#there’s probably an episode about that premise somewhere

[montaguethelorekeeper]

Sometimes I think about various mainstream fictional alien species and wonder about what humans are like from their perspective.

Take the majority of Star Trek aliens. Do to costuming and budget restraints, most alien designs are just human actors (occasionally dogs) with some extra stuff glued on.

Are humans oddly featureless to most aliens? Do human ears seem strangely clipped? Faces too small? Features too smooth? Uncannily skull-like? Lacking in built up and bulked out prostheses used to pad out the actor’s features to make room for alien design, are human faces considered gaunt and hollow by the intergalactic community in universe?

I just wonder if there’s some poor Klingon out there with a conspiracy board after watching a few too many human make up tutorial videos and realizing how much of the universe humanity could replace without anyone noticing.

[tenebraevesper]

Sonic Boom Shatterverse (Sonic Prime/Sonic Boom)

I'm certain that, after seeing the ending of Sonic Prime, a lot of people have thrown around ideas in regards to what had happened to the Paradox Prism and where Shadow teleported it via Chaos Control. One would assume that he would make sure to teleport it somewhere where no one can find it.

So, how about accidentally teleporting it to a different Sonic Universe?

Think about a scenario where Shadow manages to Chaos Control to a different cave and figures that nobody would be able to find the Paradox Prism there. Sure, this cave has a bunch of paintings in it, but otherwise, it looks very isolated and very empty, so he leaves the Paradox Prism there, figuring no one will use it and that it's completely safe there.

However, as Prime!Shadow Chaos Controls back home, he has no clue that the cave he accidentally teleported the Paradox Prism to was actually a very specific cave belonging to a very specific hedgehog.

Yep, you read this right! Prime!Shadow somehow ended up teleporting the Paradox Prism into the Sonic Boom universe, and what's worse, he left it in Boom!Shadow's cave (who wasn't around to witness this).

To make things even better, this also appears to be the very same cave where Sonic and his friends have found that mech from Episode 065: Mech Suits Me, meaning that yes, there is a possibility that they are going to find it - again.

So, let me ask you folks - how long would it take for the Boom Team to not only end up in this cave again (along with Boom!Eggman and Boom!Shadow), but Boom!Sonic being the one to shatter the Paradox Prism and forced to fix reality.

What would the Shatterverse Variants of the Boom Team be? Would Boom!Tails have a Nine-like variant? Would Boom!Knuckles be the Captain of a pirate crew? Would Boom!Amy end up as a micromanaging robot? I imagine, for hilarity's sake, Sticks to act pretty much the same in every Shatterspace reality, trying to confirm some crazy multiverse conspiracy.

What about the Boom version of the Chaos Council? Boom!Eggman is a lovable goofball whose main plan is to turn the island into an amusement park. So, what if the Boom version of New Yoke City is actually a New Yoke Amusement Park, where everyone is forced to attend the rides and eat junk food, and those who refuse end up working as corporate slaves- ahem, employees at the amusement park.

Of course, the highlight would be these two idiots, who probably couldn't work together even if the world is literally falling apart before their eyes.

Yeah, as much as I love Boom!Shadow, there is no way he'd be able to work along with Boom!Sonic without some serious persuasion. Admittedly, Sonic Boom is a comedy show, so the drama would be minimal. Nevertheless, I would love for these two to actually develop a partnership akin to their Sonic Prime counterparts.

As a matter of fact, imagine a situation where Boom!Shadow has to save Boom!Sonic, and once their reality is repaired, they go right back to the inevitable fighting.

But, this is just a premise I came up with. Do you guys have any ideas?

EDIT: So, how does Sonic shatter the Paradox Prism, allowing the Shatterverse to happen?

Basically, Team Sonic and Eggman start fighting over this shiny rock they found in the cave (aka the Paradox Prism) and Shadow returns and is pissed off that they're in his home, so his first move is to tackle Sonic right into the Paradox Prism, causing it to shatter.

Also, he keeps blaming Sonic for it shattering during their whole adventure, even when Sonic points out Shadow pushed him into it.

#Sonic the Hedgehog Analyzer (Masterlist)

[chaifootsteps]

my bets for the next three HB episodes:

Blitzo seeing the ghost of his mother is his big cathartic moment that will be his character development. he'll change from this point on - and by change I mean he'll still be rude to Moxxie but he'll forget ever having stood up for himself in order to be Stolas' knight in shining armor who exists solely to help him fix problems Stolas himself caused. at worst they'll even make his mother imply he needs to change to find love again instead of anything cathartic for Blitzo's trauma, like telling him it was just an accident and she didn't blame him. the show won't even pretend to care about the business from now on

the Millie suicide thing will still happen. knowing how long production takes and how much the crew refuses to change tack, the scene will basically be intact from the leaks

probably a brief flashback to when Blitzo recruited Millie, to throw her fans some crumbs

Loona will...idk, have a line or two and that's probably it...? going by the ghost leaks she still hates Blitzo and he's fine with that, so no change there

Stolas will lose his titles/palace due to breaking demon law. Both he and the writers decide this is Blitzo's fault and act like not only did Stolas never have a choice, he did what he did to support the business and not to get sex. (the audience in unison responds with 'that's cap')

IMP are probably going to go on the run from DHORKs/CHERUB but decide to stay and defeat them easily since the writers can't be bothered with them and they're considered joke villains by Viv compared to the 'real' storyline i.e. the Goetia family drama. The cast once again acts like only Blitzo is responsible for them playing fast and loose with human disguises/general incompetence. The whole plot point is just an excuse for a lowest moment for Blitzo who feels abandoned by everyone until they come back and band together. This moment will likely be the closest thing to what the premise promised, if it isn't totally glanced over

Blitzo going to Stolas' rescue when he stupidly goes over to his now-iced over palace to talk to Via is framed as Blitzo's redemption.

Anyway, Blitzo fights against Andre despite him being way more powerful while Stolas clings to him like a tiny baby and does absolutely sweet FA to help out while IMP risk their lives for him, again. Stolas doesn't say thank you for this because of course he doesn't.

Somewhere in the midst of this Stol1tz happens and it's the worst ever. Only Blitzo risking his and his employee's lives is enough to have Stolas deign to forgive him

forgot to mention but it was probably implied - my cynicism has kicked back in so rn I'm betting not only does Stolas not apologize or learn anything, the show just moves on to the next thing like it was never implies in Apology Tour that he needed to learn anything. The show's position is Stolas Did Nothing Wrong and it sticks to it at all costs

season ends with Hell Christmas which is mostly indistinguishable from Earth Christmas for no reason. Stolas has lost Via but got Blitzo as a consolation prize, with Blitzo promising to fix yet more of Stolas' problems for him by taking responsibility for his daughter leaving him because of course none of this mess is Stolas' fault

(the rest of IMP is in the background somewhere; the show doesn't care what they're doing at this point)

100%. Blitzo's mom's ghost, assuming she doesn't outright tell him that Stolas is great and he's bad for not realizing it, is probably going to give him some spiel about how "he deserves to love and be loved" which he'll put into practice by continuing to abuse Moxxie but allowing Stolas to kick him in the head whenever it makes Stolas feel better.

