#loveable weirdo

[grand-zammy]

🧔‍♂️🎮🌌 Happy Birthday @markiplier 🌌🎮🧔‍♂️

I have been appreciating/enjoying/loving your content for years and I'm truly amazed/proud of how much you've accomplished. I hope you have a wonderful birthday today and that you're doing well (I always get worried whenever I hear you've gotten hurt/sick/in the hospital for various reasons).

Also, for anyone curious to check out some of his content, here's some of my suggestions/favorites

01. listen to Distractible

02. watch Edge of Sleep on Tubi

03. experience In Space with Markiplier

04. compilation from Unus Annus (NSFW but Silly)

05. his reaction to FNAF (NSFW but Hilarious)

06. watch him play Octodad: Dadliest Catch

07. watch him play West of Loathing

08. listen to him play PowerWash Simulator

09. watch him enjoy Universe Sandbox

10. listen to Space Is Cool by Markiplier/Schmoyoho

[sentientsheepdog]

Simon Riley is the kind of guy to bite into your stomach pudge and growl when you're on your period because how dare that stupid organ cause his Lovie pain

[the-woman-upstairs]

Twisters is so funny because we’re first introduced to the corporate sponsored tornado chasers and they’re just…a boring collection of dudes. Totally bland, with barely a single personality between them. And then in come the Tornado Wranglers: the hottest, gayest collection of exuberant fun-loving weirdos you could possibly imagine. And it’s like…gee I wonder who the good guys are.

[rosycheekies]

A White Rose in Bloom by Nakamura Asumiko

[twonerdygirlsinthecloset]

Find someone who gets you (and then make a podcast with them) 🤣

[xinakwans]

i hate barclay so much what a fuckin cunt of a man

[museofpvd]

As an FFXIV player who plays in-game mahjong I am positively titillated

going through the new voice lines added for mahjong and graha's are the most unhinged by far

[batshit-auspol]

As is tradition we held our annual "Batshit Aussie Moment of The Year" poll on twitter this month, and as is also tradition it was a complete dumpster fire and we ended up having to delete our account again. Such is life, as the French don't say.

Nevertheless we had a lot of great nominations from what was truly a year full of the utmost topshelf batshittery which we shan't be letting go to waste. So we preset:

Batshit Aussie Moments of The Year, The Now Undemocratic Countdown

Leading the nominations there was of course Raygun, the little Aussie PHD breakdancer that couldn't. Recently she has trademarked her name and there was a whole lawsuit around using it so no further comment on that.

Dr Ray was followed close in second place by Australia's former Deputy Prime Minister being filmed drunkenly making phonecalls while sprawled across a sidewalk.

This glorious video saw the good people of Australia rise to the occasion with all the pisstaking the moment deserved, complete with chalk crime scene markings, a plaque being installed, and a candlelight vigil held by locals.

Also making a strong showing in the polls was Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart pulling a Barb Streisand by demanding her unflattering portrait be removed from Australia's National Art Gallery, which of course made it immediately go viral.

Lol. Also noteworthy in the nominations was the horse that escaped its enclosure and tried to flee by catching a train, making national news headlines in the process.

But for all those big names/horses who we're sure would love the limelight, the crown title of this year's Batshit Aussie Moment of The Year is being awarded to a regular everyday Aussie (and tumblr user) who fought the system and (almost) won:

After 23 year old Aussie racecar driver Oscar Piastri won the Hungarian Grand Prix, our very own @the-prophesied-mouse "jokingly submitted an e‒petition" to Australia's parliament asking that the day become a public holiday, "assuming it would get thrown out".

Instead their request for a yearly national "Oscar Piastri Day" crossed the threshold of signatures required for a response, being then escalated all the way to the Prime Minister's desk after the responding minister decided it was of utmost importance.

After being sternly considered by no less than three government ministers, sadly in November it was declared that the petition would not be ratified, due to the small issue of the federal government not having the power to create holidays (it's apparently a state thing).

The government did however point out that many national days are celebrated without official proclamation from the Australian government, and so it is, with the powers vested in us by all you loveable weirdos, that we do solemnly declare from this day forth that the 21st July shall be forever known as Oscar Piastri Day, and may all non-believers fear our wrath.

