#episodes explained badly

[iamapoopmuffin]

Powerpuff Girls episodes explained badly

Monkey See, Doggy Do: Everyone is a dog and/or naked.

Mommy Fearest: The girls try to turn some lady they just met into their step-mother and regret it immediately.

Insect Inside: Bugs are gross. Or are they?

Powerpuff Bluff: Cosplay for crime reasons. And to look cute.

Octi Evil: Bubbles trusts in her plush toy when it suddenly starts talking to her like one of those imaginary friends that tells you to burn things. It goes as well as you'd expect.

Geshundfight: There's too many people on this earth, we need a new plague.

Buttercrush: 1 1/2 year old develops crush on 17 year old who uses her crush to manipulate the shit out of her.

Fuzzy Logic: You don't touch another man's banjo. Ever.

Boogie Frights: An endless disco party ends in Bubbles turning off her targeting computer and blowing up the Death Disco Star

Abracadaver: Zombie magician comes to town and does zombie magician stuff.

Telephonies: Crank calls lead to the one moment in the entire cartoon my family constantly quotes, literally any time anyone says 'him' in any context. Also we learn how HIM stays so fit!

Tough Love: HIM farts on the entire city and it makes everyone hate the Powerpuff Girls.

Major Competition: Pretty much the exact kind of thing I'd expect Jeff Bennett to voice comes to town, kicks a puppy and gets praised.

Mr. Mojo's Rising: Mojo reveals he is both the Professor's former pet and the technical other parent of the Powerpuff Girls.

Paste Makes Waste: Be careful who you bully in kindergarten because they might eat a radioactive fly and become giant glue monsters.

Ice Sore: It's a hot summer's day and gee whiz, Blossom sure blows!

Bubblevicious: Bubbles is hardcore.

The Bare Facts: Your typical 'no-one's account is fully accurate as they piece together the story' story, but with crayon drawlings and a naked old dude.

Cat Man Do: Evil cat possesses the professor and does evil cat things.

Impeach Fuzz: Fuzzy becomes the perfect mayor. Crime is down 100%, the Powerpuff Girls now get called to catch pigs.

Just Another Manic Mojo: Mojo Jojo's morning routine ft. annoying children.

Mime For A Change: Clown steps into oncoming traffic, gets covered in bleach, causes an environmental disaster and ruins everything.

The Rowdyruff Boys: Rule 63 the episode.

Uh Oh Dynamo: Kaiju vs murder robot. The city loses.

Stuck Up, Up And Away: Spoiled brat tries to buy superpowers, like Batman.

Schoolhouse Rocked: Teenagers who were abandoned in a dump before ever going to school meet a truant officer who becomes the first person to ever care about them, then go to school and get expelled on the very first day.

Collect Her: This is you, you obsessed freaks.

Supper Villain: Man gets sick of pancakes for breakfast and lives out secret supervillain fantasies. (Second most quoted line of the show in my family is here.)

Birthday Bash: Happy birthday, here's some death. Also why the hell is a 5 year old girl in a prison where every single other inmate is a grown man?

Too Pooped To Puff: When completely exhausted from their constant hero work, the girls tell the city to put a toaster in a bathtub full of water.

Beat Your Greens: These kids are so reluctant to eat the only good green vegetable that vegetable aliens arrive to teach them to stop being pussies.

Down n' Dirty: Buttercup refuses to bathe and it's fucking disgusting.

Dream Scheme: In The Sand Man you play as Sophie Grundler, a girl suffering from insomnia. Exhausted and unable to sleep, Sophie wanders into town to discover everyone else has fallen into an eternal sleep. Wait, wrong sand man-

You Snooze You Lose: Mojo falls asleep, loses some schematics and goes completely batshit insane. Then the girls eat gum that was in Junior's mouth earlier. Then probably get sick from Amoeba Boys germs again.

Slave The Day: Billy, who we thought was dead, pledges allegiance to the girls and Blossom yells at him.

Los Dos Mojos: Bubbles is Mojo now. But twice as hardcore.

A Very Special Blossom: Blossom turns to a life of crime.

Daylight Savings: Actual consequences to these small children having to go out at all hours to fight crime.

Mo Job: Mojo and Princess build a gun and shoot children with it.

Pet Feud: The Professor genetically engineers a neopet that eats everything.

Imaginary Fiend: A child's imagination is a dangerous weapon. And may tell the child to set the school on fire.

