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furbygoblinxiv · 1 year

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Ok now to be annoying about a completely different flavor of Zelda: That cartoon from the 80s that has aged so poorly I take psychic damage every time I watch it (which has been multiple times (I have problems)). A few months ago when rewatching and being sick of the Link's personality from the show (his best feature is how funny the "Well excuuuuse me, princess" line is) I was like "I wish the quiet kid from the games/art was here instead" and accidentally thought too hard and made an au/rewrite of the cartoon lmao.

Anyways Zelda cartoon au where cryptid boy Link saves the post apocalyptic Hyrule of loz 1 and chills in the castle with cartoon Zelda to defend the triforce pieces that they have while trying to find the last piece before Ganon can find it, stumbling across the sleeping loz 2 Zelda along the way lol. Hijinks ensue as he teaches Zelda the brawns to back up her girlboss and he gets an adventure buddy because its dangerous to go alone and Zelda with her boomerang and crossbow goes hard. I think a monster of the week style plot works for the earlier Zelda games, but an overarching plot could coexist with that since that is kinda how games work lol.

As per usual here are a bunch of slapdash barely related sketches of my ideas with my expanded thoughts below bc I think it'd be fun to share:

I look at the official art of Link being a quiet determined little dude with a backpack of tools and wish that that was represented more. Like look at him! What a guy! Imagine giving a quiet puzzle solving 14 year old a sword, lethal magical weapons, and a wasteland to explore! I would love a show about that! In terms of other characters, swap out that annoying fairy character, put in a Navi clone, at least Navi didn't have a crush on Link🤮. Ganon can stay the same so long as he was always a demon pig and was never a Gerudo man because unlike Nintendo, I do not want to imply that the only prominent man of color in the series has only one big braincell thats just screaming "EVIL" on loop. But! Keep Zelda the same, I love her so much in the cartoon, she's obnoxious in a slay girlboss way, maximum vibes. By virtue of not having a paper thin plot, most other characters that were fine get fixed by proxy.

I think plot wise? It takes place a few years after the first game. Initially, Link saved the royal family and they started rebuilding that area of Hyrule, and Link traveled around to help people. One day, Ganon's minions start making attacks on the castle to steal the triforce pieces back to revive him fully, and a Zelda who greatly admires Links steps up to defend the place. Eventually, Zelda requests Link return to help defend the castle while they search for the mysterious hidden third triforce piece in order to combine the full thing and wish for peace in Hyrule. Link agrees and the hyjinks begin.

IIRC the og Link backstory was that he was the son of the hyrulean queen and the elf king or smth? In the manga? I didn't want him to be hylian royalty but I wanted to keep that cryptid vibe, hence why I have him related instead to the great fairy and the kokiri. He just leaves the forest/cave one day with literally nothing to go save Hyrule, what a chad. I think it'd be funny if people describe Zelda as feral due to how boisterous and headstrong she is, especially out on the field, but Link is the quiet version of wild that you don't notice at first. She is openly intelligent and snarky in comparison to "says 3 lines a day, bombs first and asks questions later, explore under every rock and bush" forest kid Link.

It would be fun though if "rushes into danger" Zelda resonated more with the triforce of power and "solves dungeon puzzles for funsies" Link with the triforce of wisdom, then they both resonated with the triforce of courage upon finding it. idk tho lol

I also think two different young Zeldas coexisting with each other after one awoke from a cursed slumber would be really funny. Like that's gotta be so awkward, especially if one has the fighter girlboss slay up to 11 and the other just woke up from a coma to her family gone and her kingdom destroyed and just kinda wants to read books and drink tea in peace. Imagine being the same age or older than your great (great?) aunt. Or imagine if the old lady Impa nursemaid to Zelda 1 Zelda was the young Impa nursemaid to the Zelda 2 Zelda. Wild.

If I wasn't incapable of remembering to finish writing wips I'd write that series lol. Alas, this is all I can pull for now.

I'd love to call this propaganda to go watch the show but maybe don't because its yikes. This is moreso propaganda for someone to make a Zelda cartoon show instead of the movie that I sense Nintendo is plotting to make. Also, if you've read this far, I should mention I also will probably be posting art from some of my actual long term Zelda aus beyond just expanding on the cartoon, though I may continue to do that if my train of thought continues on these tracks.

#legend of zelda #loz #zelda cartoon #legend of zelda au #loz au #zelda cartoon au #zelda au #my art tag #actually yeah i think i WILL post more of my aus actually #to free myself from the shackles of cringe and also to do something with these huge documents sitting dormant on my drawing app

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omegansamurai · 2 months

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I hate that these YouTube videos complain and moan about how the Netflix live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender was a 'failure'...I mean, if that was the case, then why had it been renewed for not one, but TWO seasons, huh?

And like...I doubt the Avatar Studios stuff is gonna be anything groundbreaking. I don't even think Avatar Studios' content will be any good. Really, it's like, why is this even a thing? Just leave the franchise alone, Bryke, and just let people who can write and make your story a lot more enjoyable (Netflix's Avatar).

It just reeks of desperation and Bryke trying to be relevant. Avatar is not the next Star Wars, I'm sorry. It's a Nick cartoon that should've been an epic four-season (maybe five seasons, who knows?) show, but it shrunk to three, to make a failed shitty trilogy movie that the first movie bombed at the box office, thanks to the creators 'SUPER WISE' decision of canceling the fourth season because they want that trilogy movie series, and honestly? That itself was a bad idea. Bryke tries too hard to make their product the next Star Wars(which I think they're fans of, which says a lot), and it painfully shows. They try too hard. REALLY hard.

Like with Legend of Korra, they try to be super edgy with their 'story' and 'characters', but they just miss the mark on what made ATLA great. I mean, they don't even care about how the bending looks anymore in Korra. Really, there's a reason why they put the final season online, and it was just a bad show. Don't deny it, everyone. I'm certain it would've been good...but it was executed poorly and made not only a mockery of the characters in that show but the OG characters of ATLA(especially Katara). Well, maybe Zuko is the only one who's doing alright...but that just reeks of sexism doesn't it? Toph is all alone in the Swamp, and Katara is...not who she is...always sad about Aang's death...like get it together girl, you're mother-effin KATARA. Get with it!

And another thing, what more is there to tell? What is the next series even going to be? The Avatars are cut off after Korra, right? So...what now? And if you put the setting in some lame-ass futuristic steampunk or cyberpunk world and have bending in it, then...well, that's not really Avatar, is it? It's just its own thing at this point. And really, I don't want any new characters...I never wanted Korra's characters either if the writing they have for them was that bad.

I just think this whole Avatar Studios is just...again, desperation. Like why not reboot it or just...tell the same story, but with a different setting?

Sorry, lost track.

What I'm trying to say is, is that people act like the Netflix live-action of Avatar: The Last Airbender supposedly 'failed', which isn't the case. Y'all are just butthurt about how your 'perfect show' got 'tainted' by big corporations, and honestly, that's far from it. The people behind this live-action were very committed, and the actors were very respectful of their roles. The BTS looked like everyone was having a good time. And here you have idiots going on about how the live-action sucks because...what, Aang talks too much? No sexism from Sokka? Katara didn't act all rage-filled or whatever? I can get the criticisms, but still, I enjoyed it. I liked it. I want to see more.

