#formulate words

[cynicalmusings]

phainon’s trailer is actually so insane wtf? i had tears in my eyes as i watched it and he’s not even one of the characters i’m Super invested in

[sincerlyus]

a silly little doodle, nothing more, no big deal, definitely not crying rn........

Original picture:

[ariineii]

I am. SO proud of the Gs. They saw everyone doubting their abilities to stay together the whole time and decided to prove them wrong. This alliance gave us not only gaslight gatekeep girlboss reconciliation but also a Cleo&Bigb one. They've had their ups and downs this season but they stayed loyal and stayed friends and this is the best thing that could've happened.

After Bigb, Impulse and Scott have all died, Pearl and Cleo just spent some time aimlessly wandering around saying that They don't know what to do anymore. All their friends were gone, there was no one else to uplift and help to win. They resorted to Ren only as the last option, and even then, he stopped being a priority the moment Pearl had died and the only thing on Cleo's mind was killing Grian and avenging her. The alliance ever actually

[reagomyeggo]

bro caitlyn wasn’t even wearing a bra under that turtle-neck. vi called her cupcake once and suddenly bras arent in the enforcer dresscode anymore. she wanted that cookie so effing bad.

[psink]

Rainy season anime artwork translation:

A complicated chuunibyou guy

Kaidou Shun

(Voice Actor/ Shimazaki Nobunga)

Kusuo’s classmate that everyone knows is a chuunibyou. However because he’s shy, serious and pure-hearted by nature, he can’t maintain his chuunibyou persona.

⏴In the work, his chuunibyou sometimes causes problems for Kusuo, but in reality, he’s a good and timid child. He thinks of Kusuo, Nendou and Kuboyasu as important friends. Hopefully he’ll never lose this innocence.

Guy with a complicated love for his younger brother

Saiki Kuusuke

(Voice Actor/ Nojima Kenji)

Saiki Kusuo’s older brother, a genius mad scientist with an IQ of 218. Has a fetish for challenging his younger brother and getting defeated. He messes with Kusuo at any opportunity. 

⏶Contrary to his handsome looks, his real nature is quite disappointing. He’s an extreme masochist (however, this is limited to only Kusuo).

Complicated clingy guy

Akechi Touma

(Voice Actor/ Kaji Yuuki)

A logical and talkative transfer student who came to Kusuo’s class. He talks rapidly like a machine gun without reading the atmosphere of his surroundings. He suspects that Kusuo is a psychic. Although he was once deceived, he persistently continues to investigate Kusuo.

Guy who attracts complicated people

Saiki Kusuo

(Voice Actor/ Kamiya Hiroshi)

A high-school student who can control various psychic powers. In order to keep his abilities secret, he lives maintaining a moderate distance from those around him. His favorite food is sweets, he especially loves coffee jelly. 

⏶Although Kusuo almost never voluntarily expresses his emotions, he shows a blissful smile whilst tasting sweets. Is this cute contrast also a point that attracts people around him!?

⏶⏵In addition to Kaidou, other members of his troublesome group include the strongest idiot Nendou Riki (Voice Actor: Ono Daisuke and the delinquent Kuboyasu Aren (Voice Actor: Hosoya Yoshimasa), whose trouble-causing abilities are immeasurable. Despite that, they're also lovable guys that you can't hate.

(Kusuo’s left shoulder text)

The cheerful, sunny spring has passed and the rainy season has already arrived. Our handsome psychic, Saiki Kusuo, is on his way home whilst avoiding the scattered rain with his telekinesis, but there are people approaching him. His brother, Kuusuke, his classmate, Kusuo and the transfer student Akechi - these three people. Amongst them, Akechi, because of his natural quick thinking and good insight, seems to suspect Kusuo is a psychic!? With the intensity of either a devoted wife or a stalker, he clings to Kusuo and tries to reveal his secret by showering him with machine gun-like talk……Will Kusuo manage to avoid them like the rain and return the clear skies to his heart?

(Kusuo’s right shoulder text)

Just as his older brother, Kuusuke, is coming to pick him up with coffee jelly in one hand, Kaidou, struck by the rain, is showing off his chuunibyou. The transfer student Akechi invites Kusuo under his umbrella, too. Their attention-seeking offensive is even more persistent than the rainy season, how will Kusuo endure it!?

