Hello Lovelies, 

I actually really enjoyed my wasps blog last week, so I think I’m just going to do a freebee one.   It’s not going to have facts; it’s mostly just going to be me ranting about my childhood self.                                                                                            My childhood self being my fear of certain bugs and how I developed the fear of them.

THE BUTTERFLY 

                                                                                     

 

I was getting off the bus with my friend who was visiting my house, when it came to me at full force.   I yelled, and thrashed, and called for the police.   Literally fighting for my life, but all I could hear was my friend’s laughter.   Then, while I was punching the air I felt my friend pull me by the bookbag and she said; “Girl, calm down what is wrong with you?” 

I looked at her like she just had the audacity, she didn’t know that this creature was vicious.  So, I told her with all seriousness; “What do you mean?  It’s a butterfly!” 

If any of you ever watched SpongeBob, I hope you remember watching the episode about WORMY — Sandy’s pet — that basically terrorized the town.   I mean, all Patrick and SpongeBob and Patrick wanted to do was play tag with him, but he just had to roam loosely.  The show made butterflies look so terrifying, looking all weird with their antennas and such, then does anyone remember the close up when it was BUZZING!  That moment literally started my whole fear.  

There was also that episode on Authur when Binky got bit by a butterfly; I think, in all honesty it may just have been a fever dream, but these are the reasons why butterflies used to frighten me.   They don’t as much now, but sometimes I still screech if one flies to close. 

LADYBUG OF HORROR 

Even though I loved my grandma to death, I have to admit that sometimes she was a BULLY. 

She had these weird methods of discipline but one of the meanest ones to me personally is when she used to drag me to the window and put ladybugs on me.  Yes, you heard correctly.  When I was young, I used to think that ladybugs would bite me, and it’ll be my last day.  That the countdown would start, and I’ll have twenty-four hours.  My Grandma knew this, but she wanted me to get over my fear while also learning that I shouldn’t leave her refrigerator door open.  

She would call me from the kitchen and tell me that her glasses fell in between the blinds.   I’ll leave my Qubo (if you know you know) and unexpectedly walk to my designated horror. 

She was like; “Come on now chile, I can’t see nun.”  

I was like; “I am coming Gramzie (my nickname for her, long story)”  

When I made it over there, I cringed at the spider webs and dust bunnies on the blinds, but those were overshadowed by the fact that there were no glasses there.  

Then as soon as I was about to say something, I felt something light but prickly on my cheek, then I heard her mocking tone; “Girl, there’s a ladybug on you!” 

Then she said it with a southern accent.  I threw a fit.  My mind was really questioning my love for her.  I mean it wasn’t no way she just put that ladybug on me like that, my grandma knew better.  

I’m telling y’all, she just laughed and kept telling me it was still there.  I wanted to cry, but I didn’t.  I wasn’t going to let her see my tears (sounding dramatic?  I know, but I was a child.) 

After that whole fiasco my fear just got worse until it eventually ceased.  Now I’m kind of the petty one, and I am threatening to put ladybugs on my niece when she gets on my nerves.  But hey, it’s life and apparently a family tradition now. 

MR. CUDDLES, I hate you. 

                                             

I don’t see how Gumball could just take the rudeness from Penny’s pet like that. 

If you ever watched T.A.W.O.G then you most likely came across that episode when Gumball was fighting for his life with that Tarantula.  That whole episode gave me my big fear of spiders, which I still kind of cope with today.   It’s not as bad as when I was younger and was so scared of house spiders that I had to play The Floor Is Lava in my own room.   Back then, I wouldn’t have even made that spider pay rent, he could have the house for free.  Now, I just watch house spiders crawl away and go on with my day.   

Back to what I was saying though, I did not like Mr. Cuddles.   I kind of wished he got flushed down the toilet.   

My 5 Favorite Fictional Characters. 

For this blog, I sort of came up with its last minute. I wanted to take a break from music posts and focus more on other things. So here we are.
My top five favorite fictional characters. (In no specific order ofc)

(Spoiler alerts for some of these characters.) 

 

#5 – Jack Torrance, The Shining. 

Jack Torrance from the shining was such an amusing character. Although he can be considered the antagonist of the story, which he is, I still find him really interesting. Jack Nicolson played the character Very well, but he was dealt a bad hand. Jack’s Character was extremely different than the book. It showed him as impatient and angry from the very beginning of the movie. But in book, he slowly became more and more aggressive. However, I still really liked the way he was played on screen. 

