#HECK YEAAAH

[fatexbound]

"Whaat? Don't be silly! Of course not!" She puffed out her cheeks, though she found it quite amusing as she walked out of the classroom. "Yeah, good idea! I've been meaning to get something new for you guys. Golden Shadows are so valuable, they sell for a lot of money! We're lucky Kurosawa-san doesn't question it. Did you want to go train tonight or tomorrow?"

Yukari laughed at Hamuko's comment. "Does someone have a crush on him?" She smiled. "Let's go look for some new weapons for training at Tartarus perhaps? Can never be too prepared, right?"

[dood1e-bug]

So @thesecretsaturdaysvault reminded me that I made a small headcanon post about Munya back in April.

Oooh have I added more

I did keep the idea that he was a human that died and was brought back to life by Argost all Frankenstein's monster but at the time I didn't think about what he was originally. Sometime after that post I had the idea of him being one of the 43 secret scientist that died when they raided weird world.

His memories are gone, appearance changed, still looking like he was dead, skin deathly pale, cold to the touch, a missing eye.

Unable to speak due to Argost putting spider DNA in him (also didn't put two and two together but I was pointed out that theres a post somewhere talking about his vocals being replaced since it needed room to shoot webs out of his mouf it make since to me) can only mumble, growl, and make spider noises while transformed

also design note don't know if its just me but Munya's mutant forms face makes me think of a skull, so I give my mutant Munya the skull nose. (also Human without the monocle)

Munya wasn't his name originally Argost gave him that name.

The family/scientist unable to recognize their former friend, Munya too far gone to even know/remember who hes attempting to murder. Yipppe! :)

Not too long ago I rewatched the two part pilot episodes, Zak mentions some of what the secret scientist do and one caught my attention "paranormal abilities", wouldn't it be ironic if past Munya messed with paranormal stuff and then died in weird world xD.

Noticed he favors his left hand alot

now I can show my stupid doodle I keep joking about

Also a little idea

Like before the excavation of the kur stone, before the raid on weird world. Doc and Drew had a group baby naming party with the other scientist, boy and girl names since it was very early. What if Munya (whatever the his name was originally) gave the name Zackary/Zakary (Doc and Drew shortened it to Zak)

[redeemed-wren]

Classic Who dramatic zoom ins you will always be famous

[hashishatphn]

ANYTHING BY TETO IS AMAZING >:[

April 2024 Vocaloid Song Tournament

Round 1, Set 5, Match 3: Nonsense and Me by RIProducer vs. Sakura by nakano4

Please listen to both songs before casting your vote! And please reblog for a bigger sample size!

[billygoat26]

▵In order to be truly manipulative, you have to help the person enough for them to believe you, then you can add the little sprinkles of lies that gradually lead them to something that works in your favor in the end.

But hey, if they figure it out sooner the reaction is funny! Them getting all mad and stuff- sure you might lose a friend and find out that there isn’t a drink called Sixer and then be sent to Theraprism… but it’s worth it! Trust me! ▵

[kaibutsushidousha]

The Hundred Line gameplay footage from Tokyo Game Show

The original plan was to properly subtitle the video, but since the MTL plague seems to be already spreading, I guess I'll just post it as a script for a quicker release.

Takumi Sumino: Hm... Hmm...? W-where am I? (I woke up on a hard desk. My head is kinda hazy and slow...) A classroom? (Why am I here? Why was I sleeping on a desk? ...I can't remember much.) What was it... What happened before? (I moved my hazy head to check the classroom... and what I found were boys and girls hunching on their desks just like me.)

Eito Aozuki: Uh... Wh-what...?

Boy with penguin shirt: W-what the heck!? What's goin' on!?

--Tan girl: Who are you!? Where am I!?

Smallest boy: H-how... did I get here?

Takumi Sumino: (I've never seen any of these people before. The same seemed to apply to everyone. They exchanged wary gazes.)

Takemaru Yakushiji: Is this really a classroom? If it is, it's a really weird one.

Eito Aozuki: Does anyone know the name of this school?

Kako Tsukumo's brother: Hm, never seen it before.

Kako Tsukumo: Likewise.

Boy with penguin shirt: H-hey... Does anyone here know anything?

Takumi Sumino: (All in the classroom looked around and found no one willing to answer anything... That means none of us knows.)

Darumi Amemiya: Oh... Is this what I think it is? ...Oh, it is. Absolutely.

Tan girl: Oh... Do you have an idea?

Darumi Amemiya: I've been waiting for this! Hell! Kyohoho!

Tan girl: What are you laughing about!? I'm scared!

Boy with penguin shirt: I'll check the hallway...

Takumi Sumino: (One person made it to the classroom and tried to go to the hallway.)

Boy with penguin shirt: Huh? W-what the hell... The door won't move...

