#from the grave to the stage

[addicted2coke-theothercoke]

My CDs have arrived:)

The CD player I bought from an antique store sadly doesn't work, I'll have to get a new one when I can more easily afford it

[someawesomeamvs]

Warning: Potential spoilers, flashing lights

Title: From the Grave to the Stage

Editor: Winterblade AMVs

Song: Lifetime Achievement Award

Artist: Lemon Demon

Anime: Zombieland Saga

Category: Comedy

Awards: Naka Kon 2023 - Best Comedy Nebraskon 2023 - Spirit Award Sakura Con 2023 - Fun and Play Finalist ACEN 2023 - Freestyle Finalist Tokyo in Tulsa 2023 - Special Category (Magical Girls vs Zombies)

[tartppola]

happy halloweeeeeeeeeeeeen!!!!!!! yay!!!!!!!

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

skully j. graves halfway checkpoint

Consider this part 2 of my evolving opinion on Skully! My initial impressions of him can be found here. Now that we’re at part 3 (presumably out of 5) of the event, I wanted to check in with updates on my feelings!

A lot of the points in my first impressions post still stand. However, what I’ll say is that Skully’s… villainous side… has definitely come out very strongly, especially in 3-20. A lot of my friends were squealing and getting super excited over this part. I feel like a lot of his popularity comes from 2 factors: 1) his overt flintiness (since much of the Twst fandom seems to long for this kind of (yume) content) and 2) Skully is one of the few characters who consistently acknowledges Yuu and asks for their opinions on stuff. The latter is very in demand, especially for the western fandom, which is very individualistic and often views Yuu or their Yuusonas as an integral character. And that’s valid! It’s just that this alone isn’t enough to satisfy me.

I’m… admittedly less thrilled about the direction Skully’s taking, and it’s completely for reasons related to my personal tastes 😂 I had mentioned in my original post that Skully reads to me as a Halloween-flavored Idia due to his otaku-like obsession with Halloween and how negatively he reacts when people express dissent toward his opinion. It feels very elitist and gate-keepy, which are aspects of fandom culture I find distasteful. (This is also a large part of why I didn’t like Idia at first.)

Edit (noticed this later and decided to tack it on): Another thing that really bothered me was that Skully keeps asking Yuu for their opinion. It SEEMS polite to consider them, but his intentions are way less selfless than they appear. Skully is often asking Yuu for their thoughts AFTER some other character has disagreed with him. So he is literally only consulting Yuu because he wants someone on HIS side. If you ever pick the dialogue option where you disagree with him, Skully insists there must be a misunderstanding and he will explain it to you no matter how long it takes. Don’t you see??? He doesn’t want to know what Yuu truly thinks; he wants validation in his own way of thinking. That’s NOT actually being considerate. The same shit happens when Skully tries to kiss Grim again. Grim dodges but Skully sneaks behind him and kisses him anyway because I guess that’s what gentlemen do according to him. Bro has demonstrated time and time again he does not value consent nor what others’ thoughts are on anything that differs from his own thoughts.

Those aspects of Skully get even more prominent in part 3. Throughout this section, Skully keeps reassuring himself that while he’s going along with the group’s plans for a boisterous and exciting Halloween, he’s certain that Jack-sama will surprise everyone with a Halloween that is more in line with a solitary, depressing one Skully envisions. Once Skully learns that Jack has no such intentions, he is disappointed and proceeds with a series of crimes 💀 Skully:

Tricks the Pumpkin King into drinking a sleeping poison

Does the good ol’ crazed villain laugh

Pulls a serious of expressions not even a loving mother would excuse

Curses and shouts

Assumes control of the Halloween plans

PUMPKINS GRIM when Grim and Yuu walk in on the scene of his crime (even when Grim gives zero indication that he thinks Skully is responsible for the poisoning)

Stuffs pumpkin!Grim into a sack

Colludes with Lock, Shock, and Barrel (for what yet, I don’t know)

Casually decides to show Yuu the best Halloween ever AFTER ALL THAT (it’s still not clear at this point if Yuu also got Pumpkin’d or not); the phrasing is still quite romantic but this is still a hostage situation, no??????

Like, wow, that’s… 😭 I’m not necessarily upset that Skully does bad things in the first place (lots of the Twst characters do questionable things), I’m just not sure if I’m following his reasoning for doing all of this. It seems like a LOT to me. Like, very niche and highly targeted anger.

He seems fixated on his own idea of Halloween—the Halloween he grew up with and was taught about in his village. For whatever reason, he is very sensitive to people challenging this version of the holiday or doing anything new. In fact, he becomes IRATE about it and drops the gentlemanly facade (which also seems to be something he is concerned about maintaining??). Skully is very frustrated that people don’t understand him, and that now his Halloween idol is also letting him down. Notably, his politeness deteriorates when he speaks about those who disregard his opinions on Halloween. He either becomes very gloomy or very mad (usually the latter), venting about worthless idiots who don’t understand his vision. Very strangely, he also mentions vaguely spiritual terms like atonement and his purpose in this world. Skully’s obsession with Halloween is so intense that it is evident even in his UM.

