#Mood: NO RESPECT ME DANGIT

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[drkineildwicks]

Was having concepts for how to do Season Two in Obake Itoko and….

(for context, fic has teen!Obake as Hiro’s adoptive brother with a Lilo and Stitch vibe, shenanigans ensue)

Some of Megan’s classmates include Anne, Marci, Sasha, and Luz (and company)

They are collectively in Dungeons, Dungeons, & More Dungeons servers doing campaigns (for Amphibia and Owl House, respectively) with some crossover when the mood strikes

Luz described her familiar King as a cross between Zorua and Cubone and everyone fell in love with the concept

“Sprig” came over from the fanfiction servers they’re in, he hopped on the servers as soon as he was able (basically turned thirteen and went yaas forbidden internet I’m getting ALL the accounts) and loved the concept of doing campaigns online he’s totally playing a frog-person

Marci’s DM’ing the Amphibia campaign, pitched the plot and then pointed out that Anne, Sprig and Sasha needed to level up first

Sasha: okay so we get magically transported—what if we got separated? WHAT IF I WAS IN *JAIL*???

Marci: okay then I get to be in the library and you guys have to find each other and team up and come find me

It…went off the rails a little bit

Sprig turned his sister and grandpa into NPCs since he’s playing a native to the world, is only allowed on for an hour a day because grandpa has concerns about computers

(also has to be after dinner because school and he helps on the farm, they’re internet friends)

Grandpa starts sitting in on the campaign sessions

Gets into it

WAY into it

“Hop-Pop” went from an NPC to a character real quick

Added some domestic flair and conflict that Marci appreciates initially she was just tossing monsters at them

Hop-Pop is a theater old so he gets real dramatic

Bessie (his familiar) had a several-hours-long intro story that ended up having everyone sobbing

They all would unconditionally die for Bessie

Doesn’t understand the game part, is just here for the story, Sprig does the rolling for him

Marci: wait Hop-Pop WHY are you hiding the Calamity Box?

Hop-Pop: for the DRAMA

Sprig had Polly as an NPC but had to bump her up to warrior training at his sister’s insistence if he’s going to have a character based on her then dangit she needs to be AWESOME

Marci’s also on the fanfiction forums and vibes with Fred, ends up in the BH6 forums and drags Luz in because she’s a BIG fan

Luz stans one (1) skinny skeletal spooky superhero

Because AESTHETIC™

Hiro grouses a little because he was the one who designed the outfit

Buuut since Obake doesn’t like being dragged out to do superhero things she knows the pain of being in a starved fandom

Her second fav is Lizard Guy she’s done some one-shots of her campaign characters meeting him as an ACTUAL lizard-guy

Fred has faved and reviewed all of them

Luz keeps asking her DM Amity if they can add Lizard-Guy and/or Boneman as a one-off character and Amity keeps pointing out that they have NARRATIVE INTEGRITY TO THINK ABOUT, LUZ

Marci obliges during one of the crossover games, Amity agrees just to get Luz to chill

Luz is VERY happy

Amity: I figured you’d try to ship yourself with one of them during the campaign

Luz: we have NARRATIVE INTEGRITY TO THINK ABOUT, AMITY

This all means that when the school dance rolls around, and Megan invites Hiro, they all circle in for the good-natured ribbing

Anne: aw, he’s cute

Marci: does he have a brother?

Hiro, who still isn’t sure if Obake’s the brother or the cousin: *nervous coughing*

And then High Voltage shows up, Obake rocks in with BH6 because Hiro’s in trouble PRIORITIES—

Luz TOTALLY flips her lid, films the whole thing, runs up to ‘Boneman’ Obake and snaps a quick selfie with him

And with Lizard Guy who reads her fics oh gosh oh boy PUNCH ME WILLOW PUNCH ME IN THE FACE THIS IS THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE!

Amity: ask ME to punch you in the face, Luz

Gus: don’t you know she doesn’t hold back

Luz shares the pictures on the servers to find that Anne and Marci photobombed some of them

Luz: I don’t care this is still going to be my background pic

Granted I already have Amphibia existing as a TV show Hiro (and Obake) watches so I don’t know if this would work buuut it would give basis as to the campaign the girls (and farm-frogs) are playing

Plus all this is background for like a five-minute cameo but it was fun to brainstorm and is in line with my fanficcing history

Yes Kim Possible went to school with Yugi and Naruto and the Digidestined, your point?

IDK it pleases me

And what is fanfiction but to be fun and self-indulgent?

watch Season 3 have the girls want to do a Ducktales campaign and Obake ends up playing Manny

[landofmelodyandstars]

Danganronpa v3 Pre-FTE Dialog (Chapter 1 - Part 3)

This is the pre-free time event text from chapter 1′s third free time slot.

I’m going to be mentioning full game spoilers.

You can find all of these here on my blog, as well as the first part which has a full explanation of this. Just be careful following the link, as there may be series spoilers depending on how far in the future you read this.

Full post below the cut, since it’s a long one. (Yes this is basically copy-pasted, but shhhh.)

Angie Yonaga

Gonta Gokuhara

gonta the results are in and you are not a failure also holy crap do they really strongly emphasize this aspect of his character right from the beginning like, to veer sideways into something that I promise has a point, my mom works with special needs kids and she cemented into my brain that you should treat people with respect no matter who they are or what they sound/talk like and essentially that infantilization is a bad thing this is also why I think that his tarzan-speak in the English localization isn’t necessarily a horrible choice, since to me that kind of drives home the idea that somebody can be legitimately intelligent and helpful regardless of whether or not they sound kind of slow, and that not taking them seriously just because they speak a little differently is a bad thing but that’s a hot take which I can elaborate on later

Himiko Yumeno

this one was so long I split it into two to make sure it’d upload

himiko is an entire mood

Kaito Momota

I like how kaito was standing outside the entrance to his lab literally the free time slot right before this

K1-B0

Kirumi Tojo

Kokichi Oma

kokichi: *says something valid* kokichi, immediately afterwards: *says something stupid* that’s it that’s his entire MO

but really I cracked up when I first saw this, just, “No thanks!” like, that’s technically a polite way or turning somebody down, but because it’s kokichi saying it is it really meant that way?

Korekiyo Shinguji

Maki Harukawa

it’s the largest man-made structure visible from space, obviously

Miu Iruma this is the same for both slots 3 and 4

Rantaro Amami

Ryoma Hoshi

I can’t believe ryoma had their number this whole time

Shuichi Saihara

man, it’s really interesting that shuichi seems to have faith in his classmate’s talents, but when it comes to his own he downplays his abilities which I know is similar to makoto in the sense that they both feel like they don’t deserve their ultimate titles, but in shuichi’s case his talent is representative of a legitimate set of skills (his reasoning, observation, and investigation skills, most prominently) that he can actively apply, rather than being something relatively abstract like “is lucky, sometimes” in a way, shuichi kind of struggles to find his way out of the “murder happens -> solve murder” box that murder mystery detectives are usually--for admittedly good reasons--stuck in, despite not specializing in homicide himself (tbh he seems closer to a private eye than a police detective if his FTEs are any indication), and you can really see the effects of that throughout the game, to the point where he doesn’t really break free of it until after that way of thinking is repeatedly challenged and– I’m rambling so I’m gonna stop and stick a pin in this for a separate post or something because there’s a reason I like shuichi’s character as much as I do, dangit

Tenko Chabashira

Tsumugi Shirogane

why are there so many AoT references in this? also why are they all the same joke?

[theorynexus]

Double Fives are first, today-- or two together-arranged, 55, I should say.

Also, we’re at Meat 30.   It would seem Jake, Karkat, and Dave are spending time together, this time.

Oh gosh...   I hope Karkat wasn’t made to endure that, considering he supposedly only ever left his house once per year, even if that might be a hyperbole. @w@            His interests and Jake’s are strongly opposed on that from, it would seem.   Thus, it might have been bad for deal-making, for reasons of souring Karkat’s mood; regardless, let’s see whether their other interests might align, or some non-detrimental arrangement (for Karkat, but hopefully for Jake too) might be found between them.

Ouch.    On the other hand, at least Karkat seems to have (likely) become more comfortable with outward signs of his blood’s color.   I doubt he would have failed to realize that it likely gives that impression, even if he originally intended it to be a sign of his closeness with Dave. He almost certainly would have semi-paranoid-ly weighed the pros and cons for his emotional well-being and/or all other consequences involved, and only come to the decision that the suit was acceptable for him to wear after deciding both connotations were acceptable.

Honestly, all things considered, Jake is very much correct. Considering the boost from all his rungs on the escheladder, there’s no way his physical capabilities should be that bad.  ... Though Jake’s estimates probably would be wrong for any other sort of being that was traveling with him. I don’t think his expectations are probably all that well gauged to the individuals in his company. It’s not that I think poorly of his intelligence, mind you. It’s just that Jake can be... rather oblivious, sometimes, if memory serves.

Yeah, his judgment is totally based on his own experience. Still, though, even coated in like 5 layers of fur, Karkat shouldn’t be that worn out. At least, from a world-building perspective, this doesn’t contradict the established rule that-- oh, wait, that was ghosts changing to fit the person’s perceptions, not God Tier players’ appearances, wasn’t it?  Hmmm.

