#garbo man

[cerastes]

The more we watch crappy high school romcoms or high school wish fulfillment shows where the ostracized-slash-lonely main character is actually a super genius and never misses with the gang, the easier it becomes to appreciate Oregairu, which even without the context of being in part explicitly a parody of the genre is already a good show, but it becomes even better the more you understand what genre it is mercilessly ripping to shreds without coming across as a *anime youtuber voice* deconstruction high on the smell of its own flatulence. To put it in other terms, while it is in fact a parody of the usual High School Loner Genius Romcom/Harem formula, it also actually cares to deliver a good story with its own themes and depth beyond “parody”.

Hachiman’s 4-D chess seemingly works at first, but it’s explicitly shown to be simple stopgap measures that don’t fix anything and may even make things worse in the long term, and throughout the story, it takes actually realizing that he’s burning bridges that he desperately wants and that he’s not some Loner Genius high schooler The Joker that has it all figured out, and only then does he actually start working his ass off to properly solve the problems in front of him through what is a refreshing combination of sheer humane, considerate solutions mixed with his inherent cunning, with the long term in mind. Yukinoshita is the genius hot girl that is good at academics and sports, but she is so utterly incapable of making meaningful connections with people that it doesn’t really help her at all because, well, not just in school but in life, you really need to know how to handle people and work together with them, no matter how intelligent or capable you are, and this weakness overshadows her strengths, completely negating her advantages. Yuigahama is the preppy popular girl that is charismatic and good looking, but pretty naive or even ‘dumb’ sometimes, but then it becomes clear that not only is she incredibly mature emotionally, she WILL be ruthless and assertive when she actually needs to be and isn’t some selfless little goober, but at the same time, she also doesn’t have anywhere or anyone she feels she truly belongs at or with until she meets these two other strays, whose bluntness and sincerity she appreciates greatly.

Then, a third of the story in, we are introduced to Iroha, who represents the cunning younger student that is always this beloved, charming girl who actually is a pretty cunning and even malicious trickster that always gets what she wants... Except, NO ONE falls for it for longer than maybe a few seconds, and then it turns out that she and Hachiman are just really compatible, and they become good friends in that sort of caustic, vitriolic way that is only natural for the two of them, cynic duo that they make.

And needless to say, Hachiman’s sister, Komachi, is immediately, frame one shown to not only have a perfectly believable relationship with Hachiman in that they dunk on each other on sight, but also REALLY wants Hachiman to start dating a girl already and actively tries to get him to grow closer to any of his lady friends. The closest to a siscon joke in Oregairu is when someone reacts to Hachiman’s (grounded and not exaggerated) protectiveness of her by asking “oh, are you a siscon?” to which he replies “what in the fuck are you talking about, no, I’m worried about my sister because she’s my sister, don’t be weird about this”.

Oregairu has this habit of consistently showing you tropes and archetypes you will very clearly recognize from formulaic anime and novels, and then immediately humanizes them, not enough to fully remove them from the context of “you are watching anime or reading a light novel”, and just to remove them from “you know exactly what to expect from This Character”. It’s at that point where the narrative mix-ups, as it were, begin: Is this character going to at all follow the usual role you’d expect from them in a romcom or harem, or is this character going to go off the rails and pleasantly surprise me?

And it always goes off the rail when it matters with Oregairu. It’s always a pleasant surprise with Oregairu.

#oregairu #watching classroom of the mid with a group of pals and man #watching these garbo shows really makes me appreciate Oregairu a LOT more #and it's already one of my top 3 anime ever lmao

[nicholasmoorethetwittermigrant]

Even if you love both of these properties you know it’s true

#my adventures with superman #spider man ps4 #insomniac spider man #I love this show and these games but god damn the villain designs suuuuuck #just let the villains have simple iconic costumes I’m begging #maws #lois lane #clark kent #Peter Parker #dc universe #marvel universe #dc comics #marvel comics #animation #gaming #like there’s some exceptions but Spidey has Rhino Vulture Electro Shocker and Scorpion #and Maws has intergang parasite Deathstroke and Livewire #And all of their designs are just utter garbo

[toxictranny]

i’m keeping cishets in my DNI because the ones who end up here aren’t cishet they’re just cowardly unaware of their true selves and my blog exists to corrupt them .

