#it just tastes so evil to me

[nightmare8-420]

”ive had shit whiskey better than this” -J 2024, talking about melon flavored ramune.

[crimeronan]

ultimately i think the appeal of daniel and armand to me is that it's very much a typical dark romance storyline where the heroine is kidnapped and tortured by an evil monster but using her wits she manages to seduce him and make him emotionally vulnerable to her, because she is More Special and More Clever than all of his other victims, and because of this she enjoys a level of dangerous favor and protection from him, except in This version of the dark romance it's two toxic old men who both have the worst fucking personalities imaginable. who truly just fucking suck beyond measure. like no pun intended, they are Garbage, one is the actual literal immortal devil and the other is just kind of a deadbeat with no moral compass, neither of them is willing to work on himself and neither of them has ANY reason to want to rail the other as bad as they do.

and yet. There They Are,

[autismofficial]

time to make your choice only you can be the one

[trashmakerarticle]

Fanon vs canon tim and Damian

Damian: what am I doing,,, why do I wanna hurt you so bad,,,

Tim: ….

Damian: I’m supposed to be your friend,,, I just want to be your friend.

Tim: Damian I- I’m sorry.

Vs

Damian: why are you so ugly

Tim: why are you so annoying

Damian: go to hell

Tim: Alfred made pancakes

Damian: okay let’s go

[nonbinary-gaydonweaver]

forgot his gay little glasses but that's ok (I have gay glasses too it's nothing to be ashamed of hashtag pride)

some doodles I made while I was experiencing nightcore brain rot and also thinking about panty stocking anime

Obviously this is the original image (iconic, beautiful, stunning, masterpiece, should be in museum):

[jackass-jones]

Can we just talk about Trunchbull and miss Honey from the Matilda movie musical I think we should discuss-

[skunkes]

How do you feel about Dungeon Meshi (i think i spelt that right) getting more popular? I feel like i’ve only seen u post about it but now its popping up a lot more on my twt / tiktok

Mixed feelings! Glad it has an anime now and that ppl are enjoying it, because its really good!

I myself think its annoying when ppl are like "im gatekeeping x media bc its important to me 😡" so thats not how I feel on the other end. It has impacted lots of ppl so if it can get a bigger reach and impact more, thats good. ^_^

if i did not have the time or energy or resources to read it, I would've hated feeling alienated just bc it became a favorite media of mine after the anime came out

Its more like. Idk.

I know ppl who hope it gets Bigger for more official merch but I just don't want it to get Embarrassing ykwim.

I need it to not get so popular that in a few years I'm hiding the volumes from my shelf because its an embarrassing, beat to death thing thats present in every store, backpack, socks, sweater that looks like characters clothing, funko pops, etc. something i cant even enjoy anymore bc its been wrung dry and overexposed and misinterpreted, "of course u like it EVERYONE likes it!" and now I'm tired of it, and wouldn't want ppl to associate me with it LOL 🧿🧿🧿

[fuckmeyer]

I don’t expect a response to this as SPOILERS, but I just needed to share some thoughts and thanks!

I think this is one of the most fascinating chapters to date. like… Ed and Bella getting DOWN DIRTY in the bathroom, tearing up the tile floor ugh what a pleasure to play that scene out in my brain 😩 KEEEPPP GOINGGGGG with the sex stuff!!! I know it’s daunting but you’ve got such a gift!

Fuck off Tanya telling Edward he smells lovelier because he’s mated is actually so hot? Her casual flirtation toward him and Bella’s white hot jealously and Edward’s jealously at Eleazar even putting his hands on her, and their constant horniness despite the situation has me like gasping for breath and sweating LMAO. You’re really out here bringing uber sexiness to the vampire world and I LOVE YOU for it beyond measure!!!!! Also the talk of how the human experience is rather dull in comparison to the vampire’s, because their brain capacity is much greater and the depth of their emotions is much deeper, really makes you realize how fucked Edward is feeling 24/7!!! My poor sweet angel… I really pray Bella becomes a vamp in the end, they are just going to be so beautiful together (already are but.. yknow)

Love the scene of Jasper trying to penetrate Bella’s shield and the conclusion that she’s powerful as fuck. I am FREAKING for Jasper’s backstory in the next chapter. He is one of my absolute favorite characters in your stories. Also dying to know what evil shit Carlisle was up to back then….

