what if i wrote an essay about how the way the nimona movie is in conversation with the original comic. about the shift in dynamic between ballister and nimona from gen x-millennial to millennial-gen z. how the themes and conflicts explored in the story were changed as a result. and how every aspect of the movie was painstakingly adapted to perfectly communicate the new perspective and message. what if.
Yeah sure growing up abused may have left me with permanent scars on my psychological state that I'm still working to unpack, but on the bright side it gave me the ability to give a thoughtful in depth analysis of Roald Dahl's Matilda and all of its adaptations
trying to piece together the residents of this goddamned ship through the barest of hints
the man who found vash 70 years ago i think was Sensei's father(?) considering there's an old pic of
This. that hair matches the hair of the man who found vash & also the face
and it being 70 years ago & this man already looking in his 30s or so, he'd be VERY old for being Sensei.
i also 100% missed the fact that Sensei did.. die...
this being the last time we see him (i think), among the group of ppl that were turned into puppets. which i didnt really register my last read, but it absolutely would mean he was dead, bc that dude made his puppets out of corpses.
Luida just straight up not answering about Sensei's fate
and then Vash seeing Sensei's face among this dream(?) of People Who Died (which was the first time i'd realized he was maybe not alive, RIP)
haven't read it in a hot minute but my recollections follow thus
liked
that scene with bianca in the lotus hotel.... augugahug. i miss bianca. i wanna see more of her. please
dionysus being a chill guy. and he's eating popcorn. he deserves it
disliked
its so romance-focused.. which i guess is The Point of that book but. not what i was hoping for, not what i was looking for..
it doesn't fit my taste which is not a fair standard for anything Remotely unbiased but this post is biased so i shall continue. there were a number of tropes that i've seen before and poignantly dislike. the cutesy romancey bits felt a little dull to me
I had to look up Ravus' official birthday for reasons - which, by the way, it doesn't seem he has one????? - and I'm reminded that his Dossier is listed under Niflheim and not Tenebrae because this man gave up everything, including his very identity, to try and protect his sister, and in the end he couldn't even do that.
sorry if you've answered this question before but what sexualities do you headcanon sokeefitz as? also maybe their gender identities too
i haven't gotten asked this before, no worries!
it really depends on if it's an au and what au for the specifics, but there are some headcanons i have that are pretty consistent: keefe and sophie being bisexual, and fitz being aro-spec, especially demiromantic. i don't picture fitz liking labels a lot though, since he's been put in boxes his whole life and hates it, so in multiple of my au's he simply labels himself as queer. no further elaboration, because he doesn't owe it to anyone and thinking hard about strictly defining himself gives him anxiety.
for gender identities - that's even more dependent on whether or not it's an au, and what au. both demigirl (she/they) and nonbinary (they/them) sophie hold special places in my heart. in terms of canon, demigirl would probably fit better, but nonbinary sophie owns my heart.
i personally headcanon fitz to be that one chill cis (verified) guy that's just along for the ride, listening and awkwardly patting shoulders when someone rambles to him about a gender crisis and just. trying his best to understand. usually he just asks if the person in question wants ripplefluffs to munch on something sweet while losing their mind.
with keefe, i go back and forth with a lot. honestly the way i headcanon keefe's gender is conceptually similar to the way i currently view my gender - i go back and forth about whether or not keefe is cis, or genderfluid, or even bigender. (for me, i question whether or not i'm cis or genderqueer lol.) most of the time, when i write fics with keefe in them, keefe's a cis guy, but i dunno man. keefe's got those vibes where i can't tell if it's funky gender expression or funky gender. we love keefe either way tho <33
i really hate to be rewatching this show just to compare it to s3 like truly i just want some wonder and whimsy in my life again as a break from being a hater, but still, rewatching s1 is really just reminding of WHY im disliking s3 so much
so a relatively minor thing about s3 that has nonetheless been irking me is how weird and unnatural and stilted the dialogue is. it just feels so flat and empty. and even the way pedro is voiceacting for din just makes him so monotone and flat - and im not even blaming pedro for like, bad acting or anything, im blaming the direction because the same thing is evident in the written dialogue itself, and obv pedro has been doing fine before this. but overall both the written dialogue and the voiceacting makes din just have like.. no personality whatsoever.
and then contrast it with s1. din really is generally a monotone, minimal words kinda guy, even back in the beginning, but he still had a personality despite that. its the way he said those minimal words that delivered that personality, like theres still the subtle emotion behind everything that really endears you to him and makes the monotone quality like, less of Oh No, Protag Has No Personality, and more of an actual TRAIT of his personality
just listen to this scene! he speaks pretty flatly but its more in a gruff detached way, and he still emotes underneath it which shows his impatience and resignation! he emphasizes words and changes his cadence to stress things, and just overall the way he says “you understand? great.” i dont get this feeling from anything in s3 so far its like din is just Saying Words to keep the show rolling and nothing else, no more subtle characterization and subtle emoting. Sighs
i dont know if im wording this right but just overall the line delivery is so different and so much better in s1 and i cannot believe s3 is so bad so far its got me marveling over the most basic ass shit, like full on writing essays about a random 40 second scene like this
I could go to bed at a reasonable hour, but why would I do that when I could stay up and make myself sad over characters that I made up literally 5 minutes ago instead
i wuv the song of achilles and how it has the ability to have sentences that Hit Me Like A Truck... i made a comic about it but i really started crying on public transport at the line 'when achilles died all things swift and beautiful and bright would be buried with him'
The funny thing is that I remember how much I struggled with the title for the fourth chapter of "Was Born To Lead" (A New Beginning) and was never quite satisfied with it, but now, I realize it does make sense, considering I actually began to write a completely new story with this chapter.
i love picking apart concepts/characters/worlds until i understand every intricate part of them...what makes them tick, what shaped them, what they currently value contrasted with what they once were, and so on. it's so satisfying learning a character especially, figuring out their different mindsets and justifications for what they do and understanding their limits and vulnerabilites and...just eventually knowing them like the back of your hand, at different significant stages in their lives/the story. i know it on occasion reads as 'over'analysis, but i really do love it.