#anime has ruined me

[anne-is-confused]

hear me, o patroness of girlstrugglers

[otiksimr]

Kind of just general rendering/shading practice.

Legendary pokemon are legendary yes but before all of that they're animals living and breathing like the rest of us. All of the stories talking up these beasts make people forget that they're still mortal creatures.

[so-very-small]

“im scared to tell partners im into gt” understandable. but also we only get one life. and someone who loves you will not judge you on this. if someone loves you then they will, in fact, not mind indulging in your interests, even if they don’t share them. i pretended to actually enjoy shonen anime for 3 whole years. never let a shitty partner tell you gt is too much. look at me. i watched 400+ episodes of naruto for a man. don’t EVER settle for a person who thinks your passions aren’t worth it. there is someone out there who will love to be giant/tiny for you.

[loverln]

So how are YOU feeling this morning?

I JUST SAW THIS BUT I AM AS OK AS ANYONE WITH A BKDK TATTOO COULD BE TODAY LMAO

he’s so pretty this ep too T-T

[shitty-gay-mess]

Now hear me out. I know this isn't a sehlat, but imagine Spock coming across one of these stuffed saber-tooth tigers in a terran gift shop and going completely stock still. Jim notices, naturally, and asks him what's wrong. Spock responds with more silence. Eventually he walks away from the shelf. The incident sticks with Jim, though, until one day he's talking to Sarek about one thing or another, and Spock's childhood pet comes up in conversation. I-chaya the sehlat, Spock's beloved pet. So Jim does some research on sehlats, and discovers they look very much like the extinct Terran species, Smilodon. Nearly identical in fact, and suddenly, that moment in the gift shop makes sense. Seeing a stuffed animal of his first pet must have been extremely difficult for Spock; Jim knew a picture if his family dog would make him cry on the spot. He quietly purchases a stuffed sehlat and makes sure it finds its way to Spock's quarters. He never sees Spock with it, but it's always on the foot of his bed when Jim is in his quarters.

It's Spock's first stuffed animal.

[spicysucculentz]

my sincerest reaction to clone wars style thrawn

[armins-fuckin-grandpa]

Officially started season 4, cannot wait for eren to get even more emo. Seriously whyd he have to be such a buzzkill at the beach enjoy urself for once laddo ur gonna be in a ditch sooner or later

[ninkaku]

they didn’t need to go this hard in the stage play i fear like the director said “take five” and these two heard “ruin lives”

“you big into exploring the effect that oda’s limitless friendship had on dazai and how it shaped him as a person?”

[sinnbaddie]

I’m starting to hate STSG so much solely for the fact that I cannot consume any content of my faves without them always being brought up or inserted into the conversation in some type of way

I just wanna hyperfixate on Hikara and Itafushi yet the most toxic and unhealthy ship is brought up more in their tags than them themselves

[bulbabutt]

Don’t let the internet lie to you earthspark s2 (part 1) good just the usual “over dadification” of a fandom creating their own version of a piece of media in their heads that ends up soooo out of touch with its own source material, and it ends making people see the actual media itself as out of character because it didn’t go the way the fandom warped brain made them think 🤷‍♂️

idk what franchise you think this is but starscream going crazy with power is not new or out of left field have you SEEN cybertron? WFC? Cyberverse? G1? Etc etc etc??? Starscream is always the most unhinged decepticon and will ALWAYS do things that end up fucking him over in the long run. Starscream never learns THATS WHY HES THE FAN FAVORITE. I’m sorry she’s too crazy for you but she’s my queen and I love her

[oriondec]

I don’t really like this that much, but I worked really hard on it so I’m still posting it 😭😭

[longagoitwastuesday]

I am liking Jujutsu Kaisen, way more than I imagined I would, but I foresee it will let me down and it's keeping me from enjoying this as much as I could haha

I think the characters and dynamics are well set, and I think many of them have an incredibly good and deep potential, but I would be willing to bet they'll not get a proper development, enough for them to really hit. A well assembled set of gears is not enough to make the movement go, you have to wind the clockwork.

I think Gojo and Megumi have a fascinating and very complex dynamic, but I doubt it will be given the time and care that imo it needs to actually work. And it is going well enough for now! One could see the intimacy between them was deeper than the one Gojo had with, say, Yuji and Nobara ever since the very first few episodes despite the fact Fushiguro too was a first year. But the pieces forming what they have are extremely complex, and it just wouldn't be realistic if it doesn't show, even if in a not showing way, or if it doesn't have consequences or implications.

It's one of those dynamics that shape one's life, the way one regards the world, the way one establishes or not relationships with other people. It's one of those dynamics that could be full of fondness, gratitude, resentment, admiration, trust, and that imply intimacy, the good kind or the bad, even if in just the knowledge of someone who's been a constant through your life. It could, and would, imply a myriad of feelings, and probably in such a mix it could imply contradictory feelings too. Even the nothingness would weight, even the nothingness would be significant and meaningful.

