#they've prepared for this

[fazcinatingblog]

Imagine crossing off "Collingwood Norf sell out" on your 2023 bingo card

#norf???? in front of a full house???????? how will they COPE #norf will be fine #they've prepared for this #they've had several good fridays to prepare for this day #they've stocked the Marvel fridges with enough icecreams #and a few extra for jaidyn Stephenson #ordering enough jam donuts and meat pies #polishing up all the seats in the far back of the arena that rarely get used #it's our home game but it's norf's home stadium #norf might be so impressed with our ability to pull a crowd that they'll pick us for good Friday #we might finally get a reprieve from the easter Thursday slaughter game at the Gabba!!!!! #moving on up to Jesus nailed on a cross day!!!!!!! #The bible is violent

[xieliancore]

haikaveh doodles!

#haikaveh #kavetham #kaveh #alhaitham #genshin fanart #genshin impact #i just wanted to doodle them as a warm up...ended up spending the whole evening on these lsdkgklsdgf #i have to finish some stickers for a con #and prepare some shop orders sldkgjgd #why am i like this #they've been camping in my brain for months #my art

[zaacoy]

freenoodles request!! Tang smoochin his husband on the snout and Pigsy getting extremely flustered!! (I love these old gays so much they are my fathers actually) ((real)).

he caught him off guard

Here are your dads, thank you for your request!! Very cute concept to draw out thank you very very much :D !

Small bonus! heeheehoo :3c

#heehee them <3 #Threw a small hc into this!!: #Even if they do live together they very rarely get to the restaurant at the same time #Be it because Tang has to go to work somewhere else or because he refuses to wake up at 8 am with pigsy every day to open shop- either work #They've worked out a schedule/times that Tang comes in and Pigsy keeps a close eye on the clock every day waiting for him #He also probably prepares a spare bowl of noodles just for him a few minutes before he should get there #Got to make sure husband is safe!! and well fed!!!! #Also the hc that they both get kind of flustered by sudden unexpected affection from the other especially in public #They are very husbands your honor this is my testimony #lmk pigsy #lmk tang #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #freenoodleshipping #lmk freenoodles #It is 2 am and my brain is refusing to word smart sorry if any of these tags are worded weird auaghh #He was late in the first place because he was brainstorming ways to fluster his husband just for funnsies #snout kiss proved to be very effective!! #Zaacoy art💫

[sharoscylla]

MUTANT NINJA FLORIDA TURTLES

AKA, the tmnt iteration I came up with :3

They still have to live in NYC as they are hiding out from the forces of evil but they’re all Florida native turtle species and were mutated in Florida.

More art under the readmore:

Leo, a good boy with a poet’s heart:

Raph, a good boy who just wants to be a real person:

Donnie, a good boy and Daddy’s Little Toymaker:

Mikey, a good boy who Experiences The Horrors whether they’re happening or not:

Together they fight evil and are best friends and love their family so much!!!!

Splinter is trying his best but uh! He’s not really equipped for this!

#tmnt au #tmnt iteration #mutant ninja florida turtles au #florida boy turtles au #hamato leonardo #hamato michelangelo #hamato donatello #hamato raphael #hamato yoshi #splinter #did i create a tmnt au just to justify having clowncore donnie? yes lol #the goodest best boys who have never done anything wrong ever #they've spent their entire childhoods preparing for an alien doomsday cult apocalyptic scenario #they deserve to get a little silly with it #teenage mutant ninja turtles au #my art

[gilbirda]

what are your thoughts on watcher’s new announcement?

So.

I've been watching the Boys since they started back in 2016 (i think around that era), and honestly I'm very conflicted about the decision. I've read so much stuff in favor and against the announcement and I don't know if my answer will satisfy you.

I have managed a community and I have the blessing and curse of being somewhat of a Name, experiencing the ordeal of being Known, and I can tell you that 1)you can never please everyone 2)people will always rush to crush you the second you do something they don't agree with 3)people will always twist everything you do with the worst faith in mind and 4)fandom forget very quickly that at the end of the day you are just human.

I think they made a calculated risk based on a purely economical viewpoint. I think they considered their loyal fanbase and how willing people have been so far with spending extra cash to support them — The live shows, the exclusive streams (like the Valentine's Too Many Spirits) and Patreon. How much of their fanbase was the "broke students" tumblr claim they are and how much was people with spending money willing to pay extra for them.

