#Why does my post look weeeeird

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Season 1 Episode 4.

[I luv this scene sm bc I hc both of them as autistic and it reminds me of me and my friend trying to figure out socially acceptable stuff together lol]

*bonus Reid photo that didn't fit:

he looks soooooo AGWGSHHSSH IDKKK

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decided to just compile a bunch of comments about my sga 1x01 rising rewatch into a single post because i don’t actually want to make a hundred posts in a row, so here, under the cut, many rambles:

announcer guy does, in fact, speak english upon a second attempt. well done on not forgetting to not speak german, announcer guy.

“i’m afraid of the thing” elizabeth says, about the drone chair, while standing next to it and looking like she wants to fuck it

rodney in that orange sweater! very orange! very warm!

john is on screen. john’s first words are helicopters he knows how to fly. john KINDA LIKES IT in antarctica. john has barely done anything and i already feel like crying a little bit about this guy who LIKES ANTARCTICA because he just wants to fly

POOR CARSON when he almost kills two people. “ai told ya ai was the wrong pursohn” :(

i really love how john sees the drone coming at the (landed) helicopter and yells “get out!” and they throw open their doors and john JUMPS and then it’s just “ugh.” and he’s belly-down on the floor and still like, almost under the helicopter. an attempt was made, for sure. just not a very succesful one.

the way john looks around like he’s never seen a ceiling before when he enters the base is just. very funny. and then some guy in particular is looking at him because he’s a bit of a weirdo and john looks back and the guy sort of looks him up and down and john looks away as if to check if anybody saw that. hmm.

john’s face of “oops” after he sits down in the chair and it ACTIVATES and carson RUNS OFF to go get literally everyone and john is realizing he MAY have just made a very giant big mistake. PRICELESS

teyla: my people have long believed the wraith will come if we venture into the ancient city. sumner, when the wraith come after he ventures into the ancient city: [surprised pikachu face]

gotta love how john insisting on saving his people is what wakes up the wraith, and saving his people is also what landed john in antarctica in the first place because he tried it in afghanistan once before. which wouldn’t have happened if there hadn’t been an american war in afghanistan in the first place, which there wouldn’t have been if bush hadn’t thrown the us into it, which wouldn’t have happened without 9/11, so... bin laden woke the wraith?

on the other hand john would never have had to go on a rescue mission on his first day in pegasus if sumner hadn’t gone into that city against the wishes of the people that already lived there and had a history dating back thousands of years with the place, so more realistically, the expeditions’ colonizer mentality woke the wraith. and then they just kinda... kept going with that for the rest of the show, because it worked out so well on that first day.

anyway i’m not even there yet - puddlejumper! it jumps puddles!

have to love the moment john realizes the puddlejumper is pretty literally reading his mind and giving him anything he can think of that is within its power (so no turkey sandwiches, but that’s okay). john is already in love with it just based on the fact that IT CAN FLY AND GO FAST (“i kinda like it here”, restored) but then all the ancient technology just seems to know him and love him back and gives him way more than he even thinks to ask for. which, for john, who doesn’t really do well expressing desires? a FLYING SHIP that then READS HIS MIND? starstruck. love at first sight. john&puddlejumper, instant bffs. i bet it would have popped a compartment with some stray bits of wire if he’d asked for a friendship bracelet right then and there. ford sitting there witnessing this doesn’t even know how hard he’s thirdwheeling it in that moment.

now i am at the bit where sumner is taken from the wraith prison to see the actual wraith, and look, obviously they’re evil and feed on humans etc etc, but this particular wraith’s sense of dramatics? unparalleled. she has them bring her victims one by one to a large foggy room with a looong table set with a wonderful dinner and then she LEAVES a DEAD BODY sitting at the head of the table (implied to be the athosian that was taken before sumner?) and drops down from the ceiling while sumner has his back turned for no reason except the spectacle of it all, and dracula himself literally couldn’t have made a better display out of this. it’s maybe scary in the way that it makes clear she’s a cat toying with a helpless mouse before she eats it, but it’s also hilarious in the way that this is absolutely a very bored immortal being who had to stay up while the rest went to sleep and is inventing high school improv plays with her dinner for some diversion. don’t play with your food, wraith queen. you’re scaring your dinner.

life signs detector!!! ford didn’t get to name the puddlejumpers gateships, but that one stuck, no matter how much “we can name it later” john was trying to throw at it!!!

