#but just a sadness factory

[littleeyesofpallas]

Okay so i still have L5R verymuch on the brain and trying to find ways to incorporate a fun occult supernatural plot to things I can't help but look back on Samurai Sentai Shinkenger of all things and love what a fucking wildly good premise it had. Not for the stupid hero squad, but for the villains.

The Gedoshu[外道衆]: "Heretic/Demon Masses" (lit. Gedo[外道]: "Outside-way") are the race of monsters, ayakashi, menacing tokyo every week. But unlike the usual invading force of aliens or whatever else that every season of super sentai has, the gedoshu leader, Chimatsuri Dokoku, has a very specific goal and and very specific mechanism behind it.

In this setting the ayakashi are all former humans who transform directly into monsters after committing some corrupting act, usually tragic, that allows strong negative feelings to consume them. And any time humans feel misery and sorrow and pain, their tears become the water on the river Sanzu, the river that divides the world of the living and of the dead, and from those waters new monsters are inevitably born --never crossing the river to the afterlife, yet not truly alive or human anymore. And it is on a boat on that river that the big boss, Chimatsuri, has been sealed in a kind of limbo between life and death.

So, to facilitate his escape and ultimately revenge, he sends his minions to earth in order to cause so much human suffering that the river Sanzu overflows, allowing him to just ride his ship into the human realm without technically breaking the terms of his imprisonment.

And like? That's so fucking cool??? Like that is a great set up, and it's just wasted on a regular rotation kids' saturday morning show??? And I love that unlike the usual routine of slapping some monsters around once a week, the premise makes it clear that the villains are still very much making progress towards their goal even if the heroes beat them. The accumulation of human suffering is inevitable, it's just a question of how soon it'll hit critical mass, which is maybe the best way to keep the enemy threat feeling real even as they continually lose individual fights.

Also this season had kind of a mixed bag when it came to monster of the week designs, but the big recurring villains were all phenomenal

[worldsokayestdragon]

Greedling's introduction is actually really funny because Greed does the typical evil possession rant about "your friend's gone I'm the only one left!" and Ed looks into his eyes midfight and is like "I know Ling's still in there" and it seems like the set up to some long epic struggle where Ed will have to reach out to Ling to prove he's still alive and help him overpower Greed

And then maybe two hours later Greed tracks Ed and Al down like "hey I have a message from Ling could you give it to Lan Fan for us? No clue what it says but that's probably fine. anyway don't try to foil our evil plans! or do I don't actually give a shit. later losers."

[defaultyhero]

some ivan rune factorys for the world

[apollos-boyfriend]

this is how like 90% of the mansion’s problems are solved in my mind. none of them have the necessary tact to unravel the insane amount of trauma they carry and i think that’s beautiful

[runefactorynonsense]

YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS.

TIme to binge RF tracks while planning for October!!

As of right now I'll be using the list I found above - thank you, Melosprout on Insta! - from last year. The tag will be #Melotober!

Year 4 of this tradition, let's go!!

[wolfavens]

june was la palma, getting drunk in spanish, finding small art installations in abandoned compressor factories & sad sunrises over my succulent collection - all dominated by this red dress i got on a whim and seem to be unable to stop wearing to EVERYTHING

[socksandbuttons]

Ready for the next generation? Introducing The Deluxe Eclipse Models of the 31st Century!

Memories from a distant past, you'll be okay.

One of the first few ads for them. Lot's of money was both lost and gained.

[millenniummmbop]

Yugi would spend his first Official Adult KaibaCorp Paycheck on some much needed basic repairs for the game shop and his second would go 100% entirely to dark magician girl waifu figures

[skinnypaleangryperson]

I'm never going to forgive America for being such a celebrity and narcissistic encouraging country. It's made people that will just barely manage to get their ass off the ground, and instantly talk and spin a narrative to people that are stupid enough to believe it that they were inherently "special from the start", what does nothing except just to make them another forgettable, delusional, sadly overloaded grotesque self-interested "Important" person that thinks that they deserve to feel like they're superior to everyone, as if that does anything for anyone, and the last thing that this country needs. But because they're not capable of having the wisdom or the death or the creativity or of much of anything at all outside of their own brainwashing about what they need to spend the narrative of to feel like they're worth something, all we end up getting is a bunch of narcissist after narcissist that thinks that the center of the universe just because they gained just barely a million followers on Instagram.

[lucretiaadventurezone]

nearly had a heart attack this morning because i misread the instagram post for the new monster factory as “the last monster factory” rather than “the latest monster factory” (which is what it actually said)

[aashiyancha]

OHH if ur taking rf ships for that drawing requests..dylas/doug from 4 or lucas/ares from 5 :0?

Dylas is probably dead by the time rf5 events roll around...but wouldn't it be nice if these 2 could be reunited? ヽ(´▽`)/

[lemon-wedges]

...

[misc-muses]

Before I go to bed, here is some more info on the "bad end" idea I had. Bill is erased, and Stan wakes up with no memories of who he is or where he is. It's implied that if he does remember, that gives Bill the power to come back, so they have to make an extremely hard decision to keep him in the dark. There is no tearful showing of the scrapbook at the end. He talks and looks like Stan, but the old charm, the sass, all of it is gone. And Stan realizes quickly that these people all look at him like he's a ghost, and it's freaky because they won't tell him why.

So he leaves. He just up and leaves one night. Something is telling him he needs to get out of there. He doesn't know where he's going, but it feels right to skip town and assume a new identity because he can't look at those sad faces anymore.

Stan does start to get his memories back but starts picking up Bill mannerisms that he doesn't seem to notice, but everyone else does :-)

[runefactorynonsense]

Cozytober - Day 16 - Book

...I'm scared of that book.

[mod2amaryllis]

why am i sad :/ (works at the sad factory)

[k17y]

ㅤㅤㅤIT   SEEMS   RATHER   STRANGE / UNHEARD   OF   THAT   A   SIN,   LET   ALONE   AN   OVERLORD,   WOULD   EVEN   PURCHASE   A   CUSTOM   FIZZ   BOT;   BESIDES   MAMMON   OF   COURSE.   REMEMBER;   THESE   THINGS   ARE   SEX   BOTS   MODELED   AFTER   AN   IMP   CELEBRITY;   WHY   WOULD   OVERLORDS   CARE   ABOUT   SOME   RANDOM   IMP?

ㅤㅤㅤPERSONALLY,   I   THINK   GIVEN   WHO   KITTY   BELONGS   TO   +   HOW   HEAVILY   CUSTOMIZED   SHE   IS,   SHE’D   BE   ONE   OF   THE   BOTS   THAT   FIZZ   &   OZ   HATE   THE   MOST.   IN   THIS   ESSAY,   I   WILL-