Remember, Stolas is """"trying!""""

[dokidokitsuna]

Goldilocks in Grimmland

This is so, so premature...but my muses have been with me from start to finish on this idea and I adore it, so I'm talking about it now! :D

So in the RWBY NeverFell AU, Yang's little mishap during the Vytal Festival actually follows her around for quite a while; with pretty much everyone but her closest friends whispering behind her back about what she did to Mercury. This is very isolating and frustrating for her, especially since she knows from Ruby's eye-witness account that Merc was definitely faking his injury. She's determined to figure out how and why she saw that illusion, and also kinda wants revenge against Mercury for low-key ruining her life. ^^; And her investigation eventually leads her back to him...except, he looks a bit different now. Shocked by his Grimmification and eager to know more, she dives even deeper into the mystery.

Unfortunately, by this time, Salem has arrived at Beacon, parking her giant whale outside the premises similarly to the way she did in Volume 8. ^^ And upon landing, it creates a Grimm-based ecosystem-- a dark forest that gradually spreads outwards the longer it stays there, only adding to the population of Grimm overrunning the area. That's a whole other issue, that the rest of Team RWBY will probably be helping with. For Yang, it's mostly just a giant hindrance to her investigation. She's got suspicions about Mercury (and knowing he's a silver-eyed warrior, suspicions about her deceased mother) and she's sure that the answers are somewhere in that Grimm-whale. But with the death-forest of Grimm surrounding it, it seems impossible for her to get there.

Until, she remembers she knows someone with a semblance that's perfect for the job. ^^

+++

There are several reasons why I love this idea: it gives Yang the spotlight for once in her life; it makes Mercury relevant; it provides an opportunity to get members of the main cast close to Salem.

But the biggest one is: IT GIVES ME AN EXCUSE TO USE REN!!!!! (≧∇≦)ﾉ

I've always loved Lie Ren; like Penny, he's one of those characters who's just impossible to screw up (in basic concept, anyway...). Across RWBY's many adaptations and spinoffs, he's always adorable and always looks cool in combat.

The only problem with him, and the reason I've rarely spoken about him, is that...people don't seem to care about him?? ;_; Specifically, in the source material, he's given so little to do that there just isn't much of a reason to care about him. He barely has any motivations that don't boil down to some variant of "protect Nora". Even Nora herself is given character connections and talking points outside of "her man", but Ren has no one and nothing else. He gets a couple episodes of spotlight in Volume 4, and that's it for the whole series. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I mean, just think about this: Ren is the only member of the main cast who doesn't have a character song. o_o Look it up, it's true. I had to look it up just to make sure, because I found it appalling...this is a character who was originally voiced by the creator of the show; why is he such an afterthought???

So I decided, if I don't like this, I gotta do right by him in NeverFell, somehow. And it was REALLY hard to think of a place to put him, until I suddenly struck gold with this idea. ^^ Yang's little 'detective story arc' had been a thing for a while, and although I wanted her to be separate from Team RWBY, I never really liked the idea of her being alone. A character like her works best with someone to bounce off, and Ren's coolness is a great contrast for her bubbly personality.

Plus, I think putting Ren in a position like this could service him, too: not only does it give me an opportunity to add his semblance, backstory, and maybe even a Nuckelavee fight to the plot in the absence of a V4 timeline; it could give him a chance to "flesh himself out" the way Nora did in V7. Y'know, allow him to really connect with someone besides Nora-- and then, maybe seeing how similar-yet-different Yang is to his childhood friend is what'll get him to realize that he's never done this before. That maybe he's stuck to the familiar dynamic of that early relationship for so long, that there are different sides of his own personality that he's forgotten about. Sides that are coming out now that he's on this new adventure, with a new friend~.

[theshipminer]

Decided to rewrite Hazbin Hotel because I was bored

You can consider this a fix, or whatever. I don't really care. I just thought that the show had fantastic ideas, meh execution. It's whatever. Anyways, shoutouts and apologies to my sister, @aimasup, for bouncing ideas with me, and for being the one who had to listen to me ramble on about all of this. If anyone wants to ask me questions or anything, I'll be happy to answer. Anyways, endless rambling for what basically is fanfiction under the read more:

Premise is still the same: Hotel in Hell re-Habilitates Horrible Has-beens

Probably at least three seasons

Season 1: Episode 1: Probably reuse the pilot for the first episode, albeit with their updated designs and other miscellaneous improvements.

This season establishes Hell, the Hotel, and other wacky shenanigans that the hotel goes through to rehabilitate sinners

Hitler probably shows up at least more than once

The Overlords of Hell are the main antagonists

There’s also the looming deadline of the yearly purge, so that’s fun

Season 1 finale: The Hotel staff finally go to heaven! Charlie’s ideas are finally being recognized! But, oh no! The head of the angels, Adam is a dick!

It gets worse! They couldn’t wait an entire year, so the next purge is in three months! What is everyone to do?!

In the end, everyone except Charlie has a great time. Alastor is conveniently absent for the entire episode.

Season 2: business as usual? Everyone is extra excited, except Charlie. Perhaps the time has come to ask daddy for help? More than usual?

Oh, yeah. Lucifer is probably gonna be one of the patrons in this season, I guess. Maybe we also discover what happened to Lilith in this season, but then again, it will probably depend on what the show does with her.

“I miss my wife, Tails. I miss her a lot.”

Somewhere, the truth finally gets out. Charlie has been keeping it in all this time because she hopes that maybe talking to Lucifer will solve this whole dilemma and Adam, massive dick that he is, won’t attack a former angel!

It doesn’t work.

Season 2 mid-season two-parter: the purge happens early. A massive battle between Hell and Adam’s forces happens. Maybe the hotel staff and the Overlords team up for this one, with some “persuasion” from Alastor?

Naturally, Adam is defeated, and Charlie wants to redeem him as well. The Overlords disagree, and take him prisoner.

While in captivity, Adam lets slip something interesting: God is nowhere to be seen. And he hasn’t been for a very long time now. Naturally, the overlords are interested, but of course they won’t want to let an angel leave alive, now wouldn’t they? The audience doesn’t learn this until the end of the season, when Alastor himself learns this vital piece of information. And only when he spills it to the main cast.