Yes. Karkat’s diplomatic skills are impeccable.  There is absolutely nobody that can beat this guy when it comes to maintaining good relationships and reputations among the important powers of the world--- nobody!

I would suspect that Alt!Calliope is being petty, here, but I think it’s just Karkat being so tired that his coordination has dropped a bit.   (Also, this is honestly rather cute, and I appreciate the opportunity to giggle at it.)

Frack, Dave is good at bringing things up in the most awkward way possible. Also, that Karkat only estimates himself as being able to beat 99% of all humans in a “threshecution threshing match” is both quite comical and somewhat sad. ._. One Percent is a whole lot of people.

***facepalms with the greatest of groans***    SHE REALLY SHOULD FRICKING NOT!!!                        (Internet freedom for all!)   That said:  GAH, Dave, are you trying to sabotage Karkat’s chances, here? On the other hand: Maybe this propensity for blunt, careless words is one of the reasons that he decided he didn’t want to run for President, himself.   If so, good on him, I guess, for knowing himself that well.

( I will say, though, that that was honestly a nice segue, despite the fact that he sortof botched the lead-up to this via his rudeness.    Karkat gets a pass, though, because everyone knows he’s crude, and that’s part of the appeal.)

The real question is:  Are these campaign dollars as in a certain allocated amount that is allowed for each candidate, or money which was donated to the campaign by those who support them and/or Dave/Karkat?  That is a pretty important distinction, politically.  Not that either will likely be addressed and/or matter directly to the outcome of the race, probably. Oh, and those adds sound incredibly silly. I am not 100% sure that they will actually in all likelihood be effective, but they sure do sound comic-(sans)-ical. On the other hand:  Jake seems to be trying to mentally suppress what’s happening to him, probably due to his feelings toward Jane.   Welp.   :|

This is a very complicated issue, and for the sake of not offending either side, I shall choose to remain silent on the real world matter at hand, here.  On the other hand, I love the way that Karkat is just like, “SHUT UP, ALREADY.”   XD

Reminds me of Caliborn.     Indeed, that is definitely the reason why such committees are actually put into place (other than the compelling economic reasons incentives).    Doesn’t mean that they actually succeed in doing so perfectly, however.    It just makes it a grey “I guess maybe they were involved,” regardless of whether the person actually suggested such adds ought go into effect or not. Buuuuut... I’m going to refrain from pushing my promised non-commentary further than that-- and only did comment with this because of its relevance to Jake’s thought process.

It seems that Karkat agrees with my assessment of this matter.  Also, Alt!Calliope sure is quite sassy, compared to the grim and highly reserved person I thought she was. I wonder if it’s because she’s been watching essentially television for eons in order to properly understand humanity+maybe the trolls or whatever, or if it’s because she’s doing it on accident, as was my initial guess/impression, as related earlier in my liveblogs.

That’s not the point, Dave. The point is that, for one, it probably makes the audience think of you as irresponsible; secondly, it wastes the most precious resource in politics: the citizens’ limited attention spans; finally, it may actually make the two of you come off as being condescending and/or not having any actual idea what you’re talking about, which would be absolutely horrible for your chances, come election time.    While campaigns can indeed turn around in the latter months of election season, first impressions are also very important!

That is a very interesting point/question. And very ironic for him to ask; not that Dave actually can’t be properly understood through his layers of irony-- but rather, while he does indeed have a talent for that, his other qualities obscure it so badly as to make it seem quite unremarkable and hidden. And there Dave goes again, saying “thats basically true [sic.]”.   Magnificent. ***will not touch the matter of how straight-forward Dirk is***

...     Man.  Hopefully, this will serve as a lesson to the both of them.    Jake’s reaction is so bloody on the point, though. @w@

I do honestly appreciate that too.  Wow, though, he is being surprisingly civil and respectful as a result of this.  It shouldn’t honestly be a surprise, considering who Jake is.  It’s just... wow. I really appreciate the breath of fresh air.

Yeeeeesss!!!~    <3       I love everything about this that follows!    While he can be quite oblivious at times, I have always thought that Jake’s intelligence was top-notch, and I quite appreciate his flexing it, as well as that wonderfully noted breath of FREEDOM whizzing into his sails!

Boooooo!!!~     I really quite appreciate the correct and excellent display of entomological knowledge, here, but DANG, if Dirk isn’t a slimy piece of garbage, sometimes!     I mean, my gosh, the sociopathic logic, here.  It’s horrific! As for Jake:  I am very proud of him, and appreciate his very appropriate question. Everyone should ask the qualities that politicians bring to the table, policy-wise, and their (+ dis-)advantages--- not just how charismatic they are. Of course, such a statement is stating the obvious. ‘s still good to see it in practice. ... Wow, I really love Alt!Calliope’s sass. So much.

HECK YES! :’D

***grooooaaan***    

FINALLY, CERTAINTY!!!

Aside from his lack of attraction for her, which says nothing of importance, I do in fact agree with Karkat, here.  This is essentially the equivalent of the moment when the United States switched to the Constitution, and the country absolutely needed a Washington.  If Adams had actually been elected, instead of getting the second-highest sum of votes, then both the contry and the entire world could have turned out quite differently.  I, too, do  believe that Crocker could be reasonably said to have a fair chance at acting as a President who doesn’t really shake things up too terribly, and actually manages to set a perfectly fine, perhaps above average standard for Presidents to come.   There are, however, certain points in history which require great leaders if things are going to pan out well in the long-term. Crocker just presents far too many potential problems while not offering enough in the way of positives for me to give a strong endorsement of her, despite my desire to see a female president eventually take office in the United States’ equivalent of the station she and Karkat are competing over.

(SUPPORT KARKAT FOR HIS BETTER APPRECIATION OF FUNDAMENTAL PHILOSOPHICAL ORDERS OF IMPORTANCE.)

Yeeeeaaaahhh...   She was already quite twisted up (read: pained) inside during the session as a result of her concern for maintaining appearances and manipulating peoples’ perceptions of her, unless my memory is horrible in this particular act of dredging up long-ago readings’ implications, so I could certainly see that growing to be a problem as she grew up.    I’d sortof hoped that that would cease to be so much of an issue, after their session was won, considering the rewards involved/gained as a result of that.    :/

...    Yeah, that is a good deal of whiplash. I am honestly pained.

Dangit, I was so swept up in my spiel about the direct political consequences of that decision/strategy that I forgot to emphasize the very obvious danger of it actually alienating Jake from her!

***sobs***   I am so proud of him!    (Though this is not exactly the best reason for choosing one’s political decisions, I can definitely get behind the idea of him striving for independence from that manipulative cur.) 

What Dave said, but less profanity-laced! Also:   Am I incorrect in remembering that God Tier players past a certain Tier are able to wield any weapon they desire, regardless of whether they have a       Kind Abstratus of the appropriate sort in their strife specibus?  That could become relevant, some time in the near future.

[ameasureofpower]

( ✔! Because we need to write again, gosh darn diddly dangit. )

(We whippity schnappity do. Now, I see two very contrasting relations between WS and your muses so, you’ll get a read more. For Amilia...I feel she and WS are very similar personality wise?

My muse(s): Walton Simons ...maybe Icarus if we want to go wild.

Do I know your muse(s):  yes | no | a little | tell me about your muse

Setting: our verse | my verse | your verse | modern | alternate universe | other | Fluff AU | Pain AU | Role reversal AU | Rich/Poor AU | Plague AU | Fox & The Hound AU | Bodyguard AU | Childhood Romance AU | Secretly Pining AU | Diplomatic AU | Dark Magic AU | Disowned AU | On the Run AU | Hate to Love AU | Love to Hate AU | Unwilling Partnership AU | ...alright, look. I can probably think of 1000 other AUs so. Other.

Pre-established relationships? yes | no | depends on the relationship | Depends on AU | Depends on age

Possible relationships: Friends | Classmate | Co-worker | Roommate | Squire | Family, real or adopted | Dating or blind date | Married | Friends with benefits | Unrequited love | Lending a hand | Teacher - student | Rivals | Allies | Partner-in-crime | Enemies | Protector - guarded | Business partners | Spy - infiltrated | Manipulator - manipulated | Star-crossed | First meeting | Villain with a conscience | Misunderstood good person | Misunderstood bad person | Prison buddies | The fearful and the brave | Abandoned | Rescued & Rescuer | Political Marriage | Arranged Marriage | Eloping Lovers | Involved in Manhunt | Bodyguard | Clueless parent | Bad influence | Bickering duo | I’m-not-scared-of-you-but-should-be | You’d Never Hurt Me | Oh no, you hurt me | Betrayed/Betrayer | Abusive partnership | Reluctant alliance | Huge softie & ferocious small | Huge ferocious & ferocious small | Huge ferocious & small softie | Brawler & Mage | Older sibling relationship | I can talk trash about them but if you do I WILL END YOU | Magically bound together | Making the best of a bad situation | Reunited after many years | Constantly testing boundaries | No mutual respect | Mutual fear & distrust | Mutual curiosity | Guarded and withdrawn | Let me show you I’m not so bad | Craving forgiveness | Look past our history | Forbidden friendship | IT HAPPENED ONE TIME, LET IT DROP | Gaslighting | I’ll threaten you to get my way | I’ll bribe you to get my way | I’ll pull puppy-dog eyes to get my way | Rich & Poor | High-born & low-born | Fox & The Hound | Red Riding Hood & The Wolf | You only see the parts of me I let you see | Emotionally crippled | Unhealthy & Toxic | Tentative and desperate | Craving closeness | Craving Validation | Craving praise | Disapproving & Aloof | Cold & Distant | Loud & Irresponsible | Impulsive | Oversharing | Over-trusting | I’ve been nice to you for a very long time, but I’ll still be mean if I have to | I want to help you and don’t know how | I’m close to you but hardly know you | You’re using me | I’m stuck with you | Drinking buddies | Mocking other people | Mocking each other| Hysterical laughter at stupid things | Inappropriate jokes | The swearer and the innocent | Explosive arguments

