#Overall review: good! I like it!

[3gremlins]

no, you watched all of hazbin hotel season 1 in one sitting!!

...okay it was me. it was so good?!? def check out if you like cool animation, interesting designs, queer characters and musicals!

#i'm glad they already renewed it #i was concerned lol (like oh no this show is good queer and animated sure it will be shortlived T.T) #eyeing alastor for reasons tho #am i just taken in by a fast talking maybe villain in a long coat? yes #piqued my latent cosplay interests tho #hazbin hotel #also demons with deer horns my weakness #i slept on it a little b/c of the rumors about the creator #but i researched it a bunch and there doesn't seem to be any real receipts that anyone can find #it's got keith david in it #head canon goliath singing forever #def has a few content warnings (a bit heavy/graphic at times but i don't think it's as gross as something like invincible or vox machina) #like i have review-related notes but overall i liked it #all the talent have legit voices (like a lot of them are musicians/broadway actors) #im not the most discerning musical fan but i liked the music a lot (josh is more discerning and he also liked it)

[hubbaslubba]

don't care that the cgi was bad in wild blue yonder because my prevailing thought was like if they are willing to do weirdo freak shit with it im happy. also they cooked up a gayboy doctor so im blissed out

#doctor who #doctor who spoilers #actual review is: thought the premise and character moments were what id been yearning for so much it was excellent BUT #they really lost me near the climax because all this atmospheric tension was resolved by telling telling telling explaining which didn't #feel satisfying or revelatory at all. and although i did say i don't care about the bad cgi i do mean the body horror elements i loved them #i laughed about them with my sister all part of a good dw experience we were crying at dt running on all fours like a dog #but i wasn't a fan at all of the main ship not because the design was bad i loved the changing environment but #it was soooo distracting to me that donna and the doctor just did not look like they were physically there #to the point that the really ridiculous body horror was more believable to me than the environment they were in #overall though this is what i wanted there were times i was so delighted and surprised by the show in a way i havent been for 15 years <3 #feeling sososo positive and excited for ncuti #sorry i turn into a dw blog on saturday nights now

[librarisxng]

ten > tap

#nct #nct u #nct 127 #nct dream #wayv #nct dojaejung #nct wish #ten lee #lee taeyong #lee youngheum #i hate to compare but between the two releases i prefer ten’s #no hate to taeyong #i love tap #but nightwalker was such a good title #and its totally my style #the bsides overall i like more than the ones on tap #i’ll need to listen to tap more to give a thorough review

[thewhizzyhead]

when i first started checking out d.e.b.s aka that old 2004 cult classic with lesbian spies, i was simply expecting a kinda-raunchy and very campy movie. i was not expecting said kinda-raunchy and very campy movie with aforementioned lesbian spies to be actually kinda cute-

#to be fair i haven't watched the entire movie (i'm a very busy uni student rn forgive me) #i only watched whatever clips i could find on youtube #and like #i am genuinely surprised? like i dunno i just had the general impression that this movie had a level of raunchiness #and whatever clips ive seen before made it look rather low budget so i honestly didnt expect much #but like the whole thing is actually kinda cute! #id argue that perhaps it could be set up a little better so that the pacing would make more sense and a relationship be better developed #like this movie could potentially benefit from a remake #BUT AS IT EXISTS i find the love story really cute! it's lighthearted and honestly cute and i like that! #good change of pace! sometimes i just wanna get cute no-much-fuss queer shit and that's perfectly nice! #so yea no formal review as of the moment since im too fucking busy to actually watch movies #but the verdict on the overall love story in debs is that i think its genuinely cute! #d.e.b.s. #ALSO LUCY DIAMOND IS HOT THERE I SAID IT #and i like how dorky she can be with amy like i really genuinely like that

[youremyboy]

NEW JA REVIEW: im literally nonbinary and i love wearing overalls. happy pride month to nb j&a canon jake

