#I'll tag it

[fragolinaa]

This quote lives RENT FREE in my brain, and the answer is yes. Yes, Yasha. I love her.

[jake-is-screaming-in-tune]

sorry about the shitty quality :/

screencaps under the cut

[yellowocaballero]

One of the many things that I've been doing instead of writing are these damn manwha binges and Villain To Kill is literally so funny. The comic premise is straightforward action, think Tokyo Ghoul meets Solo Leveling - local Genetically Superpowered Superhero Cop working for corrupt Hero Organization gets #betrayed and #murdered and is reincarnated into the body of a Genetically Superpowered Villain Teenager so now he has to join up with all the other villain superpower people to get justice.

It's so 5/10. Cassian is extremely OP and the story isn't well-written enough to pull that off well. The worldbuilding is so incredibly nonsensical and weak that it falls apart if you think about it for more than five minutes (tried to write fic for it and failed because I would have had to rework the entire world - which, I could have, but that's a lot of effort for Villain to Kill). The plot is mostly any OP action hero plot where guy gets increasingly powerful by fighting increasingly powerful guys. Cassian himself has almost nothing going on internally, to the point of elegance. And it is somehow the gayest manwha I've ever read.

It's the fucking character designs. And like its narrative but it's the fucking 100/10 character designs. The entire cast's design and characters slam. There's not that much depth but we don't care. You know if we don't like somebody if they look vaguely straight, and you know that we like somebody if they look like they were set to tumble dry in the queerness washing machine. The (great!) women are high femme or hard butch. The corrupt institution assassinated a man Cassian loved and framed & murdered him, at which point he was adopted by a rag-tag bunch of flamboyant homosexuals deemed unacceptable and undesired by society who all teamed up and decided to villainize society in exclusively funny ways and spend most of their time gossiping or hacking the Pentagon. An AFAB character dresses as a man and goes by he/him pronouns half the time for no good reason. Cassian is physiologically incapable of thinking about anything but violence so the heartwarming found family scenario's going over his head, but his Painfully Het Hero Foil Indoctrinated Into Homophobia caught the found family ball and now he's dancing in their gay bars and dressing in drag. There's only a few characters who are explicitly gay but this is gayer than that.

I talked a while back about how important a decent supporting cast is to a good story, and this is yet again good proof. Looking at this, I think I'd go further and say - it's an action manwha, we're reading it for a reason, we don't need character-driven story arcs or really complex characters. I think it's just charisma. A story can go really far on characters with charisma.

TV Shows that are carried on the lead actor (Columbo I love you) - it's because the actor has charisma. You watch it to see the actor hang out being himself. That's way way harder to do in fiction, but I think that "a complex character" isn't necessarily a "charismatic character". I'd rather have a cast of only charismatic characters rather than only complex ones. A story of any genre needs a strong cast of charismatic characters. They can be deep or they can just be chaotic lesbians. Charisma invests the reader in the story and the characters. It's simple but it's really powerful. And it is fucking hilarious how sometimes all you need to do on that front is "Rupaul this shit".

I can't genuinely recommend Villain to Kill and this is not a recommendation. But random stuff always interests me like this, and I really had no idea that I would read 120ch of a manwha bc the designs fuck so hard. Also, like, this is queerest manwha I've ever read. Somehow. Fucking somehow.

[gojolight]

kusakabe is grating on my nerves tho. saying he supported yuuji's execution and gojo saving him was a blunder. after yuji saved THEM. you didnt even want to fight in shibuya. dont you have a hole to go cry in?

[aethernoise]

@nuclearanomaly asked👻 to see them looking or acting in a scary or intimidating manner.

Boo!!!

[hopelessorca]

I had to draw this because Eric was really distracted here

[carefulchaotic]

surprise it's 2024 and i'm now deeply obsessed with voltron again after like 7 years of not thinking about it. i'm debating on rewatching and actually finishing the last 3 seasons but based on what i know..... i might just stick to fan content for now

[probadbatch]

Commencing Bad Batch rewatch binge now

[sschmendrick]

I have a tone of work to do still, but remember this ? I've added a little bit to it. I'm not the greatest Ableton user yet so the volume of each instrument is all over the place (sorry about that) but here is what I'm working with, the latest version of that first draft I posted.

big change so far, on top of adding a guitar & drums part haha, is pushing the part 2 violin an octave down. I don't know if it's the correct idea but he felt maybe too high on the last version.

