#Rip babbles

[kasparette]

[not Hellsing related] alright, so my s/o and me may or may not watch Vampire Hunter D tomorrow for Halloween-both have never seen it yet. Both are die-hard Hellsing fans and enjoy "old-school Anime". I also enjoy classic vampire literature, they not so much I think. Both aren't too fond of romance-type stuff in fiction/anime specifically. Do y'all think it would be a pleasant experience? Or should we stick to to random horror movies instead?

[kasparette]

The fact that there apparently was a time where the abridged VA was considered to be chosen for the COD Alucard instead of the official English VA kinda makes me angry, ngl. (I wouldn't even have heard about it if it weren't for this post's reblogs??)

Don't get me wrong, I very much do like TFS' Abridged Version, but due to it's extremely repetitive jokes and it's overall vibe I'd choose the original over the Abridged one a million times if I had to choose. The themes are just more interesting. The atmosphere is dark, as it is supposed to be imo. It has so much more depth. And the amount of Abridged comments, and almost Abridged comments only (!) below a lot of fan media saddens me, there really does seem to be quite a few people who "know and love Hellsing!" and then they're referring to TFS. And TFS only. Not Ultimate or, hell, even Gonzo, but TFS. Please go and watch the Original, or read it, I beg of you!

Question: is it just me, or am I getting sick and tired of hearing Hellsing Ultimate abridged references in every media related to Hellsing in general? (Please do not defend me on this)

TBH Everytime when I looked up videos of the OVA or the Hellsing OSTs on youtube or any slight fanart of the characters,

EVERY QUOTE FROM THE ABRIDGED FLOODED THE COMMENT SECTION.

YES, EVEN THE QRTS IN TWITTER WERE FLOODED WITH IT.

And this is even the worst part: some “fans” refer the abridged over the original because it is too “dark” and brushed off Alucard’s actual personality and his own past along with Seras, Integra and the other characters and would recommend/include the abridged instead because it’s “funnier” than the original source.

When will anime fans will talk about the original source without having to include the abridged for once, IMO, this is already disheartening to me. Yes I know it gained Hellsing some little popularity but the abridged instead overshadows the original plot and I kinda find the jokes really outdated and old.

[anghraine]

It's always been intriguing to me that, even when Elizabeth hates Darcy and thinks he's genuinely a monstrous, predatory human being, she does not ever perceive him as sexually predatory. In fact, literally no one in the novel suggests or believes he is sexually dangerous at any point. There's not the slightest hint of that as a factor in the rumors surrounding him, even though eighteenth-century fiction writers very often linked masculine villainy to a possibility of sexual predation in the subtext or just text*. Austen herself does this over and over when it comes to the true villains of her novels.

Even as a supposed villain, though, Darcy is broadly understood to be predatory and callous towards men who are weaker than him in status, power, and personality—with no real hint of sexual threat about it at all (certainly none towards women). Darcy's "villainy" is overwhelmingly about abusing his socioeconomic power over other men, like Wickham and Bingley. This can have secondhand effects on women's lives, but as collateral damage. Nobody thinks he's targeting women.

In addition, Elizabeth's interpretations of Darcy in the first half of the book tend to involve associating him with relatively prestigious women by contrast to the men in his life (he's seen as extremely dissimilar from his male friends and, as a villain, from his father). So Elizabeth understands Darcy-as-villain not in terms of the popular, often very sexualized images of masculine villainy at the time, but in terms of rich women she personally despises like Caroline Bingley and Lady Catherine de Bourgh (and even Georgiana Darcy; Elizabeth assumes a lot about Georgiana in service of her hatred of Darcy before ever meeting her).

The only people in Elizabeth's own community who side with Darcy at this time are, interestingly, both women, and likely the highest-status unmarried women in her community: Charlotte Lucas and Jane Bennet. Both have some temperamental affinities with Darcy, and while it's not clear if he recognizes this, he quietly approves of them without even knowing they've been sticking up for him behind the scenes.

This concept of Darcy-as-villain is not just Elizabeth's, either. Darcy is never seen by anyone as a sexual threat no matter how "bad" he's supposed to be. No one is concerned about any danger he might pose to their daughters or sisters. Kitty is afraid of him, but because she's easily intimidated rather than any sense of actual peril. Even another man, Mr Bennet, seems genuinely surprised to discover late in the novel that Darcy experiences attraction to anything other than his own ego.

I was thinking about this because of how often the concept of Darcy as an anti-hero before Elizabeth "fixes him" seems caught up in a hypermasculine, sexually dangerous, bad boy image of him that even people who actively hate him in the novel never subscribe to or remotely imply. Wickham doesn't suggest anything of the kind, Elizabeth doesn't, the various gossips of Meryton don't, Mr Bennet and the Gardiners don't, nobody does. If anything, he's perceived as cold and sexless.

