#but this is about their default design not the wacky town one the man will have nightmares about.

[bitchfitch]

I'm trying to design the grinning thing and

For some reason. every single time I make a character whose like, explicitly fucked up and absolutely eats people, i make that character blond and twig thin. And now I'm struggling with that bc i don't need a third blond twink who craves man meat. But I also can not picture the grinning thing as being anything Besides bottle blonde. Which I guess makes them unique bc Bagri/Echo and Chase are both natural blonds. but still it Feels too similar and samey.

I know this blog literally has spooky twinks in the title, but dammit i want the twinks to be more aesthetically varried.

[ficmylife4]

One Punch Man intro

I knew nothing about One Punch Man except that the protagonist was so strong he can defeat enemies in one punch, and the artist is Yusuke Murata from Eyeshield 21. On a whim, I got the first season DVD and the first two manga volume from the library. 

One Punch Man is a lot more morbid than I expected but it’s also funny! But the very first evildoer was totally deliberately designed to look like a Namekian at first, right? Not sure if the defined muscles and ropy circle over the collarbones and back behind the neck was deliberately a callback to Toguro from Yu Yu Hakusho or not, but my mind went there right away. They were brothers, with one riding on his shoulder, actually, it had to be a callback! 

I just finished the first five episodes all at once, I couldn’t stop. It’s hilarious in mocking the conventions of shonen action manga but at the same it isn’t just a parody, the characters themselves are taking things seriously and it’s not shying away from gore. Saitama’s so clearly an exception and doesn’t fit in society it’s hard to judge when he’s being weird and why, but that deliberately not explained worldbuilding somehow works really well? Like we’re just plopped into the middle of the situation and we might have no idea of what ‘normal’ is for these people, but we know it’s not Saitama, and yet his low-key responses to battle and sudden flashes of intensity about getting to a supermarket sale or smacking a mosquito are compelling and who cares about the rest of the populace or the wacky villains? 

Genos with Saitama is an amazing straight-man and I love them. They didn’t fall into the typical oblivious or innocent student idea either, Genos does know Saitama has no idea of the secret to his own power or how to train him and yet Genos is an earnest student, and somehow both perfectly at ease with Saitama and yet down-to-earth himself. I can see plot trying to sprinkle itself into the story, but the focus on the antics of these two together is such fun.

I watched the first five episodes and then read the first volume. Because One Punch Man plays with the conventions and expectations, though, it works a lot better in anime. In manga, the reader strings what’s happening together, for exactly when a sentence is finished and emphasis inside the speech bubble and how the movements from different panels fit together and how fast they go, how hard a hit is. Because Saitama doesn’t show real effort and his calm view of attacks and sometimes minimal effort to dodge, it’s very hard for the reader to change what they’re used to expecting for fight scenes. Watching the anime, it shows you exactly how slowly things are going and how little Saitama is concerned. He isn’t unmoving while flying through the air after a blow just because the panel caught him mid-move before he can straighten up--watching the anime you can see he’s unmoving because he’s not bothering to dodge the monster’s attacks, because in his mind the vital realization of what day the sale ends is coming to him!

Genos and Saitama together is amazing. I’m not getting over it. But I was so confused why they had a character named Genos and a character named Genus introduced in the same episode? After the joke about Genos telling Saitama his origin story, I thought it was poking fun at people who thought that would be an important quest by having it solved in the exact same episode he brings it up in, that it turns out this doctor who’s a member of his own family and so in the same town created the cyborg where Genos lived that attacked them? But no, they’re totally unrelated, and just have almost the same sounding names. Wait, does the kanji of Genos mean something? I have to go look this up.

Also should probably try at least one episode with the English dub and voice actors, my default is always Japanese voicework and subtitles, as sometimes subtitles leave off honorifics or things and I like getting all the nuance from how the original actors say it. 

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10 Hidden Details In Golden Girls You Never Noticed | ScreenRant

Thirty-four years ago, The Golden Girls revolutionized the sitcom. And since then, nearly every piece of trivia about this beloved series has been made public knowledge. Turns out, there may be some hidden tidbits. For sure the die-hard fans know the basic stuff about the Girls. Nevertheless, this classic sitcom of four elderly women living their best years in each other's company featured talent both in front of and behind the camera. That amounts to a lot of information out there waiting to be shared. So, here are some hidden details about The Golden Girls people may not be aware of.

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10 Dorothy's divorce hit close to home for Bea Arthur

One of Dorothy's biggest insecurities was undoubtedly her divorce from Stan Zbornak. The mere mere mention of his name sent her spinning. In the first season's "Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding?" Dorothy and Stan's daughter Kate announces she's getting married. This meant Dorothy would have to see Stan at the wedding. She puts on a brave face and endures the awful day with some help from her mother Sophia. In the end, she confronts Stan and tells him off. This specific scene was hard for Bea Arthur, as she went through a similar experience with her ex. Gene Saks.