It's just that this stupid fandom likes to put down the live-action because the cartoon is supposed to be this or that and it doesn't have this...when honestly, it's its own thing, but it's still Avatar! Let it be its own thing! You got the cartoon, now look at this NEW Avatar: The Last Airbender by Netflix! Look at the way they portray the characters, look at the direction they're going, look how they world-build, just look at it! It's almost like fanfiction, and really, isn't that what Avatar is? Fanfiction? It may be a cartoon show, but it's still fiction. They're not real people. We can do whatever we want with them. We're just borrowing their characters, story, and world.

This whole thing is an adaptation. So it's not your cartoon...but it's still Avatar.

I know I'm just rambling at this point, but I'm just kind of tired of seeing thumbnails on YouTube of people bringing down the live-action Avatar. I genuinely enjoyed it, and yes, while it may have some things to work on, the people behind the show will listen to their criticisms and work on that. But again, I still liked it.

Just know one thing...Bryke would've made the live-action of Avatar a whole lot worse if they were in control. I really do believe that. And as for Avatar Studios...I give it a year before it goes bankrupt. I know that's a little harsh, but I just know that the animated Avatar movie is going to be disappointing. ^^;

#avatar: the last airbender #netflix avatar the last airbender #atla #atla netflix #anti bryke #anti avatar studios #rambles #idk #whatever

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supersunshine10 · 15 days

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Random rant,

But why have Snoopy fans on Twitter become so obnoxious nowadays when it comes to comes to obvious jokes?

It’s so bizarre but more than once before I saw someone makes a small tweet just like “haha Snoopy’s doing drugs” and tons of quotes will be people jumping at them?

Like the internet makes jokes abt cartoon characters doing non-innocent stuff literally all the time (and the OG tweet is pretty tame tbh) yet now if it’s Snoopy suddenly thousands of quotes jumping at them like “WTF Snoopy would NEVER DO THIS, he likes friendship and love LEAVE HIM ALONE and KYS you DEGENERATE SCUM!!”

Like SHUT UUUP

IT IS A JOKE

So many of the quotes of the OG tweet are so corny and pretentious over nothing and yet they have tons of RTs/likes? Seriously?

#Sorry have to get this off my chest #like once before I saw the same thing happen to a tweet #that literally was just someone putting a bong next to a Snoopy plush?#Yet thousands are just jumping on them calling them crackheads and degenerates???#???#like shut up???#This is literally the equivalent to going on a huge rant on someone about corruption and society #just bc they saw a meme of gangsta SpongeBob doing crack or something #and “he wouldn’t do this!!#if someone said this in the real world just bc of a joke abt a cartoon dog they’d get stuffed in a locker #not over 10k support??#like shut the fuck up #snoopy #charlie brown #cartoons #rant #peanuts #twitter

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bidonica · 13 days

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a good old get to know me meme

Tagged by @bigre-fichtre! thank you oomfie!

3 ships you like:

thee big one... Jaime x Brienne in asoiaf, I've been ride or die for them since like 2006 when I read Storm and AFfC back to back, they are two character I love individually but their chemistry, the way their storylines thematically intertwine, the dialogue they get to have? Unsurpassed. GRRM your mind

if you think I have Otasune brainrot lately just keep in mind that I'm editing myself down A LOT. Like I started playing the metal gears a little over a month ago and I've been obsessing ever since, which is remarkable because I have historically leaned towards het ships at least when it comes to getting really intense about them, I thought I lacked the fujo gene... they are THAT powerful... can love bloom even on a battlefield? Hell yeah it can and it WILL (this phrase applies so well to JB too btw)

grouping larycent and higgsfragile together because they are lowkey the same flavor of problematic: they are carried by the sour yet enticing flavor of devastating betrayal, of a good thing that got ruined, the scorpion and the frog etc.

First ship ever: nice question! I don't remember! I eased into shipping pretty gradually and fully embraced it pretty late (like late teens?) buut mayyybe Rogue and Gambit from the X-Men via the og cartoon

Last song you heard: Spotify tells me it's Entre Dos Tierras by Heroes del Silencio... I pulled it up because of Till Lindemann's cover which is on rotation on the rock radio I listen to and was rocking to it only for my brother to absolutely obliterate me saying "it sounds like a mashup of various songs by I Nomadi" iykyk

Currently reading: I am having the nastiest reader's block in 2024 I am even having trouble listening to audiobooks so yeah there are books I am "reading" but am I, really. But I just loaded the mgs4 novelization into my kindle........... in this vein I've probably been reading more words of fanfic in the past month than I did in the past couple of years cumulatively. Yes it's because of the metalgears leave me alone

Currently watching: Mary & George, also Fallout and Shogun but I'm following these two with other people so I'm taking it slower than most of you guys

Currently consuming: as in eating? nothing, it's too early for dinner and to be honest yesterday's night out was kinda wild I better leave my stomach alone (I won't)

Currently craving: that thing most mammals crave in spring

tagging (if you want) @cthaehbutwithafrog, @raiden-brannigan, @sanctaignorantia, @godtier1, anyone who has fun doing this kind of thing

#get to know me meme

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beevean · 4 months

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One of the problems w nocturne is that now they cant even adapt SotN (the alucard part of it i mean, lol and lmao for Richter n Maria) properly, bc there's no cycle of resurrection nor the same Alucard-Dracula family confict

In the games SotN is Alu being forced to awaken and confront his lineage alone! It's him trading words w his dad and facing him directly

Meanwhile in nfcv: N!Alucard is biased towards his vampire legacy, he is the one to handle the fight and deal the finishing blow to N!Dracula (and stealing what should have been Trey's moment bc useless belmonts amiright) and later when his dad and mom are revived they just. Dont tell him shit and fuck off alone. And he didnt even sleep he just went around killing vampires.

What im trying to say is that the pivotal moments and circumstances that lead to SotN are gone in nfcv. Like why should i care that Alu fights some rando vamp leader? Even if its Drac somehow, this is the Drac that went to live away w his wife and completely forgot abt him and that Alu could have visited at anytime. They already threw SotN elements into the story without regards for the timeline

Meanwhile SotN Alu is grappling w being in the future, with his friends dead, completely convinced that his dad doesnt loves him while Drac is desperate to keep his dear son with him even if he has to cleave his human side with his bare hands. Its a vry tense and raw family relationship that they cant recreate now

It's what I said here: the lore changes in NFCV completely destroyed any chance of the showverse having anything remotely similar to the gameverse. It's such a divergent AU that it became its own thing.

As of now, Nocturne has yet to answer its biggest unanswered question: what did Dracula do in the past three centuries? He ignored his son, probably spent some decades travelling and having kinky sex with Lisa, and then he saw her die of natural causes. What then? His castle has become Alucard's home. Did he... find himself another castle? Did he revert to the hermit he was pre-S1? Did he become a nomad?? Annette doesn't know about him, so I suppose he lived in obscurity. He wasn't even interested in Sun Thundercat's plan, no one mentioned him, he didn't peek to see what the hell was going on in France like Olrox did! Where the hell is he???

