#kejupuffs

[celestdraws]

AF attack on @kejupuffs

[kabutoraiger]

If you want to watch Yugioh again, I would recommend going with either Arc-V or Sevens. Arc-V is the anniversary series that makes references and allusions to the other shows but doesn't require any knowledge of what happened in those other shows. Sevens is just straight up zany goofy fun that would not be out of place in an episode of Zenkaiger.

through the combined yugioh opinions of you smart folks perhaps i may embark on this journey someday soon....

[celestriakle]

kejupuffs replied to your post “I keep getting people who ask me what podcasts I listen to, what...”

god i feel u about the black tapes. everyone seems to love it but it has so many issues

its so upsetting bc! s1 was so good!! i was into it! and then the rest rolled around, they started doing that bs with alex’s sleep problems which i never cared about, she got dumber, simon stopped being interesting and became nothing but a plot device and an offensive one at that, and then the lack of fact checking and that absolute cop-out of an ending... :/// just. sighs.

[kabutoraiger]

kejupuffs replied to your post: feel like pure shit just want to read a presumed...

pls tell me about ur ideal presumed dead tropefic

oh my god THANK you for asking. here’s my step by step guide to making it excellent, most of which i definitely didn’t already have written in my drafts

step 1: consider your characters

now certainly it can be good with just about anyone. however, please consider: it’s best with someone who’s often dishonest or reticent about their feelings (tsundere, one might say). the satisfaction of seeing character A (the char left behind when B ‘dies’) displaying emotions that they typically keep locked up in canon cannot be understated. not to mention the potential extra angst & guilt over having never expressed the true extent of their feelings while B was ‘alive’.

step 2: the length of absence

i’ve seen people write this trope where person B ‘comes back’ within days, hours, even fucking minutes!! MINUTES!! y’all… that is barely enough time to even make a goddamn presumption. get that shit outta here and put it in the ‘near death experience’ tag instead or whatever the hell.

ideally, we are looking at character B being gone for AT LEAST a few weeks. that’s the minimum, from where i’m standing. years is pushing it way too far, in most cases. whereas a couple months is the absolute sweet spot, thus allowing for the best amount of time in which to convey…

step 3: the stages of grief

is every single stage necessary for a spicy portrayal of this trope? no, but at least a selection of them are. denial is incredibly important and is the one i see so many people skip over entirely?? this is most egregious in canons where the characters have superpowers or are otherwise often in dangerous situations that they’ve survived in the past - why on earth would their loved one immediately believe they’re dead without seeing a body?

but even in more down to earth canons this still applies. denial is simply how humans work in situations where there is still the faintest bit of hope. character A NEEDS to refuse to believe the possibility of B’s death for at least a while. at least until the rest of the cast begins to sort of… move on with their lives in a world without them, which then leads to A finally acknowledging the ‘truth’, too.

from here on the key is for several aspects of A’s life to totally fall apart. a combo of the depression & anger stages is best here, i think, but this depends on the character. they lash out at people, perhaps, they retreat into themselves, they become so sad and/or volatile that their personal relationships / professional life suffer. all of these are valid options. maybe as time goes on (acceptance) they even go on a date, start seeing someone else, having a casual hookup bc they want to feel better and move on but nothing feels right.

step 4: the reunion

i see way too many reunion scenes that are purely mush and like. ok. with some characters i guess that makes sense but that’s not what i’m looking for here. it’s gotta have that highkey disbelief + panic + possibly anger combo involved as well. i want someone totally unprepared to face the reality of how much they love this person & how much they lost it without them around. and after that is out of the way... only then can it be romantic & heartwarming as hell *chef’s kiss*

[bbboar]

2, 14, 22 for da ask meme

2.Album of the year? oourhghgh hard to pick one I absolutely love "I love my computer" by Ninajirachi. Banger after banger in that album AND im seeing her in concert next year too!

Honourary mentions: Everybody Scream by Florence and the Machine, Eusexua by FKA Twigs, Fancy That by Pink Panthress.

14.Favorite book you read this year? I am so bad at reading. I thin the only books i finished this year were comics. Out of which recency bias is taking over so i will say "Hunger's Bite" by Taylor Robin. Since its YA i was not expecting to love it as much as i did. The art and colours are amazing and i think the artist's skills particularly shine when he draws horror. Also the character relationships were more complex thn i gave the book cedit for.

22.Favorite place you visited this year? I cant believe this was earlier this year, it feels like ages, but i went to Sydney for a 2nd time and rly enjoyed it. I just love sightseeing and walking around and eating at nice places.

End of Year Asks

[celestdraws]

af attack on @kejupuffs

[backtornado]

@kejupuffs an entire episode about “what if marimos mutated into vampires. what if these little things were now bloodsucking leeches. what then.”

[bbboar]

@kejupuffs yeah exactly! It’s just silly fun between teens and honestly? Didn’t we all have embarrassing interests as kids?

Akso personally,I don’t particularly care for looking down on things that are “cringe” bcs most of the time imo it’s just ppl having fun and being rly unselfconsciously into a specific interest and it’s like?? Who am I to judge? I’m just another nerd