Welcome to the Kingdom of CrescentSong!

Time for another look at Jp dub cookies - this time's dedicated to Red Velvet Cookie!

I normally put my own thoughts on the dub under a cut but this particular thought must be appreciated by all:

I finally pulled a beast, and I'm elated to say it's Tumblr's favorite blue bastard, Shadow Milk Cookie!!!

I had to dedicate a post to this simply to say I'm in love with his pull animation ngl - wish I had been recording my screen when it happened lmao. At least I got a few stills without it crashing the app!

And, as a postscript, here's a little fun fact I'd like to tuck away for posterity - it's of little relevance to anyone or anything of interest but I find it fitting:

Woe, Japanese dub Donald Duck Cookie be upon ye

(Also rip to Vampire who was clearly running up to say hi to Donald and then I Ruined it by scooping the indignant duck up /silly)

Random thoughts on the dub work below:

I finally sorted out how to record my screen, which is invaluable for my cookie run experience - namely, it gives me the chance to share dub lines with my friends, as one of the only people in the group who uses the Japanese dub!

I recorded Pure Vanilla as a sample to test, but I'm probably going to record more to share as I go - I also tend to have way more opinions on VA direction than necessary for crk, so I may decide to share these clips here with said commentary for fun!

For funsies, personal commentary for PV:

More interesting luck on the cookie run front - I finally unlocked Golden Cheese Cookie! She was my last ancient to find so I'm excited to have her on my team at last.

The interesting part, however, is that my game crashed before I had a chance to continue my pulls - and when I popped back in to do so? I unlocked this guy as well

And I haven't seen him in action (way behind on story mode) but unless I miss my guess, he strikes me as the caramel arrow to her dark cacao - aka a loyal guard/fighter type.

So the game keeps crashing on me anymore, but after all that good luck I decided to celebrate a bit by playing with the new arrivals! My eyes landed on charcoal first, in front of the Hug Bear, so naturally he got the welcoming ceremony of Into The Hug Bear /lh

I also put the #mycookie in The Hug Bear to test if I Could.... pop quiz, Where's Charcoal? /lh

(I'm pretty sure compared to other cookies in these two shots, it's kind of evident he Booked It once he was released from the Hug Bear's clutches lmao)

And then, My Girl came home after Literal YEARS of wanting her, well before there was even any certainty Devsis would actually make her recruitable.... So I had to give her a mini-welcome too, to celebrate being able to have her properly in my kingdom at long long long last!!

I decided to keep it simpler, rather than yeeting her across town into The Hug Bear's grasp - there was a tea party table, and a tea party cookie already Right There to help welcome her! By the time I set White Lily in her seat, Cherry Blossom was already five steps ahead, standing Right next to hers and only needing a slight nudge into her seat for a picture-perfect moment. It was like it was meant to be!

And then...

Vampire cookie RAN up to White Lily's side of the table... and stopped..... and just hung out there for a good 10 seconds or so, no animations or anything, just a secret third guest to the tea party!

Does it look socially awkward? Yeah honestly. But I think in its own way it paints an endearing image - White Lily arrived to the kingdom overwhelmed with guilt, uncertainty, waiting for cookies to be mad with her or chase her out. And here you have two entirely unrelated cookies with no prior attachment to her giving her the warmest welcome - one of whom simply couldn't contain himself and rushed over to join in on the welcoming party!

Like.

A REALLY good gacha day.

I'm not complaining but also uh. Game. U ok?????