What makes a Catchphrase Good or Annoying? Also; Happy Pi Day, Everyone!!!

So we're watching Cyberchase, and Inez says "this is not good. This is not good at all!" and Penguin says "I've heard her say that so many times. I think it's a catchphrase." and I'm all "Well of course it's a catchphrase" and I start thinking, Her catchphrase is super annoying. But Digit's [Yoikes!] is awesome. Why? So here's a list of the qualities of good and bad catchphrases. :-)

• "Got it memorized?"
• "Curse you, Perry the platypus"
• "The same thing we do every night, Pinky: Try to take over the WORLD!!!!!"
• "eso es!!"
• "Elementary, my dear Watson"
• "What's up, doc?"
• "oh, bother"
• "Oh, d-d-d-d-d-d-deeeaaaarrr!"
• "Tee-aye-double guh-urr! That spells Tigger"
• "TTFN! Ta-ta for now!"
• "Directive?"
• "Foreign contaminant"
• "I'm Junie B. Jones. The 'B' stands for Beatrice, only I don't like Beatrice, I just like the B and that's all."
• "Hello, how are you? I am fine, only..."
• "Okie dokie lokie"
• "'Oh, you know what I mean.' 'I do.'"
• "Aw, phooey"
• "Hey! What's the big idea?"
• "At my old school, we never ___"
• "According to my research..."
• "Wait.. Isn't this the police station?"
• "Consider it done."
• "Random Person: Aren't you a little [Blank #1] to be doing [Blank #2]? Phineas/Candace/Whoever: Why yes, yes I/we am/are."
• "To the creature rescue!"
• "Free and in the wild"
• "Aa-aaAAAAApppleloosa"
• "As if!"

A one-word catchphrase is one that is thrown into other phrases, like Applejack's "sugar cube", not a whole phrase, but used very often by the character.

One word catchphrases:

• "Darling"
• "Thrilling!"
• "Sugar cube"
• "Yoikes"
• "Gawrsh"
• "Ahyuck"

So. Bad catchphrases:

• Long
• Repetitive
• Wordy
• Doesn't make sense for the character
• Doesn't make sense for the world
• Used in bad context (This is the worst one for me, and hurts catchphrases such as "as if" and "ahyuck")(Don't get me started on Ahyuck)
• Unmemorable
• Slow

Good catchphrases:

• Makes sense for the character
• Makes sense for the world
• Quick (Not necessary)
• Unique
• But not too unique
• Used in good context
• Memorable
• Makes sense for the type and genre of the media (e.g. a closing remark of a kids' tv show)
• Funny (not necessary)

(Last edited: St. Patty's day last year. Let's get this out by its anniversary?)

Catchphrases are often used along with a specific gesture ("Got it memorized?" "Eso es!!") or meter ("Tee-aye-double-guh-rrr", "Free and in the wild") which also affects the oodness of the catchphrase, for example, a full body motion won't fit well in all scenarios, and a slow meter will take a long time and that is one reason why "this is not good. this is not good at all" doesn't work: it is meant to be used in contexts of an immediate threat, but the time it takes to say it all feels wrong as it will detract from the time you have to come up with a solution.

"What did the goofy say when he crossed the street?"
"Ahyuck?"
"He said a-hyuck!!"
-taking a break from playing EM2 to recharge the wiimotes, so Penguin (as ... Mickey? I think?) told me (as Oswald? unless it's the other way around lol i don't feel like digging around) a "joke".

BTW--- finished Feb fifth, set to publish on St. Patty's Day
SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTT
I DIDN'T HIT PUBLISH SO IT DIDN'T POST ON ST PATTY'S
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh come on. I hit publish now (4/2/17) and it posts it on 3/17?????? What even? Ugh.

