#hes the only one of the introduced characters who i dont rly like so far n i kinda feel bad abt it .. whats the general consensus on him

[ajdrawshq]

playing Q2 n watching Akechi get affectionately suffocated by some guy in a bear costume. this game knows exactly what i want

[mwagneto]

sherlock & co. review from an insane person (me) coz this is like. the 25th? sherlock adaptation i've checked out so ofc i have opinions on everything ever. and ik ppl who work on indie podcasts browse tumblr sometimes so just in case you work on this DON'T click keep reading, this post is not for youuu shoo. thanks x

ok so far it's like. fine? which is lowkey sad coz i wish it was smtg i really liked but it hasn't gripped me yet which is a shame but yknow. early days. i'm giving it time since it's only 15 episodes so far

my main issue is like. i really wish it wasn't so obviously influenced by bbc but it just so clearly is which is a shaaame like it's better than bbc in every aspect but yknow. not a high bar to clear. like it kinda feels like they liked a lot of things abt bbc and set out to fix the bad parts (h&w friendship being nonexistent, the mysteries being shit) but just kept the rest? in some places keeping things that were invented by bbc which is. baffling tbh

i'm not really picky when it comes to h&w personalities like i think it's fine to just do whatever you want w them, i think it's really fun when an adaptation gives them different personalities than what you're used to but, and this is where it feels far too bbc-ish for comfort, i just don't like it when sherlock is a cunt for no reason? like. he's not a mean person he's only mean in bbc coz moffat thought house md was cool and ripped it off. can we stop making him mean pleeeease 😭 he's just some guy..................

h&w relationship wise it's like... ok so i tend to go into adaptations with a fully clean slate so like i never let my general attachment to them influence how i view them in specific adaptations, the work itself needs to sell me on both the characters and the relationship and like... here neither of those really happened yet which makes me sad coz i think by now it should've but i'm giving it time. at least they're friends and i like that watson is useful for cases/knows things holmes doesn't sometimes coz thats like. such an essential element to sh stories for me and a loooottt of adaptations tend to just completely forget it so that's a win but idk if anything they're too tame? like i dont expect a romance but they can't just be casual friends they need to be bat shit crazy about each other. to me. but like maybe that'll develop over the rest of the podcast we'll see

kinda related to that point but case-wise i think holmes is a bit too ahead of everyone else sometimes which isn't inherently a problem but it does once again smell of bbc which like. noone should ever emulate moffat writing don't do that 🙏 god bles. but i've been able to solve every case along with/before the mcs which is like. thee point of mystery stories for me so yea i really like the stories themselves so far, especially the way they manage to make them solvable even without visuals or narration. OH and i almost forgot but i rly like the soundtrack, i love it when sh soundtracks have a heavy emphasis on violins coz. yknow

howeverr i am on my hands and knees begging them not to give watson a girlfriend tho like please oh myfffucking god . obvs watsonlock doesn't usually factor into my enjoyment of adaptations given that like. y'know. out of the hundreds out there theres only two where either of them is even gay so it's not something i expect nor require but like. to me it is essential that these two ppl are insane abt each other and don't really have anyone else, definitely noone important. like even the rdj movies got this despite ritchie's obsession w the 2 men 1 woman dynamic so idk why i'm constantly having to wage a war against random unnecessary romances for either watson or, god forbid, holmes. when the only interesting relationship either of these men have is with each other. that one granada holmes quote about them choosing not to include mary coz holmes and watson dont need anyone else etc etc. like i seriously dislike it when they introduce anyone else like cmonnnnnn thog dont care

anyway tldr. i guess if asked to pick a short description i'd say. promising? i hope it's gonna be good in the long run. the way they do mysteries is already something i like so. i hope they keep that up and i hope the h&w relationship evolves into something i enjoy coz so far i'm like. i can see the bones of smtg i'll potentially like but it's not there yet. but also like. this is an indie production i'm listening to for free so ion wanna rip into it these are mainly just what i liked/disliked based on the preferences i developed with this one quick trick (grow up completely insane abt sherlock holmes -> consume every adaptation that you can get your paws on -> no profit)

[blueiight]

i think one of the reasons people aren’t super interested in exploring the implications of louis being a pimp is because the show isn’t. not to pull a “as a former (brothel based) swer” card for a tv show about edwardian vampires but iwtv has a lot of very interesting thoughtful things to say about many many things and sex work is not one of them. real lazy trope-y red light district funny-madame (bricktop) and disposable girl with a heart of gold (lily) historical fiction red light district wenches with a lick of liberal choice ‘empowerment and business!’ because that’s what the well meaning lib zeitgeist is on SW currently and none of the implications or dynamics of exploitation are explored beyond louis’ confessional in ep1. louis “increasing the girl’s cut” ! ridiculous. love the show but don’t think this is something it’s thought about in any depth and viewers are matching that tone

i feel like im answering the same asks on this issue cuz somebody def did say dis 2 me b4 n i did reply i agree w/ u n ill elaborate bc u r a real person w these experiences. what u have to say is most important here n i respect u for even behind anon in telling me how that was sum u lived thru. id like u to recall what we have seen in the flashbacks for that particular section of the show is so far primarily told thru louis’s pov. a character who possibly had to lie to himself n reduce lily to just a disposable martyr w a heart of gold + brick as just the funny tropey madame to rationalize what he was actually doing here. n even then it couldnt stop him from spiraling off into a drunk confession to the paster about how he takes girls from homes + lies to them saying he’ll do them good but exploits them so. louis himself, even drunk n half out his mind in the 1910s, is willing to account this as one of his vices, his evils, so i dont think the show wants the viewers to give him a pass. its only rly a matter of concern in those first 3 eps bc after that, louis loses all his enterprises. the modern day situation in dubai w/ the blood farm + daniel’s crude comment in 1x07 about louis still being the pimp paying hoes to talk to him does suggest to me at least the showrunners r not falling in line w this line of thinking in telling louis’s story the way u think they do. my main thing w the pimp shit is moreso ‘why r ppl bitching at the show for tryna make louis a good guy when hes literally introduced to us as a pimp? why is that a line of criticism. do real ppl see nothing wrong w pimping?’ . i dont think the show needs to be like rgu black rose pointing symbols ‘this is bad!’ every second for viewers to understand that louis ‘increasing the girls a cut’ isnt bc hes mother mary oss. theyre expecting viewers to come in w/ a certain level of maturity + understanding of the real world to watch these batshit fictional characters. i hope im not sounding like im running apologetics for showrunners here

[kariachi]

#sorry i keep talking in the tags instead of in ur replies lmfao#but it rly does just feel like such a nothingburger of an arc#they dont even use the one character in it that couldve given us anything substantial#aka phil whom weve seen before both in os and in maxs monster#they dont even give any real import to him besides 'look! its phil!' and then moving on#and its like idk. like they came up with a way to retcon things but that was their entire goal#like they didnt care abt the plot they cared abt a vehicle to introduce retcons#it was just... failed potential (via @expired-blueberries)

The thing is I would bet money- and I don't have a lot of it- that that's exactly the situation. Somebody didn't like the idea of there being hybrids running around, somebody didn't like the backstory additions UAF gave to Kevin, so they came up with something they could throw out there to make all that shit not really canon anymore. There was no care what it brought to the story overall, no care to what it said about characters, or what it added or took away from characters (Servantis straight says Kevin's memories were altered so he could get close to the Tennysons, but there's no indication that this actually affects anything when it should affect everything) (who is Kevin without the shit Servantis did to make sure he got close to the Tennysons? Apparently exactly the same for some reason). There was no care for the plotholes all this shit would leave behind.

What's going on with Alan's family, now that we can't be sure they are his family? We don't know.

What's the relation between Helen and Pierce, now that we know there was a fucker out there manipulating heads and memories to his whims? We don't know.

What the fuck happened with Manny's missing hand (no I will not stop griping about them retconning his disability I will burn with righteous anger forever) We don't know.

Where did multiple people hear about Osmosians if they're a term only Servantis uses and that he faked being a species for some fucking unknown reason? We don't know.

What the fuck was going on with Aggregor? We don't know.

What the fuck was going on with the whole Ragnarok thing? We don't know.

What the fuck was going on with Kevin's supposed mom and stepdad? We don't know.