And speaking of! We know that Aluc, instead of sealing himself away, stayed around and fought vampires (which means good jorb to you too for killing vampires for centuries and having them still becoming the ruling class), and possibly witnessed the death of his "friends". Now that I think about it, didn't the OG show end with Trevor, Sypha, Alucard and Greta all living together in the new village? I would assume Alucard became something of an honorary uncle to the Trepha kid. But now Richter doesn't know who he is? Did he peace out when Trevor and Sypha died, leaving the Belmont bloodline be?

Anyway, yeah, it is literally impossible to even attempt to recreate the SoTN story. We lack the entirety of the context, we lack the main villain, we lack Richter's and Alucard's intertwined legacy. Which is what makes me think that they won't even try. After all, this supposed adaptation of RoB has more in common with fucking Bloodlines of all games, plus the superfluous backdrop of the French Revolution. They shattered the lore so thoroughly that now they're basically forced to write an AU fanfiction, something on the same level as a high school AU of old.

Remove the whip, and you would never tell Nocturne is supposed to be tied to the Castlevania franchise - hell to the original cartoon.

#anti netflixvania #shock and surprise the games have lore too #and if you start to ignore details for the sake of a forced happy ending or for character favoritism it all crumbles down

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edwardos · 2 months

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[Minecraft Blog 2024 500th Post]

Edwardos is a small blog, but it's come a long way. So has my modding skill in the last 15 months. Welcome to an incomplete exhibition of what I've spent that time working on, a work-in-progress Minecraft Beta 1.8 revision mod. It's called Noticeably Beta 1.8, and here come some of its sparkly images!

Starting out this afternoon with a fresh NBODE survival world so I can naturally show you what's in it, you can see I have no hunger bar... Note also the orthogonal grass.

I think that tall grass looks way better. It was a real challenge to implement, too. One of the first changes I did!

Hunger has no place in a mod like this. The purpose of Noticeably Beta 1.8 is to revise Beta 1.8 until it's still familiarly Beta 1.8, but considerably good. I am trying to turn a copy of Beta 1.8 into the ultimate patch based on Beta 1.8 (for now).

Tall grass cuttings and dead bushes can be obtained easily by attacking them with any sword.

I deliberately wrecked the achievement system's shit - e.g. I got rid of that annoying notification to open your inventory every time you start the game from scratch - but it's more unintentionally broken than I thought, more to come on that later.

I have reprised my Chain Links days by adding the logical chainmail armour crafting to this mod as well. The chain links are in the inventory's bottom right.

We have a Survival Test style score counter in NBODE. Actually, we also have one for experience.

In a new house. It uses four of my new blocks in this image alone. I'll leave you to work that out...

Noticeably Beta 1.8 is spooky. There are a lot of Creepers. I'm not responsible for that part, I think Beta 1.8 just literally spawns more Creepers. And you can't sprint. I'll let you off the hook, that ceiling is hard sand. I was inspired by a grungy sand castle in a cartoon I saw to make a variant of sand that doesn't fall. It's smarter than you think.

Emeralds generate at high altitudes, but not in a way that you just see them plastered all over the sides of rock cliffs.

The emeralds can be crafted into tools. But not armour. It's smarter than you think.

I was being chased by this Creeper in SECOND-PERSON MODE.

In a stroke of fortune he revealed two of the other features I was supposed to showcase, invisible clay deposits and mineral gravel.

Mineral gravel has random drops of dust stuff, and like emeralds it's in the mountains.

You can do this.

It wouldn't be Beta 1.8 without newly having access to these.

The idea with building blocks in this mod is that you don't find different kinds of rocks in the ground to craft those. Instead, you collect OG rocks and gravelly deposits and you mix them together until you get tarmac, or soilstone. Or soilstone cobble (which was a totally original texture and REALLY hard to draw). Or varnished sandstone. Or broad sandstone. Or hard sand. The underground stays classically uniform.

I didn't have time to find that other one, but this isn't the only new gem I've added. My take on balancing is goooooooood...

Giant mushrooms in Beta are fantastic. Now you can make food out of any of them.

And they stack to two now.

That's not very noteworthy in a hunger system Minecraft game, but when starvation is totally gone and food instantly heals hearts, having 8.0 points on your hotbar slot at once is a big deal.

I'll be real with you, this is an annoying bug I have to fix. You may have noticed that this is the second time this post has seen me get the wooden sword achievement now. It's a pretty bad one. I only discovered it while playing this version tonight.

Now, some of my other vicious fix attempts on the other hand, now those...

Those are on point.

And that leaves us with the end of Post 500 for this convenience storefront of Tumblr. But before I go, I gotta say something... I started this mod in December 15 of 2022, and it's been a real journey. I've been proud of my idea to do this with Beta 1.8 since it was just an idea. And it's more than an idea now, it's the tangible result of a newbie modder with not much Java experience spending months of effort to get better at the job than he ever dreamed.

However, there's a sad side... With Minecraft, I've for a long time been absolutely terrified of plagiarists, or people otherwise getting to claim my ideas before I can. Actually my life on every topic is like that. I have too many ideas and I want to somehow protect all eleventy of them. I can't really say why, but I am feeling the pressure to get the full release of the first patch of Alpha of this mod done in a short amount of time so I can release it publicly as fast as I can. I'm feeling halfway certain my time is running out. I don't want to lose the race, if there is one. See, I had it within reason that I was going to be the first to make a revision mod of Beta 1.8. It makes sense, right? And as far as I know I'm the only person who calls this genre of mod a "revision mod". Nobody in the Minecraft community seems to popularly take Beta 1.8 seriously, not retro fans or people on the new edge. I was smart enough to realize it might have a special set of hidden talents, even though it's known as the "hated" update. But somebody else might screw with that. Can call it paranoia, hopefully.

Thanks for reading my blog. It's not "taken off", but on any posting day I see random 5 note clusters in my activity immediately when I get posting, and honestly I guess I just want to say that makes me happy. Now let's hope I can achieve another one of my dreams.

#Minecraft mod development #Minecraft Beta #The Adventure Update #retro Minecraft #Minecraft WIP mod #Minecraft mod #Minecraft devlog #devlog #Minecraft Beta 1.8

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biginkyboyo13 · 1 year

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For a while I've been making a Batim au, cuz this damn game has a chokehold on my existence. I drew the og cartoons, sorta stylized? Like, kinda au focused I guess, there's some design differences and stuff. I'm probably going to post again in a while of my original cartoon characters I made for this au, so I guess look for that if this interests you

Bendy won't leave me the fuck alone

#bendy and the ink machine #toon bendy #boris the wolf #alice angel #butcher gang #batim au #digital art #I'm a Bendy simp lol

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hamstermastersamster · 5 months

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10 fandoms 10 characters!

