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"emotionless robot feels for the first time" trope but instead of it being because of love or compassion its hatred.

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Chuuya, a street rat with no schooling keeping up with a boy genius since 15, fooling said boy genius, being able to do advanced calculations in his head in split seconds, outsmarting a trained world class assassin, being able to solve a case as fast as said boy genius, being able to make deductions faster than an android, becoming the second youngest pm executive, only staying stuck longer than Ranpo in the book because he was up against RANPO and deciding to punch his way out cause his boss' life was in danger and solving the mystery was taking too long.

Like, that boy is not stupid.

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You think chuuya's gloves are leather, satin-y, or plain old cotton. I think the latter 2 bc higher dexterity and comfort

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What do you MEAN there’s gaslighting in Gaslight??!?

the thing about doesthedogdie is that its genuinely a great resource to check for triggering subjectmatter in media, and because people can comment you can also see the nuance in how its handled and such. i love it. but its also kind of funny when certain questions are asked about mostly benign shows. like no there werent any 9/11 depictions in k-on but can you fucking image

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alternatively the inherent humor in checking doesthedogdie for a show called Stabby Stabby Knife Murders just to see what people answered for “does anyone get stabbed with a knife??”

the thing about doesthedogdie is that its genuinely a great resource to check for triggering subjectmatter in media, and because people can comment you can also see the nuance in how its handled and such. i love it. but its also kind of funny when certain questions are asked about mostly benign shows. like no there werent any 9/11 depictions in k-on but can you fucking image

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just finished chainsaw man with no prior knowledge of it other than the main character being a perv, and lemme just say my guy Denji is NOT a perv he’s a teenage boy who’s interested in sex. Who gave him this bad reputation.

also iirc he’s never the one instigating sexual/romantic acts with the women around him? Makima keeps encouraging him by promising sexual/romantic favors in return for his work, Himeno’s the one who doubles down on kissing him after he turns down the offer at first, and Power offered to let him touch her chest as a reward, and he had never asked to do that beforehand,, he only said that he’d like to touch boobs one day, not Power’s boobs. Which, again, is a pretty reasonable thing for a teenage boy to want.

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I've heard a lot of theories about who sigma really is. I've seen people suggest he may be Albert Camus, Ian Fleming, and even Sigmund Freud. but hear me out.

What if sigmas real identity was colleen hoover

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Despite Sparta’s reputation for superior fighting, Spartan armies were as likely to lose battles as to win them, especially against peer opponents such as other Greek city-states. Sparta defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War—but only by accepting Persian money to do it, reopening the door to Persian influence in the Aegean, which Greek victories at Plataea and Salamis nearly a century early had closed. Famous Spartan victories at Plataea and Mantinea were matched by consequential defeats at Pylos, Arginusae, and ultimately Leuctra. That last defeat at Leuctra, delivered by Thebes a mere 33 years after Sparta’s triumph over Athens, broke the back of Spartan power permanently, reducing Sparta to the status of a second-class power from which it never recovered. Sparta was one of the largest Greek city-states in the classical period, yet it struggled to achieve meaningful political objectives; the result of Spartan arms abroad was mostly failure. Sparta was particularly poor at logistics; while Athens could maintain armies across the Eastern Mediterranean, Sparta repeatedly struggled to keep an army in the field even within Greece. Indeed, Sparta spent the entirety of the initial phase of the Peloponnesian War, the Archidamian War (431-421 B.C.), failing to solve the basic logistical problem of operating long term in Attica, less than 150 miles overland from Sparta and just a few days on foot from the nearest friendly major port and market, Corinth. The Spartans were at best tactically and strategically uncreative. Tactically, Sparta employed the phalanx, a close-order shield and spear formation. But while elements of the hoplite phalanx are often presented in popular culture as uniquely Spartan, the formation and its equipment were common among the Greeks from at least the early fifth century, if not earlier. And beyond the phalanx, the Spartans were not innovators, slow to experiment with new tactics, combined arms, and naval operations. Instead, Spartan leaders consistently tried to solve their military problems with pitched hoplite battles. Spartan efforts to compel friendship by hoplite battle were particularly unsuccessful, as with the failed Spartan efforts to compel Corinth to rejoin the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League by force during the Corinthian War. Sparta’s military mediocrity seems inexplicable given the city-state’s popular reputation as a highly militarized society, but modern scholarship has shown that this, too, is mostly a mirage. The agoge, Sparta’s rearing system for citizen boys, frequently represented in popular culture as akin to an intense military bootcamp, in fact included no arms training or military drills and was primarily designed to instill obedience and conformity rather than skill at arms or tactics. In order to instill that obedience, the older boys were encouraged to police the younger boys with violence, with the result that even in adulthood Spartan citizens were liable to settle disputes with their fists, a tendency that predictably made them poor diplomats. But while Sparta’s military performance was merely mediocre, no better or worse than its Greek neighbors, Spartan politics makes it an exceptionally bad example for citizens or soldiers in a modern free society. Modern scholars continue to debate the degree to which ancient Sparta exercised a unique tyranny of the state over the lives of individual Spartan citizens. However, the Spartan citizenry represented only a tiny minority of people in Sparta, likely never more than 15 percent, including women of citizen status (who could not vote or hold office). Instead, the vast majority of people in Sparta, between 65 and 85 percent, were enslaved helots. (The remainder of the population was confined to Sparta’s bewildering array of noncitizen underclasses.) The figure is staggering, far higher than any other ancient Mediterranean state or, for instance, the antebellum American South, rightly termed a slave society with a third of its people enslaved.