UPDATE: Penguin sent me this rebuttal:
"Aren't you a little young to be doing ___?" "Yes. Yes we are." Is a
good catchphrase though because although it's awkward after the first
episode (and makes sense in the context of the first episode [two
little boys just ordered enough steel to make a citywide roller
coaster] and should in other episodes if it wasn't made clear that the
kids are well known now and shouldn't be questioned), it's made into a
well done in-show trope because it is constantly subverted and joked
with (construction worker: "aren't you a little young to-" other
construction worker: "yes, yes they are. Sorry, Phineas, he's new.";
"aren't you kids too young for a haunted house?" Kids screaming in
terror: "YES! YES WE ARE!!"; etc)

Ok, fair point; in my defense I haven't really watched much Phineas and Ferb, and I haven't watched those episodes. She also said that this was a really good post!! :-) thanks bro. 

Plz Tell Meh

What do you want to see in media (tv, books, whatev)? Like, idk. This is kind of going off of my "Things I find Adorable" post but more requesty. Lol so like basically i got writer's block and I want a challenge sorta so like, a character trait, a description of a character, a description of a relationship (like, one of them keeps making burnt cookies and never learns to set the timer for less but only because the other one doesn't mind burnt cookies and the first one wants to give all the cookies to the second, only not that bc they're dogs so), or smth that you want to read about or whatever lol ok bye

March Snippets 2017

Hey guys this video is really well made and stuff. 3/2 11:22 PM

GUYS I forgot how much I love Lowly Worm. 3/5 4: AM  Gaww!

Using soft towels be like:

- 3/7 12:50 AM

Guys. How do you make a scale model of the universe (AKA infinity)??? - 3/9 sometime this evening.

You think you've got it bad????

OMg guys

Guys I found a really cool video here it is go watch it's really good. Aaa

I'm Stuck

How do you do that ice cream thing????
Or that fight on the way in to Deep Space??
Sighhh.

Yo, Guys, Tags Exist!

YEeaaaahhhhh I am tagging all my posts so you can find em more easily!!!!!! YEAy yay . ye . okay so. so do y'all want like some writing? llllllllllllllll this is a bad idea i'ma cringe at this in 2 years lol i've been cringing a lot today lllll my new tic is lllllllll so ye get used to it llllll. okya. aaaaaaaaaaaa what parttttt?? hhhh.

lol this was from January 26.
Anyway, you may have noticed the tags bar on the side of your screen!! That's a list of most of my tags. Generally they should be the ones that tag more than one thing, and a few good one-offs. You can click on them to find all the posts tagged with that. Ohhh that's why I didn't post this before. Lol I was going to put in some writing ok we could do that ok.

Nvm no way no no no.

Stuff I did While Punchy

"Wait until 5 to go to sleep," she says.
"then your sleep schedule will be back on track!" she says.
I got like 5 hours of sleep and now I'm not gon be able to go back to sleep, so I'm gonna play . . . Ohhhh you're right this is a good idea, thanks Penguin!!!

Fun things we did today while I was punchy:
Watched "Dancing in the Clouds"
Did about 50 thumb wars
Went to an art museum??????

Tonight, on "Things I Yelled While Playing Video Games"

While playing Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep HD(?), at 12:22 AM, Pupplez yelled: "I was killed by a bOX."

This concludes our report.

Writing? What?! Wonder Why I Wasn't Working on Writing Work on Writing. . .

A BEAUTIFUL ALLITERATIVE TITLE. Honestly, I don't know how I do it. Anyway, I really need to work on my novel, so I was reading this article on How Not to Write a Novel, and it is truly inspiring. So inspiring, in fact, that I am going to write!! (About writing)
+cue theme music+
Okay, so I am going to analyze (NOT "positively", sorry!!!) The Dragonet Prophecy, so minor spoilers, but only for the first book.
Also a thing about a mix-up that happens to me all the time :'-( Maybe it just means I have really high opinions of humanity..

Kingdom Hearts Vs. Kingdom Hearts II

I can't make a two-column comparison or anything so.