The entire point of the arc, I am fairly certain, was to be able to go 'this shit we didn't like in the old shows is not canon'. It doesn't affect anything as far as characters and shit go because nobody cared about it as something that happened, just as a way to say 'no that isn't a thing anymore'. It doesn't get build-up because it was not meant as a part of the story, it was meant as a retcon. It's a retcon, a chance to give us a 'oh btw Kevin has that scar now' and a 'hey btw this is where that outfit from Kev 11k comes from'. And those last two are only in there because for some reason the fuckers making OV decided they not only needed to set up for the Ken 10 timeline to be canon but also had to cram everything that was ever canon to it that they could without the fans actually rioting into the end of OV.

(And trust me, I have even more to say on that.)

It's a nothing of an arc that has no impact on the story or characters at all, is given the briefest oblique reference towards the end for no reason beyond 'must line up with this specific timeline', and that exists for no reason beyond retconning things, with no intention of or attempt to fill any of the many, many voids left gaping by it's existence.

There's a lot I love about it from a character perspective, from a 'wow we can probably work out some potential shit about Ken 10 11k from this', from character potential perspective, but goddamnit it is, as you say, a nothingburger of an arc on top of all the rest of it's damn problems.

Annoying thing with the Rooters arc is that we never do find out what the fuck the Rooters had planned in the long run. Because the first-and-foremost matter is destroying Ben, yes, but Servantis may as well be holding up a big glowing neon sign saying "this is step three in a greater, larger plan". He grabs Kevin in the first episode of the arc and is talking about using him to make more amalgams, when discussing Kevin seemingly coming back into the fold he describes him as 'coming along nicely' like this is just a step in his training, when he sends the kids out after him in the flashback he refers to the Rooters 'subtle manipulations' and how Ben can't fuck them up, he's literally forming a group of hybrid child soldiers as if he couldn't just snipe the fucking 10-yo as he walks out of his elementary school, or fucking recruit him like the Plumbers already end up doing.

This is not shit you get from someone whose entire deal is 'this one child is too dangerous to live'! You don't see 'child has superweapon' and go 'well then I'll have to transform myself, my staff, and a host of children into hybrids through painful experiments and then train and damn near mindcontrol the children into going and killing the kid'. You don't talk about plans for making more, you don't talk like when the chips are down the big problem is the kid might get in your way, or like the kids you've sent out to kill him are still in training.

These fuckers had Intentions and Plots and they got completely dismantled before we could get an actual answer on what they were longterm.

[heleizition]

How Alfred interact with his shifter babies? Where is Barbara in all of this? Is she a shifter or human? Also, I want to know more about Tim's parents... How was they and how Tim ended up with batfamily?

ok hold on . .. i need a second . .. im thinking about alfred holding like, baby panther dick in hi arms n smilng softly,,, jst . .. give me a moment . ..... like ... hes cooking n hyerna jason who’s starting to grow jst sits beside him n tucks his head on the counter n looks at alfred like feed me and alfred is so so fond of his grandsons yk,,, of his family,,,, cries

OK SO beside that tim shifts from cat to human the first time with alfred,,, hes a safe adult in his eyes and he trusts him and its a trust alfred hasnt and wont ever betray. cass just likes to sit on his shoulder while he has tea,,, he makes her a cup and she flies over to drink when she feels like it but mostly she’s chilling. steph usually runs around and tries to pick things up to “help” alfred and he gives her lil pets,,,, duke usually feels like in the way when hes shifted and alfred is cleaning up or working around him so he usually shift back and helps and it makes alfred smile a lot even after he tries to shoo duke away bc thats His Job yk,,, duke still helps sefooefshofse

OK UM i admit i did not think of babs bc she always slips from my mind,,,, i dont have a big connection to her character,,,, im not sure if she’s a shifter yet i gotta think but i kinda feel  ,,, fox for her,,,,, if u have other suggestions im open ? i dont know much about her character sadly,,,,

OK SO under the cut is tim’s story n how he met and ended up w the bat, big tw for animal (shifter) abuse and child abuse, starvation, abandonment, umm mutilation & description of injury

tim first turned into a cat (to his parents knowledge) when he was about 4 or 5. he’d been already introduced to the world but as he was a small child they hadn’t really been showing him around everywhere so only a handful of people knew/remembered small boy tim. janet has a particular hate toward that branch in her family that can shift so she’s really jst. hating her son having it and she immediately just. decides that she just doesnt want to see him. so jack and her just start locking him in a tiny cat cage, which prevent him from turning back into a boy, feed him catfood when they remember to feed him. at some point they get him declawed (which gives him terribly vivid nightmares of human him getting his fingers torned off of his hand) and when they leave they give him a tight collar while leaving him out of the cage which prevnts him from shifting back bc the collar would just go through tim’s throat if he shifted to human.

so tim drake ends up . not existing. everyone forgets the drakes had a son, tim very rarely gets to be in human shape (which hurts at some point), and when he does his parents usually yell at him and making him feel very unwanted, going as far as throwing things at him until he jst, shifts back and makes himself as small and forgotten as possible. he stopped going to school early, but he still taught himself to read (u gotta do smth when ur stuck as a cat for years) and went through lots of his parents books (that were on bottoms shelfs bc its hard to put the books back in the right shelves while in cat form and he gets yelled at enough as it is just for existing).

so he’s like 10, and his parents have been gone for a while . and he’s rly not doing good. he’s not rly clinging to life. he’s underfed. everything hurts. his brain isn’t really reactive anymore. and hes on the wall between the drakes and the wayne’s estate dick and jason are in the garden, playing around, and he just. falls asleep. passes out from exhaustion and his body kind of giving up on him.

they hear him or see him, idk, they find him and jason shifts back, holding the small kitten in his arms and he runs inside, n they take care of him, the adress on the collar said he’s from next door,,, at this point they dont know he’s a shifter,, but when he wakes up tim’s all warm and tucked against a warm body (dick) and jason is beside them petting him gently and the second tim is awake he’s tense and trying to get away bc humans have done nothing but hurt him at this point yk,, he’s barely ever met anyone,,, he sticks to the drake’s house bc he’s terrified they’ll know if he goes somewhere else

(altho deep down he thinks they’d be happy if they came home to an empty house)

and when he wakes up. thats when dick n jay understand he’s not just a cat, he’s a shifter, n jason holds him in place to remove the collar bc he *knows* he cant possibly be able to shift to human with it,,, but even without it tim doesnt shift back, hes jst, scared cat,,,,

(”hey, it’s ok, we’re like you” jason says, in the most gentle voice dick’s ever heard him use. there is a moment of silence, where the kitten blinks, and then the familiar noise of flesh rearranging itself while jason shifts into his hyena form. he’s careful to keep his distance, laying on his stomach to make himself smaller - which helps, but not by much as he’s still huge compared to the little shifter in front of them. dick knows the lines of tension and those of exhaustion in their muscles, and remembers how they didn’t even stir when jason had carried them inside. he shifts. 

“i’m gonna get you some food, okay ?” he levels his tone with his brothers. “we should have some fruits around, upstairs. fish maybe ? if you’d like ? or something else.” he smiles that smiles only he knows how to smile. “or maybe you’d like to pick yourself ?”

the little cat manages to make themselves smaller.)

they eventually manage to feed him and hydrate him, and dick tells alfred and bruce about the little shifter while jason keeps an eye on him,,, bruce connect the drake and tim shaped dots. he remembers janet and jack rejecting a gala invitation a while back bc she had recently delivered, only he’d never seen the kid.

tim only lets jason and dick close a first, bc they’re younger, bc they’re shifters, and then alfred bc alfred always brings him food on a plate and with a fork and knife like he’s going to use them as a human. he talks to tim and pets him gently once tim allows it,,, he’s a safe adult.

bruce scares him a lot, even if he’s gentle and he’s a good dad. he’s bigger than jack has ever been, and he knows he could hurt him. he just scares him a lot. he has too much authority, too much presence.

tim shifts back into a human on is seventh day at the manor, while alfred sits with him in a little room tim had hid in. he’s a very small boy and he cries out in pain when he shifts, but alfred puts a hand on his cheek and just smiles

(”hello, my boy”)

tim is very quiet, takes a shower and shifts back before anyone else can see him,,, but slowly he lets it happen around the others. one time dick n jay wake up from a nap session to a little boy suggled between them,,, there is a lot of hurt and pain from jason bc he’s been that little boy, hurt and scared and in pain, and it brings back a lot of sad things,,,

eventually he lets himself shift into bruce’s arms on the second week and he cries a lot n bruce tells him he figured out he’s the drake’s son, and jst, h, he adopts

