#wasted potential I say

[chiliger]

Moon Glow

[bibibbon]

Hori gave Mina a half assed "revenge" plot with Midnight's killer that amounted to her giving him a talk no jutsu that failed and then Hori let her defeat the slime villain and melt some of Machia's claws.

Mina's character was treated like a joke because that's exactly what she was.

Yeah mina ashido was robbed of a good character arc and honestly horikoshi fumbled with her.

Look I don't mind her having a revenge plot that can evolve to something more. Heck I don't even mind if her arc starts out incredibly late in the story after she experiences something incredibly challenging but what I do mind is the execution of whatever arc she had.

Cool she is supposed to have a revenge plot because she wants to avenge midnight but the problem is that we barely see midnight having an established mentor and mentee relationship with either momo or mina so all of that falls apart. For it to work you need to give mina meaningful screentime with midnight!!

After that we need to see some of mina's thoughts. After the war arc we can tell that mina has become quite overprotective over her classmates repeatedly saying that she doesn't want to lose anyone else and that everyone is precious to her. This is why we see her being most emotional during the vigilante arc and the UA traitor arc.

Now Iam gonna spin her arc a bit but cool midnight dies, mina is effected by it, she slowly starts to lose sleep over it and slowly starts to plan her revenge. Iida (class president and someone who went through the same thing) actually notices mina and confronts her about it. She after this confrontation doesn't back down and iida obviously expresses worry over what she is planning to do which she says she will try and handle it own because she doesn't wanna lose anyone.

After that conversation it's revealed that yuuga is the UA traitor and this puts some more emotions onto mina heck maybe she even starts to somewhat resent him and blame him for midnight's death. However, as the situation unfolds she slowly starts to realise that revenge wouldn't help her in anyway and that clinging to the people she has left and protecting them is what's best for her.

However, she acknowledges this later onto the battle while trying to get her revenge but instead of choosing to kill the people who killed midnight she notices that kirishima is struggling and helps to protect him instead

That's kind of the thing I think hori was trying to go for (maybe 🤷‍♀️ or maybe not) and this post is Hella rushed so Iam gonna make a wasted potential post on her.

[vikhorrorschau]

[nnobodoodles]

Huh.

So I randomly remembered Croc is pretty much Italian.

[fatehbaz]

weekly navel-gazing update: this week is most consequential event in long time. keyword search: "scared" "is it ok to be scared" "beaten and tortured by the ogre"

[fun-twisted-tales]

I have this headcanon that some of the plants he has are actually the plant animals he saved from being killed after the book

Hence why he’s overprotective and calls them his “sisters”

And yeah, they were definitely neurodivergent together

I think they should have explored that more and how their relationship got effected because I haven’t seen anything about them after this event

Are you still a fan of the Goosebumps Horrortown game? If so, I’d love to hear your thoughts on Dr Brewer’s clone and how he’s portrayed

I like to think that Dr. Brewer as we see him in the game is his clone who fled the events of the book to start a new, unassuming life in Horrortown and now he's just here taking care of his plants, his little guys (who like to chase people around town sometimes but it's okay). I also like to think he is neurodivergent. That was some neurodivergent to neurodivergent communication between Brooke and Dr. Brewer's Clone I tell you. They were literally infodumping to each other about their interests (photography and plants). Brooke absolutely saw that man as a father figure before she accidentally entered the basement and got chased by killer plants. Brooke how do these things keep happening to you.

[p1ctur3]

If I'm being honest, I actually want to see victim succeed in his revenge plan. Not because I emphasize with him and want to see him happy, but because it would break him.

We know that current day victim is defined by his revenge, his desire for revenge is pretty much his reason to live. So what will happen once he had finally summoned Alan and destroyed him?

Would he really just end everything and go back to a happy life after everything he did? I honestly want his defeat of Alan to be easy for him, because I don't want him to be satisfied with revenge. I need him to have the realization that by dedicating his life to revenge, he had made his life tied to Alan. Everyone else had moved on but him, he is the only one living in the past.

On a side tangent, I think not enough people acknowledge that revenge is a choice, yes there are factors that can push someone down revenge but it's still a choice. Victim choosing to pursue revenge is a choice made by the character. In fact, the choice proves victim had developed as a character over his time in the outernet. The victim that freshly escaped Alan's PC would have chosen to run away from the danger. However, current day victim chose revenge, in a way expressing his agency. Just because a character has agency doesn't mean they would make good decisions with it.

