#I am here fOR THE EPIC ANIME FIGHTS HOLY SHIT-

[tev-the-random]

I'm bowing down, I'm on my knees, sobbing and offering my soul, I cry "you're my hero and I owe you my life" repeatedly.

Ian Flynn looks at me in fear. It's the middle of the night. He thinks I am deranged. Which I am.

[maylovesfiction]

Random thoughts -that no one wants to know- while watching Impel down/Marine Ford for the first time.

ep 467 Buggy shying away from the fight, that's how we know him. Buggys followers giving every little thing he says some epic and noble meaning, always putting him on a pedestal, he just can't do wrong (I feel called out. I would be one of them. Why am I so weak for this clown?) Jango having the same VA as Franky and Bon chan, love the voice. He's doing a great job. Buggys face as he finds out Dragon is Luffys father is priceless

ep 468 Whitebeard recognizing Buggy and Buggy just biting back without realising it's Whitebeard he's talking to because he just can't keep his mouth shut :D You can't tell me Whitebeard didn't know that Buggy was weak and that Buggy was just talking out of his ass, when he offered Buggy to form an alliance Mr 3s face in combination with the music after Buggy told him that he could take on the Marines if he got all out made me laugh so hard I cried Wait what?! Now Whitebeard acknowledges the strength of Buggy and the prisoners?! What is happening?? I for sure thought he was looking right through Buggy. Smoker, you are hot and so far you are my favorite Marine, but you won't be much of use Boa Hancock is delusional, but on the other hand quite cute when she gushes over Luffy

ep 469 Highlight: Luffy hugging Boa Hancock. And she's so overwhelmed, she can't take it. Buggy and his daggers are such a cool combo.

ep 470 Crocodile not accepting Doflamingos offer to join forces is refreshing one of my favorite scenes in the anime: Luffy getting Buggy out of Crocodiles sandstorm just to use him as a shield against Mihawks attack, and Buggy just being his usual self getting mad with Mihawk and gloriously failing his Muggy ball attack, resulting in one of the funniest scenes

ep 471 a whole army out of pacifistas... that's so cruel Buggy going live, he's so precious. In the german dub he says "My name is legend and I am a Buggy." and I can never forget about that such a rat... stabbing Whitebeard!

ep 472 I know what's bound to happen, but I still don't like it Aokiji freezing Buggy... I mean I know Buggy survives this, but if I didn't already I would be seriously worried for him now Whitebeard being the forgiving father, that's why his people love him, isn't it?

ep 473 Whitebeard enters the fight. That's got to be epic. Shit's about to go down. I know this story is about Luffy on his way to become King of the Pirates but holy moly, I want to watch Whitebeard in his prime. His df looks so incredibly epic and strong So out of the three admirals I liked Aokiji, I didn't like Kizaru and I had no opinion on Akainu because we didn't see him until now. I didn't think Akainu could be worse than Kizaru but here we are. I really don't like that man.

[richardsondavis]

So I have just finished watching the live action One Piece.

Not bad. I'll give my thoughts below. Spoilers, sort of.

So we start with Romance Dawn

So to just give how much I know about One Piece. I read the manga and have read all the parts of the East Blue saga and safe to say, Arlong Park and Baratie were my favorite arcs ever. Especially, Arlong Park.

So with that said, Romance Dawn. Luffy meets with Koby who saves Koby from Alvida. That's how it went but I did wonder how they were going to get Alvida thin as shown in the anime and manga. I actually thought that it might've caused an uproar with the woke crowd but in the end, she's still fat and did team up with Buggy in the end, which happened. Fun.

I don't have much to say. This was the beginning. It's to test the waters. And if you like what you see then yeah, you are in for a ride.

Next is:

The Man in the Straw Hat

Buggy the Clown. One of the first major enemies that appeared in One Piece. Let me tell you, the actor who played Buggy gave it his all and he is one of the best things that happened. Fantastic work by the actor. Kudos to him!

The crew gets captured by Buggy and all that. A lot got cut out like Zoro having this sword fight or some such. Memory is a little hazy but I am making this after binging the show so do forgive. Nothing really bad happened here. Buggy is just very menacing. He's like Joker. He's exactly like Joker.

Moving on, we got:

Oh god, Usopp. Ussop's arc, man! Tell No Tales is about Usopp and fuck me if it wasn't the worst shit I've seen. This kind of crap took too long. It shat on a lot of Ussop's character. He is a shot, a marksman and the fact that he ain't got his friends nor the epic showdown between Kuro and his crew against the Straw Hats is just damn disappointing. A lot was cut out. This will feel like a test for some because it gets boring to slog through this crap. This arc could've been done better but goddamn. This was a memorable arc from the manga but this was butchered in love action.

Next we have a continuation of the Ussop arc but with Sanji's backstory now. It's still as insufferable as the last episode but Sanji's past is not bad. Could've been done better. All I can say. Epic fight between Sanji and the other members of the staff that was with Kuro who were not in the anime nor manga I believe. So yeah.

Next up Baratie. Holy shit. This was it. The Sanji arc. I didn't really get my hopes up but two things were done here that made me consider this as the best live action anime adaptation. Sanji's backstory and Sanji's goodbye.

Suffice to say, both were done so well, so damn well that I cried. I cried when I read the scene in the manga and now I cried when I saw it in live action. My god. It's so wonderful.

I do see some folks comment that Sanji should've bowed to Zeff when he left Baratie but to me the bowing never really was the point. It was that Sanji was crying and said his thanks. Sanji crying while saying goodbye was the highlight of that scene for me and the live action delivered. We also get Mihawk and a look on Arlong. So there's that.

Just a continuation of the Zeff, Sanji Arc stuff. Said what I need to above.

Arlong Park. The arc that I said would be the basis of whether I would consider this to be a good live action. They should be thankful that they chose to put Sanji first before this because the emotional scene from Nami was fucking shit. It was shit. That's what it was!

THEY FUCKING RUINED THE EMOTIONAL SCENE OF ARLONG PARK!!!!!!! FUCK!!!!!! THEY BETTER BE THANKFUL THAT SANJI CAME FIRST AND THAT HIS ARC WAS MY SECOND FAVORITE. IF NOT, I WOULD HAVE CONSIDERED THIS TO BE AS SHIT AS THE REST OF THE LIVE ACTION TRASH!!!!!!

I'm just damn mad at how they just meh-ified it. Nojiko's actress was awful. Woman can't act and her child counterpart was equally awful. It was the arc I was waiting for the most but it didn't deliver. The emotional scene of the Arlong Park arc was the goat! THE FUCKING GOAT AND THEY BUTCHERED IT! FUCKING HELL!

I'm just peeved man.

A continuation of the Arlong Park Arc. Fight scene was meh. Garp's fight with Luffy is kinda neat though so I'll give them that. Damn.

Anyway after all that, I'll give this series an 8.5/10.

BECAUSE OF SANJI'S ARC THAT'S WHY!!!!!

Thanks for reading and I wish you a wonderful day!

[sainamoonshine]

My thing about it is that it had like 32 endings. Like you know that big epic moment at the end of a movie? The climax? The thing you come out of the theatre all excited about and everybody talks about it and makes gifs of it and all that?

TLJ and TROS were literally only made of these moments. A whole bunch of them all lined up one after the other. Any of these big action pieces could have easily been the climax of a single movie, and it would have been so awesome and everybody would have talked about them forever! Except that they just kept coming and then there was another one and another one and when it’s like the fifth time you’ve said holy shit!!! — you have already forgotten the first one. When it’s the eight one by that point they’ve all started to sort of run into each other, and now none of them seem particularly exciting in retrospect because the entire movie was like that, so like, nothing really stands out.

And then none of these bigs holy shit moments really make it into popular culture.

There is no “I am your father” moment in these movies, there are twelve of them and I forgot nine of them.

Was the Holdo Manoeuvre the ending of the middle of a movie? Can’t remember. It feels like a big dramatic ending but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t and the movie kept going. At some point they freed some animals! There was a battle with red salt sand or something. Luke showed up to confront Kylo. Big moment! Other big moment! More big moment! Rey and Kylo double fight!!!!! Holy shit and holy shit and holy shit and — *checks watch* wow okay I have no idea when this movie will end I was dead convinced we’d reached the ending like four times already. Oh wait here’s another holy shit!!!

And the problem with stringing up a whole lot of awesome intense dramatic wow moments all one after the other, is that then you have to sort of awkwardly weave a storyline in between all these big moments, hoping that maybe it makes a sort of sense. But the storyline’s only purpose is to deliver us to the next big Holy Shot I Can’t Believe They Did That moment and then the other one after it, so really your storyline is not that important in the grand scheme of things, isn’t it? Who cares about the storyline when we got BUDGET, am I right? Anyway here’s another holy shit moment. You’re welcome!

The thing that really puzzles me about people arguing that TLJ is a good movie (not that they personally enjoyed it but that it was Good) is that I just. Did not find it cohesive? At all? It felt to me like they had 3 different writers write 1/3 of a script each and then meshed them together.

[unfoundhoney]

being karl jacobs little sibling ↠

↠ karl jacobs x reader ; fluff

↠ masterlist

hello to the entire smp’s favorite

you’re a big sweetheart like your brother

you’ve got this feral teasing, satan spawn side once you get comfortable around someone but it’s more cute than anything else

karl has always adored you & been protective of you

he used to be mean to you & tease you all the time but he grew out of that & now he is the bestest big brother

he loves you ok :(

you’re the baby of the family & karl must therefore make sure no harm comes to you

no one’s allowed to bully his baby sibling unless it’s him because then it is okay

he was the older brother who would just come into your room & lie on your bed & pretend that he’s doing it to be annoying but really he just wants to spend time with you

when he got his license he would always drive you places

school, friend’s houses, mcdonald’s, the gas station at one in the morning

he likes spending time with you i just want to make that point very clear

you two have always been really close & he just loves you alright

you’re first introduced to the internet as a possible winner of one of the many “one of the crew’s siblings gets the prize” mrbeast videos

you didn’t even know what was happening karl just picked you up one day like “get in loser, we’re doing a mrbeast video”

& off you went

suddenly you’re everywhere on the internet bc people just absolutely adored the way karl would check up on you throughout the entire video

which was obviously kept in because quality content

he brings you on or all the mrbeast videos he can

like the christmas lights video?

you were there helping him & sean win

(karl) JACOBSES FOR THE WIN L E T ‘ S G O

animal shelter video?

short little clip of karl facetiming you to show you the puppies & the camera just hears you “aw”ing over them

eventually karl does a stream w/ you & the plan was to play kirby’s epic yarn

but karl just gets absolutely spammed on discord

by who you may ask?

i think you already know

it’s tommyinnit begging karl to get on the smp w/ you & let him talk w/ you

tommyinnit: KARL YOU SHOULD LET ME SPEAK WITH YOUR SIBLING

tommyinnit: KARL PLEASE IT’S FOR THE CONTENT

tommyinnit: KARL

tommyinnit: DON’T MAKE ME INDIRECT YOU ON TWITTER.COM BECAUSE I WILL

tommyinnit: IT WILL BE FUNNY & I WILL BE MOSTLY WELL BEHAVED PROMISE

tommyinnit: KARL PLEASE

eventually karl relented & went on the smp & had you play

here comes big man tommy (& co.) to farm more “i spoke to my friend’s sibling” content

(you) haven’t you already done like fifteen of these videos?

