#giggling about the implications of this

[medicalunprofessional]

sorry guys they finally showed me peak fiction . Its called “phantom of the paradise”

[auriannaventiwithcaramel]

out of curiosity, i decided to look up if the russian word on the vodka bottles in saf was complete gibberish or if the english letters made a word or clue.

i'm sure this has been knowledge for years but yall. the word in russian means "another". it's called. another vodka.

i'm thinking about the implications and being sooooo normal btw.

[moliathh]

This had been irking me so i have to say it. I know Hellsing is a horror media with a LOT of flashy action scene, however, it is unjust to see it as solely gore and fights. I've seen complaints about how adding a "romance" in will reduce the quality of the story as an "action horror". (specifically speaking is between Alucard and Integra because of course in the end of the day this is just ship war, not a serious discussion whatsoever) I would argue that Hellsing is never ONLY about the actions. Yall might have already noticed how Alucard is too OP, and it was not even because he got any tricks up his sleeves. He is simply invincible, his mechanism is just that hes a "deus ex machina". He did NAWT need to start out with zero and levelling up like your common action anime protagonist. It's not a first time a central character is overpowered in an unreasonable way. A way you could interpret this trope is that it was not about battles, not the physcial one, but the development in their characteristic, their thoughts and emotions and ideology all that stuffs. A classic example is Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (TGK), where all of their (physical) battles are nonsense and did not mean anything in terms of combat, they dont even fight each other, even the climax (the decapitation of TGK) was dismissed into a looney tunes moment. BECAUSE OF COURSE IT WAS NEVER ABOUT THE BATTLE NOR PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT, it was the internal struggle and maturing in character. THAT is what's happening in Hellsing IF yall look pass the very flashy facade of gore scenes Hirano put up. READ BETWEEN THE LINES, because he's not gonna hand it out to you on a plate. If you want to see how each character developed you have to look closely at their reactions and dialogues, not how they fight.

SO, imo, it's reducing the quality and message of Hellsing to interpret it solely as an action horror media, not the other way around. AND MIND YOU, romance subplot and action horror can coexist. For what does the character fight? A higher ideal? Power? Fun? Love? All that is noteworthy to think about when you engage in a media display many fight scenes. DONT YOU WANNA KNOW WHY THEY FIGHT THAT HARD ???? and in this case it is VERY obvious that Alucard is motivated by Integra. LIKE it cant be more obvious

And I'm so tired of seeing "Alucard only listen to Integra because of the seal and shes a Hellsing". Bestie, he literally ripped Richard's hand off, we dont even know the extent of the seal, like how far? or can it REALLY control Alucard? Besides, if you have read The Dawn you would see what a damn lazy ass Alucard was, Arthur sent him on a mission and he didn't even bother to walk on his own and just sleep safe and sound in his coffin until he felt like waking up??? Compare that to his enthusiasm to beg Integra on four just for her order and even purposefully tick her off by asking about her enthusiasm for war, oh and did we collectively forget this

(This is the Dark Horse eng scan if i remember correctly? i might be mistaken idk)

Sure it could just be a mere parallel, "The woman he personally desired" might only means Mina Harker and not directly Integra herself, I see. But, why bother choosing this parallel, and RIGHT after this panel he went STRAIGHT to Integra to ask for her order.

You know how enthusiastic he is with a fight and everything was already laid before him, worthy enemies and all. Yet he would not act without her words? I did not see him needing permission before ripping Richard's hand off... Also the seal did NAWT ask him to do all this

There are more of his sickening and excessive display of obedience but i don't have time to pull the panels out yet, but we all know its there since Alucard's submissive attitude and Integra's bossy demeanour is one of their most appealing traits, I know, because it is literally one of the BIGGEST selling points and running joke of the fandom, funnyyyy how people always love to call Alucard a sub and use words such as "freaky" and "slutty" to call him as if he didn't reserved this treatment for ONLY Integra. Sure Integra is a demanding boss to even her enemies, and it works like wonder everytime, because she's Integra, she mastered Alucard, others are just piece of cake to her. But that's not the same case with Alucard. Major literally said "She is the only authority Alucard recognizes". And have Alucard extended the phrase "My master" and all the begging and insinuating jokes to anyone else? It's so convenient isnt it, to just take one specific trait of Alucard's personality and make it his entire character without considering to WHO he directed those innuendos to.

