#and STICKING WITH IT to the very damn end

[loversrocktvgirl2]

Hi Mari!!<3

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What about my usual req of characters (+anyone you want!! :3) w/ an s/o who plays violent fantasy games (ex. The Witcher, Skyrim, Baldur's Gate 3...) or is js a good gamer if you dont want specifics lmao<3<3<3

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Please please please take your time witj this cuz you matter first and foremost!!!! Eat something, drink water, nap, etc.!!!<3<3<3<3<3

Hope you have a good day/evening!!!<3<3<3

*noms you lovingly<3<3*

okay okayyyyy

so i would like to preface this by saying—

i do not really play video games. BUT! i thought this was super cute and so i wrote this for you, i hope you like it!!

my mini multiverse of madness…

Gamer Headcannons (Tony, Steve, Bucky, John, Bob)

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Tony 

Why do I feel like Tony is probably obscenely good at video games—

Like y’all get insanely competitive with each other and can caught up playing video games with each other for hours, just completely wrapped up in the competition together. 

I don’t care if it’s a Nintendo Gamecube version of Mario Kart or Star Craft II, y’all are insane. 

Anyway yeah nobody wants to play with either of you two 

You invited the Avengers last week, and they were shook. 

Video games are one of your favorite bonding activities with each other. You verbally spar, there’s plenty of raucous laughter and banter and you just have the best time with him. 

At the end of it, all is forgiven and you can go back to being your normal selves but the second you both get controllers in your hands, it is game on and Tony is going DOWN.

Steve 

Steve is oh so adorably confused by video games, and while he tries his hardest, he is horrible at playing them. He is, however, very impressed by you and your abilities and he loves watching you play. 

Steve is in the habit of going to the library every week, returning a book and getting a new one, so oftentimes, he’ll sit and read his book beside you, occasionally stopping to watch you play. 

He likes falling asleep on the couch with his head in your lap as you play, content to be so close to you. You love your little cuddle bug and how easy going he is, how willing he is to just join in on your favorite things in any way that he knows how to. 

You do plenty of other things besides gaming too, of course, but it’s a good evening activity and you both make it a priority every Friday night.

Bucky 

Bucky was really confused at first, similar to Steve. Nothing like this existed during the forties. The difference between Bucky and Steve though, was that Bucky got good at it. And now he plays with you. 

Sure, you’re a lot better at it than he is, but he has gotten pretty damn good, actually.

Bucky prefers simpler games—the original Sonic, Nintendo Gamecube, that kind of thing. It feels slightly more familiar to him and it just feels more comfortable for him. 

You’re pretty relaxed about it, so when you play with him, you try to stick to simpler games. Bucky really likes Street Fighter, so y’all love playing that together. 

Overall, it’s definitely not the kind of date that you and Bucky have, but it’s a staple of your week, especially once you move in together. You’re always happy to play games with him and spend your time together that way, and you appreciate his ability to meet you where you’re at. 

John

Ohhhh, boy. 

John is way too damn good at video games.

He grew up with them, he plays them all of the time, and once the two of you both realized that it was something you both liked, you began playing them together a lot. 

It’s not uncommon for either of you to play a game without the other, but you play together a lot too, and you like talking about your playthroughs together. It’s an easy, reliable conversation starter and it’s a common denominator for both of you. 

Y’all got really into more story-based games as well, like Until Dawn and The Quarry. 

Basically, y’all will play everything and anything together, and your Christmas gifts for each other are almost always new video games. 

You spend the rest of Christmas day in overly cheery holiday pajamas, cuddled up with blankets and controllers in your hands. 

Bob

Bob does not like violent video games. He doesn’t like how desensitized people are to it, either, so you’re careful not to play anything like Call of Duty so as to not upset him. 

He does, however, like some video games, and he is more than happy to play with you. 

Oftentimes though, Bob elects to watch you play instead, crocheting or doing chores or reading or just laying beside you, watching the television. 

He likes to listen to you talk about it, tell him strategies or about characters or really just anything, he likes to hear you talk and likes to listen. 

Bob has gotten into making bread recently, so the two of you like spending Saturday mornings on the couch, Bob getting up every thirty minutes to stretch and fold his dough before returning to his designated spot beside you.

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[gav-san]

“No Takebacks" 6

Masterlist here

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One Piece Masterlist Here

"The Good Doctor" Word Count: 1.5 K+

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5

Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10

They come for you in the night. Not loud. Not theatrical. Just efficient, brutal, and absolutely personal.

You don’t see who tipped them off—maybe a contact turned sour, maybe someone you out-negotiated in a port full of liars and limp excuses—but they’re waiting when you close the ledgers, just outside the flickering lamplight of your rented room.

You fight. Of course you do. You get a few good hits in, too. Break one man’s nose with the heavy corner of a ledger. Stab another with a very fine (and now bent) fountain pen.

But in the end, numbers win.

They bag your head. Tie your wrists. Drag you across the stone like you’re an animal.

And then they beat you.

Hard.

Not enough to kill you—yet—but enough to make you spit blood and stars. You’re on your side, struggling to breathe through cracked ribs and ringing ears, when a boot presses against your back.

“That’s what you get for working with pirates,” someone spits.

You cough once, painfully. “That’s what you get… for using the same rag on your blade and your boots.”

A pause.

Then another boot slams into your ribs. Your breath shatters.

“You’ve got jokes, rat.”

You smile. Blood sticks to your teeth. “You’ve got gingivitis.”

The third hit nearly blacks you out.

You wake up—barely—tied to a post in a rotting warehouse. Every inch of you aches. Your head throbs like a war drum. You can taste iron. You’re dizzy, broken, bleeding. And furious.

Because their rope work is sloppy, their hideout smells. And not one of them had the decency to rinse the blood off their hands before wiping it on their pants.

Slobs.

You mutter, hoarse and shaking, “If I die here… I’m going to haunt your linens.”

They don’t even laugh. Just grunt. Watch. One of them kicks over a basin of water like he’s making a point.

