#absolute dynamite episode

[cowboyshit]

[vtimbertiger]

Alright here's the remaining "hero panels" I did of my faves

<The first 'panels' I did of Bakusquad>

[callmearcturus]

dottie lasso is the final boss of the show (and ted loses)

someone commented on my ted-is-a-feminine-junior-too post about recognizing dottie lasso and what she did, and i'm a Johnny-come-lately to this fandom so i missed all the discourse

but surely it's been discussed to death that Dottie Lasso is the Final Boss of Ted's life, right? like, she shows up on that bench and you should feel the opening of "MEGALOVANIA" in your soul because she's the villain of the story.

honestly, in Ted Lasso, the main villains are: Rupert Mannion, Twitter, Rupert Mannion again, cisnormativity/heteronormativity, and Dottie Lasso, kind of in that order IMO.

"Mom City" is kind of a genius episode with its thesis and punchline. Because Dottie shows up and derails Ted's entire life and not in a good way. She makes him palpably uncomfortable and all of his usual kindness and interest is just turned off around her.

This episode isn't shy about reminding the audience that Richmond has become Ted's home. From the most fish outta water who nearly gets killed looking the wrong way crossing the street, Ted knows his neighbors, knows the culture here, and is defensive with that knowledge because it's been hard-won over time.

No but really, look at how UNCOMFORTABLE Ted is EVERY MINUTE of this episode. It's so stark bc this charm offensive Dottie's doing on everyone at Richmond is so clearly a Lasso Thing. This is the exact tactic Ted used when he was new in town and completely at sea.

(fuck this got long, there's a lot more under the jump)

But he isn't charmed or permissive or entertained, he never once Yes, Ands what Dottie says. In fact, he corrects her all the time.

because Dottie being here is a nightmare. she's the person who knows the Ted Lasso Source Code and the way she maneuvers and nudges him, he seems helpless against it. So he continuously separates himself from her in what feels to me like a fearful reaction.

Like, when Dottie explains where she's staying, she does this trick

DOTTIE: An adorable little hostel. I've met so many Australians. They are backpacking through Europe. So much sex.

TED: Mom.

DOTTIE: Not me, the Australians.

TED: No, no, I get it, okay. How about you stay here for the rest of your trip, all right?

DOTTIE: Only if I'm not a hassle.

This is such a fucking move, you realize? She has been in London a fucking WEEK without telling him, then as soon as she tells him where she's staying, she, a midwestern mom to her open-minded but very romantically private son, invokes sex so he'll be uncomfortable with the situation and invite her to stay. This is a chess move they should call the Wichita Shuffle.

And Ted absolutely hates the way Dottie lies about him. The connection is pretty straightforward; Dottie deals with her trauma and pain by covering them up with pretty little lies and melting truths until they fit the shape she wants them to be in. Everything she says in this episode is bullshit.

(points up) THIS INCLUDED, BTW. This is the Ted that Dottie wants him to be, the guy who will fall on his sword at the first sign of someone else's discomfort.

But that isn't who Ted is anymore and Dottie saying this is vicious and cruel. It's disrespectful to Rebecca, to everyone at Richmond, and to the work Ted's done with Sharon.

which oooooooooh

hey, anyone else remember Ted's "I love meeting people's moms, it's like an instruction manual on why they're nuts" from S2? boy that's a brick joke

and this bit of dottie saying her anxiety re: ted's therapy out loud, that hissing sound is a fuse being lit in this moment

Ted calls her out directly. He knows how she operates because she raised him in her own image. As I noted in the other post, Leslie Higgins is not the only feminine junior at Richmond, so is Theodore Lasso, son of Dorothy Lasso.

THAT FUCKING DARK CHUCKLE, THE "YEAH OKAY" MOMENT this is the fuse finally reaching the dynamite

this is the moment, this moment of push-back, implicitly the first time Ted's ever pushed back in his life

this is the moment Dottie takes every single thing she knows about Ted, everything she put into him, and she destroys his fucking life with the exact four words it would take to make Ted give up everything he's worked for, all so he'll go back to being what she expects from him.

and hell if he doesn't know it.

everything he's done for himself, all the space he's finally allowed himself to fill, the progress and labor he's put into becoming a better person

mom shows up and tells him no, you're coming back.

