#Hi Nay spoilers

[kd-heart]

I've been listening to Hi Nay lately (already on my second listen).

This is inspired by episode 20 'Siga' and all the eye related imagery therein. Also, I just needed to draw Donner carrying Mari after she saved both their lives.

#kd art #fanart #hi nay podcast #hi nay spoilers

[hinaypod]

Some Spoilers

(from Twitter)

#hinaypod #hi nay podcast #horror podcast #hi nay #Spoilers #Hi Nay spoilers #Once again #Nothing is scarier than the forward march of fascism

[vestaclinicpod]

Audio Drama Sunday - 21st April ✨

Here are the shows which got me through a particularly heavy set of night shifts! 😌

👻 @tellnotalespod (S2E78) The music in this episode was so sad 😭. Of COURSE Frank hadn’t considered the emotional nature of the tether in his research. Jesus 🙄. Leo needs to start running this show ASAP.

🌲 @hellofromthehallowoods (148) I’m absolutely obsessed with Buck’s glow up. Honestly, goals. What an interesting cast of characters we have aboard this ship, I can’t wait to spend more time with them. Dashiell reporting to have never met Valerie snuffs out one of my early theories … unless he’s lying! I’m so scared for Shelby and Clem! The action writing has always been amazing in this show but the TENSION this season. I can’t cope. Also, that body at the end! A reference to the circle of fifths?? I’m gonna get emotionally wrecked by the murderer reveal, I can already tell.

🧳 Travelling Light @monstrousproductions (18) oh these Augurians are so lovely and mystical but I was hit by a wave of sadness thinking about one old soul whose aviary is down to one single bird companion and then getting the prophecy of when it will die 🥺 But my sad thoughts were soon drowned out by the 🚨HOLDING HANDS ALARM🚨. Good grief, they’re bloody adorable.

🎙️WTNV (246) I’m so glad we actually got to hear this story!! I couldn’t agree more, Abby, it is not incomprehensible that two living people could haunt each other. I’m reminded of a fave Everything Everything lyric ‘if he’s dead, he’s not a deadbeat dad’…. you feel me?

🏛 @the-mistholme-museum (ERASED) oh, boy, I sure hope this episode title is just a fun word which begins with E and not a reference to what’s happened with HoResearch! Anyone down to make a petition for one more season where the guide just talks to itself? It’s so cute!!

🖥️ The Magnus Protocol (12) oh god, I bloody hate mascots/clowns and this is not helping at all….

🍎 @notquitedeadpod (XXXVI) I don’t like listening to Alfie cry 😭 forgive me, but I’m mentally not ready to give up on the idea of Cas coming back. I believe that Haley believes in what she’s telling Alfie but I’m also like… babes, you maybe want to ask your consultant about that? I need to relisten with a notepad or something to get this new biology lore down because it’s so interesting!!

I’m thinking about starting Hi Nay or Small Victories this week, I’ve heard such good things about both of them! If you have a particular fave or if there’s a show you think I’d prefer more - let me know!!

#tell no tales #hfth spoilers #the mistholme museum of mystery morbidity and mortality #travelling light #wtnv #tmagp spoilers #not quite dead #audio drama sunday #small victories #hi nay

[3dfeels]

this is one of my fav panels in jjk

#liiiiike why are his legs wrapped up like that he kind of looks ummm um um... nay i shant say #jujutsu kaisen #gojo satoru #draws #redraw #art #fanart #jjk spoilers #blood

[alexclaain]

nai is so inherently stuck in the past, he is a scared, lonely child, that got told from the very beginning to hide his powers in front of humans, even before he knew about what happened to tesla - and how frightening it must have been for him to realise that his brother might have less of an issue getting accepted by humans eventually, whereas nai would end up as an outcast, alone and maybe even experimented on - it makes sense how he kept saying humans take away his brother, how he wanted to "repair" him to become a "perfect independent", how he tried to forcefully create more independents just like him--

because when he reached for that core, explaining to his brother that he just wanted to carve a place for them independents while burning alive in his desperation, he was speaking from the emotional state of a scarred child that felt left behind by the only person that could understand him.

#his fear and anger only grew larger by seeing how even vash gets treated like an outcast already #how is there supposed to be a place for him in this world then? #when even his brother fails to live along side humans? #i have way too many emotions for this little bastard #nai #millions knives #trigun stampede #stampede saturday #trigun spoiler #spoiler #vash the stampede #vash stampede #vash

[jazzi-fizz]

I am so nervous for Saturday.