Takemaru Yakushiji: Huh!? Say what!?

Takumi Sumino: (Now another one made it to the window and tried to force the shutters open.)

Takemaru Yakushiji: Fuck! Why won't you open? Die!

Hiruko Shizuhara: Seems like we were locked in here.

Boy with penguin shirt: Uh... Locked... Aaaaaaah!? WHY!?

Takumi Sumino: W-what's going on? Why would anyone trap us? What caused... (Oh, right! I remembered it...)

Eito Aozuki: After fighting those monsters in the Tokyo Residential Complex, I was engulfed in a mysterious light...

Takumi Sumino: Ah...

Darumi Amemiya: True... I remember that. I transformed and fought the monsters.

Takemaru Yakushiji: Oh!? You lot fought'em too?

Takumi Sumino: Did everyone?

Smallest boy: Wait... So they were real? I assumed it was just me having a childish dream like the immature idiot I am.

Hiruko Shizuhara: I see. Everyone had the same experience. Which must mean... You all met that very cute mascot.

--Takumi Sumino: A cute mascot... (She means... him?) I wouldn't call him cute, but otherwise, yeah... that matches the description.

Eito Aozuki: Then would it be also him who brought us here?

Hiruko Shizuhara: Yes, it must have been the breathtakingly adorable mascot.

Tan girl: Huh? He's the one trapping us here!? What for!?

Darumi Amemiya: Kyohoho! Y'know, the obvious... Students of the same age waking up together in an unknown classroom they can't leave can only mean one thing: we're in for a death game! THE Killing Game is about to start in this school~!

Takumi Sumino: T-the Killing Game!?

Boy with penguin shirt: Why'd we have to kill each other!? I ain't killing anyone!

Darumi Amemiya: Yeaaah, found the first victim! That's totally a thing the first guy dead says!

Boy with penguin shirt: Stoooooooop!

Takumi Sumino: (And that's when it happened.)

[School chime]

Tan girl: Huh? W-what now?

Board screen: Self-introduction period. Introduce yourself to your future comrade-in-arms.

[Kodaka chooses Darumi]

Darumi Amemiya: Name's Darumi Amemiya... nice to meet you... Say, just between the two of us... Do you already know who you're after?

Takumi Sumino: What do you mean by "after"?

Darumi Amemiya: Your initial target in the Killing Game, duh. Just so you know, I don't mind if it's me. I mean, don't I look dumb? Like I'd fall for cheap bait? I sure as heck look like an easy kill!

Takumi Sumino: Hey... Do you seriously believe we're getting into a death game?

Darumi Amemiya: Uh, I do. Well, more hoping than believing. See... I always dreamed of being in a killing game. I've been a huge fan of the death game genre since I was really little...

Takumi Sumino: Yeah, but those are fictional. No one'd want to put their actual lives on the line.

--Darumi Amemiya: Eh? No, the real stakes make it all the better! I have no problems with dying. It'd be nice to take myself out of this depressing trash reality... I see nothing wrong with that...

Takumi Sumino: Huh?

Darumi Amemiya: Tell me... which side are you from? The side of who find only depression and disappointment in normal days? No, you'd understand me if you were. I'm so thankful that painful and suffocating normality, that sturdy as hell normally I thought would haunt me 'til the day I died, finally broke. Can't this death game start any sooner... Kyohohoho.

Takumi Sumino: (I was already expecting an eccentric mindset from her, but wow, she didn't say a thing I can come even close to relating to.)--

[Kodaka chooses Yakushiji]

Takemaru Yakushiji: I'm called Takemaru Yakushiji. Just a warning before anything. Stay away from me when I snap. I tend to punch the closest thing nearby before I look at what it is. I try to stop it, but I can't.

Takumi Sumino: (What the hell... That's messed up...)

Takemaru Yakushiji: So, you also fought those monsters, right? Meaning you also got your transformation?

Takumi Sumino: Transformation...? Oh... yeah, I did. Nothing I remember about it makes any sense, though...

Takemaru Yakushiji: That was some badass stuff! Did ya feel the same way?

Takumi Sumino: Huh?

Takemaru Yakushiji: I feel like I became the superhero I wanted to be as a kid! The power felt AWESOME!

Takumi Sumino: I see... That's one way to look at it.

Takemaru Yakushiji: Though... I'm still worried about the Tokyo Residential Complex. You saw the size of the damage?

Takumi Sumino: Yeah... Lots of people getting attacked...

Takemaru Yakushiji: Maybe... There's still people under the rubble... Lost kids searchin' for their families... Geezers who can't move too well... Fuck! I need to go save 'em! I can't afford to be stuck here!

Takumi Sumino: I can't really tell if he's a savage or a nice guy...

[Kodaka chooses Hiruko]

Hiruko Shizuhara: I'm Hiruko Shizuhara. ...

