AKnotKnows

Athlete of the Extreme Sport of doing assignments right before its due, Expert procrastinator, part-time hobby collector, and amatuer adult.

[aknotknows]

Less serious post about Ever After High:

Can we talk about how fine the Cheshire Cat and the Big Bad Wolf are?

What a baddie I almost ignored everything she did in Spring Unsprung. It was those kids' fault for trusting THE Cheshire cat anyway.

I am absolutely hearing out Cerise's mom on this one (sorry couldn't find a better image).

[aknotknows]

Rewatched Ever After High!

Thoughts:

I WILL continue to defend Apple White. Note, I don't like her and I do find her annoying. But, come on, everyone in the world was manipulated to believe they HAD TO follow their destiny. The writers just couldn't decide if she was actually friends with Raven or not though. Also didn't have time or the courage to explore the fact that Apple is clearly a lesbian with comphet.

Raven X Apple makes more sense story-wise. I still think it is a little weird though. Yes, I know they're not related, but it's still a little bit messy for them to be together. And for Apple to want Raven to be her evil step-mom.

Apple X Darling are growing on me as a potential pairing, I just hate they didn't get any significant interactions before or even AFTER the "kiss" (kiss in quotes because Darling was trying to save Apple with mouth-to-mouth, but the destiny magic or whatever still counted it)

Raven X Dexter is actually a pretty cute ship, fight me

Ashlynn X Hunter could have been a good ship, especially since their relationship ties into the whole "fighting destiny" theme. They ended being way more bland than I remembered.

I would have killed to see more of Lizzie X Daring even if platonically because their dynamic is hilarious

The show should have explored the dynamics of the three Charming siblings more. Both Dexter and Darling's destinies are never fully established? It just seems they are generic prince and generic damsel. And what is Daring to do after finding out he isn't Apple's prince? This is such juicy content...

I hate Milton Grimm, and I think we moved on too quickly from everything he's done, especially Giles. Yeah, they're brothers but Milton really cursed and banished his own brother because of their disagreement over "destinies" when it's implied that they both knew no one HAD to follow their destinies.

Speaking of, where did the Storybook of Legends even come from? When does a story "start"? Like, if we're being accurate the new Rapunzel (either Poppy or Holly) should have been locked away since childhood. And Apple should have lost her mother ages ago as well... Seems like the "ending" is the only thing that matters? AND when endings are fulfilled, people are free to live however they want anyway.

Also, wouldn't the timelines be all messed up? It's been established that there are multiple generations of the fairy tales. So wouldn't that complicate things with enrolling future Sleeping Beauties since their stories state they must sleep for 100 years?

[aknotknows]

Finally Decided to be Proper Writing Blog! Please check out my Horror Anthology Series, first Chapter is already out!

Twisted Tales (2973 words) by aknotknows Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: Original Work Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Additional Tags: Horror, Body Horror, Psychological Horror, Blood and Gore, Anthology, Original Fiction, Original Character(s) Summary: This is an anthology series that includes a variety of short horror stories inspired by real-life fears, nightmares, and sometimes experiences. Will try to update like once a month. I'm taking extra classes plus I'm going to be empl*ed with a jb soon.

[aknotknows]

Getting Back into MLP:FIM

Been rewatching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic at my grown age, because life is short. I am finding myself surprisingly into Fluttershy x Discord, even though I wasn't originally into it because I wasn't sure about the whole nice girl redeems the villain thing but then I remembered just how funny Discord was. (He's going on my hear-me-out too, Fluttershy (not in a beastiality way, I promise)).

On a more serious note, I should mention that Fluttershy can and does stand up for herself multiple times when it comes to Discord's shenanigans. And like any good f/m ship, Discord is so pathetic without Fluttershy. Yes absolutely, the immortal chaos being is kept under the hoof of his soft-spoken cottagecore wife and he would not want to be anywhere else.

[aknotknows]

Glad to see an active Cinderella Boy Fandom on Tumblr!

