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Happy True Hearts Day everyone!

Hi everyone, just to let you all know the very sad news that unfortunately my former babysitter whom I really liked and was close to as a kid is very unwell right now, and her time is now very limited. This news came as a big shock a couple of days ago, as I had known she was not well previously but was not aware that she was getting worse. I'm hoping that I will be able to visit her in the time she has left and that she will be as comfortable and happy as possible in the coming weeks. My thoughts will be with her, her husband, and her kids.

Hi everyone, just sending an update that I had a great day today. In addition to great presents, great food, and some fun times with my parents, siblings, and brother in-law, I really enjoyed continuing my tradition of watching My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013) every year on this day for the 5th year running, to commemorate when I first watched it with my (now late) paternal granddad in 2021. The movie recently came out on Amazon Prime, so for the first time I saw it on this platform instead of my DVD, and I have to say the difference in quality felt like night and day, to the extent it almost felt like I was seeing a remaster of my favourite movie. Once again I had an awesome time revisiting this movie, and also had an oat milk hot chocolate with vegan whipped cream and an apple as a tribute to these foods appearing in the movie.

Today's my "veganniversary"! It's been a full year since I officially made my commitment to go strictly vegan on 24th Dec 2024 and I'm very proud of the journey that I've made. I'm looking forward to what the next year of veganism will bring!

My mom is unwell

I just learned for the first time that the Batman The Animated Series episode Joker's Favor (S1E22) in 1992 was actually the first time Harley Quinn ever appeared in anything, and she was originally supposed to be a one off character. I saw this episode last year without knowing that was her debut, and always assumed she had appeared in other media much earlier.

Happy 6th anniversary for me being on Super Mario Boards, happy birthday to my mother, and happy halloween!

Hi everyone, I just finished the bonus disc of Adventure Time. By far my favourite part was the Diamonds and Lemons episode, which was a fantastic crossover between Adventure Time, one of my favourite shows, and Minecraft, one of my favourite video games. I thought the art style perfectly incorporated AT's charm with the blocky Minecraft world, and I thought it was great to see so many iconic faces in Minecraft form, and the writing and dialogue was pretty great here (especially Lemongrab yelling "unacceptable!"). I also loved how many references there were to many different aspects of Minecraft (e.g. pumpkins prevent enderman attacking when you look at them, zombies rarely dropping carrots, bone meal makes trees grow faster), and even some things that are more community aspects than the game itself (e.g. "griefing".) I also loved the intro and credits sequences, and it's cool that Fionna and Cake briefly appear in the former too. My only gripe is that Endermen are repelled by rain in Minecraft but are unaffected in this episode. Despite this being a non canon crossover bonus episode, I would definitely consider this one of my favourite episodes of Adventure Time.

Other things on the bonus DVD included:

• The Farewell Tour: A 40 minute "behind the scenes" video featuring a lot of the staff and cast of the show, I didn't watch all of it as it didn't interest me that much but it's a nice inclusion.
• The Sonic Sounds of Ooo: Similar to the Farewell Tour but focused on music specifically, it was slightly interesting to me.
• Come Along With Me Music Video: A music video with colourful drawings to go with the song, it was cool but a bit too much flashing lights and colours for me.
• "Reboot" Animatic: This seems a very random inclusion, there is only one episode whose animatic is on the bonus disc when all the other animatics are in the discs for their respective season, but alright.
• Comic Con Concert: This was definitely my favourite part of the bonus disc besides Diamonds and Lemons, it was really cool to see the VAs do live performances of several songs in the series, including a lot of my favourites such as All Gummed Up Inside, My Best Friends In The World, I'm Just Your Problem, Everything Stays, and Time Adventure. Although I still prefer the OST versions, it's nice to see the live versions too.

That's all for my thoughts on the bonus disc! Looking forward to keeping you updated once I get to try out Distant Lands and Fionna and Cake.

