#fuckin Bad Opinion Zone over here christ

[nukenai]

yes actually i WILL block you if you reblog a live a live clip I posted and yell in the tags about how you hated the English dub, and hated that a character had a British accent (a character who was was voiced by an Actual British Person)

get off my posts you fuckin lamer

[old-crabapple-mckinley]

unfocused thoughts on wot book 9: winter's heart

alright. im gonna put this one in the lord of chaos zone on the basis of "mediocre book, very cool ending."

i feel it started better than book 8, but a couple subplots bogged me down into the dirt. but then!!!!!!!!! they did a big thing!!!! very cool, very exciting, made me briefly forget my problems but then once it was over, i remembered it kind of sucked.

alright; lets start with the big plot point in the room

cleansing saidin is fucking awesome. im glad that they did that and i think its really cool how the massive angreal from like book 2 and the statues from book 4 made a come back.

it was great to see rand trust nynaeve so much. i appreciate their relationship, but i have some opinions about the execution of the scene.

i love me a big magic fight. havent seen it since dumai's wells. so so great about the forsaken descending on everyone and the ashaman/aes sedai linking. loved it loved it loved it.

shout out to moghedien dipping out and watching all her buddies get fuckin iced. i love this massive coward, she is the only forsaken that matters

what's the fuckin deal with verin, i wanna know so bad!!!! is she a darkfriend? she compelled the lady in the previous book but here said a captured forsaken could help them?? what is her deal i love her!!!!

some bummers from this sequence:

i wish rand and nynaeve and rand were shown to be better friends. nothing tells me that he actually likes her; he trusts her because she was the wisdom of emond's field, but that's about as much as we got from him. the emotional human parts of their relationship (the big sister vibes, how they've been on this ride together) isn't at the forefront

it also bugs me none of it was from nynaeve's perspective. they way it talks about linking, where nynaeve says "how do you deal with this disgusting feeling all the time?" was so interesting for the first 5 mins, its the 1st time men and women link in the series, but considering how often they talk about the 2 sides of the power, it's kind of a disappointment they dont allow her to comment on touching saidin the way rand experiences saidar

nynaeve passes out halfway through?!?! and cadsuane has to heal her?? foolish choice. shoulda been the 2 of them the whole time. really making nynaeve look like a scrub next to super special awesome rand and his extra beefy boy powers

i wish there was a moment where the cleansing clicked, where nynaeve and rand look at each other and have a moment and see the taint is gone!!!! they did it!! let me see it!!! a moment of euphoria when they do this monumental thing!!!!!

im listening to the audiobook, so im having some issues differentiating the aes sedai rand (and everyone else) has with them. none of them have stood out too much from each other besides alanna, verin, and cadsuane, so it's hard to not think of them as fodder for the forsaken

things overall:

you could cut the whole far madding subplot and nothing would change. stopped the momentum of the story dead in its tracks. nothing would be different. hated it.

dont care about faile getting kidnapped and im emotionally done with the shaido. they should have been routed and finished at dumai's wells, or immediately after when the forsaken got in their business. (poor morgase tho, jesus christ just leave her alone). i do enjoy dark friend subterfuge tho, so the stuff with galina here is at least interesting enough to keep me going. my poor perrin with this crappy storyline.

geez where do i start w/ elayne? the coolest thing was dyelin, where she was waiting to see if she should game for more power, because she really could have made a powerful contender for the throne, but then ultimately landing on elayne's side after the assassination attempt.

didn't really like the dude elayne made guard captain (tho it was nice to see the og black ajah cell from book 2, my girl chesmal!!) i would much rather focus on the darkfriend who killed adeleas than this creepy dude. i wanted more intrigue from people who actually matter. it doesn't feel like good political drama, it just feels like weight

did not like that she immediately got pregnant. that's a big yikes from me. #1 it makes sex have this very consequential nature, which feels super uncomfortable #2 it's been 6 days and people are treating elayne like she's gonna pop at any minute and that's fuckin stupid as hell!!!!!!!! (not a big fan of the rand triad, but it was kind of funny having all of them + birgitte feel elayne and rand bone thru the bond)

everything with mat could have been in the last book. the seanchan are very interesting but keeping track of all this new information is hard, im afraid im gonna forget everything. (im doing the audio book over my commute so i cant really go back to passages) i think mat had the stongest plot overall because things actually happened!

overall- ehhhh meh on this one. im already into book 10 and i know book 11 is a banger so im just holding on until then!

[colonel-crapshot]

ISLAND Episode Two

Crunchyroll is determined to make me look at Maihime's cousin's ass 

Friend:  [Aliens.jpg] Fanservice

I mean, there are worse asses to stare at in this life. But there is more to it than just the booty.

