#stabby and shooty mention

[lonely-moon-artist-blog]

Eheheheee

Stabby and Typegingi but eerrm WITH A TWIIIIST.

Yes i played Slay the princess and.. Guys.

HEAR ME OUT.

THE VOICE OF OPPORTUNIST IS SOOOO STABBY CODED FOR ME IM BEING FOR REAL WITH YOU HERE.

[directdogman]

I recall you mentioning which Pokemons corresponded to Dsaf characters, and since I've recently been playing pokemon X, I'm now wondering the same with dialtown characters like Mingus, Roger or EVERYONE ELSE

I wrote an idea for a DT gym leaders + elite four roster for DT ages ago. Sure, I'll bite.

DT GYM LEADERS (in the order of when you face them with some pokemon from their own personal fully evolved teams):

Jerry (Normal): "Strategy? You ask me about fucking STRATEGY?! I have VERMIN Pokémon, you understand?! I should be glad the kids who challenge my gym aren't after my JOB. This is DEGRADING. They GAVE me these dirty birds and rats, ya understand? I didn't ASK for this damned type! So many SICK DOG POKÉMON." (Favourite move: Rest. Has a 2 teams of Stoutlands. I'm sure he has others too.)

Randy (Flying): "Well, my Pokémon are kinda like me. Fr-Fragile. So, my go-to strategy is to hit hard and as FAST as possible before my opponent can shatter my delicate bird team to smithereens! Mathematically, it's gotta be better to hit FIRST!

...Y-Y'know?" (Favourite move: Brave Bird, probably has a Pidgeot, Swanna, Cramorant, Crobat)

Oliver (Steel): "Yo! My pokémon are BUILT for ROBOT FIGHTS and they're made of METAL, so they're sturdy as SHIT. I usually just go nuts and go on an all-out offensive using the gnarly and expertly assembled movesets of yours truly! I'll get to throw everything I have at you while you can barely chip away at my pokémon's metallic armor! Watch OUT." (Favourite move: Heavy Slam, has a Steelix, Skarmory, Magnezone, Aggron)

Karen (Ground): "My pokémon are tanky and have diverse movesets. I utilize field moves. The rest of the world simply does NOT have what it takes to harness the true power of dirt-horse." (Favourite move: Fissure, has a Mudsdale, Dugtrio, Krookodile)

Bigfoot (Grass): [serene ape noises] (Favourite move, Cotton Guard. Has a Simisage, Rillaboom, Shiftry, Abomasnow)

Gingi (Poison): "these ones are the only pokémon out of the awful birds and rats and such that i dragged home that decided to stick around. they seem to enjoy me tent" (Favourite move: Gunk Shot. Has a Muk, Koffing, Garbodor)

God (Psychic): "Personally, I like creepy pokeymen. You know the kind I mean. Mr Mime, Hypno, those freaks. They're my PEOPLE. Why do I keep these strange beings around me? It's to psych you out, you see. All types have weaknesses, making the question of which type is best almost meaningless. So, why not pick Pokémon that deal psychic damage to your opponents? Aha! See? It's psychic-damage. Get it? Like the gym name. Frankly, I just have these guys on-hand because it means that I have a LOT less people showin' up at my gym. I really just see this job as an obligation. Hell, I'd rather be in bed right now. Cancellation is better than Obliteration, that's my motto! Anyway, got any Prize Money?" (Favourite Move: Dream Eater)

Mingus (Dark): "You FOOL. Do I have to SPELL IT OUT for you?! The key to success is simple: Pick a supreme type. Assemble a team of heavy-hitters. It's better if they blend into shadows easily. (I am a sinister person, to be clear!!!) Each of my Pokémon have diverse, punishing movesets which were carefully constructed to inflict status conditions and erode an opponent's stats in battle. Horrible Pokémon that will PUNISH you for daring to face me. If you wake me up in order to fight you at the stupid gym the Pokémon League Confederation FORCED ME to set up here at Town Hall, I WILL fucking END YOU." (Signature Move: She's being dead serious right now. I say cut your losses and see give the Orange league a try instead. She has a Liepard though. Of course.)

ELITE FOUR:

Stabby + Shooty (Bug): "Yeah, look, okay. Steel and dark slots were already taken when we applied to be a part of the league. We were GONNA ask for Ghost, or maybe Poison, but Mingus said we'd be a waste of an Elite Four slot and people would throw things at us if we had the expectations that a cooler type would carry. We didn't wanna get hassled, I mean, we're only here so Mingus can keep an eye on what's happening at the League..."

"So, we let her choose the bug type for us. Was she right to set us down this mediocre insect path? We'll be fucked if we know." "Hey, even if this insect stuff was all for nothin', it still wasn't a total waste. I had a rockin' good time out in the forest, collectin' bugs with my bro, and no cat can take that away from me!" "Bro…" (Favourite move: Megahorn. They have a Pinsir, Ariados, Scizor)

Billy (Fire): "I wanted dark, but the cat got to it first. So, I said to myself: "Okay, Puss Puss. You take the dark type and you see what happens. I'm going to make you WISH you'd let me have a large crow instead of a host of animals who were bred specifically for arson." (Signature move: Fire Blast, he has a Houndoom, Charizard, Darmanitan)

Norm (Rock): "All o' my critters are equipped to deal with anythin' that's thrown at us. We've got diverse movepools, emphasis on attack AND speed. Quick on the draw, ready fer anythin'. Solid like a rock." (Favourite move: Stone Edge (which always hits), has a Rhyperior, Aerodactyl, Archeops, Crustle, Tyranitar) CHAMPION:

Callum (Pre-erasure) (Dragon): "You're wondering which type to expect from the Pokémon League Champion? Why, I won't put my name to ANYTHING that isn't to the quality this here country DESERVES, no-siree! My administration's gonna give you nothin' but the BEST, folks! Why, that's right! There's REALLY no topping the Dragon type! Pokémon associated with stories of leadership and Revolution! All of my Pokemon specialize in hard-hitting and devastating attacks like Hyper Beam and Solar Beam, designed to obliterate would-be threats and act as a complete deterrent to any would-be challengers! Trust me: If I getcha, you're gonna FEEL it!" (Has a Haxorus, Hydreigon, Tyrantrum, Frapple)

Crown (Post-Erasure) (Ghost): "I-Is the war over yet? I can't get a signal-" (Favourite move: Destiny Bond) (Gengar, Chandelure, Cofagrius, Dusknoir)

[scrubberhose]

Ya got any dialtown headcanons? :3

hooo boy. ive been chewing on this all day and I think i have a decent amount to say!

Spoilers for Dialtown!

Tw for mentions of suicidal ideation and religious guilt

Phone/Typegingi:

-Is aware of everything that happens in my fics but forgets

-is more aware of how people perceive them than people give them credit for, wants to make everyone happy

-has a strong fear of being alone, which is why they bother people so relentlessly. if they were to be fully ignored for an extended period of time they would have a breakdown

-Has both the phone and the typewriter head and can change them out at will, dont ask where they keep them.

-has bitten theoroar many, many times and will do so again. is even more fearful and hateful of him after the zoo explosion

-has a lot of love to give and genuinely prefers being around their friends

-has a level of intelligence that is genuinely sort of surprising sometimes. this intelligence is used at random

-is surprisingly easy and hard to kill at the same time

-the narrator is actually a separate entity to them who cares about them very much

-seems to be passively suicidal but no one can tell if theyre joking or not

-roger rabbit rules, whatever biology is funniest is what they have

-perceived height changes based off of this rule as well. no one notices.