I’m in the mood for: betrayal | secrets & lies | parent/child | adoptive family | forbidden friendship | forbidden romance | war | breaking & rebuilding | corruption | love triangles | politics | death | fights | fear | warmth | bonding | character development | challenging ideals | fluff | angst | horror | romance | humor | crime | hurt / comfort | action | supernatural | slice of life | crack | dark threads | light threads | any genre | multi-para | shorter para | one-line | any length | plotted threads | unplotted threads | other

Feel free to: message me ooc | message me ic | tell me your ideas | write a starter | answer one of my opens | send a meme | reblog this with your preferences - let’s find common interests!

Serina

My muse(s): Walton Simons / Icarus if crazy

Do I know your muse(s):  yes | no | a little | tell me about your muse

Setting: our verse | my verse | your verse | modern | alternate universe | other | Fluff AU | Pain AU | Role reversal AU | Rich/Poor AU | Plague AU | Fox & The Hound AU | Bodyguard AU | Childhood Romance AU | Secretly Pining AU | Diplomatic AU | Dark Magic AU | Disowned AU | On the Run AU | Hate to Love AU | Love to Hate AU | Unwilling Partnership AU | All the AUs

Pre-established relationships? yes | no | depends on the relationship | Depends on AU | Depends on age

Possible relationships: Friends | Classmate | Co-worker | Roommate | Squire | Family, real or adopted | Dating or blind date | Married | Friends with benefits | Unrequited love | Lending a hand | Teacher - student | Rivals | Allies | Partner-in-crime | Enemies | Protector - guarded | Business partners | Spy - infiltrated | Manipulator - manipulated | Star-crossed | First meeting | Villain with a conscience | Misunderstood good person | Misunderstood bad person | Prison buddies | The fearful and the brave | Abandoned | Rescued & Rescuer | Political Marriage | Arranged Marriage | Eloping Lovers | Involved in Manhunt | Bodyguard | Clueless parent | Bad influence | Bickering duo | I’m-not-scared-of-you-but-should-be | You’d Never Hurt Me | Oh no, you hurt me | Betrayed/Betrayer | Abusive partnership | Reluctant alliance | Huge softie & ferocious small | Huge ferocious & ferocious small | Huge ferocious & small softie | Brawler & Mage | Older sibling relationship (in a sense) | I can talk trash about them but if you do I WILL END YOU | Magically bound together | Making the best of a bad situation | Reunited after many years | Constantly testing boundaries | No mutual respect | Mutual fear & distrust | Mutual curiosity | Guarded and withdrawn | Let me show you I’m not so bad | Craving forgiveness | Look past our history | Forbidden friendship | IT HAPPENED ONE TIME, LET IT DROP | Gaslighting | I’ll threaten you to get my way | I’ll bribe you to get my way | I’ll pull puppy-dog eyes to get my way | Rich & Poor | High-born & low-born | Fox & The Hound | Red Riding Hood & The Wolf | You only see the parts of me I let you see | Emotionally crippled | Unhealthy & Toxic | Tentative and desperate | Craving closeness | Craving Validation | Craving praise | Disapproving & Aloof | Cold & Distant | Loud & Irresponsible | Impulsive | Oversharing | Over-trusting | I’ve been nice to you for a very long time, but I’ll still be mean if I have to | I want to help you and don’t know how | I’m close to you but hardly know you | You’re using me | I’m stuck with you | Drinking buddies | Mocking other people | Mocking each other| Hysterical laughter at stupid things | Inappropriate jokes | The swearer and the innocent | Explosive arguments | Other I’m in the mood for: betrayal | secrets & lies | parent/child | adoptive family | forbidden friendship | forbidden romance | war | breaking & rebuilding | corruption | love triangles | politics | death | fights | fear | warmth | bonding | character development | challenging ideals | fluff | angst | horror | romance | humor | crime | hurt / comfort | action | supernatural | slice of life | crack | dark threads | light threads | any genre | multi-para | shorter para | one-line | any length | plotted threads | unplotted threads | other

Feel free to: message me ooc | message me ic | tell me your ideas | write a starter | answer one of my opens | send a meme | reblog this with your preferences - let’s find common interests!

[courage-a-word-of-justice]

Mahou Shoujo Ore 5 | Yotsuiro Biyori 4 | Lupin III Pt 5 5 | Hinamatsuri 5 | BnHA 43 | Boueibu HK 5

Mahou Shoujo Ore 5

Hey hey hey, this is the second show I’ve seen ape Osomatsu-san this year. Seriously, no show is safe in a parody as a target for humour’s sake…Note Osomatsu-san is also by Pierrot, though, so they’re attacking themselves to some extent.

Now that they’ve pointed the Osomatsu-san reference though, I can’t believe I didn’t see the scarf colours last time! But…this is episode 5…

Oh, I kind of noticed it, but I’m probably too used to it since I watched the first season of Osomatsu-san – the blue lines are part of that show’s signature style.

Muscovado is apparently a substitute for sugar. It literally translates to “black sugar” though…

Sagami is…a former place in Japan…?

Tama River. I’m terrible at Japanese geography, so I don’t think you should be asking me about this…

Dang, apparently Pierrot is based in Mitaka, Tokyo so whatever joke I was chasing there fell flat.

Wow, they got really self-referential this episode…yikes.

So this is the rumoured Chiba-san? Uhh…

Oh my…I do not see the word “Japanimation” get much mileage at all these days, but I cringe every time I see it.

It’s Pokémon Go! Wow, that’s another level of meta for sure. My hopes for resolving all the stray plot threads while maintaining that wacky sense of humour (or however I phrased it) definitely went out the window…Notice the footage is dated April 24th 20X8, which is about a week before the episode went to air if the X actually hides “2018”.

Suginami. Apparently, Bones, Sunrise and other studios are stationed there…but Pierrot isn’t.

If there’s one thing I didn’t expect in MSO, it’s the fact this show became Shirobako in a sense. I still need to get around to Shirobako, by the way…

Ey, wait a second! Astral, you got your wish! We get to see…Fujimoto’s face!

Whoa! They went all out on the CGI fire effects! What is this show, Golden Kamuy?! (LOL)

Comichiya’s probably Comiket. The katakana (chi -> tsu, to -> ya) look kinda similar if mangled.

Dangit! I missed my mark on the guesswork again! Tokyo Big Sight isn’t in Suginami.

Basically, this is just a long road to admitting they couldn’t do a recap episode, but they don’t have enough content to pad this ep either. Ah, sweet revelations (sarcastic).

Is it just me, or does the bottom of Fujimoto (1)’s face look kind of like…Mohiro??? Wagh??? Update: No, the hair colour’s off.

The “on the train” technically says “on the NEXT train” (emphasis mine).

Wow, they namedropped Ishikawa (probably Kaito)! Ishikawa voices male!Saki, so it makes sense.

Oh my gosh, Mahoutsukai Watashi! What a bold move this show’s taken – it’s telling its own meta-narrative. Which means when I cover it for the collab post…it’ll be meta of meta…that’ll put my head in a spin for sure.

You can see Fujimoto and Sakuyo character designs if you pause for one scene (the one with “staff working from home”).

You can see the name Masayuki Ito (伊藤雅之) on that list with the downward arrows, but I don’t know what significance that name has unless they’re an animator or something...

Mensore is explained here.Basically it’s youkoso in Okinawan.

Jimami Tofu…isn’t tofu, as weird as that sounds. It’s an Okinawan-sponsored drama.

Well, at least this time I got a big epic battle (no matter how short it is). Nothing better than that!

They got Akira Ishida, Tomokazu Seki, Koichi Yamadera and some other guys to voice the Fujimotos this time. Notice there’s no crossover between the Osomatsu-san voices and the Fujimotos, which was probably intentional.

I thought there’d be a real Shinzo Chiba, but there doesn’t seem to be one…

There was a shot of Fujimoto (before the manager)! Wah! Was that there in previous episodes???

Every time people promise wardrobe malfunctions, they tend to…uh, deliver on that…

The Monokubo illustration this time is creepy…I like it!

Yotsuiro Biyori 4

Is this a zombie movie (LOL)?