I really hope Stampede gives us the Knives and Vash backstory we deserve. I hope they give us the Knives we deserve.

I hope they give us sensitive, extremely optimistic, crybaby Knives in Stampede. Because it honestly brings everything together. I pray we get something more than a watered down version of Knives 🥺

Show that Vash wasn’t always his super-go-lucky friendly self and he was a bit cold and indifferent towards humans. He was the one that didn’t really have much faith in them coexisting with humans, that it was Knives that was super excited and starry eyed to meet and be friends with humans. Please, show us this.

#i don’t expect it to be the exact same as the manga #but I do hope to see smth similar and not shallow like the 98 anime that did him dirty #i hope they show Vash wasn’t always the warm fuzzy baby that he is now #he was indifferent and a bit cold and that’s what makes his character development so important !!!!! #plz plz plz #trigun stampede #millions knives #vash the stampede #trigun #trimax #spoilers #trimax spoilers #Nai #Rem trigun #Nai trigun

[general-cyno]

Having a lot of feels and thoughts abt stamp Nai's relationship with Rem so here I go.

I know Nai's yandere brocon behavior tends to overshadow other parts of his character in the anime, but the idea that he hates Rem out of jealousy bc of Vash's love for her isn't really it imo or at the very least not entirely. Nai is... a very contradictory character and as a narrator he's unreliable as hell, his perception of events is deliberately distorted (from a narrative standpoint, I mean) and warped by trauma and the beliefs he clings to as a result of it.

As far as the childhood flashbacks in tristamp are concerned, there's no indication that Nai felt insecure or envious of Vash's relationship with Rem and they both interacted with her in equal measure (which I actually found interesting bc in the manga, we only see Rem talking to Vash abt the geraniums, in tristamp they're both present) previous to the discovery of Tessla, that is. And there's still mostly a blank space within the aftermath of Tessla and Nai causing the Fall that we know nothing about aside from that brief conversation between Vash and Nai in ep 11.

Albeit his personality as a kid is pretty different from his manga counterpart's, you can still see that Nai was happy with Vash and Rem in ship 5 and he even got all shy/flustered when she was affectionate towards them.

Idk but that doesn't look like a child who actively resents or fights his mother for his brother's attention. And curiously enough, while the piano (and the duet) is Nai's direct link to Vash, it is ironically his tie to Rem as well. It is imo perfectly framed here in these shots and dialogues from ep 11:

(Note how Nai avoids answering Vash's question here and deflects by bringing up the memory of Tessla.)

That's the piano Nai plays in ep 9 during the duet flashback, and here the three of them are framed directly in front of it AND the flowers. If the geraniums are used as a symbol of Vash's connection to Rem, you can probably see where I'm going here when the piano - which is mostly Nai's thing throughout the story - is shown this way. I have more to say abt this ep but I'll go back to that in a bit.

In ep 9 we get the most blatant lines from Nai depicting his possessiveness toward Vash and his resentment not for Luida as an individual, but what she represents - a Rem-like, human figure in Vash's life that keeps his brother from choosing Nai's side. Nai doesn't know Luida, and he very likely had no idea Vash was staying in ship 3 (Conrad himself was surprised to see her) so when he says you witch, how many times? how many times will you steal him from me? He's not seeing Luida - he's seeing Rem. Which is emphasized by the fact that, previous to that, Vash himself mentioned Rem by name when he retaliated against Nai and tried to stop him from his attempt to kill Luida.

"So that means he resents Rem bc she takes Vash away from him!" Yes... but that's not all of it. Imo, part of the betrayal Nai feels everytime Vash chooses humans over him is, in a way, an extension and amplified version of the betrayal he likely felt when Rem herself chose not to take his hand and escape with them during the fall. Whether him reaching out to her was genuine or not is up for interpretation, but considering that we never saw Knives in the manga do the same - to me, that's a very deliberate addition in tristamp's writing.

As for Nai feeling betrayed by Rem's choice... You have to understand that from Nai's pov, Rem hid the gruesome truth abt Tessla, and discovering her mutilated body probably put a lot of things into a very different perspective for him. Being registered on the same database as his Alive But Torn Apart Sister (with Vash's info ominously saved in the same folder as hers) who was kept in the same room as the ornamental flowers mixed up with Rem's insistance that Nai should pretend to act human/hide his powers from the other crewmembers in a hypothetical/future situation must've seemed extremely grim in retrospective, even if Rem was very likely doing that to keep him safe. Still, he offered his hand to her and Rem chose to stay and save humans instead. The same humans that had, from Nai's pov, hurt his sister and would've probably done the same to him and his brother.