Takumi Sumino: (That's it? I feel like I need to talk to her more. She's calmer than anyone else here, so maybe she knows something.) Hey, I have a question.

Hiruko Shizuhara: I already told you my name is Hiruko Shizuhara.

Takumi Sumino: I got that part. It's not about that. I think we should talk some more.

Hiruko Shizuhara: Talk...?

Takumi Sumino: Didn't you... also fight those monsters? What do you think they are? Do you think there's more of them?

Hiruko Shizuhara: Don't know. ...

Takumi Sumino: Huh!? Done already?

Hiruko Shizuhara: Discussing what we don't understand is a waste of everyone's time. Where's your common sense?

Takumi Sumino: Yeah, but...

Hiruko Shizuhara: You're wasting time. Our conversation is over. ...

Takumi Sumino: (She turned 180 to face away from me... Guess she doesn't want to say anything more.)

[Kodaka chooses Eito]

Eito Aozuki: Well, ain't we in for a pickle. My bladder fills up when things go south. If things get worse, I might leak myself.

[School chime]

Board screen: All troops, line up and salute SIREI!

Takemaru Yakushiji: There you are, you freakin' toy!

Darumi Amemiya: Yahoo! I've been waiting for this trope! The eccentric mascot you find in every death game!

SIREI: C'mon... Toy? Trope? Can we cut short this train of slander? You people are going to get me depressed... And I can't blame you, my entrance was wholly plagiarized... Still, a respectable commander needs to prove his worth at the critical moments. And you got a respectable commander here, called SIREI! Nice to meet you!

[Cut to the operation room]

Darumi Amemiya: Here's Takumi! Takumi is here!

Takemaru Yakushiji: So you joinin' the fight?

Takumi Sumino: Yeah, that's what I decided. The more people, the better, right?

Hiruko Shizuhara: Only if you can prove yourself an asset.

SIREI: Great! I knew you'd come! Your commander had faith in you!

Takumi Sumino: Don't give me that "faith" shit... I'm only here because you threatened me...

SIREI: Threat... What threat? That was just a warning. Fighting is your only option if you want to protect what matters to you.

Takumi Sumino: Tell me what you mean by that already...

SIREI: I'll tell you when the battle is over! First, we must defend this academy! I'll give everyone a Hemoanima Blade, permanently this time. You use it the same way you did back in the Tokyo Residential Complex. Just one stab to the heart will fill you with divine power! This should let you bring a glorious victory to our prestigious Last Defense Academy! Activate your Hemoanima and hop on this launching platform. It'll dump all of you on the schoolyard.

Hiruko Shizuhara: Where we'll slaughter the enemies. Get it moving already.

Takemaru Yakushiji: Fine by me...! Bring it on...!

Darumi Amemiya: Kyohohoho! Let's give it everything we got!

Takumi Sumino: ... (It'll be fine. We can do it. I just have to do it the same way I did it in the Tokyo Residential Complex. Even I can handle that much.)

Karua Aimiya: It's fine, Takkun! I know you can do it! You can do anything!

Takumi Sumino: (Right...! I can do it...! I can do anything!)

SIREI: Now we move to the defensive battle! Bring all you have! If you lack power, bring also all you don't have! Kill them brutally, callously, tormentingly, thoroughly, and viscerally! Show time, it's a genocide party!

Takumi Sumino's tutorial screen

Takumi Sumino has an excellent balance between ATK and range. Also, Sumino's power enables Retries. Press the + button to restart a battle from the open menu.

Hiruko Shizuhara's tutorial screen

Hiruko Shizuhara has excellent ATK and gains additional ATK for the rest of the turn every time she kills an enemy. Try unleashing a powerful attack after you killed tons of lesser enemies!

Hiruko Shizuhara's first kill dialogue

Hiruko Shizuhara: These monsters are as ugly as the ones before, but their innards have a pretty color... I could get something beautiful out of splattering their guts and brains...

Takumi Sumino: Do you realize how freaky you sound?

Takemaru Yakushiji's tutorial screen

Takemaru Yakushiji has excellent mobility and DEF, and gains more Armor (temporary DEF) the further he moves. Try walking all over the battlefield and scatter lesser enemies along the way!

Darumi Amemiya's tutorial screen

Darumi Amemiya has excellent mid-ranged attacks. She swaps Skills between Normal and Fatigued moves, so try learning her more complex gimmicks!

Eito Aozuki's tutorial screen

Eito Aozuki gains a random buff (ATK+1, Armor+1, or Recover from Fatigue) after every action. Try prioritizing using him to let luck decide your fate!

[ueidesign]

Do I like One Piece? Heck yeaaah

Some pixel art training because I like Sanji's newest outfits 💛

[slityourthroatandeattiligetsick]

bites anxiously

"Yeah, yeah.... yeah. Thanks."

