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sabrondabrainrot · 2 months

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I forget I can just ramble and rant my thoughts!

I try to focus on sharing just my art but I also do writing and try to have a bit of a critical mind when it comes to media I consume.

Now that it has been a few months since I watched all of TMNT 12 I do have some thoughts and opinions and kind of want to just ramble about it before I forget, in an informal manner.

I at first really liked it, it was the second TMNT show I watched after Rise, now that I've been watching the 87 and 03 shows my opinions on 12 did change just a bit but I still do like it!

Literally all the turtles are my son's now. Especially Leonardo (he's blue coded so-). I just think they're so cute and neat!!!

I'm going to put thoughts to spoiler stuff of 12 so if you plan to watch the show then don't click beyond this point!

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So in the last season of TMNT 12 it kind of feels like all the scrapped ideas or random plots that couldn't be fit into the prior seasons were put in this one? I really like the new op it gives of Cowboy Bebop vibes. The op song change is really nice to because I never really looked the tmnt 12 op song before.

However, the plots feel all over the place? There's a mini ark where they're jumping through time meeting Halloween monsters and then another ark where Mikey defeats Satan? Then we get another really tiring ark that's this implied alternate madmax fury road parody that is honestly so depressing? Donnie is just dead.

Which btw, the show likes killing ppl off for dramatic effect. They killed Master Splinter three times and had Mikey and Donnie get scattered to atoms on two separate occasions. I should also mention Leo was in a coma for 3 months with no IV or anything and he woke up relatively fine.

Anyways, going into the last season and stuff leading up to it... They kind of ended with the 87 turtles and the 12 boys finding new passion and inspiration from teaching the 87 boys. I didn't really vibe with it because it just made the 87s the butt of the joke and made them out to be incompetent silly little guys.

They ARE silly little guys but the thing is they're not incompetent. The 87 boys have done some insanely incredible things even when unarmed. Especially when unarmed. I actually think the angle of finding a new way to help people as a means to end the series on an inspired note is fine, the 87 boys even carried on the will and told Bebop and Rocksteady they can be more than Shredder's mutant henchmen. It is very cute and wholesome. I just think they could have maybe done it differently?

Why not set up for them to teach Chi arts? The turtles of 87 don't have any mystical abilities and it would have been interesting to do a set up like that? There are ways to write the finale without just dumping on the original source.

Focusing back on the ending of 12, we also leave on a seriously alarming note. It's just a big mixed bag. After Master Splinter went to run on the hamster wheel in the sky, Leonardo was handed the reigns of the family. He was told "You're the teacher now Leonardo. You're the father. Look after your brothers" and Splinter then willingly walked into his own death. I think the writers maybe thought this was amazing and inspirational or something but I found it incredibly messed up? We start tmnt 12 on all 4 boys birthday. Meaning Splinter himself considers them all to be the same age. And since the series was running they haven't on screen celebrated a birthday and from the implied weather changes most of the seasons 1-4 seem to take place over just a year??? We don't get a definitive timeline (or I'm a bad audience and didn't notice).

So one can only assume Master Splinter was telling his...15 year old son to be the father to his other 15 year old children.

Why do I bring this up at all? After Leonardo takes over the family and he KILLS shredder they go into this rushed cult demon resurrection arc that culminates in the classic dead walk the earth and Mikey defeats Satan. In this arc we meet a ghost splinter who does not even go to see his kids, he just helps Casey and April. But throughout and the lead up to this we have moments of Leo having conversations with what we can perceive as Sensei's ghost in the dojo.

But the climax of the arc cements splinters ghost has not once visited his son's.

So Leonardo is quite literally having full on conversations, in the dojo for his brothers to hear, with a hallucination of his dead dad. He's coping this way. His family does nothing about this.

Tmnt 2012 has the worst Splinter. He ignored his son's and chose favorites. He told Leonardo to die (season 1 finale). He calls Mikey dumb and insights the others to do it too. He told Raph his anger makes him exactly like Shredder and never elaborates or teaches him how to better work through his issues. And he straight up calls Donnie useless.

None of that is even an exaggeration. Adding context just makes it worse.

Here's a list:

Do you know the turtles are the equivalent of helicopter raised homeschool boys? They've never stepped foot outside of the lair except at the start of ep 1.

They learn ALL of their lessons from old shows and cartoons. The show writers even sometimes use the cartoons to set up the theme of the episodes!

When Leonardo rescues Mikey he pats him on the head to comfort him.

Literally almost all of their ninja weapons have hidden weapons. I love it I wish I saw more of them using them.

Michelangelo is the family chef because somehow none of the rest have any life skills. Not even Splinter (explains so much).

They all have such cute shape language. I love bean pole Donnie, blocky buff Raph, perfect pear Leo, and round freckled Mikey.

They also now have unique eye colors. I love their eyes. Donnie with his big beautiful brown eyes (sometimes they look red). Raph with his acid green stare into your soul eyes, they look like they would glow like mako eyes in ff7. Mikey with bright blue eyes all big and round. And then Leo with the cunning dark blue eyes!

I just want to pinch their cheeks and kiss their foreheads and give them hugs.

Also, Leo is so affectionate to kids and his brothers??? My heart??? Couldn't take it??? He just randomly hugs them?? He had a tea party??? He wore a pink feather boa? The way he just immediately held baby Miwa??? Too good. Too good. He's such a good big bro.

Raph is also such a soft guy. Like yes he's a Butthead that beats up his brothers and takes every single violent urge out on Leo when he's even minorly inconvenienced but he does learn to do better. He helps Leo a lot and he even is there for the others a lot too.

Raphael also does art and seems to like fine arts.

Raph, like Leo, is a resident baby man. He loved tiny helpless creatures. He had a pet turtle he loved with his entire being and then later on adopted a space alien baby turtle that he also loved with his entire being.

I love Donnie in this, his cute little tooth gap, his gentle demeanor, the fact he'd rather be in the lab than training. I feel bad for him tho cause he clearly wants Splinter and Leo's approval with his inventions and efforts but very rarely gets it (Leo is the only one to really praise him and get what he does). He's also a good team player but he has so much stress and no confidence.

Donnie needs a big ol hug.

Mikey is so cute. But he is so weird. Why did they write girly pop collecting underwear. Why did they have him cannibalize a mutant pizza man? They do the most random things with Mikey. I like that he avidly tries cheering ppl up. He tries so hard for his bros. He's just a sweet little guy. I wish they did more with the baby bro.

Mikey should have kept his lightning powers.

They fight a lot but all the brothers love each other. I think they're just stressed and cooped up too much.

I like drama tho it's juicy when they argue.

I read on the wiki that Donnie is supposed to be canon OCD and Mikey canon ADHD and it makes so much sense in the show.

I really like all their voices. I miss Leo's first voice he was so dorky and sweet. The new voice is all sad and serious. Raph sounds perfect. I like Donnie's voice but instead of him always yelling why not have him do the low angry science rant because that's a good time. I like Mikey's voice he sounds like a high pitched beast boy.

But despite the occasionally baffling writing choices of the show I still like it. It's entertaining in the same way as a telenovela or kdrama. They literally have a plot where one of the turtles falls in love with his secret half sister. Something I've seen in telenovelas and kdramas.

2012 tmnt makes a great dogblooded drama.

I think the CGI art can get pretty bad at times but other times it looks great. The music is pretty good and I really like the voice cast. I actually totally see why so many people like this show but I definitely don't think it's the best one. From what I've seen thus far, I think the 2003 TMNT show might actually be a masterpiece. Better than Avatar the Last Airbender levels of masterpiece (not a competition just giving an example of another show I find monumental).

That's it, that's the rant, thanks for reading!

Btw if any one has any good 12 fic recs pls hand them over. I need 12 hurt comfort, or fem Leo, or transfem Leo, or anything introspective, or just anything with a fun plot. Pls I'm dying here send fics.

Thank you :)

#brainrot #teenage mutant ninja turtles #cartoon #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #12 leo #12 raph #12 mikey #12 donnie #rant #thoughts #these are my opinions #I really like tmnt #i can't stop thinking about tmnt #maybe a bit introspection #rambles #headcanons #i love them your honor

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bitacrytic · 7 months

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Boston and Nick make sense in my brain, the others, not so much. (I actively don't want the others to get together.)

And like this Boston's first love (probably) so it might hit a few blind alleys but he'll get there. Eventually, (hopefully). But the real MVP of OFTS is Nick. The boy made Boston, for whom monogamy and being faithful is a line drawn by clouds, who has a very pessimistic view about romantic relationships, absolutely doesn't like taking and keeping pictures of his hookups with his own face showing, who repeatedly has shown he doesn't care for others; actually Cared. He kept a picture of them on his phone despite him wanting to forever protect his privacy fiercely, and not just that, he spent probably hours drinking and staring at it. His face, so sad and miserable. When Nick told him about his job, he had this teensy tiny little smile before Nick said he met a senior, and Boston's face fell. Nick actually made Boston care.

Umm, Anon? I feel you. But I don't want any of these men to end up together.

excuse the incoming rant...

For me, Only Friends is not necessarily a bl in that it's a romcom where the two leads get to ride off into the sunset.

