#i should re watch it. and re read it.

[katabay]

Omg you like RAGAD! Do you have any opinions on the movie ? I personally have not had a day of peace since seeing Tim Roth in an earring.

LOVED LOVED LOVED the movie, there was a point where it was my go to 'put it on while working' movie, I was quoting that film from start to finish

[coolnonsenseworld]

Omg your instagram story is so right! I can’t believe I’ve never even noticed that, probably because in fanon keith and shiro are so close that I’d forgotten that isn’t canon :0

Deserves this awesome quote which I had to dig out of my sideblog reblogs

[greenerteacups]

Hi GT,

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but I absolutely love the recs you've given (you've introduced me to tomione, and I love it!) and I was wondering if it's possible to give you some recs in return? There are some books and fics that definitely have dramione / got vibes, and I was wondering if I could share them with you!

So glad you've enjoyed them! Feel free to rec me anything you want. I've read most of the classic recs in terms of fic and adjacent content (Cruel Prince et al), but I'll try anything that's well-written. My tastes run towards weird and/or audaciously creative stuff, and I can forgive a lot of weaknesses in plot on the grounds of (1) ambition or (2) character work. My turnoffs are instalove, protagonists who can't fail, and most Y/A (I'm not a hater, I swear, I just need characters who can say "fuck" when their leg gets chopped off.)

I'm also a fan of weird and fucked-up dynamics.(Wuthering Heights was my favorite book for a while, and as a teenager I wrote an AU in which the book ends on a long sex scene where Heathcliff fucks Cathy's ghost and then immediately gets murdered by Catherine 2.) Obviously, I am very normal.

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

I'm sorry I can't take your call right now, I'm becoming unhinged about Transformers again,,,

[rmorde]

Trigun Manga Reaction

Now reading Volume 1 Chapters 7!

Oh. Nice foreshortening!

Have I mentioned before that the art in the manga is amazing? I mean not only is it pretty but the techniques and the visual storytelling!

This manga really spoils me rotten with beautiful double spreads.

Was Trigun a weekly manga or a monthly comic in the 90's? Like, how is this level of quality maintained every chapter?!

This sweet apologetic smile. Baby Girl Vash. SOMEONE PLEASE PROTECT HIM!!!

I love this part because of how the "tech" looks. Maybe I'm just high on nostalgia but if you ask me, the best and most creative visual takes of futuristic technology are from the 90's. OK... 70s to 80's too. BUT 90'S ARE THE BEST!

LMAO! I remember this! Vash loves teasing his enemies with cheeky notes, doesn't he?

Dime novels??? Penny dreadfuls?? Gasp! HARLEQUINS?!!

DOES THE SETTING OF TRIGUN HAVE AN EQUIVALENT OF HARLEQUINS?! IF SO, I'D BE SO HAPPY BECAUSE I HAVE THIS HC ABOUT WOLFWOOD'S FASHION CHOICE BEING CONNECTED TO THOSE RAUNCHY CHEAP ROMANCE NOVELS!!!

Also, another amazing nightmare face! But then...

WHIPLASH! Vash adding levity by hyping himself up. Tho more likely, he is telling the truth. Not that anyone would really believe it with the facade he puts up.

Oh, wait. I only notice this just now. The Vash's glove design in the manga is what was used in in Tristamp. Only three fingers are covered. In '98, it was all of his fingers are concealed by the glove.

AH! I REMEMBER THIS! ESPECIALLY HOW IT ENDS! I'm laughing already. Kaite... is not the best navigator.

Ah Classic Vash. Deflect. Deflect. Deflect.

Oh... This scene. It's kinda scary how catching Vash off guard is deadly for his attacker. Really highlights how much he has to control all himself all the time. Killing is too easy for him with his abilities. So, he has to exercise strict disciple and caution for the sake of others all the time.

This is also sad. A kid telling off an adult for not wanting to kill. It really hammers down how awful their world is - that killing is the norm and logical thing to do. Avoiding violence and killing is seen as stupidity.

This page makes my heart hurt for so many reasons. Vash is suffering physical pain from being shot. However, I think what is more devastating is his ideals being questioned and insulted by a child - someone who should be innocent from the concept of taking lives.

Vash was hurt by what Kaite said. But, I think he also understands why he did it too. It was out of both worry and the unfortunate circumstance of their violent word. Hence, his intense glare at the top of the page then softening into a sheepish look at the bottom.

Oh wow. Another beautiful art and amazing composition and...

Rem just has strong presence in the manga, doesn't she? It's something that was in Tristamp but kind of lessened in '98.

Oh... I wish this had not been cut out from '98. I don't think this can be rehashed in Tristamp, can't it? Damn... it deserves to be animated.

Kudos for '98 in doing a great job animating this page.

Boo for not doing justice for this page, '98! WHAT THE HELL?! Why was Rem not featured a lot in '98?! At least, Tristamp made up for it... BUT I LIKE REM'S LONG HAIR DESIGN BETTER!

HAHAHAHAHA!

AH.... Ah? AHHHH?!

Fuck! I forgot. This was not supposed to be funny?! Why did I remember this scene is funny?!

Also:

@poofyphluff 

I read about the filler thing. Didn't expect it to be that much. And yeah, I'm really admiring Nightow's skills with scaling in his art. It really enhances his visual story telling.

