#op spoilers ish /

[reineyday]

so happy they included rengoku in this shot!

[ariadne-mouse]

Vesta: the Mothers Merciful are peddlers of pseudoscience and they probably killed my sister

Mothers Merciful: *appear suddenly, inexplicably, in the same room* heard you were talking shit

Mothers Merciful: also your sister is fine. anyway, we're here to help

[cyber-streak-2]

Earthspark Shockwave, Earthspark Grimlock and Earthspark Optimus accidentally hurting their Cybertronian SO (very badly)while they're under Mandroid's control.

I couldn’t manage to think of anything for Shockwave, sorry. For anyone who doesn’t want to be spoiled, both have a bit of spoilers- so it’s up to you if you want to read.

(TFES) Optimus Prime & (TFES) Grimlock with a Cybertronian S/O that they hurt while under Mandroid’s control:

Optimus Prime

{After everyone was brought back, there was a long moment of relaxation and an explanation for the Prime and the others as to what happened- when Optimus realized that he hadn’t seen you yet.}

{He went searching, and it didn’t take him too long to find you- you were back at the Malto’s. While you did leave with the others after the whole badge thing, you ended up returning- not knowing that a controlled Optimus (or the others) were going to suddenly awaken and attack.}

{He’s... concerned- why wouldn’t he be? When he gets closer, he can actually see all of the damage, which includes some missing limbs. Although... you’re alive. (Well, you just got brought back along with the others, but he wants you to stay that way).}

{He’s immediately trying to help you (it’s an unfortunate time to not have an actual medic), while trying to keep you awake- which includes him asking what happened/who had done this.}

{When you manage to point at him, Optimus frowns, and his finials lower. He never wanted to hurt you, but he was under control, he knows that... but it’s still upsetting- your his lover, he’s not supposed to do that, to anybody.}

{When you’re in a much more stable condition (somehow, despite them not having a medic), he’s already been visiting you before and after you wake up, the others included every now and then.}

{While recovering, you two will sit and talk- about the recent events, and other things. You’re quick to tell him that you forgive him, trying your best to reassure him.}

{Cuddles every now and then while recovering.}

Grimlock

{When he wakes up again after all of them get saved... he immediately remembers what happens. He couldn’t control himself, but he could still hear and see everything that’d been happening- like your screams.}

{He’s always been terrified of hurting others for one reason or another without meaning to- including you- so he doesn’t really take it that well.}

{When you eventually wake up, you’re repaired well enough, and in the little medbay. Some of the others are with you, but you don’t see your Conjunx.}

{That changes, though, when you watch Elita 1 leave, and shortly return with Grimlock, who must’ve been off doing... something, he seems upset, but you don’t say anything, not yet, at least.}

{Even when you do start to say something the first couple of times, he simply brushes it off, telling you that “I’m fine”, or something along those lines, and changing the subject.}

{Eventually, you figure out that he’s... scared that he’s going to hurt you again- he may not be under that control anymore, but he could potentially still do it from another reason.}

{You sit there with him and have a gentle talk with the Dinobot, just trying to reassure him.}

[dbphantom]

Love that Bonney unlocked Gear Third before Luffy did

[oh-warizoro]

Oda, during a very intense chapter: Btw Vegapunk invented instant coffee. Figured yall would like to know that.

[thunderon]

mmmm javi dying in place of nat (who drew the queen) and the girls all taking it as a sign nat was chosen to be the antler queen + shauna saying ‘it should have been me’ + adult nat dying in place of adult shauna (who drew the queen) = new antler queen shauna?

[buryam-soul]

I might be at least 80% projecting, but there's something interesting about cynodace and their disconnects with (parts of) their cultures.

Candace mentions in one of her voicelines that her father was an Akademiya scholar. Y'know. From the rainforest. But he was ambiguously mentioned in past tense (we only know for certain her mother died when she was born) so who knows how much he taught her about the rainforest's culture. And she rarely had the chance to leave the village too; most of her pre-AQ contact with the forest seems to be merchants.

Cyno was briefly raised in the Temple of Silence but says his memories of that time was hazy. Given that Cyrus didn't even tell him about the Temple much less that that's where he's from, I doubt he passed down any desert stories/traditions that are specifically from the Temple (which Cyrus had to know plenty about given he lived with them for years). If Cyno ever got curious, he didn't have specific leads that would've gotten him very far either.

Candace likes to buy trinkets from merchants -- including identifiably rainforest things like bracelets with Kalpalata engravings and pendants with Akademiya emblems. Cyno's Mahamatra headpiece -- very obviously Hermanubis imagery inspired -- was custom-made according to his requests, presumably based on what little he remembers of the Temple. They may not actively say it, but I think they yearn for the parts of themselves they never got the chance to know.

And I like the idea that they could know these parts through each other, even if Aaru's traditions and the Temple's are not quite the same; even if Candace's father might've been from one of the villages instead of the city like Cyrus; even if nothing exactly matches one to one. They'll teach each other what they can anyway. Maybe they'll find what they're looking for, maybe it'll be close enough. Maybe feeling that something about you is forever missing will get easier when you're sharing it.

[gammija]

het is bijna irritant hoe toepasselijk de vertaling van 'Face your Fears' is.