-breaks into town hall once a month for funsies

-enjoys sweet things quite a bit

-autistic beast

Randy:

-is actually a decent cartoonist, but rarely draws due to hand pain. likes drawing gingi and oliver the most

-has a lot of religious guilt due to growing up catholic with a very very strict, religious father, left home as soon as he could. also why he is afraid to talk to God.(hobo)

-father harped on him his entire childhood about being a burden, now feels that he owes the world for existing. this is slowly healing.

-due to his upbringing hes still learning how to function as an adult, i.e cleaning, cooking for himself, things like that. hes working on it!

-has sensory issues, has ASD

-fear of cgi animals comes from having to watch weird religious propaganda films for kids when he was young. he is getting over it thanks to oliver.

-extremely observant and notices things a lot of people don't, but usually doesnt say anything for fear of being annoying

-knows shooty and stabby on a first name basis(not that he knows whos who)

-sees Norm as a father figure but would never admit that

-has a long list of phobias that hes working on recovering from, but is too nervous to go to therapy for

-has a LOT of plushies in the ticket booth that Oliver and Gingi have given him, refuses to get rid of any of them

-taking the bandage off wont instantly kill him, he doesn't know this.

-can skateboard, does not do this often

-gets sick very easily, has to be forced to rest as he tries to insist hes not sick

-is roommates with Oliver, they have a bunk bed

-got his number changed so the hotline wasnt tied to him anymore

-is actually a good singer, never sings due to thinking he sucks. Will hum to himself while working at the ticket booth

Karen;

-Has actually gotten fairly close to the other datables since the conclusion of the game, doesnt know how to express this

-Visits Dialtown for a few months out of the year to catch up and spend time with her friends

-part of her contract with helping rebuild was better wages for those who worked at the bank. It took a lot of arguing but she felt that no one should suffer like she did.

-expresses her love for her friends by making them ponysonas. Is a huge pegasister. will infodump about it for hours to anyone who will listen

-enjoys botanical illustrations the best, next to drawing horses

-draws horses with normal horse heads as a form of abstraction

-puts capsaicin oil in her paints so Gingi will stop drinking them. This did not work.

-enjoys vintage movies and game shows and talks at length with Oliver about them when they go out for coffee or dinner together.

-she and randy doodle together sometimes

-also has severe sensory issues and has safe outfits she wears. will cry if she has to touch certain fabrics. (LOOKING AT YOU CRUSHED VELVET)

-safe foods are microwave dinners and pasta, but she keeps her diet balanced.

-her and Norm get along now and will sometimes go for hikes and chat about life(and ways to wrangle gingi)

-allergic to shrimps

-can play piano

Oliver:

-Got a new therapist who doesnt think hes weird or annoying(it didnt phase him but thats not groovy to say to someone)

-has POTS, often needs to sit down at work so he doesnt faint.

-is a HUGE horror fan, could tell you everything about the behind the scenes of every major and minor horror movie to come out in the last decade.

-works as a haunt actor for the Dialtown Haunted House every single Halloween, wants to run it someday

-has a log of every new thing he notices about Gingis biology, the log is three books long now.

-Really wants to run a youtube channel where he does amateur ghost hunting with randy, has yet to convince randy that this is a good idea

-is very physically affectionate, though he does ask permission first before touching anyone!

-Has had top and bottom surgery and is comfortable where his transition is, thankfully his insurance under Mr. Dickens covered it! (Mingus isnt a TOTAL monster)

-has a digital scrap book of all his favorite memories with his friends

-makes rage comics unironically.

-favorite color is actually black, red just seems to be his thing!

-has been legally adopted by Mr. Dickens but decided to keep his last name as Swift because "it was rad."

-is actually friends with most of the ghosts and poltergeists that live in the cinema/scareshack

-kept the popcorn and soda dispensers, but got the soda dispensers to dispense SODA and not...whatever the fuck it was doing before.

-helped renovate the basement of the cinema into a haunted maze that he helped design, the theme changes once a year!

-got those unicycle lessons and knows how to juggle as well!

-likes rollerskating, has Heelys on all the time

-allergic to peanuts

-can play guitar

Norm:

-Is aware that Gingi sees the face on the sticky note change and thinks its sort of funny

-Is actually good friends with God and the two go out to lunch once or twice a month

-enjoys fishing and will take Randy and Oliver on fishing trips, Gingi usually follows regardless of invite.

-Sees himself as a father figure to most of the dateables, and is willing to fill in that role.

-apologized to Karen for his behavior by baking her fresh bread. is actually an extremely good cook

-irises and pupils are both void black due to exposure to the wormhole. He has not noticed this. Eyes used to be honey brown.

-Has to stop Mingus from doing a new evil scheme once a month, has a spray bottle for this purpose.

-does actually have other outfits for when the space suit needs to be washed, is never seen outside the house when this happens

-Oliver, Karen, and Randy have seen his real face, they were like "cool" as Gingi is just...far weirder.

-i imagine him as strawberry blonde. Short hair, either buzz cut or just short. maybe some stubble. I dont have a good image of what his face looks like, it is just bag to me

-not great at public speaking but REALLY good at pretending to be

-is actually very good at using technology but will sometimes pretend not to be just to tease Oliver.(it works every time)

-can also play guitar

Bigfoot:

-...no.

-okay okay i have one. You could use his fur to make yarn IF you washed it. You will never be able to get close enough to brush him though.

Misc headcanons:

-heads can be repurposed after death, like cadaver bones!

-the more popular headtype for modern business men and women is a laptop

-after what happened to Callum Crown, the answering machines function was completely separated from memory storage

-Snakes have syringes for heads

-peter and his wife are poly and want roger to be their third, but roger is as dense as a brick and peters too formal to just say it out loud.

-Harry and Jack are a couple in this universe, Jack is just a very odd boss to work for regardless

-Billy is Abel's kid. The mother is unknown. probably a one night stand.

-the swans miss randy :(

-there are a few headtypes that are banned for various reasons, one of which is having a megaphone AS your head.

-Roger is autistic and has a stutter, and sometimes has to use ASL to communicate. Peter knows ASL for this reason

-The Narrator could talk to the others, but only if it was an emergency

-all Dialtown OCs are canon. theyre in town somewhere, having fun and living their lives!

-Dialtown is bigger than shown in game, including the town square which has a fountain and a park surrounding it, as well as a skate park, rec center, arcade, a pizza place, etc.

-all the dateables have met satan at least once, they just didnt know thats who that was

-shooty and stabby are dating, theyre just very bromance about it. good for them...

-rotery phone heads are coming back in fashion as a sort of 'retro' vibe.

-getting prosthetics/emergency plastic surgery and medical care is actually quite accessible.

-jerry and his wife come visit dialtown every christmas soley so that gingi doesnt run all the way out there to visit them and get hopelessly lost. theyre doing quite well!

-there are competent members of the dialtown mob but they dont really do much other than hang out at the bar

if i think of anymore Ill let you know!! thanks for askin!

[psyckadelik]

Heyy! I really love the swap au! I wanted to ask some things:

1) What happened to Norm in this Au? Was he exiled too?

