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From laying out why the Beetlejuice musical sucks to Wordgirl shipping analysis, your taste is impeccable and gives me power!
dsfsdf i have been keeping a running character tracking sheet of like. character rankings, personality traits, charm points, of every word girl character............ there are shifts. the balance changes. seymour smooth has climbed the rankings as the show goes on!! the whammer really charms on rewatches.
tobey and 2brains are still so intensely tied for first..!!! this has never happened to me before. i think tobey eeks out a lil ahead for me but honestly thats purely on him having slightly more eps that are just Him And Wordgirl ('doesnt play well with others' is a cute shota charm point) vs 2brains has more eps of him bouncing off other villains... (one day i will talk about wordgirl's yaoi factor. but that's not what we are here for.) but they have backstory..! they have such a weird casualness that tobey only earns from her in short snippets. at least its very fun to pit them against one another...!
after that u have the butcher (who has a very charming rapport with her. i love a big big guy, big guy w tender heart, big guy who gets really jealous of his time w a 10 yr old girl) chuck???? (VERY scary mobu otaku energy, love that the show realizes he is surprisingly dangerous when focused, keeps making food that looks like wg and eating it) mr big+leslie (package deal), then u get a gap and u start to get to like, lady redundant woman, Invisibill (YAY! WHOO! INVISIBILL!!!!), Seymour Smooth, Hal Hardbargain, Whammer, another large gap, another large gap, then Amazing Rope Guy. lol. frankly! its notable that the show makes all these pairings appealing and gives individual appeal to each chara, even when charas overlap in personality traits...... tobey and 2brains are both mad scientists and have a lot of the same flairs but they have such different approaches!!! tobey is so grandious, rlly trying to seem like a mature adult, lots of hands-folded-behind-back, adjusting his glasses in intimidating ways, vs 2brains who is a little more burned out, tends to need to 'work up' to the sillier theatrics of villainy, willing to break character more to lvl with wordgirl... this is a simplest example i could go on for nearly every character. this is what being a fujoshi must be
god. the bj musical slides out of my brain a little more every day thank the lord. one day i could be fully free from its grasp.....
i dont even go here but. im tormented, by visions. visions of keroro gunsou and their horrid, INSANE oji/teen girl ship. giroro and natsumi are destroying me...its proto-grimesasha, but WORSE. giroro is reduced to PUTTY at the mere THOUGHT of romance with natsumi. theres a 5 part compilation on niconico, each part is FUCKING 30 MINUTES LONG. i know its a gag series and were not supposed to connect w the chars that much but im going insane here....pls help
anon though i answer you days later. i want u to know that this led me down a small rabbit hole. what a cute froggy................ i love how he has such a funny serious voice. cursory google search leads to fanart w him as a handsome tall ikeman but w a frog head which is deeply upsetting. it is a cute setup. if an evil alien squadron wanted to take over my planet i would also take good care of them and give them errands to run if they were so small and cute, thereby melting their hearts
also never apologize for gag series passion...!!! remember who you are talking to. we uphold the 'oddly melancholic feelings for funny cartoons'
have you heard of "ernest &' celestine"? what are your thoughts on it!
What is your most ideal Sonic canon? Between shows, games, comics.... but also: if you could frankenstein together many Sonic medias to create the Ultimate Sonic experience, what would that look like? What characters would be in it?
ideal canon is absolutely still sa1+sa2 to be honest. there are highs in later games but theres a lot of fiddly details i rlly dont care for (annoyed at shadow’s weird alien backstory when “godless science experiement to mimic ancient prophetic hero after your project to recreate a God failed” is pretty good already!!!!). the adventure games are perfect sonic tone for me. sonic should tell its story like a nomura final fantasy game. i LOVE that shit. https://youtu.be/AfI9tyGatlk this? this right here????? THAT is sonic to me. u feel this in yr bones! you get chills with this!!!!
(also chao. chao. chao. chao)
god though to frankenstein the canon……… i have dark opinions. i have evil opinions. manic and sonia should be here. i want sleet and dingo. i want the eggman empire, inexplicably, next to station square. pumpkin hill needs to exist at the same time as SATAM’s sick 80s-ass future dystopia city… i love the visuals of a cute animal forest squad in the woods rising against an evil encroaching cyber-city like its a growing mold!!! like gummi bears crashed ghost in the shell LOL. it gives such broad possibities!! u can believe the space colony tragedies happened in the same world of solarea’s magic… idk. thats the peak of sonic visualization for me.
