in Blue Beetle, I love how Jaime Reyes went to Gotham University - there was a moment in the movie when after being chosen by the scarab he was like "this is fine, strange things (superpowers) happen to people all the time" - and I am sure that his time in Gotham prepared him for this bullshit. Khaji Da could have chosen any member of the Reyes family, let's be honest, because they're all pretty fucking cool. But it chose Jaime because he's got first hand experience of the absolute fuckery that is Gotham and so would be one to just roll with the situation. And he absolutely did.
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“Nana… How come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why…”
Nana - Ai Yazawa
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“What do you want from me? Money? I'd give you a pot of gold to leave me alone!”
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Johnny’s Money
Can we look at the money we see Johnny have in Sing 2?
One, his wallet is literally falling apart at the seams which supports my last theory. Two, the money in his wallet in the above picture is wrinkled to all get out, the money he places on the table is very much not.
That stood out to me in particular because we know the money on the table is $50, all in smaller bills by the looks of it, so it’s not money from a heist (especially with those being so long ago), and it’s more than likely not how he gets paid for his work at the theatre. No theatre as successful as the New Moon Theatre would be paying their employees in small bills, so why does he have so many in such good condition?
The money still in his wallet appears to be two small bills, a $20 and a $5(?) and are pretty wrinkled. They look like they might be change due to how fast they appear to have been shoved in the wallet and since Johnny just bought a skateboard, that’s what I’m going with. The money he probably used to buy that skateboard was more than likely his own from working at the theatre, and he probably withdrew it from his bank account before the trip to avoid losing his credit/debit card (the boy grew up in major cities and keeps his wallet in the inside pocket of his jacket, he’s all too aware of pickpockets).
Now on to the theory. The fact that all the clean, unwrinkled money is exactly $50 stood out to me. It seemed like an oddly specific amount to mention, so I looked it up. And it turns out that buses between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the real world base locations of Redshore and Calatonia, can range from $25 to $60. Johnny might have some money he’s found or been given by Rosita or Buster during the trip, but it definitely wouldn’t be $50 worth, and would likely look more like the crumpled bills still hastily shoved in his wallet. So who would have given him money, a fair bit of money to be honest here, in neat, clean bills?
Well it’s obvious, Marcus would. Johnny and his family don’t have a ton of money in Sing 2, more than in the first movie to be fair, but still nowhere near the “$50 being play money” mark. They would more than likely be overly careful with their money, keeping it in good condition so there’s no chance of it being rejected for being a damaged bill (yes, that can happen), so the neatness of the bills would make sense.
Therefore, my theory is: Marcus gave his son enough money to make sure he could get home if he needed to. He made sure Johnny had an out if need be, could afford a bus ticket even if it was a more expensive one. And judging by the family’s rough finances, that was probably all the spare money they had laying around. That was what they had left from costumers after bills had been payed and he gave it all to Johnny just in case he needed it.
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Another sim swap but with @plumiipixel!! We challenged each other to do a male sim (lets face it we don't make enough!) so who better than Chandler. Here is Nana's post!
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I suspected jyp’s new strategy will be trialed on a newer group rather than one of their cash cows, and it’ll crash and burn quickly. They may make more money overall as a company by saving on some of those labor/manufacturing/design costs, but they’ll for sure sell less albums and slump in all of the stupid chart records kpop is obsessed with. I’d rather see them get rid of the 10 million versions, reduce the photo cards that people collect obsessively, and get rid of the incentive to mass buy for things like fansigns, but why try to meaningfully fix a problem when you can do a fancier but way less effective approach instead 😒
But their loss if they do do it. I’ll just enjoy my Key albums instead, since I’m thrilled about the potential of the vhs and floppy disk and.am 100% willing to spend my money on them. He’s also one of the few I trust to properly embrace anything y2k related since he is old enough to have actually used floppy disks and vhs tapes before (plus I love everything he comes up with and am already impatiently awaiting more content).
i agree it's probably gonna be trial ran on their smaller groups like xdinary heroes or probably for the nmixx cb that's inevitably coming up soon. i'm not entirely sure how it's going to go though. i suspect they'll get a lot of praise for it from stans but it doesn't address any of the systemic roots of the problem in the first place, it just plasters over them with a cheap solution that's very easily monetizable and also extremely easy to gatekeep and restrict access too. kpop has found and normalized a way to keep physical albums alive in an increasing digital age and there are groups that put a lot of effort into their object design and making them worthwhile collectibles, so it's a shame that a company is forgoing it all together rather that actually providing an interesting product.
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