#sit down and stfu

[freyaswolf]

For some people, it will never be enough. They will always find fault no matter how hard you try.

[dorkylittleweirdo]

The new students are already pissing me off bad lmaoo

[whatsitzface]

Fuck every percy jackson "fan" who is still complaining about percy & annabeths HAIR COLOURS being different then in the books. I hope Nico is blonde so that all of you cry and scream like fucking toddlers

[mossy-paws]

Coroika Splatoon but it’s PHIGHTING! Roblox

Hi to my Coroika and phighting fans so how are we feeling about this one

cooked these up in a few hours! These honestly didn’t really take that long at all and were really fun to do since I got to play around with some charcoal brushes (I love doing everything in my power to NOT use midtones lmfao).

I tired to mimic the style of the manga a bit and I think i did relatively okay! I have a lot more of these planned so yeah >:3! Really excited to get to do them sometime

Og Panels:

[news4dzhozhar]

If Germany were as committed to standing against genocide as they claim, they'd be supporting Palestinians. 90 year old guilt has then enabling the very thing they are supposedly trying to prevent. I guess "never again" was just a slogan. What would their defense case even look like? Just claiming for hours that Israel can do whatever they want because of WWII?

[crazylittlejester]

Wars seems like his taste in men would either be ATROCIOUS, like he shows everyone he knows who likes men a photo and they're like 'dude wtf eww', or the most generic ass guys ever

(In an affectionate way because we love the fabulous disaster)

i don’t know if you mean just in general of for my modern au but oh god yeah

i think regular non au Warriors is slightly less interested in finding relationships at this point so men really have to be something special if they wanna impress him in any way, but when he was younger the poor guy was really falling for the most generic “is he gay is he straight i can’t tell” men alive

my modern au War keeps falling for hockey guys and then will drop to his knees and scream about it, and he makes Twi promise him not to let him go on more than 2-3 dates with a hockey guy because it’s just never ended well for him. he wants a skater bf but it just never works out so he keeps telling himself no more hockey boys and then it’s like that one “im BACK in the FUCKING building again!!!” audio. he’s just immediately drawn to people he can be competitive with, and that’s why it doesn’t work out because they both get too into the competition and then neither of them will back down. sports players and competitive people are just the kind of guys he needs to Stop falling for, not that it COULDNT ever work out, it just Hasn’t yet for him and he’s had a handful of official bfs and even more dates to prove that for him it just doesn’t work (he needs someone who’s personality isn’t as big as his is otherwise they’ll clash horrifically. he needs to be able to be the biggest diva of the relationship /j)

[sea-buns]

Right, I thought Adaine's teacher seemed kinda cool but she has very quickly also been added to the shitlist. This episode is ROUGH.

[akimojo]

every time i see people shit on ffxiii in 2023 i just

PLEASE replay the fucking game and look at how well it aged i am BEGGING

[nyxi-pixie]

desperately wanna make an oc acc to yap more abt them but its too much effort to do neatly and im lazy

[sad-endings-suck]

Blue Eye Samurai: regarding Mizu’s “plot armour” or her “ridiculously over-powered” abilities.

“Mizu is way too overpowered, it doesn’t make sense.”

I feel like a lot of people don’t realize just how much the mind over matter mentality plays a roll in Mizu’s “abilities”. Mizu isn’t the best because she’s physically the strongest, or had the best training, or the most experience, or whatever. Mizu is the best because she has single-minded focus and immense tenacity that borders on psychotic due to how intensely dedicated to revenge she has been for almost all of her life. All the years she spent training, all the time she spends taking out enemies, she is being driven by single minded focus and iron willed determination that never wavers. She has been sharpening and honing not just her body, but her mind, for exactly this. She has dedicated her entire life to her quest for vengeance, and in her own words, there is no room in it for anything else.

People also seem to be making a lot of assumptions about what kind of training and how much training Mizu has or has not had. As the audience, we’ve only been shown bits and pieces of Mizu’s past, which includes her experience learning martial arts. Asking shit like “how is she so good with a sword if she’s only self taught?” is like asking “how can she read and write if Master Eiji is blind?”. The answer is that Mizu has obviously learnt these things from more than one source, but documenting her entire education in detail doesn’t exactly serve a purpose to the narrative. We are explicitly shown in one of Mizu’s flashbacks that she’s been practicing with a wooden sparring sword since she was very young. It’s actually her child self that we see in that brief particular flashback. Not her teen/tween self, her child self. She’s also following the movements and instructions of an older man that is clearly a skilled samurai or warrior of some kind based on context (which y’all love to ignore). Besides, who else would want/need a sword from a master sword-maker besides an expert swordsman? How many skilled fighters from all over Japan have come to Master Eiji’s forge hoping for a blade, and wait with nothing better to do but train while their blade is being made? How many of them have divulged information about certain fighting styles (like Shindo-Ryu, which Mizu was familiar with despite never having been to the dojo before). Or practiced around her and with her? We are clearly shown through Mizu’s flashbacks that receiving training from a visiting client has not been unusual for her throughout her apprenticeship with Master Eiji, and her little spar with Blood Soaked Chiaki was no one time event. Yet Mizu is never given the benefit of the doubt by the audience, despite context clues indicating that she should be.