(and the fact Dottie Lasso, a character who has not said five truthful things this entire episode, tells us how someone else feels should be questioned very fucking directly. i don't trust this woman to honestly report on Henry's opinion of peanut butter and jelly, let alone if he wants his father to give up his life and return to Kansas. i know every single fic has brought up the question of "hey why doesn't anyone ask Henry what he wants" but that's because SOMEONE needs to ask the question instead of taking Dorothy fucking Lasso's word for it, christ)

I don't know how tf you don't read this show as a tragedy. Dottie Lasso is incredible, she's so pitch-perfectly written and acted, and she's absolutely the final boss of the show. And Ted doesn't win that fight.

hell THE SHOW SAYS THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD, i would put the screencap here but I've run out of images, but THEY FUCK YOU UP, YOUR MUM AND DAD, THE SHOW SAYS IT this is a fantastic tragedy, i love it

[shanblackrx]

I have just witnessed firsthand someone saying that Jack & Joker is bad, complaining there weren't any kisses up until episode 6 that is when they dropped it.

I know I'm a J&J yapper first and foremost, but this kind of complaint involves way more than just the series. So I'm going to talk about these issues, using J&J as an example.

"There weren't any kisses up until episode 6"

Jack & Joker laid out what it came for within the first seconds of the first episode. It's a heist/action romance drama. You don't start a series that is supposed to focus only on the romance with someone running away from security. This is a classic kind of opening scene for action genre.

Once you understand that, you also understand, or at least should understand, that the romance might not be the only focus, or even the priority in the storytelling.

But Jack & Joker does also focus on romance - at the end of the opening scene, you see the two protagonists clashing. It shows the main conflict is between them, and that they have a past that apparently is not that good. It instigates you to want to know what the hell is that all about.

Another thing that the first 6 episodes absolutely make it very clear: it's a slow burn (or as we like to say, in their case, a very long dynamite fuse). As much as Joke wants to make up for all the shit he did, to help Jack and all, they are still consistently at odds with each other, there's a lot of misunderstandings and skeletons in the closet for them that they've yet to address.

Making the romance happen before all that is settled would be bad and forced. Speeding up the process to reach the romance quicker would be bad and forced. They had to gradually get closer, naturally opening up to each other before anything happening between them.

The end of episode 5 is when all that happens, and it's when they're finally on good terms. It's the final, biggest switch that needed to be flipped so they could move on to deepen their relationship.

So ep 6 specifically is literally the first episode after that. They didn't have time to actually be close, to feel at ease with one another, to let the good feeling finally surpass and suppress the bad ones. Episode 6 is all about that. It has a major homely vibe, intimate, close. Almost all scenes are inside the house, or with a friend group. The two of them are always together in this episode. It's definitely deliberate; it's to show their relationship changed.

And the flipped switch was so needed we have this in the very same episode. Just one episode after they make up for good. They've already made each other irreplaceable in their lives.

If we kept jumping through hoops to reach this point faster than ep 6, this kind of interaction wouldn't feel the same. This charged proximity, this romantic tension, wouldn't have the same impact if it had happened in, say, ep 3.

"But there still aren't any kiss scenes until episode 9"

Once again, it is a slow burn. Also, external problems start to happen to get in their way (after all, there's 12 episodes and conflicts need to happen lol). Like I said in this post, the feelings were already there, already known, but it still needed some time to solidify, and this process was abruptly interrupted; yet, it still inadvertently and inevitably grew and grew and grew until it just broke out of its cage for being too big and too wild to contain anymore.

So the process of the romance was:

end of ep 5: the forgiveness

episode 6: getting comfortable around each other, and probably coming to terms with their own feelings

episode 7: external factors and start of divorce mini arc

episode 8: end of divorce mini arc and making up

episode 9: the concretization of the feelings

In my honest opinion, the combo of eps 6 to 9 is by far the best arc of J&J, with the best scenes, but then I'd be going on a tangent here if I start talking about it, maybe in another yapping post.

Why did it have to be the span of 4 episodes? Because it is a slow burn. But it doesn't mean that they haven't shown any sort of intimacy or feelings towards one another throughout these 4 episodes - on the very contrary. These eps are literally focused on them and how their relationship is quickly shifting while they still need to deal with external factors.

Now, if you think only a kiss is the 'real' way to show what they feel for each other... well, then you're not interested in the story of the couple itself, you just want to watch the physical act. And it's totally fine! Honest! I do watch some things just for the visuals and hot-boys-kissing-makes-brain-go-brrrr.

But then we enter the other problem: saying it's bad because of it.

Listen, the slow burn in Jack & Joker might absolutely not be your cup of tea and that's fine. But just because you don't like it doesn't make it bad (and this is for literally anything).

I'm in the BL world for 25 years now. I can safely say I have seen a shitton of different slow burn stories. And in my 25 years of consistently reading and watching all sorts of BL, it's easy for me to say Jack & Joker has one of the most natural, most delicious and most rewarding slow burns I've ever seen, especially in thai BL.