2) do you have anything planned for other characters? Like Roger, Fabron or Abel

I wanted to say that i absolutelly love Jerry in this Au. Jerry #1 fan approves

OHMYGOD HI, You're my first ever question-

1) Yes, kind of?

We (my friends and I) decided that after Norm returned, Mingus kind of convinced Tango that Norm would stand out in the city, feel out of place, and would be at risk (basically talking about him like some sort of near-extinct animal) and making Tango think that sending Norm off in some reinforced bunker out in the woods was the way to go. Instead of a broken down shed, it was furnished and equipped to make sure he could last a long time.comfortably. There was a misunderstanding though, Norm could've returned anytime to shop or talk to other people.

(The misunderstanding is mostly that Mingus told Norm that he shouldn't return and no one wanted him there, and also she shread any letter Mayor Tango asked her to send off to Norm to check up on him, so Norm grew bitter)

2) I'm happy to know you like our Jerry, he's still as miserable, yes :3

Also, I've not played the Roger DLC and am trying to stay as oblivious to it as I possibly can before I start up on it, but so far

Abel is swapped with Frank (the bank security guard) to keep Abel and Jerry as a package deal, kinda like Frank and Karen

My friends and I decided to swap Roger with Peter, as it seemed the most logical course to them, and I trust their judgement.

***I THINK my friends decided we swap Callum and Milt, I'll have to ask them

I think I mentionned us swapping Gabby and Theoroar (that one we had to tweak around a bit, Theoroar is more like some phone collector that's enthusiast about phones and typewriters, and Gabby's zoo is more like an animal rescue and rehabilitation center (Our Gingi is very feral and thinks she's evil when she was tryna help))

**I'm not certain if we agreed to this one, but I recall asking if we could swap Curie and the doctor guy (cuz we did give our Oliver some Randy luck on why he needed bandages and the doctor wrote something because he hears ghosts so yyyeahhh i don't know if someone sober would do that)

(Also extra small funfact, the city council meeting or whatever, since Tango is mayor, is called "The townwide Tango" instead of "the Mingling", cuz we thought it'd be his style to make it sound fun :3)

..... Honestly I focused alot more on Little Billy because swapping him with [Shooty and Stabby] because i was trying to understand why he'd go where they go and stuff, under the request of Tango no less-

If you have more questions, you can always ask! But they might take more time to answer cuz I do go and confirm with @leonnphobia and @hoodedgay, it's a collaborative thing between the three of us, I can't take all the credit ^^;

[the-mingling-dating-sim]

Hey! Since you said the game isn’t coming out soon can you tell us some stuff about the story or the lore? Also kinda interested in what the endings of the game would be

And like… Anything to do with Norm… /nf

oh yeh sure! keep in mind that the lore for the game is pretty messy considering how a few of the people helping at the time had different visons for the game but ill try to keep it somewhat consistent.

this is a long one btw

first of all lemmie just repeat what's already out there, the player is a new employee for the mayor but after being pushed aside on their first day of work they go around town finding others who work(ed) for Mingus to help until the end of the week to be allowed into the mingling meeting. pretty simple stuff. additionally there was side routes that would have included a small task for a reward at the end of the week that would appear upon starting the first day again, each one varying in degrees of difficulty with the easiest rewarding the least gameplay / lore and the hardest doing vice versa (think of the kindergarten games with their items)

also mentioned before, each route has three different outcomes, either being platonic / canon, romantic (minus billy ofc) and a 'bad ending'. the canon ending is just an ending, the romantic ending would show a cutscene with you and said route characters in the future and the bad ending would simply have you either fired, dead or stood up. there's also the shit yourself and die endings ofc but ill go into those endings later

ill just go over each different plot route very quickly! Mingus' route would have you helping her in the office and teaching her about being more venerable and allowing people in her life more, the ending would be her promoting you. for Stabby and Shooty's route, they'd be plotting revenge for getting fired so they would try to sabotage / assassinate Minus, since its their boss getting them to do so the player would convince them to move on and the canon ending would show the three of you moving out of town. Theoroar's route (my personal favourite) would be you two searching for a cyptid in the woods and finding a creature from mf hell, basically a mixing pot of creepypastas but silly, and the ending would be yall agreeing that its best to let it be and to let go of the idea of cryptids. abels route actually has two directions, either fixing up the funfair or flat out insurance fraud with both endings having abel warm up to the player to make them an unoffical co-manager. bunnys route is very similar to abels in a way, even having some overlapping scenes, but its bunny needings the players help to reopen his resturant with the ending being either selling it or running it together, its not the best written down but i dont know how to explain it fully without making this longer. billys route was just keeping him out of trouble while also causing trouble with him, kinda pulling pranks together and the canon ending having the player non-legally adopting him. annnnnnnd finally (gosh this was longer than i thought) gods route was him just hanging out with the player while trying to explain the situation they were in without getting caught, you'll see what i mean by that in a second, his route doesnt really have any sort of ending since he knows that it really isn't the end so he kinda just lets you go when the time comes

and for the side routes (going from easiest to hardest)! tango would have just had you helping with a few simple puzzles in town hall, his reward item was a friendship bracelet that when worn would have had other townies have much longer / lore deep conversations with you. for phonegingi's route, he would have had you to help him bring some stuff to the old datables and other important character's from the og dt, the reward would had been cough nectar that could be consumed in different areas + becomes an option in a few routes. norms route was one of the hardest to code but for his route it would have been catching people committing randomised crimes, his reward was a gun, like a proper revolver, it could have been used as its own weapon but it can be used for intimidation + a new option in routes. final route is actually an oc character! Francis (cough cough) isn't exactly in the front of main gameplay as his main function is an intro to the combat / crimes system and a way to sell and buy illegal stuff, his route was actually sabotaging the main route character and instead of an item, the character you was doing the route of would actually be erased from the game (kinda like ddlc), this is actually a deeper ending on itself

so with all of that out of the way! onto the lore, the lore can actually be discovered by various audio logs hidden throughout the game, though the logs are only unlocked after a hidden area within the woods is found by doing a few quests for items. the logs locations are mostly hinted at by dreams / flashbacks between the days with them correlating towards the characters included. the characters included are all related back to Callum with each one having a point of 'escaping' or 'trying to get out'. some people may know that I've said in the past that the main character relates back to Marla, that's because one of the narrators in the game is actually Marla with the second one being ahhaha why would you like to know :)))

sadly when it comes to the games lore, the most important character is actually my oc Francis. the reason why he's so important is mainly because of how he is in control of the game / simulation that the player is in, being the one who resets it and while i wouldn't say its super obvious upon first playing, when you know it becomes obvious yk? it was originally a deal between him and god to make a better clone of dialtown (failed miserably since its MUCH worse) but within the process he found that Typeillie was an anomaly so his goal was to originally monitor them, finding that they weren't entirely themselves anymore. this being the player controlling them. another thing to include was the fact that the timeline was shifted and altered with some characters even turning into glitched abominations of their former self and others being fragmented, this being how Marla is able to communicate to the player and why you encounter Milton + Hannibal looking the way they do. with that being said, the only other characters that are aware of Typeillie's situation is god and Phonegingi since they can remember the resets (its implied that the beginning of the game isn't actually the first loop) but after seeing everything that Francis is capable of they choose not to outright say anything.

now with lore out of the way we can get to endings!

