Jaune: I am TRYING... to see if... hitting it at the right ANGLE... will glitch me through! If it's good enough for Mario Kart, then it's good enough for me!
Yang: ...And why aren't you trying to stop him, kid? He's your dad now, isn't he?
Penny: (The Copper Child) Though improbable, his logic is sound.
Blake: But he's just going to end up hurting himself!
Penny: For the sake of my best friend and my mommy, that is a risk I am willing to take. TRY 45 DEGREES LEFT, DADDY!
SAOA's new ep about two siblings with a hella toxic relationship realising they had never really hated each other and instead were driven apart by decisions made by their family (seexist grandpa and mom worried about her son's asthma respectively), then componded by their respective personalities causing miscommunication, and exacerbated by minimal parental oversight, that is so entrenched in their psychs that both assume them other is out to get them at every point, yet they both WANT to make it better but at every turn taking those first steps seems impossible,,, was really neat!
Unfortunately it has also harrowingly reminded me that the original plot was about the sister's insest crush 💀
What the fuck. what the everliving fuck. I am literally sobbing I cannot stop this - this was the funny series! You can't do this to me!
Like just ughhhhhhhh - Suguha and Kazuto becoming unaligned for just a moment, just a second of him going faster, farther than her - and her sticking in out! Trying so hard to reach out! And him not doing the same because he doesn't even notice, and that abandonment twisting under years and years and years, of feeling unwanted and unloved, and feeling safer when she's unbearable, because she cannot afford that vulnerability again. And then Kirito coming back, older and wiser and more willing to spend time on the people he loves because of SAO where he got so close to losing them, and her not being able to fix these two versions of him together because they aren't! They aren't the same person! But he can't tell her, can't show her how he's changed because she cannot let either one of them be soft around one another.
And from Kirito's side, all he sees is his relationship with his baby sister grow strained under the weight of years, of her slowly turning into something awful that he thinks hates him, because what else could there be? Literally what else?
And her still dragging him to the kendo mat years later, despite the fact that he hates it. That being literally the first scene of them together.
Shitty Kazuto Kirigaya aesthetic: i would post that tweet that's like "you all only don't like me because you hate me and i'm mean to you. grow up" but unfortunately i'm out of tweet views for today so you have to just imagine it in your mind
sword art online abridged honestly has better writing than any currently airing tv show anywhere i will die on this fucking hill, watch it right now, do it instantly, the newest episode stabbed me 87 times in the stomach, why do episodes take a year to make please god this cliffhanger is insane
In Sword Art Online Abridged episode 17 at the time 17:04, there's a moment where there are two people and one of them says "I don't mean to brag but... I'm deathly allergic to the latex~~"
Which is just a bizarre line for some random background character to say, but it goes deeper than that. In the post-mortem stream for the episode at the time 2:28:32, they mention that the second person was supposed to have a line in response, but they never got someone to voice the other character so they just cut it even though it was a great line.
What was the other person supposed to say in response?
"Oh, how exotic."
And that line has been bouncing around in my head ever since because it's fucking amazing and it should've been in the episode because— just— what?! How is that a brag? Why are you saying it so flirtatiously? Why is the other person into it? How is that hot?????? How is being allergic to latex exotic????????