It is excruciatingly slow. And that's precisely why when it breaks like that, so explosive, so intense, is why it's so rewarding. Making us wait is part of the thrill of the romance.

I have watched the We Still React videos and while discussing one of the episodes of J&J, Pharaoh says something that I agree wholeheartedly:

Of course there's nothing wrong with overtly romantic dramas that is romance for the sake of the romance, if that's what you like, it's fine. But diversity within the genre is important, just like in any other genre.

One very important thing to point here: despite saying at the beginning that establishing early on that the romance might not be priority, it doesn't make it irrelevant to the plot.

The pining and yearning is *literally* what moves the whole plot of J&J. If not for Jack and Joke meeting and being drawn and driven by each other, and after the time skip, if not for Joke basically pursuing Jack the whole first part, and then Jack eventually giving in to a feeling he had long buried within himself and letting him, literally nothing in the plot would happen.

The wedding ring, the necklace, Jack's freedom, the hangman game, everything happens because they're in love with each other.

Being able to see nuance is a key aspect of consuming any form of media. And the build up of the romance in J&J is precisely the small, subtle things that aren't black and white or expositive. And it's not that people are seeing things that aren't there; it's just that nuance blindness makes people skip them completely.

I think the biggest problem of people that say this kind of thing about J&J is that the good ole putting a certain expectation in the work, and when the work doesn't deliver exactly what you expect, it's suddenly bad.

Oh it didn't deliver a kiss within the first 3 episodes? Bad.

It doesn't work that way. You can absolutely hate the work, say it's the worst thing you've ever seen, but make it clear that it's your opinion. You're entitled to it. But your opinion is irrelevant to the quality of the work. Objectively speaking, a BL drama that doesn't deliver kisses within the first episodes isn't automatically bad. What might make it bad is precisely how everything before the kiss is done, and that is something that J&J does perfectly.

Does J&J have flaws? Absolutely. Some even I cannot pretend don't exist (and in actuality I am usually harsher on my criticism when it's about media I like). But it's not half the things people who don't like it make it seem to be, because most of it are personal opinions that don't actually reflect the work.

If you want works that have kisses within the first episodes, there is a ton of it waiting for you to appreciate them. Go on and look up for what you want instead of putting expectations in a work that never promised what you wanted from it.

[thetorturedtrudiedepartment]

"There’s a kind of on-screen dynamic you have no hope of achieving artificially. Manufacturing a fictional relationship is one thing, stumbling upon it is another, much more pleasant, thing. They simply had electricity — this was undeniable, like the answer to an equation.

One of the things that made the unexpected Root and Shaw arc so flavorful was that they're excellent characters individually. Root was defined by transience. She colored outside the lines, believing she had no future. Amy Acker’s charming hacker also had a fleeting, malleable quality because she was inconsistent — she rotated through moral codes and identities like socks. Shaw, on the other hand, was a constant. She was sure of herself and her path as a soldier — a predictable modus operandi of working the numbers and keeping teammates alive. The odd attraction between them lay in those fundamental differences. Shaw, a solid brick wall, found chaos seductive, and Root, who weaved in and out of the story like a quirky ghost, was intrigued by bluntness and walled boundaries. Unstoppable force meets an immovable object… you get it. They brought out the best and worst in each other."

Hello, y'all! My free Substack (which as of right now is entirely POI blogs) needed watering and I needed to get my Shoot rambles out of my brain.

This is the result. Like my Root essay, this is a long read and spoilery. In this, I explain why Root and Shaw were absolute dynamite together and how POI executed a memorable romance with a lot of hurdles in the way

[diamonds-of-the-first-water]

It’s Polin Season

*Spoilers ahead for Bridgerton Season 3 part 1*

so i finished part 1 and oh my god. it was great. i’m gonna rewatch it later, but i want to list some of my favorite things after first watch (i’ll probably forget things I have been awake all night and am sleep deprived but oh well)

colin and el being elusive with one another about their activities

colin having a wet dream after one kiss

colin groping penelope like she was gonna float away

penelope’s new wardrobe and hair (they suit her so well)

PRUDANK

FROHN

phillipa not understanding how a baby is made or born and wondering why her husband has to change his pants after they kiss

surprisingly the music choices! when they were initially released i was wary but they all seem to fit the moment (aside from dynamite which was kinda just there?)