(god. there’s a ficlet somewhere in there about season 2 john having a moment where he realizes he’s on the hunt for ford using the thing they first discovered together and that ford gave its name.)

getting sidetracked here, but when john and ford find the group of humans caught by the wraith teyla goes “major!” and it makes me think that. well. how are the athosians supposed to know things like “major” and “colonel” are military ranks? what are the chances the pegasus galaxy uses the same designations? (don’t really know how the language thing works here - we’re hopefully not supposed to think they’re all speaking english, are they? i’ve never watched sg1, there’s probably lore about this, i assume. maybe alien titles somehow get perfect translations to earth ones and vice versa.) but i mean, teyla is too smart, she’d have it figured out already even if those words don’t exist in her galaxy, but some athosian somewhere is going to be very confused by this earth tendency to name way too many kids private and lieutenant, and then put all of them into the army. strange, to have your job decided for you at birth like that. earth people are weeeeird.

fjdkl john is like bye, gonna go find colonel sumner all on my own, run if you don’t hear from me in twenty minutes, and ford’s like “you’re the only one who can fly these people out of here” and “i’m saying i should be the one to go, sir” and john, with his savior can’t-leave-anyone-behind-gotta-do-this-personally-or-i-will-literally-die-from-not-almost-dying complex DOES NOT LISTEN to ford’s EXTREMELY ACCURATE objection. which is his right, as ranking officer, but is also a perfect showcase of why john Should Not Ever be in charge of atlantis, and why sam saying he was totally on the shortlist when she takes over command in s4 is funny but frightening if you’re on atlantis and like being alive.

sumner: “we travel through the stargate as peaceful explorers.” FDJKFD. god, that line, from that character, hilarious.

rodney comes to elizabeth full of enthusiasm about all the interesting stuff they’re finding in the city only to find her staring at the empty gate and when she says she should never have let them (the rescue party) go, he sobers up and says awkwardly “for what it’s worth, you made the right decision” and that’s GOOD that’s KIND.

back on the planet with the wraith everyone is running to the jumper while there are wraith darts whizzing through the air and teyla turns back, catches up with ford who was told to cover their six, disarms him (because he was firing at illusions, revealing their position), hands him back his weapon, pulls him in the direction of the puddlejumper, and PUSHES HIM ASIDE when they’re almost scooped up by a wraith dart, and i’m so here for teyla being allowed a moment of heroics that saves specifically ford, guy with a gun, and not a random athosian damsel in distress. teyla is fully on their level. teyla is perhaps above their level. thank you.

that scene at the end of this episode!! in which there’s a sort of party on atlantis and it’s all buzzing and relaxed while the athosians are mingling freely with the expedition members and they’re talking of friendship and ugh. UGH. there’s a better version of sga in an alternate universe where the expedition didn’t decide atlantis was totally theirs, actually, and they cooperate with the people that were already in the galaxy when they came there and learn from sumner’s mistake to actually respect what they have to say and form a single front and teyla takes over as head of the expedition in s4 when there’s a void left by elizabeth’s absence.

final thought that has always haunted me a little: john suddenly becoming the ranking military member on atlantis after sumner’s death is ?? one of those things where i wonder what the sgc was thinking in their personnel assignments. john wasn’t even supposed to BE THERE. if john hadn’t gone and sumner had still died (which was something they should have considered as a possiblitiy! they didn’t know what they were walking into at all! sumner is apparently the type to lead his own missions!), then what exactly would they have done? i don’t know much about how the us military operates but i’ve watched enough mash to have figured out the order of the ranks and it just seems. very odd to me? to take one (1) colonel on this mission and then ZERO lieutenant colonels OR majors (if john hadn’t stumbled his way into it, that is). like, are there any captains on atlantis? (i think there are?) or would ford, a lieutenant, have ended up ranking military member? this is like the surely-they-only-need-a-single-medical-doctor-right thing. WHAT IS THE SGC THINKING.

anyway. this was good. i liked this. i hadn’t rewatched the pilot in a while, and i only just now figured out how much of a while, because there was a bunch in here i didn’t remember. ON TO EPISODE TWO.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks heisenberg sounds like nic cage bc I SWEAR the va was taking the mickey with that voice. Also agreed on donna's being the scariest part of the game (or one of them if u have other thoughts when u finish the game!) bc when the giant baby showed up I wasn't looking at the screen (was watching a friend's stream whilst I waited for my main ytuber to cover the game) and I thought it was just a floating doll. LITTLE DID I KNOW - uponthinegoldenwings

@ghirahims-trophyhusband Ok I can't find the exact post I wrote that this ask is referring to but I remember it perfectly and like, YEAH even now I still agree that Heisenberg's voice is so fucking funny and weeeeird, like a lotta people have said that as the game went on, they got used to his voice, but honestly I can't agree, he just.... fhdsjbh why does he sound like that???

