#(woooOOO BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH THE NEW CHARACTER)

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Delicious in Dungeon Live Blogging:

Season 1

Ok so I'm not really an anime person but I kept seeing stuff about it on my dash and I'm gonna give it a shot!

Updates:

- intro was baller ok ok

- interesting...

- ok this is kinda funny

- the fact that there's no mouth movement from this guy is freaking me out

- I like this dude

- ok, Senshi, Laios, Marcille, and Chilchuck got it

- Senshi is joining yay!!!

- alright episode 1 pretty good!

- Episode 2

- PFFFFFFT

- I love Senshi so much

- she's trying so hard to be helpful 😭

- girl, wtf

- ok Senshi you're being an ass rn

- poor Chilchuck

- nooooo Laios!

- awwww bonding!!!!!

- wait ok I like this show

- Episode 3

- I'm intriglued by the character in the intro with the short white hair, we never see their face but they're relatively prominent

- awwww they were babiessssss

- he reminds me of that guy from a kids show, what was it called....

- OH

- OOP

- I went googling and I have no idea what the show is called but it had a blonde biy and a brunette boy as the main characters and it was an animated kids show. He reminds me of the blonde boy

- woooooo!! Let's go Senshi and Laios!!

- ah crap

- pfffft Senshi just polishing a pot

- oh wow that's a cool armour set

- is it the fact he stole the sword that they're being aggressive?

- oh nvm, a cocoon

- so the creatures got be in the helmet right?

- damn I was wrong

- oh I was right sorta

- awe it's sad when it's all floppy and helpless like that

- "oh no, it drowned" PFFFFT

- "we leave his corpse if he dies ok?" "Ok" BRUH

- can we all agree Laios is autistic af (I love him)

- KEEPS ONE

- oh I just realized it's the sword from the intro!!

- Episode 4

- oh she changed her hair!

- awwww his little farming hat

- this show is so wholesome I love it

- awww Senshi 😭

- why doesn't he pickle the extra veggies?

- OOP

- "BREAD. BREAD. BREAD. BREAD. BREAD." HELP XD

- why is everyone so mean to Chilchuck 😭

- PFFFT Senshi catching the baby before it touches the hot pan XD

- FRIENDSHIPPPPPP

- Episode 5!

- oooo new people

- I'm suspicious of the pony tail man

- oh my god the dog guy looks like my dog 😭

- as man, they were so nice

- OH CRAP

- same girl, I would've done the same, bugs FREAK ME OUT

- "Yum" "NO!!!"

- "dear lord they're creamy. I'm never gonna wear necklaces again" PFFFFT

- I love him and his lil sword friend

- I'm so obsessed

- PFFFFFT SENSHI

- so what I'm getting from this is that you can be resurrected as long as your body is recovered?

- "gentle explosions" she's so violent I love it

- way to go Senshiiiii

- EXORCISM SORBET

- he's so autistic I love him

- EW PAINTING EYEBALLS

- hey wait, it's that red elf with white hair from the intro, they were in the last painting too!

- oh wow she's scary looking

- poor baby 😭

- you forgot your water Chilchuck

- I love Marcille and Chilchuck's dynamic so much

- oh shit they're alive!!!

- as man they probably think they stole their shit

- awww her with her hair pulled back is so cuuuuute

- oooooo 4th floor is so pretty!!!!

- good lord Senshi

- ok the kelpie is sick af but the shadow was HORRIFYING

- he tried to warn youuuuu

- poor Senshi :(

- ah man they died again!!!

- OH SHOOT SIREN

- PFFFT did he just irritate the siren away???

- Laios, you're ridiculous, I love it

- those people are so gonna try and fight them aren't they

- I love these characters so much

- AWHDGSHDJ SENSHI AND MARCILLE BONDINGGGGG

- OH GOD, NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

- RUN MF RUN

- I love the way Marcille talks so much

- "WHAT HAVE I DONE!" XD

- Laios did you just eat raw parasite

- YOU DID

- this conciquences my friend

- they're all so silly I love them

- awww that's his sister isn't it?

- omg Falin and Marcille lore

- Falin taught her to be adventurous 😭

- this is so cute help

- "mind your business" PFFFT

- oh my god he didn't know about them in school I'm gonna cry

- I knew I hated pony tail guy for a reason!! He ditched them!!!

- oh shit oh shit oh shit

- OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT

- LET'S GO TEAM COME ON YOU GOT THIS

- what was that????

- oop they got revived again

- now that I know axe lady is also part of the old party, I wonder what their meeting will be like, and why didn't they react to seeing her dead?

- WILD KRATTS THAT'S THE SHOW, he looks like Martin Kratt

- they're meeting oh boy

- wait, I thought the axe lady was in the other group, they have a different one?

- OH GOD SHE GOT SNIPED IN THE BRAIN

- what an ass!!!!

- oh funky dungeon lore

- Senshi without his helmet?!?!?!

- DANGER NOODLES, Laios you're adorable

- way to go axe lady!!!

- Namari! I couldn't remember she name

- yessss our girl is back in action

- LET'S GO NAMARI

- damn Chilchuck...

- ponytail man (Shuro as I now know), wanted to propose to Falin??? Were they dating?? How could he ditch them?????

- ok so Namari said it's not about money, she wants to join that other party, but saving Falin wasn't enough???

- good lord this show is so weird and I love it

- not them complimenting her into wearing it XD

- SENSHI IN THE SUIT

- ah lovely, fantasy racism

- did she just call Laios and Falin's hair brown???

- those 2 are blonde af

- awww Marcille 😭

- I'm nervous, they're at the stage of fighting the dragon, but we're only halfway through the season

- awww Laios

- Chilchuck don't call the precious boy cringe how dare you

- DRAGON

- AHHHHH

- EPISODE 11 HERE WE GO

- KENSUKE HOW COULD YOU

- NOT THE AXE

- SENSHI

- LET'S GO CHILCHUCK

- OH SHIT

- HOLY SHIT LAIOS

- did Falin just bonk the ghost out of Laios XD

- daaaaamn nice job Marcille!!!

- awww she looks so pretty with her hair done up like that!

- oh no

- GOOD GOD

- EPISODE 12

- holy crap Marcille

- Falin!!!

- y'all I'm gonna cry

- gay?????

- I really appreciate the fact that even though they're naked, it's not being sexualized like most animes I've seen. They're just existing.

- you tell him Marcille!!!

- good god Senshi

- sooooo Falin came back different

- omg Chilchuck in a turtle neck

- YES THE SIBLINGS ARE BOTH WEIRD

- I was scared Falin was gonna be a one dimensional character but she's awesome I'm happy

- pfffft Marcille's reaction

- MYSETRIOUS PAINTING ELF LADY

- Episode 13

- woah I do not like the big eye thing she just did

- ruhroh

- uhhhh what the hell

- bro something is in Falin

- ok whoops that's a guy, but THAT'S THE MAD MAGE???

- oh fug

- BEAT HIS ASS MARCILLE

- PFFFFT Senshi holding 2 mini dragons XD

- Marcille are you really trying to get advice on making dungeons right now

- OH HELL

- this got a lot less wholesome y'all

- I still love it though

- are the ghosts helping them now cuz of Falin?

- oh shit I thought I was wrong for a sec but they really are being chill

- OOP

- OH GOD

- oh the ghosts here are just always friendly

- awww little puppy yawn

- I can't tell if Chilchuck cares about them or not. He does right? I'm bad at reading stuff sometimes

- I'm going with yes he does

- yeah, yes he does

- Episode 14

- oooo new intro sequence

- it's weird that Falin isn't shown at all in the intro, and neither are all the others in the last one

- ah ok NOW they've been revived

- these guys really aren't great at staying alive

- man are they gonna die AGAIN?

- TACTICAL SMOOCH

- the lead guy from the corpse retrieval office sounds so familiar

- Kabru is a little creepy rn

- ok make that a lot creepy

- DUDE HE JUST PERMAKILLED THOSE GUYS

- permakills them but doesn't take their shit, weird set of morals you got there buddy

- dang, guess he figured out who it was and why

- I love that they added the detail of Rin twirling her hair when she's thinking and stuff

- Kabru is freaking me out y'all

- ok so he's pissed at them for being duped??

- these people are very devoted to this guy, "you're the only one who could possibly lead"???

- oooo pretty snake

- who's that???

- oh shit ponytail guy

- ew why are they doting on him like that

- I don't like this

- yeesh, our party is noooot doing well at the moment

- Episode 15

- THEIR EYES AHHHHH

- awww, he seemed to relate to the protector dryad :( he loves the party so much

- Marcille is coocoo bananas and I love it

- SENSHI NO

- awww poor awkward Laios

- omfg her single set of eyelashes XD

- Episode 16

- you leave Laios alone, he's trying his best ok

- bro what is Kabru's deal, he is freaking me out

- OH HELL

- I agree with Marcille's reaction of "woah hey"

- see, why did they have to just barely cover her chest with feathers, that's ridiculous

- listen here Shuro, Marcille did her best

- Laios has never taken anything more seriously than this how dare you insinuate otherwise just because you don't understand!!!!

- HE'S AUTISTIC YOU FUCK. NO ONE CAN KNOW HOW YOU'RE FEELING IF YOU DON'T TELL THEM.

- god I hate Shuro so much, I knew he was bad news from the first moment I saw him

- I swear to god if y'all don't stop hating on Marcille for doing her best here I'm gonna lose ittttt

- ugh maybe Laios finally beat some sense into that idiot

- alright the bell thing and offer to help them flee makes me like him a bit. He just needed a good knock in the head.

- Episode 18

- ooooooo snow

- PFFFT everyone using Laios as a wind shield

- UMMM WHO'S HOLDING ON TO MARCILLE RN

- HUH????

- bro HOW can he not tell the Senshis apart at the very least, his whole face is different!!!

- WRONG, Marcille will always complain

- BRUH

- I'm so frustrated right now

- oh hey he did it right!

- Laios is such a weirdo I love him so much

- thank you for saving the goof Marcille

- PFFFT Senshi picking up the rice trail XD

- GET YOUR MF CLAWS OF MARCILLE RN

- Episode 19

- I think it's cute Senshi has conceded to at least use magic circles instead of insisting on making a fire

- aww cat kid is adorable

- oh my god cat kid is joining!!!!

- Izutsumi, got it

- ooooo, Marcille lore??