 

 

 

#4 – Billy Loomis & Stu Macher, SCREAM 

This one is a bit of a cheat, because its two characters. But I’m counting them as the same since they’re from the same movie. 

SCREAM is by far my favorite slasher. I love the story and the acting is really good too. especially in the ending scenes. I think these two make a really interesting duo, because they’re extremely different.  Billy is more serious about their goal, while Stu is more of the comedic relief. 

There’s also an interesting theory around Stu that he might still be alive.
Very far-fetched but plausible. All of the Ghostface killers have always been shot in the head. It’s a running theme with all the movies that if you don’t, they always comeback. However, Stu Macher was never shot in the head, he was electrocuted by a giant TV. So, there’s some interesting possibilities there. 

But I don’t think I would want them to bring him back. Ever since Wes Craven died (the original director) the series has taken a bit of a dip.  And I’m afraid they would ruin what might be left of Stu Macher. 

 

 

#3 – Omni-Man, Invincible 

Omni-Man is one of my favorite animated characters, I loved the mystery in the first season of Invincible. I also really like his character design. The image above is my favorite version of him, when he grew out his beard.

Invincible, the show itself, is a really interesting story. I’m sure most of you know it. It’s been a huge attraction for memes and quotes, and it’s by far my favorite show as of now. 

Omni-Man is the father of the protagonist invincible, who has just acquired his powers, and there’s a huge mystery revolving around the Guardian’s of the globe deaths. 

 

 

 

#2 – Puck, Berserk 

Puck is my favorite tv show mascot. If you’re unaware, berserk is a hit anime from the late 90’s where a swordsman who carries a comedically large sword tries to take down his archenemy who was once his friend and commander. 

Puck is an elf and the comedic relief in this show. He breaks the fourth wall sometimes, referencing things like Star Wars or Sun Zu in the art of war.  Although he can be serious at times and is beneficial to the plot.  

He’s a very emotional little guy, and there are tons of scenes where he cries, but he’s my favorite character in the show because he’s basically the jiminy cricket for guts, the protagonist. 

 

 

 

#1 – Simon Petrikov, Adventure Time

Simon Petrikov (aka Ice King) is a major character in Adventure Time. 
In the beginning he was just the poor antagonist that was a little crazy, but as the series developed, we saw that he used to be a man. A professor even. He had been researching the Ice Crown, which was his slow and painful curse. He slowly lost his mind and began to go crazy. 

As much as I like Adventure time, I really like the way the Fiona and Cake series portrayed Simon. He was the smart and quirky Simon he used to be. We also got a lot of lore from his past which was amazing. 

Anyways, those are my top 5 Fictional Characters. They change around sometimes, but these have been the most common. 

Sone’t released a blog about eating food from cartoons and I realized I had a chance to one up her (that I totally didn’t run by her beforehand) and decided to look at my list of “yeah I would eat that” from video games I’ve frequented over the years. note: there will be a separate blog dedicated to ranking undertale food but for now just any valid game food I know of counts

PAPA’S GAMES

PAPA’S FREEZERIA SHAKES

There’s something monumentally wrong with this shake in a way I can describe. I think you pour it on the ground and it keeps its shape. I think you taste the whip cream and it’s as old as 1936, and I am certain they are the type of shakes that make you absolutely ill over the Papa’s Freezeria Boardwalk Siding. And I think the rustic nature forgives that. Or maybe it doesn’t and I’m deluding myself HOWEVER I cannot say with the flavor choices offered if given the chance I would turn down a Papa’s Freezeria shake.

PAPA’S PASTARIA PASTA

Yeah, this one. I cannot lie to you. Macaroni, spaghetti, ravioli, I don’t care, pasta is pasta. Let me be one of the customers here and I promise I will be a regular. Worst part is I haven’t even played this one, so I’m just speaking from the heart here. Now the actual menu items that aren’t pasta? Kinda tragic, I will not lie to you. The bread doesn’t look bad but these sauces? Who let that happen.

PAPA’S SUSHIRIA SUSHI

Hot take? (Cold take?) Idk, I don’t care, as this just looks genuinely good in a way I can’t explain. Maybe it’s the process that alluring or the fact it’s so symmetrical it’d be hard to mess up sushi from Papa’s Sushiria. I don’t even want to take a bite of the slices, give me the whole unadulterated roll and I’m good.

MINECRAFT

GOLDEN APPLE (GAPPLE)

It’s a gapple, man. Aside from the health benefits that would make me feel rich, it just looks delicious.

Enough said.