First we'll talk about individual mechanics, then broader things compared game to game. I'm bored so let's add Days and Re:Coded and CoM.
Spoilers will be marked like this. There shouldn't be spoilers for games other than the one that the section is about, and 1 and 2 but. Y'know. Also: be wary of pics and vids; they are likely to be spoilery! Check the words first, and then proceed. :-)

Funny story: I just watched an "Unpopular KH Opinions" video, and like 80% of the points were my legitimate feelings? And about half of them seemed like actual, popular things? So? Idk?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPhWDqqSe3Y
1: Trinity marks are good } Heck yes bruh
2. Manga is better than game } In it's own way, sure
3. Destiny Islands is boring. } NO way. But I have seen people who think this; and I can understand this.
4. Hundred Acre Wood is best part of game. Love unwinding with Pooh and co. } No; but when I was younger this was too true for words.
5. Combat system is bad } N.. I haven't really thought about it, but I don't think so.
6. Cloud looks better in this than FFVII } Idk.
7. Riku's progression to villain was too rushed } I could see that. But. I don't like Riku regardless. So.
8. Picking sword/shield/staff didn't seem to matter by end, they should make it matter more in future installments for replayability } This is true. The first part anyway. Idk if it should make a difference later though.
9. Only good thing about gummi ships is customizing; flying is tedious, and timewasting } I disagree with this; but in my experience, this is actually a popular opinion.
10. Kairi was meaningless } Uh-huhhh. Sure.
11. While summons look cool, but almost never use them. } Yep. Except Tinkerbell.
12. Neverland worse than Atlantica; flying mechanic was bad } No. No no.
13. Swimming and Atlantica were great } Definitely not. No one thinks that.
14. Magic system was clunky and bad } Maybe. But I still like Aero.
15. Story peaked at this game; simplest plot } Oh yes
16. Ice Titan hardest boss; Sephiroth easy once you know his pattern } haha nope. Even if the second part were true, the "hardest boss" would have to be the Phantom. You can just block for most of the Ice Titan fight.
17. Too simple; characters seem like lazy stereotypes. Fixed in later games. } Nah. Inverted. Mostly. Yeah.
All in all I think they mixed up what video they were doing.

Favorite Gameplay

Let's see. . .

I like. . . I like shortcuts! Does that count? My general setup is:

  ⃞    Aero/aerora/aeroga - if unavailable: Blizzard/blizzara/blizzaga

  ⃤     Thunder/thundara/thundaga

◯ Hi-potion - if unavailable: Fire/fira/firaga

 ✕ Cure/Cura/Curaga

Yo Guys!!!! Penguin's Here Lol OH ALSO I Have a New Obsession. Not Really an Obsession. But.

So Penguin was lookin at my prompts and then ended up looking at her old blog. There is one post and two drafts. Haha I am so much more successful than you.
Okay what about prompts????????? Wooooo
okay do:

[2-5] cosplaying and just generally havin fun.

"Where are you getting all these corks??"

Things I find Adorable

I want to include characters with these tics/habits in my writing:

Characters that:

• say "I love you" as a defensive thing, like a presomething (later: preemptive) apology? Like "What did you do?" (looking guilty) ". . I love you"
• call everyone adorable when they do things they find sweet, cute, or nice. I do that.

KHIII

So. I supposed to do "what I'm excited for in kh3"

Can I do some of my hopes? Cuz my hopes are mainly filled with:

Kairi kair i Kair???????????? KAIRI?? CAN WE HAVE KAIRI DO SOMETHING? YES PLEASE!!!
Maybe playable character Kairi? Idk Kairi is just... super adorable. and she needs to do something. It seems pretty likely, so.

So my favorite thing is cute confused tweens... like y'know, when Roxas is a li'l zombie and it's so cute? But also like cute little confused faces like this one here: Nvm idk. Sora is literally all the time soradorable so. Sighhh I'm so very tired. Do I always say that? It seems I do. Oh well.