other than the route related , shit yourself and die or joke endings, there are two (technically seven) main endings to the whole game. the first one being probably the most common since after you complete all of the main games endings you'll be confronted by Francis by him ranting about how he made everything just for Typeillie until he realises the player has been controlling them the entire time, leading to him torching the player for a bit (horror sequence n that) before killing them, this just resets the game back to the beginning so alll progress is lost. the contents of this ending actually can change by the type of endings that the player has done but they're all the same other than those few paragraphs. the second ending is a bit more complicated though, after doing Francis' route enough times to have killed all of the main datable's the next time you boot up the game you will be in 'the outskirts' (ill explain in reblog's) sitting with the corpses of everyone of the datable's, inspired by that one scene in mouthwashing but this time they're completely lifeless, and Francis will go on another rant about how much you have done, leading to him handing you the knife to 'finish Mingus off' since you never technically kill her. in this scene you'll be given the choice to either kill Mingus, kill Francis or kill yourself, choosing to kill Mingus will cause Typeillie to speak for their own for the only time in the game, her begging the player to reset the cycle and do something nice this time before the game jumps to the main menu again, if you listen or not doesnt really matter. if you kill yourself, it will just show Typeillie stabbing herself and Francis talking to her corpse before walking off, funnily enough the image is timed for 5 hours and if you choose to close the game then all of your progress resets. now for the final ending, killing Francis (aka the true ending of the game) results in Typeillie killing him a bit more graphically then the others before walking off as the week starts up again but it being the next week n Francis being nowhere before the game crashes. the original idea was for the game to delete itself and to boot up dialtown if it was installed but this was imposable to say the least.

anyway i really hope this answered your questions for the game! this took me too long to write out so i hope its answered everything you wanted to know

[random-vyxx]

HELL!!! YEAH!!!

Gingi is lke a frog and can change their gender at will. Maybe they ARE an amphibian. They'll also date anything. *Anything.*

Karen is lesbian and demiromantic... And asexual.... I lovre my wife ....

Norm is bisexual, in denial. Nothing fancy.

Randy is pansexual and a demiboy, but forgets that he uses they/them sometimes because of how little people use those.. But when people use they/them on him, they'll get a bit joyous!!

Oliver is transmasc, gay, and on the aromantic spectrum. I cant tell if i think hes greyromantic or demiromantic. Prolly greyromantic.

Bigfoot is ape. Also hes biologically a girl, they just dont care about what people refer to her as because he has yet to learn that gendered pronouns exist.

Mingus is lesbian and aroace.

Tango is genderfluod... Abf aroace and gay... I like tabgo...

Billiams aroace but doesn't know thats a thing. In his words "Ew... People actually DO that stuff??? I thought they were lying!!! "

Bunny and Abel are together billys their child. Bunnys pan and transmasc, abels bisexual and intesex, but he mainly uses he/him pronouns because he lieks them.

Gabbys a straight ally

Shooty and stabby are (clearly) gay, theoraurs a straight ally and asexual.

God is genderfluid, but only uses he/they pronouns to keep it simple for himself, but back before he was constantly drunk (and that was A WHILE ago), they would use any.

If I didn't mention a character its not because i forgor, its because o was lazy.

Reblog with your dialtown queer headcanons. NOW!

[dialtown-brainrot]

!Dietown spoilers!

!Dietown spoilers!

(Randy is suffering as usual, sadly typing up "randy suffering as usual" took up too much space so him being Randy is bad enough)

[sergeant-angels-trashcan]

So like. Time fugitive young avengers

TRYING to find the only time traveler they know and the one who prolly sorta likes them???

So like eli and Billy and teddy appear during Sylvie and Loki's sword fight to yoink Kang

Which is the real reason he disappears

Kang legit crying because??? His friends??? Who he had to keep pruning from the timeline???

ABOUT THAT.

So none of them are the same ages because it's funny

I want Billy and teddy to be a middle aged married couple who are just SO DONE and Kate's like I was literally JUST at your wedding, WHY DOES THIS SHIT KEEP HAPPENING TO ME AT WEDDINGS????

Kate refers to kang as "my good bitch" and nothing else

They have nate which allows them to grab loki. The post saakar killed by thanos but not quite Loki

Also. This is a verse where when loki fell off the bifrost he got younger and then wound up with the YA. Endverse!kid!loki is a variant of that time

Kang also cries when he sees Cassie

They expect kang to be this hardass and really hes just SO TIRED, YOU GUYS, and he's so glad to have help

Which is not what they were expecting

Tommy keeps holding up rope all "so no tying him to a chair?"

He gets berated for trying to bring bondage into everything

thATS NOT WHAT THIS IS

At some point they're like you let steve do WHAT. the home of phobia.

Also theres a variant peggy that shows up. Kate and America keep ooo.ooo ing at her

The gay vibes are impeccable

Nate calls Kate "my solid ho"

I kind if want Kate to be the "youngest". Like she's the first one they nabbed but they got her earlier in her timeline than the rest of the team. Shes still like mid late 20s and everyone is weeping emoji at her shes such a BABY and Kate growling no goddamnit I'm a small business owner I pay taxes I am NOT baby

But ONLY if it's funny if Kate being the youngest for once isn't funny then no go hoes

Kate, Nate, and Loki doing obnoxious sprawling all over each other as the youngest oldests

Why is Kang unhinged? That is why. "The floor is lava and the only safe place is UR LAP"

Also have I mentioned agent mobius is noh? I have? Great. Because he is.

And that Casey is Jonas?

Awesome.

So that vibe the gotg had in their first movie..."them?" and "those dipshits?" that's the vibe of this young avengers. With the bonus that they were once competent and organized etc etc but not with these versions of each other

At some point "shhh come on this is Kate's funeral be quiet."

"Yeah don't turn it into a roast this time."

"Shut up ur dead u dont get a say."

but also like. maybe.

so when the timeline exploded all of those timelines existed fully at that moment

which is how they can pluck people at different ages etc.

so Nate Knows about the Young Avengers and a Good Nate comes and Grabs Loki, and they “go to the leader of the young avengers”

which to nate either means another him, or maybe jonas, or eli?

and it’s KATE. who he, like, sort of knows? but why is she the one they got taken to--

“I’m the leader of the young avengers, that’s why, jerk. Also hi Loki.”

“I’m sorry who are you?”

Kate is OFFEND.

Nate is just confused as to HOW. She wasn’t even??? On the roster???

“Yeah well i guess you’re just lucky.”

the fact that loki gets the team together the second time but he doesn’t even know her is irritating, meanwhile loki is making fun of “young avengers” what was there a BABY THOR, a MINI HULK

Nate has to implement a “no stabby no shooty” rule after he’s done laughing

Loki is CONSTANTLY unnerved by how much Kate seems to know about him

some things he didn’t even know about himself? like a breakfast obsession???

Kate being with them helps the other grabs go easier

at some point they’re talking about the TVA and they have pictures for some reason. 

“wait wait go back”

“yeah ok we need to grab those two”

she’s only KIND of offended when Noh has no idea who she is but seems to have a crush on Loki. Rude, but ok. 

Jonas is all “took you long enough, hang on let me grab some infinity stones”

“fucking WHAT.”

for some reason they wind up at the End, surrounded by Lokis.

and then it’s an argument about which Loki is better for the team. Which variant!loki is VERY offended by

this is just a group of people who MUST offend one another

Kate is. um. VERY adamant about the Loki she wants. 