It's more like a salad of toxicity and immaturity. The characters don't need to end up together. they need therapy. and accountability.

boston is a mess. nobody's child deserves to be involved with boston. when you consider the fact that he was friends with ray and mew for yeeeeeeaars and still did that to both of them, you have to ask yourself what he wouldn't do to you in a relationship. even cheum who'd managed to steer clear of boston's betrayal is about to learn that her "straight" brother was turned out by boston. not because he's a man, but because boston is the type of guy who ruins people. she doesn't want that for her brother but she knows what's going to happen to him now that he's in boston's vicinity. the only good thing going for him is his "honesty". and the quotation marks are there because he's inredibly selective with his honesty. But at least with drake's character and nick and atom, he was honest with them. they all knew what they were getting. but beyond that, judging by what he's done to his friends? yeah, boston needs doctors, not lovers.

as for nick. he needs to go to jail. while everyone around him is aware of the part they played in the fiasco, nick doesn't think he did anything bad. which means that he's going to do it again. jail. he doesn't deserve happiness. he said he was fine with being anybody to boston as long as he was someone, at least. and yet, he went and recorded an intimate moment Boston had with another person out of jealousy. he'll tell boston now that he's okay with boston's lifestyle, but he hates it. he's a liar. he's a creep. and he's getting away with so much fuckery because mark has fluffy cheeks.

he doesn't deserve boston just because he made boston care. he's a stalker. are we forgetting this? stalking cases are not romantic. they mostly end with someone dead or assaulted. it's not romantic. to him, boston is a fish in a bowl and the fact that he's gotten boston to care about him is not so much a good things as it is that he's found a way to tame the unruly slut. he's "changed" boston as if boston's sexual habits were ever a problem. (they weren't. his backbiting and scheming were the problem, not the sex)

before the whole fiasco with top, boston wasn't a pariah. his friends were just fine with his social life. if anything, ray was the problem of the group. boston didn't do drugs. boston didn't carry guns. boston just went to clubs, met with consenting ADULT men and fucked those men.

So by him finally deciding to settle down with nick is something that should be attributed to him growing up. not nick's ability to "change" him. because that part of his life was never a problem.

nick's jealousy was.

Anon, please excuse my mini tantrum

#only friends the series #i'm sorry #no sympathy for nick here #boston isn't a saint #but nick should please go away

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rainderthesomeone · 7 months

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Yo I wish there was an actual tf2 themed restaurant Valve gave someone permission to make, I can imagine it just filled with Tf2 memorabilia and custom made props and actual in game pictures, like one side is Red and the other side is Blu, and the waiters are hired actors playing the Mercs, something similar to places like the Karen cafe (which is an actual place and the entire staff are hired actors playing as Karen’s XD)

Basically like a miniature universal studios theme park but confined into a restaurant.

And the menu would be actual Tf2 food items.

Main course would be Sandvich of course, Hales kangaroo Stake and eggs, and Heavy’s buffalo steak, and scouts bucket of chicken.

Appetizers would be heavy’s banana.

Dessert would be Dalokohs bar.

Drinks, Bonk and crit cola (which would be just sprite and Fanta in different cans) Demos scrumpy, Engies beer, and Atomic punch (which is just blue koolaid)

Bonus menu items would be

Engies Texas stew (which is a nice homemade soup)

Soldier surprise (a casserole in a mre ration bag)

Pyros glitter cake(a rainbow cake with a mini balonacorn cake topper on it with glitter sprinkles)

Overheal Wunderbar ( a jello cheesecake that looks like a medpack with red jello inside it.)

And need a dispenser here. (A dispenser cake with scouts face poorly drawn on it)

Than there would be little secret things you could do in the restaurant as well like enter a contest to who can shout the best tf2 voice lines winner gets a free sandvich.

Than there would be a little jukebox with the entire tf2 fight songs playlist in it.

Welp that’s enough for me ranting on about how cool a tf2 restaurant would be, but I guess i know what I’ll be trying to do in the future.

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #sandvich #Youtube

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dailycupofcreativitea · 3 years

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I was watching that Bunny Girl Senpai anime because the plot sounds really weird and my sister recommended it, and there’s this explanation they give about Schrodinger's Cat in the second episode.

It reawakened my mini-rant that Schrodinger's Cat is always misinterpreted. It was meant to show how absurd it is for something to only exist in a state after it’s been observed (by a human), not to prove that it’s possible. Ex. it doesn’t show us that the cat can be both dead and alive; it’s a commentary on the fact that it would be ridiculous for a cat to be both dead and alive, so quantum state collapse is NOT caused by human observation (there’s a different discussion on what classifies as a “detector” or “observer”).

People always misinterpret it to mean “omg the cat can be in two states at once! Physics is cool!” no that’s not why the thought experiment was made. The cat is either 100% dead or 100% alive after the poison is activated; the collapse of the wave function occurred the moment the poison was either activated or not by the atom.

The whole point of this scenario was to show how easy it is to arrive at absurd conclusions if one misunderstands the physics. Which is...pretty ironic. XD

#rant #schrodinger's cat #bunny girl senpai #physics #quantum #delete

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aquapede · 2 years

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Saw your post about shipping and oh my god you put it into words.

Like, I’m panromantic myself, but I swear so many popular ships don’t make any sense. And I’m not saying that in the fun policing way or because “they never met in canon”, usually it’s like. In cases where the characters have met they have spent the vast majority of interactions fighting each other(not friendly sparring), or one tried to kill the other, or idk they just existed in the same room once?? And in a lot of cases where they haven’t it can be most reasonably assumed that they wouldn’t get along, wouldn’t have any real chemistry beyond friendship potential, or in rarer cases would be much more likely to be with a different character– or even ARE with that other character and people just ignore that.

I just don’t get shipping “for the aesthetic” or “because it looks cute”. If the characters have personality traits I feel like it’s a huge disservice to sweep that stuff under the rug just so you can stick them with another character like someone making dolls kiss. Sure maybe it looks nice but I don’t think it is nice in literally any other way to put Kill Die the Murder Guy with Mx. If I See Violence I Experience Secondhand Dying, or Sir ‘If You Raise Your Voice At Me I Will Be Reduced To Atoms” with Lady HI I HAVE NO SELF CONTROL AND TEND TO BE VERY LOUD AND BLUNT WITH THINGS, or basically any situation where Character B tried to kill Character A and they never addressed it/made up somehow/otherwise went “ok we mostly good”.

Sorry for rambling I’m just. AAAA SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS THE FEELING

EXACTLYYYY EXACTLYY like. its mostly harmless but its all just so fucking FLAT no thought is being put into these pairings!! there IS content to be made about couples that absolutely do not mesh together and try to make it work anyway like you mentioned but not in a 'coffee shop au no hurt all comfort' kind of way like people insist on doing!!

and theres DEFINITELY something to say about how this mostly happens with white able-bodied male characters!! this doesnt happen NEARLY as often with characters of color or disabled/female/nonbinary characters! people want to push together characters that play into their biases the most and ignore the MORE RELEVANT characters to do so! and EVERY. SINGLE. FANDOM. has this problem

but yeah sorry for the mini rant <3 glad someone shares my thoughts! fandom shipping culture is so deeply internet poisoned everyone here needs to go touch grass and talk to some real people face to face

#ask #i always have a tirade on deck for if someone talks to me about fandom culture lol <3 #i should be desensitized to it at this point but its still just as enraging #Anonymous

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jacks4eva · 4 years

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SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS :

a mini rant

tahereh mafi if you ever see this i’m so sorry and i love your books

I really hate to do this and I’ve been putting it off but I’m honestly disappointed in imagine me. It had it’s good moments don’t get me wrong but the progression and the end didn’t feel like the end? I mean they’ve built up the reestablishment so much, and the ending was just a disappointment. I had this whole theory that the reestablishment had planned on putting Emmaline into Warner’s body, I mean why else would Anderson at the end of Defy me talk to Warner about how he was strong enough for something? Instead, Anderson laughs off the idea when warner wants to sacrifice himself, steals Ella, takes away her memories and makes her into his lil slave that is creepy because Juliette is attracted to him.

If I had written the last book, Emmaline wouldn’t have messed with Ella’s mind because Ella is Emmaline’s only hope and her sister and instead they take a small group to go steal Emmaline away or kill her. They go back to oceania but find out the reestablishment took Emmaline to a different continent, and during their failed attempt at rescuing her, Warner gets taken because he had separated from the group to do something. Ella was the one to start going quiet, and it scares Kenji.

Warner and Emmaline are in Nazeera’s city, and Nazeera knows this because of how closely her father was working on this. She, Ella, Kenji, Stephan, and Haider go. Haider can’t stop going on about he’s saving his best friend, and Stephan can’t stop telling them all how dangerously stupid the plan is considering there is none. A day after they make it to the same city and hide out, Ella abandons them all to go find Warner. Kenji was with Nazeera and she showed him around the city and good places to disappear at (her favorite places) and when they get back she’s gone and he’s not surprised but pissed.

This whole time they’ve been wearing Emmaline down to get her brain level down to make the transfer and they’ve been preparing Warner’s body for it too. While he’s been going through surgeries, he sees Adam and they’re thrown in the same cell because together their powers are utterly useless, and they get some brotherly development. Adam starts to finally understand Warner, and when Anderson goes to take Warner away to have his body switched, Adam turns Anderson’s power off. Warner realizes he can feel this because his energy is turned off, and Warner kills Anderson in some interesting way idk. Warner and Adam start to run but Ibrahim kills Adam, shoots him right beside Warner. Warner tries to kill Ibrahim but Ella’s dad sedates him with a tranq.

