#Eden's Zero 25

[dailygraylu]

[evildeadfan102]

I re read Eden’s Zero chapter 220.

[craziestkacey]

BYE

😭

[unsociabletrash]

Emeto list

Thought I'd post this now. I've got quite the list building up, and frequently add to it. Enjoy!

Anime:

Tokyo Ghoul

S1, Ep 1 (15:20)

S1, Ep 2 (0:14, 13:29)

S1, Ep 3 (7:57)

S3, Ep 9 (17:57)

S3, Ep 15 (14:10)

Saiki K

S1, Ep 2 (5:18)

S1, Ep 12 (10:10)

S1, Ep 17 (20:10)

S2, Ep 6 (9:04)

S2, Ep 11 (2:47)

My Hero Academia

S1, Ep 3 (11:28)

S2, Ep 25 (37 - 6:53)

S5, Ep 20 (108 - 9:00)

S5, Ep 21 (109 - 17:49)

S5, Ep 23 (111 - 19:49)

Haikyuu

S1, Ep 3 (21:16)

S1, Ep 5 (22:15)

S2, Ep 12 (1:20)

OVA (vs Failing Marks - 21:16)

S2, Ep 17 (16:22)

Black Butler

S1, Ep 5 (7:32)

S2, Ep 5(29 - 18:37)

S3, Ep 5 (41 - 17:39)

S3, Ep 9 (45 - 19:51)

Jujutsu Kaisen

Ep 23 (13:40)

Attack on Titan

S1, Ep 5 (11:04)

S3, Ep 39 (10:17)

S3, Ep 49 (15:17)

S3, Ep 56 (4:45)

S4, Ep 62 (10:38)

S4, Ep 83 (20:20)

Bungou Stray Dogs

S1, Ep 11 (15:17)

S4, Ep 37 (12:42)

S5, Ep 52 (4:58, 5:30)

Welcome To the Ballroom

Ep 22 (7:48)

Gintama

Ep 2 (5:53)

Ep 35 (16:48)

Ep 57 (9:09)

Ep 65 (15:35)

Ep 239 (4:54, 6:09, 7:19)

Ep 252 (9:17)

Naruto

S1, Ep 11 (9:15)

S2, Ep 2 (28 - 12:42)

S2, Ep 6 (32 - 2:40)

Re: Zero

Ep 5 (22:55)

Ep 8 (15:38)

Ep 15 (0:33)

Ep 37 (3:42)

Ep 38 (16:54)

Evangelion 3.0+1.0

(24:05, 30:23)

Black Lagoon

S1, Ep 1 (19:28)

S2, Ep1 (18:15)

Run with the Wind

Ep 7 (3:09)

Ep 12 (11:08)

Ep 16 (13:46)

Zombie Land Saga

S2 Ep 1 (11:56)

Deadman Wonderland

Ep 5 (19:28, 21:24)

Mob Psycho 100

S2 Ep 6 (17:48)

S3, Ep 8 (1:30)

Beyond the Boundary

Ep 6 (12:47)

The God of Highschool

Ep 5 (0:57)

Rent-a-Girlfriend

Ep 18 (16:54, 19:33)

The Eden of Grisaia

Ep 3 (4:43, 11:01, 13:34)

Chainsaw Man

Ep 7 (19:27)

Number24

Ep 11 (20:14)

One Piece (whump)

Zoro: Ep 402 (22:35), Ep 403 (22:50)

Luffy: Ep 393 (8:08) Live Action

Ep 2 (38:16)

Ep 4 (26:00, 33:56)

Ep 5 (37:50)

Kdrama & etc:

KinnPorsche

Ep 2 (37:45)

Ep 4 (47:34)

Ep 9 (4:42, 24:53)

Danger Zone: The Dark Night

Ep 1 (13:54, 19:30)

Live action/Sitcom:

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

S6, Ep 1 (18:02)

S6, Ep 4 (15:10)

S6, Ep 7 (18:00)

S7, Ep 2 (10:05)

S9, Ep 7 (14:56)

How I Met Your Mother

S1, Ep 15 (17:33)

S2, Ep 16 (10:07)

S5, Ep 17 (15:34)

S6, Ep 6 (6:49)

S9, Ep 1 (6:08)

S9, Ep 8 (12:57)

S9, Ep 17 (1:00)

Supernatural

S2, Ep 3 (6:30)

S2, Ep 11 (20:22)

S3, Ep 9 (21:30)

S4, Ep 8 (21:18)

S5, Ep 21 (9:37)

S6, Ep 5 (37:50)

S6, Ep 15 (7:38)

S8, Ep 12 (10:05)

