Never gonna get over how the anime made this scene just so,, haunting and elevated. Like I love the manga but I love how the anime has taken these scenes and elevated the themes of death and rebirth with simple shots like this and it’s why even after reading all of the manga I still get excited for the anime because I *know* the anime will not only be a faithful adaptation, but also an artistic masterpiece as it uses the medium to its advantage
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Hellgoku Stories: Wet Floor
Oscar, Yang, Ruby and Jaune all gathered around the table, eating Yang's famous pork chow mein.
Ruby: Mmnn!!!! You've really outdone yourself this time, Yang!
Yang: Thanks Ruby! *beams*
Jaune: By the way, what happened with the floor?
Oscar: Hm? What do you mean?
Ruby: As soon as we came in, it was like walking on an ice rink. Did you guys make that much of a mess while cooking?
Oscar: ...
Yang: ...
[45 minutes ago]
Yang lay on the floor in the missionary position. Het legs pointed to the air as Oscar thrusted into her pussy.
Yang: Ahhhhh~!!! Oh god~!!!
Oscar: Agh~!! You like that~? You like getting pounded~? *crushes her wrists*
Yang: YES~! YES~! YES~! YES~! YES~! YES~! FUCK ME~! FUCK ME~! FUCK ME~! FUCK ME~! FUCK ME~! FUCK ME~!
[Present]
Oscar: Well, you know...
Yang: Accidents happen, hehe.
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something so interesting about writing a sort of pfl arc fix-it au is that a lot of the really awful characterization gets fixed by just. making south in the right and york in the wrong. and changing nothing else about the characterization. like
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okay im always thinking about like. the version of pfl that was implied in 6-8 and the way it specifically emphasized the conflict between the freelancers. the fucked up nature of the leaderboard and the competition. "we were a competitive bunch. we had to be." theres hints of this in 9-10 but its really just carolina and south being unnecessarily uptight about the rankings and a vague suggestion of an "in group" that doesnt actually go anywhere.
but like. what if the rankings genuinely mattered and the freelancers had to fight for the right to get an ai at ALL, not just to be the first one to get one. what if there were more consequences to falling in the ranks than some light criticism. then high-ranking agent "are we the good guys?" york becomes complicit in this fucked up system designed to create the perfect soldier by any means necessary, and never-good-enough agent "i never GOT an ai" south becomes a victim of it. instead of south caring too much out of. pride? loyalty to freelancer? its a preservation instinct and york et al are like "whats HER deal" because the system works fine for them.
then naturally south would be one of the first to defect from the project because what has it done for her?? while someone like york is enjoying the perks of being a highly ranked freelancer agent with an ai and not thinking too hard about it. like. in this scenario south would never be the one defending freelancer from being raided by north - it would absolutely be the other way around. and its so much more interesting that way!
anyway. i can guess why they made the most bland character in existence the good guy and the raging bitch the enemy (ahem. misogyny). but like???? give me the weaponized indifference antagonist and violent resistance protagonist!!! that rules!!!! (well. you dont have to give it to me. im already writing it myself lmfao this is taken directly from my au)
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kabru really has the vibe of a guy who would write callout posts in his spare time where he viciously doxes people i think
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still obsessed with how careful and dedicated the party acted while looking through the dragon. there wasnt any complaining. there wasnt anyone going 'ick' or 'we gotta go through *all* these guts?' or 'yeah.. im not touching poop, i'll keep searching the stomach'. so many scenes were solemn yet organized. hours working with blood-stained hands and clothes until they found a single sign of her. i forgot compassion could look like that. i forgot how touching it can be
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obsessing over the Claudia and Terry moment in s6 teaser
"my mom left me... my brother left me... and now my dad is gone. everyone leaves."
"i'm here for you."
"you... will never leave me."
so i made a playlist teehee
my girlie is so mentally ill and I love that for her
slay the yandere arc HONESTLY
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Further thoughts on season 3 -
Because season 3A is, of course, the show sloughing off the remains of its police procedural suit and letting its dreamlike gothic vibes-based surrealism run wild. It doesn’t have the same comforting, familiar scaffolding to contain the weirdness that the show previously had.
But also intriguing to me is the way the second half mines its uncanny qualities from its seeming return to normalcy. The Italy arc hinges on the characters being temporally fractured and unmoored from the surroundings that once defined them - and this is reflected in the structure and placement of “Aperitivo”, in which the characters are all, through their introductions, tethered to their pivotal moments of trauma.
But season 3B, oddly, doesn’t try to make the three year gap felt in that same way - the story simply breaks off at Hannibal’s capture, the stylization of the arc not applicable to the mundanity of his trial and incarceration - and then when we rejoin the characters, they’ve all been relocated and shunted into their proper positions for the Red Dragon adaptation to play out. The uncanny effect comes from how simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar everything feels - the return to a more “conventional” crime story, the anchoring of Fuller’s “remix” approach in a well-known and previously adapted larger plot line (much more straightforwardly so than the show’s adaptation of the novel Hannibal) with previously used lines and story elements retrodden, and the characters in similar places to where they were introduced to us. Will is married now, but once again pressed by Jack into consulting; Hannibal is in prison but still entertaining guests; Alana has Chilton’s former role. And yet there’s such an underlying sadness and loss to all of it - it feels insufficient and insubstantial, somehow. The passage of time is felt in just how much it isn’t dwelt on, like the characters have someone melted into these new and unsustainable approximations of their old roles.
And the editing, too, is so much artier than the previous seasons were, even in little cinematic details like the transitions from scene to scene. It’s as though the conventions of the plot are haunted by the strangeness of the first half of the season - as though there’s something far more bizarre and violent trying to burst out of the straitjacket of its plot, just like Dolarhyde’s violent side bursting free of him. And of course, it does, by the end, with Will’s transfer of his allegiance to Hannibal’s way of thinking.
I often think that the lack of flashback to time within the three year gap, and general effort to make that length of time feel weighty, feels like a curious excision. And I’d ideally have liked to see both halves of the season expanded into their own full seasons, because there’s so much more you can mine there than just suggestion. But I think the lacuna itself is a fascinating bit of fragmentation in its own right.
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