Mild Spoilers! (I believe this is revealed early in Season 2)

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Just a random thought about Buddy's obsession with sweets and junk food like the other keys, part of it is because none of the keys are allowed to eat. Of course, there's the added tragedy that he was formerly a human and probably missed eating. Plus, when he was human he likely was not eating well. No wonder why he was thrown off by being given a whole bag of food. Which included chocolate. There's no way he was not absolutely flabbergasted about being casually offered sweets when they would have been more expensive in his time.

Also on a more hilarious note, I imagine that when Buddy becomes human again (because he WILL), he goes a little crazy on eating modern junk food. Of course, Chase and Deacon try to warn him of the after effects but Buddy is just like, "let me have this" and "nothing bad has happened to me from having too much chocolate." Anyway, two minutes later he is sick to the stomach. And he's just like "I forgot stomaches existed." Meanwhile, Chase is giving a lecture on how Buddy should be taking care of his recently acquired human body.

[aknotknows]

Finally got myself a copy of Wings of Starlight!

Firstly, I love how the few minutes of implied doomed romance in Secret of the Wings was so juicy that everyone turned a blind eye to the lore continuity errors. (Real fans remember in the first movie, Tinkerbell briefly visited winter. Also a minister of winter in the tree who is very much not Milori).

Secondly, I'm only halfway through the book, so they've only met like 4 times and I'm already dying at the TENSION! Like, JUST KISS ALREADY. The moments between the two got me giggling and kicking my feet like a teenager. Hehe, I love being delusional about fictional characters they are so cute.

Thirdly, I love the way they are characterized, like this feels very much like a canon version of the way the two would have acted when they were younger. Like it makes sense that Clarion's struggles in her youth would turn her into the gracious and kind Queen we see in the movie. We also see in the films she does have a bit of a fun-loving side. Also Milori is pretty similar, except that he still has a little bit of hopefulness to him.

ALSO not to be depressing but I'm so emotional about the fact that I know that Clarion and Milori will not be seeing each other for centuries. And that Clarion's friends are likely dead. Which makes me extra emotional about why she was so gentle with Tinkerbell. Like not only does Clarion understand what it's like to be young and impulsive, but also Tinkerbell probably reminds her of Petra. Sorry for that thought.

[aknotknows]

A Little Late to the Two Princes Podcast Hype. Binged through First Two Seasons and already on the third.

Thoughts and reactions to each season so far.

Season 1: The production quality is so good and Rupert is hilarious. I love that the B plot is women saving boys in distress, we love Joanne. Yea! Dragons! Wow the romance subplot happened a lot faster than I thought, but I kind of get what they're going for. (LOL mouth wrestling). I can jive with series about a strong couple who is able to tackle the Plot (TM) together and not have unnecessary relationship drama. Not the conflict being resolved because the Forest was fujo-ing out (joke).

Season 2: Cynthia Erivo??? Oh yeah, forgot actors, especially musical actors are doing random side quests, wonder when they'll let the cast sing. Chad is annoying but then again he's had like 2 days of consciousness and this guy he doesn't know is telling him to risk it all. And man, can this guy sing. The solution of course, was love, once again.

Season 3 (so far): Yeaaaa they're all singing now! I will be making a tier list for all the songs. Darling seems like an interesting antagonist, can't wait to see what's wrong with this man. Say what you will about Percy but he is entertaining. Joanne, please lock in.

[wizardsisananimal]

my love for plain white rice is intense and unhealthy AMA

[rainbow-mcgee]

How would you describe your feeling towards plain white rice

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Something about the Baudelaires+the tragedies they face being associated with fire (the fire that destroyed their home, the fire at the Caligari Carnival, the fire at the hotel Denouement…) vs the Quagmires+their tragedies being associated with water (Duncan+Isadora being kidnapped+stashed inside a statue of a fish then later inside of a fountain, the Baudelaires finding Quigley in the Hinterlands surrounded by ice, Quigley+Violet having a key moment on a frozen waterfall, Quigley+the Baudelaires escaping via said waterfall, Quigley being seperated from the Baudelaires by the Stricken Stream, Quigley sending a telegram to Violet whilst she is in a submarine fully submerged in water, the Baudelaires almost reuniting with Quigley after travelling in the depths of the sea in ‘The Grim Grotto’, in ‘The Penultimate Peril’ when it’s revealed that Duncan+Isadora are in danger of drowning as eagles attack their self-sustaining hot air mobile home which is flying over the sea and,of course, all three Quagmire triplets becoming lost (in the sea) to the great unknown.

