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warcholica · 7 months

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humor is such an important narrative device in pathologic and i think it's importance is so often overlooked.

a part of the reason for that is that the game is so often accidentally funny in its clunky animations and models and in its misleading meanders of translation, so its genuine, purposeful humor is often ignored. and yet i cannot hard to imagine pathologic without it -- its present on every level of the game, beginning with the construction of the world and ending with it's mechanics.

i find pathologic is a game made bearable by its humour -- not only because the themes are so heavy, but also because the world presented in the game is too bizarre to be able to carry itself with total self-seriousness. humour is a tool the game uses to achieve a certain balance and i find it does so really well -- the most memorable moments in the game are the ones that operate on some kind of tragic irony, but pathologic is also good at using like. normal irony. irony that is just funny. like most famously daniil being locked in that cell by the dogheads but also that kill-7-bandits-with-a-6-ammo-slots-weapon quest. its like a kiss. to me.

but is also can be just plainly funny without coming off as heavy-handed: ospinas insults are very funny, they match the setting and are great for the definition of her character – i remember being exited everytime i was able to talk to her in game, because those conversations were just very fun. or the tragedian walking. so funny. a hilarious experience to see it for the first time. makes you wanna just stop and look. makes total sense with the setting.

and more subtly, that andrey convo when you can very easily miss crucial information about the polyhedron if you listen to his story. and when you do daniil can even say: that's not a very fascinating story. funny on the purely textual level and also on the meta, mechanical level. to me. a little preview of the convestation with the creators where you can complain about not being able to go back in conversations to them <3

i don't know. i like this game and it likes me too. thats why we laugh together and at each other

#pathologic classic hd #pathologic #very loose but i played a game that wasn't that great with its humor and it make me really apprieciate parts of pathologic #i don't know how is it in patho2 but i do know artemy is a very humourous guy there. probably for the better #haruspex route in the original wasn't trying to be as funny as bachelor's and i think it lost something in the process

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yokohamapound · 5 months

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Could you write Atsushi with a fem!reader who sees him as a weretiger, and has to try to convince him that he's not a monster? Please?? Extra fluff, if possible.

I hope this is okay. I'm not very good at extreme fluff without a little bit of humour.

Characters: Nakajima Atsushi

Contents: gender neutral reader, angst, fluff, mention of aftermath of violence,

Nakajima Atsushi

Atsushi's bones creaked. Blue light limned his shrinking form as the giant white tiger disappeared, leaving a bedraggled boy in its place. He pressed his palms against the wet concrete, uneven bangs hanging in his eyes as he tried to catch his breath. There was a sour copper tang in his mouth, things he didn't want to think about caught between his teeth.

Bodies lay beaten and broken around him. Not dead, but half-mauled and groaning in pain, or unconscious.

It had been a long time since he was forced to use a full transformation—it took it out of him. He was still—partly—lucid when transformed, unlike in the past when he'd been nothing more than a ravening beast.

He coughed, spitting out the taste of blood and flesh. An unfortunate side effect of using the tiger's teeth to bite and maul, but it was worth it. He'd defeated his enemies. He'd kept Yokohama safe for another day, at least.

Atsushi sat up on his knees, wiping his mouth on the back of his wrist. He reached for the phone in his pocket. He should call Dazai and check in. The man already knew Atsushi would be fine, but Kunikida had drummed proper mission protocol into his head. He stabbed the speed-dial, holding the ringing phone to his ear.

"Aaaatsushi!" Dazai chirped in his ear. "How'd it go?"

"It's done," was all he could say. "I—"

Atsushi's words dried up in his throat. There was a figure standing in the mouth of the narrow alleyway, blocking off the only exit from this deserted stretch of docklands. It wasn't another enemy he'd somehow missed. The figure wasn't threatening in the least, weighed down with grocery store bags.

"Atsushi?" Dazai's voice filtered through the phone, tinny.

Atsushi hung up. What little colour he had in his face had already drained. His golden eyes were huge, distraught as he stared at the interloper. The field of broken bodies and blood splatters between him and them seemed infinite, a tableau of bestial violence..

"How much did you see?" he asked, his voice thin.

Your arms ached from clutching the bags of groceries against your chest, and your tongue was stuck to the roof of your mouth. Frozen to the spot where you'd been for the past few minutes, watching the fight unfold with wide, shellshocked eyes. You couldn’t speak.

"How much did you see!?" Atsushi demanded.

"Every…everything," you managed, mouth suddenly flooding with spit, like you were going to be sick. "Atsushi—"

It had been a foolish impulse, a spur of the moment decision you were quickly coming to regret. Coming home from the grocery store, laden down with bags, you'd spotted a familiar lean, silver-haired figure jogging off down an alleyway. Curious, you'd followed, keeping your distance. Is he working? If he had time for a break, you could stop for lunch! There was nothing frozen in the grocery bags, so you could stop for an hour or so—

Carnage.

