#anime character strikes again

[rotomartsblog]

Sorry my only thoughts on the Nerris plot this episode is how they fell victim to the “dark skin character blushes bright pink” curse

#animators not knowing how blush works (especially on dark skinned characters) strikes again #animators learn that blush doesn’t need to be highlighter pink to be read as blush challenge (impossible apparently) #rotomtalks #camp camp #nerris

[eggs-can-draw]

au trail mix! I am . so tired.

#eggs can art #naegamigiri #byakuya togami #makoto naegi #kyoko kirigiri #shuichi saihara #izuru kamukura #komahina #hajime hinata #nagito komaeda #STRIKES AGAIN #kokichi ouma #hoh #hooooh #you will listen to my shuichi monomi/usami agenda #its a comfort character #blorbo from he shows #also scene from a scene from a thing I wrote because its been living in my brain so fucking longgg #i based kokichi's kicks off of the animated joker I need that to be known #I looked up references and was evilly snickering the whole time

[sharkneto]

I just browsed through your anti-mcu tag and now am filled with fury (at disney ofc, not you)👍🏼

god it's so disappointing. i genuinely loved the mcu movies and all of that back in their heyday - captain america until... hmmm, antman? maybe? i was a big fan. yeah there were some clunkers in there, but overall they felt fun and i liked the characters.

and then they just ran it into the fucking ground. i feel like them introducing spiderman was the real turning point for me (tom holland is a great peter parker, i just don't like how they've written him/what they've done with the character and that's not his fault. why is he a tiny tony stark why did they do that put him back in his natural habitat of broke normal teen). i'm all for different interpretations of characters, but it felt like that was the point where i realized "oh, they don't care, do they". and then it was a long slide from there, with the final straw being goddamn Endgame (fuck that movie, it's so bad, i'm still angry about it).

the most frustrating thing is how avoidable the slide was. they got too greedy, reached to fast, were more worried about setting up their next movie than making the movie you're currently watching good. on top of that, their insane rate of release and how unplanned all their shit is exasperates how shit they treat their animators, plus their ridiculous fear of spoilers so they treat their actors like shit. if your movie is going to fall apart because of One Single Spoiler, maybe write a better movie???? just a suggestion

it's absolutely insane. marvel really should have been the cashcow that kept on giving forever, but they milked it too hard and still haven't stopped and we're all begging them to either give the cow a break or shoot the damn cow and put it out of its misery, but here we are getting a new marvel movie every month and people are still going to them and making them shitloads of money. it's exhausting

i'm willing to watch bad movies, i don't mind bad movies (Venom, my fucking beloved), but i'm not going to enjoy bad movies that don't have any passion to them and actively make people's lives worse. if you're exploiting people to this degree and you're still turning out shit, what's the fucking point

#i miss being excited for superhero movies #i really do #i love the characters! #i still use the avengers as backup immediate characters and plot device when i'm daydreaming stories in my head #to fill time and i'm not working on plotting actual fic #those early days of superhero movies were so much fun #x-men and the original spideys #maybe one day animators will get a union and they can strike and then it will make marvel take a step back #and they will slow down and actually give their actors entire scripts and let them act together on actual sets instead of greenscreen #and we'll get a good movie again #before anyone comes at me i know a few have been good #i hear black panther 2 was very good #but we all know the overall trajectory and what's been put out has been Not Good #stop trying to tie everythign together and just let a self contained story happen! i'm begging! #anti mcu #ask response

[alchemiclee]

this song makes me think of dan feng/dan heng/blade. not in a shipping way, but a story way

I imagine it being their inner thoughts and struggles turmoil for the disaster they caused for themsleves and how dh wants to be reborn as a new person separate from that. and blade is just pain in human skin and won't let dh be reborn

#i like putting songs to characters and stuff. its fun. #if i had animation abilities i'd make videos. or if i had local cosplay friends id shoot live action music videos 😭 #i news creative friends so bad. cant do most stuff i want alone... #need* #hsr #should i tag this #dan heng #dan feng #hsr blade #blade hsr #which way do people usually tag him #this isnt a shipping song. its just about how theyre absolute disasters fhfhdjdns #autism brain strikes again and this song is on repeat for an hour now #i always want to share songs that remind me of characters or stories or whatever but no one else ever cares or even listens to the song😭