I also think that the decision seem stupid if you look at it from the perspective of "why the hell would I pay $6 to watch such little variety of content?" and that's a Correct Assumption, but Observe — they have been very slowly pulling everyone that made Buzzfeed famous and enrolling them in. Very recently they gathered the Worth It boys, the second show that kind of carried Buzzfeed back in the day (apart from the Try Guys). I think they can't talk about it right now, but the goal is to relaunch Buzzfeed but without ads and without making it the soulless content machine it became. I think their dream and goal has always been making what Buzzfeed could have been with better management, kind of like "If I was the Management in this company, things would have been better" dream fulfillment. That's why they made the direct jump to a streaming service instead of the logical steps of Patreon-exclusive content or even jumping to Nebula like other youtubers. It was never meant to stay one single channel, it was supposed to be bigger.

Is the projection of making a "better Buzzfeed" worth risking this step? Time will tell. I don't know. I personally never cared about anyone except Buzzfeed Unsolved. I still watch Unsolved on repeat. Is my comfort show. Maybe they are overestimating how much people care about other shows not hosted by them.

Although they did hint that "we want shows not hosted by us". This tells me that they are settling down, they want to ramp down a little bit, do the hook with Ghost Files aka Unsolved Supernatural Lite for the streaming service, and once people are hooked, launch more shows by the old-school Buzzfeed people. Won't be as big as a show hosted by Shane and Ryan, but it will still make people feel like they are getting their money's worth.

I would forgive all of this if only they didn't use the excuse of "if we want to do Netflix-level productions we need money". I'm sorry but that means nothing to me. We loved them when it was a powerpoint slide show with 2 idiots in a set. We didn't fall in love with the toys or the trips or the high tech. We didn't fall in love with the fancy animations at the beginning of Ghost Files episodes that they are so proud of. That was all their idea.

I've seen this trend of content creators ramping up their creations to an unsustainable point, completely crash and burn and then having to apologize about having to step back. Then making it the moral trap of an argument that they have been doing their best to bring quality content to their audience, and of course making it impossible to argue against. If you speak up and say "well we never asked you to break your back" then you are ungrateful audience. That's exactly what's going on in here with the Watcher announcement — "true fans" criticizing people who point out the fact that they created this money problem on their own. Is not the fanbase responsibility to cater to a company's bad money decisions. Is not our fault that they decide to scale up their operation to a point they "haven't been making a profit for 2 years". It's unfair that the fans are at each other's throats for daring stepping back and saying "I don't want to be part of this".

I don't think Watcher Entertainment is actively wanting to collapse their fandom like this. I don't think this was a calculated move. But I do think that they are a group of adults trying to make a career of something they enjoy doing. I think they made this move with the perspective that fandom is not end all and they can always rebuild it.

— And that they are planning on making a machine that can work without them, and that requires breaking something in the fans, it requires kicking themselves out of the pedestal fans have put them on. They know they won't be allowed to have a normal life until people stop looking at them waiting for them to say their phrase.

In conclusion I think they made a choice that made sense if they are planning on separating Watcher Entertainment from "The Ghoul Boys" fame, and it makes sense if they are aiming at something bigger than what they've been doing now. Money of course is the goal and the reason presented, but there's a lot that they are not saying and we will not know until it happens.

Until then, it does feel like they have just shot their careers in the foot.

Also I'm salty that I can't join the service because I'm outside the US.

#gil answers #miki-meh #watcher entertainment #watcher #you don't have to agree with me this is just my 2 cents #so far they've done everything right and this feels out of nowhere and very dumb #it makes me think there's A LOT they are not saying #they are planning on something bigger and riskier and they need to know how many of their fans would blindly follow #i also think they will step back from hosting in like 1-2 years or so #all the contemporary youtubers are stepping back right now #havent you guys noticed? #always the same 2 excuses #'the stress is taking a toll on my mental health' and 'ive been doing this for 10 years i want to move on' #i think they are preparing for making that step and dont want to say it

[fromtheseventhhell]

"The Starks are going to hate Dany because her father killed their grandfather and uncle"

The Starks thinking about Rickard and Brandon:

#asoiaf #house stark #daenerys targaryen #if they were going to have a conflict based on that then they would actually think about them in their POVs😭 #sorry but not even Ned hates the Targs over what happened so it makes no sense that his kids would hold a bigger grudge #an actual potential conflict is Dany being (rightfully) angry at Ned for his alliance with Robert #you know something that's actually been built up in the story and we see how she feels on the topic #vs. /let's assume the Starks will be angry cause I would be angry in their position even though they've literally never thought about it/ #normalize making predictions based on the actual books and not just assumptions based on vibes uwu #cleaning out my drafts prepare to be terrorized

[hood-ex]

My dad was Bruce-ing again today.