Warner is unconscious, and they’re trying to make the transfer because Ella is killing her way through the facility thanks to Emmaline and her powers obviously. Kenji and Nazeera hear about it because the city goes on lockdown, and they bring the four of them to go help Ella. Ella finds Warner, but she thinks no one is with him and Emmaline, and Emmaline warns her to stay back. Her father comes out of hiding, holds a gun at her but he’s shaking cause he knows it won’t work and he’s scared of her. Emmaline warns her that someone is behind her, Ella mortally injures Ibrahim by like choking him and tossing him across the room. Warner starts to wake up as the transfer is starting to happen and he’s in a lot of pain, and Ella threatens her father to make it stop. He refuses at first, believing someone would carry on his work and if Ella wanted it to stop she would have to kill him so it would be fair that she’d have to without him as he had to live without her mother. Ella asks what if she killed Emmaline, and he goes quiet before he starts trying to guilt her into not killing Emmaline but Emmaline is begging her to.

Ella tosses her father away and puts him unconscious. She turns on her touch killing power and kills Emmaline while showing her every one of her favorite memories with her, and she cries but Emmaline thanks her. When Emmaline dies, Warner goes quiet and Ella thinks for a second maybe they were connected in some way and she killed them both but he is okay. He stands up and kinda weakly goes over to her and they kiss and fussy reunion, but boom Ella’s dad says sike I’m still alive and claims he’s not letting them walk out of there alive because he hates Ella for killing his wife. He shows them he has a button that will send the city to the ground, because it turns Ella basically into that atom bomb and as he’s about to press it Nazeera while flying plucks it out of his hand, and Kenji punches him over and over again because Ella told him what he had done to her.

Nazeera and Haider see their father, and go quiet but they know it was what had to happen, and they give him words of peace as he dies. The four were all hurt because they had been keeping soldiers from interfering with Ella and Warner, and they all sorta just limped out of the building. They see the normal sky for the first time and Haider and Kenji cry, even though Kenji hides it very well.

Ella and Warner establish a base where they and the people they trust work to destroy what’s left of the reestablishment. They work slowly as they tear away leaders and help the people recuperate so they can establish their own, it doesn’t show this much but the epilogue shows them coming back from one of these missions almost late for their own wedding. (You can’t tell me they wouldn’t be.) It ends on Ella seeing Warner at the end of the isle and flashes back and forth to a time when they had played wedding as children and to their own real wedding, ending on I do.

Anyway yeah, that’s how I would’ve written it and I’m not Tahereh so maybe it’s uncalled for for me to try to claim that’s not how it should have went. But the whole time it felt like some bizarre fanfiction, with the andersette thing and warner moving back in his character development and the warner fanclub (though that I am very glad exists) but the little girl being killed and Juliette sees Adam, and then he never gets brought up again? I hate the guy trust me I do but how you gonna bring up his sacrifice for his brother like that and not use him but once to test Juliette’s memory? He was stupid doing it but it’s like Tahereh set up so many plot twists and lost inspiration and the book was too big so she cut out half of it.

#warnette #aaron warner #aaron and ella #tahereh mafi #juliette ferrars #imagine me spoilers #imagine me

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littledorkydemon · 6 years

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Events and things mentioned in Powerpuff Girls comic Mini Series: Second Chances

The mini series is broken into 6 chapters and a short epilogue, as are the notes. In total the notes are just shy of 4,000 words

Chapter One

• The comic starts with the City of Townsville being set on fire

• The girls are called and fly downtown to find Mojo is the cause and Buttercup starts complaining

• The then start trying to recall what they fought already and when, this includes a giant metal robot, giant metal spider, and a giant metal shotgun

• This time he's using a giant metal exoskeleton, and apparently this isn't the first time he's used one

• Exoskeleton looks like the one from the Alien movie

• Mojo tries to convince the girls how cool his and better this plan is only to get upset when they show disinterest

• “Oh, what do you know anyway? It's not like I took an industrial design course! I Mojo Jojo have no need for a college diploma on account of my superior intelligence- ...and superior firepower”

• He then fires a barrage of missiles at the girls, who get them all together and following them before leading them back to hit Mojo

• Buttercup taunts him after, saying they haven't fought a Giant Metal Hedgehog yet [Fist Bump cover by Natewantstobattle played right after I read that]

• Mojo is taken back to jail and on the way he is talking out loud trying to figure out how his genius plans are always stopped by children

• The officer lists off all of Mojo's belongings which are:

○ One big hat

○ One singed purple cape

○ One death ray gun

○ One pack of gum: Mint Fresh

○ Two double-A batteries

○ One Frequent Coffee Buyer's Reward Card

○ One Self-Help Book on Public Speaking

• The girls are at Malt's Shoppe when the shop owner, Mr. Malt, gives them a banana split as thanks for taking care of Mojo. He also tips them off to a special event happening tomorrow in honor of the girls

• Buttercup is exited thinking they finally made statues of the girls

• The next day the Mayor unveils the gift for the girls, Three sets of golf clubs and a Lifetime Membership to Townsville Golf and Country Club

• And the Mayor hopes they'll join him for a round of Charity golf that weekend

• Buttercup is upset, finding golf boring

• A swamp monster rises from the water trap at the 16th hole and the Girls fly off to fight it, but not before making a bunch of golf puns

• The girls fight the monster, not understanding it's heavy accent

• It slaps Bubbles away into a puddle of algae to which both she and Buttercup find disgusting

• The girls use their new clubs to slice and hit the monster, and Buttercup shouts that she now loves this game

• The monster turned out to be a man, Jock Scott, at its core, who thanks the girls for freeing him

• Blossom knows the man saying, “Not Jock Scott, famous golfer who hit a 225 on a Par 72 and mysteriously disappeared at the Masters open in 1963?” to which he confirms he is.

• Blossom says she likes to watch golf

• Mojo is shown watching the live new of the girls' fight

• on the cell wall it says “The Amobea Boyz wuz hear”

• Mojo is upset and ranting about how he has never won against the girls, then asks the visitor he requested see him, free Mojo from the prison of his mind and the memories of his repeated failures

• He begs the Professor for Antidote X

Chapter Two

• It starts back at the prison, with two inmates talking about Mojo Jojo giving up villainy

• It's all framed like Mojo is on death row and heading to the electric chair

• He's last words before Antidote X enters the gas chamber are an apology for any and all inconveniences he's wrought on them. Them being The Mayor, Ms. Bellum, and the Girls

• The gas is let in and Mojo breaks his bindings, but as more of a reaction to the Antidote X

• The Professor has the girls stay back while he gets a sleeping Jojo out out of the chamber

• He also says that Jojo is his responsibility and is thus taking Jojo is as part of their family, to which Buttercup protests claiming it's just some trick of Mojo's

• despite her protesting, they take in Jojo, throwing him a “Welcome Home” party

• Jojo starts running around the kitchen, swinging from the banner and falling on the cake they had for him, which starts a food fight between him and the girls

• during that he manages to slip passed them and into the lab where he is running around breaking more things, and knocking down a beaker of Chemical X

• The Professor catches it before it can fall on Jojo's head

• The Professor locks away the Chemical X in a safe and gets everyone ready for bed

• Bubbles really likes Jojo and wants him to like living with them, while Buttercup hates the idea, saying “A leopard doesn't change its spots”

• Blossom says that he's not Mojo Jojo anymore, that they'll have to find it in their hearts to forgive his past attempts to destroy them, saying it's the right thing to do and that everyone deserves a second chance

• Him is shown watching the girls and complains that they never gave him a second chance

• Enjoying the idea of an eventual betrayal of the trust earned in a second chance, Him decides to “give these girls a little lesson in 'forgiveness'...”

• Him's eyes glow green, and so does every major villain in Townsville

• Blossom bolts up out of bed the next morning and rushes to the window followed by her groggy sisters

• They fly off to get the Professor and all go outside to see Townsville's villains doing a bunch of chores; mowing the lawn, washing the car, repainting the house, and gardening

Chapter Three

• Starts with the Ex-villains of Townsville

○ Sedusa is a hair stylist working on three clients' hair at once

○ Princess is at a soup kitchen ladling money to the poor

○ Fuzzy is a Realtor selling properties to people

○ The Gangreen Gang are making a large statue of the girls in the park

• Buttercup thinks its all fishy, complaining that she hasn't been able to hit anyone in the past week because their all too nice

• Bubbles says she and Fuzzy are volunteering at the animal shelter after she's out of school

• Blossom says she and Sedusa are going to get things ready for the annual tulip festival in the park

• Buttercup points out the weird timing, first Mojo then the rest of the villains, gets frustrated talking to Blossom and unable to completely voice her feelings, and says warned them for when it all goes wrong

• Meanwhile The Professor is having a hard time with Jojo

• The Professor sets some bananas down on the floor below Jojo

• Jojo takes the bait and the Professor sets off a rube goldberg machine to trap him in a cage

• The phone rings and the Professor politely refuses their offer saying his too busy to play any games, and saying he's been getting a lot of telemarketing calls lately

• He then goes to show a grumpy Jojo the experiment he's working on; “an atomic-powered coffee maker guaranteed to keep your coffee hot for 24,100 years!”

