#best online series

[uesp]

Truly amazing. In an incredible display of his power, the Dragon God of Time Akatosh has decided to grant us an additional day this year! Please be sure to pay your respects to Akatosh, as he may deign to grant us another additional day in a few years if you do!

[caelanglang]

20 years of prayer and more...

Happy 20th Anniversary to D. Gray Man!! ✨🎉

To my favorite manga who literally changed the trajectory of my life 🫶

[lessnowon]

anyways, i'm just dropping by to say fuck jk rowling and that snape being romantically in love with lily is really stupid when it would be more narratively and thematically consistent (and, frankly, more compelling) if his love for her was familial

[mwagneto]

any time i remember time lord victorious arc i start shaking like a sick fucking dog

[starfieldcanvas]

So if it's not Paladin of Souls, which is the Lois McMaster Bujold book you talked about in your notes? I'm curious 😊

The Sharing Knife! It's a four-book fantasy series in a setting based on the Great Lakes region. I was clueless enough the first time around (and so heavily used to vague-medieval-renaissance-Europe-expy fantasy settings) I didn't realize it the first time I read the series, but it's very obvious once you think about it at all, and sometime in the last two years my library updated the audiobook covers from the original "beautiful high-effort romance novel painting where they're both white" style to the "expressionless racially ambiguous cutouts that make the setting explicit" style:

(These are the same book.)

It's a story about fantasy Native Americans ("Lakewalkers") and fantasy white settlers ("farmers"). The actual cosmology and history of the fantasy world is very different from our own—everyone is native to the same continent, and have been living in roughly the same area for at least a few hundred years—so the politics of settler vs. native don't actually apply in the same way. However, the tension of "people who share the land" vs "people who parcel off the land to sell" is still very present, as is the tension of quasi-nomadic groups with seasonal camp rotations vs. people who stay in place and build large towns with industrial capacity.

And then, of course, there's the magic. The Lakewalkers have limited hereditary magic powers, plus magic monsters they're sworn to fight; the farmers have no magic and no defense against it either. Farmers tend to mistrust Lakewalkers and misunderstand Lakewalker magic; Lakewalkers keep the secrets of their powers under wraps and often look down on farmers as a kind of invasive pest species. As I mentioned in my tags, Lakewalkers' most important magical tools involve someone choosing the time of their death—though typically only when already dying of terminal illness, old age, or a mortal wound.

If you love the movie Ever After like I do, you may remember the part where Danielle says to Leonardo, "A bird may love a fish, Signore, but where would they live?" The Sharing Knife is a series about a bird (Lakewalker) and a fish (farmer) that get engaged halfway through the first book and then spend the next three and a half books figuring out where the hell they're going to live...and slowly realizing they may have to remake society in order to find their place in it.

Even the book where they first get together is not really what you'd call a romance novel, but every book in the series is a lot more focused on a central romantic relationship than most fantasy adventure books, so it's interesting from a genre perspective. "Established relationship" is normally my second-least favorite AO3 (my least favorite being major character death) but the political and magical worldbuilding, and the family dynamics on both sides, kept me very invested even with the amount of meandering domesticity on display throughout the books.

There are some potential triggers to ask about if you have common trauma triggers, and the main romance has a pretty big age gap, which I know is a turn-off for some. But if you ever found yourself asking "why is the Wizarding World's excuse for keeping muggles in the dark so fucking flimsy?" or "how the hell does Wei Wuxian stand living in the Cloud Recesses when most of Lan Wangji's sect hates him?" or "why aren't more fantasy authors as obsessed with craft skills as Tamora Pierce" or "why aren't there more permanently disabled fantasy protagonists who actually have to cope with the limitations created by their disability?" or "why aren't there more fantasy protagonists who genuinely lack magical powers?" then this may be the book series for you.

[wavetapper]

the problem with dhmis is that all of its tumblr sexyman shit is completely 100% separate from the show itself but thats the only thing a lot of people on here know it for. which is a shame because unfortunately the undeniable truth is that don't hug me im scared, both the websites and the tv series, absolutely fucking slays

[dailydemonspotlight]

Hey everyone, a huge change just came in! I've talked with my mom, and we're making changes to my school so I can start attending online classes! This, on top of all the mental health benefits that it gives me, also lets me end this short hiatus, as a major part of it was a lack of motivation spurred on by my presence in school and inability to work on my posts while in school.