“My vote is for the lizard.”

cue kid!loki peering from behind something: “Kate?”

“LOKI??”

“CHCANGED MY MIND We’re taking the Kid.”

“no, we’re not, I vote for me” variant!loki says this and gets blasted by vote loki loki

Kate nixes vote loki loki because she ALREADY DEALT WITH THAT. vote loki loki is trying SO HARD. c’mon kate. i know you LOVED trolling me on twitter. pick me!

“No, we’re taking the Kid.”

Nate tries to argue this point.

“We’re. Taking. The. KID.”

no one agrees with her

“Saying it slower doesn’t make it a reason.”

“Oh you want reasons? Reason one: i know this lil shit.” a secret handshake of sorts ensues.

“Reason two: I can manhandle him” Loki gets tossed over her shoulder. he is very unimpressed

(”he is easier to punt that way,” America points out. She currently has another Loki in a headlock.)

“Reason three: i know how he lies.”

“Reason four: we’re bros.”

These reasons impress NO ONE. 

but it is how they wind up with a gaggle of lokis.

Kate and Kid!Loki are very mean to each other. i just want to point that out. but like a dipshit mean sibling energy. they make fun of each other’s ages all the time.  

the vibe of the young avengers is “we WILL save the multiverse but we’re going to be as chaotic as possible while doing it”

[vinguist]

I'M HIGHKEY ABOUT TO SHIP THESE TWO OH MY GOD.

Also I'm like 99% sure the one on the right is the Mugger from Randy's route cause he mentioned having a knife head before and is part of the mob.... so I think the Mugger's actual name is Stabby?

the guy on the left says he used to have a gun head and used to be called Shooty before renaming himself Gougey for his demon job so there's that ig lol

[lizziestudieshistory]

5, 8, 13, 27

Paraphrasing questions because I'm too lazy to copy and paste... Thanks for asking!

5. Favourite weapon

Going to be honest weapons aren't my strong point... My conception of weapons is 'stabby stabby', 'bashy bashy', or 'shooty shooty' things 🤦‍♀️ By default it's probably a recurve bow because I used to do archery (although if we're counting things that can be weaponsised I'm going with the Bible 😉)

8. Last thing you read, listened to, or spoke about with a historical reference?

If we're talking references history but isn't actually history focused, then I've been reading Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay which is a historical fantasy heavily inspired by the Byzantine Empire.

Actual history is more boring, I was chatting with my thesis supervisor about visitation articles for the Diocese of Norwich and references to communion about half an hour ago

13. Favourite piece of trivia?

Again I'm a bit rubbish at this because I do unexciting history, unless you want communion stories then I've got loads!

However, I am particularly fond of Prince Rupert of the Rhines' dog, Boy or Boye, who was often depicted as a witch's familiar or the devil by the Parliamentarians. Boy was said to have prophetic abilities, catch bullets when fired at Prince Rupert, and would cock his leg whenever John Pym was mentioned. Boy did come to a sorry end though as he died at Marston Moor 😪

27. Favourite 'what if...' scenario from history?

I have loads of these, my top three are:

What if Oliver Cromwell had left for America instead of staying in England? (Charles I wins the British Civil War?!)

What if Constantine the Great hadn't become Emperor of Rome? (Would we still have Christianity?)

What if Oscar Wilde wasn't convicted of gross indecency? (Purely selfish, I just want more Wilde to read! We could substitute this for "what if Emily Bronte wrote another novel?")

[highqueenofelfhame]

if i had a soul to steal // 4.21 // thirteen.

From the second she heard the door open, her hand reached for the gun she knew lay on the nightstand, then disappeared back under her pillow. Thought it was likely it was just Rowan, she couldn’t be too careful and she had learned that the hard way.

Like the time she thought it was Rowan and spent a handful of minutes fighting for her life only to be taken and tortured for seven years. 

A heavy body dropped onto the bed beside her and she knew two things immediately: the first was that it definitely wasn’t Rowan. Never had he ever woken her up like that in their entire relationship. The second was that she didn’t have time to think up another plan, because with such a rude awakening anyone would be immediately awake and complaining. So instead of taking even a second to consider her options, she whipped her hand from beneath the pillow and slammed it into the face of whoever took up Rowan’s place in bed. 

A voice she recognized swore and, because she couldn’t trust anybody right now, she scrambled to get out of bed, and about halfway through the notion she realized just how injured she still was. The immediate and quick movement sent a sharp, searing pain to the wound that was barely beginning to heal in her side and having overshot the distance to get out of bed, she slammed to the floor. Aelin had no control over the series of curses that spilled from her mouth and instead pushed herself to her feet. One hand went to the wound, the other rose to point a gun at the trespasser. 

Fenrys Moonbeam rolled off the bed and moved around to stand in front of her, one hand raised in surrender and the other raised to his temple. 

“I thought you were supposed to be crippled. Shit. Not to mention, weren’t you a hell of a lot more mellow?” It was then that he opened his eyes to look at her and his eyes widened at her appearance. 

Risking a moment, Aelin shifted her gaze from his bleeding temple to the too-warm and suddenly damp spot at her side and she groaned. Blood was soaking through the white shirt that she wore and just as she looked back up to Fenrys to grill him to find if he could be trusted or not, the front door slammed into the wall and footsteps were pounding through the cabin. Fenrys mumbled another swear word, likely knowing that Rowan was going to kick his ass when he found the compromising position the two were in. This was going to be worse than any prank Aelin and Fenrys had ever played on him, because in none of those pranks did it look like Fenrys was responsible for stabbing the life out of his wife. This reality, however, did. 

“What the fuck is going on here?” 

“Before you go getting all stabby or shooty, she did that to herself. I merely sat down in bed—”

“I would not classify what you did as sitting down in bed,” Aelin hissed, but it was hard to keep her lips from tugging up at the corners. She had hardly seen the golden brother since her return, and until five minutes ago, had missed him. 

“—and she freaked out and fell out of bed. I’m not sure what happened while she was on the floor.”

“She has a two-inch stab wound held together with string, you moron,” Rowan shoved him out of the way and made for Aelin, “and you’re just letting her stand here?”

“You broke the godsdamn door in before I could help her!” This time, Aelin did smile, and nodded slightly to tell Rowan it was the truth. It didn’t help the situation at all, Rowan still carefully deposited her back onto the bed and raised her shirt and began quick work of inspecting her wound to figure out how bad she had managed to hurt herself. 

It was pretty bad, apparently, because he gave her a look sharp enough to deepen the wound altogether. Aelin merely shrugged.

~*~ 

After a very loud, very heated discussion, it was determined that Fenrys was no more a threat to Aelin than Rowan was. Fenrys and Aelin had always shared a special bond, the kind that best friends do where they would lay everything down for the other. It was a deep, but purely platonic, love that could not be wavered. Even by an assumed death, or a gash to the temple. 

It was halfway through that discussion when the conversation had turned from Fenrys to Aelin. Aelin, who was sitting at the table across from her conspiracy board and staring intently at the strings and blurred letters that she could hardly decipher, but it had been pertinent to get it all down while she was remembering things so freshly. 

“I want you to take me back to the cabin,” she had said, referring to the cabin she’d been found in, ignoring the shouting between Rowan and Fenrys, not particularly caring if they were listening. She had hardly noticed when they stopped yelling at each other and spun to look at her like she was absolutely out of her mind. 

