#i’m almost halfway through season 1 in my rewatch and i cannot wait to get to season 4

[strawberrryangel]

rewatching supernatural is so fun because. why would you put yourself through that torture again. but it is so comforting. like this show is insane and gay and sexy and agonizing and homosexual and erotic and deeply upsetting. but it’s just. so good.

[unseelie-bitch]

Season 2 Episode 22: Last Resorts

Okay in this 'previously on' I just noticed a shot in which all three of the Trix are making the 'suprised pikachu' face and it's HONESTLY hilarious

Bloom... Bloom you cannot each take out ten monsters most of you don't even have magic

Flora actually just told Bloom, Stella and Musa to fly off and save themselves LMAO

Never thought I'd say this but YES RIVEN

Cannot believe you ALL left Layla

Layla the most efficant way to leave "big blue" is not climbing back up the cliff you just fell down

Trix I hate to break it to you but you ALSO couldn't capture the fairies like don't start insulting the monsters here

Darcy can fully mind control anyone/thing she is INSANELY powerful

"I can handle this!" *immediately falls halfway down the cliff* nice one Bloom

They forgot to animate Stella and Musa's Charmix while they were literally transformed and talking about them lmao

Flora that was a bit of a backhanded compliment why are you so suprised Stella and Musa could get a spell right on their own

"Listen Stormy, keep your Dragadon away from Riven!" "Don't tell me you still have feelings for that broody little lug?!" "No! Gross!" Okay this is interesting because 1. The fact she specifically tells Stormy means Stormy almost certainly has something against Riven and 2. The way she instantly denys any attachment even though she was the one to actively end their relationship like... Stormy is clearly a jealous gf

"Okay fine, but I call Musa! I get to trample her so stay away!" I love Stormy

Icy says she doesn't care then IMMEDIATELY claims Stella iconic

Look I support the use of "witch" instead of 'bitch' but you canNOT use it to replace 'fuck'. They are not trying to "witch you up" and you know it

Why is Sky in a weed bush?

Riven just YOINKS Musa behind a tree

You can't just... drown the Trix lmao

OMG STORMY'S WET HAIR IS SO FUNNY

The flying bug swoops in at the last minute to attack

Layla please don't spiral you're okay bby!!

Layla got her Charmix!!

She looks even MORE like tinkerbell with her bag

"We can't pass up a nerd run!" Lmao they're still just edgy teens I don't care

[Tumblr deleted all my original comments past this point and I'm SUPER annoyed about it because I did a bunch of Trix analysis but oh well I guess - imma rewatch it and try to remember what I said but I just wanted to say I am a n g r y]

Chatter just yeeting onto the flowers what a baby

Ok I know the pixie sneezes are supposed to be cute but that is EXACTLY how I sneeze and I FEEL SO CALLED OUT

Timmy maybe don't loudly yell about the plan when the witches are RIGHT behind you

"Get him Stormy!" "I'm trying to!" Okay this is important!! Because Darcy was genuinely being supportive of her attempts to get Sky but Stormy replies as if she's being verbally attacked - it shows a lot of insecuirty on her part that she interprets Darcy's support as criticism and I'm just sad like she's constantly trying to prove herself to Icy and Darcy even if they don't realise it. Stormy I hope you're okay

"Darcy, wait up!" Stormy immediately goes to Darcy when she loses her dragadon - she doesn't even consider asking Icy for help. It shows how much Darkar is isolating Icy but his unintended conseqence is in bringing Darcy and Stormy closer together which is a risky move (lowkey want an Azula/Mai/Ty-lee situation) but also... Stormy is asking for help. Witches don't ask for help, especially the Trix, but Stormy is asking Darcy and that's very telling. Please give me a Darcy and Stormy redemption I know they won't but please

Stormy is now riding with Darcy and it's just cute

"Darcy, look out!" The //concern// ladies and gentlemen Stormy is WORRIED

Oh no they got caught >:(

Immediately free!

Riven's "Sweet! *Darcy breaks the net* ...not sweet" is actually so funny though

Okay this is also really interesting because we've just seen that there is more than enough room for two witches on a dragadon so logically all three of them could ride on Icy's now that they've lost their mounts. But they aren't. Darcy and Stormy are choosing to fly, even though Stormy JUST rode on Darcy's dragadon for a while which again shows the newly formed disconnect within the Trix. Darkar keeps using them individually but clearly favours Icy so obviously Darcy and Stormy are going to pair up even more than they already were, and throughout this series we've seen the two of them become closer which is likely not what Darkar intended at ALL when he chose Icy as his favourite witch because genuine affection is dangerous

Oop Icy fell into the trap

You didn't really think this through though lads like... witches can fly. Only the dragadon should be trapped here

HELIA DON'T SHOOT MY WITCHES

Also please don't say "dudes" it feels so unnatural

Bye Trix!!

Aww Techna's crying :(

She got her Charmix!!

Feels weird that ill pixies can only be healed with the flower of life but okay

PLEASE DON'T LAUGH AT FLORA SHE'S JUST NERVOUS WHY ARE THE RED FOUNTAIN GUYS SUCH DICKS

[moistwithgender]

Anime I think I remember watching this year

I need to keep better track of this I guess.