(quackity) holy shit, did y/n just call tommyinnit unoriginal?

(george) i think they did oh my god

you meet tommy obviously & the other feral bois & a bunch of other smp members you bump into as you’re wandering around

karl shows you kinoko kingdom all proudly

he gets all smiley when you talk about how much you like it

you & the feral boys are kind of iconic ngl

bc you’re actually really funny you’re just kind of shy & need someone to hype you up

and these himbos are just the men for the job

karl would love to make content with you as long as you were comfortable with it

like

imagine doing a cooking stream but you like actually know how to cook smth & karl’s just your little assistant/hype man

(karl) go y/n, go y/n, go go go y/n

(you) i am literally putting salt in a pot of water

& then at the end karl just going full big brother braggart mode

(karl) guys this is literally the best thing i have ever eaten you all wish you had a sibling as cool as mine haha as if no one is as great as y/n so haha get rekt losers

meanwhile you in the background like “please stop”

the mrbeast crew absolutely adores you as well

chris especially is very verbal about how great you are

& there’s this clip of karl & jimmy just absolutely demolishing you & chandler in a chicken pool fight

suddenly it’s not a mrbeast video w/o a y/n cameo in some way

you are tucker’s official babysitter, what a privilege that is

it’s cool thought bc tucker loves you

you’re just such a lovable person

karl would totally love painting your nails or letting you paint his or whatever

& if you’re actually good at like nail art???

he loves you even more now wow

might help you up your fashion game or ask you for fashion advice too

he likes to show you off like a proud parent bc he just thinks you’re great & wants the world to know how great you are

would defo cry at your graduation just saying

prom/school formal?

cute picture of you all glammed up & laughing as karl is literally on the ground bowing to you

would go to as many of your games/recitals/concerts as he could if you have them

& if not he’d be sure to hype up the little achievements like a good test grade or baking a cake

basically: it’s karl’s job in life to make sure you know you are loved & appreciated

you all have one of those “siblings but besties” type of relationships

cuties, we love to see it

[lilliganmusic]

If you had to ask me what my favourite anime OST’s would be then here they are! Top 10 obviously because who doesn’t love lists?

I have amazing taste in anime OST’s btw, so I will be eagerly awaiting comments from those who haven’t already been blessed by these anime, telling me how good these tracks are.

Honorable Track Mentions from anime that didn’t make the cut:

Ao Haru Ride

“Ao Haru Ride”

“I Will - Instrumental”

“忘れられない時間”

Cowboy Bebop

“Cats on Mars”

“Piano Black”

“Rush”

Demon Slayer

“A Butterfly’s Dream & Anger”

“Kamado Tanjiro no Uta”

“Rengoku’s Last Smile”

Neon Genesis Evangelion

“Asuka Strikes”

“Decisive Battle”

“Misato”

“Rei II”

One Punch Man

“BATTLE!!”

“Mysterious”

“Seigi Shikkou”

And now on with the list!

10. Wonder Egg Priority

YEAHHHH, GOOD OST!!! I think the music is really cool and funky in this show! Probably the most unique OST I’ve ever heard. I love how the music can be so light and whimsical one moment, then “oh shit, we are fighting the metaphorical manifestation of your trauma and could very well die”. It’s like the kind of music you would have for an alarm or a ringtone. I think “Wonder Egg” and “花開く時” might very well be my favourite tracks, but I have a special place for “いぎ戦わん、乙女たちよ” as well. It’s upbeat and creepy! There isn’t a bad song in the OST, the only downside with the tracks would be how short they are!!

“WEP fans shocked that someone is finally talking about the anime.”

9. Ouran High School Host Club

Honestly what a good anime, we all know how iconic the OP and ED are but what about the OST? I have a bias for orchestral themes and OHSHC delivers that in spades. They have so many funny tracks that perfectly evoke the crack energy of the lads and Haruhi, as well as some nostalgic ballads that sweep you right off your feet. “Polka Capriccioso” is their anthem, the minute I heard this again I started laughing. Then you have emotional tracks like “Nocturne for Orchestra” and “Pavan for Piano and Orchestra”. There’s not a single bad track, (which goes for most of the OST’s on here) and honestly I’ll be incorporating some of these tracks into my playlist.

“OHSHC fans rolling up to every social function to be as LGBTQIA+ as possible.”

8. Beastars

I love this jazzy anime!!! Like yasss!!! So melodramatic and angsty!!! This show just has a really good soundtrack, it was really hard not to list everything lol. “Beastars - Classical”, “Beastars - Another Side” and “Hope of this World” have my heart forevermore, while “Impending Darkness” and “Louis’ Feelings” are fucking BOPS! We don’t talk about “Bite Me!”…

“There’s no shoujo filter, you’re just a furry.”

7. Dr. Stone

I DUNNO HOW I MISSED THIS SOUNDTRACK OR JUST FAILED TO APPRECIATE IT, BUT MAYBE I WAS TOO ENTHRALLED WITH ALL THE SCIENCE HAPPENING TO PAY ATTENTION? WHAT THE FUCK I HAVE GOOSEBUMPS?? HOLY SHIT THIS SOUNDTRACK IS SO EPIC???? JUST GO LISTEN TO THE WHOLE THING I GUESS, NOT A SINGLE BAD TRACK. I WOULD RANK IT HIGHER BUT I JUST STARTED LISTENING TO IT WISNSOALSPDK. THIS COULD EASILY BE IN MY TOP 3.

“Me ascending to a higher plane while listening to the Dr. Stone OST.”

6. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

I can already hear the FMAB hardcore fans screaming about “FMAB IS PEAK FICTION!!! BEST ANIME EVER!!! THAT INCLUDES ITS SOUNDTRACK!!! IT SHOULD BE IN FIRST PLACE [gamer slur] [death threat]”. Shut up. I love FMAB, and my god when I hear “The Fullmetal Alchemist” and “Trisha’s Lullaby” am I frozen to the spot. I knew FMAB would go down as one of my favourite animes when it made me cry on the second episode. I watched this anime in 2020 and I still get nostalgia hearing the music. My two other faves are “Concerto ~ Brotherhood” and “Overture ~ Brotherhood”. Fitting since these two are my favourite brothers in fiction.

“Anime fans happy to see that FMAB didn’t take 1st place for something anime related.”

5. Toilet Bound Hanako-kun

OOOOOOOOH BOY!!! I first thought TBHK was just gonna be some pastel middle school reverse harem anime, but I was wrong, wrong, wrong! I love this anime and it’s music so much, I was listening to my fave tracks for a solid month straight. Also during 2021 I would just listen to a piano version of Tiny Lights during my online maths classes and sob my heart out. Maths is very stressful. This anime has RANGE!!! It has a lot of good comedic tracks, spooooky tracks and ROMANTIC ones. “Tomo Tomo” and “Firindotto” are such endearing tracks to hear, while “Fantasuteriasu” is downright ICONIC, but my absolutely favourite would obviously have to be “Sutarakushon”.

“TBHK fans when they get a Nene x Hanako moment right after being emotionally destroyed.”

4. My Hero Academia

I didn’t want to put My Hero Academia on the list. I’m not even up to date with the anime/manga — I’m still on S3. I have a love hate relationship with this show but goddamn does this OST make me so emotional. It makes me feel like I can do anything, and I can’t ignore that raw emotion. My Hero Academia was one of my first anime, I have to show it some love. My favourite tracks from S1 would be: “You Can Be A Hero”, “HERO A” and “My Hero Academia”. For S2: “You Say Run” (obviously), “Eiyuuteki Butou Sentoukyoku” and “Bakusatsuou”. Finally for S3 (which I never finished 💀) my absolute fave has to be “Bakugo’s Rescue Soundtrack”. THOSE DRUMS!!!! I SCREAM EVERY TIME!!!

“MHA fans when “You Say Run” starts playing.”

3. Hunter X Hunter

Oh yeah!! I started watching HXH because I found out the Among Us betrayed music was from the show, no that’s not a joke. I have also listened to Hyori Ittai an unhealthy amount of times. Probably my all time favourite song to ever exist, but we’re talking about OSTs! Truly the tracks for this anime are beyond iconic, you hear that music and you know it’s time for nostalgia. The thing with HXH is that it has so many OSTs and no, it’s not cheating to talk about all of them. My favourite tracks from the first would be: “The Silver-Haired Boy” and “The Silver-Haired Lullaby”. For the second OST my faves would be: “Zoldyck Family Theme”, “Go on Gon!”, and “Departure for Strings”. From the Phantom Rouge OST: “The Red-Eyed Monster” and “Emperor’s Time”. Finally the last OST, and holy shit is that an OST to contend with: “Kingdom of Predators”, “Hyori Ittai Lamento for Piano” and “Elegy of the Dynast”.

“HXH fans after hearing that HXH is never going to have an ending for the 1246396481623748292638 time.”

2. The Promised Neverland

There are no words for how much I love this soundtrack. It was originally going to be first, but I remembered one other anime with an OST that I’ve listened to religiously. If I liked a background song in an anime I’d try and find it, but TPN was the anime that got me to actually go find and listen to the OST. Even for the No. 1 anime OST. This OST is so haunting and ethereal, adding to the bittersweet tragedy of the show. Those motherfuckers bottled raw emotion in their music. My favourites would be “The Promised Neverland Track 1”, “Isabella’s Lullaby”, “Emma’s Sorrow” and “Emma’s Determination”.

(Edit: I forgot about how good Ray’s Retaliation is and how fun Dancing Krone is.)

“Ah fuck, ran out of ways to slaughter anime fans— ah well, Cloverworks already covered that with TPN S2.”

1. Violet Evergarden

I’ve listened to and enjoyed almost every single track in this OST. Each one is meticulously crafted in a way that adds to the world of Violet Evergarden. Everything about this anime is beautiful and the music, a thing of perfection in itself elevates the anime to where it is. There is not a single bad or boring track. Watch the anime and listen to the OST.

“‘Bwuwuhhwhhuwbbwbb’ - average Violet Evergarden fan trying to convince you to watch the show”

[tsuki-sennin]

Get ready! For Boost! AND Magnum.