You glare up through one blackening eye. “That was your last clean water source.”

Another hit. This one to the face.

You slump. You don’t scream.

But the next time they reach for you, you don’t flinch either. You just whisper, “You missed a spot.”

And you smile.

Because you know someone is coming.

And when the Red Force does come? When that red-haired captain storms the warehouse like a damn hurricane with Benn at his back and a sword in his hand.

You’ll survive this.

And they won’t.

Because if there’s one thing you know about the Red Force, it’s that they are alarmingly territorial over the woman they’ve unofficially declared their den mother, emotional support adult, and reluctant HR department.

You once confiscated three swords, a barrel of gunpowder, and a love letter written in blood before breakfast; and they still act like you’re the only reason the ship hasn’t sunk or exploded from sheer dumbass energy.

So when someone threatens you? Oh, they don’t take that personally. They take that as a group project.

He does come.

You hear him before you see him; distant shouting, a panicked clatter of boots on rotted floorboards, the unmistakable crash of someone’s skull meeting a wall at speed. Your captors freeze. One drops his weapon. Another bolts. The rest scramble like rats who’ve just realized the ship is on fire.

The door slams open.

Framed in broken light, soaked with rain and fury, stands Shanks.

Not smiling. Not joking. Not charming.

Just dangerous.

Sword drawn. Hair soaked to his jaw. One red cape hanging half-off his shoulder like a warning.

You’ve never seen him like this before. And in your haze of blood and exhaustion, you almost laugh.

Because now he wears clean sandals.

His eyes lock on you. His grin doesn’t come. His jaw clenches instead.

And then the room erupts.

You don’t catch all of it, too dazed, too broken. But you hear screaming. Wood splitting. Someone begging.

And then it’s quiet.

Sandaled feet—clean ones, you note fuzzily—thud closer. You tilt your chin, stubborn to the last, even as your ribs scream.

He kneels. Gentle. One hand brushes the blood from your cheek like it’s sacred.

“Don’t,” you rasp, voice barely there. “Don’t make a stupid joke. I swear.”

He doesn’t.

He just stares at you like you’re the only person in the world and his world is burning.

“You’re late,” you add hoarsely. “I got hit five times. And one of them… had terrible hygiene.”

Now he smiles. Barely. A sliver of warmth under the storm. “I got the one who smelled like fish paste.”

You nod, dizzy. “Good. He stepped on my coat.”

Benn appears behind him with a blade dripping and a medic kit in hand. “We found them all. No survivors.”

“Even the one who used the dirty rag?” you croak.

“Especially that one,” Benn confirms.

Shanks cuts your ropes with a single flick of his sword. You collapse forward into him, and his arms catch you like you were always supposed to fall that way.

He doesn’t let go.

Not for a long, long time.

And when you finally regain enough strength to speak again, you mutter, “This doesn’t mean I’m joining your crew.”

His chest shakes with quiet laughter.

“I know,” he murmurs into your hair. “But you’re still mine.”

When you wake up fully—patched, stitched, and pumped full of something you’re fairly certain came from Benn’s private stash, you’re aboard the Red Force again. Not by choice. 

Sigh.

This time, though, your bunk is spotless.

Sheets fresh. Towels folded. Someone actually swept.

You sit up slowly, groaning, and stare at the immaculate corner shelf where your belongings have been gently placed. Your satchel’s even been dusted.

You narrow your eyes.

“Who cleaned in here?” you croak.

From the doorway, Yasopp pokes his head in. “Oh—Hongo did an inspection. Said we had to sanitize everything before bringing you aboard.”

You blink. “Who?”

Yasopp grins like it’s good gossip. “Our new doctor. Joined while you were, uh… temporarily unconscious.”

You pause. “You got a doctor.”

“Yeah! Real serious guy. Sharp as a scalpel. Scared Lucky Roux into washing his hands.”

You stare at him in dead silence.

“You cleaned… for Hongo.”

Yasopp nods proudly. “Deck’s spotless. Galley smells like vinegar. We found the source of that mystery smell under the helm—it was a shoe. We burned it.”

Your eye twitches.

You threatened to burn this ship. You weaponized bleach. You introduced them to the concept of mop rotation and towel hooks and basic fungal prevention protocols.

And they ignored you.

But one doctor joins, with a clipboard and a glare, and suddenly they’re all model citizens in a floating clinic.

You lie back on the clean pillow, offended to your core.

Moments later, Benn leans into the room, eyebrow raised. “You’re awake. How’re you feeling?”

“Betrayed.”

He blinks. “You were nearly beaten to death. We rescued you.”

“Yes. And you cleaned for the new guy.”

There’s a pause. Then:

“…You want us to dirty it up again?”

You look at him like you might start stabbing people with thermometers.

“No,” you say icily. “I want my respect retroactively applied.”

From the hallway, you hear Shanks call cheerfully, “Tell her I wore underwear today!”

You scream into your pillow.

This crew will be the death of you.

Probably by mildew.

You meet Hongo two hours later.

He enters the infirmary without knocking, clipboard in hand, long coat perfectly pressed, surgical gloves already on.

He takes one look at you, propped up on clean sheets, arms crossed, judgment radiating, and says, “Vitals first. Complaints later.”

You blink.

He doesn’t wait for permission. Just strides in and begins checking your pulse with calm, efficient fingers like you’re one of many stubborn patients he’ll be dealing with before lunch.

“You’re the one who cleaned the galley,” you say flatly.

“Yes.”

“You burned the sock nest in the helm closet.”

“Yes.”

“You made them install working bathrooms.”

He finally looks at you. Calm, unflinching. “Of course I did. I’m not running a floating plague ship.”

You stare at him.

For the first time in a long while, you feel a flicker of kinship.

Begrudging. Unspoken. Based entirely on hygiene, order, and your mutual hatred of pirate filth.

“...You got Lucky Roux to wash his hands,” you murmur.

“I threatened to shave his eyebrows.”

You nod. Slowly. “Respect.”

