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if yes, feel free to name drop!!! and id love to hear why 👀

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I got into Keroro again after literal years of not thinking about it surprisingly not because of the new anime announcement and now I'm slowly going insane trying to get all the translated lore possible. Why are these characters so actually good. Why do I like Keroro himself so much. I don't wanna end up having to tell people that yeah one of my obsessions is the silly frog show someone save me

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Faust Guilty Gear

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Doing more than one? Choose whichever you found the most helpful. ❤️

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Being an occasional lurker of the Danny Phantom Phandom is so funny because I got here somewhere before the pink pants event and to this day every time I look into the phandom they are doing something weirder. Like they just don't stop. It never stops. I can't escape it.

Anyway I'm trying to stop being such a lurker so here are my sketches of me trying to figure out how to draw Wes Weston

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The amount of whiplash I felt when I realized the new Pokémon game it's a KALOS Legends game can't be underestimated

I had been profusely converted to Legends Kyurem-ism.

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Extremely self indulgent crossover betweeny favourite monster catching franchise and my favourite One Piece guy

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fic readers whose first language is NOT english,

1. if there isn't fic in your first language, vote what you imagine you would feel like if there was. feel free to elaborate in the tags :')

2. english native speakers and people who don't read fic: this poll is NOT for you. wait till the poll ends if you are curious. if you skew my results you are morally evil and won't go to tumblr heaven......…....

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I find it weird some people are disappointed Kieran didn't get posses? I honestly was praying that theory wasn't right

Something about possession being the reason a character does fuck up shit feels like taking away from a character complexity. I like Kieran the way he is, a kid with issues, and I wouldn't like to see that complexity getting muddled with the "he was possessed" argument

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I have grown up so weary of negativity lately. I just don't have the mental energy anymore to care about all the flaws with X and why supporting it is immoral or whatever. I just want to do the stuff that makes me happy without getting guilt tripped over and over

It's very funny because before I was so critical of everything, and I'm still are, I just can't bring myself to care anymore about it. If something makes me happy, that's enough

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I have been watching Yugioh practically all my life. Like I seriously don't remember a time before DM. It was definitely my first hyperfixation. Like my mom got so tired of me watching the show time and time again she fished an old TV only so she could free the main one from my tyranny

The one that hooked me was probably DM at the start, but nowadays my favourite it's 100% GX. And credits to Arc V for being the first one I watched live along the fandom and becoming my sleep paralysis demon

I feel like this won't be seen, BUT

A friend of mine made a comment that he wasn't aware the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom was as big as I made it sound. Outside the cards and Kaiba memes.

So I'm curious.

Reblog. Comment. Like. Yeet it into oblivion.

To whoever sees this from my oldest and honestly favorite fandom, do whatever you choose with this post.

💜💜💜💜

And if you're an older fan like me, comment where you first watched the anime and which Gen hooked you. For me, it was on, I think, 4kids, and it was GX. I distinctly remember that, lmao.

Thanks for reading! 👋

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I love how Furina is so strong and so fragile at the same as time. She is not physically strong, she has the same powers than a visionless human, but she has a great mental fortitude, amazing acting ability and audacity that allowed her to protect Fontaine for centuries.

She was at her breaking point even before the archon quest started, with no one to trust but herself, and she still kept going and would have continue if weren't for everyone triggering the prophecy.

A human holding the burdens of a God.

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Honestly I understand why I see so many people wanting Furina to get some type of special power or treatment in-universe, like sharing position with Neuvillette or something, but I honestly really don't

This all comes to personal taste, but I really don't want Furina, who has spent so, so long having to act as larger than life, to have to come back to that. I understand her getting power wouldn't automatically give her responsibilities, either, but I just think there's something so bitter about it in a way. Why can't her reward for all her hard work to just be happy? Why it needs to be power or fame or recognition? She has already have a taste of it and I doubt she will want more

And at the end of the day, I just like her being a relatively normal human being. It makes her story so much more triumphant? Impressive? in a way for me. She isn't amazing for her great powers or special way of thinking, she is amazing because she is so deeply herself and so, so human

Is it kinda bittersweet that none of this was her choice? Yes, probably. I like Focalors a lot, but she was a dick there. But her humanity is what makes Furina, Furina, to me. I don't want her to lose that.

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Story Quest drama

Does anyone else find it incredibly weird how many Genshin fans are upset with Paimon and Traveler after Furina’s quest? Like the way people are cherry picking certain parts of scenes and misrepresenting the situation is astounding. I’m not going to pretend Paimon and Traveler didn’t throw a couple jabs but for the majority of back of forth is just banter and the common bluntness they bring. In no way were they trying to gaslight or manipulate Furina.

