#unicorn rambles

[goldenunicornmaster]

So we see Wukong in this lovely cape

Which was worn by Jin at the start of this episode. But Yin also has a cape

And I think Macaque could 100% pull it off

I mean look at the spikes

#I just made the cape connection after rewatching the first episode #idk how I missed it when I watched the Chinese one earlier #I just think the hero and the warrior should wear matching capes #lego monkie kid #lego monkie kid season 4 #lmk #lmk spoilers #Lego monkie kid season 4 spoilers #lmk sun wukong #unicorn rambles

[piracyandpumpturns]

cishet self-love and queer/genderqueer self-love r so inherently different & i don’t have the words to talk about it but someone should

#here is your free space #go! #gay kid posting gay shit #unicorn rambles

[puppyeared]

learned something about myself lately

#i dont think its even the fact almost all my characters are somewhat beasts in one way or another. i just #really like tails and wish i had one myself #and then my oc designs are a little tame theyre mostly human shaped with animal features. but they always have tails #my eyes have recently been opened to the appeal of long whiplike unicorn tails.. so flowy and curly #something about the tuft at the end being long and swirly just does something for me.. #maybe it would make sense to change auggies tail shape so it looks like a meteor. her design is mainly pink with hot pink accent #so it would be cool to use that and orange to make it look like a fire meteor.. maybe itll help complement the blue/green in her design #head full of ocs today so expect a ramble later #if i had a tail i think it would be long with a kink. so it kind of folds over once but not in a curl #when it wags its kind of a swaying motion. i have thought about this a normal amount #yapping

[cadaverkeys]

Unicorn hunting illustration for class

#rambles #seerdoesart #ocs #oc #the unicorn hunting girl and the unicorn both don't have names yet :( #feel free to suggest #unicorn could be a girl or a boy or neither. i dont now

[lunarlilygarden]

Me and the gang not knowing what we're doing in our group project:

#cookie run #cookie run kingdom #crk #last cookie standing #espresso cookie #madeleine cookie #tea knight cookie #rye cookie #gelato trio cookie #milky way cookie #caramel arrow cookie #affogato cookie #cream unicorn cookie #dreamy rambles

[enzo-rambles]

They are my favorites besides my son gingerBrave

Matching pfp for you guys or something idk

#enzo rambles #art #fanart #crk #crk shadow milk cookie #crk cream unicorn cookie #crk licorice cookie #licorice cookie #shadow milk cookie #cream unicorn cookie #licorice crk #shadow milk crk #cream unicorn crk #gingerbrave cookie #gingerbrave #crk gingerBrave

[filmydust]

spanish-french animated films that hurt me in every way

#unicorn wars #robot dreams #scout's rambles

[shirecorn]

Have you ever read/watched The Last Unicorn?

I watched that religiously as a young child! Later on I read it and the epilogue/sequel, Two Hearts, which is in a shorts anthology The Line Between by the author, Peter S. Beagle. It was worth reading, but the other shorts were actually much better, especially Salt Wine. The last unicorn is sososososo important to me and who I became.

The Last Unicorn taught me and my siblings how to peel potatoes. It's very important

I've researched documentaries, interviews, and articles about the last unicorn, I wrote essays about it for school, and I ended up obsessing over all things unicorns for several years. I got really into medieval tapestries from The Hunt of the Unicorn, and then jumped around from series to series consuming all the unicorn media I could find. Of course I read The unicorns of Balinor, though I always had a problem with black unicorns with red eyes being evil. they sounded cool and goth to me. Red eyed black unicorn for president.

There was another series that I can't find for the life of me, but it had the most beautiful illustrations. I remember unicorns could go between our world and theirs, but when they came here they would remove their horn and could play it like a flute. The problem in the unicorn world was crystals growing over all the unicorn eyes, rendering them blind, but they were healed in the end by rubbing melted gold in their eyes. It might have been The Unicorn Chronicles but I can't find anything about the parts I remember, nor the illustrations.

Thanks to people in the replies, it was The Unicorn Sonata, also by peter s beagle. My man can write!

There was this one book I read over and over again that was an anthology of unicorn stories and book excerpts, including the last book of Narnia, which got me hyped up but in the end Jewel's screentime was disappointing. One of the stories had unicorn horns ground up to create medicine, another dancing among glowing flowers at night. The illustrations for that book were so important.

I dearly love unicorns, always have. I even convinced my "unicorns are magic and magic is evil" mom to stop cutting the horns off our unicorn toys by telling her that ancient tapestries and medieval bestiaries created unicorns as a representation of Jesus (how true that is is up for debate) which I learned from walking to the library and spending all day there in a pile of unicorn books.

It's been so many years since I have seen The Last Unicorn. It feels sacred, like I don't dare look at it. Not because I could break it, but because it might break me. Watching Molly Grue from the comfort of childhood shields you from "Where were you when I was new?"