- awww she has a Falin doll 😭

- oh shit the doll IS Falin

- oh Laios, this is not going well

- oh man she's scared of everyone dying around her because she lives so long isn't it

- yeah 😭

- LET'S GOOOOOO

- Episode 20

- Izutsumi is in the intro now!!!

- PFFFT of course Senshi accidentally made an ice golem

- Laios you sweetie pie 😭

- let's go cat girl!!!!

- see they fully covered Izutsumi's chest, why couldn't they do that for Falin

- it's still so weird to see Senshi without his helmet

- I appreciate they didn't sexualize them all being in the makeshift sauna together

- they're so cute in their winter outfits!!!

- wait, where'd Marcille's staff go?????

- ok Izutsumi you're being a lil mean rn

- you're lucky she came back for your ass!!

- god I adore Laios and his dumbassery

- would a Barometz technically be vegan since the "sheep" it grows isn't really an animal? I grew up vegan but even I don't know. I feel like yes?

- I do miss the original 4, but Izutsumi is fun

- Episode 21

- oh hey it's the elf with short white hair from the first intro

- bruh finally we get Laios acknowledging the "hallucinations"

- here we go!

- ew Soushi

- why is that unicorn's horn on its nose

- oh?????

- this village is Soushi and Laios's dream

- awww Marcille looks so pretty!!! As always ofc

- Marcille and Izutsumi being like mom and daughter is so cute omfg

- Yaad, I'm so suspicious of you

- oh shit that's where the ghosts came from

- poor Laios, that's a lot of pressure

- Episode 22

- PFFFFFFT, the girls are crammed in with Chilchuck XD

- THISTLE, WE HAVE A NAME FOR THE MAD MAGE

- ah man, this is sad

- so I'm beginning to understand how this dungeon was made, but what about all the others in the world. I'm assuming this one is special because of thistle?

- uh oh, why is Senshi nervous

- GRIFFIN, SIIIIICK

- we've never seen Senshi afraid of something before (he hates magic but that's more of like hating it than being scared)

- oh shit she just snipped off a big ol chunk of hair no hesitation

- bro I didn't think of any of that until Chilchuck mentioned it. I was so swept up in his awesomeness

- it's gonna be goofy isn't it

- oh yeah

- let's go team!!!!

- ok Senshi time to fess up

- awww Marcille's sky fish 😭

- Chilchuck lore???

- WIFE AND KIDS??????

- Episode 23

- oh shit dude this is dark

- dude...

- DUDE

- DUUUUUUDE

- y'all I'm so sad right now

- oh Laios

- 😭😭😭

- I'm gonna cry

- I'M NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING

- OH MY GOD

- SENSHI IS KILLING ME OMFG

- IZUTSUMI

- all of them switching clothes and responsibilities is so funny

- please do not make them have to progress like this

- oh my god the ducking mollusk is the reason they can pass when no one else can?!?!?!?!

- I want them normal again :(

- one more epiaode???? Oh boy

- Episode 24

- Izutsumi gives me heavy Catra vibes

- bro really just headbutted a rock creature

- aww Chilchuck saving Marcille is so god damn cute

- wait so can't they just do 2 person rings and change each other back?

- oh geez poor Marcille

- oooooh ok nvm

- headcanon: Izutsumi has ARFID

- they're back!!!!

- ooooo Laios and Falin lore???

- Falin 1000% saw her brother wasn't doing great and that's why she followed him

- AWBJXJEKS IZUTSUMI TRYING TO COMFORT MARCILLE

- wait so they're gonna cut Falin's upper body off the main body and then eat the main body??????

- good god they're gonna get everyone to eat it, I swear if that's the finale I'm gonna lose it

- oh shit they're leading the elves in

- PFFFT FALIN GETTING SCARED BY THISTLE

- WOW. Ok I really love this show I'm really glad I watched it and I'm so excited for Season 2!!! I'll link that below once it comes out and I watch it!

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Junteenth Special: The Blackening (Patreon Review for WeirdKev27)

Happy Juneteenth all you happy people! It's once again time to celebrate black liberation with me, a man so white I blend into most doorways and friends episodes.

While the irony of that isn't lost on me, I do this because it's an important holiday that really always should've been something white dumbasses like me at least knew about. You'd think Missouri Schools would teach "This is the day we finally treated black people like people and not property".. but then again this is the kind of state where their once again attempting to pass a bill that bans "critical race theory" despite heavy opposition telling them "Stop this nonsense", so I really SHOUDLN'T be that surprised. It also taught Missouri keeping slavery as "a part of our past we're mildly ashamed of" and not "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT. SERIOUSLY WHY WERE WE SO FUCKED UP. MY GOD CHILDREN. Now it's time for lunch everyone get into the cafeteria for some horrifying rice abomination with your meal. "

Still we celebrate and while Kev backed this year's review and had the idea to do one, I suggested this one as it's a film i'd been meaning to get to and owned, and one that perfectly fit: The Blackening. The Blackening is a 2023 horror film that most places mark as 2022 because it aired at a festival before delays. I go with the wide release in it's native country because that's when most people could see it, when it's marketed and when most people could consider it came out.

Pedantic nonsense aside, the Blackening is a horror comedy from Tim Story, who you may remember from such films as The 2000's Fantastic Four Films, Barbershop, the recent Candy Cane Lane and Ride Along. I wouldn't from the last one because I already spent one insufferable trip in a car with Ice Cube, i'm not doing it again. Are We There Yet? Scarred me for life... great work in Mutant Mayhem though just stay away from cars Ice Cube. And Kevin Hart.

The Film was based on a short by Dewayne Perkins, which I watched and was hilarious and the core of it was kept: conversational jokes about black culture and horror cliches, with the core of the sketch itself (Voting on one of them to die so the rest can live), being a key scene in the final flim and the joke of someone wretching as they try to say something stupid makes it into the film.

The result is a clever film about blackness, how people change over time, and horror tropes. While satrizing horror tropes isn't new, Scream 6 came out the same year, the way Blackening does it is clever, not overdoing it but having it be just present enough. And look i'm a sucker for meta meditations on horror: I love the Scream franchise and The film The Final Girl, so this film already had me but it also has likeable characters, a ton of great jokes, and a clever villian, while having some genuinely creepy stuff. While this leans more into the comedy than the horrror, the horror's still present and masterfully done. Check this film out if you can and if i've sold you enough. If you still want to go ahead with the rest of the review feel free but be warned full spoilers under the cut.

Cabin in the Woods Woooooo-oooo

The Blackening follows 7 close friends who went to college together reuniting for a cabin in the woods. And like many a thing, they lampshade how sketchy going to a cabin in the woods feels and with this, the mutilator, cabin in the woods and the evil dead franchise they absolutely have a point. And that's not even a fraction of the films with this sort of premise.

The group was invited by their old friends and married couple Morgan and Jay. Morgan is played by Yvonne Orj of Insecure (A series I haven't seen but want to watch) and Jay Pharaoh, who I have seen (for lack of a better term) in invincible as bullet proof and The Venture Bros: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart as Nuno Blood. Unfortunately for these two their the scream style opening kill, finding a racist as hell board game with a racist caracture in the middle and while having the sane reaction of "taking a picture of it".. are still stupid enough to play it and soon get taken out, Jay with an arrow to the neck and morgan ambigiously kidnapped. It creates a nice sense of tension. We know one friend is dead, one might be, and their walking straight into a trap.

We soon meet the group and since the Blackening has a LARGE cast and most of them live to see the credits, let's break them down.

Lisa (Antoinette Robinson from Dear White People): The calm rational one of the group. She's mostly defined by her relationships in the film, with said relationships being one of the films only arcs for the characters involved. This isn't a terrible thing as our friend group still feels real enough we don't need a tidy character arc for everyone. Still Lisa feels like she got the shortest end of the stick out of the cast and is mostly bouyed by Robinson being a great actress and having a great role in the climax. Lisa is best friends with...

Dewayne (Dewayne Perkins himself): Dewayne is a delight, an openly gay man (something that only comes up part way and casually at that but it's nice it's just in there), and Lisa's best friend. The two have a somewhat co dependant relationship with Dewawyne feeling he needs to protect her. He's also objectively hilaroius when he's not involved in sniping at someone we'll get to next. My faviorite gag with him is him getting introspective and weird on shrooms.. only for Shanika to point out he's always like this and hard cut to him dancing to 777 by Silk Sonic. Dewayne can be annoying though as he spends most of the film pissy at Lisa over

Nnamndi (Sinqua Wells, Teen Wolf, American Soul, Power): Lisa's boyfriend who she just got back together with after a rocky as hell relationship in college where he cheated on her constantly. He's genuinely trying to change but most of the group are worried it won't stick. Dewayne, having been the one there every time he did that shit, is especially a fucked up little whiny bitch about it. He has a valid point to be worried and to be upset Lisa didn't tell him.. but at the same time I can kinda get why she held off not telling him given he procedes to mope around the cabin and brings it up even when their being threatned by a killer. It's thankfully not to the point it gets anyone killed or gets super tiresome but i'ts just.. hard to care. The film tries to use this as it's core.. but it's far more intresting when the freinds are just riffing on one another than with this friend vs lover argument. It only dosen't bring down the film because Lisa eventually calls their asses out pointing out to Nnamindi that Dewayne absolutely has a reason to be upset.. but that this also isn't Dewayne's buisness, she didn't ask him for his help, and that she can take care of herself: College was a long ass time ago, she knows what she's risking with this and the three reconcile.

King (Melvin Gregg, American Vandal, Snowfall): My faviorite of the group mostly for his horrible "king's kool aid": which is Kool Aid with an assload of sugar and vodka mixed in. I love how proud he is, how he tries to hype it up.. and how he still does even after the Conesus is it tastes like ass. He also has a quick wit. He also somehow survives a full on arrow to the chest holy shit. He's also implied to be a former Gangster, but has moved on from that.. though he still brought a gun. But I like how they have one without it breaking the plot: it makes sense someone might have one for protection, especially in increasingly racially fraught times where stupid white people are especially agressive and obnoxious, but he has to use it to shoot the door off, thus leaving it out of play long before the killers meet them face to face. And yes I said killers, plural. The film may be it's own thing.. but it does feel very scream in places and I support that. He also has a white wife. That is used primarily for jokes which only works because the group in general razzes each other a lot. Not something i'm super comfortable with a lot but I do have friends like that who will take the piss out of each other, so I get it.

