#i <3 physical media

[horsetailcurlers2]

GUYS i just got the first two seasons of greys on dvd for like $9 i’m so excited for these commentaries i’ve basically been chewing at the walls waiting for them to ship

[rawvnoisevcruster]

Oh hell yeah

[sebastianafterhours]

Let the supremacy of physical, ownable media live forever. Owning a collection of music, movies, or anything on disc, vhs, cd or whatever allows you to feel closer to a media and shows your support for the preservation of it. My modest tv/movie collection means more to me than all of Netflix and I would sooner give up the latter than be unable to own the few movies I have even if I don’t watch them that much.

i miss vhs tapes and cds i miss feeding my computers and tvs yummy treats. now theyre eating nothing. theyre being born without mouths

[houseofwolves-v1]

listening to my favorite avett brothers album on cd cause i got it for christmas

this is life changing truly

i need to get every album that’s ever existed on cd immediately

[aliensfujo]

recent room shit can u tell i was born to be a fangirl ?

[gobbluthofficial]

who’s buying me a full set of army of lovers cds

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

got a worm nibbling my brain. can someone help me find a piece of obscure media?

webcomic/indie comic from the 2010s. basically a sci-fi short story about a young girl (with red hair?) who was being raised by scientists as part of an experiment. she receives a haircut/has her head shaved, in preparation for her annual brain scan/testing. it is revealed that while her body is human, her "brain" is artificial, made of computer implants throughout her skull and spine. at some point her biological mother (also a scientist on the same campus?) encounters her and is repulsed, viewing her as a machine who has murdered her daughter.

it was very poignant and it bruised my heart and i can NOT find it anywhere

[kurikorso]

oh shit look who it is!!

please click him for better quality

[youkaigakkou-tl]

got my friend to buy gfantasy and vol 17 for me back in september and they finally got to me 😋

ofc i WILL be scanning the coasters and shikishi hehehe

also looking at it up close, its really obvious now that seiryuu and genbu are on sano's kimono and suzaku is on haru's (byakko found dead in a ditch. no wonder he's huge on this poster that came the month after these coasters LMAO)

[missionel]

... that's an interesting way to find out your record player is messed up

IM SO HAPPY I MIGHT THROW UP

[april-first]

Guide to the Bravern Flower Shop Verse

Posting this for archiving purposes and for future/new fans who won't experience any of this live (or maybe ever, if Twitter breaks) just encounter it as older, out of context fanart on Pixiv or social media.

So. If you’ve ever looked up Japanese Bravern fanart (or fanfic) on either Pixiv or Twitter you must have stumbled upon a certain flowershop AU. It’s official (made and named by the staff, got referred to as such in the 2nd talkshow apparently) and it’s called 花屋バース. Details with links under the cut!

The contributors

Kamokamen, original/main character designer (Twitter @ sangsilnoh)

Oobari Masami, director (Twitter @ G1_BARI)

Ura Ryuuta, chief animation director (Twitter @ matatabeat)

The origins

"happy new episode release" bonus arts by the main character designer

and their two Yotsuba&! joke tweets:

Isami works at a flower shop called Brave Flower

Smith is the single father of the "mysterious girl" Lulu who is in kindergarten

This spiraled into a whole AU that has Actual Lore because the staff kept adding to it.

My main sources were 2 different tweet compilations made by Japanese fans and the very broken Twitter search. I got into the fandom when Episode 9 aired (before that I was just watching the show weekly and nothing else) so backsourcing all of this was not easy, and unfortunately I can’t guarantee this post has every relevant tweet. For example I found nothing about Smith’s job. It might exist, it might not, who knows. But the staff was very clear that they just wanted everyone to have fun coming up with ideas when they were tweeting about Bravern-the-character.

Isami & Bravern

- Isami and Bravern drive a motorcycle with a sidecar (ART!) called Brave Thunder

- according to the director Bravern wears a helmet

- Bravern exists in that miniature form which was designed by the director, completely unexplained (first appearance of "easy-to-draw Bravern-kun" | official plushie version which he brought to the 3rd talkshow | non-flowershop AU maid uniform update! also designed by him | "bunny day" update)

(T/N: this is not actual canon, but in the Animedia (May issue) interview’s Q&A section the director said Isami has the impression of someone who has a much older brother who passed away when he was young. JP fandom said nope this is the happy AU so he’s alive)

Smith & Lulu

- Smith and Lulu drive a "granny bike" called Spar Kaiser

- Lulu's seat is a child bike seat dubbed "co-pilot seat"

(T/N: answering a fan’s question, the character designer who designed Smith’s weird shirts once tweeted he’s probably using a translator app to scan the text on them.)

Other characters

- as far as I know there’s no "official" flowershop AU version of Superbia

- some time ago the director made a miniature design for him as well, but people usually draw Superbia in a humanoid form in this AU which was designed by the character designer

(T/N: not flowershop AU related, but Superbia speaks in Hiroshima dialect.)

- Miyu has a moped (a modified old Honda Super Cub) and she rides around town with Hibiki to get McDonald’s

(T/N: also not flowershop AU related, but Hibiki considers Isami a younger brother, according to the 3rd talkshow reports.)

- Satake was Isami's homeroom teacher and he was the one who taught him how to properly ride a motorcycle

- it was due to Satake’s influence that Isami chose an American-style Japanese bike which he bought secondhand for cheap for the fun of repairing and customizing it

(T/N: the tweet linked above is from March, but at the 3rd staff talkshow we learned that Satake’s bike in canon is a Honda CBR250RR. At the 2nd talkshow the staff said he gives off the impression of being a good cook, and the director shared he must be single because of the bike & red jacket combo.)

ADD ALT TEXT if you share this on other sites as screenshots. I genuinely can't be assed to care about credit, but I care a lot about accessibility.

I’m collecting the interviews and talkshow fan reports, and I'm also reading Lulu’s spinoff novel so eventually I’ll post summaries of those. (Unfortunately I don’t have time to do more than summaries.) In the meantime you guys could MTL this collab café report/article if you're interested! (I checked googletranslate and it’s readable)

[lttl3babybug]

Just got the first season of supernatural on dvd chat. Did I need it? No. But it was only £2.50 for both boxes so..

[alorekeeper]

no but like - i love arcane so much because in everything else, every. single. time. there's physical intimacy, i have to Look Away from the screen because the only thing that's gonna happen is Romance.

i kid you not, every single time. two characters start getting closer together and i just go, "oh no."

but ARCANE. these folks can get in each other's faces, get up and close into each others personal spaces - and I'll just cheer them on because since the very beginning - arcane made it loud and clear that no, it's just what it is. it is not romantic nor sexual.

AND IF IT IS - THAT CAN BE SEEN CLEAR AS DAY. I DONT KNOW HOW THEY DID IT BUT I LOVE THEM SO MUCH.

[shadow-von-vamp]

goal in life

id love to have a big dvd shelf one day

[sunnibits]

y’all I am cooking up the most despicable fucking malevolent edit rn,, god should not have given me access to video editing software I feel so deeply evil for what I am doing

[badnewswhatsleft]

oh my god