Not-very-subtly avoiding Shark on its way to the fridge, clinging to @thetasteofbeautyandlove's arm

-@slityourthroatandeattiligetsick

"Oh hey. Salami is in the fridge as always."

*Shark wad chill again, honestly he didn't even give much of a crap. He was too busy checking the news on his phone.*

[cramathonn]

Thoughts on Jane and Seth as a couple? And fun headcanons about them if you have any?

Ohoho, heck YEAAAH

I love Jane x Seth, they're so cute

Teasing dom woman and dense af submissive and pure man who she can ABSOLUTELY suplex (he'd let her but not without a fight, would so consider it training)

But like, I had a thought before this one and it was just

"Tom and Jerry but make them humans and Jerry is trans and a dominatrix" – My brain about Jane x Seth

And headcanons about them? Hmm, I think Jane would have a hard time spending time with Seth due to her missions and all, but she would try to make time, absolutely.

Seth would SOOO try to get her to come to his family time weekends. I mean, that's his gf, she's family now so like, family weekends with parents AND hot gf? Sign him up!!!

Seth is also the shyest boyo in the planet. Don't het me wrong, he IS dense as fuck, but once he gets the hint? Oh, he's blushing, oh he's hiding behind his tail and turning around to Jane cannot see his face (she loves seeing him all flushed and shy, that's her recharger, your honor)

I also can see them having sparring dates and training dates. Seth is a very hardworking individual and constantly tries to improve his physical capabilities. Considering that Jane EASILY bested him in their first encounter, he'd obviously want to constantly spar with her like, PLEAAAASE TEACH HIM HOW TO BE NIMBLE ON HIS FEET HE IS BEGGING

NSFW headcanons ahead! So if you're a Minor, please stop here!

Jane if VERY naughty. Like, have you SEEN her trailers??? That woman is the incarnation of Aphrodite AND Dionysus combines (aka she's the incarnation of SEX). So like, she will absolutely go down on Seth. Also, T4T Jane x Seth anyone?

But like, since so many ppl see Jane and Seth as Tom and Jerry, may I offer you transfem Jane, the queen of tucking? Like, Seth had NOOO idea she was trans and when he found out he just found her like, 10x hotter.

Like, imagine your girlfriend, who you know is strong af and sooo fucking cunning, finally tells you she is trans and you just "Omfg my girlfrend is so fucking strong and determined and beautiful and she has such a huge di-"

Seth is a virgin, I'm sorry but that SHOULD be common knowledge between all in the fandom. Like, bro has NO game due to how dense and blunt he is. While Jane has THE game, like, even Belle said she had rizz for fuck's sake! That woman is bisexual hazard in a way that she CAUSES the hazard and is, most possibly, a lot of people's bi awakenings (I just know some poor straight woman is looking at her going like "Wtf, why is she so pretty holy shit I wanna date her" and having to stop and rethink their entire history with sexual and/or romantic attraction)

Either way, Seth is prideful but not in an arrogant way, so I'm having a hard time deciding if he would vehemently deny that he's a virgin or if he would just... Say it. NO WAIT, BETTER OUTCOME. Jane is making out with him and he's so nervous and he has a boner (or his pussy is wet, live your headcanons to the fullest!) and Jane teases him about it and he's so so anxious and nervous and shy and gosh she catches on that it's his first time so quickly and she asks him about it and I can just SEE his ears pressing against his head in shame and him slowly nodding without making eye contact....

Soft first time. Jane is SO caring with him for his first time. Ngl, they probably continue to go soft for the first couple of times before Seth is comfortable with experiencing... But I feel like he would be very vanilla even after experimenting (is also very traditional with the "sex is supposed to be romantic" thought and that almost fucks up his first time until Jane calmed him down through it and just... Told him it doesn't need to be romantic and it can just be a fun and enjoyable activity)

Either way, Jane is kinky af, she was a dominatrix once and you CANNOT take that away from me. She revels when Seth lets her go rough on him and she's like, the queen of aftercare, change my mind

Very healthy couple who respects each other's boundaries. She knows she has to be blunt and very literal with Seth so that he can get things and he kinda appreciates it, since it's not always that people understand his problem with getting social clues or context hints. He hated it at the beginning, thinking Jane was babying him, but he quickly understood that he wouldn't be able to understand her boundaries as well of she didn't do that, so he talked to her that day and thanked her PROFUSELY (they ended up cuddling in bed after that)

[howlingday]

EverAfter VS Femcels

Blake: MM~! DAMN~! YOU LOOK FINE~! WANNA EAT THAT ASS WITH SOME FINE WINE~! SLUUURP~!

Somewhat: Wh-Whoa... Who are you? And why are you putting my friends into that bag?

