#first super bowl

[the-football-chick]

Packers 35 Chiefs 10,

Jan. 15, 1967

[cementcornfield]

Is it on your radar at all - the triple crown for Ja'Marr? And how close he is?

No, I know he's first in just about everything right now, so he's probably on pace to do whatever the triple crown is. What does that - what does that mean?

Most receiving yards, catches, and touchdowns.

I know he's got a lot of touchdowns, and a lot of yards, and a lot of catches too...so he's probably on pace to do it.

[somedaytakethetime]

Joe Burrow's hands appreciation post?

Joe Burrow's hands appreciation post.

[canisalbus]

Thought u should know there is a Vasco playing in the PuppyBowl XX this year.

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[cahootings]

That post about the efficacy of the needle drops in Impossible Birds has me really wanting to call out the choice of "Run From Me" by Timber Timbre in Red Flags. I want to say it's my favorite needle drop in the whole show (SUCH an impossible thing to rank!!!), but it certainly highlights my favorite dramatic moments in the entire show.

To me it really shows how skilled they are at packing the most emotional punch in the shortest amount of time possible. It so efficiently sweeps you through Ed's descent, and watching him come to a decision. It opens the episode, and starts playing with Stede's deep sigh (GOD I love that shot so much - Rhys you gave us everything with that sigh). Then immediately going from Stede's face to the Stede-like wedding topper. Lingering shots of Ed on the floor. He is FEELING it. But that's also where you can see him making his choice, and it's appropriately chilling... seeing him go from sobbing on the floor, to just blank and empty as he pushes the figurines out of the window. That's the dramatic shifting point of the first three-episode arc. We get to go through it with him and sit in the feeling. I love that one minute of show so much, I look forward to it every rewatch cycle.

But that's not the last we hear of the song, because they use it to bookend the episode. It comes back at the end and its emotional crescendo takes us right through the deepest parts of Ed's despair. The song says "run, run, run" over and over as we see Ed fully running towards ending his life, on deck in that storm.

It's such a good song! It starts slow and sad and lower energy, and ends by building with a backing chorus and driving instrumental that is determined and energetic, and ends with percussive staccato that really nails the (supposed) finality of the emotional journey of the episode - as the chaos of the storm builds and we end seeing Ed smile and say "Finally."

I can't separate my love for Red Flags as an episode from my love for "Run From Me" as a song choice... god they are SO SO GOOD at this

[lovestruckrep]

Favorite genre of Tayvis clips is Taylor and Travis swaying together

[hollowtones]

Nintendo continues to schedule "Splatoon 3" events during days when I'm extremely busy & at this point I've decided it's funnier if I pretend it's deliberate and targeted hatred of Me Specifically instead of, like, recurring coincidence.

They've got one Nintendo of Canada employee hacking into my devices at all times, reporting back to home base like "BOSS WE JUST GOT CONFIRMATION SHE'S MAKING PLANS THAT WEEK! ANNOUNCE BIG RUN NOW!! NOT A DRILL!!"

[ace-reviews]

SPRING 2024 ANIME RECOMMENDATIONS

The anime industry needs to chill the fuck out. Literally stop. This isn't your heart.

If you somehow have time left over after the 86,000 returning series this season, watch these new cartoons also.

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ZACK’S RECOMMENDATION #1: Kaiju No. 8

For the sake of full disclosure, I ended up dropping this manga after about a year when due to a number of reasons I had to play catch-up on a bunch of Jump and Jump+ titles. I ultimately decided cuts needed to be made and this was one of them, but I made that cut with the full knowledge that it would eventually get a kick-ass anime and I was right because I’m always right.

The anime looks better than I’d hoped and sounds better than I imagined. The background music sounds like something from a blockbuster movie, and I mean that as a compliment, considering that's basically what it is. Even if you’re not really into kaiju, this is still worth checking out. Unless you’re allergic to beautiful animation and/or poop jokes.

ZACK’S RECOMMENDATION #2: A SALAD BOWL FULL OF ECCENTRICS

This series became a lock for my recommendation this season (even over the train anime, which is very good and you should also watch) the moment I discovered it’s based on a light novel by the same guy who wrote Haganai and A Sister’s All You Need. I’ve never read any of the novels in question because I’m illiterate but I enjoy both of those anime very much (though I will admit that the latter is not for everyone). Haganai transed my gender and for that reason alone I will support Yomi Hirasaka (by watching and recommending anime adaptations of his books. Alas! if I could only read) ‘til my dying day.

This was a solid premier on its own merits, as well. The characters are fun and likeable, the jokes land pretty much every time (at the very least, I can’t immediately think of any that didn’t), and reverse isekai stories are still uncommon enough to be fun. There is the unfortunately ever-present concern that Our Hero will turn out to be a sex pest, but based on Hirasaka’s track record I’m not too worried about that. Really, more than Haganai or A Sister’s All You Need, the anime this premier kept making me think of the most was Hanamatsuri (side note: you should watch Hanamatsuri.)

Also, look at her. She’s reading Detective Conan. I’m reading Detective Conan. That’s so cool of both of us.

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CHARLIE’S RECOMMENDATION #1: Chillin’ in Another World with Level 2 Cheat Powers

Fairly standard fare for the cozy isekai sub-genre, but it’s a decent way to spend half an hour, if you don’t mind the harem aspects.

CHARLIE’S RECOMMENDATION #2: Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again

It was fine, I guess. Watched it because the premise seemed cute, and I wasn’t wrong. Felt like a short comic but animated, and the art was good. Really wish they didn’t have family members lusting after the grandparents, though.

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FEN’S RECOMMENDATION #1: Route of Odd Taxi

FEN’S RECOMMENDATIONS #2: Train to the End of the World & The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio

[pkmn-smashorpass]

I should have been prepared for the ghost fuckers but I sure wasn’t

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Randomly feeling stabby about someone making you feel like you’re too much to hang out with vs. Being embraced for yourself wholeheartedly

[cementcornfield]

the thing i'm learning about being a sports fan is just.... you really have no control over this thing that you love so much and you've invested so much time/energy/emotion in! and that is so hard to accept! you can do all your little good luck rituals, you can critique the players and the coaching and the scheme to hell and back, you can learn as much as you can about how the game works....but it doesn't change a thing. all you can do is sit there and watch the players do the best they can! (and even then there's only so much each individual player can control!)

you just have to practice radical acceptance i guess! what's gonna happen will happen and you just have to sit back and enjoy as much of it as you can 🫠🫠

[feddy-34]

ngl i still cant believe we drafted brock wtf

[foxskip]

Hello tonight was a fun time. :)

[shittyenstarsedits]

would you believe me if i told you i literally did not edit this at all i just superimposed usher onto the breakthrough mv

[meitantei-lavi]

JESUS AI FOOT FETISH COMMERCIAL

[carcarrot]

scrolling back through my liveblogging of the day of the nyc concert because of recent notifications and its such a fun mixed bag of emotions to relive it all again