like a solid percent of windbreaker is Sakura stancing the fuck up and then a dude just like giving him a hug.
Sakura episode 4: Why do people follow this guy?
This guy: pats him on the head real good
Sakura: oh fuck oh shit what the fuck oh god is this it?!? This physical affection shit goes hard.
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I've never had one of these teenage gang anime endear me to their characters so swiftly. its had me sold on every character immediately. the moment they show up.
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if I did have a complaint it would be sometimes I wish it would get to the action quicker. the first episode had me thinking it would. because it did. but no it has all the standing around talking and cliffhangers of this genre.
So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)
I never got super far in tp no matter how many times I tried. As a kid a waffled about and found most of it boring. I know I watched my sister play a good chunk of it but I don't think she finished it either. (even tho it's her favorite zelda game) So I cant really say I have a huge attachment to the peice.
But from just listening to it I can say its very pretty. A little sad. And its got an unmistakable TP sound to it. Like a lot of the music in twilight princess its lower energy. Its calmer. I quite like it. TP has one of my favorite vibes of Zelda games. A real mix between goofy inbetween moments and dark tension. Only really topped by Majora's Mask's ever present anxiety hoverying over its meticulously detailed city. (Wind Waker would be my third favorite atmosphere and my favorite 3d Zelda game)
Sevens hoodie is great because it is 100% diy-able to anyone. all you need is the ability to get your hands on a unmarked white hoodie and some black fabric dye. and if youre chill you can just use a sharpie. it's incredibly simple but easily makeable and a rather recognizable if you know it.
Ok it's very funny to laugh at Tuxedo Mask for showing up and doing nothing, but his job was never to actually fight the monsters.
His job was just to show up and believe in Sailor Moon so overwhelmingly resolutely that she remembers she's a fucking demigod long enough for HER to fight the monsters.
Because she's the only one strong enough to do it in the first place, and in this regard Tuxedo Mask is the first example of being "Kenough" in this essay I will
Thinking about when CG was used exactly one time in the entirety of spongebobs pre-movie 3 season run
Like, they could’ve easily just had him instantaneously burst through the wall and get roughly the same joke across, but the fact the writers wanted him to slowly push through the wall like that SO BADLY that they went out of their way to implement the cg effect to do so is so fucking funny to me fndmmsmsms
Yes sao is more like a souls game than wow. But, and ive been told its a bit more fleshed out in the ln, it still doesnt really define its world. Like It doesnt explain the game great. How do skills work? How do players get them? How many can a player have? (there doesnt seem to be a limit. so im assuming there isnt) Is there a level cap. Are classes a thing or is it just builds are based on skills? Do weapons do anything or are they all just varying strength of swords. (I could probably keep going. Get more and more nitpicking about game mechanics but I understand that'd be a bit pandantic)
Alot of this can be skimmed. Sao IS first and formost a romance. But its setting does inform said romance so itd be nice if one could parse the worlds rules better. Idk it just doesnt use its setting great. It being a video game doesnt really matter. Which again isnt actually a huge deal to the narrative. It makes some action waffly and has me tearing my hair out during the murder mystery arc but it doesnt get in the way or the core of the story. Infact over exploring the game mechanics COULD have gotten in the way of the romance. So less detail is probably bstter than too much.
there are several over the top essays on why sao is a dog shit video game. but my thing is it's an MMO with no support class?? or if there is a support class we never see it?? where are our healers?? I think kleins supposed to be a tank, but like we never see it?? The only classes we really have a comfirm on are, melee weaponry, blacksmith and cooking?? Unless the girl with the dragon is some kind of beast tamer?? No healer? Or magic classes? Which fine ok its an mmo with no magic. Whatever. That doesnt makes sense from a writing perspective because magic is cool as fuck but I'll let it slide. No magic. Thered STILL need to be some sort of support classes. Tanks, healers, AOE attacks?? Look i get that the author wasnt actually into video games. What I don't get is why he decided to make it a video game in the first place if he doesn't know anything about them. Sao could have had the same plot if it was just some of vague concept sucked 10,000 people into this fantasy world and told them em to "beat" it.
I think having a baby niece is great cause my brother will send me just a constant stream of messages that sound indistinguishable from how someone at Jurassic park would text if they were being hunted by the raptor
Bc this is the way fandoms been denoting romance for decades? "Slashfic" is an OLD term. And fanfic isnt a book/anime/tv show. It doesn't funtion on genres it functions on tropes.
Ao3 is an archive. "Archive Of Our Own"
Tagging is to put it on the right shelves.
You tag for pairings, tropes, fandoms; characters. Genre doesnt really factor in. Sure you could tag it "comedy" or "horror" if that fits. But pretty often its just the genre the original work is.
Your more likely to tag stuff like "explicit" (this has in text sex) "Fluff" (this is just a feel good piece) "canon typical violence" "gore" "no romance" "no sex" "hurt no comfort" (this has a bad ending) "character death" "alternate universe" "X character is X thing" "X character ISNT X thing" "X character centric"
None of these this would you really but on a book. Hell most of these would be SPOILERS on a novel. But its about the difference in culture.
If its just tagged "romance" how would one find or avoid specific ships?
Ao3's tagging system is pretty simplistic which is what makes it very intricate. you can tag for just about anything. and because of that you can filter out just about anything. this is the natural evolution of. "LEMON!!! THIS HAS LEMON!! SEX!!" And "THIS IS A SLASH FIC ((THAT MEANS GAY ROMANCE)) (((DONT LIKE DONT READ)))!!" Ao3 has just made THAT incredibly streamlined, and baked into the ui.