Allison (Grace Beyers, The Gifted): Speaking of taking a piss

Allison is for the first 2/3 mostly the "one they mock for being biracial" and the peacekeepr of the group, trying to help manuver the whole Nmandi Dewayne thing, though she's also aware Kim is lying through her teeth about them being just friends. To the film's credit though they give her more to do in the last part: she accidently gets high on adderal, so not only does Beyers get a lot of great material for Stoned allison, she also gets to punch one of the killers to death with arrowheads tucked between her fingers, think...

Shanika (X Mayo, American Auto): The most outspoken of the group and the only one to drive down alone, stopping a convience store to get glared at by a threatening white man, with one eye who naturally turns out to be one of the killers. I also applaud her for grabbing rap chips and generally being a lot of fun in her reactions to the shit going down. She tends to stir it up a little, but is ultimately kind and when the chips are down incredibly badass, taking one of the killer's crossbows and using it for herself towards the end. She runs into the final member of our party

Clifton (Jermaine Fowler, Coming 2 America, Superior Donuts, Murder at the Edge of the World): Clifton is the odd man out in the group. He's , to put it blunty, a fully grown Urkel

Jermain Fowler is hamming it up as he's awkard, nerdy, won't shut up about his android phone charger (which having had android I CAN relate to but my god man), and no one is sure why the fuck he's here as no one was expecting him. He WAS a friend of the group.. but it's clear they never really kept touch. He's honestly annoying, but is kept to the back a bit till the big "Whose the blackest scene". There's more to him as you can probably guess by the mountain of red flags.. but we'll circle back to that.

So we have our magnificent seven, who have a good time: they play some spades, a card game I hadn't heard of till watching L'Ron Readus' video on the movie (Which I highly recommend) but comes up a decent amount and is a favorite of the group.

Naturally the group start to get suspcious their friends are missing and eventually find the game. The film really uses the horrifyingly racist caracture well as it's the killers logo for when they pop on the tv and the voice they use for it is really hushed and creepy, using a very real very horrifying symbol of racial sterotyping to good effect. The masked killer(s) also use it, with black hoods, ala Black Christmas, but with white chalk drawn across the mouth because of course there that level of mother fucker.

So their told Morgan will die unless they play the game right and we get a great sequence of them trying to figure out how long second aunt viv was around. The answer of course is three seasons but it's fun to see them use things like nicky. It's also fun when asked something about NAZ's blunts, we see Nnmandi do the math on screen.

Eventually though the Killer, being a dick throws them a trick question: Name 5 black people from friends. I love the slow revelation that ALL of them clearly watch friends despite trying to watch it. White as hell the show may be it's reach is long. Though living single is the better show, let's be real, it's just not shown nearly as much as it should be, though I do see it has at least daily reruns on one channel and is on hulu. It' sa trick answer as the correct answer is "I don't watch it".. which is really just the killer fucking with them. As we find out later Morgan was already dead.

With Morgan dead the Killer decides to get vicious and forces them to pick "the blackest one of them", an expanded version of the scene from the sketch that can be hilarious but is also nicely cutting in places, as Allison calls them all out for trying to pick her when their constantly questoning her blackness due to being biracial, something that bothers her way mroe than she lets on and makes those jabs worK: she brushes them off.. but they clearly DO hurt and everyone noticably stops after this.

Naturally.. everyone picks Clifton: he was there supsciously as they quicly point out, isn't likeable and his attempts at proving how not black he is.. lead to him saying he voted for trump... TWICE. Yeah unsuprisingly they all vote him out. He quickly dies and even with the Trump thing, they do feel bad a person "died".

The doors are opened after Nnmandi destroys the game board, with everyone agreeing fuck this shit.. and the masked killers responding with "Alrighty then murder time". They didn't say that and what they were probably thinking is so vile and racist it makes me upset.

The group argue about what to do next; Stay and fight or go for help. Allison has the unevible task of suggesting the obvious but stupid option: Let's split up gang. I love how she gags saying it, how she knows it's the LAST thing to do in a horror film.. but both ideas make sense. It's also nice in it's execution in that for once it's NOT the stupidest idea in the world: most time people split up in a horror movie it's one at a time MAYBE groups of two if your lucky, which when your being stalked by one person, is dumb. Here the group simply splits in half to take two entirely logical courses of action: Go for help and take out the killer on their own turf while they have time to prepare. As far as they know and the film's implied there's only one killer, so it sends him after only one party, and if it's the rescue one they at least have a chance to loose him in th ewoods, and if it's the one at home, it's three on one.

So they split into two teams: Allison, King and Shanika go for help, Lisa, Nnamandi and Dewayne stay behind to prepare.. and thankfully work out their shit.

Team Allison ends up running into one of the killers and we get a pretty fun fight scene as Shanika beats the shit out of him, king at least stabs him once before that and allison wolverines him as mentioned before. It's a fun fight scene and a nice way to turn the tables: normally a killer in horror would've killed all three of them, maybe ONE of them surviving for a possible sequel. With the Blackening, the characters not only get to live but strike back. It isn't the only horror film to do this, but it's a refreshing subversion: our characters go thorugh a lot of shit but no one really had to die and they still lost two friends, with their deaths proving the killers are dead serious.

Meanwhile the other team runs into Ranger White, who looks suspcious as fuck but is as guilty as red herring. Ranger White showed up earlier to hassle king and be a white dumbass, and is our obvious red herring for the evening. And our only white guy. And Deidrich Bader who does a great job, playing the role entirely stone faced and being both a convincing asshole at the start, but his turn to being helpful if stupid here works. Sadly being mildly offputting, obestructive and finding the killers mask in the woods means he gets locked out of his own car and stabbed with an arrow. I REALLY love the killers use of arrows, a way to give them a ranged weapon that's still horrifying, see Shawn's horrible death in the opening, but has a chance of survival and makes perfect sense once we find out who the killers are, as well as making sense for our red herring: While the ranger HAS a gun, that could be traced a lot easier than a case of arrow through the neck. Not saying you can't trace an arrow through the neck, but you don't leave finger prints on an arrow. Probably. And you do if you don't use gloves.

Thankfully the rest of the party come in and Shaniqua gives Killer #2 a taste of his own arrow through the neck. They find out the two guys are the ones who rented the cabin and one of them is naturally the creepy guy from the gas station and I like how despite not meeting the killers that much before.. this reveal works. We never knew WHO rented the house to Morgan, and it was clear they were sketchy, and Ranger White mentions they usually only rent to families.. with our heroes outright saying the quiet part he's trying not to loud by adding "white" to the word. IT also explains the weapons: their hunters and their motivations are pretty simple: their racist assholes and being payed to kill black people was an easy pitch. As our heroes find out... someone HIRED them, meaning whoever was actually behind this is out there..and return to find Clifton's dead body.. and him pulling a billy loomis and waking up. Clifton was behind it all

Yeah I did get spoiled on this as I wasn't sure I was going to ever watch the film, so I watched L'Ron Readus' video on it and highly recommend it. You can find it here. It's what convinced me to buy the film and the reason this review is here, so I couldn't help but give a shout out. He's a great youtuber and has great mini essays on black and queer themes in media.

Even without it.. the twist is pretty obvious: no one really seems to LIKE Clifton and some of them struggle to remember him, he shows up abrubtly with a weak excuse his car broke down, and it feels VERY weird Morgan didn't tell anyone he'd be coming or would suprise them with this. Nnmandi being hidden made sense: Dewayne is a raging dick about it and might not have come. But no one was going to say no because Clifton was coming they'd probably just be dispaointed it'd feel a bit weird having someone they haven't spoken too since college there. It helps he feels the least.. real. Not because he's a nerd, that's entirely normal and King himself is a bit of a dork and even Dewayne sings the O'Reily autoparts theme at one point. Said gag is one of my faviorites as when trying to figure out WHOSE after them, she mentions an online argument where a guy got mad at her for saying the O'Reily autoparts jingle was more ubiquiotus than the natnional anthem. Which... I agree with Dewayne she has a point and I love everyone singing along to the "auto parts" part perfectly. Clifton really couldn't be more obvious if he were wearing a sign saying "I didn't murder anyone today promise".

It works mostly because while there are obvious clues he shoudln't be here, he could've just crashed and as far as we know the killer is a white man way too burly to be him. The film sets him up as a red herring.. then reveals him as the mastermind.

His reason for it is also brilliant, and is why the scream comparisons: like many a ghostface, his reasons are somewhat sympathetic.. but still so out of touch with what actually happened and who was actually responsible in the situation that you still want to see him die. He explains he had a drunk driving acccident... and is clearly pissed he has to lead them to the why: They were playing Spades, and he was bad in it since no one in his state really plays spades and rather than teach him, in his eyes the others were teasing him, with Lisa jokingly "revoking his black card". For them it was just the kind of ribbing you do during spades and they do in general, but Clifton took it personally, got extra drunk due to the pain.. and accidently hit a woman with a his car, getting four years in prison.

The thing is Clifton is to a degree sympathetic: it's hard to fit in and likely harder when your seen as "too white" just for being yourself. That you don't fit in and no one's really trying to help you. I've been there with the latter. Sometimes fitting in with a crowd is hard and it can be easy to take an insult way too personally: i have extra trouble with that. It's easy to see why what was just a joke hit him hard. When you have a deep well of self loathing and a bad need to be accepted , being seemingly rejected and constantly mocked can take a toll. I learned over time some assholes just aren't worth it while for others teasing is just how they react and they can dail it back. The group likely woudl've mocked him a little.. but don't seem so dickisht hey wouldn't of apologzied had he called them on it. And if he didn't then sometimes the hard truth is it's better to be alone than be freinds with someone who dosen't respect you. This group dosen't seem the type, but we see them as adults, not young adults, so it's hard to say.

