#also do not come for lou

[diazsdimples]

Now see what you did! This is what you represent to me with your multishipping! Do you understand how upsetting this is?? You lot are destroying everything we've fought for! You don't think Tim cares! Well he will fucking leap with joy bc then he doesn't have to bother with buddie. I don't understand how you can't see what you're doing

"Did you see on twitter Lou is asking 9-1-1 fans to make him a regular. I can't with this fandom. They are ready to throw away a story of six years and settle for a random shitty character as Buck's partner just because he's a man. The actor knows how to play and use them to get what he wants. And they're not realizing that they're hitting the nail in the coffin of buddie themselves by asking for Tommy to stay."

Are you really this desperate for queer representation to just ship any queer characters together? Pls think.

Ngl I am praying a little that this is satire cause mate, if it's not, go touch grass dfkjfd

"Are you really this desperate for queer representation to just ship any queer characters together? Pls think."

Yes. Yes I am. And if you have ever experienced being a minority and seeing yourself represented in media then you should also be delighted by this. This never happens in media. I'm fucking thrilled.

We aren't "throwing away years of story" or settling for a random shitty character, we're fucking delighted that Buck is exploring himself and that this is being represented in mainstream media! If you see a problem with that then I suggest you 1. check yourself and 2. have a real good look that you're not fetishizing Buddie cause if a ship matters more to you than queer representation... that's a little gross.

And finally, for those of you (yourself) who seemed to have not quite understood it, I STILL SHIP BUDDIE AND WANT THEM ENDGAME BUT SEEING BUCK HAPPY RIGHT NOW IS IMPORTANT!!! I'm a Buddie writer, I do Buddie edits and I will go into full mourning if Buddie doesn't end up being endgame. But that doesn't mean I can't be over the moon about Buck having a boyfriend and being happy with someone that isn't Eddie.

Anyways, you're going to find little to no sympathy here, if you'd like to whine I'm sure there's many other blogs who would willingly get all up in arms about this with you but I'm currently being fed by this beautiful thing called Buck's Sexuality Arc and will be riding this high for years.

[theresoneicouldcallking]

okay so can we all agree to be grown ups after tonight's episode?

if we don't get bi buck; don't go after the cast

if we do get bi buck but it's ambiguous; don't go after the cast

if we get bi buck but it's tommy-centered; don't go after the cast

if we get bi buck and there's nothing that points to eddie feeling the same way; don't go after the cast

if we get bi buck and somehow they go all in with buck/tommy; don't go after the cast

in short; DO NOT GO AFTER THE CAST because i'm going to assume you're a grown up too and you love the cast and they are not responsible for the scripts

[hellishfig]

god… rewatching neverafter again

and the intro scenes are a mixed bag in terms of terror

rosamund is kind of freaky with the vines and the dead princes, but then we have gerard’s, which is very amusing. pib’s is also pretty funny. mother goose’s is dark bc his son is dead, but they still joke about the gander

then we get to ylfa. and brennan and emily show the darkest and saddest origin story i have ever seen for little red riding hood. a little girl, lost in every way possible, confused and alone and scared, begging her mother to let her in, and her mother refuses. her mother says that her daughter is dead and gone and a monster stands in her place. ylfa doesn’t want to be a monster. she wants to go home. but she is different, and her home turns on her, and that betrayal turns her on them. she huffs and she puffs and she blows the family that left her for dead away

and pinocchio. pinocchio whose mother is a shadow in a doorway. pinocchio who became a boy by being good, only to lose that gift by lying to save his father. pinocchio who loves his father enough to lie, and must now keep on lying to serve a woman he has never even looked in the eyes

there’s something very fitting about the children in this fairy tale land having the most horrifying stories. those stories about children straying from the path or needing to never tell a lie or misbehave in order to be real, they’re meant as warnings. be good, children, or you’ll never have the respect that adults get. be good, or the monsters in the shadows will come for you. be good, or you’ll die

in a season that was meant to be horror but was subverted by the players knowing the theme, i appreciate even more the darker corners of the story

[buddiesmutslut]

I’m being so ffr rn, if the show runners definitively show that Buddie is not going to happen?

I’m probably not going to be watching anymore.