RIP Adam, you won’t be missed.

The rest of the season is back to business…? Nope! After hearing that God is missing, the Overlords realise that Heaven is basically prime for the taking. So they’re planning a full-blown war.

To help in this war, they plan to unseal the Root of All Evil, who shall henceforth be referred to as ‘Roo’.

Roo is considered the most powerful of all demons, even more than Lucifer. The angels sealed her away a long time ago, but the seal has started to weaken.

Season 2 two-parter finale: After learning about the vital piece of information, Alastor tells everyone that the Overlords are planning to go to war with Heaven, and also about Roo. He doesn’t tell them about God, though. Where would be the fun in that?

Roo has been unsealed and naturally, the Overlords can’t control her. Who could have seen this coming?

Charlie , naturally, doesn’t like war. The battle against Adam could be classified as self-defense, but she never wanted it to escalate to this. So she decides to try and kill two birds with one stone: defeat Roo to hopefully find a way to prevent war, and also to hopefully destroy evil at its source and have everyone stop being evil? Charlie really doesn’t want to have to kill someone. I mean, Adam was left alive, and he’s probably doing well for himself, right? (Does she know?)

A grueling battle is held, and against all odds, Roo is defeated. the Overlords no longer have a weapon against heaven, all should be well, right? All that’s left to do is find some common ground with Roo, find out why she’s so evil, and hopefully stop evil from happening.

Yeah, nah. Roo gives Charlie a HUGE “The Reason You Suck” speech about her naivety, and pretty much forces Charlie to kill her with her own hands. Sucks.

Oh, yeah, and Alastor finally lets spill that God is missing. Great job, Al. You fucking asshole.

Season 3 Episode 1: begins with Charlie pretty much depressed after the previous season’s events. Everyone tries to cheer her up. It’s all comedic, until the final part where they have a heart-to-heart and remind Charlie of all the things she’s accomplished with them, even if they haven’t gone to heaven yet.

The end of the episode has Charlie realize that, with God gone, that means that the yearly purges probably didn’t happen under God’s watch, meaning that if they bring God back, things will finally be right again!

It’s finally time to take action, and everyone is gonna go to Heaven! How? I dunno, how do the Exorcist Angels come down to Hell? I dunno, some kind of elevator that no one was brave enough to hijack?

The rest of the season takes place in Heaven. Hotel shenanigans happen again, but in heaven, this time!

Charlie meets the other archangels, and while they’re still dicks, at least they’re less so than Adam. Unlike Adam, maybe they’re more like Alastor in terms of demeanor: they don’t particularly care what kind of plot Hell’s up to, but they’d certainly be interested in how these sinners will manage to come up into Heaven.

Should they meet Jesus in Heaven? A parallel to Charlie in Heaven, he wholeheartedly supports Charlie’s endeavors and basically becomes her first friend in Heaven?

The overarching mystery is: where is God? What happened to Him? Why does Archangel Michael take so long to use the bathroom?

Eventually, like, near the end of the season, we finally meet God.

Wouldn’t it be funny if, after three whole seasons of extravagantly designed characters, demons, angels, sins and virtues alike, we finally meet the Big G Himself and He’s just… a dude in a robe and a beard? How funny would that be?

Anyways, we finally get a reason for God’s very, very long absence: after thousands of years of humanity’s evil, and His many failed attempts to purge evil from the world, His last attempt finally broke Him, and He spent the rest of time in a depressive slump, pretty much never ever leaving His room. He’s, ironically enough, lost faith in humanity.

The final ‘patron’ of the ‘hotel’ is God Himself. Charlie and the others have to convince Him that humanity is worth believing in, and to give them another chance. Of course, they succeed.

The finale could be that God has officially recognized the Hazbin Hotel as an official way for sinners to redeem themselves: a “very definitely final chance to enter Heaven”. If sinners can’t redeem themselves even in death, then they never will. Charlie’s friends are the first sinners to finally ascend to Heaven, but they stay behind in Hell to help run the hotel.

[blindrapture]

also.

I watched rick and morty season 7 the other night. hadn't seen that yet.

that show hits the spot. it fucking hits the spot. it is the show for me. its voice feels.. relevant to me. I'm so glad the plot's still going somewhere. and I'm so glad that everything means something. and I'm so glad they ended that fucking spaghetti episode with that cover of "Live Forever." made me goddamn cry.

there's only three seasons left before the show, probably, ends. and I want to see. good god. I feel lucky that I get to see, that I'm actually watching the show while it's still going rather than after the fact (like most shows for me).

aaaaa.

good show. seriously. I feel like that doesn't even need to be said, it speaks for itself, but also the internet does like to ruin good things. watching the show won't turn you into a reddit user, don't worry. and as the show goes on it's made by a pretty diverse crew. you don't have to be smart to "get" the show. it tends to explain itself. but it makes you feel great for paying attention. it is not as "episodic" as it seems. if it looks like a sit-com where everything resets to a status quo after each episode, just, good, you see the premise that it's engaging with. there is a goddamn continuity. and if it looks like a mean-spirited show that rewards assholes, then, just, I promise it cares about morals very strongly. and yes, the show is still going. they signed a contract, they're here until season 10, and that's just.. happening. and god, I am a fan of this show.

okay. that's my ramble.

I'll post the new rapture a little later.

[indieyuugure]

What would you like to see more explored in Rise?

Be it a discarded idea or your own idea

Just curiosity

Well, I had these ideas for two Rise episodes, one in season 1 and the other in season 2. The episodes are titled “The Cloaking Broach” and “Return of the Cloaking Broach.”

Essentially the premise of the first episode(which would be between s1 ep38 and ep39) is that there’s a Jupiter Jim convention, but after the events of “Jupiter Jim Ahoy!” All Jupiter Jim conventions have a “no aliens or mutants” policy, and so Donnie comes up with the great idea to have Sunita lend them her cloaking broach, except they realize that there’s only one broach and 4 of them. So Splinter hides the broach somewhere in the lair and gives them half hour to find it. If they don’t find it in that time, then Splinter gets the broach. 28 minutes of unfruitful searching later, Mikey is about to give up and flops in the middle of the floor and spots the broach attached to their skate rap, hidden by the graffiti. Mikey runs to grab it but Leo uses him as a step ladder and grabs it first, sticks it on and turns into a human. Mikey steals it from Leo, Donnie steals it from Mikey, then Raph steals it from Donnie. They keep stealing it from each other, but each time one of them transforms there’s a poof of sparkles. Eventually there’s such a big cloud of sparkles that the broach gets launched into the air and into Splinter’s hand right as the time is up. Since none of the turtles could claim it in the time given, Splinter wins, puts the pin on a turns into a human and leaves to go do something, idk.