When I am this.

I don't know about you but I think my heart would break

#the last unicorn #ask #shire screams #ramble machine #unicorn

[gremoria411]

How to get into Gundam

Because fuck it, I was gonna do one of these sooner or later anyway.

So you want to know what this Gundam thing’s about, maybe you like the mecha design, maybe you caught part of an episode one time and want to catch up, or maybe you saw a nice piece of Chamuro fanart and want to go to the source.

But there’s so many shows and timelines that it can be quite daunting on first look, so this guide is intended to give a rough overview.

I would however like to stress two four things beforehand however:

This guide is not intended as “The One True Way” or anything. There’s no harm it coming into it a different way, and these are only my own opinions.

There’s nothing stopping you from just watching one show and leaving it there. You don’t have to watch every single show going, even I’ve only seen most of these, not all. Gundam typically has variations on similar themes - it’s very nice watching multiple shows because they complement one another, but it’s not necessarily required.

I am very much an insider looking out here, so let me know if there’s any details I’ve missed.

I’m not gonna recommend these on a “if you like X, then watch Y basis”, mostly because I don’t personally find genre recommendations helpful, so I’d recommend picking based on promotional material (vibes, if you will).

I’ll be using this chart, supplied by the excellent@l-crimson-l, to illustrate everything.

Gundam as a whole can principally be divided into three sections: Universal Century (or UC), the Alternate Universes (AU’s) and the Build Series.

The AU’s are below the light blue line, near the bottom of the Chart, the Build Series is within the bright green line at the top-right corner of the chart and UC is the big line in the middle. We’ll talk about each of them individually.

The AU’s

The Alternate Universes were conceived as a way to get away from the continuity-heavy nature of Universal Century and provide an easy jumping-on point for new fans. The AU’s are standalone and require no prior knowledge, and are thus an excellent place to start. Honestly, I’d recommend quickly searching some promotional materials (like posters) and just going with the one you find most appealing based on that. They are (in production order):

Mobile Fighter G Gundam (1994)

New Mobile Report Gundam Wing (1995)

After War Gundam X (1996)

Turn A Gundam (1999)

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002)

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (2007)

Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (2011)

Gundam: Reconguista in G (2014)

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans (2015)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury (2022)

There’s side series and movies and other things besides, but these are the mainline shows, if you will. I have specific notes on a few of them:

Witch From Mercury - It’s of a shorter length than is usual for mainline shows, so consequently it’s a much smaller time investment than the others.

Mobile Fighter G Gundam - While undeniably rad as hell, I would recommend watching another AU first. G Gundam differs from its stablemates in a few key areas, and I find it helps to have a contrast to fully appreciate those differences.

Gundam AGE - is probably the only one I wouldn’t recommend. I didn’t like the art style and the technical explanations just got on my nerves, so I stopped watching.

Turn A and G-Reconguista are technically part of UC as well, but it’s not really crucial information so don’t feel like you have to watch UC first (I’m only including this detail for completionism).

I’ve found all the AU’s I’ve seen to be pretty good, so I’d say that which one you start with really just comes down to personal taste.

The Build Series

Is just kind of doing its own thing. The Build series is basically Buy Our Toys: the series. It’s got a far lighter tone, and I’ve had cause to compare it to pokemon prior. It’s also chock full of references and in-jokes to the other series.

Build Fighters and Build Fighters Try are the ones I’d recommend - they’ve got actual stakes and the fight scenes are really good.

Build Divers and Build Divers Re:rise I can’t recommend - I just find Build Divers aggressively boring. Build Divers Re:Rise is just okay - neither standout good or particularly bad. Its main flaw is that it’s a sequel to Build Divers.

The OVA’s are pretty much bad across the board - I’d particularly recommend avoiding Gundam Build Metaverse.

Universal Century

Universal Century is the big main timeline of Gundam, and is the timeline the original Mobile Suit Gundam from 1979 takes place in. There’s a tendency among certain fans to place UC as the one-above-all of Gundam, but I wouldn’t really go that far. It’s all pretty good, but I wouldnt really say one timeline is better than another (save personal preference, anyway).

Because UC is so big, it can be subdivided a couple times. The primary division is “Mainline” UC versus everything else. Basically there’s four-five shows in Universal Century from which everything else flows. As long as you know roughly what happens in these shows, then you can watch basically anything else in UC and have a good idea of what’s going on. These are (in order):

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) - sometimes called Mobile Suit Gundam 0079.

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985)

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986)

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack (1988)

With Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2010) as a nominal fifth (honestly I feel like you could argue either way).

The rest of the shows are:

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (1989 Three-Episode OVA)

Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991 Movie)

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991 Thirteen-episode OVA)

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (1993)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (1999 Twelve-episode OVA)

G-Saviour (2000 Live Action Movie) - nobody ever talks about or acknowledges this one, it’s just here for completionism.

