#mel talks mob psycho 100

[danielpowell]

Honestly, it's incredibly frustrating to be a Dimple enthusiast and see some reactions from fans. Maybe I just overthink this guy, but...

I really love how they are portraying this arc and displaying his motivations ! Yes, from the start, Dimple is stated to want power and connections. However, the motivation behind it is also present and contradicts this.

Shigeo knows Dimple. He's been with him for quite some time and we've seen their relationship. He's constantly trying to drive Shigeo towards godhood, but he wants nothing to do with it. And yet Dimple keeps trying to convince him and keeps helping Shigeo.

To Shigeo, spirits are as close to him as humans. They make this very clear, and that's why it hurts when he's treated as lesser. Despite Dimple's schemes and abilities to manipulate others, Shigeo does not take him seriously. He flat out asks why he can't just stop doing bad things. He is familiar with the spirit, he has seen his attempts to corrupt others and he has seen him fail time and time again. He doubts that Dimple will succeed with his plan.

And that infuriates him. Dimple wants to be seen. He wants to be acknowledged. He wants Shigeo to recognize his accomplishments and see that he is capable. That he's visible and worthy. Shigeo constantly downgrading him is upsetting. He wants validation. He will go to great lengths to receive it.

Shigeo is mad at Dimple because of how he went about this entire thing. Deep down, he knows Dimple's true feelings and that's why he's disappointed.

There's a reason why Dimple wants Shigeo on his side, why he keeps trying to recruit him, why he keeps sticking around even when it doesn't benefit him, why he protects his loved ones, why he's scared of him, why he holds back, why he is always, always looking to this esper for support; and Shigeo knows this.

Dimple is wishy washy with his responses to why he is doing all this because what he wants isn't power. It isn't adoration. It isn't control. It never was.

All he has ever wanted was a friend. He wants to be accepted for who he is.

Shigeo is his friend.

And he wants to Dimple to finally admit this. Only then can he stop his behavior and turn his motivations into something productive.

Shigeo knows Dimple is better than this.

Dimple is the spiritual equivalent to Reigen and with that in mind, the Divine Tree arc is his Separation arc. This is when he develops and comes to a realization about his dynamic with Mob. The end of this arc is when they reach an understanding.

All along, Shigeo has known Dimple is a good person.

[beefyburgerbloggin9000]

HEY MY NAME IS MEL AND THIS IS MY ABT ME POST

My name is ✨𝓶𝓮𝓵 ✨ obviously

I have many hobbies such as drawing, reading, writing and gaming

My interest are talking abt my ocs, my favorite shows/fandoms, and animals

I am in many many fandoms and i will list them all

𝓖𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓼

Bad ice cream series

Minecraft

Roblox

Soul knight

Binding of isaac: rebirth

Polandball: not safe for the word

Dust: an Elysian tale

NyanCat: lost in Space

Dumb ways to die

Hungry shark world

papa louie games

𝓣𝓿 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝔀𝓼

The secret Saturdays

Invader zim

Generator rex

Resident alien

Final space

Gravity falls

Mob psycho 100

The saga of tanya the evil

Penn zero: part time hero

Monster allergy

TAWOG

archer

Archies weird mysteries

Scissor seven

Death note

saiki K

One piece

Jojos bizarre Adventures

heroes: 108

Growing up creepy

Ruby gloom

I like making new friends so feel free to dm me!!

[iamspacedust]

(screeching into the void) its mp100 hcs time baby!!!!!

when Sho learns that Ritsu has never owned a pair of crocs he goes croc shopping immediately 

Sho has a pair of light teal crocs

he buys Ritsu a pair of hot pink crocs

they go on amazon and order a fuckton of croc accessories

Sho claims the spongbob one

Ritsu doesnt really care which ones he gets so Sho does all the decorating 

until Ritsu sees the dory one 

he claims the dory one immediately 

Reigen also owns a pair of crocs but only cause Serizawa kept telling him how comfortable his pair is

theyre tie die coloured 

he only wears them when he goes somewhere with water though

most of the time he wears his Heely’s everywhere 

Teru has a pair of purple crocs

Mob has black ones

Teru bought Mob his because Mob would never get them on his own

Tome has several pairs of crocs for different occasions

she has custom ordered croc charms for her different crocs

this is essentially just pining gays buying their crushes Crocs™ huh

oh well

Teru and Mob like to try different ice cream flavours together

it starts during their first summer as friends when they start going out for ice cream when they hang out

and now its just their thing to try new ice creams together

Teru’s favourite flavour hes ever had is tiramisu ice cream

Mob likes strawberry the best

once they tried a hibiscus flavoured ice cream and both loved it

then the place thats sold switched it out for a new flavour 

que internal crying

when RItsu and Sho start to hang out Ritsu quickly learns that Sho missed out on a lot of his childhood

and in general he never learned how to do much other than control his powers

so Ritsu and Sho spend a lot of time doing things Sho missed out on

like going to amusement parks and playing in the crappy inflatable pool that the Kageyama’s never use anymore