the carriage ride was even better than i imagined and i have imagined it many different ways so bravo team

ending with an almost direct book quote (for gods sake penelope featherington are you going to marry me or not?) chefs kiss. absolutely zero notes

for the show i’m glad the whistledown reveal wasn’t before the carriage scene it wouldn’t have made sense and there wouldn’t have been enough time to resolve it

honestly cressida makes much more sense as a character to me this season but it still doesn’t excuse her being a bully ( i like her but i love pen so)

marcus anderson seems like a good match for violet and i want to learn more about him

we got to see happy kanthony without them overshadowing the new couple (much like daphne in the first season)

things i didn’t like very much

another plot about benedict sleeping with some woman who will no longer be relevant next season

cressida being straight. this is wrong, do it again and get it right this time.

i honestly would have preferred penelope break off the engagement because she’s still in love with colin than debling doing it for her, but the tension cause of the broken engagement was sweet

though i’m glad kanthony wasn’t overused i still wish they showed up more in part 1, i know they will be back but still. at least one other episode

lady danbury and penelope’s relationship isn’t as strong as it is in the books. mind you polin names their first kid after her.

summary:

with what I have seen so far i almost wish we had gotten weekly releases instead. ideally we’d get the whole thing at once but if that wasn’t an option weekly would have been nice. i’m kinda tired of the binge model. overall i loved part 1 and will definitely be rewatching it later

more thoughts to come! thank you nicola and luke for doing our polin justice

[if-i-was-a-cucumber]

fire and dynamite never fail to make me pause and squeal and giggle like i’m watching my first ever bl

this smile when dynamite finally turns to look at him??? GOLDEN

fire doing a complete 180 and becoming a hardworking addition to the simp community?? HAS MY HEART

these gorgeous 5 seconds where fire can’t suppress his smile because dynamite is just existing??? KILL ME NOW

dynamite being absolutely 100% correct on his first guess without any prior knowledge of the situation?? THEY’RE SOULMATES

dynamite’s smile after fire admits the truth that literally everyone knew about since episode whatever in the sex work street??? THE DEFINITION OF PRECIOUS

[neuroticbookworm]

FRIENDS. FRIENDS.

Cooking Crush is undoubtedly one of the best shows airing at the moment.

Today's episode gave me so much life that I don't even know where to begin, but I'm gonna try my best to pull two (2) coherent thoughts out of my melting brain.

1. The Three Must-Eat-eers Conflict and Resolution:

Last episode had set up such a perfect conflict that's rarely handled well in any media: the bruised feelings of the single friend when the rest of the gang gets into committed romantic relationships. Most of the time this scenario shows up in media, one party will be framed as selfish and/or jealous. None of that nonsense here; Cooking Crush has always taken the friendship of its characters very seriously, especially Prem, Dynamite and Samsee. Samsee’s feelings were hurt not just because of his own fears of being abandoned by his friends, he was also (rightfully) mad that he ended up as the only friend who was kept out of the loop of knowing that his best friends had boyfriends now. But Prem and Dynamite did not intend to do this, and they were also right to set their own pace in making their relationship public, but it’s just that the string of accidental reveals happened in an order that made Samsee feel like a third-wheeler in his own home, twice over.

Cooking Crush treats its characters with a lot of kindness and empathy and it shows. Prem and Dy wanting to keep their relationships under wraps for the time being is valid. Samsee feeling hurt and lost, and opting out of the competition is valid. This episode begins with the drama of the cooking competition and works its comedy (thank you for the chuckles, wildly gesticulating White Man) and romance (my poor heart swooned all over my rib cage when Ten helped Prem into his chef clothes). And when the time came for the big reconciliation, the show does not sweep away Samee’s very hurt feelings just because Prem and Dy struggled without Samsee for most of the first round of cooking. He apologizes for ditching them and Dy was having none of it.

(Dy, my perfect child, oh how I love you with my entire heart)

Perfect resolution. and a well-earned, most adorable group hug to bookend it. I truly could not be more in love with this show. Or can I?

2. Miscommunication? Nah.

Well, this episode also featured the Annoying Asshole Chef dude who’s determined to pursue Prem even though it is very clear that Prem is not interested and would reject his advances, if only he stuck around long enough to actually get rejected and not run away from him like a goddamn coward. I was furious when he positioned himself as an actual option for Prem to Ten in this episode, and thoroughly enjoyed every moment Ten chose to call him out on his bullshit.

But y’all. The very inappropriate hug. The well-deserved punch to his stupid face. The storm-off. All of it had me very concerned that this is all barrelling towards a classic miscommunication moment.

BUT NO.

THE SHOW SAID THERE WILL BE NO STUPID MISCOMMUNICATION.

NOT IN THIS HOUSE.