Dad: Where are your keys? I'm gonna go put more air in your tire.

Me: I already filled it up this week.

Dad: Oh okay.

Dad goes upstairs for a second and comes back with a bag in his hand.

Dad: Here, take this poncho and put it in your glove compartment. In case you have to pull over in the rain, put it on so other cars can see you.

So then I took my new bright ass orange poncho to my car, bypassing the three water bottles my dad had stuffed in the door pocket as well as the emergency phone battery pack charger he stuffed in another pocket.

#i also have an air compressor in my car. toilet paper. jumper cables. portable jumper cables/battery charger. tool box. #and then my own contribution includes a first aid/emergency kit #honestly surprised he didn't get me a jack to put in there but then again idk how to change my tires so alkdja #no but this man is literally bruce in the ''always be prepared'' type of way. #he literally has a closet dedicated to extra food and toilet paper and soap and tons of other things #we call it his store. ''hey we're out of dishwasher detergent. oh i'll go look for some in dad's store.'' #he also has flashlights Everywhere. i probably have 2-3 in my room bc he's just randomly like ''em take this flashlight.'' #he literally gave me another one like a week ago or something. and y'know what they've actually been handy as fuck when the power goes out #he's also given me a penlight for my purse but i think i need a new one #just whew.

[darkfire359]

Edward Teach and the Myth of the Perfect Victim

After writing my previous post, I realized that a bunch of the stuff I said applies to Ed too.

In particular, I saw a lot of takes (before many of the S2 spoilers started coming out) that said things like "Ed is not going to be uncontrollably angry and violent in the way some fans have theorized about" or "the theory that Ed will go off the rails and Izzy will be terrified of him is racist." I saw other takes that insisted on things like "Ed knows his limits (for drinking) and can handle the consequences of his actions." Basically, a lot of other Ed fans seemed to insist that S2 Ed would be behaving fairly reasonably, without being crazily violent and unhinged and self-destructive.

And I was kind of worried about these Ed fans. Because to me, it seemed like we totally were going to get a very off-the-rails Ed in S2... which, given the clip today and the reviews that got released, seems extremely likely. And if some of these people were insisting that portrayals of Ed like that were awful and unsupportable by them...

Well, the reality is that sometimes, your fav turns out to be the bad guy, at least situationally. And this is okay! Characters don't need to be morally pure for you to love them. They can have messy trauma responses and unhealthy habits, and they can just overall set a bad example for everyone. You can like them without endorsing their actions.

Ed is still traumatized by his childhood and crumbling under the expectations of people around him. He's still heartbroken, devastated, and low-key (or maybe high-key) suicidal. We'll probably still see him cry, and we'll certainly still see him feeling like an unlovable monster.

He still deserves sympathy for all that. Ed is clearly going to end up hurting Izzy and probably many other members of his crew, and that suffering is real and painful—but so is Ed's. You don't have to excuse Ed's actions to acknowledge that and feel for him. As someone who has previously celebrated Ed's moral grayness, I say that Edward Teach still deserves a hug!

#edward teach #ofmd #our flag means death #tbf I also once made a big comparison post between Edward Teach and my other fav Hannibal Lector #so maybe it's just really easy for me to forgive characters who commit atrocities if they're sad and cute about it #I also want to vehemently state how much Izzy also deserves a hug #I feel like being an Izzy fan during s1 has given me so much preparation for being an Ed fan during s2 #they've both my favorites #even if they just keep hurting each other #ofmd season 2 #ofmd spoilers

[earl-grey-crow]

it’s me, hi, I’m the white witch, it’s me

#this was such a good episode I'm basically head empty no thoughts #can you imagine what jacob went through?? like...who's getting the award for most traumatized #the way home hallmark #that moment between nick and alice in 2007 was...interesting #their whole dynamic is interesting because it's so messed up! it's not romanticized or whatever it's just messed up and it messes them up! #I can't believe this is a hallmark series not just because they're including something messed up like that but also because they've made a #a series that lowkey makes me want to lie on the floor #also nick found the notes HE FOUND THE NOTES OH MY WORD #they really went there! I was wondering if they were going to do anything with him being back and that's where they went! #I never would've thought they'd do that #the way kat and elliot were prepared to just drop everything and go to london #and the way kat is always falling into water and bleeding out #I feel like there has to be more to what happened at that party? because what happened doesn't really feel proportional to the big deal the #made out of it? idk #anyway yeah I think that was one of the best episodes of the season #earl crow ramblings

[idlesuperstar]

- He’s the same man I knew before in Ireland, but lately...I’m...changed...by him.