Your boyfriend was no longer there. Instead, there was a full grown silver tiger, laying waste to a dozen armed attackers. The violence was shocking, so much more visceral and awful than what you'd seen on TV or in movies. This wasn't an eroticised, sanitised fight scene—it was real. The sights, sounds, and stench of blood inescapable.

"No," Atsushi moaned now, low and in pain, like a wounded animal. "No, no, no… You can't—I didn't want you to see this!"

"Atsushi?" Your voice had a high, rising note of anxiety.

“I didn’t want you to see me like this! Why are you here!?”

Atsushi covered his face with his hands, fingers gripping his hair. He couldn’t bear to look at you, to see shock and disgust written across your face. Not your face. Not you, of all people. The young detective rocked back and forth, bent, his head almost touching his knees.

“Don’t look at me.” His voice was choked.

“Atsushi—”

“Go!”

The groceries hit the concrete, eggs cracking and tomatoes rolling out of the bag to scatter across the scene of the fight. You staggered toward him, magnetically drawn to him by his panic and pain. A few of the mercenaries were beginning to stir, but you didn’t have eyes for them, only for Atsushi. He flinched when you touched him, posture stiffening as though he was turning to stone beneath your hands. You crouched beside him.

“Don’t, Atsushi,” you said, rubbing at his arms, his back. “Don’t…”

An invisible fist gripped your throat and your eyes stung as you watched your boyfriend, your ray of sunlight, cower away from you as though expecting a blow. You took his wrists, trying to pull them away from his head, struggling against his strength and his distress.

“Atsushi, please, it’s okay—”

“No, it’s not!” he burst out, flinging your hands off him. His expression was as ragged as his voice as he stared at you, eyes wide and haunted. “You were never supposed to see me like this. Like a…”

He swallowed the last word, but you were driven by morbid curiosity to ask:

“Like a what?”

“Like a monster.”

That last word hit you like a slap; you jerked back. Atsushi pressed his hands over his ears and hunkered down, like a child trying to hide from thunder, or protect himself from a beating—an ingrained reflex. It was an incongruous image, considering you were in the epicentre of a brutal beatdown he’d just delivered to some criminals. Despite the grim scene around you, you couldn’t reconcile the boy in front of you with any kind of monster.

You chewed your lip, sick to the pit of your stomach, then leaned down to try and catch Atsushi’s eyes. The side of your face almost touched the pavement, the smell of blood heavy in the air. Reaching out a hand, you tried to sweep his bangs away from his eyes. He turned his head away.

“Atsushi, look at me.” You made your voice firm. “Look at me. Now.”

A pause.

His eyes flickered toward you, his pupils shrunken. You held his gaze, ignoring the groaning mercenaries around you, the scattered groceries, the bite of the concrete into your knees. You cupped his chin in one hand, holding fast, and forced him to lift his head.

“Good. Keep looking at me,” you said.

Sitting up on your knees, Atsushi was forced to follow. Clasping his head between your hands, you leaned in, pressing your forehead against his. Atsushi’s harsh breathing stuttered against your face, but you held him still. His hands curled loosely around your wrists, but he didn’t try to push you away this time.

“You,” you said, your voice low and emphatic, “are not a monster.”

“...but—”

“No.”

Atsushi’s phone pinged from where he'd dropped it. He looked at it by reflex, breaking eye contact with you. The mercenaries were beginning to stir or bleed out. Neither of you could stay here for long. You stuffed some of the groceries back into the bag, grabbed them in one hand, and Atsushi's hand in the other.

“Let's get out of here,” you said. At some point, you had become the decision maker, and right now you decided both of you needed to get away from the scene so Dazai and the Armed Detective agency could initiate the clean-up. “Tell your boss you're off the scene, or whatever it is you need to do.”

You led Atsushi back through the alleyway and into the street. He shied a little at the sudden swell of pedestrians and traffic roaring up and down the street, but you tugged him after you.

Sirens wailed in the distance; he flinched. You kept walking, leading him away from the scene of the fight. He kept his head down, following you in a heavy silence, but his fingers remained wrapped through yours. What was going through his head? Had any of your words sunk in?

Was this going to push him away from you for good?

Without a way to answer these questions, you took Atsushi home. Putting down the groceries on the doorstep, you fumbled in your pocket for the keys. Before you could fit the key into the lock, arms wrapped around you from behind. Tight.

“A-Atsushi?”

He said nothing, only burying his face further into the curve between your shoulder and neck. His were like steel bands around your ribs as he clung to you, but you didn't mind being a little short of breath. You covered his hands with your own and squeezed.

“Thank you.”

Atsushi's words came out muffled, and thick, like he was on the verge of crying. You didn't comment on it, rubbing his arms where they wrapped around you.

