#idk i feel like sorcery kinda suits him

[tiny-chubby-bird]

has anyone considered

[theygotlost]

come play venture bros postcanon tuoys with me? :)

hank isnt interested in higher education or a full time career and he literally wrote down his dream job as "drifter". I see him taking up a lot of odd jobs and sporadic minimum wage stuff but really i believe he was meant for the stage. shallow gravy never makes it big time but they get like the weirdest most random gigs ever and eventually they release a full album and everyone fucking hates it and hank gets called a nepo baby. which is true. but going beyond the music hank is always dressing up and playing characters and ofc there was the time he called himself destiny and refused to take off the strength suit you see where im going with this YEP Destiny is his drag name. and im imagining destiny playing shallow gravy gigs so she'd have a kinda gothy alternative amy lee aesthetic going on and she would slay.

in case you havent noticed I hateee that dermott joined OSI it just feels forced and his buzzcut is ugly. dont worry though I can fix this. the thing about dermott is that he talks a big game but in reality is a pathetic loser. it's like that episode of malcolm in the middle where reese joins the army but crumbles as soon as he's faced with combat training. dermott either drops out or gets kicked out for doing something stupid but either way they probably have to wipe his memory and its like it never happened. outside of shallow gravy i see him doing random blue collar stuff and like... riding dirtbikes and shit. also he was probably lying about having a pilots license but idk maybe he does have one. i think he should have one

dean says he doesnt know what he wants to do with his future so his major at stuyvesant is probably still undeclared rn... but remember that for a while his dream job was "boy reporter" and he even printed that adorable little home newspaper so that points to a career in journalism. in the second half of the show dean's vibe is "im probably transgender but there are supervillains trying to kill me so i don't have time to worry about that right now" and being able to have a (relatively) normal college experience away from home around people her own age would be the final push she needs to start transitioning. also i have this vivid image in my mind of dawn becoming a photographer and i have no idea where it came from but that would fit well with the reporter stuff and she could be a photojournalist! but I also see her being interested in fashion photography and doing all of destiny's glamour shots and stuff so that's her hobby that does outside of work .and she NEEEDS to be an obnoxious twee amateur photographer living in NYC she deserves it she's earned it !!!!!

triana's probably an accomplished sorceress by now!! goddd i miss triana i just want her back. idk if she would move to new york permanently but she would come visit her dad and get to hang out with dawn again. and she's realized shes a lebian and they get back together PLEASEE? :3 im not really sure what she would do with her sorcery powers but I guess she could be a low level superhero? she wouldn't be interested in anything crazy like saving the world but she would have fun busting up low level bank robbers and classic stuff like that and she and jared could hang out. or perhaps she's available for hire and will do magic stuff for whoever

[cavesalamander]

My brief thoughts on this season of anime!

Just a quick review of the ones I’d recommend and/or keep watching. I managed to find all of the below on Funimation or Crunchyroll or Youtube!

Horymia: (Yes) This is looking to be a very funny romcom slice of life style anime, and seems to be a fairly good one! Had me laughing a lot. The Main couple are a nerdy quiet boy who’s actually dumb as a sack of bricks using his disheveled appearance to hide his tattoos and piercings, and a popular pretty girl who’s actually a total homebody. Their friends seem to have a lot of potential to be fleshed out as the series progresses and I look forward to seeing how it goes!

So I’m a Spider, So What?: (Yes) Whooo another isekai (excited)! This time a girl and her entire class!? Get isekai’d in a massive explosion. The main character reincarnates as a trash monster in a dungeon and must fight her way up the food chain just to survive. Meanwhile her friends who have mostly reincarnated as Cool Humans or the occasional elf or baby dragon, have mostly found each other, and want to figure out what happened/why and if they’re all okay. It’s genuinely pretty funny, though leans a little too hard sometimes on the gamey aspects of this new world. I think it may get darker as it goes along too.

Mushoku Tensei: (No) Whooo another isekai (derogatory). 34 yo old man gets reincarnated and uses his worldly experience to Learn Magic Fast and creep on his mom and prepubescent tutor. If you can stomach that stuff, it actually has a fair amount of potential? It did set itself up to touch on some interesting stuff down the road, but I’m kind of Over the horny toddler/young boy trope and it kinda just seems like the protagonist is Just Awesome At Everything but not in a remotely charming way.

