#I miss(ed?) you too

[cinnamonsikwate]

"why couldn't shuro have just been honest about what he felt with laios and falin it's not that hard" are you. are you White

[saltpepperbeard]

yes, but are you mentally ill and/or pirate-deprived enough to make gentlebeard in heroforge? 🫡

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

HE TROLLED THEM SO HARD WITH HIS T-SHIRT THAT THEY GOT SUPER ANGRY I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[ridiasfangirlings]

Do you have any favorite "this scene is super meaningful if you've read the manga/short stories/other side material" easter eggs from the anime?

The whole episode 12 of ROK has multiple callbacks to LSW and unfortunately the English subtitles kinda flubbed two of them. The title being Knuckle Bump is the obvious one (especially since there’s no actual knuckle bumping that happens in the episode itself, so the title feels a bit weird otherwise) — this is something middle school Yata and Fushimi would do, most notably when they’re planning to interrupt the jungle Christmas party. When the title was announced in the preview part of the previous episode pretty much anyone who’d read LSW was immediately like ‘the Sarumi episode is coming up next!’ just from the title, which I think would be less obvious if you weren’t familiar with the novel. Similarly within the episode, the part that the English subs translated as ‘Fushimi Saruhiko is a stand up guy’ was actually Yata specifically using the word ‘sugoi,’ which in LSW translations was more often translated as Yata calling Fushimi ‘amazing’ (that whole ‘when have you listened to me with shining eyes and called me amazing’ thing that he says to Aya uses the same word). It’s a pretty simple moment but I think it was definitely intentional as a callback. Also at the end after Yata leaves, when Fushimi thinks about how Yata hit the mark calling Munakata Fushimi’s King, the subtitles also skipped this one — and to be fair I can see why, if you don’t know that the wording is intentional — but he specifically says ‘100 point answer’ in Japanese, referencing the ‘0 or 100 points’ that Fushimi uses for Yata in LSW.

There’s also a little subtle bit I liked in S1 with Totsuka’s death. In episode six we get the whole extended flashback to when Totsuka was still alive and there’s one transition I recall liking a lot, where we see Totsuka smiling with a little shine on his earring and then the scene shifts to present day, with Mikoto in his cell and the same earring shining. While the transition I think is intended to kinda infer that Mikoto is wearing Totsuka’s earring it’s really only clear if you’ve read Memory of Red, where it’s pointed out that Mikoto takes Totsuka’s earring after he dies. As I recall the shine on the earring was also a red color too, which a regular viewer would assume is just a symbolism thing with Mikoto being the Red King, but Memory of Red reveals that some of Totsuka’s blood is inside the hollowed middle of the earring. The scene doesn’t linger on this one which is something I really liked, it very much feels like something where if you’re anime-only it’s easy to overlook but if you’re caught up on the side materials you really get hit with the full emotional effect of the moment. 

Also from season one, possibly one of the biggest Easter eggs is just the ending theme itself. ‘Alone, in a Cold Room’ is sung by Neko’s voice actor and the lyrics are very sad and lonely in a way I think doesn’t make as much sense if you’re not aware of her backstory. In particular I feel like the title and references to the lonely room are probably intended to bring to mind the moment when little Neko realizes that she’s been using her powers on her ‘parents’ all this time and she’s curled up in her closet, wishing that they would accept her and take her hand again even though she’s not their real daughter. I don’t know offhand if Gora’s ever mentioned that the song was specifically supposed to be about that moment but I feel like it fits too well to not be intended as a reference to that part of Neko’s life, that viewers would only know about if they’ve read the supplemental material.

[arsenicflame]

heartbreaking! the tags and summary sound like the best fic in the world but it also sounds like it completely demonises Ed :(

[butch-himbo-king]

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[widevibratobitch]

my god. skinny people really just have like. No Idea huh just absolutely not a single clue lmao it's almost funny to watch fr but then id lie if i said i wouldn't fucking kill to be able to be that ignorant

[hua-fei-hua]

now that i know more abt fansubbing and the techniques available to styling them, i cannot stop thinking abt how lazy crunchyroll's presentation has kind of always been. like i guess it's got to be at least in part because even today, there aren't a lot of options for styling subtitles in a browser without burning them into the video itself, but i mean like. they don't even translate the op/ed lyrics!!!!! c'mon man!!!!

[primordialprose]

I have been deeply disquieted by most popular 2020s media yet somehow this character from a childrens' show became so deeply personally meaningful to me, that thinking about how seen she makes me feel has caused me, on numerous occasions, to physically spasm with 'catching the holy spirit'-type euphoria. Embarrassing... but I am free.

[hawleywilby]

Yes I do. GET BACK YOU!!!

[braceletofteeth]

Just Joong's characters saying คิดถึง-คิดถึง (I missed you so much)

[black-silverwolf]

Every Sunday I ask myself why I still watch this show

Maybe I'm just here for the train wreck. This is my car accident I can't look away from.

[tsukasalover]

(credits to ssruis)

This song is the only thing keeping me going I do not play about mr showtime 😞 nothing ruined me (made my life better) the way this song did

(Sendn. Me songs to do this with in my ask box… sniffle…)

[tommygotwrittenoff]

anyone who thinks eddie would call buck "evan" after they get together is simply incorrect. he would only call him that when buck's childhood trauma is going crazy (re: the will scene). and maybe he would say it one time during extremely sappy lovemaking. even when proposing/saying vows, he'd be like, "evan buckley." a pause, a soft smile, "buck, i want to spend the rest of our lives together."

[senholiday]

keeping a running tally of all the ofmd parallels from the first season because it has a vice grip on my brain but i have neither the time nor the know-how to make gifs of them all: stede almost losing his nose to jackie versus ricky actually losing his nose to jackie "did you mean to do that?" stabbing versus headbutt "close the door" olu and jim in bed to lucius versus olu and jim and archie in bed to stede "i was, i was" mary to stede on killing versus ed to everyone on destroying the ship/them all in the storm "you wear fine things well" under the moonlight, 2x, in reverse "never left ;)" versus "i'll never leave you" ed at stede's bedside after he almost died, stede at ed's bed?side after he almost died "do you ever feel like you're just treading water, waiting to drown?" versus ed and stede treading water together ed diving into the water towards stede from the dinghy versus stede jumping from zheng's ship towards ed on the revenge sandwich for the trip, roach to izzy versus ed "fuck off, nature" ed's violence towards plants rears its head again lucius getting thrown off the ship by ed and vice versa people whittling things for lucius

[arsenicflame]

hey does anyone wanna bounce bellhands/they all went to pirate school together ideas with me? im trying to figure out the missing pieces of my personal set up and it might be easier with someone else!