“Yours are next if you don’t eat more than three crackers a day.”

“…Yes sir.”

By the week’s end, you’re not friends, but you’ve reached an understanding.

You don’t insult his medicine cabinet, and he doesn’t question the disinfectant holster you wear like a gun belt.

You catch him once installing a rotating sanitation chart. You stand beside him silently for a full minute before muttering, “I tried. They laughed at me.”

“They still laugh at me,” he replies. “But they flush now.”

You look at him with the quiet awe of someone who’s met a survivor.

“...You’re doing God’s work.”

“No,” he says dryly. “I’m doing a sailor’s job with a captain who thinks rum is a food group.”

You almost smile.

Almost.

Then Shanks walks by barefoot and tries to wink at you.

Hongo hurls a bar of soap at his head.

You decide you might actually like him.

[godofallfanfictionandmemes]

I know I haven’t written in a while but I’ve finally got my motivation back (or part of it at least)

So we gonna be doing

Elliot X Moth like reader

The readers pronouns in this are what ever you want em to be (I chose a microwave :] )

How you ended up in the realm of Forsaken is a mystery that will never be solved you’re basically an average robloxian except you look like a moth you got really nice wings,gorgeous black eyes,fluffy fur (very god damn fluffy) and a desire for light and you can only speak in chirps

The other survivors always have to watch you just in case you accidentally wander off and accidentally get yourself killed because you seen a light. The survivor that usually has to watch you the most would be Elliot though at first he was skeptical and was initially confused by you he has tried to start conversation with you on numerous occasions but uh you can’t really speak you can only make little chirps in response since you kinda have a thing for light he always keeps a little glow stick or light on him to make sure you follow him he does occasionally heal you cause oh no you accidentally ran into 1x and ended up trying to touch his glowing eye which she didn’t like all in all he thinks you’re kinda adorable and likes having you near him

Headcannon time 🕰️

• isn’t too big on the ol PDA does hold your hand tho to make sure you don’t wander off

• you always try repay him like saving him from a killer or giving him a medkit stuff like that he really appreciates it

• let’s say yous are dating whenever you aren’t near him or off with another survivor he worries about you

• if you died he’d cry since he couldn’t protect you (even though you respawned and are playing with a lightbulb in the lobby)

• if he can’t watch you he’ll ask a different survivor to protect you (never 007n7)

• absolutely loves cuddling with you since you’re so fluffy and adorable you usually wrap your wings around him you’re just sooo cute

• would definitely help you clean your antennas since they’re very important and would be very careful

• you would definitely pick him up during a round and fly away from the killer and chill somewhere out of reach of the killer (that is if the spectre doesn’t send you back down ofc)

{alright chat that’s gonna do it uh I hope yous enjoyed I’ll try write more often thanks for reading and have a good day or night}

MEME OUT 👋🏻

[alessiathepirate]

Squid Game S3 SPOILERS

Am I the only one who feels kind of, I don't know,-- meeh about the ending?

I can't put my finger on the exact thing I hate so much, but mostly it's about Gi-hun and his ending.

Like, I'm sorry but I expected so much-- more?? I knew this show wouldn't get a happy ending but I hoped that at least Gi-hun would get a bittersweet one.

His character arc was so awesome, it painted a perfect picture of a guy who went through Hell both psychologically and physically. He had character development, so much of that!

And it might be a disgusting thing to say this but my favourite moments of S3 is him breaking - COMPLETELY. Him being broken beyond belief, wanting to commit suicide, hunting down Dae-ho, sticking his finger into that player's eye... It showed him being broken. Being disappointed. Being let down by society, being destroyed by grief, by self-blame. And him realizing who the Frontman is? The absolute disappointment, losing all the faith he had left for humanity as a whole.

Honestly, I thought this would lead to him becoming the next Frontman. And I LOVED that thought, because it would've been justified. Because he watched countless people die, his friend turned out to be his worst enemy, he saw how all those money-hungry assholes wanting to kill a fucking newborn baby...

I thought: Damn, he must've had enough.

I thought he'd... I don't know, play chess or GO with the Frontman, playing with real people, learning who was valuable and who wasn't.

I thought his arc would lead to him being so broken, so done that he finally sees how disgusting humanity is. That he'd have enough. That he'd learn to not value human life at all.

His rage was justified. Him blaming himself, wanting to commit suicide was justified.

Him joining the Frontman would have been justified and it was built up SO WELL.

Him dying like that was just so heartbreaking and it didn't give his character justice. Not enough justice at the very least.

Gi-hun is a good guy, deep down he is and I think I can understand why they chose to kill him. But why in that way? Why him falling and showing his disappointment like that? Why not make him use the knife so he could go like he wanted to, so he could have a choice? So he could've died like Sang-woo did?

I understand why they thought him dying for the baby might be a good idea - Gi-hun wasn't really there for his own daughter, but he was that for this baby.

But still -- COME ON!

We wanted him to live, him to go bullshit crazy, him to live in a bittersweet happiness or him having his bromance with In-ho...

I'm sorry, but the ending did our baby Seong Gi-hun so dirty, he deserved better!

[loreic]

You know, I envy those who really loved KARMA. To be honest, KARMA disappointed me a lot. In fact, the ALNST fandom disappointed me a little. How is it possible that a good part of the fandom hates Luka more than the damn aliens? The whole Luka situation right now is too much, in my opinion. And not in the "narratively good" kind, but in the "suffering porn" kind, where he's the ONLY one alone and enslaved (he doesn't even appear in that rocket scene where everyone is falling free). He was also a victim of the Alien Stage system, so losing Hyuna, getting beaten up and then being put back in the competitions is very unfair. Seriously, I understand that it's kind of a meme, but it's getting sinister the amount of people encouraging and making fun of it. I'd say that Luka is worse than any of the three right now, people forget that he's a victim and he's STILL a victim. And I won't even talk about how now Hyuna's death is even more senseless and how all of her and the Rebellion's efforts were thrown away because of Mizi. I genuinely hated how Vivmeng treated Hyuna, Hyunwoo, Hyuluka and, especially, Luka (who seems to now only exist to be miserable and seeing fans celebrating when Mizi beat him up for no reason in KARMA made me physically disgusted).

