#i mean sure i'm excited

[a-s-levynn]

Uhh.. today is so slow..

[egophiliac]

just thinking about hair and faces

[respectthepetty]

Queendom is giving me color-coded girls in love!

But it's doing it in the simplest yet smartest way!

Rey is the cold-coded character with her blacks and blues.

Print is the more warm-colored character with her pinks and reds.

But they get in trouble.

AND SWITCH BODIES!

And because they switch bodies, they take their colors with them!

It's a smart way to remember that Print is in Rey's body and Rey is in Print's body because of the color.

So when their colors merge (a color exchange), it'll signify more than them just being in love, but that they are close to returning to their original bodies.

This shot is the perfect example of why I'm so excited! (I'm looking at the mirror since it has both of their colors, not her ass)

Well . . . maybe I am excited for several reasons.

[starrynightskies12]

[aquanutart]

She is offering water to any lost travelers! However, it's so hot that the water has become tea, so she's adjusted accordingly!

[spoozly]

The h

[vagueeyes]

Propaganda for today's @insideno9bracket poll is the TLOG x PSYCHOVILLE x IN9 crossover featured in THE BILL (I know I'm not the only one who knows this!):

The first crossover is, of course, guest star Jason Watkins, who previously featured in PSYCHOVILLE.

The second crossover is Reece & Steve telling Jeremy about the "piss-mints" in the TLOG Christmas special commentary (video here):

Reece: (referring to the "garlic tablets") I was chewing on the piss-mints.

Mark: You call them "piss-mints"?

(Steve: This is one of those scenes which–)

Reece: That'll be for another day.

(Mark laughs)

Jeremy: (laughs) I want to know why they're called piss-mints!

Reece: Cos in restaurants, when you get mints at the end of the day, they do–they did a test on them once, there was, like, ten different types of urine.

Jeremy: Which restaurant?

Reece: Cos people–Any restaurant!

Steve: All restaurants! (Reece: All restaurants!) Cos people have a piss, come out, pick a mint up and–

Reece: –and leave a bit of the urine on.

(Steve laughs)

Only when they get to writing this "fact" into the episode, it's now 15 different types and not 10 XD

[snapbackslide]

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

[sysig]

Ellen McLain’s commentary from my trivia playthrough

[babacontainsmultitudes]

Ough guys I'm hopping on the train in less than 2 days to move to a new city this is sooo fucked up what do you meannnn

[ladyluscinia]

I know my last experience with a season ending on a note everyone hated and unanimously tore to fucking shreds for destroying the story on every level was... atypical. Lockdown. 6 month mass hysteria at minimum. Conspiracy theories that were, like, real things we had on camera. There was a Twitter wedding. Creative fervor that broke 100k fics on AO3.

Like. I know this is not a rational point of comparison and I'm not going to expect anything in my lifetime to match it 🤣

But.

If that was the highest high of post-season fandom engagement built on a cocktail of tasting everything you ever wanted AND the absolutely lethal levels of spite and swearing to eat showrunners' hearts in the marketplace, then whatever the fuck is going on after OFMD S2 is the opposite of that.

OFMD S1 was a huge fandom explosion. One silly little streaming show that had a gay kiss and then it skyrocketed. Fic numbers were soaring, high activity fic and meta engagement lasted for at least four months, it was constantly trending and flooding the dash... Like, fucking hell, over a year and a half after the immediate finale fervor it beat Stucky in the top ships bracket?!? To the point I was willing to give it what felt like due credit toward its potential as a future juggernaut ship. Not guaranteed, of course, but the potential was there.

In that context, new content should be a blow out party. Which it kinda was pulling off as it was airing, but looking back now? Not even quite a month later?

The effect of S2 on the fandom is like... a blip. Possibly over already.

New fic numbers started dropping off the moment the finale aired and have returned to deep hiatus levels. It's dropped off trending and streaming leaderboards... I'm very curious to see the first tumblr Week in Review since the finale, though we're still waiting due to the holiday.