Ritsu also starts teaching Sho how to cook more then instant meals

there are a lot of accidents in the kitchen

Ritsu’s mum doesnt mind when Sho is over but she bans them from the kitchen at her house

so now they use Teruki’s kitchen

Sho however has extensive knowledge of the internet and early 2000′s tv shows 

because when your dads plotting to destroy the world and your baby sitter is a psychic who doesnt want care for a child TV becomes your best friend

when he learns that Ritsu has never seen Avatar the Last Airbender he doesnt even say anything

he just sits there quietly plotting how hes gonna make Ritsu watch the whole thing

turns out he didnt need to think much on it

Ritsu watches the first episode and gets hooked

he loves Appa 

“why does uncle Iroh remind me of Reigen?”

Sho fucking looses it

[joecial-distancing]

2019 in review in review:

A few years ago I started tracking yearly goals, books read, movies watched etc in a year, along with overview blurbs, in private posts. End of 2019/beginning of 2020 I was really frazzled/burned out about a lot of stuff and just never finished up making the thing. 8 months later, got the urge to read back what I’d got done, then figured I’d maybe go ahead and see about finishing. 

Media tracking below the break. thoughts/blurbs written in 2020 italicized, 2019 not.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_____________________________~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Didn’t do so hot on explicit personal goals, but had a lot of stuff go ok around them this year.

School’s been fine/better than fine.

Job’s probably the biggest failing. Still with same job, haven’t made the firm moves to jump off, dragging my feet too much on exploring stuff w/ Columbia/NASA GISS.

Did not get better with covid, lol

Dating life still non-existent, but I’ve registered on apps, gotten more comfortable with selfies, improved general social life dramatically, been flirted with, updated my wardrobe, and generally started to get comfortable accepting that I’m a hot person.

Somehow got extremely better during covid.

Books

Grant (finished)

We stan a taurus legend

Guy was good at exactly one job, and was fortunate enough to have been in the right place/right time to get to do it.

Mort (discworld)

Definitely best discworld I’ve gotten to so far.

Don Quixote p. II

Really entertaining in a way that part 1 wasn’t; I was shocked how much the meta element landed for me.

Consider the Lobster (DFW collection)

had zero context on who DFW is/was when I read, and still don’t exactly tbh. Wanted to wait for a pause in The Discourse before diving into more of him, but dunno if I’m ever going to get that.

Crime and Punishment (revisited)

Weirdly didn’t get much more out of this than I did the first time I’d read it

Better Than Sex (HST Gonzo papers)

Xerox/widespread fax accessibility opening citizen access to mass media in a manner really reminiscent of what social media would go on to do at a much larger scale. Has a much more deliberate narrative arc than the other gonzo papers collections, also has that excellent HST richard nixon eulogy

The Brothers Karamazov

SPQR

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Didion collection)

Pet Sematary

Not my favorite King, but not bad

Sourcery (discworld)

still funny/charming, but Mort really made clear/reminded me how much the hapless sadsack Rincewind mold of protagonist wears on me after a while.

The Devil's Teeth

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Liked it a lot more once I realized it was doing a Fear and Loathing thing.

Homage to Catalonia

This should be the Orwell that gets taught in schools. Make it a followup to All Quiet on the Western Front or something, jeez.

Lyndon Johnson I

Having now finished all of them, this one’s probably the least-interesting but sets up a bunch of important context that the others still then feel the need to retread.

The Razor's Edge

Recommended to me as a “white guy discovers eastern mysticism” book, but also is more interesting in its treatment of that than I’d expected (helps it was written in the 40s). 

Cat's Cradle

There’s a part in this where Vonnegut’s making fun of people who try to bond with strangers over being Hoosiers, and my dumbass immediate thought was “ooh, Vonnegut’s a hoosier? Me too!”

Lyndon Johnson II

Robert Caro felt compelled to apologize for spending so much words lionizing Coke Stevens, segregationist opponent to Johnson’s senate run. His goal was pretty clearly to show lbj’s lack of campaign charisma by contrast, definitely definitely overcommitted in his own narrativising.

Libra

I want to go back to this after reading some more De Lillo.

