#i expected to like it ?

[shadowvalkyrie]

Things I expected from Castlevania - and was delighted to find confirmed:

the particular brand of anachronism stew and being adorably clueless about Europe you only really get from anime

sexy vampires

OT3 Feels TM <3

Things I absolutely did not expect but was even more delighted to encounter: [Spoiler cut]

hello there Richard fucking Armitage himself, did not expect you in my silly bishie vamp gore fest, but what a pleasure to have you!

the stellar voice acting in general -- really makes the whole thing 100% better than I thought it would be

(not to be creepy but the Alucard voice actor needs to come to my house and read me bedtime stories please)

on-screen threesome in the most tragic way possible (I'm so feral about the S3 finale, you have no idea)

not quite a full OT4 ending, but implicitly making the OT4 ending the by far most likely option

GNC women everywhere! canon lesbians! canon soft butch bi women! a female main character who (sort of) crossdresses the entire show and gets zero male gaze-y fanservice

the major queer vibes of Christianity as the main antagonist and OT3 patricide bonding

surprise fucked up het ship my beloved (Lenore/Hector... stop looking at me like that, I'm owning my kinks here)

absolutely every het relationship in the entire show having serious F/m energy

my fave character arc was Isaac's and I absolutely did not see that coming - deeply underrated storyline

the mindblowingly stellar fanfic

[jotasuis]

How I found out about trump getting shot

[donnieisaprettyboy]

can we stop pretending like it’s so super easy for trans men to pass. “oh just put on a baggy shirt and cut your hair-“ it literally doesn’t work like that and I refuse to believe you actually think it’s that easy

[youthofpandas]

What’s up with how the dunmeshi fandom just lies about this kind of stuff all the time. It is easily confirmable information that it was a monthly series, something incredibly common in the industry.

A not weekly magazine schedule is literally common !! Especially in the seinen shoujo and josei demographics, sometimes monthly, sometimes biweekly, sometimes every two months, sometimes seasonal! Please stop lying about how Dunmeshi was some special unique creation that defies all standards of manga just to hype it up because it is so clear that every single one of these comparisons is centered around Weekly Shonen Jump (and understand that SJ has many magazines under its brand that are monthly or semimonthly). Not everything is WSJ and it needs to stop being the only point of reference in conversations like this 🤧

[tariah23]

White people are miserable, racist losers period. They’ve even been getting mad at Japanese people for correcting them about Yasuke as well.

[beebfreeb]

[riverside-lavender]

found this on my monthly tiktok scroll. i think we should add murder too.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Must be a Sugondese joke.

[peanuttoffee]

this movie was so much fun! had to draw ketchup and mustard guys

[cryptocism]

It would have taken another immortal to keep up with him.

so i haven't read the books but i did read the Devil's Minion chapter and this part made me laugh out loud:

[soranker]

laios985

[quibbs]

just had SO much fun with the fallout tv show... i love you missus okey dokey

[charliebugz]

When Izzy first walked out I was worried that he would be made into a joke that the crew would laugh at

but then he started singing and the dancing began and I realized that he wasn’t meant to be a joke at all. This is the most open and happy we’ve ever seen Izzy and the show treated it that way. Not mocking him but instead celebrating this moment.

When we talk about queer representation it’s usually just focused on queer relationships, but what I love about this episode is it shows other sides of being queer. That moment where Izzy saw Wee John doing his makeup and had a realization that he wanted that too? That is what being queer means to me. The crew singing along and cheering for him? That is what being apart of the queer community means to me.

What i love about this show is that it shows queer joy, not in a sanitized way, but in away that is messy, beautiful, and without any mockery or shame.

[bioethicists]

every time a new SA allegation of a favored celeb arises, i'm reminded of the absolutely soul-crushing experience of the depp/heard trial in which i learned that dozens of ppl i loved + respected + trusted were also willing to engage in the basest form of misogyny if the woman Seemed Crazy Enough. there was a horrifying 2ish weeks on this website + much longer irl where i genuinely felt unsafe voicing my discomfort as i relived something eerily reminiscent of the aftermath of my own assaults playing out on screen, commented on by true crime youtubers like it was a red sox game.

it happens time + time again with every new allegation + it's truly the most agonizing + exhausting part of being a survivor. i am begging you all to consider that survivors are watching you engage with this stuff like theater + it erodes our trust in all of you + compounds our grief.

[seagreenlaurin]

🤍❤️

[spitblaze]

I guess Chilchuck has brought us right back to 'adults who are short are child-coded and if you like them you're a pedophile' discourse huh