Okay, Okay, Okay. Let Me Say Something About This New Marvel Show:

Awwww, Krei could have been the perfect father-figure for Hiro. :((((

from then:

to now:

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Prince Dynamis I (of Barranquilla)

Age/Role/Nicknames:

27 years old

Crowned Prince of Southern Kingdom

Dy (by everyone)

Love/ Beloved/ Treasure (by Aguma)

Scrumptious (by Valentina)

Personality:

Calm, cool, compassionate, resourceful

Seen as the ‘voice of reason’

Tends to follow what his brain says rather than his heart

Despite being the most mature, he tends to enjoy playing with the kids more

Relationships:

Queen Valentina: mother

Prince Rodrigo (former): disowned father

Isabella: godmother/nanny

Tithi: younger brother

Chris, Masamune, & Bao: childhood friend

Aguma: childhood friend/longtime boyfriend/ fiancé

The Four Horsemen: mentor

Other WBBA Agents: allies

Beylin Temple: enemies

Abilities:

Great at using fighting staffs

Precognition, mind reading, levitating

Fluent in Japanese, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Mandarin

Miscellaneous:

Dyed his hair white at a young age and kept redying it

Is non-binary and uses he/they pronouns

Pansexual

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Honestly people who complain about kids being made to grow up too fast AND complain about Jojo Siwa are dumb. You don’t have to like her content, but how much she encourages kids to dress and act like kids and how she’s made it cool for young girls to be colourful and childish and enjoy being a kid again cannot go understated.

In an online world where youngs girls are being sexualised and dressing like/being treated like grown women at age 13 and 14, a star encouraging young girls to still love glitter and colourful sweaters and hair bows and dress like Claire’s Accessories threw up over them as long as they want should not be scorned or criticised. You have to pick your battles here, and when you look at what role models young girls online have these days, Jojo is definitely one of the better ones.

Modern Stranger Things Girls

Headcannons including style and room decor only on the older sibling characters and younger, and only characters who has appeared in at least 2 seasons. (So not including Eden, Chrissy, Vickie, or Heather)

Nancy

Style is a mix between light academia and extremely girly

Over blushes purposefully, adds it to the tip of her nose

Big fan of Taylor Swift, Conan Gray, and Olivia Rodrigo, cries to “People Watching” but she doesn’t know how to explain why

Part of yearbook and the journalism at her school, talked the school into adding the paper as a section of their website

Paints her own nails, makes sure she does it every Sunday and then matches all her outfits to it through out the week

Has American Girl dolls from her childhood still in her closet for “safe keeping”

Plant mom, actually can keep them alive

Bedroom is full of real and fake plants, asks Mike to water them if she’s away, never tells him that half are fake so she can laugh about him watering all of them

A lot of neutral/green toned decor but she still has baby pink walls from when she was a kid, everyone says it suits her

Participates in spirit weeks, probably joined SGA just to help pick themes

Avid skirt wearer

Bullet journals and keeps a diary (tells people just journals with no further explanation)

Volunteers at the local animal shelter on the weekends

Taught El how to do her hair and makeup (often steals El from her brother and his friends if Max isn’t there)

Has modern Curtain bangs, never adds enough volume to them

Camp counselor every summer

love dainty jewelry, says she only wears it, but she wears a friendship bracelet El made her at camp until it literally falls apart (El said it was a thank you for making her feel normal when the kids didn’t, Nancy hid in the bathroom and cried a little over it)

Claw clip enthusiast

Robin

dresses like an artsy lesbian stereotype and then asks Steve if he thinks girls will know she likes girls

leather jacket girl

works at Best Buy, is really nosy when ringing up customers

Dustin came into the store to buy animal crossing so he could visit Suzie’s island, she immediately texted Steve about it and they teased him together (he has no regrets and has a really cute island)

Acts like a music snob but doesn’t actually have a music taste (Steve refuses to give her the aux and then they argue because Steve is a Yung Gravy and TMG fan)

collects crystals, doesn’t actually believe they have abilities she just likes the way they look on her shelves

mainly wears neutrals, but she has has a full collection of colorful button ups that she buys from mens sections

Wears almost exclusively converse and boots

hair tie around her wrist 99% of the time

Only wears eyeliner, mascara, and concealer (highlight and lipgloss come out if she feels like she needs to look nicer)

dyes the underside of her hair fun colors (Max helps, it’s a bonding experience)

