#extraordinary abilities

[curtismckeighan1957blog]

[lifewithaview]

Laura Donnelly in The Nevers (2021) Pilot

Three years after an inexplicable event suddenly equips them with extraordinary abilities, Amalia True and Penance Adair work to protect their kind from widespread, deepening antipathy. Meanwhile, police inspector Frank Mundi (Ben Chaplin) investigates a string of murders at the hands of a reportedly Touched and highly dangerous serial killer named Maladie.

[darling-its-blue-and-gay]

I had a dream that Malcolm lost his voice and everyone genuinely hid from him because Jamie said that if he cannot verbally abuse an MP he will just lunge and tear out their jugular with his teeth

Malcolm silently stewing in door frames holding a bic biro like a weapon

[songofmyartandwords]

I wonder if the paths of the troupe gramarye and the aquato family circus ever crossed?

[sskk-manifesto]

Ep 4 :)

[uldren-sov]

Aresia von Valancius, btw

If you even care

[queenofzan]

i was reading a scum villain fic earlier this week where liu qingge had somehow not realized he was in love with shen qingqiu, and neither had luo binghe, and at first i was like, how the fuck is the most jealous man in the world not going to notice when his shishu has a crush on his husband, and then i thought

oh no, what if lbh has the same brainrot that sqq has? he thinks that’s how everyone is around sqq. he thinks everyone should treat sqq like a spoiled prince because he’s just so wonderful and that’s what he deserves. people giggle and get flustered when shizun speaks to them, which is how it should be! duh!

[alessandramortt]

Loml tho she may be, I find it funny how Miranda just about cuts it among the top human biotics even tho she's literally engineered for it (which I'm sure she of all ppl finds the most irony in along with the source for more insecurities) but it's EVEN FUNNIER how jack, undisputable peak of human biotic prowess, has shockwave of all things as her abilities in game (not even as her special ability) ...babe, you couldn't harm wet tissue paper with that, what do you MEAN all powerful bitch lmao lemme hug you

[nordfjording]

I think one of the things i appreciate most about my line of work now is how much of it is just tactile? customer came in with a locket that needed tightening and as i grabbed my pliers and went at it we started talking and she goes well you must have great eyesight for this and actually, i don't. sure you look at the basic like where to put your pliers but your fingertips are much more precise than your eyes and you find the right tension for the lock by feel and by sound. it requires less than you think, other than practice.

[outeremissary]

Shout-out to Revolutionary Girl Utena for continuing to be something that can still completely derail me from everything I'm doing if I think about it for more than five seconds

[viktortittiforov]

the 2010s sure were a time in my life

[i-am-a-secret-ssshhh]

I want to see mundane side affects to abilities in Bungou Stray Dogs and quirks in My Hero Academia!

I want someone who's freckles glow when their ability/quirk activates!

I want Atsushi to have better night vision and got his pupils to blow wide when he looks at someone he likes!

I want someone who's hair grows a little everytime they use their ability/quirk when their ability/quirk doesn't relate to that!

I want Kirishima or Tesutetsu to become rock/metal when they flinch after someone jump scares them in the dorms!

Give me mundane side affects!

[madwickedawesome]

[kyouka-supremacy]

For tgp au, if Dazai is Michael, then who is Janet?

I have no idea? Oda? Chuuya and his themes of learning how to be a human?

[cloudprincesslady]

gotta love how the shadow and bone tv show was like hey let's combine these two stories set in the same world so that they're happening at the same time and the characters all meet and hang out and are friends :) and in doing so they absolutely butchered all of those incredible characters, bulldozed through the storylines, and left off in such a nonsensical position that there's simply nothing compelling left to be said lmao

[smokeybrandreviews]

Cheated

I was so excited when one of my favorite manga, Isekai de Cheat Skill wo Te ni Shita Ore wa, Genjitsu Sekai wo mo Musou Suru ~Level Up wa Jinsei wo Kaeta~, got an anime adaption. I haven’t done a spotlight on this one just yet, mostly because i waited too long and didn’t want to seem like someone jumping on a bandwagon when the show dropped, but i am very glad that i waited because the anime adaption is bad. I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too is one of the laziest anime adaptions of a rather ambitious manga, I've ever seen in my goddamn life and i hate it so much. Seriously, i love this story a great deal and, while the narrative changes aren’t too egregious, the rest of the production kind of s. Actually, i can’t even say that because this thing i animated beautifully, most of the time, but nothing f*cking happens. Like, we are, what? Nine? Ten episodes in and nothing is happening. Not a goddamn thing.

Listen, o the top, the manga adaption of this light novel is exceptional. I can’t even front n that. The art is exception and the overall character designs come across as inspired. Minatogawa Kazuomi’s art reminds me a lot of Oh! Great but with a much more subtle use of movement and perspective. his book is f*cking gorgeous, man, and i look forward to every update i get. That said, it’s not like the plot is trash, either. Listen, this is an Isekai power fantasy. If you're a  fan of anime or manga, then you know all the hallmarks by now: Overpowered protagonist, multiple heroines, spirited away into a brand new world where our mild mannered, yet, socially righteous lead character finally get recognized for the hero they always have been. By this point, it’s borderline cliche. However, the devil is in the details. It’s how you execute that Isekai formula and i think Miku does an excellent job of doing just that. Cheat Sill isn’t doing anything new with the genre but it does deliver a solid narrative with realized world and strong characters. SO why does the show suck so f*cking bad?

Anime adaptions are always hit or miss but, lately it’s been all hit. My Dress Up Darling, Overlord, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Murder Mittens (Reincarnated as a Sword for those of you who don’t follow me and wouldn’t understand that reference), Spy x Family, Uncle From Another World, BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War; All released last year, all straight up bangers in their own right. The future looks amazing, too. The previews for Sentai Daishikkaku and Mato Seihei no Slave look fantastic. Slave is actually on the same list as Cheat Skill and i actually did give it a spotlight. Long story short, sh*t real good. Feels very Nineties with the action and fan service. Looking crazy forward to how that one is received in this day and age, but i digress. How is it all of these other adaptions turned out so fantastic and the one i was looking forward to the most, is ass? Like, it’s not CG Berserk ass but, i mean, sometimes it is. Like, the scenes where you’d think the animation can really flex, I'm talking fantastic fantasy battle sequences or a straight up fist-to-fist scrap, the production values drop off a cliff!

I sh*t you not, when the protagonist travels to the fantasy world and dons his undeniably dope armor, his character model switches to CG and the quality of everything immediately drops. There is no dynamism in the way those models move so trying to actually animate them in a frantic, chaotic, bloody, clash with, say, an ogre, just doesn’t f*cking work. That sh*t should be the stuff you actually hand animate or, at the very least, render your obviously cost-cutting models better. People give UFOtable sh*t about their use of computers but i defy you to give me a better example, in modern anime, on how to blend that CG sh*t with proper animation and produce a product as clean as Demon Slayer or any of the Fate adaptions they’ve made. Bro, i know Heaven’s Fell is a film series but those production values were goddamn brilliant. That’s the type of sh*t i want out of my CG animation, not these overly stiff, action robbing, computer models every studio looking to save a penny or two, seems to default on. It’s so frustrating to seem especially coming from a studio like TMS Entertainment. They’ve been around since the goddamn Forties! You’d think they’d have enough experience in the industry not to release such frustratingly mid content! Seriously, if you’re interested, at all, in I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too, read the manga. The anime does not do these characters, that narrative, or he entire world any justice.