WATERMELON SLICE

This doesn’t even look like real watermelon. it doesn’t. they chose the least looking watermelon sprite and I’m so happy they did.

look at that sprite. that is a taste singular entirely to minecraft. that’s what Scott Pilgrim would eat for +10

SUSPICIOUS STEW

HEAR ME OUT HEAR ME OUT HEAR ME OUT

NIGHT IN THE WOODS

PIZZA FROM THE CLIK CLAK DINER

in game the pizza is stated as below subpar. worse than fast food pizza chains, but I still want it. and idk why—maybe the experience. like.

no charm to its name. not appetizing in the slightest. it’s cheap and probably tastes like cardboard.

we need more like it.

DONUTS FROM DONUT WOLF

I’m mad; these donuts look fantastic. Like the game really didn’t need to go all out because these look genuinely magical or something almost pulled straight out of bee and puppycat? There doesn’t look to be any discernable taste but I don’t think there needs to be, I just kinda want one. I think this is the one I’m most serious about on this whole list.

PRETZELS FROM TROLLEYSIDE NEWS

Now. These are in like an underground tunnel restaurant that does have water next to it

so realistically should these be damp or worse soggy from condensation? Yes. however other than the donuts I fear these may be the only actually well-made food in the whole game. like the donuts are good but these are made by an actual chef and I can’t bring myself to be mad at them even if I really want to be.

Everyone take a minute with me and breathe, because oh my god I finally finished this big blog project I’ve been working on. So, for this week’s blog I thought that I would give my opinion. Because everyone loves it when someone else’s opinion is shoved in your face. Especially when it comes to controversial subjects, and in the eyes of the people who read these blogs (literaies) I would say that cartoons are a relatively controversial topic. So today I thought I would spit in the face of those who believe in non-confrontation and give the finite, only true (being my opinion) list for the top ten adult animated cartoons. 

 

ALSO, A QUICK PREFACE- I am not going to be explaining too in depth with the plot on any of these, I am just going to explain why I enjoy them and hope you know what I am talking about. I am also not going to be including animes on this list.

Number 10- Carol at the end of the world

Carol at the end of the world is a relatively new Netflix original series about this woman named Carol, she lives on a version of earth where a planet is on course to collide with earth in seven months. And instead of freaking out the entire earth has accepted their fate and have decided to devote the rest of their life to living it to the fullest, eliminating all wars and conflicts. The earth is at peace while everyone is on a journey of fulfillment, except for carol, who continues to frustratingly live a life of boredom and mundanity. I enjoy this because it gives a great commentary on the meaning of life as well as gives a great portrayal of the simplistic dialogue that some characters have.

 

Number 9-South Park

I’m going to keep this one relatively short. I enjoy South Park because of the simplistic animation style and the fast-paced time in which episodes are made. One episode made in just a week means that they get to give commentary on events that are still in the midst of it happening.

 

Number 8- Downtown

The extent of this show that I assume you have seen is probably through TikTok sounds, which is fair, it is where I found it. But after watching it for the first time I was pleasantly delighted with the show. Even though it is a relatively older show it has an animation style I enjoy and also gives a great commentary on societal reaction to sexual attraction and life in lower income areas.

Number 7- Daria

I actually don’t have too much to say about Daria, in my opinion it is a classic with entertaining characters and a really cool animation style, similar to the number 8 on this list.

Number 6- Inside Job

Ok, sorry guys, but I am going to use this show as a means to rant about how stupid I think Netflix is. Inside Job is an animated show that surrounds the lives of characters who are a part of a secret American organization, it has a bit of drama sprinkled in, but it is mostly a comedy. And let me say, this is one of the funniest shows that I have seen in my life, the comedy, the dialogue, and even the visuals were funny in all accords. However, due to the growing popularity of shows like Big Mouth (don’t get me started on how much I hate this show), it was canceled. Which crushed me, like, I can’t even describe how sad this made me.

 

Number 5-Bob’s Burgers

While this show does not have the best reviews, (which I can understand) I personally really enjoy this show, I can’t exactly put my finger on why, but I can confidently say that I find this show entertaining, it’s more of a comfort show than anything. To put it simply this is the show that I like to watch while I eat, which is an honor in my eyes at least.

 

Number 4- Moral Orel

What to say about moral orel, it was an adult swim show from the early two thousand’s that only ran for three years. But only in its three years of running I think that it was one of the most influential pieces of media in adult swim history. Moral Orel is unique in a number of ways, such as its unique commentary on alcohol abuse, and its overall commentary on Christianity and modern-day organized religion. On a final, less important note I really like the designs. While it is animated it is based on real life puppets and clay animation which I think is really, really unique. I think it is a style that is hard to do but when it is done well, I am always a fan.

