Reggie is having some bad luck with girls. Just something silly I whipped up after work.
The song is “Looking for Pussy” by Dr. Hook and the Medicine show from their album “Sloppy Seconds.” I do not own the Archie footage, or the song.
I’ve been waiting to give my official rant on this for some time. When Young Justice: Invasion came out I was iffy but willing to go along with the changes and give it a chance. Not so on tumblr! I read on forums and such that most people were disappointed of the shows change. Especially at the show’s character changes. They appreciated new heroes but strongly disliked that the show was completely different and that the old characters were all but gone. I didn’t want to weigh in too much in the argument, after the first show, because I thought jumping to conclusions was premature. But after a good amount of shows I think it’s the right time to go into it.
Young Justice: Invasion feels like a total revamp, not only in story and characters, but also style. Which is sort of surprising as the show was is a break out hit. It was almost like they took aJustice League Unlimited approach. More characters, so have two stories per show - one mission based and one personal. This technique works for an hour show, but a half hour show it just feels like you’re not getting enough on either story. The inclusion of more characters is great, but I am sad that “our team” is now dead and gone. I do wish that the inclusion of more heroes could have taken place in the season one time frame, but also understand the changes. So how about I do the goods and bads in a separate category, as far as I’m concerned.
Good. New characters. Dick is Nightwing and Tim is Robin. This is something I always loved, and Dick should have been leader in the first place. No offense to Kaldur but he was a boring stick in the mud. And it really showed towards the end of season one where he was assigned to do nothing or stand around in the background, or not even appear in the shows. Which is probably why the show felt like it needed to change. Thinking objectively, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Zatanna, and Artemis did next to nothing, probably because the writers couldn’t figure out what to do with them. Guess who’s in the backseat in season two? You guessed it. When half your cast is just filling up space you need a change. I do like that now in season two they have enough characters to play around with and figure out who the writers like and don’t. But I also don’t like that they don’t have enough time to fully flesh out stories.
The Bad. The story arc. It’s a good idea to have a theme running through the show so they all feel connected, but since we have to deal with that, and dealing with all new characters there is just too much and too little time to tell it in. Eccentrically each episode has two stories, the mission and a side personal one. And as stated before, one is played more interesting and the other kinda is filler. And it stinks. Normally these would be separate episodes in a half hour show. So mixing them together feels lack luster and rushed. Even the action portions. If they were changing to this format, we needed an hour show. Because of this it’s so hard to care about these new guys and you start wishing for the old days of season one, even if Rocket was there for no reason.
Also bad is the complete character change of season one’s most popular break out character: Miss Martian. What were they thinking? ”Let’s take the most popular character and change her to someone else. That’ll make our fans happy!” No. See thing is, I wasn’t even a big M’gann fan in the first place, but I really don’t like dramatic character changes unless it’s a progression. Skipping years in the future is an explanation, but not a solution. Eventually they’ll explain themselves I have no doubt, but it better not be in a line of dialogue like Aqualad. ”Black Manta is my father, why didn’t you tell me!?!” Fuck you. Basically Wonder Girl is Miss Martians old character. Setting up for Connor/Cassie romance? Conner “broke up” with M’gann cause he’s emo about never aging physically. Gee, who out of the new character doesn’t age physically? *looks at Cassie* Spoiler alert!!! lol (I guess they’d have to share a scene together first)
Speaking of which, some more good. Some stand out characters for me are Tim, Cassie, and Jaime. Out of all the new people, these are the ones to watch. Tim, Wonder Girl, and Blue Beetle feel like they are the “fixed” members of what should have been in the the original team. Ironic as two of the three were in the original Young Justice team in the comics. As far as the other new characters? Lagoon Boy is forgettable. He’s only there to be a crutch for Superboy/Miss Martian shippers. We’ve seen Batgirl before and while she was awesome in Batman: The Animated Series… she’s not the only girl anymore. And they already have “spunky”. So this Batgirl comes off as a boring Robin clone (Dick Grayson). There is nothing wrong with her, but there isn’t anything great about her either. Beast Boy, aside to give the Beast Boy fan-girls something to squeal about, is just filler. He really does nothing to develop the plot, or his own character. He just doesn’t feel like he belong in this world, sorry girls.
