bogleech asked: Aw come on, do people always have to hate on anything new? The books are the books and the cartoon is the cartoon. It's a gorgeous and lovable cartoon, too!
Um
Except the book series was a completely different GENRE
I’m not hating on it because “it’s new”. I’m upset because Bunnicula was my childhood, and I have always ALWAYS dreamed of a movie or a show of it that reflected the reasons I loved it in the first place. The reasons MOST people loved the series. The characters and the silly mysteries!
The whole point of the Bunnicula Mystery of itself was questioning if he was a vampire or not. The family thinks he’s a normal bunny, and the cat is trying to prove he’s a vampire.
That’s the whole joke, that’s the whole premise, a cat who loves the Sherlock Holmes books who is obsessed with mysteries and drags a kindly dog who thinks he’s dumb in comparison to the cat (but is actually smart)
They continue on in more adventures with more fun mysteries outside of Bunnicula, strange things keep happening around them, and the series always ends proving that the cat was just overthinking things and things weren’t what they seemed. (But it always leaves some indications that perhaps some things were true after all, but not as bad as they were assumed)
The show, as far as I’ve seen, is the cat constantly trying to get rid of an overly obvious over obnoxious vampire rabbit with spooky weird magical powers.
That’s not remotely the same thing, they just slapped the names on the characters and it bothers me.
It really bothers me, because if I was a published author and my vision had the opportunity to come to life, I wouldn’t want it to be flanderized, stripped down, and completely rewritten.
So, Billy & Mandy version of Tom & Jerry for the animation?
It feels more like beetlejuice because they are trying to keep everything a secret the one causing it is doing it for the lulz.
In billy and mandy, they make grim do things and grim just wants out.
OK, so, the people who I look up to as my artistic idols:
Saccstry (So many prints on my walls and pillows!)
Hoihoi (I think that’s the right account?)
Shy Custis and Coey Kuhn (I got a book and prints by them!)
I’ll be adding more as I remember everyone, but that’s the list so far!
I recognize mcsqueezy but I should look into the others
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-Dipper and Mabel begin to keep a book of their own, recording the anomalies they find in California.
-It’s not a journal, however. It’s a Diary/Informational Textbook. (Accounts differ on its name.)
-That haunted house down the street? Crawling with ghosts. They’re friendly, more or less, so they don’t bother exorcising them. All they want is some company.
-No one is Piedmont expected the twins to come back with a lying habit and gambling know-how, but they do.
-Likewise, no one expects Mabel to con kids out of their lunch money with a game of cards, but she does. Daily. Fresh competition comes every day to try and beat her, but she reigns undefeated. The money is saved for bus fare.
-Their parents forbid Waddles, at first, then finally give in when they discover they’ve been keeping him at the haunted house.
-Teachers laugh when Dipper and Mabel tell them they’re going to become scientist and assistant, but they’re dead serious.
-Mabel plans on bedazzling the heck out of their lab.
-Dipper writes the entries; Mabel edits and adds illustrations. They’re both happy with this compromise.
-Mr. and Mrs. Pines can hear their children when they have nightmares, but no one ever brings it up, and it’s an awkward topic between them.
-Sometimes they say they’re going on sleepovers, when really they head to different places across the state (sometimes they’re gone for days) looking for anomalies.
-Seeing how they went to visit their great uncle Stanford in the words, people assume that grunkle Stan and great uncle Ford are the same person; storytime can get rather confusing.
-They bury their book when they’re not using it, in different locations each time.
-Their folks don’t know it, but the Pines household has become a sanctuary for magical creatures. As long as they aren’t seen by anyone and only take what they need, they can come and go as they please.
-Dipper and Mabel realize on the first day of school that they really don’t fit in with kids their age anymore. Highschoolers, however, find they can relate to them with ease. Also, they’re pros at hanging with old people, whereas other kids their age don’t know exactly what to say or do.
-They burned all their letters home. No one will ever read them.
-They actually like using triangles in math class; they can draw all over them and make them into different things.
-Despite how fond they seem to be for Gravity Falls, no one actually knows what all happened there. They always say that the fishing was nice.
-Whenever they say “You’ll need to know this as a law-abiding citizen of California”, or something along those lines, they exchange a look, because they’re not law-abiding and they don’t plan on staying in California.
-Before the next summer, Dipper and Mabel get arrested at least twice; once for shoplifting, the other for trespassing.
-The one time someone tried to pick on Mabel, they received a punch to the face. From Mabel. And Dipper. Everyone is astounded to find out there’s muscle under their baby fat, and that they can box.
-The one field trip they go on into a swamp ends in disaster when rumors of a beast float around. Dipper and Mabel disappear overnight, then stroll into camp the next morning deeply disappointed; fresh-water sharks, alligators, and an eel, but no monster. Why is everyone looking at them like that? Is it all the mud?
-Mabel wants brass knuckles for Christmas.
-Dipper wants a ray gun. (He’s building it himself.)
• Use the hand you write with.
• Make a fist with your thumb outside, not tucked inside. If it’s tucked inside your fist, when you punch someone, you might break your thumb. The thumb goes across your fingers, not on the side.