[etchedstars]

sorry idk i just think that if you complain abt your partner being the only person who cares about you but then block out every single one of your friends after you grow tired of them then maybe you have some self growth to do

#not to vague post but like. come on lmao #youre not a magnet for shitty ppl man maybe youre just a shitty person #and like admittedly i dont think this person was but come on if you dont have anyone consistent in your life bc YOU shut all of them out #youre doing something wrong. sorry. #ok thats my only ventpost this month. i feel like i have a right to pettiness for not vagueposting three months ago #the overdue asteroid strikes again #i hope the person this is abt sees this lmao <3 i also hope youre doing better and youve gotten over yourself #frankly i didnt need to see anime characters nor your petty complaints over how bad your life is but i did! i put up it with it bc i though #we were friends! but at the same time if you want ppl to care about you youre sure as fuck making it hard to 😭😭 hows anyone gonna care abt #you if you block them once youre tired of them or if they do one thing that offends you #if youre looking for perfect friends then like dont. the point of having friends is loving them. despite despite despite. #hypocritical as fuck lmfao. i thought huh maybe i should block you after you told me you were so jealous of me you couldnt read my writing #you make it so fucking hard for anyone to care about you and im sure you know that bc its all you post about #well. i cared about you. youre fucking awful and i shouldnt have though

[spheresoffate]

SPHERESOFFATE: an independent multimuse for characters from the gothic visual novel; the house in fata morgana. written by meri. please be aware that this blog contains content that is likely to be triggering to some, and read the rules before following so you can put your comfort first!

#the house in fata morgana rp #fatamoru rp #anime rp #manga rp #visual novel rp #video game rp #indie rp #my terrible; terrible taste in characters strikes again.......

[hongssami]

just finished opla what now

#the obvious answer is to rewatch and swoon over the monster trio (again) #i find it funny how they casted the characters affects the way that i feel for them .. like in a sense that #mister godoy is such a charming and charismatic luffy that for some reason i admire more than the anime luffy #and how taz skylar is a sanji i would bark for.. we all know how i feel about zoro idt 'bad' casting (which did not happen) will change that #anw they mean so much to me and i love them and their chemistry is amazing and i am kinda mad they released opla mid-strike #chipchats #dl

[ex-vespidae]

the worst kind of gjinkas is when people take a fucking canonically ancient character and make them into the most bland looking anime teenager-looking person

hhh

#sage speaks #even worse when its an ANCIENT GOD #sorry i saw a Radi design which made her look like a teenager #which just feels horrible. like I. #did she really only guve you petty mean girl energy or something???? #no offence but if you saw Radi as a petty mean girl. I don't think you got her. at all. #Shes an ancient god of dreams that got forgotten about due to the influence of a new white guy #then she was basically only lost in dreams in small snippets of stories. she had no power #and was probably stuck for millennia stuck there #festering in loneliness and rage so when she got the time to strike back she did. #only to get imprisoned once again by the guy that forced her into that festering rage and loneliness in the first place #and yeah sure killing people is bad but i get why. pk kind of took everything from her so she did the same #and turning her into a stupid anime girl. feels like such an insult into an interesting character as it feels like its just #it feels almost infantalizing in a way? maybe ? it just makes her not seem like an ancient god like a at all who did rule the moths before #pk came along #uhhh this probably isnt worded well #but like yeah. hk is a very nuanced game where you can get where most characters are coming from but that doesn't justify their actions #uhhhhhhh yeah don't get into hk if you want simple characters with a simple bad guy #or at least thats my opinion #sorry if you read all these tags

[clowngremlin]

anyone ever have like a dream about a person/fictional character and then because of that develop some kind of deranged fixation on that person/character? or am i just some kind of freak