So there you have it. That’s my thoughts on the show. Literally every show feels like a filler episode and I’m just waiting for SOMETHING to happen. Especially the Red Arrow episode where I can’t even remember the mission story. It basically was a boring conversation with Red Arrow, still boo-hooing about something that happened YEARS ago. (So you’re telling me, Red Arrow gets a whole episode to deal with his cloning and betrayal that happened in this timeline years ago, while Aqualad and Miss Martian get next to no explanation other than quick one line give aways. Give me a break. Red Arrows story was done in season one.) Then you get the “Oh that’s where Wally and Artemis are.” moment and think “Well… guess that happened.” Seriously. That’s how they deal with the loss of two characters. ”They went to college, but they live together! Eh? EH? See, she has no pants!!!” Ugh. And this last episode with Blue Beetle trying to find “friend we’ve never seen before so why do we care about him” and Super Best Friends Awesome Party-Girl Team, it was the opposite of the previous episode. The mission was more exciting than the mystery of some douchebag missing that we’ve never seen before. And the sad thing is, before the half way mark, we all knew where he was.
It’s the format that’s lacking. The show got too complex for its own good. They need to drop something in order for it to return to it’s story driven fast-paced adventure that the first season was. Seriously, drop the characters that aren’t working so you have one team again, and mix the personal story with the mission story so you don’t have two shows at once. Done. And really, that’s what the first season did. Superboy had a problem, he solved it in the mission. Why is that so hard to do here? Anyway those are my thoughts. What do you think?
I was asked by, from a friend, to do a picture of four Hogwarts students (from each house) in the Higginbotham Homeroom colors from Ban-Re’s and my American wizardry school. So here is Hannah Abbott from Hufflepuff in Hogwarts in Gryphon colors from the American corresponding Homeroom. Likewise, here is Cho Chang from Ravenclaw in Phoenix colors, Ginny Weasley from Gryffindor in Behemoth colors, and Pansy Parkinson from Slytherin in Dragon colors.
Hannah Abbott, Cho Chang, Ginny Weasley, and Pansy Parkinson are ALL character created by J.K. Rowling for her book series Harry Potter I do not own them. The uniforms from Higginbotham Academy of Magical Education were created by me ^.^ and Ban-Re.
This is the result of a late night conversation between myself, Ban-Re, and ArtisticConcept. Molly Weasley welding Mjölnir, the hammer of Thor. Tremble Fred and George, for she has the power of the gods. As everyone knows, only a few are worthy of welding Thor’s hammer, like Thor, Jesus, Anne Frank, and Adam Sandler. Molly is one of the special few.
Molly Weasley is a character created by J.K. Rowling for her book series Harry Potter. I do not own the character. Mjölnir is the property of Thor, the god of Thunder, and I do not own the hammer, as I am not worthy of Thor.
Hotspring of Justice!
I thought it might be fun to combine the Teen Titan girls and the Young Justice girls in one big perverted display of ecchiness! So here they at a Hotspring taking a bath together. And you’re welcome. Shown here are Starfire, Raven, Rocket, Artemis, and M’gann.
Both Teen Titans and Young Justice are comics published by DC Comics and shows televised by Warner Brothers Animation. The picture itself is based off of a Sakiimage I saw. Needless to say, but I’m going to anyway, I do not own any of the characters.
I got some new brushes for Photoshop, so I wanted to try them out. So basically I just sketched out a quick picture of Darna (seriously, like less than 5 minutes - counting scan time) and played around with brushes. Kinda not great, coloring wise, as it’s just all over the place, but I just wanted to know how things would look. Anyway…. tah-duh!
Darna is a character created by Mars Ravelo. I do not own the character
People hate Wesley Crusher (from Star Trek: The Next Generation) with a burning passion… and when asked why they always say… “Well he was annoying” or “he saved the ship too much.” Personally I believe that most people don’t like Wesley Crusher for the wrong reasons. It’s in their subconscious, and they just don’t realize what it is that they don’t like about him so they just repeat what they hear everyone else saying. (Either that, or they are just sheep who don’t like Wesley on the soul fact that they think everyone else doesn’t like him. If that’s the case… get an opinion of your own you worthless piece of … doo-doo.)
With me, Wesley is an odd one. When I was a little kid watching TNG (The Next Generation), I related to Wesley because he was the only kid in the main cast, and he was smart, and out of place. Which totally was me… only I wasn’t a teenager and I didn’t fall in love with young girl who turned out to be an alien shapeshifter. >.<. So at the time I really liked Wesley. Having grown up and watched TNG again with a different prospective, he’s a character that I feel is unnecessary. Which oddly enough isn’t true! Having grown up with Wesley as the character I related too, he very much was necessary for the younger viewers at the time. Wesley helped me stay into Star Trek (although, I’d probably still like it anyway because they were in space, had cool ships and aliens, and I was writing a Worf/Barclay slash story - kidding)
Here is the the issue that you knew in the back of your mind, but couldn’t place it. Some things in Star Trek: The Next Generation are dated and didn’t age well. Councilor Troi is the very reflection of the late 80’s/early 90’s getting into the mental stability of people and psychiatry. Tasha was the prototype of what would later become the sterotype of “Strong Independent Woman” in that all femininity is taken away and the viewer ended up with a loud bitch who “dun need no man!” And Wesley is there with them in that “we gotta have a kid for the younger demographic” thing the late 80’s was doing. Some things you can get over and some you can’t, and Wesley REALLY suffered for that. Wesley just doesn’t fit in because he’s not a character. Tasha left, so you didn’t get the cliche Bitch character, and Troi is only popular amoung guys who like seeing her in one-pieces. But as far as a character goes… she’s WAY down the list.