My problem with the miscommunication trope is that it ultimately positions the couple we are supposed to be rooting for as a weak team. Honest communication and vulnerability in a new-ish relationship is not easy, and it takes a lot of courage to take that step to be the one to spell out the facts, and trust that the other person likes them well enough to keep an open ear, and believe them when they say a meddling cowardly asshole is trying to get in the way of their relationship. Ten’s bravery was perfectly contrasted with the sliminess of the Annoying Cowardly Chef (I refuse to learn his name, he is not worth my braincells).

Oh but Ten wasn’t done yet!

I absolutely adore how he moves the conversation away from that pesky little pest of a human towards something that matters more: his desire to make things official with Prem. The Annoying Asshole Chef was not the focus of the conversation, Ten and Prem are. And it all culminates in an incredible kiss and a camera swoop that already has a permanent little shrine in my silly little head.

TAKE MY HEART, COOKING CRUSH. TREAT IT WELL.

[godfrey-the-chaos-duck]

Glomgold Night Highlights!!

as @violetganache42 is on vacation, I'm taking on the highlights post for tonight! Now, I missed a lot of the later part of the night so if anyone has any particular moments they want to add in a reblog, please do!

The Ballad Of Duke Baloney! (DT17)

Me finally showing up on time for the start of the thing for once!!!! (buuut i had a black screen for the whole entire thing, Le Sad)

@hueberryshortcake and @luckyduck-main crocheting during this movie night, we love to see it

Everyone LOVING Zan Owlson (as we SHOULD)

Me: "so glad i can follow this with just audio" @hueberryshortcake: "have you tried not being in Ireland" (idfk why the black screen happened but it's not the ireland thing lmao)

(When Glomgold put the fish in the wedding attire and the dynamite out of the boat) @puffyducks: "HE'S TARGETING THE BISEXUALS"

@writebackatya, @hueberryshortcake and I straight up Goncharov-ing a new (and controversial!) DuckTales episode wherein Glomgold was an unassuming pastry chef, the Pep factory is involved, and Gladstone gets killed with hammers. Twice.

The weird-ass dream sequence and the rise of Duck In A Top Hat Thursday (Sunday)

@smugrexx: "Glomgold is just Duke Baloney's self insert OC that he's been cosplaying as for years without end" Me: "nonono, Glomgold is his drag persona, think Chappell Roan"

also @smugrexx posted this

During the scene where Scrooge and Glomgold make the bet, I quoted "And no-one else was in the room where it happened" (i'm a hamilton girlie)

Master Of The Djinni (DT87)

People saying the genie sounded like King Candy from Wreck-It Ralph

@puffyducks "trying to get some ice cream and my BITCH rival is there too"

SCROOGE AND GLOMGOLD IN DRAG

The 87 Cent Solution! (DT17)

me being insufferable about tennant's voice as per usual (this episode is my absolute uncontested favourite) @tealottie I carried the torch for us both. also i was quoting the episode to myself as we watched cause I know that bitch by HEART

@hueberryshortcake "This is literally me every time I get sick I am so annoying sorry, I'M LITERALLY FINE" (i can relate)

Me, to Scrooge: "My good sir. Denial is a river in Egypt."

@writebackatya "Scrooge should get robbed more often, just to keep him on his toes" @smugrexx "Honestly pretty good company test, like any random day of the year one random employee steals like a cent from him and we see how it goes."

@luckyduck-main "BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF HIM ZAN" (YESSSS)

@alex31624 "chicken soup in front of gyro" (duck logic amirite)

Scrooge muttering angrily to himself while the kids count his money

Me, at the scene on the bridge right before the plane crash: "HE AIMS HIS PISTOL AT THE SKY! wAIT--!" (again, hamilton girlie)

@luckyduck-main finding the script for me cause I was curious (thanks btw!)

"Et tu, Headless Man-Horse?" (BEST LINE)

ALL I DO IS WIN WIN WIN NO MATTER WHAT

@puffyducks (about Glomgold's tomfuckery)

A Whale Of A Bad Time (DT87)

Everybody spamming "A SEA MONSTER ATE MY ICE CREAM" in chat. Well done, guys

Navy Donald shoutout

Raiders Of The Doomsday Vault! (DT17)

One Piece jokes in chat

LUDWIG VON DRAKE, EVERYONE'S BELOVED

"STAND OUT, ABOVE THE CROWD, EVEN IF I GOTTA SHOUT OUT LOUD" (powerliiiine)

Glomgold and Scrooge on the ice being a Toxic Yaoi Moment Of All Time

GlomTales! (DT17)

EVERYONE jokingly Della-hating cause that discourse is Ridiculous

people quoting the GlomTales intro in the chat yeaaaa

@spamtoon typing. very oddly

FAMILY IS THE GREATEST SCHEME OF ALL

anyway this night was SUPER fun, omfg THANK YOU

[midnight1nk]

do you think meme guardians have like a pulse and do you think if they do it’s like by default different than a normal human’s

Define human. /jk

But seriously, for the SMG4 universe to exist in a digital plane, the answer is complicated. To establish a pulse, we have to establish that death exists. But what exactly is death?

