#anyway godbless this fandom

[boyfhee]

instead of looking forward to riki's birthday, half of us are worried about the heavy nsfw content that some people might post and i've seen people everywhere say they don't want him to turn legal and that's just plain sad like what have we come to

[nyxi-pixie]

yk the alllergy to commenting people have is actually so funny bc wdym you dont want to talk about something you really really like with the person who really really likes it enough to have spent hours upon hours on it

[devilfish-landing]

sum sketches (mostly to figure out how to draw these three losers in particular)

[ratatatastic]

do you understand the delicate comedy that is the fish losing to the royals of all teams and then the next thing ballysports plays is a CONGRATS CATS FOR WINNING THE STANLEY CUP bumper

[magpieddd]

Genome/Vyra/Faust is one of the funniest ships that came out of vrains. Ever. Like we all agree those geriatric patients were fucking hard between missions don't we. Don't we.

[hyah-through-hyrule]

Anyway, I really love making queerphobes feeling not welcome in fandom spaces, get the fuck out of here, touch grass godbless

[spro-o]

Heey i have question that has been on my mind for some time now, this question is more what I heard not really my own opinion. But anyways is lancelot x tristan/ban x meliodas even good ship? I seen some many talk about how theos two ships are baf because for Lancelot and Tristan they have no real relationship in canon or what so ever. Coming to ban x meliodas they more like best friends. Is that true?🤔 I very cousfed if it rignt to ship or not.

hello!! okay im gonna ramble a bit cuz i love yapping about this kinda stuff and dont wanna clog up any feeds, so ill add a 'read further' here :3

i feel like its not very surprising that i do think both ships are good (especially melban). i think that for both of them- yes, they can definitely be read as just being friendships and nothing more than that, but i guess the charm of shipping and headcanons is that you can add in your own interpretations and additions which you think feel right :3

a lot of the interactions between mel and ban, for example, i read as being pretty homoerotic/gay. thats mostly because, as a gay/queer guy myself, i find myself relating a lot to the stuff they do together when comparing it to me and my bf, and also because they are my favourite characters and headcanoning them as being the same sexuality (and gender) that i am is like a little golden sticker saying "fav character" (godbless projection onto your blorbos).

in general, i think its pretty common consensus, at least in my circles, that ships dont have to stick 100% to what the canon says/shows, and you can always add in your own ideas or headcanons to create a relationship either between your favourite characters, or one which you think would be interesting to see, or just one which you think would provide a fun/interesting addition to the story. and in my case, its all of those - i really just adore the dynamic meliodas and ban have, and in addition to my gay reading of a lot of their interactions with one another, it just feels right and fun to ship them (this applies to lancetris as well, but to a slightly lesser extent/not exactly the same)

so yeah, thats my stance on it!! i really like lancetris and adore melban, and i think (considering how much reconning has happened on the fandom's part towards nakaba's,,,, decisions,,,,) it doesnt do harm to read certain friendships as having romantic or sexual under- or overtones

i also feel like i should mention that i only really ship lancetris and melban in separate circumstances, if that makes sense - like, i ship melban a lot harder than lancetris, so whenever i do make any ship art of them (lancetris), i think of meliodas' and ban's relationship like more of a qpr than a fully romantic one, just cuz i feel like it makes it better??? more likely??? less weird?? idk if im making much sense here, but yeah, so thats sm (i guess i also just wanted to state that to clear anything up, cuz i do know how having ship art of both lancetris and melban could come off as kinda weird to some, but idk, maybe im overthinking it (￣▽￣)")

[billystorm]

very cool this pride month to see the coldest take on wctwit that somehow chinese wc fans are to blame for wc not having LGBT+ characters.

anyway please support poc lgbt creators this month esp in this fandom. godbless

[violentdevotion]

i watched it on prime (BOOOO) so it would tell me what song is playing and it was just nonstop taylor swift. ive seen swifities say each brother has their own song and I guess if i cared for her music at all that would thematically be interesting to me but alas. all her songs sound the same to me so idk which brother is what.

his singing was soooo </3 </3 sorry about your dead mum idc if that was her final request, ily so much and your bad singing made me love you 10000000× more but never do that again please. i love when he gets sad and pushed everyone away he's so babygirl.

