#this might sound a little weird but

[pynkhues]

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He was so incredible in this scene (they both were, just doing all that with that monologue is unbelievably to me)

Totally agreed, anon. I really love that the first season was bookended by these incredible monologues - Louis' "I laid down with the devil" one in 1.01 and Lestat's "Desperately alive and desperately fragile" one in 1.07. They're both such showcases for the actors, but they're also just such beautiful pieces of writing.

It was one of the things that I really missed in s2, because I don't think we really got any real monologues outside of the theatre, at least, not in the same way? You could kind of argue that Louis gets one in the reunion, but one of the things that I love about the writing of that scene is that it feels like a true two-hander which eases us out of our fairly closed Louis' POV. It'll be interesting to see if the show goes back to them with Lestat taking over next season.

[scoriarose]

She came up with a new activity

[guzhufuren]

kinda weird that between Sonic having a new boyfriend and Sonic secretly working for a child trafficker i would much prefer the child trafficker option

[chongoblog]

Not my favorite of his polkas, but I definitely had a LOT of fun making this one, with a lot of personal insertions, and it's grown on me a lot while I made this one.

[carrie-tate]

A little sketch comic with Ari! Yes!

I still remember my love for this show úwù

[ravs6709]

Because I've seen people ask about their real names multiple times now, I'm now wondering if the names we have in tbhx (Chinese, such as xiao yueqing, po huai wang), are the real names? Cause the public refers to moon by xiao yueqing, but that's a whole full name..?

[yellowocaballero]

Continuing the JJK posting: Gojo is such a mystifying character.

Action show where swinging out the gate you introduce a character who is so incredibly powerful you then have to, before every fight, establish why Gojo can't just show up and fix the problem in seconds. His existence weakens the stakes of everything. The rest of the show you are backflipping ridding yourself of him. He jobs two major bad guys off the gate and every subsequent extensive fight with them feels like cleaning up his leftovers. Put him in a box, he's ruining the game balance. So absolutely broken. As a writer it makes your job so difficult, but it's also the entire point of him. "Hey I want to write the single most badass character of all time who can do the most insane shit but I will also engage with that", rock on king.

I think he's most interesting when understood as somebody who is fundamentally alien and removed from ordinary human thought processes. In his world there is absolutely nothing he cannot do, and the thought 'maybe I can't do something' just doesn't occur to him. He is capable of doing whatever he wants and of killing anybody who tries to stop him from doing what he wants. If he is not doing something, it is because he does not want to do it. If he wants to do something (kill all of his superiors) and he's not doing it, it's because he doesn't think it's the most effective route towards what he has decided to do. I think this informs the majority of his actions (and, importantly, what he doesn't do)(murder). I think he's reasoned out that you should have a general reason to do things, and it feels like sheer luck that he places value and meaning in human life, and as such you shouldn't kill them without a strong reason. Watching the flashback arc, if I hadn't seen a) JJK and b) Naruto and you asked me which shitty teen became a law abiding school teacher and which became a mass murderer I would have guessed the wrong ones.

Anyway, the way I like to think of him, he's a raging narcissist with a god complex to match. Horrifically, he's actually a good teacher, but he is also a teacher as an ego/'raising my child army' thing. He would be the kind of mother who is a good mother but lowkey had kids also as an ego/unconditional love/lots of attention/'surely my child will worship me' thing. Gets randomly into new hobbies, obsesses over them, gorges himself on the novelty factor, before dropping them in a week once he gets too good at them. Rinse and repeat. The only hobby that does not eventually grow boring is annoying people, so it's his only hobby. Geto told him age 15 that he'll never have any friends if he keeps on casually reminding people that they live on his sufferance, so he developed another back-up hobby more conducive for friendship of helping people forget that they live on his sufferance. This has convinced him that he's a god of subterfuge, intrigue, and trickery. Does eat women out, but is convinced that this makes him God's gift to women, and is actually pretty terrible in bed because his partner's desires never even occur to him. Is convinced he's as good at sex as he is everything else. Sex is actually the one thing he's bad at, but he's not ready to hear that.

In S1 he overall left me with the general impression that his entire idea of how high school worked was sourced from anime, and as such decided that being a teacher involved nothing but field trips, sports games, beach episodes, sports festivals, etc. Did not know how the classroom component worked so he skips it. Jossed, but also left me convinced that it would be very funny if he was an immortal 150-whatever years old and had founded the high school himself out of, you guessed it, an ego thing, and never once properly learned how high schools worked and just arbitrarily made his own aging students the new principals so he could continue engaging in training the kids who are too Misfit (TM) to get apprenticeships and living his fun slice of life anime life and raising a child army of kids who will worship him any day now. Annnyyyy day now. Any day now.