• Don’t be like in the movies—don’t aim for the face. Face punches don’t usually stop people, and you can miss when they duck their head or break your hand on their jaw. If you want to get away quickly, or end a fight, aim for the chest, or the ribs. If you really want to do some damage, e.g., you’re being attacked, aim for the throat, which will make it hard for your attacker to breathe for a hot minute.
• When you punch, you want to aim and hit with your first two knuckles. Not the flats of your fingers, and not your ring or pinky knuckles, which can break more easily. You can use your weight, if you’re on your feet, to add wallop, and spring into a punch with your feet and torso.
Useful information, esp. if you haven’t taken self defense.
I reblogged this once before to add this and I’ll do it again…
keep your wrist straight.
You can also risk breaking your wrist if you allow it to bend. I actually can’t believe this isn’t in there.
Other good pointers:
- if your attacker is male, go for his junk - especially if he’s wearing loose pants. There’s no sportsmanship when it comes to assault so fuck them balls UP
- punching pretty much ANYWHERE in the face is going to actually hurt you a LOT (just think - you’re punching your bones into their bones and ow). If you’re going for the face, my suggestion is to strick upwards with your palm.
see that meaty portion highlighted in red? There’s a lot of muscle and fat right there which makes it excellent for striking. Hold your hand as shown and aim for the nose or chin (though I’ve been told in extreme circumstances, doing this to the nose can be fatal but I’ve never really heard if this is true or not) and just aim upwards
- other delicate areas:
- the shin (hurts like a bitch if you kick it right - also, you can hit this spot if you’re being held in a choke-hold and if your attacker has to move in order to stop you from kicking him, he’ll have to angle his body so as to expose his stomach and crotch to the wild spastic jabbings of your elbows)
- the solar plexus (either jab while holding your hand in a sort of spear position or use your elbows - unless you’re super strong, your punch probably won’t wind your attacker. Your elbow or a spear hand will, however)
Originally in (most) martial arts, you hit the solar plexus because it supposedly contained an important chakra. Now we know that it actually also contains like a bunch of necessary organs that are exposed just below your ribs and is also (roughly) where your diaphragm lives so getting punched there is not pleasant.
- the clavicle (from experience, getting hit in your clavicle HURTS LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER. If you strike downwards with your knuckles, the person might just cry. Like I did.)
- the ear (this is probably the best place to punch besides the throat. It’s all cartilage so it probably won’t hurt you all that much and most people will be like “DUDE YOU PUNCHED ME IN THE EAR WHAT THE HELL”)
- the kidneys (this is harder to hit without training but if you somehow get your attacker’s back to face you, try to hit’em in the kidneys. Again, from experience, this FUCKING HURTS. You can’t really hit the kidneys from the front with any effect but from the back it is super painful)
- if you’re held in a choke-hold, try turning your head so the forearm isn’t pressed into your throat. If you can position yourself right, you can sort of force your chin into the crook of the elbow, making you able to still receive (limited) oxygen and provide time for you to kick some shins or elbow some spleens and shit
-Also, remember that a guy’s junk is not an off-button. Don’t think that you can rely on a swift kick to the balls to immediately incapacitate him in an emergency. Adrenaline and anger can keep somebody going for a long time even through extreme pain, and if you expect to end a fight with a single groin-attack you might be caught off-guard when he doesn’t drop. Certainly go for it if you get the chance, but keep hitting him until the fight is over.
-Draw blood if you can, especially if you can draw it from the face or the eyes. Blood in the eyes is not just a good way to impair your attacker’s vision, it’s also a really good way to freak them out and let them know that they might be getting more than they bargained for by picking a fight with you.
-Elbows and knees are really powerful weapons. Elbows are very sharp and very strong and if you are in close-range they are often more effective than trying to throw a punch.
-Yelling and shouting makes you scary.
Nothing much to add to this, it’s pretty much all there. So. Reblog. Oh, also, it’s really easy to break a nose - go for the eyes too. All it takes to avoid a shot to the throat is tucking your chin.
Also, that part about the ear - don’t punch. An open hand over the ear hurts a lot.Tumblr teaching me how to fuck a bitch up
Also if you fuck up their face it’ll be easier for police to identify the attacker.
If someone gets you from behind and you cant punch them, go for the underside of the upper-arm. A bad pinch there is legit so painful because that skin is super sensitive.
Also this cant be stressed enough, if the attacker is a guy then fucking rip his junk off.
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In elementary school art class, I drew a boy and a girl next to each other, but apparently it wasn’t heteronormative enough and the art teacher flipped a shit.
Why, might you ask? I gave the boy eyelashes. She told me boys don’t have them (who knew) and made me redraw it with a ‘proper’ boy. Amazing.
i’m no boy expert but i’m at least 10% sure some of them have eyelashes
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A new water breed
Jaguars actually love water, and are one of the few felines that happily swim.
I love how she’s just floating back up.
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i just figured out the perfect murder
kill someone and bury them in their own garden
that way if the police find them they’ll think it was a suicide
#welp looks like the victim committed suicide and promptly buried themselves in their garden #how considerate of them
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transness and gender variance aren’t pissing contests to see who’s most dysphoric or best fits the image of cisnormative ideas of trans people, don’t be afraid to explore your gender just because someone is wrongfully acting like a gatekeeper to the community
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