Sure, we've seen characters have died before in the plot. But what are the limits their bodies are able to handle before they can't any longer? And that's the tricky part. Every character can shrink or extend their limbs at will. They can explode at the end form one episode and seem absolutely fine in the next. Hell, 4 and Mario ate rat poison and dynamite respectively, and they lived.

We kinda had this discussion before about it and long short, we can a mutual consensus that it had to depend on the intent of the narrative. If it was serious or meant to be a gag. After all, the world turned comedic after 3 & 4's arrival, it's all on the plot.

So yes, death exists. and we've had several instances of characters having a pulse, including 4, with the heart monitor and the fact that doctors exist. Though very much part of a gag, a pulse exists. Speaking of 3 & 4, I personally hc them to be the "aliens" of their world. They came out of USBs, obviously. They might look as humanoid as they can be but they are different from everyone else.

the fact that their lives are influenced by their avatar's code

the two share a cosmic connection to each other, or as 3 puts it, their "meme guardian senses"

and other examples

Now this is more of hc territory, but I think they do have a normal pulse. The only exception is that, for each meme guardian pairing, they have a syncing rate. 1 & 2 would've had theirs sync to each other. 1 & 2. and ofc 3 & 4. And it may be one of the physical responses their body triggers that something is wrong with their guardian partner, aside from a psychological response. Again, that's my personal hc. (Hopefully, this made sense.)

thanks for the ask! and for joining the QnA! [link]

[animenostalgia]

News - The official Macross website has announced that the Disney+ streaming service will be the home of nearly all of the Macross anime franchise streaming worldwide "by the end of 2024". This excludes the original TV series and Do You Remember Love? film, which are both listed as only having "limited distribution inside Japan".

The following titles are listed for distribution outside Japan:

Macross: Flash Back 2012 music video

Macross II: Lovers, Again (6 episodes)

Macross Plus (4 episodes total)

Macross Plus Movie Edition

Macross 7 (49 television episodes, plus three OVA episodes)

Macross 7 the Movie: The Galaxy's Calling Me!

Macross Dynamite 7 (4 episodes)

Macross Zero (5 episodes)

Macross Frontier (25 episodes)

Macross Frontier: The False Songstress

Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell

Macross Frontier Toki no Meikyū

Macross FB7: Ore no Uta o Kike!

Macross Delta (26 episodes)

Macross Delta the Movie: Passionate Walkūre

Macross Delta the Movie: Absolute Live!!!!!!

No exact date or specific countries/territories have been listed yet, but I'll be sure to update with more information as it becomes available.

[through-a-blackhole]

reminders about bakugou katsuki:

he's NOT an early riser and early sleeper, as what most fanfics claim him to be

he sleeps at like 8:30 and wakes up at noon (according to his ma in that one episode where he's brushing his teeth aggressively)

his other female friend (aka the one he kinda tolerates more) is not ashido mina but jirou kyouka

there was absolutely NO reason for katsuki to mention ochako's "roundness" but he did, in addition to acknowledging her guts

it makes sense for him to be an early sleeper and late riser??? bro spends his entire day doing everything 100% from brushing his teeth, to studying, to working out. ofc he's gonna get tired the minute he hits the hay

this is not to say he doesn't wake up early! i know FOR A FACT he can get up as early as he wants, but normally he's a late riser

bakugou katsuki IS A NERD HE'S A NERD HE'S SUCH A NERD

as much as he called deku a nerd??? katsuki was almost as much of a nerd as midoriya wtf

his academics? STELLAR. his work ethic? IMPECCABLE. his consistency and perfectionism? UNMATCHED.

the only person he acknowledged by name without the other person introducing themselves is ochako uraraka (kirishima introduced himself multiple times along with mina, sero, etc. todoroki, he kinda had no way of NOT knowing his name seeing as he was the son of the top 2 hero at that time and shouto was his classmate. ofc katsuki wanted to make sure he was Better)

he is Handsome and has Great Fashion Sense (just pause all the times they're in casual wear. he's OUTMUGGING them all)

in the episode where they showed how aspiring heroes could send the hero commission costume designs, they showed katsuki's drawing along with iida's

the words scribbled around his drawing were:

"flashy!" "make it look strong!"

