#Man don't get no break

[starlightshadowsworld]

The way I invision Danganronpa v3 is that it really was a TV show.

A reality TV / murder mystery.

However it was a lot more lighthearted than you'd expect.

The effects were goofy, the blood was pink to avoid a higher rating.

The trials were less serious and killed off characters usually always came back one way or another.

It was a show despite it's morbid premise, meant to inspire hope.

It was supposed to be fun, for the cast and audience alike.

... But than the 77th killing game hit the air waves and suddenly nothing else could be watched.

And Tsumugi was fascinated, she became more and more obsessed with the show.

With it's realistic story, with it's blood and gore that even though she knew it was real she was detached to it.

When it ended, Tsumugi was horrified and desperately wanted it to continue... So she turned to her own show.

Rebooting it for a new season and drastically changing it.

The cast were unsure and some uncomfortable with their new direction.

These being the "audition videos."

But it was the apocalypse out their, it's not like they were gonna find work anywhere else.

And so it began.

Gone were the lighthearted messages and goofy effects.

Now giant executions were in place and the stories a lot more hard hitting and dark.

The viewers ate it up.

Demanding more and more gore, more and more violence and Tsumugi loved every second of it.

Her cast suffered from it.

Physically.

Mentally.

But they still held on.

Partly from each other and partly from the kind and sweet "inner voice" coming from Keebo's ahoge.

Being the voices of the audience, the people who cared and were concerned.

Something Tsumugi wasn't aware of.

However as time went on, Tsumugi grew tired off the usual antics.

And decided to make the new season, the best, the most gore filled, dark.

And so she found several neurologists who once worked under Matsuda Yasuke and had every one of the casts memories removed.

She joined the game and this time, wanting a taste up close.

And this time the deaths would feel permanent. They weren't though, Tsumugi wouldn't let her cast die.

This show would carry on forever.

It would be what Junko's killing game should have been.

... Unfortunately the inner voice would turn out to be more of a usuiance than ever.

Especially when someone got word to Makoto "I'm to tired for this shit" Naegi.

He couldn't get into the building, much like how his class couldn't get out of there's.

Tsumugi really, really studied his killing game.

But he could guide them to find the exit.

He could give them hope.

Makoto could only hope it would be enough while he tracked down the survivors.

And that's what happens when you take Danganronpa and make it yugioh arc v 😂😅

[ghostdeals]

No bcus the implications of the Saja Boys are so funny like??? Jinu is the only one we've seen has a confirmed music background so did he have to research, train, style, and manage the group by himself???? Did he also have to come up with the concepts and the marketing or is there like a demon thats rlly good at photoshop? Or if its all Jinu that means he had to teach himself fucking adobe after effects and how to use tiktok. Also how did he even research how to make a boy group was he in the trenches of BTS comment sections??? God the more I think about the Saja Boys the funnier it gets

[egophiliac]

I have never been more concerned for a JP update from your art than I am seeing a Cheka knowing the context of Leona’s dream.

My bois ok right?????? My sweet nephews ok right??????

well

uhhhh

I'm sure the real one is fine :)

[yoosung-ah]

Another Story x Tumblr — Saeran edition

[petrichal]

I STARTED TEARING UP I CAN'T DO THIS

[andy-clutterbuck]

Rick Grimes in The Ones Who Live | 1x04 - What We

[pinkydoggy83]

🔧🦴— A Date with Death x Dog Man AU

ESP: ¿Cómo sigues vivo?

Silly au idea I made for a friend @loafdy

[pennamepersona]

I get that part of the appeal of FL is learning lore slowly and organically and also that it's a living story so some things just didn't exist or weren't talked about for a while and that means not everything matches up neatly and that's fine and whatever but also I would commit deranged and heinous acts for a book or google doc that just explained things plainly

[pigeonclaw]

you don't have to grieve alone

[socratesgirlnextdoor]

spike is so jobless. even when he was a human man his job was apparently Poetry. sometimes i read a fic and they say william was a solicitor which i would love to be true but idk man

look at my lawyer dawg im going to jail 😩😭

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

So, uh, to recap on the ladies of Andor, the pinnacle of progressive writing according to internet consensus:

Bix: After her character consisting only of "good at mechanics", formerly crafty (in the first Ferrix arc) and "traumatised", Bix gains a new character trait this arc - helpless rage and ✨✨✨drug addiction✨✨✨! Goodie. I'm so mad at this arc for her. We never see this woman happy independent of her trauma. We see her make happy for men - the shopkeep, Cassian occasionally, Brasso and co. in the first arc - but the only time we get an unobserved smile is when she gets her big Girlboss Yay Feminism revenge. And the featurette has everyone going "oh this is her moment", "this scene is about her" - IT'S NOT!! It's about Gorst! It's more trauma porn! Her happiness and functionality once again are dependent on men! She couldn't save herself from her trauma - she needed Cassian to help her get the drop on Gorst (and let's ignore how fucking improbable all that is for a moment, how does he even know where Gorst is???), and her happiness is fully dependent on Gorst living or dying. Her character does not EXIST without him this season. Why do we only ever see her take charge of her life to kill her abusers? The only other positive thing she's done for her life this whole season is to clean up the apartment, and she was doing that to *checks notes* hide her drug habit from her overprotective boyfriend. Feminism!! Please don't read this as an indictment of people struggling to cope with trauma, or substance abuse - I'm just so tired of everyone acting like this is such an uplifting, empowering narrative for this character, because I really, really, really don't see it.

Bringing up Maarva and Kerri as people Cassian failed to protect and nothing else is so telling. That's not even what happened! He was abducted as a child, he didn't abandon his sister, and what was he going to save Maarva from? Old age?? But that's their whole narrative purpose to the writers I guess...

Mothma: Well, I know the constant political downward trajectory is her whole thing, but we really spend the whole arc seeing her do nothing but failing to convince other politicians (mostly men) of anything and being made to look like a fool for even bothering. So far all we've given her this season is being too soft and emotional (which, by the way, is why it's a little odd to me they're pinning the same thing on Cassian - why do we need this narrative redundancy here?). And her one "big moment" (read: over thirty seconds of uninterrupted talking) she gets to have this arc is either a front for Kleya's and Luthen's business or a pointless and reckless lashing out at Krennic's overt imperialism and propaganda.

Dedra: Yeah, she's holding all the strings, but in a weird way, her whole narrative is dependent on Syril now, and I have a bad feeling this is all leading up to him being butthurt about being used. It's a great spy storyline, but just like Mothma's part, great as it is, in combo with the deeply uncool treatment of Bix, it starts to feel like an unfortunate pattern.

Cinta: I actually liked her scenes a lot! Especially the scene in the café - it had an interesting ambiguity, for a moment there I was wondering if Cinta was running Vel, getting back with her to keep her on track on someone's orders. I think I may be giving the script too much credit here, given how weirdly stilted the other two romances were handled this arc it might have rather been a case of "the writer really thinks lovers talk that way". But even if it was an accident, I think that would be an interesting feature in the show, because they're the one couple who genuinely seem to be compatible and on the same page about what they want! And I get that they were making a point to get her killed so uselessly, by friendly fire, on accident. But man, this show refuses to give a woman happiness, even for the span of a timeskip. Whenever any of the ladies seems happy or get something she wants for herself, you can already be sure she's about to die or have something incredibly heinous happen to her immediately after. And the execution of that scene pissed me off, because if that scuffle had even just been relocated to the tunnel entrance, I would have bought it. But no, they're in a really wide, mostly empty alleyway, the blaster was mostly pointed at a wall and trapped between the two men wrestling for it, and you don't even see anyone being close behind them, and yet Cinta not only manages to get hit but instantly killed - what are the fucking chances? And yes, it's a metaphor, but again, with the overall bad aftertaste, it feels targeted and cruel at this point. With how little we got to see of Cinta, it really made her death seem like an afterthought. Like Brasso, this could have packed a punch, but we knew so little about her and had seen her even less, so it just fell flat.

My only positives(ish):

Vel: Her character is really growing on me! She has such a nice, well-executed, subtle development compared to most other characters on this show. She's clearly learned from Aldhani, and she's learning from Mothma and Luthen, too, and her resentment at the life she's leading is so beautifully expressed by her last scene: The greatest punishment she can imagine is recruitment to her cause. Because that's what she's doing to this guy. Recruitment. This is on you forever, this is all your life is now, you owe me and everyone whatever you have to make up for this. That's so heartbreaking, and so real. Am I pissed that Vel is constantly and pointedly denied happiness at absolutely every turn? Yeah! But at least for her, it feels like there is a little more agency, because she chose this life, even though she clearly has options. For her, it feels a little more tragic and narratively weighty, and less like a pointless onslaught of misery.

Kleya: I love her so much. And I could (and should) point out that it feels a little shallow to have her be completely reduced to "being the only competent person among men who are losing their shit at all times". We know nothing else about her, other than that she is Girlboss(TM). But, unlike with Bix, we actually see her be outstandingly competent completely on her own merit all the time, and even though the script neglects her, too, there is an implication that she has actively and deliberately sacrificed the rest of herself to be this spymaster - instead of the writers simply forgetting to give her anything more. And I just think Elizabeth Dulau is KILLING IT. In a weird way, Kleya is giving me the power fantasy that most Star Wars gave to little boys. It's not exactly a win for feminism - it's yet another flavour of "women can either be competent and powerful OR express their emotions and be vulnerable with people" - but I do have a soft spot for her, and her moment at the exhibition was the tensest shit I've seen this whole season. Nothing more gripping so far than watching this woman attempt to turn a screw.