• Also meanwhile, Him is shown taking a bath and watching what's going on in Townsville; Blossom is flying kites with Little Arturo, Bubbles is fishing with Fuzzy, and Buttercup is by herself looking grumpy

• There's also two monitors? Him has of cats just to the side of the ones of Blossom and Bubbles

• Him goes on to the next step of his plan and wakes up a giant octopus to attack the city

• The girls are in class when they hear a loud boom and see smoke coming from the city

• Buttercup is excited, taking the lead on the way downtown and saying that she is going to knock Ace and the Gangreen Gang into next month

• Her sisters point out they don't know who is causing trouble yet, and after saying she'll beat up who ever is actually responsible, she's going to beat up

• They get downtown and notice Ace is there

• He and everyone else are wanting the Powerpuff Girls help in fighting the monter

• The girls are all stunned, Buttercup thinking it's weird but doesn't care as she gets to punch something

• Working together, they all fight the octopus; who, when it's had enough, squirts ink on all of them and runs away back to the ocean

• Sedusa says that from now on they'll all fight together to defend Townsville

• Princess suggests they all go for malts, and that it's her treat

• Buttercup says this is going to take some getting used to

Chapter Four

• Starts with the Gangreen Gang at the park playing basketball when a business man walks by throwing his empty coffee on the ground

• Ace, “Eh, youse might want to reconsider your decision there, mister”

• Business man calls them punks and says he has more important things to do, to which Ace replies, “Oh, far be it from me to stifle the progress of commerce in our fair city, but you is gonna put your litter in its proper place if'in you know what's good for ya.”

• Guy still refuses and they stuff him in an trashcan with his empty coffee

• Fuzzy is aiming his shotgun at a poacher planning on killing a moose

• Princess is helping out Madame Foster cross the street and carrying her shopping bag

• The Amoeba Boys join the army

• And the Girls are dealing with a robbery at the jewelry store, and the robbers involved are two nameless guys never seen before

• According to the Narrator, Him resides deep below the city of Townsville

• Him's monitors are place so that Princess's head is covering Ms. Bellum's head

• Now that everyone in Townsville believe the villains have turned over a new leaf, Him says he'll loosen his mind control over them and watch the villains slip back into old habits

• Looking at a screen of Ace and Buttercup laughing together, Him says, “A leopard doesn't change its spots, you know!”

○This saying dates back to the Old Testament, Jeremiah 13:23

• Blossom and Princess are fixing beams under a bridge when Princess's eyes glow green and she aims her laser to hit Blossom

• Buttercup is with the Gangreen Gang cleaning the subway of all their graffiti when Ace's eye glow the same green and he pushes Buttercup in front of a Subway

• Buttercup is able to stop the Subway, pushing against it to stop it

• Bubbles and Fuzzy are having a picnic

• Fuzzy says that he love all the forest animals and that he plays the banjo for them, also stating that the rabbits are his favorite

• Bubbles complements the sandwiches Fuzzy made, and he informs her that they are; meat jelly sandwiches, and are a family recipe

• Fuzzy's eyes glow green and he gets mad at a group of ants on the picnic blanket

• Bubbles tries to calm him down, but Fuzzy says that this is his home and they don't belong here. Then pointing out that all this land belonged to his ancestors until Townsville came along

• He give Bubbles to the count of five before he chases her off his property with his boomstick, and she flies off crying at his threat

• The Professor is at home putting sugar, spice, and everything nice into a bowl

• Jojo is next to the bowl looking ad a bag of Flour and the Professor is laughing about the nostalgia

• The phone rings and The Professor tells them that he's busy at the moment and has no time for games

• He state after hanging up that he's going to have to talk to the mayor due to crank callers constantly calling

• Bubbles flies home just as Jojo spills all the flour on himself, and the Professor mistakes her being upset over the lost of the cake he was preparing

• Bubbles tries to tell him why she's really upset but the Professor interrupts her saying that they'll take a trip to the store and stop for ice cream on the way. Bubbles then tries to bargain for three scoops

• Blossom and Princess are fighting as Bubbles and the Professor drive by on the bridge, Bubbles trying to get even more scoops of ice cream

• Princess says bridges are stupid and blasts a chunk out of it, and Blossom rushes down to catch it, punching Princess on the way and telling her to stop

• Meanwhile the Gangreen Gang are at the park cleaning up litter when Billy sees a hot dog vendor, and starts eating all the hot dogs despite not having money

• Ace says that he's had enough of “this goody-goody business” and he and the other start making a mess of the park

• Sedusa is working again as a hair stylist and is bored and irritated with her clientele, and she shaves off all the ladies' hair. Their screaming gets Buttercup to crash through the window and start a fight with Sedusa

• Meanwhile the Amoeba boys are in the Nevada Desert and put in charge of guarding the states supply of canola oil said to be the backbone of the fast-food economy

• The boys can't stand the heat and head to the mess hall for a drink of plankton water when a bomb goes off on one of the canola silos

• The Amoeba boys get court-martialed, and Slim says Bossman is a criminal genius, while Bossman looks unsure of what happened

• Back at the Utonium house, the phone is ringing non-stop

• Jojo gets out of his cage, smacks the phone and leans in to hear it, hearing, “Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?”

• His eyes start to swirl green and he sets up a game of solitaire, muttering, “Jo, Jo.” three times before, “Mo- Jo. ...Jojo” and turning green and sneering finally says, “Mojo.”

Chapter Five

• Starts with Bubbles and the Professor at Malph's getting flour when Fuzzy is outside shouting at everyone to get off his property and turning everything into various cuts of meat

• Bubbles is scared stating the last time Fuzzy used that meat gun he turned her pigtail into a drumstick

• The professor comforts her when Blossom and Princess come flying by, only to continue their own fighting

• Princess says that being good is too much work and not enough pay, also saying bridges are for people who have to go work for a living and that she is never going to need a bridge

• Blossom gets one more hit on Princess before Buttercup gets thrown through the window

• Outside, Sedusa, Fuzzy, Princess, and the Gangreen Gang are running amok

• Buttercup and Blossom get ready to go out there and fight them all when Bubbles tells Blossom she doesn't think she can do that. Admitting that she is a little scared of Fuzzy as well as that there's still good in him, that she can feel it.

• her sisters help her not be scared and that while Fuzzy may still be good deep down, he is currently doing bad and needs to be taken care of.

• The Girls start fighting all the villains in the parking lot when an earthquake happens and Him rises from the ground

• Calls the girls gullible children for believing they could reform the worst of society with kindness and understanding. Adding that the girls “never want to see the shadow cast by all living things.”

• Him claims that “They just take what they want, without remorse, and give nothing in return. It's in their DNA!” also says that all it took was a “teeny bit of mind alteration” to have them all getting along

• Him tells Ace that all he did was “put a cork in their bad habits” for a while and when he stopped the suppression of them, all the villains when back to petty crimes and misbehavior

• All the Villains are upset at Him, Fuzzy saying he had a good thing going with the real estate business, saying he was a closer.

• Him says it's all in their nature, and not to blame the chef when the ingredients are rotten

• Fuzzy rallies the villains to stand up against Him and Fuzzy shoots him with his meat gun

• Him gets mad that Fuzzy “dare turn [his] weapon on [Him's] haute couture” and sneers asking what he's going to do about it, calling Him a “Lobster Man”

• Saying that they have their own demons to battle, Him names off the seven deadly sins and the shadows of those around Him, villains and heroes, weigh down the person and bare the names of various sins

○ Sedusa's shadow is Envy

○ Princess's shadow is Greed

○ Big Billy's shadow is Gluttony

○ Blossom's shadow is Pride

○ Buttercup's shadow is Wrath

• Blossom's and Buttercup's shadows actually speak

○ Pride, “I'm the prettiest, smartest, and most important Powerpuff Girl”

○ Wrath, “I have so much anger in my heart. I must hurt others to keep the rage at bay.”

• Bubbles doesn't have a shadow bearing a sin, saying Him's whole shadow talk “falls apart when the light is too bright!”

• Bubbles starts to actually shine, blinding everyone, but also makes the shadows disappear, saying that nobody is perfect but there's goodness in everyone, and all you need is love

• Him has had enough and leaves with these parting words, “Take heed! Trust no one and forgive no trespass. Suspicion, fear, and hatred are the natural order of things, and you'd do well to embrace that.”

• Ace suggest that everyone just go their own way since Him messed with all of them, to which Buttercup protests, but Blossom agrees to, since they aren't actually at fault this time

• Bubbles asks Fuzzy before he goes if they could finish their picnic sometime and though he's still grumpy says maybe, and Bubbles hugs him thanking him

• Blossom and Buttercup are ashamed and tell the Professor that they aren't perfect little girls after all, But the Professor says they're perfect to him, and loves them just as they are, which gets the girls to smile again

• Buttercup asks the Professor how long until go back to how they were, and the he says its hard to say. That real change takes time, but every good deed leaves it's mark, and that the hard part is never giving up hope

Chapter Six

• Starts with the girls and Professor driving home, and Buttercup asking the Professor if he saw all her attacks, getting so excited talking about it she doesn't see that their house is smoking with the Front door blasted away

• The Professor is worried about Jojo and the girls clear the smoke to make it easier to see

• They see the Lab also has blast damage and find the safe with Chemical X has been broken, with the beaker broken on the ground

• Buttercup points out a message written on the wall saying “I'm BACK! -sincerely, Mojo Jojo”

• The message is brown, and Mojo left his diaper pinned to the wall of the lab

• The girls are understandably grossed out

• The Professor points out his coffee maker full of Plutonium-239 is missing as well

• There's a loud, earth rumbling boom and the girls fly outside to see a laser coming from Mojo's volcano top lair

• Buttercup says, “I told you so” to her sisters before braking in to stop Mojo

• Mojo tells the girls he plans on destroying Townsville to rebuild it as he wishes, and when Bubbles asks what changed his mind to make him go back to a life of crime, Mojo admits this has been his plan all along

• Hours before his original attack in the exoskeleton robot he realized that his plan would be stopped again by the girls so;