(Big text on white background)

A rain of love from the complicated people pours down intensively on

Kusuo☆

Heart-pounding regretful rain☆

QUESTION

If you were to share an umbrella with someone, who would it be?

Kamiya: Teruhashi-san. Her charm, which causes even the God to be her ally, makes me want to try saying 「offu」 as well.

Shimazaki: Of course, it’d have to be Teruhashi-san!!! Offu!!!

Saiki Kusuo’s Voice Actor

Kamiya Hiroshi-san 

Interview 

The 2nd season of 「Fierce Argument」. 

—If you were to express the growth and changes of Saiki Kusuo in the second season using four-character idioms or similar expressions, what would they be?

Kamiya: 「Fierce Argument (Editor’s note: The sound of swords clashing violently. Also, the state of engaging in heated debate)」 I feel that the degree of this is gradually increasing compared to the 1st season.

–Kamiya-san, please tell us a particular「Kusuo’s charm point」 that you’d like to recommend right now.

Kamiya: I don’t know much about Kusuo, but anyway, Teruhashi-san’s cuteness is a big charm of this work. 

–Please tell us the episode or moment that made you laugh whilst portraying Kusuo.

Kamiya: Kusuo is usually cool and it’s hard to read his emotions, but sometimes during particularly intense situations, he strongly interjects with 「You idiot!」, which is fun for me too.

–Kusuo is always extremely popular regardless of gender, Kamiya-san, if you were in his position, what would you do?

Kamiya: If each of them stays with me with the awareness that we're friends, then I will gratefully accept that.

Kaidou Shun’s Voice Actor

Shimazaki Nobunaga-san

Interview

Right now, I’m at my peak chuunibyou stage in life.

–If you were to express the growth and changes of Saiki Kusuo in the second season from a  chuunibyou perspective, what would that be?

Shimazaki: 「Jet Black Twilight - Ragnarok of Chaos」 Reason: it just sounds cool!

–Shimazaki-san, please tell us a particular 「Kaidou’s charm point」that you’d like to recommend right now.

Shimazaki: I find the contrast between Shun in his full-blown chuunibyou Jet-Black Wings mode and his natural self, who is a bit of a coward but is honest and caring about his friends, to be appealing.

–Shimazaki-sama, if you discovered a completely soaked Kaidou on a rainy day, what would you do?

Shimazaki: I’d protect him!!!

–Please tell us the episode or moment that made you laugh whilst portraying Kaidou.

Shimazaki: In the 2nd season, episode 4 of episode 8x, the loop episode 「Another Time Leap Challenge! I remember saying the same line over and over again like a broken record, it left a very strong impression on me. It was fun!

–Kaidou is still in full-blown chuunibyou mode, but Shimazaki-san, when were you the most chuunibyou-like in your life? 

Shimazaki: Right now. I seriously imagine using magic and saving the world every day.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

thank god humans invented Thinking About The Character

[pileofpawns]

I think Donatella (and Augustus, to a lesser extent) would be really touched seeing how Raz uses the acrobatics they taught him in his Psychonauts work. He hasn’t left it all behind, and he has them to thank for some of his success. Fortune teller tricks and acrobatics aren’t oil and water like they once thought.

[rodolfoparras]

Thinking about Price wearing nothing but boxers and lounging on the couch, while you’re down on your knees, hands tied behind your back, just a hair away from his clothed cock

You can feel the heat radiating from his body, can smell his musky scent, can practically taste him on your lips but he acts as if you aren’t even there, leisurely stroking his cock while grunts and groans roll off of his lips, won’t acknowledge you until he’s inching closer to his release, only when he comes undone does he put a hand at the back your neck and shoves your face into his now wet crotch, your nose rubbing upon his clothed shaft, and you’re so desperate so eager for it, blindly mouthing at his dick, eagerly taking whatever he’s willing to give

Or Price making you work for it, watching the way you’re using your nose and mouth to hitch his boxers up his thighs so you can get to his cock, only to almost lose your mind when you see the underwear roll back down. He’ll only chuckle at your frustration before encouraging you to try again “come on you can do” voice low and hoarse as he gazes down at you from where he’s sitting