The second episode, “Return of the Cloaking Broach,” Donnie figures out how to make cloaking broaches and turns them all into humans so they can go to another Jupiter Jim Convention that has a “no aliens or mutants” sign. I haven’t thought through this one as much as the previous, but there definitely needs to be a scene where Mikey realizes he has no money when trying to by some snack, and the Trash Wizard needs to make an appearance too. I think this episode would end after they’re cloaking broaches get knocked off (probably by the Trash Wizard) and they have to hastily make their escape while being chased by Jupiter Jim nerds. I think then the turtles all agree that their adventures with cloaking broaches are over, lol

These are just some silly ideas I came up with, but I think it would be funny to see the boys pretending to be humans XD

Good question! :]

[pavedinashes-if]

You asked for features/mechanisms, etc… Is there any way that you could implement a screen where we could check if the ROs generally like us?

For example, you could ask if we want to have access to such a screen at the beginning and disable it if somebody doesn't want it in their playthrough. It doesn't even have to have much insight — just a hint at what direction we're going with each RO relationship-wise.

I get that you want us to explore everything ourselves and replay for the desired outcome! I will replay this if over and over myself, I'm sure of it. But I think there are a lot of anxious readers that would prefer a little more "security" in their playthrough.

I, for one, can't play any VNs without a guide. Sometimes the nightmare endings are so horrific that my heart breaks and I get into a depressive episode.

If I can guess what's coming though, I handle it better. But if I have no indication of the outcome at all it can overwhelm me. I'm just too sensible sometimes.

Don't feel pressured and I get if you don't want to implement such a feature. But suggesting and telling my POV never hurts. Much love

Hi anon, thanks a lot for sharing your opinion. It matters, independent from whether we agree in the end or not.☺️ I always appreciate an exchange because I believe it can offer a chance to improve a creative work in a way that maybe none of both parties expected in the end.

Therefore, share your POV 🫶🏻

About your ask.... I see where you're coming from and I, myself, know the anxiety that comes with the desire to achieve the most perfect / unperfect outcome / ending of a story.

As for my story tho it is a bit difficult because the biggest premise is to embrace the unknown. Giving this away from the beginning feels ... almost saddening to myself.

Actual image of me rn:

BUT! What I could totally see is maybe something like an option to show some more insight at a later stage. Maybe available after the first playthrough or as a separate option. I don't know what possibilites there are but I'll keep it in mind. Thank you!!

EDIT:

I am trying to give as much insight as possible through the writing, through the POVs, little hints here and there. One advice would be though... if it smells like pooh, it most probably is. Not guaranteed, but chances are higher. Trust your instinct on red flags. Some ROs have less friendly motifs, which means that even if I had a positive stat somewhere or if in the story there is no hint, you'd still be at risk of being played. This being said, some endings wouldn't be avoidable even with a shown stat - unless I spoil the ending.

[lostyesterday]

It occurred to me that the premise of the DS9 episode Children of Time (which I love) could also be an interesting story if told about the Voyager crew. There’s some discussion in Voyager of what it would be like if they stopped trying to reach the Alpha Quadrant and lived on a planet somewhere, but it never feels like a true possibility (with not a single member of the crew electing to do so in The 37’s), except in scenarios where there’s literally no other choice, like Resolutions. So it would be interesting to see how the crew would respond to a situation that morally demanded that they all give up hope of returning home. How would each of the crew react to seeing a civilization of their descendants? Who would advocate for staying (and preserving the timeline in which their descendants live) and who would advocate for leaving (and destroying the timeline and erasing all their descendants from history)?

Assuming that this episode took place during Voyager season 5: The EMH would be the only original crew member still alive, presumably. I could absolutely see a several hundred-year-old EMH trying to trick the Voyager crew into staying like Yedrin Dax did in DS9. I think the younger EMH would argue for staying – he has a strong “do no harm” mentality about things like that and he has no particular desire to get to the Alpha Quadrant. However, I do think he would have an extreme moral crisis and possibly mental breakdown upon learning that his future self lied to them.

Apart from the EMH, I think Chakotay would strongly advocate for staying, particularly given how he dealt with the situation in Resolutions. I think B’Elanna would be slightly more conflicted but also argue for staying, seeing it as a moral imperative to preserve the lives of their descendants. Neelix would strongly advocate for staying and would become super attached to their descendants’ kids. I think Seven would be the strongest advocate for leaving, but would also struggle with the morality of it and whether erasing people from time truly counts as killing them. Tom would very initially argue for leaving, but then get attached to one of his descendants who thinks he’s super impressive and change his mind. I’m conflicted about Harry’s position. I think he’d argue for leaving, but I’m not sure. I’m also conflicted about what Tuvok’s stance would be. I could see him being pretty neutral and mostly going along with what Janeway is arguing for, before making an argument at a pivotal point that changes Janeway’s perspective. Janeway would probably initially argue for leaving but become more and more conflicted as time went on, maybe somewhat similar to Sisko in the DS9 episode. This could also lead to some interesting tension between Janeway and Chakotay.

[jemmo]

utsukushii kare really said we’re going to take two of the most fascinating, interesting, well-characterised characters to have ever been written and not just stick them in the same show, but put them in one of the most incredible relationships to be seen on screen and i cannot thank them enough for it. seriously, if you consider the fact that at this point we’re at ep 8 of a 30 minute runtime show; that’s 4 hours. i’ve watched other bls, heck even other ordinary shows, that can’t even cram enough characterisation into a character that hira or kiyoi have in their little fingernail. im not joking. and nothing shows that better than kiyoi in this ep.

i love that we’re already getting an episode from his perspective. we had to wait all the way until ep 4 of season 1 to see things from his side, and that was such an amazing twist and reveal and still to this day that ep makes me cry. but im so glad we get to see his perspective sooner. bc we don’t need that shock twist anymore, instead it serves as a good balance to see where both our characters are at in the first 2 eps. and yet again, seeing things from kiyoi’s pov just opens up the absolute treasure trove that is his character. there are so many stand out points from this ep that i wanna mention but I’ll wait until my big ‘favourite parts of utsukushii kare s2 ep2’ post to list them all. what i wanna say here is that every bit of his character we get to see in this ep comes together so well to create such an interesting, multi-faceted and well-rounded character that it’s kind of astounding. we start off with his softness and vulnerability that’s countered perfectly against hira’s timid reaction, and then we jump back to high school to see this full on longing and the frustration that comes with that, waiting to be confessed to. i wanted to say this about the first season but this serves a good opportunity too; I find it so interesting how they portray hira and kiyoi’s ‘seme and uke’ dynamic (im gonna use those terms bc i can’t think of any better way to describe it, just know im referring more to a more dominant vs more submissive personality, like the confesser vs the confesse, and not anything sexual). You could so easily watch this show, hear the premise, even see the characters, hira and his chronic shyness, kiyoi and his undeniable popularity, and easily place those labels; hira the uke, kiyoi the seme. but in reality, kiyoi so clearly wants to be the uke, and very much is the uke. he begs in his head for hira to confess his feelings fo him, half bc maybe he needs hira to be brave where he can’t be, but I think also half bc he just wants to be confessed to. He wants the boy he likes to tell him he likes him, just like he wants to cuddle in his lap and be looked after. it probably stems from this want to be loved, chosen to be loved, and be cared for where he felt he wasn’t before, but it’s just so refreshing and such an interesting subversion of expectations, to see inside cool, popular kiyoi’s head and it’s just him begging for this shy, nobody kid to like him, and say it out loud.