Maybe she was. Maybe she was losing it, or had already lost it, or maybe since being pulled out of that tank in a cement basement she’d never really had it together at all. 

“Absolutely not,” Rowan said flatly, his voice an icy chill down her spine that didn’t register as much as it should have. 

“It’s not a request.” Where Rowan was all ice, Aelin was all fire. His ears burned at her words and they made his mouth dry with ash. Taking her back to the cabin was a huge risk and one he wasn’t so sure he was willing to take. Was anything worth risking her safety? Was it worth the risk of her getting arrested? Or taken from him in any capacity? “You can take me yourself or I can turn myself in under the single condition they take me there first.” The golden core of her eyes seared into him, burning holes where his eyes ought to be. Damn her. 

The answer was a huge and resounding no, one he didn’t have to even think about. But there was also no getting around her demand. When Aelin wanted something she got it by any means necessary. He knew that her threat to go by police or taxi were not empty, and at least if he was with her he might have some sort of control on the situation. 

It was how the three of them ended up in the Jeep Fenrys had driven in on the way to the place that Aelin had been found.

~*~

Nothing. 

There was absolutely nothing that told her a single damn thing about the person that had kidnapped and kept her hostage here. There was nothing on the walls, nothing in the now-empty tank, nothing washed halfway down a drain that told her anything of what happened here.

The things she couldn’t remember were still forgotten, the words and images choked down somewhere between her throat and stomach dying to get out with no release. There was still an empty space where a face should have been in her mind of the person that had brought her food or water or had beaten her until she was bruised and bloody and resembled little more than bleeding pulp. 

The only clues left behind were the drops of blood that had been processed by the bureau weeks ago upon her discovery, all of which had apparently belonged to Aelin. 

It was frustrating to say the least, that the only place she could remember being harbored no leads, no information. There was nothing here that wasn’t in her head. The only difference was that her hands were shaking harder than they did when she woke from her dreams. 

In an attempt to calm herself, to ground herself somewhere to the world, she rest her forehead against the cold, concrete wall and closed her eyes. One of her hands had her fingers splayed wide against the wall and the other was soon encapsulated by Rowan’s warm fingers that seemed to thaw her out and bring her down from whatever panic was trying to claw its way out. 

His touch reminded her that there was a door behind them, with stairs that led up and out. She was not trapped here. Nothing was keeping her here. Nothing could keep her with Rowan and Fenrys behind her. Rowan’s broad hand on her lower back had her lifting her head to look at him and she merely shook her head once. 

“There’s nothing here.” There was a resigned sigh in her voice, and Rowan leaned forehead to rest his forehead against her temple, nose grazing the side of her face, her jaw. Lips pressed beneath her ear, to her hair. “I needed to find something here.” 

But she didn’t. So when Rowan tugged on her fingers to lead her away, she let him. 

~*~

They thought she was sleeping. Aelin, with her head in Rowan’s lap in the back seat while Fenrys drove back toward their cabin and his fingers scratching at her scalp to soothe her. Eyes closed, her mind was wide awake so when Fenrys explained to Rowan that Lorcan was wavering in her innocence, she heard everything. 

Knowing she had never been his favorite person was one thing, but the fact that Lorcan was open to the idea that she was a murderer, had potentially kidnapped herself and was a danger to society was another thing entirely. Aelin couldn’t believe that anyone who knew her on such a personal level would ever even contemplate that she would leave Willow and Rowan behind. 

Willow. Her heart ached with a ferocity she was becoming all too familiar with. With every beat she felt like she was losing the life in her, the irony being that she had just gotten it back. But for how long? She was running out of time. She was a fugitive. Rowan was breaking so many different laws. Fenrys was breaking dozens of them. Everyone putting everything at risk for her and she couldn’t stand it. What would come of Willow, growing up in a world where her mother was a murderer? Where her mother was crazy? 

After what felt like ages, they pulled into a diner. It wasn’t quite in the middle of nowhere, but not in the hub of the city. It was somewhere they had brought Willow to when she was young, but not the same place Rowan had met Lyria. After Rowan mussed her hair and tugged a hat over her head, she wasn’t quite as recognizable. Aelin still lacked color in her face from the injury she bore, and with sunglasses on her nose to hide her brilliant blue eyes there wasn’t anything extraordinary about her.

Upon entering, they sat in a booth near a window. Aelin’s stomach grumbling so loudly it was almost comical. It was a risk, stopping to eat, but after Aelin’s constant insistence Rowan gave up and told Fenrys to pull off at the next stop. 

“Chocolate pancakes with strawberries, please,” she requested, handing off her menu before turning to lean into Rowan’s side. On the other side of the booth, Fenrys watched her closely. 

“You’ve looked better, I gotta say,” he drawled, eliciting a short from the golden blonde. Aelin didn’t have to look at Rowan to see his eye roll. She could feel it. 

“That bruise looks lovely on your face,” she crooned back, burrowing cold fingers beneath Rowan’s shirt. Fenrys laughed then earned a glare from Rowan that silently told him to keep it down. 

Their midnight dinner went smoothly, no hiccups, no police being called on the most wanted criminal in the country. It wasn’t until they were leaving, when her shoulder crashed with another set of broad ones that she was recognized. 

“Laena?” 

Something in her head throbbed, the nickname jerking her back several decades while she looked up into the too-handsome face of Archer Finn. 

Laena. The nickname gifted to her at the orphanage she stayed in for the year before the government managed to locate her Ashryver family, before they could get the adoption details in order. 

“I’m sorry,” Rowan said. “I think you have the wrong person.” He guided her back to the car, but she couldn’t stop the glances she sent over her shoulder. 

Faces of two young boys that she had played with, long since forgotten and buried under a mental suppression so black she had forgotten they existed at all. 

@starseternalnighttriumphant​ @musicmaam​ @city-of-fae​ @empire-of-wildfire​ @the-regal-warrior​ @schmlip-scribble​ @kandasboi​ 

idk guys i’m trying to be better at tagging but i dont have the mental energy and i’m lazy lmfao

[thenightmareofyourdrems]

@damnfoxed || Fox

Of COURSE he’d voice the thoughts she hadn’t wanted to- she should be used to it by now that their minds both saw the worst in people ( because people WERE the worst, they both knew that ), in situations, and often ended up in the same angry-sad place. The worst part was he had nothing to offer him to argue. He was right- they were ALONE, the others were gone; Bellamy, Echo, Octavia, now Clarke and Raven and everyone that liked being the decision maker. 

Clarke had made her CHOICES, set this previously peaceful world literally on FIRE and now she was gone. Raven too had made choices even if hers had been less… theatrical in nature, and she too was gone. Bellamy had been missing along with Echo and Octavia since after the fight in the tavern, since before the eligius prisoners were awoken. NO ONE was left to clean up except Murphy and Emori, directed by Indra who if Fox were honest, seemed to want peace only slightly more than fanatics did. Fox would help but they both knew she wasn’t a player here- she wasn’t Sanctum born, nor did she had Murphy and Emori’s cover, nor Indra’s firepower. She was a sounding board. “You’re not alone. Yes the others are gone but honestly… is that REALLY such a bad thing? Think about how much worse it might get if they were still around, slowly killing off or pissing off the people that live here. Dark cloud: we have chaos to deal with BUT,” her voice brightened, “silver lining that the causes are gone and after six years of dealing with my dumb ass you’re basically an expert in chaos control.” 