 

Number 3- Smiling Friends

 

So, for the first member of the top three I have smiling friends. I’m going to just explain my opinion and if you haven’t seen it, I HIGHLY recommend watching this show. Out of the top three that I have on my list this is the only comedy that I put, while I do love comedy, I do really enjoy drama, but in terms of comedy, I think that this show is close to perfect. Coming out in 2022, it is a relatively new show, however, with their use of very monotone dialogues and reactions in comparison to their extremely unique animation style it makes for a piece of media that has revolutionized what we know about comedy today. This is why it is on my number three spot.

 

Number 2- Midnight Gospel

Some might ask, “Oh isn’t that the trippy show” and yes, you might be right, however it is so much more than that. The absolutely incredible dialogue that was sourced from one of the creators’ podcasts that they use for the dialogue on this show is on another level. They speak on topics like meditation, regulation of widespread drug use, death, mindfulness, and mental health.

 

Number 1

“Oh yea, of course Cooper likes this show,” I can hear your thoughts, Chanel.  But I will not be explaining why this show is at the top of my list, because this show is quite literally a masterpiece, and the only way that I could possibly explain to you how much of an impact this show has had on my life is if you go and watch this show for yourself. I am serious, if you are to take anything from this blog I have written today then please, let it be that you have to watch this show.

More random stories 🙂

 

1. My brother ripped his pants at my 10th birthday party. I had my party at Altitude (trampoline park) and my brother decided to wear khaki shorts. This is how the conversation between my mom and brother went when she saw what he was wearing…

Mom: Ohhhh Thomas you better go change into something more flexible. Those are going to rip

Thomas: No, it’s fine.

Mom: Ok well at least bring an extra pair of shorts in case.

Thomas: No mom! I’m not doing that, I told you it’s fine!

We leave for my party. About 30-45 minutes in, he ripped his pants. My dad took him across the street to WalMart and got him a new pair of pants.

2. One time when I was in 7th grade I was dying my hair pink and my dog was in the bathroom with me and as I was applying the dye, it dripped onto her shoulder. After that I rubbed more in so she had an entirely pink shoulder instead of one spot. She ROCKED that look lol.

3. One time when I was like 2 or 3 I took my moms eyeshadow and painted my stomach blue with it. I was so proud of myself.

4. When I was younger I used to dress the dogs in my clothes.

5. Our family friend, Deacon Rick, (yes, he’s a deacon) flicked holy water at me one time when I was like 5 and I hissed at his and he looked at my parents and said, “at least she didn’t sizzle”

6. One time when I was nine I took my house robe, put it on a hanger, taped a sheet of paper(with a face drawn on it) onto the hanger, somehow put my leggings in the robe making it look like the robe had legs, also somehow putting shoes on the leggings making it look like feet, then going to the second story bathroom window and reeling the “person” outside to the first floor window in the family room where my family was.

7. One time (before the house robe incident) I took a little fairy toy of mine and tied some sewing thread to it, hung it out the second story bathroom window, and banged it against the first floor living room window where my brother was. He screamed.

8. When I was in kindergarten I used to cut my hair a lot. The teacher would send me home with my hair in a bag, in my bookbag. My mom still has all of the hair.

9. My brother said this to me when he told me about when I was learning to walk, “You know those toys where it’s a little doll on a stand and you pull the string and it stands up and if you let the string go a little it starts to droop and then fall? Oh yeah, your head was magnetized to the ground.”

I’ve had a multitude of special interests (also known as hyperfixations) over my life. They’ve lasted for years- the shortest one being my first, I believe, and it was on the LEGO movie, which I watched at least fifty-one times according to my counter. I was really young then, and the movie still slaps. My interests shifted as I grew. Undertale, Steven Universe, a myriad of Danganronpa characters from all across the games… Wings of Fire and Warrior Cats were probably special interests too, at one point. Despite how many times my special interests have changed, it wasn’t until recently that a thought occurred to me, years into a hyperfixation I knew was a hyperfixation at the time:

“What will happen when I change hyperfixations? Will I feel like I’ve betrayed my old one? Will I not love it anymore? Will it not make me smile? Will I even notice if its gone, and if I don’t, is that worse? What if I just never change hyperfixations?” 

These thoughts terrified me. Change is a frightening thing, and I really did think I’d feel guilty- like I would be turning my back on the characters that had meant so much to me for years upon years.

Anyways, guess who changed hyperfixatons not that long ago? Surprise, past me, it’s me, and changing special interests didn’t hurt you. It does feel kind of weird, though, which is why I’m writing this post. 