#jack o'connell #dónal finn #sas rogue heroes #jesus fucking christ I was not prepared for this #I don't need another doomed poetic gay ww2 ship thanks everso #you know how much this got me #I"ve not even finished the series I just had to gif these two #because AUGH #I love paddy way more than I should considering he's such a mentaller #cue me googling jack o'connell to see if it's creepy for me to fancy him #and he was born in 1990 so yeah it is a bit sigh #anyway this is fucking tremendous and I didn't know alfie allen could act so well #and obvs anything ben macintyre is good for me #and they've done a fucking amazing job #and all the ac/dc really works I don't care what anyone says #I just need to have a moment with sad poetic paddy at eion's grave ok #my wee gifs

[chayannesegg]

i want to defend blue team's strat bc i feel like people are (validly) annoyed by how hard to counter it was (i really think tubbo would have claimed them even if etoiles and roier hadn't glitched bc he was so well positioned [tho we'll never know weep 😭]) but if you're annoyed, congrats! that's how blue team's felt the past 2 days lol while ~technically~ they could counter by defending spawn like etoiles and roier tried to they a) don't have that many players online at that time naturally (etoiles and tubbo having to be on a 4-5am is not healthy even if possible) and b) it's VERY easy—even without doing tubbo's log strat—to have one person run in spawn and claim them all in <2 secs in the last 10 minutes and have the countdown make it impossible to counterclaim. like REALLY easy. and if they've already claimed the contracts, there is literally nothing they can do but watch the other team win which is VERY frustrating. so it's purposefully irritating/dirty strategy that protests the late login being so op. i'm pretty sure tubbo complained on day 2 that the game rewards waiting until the last 15 minutes to claim rewards unless they balanced it better. blue then lost to the same balancing issue two days in a row. and only tomorrow, on day 5 is it getting fixed. that's the slowest any balancing issue has been implemented so far!! (the % changes daily to fit the gameplay, they gave more detail on the points breakdown the day after blue asked, they added the spawn safe zone today WHILE bad was spawnkilling) blue team simply took the late login strat to its logical extreme, and i think that it really highlights why the game is changing to avoid this outcome!! but blue suffered for like 3 days from this unfairness so i, personally, think it's well-deserved for them to use it to their advantage on the last day it's possible!!

#qsmp #qsmp purgatory #qsmp soulfire #unfortunately i don't think green or red realized how annoying this was because blue's been the only team to really have to deal with it #like red doesn't realize how op the strat is bc they've never had to counter it #and it's just the logical thing for them to do given how they log on #you KNOW they haven't hardcore calculated the game mechanics like blue has lmao #and we watched etoiles on stream realize he couldn't claim his own rewards again (and make it harder for blue to claim) #and due to the glitch they didn't get to see how fast and easy it would be to claim contracts #also and this is an aside i literally don't think anyone on blue saw that the contract rewards is changing tomorrow lmao #tho guys are still mentally preparing to slog thru to the end i'm sure of it

[trans-cuchulainn]

with memrise winding down their community courses and becoming less viable to use for custom vocab lists, does anyone have any recs for vocab learning/practice apps that allow you to input your own vocab (not just learning from pre-existing lists)?

in particular, an app that will let me input lists from csv files/spreadsheets since that's what i'm extracting my custom memrise lists into

ideally with a low level of gamification -- streaks, points etc. not so much that it overwhelms the language learning side (cf. duolingo), just enough to motivate me to use it consistently

ability to save lists to offline to practise without an internet connection a bonus but not 100% essential. minimal ads/cheap ad-free paid tier preferred.

#langblr #languages #vocab #also don't panic they haven't ended community courses yet #but they've talked about doing so within a matter of months #so i'm trying to prepare so as not to be caught out when the time comes #annoying bc i've been using them since like. 2011

[bereft-of-frogs]

It has been *erases chalk number* 0 days since I faced peer pressure to watch the clone wars (2008)

#coworker doesn't realize they've added ANOTHER YEAR TO THE WON'T WATCH OUT OF SPITE CLOCK #they're also getting even narrower on the 'you just have to get through X' stance #like it used to just be 'just get through the first season' #now they're like 'well it's seasons 5 & 7 that's the real good stuff' #how bout I just don't have to watch it #i'm sorry if anyone was hoping i would but my interest WANES WITH EACH PASSING YEAR #AND CONVERSATION WITH SOMEONE WHO'S LIKE 'OH IT'S REQUIRED VIEWING' IDK I'M DOING FINE WITHOUT IT #sorry for yelling i didn't mean to yell #no i mean i'm happy for everyone who likes it but it's also FINE to primarily like the films/books/games/comics #like whatever corner you're into that's great #that's the point of this fandom there are a bunch of things you get to just be into YOUR thing if you want #but i s2g i have faced more pressure to watch tcw than to do drugs #DARE should have prepared me for this and not idk whatever we did in DARE #i've got my 'it's just the animation style trips an uncanny valley feeling for me sorry can't do the CGI' speech memorized #idk if this counts as star wars discourse #but will tag #ban violation #just for organizational purposes

[daily-whistlepaw]

You must be so freaking pumped rn. The writers are considering making Whistlepaw a POV!!!