Also YEAH UM I still absolutely stand by my previous statement that the scariest part of the game is the entire Beneviento house (with Castle Dimitrescu being a close second for me), especially that giant baby cuz jesus christ man-

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I had so conflicted feelings with french skam, I didn‘t know if I wanted to watch it and was annoyed that they did a copy... but now I kinda love it?? I still haven‘t seen all clips bc I wanna wait for the whole episode, but I always look at your recaps. I really hope that you‘ll continue them, maybe if it‘ll get too much work just weekly recaps of the episodes? They honestly make my day, you‘re so funny and your sense of humor is hilarious. (1)

dhwhbhbjsjhbshbsbhhbsx firstly, my angel can i just say you’re ridiculously sweet??? my gosh this message made me genuinely smile and feel good about myself? like sahjabhhashbs thank you so much for that, you have no idea how much that means to me because it’s so incredibly rare for me to feel like that

thirdly, SAMEEEEEE i have been back and forth in my mind about skam france. like i love skam more than anything and all these remakes make me feel weeeeird and nervous and like i wanna be all HERES A LIST OF HOW TO LOOK AFTER MY CHILDREN and each remake is a babysitter…..but surprisingly skam france feels less like they are remaking my children, and more like they are giving me new angels to love and care for. 

and i love that.

ahhhhhhh my gosh i adore you (i already adored you but then you called me hilarious which is another rare thing and now im just in love sorry not sorry) 

omg the funny thing is i actually was going to recap them as eps and not as seperate clips. like i was gonna try it maybe and do it like that?? but then the first clip dropped and i already had this like need to talk about it somehow so i thought why not and now im kinda glad im doing it as seperate clips atm because i feel like i get to recap more and look at more details than i would if it was a whole ep. 

but i think if it does get like too much on my plate i will defs make them into ep recaps instead of clips haha. thank you so much for your support and your kindess and ahhhh this made me so happy

also this is long but welcome to my blog, those who have been here for a while (bless you guys) can tell you that it’s not a mikki ask if i don’t talk too much sahbhbshbsbha

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The Icy Slopes of PAX

As I shift this blog away from “strictly project updates” and into “personal updates that won’t fit in 250 characters” we find ourselves in interesting and somewhat archaic turf. I used to post to my LiveJournal (ha!) all the time with essays on what’s been happening in my life. Let’s resume doing that, shall we?

Last weekend I was up in Boston for PAX East.

Let me be incredibly negative up front, because I’d like to load up on the positive afterwards.

Everything about PAX was great. Everything around PAX was absolute hell. Boston in March means blizzards and sub-freezing temperatures, gale force freezing winds, and airport delays due to breakdowns and rerouting and weather issues. This is a lousy time and a lousy place to combine together for a nerd convention, and it resulted in two solid days of travel hell. Add on top of that the lack of really good hotels close to the convention center (the Westin is perpetually unavailable) and you’re gonna have a bad time. Our hotel, the Element, was a weeeeird “hostel” style hotel. It had a kitchen! …with no grocery store around for two miles. It had a foyer and a desk and a couch! …and incredibly tight walking spaces around the beds. Too much stuff we didn’t need crammed into too little space.

And while I don’t wanna appear whiny… being disabled at a large-scale public event like this sucks real bad. Everything others take for granted… the ability to use any old random chair, bed, shower, or toilet… I don’t get that. I need adaptations, tools, or helpers for every single thing I want to do. The Boston Convention Center is a complete mismash of weirdly random toilet heights, none of which are kept particularly tidy, all of which have lines and irate bastards waiting to pee. When I finally do get back to the hotel room, I can’t even go to bed on my own because those big-ass queen sized hotel beds are 65% as tall as I am and I can’t climb in. So, yeah. It’s not fun. It’s very, very not fun.

And there’s always the question of: what’s the tipping point? When does the not-fun outweigh the fun? In past years, when it was merely cold and not apocalyptic, or when we had a better hotel… that was clear. This year was more balanced, and that’s bad. I haven’t given up hope, though, and I can say for sure that there was some fun to be had.

