#IT Readthrough

[effen-draws]

“Oh tragic clown, so much sadness now. You built your mountain and now it blocks the sun.”

Alts and lines under cut:

#qoute is from Tragic Clown by The Tryst #I don't think the *entirety* of the song fits Thistle but I still heavily associate it with him #but yeah I'm in a bit of an art funk atm so I just decided to digitise one of my fave dunmeshi sketches #Soooo Thistle huh:-) #not a guy I liked on my first readthrough but he has STUCK with me #very tragic and very interesting in retrospect #kinda love his delusional ass now #(even if I have trouble drawing him) #(might just be out of practice tbh) #I could ramble a lot more but I'm already too much of a tag talker so I'll cut it short for now:-) #effen's art #illustration #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #dunmeshi #dunmeshi spoilers #dunmeshi fanart #thistle dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #thistle #sissel dungeon meshi

[laurajameskinney]

the fact that duggan during the fall of x CONSISTENTLY has Orchis identify krakoa as an ethno-state as part of their scaremongering... well that feels bad lmao!

#gg og #krakoa readthrough #<- technically not a part of it but

[muninnhuginn]

The thought that goes into the fake science in dungeon meshi can be something so special actually. Using golems to explain crop rotation and how removing predators from an ecosystem can have knock-on effects. Talking about symbiotic relationships and parasites too! And characters are actually interested in the science so they keep explaining about it. Finally, some exposition I can get behind.

#I tried to google to see if the author had any bio/chem/agriculture qualifications but no luck with a brief search #but like. just from reading up to early vol 2 I'm seeing so many lines where the in-universe science draws from rl #this is so much better than Kill the Moon aka the ep of dw that was so bad on science it made me drop the series for years #(admittedly the really bad abortion metaphor also contributed towards that decision but shhh) #dungeon meshi #I should maybe make a readthrough tag but I feel like if I do that I'm going to intimidate myself out of reading

[mamawasatesttube]

the way people treat kon & clark's relationship in fanon vs how it is in [postcrisis] canon is honestly one of the most buckwild things. bc they always pull on "well yja clark was an asshole" or something and translate that to comics canon even when theres just NO basis for it.

canon postcrisis comics: kon brags about getting to work with clark. kon tells clark about his rogues gallery. kon cries from joy when clark says he's family to him. when kon worries clark doesn't trust him, clark tells him he trusts him with his life and that he feels closest to him of any of the superfam. via a time travel thing, young clark says he would want kon to be able to look up to him almost like a father figure. clark teaches kon how to milk a cow. when superman's been poisoned and is slowly dying, kon says he'll do anything to save him. he admires clark so much!!!! a direct kon quote: "every time i see the guy, it's like looking at everything i wanna be!"

fanon, for some reason: clark is really cold and mean to kon. he wouldn't trust him around jon and he doesn't want him in his home. kon is really angsty about this and also very resentful of clark.

like. yeah. sure. right. tell me u have never touched a superfam comic without telling me.........

#rimi talks #i guess in tt03 geoff did some weird shit with kon & clark but its like. lol. thats tt03. #but overall its just the fucking damage yja has wrought. can yall just leave that shit in the yja tags :| #(they cannot bc they dont read comics so they dont know better. and yet they put it in the comics tags.) #perhaps when im done with my big superman readthrough i will go through and make a list of personal fav kon & clark issues #superman vol 2 155 save me. save me superman vol 2 155 #kon #clark

[themyscirah]

Complaining abt Suicide Squad yet again but the fact that they have Waller exposing the alien community to space racist attacks and talking abt how she got to her position through deceit and being a terrible person and stuff is just. Ahsfiwueh JUST SAY YOU DONT KNOW WALLER.

Anyways literally the 3rd mission of the Squad ever (and the first framed as smth Waller picked and not orders from above) was the Squad discrediting and stopping a rogue vigilante who was only arresting POC and funneling white people into white supremacy groups (of which he was the most prominent member) in SUICIDE SQUAD #4. and it's explicitly framed as this mission being personal for Waller that she's hiding from the government bc its illegal like. Guys. Please why are we having her incite (space bc comics) racist attacks now

Also the whole "Amanda got her position through deceit and being a terrible person" NO. she KEPT her position through being shitty and playing complicated political games!!! She wasn't always that way like there is a difference and it is IMPORTANT ppl PLEASEEEE. In Secret Origins #14 we learn Amanda's backstory and she used to be a normal, caring person! Like even after she entered into working in government and politics she wasn't automatically morally bankrupt like please people. She was originally given control of the Squad by Reagan (*sigh* 80s comics...) to distract and get rid of her because she was so successful at pushing progressive social policy in Congress. Acting like she's this static pillar of evil is such a waste of her character and so fucking uninteresting and disrespectful to her arc it drives me MAD.