Mobile Suit Gundam MS Igloo (2004-2009 Three OVA’s with three Episodes each)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (2015 Six-Episode OVA, adapted from the Manga of the same name)

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt (2015 Eight-Episode Series, adapted from the Manga of the same name)

Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight Axis (2017 episode, adapted from a light novel of the same name. Later rereleased as Gundam Twilight Axis Red Trace, with additional footage)

Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative (2018 sequel movie to Gundam Unicorn)

Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (2021 ongoing movie series, very much adapted from the novel Hathaway’s Flash)

Most of the other series relate to events in the aforementioned “mainline” shows in some way, but a lot of the sidestories set during the One Year War require very little introduction (Thunderbolt, 0080 and 08th MS Team). Similarly, works set in “Late UC” (F91 and Victory Gundam) carry on from the other series thematically but don’t have any plot connections, so they can all be watched without any background knowledge of the rest of the Universal Century.

Compilation Movies

Just a quick note here - many of the Gundam series have compilation movies, where either a whole series or part of one are compressed down into a movie. While each movie compares differently, they usually boil down to this: Compilation Movies usually have worse pacing, but really nice animation.

One of the great things about Gundam is that different shows offer variations on themes, so seeing how different characters react to similar situations, or how different settings change their approaches can make it incredibly rewarding.

I haven’t seen enough of SD Gundam to make any sort of recommendations there, and Manga is something I might touch on another day.

EDIT: Oh hey also: You can watch a good chunk of these on YouTube, for free, officially. The Official Gundam.Info YouTube channel rotates the series shown on its channel periodically. I think it’s got F91 and SEED on there currently? But it’s had Wing, 00 and Witch From Mercury before. Also all of the Build Fighters series are there.

So yeah, that’s a thing.

#gundam #ramblings #mobile suit Gundam #Gundam 0079 #char aznable #amuro ray #mobile suit zeta Gundam #mobile suit Gundam ZZ #char’s counterattack #Gundam unicorn #mobile fighter g Gundam #Gundam wing #Gundam seed #Gundam seed destiny #after war gundam x #turn a Gundam #Gundam ZZ #zeta Gundam #Gundam narrative #Gundam igloo #Gundam 0080 #Gundam the 08th ms team #Gundam origin #g Gundam #Gundam F91 #Gundam g-witch #Gundam iron blooded orphans #the witch from mercury #Gundam reconguista in G #that’s all the tags I can fit

[l3viat8an]

imagine that demons can turn into the animal that they're associated with (if they have one). barbatos comes in to tell dia to do his work, but finds an enormous dragon sleeping protectively around a little sheep

Barbatos isn’t even surprised, he just chuckles to himself and takes a few photos for himself and MC to look back on later.

If Diavolo gets a copy he’s setting it as his lock-screen!

#this would mean Satan can turn into a unicorn #…….that could be fun!- jshkssh #obey me! #anon! #om! #obmswd #obey me #obey me diavolo #ro rambles #obey me imagines

[shadowy-suitcase-herring-neck]

Unicorn AU??? Unicorn AU Lore??? Or is it more for the silly(or specific inspiration moments) vibes?

I made it because i thought maybe i should try makeing an au based around a different mythical creature than dragons :) (i don't think my doppelganger au counts) I actually made it awhile back and never really posted it I don't think other than showing it to a few friends. BUT IT DOES have lore :D ✨ The au is based around The guardians (Dream, Nightmare, Ink, and technically Error, and also Reaper and Life) being alicorns (i wanted them to have wings-) They can go full horse mode if they wanted too but most of the time they are just skeletal satyr alicorn things. If a guardian claims mortals to help them in their duties the mortal is changed to a "unicorn". just whenever i say unicorn in this just assume i'm talking about skele unicorn satyr (i don't want to keep calling them that.) Their magic is greatly enhanced as are physical abilities. Along with now never ageing and being just more durable than the average mortal. Also they don't need to sleep as often, Mostly only when they use a lot of energy. Ink and Error don't have any mortals that help them with their jobs But Dream has technically claimed Blue and nightmare of course has the gang. Blue joined the star sanses before Nightmare made the gang officially. (Nightmare did have a few interactions with some of the gang members beforehand. mostly just him being drawn by the negative emotions and in Dust's case he appeared in one of his nightmares. )

Blue got unicorned before the gang. Dream was understandably panicked. Ink just assumed Dream already knew this happened to mortals that he claimed to help him. Although it is a mystery how Ink knew in the first place tbh. If ya'll want to know more about the Stars, Nm gang,or anyone else mentioned in this you can ask specifically :) if i put it all in one post it would get far too long.