Anyway, happy new year to you all from us here in Aus. Farewell to a truly Batshit year, and here's to no doubt more of the same in 2025. We will leave you with this heartfelt reminder of a true national treasure we lost this year, the progenor of perhaps the most iconic Aussie batshit moment of all time, The Right Hon. Mr Democracy Manifest:

Happy new years to youze all!

[splanana-bitz]

Even I haven't been in the gravity falls fandom as long as some of y'all, and I can confidently say some of y'all need to calm down 😭😭

[rachymarie]

Me at mental health appointment yesterday: "I have no problem with my sense of identity - in fact maybe a little TOO much identity:

This makes me combative, rebellious, and outspoken."

CSW: "I love it!"

Ahh, *deep sigh* - sure feels good to feel validated in my plight of excessive Rachelness (i srsly can't turn my Rachelness down atp lol)

[mouse-of-mischief]

You know what? I hope Sherlock & Co. goes mad with their version of Mycroft. I hope they just have the best time with him. I hope they look at the version of Mycroft played by Stephen Fry who wandered about naked in his home, my favourite on-screen Mycroft btw, and say "I'll do you one better". I hope they do the scene where Mycroft is first introduced by having him deduce things in a little game with Sherlock justice like the Granada series did. I hope they make him just as much as a little freak (affectionate) as Sherlock. I need more loveable weirdo Mycroft.

[sarascamander]

If you ever wonder why Babe and Charlie are together or why they even last as a couple.... These 2 matched each other freak SO FUCKING MUCH. Like up until that episode when Babe asked Charlie to be his bf, I was wondering about their relationship and yk if they're right for each other or not.

But then Charlie IMMEDIATELY asked Babe if he wanted children after they officially became bf and Babe just laughed with the most loveable expression and heart eyes ever and INDULGE him. These two start to plan out a family there and then 😭😭. Babe just accepts the whole mama and papa thing NO QUESTION ASKED except for why he's the mama. But even then he relented. THEY ARE FREAKS.

AND THEN. They went to the place where they first met and basically reenacted the whole thing, role switched. WORD FOR WORD. THEY ARE SO FREAKISH OKAY.

I just couldn't tell you enough about how much of a WEIRDO these two are and they match each other's energy so freaking much that it made sense why they're together. Cause like — can you imagine anyone else with the same level of freakishness with them? I can't lmao.

[cherrybombb8]

I have such a love of slightly rarer ships in big fandoms. I give you:

Wiseflower (Poppy Pomfrey x Minerva McGonagall) soo adorable, such a power couple too, kinda good cop bad cop, growing old together, outliving their students :'(

Perciver (Percy Weasley x Oliver Wood) roommates (and they were roommates), friends to lovers, ambition, 'Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy' by aeoneskova on ao3 is amazinggg

Nobleflower (Narcissa Black x Alice Longbottom) secret/forbidden love, so tragic, so so tragic, if you haven't read 'Alice, Look at Me' by Rollercoasterwords yet go do that immediately

Sydora (Sybill Trelawney x Pandora Lovegood) ravenclaw roommates, seers, loveable weirdos, they definitely match each other's freak

Quillkiller (Bellatrix Lestrange x Rita Skeeter) toxic, bit crazy, they love and hate one another, obsession, they scare me

Gilderat (Peter Pettigrew x Gilderoy Lockhart) if ykyk, Lockhart's cologne, this is so fucking hilarious to me yet I'm entirely serious when I say I love them

Andromeda Tonks x Ted Tonks (I know they're not rare but there's not much content focused on them and they have such a story)

I just love these ships so much, especially the wlw ones, they hold a special place in my heart <3.