Wow, Sui really loves cats, doesn’t…he…? (LOL)

Oh, so that weird zombie movie in medias res opening was actually one of those fakeouts…DN Angel’s anime did that, I remember…

Wow, they make Tokitaka so epic in this scene! A determined man is more handsome than one in an ordinary state, don’tcha think?

You can even see rice flying! Amazing! Tokitaka’s got such skill.

I am so spoilt for smol boys this season, between this and Boueibu HK…

Ooh! My eyes have been blessed with the hotness of Tokitaka!

There’s more chicken than usual this ep, eh?

Shiratama anmitsu.

I never thought we’d need a backstory for the resident cat, but okay. It was hilarious and fun while it lasted and now it’s almost over…huh.

Denzou? Eh? (I kinda get why the name’s badass with the kanji involved, but it’s hard to explain to a non-Japanese speaker…)

Agedama.

The next ep title translates to roughly “A Loving Hand for the Lost Lamb”…as in, to extend a hand to it.

Lupin 3 Pt 5 5

Okay, part 5 episode 5 is confusing when it’s just “5 5”, isn’t it?

I think the guy in the green jacket will be important later…? He’s in a key visual for this show, at least.

“This pasta called soba’s pretty good!” – LOL, soba ain’t pasta, y’know…

I’ve learnt about the stack before. Here you go.

IP camera. Hey, I’ve done something on IP cameras before, but normally Detective Conan (and most other mystery shows of the modern day) seem to be reliant on CCTV…

Chicken game…? Sounds tasty!...Not.

Ami doesn’t seem too pleased about all the shooting, LOL.

Even Ami knows bowing is a sign of Japanese respect. Just like how dragons understand the meaning of “Hatori Chise” involves birds…(i.e. I’m kind of skeptical that a real French girl would learn to bow to her Japanese friends when her life is always on the line, a la Ami.)

Episode…1? Y’mean, there’s more adventures, but no Ami? Aw, I was enjoying having her in the fray.

Hinamatsuri 5

A TV? $30??? Wow, I would fight a psychic girl for that! That’s friggin’ cheap!

“Toshibu” (sic), LOL.

Bikkuri means “surprise”, LOL.

“A teacher and a student walk into a bar…” – it sounds like a joke. Not that that could be conveyed accurately in Japanese, though. The fact it even works as an English joke must be a coincidence…

Hitomi’s such a terrible liar! Wahaha!

Nitta’s just like “I’ve given up on this girl”. Either that, or he has a hangover…(LOL)

Sayo looks kind of like Hina. If it weren’t for the hair colours I would’ve mistaken the two.

BnHA 43

Carrying a gun to a fistfight…yep, bad. Plain bad, Mustard, ol’ boy.

Sorry, there was a lot of fighting this ep and nothing much to say!

Boueibu HK 5

LOL, the bald bodyguard…he looks kinda grumpy.

Notice Kyotaro goes “ore kyoumi nai” (I have no interest in it), but the subs missed the subject of the sentence! CR, you weirdoes!

Echire butter…exists!

“You know about genetic testing?” - Irina! I think this is your department!

Ryoma’s the end of the evolutionary line!

Hmm…if there was no Ice Age in Honyara Land…might there have been something else that caused the Furanui/Karurusu conflict? There’s only animosity from one side, after all.

Bunbuku Chagama. Magozaemon was fat, so he would make a perfect teapot/tanuki…

Wait, if Maasa = Ichiro in the age department (roughly 16), that would add up. He went abroad for 4 years and held off on carbs the entire time…yikes.

“The people of this world envy those who represent the opposite of what they fear for themselves, so they criticise and attack them.” – Ooh, Ata makes a lot of sense here…! It’s a quote for the collection.

Asobukoto = It’s not really “fun” per se, but “playing” or “hanging out”. That is, if you translate rather literally.

They’re all underage (roughly 16 – 18), of course they wouldn’t drink! Of course, this is coming from a person who doesn’t drink…the only samples of alcohol I’ve had are few and far in between…

Hey, I studied this stuff in the past, you don’t have to regurgitate this info (about needing food to better absorb alcohol). Lemmee tell you, alcohol ads are weird…

They didn’t make the “glasses fogging up” a weird plot hole. Phew.

Wow, to think I’d be getting a science lesson of things I already know in my Boueibu…I never thought I’d see the day where that happened.

According to this page, one of the things the ramen shop serves is gomoku soba. Wait…that’s right! Ramen’s appeared in this show before! In the Chri-pa episode! Sorry Astral, I gotta spoil s2 for you!

Wow, this chicken carcass is even less of a threat than anything else so far! Wow-hee.

Taishi only seems vaguely fazed about the fact he’s being made to fight monsters. Interesting. I never think about the perspective of the non-red boys regarding fighting monsters until they’re pointed out, really.

So wait, the magic knight of space…makes bubbles? Uh, Astral, you might wanna learn from this…?

Hey hey, I found a page on tonkotsu ramens (sic from the Hakata anime) and paitan ramen.

Kyotaro on stairs = basically my mood when I want to imitate the “draw me like one of yor French girls” meme. (Very badly.)

So…when I said I missed individualised attacks, I never saw this coming. Sorry about that, people. (Even if that was only Ichiro’s bubble attack.)

Kyotaro makes a lot of sense here. But seriously, I think I need Astral’s easy button right now. That was easy.

Notice Karurusu is acting as a pelt…weren’t otters hunted for their pelts?

Oh, Sujikawa’s a first year, huh?

*Sujikawa picks up the boulder* - *round of applause from me* Wow!

Both Maasa and Dougo have such supportive friends, it almost makes me jealous.

The English! It’s…correct! (thinks back to a magazine article with “Difence” (sic) written on it in pink letters)

I, for one, am happy they’re tackling relationships aside from “brothers” this time. Finally, here’s something that stacks up against its competition in regards to deeper themes, even if it is a comedy!

Dougo and Maasa (Magozaemon) were in class 2, if you pause at the right time. Notably, the members of class 2 were all boys, LOL. Even with the boy to the left of Magozaemon, I think that name might be pronounced “Ai” (due to this page), but it’s in manly kanji.

[heebiejbies]

Hi can you please do nr1 from the drabble list with Seungri thanks

There needs to be more guardian angel/demon AUs dangit

1.)  Instead of having a guardian angel, you have a guardian demon. His methods are often much more violent, but much more straightforward.

Characters: Seungri

Warnings: None

Word Count: 590

Having a guardian demon wasn’t ideal. It was like having a devil on your shoulder, but this devil was life-sized and much more troublesome. He did the normal things that guardian angels do, such as guiding you through life and protecting you. Being a demon, though, his ways were much more violent than that of a guardian angel’s. He also didn’t do and say things like a riddle, they were very straightforward and easy to understand.

“C’mon, (Y/N), just reach out and smack him. It’ll make this so much easier, it’ll shut him up and you won’t be so annoyed.” You shushed Seungri, telling him to stop. The subject of the conversation looked at you as if you had lost your mind. A co-worker of yours had been giving you a hard time lately, always making snarky comments towards you and making a general nuisance of himself. Seungri, your guardian demon, continuously told you that smacking him would fix the issue.

“I’m just trying to tell you how to fix this situation. Smack him and he will not only shut up and back off, but he will also respect and fear you. He won’t bother you again. It seems like a fair trade to me.” He sat in a chair beside your desk with his feet casually propped up on your desk. You pushed his feet off the desk and glared at him, “Hey, don’t glare at me just because he put you in a bad mood. I told you to smack him.”

This wouldn’t be the first time he has said that the answer to a situation would be violent. You remembered one time during high school when a boy had jokingly pushed you up against the lockers and Seungri had told you to ‘knee him in the groin’. You, of course, listened and kneed him. Seungri snickered as the two of you ran away, the boy on the floor holding himself and yelling about how it was just a joke.

Another time, he broke someone’s ankle pushing them away from you. They weren’t paying attention and almost knocked you down the steps, so he pushed them aside and they fell. Luckily, they were only three steps away from the end of the staircase, but they were still injured. Seungri talked about that situation for weeks on end.

“Whatcha thinking about, (Y/N)?” Seungri brought your head out of the clouds by blowing in your ear.

“Can you just sit still and let me work?!” As if on cue, said co-worker from earlier walked by. He must have heard you talking to Seungri because he stopped dead in his tracks and made a b-line towards your desk.

“You know, (Y/N), you really need real friends so you will stop talking to yourself.” By the time he finished his sentence, your hand had already made contact with his face.

“Will you stop being such an annoying prick? I’m trying to work here!” You sat back down in your chair, going back to typing on your computer. Your co-worker looked at you in amazement, his hand holding his stinging cheek.

“Oh… Sorry about that. It’ll never happen again.” He left abruptly after, probably not wanting to receive another slap to his other cheek.

You let out a sigh of relief, Seungri then jumping in to comment on your actions.

“What did I tell you, smack him and he will stop.”

Despite one annoyance being taken care of, you would forever have the annoyance that is your guardian demon Seungri.