September 4th, Geats Day! I've been itching to get into this, you've got no idea. What sort of desires would be reflected in our Riders' eyes this season?

My tag for this will be... "the world's next round: trick shot of desire for the grand victory". Mute that in your tags for your convenience.

Spoilers, I guess...

-Those waves were from the trailers!

-Coin

-Ah yep, the loot boxes!

-There he is, the Geats Man.

-God, I can't wait to hear the theme song.

-That is a... very nicely animated inverted CGI pyramid, but

-Sakurai Keiwa!

-My man just wants a job, give it to him.

-Oh shoot, he's a mad man.

-"I want world peace!"

-We are strong! No one can tell us we're wrong! Searching our hearts for so long! Both us knowing love is a battlefield!

-Oh shit, series over already?

-Wow, not even two minutes in and we already have aspirations of godhood?

-Who will change the world?

-"Noooooooo, my jooooooob!"

-Sara-neesan!

-"Bro you'd just donate all that money to charity lmao"

-"...yeah </3"

-Jesus, Sara. We don't need these kinds of scenarios so soon.

-Tanuki soba~!

-I'm personally more of a kitsune udon guy myself.

-"I am Neon Kurama! And I just fucking murdered by the housing market!"

-Oh fuck.

-Those guys definitely aren't from around here.

-Let's gooooo, soba time!

-"MY NOODLES"

-Feelin' boxed in, huh?

-Ooooooh, he killed that poor man!

-Keiwaaaa!

-Jyamato, huh?

-Desire Driver!

-Quite the body count, even for this early.

-"No dreaming for you, normie!"

-There he is. The Polar Bear Man.

-And the Buffalo Zombie Man!

-Ooooooh, love that Poison Charge.

-Gamers rise up.

-All these points.

-Oh shoot, we're going

-Where's Mr. Fox?

-Still has his Ace!

-Esu Ukiyo... what kind of man are you, I wonder?

-Awesome bike, awesome bike.

-Where we droppin', boys?

-Ooooh, a fireman type!

-Love this kinda drama. Shirowe(?) and Buffa are definitely gonna impress me a lot.

-The world's coming to an end!

-Oop. Guess poor Shirowe wasn't enough of an epic gamer.

-Ohhhh, there goes Miss Neon! ...I fear this may be foreshadowing.

-Mr. Fox with the save!

-Not gonna show us the full transformations yet, huh?

-Ooooooh, gonna build me up.

-I love how he instantly assumes he's her boyfriend.

-"Soooooo, you're saying I have a shot."

-...I have noticed that he didn't specify whether or not he had a chance with Keiwa or Neon.

-Definitely get a lot of Kagami/Tendo vibes off of Sakurai/Ukiyo.

-Hitting that there jackpot.

-The world's ending, just like that?

-Thank you for reminding me that the dinosaurs are all gone. Just like my friends Ikki and Vice :(

-Ah yes. "Let's end the world and start over."

-That's a very appropriate response.

-Set!

-Magnum!

-Ready, Fight!

-Oooooooh! Love this music.

-"Get ready for the highlight of the game!"

-Oooooh, man can shoot!

-God, he's so cool...

-Magnum Shooter 40X!

-Ah yep, the classic circling strategy!

-Hot damn, fox man!

-Oh, he got shooties on his arms too!

-Goddamn!

-Oh, here comes the fortress.

-Oooooh, he snipe!

-Oh my god he kissed it.

-Set!

-Boost!

-Ready, Fight!

-"It fucking ate him"

-Geats about to bring down the house.

-Get Ready! For Boost. And. Magnum.

-Oh my god, he's upside down.

-Let's do this thang!

-Revolve On!

-EHHHHH indeed, Keiwa.

-Magnum Boost Grand Victory

-Mission Clear.

-Ukiyo Ace.

-Our new God of Desire!

-"Who the fuck, man?"

-Kamen Rider Geats.

-"Oh, hold on!"

-His baby done left him.

-"Byeeeeeee~!"

-"A game is happening."

-Oh, the new world is happening!

-Holy shit.

-Imagine going through all that on this frequent a basis.

-Tanuki soba guy's okay!

-Ohhhhhhh.

-"Hooray, you're a Kamen Rider now!"

-"I'm a what now"

-Holy shit, there're so many of them.

-Neon-san!

-Holy shit that's like 50 cats.

-No going back now, Keiwa-kun.

-"That's... not a dream?"

-Is that the theme song?

-I want to hear it, I demand to hear it, I neeeeeeed to hear it.

-Desire Grand Prix. A game of survival only for those truly worthy to change the world.

-Gotta say, this has me hooked. Takahashi's really good at grabbing my attention.

-Let's play again sometime, hmm?

[canmom]

Martes de Cine 27 - So, Jodo then.

Hello Tokufriends! I am safely returned from Northern Ireland, and here to serve you some films in the next few days before I depart once again for the USA.

Tonight we’re gonna tackle a film I’ve been recommended for a good while by extremely delightful women: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surreal occult epic The Holy Mountain. Which is perhaps a little timely, with a Dune in the air, and the recent announcement that Taika Waititi is adapting Moebius & Jodo’s The Incal.

So, Jodo then.

I talked a little about this guy on the Moebius animation night, and that probably serves as a good introduction.

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a… challenging movie director and science fiction-occultism-etc. kind of guy. So what’s the deal? Let’s put it this way… the guy’s really fucking obsessed with talking rape and portraying most parodically extreme masculinity; he’s one of those occulty guys and there’s some… fascinatingly weird shit in his comics like The Metabarons. But he’s also friends with just about all the big names in the industry at that time, which means he’s worked with some really incredible artists, and along the way directed some really renowned films like The Holy Mountain (1973); but equally he is infamous for claiming to have raped the lead actress for a scene in his film El Topo (1970), though he later claimed this was just an edgy lie he made up to get attention as a foreign director.

I went on to talk about his (in)famous attempt to adapt Dune as a ten hour epic, a subject we will get to in a little while. Now, to be fair on the guy, I think he’s a big edgelord and the rape fixation thing is like... only part of that. But I figure let’s put that up front so we know exactly what we’re getting into!

Born in Chile, Jodo first hit the film scene at the Acapulco Film Festival in Mexico in 1968 with Fando Y Lis, where - in the long tradition of surrealist filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel (see Animation Night 17) - he got chased out of the theatre at the premiere by a crowd throwing stones:

When Jodorowsky's first feature film, Fando y Lis, premiered at the 1968 Acapulco Film Festival, the screening was controversial and erupted into a riot, due to its graphic content.[90] Jodorowsky had to leave the theatre by sneaking outside to a waiting limousine, and when the crowd outside the theatre recognized him, the car was pelted with rocks.[91] The following week, the film opened to sell-out crowds in Mexico City, but more fights broke out, and the film was banned by the Mexican government.[92] Jodorowsky himself was nearly deported and the controversy provided a great deal of fodder for the Mexican newspapers.[93]

Undeterred, he soon started on his next project, El Topo (1970), in which a gunslinger played by Jodorowsky himself wanders around doing acts of violence in search of enlightenment.

Described as an attempt to realise the effect of psychedelic drugs in film, El Topo was shot in a Mexican desert but first released in New York, a 'midnight movie’ at the Elgin Theatre, putting it in the company of films like Rocky Horror and Eraserhead. When denying his infamous rape claim decades later, Jodo described how he promoted it:

I had to break through using the only tool I had: shock through scandalous statements. This is how I did it: I dressed up as the mystical bandit character [the titular El Topo], I introduced myself in the interviews with a beard, a mane and a black leather suit, and I said things that purposefully shocked the interviewers. "I am an anti-feminist, I hate women. I hate cats. I've eaten human meat tacos with Diego Rivera. El Topo is a film where things really happened: that scene of rape is a real rape! I killed the animals (that in reality I had purchased dead from a local zoo) with a fork I sharpened myself!"

The claimed ‘real rape’ in question was of actress Mara Lorenzio, who to my knowledge has not commented (and given that Jodo is now a very established and esteemed director I certainly would understand why she’d be reluctant to dig that up) - her only other film credit on IMDb is a documentary on these ‘midnight movies’ and I cannot find a copy of. It seems the circumstances are probably not exactly how Jodo described them at the time, but that certainly doesn’t rule out all sorts of abuse of power taking place on set. I have sufficient doubt that I’m not in a hurry to screen El Topo.

In any case, Jodo’s edgy performance evidently fascinated the Americans, who dubbed it the first of a genre known as the ‘acid western’. In particular, it impressed extremely rich musician couple John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who were so impressed that they decided to give Jodo a large amount of money to make his next film, which dropped in 1973.

So that brings us to The Holy Mountain!

No doubt about it, Lennon and Ono got a pretty unique movie for their money. The way it’s been described to me, the film is a series of loosely connected vignettes which function as a sort of well-informed satire on occultism, cults and the like. The story concerns a young begger called the Thief, who ends up joining a small cult of eight people (each one associated with planetary and tarot symbolism) from various walks of life such as an arms manufacturer and a toymaker who indoctrinates children to war, who all now answer answer to a man named the Alchemist (once again played by Jodo himself). Their project project is a quest to reach the ‘Holy Mountain’, where supposedly they will learn the secret of immortality.

The film apparently draws primarily on two books, a 16th-century spiritual treatise called Ascent of Mount Carmel by John of the Cross and the 20th-century unfinished novel Mount Analogue by René Daumal. So it’s a film for wizards? Perhaps; or perhaps as it has been described to me a film by a wizard that sharply and amusingly criticises the aspirations of occultists and the whole idea that a guy can lead you to enlightenment by enacting various abuses. Whatever it’s about, it will no doubt - like a lot of things made by occultist artists, who certainly tend to have their finger dead on the symbolic pulse - be packed with striking, inventive images, compelling jokes and elaborate visual compositions. So I’m quite looking forward to seeing it.

Anyway, I was stuck for a while for a film 2 to go with this. The rest of Jodo’s filmography doesn’t generally entertain such a lasting impact or renown. The answer I decided would be the French documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune.

To briefly summarise what happened next: as we discussed on that Moebius post, in the wake of The Holy Mountain, Jodo was asked to direct an adaptation of Dune by a French consortium who purchased the rights. What followed became something of a film legend: Jodo invited artists like Moebius, Giger and Chris Foss to America, and started preproduction - including vast amounts of concept art - for an absurdly maximalist movie that would span about fourteen hours. He had various... interesting ideas about who to cast:

Jodorowsky planned to cast the Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, in what would have been his only speaking role as a film actor, in the role of Emperor Shaddam IV. Dalí agreed when Jodorowsky offered to pay him a fee of $100,000 per hour.[27] He also planned to cast Orson Welles as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen; Welles only agreed when Jodorowsky offered to get his favourite gourmet chef to prepare his meals for him throughout the filming.[28] The book's protagonist, Paul Atreides, was to be played by Jodorowsky's son, Brontis Jodorowsky. The music would be composed by Pink Floyd and Magma.[27]

Naturally nobody would fund something so outré, and the project collapsed, which I half suspect was his intent from the beginning - it did a lot after all to help build up his personal mythology. Jodo walked away just fine, directing several more films and becoming a successful author of French comics working with artists like Moebius and Enki Bilal on further spiritual science fiction epics; the artists weren’t all so lucky, at least in the short term.

