#“ideally july >:(”

[nicollekidman]

drafting then deleting tens of earnest political posts because i spend a lot of my fucking time thinking about this shit only to publish “i’ve always wanted to fuck stephen colbert”

[lollitree]

Guys I finally got my motivation back for XYLiro :D

[stellarspecter]

even if it's not actually jatp s2 but just like a tour or new music or something I would still be mega hype. I would buy tickets to a jatp tour so fast u wouldn't even believe. and I would have the time of my life there in cosplay singing the words to every song. it's my eras tour

[lou-writes-things]

jatp is the best because it's relatively small but the fandom makes the coolest shit, and we just vibe in like. a little bubble of goodness.

[dumbclowngiggles]

Ja äh hier

[rmorde]

Trigun Manga Reaction

Here we go! Chapter 8 Volume... Huh?

Voulme 2? I thought this is still Volume 1. Am I tripping?

Anyway! Just a moment of appreciation for this parody page of he cover.

This while thing is so "busy" yet it still make sense. There's so many elements layering on top of each other. It should be a confusing mess. However, I can still easily pick out the four components that tells a story.

Component 1: Vash as a happy salary man being served a drink by a geisha (judging from the hairstyle and accessory) with shadowed eyes on the opposite end of the page.

Component 2: BDN at the dead center. The text makes it a bit difficult to confirm if he has a top knot, but he definitely is rocking a traditional Japanese look. He looks menacingly at Vash as he drinks.

Component 3: Meryl and Milly running in a hurry but for two clearly different purposes. Meryl looks like a traditional restaurant staff frantically trying to serve a lot of guests. Meanwhile, Milly doesn't look she's working anywhere near the food service industry with her get up and the tool that she has on hand.

Component 4: The Bad Lads drinking in celebration while an ambulance seems to be sounding its sirens as it parked near them.

Look. I may seem to be too obsessed with this gag page but it's crazy how its a fucking busy mess that still works at telling a cohesive story!

With just this two page drawing, I can infer easily that someone is in danger and may need to be hospitalized - so the ambulance was called and asked to stand by. Milly is probably the heroine about to save the day with the overworked yet eager to help Meryl. The party the Bad Lads are having is a big distraction at a possible murder attempt starring Vash as the victim, the geisha as the accomplice, and BDN as the mastermind.

I'M SORRY BUT HOW THE FUCK?!!!

And don't get me started on the scaling of each figure and the silhouettes. Just... I'll just repeat, Nightow is amazing for how pretty AND technical his drawing is. It's so clean. Wow...

Sorry for getting derailed. So, back to the chapter.

Ok. I lied. Let me just appreciate Winter Mery and Milly here. I love them so much and they so fucking cute here with their dynamic pose... solid silhouette... Clean fucking lines... Sorry... Give me a minute!!!

Sigh~

Interesting. So, '98 rearranged the sequence of events here. This happened a bit later... which I think is better. It adds more impact on Vash's duel against BDN.

These guys are no stormtrooper shooters. They having really good aim!

They didn't hit Vash. Okay. Maybe the tails of his coat now have fresh bullet holes, but aside from that, Vash is fairly intact. The Bad Lads have great accuracy.

This is an intriguing way of drawing a spinning gun. It's simple but effective in visually communicating that that is what BDN is doing. A good choice. Thinking about it... If three twirling guns in a blur of circles were drawn, it would be too distracting and BDN will be overwhelmed in the panel.

Cool foreshortening. Incredible detail on the filigree. And a bonus Goofy Face Vash!

So so fucking glad '98 was faithful to the manga with these scenes. Meryl and Milly were such badasses here.

Huh... Well that's a huge difference. There's not much:

GASP! It'S VaSH tHe STampeDE!

vASh ThE StAMpEdE?!

VASH THE STAMPEDE!!!

It can get a bit much... sometimes in '98. So, this is refreshing.

WHAT...

WHAT THE FLYING FUCK?!!!

So, those lines by Miss Purple Avenger from the filler episode were originally from BRILLIANT DYNAMITES NEON?!

I-

Oooohhh.... Pretty art... Wait no... I can't distracted. I'm mad!

I'M VERY VERY MAD!!!

OML! This is much more intense! IT ADDS SO MUCH WEIGHT TO THE DUEL!

Oh my goodness... This nuance... WHY WAS THIS CHANGED?!

Not to say that Miss Purple Avenger and the episode featuring her was bad. It was actually great! Her version of July was nightmare inducing... and her confrontation with Vash was truly tragic too but.... Uhm...uh... AAHHHH!!!! I CAN'T CHOOSE! THEY'RE BOTH GOOD!

Oh... break my heart into fucking pieces will you huh?!

LOOK AT THESE! Manga Vash getting cheered on by the people! People were supporting him! He is being treated nicely as he deserved.

Even in '98! It was not as overt at this page. However, that scene of the captain from the beginning of this chapter replaced these panels instead and is just as effective. '98 Vash has people believing the good in him.

TRISTAMP VASH WAS ROBBED!!! HE NEVER HAD THESE!!! That poor precious boy! The few precious people who supports him only showed up near the end... and... and...

Now getting even more upset again with the Jeonora Episodes in Tristamp!

It's so not fair!

Oooh. A cinematic page!

HOLY SHIT!!! THESE PAGES ARE AMAZING!

I can't believe this. This fight is better in the manga!

I am not dissing Studio Madhouse for what they've done tho. The '98 Duel was epic too! They did great! But all these crazy angles and perspectives in the manga just elevate the overall awesomeness of the gunfight. It's just more immersive.