“You've got nothing to thank me for,” you said gently, before fitting the key in the lock and opening the front door.

“I do,” Atsushi insisted, following you into the apartment. “Even after…what you saw…”

“Was it for work?”

“...yes.”

“Then it doesn’t matter what I saw. Those men were obviously up to something they shouldn’t be. I’m guessing you left them alive?��

Atsushi gave a stiff nod. He stood rooted to the spot as you moved through the kitchen, putting the groceries away. You weren’t sure what to do with yourself, or with him, so you focused on the act of putting away ingredients. Dried food in the cupboard, fresh in the fridge, rice in the rice dispenser. You opened the egg carton, and stopped. Clear yolk oozed out of the cracked shells, soaking the cardboard carton.

“Ah, shit. I dropped the eggs…”

A soft, muffled snort came from behind you. You glanced over your shoulder. Atsushi still stood awkwardly in the middle of the kitchen, but he had his face half-turned away, one hand over his mouth. Huh? Your eyebrows crept up.

“Are you laughing at the state of my eggs, Nakajima?” you asked, a tentative tease.

Atsushi gave another muffled snicker. He cleared his throat, then gave a slight, apologetic bow. “Sorry.”

“What’s so amusing, anyway?” you asked, tipping the broken eggs into the trash and tossing the soaked cardboard after it.

“Just…if you’re more worried about broken eggs than me being a…”

“Don’t use the M-word.”

“Okay. If broken eggs are more important than seeing me the way you did, then I guess it can’t be that bad.” He gave you an uncertain smile.

Relief made a matching smile bloom across your face. You tossed your wallet to Atsushi, who caught it out of mid-air, looking surprised.

“Exactly. Go grab me a dozen of them if you want omelette for dinner.”

#Yokohama Pound #Nakajima Atsushi #Atsushi x Reader #bungou stray dogs #bsd x reader #bsd imagines #bsd headcanons #Nakajima Atsushi x Reader

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cupcakeslushie · 5 months

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Hi! Scott Pilgrim anon again.

Thank you so much for answering my previous ask!

Feel free to ignore this message, but I’ve been dying to talk about this show, even if it’s just me blabbering on and on and on my own. I guess, I just want to put somewhere my thoughts. You seem cool and the way you draw the turtles in the Scott Pilgrim anime style is really neat.

I discovered the graphic novels pretty late but I liked the story instantly and I’ve enjoyed both the comics and the movie so much. I was so excited for the anime.

I agree that the anime is truly a great amalgamation of the comics and movie, but it also stands out as a very unique take on the story. I love how they adapted O’Malley’s art style and how they managed to get the whole cast from the movie!

I was initially a little doubtful with the anime-style of the animation, because I was scared that the contrast in portraying the “normal” world and the video game fighting scenes would not be as evident as it was in the movie… but I stand corrected. The two styles meshed up perfectly and made the whole show even more ridiculous (in a very good way).

It was fun to remove Scott from the narrative and explore more the other characters. I liked that so much.

Each of the versions of Scott Pilgrim truly have their strengths and weaknesses, but I think that all adaptations achieved successfully the same level of weirdness and extravagance, which are what initially made me love the graphic novels (and then the movie too).

Im also happy that the sense of humour remained the same in all adaptations. I loved seeing some of the jokes being kept in this adaptation as well.

The only thing I am grieving is the anime missing my favourite joke (“Amazon.ca, what’s the website for that?”), but I think I can forgive that.

Thank you again and sorry for bothering you.

I do love that “Amazon.ca” joke. Another one that we didn’t get to see was Scott jumping out of the window to hide from Knives. That’s a classic!

#ask slushie #scott pilgram takes off #scott pilgrim

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101flavoursofweird · 29 days

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For all its faults, lack of depth, corny humour and just the general… disconnect from the rest of the PL series (I say this as someone who likes a lot of the LMJ characters), I think Marina was one the best things to come out of the anime.

Forget that she’s Luke’s wife for a moment. Forget that she filled a role that could have easily been taken up by another older member of the cast. (Flora, Emmy, Desmond…) Forget that we don’t know much about her interests or hobbies or personality—

We do get a bit, even if it is generic? She worries about her loved one. She needs Professor Layton’s help. She gets captured…? Kind of par for the course with most PL characters. I would die for Janice Quatlane, but how much of her personality do we really see during ED? We know she loves her girlfriend and she’s selfless, like Marina. It’s not an in depth trait - nowhere near as convoluted as DESCOLE’S motivations - but it’s a good one!