What isn't.. is that Clifton took the wrong message. Instead of those.. the message was "They ruined my life, I wasn't black enough, they rejected me, they were the assholes" which again they kinda were, but it wasn't intentional. He took a sarcastic statment as gospel and proof that he needed revenge. He wasted the rest of his life trying to get back at people who didn't evne remember they hurt them instead of moving on: I've had my share of assholes in my life... and i've left them behind. They were far worse than the group here, but you move on. The gang did fuck up, I belelive that, but they all fucked up in other ways.. and as we've seen grew: Nnamandi was a serial cheater who constnatly said he'd change but didn't.. but is now really changed. Lisa is willing to give him another shot but is mature enough to know he's on thin ice. Even within the film Dewayne realizes he's been too overprotective of lisa and should trust her judgement. The group all cahnged and evolved.. while Clifton remaind the same angry kid he was blaming the world for something that ultimately was his fault. He drank a lot, someone died, and he drove into them.

Thankfully for them Clifton was dumb enough to lock two of them out, and while Lisa and co stall, their able to eventually disarm the asshole and kill him. OUr story ends with our heroes triumphant.. if not calling the cops because HAHAHAHAHAHA NO .. JUST.. NO. and calling the fire department because "they don't shoot people"... with bullets maybe not. With a hose.. yes. A goofy gag to end a great film.

The Blackening.. is excellent. It's funny, has some genuine scares, and nicely subverts a lot of horror tropes while talking about them cleverly. It's hard to be meta in horror as Scream has done a LOT of it and lead to a lot more films doing the same, bu tthe Blackening pulls it off with flying colors and is well worth checking out. Happy junteenth and thanks for reading.

[solofanatic64]

It’s my birthday again!

WOOOOOO CONFETTI🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

In honor of such a wonderful day, I made this piece for an art project (a month ago but SsSsSsSSSshHHHhh) showcasing every persona/self insert oc that I had over the years that I am now sharing with you all, along with small descriptions about them for context!

2018 was when I started making oc’s for tmnt 2012, and they were all cringe as hell. For example, here we have Princess Hikari (right), Princess of Iro and the element of color and light (it was 2018 and I’m pretty sure I was also obsessed with Gacha Life mini movies at the time). She was a part of my very first ever tmnt 2012 au where most of the most cast is actually from a different planet where the impossible can happen and certain characters of the main cast were elemental, but due to a villain becoming too powerful, they all flee to earth and most of them lose their memories. On Earth, Hikari disguised herself as Kodie Jackson (left), she was cool, quirky, and always had a good comeback, both in combat and in smack-talk (basically she was a “not-like-other-girls” girl without the whole putting other women down stuff). She also had a crush on Leo, along with every other oc I made during this era.

2020 was when I took a break from tmnt 2012 (shocking, I know) and hyperfixated on Casino Cups, a Cuphead au comic series on Tumblr that I got into because of VOAdams comic dubs for it. I made PLENTY of oc’s, au’s within the au’s, and lore for this (because I was 13 and cringe, what did you expect), some of it I still have content for and all of it I still have info for in the deep dark crevices of my mind. This was also when I had a TikTok account (that I don’t post on anymore) and this was also the era where my persona changed the most. But out of all of them, Juicehead was my favorite, even if I never inserted her into the Casino Cups cannon.

Oh boy, 2021, the year I came back onto the tmnt 2012 scene, the year I came back to my roots and STAYED there, the year I saw a “I made 9 of these, the first one you see determines your life in tmnt 2012” Instagram post and thought “……..but what if I WAS the Foot Clan?” Well, not at first, at first I was still with the turtles. My characters name was Irene (top), she was a demon who knew black magic, and she was best friends with Mikey (not crushing, this was also the year I decided to just stop crushing on tmnt 2012 characters for reasons I barely know). It wasn’t until that summer that I saw that fateful Instagram post and decided “yep, I like the Foot Clan henchmen now, and that’s how it’s gonna be for the rest of my life.” After that I ditched the demon horns, straightened my ponytail, got a new outfit, and changed her name to Dioxazine (bottom). She was alright, honestly I don’t think I did much with her.

In 2023 we got Comet, my girly, my popstar, my silly little gay. Surprise surprise, Comet used to be my persona/self insert before I decided to make her my oc (however she’s still my projection character). She’s actually been on the scene since 2022! But since then, her appearance been through a some changes from changing her shorts to pants, to shortening her hair, and other small things (if anything I think her lore has gone through the most changes). Either way, she’s a cutie patootie and I love her. This was also the era where my writing skills got better, now everything is less cringe :D👍

And finally, we’ve come to 2024, Sleepy! My persona today! You already know her, her face is a screen, her mask doubles as noise-canceling headphones (for optimal sleep of course), and her socks change every time! She’s in a constant state of being not quite sleepy but not quite awake either and she’s always wearing her jammies, comfy!

[this-is-a-dystopian-parable]

ACT TWOOO

1/2/3/?

So we got out of the show, definitely crying after Seconds. We stood up immediately during the applause they DESERVED IT.

We went out to the lobby and were given our posters while we waited for the cast to change and come back! We started saying hi to them before they were even out into the lobby, and they were excited to sing our posters and hear what we thought about the show!

I said hi to the costume designer, who recognized me from my DJ cosplay. Which is insane to me. Also bc the DJ has a cool metal wire mask thing he wears during Electric Future and it kinda reminds me of my design hehe. Also the music director, and the sound designer! Who wanted to know our thoughts and seemed really excited to explain his ideas and what he did with the sound, it was really busy so I hope we have more time to talk next show!

We again met up with Sam and Aya to talk about how much we all enjoyed the show. And they got to meet their new counterparts. We took even MORE pictures with everyone. THEN got to chat with some of the cast about like, bootlegs and demos and behind the scenes stuff they were excited to share. Which was very cool.

I got to talk to the DJ'S ACTOR. I told him I'm the number one DJ fan and he says "what does that say about you? Should I be concerned?"

mmm. yeah maybe.

He also said the DJ is his favorite character too but like. He does play him.

We hung out talking to people for WAY too long and didn't get moving until like 10:30. But it was so worth it. I hope tonight we get to talk to Krista and some of the designers more!

The Prize:

Some little changes. The whole "there's a home and a hot meal for everyone" bit was extended, with more about poverty and helping people.

We're back to the DJ striking down people during The Prize so I'm going to be honest I was kinda distracted during the second half. He was doing wonderfully.

My Weird:

Ok I will have to write a whole new thing about Grace and Tye's new dynamics. There's less focus now on Grace being kinda pushy with their relationship while Tye is more worried for the future. Now it's a lot more about Tye not knowing who they're going to be, much more subtly just not knowing if being married, attaching themselves to one person right this minute, is what they want. Because what if they want to change? There's some added conversation between Tye and the DJ there too, which lays out the wider themes of the show while speaking to Tye's character.

My Weird was absolutely crushing, it was stunning. No major differences just. Them.

Squaredance / Showdown:

THEY LET THE DJ BE HOMOPHOBIC AGAIN

They let the DJ be homophobic again

For those who don't know, the verse around the line "boys are studs and girls are sluts and queers ain't even s'pposed to do that stuff" was cut in MSM

BUT IT'S BACK NOW. WOOOOOO

Otherwise? No big differences. Good Rodger and Dakota chemistry, different from either that we've seen but that's largely thanks to Rodger's new character being more religious. I'll also have to make a whole post about that aspect, I know people were a little worried it would make him the one "in the wrong" in their relationship, but it really doesn't at all. He's a lot like MSM Rodger, generally very anxious, and it comes off like he's using his religion as an easy way to explain his anxiety. He's not just a prude, he is young and worried about his own feelings as well as what his religion tells him.

But besides the new dynamic in the subtext, nothing new here. Once again I was kinda distracted by the DJ.

Bacchanal:

Changed Dionysus to Bacchus.

With the new Harper & Janelle dynamic, the DJ now tells Janelle "she broke up with you, remember?"

Electric Future:

WONDERFUL projection mapping here, I really enjoyed how the commentator's booth was done separately so it stood out.

Amazing Cyrus. I haven't talked about him much but I like what they've done with the character, leaning into the jock aspect and running away from his problems. Also it's no longer "crushed in a car accident right after they had a fight" it's "crushed in a car accident while he was driving" so ;-;

Uh there was a moment where the DJ put his hand on Cyrus' while he was in the chair and leaned fully over him and into his face. That is all.

ALSO the DJ could FEEL the shocks and he was enjoying them. Like he was getting a kick out of them.

For those wondering, the Mo ending was reversed. It was back to a slightly adjusted version of the original 2015 ending. Which I prefer. That's another post <3

Seconds:

We cried. Amazing. Man I can't wait to see the show again tonight!

1/2/3/?

[stanfordsweater]

woooooo expert mode bingo for @thehighfiveproject done!!!! may google cat emojis across the world rejoice that i won’t be copy pasting them any more 🐱

this challenge went a long way to get me out of my comfort zone, both in searching for fics and in commenting on older ones i would have assumed the authors had left the accounts for-- and what do you know, the oldest fics were the ones i got the quickest responses from authors on!

old fic: breathing hard by whereupon (sam/dean, spn)

< 1000 hits: and kirkwall was burning bright by acequeenking (carver/hawke, dragon age 2) (obsessed with the brothers-at-the-end-of-the-world in this fic)

fandom classic: storytime with karkat by greenbird (dave/karkat, homestuck)

underdog trope for AMNESIA: like it was yesterday by nomelon (sam/dean... kind of? spn)

rare pairing: here be monsters by aeli_kindara (dean/benny, spn)

archive warning for UNDERAGE: perspective by deadlybride (sam -> dean/john, spn)

new fic: dawn by saltlordofold (alistair/m!warden, dragon age origins)

<1000 words: the best part of waking up by entropic_saudade (sam/dean, spn x folgers incest coffee commercial)

new to you author: wunjo by whoopsok (sam/dean, spn)

>10,000 words: the smart thing to do by altzfic (wesson/smith, spn)

underdog character for YOSUKE: and worship the trousers that cling to him by ladysisyphus (yosuke/p4mc, persona 4) (included because i have a really hard time liking yosuke and this fic manages it)

outside your fandom: one thousand, three hundred, and fifty-three feet by kyra (ferris/sloane/cameron, ferris buellers day off)

1st person POV: we are by endless_torment (carver/hawke, dragon age 2)

underrated fave: back again by dickbaggins (castiel/cain, sam/dean, cas/sam/dean, spn)

>100,000 words: his shoulders blot out the stars by scorpiod (sam/dean, spn)

[blogging-thots]

May 15 2023

My first week of break and tmr I got a Dr appointment for blood drawn , so hopefully I’m healthy :)))