I get that his hometown was into this stuff, but even then, it seems pretty excessive??? Why is he so… insecure about this? Why does he react so violently? It really makes me wonder what the backstory will be for this massive Halloween fixation. Surely it’s not just being bullied by peers for his special interests (though that might play a role in it)? It sems to go far deeper than that. I would like to know, but I won’t be setting my expectations too high in case i end up being disappointed 💦 Historically, backstory reveals haven’t always made me like characters more.

I also feel like he’s not as crafty as previous Halloween villains were. Rollo ran on spite and constructed an elaborate plan to entrap the NRC students, Fellow relied on his UM and smooth talk… Skully is somewhat tricky in that he poisons Jack, but then he automatically gives himself away by pumpkin-ing Grim??? Why didn’t he just pretend he visited Jack and found him already poisoned? It would be so easy for him to play innocent and Grim and Yuu would believe him because he’s been mostly nice and even agreed to follow along with the Halloween plans even if he disagreed with them. He literally could have blamed Boogie’s Boys or Oogie Boogie himself, ANYONE. And how exactly does Skully plan on taking over Halloween after all of this??? He doesn’t exactly command power. Skully just seems a little short sighted and disorganized, and I don’t know if I enjoy this kind of a character.

Skully’s controlling, angry otaku energy is unfortunately NOT appealing to me whatsoever… Again, it feels like the worst aspects of Idia OTL But!! i’m really happy for all the people who really like this about him and I’m of course staying open minded for where this event will take us. Who knows, maybe parts 4 and 5 will completely turn him around for me, maybe once we get the backstory. (This sort of happened with me and Idia?? He’s still not my favorite guy but I definitely empathized with him a lot more after seeing the post-OB flashback.) We’ll see!

P.S. I wonder if the R cards this event will be the first to be pumpkin’d similar to how R cards in Playful Land were the first to be puppet’d?? That would certainly get the biggest threat to Skully’s plans, Malleus, out of the picture quickly. First it was Tamago-sama… Now it’s Kabocha-sama…

P. P. S. Slightly morbid to think about how those skewered pumpkins Jamil was stroking could have been pumpkin’d people 💀

[dailyloopdeloop]

DAY 75: onehat

[kacievvbbbb]

I don't know there's a lot of alcoholics in One Piece as to be expected pirates and all.

But something about Shanks and Rayleigh's drinking feels a little more like drinking to forget than your more run of the mill pirate alcoholism. It just feels like Something that the people that love them maybe worry about a little too much for it to be fun.

[hongtonie]

SEONGHWA + YEOSANG Crazy Form 231210

[amourcherie606]

art requests HURRAHHHH IVE FINALLY FINISHED MIDTERM SEASON IM FREEEE plz send art requests im begging my hands are itching for more digital art

[mintjeru]

my take on The orv webtoon panel 💥

open for better quality | no reposts

[buildoblivion]

also really REALLY could have done without the possession sex stuff actually - like did we learn nothing from season two?????

[zprite-x]

“Worry not, for though you are dying, I can still save you. But firstly, prove to me your life is still worth living.”

I was thinking about Bereaved Moth Halley today at work, so heres a warm up sketch of her <3

[yoongi-mingi-babe]

my mans mingi lost his shirt at some point and i lost the last bit of my sanity y'all.

[catilinas]

but also once again they don’t knowwwwww that ‘she’s been dead since the beginning’ is yes because the story of the oresteia has already been told. but also is so specific to icke’s version of the oresteia because of how he reshapes the narrative of it. in conclusion more people should read the script to his version because it FUCKS

[maidenvault]

Save me from this growing subset of Studio Ghibli fandom that is just into the “cozy” aesthetics and none of the themes with any teeth and are like this about Grave of the Fireflies, constantly talking about how this movie “traumatized” them.

Idk it just rubs me the wrong way when GotF is based on the actual experiences of someone who was a child during WWII and lost his younger sister this way. As brutal as it is, the movie completely steers clear of being an emotionally manipulative kind of tearjerker, especially because it tells you in the first shots how it will end. The Japanese people who suffered and lost so much during this time because of how spectacularly their government failed them were traumatized. Sorry but you weren’t by watching a fucking movie.

[riokhosa]

｡･:*:･ﾟ★｡ ┆┆ @accultant // continued from here.

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HIS EYE TWITCHES. I know that stupid mutt did not bring his creepy mouse of a ❛ twin ❜ to my FUCKING birthday bash ！！！

Worse, it seems Puck just dropped them & scampered off to say ❛ Hi, hello, hello, hiiiiii, hi hi hi, how are you ？Hiiii~ ❜ to everyone he possibly can, leaving Iago to stand around idly. Rio almost feels sorry for them. Almost.

Iago's insult goes in one ear & out the other. The sound of their voice is a waste of perfectly decent cognitive space, really. Rio gives them a look-over once. Twice. Three times. Damn . . .

                    . . . What an UGLY outfit. 

Now he has to put in the effort to sneer at them. Ruining his face in the process. Goodness, what a mess.

The sneer upturns into a tight, FORCED grin. ❝ Wow ！I had no idea I'd have to hire an exterminator this late at night. Your ratty little face is scaring my guests, Igor. ❞

[quatregats]

Beloved mutual experiencing the pain of CS Forester writing things about Spain and I am relieving every single moment of reading Ship of the Line in vivid detail