[krembearry]

hey whats up guys. would you still love me if i started south park posting

lmao too bad im obsessed with shit and no one can stop me. obliterates your dashboard

[blooferlady86]

Having had a chance to sleep on it, I've decided that the main problem with Last Voyage of the Demeter is that it doesn't know what manner of horror movie it is.

It starts off with a heavy historical and Gothic tone, then it spends about 5 minutes being a psychological thriller and mystery before going into full slasher mode. And from there it just bounces between those genres.

But the problem is, those genres don't play nice together. Once you go full slasher, it's a bit hard to settle back into moody Gothic horror. If you've shown Michael Myers in the first 5 minutes, it's tough to build psychological suspense around whether the crew is facing something supernatural or not. And if you've established that your creature pretty much just rips open necks, you'll be hard pressed to find multiple creative ways to rip open necks.

They try to do all these things! They really try! They just don't succeed.

All the while, it suffers from the fact that it has clearly told you in the opening, expository text of the movie that this is a story about a derelict ship with no survivors from the novel Dracula.

I was reminded about the Hitchcock quote about creating suspense by showing the audience a bomb and telling them it would go off at 1 o'clock.

I think the lack of focus on tone took away the effectiveness of the metaphorical bomb. Instead of wondering what they were going to do to survive next, we just got to watch as each crew member, most of whom we cared nothing about, got brutally murdered.

That's not to say that individual parts of the film were not terribly effective, they definitely were. The acting and cinematography (excluding the obviously telegraphed "jump scares") were great!

There is a top notch horror movie in there, waiting for a great editor. But it feels like there were too many cooks in the kitchen and they all wanted to make a slightly different type of film.

(Also at one point a character FROM THE VILLAGE BENEATH DRACULA'S CASTLE says that Dracula is going to London because there is no one left to feed on in that country, which is a line so stupid I cocked my head to one side like a confused puppy trying to parse it.)

[ratbastarddotfuck]

Brussels sprouts

When I was a kid, for so long I wanted to be a zookeeper.

I wanted to learn about and care for every animal I could possibly know.

And then my family said: But you need to be good at science for that. And you do not know very much science (because you are too stupid (I was nine years old)).

So then, as a slightly older child, I wanted to be a behavioural zoologist.

I wanted to understand how animals worked, I wanted to learn the science and get to be around critters all the time.

And then my family said: But in order to be a zoologist, you have to be good at math, because science requires lots of math. And you are bad at math (because you are stupid (I had undiagnosed disabilities)).

And I - twelve years old, thoroughly drenched in the cultural idea that math is hard and everyone hates it, had moved schools 4 times and missed a lot of curriculum, hadn't memorised my times tables - said "you're right, I am bad at math (stupid)", and I discarded all dreams of working with animals.

At sixteen years, my family tried to convince me to work with animals, because I'm so good with them and love them so much.

And then I said: I'd love to, but I'm (stupid) bad at math.

At seventeen I graduated, and my highest grade was math. And I didn't know what to do.

[isadora-greenhall]

Stewie Griffin from Family Guy ripped off a vegan's nipple with his teeth :)

[a-thing-named-it]

this is the gif i made for the gifypets thing btw :3

[thingsmysplattershotjrtoldme]

im drawing stuff with Skull and I haven't even gotten to his chapters in Coroika yet, I'm right before they fight Pink team

I love these characters I just can't stand most of the humor

I've heard it gets better when Emperor joins the fray but I don't know if I can get myself to that chapter.

I'm going to try and read some more tonight, I don't wanna give up on this series

[avocado-frog]

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A thank you to @hallwriteblr (waitwhatwasyourlastsearch-)

Last song: are you satisfied- marina and the diamonds. right now i have piano music on though

Last movie: I went to see Asteroid City last week

Currently watching: nothing in particular. I have a whole bunch of shows that I started and never finished. I'm thinking about watching Arcane soon

Currently reading: ugurgugu nothing. I have to read something for summer homework :((

Currently craving: Ruffle's chips but it's 10:15 at night and I would not get away with a crinkly bag of chips. my grandpa can hear every step i take + my grandma's room is right next to mine

Last thing you searched for writing purposes:

Real answer: spin the wheel. sometimes I let the wheel spin app decide the plot for me Answer: "how far can you fall without dying"

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