I'm writing a wiseflower fic atm, it's early days yet but I have a few chapters posted and am hoping to post another this week! It's titled 'Falling' by Cherrybomb08 on ao3, but I might change the title at some point. 🫶

[deadn30n-arch]

                  Yone  made  a  noise  of  assent,  and  flickered  his  gaze  off  of  the  book  in  his  hands  and  up  to  her,  instead.   “  you  always  want  to  complicate  things…  ”   it's  his  way  of  ceceding  and  say:  yes,  i  did  miss  you.  but  he's  rarely   –   if  ever   –   straightforward  with  his  words.  he'd  rather  turn  you  around  in  riddles  and  make  you  guess  the  meaning,  than  outright  proffer  the  feelings  shielded  beneath  his  visage.  there  is,  however,  a  small  smile  on  his  lips  that  she  couldn't  possibly  miss,  even  if  she  tried.  smiling  was  a  little  bit  easier  for  him,  as  smiles  could  mean  a  number  of  things  without  prior  exposition.   “  stay.  ”   he  answers  flippantly.   “  night  will  be  upon  us  soon,  and  the  azakana  are  most  violent  in  those  dark  hours.  if  that  isn't  enough  to  convince  you,  why  don't  we  have  dinner  then?  ”   surely  she  wasn't  about  to  turn  down  free  food,  much  less  his  cooking  at  that.

Head tilts oh so curiously as she enters his line of sight. It had only been an hour or two since she'd went out to 'explore' as she called it (though really it was to test her own abilities in this foreign land). She hadn't expected Yone to have paid attention to that- not unless she'd been gone by time night rolled around. In which case she knew he'd come after her and would subsequently attempt, and fail, to lecture her on the dangers of being alone in this world. " Here I thought you'd be happy to see my face so soon, but I guess I was wrong. " Hooking a finger back in the direction she came from she grinned, " I can go back if you'd like? "

[ladyloveandjustice]

My Top 12 Favorite Anime of 2024 (and more)!

We had a lot of good anime in 2024, so here's the list of my top 12 favorites and some bonus great anime as well. If you get tired of clicking the review links, check out my anime overview collection for all of them here.  

You can also check out my post about my favorite manga from 2024 here and my favorite books of 2024 here.

These are in no particular order!

Delicious in Dungeon (a.k.a Dungeon Meshi)

Dungeon Meshi  is one of my favorite stories period, and easily my top anime of the year. The basic premise is that Laios and his party of adventurers need to travel through a monster-infested dungeon rescue his sister. Rather waste precious time earning money for food, Laios decides they should just eat the monsters they encounter as they travel. But then that simple plot spins off into so much more...

The story combines cooking and adventure animanga expertly. It has some of the most impressive and fascinating worldbuilding I've ever seen, top-tier varied character design and a great plot. It's also funny as hell, and I love its main cast of nuanced eccentric weirdos with all my heart. Even the characters who have five minutes of screen time feel like you could watch a spin-off series about them.

It's not just about food, but the cycle of life and death, about hunger of all kinds, about ecosystems and societies and finding solace in the monstrous...there's a lot simmering under this story!

So, go ahead and eat up! And read my review here for more!

Mayonaka Punch

Canceled YouTuber, Masaki, meets a pathetic lesbian vampire, Live. Live agrees to help Masaki launch a new YouTube channel, but in exchange, Masaki has to let Live suck up all her blood when they reach 100 million subscribers.

 This is the kind of stuff I watch anime for. This is what dreams are made of.

Do you support women's wrongs? Are you craving some women who are loveable shitheads? Do you want a great ensemble comedy about five disaster vampires wreaking havoc and a cynical human along for the ride? This show has all that, plus some down bad lesbian vampire shenanigans! But there's also a lot of growth for the main character, and the show has a lot of pathos in how it explores how the internet and its outrage train can do a number on one's mental health.

It's a ton of fun! See my full review here!

Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.

Being a magical girl is no longer the domain of teenagers, and has evolved into an actual career dominated by adult women. Kana becomes a magical girl for a scrappy start up company, and tries her best to navigate working life.

It's the magical girl story about adult women I've been craving for years! Magical girl media often explores the struggles of adolescence and growing up, and this show takes us to the next step by using magical girls to explore what it’s like to be a young woman entering the working world. The focus is one Kana struggling to grow her confidence and accept support from her workplace, but it also has a lot to say about companies exploiting their workers, prizing efficiency and growth over actually taking care of their customers, and it shows how the world could be better than what it is right now. Check out my review here for more detail!

