#warning swears

[mbrainspaz]

TikTok gave me a strike for saying Ted Cruz is a shit weasel that lives up Trump's ass. Shit and ass aren't even that bad. In the first draft I called him a weaselly c

[hogwartsian-quotes]

A woman’s power isn’t tested by how good she is at makeup or clothes, it’s tested by how long she can deal with your shit before cracking and kicking your ass.

Hermione Granger after she had to deal one too many idiots

[arsonsara]

Why Aquamarine is what got me back into Steven Universe

Ok, so let’s talk Steven Universe.

I’m sure most of you are familiar with the show at this point. You’re most likely either a fan of it, or one of the people who think the show is grossly overrated. Honestly I only ever see two people in those categories. You either love the show to death or think people should stop talking about it. Me, however, I was always in the middle. I liked the show and it’s humble beginnings, it was a nice show with amazing art direction, wonderful use of colors, a cast of amazing character that are mostly female, and some really interesting plot points...

That’s what I used to think of the show. As time went on I felt like things started to slow down too much. The pace went from steady and interesting to something of a crawl. Characters were starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel for character interaction, things started getting less interesting and dare I bring up the inconsistent character proportions? I didn’t start hating the show, I just thought it was loosing my interest. I still think of the show fondly, even during that slow period but I just kinda stopped. I felt the show lost something of an edge that it had, some real conflict to give way to some good character interactions. Not that the show was bad, I don’t think I can really ever say the show reached a point where I can say it’s poorly made (even baring the Finger Cats in mind). 

Than, Aquamarine showed up.

Oh boy, Aquamarine. Where do I begin? Well, let me just say this for clarification. I stopped watching Steven Universe but I knew very well what was going on in the plot. I knew about Blue Diamond, The Zoo, The thing with the one Ruby, etc. So when I watched the two episodes with Aquamarine I wasn’t clueless and knew enough to continue watching. When I first saw her I thought “Daw, that’s a cute character design. I’m guessing that seeing as she’s asking for her dad, maybe we’ll see our first male gem? Or maybe younger gems see their Kindergartens as parental figures, or they have Male father figure gems in Kindergartens?” And watched these episodes to see what this cutie was going to do.

And than she showed up in I am My Mom and...holy fuck.

Aquamarine is a cold hearted bitch. She’s such a volatile, destructive, commanding, vindictive little fairy bitch...

And I love it.

This is the sort of conflict I was WAITING for. Sure, there was enough conflict before to keep the story going but I still felt that the show was going too slow for me to want to keep watching. This however, kicked things into high gear and I love it. Aquamarine reminds me a lot of how people saw Peridot back when she first showed up, but honestly, I think Aqua’s introduction to the show FAR surpasses Peridot’s. Not to say I don’t like Peridot (even though I personally think the writers of the show have been making her a bit...less interesting. I prefer the sassy smack talking gremlin we had, so hopefully this conflict will help bring that back)

But with Aquamarine, she was shown to be so cold. Remember when Peridot showed up and she just destroyed one of the orb robots with her foot? That was pretty intimidating. Although Aqua takes it to a whole new level by threatening Jamie with death. This is an important moment in the show because, well, think about it.

With most of the antagonists we’ve had their main mission is the destruction of Earth. Of course, that’s a bad thing. Although this is the first time the steaks are personal. We’re not dealing with a huge, cosmic destruction that will harm millions. This is a personal, hostage situation. Aquamarine is threatening to kill not just Jamie, but everyone she has captured if she doesn’t get her way. And considering the tone of the show before this, that’s a big deal.

Another one of my favorite things is when she says this line:

“But the Diamonds needed me, that’s the burden of being the best.”

Notice the wording of that sentence. Before this, all the gems working under the Diamonds have talked about them like the Diamonds are gods. People to be worshiped and feared, to the point where those gems felt The Diamonds completed them. This is completely different. Aqua is talking about The Diamonds like they need her. Like if Aqua wasn’t around, The Diamonds wouldn’t know what to do with themselves. Meaning that in a way, Aqua thinks of herself more highly than The Diamonds.

Let that sink in.

Aqua thinks more highly of herself THAN THE DIAMONDS.

That is a big deal to me because it goes to show how far Aqua might go for whatever sick goals she has in store. Something tells me there’s more to Aqua than her allegiance to The Diamonds. Honestly Aqua reminds me a lot of Fawful from the Mario & Luigi series.