Hmmmm

Right, long ass take under the cut

First off, valid opinion anon.

Think it's perfectly okay be to be a little disappointed in Karma. I'd rate it visually 10/10, musically 9/10, narratively 7/10.

Don't get me wrong alnst had a good run and damn we are probably not gonna get anything else as good anytime soon (I say while staring at kpdh), but the ending might have been a little rushed (assuming this is really the end anyway) and yeah, they probably could have handled the whole Hyuna, Luka, Hyun-woo plot a little better.

Hyuna's death does seem pretty senseless, and that's probably the biggest gripe I have with the ending (since she and Luka are my favourites lol). Out of the three that are confirmed dead, her death definitely hits the hardest (Ivan died for Till, Till is free, Sua died for Mizi, Mizi is free-ish?/took her revenge, while Hyuna died and Luka is still in captivity + rebels' plan failing epically)

But I really don't think that was Hyuna's goal to begin with.

I think Mizi was pretty spot on with her using the rebels as an escape from reality. Girl never stopped running. She refused to face her past, refused to come to terms with the fact that it was Luka who was responsible for Hyun-woo's death, and refused accept the fact that she still loved him despite everything (stubborn queen fr), and only FINALLY decided let all of that go in her final moments.

Her death was meant to be a lesson to Luka (really bitter pill to swallow, and yeah it's pretty stupid when you look at it from a well adjusted perspective, but we've also established she's a trainwreck of a diva so), and I think in the end she did make her peace with it all. Luka being free wasn't the point, and yeah it sucks, but it does make sense. She died to teach him what it means to love, and I think she did succeed in that even if he is still captive.

It's a little convoluted but in the end I wouldn't say her death was entirely senseless (it just definitely seemed so to Mizi and us as the audience), she was doing it for Luka, same as Ivan and Sua for Till and Mizi (was their love perfect? Hell no, it's messy and all kinds of screwed up but that's the point)

As for Luka sighhhhhhhhhhh

Yeah Luka is 100% the victim here. They all are, but dude definitely got the short end of the stick of the three(?) that technically survived.

Him not being with the falling children I'd say is because A. (Mizi knew for a fact he was still alive at that moment) and B. (He is on the receiving end of Mizi's self-righteous karma). Luka's a victim but he's not entirely guiltless either and I think that's what makes him so so interest. If he really did survive the rocket crash he probably spent the next seven years pondering over everything. It was Hyuna's last puzzle for him, it's his penance for the pain he causes (unintentional or no) and yeah that's pretty fking miserable when you think about it.

Am I happy with that? Eh, not really.

I'd say there is a lot of wasted character growth potential here, but it's more or less in line with his overall arc of 'unapologetic sociopath who cannot understand human emotions learns love, lost and regret' so eh I'll take it.

And yeah there are some pretty unsavoury takes in the fandom when it comes to Luka, just because he is that complex and half the fandom doesn't understand him at all, but eh that's more or less expected given alnst target demography so don't worry about it. 괜찮아~ Just enjoy this cinematic masterpiece we somehow get to experience for free and possibly avoid the hell out of Twitter/X like I do lol (like seriously there are takes on there that gives me an aneurysm)

[riteliso]

S01E02

Alright, let's continue, THE SWORD PART 2

Okay I don't know the general vibe here, so I don't know if I'm about to be fucking crucified or if people are just gonna go "yeah everyone hates the intro music, meowmeow, you ain't special"

The intro fucking sucks and my first watch through I was begging EACH SEASON for a new song

The visuals? They're fine, whatever. They're-- well, let me watch it carefully, I've watched this series 6 times and watched the intro all the way through only three times

God she's so real

Anyway the stuff that isn't dealing with the antagonists is vapid, visually speaking, which is odd because the protagonists are, like, good and inspiring characters as well. It feels like half the budget went to giving Catra 80 different nuanced facial expressions to fit into a half-second shot. And I am obviously biased, I obviously love Catra very much, but I feel like maybe... The best friend squad could have had a bit more focus instead of a random smattering of princesses and then Catra being baller as hell? Something to think about.

And the music is sucks. And uninspired. And thematically vapid. Vague. It'd fit in as a theme to any action cartoon ever fucking made. And yes, She-ra is an action show, but it's also a lot MORE. If you look at intros you never see people shut up about, you see that it doesn't have to have an INCREDIBLE amount of depth to be emblematic of the series and also heavily adored. Gravity falls' theme has no lyrics and everybody loves it. Adventure time's theme is a short little nothing, but it has heart, doesn't take itself too seriously, and keeps it brief. Much like some of the best aspects of the series it represents.

"How would YOU do it, smart girl?"

First off, coming at me kinda aggro. Just because I can recognize something isn't peak, doesn't mean I believe that I could do better.

I COULD do better, but that's unrelated.

Play with the themes of duality more, or if you're feeling really spicy, make it a love song wearing the CLOTHES of an action theme.

I'm not saying you gotta go all the way to, like, SIXFT by IDKHOW, but you could AT LEAST go to a Lent by Autoheart or ideally a Go For It by CRUISR

Or fuck it, a Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand, a The Fallen by Franz Ferdinand, lotsa options here. AMV makers take note.

Here's our season one splash screen. Press fucking L and R on your wii u pro controller to start. Our selection here isn't really special, it's a bunch of characters who we don't even know that well by the end of this season. I don't have anything special to say about it because it's not special, they get better as the series goes on.

This is a much better shot than the kinda wonky one we got at the end of Episode 1. Somewhat leads into a nitpick I'll talk about at the end of this episode, but visually this is a stunning introduction to she-ra.

Visually we're lookin at a she-ra that's green around the ears. Metaphorically. She's wearing a tank-top, spats, and a cape. Some people don't actually NOTICE that later on we get an intermediary design which is this one with armour, really, before we reach our final stage of she-ra where she's a full on god-damned space princess.