#sorry not sorry but ur just literally not straight. there’s genuinely no way u are straight #damn near ​nobody is both cishender and heterosexual on tumblr … ESPECIALLY not a man #i like women -> i also like trans women because they’re women -> oh and i like trans guys too because i like vaginas -> but i’m straight :) #gotta be kidding me #it starts with a genital preference tht magically melts away to make room for tfems after devaluing some tmascs #because u call urself straight even though ur literally plowing a man #gotata delete this onetoo #HAHA NOT DELETING IT RBING with more garbo<3

[sandwichhour]

doodl ueaehau

#the invisible man #griffin #gothic lit #ladies book club #aughg I wanted this to be some sort of shading experiment but it looked like garbo so I went back to my usual stuff #its fine its fine #it be like thaaat

[bishopfish]

My design principles:

Penguin should be fat. Scarecrow should be kinda ugly. Riddler should be ambiguously off putting. You can do whatever else you want with them but make sure you keep these rules

#batposting #I’m right. you know I am right #Oh. and calendar man should be kind of pudgy and have those crazy Tim sale Garbo eyes

[dappio]

i hope online radio stations are eternal, the ability to listen to stations around the world for free and also remove the ability of choice from my adhd brain is so powerful

#been back on obession of euro radio cause man american radio stations are garbo to euro radio #the variety we be having the same five songs here lol

[abra-ka-dammit]

ongoing judgment of walmart generic brand "great value"

yes:

Poptarts

Spices & Seasonings

milk

instant oatmeal

taquitos

frozen pancakes

no:

applesauce

frozen pizza

#what absolute garbo my mans #its worth the extra 1-2 bucks to get a brand name pizza

[redhairclara]

Clara Bow and Buddy Rogers in Get Your Man, 1927.

Get Your Man is the only silent film directed by Dorothy Arzner that has not been lost to time. Her other films Manhattan Cocktail and Ten Modern Commandments are lost. Meanwhile, Get Your Man has four out of its six reels that survive.

#1920s #flapper #old hollywood #silent film stars #clara bow #vintage #<3 #silent films #it girl #1920s fashion #lost films #celluloid #nitrate films #nitrate decomposition #1927 #get your man #she's got it #she was the biggest star she was the biggest money maker in Hollywood above Garbo above them all #quote from louise brooks #dorothy arzner #female directors #buddy rogers #charles rogers

[kguhle]

do u ever have one of those days where ur just like… blah

#like everything is blah #i’m bloated #i feel like garbo #men suck #my body dysmorphia is at a weird high rn #which likely means my period is gonna start within the next 3 days #but man

[the-rat-house]

i've gotten so used to drawing kirby characters lately that drawing humans is even harder for me to do than usual. this blog and general hyperfixation has ruined me /lh

#ooc #non rp #(then again i kinda feel like garbo anyways so im not really in a decent headspace to try and do complicated stuff) #(but man.... muse gijinka designs are gonna take a hot fucking second to come to fruition) #(especially the squeaks. i have no clue of any human adjacent designs for them except one sketch of spinni i like) #(and sorta idea for daroach. his pokemon verse design was okay but im flip flopping on it...) #(doc and storo though... that is gonna be such a pain)

[luvvsbian]

pls tell me, what’s ur pet’s name & what are their nicknames?

#someone on reddit has a dog everyone calls garbage. bc garbanzo > garbo > garbage. iconic #weird nicknames my beloved #mine is hazel #but she gets ‘haze’ ‘basil’ ‘miss girl’ ‘stinky’ ‘lazy hazy’ ‘goofus’ #‘pretty girl’ ‘miss wigglebutt’ ‘sweet thing’ ‘cow’ ‘stupidhead’ #and monkey #‘monk’ or ‘monkey monk’ ‘monkster’ ‘mister man’ ‘mr needypants’ ‘luffy’ ‘bastard man’ ‘baby’ or ‘tiny little baby boy’ #‘old man’ ‘sassypants’ ‘monkey bunkey’ ‘jerkface’

[mamamittens]

I have a petty hero goal now that I think we should all aspire to.

May we all one day be half as petty as Garbo the WWII spy who was so good at his job he received the highest honor award from both the British Government and Hitler himself (while acting as a double spy against Nazi Germany and wasn't found out until decades later).

And it all started with Garbo legit just fucking with the Nazi Germans into thinking he was a Spain politician living in London. Because fuck them, that's why.

#thanks wendigoon for this #legit recommend him btw hes funny and has really funny historical stories #man rolled nat 20 his whole career and it shows #garbo not wendigoon but wendigoon is also pretty great #he just has an unhealthy addiction to health nut cereal

[animebubblebaths]

Eat-Man episode 1 (1997)

#bubble bath #eat-man #culenne garbo #clawfoot bathtub #bath #anime

[energon-goodies]

getting back into dead by daylight was a fun idea in theory until I discovered just how much had changed via the hard way instead of uhhhh reading the patch notes lol

#lukan runs her mouth #the adrenaline rush of uhhh running for my mcfuckin life #its great man #and doin that with a friend makes it more fun (: #anyway some of these perk reworks r garbo and i dont like it 😭

[happypineappleart]

#garbo #garbage man #tripps and falls like bebe #so stinky #corvax #muzzy in gondoland #clara cat #oc

[khlur]

one of my strangest moments last yr happened when i was quarantined alone after catching covid. was soooo down bad for a kpop boy that i tweeted recent (at the time) teaser and fanmeet pics of him alongside paragraph-by-paragraph screenshots of barthes' 'the face of garbo'

#iirc my takeaway was that this kpop man's face was an event like hepburn's not an idea like garbo's