#specially the monster part

[emlittly]

Monster pred appreciation post

Hulking, fluffy werewolf who slobbers you with a sloppy tongue and dog breath and who can't help but scar you with little bites and nips because they NEED to devour you as quick as fucking possible. (On that note their gut is gross. Like - Half-digested meats and half chewed bones all gunked with chyme and slop and that's before your body's gone and gotten cramped in there.

Vampire pred who's elegant about the whole thing. Oh yes they're not your typical predator, looking as feeble or small as a normal human, but they'll butter you up, tell you how delectable your smell is, how badly they need to unwrap you, sink their teeth in there, let their gut slowly churn away at a nice, juicy meal. (Vampire pred eating tinies like fruit gushers. That is all.)

Mermaid preds who operate under the blue-whale school of evolution. Mermaid preds who grow massive, who can keep growing so long as they keep aging. Mermaid preds that are whispered about in the dead of night at the sailors pub. A ship the size of a skyscraper went missing in the North Atlantic one night and all that could be seen in its wake were bubble the size of cars foaming up at the surface the next day. Their guts they say take years to fully digest what's in them - poor souls lost in the ocean are said to take even longer surviving on the wreckage within.

[mylittleredgirl]

i'm so charmed by the letter trapper gets back from his wife in "kim"

louise mcintyre is hilarious actually

[angelsdean]

DEAN IS TWELVE ! DEAN IS TWELVE ! DEAN IS TWELVE !

[sillypiratelife]

From the spoilers I know from one piece the thing goes like this:

Luffy -> Saved Zoro and Sanji from dying when they met (and several other times).

Zoro -> Gave his life for Luffy and Sanji (he didn't die in the end, but he had the intention to so—).

Sanji -> Wanted to give his life for Luffy and Zoro (Luffy and Zoro prevented it in both occasions).

[winepresswrath]

what louis did to lestat and what louis did to armand are connected and that's important to the story but also. it is simply not the same. nothing louis did excuses armand's behaviour, that's not how anything works, but he did not "cross a line" or "poke at armand," he weaponized armand's history of abuse to belittle and demean him. nothing armand said to louis came close- the equivalent would have been "oooh, i'm such a stupid bitch that my husband can beat me half to death and i'll keep crawling back for more even when it endangers my daughter!" it's retraumatizing and deeply destabilizing to hear that shit from your partner. and in response armand should have been like "well this man sucks when he's high and he's high all the time, so i'm bouncing" but if he'd done that we wouldn't have a story, would we?

edit: i've come back to give armand credit for "claudia didn't love you like we did/do. ps. u used her to distract from your own hurt feelings" that shit does hit in a similar way. however "the ways someone hurt you have left you contemptible and weak. they scrawled 'dirty and annoying' all over your soul in red ink and it's never coming off" is just outstanding work. timeless

[pocketramblr]

I was prepared for Laios to be a little freak a little unhinged a lot socially awkward but I was not prepared for him to be a very good strategist what the hell you guys have been selling him short

[maggotmessiah0]

New Nothing Special episode out now on webtoons and comicfury 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[just-an-enby-lemon]

If I was rich I would just pay for the most freaking stupid things. How do I know that? Because I realized that I would pay actual real money (loads of it) to have Codot read the most silly parts of the 1954 Comics Code Authority as Riddler. Even if it was just the "no horror in the tittle" rule.

[entropyvoid]

There is a particular subgenre of post I keep seeing on this webbed site wherein people denigrate individualistic cultures but talk about collectivistic ones like they’re the absolute best thing to happen the world and have no flaws of any kind and I really have to wonder how many people making or reblogging those have actually had the opportunity to live in both

[throwaway-yandere]

Classical Conditioning is finished but I have zero fricking clue if I'm making sense I feel like a mad scientist and I am blaming Dottore for my current mental state LMAO

[imminent-danger-came]

I've been seeing a lot of people saying it was a problem that Mei didn't save Red Son from the scroll of memory in TEW as a callback to when he talked to her in EYD. I personally don't like the idea and think it's a kind of silly complaint, it wouldn't fit in the already quickly paced special or really add anything to the story/Mei's S4 arc.

To me, it just seems like another case of the LMK fandom not being able to think of Mei outside of Red Son, but I'm not sure if that's just me being a hater (lesbian) so I'd like to know what you think? Your analysis is always interesting and fun to read!

Aw, thanks anon! <3

I think a majority of the LMK fandom would sacrifice Mei in a blood ritual if it meant Red Son would have more screen time. Which is uh, not an opinion I share (<- Mei is their second favorite character).

Look, I love parallels. I post a lot of 'em on my blog, and I've made a few parallel predictions myself. But, and here's my hot take: A Red Son and Mei convo in the scroll just wouldn't have fit in the special.

Logistically, the only time this conversation could have happened was post-battle, after everything had settled down and they were able to get everyone out of their scroll pieces. The 3x11 convo between Mei and Red Son only happens because Red Son is desperate—he needs a hero, he needs Mei to save his parents, and Mei is worried she'll lose control. A convo at the end of 3x14 wouldn't have stakes for Mei to urge Red Son back into the outside world with, making the parallel fall kind of flat. There's just not that same weight or urgency.