Gojo took Megumi and his sister under his wing, the son of a man who murdered him, because of both selfish and selfless reasons. Megumi looks like Toji. What does Gojo feel about this? How does Gojo deal with this? How does Gojo go about taking care of Megumi? Would he walk him to school? Make him breakfast? Celebrate his birthdays making him blow candles? Did he take him to the zoo? Does the relationship between them feel professional or is it something more? Gojo appreciates his students, but is Megumi to him just another student? When Gojo faces Sukuna in Megumi's body, did he see the kid he raised, or does he just see Sukuna in one of his students' body? Did he have one faint wavering instant? And how does Megumi feel about this? Is he resentful of him? Resentful of the situation? Of the selfishness behind his actions? Does he feel like a pawn? Is he grateful? Does he resent feeling grateful? Would he rather not? Does he love Gojo? Does he feel nothing about him other than what he could feel about a teacher that sort of annoys him but knows he's reliable in his strength? Does he think it unfair, cruel or unfeeling that Gojo is close, closer perhaps, with Yuuji or Yuta, considering their story? When Sukuna slices Gojo in two, does the remnants of Megumi's soul tremble?

And not just Megumi and Gojo. Yuuji and Nanami, Gojo and Nanami, Yuuji and Fushiguro, Nobara and the boys, or Nobara and Maki, Todo and Yuuji or Yuta, Gojo and Yuta, Megumi and his sister. Gojo and Geto, even! If the pieces are well set, the dynamics are intriguing, interesting, and have potential to be deep, but then the characters have like two plot relevant scenes that punch you hard, but little more, it's not nearly enough. Especially not nearly enough for the enormity that is shonen dynamics and situations. And the potential existing at all, and then not delivering, makes it all the more frustrating when you're left with something mediocre that could have been so good.

The development of dynamics through not only a few plot relevant gut wrenching moving scenes, but also the smallness of life, is important. The friend who recommended this to me said that those things were just unnecessary filler, but I disagree. I think there's a big difference between a large amount of anime-only filler episodes whose existence is based on the fact they had run out of manga chapters to animate, and moments of quietness. The low stakes character-driven moments of quietness can be so telling and so insightful, and they are so satisfactory when brought back later in higher stakes situations. My friend teased me there was no scene of Gojo making breakfast to Megumi, that it would be an idiotic idea, but it would be so telling. How he makes breakfast, what they eat, if he tries hard or if it's all mechanised, if they have personal bowls or if they use whatever, if he just buys them some pastry on the way to school, if the way they have breakfast changes through the years, or if he doesn't make them breakfast at all! All that would be very insightful on their dynamic and its evolution. All that would give a glimpse on how they regard each other and why, even in the present. All that could become meaningful in tense situations and high stakes scenes.

These moments also let the plot breath; if a lot is happening all the time, if every character is always experiencing trauma after trauma, the entire story is so emotionally draining that at some point you don't even care all that much. Besides, these nothing moments or low stakes plot arcs, besides deepening and developing dynamics, also let some in-world time pass, which would make the intimacy and bond between characters more believable imo; between Yuuji eating Sukuna's finger and their last confrontation in December how much time has passed? A few months? Am I truly to believe these characters are so everything to each other in only a few months?

Without some smallness, some repetition, some daily life, some low stakes not plot-centric development, the dynamics don't hit, they don't truly feel fleshed out, and dynamics as complex as the ones Megumi and Gojo have, or as supposedly meaningful as the one Megumi has with Yuuji or his sister, should be fleshed out if they're going to exist at all. Otherwise they'd risk making the writing feel awkward and fake. Besides, if the dynamics felt well fleshed out and realistic, they would shape the way the characters interact and act, and how they deal with situations, thus being plot relevant.

The shonen genre has so much happening all the time, the stakes are so high, the dynamics are so rooted in big events and the relationships carry enormous weight and implications. Yet they barely get developed, and it feels so stupid, so plain, the absence of something so important noticeable like a constant void, a shapeless nothingness present in every scene. It makes the characters feel like cardboard figures. Jujutsu Kaisen is already getting a better job than many, but I doubt it will do enough for what I've heard, and I fear I am bound to feel let down, and bound to feel unmoved.

After all, if not enough time and care has been given to develop a dynamic, I am not going to feel pressured by the high stakes; if not enough time and care has been given to develop the dynamic between Megumi and Yuuji, as good potential as it has I am bound to feel little for this last confrontation between Sukuna and Itadori, and his effort in getting Megumi back.

[moonchild-in-blue]

I've been painting my walls for the past 6? hours ? and i think the smell has been burned in my brain 😷

[loverln]

just so y’all know if i don’t like something that happens in the last chapter im just gonna pretend it never happened!

mha will have ended a week prior all of a sudden lmao :P

wow 429 chapters what a weird number to end on!!

[ap0llx]

while i fully understand the net negative impact of saying "i want to kms" as a response to profound distress we have GOT to come up with an equivalent phrase

[kingofanemptyworld]

caught up with dandadan (finally) and only cried twice ✌️