Furina said she didn’t want to join on stage. Paimon asked if there were any exceptions, and Furina say she didn’t want to leave an out for herself. Hearing that, they immediately pivot the conversation to asking her if she knows anyone who could help. That is literally workshopping a problem 101 and constructive problem solving. I don’t get why people are painting that as pressuring. They heard her stance and seeked a solution that respected her decision and allowed them to continue trying to help their employer.

Furina punches down on herself by saying she didn’t know anyone because they were probably happy she was gone; to which one of the dialogue options boils down to “that’s not a good to assume” because it isn’t. Paimon’s next question was if she had any idea, which causes Furina to get agitated before immediately apologizing because once again, Paimon’s question wasn’t in any way trying to get Furina to buckle. The two of them are essentially checking of a mental list to see where they should go to try solve their commission. Paimon even clarifies this with her before they part ways and Paimon says “Oh well. We have to respect her decision”

Even when they get back to the guild, Paimon tells them for personal reasons, Furina can’t help; as well as clarifying the misconceptions the actress had about Furina being rude. In no way were the duo planning on circling back or involving Furina any further and only gets roped back in after getting caught spying. Furina herself admits she just started drawing lines in the sand without hearing the situation before trying to apologize, to which Paimon tells her everything is completely fine and nothing that just happened was taken personally. You could argue Furina didn’t have anything to apologize for and that’s fine, but even in game, nobody was expecting one and told her everything is fine.

Tiny rant but it’s a bit annoying how people are quick to clip certain dialogue to paint them negatively, while completely ignoring the parts Paimon and the Traveler actively tell Furina she shouldn’t be so hard on herself, it’s okay not to force things, and talking about how she’s finally free to live how she wants. But they want clip the part where Paimon said she first thought Furina was diva; a sane assumption to have after she tried immediately getting them arrested on a ridiculous charge for the sake of hyping the crowd. Was it a little rude? Yeah. Has Paimon never called it like she saw it? No. We’ve heard Kaveh’s backstory and both her and the traveler still went “You should really try and get your life together before something happens” because it’s the blunt yet honest truth. If isn’t Diluc, Klee, Xiao, Ayaka, Yoimiya, Dehya, or Collei, Paimon will find an issue. The others can do no wrong. 💀

Anyway, I just think it’s a bit ridiculous how some people acting. Especially when several weeks ago Furina and “girl failure” was always in the same sentence while people applauded Arlecchino for dragging someone when ultimately she also didn’t know dick about the situation and basically did a gymnastics performance the way she jumped to certain conclusions. I love that people love Furina, but let’s not get crazy now when two people choose to approach her in a casual dynamic instead of super gently and emphatically. If anything, Furina is getting the normal human experience of having people that actually hate her in Poisson, the troupe idolizing her, Neuvillette and Navia being sweet, and the Traveler and Paimon being casual friends.

You know what’s actually insane!? Shenhe talking about her dead family and backstory then the scene ends with Paimon saying “cut the chitchat. We’re trying to win a contest.” THAT was actually out of pocket. 💀

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I feel like what people get wrong about Carmine is ascribing any malicious intent to her actions. She is a mess, and aggressive, and a specially awkward rock has a bigger emotional intelligence than her, but the always tries doing what she thinks is correct

That doesn't means she shouldn't get better at communicating, obviously, she is actively making situations worse with her mentality, but as someone who also deeply struggles with expressing any emotion that doesn't involve anger, I truly don't think she understands that

She truly seems to think her and his brother understand each other well enough. She seems to put a lot more of meaning on acts than words, so Carmine doesn't understand very well how much her words can hurt. On her eyes, she loves him and it should be obvious, and the possibility of her words hurting him doesn't even cross her mind

That's why she seems so confused about Kieran breakdown. Carmine is not very good at reading people if they aren't very direct with her, and Kieran issues thrive on communication issues and internal self hate, so she can't immediately see the past signs once the mess™ becomes external

On her eyes, things probably were going very well. Her little brother had made a friend, even if it was a tourist, she kept reassuring him about his strength on her roundabout way, and hey, she might have made a friend too. And then the lie happened

I think I should remind everyone here that Carmine is considered a problematic person on her own town, and while I definitely don't think that means she is like hated or anything, I'm very sure she has no friends. Carmine probably only interacts with people on aggressive terms or with her brother, so Kieran mentality wasn't a alarming anomaly, it was the status quo

So, when things went wrong, she was left confused and struggling to communicate with Kieran even more now that her own image of him was broken. That's why she assumes he is just going through teen hormones, even when she doesn't look sure at all, because the alternative is that she messed up and didn't know her own brother as good as she thought

And I don't know where I wanted to go with this, TLDR Carmine is a lot of things but malicious or sadistic or any of those things I have seen people call her, she is not