Oh and I haven't walk us to the final chapter yet, like the seal did NAWWWWWTTT asked him to call her "Countess" (or Count, depending on the translators) and literally he could accept his death becoming a paradox? Wasn't Alucard had been craving an end for a long while now? Why the need to return just because Integra asked him to??? Be serious for a moment here

Also a personal interpretation of mine that could be a stretch or just pure delulu is that, in the manga AND the anime adaptation, the last word Alucard said after goodbye is "Integra" (In both Japanese and English dub, the word order is exactly the same), not "Master" or "Integra HELLSING". The same goes when he addressed how he can kill without remorse but the decision is in her hand, he also said "I am a monster, now regarding you, Integra". To me that is an indicator for how he CARED for her not just because she's a Hellsing or his master but she's Integra, from the first of their meeting it was very clear, that Alucard wounded A HELLSING to protect Integra.

So... even non-romantically, you cannot deny that Alucard voluntarily worked for Integra. They DO care about each other a lot, even platonically, their bond is almost like soulmates with how well they trust and understand each other. I just don't like it when people keep side-stepping the depth of their relationship just because you don't like to ship them romantically. These are the canon informations you can't just seriously unironically say that there was nothing there.

And oh don't even get me started on the "But he is a vampire, the enemy of her family and he hates Hellsing because of Abraham something something stockholm syndrome something she's ace coded she's lesbian coded she swore to be a virgin until death she wouldnt throw it away for the enemy of her family etcera etcera" you're saying it as if ace people aren't allowed to date or have sex and you're saying it as if Alucard isn't canonically genderfluid. Why always view the ship as solely heteronormative while they were never conventional to begin with. And MIND YOU, i thought everyone love the enemies to lovers trope?? they were BARELY stockholm syndrome at all did we forget about the Bird of Hermes analogy as a metaphor for loyalty voluntarily given.

If you care so much about "monsters and humans are forbidden" and "they are not canon" maybe treat every ship with the same attitude since MOST of hellsing most popular ships fit into that exact two sentences above, maybe except Pip x Seras is canon, but they're also human x monster, so what now???? Just hate on a ship all you like, I hate ships too and I hate them because I don't like them, that's all, no need to do extra mental gymnastic to prove the ship is "wrong" or their shippers are "wrong".

[newvision]

Virginia Woolf, the voyage out // Hannibal, 1x10 Buffet Froid // Marie Howe, the affliction

[funky-sea-cryptid]

tbh im not legitimately sure where the crucifix came from was there a black clover jesus???????

How does Catholicism work in the Black Clover universe? I don’t think we’ll ever get an answer about this but what is a God in a world of magic? People coming back from the dead? Walking on water? This is normal.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

At The Feet Of The Sun

book 2 in a slow paced high fantasy duology*

the right hand of the emperor (who is off searching for an heir) struggles with what to do after passing on his responsibilities and also discovering various pieces of information that are mindblowing to him, personally,

after adventure is thrust upon him, he travels to find His Radiancy and they go on some otherworldly adventures while growing closer and figuring out the nature of their friendship

(*there’s extra novellas & i think another book coming? duology adjacent, currently,)

[geekyanglophile]

*Spoilers for the 3rd Special of Doctor Who*

RTD explaining how the bigeneration could apply to all of the Doctors. It’s a fascinating if somewhat daunting idea, but it does at least explain the ongoing issue of bringing old doctors back and having to suspend your disbelief as to why they look so much older.