Blake: DAYUM~! WHERE YOU BEEN HIDIN', BOY~?! I WANNA EAT YOU~!

Somewhat: Nyeh~!

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Curious Cat: What's going on here? Where did these creatures come from?

Jabberwalker: Unknown... Anonymous... Ignorant...

Jabberwalker: Owie...

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Ruby: Your workshop is really cluttered.

Blacksmith: So?

Ruby: You should really pick up now and then.

Blacksmith: Well, I can't. I'm blind.

Ruby: Snrk! Sucks to be you!

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Somewhat: JAUNE! JAUNE! JAUNE!

Jaune: What?!

Somewhat: We need your help, Jaune! There's-

Jaune: Ah-ah-ah! I'm gonna stop you right there. Let's go through the checklist here. Khm! Is this an emergency?

Somewhat: Yes! There's-

Jaune: Is this an Ever After issue?

Somewhat: Well, there's two schools of thought on this, but-

Jaune: Ut-dut-dut! Is this an Ever After issue? Yes, or no?

Somewhat: Mm... Yes!

Jaune: Did you ask the Tree yet?

Somewhat: Well, no, but-

Jaune: Ooooh! Tssss! Aaaah... Well, I'm not from here, am I? So if it's an Ever After issue, what do you think I'm gonna do when I get there?

Somewhat: Um... Ask the Tree-

Jaune: Yeaaah... So try doing that first, yeah?

Somewhat: Okay...

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Curious Cat: There are a group of humans sitting around and being angry over nothing! Where did they come from?

Blacksmith: They remind me of the stash.

Curious Cat: The stash?

Blacksmith: The Tree has a pack of femcels locked away behind a door that should never, ever be opened. ...You didn't open it, did you?

Curious Cat: Er...

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"FEMCEL LOCK! KEEP OUT!"

Curious Cat: Oh, if only I could read as well as I can control myself~!

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Curious Cat: Hm... Did I?

Blacksmith: In any case, there's only one who can help us now...

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Somewhat: JAUNE! JAUNE! JAUNE!

Jaune: WHAT?!

Somewhat: Yes, yes, and yes! And the Tree said only you can help us!

Jaune: That fucking BITCH!

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Jabberwalker: Go... Leave... Begone...

Yang: No way! We like it here!

Ruby: I can feel my mental health improving from touching this grass!

Curious Cat: Well, we normally just frolicking in it.

Jaune: Okay, what the heck's going on?!

Weiss: EEK! A REAL LIVE MAN!

RWBY: (Run away, Screaming)

Blake: I'M NOT HUNGRY NO MORE~!

Jaune: ...

Somewhat: Wow, Jaune! You were finally useful for once! Isn't that what you're always whining about? Not being useful?

[rapha-reads]

IWTV rewatch

Season 1 episode 2 [... After the Phantoms of Your Former Self] - part 2/3

- [Daniel] "White master, Black student, but equal in the quiet dark" - *spits out the water I just drunk* DANIEL MOLLOY THE QUEEN THAT YOU ARE. And Louis immediately answering the provocation with a slam down of his own. I am so here for the Louis/Daniel bromance, the way they can just spend hours snarking at each other. Saltmates, if you will.

Louis is such a Bitch, the way he decides to eat that fox in front of Daniel to remind him that "vampires are killers", and the way he lets the blood drip, when canonically vampires never waste any blood (at least in the book, that's one of the thing Lestat repeats often, a vampire's feeding is clean, no trace of blood left anywhere, but in a visual media about vampires, of course it looks better to have the blood dripping on the chin after, sometimes you gotta privilege aesthetic over function).

[Louis] "Vampires are killers, apex predators whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment, the ability to see a human life in its entirety, not with any mawkish sorrow, but with the thrilling satisfaction of being the end of that life and having a hand in the divine plan."

Yeaaah, like Daniel says, "don't expect every reader to swallow that one". Because for one thing, you don't even fully believe it, Louis, you who's about to spend several years starving yourself feeding only on rats and cats, you who just had a fox for supper instead of going hunting, you who hates feeding on humans and doesn't let even your fellow vampires witness you feeding (book canon), you who also goes during the 20th century from crisis of faith to fully atheist and uncaring about religion... Pretty words. Empty words. I'm not buying it.

"Mawkish": lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste / exaggeratedly or childishly emotional (Merriam-Webster). Well I didn't know that word. Collins Dictionary tells me that the best translation to French would be "mièvre", and now I am loving this even more. "Mièvre" is not a very used word in French, which is a shame because it's a very pretty and very evocative word, and "mawkish" definitely gives me the same impression. Yey, I learned something new today! New word to incorporate to my vocabulary.