○ He hypnotized himself with subconscious instructions to find Chemical X

○ Faked all his moping while being dragged to prison

○ Tricked the Professor into giving him antidote X knowing he'd feel responsible for Mojo, and take him back in

○ Set up a giant drinking bird that would make a phone call to the girls house every hour and play his trigger message, “Maybe you should play a little solitaire”

○ Once he heard the message, he sought out chemical X, got back to his old self and stole the Professor's coffee maker

• Mojo had an atomic bomb powered by the Plutonium-239 coffee maker and plans on sending it down into the volcano where it will cause lava to rain down on all of Townsville and cover it in atomic ash for then next few decades

• Mojo also says he has a secret plan B if the girls stop plan A, and Mojo leave in an escape pod while the girls are left trying to stop the destruction of Townsville

• They can't find the button in time and the giant drinking bird hit the button sending the rocket and bomb into the volcano

• The girls dive after it and it's going to fast to disarm it, so instead Blossom get under it freezing the cap with her ice breath to cool the lava under it and slow the rocket, Bubbles screeches to get the outer shell of the rocket to break away and buttercup spirals around the plutonium case and bringing it up with her

• Buttercup's spiral keeps the lava from pouring out after she' out of the volcano,

• Blossom and Bubble are both shown using ice breath to cool the pillar of lava into rock

• Way above the earth Buttercup gets dizzy from all the spinning, but manages to kick the plutonium right into the sun and just missing Mojo's escape pod, to which she's irritated she missed

• Buttercup, still dizzy falls off the top of the very narrow volcano and her sisters catch and hug her, and starts shouting “enough of the mushy stuff! Sheesh.”

Epilogue

• Mojo is in space and not terribly upset that his plan failed, saying that's why he has a plan B

• He hits a button and a “World re Vision” is on the screen with a download bar under it

• Says that he'll come back after a few weeks and come out of his egg ship and the people of earth will worship him like a king

• Realizes that if he's going to be up in space orbiting the planet for a few weeks, that he should have installed a bathroom, adding that he really didn't think this plan through

#ppgs #Blossom #Bubbles #Buttercup #professor utonium #Mojo jojo #Him #gangreen gang #Princess Morbucks #Fuzzy Lumpkins #book notes #comic notes #Second Chances comic #Goodness this is long #just over six pages in my word document

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my-zen-space · 6 years

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Atomic Blonde mini rant

Anybody else feel that the mood in the Lorraine/Delphine sex scene in Atomic Blonde was completely ruined by the Eurotrash Europop music playing in the background?

Not that I’m complaining about the actual sex scene 😏:

The movie has queer representation and namely a bisexual subplot (which is not something we see often!)... albeit unfortunately being another addition to the looooong list of ‘Bury Your Gays’ movies/shows (DELPHINE DID NOT HAVE TO DIE!).

The pink-purple-blue lighting is everything I needed and more!

But the music... That scene could have been A LOT MORE sensual if the music didn’t make it seem as if they were attending a rave party...

#atomic blonde #charlize theron #sofia boutella #lorraine broughton #delphine lasalle #bisexual #bury your gays #zenposts #rant

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timholtorf · 6 years

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Comic books!

Nothing better to start off a massive rant than just putting a vague headline about said rant.

The focus is comic books, and in particular comic books as they are today and why none of them really interest me anymore. Well that’s not 100% true. There are comics I do get, but they are few and far between. My tastes have changed since the times of my youth.

Let’s go back to those halcyon days for a moment. The year was 1975. Or somewhere within that range. I had found comic books. I had found some of the best comic books around at the time for my age. There was the Gold Key comics which printed Star Trek, the Six Million Dollar Man and other hit television shows. Naturally, there was Archie comics. And there was DC and Marvel. My first steps into the super hero genre where with DC Comics’ World Finest.

At the time, it was a dollar and had six stories. That’s like getting two comics for free back in those days. Comics were a quarter! The feature story was Superman and Batman in a monthly team-up. There was Green Arrow, Hawkman and Shazam. There was also stories with Black Lightning, The Creeper, Zatanna and the Huntress. I collected as many as I could.

From those original days, I found that I gravitated toward four characters in particular; Green Arrow and Black Canary and Hawkman and Hawkwoman. Sadly, there were no really huge ongoing titles that lasted very long. I managed to collect all of the Hawkman and the Atom, all of the Green Arrow back stories in Detective Comics, and the mini series that came out in the 1980s, as well as Tony Isabella’s short run on Hawkman which included the story the Shadow War. I even went back and collected the old Green Lantern Green Arrow Hard Travellin’ Heroes stories.

The 1990s arrived and suddenly comics were starting to take a huge turn toward grim, gritty, dark and realistic. Which for some reason meant everything was grey. The Dark Knight came out. We had just seen The Watchmen and V for Vendetta in the late 80s. It was only a matter of time before this grim and gritty concept hit other heroes.

And they did. The reboot of the Huntress even took a bit of that turn, changing Helena Wayne to Helena Bertinelli and giving her a completely different backstory. Because, ya know, Crisis on Infinite Earths was meant to clean up the timeline (spoiler, it didn’t). We were also given a couple of gems that I loved. Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters and Hawkworld.

The former was the story of an older man who’s superheroing heyday seemed to be heading toward the twilight years. Oliver Queen was 40 years old. Black Canary/Dinah Lance was in her late 20s early 30s. It was time to put aside the trick arrows and move Queen and company from Star City to Seattle. Green Arrow tackled some pretty heavy stuff in the Longbow Hunters, and the subsequent on going series with Mike Grell’s writing and (sometimes) art. It was less sci-fi than the Green Lantern Green Arrow run, but it hit all the beats that Dennis O’Neal penned back in the 1970s.

Green Arrow wasn’t the only one.

Tim Truman wrote, pencilled and put down the layouts for another mini series that hit some of the similar beats as Green Arrow; The Hawkworld. Instead of placing the focus on just Hawkman, Truman placed the focus on the world of Thanagar. It was a corrupt world with a government that oppressed the people of conquered nations, the elite flew on wings among their golden towers, while the poor and desperate clung on for dear life in the Downside. Hawkworld became a critically acclaimed mini series, which prompted DC to do something that, in the long run, would end up killing the character in future publications.

The ongoing series was launched which was a retelling of Hawkman and Hawkwoman of the 1960s. Two space cops attempting to track down the criminal Byth Rok and take him back to Thanagar. But there was no archaeology cover story. Katar Hol and Shayera Thal were cops who worked with the Chicago City Police. Tim Truman’s name was attached to the ongoing, but it was John Ostrander who managed to pen the series.

The mistake was putting these events into the present DC timeline instead of putting them before. It eventually made a mess, which Ostrander and eventually Steve Leiber attempted to fix with direction by Mike Gold. But the damage was done, and Hawkman became toxic until the Justice Society rose again in the early 2000s.

While I truly do have some favourite comics, none have hit the mark like the Huntress, Hawkworld and Green Arrow did. Truman and Ostrander’s work on Hawkworld really hit home, as the Hawks got to know the people of Chicago, especially in the project called Cabrini Green. They understood that Earth, and the United States in particular, was just another Hawkworld. The Huntress, written by Joey Cavalieri and pencilled by Joey Staton, was dark and noirish due to Helena Bertinelli’s connection to the mob, the fact she was a teacher, and that she really cared for the kids in her classroom. And Oliver Queen, under both Mike Grell and later Chuck Dixon, because a look at life in an unusual way.

There’s comics that have been tried that have fit this kind of aspect in the recent past. The Movement, Birds of Prey, Secret Six, Batwoman, and the short lived All-Star Western. Sadly, most ended or changed directions. Some stayed the course to their roots.

I’d love to see the kind of stories that were back in the 1990s made for today’s world. Focusing on not just superheroes but current events as well. Maybe Hawkworld could be relaunched, who knows. Whaddya say @gailsimone! Sorry, I just hope sometimes.

It’s been a long rant, mostly about things I’ve missed.

#comics #DC Comics #Helena Bertinelli #Oliver Queen #Katar Hol #Shayera Thal #Huntress #Green Arrow #Hawkworld #Hawkman #Hawkwoman

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atomicnebula13 · 1 year

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Do you ever see a pairing or ship that is so off the wall that it stuns you for a minute? But you’re an adult so you just shrug, think ‘not for me’ and keep scrolling?

Same. I wish people would start doing that instead of dragging people or going feral in the comments on other people’s posts. If you see something you don’t like, keep it moving. It’s fandom, not life or death. And just a gentle reminder that not everything created will be to your taste. Not everything is for you.

Stop taking everything so seriously it’s supposed to be fun!

#just my crazy ramblings #mini atomic rant

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popwasabi · 5 years

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“Godzilla: King of the Monsters” Review: Kaiju WWE Match Barely Rises Above Script

Directed by Michael Dougherty

Starring: Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Ken Watanabe, and Milly Bobby Brown

The term “dumb fun” gets thrown around a lot when describing a film like “Godzilla: King of the Monsters.” It’s often a blanket defense to shield a movie of this kind from any legit criticisms as unnecessary because “you’re supposed to turn your brain off.”

While I’m certainly not against indulging in cheap escapism I feel this defense often misreads the quality of a “dumb” movie as there are tons of films with bonkers plot-lines and themes that still hold up to strong criticism. A movie can be dumb and still make sense and an action movie can still be bombastic without bludgeoning a viewer with poorly contrived plot devices.

(A large percentage of super hero films and the MCU as a whole fall under this category.)