I see your idea. if there's a house of significance in a story that house is haunted. and wuthering heights is the haunted house story. idk enough about wuthering heights to dispute your conclusion so ill agree and obliterate anyone who disagrees o7.

susannah/laurel is so obviously the most important love story in the show and then they kill susannah and give laurel a man 👁👁 misogyny man on top of that (he reminds me a little of claire's husband in fleabag)

manifesting lesbian laurel and endgame conrad/belly for s3 ameen.

kjhdlkfjasdf scrolling through your tsitp liveblog posts gave me so much joy this morning, i deeply resonate with the fact that i resent this show and the fact that it forces me to listen to taylor swift songs while also have unironically adopted conrad fisher as my pathetic loser blorbo boy of the month. i contain multitudes etc

dude there's TOO MUCH taylor swift in this show, everytime a song played and it wasn't taylor swift id sigh a breath of relief. idk if you saw the post about the friend who told me to watch it, but she's soooo annoyed that I unironically like conrad. idk if I made a post about it but my fave things about him are his melancholic disposition and the fact that when he gets angry he doesn't shout his voice just gets really high pitch <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 I hate this show so much and I can't wait till season 3. we are both very complex individuals

[tomiechu]

Bitching abt things in yr inbox Godbless anyways oh my GOD YEAH NO I HATE. HATE. The way this fandom is abt The Narrator oh my fucking God.

The way that other designs are disregarded for skinny (OFTEN white) conventionally attractive designs makes me want to pull my fucking hair out oh my God.

The fact that so many designs are so antithetical to his character in so many ways, too– I just cannot help but wonder; why not just make an OC, at this point? That's... Not the same character. Not by ANY stretch of the imagination. Like– did you PLAY the game? Have you actually engaged with it in any meaningful way? Or is your only exposure to the damned thing through fucking Tumblr and YouTube AUs? The way this character is bastardised so often is completely and utterly infuriating. But ofc the actual character doesn't matter, what matters is that he's conventionally sexy and easy to consume, right?/s

I'll be honest Guro, I think most sexy / skinny narrator design artists only exposure TO the guy they're drawing is hearing his " hot " voice lines in TikTok edits,

[starswallowingsea]

Hi apologies in advance for this ask being SO long, I just really love a3 and seeing new people get into a3 :')

I happened upon your posts and since you say you've read Act 5 now I'm assuming you managed to find it, but just in case: nobody uses the fandom wiki for a3, everything's on a site called "yaycupcake"! (well, not EVERYTHING everything, you'll have to take to looking on tumblr at Some point and Act 12 translation is a work in progress, but effectively everything)

Other than that, there are video archives on youtube from when the English server was active if you'd want to use those for story, you should be able to find them pretty easy but I can link if needed.

Second thing, it looks like you went right into Act 5 from the Anime? Which is understandable, but you should read the Play Events in between! They're not officially marked as Main Story, but they absolutely are, and you will be lost later on without having read them, both in terms of character development AND important plot stuff. Each Troupe got two Plays between Act 4 and Act 5 so that's 8 Events. Seasonal Events aren't As important so you can skip most of those, but iirc the Christmas and New Year events tie into the main story too.

Lastly - and this is entirely me being picky, so no pressure - if you only watched the Anime, I highly recommend going to read these five Chapters from the first Main Story;

Act 2 Chapter 29

Act 4 Chapters 19-21 (these ones especially)

Act 4 Chapter 31

I don't think anything else important was missed but also it has been a while, this message is long as is anyway akdpemsnms

I hope this helps a bit!!! Sorry if you have already done some of this, and of course even if you haven't there's no pressure to do so, this is just me going "I think this is the best way to get into it!", whatever works best for you is best!

OMG thank you anon! Yes i did get to yaycupcake eventually thanks to my friend Chii @vampuppyy and have it bookmarked now but when I was originally looking for story translations it kept giving me 404 messages so you know. Wasnt really available to use. I do plan on going back for at least some of the events too I have the clockwork one open on my laptop already lmao and these stories are not at all as dense as Enstars stories can be and godbless they aren't suffering from the abyssmal load times of the wayback machine. I did notice Sakuya mentioned their previous plays when giving Chikage the pep talk so I figured it wouldn't hurt to read at least some previous events before moving onto Act 6 anyway.