SO how can we fix Wesley, other than shoot him out an airlock, along with any painting Data ever did? I think a good portion of it could be fixed simply with a gender change. You can be more forgiving with a girl than a boy, it’s just a fact. Girls can throw the cute/innocent factor in if something isn’t working writing wise, and people will be more willing to accept it for that very reason. Boys can’t do cute passed a certain age, and certain Wil Wheaton couldn’t pull off cute, even if you put him in panda outfit holding a huge lollypop and cuddling with a kitten.
Another problem is the boy-genius aspact. It’s not bad a idea but was followed-through completely wrong. Also, I think Wheaton did a great job at geeking out over the Enterprise… and while I think it’s neat he’s a kid-genus… he shouldn’t have known EVERYTHING there was to know about Starfleet. It would have been way more entertaining if he was trying to learn all he could about the ship from the crew instead of already knowing it. That there he would have developed a character, but co-existing with the reast of the cast instead of lording over them.
Saving the Ship…. way too much of it… BUT if they just HAD to do it, it should be with the help of Geordi or Data… so it isn’t like he’s outshining our main cast, who supposedly are trained professionals who … I dunno… is the best in their field (having been asignned on the Federation’s Flagship). Either that or have Welsey be the one to suggest an idea that leads to the solution to the problem, which springboards Riker into carrying it out. You know, stuff like that. Once again it makes him part of the group instead of outshining them like Doctor Who, solving everyone’s problems.
What was in the back of your head was that Wesley has no purpose other than to be a genius. Those very minior fixes I suggested above would have gone ALONG way of making his character someone an adult can invest in. The reason Jake and Nog work in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine are that they were very connected to their parent’s/mentors/crewmembers lives. They aren’t just kids placed there to get the kid audience, they are there to inhance the plot of the various stories. Wesley and Dr. Crusher maybe shared 4 scenes together while Jake was with Sisko in almost every episode he was in. What did Welsley do mostly? He was on the bridge flying the ship. He didn’t DO anything to make him something more than his character description that creator Gene Roddenberry wrote for him at the beginning of the series.
And that’s why you really dislike Wesley… So, tell me what you think…. or don’t. This is Tumblr afterall, so I doubt anyone will care unless it’s a picture of a Puppy with a hat on with a silly quote underneath.
Ban-Re and I got together and discussed who were the worst animals in the world. We came up with different answers, but didn’t disagree on any of the choices. We decided that Insects, Spiders, Worms, Slugs, Eels, and Snails were out cause they are rather obvious picks for being horrible. So with our rules established… here is our list.
20. Armadillos (Re)
—I don’t know what they do. They have a crispy shell thing, yet they get hit by cars. I heard they’re mean, but I don’t know for sure. They have weird ears and they’re fat looking. I think there’s only one gender too, I don’t know. I confuse Armadillo with Armarillo, a town in Red Dead Dedemption in which I got killed. So obviously they are evil. [link]
19. Pandas (Glee)
—Pandas. The only carnivore other than humans that willingly stopped eating meat and started only eating plants. Normally I wouldn’t care about this… but they ONLY eat Bamboo leaves! And you know why? Because it makes them high! Pandas are stoners! The Bamboo makes them so high they don’t want to do anything but eat and sleep, and that’s why they won’t mate. They are literally to lazy to continue the species. So I say, let Ling-Ling die! Serves them right, damn hippies. [link]
18. Ferrets (Re)
—It’s hard to come down on an animal that’s largely cute… but… they bite and stink like shit. And that’s why I hate them. And if you like them, you’re racist. [link]
17. Frogs (Glee)
— I wanted to put Crickets on this list because outside my bedroom door there is ONE Cricket that chirps all night keeping me up. A chorus of them is okay, but one? Anyway, Insects are out, so Frogs it is… and mainly because they chirp at night too. BUT also sometimes I see them underneath houses when I work and they always startle me. (I’m not afraid of them, but when something in the dark suddenly moves, it’s creepy). So Frogs… they are annoying. [link]
16. Baboon (Re)
—I don’t even know where to start… They’re ugly, the walk funny, they have the dumbest name of all the dumb animals on the list. They have large shaved multicolored butts that range from shiny to lumpy to bulbous. They eat things that are weird to me, and in movies they are always the bad guys. (Except for Rafiki from Lion King - but he was just a racist stereotype anyway). [link]