Why return to it now? Well, if Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013) is to be believed, this project laid the groundwork for a lot of the imagery of science fiction to come in the next few decades, most notably Star Wars and Alien, whose bold designs then became cemented (and gradually diluted) in the impending era of media franchises; and there is a much less ambitious interpretation of Dune in the theatres right now. In any case, the production - this mad pursuit of an obviously impossible vision - is a pretty fun little legend in its own right, and the documentary seems to be a very well-regarded account of it.

So, what of Jodo then? He seems to be one of the people who realised that if you go all out playing a character - in this case, the “crazy visionary foreign director/wizard” - you can secure a certain niche in the whole celebrity apparatus. I’m sure his occultist beliefs are sincere - not my bailiwick but I’m advised he knows what he’s about there - but I’m also sure he plays it up a lot. And yeah, he might very well have raped someone and even if he didn’t, he sure wanted people to think he did. But, for all that he’s an enemy, his whole deal functions as a kind of unusually direct and unrestrained window into the fucked up psychosexual imaginary that is running our society so, much like his friends in the French comics milieu, it still ends up “fascinating”. (At some point I must finish reading and write up a post on The Metabarons).

Alongside those two, I intend to show the latest episode of Kamen Rider Revice, picking up from last week’s cliffhanger. Very diluted Toku in our Tuesdays these days, but at least there is some ;p

Toku Tuesday will be going live now at twitch.tv/canmom and films will be rolling in like 20 minutes or so probably!

[azumasoroshi]

mva ost review in my very professional opinion

The Mission of the Stealth Hawk

pretty good for building tension and stuff

this is probably gonna play when he's calling dabi or "killing" jeanist and stuff right

flying above the city, passing by the "best jeanist gone missing" billboards

this definitely fits that kind of scene

Different Ability Liberation Army

scared the shit out of me

My Villain Academia

my villain academia is super cool ohmygod it sounds like something out of a movie where it's zooming quickly over an abandoned, dark forest and there's creepy animals and stuff jumping out at the screen

that one is probably my favorite so far

Second Coming

damn kind of a bop

oh wOW so i left this on to do laundry and i came back around 1:30 and it was so hype oh my god i wasnt expecting that

yeah i love second coming this shit is my favorite now

i wonder which scene it'll accompany - maybe something with twice?

OH MY GOD THAT CHOIR

HOLY FUCKGIFN SHIT

im only at 2:07 but my breath has been taken so many times already

THAT VIOLIN

THAT VIOLIN ASHUSHDHDSKJGHDFKJHKJFD

im actually getting chills ohmygod

oh wait is it for shiggy getting reborn??? that would be so cool oh my god

like when his hair goes full white and floaty and stuff

THAT GUITAR???????????? THE DRUMS

BRUH

half of this review is just second coming im so sorry

NO THE DRUMS WITH THE CHOIR AND THE GUITAR I AM SCREMAING

every other track in mva better step up bro cuz this is blowing them out of the fucking water

5:02 what the FUCK

yeah there's no way this isn't for tomura holy shit

king getting the longest song hell yeah

5:44 im done. im so done this is too good

i have to stop commenting on this or it'll take up the entire review

6:14 NO SHUT UP OH MY GOD STOP BEING SO GOOD

Gigantomachia

ooOOOh epic drum noises

yeah this one is a bop. i am literally bopping to this. i am bouncing up and down in my chair

oh shit this is actually really good

WTF THAT GUITAR

BRUHHHHHHHH

im blasting out my eardrums right now can i get an f in the chat for my poor ears

Mine Woman

OH THIS BETTER BE CURIOUS

OH BOYYYYYYYY

OH MY GOD THIS SLAPS

that whispering akjsdgjhsdgkdsjjhs

THAT

THAT VOICE

AHUADHSUFGKJHJDFG IM BI IM BI IM BI

"im gonna turn it up and then im gonna take it down" oh yeah this is 100% the toga vs curious fight

i love this so much hrkjhkj the RAP

THE RAP THE RAP THE RAP

THE SAXOPHONE IN THE BACK

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

1:30 GOES INTO OVERDRIVE BROOOOOO

i cant fucking wait for this to play in the anime

Toga's Nature

OH IS THIS FOR TOGA'S BACKSTORY

yeah definitely with those birdnoises and the grim music

this is where she bites the bird right

mm and that laughter - probably the schoolchildren

oh i already know this is gonna give me chills

the atmosphere is so fucking good

the villains (sans toga, they're gonna make her look good ofc) might look ugly but i am now satisfied that the music is gonna make up for any lackluster design

mm that piano is just

I Don't Kill My Friends

oh this is totally twice isnt it

i like the beginning synth so far

oOOOoooOoh that orchestra

imagine if this is what played during twice's death ahahahaha

i love the drop at 1:23 so much omg that orchestra is so fucking good

"so fucking good" yeah real complex use of your vocabulary soro

Re Destro

oh man this is a redestro soundtrack if ive ever heard one

1:07 epic af

again i love the orchestra aksjdhgKJDS wish i coulda played stuff like this in my orchestra concerts instead of fuckin christmas songs

1:54 oH HO HO it just keeps intensifying and i love it

yes this is how i normally listen to music i just dont write it down most of the time

Paranormal Liberation Front

oh SHIT is this the song that's gonna play when they all walk out on stage

the beginning kinda reminded me of danganronpa music aksjhdgds

yeah this is. this is epic

makes me picture a bunch of city shots with the league looming over it, ready to take it all apart

and with shigaraki in the lead :D

makes me think of the heroes looking pensive/nervous too and goddamn if that isn't satisfying

anyway here's the link to the tracks again go listen to them

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1G6vibm7FYaIpAU2AhuUCLaRApiSWl_at

[flyingupward]

spoilers for THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA episodes 10-12 under the cut. what a ride it’s been friends. is it time for season 2 yet ? she says knowing she’s in no way ready for that arc to be animated.

Episode 10

Interesting they have the gun rat Ripley out

OH SHIT CASSANDRA

“So was my family.” Damn.

“And here I thought you were the intelligent one.” It’s starting already lmao.

I love the way they’re having these spells work. That Detect Good and Evil was sick af

“Then trust me.” Cass I love you T.T

YES THEY INCLUDED THAT LINE

A Ripley filled death trap that’s terrifying and I love it

Grog trying to figure out the astral projection is adorable

Vex pls don’t rub it in he’s hurting

Ripley and her nerdiness gives me more life than it should

They’ve truly captured Ripley and Percy’s weird fucked up mirroring each other so well in so short a time and I love it

“Not a compliment” CASS I WOULD DIE FOR YOU

THE FLAME TONGUE DAGGER

“UNCLE NATHANIEL?!”

Keyleth trying to introduce herself to the dead De Rolos I am LOSING IT

Okay but the Cass/Ripley dynamic they’re setting up here is intriguing me

“I have more than enough worry to go around.” Percy, a summary

DAAAAAMN VAX call her out

Lmao them blaming Keyleth for everything is so funny and then it hurts because y’know… it’s accurate

CASSANDRAS NAAAAAME. The fact I knew but I’m still like DAMNNNN

Ooh that flash of yellow in Cassandra’s eyes was a really cool touch. Well done animators.

RIPLEY FLIPPING SYLAS OFF IM IN STITCHES

Also Anna and Delilah ima need you to stop flirting right now kthnx. Like Grey you didn’t need to have ur voice be that low on that line delivery pls.

Tbh having Ripley here for this is actually so much more interesting I kinda love it???

“Don’t you at least want to see Grog die?” SCANLAN PLEASE XD

“Oh great, Percy’s broken. Come here you little noodle.” This shouldn’t be making me laugh as hard as it is and yet…

Vex I would die for you

“But the people in this room? We’re not. We will never abandon you. You want your sister back and I want my brother.” SOBS

GROG OMG.

Ripley and Percy working together hell yeah

Okay the ziggurat looks sick as hell

Episode 11

THAR AMPHALA. WELL SHIT.

It’s the way I love the Briarwoods relationship way more than I should

Percy ACTIVELY having to fight off Orthax like that. Welp.

“Yes, Mother?” Made me more emotional than it should have. Also all those bite marks on Cassandra’s neck. Well damn.

Episode 11 aka “Sibling Rivalry comes to life”

Watching Pike hold her own against Sylas was pretty epic ngl

The way Percy and Cassandra snapped out of it for each other though. Even if Sylas ruined it a second later, I still think that’s incredibly powerful and I love them for it.

Vex PLEADING to Keyleth gets me.

KEYLETH AND THE SUN TREE OMG?!?!?!

“Help me be the light.”

Vex’s tears RIP

Sylas: I’ll take care of this. Me: That’s sunlight you dumb motherfucker?

Keyleth fucking WRECKING SYLAS hell yes

But also Delilah’s SCREAM. Grey holy shit.

“She’s running away.” “No, she’s doing something much worse.”

Tbh the whispered “I broke the world for us” is so much more devastating than the yelled one to me.

“I did everything you asked. Honor our bargain!” Okay I love that they’re putting this complexity in here tho because it’s the thing that makes Delilah a compelling character to me? Because yes she’s a villain and has done objectively terrible things and there’s no way around that, but also Vecna fucking used her and her grief and twisted it to his own ends and I think that’s a huge part of her character and what prevents her from being just a two dimensional villain.

KEYLETH SAVING VEX THOUGH. SHIT.

Episode 12

Wow Percy fuck you. I know it’s mostly Orthax talking but still...ouch.

Me knowing Grog’s gonna take the sword: GROG DONT DO IT

“Darling, take off the mask.” AND THE TEARS HAVE COME BACK. IM FINE.

“It won’t let me.”

This version of the Orthax fight (the way they’ve kept some of it external while showing it more internally) is both super interesting and super fucked up. Poor Percy honestly.

“You’re his sister, reach him.”

“Hate feels good. It drowns the pain.” I think people forget Cassandra is a De Rolo and also knows this feeling to a certain extent... Percy may have taken it to an extreme but Cassandra’s not a stranger to it...

“DONT FORFEIT YOUR OWN SOUL”

“I’m glad you forgave her, brother, but I could not.” I love you Cass

They kept Scanlan throwing the gun in the acid I’m so glad XD

I love that they’re showing Scanlan openly hitting on men

“They will see you as a survivor.” Percy you’re a good bean

“IM GONNA WALK AWAY”

“You need to get punched in the face now and then to know you’re alive.”