Hi everyone, I just finished season 10 of Adventure Time! While I'm sad this adventure is over, I have very much enjoyed revisiting this wonderful series I loved as a kid, and the final season is no exception. Here are my thoughts:

• My favourite episode was the four-part season finale, Come Along With Me, which served as a fantastic conclusion to Adventure Time.
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  I really enjoyed the future setting and the new protagonists Shermy and Beth, as well as BMO still being around in the future in a hideout full of treasures referencing past episodes. I really loved both the songs in this finale too. It's also cool that they had a whole intro sequence just for the finale. I thought the story was very moving and entertaining and an excellent conclusion to things, and loved the montage at the end. I literally clapped and cried out in joy when Marceline and Princess Bubblegum kissed. I enjoyed the callback to the song from Fionna and Cake. One minor thing that bothers me is that King Man pronounced he is now King Man in Temple of Mars, yet they go back to calling him Normal Man here. I was kind of surprised by how well I could remember this episode considering I only saw it once before and that was 7 years ago.
• My least favourite episode was Blenanas, because I just didn't find it very interesting.
• I thought The Wild Hunt was an okay season premiere, and I enjoyed seeing more of Huntress Wizard.
• Always BMO Closing was a pretty fun episode with a silly premise.
• Son of Rap Bear was a fairly fun episode, and an enjoyable if less than perfect last episode to focus on Flame Princess. I enjoyed all the rapping and some hilarious whimsical moments, such as Finn saying "Rap Bear, Son of Rap Bear's father, said his son, Son of Rap Bear..." and Rap Bear having a dinner with his son that escalated into a rap battle and Rap Bear saying "he rapped my legs off." This episode has an interesting continuity error though, since Flame Princess says she usurped her dad when she was 14, even though that happened in the episode Earth and Water, and in that episode there was a flashback to baby Flame Princess which was outright said to be 15 years earlier, so she couldn't have been younger than 15 when she usurped him.
• Bonnibel Bubblegum was an excellent episode with interesting insight into Princess Bubblegum's earlier years.
• Seventeen was a cool episode, it's nice that we finally have an onscreen birthday for Finn again for the first time since his 13th in Mystery Train. Another fun coincidence is that this episode premiered in on 17/12/17.
• Ring of Fire was a fun episode showing Tree Trunks' surprisingly amazing backstory.
• Jake the Starchild was a pretty entertaining episode which further explains the true origin story of Jake and his powers. It has a great plot twist too.
• Temple of Mars was a great episode establishing that Normal Man became King Man, the new ruler of Mars, and showing what happened to Betty after "Elements". It has a great moral too. It also ends on a great cliffhanger that sets up for the season finale.

That's all for my thoughts on season 10! Next, I'm going to check out the bonus disc in my DVD collection and after that I plan to watch the successor series, Distant Lands and Fionna and Cake, one day.

Hi everyone, I recently finished season 9 of Adventure Time! This season was surprisingly the shortest by far at just 14 episodes, but it was still a good one. Here are my thoughts:

• Surprisingly, season 9 kicks off almost immediately with another 8-part miniseries "Elements" - with just one episode, the season 9 premiere "Orb" in between them. In my opinion this was the highlight of season 9, I would say I enjoyed it more than "Islands" but less than "Stakes." If I had to pick one favourite part I would choose the last part, Skyhooks II. I do think that Cloudy was pretty boring and blatant filler though.
• My least favourite episode was Fionna and Cake and Fionna, because while not as disappointing as The Prince who Wanted Everything it's still definitely a weaker F+C episode that barely even utilises the F+C universe since most of the episode is actually set in the main universe with F+C only seen in some parts through the video tapes. The only really interesting part of the episode is the introduction of an elderly Fionna in the "real" world, and
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  She turns out to be an imposter.
• Orb was a pretty nice season premiere which acts as a nice break between the Islands and Elements mini-series and does a good job of wrapping up the events of the former and setting up for the latter. It has a very interesting story about dreams.
• Abstract was an interesting episode focusing on Jake and showing more of Jermaine and his passion for art.
• Ketchup was a cool episode showing a fun dynamic between Marceline and BMO, having interesting retellings of the events of Elements and even showing more lore about those events which we hadn't previously known. The ending is very touching too.
• Whispers was a very entertaining but ominous episode.
• Three Buckets was a pretty good season finale, with a dramatic plot and climax, and a very mysterious ending.