I’m very glad I passed my DANB ICE EXAM bc sheeeesh I was soooo nervous about it and was ready to cry LOL

When time comes for the DANB radiology + chair side , I PRAY I PASS THOSE TOO 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💛💛💛💛💛💛

thank goodness I finished 2nd semester successfully , even though I was on the pass or fail line ! SKAJSJSKDNWKSNKQNDWJJSS NEVER AGAIN !! I NEED TO KEEP MY SELF UP AND TOGETHER BC WOOOOOO THAT WAS TOUGH

Summer semester , I guess I’m ready 😭🤣

Remember to always read the book 💀💀💀

3 months anniversary of dating Trae is in 2 days ,,,, crazy

I don’t think he remembers 💀💀💀

For some reason today , I’m feeling toxic and decided not to respond to him , but I did reply to his Good Morning message but after that I just didn’t

Idk whats wrong w me , maybe bc it’s almost my period day , and it’s supposed to start tmr ,,, it’s also been really hot bc summer is about to start

Idk why I keep doubting Trae,,,, maybe bc of my past 2 relationships that was in HS 💀💀💀💀💀 but I know Kass said not to bring those feelings into this relationship bc this is a new start and that it’s not fair to Trae if I’m being toxic with myself like this ,,,, ugh I hate my brain

I wrote Trae another anniversary letter and gave it to him on May 9 , but he never gave me a proper response ,,,, he did say that the translation app couldn’t translate it well ,,, but idk about that bc I sent the other 2 before this and I think it was fine ,,, but whatever ,,,, I don’t think he even really cares for those letters even tho he said he likes them ,,, I kinda expect him to respond with something meaningful,,, but I guess a “Thank you baby” is enough ?????? I shouldn’t expect much from him like Tanya said bc in the end , I’m only hurting my feelings and no one else.

I was also supposed to write the 2nd letter in my hand writing since he wanted a hand written one for memories instead of the printed one , but I’m not doing it bc I don’t think it’s needed since I don’t feel appreciated enough with the letters I wrote.

I don’t think I’ll be writing anniversary letters to him anymore , I think that 3rd letter is final, it’s just a waste of my time to write those letters, if I’m not getting a proper response from him.

On May 1 , he was worried about me bc he thought my parents blocked him from my contacts , so he wasn’t focusing well at work and kept making errors, and so Vicky sent him home , so he could rest.

^^^^that’s what Vicky (Co Boss) and Manager told me when I went to go buy a to go during that week.

So idk why acting toxic , and not responding to him today ,,,, but I did this night when he texted jokingly on Snapchat that he’ll need to call 911 since I’m not responding. And I responded back with “🤣💀 they’ll call you stupid” and responded with a sad character sticker and I opened the chat but didn’t reply and that was around 11pm I think and now it’s 12am and he didn’t text back,,,, so whatever.

I know he worked today and doesn’t have time to text me constantly , but idk why I keep thinking this way.

I don’t think I’ll reply to him tmr , maybe just the morning message I’ll respond but after that I don’t think I will ,,, he doesn’t even have any decent / in depth conversation with my thru text messages. It’s all “I miss you and love you baby” “I want to kiss and hug you” that’s about it thru out the whole text messages and I really appreciate that he miss me , loves me, and what’s to kiss and hug me, but where’s the conversation???? There’s nothing, so it causes me to be bored and don’t even want to talk.

I’m always the one trying to have conversations thru text w him , but he doesn’t even do that with me ,,, I think in person we’re fine but thru text it’s awful that I don’t even want to talk to him ,,, I rather watch YouTube all day than text him probably.

I used to ask him the basic questions like “how’s work?” “How’s he feeling?” “Did he sleep well?” “How was his day overall?” But now I don’t bother to do so bc he doesn’t even ask me those.

Whenever I’m having toxic thoughts, I think about breaking this relationship off , it’s bad that I think that but I can’t help it.

I guess him worrying about me to point that he can’t focus on his job properly should be a sign that he truly does care about me , but idk ,,,, I really do love him ,,, but whenever I keep thinking more and more , I start to think that I will be better off single than be w him.

I guess I’ll hold on a for the time being and if I’m still not happy with myself being in a relationship with him then I guess I will break up with him.

Sometimes I want to tell him to stop texting me bc I’m tired and don’t have the energy or capacity to talk but I don’t want him to think it’s bc of him , bc sometimes it’s not and it’s just my brain being toxic to myself again.

I told him before my 3 week break started that I’ll be working May 22 & 29 @ Pizza , so he could come see me ,,,, idk if I want him to come any more ,,,, I guess I’ll try not to talk to him as much during this week and see how it goes, maybe he might not show up bc of me not responding back to him frequently.

I feel like I always want to get to know him more by asking questions about his likes and dislikes ,,, but to me it seems that he doesn’t want to get to know me more or even care about that. Or maybe the reason he doesn’t ask is bc he doesn’t want to weird me out and rather learn what I like and dislike along the way.

I really hate my thoughts ,,, they always get to me to the point that it’s toxic for my mentality.

[mirrobs]

$20 to my name for the next 2 weeks. Happy Thanksgiving, woooooo...

Makes me think, though. what am I going to do in this city where the closest family all moved to Utah of all places this summer, I wonder? not in a worrisome sense but more, should I take the time to do something completely different just because I can and am alone here? meal supplements from the diet I was a part of for the past 4 months will be getting rationed out anyway, and there's a basically 4 day weekend ahead, so maybe it's time to not let myself get sucked into a depression hibernation curling into a ball "defensive" ""self-preserving"" lonely pit at home in a room I'm too overwhelmed to clean even though I know it being finally put into fucking order for real will actually fix a part of my head that's linging in the negativity this space has stored, shit radiating off of me and caking the walls like radioactive dust tuned just so to beam itself back into my honestly-doing-better-than-I-have-in-years head

so what this leaves me with is, SoCal's a big place. the sort of big where you can have an enraptured, truly spine-tinglingly goofy conversation with someone you've just met in your grocery store checkout line. something about it just makes your day, or you find a cheeky way to make their day as effortlessly as turning the page of your favorite book. for every neutral, straightforward interaction with The Public, the sort of transaction where you've already forgotten everything about them the fragment of a nanosecond after they leave the corner of your eye, these spark's-flying connections make each and every brainless interaction worth it.

All of that is lost now, and honestly I would've been hyper miserable if I was still stuck in that dead-end position panick attacking myself into paste.

alas, this 4 day weekend ahead, though. no money because of car trouble long neglected, but rent is paid. Gas tank is full. Food is hot coco-esque packets full of Nution Supplement, blended normally-5-times daily needing to be rationed until the end of the first week of december. every part of me is telling me, hunker down, promise money is coming to anyone being keened-eyed about my balance bouncing bills brought its way, drive the speed limit at 65 with Econ mode turned on for every moment cruise controlling across the entire county (18 miles each way),

oozing responsibility over the minor crisis like a well-trained platelet dispenser dripping yet another probably-definitely traumatic scab over a lingering wound that only just recently felt... under control?

and yet here I am wondering, almostly spitefully motivated to go out and do something radically different this 4-day weekend. not self-destructive, hopefully at least, but out of character of the norm in these situations of turtling up in my rat's nest and bearing beady eyes on bright screens to pass the sun from horizon to horizon like an unwanted hot potato.

why do I want to be here in a new kind of moment this thanksgiving, i wonder? I haven't decided yet, and maybe I'm scared of what I'll find if I grab ahold of this whim and let it drag me along unknown roads yet again. maybe I should do it anyway.

happy thanksgiving folks. let whatever pain these holidays might bring you fade quickly.

[fighting-these-demons]

First Episode Season 5!!!!! Woooooo!!!

I'm not loving the first opening (and what will undoubtedly be the final track that plays fir the end of the season) but that's ok.

Oh wow Kaburagi is gonna be the one at the Finish Line?

It looked like his hair anyway. I know that Naruko was the lead up to that shot but it looked like Kaburagi's hair.

Huh. They flattened Imaizumi's chin? Did they animation crew decide on that independently?

It's been less than 24 hours and he's got a new face.

How could they break the tip off of his Dorrito Chin? 😫😭💔 Imaizumi what have they done to you?????

He looks like he went through a second puberty via time travel.

Everyone's hair is Wrong too. Naruko's and Onoda's isn't spiky enough at the top... Teshima and Aoyagis hair is too short... it shouldn't be peaking out of his helmet like it is at that length.

We traveled back in time 20 minutes and they yanked Teshima and Aoyagi from their 1st year of high school and dropped them here. Meanwhile they snatched Imaizumi from one if his college classes and threw him in here.

Naruko also looks like he got yanked from his last year of middle school.

What is going on here?????

Who let them do this?????

These budget cuts are CRAZY. The difference in animation from season 4 to season 5 is stunning (derogatory).

I know Sohoku didn't cut their hair the night before but now I have to headcanon it that way because it simply doesn't make sense otherwise.

They toned down Naruko's dialogue with Onoda from the last episode. :(

They made Kaburagi seem nervous instead of excited?

They made only Naruko shout "Go!!!" When the whole team shouted it before in the last episode and they animated it as if he was asking a casual question in a worried tone like checking up on Onoda as opposed to cheering him on.

How weird. It doesn't sync with the audio either.

You can really tell this is where the studio was losing money and patience. 😞

Ah I see it's it's spell cast by Midousuji chanting Morph Morph Morph!

He morphed the cast.

Also I know that Kyoto Fushimi had backup riders before the race... why don't they have a 6th guy to replace the one they lost the day before?

The way they're animating them moving side to side in close ups is making me motion sick! 😖

That's interesting. They didn't attack before Onoda caught up last episode but now they are.

Oh Wooooow!!!!!! It's big Imainoda hours this season!!!! Woooooo!!!!! 🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊

I hope they still throw Imaisugi some bones though!

I'm glad for Imaizumi! He deserves these moments! 💖💖💖

Dang he LOVES these moments of getting to metaphorically hold someone's hand and teach them through new experiences! This has got to be Peak for him! Good for him!!!

Gayest Dialog Ever God Bless! 💖🎊

Imaizumi's STAYING CALM after that????

THE SMIRK

Saying "That's not something you should be saying right now." ??????????

They really did pull him out of time from college!!! Holy shit the raw confidence!!! Good for him! Holy shit!

"No, that's not right. If you felt like saying it during a race, then that's the time to say it."