This design is a LITTLE funky, with the skirt that looks like fish fins or something, it's tiny and weird, but it's a good design. It only looks a bit odd retrospectively, because the following designs are-- better.

smooth exposition, good job team, that subtle bit of "you can read that" "you can't" didn't get the job done so we have to go "Uhm,,, ENGLISH PLEASE!! Oh, WAITER!!!!" all over it

WAITER GO AWAY I HAVE FUCKING EYES I CAN'T AFFORD TO TIP MORE THAN 15% LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE

Wonder where she learned this transparent trick from

Adora you know that doesn't work

... Is it? We got Lonnie, Kyle, Scorpia, Rogelio, Catra, Adora, Octavia-- None of those stick out as any more strange than the rest. Kyle MAYBE sticks out for being a normal damn name. ALSO, YOU'RE ONE TO TALK, YOU NOUN-NAME HAVIN ASS.

Blew my mind when I first saw the subtitles said "Bow" my first watch-through instead of "Beau." THOUGHT WE'D MISS OUT ON THE GIMMICK? THOUGHT IT'D BE TOO SUBTLE? Mind you, that's inherited from the 80s show so who cares.

Good setup. Don't really have much to say about it, but "settlers" getting credit as an origin point when the land had thrived and lived healthily beforehand is something I'm glad was a theme in this show. I can nitpick that they just look human, and etherians just look human, and that it's an easier to ignore trope when it only happens ONCE instead of TWICE, but who fuckin cares

Now, being suspicious and questioning of your authority is the right move. However, jesus christ you're easy to convince.

People say they don't see these two as a couple but like c'mon

They're obviously a couple y'all just don't like cishet couples irl so it carries over to how you view them in fiction

That's not me being accusatory, either, nothing upsets me more than when there's an issue in my relationship and I go "this is a cishet couple problem I shouldn't need to fucking deal with this" because I'm a bipolar nightmare creature loser

fucking whipped

When you pull a chick in her mid 40s and she whips it out and it's bigger than yours

I dunno, fuckin, sometimes probably

Not as often as the other way around, I'm sure, that's how brats BE, but she doesn't strike me as HARD dom yanno? Like I'm sure there's leash nights.

Wait what were we talking about I got dizzy

Honestly kinda crazy that she's so unwilling to rat Adora out at this point. She's already hurt, but you can tell that she still sees what she has with Adora, both the negative AND the positive, as a deeply personal thing. It's not just that she feels like Adora left her behind when she went off, it's that she's probably pouty and doesn't wanna SEE her right now. It's easy to forget the integrity that she has early on before the horde wears her down and puts chips in her sense of self. Fighting to survive is a lot harder when you do it alone.

I mean, as all evidence will show, Chasing down Adora is like her favourite thing to do. But tell her to do it and she'll be like "God, this sucks and you're stupid. Fuck you." She wants to do it because SHE wants to. And not under any other circumstances.

Fucking chill you brat you don't need to rattle off the brat mantras one by one

Is this what it's like listening to me

God, I must be insufferable

me when I'm forced to wear anything besides an oversized sweater or T-shirt

thinking about it, there's a few things that are completely fucking asinine about what happens here. Adora doesn't react to the mention of a party, and Bow assumes that means she doesn't even know what a party is. AND SOMEHOW, FUCKING SOMEHOW, HE'S CORRECT TO ASSUME THAT.

ALSO IN THE PORTAL DREAM THEY PRACTICALLY THROW A FUCKING PARTY

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE FUCKERS

Neither have I but you don't see ME crying about it, AND I even know what they ARE

Also that's a joke I've been to parties

Just not within like

The last decade or so

And all the parties were birthday parties

with

cosmic bowling

hm.

is this a pinata filled with candy or a fruit that evolved to look like a pinata

because if it's the latter I'd like its advice on how to best evolve into something girls would want to beat into a fine fuckin paste

I shouldn't have said that usually when I'm envious of a fruit it's because they have some sick limited edition pride converse or they got a tamagotchi release a month early

this bitch has no clue how old she is she could only hazard a guess at BEST

I get asked this question a lot but I'm not gonna say more about that fact because then people will ask me that question again

stupid fucking horse that I hate

two good scenes in the whole fucking show

STUPID FUCKING HORSE THAT I HATE

FUCK YOU

if you like swift wind you're allowed it's just that I've literally never met a single person in my entire life who's watched the show and doesn't hate swift wind

I had to wrestle the remote out of my girlfriend's hands to STOP her from muting the show when swift wind was on-screen because I hate him but I TAKE MY FUCKING LUMPS BECAUSE IM NOT A PUSSY

THE DRINK IS SWEETER WHEN IT'S SOUR FIRST, BITCH, WE KNOW THIS BY NOW

"FRONT LINE INFANTRY, PULL OUT YOUR FLAMETHROWERS AND SPRAYPAINT BUT BE VERY CAREFUL WE DON'T WANNA MESS UP OUR TAGS"

god damn it I'm such a yapper I will CONTINUE

ALRIGHT SO

Here's how we're doing things, right? We're gonna go one episode at a time, and I'm gonna give my thoughts whenever they come up. This is a train of thought type beat, alright? Unlike my usual grandstanding authorial and analytical self, this re-watch is purely for the rant factor. If you don't know me, and you just happened upon this thread because you like reading she-ra rewatches, hello. I'm a writer from Canada who found she-ra in 2025 and is currently on her sixth watch through. From that, hopefully you can discern that I like this show, even if I'm likely gonna criticize parts of it. We good to go? Good. We start with S01 E01.

RIGHT, THE SWORD PART 1! A zoom in, with an angelic singing being drowned out by digital bloopy fright zone vibes, and then Adora being a fuckin dweeb as her leitmotif plays in a decidedly crystiline synth-y tone.