and then I’ve touched on this before, but you get to see his earnest drive and passion to do what he loves. the cool kid that should fit the stereotype of never caring about anything, pushing to do the thing he loves, putting himself out there. I just can’t describe how excellent of a subversion that is. and the way he is with people at work, with Anna, polite and cordial and sweet, it’s such a reverse of kiyoi’s tsundere shortness and bluntness with hira that it not only shows us that yes, we weren’t hallucinating, there really is an infinite pool of softness within kiyoi that pours out more and more every time we see him, but also shows us that kiyoi is maybe only his true self with Hira. he’s not this polite, nice boy, nor is he this cool, cold popular guy, he’s somewhere in the middle, a fascinating mix of both, that only hira gets to see the full extent of, and I think that says a lot about how comfortable he is with Hira, and how much he trusts him. as much as it may be bad that hira will never find fault with kiyoi, it also makes him his sanctity, his true safe place, where he can breathe and grow and truly be whatever he wants, soft, angry, cute, cool, vulnerable, hira will take it all and adore it no matter what.

and then we get his jealousy of koyama, his protectiveness and possessiveness of hira. it’s kind of endearing how he still feels these things when hira shows him such endless devotion, it’s a testament to how normal he sees their relationship compared to hira, and how he therefore allows himself to feel normal relationship things, including possessiveness. but also in this scene i really love how kiyoi is let’s himself doubt himself, and only when it comes to hira. i feel like we’ve only ever seen him been unsure of himself when it comes to the things he loves, namely his dream of being a performer, and hira. he only looses confidence when he doesn’t do well in the competition in high school, and is only ever doubtful when it comes to hira’s feelings about him, and how he is with hira, maybe bc they’re the only things he truly wants to last forever. so what does he do, just like he does with his acting career? he puts in sincere effort. he humbles himself taking that recipe from koyama, and despite his cluelessness and clear lack of skills, he still tries his absolute hardest to do something for hira. he cooks him a meal, one of the most ordinary and sincere expressions of love. and his shy smile the whole time, him waiting excitedly for hira to come home, it’s such a fantastically endearing contrast from the cold, removed kiyoi we know early in s1 that you almost can’t reconcile them as the same character, and yet the steps that got us here make it clear that they are in fact the same person, that both those people live inside kiyoi and that’s amazing. and of course something as ordinary as cooking a meal for your boyfriend can never be normal for hira and kiyoi but the chaos unfolds is what makes them absolutely them. it mirrors what kiyoi says at the start of the ep about Hira, ‘if it wasn’t disgusting, it wouldn’t be hira’. It’s the same for kiyoi, and the same for their relationship. they don’t want to change it fundamentally, don’t want to take away the things that make it them, they just want to find a way to take this thing they both want and love and build it, strengthen it, so it can last. and i’ll say it until I’m blue in the face, but that’s why kiyoi’s personality, his bluntness, works so well for hira. it provides this iron wall of reassurance based in truth that he needs. I think ‘im not dating a pebble’ might be my stand out line from a bl in 2023 already but it’s also so ridiculously laced in meaning. Kiyoi doesn’t see hira as just some rock, some insignificant thing on the side of the road, that’s not what he’s dating. He’s dating hira, the person. And I think this push for hira to see himself as a person is only something that kiyoi can do because, in a way, hira was the one to see Kiyoi first. I’m a different way, because of the complex hira still has around kiyoi, he may not be a person yet, but hira still saw him in a way no one else did because he cared enough to look and keep looking. He stared and stared at every bit of kiyoi, including the uncool parts, the embarrassing parts, the sweet parts, the upset and angry parts, he’s the one that saw it all and never once looked away. The invisible kid made him feel seen. And I think for someone that’s always looked at but never seen, that’s what you really want.

So yes, this may have collapsed into another ramble, but I hope I can just convey some of the sense of how whole of a character kiyoi feels, even just by the points in this ep. And I just love that he’s allowed to be it all, be chaotic and messy and imperfect and a work in progress while still helping hira along too. I’ve never seen a bl couple that feel so much like they’re growing together, figuring themselves out as people and as a couple and it’s just so fucking refreshing and interesting and beautiful to watch and i will never ever shut up about it

[pkmnomegaverse]

Zoroark!N Premise

I’m not sure when I’ll cave and eventually make an art piece for this AU concept because despite how much Zoroark!N is a behated concept for me, I have thought about how I would deal with an AU where N is actually a Zoroark. I see it enough that while I may not like the idea, I can’t help but consider it. It would still be IsshuShipping endgame, of course. Since a small part of my issue with the idea (my true issue with it is how it undermines the overarching concept of N as a character if he’s secretly a Pokemon all along) is how I’ve noticed people often use it as a reason to not pair N with the BW Protag. Which we respect all ships here, but if one must run a Zoroark!N plotline, I don’t see why that means he can’t still get with the BW Protag.

So anyway, the point of this post. While I’m holding back every time the AU prompt comes up for fankid week from actually drawing it, I’ve thought about what that would mean for the fankids. If N was actually a Zoroark. I’ve never implemented this for any ship in this verse…but I do run with the idea that humans are technically a type of Pokemon in a vague sense. It’s actually the anime that supported this idea for me. A combo of how humans can be hit with Pokemon attacks and not take a lot of damage. And then that one extremely damning episode where there’s that ancient Pokeball that is able to capture Team Rocket. The Sinnoh books in the games, if one takes the original translation about humans marrying Pokemon way back, just add further fuel. So okay. Given all this. It would technically be possible for Pokemon to breed with humans. I’m just not about that life so I’ve held myself back from ever using this concept for this verse (I’d be lying if I said I’ve never thought about the implications though).