Tagged by @talkingsoup <3

(Man I'm definitely not IN 10 fandoms so most of these are just Blorbos from my Shows/Books/Games)

April O'Neil from TMNT is very special to me. Just a normal gal swept up in absolute cartoon nonsense and accidentally adopting 4 idiot mutant turtle sons/little brothers and you know what, she's just Rolling With It. She's smart, warm, resilient and wholesome. I love her a whole lot. Check out my tmnt sideblog @hamsterandturtlesoup if you really want to know how much xD

Squall from Final Fantasy VIII is a definite son blorbo. As a kid, I naturally thought his icy edgelord emo personality and black leather get-up was simply cool, and when I replayed it again as an adult I was just "oh you poor thing you". He's a child soldier, lost his found-family but can't remember that so just has persistent feelings of abandonment and severe social avoidance, struggles to express emotion, has Friends forced upon him against his will and starts to Feel Things . . . Aaaa ;A; You get to choose certain responses in the game and I like to have him warm up slowly over time to his friends. That character progression is just so wholesome to see. I still have a significant FFVIII fanfic WIP that explores his character development floating around . . . maybe someday I'll finish it x'D

Rung from Transformers MTMTE is a prime of example of me falliing in love with 'minor' characters who then go on to have the shittiest time ever. At this point I'm fairly sure I do this TO them by warping reality when I decide I like them a lot. But I love it when characters I love suffer, so >_>; Rung is just a soft caring psychologist without flashy function or alt mode or combat capability! LEAVE HIM ALOOOOONE-

Lara Croft from Tomb Raider - no, not the modern reboot that gave her extreme daddy issues, or the reboot before THAT that gave her mommy issues and unnecessary friends calling her in the middle of isolated ruin exploration and worries about the blood on her hands. NO, I'm talking about the OG ruthless queen trapped in an aristocratic life who lost her fiance and old life in a plane crash that only she survived, but found herself in that survival and was effectively reborn. Her family cut ties with her and she simply said 'fine, fuck off' and worked alone for the thrill of it and made her own fortune and killed what she had to with a smile. She avoided any kind of love interest until Angel of Darkness and even then it was implicit enough to be completely ignored. She was a fucking badass. Child!hamster wanted to be her. Stripping away the visual and marketing sexualisation of her, she was such an important piece of feminist history in video games. I took archaeology at AS level because of her lmao.

Thalric from the Shadows of the Apt book series (just kidding lol, SotA doesn't have a visible fandom! I AM THE FANDOM-). SotA is a really unique and interesting insect-based fantasy world that I will sing praises for forever. I could talk about a bunch of characters in it <3 However, Thalric is, bluntly, a complicated Wasp villain who has done a lot of Bad Things but starts to feel conflicted over the shitty stuff his empire is doing and making him do. His full conversion to Sort-Of-Good-Guy happens over a looong time and is one of my favourite moral turnabouts I've ever seen. He's just so interesting as an example of a soldier brainwashed by his toxic state and trying to undo that, and at various points you really feel for him even though he's done absolutely terrible things. Only a great writer and compelling character can pull that off.

Raz from Psychonauts is a special little boy and only the first psychic on my list! :D What is not to love about a little psychic boy raised in a circus cursed to die in water with the gumption to sneak into a summer camp for psychic kids. His design, his voice acting, his character writing are just so good and I want to protect him ;A; When Psychonauts 2 unravelled the truth of his family history it just about murdered me in my seat. Since he actually gets recruited, does that make him another child soldier? . . . 2 on my list so far xD

Steven from Steven Universe is just a good soft kind boy with trauma. You know I love a good soft kind boy with trauma. (He also fights in a war, technically? Child soldier number 3!)

Lessa from the Dragonriders of Pern book series is a tiny undernourished woman filled with raw psychic power, vengeance, pride and spite and I respect that. She avoids the massacre of her entire family by pretending to be a filthy servant for a decade, and then manipulates the invading murderer into a duel to the death with a dragonrider whom she also manipulates so that she can reclaim her ancestral home, but instead decides to go one better and become the forerunning Queen dragonrider, so basically rules the world instead for her lifetime. She is a queen from all angles.

Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist is I guess child soldier no 4! What can I say, he's just a spirited, talented idiot boy wrapped up in tragedy and disability and angst. This is, of course, everything I could hope for in a character because suffering is delicious to me. But suffering with a happy ending is even better, and I love FMA's ending for him :3

Samuel Vimes from Discworld is one of my favourite characters ever. He's so flawed, but with a hellish bent for justice and a heart of gold, and I just love seeing things through his eyes? A compelling character with his own layers of angst and tragedy who has always felt very real to me. RIP pterry you are always missed.

Most of these are boys, my god. Too many beautiful (pathetic loser) boys. I have a weakness. Clearly I need to open my heart to more pathetic women in media.

Tagging . . . everyone xD I have a personal rule of not tagging individuals in these things as I don't want to pressure anyone! But go for it if you feel the inclination, I would love to read your takes and blorbos :3

#tag game #shadows of the apt

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serndest · 10 months

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A Place of a Contemplating Robot

I went with something more low-key. Jenny deserves some quiet, calm time now and then.😊(Also, a little reference in the title, and not just to the og show😉)

Really wanted to get another loose illustration out in time for the 20th anniversary. Plus, I’ve been meaning to do a calm piece. Between Jenny’s world-saving duty, life drama, robot-related issues, & people’s pettiness (sometimes including her own😓), I thought that she could use time to herself. That 3rd reason kinda sounds like sending a kid off to timeout for misbehavior, but hey, there might be stress behind that pettiness.🤷‍♀️ She does have the weight of the world on her shoulders. That, or it might be timeout-like after all😆 where she gets alone time to directly face her mental problems, with no physical problems to distract her.🤔

Or more interesting: needing to handle her mental problem in order to handle her physical one.🤯

Some might think calmer moments are boring, but I consider it a welcomed, necessary breath of fresh air, especially as someone who had a loud, tense upbringing.

Mini Journal

Ended up needing to keep my iPad charging the whole time; larger resolution (11x14” @ 300dpi) *and* Fresco’s live watercolor brushes drained it more quickly (~20% in 20 minutes). Even then, still a lot of crashes once I finished the sidewalk and bench. Now, only rarely do at that resolution. Watercolor-styled pieces will likely be 9x12” @ 300dpi, max.

Far more painful painting process in a full space. In a way, more directly an urban-sketching styled piece because now, it’s in a physical place instead of a void w/ colors! Similar to before, I mitigated some of the difficulty by using an analogous color scheme. This time, I really struggled with working w/ whitespace, like in Teoh Yi Chie’s or Liz Steel’s urban sketching styles.

What helped may have been a style I saw in this colored pencil Liz Steel piece https://www.lizsteel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/LizSteel-159-1104CafeFeohPacHwy.jpg , where sidewalk & road are white, & the only blocks of color are for cast shadows.

Self-Reference

I got into the pose myself, mainly to fix her bent leg & folded hands. In the end, moved the bend leg up, just showed her right hands’ fingers & her left hand’s index finger, & unbent her other leg. Tried to focus on the feeling & gesture of the pose, rather than follow the pose exactly to a T. Mlaatr is just about the perfect style for that, being a gestural cartoon.

Concurrent Illustrating & Post/Note-Taking

I illustrated & prepped my post at same time (...at least until I got to painting the sidewalk😥). In a way, it’s kinda good I didn’t do it this way before, since I didn't have set categories (like Behind-the scenes or Mini Journal) yet. Nonetheless, I still tried to be as organized as possible by having a preliminary & final version of the post on a Google Doc (especially since ELA has been my historical weak area😥).