That's all for my thoughts on season 9! I actually already started the first 3 episodes of season 10 without realising it, because my DVD set lumps together seasons 8, 9, and 10 as just "The Final Seasons" and so I didn't realise where season 9 ends and season 10 begins until I looked it up haha. Nonetheless I'm really looking forward to watching the rest of it, albeit I'm still very sad that I only have one season left now.

Hi everyone, I just finished season 8 of Adventure Time! I thought this was a pretty good season overall, perhaps not my favourite but still very enjoyable. Here are my thoughts:

• My favourite episode was Five Short Tables, since it's awesome to finally have another great Fionna and Cake episode for the first time since season 5 (The Prince Who Wanted Everything wasn't great imo), which is also a fantastic crossover with the "Five Short Graybles" format. The scenes in this are all very enjoyable, especially the one with Butterscotch Butler who speaks with a prominent Glaswegian accent, Marshall Lee and Lumpy Space Prince's acting scene, and when we go layers deep into fanfics when Ice Queen reads a fanfic about Ice President reading a fanfic to Flynn the Human Being and Jacques the Racoon, about Janet the Fox and Lynn the Person.
• My least favourite is hard to decide since all of the episodes were pretty enjoyable, but probably Horse and Ball since I just didn't find it as interesting as the others. I think James Baxter is okay but not my favourite as a character and didn't feel I needed another entire episode focusing on him. I did appreciate getting to see more of Raggedy Princess though since I find her pretty cute and remember mildly identifying with her when I was younger due to her being shy.
• I thought Broke His Crown was a fantastic season premiere, once again it was awesome to have another Marceline and Princess Bubblegum focused episode and they both have pretty cool hairstyles and outfits here too, and the plot was very interesting too.
• Beyond the Grotto was a supremely weird episode but reasonably enjoyable.
• Lady Rainicorn of the Crystal Dimension was a pretty interesting episode which tells us more of Rainicorn's past.
• Bun Bun was a pretty cute episode, and it's good to see Flame Princess and Finn having a friendly chat where they make amends, and Flame Princess being into rapping now.
• Normal Man was an excellent and nostalgic episode which really hit close to home for me as I really related to Normal Man's character arc of seeking redemption for his past wrongs and reconciliation with his brother, despite having lost his powers. The scene where they climb the mountain and face its many challenges is pretty cool too.
• Elemental was a pretty interesting episode, dropping more lore about the elements and introducing a very mysterious and kinda fun kinda annoying character Patience St. Pim.
• Daddy-Daughter Card Wars was a cool episode featuring the return of the cool game Card Wars from season 4, and with a good moral about being respectful even when you don't win. I also enjoyed the focus on Jake's daughter Charlie.
• Preboot / Reboot was a brilliant two-parter with a captivating plot, if a little confusing.
• Two Swords and Do No Harm were also great episodes following on from Reboot, introducing an interesting (if confusing about how he came to exist) new character Fern. Finn trying to be a doctor was quite entertaining too.
• Wheels was a decent episode introducing Bronwyn, who I quite like, but it feels incredibly weird to think that Jake is already a grandfather and even weirder that Finn is already a great-uncle (who, interestingly, is confirmed to still be 16 in this episode meaning he hasn't had a birthday yet since the season 6 finale.)
• High Strangeness was a pretty interesting episode focusing on Tree Trunks and further exploring Princess Bubblegum's moral ambiguity as a character, but the whole having a family with aliens thing was a bit weird.
• Jelly Beans Have Power is a cool episode where Princess Bubblegum learns to use her new superpowers.

Happy half-birthday to me! I'm exactly 22 and a half today, meaning I'm exactly a quarter of the way to being 90!

Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that unfortunately due to something I didn't foresee until this morning I won't be able to be there for the awards ceremony tomorrow night. I'm sorry I couldn't make it this year but I hope it goes well and I hope to make it next year!

Hi everyone! I just installed Debian Trixie on my PC for the very first time! It came out a few days ago.