Cootie Gras: A kid who never bathes decides to play kiss chase. When that grosses people out, he gets used as a dangerous weapon.

The Powerpuff Girls Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever: The Powerpuff Girls play The Powerpuff Girls.

Just Desserts: Man's supervillain fantasy is adopted by his entire family.

Twisted Sister: The girls create a new sister who is severely disabled and then promptly dies.

Cover Up: Security Blankie the episode

Speed Demon: Back To The Future but scarier.

Mojo Jonesin': Mojo deals crack to toddlers

Something's A Ms.: Sedusa has sex with the Mayor so she can steal shit.

Slumbering With The Enemy: Mojo goes on RuPaul's Drag Race and infiltrates a child's sleepover.

Fallen Arches: Old People Fight Club!

The Mane Event: Blossom gets a new haircut and gets bullied. I like her hair like that though.

Town And Out: The Utoniums move to a new town with real world consequences for senseless property damage.

Child Fearing: Mojo babysits and regrets every decision that led him to that moment in life.

Criss Cross Crisis: Mandatory body swap story from hell.

Bubblevision: Bubbles has sudden sight loss issues and gets ripped to shreds for it. Also there are ants.

Bought And Scold: Princess' dad buys the city and she legalises everything, then gets robbed.

Gettin' Twiggy With It: Neglected trailer park kid abuses a hamster.

Cop Out: American Police officer attempts to kill three children. Nobody is surprised.

Three Girls And A Monster: Well, they aren't adopting it, but they aren't murdering it either.

Monkey See, Doggy Two: Everyone's a dog again except the girls, so they can beat the shit out of things still.

Jewel Of The Aisle: Cereal mascot tries to rob diamond.

Super Zeroes: Cosplay 2 electric boogaloo. Also who the hell trusted Blossom with a car?

Candy Is Dandy: What happens when you introduce sugar to children who aren't allowed sugar.

Catastrophe: Don't shove cats up your arse.

Hot Air Buffoon: The Mayor goes into the sky and punches people.

Ploys R' Us: The Professor sleep steals and the girls profit from it.

The Headsucker's Moxy: BRAINS BRAINS IT'S ALRIGHT, I'LL EAT THEIR BRAINS TIL THEY'RE ZOMBIFIED

Equal Fights: The Powerpuff Girls get brainwashed by a TERF.

Powerprof.: Embarrassing dad becomes superhero just to spend time with embarrassed children.

Moral Decay: Buttercup steals teeth and sells them on the black market.

Meet The Beat Alls: Mojo, Fuzzy, Princess and HIM form a band and live in a yellow submarine.

Him Diddle Riddle: HIM canonically has the power to end the entire world with a flick of his wrist but instead spends his time making the girls solve riddles to inconvenience them for shits, giggles and not having customers Karen their way out of paying for flapjacks.

Film Flam: Fake director tries to take advantage of impressionable young girls and it takes their dad in drag to stop him.

All Chalked Up: Butterfly HIM teaches Bubbles art therapy and then brings the therapy to life.

Get Back Jojo: Back To The Future again

Members Only: Big manly men have their masculinity threatened by little girls, then a giant dick joke from space voiced by Mr Krabs kills everyone.

Nano Of The North: Tiny robots eat your clothes

Stray Bullet: Squirrel with huge nuts becomes super squirrel after small child force feeds him chemicals

Forced Kin: Mojo has beef with some shiny silver dude

Knock It Off: Dexter's estranged uncle or something comes to town, makes a shittonne of artificial children to sell for profit and many of the children die.

Helter Shelter: Bubbles kidnaps a baby whale

Power Lunch: Teenagers with terrible diet have stomach issues.

Superfriends: New kid in town falls victim to peer pressure.

Keen On Keane: Girls, seriously, have you not learned your lesson about setting your dad up on dates with random women yet?

Not So Awesome Blossom: Blossom has an anxiety attack and loses all self confidence.

Power-Noia: The girls eat cheese before bed and have weird nightmares.

Monstra-City: Segregation is right.

Shut The Pup Up: The girls consider beating a dog to death.

Toast Of The Town: Babysitting an old guy who wants toast.

Divide And Conquer: A glorified maths lesson featuring amoebas.

Burglar Alarmed: The girls try to silently deal with a burglar because daddy is tired.

Shotgun Wedding: Fuzzy tries to marry Professor Utonium, then has sex with a pile of mud.

Save Mojo: Vegans ruin everything.