"full-body dynamite!" and around his grenades were notes like "start with something here/something comes out here"

and his spiky thing on top "something with an intimidating vibe"

[korsinthe]

Can ya ramble about your oc? Very curious about the guy

ABSOLUTELY.

There are actually 3 seperate versions of Roan (MC, Miskatonic NPC, and Slasher) but i'll just start with the main jist of his character since i'm still working on fleshing him out fully

as a kid, Roan lived by the shore and his dad had made ends meet by dynamite fishing and owning a fishing shop. he learned all about explosives from his dad and even learned how to make his own at home, but his love for the ocean and marine biology came from his mom. so yeah, one part of him loves the sea and the other wants to destroy it for money

lets just say his mom DID NOT like the idea of Roan and his dad blowing up and stealing from coral reefs and ecosystems for cash. while Roan was busy cleaning up the beach, his mom and dad were having a screaming match in their house. (MC Roan likely would have met Nico during this time)

his entire childhood from 8-16 consists of acting as a messenger between his mom and dad because they refuse to speak to eachother, taking care of the fishing shop, and running away to talk to the various marine life along the shore.

seventeenth birthday is when shit goes down because his dad was gonna treat him to a birthday fishing trip. his mom was obviously pissed and said that Roan should stay home and help him bake his birthday cake.

at this point is where it kinda breaks into multiverse territory and shit because his decision here is kinda what results into him becoming MC, living in Miskatonic, or becoming a slasher.

Chooses to go with his dad: Becomes a slasher. Kills his dad by pushing him into the water when the dynamite exploded and finds a group of fishers and kills them too

Chooses to go with his mom: Becomes a counselor. Bakes the cake with his mom and continues his life at the shop. After a few years, signs up to be a counselor with Nico.

Chooses to run away: Runs off to Miskatonic and finds a job working at a movie theatre as part of the special effects crew. You can find him investigating near the explosions in the later episodes of Slashfic.

this is a ROUGH idea guys... dont be surprised if it ends up not making sense at all. sorry if this was more backstory central i swear ill flesh out his personality more later on

[theromanticscrooge]

Does anyone ship Dynamite Watkins and Carla?

They have a fun dynamic and interesting chemistry. I'd love to see followup where they hit it off and hang out outside of the commentators' booth. What does it look like when either one is off camera or in a more low-key, casual setting? Dynamite seems like she's 'on' all the time, but I'd argue her one-off episode requires her to keep up the TV persona despite the switch from newscaster to one-off indie investigative journalist stint. I don't know. She might be really chill and low energy otherwise. Carla comes across as living in her own world and generally pleasant, but very enthusiastic and ready to go at the drop of a hat. Her energy is kind of a soundboard; she brings whatever enthusiasm and go-getter energy her potential collaborator needs.

I also really want a crackship complement to Cupid and Joe Cuppa and I further love the idea of these four as a weird friend group that go on double dates sometimes. When I loop back around to my Joe Cuppa fic, I'm going for it.

You guys are lucky I don't have any direct means to make anything in this cartoon or fictional universe canon. Because if I did, we'd have canon Cupid/Joe Cuppa. In short, I'm sold on the idea of these two as an unexpected friendship or romance.

Unrelated to my shipping bullshit, I want to take a crack at the "Let's Fight to the End" tournament arc at some point. Talking about specific shonen tropes, especially stuff like power levels or the classic tournament arc, is a bit out of my wheelhouse. I'm probably going to reference someone like Totally Not Mark or anime-heavy commentators for what ideas or concepts I think are getting some kind of hat tip or homage. I've only touched on the big character beats there so far. I know Shadowy Venomous and T.K.O. are the huge cornerstone of this show's themes and story.

Personally, I keep coming back to "Dark Plaza" and the surrounding stories for that since that's more interesting to me. Honestly...I consider the Foxtail story line something that'd be a fantastic end cap to any other hero-centric story or plot line. Shadowy works as the big finale because family and friendship are bigger themes than complicated morality and politics around heroes and villains in O.K. K.O. I'm more likely to put together a video on Chip Damage before anything else related to Shadowy or T.K.O. specifically because I'm more interested in what Dark Plaza was trying to tackle (This shit is why I'm invested in Invincible).

Since this is a ramble session anyway, I have dropped hints at wanting to explore more about POINT in my fan fics. I don't expect everyone to read everything I've put out there and want to try to keep things fairly self-contained. But my references or hints at the POINT 'old guard' are absolutely my attempt to build up to something. If I'm gonna keep writing fics, I'm interested in adding something substantial and new as much as just fluff or exploring character stuff I would have liked to see.