#is it a stereotype that nonbinary people like wearing overalls???? not sure dont remember. its true about me neways #ANYWAYSSSS my actual review is that i liked it!!! which caught me of guard bcs uh. i wasnt expecting to lmao #imo all the post canon insecure jake eps have fallen somewhere between bad and unwatchable. i defo felt like they lost the knack for that #genre of episode after the og canon run ended (and maybe even a little bit before that rip) #BUT like ive been saying this season of j&a RULES so even though i had already decided i didnt like it before. i did like it!! pretty good! #had some funny bits for sure and didnt have the forced energy i personally feel like some of the other insecure jakes have (esp post-canon) #that made them pretty hard to watch for meeeeee tbh #also uhhhhhhhhhhhhh jake looked pretty good in the overalls. im not afraid to say it. ill speak my truth. i wont be silenced on this #also amir actually liking them was pretty cute lmao. put him in overalls too asap i would like 2 see it #but yeah i liked it!!! feels like every month i come on here like “WOAH is anyone else also shocked that the new j&a is ACTUALLY GOOD?????? #like maybe i should start having faith in them. i probably wont though. :)

[dapperrokyuu]

Read ~60 chapters of Chainsaw Man today, WHEWWWWW-

#dee p thoughts #overall review so far: pretty good. author's style is very distinct and potentially offputting/unhinged so I 1000% get someone not liking #this for that reason. theres a lot of food for thought to chew on among it so I enjoy it tho. but I do think the plot in terms of arcs and #how they tie into character development/progression can be very...fast and sudden? couldve used more time to make the progressions more #gradual and natural feeling imo which is where I think the anime expanding on scenes enhances this. ex: aki's care for power and denji is #very sweet but it also feels a bit sudden in terms of...well how to word this? like it ultimately MAKES SENSE but the turning point makes i #feel like his care stems from them almost dying reminding him of himeno as opposed to. caring about them afdadljbkndlkj- yes its establishe #that aki views denji kind of as a little brother but they couldve had the trio cook a little longer imo like at that point I dont really #feel aki has had much connection to power either tbh but...I get it I get why lol- #THO I WILL GIVE THAT THE SUDDENNESS FEELING MAY STEM FROM ME READING ~60 CHAPTERS YEAH. just like? denji's relationship with makima has mor #gradual progression than the trio's imo which makes sense but we should strengthen the trio bond for extra impacttt- #thinking deeper I do think aki has individual moments with denji and power has individual moments with denji so its probably the lack of ak #interacting with power that makes me feel the trio isnt fully baked lol. kind of just shown annoyance and then happiness at her not throwin #vegetables and now you dont want her to die I guess thats what makes me feel something is missinggg #which makes sense at the end of the day I guess? whats important is their relationship with denji not each other? but eh still I guess we'l #jot this down as a personal preference of mine

[zemfruit]

Jack Black pogging from Be Kind Rewind 2008

#sorry i know its not my usual content but people need to see this #i just finishe be kind rewind #its so good #should i make my music sideblog an overall media that i liked review thingy??? #that seems cool #cuz im watching a lot of movies recently and like #i want to talk about them #and my main is like #my art and reblog dump #fuuuck #no one will read this shit #if youre reading this plz give feedback #idunno what to do

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread

The Paradox Hotel

about a woman who runs security at a time travel hotel for the wealthy, who is unstuck from time - but stays there for the memory-glimpses of her dead girlfriend

when the time travel technology is about to get privatized and mega-rich guests are arriving for the auction, more things start to get unstuck, and there’s a dead body only she can see

grief, ghosts, & dinosaurs

#The Paradox Hotel #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #i enjoyed this overall! #the MC is very…..snarky and sarcastic in a way that felt like it was trying to be quirky #however as i predicted there are so many reviews incessantly mad about that fact and like - #‘i would rather read about an even-tempered well mannered person’ ahjfgajhfgjds are you fr #if she were a man nobody would bat an eye. in fact thinking about it she is written just like ur average smartass snarky dude protag #anyway #me starting the audiobook: oh no this is narrated by that VA who always has at least one character she does an annoying deep voice for #early in the book: this is my ai assistant it has a new zealand accent. me: oh no…………. #of course. it is the combination of both those. (also not a very good accent. it just sounds weirdly deep and also pronounces vowels weird) #anyway overall; it’s fun! im not obsessed with it #(well it's not all 'fun' there's def mental health and grief stuff.....but yknow) #respect the eternal lesbians tho