To maintain a schedule, I'll start posting again hopefully around next week, so until then!

[ermakeys]

Get to know you video game edition! Tagged by the wonderful @ratcready

No pressure tags for @fooolisher @jekyllnahyena @certified-anakinfucker @jadowdra and anyone else that would like to! :)

Guess who forgot to add the blank as well 🙈

[tiistirtipii]

2 tickets to Barbie please! (They’re going on a movie date)

[killherfreakout]

i’m scared and i’m angry and i’m alone and i’m just. everyone has their shit together but me! look i’m sorry. i’m sorry.

[laws-of-fandom]

Ok so i was just listening to both Knives first piano scene and thinking about the piano with him alone vs when he and vash are playing together. just the piano alone ignoring all accompaniment has a totally different tone and pacing to it. Part of that is because knives is trying to play a two person song alone, as a result he’s playing it faster, there is a desperation to it, there are parts to it that are a call and response, which in the case of knives playing alone could symbolize his desperation to keep that call and response going, even if he has to force it himself.

When he and vash are playing together it is slowed a bit, not as desperate sounding, the call and response sounding more natural.

Knives desperately needs his brother, and the back and forth sound and feel of knives playing a two person composition alone also displays an almost tug of war between his hatred of humans and his love and need for his brother. Because as much as he tries to say its Vash that needs him, he needs vash just as much. Especially given how much he isolates himself. Vash is more capable of making close connections and opening himself up to people from the beginning where knives shut himself away, and had more of a distance even before finding tesla.

Hell looking at the difference between outfits demonstrates isolation for knives. He keeps his whole head buried in a bulbous hood. Contrasted with vash his whole face is visible, his glasses dont do much to hide his eyes but thats about the only covering up he does of his face.

Now this isnt to say Vash doesnt also isolate, because he does, but it is very different to the way Knives isolates.

[supernightboy08]

My ALL TIME favorite Anime franchises:

1. Dragon Ball

2. Pokemon: The Series

3. My Hero Academia

4. One Piece

5. Naurto

6. Demon Slayer

7. Sailor Moon

8. Sword Art Online

9. Pretty Cure

10. Bleach

[mako-island-moon-pool]

I really do deserve a fucking apology for all the times my friends and family valued strangers on the internet and their opinions more than me

How am I supposed to be just fine with being ignored for years and years or bullied for openly liking what I like, only for those same fucking people to then turn around YEARS LATER, AFTER THE DAMAGE WAS ALREADY DONE, and be like "actually this is cool, so glad I found it" while still ignoring me. Why am I not allowed to be fucking pissed about it? Why is it considered ""gatekeepy"" when I get upset someone who deliberately ignored me for years and insulted the shit I enjoy when I asked them to get into it cuz I thought they'd like it suddenly finds interest in it because it got popular online, not because I'd been begging them to give it a chance and to listen to me for years???? Why is that not allowed????? THAT'S SUCH AN ASSHOLE MOVE, WHY IS IT 'NOT OKAY' TO BE MAD? WHY DON'T THEY GROW A SPINE AND APOLOGIZE FOR DISMISSING ME FIRST? HOW ABOUT THAT?????

[arshikasingh]

Best Web Series on Netflix

Following are the best web series on Netflix that you must watch: Narcos Stranger Things The Umbrella Academy Scared Games Ozark Dark Russian Doll The Black Mirror Squid Game

[wigsinator]

Thoughts on how technology is depicted in anime?

There's a huge variety and each can be done well or poorly.

Sometimes technology is an aesthetic for a magic system, and I always fuck with that tremendously, until they try to explain it with real physics. The technology is so far beyond anything we can create you don't need to try to justify it.

Then there's near-future stuff, usually full dive VR, which is so fucking funny after seeing BG3 nearly bankrupt Larian and take 6 years. And you're suggesting that developing a good full dive VR game ever releases? Comical. But I suspend my disbelief and move on.

In more grounded, modern settings, it can be interesting to see the ways in which cultural relationships to technology differ. Like, the way it's always email rather than SMS is so fascinating to me. In the past 5-10 years anime has caught up with the fact that people use LINE, but it's really interesting that it seems SMS just never caught on in Japan (I do not know what I'm talking about, this may not be true, this is an assumption made based on watching anime)

Also Serial Experiments Lain is real and has happened.