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still trucking on that amv.

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oh dont mind me

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It turns out it's a lot easier to commit incredible violence if you have friends backing you up.

big fan of stories that, while undoubtedly being about the power of friendship, acknowledge that the power of incredible violence is just as important

the love was there. the love changed everything. the crowbar helped also

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angel and devil

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(pressed up against mirror) you're CUTE. you're NORMAL. you FEEL THINGS LIKE A PERSON DOES. you can PRESS [Shift] TO DASH

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this panel is so pleasing to me like… perfect shapes and postures. ranma feels light and airy, akane is strong and grounded. his head is getting acquainted with the floor to see if the hit reboots his brain

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A lot of people write Fate off entirely as that Weird Japanese Franchise (insert Orientalist sneer here) that made King Arthur into a Girl, but as someone who read a book of Arthurian stories at a formative age in a school library and was disappointed by almost every subsequent contemporary adaptation of the mythos I found, from movies to TV to games, I still feel that Fate/Stay Night was one of the only modern works to truly convey the sense of sheer beauty and tragedy I felt while reading those stories back in the day. Artoria with her mix of stoicism and melancholy, of might and helplessness, is one of the best adaptations of King Arthur, full stop, and certainly the best in current times after The Once and Future King. I hear Westerners react with derision and mockery every time they see a work from Asia adapt their mythologies and folklore on account of an unfounded belief that those silly Easterners with their "anime tropes" could never hope to convey the supposed cultural complexity of Western culture, and then when you look closer to see what complexity they're taking about, you find nine million dogshit works that are either a) D&D slop that run on race science arithmetic or b) adaptations of Greek mythology with the whitest people and the most neoliberal politics you'll ever see. I'll take the visual novels, thanks.

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[with full awareness I am about to offer the most violent and least helpful solution to the problem at hand] perhaps it is time... for a woman's touch

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My personal conspiracy theory on why Ultra Sun and Moon made Lusamine a worse character is due to Nintendo and/or the Pokemon Company insisting on Brand Consistency. You see, due to production lead in time we know the character designs for the Pokemon anime are made well before the games come out. The starter designs for Gen VII were leaked due to anime production art being leaked after all. My theory is that when the anime writers were given the designs and concepts for Lillie, Lusamine, and Gladion the entire concept wasn't there. Perhaps at most it noted some stress between the family. So the anime writers went with the anime version of the character being a loving mother with a distant relationship to her children due to being busy at work. Meanwhile the game's storyline had her be a fairly awful abusive parent and the main antagonist.

We can't have the kids be confused why the funny mom in the cartoon is mean, after all. So when USUM was being made the demand was put down to retcon away as much as Lusamine being bad as possible.

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One minor difficulty in my life is that you ask me what my favorite mecha anime is I answer "Super Robot Wars Z" and it's hard to recommend an untranslated 40 hour PS2 Strategy RPG to normal people.

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alienqiqii on twt drew a very funny what if where Akane gets Mirror Clone'd instead of Ranma and I asked if I could draw my take on the concept- it was too good a chance to let it pass by

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Partner starts using RNG manipulation as foreplay.

Robot that's into fucking humans, but it randomises its erogenous responses before each encounter and makes its partner solve puzzles to receive cryptic clues about what they are this time around.

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I swear I've seen a game that basically does this where the bad ending explains major parts of the game's plot.

Writing an eighty hour action-RPG-with-life-sim-elements where what's actually going on is only explained on the bad ending route. Every action that's required to set a good ending flag also causes a critical bit of expository dialogue to never happen. You did the good ending first? Fuck you.

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A problem I find with a lot of Ranma/Shan Pu ship art is that it just depicts Ranma and Shan Pu's dynamic in canon.

Shan Pu latching on to Ranma with Ranma looking nervous is like, how it shows Ranma isn't into Shan Pu. Her advances make him uncomfortable and frankly Ranma is scared of her. If you're trying to make a drawing showing them as an actual couple I don't get why you're showing one half of the couple clearly not wanting to be there.

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In the Pokémon universe there are people who refuse to believe Clefairy is a fairy type. You can show them all the evidence in the world and all the research papers proving it was incorrectly labeled a normal type prior to the discovery of the fairy type, but they won’t believe you. They will send out their clefairy into an incoming poison type move, watch it deal double damage, and still say it’s not super effective because when they were in pokéschool they learned that Clefairy is a normal type pokemon

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