[pirateboy]

BREAKING MY SILENCE on hackney diamonds!!! find it really interesting how people are comparing it to the rest of the 'modern' (i.e. post ww3) stones era... some ppl praising it as the best thing since tattoo you or whatever and a return to form after all the 'shit' allbums... other ppl trashing it as a soulless cash grab whilst simultaneously praising the don was albums... yes the production and overall. format of the album is different so i'm not saying it doesn't make sense to have preferences but guys. the quality of the songs is not very different at all. same shit different packaging. i don't understand where any of you are coming from

#uhh my personal opinion on it? #same as everything steel wheels onwards - some good songs but overall flawed albums #not sure how i would compare it to the rest of the albums in that era tho... on one hand for stones i do prefer shorter more concise albums #but at the same time the production of hackney diamonds is so jarring to me i don't like it sorry mr andrew watt :( #gonna actually give a full review at some point tho -_- a very late one but it is coming... #anyways for now. it's ok. don't understand the strong feelings about it cos to ME it feels pretty similar to everything else modern stones #OH i should say tho none of this includes blue and lonesome. obviously bit different being a cover album but i LOVE blue and lonesome!! #the rolling stones #marchibald's

[starpros-sunshine]

In my honey era

#yeah sure slap some honey on those instant ramen why not #trying some honey toast with pepper too i heard thats an interesting combo #i can already see it I will not survive uni if this is the standard i set for myself #i don't even like honey i think it's a bit too sweet #the combs are great though but you know this honey on toasted bread thing i can get used to this is actually pretty good #would be interesting to see how thus would wprk ob actual bread abd nit the tiadt stuff #toast stuff* #but overall genuinely 8/10 nithing special but very enjoyable nonetheless #the pepper didn't do that much except making me want to caugh but i think it's the ratio of it all #because tastewise they should work together there were some good notes there #look at me being a little food reviewer all fancy as if I don't frink like three cups of earl grey a day and practically live off of chicken #my carnivorous behind could never be a vegetarian #and my milkloving front could never be vegan I think I'm everything that movements tries to avoid

[sol-flo]

i think the winnie the pooh horror movie failed for having too high production value. send tweet

#the gore was nicely done (caveat: i was at a non perfect viewing angle from the tv) #but i kinda wanted it to suck more? like it's rather monotonous and lacks camp #thats my review. also i could have watched a second movie tonight but my friends kinda collapsed a bit lol #ehh maybe for the best. weekends feel short nowadays. and i had a good saturday overall #good night :)

[princess-of-purple-prose]

Because you seem in the know: there's a new Trigun?????

(is it any good? I loved the original)

Aha, I'm less in the know than you think!! But I can assure you there IS a new trigun, trigun stampede, a reboot which seems to have different takes on some of the characters and themes!! I've not seen it yet and don't plan to for a while (I'm trying very hard to be kind to my brain and at least let the og settle in my head as I read the manga), but what I've heard sounds super cool!!

#in honesty i find the art style a little offputting (it's 3d and i'm sure i'd get used to it given the chance #but rn it feels like looking at a video game) #and i've heard mixed reviews on the character portrayals-- mainly that everyone seems younger and ww is edgier? #my main problem is they REMOVED MILLY #and replaced her with SOME GUY #WHAT COULD POSSIBLY JUSTIFY THAT. HUH #ahem. anyway. from the analysis posts i've been shamelessly reading it has some REALLY cool takes on gendered trauma #and places a new spin on the lore and vash and knives' relationship which all sounds incredible #and yeah overall reviews seem very positive!! #i'd totally encourage you to take a stab at it if you please (and maybe let me know what you think if you do!!) :)) #asks #thetragicallynerdy #kay talks #oh god PLEASE don't let this maintag i'm pretty sure there's enough filler tags at the front #trigun #tristamp #oh wait addition!! i did scrub through tristamp ep1 just to see what it was like and it was very different from what i was expecting #my main takeaway (gleaned all from analysis posts) is that if i'd watched tristamp first i'd be ALL FUCKING OVER IT #but since being a bitchy purist is one of my favorite things to do i might not like it as much just in comparison #it really does sound like a good story though!!!!