“Taigen has way more training in an actual dojo, so why is Mizu better?”

Whereas Taigen, while he was determined to become more than just a fisherman’s son and was driven to rise through the ranks of the Dojo and become a skilled samurai, did not have that same desire or determination to hone every part of himself to be the most deadly weapon he could possibly be, like Mizu did. Taigen believes in the samurai code of honor and upholds it in his own way (preventing him from learning how to “fight dirty” so to speak) and he also had a life outside of his training (he had a social life, he drank, he partied, he snuck around a lot to see Akemi presumably, etc). In fact, we actually never see Taigen practice, train, learn, hone his skills, or anything (to my recollection) throughout the whole season, until he’s bested by Mizu in combat. I’m assuming Taigen had to work quite hard for several years to become as good as he is, but I get the sense that ever since he has been regarded as a prodigy he has allowed himself to get cocky and maybe a bit too comfortable. He has always been the best and always thought himself to be the best, so he never needed to give 150% effort when he fought. In fact, as he got older and more practiced, and it became more and more apparent how much better he was than everyone else, he probably stopped giving his 110% and allowed himself to get a bit comfortable putting in 100% effort, and then eventually 80% effort (which is part of the reason why I think he’s so pissed he lost to Mizu in their first fight, because he knows he could have done better: been less cocky, been more tactical, more driven, etc).

We also never see Taigen meditate or mentally or physically prepare himself the way we do with Mizu. Mizu will pray before a major upcoming battle, not because she’s religious, but because she’s mentally, emotionally, and spiritually preparing herself. We even see Mizu submerge herself in very cold ocean water (during the winter mind you) as a ritual/practice of sorts that serves to center herself and prepare mentally and physically for what’s ahead when she feels herself getting “too emotional” or too stressed or unfocused or even just slightly off kilter. Mizu sacrifices every part of her life, so that she can be the deadliest version of herself possible. She has no social life. She has no friends, or significant others (Mikio aside). She has no other activities to participate in, because she’s been completely alienated and thus being anything but the best is not an option in her mind because she has no options. She tried married life. She had the best possible life that she could have had as a biracial woman in Edo era Japan. She did as she was told by her “mother”. She showed her true self to Mikio, just as he desired. Yet the blood and vengeance still caught up with her. She has no other options anymore. Pursuing revenge is the only thing she knows how to do, because every other avenue in life has been cut off from her. So she has to be single-mindedly focused on her vengeance, which means being as skilled and as dangerous as she can possibly be. She has no hobbies or jobs or responsibilities beyond sword-making (which allows her to become as familiar with the blade as possible) and training herself. If she has extra time, she uses it to practice, to train, to improve, to simply maintain peak performance. Such as when she was hacking through those trees in episode 2. Afterwards, we see Taigen attempt to replicate her training (by cutting down trees with his sword). Though even then, it was more about curiosity and trying to suss out Mizu so he could gauge her skill level, then it was about actually honing his own abilities (until episode 3 when he practices with Chiaki’s broken blade). Which does count as training in its own way (assessing your enemy), but my point still stands. Taigen does not have the same unwavering focus and force of will that Mizu does (partially because he does not actually want to kill Mizu, as we do see Taigen go cold blooded with focus when he kills Heiji Shindo, but those are whole other discussions).

“Mizu just has ridiculous plot armour, that’s the real reason she survives every encounter.”

I feel like people that think Mizu has ridiculous plot armour are just not at all familiar with the Samurai or Western/Cowboy sub-genres at all, or even action as an overarching genre on its own. I don’t believe I have ever engaged in a single piece of action media in which the protagonist didn’t have “plot armour” in some way. Basically half of all male protagonists from any and all modern western action movies ever, have been way too over-powered and been able to take a ridiculous amount of damage that should have killed them multiple times over. These action heroes (who in western media are almost always cis-het white men) have ridiculous plot armour in the most classic sense. Yet no one complains when it’s a white man. Only when it’s a queer-coded biracial woman of colour. Shocking.