But you know what else Marina does? Infiltrates the same cult that captured her. Spends eleven years— ELEVEN YEARS, that’s HENRY LEDORE LEVELS OF DEDICATION— trying to figure out how to free her husband and his Professor-In Law, who just had to investigate the relic from an ancient civilisation you’d think they would have learned better by now

Sure, Marina couldn’t bust Luke and Layton on her own, until Kat came along. Just like Henry and Angela couldn’t solve the mystery of the Masked Gentleman without Layton’s help? Or Melina couldn’t stop her father’s plan without Layton’s help? Or Claire said she couldn’t stop Clive and Dimitri without Layton’s help? The world revolves around the Layton family and everyone depends on them, that’s just how things are.

Marina Triton is here mastering technology from an ancient civilisation, while Jean Descole failed to notice A Song of the Sun and Bronev missed/ignored the warnings about the very obvious doomsday device. Both dedicated their lives to studying the Azran, but this rando marine biology girl from America worked out how to control cryogenic pods in the eleven years she was (presumably) held captive. It’s makes zero sense or complete sense. I love it.

And after that? Marina is there when Luke wakes up and they have a heartfelt reunion. No, for some absurd reason, Marina doesn’t get to accompany the gang when they face the final villain (she would have been too powerful), but in her last scene we see her shopping and Luke carrying all her bags. After all that, Marina’s earned it.

#professor layton #Marina Triton #This isn’t in response to anything #Just me stanning Marina again #Janice Quatlane #I know Des and Bronev had their reasons too but I still find it so funny #Character analysis #I’ve probably said this 1000 times before

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the-desolated-quill · 6 days

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Okay. I’ll tell you the issue I’m having with Deadpool & Wolverine. Because to be fair this was a much better trailer than the first one, but I’m still nervous due to the MCU factor. Every time I see something MCU related in my Deadpool sequel, I die a little inside, but that’s not the problem (well, not the main problem). Here’s the problem.

EVERYBODY is in on the joke now.

In the first two films, Deadpool is the only one breaking the fourth wall because it’s a coping strategy. His life has gone to shit, so he imagines he’s a fictional character with an audience who’s watching him and supporting him. That’s what grounds the humour. Here, everybody’s making fourth wall jokes now. Wolverine is making quips. Blind Al is trying to think up code words for cocaine to get past the censor. Even the villain is cracking jokes and it all just falls flat because it completely misses the point of Deadpool. Which is not to say other characters can’t be funny. Negasonic Teenage Warhead is funny. Firefist is funny. Domino is funny. But they’re not funny in the same way as Deadpool. They have their own styles of humour because they have their own set of circumstances. Whereas here everybody seems to be operating on Deadpool logic. This is partially because the MCU has had a problem for years of having all their male character sounding exactly the same and where the dialogue is practically interchangeable, but it’s also due to a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes Deadpool work. They see a film that’s self aware and go “Hey. We can be self-aware too. We’ve been doing it for years. We made She-Hulk. Let’s bring in the writers of Bob’s Burgers to add loads of self aware jokes”, without stopping to consider why Deadpool is self aware and what makes it an effective comedy tool. She-Hulk is a prime example of this. That show was painful to sit through, and that’s because the self aware humour and fourth wall jokes serve no purpose other than to make jokes at the expense of the source material, which undermines the rest of the show.

It’s always funny whenever I meet people who say they don’t like Deadpool because it always turns out they mean a version of Deadpool that showed up in an animated show or a video game. Not the canon Deadpool from the comics. The Deadpool that suffered intense trauma and abuse, struggling to cope moving forward. That Deadpool is a compelling character. Without that crucial foundation, he can be annoying and insufferable because there’s nothing to ground the humour or the character. The first two films understood that perfectly. This film on the other hand… I’m not convinced.

#deadpool & wolverine #deadpool #anti marvel #anti mcu #anti disney

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5-pp-man · 2 months

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another tierlist because ppl actually liked that first one;

the crème de la crop;

the first 2 eps i thought it was fine, but it didnt really captivate me as much as id hoped. but then ep 3 changed everything for me. i started to think "how could living armour work logically? everything so far has been edible, so this must be too, right?" i actually managed to think of the exact thing that this series did. that really made me realise the worldbuilding in this was something unique, and it only got better and better with each episode. its really managed to captivate me and i look forward to "delicious donderdag" every week :)

ANIME ORIGINAL LETS GOOOO absolutely bonkers show that almost slipped by me because it initially tried to fool its audience into thinking it was a regular dramatic military show. it still is but theres also a giant robot who plays by saturday morning cartoon giant robot rules. if that sounds like tonal whiplash to you, trust me, it is. and its amazing. have i mentioned how homoerotic this one is as well? yeah. originally a tier below this one, but immediately after finishing this post i watched the newest ep. i had to make an exception and edit the list because ep 9 changes everything. i havent been gobsmacked by a show this hard in a while.

