#season 1 vs season 4

[autumnmobile12]

Season 1 vs Season 4

[always-tilting-at-windmills]

Season 1 🆚 Season 4

[me-beef]

@strangeravatar made a great point

i was gonna focus on the spike-hotboxing-celestia aspect but i got distracted somewhere along the way and i think i forgot what joke i was trying to make

but dont you think its interesting how many guards of the exact same color/body type she's managed to accrue?? i do

ooohh you want to go look at our stickers so bad

[afterthelambs]

The more i find out about Piltover the more messed up they are, like what do you mean they control whether the undercity gets to breathe or have clean water. Season 1 made it seem like Piltover was just apathetic to Zaun, like they were just wanted nothing to do with the undercity. But this info confirms that they actively and intentionally make Zaun worse.

Not sure if it's deliberate but I see some real world commentary. How first world developed countries remain clean and sanitary by dumping their pollution and waste on the third world (which faces disproportionate environmental consequences considering how miniscule the third world's contributions are). It's a City of Progress that can only progress by stepping on the people beneath them, but the second they get pushback they act like theyre the real victim. Reflects real life pretty well, great worldbuilding.

[haletostilinski]

Best Teen Wolf Character: Round 1

[not-so-mundane-after-all]

Yeah no I am absolutely not crying over this. What? No. Pfff. I'm F I N E

[greenlovescats]

Okay but if I hear Kraang Subprime speak one more time I’m gonna lose it.

[yuripoll]

YURIPOLL SEASON 4 🥳

whewww this one took me a while. sorry fellas/fellettes.

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Matches under the cut!

10AM MATCHES

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou vs Only Need to Love Once

Iberis no Hanayome vs Love/Death

I Don't Know Which Is Love vs My Girlfriend's Not Here Today

I Love You So Much I Hate You vs LOVE-BULLET

11AM MATCHES

Our Yuri Started With Me Getting Rejected in a Dream vs "The Villainess" and the Woman Who Would do Anything for Love

Vengeance vs Love Vibes

Sukeban to Tenkousei vs My Dearest Nemesis

Sougou Tovarisch vs Joshi-man

12PM MATCHES

Whisper Me a Love Song vs Will We Live Happily Ever After?

Killing Me! vs Chemical Romance

The Princess of Sylph vs Sea of June

Even Though We're Adults vs Marriage as Friends

1PM MATCHES

Qualia the Purple vs Sora & Haena

The Girl Through the Viewfinder vs A Kiss for the Girls' Scars

The Two of Them Are Pretty Much Like This vs Subtraction Tautology

After Hours vs Saihate no Serenade

[therine-watches]

You: a Netflix Show & Book Comparison

The failure of a faithful film/book adaptation often runs in the anatomy of its chosen media, and while the Netflix series You, starring Penn Badgley, strays quite far from its original source, it’s an excellent example of a faithful adaptation. 

At its core, both Netflix’s show and Caroline Kepnes’ 2014 book You run in the same vein of stories: Joe Goldberg and his very-normal response to an obsessive crush. However, the similarity pretty much ends there, and each story takes an equally enthralling - albeit different - road. 

(This post is solely focused on the first book - and first season - of You!) 

Here are the main differences:

1. Book-You is much darker and sinister.

While the show is also narrated by Joe Goldberg, book-Joe dives deeper into his darker and creepier nature. Each page is crawled with his growing paranoia and attempts to justify himself, often missing large marks of redeeming qualities that show-Joe easily exudes along his charm. 

2. Joe Goldberg is a different character.

While both the story is a deep character study dive of a killer, the characters are simply written differently. While show-Joe is witty, charming, funny, and nice to kids, book-Joe is blunt, creepy, and unlikeable, not to mention lacking Penn Badgley’s charm and screen presence. Simply said, show-Joe is who book-Joe thinks he is; show-Joe is written to be altered into an anti-hero rather than a pure villain. 

3. The language, justification, and motivation.

While both characters commit the same nature of crimes, it is the attitude and justification that primarily separates the two Joe Goldbergs: while show-Joe is calculative and runs in the justification “for the better good” and is nice to kids, book-Joe expresses misogynistic language and impulsive behaviors. 

In addition to the main differences, here are the minor differences:

1. Paco does not exist. (Hence elaborating on the Point 1 that show-Joe is a difficult character to villainize because he’s so nice to kids!). 

2. Beck isn’t a broke student and there’s no creepy professor. 

3. Peach Salinger isn’t as suspicious of Joe. 

4. Peach dies differently (she’s thrown into the ocean) and Beck doesn’t dwell on her death as much as she does in the show. 

5. Joe never meets any of Beck’s friends; the hate runs similarly deep, but he only knows them through her hacked email conversation threads. 

6. Candace is dead; there’s a different girl named Amy Adam who later steals Joe’s rare book and is the reason why he goes to LA to kill her (surprise!). 

Both the book and show are exciting on their own; to sum it up the best, while the show is more plot-driven thus having a stronger reliance on audience tension, the book is a deeper and more serious dive into the complexity of Joe’s character as a villain. 