Which brings me back to ep 11 and this bit in specific:

Read above then read this dialogue again, remember that Nai is (among other things) the king of projecting his issues onto Vash, and well. Shit starts making a lot of sense. Another thing that's worth noticing in this scene is that, throughout the memory manipulating, Nai wears just his bodysuit. It's only when confronted with the memory of Rem and erasing her from Vash's mind (killing her, again) that he hides behind the blade-cloak. Very interesting and deliberate visual choices.

Also important to point out that Nai's paradise free of pain, fear and humiliation is one that's a replica of the garden back on ship 5. Even after doing his best to erase Rem from Vash's memory, the safe and happy place that he desperately wants to go back to is that in which they both lived with her.

Despite his very ehem. questionable methods, I do think Nai is genuine in his wish to protect Vash and liberate their sisters and that yes, he does resent Rem or rather, what Rem represents when it comes to his relationship with Vash. Thing is, Nai tends to downplay his own feelings, bottling shit up and using Vash as conduit for hardcore projecting.

Imo, Nai doesn't resent Rem bc Vash loves her. He resents that her beliefs and her sacrifice for humanity's sake were imprinted so deeply into Vash's being that he keeps doing the same - choosing humanity over Nai, even to his own detriment. Nai keeps losing Rem and Vash to humanity again and again and he hates it, but the most tragic part of it is that it is pretty much a hell of his own making.

#(spoilers for trimax) which knives realizes by the end btw #mr millions mommy issues I love him sm #long post #tp #anyway all this to say that yes. nai loved his mother very much #and part of his resentment towards her is the fact that this love (from his pov) wasn't reciprocated in the magnitude #nor in the moment where it counted to him (the fall). and vash acts just like her (towards humans) #nevermind how much of it is nai's own fault #I italicized it tho i didn't elaborate for the sake of not derailing the post but #the talk of the geraniums and nai pointing out that they're 'ornamental' just like the one that we later find out #is kept in the same room as tessla's body is so fascinating like. there's smth to be said abt how it must've looked to nai #the humans encasing tessla's torn body in such a dehumanizing fashion #like an ornament. and worse even bc at least the flowers are pretty enough to be displayed in the open #tessla was the ugliness they kept hidden

[whumpypepsigal]

“so time heals all wounds, i guess.”

“it wasn’t time that did it.”

#THAT SCENE!! OH JOEL 😭😭😭😭 #ELLIE HEALED HIM #somebody sedate me! #tlou spoilers #the last of us hbo #the last of us #joel miller #ellie williams #ellie saying she will follow him wherever he goes #ellie is his world #he killed everyone to save her. #i know he killed everyone who could’ve saved the world but he saved HIS world (ellie) #i support joel’s rights and wrongs…morals ~nay world~ be damned #if pedro and ellie don’t get nominated for emmy or any awards WE RIOT! #im gonna fucking miss this show… they better not take forever to release s02 GET TO WORK NOW!

[siflshonen]

We finished Stampede and my fiancé revealed to me that he didn’t understand Millions Knives’ motive for doing All That Hogwash and I honestly didn’t know how to handle it

#“what the fuck babe is not always the wisest answer #the doctor ripped apart that girl babe #Nai felt jealous of the affection Vash had for humans over him babe #Nai felt insecure because his brother could fit in but he could not #thEY RIPPED APART THAT GIRL BABE #aND THEY SAW IT AND READ ABOUT IT AND NAI WAS HORRIFIED ABOUT HOW EASILY VASH DISREGARDED IT #BECAUSE HE KNEW THEY MIGHT SPARE VASH BUT NOT SELF-SUFFICIENT FREAK NAI #and also like. effective teen rebellion #he has eighth grader syndrome since he’s basically a baby immortal #heh heh heh #trigun stampede #trigun stampede spoilers #millions knives #nai trigun

[player-1]

Have the wonderful headcanon that TriStamp Vash could "hear" the Eye of Michael soldiers/lab-rats the same way as the Dependents depending on their body's tolerance of the Plant serum. I mean...they are technically part-Plant, right? Like he would have known that EoM (and in extension Knives) was doing something horrible to orphans and/or adults when he feels their pain through the Plant link, perhaps around 20-30 years before the main story began (as mentioned in ep. 5), but he couldn't do anything to help them since he'd be walking right into Knives' trap.