S9, Ep 23 (2:52)

S11, Ep 10 (8:33)

S11, Ep 17 (30:52)

S15, Ep 10 (24:20)

The magicians

S3, Ep 3 (38:22)

[littlegrapejuice]

Chat i have no idea when edens zero acc stopped but i just caught up on the last 25 chaps and I'm just sobbing rn

It's insane bc several years ago (i fr forgot when it was) when the first chaps came out, i started reading it but idk i never really got into it so i stopped v quickly

Fairy tail has always been my fav manga/anime bc i grew up w it so ig it was just hard to see it being replaced by smth else at the time

Glad i eventually went back to it bc mashima does know how to get me hooked, bro might not be everyone's cup of tea but he's my goat and his works mean sm to child me😔

Anyways, the ending was just insane like i had to sit up so many times haha and the amount of gasps i gasped was crazy bc i kept being so shocked but loved it sm and I'm just happy everything ended well - I. Am. Not. An. Angst. Girly🤍

[realbigpodcastslut]

Lee's Podcast Master List (Current)

This is def incomplete and not all caught up anymore and I lost all the podcasts I have listened to. Do with that what you will. Bolded are podcasts I talk about the most.

Currently Listening To

The Silt Verses

Welcome to Night Vale (relisten)

Listened

Audio Dramas:

2298

36 Questions

A Scottish Podcast

Aftershocks

Alba Salix

The Alexandria Archives

Alice Isn't Dead

The Amelia Podcast

The Angel of the Vine

Archive 81

Arden

ars PARADOXICA

Attention Hellmart shoppers!

The Black Tapes

Blackwood

The Blood Crow Stories

The Bridge

The Bright Sessions

The Bubble

Brimstone Valley Mall

Charlie’s Mailbox

Dead Serious

Death by Dying

The Deep Vault

The Directive

Dreamboy

Drywater

The Elysium Project

Empty

EOS 10

The Far Meridian

Girl in Space

Greater Boston

Hadron Gospel Hour

Herbarium Podcast

Here be Dragons

Heroics

Hosts of Eden

I Am in Eskew

Inkwyrm

It Makes a Sound

Jim Robbie and the Wanders

Kakos Industries

Kevin’s Cryptids

King Falls AM

Lake Clarity

The Last Movie

Lesser Gods

Liberty

lif-e.af/ter / The Message

Limetown

The Lost Cat Podcast

LUCYD

Mable

Malevolent

The Magnus Archives

The Magnus Protocol

The Meat Blockade

Misadventure By Death

OAKPODCAST

Old Gods of Appalachia

Olive Hill

The Orbiting Human Circus 

Organism

Orphans

The Penumbra Podcast

Point Mystic

Qwerpline

RABBITS

Return Home

Rex Rivetter:  Private Eye

Rose Drive

Rover Red

SAYER

Scotch

Small Town Horror

Space Log

Spines

Star Tripper

Station to Station

Steal the Stars

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

Subject: Found

SubverCity Transmit

TANIS

Tales of THATTOWN

Testing Connection

Tides

Time:Bombs

Tribulation

Tunnels

Uncanny County

Under Pressure

Unwell

Video Palace

We Fix Space Junk

Welcome to Night Vale

What’s the Frequency

The White Vault

Within the Wires

Wolf 359

Wooden Overcoats

Zero Hours

Improv/Dnd:

Hello from the Magic Tavern (On ep 300-something I think?)

The Adventure Zone (Balance, Amnesty, Graduation)

Other:

The Folktale Project

Heme Review

Lore

My Brother My Brother and Me

This Podcast Will Kill You

The Topical (Onion)

To Listen To

Camp Here and there

Red Valley

WOE.BEGONE

Hello From the Hallowoods

Midnight Burger

Midnight Radio

Moonbase Theta, Out

The Godshead Incidental

Janus Decending

The Petrol Station

Cthulhu and Friends

The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity and Mortality

Kakos (relisten)

Mabel (relisten)

Old Gods of Appalachia (relisten)

Palimpsest

Second Star to the Left

The Sheridan Tapes

Who Watches the Birdwatchers?