Lets Nancy paint her nails

Collects patterned socks (prefers crew socks)

buzzfeed unsolved/the watcher Stan (loves the professor, watches puppet history when she can’t sleep)

room is really messy but in a way that it almost looks creative

wall is absolutely covered with posters, pictures, drawings, and letters

Had white bedding, bought darker bedding because she’s prone to spills

Max

has 2 styles, half surfer and half skater (learned how to surf as a kid, misses it)

thinks skirts are only for special occasions

believes in the healing abilities of crystals, goes shopping for them with Robin and keeps an amethyst stone on her at all times

bought Lucas a rose quarts necklace once and a matching one for herself (after an actually messy breakup, she noticed he took it off and cried about it)

Big scrunchie fan because normal hair ties pull her hair and she hates the feeling of clips

has a clear phone case, keeps a picture of her and Lucas and a sticky note with a drawing from El in the back

has a locked folder in her notes app that is secretly a journal, won’t tell anyone

draws all over her vans and converse, protects her airforces with her life

big fan of hats

became closer with Mike because her other friends won’t watch scary movies with her (Lucas will if asked nicely, mocks the movie the whole time. Dustin and El would really rather not because Max likes to scare them during the movie and Will doesn’t want to admit they still give him nightmares)

actually remembers to put sunscreen on every day (she’ll regret it if she doesn’t)

Still puts beads on her converse laces like people did in 2019

Once near her birthday she mentioned wanting to buy a pair of customized Jeans and then Will gifted her a pair (he spent 3 days on them)

Got close with Robin when she started highschool because they had the same lunch and looked obviously lost, hangs out with the band kids despite having no musical skill

Genuinely likes punk pop (and normal pop but she only admits that to El, who exclusively listens to bedroom pop)

never turns her overhead light on, relies on the windows and lamps in her room

Still sleeps with a stuffed animal because she can’t sleep alone after getting wrapped up in the upside down drama

El

dresses in super colorful clothes, is on the edge of dressing kid core but she leans a little too pastel for it

obsessed with her hair once it’s long enough to play with, collects hair accessories so she can try different styles

also collects squishmellows (gave max the stuffed animal she sleeps with, it’s a squishmellow, go figure)

watches makeup tutorials when she can’t sleep and tries to recreate them (Nancy bought her her first makeup items and she got her colorful eyeshadow pallets that El is dying to use)

indie girl type of bedroom, probably has a loft bed

big fan of platform shoes because they make her closer to Mike’s height while being easier to walk in than heels

big fan of dresses and skirts, extremely girly style (once she finds her own, with the help of Max) so that she can take back not feeling pretty as a child

has a Jean jacket that she begged will to paint after seeing Max’s jeans(and he did, it now has flowers on it)

Big fan of accessories in general but especially the chunkier, colorful type (like the y2k style rings and beaded necklaces)

once got Max to add a streak of purple to her hair while Max was dying robin’s (it was to feel like a part of the group but she actually loved it)

hates the feeling of both nail polish and fake nails so her nails are always bare

has pictures with her friends hanging on Fairy lights over her headboard

got a pair of AirPods as a gift from Mike once, bought a case for them to “make them cuter” because she thought they looked boring

exclusive listens to bedroom and indie pop

sleeps with a night light (and possibly the door open) because she hates when it’s fully dark around her

has a friendship bracelet from Nancy that she got on her last day of summer camp, wears it everyday (it matches Nancy’s)

has a set of those rings that connect from Max, Max wears the one with the cut out, El has the dainty one (it’s a butterfly)

Suzie

Still dresses pretty modest to make her parents happy but she a little pickier about it

big fan of graphic tees but has to be really careful about the graphic on them

plays animal crossing (talked Dustin into also playing) and has strong opinions about the villagers

secretly has social media, deletes them weekly when her parents ask to see her phone (feels guilty about it)

puts way too much effort into PowerPoints and essays, spends days on them

prefers winter because she’s really good at layering (and her clothes look a lot cuter and less “my mom only lets me wear swim dresses because other one pieces show too much”)

Has built her entire future with Dustin in the Sims 4 (probably more than once)

probably has those heart shaped prescription glasses to be quirky but they actually fit her style really well

something tells me she’d be a really big fan of 90s and early 2000s country (especially the love songs) but hates new country

scrapbooks as well as journaling to have something to do with her hands

max added her to a group chat with her and Eleven on Snapchat but she just lurks there because they make her nervous

collects physical media (her bookshelf has a whole shelf that’s just DVDs)