[kitkatsgalore]

wake up! ⏰

[sleep version | awake version]

[doobledabbadoo]

New teasers for the next episodes!

Just like for last week, we got some teasers for some more upcoming episodes! And… A “teaser” in quotes for some reason.

More of my thoughts below in the cut:

I find it kind of weird that they’d advertise Miss Sunshine’s teaser for this week when it released next week. I dunno, maybe they meant to release Mr. Strong’s episode last week but someone messed up? Either way, kind of odd, but oh well.

Regardless, we do have two new teasers for the next batch of episodes! Really excited because I suspect these teasers are for Mr. Bump (my favorite character), and Mr. Calm respectfully. Taking hints from last week’s teaser trailer, that seems to be the likely case.

However, that does be the question: who is going to be the third character in this batch?

It may be too early to tell, it might not. However, I’m putting on my tinfoil hat because this may sound absolutely ridiculous to some people here…

It might be either Miss Brave or Mr. Strong.

As a disclaimer, please take all of this with a grain of salt. This is my speculation & predictions on what very little information we have. I could be entirely wrong on this, so don’t take everything I say from here as fact.

Miss Brave’s case: See this screenshot from the intro?

Pay attention to the three characters to the furthest righr. We have Miss Sunshine, Mr. Grumpy, and Mr. Impossible. Those were the three characters in the first three episodes of the mini adventures series.

If we go right to left, right after Mr. Bump and Mr. Calm (who I know are teased for the next batch), we have Miss Brave. Part of me wonders is this line up was intentional or not, but if that’s the case, then the entire cast line up for each episode is right in front of our faces.

I don’t know if Miss Brave is involved in the mixup between Mr. Strong and Miss Sunshine, but whatever’s the case, I’m sure it’ll be sorted out. However…

Mr. Strong’s case: Mr. Strong could also just appear this batch just because the channel did an oopsie-daisy. Remember the teaser from last week?

Yeah, we we’re teased with eggs. You know who eats eggs? Mr. Strong.

If the Instagram account was right on this, then Mr. Strong should’ve had his focus episode last week. However, we instead got Miss Sunshine’s.

If no other characters are involved in this same mixup, then we might see Mr. Strong this week. However, if we go with what I said earlier and find that Miss Brave was involved in the mixup, then Mr. Strong will have his focus episode next week.

Regardless of who the third character for this week is, I’m really excited! Can’t wait to see more of the little guys. <33

[yourlocalxiaosimp]

oh god I just realized what I’ve implied in my fic

Xiao asking Zhongli for help with the traveler’s period: the traveler is laying blood

Zhongli: W h a t

[edge-oftheworld]

I don’t really talk about it much on here because I’m extremely lucky to be able to understand exactly what’s going on in my body, but it’s scary to live for years as someone who Gets Things Done in a way your peers don’t really understand, be putting effort into so many things you care about, and then suddenly lose the ability to do not only that but also basic tasks overnight after a deadline, and bit by bit after many. it’s scary getting really irritable sometimes to the point of violence, just when you were meant to be celebrating the rewards from your hard work, the only impact of the work you did that you can see is that you overdrafted your ability to do anything. including have a basic conversation without getting grumpy or crying. and your body is going to make you pay it back with interest, you already know that, but you don’t know how to start filling yourself back up. you’ve only ever enjoyed being on the grind, hard at work on exciting things.

I don’t know how many of you have been through the kind of burnout that’s years of needing 12hrs of sleep a night but with terrible insomnia, waking up to what feels like a hangover for weeks on end with little relief then rinse and repeat without having a single drink, feeling too sick to eat and needing to exercise to emotionally regulate but being unable to, anxiety that doesn’t come from worry but you’ll pick that up too at some point, dissociating every time you try to do mentally taxing tasks that you’re PAID for so it takes an hour of grounding yourself just to get five minutes worth of productive concentration, falling asleep the minute you feel a little safe by being in the presence of loved ones. but I suspect I’m not the only one.