Now, what do we learn from this? This, aside from one gripe I'll have more to speak on later, is an excellent introduction. With the music alone we're essentially taken from the beauty of the planet, the overwhelming dread of the fright zone, and then into a hopeful tune that isn't FREE from these sort of digital themes in the music, but is very defined and separate FROM them.

This isn't gonna be one of those things where I praise literally every single fuckin thing so keep your panties on, I'm not gonna full-on overanalyzing avatar this shit, but the most important parts of a story are the beginning and the ending.

Now, when I say that, I am speaking pragmatically. Every part of every story is important-- but when it comes to what people remember, what they love, what they never shut up about-- it's the start and the end. You need to nail the take-off and the landing, people will forget the turbulence from the rest of the trip.

Now, what does THIS bitch's intro tell us about her? Well, a lot, honestly. Most of what we know about Adora at this point is she plays by the rules, but she is a notably goofy person. She's goofy, but she's unwilling to goof-OFF too much.

And while we get a taste of the rivalry they have instantly, with "That's low, even for you." "You know nothing's too low for me~"

We instantly see that that is not the CORE of their relationship.

I'd like to praise the voice direction in this show for the first of many times here. The voice actors do amazing work in this, and the direction can be felt throughout.

"Come on, you look stupid hanging there" can obviously be a seen as a strange first line to show the warmth these two share, but the inflection from Catra's voice actor, AJ Mikalcha, makes it read as downright sweet.

Also don't get used to me using names of the crew besides ND Stevenson because I'm so awful with names I was still calling Catra Katara half the time on my second re-watch and I was like 90% of the way to realizing I kinned her at that point

Also don't make fun of me for kinning Catra there's no RESPONSE to people making fun of you for kinning Catra THAT DOESN'T MAKE YOU SEEM MORE LIKE FUCKING CATRA OKAY

Anyway, the following scene makes it clear that this is not a one-way dynamic. The two banter, and it's clear Adora knows how to get under Catra's skin and annoy her as well. This is notable in a few places MUCH further on, but it is a difference worth highlighting NOW.

Once Adora leaves, Catra's primary goal is still to get under her skin. She's angry about it, she's mean about it, but she's still just doing what she's always done. The relationship between the two doesn't actually change as much as the context does. I'd say the relationship itself doesn't change much until the final season, at a scene I'm sure I'll have a lot to say about.

On the flip-side, Adora's goal when it comes to Catra is simply to fight her off. But that's not all there is. At points, it's clear that Adora holds some sort of REVERENCE for Catra, and while Catra is very capable of very mean things, don't get me wrong, Adora sees Catra as more of a threat than she realistically is.

At a few moments I'll point out she also relishes in getting under Catra's skin, but admittedly those are few and far between.

People have gone over this introduction billions of times, so I won't BORE you to death with it, but Shadow weaver's introduction does hint at a lot of what we'll learn later. I think it's very notable that while Shadow weaver brings a dark gloom that encompasses both our leads, her vile tendrils only dare to touch Catra. We learn the specifics of the dynamic these three have later, but it is a very unique and terrible situation to be the least favourite of an abusive guardian. Especially if you are repeatedly reminded of that fact.

I'm not gonna go over all the body language shit I've seen other text posts about it there's plenty of them a lot of focus in this show goes into tiny details where characters are constantly reacting to the world around them, and very rarely do we get lame stretches where anyone's face is just frozen and unflinching while they listen to someone else.

with all due respect to the setting at this point in time the bright moon rebellion is so pathetically anemic it's the two teens, some movie night lesbians, an immortal princess queen, and a bunch of fucking trees.

And you'd think the one carrying the team would be THE IMMORTAL PRINCESS QUEEN, BUT NO, ITS THE FUCKING TREES DOING ALL THE GOD DAMNED WORK

This introduction is fine. I don't particularly like it, nor have any strong feelings about it. It establishes the relationship between glimmer and her mother, but besides that it doesn't honestly do much. And don't come at me with "Uh, all it needs to do is establish that relationship?" Yeah, no shit, but we just had a better introduction to our other lead characters. And yes, those are the MAIN leads, the sort of heart of the show, but that doesn't mean that the other characters are unimportant. Glimmer's development later on is truly interesting, and Bow becomes a massively inspiring character. Fun jokey times are fine or whatever to show that they're immature and don't know the first thing about war, in contrast to our full-blown child soldiers raised from birth in the fright zone, but we really don't learn anything particularly INTERESTING about our best friend squad compadres in their intro, nor do we really see any of it until episode 2, to be frank.

This is something we don't actually see much of-- Catra has this ideal of being a conqueror, but it's very clear that she doesn't want that. Her threats are vapid and aimless-- She can enjoy some chaos, sure, but a shit-stirrer isn't gonna use that feces to build brick shithouses that they never intend to fall.

I think this should have been elaborated on more, personally. Catra is comically terrible with authority, and her plan, as stated later, is to wait it out until her and Adora are the ones calling the shots. But we don't really see what she thinks conquering even looks like, and it's not clear whether that's that she hasn't even imagined it and just likes evil words, or if she genuinely wants to rule with Adora as her Queen.

I gravitate towards the first, but that's partially because I wake up and post shit like "I want to destroy the world and rule its dust" and then forget I posted it when someone likes it 5 minutes later. If she do, in fact, as studies point toward, "be just like me fr," then I fully understand. If not, then I'd like to understand.

aw :(

Fuckin dweeb pulling the "my mom doesn't want me hanging out with you anymore" card

HA! Ah, what a bitch. Anyway, she's lashing out, but it's also quite tragic. A lot of people seem to think Adora IS, in some way, a people pleaser, but in reality she just has such an ingrained and violent sense of justice that she wants to right every wrong she has ever and will ever come across. She believes her validity is tied to what she can provide to the world, and she's got a natural sense of charisma, so it's natural for someone who refuses to blend in and naturally tends to put people off like Catra to have this view of her.

In reality, Adora is just-- a good person. And people LIKE good people. She's not a good person with an asterisk-- a good person with terms and conditions-- someone who falls into the definition of a good person while feeling and being treated like something else. Catra is the "a tomato is a fruit" of good people. Adora is just, like, a 1 dollar costco hotdog of a woman. An inarguable good treading water on this earth, no matter how hard it tries to pull her under.