VEX AND KEYLETH!!!!

Okay that blush was very gay Keyleth

PERCY ACTUALLY SMILING

THE LITTLE BLOOMS OF LIFE

Oh that’s a really cool reason to make Diplomacy a thing!

“What, like now?” You know how you respond to a summons from the king?

Me: Sees everyone gathered. Me: Nope I’m concerned

Uriel: Starts making an announcement. Me: NOPE EVEN MORE CONCERNED

OH GOD NO ITS STARTING IM NOT READY

GOD I KNEW SEASON ONE WAS GONNA END THERE BUT I STILL WASNT READY????

[jasontodding]

castlevania episode 10 spoilers with little to no context, especially this time becuase i’m losing my goddamn mind:

well here we are folks, ready to wrap up another season and wait another year for the next instalment because there’s no way there’s not gonna be a season 4 after this

isaac in the old man’s castle: LET ME INNNNN

we thought hector was getting some sort of freedom arc this season? WELL WE WERE WRONG. so very wrong. out of the frying pan and into the fire.

isaac is on some next level awareness shit

“very probably actually hell”

monster got SWOLE

dramatic organ music? time to get spooky folks

“sypha, do you gave my back?” “always” i love these two with my whole heart

this is one of THE best fight scenes castlevania has ever done, periodt

the animation of trevor’s face when he fights? top tier

i think this might be a musical score from the games? it sounds familiar

TREVOR BELMONT CRACKING JOKES WHILE THE DOOR TO HELL IS OPEN BEHIND HIM

all the bleeding’s internal that where it’s supposed to be!!

this fucking apple tree

what is HAPPENING

this is totally a video game score, and i fucking love it

IT’S A VIDEO GAME SCORE I’M CRYING

WHIP IT REAL GOOD

saint germain went off oh my god

this is amazing

WHIP POWER UP !!

“i’ll see you again” bitch you better these two have almost no friends, mostly because they destroy every town they go into

i hope the castle becomes sentient and kicks ur asses

“i tried to be”

ALUCARD DESERVED A BETTER SEASON 3 2K20

once again, the damn apple tree

WHAT IS THIS ALL LEADING TO

i feel like i know but i also don’t at the same time, i just know it’s gonna be epic

it’s... a pit??

alucard.. in the floor of his room... crying and bleeding

“this thing’s been used a lot” what the flying fuck my dudes

trevor being all, “fuck it, let’s go in” THIS IS WHY WE LOVE THE BELMONT/BELNADES DETECTIVE AGENCY

let’s burn this shit down!!! hell yeah!!

ohhhh hector

slave rings? *takes a deep breath and puts head in hands*

“the real people are talking” when i say i’m pissed-

is hector gonna jump out the window? burn his hand off?

the other vampire sisters @ lenore: “please take ur straightness and leave”

another town bites the dust

two bro’s sitting in a cart with no space between them because they’re deeply in love

alucard channeling the tepes genes

PH H GOD

HOLY FUCK GUYS

i am READY for season 4. i want more belmont history, more video game lore mentioned. i want hector having an arc about regaining his agency, i want julia laforeze, i want both hector and alucard working through their trauma, i want the OT3 reunited, and i want carmilla to be taken tf down.

i think there are gonna be a TON of opinions about this season; personally i liked it more overall than s2, though i think season 2 has far more memorable/iconic/epic scenes, but the 10 episode arc was great for pacing and plot. a lot of the new characters fans were excited about turned out to be largely disposable, which i didn’t see coming, but also possibly makes room for more canon characters in the next season. even though i’d love to see more belmonts, i’m not gonna lie, trevor and sypha’s story does not feel over yet (ESPECIALLY after that finale), and i’ll be losing my mind over here until they announce season 4 and reunite the disaster squad/monster hunting trio.

[jeeperso]

D&D Quotes Without Context

Ravenloft Edition, Dementlieu Arc part 2

Alright, it's night. Jonni: “The best time for arson!” Jonni, you are up spending some quality time with Vesh. Jonni: “The best time for arson!” "YOU COME INTO MY CITY WITH A PARADE, PUTTING ON A FARCE FOR THE MASSES, YOU FOOL THEM BUT YOU DO NOT FOOL ME. NOW FACE MY JUDGEMENT." They point a bony finger at Vesh and....nothing happens. They point a few more times, expecting something to happen. Vesh sighs. "You done?" “Hey, buddy, I told you, she’s a Princess. Maybe not of a big nation, but a Princess is a Princess.” "...Well I guess she is. Sorry for disturbing you." And the spirit then awkwardly shuffles out. "That reminds me, I will visit Semprini, warn him of this Red Death." “Or, hear me out, we don’t and hire a bard to follow him around and then show us what happened later in moving pictures.” "Come on, you know how well I can fit in with high society, Steve. I can speak Snob." "Steve... He really moved up in the world after he died. I'm proud for him." "Social gatherings...I can be nice and polite, but high society tends to leave me cold. It all seems so...fake." “Yeah. But I usually get to fork some ashholes [sic] trophy wife in the cloak room, and the food can be good.” "Look it's easy, you go to some parties and dinners at some places, see the sights, smile and laugh, and we're golden. "And if anyone gives us any shit, we just grin and take it, and then track them down after the party and light them on fire." "We've come on behalf of a young lady whose parents have been afflicted with a curse..." “We need that lifted before we have to adopt again.” "None of the rest of you better pull an Edmund on us." Gorbash: "Okay Marshal's not allowed to speak for the group without approval. Jonni was already not allowed to speak for the group. God... am I the diplomatic one here? How the hell am I the diplomatic one?" Jonni: “Hey, I can be diplomatic. In a skeevy way, sure, but diplomatic.” Jonni: “Back of the line, new Eddie. Gorb’s in charge unless I have a better idea.” "Some specters showed up while you were out, but Kyra and Simone drove them off....Where's Marshal?" Jonni: “Getting ready for me to kill him when he gets back.” Seoni sighs, "Of course he did." Gorbash: "Yeah, he's joining Jonni in the 'not allowed to make decisions without group permission club'." Jonni: “Wait… Marsh is gone! No one will stop me from killing Semprini!” Gorbash: "I am still here." Jonni: “I’ll bring you his mustache.” Gorbash: "You may continue." Gorbash: "...Gods, I'm the leader... How is the guy who spent a year in a fracking asylum the one people look to for leadership?" OOC: Gorbash is going to be referring to this kind of epic stupidity as Pulling an Edmund for at least as long as it takes us to save Edmund. OOC: I haven’t seen a robot do something that dumb since Optimus’ Primes comic death. And his brain fits on a 3x4 floppy. Gorbash: "I've been to Blutspar. I don't need eyes to see horrors everywhere. Give me the tour." Nyx: "I would like to go some place without horrors for once. I'm guessing that is too high an order around here." Gorebash:

Yeah she had a holy symbol of Asmodeus on her armor. “Oh, hey, we got that douche canoe back home” Jonni says, very loudly. “Demon Prince of tiny dicks.” Jonni: “I don’t go to plays with ‘king’ in the title after the incident. “Course, most of the plays I go to have titles that are parody’s of other plays. They usually involve some kind of food delivery that can’t be paid for.” Gorbash grabs Irost by the collar. "Entire city. Mass suicide. Rivers of blood centuries later. GIANT MAN MADE OF BUGS!" Irost: "....That could possibly be classified as urban improvement..." Irost: "But then we'd miss the ball, and the excitement, and the chance to make names for ourselves." Jonni: “New Eddie is dumber than old Eddie.” Gorbash: "My old crew and I once infiltrated a gods damned apocalypse cult-a-polusa! I damn well know my apocalypses." “We’ll get you a red snapper, it’s okay. The things beyond the veil aren’t going to tear your soul out and wipe their ass with it tonight.” The stall has three barrels around the stall, and a large crate with a sign that says "Stikk hand in fer big serprize." [sic] Gorbash: "This feels like a trap. Hey Jonni, come here!" Jonni: “Want me to light it up?” Upon you saying that the crate grows a mouth and begins inching away. The crate and the three barrels, as well as the sign, all get up and move towards an open manhole. The lead mimic turns and spits at you, "Damn adventurers, this used to be a nice neighborhood." Jonni: “Hey I know where you can find a really dumb guy. I’ll tell you if you bring us his mustache.” "How dare you, we are not vagrants nor tramps. We are guards for a traveling merchant caravan. And adventurers who solve problems and help others." "Right! They're Hobos!" Jonni: “Cool. Cool. So you’re a colossal asshat, your god sucks, and virtually no one I care about will mind if you die. In fact, the nicest member of my party thought about doing it herself.” Jonni: “Hey! One last thing? Go fuck yourself with a cactus you racist piece of devil-worshiping pig fart.” Linxia takes a deep breath. "We will settle this another time I think. But keep in mind;" she reaches out, grabs a caterpillar from a tree, and crushes it in hand. "Vermin always get crushed in the end." Gorbash: "B!+ch, we're Pest Control experts." He is wearing a "I survived the Organ grinder" TY shirt over his armor, and is also covered with popcorn, soda and other stickyness. In one hand he holds a handful of balloons, and in the other a large stuffed purple teddy bear. On his head is a hat with cat ears. Jonni: “We met new people to kill and you’re not allowed to tell me no anymore.” Gorbash returns the favor that Marshal did for him back in Hazlan and tightly hugs his metal friend. Irost would hug him from the other side as well, squeezing tightly. You are stuck fast to Marshal now, he is very sticky. "Uhm, do we need to get out the special scrubbing alcohol to clean you guys off now?" Marshal: "Fire." Jonni casts the “create campfire” cantrip. Irost: "WAIT! Wait we're still-AHHHHHH!" Marshal ties a blindfold around his helmet's eyeholes and sticks a cigarette in just in time. Jonni: “Sorry, reflex.” Marshal: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe." Jonni: “I’ve fucked things you wouldn’t believe. Anyhow, walk it off. We got crime tonight.” “It’s that or wait for the play that pinged Gorb’s 'end of world' alarm to finish.” "What you did Marshall... Sainthood should be being considered." “If they gave out sainthood for being a moron Semprini would be a living god.” You guys become aware, that there things watching you. Or rather watching Marshal. You see countless tiny stuffed animals of varying types: bears, foxes, rabbits, but with horrific twisted features. Some have obviously human eyes or teeth, others are bulging with strange contents. Gorbash: "How is it, that Marshal is the one with the most Stalkers?" Marshal: "Co-workers on break." Jonni: “They forming a union?” According to Vesh, the boat will be arriving at Midnight with cargo, among which will be the box. It will unload the cargo in the shipping company's warehouse. where it will stay until it is shipped to the D'honaire estate on the night before the ball. The docks are silent. No one on them. The niight is clear, with stars in the sky and a huge moon. So what's your plan? OOC: Fireballs. You see the bizarre scene of a bunch of demonic beanie babies smoking. After about fifteen minutes, the bay is rocked by a massive explosion, as the galleon bursts into flames. "Jonni!" Jonni: “Gods I wish that was me.” OOC: Great things happen when Kreuz has a Paladin Moment. OOC1: This other crew is going to find we aren't harder to deal with than most adventurers, we fight smarter, not harder. OOC2: Also, we are more mentally unstable and prone to dickery. OOC: To be fair, the rules don’t say I have rocket feet. The power gamer in me says no, but the nerd in me says “ROCKET BOOTS!”