15. Narwhal Whales (Glee)
—The Unicorn of the sea. Yep, not only is it a whale, but it has to have a horn too. What an asshole. [link]
14. Hamster (Re)
—I hate them because I don’t think they have a brain. They eat anything including themselves, they bite you, and they run on a wheel for six hours - yet won’t run in their cage. Plus they always escape and you have to spend hours looking for them instead of playing Ocarina of Time like you really wanted too. [link]
13. Great White Shark (Glee)
— What a pre-madonna. I mainly hate this one because it has a title over it’s name, it’s racist, and they have a whole week devoted to it every year on the Discovery Channel. It’s a fucking fish with teeth… it’s not that awesome. The only reason people think they are cool is because of Jaws, and that’s not a good reason. I love Raiders of the Lost Ark, but you don’t see me converting to Judaism, do you? [link]
12. Crows (Re)
—They’re loud, dirty, ugly, annoying, ugly, stupid, lack variety, and they are loud. I hope I crystalized that for you. [link]
11. Chimpanzee (Glee)
—Chimps aren’t funny. There I said it, and it needed to be said. Why doesn’t Hollywood think that the public loves watching Chimps do stupid stuff? It’s not funny because they are trained to do that, not because they did it on their own! Plus they have really big ears and look like old naked little people. [link]
10. Penguin (Re)
—I hate the films March of the Penguins and Happy Feet and I hate obsessed teenaged fangirls who love Penguins… as a result I hate them too. Plus they are closer to being a fish than a bird… they can’t fly, but can swim. A duck and do both. The only thing a duck can’t do that a penguin can is get eaten by a Polar Bear. And God bless Polar Bears. [link]
09. Cockatiels (Glee)
—A while back my Mom and Dad separated. When they got back together, along with the package came a pet Cockatiel. And I hate him. His names is Maggie and all he does is squawk, shit, squawk, and sleep. And to top it all off, he is missing a toe so can’t stand on anything really well, AND can’t fly… So he’s all the time on the ground squawking. I hate that bird. [link]
08. Garter Snakes (Re)
—I have them because I don’t like snakes very much anyway, but I hate them more because they startle me but can’t back up their shit. They’re just there, they bite you, and you think you’re going to die, but you won’t. They’re just assholes. What’s the point of being a snake if you aren’t even dangerous? Plus Garter Snakes have a dumb name too. For years I thought they were called Gardener Snakes, but then I found out their real name… and it made me look like an idiot! Fuck them! [link]
07. Opossums/Possums (Glee)
—The animal I see the most of (other than my house cats) are dead Possums on the road. What a splendid animal, who can’t figure out to stay off the damn road. The have a gross grimy body, a huge rat face, and long thin skeleton of a rats tail which make you gag. And they stink… BEFORE you run them over. [link]
06. Giraffes (Re)
—They are the least camouflaged animal on the planet, yet they try so hard. They have a giant long neck, horse legs, and then try to hide with their big square spots. Plus they fight each other with their necks - which is suicide! They make no noises, and they spit. [link]
05. Bats (Glee)
—I used to think Bats were cool, until the apartment I was living in becoming infested with bats. Let me tell you it’s not cool when you wake up in the morning and find baby bats SLEEPING ON TOP OF YOU. I freaked the hell out and ever since then I’ve been scared of them. And they dive bomb you! ACK! [link]
04. Turkeys (Re)
—Turkeys are mean, ugly, and dumb. And they have an awful name. Not to mention all Turkeys look old, and I hate that. They are all bald and wrinkled, and have a wobbly neck. Yuck! [link]
03. Naked Mole (Glee)
—What an ugly creature this is. They basically look like a long veiny penis with teeth at the end. How can anyone find that cute!?! And they smell too! [link]
02. Horses (Glee)
—I know I’m a lesbian, but I really don’t like fake flamboyance in the gay community, and I especially don’t like it from the animal kingdom. That being said, the most pansy, prissy, flamer of them all are Horses, and it drives me nuts. What other animal wears clothes and shoes, has long hair, and prances around… with men on their back? [link]
01. Turtles (Re)
—They are like pizza, lazy, and stupid, and can’t figure out to lay their eggs in a safe spot, this guaranteeing loosing like 90% of their babies. All they do is sit in warm areas and just hang out, not bothering to even eat unless they really have too. They have NO defensive capability other than lay there and hope their shell protects them from predators teeth. Without a doubt one of the dumbest animals alive. [link]
Notable Runners Up:
Black Bears, Klingon Targ, Leopards, Wild Boar, and Steve Buscmei