Or or or Price sitting on your face while wearing nothing but his boxers, he’s just gotten home from the gym so he’s all sticky and sweaty you can smell the musky scent on him can practically feel his sweat soaked dick but you don’t care, feeling more than happy to have his sweaty balls and cock resting on your face, letting him sit on it for as long as he pleases, maybe he’ll even teasingly grind down onto your mouth til his underwear is not only soaked with sweat but also with precum and spit

Or or Price teasing you all day pretending he isn’t affected by any of it, only for you to see that he’s practically soaked through his boxers, his fat pussy lips fully outlined by the thin fabric and when you point it out he’s shameless as ever and asks if you plan to do something about it or will you just continue to stare at him

[salamander-crimes]

one of my favorite bits in TGAA is that Stronghart keeps such meticulous watch of the time but is still always catastrophically late to everything

[sicklymuttz]

Things he couldn't say.

[rat-fanatic]

Tco and Vic are so tragic, man. It's not like Tco KNEW about Vic. They suffered that same trauma and abuse at the hands of Alan, even with the fundamental differences, and due to the circumstances of having never met, it turned out this way. Like, i don't hate either of them. They're both so traumatized and have been pushed to be these morally gray characters. WHEN is the reconcile arc, i need it immediately!!!!!

[mamawasatesttube]

in tim's whole conga line of back-to-back losses, have we even considered that right before kon dies, ted kord ALSO kicks the bucket? devastating. whos next, tony hawk??? perish the thought!!!

[voltrixz]

Montana in the Jessica rabbit dress… walks into a wall and dies

[vagueeyes]

a few additional notes on the matinee + what i wrote down for the final show of STAGE/FRIGHT (all apr 5. i'm probably the last one to realise apr 5 = 9??)

‼️ spoilers ahead ‼️

the matinee:

-during the SARDINES reference in the kidnappers, someone behind us gasped and said "sardines!" (so cute tbh!!)

-one thing i forgot to mention about the lack of video wall - we also miss the "Reece Shearsmith 1969-2025" bit. i wonder how that played out with the first-timers!

-on a related note - i'm 99.9% sure the 2 men sat behind us were seeing the show for the first time, bc the one who said "oh my godd" kept asking the person he came with, whether the show had been running for long. iirc his companion couldn't really answer & said "today's the last one i think"

-the people sat next to me i felt like they were wondering why i was covering my ears before it started. well. they found out why soon enough 🤣 (also at some point before the first jumpscare & the one before the start of act ii, i yelled at @somuchwatersoclosetohome that i wasn't listening to anything she was saying 🤣🤣)

anddd this behaviour did not change for the last show 😂 gosh how was knowing there were jumpscares even worse!! it's the anticipatory reaction or something, i guess??

anyway. for the last show - AGAIN thank you @somuchwatersoclosetohome for the ticket. honestly, the matinee show was an impulse decision made while i was at work (which really shows how terminally online i am 🤦‍♀️), but the final one i was like ?? do i even try? but after a brief chat and she came through so quickly it was like what!! this is happening i guess!!

a quick note: i'm aware more of the fandom have seen this one so none of the below is original or even coherent tbh. just everything i jotted down during the interval + formulated in my head earlier today!

the seating:

-was up in a box (with @donotbelasagne) this time! here's what the view was like:

-the far-left of the stage is obstructed view, so for moments like in terror at the asylum eg the goudron/cragg bit by the door or the painting of madame goudron's head coming off - you would miss if you didn't lean forward (well the former you would still miss, actually).

-on the plus side - what was fun was seeing all the marks on the stage!! which i didn't start focusing on until bcdr when tommy & len are moving/things around. and little things like seeing prop (or real?) sushi in the itsu box during a house divided, and something actually in maggie's pret coffee cup (but likely a prop since i don't think there was actual liquid in it lol). and vince's coffee cup was definitely completely sealed (there was what looked like a black sticker on it). also seeing len/steve crouching behind the wall during brown bottles! hehe

-the main bit that i stared at was during the self-taping scene when abby & sherrie go to play the tape back, there's nothing actually playing in the camera. i suppose that's obvious knowing the video wall footage is pre-recorded, but still oddly satisfying to see it!