[sapphicomenn]

WELCOME TO MY THOUGHTS WHILE REWATCHING THE MCU IN TIMELINE ORDER: THOR

it was a dark and stormy night when padme, an old man, and a beautiful nerd named darcy a find bright light in the sky with thunder and s giant tornado in it. AND CHRIS HEMSWORTH HOLY SHIT

STORYTELLING WITH ODIN ABOUT A FIGHT WITH ICE CREAM TROLLS. frosty the snow man is angry about it

GLOWY CUBE

agard. sounds like ass guard. baby thor and loki are adorable. story telling ended up being fairytail for children. WINGED HELMET

LOKI LOKI LOKI LOKI LOKI LOKI

ah yes. the hammer named MILJinoNOR made in the heart of a star. ohshit walls got frosty. AMBUSH

“i swear, i swear, i sWEAR!” SHUSH IT AND GET TO FIGHTING. YALL GOT FROSTY BOYS INVADING ASS GUARD- oh fuck eye beam giant is OP.

thor is bloodthirsty, thats how you get the plot of the movie when you get turned mortal :/

loki is lovely i love him. he will never ever ever do anything wrong- oh hes starting drama between thor and frosty boys

WHOMST THE FUCK ARE THESE PEOPLE??

“and who proved wrong that a young maiden could be one of the fiercesr warriors.” “i did” “true, but i supported you, sif.” JSHSKHSKSJSKSJSJ

HORSES ON THE GLITTER GLASS BRIDGE. this is all beautiful wtf i love asgard. HEIMDALL- thor stfu dont shut loki down ya fucker. yall are bullying loki and then get shocked he turns evil?

MAGIC SWORD IS THE KEY TO ALL THE REALMS. HAHA ROUND THINGY GO SPINNY SPINNY. heimdall tells em the bridge to frosty realm might fuck em over and leave em to die.

“we shouldnt be here.” MAYBE BRING THAT UP AT THE PLANNING BIT, NOT THE ‘WE’RE HERE LETS GO EXPLORE’ BIT. DEEP VOICE IS SMEXY AS FUCK

“You’re nothing but a boy. who came to prove hinself a man.”

“know your place. brother.” STOP BEING MEAN TO LOKI, THOR :(

HAMMER GO B O N K ON FROSTY BOYS SKSNSKSKSK

LOKIS MAGIC IS AMAZING YOU’RE DOING GREAT BBY- laughing during a sword fight because fuck every other emotion righ- OHSHIT NVM HE GOT IMPALED ON A SPIKE OF ICE

GIANT SNOW BEAST GO BRRRR. THUNDER ON THESE FROST COVERED ASSES- whY is he still laughing he got a spike through his chest what the hell dude you good?

HOLYSHIT THOR JUST CHUCKED MILNNOR THROUGH THE BEASTS FUCKING HEAD LIKE A KNIFE THROUGH BUTTER

ODIN TO SAVE THE DAY AND GET HIS CHILDS ASS OUT OF TROUBLE. thor started a fucking war because of this fightboner jesus christ this child. SHOUTING MATCHES

daddys angry with his child- thor is unworthy this, unworthy that. AND BANISHED TO EARTH LIKE A FUCKING LOSER SKSHSKSJSJ

and back to padme’s modern time wE GO

HA HE GOT MERKED BY A TAZER

DARCY YOU ADORABLE CHILD

“How dArE YOu aTtAcK tHE SoN oF oDIN😡😡😡” hes like an angry puppy

body in a photo?? pog info??? WHY HAS HE BEEN HIT BY A CAR TWICE ALREADY

STAN LEE

COULSON

THOR IS FUCKING RIPPED. meanwhile is ass guard. loki snitched for a good reason. but nOoOoO thors, friends, blame loki.WHY ARE THEY BLAMING LOKI FOR BRING IN THE FROSTY BOYS- oh shit he can controll the snow cube. backstory for loki? mayhaps?- HOLYSHIT HES A SMURF

“the casket wasnt the only thing you took from jotunheim that day, was it?” HES ONTO YOU ODIN. odin literally kidnapped- oh no nvm loki as a baby was left for dead. I WANNA HUG LOKI SO BAD HES IN EMOTINAL DISSTRESS :(

“because i-i-i’m the monster, parents tell their children about at night?” LOKI BABY EVERYTHINGS GONNA BE OKAY

holyshit loki’s breakdown killed odin wtf. my man collasped onto the staircase

“this drink. i like it.” “i know its gre-“ “ANOTHER! *SHATTERING GLASS*”

“myeu muh? whats a myeu muh?” DARCY I LOVE YOU SO MUCH SKSHSKHSKS

man coulson thats a dick move to snatch up all of padmes shit- AND DARCYS IPOD???

loki do be looking snazzy on the throne👀 good for him. look at these fucker friends of thor tryna make him inbanish thor :/

BOOKS- on norse myth.? yeah norse myth

padme is sus of thor, and almost got em into a car crash. “god i hope you’re not crazy.” oh wait till you aee what happens

ODINS TAKING A NAP FOR THOUSNDS OF YEARS OR SUMSHIT

frigga is tryna convice loki they meant well. kinda hard too ngl. damn shield has beefed up security around this fucking hammer

oh shit electrical thunder is fucking with the shield tech once thor showed up. RAIN AND MAGIC HUMMING- thor is kicking shield’s ass- COULSON- who the fuck chooses a bow and arrow to shoot a target when they had sniper rifle- barton- HAWKEYE NVM BADASS ARROW GUY IS AMAZING

oh shit thor found miljjnor. mudfight but make it less smexy. epic momentt pogg.. its totally gonna fail him so fucking bad its gonna be funny

told you so.

now hes yelling at the sky like an insane person

AND got arrested :I

poor heimdall having to watch this all like a sad sitcom. OLDMAN STFU

“look its myeu-muh!” darcy needs to be protected at ALL COST. ohmygod they think thor is a solider from enemy lines aIshsksjskks

LOKIII- oh shit hes telling thor everything went wrong bc him and that a truce was- NVM LOKI IS TRYING THE HAMMER. YOU GOT IT LOKI

old man go save thors stupid ass. redeem yourself. bar talk is somehow wholesome. oh shit thors gotta dip outta town bc oldman said so. he didint listen to odin and ended up starting a war- OH CRAP LOKI DID LET THE FROSTY BOYS INTO ASGARD.

heimdall knows loki is causing trouble. good for loki. HA RHE OLDMAN GOT FUCKING WASTED BY THE BOOZE LIKE A COWARD.

padme is so awkward around thor. shes in looovvveee. awh thor snatched up her genius book from shield. YIGHDRISLE is such an amazing name for a tree filled with planets and worlds

DUDE DONT SHAME THE MAN FOR STRESS EATING

LOKI KNOWS HEIMDALL SNITCHED AND LET FUCKER FRIENDS THROUGH. HOLYSHIT THEY FOUND THOR SLJSOSJSKSKS

thor knows loki lied- heimdall knows loki let in the frosty boys, and is currently frozen soild by that blue cube thingy. AND NOW THE OP METAL LAZERBEAM BASTARD IS ON EARTH

OH GOD A SPEAR THROUGH THE THROAT MUST HURT LIKE A MF- SIF DONT DIE

LAZERBEAM STOP BLOWING UP BUILDINGS

dude things were getting blown up left and right but suddenly thor’s plot armor engaged and a car just flips over him and instead of going boom. standoff between lazerface and thor- whomst shall win? find out next week on: HOLYSHIT THE NORSE GODS EXIST

loki just watched thor try to give up his life and now lazerface is leav- FUCK NVM IT BITCH SLAPPED THOR SKSHSJSJSJSKKSKSJ. oH now it leaves

hammer go brrr soon? HAMMER GO BRRRRRR

PADME SAVE YOURSELF THOR JUST GOT POWERED THE FUCK UP

“oh my god” YOU JUST SAW A METAL MECH SHOOT A LAZER OUT ITS FACE AND FOUR PEOPLE IN VIKING ARMOR FIGHT. ARE YOU STILL SHOCKED???

LAZERFACE GO BOOM. THORS BACK BABYY

oh shit the frosty boys are on asgard- HEIMDALL NEEDS TO UNFREEZE AND WORK ITS MAGIC LIKE NOW

oh god the animation for some dead frosty boys got so noticable that was horrible.

TIME TO GO KICK LOKI’S ASS SKSKSJS- OHFUCK FRIGGA NOO. OHSHIT LOKI JUST MURDERED LAUGHY THE FROST KING.

lokis “ohshit thors back” face is amazing

loki hun what the fuck are you doing- stop tryna destory shit like a hero.

“I NEVER WANTED THE THRONE. I WANTED TO BE YOUR EQUAL!” my heart is torn :((

brothers fighting while a energy tree builds around him? sure why not. ohfuck loki got his ass handed to him- THOR WHY DID YOU LEAVE THE HAMMER ON HIM LIKE THAT SKSHSKSJSJSK

THOR WOKE ODIN UP BY VREAKING THE FUCKING RAINBOW BRIDGE

ODINS AWAKE AND SAVE EM AGAIN

IM CRYING LOKI JUST WANTED TO MAKE ODIN PROUD AND HE SHUT EM DOWN LIKE THAT. ODIN YOU FUCKING SUCK

awh this is making me sad i dont like this sad ending this sucks so much. loki deserved better then to die knowing odin hated him :(

heimdall is out of a job now that the bifrost is broken haha loser.

NEXT MOVIE: THE AVENGERS

ignore the misspells and the bad grammar its almost two AM by the time i finished watching and writing this up

[ambered-glazed-sheep]

Please do go on about Doomslayer and his morals. I'm legit fascinated by him since starting the let's play I'm watching and I'd love to hear your take on him (I know literally nothing about the Doom franchise other than lots of blood and violence against demons and also badass music)

You know, a year ago when my friends asked me 'hey do you wanna play minecraft' and i said 'yeah sure' i would have never thought i would one day have a minecraft sideblog where i get questions about the personality of the main character of a shooter fps game (of all things!) that is known for its incredible violence.