9 The Girls hated the mink episode

In the second season's opener "End of the Curse," the ladies breed minks as a way of making some extra cash. What fans don't realize is how much the actors disliked the script. The staff was aware Betty White was an animal activist, but they didn't know Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan were ones, too. Writer Terry Grossman backed them up as much as he could, but the talented actors persevered. They had no interest in doing stories with harmful themes like breeding animals for profit.

8 A familiar room

Production designer Ed Stephenson favored "modular" sets ⁠because they could be reused with a few simple adjustments. So the series made good use of a teak-paneled courtroom from the show Soap. Dubbed the "Classic Interior", this set was repurposed as a waiting room ("Mother Load"), a banquet hall ("Love for Sale"), a hair salon ("Rites of Spring"), a clothing store ("Love Me Tender"), and a restaurant ("Ro$e Love$ Mile$"). Following the end of the series and its spin-off, the set was rented out to other productions. All proceeds went to Tony Thomas' favorite charity, the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

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7 Where's the oven?

Some of the best scenes in the whole run of The Golden Girls took place in the kitchen. Whether it was Rose cooking up wacky Scandinavian delicacies or Sophia perfecting one of her Sicilian recipes, the kitchen was the heart of the home. And for a room where eating nothing but mouth-watering meals was par for the course, it may be surprising to learn there was no oven. Just a cabinet with a piece of plywood in place of a door. The kitchen — from Helen Hunt's 1982 sitcom It Takes Two — originally came with an oven next to the fridge.

6 The best prop ever

Blanche was famous for her amorous  lifestyle. And to literally illustrate her many sexual conquests, Blanche offered her surrogate family an original Christmas present like no other. In "'Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas", the ladies' holiday vacations are each postponed by inclement weather. Yet prior to that, the Golden Girls share homemade presents rather than purchased ones. Mrs. Devereaux gifted her friends with "The Men of Blanche's Boudoir" calendar. Every month features a man who brought some "special joy" to Blanche's life. In reality, the prop calendar contained photos of the male production crew in ridiculous outfits and poses.

5 Blanche's accent

Despite Rue's character growing up in a part of Georgia where the Southern accent was considerably modest, she felt it wasn't funny enough for the role of Blanche. So, she opted for a humorous dialect that is more phony than realistic. Rue McClanahan 's inspiration for Blanche's accent came from her mother's cousin. She was from Oklahoma too, but she spoke like a Southern belle pretending to be British. The funny thing is though, Rue almost didn't use the accent for Blanche. She thought she had to keep her default intonation until the show gave her permission to make Blanche Southern.

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4 Where's Coco?

Fans surely noticed the ladies lived with a gay man named Coco in the pilot, but where did he go afterwards? The late actor Charles Levin was completely comfortable with playing a gay character. So that's not why he wasn't kept on. What actually happened was the network didn't like the idea of Coco being intimate with other men. Levin suspected the AIDS crisis at the time was a factor. His scenes were trimmed to the point where Coco was only a glorified servant. The official reason conveyed to Levin after the pilot was they wanted to focus on just the women.

3 Being fashionable comes at a price

Blanche, Dorothy, and Rose did not dress like the average senior citizen on television. The majority of their clothes were handmade by costume designer Judy Evans Steele. She implemented a lot of bright colors and prints to match the spirit of Florida. Something else unusual about the ladies' wardrobe — with the exception of Sophia, the Girls dressed like people who don't live in Florida. Meaning it gets very hot there, yet Blanche, Dorothy, and Rose are wearing layered, expensive, and fashionable outfits. It may have been one hundred degrees, but the Girls wouldn't be caught dead in a sleeveless top.

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2 The truth about the cheesecake scenes

Would cheesecake be as popular without The Golden Girls? Probably not. The ladies frequently sat down in the kitchen and chatted over several slices of the dessert. Fans love these scenes, but they may be heartbroken to know that not every Girl liked cheesecake. Although Betty White enjoys cheesecake, she doesn't eat anything on camera. She claims Rue McClanahan is the opposite and would go to town if there was cheesecake. McClanahan said that's not true, and she only pretended to eat it. As for Bea Arthur, she hated cheesecake. In fact, she didn't like the scenes involving it either.

1 Living in style

The ladies had a very enticing living room. There was a sizable amount of woodwork on the set, but unless one is looking for it, they would never notice that the wood isn't at all carved. Instead, it's painted to look textured. The show was filmed in standard definition so these details are harder to discern anyway. Something else worth noting is the rattan sofa the Girls lounge on. Assistant art director Michael Hynes chose it because it looked feminine. Throughout the series, the pillows change in style and color because the women's clothes would otherwise clash with the furniture.

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