(return of the) show(s) that execute their own premise very well;

i havent read the manga for yubisaki to renren so i cant compare, but the quality of this adaptation has been very consistent. you need a little sweet romance every once in a while :) this is one of those series where the characters really grew on me the longer it went on. im always a fan of mixing realistic struggles with romance and this one has been doing it well so far

adaptations that are ok (i read the manga for both of these);

i've been a mashle fan since before s1 aired. and the anime has some good changes and additions here and there! but its not very consistent in terms of quality, it does that shonen thing where the animation quality suddenly spikes for certain action sequences, but it also frequently had a lot of scenes where they recycle shots a lot and nothing interesting happens on the screen for a considerable amount of time. still! its a fine adaptation. and yeah the op for this. blew tf up lmao? very strange to see happen in real time

i actually rlly like the manga for this one. i read the whole thing up until vol.6 before the season started (all that was available back then) and it made me cry multiple times throughout. i was sort of missing that connection with the show, though some of the later episodes still hit. its mostly to do with the animation quality, which isnt that great unfortunately. the voice actors are knocking it out of the park though

wghere am i;

is this show good? i. uh. will you hate me if i say yes...? objectively, i know its not that good. especially in the animation department. but if you like other Umatani shows, you'll like this one. it's got the same brand of goofy reactionary humour mixed with gimmicky tacky characters and crazy stupid plot twists. ive been faithfully watching this one each week and I'm afraid i've become very invested. overscientific indeed

bro you fell off...;

i was so beyond excited for this one. i replayed the op a million times, watched each preview, rewatched multiple episodes. and then. ep 5 happened. and i started to realise. oh this show kind of sucks doesnt it? the pacing of the first ep was great, but the rest? way too fast. it became clear with ep 6 that theyre trying to do a double cour show with half the length, which is why they started hauling ass plot-wise. now. i was an arajin apologist for the longest time. but at that point i honestly started to loathe him. even when he stepped up, his praise still felt sort of unearned. and to top it all off, shindou's motivation sucked so he felt like a lousy antagonist. ep6 was better than 5, but it really made me lose my enthusiasm and hope for the series. and right as we were talking about them probably not having time for a filler ep, ep7 happened. feels like a waste of time to do an ep like that when you've still got a whole 2nd arc to go through. but who am i

it started off pretty good honestly. but then chris went to the hospital and it kind of just dwindled from there. this season does so much with characters that have not even been properly introduced like how am i supposed to care about these people if i barely know who they are. the stuff with finn and leo respectively was good though. but the lore dump? lord help me. also vijay just kind of. exists to be there in the background huh? i would not call him a main character they never give him any attention. wendy had another ep again and he didnt get shit. again. also i think finn was stupid as fuck for not listening to lala but again. who am i. i know we cant destroy high card because we need a show but. cmon man.

i am severely behind on these;

reason why im behind is because most of the eps are a bit heavy so i kept. not watching them. its starting to get rlly interesting though so i'm def gonna catch up this is one of those robo-racism shows so i have to really watch out to see where its going. dont want another marginal service situation...

sorry this is just. a little too boring for me. its charming, sure. but i think this wouldve worked better as something with an 11 min timeslot instead of 23 min. theres just a bit too mu- or well, too little for me to rlly get into this. i think reading it would be more fun for me personally

#dungeon meshi #yubisaki to renren #yuuki bakuhatsu bang bravern #30 sai made doutei dato mahoutsukai ni nareru rashii #gekkan mousou kagaku #bucchigiri?!#high card #metallic rouge #kyuujitsu no warumono san #delicious in dungeon #a sign of affection #brave bang bravern!#bang brave bang bravern #cherry magic!#delusional monthly magazine #bucchigiri #mr villain's day off #i did the review a bit later into the season this time around. so my thoughts are more in order and ive already dropped a few things #theres also 1 more category this time #also if youre curious; i ended up finishing everything from last season except for the 2 series in the couldve been better category #i finished a bunch of them way later though but shhh. im also planning on finishing the last 2 at some point. esp since ke is getting a s2 #like wtf. who couldve seen that coming.#tedpost #tedtalks #tedlists

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daenystheedreamer · 15 days

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Perfect asoiaf muppet casts let’s gooo (please thank u)

miss piggy cersei is so important to me okay. that's miss piggy right there.

im tempted by kermit ned and robin bran. but human starks would be fun if all the other houses are muppets just REALLY drive in the fact the starks are in a fish outta water situation here

fozzie robert baratheon.... gonzo.... bronn? samwell? ANIMAL AS BRONN. tyrion human character i think...

sweetums hodor

sam eagle stannis OR statler waldorf stannis davos. NO because statler waldorf have a sense of humour. statler and waldorf should be northern lords like greatjon or hoarfrost or something. they're riffing in adwd bolton-held winterfell making fun of roose and ramsay

uncle deadly as varys or littlefinger >:) BUNSEN QYBURN. beaker is also there he's qyburn's invented sidekick. or beaker can be robert strong. or bunsen and beaker stack themselves on top of each other to be qyburn its a fun lil comedy skit

#ask #inis-dove #im very serious when it comes to the muppets

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genevieveskingdom · 2 months

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Pixie Party 🪩

If I didn't know that Zarina poisoned them with her alchemistic pixie dust, I would think that they're having a hardcore party with disco lights and deep house accompaniment 😂😂🪩

Let's imagine this scenario 🤣 (Take it with humour please 🤭)

Sunflower: "Hey Hyacinth, you wanna dance?"