Behind-the-Scenes: Story, Color Scheme, & Color Application Influences.

Tone & situation/implied story: the 1998 Yokohama Shopping Log OVA, with a robot (in YSL's case, a more human-like android) just hanging out and living life. Maybe even resolving some past problems or relationships.

Color scheme & watercolor style:

grass: how he colored the tree leaves here, by letting the colors mix on the page instead of mixing them himself. https://twitter.com/ParkaBlogs/status/1682275817668362240?s=20

sidewalk: after a lot of struggling, went with Liz Steel’s colored pencil technique: layering lots of colors, especially in shadow areas https://www.lizsteel.com/switching-to-coloured-pencils/ , along with, as noted w/ the first colored pencil sketch I listed, having the rest of the roads/sidewalks be white—controlling whitespace

Art Supplies

Hardware: iPad mini 5th gen & Apple pencil 1st gen

Software: Adobe Fresco

Brushes:

Lineart: Pencil [default Adobe Fresco brush]

Color:

Watercolor wash flat (grass, bench, bench shadow, sidewalk, Jenny clothes & hair)

Watercolor wash soft (sky)

Watercolor basic round (Jenny shadows)

Block stain (bench shadow 2nd pass)

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unchartedperils · 8 months

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SPOILERS FOR MK1 AHEAD. DO NOT READ IF YOU DONT WANT TO SEE YET.

First Tournament was really good. Don’t have too much if any complaints, though I wish Shao put up more of a fight against Raiden. And I felt so bad for defeating Li Mei 🥺😭.

The Johnny-Kenshi friendship was really cool and I almost cried when Johnny gave Kenshi Sento.

YES BARAKA AND REPTILE GET TO KICK ASS AND TAKE NAMES! Unlike Reiko who stays as Shao’s jobber but that’s his job lmfao so I can’t be mad 😆 (don’t get me started with his “demonstration”).

The reveal of the Deadly Alliance, I LOST MY SHIT. Though I can’t say I like Quan Chi’s new voice or personality that much. At best he seems more like a Saturday morning cartoon villain in the background that Shang’s equal if not more dangerous accomplice.

Speaking of Quan Chi though, I REALLY LOST MY SHIT in Ashrah’s chapter. I had already known that her lore was unchanged at all other than she too had served under Quan Chi, but I still was in amazement at her chapter (wish Havik played a role but he’s up for later) and I hope she can free Sareena from Quan Chi in a possible Mythologies style DLC.

Next up: ERMAC. I CALLED IT, I CALLED IT, I CALLED IT. From the moment he was revealed and mostly bashed by the fanbase, there was a reason for his radical new look: HE WAS JERROD’S BODY and ultimately Quan Chi resurrected him with both his and other souls from the Living Forest! This had been building up since MK9 in numerous endings but it’s now been realized! So badass and touching (more on this in a min)

Then just like Deadly Alliance: THE DRAGON ARMY RESURRECTED BY THEM (not a fan of them writing Onaga out so far but there’s still hope for him)!

Onto Li Mei’s chapter: Obviously as a few of you know, my newest MK oneshot is a AU of her chapter and I have so much to say: Li Mei is just so awesome and I sympathize so much with her for being framed/kicked out of the Umgadi after Jerrod’s death. But her being Sun Do’s first cop is just as interesting and of course with Liu’s help does she kick ass and take names! Oh yea and TAKE THAT TANYA! I just knew you’d betray them just like the older timelines. But at least her and Empress Sindel’s relationship is restored. Btw I have another possible plot bunny for Li Mei but I’ll keep it a surprise.

Sindel: tears were shed when her and Jerrod reunited. And more at her death in his arms 😭😭😭.

Mileena: SO MUCH CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND IT WARMED MY HEART! Even with her condition, she’s now a noble and strong warrior! Liu really did redeem her and gave her all she wanted in his New Era. 🥺🥹

And that’s all I can think of for up to the Dragon Army chapter. It’s around this time unfortunately as soon as Liu mentions “timeline” the MK11 part of the story was gonna come back. Per usual the quality dips quite a bit, but if nothing else we got the Armageddon tribute with Liu’s “Forces of Light” against Titan Shang’s “Forces of Darkness” and NRS literally did trial and error on various NPC designs 😆 (Black Dragon Sonya alone had me dying).

But the battle itself was really cool despite the wackiness and now EVERYONE’s ARCADE ENDING IS CANON IN SOME WAY SHAPE OR FORM! And bonus points to if you select someone other than Liu, he initially seems to lose to the Titan DA like in OG DA (except obviously not dying) before the selected character comes to his aid.

Great ending and I’ll leave off at that another 3D era character might attempt to leave where both the OG DA and Titan DA left off…

#mortal kombat #mortalkombat1 #mk1 spoilers #dontreadunlessyoudontcareoryouvealreadyseenandorplayedmk1story

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not-close-to-straight · 2 years

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KARA THE END OF THE NEW CHAPTER OF RISK MADE ME TEAR UP. THAT'S SO HARD TO DO THROUGH READING.

I didn't know if I was going to leave my thoughts on this one because I feel like I've been talking your ear off lately but then you almost made me CRY so here I am.

I'm gonna start at the beginning.

Holla for sleepy morning nekkidness, and shower nekkidness with the flagrant use of too many bubbles. But also, wowowow so toot rottingly sweet, you weren't kidding. I need a dentist. I was grinning into my blanket the whole time.

I love love love Billy getting spoiled. I want him to have all the expensive soaps and never have to wash his own hair again. It's what he deserves. It's what we deserve.

Steve's ridiculous PJs are a great runner and I hope they continue to make their appearances when possible.

I'm so so happy he finally got to fully not feel alone!! But now he feels even lonelier because he KNOWS what he's missing. Ugh!

Let our boys be happy 2k22

The Christmas movies! Christmas is my favorite holiday and I subject my house to All The Movies. The connection to some of the only happy memories Billy has of his childhood being watching Christmas movies with his mom... I'm glad he gets to continue to build new ones.

The gifts!! The blanket accidentally being the most thoughtful gift ever!! The little bit about Steve trying to wash the old one and it falling apart but now he's replaced it with a much better blanket... My heart. Him having his own hoodie now that smells like his alpha!! When my husband and I were dating, we would exchange blankets every so often to always have something that smelled like the other, and that sort of thing fits so well here, ESPECIALLY with these two. Steve doesn't have to be alone anymore.

THE NECKLACE. How dare you bring tears to my eyes! Home isn't California anymore, it's Steve now. UGH!!!! I just!!! Gah!!!

Okay so first of all, it's always so funny to me when you guys use my name in an ask because I always go "oh shit this is serious, they're calling me BY NAME" and idk. That's just funny to me.

Also there's no such thing as "talking my ear off" regarding fics? I regular text some of my readers just to be like OH MY GOD I HAD A THOUGHT and to leave super long voice memos basically rambling about nothing except super tiny details that nobody gives a shit about except for me (like what color Steve's golf shorts would be if he was playing at a summer club while Billy was the landscaper? they would be plaid with pink pinstriping)

Anyway.