To add to that point, victim is genuinely insane to the other sticks. To most sticks, the dissapearance is basically a natural disaster, to them, victim is taking revenge on a natural disaster. There would have been more people hunting down chosen if that wasn't true. Also, do note that the cursor has been predrawn at the end at ava 11, victim has been anticipating the involvement of Alan even before he had the proof to do so.

Anyways, my point is that I want victim to succeed because it allows the narrative to strangle him and force him to move on. Because once he had done his revenge, what else is there left for him? I want that aspect to be explored, his world to shift beyond his past again. Victim has to be unfulfilled by revenge to move on. Basically, I want him to go through an existential crisis.

Alan, don't write victim to be John wick dammit.

[dollopole]

Have we taken into consideration that perhaps, the reason Merlin does not die, it’s because the Gods don’t want him to? They’ve been playing with him this entire time, and The Cailleach made it clear that even if Merlin wants to die, he can’t, and he cannot change the course of his life. Merlin does not say, “yes” willingly, but rather tests to see if the goddess in front of him knows about his destiny, and her answer proves him right. It’s not because she sees Lancelot going into the veil. It’s because she knows deep down Merlin cannot do anything now. Merlin is more powerful than Gods, and to prevent him to come to this knowledge, they constantly stop him from achieving his destiny.

[thewyrmspace]

I love Casey in general but this particular episode he cracks me the hell up (The Lonely Mutation of Baxter Stockman)

I love that he simultaneously is the Unpredictable Out-of-Line Vigilante that's blatantly trying to murder the guy Leo's attempting to talk down and also the one that's like "this is genuinely the weirdest thing anyone's ever done btw" to the insane things that nobody else bat's an eye to. Peak character

(also sorry for shitty editing I'm on a trip rn and don't have the energy but I couldn't get it out of my head LMAO)

[dykedvonte]

MacCready being one of the few companions to not lose affinity if you eat people makes sense when you remember the fungus in Little Lamp Light grew from decomposing bodies. Like the kids weren’t eating people directly but they were eating people adjacent things.

Not to mention how the Lone Wanderer can trick the kids at LLL into buying “strange meat” to eat which is just human so it’s more likely than not they have just straight up ate people so he’s either very desensitized, knows what food desperation can do to people or feels he really has not ground to stand on since he was in the same boat whether he wanted to be or not.

[harbingersecho]

she should've been problematic at the club

[blans]

i just saw a post saying that piastri, if he keeps this up, will probably surpass leclerc in number of wins this year.

which made me think about how insane it is that charles leclerc "only" has 8 wins

[anotheraverageairbreather]

Now that the main GSNK ships are finally seeing some progress (Waka knows Seo is Lorelei, Kashima and Hori Kiss, Nozaki realizing his feelings, Ryousuke and Miyako are together, etc), does anyone think Mayu and Mikorin have a shot at being canon??? I mean they’re relationship is absolutely set up in a way that is COULD happen plot wise, and the Manga is fruitier than a Jamba Juice, but they’ve been given so much less attention than the other ships ( that could also be because Mayu isn’t like a member of the main cast tho???) idk my hopes aren’t HIGH per se, but I feel like there’s a non zero chance! Like I’m sitting at a solid 7%

[icepandawarrior]

"SHE WAS ONLY IN LIKE 3 EPISODES WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT HER?"

BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT HER... MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT!!!!

[bigttsgoodheart]

was it casual when you called me your "god-given solace"???

[rustedleopard]

okay so I hadn't seen your tumblr until this so the whole being a follower thing is new but your stuff about the Ketsukane mansion (and other recent posting) is the Good Shit so i'm going here now. Anyway!

The home gym feels like a very realistic choice because it's something that Chujin should definitely have been able to tell Ceroba would use, but there's not really much *personalization* to it. You don't really need to engage with the idea that someone enjoys exercise to work off it. You add a room, you get a few pieces of exercise equipment like a treadmill and an elliptical, you have a hanging bag to punch on one side, you have somewhere to get water. Maybe you paint it in red and white. That's a good gesture towards someone you love! But in your grand architectural vision you don't really need to interrogate your knowledge of their interests.