- I swear I'm not trying to comment every single minute of this episode, but every single minute brings something interesting. I have to stop on Louis and Lestat's conversation about languages and killing being its own language, as a multilingual person myself (I could spend hours talking linguistics, sorry not sorry):

[Lestat] "'When I first started learning English, I abhorred it. Every word felt like a doorknob falling out of my mouth. Chapeau is a hat, étoile was a star...' [Louis] 'Killin' folks ain't a second language!' [Lestat] 'But when I started dreaming in English, that's when I embraced it. And now, I have English consonants to thank for this astonishing jawline.' [Louis] 'These are nightmares I'm having, Lestat, not dreams.'"

Firstly, yeah, Lestat's right, "hat" is weird. It's chapeau in French, cappello in Italian, kapela in Greek, even quba'a in Arabic, and Arabic is not even an Indo-European language... The heck does hat come from? *resists the urge to go linguistic deep dive* Secondly, yeah, he's right, he does have an amazing jawline - taking this opportunity to bring attention to the scar on the corner of his mouth, book readers know what's up. Where was I? Ah, yeah. No, Lestat's right about a foreign language sounding weird in your mouth until you start to understand its spirit instead of only its letter - words falling out of your mind versus dreaming in that language. Been talking English for long enough that I do dream in English, and been multilingual all my life so I adapt to languages fast enough, but it's still a struggle. I'm fluent in Spanish now, but I don't dream in Spanish yet, and I sometimes feel like the word sounds wrong when it actually sounds like it should.

What it means in regard to Louis is that he's a slow learner. Gotta sound the kill one by one, taking your time, before you get to be a consummate killer. Can't learn a language in a night. Can't learn a language if you don't practice. Can't get used to killing if you don't kill, and can't survive if you don't kill, and vicious circle, doesn't kill>doesn't survive>doesn't practice>doesn't learn>doesn't survive>doesn't kill... Extremely interesting to see that Lestat IS actually teaching Louis about vampire ways, but Louis is not ready to listen yet, or, to continue the metaphor, they're not speaking the same language and they haven't learned to understand each other's language (not talking about accents obviously, but once again taking the opportunity to praise both Sam and Jacob's vocal work, between Sam's French accented drawling English and Jacob's Creole slang in NOLA and flat "standard" English in Dubai, it's a feast for the ears).

Okay, while Lestat's teaching Louis how to read minds (the Mind Gift, that book!Louis actually doesn't get in the books until very, very late on, and isn't good at, and doesn't show), wanna just say: look how giddy they are! Look how soft they are with each other! Look how fondly Louis speaks to Lestat, how fondly Lestat looks at Louis! We forget, and Louis too, but in between the misunderstandings and the drama and the anguish, they DID love each other, they DID have good times, they DID build a life with each other. It wasn't complete (and no I'm not talking about darling Claudia, I'm talking about speaking the same language), but it was good enough for quite a few years.

Oh man, Louis reading his family's minds, I coulda told him that's a bad idea *points to every literature with a man reader*, but also that passage in Narnia (Dawn Trader) when Lucy spies on her school friends and hear things she didn't want to read and didn't have to know. Don't have time to go search for that passage now, but Aslan tells her something like "some things really do not need be done", or sum' like that.

- Oh, hey, look. More social commentary. That white guy's gonna get eaten if he keeps patronising Louis like that. "You truly are an exceptional Negro" - hey Lou baby, can I kill him please? Lemme kill him for you. "I had let them talk to me like that so long, I had stopped hearing it" - oh, and Louis' accent is slipping here, can you hear it. Really, REALLY love how that change from book canon adds so many layers to Louis' character. Hey, have I said lately that Louis' my favourite? 'Cause Louis is my favourite. "Yes, sir. Of course, sir. Subject, verb, agreement, sir. Smile, nod, yes sir." - AWARDS FOR JACOB, all the awards for Jacob please, and my gods how much do I adore Louis, that sassy, snarky, bitchy queen. I want to have a book club with him.

"But I wasn't a man anymore. I was something else. I had powers now, and decades of rage to process, and it was both random and unfortunate, the man picked that night to dabble in fuckery." - so first, Jacob keeps on flexing his vocal skills by letting Louis slip more and more back to his original accent, and then, YES KING, get his ass, DRAIN HIM. And in a more meta way, all hails liberation movements and the process of reclaiming one's identity. Maybe not through murder, we all ain't lucky enough to be vampires, but yeah, rage is a good tool actually. Rage can lead to enormous movements that change the fabric of society for the better. Never underestimate the power of repressed rage finally expressing itself when it's yielded by clever, resourceful, empathic beings. Sorry, that was the "segregated Southern States social commentary as a mirror for 21st century's current liberation movements social commentary" minute, back to the vampires.

[Lestat] "You are a library of confusion" - first of all, Sam's delivery, with the hand gestures and the head shake, MAGNIFICENT, but also, it's Lestat starting to realize that maaaaaaybe he bit more than he can chew. Maaaaaybe.