@revenantghost

It is slowly dawning on me the differences between '98 and the manga PLUS the similarities between Tristamp and manga.

I guess my memory is not as accurate as I believe. I thought the OOC-ness from '98 is not that much yet. I thought Vash being a horndoggy perv is just a Badlands thing. It's really nice that it is nowhere here in the manga tho and Tristamp.

It begs the question tho, why make Vash like that in '98?

Oh. So Wolfwood's situation and I guess the '98 ending is similar to what happened with the first Fullmetal Alchemist anime? The studio was forced to do an AOE.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Feel better soon.

[starbuck]

to the person in the tag who just said “I fear I'm giving you all a very skewed idea of what ravenous 1999 is like,” we may not know each other, but we are brothers in spirit

[kuromi-hoemie]

having vague thoughts about E3 and the current state of AAA game development in general..

like yeah direct promotions have had more of an impact than Big Events for me, and the main thing I'd want to see out of E3 are trailers for new games or the conversations that follow online - but a few points on that

I can just as easily look up “new games for [platform] [year]” on youtube

Something about the way AAA games are built these days makes me get bored of them ⅔ of the way through, if I even make it that far, on top of them charging more for less content and hiding away the rest behind multiple DLC packs

I've mostly been buying indies the past few years and have gotten a lot of fun out of them; they continue to deliver a nearly unrivaled experience of fun gameplay mechanics and interesting/emotional stories at a ridiculously low cost

I also have emulators for going back and playing old games I really liked so I'm not exactly desperate for new games

and idk!! weird to see E3 officially ending but I also think the landscape is very different these days including the game companies themselves. I'm not a game dev so I can't rly speak to what the change has looked like on their end over the past 10-20 yrs.

[tennisthemedhatesex]

One of my favorite things about death note is each time you watch it you gain another Stage of understanding. It's such a fun show to think about, and although it probably wasn't planned how you were analyzing it (purportedly written guided by the rule of cool, which is so, so hard to believe if you've spent more than a minute thinking about it. HOW is it so good. It's not even a Supernatural situation, where you have to web-weave individual frames to make it compelling. Death Note, if you watch/read it the first time without preconceived notions about the author, not only is compelling, but the arcs seem well constructed with both narrative and thematic weight. It's only at the end where things begin to fall apart, and even there if you look hard enough, explanations are there (Mikami was controlled by the death note, etc)).

I forgot what I was going to say. Post changed, this is now about how fundamentally Death Note's biggest problem is that nothing was intended how it was taken because it yeah, it's deserving of modern classic status, but only if you have good reading comprehension and zero respect for the author's intended vision.

In my opinion, this really isn't a problem, I just wish I saw a larger volume of analysis, like I used to back in 2010-2016-ish. One can say every aspect has been discussed to death, but the problem is, a lot of the analysis was really stupid because we were all 12 at the time (not really, but man, going on the internet and reading all that...I was disappointed and I was in my young teens). SOME of it was great, and my perspectives have changed so much since I got into this fandom, so I'd like to read everyone's thoughts again and see what I think.

Because the thing is: Death Note asks some complex questions that one can have a completely different perspective on within the space of a year.

I like Death Note for the same reasons as when I was twelve (the unhinged logic that would not stand up in court (and the characters know this), the characters themselves, the general structure being original and creative, the tragedy of it, the ways you can MAKE it into a comedy given the sheer absurdity of certain aspects even though in context it might seem either normal or heartbreaking, the questions you ask while you watch it and how it makes you think about the narrative, etc) but I have completely different opinions on every theme it explores and moral question it poses.

[urfavesim]

i miss the maze runner.

[theirloveisgross]

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[demonandangeltwins]

You look at the man who became your best friend the second he opened his eyes, and your’s burn, they burn with love, they burn with the wish to be loved back, and they burn with the thought that you never will be, at least not in the same way. Then he smiles, he smiles in pain, in the pain of his sister being taken with nothing he can do, in the pain of his friend soon to be brother being stabbed, in the pain of not knowing his big sister was being hurt sooner. You have to look away because you never want him to feel any pain ever and you’ve barely known him. You look away because even in all that pain you can tell he has felt worse and you want to burn the world and keep him and your child from feeling any pain ever again, and you realize that’s dangerous. Too dangerously close to wanting to tell him and risk everything you have just for the chance of him loving you back for a second.

[billpottsismygf]

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[knightzp]

i miss code lyoko......

[prommethium]

I gave up with GoT since season 3; when they didn't give respect to the love of my life Arianne. So I promised to never go there.

The legends and drama of the famous people who can tame dragons? PLEASE! we know how that finishes, we already had plenty of them in the books. I don't need them, nobody needs them. 

However! HOWEVER! Emma d'arcy's presence might make me change my mind. That and the fact that House of the lizard is trending, and it looks good.

[afternoonblues]

alright. just finished watching kny's hashira training arc season and with that BANGER of a final episode, let's just say, even though i regret not going to the theatres for the mugen train movie release here in my country, i will definitely be there for the infinity castle arc trilogy. you will find me at the theatre all pumped up for sure. i'm not missing any of it, alright?

[undyinglantern]

i wonder if i should read blue period or the summer hikaru died now