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Guy who's never seen a Bus before: "Huh, this is just like a frame rule."

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handling rich girlfriends (except the last one)

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*Walks up to gay couple

"So, which one of you is into aliens, and which one of you believes in spirits?"

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homura saying shut the fuck up terf for all your “homura saying shut the fuck up terf” needs 

(please reblog if you use, thanks)

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the inner workings of her mind are an enigma

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What your favorite Re:Zero Ship says about You!

(Obviously inspired by Eldena Doubleca5t's videos)

Emilia/Subaru: you've always had a thing for the "knight who's willing to die for his lady" trope, but one day you said to yourself "you know what's better? A knight who HAS died for his lady, and will happily continue to do so".

Rem/Subaru: your heart shatters every time the phrases "I love Emilia" and "Who's Rem?" are uttered. You are desperate to get Sloth IF animated, but not desperate enough to actually read it.

Ram/Subaru: you are a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of getting dunked on.

Priscilla/Subaru: you want Priscilla to step on you. Moving on.

Crusch/Subaru: you want Crusch to step on you. Moving on.

Reinhardt/Subaru: you love the idea of the strongest man in the universe being weak for the literal weakest. Pride IF is your jam.

Julius/Subaru: you liked the aesthetics of Reinhardt/Subaru, but you thought it'd be hotter if they fucking hated each other.

Otto/Subaru: your favorite relationship dynamic is BoxXBoytoy.

Felix|Ferris/Subaru: you have very politically-incorrect thoughts about Bridget from Guilty Gear.

Julius/Anastasia: you liked the knight and lady dynamic of Subaemi, you just thought the knight should...you know...actually act like a knight (also, you like the color purple)

Geese/Fortuna: you wish Emilia grew up with a happy family. You probably like SAO.

(Spoiler Ships after the Read More)

Al/Priscilla: you would've shipped Subaru/Emilia, but you didn't think he'd died for her ENOUGH.

Vincent/Chisha: you are always down for Yaoi so doomed any attempt at undooming it just makes it even more doomed.

Wilhelm/Theresia (technically not a spoiler, but most info remains to be in the anime, so throwing it here just in case): their scenes make you weep uncontrollably. The Wilhem EXs are the single greatest thing Tappei's written in your mind.

Carol/Theresia: you are always down for gals being pals.

Carol/Grimm: you just want to enjoy a perfectly healthy relationship in this series for once.

Crusch/Fourier: you just want good things for Fourier. And really, who wouldn't.

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Also applies for Al.

Rezero is so funny because Subaru will be like "how DARE you accuse my close good friend Otto of doing something evil? Otto wouldn't hurt a fly- in fact he would befriend it! He's nice and kind and thoughtful and MY FRIEND! He's just a little guy! Otto would NEVER do ANYTHING evil!" And then we jumpcut to Otto's internal monologue like "I should do something evil."

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i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

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Thr thing about re:zero is its an explicitly feminist text thats perpusfully situated itself within a misogynistic genre. This means it has a weird audience. Especially since it doesn't immediately differentiate itself from its comparables. Subaru has a habit of dehumanizing woman. Even if he doesnt think them lesser than men. The Roswaal house looks like a harem on the surface. It gives visual noval vibes. Subaru himself likens finding Betty's library to "flag catching". Subaru's rbd makes the whole world sorta game like. BUT his time travel doesnt "get him the girl(s)" If anything it often makes his relationships worse. Bc the girls hes talking to are real people like him and will not always react as expected. Or the same way as before. And conversations cant be forced to follow the same path. On the suface it has all the halmarks of a normal harem isekai. But then it just isnt. And not just in the horror aspects. more importantly in the character aspects.

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Every day, some genius in either this site or Twitter thinks they've got cutting commentary on Isekai as a "genre", and then point out something Re:Zero's already deconstructed.

"Why does he not care about the people back home?" He had no friends, and thought his parents hated him.