As always, ever fascinated with the mechanics in that brain of yours. You’re breathing LIFE into me all the time

i'll be real with you, this mating bond shit is getting out of hand😩 smeyer was like "vampires mate super intensely & only once but i will never give u details & i am not taking criticism ty <3" & at first i was like "smeyer open the door we need to talk," but then SILLY ME the sheer HUBRIS i got from writing ITA i was like "ok smeyer if u won't open this door i will BOMB THIS PLACE TO SMITHEREENS by making mating bonds the sexiest animalistic polyamorous freak show ur mormon eyes ever seen, BELIEVE IT," and now every time i post a chapter i'm like "i am going to be sick, this is not your mom's Edward and Bella, if i post this chap all the readers will get up and walk out"

but SOMEHOW some of u have STILL not walked out on the freak show which is equal parts relief and anxiety-inducing bc i wish i could be like "well hehe this is the freakiest it gets folks! :)" but NO, YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THE HALF OF IT THIS IS ALL JUST THE BEGINNING YOU DON'T KNOW HOW FREAKY THIS SLOW-BURN FREAK SHOW IS GOING TO GET THIS IS NOT YOUR MOM'S EDWARD AND BELLA PREPARE FOR THE STORM MAGGOTS ETC

anyway i am fine and normal

[quietwingsinthesky]

i love that one of the things amara says about chuck is that he “always had terrible taste in men.” amara what does that mean. men didn’t exist yet. what are you talking about. were you peeking outside of your prison just to see how shit your brother was at picking up guys.

[cospinol]

winter 2025 isekai roundup!☆ this was overall one of the weakest seasons in recent memory and i'm glad it's over, but the wretched genre somehow manages to score a couple of passing grades (and actually includes my third favourite of the season). taste, bad, etc

i did promise at the beginning of this season that if ishura spent its whole second cour on prep work without approaching the tournament i'd blow this whole isekai up, but it seems like miss shiki's already stepped in to take on that responsibility and now i can comfortably give it a very solid passing grade! i think the key to this season's success is the relatively minor structural change of being split into two smaller arcs, which are much more digestible as little introductory pieces for their respective casts than last season's season-long lithia arc - the thing that ultimately brought down s1 by a full point was my disappointment at realizing that we'd spent twelve full episodes on introductions for a whole lot of dead characters. s2's arcs are significantly more economical, and now that we're further along in the story even the one-off character episodes are more satisfying by virtue of all connecting to other established characters or events. i really do hope we get another season; i'm willing to let it keep stringing me along with anticipation for the tournament at this point ´_`

also, i just preferred this season's character stories more on a basic level. the particle storm arc in particular has an extremely charming little group of absolute weirdos that it brings together for an even more charming climactic event; it also doesn't help that the 'protagonist' of that story is a white-haired former child assassin trying to clean up his life, voiced by mariya ise lol

immediately moving down into the 'shows with no intellectual value whatsoever' category, i'm also giving fugukan a passing grade purely on the fact that it has my favourite boy of the season in it!

a character arc tailor-made just for me ♡ he's cute, he's a damsel in distress, he's committing atrocities in a desperate bid to uphold his father's legacy, i don't need anything else in a character. it's so impossibly charming that the key conflict is his unwillingness to accept the protagonist's op skillz as a temporary solution to his domain's permanent problem, and the best solution the story can come up with is just for the protagonist to become the lord in his place; it's deeply unfair and plays out in such cute way on a character level, i'm a little bit obsessed.

i honestly don't care about anything else in this show but it's basic in an inoffensive way; the 'kicked out of the party' bit is only minimally present but (shockingly) leads to some character work for the protagonist that i actually enjoyed, and although the harem isn't anything to write home about the two main girls are charming. yuuri in particular is written as exactly the same kind of idiot as ein, in a way that made them feel really, truly compatible and i was earnestly rooting for them by the end. also, there's a (second) male character in the actual main harem... ok, i do like this show, i guess

i also kind of like re:zero, i guess...... i hate reviewing series that are known quantities to this extent but i promised i'd see it through in last fall's review post, so: this season was good because it had regulus in it, and going forward the series overall will cease to be good because it will no longer have regulus in it. fwiw the actual quality of this season (regulus aside, though there shouldn't rightfully be anything to say about anything other than him) was easily the strongest the series has ever been by virtue of having such a wide variety of non-subaru plot threads to pull on, but in the end that's also a weakness because in order to make room for other characters to do things it has to do away with subaru's timeloops (far and away the show's biggest overall asset) almost entirely - we're in the final/main loop by the third episode. surely there's a way to balance this better... i'll still return next season for julius moe, anyways

there shouldn't be anything to say about Bogus Skill <<Fruitmaster>> (stylized exactly like that) except that it has the funniest title in the history of anime, but overall it actually goes down pretty smooth. there clearly aren't many thoughts going on in its fluffy, saturated-palette head but it's nice-looking, airy and fast-paced, and once it splits the party mid-season it yields one perfectly serviceable action arc about how swords kill people but it's still okay to be a blacksmith(!), and one genuinely charming arc following the female lead's quest to hunt down and befriend the evil ballerina villain, which is where this show suddenly starts to really shine. lena's I Can Fix Her mindset is the true heart of this show and it pays off in a resolution that made me cry; i knew going in that dratena was the reason to watch this show but wasn't prepared for her to be the best girl of the season..

also per standard rules of engagement, 0.5 bonus points for sho hayami voicing the most maricore elf dad character possible in the finale!