In fact, you could argue that every main character in every fictional story ever told has plot armour to a certain degree, because having an entire narrative revolve around one character is inherently “unrealistic” and therefore the main character has plot armour, yes? No? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Oh, and on the topic of the samurai genre specifically (and many martial arts based action media) there are certain genre specific tropes that are nearly integral to the genre. One of the most prominent being the samurai/ronin/warrior/martial arts master that is “ridiculously over powered”. It’s literally part of the genre. In fact, the western/cowboy genre is quite similar to the classic samurai genre. Now, how many westerns have you watched in which Clint Eastwood or John Wayne shoot 5+ guys with one pistol before any of the guys they shoot even get a shot off? A lot I bet. Is that not the definition of “over-powered” and “unrealistic”? Or is it just a genre trope, or even perhaps, a genre staple? No one thinks Arthur Morgan (Red Dead Redemption 2) is over-powered. No one thinks that Joel (The Last of Us) is over-powered. In fact, when the TLOU show came out, people actually complained that Joel, the fifty-something year old man that has been living in a post apocalyptic wasteland for 20 years, was not badass or strong enough (he kills dozens of humans and super zombies and he’s legally a senior). So, who is the “judge” of what is and is not realistic in action media that borders on sci-fi/fantasy based on how “over-powered” the protagonists “realistically” are?

“It’s just weird that Mizu is so powerful when other characters within the story are not. It makes Mizu such a Mary Sue.”

Okay… so, with all that in mind, let’s circle back to where I started when referring to Mizu as someone driven by unwavering determination, and how that affects her “abilities”. That facet of her personality and motivation is nothing new when it comes to the action genre, especially for protagonists of revenge storylines. Think of Kill Bill or John Wick. Why does John or the Bride keep going and keep winning even when they are constantly getting injured and always fighting. Is it because they are simply that much better than everyone else? Yes and no. No, because they are not superheroes (technically), but also yes. Because their single minded determination and need for revenge drives them to push that much harder than anyone else on their skill level. They are the best, but they win against everyone else that is also “the best” because they want it more. They need it more. Mind over matter. They are willing to endure what others are not through sheer will and pure cold rage. Mizu, Beatrice Kiddo, John Wick, and so many more similar protagonists in action-revenge narratives don’t keep winning and keep getting back up no matter how inured they get because they are just “that much stronger and more talented than everyone else”. Yes, they are extremely skilled and would probably be one of the strongest and most deadly combatants/killers in their respective universes regardless… but their refined skill and raw talent and power are not the only reason they win. Their unwavering force of will, extreme determination, ice cold fury, and single-minded focus on revenge is what drive them to be that much tougher. Their tenacity is their superpower. They want to win more than their opponent does. They need to win, because this is their one and only goal in life as of now. Mizu (Blue Eye Samurai) Beatrice (Kill Bill), John (John Wick), they all share a philosophy in life when it comes to their revenge, which basically boils down to “Either I kill you, or I die trying. There is no middle ground, there is no negotiating, no other choice, no path of least resistance, no other goal or motivation. You will die, because I ain’t fucking dying until you do.”

Mizu doesn’t have plot armour and she’s not over-powered. She is an archetypical protagonist of the action-revenge narrative and the samurai/western genre as well. She arguably even has better reason to be completing the feats that she does than John Wick or The Bride, because the medium of Blue Eye Samurai is animation and not live action, and the genre borders on magical realism far more than Kill Bill or John Wick. Now, how many anime protagonists (probably almost all male) can you think of that are “ridiculously over-powered” especially compared to any live action counterparts, but no one complains about it? Why does no one complain about it (aside from misogyny)? Because the medium of animation inherently has different “rules”, expectations, and set standards for suspension of disbelief, than the medium of live action film or television. For example, is it ridiculous and unrealistic when you’re watching a Looney Tunes cartoon and Bugs Bunny’s legs pinwheel in super-speed for 3 seconds straight before he starts running, or when he runs off a ledge and gravity just lets him hang there for a sec so he can look straight at the camera before he falls? No, it’s not “unrealistic” or emersion breaking, not even a little, but why? Is it because any of those things seem even remotely probable or “realistic”? Of course not! It’s perfectly acceptable because the medium, genre, target audience, atmosphere, art/animation style, narrative choice, storytelling style, and more, have all established that Bugs Bunny defying physics is normal in Looney Tunes, and therefore not a “plot-hole” or “unrealistic”. In fact, if Bugs Bunny or Tom and Jerry didn’t defy physics in ridiculous ways all the time, then it feels far stranger and off-beat than if they did. Same goes for pretty much all action anime. If the characters in those stories were strictly limited to what is 100% humanly possible in real life, most of those animes wouldn’t even have storylines anymore. They’d be turned into completely different content that may be unrecognizable from the original source material. Or wouldn’t even have any material anymore because all the characters would be dead after their first fight scene. So why is Blue Eye Samurai being held to a different standard?