Girls Band Cry

After being bullied, Nina drops out school and ends up starting a band with four other girls, including the woman whose music saved her at her darkest moment. Nina's determined for the band to stick it to the people who once looked down on them. GBC features some wonderfully messy and entertaining teenage girls, actually incredible CGI animation and great music. Nina, the lead, is allowed to be angry and obnoxious and powered by spite, but the narrative sympathizes with her and loves her spirit, even if she sometimes messes things up. All the girls have rough edges and raw emotion and a great dynamic with each other. They also flip people off a lot.

It was kind of screwed over by streaming, but don't sleep on it! See my review here!

Natsume's Book of Friends (Season 7) 

Anime's sweetest boy and his horrible cat (affectionate) are back, and it's time for more yokai adventures! I’ve already talked at length about how this series is special–check out my series review/ Rec post for the series here. I also did an article titled The Courage to Speak: Mental Illness and Recovery in Natsume’s Book of Friends that goes into more in-depth analysis. The story is sweet and charming and sometimes heartwrenching and very important to me.

It's yet another season of lovely, bittersweet yokai tales that tug on your heartstrings, the characters continue to heal and grow in slow but satisfying ways. It just feels so nice watching this series again and letting the love, comfort, and catharsis wash over me. See my review here.

Dead Dead Demon's DeDeDeDe Destruction

A giant mothership is hovering over Tokyo. The aliens have done nothing, not even leaving their ship, but Japan and America are already trying to blow that UFO up, and show off who has the best weapons, causing many civilian casualties along the way. Meanwhile, two girls are just trying to living their lives.

This anime goes hard on criticizing the military industrial complex, Japanese nationalism and imperialism, American imperialism, xenophobia, mistreatment of immigrants, rich people, and conspiracy theorists. That means it's often devastating and visceral, but it also follows some fantastic weird girls and their ride-or-die soul bond, as well as other charming, funny teenagers who are just trying to live in a world falling apart around them. You can also look forward to some plot twists that recontextualize everything you know!

You should also see my review for some content warnings and a really important message about episode order if you want more detail, you can read it here.

Senpai is an Otokonoko

 Makoto is an "otokonoko" ( a term that means crossdressing boy) and he's figuring out his relationship to gender, and hiding his interests from his mother. A girl named Aoi confesses to him, thinking he's a girl. But he reveals the truth, she's ecstatic about it, much to his shock. Meanwhile, Makoto's best friend Ryuji is also crushing on him...

It's tough to be a queer kid in a world full of rigid gender roles and insidious homophobia, and this anime shows the unfairness of that struggle. But it also shows the joy of finding those who accept and understand you, and of slowly becoming comfortable with who you are. The show knows how to make you really roots for these great kids, and it's really good at tugging the ol' heartstrings. See my review here for more!

A Sign of Affection

The anime follows Yuki, a shy girl who's been deaf since birth, and Itsuomi, a world-traveler and polyglot, fall in love. They both live in very different worlds, but as their romance blooms, they're eager to learn more about each other.

A Sign of Affection is shoujo romance at its sweetest, with soft colors, gentle blushes, tender moments, and plenty of warm fuzzies. The animation is beautiful and the show treats Yuki's perspective with care and delicacy as the story goes on. It also have a great focus on communication and consent in a relationship. Read my review here! 

YATAGARASU: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master

In this world, people have the ability to shapeshift into yatagarasu, the giant three legged ravens from Japanese mythology. Prince Wakamiya, who's next in line for the emperor, is thought to be an incarnation of the powerful "Golden Raven", so the four women chosen as his bride candidates (each who carry the hopes of their respective provinces) compete fiercely for his hand. Yukiya, a canny young boy, has been pulled into being the prince's attendant, and both Yukiya and the women soon find themselves pulled into a deadly web of mysteries and political machinations.

Yatagarasu is a tightly woven tale of political intrigue, featuring lots of palace folk plotting against each other, multiple assassination attempts, spies, fascinating worldbuilding and use of mythology, well executed plot twists, and complex characters. Yukiya is a very likeable little trickster with a heart of gold, and he works well as an audience surrogate who has to keep up with all this weird court drama. In the first half, the story focuses a lot on on women contending with rigid roles and how that leads to both enmity and empathy between them. But disappointingly, most of those characters are dropped or have their roles reduced in the second half of the anime, which is a shame.