Like, I've even popped on to scroll a few Izzy hater blogs that I know loved the finale out of morbid curiosity what they were up to, and I'm telling you... if I hadn't just watched the new season I'd think they were still over a year into hiatus. Saw some standard bitching about the izcourse / Edward takes (aka the one thing that kept them going all hiatus), they're currently passing around posts mocking one specific long OFMD version of TJLC I'm just hearing of, the same BTS gifsets everyone else is thrilled by... But barely any new meta or discussions. There's like 2 people posting actual analysis of S2 that's getting reblogged and they aren't even names I recognize from the hiatus. Nor is it particularly interesting to read. 🤷‍♀️

In July of 2022 I could pop onto a random OFMD blog and scroll through a dozen enthusiastic Stede or BlackBonnet metas about jacket colors or that moth from 1x07 or lighthouse symbolism or whatever. Now the new stuff has the same energy as posts from June 2023. It's borderline dead. And this is what it's like when there's an active campaign to engage fandom and Renew as a Crew?

(I will say fanartists are bringing some energy and there's some lovely pieces being passed around, which I do think the Renew as a Crew campaign is helping to boost?)

Even the hundreds of people saying it was a beautiful season and they loved it so much don't seem to be finding it a very engaging or inspiring season.

It's such a turn, like, what the fuck.

[zabiume]

Have you seen the theory regarding Rukia's origins? I just heard of it, and I think it'll definitely be explored in the hell arc (when/if we get it), especially because Ichika was the first person to notice the hell hollows?? And since Renji didn't see them, we can only assume this could come from Rukia? Anyway, it's mostly based on the differences in how her name is written on chapter covers compared to all the other shinigami (used nanao for comparison, but everyone else has the brush stroke writing). Kubo even mentioned this in klub outside as something intentional!

Your post mentioning hell arc reminded me of this so i wanted to ask what u think :3

yes, i've seen this!!! i haven't been able to stop thinking about it since he said that on klub, but idk if it has anything to do with what you said about ichika, though? the only reason she spotted them first seems to be because a) ichigo and renji are bickering with their backs turned to the hollows, while she's at an angle where she can see them, and b) the reason renji didn't see them/sense them seems to be because the hollows' spiritual pressure was undetectable

it's unclear what exactly rukia got up to in the years between hisana abandoning her and her meeting renji and the other boys, but it looks like she'd already been calling herself "rukia" by the time she met them, so my leading theory is that she chose that name for herself

but it's unclear how or when or why she would do this and why that name in particular. i've always been curious about this blank period in her life and how many questions about her are still unanswered (at least to me).

we also get a birthday for her, which is interesting because, as hitsugaya notes, most people in rukongai don't exactly have birthdays, since they were never born, but in the same chapter we do get rangiku and gin deciding that rangiku's birthday is the day they met, so it's possible that a lot of rukongai "birthdays" are really just days that hold significant meaning to them, so what exactly is significant about january 14th to rukia? granted, this is from her character sketch at the end of volume 1, so it's possible this is a thoughtless "error" that kubo might have made while he was still figuring out the soul society world-building but idk! these are definitely questions i have and the lack of answers frustrate/excite me. i do think kubo's telling the truth about the brush strokes being significant though because he usually owns up to things he did by accident or things he wasn't thinking too deeply about, so i do tend to believe him when he says it's intentional but WHAT does it mean, though?

[tracle0]

Feast your eyes! My pride stars :)!

[kyouka-supremacy]

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[sebdoesthings]

Finished the first season of Tsurune and MAN that shit was good. I think what I love about sports anime (especially non-mainstream sports) is that they deal with the quintessentially human practice of pouring your whole heart into something and loving something so much you could burst

[20001541]

they released the full soundtrack of season 7 of the anime and this one is called The Demon Lord, which is obviously afo's :) it sounds so good, only the best for our demon king