Oh I'm excited that it seems like there's going to be--at least in some worlds--original storylines!!! Given what we know about Big Hero 6 world. . .
Aaa!! ORIGINAL STORYLINESSSSSSSSSSSS 

OOH

SIDEEEEE QUESSSTTTSSSSS

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ugh why is everything so terrible?

Like. It's a simultaneous battle of "dude, we're all going to die, panic time" and "bro, Kingdom Hearts is adorable and amazing, smiles, bro"
Sighh. So side quests, huh? I'm going with SHOOT! I was thinking of taking some pics but then I remembered. KHI is at grm's house.
the struggle.

Party Members

My favorite party members...

Ok we'll go game by game again bc.

KHI: 

Ummm idk. I like how sometimes in this game, you're forced to play without Donald and Goofy; there are multiple instances of this, the first (other than Destiny Islands, of course) is in Deep Jungle. There's also (off the top of my head) if you get bad evidence in Wonderland, a lot of Hollow Bastion, When you go to fight Hercules (because Sora [accidentally wrote out Hercules and looked over and realized...] is too hotheaded), and... Yeah is that it? Idk. But as I was saying, I love it cuz of the story reasons why it happens. In KHII, there's: Luxord battle, uhh I think all/most of the battles in what's that place called with like the gravestones or whatever? Idk, I just remember luxord... Final battle. Some of the Colosseum Underworld arena battles. Like... idk. Mostly, in that game, it's all for fights, and there's little to no story impact/reason. Other than at the end which is mostly just so we can have emu-sora. Which is great don't get me wrong.

Anyhow. My fave part member........................... uhh idk, maybe Peter Pan? Oh yeah I was also going to mention that you have to have Peter in your party to fight the Phantom bc he's the only one who can understand Tink.

Kiiiingdom Heeaaartssss

Dissney world vs Original worls? What does that even mean? ummmmmm? What?

(btw hey guysss I found THIS: which is exactly what we needed!

Here it is! Thanks to an anonymous suggester or two, I prepared a week in dedication to our red headed princess. And what better way of starting on the 8th where (supposedly) represents a day of reflection upon all beauty; a day to disregard all dwellings on we don’t have and appreciate what we do instead. Sounds very apparent for her, and I’m more than excited to share this. Tag every submission to either #kairisweek2017 or #cutiepiekairi so that I can see and reblog them on here.

Dates and activities:

April 8th (Day 1) - Favorite appearance / outfit

April 9th (Day 2) - Favorite scene

April 10th (Day 3) - Favorite interaction

April 11th (Day 4) - Favorite trait / feature

April 12th (Day 5) - Favorite quote

April 13th (Day 6) - KH3 hopes / wishes

April 14th (Day 7) - What character(s) relate to Kairi / Character crossovers

*April 15th (Day 8) - What you love most about Kairi / Free day (do whatever)!

Express those days anyway you want! Art, gifs, edits, text– doesn’t matter. Writers, cosplayers, or musicians are most welcomed! Don’t hesitate to get creative. This all about positivity for Kairi. Spread nothing but love.

So that's cool! Yay Kairi! OK so idk what to do for today's... aaaaaughh what does that even mean? Sighh. So. . 

My favorite Disney world is. . . . . . Hmm... I like Wonderland, it's pretty fun, and also Deep Jungle cuz of all the parkour objects and stuff (Yay Waterfall Cave!), and also Neverland cuz of the story and FLYING...

May favorite Original World is Traverse Town/Destiny Islands!!! Mmm so homely.

I think Destiny Islands would take the cake if
      a) we spent more time there
      b) we could go back there
      c) There were a few more things to do there.
:-DDD YeA

OK Guys, Here's the Deal

There's these things!
They're like, fruit.
But! /they come in a nice little easy to carry/open/eat from package! Here's a picture: 

See? So they're these cute little plastic cups of fruit.

HOOO BOYYY

My dad was looking at these and he read larxene as "larxner" and it was hilarious.
SO here are my Favorite Weapons: (if I do nothing good the rest of the week it's because all of my foreplanning went to today. Today, where I decided, foolishly, to draw my favorite weapons of every character. From every game. (with options). Yes. I did that.)

