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oh, we're gonna finish dressrosa by the end of summer, if this double episode rate continues

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this is like

it's on the edge of mushroom apocalypse, but just shy of it actually happening, but also maybe uncertain that it will be a bad thing like the last of us

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OH

IT HAS BEEN FOREVER SINCE A SHOW MADE ME AUDIBLY GASP WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENED

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these dominoes that were setting up all season are really falling down hard and falling down fast while also setting up the bigger picture dominoes for at least next season

phenomenal

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seriously, were this live action it would be competing with that severence show for awards

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"Marshall...?"

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I need Elena and Not-Radical-Edward to kiss.

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well, that's a new ship right there

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I need you so much closer

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I see posts go by periodically about how modern audiences are impatient or unwilling to trust the creator. And I agree that that's true. What the posts almost never mention, though, is that this didn't happen in a vacuum. Audiences have had their patience and trust beaten out of them by the popular media of the past few decades.

J J Abrams is famous for making stories that raise questions he never figures out how to answer. He's also the guy with some weird story about a present he never opened and how that's better than presents you open--failing to see that there's a difference between choosing not to open a present and being forbidden from opening one.

You've got lengthy media franchises where installments undo character development or satisfying resolutions from previous installments. Worse, there are media franchises with "trilogies" that are weird slap fights between the makers of each installment.

You've got wildly popular TV shows that end so poorly and unsatisfyingly that no one speaks of them again.

On top of that, a lot of the media actively punishes people for engaging thoughtfully with it. Creators panic and change their stories if the audience properly reacts to foreshadowing. Emotional parts of storytelling are trampled by jokes. Shocking the audience has become the go to, rather than providing a solid story.

Of course audiences have gotten cynical and untrusting! Of course they're unwilling to form their own expectations of what's coming! Of course they make the worst assumptions based on what's in front of them! The media they've been consuming has trained them well.

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amore

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Steven Universe is interesting to me because it’s got the most extreme dichotomy between ideas that would be better fleshed out in a show for adults, and ideas that are interesting specifically because they’re native to an unironic children’s show.

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In 2020 I was rawdogging the worst of my burnout so I got a bit addicted to drawing Gundam 00 scene redraws. This was super fun bc I got to flex my background muscles and I got to draw some titties

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I saw this pose on pinterest ( by aniforce_gr) and made something quick.

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awesome girl with a REALLY lame crush. my favorite

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If Iduna is the constellations, then Freya is the Northern Lights, twin ribbons of beauty and color tangling around the distant stars, a river to guide the souls of the fallen that twinkle down on mortals below.

Their return is inevitable.

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While I was doing some work, I put on some background videos, and for some reason, the pv of Secret Saturdays in a crossover with B10 started playing.

I saw Zak, and I felt like drawing him with his hair tied up like his mother's. In my mind, when Zak reached adulthood, Doyle gave him some earrings as a gift xD ** Song **