And even if he doesn't say it out loud, he would've known that Wolfwood wasn't a regular human/undertaker/priest, the same for Livio and Elendira but still tried to give them the same amount of love as any other human he helps. And Vash would've also heard Rollo crying for him as his body was being torn apart and remade, turning him into a monster and hearing the last bit of childhood die inside as his mother was terrified of her son as he killed her in rage and pain and-

#trigun #trigun stampede #trigun spoilers #trigun stampede spoilers #trigun vash #trigun nai #Vash may act dumb but he isn't an idiot (about the EoM) #but it would hurt him more if he saw those members and felt that innate bond. Even if they were trying to kill him they could've been famil #not that it will change his extreme love for humanity either way but it will give him a lot of conflicting feelings over it #TriStamp WW is more Plant than human at this point and Vash should/would latch onto that connection *hard* especially in s2. #Which is gonna hurt like a mfer when Vash loses him yet again... #I am totally normal about this... :')

[wanderingandfound]

I have missed the vast majority of the "cozy horror" discourse and like, I'm fine with that because I don't really care all that much about publishing labels and subgenres. But like, I do believe in only using the broad labels if it applies. A book is not Romance (the genre) if it does not have a happily ever after/happily for now. A book is not Horror if it is not trying to be horrifying. Romantic and horrific plots and elements can be part of any story and any genre, but elements do not a genre make.

Anyways, disclaimer done, the point of this post is that as someone whose main genre is fantasy, I love reading about ghosts in non-horror stories. Give me more fucked up creatures and musings on personhood please.

#Like when I do read/listen to horror it's because something in the premise got my attention and that premise is usually identity or magic. #Read a well-praised blog post on the kerfuffle and like.... sounds like this person knows much more than I. #But a single line about how people became anti ''grimdark'' had me thinking about how even though I read the first ASOIAF book and I got #book 2 from the library but returned it unread... there's never been a pitch for that series that got me interested besides ''extremely #popular fantasy series'' and none of the discussion or analysis or spoilers I've seen have piqued my interest either. #Meanwhile I'm not a horror or a thriller person but I will venture into some horrors because they sound interesting. #I love Alice Isn't Dead. I Am In Eskew and the Silt Verses are on my to-listen list. I support Hi Nay on Patreon (although I am behind). #I haven't listened to enough Hello from the Hallowoods to decide if I think it's horror or not yet. Of all the podcasts I've listened to #it's the one that had captured the most Night Vale vibes (and yet is still incredibly distinct!) of having horror elements in a narrative #that I have found both unsettling and comforting. #personal #liveblogging stories #tasker.land/2023/06/13/the-material-basis-for-cozy-horror #<- That's the blog post I read this morning.

[hinaypod]

Since The St. Patrick's Case part 2 came out yesterday, we wanted to share this image in full (finally) from when we first released Mikey's Tale with this fantastic cover by Abel (robomori) on Twitter!

Spoiler text below:

"He had nice hair."

"I realise now, you didn’t lose your hair in the fire. The sheer stress you put yourself under must keep it all from growing." 

This new episode revealed one of our more exciting mysteries about the backstory of a certain character. The funny thing is - we still don't know his first name ;)

#hinaypod #mikey's tale #hi nay art #hi nay podcast #spoilers #the benefactor #horror podcast #audio drama

[finnpeach]

finished the show. my tags on this could not have been more wrong. devastated.

#*spoilers ahead* #its like midnight I’m going to bed. let’s hope I don’t dream about pregnant plant women or people losing limbs or this poor young man #watching his brother get incinerated above him #nai deserved it tho. but tbh if I was a little kid and saw a dismembered body in a glass tube #and who had basically been my predecessor and I didn’t know if I’d turn out like them shit I’d hate humans too #so can’t rlly blame nai. but as always he took it too far #anyway this show broke me and I wish wolfwood could’ve lived happily ever after w livio #and vash could’ve idk seen Rem again and everything would be okay #does vash have a love interest at some point. need to know bc I want him to be happy #The moment this show stopped being funny and cute was when vash sneezed and wolfwood beat the shit out of him and called him a dipshit #everything went downhill after that

[vestaclinicpod]

Audio Drama Sunday - 28th April ✨

Happy Audio Drama Sunday! I started two new shows this week and fell in love with both of them!! 

👻 @tellnotalespod (S2E8.5) ohhhhhh I’m so emotional. The end of this series is going to make me cry so many happy tears, I can just feel it. 