This is especially evident in ‘The Vile Village’ when the Baudelaires have just rescued the Quagmires who at that point were “two dripping figures” bc of the “rushing water” of the fountain they were trapped in which is then contrasted, merely one paragraph later, by the man who causes the majority of the Baudelaires troubles brandishing fire, “Detective Dupin, holding a torch and heading straight toward the Baudelaire orphans.” [evidence taken from pages 210+211 of ‘The Vile Village’.]

This could represent a number of things:

1: The Quagmires trying to help the Baudelaires like how water extinguishes fire.

2: The cold way in which Olaf uses the Quagmires solely for their fortune and his own sadistic purpose as opposed to his hunting down of the Baudelaires being fuelled by burning revenge.

It’s also interesting how Duncan+Isadora are associated with water whereas Quigley is initially associated with ice in TSS until he+the Baudelaires begin to rely on each other and then he is associated with water (the ice of the stricken stream cracking and Quigley being carried away with it). Due to this, there is solid reasoning to view water in asoue as a metaphor for friendship (at least in the case of the Quagmires).

[aknotknows]

Every day I wake up thinking this cannot be the timeline I am living in. This is truly the strangest time to be alive.

[scarabeegrandma]

@comicaurora my Aurora anime opening is FINALLY FINISHED!!! (youtube link)

slight flashing images warning at the 35 seconds mark

rambles under the cut cause you better believe I'm yapping about this thing that took me 1.5 year to complete

On april 17th 2024, my favorite band released a new single and this project started to build in my head. I had thought of doing a fan opening before but this song activated the Visions and daydreaming, which are the essential starting points of any creative project. I found that a song sang in english by a japanese band about friendship was a perfect fit for a hypothetical animated show. anyway It's MY unreasonably ambitious project so I get to chose the music

It was really fun to draw and animate everything!! I did it at 12fps and even sometimes at 10fps cause I hate in betweens frames with a burning passion, they are the quickest way for sending me to animation burnout so sorry ik the animation couldv'e been smoother at times. Oh also editing, the editing software is my ennemy, couldn't stop making frames glitch and stuff. but yeah apart from that I had a good time :)

I tried to include typical anime opening shots such as title screen on big blue sky, action shot during the chorus where the protags fight air, looking up at the sky while the sun comes out, and laying on grass

also like the song this op is centered around the main six characters and their friendship (assuming the first season of Aurora the animation TM would cover the entirety of arc 1), and the hug was probably my favorite thing to animate :D

ok bye txs for reading all that

[aknotknows]

Not sure about other Humanities Majors but History courses are so weird. Some classes are structured not to dissimilar from High school. You know, textbooks, lectures, exams. But most of the time, they are just like…”read this before class”. And you’re not graded for it. Then you think you’re chilling especially because actual assignments are just like: “watch a movie and comment on it”. Then suddenly you realize you have to spend the last half of the semester in research hell. But hey, at least you don’t have to also juggle math class.

[transfemstalin-deactivated20260]

real yearners miss people BEFORE they're gone

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TRUTHNUKE

[aknotknows]

About half my OCs with their anxious-avoidant attachment style

[mikkaster]

at times he's like an old man.

[mafuyuakgae]

but who can grow me a new brother?

[toc1n0]

SHJ dropping by unannounced to witness haeyeon guild's daily shenanigans

(my dude can't even tag yoojin bc yoojin blocked him on 🐦 you know yoojin will die of cringe just seeing this hashtag)

twit | s-classes group

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