Substitute Creature: Ms Keane is sick and the girls learn they're racist against green people.

The Boys Are Back In Town: Oh yeah rule 63 is back and spikier.

Pee Pee G's: Mojo breaks into the girls' house and pisses on their bed. He faces absolutely no consequences for this.

Boy Toys: Boys don't like girls, boys like cars and weapons.

Seed No Evil: Frozen caveman steals sunflower seeds. This one feels like a really shit fever dream.

City Of Clipsville: The show runners take the absolute piss out of every fanfic writer in the fandom.

Lying Around The House: A lie gains sentience and fucks shit up.

Bubble Boy: Bubbles steals Boomer's clothes, identity and family.

A Documentary: Guy stalks children and tries to record videos of them.

Girls Gone Mild: Karens ruin everything. Again.

See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey: Jack Black a gnome creates communism through the power of music

Curses: The girls learn how to swear.

Bang For Your Buck: Kids compete in a life or death struggle to earn enough money for ice cream.

Silent Treatment: Silent movie kidnaps man and steals his voice.

Sweet 'n' Sour: Plushies rob entire city and get away with it because they're cute. Also they hate children.

Prime Mates: Brainless monkey ruins everything. Just like Twitter.

Coupe D'Etat: Sentient car is a homewrecker.

Makes Zen To Me: Buttercup joins a peace cult.

Say Uncle: The girls adopt a sasquatch and Utonium does not recognise his own brother.

Reeking Havoc: How do you fight a giant fart? Asking for a friend.

Live & Let Dynamo: Kaiju Robot is back and is committing crimes for fun.

Mo' Linguish: Mojo teaches a class at an adult education centre. Sadly it is not street dancing for self defence.

Oops, I Did It Again: Normal little girl AU

A Made Up Story: In which makeup is evil

Little Miss Interprets: Bubbles ruins a surprise party

Night Mayor: Another weird cheese dream but this time it's the Mayor dreaming about having relations with pickles

Custody Battle: HIM and Mojo have a messy custody battle in the middle of Townsville and both lose.

City Of Nutsville: Bubbles swallows a bee and squirrels kill everyone.

Aspirations: Sedusa takes advantage of a group of teenagers who have been abandoned by their mothers and also never gotten laid while also turning them into criminal masterminds.

That's Not My Baby: The girls find an abandoned baby and decide caring for it will convince their dad they're ready for a hamster

Simian Says: Mojo takes over the show

Sun Scream: PSA: Wear sunscreen.

City Of Frownsville: Man with terrible depression develops machine that cures his depression by giving it to everyone else

West In Pieces: Back To The Future 3, the wild west one

Crazy Mixed Up Puffs: Oh god they've fused

Mizzen In Action: Pirates of the Caribbean but less interesting

Roughing It Up: The Professor takes his kids on a camping trip and becomes rival dads with Fuzzy

What's The Big Idea?: The girls are made giant and it's a whole mess.

Nuthin' Special: Buttercup has no unique abilities. Any she had before are no longer unique.

Neighbour Hood: Children's TV show demands money.

I See A Funny Cartoon In Your Future: Gypsy and goose steal things along to a terrible rhyming narration.

Octi-Gone: Bubbles holds a fancy dinner party hostage to solve the mystery of the murder of her plushie, the one that told her to burn things.

[gabs-magical-abs]

People are saying that kids these days have no comprehension skills, but back in 2001 some people watched When Fates Collide and still thought Xena and Gabrielle were just friends, so I don't believe this is a new phenomenon

[quietwingsinthesky]

like it feels obvious on doctor who. the show who’s main gimmick is that the guy running around goes only by a title they gave themself and whose identity revolves around a dialogue with that title, constructing it, interrogating it, redefining it, endlessly as a part of their journey. it feels obvious to say that you absolutely cannot on this show give something an incredibly symbolic name and then Not say anything about that.

so why does kerblam spend the latter half of its runtime emphasizing The Foundation, right. the foundation is where power gets stored when it goes out everywhere else. the foundation is where workers are being killed and melted down into goop. the foundation is so old that the original plans of the building on paper are needed to understand it. The System is in The Foundation before it is anywhere else.

and then that. doesn’t matter. we aren’t going to use this to say anything. in fact, we’re going to assert that the system is so Fine, Actually that filling the foundational level of it with ten million bombs doesn’t even do any lasting damage to it. and hey, hey. remember when the system decided that the Correct option was to kill an innocent person uninvolved in all of this because she happened to be someone that charlie liked. remember when it lured her down into the foundational level to fucking murder her. yeah, that was justified of it actually, the blood on its hands is worth the point it was making.

how do you build the perfect set-up for the most obvious critique: Space Amazon Is Built On Bad Foundations That Lead It To Hurting The Workers And Customers In The Long Run. and then stumble ass backwards into uhhhhhh no actually it was this one guy. with bombs. and also his bombs are so ineffective and meaningless that blowing them up in the center of the facility did Nothing. he is both an unimaginable threat and also powerless. please take our doctor who episode about how good space amazon is very seriously.