I KNEW the chapter would be cavity inducing. I kept drawing out that morning wake up cuddle scene and pre-nakey shower scene and thinking "is this cheesy?" and then just kept writing because it was EXCELLENT.

Idk why I HC that Steve constantly has terrible pajamas. I think its the rich but absent parents thing. Like "oh we didn't know what to get you for your birthday, so here ,have this nice set of pajamas". Instead of getting socks for christmas Steve got pajamas so he has like a dozen pairs of Old Man Pajamas and then the occasional super fuzzy super dorky pair he buys for himself.

Christmas movies are my favorite too! Every year I watch all three Grinch movies (the OG, the Jim Carrey masterpiece and the newer cartoon one), all three Santa Claus movies, the old Rudolph and Frosty animated ones and then Die Hard (its a christmas movie!) on repeat all December long.

This year I found "Santa Jaws" which looks terrible as fuck, but involves a shark wearing a santa hat while terrorizing a local community and that just... that just seems like exactly all my favorite things so I think that's going to work its way into the rotation.

You and your husband sound ridiculously cute, wtf.

And YES Home isn't california anymore. Home is where Steve is. No matter if thats hawkins or cali or anywhere in between. It's literally basically a marriage proposal.

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megaawkwardhuman · 1 year

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8 shows to get to know me

thanks for tagging me @someguywife

an excuse to talk about the shows I like? sign me the fuck up!

WARNING: A LOT OF INFO DUMBING I TRIED TO JUST SUM UP WHAT I LIKED ABOUT THESE SHOWS BUT I COULDN'T RESIST GOING ON LONG TANGENTS ABOUT THEM SO I GAVE UP ON THAT REAL QUICK

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

1) what we do in the shadows- I mean considering how much I post about it and the fact it got me to write my first ever fanfic no shit I love this show! I mean it's got gay people, causal murder, people who have no idea wtf they're doing, vampires, weird ass CGI baby for a season, emotional devastation, did I say gay people? I will admit when I first watched the show I honestly thought it was just ok (may have to do with the fact that halfway through watching it I got sick which is funny cause when I watched the OG film I was also sick and I'm sick now while working on my fic- AM I CURSED!?) but after showing my friends the 2014 film decided to rewatch the show before showing it to them and got fucking OBSESSED. Never been a huge fan of vampire shit but now whatever vampire media I consume next HAS to have gay people in it thanks to this show. It still feels weird to have a character I like and relate to that I can kinda actually see myself in like Guillermo and while we're not 100 the same I still kinda feel seen which is fucking weird ngl. HIS COMING OUT SCENE MADE ME CRY THE SECOND TIME I WATCHED IT. (probably cause that's roughly how coming out to my parents as trans and pan went just without the whole working for vampires thing) Low key scared for what the fuck season 5 has in store :D

2) our flag means death- I fucking LOVE this show! shout out to my friend for showing it to me cause I never would have thought that a show about gay pirates would be for me. Our flag means death has just this vibe to it that has me addicted to it and the love story that I'm STILL surprised a year later they actually went through with just AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! The fact that a show that does what our flag means death does AND GET RENEWED FOR A SECOND SEASON brings a big fat smile to my face! Stede going in head first with an obsession while having no idea what he's doing is a fucking mood. can't wait for season 2 hopefully it won't leave me screaming at my screen like last season! OH YEAH I ALMOST FORGOT I'm SO glad they portrayed Mary the way they did! like they could have easily made her into an unforgivable bitch or homophobic as fuck but no I mean sure she's upset for what Stede did (if you were in her shoes you would be too) but after attempted murder and a bunch of shenanigans beforehand they talk it out and find a compromise that they both like and the fact that she's happy for him for finding love even if it's a guy and she isn't secretly jealous or disgusted by it is just *chef's kiss* so good.

3) moral orel- well let's go from modern live-action shows with gay people to a stop-motion adult cartoon from the mid 2000s! I can still remember watching this show for the first time since I binged it all in one night (by the time I finished it it was like 5am WOOPS) and I don't fucking regret it this show is just fucking fantastic. I HATE THAT IT WAS PULLED FOR BEING "TOO DARK" THE MORE I READ ABOUT WHAT THEY HAD PLANNED THAT THEY HAD TO CANCEL DUE TO THE SHOW'S CANCELLATION THE MORE PISSED OFF I GET! Like it's the darker episodes that make the show SO DAMN GOOD and memorable. HELL the episode that got the show canceled (I think it's called alone) IS ONE OF THE BEST EPISODES. The way it portrayed people handling trauma is fucking fascinating and it's a shame the episode is what got the show pulled. The season two finale two-parter I also up there as one of the greatest episodes in the show. The way the tone shifts as Clay gets more and more drunk and what went from a thing mainly played for laughs turns into a painful moment for Orel as he realizes just how awful his dad is especially when he's drunk. This isn't to say the less serious episodes aren't good. The show can be really funny when it wants to but it's just the more serious episode that leaves an impact on you. When hopping into the show for the first time I heard it was a satire show that was a parody of christian shows I was expecting every other joke to be bible bad (not a christian so I wouldn't have gotten offended but still it would have gotten tiring) but god I was relieved when I found out it was more making fun of those who use faith for all the wrong reasons then pointing the blame to an old ass book. overall 10/10 show that might not be everyone's cup of tea but I personally LOVE it. It's been a while since I last watched it but talking about it makes me wanna watch the entire show again. TL;DR: I fucking love this show and the reason it got canceled is the reason why I love it.

4) invader zim- OK time to move on to something less serious. It's also been a bit since I've last seen this show but it still has a close place in my heart. Invader zim aka the reason I have a tumblr account in the first place (though it wasn't until later when I started to actually use it. when I first made this account it was to lurk) is a nice little show I can watch and not over analyze the shit out of. (I do that a lot with shows I like) I watched this show at a very interesting time in my life. I had recently realized I was trans and had no idea how I was going to tell anyone and funnily enough a couple of days after I realized I was trans quarantine hit so needless to say it was an interesting time for me. This show and the fan stuff on tumblr for the show kept me sane. Dib was one of the first characters I ever related to and as you can tell by me still using him as my profile pic I still do. another show that the more I learn about what they had to cancel due to the show being canceled the more pissed off I get. I forget this is a kid's show half the time.

5) hannibal- I feel bad for my friends cause when I finished this show I WOULDN'T SHUT UP ABOUT IT. This show is the reason I actually use my tumblr account. (cause I paused it and it looked like Will and Hannibal were about to kiss and I needed to share it with someone and none of my friends have seen the show so I threw it onto here and the rest was history) I don't remember why I watched this show but I'm glad I did cause it's fucking great the mystery the first time you watch it and the set up of the answer the second time you watch it is just *chef's kiss* 10/10. The way they portrayed Will and Hannibal's relationship is so fascinating like it's so complex AND GAY. I WANT ANOTHER SEASON DAMN IT THAT CLIFF HANGER (hehe cliff) HAD BEEN KILLING ME EVER SINCE THE FIRST WATCH!!!!!!