[xmephonex]

Hello hello!! Name's Kiim with TWO I'S. not Kim, or you can just call me Hannah..anyway i am a huge objectified fan and a #1 dynamite fan AND irl!! If you have any questions, then feel free to ask! ^_^

How did i get into the Objectified fandom?? Well i was just scrolling in TikTok and I've been seeing objectified posts about the episodes releasing and i was pissed off but decided to read it, and after reading i absolutely love it and finished reading it in 2 days. Why do i love Dynamite and why do i kin him?? Well it's not only because of he's silly and has ADHD, it's also because he's embarrassed by his own Bestial features and behaviors+ struggle to hunt. And that seems so much like me but I'm not really telling full details on what i am actually embarrassing about because i don't feel safe.

(I kin the girl above this picture, slash Lipgloss)

Here are some object shows i know+have watched!!

BFB

BATTLE FOR BFB

TPOT

II 1

II 2

III

OBS

ION

LEVEL UP

BURNER

CFMOT

SFAIM

ATCOE

BFDI MINI

AIB

THE DAILY OBJECT SHOW

THE MINUTELY OBJECT SHOW

THANOS

THE NIGHTLY MANOR

OBJECT MANOR

OSO

BRAWL OF THE OBJECTS

ONE

BATTLE FOR CIRCLE

BATTLE FOR GRANDMA

BURGER BRAWL

ABSTRACT REALITY

BFTMI

HAPPY STARS GUIDE TO OBJECT SHOWS

CB

MODERN OBJECTS

BFO

RFTK

SHAPE WORLD

CBA

5 SECONDLY OBJECT SHOW

ORB

CRAP!!

OBJECT FOOL

CDM

GGG

RTTMOT

HELP HOTLINE

S*N

INANIMATE BATTLE

AI GENERATED OBJECT SHOW

CAST 139

OOV

5SOS2

THE BROADCAST OBJECTIVE

OBJECT KERFUFFLE

MOSS

5SOS3

Anarchy Isle

X-FORD (VERY VERY COOL OBJECT SHOW THAT'S LIKE AN ANIME SERIES)

IT'S TIME FOR THE

THE WAITING ROOM

BATTLE FOR RICE

OBJECTIFIED

THE FOUR MOONS INITIATIVE

SEARCH FOR SMOS

... That's it (i think so)

[explosionshark]

As you know I have only seen S1 but I love that Mary’s attempts to talk Lilith down work AFTER Lilith is corrupted/possessed/whatever’s happened there and not before.

Lilith in her right mind was like “I am going to kill Ava and you cannot stop me” because she didn’t have reason to doubt herself and she was so sure but in the last couple of episodes she really starts to doubt her own mind and that makes her rely more on her friends’ perceptions of things.

The scene where she just picks up the dynamite… girl what!!! I am unraveling her thread by thread and watching her spin out uwu

Right right I think part of it also is like uh. Well. Dying really affected her. The thing with Lilith is we KNOW she didn't used to have such a bad relationship with everyone - we get a comment (I think from Mary? Maybe Bea?) that they were all pretty tight until Shannon got the Halo. So like - obviously Lilith is kind of a competitive abrasive bastard but when she was convinced that she would become the next Bearer (and why wouldn't she be convinced when she works this hard and her family line has produced several) she was able to at least maintain friendships. But then Shannon gets the Halo and Lilith becomes an absolute jealous asshole over it and pushes everyone away.

But then Ava shows up and it happens all over again only it's WORSE this time because that's two rejections and this time not even to another member of the Order but literally some recently dead orphan that showed up out of NOWHERE and didn't even earn it. So yeah. She spirals. Pushes people even harder. Lets the Cardinal play to her ego and gradually becomes an even worse version of herself bc she's SO convinced she's right

Obviously the dying is traumatic but what really gets me is when Lilith comes back. Like??? When she walks up to her own memorial and picks up the picture with her and Bea and Mary and she's like 🥺

And I think that's part of why she's able to get talked down after - she'd spent so much time doubling down and isolating herself and convincing herself that the resentment she felt towards the others was mutual and then she finds this proof that they mourned her and this reminder that they used to be close and it kind of grounds her and opens up that doubt that she needs to step back from the insane destructive single-minded warpath she's been on this whole time

Tldr LOCAL WOMAN COMES BACK FROM THE GRAVE REALIZES HER FRIENDS LOVED HER FOR REALSIES BECOMES SLIGHTLY LESS HOMICIDAL MORE AT ELEVEN