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[tinyozlion]

Turn A Gundam just rocketed into my top five favorite, most soul-igniting series of all time. I don't even know what it's supplanting in the ranks, but it's there now. I'm ready to call it the most beautiful anime I've ever seen and the competition is fierce. Fully weeping, touching my screen reverently, clutching my heart, having a spiritual moment. Maybe it's hormones. Maybe it's the Yoko Kanno soundtrack. Maybe it's the Tomino future hopepunk where everyone keeps living at the end. Maybe it's seeing another lonely, ambitious queer man sail into the sunset without an anchor. I can fix him. Guin come back. Guin. Guin you need to shack up with the sweet, thick autistic moon engineer he can fix you.

#nonparsible #turn a gundam #i am now captain of the H.M.S. Guin/Horace and by god i will sail it alone if I must #be the Jeeves to his Wooster I'm begging you

[tinyozlion]

Harry Ord spat up in a woman's mouth because he was concerned for her health. Cat behavior.

Harry Ord was not meant to be in the military, he was meant to be on the runway. Harry Ord enlisted when he should have been doing a little turn on the catwalk. He needs his own designer lable. Harry Ord Fall/Winter Collection Correct Century 2345. "Are you wearing the?" "...The Harry Ord ruby shades? yeah I am."

#turn a gundam #Harry Ord #unparsable

[tinyozlion]

Spoilers for Turn A Gundam, but--

I genuinely teared up and had to take a moment when I saw the Gundam Wing cameos in the Winter Palace projections. After Colony was considered part of the Dark History! If not temporally, then thematically!

idk, it made me feel connected somehow, knowing the series that was so important to me made it to the "final cut", so to speak. Like, even just retroactively, it got to be part of the spiritual continuity of Tomino's brainchild. I suppose if one were to be cynical and joyless about it you could say it was just part of an advertising gimmick (and I'm pretty sure they make a joke to that effect in the series XD), but knowing how significant Turn A was to its creator, I still think it's nice to have the series I most identified with included in the project.

Just seeing a Leo on screen for half a second, and Sandrock, and Wing Zero... it was like "Hey! There you are! You made it, buddy!" :')

#unparsable #Turn A Gundam

[tinyozlion]

Harry Ord is a cat with a job. i will not elaborate.

Harry Ord was not meant to be in the military, he was meant to be on the runway. Harry Ord enlisted when he should have been doing a little turn on the catwalk. He needs his own designer lable. Harry Ord Fall/Winter Collection Correct Century 2345. "Are you wearing the?" "...The Harry Ord ruby shades? yeah I am."

#unparsable #turn a gundam #Harry Ord

[tinyozlion]

Harry Ord was not meant to be in the military, he was meant to be on the runway. Harry Ord enlisted when he should have been doing a little turn on the catwalk. He needs his own designer lable. Harry Ord Fall/Winter Collection Correct Century 2345. "Are you wearing the?" "...The Harry Ord ruby shades? yeah I am."

#turn a gundam #unparsable #Harry Ord

[tinyozlion]

Every time I read the script comparison for an episode of Wing, I want to tear the official English translation apart with my bare hands.

#unparsable #And I say this as a notorious Dub Apologist #the way they wrote the English script is WILDLY inconsistent #it makes the plot and characterizations goddamn inscrutable

[tinyozlion]

multiple sources confirming Duo ghost-wrote this, I stand corrected

how a man eats a burrito in his own kitchen at 3a.m. is between him and the lord

#unparsable #you walk into a dark kitchen and see a feral teenage boy hunched over the ravaged carcass of a burrito; eyes aglow from the fridge light #don't move. he can't see you if you don't move.

[tinyozlion]

wrong blog

how a man eats a burrito in his own kitchen at 3a.m. is between him and the lord

[tinyozlion]

Okay wait have headcanons:

-Call sign "Blue Monday" -His favorite Aries is #0013 "Lucky 13" or Lucky for short (it's not technically his, he's just called permanent dibs on it). -Short king, has to adjust the seat in every cockpit because he can't reach the pedals otherwise. -His dad is an investigative journalist in the Colonies ("Dear son, Lieutenant Zechs, he is a CHAR. I don't really like his attitude.") -Burdened by truth that his brooding aristocratic roommate hasn't understood a single one of his cool pop culture references. -Toxic trait is that he has chewed on every pen and pencil that has ever been handed to him. -Exclusively hydrates with coffee. -Good with g-forces, bad at using his actual human feet. -Vintage MS enthusiast; has never loved anything more than he loves the Tallgeese, desires the Tallgeese carnally, would give a kidney to pilot the Tallgeese. Will never, ever, pilot the Tallgeese.

My OZ pilot-sona, Eser.

I'm bringing Nameless NPC Who Dies In A Beam Canon Blast vibes to the house party. I'm disintegrating my Romefeller teammates by exposing them to nu metal. The horrors are innumerable but I stay silly.

#a truly indulgent self-insert OC #Eser = 10 #In my head Eser has a Boston accent even though i don't #art by me #unparsable #fire the headcanon

[tinyozlion]

...I wanted so badly to like Advent of the Red Comet. I tried very hard to like Advent of the Red Comet. In several places I even succeeded! I certainly didn't hate it! But I did not like Advent of the Red Comet. The stylized, theatrical overacting would not have bothered me except that they treated moments intended to be read as sincere tragedy with the exact same level of bombast as the moments of goofball comedy, and frequently the tone was completely at odds with the subject matter. The stock-character stereotypes were not a welcome introduction to a series that usually gives a level of complexity and humanity to even the most bit-role villains. I was prepared for the usual government mandated Weird Tomino Gender Rules, but they felt somehow less nuanced than usual. There was an unusual amount of enthusiastic militarism on display that went weirdly unexamined. And gosh it made war look awfully fun.