Wickham in particular defines Darcy's villainy in opposition to the patriarchal ideal his father represented. Wickham's version of their history works to link Darcy to Lady Anne, Lady Catherine (primarily), and Georgiana rather than any kind of masculine sexuality. This version of Darcy is a villain who colludes with unsympathetic high-status women to harm men of less power than themselves, but villain!Darcy poses no direct threat to women of any kind.

It's always seemed to me that there's a very strong tendency among fans and academics to frame Darcy as this ultra-gendered figure with some kind of sexual menace going on, textually or subtextually. He's so often understood entirely in terms of masculinity and sexual desire, with his flaws closely tied to both (whether those flaws are his real ones, exaggerated, or entirely manufactured). Yet that doesn't seem to be his vibe to other characters in the story. There's a level at which he does not register to other characters as highly masculine in his affiliations, highly sexual, or in general as at all unsafe** to be around, even when they think he's a monster. And I kind of feel like this makes the revelations of his actual decency all along and his full-on heroism later easier to accept in the end.

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*The incompetently awful villain(?) in Sanditon, for instance, imagines himself another Lovelace (a reference to the famous rapist-villain of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa). Evelina's sheltered education and lack of protectors makes her vulnerable to sexual exploitation in Frances Burney's Evelina, though she ultimately manages to avoid it. There's frequently an element of sexual predation in Gothic novels even of very different kinds (e.g. Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Matthew Lewis's The Monk both lean into this, in their wildly dissimilar styles). William Godwin's novel Caleb Williams, a book mostly about the destructive evils of class hierarchies and landowning classes specifically, depicts the mutual obsession of the genteel villain Falkland and working class hero Caleb in notoriously homoerotic terms (Godwin himself added a preface in 1832 saying, "Falkland was my Bluebeard, who had perpetrated atrocious crimes ... Caleb Williams was the wife"). This list could go on for a very long time.

**Darcy is also not usually perceived by other characters as a particularly sexual, highly masculine person in a safe way, either, even once his true character is known. Elizabeth emphasizes the resilience of Darcy's love for her more than the passionate intensity they both evidently feel; in the later book, she does sometimes makes assumptions about his true feelings or intentions based on his gender, but these assumptions are pretty much invariably shown to be wrong. In general the cast is completely oblivious to the attraction he does feel; even Charlotte, who wonders about something in that quarter, ends up doubting her own suspicions and wonders if he's just very absent-minded.

The novel emphasizes that he is physically attractive, but it goes to pains to distinguish this from Wickham's sex appeal or the charisma of a Bingley or Fitzwilliam. Mr Bennet (as mentioned above) seems to have assumed Darcy is functionally asexual, insofar as he has a concept of that. Most of the fandom-beloved moments in which Darcy is framed as highly sexual, or where he himself is sexualized for the audience, are very significantly changed in adaptation or just invented altogether for the adaptations they appear in. Darcy watching Elizabeth after his bath in the 1995 is invented for that version, him snapping at Elizabeth in their debates out of UST is a persistent change from his smiling banter with her in the book, the fencing to purge his feelings is invented, the pond swim/wet shirt is invented. In the 2005 P&P, the instant reaction to Elizabeth is invented, the hand flex of repressed passion is invented, the Netherfield Ball dance as anything but an exercise in mutual frustration is invented, the near-kiss after the proposal in invented, etc. And in those as well, he's never presented as sexually predatory, not even as a "villain."

[brionysea]

this is my new favourite thing

[bonefall]

i’m hoping moonpaws “sinister” voice is some kind of misdirect. Like if the voice is moonpaws absorbed sibling then maybe it growing crueller in tone is a result of frustration with moonpaw or being stuck without control, a legitimate reason that will get resolved as opposed to just being Evil Voice In Her Head. Not to say this alternative would be perfect, it would still definitely tap into that stereotype, but at least it would be more well intended i think?? I don’t know. Maybe if they’re lucky the erins will even stumble into accidentally representing real struggles that people in systems have with their headmates

They have a slim chance to make this work, especially since they've probably maybe plotted out their story by now (who am i kidding. its the erins lol change on the fly bozos), but I think they could clutch this with a simple trick;

Treat The Twin like a person. That's all. Just. Allow it the courtesy of being a fully fleshed out character with actual feelings and motivations, not just spite at "having not lived", and absolutely not "we're a genetic anomaly and I'm EVIL because of it, so im haunting your bones for funsies"

Mind you, they're not great at writing nuanced antagonists... so I doubt the idea that they would even think to pull a misdirect with the "sinister" description. And it's still not great that they seem to be going in the direction of an "absorbed twin" and unironically doing Moonpaw And The Fetus Ghost...

BUT.

It is only a preview. They've changed lanes based on feedback before, with serious story overhauls, even (we die like warriors, Night/Sun Divorce Lovers). So... maybe they will end up doing something more subversive, treating both Moonpaw and her headmate with sympathy.

