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In TPOT 17 you can FEEL the missed potential of a Yellow Face-Taggy friendship and the challenges kinda became boring to watch without his semi-antagonistic yet comedic personality, he’s the reason why TPOT 12-16 CloudYAY is one of my favorite object show teams oat

This is supposed to be Dora....

Reupload because I can't count lmao

Skin names (from left to right): Rainbow Match (Match), One Gaty (Gaty), Saw Pencil (Pencil), Blue Firey (Firey), Streamer Needle (Needle), Alien Remote (Remote), Teto Pin (Pin), Mesmerizer Leafy (Leafy), Rainbow Puffball (Puffball), Headphones Gelatin (Gelatin)
and yes here’s how i made this: rough sketch, lineart, base color, details, outline details, small changes, another outline, final result.

I like to imagine sometimes she sucks at intimidating people

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(Image unrelated.) Lowk Announcer fits this description the best for me (please don't kill me for my opinion)

Hi guys, I like pillow BFDI

i can't wait for idfb because we'll probably get liy screentime.... y'know, with the whole idfb 2 hype, i haven't seen anyone talk about the fact that we'll get more news about the bfdia 5b remake this month

anyways liyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

gonna ramble, but i keep seeing posts about the one storyline being retconned or poorly written, but i fundamentally disagree. you know what my REAL problem with modern tpot is? pacing

take one's storyline, specifically her death. its clever and well written. in tpot 20, we get her backstory, which is ambiguous in places and neither leaves her in a fully sympathetic or unsympathetic light, but then, in tpot 25, we get the reveal that its told from her perspective and she is an unreliable narrator.

thats revealed at the very end of episode 25, and nicely, it was not very in your face, the scene passes by and you go "oh. oooooooh." its underplayed because of all the other nonsense going on

"shocked, One remembers Six showing Ten a prank that Six pulled on Seven by blowing soap bubbles into his eyes. One then remembers the same moment from another perspective, revealing herself shouting at Six and Ten. She also recalls being trampled by Zero and yelling at him and Fourteen."

(its her epiphany, as paralleled by pencil)

"As Pencil approaches One, she repeats the question and explains that she once believed she was kind as well. However, after reflecting on her past behavior, Pencil wondered what her former self had been doing. She recalls how easily she became upset and how frequently she grew angry before again asking One whether she was truly kind. "

but, big but, i honestly wish all this wasnt buried under everything. even in one's death scene, you get a CONVEYOR BELT of narrative/movie/book tropes in succession. like, literally, here's my reaction to the whole death sequence:

• "pencil paralleling one make sense, yeah being a good person vs thinking you are" 
• "oh. oooh. yeah that makes sense, unreliable narrator, we see things from her perspective" 
• "okay, one giving three the power to fix everything, yeah that makes sense, her 'plan' all along and part of her justification to herself" 
• "three trying to kill one, yeah, yeah that makes sense, she would harbor resentment and it shows that one was pathetic and didnt solve anything + death as redemption"
• "pencil saving one? makes sense. again, showing pencil's growth + death as redemption"
• "one realizing shes the bad guy while dying + one's shattering calling back to three's? yeah, makes sense, extra cinematic. also, yeah, death as redemption"

i was satisfied but more in a "yeah its all adding up, good job writers" instead of being immersed in the story lol

its not bad, not at all. im glad that they kind of took the standard, by the books route with devices such as bookends, parallel character arcs, foils, unreliable narration, death as redemption, taking the bullet, etc etc instead of trying to be clever and fumbling it. 

but that also has the consequence of feeling like every book and movie ever synthesized into one lol, and i dont even know why. usually when i see these tropes, im all in and enjoy the hell out of them instead of detached inquiry. id cry at a good taking the bullet, cheer out of my seat to get a villain get comeuppance, left a little hollow at like an unfortunate demise.

and its not like bfdi CANT do this. I was jawdropping at Three's initial death in TPOT 20, extremely engaged in One's not too atypical backstory, cheering Leafy on when she was beating Three. here, i think the difference is the episode just keeps... moving. long denouncement, rejoin, post credits scene

the thing that got me to say this was that i hadnt even internalized the tragedy of one's death until NOW lol. i understood WHY it was tragic and if someone asked, id be able to tell them why its tragic, but its that feeling that didnt come lol. and that shows me that the pacing really did fuck with my perception

tpot 23-25 is paced like an incomprehensible 3 issue comic book crisis crossover event, except theres no tie in series and everything is just crammed into the mainline "tpot" series

its the worlds worst balancing act, you NEED to decompress stuff, but the thing is that the arc is extremely polarizing so some people dont want more time given to it, but then you contract it and lose the effect on stuff, plus putting in comedy for the casual viewers not to make the tone shift too dramatic, etc etc

Eggy haters. They bash literally anyone who even remotely likes Eggy and acts like they just committed a war crime. And the reason for this hate is completely bullshit too. "Eggy is mean!" Well so is Fries, Pillow, and Four. But only one of them is hated for doing bad things, and the others are praised to all hell. "Eggy does nothing!". No shit, y'all won't even give her a goddamn chance in anything ever. Not even fan projects. FYI, don't call me an APOY alt, I only have her in A tier but it pisses me off seeing people who like Eggy get flamed or people just hating Eggy fans as if we're all APOY alts, istg Eggy haters are more toxic than her defenders.

Edit: If you actually don't like Eggy, I'm fine with that, but at least be respectful and don't be like the toxic people I described.

Edit 2: Appreciate the respectful discussions. I do like seeing honest takes on this.