The Vesta Clinic

Spirit Box Radio

The Dead Letter Office of Somewhere, Ohio

Dead Man’s Notes

Life With Althaar

Middle:Below

The Pale

The Secret of St Kilda

Last updated: 6/25/2024

[pennysperfectpolls]

With one hour remaining

Here is the current list of submissions, remember having multiple submissions is a good thing here

If there’s a number after their name that’s how many times they’ve been submitted, np stands for no propaganda

1: Gregg Lee (night in the woods)

2: Liir Thropp (Wicked (Novel))

3: Arven (Pokémon) 3

4: Kyusaku Yumeno “Q” (Bungo Stray Dogs) 2

5: Kristen Applebees (Dimension 20: Fantasy High) np

6: The girl (fear and hunger)

7: Shane (Stardew Valley) np

8: Waluigi (super Mario)

9: Nahida (Genshin Impact)

10: Sachi Shinozaki (Corpse Party: Blood Drive)

11: Qiqi (genshin impact)

12: Rob (the amazing world of Gumball)

13: fred jones (scooby doo mystery incorporated) (that version specifically)

14: Shoto Todoroki (My Hero Academia)

15: Vivi Ornitier (Final Fantasy IX)

16: Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb) 3

17: Essek Thelyss (critical role) np

18: Adrien Agreste (Miraculous Ladybug) np

19: Hunter (The Owl House) np

20: Mafuyu Asahina (Project SEKAI)

21: Mashirao Ojiro (My Hero Academia)

22: Luke Skywalker (Star Wars)

23: Hitori "Bocchi" Gotou (Bocchi the Rock!)

24: Freminet (Genshin Impact) 3

25: Shilo Bathroy (Just Roll With It)

26: Shijima Tsukishima (Shimeji Simulation)

27: Nona (The Locked Tomb) 2

28: Isaac Moriah (The Binding of Isaac)

29: Dimitri alexandre blaiddyd (Fire emblem) 2

30: Angela (Lobotomy Corporation/ Library Of Ruina)

31: Natural Harmonia Gropius “N” (Pokémon) 2

32: Charger (Voidpets)

33: Eunyung Baek (No Home)

34: Riven (Winx Club)

35: The Being (The Dragon Prince)

36: The Collector (the owl house)

37: victorian child (the “This would kill a Victorian child” meme)

38: Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

39: Hypnos (Hades)

40: Marianne von Edmund (Fire Emblem)

41: Syaoran Li (Cardcaptor Sakura) np

42: Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura) np

43: Luke (Obey Me) np

44: Ortho Shroud (twisted wonderland) np

45: Tony Tony Chopper (One Piece) np

46: Child Emperor (One Punch Man) np

47: Kenzie Martin (Parahumans)

48: Kakashi Hatake (Naruto)

49: Mizuki Okiura (AI: the Somnium Files)

50: Cody Hackins (Ace Attorney)

51: Chazz Princeton (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX)

52: Martin Blackwood (The Magnus Archives)

53: Candace Flynn (Phineas and Ferb)

54: Shin-Ah (Yona of the Dawn)

55: Kyoka Eden (Scarlet Nexus)

56: Kasane Randall (Scarlet Nexus)

57: Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb)

58: Emil Sinclair (Limbus Company)

59: Cove Holden (Our Life: Beginnings & Always)

60: Zuko (Avatar the Last Airbender)

61: Ashe Ubert (Fire Emblem 3 Houses)

62: Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) 2

63: Killua Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter)

64: Zhang Chengling (Word of Honor)

65: Falst (Aurora Webcomic)

66: Venus (solarballs)

67: Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)

68: Rui Ayaki (Demon Slayer)

69: Gyutaro (Demon Slayer)

70: Blackmore (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

71: Gin Ibushi (Your Turn To Die)

72: Sirin (Honkai Impact 3rd)

73: Kai Satou (Your Turn To Die) np

74: Rio Ranger (Your Turn To Die) np

75: Hod (Lobotomy Corporation/ Library Of Ruina)

76: molly blyndeff (Epithet erased)

77: Mami Tomoe (madoka magica)

78: “Tails” miles prower (Sonic)

79: Pearl Fey (Ace Attorney) no

80: Lillie (Pokémon)

81: Jane Doe (Ride the cyclone)

82: Netzach (Lobotomy Corporation/Library Of Ruina) np

83: Chesed (Lobotomy Corporation/Library Of Ruina)

84: Gebura (Lobotomy Corporation/Library Of Ruina) np

85: Furina de Fontaine (Genshin Impact)

86: Natsuki Subaru (Re: Zero)

87: Sayo (I Need To Suck Blood Tonight)

88: Ciel Phantomhive (Black Butler)

89: Kokichi Oma (Daganronpa V3)

90: hal 9000 (2001 a space odyssey)

[feralkwe]

Character asks: for Thancred, 25 and 8. And 25 for Elidibus as well.

yay! i love doing these! you've poked the stick in the great places here! this got very long, lol, so under a cut it goes!

thancred. my pathetic wet cat. my try-hard disaster bab. my unexpected third leg of my ot3.