Thanks for requesting~ 

Drabble Game: Closed

[cielospeaks]

mood: i just want to wrap my arms tightly around schuu kuns cute little waist, hugging him tightly to me and reassuring him that hes not alone, that he deserves to exist, that he deserves to exist and be happy, that his happiness and joy and passion are all beautiful aspects of him. i just want to pick him up tightly, take him somewhere warm and safe, wipe away the tears on his face, look after him and smile at the fact that hes safe and hes going to have someone to support and help him bc gosh dang thats what i plan to do. i want to just be there for him to remind him that hes worth it, that he deserves his own happiness, that he deserves to be missed and treated with respect and care, i want to be there to welcome him back, to notice when he wakes up, to notice when hes there and when hes not, bc gosh dangit anyone deserves that, schuu kun most of all

[thebibliomancer]

Dark Crystal Age of Resistance ep 9 liveblog

“The Crystal Calls”

Could you construct a crystal call, like a duck lure? Is it something that the Skeksis know in the cockles of their heart or do they just recognize the tone? Could you create a Skeksis lure? I need to know, for science reasons.

Just a stream of thoughts.

Ok so the episode starts off on a good note. Deet is alive. Somehow she and Rian escaped the doom caves. She’s surrounded by family. Clearly everything is going to be good forever.

Rian carried her to safety. It had to happen off-screen because it’d probably look silly in puppets.

Maudra “Fine she says. Fine perhaps she is. But also………………….. Changed.”

And then she starts smashing her walking stick. It was the Dual Glaive all along.

I guess the plot device was the friends we made all along.

“Be careful with this. Its older than I am. And twice as sharp! Hee hee hee” I like you, Maudra.

Dual Glaive looks pretty alright.

Uh oh, Brea gonna get drained. She’s an important character. Surely some contrivance will save her?

Gourmet: “What if the Hunter dies?”

Ornamentalist, who has been apparently been waiting for this forever: “Then I shall accept the somber task of honoring SkekMal’s treasures with a proper display!”

Gourmet: “Ugh, those trophies?”

Ornamentalist: “Anything can be made beautiful!”

Oh, they’re going to call the rest of the Skeksis to the castle! SkekSa and SkekNa I think are new to me and they’re useful in a fight. That’s two whole new pieces of information!

-google- Ohhhh SkekSa is the pirate Skeksis!

And I completely forgot SkekNa is the Slave-master. Although I imagine he has a different role at this point when the slavery was kinda buried under a couple layers of feudalism or whatever.

Huh. Hadn’t even noticed him missing.

SkekUng is the future Garthim-Master. Wonder what he’s called now.

And what of SkekLi? No, seriousli, what of SkekLi?

-google- The Skeksis Satirist? Why isn’t he here already??

Probably got kicked out for making fun of the others too much, huh?

I bet. Because Chamberlain points out that more Skeksis about means more squabbling.

And then the Skeksis immediately turn on him saying that SkekMal’s injuries are his fault. Because Nobody Likes SkekSil.

But, I guess, at least he’s not that fuckin Satirist.

Nice of the Emperor to wait for this conversation to be over before getting to the draining which let Aughra show up.

Also, hi Aughra!

Just kind of strolling in like you own the place, which isn’t technically far off.

The Skeksis tells the sewed-mouth Gruenak to seize her but she has a good retort for that.

“Touch me and Thra will swallow you where you stand” -bap-

Very good.

Aughra says she’s here to pay her respects. Like its a eulogy roast.

“SkekMal was always the most beautiful of you shriveled lot.”

You make the audience feel better about the impending death by making them angry at you. Makes a lot of sense.

She also makes them mad by saying the Hunter is going to die. Unless she helps.

“Gelfling essence cannot restore the Hunter. What you need is essence of Thra itself? And who is Thra, HM?”

Aughra is offering her essence to free the Gelfling locked in the castle.

The Skeksis are like ‘uh can’t we just strap you down and take it?’

Aughra is like ‘nuh uh I have to give it willingly, the crystal won’t take it from me’

And she’s rubbing existentialism in their faces. Everything from Thra returns to Thra when it dies but the Skeksis are not of Thra. What happens to them? The Skeksis tried to find out but couldn’t. Its the same thing that the Chamberlain had a rant about to Rian. The Skeksis are terrified of death because they don’t know what will happen to them. They’ll happily live a vampiric hollow shambling existence just to cling to life.

Vaguely reminded of the Ssi’Ruuk from Star Wars Legends who were also reptile-y and also stole life force and also were afraid of what would happen if they died away from home and uh…. ….. Did Star Wars ripoff the Skeksis and make them dinosaurs? With spaceships?

Huuuuuuuuh.

Slightly less blatant than when Warcraft ripped them off.

Aughra: “Maybe nothing is all that waits for you.”

So she’s emotionally blackmailing them. Sentence one of their own to oblivion or free the Gelflings and let the Hunter drink Aughra.

She also gives them like five seconds to consider it and then is like “WELP I TRIED” and goes to walk off to make them make a decision.

So the Emperor agrees. He tries to get in her face and intimidating about it but I mean, she won this confrontation. 

Brea: “Mother Aughra, please don’t do this! We’re not worth it!”

Aughra: “Of course you are”

Aww.

Annnnd the Emperor tells the General to make sure that he gets the Gelflings dead before they can leave. Because: spite.

Its the purest motivator. 

OH NOW THE SPIDERS RELEASE THE GELFLING

I wonder if thats how events stacked up or what.

Aughra: ‘hey brea you have more plot to do get lost’

Oh and no thats not how events stacked up. The truce Rian and Deet made with the Ascendency happened before Tavra!Spider strapped her sisters down. But she had to make it believable because sudden spider revolution wouldn’t help.

So now Tavra is a willing? host of the spider and they’re working together.

“HERE COMES THE GENERAL” Thats not even the right movie you’re quoting!

The General tells the other Skeksis what has happened in the chamber of life and then tells the Collector that they have a job to do.

SkekLach: “Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?”

Hah, mood. 

But the General says it’ll be fun.

SkekLach: “Oh, I doubt that =( ” hah

Chamberlain hearing whats going on: -chamberlain noise-

Oh, Tavra is stuck with spider because they’ve been merged so long that they can’t disentangle their minds. But she’s pretty chill about it. “We want the same things. JUSTICE.”

I’m here for Spider-Tavra.

And then the General and Collector show up surrounding the escaping Gelflings.

Collector, waving around a knife: “You were right, this will be fun!”

Less mood.

Brea complains that Aughra made a deal and General does the Vader “I have altered the deal” but Spider-Tavra blocks him and tells him a thing or two about altering deals.

Like how the arathim’s deal with the Skeksis was for the Caves of Grot and dangit the Skeksis forgot to mention that it was simply infested with the Darkening.

Spider-Tavra: “A poison fly… IS NO GIFT AT ALL!”

And then she stabs him.

Peter Parker would not approve. But I do.

Collector: “The Gelfling must pay!”

Spider-Tavra: “ARATHIM ARISE!”

Arathim Spitter: ‘hiiiiii’ -does a dilophosaurus-

Collector: “AHHHHHH ITS IN MY EYES”

This has been a bad ambush for the Skeksis. They should really invest in some sort of mindless troops that they can have wade into danger for them. Something scary and nigh unstoppable. Like a fleacrab that makes terrifying noises.

Spider-Tavra stays behind while the other Gelflings flee and Brea and Seladon decide not to leave her behind because Sister Solidarity, Finally!

The General is shocked to find that getting stabbed makes you bleed. Guess he was a backline kind of general.

And when Spider-Tavra shows up to finish the job, the General begs for his life.

Spider-Tavra: “We have waited long enough. This is for the Arathim… FOR THE ALL-MAUDRA!”

CHAMBERLAIN WITH THE SAVE! “Leave friend….. Alone!”

General: ‘ugh this fucking guy’

In fairness, he’s expecting Chamberlain saved him just to finish him off himself.

Chamberlain: “Skeksis squabble but are not enemy. Gelfling are enemies.”

And look he saved General some essence to heal him. The last of the remaining essence! How kind of SkekSil!

Oh and its the real stuff! I was expecting it to be the sugar water again. General’s wound actually glows and heals up.

General: “I have misjudged you, Chamberlain!”

Chamberlain: “Hmmmm am used to it”

Wow I was really expecting him to betray the General and was just giving him a hope spot before he did it.

But he hurries him off on some plan that the General will supposedly like. Luckily in time that Brea and Seladon can arrive and whisk off Spider-Tavra.

Meanwhile at the circle of the suns, the Heretic and the Wanderer are watching the Archer slowly die and philosophizing.

Wanderer: “Both halves. Are not long for Thra.”

Heretic, in his inside voice: “I wonder… in the next place… will we be joined once again?”

Wanderer: “Or rent further……………………. Asunder.”

And back to the castle where the Scientist is strapping Aughra into the draining machine.

You know, there was a bit of the movie novelization relevant to this. Where the Scientist mused about how much essence he could get from her. Or at least her eye since the rest of her was sulking in a cage without much energy and her eye kept glaring at him.

Aughra: “Are you proud? To build a machine that will be the death of Aughra?”

Scientist: “Not as proud as Mother Aughra throwing her life away in a desperate bid for redemption”

Wow Scientist, finally someone you can try to dunk on.

Aughra tries to pull the ‘we were friends once’ card and the Scientist may have gone for it if the Emperor was not hovering right over his shoulder.

Scientist: “Another world. Another time.”

Alas.