Her voice lost the forced brightness and returned to a normal cadence. “You have Emori, she’s playing this Kaylee thing well, right? She’s got your back. And yeah, Indra’s kind of… stabby and shooty, but I don’t think she’d let you die, not now anyway,” not while he played a GOD to the inhabitants of this planet. She hesitated for a second before reluctantly adding, “What about Russell?” Could he be useful, she meant? He’d seemed to play along so far. There was something in his eyes Fox DIDN’T TRUST, but whatever agenda he had for himself it was so far lining up with the Earth- and space-born people’s. 

A portent full of inevitable danger had the situation become. Funny really considering the initial reason behind the Prime role. Behind the treason and the backstabbing. An endless life had he wanted. An escape from the inevitable death. Rarely did people survive long in this world, anyway; how could he have thought that he’d found a way to change the rules? How could he have believed that he’d deserved to be an exception? The skaikru team had brought about nothing but death, after all. Every planet they set foot on, eventually burning to ashes. Why would the universe accept a skaikru GOD? Why would anyone wish for an immortal John Murphy?

“What about the moment they find out we are not Gods?” This’d be enthralling. Who would prevent a bunch of fanatics from burning them? Who would save them the moment they got caught? What would happen, when all the masks shattered into pieces? When the façade of monarchs fell? It was unimportant. At least for now, it was unimportant. Emori had made sure their performance worked just fine. She’d memorized her speeches, turned into the PERFECT Queen -an extraordinary and very hot queen-. They’d be fine. He had to focus. The longer he stayed unfocused, the more innocents died.

It was Fox’s next words that triggered a shrug. An ignorance. “I don’t know. We killed his whole family. Do you really think we can blindly rely on him?” They couldn’t even count on each other occasionally; everyone changing rather quick depending on their purposes, their aspirations and emotions. Anyone could lie to the other. Anyone could betray, manipulate. It wouldn’t be the first time, anyway. Experience had shown much. “You didn’t mention yourself at all. You really think you can stay out of this?” He joked, teased. Perhaps Fox had thought of herself as useless, insignificant, he was well-aware that she wasn’t, though. “It’s the lunatics that want Raven dead that should be worrying us the most. And someone needs to make sure the children are alright. So… How would you feel about babysitting?”

[directdogman]

Hey hound silly question here. Which of your characters could you beat in a fight?

I'm confident I could beat: Randy

I think I could beat: Jerry, God, Stabby, Shooty, Roger

50/50: Oliver

I'd lose a fair fight with: Norm, Theoroar

I'd be annihilated by: Bigfoot, Mayor Mingus

Not included is Gingi (who fights very dirty but isn't actually that physically strong. I have no clue where I'd place this thing) and Karen, who is too powerful for me to even mention (outside of this sublistual paragraph.) Thank you.

[swolsolecole]

@extrahoo liked for a starter!

He’s scrounging around in the Commonwealth, looting various houses and taking items that might prove useful back at Sanctuary. It’s another one of those journeys to collect resources, and to relieve the boredom that accumulates from sitting around. Not to mention, there seemed to be some people settling down in the ruins, and not the type who would be friendly. Cole was there mainly to make sure that the area was clear of the stabby-shooty-rob-you-blind kinds of folks.

He’s finding evidence of people having been there, and he’s busy examining some trace evidence of what might have been a fire. There’s some noise, like someone is nearby, and Cole instinctively draws out his pistol and stands his ground.

“Alright, who’s there?” His eyesight is poor and so he’s constantly changing the aim of his weapon.

[curestardust]

if you want: great animation / vampires 

I was initially drawn to this anime due to the character designs. And that’s basically all I got as well.

Let me start with some of the good stuff first. The production value is up to par. The animation is great and especially shows its strength during melee encounters. The music was also a amazing to me with mostly electronic and synth heavy tracks. And umm...yeah.

Now, what was my main problem with Sirius? It completely breaks the “Show, don’t tell” rule. As in, this anime takes monolouging and flashbacks to the next level. As i said above, the fights are nice, however they’re not very long and don’t seem to have any structure to them (just go, shooty, stabby, boom boom and it’s over). This is a problem because these fights are the highlights of the whole thing. The rest of the time we’re either watching a 10 minute long fight scene or someone giving us some mad exposition to either themselves or some other character who don’t respond to anything they’re saying. It becomes so mindnumbingly boring after a while that I wanted to scream everytime it happened after a while.

The second problem is the characters and how many there are. Too many, is the answer. We have our main character Yuliy, his gang of 4 characters. Then 2 other unrelated characters shove themselves into the protagonists bussiness and then we have the antagonists aka the vampires. It’s even worse that almost everyone has a different plotline and we don’t see them interacting much so there’s no time for us to get invested in them. In my opinion, the 2 unrelated characters could’ve been easily cut out of the story and nothing would’ve been lost.

And the last thing is the story. It’s just so...meh? The initial clonfict is that there are jaegers and vampires and they’re trying to kill each other. Right. Then we find out about some artifact that everyone wants and then rest of the story is just people chasing after the item. The item which we don’t really know anything about or what it does. Riveting stuff.

Listen, if you want some nice animation mixed with some supernatural stuff, you might like this but if Sirius didn’t catch your attention the first time, no reason to go back to it. [6/10] (x)

Recommend: HELL Yeah! | Yes | Eh??? | Nope | This anime killed my parents

if you want: well, it’s BNHA lmao / amazing animation / amazing music / shounen / superpowers and heroes / to have a good fucking time

So yeah, I’ve finally gotten around to watching BNHA and goddamn, does it deserve the hype surrounding it.

I don’t want to draw this out much. Everyone knows what BNHA is at this point so giving an extensive review for it would be kinda useless. Let’s see...the animation is incredible and I could count on one hand the wonky characters I saw throughout all 13 episodes and those were all faraway shots. The music also falls into the same category, nothing to complain about. Same with the voice-acting. Like DAMN. Most importantly though, not only is the technical aspect of the anime more than up to par, they work together in way where if even one aspect was worse, we wouldn’t have gotten the same quality. The flawless and detailed animation gives a feeling to the fights while the music swells and quiets at exactly the right times to make your heart beat faster and get you as invested as possible. It’s truly amazing and I can’t praise it enough.

The story and the characters lack in some areas but not in a drastically bad way. They don’t take away from the overall experience at all and my complains are more nitpicky than anything. They did well with the short runtime the first season had. Besides the (2) main character(s) we have a few more who are part of the main cast, who get the most screentime. Then we’ve the rest of the class. Making all of them unique characters and giving each of them at least some amount of screentime was a great choice that pays off in the latter half of the season but some of them still felt really expendable and could’ve been removed without any detriment to the story. Still, it’s fine. 

They managed to fit a surprising amount of plot into these episodes. Our main character goes through an entire personal arc, then we have the school arc and then the ending arc. Throughout the first two, there’s also a rivalry plot that further develops our characters and their relationship. 

This is a shounen and it’s obvious that the target democraphic is kids. The sometimes ridiculously cartoonish superpowers and constant flashbacks to certain scenes remind you of that. And it’s...and incredible anime of its kind. Watching it made me feel like when I watched Naruto as a young kid. The world, the characters and the powers got me completely immersed and absolutely hyped. [9/10] (x)

Recommend: HELL Yeah! | Yes | Eh??? | Nope | This anime killed my parents

if you want: immature and over-the-top comedy / virgin beta male main characters

Grand Blue is admittedly wild and all over the place and yet, it left such a small impression on me that I don’t even know what to write about it.