The update process went very smoothly and I'm enjoying it so far without issues, however I wouldn't say there are any new features specifically that I've found useful - maybe that just says how great Debian 12 was already! I also love the new theme "Ceratopsian" by Elise Couper.

Here is my desktop after updating:

Hey everyone, I just finished season 7 of Adventure Time. Interestingly, this season is back to being 26 episodes long, like the first four seasons. I think this season was quite good overall.

- My favourite episodes were the 8-part Stakes mini-series because it was amazing to finally revisit a very nostalgic mini-series I really loved as a kid, and it totally holds up! If I had to choose a favourite part, I would say May I Come In (part 5/8) because Hierophant was my favourite villain.
- My least favourite episode was President Porpoise is Missing because I found it a little bit bizarre and not very interesting to me.
- Bonnie and Neddy was a fairly strong season premiere revealing Bubblegum and the Candy Kingdom's true origin story.
- Varmints was a totally brilliant episode and by far the best in season 7 outside of Stakes, like Sky Witch I loved having an episode focusing on the relationship between Princess Bubblegum and Marceline.
- Football was a surprisingly dark episode but I quite enjoyed it.
- The More You Moe, The Moe you know was a decent episode, interestingly this is the first two-parter where my DVD collection lists it as a single episode in the menu and it plays the two parts on one continuous video, so I was confused about why this episode was lasting so long. Another very interesting fact, albeit one I didn't discover until afterwards, was that the promo art for this episode reveals that the character Moe is a Jewish guy, since we see him lighting a Menora (the candle with seven branches).
- Blank Eyed Girl was a pretty creepy episode with a really weird ending but I kind of enjoyed it.
- Bad Jubies was a fairly nice episode in a very interesting different animation style.
- Scamps was a fairly fun episode showcasing how non-conventional learning techniques can be effective.
- Crossover was quite a convoluted episode but still very enjoyable.
- The Hall of Egress was a brilliant and extremely interesting episode, though confusing in parts, especially Bubblegum's voice saying "At the seashell's center lies the Cornucopia's smallest door." which I don't understand. I feel like this episode is probably meant to have some deep meaning and maybe I just don't get it yet.
- The Thin Yellow Line was a pretty fun episode in its own right, but underwhelming as a season finale. This is the first time since season 1 that the season finale felt like an ordinary episode and not an epic special with a cliffhanger ending that opens the door for interesting new things to happen in the next season. I would have preferred The Hall of Egress as the season finale since it was much more interesting.

That's all for my thoughts on season 7! Totally looking forward to season 8!

I'm a bit late to post this but I recently rewatched the whole of DC Super Hero Girls G2 (apart from Superhero Feud and Space House, the first two TTG crossovers) in about a week and I really enjoyed it! It's still easily one of my all time favourite comfort shows, and it's a shame it had to end when it still had a lot of unused potential, but I'm glad I got to experience it nonetheless. I look forward to rewatching the show in future again and playing more of the game Teen Power and maybe reading some of the books/comics as well. Strong recommend to any fellow fans of superhero media or female oriented franchises!

Fun fact, if you go to duckduckgo.com and search for "mario", the icon changes to a duck with Mario's hat, moustache, and overalls.
DuckDuckGo is better than Google confirmed.

Hi everyone, I just finished season 6 of Adventure Time. Interestingly, this season had 43 episodes making it shorter than season 5 but still longer than all other seasons before it. Overall, I'd say season 6 wasn't as good as season 5 but still very enjoyable. Here are my thoughts:

- My favourite episode is kind of hard to choose as there weren't any truly standout episodes for me, but probably Joshua and Margaret Investigations since it was interesting to see an episode set in the past, showing us Jake's true origin story and getting to see more of his parents.
- My least favourite episode was The Prince Who Wanted Everything, since it feels dissappointing compared to previous Fionna and Cake episodes, as I found the plot uninteresting/cringe, it mostly focuses on Lumpy Space Prince who I don't like (despite liking Lumpy Space Princess), the characterisations of Fionna and Cake feel bland/out of character, and other established characters from the F&C universe like Gumball, Marshall Lee, and Ice Queen do not have significant roles in this episode.
- I thought Wake Up / Escape From the Citadel was an okay season premiere, but it felt quite confusing/chaotic and I really dislike Finn's human dad as a character.
- I really liked Sad Face, it's one I faintly remember watching as a kid, and it feels simultanteously bizzare, interesting, and meaningful.
- Furniture and Meat was also quite a fun episode with a meaningful moral about the dark side of money, and I really liked the rap "Money."
- I also loved Little Brother, which is another episode I faintly remember from childhood, and it tells a compelling story of a young adventurer in a previously unseen world inside Finn and Jake's treehouse, staying loyal to his quest in the face of temptations.
- Everything's Jake was an interesting episode with a fun premise and a sad ending.
- I quite liked Is That You, an episode I remember seeing as a kid, it was quite fun and interesting despite being very confusing.
- The Cooler is an episode I remember loving as a kid, and definitely enjoyed coming back to. I liked the song, and remember asking my mom as a kid what "sentinels" meant trying to understand that line in the song. - I enjoyed The Pajama War because it just felt like a simple lighthearted fun episode.
- Evergreen was a great episode, giving more backstory about the lore of Ooo and especially - Dark Purple was a fun episode focusing on Susan and her friends rather than the usual main cast of Adventure Time, and I enjoyed the nostalgia as I remember it partially from childhood.
- Walnuts and Rain and Chips and Ice Cream were both fun episodes since they're both titled after food items, so I found it fun to snack on walnuts and water, and potato chips (aka crisps here in the UK) and vegan ice cream while watching them respectively!
- Hoots was a very good episode focusing on the Cosmic Owl, and it has a very interesting ending.
- You Forgot Your Floaties was a fantastic episode which explains a lot of background lore at the same time as having a dramatic turn of events in the present, ending with a really big plot twist which is interesting to see how it will play out in later seasons. - I quite liked Orgalorg, although I've known all along that because I saw this episode as a kid.
- I thought the two-parter season finale, Hot Diggity Doom / The Comet, was great. It was very captivating and dramtic and weird in an intriguing way, and had a good ending.

That's all for my thoughts on season 6! I'm looking forward to season 7!

Hi everyone, I just finished season 5 of Adventure Time, meaning I'm now halfway through the show. This season was very good overall - probably my favourite season so far, and definitely a big improvement from season 4. Interestingly, this season was twice as long as all the other seasons so far, having 52 episodes instead of 26.

My favourite episode was Bad Little Boy because I loved finally seeing a sequel to Fionna and Cake, and it was great to properly get to know Marceline's counterpart Marshall Lee since he was only a non-speaking cameo in the original episode. The songs were also fabulous in this episode, and the ending was very mysterious. It's also nostalgic as I enjoyed this episode a lot as a kid.

My least favourite episode was probably the two-parter Lemonhope because I found it too weird and I didn't enjoy the story.

Just wanted to post to say that I recently finished the Storybook of Legends (Ever After High book) and I royally enjoyed it, it feels like all the charm of the series in a book format that leaves more to the imagination. So it's a strong recommend from me to any fellow fairytale fans And I'm looking forward fairy much to the rest of the EAH books!

Hey everyone, I just finished watching season 4 of Adventure Time. Overall, this season gave me the most mixed feelings out those I've seen so far, but it was still enjoyable. Here are my thoughts:

• My favourite episode was Burning Low, because I have childhood nostalgia for it and it has very entertaining drama with a fantastic high-stakes plot twist and climax.
• My least favourite episode was Web Weirdos because I found it gross and weird, I didn't like the story or characters introduced, and it didn't have any redeeming qualities for me.
• Hot to the Touch was a really nice season premiere which interestingly takes place immediately after Incendium (the season 3 finale), making this effectively a two-parter in between seasons 3 and 4. Across this episode and Burning Low it was lovely to see more of Flame Princess, since her role was quite limited in Incendium until the end.
• I liked Five Short Graybles. It was interesting that it takes place in the far future, and tells five short stories about the main cast of Adventure Time. I did manage to guess the theme. However, as a vegan and animal rights supporter I felt uncomfortable with the scene where Princess Bubblegum puts a cow into a machine to make cheese, since this is clearly shown as uncomfortable and non-consensual for the cow.
• Return to the Nightosphere / Daddy's Little Monster was an extremely confusing two-parter, but started to make a bit more sense in the second part. Overall it was not bad, but fairly weak compared to other two-parters.
• Princess Monster Wife was a very dark episode. I sympathised with the wife a lot and felt very bad for her, especially at the end.
• I absolutely loved Card Wars. I just thought the card game with holographic pop-up visuals was super cool.
• I quite liked Sons of Mars, which greatly expanded the lore of Magic Man, Mars, etc. However, I didn't like how
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  The King of Mars sacrifices his life in his very first appearance since the pilot, since he was a very interesting character.
• I didn't like Who Would Win because of how it normalises violence and Finn and Jake beating each other up felt out of character and I didn't like it since I love their close friendship.
• I have mixed feelings about the season 4 finale, The Lich. I liked how it was very high stakes, greatly expanded the lore of the Adventure Time multiverse, and left on a really intriguing cliff-hanger; however the episode's plot felt forced, rushed, and out of character (Finn and Jake learned stealing was wrong in multiple previous episodes), the start felt too weird for me, and the plot twist while dramatic was too obvious.

That's all for my thoughts on season 4! I'm looking forward to starting season 5 and hoping it will return to being as great as seasons 2 and 3 were.

LOL MiracleDinner, don't you think whenever we type any messages on this forum that, since the messages show up right next to our avatar, it kind of looks like the character or thing that is our avatar is saying them?

Hi everyone, I just finished Season 3 of Adventure Time. It was definitely my favourite season so far! Here are my thoughts:

• My favourite episodes were Fionna and Cake and What Was Missing, both being extremely nostalgic childhood favourites, in WWM's case I distinctly recall it being my #1 favourite episode in the entire show when I was a kid, with F+C being a close runner up. So I was over the moon when I encountered them right next to each other on the season 3 DVD having been wondering since the beginning when they'd show up. Both episodes feature very fun stories, lovely songs (especially I'm Just Your Problem and My Best Friends in the World), heartwarming interactions between the protagonists, and fantastic morals about womens' independence, and the value of truthfulness and friendship above material treasures. I also really loved Bubblegum and Marceline's outfits in What Was Missing, they're both very stylish and I remember styling my makeshift fashion after them when I was a kid. I also really liked the interactions between the two women in this episode, which although it's not technically the first time they interact it's the first we really see into their relationship, and as someone who cares a lot about the LGBTQ+ community being represented in media, I loved that this episodes subtly hints a possible romantic past between the two women, though I'm aware that sadly the episode got a lot of backlash from homophobes for this reason. F+C introduces a gender-swapped version of the main cast, who were very interesting to meet, and I especially love Cake. And I have to say that this episode really touched my young heart as a (then closeted) trans kid, and it really hits different to watch it now for the first time since I've now been living as female full-time for so many years, and who still hasn't really had a boyfriend yet.

• My least favourite episode was Paper Pete, because I found it largely boring and low-key gross in parts, didn't like any of the new characters introduced, didn't feel it had a good moral, and felt bad for Jake who just wanted to study his girlfriend's heritage in peace, thus I found Finn's behaviour selfish and unreasonable.
• I thought Conquest of Cuteness was an okay episode, but not the best as a season premiere.
• Memory of a Memory was a great episode with an engaging story with a great plot twist. I enjoyed seeing Marceline get further development to her character and backstory. I did find the scene with baby Finn a bit weird and off-putting though.
• Too Young was a fantastic episode. I loved seeing Bubblegum in her younger form, and her interactions with Finn. This episode is also the debut of the Earl of Lemongrab, who is an extremely iconic and entertaining character, and I adored seeing him deliver his first "UNACCEPTABLE!!!" In my opinion, this episode definitely should've been the season premiere.

@Miracle Dinner Take a look at what I said about your awesome name change in the name change thread.