Normally I'd say something demeaning about myself but I can't have an opinion of my own ass since I can't look at very well and even if I could it would probably be a resounding "Meh"

AH AT LAST WE PAN UPWARDS FROM THE BOOTY

Friend: My eyes are up here

Funny thing is we are facing her back and even when we get some of her face her eyes aren't in sight

Also, she's apparently a fucking vampire

A disease? You mean VAMPIRISM?!

"Soot blight syndrome" aight. I'll bite, THE FUCK ARE Y'ALL SMOKING HERE THAT THE SOOT MAKES VAMPIRISM?!

Aight lady you're fast balling a lot of things at us. And no, we're not going to contract vampirism to keep you company as a "Prince of the night"

Well that's an opener. Granted it follows neatly on from last episode so I can't complain

OH LOOK. A FLIER FOR THE MAID JOB. I WONDER WHAT SHE'S DOING AFTER SCHOOL TODAY

... you know thinking on it. I might be able to understand a slightly more territorial policy like the one Mayor Butthurt propogates if they have cases of FUCKING VAMPIRISM on the titular Island

OH COME ON SETSUNA. THIS IS LAUNDRY FOR A HOUSE OWNED BY A WOMAN (or at least with one woman known to be present) KNICKERS WERE ALWAYS GOING TO BE PART OF THE THINGS TO HANG ON THE LINE

It's not like you went into your own undergarments drawer and procured them

GROW UP

You were mopping anyways. A spill isn't the worst thing to happen

Half the usual and he's got at least one 10,000 yen bill present

I mean, failing all else they are making sure their maids get to fucking live off of working for them

Sweet christ they were a unified chorus

You should go to the shrine library to get them checked for evil spirits

Well no-one can say he isn't putting his back into it. Completed the days work AND it's still very sunny outside

Must be like early afternoon

Maybe ask your Vampire princess once she's roused from her slumber with a fresh bag of AB negative

Odd that the library would be closed at the end of a school day. You'd have thought that they'd have someone at least holding the fort for the inevitable bout of students who'd want to get some studying done

Granted I appreciate Setsuna trying to seek the information elsewhere. Though I do wonder if he'd even recognise the kanji for Soot Blight Syndrome if he just read it in the library and might misread it and be left scratching his head

The library on the Island might well have the resources to research their island specific vampirism

Oh shit an Oonusa. I’ve no idea what one DOES with an Oonusa. But dat be it

... Aight child. We need to have a talk about the abuse of the Gods powers for assassination attempts

"Let's go to my honey zone in the library." Assassination doesn't work so well when I know what you're up to you know?

Wonder what Mayor Butthurt's game is adopting a sodding shrine maiden

Granted this COULD be yet further hammering in the idea that this guy is a douche nozzle. But I'd like to think better of this. I've seen Visual novels with asshole characters actually having reasonable motives for acting in such dickish ways

Good grief. Who'd go to burn down a freaking shrine of all places?!

I suppose the Three Families in Urashima are something of the driving force behind the Barbatossian "NO! OUTSIDERS! EVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!" which probably would make people a little miffed at them

OH BOY. STORY TIME

Okay. That's a nice dodge of the pendulum of bullshit. Well done Sara

I think Loli Maiden��s name is Sara anyways

OH BOY. INCEST LORE

Friend: WHA

THE ISLAND HAS INCEST LORE

Friend: https://i.imgur.com/GleCwqI.mp4

JESUS. I mean... to some degree I understand. BUT CURSING MONSTROSITY UPON THEM?!

Friend:  Hits red button and runs away

This is a long ago thing

They're not trying to champion it. But still, I respect the nope

Uh huh... interesting lore

Kinda counter to our boys instructions that "Setsuna must die"

Friend:  Oh I know you'd be going into convulsions if they had championed it. My nope comes from that sort of lore typically being used as edgy drama-bait rather than legitimate storytelling

Luckily this is lore and they were rather swift to go over it and the repercussions of it, or more so the repercussions of both it and jealous women

Friend:  Hand still hovering over the red button

The thrust of the lore is the idea that since Rinne topped herself the Shrine Maiden who cursed her said "Yo. She'll be reborn later in time, and if y'all can re-unite I'll undo the curse." Which seems to be good since it won't be incest at that point and they can let their love go about itself

RATHER than "INCEST" and hoping that we all press 800 nope buttons stacked atop one another and fire ourselves into an alternate dimension where we can keep watching it

That's convenient. I mean granted the library on the Island probably WOULD have books about their local vampirism disease

"I'm ready, so lets do this." Oh, you've finally finished setting up your honey trap? 