8. what's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

i can't think of any trend that i see that really irritates me, though part of that may be the corners of fandom i have tucked myself into. he has a lot of layers that i was too stubborn to acknowledge until well into the better part of shb, and i think sometimes fandom isn't forgiving enough after his growth arc, but honestly i'm really not too fussed because i think he skates through on hot white boy appeal in fandom at large. i think it's possible to appreciate where he started, where he wound up, and how he got there without excusing his many mistakes, but i also think it's important to talk about how he worked through it. so that's my answer: i think fandom is either too easy on him or too hard on him with no room for nuance. i keep saying i'm going to write an essay, but idk if thancred needs me to defend him. maybe someday i'll go feral and do it anyway.

25. what was your first impression of this character? how about now?

god i cannot stress enough how much i gave absolutely zero shits about him when i first met him. even given what happens with lahabrea, i wasn't really moved. he screamed 'bland white-haired jrpg protagonist' to me and i only cared because for some reason which wasn't clear to me until i read the short stories, minfilia gave a lot of shits about him, actually. and i adore her. i didn't care about his angst in hw, though he grew more personality and by the end of sb i at least went from indifferent to 'fine, i guess he's here, too'. then, like many people, i spent a good deal of shb utterly pissed off at him until it became obvious to me that he was, despite what i think a lot of people believe, trying his best while drowning in an ocean of trauma with almost no tools to handle it. by this time i'd read his short story content, and understood the context better. i was very ride or die for urianger from arr on, and yamisnuffles teased me that he 'comes with a husband' and i was determined to refuse. i couldn't tell you the exact moment, but sometime around going to the moon i suddenly gave a shit enough to select him as the scion who visits you in your suite at the baldesion annex. and, well, fuck off. i discovered i cared a lot, actually.

now i have a pathetic wet cat in my ot3. i affectionately call the eden raids 'kit's family camping trip'.

same question for elidibus. my ultimate angry murder and get murdered husband.

i have to start by saying that the ascians as villains compel me more than almost any villains in any media i've ever consumed. even accounting for recency bias, they utterly fascinate me, and i don't know if i've ever been so moved by villain motivations. the unsundered specifically strike me as so tragic that it makes me feral. even lahabrea, who i really find difficult to like. but that's retrospect after the entire arc of their part in ffxiv. after lahabrea and nabriales, elidibus came in with a different approach, and that intrigued me. of course i had no idea the larger role he'd play later, but the way he attempted to stand on a moral high ground really hit some buttons. again, i was really into urianger from the get-go, and their apparent partnership gave me a lot of OH NOES to latch onto. i think elidibus is the character that allowed me to really give emet-selch consideration beyond 'my bestie loves him' because he gave me an inclination that there was more to the ascians than had been revealed so far.

he piqued my interest, then enraged me because of ardbert, but the more i learned about his past along the way the more invested i became. the shb patches slowly killed me, and by the end of seat of sacrifice i was sobbing for him. he's just a little guy fighting for the all but forgotten souls of his people. he was pivotal in saving the world, driven to madness by it, and in the end, all alone as the last of the unsundered. yet there are characters within the narrative who lie about him and his motivations. i'm choking up a bit right now thinking about it.

suffice to say pandaemonium rewired my dna and entire brain. by the end of it i was devastated and so in love with him as a character it's almost embarrassing. he was kind, thoughtful, and gave of himself wholly to what he believed in. his connection to wol is so beautifully bookended by it, and the ways he winds himself with them throughout the entirety of the game just hits every character button i have. the very tragic wol/elidibus ship with kit wrote itself in my head from the moment you drop into elpis. i spent a lot of time wondering how he got from the careful man we meet to zodiark and beyond, which is what compelled me to write to the edge (and back again). now i kill him at least three times a week. it's fine. i'm fine. i'm very normal about the unsundered, and most normal about elidibus.

thanks for the asks! what a delight to get to talk about these guys!

[farewell-persephone]

A decent summary of bad music. highlights (red text for emphasis):

Sleep Token’s music feels so meticulously pored-over and stylized that it’s almost entirely bereft of human feeling — and that’s kind of the point. The London-born band is a masked, “anonymous” metalcore group helmed by the mononymous singer-songwriter Vessel. Like Ghost, there’s an extensive pseudo-religious lore behind their lyrics that involves Vessel’s mysterious deity-lover-abuser Sleep, and their convoluted storyline — the musical version of a TikTok romantasy book — plays out across Sleep Token’s three-album arc. Also like Ghost, who write all of their “MESSAGE FROM THE CLERGY” social media posts in third-person and with ceremoniously rigid prose, Sleep Token post in the voice of a Skyrim NPC, alerting their fans that tickets to their “rituals” (see: shows) “have been swiftly depleted” and encouraging fans to “obtain” (see: buy) merch from their shop.