#the wretched gremlin strikes again #happened to me in high school a few times and now it's happening to me again about [redacted] fictional character #the character isn't even like embarrassing or anything but i feel like such an insane freak over it #like i've had TWO dreams this week about the character #and both were incredibly homoerotic which might be why i have developed the deranged fixation #anyways i need to chew on [redacted] like some kind of feral animal chewing on a bone

[dirt-str1der]

Sagawa is unfuckable in my head but in my heart he and nishitani had something embarrassing going on

#Listen to my problems #actually i transsexualise characters in yakuza based on one simple rule: if majima wants to hit then its a 65% that the guy is trans (if he #DESPERATELY wants to hit then its a 100% chance the guy is trans) the percentage rule doesnt apply to girls because majima doesnt believe #in unattractive girls (and shes right) #i will never date an ugly girl. why ? because ugly girls dont exist #let me get to the heart of my post anyway . i was randomly assigning cooler genders to yaluza characters when i actually looked at my list #and was like ... this ... this is !!!! majimas fuckit list !!! and theres already two dead guys on it. too ass #ill make it clearer actually sagawa being majimas handler does act a bit possessive and intimate towards him but he holds zero desire in his #heart for the poor boy even if he had to handfeed him for a while and it was super sad but majima on the other hand absolutely cannot #control where his dick compass swings and starts lusting after the guy more than twice his age plus he just got ‘rescued’ by sagawa <- its #just a simple passing of the leash from shimano to sagawa though and majima Knows this logically that hes completely forgotten how to act li #ke a human being and this is really dumb and he really shouldnt but hes extremely susceptible to his wild imagination and nightmares combo w #here hes trapped in a maze of his own libidio and trauma and against his will sagawa gets his sex engine roaring even though he hates the gu #y and thinks he sucks and it Really doesnt help that sagawa knows and lets majima know hes politely pretending hes not getting hard #stop reading btw im going to start talking about my creature of the night au wh actully no im not actually yes i am #but since majima goes wolfmode every full moon and he though his memories are foggy he can still Remember. and sagawa fucking loves animals #and a wolf is no different he really has a soft spot for wolfjima and spoils him a bit and majima gets trained against his will and itswired #deep enough to bleed over into his subconscious even when hes human and can remember that he hates sagawa but its hard to actually... hurt #him especially since in this au majima fucking bit him and sagawa let it slide. like he nearly got his arm torn off and had to wear a cast #for months and he never once blamed majima for it (soft spot strikes again) despite everything and despite how awful he is majima kind of #realises that sagawa (in his own way) is acting with majimas ‘best interests’ in mind <- extremely subjective statement #the thing is that he really respects him for that and trusts him not to pull the trigger on him when he doesnt ‘deserve’ it

[elijones94]

❤️ “Oh, Fred.” 🦴🦕🦖

#Fred Flintstone #Wilma Flintstone #The Flintstones #character study #cartoon fanart #60s cartoons #Fred and Wilma #dancing #cute cartoon couples #Hanna Barbera #Warner Bros Animation #Cartoon Network #Boomerang from Cartoon Network #Alan Reed #Jean Vander Pyl #Henry Corden #Jeff Bergman #Tress MacNellie #Fred Flintstone Woos Again #Fred Strikes Out #Dial 'S' for Suspicion #Sleep On Sweet Fred #Fred El Terrifico #Operation Switchover #Surfin' Fred #How to Pick a Fight with Your Wife Without Really Trying #My Fair Freddy #love #husband and wife

[off-center-milk]

Marble hornets not having much of a visually distinctive cast can be really frustrating, especially when ur first watching it. Then multiply that frustration 10x because of all the visual distortion/glitching. But nowadays I'm p thankful bcs wanting to make mh fanart is what pushed me to put more effort into drawing faces and making faces look distinctive from each other.