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Nana might not win in hand-to-hand combat, but she could definitely convince anyone to (accidentally) kill themself. Sure I’m biased because I love her but Nana’s gotta win.

ROUND 1, MATCH 16

NO MAGIC, POWERS, OR WEAPONS

Kanatsune Ame:

“He’s competent”

“OK SO he canonically a) has training that allows him to disarm a trained polearmist b) can kill with a touch when in a magical environment. he will have a bad time doing all that tho UwU”

“omg hes so silly hes just a guy hes manipulated by his work boss who keeps him in the dark about his disability he has killed with his own hands quite literally and his fashion sense is utterly atrocious. did you know his ef2 design has a three ended scarf. however his future cane is very cool”

“weak ass old man . would probably lose a fight to a 13 year old girl im also submitting here<3”

Nana Hiragii:

“Manages to convince everyone she could read minds when she very much cannot read minds. I think that’s very girlboss of her.”

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@carrotkicks gonna throw this one over to the bsd (stormbringer) fandom

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Look at my boy incriminating himself for a crime he didn’t commit <3<3

he’s adorable <3

Group A Round 3

[the first image is of 2 identical anthropomorphized rabbits, both Nin, talking to someone off screen. they are wearing black robes and hoods, with a metal headband. the second image is of a manga panel depicting Itakura Akira, a young man with dark hair and freckles, glaring at the viewer. someone off screen says, "Your name is Itakura, right?" end ID]

Nin

she bnuuy :} she can clone herself and sneaks around in the shadows! member of an evil cult but in her defense she doesnt know its evil. i think. girlie is like a foot tall <3  

Itakura Akira

My guy cannot lie. Like. At all. He literally incriminates himself for a crime he didn’t commit because someone says “it would have been physically impossible for Akira to commit the crime!”, and he goes “no actually I could have done it really easily” and then describes how he would have done it. And it wasn’t to show off how smart he is— he himself doesn’t want to be saying this stuff either! He just. Cannot lie.

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Itakura my beloved <3

he gets tricked into believing he time traveled when he very much did not.

I think that that’s a very important point to be mentioned in this blorbo competition.

Group A Round 3

[the first image is of 2 identical anthropomorphized rabbits, both Nin, talking to someone off screen. they are wearing black robes and hoods, with a metal headband. the second image is of a manga panel depicting Itakura Akira, a young man with dark hair and freckles, glaring at the viewer. someone off screen says, "Your name is Itakura, right?" end ID]

Nin

she bnuuy :} she can clone herself and sneaks around in the shadows! member of an evil cult but in her defense she doesnt know its evil. i think. girlie is like a foot tall <3  

Itakura Akira

My guy cannot lie. Like. At all. He literally incriminates himself for a crime he didn’t commit because someone says “it would have been physically impossible for Akira to commit the crime!”, and he goes “no actually I could have done it really easily” and then describes how he would have done it. And it wasn’t to show off how smart he is— he himself doesn’t want to be saying this stuff either! He just. Cannot lie.

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here's a random word generator--whatever word it gives you is now the thing you are the deity of

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I really hate to be the one to do this…

They’re more or less equally far from average height

I don't think people get the point: chuuya is exactly around the average Japanese man height, while dazai is a fucking giraffe.