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This guy is really going to regret sitting down with Jon

what’s funny about velma (2023) is that they’ve already tried a dark and edgy scooby doo remake. the first live action movie from 2002 was originally directed towards adults, and was rife with dirty jokes, drug references, and cleavage shots of daphne and velma.

you know why the final product didn’t resemble that at all? bc they realized early on that the edgy grimdark angle fucking sucked. they reworked the movie to be more family-friendly— still with a complex plotline, but without the gratuitous sexual references and adult jokes. they did end up keeping a few references to shaggy smoking marijuana (his love interest being named mary jane, for one) but they were super toned down so that they’d go right over the heads of any kids watching.

it wasn’t necessarily a kids movie. i was five years old when it came out, and i loved it, but it was fun for teens and adults to watch too. and even with the dated cgi for scooby, it still has a lot of rewatch value. ask yourself if you think anyone is going to be rewatching velma in 2043 the way people still watch scooby doo twenty years after it was released.

this weird trend of the past few years of remaking fun and campy media into something edgy and full of shock value (wednesday, riverdale, and that awful winx club series come to mind) is so boring and trite and misguided. if you want to make dark media so bad, write something original instead of borrowing the barest skeletons of existing media and distorting them until they’re unrecognizable. it’s such an insult to the creators to have their stories mutilated by people who have no understanding of or appreciation for the characters or audience.

excellent work with the cecilsweep votes - your reward is Grian getting an extra hour in the ball pit, full 2013-style.

MCYT SEXYMAN TOURNAMENT ROUND TWO

[ID: the sexyman bracket, with second round matches as detailed below.]

If you are just here to vote, not from tumblr, check here.

If you have questions about the tournament, check the FAQ before asking.

MATCHES (quick links to each poll added as polls are posted):

GoodTimesWithScar (1) vs MissTrixtin (65)

Jschlatt (32) vs Zedaph (33)

Technoblade (16) vs VintageBeef (49)

Captain Sparklez (17) vs Illumina (48)

Docm77 (8) vs Skizzleman (57)

FalseSymmetry (25) vs Sneegsnag (40)

RentheDog (9) vs F1nn5ter (56)

Oli Orionsound (24) vs ConnorEatsPants (41)

Ethoslab (4) vs Eddie the Rabbit (61)

AimseyTV (29) vs Clownpierce (36)

ScottSMajor (13) vs PeteZahHutt (52)

Jimmy Solidary (20) vs GeminiTay (45)

MumboJumbo (5) vs Grumbot (69)

ImpulseSV (28) vs fWhip (37)

Pixlriffs (12) vs Katherine Elizabeth (76)

Martyn InTheLittleWood (21) vs Charlie Slimecicle (44)

ZombieCleo (2) vs ZloyXP (63)

Eret (31) vs TinFoilChef (95)

PearlescentMoon (15) vs Awesamedude (50)

Philza (18) vs HBomb94 (47)

BDoubleO100 (7) vs VikingPilot (71)

Cubfan135 (26) vs LDShadowLady (39)

Joel SmallishBeans (10) vs RTGame (55)

Ranboo (23) vs Xornoth (42)

Joe Hills (3) vs ItzSubz_ (67)

Xisuma (30) vs SeaPeeKay (94)

Wilbur Soot (14) vs OwengeJuiceTV (51)

TangoTek (19)  vs Shubble (83)

Grian (6) vs Niki Nihachu (70)

Keralis (27) vs FoolishGamers (38)

MythicalSausage (11) vs JoJoSolos (54)

Quackity (22) vs Iskall85 (43)

Anything.

To the animals, the wolves, the lions, the foxes and cats and birds: Your eyes shine so brightly. Your fur is luscious, your feathers luxurious, your teeth furious and beautiful. Your claws are sharper than you think. One day, you will get them back. One day, you will be helpless, human, no more.

To the fairies, the angels, the aliens, the demons, the mermaids and sirens, the divine: Even here you are powerful. Even here you are divine and beautiful. Your wings are gorgeous, your horns and haloes majestic, your tails ethereal. Home will welcome you, welcome us all, with open arms one day.

To my fellow dolls, the marionettes, the puppets, the toys and ball-jointed: We may be delicate, but our subtle power defines us. We bend and move and dance in ways no human ever could. One day, our everlasting regality will return to us.

To the voids, the glitches, the abstract, the eldritch, the robots, the objectheads: Do with this brief moment of flesh what you will. You know who you really are inside, and that’s all that matters. Your soul still bleeds the color of the stars.

To the monsters, the zombies, the cryptids, the vampires, the werewolves and ghosts: The world will always fear that which it does not understand. We understand each other, and through this we have made our own world. We create our reality, and that’s what’s important.

To the therians, the otherkin, the fictionkin, voidpunks, and all other nonhumans: We are strong. We know who and what we are. We know what this flesh conceals. One day, the world will see us for who we are and accept us as her children all the same. For now, we persevere.

sorry just tearing up over the idea of multiple people using the pain-sharing spell. “with this spell declared, let the pain be shared,” except it’s said three, four, five times, the pain passed along and lessened each time. if we all hurt a little then no one of us has to hurt a lot.

As a fandom I know we love traumatizing Glinda.. (I do too) But we need to start letting her traumatize other people!

Give that Girl a Gun or a Knife!! She would absolutely deck the floor with them!!

Hell make her getting revenge on the people whom traumatized her!!!

What if Double Life was an RPG?