[idkwhyyouaskingm3-blog]

I know a lot of people compare Lena to Elias but her position feels a lot more like Jons or Gertrude to me. Trying to run a department that unknowingly puts its' staff in danger. Attempting to keep the higher ups appeased but not really agreeing with them. Taking care of her staff the best she can while trying to keep them as far away from the dangerous information as possible. Actively discouraging people to sign up, trying to convince Gwen to go back to her desk job etc etc.

She's not a CEO she's middle management. We're watching TMAGP from the equivalent of Sasha, Tim and Martins perspective this time not Jons.

[lightbulb-warning]

i used to freehand comics all the time as a child and since the part i liked was the drawing part i would just draw panel after panel because i didn't want to stop drawing to think about icky icky words, plus the story TOTALLY still made perfect sense! to me! and noone else, but 'whoooo caaaaares omgggg its not like comics and sequantial art are a communicative meeediummmm lmaoooooo'. i spent my entire childhood telling myself stuff like "oh pfft I know this story by heart- ill SIMPLY remember the dialogue and write it later" ...and. I can't help but admire baby maiora's (call that a minora ba tm tsk) fucking audacity? hubris? confident wrongness? kid couldn't even remember to finish the comics in the first place? INCREDIBLE levels of unearned self assurance, wish that were me, genuinely- what an icon!!! anyway i think i have forever cursed myself

[aromanticasterisms]

wait some of y'all don't think that death was narratively satisfying??? he spent the entire season rotting away and sloughing off of (and OUT of) bodies he was not meant to be in, grasping at a life he had outlived because he was unwilling to let go, literally got ripped out of the HEART of the world he tried so hard to destroy and then that world summoned up a 5 second rainstorm to boil him alive and burn away his facade of humanity so he could grovel at the feet of a witch and then get stomped into nothing by the denizens of the world, symbolizing the people he hurt by enforcing the covens, people ostracized and punished for not conforming, and the titan he used to manipulate people with by claiming he knew its will. what's not clicking

[iamthekarmapolice]

so like am i reading too much into this or is the cannibalism in yellowjackets a metaphor for the specific ways women hurt each other as a way to survive in harsh unforgiving environments that fundamentally dont seem to want them there

[hideyseek]

SHEN WEI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!! ! !

[leatherbookmark]

idk maybe it makes me a child or Someone With Shit Media Literacy, but i feel like when people discuss fictional events that were good or bad writing, they often look to general fiction tropes rather than what makes sense for the individual story? like, oh, well, this is a [genre] story, and in these, it's either X or Y, so it's going to be either X or Y. or: this character technically could count as a [character archetype], so obviously they only have one very predictable ending. what wonderful, emotionally moving writing!

and like. are we writing stories, or producing products that check off all the most common boxes on the Successful [Genre] Story list? this is not to say that you can never kill off your mentors/father figures, or that your protagonist should never fail miserably in this or that point of the story -- sometimes it really is the most fitting and sensible solution! sometimes leaving a character alive would undermine or muddle up the message, if there is one, or it would simply make it more difficult for the writer. and it's fine. but when your reason for this or that writing choice is not "because it makes the most sense" but rather "because that's what happens in other stories", it's, uh, not good writing at all. it's barely any writing, really!