I mean it when I say that they’re literally the sole reason I watched this show in the first place. I saw a billion TikTok edits of them & was like “Idek these characters I need to watch this show and see what’s going on over there.”

And like, it’s a fun show, I’m not saying it isn’t, but first responder shows are a dime a dozen. There are other shows that have queer characters and found family and wild adventures. Granted, they don’t have Buck & his bi arc, but I’d still read fanfics to get my Evan Buckley fix lol.

I don’t need them right now, I’m so down for the slow burn, will-they-won’t-they & the pining & the yearning & the build up and the GOOD foundation. I want to see Eddie figuring himself out and dealing with his repression and figuring out he’s queer (& Demi, pls God. I hope if I just say it enough, I can will it into existence somehow) before anything happens with the two of them, but if they take definitive steps to have one of them like, marry someone else or something, I think I’m gonna head out. Find me on ao3 for the rest of my days lol.

[sparring-spirals]

attempted to relisten to the first ep of acofaf to lull me to sleep since i have it downloaded offline. however i have made a critical mistake, because acofaf as a whole and especially the first ep is so good and i now want to stay awake to finish listening to it.

this whole cast... golden.

also andhera coming in IMMEDIATELY smouldering and covered in vanity but useless muscles truly makes the "made some checks my body cant cash" line payoff later on even better.

[thedawningofthehour]

Hi.

I am watching the show again for ROTTMNT because I really need to to know how they interact.

I didn't realize this, but when Leo is trying to prove something, sometimes he will frame something like a question when he disagrees. With something someone said.

Also, Leo is more of funny. Right now I am on season 1 episode 9a.

Also, something I realized so far in the show is that they tend to focus on Donnie and Mikey’s relationship or Raph and Leo’s relationship. At least when it comes to individual pairings.

Which I can of find funny because in the fandom I mainly find “Donatello & Leonardo” the most. But I mainly think it is because they kind off have similar struggles. Not the same but similar. Mostly for like the self worth portions. I really like the dynamic between Donnie and Leo.

Also, in my watch of one episode, Raph said this

“- Raph “I think someone is in trouble. Is it us? Are you from the future?”” Raph is referring to Mayhem in that Hypno Leo and Raph episode.

That line hits differently now after knowing what happens in the movie

Donnie-Mikey and Raph-Leo are the classics in most TMNT iterations. I feel like it was kind of unnecessary here, because the main conflict between Raph and Leo has universally been 'Raph is mad that Leo is in charge of him,' and not only is it not applicable because Raph is in charge but Leo has absolutely no problem with that. He doesn't want to be the leader. And then Donnie and Mikey get thrown together because they're the other two and provide the B-plot as a background to Leo and Raph's shenanigans. In Rise, there were a lot of Donnie solo episodes, and a lot of episodes that seemed like they were supposed to be all-brother episodes but became Leo episodes.

The writers said that they wanted to do more episodes just featuring two brothers, mainly with Donnie-Raph and Mikey-Raph. But of course Nick had to ruin everything that was beautiful.

The reason there are no dedicated Disaster Twin episodes is because it would end with them hiding a body. Probably while dressed as old ladies.

[jester-step]

i started watching fantasy high and i’m worried my attachment to fabian aramais seacaster is going to be the death of me

[jaztice]

Brenna Motherfucking Lee Mulligan ADAMANTLY INSISTING that No, It’s Not Sad, Someone Gave Me A Zune Encrusted In Battery Acid And A Toothbrush To Scrub Away The Battery Acid As A Birthday Present When I Was In Middle School And No, It’s Definitely Not Sad, Stop Making It Sad Guys meanwhile Lou Dick Goose, Aabria, and Erika are vocally experiencing the seven stages of grief as he desperately tries to convince them that this isn’t the saddest goddamn birthday story anyone’s ever heard. And then Taylor keeping that in the fireside chat episode and releasing it onto the internet. Truly this is the best $5/mo I’ve ever spent in my life

[emile-hides]

I’m so obsessed with the Mario family and while I’m a very hard Uncle Tony stan I’m also insanely obsessed with Auntie Marie and her daughter. I want to know all about them.