"Zie je angsten onder ogen."

[kingvoiddd]

SHITPOST!!!

BUT!!

last night I had a goofy idea of "what if you were in one piece?" And my brain came up with this, just my defense carrying around paint and I just fucking blast that chemical shit into poor Doffy's face. Tho realistically I'd be like Usopp and be a fuckin COWARD

But I found it funny when I came up with it just

"we got 30 seconds RUN!!!!!" LIKE as if thats gonna do anything LOL

(Realistically my ass would have been grass if I seen Doflamingo in person, Idealistically I want my ass mowed by him----) anyway

[scribbyizhere]

h,ello do you want to talk about the emphasis on the moon and sun in Wano with me. do you

[chimerafeathers]

[personal opinions about dunmesh op 1 vs op 2 visuals, mild namedrop spoilers below]

tbh while i liked the first dunmesh op’s song a lot, the visuals REALLY didn’t do it for me in terms of establishing tone, character, overall plot or vibes of the story…

almost half of it is static or minimally animated images, and the first section of the giant characters standing stoically with eyes closed in various landscapes does very little to convey anything meaningful about them as individuals or their role in the story. like, i could see that imagery for a more low-key ED, and i think it would work really well. (i'd never replace Ryoko Kui's art from the EDs, but in a different universe where they had a more standard animated approach.)

but for the first op, that’s supposed to set the tone and hook you on the world & characters….ehhh. especially since Kabru, Namari, and Shuro/Toshiro are featured equally to the main party, but Kabru and Namari get very little screentime in the first cour, and Toshiro gets even less and is barely even mentioned. meanwhile, there's only one food/cooking-related shot right at the end. the biggest focus of the first arc is barely present in the op.

they spend a huge amount of time just kinda teasing characters that won’t be properly featured or introduced for a while yet—shots of the Canaries, Toshiro's party('s legs), Thistle, the Winged Lion, are all exciting to see *as a manga reader*, but they feel out of place for the first op. the first arc primarily focuses on our main party and their interactions with the dungeon itself and the monsters within it, and, you know, cooking.

the main party's personalities, monsters, and food. those 3 things were either severely underrepresented or completely absent from the op 1 visuals, and i really felt their absence more and more as time went on.

2nd op on the other hand......love love love. WAY better representation of the characters and what the show is actually about! there's so much more humor and personality, it showcases the camaraderie of the main party, it flips back and forth between the party hunting/gathering ingredients to cook and BECOMING ingredients that are getting cooked, there are so many more monster designs and interactions, it still manages to show off upcoming characters and designs without detracting from the overall feel or focus.....it's EXACTLY what i was hoping for from the op switch so i'm absolutely thrilled!!

i like the new song, but i have less to say about it specifically, other than the visuals being timed to it really nicely. i could be wrong but i feel like people who are "meh" about the new op maybe just care about the music part, or at least weigh it more heavily, whereas i'm somewhat the opposite. it's hard for me to imagine someone comparing just based on the visuals and thinking that this:

somehow matches the tone and vibe of the show better than this:

but, people have different perspectives on things, so there probably ARE people who genuinely prefer the more solemn and mysterious atmosphere of op 1 visuals to the more “cutesy” op 2, even if i personally think they feel out of place for arc 1.

to be clear, none of this is to say the visuals are *bad*--i have the stitched image of Laios (& co) and Falin (& co) reaching towards each other as my phone background--just that i felt like they emphasized the wrong things for this first arc, and were maybe better suited to an ed.

i'm really, really happy that op 2 completely fixed every "issue" that i had with the first one!

[ariadne-mouse]

Xen bringing all that wonderful and vulnerable emotion to the table for Jacob's confession that he's afraid he won't be able to keep Fiona safe on the mission - stop, stop, we've already adopted him

[rigels-nigels]

The face of despair

[oh-warizoro]

I'm in love with Saturn's nose job

[torchickentacos]

Reasons I should/should not be allowed to name everyone's pokemon: a list that could be viewed eitehr pro- or anti- me nicknaming things.

-Lasagna the Makuhita

-Blink-182 the hoppip (hoppip. mark hoppus. Blink 182. yeah)

-Pete Wentz the toxicitry. Immensely funny when the game tells me i'm sending out my trusty partner pete wentz. I didn't even plan on keeping him on the team tbh, hence the shitpost name, he was SUPPOSED to immediately go to a box after the water gym, but turns out he stuck around and now I just ended up with the fall out boy guy on my team.

-Enoby the Gothitelle. Enoby Dark'Ness Dementia Way did not fit. My Immortal better last longer than the source material.

-Steve the Skeledirge. Steve Irwin you're a legend

[quailfence]

[Image description: A drawing of Phoenix, Apollo, and Kristoph from the game Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney re-creating the Anne Hathaway Twelfth Night poster. A shocked Apollo is in the center. Pheonix is on the left, leaning up to kiss Apollo on the cheek. Phoenix is holding a sword. Kristoph is on the right, leaning into Apollo’s shoulder. He holds the other end of the sword, with blood on his hand. The background is black, with a yellow spotlight shining down on Phoenix and Apollo. End description.]

@aa-described @aceattorney-described @polyamships

turnabout trump dot jpeg (Apollo is standing on a box ok)