Aggressive Retsuko: Great! Very likable characters (even the bastards), just the right amount of millennial cynicism. 9/10 Aggressive Retsuko Christmas Special: It's not about Christmas, it's about instagram. It's great and extremely real (watch the series first though). Digimon Adventure tri 1 & 2: This is actually very boring so far. I planned to jump back in with the english dub, which is honestly how I should have been watching it from the beginning. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to it. Kado The Right Answer: If this show had not been sabotaged from the inside out in the last 2-3 episodes, this would have probably been up there with classics like Bebop. WEST WING: THE ANIME, we would have called it, or something. I haven't watched West Wing, but it's all bureaucracy, right? 8/10 in this universe, 10/10 in the alternate universe where it didn't shit the bed. Angolmois: I got halfway through this before the low budget and my own exhaustion had me drop it. Unfortunate, since anime never adapts the mongol invasion. Planet With: In the running for series of the year, probably. A super robot show where the ultimate moral is that, actually, rehabilitating your enemies is better than killing them. Will rewatch in the future, I'm sure. 10/10. Asobi Asobase: Hina Kino (Hanako)'s is going to go down as a legendary voice actress if I have any say in anything. Which I do, because I'm in charge of the industry now. Which means we're taking out queerphobic jokes, wrap it up people. 8/10, would rank higher without the bad takes. Cells at Work!: Really fun concept, has *implications* of a deeper narrative to be had built into the worldbuilding, but ultimately the whole season is just "oh I bet this irl thing would translate like this in my setting" on repeat. Still, an easy watch. 7/10. Hanebado!: There's a lot that could be good about this. Themes of toxicity in competitive spaces, overwork, abandonment, and trauma. Ending had a lot of people upset because it either miscommunicated how the protagonist moved past her trauma (best case), or just completely dropped the entire arc because...I don't know why. I rated this 9/10 on myanimelist, but it probably deserves lower. I'm still over here wanting to believe I missed something in my interpretation. Hoping for either a second season or a faster manga translation. My Hero Academia S3: This season had some high points but I felt it was considerably less interesting overall than the second season. However, Deku vs Bakugou was genuinely one of the best moments of the series thus far. My Hero Academia The Movie: Pretty standard shonen series movie for the sake of having one. Nothing groundbreaking here. But hey, I got to listen to "You Say Run" in a theater, which was almost worth the price of admission on its own. 6/10. Ushio & Tora: Both seasons, thirty nine episodes. Waste of my time! Maybe this series was just meant to be consumed bit by bit, but I just found it really shallow in the end. 6/10. Chio's School Road: Another *brilliant* comedy that is ultimately brought down by the occasional queerphobic humor. Get it toGETHER, guys! In any case, I care about these stupid children now, and hope for a season two soon. 8/10. Angels of Death: It took about 14 out of the total 16 episodes before I suddenly stopped hate watching it and started laughing at its unwarranted self seriousness and paradoxical writing. Still, kind of frustrated I stuck with it anyway. 4/10. Night is Young, Walk On Girl: Gorgeous movie that has to be seen, but. I wonder if it's Yuasa or the original writer of these books that insists on the resolution to all conflict being "heterosexuality". 9/10. Haibane Renmei: I got four episodes in before the Funi/Crunchy split happened ;__; it's really good tho Dragon Pilot: Definitely gonna rewatch this one one day too. There is a density of theme and execution here that I cannot yet fully unpack and it's just so good. Also the english dub is good, and is how I preferred to watch it. It also has a lesbian and isn't afraid of her, even if her role is very small. It's something. 9/10, maybe 10/10. Mirai: I fucking love Mamoru Hosoda's films. 9/10. Zombieland Saga: I have the sneaking feeling that they wanted a few more HOT PROGRESSIVE TAKES to be fit in before the season ended, but restraints got in the way. We had a sex worker idol who never got her backstory episode, and actually Tae never got hers either. It's still a 9/10 for me, but I'm hoping for at least a followup OVA. And a movie. Granblue Fantasy: I finished the full season, save for the "omake" episode that I assume takes place in the alternate universe where Protagonist Is Girl. This was somewhat throwaway cozy saturday morning nostalgia for the old days of Final Fantasy before that game series became more grounded in contemporary and sci-fi settings. It was also something I watched as a primer for the incoming Platinum and ArcSys games, because I'm not gonna play two gacha games at the same time. Hilariously, the--like--twenty new characters from the gacha that showed up in the last episode were all more interesting than the cast of the full season. 7/10, 10/10 for having a race of hot girls with horns (there are also guys but who cares). Hi Score Girl: This show is a love letter to growing up with arcades in 90s Japan and also struggling with making friends and ohhh my god every time the idiot main boy stops paying attention to important interpersonal plot and just starts infodumping about a game, I tragically see myself. It's very good, the girls are GOOD GIRLS and deserve better and the writing seems fully aware of that.  The series unfortunately ends on a stock romantic plot beat cliffhanger that I have to wait until March to have ultimately resolved in THREE EPISODES. Despite that, it's easily a 9/10. I list a lot of 9/10s but it's been a good couple seasons and there's just...a lot of range there. Number scores are bullshit. Watch anime. Shin Getter Robo: Probably the last show I'll have finished before the year end. It's my second exposure to Getter Robo (my first was reading Getter Robo Go, which actually takes place after this), and it's still good, but oh god. These guys are dumb bastards but there's a note early in that has aged particularly badly in the MeToo era. Not sure if the show got better because I switched audio tracks to English with VAs I have nostalgia for, or because they broke through the bottom of a lake and wound up in alternate history Heian era Japan, stranded for multiple years. With a giant robot. I liked that part. 8/10. Shows I took a break from due to burnout and need to pick back up: Run with the Wind, Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai, Vento Aureo, SSSS.Gridman, Hinomaruzumou, Ms. Vampire who lives in my neighborhood, As Miss Beelzebub Likes It., Devilman Crybaby, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san. SO MANY!!