If exploring Red Son's (or any of the Demon Bull Family's) time in the scroll were to happen, it would be at some point in s5 when it would be the most significant and impactful. You don't just...waste something with so much narrative potential for the end of an already jam packed special. Now, this isn't me saying we're guaranteed to get anything like this in the show, but it is me saying that the special wasn't the place for it.

Plus like, a 3x11 parallel would have to have Character A comforting Character B about some fear, with Character A assuring Character B that they're needed and that they can help—they're not going to make the situation worse.

If anything, I'd argue that we do get a parallel to Mei and Red Son's 3x11 conversation, it's just that it's between Wukong and MK—which, BASED Mei and Wukong parallels moment:

((This is also all assuming that going into the scroll is even necessary for a non-broken scroll piece lol.))

It really does feel like a lot of people just can't see Mei as her own character. If it's any consolation, I don't think you're being a hater anon! I think you're just picking up on what was most important to show in the s4 special.

[localcryptic]

for avi jones:

What’s something that makes them laugh every single time? Be specific! (note: you don't have to be specific)

What’s their instinct in a fight / flight / freeze / fawn situation?

If they committed one petty crime / misdemeanor, what would it be? Why?

Do they give tough love or gentle love most often? Which do they prefer to receive?

answer any you want to/any that apply :3

(sorry it took so long for me to get to this ! as a bonus i shall include a picture of them)

What’s something that makes them laugh every single time? Be specific!

avi jones is definitely a nervous laugher, so tbh i think the most likely thing to make them laugh Every single time is being put in awkward situation where they don't know what else to do. also, the more likely they are to be caught completely off-guard by a joke, the more likely they are to laugh at it- much more than if they were expecting it in any possible way

What’s their instinct in a fight / flight / freeze / fawn situation?

the boring but true answer is "it depends" - growing up, their immediate instinct was always Fawn, but that's a habit they've worked really hard to kill.

when attempting to confront a personal issue, they'll pretty much always default to Flight; they are Very good at running away from and ignoring the ugly truths they don't want to recognize.

however, when confronted with an Actual Life Threatening Emergency, such as An Actual Monster Is Attacking Them (monster of the week, my beloved ttrpg), all their usual anxiety and caution goes straight out the window and their default impulse is Fight. There is a danger, they are qualified to handle it, by god, they're gonna be Useful even if it kills them. they rush headfirst into danger and only panic later when they realize how stupid it was.

If they committed one petty crime / misdemeanor, what would it be? Why?

this is funny because nowadays at like, 26 years old, they're the most straitlaced put-together-acting nerd who never goes out and has only attended awkward office holiday parties, so most people would be surprised to hear about the very non-hypothetical drug possession charges they had back in college OOPS. if you asked them about it now they'd say something like haha well everyone got a little crazy in college but the real answer is they were like, having a devastating mental breakdown with zero actual coping mechanisms in place. its okay they got better (they don't think they need therapy but they desperately do)

Do they give tough love or gentle love most often? Which do they prefer to receive?

ooh this is interesting. i think gentle love. they're bad at expressing themself directly but a little gesture means a lot to them- when they care they'll remember your coffee order, finish up a task for you without telling you because they know you're stressed, make sure to have the kind of snacks you like in stock. they've gotten enough shit over time under the guise of "tough love" that they shy away and would rather offer the "i'm here if you need me" kind of love, and they'd probably want the same in return. sometimes they need someone who can be hard on them, but that person has to know the right time to not risk scaring them off, y'know?

[holygroundgone]

dungeon meshi (only ever calling it that) is such a fantastic fucking all rounder, it really feels perfect, in fact it almost feels a little too perfect, it's so good and delicious and frankly uncontroversial and palatable despite the high threshold of tasteful but immense horniness, i truly feel like ryoko kui alchemized pure gold

[rotzaprachim]

Im rewatching Nimona with my mother and just. Can’t get over what a goddamned political (in a good way!) movie it is

[nhaneh]

pretty sure I saw a case of actual full-on blood libel casually saunter across my dash earlier and it still kind of bothers me

like I think there are things where your brain should just automatically spam X to Doubt when encountered unless there is truly extraordinary evidence involved. shit can be real bad as is without bringing in cursed millenia-old conspiracy bullshit

[spearxwind]

Imo Hades is very much their (I forget the right pronouns sorry) own beast in terms of design. It's not uncommon to go for shapes like rectangles, squares n triangles in design, so any potential similarity with RW lizards feels coincidental at best. Personally I don't see it.

Yeah I mean I DO at least get it, the designs themselves have a couple overlapping shapes that are pretty common in designs

I think my discomfort is from me not using rain world as inspiration for CD, especially since like I mentioned there is no theme overlap or anything, so it just feels like a disservice both to CD and RW to draw connections like that just because this individual is really into both things, if that makes sense. Reduces rain world's world worldbuilding uniqueness since the sea on there is not really super relevant, and then reduces CD's uniqueness to 'wow this is just like rain world'