Sleep Token’s savvy pretension projects the illusion that they’re a lot darker, deeper, and cooler than they actually are. The beige pen-and-ink album cover for 2023’s Take Me Back To Eden — coincidentally the same color palette Avenged Sevenfold used for Life Is But A Dream… — could be mistaken for a post-metal album released on The Flenser label. . . . The presentation is perfectly suited for a Cult Of Luna or Amenra record, but Sleep Token employ it to make their mundane seem arcane. The arthouse elegance attempts to paint over the band’s clunky fusions of contemporary radio schlock and rudimentary djent-metal.

The songs on Take Me Back To Eden . . . sound tailor-made for the era of reaction videos, where a song’s merit derives more from its construction than its content. The average Sleep Token track is 75% stately pop-rock — often undergirded by stomp-clap drums or department store trap beats, and spritzed with a whiff of PG-13 sensuality — and 25% concussive metal breakdowns and ghoulish screams. Sleep Token deploy the metal passages like land mines, erupting without warning after several verses (upwards of six or seven minutes into their overwrought suites) of distinctly un-metal sounds. Some of their songs have absolutely zero metal in them, and are just saccharine, blindingly polished pop tracks that could easily be mistaken for Imagine Dragons, who Sleep Token have been frequently compared to. . . .

In “Chokehold,” one of several 2023 singles that caught fire online and turned Sleep Token into an overnight sensation, Vessel spends the first two minutes achily cantillating atop an elastic synth and a sparse trap beat. Suddenly, a wave of down-tuned guitars and bludgeoning drums come crashing in, only to recede completely and then return for one last go-around. The errant breakdowns serve as little more than reminders that what you’re listening to is in fact a metal song — “don’t worry, this isn’t actually pop,” their perfunctory inclusions seem to suggest. In the “crabcore” era, metalcore bands would jumpscare their fans with garish Euro-trance drops to essentially troll their listeners with brief detours into pop. Decades earlier, Type O Negative would flip the lights on in the middle of their sultry goth-metal romps to bask in a resplendently sunny psych-pop hook. Sleep Token’s music effectively does the same thing, except they’ve reversed the proportions, making metal the gag in an otherwise pop-forward feature. Their biggest song, “The Summoning,” is a little moodier and djentier during its main motifs, but in its third act twist, the metalness swiftly drops away and Vessel croons over a Bruno Mars-inspired funk groove. In metalcore’s scene era, bands would have fun flipping bubblegum pop hits into scream-infested mosh jaunts on the infamous Punk Goes Pop compilations. Now, one of the biggest new bands in metal is unironically emulating that tier of normie pop in their own songs, and supporters view it as a bold genre exploration rather than a naked embrace of fundamentally corny, centrist, playlist pop. Sleep Token are primed for our cultural hypnosis toward artists who “transcend genre,” which in most cases (and especially Sleep Token’s) means the artist just stacks a bunch of dissimilar sounds on top of one another and passes it off as innovative eclecticism. Whether or not the genre-jumbling follows any creative or emotional logic is irrelevant. Songs like “The Summoning” just get props for stacking blocks on top of books like a toddler in a playpen. . . .

Within a year’s time, the band have gone from a mid-size club act to arena-filling headliners (their spring US tour is sold out), and their fanbase’s behavior on TikTok and Twitter now mirrors the cadence of a popstar stan army. That exponential spike wasn’t because there was suddenly 10x more appetite for djenty metalcore then there was the year before. “Chokehold” and “The Summoning” went viral because they were effectively pop songs, and the album that followed even moreso. Therefore, treating Sleep Token’s popstar rise like a win for metal feels like a misrepresentation of what makes their songs appealing.

Are Sleep Token metal’s new breakout act because of or in spite of their own metal-ness? The same question could be asked of Bad Omens, who are actually bigger than Sleep Token by several metrics (they’ve had three top 10 hits on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, including a #1, and boast 2 million more Spotify monthly listeners than Sleep Token). Moreover, their frontman/songwriter/producer Noah Sebastian feels fatigued by his band’s dizzying fame (which has manifested in an even more intensely parasocial stan army than Sleep Token’s) in a way few modern rock musicians ever get the opportunity to fret about. . . .

The convergence of sleek, office-park R&B and SiriusXM-ready metalcore was first introduced in the 2010s by bands like Memphis May Fire and Issues, but Bad Omens reupholstered that tacky sound with a mentholy sexiness that’s one part gentrified industrial-metal and one part “Blinding Lights”. . . .