6) the last of us- Ok so confession: I haven't finished the show (I have one episode left but I'm watching it with friends so it's probably going to be a bit before I watch it) BUT FUCK DO I LIKE THIS SHOW. I haven't played the games but from what I heard this is a rare video game adaptation that ISN'T dogshit so I might watch a let's play of the game after we finish it since I like the show so much. This has to be one of the most realistic representations of a zombie apocalypse I've ever seen. (granted I haven't consumed much zombie media and it could be the fact that before this the same friend is showing us the walking dead which granted CAN be good at times the way characters act most of the time at least at the point we were at before taking a break where annoying and frustrating) EPISODE 3 WAS THE FIRST TIME I EVER SOBBED AT A SHOW. Fun(?) fact: that date on the letter at the end of that episode august 29 IS MY FUCKING BIRTHDAY 😭. I'm afraid of what episode 9 has in store.

7) south park- despite having a dad who quotes this show and would watch episodes in the living room growing up it wasn't until after watching the last of us one time with friends did I ever end up watching a full episode of the show. (I forgot what episode we watched before watching south park but we all decided we needed a pick me up after it) While I'm not obsessed with this show and I haven't seen all of it (if it was possible to watch that much south park without going insane) I still like this show. Another one of those shows I can watch casually without overanalyzing it. Whenever I need a break from writing my fic or whenever I just feel like it I just pick an episode I heard was good and just watch it. The history behind this show and behind certain episodes I've always found interesting. Though I'm going to be honest for now I'm going to avoid most modern episodes cause I've heard mixed things about newer seasons. Butter's own episode, Cartman sucks, and Butters's bottom bitch has to be some of my favorite episodes. if you can't tell by my fav episodes Butters is my favorite character.

8) the owl house - FUCK YOU DISNEY THIS SHOW DESERVED BETTER!!!! Another kid's show I forget is a kid's show. the way the boiling isles are drawn hell the overall art of the show is just so fucking fantastic. THERE'S GAY IN IT!!!! LIKE ACTUAL CANONICAL GAY IN A DISNEY SHOW!!!!! I never thought I would see the day BUT HERE I AM AND AAAAAAA LUZ AND AMITY ARE SOOOO CUTE TOGETHER! KING OMFG KINGGGGGGGGGGG HE'S MY LITTLE BABY AND THE SEASON TWO FINALE MADE ME STRESS EAT FOR THE FIRST TIME. So sad that season three was cut down to three episodes. The idea that something you put a bunch of hard work into can be cut short cause someone didn't like the vibe is fucking BULLSHIT!

I would tag other people here but in the wise words of Laszlo

#wow I had a lot more then I though I had to say #also rare moment: I use punctuation in a post #yeah if you can't tell already I was kinda just writing whatever came to mind so that's why this post is as long as it is #I know the whole point of this was to write SMALL summaries on why you like the show you put down #but I can't help word vomiting when it comes to things I like!

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gamedevhellhole · 1 year

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okay, okay now what if I ACTUALLY make a Nitrome Must Die fan comic???

the ms paint esque medium mix about shady business and distant dreams, all achieved in the coldest ways possible???

well except some elements of mechanically produced magic... but uhhh we might wanna leave it to the still developing worldbuilding???

okay fine but what's with the hustle? well it's a little passion project of mine that will revolve around made up postcanon events of NMD because that open ending can be interpreted in so many ways

yeah that emo 100th game anniversary Nitrome game uh huh

here's de synopsis: our two (2) protags are angsty fellow kids (sorta) planning on opening up a game studio of their own. why did they decide to do this – only the true OGs know /hj???

the main characters are very stupid! unemployed mfs from cheap apartments! except their supposed net worths are definitely not cheap. A and J do have quite a dark story behind of course, but nah, nah they are not traumatised by bit, quite the opposite here they're the ones that traumatize.

and so they try to start their ways out of spite! here's the catch: their puny souls can be fueled by anger and hate only, so they have to pick up some unhealthy hobbies to keep their inspiration afloat. (spoiler: cartoonish violence. exclusively. maybe mafia ca-chings)

they have no talent, they have no sheer will and any actual goals in life, but one specific thing to do, like again, out of spite.

however eventually this will quickly shift solve into a maniacal production phase which pushes them forward in game-making industry. (idk much about further stuff tbh... it's the synopsis)

the perfect result would be achieved if we make it really REALLY really close to the original source. while the source itself really doesn't show the characters' true personality enough... well I sorta strive to make all the style the writing and everything both as canon and as adapted to modern stuff as pozbl.

and yeah the artstyle?? like emo 00s cartoons sort of? you know the ones? i'm having a crisis in this field it's either making it funky as heck or not making it at all kind of stance.

ohh the world they live in is a quite an interesting place. but actually not really. generic edgy big city that has a charm I've yet to practice my writing and drawing skills for.

08 Mar 2024 update:

making it public so any fellow tumblr nitromians get another dose of nmd fan content

(because to be honest i can't get rid of the terrible hyperfixation i got on NMD alone until i do something big for it, then i'll do awesome stuff for other nitrome masterpieces after that)

this post here is not a teaser; maybe just a prompt, and so far it's a little reminder (for me it's been a prompt for a year... argh help)

the style picking is still ongoing, the script is planned yet not properly written, like for example idk what other characters to add if they're not canon to the original universe

the designs might just might get released here in a few months or so

aaand the planned page amount?? idunnow... prob 50-55 by default it needs to have a finished plot.

with this being a FAN project i take inspos from other comics that use canon characters for one's own plot (this exact genre of resurrecting the unused characters) and honestly they drove me to this haha

along with one comment under that nmd trailer vid on youtube with the same idea that got 8 likes by now.

oh it got 10 already!!! (i couldn't get in contact with the OP sadly)

so yep... now it's a semi public post xd. wait not or wait wait wait cause I still try. btw happy women's day <3

#nitrome must die #nitrome #fan comic #rant post #brainstorming #mostly #like #oh dear #that's a big post here oh boy #im hyperfixating so hard rn

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kjmellow · 1 year

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I posted 429 times in 2022

That's 428 more posts than 2021!

14 posts created (3%)

415 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@dyonisia96

@nightscavalry

@johannesviii

@alyona11

@lelelego

I tagged 391 of my posts in 2022

Only 9% of my posts had no tags

#yes - 5 posts

#babies - 4 posts

#wow - 4 posts

#also op your board game q made me sad bc i've literally never played any of those and only heard of like two this girl had no childhood - 3 posts

#doctor who - 3 posts

#owo it's all of dem space-time blorbos!!!! - 2 posts

#the stars don't come out because they never left - 2 posts

#omg - 2 posts

#except i didn't play fnaf but have binged playthroughs from like five different people aaaa - 2 posts

#why am i in love with leela's outfit - 2 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#if anything they barely interact with the tardis in what i've been reading and i've read like twenty-five books all about different doctors

My Top Posts in 2022:

Seeing Sandman posts on my feed is so confusing because for such a long time the only Dream I saw shit about was that Minecraft guy and every time I see Dream my first though is The fuck that smp guy did this time and my brain takes a fucking minute to process that it's a wrong fandom

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WAIT DID THEY REALLY JUST

Did they just take THE SAME Bee and Puppycat and make it LONGER for Netflix??????