[burningcheese-merchant]

love how shadow milk & eternal sugar are one of the only beasts who has matching costumes with their ancient counterparts

like good for them but still-

Tbh they probably thought of it for Pure Vanilla and Shadow Milk just to capitalize on Shadow Milk's popularity and get more money. Then they decided to continue the trend with Hollyberry and Eternal Sugar in order to get more money. All to take advantage of the audience they probably know well enough by now lol

Once again the straight pairs (BurningCheese and MysticCacao) are shafted despite being equally interesting and peak and canon. We could've had a swap AU with Herald of Abundance Burning Spice and Grieving Warmonger Golden Cheese. We could've had either a Dark Cacao that embraced Apathy and a Mystic Flour that grew in power and expressed contentment in her victory and newfound companion, or the opposite: a Mystic Flour that saw the truth in Dark Cacao's words and tried to become resolute like him, either coming back to the light in the process or becoming a new type of villain with an evolved mindset that makes her more dangerous. Never forget what they took from us

[halfbaked00q]

I have no clue if this is an underserved niche for realsies or just to me, but.

need more fics of James Bond breaking into Q's flat. but not just for, like, to force Q to stitch him up or to proposition him or whatever. But just to hang out lol. Like full on, "new stray cat that showed up one day and I guess I have another cat now?" He is just there to hang out maybe nap and sometimes bother Q's cats and also Q himself. and also eat his food. But at least he also *brings* food too, and, idk, sometimes he cooks? so I guess that's.... okay...? (<- Q trying to justify this to himself lmao)

Q is suddenly like. I guess I kind of have a roommate now that isn't fully a roommate cuz he doesn't really live here all the time except maybe he might as well do? lowkey I do still picture Bond disappearing at night, like, he doesn't stay the night. at least at first. very much the way a visiting cat/new friendly stray on the block would.

And then one day (night). Q has some emergency to take care of or sth and is working late, but ig it's not so bad that he can't work from home about it. And he stumbles out of his home office to go to his kitchen. and stops dead in his tracks cuz. there is James Bond, conked out on his sofa, one cat on his chest the other like, almost sitting on his head. Q, befuddled,. just goes to his linen closet and gets an extra blanket and covers him properly (and tucks him in) cuz the throw blanket is okay, but like throw blankets tend to be, lowkey on the smaller side, so like. tuck him in and make him comfy

and then Bond becomes more and more of "guess you are *my* cat now?"

and also at some point they get together, too, I guess, lol. But I think somehow they end up in bed together (literally in bed together) first, before it progresses to that point lol

[emloafs]

me leaving my bubble and seeing everyone hate on demetri for taking the last sekai taikai spot

[blackkatdraws]

Something dumb I drew last night

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Arthur belongs to @indigo-art

Harry belongs to Sad-ist

[laatteheart]

sometimes i'd like to think of sunday and robin were sheltered when they were growing up under the oak family but sunday was like, Far more sheltered than robin. they had people do things for them within the Oak Family, and even when they do it's not really as much. they probably studied more often than not and probably taught the way around within the Family. their fondest memories are few and far between, like how the concert for two is their most favorite moment.

this then gets me to a point if sunday was actually going to get recruited into the stellaron hunters, i can imagine how he tried to wrap his head around doing casual things they do when they aren't on a mission because he was not accustomed to it. sure, they're interastral criminals but sometimes they probably do average things off script. he knows how to handle people and the issues he has, he's aware of bad things that happens with people and how they struggled whenever they'd confess to him to absolve them off their sin which led him to do all what he did during the 2.2 quest.

but does he know what's it like to figure out where to put your detergent in your laundry, the difference between a white and a red onion for a dish, what's it like for not having enough cash in your wallet, what's it like to have a broken wheel on a shopping cart, and know what's it like that to be the receiving end of an irritated employee that had a long day?

and the thought that he probably learns these things in a new environment with the stellaron hunters where people from all backgrounds have their own aspirations like him. they're different but they're all the same all at once. it's like a strange but harmonious display, all united by a common goal. he sees their experiences first-hand and gets to know them, what kind of people they were, and how they most definitely have dreams that are so much different than he has that it wouldn't intersect. it doesn't make sense first, sure, but they still strive over a single thing and attain that aspiration they have in the first place that at some point, he understands.

idk he sounds like that catholic school kid who got into a community college i just rambled LMAO