But if N was actually a Zoroark? You better believe that would not hold me back from him having children with Hilbert. But much like how Pokemon are the same species as the mother Pokemon, regardless of the type of Pokemon the father is, this would hold true for a hypothetical human/Pokemon couple. If mom is the human, kid is a human. If mom is the Pokemon, the kid is whatever type of Pokemon the Pokemon is. Thus any children N and Hilbert would have would be human since Hilbert is the mom (as he’s the omega in this omegaverse AU). Might get some “egg moves” so to speak from N so they have odd abilities of some kind. Probably can talk to Pokemon (I’ve hypothesized before this is why human!N can talk to Pokemon. Has a Pokemon in his family tree somewhere). The most all of this would change (since no reason to change up the kids just cause N is a Zoroark) would be Arian and Braith wouldn’t have green hair. I guess their hair would be black? Or some combo of black and red since both inherit their hair color from N. Clover is largely unchanged just has dark green Zoroark eyes.

Like I’m sure I will def cave one day and draw this since I’ve thought about all of this way too much despite not being a fan of Zoroark!N. Like there’s def an AU that lives in my head that follows this idea. But yes, some IsshuShipping thoughts on if N was secretly a Zoroark all along. He’s still getting with Hilbert, they’re my fav ship so nothing is holding me back.

As a side note, if you’re a Zoroark!N fan, no shade intended! Everyone can headcanon what they want, we’re all just having fun here. Just ain’t for me despite that being what this post is about.

[pretty-little-martyr]

for some reason am remembering the episode from the 2003 show Dead Like Me that featured 2003's best case scenario at having cis people write a trans woman and how much I genuinely enjoyed that episode. the premise of the show for anyone not familiar (which is probably everyone) was that Grim Reapers were real, were the recently deceased who were randomly picked for the job, and had to individually collect people once they died and pass them on to whatever personal heaven they'd envisioned. the Reapers often aren't given much info about who is going to die and therefore have to talk to people around them to learn the name of the to-be-deceased. and that episode takes place in the lobby of a plastic surgeons office where there's a bunch of ladies and One Dude (character is actually a trans woman, but played by a cis man because. y'know. 2003 American cable television.). she's there to get all of the surgeries done at once (not how that works .... again, 2003 cis writers) to finally "transform into the woman she was always meant to be" [paraphrased] and it always really stuck with me because 1) the actors performance was so .. genuine. she was excited to be there because she had waited her whole life to do this. and she wasn't very young either. 30 or 40 perhaps. an extremely convincing and earnest performance from a presumably cis man. 2) the show handled her with genuine grace. it wasn't funny that she was in there, it was funny that our main character George (cis girl who goes by that name, very interesting from a trans angle as well) was like "why's a dude in here" before learning that the character was not a man just "looked like one." 3) it treated her subsequent death as a genuine tragedy. the thing is with each of the humans we get introduced to we know they're gonna die. and for the most part the deaths are silly and bizarre—one dude slips on a banana peel and gets his neck broken by a revolving door, one person drowns to death under a water cooler, etc—but this one wasn't. I don't actually remember how she died because I can't find the goddamned show anywhere and you can't buy it, either, it got canned after 2 seasons anyway, but I remember George being genuinely heartbroken that the trans woman didn't get to live the life she wanted to. and it's of course all quite clumsy and inept because it's 2003 and they clearly either didn't have a trans person in the writing room or one of the writers mayhap didn't know they're trans yet, I have no idea, but in light of how many frankly disgusting portrayals of trans people and trans women in particular I saw on TV growing up that one has always stuck with me for the tender and serious way the subject was handled.

there's probably an entire essay to be had about both that whole episode and a transmasc reading of George. that show wasn't one that cracked my egg I don't think, because when I first saw it I was too young to parse the idea (I was somewhere between 10 and 13), but it was my first introduction to the idea of being trans. I rewatched it in 2019 when it was briefly on Amazon because my college email acct gave me free Prime Streaming and god the episode hit me like a truck. I'm pretty sure I cried. I want to watch it again and really dissect it because its lack of mockery in a time when it was very much in vogue to mock trans women fascinates me.

im also pretty sure I remember that after the woman passed, the other Reapers misgender her casually because again, 2003, they're acting like she wasn't a woman yet, but I think George notably doesn't. I may be misremembering though. I do remember George being deeply, deeply upset by the unfairness of her death though.

[thefirstpotatoe]

Murder drones finale

As exciting as the final episode was, it contributed absolutely nothing to the overall plot and still leaves a lot of important questions unanswered.

1- we still don’t know what the absolute solver even is. Is it a rouge AI? Is it a sentient virus? Is it an innate program that all drones have that just activates under certain conditions?

2- what exactly was the solver's goal and motive? Why does it want to exterminate all life and devour planets?

3- how is the solver capable of interacting with, influencing, and bending reality the way it does? I.e telekinesis, teleportation, mutation, creating bio matter, black holes, etc

4- how does the solver go about creating murder drones? Does it have to build each one manually or does it have a secret assembly plant/ headquarters somewhere that mass produces them?

5- if the solver is capable of cloning the murder drones, why didn’t it just redeploy more of them? Why only bring back J when it technically has an entire army at it’s beck and call?

6- why did the solver want to kill off the worker drones when it could have infected and used them as potential hosts or converted them into murder drones like it did with N,V, and J? Why did it need spires constructed all over the planet in the first place?

7- if earth was destroyed then where has cyn been this whole time prior to arriving on copper 9? Why didn’t she show up sooner if was was aware of what was happening?

8- considering how the solver operates, are cyn and uzi its only hosts or are there more of them scattered across the universe?

9- probably the biggest question, is humanity extinct or are they still alive somewhere on other planets? If they are alive, are they aware of the situation with the solver? Or are they locked in some kind of robot apocalypse war?

This is just a few of the MANY questions i have with the show. It doesn’t feel like a proper ending at all, more like the setup to something else. Don’t get me wrong, i love the concept of this show but the execution feels plain unfinished. I’m a sucker for a good story and this one definitely had a great premise with the whole eldritch horror aspect but it drives me insane that it ultimately went unfulfilled towards the end in favor of light romance…

[gaiaxygang]

The Too-Long PerthChimon Review: Part 1

In this part, I will be covering the three (!) shows both Perth and Chimon were in. One is a non-BL where their characters do not interact, but the other two (which you've probably watched, if you're reading this) are BLs and feature them as a couple!

(I segmented them for readability. If there's a better way to do it please lmk oops)

Please… Siang Riak Winyan aka Please… Soul Call

I only watched 4 episodes, because that was all that was available with subtitles. The other two are online somewhere, but I wasn't very inclined to continue.

'Please' is a short horror series where Win (Chimon) and his classmates encounter… ghosts, or something. I don't remember much about this one, if I'm being honest. They accidentally contact some ghosts in a school bathroom and they suffer because of it for 6 episodes. It's not particularly memorable, and the horror elements weren't super good but I am willing to cut it some slack in that aspect.