Now, do y’all get it yet?

[ab--n]

Why tf do I suddenly have a fucking lump under my thigh???

[rocketrouquine]

I’m sorry but …

Are the lesbians doomed to put some sense in clueless or hopeless gays ?

Is it like a prerogative ?

Anyway… in the pirate world, the double date/couple therapy doesn’t seem to work on our baby girl, she just wants to break some furniture

Rude.

[sen-sational]

Is it bad that I hate my uncle who is a 'famous rapper' (his words btw) like dude your a deadbeat and a horrible father that even your eldest son hates you enough to avoid events he knows you'll be at to avoid drama

I'm so nauseous rn and the asshole keeps popping balloons in my face

[silentgravesdontexist]

I do think it's ironic that women are perceived as weak, but it is men who are usually coddled and pampered while women are expected to uphold an insane and even inhumane standard.

[teddybearty]

Hey all time for more of me talking about anime!!

This time is School Babysitters and Chibi Devi! Now I technically watched both shows in like 2017-2018(?) but I never finished them! It was only recently that I sat down and actually finished both shows so here goes!!

Spoilers for both under the cut:

School Babysitters is pretty good! It made me ADORE Ryu and Kotoro’s bond! And the kids are so FUCKING CUTE THERE ARE ALL MY KIDS AND I LOVE THEM SOOOOOO

Kazuma is literally me I AM THE CRYBABY TWIN AND MY SISTER IS TAKUMAAAAA THE SMILEYYYY 💕💕💕

The other student characters are alright! I like Maria and her whole deal but I didn’t really like Yuki mainly since she just??? Liked Ryu??? Which seemed like her whole character????

I liked Nezu but his friend (whose name escapes me) I didn’t care for either. The joke that he gets a nosebleed when he squishes little kids’ cheeks is…a choice.

Also Saikawa is best boy enough said.

Now going into Chibi Devi I was surprised that it came out in 2011 with the style it has. I could’ve sworn it was early 2000s

Also that it’s SEVENTY-FIVE episodes?!?! LIKE WHY?!? But then I figured out that they five minutes long and I was like nevermind it’s fine.

And I liked it! At first I thought “Yeah I think I’m gonna like this less than School Babysitters” but then the children started growing up and displaying more of their personalities and I’m like “Actually no I like this more than School Babysitters????”

Honoka and Shinda (Mao’s parents) are so silly and sweet especially with their son. And the fact that they didn’t really get together in the end (especially since it was because Shin didn’t really understand romance) is just kind of nice I dunno why…

The other kids Karin and Rai are great too!

I find it so funny that Karin is this cute little girl who is so rough around the edges and a bit of a tomboy. There’s episodes where she would just be fighting things (like a mosquito and their substitute teacher) which were fun! Her also fighting with Itsuki (Natsuki’s brother / Karin’s “papa”) is always silly to watch!

Rai meanwhile is just kind of a kid who cares about the fun of everybody else. Which is really sweet. Also when he pulls pranks he has this old man laugh which is HILARIOUS!

There’s problems with the shows namely I didn’t really care for Chiyo and her whole schtick of wanting to be married off to a boy for some reason even though she’s just a little kid. Also I don’t like the principal’s design??? Mainly because his mustache is white and his hair color is purple.

Like just HAVE ALL THE HAIR BE PURPLE OR WHITE PICK ONE!!!

Also Pepe? What is he? They never explain apart from him being from the Underworld????

All of the design issues that I have I might just??? Redesign them??? Honestly I was gonna do that for ALL of the demon characters because why not. It would be fun to make them look a bit less like humans with accessories you know?

I’ve talked WAY TOO LONG ABOUT A SHOW ABOUT DEMON BABIES BUT whatever! I hope you guys like this little segment!

I’m currently rewatching Sweetness and Lighting because I adore that show but y’all are free to give me other anime / shows to watch if you want! I’ve been having a good time with it!

Thank you and good day!! 💜

[edmondmilk]

Trying to find a game to play and get passionate about again, but 24hrs later I just go back to reading my bl novel.