[decamarks]

FINALLY got this book earlier today and as soon as i put it down on my bed to read it, a rainbow started refracting off my glass of water and directly onto it. gay people are REAL!

#my review: i finished it earlier today it was very good. beautiful beautiful art very wonderful book #it is literally 500 pages of gorgeous art and design and holding it in my hands makes me happy #that alone is good enough for me but the characters ARE very cute and compelling. #despite the dark storyline and imagery it's VERY lighthearted overall. which i enjoyed! #it was also uhhhh approximately 10 times hornier than i thought it would be. i was honestly not expecting that. #let it be known however. that this is NOT a complaint #it's nice knowing that an artist whose work i greatly appreciate and admire‚ #has a very specific set of interests which happen to be nigh indistinguishable from my own. ANYWAY #highly recommend it if it seems like a thing you would enjoy =)

[leave-a-whisper]

finally watched rwrb and I really liked it!

#it was mostly funny and cute and it had some really good scenes #I actually liked the acting in some of them idk if that's an unpopular opinion or not #but yeah overall positive review #as someome who didn't read the book #something silly to watch if you're having a bad day and need to laugh and two idiots falling in love #har rambles #rwrb

[liltaz-asatreat]

I posted 2,958 times in 2022

That's 2,010 more posts than 2021!

670 posts created (23%)

2,288 posts reblogged (77%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 2,458 of my posts in 2022

Only 17% of my posts had no tags

#taz balance - 840 posts

#taz ethersea - 552 posts

#taz - 517 posts

#taz ethersea spoilers - 419 posts

#fav - 356 posts

#taz fanfic - 326 posts

#taz art - 313 posts

#lup - 292 posts

#taako - 284 posts

#barry bluejeans - 220 posts

Longest Tag: 138 characters

#i'll reblog this to both blogs because i think i have more followers who listen to tma on my main and you should be recognized for this 💜

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Just had a depressing thought

How the hell did Lucretia not lose her God damn mind between the time she erased everyone's memory and sent them on their way to starting the Bureau of Balance and even beyond that? Like, I lived in a small house with 9 other people for a good few years, and when I went to college and moved into the dorms there, one of the things I had the hardest time dealing with was the utter silence I was left in. My roommate moved into the dorm late because of rooming and organizational issues on the university's part, and then her mom didn't want to pay for her to stay in the dorm in the second semester, and they didn't move anyone else in with me. Among the many other issues I was having, the silence and loneliness was crippling in a really major way, and I had friends I was with at every chance I got to be with them. It was the most social year I had ever had, and I was still hardcore struggling with the fact that I had to go home to no one.

Lucretia didn't even have anyone to hang out with or talk to at all ever until she met Maureen and Lucas and started the Bureau. And even with having as many people on the base as she did, she still had to go home to no one. I just about lost my God damn mind in my situation, how. The fuck. Did she do it??? And for 10-12 years????

469 notes - Posted August 5, 2022

#4

One of my favorite meta things about the Stolen Century is how Griffin really thought he could cover 100 years of backstory in two episodes lmfao Like, as someone with ADHD, I understand how hard it is to figure out how long something is going to take, and I underestimate how long I'm going to need to do tasks and finish projects all of the time, but like, even if he wasn't expecting to get as deep with it as they ended up doing, the absolute confidence he had going in that he could cover 100 years in 2 hours, like, king there was no way but I admire how over confident you were about that lmao