I strongly suspect that I will enjoy the Origin comics a lot more than the OVA; I didn't dislike anything about the actual story, just the handling of it. There were a lot of great moments that I found memorable. The succession of custodians for the kids were really interesting. The cat storyline broke me. The exploration of the Zabi family dynamics was definitely a high point. And obviously I would die for Garma. Obviously. Kycilia's linebacker shoulders were also a factor that must be considered. I'm considering them.

On an unrelated note: what is with this particular studio giving Char perma-knife-cat mouth? I'm not really complaining, if anyone has knife-cat energy it's Char, it's just an aesthetic choice that seems to have broken containment and become a part of Char meta-canon that didn't exist in the original series? MSGundam Origin: I Am Char's Smirking Knife-Cat Revenge.

#this review is way after the fact; origins was one of the first things i watched on my msg completionist run #but it was on my mind again today #I apologize for the fight club reference i promise to grow as a person #gundam meta #unparsable #more gundam reviews from wesley

[tinyozlion]

On her mission to talk some sense into her brother, Relena Peacecraft is given an escort to space by the once and current leader of the Earth Sphere. Neither of them are enjoying the trip, for different reasons.

Just a strange little scene that was floating around in my head. I mostly wanted to give these two a reason to interact again, and I was thinking about ✨Space✨ -#AU Where Everything Is The Same Except This Happens, my specialty genre.

#Something something souls pulled down by gravity counter of chars attack #gundam wing #treize khushrenada #relena peacecraft #gundam wing fanfic #unparsable

[tinyozlion]

it's actually pronounced "jundam"

#unparsable #gundam shitposting

[tinyozlion]

Apologies for the surplus of filler posts! I am once again in a research and planning stage for the entries I want to tackle next; some of them involve real-world, heavy topics, so I need to give them extra consideration if I'm going to write about them at all, and the rest of them simply require thought and energy, which have been in DISTRESSINGLY SHORT SUPPLY since the start of the new year. Everything's taking a bit of time to cook, so you know what that means...

Ladies and gentles, that means it's time for another:

- *:･ﾟ✧ 🦀 Crab Appreciation Day! 🦀 *:･ﾟ✧ -

A day dedicated to that most friend shaped of Mobile Suits, the Cancer! Let me once again reach into my great and auspicious bag of crabs, to retrieve THE CRAB OF THE DAY:

Drumroll, please.

Today's Crab is: Beach Party Crab!

This crab and its friends are having a nice seaside date! Their formation suggests a rousing game of water polo is about to commence, or perhaps synchronized swimming.

Let's wish this wholesome friend group a lovely day of fun in the sun!

...Oh no! It looks like Tallgeese has spoiled the barbecue. AND it's started raining! They'll have to dry off and get takeout instead. What a silly goose!

Better luck next time, Beach Party Crab!

#unparsable #crab appreciation day #housekeeping

[tinyozlion]

UPDATE: a second Fuck has been spotted in the Universal Century

FUCK spotted in the Universal Century

#unparsable

[tinyozlion]

Shout out to some of OZ's most attractive nameless grunts:

WHERE WAS SHE? WHERE IS CONCEPT ART GIRLPILOT?? WE WERE ROBBED.

#unparsable #gundam wing #Nameless OZ Grunts (and Soldier-I-Named-Milo) #Forever salty there weren't more female pilots in Wing #but the ones we got were top notch

[tinyozlion]

FUCK spotted in the Universal Century

#unparsable #in front of SANTA?? #War in the Pocket

[tinyozlion]

I'm continuing on my journey through the broader Gundam franchise, and I think War in the Pocket might be the best and most complete Gundam/MS/ real-robots genre movie one could make. It's feels like a perfect summation of the themes of the series, the world building, the atmosphere, the moral ambiguity, the horror, melancholy, and bittersweet hopefulness born out of grief and human perseverance. It uses the audience's awareness of danger and concern for the characters to passively build up tension the same way the best horror stories and classic tragedies do; it makes the stakes feel SO real and it delivers such an absolute gut punch with each fully-earned consequence. It's one of those perfect stories that fills in the all important empty space between major events and main characters that reaches its maximum poignancy because it takes place in the background of larger events that are already familiar. It answers the question "what was happening all the time, everywhere else, to everyone else."

I think if there's anyone watching gundam shows who finds themselves taken out of the story because they're hung up thinking like, "yeah but what would MS combat really look like if you didn't pull any punches?" (exactly as horrific and gruesome as most mechanized violence is, combined with the unique awfulness of space physics), or "what would it really be like to live on a space colony where mobile suit battles were a constant threat to your way of life?" (you'd become worryingly desensitized and resigned very quickly), or "what if the various scifi militaries operated with the same bottom-line utilitarianism that you'd expect them to?" (they'd make decisions that are uncomfortable to watch), then this will answer all those questions-- and offer a pretty clear demonstration why that level of graphic violence is generally hidden behind the fig leaf of clean, circular explosions. But War in the Pocket let's you know exactly what's being omitted, in a way that makes one uncomfortably conscious of human fragility in reality as well as in the fiction, as I think any anti-war story properly must. It is incredibly beautiful, brilliantly and subtly told, and fucking devastating.

Man. It genuinely shook me. What an incredible entry into the franchise and what an incredible film/OVA all on its own.

#unparsable #gundam meta #War in the Pocket #some of the lines from this are haunting me