Cells at Work Code Black: (Yes) If you liked Cells at Work, this is that but dingier, and is able to tackle some darker themes - like what stress, smoking, drinking, and probably eventually STDs can do to your body.

Kemono Jihen: (Yes) I don’t wanna explain TOO much about the plot of this one because it looks to be a mystery series, and the first episode sets it up the characters very very well. A man from the city is called to a rural town where animals are being mysteriously killed and found rotting. He’s tasked with finding and killing the perpetrator, assumed to be a monster of some kind. It does the horror very well, and even in the first episode manages some twistyness.

The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter: (No) Even for a blatant fan service anime this one is just......... stupid. It might have a scrap of joy to it if the protagonist were anything other than a boring sycophant. His harem just all seems to be random girls who’s singular personality traits are to be in love with him in various stereotypical ways, that he just uses to min max his Cool Stats. But like, it’s not even self aware enough to make that into an interesting premise.

Sk8: (Yes) It’s a racing anime that seems super stylish and fun and very well animated. The protagonists have some cool chemistry already, and it really leans into the Underground Illegal Racing part of the fun - all the various characters who battle in death defying races through this abandoned mine, all have seemingly ordinary day jobs. Definitely worth a shot if that sounds up your alley.

Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies moved to a starter town?: (Probably) Okay so the premise is just there in the title and is actually pretty fun. Think: a random NPC who is considered pretty weak where the monsters are lv 50 moving somewhere where the monsters are scary at lv 5, shenanigans ensue. The MC boy is hilariously oblivious to the fact that anyone with a shred of sense can see he’s insanely over leveled to the area, and just trying to be nice and polite to everyone ^u^. The tentative nature of my recommendation is that it is kind of leaning harder on the Girls are Obsessed With Him train than is ideal. How much it depends on that as opposed to utilizing the premise to its fullest extent will have an enormous bearing on how fun the show is to watch going forward.

Ex-Arm: (Absolutely not but yes) It’s a fucking train wreck.

Heavens Design Team: (Yes) God decided to outsource creating animals to a team of angels, and works as a client giving weird ass requests for the angels to fill. Hilarity ensues, and it is peak edutainment to boot. It’s so much fun learning weird shit about animals, or trying to guess the animal these seemingly random train of failed attempts leads to.

Dr. Ramune -Mysterious Disease Specialist-: (No) It has a promising premise and some good moments. The main characters are solving these weird “diseases” that people get by finding the actual emotional cause and using magic of some kind to monkey paw it into a resolution. This could be really fun and interesting, but something about the execution just... falls flat? Like maybe it picks up as the season goes on but for now it’s not rly worth it.

Vlad Love: (Yes) I was going through the list of anime this season and was like wtf is this and literally just now watched episode 1. It’s about a girl with a blood donation kink and her vampire girlfriend. Literally. It’s rly funny and over the top ridiculous but like, gay vampires.

Back Arrow: (No) It’s like... fine. It’s about these two warring kingdoms surrounded by a wall with a mountain range between. They worship the wall as god, and occasionally get gifts from beyond it, in the form of mech suits they use to fight each other in. One day a boy shows up from beyond the wall in one of those suits and no memories of anything and he wants to get back. Which... could be promising I guess? But something about the show just didn’t grab my attention.

Skate-Leading Stars: (No) It’s like Yuri on ice if it was less gay and less well written I guess...? The first episode set up the Drama competently enough, but I just... couldn’t give a shit.

Project Scard: (No) For some reason part of Tokyo has been turned into a post apocalyptic hellscape where people just murder each other. They also have super powered tattoos and use them to fight each other. Animation is very similar to Handshakers - which is an Aesthetic that may not appeal to some. The first episode didn’t rly do much for me but I could see it going somewhere if it tries.