Hyacinth: "Me?? Hell no!"

Sunflower: "Come on, Cinthirella! It's just a daaaance!"

Hyacinth: "Wha- what did you call me?? Cinthirella? I am not a princess!!"

Sunflower: "Oh, yes you are, dear love! And now don't be such a wuss and join me!"

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Redleaf: humming some melody

After a while...

Redleaf: "I think I am gonna leave."

The voice in his head: "If Sunflower finds out, you'll get busted. She hates when fellas are missing fun."

Redleaf: "Who said I'm gonna miss the fun? The real fun begins tomorrow morning when I'll see Hyacinth having pixie dust hangover and I'll send pictures of him to Pixie Hollow's best junkyard media. The money I'll get from it, that'll be the fun!!"

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Milori: dancing with Clarion "Wow, Clarion, your dress lights up!"

Clarion: "You know why?"

Milori: "Hmmm, because you're the most beautiful fairy and the most accomplished dancer out there?"

Clarion: laughs "Oh no! It's because I started running a secret factory on firefly light. You catch some fireflies, suck the light out of them and voilà you've got the fluorescent light for your dress!"

Milori: ... "I thought you were peaceful."

Clarion: winks "There are so many things you don't know about me, frostbite!"

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Fairy Mary: "...MY PARTY, YOUR PARTY, EVERYBODY JOIN THE PARTY!!!!!!!"

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The next morning...

Sunflower: walks clumsily "Oh, Cinthy, you know how sweet you actually are? I have never told ya, but I pretty like you, eh."

Hyacinth: "But me, I have no reason to like you. Not after yesterday. If I accidentally didn't switch the glasses I would end up like you - completely smashed. Was it your plan all along? To let others make fun of me?!--"

Sunflower: "Wha-? Of course not, or maybe yeah? I don't remember.- Oh look, there are some flying mushrooms... I'm gonna catch them!"

Redleaf: hidden in the bush "Holy autumn! This won't do. Sunflower is on the front page every Friday, I needed the uptight Hyacinth to bring me some action! Now I missed the bucks and my dream to fly to the Mainland, buy a mansion on Costa Rica and leave this preindustrial village full of sentimental bugs for good!!!"

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Okay, they're hilariously out of character! 🙈 Sunflower the party animal, Milori the dumb boyfriend, Clarion the secret villain and Redleaf the antihero, I have no idea how it happened. 😅😂🙈

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real-life-senshi · 7 months

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10 (Mostly) Spoiler-Free Reasons to Watch Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 2003 Live Action

A countdown to the 20th anniversary of Act 1 air date!

Reason 2: The humour!

The live-action series is great that it doesn't take itself TOO seriously. Almost all if not all episodes have some comedic moments, finding a balance of seriousness and moments of relief. After all, life goes on even in the midst of crisis!

Everyone can be funny!

Throughout the series, each character has its comedic moments, some overt and others subtle, but the opportunity gets passed around. Not one character is the sole comedic relief person, even if some characters are naturally funnier than others.

I very much appreciate the types of humour the show brings, as when each character has their own comedic moment, it's done by capitalizing on the awkward side of their personalities, or the role they may play in certain dynamics. It's important for me to emphasize this because no one gets disrespected or dumbed down for the sake of humour! It makes the comedic moment not only believable, even if sometimes cartoonish, but more importantly, it's not forced or cringe.

The editing!

The post-production crew did a phenomenal job with the background music transitions, sound effects and visual effects to optimize the delivery! I think PGSM humour gets to me so much because as a video editor, the timing or certain SFX or VFX transition is just spot on, multiplying the effects of the comedy.

Here's a small selection of such comedic moments. These are all more overt, so it didn't require too much context building (or subtitling), and most are early series, as I had to be very picky to make sure it's spoiler-free.

The last one in the clip is my favourite one by far. Unlike Ami-chan in the manga or anime, Ami-chan in the live-action series, while still smart with a high IQ, isn't actually the brain-cell holder in the team dynamic. lol

While most of the clips I shared show Usagi being the butt of the joke or the ones creating humour, it's EXTREMELY important for me to note that Usagi ISN'T actually written as "dumb" or "stupid" in the series. This re-emphasizes my earlier point. Usagi in PGSM is written to be good to a fault, naive, innocent, immature, naturally overreactive (thus awkward) and sometimes slow to the uptake, but never stupid. Her grades are not great because she's lazy and leaves things to the last minute, not because she's "dumb". When it comes to Senshi business, while Usagi may act according to her heart and not necessarily with facts, she does arrive at the correct conclusion and puts clues together well on her own. Even if mistakes were made, they were actually reasonable mistakes. That's what I love about PGSM's writing, the screenwriter really gets the characters and doesn't disrespect or devalue them for ANY reason!