[Louis] "'There's some things you don't get about America, Lestat.' [Lestat] 'Yes, let's have this conversation again.' [Louis] 'Colored; white. Creole; French. Queer; half-queer, mostly queer, what is it?' [Lestat] 'Non-discriminating.' [Louis] 'Complicated situation we got here is what I'm saying.'"

ICONIC. And also, maaaaan do I love that that's the road RJ and Cie decided to go with, one of the only changes I've been having issues is the time skip (from 1797 to 1910, cf. episode 1 part 1 rewatch). But this little conversation here actually warms me to it! The layers, man, the layers. Also, love that Lestat self-identifies as non-discriminating, that's so totally him about basically everything: skin color and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, species, age... Drama Queen really said "everything goes, eeeeeeverything".

- "How can I say no to you?" - awwww, Lestat is so whipped for Louis.

[Louis] "From 1912 to 1917" - oooh thanks for the time stamps. So it's been two years since he's turned, and it's on for 5 years of stability. The famous "honeymoon era".

[Louis] "I made a mountain of money, enough to retire and be buried like a pharaoh" - uuuuuh *side-eyes cautiously Queen of the Damned* let's not talk about Egyptian monarchy yet, yeah, that'll come to burn us soon enough.

Oops, the baby scene. And Louis realising he can't hold on to his family, that they're about to slip between his fingers like sand... Ow. [Grace] "I'm sure Mama would love to see you" *rapid glance* *giggles* That's siblings for "yeaaaah no, lol, Mama would definitely NOT love to see me, you crazy".

[Louis] "I no longer kill. My last victim was in the year 2000." BUT DID YOU EAT THE BABY, LOUIS. "I sit here a master of my instincts." But did you eat the baby, Louis. Slight aside, but how is this dinner still on going?? WAIT, go back a second: [Daniel] "And you know this how, you guys have a thread on 8chan?" - BENJI MENTION? I sooo want to see Benji's radio. Though if we still follow book events but on show timeline, Armand hasn't met Benji and Sybelle yet, because they're turned a decade after Daniel. Repeating myself, but RJ did say he'd adapt Prince Lestat, and Benji's one of the main players of this book, so I'm sure we'll see him, but it's going to be a while, I think.

- Wait, I need to relisten to that conversation:

[Daniel] "'And what about the others out there? Have they mastered theirs?' [Louis] 'Just the opposite. Most of them are slaves to the blood, exhausted from decades, centuries of hiding, giddy to increase their numbers.' [...] [Daniel] 'Is the pandemic the opening they've been waiting for?' [Louis] 'Pandemic, the unravelling of geopolitical foundations. [...] One of them, a brute in Madagascar, called it 'the great conversion'.'"

Oh, lots to say here. Lots that will spoil the books too. Because hey, y'all know what happens in Queen of the Damned, after Lestat's concert? Yepppp. Pretty sure Rolin Jones just planted the seeds of seasons 3 and 4. And served on a silver platter with delicious 21st century social commentary. I'm having the time of my life.

[Daniel] "'Well most people I know like to play a little ball in the afternoon, or maybe go down to the beach, catching a few rays.' [Louis] 'Yes. What on earth would a meth-addicted son of a coal miner in West Virginia want with eternal life?' [Daniel] 'Did you eat the baby?' [Louis] 'Or the Arab youth whose whole family were wiped from existence...' [Daniel] 'Did you eat the baby?' [Louis] '... by a Western drone? No, I'm sure you're right.'"

SHOTS FIRED. And another Benji mention! And a personal attack. And Louis being his glorious catty self. And Daniel being his glorious one-minded self. We're heading for another "outburst", lmao.

The Damek scene is just so fucking weird, I'm wheezing. Nothing to say here, just: this show is a freaking comedy. Between Louis perfecting the Little Drink but his taste of the night just passing out, and Daniel going "you might have a drinking problem" and then going back to his idea of the night, "the goddamn baby, Louis, did you fucking eat the bloody baby", this is peak humor.

Aaaaaand we need a third part, still 15 minutes to go.

episode 1 | part 1 | part 3 | episode 3 | episode 4 | episode 5 | episode 6 | episode 7

[themeeplord]

My life so far has just been this:

Animation? Yesss,, or actually, no.

Hold on *picks up animation again* yesSSS! Or wait. NO! *drops animation on the floor*

Ok one more time for science *picks up animation AGAIN* OH HECK YEAAAH!!! Wait a minute. No. *tosses animation in the trash*

...

...

Actually.. *gently picks up animation again*

I JUST CAN'T DECIDE!!!!