-as an aside, us being in an upper box means i was conscious of people possibly staring at me covering my ears before the jumpscares loll but you know what! i saw a few people do the same thing before the end of the interval. so. you know.

the kidnappers:

-fr i just wanna quietly say, i was hoping the last guest would be tim key (more about him in my upcoming soppy/journey post)

-but jonathan ross was a nice surprise!

-the part that got me unexpectedly was tommy's usual "you're not on graham norton now" line, and jonathan's response of just flipping the bird lmaoo, then tommy/reece's subsequent "he wouldn't have you on anyway!" 🤣🤣🤣

-jonathan calling len/steve "odd looking" and tommy/reece "generic/short handsome guy"?? someone please tell me the EXACT phrasing bc i was too busy going 😮🤭 (self-reminder to watch that interview!!)

-when he goes to hide in the wardrobe, he doesn't close the door properly iirc! christina(?) had to close it!

-steve drawing out the celery line omggg it was amazing

-when jonathan bursts out of the wardrobe to correct len, he just goes back in again! i think someone backstage or christina again had to remind him to go back out.

-the only part of his tirade that's seared into my brain is calling len/steve a hedgehog (what!!!)

-as mentioned in @kookaburrito's post, jonathan's bit going up the stairs is namedropping mark (ofc), but he says "mark gatiss and his beautiful swan neck" (omg!!!) he was NOT expecting that combination of words to come out of his mouth lbr!!

interval:

-at the ~15min mark, the safety curtain kept going up and down, and the lights kept dimming and brightening? definitely got a bit nervous that the video wall wasn't working again.

-just for fun i recorded a bit of this (i hope this gets uploaded/posts properly, lmk if it doesn't):

-it went maybe 5mins over than usual but all seemed well when the theatre attendants closed the curtains!

stray observations:

-before the show, @donotbelasagne mentioned that there are recorded coughing noises playing throughout?? it was funny to hear this bc during the matinee, i can't remember during which part now, i definitely DID notice some coughing. i tend to be easily annoyed sensitive of this, so when i heard it, i remember thinking "who the HELL is coughing at a time like this??" for this one, i did clock coughing again!

-about the toby/reece switch - i realise it's not a huge technical thing but this time i did try to watch the centre of the stage. when it goes completely dark and abby starts circling around with the camera light, i did see that a body (don't know whose ofc!) was still lying there! and...that's all i have to say about that lol

-during tears of laughter, iirc after bloody belle's bit, the associate director & simon evans briefly go into that box to watch! simon was also recording a bit on his phone!!

-i missed looking at goudron's sleeve garters wtf!! but now that i think about it i guess i did see them but wasn't going gasp it's sleeve garters. idk?? gah!!

-steve flubbing the "bloody good piece(?) of theatre" line haha!!

-WHO shouted "bloody belle" three times early, during the addressing the audience part!!

-the curtain call and steve thanking every member of the company, the stage hands, and the front of house staff!! 🥹🥹🥹 (also iirc toby was actually crying or at least extremely teary-eyed! as was everyone i think!)

-for both shows iirc many people "aww'd" at the "maybe every ghost story really is a love story" line at the end <3

two thoughts on stage door:

-i did attempt to make eye contact this time! don't think i did last time due to the sudden-ness of it all, but alas r&s weren't really looking at anyone anyway - probably due to the rush!

-can i just say it didn't immediately occur to me before, but bhav is quite good-looking!!

alright i think that's it for now! anything i've left out or forgotten i'm sure someone else may bring up & articulate it better lol.

[sloaaaa]

i enjoy toxic yuri mafuena as much as the next person but sometimes i wish people would focus more on how ena takes care of mafuyu. like when ena held her hand in one of the guiding a list child card stories. or when she was telling mafuyu to move when the light turned green in that one area conversation. they complement each other in so many different ways that's so fucking good and idk how to put it into words and i want to explode

[momoitaros]

still cant get over how it felt watching the first episode of gozyuger cause literally i just felt like this the whole time