You can watch the subbed versions of the series at:

Miss Dream Fansubs

Sea of Serenity Fansubs

The series is also on other online streaming sites, but be cautious to only visit them with good adware and firewall installed.

9 days till the 20th anniversary of Act 1 air date!

Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10

#pretty guardian sailor moon #bishoujo senshi sailor moon #bssm #pgsm #sailor moon live action #pgsm appreciation #pgsm humour #reasons to watch pgsm #pgsm 20th anniversary countdown #comedic edits

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nijigasakilove · 7 months

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“The moon is red”

Peak is back! Great to be back in this world with these insane but loveable characters. Can’t wait to see this arc animated. A lot of cool anime original stuff in this episode. If they keep up with the nice blend of source and original stuff, this is gonna be a special season.

I love how shadow uses the expression “I smell something” and all the girls start sniffing themselves and spraying perfume lmao.

God I missed Cid’s stupid humour. Him just repeating everything Mary said in the alley had me 😭 most unserious MC ever. Speaking of which, cool to see Mary in the anime finally

No Claire you can’t just drop that dude’s head. He had a family, man. He mattered too lmao.

“My brother may scream, but he’d never laugh” 💀

The lawless city arc is fun from start to finish and I know Nexus got something special cooked up for us here. This season will be nonstop fun. If you liked season 1, this should exceed it in every way.

Can’t wait to see Elisabeth and some of the other characters that’ll be introduced this season. 🙏🏾

We already got a little tease of mommy dommy Yukime and she looks great in the anime too.

Awesome premiere.

#eminence in shadow #the eminence in shadow #kage no jitsuryokusha ni naritakute!#kagejitsu #the eminence in shadow season 2

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mmothmanners · 7 months

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So I wanted to know a bunch of little things and I hope throwing them all into one ask is alright. As always, answer what you can/want and I will eat it up!

What’s Ris’ favorite color?

Does he have a favorite song to play or does he go based on vibe?

Does he like his hair being played with and does he like playing with other people’s hair if they’re just chilling side by side?

Opinions on jewelry and favorite stone to wear? (Funnily enough, he and my Tav have the same earring set.)

Cats, dogs or both?

(This is one can be skipped over without a second thought.) Sexuality? Any specifics to it? And would he be open to a polycule?

If he had to dye his hair two colors, what would they be?

Favorite traits in a potential friend? Most disliked traits?

Does he like sweets? If so, does he prefer them to be baked or no?

Does he have any hobbies?

Is he a sit-down violinist or does he Lindsey Sterling his performances?

I will always have more little questions if you enjoy silly bits. I’m always interested in every detail someone can provide in a character so please bear with me!!

And to just share a thought of mine, I’ve already absentmindedly headcanoned my Tav and him as friends and them playing Fairytale by Alexander Rybak as a fun little ditty. Or something like that song if not Fairytale specifically. But I thought it’d be neat with them both preferring violin and all. (Though, Talanova ends up playing something else when I think about them performing together.)

Heck yes! Alright I can answer all these (after a billion years of sitting on them):

What’s Ris’ favorite color? Contrary to his wardrobe… His favourite colour is blue. Because it is the prominent colour of two incredible things he only saw after leaving the Underdark: The Sky and the Ocean. He waxes a lot of poetry about them.

Does he have a favorite song to play or does he go based on vibe? He plays based on vibes and energy given back to him. But he often loves singing older songs in Undercommon he learned back in the Underdark. Often haunting and melancholic (though he saves those songs for when he's alone and away from others).

Does he like his hair being played with and does he like playing with other people’s hair if they’re just chilling side by side? Oh yes. He's very tactile in both his own affections and open to receiving it from others. It makes him exceptionally content and connected as it was something of a novel concept until quite recently (post Underdark).

Opinions on jewelry and favorite stone to wear? (Funnily enough, he and my Tav have the same earring set.) He adores being bejewelled. Probably remnants of his old life but the aesthetic truly sates a desire to look good. His favourite gem stones are rubies.

Cats, dogs or both? All. All animals. He loves them all because they tend to love him in return (dogs especially).

Sexuality? Any specifics to it? And would he be open to a polycule? Pansexual! Absolutely finds beauty and attraction to all folks - as for a polycule, it would have to be some very special folk that he feels a deep connection to. Honestly he's very single minded (usually) when it comes to love. But again, he wouldn't outright oppose it.

If he had to dye his hair two colors, what would they be? Hrmm. He likes White & Black - keep the natural and add something completely opposite of it.