Isekai just seems like a profoundly sad genre of fantasy by design. Yes you have rad JRPG powers now and you get to hang out with big tiddy elves who love you but do you not have like. Friends that you mourn. Family that you miss. Habits that you can’t practice now without tripping. Familiar sounds and smells you’ll never know again

Either you did and you don’t care in the face of JRPG powers and elf tiddies, or you didn’t, and both options are profoundly sad in their own ways

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Character with no canon sexuality: has canon (or heavily implied) relationships with the opposite sex, but has sexual tension with someone of the same sex.

Fandom: A large of the population is Bi. This character will always be Bi, despite being in a canon M/F relationship.

Character with no canon sexuality: has canon (or heavily implied) relationships with the same sex, but has sexual tension with someone of the opposite sex.

Fandom: I will now become biphobic.

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arc v is a story I think people always misunderstand and in part it comes down to the absurdly fumbled ending but even beforehand I think people misunderstand the point of egaoism cuz it's not really "never be sad idiot" but more "if you wear a smile, you'll feel courage and can go forward" which is the point all the way up to zarc who himself became spiteful and went insane trying to please everyone with "never be sad" ideology

yuya is deeply depressed and pessimistic and yet his aspirations to be a dueltainer (i like the dub name shut up) come not just from wanting to be like his father but in wanting to connect with others. jack himself says that yuya was only imitating his father without understanding what he himself wants because dueling is a conversation with your opponent and your audience, so if he is just parroting his father without understanding it, his dueling is meaningless. it is by design meaningless because it is not genuine to what yuya himself wants. It's why he moves on from just saying his performances out loud to an audience that doesn't care, but focuses on how pendulum is something he did not borrow from anyone else, his own voice. He uses pendulum as a way to connect with others by, as the summoning method works, combining everyone's voices, not just his own but that of his friends.

the ideas of bonds and connections extend throughout every yugioh series and with arc v the point of entertainment dueling and action duels being reijis "weapon" against academia ironically come from the fact that while solid vision can be a powerful weapon, duel monsters and dueling itself is just a game, a game people play to connect with others and make friends. yuya's whole focus on dueltaining is simply that he doesn't want to end this conflict with academia by just ruthlessly crushing his opponents and focusing on winning (which is what awakens zarc when reiji pushes him to do nothing but focus on winning), yuya wants to end the conflict by making people happy. he wants people to enjoy dueling for duelings sake and to see dueling as the game that it is, not use it as a weapon of war.

now, is this handled/conveyed perfectly throughout the series? I'll say no, because while yuya does make the effort and there IS notable pushback from his enemies, sometimes it wraps up a little too neatly, such as the city council disbanding suddenly or academias forces in heartland just giving up after like 4 duels (which is what lead to the whole egaoism meme in the first place). arc v has thematic inconsistency in how it presents its characters and yuya himself has been contentious for the longest time because he flip flops in this regard (even if the whole point of pendulum is that this dissonance will always exist by people coming into contact with other perspectives but grumble whatever its not handled perfectly here either),

BUT i would say it is followed through on up to the end of the zarc duel, because the whole point of zarc is that he was never able to take that step. he was never able to express his genuine wish to make people smile the way yuya could, which is why as the duel goes on you see zarc go from this overwhelming monster to an outright cowardly and scared person. his deck, design, everything about zarc ultimately shows him as a giant manchild who cant handle even a fraction of resistance against him because losing in and of itself (even if there would be no consequences) is the most terrifying thing to him. he's unable to win with any kind of courage. and yuya's friends, each passing the pendulum necklace between themselves, each telling yuya how his efforts pushed them all to improve as well, is what reaches him in the end. it was the culmination of their voices and how they all were willing to support yuya that reaches him, that yuya (and by extension zarc) are nowhere near being the unforgivable monsters they think they are

it's what zarc didnt understand, that he didnt need to always be happy or please an audience while ignoring his own struggles. zarc completely misunderstood how pendulum was born, because it was not his malice alone, but how it had dissonance with his heartfelt wish to make people happy as a duelist. yuya is the base personality born from his split because yuya is the embodiment of zarc's original wish, but yuya himself is never perfect either.

and yuya was okay with that. but zarc could never be.

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A compilation of “But you still take damage” (and variants) in ARC-V

@skittymon Here you go! 

VRAINS variant!