Fawful, from the games he comes from, was an underling to the antagonist of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. At first he seems like something of a ratty underling to a higher power, until his resurgence in Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story where he becomes one of the strongest antagonists in the Mario Universe, and comes the closest in all of Mario History to destroy everything.

By the way, if you haven’t played the Mario & Luigi series, do yourself a favor and change that. You’re really missing out. There’s some rumors going around that a remake of Superstar Saga is coming soon so if that’s true, than snag that as soon as it comes out.

Back on Aqua though, I really look forward to more of her, and hope she’s truly as diabolical as I hope she is.

[mbrainspaz]

Fuck landlords. I’m so sick of living in a moldy shed in some guy’s back yard when I should be able to afford to rent a house on the income I’m finally making. I offer to pay extra deposits for my 3 dogs every time and I have a perfect rental and credit history, and it doesn’t fucking matter. I’ve been turned away from over a dozen houses this year, even ones that claimed to allow pets. This would never fucking happen to someone with 3 kids, and my dogs won’t draw on the damn walls.

[mbrainspaz]

Hoboy. (Lots of swearing incoming)

Asked the room at large if anybody knew a good local vet and of course Conspiracy Steve pipes up with ‘I know a good one in town. I’ll give you his info.’

‘Thanks Ste—‘

‘That guy’s got good German blood.’

‘… well I don’t. So never mind.’

Uuuuuugh I fucking. Hate. These. Fucking. Casual. White. Supremacists!!!!

I actually am distantly German, and unlike this guy I actually grew up there, but who gives a fuck? Not me!!!! I wish I’d just straight up said ‘fuck outta here with that Steve’ ‘fuck right off’ ‘as an actual German I know better than to humor your fucking Reddit nazi bro edgy joke that’s not actually a joke bullshit, you ignorant asshole.’

I’m building up momentum I swear. I’m just naturally so chill that it’s hard for me to get to the point where I can actually cuss someone out at the drop of a hat. I was thinking about veterinarians, not fighting nazis. But honey we’re gettin’ there. Make me think about nazis one more time and see what fucking happens bro.

[mbrainspaz]

conservative boomers and genX still out here chanting “gotta get the government out of the free market” like a mantra any time you try to have a chat about any aspect of daily life. Firstly, I just wanted to let you know the store was out of cat food, not hear the hot take on economics you got from Limbaugh 20 years ago. But since you went there—how about you sit down and tell me how that’s gonna help when these megacorps blatantly benefit from having a powerless poverty class to be their wage slaves. In this fantasy land of yours you see Walmart saying ‘oh golly thanks for clearing the way for us by getting the government out of the way, now wages are 20$ an hour and also here’s affordable housing and the freedom to choose another job if you like’????? Honey tell me they wouldn’t immediately make wages 1 loaf of bread and set up a literal concentration camp of worker huts behind the store. You can’t. Because that shit has literally happened before. Many, many times in a myriad of ways. The whole lesson has been: YOU CAN’T TRUST CORPORATIONS OR RICH PEOPLE!!!!! THAT’S WHY WE’VE GOT THE GOVERNMENT INVOLVED IN THE FIRST PLACE. Wake up and smell the toxic sludge in our local waterways auntie. CORPORATIONS AND THEIR INCOMPREHENSIBLY WEALTHY OWNERS ARE ACTIVELY WORKING TO ENSLAVE US AND DESTROY OUR ENVIRONMENT BECAUSE IT PUTS THICCC WADS OF MONEY IN THEIR POCKETS AND THEY FIGURE IN 30 YEARS THEY CAN F*CK OFF TO MARS OR THE SOUTH PACIFIC ON THEIR MEGAYACHTS.

Stop regurgitating the damn ear worm and take a single second to imagine how much worse it can get. We get it, you don’t trust the government—not saying you should—but ever notice how the government is a helluvalot easier to influence and change than the hellward trajectory of your average CEO? Ever tried to find housing in the past 10 years on minimum wage while dealing with chronic health problems? No? Then shut up. I bought a different brand of cat food. Thank ya kindly. 

[mbrainspaz]

My approach to tumblr since 2016—Nobody with an empty or sleazy blog is even allowed to follow me. If you’re following me I did a 5 second vibe check on your blog and you passed. Congrats 🎉