#literally a characters face and a few minor details abt their outfit r the only things u have to tell them apart sometimes. #right? and thats fine for other shows that have lighting and arent shot on a go pro from 2009 in the middle of the woods at night #put it all together and they can be a bit difficult to tell apart if you dont know whats going on #couple that with middle school me's much simpler anime art style and youve got a recipe for idk who the fuck is who or whats going on #and this. dear friends is why ive become hell bent on avoiding same face syndrome or ehatever u call it. #if my audience can't differentiate between my blorbos pray tell what is the point? there isnt one. id explode #idk. every time i see a mh fanart and cant tell whos who by the faces i die a little bit on the inside /hj #just bcs the actors do have striking faces like. i am not forgetting jays weird little bug eyed stare even if i wanted to his face #is cemented in my brain. like they have nice and memorable faces thatre actually pretty easy to simplify while maintaining likeness #yallre just losers. booooooo!!!!!!! #joking draw how u please idc but it does throw me for a loop. #anyways. thank you troy wagner for forcing me to get better at drawing. again. all my creative growth can be tracked down to MH if u try har #d enough

[ladylightning]

watching the “making of scoobynatural” and the animator is talking about the character designs and he’s like “jared has a distinct nose and a lot of hair. castiel…also has hair. jensen has these big beautiful pouty lips and a classic handsome man face ❤️❤️❤️” the jackles curse strikes again

#jensen ackles is so handsome it unsettles everyone regardless of sexuality #a disturbance in the force #spn #supernatural #scoobynatural

[knickynoo]

I am once again pondering the fact that Marty McFly is just such a fantastic character. Like, especially when you look at other male protagonists in the 80s, they all follow a similar trend. A lot are uber cool and suave, with the added side effect of also being a jerk. Many are popular jocks or whatever. Big flirts. Edgy and troubled or sleazy, etc.

And Marty is sort of in his own category entirely. He's cool, but he's not? He skateboards and kills it on guitar but has 2 whole friends--his girlfriend and a disgraced scientist--and crippling self-doubt and can't go a day without falling down or tripping over his own feet or nearly being killed by a car.

He's polite. He's respectful. Won't let anyone mess with the people he loves and doesn't let a moment pass by where he can thank somebody or apologize for a wrongdoing. (seriously, Marty has beautiful manners. Like, it is quite noticeable how often he says, "please," "thank you," "excuse me," or "sorry".)

His emotions are all SO BIG and he doesn't hold back on them. He gets all animated when he's excited and yells when he's scared and cries when he's sad and pulls his friend into big ol' hugs.

He literally never knows what is going on. Marty exists in the constant state of confusion. Between asking Doc to "wait a minute" every other sentence and his ever-changing, scattered thoughts, Marty is just out there trying to survive. Just slow it down, alright? He's a smart guy, but he's also got elevator music playing in his head. Really really fast elevator music.

Time means nothing to him. His watch is broken. He's racking up tardies like it's nobody's business. Stopping by the garage to look for Doc and play some guitar when he should be at school. He's got to get out of that stupid suit RIGHT THIS INSTANT even though he's got one shot at the lightning strike at the clock tower.

Marty just. Does things. There is zero impulse control. A synapse fires and Marty's brain goes "!!!" and that's that. Punch the bully who's twice your size, buy that sports almanac, just Walk Away while Doc is talking to you. Buy that sweet leather jacket. Ignore ALL instructions you're given! Marty, you need constant supervision and I love you for that.

He's just. Marty is the most character. Look at him.

They really knocked it out of the park with this guy.

#back to the future #bttf #marty mcfly #really tho i can't stand most 80s protagonists #because so many of them are SO annoying and jerky #and the BTTF people were like: ''What if we just had. The sweetest boy.'' #and it was such a good choice

[comicaurora]

Have you read/watched Nimona? If so, thoughts?

The kind of emotional gutpunch I can't bear to watch without ample preparation. The first ten minutes are the hard part for me - it's always a wrench for me to get through a "good-hearted character is cruelly framed" plotline, so I really appreciate how quickly they get that out of the way and how Nimona immediately brightens the mood when she shows up.