"Road races are similar to the passage of time; at times they change at dizzying speeds, and there's no going back. "

"Whatever you're thinking at that time has to be said in that moment. "

"Thank you Onoda, for what you said earlier. It's encouraging. Not that I'm particularly gentle or kind."

WITH THE SMOULDER?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!

EHEIDJDNDHSUWJSBSBSHSWJ

Man really did get pulled back in time and decided to capitalize on his crush that got away!!!

Good for him!!!!! DAMN!!! I'm remembering how I cheered for Imainoda in the beginning of season 1! 😂

This scene was animated by last season's team! 🤣 Imaizumi still has his chin as I'm pausing for dialog.

Ope! And now it's gone again! 😂 He wiped his damn chin off!

I like the closing song much more. The simple style is nice and beautifully colored. I'm not a fan of the framing/staging for the characters and it's REALLY making me appreciate how awesome all of the OPs and EDs were animated for Season 4 by comparison... but it's still nice. It's very sweet.

[that-one-guy-who-does-the-thing]

found the mom episode. eeesh... but was worth finding it!

sniff.... i love you tiger philanthropist...

ONE OF THE RUBIES WILL BE OUR FRIEND YAAAAY

lapis whats wrong ......

wait. is she just gonna. get the ship. i hope shes not like just here for the ship

NOOOOOOOOOOOO oh lol garnet made 2 balloons

DESTINY HAIRBALL

nona? sorry no i mean nora? cursive is hard

oh, in case steven was a girl???

uh ohhh steven is misunderstanding the purpose of having chiildreen WAIT NO HE REALIZED HES JUST HER KID YAAAY HIS MOM LOVES HIM

......how did... how did rose know she would become steven..?

character: hands in pocket winking smiling stop sTOP STOP (it reminds me of sans)

SUPA MARIO IN REAL LIFE

ok so the trespasser is either amethyst (funny) or jasper (lore)

that spaceship is WHATBOUND??? FOR THE SNES?????

i should have FUCKING GUESSED IT WAS ONION aw man

sir you are siCONNIE SAID IT TOO YEAAH SILLY DAD! SILLY DAD!

WAIT ITS NEW GEMS!!! ITS NOT JASPER BUT ITS! LOOORE!

oh god not lars ok here we go

wait, is that one purple? PURPLE is my FAAVORITE COLOR. GGGIIMME THAT!

wait lars isnt annoying me that much this episode this is awesome

turning the lights off to throw glowsticks is so good

awh lars...

ok one shadows tease is a teaser, two is edging

WAIT WAS LARS KIDNAPPED!!???!?!?????

MAAASSS KIIDNAAAAPPING!!!!!!!!!!!!

WAIT "MY DAD" IS GREG! FFUUUCK WAIT NO NO NO NO I GET IT I GET IT

GOOOD THEYRE SCARY

i was right

uh oh steven's plan didnt work

NVM IT DID GO STEVEN GO STEVEN

steven: its all my fault , connie: STEVEN PLEEEASE

oh hey lars

LAAARRRRSSSS

topaz's voice is so nice... sigh...

WAIT DID ONE OF THEM SHATTER PINK OR IS ROSE PINK IM CONFUSED DID I MAKE THAT UP

conjoined twins? :O !!

BIG GORL! BOOK WORM!!! POLYGAMY!!!!!!!!!!!!

LARS W???? RARE LARS W?????

WHAAAAT NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

HEALING TEEARS! FROM MOOOM!!! WOOOOOO!!!!!!

qquuuuiiiiicckkklyyyyy ....... blllooock theee eeentrraaaannnncce.....

LARS IS A LION NOW !!!!! LION IS A ZOOMMMBIIIEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

INTERDIMENSIONAL TRAVEL THROUGH ZOMBIES

lars W

hi steven

oh steven... life hasnt been fair to you...

FUCK YOU MAYOR DEWEY

mayor dewey W for stepping down. uh oh steven

steven depression arc

uh ooohhhhh steeeveeeennnn dont text into the dark

sigh.... i've been there steven... you can't force her to talk to you.

GREEEN THIIIIING HI HI HI HI HI!

green thing.... lapis.... gone...?

hggfhhhjhj this is the "steven isnt able to fix stuff the way he usually does after 4 seasons of mostly quick and easy solutions to interpersonal conflict" arc... it really hits when you're so used to "you're making me sad." "oh sorry steven i guess we're chill now"

wait jasper was bubbled right..? did that happen and i forgot about it.??

green thing sad.......... :o(

green thing better! steven better!

i wonder if we'll ever see green thing fuse...... i love her

i... miss... lars..?

doodoo. butt. the governmnent. corrmupts

sigh. steven and the band ignoring their--WAIT NO THEYRE HORROR JAMMING

i think the punk tumblr lesbians would enjoy the eat your brains instead of work minimum wage song

SADIE ON THE LOOSE! WAIT NO MORE DONUTS???????

clarence

kevin stop

bye kevin. yay theyre friends!

LARS??? EMERALD????? HOW FUUUCKING LOOONG HAS IT BEEN???!????!?!??

sigh... lars... please... be cool.

oh hes cool again

heehee.... snar wors...

im happy to have connie back

oh. theyre. fighting non-gems nowwww..., uuh ooh. thinking about steven's undertale true ending

i was right

stevonnie stubble goes hard

steven's psychicness combines with connie's normal dream stuff

is mom turning into a diamond in this dream? YES SHE IS

wait... is this a mom dream...? viewed through connie? PINK??? WAS I RIGHT???

the subtle breakcore outro song is pretty cool

garnet storytime W

cute vhs episode

garnet being silly for fun :o)

PAINT ME LIKE ONE OF YOUR AMETHYSTS !!

shes playing with her boooyyyy..,.. SHES PLAYING WITH HER BOOOYYYY!!!!!!

uh ohhh

oh yaay :o)

i think i have a character i... wait... lars and whats his name have that in common... theyre both annoying but lars pulled ahead by becoming a cool space guy

i love it when the gems do human stuff... <:o)

i love it when shows put people on a stage and give next to zero audience

wow steven's handwriting is really really good

i wonder if the lars donut tastes like the lars cake

lapis.... waaaaaaa.......

PSYCHIC STEVEN LORE

ok i really wish i didnt know what i think i know about pink

BLUE BIRD COME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

is it too late to give people nicknames? whatever sad or angsty pearl is now white baby

oh its the reveal that would have hit really hard if i alrWAIT STEEVEN IS PINK DIAMOND!!!! WAIT THAT JUST HIT ME WHAAAAAT

STEVEN YOU CANT JUST SAY THAT

rose turning "my pearl" into a sweet nickname is sweet in a.. kinda fucked way

oh thank god mom didnt make the zoo

MOM IS A DOOOORRRRK

RED BABY COME BACK (ruby is red baby and sapphire is blu baby)

guh, the scribbled out heart..... at first i thought she'd accidentally started writing "garnet" but then i realized it was a hears and got saaad......

white baby dont worry ...red baby will come back

purple thing please care abourt red baby.......

purple thing please care about yourdself.....

purple thing care about our boy... <:o)

red baby break up//............ <:O(

undertale yellow

RED BABY MISSES HER GF WAAAAAAA

CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE!!!!!!!!! CUUUUUUUUUUTE!!!!!!

hi minecraft... nonono. uhh rainbow thing!

hey random side thing i got some weird deja vu where i just wrote that last thing and then rewinded to catch up and then kept replaying the same 2 seconds over and over and it was really scary but thats ok

WEEEEDDIIIIIINNNNGGG RIIIIIIIIINNNNGGGGSSSS!!!!!!!!

wait does steven do the diamond salute before warping in the intro..?????????

WEDDING KNIGHT HELL YEAH RAINBOW THING

GREEN THING IN A DRESS

TUX DRESS!!!!!!!!!!! YEAAAAA!!!

CLUSTER IS OUR FRIEND AND THE BIGGEST POLY..uh poly... polygamous.... WHATEVER YOU CALL THOSE WEB THINGS

WATER BABY WAS WITH US IN THE MOON ROOM WOOOOOO

CLUSTER BECAME OUR CHILL EARTH DEFENSE SYSTEM

is this... what it looks like when you get poofed...?

BIG MOMMAS ARE.... im not calling them that. YELLOW AND BLUE ARE CHILL NOW PRRROBABLY!

GIANT ROBOT WOMAoh. legs. mettaton ship

green thing i miss you...

ok i will be calling her white momm..nevermind... NO! im calling her grandma

TV PG sign in the intro.. hmmm

whoops seems like a duplicate episode wwwuh oh

oh... pink's room.. rose's room...

<:o) mom... pink.... was really pink baby.....

silly ball... kinda creepy tho... im not sure im... enjoying... connie being there... considering uh,... how she's , yknow, a human, and ,could die easily

i love the diamonds' unnatural chaotic long accordion chords that just go on forever... it's... fitting!

NOOOOOO STEVONNIE IS IN BAD ROOM!!!

MELON BABY IS BAAACK

dumbass bird too stupid to live heehee

STEVEN'S ODYSSEY!!!!!

BLUE W

GIGA QUEEN DELTARUNE

GREEN THING! BLUE BIRD!!!!!!!!! RAINBOW THINF!!!!!!!

is... is blue mom scottish now? was she always scottish?

MOMS

STEVEN FUSIONS

THE STAR!!!! OBSIDIAN!!!

THIS SHIT IS AWESOME

this shit is fucking scary dude

MOM??!???!?!??

JAMES BAXTER??!?!?!?!?

ending was fast... but i guess thats par for the course in this show. well, the final sequence was cool and cute and awesome AAAUGH THE CARTOON NETWORK JINGLE

ok movie next but not yet i have car stuff in the morning

watching steven universe for the first time. still on season 1. im noticing over half of the episodes are like... it's like regular show in that the first like half of the episode is relatively normal and kind of slice of life??? or at the very least just kind of stuff happening, and then after that shit picks up to a thousand, but unlike regular show it's taken super seriously and oftentimes what feels like act 3 movie character development happens out of nowhere. like idk some of these episodes have moments that would feel more deserved if there was more buildup or if it was part of like a multi-part special or something.

but other episodes are more like early adventure time. i cannot explain why

[guynamedultimax]

ok so let me get a rundown on the mcu atm (+bonus sonic thing)

-half of the original six avengers are dead while the other half is either crippled physically (bruce) or emotionally (thor) or retired (clint)

-the guardians are back chilling in space with a new recruit and are looking for the gamora variant while asgard is now ruled by valkyrie (and either jane or carol)

-local best girl in the franchise creates a fake reality with a fake best husband and fake children enslaving and mentally torturing an entire town, witch attempts to steal her powers, witch gets her ass kicked but apparently will return(?), best girl on the run with evil book, husband is now real again and on the run as well. oh hi monica why are you angry with aunt carol?