Imagine falling for a brat with mad hops, like a fucking 50 foot vertical, you say you're too tired to play their favourite board game and they go hang out on your neighbour's roof, couldn't be me. Get fucked I guess

Yeah this is sad. Empathy is very much a learned skill, and people who don't learn empathy don't GET happy FOR people. Catra's not a complete person yet. She's not ready to be. That doesn't happen for a really long time, during an exceptionally long manic spiral. We'll get there, calm down, don't think about how far away that is and how much I've already yammered on.

Anyway, if you find yourself getting jealous or annoyed instead of getting happy for people, consider empathy isn't what you thought it was, and that you might still need to work on yourself.

fucking porno framing. Immensely sexual image, really. These bitches violently gay I suppose, I think I'm picking up on that during this sixth re-watch.

Buddy you got no idea how many problems those two already have you literally lose your little tiara at some point I think it ends up in the middle of a tree in space or something it's kinda unclear

Adora elbows her square in the nose during this so to everyone accusing Catra of physical abuse I just want it to be clear that Adora started it :/

Actually I'd like to retract that joke immediately because I know how people get about these two

My feelings are that they are literally child soldiers who were likely raised sparring each-other.

I was raised sparring other children and I ended up fine! Not for war, for Karate. And I didn't end up fine. And neither did they. Anyway, my point isn't even specifically that because this is sci-fi fantasy it's ridiculous to hold real life standards to it, it's more-so that because it's sci-fi fantasy there's extenuating circumstances that are going to affect how these two characters treat each-other. I'll go into hotter takes later, I'm sure, and get people to send me plenty of death-threats, but I'm gonna go into the nuances of exactly what forms Catra's abuse takes, and how it differs given by the separate circumstances we're shown the two in throughout the show.

my girl when I'm tryna live my best life playing as blue toad in mario 3d world

also holy shit we're only like halfway through this I am an AGONIZING yapper jesus fuck

Okay, what to say about lighthope-- well, their first words are "balance must be restored," far before they say Adora's name, so it somewhat lays out their secret priorities for us there. Besides that, I dunno, they got circuits on them? I don't have particularly strong feelings about lighthope, nor their introduction. I think they serve the setting and are written well, I just subjectively am not a sucker for the way they be. Their friendship with Mara is cute tho

I was gonna point out this is cute and how often I do this exact brat tactic but instead we data moshin, nothin wrong with a little data moshin, I'm down

This is the only reason she even wears a ponytail I'd stake my fuckin life on it

Once she leaves the fright zone that thing's fucking vestigial like a tailbone or having "any pronouns" in your bio when it's pretty clear you're very much a "she/they" type of bitch by now

glimmer why don't your windows have glass

or alternatively

how the fuck do you open and close that window

you can absolutely fucking hear her from this distance what on earth are you trying to pull

you a pillow princess tho how many of those arrows are just hitatchi magic wands attatched to a stick with duct-tape after the series ends do you think

The fuck you mean BOTTOM drawer we lookin at left and right here

or is this similar to my pillow princess comment and she's just addressing him and giving him an order

"Bottom; drawer."

It's established later on that he's a tech wiz but at this point in time they don't really give us much to lead us to the fact that he made that fucking thing

she's a freak

yes it's very sweet that she sleeps this way but I don't think it's some bdsm powerplay thing or anything like that, which would honestly be more tolerable, I think she's just like that

like how the way I'd sit in high school was to get two chairs and face them toward each-other then sit cross-legged across both

even if there weren't enough chairs to go around

people would sit on the FLOOR because I wanted to sit criss-cross-applesauce across two chairs, they wouldn't even ask for one of my chairs

also since I was sitting, again, cross-legged, it would have made more sense for ME to sit on the floor

I mean I think I got asked ONCE for one of the chairs and I just said "fine" but besides that people just let me sit on my fuckin throne

She really is kinda dumb, though. Like I ain't complaining, it's a character trait, but like obviously even if just you get in trouble Catra's gonna get blamed, you've seen it like at least once a month for your whole entire life

Mind you, can't really have Catra for the next part, because Catra's reaction to Bow and Glimmer wouldn't be "just let me have the sword" it'd be murder

oh wow we hit the image limit looks like we're doing TWO SEPARATE POSTS FOR THE VERY FIRST EPISODE YEE-HAW!!!!! THIS IS GOING TO TAKE ME FUCKING FOREVER

[rxttenfish]

honestly i think the thing that pisses me off more than anything about the sentiment that you see passed around again and again that you don't have to care about doing worldbuilding or how anything works in your story because it's all fiction and it should just be based solely off of what you think is cool, is the fact that they're never very interesting with it.

like, you do all this pomp and setup making fun of anyone who asks you how your monster works and insulting anyone who likes to think for half a second about the world that they've made and what it means, and then you look at their dragons and they're the exact same dragons as every other piece of media out there. mass produced ass tropey design doing nothing you haven't seen before. not even taking full advantage of the fact that it's not based in reality to seek something surreal and bizarre and cerebral, something unique to itself and something that could only ever exist if you've already made a picasso out of common sense. no. let's just remake a generic ass fantasy that i could get anywhere else with basically all the same elements and not even miss any changes that might've been made.

like, this is the major benefit to thinking about this stuff. because it makes it interesting, makes it unique, presents problems and concepts that have to be solved and put back together the same as the story itself proper, and often helps to tie right back into that story to reinforce its themes and what it's trying to say! i'm not opposed to an "it's magic" explanation, but you had better make it INTERESTING or at least give a damn good reason WHY you're picking magic here.

[wolfwarrior142]

Callum has asked Rayla twice now to kill him if he's ever corrupted again. This time as like a barter. And this time, despite looking devastated, she finally (begrudgingly) agrees. And later this season, Callum is cleared of his dark magic corruption, but it also warned that if he does dark magic again it'll overwhelm him.