I am away from Tumblr for ONE NIGHT, one night where I'm going to a play with some friends and they post it THEN.

My god this is terrible for my heart, they are going to kill me eventually with this. Yes I Am Hyped.

Also, @vulturequills' drawing of my design of Whis is in this article. They Know About Me Lol.

#asks #Also sorry for no Whis I forgot to prepare it and the night got me busy tank #The next few days might also get a bit wild because I've got a big drawing I want to draw and I'm going to begin on that thing soon #And trust me I will be focussing on that. Sorry but the Whisses might just be on the sketch because I'm doing that drawing #The amount of Whis art that is literally just Frostwhistle unless it's a daily Whis is also Really Funny to me #They've also kot taken a single daily Whis despite there being MANY to choose from #I've got Whis with family. Mentors. Other cats. Doing silly things #But They don't want to Openly Aknowledge my existence or something I Don't Know #They are driving me mad tho. I literally just sent a wall of text to a friend about this. She is also into warrior cats #But only the Dutch translations so she's still stuck in Avos (hasn't even read those yet) so I can't give her the Full Infordump #But I did have to tell her that the writers of those books we both read Know I Exist #I do have to admit I hope they're A Bit Intimidated by those three years (and going!) of Whis #This post does give me a fucking MASSIVE boost to not give up #I was maybe going to finish at Ivypool's heart BUT NOW I'M KEEPING ON GOING UNTIL THAT SE SHOWS UP

[h0estar]

dawg, one thing abt me is that i've always been an advocate for yukine and yato's happiness.... so i'm just curious.... WHEN EXACTLY WILL ADATCHITOKA PAY FOR THEIR CRIMES AGAINST THIS KID AND HIS SILLY SELF-PROCLAIMED DAD 😭 LET MY BOYS REST MAN DAMN

#NO BC THIS ABSOLUTELY WRECKED ME #YUKINE HOLDING ONTO YATO AFYER HE SAW HIM FADING AWAY I CANT DO THIS #BRO HAS JUST BEEN THROUGH IT AND NOW HE'S GONNA LOSE BOTH YATO AND HIYORI AT THE SAME TIME ATCYALLY GONNS #naw i gave up on the direction of this manga ever since father decided to create his lil nation #i ABSOLUTELY DISLIKE THE DIRECTION THEY WENT FOR #and SEKKI SHOULD'VE FINISHED OFF FATHER NOT HAKKI I SAID WHAT I SAID #but anw LET MY BOY REST FR HE'S BEEN THROUGH SM SHIT ADATCHITOKA U CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY W THIS #i'm actually sobbing this part hurt me sm 😭 #noragami #yato #yukine #noragami spoilers #i still love noragami despite the writing. i've just been way too emotionally invested in the story and characters for years #save my boys bro #they've had enough fr #no bc wHAT HAPPENED TO YATO 😭 #ion even wana think abt it bro. i see nothing but tragedy and absolute pain in the next & last chapter #adatchitoka is so gracious giving us a whole month to prepare for what's to come 🥰 #man i hope yato is okay 😭 i doubt it tho 😭😭😭😭😭 #mine

[goldencorecrunches]

the most important thing to know about zhou zishu and jing beiyuan is that they saw each other when they were 15 and were like "lmfao that's one depressed bastard" and they've been best friends ever since

#also that they've fucked #i don't need to die on this hill because they both have already. but i Would. im Prepared To #word of honor #qi ye #jing beiyuan #zhou zishu #not mdzs #really it's hard to wrap my head around coming from woh and then the faraway wanderers novel first #and then jby's narration in qi ye but #zzs being a depressed bastard was. not common knowledge. im. almost certain. right #we know jby was hiding it #but zzs is consistently described as unreadable. or as charming.... #we know he has his third rate nobleman persona..... #/WE/ know his backstory and his mess but..... #anyway. love them 💜💙❤️ #do murder together besties. don't let the prince run you ragged.