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do you think Crowley feels stupid for deluding himself into believing he was good enough for Aziraphale, that it was obvious Aziraphale would want to go back to Heaven given the chance rather than be on the same side as Crowley

do you think he considered Aziraphale’s offer to make him an angel again a pity gesture that Aziraphale knew he wouldn’t accept because he didn’t want to directly say he didn’t want to be with Crowley

do you think he envies Gabriel and Beelzebub for achieving what he’s wanted for so long in such a short amount of time

do you think he’s trying to forget everything, trying to convince himself that he hates Aziraphale, but the kiss keeps replaying in his head and the deep heartache of love comes with it

and do you think Aziraphale hasn’t thought of any of that? That he’s too busy panicking trying to figure out how he’s going to stop the second coming and save the Earth and, more importantly, Crowley? and when the thoughts finally hit him, will the pain crush him?

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realizing you're probably autistic has 2 parts

how did nobody notice i'm autistic?!

how did nobody notice my parents are autistic?!?!

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having a song you don't like but also don't hate stuck in your head is very annoying. you aren't helping your case buddy

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i saw a trailer for the silent hill 2 remake and honestly? i think the "bad" voice acting from the original was better. i feel like the new voice acting was trying to replicate that weird, off-putting monotone of the original, but just kinda fell short. it's still good, but the strangeness of the original just works better to me

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just saw a spotted lanternfly outside my house we are so cooked

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birthday freebies rule, i easily got $30-$40 of free stuff today, and that's not including the stuff i haven't redeemed yet

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i did watch elfen lied, and it was ALMOST good. like i have somewhat comprehensive thoughts on what alterations could be made to make it better, but i also kinda just wanna move on and not put that much thought into it

i will say that after the last episode i thought "a lesbian should have made this" and then i watched the special extra episode with more of lucy's backstory and i was even more convinced that the show needs a lesbian touch

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i was tagged by @emevergreen! man it's been so long

Favorite color: black, but also peachy pink and dark blue toned red

Last song: Suna no Oshiro - Kanon Wakeshima

Last movie/TV show: Pretty Cure! as in the first one, i'm not just being vague

Next on my watch list: not counting the things i'm watching that are still being released, maybe elfen lied

Last game: OneShot! i actually played it a long time ago, but that was a long time ago on a different computer

Sweet/savory/spicy: depends on my mood, but i do have a pretty big sweet tooth

Relationship status: like individually wrapped cheese, i'm single

Last online search: i was trying to find this image

Current obsession: hmm well always fire emblem, but also ISpy books and the song Unnoyosa-A by Lamaze-P, an old Vocaloid song nobody cares about lol

Greatest flaw: i am so bad at small talk i'm not even a conversation killer, i'm like a conversation hitman, specifically and especially if i don't know someone well

i'm not gonna tag anyone because i haven't used tumblr in so long i like. barely know anyone here anymore, but if you wanna do this go ahead!

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apparently snack pack tapioca pudding doesn't have tapioca pearls in it anymore. it's just vanilla pudding. why bother selling it if you're not gonna make it

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happy new year keep being a fucking freak

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idk seems legit to me tumblr

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So I watched all 4 series/seasons of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and I'm gonna map out my thoughts on all of them and rank them on the Weeb Ass Shit scale

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: 8.5/10 overall

Weeb 2/10 - Other than being a magical girl anime, there's not much you need to know about Japan or anime, and magical girls are more common in western cartoons now, so it ranks low imo

Ass 4/10 - There are panty shots and, unfortunately, a hot spring episode, both of which are made worse by the main character being 9, but the worst part imo is the magical girl sequence going out of its way to show her regular clothes coming off before the new outfit goes on. Lots of magical girl anime have Vague Nudity during the transformations, but this feels extra weird