Like I am NOT saying Waller is all sunshine and rainbows, she fucking SUCKS (said w love <3) but like there's a human being there. It's a progression, she has a character arc like please, DC, please!!! They've fucked up Waller so bad and made her so opaque and uninteresting she can't even be the protagonist of her own story for fucks sake!

Like I don't know how many times I have to scream it until DC hears me or remembers but WALLER IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OF SUICIDE SQUAD. ITS HER BOOK. yet right now she's a cutout to be used as the villain wherever the writers please. Even in her book we get none of her perspective really displayed, no exploration of her thoughts with any kind of understanding of the role she traditionally has played and was made to play in the story.

#its like youre unable to root for her in any form. which is annoying bc shes actually awesome actually #also having her say “actually im the good guy fuck you'' w/o any actual deep analysis of her psyche or whatever while doing these things #doesnt count as development or showing shes 3 dimensional. its just having 2 dimensional waller say shes right when everyone is obviously #supposed to believe shes wrong #anyways i want real waller back please i miss herrrrrrrr #anyways hope mr john ridley has read secret origins no 14. i know its from 1987 but please guys please. my only hope #also it was a few months ago but i think they tried to push certain elements of a diff backstory in dream team and sorry but fuck that. and #any mention of another waller background like my eyes are closed sry. im a preboot truther #actually im just ignorant of most squad comics outside the original series. im gonna do a readthrough and become knowledgeable on other #stuff i just need to find time. so if im wrong then sorry if its smth factual and if you disagree with my opinion then uh sorry for ur loss #anyways shoutout to the time i had a nerd night w my one friend and she was asking me abt dc and said my favorite villains and i said waller #and silver swan. and she had a “yuck WHY” to waller and a ???? to silver swan. love shouting out my faves and explaining them to the less #informed. didnt say a number 3 but would probably be parallax ig. idk hes kind of slay. or maybe someone else honestly i like hal but waller #and nessie are blorbo level for me i could think abt them for hours #or maybe it wouldnt be parallax actually idk who my 3 would be. hes definitely up there but way below the other 2. maybe the cheetah #interpretation that i personally have. v different from the popular cheetah interpretation esp rucka vers actually. much closer to the pérez #and esp develops some subtext there surrounding barbara and the exploitation and theft of sacred cultural artifacts and pieces but also #like british colonization a lil bit #but i actually despise the cheetah that lives in my head but think shed be interesting to use narratively and see diana fight #vs the other guys who i find interesting and sympathetic and like for themselves #whereas my fave interpretation of cheetah can rot in hell #i got off topic here #blah #swishy rant #also disclaimer that w the main character ik dreamer is the main character of dream team. im talking more in general and that amanda should #always have a huge role as shes the main character of the squad and yet is treated like its villain and not its protag #sui sq

[zipmode]

Trigun Manga Sillyface compilation

post over. thank you for listening.

#zipmode talks #trigun #trigun maxium #no spoilers. i think. just silly faces #sorry if this is super long i collected a lot of faces in my readthrough

[emailsfromanactor]

Hey, did you know that there are a whole bunch of color photos of the Gielgud-Burton Hamlet? From both performance and rehearsal? Because I didn't until a few hours ago! Somehow they never came up in the many, many searches I did! Until I tried to get a decent link to the previously-discovered New York Public Library collection of black-and-white photos and finally searched "hamlet burton" there and all these results I'd never seen before appeared!

That's William Redfield getting directed by John Gielgud! In color!

I don't think these are the final costumes, but here's a glimpse of how the "rehearsal clothes" concept really looked!

Burton and Yorick!

Elizabeth Taylor's birthday cake!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've downloaded 62 photos so far and have a lot more to go. Eventually I'll sort through them and post some more. In the meantime, you can find them all here!

#emails from an actor #william redfield #john gielgud #richard burton #hamlet #unfortunately the photos are completely unorganized and have no information about when they were taken or who's in them #i'm pretty sure some are from the first readthrough and i have a hunch about the later rehearsal #i wonder if sterne's briefcase is ever visible :D

[revenantghost]

I forget who in bookclub mentioned this (pls call yourself out and I'll @ you with credit in this post), but someone pointed out that we don't know if anyone knows what Meryl went through. What she knows. Wolfwood has a conversation with her earlier, but it's just about what Vash is, probably clueless as to their shared memories. Vash doesn't give any hints he has any idea what she's witnessed--he's so fearful of what he is and what he's capable of, it's possible he doesn't know what his powers are. Eventually, at the very earliest, it's seven months from now before we see her admit aloud what she's seen. And, hell. With how much Wolfwood and Vash tuck away and don't talk about, why would she feel like she could talk about it?

And yet, despite all that. Despite having trauma unlike anything she's ever known in her life before. Despite having trauma that no human should have to bear. Despite not being sure what to even do with that, with herself, with Vash (who she's seen witness and commit unspeakable horrors!). She still chooses kindness. She still chooses love and peace. She still chooses Vash.