Emperor: “Now we shall see how powerful Aughra truly is!”

Aughra: “Oo! Well, spinning chairs now? Isn’t this fancy?”

Pffft.

I wonder if the Scientist refined the designs over the years or whether he stopped bothering when they ran out of Gelflings. The chairs in the movie aren’t nearly so fancy and are without additional things like things that jam into your skull.

Annnnd Aughra is generating no essence. 

Scientist: “I am stupefied, Emperor. She withers away but does not drain.”

Emperor: “Cheat! I gave you your Gelflings, now where is my essence?”

Aughra: “You... are doomed. You and all of your kind. Parasites. Thieves. In the end… you are nothing… but… dust.”

Emperor: “I… will… never… be… dust!”

And then he kicks the Crystal up to eleven because surely he knows how to operate- oh its working.

Essence is coming out of her and going into SkekMal. And he’s responding. I guess the Emperor does know how to operate stuff.

Annnnnnd Aughra exploded. This is really going to fuck up the movie events.

I thought she was safe!

And the Hunter is spasming and screaming so Scientist shuts the machine down.

Annnnnnd the Hunter is dead. Welp.

The Emperor is taking it well. (That’s a lie. He’s having a panic attack. And smashing stuff.)

I guess kicking the machine up to eleven was a mistake. Or maybe trusting Aughra was a mistake? Mistakes were made. But the Emperor didn’t negotiate in good faith anyway.

OH HI KYLAN! I missed you my dude.

He was off trying to rally the Spritons but they told him to fuck off. Maudra Mira is a big Skeksis fan.

For shame. People named Mira should be cool.

Seladon, maybe finally getting it: “Maudra Fara, the gelfling have always been strongest when they’ve stood together. Not apart.”

Maudra Argot: “I know you must take the Dual Glaive, but it made a fine cane! Oh, I’ll miss that cane”

OH SHIT RIGHT the dual glaive is still going on. I keep forgetting that’s a plot point whenever they stop focusing on it. Maybe because it came out of nowhere in the last third of the show and feels like an afterthought.

Even finding it, as hilarious as I found that, was kind of like ‘oh the plot device? Yup it was here all along, you only had to ask.’

Oh right, Dual Glaive. Two parts. They have to find the other half. Maudra Argot left it in Stone-in-the-Wood during the Arathim War.

The battle was lost until a soldier named Ordon took up the Dual Gl- WAIT THAT’S RIAN’S DAD

Its a little late to try to build up the Dual Glaive AND Rian’s dad! Especially as some legendary hero who had a legendary magical sword! And who split it in two so that it would have to be reassembled to use again!

Why did he do that??

Maudra Argot dreamfasts with Rian to show him his dad’s retroactive cool backstory.

And then, since they need to get to Stone-in-the-Wood fast, she trills to call a landstrider.

I approve, verily. I love these funky guys.

Deet: “You can call them?”

Maudra Argot: “I still remember a trick or two from my trine overground.”

And then Rian helps Deet onto the Landstrider. And it lingers on that moment. I reeeeally feel as if something is building between them.

Oh, hey, Stone-in-the-Wood is where the Brea/Tavra/Seladon plot is. The plots are joining back up!

Seladon: “It should have been me! … Aughra told me I was making a terrible mistake but I wouldn’t listen. This is my terrible price to pay, not hers. I’m so sorry for everything.”

Oh so she did finally get it. That’s good.

Spider-Tavra: “I wish you could see each other as I do…. You’re so… beautiful” -dies-

=(

She was too beautiful for this Thra.

Tavra-Spider: ‘welp time to mosey’ -mosies-

Good plot paralleling. Brea and Seladon dealing with their sister’s death and having the rite to return her to Thra at the same time that the Emperor is dealing with the death of the Hunter.

Ritual-Master: “But there is no rite, no ceremony. No Skeksis has died in a thousand trine. Not since… the beginning.”

And then the General comes in and reports that the Arathim have double-crossed the double-crossing Skeksis and sided with the Gelfling.

Collector: “Its a good thing I was there!” -accomplished zero things-

Emperor: “MORE GRAVE NEWS?”

General: “Not all is lost! The Chamberlain has a plan”

Emperor: “I thought you had enough of the Chamberlain’s plans”

General: ‘but he my bff now’

And then the Chamberlain comes in dragging something. And mister i think declaring open war was a mistake Chamberlain now decides that total war wipe out the gelfling no peace while they live is the best option. Oh how the turns have tabled.

He also blames the Gelfling for being too entitled.

Chamberlain: “Loyalty cannot be bought. Has to be built.” So he proposes that they make unstoppable loyal soldiers. Instead of relying on people with wants and needs.

The Scientist thinks he can probably do it but can’t build something out of nothing. So Chamberlain slides in the giant dead arathim he’s been dragging in, just to be extra. “Here is your something.”

So the Garthim (or GIANT ARATHIM) are Frankenstein spiders. Yes. The Scientist is going to weld a couple spider corpses together to make a fleacrabthing.

Not sure how I feel about it being Chamberlain’s plan. 

Chamberlain planned it, General endorsed it, Scientist actually did it, and SkekUng ends up in charge of it?

Of course, I was always unclear how someone uhhhh more brute than brain like Ung was supposed to have been responsible for them to begin with.

I guess Chamberlain is a good idea person and just says things around people who can actually accomplish his pie in the sky. Provided the other Skeksis are listening and not making blah blah blah motions everytime he talks.

Thra is lucky that half of the time, the other Skeksis tune out SkekSil.

And by coming up with a good idea that someone else will accomplish, Chamberlain has earned his place back at the court.

And now? The body?

Emperor: “The Hunter will not be buried. Or burned like some common carcass. The Hunter will be clad in our finest armor and placed in our throne room so that SkekMal might rule by our side… FOREVER!!!”

God. That’s morbid. The other Skeksis seem to be into it. But I’m glad that Skeksis start crumbling when they die later on because that would have gotten macabre fast. A court of the dead.

All your dead friends hanging around and staring. 

Does this mean Scientist has to learn taxidermy now in addition to frankensteining? Doesn’t he have enough to do? Is there any other Skeksis who actually-

Oh. They’re getting together as a group to prep the corpse.

That’s. Something.

Just slapping makeup on Hunter’s dead face.

Ornamentalist: “Life is my paint! Death is my canvas!”

Okay, yes, I should have figured that Ornamentalist would be all over this.

So. They prop up the Hunter. And he looks lifelike. In that he’s a puppet and I don’t think I could tell the difference between him living and dead?

And the Skeksis seem thrilled at having a corpse hanging up forever if it means they don’t have to think about death. And to be honest, they never really talked to the Hunter anyway.

Their relationship is essentially unchanged.

Back to Deet and Rian.

Wow, its funny that the Gelfling like to ride on landstriders. They’re so tall and the Gelflings are so short. Its like using a giraffe as a standard mount.

Oh and geez, I forgot that Rian didn’t know what happened to Stone-in-the-Wood. He doesn’t dwell on it long but I can tell on his puppet emotions how shook he is.

I also forgot about the Crucible! That thing full of swords. Yes, that would be a good place to hide a sword.

BUT HOW WILL HE KNOW WHICH ONE IS THE ½ Dual Glaive?? Maybe he should play flutes at it.

Rian: “Once a battle is done, the warriors of Stone-in-the-Wood place their weapons in the forge in the hope that we’ll never need them again.”

I find that a good philosophy for the Warrior Gelfling Tribe to have.

Geez, that’s just so much sword. And its on fire.

Although Rian can see the other half of the Dual Glaive just peeking in. And he can open it up and reach inside with no problem. That was easy! But we’re on episode 9 so it can’t be too complicated.

The halves glaive sing to each other and Rian and Deet join them together and SUDDENLY ALL FIRE EVERYWHERE TURNS BLUE AND NON BURNY

I know because a Gelfling sticks her hand in the fire and wonderously states “it doesn’t burn!”

You dingus!

Wow this sword really is magic. Its making a lot of sky light pillars, like this is a marvel movie.

The Scroll-Keeper: ‘fffffffffffffffffffffffffffff’ “They’re uniting against us!”

The Crystal apparently has something to add in so it chimes and all the Skeksis run off to the Crystal CHAMBERRRR

HEY the dead Hunter corpse just twitched. Maybe the Skeksis are just really bad at checking life signs…

So apparently the blue fire is fire skype.

JUST LIKE IN THE BENEATH THE DARK CRYSTAL

I guess not only Firelings can do fire skype.

Apparently the Dual Glaive lets the wielder talk to every Skeksis all at once. Good way to finally get around to uniting the clans against the Skeksis.

Whoops, the Crystal is picking up the signal.

I get why that would happen. Especially if the Dual Glaive was meant to unite Thra.

Rian: ‘hey the skeksis suck lets do a revolution’

Collector: ‘OH NO HE HAS THE DUAL GLAIVE A THING I’VE DEFINITELY KNOWN ABOUT ALL ALONG!’

So the Crystal picking up the message is kind of bad. Because Rian just told the Gelflings where to meet up for the rebellion.

The Emperor can apparently hijack the fire skype? The security on this blue fire is bad. What is it, Fire Zoom?