service just for me and me alone thank you ^_^

i almost completely forgot to put magic maker in this review post lol but i think that, while it doesn't distinguish itself in any real way, it still deserves a basic pass. for more than half of its run time, the structure is at least a little unusual - protagonist is a young child working hard at his academics in order to invent magical techniques in a world that has magic energy but no control system. unfortunately what that means in practice is 6+ episodes of slow and painstaking explanation of the most basic element-based rpg magic system conceivable by the human mind; i respect the concept but it's actually excruciating spending so much time and detail on a basic-ass fireball spell, whose energy source is just basic elemental aura that is in the environment and whose activation technique is thinking about it really hard and having strong feelings in your heart. maybe this does something for power level enjoyers but it felt like pulling teeth to me

i do still think the show is overall fine, though; the character work with the sister is iffy at best, but when she exits the show halfway through the ensuing arc about resolving the magic epidemic she's fallen victim to has a structure that's actually pretty engaging, and a significantly better supporting cast. shion himself is nothing to write home about but i cannot say no to a boy hero voiced by megumi han, so it all works out in the end

i respect salaryman shitennou a lot more than i like it, but that respect is sincere with regard to the fact that the protagonist spends the whole series as a regular guy who solves business problems with his businessman skillset and never acquires any supplementary hax; this seems like a low bar because 'clearing fantasy scenarios solely with salesman charisma and personnel management skills' is the entire hook of the show but i was genuinely surprised that it managed to stick to it. unfortunately, dennosuke being really, sincerely, thoroughly just a regular average guy ends up being to the overall show's detriment because the odd-couple pairing with main heroine ulmandra does not work; he's written as significantly more level-headed and mature than your standard isekai protagonist while she's a goofy, exaggerated, childish tsundere taken to the furthest possible extent, and while i don't think either character is actually badly written, they feel as if they're completely on different planets at all time. although a lot of the series is devoted to their working together and supporting each other, it never successfully built a sense of compatibility/chemistry between them... i still don't understand what they ultimately supposedly liked (or even respected) about each other except that the plot required it, which especially stings because the second-place heroine sylphid is written as an adult intellectual equal with immediate chemistry with dennosuke. oh well...

also, for what it's worth, the plot does eventually run out of business problems that can be solved with business solutions, and the final arc is a boring monster stampede that our salaryman hero solves by becoming a genius military tactician. sigh

anyways if there's any overall takeaway from this season it should probably actually be that seiyuubait will out because i diddddd watch the entirety of arafou tsuuhan. no, of course it's never good or even passable in any way. i think a finger on the monkey's paw curled when at the beginning of the season i said i was disappointed that they were wasting junichi suwabe on such a boring standard isekai protagonist and i'd prefer it if he was one of the villainous asshole ones; it's still true that this guy is boring and standard in every way, but he is also the noncommittally selfish moral black hole type who allegedly just wants a quiet life with his harem but who can't actually get over the iyashikei line because the author doesn't know what a character behaving 'nice'ly even looks like, and also he fucks everything that moves. it's a nightmare and it looks terrible the whole time. i enjoyed exactly one episode and it was the one about clearing a bandit camp because it allowed me to briefly pretend that i was watching a completely different show. the things we do for love etc etc

it's still not the actual bottom of the barrel though b/c i also watched all of izure saikyou no renkinjutsushi and that one doesn't even have a seiyuu hook. it actually has no assets at all - the alchemy premise is a non-factor, protagonist cannot muster even a single character trait, most of the harem girls are insufferable (i won't even get started on the nadir that is the maid girl's running low self esteem gag) except for the dignified elf warrior who ultimately made me hate the show even more because the dedication the protagonist receives from her is so bafflingly and completely unearned. in theory i kind of like that the boilerplate of the moment is 'a bunch of other people also got isekai'd alongside me and they're all assholes/in the thrall of the asshole who summoned them' (it also cropped up in arafou tsuuhan, and another show i don't want to mention in this post) because 'asshole hero who dunks on the protagonist' is my favourite character type in the genre, but this show a) just copies tsukimichi's homework wholesale with the only modification being that b) the boy hero isn't even a little bit cute........? just an abject waste of time

anddddd for the 'things i actually dropped' lightning round, the only entertaining thing about aparida is that i guess guys are too fragile even for their reader-insert protagonists to get kicked out of the hero's party any more lol, they have to leave it by choice. i actually watched most of this cour because it did some fun stuff with the evil heroes' party (i especially like that the main guy is the protagonist's osananajimi) but then they all just got killed off and it announced it was continuing into a second cour, so that's where i cut my losses. next season is chock-full of that premise anyways, we are now on to greener pastures (ymmv)

[weaselweaselweasel]

Did you age?

This is. Cryptic.

Anon if you’re one of my 7 evil (not) tumblr exes please reveal yourself

[gedwimora]

seeing ppl reblog em's promo like

[getyinyusedtoit]

do you think people who believe fengqing has no basis or appeal would simply explode trying to read qjj?

[chunkofchange]

there are heartships / those guys again / this one doesn't have a caption. let's call it CROPPING / i don't want to be the sun i don't want to be the ocean i don't want to be the world

i thought it was redundant But that was the phrase that came to me