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have you seen/would u recommend pacific rim 2? ive heard some things about newt and idk lol

I feel like Im in the minority that actually did think pru was fun but that being said it ended SO abruptly and with like three separate plotlines completely abandoned that I was really frustrated for days after watching it until I had processed everything and had time to think deeply about it lol it just seemed rly unfinished?? it feels like it was deliberately made as 1/2 of two sequels and there needs to be one more to tie everything up. actually I’m gonna ramble abt this bc I have a lot of thoughts (obvs spoilers under the cut)

the thing about the second one was that I genuinely was enjoying it right up until it ended because I swear to god the moment the end screen went up I yelled "what the fuck, that's it?" out loud into my bedroom bc I was so SHOCKED that THAT'S how it all ended, because it just seemed so incomplete?? Like it seemed like one half of a story, that will only be made whole if there's a third one to tie up all the plotlines that they didn't go through with in the second and if that's the case then I will be completely fine with it but if it doesn't or if they dont have a third one at all I will stay so frustrated lol. one silver lining to this is that the vibe of this movie was so different from the first that it almost feels easy to separate it and just imagine it as an AU if you prefer which is sort of nice; usually if a piece of media I like does something bad I feel all gutted and anxious and terrible that this is the canon I have to accept, but something abt this movie just made it feel like it was sort of a totally separate deal. maybe cuz only 3 of the original characters were in it idk

to start off: I felt like there were a couple of plotlines in it that were just sort of introduced and then never seen through which was very ????? Amara & Vik's weird hate-rivalry thing was one of them; Vik instantly has it out for Amara bc she’s jealous, which is a very interesting concept, and then this prompts Amara to become hostile right back at her, which is also a very interesting concept, and then it never got resolved at all? like they couldve done something really cool with those two but it just never went anywhere. and then there was sort of a weird love triangle thing happening between Jake and Nate and Jules that felt so weird bc it had no significance to the plot at all and it felt like it was only thrown in there for the sake of having ~romantic drama~ idk maybe I wasnt paying too much attention and there was more to it than that but it really just seemed like they wanted to put romance in there and didnt want to bother to put any work into it

BUT the thing about romantic sub plots is that THERE ALREADY WAAAAS OOOOOOOOONE which brings me to the biggest frustration I have w this movie because--and DISCLAIMER, this was also my favourite plot point of the movie bc it was by far the most interesting, the biggest reason for me enjoying the movie at all, and the bit I feel like should have had WAY more attention--Newt and Hermann were like legitimately in love in this movie I swear to god I was watching it and thinking “this is GENUINELY the most blatantly gay thing I’ve ever seen in a feature film and I know that straight ppl are very talented at writing gay romances completely by accident so it’s possible that they just accidentally did it this way but also it is REALLY goddamn obvious oh my gooood?” (and then I did a lot of frantic googling and found out that I was right and Charlie Day & Burn Gorman knew what the fuck they were doing and I felt so validated lol), and yet despite this, the movie had them speak for the last time almost at the halfway point of the film and then spend the entire second half apart and not talking at all and even at the post-credits scene where Jake and Newt talked for a bit Hermann wasn't there?? not even behind Jake to give Newt any searching glances?? Nothing??

dude...Newt being possessed by the precursors is a HUGELY interesting concept that actually makes sense and I wish it had had more attention. I’ve seen a lot of ppl say that pru butchered Newt’s character and I don’t 100% agree bc like...being possessed will change you lmao so while yes I’m obviously sad that he wasn’t himself, I feel like it made sense that he had a slight personality change, because it...wasn’t him anymore. we don’t really see the Newt we all fell in love with in the first movie. we THINK we’re seeing him, but halfway through we find out we’re wrong.

my critiques with that plotline are basically that I wish the reveal had happened a little bit later on, and I wish that it had been a little more obvious I guess?? like, we definitely get hints of it (when Hermann excitedly asks Newt to help him with a dangerous unorthodox project and Newt says “dude why are you doing something so risky when we’ve already got a good plan in motion? just wait for that to be done, it’s fine” and Hermann IS us, he IS the audience when he reacts, because this is a completely insane thing for Newt to say. Newt, who, in the first movie, was so obsessed with finding knowledge that he went behind the marshall’s back to literally risk his life doing something incredibly dangerous just to see what would happen? being given the opportunity to do the same kind of dangerous frivolous act and refusing? this is blatantly out of character, and Hermann is all of us when he’s shocked, “what, you mean you...won’t help me??” which means it wasn’t bad writing on their part, it was purposefully supposed to stand out as something that was wrong and something that we needed to pay attention to. that was a really good scene to hint that something was Not Right with Newt), and I wish there had been a bunch more like it. I think the reveal should have been saved for the end of the second act; I think that should have been the moment that act 2 of a story usually has, that dreadful event that happens that leaves the main characters feeling completely hopeless and unsure what to do.

I also wish that he had managed to break through more than That One Scene, I think it would’ve been more dramatic if he’d had a few moments where he managed to take control for a second to remind us that he’s still in there and still fighting, and I’m sad they didn’t do that. I saw a fan comic that touched on this idea and I think it’s brilliant, even the idea of him suddenly getting a nosebleed and acting distracted to show that that’s the Real Him trying to fight through would have been sooooooooo good.

I also feel like it didn’t make any sense for Nate to be the one to subdue him in the end, I dont even think those two interact at all so like, why was it him?? it would have been so much more dramatic and heartbreaking if Hermann had been the one to confront him so they could’ve had a little conversation on the roof where Newt could once again break through for a second before getting taken over and then Hermann could like idk have a taser hidden behind him that he uses to subdue him and THAT wouldve been a way sadder and more interesting way to do it. I also think Hermann shouldve been the one to speak to him in the post credits scene, or to have him in the background behind Jake just watching him sadly so we can get a couple shots of intense eye contact like UGH I just wish there had been more interaction between the two of them after the reveal happened!! When the movie was over and I realized they never spoke again I felt so upset!!! they're soulmates!! they're literally in love!! this has been CONFIRMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and segueing in from the soulmate thing, another thing that made me sad was that nobody came in pairs anymore :( aside from Newt and Hermann, they were the only ones gjdfk but in the first one every character had another character that they were paired up with, both for drifting reasons and just for plot reasons (except Chau and Tendo but I’m pretty sure there's actually significance to that too), and in the second one it just sort of felt like everyone was drifting with each other with no strong connection needed and that made it feel way less special. granted, the movie takes place ten years after the first one so in that time maybe technology advanced to the point where you didn't need a strong neural connection to drift anymore, but for the sake of the story it would have been way better if they'd kept the whole soulmates concept from the first one, it made it way stronger and more special

so yeah in conclusion I did think pru was enjoyable and I probably would watch it again some time but also it definitely pales in comparison to the first one and I’m desperately hoping we get one more so they can tie everything together and FIX THINGS KFGH it’s not too late!!!!! I wish I could write Pacific Rim 3 I genuinely think I would do a good job I love storytelling and I’m very passionate about these characters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[its-raining-cats]

I started watching black clover bc my friend recommended it to me. I was a little hesitant at first bc I’ve heard some mixed reviews, but I’m around 30-ish episodes in and loving it so far! It’s a lot of fun to watch, the characters are funny and it’s a lot of fun to watch their personalities bounce off each other.

Some more thoughts under the cut!

I like that they usually have a few fun episodes in between arcs, because I don’t want to always go from one life-threatening battle directly to another! Sometimes I want to watch the characters fuck around and have fun for a day! Let them rest!!!

A lot of people complain about the animation, especially in earlier episodes, but honestly I don’t really see it?? It looks fine to me lol. Maybe not top-notch knock your socks off animation, but not as terrible as so many people make it out to be. 

The magic is simple but also really cool and lets the world have a big variety of really cool powers! I also like how common magic is. I don’t mean common as in “a lot of people have it” but how it really seems like a part of everyday life. People use fire magic to cook food, telekinesis to use basic tools, and stuff like the hairdresser lady from the mixer episode who uses her magic to cut hair.

I’m not rly sure who my favorite character is yet, but so far it’s looking like Klaus is a top contender, which is kind of funny because I absolutely HATED him when he was first introduced. I think it’s hilarious that he went from “ugh I can’t believe I have to work with these Peasants” to Proud Father Of A Few Dumb Ass Kids over the span of like 10 episodes.