While “King of the Monsters” certainly isn’t short on spectacle and dazzling visual effects, its plot is more than just a little half-baked; it’s raw as hell with little coherence that will do more to takeaway from the movie’s best moments than enhance them.

The dazzling, kaiju-sized action will be enough for a large percentage of fans I imagine, and certainly kept me mostly entertained throughout the two-hour, fifteen-minute run-time but it’s not enough to lift the final product beyond being just ok.

“Godzilla: King of the Monsters” takes place five years after the events of the first film as we are introduced to Dr. Mark Russell a former Monarch scientist who specializes in animal behavior and communication. Russell has fallen out with his wife and daughter after Godzilla’s attack on San Francisco tragically took the life of his young son but after an eco-terrorist group bent on reviving the other titans of the Earth kidnaps them both Russell is brought back into the fold to help save the world.

The one big takeaway I’m sure most fans can agree on after leaving the theaters is quite clearly the giant monster scenes are some of the best in the genre’s history.

(I mean, nothing against traditional dude’s in rubber suits, of course.)

The special effects team which combined some motion-capture suit acting along with stellar CGI creates hyper realistic giant monster movement while also hearkening back to some good ol’ fashion WWE style kaiju on kaiju brawling. Yes, again, the plot leaves a lot to be desired here but the kaiju action more often than not starts before your brain hemorrhages too hard from trying to make sense of character motivations and thematic messaging.

Though I would’ve preferred less of these battles in the dark and/or rain the cinematography does create some truly awe-inspiring moments that will wow even the most uptight of viewers. It’s truly impossible not to find some joy in these scenes and for most die-hards fans this will be more than enough to satisfy.

(Me often times during the battles in my theater seat.)

Unfortunately for this die-hard the screenplay is lacking to say the least.

First, before I continue, I want to make something very clear; I have no problem with a film being “dumb.” More specifically I don’t have a problem with it being “unsophisticated.” A film like “John Wick” for instance is not a very sophisticated movie. Hitman loses wife, then dog gets killed so he goes on a murderous rampage to avenge both. The difference is despite “John Wick” having no art house message to tell at least you are never confused and/or irritated by the messaging and motivations of the characters in that plot and it never distracts from the meat of the film which is of course the action.

Many of Godzilla’s Showa era films (which this movie mostly pays homage too) are like this and they work fine because again the plot moves the story along in a simple but effective way without detracting from its best parts, namely the Kaiju-sized wrestling matches.

“King of Monsters” unfortunately mostly fails on this level.

(I can honestly say the same thing about “John Wick Chapter 3″ as well but I’m not going to get into that today *sigh* but hey pew, pew!)

About a third of the way through the film the plot’s wheels spin wildly out of control and the mostly cognizant story up to that point goes up in atomic flames. You’ll spend more times asking questions than just sitting and enjoying yourself and it’s a real detriment to an otherwise spectacular giant monster throwdown.

The film largely wastes the talents of a hugely talented cast because of this between Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Milly Bobby Brown and Ken Watanabe. All of them do well with what they have to work with but the script really needed far less characters to work efficiently and unfortunately the acting talent here alone is not enough to lift a script that has very little clear direction. Character motivations and pathos seem to be dropped at a whim and the film’s final moments contradict a lot of the plot movement from earlier in the film.

(The ending of this film in a nutshell...)

Again a plot doesn’t need to be sophisticated to be good but it should AT LEAST make sense and work with the action, not against it.

There’s some interesting world building here and there but large sections of it are inexplicably and quite literally blown to smithereens on occasions and it will make you wonder if there was more fascinating story layered underneath it all.

Despite my gripes I would say it’s still mostly forgivable how bad the story is because of the aforementioned kaiju brawling but there is one unforgivable moment in this film and it symbolizes a much larger issue I have with the American interpretation of Godzilla.

(SPOILERS ahead)

Godzilla is often viewed in a pretty straight-forward manner by most fans; he’s a giant, fire-breathing reptile here to wreck cities for two hours and not much more than that. For the longest time I mostly saw the big G-man in that way as well and for what it’s worth I don’t think there’s anything wrong with enjoying Godzilla films on purely a superficial level. After all, a large percentage of Godzilla’s filmography is largely schlock.

(Fun schlock, of course.)

But eventually as I got older and grew more into my half Japanese-American identity my view on Godzilla became a lot more nuanced especially after seeing the 1954 original without the American re-dubbing and editing.

If you haven’t seen the original Japanese “Gojira” do yourself a favor and give it a watch right now. The 1954 classic is a masterpiece of post-atomic bomb era story-telling in Japan and at the time a long overdue allegorical discussion of what happened during WWII in that country. However you may feel about the use of the atomic bomb to end the war you cannot say that the results weren’t horrifying and tragic and its radioactive aftermath is still felt in Japan today.

In the US radioactive waste creates super heroes like the Hulk, Spider-man, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In Japan it creates Godzilla, a monster that is less a force of nature as these newer films describe him as but more the embodiment of dread, a vengeful God looking to bring about Armageddon to the sinful world. It played on very real fears about the hydrogen bomb and the escalation of weapons of mass destruction at the time and its message is still relevant.

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(The 1954 film is not meant to be “dumb” and/or “fun.”)

Now, I don’t have a problem too much with changing Godzilla into a super hero for this series. Afterall, the Showa era films it largely takes inspiration from depict Godzilla mostly in this light anyways but if you’re going to do that you can’t go slapping the face of the darker, more vindictive “Gojira” and its theme in the process and it does that in just one scene.

About half way through the movie, Godzilla is duking it out with King Ghidorah off the coast of Mexico when the US military gets involved by unleashing their brand new weapon: the Oxygen Destroyer. Those who have watched the 1954 original know this as the weapon that eventually kills Godzilla.

Those that understand the original will probably see why I find this scene unforgivable.

The use of the Oxygen Destroyer in the original 1954 film is not supposed to be a triumphant moment even when it kills Godzilla; it’s supposed to be a dark moment that gets to the core messaging of the film’s story. The Oxygen Destroyer represents the next level in mass destruction in the movie; a weapon more powerful and more terrifying than the atomic bomb that created Godzilla. Its creator Dr. Serizawa (who is NOTHING like the Serizawa in this series) is reluctant to use it because he understands what terrible power it carries and what it might do in the wrong hands. In the end he sacrifices himself and his research by purposely detonating the weapon along with himself to kill Godzilla.

The way this weapon is brought up and tossed out immediately in this story feels like a cheap fan servicey moment that winks at the audience going “hey remember the Oxygen Destroyer?” It is both shocking and frankly a tone deaf and fundamental misreading of what that weapon is supposed to represent in the larger Godzilla canon.

(What I felt like doing to the writers after this scene in the film...)

It might seem small to other fans but it really speaks to how America has misappropriated Godzilla each time they have gotten their creative hands on him to fit a comfortable narrative regarding weapons of mass destruction. Just watch the dubbed version of the 1954 film and you’ll understand what I’m getting at.

It’s extremely problematic, even it represents a tiny moment in the larger and again confusing plot of the movie and would’ve been better off left on the editing room table.

(Thank you for baring with my mini rant here if you read this far...)

It should be said that I don’t hate this movie, however, warts and all. The kaiju-sized action set pieces make the price of IMAX largely worth the money and I certainly enjoyed it more than the 2014 film at least. I feel “Kong: Skull Island” is a superior modern monster flick in almost every way but as far as cheap escapism goes you could do far worst “King of the Monsters” at least.

But the plot’s often baffling, confusing and problematic choices unfortunately keep the film’s best parts from being enough to rise above simply mediocre and that’s a real disappointment.

I’m still waiting for a truly satisfying high production value take on Godzilla but given the fundamental misreading of the big guy’s much more nuanced background by Hollywood perhaps I should stop looking to the West to figure it out.

Welp. At least there’s always “Shin Gojira”…

VERDICT:

3 out of 5

Hopefully Kong adds some much needed charisma to this franchise once he gets his big ape hands on Godzilla...

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wwwenpatikacom-blog · 4 years

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Word Universe Şampiyon Cevapları [413 - 492 Seviye]

Bu makalemizde sizlere Word Universe Şampiyon Cevapları hakkında tüm bilgileri sunduk. Aşağıdaki listelemede Word Universe oyununun Şampiyon Cevaplarına ulaşacaksınız. Takıldığınız yerde veya yanlış cevap olduğu yerde lütfen yorum atarak bizi bilgilendirin. Word Universe oyunu hala telefonlarınız da yoksa. Aşağıdaki linklerden hem iOS hem de Android için indirebilrisiniz. Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.librasoftworks.worduniverse iOS: https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/word-universe-kelime-oyunu/id1444727060?l=tr