[electricpurrs]

i keep having embarrassingly deeper-than-they-should feelings about caboose that im not sure what to do about, with how i feel like i relate in a pretty genuine and sweet way to him in an autistic level and i do feel like reading him that way makes real sense but im just incapable of feeling very good about it when its very very clear caboose's neurodivergent esque behavior is applied exclusively to make the butt of the joke off how stupid he is. i care about him a lot as a character but i mostly just wanna rip him off r-slur-loving rooster teeth's hands and handle him with a minimum level of respect

[true-blue-sonic]

If Eggman Nega created Silver that would mean Triple-S were all created by Robotniks in some capacity(Shadow was created by Gerald and Sonic was created by Eggman in the very first American Sonic comic)

Oh yes, that was the odd one with Kintobor who turned evil because his machine exploded while he was holding a rotting egg and Sonic being brown at first before randomly turning blue when he broke the sound barrier for the first time, while having like a dozen sisters and a dad who drowned in toxic waste, right? Thank god that's not canon, what an odd story😅😂 Which does mean Sonic was not created by Eggman, though. Currently what is said on the topic is that they've just met before Sonic 1 already and had been fighting each other for a while when that game's events happened. So I guess the only way wherein Eggman 'made' Sonic was through making him the planet-renowned hero he is now, though even if Eggman had not been around, I am certain Sonic would still have been helping others and adventuring all over.

Still, I find it intriguing indeed that all three male hedgehogs are so intrinsically interlinked with the Robotnik bloodline. Shadow was created by Gerald for the good of Maria and humanity, whereas Sonic and Silver fight with Geralds' descendants to protect said humanity. And even more intriguing to me is that for Silver, this might not have been planned originally, since he has nothing to do with Eggman Nega in '06. But then again, Rivals and '06 were released so closely together, maybe it always was the plan to have him become nemeses with Nega because they all knew '06's events would be wiped from the timeline. I do not think we will ever get a clear answer for this topic. Regardless, it makes me wonder what Gerald would think about it when things had not yet gone amiss on the Ark and he was still sane. I figure he would be quite horrified this is going to be his legacy, but in the same vein also hopeful that Sonic and Silver will be able to protect the world from Eggman and Eggman Nega.

[neonscandal]

9 Anime to Watch if You Want to Feel Like 👇🏾

Special October Edition

While I was going to keep going with a theme of 6's for the month (still may), I figure one list in the spirit of my usual recs should be fine. Especially when you have less than 20 days to get your fill of spooky horror anime. With these recommendations, there will be blood! Below are a few short series/movies to give a visual to whatever goes bump in the night. Whether rooted in the supernatural or science fiction, these recommendations will be bloody and, at times, hopeless. While there's a blanket warning for blood and gore for the below, most if not all are intended for mature audiences so there may be additional triggers.

I included 🚩 for anything that may have content that includes or alludes to SA or uncomfortable situations therein for reference.

🚩 Deadman Wonderland (series + ovas)

Filed under: "That first episode tho"

Not sure what a 9th grader could do to deserve what happens in the first episode of Deadman but, suffice to say, we spend the whole season wondering. MC Ganta stands trial for a crime he didn't commit and forced to "live" out a sentence at a private prison that's been turned into a bloody amusement park where prisoners are used as... live entertainment for the desensitized masses. If that weren't already inhumane enough, the neon sign of a prison is actually hiding something much more sinister within its walls, something, in fact, it can just barely contain..

Sub, Dub | Funimation, Crunchyroll

🚩 Parasyte: The Maxim (series)

Body horror is an obvious byproduct of what happens when aliens begin to take human hosts. More jarring is the fact that these parasites seamlessly blend in with the rest of the population to better walk and feed among us. This series follows one meek man who happens to escape total control but cannot escape detection by other parasites. Is he and his now symbiotic companion going to be enough to eradicate this growing infestation?

Sub, Dub | Hulu, Prime Video, HiDive, Crunchyroll

🚩 Gantz (series + movie)

What if the afterlife was simultaneously woven with the land of the living? I'll start by saying that this phenomena isn't satisfactorily explained but you won't care because there's so many other unnerving things that happen in tandem with this discovery that you're just along for the ride. While the main objective of those selected by Gantz is to complete missions targeting other worldly beings.. the show also takes care to demonstrate how callous and grotesque humans can be as well.

Sub, Dub | Funimation (anime), Netflix (0)

🚩 Junji Ito Collection (series)

Not every episode in this anthology will scare you, per se, but each individual story line is bound to yield disgust and/or discomfort. You've likely seen the meme comparisons of Junji Ito personally being the polar opposite of Hayao Miyazaki... which translates directly to their corresponding work as well. Story lines encompass the occult, the twisted and the revolting.