🌲 @hellofromthehallowoods (149) With the description this week, I think I truly realised just how scary-looking the pig man is 😰 Things are looking decidedly down for Shelby and Clem. Eek. God, Valerie!!! She’s such an interesting character because you can literally connect the dots of her trauma but still be slightly disappointed by the consequences on her behaviour! And the poor Mr Greenstreets ☹️ Raj is very Syrensyr coded?? Vincent as a grief counsellor makes me wonder… about who or what Voltaire is…. 

Also, I want the Auditor to be Polly so bad and I want Nikignik to get out of the interrogation by bargaining to reunite him with Yaretzi and Mort - PLEASE. 

🧳 Travelling Light by @monstrousproductions (19) I loved seeing our Traveller stand up for themself!! It’s always so fun to see characters who are usually soft gain a backbone of steel because their core values are tested. And the discussion of the nanobots was so interesting!! The laws on nanobots elsewhere when they are literally required for survival makes the entire person illegal. And we all know that’s not right!!! 

👁️ @malevolentcast (41) I’m thinking that maybe Rafters was an exception that proves the rule… Alexander the owl was creepy as anything and I hated the way he seemed to be guiding them towards the crack in the wall. Now we’re in a possible parallel universe, it feels like all bets are off and I’m scared to even consider what might happen to John and Arthur now! 

⚔️ @camlannpod (8) OUGH. Oh my god. Can’t they just have FIVE MINUTES to RELAX?? I actually snorted out loud at: ‘you’re good with an axe, right’. Pere is a little shit and I love that for them. Morgan!!! 🫨 And Dai!!! I’m so hopeful that starting down this path will lead to good (or, at least, a whole load of shenanigans for S2!) 

🖥️ The Magnus Protocol (13) It’s very interesting to me that we were able to listen in on Sam and Cecilia’s date… how did that work? There’s something here about gambling and chance with this story and the previous one about the dice rolling?? I’m connecting the dots (I’m not connecting shit). 

🌞 Small Victories by @wgc-productions is so good, I wish I’d started listening years ago. I love the 90s sitcom vibe and the intro/outro are so unique. I absolutely love shows that centre around character studies. Marisol’s story is so gripping and I love how the writing takes us right inside her brain as she justifies every decision (good or bad). It’s so clear how loveable she is and how much people around her want her to be okay (mostly), but don’t know *how* to get her to that place given the shit they’re dealing with themselves! I got up to 1.09 so . . . bit of a cliffhanger there!! I’m very excited to see how the story progresses. I’m rooting for you, Tiny!! 

🧋 I started @hinaypod and it’s safe to say that I’m in love already! Listening has given me the same amazing feeling of listening to Desperado - the sensation that the creators have opened up a door to a brand new world and I’m so happy to be in it! I adore Mari. Even from episode one, she has this quiet self-confidence in herself and her skills which is so refreshing. I also really like the horror writing here and I’m really looking forward to delving deeper into this story! 

Hope everyone has a good week! 💙

#audiodramasunday #tell no tales #hfth spoilers #travelling light #malevolent spoilers #camlann #tmagp spoilers #small victories #hi nay

[ghostbeam]

Hey. Just watched the trigun finale

#trigun Spoilers #trigun stampede spoilers #in the tags cause I wanna talk about some of it for a sec ajsjjsjsjsjs #I literally had to delete the app from my phone today cause I didn’t want spoilers #so many thoughts head full ummmmmm vash’s hair first and foremost #the noggin is needling!!!!!! #also????? what the FUCK the animation blew me away like #it has the whole season but holy shit #I will have more like coherent thoughts later but right now all I can think of is vash biting nai🫶 #also Meryl I love u so much u are my forever girl #who is doing it like her I want to die #also if vash can have his hair back wolfwood get his entire old character design back #I literally will not question a thing make him hot again #anyways that is all I have to scream #ghost thoughts

[glo-shroom]

hey guys I just read vol 10. um. promise I did not just sit and cry my eyes out about it <- lying

#the way i thought seeing these panels dozens of times would save me from the full impact. nay #its the way vash realizes he wants to spend his tomorrows with wolfwood right before he catches him in his arms and realizes #wolfwood isnt going to make it #its the way wolfwood gets that welcome home confetti that one last time #the fact that vash BURIED HIM ALONE #vash saying 'its what he would have wanted' and 'if we dont stop knives all of this will have been for nothing' and 'i want to do him proud #GOD. WOLFWOOD DESERVED TO LIVE. IM SO FUCKING DISTRAUGHT #mine #i Need to yell about this somewhere im SORRY #trigun #trimax spoilers #like what am i supposed to go do now. #im so drained man wtf