#and the animation truly was beautiful

[beaulesbian]

peak romance

[elitadream]

A friend. 🌅

[dvilsdesire-a]

😈 Raphael x Haarlep 😈

[souenkun]

Natsume-dono, you think that this is beautiful?

[arabella-strange]

wait. I haven't even been thinking about how my lockscreen image since MAY 2022 has been the chromatic rose:

[my edit of the B&tB prologue, because my skills at illustration are not sufficient to my imagination]

[glassrunner]

while isha was very much a cutesy character that helped soften some of the harsh moments of season 2, i ultimately feel that her existence was unnecessary.

the moment she appeared onscreen and immediately tagged along with jinx, i got the sense that she was incredibly hamfisted into the plot for the purpose of eventually making jinx Suffer More. the progression of their relationship (which i understand happened over a timeskip, but seriously that timeskip is doing too much heavy lifting -- a problem in its own) from "annoying kid following me around" to "new little sister" isn't elegantly alluded to, it's constantly made extremely obvious. and just to make sure we get the point, riot puts the final nail into that narrative coffin by having jinx literally say aloud that isha is a basically a younger version of powder and paints her hair blue. and then two episodes later, she's gone. just to give jinx yet another reason to go insane, which she doesn't really need.

isha has literally no dialogue. she serves to remind the audience of jinx's past, minus the trauma. it's easy and expected to project a young powder onto every scene she's in, which is just a waste of a new character. but even before the direct isha/powder comparison, jinx declares that she's discarded that persona, that "jinx" is no more. somehow, isha's mere presence even calms down jinx's psychosis to the point that she has a mild break for presumably the first time in a while only after isha is taken away, which just feels extremely lazy and gratuitous -- like the big bad Insanity is just a convenient lever to pull when the plot needs more tension and drama, rather than something that jinx has suffered from her whole life, and which silco's death amplified to the max.

all of the interesting plotlines i was looking forward to, like caitlyn's spiral into vengeance and fascism, jinx's rage and grief and psychosis causing chaos, vi and caitlyn either reconciling or being unable to in the end... it all just feels like it was brushed aside. jinx, after firing a rocket that killed half the piltover council, decides she just won't fight piltover anymore; caitlyn, who's grateful for ambessa's support and guidance in her crackdown on zaun, suddenly turns on her to aid vi; vi, forgetting her life-threatening feud with jinx, abruptly remembers they indeed are sisters who shared a life. so many conflicts conveniently resolved in seconds, when they should've taken at least a few minutes to untangle -- all because we needed so much time devoted to isha and jinx's relationship.

don't get me wrong, i LOVE the emotional moments that have been present so far. i think they do still hit, but their beauty is definitely muted because the pacing is a complete disaster. it was really difficult to enjoy isha having a bug battle with jinx when 1. i didn't even really recognize that jinx and 2. i was constantly thinking about what the other characters were doing. with how many plotlines need to be wrapped up before the finale (zaun's independence, the black rose vs. the medarda clan, mel's supposed magehood, etc.), i'm really not confident that we'll get a satisfying ending, and honestly i wouldn't have minded not having isha in the plot at all if it meant we could get a more coherent and less rushed overarching storyline.

[twilightakiishi]

how kiryu says good morning ♡

based on a convo with @4rlekino 0.0 ty for the tattoo idea !!

[dogpawsswapgod]

💜

[cloudbends]

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH WONDERFUL PRECURE

[jambusaur]

i saw some very creative spongebob roleplayers in animal jam. i took 4 billion screenshots.

[crazylittlejester]

buy the cringey ass stickers of your hyperfixation if that’s what you want to do and slap that shit on your laptop or water bottle with pride, life is too short to be ‘normal’ and force yourself to be boring just to fit in

[dans-other-clone]

personal hell where you learn that the massively successful youtubers you followed for years are younger than you, actually

[sau-cen]

[squidspawn]

Ngl folks i have been livin' watching how the animation team handled Gear 5, it's been a truly awesome and eldritch experience <3

[wordswhisperinthedark]

MEDALIST I AM HOLDING YOU SO TIGHTLY

[ibrokeeverything]

I may have cried at the last frieren episode, but I am more than willing to be embarrassed when we meet again if it means we're getting a second season 😭