Sub, Dub | Crunchyroll, Funimation

🚩 The Future Diary (series)

Filed under: "I love the kind of women that will actually just kill me"

My Explaining Anime BADLY description would simply be Supernatural "Battle Royale" but the main story is much more sinister than that. With that reference in mind, however, expect gore and the persisting sense that there is no one who main character Yuki can really trust. If he wants to survive, that is. The... situation the main characters find themselves in is one layer of the story but the heavy hitters involved all have their own reasons for playing along. For a timid kid like Yuki, he never really sees it coming. Doesn't take long for him to become wise in the way of the world as he fumbles his way through.

Sub, Dub | Hulu, Crunchyroll, Funimation

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (series + summary movies)

Filed under: "I love the kind of women that will actually just kill me"

One thing about me? In the horror genre, I love zombies which is a pretty accurate definition for kabane which have forced the last of humanity to take shelter behind walls and move about using trains that connect different clans (it's giving Snowpiercer?). I've seen people make the comparison between Kabaneri and Attack on Titan which.. not sure I see aside from the eating humans thing and the uncharacteristically beautiful animation despite the genre. But if that comparison will get you to tune in, let me also add that it is morsel sized.

Sub, Dub | Crunchyroll, Funimation, Prime Video, Netflix

Another (series)

I don't care that I just recommended it on this list. I recommended it irl yesterday and when a few of my rec's weren't available to stream, figured this was a perfect replacement.

Imagine being the new kid in a strange town and seeing things that no one dares to speak of? You've spoken to the lonely girl who seems to haunt your class but, as no one else acknowledges her, you start to question whether it's all in your head. As this question persists, you come to realize that there was a reason some things went without being said except it's too late. So begins the Calamity which is guaranteed to gruesomely take the lives of countless people connected to the cursed 3rd class of 9th year. For an animated series, it deliciously builds up suspense but, more than that, is hard to stop watching. I stayed up until 4:30A finishing this series the first time I watched it because you'll find that you too need to know the root of the creepy mystery.

Sub | Crunchyroll

🚩 Seoul Station (movie)

So when I say I love zombies.. it's no surprise that this movie would find its way on this list. The movie earns a spot for a few reasons. 1) it's a prequel to Train to Busan; 2) the poignancy of the beginning touting the need for universal welfare while the person advocating for it literally ignores the plight of the unhoused population which causes a ripple effect and continues throughout the movie; 3) it's an underdog story. This is the only media I can recall that focuses on the lower class in this way and at first I didn't like the idea of stigmatizing the houseless but the message is actually buried in the fact that the scourge of a virus spreads exponentially because many of the tertiary support characters regard the unhoused so inhumanely. As such, they don't take heed as monsters begin to horde. Overall, it's a hopeless story (as many zombie stories are) but compounded by the fact that the main characters were struggling to thrive before the outbreak. So you have this need to survive the apocalypse while simultaneously combatting classism and other unresolved personal issues from your past. How does one endure? The movie isn't especially gorey but what adds a bit of unsettling-ness to the overall visual is the erratic animation of those who aren't infected. Or perhaps they are animated with such care to illustrate every single breath, every minute movement. You'll have to see for yourself and tell me what you think!

Sub | Freevee

Higurashi: When They Cry (series + ovas)

Background: The first time I tried watching this series, my friends and I were immediately put off by the saccharinely sweet voices and cloying illustration style and we didn't get far into the episode or bother to understand what we were watching.

Getting to the Point: As someone who can't help but finish what I start, when I returned to the series, those same attributes are exactly what makes what transpires so unsettling. Sickeningly innocent characters are offset by such dissonant (and cyclical) violence. Get through the Watanagashi festival and go beyond that sweet veneer because hospitality isn't the only thing that cultivates... small town charm✨ in this horror mystery series. While this is a bit of a longer recommendation (i.e. Gou is a continuation of prequel OVA's).. seek out what you'd like and let me know what you think. If this doesn't pique your interest, I included some ‼️ guidance for watching a bit below where to find the anime and an... ⚠️ indirect spoiler further down but only if you really want to know.

Sub/Dub | Funimation, Crunchyroll, Hulu

‼️ Guidance for viewing, pay attention to the calendar dates as you’re watching because the timeline is inky.