Gravity's Rainbow

This book absolutely kicked my ass

Overstuffed and referential in a specific way that really keeps me hooked in instead of put off. When I learn about some piece of cultural context that I retroactively recognize as being referenced in this, I want to go back and reread the entire thing.

From Caligari to Hitler

Kind of fails both as film criticism and cultural analysis, but absolutely made me want to run for the hills when considering current relationship between mainstream movies and demands of pop culture.

I took a class on Weimar cinema in undergrad that I now realize was probably biting pretty heavily from this and never once referenced it.

Movies

Venom

Movie itself is not as fun as the Tom Hardy hype coverage. PG13 was the absolute worst space to aim for, PG- or R- versions of this could have been a blast.

Harryhauser Argonauts

Was tripping when I put this on, and it was all kinds of fun.

2001: a Space Oddyssey

First time seeing this, all-time classic for a reason!

A Good American (the NSA doc)

Dr. Strangelove

Mel Brooks History of the World p. I

Not my favorite Brooks, best joke was at the beginning.

In Bruges

Had been a while since I saw a proper dark comedy.

Spiderverse

Fukkin awesome!

Visually great, and extremely better than usual superhero stuff for being aimed at PG instead of PG-13.

You Only Live Twice

Highlander (Revisited)

I watched The Old Guard on netflix recently and it mostly just made me wish I was watching Highlander instead, because at least Highlander knows exactly how goofy it is

Moonraker

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Much like The Shining, I though this would have been 100% spoiled for me by cultural osmosis, but turns out it wasn’t, and even the scenes I had seen *totally landed* in-context still.

Kung Fu Hustle

Ichi the Killer

Really gross, really fun

Matrix Reloaded (watched thru highway scene) (Revisited)

The highway scene was not nearly as cool as I remembered it being.

John Wick 3*

Probably dumbest plot of all of them, best choreography. I like how every single fight had its own distinct flavor. “Knife museum fight” “horse fight” “halle berry dogs fight” 

Akira

A classic

Pet Sematary * (ugh, bad)

Why can’t john lithgow be in good movies anymore

The Revenant

MCU Spiderman

Fuck this was awful.

MCU Spiderman 2*

Really weird, complete Rorschach Test of a movie: it’d be totally valid to read into this that global warming is Fake News, for instance.

Lmao this was completely awful

Rites

Dredd (non-stallone)

oh hey Lena Headey’s in this

For All Mankind!

Watched in honor of moon landing anniversary

Lion King *

Watched it way too stoned, was like dark side of the moon + wizard of oz except instead it’s a lion king script reading + nature footage edited for lip syncing.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood *

Many scenes of very long setups for really stupid shaggy dog jokes, which sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t. I do kinda want to rewatch now knowing more about manson, which I knew pretty much nothing about beforehand

Blowout

A good john lithgow movie

also I think I like travolta in things.

Lord of War

A Good cage movie

I like when Eamon Walker shows up in stuff.

Taxi Driver

A classic

Snowpiercer

Watched in a bar with only one speaker working, which is the correct way to watch. Weirder and funnier than I thought it was going to be, which still doesn’t make it good, but,

dbz big green dub

Exorcist III

Brad Dourif just tearing it apart

Deep Red (argento)

Suspiria (1977)

Watched the remake in 2020, which was ok, but nothing tops the Goblin score.

Elf Bowling

Thanks, Gnome

Parasite *

Interesting to me that this one seems poised to hang around people’s good esteem for a while

TV

FMA: B

Rick & Morty

Saw some episodes, generally pretty funny, some misanthropy that’s probably appealing to a certain type of teen al a something like House, but ultimately I don’t totally Get the intensity of discourse about it.

Leterkenny

Mob Psycho 100

One Punch Man

Deadwood

Watchmen

Only watched like half of it. Was playing around with a lot of hefty imagery/thematics, but didn’t really seem ready to rise above playing (tho also I feel like it’s weird on some level to *expect* them to rise above that in the first place)

Music

New Avantasia

HEALTH/ show

lol remember concerts

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard/ show

Just learned about King Gizz in 2019 and got completely obsessed with them. I don’t tend to expand my music selection very readily, and a lot of what I currently *do* know is old/inactive stuff, so it was/is incredibly exciting to have an active group with good momentum just immediately win me over like that.

Mistimed the edibles and ended up with a really good finale and a really long subway ride home.

New Yeasayer

Sad they split up

Steve Wilson Tull remixes

Aqualung’s a good album and the sound mixing’s kinda bad, so I liked this project.