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What I did find interesting is Perth's character, Breeze. Breeze is a transfer student who is later revealed to be the younger half-brother of another character, Be. The two aren't close, but their interactions in the show are quite heartfelt.

However, this whole half-siblings subplot kind of comes out of nowhere…? And neither does it really lead anywhere. Be and Breeze aren't part of the main friend group in Please, and don't have much importance outside of this.

The only purpose this storyline serves is to explain the origins of the main ghost that's been haunting Win and friends (this is an assumption. I did not watch episodes 5 and 6 but it's heavily implied in the earlier episodes so I will stick with it).

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Please is rather unremarkable as a series, but as an actor fan it really makes me want to claw at the walls.

First, this is where PerthChimon met. They've mentioned talking a little at the workshops in some of their interviews.

Second, this is Perth's first TV series as well as Chimon's first lead role in a series (he was the lead of a movie I'll discuss in another part).

Third, this series is likely where director New Siwaj started picking favourite actors. Alongside Perth, Mark Siwat and Sood Yacht (I am so sorry if I got his name wrong I'm not familiar with him) are also in this series. The three of them would get cast in Love By Chance not long after, with Perth and Yacht appearing in several of New's shows after that.

Lastly, Perth and Mark Siwat (who plays Be) became friends on this set! Mark was Perth's first friend in the industry, and they're still good friends now as far as I know. I enjoyed watching them work together, but I'll get into that more when I talk about The Stranded. This paragraph is already longer than it should be.

Never Let Me Go

This is a show I have opinions that I struggle to put into words about. Never Let Me Go is a series about the heir to a prestigious family, Nuengdiao, and the bodyguard assigned to him after his father is shot and killed, Palm. Perth plays Nuengdiao's cousin Chopper, while Chimon plays Ben, a classmate of theirs.

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I did not like this show. The storyline is messy at times, the characters (with the exception of Chopper) are often underwhelming and don't reach their full potential.

It has an interesting premise, but fails to deliver at almost every turn after the first few episodes. I will be focusing on Chopper and Ben but one thing I particularly disliked about Palm and Nueng is that Palm is a very bland character.

We never learn much about him beyond his protectiveness and his existence as The Love Interest, and he lacks a distinct personality. This is a problem with Mork in Fish Upon The Sky as well (sorry Pond) but it's more noticable in NLMG due to it's more serious tone, which requires better developed characters than a romcom like FUTS would.

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There were some things I enjoyed about the show! It's very nice to look at. The visuals are good! The cast being pretty also helps. I loved Perth's performance as Chopper, it is by far the strongest performance in the cast.

It's not that the rest of them are bad actors, rather strong actors like Chimon and Pawin were dragged down because they aren't given very much to work with. When good actors are given subpar scripts or underdeveloped characters, they'll try their best but their performance will Not be as good!!! Which is unfortunate.

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Chopper is the only well-rounded character in this series. I assume there were rewrites along the way, since Chopper is quite different from the novel that was written alongside the series and ChopperBen were likely added in only after Perth joined the cast, to promote PerthChimon before Dangerous Romance. I personally have a soft spot for Ben (I have a big gay crush on Chimon) but Chopper is my favourite character overall in NLMG.

NLMG feels very much like a PG-13 Kinnporsche that misses everything that made KP… well, KP. This is probably a coincidence but I watched them one after another so NLMG's flaws were more obvious to me. By episode 12 I was only watching for ChopperBen and I had no interest in PalmNueng, which rarely happens even if I favour the side pair. NLMG just feels lacking in many ways, to the point where I enjoyed FUTS more (despite being equally bad) just because it's funny.

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There are a few things I wished the series took from the novel. The ChopperBen epilogue set shortly after they move overseas together is something that I think the series desperately needed. It makes Ben's storyline (which the novel has a heavier emphasis on) more complete, and considering we didn't get ChopperBen in Our Skyy 2, it would have been a good conclusion to ChopperBen as a whole.

I also liked the PalmNueng rooftop scene but I understand why they left it out of the series. The novel also kills off Kit after the final confrontation in episode 12, but I assume the series didn't want to deal with the implications of Chopper patricide.

I didn't finish the NLMG Our Skyy 2 episodes but the slightly lighter tone definitely helped a lot. A bit of a weird choice to give bully kid whats-his-name a boyfriend out of nowhere but as a MarcPawin fan I respect it.

This series was… a mess. But I love ChopperBen dearly! They're something special and I spend a much longer time thinking about them than I show. They're what got me into PerthChimon and I'll never regret watching NLMG for that alone.

Dangerous Romance

Finally, their most recent work, Dangerous Romance. I was waiting for this one for months and definitely not disappointed, even if it wasn't what I expected! (Just a warning. I will be criticising DR a bit here.)

The character relationships are the strongest part of DR. KanghanSailom's development over the episodes, navigating how to love eachother and growing as people together, was incredible to watch over 12 weeks. The way it all comes together is amazing.

GuyNava and NameSaifah, although lacking screentime, were super interesting to me. They managed to sell us (even View and June, who referred to them as another couple in DR on Live House) on NameSaifah in around 3 episodes total somehow which I find hilarious. PimfahNabdao didn't get much screentime but they were cute and I hope we get a continuation of their story!

DR also looks VERY good. Some of the visuals are amazing. The windmill location is gorgeous and I assume it looks even better in person (I HAVE to visit someday… A few Japanese fans I know flew to Thailand and visited it. I wish I were them).

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However, DR often struggles to get from point A to point B. This isn't a huge problem because the A and B in question are well-written, but it really feels like they had a few scenes planned but couldn't figure out how to connect them. They knew the direction they wanted to take KanghanSailom and GuyNava, but had difficulty writing the 'to' in 'enemies to lovers'. This is evident with other scenes too but it's very obvious when it comes to the main couple and the primary side couple of a BL.

Some of the direction is also a bit questionable. I personally don't like the overuse of flashbacks and OST (it reminds me of Double Savage and that's not a good thing) but I've accepted that its just a DR thing.

I like what the costuming team has come up with, bless whoever managed to make Pawin look 10 years younger than he is and the same age as actors 4 to 6 years younger than him. The details in how the wardrobe of the friendgroup, down to the colour of their uniforms is a nice touch too. This crew definitely has a lot of love for the series and I like that!!!

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DR is hurt a lot by what it sets itself up to be. When viewed as a typical BL with interesting romantic storylines, it's very good.

However, the promotion tends to frame it as something darker than what we ended up with, a unique storyline that happens to be BL (similar to Only Friends in that sense). The pilot trailer also doesn't help, since it promised a darker overall feel with meaner characters. The themes of poverty and class differences aren't handled very well but people who think more about DR's themes than me have discussed this. I was here to watch KanghanSailom be cute after episode 3.