[tae-rambles]

OP ch 1121 SPOILERS

My thoughts as i read:

i knew there will be a colorspread but damn i didnt expect the giant Nami, she looks great

i like how Luffy keeps communicating w his allies, warning them about their opponents' abilities, it's been so long since the Straw Hats had a proper collaborative group battle and not just 1v1s

Bonney's back in Nika form!!!! :DD but she's still exhausted, but she's determined to kick Saturn's ass and i'm here for it

big bro Luffy protecting his little sis Bonney MY HEART (yes, Luffy's Bonney's big bro. i don't accept criticism)

HE'S SO SUPPORTIVE OF HER I CAN'T AAAAAA this makes me so happy!!!

wait, what location is that

... Shirahoshi and Vivi w those specific speech bubbles next to them... i see what you're doing there Oda

also Skypiea where the poneglyph about Poseidon was...

Kuma... :(

Bucaneers, Lunarians, the three-eyed tribe that can awaken the ability to read poneglyphs... i can't wait for the Tenryubito to fall

stfu Saturn

yeah! you tell him Luffy!

oh, Bonney... fuck i'm tearing up

LIBERATING NIKA PUNCH FUCK YEAAAH :DD

there's so much going on in the two double spreads, to much emotion and thoughts to express in writing its overwhelming

serves you right you stupid spider

"there are certain individuals who cannot be oppressed" heck yea

coincidence? i think not!

poor Rayleigh lol he should be more appreciative of his hot and attentive wife

"no guarantee it will be found out by someone Joyboy would want" ... what an interesting placement of that speech bubble followed right after by the other three emperors.... i'm sure it would be possible to make that bubble touch the panels of all three of them yet Buggy's is further down.... or maybe i'm overthinking this

also Shanks yet again drowning his sorrows w alcohol... i wonder who he got it from coughcoughRayleighcoughcough

and Buggy yet again failing upwards lol

"who will protect the common folk?" as if you actually care about that

Shanks' handsome as ever, Luffy my beloved, Blackbeard go die in a ditch, Buggy babygirl

well hello new mysterious character w a sword who would you be? (the man marked by flames maybe?)

DAMN what an amazing chapter this arc is one banger after the other! :D i love One Piece so much

[kyouka-supremacy]

Mmmhh headcanon that the only time Ryuunosuke ever got seriously mad at Gin is after she killed someone for the first time. Not because someone died; he just thought that having hands stained with blood was a burden him and only him was supposed to bear. He didn't want her to lose her innocence, her hope– he didn't want her to completely lose sight of the light, to only be able to see how cruel and ruthless the world was. He didn't want her to become like him. Heck, he once even made her swear never to kill anyone, and given words must be kept, right? But of course Gin would argue that he can't shoulder everything by his own, that she's old enough to decide for herself and so on. That if he's been corrupted by the world, it was only fair she should be too. So yeaaah

[wolveria]

oooh tell me something about Kenobane3 please? 👀

Heck yeaaah that's my fic The Jedi's Gambit. I have some posted already, but I'll share a snippet from an upcoming chapter ;)

Over the lulling thrum of the sublight engines, Obi-Wan’s thoughts turned to Quinlan Vos of all people. On their journey to Nal Hutta to track down Bane, Vos had mentioned that the bounty hunter had wronged him in the past. He’d teased Obi-Wan on more than one occasion, promising to tell the story, but he had yet to make good on that promise. He was beginning to wonder if Vos hadn’t embellished his run-in with Bane just to get a rise out of Obi-Wan. It wouldn’t have been the first time.

And then there was his Padawan, so full of anger when it came to the bounty hunter’s repeated escapes. Where Anakin had wanted to lock Bane into a cell and throw away the key, Obi-Wan wished to grab Bane around his lean shoulders, look him in the eye, and shake some sense into him.

But Obi-Wan knew Bane well enough by now to realize that wasn’t the way to reach him. Patience, honesty, and a high tolerance for prickly words seemed to be the charted course to earn Bane’s trust. It was with that navigation in mind that Obi-Wan acted now, though Bane wouldn’t see it that way.

Nor would the Council. Obi-Wan was disobeying them again in regard to the bounty hunter, and now in regard to the artifact. The Council would want it in their custody, to study it or lock it away. He couldn’t trust that his fellow Masters would understand that such measures wouldn’t be enough.

Not if Bane was going to get better. And Obi-Wan suspected that argument would move no one other than himself.

[pineappleparfaitie]

I’ve been really obsessed over the moth pred sona, so I wanna share a fact with you

their stomach is extremely push and stretchy, mostly so half sized prey feel comfortable and have a lot of wiggle room to squirm. Also Though they do enjoy nomming 1/4 sized, they like nomming half sized prey because they get a lil tummy bump (they like to see their prey lol)

THAT👏IS👏SO👏FRIKIN👏NOICE👏Luv👏luv👏LOAF👏

Love 1/4th sized prey heck yeaaah >:D

And comfy tums