[claire-starsword]

Authentic Story of the Shining Force - Saint Fencer Max - Chapter 1

First, a small preamble on what's this. This manga adaptation was published monthly by Shogakukan from March to August 1992. In other words, it started at the same time as the game was released. According to the artist, they began discussing the work in January 1992, and he got to play a in-development version of the game then, which gives us some interesting insight into things that might have changed before the game's launch, especially when it comes to Max and Cain's backstory. Really, if you like Cain you should read this, I'm doing this for you.

Scans of this complete book (only published in 1994) can be found on the Internet Archive. I did not find scans of the magazine issues it originally ran in. The artist is Toshihiro Ono, of the infamous Electric Tale of Pikachu. Thankfully it isn't as weird about women as that one, but that's a low bar. You will see a couple of boob jokes, alas.

I currently do not have the energy to typeset and clean up 130+ pages, so i'll be nevermind! i'm incapable of half-assing things lmao, will be cleaning and typesetting everything to the best of my ability (i've never translated a manga before. be nice to me).

Now, let's enjoy the story together.

Translation notes:

Even the title already requires some explanation. The way is it written in this book at least (シャイニングフォース正伝聖剣士MAX) doesn't make it clear which part is title or subtitle, so I've seen other places translate it as "Shining Force - Authentic Biography of Saint Fencer Max". I feel my version is more accurate though. As for the "Saint Fencer" part, this english reading is given by the book itself, while writing it as 聖剣士, which I feel would be more accurately translated as "holy swordsman", especially when 剣士 is already the swordsman class in english. This is likely a case of non-english speaking artist picking out a random reading from the dictionary just for style points, just like Max's name also get rendered in latin letters just because. So yeah I considered changing it, but you know? This manga is already so goddamn weird. Why not make that obvious from the title itself.

Cat panel!

Did you know that there are unused cat sprites in the final game, which show up multiple times in early builds of Guardiana? This is a deep cut reference! Or not, maybe the artist just wanted a cat independently, who cares I need everyone to know about the cat, we were robbed.

"Well, Claire, is Lowe being a small child some sort of scrapped content too?" Ahahahaha. NO. Lowe's design and role were announced way back in October, in the earliest coverage of the game. I have no clue why the artist decided to do this. I assumed for months that this was fanmade because of this. The same goes for Lou, I have no reason to believe a love interest was ever in the cards for Max in the game. The writer probably just wanted to fall into some common fantasy tropes of "man who fights to protect family".

Speaking of, Lowe usually refers to Lou as just sister (nee-chan) and brother (nii-chan). This doesn't sound natural in english so I usually ignore it and use the character's names, however, there's little else establishing that he and Lou are siblings in this chapter and I wanted to get that across already. It will also be important to establish that Max is a big brother figure to him, but there'll be time for that in next chapters.

Max's "alright!/yes!" is meant to be kind of a catchphrase. According to the artist, it was inspired by a magical girl anime called "Yousoko Youko". I don't know about it to comment, though.

Runefaust's name being rendered as two words is also something that shows up in some earlier coverage of the game as well. It will already go away by the next chapter, but I wanted to point it out.

[creakysocks]

My Pacrim oc Vivian ft some interactions i imagine happening at different points

[fortjester]

fully caught up on the mha anime now. this is why binge watching is dangerous. now i feel hollow

[kiwibubbles5]

Cringetober day 31, HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! <3 :D

A little late? Maybe... I was busy stuffing my face with candy corn lmao. But I cannot tell you guys how much I love designing cute magical witch girls

I hope everyone had a lovely happy Halloween!

[uwuinhell]

[enlichened]

Tagged by @transdiaz to put my playlist on shuffle and give the first 10. I only spotify playlist for my blorbos so I'm just using the top 100 from last year. O7

1. Gleam Behind the Ghosts - August and After

2. Give My Body Back - The Low Anthem

3. Habits- Genevieve Stokes

4. What Once Was - Her's

5. Run Boy Run - Woodkid

6. The Body is a Blade - Japanese Breakfast

7. Rose Mountain - Screaming Females

8. A Werewolf - Attic Abasement (!!!!)

9. Earthbound - The Accidentals

10. Tidal Wave - The Mountain Goats

I'm tagging @bilarper and @demasc if you want to, and whoever else wants to do it!

[ofcatsandstars]

moonlighters drawn as album covers!

quinn as paramore (2013), kira as the archandroid, lou as emotion, bella as mutate, baby!