But here you go:

(prepare yourself this has gotten way longer than i thought oh god, and also it has nothing to do with hermits whatsoever. warnings for language and descriptions of violence? and i assume the readmore won’t be working the way i want it to)

Ok so, Doom!

First of all, i know nothing about the old games, and i’ve only seen a minimal amount of Doom Eternal Letsplays. Most of this is based on Doom (2016). 

Ok so we all start out thinking Doomguy! It’s the guy you play in Doom. The hand that hold the gun YOU are shooting demons with. And sure, you can go trough the whole game with that mindset, but that’s boring and we are overthinking fictional characters in this house.

ID software actually managed to give Doomguy/Doomslayer a TON of personality despite him never saying a word, barely any cutscenes to show what he does when you don’t control him (at least in Doom 2016), and not a lot of other characters to interact with despite enemy monsters.

The game just leaves you little hints and snippets and that’s what makes Doomslayer so exciting to think about. Just the right levels between ‘cryptid half-god who never shows emotion and is a player-insert’ and ‘this dude’s got an AGENDA. he has PLACES TO BE’. You are him as you play, but sometimes he makes decisions on his own. But personally, i could never find myself to disagree.

First, you got the intro sequence. 

You got a unknown voice telling you: 

“They are rage. Brutal, without mercy. But you. You will be worse. Rip and Tear, until it is done.”

First of all, YO. WOW. HOLY SHIT.

The scene immediately shifts to Doomslayer waking up. He’s naked, he’s chained down somewhere, theresa SHIT TON of scars littering his arms and hands. First thing HE does, on his own behalf, is ripping off the chains by flexing a little (literal iron chains!!!), smashing a zombies head against the sarcophagus he lays in and completely obliterating said head into a bit of blood (mind you, three seconds after he woke up from a thousands of years long coma!! but we only learn that later), and then promptly gets up, picks up a pistol, and now it’s your, the players turn. This takes like 8 seconds in total. This man means BUSINESS. That’s the first thing we learn.

Second thing that strikes me is the interactions with Samuel Hayden. 

Doomslayer is patient when a computer voice tells him the status of the base. He is patient as he looks at the screens to see what is going on. (a demonic invasion, thats what). But then dear Dr. Samuel Hayden calls. 

Dr. Hayden says “Hi, i’m the boss here, i’m sure we can work together in a way that benefits us both uwu”. Doomslayer immediately grabs the PC screen and pushes it aside. His gesture says, i’m done with this. im sick of this dude. this guy is full of shit. And he’s right! And that after barely hearing two sentences from Hayden!

So the second thing we learn is that he has no time for people trying to exploit him. He hears Hayden, he has a gut feeling that this dude is a little fishy, maybe he just plain doesnt like higher ups and heads of facilities. But we learn that he IS. NOT. going to listen to this man, and his body language makes that very clear without being actually violent against the person (he doesnt destroy the Screen either! just pushes it aside very annoyed. He isn’t mindlessly destroying property here.)

This continues. 

Hayden goes ‘hey maybe don’t destroy that energy source!’ in the few seconds you dont control him, Doomslayer listens. He hesitates. He considers. Then he destroys the thing anyways. Hayden keeps telling him to stop, but Doomslayer doesnt listen. He’s got his own mind!

This was mostly about Haydens Company, the UAC, harvesting hell energy, and hurting people in the process. 

There’s a scene where Doomslayer rides an elevator. Hayden, over the comms, tells him that everyone that has died in the demon attack was a nacessary sacrifice that will bring a new future or some shit like that. the camera pans down to show some poor sods corpse at those very words. Doomslayer cracks his knuckles. he is NOT HAPPY about that, so we know he doesnt like it when human lifes are sacrificed. He destroys the communicator, so he doesnt have to listen to Haydens voice telling him lies and trying to sway him anymore. 

(then he takes out his shotgun, the doors open, metal starts playing and the doom logo is shown, but that’s more about making the player feel epic than showing doomslayers personality,,)

Now i would like to talk about VEGA, the AI that controls the mars facility. 

VEGA occasionally talks to us/the Slayer. He is very straightforward, tells us what to do and why to do it, and is generally very polite. In the story, Doomslayer listens to Vega. 

Now why does he listen to VEGA but not Hayden? 

I think it’s because Hayden tries to get him to do things that just benefit him, and Hayden is very manipulative in his words (or tries to be lol), while Vega just says (if you destroy this thing, that door will open. I think Doomslayer appreciates it when people are honest to him.

And in the end, Doomslayer on his own decides to save a backup of VEGA. VEGA didn’t ask him to, Doomslayer did that on his own. It’s not relevant to his mission, he doesnt need VEGA to go to hell to close portals and whatnot. But he does save him. Why? I think it’s because he cares. Because he’s come to like VEGA. Because Vega didn’t try to manipulate him and screw him over. 

Next up is the Slayers Testament. 

These are a bunch of writings/recordings that you find scattered in the hell levels. (i highly recommend listening to them/reading them, they are metal as fuck and give me such an immense feeling of power bc they are talking about me, the doomslayer)

These testaments were written by demons. They were genuinely afraid of the slayer. 

Quote:

Unbreakable, incorruptible, unyielding, the Doom Slayer sought to end the dominion of the dark realm.

As said, i don’t think these are purely talking about his physical strength. They are talking about his... well, mentality. His Codex. They see him as an unstoppable force. He is incorruptible. Let that sink in. Man walks trough hordes of demons and at no point ever thinks ‘yeah maybe this is a bit much’ or ‘they just keep coming this is pointless’. No. He’s unyielding. (Can you tell how much i love the words in these testaments? It’s just got such a nice ring to it.)

In battle, the Doomslayer is BRUTAL. He tears apart demons, rips their eyes out, all that. He stomps on heads like they’re water balloons and isn’t fazed at all. Nothing stops this man. (except players like me who fall off the map 5 consecutive times, but lets just imagine the doomslayer is actually like he would be if someone played the game perfectly. player skill shouldn’t be considered in my headcanons jahdjhgd) One could even argue he has fun at this, because there are some animations like ripping off a zombies arm and beating the Zombie with it, or feeding a demon it’s own heart.

I feel like that says a lot about his personality as well!

He doesn’t hesitate. He doesn’t doubt himself. He doesn’t question his cause! He fights to get rid of the demons, not just the ones in his way, but every. demon. He will go out of his way to kill more demons. You could either take this as him having fun, or him following his own moral codex to get rid of every demon, or him being a not-quite-human war machine, or wanting to protect humanity from them. 

I would say it’s a healthy mix of all that :D

In older games, there was this whole backstory snippet of him returning to earth, finding that the demons had invaded his planet but also killed his pet rabbit (Daisy), and he then goes onto a 2-game long revenge trip.Take that as you will.

The last thing i would like to mention is this post.

Please watch the video. Doomguy walks trough the rows of random human guards. This is the walk of a man who doesn’t owe them SHIT. Yes, he wants to save humanity. Yes, he cares. But he also knows who he is. He knows what he did, and what he will do. He doesn’t have to justify himself in front of these shady scientists and jerky guards.THEY owe HIM, in fact. This video emits the sheer CONFIDENCE of someone who has walked trough hell multiple times and knows none of these people could even touch him. Yes, he would never kill them. He would not harm humans. But he doesn’t care about making them uncomfortable with his presence, either. He doesnt ask for permission.

(i think by now i am using the exact same words they did in that post. really, its worth the read. i think there’s a lot of repeated things between this post and that post by now but i encourage you to watch that video. its worth it.)

Also, the impact he has on the people in this room! they trip. they walk backwards. they go quiet, stutter. they are intimidated. They know he’s technically here to help and save them, but now, standing in front of them.... just wow. it really puts things into perspective. it tells the player that all the demons that he’s killed, all that the doomslayer has done... its noted. it has an impact. 

I’m not really sure where i’m going with this anymore, but watching those NPCs react to the slayers presence just adds so much more to his character. it tells us how people see him, and boy.... do they see him. 

i think it also ties a lot into how the player is made feel, controlling doomguy. all these head stomping and limp tearing animations, the guns, people being scared, watching doomslayer destroy important equipment from first pirson or pushing open doors or whatever... it just gives me such an immense feeling of power! i can’t even describe it. (...it also has nothing to do anymore with the original question but holy shit did i love playing doom for the sheer atmosphere of it. despite me being horrible at playing.)

(at the end of this i’m realizing that all of this never addressed if doomslayer is happy and content murdering demons, or if he just wants his peace and quiet but can’t help himself every time he sees a demon. i would propose to leave that up to headcanons. mine is a mix of both but in a way that makes it not angsty. like he loves to have his calm moments, but is just as happy to rip some demon’s spine out. probably gets a little itchy and impatient if he hasn’t fought in a while.)

also if you’re interested in game design and way more professional people talking about why doom 2016 is great i reccomend this documentary

...anyways it’s past 1am and this has gotten way out of hand but

tl;dr: the doomslayer is metal as fuck, he has a lot of agenda he is following, and i love him so much

[elencelebrindal]

Honest Opinion - Dragon Shiryu (Hades)

Let’s put this out there before anything else: Shiryu, just like the other main Bronzes, didn’t deserve the low recognition he had in the last chapter. And I would have loved to see more of him during the Inferno chapter, though I understand the focus was Shun. 

Overall score (character, not looks): 9/10

Hades Chapter: Sanctuary

Overall score: 8/10

I thoroughly enjoyed Shiryu’s behavior in the first part of the show, until he decided to ignore Athena’s warning and request. Just like I said with Seiya, I understood why he had to break the rules, but on a more realistical level I don’t approve. 

He is an amazing character. He was already almost perfect, and Hades reinforced this point. 

Since the very beginning, Shiryu was showed to be extremely caring and rightfully emotional, with love and anger pretty balanced between each other. Right away, him going all out to protect Shunrei - despite her telling him to avoid intervening - was something I greatly appreciated. On top of that, his deeply rooted worry for his master translated into Shiryu deciding to leave for the Sanctuary, even if he could have chosen a more... tranquil life. He could have stayed with Shunrei, instead of marching straight to the Sanctuary, but he didn’t.  For that, I have to show my appreciation. 

And, for the record, Shiryu fighting against all three of the resurrected Saints and still winning despite being blind was amazing. Also, let’s not forget Algol, the Saint who forced Shiryu to blind himself, was there as well, and he didn’t don’t say bat an eye hesitate. 

Moving on to when he reached Athena’s Sacntuary, he found himself facing Ikki. And, instead of listening to him (which, admittedly, would have been the logical decision), he chose to fight for what he believed was right. He was willing to go as far as using his technique against him, despite Ikki being a friend and not an enemy. This showed just how much dedication Shiryu had, and how worried he as about his master. 