We see a lot of people handle their trauma in really shitty ways in this story; in many ways, it's a story deeply about trauma. And Meryl, isolated and afraid and with this pain fresh within her, doesn't turn away from what she knows is good and worth saving on this hellhole planet. And, idk, I think that's beautiful, and I love her for it.

#Trigun #TrigunBookclub #Trigun Meta #Listen the jokes about being traumatized by chicken Vash are HILARIOUS #But my girl is handling this so well considering #And beautifully #She shouldn't HAVE to bear it #But she shows that you CAN #Regardless of whether you deserve what happened to you (no one ever does) #And how much fear and pain comes with it #I feel like the magnitude of this was lost on my first readthrough #And it's not perfect #BUT #I SAID WHAT I SAID AND I MEANT IT

[decepti-thots]

why does a Harvard university/student paper have a 2003 review of fucking eugenesis. how did some fucking nerd persuade them to run this. i am DYING

#eugen readthrough #THIS IS SO FUNNY

[literallyjusttoa]

Found my copy of the Iliad, first page and babygirl is already here. Loving life.

#can’t wait to read about blorbo’s war crimes ☺️ #imma tag any doodles I do #Iliad readthrough #apollart #toa apollo #Apollo #sunny speaks

[hundredsspoons]

Realistically, I know this shot is probably more about Vash's ability to look at someone who has stolen his identity to terrorize a town without flinching or compromising his ideals, but. I just feel like. Eriks is running from Vash the Stampede. Of course, he's literally pretending not to be him for safety reasons, and tons of people have already pointed out how he resists the image people put on him as a bloodthirsty monster/weapon. Wolfwood has to convince him he needs to 'become' Vash the Stampede again. But I feel like on a more fundamental level, he hates himself and is trying to erase himself. And it's obvious in retrospect, but I didn't realize on my first readthrough that the chapter's theme of him trying to run away from his past is symbolized by him being chased by a literal doppelgänger

#trigun #trigunbookclub #on my first readthrough I was so overwhelmed by the cringe of pretending to be someone to that person's face #that I don't think anything else really registered lolol

[allgremlinart]

DONT KILL THIS LADY... FC Yee I know your tricks now you better not kill this lady....

#yangchen liveblog #<- this tag will be spoilerfull obviously but. just so you know. #<- but also also its my first readthrough so idk anything about what happens.. for context.

[laurajameskinney]

#gg og #john greycrow #psylocke #kwannon #krakoa readthrough #give it up for having noticed it i dont think ill ever be the same

[sailforvalinor]

Remember when Emperor Kaito of the Eastern Commonwealth was so desperate to get this random mechanic that he’d met three days earlier to go to a ball with him that, after he’d been denied twice, he shouted “GO TO THE BALL WITH ME” at her in the middle of a plague research lab, and after the aforementioned flustered mechanic shoved him back into the elevator they had just exited, he had the audacity to say, “well, that got your attention,” like he DIDN’T just potentially cause an international incident

Because of Thorne it’s so easy to forget that Kai is like. Kind of insane? Like, as compared to Thorne he’s the Tired Mom Friend, but on his own he’s a lil bit of a lunatic? Love him

#not to make it blatantly obvious what I’m rereading but #what a lad #lil crackpot conspiracy theorist #‘I am asking out this mechanic I met three days ago out of self-preservation. yeah. that’s it. however if I go with anyone else I might die #lunar chronicles #kaider #the chronicles of the lunar chronicles readthrough

[markantonys]

s3 will have rand & elayne interacting, rand & aviendha interacting, mat & elayne interacting, and almost certainly elayne & aviendha interacting, it will hopefully have cauthor cpr, it will have gawyn, and if i'm very very lucky it might even have egwene & gawyn interacting. all of my very topmost anticipated and favorite things will be arriving in s3 (bar the most anticipated and favorite thing of all, elayne, who already blessed us with her presence in s2). the first 2 seasons made me crazy enough, but s3 might just finish me off entirely. the prospect of receiving all of my Favorite WOT Things in one season is almost too overwhelming to contemplate. AAAAAHHHHH

#oh and i guess s3 will also have some iconic plot events but all of that is extremely secondary to MY Favorite WOT Things #you all followed along with my readthrough posts you know very well what my priorities are djkfg #wot #wot book spoilers

[zeetbl33p]

Question: should I do a read through thread or is there a better format?

Thought I might as well make a place for any thoughts I have to not spam stuff too much idk. Probably would post a lot of Marcille, Falin, and Farcille stuff and thoughts about comparing the manga to the anime. Any format suggestions?

I'll probably make some drafts of stuff in the meantime if anything comes to me.

Also let me know what unique tag I should use so people can filter me out if preferred.

#dunmeshi #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #readthrough #Farcille