-cool dude with wings becomes captain america, works with the other dude with metal arm to stop terrorists with actual good motives, peggy carter’s niece is now a criminal????, zemo is in prison but as if that’s ever gonna stop that bitch we love zemo. and also isaiah. god bless isaiah.

-local asgardian tumblr sexyman sees his life flash through his eyes thanks to time police variant of lightning mcqueen (stan mobius btw) and becomes a simp for female version of himself who kills a very based dude and lets the multiverse loose, which means we now have an evil time overlord who indirectly rules the TVA. also fuck miss minutes i hate her and i love her at the same time

-after loki fucks up, watcher watches 8 of his fuckups and then calls them together to deal with a far better villain than thanos in terms of character design

-carol offplanet as usual, nick offplanet with skrulls, t’challa is ????, strange is sipping good coffee and is still doing it to this day while wong does illegal fights with emil blonsky

-crazy contessa builds her own bootleg avengers starting with blonde widow (YELENA WOOOOOO) and...eugh, john walker (like i understood him as a character but at the same time fuck him you’re never gonna be better than steve rogers). LET KATE IN.

-in 2016 after letting steve go, nat took down a floating fortress, killed danny devito and did it with the help of her little sister who isn’t really her little sister, her bootleg captain america russian dad who isn’t really her dad, and her mom who isn’t really her mom and then decided to go die on vormir without thinking about yelena or her other family, oh and taskmaster was there too but it wasn’t really cool and im realizing she kept away from them for those five years as to avoid the mutual pain and because yelena was snapped

-new superheroes popping out left and right such as the coolest martial artist user in the history of ever who has ten magical space rings taken from his sickass father the actual mandarin, and katy. we love katy. san francisco has the best heroes im telling you with shaun and scott. oh and apparently some thousand year old space dudes i haven’t seen eternals yet i only know they are out there looking for their similiars. also waiting for marc, kamala and jennifer be like

-harry styles is thanos’ brother????? no wonder that dude wanted half of life dead he was the least favorite kid

- we have a new hawkeye and i haven’t seen the series yet but THERE IS LUCKY. ALL IS GOOD. THERE IS KINGPIN. ALL IS GOOD. who is echo?

-peter parker? who’s peter parker? : )

sidenote but i want a crossover between sonic, antman and shang-chi THEY ALL WORK IN SAN FRANSISCO EVEN IF SONIC LIVES IN MONTANA COME ON

[somanywords]

i'm throwing the impossible ask back at you: rank the 7 crows / talk about why you can't rank them because you love them all so much for different reasons 🥰💫

thank you very much for the ask, and for your patience! 🥰 and for the opportunity to ramble about my crow children 💛

kaz i just love him so much, he's gotta be first. he's so appealing as a character because of that awesome badass way he appears to have everything under control at all times, rolling with every new punch and listening and watching for the openings. and then you get to know him more and he's a drama queen who barely knows what he's doing and just trying to stay alive and maybe say one word to the girl he likes and...so relatable. i love him 2. wylan wylan is great because he snuck up on me--not the most loud or flourished of the characters, it took me a while to get to know him and then it was off to the races. he's quiet, he's underestimated, but he's dangerous and smart and brave. i love love love his relationship with kaz and all the others, and his bravery toward overcoming his own battles! also he's a musician 👌👌 3. inej gosh this is hard--but i decided to put inej third, because although i don't resonate much with her either, she does mean a lot to me. firstly, badass assassin with a hurting heart--my favorite kind of character. kill a man and spend months grieving it, ooh YEAH. :) also she was one of the first ya female characters i met that said "no i won't wait around to fix you, you can fix yourself or you can leave" and that meant so much to lil 17 year old me. also i love how her religion is such a part of her and her growth and journey back too herself *chef's kiss* and i AM a kaz/inej sucker and woooooo does that stuff hit good 4. matthias! ugh. stupid conflicted orphaned soldier. i adore. god the poor dude is ripped away from everything he's ever known, apparently betrayed by a friend, thrown in jail for two years and then taken back to break and enter to his home...and still he's trying to do the right thing. but he can't! he can't go back home like it used to be, he can't. the tragedy of it! and his grudging appreciation for his crew, his new home, and the way he can't help but fall more and more in love with nina...sheer poetry 5. jesper jesper's steadfastness is the most appealing thing about him to me, i think. like yes the man will lose all your money, but he'll always be looking over his shoulder to make sure you're alright, and he'll drop everything to help you kill somebody, and that's just friendship goals. the whole secret stuff goin on with his illness and all that is just delicious too, and again, his arc is just...woooo nina 6. nina made me really emotional when i first met her, i remember. here's a female hero who is badass and powerful and moves through the world like a queen and she's not petite and stick thin. and it's mentioned a few times in relation to her change of clothes or whatever, and nothing else. it doesn't change a thing about her abilities or her life and...that was so important for me and all young girls to hear and on top of it she's funny and caring and deeply deeply flawed...i will eat her like a waffle 7. kuwei i'm sorry to put him last, but i don't know him as well! i like what i've seen though, and his whole pretending not to speak kerch thing and pretending to be wylan definitely speaks to a layer of jokes and explosions i'm sure the future will bring. :D so good for him of course that got really long--but boy was it fun! thanks again for the ask!

[vvitchering]

TBOBF ep 6 thoughts under the cut whooooosh

I feel like a LOT was squeezed into this episode. They just barely managed to make it all fit without feeling too overly squashed but it was close. We’re really more solidly into “this is The Mandalorian S 2.5” territory now, which we were told about before this show ever aired anyway so I’m not surprised.

(Though I’m not as upset about Boba’s spotlight being moved the last two eps as others are, I do agree it’s Not Great to have given the impression this far that this would be HIS SHOW ENTIRELY and then sideline him for Mando characters. At least we saw him for 5 seconds this ep though…)

Called seeing Cobb again! I’m two for two! It would be really shitty to finally fish that wish and then have him murdered. By Cad fuckin BANE. Whomst I know a lot of you bigger Star Wars fans probably loved seeing but I could have done without. We’re starting to get a little cameo heavy again which was one of Mando S2’s big issues imo.

Part of what made Mando so good (and what was also really good about TBOBF there at the start) was that it told an amazing story without relying on the credit an old familiar face would give it. Mando succeeded with brand new character Din Djarin at the helm because it was a well written and produced show and didn’t NEED name drops to keep it afloat. I’m worried tossing Cobb, Luke, Ahsoka, Grogu, Din, and now Bane into TBOBF is an overreaction to the negative feelings people were (rightfully) having over what happened to the Tuskans.

It’s either a distraction, a desperate grab for views, a misguided attempt at forgiveness, idk. But you don’t toss that many classic cameos into one random episode unless you’re feeling insecure about it’s standing. And it certainly doesn’t make up for the horrible writing decisions earlier in the series.

I did enjoy seeing Cobb and Grogu again and I do love Din being involved. But even with my overall positive view of last week and somewhat of this week’s ep, I do find it in bad taste that Din has been acting as the main character again in a show that isn’t his. As much as I love him, I think it would have been better to have him filling a supporting role, backing up Boba, (probably as he was meant to in this show, originally) than monopolize the screen time himself.

That’s probably more greed on D*sney’s part than anything else. They know Mando did well so let’s toss Din and Grogu into TBOBF so we can sell all that baby yoda merch again woooooo!!!

Anyway:

If Cobb Vanth is dead we riot

Luke (and Ahsoka) continues to be a dick for preaching emotional distance and then constantly trying to emotionally manipulate Grogu into choosing to become a Jedi instead of following the equally available and valid path of becoming a Mandalorian.

Did we need Cad Bane? Nah probably not.

A lot of this feels like it could have waited for Mando S3 which makes me think they want to tie up this plot by the end of this show so other things can be explored in Mando S3.

So why bother bringing in all these familiar faces and making it about them? Just seems weird. Especially when they take screen time from the person who’s show it actually is meant to be.

Looking at it now, I really wonder if something happened in the middle of filming or writing or at some point in the creative process because where we are now feels incredibly distant in almost every single way from where we were eps 1-3. Slapping Din and a bunch of his supporting cast in wouldn’t have been tough, seeing as how they wouldn’t even have needed Pedro Pascal to physically be there. What the hell happened? Possibly something to do with covid?

I still liked this ep. As long as I’m entertained, I consider things successful. Remember that this show was always meant to bridge the gap between the two Mando seasons, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that this is just how the show will be from now on. And we only have 2 more episodes to go. It’s gotten me very excited to get back into The Mandalorian, which realistically was TBOBF’s purpose all along. I still would have liked to have gotten more Boba content out of it before this point, though.

Cobb better not be dead 👀🔪

[the-friendly-entomologist]

"..."

"It... It's selfish because Gonta is grown. He's not some lost baby that needs to be watched over all the time anymore, he can and has to do things on his own now. Even then, it's n-not like he has much of anyone he can rely on, so to just ask someone to do that... How inconsiderate would that be?"

"Being alive it exhausting."

Or

"i know it’s selfish.  but i wish someone would just take care of me."

(@the-friendly-entomologist)

(Note: Why not both?) Lines: "Being Alive it's exhausting" and "I know it's selfish. But I wish someone would just take care of me"

It wasn't like him to react that way. Sure, he was getting some coaching into realizing that he can not be okay sometimes, and is letting himself be more vulnerable more frequently, but one of the many barriers he kind of gets hard to cross is letting it out at any moment. Instead, he usually pulls it in his heart long enough until he can't do it any longer.

Thankfully, the time that it went to this, was right in my session. He wasn't one to talk when that happens.

Start from the bottom. He already expressed that he was exhausted enough. that's a start.

"Why do you think it would be selfish?"

[watermelonsugawara]

congratulations on 300💓🥳 for your event, please can i request corruption kink with pretty boy akaashi🥺like he’s all ready to ruin innocent y/n thank you!!