Word Universe Şampiyon Cevapları

Şampiyon Seviye 413 Cevapları TURNUVA AVUNTU TURNA TURAN RAUNT UTAN RANT TURA AVUT TUR NUR AUT Şampiyon Seviye 414 Cevapları MÜŞTERI ÜRETIM MÜRŞIT ŞERIT TERIM REŞIT RÜŞT EŞIT ÜMIT MERT Şampiyon Seviye 415 Cevapları GÖREVLI GELIR GÖREV VERGI GREV VERI VELI GERI ERIL EVLI Şampiyon Seviye 416 Cevapları ISKARTA KIRAAT TASARI KASIT KATIR SARIK SATIR RASAT SAKAT SAKAR ARTIK SIRT Şampiyon Seviye 417 Cevapları OTOPARK TOPRAK ORTAK TOPAK TOKA POTA ORAK ORTA ROKA KARO PARK KORT Şampiyon Seviye 418 Cevapları BASAMAK KASABA BASMAK MAKAS SAMBA AKSAM KASA ASMA ASMAK Şampiyon Seviye 419 Cevapları IŞILDAK ALIŞIK ALKIŞ DALIŞ KIŞLA IŞIK AKIL AKIŞ ILIK AŞIK Şampiyon Seviye 420 Cevapları IHRACAT HARITA ICRAAT TACIR TARIH IHTAR RAHAT ICRA RICA ICAT CARI Şampiyon Seviye 421 Cevapları KONUŞMA KOŞMA KONUM OKUMA KUMAŞ KOMŞU KAMU KOMA UŞAK KONU KOŞU Şampiyon Seviye 422 Cevapları LOKANTA OLANAK KALAN KANAL KANTO KANAT OTLAK TAKLA NOKTA TALAN ANKA Şampiyon Seviye 423 Cevapları ANLATIM TANIMA MANALI MALTA ANLAM ALMAN TALAN TANIM ALTIN NAMLI MANTI Şampiyon Seviye 424 Cevapları ARKADAŞ KAŞAR DARA ADAŞ KARA ADAK ŞARK ŞAKA AŞK ARŞ Şampiyon Seviye 425 Cevapları GÖRENEK ÖNERGE ÖRNEK ERKEN ERGEN GEREK KENE RENK EGE KERE Şampiyon Seviye 426 Cevapları MALIYET MALIYE METAL MILAT TALIM YETIM YETI IMLA TEMA ELIT ELMA Şampiyon Seviye 427 Cevapları YETENEK TENEKE ETKEN KETEN TEKNE KENET KENT TEKE KENE ETEK Şampiyon Seviye 428 Cevapları VASIYET TAVSIYE VESAIT VITES YEIS SITE ASIT VASI AYET TAS YAT TAY Şampiyon Seviye 429 Cevapları MERKEZI MERKEZ EMZIK KEMER EZMEK IRKME ERMEK ZEKI MEZE KREM KRIZ EZME Şampiyon Seviye 430 Cevapları TOPLAMA TOPLAM PLATO TOPAL PALTO OPAL PALA MOLA POTA ATOM TOPLA Şampiyon Seviye 431 Cevapları ALIŞKIN ALIŞIK KALIN ANLIK NAKIŞ ŞANLI KIŞLA ALKIŞ KANI KINA ALIN IŞIK Şampiyon Seviye 432 Cevapları ANORMAL ONARMA NORMAL AROMA ROMAN ORMAN MORAL ALARM NORM ORAN ROMA Şampiyon Seviye 433 Cevapları BACANAK KABACA BACAK BAKAN BANKA ANCAK ACABA KANCA CAN Şampiyon Seviye 434 Cevapları BAKTERI IBARET BATERI TEBRIK KITABE TABIR KABIR IBARE IBRET BEKAR KIBAR BARET Şampiyon Seviye 435 Cevapları BALIKÇI BALÇIK BIÇAK ÇALIK BALIK KILIÇ BIÇKI ÇAKIL AÇLIK ÇAKI AÇIK ÇALI Şampiyon Seviye 436 Cevapları ILTIHAP ITHAL LAHIT IPTAL HITAP ILAHI HATIP TALIP TALIH HAP Şampiyon Seviye 437 Cevapları CINAYET NIYET TAYIN TANE ICAT NICE INCE YANI YENI NEY Şampiyon Seviye 438 Cevapları NITELIK ILETKI ETKILI TELKIN TILKI KILIT LIKIT TEKIL ETKIN KITLE ETNIK INEK Şampiyon Seviye 439 Cevapları GÜVENLI GELIN GÜVEN GÜVE VELI EVLI LIG GEL GÜN GÜL Şampiyon Seviye 440 Cevapları ÇAMAŞIR ÇARŞI ŞAMAR AŞIM AŞÇI MAŞA ARAÇ MAÇA MARŞ ÇIRA Şampiyon Seviye 441 Cevapları ÇATIŞMA TAŞIMA ATIŞMA ÇITA AÇMA ATAŞ ATIŞ TAŞ AÇI MAAŞ Şampiyon Seviye 442 Cevapları DAYANAK YANAK DAYAK ADANA YAKA ADAY KAYA AYNA YAK ANKA Şampiyon Seviye 443 Cevapları DENETIM MEDENI MEDET TEMIN DEMET NIMET ETMEN INME MIDE NEDIME Şampiyon Seviye 444 Cevapları ISIRMAK KISIM KISIR KISMA KIRIM SIRMA KASIM SARIK SIKMA MISRA MISIR SIRIK Şampiyon Seviye 445 Cevapları KEFARET EKARTE EFKAR REKAT EFEKT ETRAF RAKET TEKER KEFE TEFE Şampiyon Seviye 446 Cevapları ÇIKARMA KAÇIRMA ARAKÇI ÇIKAR ÇIRAK ÇAKIR ÇARIK MARKA KIRAÇ RAMAK RAKIM AÇIK Şampiyon Seviye 447 Cevapları ISLAHAT HASILAT HATALI HASILA HASTA HASAT ATLAS TAHIL HALAT SATIH ISLAH SAHA Şampiyon Seviye 448 Cevapları MUTABIK BATIK BAKIM TAKIM KATI KAMU KITA ATIK BATI TAKI ATIM Şampiyon Seviye 449 Cevapları IHTILAL TALIHLI TAHLIL HILAL ILAHI ITHAL IHLAL TALIH ILAH TALI Şampiyon Seviye 450 Cevapları LATINCE NICEL LATIN ALENI LANET TECIL ETIL CANI CILT CILA ACIL Şampiyon Seviye 451 Cevapları KUMANDA DAMAK MANDA ANMAK DUMAN ANMA ADAK AMAN MANA Şampiyon Seviye 452 Cevapları MAHARET MATRAH RAHMET HAREM MATAH HARAM RAHAT MART META REHA Şampiyon Seviye 453 Cevapları MANDIRA ARINMA DAMAR DRAMA DRAM ADIM DARA DARI ADAM ANDIRMA Şampiyon Seviye 454 Cevapları MANDOLIN ANONIM DINAMO LIMAN DOLMA LIMON IDMAN DONMA ILAN MODA DIMA Şampiyon Seviye 455 Cevapları KEFALET FELAKET EFEKT KEFAL TELEF TEKEL FELEK ETEK TEFE AFET TEKE KEFE Şampiyon Seviye 456 Cevapları DAVRANIŞ ŞADIRVAN DAVAR DANIŞ VARIŞ VARAN ŞINAV DAVA DARI DARA VANA ADAŞ Şampiyon Seviye 457 Cevapları DAVETLI VALIDE TEDAVI VADELI ILAVE EVLAT DAVET IDEAL VALI VALE VADI VIDA Şampiyon Seviye 458 Cevapları EFKARLI FARKLI EFKAR KEFAL KARLI FIKRA KALE KEL KIL FAL FARK Şampiyon Seviye 459 Cevapları EMEKTAR KERAMET KATMER MARKET MAKET KEMER TEKER TEKME MERET METRE EMARE MERAK Şampiyon Seviye 460 Cevapları FILINTA ITILAF INFIAL ITINA ITLAF FITIL LATIN ANTI NAIF FAIL FIIL Şampiyon Seviye 461 Cevapları SIPARIŞ SARP IRIS PARS ŞAIR PIŞI ŞIIR SAR ARP ARŞ Şampiyon Seviye 462 Cevapları SADAKAT SADAKA SAKAT TAKAS KASA ADAK TASA AKS KAS Şampiyon Seviye 463 Cevapları MALZEME MELEZ AMELE ELZEM MEAL MEZE EZME EZEL ELEM Şampiyon Seviye 464 Cevapları MANIKÜR IMKAN IKRAM INKAR KIRA AMIR MAKI IMAR IRAN KIM Şampiyon Seviye 465 Cevapları NAKARAT KANAAT KATRAN KANTAR ANKARA ARTAN KANAT TAKA TANK Şampiyon Seviye 466 Cevapları NASIHAT HASAT HASTA TAHIN SANAT SAHA HANI HAIN HAN ANT Şampiyon Seviye 467 Cevapları OKYANUS YOKSUN KOYUN YOSUN SUNAK UYAK OYUK OYUN KONU SOYA KAOS KOYU Şampiyon Seviye 468 Cevapları ÖKSÜRÜK KÖRÜK SÖKÜK KÜRSÜ KÜSKÜ SÜRÜ KÜRK SÜR ÖRS KÖR KÖK Şampiyon Seviye 469 Cevapları PADIŞAH AHŞAP HADI DAHI PAHA PAŞA ADAP ADAŞ ŞAH ADI DIP Şampiyon Seviye 470 Cevapları ŞIKAYET YETKI ŞAYET ŞIKE KAŞE ETKI ATEŞ EŞIT EŞIK EŞYA EKŞI Şampiyon Seviye 471 Cevapları RAPTIYE TERAPI PARTI PAYET PARE TEYP PIRE RIYA PERI PERT ETAP Şampiyon Seviye 472 Cevapları MISAFIR ISRAF MASIF FIRMA MIRAS SAFIR AMIR AMFI IRIS ISIM SIMA Şampiyon Seviye 473 Cevapları BULANTI BUNALTI BATIL ALTIN TABU TANI ALIN ATLI ATIL ALTI ANIT BATI Şampiyon Seviye 474 Cevapları DENKLEM DELMEK MELEK EKLEM ENLEM DENEK EMEL ELEK EKME DENK EMEK Şampiyon Seviye 475 Cevapları KEHANET KETEN TENHA ETKEN ANKET AHENK KENET KENT HANE TEK TEN HAK Şampiyon Seviye 476 Cevapları SALDIRI DARI SILA SARILI ASLI SARI SALI SIRA ASIL SAL ISI Şampiyon Seviye 477 Cevapları SANTRAL SANTRA ASTAR TALAN SANAL SANAT ATLAS ASLAN RASAT ANLAT TARLA Şampiyon Seviye 478 Cevapları SARIŞIN SANRI ARŞIN AŞIRI NASIR SINIR IŞIN ŞANS ASIR ŞIRA Şampiyon Seviye 479 Cevapları FASIKÜL IFLAS FAKS LÜKS SAFI SAKI KLAS AKSI ASIL KAFI ASLI Şampiyon Seviye 480 Cevapları BATARYA BAYTAR BATAR BAYAT ARABA TABYA YARA YABA TABA BAYA AYAR Şampiyon Seviye 481 Cevapları BORAZAN BARON BRONZ NAZAR RANZA ZORBA BOZA OZAN ORAN BARO BAZA BOZAN Şampiyon Seviye 482 Cevapları BILARDO BALDO DOLAR DOBRA LOBI LIRA ADLI BALO ADIL BOL IBRA Şampiyon Seviye 483 Cevapları TEHLIKE TEKIL TEKLI KITLE TEKEL EKLI ILKE LEKE ETIL ETKI ELTI Şampiyon Seviye 484 Cevapları KAYITLI TAKILI TIKALI YATILI AYLIK KAYIT YATIK YAKIT ALTI KIYI ILIK Şampiyon Seviye 485 Cevapları SEMAVER ESMER EMARE SEMER VEREM ESAME SERME EVRE REVA SERA MARS Şampiyon Seviye 486 Cevapları GENÇLIK GEÇKIN ÇILEK GELIN ÇELIK GINE ILÇE LINÇ ILKE KEÇI ÇILE ELÇI Şampiyon Seviye 487 Cevapları HAMARAT MATRAH MATARA TARAMA RAHAT MATAH ATAMA TAMAH HARAM ARAMA 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My favorite travel shoe: the magic of merino Allbirds

