#8 genres

[midwesternfields]

My Spotify Wrapped 2023 ⍮ really stuck to listening to music only at night or while I was driving, so that explains the low minutes listened to. Also like I was on a manhunt for old songs I'd forgotten about (weyyyyy como que montez y los temerarios no quedaron 1-2 😭😭 [rip atardecer ni llego al top cinco] onta el meme del pinguino usurpando a benito juarez)

[kit-screams-into-the-future]

was having trans marty thoughts again and i came to a realization about this scene

[guardianlioness]

For those wondering about my deeply violent descent into Kn8, the series is, essentially, Shonen Genre Pacific Rim Fanfic with:

A Shonen Protagonist in his early 30s who is also a monster shapeshifter

Intergenerational friendships that are presented in a positive and interesting light

A different exploration of the “drifting with a Kaiju” subplot

Very, very little fanservice from the women in the cast and (at time of writing), no focus on romance

Strong undertones of mutual kindness and camaraderie

A villain with really strange motivations

It oozes sincerity and does not try to mock or deconstruct either its source material or its genre. It’s a deeply earnest rework of the ideas presented in Del Toro’s original film with a heavy Shonen flair and less mecha.

In short, it feels like it was custom-written for me.

[secriden]

asldjLSDJFLSFLDJF Style, it's very not cool of you to call out the comedy plot points and the way the narrative devices are as subtle as a gunshot (ha!) like this!!

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Hole – Malibu

[front-facing-pokemon]

[gainahan]

naruto driving headcanons

Naruto - definitely not licensed. debatable whether he actually knows which one is the brake pedal. as long as Sakura is alive he will not be allowed behind the wheel of a car. unknowable/10

Sasuke - also not technically licensed, but all things considered a pretty decent driver. probably started driving well before he was legally old enough to. 7.5/10

Sakura - road rage extraordinaire. swears up and down she goes the speed limit but in truth goes at minimum 10 over. “speed limit is a suggestion” more like speed limit is a challenge. at the very least she gets them where they need to go. 5.5/10

Sai - never learned to drive until he met team 7. between Naruto and Sakura’s influences, he won’t be getting licensed for at least the next 6 years. good luck/10

Shikamaru - truly cannot be arsed. if asked to drive he claims to not have a license, but he definitely does. another unknowable/10 but I like to think in a pinch he’d be pretty good at it.

Choji - reliable driver but has a tendency to be late. gets stressed out when he has more than a few passengers. 6/10

Ino - wants to be a passenger princess soo badly. unfortunately for her, she’s the best on her team. being good at driving is her curse. woefully, 10/10

Kiba - team 8’s designated driver, believe it or not. he is…not good at it, per se, but better than the rest of them. having two sets of eyes on the road tends to help. 6.5/10

Hinata - gets so stressed out she forgets how to brake. she’ll be white knuckling the wheel going 50 in a residential while her passengers pray for their lives in the backseat. -2/10 her dad’s insurance is through the roof

Shino - morally opposed to driving. he hasn’t confirmed why but the running theory is that a swarm of his bugs faceplanted into the windshield once and traumatized him. unknowable/10

Neji - doesn’t believe in right-of-way. refuses to use his mirrors. whole heartedly believes he is god’s gift to the interstate. by some miracle has never gotten into a crash, but if any of his passengers are sensible people he is banned from the wheel. 0/10

Tenten - makes Sakura’s road rage look like divinely inspired patience. honestly she’s not even mad she just enjoys it. has to be actively talked down from brake checking people. banned from the wheel 0/10

Lee - while technically a perfect driver (obeys every speed limit, never makes an illegal turn, maneuvers like butter), having him in the front seat is such an intolerable experience he’s also banned from the wheel. those unfortunate enough to have witnessed it don’t speak of their experience, but rumors involve something along the lines of a custom-made Gai inspirational quotes driving playlist. 0/10

Temari - grew up driving her brothers around. Absolutely hates it. when she’s in a car she’s got her feet up on the dashboard and always has the aux. if she were to drive again, 9.5/10

Gaara - an…extremely calm, level headed driver? side effect of RBF is that everyone is always waiting for him to snap and run someone over. he never has. probably listens to calming classical music or something while in traffic jams. 10000/10

Kankuro - I find it funny to believe he’s the actual passenger princess. unknowable/10

[ellmovy]

My Dearest Enemy Act I: 400BCE - 1066CE / 'Then's been and gone'

The Chronological FRUK Playlist Part 1/6

Potentially one of the more insane things I've committed to doing as a hetalia fan, but...