Wave!!: (No) Might have been a tentative yes if I hadn’t gone on and watched the second episode. First ep went hard with the queerbaiting cause they want to be the new Free! but with surfing, but Ep 2 just forgot all about that entirely. Dialogue is mostly boring and there’s like 3 sets, which becomes painfully obvious very quickly by ep 2.

Idoly Pride: (No) Literally looks like they ripped off the waifus of a bunch of other more popular anime and made an idol anime with the most basic ass idol plot. Nothing exceptional here.

Gekidol: (undecided) It’s an idol anime... set after a mysterious apocalyptic event? It’s mostly so far seemed intriguing as hell but not my jam. Mysterious craters destroyed parts of Japan, and its rebuilding and the MCs wanna bring light to the world. Maybe aliens exist? Idk! I’m intrigued.

I*Chu: (No) Another idol anime but this time it’s cute boys! Idk maybe this is a decent idol anime but it rly didn’t grab me and idol stuff isn’t usually my jam. I couldn’t tell anything exceptionally unique about this one from just the first episode.

WIXOSS Diva: (No, but) I don’t normally watch spin-offs of series but I didn’t realize until halfway into this that it was one cause Crunchyroll didn’t attach it to the core line. It’s like... magical girl battle idols in VR! Which honestly if you’re a fan of that it might actually be worth checking out.(edited)

Idolls!: (No) Another idol anime! But this one uses mocap 3d models. Phoned in plot line delivered by a weird tiki statue that tells the girls what to do. Seems extraordinarily low budget, and more just a way to sell music. The whole episode happened in a single set and  was basically just... girls want to make it big as idols... oh no... gotta book a stage! Yay they got one! Now must get an audience! Like... ok

Hortensia Saga: (No but) Sword and sorcery fantasy setting that’s mostly sword, main character is a princess masquerading as a male knight alongside the son of her dead parents’s also dead bodyguard. The first episode is very lore heavy and felt kinda like the prologue to a video game. So it ended up feeling a little expository and trope laden, but it has potential. Seems a bit Game of Thronesy? Wasn’t like... bad or anything, so if it’s your thing you might enjoy it.

Otherside Picnic: (Yes) I think it’s gay first of all, two girls going exploring / treasure hunting / monster hunting in a bizarre mirror world to their own. Girls are cute, it’s very interesting premise and writing seems solid.

Wonder Egg Priority: (Yes) It deals with some HEAVY themes? But it’s... a bit of a psychological horror but in a way that feels very like it’s dealing with some of the real life issues. The main character girl comes across as neurodivergent, and it’s just... idk man the first episode was good and left me wanting more.

[lordeasriel]

another batch of things i like in BBC’S HIS DARK MATERIALS

i’m here again to praise this unreleased masterpiece. this time is a long post, sorry 

- i get the feeling that opening shot is asriel’s arrival at jordan. regardless of that, the colours are even more beautiful than i predicted. they’re warm and vibrant but realistic and in a down-to-earth way. the sky seems iridescent, it really evokes the idea that, however similar that world might be to ours, it isn’t the same.

- i mentioned the outfits in my previous post on the teasers, but now we have more to go on and they are still beautiful! they really set nice and varied colour palettes for everything, it’s unbelievable.

- lyra is striking! i love how they keep her within her own age. again, she looks like a kid and dresses as such. you can see her different stages as the outfits changes. the floral (?) dress she wears in that Pan scene and the one where she is running inside a scholarly-like building feels very Jordan-like (I believe those scenes are in Jordan), and the bolvangar uniform still manages to make her stand out, even if it’s meant to make her mingle with the other kids. i like the greens and blues as the scenes approach the endgame of the story.

- pan is so cute, and also stuck in his two known forms: snow ermine and beetle lol jk bad wolf i love you, he looks fantastic!

- dafne keen was the right choice, i can vouch for that. she looks incredible, wild and realistic within lyra’s role.

- ALSO ROGER IS SO CUTE! that poor boy. he looks so tidy and unremarkable, in a sense, like he is a servant boy, but he matters so much to lyra that she is willing to go north to rescue him.