Emperor: “Silence! Your pathetic rebellion can only end in ruin!”

Rian: “Then why do you tremble?”

Emperor: “Disrespectful peon! Your lives are but a speck waiting to be swept away! Be assured any Gelfling that stands with you in battle will join you in the grave.”

Rian: “Bring your weapons. Bring your Skeksis. And meet your destiny!”

And apparently stabbing the Crucible with the Dual Glaive is how you turn off the chat.

The Other Skeksis: ‘ugh that fuckin Heretic giving away legendary weapons’

Emperor: “COWARDS! Let the chattel have their toy! Let them think they stand a chance against us! But hear me, Lords of the Crystal, Regents of Thra, all-powerful Skeksis. At dawn, we descend on their pitiful village. We will crush their nascent rebellion before it takes root, grind these defiant Gelfings to dust. Destroy the Dual Glaive and feast upon their essence!”

Pretty good motivational speech, the Emperor. I can see why you’re the Emperor, the Emperor.

I’m sure the Scientist will be fine having to do a rush order on a bunch of frankenstein spiders, a process he’s never done before and still has to figure out. I’m sure they’ll be ready by tomorrow.

Aw Deet and Rian having another moment.

Deet: “Do you think all Gelfling heard you?”

Rian: “Yes. But will they come?”

-Deet puts her hand on Rian’s-

Aww.

Hope this ends better than the transition between Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker.

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

Hi, i've been having some relationship troubles w/ my developmentally challenged friend; she & i have known each other for a month & every time we text i end up frustrated & exhausted & she ends up freaked out & self-hating. I've tried talking out our issues, but she never listens to my explanations & gets mad at me, & then she'll come back & act like nothing happened. She texts me all of the time (i usually get 5 texts a week total, i get 20 a day from her) & she refuses to respect my (1/3)

(2/3) boundaries no matter how i try to get it across. She is a sweet person & i want to be her friend, but she's kind of going really fast--she asked me to be the maid of honor at her wedding (again, we've known each other for a month & she's not even getting married). She's also a raging extrovert while i'm a raging introvert, & she tries to invite herself over to my house & claims i owe her stuff (Which i don't). Her mood fluctuates so much i can't follow & she wants to hang out all of the

(3/3) ...i lost where i was, dangit. Something about her being already stressful over text, much less in person. My point is, i don't know how to deal & i needed to vent so i'm sorry to bother you but if you have any advice i would love to hear it because i want to fix this friendship but i feel so exhausted & i feel like i can't leave the relationship without feeling like the A-hole & we'd still see each other because of similar places we visit. Sorry for bothering you & I wish you health.

Hello, dear, I’m sorry you’re having these issues. I have to say that it sounds like your friend has some serious Issues that are 100% not your fault or your responsibility. It sounds to me like you’ve done a really good job at trying all the right things, but she just doesn’t understand how to respect your boundaries, and that she either doesn’t realize or doesn’t care about how she makes you uncomfortable.

It’s not okay for anyone, even those with disabilities, to disrespect boundaries or to claim they’re owed things they aren’t, like your time or attention or possessions. Maybe if you were longtime best friends some of these behaviors would be acceptable because you were very comfortable and close, but this simply isn’t okay when you’ve known each other a month and all of this is very understandably making you uncomfortable. Honestly, I’m feeling uncomfortable just reading this and imagining someone behaving this way with me. 

I totally understand how hard it is to feel like you’re the asshole in a situation, but I really think you need to start enforcing your boundaries and saying ‘no’. Say “no, I can’t” and “no, I don’t want to, sorry” when she tries to invite herself over or get things from you. Say “I’m not comfortable with that”, say “I don’t have the energy for this conversation right now”. She’s not your responsibility, and you don’t actually have to babysit her emotions for an hour after you’ve turned her down and she’s thrown a tantrum. She’s acting like a child, but we can’t allow children to do whatever they want and get away with it.

You don’t have to cut all ties with her or stop being her friend, but you need to drastically shift the boundaries and rules of this relationship. You need to put your foot down and make it clear that if SHE wants to be YOUR friend, she needs to change her behavior. I’m sure you’re cringing just thinking about that, but this dynamic is really unhealthy for both of you, and it’s not sustainable. You don’t owe her anything, and you need to take care of yourself first.

I think you’ve done a good job trying to be nice and supportive, so I think you need to be more firm now.

[courage-a-word-of-justice]

Morose Mononokean 3 – 13 (FINAL) | Nanbaka 19 | ACCA 5...and anime from 2016, ranked.

(Morose Mononokean ep 3)

LOL, the kaomoji scroll.

Hopefully your handwriting won’t be illegible, Fusshi.

The Japanese place a lot of emphasis on independence, hence th errand running comment.

It’s so threatening to get pointed at with a stick.

I didn’t quite get the “five years again?” joke, but the jokes were going pretty rapid fire there. I might’ve just missed one and that’s OK. *shrugs*

Technically Ashiya lied when he said “you don’t have to believe me” because she believed him in the end…kinda sorta…?

Oh, to grandstand means to be showy. I don’t think I solidified that into my brain until just then.

Are those weeds or onions?

…Oops, not onions at all. Close enough (since they’re blub plants), though.

Where’s your dad, Ashiya?

Zenko’s not crying, you’re crying, I’m crying. Everyone’s crying!

…Oh, that’s the punchline of the joke…but Abeno’s scary when he’s really angry.

(ep 4)

I think even lil’ Fuzzy nods in the OP near the end.

The d and b thumbs are very inventive in regards to kaomoji. I like inventiveness.

Exhibit A of how Comic Sans ruins a mood, CR subbers.

So that’s Abeno’s writing (and not Comic Sans)?

Ashiya and Abeno have really creepy eyes on the eyecatch.

Shizuku means “water droplet” IIRC.

Ashiya, Super Sentai!...or something like that.

The Fuzzy Ashiya knows has 3 tails. This one only has one.

Ashiya, getting coerced into deals he can’t handle. *sigh*

(ep 5)

Fuzzy’s basically a Pokémon now.

What happened to Abeno’s jar?

Where I am, there’s three arms to the government: the legislative arm, the judicial arm and the executive arm. This show must run off a lot of the same principles.

Fuzzy seems vaguely unimpressed when Ashiya learns he doesn’t have to die.

How is that communicating with a fuzzball? Sad life for Abeno-san.

The sad thing about Abeno is that he’s very grumpy. While that does make him basically a male tsundere, his grumpiness isn’t something everyone can live with. Rippou (Legislator) included.

(ep 6)

The Ring? Like a horror movie? (This is the last of the Mononokean episodes I’ve seen before, so it’s not a horror movie, but I had to make the joke while I was at it.)

Fuzzy looks like an offering to the ancestors there on that cushion.

The Mononokean went “If you’d followed my instructions [yada yada yada] but…” Note the “but” – that wasn’t in the translation.

Where does Abeno sleep?

Fuzzy wrapped up is like a fuzzy sushi roll. I wouldn’t like to eat a fuzzy sushi roll, though.

Edo = old Tokyo…so are all Edoites (or whatever you call them) meant to be non-honorific users?

Manjiro must’ve been easy to draw if this were in the source material. However, since this is obviously a CGI Manjiro, it must’ve been easier to animate than, say, Fuzzy. (Apparently fur is hard to get right in CGI.)

“15 whole minutes”…hardly anything impressive…LOL.

Ashiya will never give you up, he’ll never let you down, he’ll never run around and desert you…

Even Fuzzy’s sweating up a storm just thinking about how to return the ring.

Ow. Getting headbutted by an eel is not the way to go.

The salve on Fuzzy looked like a box for a frame or two.

The irony of an eel shop with an eel youkai…

(ep 7)

It’s fresh impressions from here on out.

Butterflies don’t fly like that…

Since middle school is years 7 – 9…okay…Ashiya is that childish? *laughs awkwardly*

I just realised this show doesn’t do flashbacks very well.

I saw a grave in the back that said “Abe Family Grave”. It’s not the kanji for Abeno, though.

Don’t be so proud of your status as a hide and seek veteran, Ashiya.

“Yoko” is the word for a fox spirit. it’s why, in Tactics, the fox spirit is called Youko. Even I knew that much and Ashiya didn’t, LOL.

Oh right! Abeno calls Fuzzy “hairball”.

Abeno is 15?! I’m absolutely positively flipping out!...Abeno and Ashiya look like they’re 17!

(ep 8)

I thought something was up with the subs. Turns out “Haruitsuki” was spelt wrong.

Remember “–sama” is of more respect than “–san”.

I think Mr Chips from Eldlive was like this critter. Gets drunk on green tea.

Tsundere flying green youkai. That’s probably better than an annoying, possibly tsundere fairy (<- reference to One Wish They Never Wanted).

Benkei? I’ve never heard anyone yell “Benkei!” when they stubbed their toe. I get that it’s Standing Benkei though.

Aww. Even if it’s a youkai proposal, it’s so sweet…

(ep 9)

How do you spell “dispirited”? Two Ss? One?

Dangit, Ashiya would do well in job interviews…

The eyecatches always look unnecessarily dramatic, don’t they?

Does Abeno’s question about amateurs include Ashiya?