So what’s novel to this moment isn’t that Bad Omens’, Sleep Token’s, and Spiritbox’s most popular songs happen to be their catchiest ones. It’s that the totality of their sounds — not just their singles, but album cuts, too — are directly dialed into major-label pop, and they’re explicitly taking influence from some of the most mainstream, non-metal pop singers of the day. . . . And it’s not just these bands. Look at almost any popular metal or metal-adjacent act of the last decade, and their metalness is either used as a prop, a gimmick, or a counterweight to their otherwise non-metal sounds. . . .

Metal is instead part of these bands’ convoluted creative schemes, where it’s either used like a comedic foil (Babymetal), as a musical garment in a theatrical production (Ice Nine Kills), or as a sort of sonic Instagram filter (Our Last Night), where the vague idea of metal is used to market a hunk of normie-millennial cultural detritus as something alternative.

The thread connecting this entire new generation of bands — from Ghost and Bring Me The Horizon to Sleep Token and Our Last Night — is that they all use metal more like a signifier than an artistic framework. . . . Instead, they’re enamored by the mainstream, and are adopting its cultural products to shape the way they sound, look, and transmit feeling through their art. Optimists see their methods as a necessary creative overhaul of a genre that’s already exhausted its own appeals. The heaviest, fastest, nastiest metal songs have already been written, and these bands are giving audiences something new to chew on. Cynics, even the ones who acknowledge that innovation is the lifeblood of all artistic mediums, and can recognize the many ways in which metal’s tropes have grown stale over the decades, are wary that these pop injections are a diluting, not renewing, force within a form of music that’s purportedly at odds with commercial orthodoxies.

For my part, I would charitably sum up most of the mentioned bands as "metal ashamed to be metal," though this would presume that any of them actually are ashamed of distilling metal into a 3D-printed plastic simulacrum. Maybe "pop ashamed to be pop" would be more accurate. I'm not against pop influence in heavy music; The Dillinger Escape Plan's "One of Us Is the Killer" is a great example of pop-mathcore with strong R&B influence, and one of the best memories I have is singing along to the chorus in a crowded venue, not to mention the many other examples of pop influences scattered throughout their discography. I am against the deification of mediocrity; the bizarre, rabid parasocial cults that have sprung up around some of these artists; and the transformation of a genre with a rich and varied history into little more than an algorithmic gimmick.

(Also I have nothing against Spiritbox based on the little I've heard. They at least seem to have riffs. I've been meaning to listen to them properly at some point.)

[naritaren]

Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better

Tagged by @swedishgoaliemafia Thank you!

3 Ships you like: This one is interesting, but I'll put my current top three! Ren Narita/Shota Umino, Robbie Eagles/El Phantasmo, Shibata/Kenta

Last song you heard: Mountains by Moontricks

Favourite childhood book: The entire Adventures in Oz series, but Wizard of Oz specifically.

Currently Reading: Existential Kink and East of Eden!

Currently Watching: Attempting to catch up on NJPW and I plan on watching Collision tonight.

Currently Craving: My vacation that is in 25 days. I need the week off work.

First Ship Ever: Edge and Christian. Going way back here lol

Tagging: @rennarita @fang-revives @tetsuya-naito @hirookigoto @cowboyclarky @thebarefootking @zsjbrightensday and @blizzardsuplex (zero pressure to do this)

[datasoong47]

We had a successful session zero tonight for the new TTRPG campaign I'm gonna be running. It's a game called Monster of the Week, basically, involving monster hunters. There's three players in my group here, all family, my brother, my uncle, and my cousin. My uncle happened to pick a playbook that I'd debated leaving out, and I kinda wish I had, but it's too late now. I should be able to make it work though

So, here's the setting I've worked out:

New Eden, a large planet-sized moon of a super-Jupiter. The name was more marketing than accurate. It's not exactly like a hell planet or anything, but it's also not a paradise like the name would imply

In the not-too-distant-future, a wormhole is discovered in orbit around our Sun. Once people figure out how to navigate it, they discover this alien world on the other end. It's not a great world, but quite habitable, and Earth's ecology is degenerating, so the idea of a new world is appealing to many. A colony is established with the purpose of building up suitable settlements for further settlement. Many of the workers were basically like indentured servants in effect, people in debt who signed lengthy labor contracts, mostly in their 20s and 30s, some older, and some with families, but the majority were in that age range

The colony was supplied by periodic ships from Earth, who would also return those who'd finished up their contracts back to Earth. But then at some point, the ships stopped showing up. No one knew why, and the colony itself lacked the industrial infrastructure to build their own ships, being only a few thousand people