- marisa is looking regal af. the blue silk is outrageous, and there’s that staircase scene where you can see her in a red outfit (i’m going wild here and guessing that’s her because it’s a magisterium building, and there aren’t many women that could fill that place, so it’s like 95% certainty that it is her). the white nightgown was striking too. they really toned down her outfits in comparison to the movie, she has a more varied colour palette, with blues when Lyra’s outfit is red, then red when Lyra’s outfit is green/blue. she also looks more demure and frugal, it really evokes that deceptive aspect of her character, when she tries really hard to be a good servant of the church, but it’s a sinner underneath it all.

- also, instead of dressing her in golden outfits (which i think would have been complimentary (?) to her complexion, i guess) they chose to make her surroundings golden, as you can see in the golden monkey scene, and the gun scene. her house is in warm, yellow/orange/gold tones, which makes her stand out in her blue/green/white outfits.

- ruth wilson has such an uncanny beauty that i think it suits the character so much, it physically hurts me

- THAT SOLDIER SCENE!!! i will never shut up about this. there is so much power and meaning to that scene, and it really reminds of that Subtle Knife scene where she takes control over the specters. that was too much for me.

- also, lyra being more fancy and polished in her scenes with Mrs. Coulter, her hair silkier and brushed, her outfits sleekier, just like Mrs. Coulter’s. love it!

- oh boy, asriel, my man. he has like, two outfits, and they are quite simple, but he is a man of different priorities, so that kinda makes sense, i guess??? i mean, he doesn’t have time to dress nice, he probably own five identical shirts.

- but, i like how he looks wilder in the cabin scenes, as opposed to his jordan’s first look. it feels like he gets stressed as his research progresses, so he looks more worn-out (?). yet, that last shot, where is underneath the aurora, he looks more vibrant and vivacious, which also makes sense like, this guys has been trying really hard to do this and now it’s done and he is thriving and living his best life

- also mcavoy is a snacc, man. grey-haired mcavoy? also a snacc.

- STELMARIA!!! i lived my whole life to this point just to see that beautiful daemon and i was not disappointed.

- boreal: also a snacc, that was wrong bad wolf. that was wrong because he is creepy and messed up, and you want us to want him. wrong but thank you.

- he seems like he is bowing to someone at the magisterium (there is a huge M in the architecture behind him in that shot). also, while talking to @his-dark-memerials​ about the bird daemon, because Boreal daemon is a small snake,  we arrived at the conclusion his daemon is in his pocket, where his hand is at in the scene.

- lee scoresby, our mighty hero, looking like he needs a rest from this people’s bullshit. i loved the hat and the moustache, and HIS BALOON!! wish there was more for me to say though.

- oh yes, there is more to say about lee. WHERE THE FUCK IS HESTER?? last time i did this it worked, we saw roger, let’s try again

- the Master. oh boy, he really made an impression on me. he had like, one line in the trailer, but he did everything right, idk. he has that melancholia of an old man who’s seen so much and now has to deal with the fact he held power over nothing. like, what can he do? the Master is a character bound to his own place, and he kept Lyra safe for as long as he could, but he knew the day would come when he would be stuck between Mrs. Coulter and Asriel and he kinda just accepted it. yes, i’m going crazy.

- IOREK!!! i am so fucking impressed. like, super impressed. he looks nice and threatening, and REAL. he looks so real it’s crazy! how can he look so real? what kind of sorcery is this?

- ah farder coram, he looks a bit stockier than i imagined, but then again, everyone is younger in the show, so i guess it makes sense. he is also angrier which i like. wish we could’ve seen more of him, and john faa.

- i really like the modern ambient, the angular architecture. the gyptian Roping looks really good, very earthy and welcoming, there are so many people there, just like i pictured it.

- bolvangar is clean, scary and vibrant, which i love, it really makes you feel trapped in an underground facility in the arctic, which i figure, is the point. also the silver guillotine looks creepy and rustic and it’s HUGE like, terrifying huge style lmao

- the magisterium looks beautiful and powerful, with that clean aesthetic. it really gives us the bad vibes underneath the polished look. their zepelins are so threatening, their soldiers are threatening, everything from that unholy institution is threatening, like wtf, i’m scared again

- wish they would’ve shown us the witches though, i can’t wait to see them!