Then, as he finally found Dohko, he was ready to fight for him. He had Shion in front of him, he could feel his cosmo, but that didn’t stop him. Shiryu wanted to protect his master at all costs, and he tried to do so, he argued with Dohko for his right to be there with him. As much as that scene kind of frustrated me, because I still agree that Bronze Saints should not try to fight the battles of the Golds, I loved how willing Shiryu was to follow his master in battle (and in death, if necessary).

But, and this I appreciated even more, Shiryu then listened to his master and continued on, subsequently finding Shun and Hyoga, instead of staying where he was and potentially risking both his life and Dohko’s.  Sure, he still talked Dohko into letting him fight a battle that (technically) wasn’t his to fight, but he didn’t interfere in the fight between him and Shion. If anything, he learned the Rozan Hyaku Ryu Ha (don’t know how since he was blind but okay), and then left the two legendary warriors to their fight. 

I’m only spending a few words on the scene where all the Bronzes intervened to stop the two Athena Exclamations, because I loved how emotional seeing Shiryu and Shura was (please, don’t take this the fanfiction way), but I’m still disappointed that something like this worked. So yeah, good for characterization and growth, awful for realistic purposes.  The scene of Shiryu attacking Shion alongside his companions was emotional as well, as it was the scene of them learning about Athena’s death: what i liked the most was how calm Shiryu looked on the outside, but how he exploded with rage and grief as soon as Shion came into view. Pretty fitting for a character like him, good job. 

Don’t get me started on the scene at Hades’ castle. It might not have been the worst one for me to handle (I legit cried with Camus and Hyoga, not gonna lie), but boy did that destroy me. Shiryu cared so much about Shura, and even if I know they weren’t as close as the show wants us to believe, that was devastating. 

Hades Chapter: Inferno

Overall score: 10/10

The only thing that disappointed me was the considerable lack of screentime Shiryu got in the second part of the show. I mean, if you want to make our Bronzes fight a battle they weren’t supposed to be in, at least give them equal amounts of attention.  Also, I cannot tell you how much I laughed when I saw Shiryu and Hyoga were paired together. They really wanted to have a team with a perfect eyesight, I guess. 

This Shiryu right here might be my favorite of all time. He proved himself to be wise and smart, and he surely learned from the past. This came up immediately when Hyoga asked him about his eyes, and sure enough Shiryu recollected his past experience with Deathmask and explained the reason. I don’t think many people in a situation so tense would have been able to have such coherent and fast thinking.  I know I wouldn’t. Not down in the Underworld, with so many dangers ready to jump at your face. Who would keep calm and collected there?!

Can we talk about the sheer panic on his face when him and Hyoga thought Ikki had killed his brother? I am kinda overthinking this, but this is my opinion. And my opinion sees Shiryu utterly terrified of something like that happening, because of his personality. 

And now we get to my favorite part: Shiryu willingly staying behind to stop the Specters to let the other three Bronzes save Athena.  He didn’t have to do that. Sure, he didn’t know the Hyperdimension would have killed those three Specters, so there was no need for him to stop (really, all four of them could have leaped into the Hyperdimension and that’s it), but he still stood his ground.  Moreover, this is where Shiryu unleashed his full potential, using the technique he only “saw” once from his master, briefly earlier. If him using the Rozan Hyaku Ryu Ha and annihilating three Specters at once wasn’t amazing, I don’t know what would be.  We’re talking about a Bronze Saint. A Bronze Saint using a technique he’s never seen before but once, and overwhelming three Specters.  I just... that scene was epic. Period. Just epic. 

Hades Chapter: Elysion

Overall score: 10/10

Really, I have nothing bad to say about him in the third part of the show. There’s also not much I can say about him, because at this point the focus was almost all on Seiya and Hades (and mostly Ikki), but here’s what I think.

Shiryu acted like an adult here. Opposite to Seiya, who’s behavior I critiqued in his entry, Shiryu never acted in a disrespectful way (not even towards Thanatos and Hypnos), and just fought.  He was there to fight, he did so. 

That said, it was tremendously impulsive of him (and of everyone else) to attack Hades face-on. Again, donning a Divine Cloth doesn’t give you enough strength to be a challenge to a deity like Hades.  I would have liked at least Shiryu to understand this, but alas, this is Saint Seiya and he’s part of the main characters group. 

Aside from that... well, he didn’t do anything else. All in all, this chapter wasn’t good with characters that weren’t Seiya, and I am pretty bitter about Shun’s role (more on that in his entry).  His expression when Seiya got stabbed by Hades’ sword, though... that killed me. This is just animation, but holy shit was that face heartbreaking. Kudos to you, Shiryu. An amazing friend and a smart companion from start to finish. 

[biblio-bitch]

Teen Titans 1x01 Blind Reaction

I haven’t watched the OG Teen Titans yet. Sue me. I wasn’t allowed to watch cartoons as a kid so I’m playing catch-up here. As usual, spoilers and cursing under the cut! Also. apologies for the short sentences, it was like 3 am.

A disclaimer: This is entirely for fun and a lot of the comments I make are based on my preferences for media as well as the way I, as a writer, would have written things.

If I say something you disagree with (more likely in my analysis posts than my reactions) then I am more than happy to hear your opinions so long as you are respectful! 

If you followed me for Detroit Evolution content I promise I’ll post the rest soon. Formatting and proofreading takes ages. I also might start liveblogging my adventures in screenwriting so look out for that!

That being said, let’s get into it!

[In brackets is added post-watch.]

Holy old animation Batman. It feels like Phineas and Ferb.

BB Sounds like Phineas.

The cheesy intro tho

Seriously which Robin is this cause I think it’s Dick but Idk

“Titans Go!”

The theme song is iconic

Love the OG Raven design

Is the theme Japanese?? It kinda feels Japanese

I love that Starfire’s outfit isn’t like literally a bikini it’s nice since she’s designed like a sixteen year old

Epic fight scene™️. Makes me feel like something’s going to go wrong.

“I am stronger than I look” fuck yeah Star get his ass

Honestly wtf Rob you’re like twelve and you don’t have powers??? Also is he wearing steel toe boots?? I thought they were converse at first. Seriously Batman, what’s with the child soldiers??

Cyborg?? I love him

Ouch that was a fail

Ok the bo staff is a Tim Drake signature as far as I know so wtf???? Which black haired mf is this???

It’s Dick. I googled. [I love DC and I realize that most of the Robins were designed before having diverse characters was a thing but literally they all look the same. Like personally I’d love to see a Romani or other non-white rep for Dick.

 {I gleefully return to this post with news that Dick is canonically Romani! He’s been played so often as white, including in the new Titans, which I will be making a post about, but he was confirmed to be poc in Devin Grayson’s Gotham Knights. He’s part Romani on his mother’s side. She, according to Tim Seeley’s twitter, is an immigrant. He was originally presented without a confirmed ethnicity! My apologies for being uninformed about this. I stated Romani specifically here before knowing because I had seen people talk about him as such and really enjoyed it.}

 Maybe a mixed Jason? I feel like Tim is white mostly bc he’s rich IN GOTHAM,,, but like I never turn down the possibility of poc characters. Damian is canonically middle eastern so if I ever see a live action Damian not played by a middle eastern brown kid I’m rioting.]

What a petulant child. Blaming each other. Now they’re fighting. [This part feels very overdramatic to me personally. I do think that if this wasn’t animated it would be toned down quite a bit. That being said? I do think it’s in character for Dick, especially late Robin-era Dick, to have outbursts like that, especially as a character that I see as needing a lot of control.]

Oh wonderful. He quit. That’s overly dramatic.

Oh goddamn it Slade.

I’m not supposed to know he’s Slade yet tho huh. [Rip the element of surprise with that, I have a habit of learning everything from things before investing my time in it, and my obsession with other versions of DC comics isn’t helpful in this situation. Also the 25 pages of AO3 I’ve read about the Bats gives quite a bit away.]

Oh ew that’s a plasma monster

He looks like fuckin,,, Underbelly! that mf from the Red Hood/Arsenal comics. [Underbelly is the personification of the criminal world. I got through four RH/A comics as of posting this so once I finish that storyline I’ll probably post about it]

“It’s pointless to get upset about Cyborg” breaks glass. [I personally really fw Raven being like ‘master of meditation i feel nothing’ but then these dumbasses get all up in her brain and she ends up loving them like honestly that’s amazing]

“I’m fine” fucks up that punching bag. Master of emotions this bitch. [I don’t think that this little tantrum is entirely because Cyborg left. Again, Dick was raised by Batman, and neither of them are too good about losing control and fucking up. This to me is very much a mix of guilt for having driven away a friend and teammate, anger at Cyborg for leaving, and also anger at himself for a perceived failure. Bruce really needs to get his kids therapy bc the complexes are really shining through.]

Now they’re sad like bitch ur the one who kicked him out???

He’s eating something and it’s gross.

“That stuff can’t be good for you” Robin,,, sweaty,,,

The puns. Jeez Louise.

Immensely powerful half demon lady and the best you can do is some cans?? [Again with the things you shouldn’t know, Theo. Yeah I get that she’s still a kid and the demon lady thing isn’t exactly revealed yet, but I maintain that the barrels -- which I realized that they’re barrels not cans -- could be improved upon]

“You giant zit”??? A Child [Seriously how old is he because it’s concerning that he seems as young as he does. @ Bruce wtf did you do to your kids]

Phase three what an ominous asshole

Again with the puns Rob like jeez just fight this mf

Star,, you’re an alien?? Why are you screaming??

Both eyes on the road while flying Raven

He just extends the bo again bro what kinda bat bullshit is this

Cyborg saving the day!! We gotta love that. “Still got the sonic if you still got the boom” what kids I love them

I love that he just,, brought Cinderblock with him. He’s just that powerful.

Wtf is up with this knockoff Alfred mf with Slade? Also?? What stereotypical villain shit Slade step it up. [Titans (2018) Slade is like,,, so much better at this. Hell, even Arrow Slade is more nefarious.]

[I know it’s stupid to say this about an antagonist from a kids show vs two YA/Adult shows but like?? Titans Slade had the Motive, and Arrow Slade was Deep. In my defense here, I’m only on Ep 1, I’m sure he gets more interesting as the show progresses.

My non-sleep deprived rating? 9/10. Points off for melodrama but points on for nostalgia and attention grabbing. I’m not really into kids shows so I did my best to be fair despite that. Personally I think it’s a little much on the fighting especially for a pilot and it definitely seemed a little bit rushed. But, the animation is fun, I love the way each character is distinctive in costume and personality.

Keep in mind I prefer watching things with writing/pacing like Arrow, The Flash, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the new Titans TV show and all of my ratings are going to be skewed based on a preference for stronger and darker material. 

With that in mind, I did enjoy the episode and I do want to continue watching. I think if I had watched this as a 10-11 year old, it would’ve been amazing.]