After a while, the workers' resentment of management, and the growing realization that they were on their own boiled over into an all-out revolution. The workers rose up, and basically overthrew management, establishing a local government. The sister of the martyred leader of the revolution was elected as the first (and so far only) mayor of the colony - effectively the de facto ruler of the planet since there's only the one colony, but she goes by the title of Mayor

It has now been 25 years since that revolt, and there's still been no contact with Earth. The most common theory is that the wormhole collapsed, but some people think that something happened on Earth. A major war, perhaps, or environmental collapse or something. A religious organization called the Church of Sanctuary believes that Earth has been wiped out, and that their colony is all that remains of humanity, believing that the wormhole was divine intervention, and that their planet is a divinely-ordained sanctuary for humanity. I'm not sure yet whether that'll just be background or if I'll bring them in somehow

My cousin's character is 18, native-born. Earth is only something he'd've heard about from his parents and school. My brother's character is 65, so he was Earthborn, and an adult when he immigrated to this world. My uncle's character is 30, so he was born on Earth, but brought over as a young child, and thus would have no real memories of Earth

There are a lot of dangerous wildlife, and most people attribute monster attacks to random wildlife attacks, but of course, monsters are very much real here

My uncle's character is the Initiate (the name of the playbook, basically like a class - Monster of the Week is set up so that there can be only one of each kind), which means that he's part of an organization that fights demons and monsters. I was initially reluctant to leave that option in because I wasn't sure how it would work with the setting, but the idea we came up with is that this organization did, indeed, fight monsters and demons back on Earth, and the members that had immigrated to this world thought that they were getting away from monsters, only to discover that this world also had monsters

My brother's character is the Mundane, which is basically the "normal everyday guy", and mostly serves as a support role to the others, but does have more going for it than that description would make it sound like

My cousin's character is the Spooky, which is a kind of supernatural type, in this case, there's a demon possessing him which gives him supernatural powers. This should be really fun, because it gives me a lot of options to use against his character. We decided that he found some ancient artifact which was possessed, and that's how he got possessed. The world doesn't have any native intelligent species (that they know of at least ....), but there was one at one time in the distant past of the world. That was something we talked over, whether the possessed item should be something that was brought from Earth or something discovered here, and ended up going with the second option. My brother's character is his uncle

Our first actual game will be next week. I'll be working out the details. My brother's and my cousin's characters will be introduced to monsters in that game, having not known of their existence previously, while my uncle's character did know of their existence. So the group won't have already known each other before that

I'm excited but a little nervous. This'll be my first full campaign. I ran a short D&D mini-campaign last year, but no full campaign, and this system is quite different from D&D, being more narrative-based

[evildeadfan102]

I re read Eden’s Zero chapter 214.

[kodanshamanga]

NEW Kodansha Print:

🚀EDENS ZERO, Volume 25🚀 By Hiro Mashima

👊Rebecca’s mother reveals the reason why she disappeared and shares shocking information about the impending doom of the universe and a sad truth about Mother!

[dont--mindme]

List of Stuff Warenai Needs to Watch: Anime Version

Netflix:

Records of Rangarok (~27 ep)

Little Witch Academia (~25 ep)

Saiki K (~120 ep)

Cardcaptor Sakura (~70 ep)

Monster (~74 ep)

One Piece (~way too many ep lol)

Edens Zero (25 ep)

Aggretsuko✨ 5/5

The Legend of Korra✨ 5/5

Violet Evergarden 5/5

Mononoke 4/5

Crunchyroll

Love is War (~37 ep)

Naruto (500 ep)

Do It Yourself (~12 ep)

Restaurant to Another World (~24 ep)

Danganropa (~13 ep)

Black Clover (~170 ep)

The Daily Life of the Immortal King (~39 ep)

Laid-Back Camp (~12 ep)

Saga of Tanya the Evil (~12 ep)

Talentless Nana (~13 ep)

Free! (~12 ep)

Blood Blockade Battlefront (~12 ep)

Death Parade (~12 ep)

Konosuba (~20 ep)

Your Lie in April (~23 ep)

Mob Psyco 100 (~39 ep)

Bungo Stray Dogs (~12 ep)

Rent-a-girlfriend (~24 ep)

Akira ( ep)

Attack on Titan (~89+ ep)

Tokyo Ghoul (~12 ep)

Terror in Resonance (~11 ep)

Noragami (~29 ep)

Eden of the East (~11 ep)

The Ancient Magnus' Bride (~24 ep)

Psycho Pass (~22 ep)

Nichijo (~26 ep)

91 Days (~13 ep)

Claymore (~26 ep)

Plastic Memories (~13 ep)

Link Click (~12 ep)

Madoka Magica (~12 ep)

The Rising of the Shield Hero (~38 ep)

Full Metal Alchemist (~64 ep)

Hunter X Hunter (~148 ep)

Lupin the 3rd (~155 ep)

World Trigger

Fena: Pirate princess

How heavy are the dumbbells you lift?