So the weapon on the lower right corner which I attempted before promptly giving up was the Dreamcloud:  so you can see why I gave up on that concept.

And that's why I didn't draw    
that one!                                  

Btw here's a pic of Way to the Dawn for ref:
SO! That was FUN, HUH? So I'm hoping that the pics are good enough quality that you can click on them and zoom in and be able to read the words? Cuz I could do that on my camera, so if I can't on the computer I will be Sad™™™ (lol I did it again).
It's close enought to tomorrow
AW SHOOT THE CLOCK JUST CHANGED.
I was gonna post this at 11:59
but now it's 12
oh well
good night lovelies

Comin back at 12:06 or so to add some references: way to the dawn specifically.
All of these can be found at https://www.khwiki.com/Way_to_the_Dawn (not that page specifically)(But it's a good place to start)(just flounder your way through the categories)

These are posted in order of drawing! Some of my favorites: "Katamari on a Stick" "Keyblade of Heart", the blade of "Oathkeeper", "Aer", and whatever Vexen's shield is called. Ok g'night!

He-hey! I checked and it appears that you CAN click on the pics to make them bigger, and you Are Able to Read the Notes! (Which is good bc they are lovely notes that I wrote while drawing)(Yes you should read them yes)(Let me know if you want me to add pics of them all for reference or links to pics)(Cuz I can do that)(but it will make the post way long)(and I don't know if you want that?)(So please tell me if you do)(And I will Make it Happen)(Ok goodnight for REAL)

Lul one more thing: I can finally close that window!!! The one that has Khwiki.com up on it! Goodbye old friend! I won't miss having you randomly show up when I accidentally click the very edge of my screen or when I click the desktop button and click it again!

Official Thoughts on Moana

Just got home from seeing Moana at the library (and walking home for my mile-"run") so here are my Official Thoughts on the movie. Spoilers (duh).

So Guys

Today is day 1 of kh appreciation week i guess hhh

My Surprise Part 4: Conclusion

AKA: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PENGUIN!!!!!!

Another Thing

This doesn't look right at all:  ???

Bc we can't Forget that Sora is a Hormonal Teenager

Guys, can we appreciate Sora's moodswings in the first game? In the manga at least it's lampshaded by Donald,

They just found Riku in Traverse town, he randomly disappears and sora says, "Where did he go?! I still had so much to ask him! Riku!" Donald reaches to him, saying, "Sora..." But Sora (who was already pretty far away from Donald?) perks up. "Oh well. At least he's okay!" and Donald falls over. Then Sora turns back to them and says, "Who knows? Maybe we'll run into Kairi soon, too. Huh? What's wrong, Donald?" and Donald (still on the floor) mutters, "Your moods sure change quickly..."

Later, on th Gummi ship, Sora is quiet. Donald turns asking, "Sora?" to which Sora replies, "I was thinking... Maybe Riku's mad at me... (But why would that be?"and Donald (looking mad/shocked) thinks, He actually WAS worried! 

Then at Neverland, this scene happens:












then watch this, in Traverse Town, right after:

Sora goes from entirely confident in his quest to find Kairi in Neverland, to very downtrodden and doubtful in Traverse Town.

Okay this Time we're Definitely in Another Universe

This is not how Wishing Star usualy looks, right? 

My Surprise Part 3

Doing another; worked on it all night and am exporting it now. I hope it works 😥😓😟

Well it dinged I hope it's all good 😓


IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately there's some stuff I forgot to edit out from the end 😯 But it won't let me fix that. . . I guess one use is it. Oh well. I'll get a different program. I can't share right now but you will love it!!

My Surprise Part 2

the file "may be damaged". When I say "try opening it anyway" it loads up nothing. I hate this program.

My Surprise

is almost done!!! Just have to go over it one more time. :-D

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