This difference between what was expected from the pilot and trailers and the final product is what I suspect causes people to view DR as worse than it is. Looking past that, DR is a flawed but great BL series, one of the better shows to come out of the GMMTV2023 lineup.

I'm also one of the people who were skeptical about the difference in the feel of the pilot and the official trailers. The pilot trailer occupies a good 15% of my brainspace and I will always miss all it gave us (the rain kiss!!!!! THE VIBE OF THE BACKING SONG!!!!!!) but DR is something that exists separate from that now and as it's own thing, I adore it.

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What I really love about DR is how PerthChimon it is. It's a very significant show for both of them in so many ways! It's their "official" return to BL (Perth hasn't done BL since 2020, Chimon not since 2018) and I don't think there would've been a better show for this.

Kanghan and Sailom have a lot of Perth and Chimon in them, and I don't even know if it was intentional. Perth and Chimon both relate a lot to their characters (for reasons they have mentioned in interviews) and when listening to what Perth said when he was asked what Kanghan wants to say to Sailom I wanted to run around in circles and scream because you could really tell it came from his heart.

It's also the first time Chimon has released a song, and the first time Perth has sung a duet.

You can see the PerthChimon in some scenes like when Kanghan is feeding Sailom in their studying montage, and one entire postcredits Oishi segment (I don't remember which episode, I think it's the open house one). As a PerthChimon fan Dangerous Romance is incredible because of all this!!!

There's also a line before they perform Sunset at the open house that stuck out to me. Kanghan's line about how Sailom is talented but rarely has the chance to showcase his talents is just a little awkward by itself but it gets me very emotional because Chimon has talked about how he turned down singing jobs in the past due to trauma and still gets nervous on stage, something which Perth supports him through whenever they sing together.

(Since I first typed this, a clip has been posted where the directors talk about how a lot of the sweet KanghanSailom scenes were improvised. Incredible work from PerthChimon, 10/10 no notes.)

DR is filmed in the same campus building as several other Chimon shows like Edge of 17 and The Gifted which is a whole other thing I think about sometimes. Especially Edge of 17, his first BL series with Pluem Purim. Comparing Sun and Sailom, you can really see how much Chimon has grown in those SIX?! years.

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I also love seeing PerthChimon work together. They're very comfortable with eachother, and Perth has said that Chimon is the partner he's felt the most comfortable with (knowing Perth's acting history, this is a very bold statement but I believe he means it). I hope DR is just the start for PerthChimon and they continue working together for a long time.

(Similarly to NLMG, I responded to an ask about DR's flaws recently. I talk about the pacing issues here as well!)

And that's the end of part one. Thank you for reading!!! You can always drop me an ask if you have anything to say, my inbox is open. The next parts will be uploaded slowly.

Intro / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 (I'll edit to link them when I get these up!!!)

[entamewitchlulu]

watched The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies, and it was decent

Animation was good, very pretty and sparkly. I found the romantic leads to be very entertaining and they had pretty good chemistry for having such a quick insta-love story. The side characters were mostly entertaining; I liked all the other evil henchmen for as little screentime as they got, and Hibana was really funny. Both familiars kinda sucked.

I could take or leave the bits of ecchi thrown in there. they just felt very out of place; imo if you're going to be a fanservice show you should commit to it. just sprinkling in a bit of it is jarring and discomforting. That includes the outfit designs. They were....very revealing for a magical girl show and those elements felt a lot more creepy than anything.

I do have to say that I felt like it was kind of...missing something. I'm very picky when it comes to magical girl shows because I feel like a lot of times, they just want to use the trappings of the genre without actually engaging with what makes the genre really interesting to fans. Like, yeah, it's humorous to have the "being a magical girl is just a job" angle, but at the core of it for me magical girls have always been about that feeling of hope and determination, and this show completely lacks that. I feel like there's more jokes at the expense of the genre than not (particularly with the familiars. Like oh hahaha, her familiar's actually a booze drinking, cigarette smoking pimp who sexually harasses her. don't get me started on the bird guy and his. interesting design choices). Like when it does engage with the actual magical girl bits of the genre, it feels more like they're laughing at how silly and cringe it is. Laughing at the genre rather than with it, so to speak.

Like, don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it. For a show with 12 minute episodes, I think it was really well paced and I did really like the two main characters and their romance. It's a great premise, too. I love magical girl x villain romances. I think I'd just like something with a bit more meat to it? I have a post in me somewhere about how I'm getting a little tired of what feels like a trend lately of anime that have fun premises but not much else - dragging out their handful of jokes for episodes upon episodes because that's all they had and they can't be bold enough to change the status quo.

That's not necessarily what this show was - being 12 minute episodes a piece I think helped the premise from wearing out its welcome. I'd like to see shows like this take a few more risks though and be willing to have more depth than just riding on the comedy of a premise alone. This show was clearly interested in slice of life romance, and that's fine. I'd just like to see this new boom in magical girl shows maybe lead to something a little more meaty.

It was a sweet show, and I did really enjoy my time watching it, for all my critiques, haha. I think I'd probably watch at least another season of it if it was extended.

[astranite]

*more grumpy grumbling and astra yells at the void ( that evidently contains lovely friends)* (i mostly just need to put this somewhere other than rattling about in my head.

Im disappointed but not even particularly surprised that ive only managed to read two of the readings and come up with half if im generous of a thesis statement though ive had all day. And even then im having trouble convincing myself that its not utter nonsense that im spouting, likely related to not feeling great about stuff rather than actual skills. Probably. Plus i need to actually research to get more sources and Write the bloody thing. I was even enjoying the reading and analysis in the morning but then i lost track of that and now im mostly just stressed because i really need to get this done. and its not something that’s possible to pull off the day before which im very aware of, and im not sure i even know where im going even though i do Know that this is something i can do and figure out but i cant even talk it over with anyone because no one knows what im going on about (online study is a fucking joy) but my cat who at this point probably deserves to be coauthor of this assignment.

And in addendum ow my everything hurts from sitting at my desk because my body is kinda shit.

((And then the thunderbirds episode polls thing is stressing me out and has pretty much from the start hence i havent really been participating, because even though it’s supposed to be a fun and non serious thing, i really dont like the whole pitting episodes against each other premise, when so many are so good for such different reasons and id rather have fun analysing and appreciating this and even comparing but not with any aim of seeing which is “”best””. But everything in the fandom seems to be about the polls lately. Plus it’s genuinely upsetting people too. So going to sit in the corner with a pile of blankets as a non participant.

…*dissolves into screeching*