Tbf to the '98 anime, this is a nightmare to animate faithfully. With the technology and techniques at the time, this would be so difficult to pull off beautifully - going topsy turvy in one smooth motion for two characters at the same time in a fight scene with a complicated moving background? Yeah... The animation staff would go insane. It's totally understandable that they simplified this duel into extreme close ups and strong facial + gun drawings instead.

I hope Studio Orange re-hashes this fight in some way tho... or does the Episode 1 duel count?

Sigh... With the my discovery that Miss Purple Avenger's lines were actually BDN's, and that the outrage towards Vash for not remembering anything about July belongs to the Bad Lads', these words have become so much more meaningful.

It's also now more effective at convincing me that Brilliant Dynamites Neon have hidden depths.

Oh... Ow... The detailing here is just ow for the hands of an artist. Perhaps I overreacting, but those fine lines in the crooks and crannies make me wince.

Once again tag responses:

@revenantghost

Yeah. The more I see his work, the more I'm awed by his skills. That's a cool detail that his design incorporate realism. I thought the glasses are for the light tho? But maybe it's like those the Olympian gunners wore during the competition?

The dead REALLY haunting the narrative? Looking forward to it!

@takeshidude

Ok. Monthly publication are still grueling but at least its not as nightmarish with weekly mangakas. No wonder the quality is consistent with the art. Nightow was allowed to breathe.

You make a good point. '98 did have a bit of a mystery woven into it. We know Vash the Stampede - we follow his misadventures and people kept saying who he is ad nauseam in every episode. However, we don't really know know him for quite a long time. It's a different, but no less interesting, spin to the story.

Which kinda explains I'm misremembering some scenes and characterizations? The last third of '98 made a long lasting impression that I kinda forgot about Vash's horn dogginess.

[piningpercussionist]

I d ont want to work on this anymore you can't make me,, sorry LisIm nation-

[michyeosseo]

Ano bang ginawa kong mali? [ t/n What have I done wrong? ]

Barbie Forteza and Julie Ann San Jose as KLAY & MARIA CLARA

MARIA CLARA AT IBARRA (2022-2023) 1.36

[belligerentbagel]

Final two ArtFights!

Red (otherfireangel)

Suzuni Yukai (pikapillow)

[vonlipvig]

Also, sorry for misgendering you. I didn't realized that i have use the his pronouns instead of they/them on you. Forgive me, please.

truly, don't even worry about it, it's all good! while i do prefer they/them, my gender is basically "actor" at this point, y'know? whatever the role demands of me, i'm down for it (and suzerain gets me so immersed, so yeah, sometimes i am an evil king who uses he/him pronouns lmao).

[camelspit]

btw i have the best keeper character tournament preliminaries set to start immediately after sexywoman. mark your calendars for june 9th.

[oswednesday]

despite my actual medical condition i do like the heat, one of wednesdays fave activities is being outside when its warm and collapsing and having people around me be like ooohh riiight, in a combo of classically abused in a certain way having the bathwater boiling way too hot id do that in the bathroom a lot i no longer do that, its just like i like to think of myself as someone who strives to care about the world outside of my body so even tho im like waaa a sporting temp its like it should not ever be this warm in may in this location on the planet earth

[sick-ideals-and-dirtied-veins]

personally think this one aged really well :)

[ghoulangerlee]

If I use $50 a week from the 79.99 extra I'll have starting Feb 2025, then Mom's headstone will be paid off just after her birthday in August. I have $1630 left on it and honestly that may be the only way I get it done before it starts building interest.

[maryellencarter]

Aaaand starting to see the stupid performative "i hate the fourth of july and you have to too or you're Evil" posts floating around already

If y'all reblog those, I'd appreciate if you could tag them. I have "whole country disposal service" blocked for the purpose

I hold the opinion, extremely unpopular among anybody who will accept my existence (even @camshaft22 gives me the whole "it's outdated you're being a crypto-Republican, blah blah hypocritical old white men, stop valuing it" spiel), that having an official document saying "freedom is a fundamental human right, deciding how you will be governed is a fundamental human right" is Good actually.

Of course they didn't actually mean everybody! We've had this conversation! "The creators weren't morally pure" and "The work doesn't say anything good" are two different complaints!

So look at what the work says. Do we agree that people have human rights? Do we agree that if a government is regularly killing or imprisoning its people, it should Stop or be stopped?

"oh I believe in the glorious revolution" where the fuck do you think that idea *came from*. Where do you think your whole concept of overthrowing the government came from. You live in a culture. Rejecting the Fourth of July while actively worshipping the concept of overthrowing a bad government and trying to make a better one -- you sound like those atheists who celebrate Christmas but while telling Jews and Muslims it's not a Christian holiday because you celebrate it. But in the opposite direction.

Anyway. My country is dying. My country has always been kind of crap about actually giving most people their human rights. It is about to stop giving anybody any human rights whatsoever.

That doesn't mean that "we're starting this country by writing down our ideas of basic human rights" was a bad thing! And it doesn't mean "let's have a holiday about that document" is a bad thing.

I will be celebrating the Fourth of July, as usual, by reading the Declaration of Independence and trying to find anyone interested in having a discussion about it. One year I actually found someone. She is dead. I will not actually find anyone again.

I don't have anywhere else to be except Tumblr, or I'd go there. So I will be surrounded by jackoffs bragging about how smart they are to shit on the source of the ideals they take for granted.

[overtheriver-throughthewoods]

torn absolutely Torn over when to set my new island...

on one hand a whimsy autumn forest with just a hint of summer still lingering... mid september apples where the weather is brisk but not biting... the leaves are turning but only just a promise of the glorious orange and yellow yet to come

but the idea of bright and deep greens playing at autumn on the horizon with yellow and orange flowers, "blackberry" bushes on the path ripe for picking if you can brave the thicket for them... lightning bugs over ponds in the woods...

they compel me. Deeply.