⚠️ Indirect spoiler? My Explaining Anime Badly description of this show uncharacteristically requires reference from live action media. This show is as if "Reservoir Dogs" Quentin Tarantino era directed “Midsommar”. With a component (I won't say of what) of “The Future Diary” anime sprinkled in. Also, my initial last rec was Corpse Party: Tortured Souls but HiDive recently removed it T-T

[laurelwinchester]

I hope Avery is just an apparently moronic stepdad but the way he broke into that couple's tent and searched everything makes me really suspicious of him. It's weird enough that Emily stalked people she saw for the first time, but why is he acting like this?

well he does live with two women who are admittedly into true crime podcasts so maybe they've just turned him into a citizen sleuth.

honestly though i haven't really gotten any super suspicious vibes from him so far. i'm definitely not discounting the possibility that's there's a lot more going on with him because everyone in this show has secrets but to me he more reads like a well meaning dude who is trying real hard. maybe a little too hard.

emily is a typical 2022 teenager. she's nosy, even to her own detriment, she's into podcasts, she's obsessed with her phone, she's craving independence, and she has an overprotective dad. she also has strong opinions, a stubborn streak, and has inherited her mother's love of mysteries and her father's drive to help people.

and avery seems focused on bonding with her. which is hard! it can be hard to bond with a teenager as a step parent. it's even harder to bond with a kid working at asserting their independence the way emily is. it's obvious he hasn't been a parent long, he's new to the game and he will make mistakes, but he desperately wants that connection and he doesn't want her to push him away. so he's on this camping trip with her without carla, he's helping her with her podcast, he's asking her to teach him alanis morissette lyrics, he's going along with her into the woods to search for the weird and obnoxious young couple (who i have to imagine has been annoying everyone around them) even though he's wondering if he should be suspicious of them. he is fully determined to be the cool stepdad.

we're only two episodes in so there is plenty of time for him to be unmasked as king of the douchebags and i would not be at all surprised if he was - mostly because henry ian cusick is so good at playing shady. but so far...idk he surprisingly seems mostly harmless.

[fitzhastoomanysideblogs]

Can literally anything good happen please I am running out of reasons to keep going PLEASE GOD ANYTHING

[sunshinesalmon]

thanks for that post. 10 years of medical training, humiliation and exams, followed by lack of employment due to cutbacks to healthcare, just so I can read your reblogged little post about how doctors say they know everything and humiliate patients. And the notes about how all doctors do is tell people they're fat. Which of course is the truth 100% of the time. Right. Great. Good to know nothing I ever did amounted to anything, that my own generation hates me. Thanks for that, thanks for the anxiety attack, for making me cry on the bus home, you shitbrick. There's no good doctors, mate, you're absolutely right. This doesn't hurt anyone, we don't try to go into this field because we care, because we want to help. We just want power and money, right? Because we're famously overpaid, us the doctors? True, right? Love and peace. I wish you the best. I'm going to fucking kill myself

crazy how you’re studying to become a doctor when you can’t read

[anothermonikan]

hate that the character I dislike most in G5 is the one I have the strongest headcanons about. Talking about Hitch Trailblazer yeah

Look I don't like this pony, I have not forgotten he's supposed to be 'The Cop' of the group, I am happy they've been leaning on it less because some of the earlier MYM and TYT episodes are borderline unwatchable because they lean so much into 'oh he's a GOOD cop :)) He loves following rules and keeping ponies safe!' and it's just a little bit disappointing after everything that the G5 movie was supposed to be about that they just let Hitch go back to being a cop and not only that but then they put so much emphasis on how "good" of a cop he is in the show up until like. Sparky's introduction. He's kind of just the dragon dad character now, I can't remember the last time him being sheriff was even mentioned in TYT, I would complain about how inconsistent that makes his character but I honestly would just prefer if they didn't lean on the good cop thing ever again so I won't

BUT. Not ignoring that but it's irrelevant to what this post is really about, um. Hitch has to have some sort of blood relation with Fluttershy right?? Like okay here is my evidence:

Appearance wise, Fluttershy's family has a pretty consistent thing with the colours yellow and green

Like I know none of them have green manes specifically but colour throughout family in MLP is weird. This is probably my most flimsy piece of evidence BUT I think it's interesting when in conjunction with these two other things:

Hitch can talk to animals and

2. I don't really understand what they're going for with the whole cutiemark magic thing in G5 but like. All of the mane cast ponies have different elements that align with their cutiemarks or something and you know what Hitch's is? Kindness. And it's the only one that has a G4 counterpart with an Element of Harmony

I only really started putting this together in my head after the second season 2 episode of TYT when they say their cutiemark magic things out loud and I was like. huh Kindness. like Fluttershy. and then the piece started to fall together in my head and I was like. Oh! Okay! I really hope that's intentional!