#absolutely insane

[seventeenlovesthree]

Also, a very important parallel/contrast I did not point out before due to the number of pictures, but got reminded of again recently:

The thematic difference in closeness between both boys and their mothers at this point in time is just... Heartbreaking.

@digimonadventureweek Day 6, March 6th - Favourite episode: #31 - "Raremon! Surprise Attack on Tokyo Bay"

I have once made a list of my "Top 16 favourite Digimon Adventure episodes" and no matter what I do, I always come back to this one. Not only is this one of the episodes my dad had recorded for me when I was a kid because I couldn't watch it when it first aired on TV, but it also basically contains everything that I love about Digimon Adventure as a whole. It also justifies a lot of my biases and headcanons in the process, but that's just a side note.

This is the closest we've ever gotten to a "slice of life" anime that includes the original cast, as it contains several of its typical elements while focusing on and mirroring primarily Taichi's and Koushirou's experiences on their first evening back home in the real world. I could have taken approximately 100 screenshots of it, because the storytelling and pacing are just so marvelous to me:

Even though it definitely IS a slice-of-life-ish episode, it doesn't lose the main plot at all, but intertwines it perfectly into the story: The kids are looking for the eighth child and Taichi, rightfully, suspects Hikari, since she had been with him during the Hikarigaoka incident. Thus he and Koromon ask her if she owns a Digivice already, which she denies. The viewer can tell that she does own one, it was just stolen and played with by their housecat Meeko/Miko - and she is the reason we're gonna get an action-packed chase scene later down the line of the episode...

Then there's the secondary plot - I refuse to call it B plot, because it is so in the forefront of everything that happens. As mentioned, it's all about Taichi and Koushirou reuniting with their families and trying their best to hide their Digimon from them. They're both having rather warm, heartfelt and happy moments that feel light-hearted (and even a bit comedic) on surface level. The difference here is that Koushirou's personal backstory is also given more space to bloom; while both Taichi's mother, Yuuko, and Koushirou's mother, Kae, sense that something about their sons is off, the latter seems to be ridden by melancholy and guilt about it. Koushirou has been acting nothing but polite and grateful towards her, but she feels like this is not how he should be like, that he is hiding something - which, as her husband, Masami, puts it, "is nothing we can blame him for, since we're hiding something from him as well".

It's the first time the viewer actually hears that Koushirou was adopted - we have seen him having flashbacks and getting somewhat distraught and sad about something, but we didn't know what it was. One can tell that he means it when he tells his mother that he's grateful - we see it when he keeps smiling happily to Tentomon about everything -, but there is that barrier. He IS hiding something from them - and we know it's not just Tentomon, even if that is perfectly mirrored with Taichi hiding Koromon as well -, but she cannot grasp what it is. And he is burdening himself with it, everything: Caring for and hiding his partner, sneaking out of his room to deal with a rampaging Digimon in the middle of the night while (potentially) chasing the eighth child around town - on his own, because the others are already fast asleep -, having a one-on-one fight with an evil Digimon and almost gets impaled, while also trying to reassure his parents that everything is alright. A lot to bear for a 10-year-old, huh...

And why was he prompted to act in the first place? Not only because he was notified of Raremon being a threat, but also because the Yagami cat went on a stroll with the eighth child's Digivice and lost it several times over.

This episode simply has it all: It has a sense of happiness and peacefulness, it has comedic elements, it has a suspenseful fight and chase scene; the main plot and character development are perfectly intertwined and even though there is so much going on, it doesn't feel rushed, bloated or like anything shouldn't be there. The characters are pretty unreliable narrators while the viewer can see everything that happens - nothing gets resolved in this episode, it consists of a repeated "Almost!", but that is fine, because it contextualizes everything that will happen from now on.

It also tells us so much about the Yagami and Izumi family dynamics, including the fact that the mothers are very familiar with the fact that their sons are close friends who call each other at very odd times...

The adoption topic is rather heavy, not downplayed and presented in a light that makes you hope that all of this will eventually resolve.

It's just very dear to my heart and I would absolutely love a whole anime that deals with all of the kids and their backstories similarly, giving them all temporary main-character status.

[livingthewritelife-things]

[diphowell]

Defining your terms is important. (thank you to @azuphere for making this connection!)

[gunsatthaphan]

my new roman empire 😩😭

[isnt-that-wizardd]

there is just something about the difference between edwin's love interests and having the cat king's reaction to edwin in hell being "i'll be waiting when he gets back" vs charles "no version of this where i don't come get you" rowland convincing a powerful trans-dimensional being to open a door to hell just so he could get him back

i am insane

[captainmaxatx]

I honestly haven’t been this obsessed with something in a long time, I don’t know what Hugh and Ryan put into Deadpool and Wolverine but it is dragging me back to my old levels of hyper fixation and I’m going insane

[buckleyanddiaz]

there's something truly comical about the canon fact that not only does Tommy clock that Eddie is Not Straight but he does it with the simultaneous knowledge that Eddie is Not Straight in feelings for Buck. Eddie being competition is about Buck's affection and attention, or rather truly Buck's commitment and devotion. So it's not about Eddie being Not Straight, that's Buck's point of focus in the argument, but rather that Eddie has feelings for Buck. MADDIE says that it's not crazy if Buck is in love with Eddie. Tommy was outright saying that the love is reciprocal, that EDDIE has feelings for Buck. this is from the guy who watched Eddie wear a couple's costume with Buck at a bachelor's party and then clocked the not-so-subtle comments. so he has known, on some level, about EDDIE'S feelings from before Madney's wedding. it's just hilarious to add that layer when considering everything that happened after the bachelor's party. I'm genuinely fascinated about Tommy rushing to the Madney wedding knowing/suspecting that he clocked Eddie at the bachelor's party itself.

[texaschainsawmascara]

tattoo by h.mong_poke

[sophsun1]

Interview With The Vampire – 1.01 | 2.03

[gwencel]

gay ppl be like You're a genius. You're stone cold brilliant, you are. I swear, you really are. But you could be so much more. You could be beautiful. With a mind like that, we could travel the stars. It would be my honour. Because you don't need to own the universe, just see it. To have the privilege of seeing the whole of time and space. That's ownership enough.

[theghostinabadbook]

Okay, what the FUCK was this chapter??

[dinkykate]

still feeling quite feral over her sliding her?their? hands down between their bodies and then the immediate cut to their shared breath and the bite of her lip

[emahriel]

A ceasefire to protect civilians and allow to provide humanitarian aid... and some of these countries abstained from voting or voted against?

[kelseas-ballerini]

Holy hell... we're in trouble. So much trouble.

THE ARTFUL DODGER, 1.06 "Bully in the Alley"

[emotoangel]

oh btw insane thing Phil said at the show tonight ,,, they were talking about gravy for the 1 minute segment, and Phil said (to Dan) “talking about gravy - you like a good stuffing as well don’t you” 😭😭😭what the fuck 😭😭😭😭

[stuck-in-gambit-send-help]

Currently watching these guys continuously crashing to their deaths while trying to sparrow-fly

It is weirdly amusing, especially because one of them is called iLoveEagerEdge

Sometimes a fourth one flies by on their Sparrow because they can already do it