Asta is a good protagonist. Sure he’s of the screamy, headstrong, few-braincelled variety, but his hard-headedness just kind of wormed its way into my heart and quickly started to feel more endearing than annoying. I like that he wants to be the wizard king not because it’s a fancy title for the most powerful guy in the kingdom (well, he wanted it for that at first,) but because he wants to protect people. At first, “become wizard king” and “protect the weak” seemed like two separate goals, but after learning more about what it means to be the wizard king, the two really go hand in hand. The wizard king becomes the wizard king by being the best protector of the kingdom. Asta already wants to protect as many people as he can. He can achieve his dream by doing what he has been doing for so long, only better.

Yuno is a good rival! In the first episode I was sooooooo worried he was gonna be Sasuke 2.0, the asshole rival who looks down on the underdog protagonist. But no!! He not only sees Asta as a formidable rival, but also is willing to help him and work with him when they need to! He wants to be the best and beat Asta, but he wants to do that when Asta is second best and at top power, not to just kick him while he’s down.

Noelle, I like noelle but I feel like the story has really shafted her so far, keeping her away from the combat, or on defense (which isn’t BAD, necessarily, but when she is on defense usually it kind of falls to the background, or is immediately broken through.) Shes smart and cool and her family is a bunch of douchebag pricks, but I really want to see her in action more.

Thats about it. Only other thing i have to say is that the golden dawn leader is sus as hell. I dont trust him and his cool mask and pretty eyelashes. 

[yukisohmasmokesweed]

Top 10 episodes of the anime so far?

woof ok this is probably gonna be s2 heavy because i think s2 in general is better than s1 and it is also more to my tastes (i prefer the darker parts of fb) and also s2 is my favorite part of the manga haha.....and i’ll include the major beats of each ep because i personally can never remember the order and the episode naming conventions for fb eps are totally useless

10. 1x9 (haru intro)

i just love haru and he has one of my favorite character intros. its one of the funniest eps imo and haru and tohru’s dynamic is super sweet off the bat. love haru and yuki flirting, love haru and kyo’s brotherly relationship, love the insight we get into haru and yuki’s childhood. great episode all around i watch this one a lot

9. 1x2 (curse explained to tohru/yuki corners tohru at school/shigure and kyo talk)

i love this episode. definitely one of the funniest/most memorable cold opens (its tohru opening the door for the mailman with shigure kyo and yuki in tow). they do such a good and fun job setting up yuki and kyo’s relationship and the scene bw yuki and tohru in school is one of my fav scenes in the show and an amazing summation of both their characters. it sheds light very early on onto how serious the curse is and how traumatized yuki is over it as well as tohru’s inherent kindness and compassion. this scene is a huge turning point for yuki and is a convo that completely changes his life. the scene bw shigure and kyo is gorgeous as well and sets up kyo’s character arc for the season in a way i really like

8. 2x18 (shigure/rin scene/rin searching for answers/rin backstory)

definitely one of the heaviest eps yet. great shigure material in the beginning and rin’s backstory is devastating but beautifully done. visually one of my fav eps as well

7. 2x10 (kyo/momji convo/akigure fight + kureno is there/tohru finds out who akito is)

this ep has everything. kyo angst. tohru angst. akigure sexy times. shigure getting super duper mad. tohru finding out gigantic plot points. akito wearing a button up. i love this ep it was a great cap to the beach house, i love the way they solidified all three protag’s goals for the series in this ep as well. good job team

6. 2x13 (back to school/student council intros/yukeru fight)

i like this ep as a sort of return to normalcy after the very intense beach house arc. all of the stuco intros are rly funny and i looooooooooooove the yukeru fight, i think it’s super well done and actually more impactful than it was in the manga

5. 1x7 (hatori backstory)

imo the best episode of s1. the first time we see how truly dark the curse is and how deep the damage on the zodiacs can go. visually very beautiful, hatori and kana’s story was told beautifully and it’s also the first time we see what akito is capable of. also a great episode for tohru’s character development 

4. 2x4 (haru goes dark in class/kyo is torn/yuki goes to the estate)

ahhh i love this episode so much. excellent momiji shenanigans. i love finally seeing dark haru in a non-comedic way because haru’s anger issues really arent funny. haru screaming that he doesn’t want to hide anymore and accusing yuki and kyo of thinking about revealing themselves too are honestly some of the hardest hitting lines in the show. this ep also has a big big moment for yuki where he realizes that he just can’t keep repressing his memories and emotions anymore and decides to take an active role in his own healing and stop avoiding the things he is afraid of. this ep also has one of my fav shots of the season: 

WOOF. this shot just gets me every time, it feels like a gut punch. love this ep, i totally slept on it when it came out but now i watch it all the time

3. 2x21 (yuki backstory ep)

i’ve said before these are my favorite chapters and i thought they were adapted beautifully. i dont really know what else to say, this ep was a total knock out, visually stunning, voice acted beautifully....only reason it’s not higher is because its not exactly rewatch material, its sooooo heavily lmao i definitely need some space from this episode

2. 1x1 (its the pilot lol)

I LOVE THE PILOT. its so good. i love the way every character is introduced and the convo bw tohru and yuki when they walk home from school together lives on in me foreverrrrr, it’s excessively beautiful and seeing yuki struggle to keep his mask up in front of this girl who was so vulnerable in front of him is really interesting, especially in retrospect. i adore the scene where yuki invites tohru to stay with them and also kyo literally has the best character introduction in the show, get more iconic. love this ep and i watch it all the time

1. 2x7 (yuki/akito confrontation/yuki starting to realize what it is he feels for tohru/kyo telling tohru about his parents/suuuper tense akito/hatori/shigure scene/yuki/tohru beach scene)

ahhh i love this ep, its definitely my fav ep of the season so far. it has humor which i appreciate but for the most part its setting up the plot and setting yuki’s storyline into motion properly. every single interaction is incredibly layered and careful. i especially love the scene bw hatori and shigure and then bw hatori, shigure, and akito because its prime shigure scheming time. of course i love love love the tohru/yuki scene on the beach. its incredibly beautiful and meaningful and i love their relationship very much. it’s definitely been one of my favorite aspects of the season and is becoming one of my favorite facets of fruits basket as a whole!

[mikiruma]

🏳‍🌈📌💎🎥💕 for homestar runner!!!

🏳‍🌈 do you have any headcanons (lgbt, race, neuro, etc) that are important to you?

GAY STRONG BAD... and while a lot of it is projection & kinny its not just that... i think it's hilarious how in an effort to make strong bad into this. whatever he is. bragging about how many ladies are on their knees just to date him? he always has these ridiculously beautiful girlfriends who love him so much, but you'll never meet them because they live in far off lands? or on the moon? (sbemail #67: autobiography) the though of trying to hit on the ONE girl to further his "womanizer" image disgusts him??? imagining a male character to be female so it would be "acceptable" to date him?? (sbemail #99: different town) imagining a male character falling in love with him but only expressing distaste outside the imagination sequence? (sbemail #130: do over) receiving a love letter in an email from a dude but only saying so much as "it just wouldnt work out" when he remembered people are watching him??? (sbemail #8: brianrietta) TEXTBOOK!!!! hes gay man!!!! yeah theres internalized stuff which is. kinda what im hinging on but like. he's gotten better over the years w his general personality shift. im just disappointed that this probably wasnt how he was meant to be written at ALL but like. if i had free reigns over the show i'd want him to find acceptance and realize yeah, you can be gay and still commit arson.

(other than that homestar/homeschool/champeen/strong mad are autistic. also coach z is trans & him and bubs are married. i also rly like trans strong bad)

📌 how did you find your hyperfixation?

my uncle actually introduced it to my sibling & i way back when!! and we hadnt actually talked about it SINCE he told us abt it... until last time he was in town!! and i didnt even know he remembered it until he saw the trogdor board game which came in the mail the day before & we got to go crazy go nuts over that again!!! (i dont rly remember much of the introduction other than. we were at my grandparents house for christmas or something & i had to go home to visit the site... and i was like 9 or 10) anyway cool uncle rights

💎 are there any fun facts or trivia that you would like to share?

the brothers chaps have regularly used the fan-owned homestar runner wiki as a resource... useful when u put out as much content as they do! the wiki is credited in all five episodes of strong bad's cool game for attractive people in the "special thanks" section, the brothers have mentioned the wiki itself by name in interviews & at least one toon (that i've seen), just over the past few days on strong bad's twitter page they linked to one of the pages! it is an incredible resource if you wanna know everything about everything in the series, but i think it's really something knowing the creators use it as well. oh yeah and they donate when they can to help keep the servers afloat when the site runs donation drives so. that's pretty cool.