So let’s talk about what was fun: games. Here’s everything I played and what I thought of it. My main focus was indie games, particularly arcadey ones that’ll run on my arcade cabinet. You can keep your AAA’d open world military shooters; those are a waste to demo while at PAX. Instead I went for the weird stuff.

Adult Swim Games brought out a number of heavy hitters. Kingsway, a game that plays like using a Windows 95-esque operating system? Innovative as hell. Battle Chef Brigade? Saw it on Kickstarter, didn’t think much of it at the time, but boy is it a blast to sit down and play. Katana Zero? Delicious pixelly murder. My friend Sean Baptiste was there showing off the goods, and boy howdy were they good. I kinda like this niche ASG’s carved out for themselves, curating a fine roster of indie talent that always brings something a little new and a little quirky to the table, without sacrificing quality to get there. Oh, and the best part? The dev for Battle Chef Brigade actually took his demo unit apart because the cord on the controller wasn’t long enough to reach short l’il me. I’m no journo, I’m no influencer, I’m just some schmuck and yet he still went the extra mile for disability support. That’s professionalism.

Then there’s the Visual Novel Reading Room, which was a tiny expo hall inside a smaller expo hall (the Indie Megabooth) inside the actual expo hall. Here’s where all the Renpy games landed, ranging from amusingly stereotypical otome stuff (Spirit Parade) to weird death game datesim shenanigans (Date or Die) and some things I really wish I’d played but missed (We Know The Devil). It’s not all my flavor but it’s all good research for my own future aspirations, showing what’s possible and what’s tried and true in the form. …but more on that later. Later. Patience, friends. Patience.

Other random games I found included an arcadey realtime strategy game with beautiful pixel art (Tooth and Tail), a cute Ouendan-style game for iOS with a hiphop culture vibe (Floor Kids) and a goofy litttle game about dogs barking at people to make them throw their food in the air (Russian Subway Dogs). All cute, all easily overlooked, but all worth your time. Indies are tricky, because often they’re tucked away in obscure little corners of the expo hall, overlooked by many… and I try to make a point to walk right up and play anything that has no crowd. I take business cards, I offer feedback. Good stuff.

A special shoutout goes to Fantasy Strike, an amazing fighting game. Unlike others, ‘special moves’ are single button presses, not complex combination inputs… they want to take the busywork out of fighting games, stripping them down to a pure game of positioning and timing. Skill, not execution. Why highlight it with its own paragraph in this post? ’cause I talked with one of the devs about my arcade cab and spreadsheet, and how well the game worked on it. Discussed key remapping for disability, 4:3 screen ratios, and how badly Street Fighter V got everything wrong. A good discussion and again, he didn’t have to have it with me. He chose to step away and talk shop a bit. And that’s the kind of thing that only happens at PAX.

Speaking of “only at PAX,” how about panels? I’m always impressed by how diverse and interesting the panel lineup is, every year. You’d think amidst the insanity of the Gate Which We Do Not Speak Of that there’d be a pushback on social or identity issues and gaming, but no! They’re out in full force, across a wide spectrum, and there’s something for everyone at PAX. I personally helped my friend Miellyn run a “How to PAX” panel for newbies, which was a lot of fun. The “Romance in Games” panel with Sean and Miellyn and others I knew was also great, even if a burning need to pee kinda distracted me from the crazy antics. Plenty of comedy on offer too, with the Paxamania wrestling farce for good cringey humor, the Jackbox Games panel for professional funny people being professionally funny, and of course Acquisitions Inc.’s D&D show. I could’ve watched it all on Twitch, yes, but being there in person adds a special zing to it all.

There’s plenty I didn’t get to do, for lack of time. (Sadly waiting in line for events takes a loooot of time.) I didn’t cruise the tabletop area very much. I only swooped by the artists and musicians with wares for sale… just long enough to buy a massively expensive but beautiful (to me, anyway) Galaga arcade artwork painting. The classic retro arcade was flat out missing this year, which is a shame. And there’s freeplay areas, and tournaments, and other things I missed…

…but there’s always next year. Assuming I don’t look away from Twitter for twenty minutes and all the tickets are sold, anyway. If they aren’t, I’ll see you there.

