#technical liveblog?

[thedarkmistress16]

back on my Lupin shitposting again

wow lupin and jigen are hella gay

why is jigen going to the same school as lupin in japan? Isn't he American? if fuji and goemon appear I'm gonna lose my shit

the part one instrumentation is neat

me on ep 2: this shit is boring (ends up turning it off)

i thought lupin I would be a top tier gent apparently not in his old age and my heart is crushed and my dreams are shattered. A world where lupin II isn't as bad as his father is a sad world indeed

even though this show has lupin II in it he is still a mystery to me

the background art is the best visually (the animation is kind of ass at the end, I noticed in particular though it could've been like that I guess)

jigen has a leather jacket?? ❤️❤️❤️❤️ (even if it's just his reg jacket the lighting is still 💋)

I predicted that yoko was gonna die by an unintended bullet but this works too (what happened was low-key hella dark)

I was holding out for a zeni tease and the most I got was a kind of look alike

TL;DR: canon-wise, this backstory kinda doesn't make sense so not sure if it's supposed to be canon but it was okay for what it was, which was lupin and jigen getting to know each other, doing shenanigans, and growing into their future selves pretty quickly. 4/10 for my disinterest in the beginning which picked up a bit after watching the third episode. Now I wanna watch the part 1 eng dub.

Bonus:

no one:

lupin: *declares himself the next thief of kin and steals jigen's heart*

Me: SO GAY OMG

[graceful-not]

????? LITERALLY TOXIC MARRIED STRAIGHT COUPLE "you should apologize for cheating on me in my dream >:(!!" ENERGY???? HELLO????????? THIS IS SO FUNNY I FELT LIKE HE OR KAI WAS GONNA SHOUT "THATS IT IM GETTING A DIVORCE" EVERY 2 SECONDS OF THIS SCENE

[fagbearentertainment]

Love when in One Piece someone will be freaking out and Luffy is in the background just standing like this

[eerna]

why is Arcane so GOOD. what the HECK.

[mmyashas]

they have added only one creator because the new dynamic for korean members is really different– its going to be treated w/ attention because it's the first time a creator that has a totally different alphabet joins the qsmp!

[thewertsearch]

Anonymous asked: I love the god tier rules. if your death isn't interesting and narratively satisfying it simply doesn't count, try again, we're trying to tell a cool cosmic story here! @captorations asked: the whole heroic/just death thing is really funny to me because it's a commentary on how narratives work. like. for all intents and purposes every major character is already god tier. by narrative convention no major character is going to die even semi-permanently outside of a heroic or just situation. john getting randomly stabbed on his quest bed was neither, of course that wasn't going to kill him for good. (alpha timeline) dave isn't going to fucking trip over a crocodile and fall in lava and die. rose isn't going to experience some terrible consequences from running with needles. jade isn't going to randomly croak from radiation poisoning. in a practical short-term sense, god tier doesn't do jack shit except crank your power level up a notch. and even that is up for debate. and of course narratives work the way they do because of fan reception. only heroic or just deaths are accepted, anything else is unsatisfying. and unsatisfying is far worse than tragic. consider that if all the trolls had been god tier, they would have died anyway! the only possible exception is equius. point is. homestuck continues to be an 8000 page lecture on How Stories Work. and it's great

Oh, that's true! By their very nature, Heroic and Just deaths are always going to be dramatic, plot-critical affairs. Therefore, ascending to God Tier means that you'll never die an NPC's death.

I'm thinking now about whether the Just/Heroic framework would encompass all plot-relevant Player deaths. Equius is certainly an ambiguous case, and a death by illness feels like it would be neither. Mind you, how often do major characters really get taken out by illness?

The first example I can think of is Goku's heart virus, which definitely killed him non-Heroically - but this sort of proves my point, because it happens outside of the story's primary timeline. By Homestuck's own rules, this is a doomed Goku, and he's probably not subject to the same protection.

Can we really picture Alpha Goku getting taken out by a heart attack? On a meta level, we know that that's not going to happen - and that's the sort of plot armor that God Tier is riffing off.

[ballgame]

During the mouse balloon puzzle, Noelle doesn't acknowledge Ralsei at all when assigning everyone roles. No one comments on this and Ralsei and Susie just opt to take turns jumping on the switch.

[sharptoothed-gaze]

Oh btw, when Bad stepped away for a bit and the ex-admins were talking to chat they were answering some questions for us!

When asked about fav headcanons, Ryan said that Sunny owns a clothing store!

Ama said that both Chayanne and Lullah hatched into crows that follow Philza around in other universes. Apparently, Ama also has a longer fav headcanon, but it was too long to share.

Ama also said she saw someone draw the death siblings as slightly red and blue tinted crows, and that she thought it was cute!

[celluzu]

POV: Your name is Cell circa. 2015 and you're starting to feel a littttle bit hungry:

[deliriousblue]

really enjoying every time saint says the most insanely romantic things and then the camera cuts to the Live Classmate Reaction

[radiantmists]

it took me a minute (read: several days) to pin down why i liked this comment in the epilogue so much, but i have it now.

the whole book has given us a lot of xie lian's journey to understanding how much he's loved, and shown us his struggle with that, as well as his realization of how much he loves hua cheng in return. but what we barely get glimpses of is the monumental realization hua cheng was having, that xie lian loves him.

because, pre-canon, the last he'd seen of xie lian was when he was going around as white no-face, threatening to disperse wu ming just for calling him the wrong name. and hua cheng loved that xie lian, and dying for him was his greatest honor, but im sure he was under no illusions that xie lian cared for him in return.

and even after he'd gained eight hundred years of confidence, become the mischievous flirt we meet as san lang, its clear that he's so desperately afraid of coming on too strong. i was red-stringing like crazy trying to figure out why he didn't tell xie lian he was wu ming after the cave of ten thousand gods, but in retrospect I think it was that simple: not wanting to overwhelm him, not wanting to ask for too much.

and we see this cracking at the very end, with his genuine surprise that xie lian would be just as upset over hau cheng jumping into the lava as he was over xie lian falling.

but the transition from the barely dawning realization of "i would be your stepping stone, but i know you wouldn't want that" to the trust and confidence of him having become a spoilt-rotten bully because he knows that xie lian will give him what he asks for, that he actually *loves* to give hua cheng whatever he wants?

i love that for him, i love that for them, and it makes for a wonderful ending.

[thedarkmistress16]

i am literally stan in s13 ep11 like wow I never knew i was an animal activist until today

[your-turn-to-role]

i also love the detail of percy jumping off the walkway, flubbing the landing, and going "vax makes it look so easy"

[givemeureyes]

nothing brings me more joy in life than juno steel’s “what.”. he never asks it. it’s always so exasperated but also deadpan. i need to hear it once per episode

[marmot-bumblebee-231]

so far wonton had accidentally clicked into rise of Skywalker and started it and we had a fight about seating

[lunali-moon]

.jmj error it's just Martin and Jon beating the shit out of Jonah