Favorite traits in a potential friend? Most disliked traits? He loves a great sense of humour in another. Also the type of person who will turn to you without missing a beat after you teasingly say 'i might murder x for being a clown' and then say 'i'll bring the shovel to help you hide them'. As for disliked traits… Pretty standard things but especially someone who has no love for music.

Does he like sweets? If so, does he prefer them to be baked or no? Yes. He loves all food. He's like a vacuous void of hunger but especially for sweets.

Does he have any hobbies? Poetry writing, Song composition, classic ballroom dancing… He also adores archery and fencing. He was raised pretty typically with noble hobbies and lessons drilled into him. Luckily he found love in all of them.

Is he a sit-down violinist or does he Lindsey Sterling his performances?

Definitely Lindsay Sterling. He just gotta move with his music.

#avarensons-craze #jill answers #ocs #Ris'daer #Questions about my OCs spark a lot of joy

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moviewarfare · 8 months

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A “QUICK!” Review of “Nimona (2023)”

Nimona is the next in animated movies that are better than whatever Disney and Pixar put out in 2023. Funny enough this was in production at Disney's Blue Sky Studio but got pushback because it was too gay for them.

It is their loss because Nimona is a magnificent movie. It has a very unique and lively animation. A great subversion of the fairy tale fantasy genre with its futuristic and fantasy blended world. Wonderful set of characters with a stand-out vocal performance from Chloe Grace Moretz as the titular character. An awesome score with well-thought-out uses of pop and rock songs. To top it off, an emotionally weighted story with a lot of depth. The only criticism I have is that the laughs can feel a bit like the forced humour you see in a lot of movies and they are very hit-or-miss.

Nonetheless, I wish to see more of these unique types of animation films in the future!

For more reviews like this visit:

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#movies #movie reviews #films #film review #netflix #nimona #nimona movie #anime #animation

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canmom · 1 year

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seasonal anime: Mahō Shōjo Magical Destroyers

This one's an odd one.

I think the best place to begin with this one is... here's some lines from the sub. The official sub, from Crunchyroll (I think).

And for this particular show, subtitling with imageboard memes seems actually quite appropriate. But it's still so weird to see memesubs go official! It reads like a fansub!

As for the show itself... it's odd. I watched it pretty much entirely on the strength of the OP, which has both some lovely animation cuts including a little Weilin Zhang. Nobody figured out who did the car still. But where it really caught my attention is the glitched out second half that looks somewhere between SBAHJ and trans girl aesthetics. Here's a taste:

Based on that I expected something in the vein of Madoka, playing around with the form. Well, it's not that! Still trying to put my finger on what exactly it is.

I think I broadly I get what it's going for, sending up genre tropes and invoking various flavours of otaku subculture stuff with a really modern reference pool. And I appreciate that it's willing to go weird with it; episode 2 for example has a surreal battle on a drug induced psychic plane and they are willing to get quite experimental with the imagery (also obligatory EoE nod)...

The henshin sequences likewise go pretty hard! Blue, the sex/masochism themed one in particular, gets her brain corkscrewed out and turned into a weapon. Lots of blink-and-you-miss-it stuff in all three.

There's other cute visual ideas riffing on the otaku theme; e.g. in episode 3, a mech is assembled like a model kit from a sprue by giant hands.

Or places where it's like... oh huh you went there then? It really foregrounds sexuality, playing it mostly for jokes but also like...

This isn't even the first time one of the characters has ended up in shibari and he stays that way for the rest of the episode.

Anyway, the story turned out to be about an alternate future where otakus become an oppressed class who are caged by the government; protagonist 'otaku hero' leads an otaku revolution, although he's more of a comic relief guy beside the three magical girls. The sort of mocking but affectionate sendup of otaku stuff feels sort of like 'what if you made Otaku no Video, 30 years on'.

So I respect its ambition! It certainly feels different.

Alas I don't think it quite comes together. The pace is pretty breakneck, but it's not so infectiously energetic as something like Kill La Kill, which is an obvious point of comparison - but then not many people can match Imaishi! Visually, the show proper is kinda rough, and inevitably falls short of the level set by its OP/ED. The story is way too overtly ironic to get seriously invested in, so you're mostly there for the jokes, which are pretty hit and miss (a lot of them are just 'haha, sex' or 'look, otaku thing'), but also it's paced so fast that they don't all have to stick.

It's a bit of a headscratcher honestly. I'm mostly still watching out of curiosity to see what they're doing with all this. It feels like there's several seeds of something in this mix; whether it will grow I can't tell.

Come to think of it, if it reminds me of anything, it's OtakuVs, the surprisingly high-effort anime comedy web series by some American weebs. The pace, tone, and sense of humour are remarkably similar. I'm probably missing some kind of precursor to both that explains it. Maybe it was poptepipic all along!

#anime #magical destroyers

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