I still love my past special interest, but past me was kind of right. It doesn’t make me smile like it used to. Not in a bad way, mind you- it makes me smile sometimes, but in a mellow way that’s nothing akin to the “oh my gosh are you ready for a five hour rant about this subject” smile it gave me previously. Thinking about it that way does make me kind of sad, but its true. It also sounds harsher on paper than it actually feels. 

Another thing that interests me about this change is that my current special interest is on my own character and my friend’s character, who are story-related. This is my first time having a special interest on something that isn’t a widely known form of media- there’s no show to go to for content, no fanart to see, no fanbase apart from my friend group. I’m already very bubbled when it comes to fandoms, so only discussing it with a small group of people isn’t new, but it’s still kind of weird. On the plus side, though- this is my own character! I can write him as my own, I can make things canon, there’s no terribly out of character fanon (aside from 3:00 am memes.) I also get to write him with my friends, and being present as a story unfolds gives me the same amount of joy as watching a show or reading. So, that’s great! 

That’s pretty much it for this blog post. Minds are interesting flesh blobs.

Today I am going to talk about two books that I have read recently and recommend to other people who haven’t read them. I know there’s this generalization about classic books being boring but I consider these worth it. 

Frankenstein

I read Frankenstein in under three days, finishing the first four chapters in a singular night. I read this book soon after Dracula by Bram Stoker.

I want to begin this blog by saying that I had no idea what I was getting into when I began reading it. I think everyone has the general idea about Frankenstein given how many times its been referenced but if you have any perceptions of this book not having read it, I can assure you they’re probably wrong. 

Going into it I thought it was going to be a simple story about a mad scientist creating an abomination and having to deal with society’s reaction to said abomination. But this novel goes much deeper than that, it tells a story of love, loss, and revenge. And not being fulfilled by revenge. It’s heavy on the theme of being othered and not fitting in with society. A big aspect of the novel I didn’t expect was how much Mary Shelley honed in on the perspective of Frankenstein’s monster.I don’t want to get too detailed with this because I want to avoid spoiling it but I promise it’s worth the read.  

Dracula

This book was much slower of a read for me than Frankenstein, it took me months to finish due to spans of weeks where I wasn’t reading at all. In my personal opinion because of it’s formatting being mostly newspaper articles and journal entries was harder to get into and there were a lot of chapters that felt very still but when the story was moving oh boy was it moving. A lot of the characters introduced felt like they had a very distinctive purpose and when they were in danger I cared a great deal about the outcome. 

Also as someone who is very into vampires, seeing the early lore of Dracula was incredibly interesting. How almost canine like he was, with him always having his fangs bared and being hairy. Also his ability to summon wolves. 

I do think this book is worth reading though, the way the story builds was very fun and interesting. Once you get used to the format it becomes more fun to read. 

I also don’t want to spoil this book for anyone who hasn’t read it. 

Hey guys no story today or talking about characters. I wanted to get other opinions on something and if you read the title, you already know but I want to know if you guys think it would be a good idea for me to post more on Tumblr.  I already have some post on there but it’s like two or three, I think. I don’t have many social medias and the ones I do have I don’t really post on but unlike the others I really would like to post more on this one because I feel it’s safer than the others because there are less risks with posting then on say TikTok, Instagram, or Facebook.

     I know someone going to say that Tumblr probably has the same risks as all the other, but I can say with confidence that out of all the Social Media apps/sites that are still running today that Tumblr is the safest. Why you ask because most of the toxic influencers are all on the other apps that they know most of the world population is on all the other apps. So, I just want to know what you guys think about it.

     So, I don’t know if I talked about this before, but I started crocheting and recently I just finished a project and now I’m going start a new one, but with this new project I’m doing I’m thinking of trying to sell what it is so I can make side money because I hate asking for money when I need it. So, I want to know if y’all something like that happen and if yes do you know a way, I can get the word out to people because as said before I don’t really post on social media.

      Do you guys think have a cat is better than having a dog. In the future I want both but some people say it’s not good to have those two animals in the same house but I really want both of them so what do y’all think. Which pet is better to have. My mom and dad will probably never even think about getting me a pet since I’m at MSA and going off to college in like two years, but it doesn’t hurt to try you know.

 

I can’t really think of anything else so how about since I asked some questions in this blog feel free to ask me some questions in the comments (If anyone is still reading this).

If you are still reading this, you’re a brave soldier for reading all this nonsense but thank you and I hope it made you laugh even a little.

 

Have a great day 🙂