Shit 2/10 - I would say there aren't many major plot holes or instances of bad writing, I really enjoyed the story, and it used the 13 episodes it had wisely, getting straight to the point. Not telling the viewer Nanoha's fake, non-magic explanation of why she's going away is the only thing that jumps out as lazy writing, but it doesn't really matter anyway since she explains for real in the end. There are a few one-off remarks about Nanoha's family that I initially was like "ok, not gonna explain that?" but then I remembered this is technically a spinoff of Triangle Heart, so those were probably added for Triangle Heart fans, not new viewers

Season 1 was an intriguing story that drew me in pretty quickly and one that could honestly stand on its own. I remember finishing episode 13 and thinking "what could possibly come after this, that seemed like a solid story to me!" It may seem odd to think "I don't really need a follow up season on this good anime," but the alternative comes up later. I think this was my favorite season, partly because Yuuno was a main character and he's my favorite. Pity me.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's: 8/10 overall

Weeb 3/10 - I don't have many specific examples, but I feel like this season had more anime tropes/Japanese culture in it. The only example I can really think of is Hayate bathing with Shamal and Vita, but I made a mental note after watching that the weeb ranking was higher

Ass 4.5/10 - Same panty shots and weird transformation sequences as before, as well ad aforementioned bathing. There was also another scene where a monster with tendrils or whatever grabbed Signum and her boobs got squished by it. You know what I mean.

Shit 3/10 - This was another really solid plot, and again it used its allotted episodes well, but I feel like it wasn't quite as good as season 1. Plus it had Hayate's paralysis heal after the Book of Darkness was destroyed, which is a dumb trope, but I don't dock more points for it because the book was causing the paralysis to begin with, and it didn't vanish overnight at least.

I didn't like this one as much, especially at first, but I really liked Nanoha getting more involved with the Bureau and official magic business, and I somehow didn't see the twist at the end of Graham and the Liese twins being part of the problem. Loved the peak 6 years ahead at the end where everyone's older, and Yuuno getting teased about "making process" with Nanoha was cute (and painful in retrospect, RIP Yuuno idk why the writers shoved you aside so hard). I once again thought "that was a great story with a solid wrap-up, what more could there be?" and yet there was more.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS: 7/10 overall

Weeb 3/10 - Anime battles, power levels, pupils aiming to surpass their mentors, pretty standard anime fare that's easy to understand, if you saw Dragonball as a kid you get it pretty much, and we're not in Japan anymore Toto, so don't worry about that

Ass 5/10 - Same stuff as before, including a weird, OOC scene where Subaru wakes Teana up by... groping her boobs. It was so out of place I almost had to make sure it was the same anime. Also, a 6 year old girl transforms into an adult woman à la Black Lady, and watching a grown woman in a vacuum sealed bodysuit with boob socks cry and act like a 6 year old is SUPER weird. At least Black Lady didn't act like Chibiusa...

Shit 4.5/10 - Wouldn't it be dumb if you named an anime after the main character, then divided focus between her and a new cast of characters so she's barely the main character anymore? Yeah, it was dumb. I like the idea of showing how Nanoha has matured by having her become a mentor to a new generation, but removing the focus from her so much was... idk, not what people were watching for? Also taking the really cool sci-fi magical girl anime to a more politic/bureaucratic place with power struggles in the Bureau was A Choice, but there were still plenty of cool fights, so it's fine

Remember Yuuno? The writers did for 2 whole lines of dialogue. Anyway, petty grievances aside, this season grew on me slowly. I didn't like Subaru and Teana much at first (loved the episode where Nanoha blasted Teana with a huge magic beam then Signum punched her later lol) but they moved up to Fine by the end. I passively wondered why all of the combat cyborgs were women, then they dropped the "all of us have a genetic copy of our creator in our wombs in case he dies" shit and I wished I was dead. Weird shit aside, I liked it overall, and, ONCE AGAIN thought "yeah, this would be a satisfying place to end this tale!" and I was right that time.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid: 3.5/10 overall

Weeb 5/10 - This is An Anime alright. Training camps, hot springs, sports tournaments, we've got some prime examples of Anime here

Ass 6/10 - I'm tempted to rate this higher, but I feel like if 10 is hentai then any higher than this is too much. But there's a lot more sexualized bullshit here. I was literally 28 seconds into an episode and Fate's clothing got shredded, SPECIFICALLY on her chest, during a mock battle. We've got double the kid-to-adult boobification sequences, and we've got a 14 year old nun with battle underboob. Can't forget sexual harassment of a 10 year old at the hot spring!

