#which. :( alas. the meta.... the shitposts.... :(

[sparring-spirals]

me in tags of posts i am reblogging with no context: haha delilah being ominous? sure. go for it

me, glancing at other posts in the CR tag immediately after that reblog: OH. OH SO LAUDNA DID GO FOR IT. IT BEING. ORYM.

[pancake-breakfast]

With Trigun Bookclub about to start, I wanted to note a few things I'll be doing related to it!

No, this will not become a Trigun blog for the duration of Bookclub. There will still be cats and Jujutsu Kaisen and Attack on Titan and all sorts of miscellany posted here.

Since I participated last year, I won't be doing the reaction posts as I go through it this year. I'd need more time between reads to actually make those interesting.

But I WILL be writing a few additional meta posts I didn't get around to last time, and may repost some of my stuff from before. The one about the coins, in particular, seems like something that may be useful to new readers....

May be showing off the deluxe edition stuff! The first volume should arrive soon!

Because there may be some new readers coming through, I'm going to be constraining spoilers posted on this blog until the appropriate chapters have been reached in Bookclub. That means no couch-related content until February, alas. My poor queue might gather a good stack of things in the meantime.

That said, I am doing some fanfic short stories this month, so I may be promoting those regardless of spoilers they might contain for the series.

Hopefully, by the end of the month, I'll finally have my Self-Introduction post completed, which contains a link to my Trigun Masterpost, so if by some chance people have an interest in going back through my reactions and shitposts and such, they will be there!

Looking forward to the adventure!

[polinated]

ok so i need to get stuff out of my chest regarding part 2. tldr; it's a frustrated but optimistic rant lol. hid it below in case you don't wanna read it, which is totally fine!

i know part 2 has left many people (including myself) a bit jaded, and understandably so! lol if you've been following me for the past few months you know how much i've been chronically obssessing over polin on here. they were the matter that made up my brain lol. were there stuff i didn't like and wish they'd done differently? a few things, yes, and the feeling fucking sucked. like, for one, if it were up to me i would drag out more the resolution part between colin and pen. give us a bit more to balance the angst and make that happy ending feel a bit more earned. because i felt empty after watching that. i thought, hmm, this isn't working for me.

but the thing is, if i really tried i can justify some of these choices textually, and honestly it's helped me understand some things better in retrospect, like when colin was so incessant about pen dropping LW, which bothered me at first. why tf would he circle back to not forgiving her when he already kinda did before the wedding? then i realized, because he still had issues with the idea of LW herself, and not penelope, and it's making it difficult for him to reconcile those two parts of her. also that entrapping statement he said to pen. that was fucking harsh, but i've come to think that angry people say stuff they don't mean just to hurt the person that has first hurt them. i just wished he said sorry for that statement at some point.

anyways, this isn't to say i'm kissing the show's boot or giving it a pass or whatever. i'm ready to say that the writing is not very good in parts. but i'm just seeing the story for what it is and making my way from there. i think certain expectations i've been subconsciously nursing also had something to do with it. i tried my best to limit speculations, but alas, i could not help it lmao. i just wanted the best for polin.

but yeah, i still wanna have fun about part 2. will still make gifs, shitposts, and the occasional meta if i feel like it. but also i won't hesitate to say negative stuff about it if it's begging to be said, and that's okay!