Overall, truly one of the best examples of how a creator can use their personal grief and rage at injustice as a medium to sculpt a story. The narrative manages to feel deeply authentic to a real emotional journey while still feeling completely contained within the story. I'm not entirely sure how to put this, but sometimes when a writer gets allegorical with their experiences, it can feel like the story gets put on pause so the characters can turn out to the audience and speak in the author's voice about their thoughts on the subject - a pretty clumsy way to communicate a message. Nimona does not do that. Instead, the many real-world parallels to bigotry, propaganda, queerphobia, church corruption, xenophobia, and regressive policies driven by terror of change feel like they arise naturally from the setting within the story rather than being imposed on it from the outside, which is extremely quality writing and characterization. Nimona's story is so clearly informed by ND Stevenson's life and gender journey, but Nimona herself feels like her own person who is messy and grieving and putting up walls and self-destructing and still - still - a fundamentally joyful, gleeful person who absolutely loves being alive when she isn't being brutally beaten down for the crime of existing inconveniently.

Also, it's a comparatively minor thing, but I really like how, like with She-Ra, Nimona creates a world that is passively non-homophobic, with gay relationships front and center and evidently regarded as completely fine and not worth commenting on - which, to me at least, made both stories remarkably relaxing and comfortable to immerse myself in, because I wasn't being randomly jumpscared by reminders of real-world hate - but it still uses allegory to address the real-world roots of homophobia in the form of xenophobia, correlated injustices like classism, and the monster-ification of The Other. So it can clearly state "hating people for how they exist is Always Fucked And Wrong" without having to dunk the queer audience in the icebath of "hey remember how people in the real world think you personally should be dead?" Again, not sure I'm phrasing this super clearly, but it's a balance ND Stevenson consistently strikes with his work, and I really love how he does it.

Animation's gorgeous, voicework is consistently top-shelf, love the aesthetic of Cyberpunk Arthuriana. Wins across the board.

#asks #not aurora #media recs

[eloquent-edits]

🗡️ “That time of the month again?”

because we all know that periods suck and characters are not immune to the horrors 🗡️ prompt list of comforting actions

Character A is bedridden from the cramps and Character B becomes their living heating pad (cuddles with arms wrapped around the waist >>>>)

B buys A their favorite chocolates a couple days before their period starts and keeps beverages with electrolytes on hand

A takes a day off to rest, bingewatch some episodes of a good show, and care for themselves (maybe do some yoga, and by yoga I mean curl up in the fetal position for a couple hours)

B thinks that making a nice bath for A will help and prepares everything for when A gets home (A laughs and explains why that’s not a great idea)

Searching for Shark Week’s episodes online to deal with shark week in person, but getting distracted by cute animal shows

B can’t be there for A in person so they send A $30 to cover extra snacks and/or medicine

Instead of getting emotional over posts online, A digs out an old book series and gets emotional over that (they are reliving their childhood, they swear it’s cathartic THEY SWEAR)

A can’t sleep with the back pain so B gives them a light back massage with several check-ins to make sure the noises are in relief and not pain

B keeps the lights dim and and TV volume low as A battles a headache

All meals are made with ahead of time and cravings humored (“You can’t just eat straight salt.” “I know that, which is why I’m putting all of it on this.”)

A asks for B to get more pads/tampons at the store, B calls and sends many pictures as they try to figure out what will work best for A

B quietly scrubs out any bloodstains from A’s clothes as they do laundry (and they’re really efficient at it, why are they so good at getting blood out of clothing—)

A snuggling up with their pet who knows the exact spot to be in for maximum comfy (B thinks it’s adorable and takes a picture to show A later)

“I’m sorry if I’m not really conversational right now…” “Dude you’re on your period and barely slept last night, you’re good. We don’t have to talk, we can just chill.”

B brings home a machine for homemade ice-cream and all the ingredients needed for A’s favorite flavor (they spend the evening making it and declare a “dessert before dinner” day for when periods strike)

#writing #writing prompts #prompts #period comfort #character dynamics #character prompts #otp prompts #imagine your otp #prompt list #care prompts #comfort prompts #action prompts #acts of service ✨ #if you can��t tell this is absolutely self-indulgent #I got cuddles yesterday and I WANT MORE IT WASN’T ENOUGH #please somebody buy me my favorite icecream and watch cute shows with me