Does that mean I didn't have to rewatch it twice in a row to comprehend at least a lil bit what tf was going on???? I had to just wait for a normal show?????

Not like I mind, the cartoon is gorgeous either way (I'm on ep one btw and I think at least the first of Bee's weird dreams looked cooler in the og show) BUT MAN

I never thought I'd actually see the day

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Petition for Dana Terrace to leave our boi Hunter the fuck alone. Our blorbo has suffered enough.

7 notes - Posted October 16, 2022

Hey hermits of tumblr here's a fun challenge for you:

Describe your character quirks i.e. list out habits and traits you have that would make you stand out if you were a character in a work of fiction. This is an exercise in finding something unique about each of us. And also a possible help for writers looking for something to add to their characters ;)

Here's my ✨ character quirks ✨

Hates wearing makeup but likes the process of someone applying makeup on her or doing her hair

Actually uses a set of like a hundred aquarelle pencils instead of eye liner/lipstick/masquerade makeup when she feels extra fancy (usually ends up making rainbow eye liner)

Sometimes acts like a cat around friends she's comfortable with (rubs head, lies with head on knees, purrs when receives pats)

Has a comedic amount of cats (four) and wants more

Has zero coherence in clothing style a bunch of fandom clothes being the only constant thing

Wears exclusively converse spring through autumn (as long as the weather is good enough)

Carries a book around most of the time; in fact spent her prom reading and tuning out the music (which she is extremely proud of and will tell everyone at the first opportune moment)

Swears a whole fucking lot

Quotes memes/films/TV shows a lot or at least really wants to with the only thing stopping her the fact that she knows a quote she has in mind is too niche to be understood

Absolutely cannot sleep with the lights on or during the day; will wake up at dawn if the curtains aren't drawn

Grandma friend: will try to feed you everything there is in the house if you come visit

Some people spend tons of money on clothes; others can't walk past a make-up shop; this bitch has no self-control when entering a bookstore (in fact she would refuse to spend too much on food but then she goes near a bookstore and wakes up an hour later with two bags of books)

Compliments friends in fairly smooth pick-up lines at any given opportunity

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My #1 post of 2022

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Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #love how I actually suddenly became super active here #like literally out of nowhere lmao

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glapplebloom · 2 years

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Since the Powerpuff Reboot under McCracken is coming soon, I’m taking a look at the Death Battle Fanon and what I think about each fight. (Image above by 22kingdomheartsfan)

Powerpuff Girls Battle Royale (OG vs Reboot vs Z)

Let’s start off with the pictured fight: a three way dance between the Original Powerpuff Girls, their Z Counterparts, and the Reboot. Now let me get one thing out of the way: calling the 2016 Powerpuff Girls a reboot is like calling Milo Murphy’s Law a reboot of Phineas and Ferb: it's not. While the 2016 series made some changes, ultimately it really needs the original to exist. Not in a “we can’t reboot something if there’s nothing to reboot” way but a “You’ve seen the original series, so we don’t have to explain anything” way. Mojo Jojo, HIM, and for one episode the Gangreen Gang show up as if you’ve seen the original so don’t need to explain why they’re the enemies to the Powerpuff GIrls. So in the future if a Powerpuff Representative enters, I am for sure including the 2016 Continuity into them.

But that still leaves Z. Unlike 2016, it's completely different from the original Powerpuff. They’re Magical Girls, they have secret identities, from the stuff I’ve seen Momoko Akatsutsumi isn't as boring as OG Blossom. So there is something there to see if the actual Re-imagining of the series can compete against the original. Sadly, I don’t know much about Z other than the few bits I’ve seen. It’ll definitely be fun to research, but how it’ll go over for fans I’m not sure.

XJ-9/Jenny vs. Blossom

I enjoy both the Powerpuff Girls and My Life as a Teenage Robot, so I like to believe I am pretty knowledgeable about both series. But I don't see why this is a match up. Blossom is the leader, the smart one, and a Kindergartner. Jenny, while around the same age as one and was for an episode, is as the title said: a teenage robot. They really have nothing going for them other than “female superheroes.” While Jenny Vs Robotboy has “fighting robot superheroes”, between the similar arsenal, robots hanging around with humans constantly and being shows that came out around the same time it can hold a lot more water. Looking at the Fanon, not a lot of matches for Blossom alone, that seems like a good idea.

Bubbles Vs… Luigi?

Man, the Fanon has almost nothing for Bubbles. Blossom has more completed Fanon fights than Bubbles has solo matchups. But I can slightly see the connection with Luigi: the fraidy cat of the group who can step up and prove their worth. But Luigi has a ton of matches that would suit him better. Maybe Bubbles should have faced KO instead of Blossom…

Buttercup Vs Mandy (from the Grim Adventures)

Hmm, This could possibly work. Mandy is one of the meanest characters that is a Cartoon Network Protagonist. Giving her access to some of the wacky stuff she got in her show could be a fun time to see and make her even with Buttercup. Other fight suggestions include Raphael, who makes so much sense but can’t touch her unless it's Rise, and if it's Rise the connection will be gone. Knuckles and Amethyst could also work. But I am liking the idea of Mandy a little bit more.

Mojo Jojo Vs, well, anyone on the Fanon…

Now Mojo Jojo is a gold mine for match ideas! Invader Zim, Lord Hater, Plankton. Those three alone have so much potential for a fight idea! Gorilla Grodd sounds so fun between a serious money villain and a silly one. The Potential opponents with Dr. Drakken, Eggman, Doofenshmirtz, Jack Spicer, Kat from Kid Vs Kat… As I said, gold mine. I can’t even pick randomly because I want all of these. Which kind of goes with my biggest grip of the original Powerpuff Girls: the villains are much more fun to work with than the girls themselves. I think Mojo has more match ideas for himself than the girls put together.

Princess Morbucks Vs Jack Spicer

And to contradict me, Morbucks has even less than Bubbles. Picking Randomly, it points to Jack Spicer: rich kid who is a villain to our heroes. You know the weirdest thing, I’ve seen more shipping art for these two (with Morbucks aged up) than fight suggestions. Looking at the fanon, the other standout is Bowser Jr, though I think he has a better opponent out there.

Him Vs Father

Man, the fanon has a lot of potential opponents for my Darkseid equivalent in my canon. Though Randomness picked Father from Kids Next Door and I don’t see it. Granted, I think putting them together would definitely make for some funny dialogue, a fight between a fire user and basically the Devil doesn’t seem like an even fight. For the other fights, the ones I usually see are up there: Aku, Bill Cipher, Discord. Also the creepy pasta RED?

Other fight suggestions not seen…

There’s the Powerpuff Girls Vs the Crystal Gems: a trio of heroes of the Cartoon Network fame. A Battle Royal between the three with the obvious winner being Blossom. Maybe against the DC Super Hero Girls… But if I had to pick a Powerpuff Representative, I think Mojo got the best chance for all the gold he’s producing. And who knows if a reboot will bring in new interest to the series. Only time will tell.

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