But thank you so much & if you have anything else my inbox is always open and I will probably continue live blogging as I go. I'm stuck in merge game hell for Engstars right now so I needed something else to do to help stave off burnout there

[organicwizard]

one of the beautiful things about tumblr is that I can develop a weird random interest and someone will still be writing or creating new content about it. oh, you got really into a niche movie from 15 years ago? someone wrote a 10k fanfiction and another person made a gifset about it last week

anyway godbless the people still making content for “dead” fandoms. youre the backbone of our community and im giving you a smooch on the forehead rn

[griseldagimpel]

#once again always and forever endlessly fascinated by whatever went on in John's mind as he built his empire#(or got his lyctors to build it for him? who's to say)#he renamed the sun after his old alma mater's motto. but the prestigious one mind you. not otagu or auckland#the latin. the biblical references in the lyctors names. the western literary canon#the fact that the he likely resurrected NZ / oceania and cast off the global north with the dregs under the tower...#but everyone in the Houses speak English and he MUST have made a conscious effort to preserve the language artificially for a myriad#he had the whole of human history at his disposal but when he looked at a framework for an empire went with what he knew#consciously or unconsciously#renaming his newfound daughter kiriona.... the public (westernised / anglo) sphere vs the private sphere#I wonder if John even could speak Māori when he was human and I think not very well#I wonder if he speaks it now#I'm always thinking about what it meant to him when Wake spoke her full name to him and she had no reference for what she was saying#anyway mmm. I don't think Alecto == Barbie. John namedropped Galatea and Frankenstein and Adam and Eve too#I understand why the fandom latched on it! It's cool and meme worthy and fun#but personally I'm much more interested in how John playing with hand me down barbies as a kid says SO MUCH#about the guy who's now god and all the things that shaped him#Tamsyn really does THE MOST with so little godbless#tlt thoughts#tlt#ejg (@liesmyth)

Something I noticed though is that with all the parallels in Nona the Ninth between John's backstory and the present, John becoming a force of colonization isn't what's emphasized.

Like, in the backstory, you've got the compound being raided by the authorities. And in the New Rho portions, there's a parallel raid. But the parallel raid is being perpetrated by the Blood of Eden against Nona and her found family. Of them, Nona and Pyrrha helped found the Empire. And while the Sixth House (Camilla and Palamedes) have seceded, they're still seen by the New Rho populace as House. They aren't colonized victims of the Empire. We aren't even shown the Empire doing raids. (Does it do raids? Probably! It's an Empire. But we don't see that.)

Then you've got John killing the cops in his backstory, which is framed as him being drunk on the power of magic. And the parallel there is Camilla and Palamedes working together to kill a bunch of cops in the New Rho portion and being a bit drunk on the power of magic with them working as a proto-Paul. Are the cops agents of the Empire? Well, they probably started as such, but the Empire isn't in control of New Rho anymore. (NtN is very vague about the socio-political situation of New Rho, since Nona doesn't care about that on account of it not being a dog lol.) And again, Camilla and Palamedes aren't colonized victims of the Empire.

Or look at the exploitation of the Earth, which John is fighting against. There's a strong parallel with the Blood of Eden seeing Nona only as something they can use and exploit for their Lyctor project, while it is Pyrrha, Palamedes, Camilla, and later Paul who care about protecting her. (John absolutely wronged Alecto, but locking the Earth away to please your lovers is a different category of wrongness than the exploitation of Earth for its resources.)

The parallels in Nona the Ninth feel very deliberate. I'd bet Muir sat down in the outline phase of writing and planned out what they were going to be. But they don't exist in the service of a 'John recreated colonialism and imperialism he himself suffered under' theme, for all that John did, in fact, go on to make an imperialist Empire.

(As always, I so hope that Alecto the Ninth gives us more flashbacks, this time to the early days of the Empire. I want to know what John was thinking!)

I wish the take I see most often on hollywood barbie alecto wasn't that john chose that because he wanted a sex symbol because it's missing out on a lot of thematic resonance about how john cannot help but return to frameworks of western imperialism and even at the moment he is seeking comfort in his childhood he ends up with one the symbols of western capitalism and how that relates to him recreating the same systems that harmed him and were destroying the world when he becomes god

[dabihaul666]

If we're the western fandom does that make them the eastern fandom? Overseas? Anyways I really like how they use "landmine" as a term

Seeing content u Don't Wanna See sure is like stepping on a landmine. Godbless.

[melancholiaenthroned]

when i see ppl refer to the diurnal ending as the good ending i am not only going to block them but i am going to attack them viciously in the streets

[calvins-dad]

ok so not to out myself as a sw*ftie but. I go back and forth and back and forth about my favorite taylor song and at the end of the day it’s always new year’s day isn’t it. isn’t. it.