This is probably the most obviously and in-your-face sponsored post I’ve ever written, and I am unapologetic. Read on, dear ones, read on.

So I received my first pair of Allbirds merino wool shoes a few months after watching them creep in and pop up on my newsfeed amongst friends and influencers this past year. These simple wool shoes caught my eye mostly because everyone who wore them raved about them.

Personal recommendations go a long way with me.

Wool runners in Kotare Mint

I don’t think I’ve ever written a product review before in eight years of running this blog, so do tell me if I’m doing this wrong. Considering I’m sitting at around 1500 words as I publish this, I imagine I am. Oh well.

Also, I didn’t intend to write it this way. I was going to do a very length narrative piece about me wearing these lovely merino sneakers on a merino farm in New Zealand. Inception.

But I realized I loved these so much, and I absolutely put them through their paces in New Zealand and in Switzerland, and decided on my own that they deserved more attention than that, so here we are. It didn’t have anything to do with the fact that merino stations here in wintertime are covered in either snow or mud up to your knees, both of which are not ideal conditions for cute wooly sneakers.

Barring that, my conclusion is that Allbirds shoes are amazing, I’m obsessed and they are the best travel show. I dare you to read on, consume all my words, and not leave with the same conclusion.

The magical power of merino wool

It didn’t take long after moving to New Zealand to learn the magic of merino wool. After all, we are famous for our sheep here, with around 30 million wooly souls to only four million decidedly un-wooly humans, unless you’re in hipster Wellington where beards reign supreme.

Between spending a lot of time in the backcountry and on farms in often rather intense and unforgiving environments, you quickly learn the only true fabric to be worn on an adventure here is merino wool. Hands up if you are a fan.

But it ain’t cheap, and New Zealand wool is even pricier thanks to the strict rules here around the treatment of the merino sheep and thread quality of the wool that is used, which makes it some of the best in the world.

Why? Merinos are much tougher and hardier than you’re average fluffy white sheep, born and bred in the rugged high country of the Southern Alps in New Zealand, they live in super hot dry summers and freezing cold winters and their incredible fleece supports them in both climates.

Merino wool keeps you warm when it’s cold and keeps you cool when it’s hot, wicking away moisture and drying fast. Also, it doesn’t smell. I repeat, MERINO WOOL DOESN’T SMELL. In fact, I’ve even seen it advertised as 10 day underwear. NZ kills at marketing.

This also means you don’t have to wear socks with Allbirds shoes because they are, in fact, wool socks, and you can just chuck them in the washing machine if they get dirty. However, they aren’t really the best outdoor adventure shoe, not to replace running shoes or hiking shoes.

I wear them on my travels, in the city, and on mellow walks. I’ve found the bottom isn’t grippy enough for harder terrain and hikes.

Allbirds use only ZQ certified merino wool, that means the wool used in these sneakers come only from New Zealand farms that adhere to these exceptionally high standards for wool production and quality, and are committed to sustainability and ethical practice around the treatment of the sheep.

They’re like hugs for your feet

A friend of mine replied to one of my Instagram posts raving about Allbirds, describing them as hugs for your feet. And let me just say, a more accurate shoe description has never existed.

They are like walking on clouds. It’s like wearing slippers all the time. In fact, I’ve converted my grey loungers into slippers because that’s what they look like and they’re so damn comfortable.

And if you don’t believe me when I say they’re the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever owned, you can try them and if you don’t feel the same, you can return within 30 days. Boom.

Let’s take a moment to appreciate how FREAKING good my calves look here

Allbirds are a solidly decent company changing fashion

Last year I openly discussed my commitment to working on more sustainable travel and trying to work with brands that are deeply committed to sustainability too. Even just bringing it up in conversations and building momentum around the movement. And honestly, is there anything more wasteful than the fashion industry?

I won’t go into it here, but I am deeply disgusted by many Instagram “influencers” who never repeat an outfit and waste clothes like there’s no tomorrow. But I digress.

The point of my mini-rant is that at Allbirds shoes, they were constantly questioning whether there is a better way; there must be. But by looking at natural materials, like wool, and other things that exist right in front of us, instead of synthetics, they were able to build a successful business that is committed to using sustainably sourced, all natural materials.

Quick powerful facts:

Allbirds’ manufacturing process uses 60% less energy than materials used in typical synthetic shoes.

Each pair of shoelaces is made from one recycled plastic bottle

The packaging is made from 90% recycled cardboard

The shoebox uses 40% less materials than normal shoe packaging

They’re a certified B-Corp, meaning they meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency

World-famous in New Zealand

Ok, I get really excited when New Zealand has a major international success story.

After all we were the first country in the world to give women the right to vote, the first nation to put a man on Everest, and the first spot the split the atom. New Zealand is nothing if not kickass and innovative.

Should I even be surprised that Allbirds was started by a kiwi? Nope.

Ka pai, bro!

Simple and cute sneakers

As an American, I moved to Europe when I was 19. Wait, I have always been American, when I was 19 and now. You know what I mean. Why am I so confusing?

As an American in fashion forward Spain, where you do not leave the house without mascara EVER, I quickly learned that rule #1 was one does not wear sneakers in Europe. Like running sneakers. Trainers. Runners.

Those only belong inside the gym, not even to walk to the gym. Us Americans and our commitment to sporty footwear had no place in stylish Europe, and even now I can easily spot my brethren abroad when traveling solely by their soles.

I quickly accepted that I would have foot pain, and invested in all sorts of cute flats and wedges that would wear out after a few months of long commutes on cobblestones. When I lived in Córdoba for a year, I even developed a heel spur from my favorite beige Mango flats.

You’d think now that I am 30 and I travel for a living, and my long walks in Europe (and elsewhere) exploring require me to carry a heavy bag of camera equipment along with the 20 extra pounds I’ve gained since I was 19, I would begin to resign myself to wearing more comfortable shoes.

But guys! Allbirds has saved me! They are cute and comfortable. With their simple design and penchant for neutral colors (minus the bright Kea Red loungers I’ve been rocking) I can get away with wearing them while I work on my feet filming and not be crying on the inside in pain.

Natural, practical, simple. No flashy logos. No flair. Quality but unpretentious. I love it. it’s the Scandinavia of the shoe world.

Limited edition Kea Red wool loungers

Join the cult

Honestly, I haven’t met anyone who owns a pair of Allbirds and doesn’t rave about them. You’ll find yourself always discussing their attributes and forcing other people to buy a pair.

When I began wearing and talking about them online, literally every single message was positive and people constantly thanked me for pointing them out. They are gamechangers. I’m obsessed. Everyone’s obsessed.

Once you fall for Allbirds, you’ll start to notice when other people wear them, and if you’re like me, you make awkward eye contact and give a little chin nod, like yup, you get it too. While growingly popular, there are still many people hadn’t heard about them (yet) and you don’t see them all the time, lending them a lovely air of mystery.

It’s like you’re part of a secret club or something. Or cult. A sheep cult. Does it get any better than that?

Are you an Allbirds fan? Do you find yourself drawn to brands like theirs with a good story and care about sustainability in the things you buy? Have you discovered the wonderful magic of merino? Share!

Many thanks to Allbirds for all the shoes and love and turning me into a fanatic. Like always, I’m keeping it real. All opinions are my own, like you could expect less from me.

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