🎥 do you have any favorite scenes from your hyperfixation?

"favorite scene" or "favorite toon".... im gonna drop some of my favorite toons (or the ones i quote the most) bc most are 3-5 minutes long

fall float parade

sbemail #129: garage sale

pumpkin carve-nival

doomy tales of the macabre (cw: body horror)

halloween potion-ma-jig

i killed pom pom! (cw: alcohol)

sbemail #206: videography

sbemail #110: for kids

play date

donut unto others

where my hat is at? (cw: alcohol)

the homestar runner goes for the gold

the homestar runner enters the spooky woods (cw: emetophobia, (one) dead animal is part of homestar's final fear)

sbemail #207: too cool

a decemberween mackerel (cw: unsanitary in an easter egg)

added some content warnings just in case, also the links in red go to the official site while the black links go to youtube!

💕 tell us about one of your favorite characters and why you like them!

i will lay down my life for strong sad no questions asked. he deserves several hugs. i would like to be his friend. i like to think if everyones aware theyre in a cartoon and does their own thing outside what we see on the site, then like... hopefully theyre nicer to him.... i know its fun to rag on him bc he is kind of an easy target but listen. goth king. similar music taste. we totally would have hung out in middle school. also thinkin abt how him and strong bad used to get along.... bro.... i would like to see more of that....

[swordbreakerz]

✨ for all of them, 🎥 for treasure planet and guardians of gahoole, 🍀 for 9-1-1 and penumbra, 📃 for unicorn chronicles, 🏳️‍🌈 for howls, treasure planet and legend of zelda, and 💎 for any ones you have facts for lol

you spoil me uwu

🎥 - ok for treasure planet, gotta be the 12 years later scene in the beginning and the zoom in to the spaceport, the way it transitions from jim reading under the blankets to him flying on his solar surfer is so chefs kiss, and just like. everything about to the spaceport lmao, fr guardians definitely the scene where soren flies through the fire and then blows up the pulley system to get rid of the flecks energy, bro when hes flying above it all holding the lantern before he dives down to save them? chills

🍀 - you know im on that projection shit w/ juno steel, ive truly never like connected with a character like that before and he’s really really helped me thru my recovery and transition lol, fr 911 uhhh ig buck or eddie? i havent Thought About It or like consumed it enough times yet to rly settle on someone but fr now,,, they

🏳️‍🌈 - ok for howls, Everyone Is Bi/Pan, howl is trans and autistic and i will die on that hill, fr treasure planet jim and cpt amelia are both trans and both of them + doppler are autistic, fr loz link is trans, autistic and semi nonverbal and communicates primarily with asl, post twilight princess zelda says fuck it and finds a way back into the twilight realm and she midna and link hang out, most of these boil down to everyone i love is trans gay and autistic because i say so lmaooo

📃 - OK SO. without like, spoiling too many plot points, our main character is cara and she lives with her grandmother. her mom is dead and dad is out of the picture. one day theyre getting chased by these people that her grandma knows and cara gets thrown into an alternate realm full of fantasy creatures using her grandmothers amulet. she meets a unicorn named lightfoot and a bunch of other rad people and basically, starts a journey to save that world from the Hunters. the Hunters are an organisation who specifically hate unicorns and want them all dead, led by Beloved, and cara and her friends have to try and stop them from entering the world and wiping them out. its sooo so so good and i highly recommend it cause i have no one to talk to about it please god

✨ - oh boy uh, well. im just gonna like list them out lmao

unicorn chronicles: i loved unicorns as a kid and read it when i was in elementary school, and over the years its remained just as compelling and well written as i remember and like. god the whole concept is so godamn cool and all the subplots that get introduced are fuckign fantastic and like all the different creatures are amazing i literally cant sing its praises enough

howls moving castle: must i have a logical reason? is it not to vicariously live my fantasy of running away to the countryside with a wizard boyfriend, his demon and his apprentice?? for real though, its such a fantastic story with beautiful visuals in the movie and wonderfully compelling prose in the book, and esp in the movie the whole time travel subplot with sophie seeing howl and calcifer in the past and then howl finding her in the future makes me go feral

penumbra: gays in space. need i say more? im a huge slut for gay found family and especially in futuristic space, and im a huge big fan of the lgbt utopia its created. like yeah capitalism sucks but at least im not gonne get misgendered in space starbucks, u kno? all the writing and dialogue is so incredible and the SOUND DESIGN GOD, alex i know u specifically can relate when i say i would kill a man for sophie and her incredible sound design skills, like dude the dance scene in man in glass p2 you can hear every single individual step they take and every swish of junos dress and i jusT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! god its so good, plus the whole the characters help me work through my trauma and repressed anger haha

911: this one is entirely your fault. so obligatory horny on main everyone on that show is so hot i want oliver stark to cradle me gently in his beefy arms oh my god. other than Men, the way it drives home the whole ‘you can’t save everyone, and it will kill you to try, so just focus on what you can do and keep living’ makes me so emo. the way it tackles big bureaucratic issues as well as closer to home interpersonal ones is amazing and i love how it shows people going through and dealing realistically with trauma.

treasure planet: again, who doesnt want to live in Cool Steampunk Space Travel Future? i really really love jims story and his arc, the way he deals with his trauma is uhh very familiar lol and his relationship with silver is like the ideal. the story is just the coolest concept and i love all the wonderful character design and animation, plus the soundtrack SLAPS and everything is beautiful

legend of zelda: ive been associated with this series from a very young age due to my name and as soon as i gave into my fate and looked it up for real i just kinda fell into it lol. i cant really tell you exactly what draws me to it besides ‘wow fun game!’ and ‘god i wish that were me,’ but like the absurd amount of detail thats put into each installment and the creative ways they retell essentially the same/similar story over and over is incredible

guardians of gahoole: so i had the same experience with this and treasure planet which is i remembered ‘oh hey this is a movie that exists and i cant clearly remember watching it, ill look it up :)’ and then it consumed my life for a solid 3 months. firstly this movie is absolutely gorgeous, the animation and framing is fucking stunning and the way they handled owls talking like people as far as the movement of their very inflexible beaks was amazing. it sort of has the same draw for me as warrior cats? secret animal society ft incredibly traumatic experiences and the characters dealing with it. like, the whole concept is just so fuckign wild and it works so well, i rly enjoy this niche genre.

💎 - alright trivia time, so guardians of gahoole is based on a book series and the movie only covers part of the first arc i think idk, BUT theres another series set in the same universe called wolves of the beyond that i devoured when i was younger! i didnt know they were connected for the longest time and when i found out i was :000, i still rly love wolves of the beyond and wanna reread it, as well as read the actual gahoole books. in the howls books, sophie is a redhead! also, markl is named michael and like a fully functioning young adult who ends up marrying one of sophies sisters. treasure planet is, obviously, based off treasure island but its so much better than the book dont bother reading it lol i tried and it was boring. there was plans for a treasure planet sequel that was fully scripted and cast but it was cancelled cause disney sabotaged treasure planet from the start with the shitty release and advertising and tldr we were ROBBED, also amelias concept was much more octopus like and while that wldve been rad im p glad she was switched to a cat for. several reasons lol. uhh i dont have a lot of Fun Facts abt the unicorn chronicles but for the longest time i thought there were only 3 books and then last year i found the fourth book by chance in a kitsch store and nearly had a breakdown i was so happy, like full on i started shaking and crying cause there was so much joy in my body i cldnt contain it.

thats all i can think of tysm ily, to anyone who read all of this bless u please watch guardians of gahoole and read the unicorn chronicles i will love u forever

[ssj4]

Sorry to bother you, but I keep seeing posts about a future Goten AU and I keep getting really curious! However, when I try to find links to anything about it I end up at some abandoned URLs.