Shit 7/10 - Don't watch this. You know how I praised the others for being complete stories that used their 13 episodes well? NOT VIVID!!! The first half of the show was just putzing around and introducing Einhart, a convoluted character with a dumb concept and confusing motives (she explained them many times and I still don't know wtf she wanted). The second half got into the only thing that was kind of interesting, the magic/martial arts sports tournament thing, and THEY DIDN'T FINISH BECAUSE THEY RAN OUT OF EPISODES!!! They got to episode 12, didn't even try to finish, and used the 13th 23 minute slot as a RECAP EPISODE to, idk try to drum up interest for a season 2? Didn't happen, because the show was ASS, so if you cared (I don't, I considered not finishing after every single episode) you can just read the manga I guess I'll say it again, don't watch this. First of all, if Nanoha being the protagonist only part of the time annoyed me, imagine how much I loved her being a background character. Also, you know how magical girl anime are about fighting to save the world and stuff? And how one of Lyrical Nanoha's draws was the really cool sci-fi magic battles and the repeated reminder that Nanoha was putting her life on the line as a 9 year old, making the show somewhat darker than other magical girl shows with protagonists that young? What if we made it a slice of life sports anime where a group of kids tries to get stronger and win the sports tournament against tough foes! Fucking yawn. When you go from a kid learning how to output strong magic without killing herself to a bunch of kids playing the water and practicing "cutting water" you have to wonder where you went wrong

Unrelated overall thoughts:

It's probably not intentional, at least in the way I'm interpreting it, but the gender in this show is pretty delicious sometimes. LOVE when Intelligent Devices refer to their female users as sir, specifically Bardiche calling Fate sir is very good to me. Also a big fan of Olivie being called a king instead of a queen. A lot of girls in ViVid have typically male names, like Einhart, Harry, and Victor. Also Otto is a trans man, he told me himself.

As you know, Nanoha is well known for having two hands- one for Yuuno, and one for Fate. The show directly implies Yuuno likes Nanoha and less directly implies she also likes him. The show also makes Nanoha and Fate really gay, but not "overtly" (other than both being Vivio's moms) because homophobia. Which is more canon? Both. Why? Here's a diagram.

As we can see, Vivio, Nanoha's child (I know she's adopted, that's not important here shhh) represents both Yuuno and Fate. We can also see that Nanoha loves blonde people.

As for the movies, I think season 1 was the better telling, but I honestly preferred the 2nd movie's telling of A's plot. Something I HATED!!! about both movies was the WEIRD lighting/shading choice for Nanoha's/Fate's chests that emphasized their nipples??? SO weird, I literally did a fucking double take every time that showed up.

TL;DR Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is good! Ignore ViVid

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just saw someone say listening to stronger than you from steven universe "unlocked a childhood memory" i'm gonna die of old age

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i like asmr videos but every time youtube recommends one that's like "pay ATTENTION to ME | ADHD focus ASMR" i get one step closer to wiping the concept of asmr off the planet

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no offense to bram stoker but i thought the actual killing of dracula would be a bit more... yknow... big? important? not just "they killed him he died and everyone amen'd"

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Hey y’all! I know I haven’t been super active on here, but I’m here to say I opened up commissions! College is crazy expensive, especially since I live in a big city, so I’m doing this to earn money for non-essential stuff! 

I’ll probably only ever do ~10-15 at a time, but who knows