I would definitely recommend both the show and book; each is interesting for different purposes, and in the meantime, I definitely cannot wait for the release of Season 4. 

[kyouka-supremacy]

Sorta continuation of this, here's some observations on how the bsd anime adaptation rate (average of number of chapters adapted per episode) changed every season:

Season 1: 10 plot episodes + 2 ln adaptation. Adapts up to chapter 16. Average of chapters adapted per episode: 1.60

Season 2: 8 plot episodes + 4 ln adaptation. Adapts chapters 17-37 (21 chapters). Average of chapters adapted per episode: 2.63 (+1.03)

Season 3: 9 plot episodes + 3 ln adaptation. Adapts chapters 38-39 & 41-53 (15 chapters). Average of chapters adapted per episode: 1.67 (-0.96)

Season 4: 10 plot episodes + 3 ln adaptation. Adapts chapters 54-77 (24 chapters). Average of chapters adapted per episode: 2.40 (+0.73)

※ I opted out of counting the Hitori Ayumi OVA this time around, reasoning that the factors that play into conditioning the season episodes adaptation rate wouldn't have influenced the OVA given its nature of stand-alone episode.

Seasons 1-3 adaptation rate: 27 plot episodes, 52 adapted chapters. Average of chapters adapted per episode: 1.93

Season 4 adaptation rate compared to the average of all the previous seasons: 2.40 (+0.47)

Seasons 1-4 overall adaptation rate: 37 plot episodes, 76 adapted chapters. Total average of chapters adapted per episode: 2.05

That being said, let's try to guess how season 5 might play out taking in the previous four seasons adaptation rate of 2.05 as standard. Here's the fun thing: if season 5 is just 12 / 13 episodes of plot adaptation, that would mean adapting up to chapter 102 / 104. Coincidentally, chapter 104 (fukufuku flashback) is also the furthest in the manga plot that was shown in the last season 5 trailer. Feel free to draw your own conclusions, but as of now a new light novel adaptation seems positively unlikely and a Stormbringer adpatation basically impossible to make fit.

[sanpape]

It's actually a common misconception that Roy's (and Roy adjacent species) should be kept in blueish grey urban enclosures. While intermittent exposure to the odd skyscraper is fine (healthy even!) Keeping your Roy in an urban environment for too long can make them skittish and prone to biting.

It's very important that your Roy's enclosure contains an adequate amount of ostentatious nouveau riche furnishings to mimic their natural habitat.

[gleesongtournament]

Glee Song Tournament Round 2

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: March 30…

Star, who is still unfamiliar with the lingo on Earth, misunderstood when she heard that the Echo Creek football team is gonna “get slaughtered” and prepared a series of booby traps to protect them from the opposing team. “School Spirit” premiered on this day, 9 Years Ago.

[barry2018-2023]

bill hader was so cute before the pandemic made him old. sigh. no offense.

[ghastbutlikegay]

Omg you talked about 2012 TMNT and I suddenly remembered how much of that show I watched when I was younger,,, oh the nostalgia. I don't remember all too much from it now but I remember loving it. I've never watched rottmnt but like. I probably should if it's as good as everyone has been saying it is

honestly i only watched a little bit of 2012 as a kid, i was never super into that style/genre of cartoon so i only watched it if it happened to come on hjsdghj

rottmnt is SO good. it's very very different to 2012 in a lot of ways, but the art and the writing and the voice acting are all sososo good. the characterization for all the turtles is super different as well so if youre used to a snarky Raph and a. well. a Rob Paulsen Donnie. you might not vibe with Rise at first

but thats one of the things i really love about the entire franchise, each version keeps the core concept (four mutant turtles raised by a rat are trained to be ninjas) and most of the characters the same while also all being really unique and having different takes on all the characters. i enjoy this aspect of the franchise to the point that im making my own fan reboots and everything hjksdhg

the main reason i initially watched Rise was because i heard Donnie was really good autistic rep and i have to agree, ive never connected with a character this much before hgjsdhg hes also a really good example of low empathy imo, and i very much feel like my own experience with low empathy is being represented here

the art is something i see people complain about a lot when theyre coming from a background of watching 2012 or 2003, and i definitely felt like the art was kinda weird at first, but it's also so fun and striking and as you get used to it and start picking up on little details it gets better and better

a lot of classic TMNT villains dont make appearances in Rise, and the ones who do are WAY different to the older versions, but they also have a whole ton of new villains who are super cool and compelling as well (Draxum and Big Mama my beloved <3)

the movie can technically be watched as a standalone but i highly recommend saving it til youve watched both seasons because HOLY FUCKING SHIT. THE EMOTIONS. the scene that always makes me cry probably wouldnt hit me the way it does if i didnt have all the background of the seasons

notes on where to watch though: netflix has season 1 and the movie, but i dont actually know how to legally watch season 2, and the site i used for it unfortunately shut down so i can provide links :(

oh god this got really long can you tell tmnt has entered special interest territory for me

[the-physicality]

I can’t believe it has all come down to the fact that I must root against my beloved Houston dash to keep Portland out of the playoffs