Man my dreams have already been haunted enough by death foreshadowing I can't take much more of it for these two.

[eachuisge-cc]

I'll update with screenshots later I'm kinda havin a Time right now

[camels-pen]

I'm still thinking about vampire Usopp w/sanuso btw, just like

Sanji insisting Usopp come to him whenever he's hungry, for multiple reasons, but primarily bc he's the cook, it's his job to keep his cremates fed above everything else. And Usopp going along with it, asking for blood around the same times he used to ask for food. Thinking Sanji would tell him if he ever took too much.

Sanji, however, is a fool. A very kind, but large fool. He doesn't tell Usopp when he's taking too much or too frequently. In fact their whole arrangement barely lasts a few weeks before Sanji collapses in the middle of food prep.

Like, just the idea of the guy who gives and gives and, yeah it feels nice to give, but can't fathom the idea that there are others on the crew able to do the same. That he doesn't have to give until there's nothing left.

Idk just. Physical manifestation of his problems with accepting unconditional love without having to give anything to earn it. As in, the more he gives without bounds, the more he's literally killing himself.

And then. And then.

Usopp coming into the galley, ready to sheepishly ask for a snack, just like before this whole thing, and finding Sanji on the floor.

And he yells for Chopper before looking Sanji over. Coming to the realization that this was him- this was his fault. He took too much. Asked for too much. Asked too much of Sanji.

And he's just kicking himself the whole time, telling himself it was stupid to ever think Sanji- Sanji of all people- would ever deny him a chance to fill his belly.

He comes to the conclusion he can't ask Sanji for blood anymore. He can't ask anyone for blood anymore. He couldn't risk this happening again. To any of them.

After Sanji got a transfusion and isn't at risk of falling over anymore, he and Usopp begin an agonizing back and forth routine.

Sure, Sanji can't give blood for a while- doctor's orders- but there are some rather big fish in the aquarium, and Usopp has always loved the taste of fish. He drains the blood out of a few, stores the excess in the fridge, and offers a glass to Usopp to make up for the lunch portion he never got.

Usopp says something or other about grabbing a bite from a sea king earlier and waves him off. Sanji frowns but doesn't say anything.

And this same bit continues and continues and continues, until Sanji puts his foot down. Literally.

Kicks Usopp's ass to the galley. Has an infuriating conversation with him. Continues to try and get him to drink. Ends up coming to a conclusion that Usopp only liked drinking blood from the source. A passing thought making him consider that there was only one source- one person he'd drink from.

Usopp- tired and fuzzy and hungry, so so hungry- is trying his damnedest to keep Sanji satisfied with lies he doesn't have the energy to make believable. He's trying and trying but Sanji is bulldozing through each one, not taking no for an answer and-

Is it me? Sanji asks, his voice far, far too hopeful. Do you only want to drink from me?

And if Usopp wasn't tired- wasn't literally starving and finding it hard to keep his thoughts from slipping away- he would examine that voice. That tone. Run through his own daydreams with different words, different contexts, being implied with those words.

But he is tired. And he is starving. And he needs to get a grip before he wavers even more in his resolve.

And so, it's surprising yet all too expected when Usopp declares Sanji's blood as the nastiest thing he's ever tasted. Says he never wants to get within smelling distance anymore, it's that bad. Too late, he realizes his smelling distance, now, covers the entirety of the ship and then some.

Sanji stays silent. Usopp contemplates taking it back. He doesn't.

Casually, Sanji reaches over to his knife block. Despite his current status as a member of the undead, Usopp fears for his life. He wonders if Sanji was just as skilled with a knife as Zoro was with his swords and desperately hopes that's not the case. Aloud, he tries to calm Sanji down while subtly trying to put distance between them.

Without any warning, practically without sound, Sanji tilts his head and cuts a thin line near the juncture from his neck to his shoulder. And all of a sudden, Usopp's filled with another, far more terrifying, kind of fear.

It's just like Boin, Usopp, he thinks to himself, eyes glued to the spot where dark red beads of blood well up on pale skin. Just like Boin.

[arolesbianism]

Decided to draw them all next to eachother again as a means of checking in on the Raiden progress

[cerealmonster15]

looking up gundham's........ scene......... and like youtube decides to show directly below it something that looks like a pretty big spoiler from v3 lol

[whoupsqlointing]

finally figured out the impaling scene. still think it looks a bit jank but i decided to actually shorten it by a second or two and i think the faster pacing hides its flaws better. means ive got to make the next bit last longer but oh well i think itll work

[clockworksheep2]

kind of want to start transitioning into a more cleancut "adult" vibe to ... if not my bedroom then at least my deskspace in the rec room. it's just difficult because the kids in the system and Sunny love childish decor (and I do too tbh fdsjkl) but it is just so visually cluttered and I think I will feel a bit better and less scattered and overwhelmed if there is less visual clutter. autism moment LMAO.

[hauntingblue]

Skypiea time part 2

She is a woman..... this is sanji's influence... in whiskey peak his slashes were non gendered

Ace just letting himself get pushed into the river like aight my bad I will take my punishment.... he really is so well mannered (it sounds like I'm talking about a dog)

Conis showing that nami influence.... gfs....

Nami and luffy twins moment look how relieved she is... this whole fight is so theirs...

Also how funny it is that the milk girl gave ace a shirt.... also new pants??? She must think he lost the shirt in the river.... no girl he is just a slut...

Nami: okay ❤️ yay ❤️

Noland just thinking about where karugara is and if he is alright in his EXECUTION!! SICK AND TWISTED

OMG BOUNDMAN INSPO????

NO ACEEE NOOOOOOOO

THE END OF ACES STORY IS THAT THE COFFE IS NO LONGER BITTER BC THEY SERVE IT WITH MILK AND WHY AM I EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT

[blissfulstatic]

i started all of these games at wildly different times, took varying levels of breaks partway through each of them, and then finished all of their achievements in the same two days

i don't know what to do with myself now