SECOND TIME TRYING TO ANSWER THIS CAUSE MY IDIOT ASS FORGOT I HAD ONE TYPED OUT AND CLOSED EVERYTHING :)

some disclaimers im getting most of this from an old draft i had written about the au, i havent watched the specific scenes in dbz and dbs that these are based on in well over 2+ years so i dont remember the timeline of events that well so im sorry if some of it just straight up doesnt make sense lol

this whole thing did start out as an excuse to replace the romantic scenes with mai in dbs with goten actually so the truten themes are pretty significant but that aside future goten is a very good boy with a much different personality and outlook on things… much like how future trunks is compared to his main timeline counterpart :3c the whole thing was developed by me and my gf together and we never rly posted too much about it and the broken links you did end up finding were probably from like the one or two times we did but here u go im glad u asked 

I HOPE THE READ MORE LINK WORKS ON MOBILE IF NOT IM SORRY

the big change is it starts out with chi chi getting pregnant before goku dies of heart disease or whatever in the android saga instead of the cell saga, so even after he dies in that timeline she still has their 2nd son and he grows up in the future timeline with trunks.

when they were kids (like 10-15) goten was stronger than trunks just bc gohan and chi chi were there to teach him just a little bit. trunks and goten sparred a lot though so he was able to keep up but never really passed him. (that part isnt really important but i figured it was a nice detail that made sense)

thats when history of trunks comes into play, and they both get really serious about gohan training them. the scene in the movie where gohan knocks trunks out before flying off and getting killed is the same except now he just knocks out 2 kids instead of 1 i guess. 

i feel i gotta add that this au was created when the future trunks arc in dbs was airing, and mai was introduced as his love interest, and honestly in my opinion the scenes were written really well but i just wasnt digging the fact that before she was granted a younger appearance she was already middle aged, like she was old enough to be his mom if that makes sense. so it really isnt a dig on mai at all cause i love her and id die for her its just the romantic plot that i didnt like. so when that was airing i thought “WELL what if that was someone else” 

she’s still with them though in this timeline and she still has her younger appearance! 

the future timeline is still progressing the same as it did in canon, the androids still wrecked the place and no one was strong enough to do much about it so trunks is still set up with a time machine to meet with the other timeline. goten stays back and does his best to protect everyone while hes gone just in case

some stuff happens in between here but skip ahead to trunks coming back from the trip after the cell games i guess! lots of stuff happened obviously like trunks literally dying, spending years in the time chamber with his dad, meeting a whole gaggle of clowns that he’d only heard stories about, seeing gohan as a preteen. hes got a lot of stuff to share!!! now hes back and he can take care of the androids + cell + and goten can catch up and lifes pretty good over there! 😇

during the rebuilding period goten would spend a lot of time with chi-chi and ox-king and still slept over there occasionally which she really appreciated, and he invited trunks and bulma over there with him frequently.

despite this he wasnt present when she died as no one really expected goku black to wipe out the landscape so far from the city, but she and ox-king died along with more than half of the population. (ugh god im so sorry queen i love you😓)

as i said before mai is still here and she’s still the leader of the resistance!

events of future bulmas death is the same as well as mai originally intending to go with trunks when they meet up together in an abandoned building. goten is already there as the three of them rest up a bit and start making their way to capsule corp. goten was planning on staying behind anyways but he wanted to see the two of them off. when goku black interrupts them as they arrive, trunks and goten encourage mai to escape, seeing as she only has a gun and everyone already knows bullets arent gonna work. 

this scene is the same as it was in canon, where trunks tries to rush black but gets beaten quickly. mai trying to buy him time to let him escape is replaced with goten actually fighting him and taking a hit for trunks but getting knocked out as mai did. trunks under extreme stress from already losing his mom today assumes hes dead instantly, (he has dumb bitch disease, he didnt even check for a pulse in canon!🤔) and fires a masenko to escape into capsule on his own 

after trunks pops back in time and black is focused on searching for him, mai sneaks back in to retrieve goten (even though they told her to leave she really just ducked behind some rubble and stayed close, because she wasnt just gonna leave them!)

she takes him back to an underground bunker with other members of earths resistance and when he wakes up she tells him that trunks made it to the time machine and that hes presumably in the other timeline now. 

idk if yall remember it well but i rewatched some of the episodes just for this, and trunks in the main timeline believing goten was killed and mai is alone and he wont be able to get back is so sad. and when he spent that day with gohan and his family and cried thinking about how if black hadn’t have shown up, he couldve had a family too… he doesnt deserve to be this sad 😥

skip to when he’s finally able to get back home with goku and vegeta with him and they make their way to the bunker where he sees mai and goten together! the scene in canon where he rushes over and starts spilling his heart out is the same, with him telling goten he thought he died

they get a really sweet hug moment here when theyre both happy to see the other is still safe and it gives both goku and vegeta some Food For Thought, because goku actually didnt know there was a goten in this timeline, and he doesnt really recognize him at first. vegeta has the idea in his head that this is probably goten.

goten never really had any sort of real attachment to his dad. it makes sense hes never met him, hes only ever really heard about him through others, (his mom, his brother, trunks, and probably bulma has mentioned him as well) so he definitely knows OF him its just that, he doesnt know him. so when he sees the real goku standing there for once a lot of thoughts run though his mind, like, “that looks A LOT like goku black!” “thats definitely my old hairstyle” and “holy shit is that my dad?” but the first thing he actually says out loud is “Holy shit its goku orange” and vegeta really almost loses it because cause any doubt in his mind about this kid being related to kakarot just went right out the window cause only someone related to him would say that

and as you probably know a lot happens after that with them all finding a way to defeat zamasu but i dont want to include all of the rest when you can probably just interpret which scenes were changed  

ANYWAYS now instead of trunks surviving the apocalypse its trunks and goten surviving the apocalypse. thats why its not a really super romantic deal like Who has time for dates when goku black Might possibly be hiding in this abandoned olive garden?? so theyre just very close and privately affectionate

the ending where trunks and mai get to live in a new world with their counterparts is the same except gotens there with them of course, dbs left their ending pretty open 

so that takes care of the story changes, heres some additional details and information on gotens character in this au! 

heres his design, drawn by my girlfriend @ssj2 uwu !! 

he kept his natural hairstyle for a while, but i think he changed it sometime during the rebuilding period after the androids and just let it grow out a bunch. up until then he kept his natural style purely to honor the guy he’s heard so fondly of even if it brought him a lot of mixed feelings when people said he looks just like him. a really distinct feature about his new hairstyle is that the spikes look like horns and i love that a lot !!

and the shawl he wears was the same one chi chi wore 

some personality traits for future goten is that he has a habit of bottling up his negative emotions and has trouble taking care of himself, as hes always more focused on the well being of his loved ones. he can be mischievous and cocky but hes not overconfident (or he hasnt been since gohans death) however in some situations he can be charismatic and assertive which works really well imowhen their timeline is erased and theyre temporarily in the main timeline, goten gets to meet a bunch of people like gohan and his family, chi chi, and even his counterpart 

sorry if this post was messy i wasnt really sure how i wanted to make it look and im kinda bad at dumping information out so if any of its confusing just redirect me to it and ill try again gdjfksjdgsfk 😭❤

hmmm anyways thank u for reading!! its an au we made years ago and we love a lot and i hope u do too! be nice pls!! and send asks about it if you’d like cause its fun to think about! 

[nenastrology]

I rly wanna get into jj if only for the sheer amount of content but I tried and idk why I just can't seem to like I went and watched the first one where dio got originally introduced like with that mask think but after a couple of episodes I just couldn't care anymore and I know the basic premise of jj, even tho I could just skip stuff I like coherency so I'd still watch it in order, do you think it's ok to just skip stuff in the first part? or is it integral to the others