[coffeemakernamedhank]

long time no weeb

well, i mean, not really. always weebin’. weeb lyfe. 

but long time no.. post about weeb garbage, so, here we go. 

right so, on my MAL history, between Ao Haru Ride and shit i’ve actually finished recently is a whoooole mess of shows i’d previously watched and never documented. this happened because i just started going down the “most popular show” listings and scoring shit i’d already seen. i think i got to somewhere around the 1000′s before giving up? to be fair, there’s a lot of like.. OVAs and specials for big shows and shit on there, so. PLENTY TO SKIP, WOO.

anyway, so, more recently: the second season of Boku No Hero Academia. also watched the Sukue! Kyuujo Kunren! and Training of the Dead OVAs, because why the fuck not. the show started pretty slow in the first season, so i’d been leaving it alone. but getting current on the manga helped a lot with getting invested in the characters and such, and hell, the second season has ONE HELL OF A TOURNAMENT ARC. like, dang. the OVAs were fun too. i mean, if you like shounen battle shit, you’re already in this, lol. tsuyu-chan is best girl, fight me. 

after kind of suffering through the first season, i ended up dropping Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou - The Last Song. what a mouthful. and, in spite of some cool animation and an art style i enjoy, the plot managed to be both impenetrable and boring. i couldn’t make myself care about the characters, and there were just.. so many of them. cool art was not worth trying to keep up with shit i could not get invested in. 

while we’re on the subject of lovely disappointment, there was Zankyou no Terror. i mean. just. just look at it. it was gorgeous the whole way through, lovingly directed, the music was GREAT, there was a small enough variety of characters to get into them and root for them. and looking at the staff, this should have been the next Cowboy Bebop, the next Sakamichi no Apollon. character-driven stories that say something bigger about the human condition, how we relate to one another, FEELINGS and shit. and like, don’t get me wrong: this was.. a great show. however. the ending was garbage, and the payoff of a character-driven story was overtaken by HNNNGGG SPECIFIC PLOT ENDING, and wow, what a bummer. 

i picked up Gi(a)rlish Number on the recommendation that it was like Shirobako, but for seiyuu. which, hey, i like seiyuu AND Shirobako, seems great. unfortunately, it was just sort of. fine. it was okay. it was hard to like the various characters, and getting to know them stretched out sloooowly over all the episodes. and then it just ends, and i don’t really feel any desire to know them better, or see what happens to them. another one of those shows where “PLEASE LET ME LIKE YOUR CHARACTERS” is my biggest complaint.

yanno what’s FULL of characters that are easy to like? Ore Monogatari!! like, wow, if you can get out of this without being a little in love with every character, i applaud your cynicism. i thought maybe i’d failed to finish it when it was airing, and that was why it was still in my to-watch list? turns out, i had, and just never.. moved it. well done, past me. ah well, it was just as enjoyable on a rewatch, so please: if you enjoy shoujo bullshit at all, go watch it. it’ll make you feel better and you’ll probably smile about it. 

next, a couple dropped things! Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE! LOVE! is the same shit as the first season, so if you liked that, go for it. not for me, but i get the appeal! goofy magical girl shit, but they’re boys. 

i got a weeeeird hankering for Peak Shoujo Nonsense, so i tried picking up Hana Yori Dango, as i remembered enjoying the manga and drama series. unfortunately, it’s old and ugly and not in an endearing way. go watch the drama, it’s also stupid shoujo garbage, but the people are really pretty. 

aaaand the shit cherry on a shit cake full of shit anime: Brothers Conflict. i put it on hold when it was airing, because.. it was awful. i had hoped maybe the ending would make up for that? nope. no it does not. it’s a random high school girl who gets 13 new brothers by marriage, and all of them (from the assortment of grown-ass adults, right down to the kid in elementary school) want to date her. it’s full of all the sudden unwanted kissing and hugging scenes you’d expect from a show based on an otome game. the seiyuu cast is spectacular, of course, but wow. nothing really makes up for a bunch of adults going “i will continue to furiously love and bother you” when they get rejected and asked to stop.. trying.. to romance.. their sister. i finished it, but at what cost. 

currently, i’ve just finished the first season of Natsume Yuujinchou and it is.. basically the most inoffensive thing ever. you got some soft boy, you got some animal companion, you got some Japanese mythology/ghost story shit. it’s easy, it’s soothing, and i’m probably going to finish all four subsequent seasons even if nothing ever really happens. love me some long-running episodic anime, my dudes. it’s just good to knit to. 

tune in next time for “i made all of these hats to the soothing sounds of Nothing Happens With Ghosts: The Anime.”