Stonefield

Opened for Gizzard. Really good as studying music

Video Games

Civ VI: Gathering Storm

Hades

Turns out Supergiant’s design proclivities all work *extremely well* on a roguelike

Baba is You

Untitled Goose Game

Cute, if maybe a bit overhyped

finally fucking finished Pillars of Eternity

Had fun with it, but too long, and really dour for how long it is.

Pillars II

Kinda drifted off it eventually, but I do genuinely like that the flavor of the fantasy is colonial era rather than medieval.

There’s a Balancing Bastard Factions element where it’s like the writers are just being smartasses after a while. Having to go extremely out of their way to make siding with colonizers seem like a competitive option.

Pokemon shield

Cuphead

pisses me off, which was a nice outlet when I was stranded by flight cancellations during thanksgiving

Celeste

Also very difficult, but really easy to stay patient with, which is nice.

Disco Elysium

None of the discourse made me want to play this, but people talking about the mechanical stuff it did got me extremely interested. Mostly Delivered IMO.

Breath of the Wild

You can approach the nodes of the main quest in the order you choose, and the second one I chose made ninjas start fucking spawning everywhere when I’m just trying to explore, and there’s no way to make it stop. May go back to it one day.

Podcasts

Relentless Picnic Patreon feed

The treats really helped me start distinguishing individual personalities, compared to the regular eps.

Picnic Discord!

<3

FatT Counterweight

Fun, but also I think Mechs are not my shit.

FatT Spring in Hieron/ end of that particular world

8 months since I’ve last tuned into FatT. ah well.

Law School

He’s in everythiiiing!

You Must Remember This: Manson family

*There’s* the context

Misc.

Kindle train guy

Times Square sleeping guy + kids taking selfies w/ him

toddler singing along after Psycho killer (a, ya, ya ya, ya)

drunk and dragged to a drag show

Central park football family

Soft Steel Drum Subway Busker

Weird old lady going to grand central for oysters

2018 in review (cards):

MySelf (CC)

Self: Tower

Blocked: 10 Cups

Ethereal/subconscious: 8 Swords

Material: 3 Swords

Past: Justice

Future: Page Wands

Attitude: Sun

External: King Swords

Hopes/Fears: 5 Coins

Trajectory: High Priestess

Also Self:

Hierophant

7 Cups

7 Coins

Blind Spot:

(self & others): 5 cups    ||    (others not self): High Priestess

(self not others): Moon   ||    (nobody): 3 Cups

[melviships]

Tagged by the lovely @singingdeepinme to answer a few questions!

Name: Melvis, but just Mel is fine. Some even call me Ko.

Pronouns: He/Him/His, They/Them/Theirs

Favorite song: At the moment? Golden Train by Penguin Prison

Overall? Oooogh, that’s really tough. I rotate my music library pretty regularly? Toss up between Plastic Beach by Gorillaz and Infinitesimal by Mother Mother.

Current Fandom you’re interested in: I’ll be honest I don’t consider myself a part of fandoms? I have content I certainly enjoy and like talking with others who also enjoy it, but I don’t keep up with most ‘fandom’ related things. Hrm... Mob Psycho 100. Although, I’m getting back into Pop’n Music as well. 

Favorite Fandom: Mushi-shi. It’s kind of dead right now, but it still holds the number one spot in my heart.

Favorite game(s)?: Night in the Woods. 

It might be the most replayable thing, but I adore the artstyle, the minimal platforming, the humor, the characters, the minigames, the story, the setting- it all comes together to make this absolutely fantastic indie game that I hold dear. 

I have played Tick Tock and Space Dragon so many times. I still have yet to finish the tower. Gregg and Angus are my favorite route to play.

Highly recommend giving it a look.

Aaaand tagging literally everyone. Anyone who sees this and wants to do it- you are now tagged. Go forth. Reveal thyselves. Enrich the world with knowledge of you.

[danielpowell]

Like yeah... these are two different energies. Could you imagine a world where we got a serious looking Reigen ?

[danielpowell]

I'm never going to emotionally recover from this.

[danielpowell]

As much as I love Dimple, God Dimple is so funny. I know BONES has talked about drawing Reigen's "peachy bum" but they make slices at best. No cake here. I slap it and shatter my hand.

[danielpowell]

New trailer out for mp100 and THEY ARE DOING THE TELEPATHY MINI ARC

[danielpowell]

I wanna infodump about Dimple so bad lmao

[danielpowell]

Also since people are viewing me: Spamton has Dimple energy and I hope y'all see the similarities

[danielpowell]

Ah, by the way, if anyone ever has anything they’d like to talk about- shared favorite media, interests, or otherwise - my inbox is always open so feel free to drop in a message.