#scrambled rambles

They they got me okay... SO MANY DYNAIMCS

I was requested to do this tag game by @j-a-k-e-01040. I'm not sure how interesting this will be (because the only thing squarer than me is origami paper :D), but here you go, anyways!

Favorite Color: Blue. Any shades of blue for me, and I want to especially mention that putting blue in a gradient with either white, black, purple, or pink puts my whole being on a whole other dimension.

Currently Reading: Nothing at the moment. I recently finished アリス殺し (I couldn't find the official English translation for this title so uh... we'll loosely translate it to Murdering Alice) by Kobayashi Yasumi not 2-3 days ago, so now I'm just about to start ほしのこえ (Voices of a Distant Star) by Shinkai Makoto/Kano Arata.

Last Song: SAD. KPOP. SONGS. I'm going through my I-like-to-be-in-pain phase so I'm devouring EXO Chen's (my sad ballad king) two solo albums and his duet with Zhang Liyin to death, and also some of the sadder songs in Ateez's discography (i.e. Answer, Inception, Star 1117, etc), amongst other songs in my playlist. You're welcome to browse the songs and join me in my pain kingdom :D

Last Movie: I have no idea the last time I watched a movie. I have too short of an attention span for movies (and even series too, sometimes) so yea.

Last Series: Haha, I think I should be ready for anime fans to start coming at me with pitchforks and rocks, but I just finished Attack on Titan Season 1 lmaooo. Look, I've always known it's a good series, and I know the quality of the storyline and the OST and the way the OST plays with the scene and the voice work is very deserving of its widespread fame, but I just need to get into the mood to start a series. It just so happens that this mood is like... 4 years late lmao. Oh, also I'm also currently rewatching Haikyuu!!

Sweet, savoury, or spicy?: Sweet. Sweet is where the jam is, pun completely intended.

Craving: At the current hour, I want to eat fancy cheeses. I blame Youtube for this because I have never in my life seek out these cheeses, but 1 hour on Youtube and suddenly it's all oh, I want to try them (probably unaffordable for me) charcuterie boards =_="

Tea or coffee: Team Tea, all the way. Black tea (and its variations like Earl Grey, rose, mint, etc), green tea, I'm down for all the tea. No listen, I'm a pretty frugal person okay, but the two things I splurge on are books and tea.

Currently working on: Not thinking that I suck at everything and I should scrap everything at every turn of my edit lmao? :D There's some tweaking to the final chapter+epilogue of Cosmic Railway that I'm ironing out in the midst of a hectic work week so yea. Also, there are two ideas for a fic that I'm fleshing out; one horror (I REALLY wanted to try horror) and the other angst/drama, so that's still on the doodling stage. In the meantime, there are some WIPs lined up for short stories that don't take much time (it's just a matter of getting over myself and actually putting it on paper pft).

I love Mao Mao, I've wrote fanfictions drawn fantastic made bs theories cooked up all kinds of head canons, but holy shit is this show mediocre. Most of the episodes are just eh, but I'm not here to bitch about the episodes, I'm here to bitch about the characters.

First on the chopping block; Mao Mao. We're just gonna get him over with right now. Mao Mao is probably the most developed character in the show, but he's still 2D. His character just feels like he's traumatized, has daddy issues and tries to be tough to mask his series of emotional issues. His character is mostly trauma mixed in with an ego as big as Texas. I just feel he's one note. It's disappointing, most of his personality comes from the fans putting some in. Ego is such a loose character trait it's easy for people to build it up.

I once saw a post saying Mao Mao stans have daddy issues, and that is 100% true. Daddy issue people relate to him and since he's portrayed as the main and important character with a loose personality, people project onto him and accidentally give him more personality.

Then there's Adorabat's personality; more the lack of one. What is her character? What makes Adorabat herself? It's nothing, she's just a yes man fangirl with violent tendencies. Honestly if you cut her out of the show you wouldn't miss much. Don't get me wrong; Adoradad was an amazing episode, but it wasn't about her. It was more about Eugene moving on from his dead wife or girlfriend and trusting his daughter, as well as showing how connected Adorabat and Mao Mao are as teacher and pupil.

