#and also had weird pacing

[dust-of-embers]

Just finished watching Stranger by the Shore, I feel like cackling.

All I’m imagining is Zen Wisteria telling Hanako that he’s a bottom so can he hurry up, it is priceless.

Jesus fuck this doesn’t feel like it should be a movie??? I’m gonna check if the manga was more episodic, I assume there was a manga, cuz Sakurako showing up really seemed like the beginning of an arc of the story that would involve 3-4 episodes… pacing people, pacing.

Also! What is it with gay anime with un-awkward voice acting and cat symbolism??? Sasaki to miyano and now this?! So many cats! Makes me wonder why A Whisker Away wasn’t gay, it could’ve been a commentary on gay anime cats (this is a joke)

Anyway, I’m gonna go rewatch Akagmi No Shirayukihime with that sex scene in mind and cackle some more!

[helga-grinduil]

Okay, so. Um. Chapter 423.

Seeing people's reactions I have to say some things. And let me preface this by saying that I don't believe this is truly it. But.

The issue isn't even that Izuku (seemingly) failed to save the person he wanted to save from AFO (well, it is an issue, actually, but not the main point. Also, the fact that his and vestiges' plan to reach Tenko is also what ensured Tomura's death is just so... ), and it's not that he's weirdly distant and cold in this chapter.

It's the fact that not a single one of them actually acknowledged anything that they saw and heard in Shigaraki's mind. Neither of them talked about what AFO told Tomura - the fact that Tomura didn't say anything about what he learned about his quirk, his purpose and the fact that he never truly wanted to kill his family is especially mind-boggling. And Deku didn't say anything about the revelation that Tomura never really had a chance or a choice from the very start either. There was no self-relfection on either side, no real conversation, and there also was no real understanding between the two being reached. It's the fact that Deku instantly stopped caring or wondering about Tenko/Tomura the moment AFO came back, being completely willing to pulverise his body when just a few chapters ago he refused to do that when Nana told him to. It's the fact that he didn't react to Kurogiri pleading for Tomura and Bakugou just killed (???? maybe not, it's hard to understand) the man. It's the fact that the vestiges still being alive and Nana saving Tomura (oh hey, guess her whole family actually all died to AFO, unable to truly smile) was off-screened.

This is not people blaming Izuku. This is just people complaining about straight up bad writing.

Even if Tenko is still alive (And Kurogiri wasn't killed by Bakugou too, but I feel like Kurogiri is just too doomed to survive anyway), that doesn't erase the weirdness that this chapter was. It would still be salvageable, I guess, depending on what happens next, but good lord, the damage was certainly done.

And if Tenko is really dead, but we'll just see more of Midoriya's reaction to that in the following chapters, this would still be fucking horrible.

I love Deku. I love his emotions, how genuine he is, how empathetic he is. He is just a kid forced into an awful situation. This is not a jab at him as much as it is a jab at the author and the writing here. Because how in the world does the protagonist fail at doing what he wanted to do harder than the supporting cast with their villains? Why was Toga and Uraraka's final chapter more genuine and emotional that THIS - the protagonist and the main antagonist's last conversation????? Why was Ochako more upset about realising that Toga is about to kill herself than Deku was in those chapters?

[ravenrambles6229]

dragons rising really went "so what if we fucking nail every character and make every character fucking rule and introduce a bunch of new characters and oh here's kai just getting the best characterization in years/fucking ever. like man kai deserves some time so let's just make him the best. here's all the depth to kai that you've been imagining for the past decade. just for you" and then i'm supposed to be normal about it

also the fact that he made this big sacrifice, telling bonsel to close the portal, and nobody even gets to know he willingly sacrificed himself this time. cuz they couldn't hear him.

oh and here's a kai and nya kid flashback go cry about it

last season we had a kid lloyd flashback. any bets on kid jay, cole, or newly built zane flashbacks?

[jils-things]

SKADJKAJFKSFSAA content warning: embarrassing moment during my dinner out... /lh

[mementoasts]

i've been making progress in infinite wealth this week and i got very happy seeing daigo again. so i made a bracelet

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Saint of Bright Doors

a surreal Sri Lankan fantasy about colonialism, revolution, mixing fantasy with the modern world

follows a man raised by his mother to kill his father, a god-like cult leader

but as an adult he puts aside his life of violence and moves to the city for a quiet life

he becomes fascinated with ‘bright doors’ around the city that never open and have no other side, and joins a group studying them to find out more

and a support group for those with divine heritage that becomes increasingly revolutionary, until the task he was made for reemerges and his life upends

[takiki16]

A Fine Chain

UPDATE: Chapter 14/?