THANK YOU SM jdghksjahgkjhsg 🥺♥️

oh hell fuckin YEAAHHHHHHHH hehehe

i got this idea from an old ask n ive been waiting to write smth for it so lemme explain: cockwarming akaashi as he makes you watch porn for the first time

...

300 event rules - send an ask!!

❥ characters: akaashi x fem!reader

❥ warnings: nsfw WOOOOOO; cockwarming, pornography, a singular spank LMFAO

...

The lewd noises coming from the computer filled the room, making your cheeks heat up with embarrassment, watching the man drill into the woman from behind. The delicious stretch from your boyfriend’s thick cock bottomed out inside of you, combined with the chorus of moans and skin slapping coming from the video, was too much for your senses. You tried to look away, but a harsh hand came down on your ass, making you squeal. 

“I said, don’t look away,” Akaashi groaned, “Eyes on the screen baby, don’t be shy.”

You removed your face from your palms, looking back at the screen again. You couldn’t help but imagine yourself in video, her face pressed into the mattress as Akaashi relentlessly pounded into you. It was so new, so filthy, yet you craved it so badly.

He reveled in your reactions, finding your shyness towards watching porn so endearing. Your wet pussy clenched around him deliciously each time the woman in the video screamed out in pleasure, causing Akaashi to clench his jaw to keep from moaning. The sensitive tip of his cock brushed against your own sweet spot inside of you, making you squirm in his lap.

“You like what you see, angel?” Akaashi cooed, his eyes fixated on your face. He didn’t even need an verbal answer to know, but it’s not like you could give it to him anyways. Your mouth hanging open and your small hands gripping his biceps was good enough. He couldn’t wait to give you the real thing.

[knight-in-shiny-hoodie]

I just saw Megamind (2010) again and I’m fucking exhausted but i wanna write this before I fall asleep and forget bc I gotta share this at least with the bast void of the internet

SO okokokok soooo, Megamind (2010). Great movie, great character, all of that,,, but WHAT IF what ifwhatiffff

we saw in the movie that it’s Metroman the one who gets just fucking tired of being a hero and just McFucking quits, right?

and apparently from what little we see, he nor Megamind had secret identities, which is why (I assume) that he jumped the gun and thought faking his dead was reasonable and made up Music man, bc he had no “normal/human” life to fall back into. does he even have like,,, an actual NAME??

NOW BEAR WITH ME pls: what if the one who got tired first was Megamind? like, just imagine.

From what we saw on the movie, once he was disguised he blended p well with the rest of the population. He was a weird guy with some quirks, sure, but there are a lot of them everywhere, so he really was just Some Guy. And idk bout u, but after an entire existence of standing out in a Not Good way, I think Megamind would start to like being just Some Guy that no one really pays attention to. and so I came up with this Concept, dis Idea:

let’s imagine that everything from the beginning of the movie is as it goes. Metroman fakes his death, the city goes up in a kinda chaos (bc as far as we can tell, people went with business as usual besides the zones where the blue guy and his fish are), Megamind starts to question the meaning of life now without a purpose and goes to the museum and meets Roxane, but disguised as Bernard, and Megamind starts his plan to make a New Hero so that he can continue his villany but at the same time he is keeping in touch with Roxane and even strikes an unlikely friendship.

Noooowwww, here is where things get shaken up a fuck ton lil

you Can’t and Will Not convince me that Roxane, having spent so much time with “Bernard” and apparently considering him a really good friend now (that dinner was totally a date from the beginning, no you can’t change my mind), did NOT bitch about what a pain in the ass and how uncomfortable Hal made her feel at times (be let’s be honest, girl deals with that lil awful guy in the DAILY, she needs to vent), and Megamind might snap back enough to realize “wait…. that’s the same guy I gave superpowers and supposedly I’m training to be a hero” and Starts to actually Think this through to see if it is an actual good idea (spoilers we all know: it’s not)

he decides to keep much more of a close watch on Hal, bc now he’s seeing things in a kinda different light (or u know, actually seeing them lmao) and MAYBE the whole fight with Minion just doesn’t happen bc him and Megamind are stalking Hal,,,,, and maybe they see the whole “oh!, I just gotta save you a few times and you’ll totally fall in love with me!” stunt and are floored and terrified bc they see now, they Made a Mistake and Roxane was almost gonna get hurt for it.

so obviously Megamind acts fast and since they are already out, decides to take Hal’s powers at once, and shenanigans ensue of him trying to distract Hal enough while Minion is hidden nearby with the gun charging bc “damn it Minion if this goes south and he kills me I will come back and kill you myself” but fortunately Hal is Stupid and is entertained enough and his powers are taken from him woooooo. Hal would make a pissy fit, but n o o n e c a r e s, and who tf was gonna believe him? “oh yea I had superpowers the last few weeks and then my space father took them away from me” like??? people will just think he’s on drugs.

that takes us to the next scene: the dinner, this could go mostly the same,,,, but it won’t lmao.

Roxane now is not the only one arriving slightly late, bc now Megamind had to deal with a whiny and troublesome Hal and he had to rush to the restaurant.

[liighty]

Serious BNHA Ch. 290 spoilers WOOOOOOOOO

Okay let’s start from the beginning because this chapter was just

a LOT to take in

(Edit so there’s a cut yeah yeah spoilers under the cut there’s a LOT to take in WOOOOOOOOOOOOO)

I know everybody was about 99.999999% certain that Dabi was Toya already but the way this chapter was executed was beautiful. I got literal chills, even though I was already pretty sure it was gonna go down this way anyways, and it’s all due to Horikoshi using pre-existing details revolving the Todoroki saga in the big reveal. It’s kind of sad that he got some hate about dragging it out so long, because I honestly feel like if he didn’t do it this way it wouldn’t have been as impactful.

ANYWAYS, analysis time WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The chapter starts off in the hospital that Rei Todoroki’s been admitted in for the past 8 years or so. We hear from the staff that the TV needs to be cut, and that she’s close to discharge. On her windowsill sits her favorite flowers, the same flowers that she had said Enji had dropped off for her way back during the Hooded Nomu incident. We’ve known that Rei was going to be discharged soon since Chapter 259, and some significant time has passed since then, and just- she still has the flowers, so Enji’s probably stopped by recently.

Now imagine being this woman for a second: Not only is she the victim of psychological and physical abuse, but she’s also the mother of a (up until now) considered deceased son and the reason her youngest son has a massive scar on her face. To say that her psyche is fragile would be an understatement. 

She’s getting better enough to be able to return to the real world, but that doesn’t mean something earth-shattering could push her progress back.

And that’s exactly what happens.

Rei’s regularly scheduled TV program (Quick note: She didn’t have access to the television during the Hooded Nomu fight, so the fact that she has it now shows that she’s been making considerable progress) is interrupted by a man sitting on a chair. He looks up, and it immediately registers:

That’s her son.

More specifically, that’s the son she thought had DIED years ago. If this doesn’t break her I honest to god don’t know what will.

Moving on.

We get this fantastic shot of the destruction this war has caused, but other than that the shigaraki shit isn’t anything we didn’t know already

Shiggy’s hurt, AFO’s telling him to retreat, and he almost gets his ass handed to him by Nejire and Shoto (MAN Nejire got the chance to actually do something this chapter but noooooo stupid Gigantomachia >:(( )

Despite my disappointment, there were some awesome Nejire bits so I’m not complaining THAT much.

Also not that it matters but I love how both of them use their first names as their hero names LOL Anywho, we get a status update on Iida and Bakugo; Bakugo’s stable enough to speak but is probably gonna experience major setbacks if he doesn’t get help soon, and Iida’s trying his best to help his pals

THEN WE GET TO THE MEAT OF THE CHAPTER

Aaaaalso friendly reminder that Enji asks Shoto if he’s okay; The man DOES care, he’s just really bad at showing it.

We get a flashback to the panel of Enji waaay back during the Provisional Licensing Retake thingamabobber exam(? I think i don’t really remember correct me if i’m wrong) Where his character arc reaaly started to take off

Then we get THIS lovely interaction, in which Dabi addresses Shoto by name. Enji, not really recognizing him (more on that later) sees him and calls him out, causing Dabi to retaliate. He splashes some liquid on his hair (not sure if it’s bleach or just water i’m actually stupid man idk) and thus, the big reveal is set.

Followed immediately after by side-by-side panels of father and son

I don’t know if I’m just overthinking things but like- Scars are in the same area, really reminded me of this LOL

Anyways, we get to see this heart wrenching image of Rei Todoroki’s world falling apart for the second time.

We then get to see the destruction this fight has caused AGAIN, but in the perspective of other people. 

Not gonna show the hand since WOOOOOO that was sad; A friend pointed out that the woman in the left panel has a similar body shape and hair cut as Inko Midoriya, and she could be standing in the rubble of her apartment (also note that she’s crying; something we see Inko do A LOT). I’m not going to make any assumptions just throwin’ it out there

Then there’s THIS

THE BEST PANEL IN THE ENTIRE FUCKING CHAPTER

Cantcha See Kid, one of the most influential reasons why Endeavor’s popularity was able to skyrocket, sits with his friend in horror as he watches this news. His view of the Number One Hero has crumbled, and he’s supposedly Endeavor’s biggest fan. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Foreshadowing at it’s finest, kiddos. Honest to god, things are gonna get really bad once this blows over. Endeavor, known child abuser and creator of the mass murderer Dabi? Nobody would let him remain in the number one spot.

Toya flat out SAYS IT.

The message is clear: ‘All those people I killed would have lived to go home to their families if my father had been kinder.’

Toya dives deeper into his backstory, yadiyada, nothing you probably haven’t seen already; What I REALLY want to get into is this panel right here:

“A dance with your son, here in hell.”

Most readers probably just read this as a ‘oh wow he’s really mad and that makes sense wow’, but it’s actually a callback to what Natsuo said to Enji once Toya was first properly introduced.

Natsu blames his father for Toya’s death and says he’ll never forgive him, prompting this scene:

“It’ll be a cold day in hell before I forgive you.”

I don’t know I’m probably overthinking things but like HOLY SHIT MAN

Also this

don’t know if you noticed it but All Might’s on his way :’))

TLDR: I love Horikoshi’s writing so much like jesus christ i’m crying god this chapter gave me all the feels