My FRUK playlist has been in the works for a long long time and now it's a 6 part chronological historical narrative piece that encompasses most of my headcannons for them and influences my art.

Most of the songs are storytelling, some are vibes, some are from other characters' perspectives, and they're not all about the relationship (e.g. just France or England/involve other characters). I'm so down to talk about my thoughts on some of these if anyone's interested.

More songs will end up being added and throwing off the list I made.

(Apple Music is my go-to for music but I've used both for this because Spotify is actually better for playlists, and especially for sharing them. Let me know if there's an issue with either of them (I don't know how to fix it).)

5 more parts to come, I have smaller playlists for other ships/characters that I might share as well.

[vibinginthedreamlands]

How many horror podcasts do you have to listen to to automatically recognize the sound of human teeth against a stone container?

[knackeredforever]

Started watching some videos about how much of a failure concord is but I should probably stop now before I find a video that’s adamant the reason the game failed is because it’s “woke”

[apartmentsmoke]

i see all the headcanons about tommy being an occasional/former smoker and want to combine them with the idea that chimney got his nickname due to smoking. the two of them gradually becoming friends while they're both outside taking a smoke break; at first it's convenience, the only two smokers at the 118, and if they talk at all, it's light small talk. but after a bad call - chimney had a patient die in his care - they're both outside, and chim's fumbling hard with his lighter. tommy hesitates, but says 'let me,' and lights it for him. after that first couple hits of nicotine, chimney's nerves settling and hands stilling, he says 'i was right there - i was right there and she was telling me about her mother. that she's an only child.' and tommy, still trying to hold parts of himself back, surprises himself by saying 'i've been there, too,' and he's telling chimney about. well. he thinks what's coming out his mouth is going to be about the army. but the thoughts changes coming off his tongue, and it's about his mom, and the hardship discharge he got to take care of her. and both of them know it's not going to fix anything, but speaking that into the night air, words and smoke rising; it feels little lighter.

[sanjipussyindulgence]

kaiju no. 8 is so so so good at creating high stakes without killing off a bunch of characters like other manga tend to do. theres only one main character death in the whole series so far. and, because it's the only one, that death holds a lot of weight. like i LOOOVE chainsaw man but side characters randomly dropping like flies in part 1 felt cheap and underwhelming. unless it was one of your faves, you didn't care when someone died.

whats especially impressive is that kaiju no. 8 manages this despite kafka being an EXTREMELY overpowered character. but the mangka successfully works around that by having clear repercussions for when kafka wins a fight.

even though he could theoretically handle pretty much 95% of the fights in this manga on his own, there's reasons why he can't. and every time he does have to deliver a finishing blow for someone else, it doesn't feel like a good thing.

every victory the protagonists have either comes with consequences or comes by the skin of their teeth. and the stakes never stop getting higher too.

so what makes the current kafka vs kaiju no. 9 fight so engaging is that this is the first time we've seen kafka actually struggle. and, after over a hundred chapters of him one-shoting every enemy, that makes no. 9 all the more threatening.

[lale-txt]

Love the bingo event but 2 cards for readers vs 6 cards for writers is foul, why not more 😭😭😭

is it really foul or do just have no idea how long it takes to write sth

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

This has definitely been done before but it's ok because they made like 7 of these films so what hasn't been done before

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Outdrawn

f/f contemporary romance

two cartoonist who’ve been rivals since uni, and now have competing webcomics online, have to work together on the relaunch of a cult classic at the comic press they both work at

they both struggle with art-related physical and mental health issues, and complicated families

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Hole - Celebrity Skin