The implications are endless, but what I want to know is does it also apply to Ten? Are there now 2 extra Davids on Earth plus and extra human one on parallel Earth? How many Davids are too many Davids? 😂

[allthoseotherworlds]

Me, showing up in RTDs nightmares tonight and shaking him vigorously: "What the fuck do you mean all the past Doctors also split off? If that's true, how did Fifteen splitting from Fourteen fix his trauma, if he doesn't actually get the healing that Fourteen is doing? Doesn't that undermine the whole "rehab out of order thing"? Are all the extra split off Doctors also going to regenerate now? I'm sure that won't get confusing at all. Did you actually think about this before you did it or do bullshit ideas just spill out of your mouth like vomit?"

[henrysglock]

What are they doinggggggggg (first pic is a "diary" entry from Two that his actor posted, note the changed pronouns for Four)

[the-martyrfication-of-the-matron]

The way it was confirmed that Micheal cannot die as long as he has a descendant he can possess…

So Travis probably was only born in order to keep Micheal’s immortality and he was never meant to serve as his own person, just a vessel.

[chrollogy]

isn’t he dreamy? >//<

[19871997]

"i'm passionate about what i put in my body" can someone ask him to phrase this differently. for my sanity

NCVNBKDHFBXM man who has mfp'd cum at least once in his lifetime

[wispforever]

I really like your headcanon about Sasuke and Naruto finally getting together in the end, even after marrying women and having kids. Do you have any good fanfic recommendations that portray how it all plays out? I want something that's slow burn, close to canon, and not OOC.

So far, I've read "My Lost Himawari" and I think it does a pretty good job. Naruto and Sasuke are finally together! The author also nicely portrays resolution in Hinata and Sakura. Boruto, Himawari and Sarada are included too.

Side note, I've been listening to AI covers with Naruto's and Sasuke's Japanese voices singing Naruto openings and endings. They add another dimension to the SNS fandom. Amazing!

To be honest, I don't read a lot of fic, so I'm not the best person to ask. I enjoy a good read every once and a while, but college really exhausted that part of me. Hopefully someday, I can get it back.

At any rate, you're always welcome to read my fic I wrote about Sasuke and Naruto a while back. Not exactly what you're looking for, but I'll leave a link here for you, in case you're interested :)

The AI is impressive and sounds interesting, but just a reminder, that AI technology is currently harming a lot of content creators and artists, so we should all show our support by staying mindful of the bigger picture and keeping our endorsements at the minimum until all this shit is a little more regulated and there are laws in place to protect people's rights <3

[didsomeonesayventus]

damn so how about the latest fe engage manga chapter (tw for talk of crucifixion under the cut not like. horrendously detailed at all but also hi most people may understandably not want to read about that w/ out a warning sjakghsdkgh)

I HATE TO SAY IT BUT LIKE. kinda giggling thinking about this you're telling me back when I was writing Black Tourmaline (which, for the uninformed, has Alear kidnapped by Fell Cult Leftovers a few years post canon that I finished like back in mid June you should check it out maybe) I could've included crucifixion as a means of torture* and it would've been confirmed a canon aspect of fell worship a matter of months later

damn i could've crucified al- (a comically large frying pan slams against my head, knocking me out instantly)

* tho also I will concede that, while swift intervention + lack of nailing (which I don't think there is any here *squinting*) means you could have a chance of survival, typically the goal of crucifixion is uh. execution. remember kids crucifixion is an obscenely nasty ass way to go and frankly im not surprised it would be involved in Fell worship given the kind of attitudes Sombron takes up of course he'd probably be chill with if not promote something that- if you're lucky -would still take hours of agony to kill you, if not days.

fuckhead sombron fuck you

[soubiapologist]

[niuxita21]

(✿ ♥‿♥) Drunk!Mariana Edition

Bonus: The adorable way she looks at Ana while trying to comfort her as best she can in her sleepy drunk state