Overall, this anime is a story that hooks you with it's story and it's dark, majestic atmosphere and never lets go. It's just plain good, and pretty underrated, so I'd suggest checking it out!

The Apothecary Diaries (Episodes 13-24)

The second half of The Apothecary Diaries was somehow even better than the first half, crafting a compelling ongoing mystery and delving into MaoMao’s backstory. There were quite a few big thrills that made me gasp aloud. MaoMao, the world's best poison-obsessed detective, pulled off some show-stopping feats and she remains an incredible, endearing character. Especially now that we’ve learned she has a killer evil laugh. Check out my review of the first part of The Apothecary Diaries here and slightly more detail on this run of episodes here.

Dandadan

 Another one you've probably heard of, it's the story of two kids- Momo, who was abducted by aliens and Okarun, who was cursed by a yokai. Now they have to break Okarun's curese while aliens and yokai are hunting them!

Dandadan is an anime bursting with absurd action and humor, and it has a boppin’ soundtrack and amazing animation from Science Saru. It’s wildly weird in the best way, and the characters are hilarious lovable losers. It's also the rare example of a battle shonen that actually treats its female lead as an equal to her male partner, in screen time and in battle. I adore Momo with all my heart- she's fun, she's bombastic, she's badass, she's everything.

However, the main problem I have with the show is its pattern of putting Momo in sexual peril. I go into more detail about this and the show in general in my review here.

Train to the End of the World

 A story about four girls and a dog traveling across a weird, warped version of Japan to find their missing friend, Train to the End of the World is wild. I absolutely adore bizarre anime about equally bizarre girls, and this delivers. We see the girls encounter a cult with mushrooms growing out of their heads, screaming goatmen and even zombies on their journey. The dynamic between the different characters is great, and the dialogue is snappy. If you appreciate wild and weird zaniness that also has a lot of heart and great friendships, give this show a try. My full review is here.

Bonus Anime- some other stuff you might want to check out!

Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!

Despite an extremely goofy title Cherry Magic quickly became a surprisingly grounded, thoughtful and heartfelt BL romance worth watching. See my full review here.

7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!

Rishe has lived seven lives, had lots of adventures, and in every single one of them, she has been killed as result of the world war started by the emperor of a neighboring kingdom. Each time Rishe dies, she's sent back to the moment the crown prince of her own country broke off their engagement (she's actually pretty happy about it). But in her seventh life, the future Emperor sees her, is instantly smitten by how cool she is and proposes to her. Rishe decides she might as well enjoy life chilling in the palace before things inevitably go to hell.

7th Time Loop has a fun conceit, and it features a vivacious, badass heroine who's a joy to watch. Having lived as a commoner in most of her past lives, she's ready to use her smarts to help people--whether it's going undercover to help a maid who's being bullied or addressing illiteracy among the servant girls. Whether she's beating up kidnappers or politically maneuvering, she's learning and growing and kicking ass. While her love interest is a bit too broody for me, I do deeply relate to how Rishe's badassery clearly turns him on. The antagonists and plot are sometimes a bit silly, but it's always a good time. A josei anime about an awesome gal is just what the doctor ordered.

Acro Trip

A silly show about a magical girl fangirl who's recruited to an evil organization by an incompetent villain,  Acro Trip is a lot of fun, and I recommend it to any magical girl enjoyer. I also recommend it to anyone who loves pathetic failguys and girls. Our "villain" Chrome is the most hilariously pathetic of them all. You like bad boys? Well this man is literally bad at everything. See my full review here.

Whisper Me a Love Song

 I have to give a shoutout to the only textual yuri anime that came out this year--it's production basically completely collapsed, but it's still watchable and the story is a sweet and solid girl band romance. At least consider giving the manga a shot if nothing else! See my review here!

[randomness-is-my-order]

i love how dandadan does second love interests. they’re like here’s our meticulously produced unhinged out-of-pocket out-of-box out-of-universe brand of weirdos and you will probably find them annoying in exactly two or five scenes before they will hollow out your heart and make a space for themselves and also unequivocally assure you that they will never truly threaten the momoakarun ship through the sheer power of their dumbfuckery alone. they also both have pink hair. and they’re also both obnoxiously loveable.

remember when momo and okarun were THE boisterous characters?