Abeno must’ve gotten a “Don’t come near my daughter again!” sort of thing a lot.

Fuzzy’s body went “boomph!” when he jumped on to Ashiya’s shoulder.

Fuzzy absolutely fails at rolling on balls, LOL.

(ep 10)

Why did I think of “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” when it came to large!Yahiko?

The title of this episode is “deku”, like Boku no Hero Academia Deku.

Rakugan.

How did the eyecatch manage to put shojo sparkles on Nobou and turn him into something that’s vaguely appealing (in a handsome sense)? It must be the magic of the shojo sparkles…Also, henohenomoheji scarecrow.

“Phantasmagoria” aka “fantasy” or “illusion”.

Wow, basically this show is an ethics lesson…

Who knew a mutant scarecrow could cause such a heartfelt story? Also, please stop hitting yourself with a potato.

(ep 11)

I don’t think I’ve seen the character for “purple” being read as shi before.

Stop using Fuzzy as a shield for your words, Ashiya.

Fuzzy jumped on to Zenko’s head. It’s kinda funny to see Fuzzy acting like a Swablu.

Fuzzy with a leaf hat is aesthetically pleasing. It soothes the soul. (Uh, hey. Come to think of it, Mononokean’s a lot like the works I’ve done on Honeyfeed, eh? Light comedy and a lotta drama.)

I keep stumbling upon spoilers for shows I’m not caught up on, this show included. So I technically knew about Yahiko and never mentioned it, and I’m going “oh no” here because I know what will happen to Ashiya…

Tomori. That was the name from the spoilers…oh no!!!

Fuzzy looks particularly round in the eyecatch.

Apparently Ashiya began as a doodle in the margin of Kiri Wazawa’s sketchbook, but he became the protag of Morose Mononokean. That’s the ultimate upgrade in life for a character, eh?

Abeno’s logic…I get it, but I guess it was played for hilarity. Well, it worked. Really well.

A 9-11. I thought it was funny at first, but now it’s scary and solemn.

Simultaneous equations? I want nothing to do with them anymore.

Come to think of it, Aoi may have been a woman due to the woman’s cloak.

(ep 12)

Oh? A sister? I’ve haven’t seen her in the show yet. I wanna see her.

One of the lil’ pine cones is sleeping. It’s strangely adorable.

(ep 13)

Yahiko’s so spoilt by Zenko.

*squints at Ashiya’s book* Oh hey. I haven’t done this in years! Yeah, that sort of stuff is “first year of high school” stuff, but speaking from experience as an advanced maths student, I have a skewed perspective of what “normal maths” is for a year level. Add that to the fact Japan has the idea that they have to push their geniuses to the limit by being ahead of their years (sometimes going up to one year ahead of the “usual” standard) and…yeah.

From the lip reading, the word could’ve been tera (Buddhist temple) or jinja (Shinto shrine). Knowing how Zenko is built off the ideas of Buddhism anyway, it’s tera.

Well, out of sight, out of mind, as they say.

Abeno looks like such a bad boy in that eyecatch, it’s hilarious.

Seriously, how does Nobou talk with no mouth?!

I thought the hand was Yahiko. Turns out it was Abeno.

Fuzzy looks downright ill when Ashiya’s scared.

A boss normally doesn’t bow his head to his subordinates, let alone call them “lord” (dono), which is the highest type of honorific one can give to a person.

See, the kaomoji scroll really is fun. If someone could make one for me, I’d love to play with it for a little bit. Maybe you could make a (computer?) program that could function mostly the same way…huh. That’s a good idea, actually.

Notice the Mononokean uses “watashi”. I guess it doesn’t have much of a gender anyway.

Nice hat, Ashiya. (LOL.)

Welp, that’s the final episode of all my 2016 anime. I moved the top 10 anime of 2016 to the bottom of this post for the surprise factor, but knowing my reactions to the anime means you can’t be too surprised by the results.

(Nanbaka 19)

Honey’s still on arrow mode.

The scream. It’s like a horror movie, but so funny because it overlays the OP.

The sparkles actually helped viewers see something for once.

Rokuriki. So that’s the guard’s name. It has “six” in it.

Deer hook swords. I’m not quite familiar with them but they look cool.

I only just realised, but they left Nico behind in the supervisor’s office.

The rubble is so beautifully rendered.

What was Jyugo doing behind the pots? Something for humour, I suppose, because I laughed.

“Hachiman” can mean 80000.

Kawaisouni… translates to “unfortunate” or “how unfortunate” but I probably wouldn’t peg it as “poor baby!” like the subbers did. It’s probably the tone Uno used that caused them to sub it the way they did.

Here we go again with this Jyugo comeback from episode 1…

It’s around the part where Upa’s trash talking Hachiman that you can identify Upa’s VA is Yuu Kobayashi (SGRS’s Konatsu’s VA). Even Nico is voiced by a dude and yet Upa is not.

(ACCA 5)

Seriously, this blue haired guy (Magie) reminds me of Japan from Hetalia. Must be the haircut.

How does a guy not remember toast? Probably because this is of Japanese origin, where rice and fish are more common than bread.

I still think his name should be Gene Otus.

CGI fits flawlessly into this style, and if you’ve been around these parts long enough, you know I don’t like obvious CGI.

Dowa Travel.

Hotel Akevitt. They have some weird names in this show.

Reindeer…? I’m not very good at identifying deer vs reindeer.

I heard you like wheat bread, so I put some wheat bread in ACCA to keep you happy, Jean. (insert more memes about wheat bread here)

Lotta really likes walnuts, eh?

Crow/Nino’s a free agent hired by Grossular, right?

Ah. I get it. Lotta’ll keep an eye on Nino for Jean.

Isn’t a sandpiper a bird?

Oh. So that’s why Grossular has such long hair.

Lilium’s bro? Gotta remember him for later.

Grossular’s an older Kyosuke Kuga, LOL.

 Anime of 2016, Ranked

Since I have 17 entries this year and it took a lot of shuffling to get right, I’ve decided to show my entire 2016 rankings. Only shows I saw in their entirety at least once over in 2016 (with the exceptions of D Gray Man Hallow and Morose Mononokean, which are applicable through the simulcast commentary process but were only watched to episode 6 before 2016′s end, and fall anime, which due to being AFK at 2016′s end were unfinshable until 2017), and had at least one new seasonal entry in 2016, apply:

17. Prince of Stride Alternative

16. Mr Osomatsu s2

15. D Gray Man Hallow

14. Kiznaiver

13. Morose Mononokean

12. Nanbaka s1: can’t talk about this yet because its s2’s not finished!

11. Classicaloid s1: can’t talk about this yet because it′s not finished!

10. Flip Flappers: The art style and fight scenes really make this a show worth watching. However, it did get somewhat confusing at the end so that’s where most of the drop in the rankings comes from.

9. ReLIFE: While the themes were pertinent and the art style on point, it was a bit plain and there wasn’t much of an explanation as to why the pills work (even if that isn’t Yoake or An’s role). I guess I’m still used to it living in the shadow of Detective Conan, after all.

8. Boueibu s2: This was a step up from s1, but unfortunately there were prime contenders this year that knocked it out of higher places. Also the fact that it does seem more rushed than s1 due to the time constraints does give it a bit of a toll.

7. Bungou Stray Dogs (overall): 2 seasons makes this show stand out as a strong one, especially near the end when it really hits its stride. The fact light novel stories took up up to 4 episodes did make me worried, but the fans definitely have more than enough material to work with as a result, right?

6. Yuri on Ice: I don’t mind the off model in this one if it means the good stuff can come with it, but the fandom is quite intimidating and it was a “show of the year” in ways some people now consider to be a negative thing, so it did suffer a bit from that. I give it merit for the things it does well, but it’s not the saviour of anime the talk of the town can make it out to be.

5. Boku Dake ga Inai Machi: Stunning visuals, a Sayuri ED and good thrills with well executed cliffhangers. My only gripe with this one was the very end, but you’ll have to see the relevant posts for why that is.

4. Boku no Hero Academia s1: Even if it is repetitive, it rises above (Plus Ultra!) to become something more than just a fusion of East and West like I always try to strive for. It’s an emblem and it’s definitely something Horikoshi should be proud of after what happened to Barrage and Oumagadoki Zoo.

3. Sakamoto Desu Ga: This show also managed to go above its repetitive trappings with inventiveness and humour. The fact it’s also touching at exactly the right points shows you why Takamatsu is one of my favourite directors.

2. ConRevo s2: Colourful and politically striking as always, ConRevo was one of the shows I always looked forward to watching, even if it meant staying up past midnight to document things on the wiki. Even if I’m not that fond of the Urobuchi episode, this show managed to reach awesome highs without losing the fans it got from s1.

1. SGRS: With a soundtrack that brings you to the past, humour that can make you laugh no matter how many times you watch it and visuals to wow even the most serious of artists, you can tell SGRS is a labour of love in every aspect. Its second season has already surpassed its predecessor in only 4 or 5 episodes, so...only time will tell whether anything can challenge SGRS for the throne.

 Total:

winter 4

spring 5 (incl. Bungou Stray Dogs s1)

summer 4

fall 5 (incl. Bungou Stray Dogs s2)