Something less immediately likely but that I think could still happen with a BIT more thought without even diving *too* hard into headcanon territory: ...some sort of art studio.

One thing that we do see very solidly about Ceroba is that she enjoys the creative work of the people she cares about. She loves Chujin's artistry in his robotics and even if there are OBVIOUSLY ISSUES with it she loved seeing him creating the estate and his garden. Kanako's art is displayed all over the place and the photo of her holding up her finished mask is kept very specially. Her implements in the pacifist final boss fight are Chujin's gently adorned staff and Kanako's mask. She may find Starlo's hardcore sheriff larp stuff a bit silly, but she still thought it was fun regardless until he pushed it too far.

I think a space for a few different potential kinds of artistic expression could be a really nice gesture. Like, hey, you enjoy art a lot, but you don't seem to have made much of it yourself, maybe you could try things out and see if something clicks with you and *we* can love *your* work. She's buff and lived in the area back before it got totally desertfied; maybe she'd get a kick out of sculpting wood if she had the chance. Maybe she could learn how to paint. Maybe she might not click with any one thing in particular but can still try and share it with the people she cares about.

Diving more into hc stuff on what she might *actually* enjoy having her own space for that can go in a Rich Person House: ...I think she'd like a bowling alley. I know that's random but it's got some fitness elements while being more of a game that you can play against others *or* solo, can work off some anger by throwing a heavy object at some stupid things to make them scatter. Can be real fun in decorations, and it'd be fitting to have a couple TVs in there for watching movies or the like when they're not being scoreboards. It's something you generally dress down for (nobody looks fancy in bowling shoes). I dunno, I think it'd actually be pretty fun for her.

Hey, no worries about being new here. It's nice to have you!

(in relation to this post) *points very intensely at your idea of Ceroba having a room dedicated to some sort of artistic endeavor* I love that idea a lot!

I think a gym would be the most realistic option for Ceroba from what we see out of Ceroba and Chujin's relationship, since she's so damn self-effacing and thinks that maturity means slotting herself into the role of a housewife that she doesn't really let herself have fun. The only thing she really mentions about herself in the Steamworks is that she used to go to the gym until she quit about a year before canon (which, considering that she had to pick up work at Cafe Dune to support the family financially and how Chujin passed away fairly recently, really paints quite the picture for why this happened). A gym would be the most likely option since it was like... the one thing she brought up about herself. But as you brought up it isn't exactly personal.

Having a home gym for her would have been the bare minimum though. Even if it's not as personal as programming a videogame for Kanako, it would've at least shown that Chujin is paying attention to Ceroba's wants. I headcanon that Chujin at least tried to make the kitchen as nice as he could for Ceroba, but that doesn't erase the fact that a kitchen is heavily tied to the domestic duties of a housewife. Unintentional as I imagine it to be, slotting your wife into the role of a housewife while your kid gets to be a kid in her space and you get to be yourself in both of yours? That's pretty Cringe-jin 😬. Ceroba didn't express a strong interest in cooking that would have justified this either.

But if Ceroba and Chujin did have a healthy relationship with each other, I could definitely see the art studio idea playing out, since as you said, both Kanako and Chujin express themselves creatively in their own ways and it would be great if she was encouraged to as well. Maybe it's the amount of pottery videos I've watched recently speaking through me, but I love the idea of Ceroba getting into ceramic art. She doesn't strike me as the sort to mind getting dirty, I can just see her at the end of a rough day tying back her kimono sleeves with tasuki, slapping a slab of clay onto the pottery wheel, and just going at it, even if nothing good comes out of it. Letting Starlo shoot at her rejected projects because the glaze didn't come out of the kiln well so eh. go nuts breaking them, I don't care. Her gifting the Sunnyside family a homemade vase or bowl. Maybe experimenting with kintsugi. Letting Kanako work alongside her making coil pots and pinch pots. Or your wood working idea that you brought up! Something more hands-on!

(Also, it's funny that you brought up the bowling idea since someone who does seem to like bowling in canon is Martlet, considering that she has an attack where she drops bowling balls. Maybe if Chujin were closer with her, he would have invited her over and they would've bowled together. Ah well, c'est la vie...)