genuinely anon u are like literally me a few months ago i would really recommend watching with friends part 1 was like insanely boring to me watching alone its really walking this weird line of like almost serious but so dramatic its like a joke but like dio doesnt really matter in the greater story unless you are gonna watch part 3 which i really wouldnt recommend starting with if part 1 really didnt compel you like i made it through part 1 and part 2 and 3 both really hit me right in the face with sheer boredom and like anger at some of the freaky stuff i think your best bet would be to start with part 4 its like pretty self contained you  might be a little lost on stands but they always have a bit of a different vibe depending on the part and they are like pretty clear and fun in part 4 and like jotaro the protag of part 3 plays a decently important role in part 4 but like hes a very different character and i enjoyed him a lot even without having the context of part 3 behind me perhaps even more cuz he drove me craaaaazy in the three episodes of part 3 we watched part 4 has a bit of a slow start like it kinda jerks you around as to where the story is exactly going and its very episodic like monster of the weekish i didnt really anticipate just how battle heavy it would be which i think ive hit battle fatigue in every part ive watched/read at some point but its like a fun slice of life mystery thing with a lot of fun comedy and also some crazy intense stuff and has by far the most satisfying ending of any part ive seen and if like youre still into jojo but part 4 hasnt really grabbed you at all but idk part 5 looks good i think its definitely the one that starts off the best and it has almost no outside context with the rest of jojo u need to know except that giorno is dios son but like idk if you cant deal with the stuff dios in like whatever i think you can get a sense of the character if you know literally anything about jojo buuuut i think stands are really really confusing in part 5 and like i think u should at least check out part 4 before you go to that so you have some kind of knowledge base to build off of like i think the characters are really the best part of part 5 and like its absolutely peak character writing for all of jojo probably the only downside is ur gonna have to pick up the manga eventually or wait a few months and idk if like ur at the commitment level where you would want to download the very pretty color manga scans to ur computer like for something ur still not sure you like god this is a super long answer sorry but like thats my very lengthy jojo guide where i say fuck the fanboys skip part 2 and 3 and u can skip part 1 if its boring but like genuinely my best bet for u is to watch with friends it makes it soooo much more enjoyable and genuinely just do a lot of research like idk read summaries of the parts figure out what the vibe of each one is and like take it in whatever order you feel like and just look up a character in the wiki if ur confused who they are and u know they are from soemthing u didnt read but like u will probably get spoiled for a million things i just am a person who likes spoilers so that doesnt bother me feel free to ask me a bunch of other stuff but its sooo funny like the beginning of my jojo tag is me talking about how i think its boring and i dont get the appeal and now look at me

[gallifvrey]

fic writer review

ty @taardisblue​ for tagging me in this! (also gonna leave this under a readmore to save everyone)

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? 7! which is honestly a lot more than i was expecting 

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count? 19544, which is also way more than i was expecting ngl

3. How many fandoms have you written for? on ao3 ive only published for two fandoms (doctor who and the magnus archives) but i’ve got some wips for critical role stuff and some old mass effect stuff i’d rather not revisit 😬

4. Top 5 fics by kudos? seconds. comes in at number one and is probably one of my fave fics ive written. talks about 12 after escaping from the time dial and his regeneration into 13 and dealing with all of that built up trauma. same with never cruel or cowardly, has lots of callbacks to episodes in hopefully just the right place to break your heart! 

never cruel or cowardly details thirteen’s life after regeneration and specifically dealing with trauma from her experiences right before she regenerated (i.e. time dial, losing and remembering clara, dying on a spaceship etc.)

should have been a TMA fic that goes from martin and jon starting to rebuild their life in the safehouse to then the apocalypse and then the end of the world (written before the finale even aired so its all speculation)

what would you do, to save humanity this was written as an alternative darker ending to Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos bc i figured that episode didn’t have enough angst. 

every star a fic about the doctor and the master’s relationship bc this ship always kind of kills me and i am always kinda thinking about it. about how they are so very, very alike. two sides of the same coin.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why/why not? ahhh unfortunately i generally dont - partially i get rly stressed about responding “the right way” but also i like seeing the little notification of unread messages! nice reminder that ppl comment on my fics! but also sometimes i do just forget and feel rly awkward. just know if you comment on my fic i literally owe my entire life to you 

6. A fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending? ah man the tma fic ends in their combined death so theres that? the thoschei fic is... well.. i mean, yknow. a thoschei fic. none of them end particularly ‘well’ tho i think. 

7. Do you write crossovers? nah i dont particularly like crossovers tbh

8. Ever received hate on a fic? thankfully, no

9. Do you write smut? that is between me, google docs, and a secondary ao3 account no one knows about

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen? thankfully, no

11. Ever had a fic translated? No

12. Have you ever co-written a fic? no! i’d like to tho!

13. All time fav ship? god i dont think i could just have one but i am kinda obsessed with thoschei from doctor who, or twelve/clara is a huge one for me also

14. WIP you want to finish but don’t think you ever will? oh man i wrote a really detailed rewrite of the pyramid at the end of the world episodes, where instead of the doctor coming back he was still indoctrinated or still was like, done w humanity ig, so it was bill who singlehandedly was saving the world kinda like martha did. it was my first time writing a longer fic and sticking with it and i think it had real potential! but someone never has time anymore 

15. Writing strengths? i’d like to think im pretty good at descriptions and like, idk what to call it but like the vaguely meta-ish stuff, references to past eps and kinda like “poetic” language describing stuff?

16. Writing weaknesses? i cannot write dialogue to save my life. tbh both in real life and in fic

17. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in a fic? see above. but also i think i’d be fine with it, at least in short bursts. if there’s ever a character that speaks ukrainian i’d be super down to write some of their dialogue in ukrainian in a fic but alas :(

18. First fandom you wrote for? definitely doctor who! i wrote a fic when i was like, 13? or smth and had just started watching the show and it was the most self indulgent thing ever but it was all about the doctor coming to pick up random teenagers from around the world and bring them onto the tardis in this big camp-like sleepover. i absolutely loved thinking abt that fic 

19. What’s your fav fic you’ve written so far? hmm i like pyrite a lot bc its more ~experimental~ than ive written before. but i also have to say seconds. bc it introduced me to @yesokayiknow & then suddenly 2 yrs later had a bunch more dw friends! cool times

ty maddy for tagging me! this was a lot of fun. ik im supposed to tag ppl but alas i know limited tumblr urls off the top of my head so genuinely if you got this far in reading this post like, feel free to do this and tag me in it i’d love to see your response! 

(if you’re thinking “oh but surely they can’t be talking about me!” i am. do the post if you want! tis fun)

[skelayton-lord]

A describe your OC meme thing both @sarkyfancypants and I misunderstood with another one but we thought this idea was cooler so I decided to make a template for it and do it.

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The stereotypical Rogue/Thief: the very basic basis for Ceci’s character before I had even thought of her as one. Since so many of my previous ones had been righteous knights/paladins I wanted to change course. Stealthy, deadly, greedy, with a keen eye for and ability to disarm traps.

Shego: the one to introduce me to the badass bad lady trope. She showed me villainesses dont have to be pretty OR smart, they can be BOTH. Also a competent sidekick who partners up with the silliest bosses because the pay is good? Oh yes (might be mentally draining for her sometimes, but at least she also has fun nagging them). Her trope stuck with me and this childhood bit is definitely in Ceci when she’s being overconfident and sassy.

Brigid Tenenbaum: she’s badass and caring and shows her caring through badassness. She’s also fair and retributes Jack accordingly when he shows compassion to the Little Sisters. Ceci isnt a doctor, in fact she lacks a good chunk of academic knowledge, but she got Tenenbaum’s (com)passion. She’s Ceci’s soft side, the human under the beast hide.

Helga Sinclair: the femme fatale, but not ANY femme fatale. While Helga’s close-combat prowess is way above Ceci’s and she’d totally kick her ass, the two share a type of professionalism. They never back down, got their own lil work to do and can lead when needed. She’s the person Ceci impersonates during her job.

Ophelia: her image manifested in Ceci through my subconscious tbh. Aesthetically cool lady with a pair of blades? Even the hairstyle is similar. I had forgotten about her until I had Ceci’s design down and someone brought up they were finally playing Brütal Legend, and then I realized where the style came from. Personality and character-writing wise they’re pretty far apart.

Catwoman: infamous attractive burglar with an animal motif, also classic anti-heroine. Out of her many origin stories I liked most of the ones in the movies played by Michelle and Halle Berry (even if Berry’s wasnt called Selina, I loved her Catwoman, I welcome Patience Philips with open arms, umbasa), where a goody good-mannered woman turns naughty with newfound cat powers (or in Ceci’s case, wolfbeast) and decides to get some injustices paid back. Catwoman’s morality is rubbed on Ceci and she might use seduction on her favor as well, whenever slicing throats or eating the fools arent viable options.

Elaine: the very first werewolf lady I’ve seen. I’ve liked werewolves since I was 10 or so and was upset about never seeing werewolf women among them back then (also since the brazilian werewolf myths are always about cursed men, women become headless mules instead), but Cybersix saved the era, umbasa. Not much about her besides being a werewolf assassin of sorts who blends in as a sweet woman (she only lasted 1 ep but I’m glad she existed), her concept is there with Ceci. Not rly presented, but the werewolves from Van Helsing weigh in for Beast Ceci’s form and manneirisms/abilities.