There was that one episode where Adorabat got a laser Canon on her leg, but there was nothing learned or developed from that. I get it; she's a five year old toddler, kids aren't exactly rich in character at that point, but can't she get a little more like why she wants to be a hero? Does it have connections to her dead mother to show it had an impact on her? Literally anything? Hopefully we can get some more character development in season two, she's a blank sleight so she has a lot of possibility for character development.

Ding ding ding, lightning round!

Tanya is a peice of cardboard, we haven't seen her enough to get a good feel for her character. Shin Mao is a stereotype for an emotional distant and neglectful dad. The sweetiepies are just set peices. Rufus and Reggie also have no character, their just one note villian characters. Bao Bao is a good boy, reminds me of the dog I use to have and died last year. Eugene is also an ok character, he doesn't really have one but his character arch was pretty neat.

As you saw I didn't include King Snugglemane, and that's because holy fuck it ain't good. We've gotten two episodes that feature him promently (I'm not including best in show in this, we don't see enough of him there) one is in my opinion the weakest episode in the series where he's just a spoiled little brat who needs attention. In the other episode he's portrayed as insecure in his own image. He doesn't really have a set character, but I actually don't have that much of an issue with that, but it's how he's coded in the show.

King Snugglemane is very feminine and we see that he has a passion for fashion; a common stereotype for gay men. Weither on purpose or an accident, that how he comes off and it is not good. Granted no one on the Mao Mao staff had confirmed nor denied this, but either way it should be fixed to avoid confusion or to give the audience a better representation of a gay man. Again, not confirmed or denied, but this is how I'm interpreting it.

I saved the worst for last like a smart boi; Badgerclops. Holy shit Badgerclops. Badgerclops is such a fucking prick to Mao Mao. Case and point; the puppet episode and the season two sneak peak. Mao Mao is obviously terrified of puppets, Badgerclops recognizes this, but because Mao Mao refused to admit it the guy torments him with the wooden little fucker. And in the story board we see him use a present Mao Mao gave him to manipulate Mao to do what Badgerclops wants. In his defense Mao Mao and Adorabat were prices to him too, but they fixed it. At least in the puppet episode he doesn't even say sorry. What's fucking worse is that Simon said in a tweet that Badgerclops wasn't suppose to learn anything because it's kid morals and he knows it (I'm paraphrasing, y'all are gonna have to trust me on this because I can't find the screen cap on Instagram) which is ten times fucking worse. Either A, he actually isn't that smart and didn't know any better, or B, he knew it was wrong but did it anyways.

B is way fucking worse, but A doesn't completely clean him up either. He's a dick, straight up, and it's disappointing.

But what's worse is what I realized looking back on the show, is that he is just the comic relief with the least effort put into his character. He says some funny stuff sometimes, but you gotta admit the comedy can sometimes come from the show writers playing off the fact that he's over weight.

I can't be the only one who realizes that the only over weight character that is prominently shown displays stereotypical fat people traits.

I have at least two solid moments to show this. The first is in Sick Mao, where Mao Mao touches all of the king's food when he's sick and Badgerclops is clearly upset to destroy the food. The second is in that episode where Badgerclops refuses to shower, and in an attempt to bathe him they lure him in with beignets and it works. There are also smaller scenes where Badgerclops picks food out of Mao's teeth and ate it, When Badgerclops and Adorabat leave Mao Mao to fight the sky pirates alone in that one episode where Mao gets hella leg Badgerclops and Adorabat fight over who gets to eat Mao Mao's cheesy paws. There's also a more subtler scene in Sleeper sofa when the trio splits up Badgerclops chooses to stay in the kitchen. But that's not all of the stereotypes.

Episode 4 in season one, Badgerclops gets upset and walks home, mentioning how much he hates walking. There's also the episode where Badgerclops runs away to join the sky pirates, the whole reason he does that is because he doesn't want to do his chores. Two other stereotypes that fat people hate exercise and are just lazy. I may be reading into this too much, but holy shit from what I'm seeing it ain't good.

Despite me trashing these characters, I still fucking love this show. It's my hyper fixation, I'm very attached to these characters and love them with all of my beaty little heart and probably will for awhile. I hope everything gets better in the second season and the characters are fleshed out more.

I was very skeptical about using fidget spinners to help focus, but with my hands completely occupied I understood everything around me like I was sober (and this was after I had smoked twice as much as normal).