At the very least, we'll have fun rewriting the Terrible Cat Books together. We'll make something of it.

[appri-dot]

What's cooking g oh dear god where's your head

[orbch]

ive had kind of an awful awful day i cant even express my visceral reaction to this im so happy

[hihereami]

I love that one of Amina's main characteristics is ''horny romantic mess'' and I hope that continues into season 2 because it's the best

[kasparette]

Yesss I've noticed this in fanart more than once as well! And I love it!! :D Now I can't play or watch Pokémon without making that connection, makes me kinda feel obligated to make it one of my new fave mons <3 But I HAVE to ask. How did y'all come up with that idea of connecting the two? Was there some Anime episode or meme or ANYthing that I don't know of, or did you just go purely by vibes? :D If the latter is the case: did anyone ever think of Pumpkaboo?? The little vampire teeth and the ahoge?? :D

In honor of Hellsing Abridged coming out (and my continued obsession with Pokemon) have a RVW with a Noibat.

They seemed kinda fitting together? I dunno, I just wanted to draw stuff.

[kasparette]

I've ✨aged✨

[bonebabbles]

How's the Minecraft

VERY good. I had taken a bit of a break from working on my personal modpack but I got a second wind.

A person I had been keeping in mind with the pack dropped out of the plans, so I started shoring up parts I was "holding back" on. For example, I added another boss mod, and allowed the mod list to get a bit bigger.

(And splurged a bit and added some extra food mods lmao.)

I'll probably host it on Modrinth when I'm done-- hopefully Mowzie's Mobs comes over there soon.

[sroloc--elbisivni]

fucking. ship of theseus-ing my favorite coat by ripping stitches to remove the lining one piece at a time, using it as a pattern to cut a piece of the new lining, and stitching that in. is this the 'good' or 'correct' way to do it? no comment.

[kasparette]

Wait I know I'm late but I need to know DID THIS EVER HAPPEN?? This sounds like such a good idea imo! (I know it'd work out if a lot of Anime frames would be included, but are there really over 300 panels with him in the manga?? It felt like he didn't have THAT much (sadly) but it sounds awesome, would instantly follow.)

I have a whole folder of manga panels with the Captain, like, every single manga panel he's in I cut out like two years ago (ish) to put in a huge collage sort of thing (it's bad and the upload on DeviantArt is low quality). I'm thinking of making a "Daily Hans Günsche" blog or something like that but I don't have any good name for it and honestly...

Setting it up shouldn't be too difficult but that man, as much as I love him, has enough content for like a year of daily posting lol. I'd have to go through the anime and get some screenshots of him (my obsessiveness won't let me just look online) but my laptop doesn't have a CD port and I want them high quality.

Just an idea tho. Like, my dumb ass can't even log into Tumblr anywhere but this phone lmao.

[anghraine]

I feel like the lighting of the beacons scene is kind of a microcosm of my issues with the LOTR films as a whole, in that:

Cinematically, it's absolutely gorgeous and stirring

The visuals are lifted even further by the score

It's a reference to a thing that is actually in the book, just highly re-contextualized (the beacons exist in the book and have already been lit, but serve a different function; it is the Red Arrow that is used to ask for Théoden's aid, with the specific remark that Denethor is asking for aid and not demanding it; the messenger who brought the arrow is caught and decapitated on his way back to Minas Tirith and so Denethor can't know if the message got out without using the palantír)

The lighting of the beacons in the films is tied into the story they're telling, in which basically all the NPCs other characters are much more self-doubting and self-sabotaging and it's up to Our Heroes to get them to do the right thing or the heroes just do it themselves (see Treebeard, see Théoden, see Faramir...)

Specifically, the necessity of lighting the beacons in the films is a direct byproduct of making film Denethor malicious and incredibly incompetent

The quiet, almost incidental tragedy of the messenger's death in war—not in a big battle, not in any glorious way at all, just this random guy being casually chased down and killed—is lost in favor of something dramatic and show-stopping and cool.

It is dramatic and show-stopping and cool! But sacrifices were definitely made in order to work it into the story at all and I think those sacrifices were very representative of the films' adaptational approach.

[tehshelaroxx]

When I laid down yesterday, I dreamed I got it on with Trevor Moore from WKUK and then we had Little Caesar's afterward. I could actually *taste* the Little Caesar's and was having a really nice time until my mom woke me up. I was kind of mad she woke me up honestly lol

[enden-k]

ok we had a therapy session just now on discord, im slowly recovering and if u see me continue on with oc doodles and rambles or even yap abt my fav/comfort show like nothing happened, trust me its all to forget and protect my mind from what just happened in R7 bc every memory and thought makes me tear up again so please dont bring it up for at least a day BAHAAGAA (fucking cries)

im holding all ur hands and i promise i will draw to make it ok, as soon as i feel mentally able to 😭