#UNEXPECTED NONSENSE

[unexpected-nonsense]

AH YES, “PAPYRUS”

A GREAT NAME, FOR A GREAT BEING

HM

IT SEEMS

HE HAS AWOKEN

AH, RIGHT

THE BIG DAY

HAS ARRIVED.

[ilycalls]

tommyinnit (and tubbo), via his instagram post on 1/19/24

[glorious-spoon]

somebody make me write, i think my brain is mush

[i-am-trans-gwender]

The most effective jump scare is seeing someone you follow reblog from someone you've blocked.

[houkagokappa]

I talked about seasonal anime with my friend and she recommended Yuuki Bakuhatsu Bang Bravern to me, comparing it to Samurai Flamenco, and calling it incredibly homoerotic (are those not synonyms?)

I was intrigued, and picked it up as soon as I got home from the con. The first episode shows us military guys training in mechas, and then aliens attack and they have to fight for real. It was honestly quite boring to me, until the last few minutes when a mysterious and flashy new mecha, Bravern, appears and calls to one of the military guys. They're destined to fight together. What follows is an incredibly cheesy loving parody of a mecha fight, with silly attack names and a song to hype things up!

Forget about the gritty military story, this anime is a comedy. The second episode makes that clear. It's very funny, the contrast between the strict military setting and the absurdity of the anime logic Bravern runs on works really well. The series doesn't take itself seriously at all, and does indeed contain insane amounts of suggestive language, including every word that comes out of Bravern's mouth (come inside me, become one with me etc.). It's an anime original by Cygames so anything could happen with the military, the mechas and the aliens, and there's a lot of interesting set-up. I'd call it the hidden gem of the season, but ever since I binged the first three episodes I keep seeing it around.

The genre shift was fun and well executed, and the goofy characters and the humor does remind me of Samurai Flamenco (which you need to watch if you haven't seen it already). It's my new favourite anime of the season :)

[chiropteracupola]

always on the edge of collapse now / absolutely nobody cares...

[flintlock fortress is a collaboration with @dxppercxdxver]

[arisveah]

man i hate slur jumpscares omg

[lokislittlesigyn]

have listened to the new glass animals album

[note-boom]

Huh. It only JUST hit me that Tachihara technically could feel where Tanizaki was when our boy went feral during the Cannibalism arc...

You know...metalbender Tachihara probably could vaguely sense Tanizaki the knife wielder. Respect for him keeping up appearances, I mean, but it's funny to remember that because Tanizaki almost killed the Mafia's boss

[negpos-comments]

Let us NOW commit war crimes in the name of our lord and savior, King Bomborlasdofa

We shall bring glory to our lands and our names!

In the name of the end of the world!

[unexpected-nonsense]

[ * There’s a piece of paper here. ]

[ * There is some blue fur on it. ]

[ * You pick up the paper. ]

[ * It’s a drawing. ]

[crossdressingdeath]

Y'know, the Read Riordan Hypnos spotlight (side note, very worried about that "Especially once [Nico's nightmares] become real" bit given how absolutely batshit Nico's nightmares are in the excerpt) has me thinking about Nyx again and how much it pisses me off that she's so damn stupid in HoH. And you know, I think the explanation that would be most satisfying is that... Nyx deliberately played along to let Percy and Annabeth go without having to outright say she was letting them go. Like, the sense I'm getting is that TSatS is going to feature Nyx as a major player (and probably an antagonist), and if she's got some sort of plan in place that's coming to fruition in TSatS (maybe involving getting out of Tartarus?) she'd likely need Gaia gone to enact it since if the world's ended any plan involving people in that world would be scuppered. Since the Seven needed Percy and Annabeth to complete the quest, assuming Nyx wanted the Seven to succeed she'd need to let them through, but if she just let them pass that might raise suspicions about her intentions. Hence, pretending to fall for the incredibly blatant lie that there are tourists in Tartarus. And also pretending that Mother Night can be easily outwitted by... making it darker. In fact I'm going to believe that that's the case unless it's explicitly proved to be false, because I cannot get over how stupid it is that Percy and Annabeth's tourist ploy actually worked. Like, I can't even be impressed by their success because you'd have to be a complete and utter moron to buy it. Feels a bit like taking candy from a baby if Nyx actually fully believed them.

Also, I'd love a bit in TSatS where Nyx gloats a bit at how effortlessly she got Percy and Annabeth past her without them realizing she was letting them go. Like... "Heroes are so gullible, they'll believe anything if it makes them look impressive!" Because it's incredibly stupid that Nyx bought the claim that there are tourists in a place that—at this point in the series—as far as we know only one person in the whole history of the setting has ever survived, and it's incredibly stupid that the goddess of night can be stopped dead by making it darker... but it's also incredibly stupid that Percy and Annabeth don't question either of those things. It doesn't make sense that a primordial goddess wouldn't realize that tourists wouldn't be in Tartarus, and it doesn't make sense that the goddess of night could be stopped by the magic darkness her children got the power to create from her, but they just... fully buy that both of those things worked and largely put the encounter with Nyx out of their minds. It would be interesting if the fact that these two believed wholeheartedly that a primordial goddess without hesitation took the word of two teenagers that they were tourists in the nigh-unsurvivable hellpit and then got outplayed by making the area darker despite being the goddess of night became a plot point because it was objectively ridiculous for that to actually work. Something something hubris something something.

[hyperfixated-homo]

[lovebugdotcom]

Wanna create a promo post but don’t actually wanna participate in promo hour lol

[f2version]

it’s 6am and i’m giggling because of a MAN

[modernmonsterrp]

Little Momo marches pridefully up to Pierian's door; the right one to the apartment building. Hoisted up above her head is a boxed lunch wrapped in koi fish decorated cloth. She overhead the microwave fiasco and brought them lunch! The child insists on helping feed the skeleton. "Piiiieeee!" she called gleefully. There's a snort of a giggle from Red.

The skeleton in question... was having a bad day. He'd called into work and lay in bed with no plans to move ever again.

... Okay, so that was a bit dramatic, but he was depressed. Not being in a bar about it was a win, but he wasn't able to get any father than that.

Of course then there's a small child outside his door calling his name. A jolt of adrenaline shoots through him in the form of anxiety, and without really thinking about how, he's on his feet and peeking out the peep hole.

Its a small child alright, holding a cloth wrapped package over her head. And behind her is Red.

He looks back at his dark apartment. There's a couch with red plaid snuggy thrown over it, a mattress in the corner without a blanket, a music box by it, books obviously fished out if the dump piled around the room, and a small kitchenette that contained little more than a sink full of dishes and the aforementioned microwave.

He was not prepared for guests.

He looks back at the door. He couldn't just. Leave them out there. First off there was a child. Second off there was Red.

Pierian nods to himself once, twice, three times... and opens the door.

"heya little miss an' mister big."

He sounds cheery enough, but looks like he slept in his clothes... which isn't too far off from his usual appearance so.