#herrings rambles #herrings mailbox #unicorn au #undertale au #utmv

[goldenunicornmaster]

Gonna make my Christmas dreams come true and have a train around the Christmas tree. I’m digging out Thomas

#unicorn rambles #it’s happening #christmas #thomas the tank engine

[piracyandpumpturns]

there is a stage between accepting yourself as gay and accepting yourself as queer & it is almost undeniably the most vulnerable one imo

#gay kid posting gay shit #unicorn rambles #kinda

[quietwingsinthesky]

the last unicorn post from earlier has me thinking about the master. that yana is still in there, you know? is still someone he was, if even for a brief flash across the life of a time lord. there’s no way to unlive that life. there are ways to twist it later, sure, to make utopia into hell on earth. but the life was lived. in much the same way that the doctor can remember, can feel, the love he held onto as john smith even as that life is ripped out of his hands. the doctor choose denial and then grief and then to shutter it all away. and so john smith died, and so professor yana died, and the doctor and the master live on. the doctor has done this before, and he lives in orbit around humanity, trying to keep the best parts of them and hold them deep enough to take root (which he can pretend he gets to choose, as a time lord. as a human, it all floods in and can’t be dug back out.) but what about the master, right?

to borrow a turn of phrase: i think there are two time lords left in the universe, and they both learned how to regret.

#regret here meaning less feeling the emotion of actual regret obviously because time lords do not actually funxtion on unicorn rules. they #already get sad just fine on their own. no humanity needed for that. #but i dont know. i just dont think he brushed it off so easily. i think he did a hell of a job convincing himself he did. #and what better way then to twist his own great works and destroy the species he was working so hard to save at the end of the universe. #but what about the knowledge that he *could* be that person. that somewhere in him exists a version that wanted to save people. #a version that is painfully too much like the doctor. even. now is that part worse or better than the human part? #but if past regenerations are ghosts i think yana deserves a haunt. #anyway maybe ignore this one im rambling about nothing here #theres just. i dont know. what if you were the last of your kind and in surviving you made yourself Not Like Them in a way you’ll never #escape. #i mean doctor who is just so concerned with all these plots about hybrids and children of the tardis and clones and What Makes A Time Lord. #but they’re so obsessed with it in just. a very Lore way. is what it feels like. we get brushes of more like with jenny and how she’s #physically a time lord and the doctor denies her that inheritance. a shared suffering… #but me myself im just fascinated with the doctor and the master as the time lords who survived. but they survived Wrong #its. its. children of gallifrey that don’t belong to her anymore. you know? #i dont care if river’s got time lord dna!!! or the metacrisis is physically human!!! i dont care!!! talk to me about what it means beyond #their blood and bones!!! what’s it like to have your sense of self stripped from you like that!!! #what’s it like when so much of you is the shed skin of time lords past. but one of you was human. one of you was painfully *humiliatingly* #human!!! #enough about how much dna you need to count as a time lord. i want to know how much they can mutate until they can’t be recognized as one. #does that make sense?

[imagionary]

Car doodles; I guess women were on my mind xD

(Unfinished Belle doodle under cut)

#Misty found Chip's old moose plushie #I think he'd let her keep it since she's the kind of person to hug stuffed animals while trying to sleep or when sad #BIG MARY HUG!! SHE MISSED YOU MISTY!! SORRY YOU'RE BACK! #Belle likes having her teatime with Holly every Thursday #Just a day for the two to chit chat about things; like how has Holly been feeling; how was her day or week; etc #ttcc #toontown corporate clash #toontown: corporate clash #imagionary rambles #ttcc au #belle dama #mouthpiece #holly grayelle #gatekeeper #misty monsoon #rainmaker #mary anna #deepdiver #winnie giddiyup #unicorn wrangler

[nikibogwater]

My hyperfixation of the week is Borealopelta markmitchelli, and I need all of my followers to know about it right now:

This little cutie is an 18-ft long, 3.9 ton dinosaur that was so perfectly preserved you can make out each individual scale on its hide. You can see the leathery creases on the palm of its foot. I can clearly picture this thing breathing and moving and snuffling around in the bushes with that adorable little snoot. I cannot overstate how utterly THRILLED I am just knowing that a specimen like this exists, and that there could be more like it waiting for us out there. The world is beautiful and amazing and also freakin' hardcore, I mean look at those spikes, this thing was an actual living dragon.

There's a presentation from Dr. Caleb Brown of the Royal Tyrell Museum going over all the absolutely insane stuff we've been able to learn from this one specimen and if you are anything like me and wish to have a real-life ancient monster living in your head rent-free for several days on end, I highly recommend giving it a watch on YouTube.

#niki rambles #science #paleontology #few know this about me but when i'm not dreaming about unicorns and fairy boys #i'm ruminating on ancient creatures who existed long before us