#was re watching and im just

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

vaggie, miss "im not used to fighting with long hair" who's out of practice actually battling someone or really stabbing ppl...

...still had the arm and hand strength, the REFLEXES, to do a bare handed blade catch on a SWORD, who's user had been doing an aerial dive with it aimed at vaggie's FACE

then sling around and THROW her opponent with it

i know she wants a peaceful-ish life with charlie, but i really wouldn't mind seeing her getting into just a FEW more fights >:D

also also side note: carmilla was able to eff her up earlier so easily bc vaggie fought like an exorcist, no thought to getting hurt or personal defense, the headspace of 'i can't get killed! wheee! DIE DIE DIE' that got that other exorcist killed

and the main advice vaggie got from carmilla was take advantage of that sure, but first and more importantly, defend yourself better

which kinda plays into the whole "be out for love thing" too

aka the fight isn't important, it's what you're fighting to still have Afterwards that matters- the people you love, having a life with them

(the hotel, the hazbins, charlie)

carmilla doesn't send vaggie off with a 'you're ready to go kill angels'. she's only satisfied and ends their little lesson / sparring match when she can say "you might just survive this"

feels like she wasn't teaching vaggie to take out angels. she was reminding her and showing her how NOT to get KILLED

so it's just so nice seeing vaggie blocking, dodging, and grappling lute later. how good she is at focusing on avoiding or neutralizing those attacks aimed at her. how Seriously she takes them

binding lute's both lute's arms and wedging them into her own body so lute's sword CAN'T be angled towards her

the way this shot emphasis's the THREAT of the sword hanging over vaggie

and how her flash-fast recovery and block shows she's READY for it

dodging, not attacking

she's not in this for blood or vengeance, this lady is trying to stay the fuck alive. she's got things and people to live for

things like the idea of mercy. that thing both her and charlie show their enemies, people who came down to hell for murder and spent this fight trying to kill them and got damn close to doing it.

and sure there's a pretty big tone difference between charlie's "Whoa whoa dad. He's had enough" and vaggie's "No, live. Live knowing that you only do because I let you" but both end at the same place, with someone who hates them still getting a second chance

(UNLESS ITS NIFFTY WITH THE ANGELIC BLAAADE)

and vaggie wants that second chance too. she wants a life with charlie, and fights hard so she can stick around for it

epic fail, lute... have you considered getting a hobby...?

[anotheroneofthegaysharks]

that was a pretty good movie

[hajihiko]

The casualties have officially dropped to 0.

[kyo-hiki]

babies are asleep, shhhh

[hecksupremechips]

Honestly shoutout to Steven Universe for the representation of malachite and abusive relationships because it holds up really well and is still like one of the only abuse narratives I’ve seen that portrays how like. Abusive relationships aren’t as simple as “evil abusive person was constantly Mean and Bad to nice victim” like. Lapis is a realistic victim. She refused to leave the relationship because she longed to have connection with someone and she liked feeling as though she could have control for once, even though she really didn’t. She wasn’t nice and innocent, she felt anger and resentment and liked taking it out on Jasper. And despite how horrible it was, she deeply misses Jasper because it was the longest and deepest relationship she’s ever had with anyone and she didn’t know how to function without it

But Lapis is still a victim and we’re meant to care for her and understand where she comes from. She chose to stay with Jasper to keep others safe from her harm, and because she thought she herself deserved the abuse as a way of making up for everything bad she’s done. Jasper reminds Lapis over and over that she is a monster and that’s why they should be together, because Jasper is the only one who understands her. And when Lapis finally rejects their relationship, she mostly states it through what she herself felt and has done, saying that she didn’t like the person she became in that relationship and she never wants to feel like that ever again. It’s messy and complicated, just like how actual abuse is

Anyways yeah talk about a very good abuse narrative thanks steven universe

[akitalockwood]

Happy new year to everyone! Hope that 2023 will be kind to ya TvT

[phantomrose96]

Just a fair warning that rezero season 3 just started so if you see any of that in the wild that's probably why

im not Fucking strong enough for this. I'm not Fucking strong enough for another season of solipsistic faux-intellectual self-masturbatory misogyny... the anime. im gonna kill Subaru myself.

[topaz-carbuncle]

some of my favourite (and slightly edited) shots of Levi in the final chapter

[outofcontextdanandphil]

"Phil, stop touching Dan’s face?"

[arson-l]

Genuine question. Since the episode is from Buck's POV, do we really know if Eddie was talking to Tommy on the phone? I was thinking maybe he was talking to someone else, maybe even Marisol? And because Buck was so fixated on getting their attention (for different reasons each), his only conclusion is that Eddie must be talking to Tommy.

[ra-vio]

“I thought of a design that would suit you”

[alicenpai]

2021 re2 and re4 doodles i unearthed, 2020-2021 were the years of art block for me - i drew a lot, but not too many of my drawings felt quite right. anyways... sherry finally got that puppy (big puppy...) and parrot she always wanted! im a big fan of taking a single obscure piece of dialogue/game mechanic/inventory item etc and then drawing it

[lycoris-artcorner]

There was total 4 instances of using Zolly (shifting depth of background for dramatic effect) in Transformers One

2 technical in first half, and 2 storytelling in second half

> One when D-16 witness Sentiel beheading Megatronus in revelation of his false nature in betrayal of Primes

> Another when Orion saw D-16's fusion canon came out for first time during fight with Starscream in High Guard base

Both are character realization and moments of shock about something important, for D-16 shatter of his worldview and beliefs letting his build up rage spill out & for Orion is recognition and growing concerns for his close friend's destructive tendencies

> 2 others are used for direct depth sense (Orion falling from the building in opening chase scene and as squad watches energon train being pressed with shifting rocks of Cybertron's landscape)

There's nothing more cinematic as great zolly shot and this camera technique was put in great use here

[ethereal-maia]

you don’t understand I haven’t listened to ANY of re:Dracula yet cause I’m silly and idk I just haven’t but I just went to listen to the sea shanty and HOLY ME OH MY it was everything I wanted

this is it btw

[thatoneandlonelyemo2005]

Jack Kelly is just a barbie girl living in a barbie world

[epiphainie]

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