long #lz cinematic universe #i just. i love being queer so so so much and jts #its almost too much #i am Overcome #i need a fainting couch at los angeles international airport right now #anyway #word vomit #ofmd #ofmd s2

[stickyspeckledlight]

i knew it i fucking knew it

seeing how she's erudition, that prob means she isn't the fua buffer I was looking for, so prob gonna save my jades (HAH!) for topaz instead.

but..................that intro and ESP that art...I was already having thoughts but now....no, I will wait until 2.2. I will stay strong. The thoughts will be reined in. for now.

#she's going to be so slimy i can't wait #so far her vibes have been capitalist yae #seeing all of the ten stonehearts really makes topaz even more impressive #honestly baffled at how topaz of all ppl climbed the corporate ladder and up the IPC SID ladder at that #oh wait #is she a yae sakura expy or something? #hi3 players start cooking and explain your theories to me like I'm 5 #anyway #i will posit a few thoughts here in the tags since I'm already on a long tirade #dragging up a poor destitute darling and giving them EVERYTHING they've ever wanted #till hunger dirt and even fear to an extent become a long distant dream #but then they start to get more and more #more than they asked for #and when they confront jade asking if they need to pay her more and more or something #she simply smiles #“The IPC will give you everything you want. And even what you don't want. In short...there is still value to extract.” #they don't want to return to their life and desperate they ask what they need to do so that they don't fall again #“Nothing hard. If anything you're graduating to an existence even more effortless than the one you currently live. All you need to do...” #“...is to become my treasure.” #speckled questions sexuality #speckled blabbers #speckled word vomits in the tags

[jellojolteon]

Thoughts on ml movie below the cut (not really looking for any response, just to drop my thoughts somewhere, but y'know standard spoiler warning too)

Really mixed bag? Like genuinely and truly. There were parts of it that made me laugh! The humor was genuinely fun and I loved the use of cuts! There were parts that were really great! And the visuals are unquestionably stunning.

I'll abstain from an opinion on the musical numbers since that isn't really my cup of tea and I can't judge em

And I'm willing to let rest that this is a retelling, and it's a cool take on the story in terms of what got brought back (mime guy from the pv??? Amazing so glad that got given a proper use) and even the characterizations are fine in my book, especially given limited runtime.

But I think that this movie (and this seems like a common problem in the show too, at least to the point through s3 where I had stopped watching) (and the marketing too tbh) is that it tries to do too much with too little substance. It spreads itself too thin. What even IS the theme here? Is it the love over death thing? Is it self-acceptance? So much was stuffed in that it was all tell and almost no show.

It pays lip service to the original idea of trying to put another Real Girl Superhero into the spotlight and simply by virtue of the mechanism that the agreste family plays in the story, aka them as the driving force of the plot, it's hard to handle it and have Marinette still be clearly the main character. In retrospect, there's almost a bitter irony to Adrien cockily proclaiming that he's the main hero and Marinette is the sidekick. I think if Marinette had really had her growth focused clearly in one direction it wouldn't have been so bad, but the multiple themes really eat away at forming a cohesive picture about her and her growth and cementing for the audience that she's the star. I guess the "she-hero" bit just bugs me an exceeding amount.

As a result of the allotment of character complexity, it almost feels like Gabriel is the most compelling character, even though he's still sort of flattened into a two-dimensional version of himself. He's an asshole to Adrien at the beginning, like pretty blatantly, and then explains away everything at the end and boosh suddenly everything is ok. I didn't even pick up that he had any sort of atonement or one-on-one time with the French judicial system, outside of the implication of him going to jail by trusting Nathalie with the secret of Emilie. So like. I guess the things that make Gabriel most compelling are his longer hair when he was younger and his absolute scuzzy gutter dad look lmfao.

(side note, part of me lived in fear of being spoiled of the parts of the show I haven't watched, but I guess if there were such spoilers I missed em. It just surprised me that they were willing to play their hand on Gabriel=Hawkmoth with so little fanfare, but then again maybe I shouldn't be asking so much when it was already all spread so thin)

So like

Yeah

It didn't necessarily have me staring raptly at the screen, but most of my gripes are of the same flavor that I have for the show anyway.

There were much worse uses of my afternoon 😂

#i think nino and alya and sabrina get the best shake outta this one #ml movie spoilers #ml #ml salt #(just in case!) #jello's word vomit #(maybe i shoulda dropped like 20 tags in to get this out of the search function) #(i really just want blog categorization) #please ignore this im sure my media literacy is so rusty it needs to be sandblasted