I don't have the heart to tell her that she REALLY should do this when her hopeful victim isn't present and aware

Oooh. Are we getting actual plot or is our Shrine Maiden ACTUALLY more cunning than an upturned cup of milk

"The reason why you exist." I could have given you that reason ages ago with Sex Ed 101

Tab A into Slot B, jostle as necessary until goop. Wait 9 months and hopefully a sentient potato falls out of Slot B

BECAUSE SHE HAS READ THE SCRIPT SETSUNA

OH SHIT SHE MIGHT HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN THAT CUNNING

That was your plot armour reacting to potential plot ending events

You're being awful rude, Setsuna. 

You know there can be more than one maid for a house. Whilst it may not necessarily NEED more than one maid since Setsuna pretty handily did everything before the sun was even close to setting

Oh look. Vampire princess

She set out incense when she was setting up a honey trap to murder me

Get with the program Rinne

Setsuna, you can't drag people in for an interview. Even if they're leaving in a huff

LOSING MEMORIES AND CAVING TO YOUR PARENTS BULLSHIT ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS! I CAN MAKE MORE MEMORIES. IF YOU GIVE IN TO YOUR PARENTS ISN'T THAT THE END OF YOUR FREEDOM?!

D'aw, that's nice Setsuna. You haven't put your best foot forward about it though

... GOD FUCKING DAMNIT SETSUNA.

At least you're reflecting upon your acted self importance

That's not a bad way of looking at it Rinne

"It's destiny." There's been a lot of that talk. I wonder if we're going to get a story I like where Destiny gets fucked and Setsuna forges himself a relationship of his own choosing. Or if Destiny in this is actually benign and just wants to help get lovers get into a healthy romance rather than one made of nope

"You'll remember soon enough." I thought you didn't have much in the way of memories from before you hurtled counter to time either?

Ah plot summer break

The ultimate hand wave to highschoolers gallivanting about at all hours

Why must you push Karen's buttons Setsuna?

I mean. YEAH, I DID. But 1,000,000 YEN?!... granted Setsuna did get a hefty paycheck even at half of the rate he would normally get it seemed

Yeah. I'd imagine your mom wouldn't take kindly to Mayor Butthurt's bullshit. Especially if she's anything like the basis for some of your personality

It may well have been 5 years ago honey but you don't sound exactly over it

He's been on Urashima for like 3 days Karen, how do you expect him to know the best places to be

I'm not even sure how far 1,000,000 yen will GET you. Assuming that you can even convince someone with a boat to take you there

HEY I WAS FUCKIN' RIGHT. HE COULDN'T READ IT ON HIS OWN

Still does put the idea of this vampirism and its things into check. Do wonder though why Rinne doesn't take the anti-vamp meds

"You went on a secret date with Karen?" If by "secret date" you mean doing the sodding shopping, then yes, secret date

Christ, you sound almost spurned for someone who was TRYING TO MURDER ME YESTERDAY

Ooooh. Cutting right to the thick of it. I like you Setsuna

CALLED IT

I'm unsure about how... wait. I think I get it. They were originally persecuted for cutting them off from the mainland and they put in those ideas to help assuage the peoples rightful ire

Aight I re-read it and it lost me again

Still I can see Karen's idea that Rinne contracting it is just an excuse. But by the same token IT'S FUCKING VAMPIRISM. YOU DON'T WANT THAT SHIT SPREADING

But by the same token. HOW HAVEN'T THEY DIALED UP THE MAINLAND AND ASKED FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE?!

"To protect the island" I can see how cutting themselves off protects the mainland. But not the island

Setsuna, come back to earth with us. YOU CAME FROM THE FUTURE! YOU TOOK THE NAME SETSUNA SINCE IT'S ALL YOU REMEMBERED THE REST WAS ALMOST WHIMSY

I mean... maybe? But on a different note, like 90% of that was twisty turvy nonsense

I'm gonna go back and listen again

Nope. Still don't get it

SHE ISN'T A VAMPIRE

Aight, that makes sense

D'aw that's sweet that she wants Setsuna to save Rinne

Nice. We're gently kicking the "Prophecied couple" routine in the head early

Less nice, Setsuna that's not a great way to approach it

... I mean granted I'D probably do it that way, But still, not good. I mean heck, Rinne may well have something more going on rather than just thinking "I'm the Rinne reincarnation."

Ooof! That looks like it hurt

Oh good. Mind palace. Not actual speech

Alrighty. He's handling this better than in his mind palace

You're awful hooked on this idea of Destiny, Rinne

... THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS LADY! LETTING THINGS REMAIN AS THEY ARE WON'T KEEP SETSUNA AS "YOUR" SETSUNA

Good thing is. She's aware that she ISN'T actually a vampire. Bad thing is: She thinks that if things remain as is then everything is fine

Aight, this is proving interesting

Even if I don't get their idea of Island prosperity

Link: ISLAND Episode 2