Not allowed to watch horror movies until she’s 18

After Dustin, she’s closest to Will in the party, she thinks he’s the nicest of Dustin’s friends

Has a picture she took on the last day of camp with Dustin as her Lock Screen, her parents grew to accept it

Avid Etsy user (and she covers everything with nerdy stickers, including her bedroom furniture)

big fan of headbands

Erica

loves getting color added to her braids (especially pink) and often adds beads

First makeup her mom let her wear (when starting Middle school) was highlight, mascara, and lip gloss

really pastel and girly but prefers pants to skirts

loves quirky earrings, refuses to admit some of them are nerdy (despite Lucas telling her her rubix cube earrings are super nerdy)

little mix, Ari, and Nicki fan

wears jewelry that probably counts as kandi (and makes it herself) but isn’t part of the alt kandi community

fanfiction and fanart creator

Definitely still watches MLP, ships at least 2 of the big ships

part of her middle school art club but also the SGA (doesn’t participate in spirt weeks)

took a semester of chorus once, discovered she has minor stage fright

Pastel bedroom (walls are probably like lilac) with more throw pillows than a middle schooler actually needs

sleeps through scary movies but also history class (honestly could probably sleep through anything)

big fan of crochet clothing

big Marvel fan, won’t watch DC movies (says it’s cheating on Marvel but she actually just doesn’t wanna learn anything about DC)

Steals hoodies out of Lucas’s closet when he’s not home so they don’t fight about it

scrolls through pintrest and Instagram hair posts, is getting really good at doing her own hair despite being in the 6th grade

had a rainbow loom phase, gave a few to El and Max after the star court incident as a thank you (though if you ask her she just didn’t like them, despite spending hours on them)

Pokemon Patches made by Adorablush

I know we're all talking about "Napkins" and we should, it's an incredible episode and Ayo knocked it out of the park but please, PLEASE, can we give "Ice Chips" its due respect? And not just because the acting is incredible. It's so tightly scripted. "Nothing" happens, it's just a mother and a daughter talking in the delivery room and it's EVERYTHING to me. It made me sob so hard. When Nat says "I don't want to be you", a knife goes through my heart. It's such an incredible episode and definitely in the top 5 episodes of the entire show and I will die on this hill.

Tenkai Knights | Thursday, 08.24.2023

Happy 10th anniversary to Tenkai Knights, a Canadian-Japanese anime series produced by Studio Bones (also known for producing anime like My Hero Academia and Soul Eater), while starring an English voice cast (down below):

Johnny Yong Bosch - Guren Nash/Bravenwolf

Todd Haberkorn - Ceylan Jones/Tributon

Ben Diskin - Toxsa Dalton/Valorn

Bryce Papenbrook - Chooki Mason/Lydendor

Yuri Lowenthal - Gen/Dromus

Nika Futterman - Beni/Venetta

Kyle Hebert - Commander Beag

Gus and Death?

         This whole episode just REALLY dug (like it was making a grave) into Gus’ concerning motifs and repeated associations with Death, what with him showing a lot of respectful and kind reverence to the graves of the deceased, protecting and maintaining their memories, and being able to conjure up QUITE the nightmare for Bria!

         Obviously this could be concerning, but with how Gus constantly makes references to dying in the context of trying to accomplish something, and again his respect towards the dead and their sacred graves… Did this kid have someone important to him who died? And that’s why Death is on his mind so much- Because this loss really messed with him, and it’s something Gus has been struggling with for a long time? Trying to cope and make sense of it, especially at such a young age…

          Maybe trying to sort of accept and embrace it, in an almost attempted martyrdom sense? Perhaps Gus’ mother died, maybe trying to accomplish something- Again, explaining why Gus makes such a big deal about how he’ll get something done, even if someone has to die! It’s his way of venerating her sacrifice, trying to find some inspiration and meaning from the messed-up event, something to guide himself with and make sense of it all…

         Did Mrs. Porter die doing research as a reporter? And that’s why Gus takes the interview in Understanding Willow so seriously… It’s not just because he admires his father Perry, so naturally he treats reporting with a special reverence; But the fact that it was something his mother died over… It only feels right and proper to pay his respects by continuing in her footsteps, carrying out that same intensity in order to honor and pay Mrs. Porter tribute!

         I dunno man, I’m just getting Gus Porter feels. I dunno about you, but the constant allusions and references to Death seem suspiciously frequent and exclusive to him… And this entire episode being about Gus respecting the dead and acting on their behalf, even pretending to be vengeful ghosts from the grave- It sure makes you think, huh?