Name something you're into right now that you haven't really had a reason to mention?
lately i have been playing a 3rd person cute/funny shooter called ONIRISM!!! its a really ambitious and indulgent game where u play as a cute loli exploring a dream world to rescue her toy bunny!!! it is very tongue in cheek and conker’s bad fur day-y but remains very charming. u have to use your toy guns to shoot thru legions of sexy demon babes, forest babes, frog babes, etc, and dress up your loli in cute costumes.
i can tell i like it bc even on normal difficulty its beating my ass but i want to persevere. its really really fun and addictive!! i will warn it does have some eurojank but healthy amount of checkpoints, most issues ive encountered just require a reload and the devs are really on top of updating the game. rlly excited for multiplayer even if its far in the future
what kind of plants are you painting!
ive really fallen in love with syngoniums and pinguiculas!!! my favorites are milk confetti syngoniums, which have big arrow-shaped leaves that have a mint green tone, and are sprinkled w pops and stripes of bubblegum pink!! for pinguiculas i am especially fond of the cyclosecta variety, which have small round leaves that will turn indigo in bright sun. pinguiculas are also carnivorous, they have sticky leaves that are fond of things like gnats and will dissolve them for nutrients 🧛🏻♂️
in gen i also really love venus fly traps……… tall upright varieties, any color, so many varieties are so beautiful!! b-52s are the most ideal but i like a lot w strange teeth or stalk patterns like schuppenstiel, biohazard, or wacky traps (venus flytrap varieties are named like weed strains. dont know what to think about that.) though… the traps have to be functional! theres some really wild looking ones that cant eat that feel very. strangely cruel lol.
did you know: venus flytraps will only begin to digest their prey if they are moving! this is how they dont eat things like dead bugs or leaf litter. in case you get caught in a venus flytrap… don’t move! it’ll reopen in a little while.
2 Qs: what is the normiest band you like and if you had to swap one cartoon of your childhood with another just to see an alternate timeline font what would it be
R U PLAYIN GOTY sonic frontiers
what do you think of 🐹 and gr3tel from what youve seen..
I SHOULDVE ANSWERED THIS WHILE THE SEASON WAS STILL GOING……. SORRY ANON….!!! i really liked it a lot though, i am already a biiig PnF and milo murphy fan. it feels like H+G got its footing faster than milo murphy tho, and i really love the very. early family guy sense of humor lol, lots of indulgent nonsequiters and observational stuff. the characters are cute!! its a fun thing to watch.
to the meat. and i feel like this is the first time. they are letting themselves be overtly horny lol. like the mind controlled cheerleading squad, with a tickle fetish interlude. it feels so classic toon to me. it is also weirdly a sibcon delight, i like how they pretty quickly get out of the way kevin being resentful or jealous of gretel, and how it mostly focuses on him protective of her lol. the ep where she gets all jealous of their dog bc kevin is spending too much time on his lucrative pet meme page and not on spending time with Her, His Perfect Baby Sister, is really insane and also funny. if u are cruising for sibcon this is a fun one.
Your Majorposting is so so so good, he's so hot, I'm gonna go read Hellsing now, thank you
YOURE WELCOME!!!!!! i already knew he was a main villain before i read but god Damn did my expectations get blown out of the water. he hits so many favorite charm points that it feels laser targeted tbh……… i am lucky the official figs are mostly very funky looking bc otherwise i would be out a few hundred lol
Do you and Idle take turns qatching each other game?
we do!! idle tends to be very good at things like immersive sims, timing/logic puzzles and…. most hard games to be blunt. idle is intensely stubborn and will ram their head against a boss forever to learn optimal stratz or best dialog options in something. since they are good at timing puzzles idle is also the only one who will learn how to parry in a game LOL i only know in bloodborne bc u kinda need it to beat trolls and boars early on… idle meanwhile learns timing for bosses and regular enemies, and tended to do the more insane sekiro bosses. Fuck Da Centipede. Idle Crush Him. Make Him Humble.
i play a lot of action n rpgs meanwhile…. ive played thru the uncharted series for idle, and kingdom hearts, and half so far of nier:automata. we’ve had seperate files for some games but usually lately we will share a file especially since we tend to play really story heavy stuff right next to each other a lot LOL seperate files in vtmb wouldve been silly!! we wouldve made the exact same decisions anyway.
thinking on it…. we only had different files for two games for a while: animal crossing and dragon quest builders 2. and this is mostly bc we like seeing each other’s style and choices. which is very funny bc idle tends to make rlly lavish builds and mansions vs me who makes little farmer longhouses
Have you been drawing lately? If so, what have you been drawing?
what are your thoughts on Gargoyles, if you have any
admittedly, i have not watched every cartoon, but i have watched many, many cartoons, and have a particular fondness when i find a good action-adventure series, espesh one that takes itself so seriously. gargoyles is like, honestly, the best american cartoon ive seen, objectively. most things i like that i think might come close are still left in the dust by the insane control and narrative tightness greg weisman had on this fucking thing. gargoyles is a well oiled machine. beautifully animated, great characters, fantastic writing and pace, even if u want more u can live wholely satisfied on the two seasons. someone offstage whispers something chronicles of who? what the hell is that
why was hey arnold so ahead of its time in femcel stalker representation via helga pataki
an answer to your question re: retsupurae and ambition : "i'm a terrorist!" is just such a memorable line delivery. so memorable in fact that i feel i've forgotten nearly everything else about the series
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