As last season’s most viewed anime were surprisingly decent, I decided to go ahead and check out the 2018 Summer Season’s most popular original anime: Grand Blue.

We start out with a quite normal set-up. Iori is going to start going to college and has decided to move to his uncle’s diving shop for the time being. At about 5 minutes into the first episode, all hell breaks lose. Iori immediately runs into a bunch of buff naked guys loudly shouting in the lobby at which point he decides to peace out and go back home. But we wouldn’t have this anime if he succeded so this is where he gets introduced to 2 members of the diving club who very enthusiastically urge him to join as well. Later on, the diving club grows in numbers by one of Iori’s female cousins, Chisa, a weirdly aggressive weeb guy, Kouhei, and another member whom I won’t spoil.

Now, don’t get confused. Grand Blue isn’t a diving anime, even though the majority of the time we’re watching the various messes the diving club gets into.

GB is a comedy. The jokes are basically that everyone is constantly getting drunk and naked. And that when characters’ react to things their faces morph into overly detailed ridiculous expressions, reminiscent of Asobi Asobase. But would that be enough to shoot this anime to the top? Ha. The reason this is such a fan favorite is that the main characters are virgin beta males. I’m guessing the general weeb audience finds this very relatable (lmao). When I read a review saying that this was finally a “manly anime” because it had beta cucks and buff guys, my brain basically went blue screen and tried to reboot itself. 

I ain’t gonna lie, I laughed and chuckled at a lot of stuff. However, about halfway, Iori and Kohei somehow befriend a group of other virgins from their class and we suddenly got segments of them hanging out and I HATEEEEEED all of those scenes. The whole thing was that they wanted to FUCK the wohman VERY much. And it was so boring and just plain not funny. Not to mention, all of their friends were completely despicable and disgusting and I just UGH.

No one has a personality in this anime. Iori goes from “I respect wohman” to “I wanna fuck the wohman very much, boobies” in 5 seconds, depending on who he is with. Everyone else has about 1 personality trait which are only used to make jokes. I don’t even remember anyone’s name, I had to look them up for this review.

Sometimes Grand Blue is hilarous. Sometimes cringe-inducing. Honestly, if you want some mindless, meaningless and really over-the-top comedy, you may like this but if you’re looking for anything else from an anime then no, it isn’t worth watching. [5/10] (x)

Recommend: HELL Yeah! | Yes | Eh??? | Nope | This anime killed my parents

[1-800-scaryphone]

also on the note of crossovers i have more thought on the d.esu one i mentioned the other day (im so sorry skhfjdh)

i'm gonna go over both games bc the first one has some vibes to it too but here we go!

ok so the gist of BOTH games is that the world is in the midst of an apocalypse (both of which are caused by demons), and the only hope of salvation for humanity is to kinda "reboot" the world. in devil s.urvivor 1, it's very heavy on religious themes, and not only can you become godly and save the world THAT way, but you can defy god and literally become a demon king. it's a good game.

in the second game, you literally reboot the world however you see fit, which - in-game - separates your party into several "alignments," because none of them can agree on how they want the new world to be.

so! i kinda wanna talk abt where d.ialtown characters would fall on these alignments, since i just think it's Inchresting. i really wish there was a quiz or something for this. maybe i'll make one someday

D.ESU1

the first game has several alignments, divided into the holy, unholy, and three OTHER solutions to save the world that don't involve the protagonist literally becoming a saint or demon.

Kingdom of Saints

just like it sounds, this is the "holy" ending, where you use the power you've accrued throughout the game to become a saint/godly figure who can control the demons and send em back from whence they came.

i feel like it goes without saying that norm would encourage this route. i also think it'd be really funny if this was a "d.ietown" scenario, so gingi going through all these steps while assuming god is dead only to literally BECOME a godly figure (and probably meet god and have him be like "what the FUCK happened") is really funny. also, obviously, were callum in gingi's position, this would be the route he'd go for. that god complex i s2g

karen might also be part of this one just bc she is SUCH a warlord against demons in d.ietown

King of Demons

the "unholy" ending, in which you use the power you've accrued to rule over the demons...as a fellow demon.

the protagonist in d.esu1 has his cousin encourage him to go this route, but i think gingi could fully go this way on their own, considering that they're literally a demon in d.ietown. i also like to think that stabby and shooty would be part of this route, since, yknow, demons. they'd probably try to get gingi to make them their demonic underlings so they could be super powerful.

Desperate Escape

in this ending, you literally just escape the city (which has been barricaded so that no demons escape) and put the whole world in jeopardy iirc.

selfish as they are, this is definitely something gingi would do. depending on the scenario, i think randy might be the one to encourage this ending too, since he is just cowardly enough to do it.

Silent Revolution

in this ending, the protagonist is able to pacify the demons by using their accrued power, and the world as a whole uses demons and their power to advance modern society. in order to do all of that, they also need to "hack the planet," etc etc.

i can say, without a doubt, this would be oliver's route of choice. a way to solve the problem without changing yourself, and a way that uses his technical know-how, at that.

Song of Hope

in this ending, the protagonist is able to drive off the demons by using music (in a complicated way i won't get into rn).

hilariously enough, i think this would probably be a route that you get into with nathan h.anover, because "music"...

D.ESU 2

the original alignments i wanted to make this post about. god this is so fun to think about.

Meritocracy

a world in which the strong eat the weak, basically. you have to work to prove yourself to the powers that be, and if you aren't strong enough, you fuckin DIE. the world is ruled by those who are stronger, better, etc, and the people who "deserve it" thrive.

imo, this sounds like EXACTLY the sort of society mingus would try to build.

Egalitarian

an "equal" society; everyone is treated equally, given an equal share, has equal talents. peaceful to its core.

despite all the shit i give callum, this would be the society he would back. remember: the dial-up was supposed to HELP. he was so passionate about it because he wanted to help society thrive, to help those who had been disabled, just like him. despite all the "bad" that came out of it, he had GOOD intentions.

Restoration

bring the world back to the way it was before, before the apocalypse ever happened...though there is no guarantee it won't happen AGAIN.

with this also sort of being the "coward's way out" (i'm so sorry d.aichi i love you), reverting to a time that might inevitably doom the world all over again, i feel like this would be a randy route.

Liberation

free humanity as a whole from the looming threat of the septentriones (the entities/aliens/what have you that are currently attacking the world and throwing it into an apocalypse), and from the possibility that the "end" will come again. humanity is free, albeit at the cost of how FUCKED the world became during the apocalypse.

a norm route to its core. fight for your freedom and prove humanity's worth. i could also see oliver backing him on this one (boys gettin on!)

A Brand New World

hey, so what if we said "fuck the septentriones" and ALSO gave ourselves a whole new world to work with? humanity gets to be free, and it also gets to thrive on an earth that isn't completely dead. sounds nice.

this is a sort of "unlockable" route in-game, but i can completely see all of the dateables supporting it, so yay! i think it'd be really fucking funny if by some sort of irony, god was the one to propose the idea too. just "fuck it, i'll give you a new planet if you can pull this off"

there's also endings for record breaker but no i won't get into them, i've talked too long akjfkshfs. thank you for coming to my ted talk