484 notes - Posted May 13, 2022

#3

Angus really did have a big day on the Day of Story and Song. Like, first the Director had some shady shit going on with the Relic disposal chamber, then a strange man hops out of Taako's bag whom Taako and Merle claim said the Bureau is bad, then there's the discovery of the baby voidfish, then the Director has guards take them to a room where she is kneeling over the balls that had contained the Relics and is channeling energy out of the undestroyed bell into her staff, then she talks mad shit about coming from another reality with tres horny bois, the guy whose name is Barry, and some person named Lup who is dead(?) while Taako and Merle are trying to keep their heads from exploding, then Davenport can actually talk and was captain of this past mission this whole time, then Magnus comes barging in and he can see the absolute chaos of the apocalypse outside, so he tries to barracade the door while the others are going down memory lane, then the others start debating about leaving everyone to the forces outside versus putting up a shield that would still end up destroying the world in a manner that suggests they've had this argument exhaustively before, then they get attacked and BOOM a lich comes out of Taako's umbrella who is apparently Lup who is apparently his sister, then Lucretia disappears and Davenport wants him to help find her even though he still has no clear idea of what the fuck is happening, then he hears the story and song and suddenly gains the knowledge of their 100 year journey and the impending end of the world, then he meets up with the others again when he and Davenport can't find her only to find Lucas is also not dead, then Lucretia turns up, a crystal shows them a possible future, and Taako knew the answer to save everything all along, then he's expected to help fight against a world ending evil force, and then FINALLY they defeat the Hunger, and he's got time to process the absolute wild day he just had.

And just like, I feel like probably around the time he found out Lucas was still alive he was just like:

560 notes - Posted March 29, 2022

#2

Balance: Don't split up the party or you will die

Amnesty: Splitting up the party is tentatively okay depending on what you're doing except it did, in fact, get someone killed

Graduation: We're going to refuse to split up as much as possible because we're best buds

Ethersea: If we don't split up and do wild ass stunts before somehow reconvening back at the ship then what even is the fucking point

1,362 notes - Posted April 7, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

What I like about the scene where Magnus spins mind in Wonderland is that Griffin chose the lesser of two evils because it would have been really fucked to make him choose whether or not he forgets Julia which most definitely would have resulted in a no and forced them to take another two spins without much deliberation, but I think it also paints an interesting picture in-game of the characterization of Lydia and Edward. They believed that love wasn't a strong enough force to sustain them anymore and that it wasn't as important, and I think that's also reflected in how they thought the worst memory to take from him would be the person who caused his suffering and not the person he loves. Because to them, suffering is more important now, and it's how they sustain themselves, so why wouldn't it be the thing sustaining him too?

1,603 notes - Posted March 23, 2022

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[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads / storygraph

The Free People’s Village

sci-fi set in an alternate 2020, where Gore was elected and declared a War on Climate Change rather than a War on Terror - but otherwise not much is different, capitalism still reigns and benefits the white and privileged while criminalizing marginalised - especially Black and Indigenous - people

follows a young queer white woman who’s the guitarist in a punk band at a warehouse-turned-housing-and-venue, and who teaches at a predominantly Black school

when she learns that The Lab is going to be torn down for a new electromagnetic hyperway, she gets involved in the movement to stop it - at first just to keep her band, but she gets more involved as she reckons with her privilege and her own anti-racist journey as The Lab becomes the centre of an anti-capitalist revolution during a time of increasing political unrest

#The Free People’s Village #sim kern #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #I thought this was pretty good - interesting premise; some great characters and important conversations #It is definitely a clueless-white-cis-lady-becomes-a-bit-less-clueless kind of story and I think I’d recommend it to fellow white people #but I don’t think non-white reviewers would enjoy this very much. especially the first third or so #with her unconscious racism and bumbling through...a lot of things #But I understand that her being like that is a way to have these discussions in the narrative which ultimately are important conversations #and the revolution depicted here is much more grounded and radical than a lot of white-authored sff revolutions #other than that - the structure was a little strange and sometimes it leaned into the Hey Guys This Is An Alternate Timeline a smidge too #much haha. and also damn pretty depressing in parts. but I guess realistic. p good overall