Fandom: Jupiter Ascending

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Beta: @gallifreyburning

Relationships: Jupiter Jones/Caine Wise

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Light Dom/sub, Power Imbalance, Royalty, Slavery, Collars, Leashes, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Don’t copy to another site, Dark

Summary: Caine Wise, disgraced ex-Skyjacker and convicted criminal, is suddenly inducted into the service of the enigmatic Queen Nea-Seraphi, mysterious new Recurrence and puzzle to the Entitled social circle. While figuring out the boundaries of his new station, worrying about his old commander, and nursing old wounds from his court martial, Caine finds himself slowly being drawn into the confidence of his royal employer. What could Her Majesty possibly want with a defective splice?

In which the queen is in peril, royal wardrobes are dismantled, and Caine experiences some tribulations.

The wonderful @zahnie has made a PLAYLIST for this fic!!!! Go check it out immediately!

[bleaksqueak]

There's one weird page in chapter 3 where the coloring came out so weird, it looks like none of the other pages, and it drives me a little crazy. But, you know, whatever lol done is better than not-done. I have a huge buffer, I *really* should get to posting. I also want to get to posting bc (well, I want to, I like reading update comments more than you can know)...and bc I keep getting asks that have a few things that are quite literally in chapter 3, so I sit here looking at them, going (marge thinking sounds)

Well, here, have two unrelated statements that look amusing put together.

[themetalvirus]

sonic the hedgehog i like him. snot nosed teenage boy but he fights for justice

[anaalnathrakhs]

btw my mom said it. she said it to me looking me in the eyes. i told her about how difficult it was for me to get through those family reunions, and she admitted it was very important to her, important enough that she was just going to do it anyway.

[nameissmile]

Gah,,,

I’m on like five different discord servers (and trying to keep up with them especially after the tmnt au competition started again and the server is more active than it was the entire last year) and then also an irl friend group chat (while also trying to be normal in the FOR SCIENCE gc, which is the same friend group but in a separate chat so my one friend can observe our behavior like little bugs (it’s fun)) whilst also trying to keep/make friends at my new school and be social and stuff and then I’m running around on tumblr making art and keeping two blogs separate so I don’t have a freaking crazy panic attack or something stupid AND I’m going INSANE over this litrpg book about a wolf (that doesn’t have a big fandom/a lot of fan content) WHILE I’m also reading a book by Robert Louis Stevenson for class and I’m working in this big pretty painting of all my irls and that I want to work on and just finish already but I also have like *counts* five?? Different assignments due friday and-

It’s so much fun!!! But also Jesus I’m fucking stretched thin I need a break haha

(And for all of this to be out of my system) ((mostly))

[sassyfever]

Now that the new mini arc is finally starting Imma make a couple predictions. Angelina is now a bizarre doll and ✨coincidentally✨at the hotel. Grelle is also there. For drama's sake you know how it goes.

[thelostboys87]

looking myself in the mirror like am I really about to completely reshuffle the lover boy timeline just so i can get the single release of i want your sex in there and write beau’s live reaction

[berrymascarpone]

Thinking about Ichigo’s thoughts about how fate is a millstone, and thinking about how Grimmjow’s release command is “Grind”, and thinking about how the flashback chapter came just as Grimmjow arrives in Karakura the first time, and thinking about how he became a constant reminder and symbol of Ichigo’s weakness and inability to protect his friends, and thinking about how Ichigo spends the whole arc trying to gain enough power to defeat his enemies to the point of losing himself to his baser instincts but in the end it’s his desire to protect Orihime that lets him overcome, and—

In conclusion I spent way too much time editing this.

[fortune-maiden]

I really wish more people played Super Mystery Dungeon because it really is such a charming and adorable game T_T

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread

Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach

sff novella merging a future recovering from climate catastrophes where the rich time travel to the past for recreation, and historical fantasy

a woman who’s spent her life restoring ecosystems puts together a small team to get the chance to time travel back to 2000BC to survey the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

aging MC with octopus leg prosthetics