Roscoe: and also basically all villainous disney dobbermanns dogs. It’s the smug smile, the grinny grin, the animation and lip-sync. They give off an air of “full of themselves”, of overconfidance, and that’s how Beast Ceci is. She shows off her fangs, she laughs at (choir) hunters, she mocks them (specially anyone who are pro-slugs/ascension/Insight), all because if she could already kill them while human, as a beast she can do it in a single swipe.

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[illusionlockarchive]

sending an ask because ballora deserves a smooch.... also because i still dont get the story of sl and you seem like a pal who could help me out

she does!! as do all the sl animatronics.. but basically, youve come to the right place bc i love... i love sister location so so much you have no idea!! so ill try my best:

basically, somewhere between the fnaf games, william afton (purple guy as hes named in the books n in this game) disappears off to start his own company, afton robotics, n makes his own pizza place with dancing animatronics. but of course, being the purple shit himself, he makes all his robots built in with child kidnapping/killing devices. the problem? these things r sentient. n they dont wanna kill children. most specifically, baby, the biggest of the animatronics, n the main character. so like, william sets out a grand opening day to test these things right? well, in that very day, his daughter (oh i know. i hate the implication of him reproducing as well. bear with me) goes without his permission up to baby, when shes all alone. n it just so happens that the child kidnapping/killing device activates when kids r all alone, so ding a ling! we got ourselves a murder! this is all, mind you, told in a flashback, by baby, who recalls it with confusion n shock, it seems she rly wasnt in control of the device built inside her, n she says sometimes she still talks to the little girls’ spirit.

anyway a little bit later, william decided it wasnt such a good idea to have these things so out in the open since one FUCKING ATE HIS DAUGHTER so he gets the brilliant idea of instead make it a rental company (you can rent the robots to parties n stuff) n screw off the map. years later even, he guilts his poor abused son, michael afton, to go into the facility the robots were locked up at n fix the mess HE made. so michael comes in as a new technician, n obviously, the robots dont recognize him at first, n some try to kill him with only the intent of getting past him n escaping, while baby has a more... intricate escape plan for everyone. basically, they wanna escape bc: 1. being a robot with a formed sentient conscience n being forced to kill kids at their parties SUCKS MAN THE PRESSURE IS TOO GREAT n 2. on top of that, theyre constantly abused by being given ‘controlled shocks’ (yeah actually electric shocks, MEANT TO HURT) to ‘make sure theyre up for their next performance’.

so yeah, basically, purple guy aka william afton pushes his son michael into this mess of abused traumatized vengeful robots HE MADE, n now he has to survive their wrath. only baby, who wants to get through it without havng to kill a person, is helping n guiding him. anyway, almost by the end of the game were introduced to the ‘scooper’, a device that is used to basically ‘scoop’ out the insides of the animatronics to fix them. in the last night, all the animatronics r scooped, n later, baby leads you to the scooper room, n scoops you. but then you go: ‘hey wait! wasnt she supposed to not kill me?’ well, baby doesnt really know how humans work. she thinks you wouldnt die, n actually, yes, by some miracle, michael is alive! so baby, fuses with the endoeskeletons of her friends to form ennard, a huge endoeskeleton of all of them together, n enters michael to be able to escape unnoticed.

this, however, proves unfruitful, as later its revealed the animatronics confused michael for his father, n they have some disagreements. baby seems to not mind who is it that theyre using n considers herself the leader, arguing that they wouldnt have gotten as far without her. the others disapprove of her behavior though, n the fact that she, you know, put them inside their shitty creator, so they all agree to abandon her, by ejecting her out of michael, whose skin, at this point, looks pretty rotten (literally). this is where it gets foggy: somewhere around the line, michael either: a) finds his dads spring bonnie suit n goes hunt him down, while leaving an eerie message for him or b) becomes the purple guy/springtrap from fnaf 3 as he was only trying to dismantle the animatronics to free their souls, but was again, mistaken for his father. people cant rly agree on their theories to those last two options. i personally choose option ‘a’ because, duh, michael... still innocent. oh also dont worry about his dead sisters ghost, shes ok, its implied she just kinda, frees herself when he takes ennard out i think.

theres also an alternate secret ending thats considered ‘fake’ but very good in which michael finds a secret room n stalls for a long time there, while ennard tries to get in, until ennard agrees to find another way out, n so they both go home n watch some soap operas while eating popcorn. im not kidding. thats literally it. i rly wish it was the canon ending kjhfklhjf

[privateerings]

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MUNDAY ASKS: SALT EDITION

What are your unpopular opinion(s) of the fandom you’re rping in?

Finn’s character arc is by far the most interesting and fresh idea coming out of the sequel trilogy and they did him a damn disservice bait-and-switching his lightsaber fight with kylo ren to Rey. If they aren’t going to let him be a force sensitive human using a lightsaber then they better have another arc in the next two movies that make him feel just as important as he did in TFA and resolve the whole loophole of First Order Stormtrooper’s humanity. They’re introducing “Basically Loyalty Officer” stormtroopers so fucking. do it. you cowards.

I’m gonna put my head down and go to sleep when we inevitably see Kylo Ren flying around in his own special vader TIE Fighter killing tons of Resistance pilots because aaa he’s not a threat on the ground. :((( we gotta do something cool

What rp trends are you so over and can’t wait for it to die?

reblog karma. i get where ppl are coming from with that. it’s frustrating to have many followers and few-to-none may send and ask but they’ll reblog it. but it’s just silly. and guilt-trippy as hell. you can always reblog the meme again if it doesnt get any biters. chillout. it is literally not worth yours or your follower’s stress.

rly small contained themes that are black and grey. they are hard to read. it has nothing to do with how good one’s vision is, it is still hard to read because our eyes are not made for that shit. same with very small, very zoomed in and pixellated/distorted icons with 2-3 colors. the point of an icon is to further visualize what a character is doing or feeling and sometimes idk what im even looking at. i LITERALLY dont know if im seeing a face or something else sometimes. what’s the point if the creator is the only one who can see something posted to the public? lmao

If you’re feeling salty right now, this ask gives you a free reign to pour out your frustration.

I’m not salty about it right now but at the time of rbing the meme I was kinda salty feeling like, I guess at myself for being bad at writing Vace. But it may not be me being bad at rping him, but it just feels like, obviously I goof around a lot with him because that’s how I like to do but ICly it feels like a lot of muses don’t take him seriously. And I’m sure ppl have their reasons, sometimes muses are just like that and naturally have that response of “oh, whatever, he’s an idiot that doesn’t know what he’s doing” towards a character type like his. Some are just more sassy and sarcastic and that opens themselves up to feeling that way. there’s NOTHING wrong with that. but then sometimes I see how other muses who are also antagonistic, who are full of themselves, they still seem to get treated with respect much more often than he does. And like I said, it’s not a bad thing when people underestimate or roll their eyes at things he does or says in RPs. Most of the time, I as the person who has to write him am usually having that reaction behind the screen, too. Everyone knows that. 

But in situations where he is being more serious, when other muses continue to downplay not only his abilities but his intelligence (something that in a headcanon I mentioned really gets under his skin), and it’s only happening to him, it’s like… it starts to make me think it’s something else. That either I’m not roleplaying him right (as in, not being as accurate to what a criminal should do in XY particular situation), or that he’s being grossly misinterpreted or oversimplified (which ppl have done to many of my ocs in the past fsr). The second I can’t control unless I start actually doing what villains do in that one villain post–actually dishing out punishment on muses who do that. I play things fairly softly for the sake of comfort and not seriously endangering other people’s muses when I know in some situations Vace would straight up shoot at someone with no further questions because in the underworld, if you’re not respected, you’re already dead. 

so idk, yknow? i dont know what it is, if it’s not how i roleplay him, maybe it’s the fact that he’s young for someone in his profession, that he comes from money, that he hasn’t been fighting his whole life to be some badass,(none of these a muse should inherently know) that yes he IS winging it sometimes, that his confidence gets the better of him in situations where it shouldn’t, and obviously when he’s not working he doesn’t try to act like a pirate, or maybe its because he doesn’t look like a Matthew Fucking Daddario or Norman Reedus or something it’s just something I noticed recently and kinda bugs me because it feels like it’s not intended to be offensive but when it’s happening often then uhhhhhh