I’ve had songs for the energetic and angsty times leading up to this. for the exasperated times and the brain fog and the times where all my limited energy is tied up in feeling things. that I need to, need to acknowledge, but it’s overwhelming and I live in a haze for weeks as a result of. songs telling of the kind of youth I wish I had, even when I was sold something else. songs for the months spent as a teenager trying to be there for my friends, worrying for them, distracting me from worrying for myself, trying to cling on to positivity and hope amongst it when I had to choose to make a discipline of always seeing that. I’ve had songs for healing and when healing is harder than expected and songs that have the right level of musical complexity to capture the layers of everything that’s happening in my head, making it sound good, telling me it’s gonna be okay.

I don’t know how I could ever say thank you for this. but I do know that I see parts of myself in the people behind these songs, of course I do, and I worry for them as a result and ache for them because it’s hard enough to feel this way when no one knows me or feels the need to control me or mould me into what they think I should be. I’d do anything to keep them all healthy and happy and all of their loved ones too and I don’t think it’s strange as a fan to take that seriously. I hope we can understand the need to treat them gently, and to while not questioning their privacy and the fact that they’re never going to tell us everything they go through, listen to our intuition when we catch something we relate to and treat what they’ve shared with us or hinted at with the dignity we would if someone we love told us something vulnerable. be kind in our expectations and be intentional in the fan culture we create because it does make its way back to them.

and the same goes with all of you. we’re bonding over the same things. I know a lot of this fandom is in the stage where interpersonal relationships are hard. we don’t mean to be grumpy of frustrated but we are. and I’m sending love to all of you. we can get through this together. it’s what they’ve always longed for isn’t it?

[adore-gregor]

the way i think about learning and education changed sm compared to when I was younger

[franeridan]

so what's, like, our general consensus, that the previous cycle with polyxia and gnaeus and calypso and khaos was the actual previous cycle in amphoreus or did it, like, never actually happen and is just part of the history of this cycle or what? are we agreeing the one we're seeing now is the first cycle with these specific chrysos heirs and the only one that's always there is phainon or were all of them in the previous ones as well? and are we agreeing that the reaver is a past phainon that's somehow made it in this cycle or is he a split part of current phainon in our general understanding?

cause, I mean. If we agree that this is mydei's first cycle (if we agree that he's not gnaeus and that gnaeus was actually there in mydei's place in the previous cycle) how did the reaver know where to hit him to kill him. where did he even get that information from.

[cozymochi]

Just so I stop bothering others cuz I’ve been super annoying the last few days- (It’s all fun and games but my shame kicks in and I have been trying to supress it), and also because I’m starting to get a little baffled about what I receive, I’m going to be a lot pickier about which asks I actually do respond to.

Unless they’re interesting, relevant (especially this), or seem fun I’m probably just gonna not.. Which almost feels counterintuitive to how I do things nowadays because I admittedly rely on being prompted by others a lot. Especially since trying to muster up the guts to post even the most asinine art I can think of feels like a shot in the dark. It feels almost like getting permission and having a safety net of sorts because I know beforehand that somebody wanted whatever it is I could offer. I don’t really feel useful or involved otherwise. But, I digress.

Don’t get me wrong I DO REALLY LOVE THE ENTHUSIASM, it makes me really happy to see 😳😭 and i’m flattered and super grateful. But, I’m really not like… some all-knowing person, and the more… esoteric the questions get, the less I have to say. If anything at all. There comes a point when I wonder how much is just a joke to gauge a reaction or something rather than genuine interest.

I could be reading too deeply though.

Yeah that’s it really.

[vaguely-concerned]

h-hold on -- wait, uh, hang, hang on, I just need to uh. to I just ne ed a moment to um.... help

(this one fucking ambushed me I just walked into the apartment and was emotionally attacked. the sad thing about colt's life is of course that this could be referring to several different situations/people and probably does :') but the message does appear over frank's note on the table there so. perhaps some context in that. 'she always liked the view' shows up on the outside of the building roughly in this location too, so that's a lila tie in quite possibly. I second everything I wrote in this post actually this system is SO good and more games should play around with it. hard to capture in screencaps but the effect of the kinetic typography element here especially -- that 'try to forget' flickers into being around 'always remember' and then flicker out defeated as 'you were loved once' appears and stays... it's just so cool.)

extra gut punch for the road: this part lingers on by itself for a long time even as you walk around doing other stuff

[camgirlkaminari]

i just caught up with the latest chapters and like. those dudes definitely made out right? like that's not even subtext? like horikoshi fully said one and two absolutely went hog wild upon each other like. in the text, right??????? I have other, more cool and normal thoughts, but what is really important to me right now is that. those dudes definitely canonically got nasty. right???????????????????