Tower of God

That time I got reincarnated into a slime

Blend s

Death Note (~37 ep)

How to Keep a Mummy (~12 ep)

Demon Slayer✨ 5/5

My Hero Academia✨ 5/5

Fairytail ✨️ 5/5

Spy x Family 5/5

Ouran High School Host Club 5/5

Jujutsu Kaisen ✨ 5/5

Chainsaw Man✨️ 5/5

Buddy Daddies 5/5

Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan 4.5/5

Haikyuu!!✨️ 4.5/5

Promised Neverland 4.5/5

Deadman Wonderland 4.5/5

Black Butler 4.5/5

Kamisama Kiss 4.5/5

Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie 4/5

Fruits Basket 4/5

Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time 4/5

Kurokos Basketball 4/5

Tokyo Revengers 4/5

The Royal Tutor 4/5

Charlotte 4/5

ERASED 4/5

My Little Monster 3/5

Other:

O Maidens in your Savage Season

No Game No Life

Bakuman

Durarara

One Punch Man (S2) 4.5/5

Movies

Spirited Away

My Hero Academia: Two Heros

My Hero Academia: Hero's Rising

My Hero Academia: World Heros Mission

Wolf Children

Children of the Sea

Child of Kamiari Month

Your Name

Howl's Moving Castle 5/5

Ponyo 5/5

Secret World of Arrietty 5/5

Modest Heros 5/5

A Silent Voice 5/5

Mirai 5/5

My Neighbor Totoro 5/5

Kiki's Delivery Service 5/5

Ni No Kuni 5/5

Patema Inverted 4/5

Bubble 4/5

Okko's Inn 4/5

A Whisker Away 3/5

[hatsumishinogu]

EDENS ZERO Vol.25

[edens-serigala]

I posted 383 times in 2022

That's 242 more posts than 2021!

181 posts created (47%)

202 posts reblogged (53%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@mintytrifecta

@anilesbian

@fairy-serigala

@yamikarasue

@edens-serigala

I tagged 372 of my posts in 2022

Only 3% of my posts had no tags

#one piece - 124 posts

#spy x family - 112 posts

#edens-serigala - 79 posts

#loid forger - 68 posts

#black leg sanji - 64 posts

#yor forger - 53 posts

#edens zero - 45 posts

#jujutsu kaisen - 38 posts

#anya forger - 36 posts

#roronoa zoro - 28 posts

Longest Tag: 118 characters

#could make this a meta about twilight's default being to make the character he's playing more believable when stressed

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

something about loid rushing in to save the little boy who was about to be stampeded over... i don't think that was an attempt to pass an exam, i think that was an extension of twilight's desire to protect children

528 notes - Posted May 2, 2022

#4

*bangs on table* loid getting bridal carried *bangs louder* LOID GETTING BRIDAL CARRIED BY YOR

543 notes - Posted May 9, 2022

#3

hc - when and if damian and anya get married, damian takes the forger name instead of the other way around. sure, the desmond name has power behind it, but the forger name belongs to an actual family, and damian would rather have a family than political power

927 notes - Posted May 25, 2022

#2

i have so many feelings about this panel

1,171 notes - Posted July 26, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

yuri doing the whole "if you hurt her, they will never find your body" at loid, but a year down the line, whenever the truth gets revealed, or loid's cover gets blown, what if yuri is the first one to find out?

loid is terrified and at first yuri thinks loid is scared for himself, and he's beYOND pissed that loid was using his sister and can't even bring himself to feel remourse- but no- as he interrogates loid in private, trying to come to a solution that will cause yor the least amount of pain, he realises that loid's first and primary concern is yor and anya.

he's terrified that in his cover being blown that they will get caught in the crossfire. he doesn't care what happens to him, he just asks yuri to please get yor and anya somewhere safe before the info goes public.

and it's then that loid finally wins yuri over.

and against yuri's training and protocol, since the interrogation is still a private matter, yuri decides to help loid out. he promises to help loid keep his secret, until loid can get to a place where yor and anya won't be in danger any more.

because at the end of the day, the briars are just like agent twilight. compassion is the reason they started their careers, and if it's what ends them too, then so be it.

1,931 notes - Posted May 2, 2022

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